The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Monday, March 9, 2009 - 7A I The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Monday, March 9, 2009 - 7A In line with economic theories, alcohol vendors report sales up New York Times reporter to speak at event today From Page 1A much as they used to. Eddie Gilyano, the manager of Strickland's Market, a liquor store located on Geddes Avenue, said the store's alcoholsales have decreased significantly since the economy took a turn for the worse. But just as campus areas are not representative of the rest of Ann Arbor, they are not representative of the rest of the country, which has technically been in a recession since Dec. 2007. Last year in Pennsylvania, wine and liquor sales were reportedly up 4.7 percent. Similarly, Connecticut reported that tax revenue on alcoholic bev- erages was up 4.7 percent for the fiscal year that ended last June. The Division of Liquor Control for the Ohio Department of Com- merce, as reported by the Ohio University Post, announced that alcohol sales grew $32.6 million from 2007 to 2008, an increase of 4.75 percent. Alcohol companies across the country - especially wine compa- nies - are also reporting sales are skyrocketing. Brown-Forman, one of the largest American-owned wine companies, stated that its income has grown 4 percent in the sec- ond quarter this year. And Liquor Group Michigan, a liquor and wine distribution company, reported a 78-percent increase in wine case ROOMMATES From Page 1A simply being placed with someone by their school's housing services. "Your search results will auto- matically be filtered by people who fit within those desired pref- erences," Castellucci said. "The other aspect is very much the user going in and being interested in a person, clicking on their Facebook profile and doing their own search- es - trying to get an idea for what By SAGAR DESHPANDE For the Daily Peter Baker, a long-time jour- nalist and well-known Washing- ton, D.C. reporter, will be giving a speech on campus today about the new presidential administration and the issues that it faces. The address, titled "President Obama and the First 100 Days," will focus on the challenges and press- ing questions the Obama admin- istration will encounter in its first few months in office. Baker, a White House corre- spondent for The New York Times, is giving the talk as part of being awarded the 2008 Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. He received this honor for "The Imper- fled Presidency," a series he wrote while with the Washington Post. Baker is a long-time Washing- ton veteran. During his 20 years at the Post, he helped break and cover stories like the Monica Lewinsky scandal and Bill Clinton's impeach- ment, as well as the second term of the George W. Bush presidency. He is often consulted for his knowl- edge of D.C. politics and appears on many television and radio shows, like "Washington Week" on PBS. The talk will be held at 7:30 p.m., at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, located on North Campus at 1000 Beal Ave. After Baker gives his speech, the floor will be opened for questions and discussion. Event admission and parking are free and the event will be followed by a reception. WILL MOELLER/Daily Tim Kramer, the home brew manager, checks a customer out at the Beer Depot on William Street Sunday. Kramer said that during the recession over the past year, the store has seen its sales increase. sales in Michigan for 2008. The recent spike in alcohol sales as the nation's economy falls into a tailspin is not unique, said Eco- nomics Prof. John Bound. In 1991, Bound said the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War directly resulted in soaring alcohol sales. they're like as a person." The application also aids the schools because it sorts through potential roommate matches and gives the students the chance to choose rather than having housing administrators spend time match- ing people who could have very little in common. While the application connects people with potential roommates, they must still request the person on their formal housing forms. Unlike most questionnaires that simply ask about students "Alcohol use went up dramati- cally in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union," Bound said. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Prof. Martin McKee, in his journal article titled Alcohol in Russia, discussed the effects of the government's col- lapse on alcohol consumption sleeping habits and tidiness, RoomBug also finds matches for students based on their lifestyles, whether or not they want visi- tors in their rooms and how they describe themselves and their ideal roommate. School of Music, Theatre & Dance freshman Alyssa Krentzel said she would have found the application helpful if it had exist- ed last year, since she began the year with a incompatible room- mate and has since switched rooms. With the collapse of the com- munist government, McKee said, there was a collapse of anti-alco- hol campaigns, which resulted in heavy drinking across the coun- try. There was even evidence that alcohol consumption levels in the 1990s far exceeded pre-Soviet Union levels. "My roommate and I had abso- lutely nothing in common and if I had any part in it I never would have chosen her," she said. "I had things I wanted in a roommate and there was no way I could have found those in random choosing. I would have wanted someone I could actually be friends with." Castellucci developed the appli- cations, which first launched at the University of Florida. Three weeks later it was also implemented by Florida State University and the University of Central Florida. TUMERIC From Page 1A "Studies have shown that people who have a lot of spicy food with turmeric powder have less neuro- logical disorders or Alzheimer's disease," Ramamoorthysaid. "That led us to this problem of under- standing what it does to the biolog- ical system like cell membranes." Ramamoorthy said curcumin directly binds to a cell's mem- brane and hardens the lipid mole- cules, which gives the cell greater protection. "In the end, it makes the mem- brane more rigid so that anything that attacks the membrane finds it very hard to damage the mem- brane," he said. LSA senior Michelle Fritz and LSA senior Jeffrey Barry are two undergraduate students who assist- ed in the research and both contrib- uted to the paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society last week. Fritz said she had never taken biology or organic chemistry courses at the University before participating in the research, but said she became involved in the study because of her "(interest) in doing something that pertained to the medical field." Fritz said she and Barry worked to understand how curcumin inter- acts with the membrane to cause the death of cancer cells and how it affects proteins. "One of the theories is that it can changethebilayerproperties," Barry said. "Andbydoingthatitcanchange how each protein functions." Ramamoorthy said he's not inter- ested in capitalizing on the medici- nal effects of curcumin by creating a product for public consumption, but other researchers atthe Medical School are synthesizing derivatives of curcumin to see if it can poten- tially be used as a drug. "I am a chemist, and I am also a biophysicist," Ramamoorthy said. "I'm interested in knowing how it functions, what are its properties, how it targets the cell and what kinds of properties makes this more relevant to biology and medicine in pharmaceutical applications." the michigan daily TIRED OF SEARCHING for your MAY apartment or house? Wilson White GET $50 Management offers One Stop Shopping with hundreds of apartments and This spr houses on Central Campus. Our leasing the agents are ready to help you the perfect ut place to call home on campus. Wilson White Management 734-995-9200 www.wilsonwhitemanagement.com PScTUey IMMEDIATE & FALL Occupancy Church Great Location: 1320 S. 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