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Though many may
dread a visit to the den-
tist, there is an entire
museum on campus
dedicated to the art of
dentistry. Toothbrushes
with heads greater than
two inches in length,
floss made from silk and
examination chairs grand
enough for aking fill glass
cases along the walls at
the Sindecuse Museum of
Dentistry.
According to the muse-
um's curator, Shannon
O'Dell, Dr. Gordon Sinde-
cuse made a donation to
create the museum more
than 70 years after his
graduation from the Den-
tal School.
The museum - located
in the Kellogg Building
CRIME NOTES
- first opened in 1992
with its original curator,
Jane Becker, O'Dell said.
Since it first came into
existence, the museum
has had three curators
and gone through a major
renovation.
The overhaul included
the addition of display
cases, a storage room and
an atrium, which hous-
es re-creations of den-
tal offices from various
decades.
O'Dell said all the arti-
facts in the museum are
gifts from collectors and
former Dental School fac-
ulty. They range from tins
of tooth powder - a pre-
decessor to toothpaste -
to vintage x-ray machines
and antique microscopes.
Along with the arti-
facts, the museum show-
cases the histories of
their users and inventors.
O'Dell said many of
the museum's visitors are
not dental students, but
tour groups from Univer-
sity museum classes. She
added that she would love
to see an increase in the
number of visitors and
partially attributes the
lower attendance records
to the museum's con-
cealed location.
O'Dell said the rarity
of the museum is one of
the things that makes it
so interesting.
"There are just so
many stories to be told,"
she said.
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An exhibit ofa dentist's office at the Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry.
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Macbook stolen Wind, tent Michigan's Best Finding grants
WHERE: Hatcher break window Dance Crew for grad students
Graduate Library
WHEN: Yesterday at
about 3:45 p.m..
WHAT: A student reported
his Macbook laptop sto-
len, University Police
reported. The computer
was valued at $1,500.
There are no suspects.
WHERE: Univer-
sity Golf Course
WHEN: Saturday at
about 2:15 p.m.
WHAT: The wind blew a large
tailgate tent into a car window,
University Police reported. The
damage was valued at $1,000.
Spools stolen Subject trips,
from hospital sustains injuries
WHAT: There will be
tryouts for Michigan's
Best Dance Crew, a com-
petition that will take
place in December. The
grand prize for the win-
ning crew is $200.
WHO: University Unions
Arts Programs
WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
Union, Pendleton Room
Workshop on
negotiation skils
WHAT: A workshop
on improving nego-
tiating skills in the
workplace. Individual
sessions are $15.
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: Today at noon
WHERE: Center for the
Education of Women,
330 E. Liberty St.
WHAT: A workshop to
help graduate students
find funding for fellow-
ships and dissertations.
WHO: Teaching and Tech-
nology Collaborative
WHEN: Today at noon
WHERE: Shapiro Under-
graduate Library
Foosballpractice
WHAT: University foosball
practice is open to members
and non-members. The mem-
bership fee is $5 per semester.
WHO: Michigan
Union Billiards
WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
Union, Billiards Room
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While being transported
to a Wisconsin hospital
early Saturday morning, a
prisoner escaped by taking off
his shackled pants and flee-
ing across the freeway, WCCO
reported. He was found later
that morning and was taken to
the hospital to be treated for
frostbite injuries.
A new bill in the state
Mouse could reverse a
University policythatpro-
hibits guns from being carried
around campus. Classrooms
and residence halls would still
be gun-free, but places like the
Diag and bus stops would not.
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After only one shoe went
missing from a store in
Belgium, a one-legged
man was designated as a sus-
pect, metro.co.uk reported.
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quickly found.
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WHERE: University Hospital
WHEN: Yesterday at
about 11:30 p.m.
WHAT: An unknown suspect
stole two spools of conduit tub-
ing valued at $200 from the
emergency room Thursday,
University Police reported.
There are no suspects.
WHERE: Alumni
Memorial Hall
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soon on global warming probe of Venezuelan killings
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Deep divisions in
Congress, bill unlikely
before year's end
SEATTLE (AP) - Just six weeks
before a key meeting on climate
change, U.N. Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moan said Monday he's
hopeful the U.S. Senate will pass
a significant bill to limit carbon
emissions.
With deep divisions in Congress
onhowto dealwithclimate change,
a bill is not likely before the end of
the year. However, Ban told a news
conference he still thinks the U.S.
can come up with an ambitious
measure that will encourage other
nations to act on carbon emissions.
"I'm very encouraged by the
strong commitment by the Obama
administration," he said.
Ban is on a two-day trip to Seat-
tle to promote action on climate
change and U.N. initiatives on
poverty, hunger and health, along
with improving the perception the
American public has of the U.N. He
met earlier Monday with Bill and
Melinda Gates, and later in the day
received an honorary degree from
the University of Washington.
Ban has been pressing nations
to commit to firm emission limits
when they meet in December in
Denmark to work out a new treaty
to slow global warming, replacing
the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on carbon
dioxide emissions. The meeting
has been billed as a last chance to
avoid the impact of catastrophic
global warming.
This week, the Senate environ-
ment committee will take up its
version of a global warming bill.
The legislation would cut green-
house gases by about 80 percent
by 2050 and require more domes-
tic energy to come from renewable
sources.
But with work still to be done
on health care and deep divisions
in Congress over how to deal with
climate change, chances the Senate
will pass a climate bill by the end of
the year are slim. That means U.S.
negotiators are likely to not have
firm targets set before the Copen-
hagen meeting.
Ban said he plans to meet with
Senate leaders to encourage the
passage of the climate bill.
By doingso, the Senate "can have
a huge political impact for other
negotiators of other counties," Ban
said. Many developing countries,
such as China and India, "are ready
to make some political compromis-
es only if and only when the United
States is ready to do that."
Ban said he's confident the
Copenhagen meeting will produce
a broad agreement, though many
details remain to be worked out.
That requires all countries "par-
ticularly the developed countries
and including the United States"
to come up with ambitious targets
to cut greenhouse gases, and to
provide the financial support that
many developing countries will
need to reduce emissions.
Allegedly helping
investigate killings
of eight Colombians
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)
- President Hugo Chavez's gov-
ernment accused Colombia on
Monday of using its state secu-
rity agency to spy on' Venezu-
ela while purportedly helping
investigate the killings of eight
Colombians.
Venezuela sent a diplomatic
protest note saying officials of
Colombia's DAS state security
agency were "detected carrying
out espionage work and attempt-
ing to bribe."
Venezuela did not give details
in its statement but said authori-
ties seized documents referring
to a conspiracy to destabilize its
government. It also demanded
the DAS halt the espionage.
Colombia has offered help
in investigating the slayings
of 10 men - eight Colombians,
a Venezuelan and a Peruvian
- whose bodies were found in
the Venezuelan border state of
Tachira on Saturday. Venezue-
lan authorities say relatives told
them the men were kidnapped
from a soccer field where their
team was playing near the bor-
der Oct. 11.
The killings, which Venezuela
says were likely carried out by one
of the warring factions in Colom-
bia's conflict, appear to be exac-
erbating already hostile relations
between Chavez's government
and the U.S.-allied administra-
tion in Bogota.
Colombian Foreign Minister
Jaime Bermudez said it remains
unclear what sort of armed
group killed the men, or why. He
said there are various hypoth-
eses, including that the violence
involved criminal organizations
or guerrillas or militias.
For more than four decades,
Colombia's conflict has pitted
leftist rebels seeking to topple the
government against the military
and far-right paramilitary fight- *
ers.
JoseMiguel VivancotheAmer-
icas director of Human Rights
Watch, called for Venezuela and
Colombia to "work together to
hold the culprits accountable and
prevent more horrific atrocities
like this."
Venezuela's foreign ministry
said its officials were taking vic-
tims' bodies to the Colombian
border town of Cucuta to turn
them over to their families.
The ministry cited "a lack of
resources" on Colombia's part to
pick up the cadavers. Colombian
officials disputed that, saying
Venezuela denied them permis-
sion to fly in with Colombian air-
craft to return the bodies to their
families.
One 19-year-old Colombian
.survived the ordeal and was hos-
pitalized in Caracas with a gun-
shot wound to the neck.
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