The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com
Friday, September 10, 2010 - 3
The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Friday, September 10, 2010 - 3
NEWS BRIEFS
LANSING, Mich.
Gov. Granholm
orders flags lowered
for Sept.11
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Gran-
holm has ordered U.S. flags to be
flown at half-staff on Saturday in
remembrance of those who lost
their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001, ter-
rorist attacks.
Granholm also is encouraging
people in Michigan to observe
a moment of silence Saturday at
8:46 a.m., the time the first jet-
liner crashed into the north tower
at the World Trade Center in New
York.
Granholm says reflections on the
ninth anniversary of the attacks
will help "honor the memories of
the victims and heroes of that day
and keep their loved ones in our
thoughts and prayers."
. Granholm also is encouraging
people to observe the National Day
of Service and Remembrance. She
plans to volunteer at a Habitat for
Humanity event in East Lansing in
recognition of the Day of Service.
DETROIT
Michigan Muslims
relieved Quran
burning canceled
Detroit-area Muslims welcomed
the decision of a Florida minister to
cancel a Quran burning, but will go
ahead with an interfaith prayer ser-
vice planned to protest it.
I tmam Hassan al-Qazwini of the
Islamic Center of America in Dear-
born says he's happy to see Pastor
Terry Jones "going back to the voice
of reason and not submitting to the
feelings of anger and bigotry."
But the imam says the minister
* lacks sincerity and got the interna-
tional attention he wanted.
AI-Qazwini says he and other
religious leaders will proceed
with a service planned for today at
Detroit's Second Ebenezer Church
in a show of unity.
Jones says he backed off in
exchange for a deal to move a
planned Islamic center away from
New York's ground zero area. The
imam behind it denied any deal.
WASHINGTON
Election spending
sets records
Turns out politics, for all its
focus on the gloomy economy, is a
recession-proof industry.
This year's volatile election is
bursting with money, setting fund-
raising and spending records in a
high-stakes struggle for control of
Congress amid looser but still fuzzy
campaign finance rules.
Based on the latest financial
reports, House and Senate candi-
dates in this election cycle raised
nearly $1.2 billion, well ahead of the
pace for contests in 2008, 2006 and
2004.
Races for governor in 37 states
- more than half of those for open
seats - are also setting fundrais-
ing records. Billionaire Republi-
can Meg Whitman leads the way,
pumping $104 million of her own
money into her campaign for Cali-
forniagovernor.
"We may be on track for the
most expensive cycle ever, even
more than '08, which is really hard
to believe," said Michael Toner, a
V campaign finance lawyer at Bryan
Cave and a former Federal Election
Commission chairman.
MEXICO CITY
Mexican bill to
allow migrants to
file complaints
Mexico's Senate passed a bill
yesterday that would allow undoc-
umented migrants to file com-
plaints about abuses and receive
medical treatment without being
questioned about their immigra-
tion status.
Currently, Mexican law allows
only people who are legally in the
country to file such complaints
with police and other agencies, and
hospitals and other institutions are
permitted to ask people for proof of
legal migratory status.
The bill adopted on a 79-0 vote
in the Senate, already passed the
lower house of Congress and now
goes to President Felipe Calderon
for final consideration.
Last month's massacre of 72
mainly Central American migrants
by gunmen apparently linked to a
drug gang sparked calls to better
protect migrants from kidnapping
and abuse as they cross Mexico in a
bid to reach the United States.
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports
ARIEL BOND/Daly
Temple Grandin speaks at the Michigan Theatre as the first speaker in the Penny W. Stamps lecture series yesterday.
ALTERNATIVE THINKING
Animal Behaviorist and autism activist Temple Grandin
discusses the advantages of thinking differently
Former
DPS
officer
pleads
guilty to
chargae
Charles Beatty III
was charged with
cocaine possession
By DEVON THORSBY
Daily News Editor
Former University Department of
Public Safety officer Charles Beatty
III plead guilty to cocaine pos-
session in the Washtenaw County
Court in frontof Judge Donald Shel-
ton, courtofficials confirmed.
Beatty, 42, was arrested in Ypsi-
lanti on the night of Jan. 13 for
cocaine possession and having an
open container of alcohol in his
vehicle at the time.
Beatty was off duty at the time of
his arrest.
Following his release, Beatty was
placed on unpaid administrative
leave from DPS, and his employ-
ment ended on Feb. 9 in an undis-
closed manner.
Prior to his arrest, Beatty was fol-
lowed by members of the Livingston
and Washtenaw Narcotics Enforce-
ment Team for about six weeks after
they received an anonymous tip and
consulted with DPS.
According to the police report,
Beatty's suspicious activity record-
ed by the officer following him the
night of Jan.13 led to his arrest.
Steve Hiller, Washtenaw County
chief deputy assistant prosecu-
tor, told AnnArbor.com that many
defendants who plead guilty to drug
charges like Beatty's as first-time
offenders are placed on probation.
Beatty's sentencing is scheduled
for Oct19 in front of Judge Shelton
at the Washtenaw County Trial
Court.
By STEPHANIE BERLIANT
Daily StaffReporter
Fresh from hearing her name
called five times at this year's
Emmy Awards, Temple Grandin
addressed a packed audience at
the Michigan Theater last night.
Grandin, a professor of ani-
mal science at Colorado State
University and top innovator
in the field of animal behavior,
spoke as the first in the Penny
Stamps Series of lectures spon-
sored by the School of Art &
Design. In the lecture called
"Autism, Animals and Art"
Grandin focused on how dif-
ferent types of thinking can be
used to advance society.
Though impressive by their
own merit, Grandin's accom-
plishments are magnified by
the fact that she was diagnosed
in childhood with a severe form
of autism, a neurological disor-
der that impairs social and com-
munication abilities. Grandin
couldn't talk until she was
four years old and doctors
advised her mother to institu-
tionalize her, but her mother
instead chose to seek intensive
treatment for Grandin.
As a result, Grandin became
one of a small minority of
autistic children born in the
1940s to greatly improve in
communication and today she
is considered high-function-
ing.
Grandin is known for put-
ting her unique viewpoints
into everything she does and
offering continuous examples
of the way she sees things dif-
ferently from most people.
Last night's event was no
exception.
In her distinct Kansas
accent, Grandin described the
doubts people had about her
methods at the start of her
career in the 1970s.
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After watching cattle become
easily upset when walking
down shoots to be slaughtered,
Grandin walked through a cat-
tle shoot herself, and realized
that there were sensory distrac-
tions in the shoots like too much
or too little light.
"People said, 'Why would you
look at things the cattle's look-
ing at?"' Grandin said. "But get-
ting in their position was what
figured it out."
To a crowd of about 1,700,
Grandin described how autistic
people and animals think the
same way - one of the reasons
she was drawn to the field of
animal behavior. Autistic peo-
ple use "bottom-up" processing,
she said, in which they see the
details first and piece together
larger meanings from there.
Grandin related this bot-
tom-up processing to autistic
people's lack of understanding
of generalized situations. For
example, telling a child not to
run in the street outside his or
her home may not translate to a
school or park. An autistic child
might need to be told in each
situation until he or she under-
stands that running in streets,
in general, is not acceptable, she
explained.
Throughout the lecture,
Grandin emphasized focusing
on interesting things people
with intellectual disabilities
can do well. She urged parents
of autistic children to push
their children, whether put-
ting young children in at least
25 hours a week of intensive
therapy or encouraging older
children to develop their talents
- like when Grandin's mother
encouraged her to go to singing
camp, which Grandin protested
at the time.
"She told me, "You do have ,a
choice: you go for two weeks or
the whole summer,"' Grandin
said. "We must push these kids
or they won't develop."
Grandin's life was the inspi-
ration for an HBO film released
in 2010, which won five Emmys
in August. She described the
movie as "pretty accurate," not-
ing the producers took care to
correctly represent her life in
two hours.
After the event, Art & Design
senior Chris Momont said the
lecture allowed him to see a
window into a different type of
mind.
"Getting people together who
think in different ways, who use
pictures versus words, is how
we're going to move forward,"
Momont said.
Art & Design junior Dana
Pierfelice said she didn't know
what to expect from the lecture,
but she ended up finding it very
engaging.
"Her humor made everyone
so comfortable," she said.
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