0 2 - Wednesday, November 24, 2010 MONDAY: TUESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers Michigan Myths Wisdom throng Chemistry and Macromolecular Now in its second y Science and Engineering Assistant said she's continually Professor Anne McNeil is taking her improve the project and teaching talents beyond University for students. The next st lecture halls. With her Wikipedia is to get undergraduates revision project, she's trying to help "Instead of having ( teach the world. an entire site, they'll id The project, which is currently thing they can add," she, available to two of her graduate Though McNeil's classes, gives teams of students the focused on Wikipedia,l opportunity to develop Wikipedia field of interest is scienc web pages that effectively commu- began studying at a you nicate a topic of interest to an audi- said she enjoyed reading ence. McNeil said that the challenges science and performingE include selecting appropriate infor- at home as her fascir mation to share and following Wiki- chemistry grew. pedia's style guidelines. "(Chemistry) appeal "I thought, 'we don't teach grad because I could under students how to communicate some- thing at the molecular thing they're learning with their said. parents or friends,"' she said. "This Her desire to teach project's goal is to get people to fig- arose once she enter ure out how to take an advanced McNeil said a series o concept ... and explain it in layman's fessors at the College o terms." Mary, where she got her CRIME NOTES Masturbator Lock can't stop strokes again textbook thief THURSDAY: FRIDAY: Campus Clubs Photos of the Week hWikip e dia ear, McNeil uate degree, inspired her to follow in working to their footsteps. make it fun "I felt drawn to teaching," she tep, she said, said. "Even when I doubted it, it involved. would always pull me back." them) revise Today, McNeil teaches under- entify some- graduates and graduates in and out explained. of the classroom. In her research lab project is in the Chemistry Building, she leads her primary 11 students on projects involving e, a topic she the creation of organic materials. In ung age. She years to come, these materials may books about be useful in the fields of medicine experiments and renewable energy, she said. nation with Lookingto the future, she said she hopes to involve more undergradu- led to me ates in her research, inspiring in stand every- them her own love for science. level," she "I'm always on the lookout for talented students," she said. "I the subject find students develop more, and red college. more passion comes out, when they f good pro- start (researching) earlier in their f William & careers." r undergrad- - CLAIRE GOSCICKI ARIOND05/Day Engineering Assistant Prof. Anne McNeil oversees a project in which graduate students develop Wikipedia web pages to cover and conwunicate an issue of interest. 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Deval Facebook "as a tool toform a closer Patrick tweets, has a Facebook relationship with my constituents, page and puts videos on YouTube showing I'm just a regular person LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Rick and photos on Flickr to tell citi- with a real life." Snyder says he won't be giving up zens what's happening. So does The 33-year-old lawmaker said the mantle of "one tough nerd" Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman of he also gets a sense of what con- when he becomes Michigan gov- Nebraska, whose Facebook page stituents are thinking from the ernor next year. shows him and his wife recently comments and e-mails they send The "techie" and former presi- announcing their inauguration to his Facebook page. He expects dent of computer maker Gateway plans. Delaware Gov. Jack Markell that will be a major help for the Inc. transformed himself from a posts his weekly addresses on new Snyder administration as it relatively unknown Ann Arbor iTunes. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert tries to restructure not only the venture capitalist to governor- tweeted Friday he was "chatting budget and state government but elect during his first run for public with President George W. Bush as Michigan's entire economy. office largely through the use of he signs copies of'Decision Points' "It can be a way to connect peo- social media and a savvy television in Sandy." ple to information that they other- ad campaign. That's different from the way wise wouldn't just naturally come Now, the Republican wants to state government traditionally has across," Calley said. "It's not like use those tools to reach Michigan used the Internet to let citizens people tool around (the official citizens as he tries to reinvent the renew their vehicle registrations Michigan website). for fun. People economically troubled state in online, reserve a state park camp- do tool around Facebook for fun." a far more interactive way than site or check whether a building Tom Shields of Lansing-based Democratic Gov. Jennifer Gra- contractor's license has been sus- Marketing Resources Group sees nholm, who tweets but doesn't pended, said Nicco Mele, a social social media as a crucial part of interact with citizens through media expert at the Shorenstein any public relations campaign but Facebook. Center in Harvard University's says it has its limits. Snyder promises citizens will be Kennedy School of Government. Even with more than 37,000 able to find out how much the state He expects social media will fans on Snyder's Facebook page, is spending on everything from transform the way citizens inter- there are still 9.5 million Michi- public education to prisons and flu act with government. gan residents he'll have to reach in vaccines through an easily under- "Using the Internet in ways to some other fashion. standable budget spreadsheet really engage people online, to "You can't forgo the usual media posted online. He already is wel- get their increased involvement, ways of reaching people, or you'll coming job applicants and ideas to create value in different ways, miss 80 percent," Shields said. on how state government can run to shape how you think about and Still, he sees a lot of advantages better on his transition website. approach issues, that is really the in using social media for the new And he hired a communications new piece of this, the piece that's governor and his administration, director who has a record of using just starting to emerge," Mele especially if Snyder feels his mes- Facebook and Twitter to make said. "This is like when Gutenberg sage is getting bogged down in the government more accessible. handed the first printed Bible to Legislature and wants citizens to It's a page right out of the one of the clergy." call lawmakers and complain. campaign. With the help of New Michigan Lt. Gov.-elect Brian "The whole idea of social media Hampshire-based social media Calley already uses his personal is you don't go through the filters consultant Chris Stewart, Snyder Facebook page to talk about what of legislators or the traditional put up a dynamic campaign web- he's doing in his job as a state media," Shields said. site and tweeted as "onetough- representative, such as meeting Stewart at b-fresh consulting nerd." More than 37,000 people with Iraq's investment minister, a expects Snyder will check citi- have clicked "like" on his cam- Michigan State University gradu- zens' comments often once he gets paign Facebook page - exceed- ate who wants Michigan compa- his official Facebook and Twitter ing the combined total for his four nies to invest in his country. sites running as governor, just as GOP primary rivals and Demo- "I work for the public, and he did while a candidate. 0 A TSA officer searches a passenger at a security check-point at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Nov. 19. There are new requirements at some U.S. airports that air passengers must pass through full-body scanners that produce a virtually naked images. Don't touch m jun TS workers face opposition Amid debate over privacy invasion, TSA officials stress importance of safety TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - They've been called molesters, threatened with violence and ordered not to touch "my junk." One woman headbutted a TSA officer who was searching her laptop. Other screeners report being punched, kicked and shoved during pat- downs. Security officers know the new searches are more invasive but want Thanksgiving travelers tokeep in mind they arejust doing their jobs to keep people safe. "We just want the public to understand that we're not per- verts," said screener Ricky D. McCoy, who heads a local TSA union for Illinois and Wisconsin. TSA chief John Pistole has heard the complaints and seemed more open to trying to balance safety with invading people's pri- vacy with the pat-downs. "We are exploring again ways that they might be less invasive and yet with the same outcomes in terms of detection, but that is really the challenge that we have and that dynamic tension between security and privacy and reasonable people can disagree as to exactly where that blend is as it relates to you as a passenger," Pis- tole told reporters Tuesday. To be sure, most passengers are docile when going through an airport's security checkpoint, though McCoy said the atmo- sphere has changed in the past two weeks. Last week, for instance, McCoy explained the search to a passen- ger. "The guy looked me straight in the face and said, 'I don't know what I might do to you if you touch me,"' said McCoy. McCoy stared the man down and told the passenger that touch- ing an officer would be the worst mistake he's ever made because authorities would be called. The search went smoothly. "About 10 minutes later his wife came back and apologized for what he said," McCoy said. The new pat-downs began about a month ago, and early on, an officer was assaulted. Since the story made headlines, McCoy said officers atleast six times have been punched, pushed or shoved after they explained what would be happening. He blamed TSA for the uproar, saying the agency didn't reach out to passengers enough. "We have major problems because basically TSA never educated the public on what was going on," McCoy said. "Our agen- cy pretty much just threw the new search techniques out there." The collective unease of some Americans over possible inva- sions of privacy, intimate touch- ing and general discomfort have led to a near-instant backlash. News stories and videos of dis- abled passengers and children being screened aggressively haven't helped, either. The nation has also paused to laugh. After all, this is the news story that spawned the phrase: "Don't touch my junk." Those words were made famous a week ago by a Southern California man who uttered them to a TSA officer while captur- ing the verbal showdown on his iPhone. A Google search of the phrase on Tuesday registered 4.2 million hits.