2A- Monday, February 21, 2011 2 MdFu22The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 6 MONDAY: TEDY ENSA: TUSAY:!RIA IOther Ivory Towers Qusin.nCm u rfssrPoie a psCus phoo f1 teW e Y. j y , 0 " -y 1.. STUDENTS SURVEYED ABOUT WHY THEY WOULD LEAVE COLLEGE TEXTING IN COSTUME Depressed college dropouts¥ 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG BEAD WILEY EditorinChief BusinessManager 734418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 steinberg@michigandailycom tmdbusinessfigrnailtcom Professors at Michigan State University have dis- covered that depression and recruitment for employment are the most likely reasons students drop out of college, according to a Feb. 17 State News article. The recent study exam- ined survey results from students at a variety of American universities. Stu- dents were asked questions at orientation and at the end of their first term about what would affect their decision to leave college, the article states. The researchers said in the article the results were surprising because they thought other issues, like death in the family or drug addiction, would be leading causes of students ceasing their studies at a university. LASERS HELP UC- BERKELEY SCIENTISTS MEASURE EARTH Recent developments in lasers have allowed physi- cists at the University of Cal- ifornia, Berkeley to better study Earth's magnetic field, according to a Feb. 16 article in The Daily Californian. The finding could impact geological undertakings as well as make it easier to determine the weather and. locate oil and miner- als, the article states. The new method is more pre- cise and less costly than the traditional use of satellite technology, The Daily Cali- fornian reported. The scientists, called the Budker Group, use the lasers to send a powerful beam into the mesosphere to detect sodium atoms to determine the frequency of their rota- tion in the magnetic field around the Earth, according to the article. - SARAHALSADEN Newsroom 734-418-4115 opt.3 Corrections corrections@inichigandaiy.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales display@ichi gandaily.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com Letterstotthe Editor tothedaity@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaiy.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com tlassified Sales classified@michigandaity.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com Animania hosts Con Ja Nai XVII at the Modern Language Building on Saturday. Participants dressed up for the event that featured anime. CRIME NOTES Thief nabs Bathroom extra credit dorm drunk CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Organ player Climate change performance panel chat WHERE: The Michigan League WHEN: Friday at about 3:30 p.m. WHAT: A credit card and a debit card were stolen from a student's backpack, Uni- versity Police reported. The victim noticed unauthorized charges on her cards. Found pot remains hazy WHERE: West Quad Resi- dence Hall WHEN: Saturday at about 12:15 a.m. WHAT: Four students were found in possession of a marijuana-like substance, University Police reported. . WHERE: Mary Markley Residence Hall WHEN: Saturday at about midnight WHAT: A female student was found drunk in a bath- room, University Police reported. She was taken to the emergency room and issued an MIP. Poor table manners WHERE: Stockwell Resi- dence Hall WHEN: Saturday at about 3:30 p.m. WHAT: A lounge table was accidentally damaged after someone dropped something on it, University Police reported. The table WHAT: , Anthony Wil- liams will hold an organ performance as part of the Pipe Organ in African American Worship Sym- posium. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Today at 10:15 a.m. WHERE: Hill Auditorium Innovation in business talk WHAT: Marlene la Ber, doctoral candidate at the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business, will delivera lecture on social innovation and economic creation value. WHO: Erb Institute, Ross School of Business, School of Natural Resources WHEN: Today at noon WHERE: Ross School of Business WHAT: A panel of Univer- sity professors will discuss public policy and public opinion as is relates to the Great Lakes Basin and envi- ronmental change. WHO: Center for Local, State and Urban Policy- WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. WHERE: Weill Hall Policy debate WHAT: A debate will be held on the topic of the fed- eral government increasing taxes on people who make more than $250,000 annu- ally. WHO: Michigan Political Union WHEN: Today at 7 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Daily to correc- tions@michigandaily.com. Several Chicago librar- ies have abandoned the Dewey Decimal System in favor of grouping books by subject, the Chicago Tri- bune reported. The transition has increased the number of materials checked out of libraries, but critics say it's difficult to locate books that don't have categories. Senior forward Carl Hagelin of the hockey team scored the game- tying goal and game- winninggoal in the team's 5-4 win over Western Michigan Saturday. FOR MORE, SEE SPORTSMONDAY In Myanmar, the mother of a girl with 12 fingers and 14 toes is apply- ing for her daughter to be the Guinness Book of World Records, MSNBC reported. The current record for extra digits is 12 fingers and 13 toes. 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Even before the worst of the storm hit, Delta Airlines canceled about 700 flights to and from the Twin Cities airport and other air- lines thinned out their schedules, said airport spokeswoman Melis- sa Scovronski. She said yester- day afternoon the storm had shut down two of the airport's four runways. In Detroit, airlines canceled roughly 230 flights though the city's Metro Wayne County air- port, while more than 200 flights through Chicago's O'Hare airport were off. Traffic on the roads wasn't much better. The National Weath- er Service reported blizzard con- ditions in western Minnesota and issued a winter storm warning for the rest of the southern half of the state. It was part of a storm that stretched from Montana to Michi- gan and was moving east. The National Weather Service pre- dicted it would bring a wintry mix across the upper Midwest for sev- eral days. Weather service forecasters predicted the storm would drop 10 to15 inches ofsnow on Minneapo- lis by this afternoon, which prom- ised to make for a tough commute for those working on President's Day. "It's going to be snowing in the morning," said weather service meteorologist James McQuirter. "It's going to be a messy com- mute." A spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Transportation recommended that people just stay home and watch television on yesterday afternoon, rather than risk driving through the wind- driven snow. "If people don't need to travel, they shouldn't," said spokesman Kevin Gutknect. "It's really hard for people to see." a Saad el-Katatni, center, and Essam el-Erian, left, talk during a press conference in Cairo, Egypt yesterday. The two men are members of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest opposition group. Yemen president struggles to suppress political protests Japan to dig site linked to World War II human body experiments Former nurse says she and colleagues buried body parts at war site TOKYO (AP) - Japan is exca- vating the site of a former medi- cal school that may reveal grisly secrets from World War II. The investigation begins this afternoon at the former school linked to Unit 731, a germ and biological warfare outfit during the war. Shadowy experiments conducted by the unit on war pris- oners have never been officially acknowledged by the government but have been documented by his- torians and participants. It is the first government probe of the Tokyo site, and follows a former nurse's revelation that she helped bury body parts there as American forces began occupying the capital at the end of the war. Health Ministry official Kazuhiko Kawauchi said the excavation is aimed at finding out if anything is buried in the plot. "We are not certain if the sur- vey will find anything," Kawauchi said. "If anything is dug up, it may not be related to Unit 731." The former nurse, Toyo Ishii, now 88, broke 60 years of silence in 2006, sayingshe and colleagues at an army hospital at the site were ordered to bury numerous corps- es, bones and body parts during the weeks following Japan's Aug. 15, 1945, surrender before Ameri- can troops arrived in the capital. Her disclosure led to a face- to-face meeting with the health minister and a government pledge to investigate. The digging had to waituntil the scheduled relocation of residents and the demolition of apartments on the site last year. The site is close to another area where a mass grave of dozens of possible war-experiment victims was uncovered in 1989 during the construction of a Health Ministry research institute. Any remains found at the planned excavation site would have a stronger connection to Unit 731, said Keiichi Tsuneishi, a Kanagawa University history professor and expert on biological warfare. "The site used to be the research headquarters of Unit 731," Tsunei- shi said. "If bones are found there, they are most likely related to Unit 731." From its wartime base in Japa- nese-controlled Harbin in north- ern China, Unit 731 and related units injected war prisoners with typhus, cholera and other diseases to research germ warfare, accord- ing to historians and former unit members. The 1989 find revealed dozens of fragmented thigh bones and skulls, some with holes drilled in them or sections cut out. Police denied there was any evidence of criminal activity. Even with oil reserves. Saleh's weak government is already under concessions, some pressure from a southern separatist movement and opposition forces disaffected tribesmen around the country. refuse to negotiate The U.S., however, is most worried about an al-Qaida SANAA, Yemen (AP) - offshoot that has taken root Yemen's embattled president in Yemen's mountains to plot sought a way out of the political attacks beyond the country's crisis gripping his impoverished borders, including the failed Arab nation yesterday, offering attempt to blow up a U.S.-bound to oversee a dialogue between airliner in December 2009. the ruling party and the Saleh - in power for three opposition to defuse the standoff decades - is quietly cooperating with protesters demanding his -with the U.S. in efforts to battle ouster. the al-Qaida franchise, but his The offer by the U.S.-backed government exercises limited Ali Abdullah Saleh - which control in the tribal areas opposition groups swiftly beyond the capital. The U.S. rejected - came as protests gives Yemen military aid and calling for his ouster continued training. in at least four cities around the Saleh's rule continues to country for the 11th straight day. show signs of resilience in the A 17-year-old demonstrator face of the sustained protests was killed yesterday evening in that have seen security the port city of Aden when the forces and regime supporters army opened fire to disperse a battling demonstrators, mostly march there, bringing the death university students. toll to nine since the protests Yemen is a tribal society began. where almost every adult male Much is at stake in Yemen has a firearm. A decision by the - a deeply troubled nation country's major tribes to take strategically located at the sides in the standoff between mouth of the Red Sea and next Saleh and his critics could door to the world's largest decide the president's fate. Protests continued yesterday, with 3,000 university students marching in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital. Demonstrations were also held in a number of districts near Aden, the town of Taiz and the province of al-Hadida. The protests pose the most serious challenge to Saleh's rule to date. He has already made a series of concessions, pledging that his son would not succeed him and that he would not seek another term in office. Yesterday, he repeated his offer for negotiations. "Dialogue is the best means, not sabotage or cuttingoffroads," Saleh told a news conference. "I am readyto sit on the negotiating table and meet their demands if they are legitimate," said the Yemeni leader, who warned against "infiltrators" seeking to divide Yemenis and sabotage their country. A group of opposition parties refused to engage in dialogue while security forces continued to suppress demonstrations. "No dialogue with bullets, clubs and thuggery," the group said in a statement yesterday. The protesters have been inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. 4