2 - Friday, Aprill1, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: FRIDAY: in Other Ivory Towers Questions on Campus Professor Profiles Campus Clubs *Photos of the WeekiCiiJ 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 LEFT: Music, Theater & Dance www.michigandaily.com junior Garrett Mendelow plays STEPHANIE STEINBERG BEAD WILEY the xylophone at the North Editor in Chief Business Manager Quad Community Open Hlouse i ni.734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 on Thursday, March 31, 2011. steinberg@michigandaily.com tmdbasiness@gmait.com Newsroom 734-418-4115 opt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales display@michigandaily.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com Letters tothe Editor , tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classified@michigandaily.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com E6 s CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES | CRIME NOTES Tire takes a Nuisance at tumble North Quad WHERE: Intersection of WHERE: North Quadrangle Baxter and Hubbard Roads Residence Hall WHEN: Wednesday at WHEN: Wednesday at about 4 p.m. about 3 p.m. WHAT: A tire on a Univer- WHAT: Up to seven tables sity bus flew off and struck were broken in a public the window of a building, room and paint was spilled University Police reported. on the floor, University No injuries were reported. Police reported. There are currently no suspects. Skateboarders reach new level WHERE: Fletcher Carport WHEN: Wednesday at about 7:15 p.m. WHAT: A bystander noticed a group of young people skateboarding on the top of the carport, Uni- versity Police reported. The subiet fled the scene. Pop can pilferer WHERE: Phoenix Memorial Library WHEN: Thursday at about 5 a.m. WHAT: Two large bags of returnable bottles were stolen from a private room, University Police reported. There are currently no se,,ts.re Performance of Shakespeare WHAT: The all-male theatre performance group Propeller.will act out a rendition of Shakespeare's "Richard III." WHO: University Musical Society WHEN: Tonight at 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Power Center for the Performing Arts Food festival for charity WHAT: Food will be served from local restaurants with proceeds benefiting impoverished children worldwide. The evening will also feature performances by campus groups. WHO: People Realizing Opportunities to Volunteer in Dreams of Eliminating Starvation WHEN: Tomorrow at 6p.m. WHERE: East Hall CORRECTIONS . An article in the March 16, 2011 edition of The Michigan Daily ("Funds for UHS, Planned Par- enthood threatened') inaccurately reported that cuts to Planned Par- enthood would affect UHS. UHS is funded by a student health fee in tuition and pharmacy and clinical service fees. * An article in the March 20,2011 edition of The Michigan Daily ("Native American dance, tradi- tions honored at39th annual powwow") inac- curately stated where the University holds culturally unidentifiable Native American human remains. They are held in the University's Museum of Anthropology. * Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. According to KKTV.com, a Denver man is offering a $700 reward for the return of Butti, a 13-year old tortoise that was stolen from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. The tortoise was stolen from the zoo on March 27, 2011. Basement Arts is pro- ducing Rachel Gil- man's "Boy Gets Girl," a play critiquing dating cul- ture. Tickets are available for the show, which is being performed tonight at 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. and tomorrow at 7 p.m. >> FOR MORE, SEE ARTS, PAGE5 According to the Chi- cago Tribune, a teacher put photos of a student on Facebook, which resulted in the student being mocked. The teacher apologized and removed the photos. How- ever, the teacher now faces disciplinary action. 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A British teacher living in Abiko city, just east of Tokyo, is leading a volunteer team of blog- gers, writers and editors produc- ing "Quakebook," a collection of reflections, essays and images of the earthquake that will be sold in the coming days as a digital publication. Proceeds from the project will go to the Japanese Red Cross, said the 40-year-old, who goes by the pseudonym "Our Man in Abiko." The entirely Twitter-sourced project started with a single tweet exactly a week after the earthquake. Within an hour, he had received two submissions, which soon grew to the 87 that now comprise the book. Quakebook involves some 200 people in Japan and abroad, an the group is in negotiations t PJ's Records sell the download on Amazon & Used CDs com. It didn't take long for oth ers to notice. 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"The news of the earthquake, tsunami, and meltdown in Japan has mostly been horrifying. But it has also served as a reminder of the strength and resolve that comes out of Japanese culture," said one recent message on the project's Facebook page. The calamitous events that transfixed people worldwide led to a jump in traffic among social networking sites - typi- cal after recent major disasters elsewhere. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster that likely killed more than 18,000 people, phone and cellular networks were either down or overwhelmed with traffic. So people turned to the Inter- net to track down friends and family, and connect with those who saw the disaster unfold firsthand. In Tokyo, which suf- fered minimal damage, commut- ers wanted to know if their trains were running, and whether their neighborhoods would be subject to rolling electricity blackouts due to damage to nuclear and conventional power plants. Figures released this week show that millions flocked to sites like Twitter following the earthquake and tsunami. WELL-BEING From Page 1 he said. "Wellness and well-being for college students has really been on the rise," said Christine Asid- ao, assistant director of Outreach and Education for CAPS. Though in part due to the office's faculty and funding expansion, 3,362 students went to CAPS last year - an increase from the 3,127 students who vis- ited the office in the 2008-2009 school year, according to the CAPS 2009-2010 annual report. Funding for the Zone - now open each weekday - came from existing CAPS resources and is a part of the office's five-year mas- ter plan, Sevig said. The Zone's primary goal is to encourage emotional wellness to prevent serious psychological problems, Sevig said. And while Sevig said he hopes the Zone can be used to help those already seeking treatment through CAPS, he is hopeful the new center can reach out to students who have never been to CAPS before. Asidao said she anticipates the "wellness center will essentially attract a lot of students who don't necessarily want to come in for therapy, but who would really benefit from just learning how to relax." Asidao and Sevig emphasized that students' input is especially important since the Zone is tai- lored to them. "We as professionals can think of all kinds of great things, but if it doesn't meet student needs, for us that would violate our mission and everything that we stand STUDY From Page 1 light on an interesting paradox in that cell phones can close people off but also help them connect with the world around them. "The technology itself is not good or bad," Campbell said. "It is how it's used and who it's used with." In the study, more than 1,800 responses from a national survey suggested that. cell phone users seekingnews ontheir mobile devic- es were more likely to engage with people around them than people talking on cell phones. Addition- ally, the study found that people who use cell phones to coordinate plans are more likely to participate in public conversations. Campbell said the findings also support the notion that people who talk on cell phones frequently are less likely to communicate in pub- lic. "Cell phones do have the poten- tial to make us more focused on what's going on in our personal lives, and the personal lives of the people that we're close to," Camp- bell said. "Maybe we're not paying enough attention to things outside that realm." While Campbell said he was surprised to find that cell phone use can spark conversations with strangers, the new findings also support the researchers' previ- ous hypothesis that cell phone use can strengthen familial bonds and encourage interpersonal commu- nication. These previous findings, which were published in an issue of New Media & Society last year, chal- lenge the popular assumption that cell phones are replacing face-to- face contact. In the 2010 study, Campbell and Kwak found that a positive link exists between the amount of time spent communicat- ing with someone on the phone and the amount of face-to-face time with that person. Campbell said his fascination with how mobile communication devices connect and detach people motivated him to pursue research on the topic. He added that he plans to continue studying cell phones, particularly how they function in international societies. "Who we are closely connected with rubs off on us," he said. "I'm interested in the way that the cell phone facilitates that social conta- gion effect." This week, Campbell and Kwak presented separate research at a conference in Hawaii. The research focused on the ways mobile communication facilitates connectedness and disconnect- edness between adults in South Korea. Kwak, who is in Hawaii, could not be reached for comment. Campbell said there is a lot left to explore in the field of telecom- munications. "Compared with other tech- nology studies, only a sliver of research is being done on mobile communication," Campbell said. "It's outrageous because cell phones are contributing so muchto social change. I think it's meaning- ful and something that people take for granted." Next fall, Campbell plans to teach a course in the Department of Communication Studies called "Social Consequences of Mobile Communication," which will examine mobile device use and the impact ithas on social interactions. "(The course) will basically explore the social changes that we're witnessing right now with mobile communication," he said. for," Sevig said. The CAPS student advisory board - a group of 18 members who meet monthly with Sevig and Asidao to provide student perspectives on CAPS - played a key role in developing plans for the Zone. When a space opened on the third floor of the Union over the summer, CAPS real- ized a wellness center could truly become a reality and approached the student advisory board with the idea at the beginning of last semester. LSA senior Emily Green, a member of the student advisory board, said she thinks the Zone will provide students with a good place to relax. "It's not about studying, it's about recharging, regrouping, sit- ting in a massage chair for twenty minutes and just kind of letting the dayde-stress," Green said. 0 0 0 FOLLOW THE DAILY ON TWITTER @MICHIGANDAILY