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Educating with Jell-O brains

One club on campus
puts a unique spin on
brain education by offer-
ing an activity in which
participants consume
a brain made of Jell-O
before learning about how
the organ works.
BrainsRule! collabo-
rates with the Univer-
sity's Neuroscience
Graduate Program for an
annual event in which
middle school students
from the region are
invited to participate in
a variety of interactive
and educational exhibits
about the brain, accord-
ing to Rackham student

Stephanie Temme, the
former co-director of
BrainsRule!
"We want to reach them
at that crucial age and
show them that science
can be fun, interesting
and you don't necessarily
have to be a crazy genius
or something to be a sci-
entist," Temme said.
Since the group's cre-
ation in 2001, BrainsRule!
has hosted more than
220 fifth-and-sixth grade
students. For the event,
BrainsRule! members
design and run 20 booths
about neuroscience for
students to learn about

brain functions.
Though the event is
usually organized by
neuroscience graduate
students, BrainsRule!
encourages all interested
University students to
participate. Temme said
the club typically has
about 60 graduate and
undergraduate student
volunteers.
Planning for the 2012
BrainsRule! fair is under-
way and is tentatively
scheduled to take place
during Brain Awareness
week March 12 to 18.
- LANIE BARRON

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Michigan on the Diag yesterday.

CRIME NOTES

Catch him if
you can
WHERE: Cancer Center
WHEN: Monday at about
3:25 p.m.
WHAT: A fake $10 bill
was found at Java City cof-
fee shop, University Police
reported. The counterfeit
bill was used to purchase an
unknown item. There are
no suspects. y
The giving tree
WHERE: 1400 block of
Hubbard
WHEN: Monday at about
9:45 a.m.
WHAT: A student's bicycle
chained to a tree near Ran-
dall Lab was stolen, Uni-
versity Police reported. The
lock was cut before the bike
was removed. There are no
suspects.

How money
bags will travel
WHERE: East Ann Arbor
Medical Center
WHEN: Monday at about
7:15 a.m.
WHAT: Three bags of
money containing about
$1,000 were removed from
a locked safe, University
Police reported. There are
no suspects.
Wallet woes
WHERE: East Hall
WHEN: Monday at about
1:40 p.m.
WHAT: A woman not affili-
ated with the University
reported her wallet was
taken from her purse after
she left it unattended, Uni-
versity Police reported.
The purse was sitting in an
unlocked room.

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Seminar on LGBT lecture
academic jobs WHAT: Gene Robinson, the
first openly gaybishop, will
WHAT: Students interested talk about his experiences
in a future in academics will before and after he was
learn about the available ordained in 2004.
career paths and howto WHO: Spectrum Center
stand out in the job search. and Division of Student
WHO: The Career Center Affairs
WHEN: Today from 2:30 WHEN: Today at 3:30 p.m.
p.m. to 3:40 p.m. WHERE: University of
WHERE: Michigan League Michigan-Dearborn, Borg
Warner Auditorium
Free hip-hop Chevy Volt info
film screening WHAT: Speakers will
discuss the process behind
WHAT: The movie developing the electric car.
"Cuban Hip Hop: Desde el WHO: College of
Principio" will be shown Engineering
for Cuba Week. The film WHEN: Today from 4:30
will be followed by a panel p.m. to 6 p.m.
discussion. WHERE: Chrysler Center,
WHO: Multi-Ethnic Stu- Chesebrough Auditorium
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A contraceptive popular
among women in Africa
might double the risk of
being infected with H.I.V.,
The New York Times report-
ed. When used by H.IV.-pos-
itive women, the drug is less
effective for their partners
than not using contraception.
The University spent
$240,000 to imple-
ment the campus-wide
smoking ban that took effect
on July 1, but three months
later the debate over the poli-
cy hasn't burnt out.
>> FOR MORE, SEE THE STATEMENT,
INSIDE
Apple unveiled an
update to the iPhone
yesterday, The Los
Angeles Times reported.
The iPhone 4S is an upgrade
for the iPhone 4 released last
year, rather than the new
iPhone 5 some people were
anticipating.

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Tutu attacks African National
Congress over Dalai Lama visa

South African
officials deny
claims of China's
involvement
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -
Retired Archbishop Desmond
Tutu, an anti-apartheid hero
often described as South Afri-
ca's conscience, slammed the
ANC-led government yesterday
as "disgraceful" and said it is
worse than the country's former
oppressive white regime for not

issuing a visa to the Dalai Lama.
The African National Con-
gress responded by calling
Tutu's comparisons to the apart-
heid regime and to toppled Arab
dictatorships "very unfortunate
and totally misplaced," and said
the government should be given
time to explain its actions.
South African foreign minis-
try officials have denied accusa-
tions they are stalling on the visa
because of pressure from China,
a major trading partner. Tutu,
who received the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1984 for his nonviolent
campaign against white racist

rule, turns 80 on Friday and had
invited his fellow Nobel laureate
to South Africa to celebrate his
birthday.
Tutu angrily denounced ANC
leaders in a nationally televised
news conference hours after the
Dalai Lama's office said he was
calling off the visit because he
didn't expect to get a visa. Tutu,
who struggled for years alongside
the ANC and other anti-apart-
heid groups to defeat oppressive
white rule, said South Africans
expect their government to stand
for the human rights as laid out in
the constitution.

S

Amanda Knox (right) is comforted by her parents Curt Knox and Edda Mellas during a press conference shortly after she
arrives in Seattle yesterday.
After four-year ordeal,
Knox returns to Seattle*

Friends and family
celebrate among
crowd of media
SEATTLE (AP) - Amanda
Knox returned to her hometown
of Seattle yesterday with four
years in an Italian prison behind
her, the stabbing death of her
roommate still a mystery and the
media frenzy surrounding her
case as strong on U.S. soil as it
was in Europe.
Friends and family who
held spaghetti dinners, bowl-
ing events and concerts to raise
money for Knox's defense were
thrilled to have her home, but her
supporters were a small presence
at the Seattle-Tacoma Interna-
tional Airport compared to the
media: dozens of U.S. and inter-
national reporters, along with
cameras and satellite trucks.
Knox's life turned around dra-
matically Monday when an Ital-
ian appeals court threw out her
conviction in the sexual assault
and fatal stabbing of her British
roommate. Yesterday a court-
room picture ofKnox crying after
the verdict was read appeared on
AI .

the front pages of newspapers in
Italy, the U.S., Britain and around
the world.
The court's decision, fueled
by doubts over DNA evidence,
stunned the victim's family and
angered the prosecution, which
insists that she was among three
people who killed 21-year-old
Meredith Kercher. But for Knox's
grandmother Elisabeth Huff, "it
was like the weight of the world
had gone."
"We all are as happy as can be.
I can't tell you how long we've
been looking forward to this
day," Huff told The Associated
Press outside her home in West
Seattle, a tight-knit community a
few miles across Elliott Bay from
downtown.
"WELCOME HOME AMAN-
DA," read the marquee at a
record store in the neighborhood
where Knox grew up. Another
welcome sign was hung at her
father's house. A bar offered
half-price drinks to celebrate her
acquittal. At least one TV station
in Washington state tracked the
progress of her flight on the air
using a plane-tracking website.
Knox, 24, left Perugia's
Capanne prison Monday night

amid cheers that a companion
compared to those at a soccer
stadium.
Hundredsofinmates - mostof
them in the men's wing - shout-
ed "Amanda, ciao!" and "Free-
dom!" as she walked into the
central courtyard, said Corrado
Maria Daclon, head of the Italy-
US Foundation, which champi-
oned Knox's cause. Daclon said
Knox jumped a little for joy and
waved to the prisoners.
She was soon on her way
home, protected by the darkened
windows of a Mercedes that led
her out of the prison in the mid-
dle of the night, and then yester-
day morning to Rome's Leonardo
da Vinci airport. She flew from
Rome to London, where she took
a direct British Airways flight
to Seattle, flying business class
with full-length seat and menu 0
options including champagne,
smoked salmon and prawn salad.
She and her family were on
the plane's secluded upper deck.
At least nine members of media
organizations were on board
below, but a flight attendant S
blocked them from climbing the
stairs "to preserve the privacy"
of passengers.

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