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To address the multitude
of sleeping students doz-
ing off into a post-lunch
oblivion during lecture, one
newly formed campus group
is hoping to combat sleep
deprivation.
LSA freshman Michelle
Postman, a nap aficionado,
founded the Napping Club
earlier this year. Though it's
still in the planning phase,
she said the group hopes to
begin offering scheduled
napping sessions and activi-
ties to emphasize the impor-
tance of adequate sleep.
"Itkind of started as a joke
(among my friends) because
so many college students
don't get healthy sleep," she
said.
Though the club started
informally, Postman said she
and her friends decided to
make the club official.
"We wanted to make a
group for people that loved
to nap and for healthy sleep
for college students," she
said.
Thus far, she said get-
ting the club off the ground
hasn't been easy for Post-
man, particularly in plan-
ning official events and
garnering interest. Despite
lack of awareness about the
group, the club is currently
creating T-shirts and flyers
in an effort to attract atten-
tion.
With 10 members and
counting, she said the club
will soon start holding offi-
cial meetings, in addition to
offering group-napping ses-
sions a few times a month.
once the club gains more
members, Postman added
she has various ideas for
sleep-related activities
including holding a char-
ity napping event, in which
the money raised will be
donated to sleep research on
insomnia. She also plans to
develop designated places to
nap on campus.
"(We would like) to create
a space where people could
nap in peace," Poston said.
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Students decorate pumpkins at the 25th anniversary of S
the Michigan League yesterday.
CRIME NOTES
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Call the doctor Cooking up a Haunted Bell
for the nurse storm Tower tour
WHERE: University
Hospital Emergency Room
WHEN: Tuesday at about
4:05 a.m.
WHAT: A female patient
kicked a nurse who was
attemptingto assist her,
University Police reported.
The nurse was not injured.
Stealing steel
WHERE: 3000 Baxter Rd.
WHEN: Monday at about
9:40 a.m.
WHAT: Five pieces of steel
estimated to be worth about
$1,700 went missing at the
Transportation Research
Institute, University Police
reported. Suspects have
been identified, and none
are University students.
WHERE: Baits II
Residence Hall
WHEN: Tuesday at about
1:50 a.m.
WHAT: A microwave
and cabinets in one of the
kitchens in Baits II were
vandalized by students,
University Police reported.
The damage was valued at
$300.
Laptop looted
WHERE: Duderstadt
Buidling
WHEN: Tuesday at about
2:30 a.m.
WHAT: A student's
laptop was taken after he
left it unattended on the
third floor of the library,
University Police reported.
There are no suspects.
WHAT: For one night only,
students can take a tour of
the haunted Bell Tower.
Admission is free. Cider and
donuts will be served.
WHO: University Unions
Arts & Programs
WHEN: Tonight from 7
p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: North Campus
Diag
Lecture on
architecture
WHAT: Xiaowei Ma will
discuss the work of his
architecture firm in Boston
and Asia. The firm is known
for incorporating Chinese
culture into its designs.
WHO: School of Natural
Resources and Environment
WHEN: Today from 5 p.m.
to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Dana Natural
Resources Building
Film screening
WHAT: A screening of
"Between Two Worlds,"
a film about community
and family divisions that
redefine the American
Jewish identity and politics.
WHO: Jewish Communal
Leadership Program
WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social
Work
Jazz concert
WHAT: A free jazz
ensemble concert directed
by Dennis Wilson,
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre and Dance
WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham
Auditorium
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A federal advisory com-
mittee recommended
that boys and young
men be vaccinated against
human papillomavirus, The
New York Times reported.
The decision comes five years
after the recommendation for
females to be vaccinated.
Founders Brewing
Company will brew the
equivalent of 90,000
kegs this year. The brewery
has been lauded by the World
Beer Cup and Great Ameri-
can Beer Festival.
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A study published in
Injury Prevention said
there may be a link
between high consumption
of soft drinks and aggressive
teen behavior, ABC reported.
High consumption of soft
drinks showed a 9 to 15 per-
cent increase in aggression.
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broad plan that would make fun-
.nges to federal damental changes to the tax code
and to the nation's entitlement
tax system programs.
After weeks of calling Social
Y COURT, S.C. (AP) - Security a "Ponzi scheme," he
ican presidential can- offered five concrete principles
Rick Perry proposed a for reforming the program. Perry
ng economic plan yes- said he wants to keep benefits
that includes a flat tax intact for current retirees, but
al, private retirement allow younger workers to choose
ts for Social Security, a to put their income into private
corporate tax rate and accounts instead. He wants to
s aimed at keeping Medi- allow states and local govern-
lvent. ments to opt out of the federal
pitch to right-wing con- program and invest in different
ves, the Texas governor funds instead. And he wants to
d a proposal he calls "Cut, raise the retirement age for
e and Grow" that he says is younger workers.
and more aggressive than Perry also wants to make
sis Republican rivals or major changes to Medicare. His
nt Barack Obama would plan would allow Americans to
receive a payment or a credit for
erica is under a crushing the purchase of health insurance
of debt, and the presi- instead of the direct benefits pro-
mply offers larger deficits vided through the current pro-
politics of class division," gram. He would also gradually
aid. "Others simply offer raise the Medicare eligibility age
aved plans with warmed- and pay people benefits based on
their income levels.
Perry's plan sets a flat 20 per-
cent income tax rate, but also
gives taxpayers the option of
sticking with their current rate.
He would also maintain popular
deductions for families making
less than $500,000 a year and
end taxes on Social Security ben-
efits. Perry would end corporate
loopholes and lower the general
corporate tax rate to 20 percent.
Many elements of Perry's plan
are controversial - and oth-
ers have tried and failed to pass
them. President George W. Bush
tried to add private accounts to
Social Security, but the proposal
was widely condemned and did
not pass.
"I am not naive. I know this
idea will be attacked," Perry said
of the proposal. "Opposition to
this simple measure is based on a
simple supposition: that the peo-
ple are not smart enough to look
out for themselves."
President Barack Obama's
campaign immediately criticized
Perry's plan as hurtful to middle
class Americans. Perry's plan,
Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt
said, "would shift a greater share
of taxes away from large corpora-
tions and the wealthiest onto the
backs of the middle class."
The major policy rollout is a
critical part of Perry's efforts to
right a struggling campaign. It's
an opportunity to demonstrate a
heft and seriousness that wasn't
on display during recent debates.
Distracting from Perry's
speech, however, were new
comments he made question-
ing whether Obama was born in
the United States, a debunked
controversy that centered on
Obama's birth certificate.
In an interview with CNBC,
Perry said it was "fun to - to
poke" at the president on the
birth certificate issue. "I don't
have a clue about where the pres-
ident - and what this birth cer-
tificate says," Perry said. He was
defending an interview he did
with Parade magazine, when he
said he did not have a "definitive
answer" about whether Obama
was born in the United States.
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Turkish rescuers remove Semiha Karaduman, the mother of Azra Karaduman, a two-week-old baby girl saved hours
earlier from under the debris and rubble of the same collapsed building in Ercis, eastern Turkey, yesterday.
Turkish infant emerges
from-- earthquake rubble
7.2-magnitude
quake kills at least
459 people
ERCIS, Turkey (AP) - After
48 hours, a miracle emerged
from the rubble: a 2-week-old
baby girl brought out half-naked
but alive from the wreckage of
an apartment building toppled
by Turkey's devastating earth-
quake.
Rescue workers erupted in
cheers and applause yesterday
at sight of the infant - and again
hours later when her mother
and grandmother were pulled
out, their survival a ray of joy on
an otherwise grim day.
The death toll from Sunday's
7.2-magnitude quake climbed to
at least 459 as desperate survi-
vors fought over aid and blocked
aid shipments. A powerful
aftershock ignited widespread
panic that turned into a prison
riot in a nearby provincial city.
With thousands of quake sur-
vivors facing a third night out in
the open in near-freezing tem-
peratures, Turkey set aside its
national pride and said it would
accept international aid offers,
even from Israel, with which it
has had strained relations.
Tuesday's dramatic rescue of
three generations of one fam-
ily was all the more remarkable
because the infant, Azra Kara-
duman, was declared healthy
after being flown to a hospital in
Ankara, the Turkish capital.
Television footage showed
rescuer Kadir Direk in an
orange jumpsuit wriggling into
a narrow slit in the pile of con-
crete and metal, then sliding
back out with Azra, clad only in
a T-shirt.
"Praise be!" someone shout-
ed. "Get out of the way!" anoth-
er yelled as the aid team and
bystanders cleared a path to a
waiting ambulance.
"Bringing them out is such
happiness. I wouldn't be happier
if they gave me tons of money,"
said rescuer Oytun Gulpinar.
The pockets of jubilation
were tempered by many more
discoveries of bodies by thou-
sands of aid workers in the
worst-hit city of Ercis and other
communities in eastern Turkey
devastated by the earthquake.
Even rescues were tinged
with sadness: 10-year-old Ser-
hat Gur was pulled alive from
the rubble of a building after
being trapped for 54 hours, only
to die a short time later at a hos-
pital, state-run TRT television
reported.
Some 2,000 buildings col-
lapsed, but the fact that the
quake hit in daytime, when
many people were out of their
homes, averted an even worse
disaster.
Close to 500 aftershocks have
rattled the area, according to
Turkey's Kandilli seismology
center. A strong one on Tuesday
sent residents rushing into the
streets in panic while sparking
a riot by prisoners in the city of
Van, 55 miles (90 kilometers)
south of Ercis. The U.S. Geolog-
ical Survey put that temblor at a
magnitude of 5.7.
Some prisoners demanded to
be let out while others set bed-
ding on fire as the revolt spread
inside the 1,000-bed prison, the
Dogan news agency reported.
Security forces surrounded
the facility to try to prevent
escapes, while military vehicles
fired water cannon at crowds
gathered outside in the streets.
There was still no power or
running water in the region,
and desperate people stopped
trucks even before they entered
Ercis, grabbing tents and other
supplies. Kanal D television
showed people fighting over
tents and blankets.
Aid workers said they were
able to find emergency housing
for only about half the thou-
sands of people who needed it.
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