2A - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Wednesday, October 26, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom NAPPING cUB Counting sheep on campus SAPAC-O-LANTERNS Che Michigan DAMl 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com STEPHANIE STEINBERG ZACH YANCER Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 steinberg@michigandaily.com zyancer@michigandaily.com 4 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. 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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 CORRECTIONS ! Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. 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. FOR MORE, SEE THE STATEMENT, INSIDE 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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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. 6 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. r I P.