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New tailgaiting policy at Yale
After one death and tw
injuries before the Harvard
Yale footballgame last Novem
ber after a U-Haul truc
crashed through a groupc
fans tailgating, Yale Universit
has taken preventative mea
sures.
On Thursday, Yale official
announced that beer keg
will not be allowed at athleti
events, oversized vehicle
without vendor permits will b
banned from university par
ing lots and students are man
dated to end tailgating by th
time of kickoff, according to
Jan. 20Yale Daily News articl
The impetus for the polic
change was the death of Nanc
CRIME NOTES
Cleaning out
the closet
WHERE: University Hos-
pital
WHEN: Thursday at about
1:30 p.m.
WHAT: A hospital worker's
purse was stolen from a
custodial closet, University
Police reported. There was
no money in the purse and
there are no suspects.
o Barry, a former resident of
I- Salem, Mass. Barry was killed
s- and two women were injured
k when a Yale undergraduate
of crashed a U-Haul truck full of
:y beer kegs through a tailgating
a- area.
Is COURT RULES IN FAVOR
s OFV.A. TECH IN LAWSUIT
it
es On Friday, the jury in a U.S.
e District Court determined that
k- Virginia Tech University did
- not discriminate against two
e female employees who were
a being paid less than a male col-
e. league, The Collegiate Times
y reported.
y The article states that Shana
Uncalled for
WHERE: West Quad Resi-
dence Hall i
WHEN: Thursday at about a
3:10 P.M. t
WHAT: A resident's cell h
phone was stolen from the b
dining hall at about 1 p.m.,
University Police reported. '
The value of the phone is g
not known and there are no v
suspects.V
Maron and Greta Hanes, who
initially sued Virginia Tech in-
2008 for violating the Equal
Pay Act, won with a jury in
April 2011 and were both
awarded back pay.
The case went back to
court in July 2011, at which
point Judge James Turk
ruled that Virginia Tech did - s
not discriminate, as it had 4
based the two women's sala-
ries on experience as opposed
to gender. The plaintiffs plan
on appealing this latest rul-
ing at the 4th Circuit U.S. -
Court of Appeals.
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ate volleyball playerjumps to hit the ball on Saturday.
Visiting writer
WHAT: Palestinian-Amer-
can Naomi Shihab Nye, the
uthor and editor of more
han 25 literary works, will
hold a reception and sign
tooks as part of the Zell
Visiting Writing Series.
WHO: University of Michi-
an Museum of Art
WHEN: Tonight at 7 p.m.
WHERE: University of
Michigan Museum of Art
Gettin' steamy Down the drain
Piano man
WHAT: Russian Piano solo-
ist Denis Matsuev will per-
form classic piano pieces.
Tickets start at $10.
WHO: University Musical
Society
WHEN: Tonight at 7:30
p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium
Premodern sex
WHAT: Experts discuss
Patricia Simons' new book,
"The Sex of Men in Pre-
modern Europe," as part
of the Lesbian, Gay, Queer
Research Initiative series.
WHO: Institute for
Research on Women and
Gender
WHEN: Today at 3 p.m.
WHERE: Lane Hall
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The Iraqi government
asked former British spe-
cial forces soldier Nigel
Ely for the bronze buttocks of
a statue of Saddam Hussein
statue that he took during the
2003 invasion of Baghdad,
Newser.com reported. The
cheek is two feet tall.
Former Penn State
coach Joe Paterno
spent 46 years as head
coach of the Nittany Lions,
leaving with 409-136-3 com-
bined record in his career.
FOR MORE, SEE SPORTSMONDAY,
NSIDE
In the Russian Konti-
nental Hockey League's
skill competition on
Saturday Vladimir Tarasen-
ko tied a puck to his hockey
stick with fishing line so
he could decieve the oppos-
ing goalie and score a goal,
Yahoo Sports reported.
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WHERE: West Quad Resi-
dence Hall
WHEN: Thursday at about
10:30 p.m.
WHAT: A University laptop
was accidentally damaged
from steam, University
Police reported. Housing
security reported the dam-
age but the value of the
danmnaie is unknown.
WHERE: Cardiovascular
Center
WHEN: Thursday at about
9:30 p.m.
WHAT: Cleaning solution
from a machine leaked
out of a damaged drainage
pipe into a room where it
was contained, Univer-
sity Police reported. OSHA
responded and cleaned up
th cil
Chamber
pop concert
WHAT: The Juliets, a five-
piece chamber pop band
from Ypsilanti, will rock
out with their classically
inspired music. General
admission tickets are $10.
WHO: Michigan Union
Ticket Office
WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark
Cancer patients may have new
medicinal marijuana treatment
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Cannabis-based plant itself could soon be making
their way to pharmacy shelves,
mouth spray is in according to drug companies,
small biotech firms and univer-
development sity scientists.
A British company, GW
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A Pharma, is in advanced clinical
quarter-century after the U.S. trials for the world's first phar-
Food and Drug Administration maceutical developed from raw
approved the first prescription marijuana instead of synthetic
drugs based on the main psycho- equivalents- a mouth spray it
active ingredient in marijuana, hopes to market in the U.S. as a
additional medicines derived treatment for cancer pain. And it
from or inspired by the cannabis hopes to see FDA approval by the
end of 2013.
Sativex contains marijuana's
two best known components -
delta 9-THC and cannabidiol -
and already has been approved
in Canada, New Zealand and
eight European countries for a
different usage, relieving muscle
spasms associated with multiple
sclerosis.
FDA approval would represent
an important milestone in the
nation's often uneasy relation-
ship with marijuana, which 16
states and the District of Colum-
bia already allow residents to
use legally with doctors' rec-
ommendations. The U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration
categorizes pot as a dangerous
drug with no medical value,
but the availability of a chemi-
cally similar prescription drug
could increase pressure on the
federal government to revisit
its position and encourage other
drug companies to follow in GW
Pharma's footsteps.
"There is a real disconnect
between what the public seems
to be demanding and what the
states have pushed for and
what the market is providing,"
said Aron Lichtman, a Virginia
Commonwealth University
pharmacology professor and
president of the International
Cannabinoid Research Society.
"It seems to me a company with
a great deal of vision would say,
'If there is this demand and
need, we could develop a drug
that will help people and we
will make a lot of money."'
Possessing marijuana still is
illegal in the United Kingdom,
but about a decade ago GW
Pharma's founder, Dr. Geoffrey
Guy, received permission to
grow it to develop a prescrip-
tion drug.
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Ahuja said. "Through my job,
I have an opportunity to learn
about all these communities that
I would never have the opportu-
nity to do."
Engineering senior Prithvi
Murthy, co-chair of the confer-
ence, said the event's central
planning team achieved its goal
to raise awareness about issues
relevant to the South Asian com-
munity locally and abroad.
"What we aimed to achieve
with this awareness was to show
how easily social justice initia-
tives could be incorporated into
every individual's life," Murthy
said. "We hoped that partici-
pants could establish the con-
sistency and continuity of these
injustices across communities
and regions and that anyone can
be inspired to make them per-
sonal causes."
The program also includ-
ed eight different workshops
focused on promoting social
change through arts, academ-
ics and activism. U.S. Rep. Han-
sen Clarke (D-Mich.), a South
Asian raised in Detroit, also
spoke of his experience growing
up with a Bangladeshi Muslim
immigrant father and a Black
Christian mother in inner-city
Detroit.
Prerna Lal, an LGBTQ Fiji-
Indian activist who is an undoc-
umented resident living in the
United States, hosted a work-
shop encouraging South Asian
youth to voice their concerns
about the U.S. immigration sys-
tem.
LSA sophomore Guneet Ahlu-
walia said the small group dis-
cussions during the workshop
provided him with new perspec-
tives on controversial topicsthat
are usually avoided.
"I really opened up myself
to the group during the small
group," Ahluwalia said. "I was
thinking about stuff I usu-
ally wouldn't think about, and
because of that I was able to look
at the issues differently."
LSA senior Sian Dowis
attended a workshop on sexual
health on Saturday and said
workshop leader Sapna Mysoor,
a program manager at the Asian
& Pacific Islander Wellness Cen-
ter, made her realize how differ-
ent learning about sexuality was
for her as a Caucasian compared
those in the South Asian com-
munity.
"I think the workshop was
really eye-opening," Dowis said.
"When they asked who learned
about sex from their parents,
I was one of the very few who
raised their hands."
At Saturday's conference,
Engineering junior Evan Pot-
ter said he became more aware
of the issues affecting South
Asians in the United States and
abroad.
"In South Asia, the issues are
more about healthcare and edu-
cation in rural areas," Potter
said. "However, in the United
States, it's more about racial
profiling and negative stereo-
types associated with the South
Asians livinghere."
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