2A - Monday, January 23, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Monday, January 23, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom A LAMMIN' CAME iTe fidiigan DAMl 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JOSEPH LICHTERMAN ZACHARYYANCER Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 lichterman@michigandaily.com zyancer@michigandaily.com 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. -RAYZA GOLDSMITHAND CHARLENE LERNER An Ohio St CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Newsroom 734-418-415 opt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com SportsSection sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales display@m ich igandaily. con Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com Letters tothe Editor tothedaily@mnichigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com PhotographySection photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classified@m ichigandaily.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com 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 CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. 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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Subscriptions for fall termstarting in September, via.s.mai are $110. inter term (oanuary through Apri)is $115, yearlong (September through April) is $195. University affiates are subject to a reduced subscriptionrate.On-campussubscriptionsfor falitermare$35 Subscriptionsmust beprepaid. 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 0 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. SIDNEY KRANDALL/Daily SAAN guest speaker Sharmadip Basu discusses the meaning of politics with SAAN attendees on Friday. 80-2eview 1800-273-8439 PrincetonReview.com H K 4F~Lit r 4/rl l N,~i 4:icl.R~ .li ,- I -, From Page 1A 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." SEE YOUR NAME ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM TWEET WITH THE HASHTAG #MICHLINKS 0