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Arson destroys charity's building
10 years ago this week (Feb. 20,
2002): Arson was ruled the cause
of a fire that burned down the Ann
Arbor United Way headquarters
on Feb. 19th, 2002, The Michigan
Daily reported.
Assistant Fire Chief Michael
Skyrpec said flammable mate-
rial was discovered when canines
searched the scene. United Way is
a national organization that raises
money to give resources to families
in need and provides funding for
other agencies, including the Boy
Scouts of America.
Some speculated that the arson
was started by allies of the Office of
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans-
gender Affairs in support of its ini-
tiative to stop the University from
funding United Way because the
organization provides funding to
the Boy Scouts, which has a strict
anti-homosexual policy.
50 years ago this week (Feb.
21, 1962): The state of Michigan's
constitutional convention passed
a proposal regarding higher educa-
tion in the state that required that
university governing board meet-
ings at state institutions be open to
the public and that all state univer-
sities must give an annual account
of their financial accounting to the
legislature.
The proposal also granted con-
stitutional status to all ten state
colleges and universities and
required legislative responsibil-
ity for community colleges, which
was a first for the state, according
to the Daily.
100 years ago this week (Feb.
22, 1912): Twenty feet of snow fell
over the course of the week and
wreaked havoc on the University's
events planned to honor former
President George Washington's
birthday, the Daily reported.
The inclement weather prevent-
ed Chase Osborn, then governor of
Michigan, from traveling to Ann
Arbor to give a speech in Wash-
ington's honor at the University.
All trains between Lansing and
Ann Arbor were suspended, but
two snowplows were brought in
to clear the tracks in an attempt to
bring the governor to the Universi-
ty.After working for two hours and
clearing only five miles of track,
the crew abandoned the effort
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Vince Gilson, a Tidy Tom cleaning employee,
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CRIME NOTES
Damaging
Drench
WHERE: Gerstacker Build-
ing
WHEN: Friday at 11:10 am
WHAT: A water leak
reportedly damaged lab
equipment, University
Police reported. The leak
is thought to have occured
sometime between Feb. 8
and Feb. 16.
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Education 'U' orchestra
funding lecture performance
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discuss college tuition, Burana", a piece of music
financial aid and other from the 20th century.
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issues. Theatre & Dance
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Taiwanese-American
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slur, according to the Los
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one of the youngest
people to identify with
Gender Identity Disorder,
The Telegraph reported.
The elementary school the
boy, who identifies as a girl,
attends created a unisex
bathroom for him to use.
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HORMONE
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able to manipulate the levels
of the hormone released and sub-
sequently identify a cause of its
increase.
Rackham student Bill Chopik,
who worked with Edelstein on
the study, said an interesting
implication of the research was
its ability to challenge commonly
held beliefs.
"There's an assumption that
whether it be intimate movies
or action movies ... we assume
they affect people the same way,"
Chopik said. "Action movies
exhilarate us; intimacy movies
make us feel certain feelings, but
what's interesting is that's not
the entire story for everybody...
Individuals differ from each
other."
The study was conducted
using a sample of 229 male and
female undergraduate students
who responded to questions
regarding their abilities to be
intimate in romantic relation-
ships. They were then shown
one of three videos that acted as
potential stimuli for the estra-
diol - a film of ocean life, a video
depicting children dancing, or
a clip portraying a close father-
daughter relationship. The par-
ticipants' saliva was sampled
before and after the film viewing
as a way to detect the hormonal
changes.
Edelstein and her team chose
an intimate clip that portrayed a
close, but not romantic, relation-
ship with a father and daughter
as a way of eliminating the sexu-
al hormones and focusing on the
emotional ones.
"We got the research showing
that there are a lot of hormone
changes that come along with
viewing sexual kinds of images,
but not this specifically intimate
quality," Edelstein said. "We
thought that using a parent-child
interaction would separate that
sexual component and get that
out of it."
However, Edelstein predicts
that the findings would also be
relevant to romantic .relation-
ships.
While both men and women
participated in the study, there
was a dramatic difference in
the hormonal activity of each
gender. Even men who reported
to be intimate in relationships
showed virtually no change in
estradiol levels when exposed to
the videos.
While the study did not offer
an explanation for the discrep-
ancy between men and women,
Edelstein speculated that the
difference could be due to dif-
ferent estradiol sensitivity levels
between men and women.
"We're wondering also though
whether woman identified with
the video clip more," Edelstein
added, referring to the father-
daughter relationship depicted.
"So that's another thing we
might like to try is maybe (use) a
different kind of clip that would
elicit the same response for
avoidant men."
Considering the findings of
the study, Tim Davis, associate
director of Counseling and Psy-
chological Services at the Uni-
versity, said personality types
also have a large influence in
determining how an individual
approaches4 relationships. He
also stressed the role that social-
ization and life experience play
'in shaping attitudes towards
intimacy, citing the effect trau-
ma may have on one's ability to
form attachments.
"Sometimes that might just
mean a really severe emotional
letdown on the part of someone
who's close to them," Davis said.
"Sometimes it means a real viola-
tion of trust or sexual abuse that
makes it hard for people to trust
enough to be emotionally inti-
mate as adults."
However, according to
Chopnik, the early childhood
socialization approach and the
hormone responses found in the
study are by no means exclusive
of each other. He said attach-
ment theory - which examines
the impact of childhood experi-
ences on subsequent relation-
ships and interactions - was
an important consideration and
basis for the study.
He added that early socializa-
tion affects hormone responses
in later life, describing it as a bi-
directional relationship.
"Hormones influence how
we behave, and how we behave
influences hormones," Chopik
said.
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks in Mayfield Heights, Ohio on Feb.16.
Presidential campaigns and outside political groups began filing detailed financial reports yesterday.
Republican super PACs
buoyed by mega donors
Two Super PACs
spent close to $24
million in January
WASHINGTON - A pair of
"super" political action commit-
tees supporting top Republican
presidential candidates spent
nearly $24 million in January,
drawing upon major gifts and
repeat donations from wealthy
business executives, according to .
financial reports the groups filed
yesterday with the government.
The super PACs - Mitt Rom-
ney-leaning Restore Our Future
and Newt Gingrich-supportive
Winning Our Future -'raised a
combined $17 million last month.
That financial strength allowed
the groups to hit the airwaves in
key primary states with millions
of dollars in expensive TV ads.
The groups' fundraising offers
a periodic behind-the-scenes
glimpse into the identities of the
wealthy supporters who will help
elect the next president, along
with details on how the tens of
millions of dollars they donated
have been spent this election sea-
son. Restore Our Future, which
spent $14 million last month, has
been boosted by more than two
dozen repeat donors. Winning
Our Future, which spent $9.7
million, is largely supported by
casino mogul Sheldon Adelson
and his wife.
The super PACs, as well as
other groups supporting other
candidates and the individual
campaigns, were required to dis-
close how much they raised and
the identities of their donors in
reports filed with the Federal
Election Commission by mid-
night yesterday.
Those reports provided a
snapshot of fundraising for
President Barack Obama's early
campaign and for Republican
candidates as they battled dur-
ing important primary elections
in January. During the month,
GOP candidates Newt Gingrich
and Rick Santorum had briefly
surged ahead of front-runner
Mitt Romney but trailed the for-
mer Massachusetts governor in
fundraising. Since then, Santo-
rum has climbed remarkably in
polls as support eroded just as
stunningly for Gingrich follow-
ing his disappointing showing in
Florida.
Restore Our Future has been a
boon for Romney, who has bene-
fited greatly from the group's TV
ads attacking Gingrich in par-
ticular. Such ads were purchased
thanks to the financial help of
repeat donors, including Marri-
ott International Chairman J.W.
Marriott Jr., who has given the
super PAC $750,000 to date.
The super PAC also reported
new donors, including Hewlett-
Packard CEO Meg Whitman.
Romney mentored Whitman,
recently an unsuccessful can-
didate for California governor,
during the 1980s at Boston-based
Bain & Co., the private equity
firm Romney headed. Whit-
man's $100,000 check to Restore
Our Future came days after she
joined Romney at a celebration
of his victory in the New Hamp-
shire primary.
Restore Our Future counted
on continued support from at
least 30 repeat donors who have
given a combined $6.6 million in
January, according to a review
of the reports by The Associated
Press.
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