46F 46F 46F lc4loan 4,.)atlm tl 11 11, > t [i T l I, j4, 1-0 1"I'D iki {11, I ilE, .t1.1,'i Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, February 20, 2013 michigandailycom SCIENCE SCHOLARS GREEKLIFE Fraternity suspended for photos MCKENZIE BEREZIN/Daily Librarians Emily Rodgers and Susan Turkel honor the science scholars of the University whose work has recently been published and put on display in the Shapiro Undergraduate Library on Tuesday. STUDENT GOVERNMENT Freshmenstart CSG arty momentUV a role traditionally held by an says she got involved because assembly representative, its upperclassman. This week, she believes the party has the leaders won't turn down stu- hopes to last more he made his bid official and opportunity to affect life on dents who are interested in run- launched a new campus politi- campus not only this year, but ning. election cycles cal party, momentUM. for the next three, unlike other In, developing a platform, Swider, who is running with political parties which often Swider said members of p LSA junior Jill Clancy, the cur- fade away after a failed election. momentUM have been directly rent CSG chief programming "Being freshmen, we have an questioning students on the By GIACOMO BOLOGNA officer, said his party, comprised ambition for three years of help- problems they see at the Uni- DailyStaffReporter heavily of freshmen, will con- ing out the University instead versity, the same strategy that tinue to function after March, of just the one or two if you're current CSG President Manish LSA freshman Nick Swider whether or not he and Clancy a junior or senior," Riethmiller Parikh and Vice President Omar turned heads when he decided win their election. said. Hashwi practiced during their to enter the race for Central LSA freshman Megan Rieth- Although momentUM is not campaign. Student Government president, miller, chair of momentUM, recruiting any candidates for See CSG, Page 3A Pi Kappa Alpha condemns campus chapter for party invitation By AARON GUGGENHEIM Daily StaffReporter The national chapter ofPi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, com- monly known as Pike, has issued an interim suspension to their Beta Tau Chapter at the Uni- versity following controversy stemming from the rapid online spread of semi-nude photos of its members. The photos, which featured members mostly naked with American flags, were attached to an e-mail that was sent as a party invitation to members of the Alpha Phi sorority this past Friday. The e-mail with the pho- tos stated that Pike members "paddle pledges because it is a comprehensive upper body workout" and that any sorority member who considered her- self a "red-blooded, God fearing American girl who has a spe- cific spring time gym routine to accommodate her summer- time jean shorts" should attend a party. Justin Buck, executive vice president of the national Pike organization, released a statement on the organiza- tion's website condemning the actions of the University's chapter, stating that they were "in violation of Fraternity Standards." "Countless undergraduate and alumni members through- out our organization have con- tacted the office voicing their displeasure," Buck wrote. "The Fraternity is taking this situa- tion very seriously." Buck added that the national chapter was working with the Interfraternity Council, the governing body for fraternities at the University, to "imple- ment appropriate punitive and educational conditions for the chapter." The IFC met Monday night to begin discussing what actions, if any, to take against the fra- ternity, University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said. No mem- bers of the IFC or the Beta Tau Chapter of Pike could be reached for comment Tuesday evening. Two websites with broad See FRATERNITY, Page 3A RESEARCH Faculty receive grants to fund lab research REDx FOR TEDx V 2. ? 6 t d r ;; J&il -. Foundation awards $50K grants to three professors By RACHEL PREMACK Daily StaffReporter Three University faculty mem- bers are recipients of the 2013 Sloan Research Fellowships, a $50,000 research grant present- ed to early-career researchers. Assistant Biology Prof. Sara Aton, Assistant Ecology Prof. Gregory Dick and Assistant Chemistry Prof. Stephen Maldo- nado are three of 126 promising investigators to receive fellow- ship. In the last three years, six University researchers received SRFs, which is issued by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which gives grants to institutions focused on science, technology and economics. Aton - who graduated from the University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science degree and set up her lab in July 2012 - expressed her gratitude to be included with future Nobel lau- reates. She will use the fellow- ship, to continue investigating what she called the "unsolved mystery of biology." Aton's lab analyzes two aspects of memory and sleep: consolidation - where informa- tion is encoded into long-term memory storage - and how neu- rons in the visual cortex change after the organism has seen something new. "When you're asleep, you're not looking for food, you're not looking for mates and you're not reproducing," Aton said. "So, from an evolutionary standpoint, you would think it would not be selected again unless it was serv- ing them a very, very important role that we don't understand yet." Most sleep studies involve sleep deprivation. Uniquely, Aton's lab studies sleep by turn- ing on and off certain neurons and analyzing how those tweaks affect consolidation. For Dick, the grant will sup- port ongoing research in deep- sea hydrothermal vents. He said some vents include plumes that See LAB, Page 3A NICHOLAS WILLIAMS/Daily Business senior Jeremy Klaben speaks to students about TE~N UofM on the Diag Tuesday. CITY GOVERNMENT ouci delays vote on development -moratorium PERFORMANCE PREVIEW Shakespeare goes A-male in theater co. performance Propeller to put on 'Twelth Night' at Power Center By GRACE PROSNIEWSKI For the Daily One word: Shakespeare.Undis- putedly one of the greatest liter- ary and cultural influences of all time, his works have enthralled artists, scholars and, most impor- tantly, audiences, for centuries. But Shakespearean works often seem to exist in a type of contra- dictory space. On one hand, they can be utterly intimidating, with "thees" and "thous," the com- plex soliloquies and the failed ninth-grade English exams. On the other hand, there's been a very real movement, spearheaded by publications such as No Fear Shakespeare, to make the works "accessible" to new generations. The challenge then, for current Shakespearean companies, is to work within the original text to facilitate and maintain a modern audience's interest. Propeller Theater Company See PERFORMANCE, Page 3A Energy bonds, sustainability also discussed By MATTHEW JACKONEN Daily StaffReporter The Ann Arbor City Council decided at its meeting Tuesday night to postpone a decision on whether to set a moratorium on development in the D1/D2 zoning area. A moratorium would squash plans to develop a high-rise at 413 E. Huron, which were not endorsed by the Planning Commission when it voted ear- lier this month. Pat Lennon, an attorney for the project's developer, said he believes City Council. was too hasty in approving the morato- rium. 'We are understandably frus- trated by this," Lennon said. "We're concerned that a motion ... would come up with such short notice and appar- ently little discussion," he added. During public commen- tary, Jeffery Crockett, an Ann See COUNCIL, Page 3A Library 2.0 HathiTrust, copyright and universal learning, oh my. ) INSIDE WEATHER HI: 26 TOMORROW L: 23 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-411Sore-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY Outtakes: Harlem Shake MICHIGAN DAILY.COM/B .COM INDEX Vol, CXXM,No.72 LOGS ©20t3 The Michigan Daily michigandoily.com NEWS..............2A SPORTS...............7A O PINIO N.....................4A CLASSIFIEDS...............6A A RTS S........................... A STATEM ENT.................1B A ol A A 4 A