2A - Wednesday, March 12, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Wednesday, March 12, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETERSHAHIN KIRBY VOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ear. 1251 734-418-4115 eat. 1241 pjshahin@michigandaily.com kvoigtman@michigandailyceom Jane Goodall talks chimps at Iowa Jane Goodall, a renowned anthropologist, spoke to Uni- versity of Iowa students about her research and the impor- tance of following passions, The Daily Iowan reported Monday. Goodall is best known for her work studying the social behav- ior of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tan- zania. A graduate of Cambridge University, she went on to be named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2004 and found the Jane Goodall Institute, an organiza- tion that funds research related to chimpanzee habitat protec- tion. The talk was the largest event of the year sponsored by the university's guest lecturer committee. Administrators had to change the venue to Carver- Hawkeye Arena to accommo- date the thousands of students planning to attend. Goodall talked about her work with chimpanzees and her nonprofit organization devoted to sustainability. By coming to the university, she said she hopes to inspire young people to find what they are passionate about before graduating. "College students are about to go out in the world, and it's the last chance to try to reach them if they haven't already been reached," Goodall said. Shengzhuang Tang, a lab technician for Michigan's Nanotechnology Institato far Medicine and' Biological Sciences, works na compound for a drug Tuesday. ~~O1 CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES LGBTQ parent Medical school lecture info session The Ride BY MAX RADWIN The Ride will move to the larger, relocated Blake Transit Center on March 17 in response to growing ridership, which has increased by more than 88 percent since the 1980s. In 2012, the city recorded a record number of riders at 6.6 million. Gibbons case BY MATT SLOVIN Through a Freedom of Information Act request, The Ann Arbor News learned that the University Office of Institutional Equity requested photographs in October 2013 fromthe police investigation of the Gibbons case. Palestine banner removed fromBarnard College building Barnard College administra- tors ordered Columbia Univer- sity's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine to remove the banner they recently hung on the front of Barnard Hall display- ing the words "Stand for Justice, Stand for Palestine" on Monday, the Columbia Spectator reported. The banner meant to advertise the student organization's annual Israeli Apartheid Week, a move- ment designed to promote the' voice of Palestinians calling for freedom from Israeli influence. -ALLANAAKHTAR After a domestic dispute this weekend, a 31-year- old woman bit off her boyfriend's ear, the New York Daily News reported. The Michigan woman allegedly began violently attacking her boyfriend after he entered their bedroom. Disordered eating is prevalent on college campuses, but few are willing to talk about it. 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In his analysis, he acknowledges that there has been a decline in the number of U.S. citizens who are uninsured, but comes to the conclusion that this cannot be attributed to Obamacare. The Statement Magazine explores the top five reasons to stay in Ann Arbor during spring term. Highlights include the summer festival scene, time to explore the town and easier classes. Readmorefrom these blogs at michigandaily.com WHAT: See a screening of this Academy Award nomi- nee for Best Documentary Feature. WHO: Center for Southeast Asian Studies WHEN: 7 p.m. WHERE: The Michigan Theater Libya's western-backed prime minister ousted Move comes after try was rumbling - between the central government and the struggle between restive eastern half of the coun- try, where many are demanding Islamists and anti- greater autonomy, with each side again backed by their own Islamist factions militias. On Tuesday, a powerful mili- TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Lib- tia from the western city of Mis- ya's parliament ousted West- rata clashed with a rival eastern ern-backed prime minister Ali militia outside the central city Zidan ina Tuesday vote, remov- of Sirte in heavy fighting, on a ing the first democratically drive to take control of the oil chosen leader who had strug- terminal of al-Sidra, further gled for 15 months to stem the east along the coast. country's spiraling descent into The eastern, pro-autonomy chaos, with divisive political militia, headed by a command- power struggles and rampant er named Ibrahim Jedran, has militias out of the control of the controlled al-Sidra and other oil. weak central government. facilities in the east for months The government has been in defiance of the central gov- paralyzed for months by ernment, shutting down exports the power struggle between of the country's biggest revenue Islamists in parliament try- earner. This week, Jedran's ing to remove Zidan and anti- militia sought for the first time Islamist political factions to export oil itself, with a North - each side backedby rival mili- Korean-flagged tanker docked tias. Zidan's removal came as at one of the ports it controls, another fault line in the coun- al-Sidra. --IIM Pro-government militias claimed Monday to have recap- tured the tanker, a claim the militia holding the port denies. The status of the tanker has not been independently confirmed, but officials in the capital Tripo- li have vowed to rally their forc- es to retake not only al-Sidra, but also the other facilities held by Jedran's fighters - a move that could spark wider fighting with the east. A group of pro-autonomy leaders of eastern tribes issued a statement Tuesday warning that the clashes and the drive to take back the oil facilities could push them to increase their demands to "separation" for the eastern region, known as Barqa. "We are not respon- sible for any repercussions," they warned, saying they sup- port Jedran's forces and its bid to sell the oil. From the other camp, Col. Hassan Shaka claimed his forc- es had taken Sirte and told the LANA news agency his fighters would continue east to retake the oil terminals. Zidan has appeared particu- larly helpless in recent days in trying to deal with the crisis over the oil tanker. He con- fessed to reporters on Saturday that the nation's military does not carry out his orders and complained that "everyone is working against the govern- ment." After the "no" vote carried Tuesday vote of confidence, parliament named the defense minister, Abdullah al-Thinni, as interim prime minister until a replacement for Zidan is found. Zidan was Libya's first prime minister chosen by an elected parliament after the 2011 revolt that removed and killed longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafi. Gadhafi's 42-year rule left Libya with no strong state institutions. Zidan has presided over a gov- ernment that has little author- ity and is frequently subjected to humiliations. MAYA ALLERUZZO/AP Syrian wOmen wait with their children at the U.N. refugee agency's registration center in Zahleh, Lebanon. Coflct i ra continues to afect millions of children UNICEF report draws attention to worsening plight BEIRUT (AP) - The number of Syrian children affected by the civil war in their homeland has doubled in the past year to at least 5.5 million - more than half the country's children - with devastating effects on the health, education and psycho- logical well-being of an entire generation, the United Nations children's agency said Tuesday. The conflict, which enters its fourth year this month, has unleashed massive suffering across all segments of Syrian society, but the impact on chil- dren has been especially acute, according to a new report by UNICEF. Malnutrition and ill- ness have stunted their growth; a lack of learning opportunities has derailed their education; and the bloodytrauma of war has left deep psychological scars. "After three years of conflict and turmoil, Syria is now one of the most dangerous places on earth to be a child," the agency said. "In their thousands, chil- dren have lost lives and limbs, along with virtually every aspect of their childhood. They have lost classrooms and teachers, broth- ers and sisters, friends, caregiv- ers, homes and stability." "Millions of young people risk More than 2 million of those becoming, ineffect, alostgenera- who should be in classes remain tion," UNICEF said. within Syria's borders, as educa- Since the conflict began, thou- tion and health services collapse sands of videos and photographs and classrooms are bombed or of bloodied babies, lifeless chil- used as shelters and military bar- dren and bombed out schools in racks. Another 300,000 Syrian Syria have provided stark images children are out of school in Leb- of the war's impact on children. anon, along with some 93,000 in But in many ways, figures pro- Jordan, 78,000 in Turkey, 26,000 vide perhaps the clearest indica- in Iraq and 4,000 in Egypt, agen- tion of how sweeping an effect cy officials said in Geneva. the conflict has on their lives. Many are forced to grow up UNICEF said that more than fast: One in 10 refugee children 10,000 children have been killed is now working, the agency esti- in the violence, which would mates, while one in five Syrian translate into the highest casu- girls in Jordan is forced into early alty rates recorded in any recent marriage. Inside Syria, boys as conflict in the region. of those young as 12 have been recruited who have survived, thousands to help the rebels, some as fight- have been wounded, lost their ers and others in a support role, home and schools, and seen fam- the U.N. report said. ily members and friends killed. Syria's conflict began in March That trauma has left around 2 2011 with largelypeacefulprotests million children in need of psy- against President Bashar Assad. chological support or treatment, Facing a brutal government crack- the agency said. down, protesters eventually took Almost 3 million children are up arms and the country descend- displaced inside Syria, while ed into a civil war. another 1.2 million have fled the has killed more than 140,000 country and now live as refu- people so far. gees in camps and overwhelmed On the ground, meanwhile, neighboring communities where the fightinghas shown no sign of clean water, food and other basic slowing down. items are scarce. On Tuesday, three suicide on the education front, UNI- bombers blew themselves up in CEF said that nearly half of a local administration building Syria's school-age children - 2.8 in the Kurdish town of Qamishli million and counting - cannot in northeast Syria, killing at least get an education because of the five people, state media and a devastation and violence. Kurdish official said. A I