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THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

The 
militant 
group 

Al-Qaeda 
took 

responsibility for last 

week’s attack on Charlie 
Hebdo, The New York Times 
reported. 
The 
group 
is 

located in Yemen.
3

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Two officers and eight 
prisoners 
were 
pro-

nounced dead after a 

bus crash in Texas, Fox 
News reported. The bus 
was carrying prisoners from 
Abilene to El Paso. The bus 
went off of an icy bridge and 
hit a train. 

1

Career Fair 
prep 

WHAT: The Career 
Center is holding 
preparation activites for 
the Winter Career Expo. 
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: Today from 9 
a.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: The Career 
Center 

Open 
conversation 

WHAT: An open 
conversation about 
segrgation in urban areas 
will be held in honor of 
MLK. 
WHO: University Library 
WHEN: Today from 7 
p.m to 9 p.m. 
WHERE: Hatcher 
Graduate Library 

The DeCamp 
Sisters 

WHAT: Performing duo 
The DeCamp Sisters will 
share their original songs 
at The Ark alongside group 
Jack & The Bear. 
WHO: Michigan Union 
Ticket Office 
WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark 

Penny Stamps 
speaker 

WHAT: Photographer 
David Turnley will speak 
about his experiences cov-
ering historical events. 
WHO: School of Art and 
Design 
WHEN: Today from 5:10 
p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan The-
ater 

Gender exhibit 

WHAT: Fifteen artists 
wil showcase their artistic 
interpretation of gender.
WHO: Institute for 
Research on Women and 
Gender
WHEN: Today from 4 p.m 
to 6 p.m 
WHERE: Lane Hall 

BLUElab

WHAT: A mass meeting 
for anyone interested in 
environmental issues. 
WHO: BLUElab 
WHEN: Tonight from 8:30 
p.m to 9:30 p.m. 
WHERE: School of 
Natural Resources and the 
Environment 
CORRECTIONS
Please report any error 
in the Daily to correc-
tions@michigandaily.com.

Art show 

WHAT: Artist Elaine 
Wilson will showcase her 
art exhibit, “Charting 
the Wolverine” following 
the train route from Ann 
Arbor to Chicago. 
WHO: University Library 
WHEN: Beginning 
January 15 
WHERE: Hatcher 
Graduate Library. 2nd 
Floor 

In this week’s edition 
of The B-Side, Senior 
Arts 
Editor 
Adam 

Theisen profiles M-Agination, 
a 
student-driven 
film 

production group on campus. 
>> FOR MORE, SEE THE B-SIDE 
2

TUESDAY:

Professor Profiles

THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

MONDAY:

This Week in History

El Capitan where two climbers vying to become the first in the world to use only their hands and feet to scale a sheer slab 
of granite make their way to the summit Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, in Yosemite National Park, Calif.
Two Yosemite climbers 
complete impossible feat

Scientists find 
microbes and 

invasive species on 

boats

TRAVERSE 
CITY, 
Mich. 

(AP) — Government-sanctioned 
tests of equipment designed to 
cleanse ship ballast water of 
invasive species are seriously 
flawed because they don’t deter-
mine whether the systems will 
remove microbes that cause 
gastrointestinal illnesses, scien-
tists said Wednesday.

Ballast water provides sta-

bility for cargo ships in rough 
seas. But it’s believed to have 
introduced numerous invaders 
to U.S. coastal waters and the 
Great Lakes, including zebra 
mussels, spotted jellyfish and 
Japanese shore crabs, along 
with bacteria and viruses.

The Environmental Protec-

tion Agency and the Coast Guard 
have set limits on the number 
of live organisms ballast water 
can contain, based on standards 
proposed by an international 
agency in 2004. To comply, ship 
companies must install technol-
ogy that kills enough creatures 
to meet the limits.

Laboratory testing of treat-

ment systems has been con-
ducted for 10 years. But a newly 
published paper in the Marine 
Pollution 
Bulletin 
contends 

the evaluations have a crucial 
defect: They don’t adequately 
measure the systems’ effec-
tiveness against three disease-
carrying microbes that the 
regulations target. One of them, 
E. coli, can indicate the pres-
ence of fecal sewage.

“This is a real problem,” said 

Andrew Cohen of the Center for 
Research on Aquatic Bioinva-
sions in Richmond, California, 
who wrote the paper with Fred 
Dobbs of Old Dominion Univer-

sity in Virginia. “We know there 
are serious pathogens in ballast 
water. There’s good evidence 
that ballast water has moved 
them around the world and into 
U.S. waters.”

The Coast Guard declined to 

comment and EPA had no imme-
diate reaction to the report.

Some experts believe bal-

last water from Asia caused a 
1991 cholera outbreak in South 
America that killed 10,000 peo-
ple, Cohen said. According to 
the paper, at least 38 species of 
disease-causing bacteria have 
been detected in ballast tanks.

Companies 
are 
develop-

ing on-board cleansing sys-
tems using tools such as filters, 
chemicals, ozone and ultravio-
let light. University and private 
laboratories are testing how 
well they work. Fifty-three sys-
tems have won approval from at 
least one country with member-
ship in the International Mari-
time Organization.

The U.S. Coast Guard and 

EPA have yet to certify any sys-
tem but have allowed the tem-
porary use of 45 endorsed by 
other nations.

Cohen and Dobbs said they 

obtained data from 390 tests 
conducted on 38 treatment sys-
tems between 2004 and 2013. 
They said in 95 percent of the 
tests, the water samples con-
tained so few of the targeted 
microbes from the start that 
they met the standards even 
before the treatments began.

“The equipment being tested 

would have passed the microbe 
tests even if it hadn’t been 
turned on,” Cohen said. “You 
need to begin with at least 
enough microbes in the water so 
that if the system is turned off, 
the (sample) will fail.”

The 
process 
should 
be 

improved and all tests con-
ducted thus far redone using 
water containing microbial lev-
els “comparable to what ships 
would encounter in a bad situ-
ation out in the real world,” he 
said.

New research indicates 
ship ballast water unsafe

DANCE PARTY

ANDREW COHEN/Daily

LSA senior John Borger and LSA junior Gwen 
Schaller browse the posters at the poster sale in the 
Union Wednesday.

Study tables 

WHAT: Sciencesta will 
hold a study session for 
anyone involved with the 
program. 
WHO: The Sciencesta 
Foundation 
WHEN: Today from 7 
p.m. to 10 p.m.
WHERE: Shapiro 
Undergraduate Library 

Two men finish 

their free climb of 

Dawn Wall

YOSEMITE 
NATIONAL 

PARK, Calif. (AP) — A pair 
of Americans on Wednesday 
completed what had long been 
considered the world’s most 
difficult rock climb, using only 
their hands and feet to conquer 
a 3,000-foot vertical wall on El 
Capitan, the forbidding granite 
pedestal in Yosemite National 
Park that has beckoned adven-
turers for more than half a cen-
tury.

Tommy Caldwell and Kevin 

Jorgeson became the first to 
“free-climb” the rock forma-
tion’s Dawn Wall, a feat that 
many had considered impossi-
ble. They used ropes and safety 
harnesses to catch them in case 
of a fall, but relied entirely on 
their own strength and dexter-
ity to ascend by grasping cracks 
as thin as razor blades and as 
small as dimes.

The effort took weeks, as the 

two dealt with constant falls 
and injuries. But their success 
completes a years-long dream 

that bordered on obsession for 
the men.

The trek up the world’s larg-

est granite monolith began 
Dec. 27. Caldwell and Jorgeson 
lived on the wall itself. They 
ate and slept in tents fastened 
to the rock thousands of feet 
above the ground and battled 
painful cuts to their fingertips 
much of the way.

Free-climbers do not pull 

themselves up with cables or 
use chisels to carve out hand-
holds. Instead, they climb inch 
by inch, wedging their finger-
tips and feet into tiny crevices 
or gripping sharp, thin projec-
tions of rock. In photographs, 
the two appeared at times like 
Spider-Man, with arms and 
legs splayed across the pale 
rock that has been described as 
smooth as a bedroom wall.

Both men needed to take rest 

days to wait for their skin to 
heal. They used tape and even 
superglue to help with the pro-
cess. At one point, Caldwell set 
an alarm to wake him every 
few hours to apply a special 
lotion to his throbbing hands.

They also took physical pun-

ishment when their grip would 
slip, pitching them into long, 

swinging falls that left them 
bouncing off the rock face. The 
tumbles, which they called 
“taking a whipper,” ended in 
startling jolts from their safety 
ropes.

Caldwell and Jorgeson had 

help from a team of supporters 
who brought food and supplies 
and shot video of the adven-
ture.

The 36-year-old Caldwell 

and 30-year-old Jorgeson ate 
canned 
peaches 
and 
occa-

sionally sipped whiskey. They 
watched their urine evaporate 
into thin, dry air and handed 
toilet sacks, called “wag bags,” 
to helpers who disposed of 
them.

There are about 100 routes 

up the rock known among 
climbers as “El Cap,” and many 
have made it to the top, the 
first in 1958. Even the Dawn 
Wall had been scaled. Warren 
Harding and Dean Caldwell 
(no relation to Tommy) made 
it up in 1970, using climbing 
ropes and countless rivets over 
27 days.

No one, however, had ever 

made it to the 3,000-foot sum-
mit in one continuous free-
climb — until now.

“

Rep. Adam Zemke (D-Ann Arbor) on 
the Michigan House’s first session 
of 2015 Wednesday:

As we begun the 98th #mileg, I will 
be posting every vote I take and 
why. Transparent government is 
good government.”

— @adamzemke

“Life at Michigan is Great! Great with 
a capital ‘G!’ ”

— @CoachJim4UM

Football coach Jim Harbaugh takes 
a break from selecting his staff and 
celebrates his return to Ann Arbor:

The Michigan Daily is intro-
ducing a new addition to our 
weekly rotating elements: 
“Twitter Talk.” Once a week, 
we plan to print tweets that are 
fun, informative, breaking or 
newsworthy, with an angle on 
the University, Ann Arbor and 
the state. 

— DAILY STAFF

“

Education Prof. Michael Bastedo 
tweets on his meeting with the 
University of California’s president :

Great breakfast this morning with 
Janet Napolitano, much to learn 
from UC on outreach and SES 
diversity (thx @dynarski)”

— @MichaelBastedo

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