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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
Looking to avoid its first
sweep at the hands of
Michigan State since
2009-10, the Michigan men’s
basketball team hosts the
Spartans at 9 p.m. at Crisler
Center.
Sophomore
guard
Derrick Walton Jr. remains
unavailable with a foot injury.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
There are 100 contenders
left in a contest that will
send four finalists on
a one way trip to Mars in
2024, the Washington Post
reported Monday. The Dutch
non-profit
organization
Mars One is organizing the
mission.
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Princeton
University
received a collection
of rare books valued
at
$300
million,
The
Associated Press reported.
The gift is the largest in the
school’s history and was
donated by an alum who
died at age 100 last year.
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Supernatural
BY KIM BATCHELOR
The
main
character
investigates a series of mys-
terious deaths caused by a
haunted wifi server in this
week’s episode of “Super-
natural,” “Halt & Catch
Fire.” By the end of the epi-
sode, he reaffirms his deci-
sion to continue working
cases and helping people.
Parks and Rec
BY HAILEY MIDDLEBROOK
The
“Parks
amd
Recreation” series finale
will air Tuesday, Feb. 24th.
Following the final episode,
the entire cast will appear
on “Late Night with Seth
Meyers” on NBC.
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Musical
performance
WHAT: The South
African band Ladysmith
Black Mambazo will
celebrate over 50 years of
performances.
WHO: Michigan Union
Ticket Office
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE:The Ark, 316 S.
Main Street
Emerging
leaders
WHAT: The U.S. General
Services Administration
will promote its Emerging
Leaders Program.
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: Today from 5.30
p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
WHERE: Ford School
of Public Policy
Calendars and
the Holocaust
WHAT: Author Avraham
Rosen will discuss how
Jews during the Holocaust
maintained connections
with their history.
WHO: Judaic Studies
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: 202 S. Thayer
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African killer
lakes lecture
WHAT: Prof. George
Kling will discuss the
dangers of two gaseous
Cameroon lakes and
the measures taken to
avoid new catastophes.
WHO: Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology
WHEN: Today from
4:10 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Alumni Center,
Founders Room
Chinese studies
lecture series
WHAT: Art historian
Winnie Wing will discuss a
village in Shenzhen, China
that has been the world’s
largest supplier of oil on
canvas paintings.
WHO: Lieberthal-Rogel
Center for Chinese Studies
WHEN: Today from 12 p.m.
to 1 p.m
WHERE: School of Social
Work Building
Architecture
lecture
WHAT: Heathre
Roberge will discuss her
architecture practice.
WHO: A. Alfred Taubman
College of Architecture and
Urban Planning
WHEN: Today from 6 p.m.
to 7 p.m.
WHERE: Art and
Architecture Building
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Professor Profiles
THURSDAY:
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FRIDAY:
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In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
THURSDAY:
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WYATT FRANK
Helping in Honduras
DAVID SONG/Daily
LSA senior Leela Denver reads her poem during
Cafe Shapiro at Shapiro Undergraduate Library on
Monday.
POETICS
LSA sophomore Wyatt Frank is
president and founder of the Uni-
versity’s chapter of Students Help-
ing Honduras. Since forming last
semester, the organization has fun-
draised money to help build schools
in Honduras and empower youth
through education.
What is SHH?
Students Helping Honduras is a
nonprofit organization that works to
combat extreme gang violence and
poverty in Honduras through educa-
tion and youth empowerment.
When and why did you found
the organization?
I founded this chapter over the
summer after a life-changing trip
to Honduras for SHH’s annual
Leadership Week.
How do you fundraise and
who funds you?
We are solely funded by those
generous enough to donate to our
cause. We put a lot into our fun-
draising efforts and like to get
creative. From “Bake(shh)ale Mon-
days” to our Thrift Shop clothes
auction, to soccer tournaments ...
anything is a possibility, and our
group is always up to the challenge.
What types of causes are
these funds put toward?
All of the funds go toward
building and maintaining schools
in Honduras. The fundraising
is always specific to new school
projects and the results are super
tangible. Chapter members raise
money for these projects in Hon-
duras, and then have the chance to
work on those projects themselves
during our seasonal service trips.
What do you look for in new
members?
Anyone who wants to be a part
of our chapter is welcome. There
is no specific type of person we
“look” for, just anyone who wants
to help and be a part of an awe-
some community.
-MARLEE BREAKSTONE
Research uncovers additional
pathways that cause obesity
Study finds 97 new
genetic locations
associated with
body mass index
By SANJAY REDDY
For the Daily
As obesity becomes an increas-
ingly prominent health condition
in the United States, University
researchers have made new dis-
coveries about the biological
pathways that cause it.
In the largest genome-wide
study ever, the Genetic Investi-
gation of Anthropometric Traits
consortium of researchers ana-
lyzed more than 300,000 genetic
samples and found 97 new genet-
ic locations across the genome
that are associated with obesity
and body mass index — triple
the number of previously known
sites.
This finding led researchers
to believe obesity is much more
related to one’s genes than was
previously thought.
Elizabeth Speliotes, assistant
professor of internal medicine
and a senior author of the GIANT
study, said if scientists can pin-
point the specific gene variants or
proteins that contribute to obesi-
ty, then therapeutic interventions
can directly target them.
Speliotes said the study could
lead to a new era of “tailored”
obesity care.
“We are realizing that many
of the common diseases we aim
to treat are caused by multiple
different
underlying
causes,”
Speliotes said. “So now we can
understand what those causes
are and better define them. And
then hopefully in the future we
can sub-classify people into what
they are at risk for versus what
the general population is at risk
for.”
Currently, therapeutic inter-
ventions are often generalized to
diseases. For example, the same
medications are often prescribed
to all patients suffering from the
same disease. Outcomes from
these interventions have not been
very successful.
“Right now we don’t know
what the exact causes are for
different diseases, so a lot of the
stuff we do is like shooting in the
dark,” Speliotes said.
In a companion study, an
international
consortium
of
researchers led by Karen Mohlke,
professor of genetics at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina School
of Medicine, identified 49 sites
in the human genome associated
with the human waist-to-hip
ratio.
Mohlke said the waist-to-hip
ratio is often associated with
obesity because most people with
waistlines larger than their hip
circumference have more vis-
ceral fat around their abdominal
organs, making them susceptible
to diseases such as type 2 diabe-
tes and cardiovascular diseases.
‘U’ organizations raise funds
for Make-a-Wish foundation
MStars competes
against MSUStars
for rivalry week
charity challenge
By COLLEEN HARRISON
For the Daily
In the spirit of basketball
rivalry week, students from
the University and Michigan
State University are compet-
ing to raise money for the
Make-A-Wish Foundation as
part of the third annual Col-
legiate Challenge.
Though the groups have
already
started
accepting
online donations, University
students will begin a major
fundraising push this week
after
Tuesday’s
basketball
game against MSU and will
continue throughout the rest
of the month.
This year, the University’s
chapter of the national ser-
vice fraternity Alpha Phi
Omega will combine fund-
raising efforts with MStars,
the
University’s
Make-A-
Wish chapter. MSU’s Make-
A-Wish chapter, MSU Stars,
will run the East Lansing side
of the fundraiser.
All
money
raised
will
help the organization grant
wishes for children with life-
threatening illnesses. Wishes
include trips to Disney World,
New York City or the Super
Bowl, for example. APO and
MStars will run donation
tables at the Michigan Union
and
the
University’s
C.S.
Mott Children’s and Women’s
Hospital.
“We hope to make the event
more known on campus and
raise as much money as pos-
sible for the wonderful kids
in our children’s hospitals in
Michigan,” said LSA senior
Andrew Short, Make-a-Wish
Chair for the University’s
APO chapter. “It is incredible
to witness how much joy a
wish can bring a child.”
Short said the Universi-
ty’s fundraising team raised
$6,000 last year toward one
child’s wish. This year each
fundraising team is hoping to
raise $10,000 to fund trips for
two children.
“We work both in compe-
tition and in collaboration
with each other,” Short said.
“I’m excited to see what our
efforts
will
produce
this
year.”
While table donations will
last only a few days, online
donation sites will stay live
through the end of the month
to give people a longer period
to donate. Each team’s prog-
ress toward their goals can
also be tracked online.
LSA senior Nicolette De
Simone, president of MStars,
said she hopes to eventually
expand the fundraising com-
petition to include a basket-
ball tournament similar to
MSU Stars’ kick-off fundrais-
ing event.
MSU senior Shadi Jam-
moul, MSU Stars president,
said the MSU fundraising
team is also trying to raise
enough money to fund wishes
for two children this year.
While their campaign has
raised about $4,000 so far,
MSU Stars still need to raise
about $6,000 to reach their
goal.
“At the end of the week,
the campus that raised more
money will simply have brag-
ging rights, while the other
will be further inspired to
raise more next year,” Short
said.
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SPEAK AND WRITE.”
—JOHN ADAMS
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