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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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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.

 “LET US DARE TO READ, THINK, 

SPEAK AND WRITE.”

—JOHN ADAMS

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