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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. THE FILTER 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 l Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com. 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 TUESDAY: Professor Profiles THURSDAY: Alumni Profiles FRIDAY: Photos of the Week WEDNESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers MONDAY: This Week in History THURSDAY: Campus Clubs FRIDAY: Photos of the Week TUESDAY: Professor Profiles WEDNESDAY: Before You Were Here THURSDAY: Twitter Talk FRIDAY: Photos of the Week MONDAY: This Week in History TUESDAY: Campus Voices WEDNESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers 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 Happy belated Presidents Day from The Michigan Daily FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @MICHIGANDAILY