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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Michigan women’s
basketball team topped
Toledo, 74-58, Monday
to
advance
to
the
third round of the WNIT.
The Wolverines will host
Missouri on Thursday at 7
p.m.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Texas Senator Ted Cruz
(R) announced his bid
for the 2016 presidential
election, The New York
Times
reported
Monday.
Cruz is the first Republican
candidate
to
fromally
announce his bid.
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Police reports failed
to find proof of a gang
rape at a University
of Virginia fraternity, The
Washington Post reported
Monday.
Rolling
Stone
magazine
published
an
article about the alleged
rape last fall.
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factors are behind the
rebellion in East Ukraine.
WHO: Weiser Center for
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will discuss the relation
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Russian, East European
and Eurasian Studies
WHEN: Today from
6 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
WHERE: Harlan Hatcher
Graduate Library, Room 100
Fim Screening
and discussion
WHAT: The documentary
“My Way,” about two young
men in Cantonese Opera will
be screened. The screening
is followed by discussion on
the unpopulairty of this art
form in Hong Kong.
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Book Launch
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author Dr. Tiya Miles will
read passages from her
new book, “The Cherokee
Rose.” The event will
include a book signing and a
reception.
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CHRIS HUGHES & BO BRADARICH
Big Ten Productions
RITA MORRIS/Daily
LSA freshman Paul Elder races to the ball during an
IM soccer game at Mitchell Fields Monday.
SPRING FÚTBOL
Business
sophomore
Chris
Hughes and LSA senior Bo Brad-
arich are co-presidents of Big
Ticket Productions, the Universi-
ty’s concert production commit-
tee. The group brings big name
artists to perform on campus.
BTP brought Chance the Rapper
and SchoolBoy Q to campus last
year.
How did you join BTP?
Bradarich: “My sophomore
year, I set up a meeting with
Nick from CCI (the Center for
Campus Involvement) and I
asked him ‘What is the best way
to get involved at Michigan?’
I told him that I wanted to get
involved with something that
would have a huge impact on
campus, so he directed me to
the UAC program, and through
that I found Big Ticket Produc-
tions. I wanted to make a huge
impact while I was here.
Hughes: “I knew coming into
Michigan that I wanted to do
something that involved music.
When my brother graduated
from college he was putting on
concerts and I knew I wanted
to do something similar. So
when I was walking around
Festifall my freshman year I got
a flyer from Steven Rosenblum,
who was the president last year,
and I thought it would be awe-
some to join.”
What is your favorite part
about BTP?
Hughes: “I would say my favor-
ite part of being involved with
Big Ticket is being around other
people who are just as passion-
ate about music as I am because
for me it’s easier to connect with
people who have the same music
taste as me and I think it says a lot
about a person, about what kind
of music they listen to.”
Bradarich: “My favorite parts
are the people and the environ-
ment. It’s a great group of people
and it’s a great way to develop
yourself and work as a team.
-KATIE SARKESIAN
THE WIRE
Menstrual pads
against sexism
BY IRENE PARK
Menstrual
pads
were
plastered around campus
over the weekend to draw
attention to rape culture.
The
action
mirrored
a
national movement, which
has used the hashtag
#PadsAgainstSexism.
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Battlefield
Hardline
BY KIM BATCHELOR
On Mar. 17, the video game
companies Visceral Games
and EA released the game
“Battlefield
Hardline” to
PC, PlayStation and Xbox.
It focuses on urban crime.
Study supports increase in
legal cigarette buying age
Institute of Health
finds raising min. age
could cut adolescent
tobacco purchase
By KATIE PENROD
Daily Staff Reporter
According to a new study
by the Institute of Medicine,
raising the minimum legal age
of access to tobacco products
could prevent or delay tobacco
use in adolescents.
The
Federal
Drug
Administration commissioned
the
study,
which
included
contributions
from
two
University researchers: Rafael
Meza, assistant professor of
Epidemiology,
and
Patrick
O’Malley, a research professor
at the Institute for Social
Research.
The study concluded that if
the minimum age was raised
nationally, underage adolescent
tobacco use would decrease.
It
recommended
that
the
minimum age be 21 years old,
which would lead to a 12 percent
reduction in tobacco prevalence
by 2100.
“First of all, what we found
is raising the minimum legal
age for access would lead to
significant
health
benefits,”
Meza said.
Meza
said
the
Family
Smoking
Prevention
and
Tobacco Control Act of 2009
gave the FDA control over
tobacco regulations, but did
not
grant
it
the
authority
to determine the minimum
purchasing age for tobacco
products.
Congress
had
previously
ordered the FDA to provide a
report regarding the health
implications
of
raising
the
minimum age by April 2015.
As a result, Meza added,
the responsibility to decide
legal purchasing age is left
to individual states — the
majority of which have kept
their minimum at 18 years old.
If the FDA can prove significant
health benefits will result from
raising the age, Congress may
become more open to giving the
FDA authority in the matter.
The study shows that the age
group most impacted by raising
the minimum legal purchasing
age would be adolescents aged
15 to 17.
“The initiation age of tobacco
use is critical. Among adults
who become daily smokers,
approximately
90
percent
report first use of cigarettes
before reaching 19 years of age,
and almost 100 percent report
first use before age 26,” the
study says.
Meza explained that raising
the minimum purchasing age
would lower initiation rates for
teenagers.
“If the age was raised that
would limit their access,” Meza
said. “So right now, any high
schooler has access to a senior
that is of the age. So if you raise
it to 21, that will limit their
social sources.”
The
committee
used
statistical models for testing the
effects of smoking to further
expand upon the health risks
associated with tobacco use.
First-year medical student
Stephan
Diljak
said
he
recognizes the serious health
consequences associated with
tobacco use, and thinks raising
the minimum legal age would
have benefits.
“Personally, I believe in the
data that less people could
suffer from complications or
potentially die if the age in
which
they
are
potentially
allowed to purchase tobacco
was raised,” he said.
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Eitan Bar-Yosef, a Fellow at the Frankel Institute, outlines the similarities between Israeli culture and the book Heart of
Darkness at Rackham Assembly Hall on Monday.
Researchers discuss Israel,
colonialism at symposium
At second annual
event, Judaic Studies
fellows share their
research findings
By IAN DILLINGHAM
Daily Staff Reporter
Members of the University’s
Frankel Institute for Advanced
Judaic
Studies
gathered
in
Rackham
Graduate
School
Monday evening to talk about
Jews, Arabs and colonialism.
The second annual Wieseneck
Family Israel Symposium focused
on the Jewish experience as part
of a broader international context.
Institute fellows and visiting
professors presented papers on
topics such as food, film and
literature.
Common
among
these discussions was a focus on
European influence in defining
cultural
identities
among
Jewish, Muslim and Christian
communities in the Middle East.
The
Frankel
Institute
for
Advanced Judaic Studies is a
University research unit that
provides one-year grants for
scholars to conduct research
across a range of topics and
disciplines. Each year, research
conducted by the fellows centers
on a specific theme. Fellows are
required to give a lecture over the
course of the year to help make
research more available to the
public.
The theme for the 2014-
2015
fellowship
was
“Jews
and Empires,” which looked to
highlight the role of imperial
powers in Jewish history — from
the exodus from Egypt to the
Holocaust and establishment of
Israel.
Judaic
Studies
Prof.
Mikhail
Krutikov
said
this
theme
drew
attention
to
a
common
misunderstanding
that
colonialism
embodies
a
dichotomy — groups can be
defined as either the colonizers or
the colonized. At various points
in history, he said, Jews have
fallen into either one of these two
groups. At other times, neither
can accurately define them.
The
event
also
promoted
discussion
across
boundaries
and
time
periods.
Institute
Director Deborah Dash Moore
said a mission of the institute is
to encourage fellows to discuss
issues outside their primary area
of study, which allows parallel
narratives to be drawn across
time and geography in cultural
studies.
Examples
of
this
multidisciplinary
research
were
visible
throughout
the
symposium.
Eitan Bar-Yosef, a fellow at
the Frankel Institute, delivered
a presentation highlighting the
cultural evocation of elements
from Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of
Darkness” in Israeli culture. The
novel, originally published in
1899, tells the story of European
ivory traders traveling up the
Congo River into the jungles of
Central Africa.
“Although ‘Heart of Darkness’
never became a truly popular text,
the myth that stands at the heart
of Conrad’s novella — namely the
journey into the heart of Africa
as an allegorical tale of human
degeneration, greed, violence and
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