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Voiceover
workshop
WHAT: This workshop
will teach attendees to
utilize Final Cut Pro and
iMovie to create high quality
voiceovers.
WHO: Modern Languages
Building, Room 2001-B
WHEN: Today at 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Teaching and
Technology Collaborative
Environmental
law lecture
WHAT: University alum
William Brighton will
speak about civil enforce-
ment of environmental law.
WHO: Michigan Law
Environmental Law
and Policy Program
WHEN: Today at 11:55 a.m.
WHERE: South
Hall, Room 1020
African artists
WHAT: A round table that
will discuss what the role of
the African artist through
the lens of the archive and
its images.
WHO: Department for
Afroamerican and African
Studies
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: Haven Hall, Room
4701
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BBC will drop “Top
Gear” presenter Jeremy
Clarkson
after
an
investigation found that he
physically attacked one of
the show’s producers, The
Telegraph reported. The
show will continue to air on
BBC2.
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President
Obama
announced
that
the
United
States
will
keep 9,800 troops in
Afghanistan through the end
of the year, CNN reported.
Obama had planned to reduce
the number of troops to 5,500.
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Major minor
expo
WHAT: All the LSA
departments will be
present to answer student
questions about different
majors and minors.
WHO: Newman Academic
Advising Center
WHEN: Today from 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union,
Ballroom
Film screening
WHAT: A film screening
and discussion of “We Are
Here,” a movie about the
revival of Jewish life in
Poland. The film documents
five subjects which
represent the greater Polish
society.
WHO: Judaic Studies
WHEN: Today from 5:30
p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Museum of Art,
Stern Auditorium
TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
MONDAY:
This Week in History
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
B UD DY SYST E M
ONLINE DEBATE OVER ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
A debate ignited online after
Harvard University Prof. Lau-
rence Tribe criticized the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency’s
“Clean Power Plan” while testi-
fying to the U.S. House of Rep-
resentatives Subcommittee on
Energy and Power, the Harvard
Crimson reported.
Tribe said the plan — which
centers on the regulation of coal
and greenhouse gases from coal-
power plants — is unconstitu-
tional. In an article in the Wall
Street Journal last year, Tribe
advocates for environmentally
safe practices, but condemns the
EPA for asserting power beyond
its authority.
Harvard Law School profes-
sors Richard J. Lazarus and Jody
Freeman began trading respons-
es with Tribe over the past week
on the Harvard Law Today web-
site. While the subject matter is
controversial, Tribe described
the arguments as within “the
sphere of collegiality.”
University of Texas panel
discusses student athletes
A panel discussion at the Uni-
versity of Texas, Austin tackled
the contentious topic of compen-
sating student athletes for their
participation in sporting events,
the Daily Texan reported.
In October, national media
outlets
reported
that
Texas
Athletic Director Steve Patter-
son expressed the possibility of
paying the university’s student-
athletes in every sport. The
suggested payment was report-
edly $10,000 per athlete annu-
ally, totaling $6 million each year.
Rep. Travis Clardy (R-Texas),
a panelist, described the vari-
ous sources of revenue provided
to coaches and schools, and how
student-athletes are closed off
from the benefits.
“In 2015, college sports teams
have the television contracts,
merchandising, EA sports video
games and much more,” he said.
“A whole lot of people are making
money because of a bunch of kids
putting on a jersey with a partic-
ular school’s colors on it.”
— JACQUELINE CHARNIGA
Harvard Law prof. sparks dispute
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BRIAN BECKWITH/Daily
Emily “Punky” Lickman and her older sister and “buddy”
Sophia attend the Greek Week Kickoff at Rackham
Auditorium on Tuesday. Punky has spastic quadriplegia
cerebral palsy and is a member of the Miracle League of
Michigan, a beneficiary of Greek Week .
Writing
seminar
WHAT: Art & Design Prof.
Phoebe Gloeckner will talk
about her writing career.
Gloeckner teaches courses
at the University in comic
arts and interactive books.
WHO: Sweetland Center
for Writing
WHEN: Today at 6 p.m.
WHERE: Literati
Bookstore
THE FILTER
Rolling Stones
By MICHAEL FLYNN
Flynn writes on the poten-
tial of a summer tour for the
British rock band, pointing to
a series of short videos released
through the Stones’ Twitter
profile as the buildup to a for-
mal announcement. The videos
have been given the hashtag
#SatisfactionThursday
After TEDxUM event,
‘U’ students talk smell
MARTIN MEISSNER/AP
People light candles on a table tennis in front of the Joseph-Koenig Gymnasium in Haltern, western Germany Tuesday,
March 24, 2015.
Around 6.2 million
people are affected
by congenital
anosmia disorder
By EMMA KINERY
Daily Staff Reporter
Imagine
never
smelling
chocolate chip cookies fresh
out of the oven, flowers in the
spring or, in a potentially dan-
gerous situation, natural gas.
During last week’s TEDx-
UM conference, Michelle Krell
Kydd, a flavor and fragrance
expert, discussed congenital
anosmia, a little-known disor-
der.
Engineering senior Eric Rie-
del and Art & Design freshman
Sarah Jomaa both have con-
genital anosmia — which means
they have not had a sense of
smell since they were born.
“It hasn’t affected me too
much,” Riedel said. “As I always
say, it’s better than losing any of
my other senses.”
Jomaa said she used to har-
bor concerns about her hygiene
because she could not smell
body odor.
“There was this time I went
through this really obsessive
phase of brushing my teeth,
because I didn’t know when my
breath smelled,” Jomaa said.
Kydd, a communications spe-
cialist at Alliance for the Arts
in Research Universities, also
lectures about olfaction, or the
sense of smell. She spent much
of her career working for com-
panies focused on fragrance
and flavor like Ciao Bella Gelato
Company and the Estée Lauder
Companies.
“6.2 million people can’t
smell,” Kydd said in her TED
talk Friday. “And being nose
blind stinks.”
She said one of the greatest
dangers of being unable to smell
is the inability to detect natural
gas. While there are currently
reliable mechanisms for car-
bon monoxide detection, there
are none to detect natural gas.
Instead, a chemical compounds
called mercaptans are added to
natural gas to give it a distinct
smell. For those who cannot
smell, however, this addition
makes no difference.
“Luckily it hasn’t affected
me, but natural gas leaks, most
people can smell those because
of the rotten egg smell in the
air, but I am not able to detect
those so hopefully that never
affects me,” Riedel said. “It’s
just another thing that I’m
aware of and I have to be care-
ful about.”
Jomaa added that she wor-
ries about her inability to detect
potential fires — if something
was burning, she would not be
able to smell it. Another issue
that both Kydd and Riedel
addressed was that people with
anosmia cannot smell rotting
food.
“The main way it affects me
day to day is with spoiled food,”
Riedel said. “Sometimes I have
to get my roommate to check
to see if my leftovers have gone
bad, because I can’t smell.”
Riedel and Jomaa each noted
that a common question that
people ask once it is about the
condition is whether or not they
can taste. Both said they think
they can taste, but probably not
in the same way people who can
smell do.
“I think I can (taste), because
I don’t know any different,”
Riedel said. “I have foods that
I like, I have foods that I don’t
like, just like everyone else. So I
think I have the ability to taste,
but I’m assuming that it’s obvi-
ously somewhat different from
someone who can smell. Like
I’ve said, I’ve never known any
High school students among
German plane crash victims
Batchelor explains the fea-
tures of Capcom’s newest addi-
tion to its third-person shooter
franchise, “Resident Evil.” The
company released “Resident
Evil: Revelations 2 - Episode
3: Judgement” on Mar. 10,
after having released Episode
2 Mar. 3 and Episode 1 Feb. 24.
The Germanwings
Flight 9525
went down while
returning from Spain
HALTERN, Germany (AP) — A
stunned German town mourned
16 students who went down
aboard
Germanwings
Flight
9525 on their way home Tuesday
from a Spanish exchange, while
the opera world grieved for two
singers who were returning from
performing in Barcelona — one of
them with her baby.
“This is surely the blackest
day in the history of our town,”
a visibly shaken Mayor Bodo
Klimpel said after the western
town of Haltern was shocked by
news that 16 students from the
local high school and two teachers
had been on the plane. They had
just spent a week in Spain.
Some hugged, cried and laid
flowers in front of the Joseph
Koenig High School, where the
10th graders had studied, and lit
candles on its steps.
“This is pretty much the worst
thing you can imagine,” Klimpel
said at a hastily called news
conference.
An announcement was made
to students Tuesday lunchtime
that “that we were all free now
but we shouldn’t be happy,” said
Christopher Schweigmann, 16, a
10th-grade student who said he
lost two good friends. Students
went
to
a
service
Tuesday
evening, and “everyone was in
tears in the church,” he said.
“It’s impossible to believe that
they all won’t be there anymore in
the coming days,” he said.
Crisis counselors were at the
school soon after the crash.
“I think many haven’t really
grasped what happened, and I
think the grief will come a bit
later for many,” counselor Ingo
Janzen said.
“The town is totally silent,
nothing is happening anymore in
town, everyone is like petrified,”
said resident Gerd Schwarz, 64.
The town of 38,000 lies about
80 kilometers (50 miles) northeast
of
the
plane’s
destination,
Duesseldorf.
Officials confirmed that the
school group was among the 150
people on board the plane. Among
the victims were also two opera
singers, business travelers en
route to a trade fair in Cologne
and two babies.
A total of 67 Germans, many
Spaniards,
two
Australians,
and
one
person
each
from
the Netherlands, Turkey, and
Denmark
were
among
the
victims,
according
to
their
respective governments.
Spanish authorities were still
trying to determine how many
of their citizens were on board.
The Mexican government said
there were indications that one
Mexican national was also among
the victims.
The German students and their
teachers spent a week in Llinars
del Valles and were seen off at the
town’s train station early Tuesday
by their Spanish host families,
said Pere Grive, the deputy mayor
of the town of 9,000, about a
45-minute drive from Barcelona.
German and Spanish students
from the two towns have been
doing such exchanges for at least
15 years. The Spanish students
had spent time in Germany in
December.
See SMELL, Page 3A