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Country-jazz
concert
WHAT:Hot Club of
Cowtown, a country-jazz
band, will perform their
latest album.
WHO: Michigan Union
Ticket Office
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark, 316 S.
Main
Film screening
WHAT: A screening of the
2010 documentary, “Going
Blind.” The film discusses
vision loss in the United
States.
WHO: University Library
WHEN: Today from 5 p.m.
to 7 p.m.
WHERE: Harlan Hatcher
Graduate Library, Room
100
Atlanta
educators
who were convicted of
inflating
student
test
scores were sentenced on
Tuesday,
The
New
York
Times reported. All but one
of the 10 sentenced received
jail time.
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The
Pentagon
announced that Iraq has
re-captured more than a
quarter of the territory it lost
to the Islamic State since the
U.S. air campaign began in
August, BBC News reported.
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Diversity
discussion
WHAT: E. Royster
Harper, vice president for
student life, and Regent
Shauna Ryder Diggs will
lead a dicussion about
diversity on campus.
WHO: Trotter
Multicultural Center
WHEN: Today at 5:30
p.m.
WHERE: Trotter
Book
discussion
WHAT: A presentation
of the award-winning
memoir, “Border
Crossings: Coming of Age
in the Czech Rsistance.”
WHO: Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute
WHEN: Today at 10:30
a.m.
WHERE: Turner Senior
Resource Center, 2401
Plymouth Rd.
TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
MONDAY:
This Week in History
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
THROW ME A CONE
HEALTH
A wireless health lab at UCLA
recently developed WearSens
— a necklace that can track the
amount of food and drink a per-
son consumes.
The device connects to an
application
that
recommends
meal patterns and is able to track
nutrition intake by monitoring
the movement of neck muscles.
While the necklace does not
count calories, it does track food
patterns, such as how often a
person is snacking and whether
or not a person is regularly eating
breakfast.
Majid Sarrafzadeh, the com-
puter science professor who runs
the lab, said he thinks that by giv-
ing people a way to monitor their
eating habits, the device could
cut medical costs for preventable
diseases.
Pennsylvania State Univer-
sity sexual assault education
petition gains momentum
Nearly 25,000 people have
signed a Care2 petition, written
by Penn State University alumni,
which asks Penn State’s adminis-
trators to provide sexual assault
education for all students.
According to the petition, the
educational
programs
would
cover bystander intervention,
consent, survivor support and
Title IX and Clery Act rights.
Last month, the Penn State
chapter of Kappa Delta Rho was
accused of operating a secret
Facebook page that included
nonconsensual photos of nude
women. After the allegations
surfaced, an anonymous mem-
ber of the fraternity said the page
was “satire.”
“The responses of the public
and KDR’s anonymous member
illustrate the Penn State com-
munity is not properly educated
in matters of consent and sexual
assault,” said Julie Mastrine,
petition co-author and Penn
State alum, in a press release.
“It’s troubling that many in the
PSU community do not under-
stand why sharing nonconsen-
sual photos of naked women is
morally wrong.”
— GEN HUMMER
UCLA research tracks nutrition
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Michigan Sniper
By GENEVIEVE HUMMER
WILLIAM LYNCH/Daily
An Ann Arbor resident poses with the free scoop of ice
cream from Ben & Jerry’s Free Scoop Day on State St.
on Tuesday.
City council
debate
WHAT: The Ann Arbor
City Council candidates
will debate. Former
Mayor John Hieftje will
moderate.
WHO: Center for Local,
State, and Urban Policy
WHEN: Today at 1:10
p.m.
WHERE: Weill Hall,
Annenberg Auditorium
1120
THE FILTER
Music memories
By MICHAEL FLYNN
Flynn writes about the April
5 anniversary of “two great
musicians and icons of the
Seattle scene — Kurt Cobain of
Nirvana, and Layne Staley of
Alice and Chains.” Cobain died
in 1994; Staley died in 2002.
Both had heroin addictions.
After
a
website
called
Trending
T-Shirts
began
selling a “Michigan Sniper”
T-shirt with Michigan football
coach Jim Harbaugh’s signa-
ture on it without authoriza-
tion from either the Athletic
Department or Harbaugh, the
University sent the company a
cease-and-decist letter.
Researchers find stem cell
associated with leukemia
Testing on mice
reveals gene could
lead to advances in
diagnosis, treatment
By SANJAY REDDY
Daily Staff Reporter
A new study conducted by
University
researchers
has
identified a gene that plays a
role in regulating blood-forming
stem cells.
The study, published in the
Journal of Clinical Investigation,
provides new insight into the
role of the absent, small or
homeotic 1-like (Ash1L) gene in
the human blood system. The
research sheds new light on the
scientific processes involved in
both maintaining healthy blood
cells and renewing old and
diseased ones.
Ivan
Maillard,
assistant
Hematology/Oncology professor
and a senior author of the study,
said a central feature of the study
was the association researchers
uncovered between Ash1L and
another gene, Mixed Lineage
Leukemia 1 — or MLL1 — which
belongs to the same family.
“We saw that this gene (Ash1L)
was playing an important function
in the blood-forming stem cells,
but also that it was doing so
in
conjunction
with
another
member of the same family that
has previously been implicated in
leukemia,” he said.
Maillard
said
it
is
this
association
between
Ash1L
and MLL1 that has researchers
excited. Finding a link between
Ash1L and leukemia creates the
possibility of making advances
in both diagnosing and treating
leukemia.
Rackham
student
Jennifer
Chase, an author of the study, said
researchers are looking into how
Ash1L and MLL1 cooperate.
“Once
we
understand
the
biochemistry
behind
their
interaction, we will be able to
make
therapeutic
approaches
toward the diseases that they are
involved in,” Chase said.
Researchers
used
mice
to
investigate the Ash1L gene. They
selectively inhibited Ash1L in
one contingent of mice, MLL1 in
a second contingent and both in a
third contingent. Results showed
a mild reduction in blood-forming
stem cells in the bone marrow for
mice missing either Ash1L or Mll1,
but a catastrophic effect for mice
missing both.
“When we looked at the bone
marrow of the mice and saw no
stem cells, that was very unusual,”
Chase said. “These experiments
showed that the Ash1L gene is
critically important in regulating
stem cells in mice.”
Maillard said perhaps one of the
biggest implications of this study is
the potential it creates for future
research. One avenue researchers
can take is inhibiting the gene, and
the proteins it encodes, to further
understand its chemical function.
Even more exciting, Maillard
said, is that further research may
indicate Ash1L plays a role in a
host of different diseases.
“Because this gene is so well-
conserved in evolution, we think
that it is possible for it to have
a role in many different human
cancers in different organs,”
Maillard said.
NEWS
Improv
workshop
WHAT: An introduction
to improvisational comedy.
Aughts, an improv student
organization, will lead the
workshop.
WHO: Miscellania
WHEN: Today from 6 p.m.
to 7 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union,
Wolverine Room
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Abducted Nigerian
girls remembered on
anniversary of “Bring
Back Our Girls”
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — They
have been gone a year now, the
hundreds of girls abducted by Is-
lamic militants from their school
in northeastern Nigeria.
And while the cry to “Bring
Back Our Girls” remains a world-
wide cause, the new president
Tuesday would not repeat his pre-
decessor’s failed promise to find
them — only that they won’t be
forgotten.
A solemn march was held to re-
member the 219 girls seized from
their boarding school in Chibok
by gunmen from the Boko Ha-
ram extremist group. In Nigeria’s
capital of Abuja, 219 girls paraded
in the streets, with each carrying
a placard bearing the name of a
kidnap victim.
“We believe the girls are still
alive,” said Dr. Allan Manasseh,
the brother of missing 18-year-old
Maryamu Wavi, in an interview
with The Associated Press.
But it was clear that hope has
dwindled a year after the April 14-
15 mass abduction.
President-elect
Muhammadu
Buhari said he must be honest
about the prospects of getting the
missing girls back to their families.
“We do not know if the Chibok
girls can be rescued. Their where-
abouts remain unknown,” Buhari
said in a statement. “As much as I
wish to, I cannot promise that we
can find them.”
The statement by Buhari, a
former military ruler of Nigeria
who was elected last month and
takes over May 29, is a marked
departure from President Good-
luck Jonathan. After Jonathan’s
administration initially denied
there had even been a kidnap-
ping, he made repeated hollow
promises that the girls would be
rescued.
Campaigners have replaced the
slogan of “Bring Back Our Girls —
Now and Alive!” with a new one:
“Never to be forgotten.”
Still, some of the marchers
Tuesday held the new leadership
accountable.
“We are here to appeal to the
government to do better. We want
our girls now and alive,” said Sol-
amipe Onifade, 16.
The gunmen initially seized
276 girls, but several dozen man-
aged to escape as the militants
transported them to the Sam-
bisa Forest, with some clinging
to the branches of trees from a
moving open-back truck. Those
still missing may have been split
up. Witnesses said some girls
were taken across the border
into Cameroon.
Boko Haram’s leader, Abuba-
kar Shekau, claimed they had
converted to Islam and been
married off to his fighters.
A negotiator said that at least
three died in the early days, from
a snake bite, malaria and dysen-
tery. Then, Jonathan refused
to negotiate with Boko Haram,
who were offering to exchange
the girls for detained insurgents.
The girls became the focus of a
global campaign soon after their
abduction. U.S. first lady Michelle
Obama had said she was “out-
raged and heartbroken” about
the kidnapping and also posted a
picture of herself holding a sign
reading “#BringBackOurGirls”
on her official Twitter account
in May 2014.
SUNDAY ALAMBA/AP
Young girls known as Chibok Ambassadors, carry placards bearing the names of the girls kidnapped from the government
secondary school in Chibok, a year ago, during a demonstration, in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday.
One year later, kidnapped
Nigerian girls still missing
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