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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Michigan men’s
basketball team
overcame a slow start
and rolled to an 88-68 rout
of Elon at Crisler Center
on Monday. Junior guard
Derrick Walton Jr. led the
Wolverines with 24 points.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Twenty-six U.S. states
announced that they
will not be accepting
Syrian refugees following
Friday’s attacks in Paris.
According to the Associated
Press, Gov. Rick Snyder
said he would suspend the
acceptance of refugees until
further review.
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The Church of Latter-
day Saints announced
last week that they
would ban baptisms
for
children
of
same-
sex
couples.
According
to the Washington Post,
1,500
Mormons
have
resigned from the church
in opposition to the ban.
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Going Abroad
By ISOBEL FUTTER
The number of University
students going abroad has
increased 15 percent, the
University announced on
Monday. 2,719 students
traveled overseas to study
during the 2013-2014 school
year, as compared to 2,365
students
in
the
2012-13
school year.
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TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
Strings
showcase
WHAT: The strings
students of the School
of Music, Theatre
& Dance will give a
performance.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: 3 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V.
Moore Building, Britton
Recital Hall
Women
and politics
in India
WHAT: Debotri Dhar, a
women’s studies lecture,
will be giving a speech
about the boundaries of
women in India and possi-
ble solutions for the future.
WHO: Institute for
the Humanities
WHEN: 12:30
One Big Hapa
Family Film
WHAT: One Big Hapa
Family is a movie about
Japanese-Canadians and
interracial marriage. A
short film — What are
you anyways? — will
also be screened.
WHO: University
Library
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Shapiro
Harold & Vivian
Library, Room 2160
Studies in Rome
info session
WHAT: Students interested
in the Italian Studies in Rome
Program can attend this
event to learn more about the
exchange, how to apply and
how to secure financial aid.
WHO: Center for Global and
Intercultural Study
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall, CGIS
Office, G155
Arts in Paris/
Barcelona
WHAT: Students
interested in the summer
program in Spain or
France can attend this
infomation session to find
out more.
WHO: Center for Global
and Intercultural Study
WHEN: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall,
CGIS Office, G155
Financing
law school
WHAT: Students
interested in learning
how to finance a legal
education are invited
to this workshop.
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
WHERE: Hutchins
Hall, Room 100
Researchers discover pathway
that decreases fat absorption
LSA SG candidates speak
on diversity, mental health
Removal of liver
protein prevents
cholesterol production
By ALEXA ST. JOHN
Daily Staff Reporter
University
research
has
recently found that a pathway
in the liver controlled by the
protein BAF60a can help the
body absorb more cholesterol.
Though at the very least this has
unhealthy
results,
ultimately
this problem could lead to medi-
cal issues such as hyperlipidemia
and atherosclerosis.
Conducted
by
research-
ers from the University’s Life
Sciences Institute, the study
focused on the negative effects
that a high-fat, high-cholesterol
diet can have on the body.
Jiandie Lin, senior author of
the study, said, “Atherosclerosis
is a big issue, and high-choles-
terol levels are a major risk fac-
tor for atherosclerosis. The blood
vessels get damaged and choles-
terol deposits in those sites that
form . . . those clog up the artery.
It could potentially go to the
brain, go to the heart and cause
stroke and heart attack.”
Lin, who is also the associate
professor of cell and develop-
mental biology at the University’s
Medical school, said he and his
colleagues tried to understand
how blood cholesterol concen-
trations are regulated in normal
physiological
conditions
and
potentially in disease conditions.
The researchers started by
looking at a particular pathway
of proteins called BAF60 pro-
teins, Lin said. BAF60 proteins
are present in fat tissue, skeletal
muscles, and in the liver. The
proteins regulate different bio-
logical processes in each of these
cells.
“What we found is that, if you
feed mice [a Westernized] diet,
the mice will become obese, they
will develop hyperlipidemia – so
basically, high blood-cholesterol
levels,” Lin said.
Lin said they also found that
the protein BAF60a levels were
elevated in the liver. Therefore,
Lin and his colleagues we were
curious
whether
the
higher
amount of this protein could con-
tribute to hyperlipidemia.
“Because we know that this
Western diet increased blood
lipids, and we know that this
Western diet also increased the
level of this protein in the liver,”
Lin said, “the question was really
whether this increase in protein
level somehow contribute to
hyperlipidemia.”
According to Lin, mice who
had the protein BAF60a deleted
from their genetics do not devel-
op high blood lipids as do the
normal mice, so they are partial-
ly protected from diet-induced
hyperlipidemia. In normal mice
when this protein is regulated
in a way that it is supposed to
be regulated, meaning without
genetic alteration, the mice will
develop high blood lipid levels.
After discovering these find-
ings, the question remained as to
why this protein, when deleted
from the liver, could actually
protect the mice from bad lip-
ids. Ultimately, Lin said they
were looking at genetic makeup
to identify what subset of genes
would be affected by the dele-
tion of the BAF60a protein in the
liver.
“One of the things that stood
out was the metabolic pathway
that makes bile acid,” Lin said.
“When we deleted this gene in
the liver, we found that many,
many genes that contribute to
bile acid synthesis modification
and secretion were significantly
reduced. Somehow, this gene is
important for really maintaining
bile acid synthesis modification
and release from the liver.”
According to Lin, bile is made
in the liver and then gets released
into small intestines for absorp-
tion of lipids and cholesterol.
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RYAN MCLOUGHLIN/Daily
LSA sophomore Nicholas Fadanelli, a student government candidate, campaigns at the LSA Student Government
Candidate Forum in the League on Monday.
Ten candidates will
run for election
this Wednesday
By JACKIE CHARNIGA
Daily Staff Reporter
Ten candidates for LSA Stu-
dent
Government
presented
their ideas Monday night for
increasing diversity of the stu-
dent body and and expanding
mental health awareness in stu-
dent government and on campus.
Elections will be held Wednes-
day.
LSA
Student
Government
consists of 19 representatives
elected by students in LSA. This
year, nine positions are filled
during the November elections,
while the other 10 seats are up for
election during the main student
government elections in March.
LSA SG president Jason Colel-
la, LSA senior, said he enjoyed
hearing ideas from the candi-
dates and he looks forward to
implementing them.
“I think we have a great slate
of candidates and I think no mat-
ter who wins or loses we’ll have a
great upcoming semester at LSA
Student Government,” Colella
said
Apart from the candidates,
less than 15 people attended.
Colella said this turnout was not
surprising.
“We always are hoping for a
large turnout,” Colella said. “We
try to get lots of students here. It’s
important that students know
who they’re voting for and I wish
more LSA students would show
up to these forums.”
Diversity
The
candidates
addressed
concerns regarding diversity on
campus, as well as the extent to
which minority groups are rep-
resented in LSA SG.
LSA
sophomore
Nadine
Jawad said inclusivity and diver-
sity on campus drive many of her
goals for LSA SG. Jawad said she
hopes her involvement in student
government breaks stereotypes
often attributed to Arab Ameri-
cans and Muslims in the media.
Jawad added that she is she is
working on page through Uni-
versity Social Media to present
community news about under-
represented groups on campus.
She said when she arrived on
campus, she struggled to find a
place where she felt safe, and that
LSA SG should focus on improv-
ing sensitivity to minority stu-
dents on campus. She added that
both Central Student Govern-
ment and LSA SG lack diversity
in its membership.
“I think we have to have peo-
ple on our student body who are
representative of the campus as
a whole,” Jawad said. “Whether
it’s in CSG or in LSA SG, we’re
kind of lacking in diversity.”
LSA
freshman
Chelsie
Thompson proposed a diversity
day where the campus would cel-
ebrate students of different back-
grounds.
“I want us to come together
— not as a melting pot because
that’s when we’d all get mixed
together, and we’d all look basi-
cally the same again — but more
as a mosaic so when we step back
CHRISSTINA HAMILTON
Director of Penny Stamps lecture
series talks program’s goals
Chrisstina
Hamilton
is
the mind behind the Penny
W. Stamps School of Art &
Design’s Distinguished Lec-
ture Series, an event held
every Thursday night of the
academic year at the Michigan
Theater. Hamilton is the for-
mer director of the Ann Arbor
Film Festival, and now brings
organizes a weekly event that
draws more visitors every
year.
In an interview with The
Michigan
Daily,
Hamilton
discussed her personal career
trajectory and how the Penny
Stamps Speaker Series came
to be what it is today. She was
the first to occupy her posi-
tion, as the director of visitors’
programs, 10 years ago, when
it was first created to develop
the series into a more impact-
ful event.
Before Hamilton, the series
was barely attracted present-
ers from outside Ann Arbor,
drawing mostly on faculty to
make up the series. Now, in the
11th year under her direction,
the series boasts big names
like Anna Sui, David Yurman
and the group Pussy Riot as
among the series’ previous
speakers.
“I love what I get to do now
because I get to bring people
together
around
important
ideas and issues of today,”
she said. “The most reward-
ing thing for me is when I see
the light bulb go off in people’s
heads all the time, when they
make realizations.”
Hamilton said she is “con-
stantly
scanning
for
the
cultural
horizons,”
when
scheduling speakers and top-
ics for the series.
“It’s important to be con-
fronted with many different
perspectives,” she said.
—MEAGAN PARMENTER
Reinventing
Detroit launch
WHAT: A celebration of
the launch of “Reinventing
Detroit,” a book by Lucas
Kirkpatrick.
WHO: Taubman College of
Architecture & Urban Planning
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Art and
Architecture Building
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CLAIRE ABDO/Daily
Pharmacy student Kristen Carrier serves grilled
cheese at the College of Pharmacy fundraiser on
Monday.
CHE ESE , PLE A SE
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