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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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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.

Read more of this story online at 

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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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Pharmacy student Kristen Carrier serves grilled 
cheese at the College of Pharmacy fundraiser on 
Monday.

CHE ESE , PLE A SE

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