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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Debate on
America
WHAT: LSA Dean Martin
will moderate a debate
between activist and
University alum Bill Ayers
and author Dinesh D’Souza.
WHO: Young Americans
for Freedom
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.
WHERE: The League
Economics
Talk
WHAT: Dr. Dominick
Bartelme will give a talk
on macroeconomics, with
a focus on linkages and
economic development.
WHO: Department
of Economics
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Lorch Hall
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the Daily to corrections@
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“Illustrator”
workshop
WHAT: The Digital
Media Club will offer a
workshop to teach the
basics of Adobe Illustrator
WHO: Digital Media Club
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Shapiro
Undergraduate
Library, room 4041
Japanese film
screening
WHAT: The film “Lone
Wolf and Cub: Sword
of Vengeance” will be
presented as part of the
CJS Cinemanga Film Series
with English subtittles.
WHO: Center for
Japanese Studies
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: The
State Theatre
“Smaller
Dragon” talk
WHAT: Dr. Whitmore will
address the question “How
‘Chinese’ is Vietnam?”
while looking at movements
in Vietnamese history.
WHO: Confucius
Institute at the University
of Michigan
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: The League,
Koessler Room
Byzantine
art talk
WHAT: The Modern
Greek Program will host
guest lecturer Anthony
Kaldellis to lecture about
Greek art and myth in the
making of Constantinople.
WHO: The Modern
Greek Program
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall
Classics Library, room 2175
Student-run
theatre
WHAT: The RC Players
will hold auditions for two
full-length student directed
and written plays with no
prior experience necessary.
WHO: The Residential
College Players
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: East Quad
Medicine
seminar
WHAT: Dr. Aaron Scherer
will present on “the
language of medicine” in a
seminar hosted by CBSSM.
WHO: Center for
Bioethics and Social
Sciences in Medicine
WHEN: 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: North Camous
Research Complex
building 16, room 266C
The
Iowa
caucuses
concluded early Tuesday
morning with a close
finish for two of the
Democratic candidates,
Bloomberg News reported.
Hillary
Clinton
narrowly
beat U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders
(D-VT) with .3 percent of votes.
THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Statement looks
at the perils of modern
romance.
>> SEE the Statement on 1B
On Tuesday, ESPN The
Magazine
appointed
Alison Overholt as their
new editor-in-chief, The New
York Post reported. She is the
first female editor of a major
American sports magazine.
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Award-winning Poet, Clayton Eshleman, performs his poems at
the Downtown District Library on Tuesday. Eshleman’s poems
touch on topics ranging from youth travels to cave drawings.
POETIC
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Director of Dining Steven Mangan addresses the Central Student Government on topics regarding during their meeting
on Tuesday night.
a lot of children with growth
and puberty issues, including
some who are overweight or
struggling with obesity.
“There’s been a longstanding
history of a lot of questions about
the impact of weight on timing of
puberty in kids and so that’s why
we did the study,” Lee said.
According
to
the
study
abstract,
the
PROS
had
preexisting data that measured
height, weight, testicular volume
and other pubertal variables in
3,600 American boys, ages six
to 16. Approximately half of the
boys were white, 25.8 percent
were African American and 24.3
percent were Hispanic.
Lee’s
investigation
reanalyzed
the
PROS
data.
The
study’s
official
paper
explains
the
research
team
“classified children based on
body mass index as normal
weight, overweight, or obese
and compared median age at a
given Tanner stage or greater by
weight class.”
Though the results of the study
were not entirely consistent,
particularly
in
regard
to
estrogen levels — a variable that
was speculated about this study
but not actually analyzed —
researchers were still able to use
their data to make associations
between weight and puberty.
“I think you need multiple
studies
to
prove
these
associations,” Lee said. “One
study is not going to cut it. I
think the advantage to this
study was that it was racially
diverse, it was quite large, and
it was a previously unanalyzed
with respect to the types of
associations (we made). This is
probably going to be the biggest
study of boys’ puberty that will
ever happen in the U.S.”
Lee also noted the gender
variances in similar studies, and
said a unique characteristic of
her research is the separation
of groups within genders in the
study.
“Pretty much, uniformly, all
studies corroborate that the
heavier you are, the earlier you
go into puberty as a girl,” she
said. “But there was a lot of
debate about what happens in
boys, and it’s partly because boys
are just less studied because it’s
harder to measure puberty. The
bottom line is that some studies
suggest that heavier weight leads
to an earlier onset of puberty in
boys, and some have suggested
that it’s actually a later onset.
But no one actually separates out
the overweight boys from the
obese boys and so that’s what we
were able to do with this study.”
LSA senior Stuart Hammond,
who is president of the Pre-
Medical Club and an Resident
Advisor
for
the
Michigan
Research
Community,
said
studies
like
this
provide
a
multifacted
introduction
to
research.
“With things like smoking or
obesity or even sexual health
practices, there’s this really
interesting interplay between
social practices, socioeconomic
status, and on the flip side you
have this more medical side of
things,” Hammond said. “In the
Michigan Research Community,
not
only
are
students
participating in research but
they’re also in a course centered
on research ethics, research
practice, the academic aspects of
research — teaching them how
to read and interpret scientific
papers, how to add to them
without plagiarizing, things like
that.”
Hammond
added
that
he
believed
the
study
is
important
because
it
shows
that medical research can have
practical applications and is
intersectional.
“For students in medicine,
oftentimes
they
think
of
research as a really hands-
on, intense scientific process,
or working in a lab alongside
practicing physicians — things
like that,” he said. “And I think
one thing that a lot of students
realize
through
research
is
that they don’t need to be doing
something
really
intensely
scientific to learn about health
care. We’ll see students working
in sociology and psychology labs
or even economics work, and
through those experiences, they
come to realize just how much
their various topics that they’re
researching actually pertain to
their interest in health care. I
think that’s why research like
this is so important. It adds an
extra dimension to their medical
studies.”
RESEARCH
From Page 1A
ON THE DAILY
#ShowUsTheVote
Bernie Sanders and support-
ers are skeptical of the Iowa
caucus results from Monday
night — and after losing by a
mere 0.3 percent, Sanders is tak-
ing action.
Sanders has requested the
Democratic Party to release the
raw vote count from the Iowa
caucuses after a narrow defeat
to rival Hillary Clinton.
Clinton’s assumed easy win
slipped further away from
her campaign as more results
poured in, resulting in an unex-
pected close finish with Clinton
garnering 49.9 percent of the
vote and Sanders finishing with
49.3 percent.
Speaking to reporters on
his Des Moines flight, Sanders
claimed the very tight compe-
tition with Clinton in a state
where she was expected to
easily win is a clear signal the
public wants dramatic changes
in national policies, according to
The Guardian.
Sanders hinted at issues with
certain Iowa precincts, claim-
ing they lacked the number of
Democratic Party volunteers to
accurately report delegate totals.
Since Sanders’ request
for the raw vote count to be
released, social media users
have expressed their support for
Sanders using #ShowTheVote.
Some posts using the hashtag
have claimed if there is noth-
ing for the Democratic Party to
hide, then there’s no reason why
the public — and the Sanders
campaign — shouldn’t be given
the data.
Social media reactions
regarding Clinton’s victory,
include accusations of voter
manipulation and claims the
Clinton campaign outright
cheated to secure a caucuses
victory.
Sanders’ campaign manager
Jeff Weaver told reporters that
the Sanders campaign does not
plan to contest the results but
will instead request an inves-
tigation into the allegations
against the Democratic Party,
according to the Guardian.
– BRANDON
SUMMERS-MILLER
Assembly hears
from Michigan
Dining director
Steve Mangan
By ALEXA ST. JOHN
Daily Staff Reporter
Central
Student
Govern-
ment voted to open South Quad
early on the Saturday after St.
Patrick’s day at their meeting
Tuesday night.
St. Patrick’s Day:
CSG passed a resolution to
allocate $1,000 out of the Leg-
islative Discretionary budget
to fund opening a dining hall
earlier on Saturday, March 19.
South Quad will open at 9 a.m.
instead of 10:30 a.m., according
to the resolution.
Members of CSG said they
introduced
the
resolution
because they believe St. Pat-
rick’s Day is a high-¬risk drink-
ing holiday.
These policies aim to allow
students the opportunity to
eat breakfast before drinking,
so that they aren’t consuming
alcohol on an empty stomach,
according to members. The
earlier hours are carried out
in conjunction with Michigan
Dining, with the funding aim-
ing to partially cover the cost of
opening earlier.
Similar efforts to curb the
effects of day drinking with
earlier dining hall hours were
implemented
this
academic
year on several football game
days, following a CSGresolu-
tion passed on Sept. 9, 2015.
At a CSG meeting on Sept. 16,
after a pilot of the program was
implemented, CSG President
Cooper Charlton, a LSA senior,
said he thought the program
was showing signs of success.
“We were able to, in my opin-
ion, prevent some trips to the
hospital because students had
food in their stomachs,” Charl-
ton said.
During earlier hours on the
first game day the program
was piloted on, 1,394 students
swiped into South Quad, as
compared to 114 arriving after
the usual opening time, accord-
ing to CSG. An increase of stu-
dents was also reported at Hill
and Bursley dining centers dur-
ing the earlier hours.
Tuesday’s resolution to open
one dining hall early on the
Saturday after St. Patrick’s day
passed with 24 in favor, one
opposed and one abstention.
The holiday has proved a
focus for an array of alcohol
abuse prevention efforts on
campus in the past. For St. Pat-
rick’s day last year, Ann Arbor
police
officers
workedwith
University staff to form an
alcohol prevention team.
Guest speaker:
Also
during
Tuesday’s
meeting, guest speaker Steve
Mangan, director of Michi-
gan Dining, spoke to CSG on
current dining hall initiatives
and other measures aiming to
increase student health before
the body voted on the resolu-
tion.
Mangan
emphasized
the
importance of the Michigan
Dining
system,
noting
key
goals include increasing the
availability of local produce,
renovating neglected dining
CSG votes to open South Quad
early after St. Patrick’s Day
See CSG, Page 3A