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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. 3 1 2 GREG GOSS/Daily 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 GREG GOSS/Daily 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