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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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“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 

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

