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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Thursday, March 1, 2018 Vol. 118 No. 43
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Katie Kummerow, center, runs through a class-choreographed combination on Thursday, Feb. 22 at Barbara Baker Dance Center on West Bank.
STATE REPORT MAGA HAT, #METOO PIN? HIGH COURT WEIGHS VOTER CLOTHING LAW WASHINGTON — They were all dressed in basic black robes, but the Supreme Court’s nine justices had a serious discussion about fashion Wednesday as they heard arguments over a Minnesota law that bars voters from wearing political clothing to the polls. Almost every one of the justices had some hypothetical article of clothing to talk about as they explored the issue of free speech at polling places and whether various clothing items could be prohibited. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg asked about a #MeToo pin. Justice Elena Kagan wanted to know about clothing that says “Resist” or “Make America Great Again.” And Justice Samuel Alito’s laundry list of items included a National Rifle Association T-shirt, shirts with the text of the First and Second Amendments and a shirt with a rainbow flag. Amid the arguments over apparel, several justices suggested support for at least some polling place restrictions. Chief Justice John Roberts told the attorney arguing against Minnesota’s law that he wondered if, after months of a “maybe bitter, sharp, political campaign,” if “maybe, just before you cast your vote, you should be able to have a time for some quiet reflection or to do that important civic obligation in peace and quiet without being bombarded by another campaign display.” Most states have laws restricting what voters can wear to the polls, but Minnesota’s law is one of the broadest. It bars voters from casting a ballot wearing clothing with the name of a candidate or political party or related to an issue on the ballot. But Minnesota voters also can’t wear clothing promoting a group with recognizable political views. That means no tea party T-shirts, AFL-CIO hats or MoveOn. org buttons.
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Student Service Fees allocates funds for UMN group activities The Aurora Center, Boynton Health and a number of student groups got funding. BY KAYLA SONG ksong@mndaily.com
About $1.4 million in student service fees was distributed last week to 94 student groups to fund operations and programs this semester at the University of Minnesota. Continuing a restructured application process, funding included requests for a mental health expansion at Boynton Health, a continuation of the men’s engagement coordinator at the Aurora Center and money for a NASA Robotic Mining Competition. All but $250 of the $1.4 million in fees was allocated for the 2017-18 academic year, said Sara Carvell, associate director of the Office
for Student Affairs. GOFIRST Robotics received the most total funding over the academic year, about $48,000, while the least amount of money, $200, went to the Coptic Orthodox Christian Association. GOFIRST Robotics requested and received about $6,000 more than they received in the fall. This was justified by the fact that the robotics team will be competing in the NASA Robotic Mining Competition and requires funds for resources to build their robot, said Ryan Zoeller, Treasurer of GOFIRST Robotics. Six administrative groups also requested funding, including Boynton, Student Unions and Activities, The Aurora Center, University Recreation and Wellness, Student Legal Services and the Student Conflict Resolution Center. Using a different process, Boynton requested
$9.2 million for the 2018-19 fiscal year, which included a $248,400 increase for mental health expansion cost. The Aurora Center requested about $371,000, which included about $56,000 to fund a men’s engagement coordinator. The requests from the administrative groups are still being processed and will be decided by mid-March. Five media groups — G-TV, the Minnesota Daily, Students for a Conservative Voice, The Wake Magazine and Radio K — also requested funding at the beginning of February. Media groups request funding annually, rather than each semester. The current application process for student groups was first used to allocate money for fall semester and was continued into this semester. It requires student groups to apply for funding each semester rather than receive
funding for the full academic year. The process also caps how much can be requested, limiting groups to asking for $30,000 per academic year for programs. “Before a year ago, there weren’t any limits, and so groups could request a lot more,” Carvell said. “What a group received last academic year may look very different from what they received this academic year.” Carvell said the process is “viewpoint neutral,” and the content of a group’s programming or message is not taken into consideration when the committee makes funding decisions. “Each group starts from zero, and it’s just based off of how much they request, how well they justify each of those requests, also how much total money the committee has to allocate,” said Jude Goossens, chair of the Student Groups Student Services Fee Committee.
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said professor and research lead Dr. Timothy O’Brien. These organoids were created from sample cells, either from a donor or an individual with a neurodegenerative disease, that were genetically modified to be virtually identical to an embryotic stem cell, he said. Even though these organoids have been named mini-brains and act like a human brain in specific ways, they do not have all the components of a human brain, O’Brien said. They can’t think on their own and lack certain blood vessels and immune cells, said professor and Veterans of Foreign Wars Endowed Chair in Pharmacotherapy for the Elderly Ling Li. Since researchers cannot sample brain tissue from a living person, Li said the mini-brains could be used to
provide an accurate experimental model to study the human brain. “This will give us [the] opportunity to develop a more human-like model,” Li said. Pharmaceutical drugs could also be tested on these mini-brain models since they are closely resemble a live brain, O’Brien said. O’Brien said he hopes to create accurate models of the brain to test treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Researchers can also use these organoids to create individualized treatments for people with Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s. By taking a skin sample from a Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s patient, researchers can create mini-brains with the individual’s exact genetic makeup and inject the organoids into the parts of the patient’s brain to regenerate damaged cells, O’Brien said. The mini-brain organoids have been injected in rats
to test their effectiveness. O’Brien said the next step is to test them on primates, and if that’s successful, start a clinical trial with humans. Current research for Parkinson’s disease treatment, which affects about 1 million Americans, is focused on finding ways to stop or slow the degeneration of dopamine in the brain, said Rose Wichmann, manager of Struthers Parkinson’s Center in Golden Valley. Most people with Parkinson’s use medication to restore the lost dopamine, but this is not a cure, Wichmann said. Similarly, people with Alzheimer’s disease — about 5 million people in the U.S. alone — take medication to slow the symptom progression, but memory loss is still inevitable, said Katie Roberg, program and education manager for the Alzheimer’s Association. Even though the minibrains have promising
“This will give us [the] opportunity to develop a more human-like model.” LING LI Veterans of Foreign Wars Endowed Chair in Pharmacotherapy for the Elderly
research and treatment applications, they’re not perfect, Li said. As technology improves, researchers hope to make the mini-brains more representative of the human brain. Plus, more research is needed, and the organoids are still years away from potentially treating Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, O’Brien said. “I’m very excited and hope that this keeps working out. Everything’s so far, so good,” O’Brien said.
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