Arrive early (before 9:00 am if possible), check-in, and plan your day

CAMPUS Continued from Page 9 registration is April 1. For more information, call the International Office at 974- 2390. Hot Tin Roof," at 7:30 p.m. April 15 in the Pegasus Theater. For more information, call Carletta Rehbine at 376- 2692.

The Raven Society will meet at 2 p.m. April 13 at the Chatroom, located at 2nd and Kelly. For more information, call Calypso Harvey at 751- 9068.

The UCO English Society will meet at 1 p.m. May 8 at the home of Dr. Timmy Morales. For more information, call Carletta Rehbine at 376- 2692.

The UCO International Office will host an employment seminar over postgraduation immigration issues

and practical training, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. April 16 in Room 202 of the University Center.

For more information, call the .

International Office at 974- 2390.

The English Society will host a showing of "Cat on a

The UCO Accounting Club will sponsor a voluntary income tax assistance program Monday through Wednesday 1 - 3 p.m. and Thursday 5 - 8 p.m. through April 15 in the Troy Smith Lecture Hall. For more information,' call Bill Austen at 336-3215. GENERALLY

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Celebrating Bronze and Blue Committee will' be around campus from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Friday, handing out free soft drink coupons to those wearing bronze and blue. For more information, call Beverly Prosser at 974-2364.

The UCO Swing Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday in the University Center Ballroom. Instructor Chris Ghant will be giving lessons. For more information, call Khalilah Watson at 974- 4365. -

Scientists closer to eliminating obesity Mice genes offer clues to mutations in the obese CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AFP) - Scientists have succeeded in identifying and cloning a mouse gene that can prevent obesity linked to fatty foods. "The cloning of the ... gene and the identification of its protein product are major first steps in achieving a better understanding of their roles in controlling weight based on the amount of fat in a diet," Karen Moore, director of genetic systems of Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge Massachusetts, told England's Nature magazine.

The scientists found that while the gene, called mahogany (mg), produced a protein (MG) in many tissues of the body, its activity in a specific region of the brain's hypothalamus was particularly interesting because of that region's role in body weight ,regulation.

Because similarity between mouse and human metabolism, the scientists expect to find that the gene plays a similar role in in human beings.

Mice with a mutation in their mg gene maintain a healthy weight whether they eat a high fat (42 percent fat) or low fat (9 percent fat) diet with the same amount of calories. In contrast, mice with a normal mg gene gain excess weight on the high fat diet.

Such diet-induced obesity differs from forms of genetically-induced obesity in which weight gain occurs even when mice are fed a normal diet. Genetically induced obesity in mice has been linked (ob), fat (fat) and agoutiyellow (Ay) genes.

Mice with a mutation in their mg gene can suppress the genetic induced obesity of agoutiyellow mice but not that of ob and fat mice.

In a separate report in the same magazine, Gregory Barsh of Stanford in the U.S. was quoted as demonstrating that the protein whose production is regulated by this gene contained an element resembling a molecule recently isolated in the human species and involved in immune reactions. —From College Press wire services 1999 great

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