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What: Molecular Bioscience Seminar
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"I thought this was a pretty worthwhile cause," Moore said. "My family is pretty close to it and if I could help raise money and aid men's health then I
Student lets mustache speak for men's health
this semester off of classes, raised more than $600 for the organization last month.
MARK ARCE
marce@kansan.com
While some use November as an excuse to not shave facial hair, Mason Moore used it to increase awareness about men's health issues.
His effort was for the charity Movember, a transnational organization raising awareness about men's health issues such as testicular cancer, prostate cancer and mental health. Moore, a junior from Chicago who has taken
ated Moore's passion about the subject, his personal connection with men's health issues and the goals of Movember.
Moore first heard about Moveron when he was in high school, while growing a mustache. A classmate offhandedly remarked about his facial hair
This past November was Moore's third year participating with the charity.
"It seemed like a really great opportunity, so I wanted to support him," Karr said.
"No one's going to be upset that you're being vocal about a good cause."
It was because of Moore's personal story that Kalee Karr, a junior from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, donated to Moore. She apprecii-
The goals of Movember are close to Moore's heart. On his maternal side, his grandfather had prostate cancer and melanoma, his uncle beat lung cancer and another uncle has recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
MASON MOORE Junior from Chicago
and asked if he was growing it because of some involvement with the Movember charity. Moore hadn't heard of it before and after some
research, has been involved ever since.
This year, Moore reached out to friends in person and through his social media about the cause. Everyday on his Facebook, he would publish a picture of someone famous with a prominent mustache and tell the story behind it. The figures ranged from President Theodore Roosevelt, to fictional news anchor, Ron Burgundy. If someone donated
to Moore, he would personally thank them for their contribution.
Part of Moore's success is because of how easy it is to register with Movember. After registering with the organization through the website, people let their facial hair grow during the month of November and try to get people to donate to them. At the end of the month, participants are encouraged to celebrate by throwing their own parties, or by attending a Movember "Gala Parte".
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According to the organization's website, Movember has existed since 2003 and started in Melbourne, Australia. Since then, the organization has grown into a global charity, has funded more than 500 projects and is active in 21 countries.
Moore is just happy he has a mustache and thinks people have reacted positively to his efforts. "First of all, who in the world wouldn't want a mustache?" Moore said. "Secondly, no one's going to be upset that you're being vocal about a good cause."
Edited by Hannah Barling
CAMPUS University professors link word gender, language perception
New evidence gives insight into how language is processed. A recent study conducted at the University found that the sex of the speaker affects whether words are perceived as male or female.
"It shows that grammar is not as impervious as people have previously thought," said psychology professor Michael Vitevitch.
Vitevitch, linguistics professors Allard longman and Joan Sereno and psychology graduate student Ruuthferd Goldstein challenged the two conflicting schools of thought.
In one theory, called the abstractionist model, the meaning, sound and use of the word are stored in the lexicon or one's personal vocabulary. Non-lexical information, like the gender and accent of the speaker, is omitted.
To test these theories, the professors created an experiment in which native speakers of Spanish were presented with both masculine and feminine words and asked to identify their gender. The words were spoken by both male and female speakers.
The study's goal was to see whether the participants hearing the word
In the second theory, called the exemplar model, each form of the word takes into account the sex of the speaker and their accent. According to the exemplar model, both are used in the processing of language.
would be able to process words of a certain gender when the sex of the speaker was different from that of the word. For example, a male speaker would say a feminine word, and the professors would observe whether the participant hearing the word could process the word as quickly as they would had the word's gender matched the speaker's sex.
The study found that, while most participants were able to get a majority of the words correct, participants often hesitated when they heard a word of a gender opposite than the gender of the speaker.
"With a male speaker saying a male word, one could very easily identify that it was a male word," Vitewit said.
"When there was a male speaking a feminine word in Spanish, we found it took people a little bit longer to process the word."
These findings came to support the exemplar model of language processing where those hearing words take into account the sex of the speaker, their accent and other factors when processing a word, all of which happens in a matter of nanoseconds.
"This study gives a bit more insight into the question: What gets stored in the mental lexicon?" Goldstein said. "And our results support the answer more than just words."
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