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CAMPUS COMMUNITY
14th DMUM
raisesrecord
donations
for hospitals
JAKE FROMM/Daily
Members of the Michigan hockey team celebrate a goal against Colorado College in the NCAA West Regional Championship at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis,
Mo. on Saturday, March 26. Michigan won the game 2-t
This is the year Jl'hockey
becomes national champs
Students raise more
than $447,000
for C.S. Mott,
Beaumont
ByJENNIFER LEE
Daily Staff Reporter
Asthe firstnotes ofTaio Cruz's
"Dynamite" blared inside the
Indoor Track & Field Building
Saturday afternoon, more than
500 students rushed to the stage
and wildly threw their hands up
in the air amid a flurry of flashing
lights.
The scene marked the start of
the 14th annual Dance Marathon
at the University, which is one of
the largest student-run organi-
zations on campus. Beginning
Saturday morning and culminat-
ing Sunday evening, hundreds
of students danced for 30-hours
straight to increase awareness
and raise money for pediatric
rehabilitation programs at the
University's C.S. Mott Children's
and Women's Hospital and Beau-
mont Hospital in Royal Oak.
BY THE NUMBERS
How much doesDanceMarathot raise?
2008
2009
2010 ., _ . 3
2011
This year Dance Marathon
raised $447,216.30 for the two
hospitals - exceedingthe amount
raised lastyear by almost$21,500.
To raise money, students are
organized into teams and partici-
pate in various activities through-
out the year, such as bar nights
and a charity ball. They also have
the opportunity to interact with
the families that benefit from
the donations given to the hospi-
tals' pediatric rehabilitation pro-
grams.
The theme of this year's Dance
Marathon was movies, with
theme hours featuring different
genres and time periods of cin-
ema, including Disney, musicals
and action films. The event also
See DMUM, Page 8A
ST. LOUIS -
Fifteen years ago, Brendan
Morrison and a support-
ing cast legitimized the
Michigan hockey program once
again by winning the national
title that had eluded the Wolver-
ines for 32 years.
It defeated Colorado College
in dramatic overtime fashion
and became the champions in
1996, pushing earlier disappoint-
ments to the wayside.
Though a few years in the
making,
Michigan
had finally
done it.
"Michi-
gan was
really back
on the map MARK
in college BURNS
hockey," BURNS _
Morrison
said about the program earlier
this week in a phone interview.
"A lot of the years, we were
favored but just couldn't pull out
the big games.
"It was our time. We were
due to win. It was a big relief to
know, 'Hey, you know, we can
win the big game. We are one of
the top programs."'
Press the fast-forward button
to 2011, and these Wolverines
are headed to the Frozen Four
for the first time since 2008, fol-
lowing a 2-1 victory over Colo-
rado College on Saturday night.
But with the date in St. Paul,
Minnesota in two weekends,
Michigan has only one question
to answer: Could this be the
season it, once again, wins the
national title, putting it into the
conversation as being THE best
program in the country?
And, guess what?
Michigan is due for a national
title in the worst way, making
this the year an NCAA Cham-
pionship will finally be brought
home to Ann Arbor.
See BURNS, Page 3A
MIHGNSTUDNTA ML
Fak e candidate Karlos ,II
-Marks winsMSseats > ;e
MSA says Marks
ineligible for
multiple positions
By CLAIRE GOSCICKI
DailyStaffReporter
Despite his apparent popular-
ity among the studentbody, Kar-
los Marks - a fictional write-in
candidate in last Thursday's
Michigan Student Assembly
and LSA Student Government
elections - is ineligible to hold
office on campus.
Marks received 520 votes for
the position of MSA president,
earning the second-highest
number of votes in the category
and placing him ahead of can-
didates LSA freshman Briana
Hatcher and LSA sophomore
Lena Cintron of the Defend
Affirmative Action Party by 68
votes. LSA juniors DeAndree
Watson and Brendan Campbell
of the MForward Party earned
2,319 votes and will become the
next MSA president and vice
president, respectively.
Results show that Marks and
other variations of his name,
including Karlos Marx, Kar-
los Markus and Carlos Marx,
received votes for MSA repre-
sentative positions within the
Ross School of Business, College
of Engineering and Rackham
Graduate School, among others.
Marks also received 132 votes
for a spot on the Department of
Public Safety Oversight Coin-
See MSA, Page 3A
PANEL DISCUSSION
In wake of Japanese nuclear crisis,
U' profs. discuss impact on policy
HALEY HOARD/Daily
Political activist Debbie Dingell speaks at a rally in support of Planned Parenthood on the Diag on March 26.
Planned Parenthood supporters
rally against proposed budget cuts
Experts: Power
plant accident may
lead to positive
regulation changes
By BRANDON SHAW
Daily StaffReporter
The recent earthquake in
Japan and subsequent nuclear
power plant disaster at Fuku-
shima Dai-ichi will serve as a
crucial model for establishing
more efficient safety regulations
of nuclear power plants around
the world, according to Univer-
sity experts.
About SO people gathered in
the Modern Languages Build-
ing Saturday afternoon to listen
to University nuclear engineer-
ing professors discuss a range of
subjects related to the nuclear
fallout that stemmed from the
9.0 magnitude earthquake,
including the importance of
establishing increased preven-
tative measures at power plants.
John Lee, Bill Martin and
Kim Kearfott - professors in
the University's Department
of Radiological Sciences and
Nuclear Engineering - as well
as David Dixon, a scientist and
representative from Los Alamos
See JAPAN, Page 8A
Debbie Dingell
joins 400 students,
Ann Arbor
residents on Diag
By ZACH BERGSON
Daily StaffReporter
A sea of pink signs, T-shirts
and buttons enveloped the Diag
as students and Ann Arbor
residents gathered to support
Planned Parenthood early Sat-
urday afternoon, in response
to proposed legislation from
Congress to cut funding for the
organization.
The rally - which featured
Debbie Dingell, political activ-
ist and wife of U.S. Rep. John
Dingell (D - Mich.) - drew
more than 400 students and
local residents to the Diag to
show their support for Planned
Parenthood's national "Truth
Tour," which aims to mobilize
Americans to speak out against
the proposed cuts.
In addition to the Planned
Parenthood supporters, a
crowd of about 50 counter-
protesters helpd graphic anti-
abortion signs and chanted
"No" in response to speakers at
the event.
Speaking over the continu-
ous chant of protesters from
the crowd, Dingell said she was
See PARENTHOOD, Page 3A
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