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HEALTH
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or policy-based.
"I'd expect the research proj-
ects to be as varied as the individ-
ual applications," she said. "The
research projects can vary from
J. COLE
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for J. Cole. On Sunday night,
it was announced that the fea-
tured groups would be dance
groups EnCore, funKtion and
Dance2XS, as well as rap groups
Fairytale Productions and
D.S.B.
J. Cole described his support
for local musical acts and lauded
the benefits of including them in
bigger concerts.
MAMMOTH
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"completely commandeered" the
carcass.
"It's quite clear that humans
were very experienced at dealing
with carcasses like this (Yuka),"
Fisher said.
In order to thoroughly inspect
Yuka, the team had to defrost the
specimen over a few days to pre-
vent from harming it. Fisher said
the scientists did not have access
to advanced equipment and were
limited to a room, a table and
basic measuring devices.
Locals found Yuka in 2010 in
the northern part of the Russian
state Yakutia, which is known for
preserving quality remains in its
BUSINESS
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focused on uniting community
members who create products as
part of a personal philosophy of
developing "authentic goods for
the 21st century."
Quinones echoed Wacker's
sentiments, and lauded the poten-
tial for a market of handcrafted
goods in the community.
" pride ourselves in this
idea that things we do should
be handcrafted," Quinones said.
"Things should be unique, and
there should always be a con-
nection between the person who
receives something we've sold
them and the people who have
made the thing they're buying."
The duo said their hope is to
create a more exclusive atmo-
sphere reminiscent of Etsy - a
website where people sell their
own creations - to help artisans
produce products on a larger
focusing on chronic to (commu-
nicable) to (non-communicable)
diseases."
The first cohort of Global
Health Fellows may begin as
early as this summer, Restrick
said.
Roger Glass, director of the
Fogarty International Center,
"It's a great opportunity for
local artists to come through
and shine, and make some new
fans by performing in front of
a bunch of people who may not
have heard of them before," Cole
said in an interview with The
Michigan Daily.
Cole also said that his current
tour would be his first with a full
band. He will perform material
from his debut album Cole World:
The Sideline Story and his previ-
ous mixtapes.
In speaking about his perfor-
permafrost. Yuka was approxi-
mately 3 years old when it died
and would have been around five
feet tall at its shoulder. Fisher
said it most likely lived between
10,000 and 30,000 years ago.
Fisher said he has plans for
future research on the specimen
and wants to arrange a CT scan
of the specimen so he can better
understand the animal without
causing it further damage, not-
ing that radioactive carbon dat-
ing tests were performed on the
specimen to find its exact age,
and the results will be avail-
able in two weeks. Fisher said
a future study of the animal's
teeth and tusks will provide
information about the mam-
moth's lifestyle.
Fisher said while finding teeth
scale than they could on their
own. Wacker noted that having
a physical shop is the ultimate
goal.
"We want to keep our minds
opento whatever fits our philoso-
phy as opposed to a certain prod-
uct," Wacker said. "One or two
years from now we might have
a roster of 50 artisan designers
that we work with regularly but
they also start collaborating with
each other."
Wacker said Quinones caught
himself traditional bookbinding
methods in order to create hand-
crafted iPad and Kindle cases
called FlightPads.
"It's literally a labor of love for
every single case," Wacker said.
"He spent months figuring out
tiny details."
Wacker said they may work
toward developing a University-
themed FlightPad and that they
also hope to utilize the Univer-
sity's talent to cultivate future
crafters featured with dapp.
said in the release that he is excit-
ed about the program's potential.
"This program will leverage
the considerable experience,
relationships and infrastructure
the 20 U.S partners have built
in developing countries around
the globe," he said. "(We want
to) ensure our alumni are well-
mance philosophy, it's evident
where his reputation for larg-
er-than-life stage presence is
generated. He talked about the
importance of showing passion
onstage.
"I try to put a lot of passion
into my performance," Cole said.
"I feel that if I do that, people
will naturally gravitate toward
it. It sounds a little generic, but
it's really important. You've got
to connect with the audience,
whether it's through eye contact
or putting in a lot of energy."
or bones from wooly mammoths
is common, finding a well-pre-
served, mostly complete speci-
men like Yuka only occurs once
every several years.
"You just have to be at the
right place and the right time
when things are melting out,"
Fisher said.
Fisher said Yuka was one of
the more interesting projects
he has worked on, but couldn't
name a favorite over the course
of his career.
"You wouldn't say, 'well I
have 6 kids, and I really like this
one the best," Fisher said. "(My
discoveries) are all part of the
whole picture that we are able to
put together, and from each one,
we are able to learn something
new and different."
However, he said this may be
challenging due to the demand-
ing schedules of students.
"Design students and art stu-
dents often have amazing proj-
ects, but they're so focused on
graduating," he said.
Quinones said he's excited
about the prospect of potentially
working with students in the
future.
"One of my dreams is to go to
the design school, go to thearchi-
tecture school, talk to people in
the art program and find people
who have really cool stuff so that
we could work together with
them," he said.
Quinones said he is consider-
ing searching for crafters within
the community, notinghe already
has his eyes on a hat-designer.
"There's a lot of richness in the
community in terms of people's
ideas and experience, and I think
we would do really well by con-
tinuing to have the connection to
Ann Arbor," he said.
Michigan's Slam Poetry Team performed at UMMA yesterday to support ONE Night stand.
ONE Campaign event raises
awareness for w er safety
Students gather in
support of human
rights advocacy at
UMMA
By ALICIA ADAMCYZK
Daily StaffReporter
At last night's "Thirsty Thurs-
day" event at the University of
Michigan Museum of Art, about
50 students attended a free con-
cert hosted by the University's
chapter of the ONE Campaign,
an international nonpartisan
advocacy organization working
to fight poverty and disease in
Africa.
Each year, the ONE Cam-
paign selects a different global
issue to focus its advocacy
efforts on. In previous years,
the organization has focused
on HIV/AIDS, maternal health
and education. This year's
event, which was organized
around World Water Day, was
held to raise awareness about
water accessibility and sanita-
tion conditios in devel ping
nations.
Public Policy senior Mer-
edith Horowski, the former
president of the University's
ONE chapter, said the event
was held to inform attendees
on the various ways they can
solicit change.
"The ONE Campaign is all
about advocacy," Horowski
said. "We're not a charity;
we don't ask people to donate
money, so it's all about the real-
ly simple actions that you can
take to hold our government
leaders accountable to good
development policy."
Horowski said her passion
for the ONE Campaign was
solidified when she traveled to
Rwanda in 2010 and saw the
impact of the campaign first-
hand.
"I saw on the ground in
Rwanda that the policies that
the U.S. is implementing in
terms of international develop-
ment really are effective," she
said. "These programs that we
fund are crucial in saving lives
across the world."
The event included perfor-
mances by Match by Match and
Chaser - two bands composed
of University students - as well
as brief sets from the Universi-
ty a cappella groups Dicks and
Janes and Gimble. Vertika Sriv-
astava, a member of Michigan
Sahana, also performed a solo
dance number, and the Michi-
gan Slam Poetry Team made
an appearance at the end of the
event.
During the performances,
pictures of impoverished con-
ditions:and =global water sani-
tation facts an&statistics were-
projected on a screen. LSA
junior Lesley Kucharski and
other members of the Universi-
ty's chapter took time between
sets to further educate attend-
ees on the issue.
"We're here to tell you guys
there's opportunity out there.
Progress is being made,"
Kucharski said. "We're here to
try and make (government offi-
cials) do what they say they're
going to do."
After the performances,
members of the ONE Cam-
paign passed out stationary and
helped audience members com-
pose letters to President Barack
Obama asking him to take
action at the next G8 Summit,
a conference for world leaders
to discuss international affairs.
LSA senior Mary Kate Cart-
mill, the campus leader of ONE,
said she was pleased with the
event's turnout.
"As long as we're reaching
people and we're having them
write their letters and getting
them engaged, it's really excit-
ing," Cartmill said. "We had
really great performers this
year ... I think we had a good
mix of Ann Arbor bands and
then student performers."
LSA sophomore Ryan Kras-
noo, a member of the Universi-
ty's Slam Poetry Team, said he
agreed to perform at the event
because he is a strong believer
in the mission of the ONE Cam-
paign.
"It's a great cause. I actually
performed last year at ONE's
event," Krasnoo said. "Any time
I can help out, :I'malways happy
'tWcontribute.-
Jessica Branski, an LSA
sophomore, said she's been
involved with ONE since high
school and believes the cause is
something college students can
easily stand behind.
"You can do so much with
your voice, and you don't have
to put any money in it," Bran-
ski said. "College students can
do a lot to affect change in the
world ... What's important to us
is what's going to be important
to the world later."
Obama plans to rail against
Supreme Court in fall campaig
Deomcrats to
paint conservative
justices as extreme
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi-
dent Barack Obama is laying
groundwork to make the major-
ity-conservative Supreme Court
a campaign issue this fall; taking
a political page from Republicans
who have long railed against lib-
eral judges who don't vote their
way.
The emerging Democratic
strategy to paint the court as
extreme was little noted in this
week's hubbub over Obama's
assertion that overturning
his health care law would be
"unprecedented."
His statement Monday wasn't
completely accurate, and the
White House backtracked. But
Obama was making a politi-
cal case, not a legal one, and he
appears ready to keep making it
if the high court's five-member
majority strikes down or cuts the
heart out of his signature policy
initiative.
The court also is likely to con-
sider several other issues before
the November election that
could stir Obama's core Demo-
cratic supporters and draw cru-
cial independent voters as well.
Among those are immigration,
voting rights and a revisit of a
campaign finance ruling that
Obama has already criticized as
an outrage.
"We haven't seen the end of
this," said longtime Supreme
Court practitioner Tom Gold-
stein, who teaches at Stanford
and Harvard universities. "The
administration seems to be posi-
tioning itself to be able to run
against the Supreme Court if it
needs to or wants to."
While Obama has predicted
victory in the health care case
now before the court, his admin-
istration could blame overreach
by Republican-appointed jus-
tices if the law is rejected, said
Goldstein, who wrote a brief sup-
porting the law's constitutional-
ity.
This can be dangerous ground,
as Obama discovered. Since
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, few
presidents have directly assailed
the Supreme Court. In Obama's
case, he issued an indirect chal-
lenge, but the former constitu-
tional law professor tripped over
the details.
Obama told a news conference
on Monday that he was "con-
fident that the Supreme Court
will not take what would be an
unprecedented, extraordinary
step of overturning a law that
was passed by a strong majority
of a democratically elected Con-
gress."
The Supreme Court does
sometimes overturn laws passed
by Congress. Obama later clari-
fied that he was referring to a
narrow class of constitutional
law, but even then Republicans
and some court scholars took
issue. What's not in question is
that the law wasn't approved by
a strong, majority - the vote was
a slim 219 to 212 in the House.
A Republican-appointed fed-
eral judge took umbrage at the
suggestion that federal courts
might be powerless to overturn
such laws, and ordered the Jus-
tice Department to provide writ-
ten assurance. He insisted the
response be at least three pages,
single-spaced.
Attorney General Eric Holder
took on that task himself, tell-
ing the judge Thursday that "the
longstanding, historical position
of the United States regarding
judicial review of the constitu-
tionality of federal legislation has
not changed."
He also took the opportunity
to cite Supreme Court case law
supporting the premise that laws
passed by Congress are "pre-
sumptively constitutional."
The Supreme Court heard a
rare three days of argument on
the 2010 health care overhaul last
week, and the court's conserva-
tive majority appeared deeply
skeptical of the key provision, a
requirement for individual health
insurance. Justice Antonin Sca-
lia, for one, appeared strongly in
favor of striking down the entire
law. A decision is expected by
July.
Also Thursday, Senate Repub-
lican Leader Mitch McConnell
had his say on presidents and the
Supreme Court.
AWARENESS
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the designated Sexual Assault
Awareness Month.
"Rape and sexual assault hap-
pen under the guise of silence,"
Johnson said. "The more people
that know about your victimiza-
tion, the more opportunities it is
to help other people continue to
be safe and stay safe, and so you
can't expect to solve a problem in
silence."
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Many people in the crowd
wore teal armbands to iden-
tify themselves as survivors of
sexual assault. Among them
was Ann Arbor resident Grif-
fin Green, who said the event
evoked feelings of support and
empowerment.
"I'm here because I know
plenty of survivors that get a
chance to be able to speak out.
I'm a survivor, and it's just a
really good experience being
able to see people get together
and fight for the same thing,"
Green said.
LSA sophomore Gia Tam-
mone said her membership
in F-Word, a feminist activist
group, influenced her choice to
attend Take Back The Night.
"I am participating because
I think that sexual violence is a
really important issue that soci-
ety still struggles with, and it's
something that women are still
very much afraid of, and it holds
women back from really living
the lives that they would want
to live," Tammone said.
A wild ride through the sexual politics of one family
over two centuries... BTW, did we mention SEX?
a comedy by
Caryl Churchill
University of Michigan ScIool of
E Music, Theatre & Dance
Directed by Tim Ocel - Dept. of Theatre & Drama
Recommended for mature audiences
due to explicit sexual content.
April 5 at 7:30 PM 'April 6 & 7 at 8:00 PM
April 8 at 2:00 PM -Arthur Miller Theatre
General Admission $26 - Students $10 with ID
League Ticket Office - 734-764-2538
tickets.music.umich.edu
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