ON HI N EI- JYTWENTFYPTiI 11EEY EAS1E()1"lDITORIAL ITIE)dOM Tuesday, March 26, 2013_ Ann Arbor, Michigan michigandaily.com CAMPUS LIFE Students donate * blood to protest . FDA restrictions PROP 2 GOES TO SCOT US Donors participate in honor of individuals barred from giving By GIACOMO BOLOGNA Daily StaffReporter Every year University students col- lectively donate thousands of pints of blood through numerous blood drives as part of the Blood Battle with Ohio State University But under current donation guidelines set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, some students can't take pride in donating their blood. Per FDA regulations, a man who has had sex with another man can- not donate blood. This regulation has come under scrutiny in recent years, and on Monday, students held an alternative blood drive in order to raise awareness of the issue. In pro- test of the regulations, students who donated blood on behalf of a friend who isn't allowed to. LSA junior Michael Dalton, an organizer of the blood drive, said he the drive represented the launch of "We Bleed Too," a campaign to raise awareness about the restrictions gay men face in blood donation. Dalton said the blood drive was also meant to build connections between University students and the LGBT community. "I guess (the campaign) doesn't end until the FDA changes its standards," he said. "Its campus goal is for commu- nities to come together." Dalton said the event partnered with Blood Drives United - which runs the Blood Battle with OSU - and the Spec- trum Center. Earlier this month, the Central Student Government passed a resolution supportingthe blood drive. According to an e-mail statement from LSA junior Michael Ho, who has been part of the educational arm of the organizing group, the blood drive had 93 people pledge to sign the petition to the FDA and had 39 successful donors. See BLOOD, Page 3 FACULTY GOVERNANCE 'U' chief investor talks endowment with SACUA Alumni director also discusses affirmative action in admissions By SAM GRINGLAS Daily Staff Reporter On Monday, Erik Lundberg, the University's chief investment officer, joined members of the Senate Adviso- ry Committee on University Affairs to discuss the University's endowment, which is currently the seventh largest of U.S. public and private institutions. Growth of the University's endow- ment provides much of the fundingfor University spending. To build a port- folio, the University invests money from charitable giving and bequests it into stocks, bonds, companies and natural resources. By investing, the University is able to constantly grow funding pools. See SACUA, Page 3 FiLE PHOTo/Daily Protesters sit outside the U.S. Supreme Court - which is under construction - in October 2012 during the Fisher v. University of Texas hearings. Shelly Schreier: "' came and never left... I bleed maize and blue" Ten years after landmark cases, court revisits race-based admissions By ARIANA ASSAF and PETER SHAHIN Daily Staff Reporter and Daily NewsEditor Monday,inwhatmany called asurprise decision, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case on the status of Michigan's Proposal 2. The 2006 ballot proposal that forbade the use of race-based affirmative action in the state. Since then, the pro- posal has faced a series of legal battles - the latest of which resulted in the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals narrowly overturningthe ban in November. Since the circuit court's 8-7 en bant ruling on Schuette v. Michigan Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Repub- lican, petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case. The eight justices that ruled in favor of overturning the ban were appointed by a Democratic presi- dent and the seven minority jurists were all appointed by a Republican president. The case faces strong headwinds in a court dominated by conservative jurists. More problematic for the liberal bloc, Justice Elena Kagan has recused her- self from the Michigan case because of a conflict of interest - as she did for Fisher v. University of Texas, the affirmative action case that was heard by the court in October 2012. During her time as solici- tor general, Kagan helped file an amicus curiae brief for Fisher v. Texas. With only eight justices participating, in the unlikely event of a tie, the Sixth Circuit Court's ruling would stand but have no precedential value. The drive to instate the ban was a reac- tion to the two 2003 landmark decisions issued by the Supreme Court in which the University was a party three years after the cases. The voters of Michigan overwhelmingly approved the measure with 57.9 percent voting in favor of ban- ning affirmative action. In Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger cases - bearing the name of then-University President Lee Bollinger - the Supreme Court ruled that certain forms of affirmative action are permis- sible. Between 2003 and 2006, the Uni- versity was allowed to use a "holistic" approach, as outlined in the rulings, achieve a racially diverse campus. In an unusual step, the Supreme Court agreed to take the case before it issued a ruling on a pending case against the University of Texas. The case could have sweeping implications for affirmative action policies across the nation and render much of the two University cases moot. Fisher v. University of Texas, which was filed in 2008, brings one interpreta- tion of the 2003 rulings under scrutiny. According to University of Texas policy, every Texan student in the top 10 percent of their class is automatically admitted to the university. Abigail Fisher, a white student from a competitive high school; says she was forced to compete in a much harder application pool after she failedto be in the top 10 percent of her class. She sued the University, claiming that the policy, meant to achieve racial diversity, See SCOTUS, Page 3 Golden Apple Award recipient reflects on University career By ALICIA ADAMCZYK Daily NewsoEditor Psychology lecturer Shelly Sch- reier's office is a testament to her love of teaching. Children's books - which she uses to explain the cognitive, social and emotional development of children - line the walls, while boxes overflowing with papers and folders are stacked in front of the only win- dow. A Sigmund Freud action figure, still in its original package, sits on a bookshelf, while a miniature Bobo doll - modeled after the dolls used in the classic psychology experiment of the same name - is situated on the See SCHREIER, Page 3 WEATHER HI: 43 TOMORROW LO: 29 GOT A NEWS TIP? 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