2 - Tuesday, March 18, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Prof.lea NeAR chsNG eiT OON Prof. leads research site in N.C. - CAMPAIGN TRAIL -, Robin Beck is an assistant pro- fessor of Anthropology and serves as the assistant curator of the Uni- versity's Eastern North Ameri- can Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. Since 1994, he has been involved in the excavation of the oldest European settlement in the United States, located i in North Carolina. He is the author of three books based on his work in thefield. Why do you study archaeology? Why should people be interested in archaeology? In archaeology, we try to understand what it means to be human by looking across long periods of time, and trying to understand over these long peri- ods of time how what it means to be human has changed. You can see just looking over the last 5,000 years or the last 10,000 years over the world just how much our modern civilization is based on things invented or developed 5,000 or 6,000 or 7,000 years ago. Different peoples coming togeth- er to live in the first villages or the first cities; people planting and learning how to domesticate the first things like wheat and maize and barley and oats; domesticat- ing cattle and dogs and sheep. All of that is a part of our ancient human heritage that makes our world go around now. How is your research in North Carolina going? We've been focused on an archaeological site in North Carolina that contains the ear- liest European settlement ... After about 20 years of looking for it last summer, we actually found the fort itself. This coming summer, I'm aiming to have an archaeological field school, a Uni- versity of Michigan field school at the buried site where I'm hoping to bring 12 undergraduates down to the site to work on excavating some of this burned fort. - MAXRADWIN AL SON FARRAND/Daily SACUA candidate Bill Schultz, professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics and naval architecture and marine engineering, speaks before elections at a meeting of the Senate Assembly Monday at Palmer Commons. 4,%r .: ,, .- ;-' s -:. 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Parades, cultural festivities Lieutenant Governor discusses proceed despite tension statewide financial turnaround Guinness and NYC mayor boycott celebration due to exclusion of gays NEW YORK (AP) - A week- end of St. Patrick's Day revelry and tensions over the exclusion of gays in some of the celebra- tions culminated Monday in New York, where the world's largest parade celebrating Irish heritage stepped off without the city's new mayor and Guin- ness beer amid a dispute over whether participants can carry pro-gay signs. The parade of kilted Irish- Americans and bagpipers set off on a cold, gray morning. Hundreds of thousands of spectators lined Fifth Avenue, but the shivering, bundled up crowd was only about half as thick as in previous years. Revelers also gathered elsewhere for green-themed celebrations, including some 400,000 locals and tourists in Dublin, where gay rights groups took part in the festivities. De Blasio held New York's traditional St. Patrick's Day breakfast at Gracie Mansion with the Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny, but boycotted the parade because organizers said marchers were not allowed to carry gay-friendly signs or identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Weeks ago de Blasio said he would skip the parade over the issue, but Guinness abruptly dropped its support a day before the event. The Dublin-based company pulled sponsorship assets, including on-air presence, parade participation and any promotional materials that weren't already printed, although the beer maker had already made a payment to parade organizers, spokeswoman Alix Dunn said. Other beer companies took part in the boycotts, with Samuel Adams withdrawing its sponsorship of Boston's parade and Heineken also bagging New York's parade because of the exclusion of gays. Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who greeted passing dignitaries in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral wearing a woolen Irish cap over his red cardinal's skull cap, said he supports the participation of individual gays and hoped St. Patrick's Day could be a day of unity and joy. "I know that there are thousands and thousands of gay people marching in this parade," he said. "I know it. And I'm glad they are." Police Commissioner William Bratton marched with a contingent of uniformed officers. Gay activists protesting the exclusion of official LGBT groups held a news conference before the march to say they didn't think the NYPD officers should participate in uniform. About two dozen gay rights advocates protested the parade holding placards high enough for marchers to see. "If Danny Boy were gay, would he be welcome today?" read one. Protester Richard Lynch wore a Guy Fawkes mask, which was popular among members of the Occupy Wall Street movement. He said de Blasio should have ordered the police commissioner not to march. "This was a big mistake," Lynch said. "It says the mayor isn't serious about LGBT inclusion in this parade." Across the Atlantic in the land that inspired St. Patrick's Day, hundreds of thousands of people crowded the center of Dublin for Ireland's major parade. The hour- long procession featured loads of wit, brightly colored costumes and dancers, including from Ireland's gay community- and nobody had a public word to say about it. Calley addresses state growth rate in event hosted by College Republicans By MICHAEL SUGERMAN Daily StaffReporter Simultaneously lamenting the broken Michigan of the past and hailing its bright future, Lt. Gov. Brian Calley spoke to the University's chapter of the College Republicans on Monday night about rebuilding the state into a beacon of growth and success. Serving as the youngest lieutenant governor in the state's history, Calley works as the second in command to Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. Calley presides over the Michigan Senate and assists the governor in day-to-day actions. "We went from being a rich state to being a poor state in just ten years," Calley said, focusing on the economic doldrums between 2001 and 2011. "What we see now is a return to the attitude that we used to have, the spirit that really drove our state to the top," he added. "In the last three years, we find ourselves a top ten state in our per capita income growth rate." Calley said the real estate market in Michigan is on the rise, as is the expansion of business. These improvements, among others, have allowed the government to exceed University economic forecasts three years running, he added. Another element of Michi- gan's economic turnaround, Calley said, has to do with fos- tering a positive atmosphere within the state. He said if citi- zens believe Michigan can come back from being the "center of the economic demise," it will. Calley said Michigan has his- torically been a bastion of inno- vation, home to Saran Wrap, Kitty Litter and a once-thriving automobile industry. He added that changing the world is "in our DNA," and a return to this climate is not distant. "Our strategy is, 'How do we create an environment for success around the people that are already here?' " he said. "We want you to have the best possible chance of success. Whatever it is that you want to do with your life, we want this to be the best place to do it." Contingent on this success, Calley said, is reminding students in particular that Michigan is indeed on the upswing. Part of this has to do with seeing bankruptcy as a force of good rather than bad. "Bankruptcy is not the problem; bankruptcy is the beginning of the solution to the problem," he said. Despite this, Calley told stu- dentsthatemployersthroughout the state are complaining that they can't find qualified people to fill positions - the Michigan Talent Portal has approximately 60,000 open jobs currently. "So that's incumbent upon us to make sure that our education is providing people with relevant skills to fill those jobs," he said. "But what we're finding, unfortunately, is that it's kind of hard to convince college graduates that part of their search ought to be here." Calley also discussed college affordability, saying one method of decreasing the price of higher education will be giving high school students the opportunity to get college credit before they leave high school. He encouraged students to take community college courses in their senior and junior years of high school because dual enrollment courses could ulti- mately reduce the amount of time spent at a four-year insti- tution and in doing so, reduce the cost of a college degree by25 percent or more, he said. The University and Michigan State University do not currently accept dual credit, which Calley said he and Snyder are working to change. In the meantime, a highlight of the duo's most recent budget increases public university funding by 6.1 percent. However, this allocation is only available on a condition of tuition restraint. "We expect them to use that money to make the college experience more affordable," Calley said. Business senior Michael Proppe, Central Student Government president, attended the meeting and said he was encouraged by Calley's words. "The Snyder administration's proposed increase in higher ed funding is very important, and I am glad Brian Calley touched on that tonight," Proppe wrote in a statement after the event. "That said, there is still a lot of work to do to make college more affordable, both on the part of the state and the University." LSA senior Russ Hayes, College Republicans chair, added that he hopes Calley's tenacity as Lieutenant Governor spurs others to activism. "Not only is he a dynamic politician, he really inspires a lot of people," Hayes said. "(He is) someone who really fires up people our age. He brings the personal experience and the economic experience and the dynamism that comes with being a young Republican." UI l Ei U 8 7 2 5 I 9 3 5 I 7 2 4 26b 7 4 9 96 I 5 I 7 5 3 4 FOLLOW US ON TWITTER @ michigandaily I