WeSm IC i gakm iichigatly wekySummer Edition Michigan~aily.comi Ann Arbor, MI ONE-HUNDRED-TWENTY THREE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Thursday, June 27, 2013 GOVERNMENT Circuit court to decide on Fisher Michigan's Proposal 2 initiative to be reviewed in the fall By SAM GRINGLAS and PETER SHAHIN Daily Staff Reporters WASHINGTON - Nearly eight months after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Fisher v. the University of Texas, the court ruled Tuesday that affirmative action remains permissible in cases where there are "no workable race-neutral alternatives" to build campus diversity. Initially considered a case with potential for a landmark ruling, the justices fell short of issuing a sweeping affirmation or elimination of race as a factor in college admissions. The justices have sent the case back to the Fifth Circuit Court, the lower federal appeals court, for review. The majority opinion, ruled 7 to 1, argued that the lower court failed to prove the University of Texas exhausted all other race-neutral options in creating a diverse class. See COURT, Page 7 INDEX VoLCXXt, No. 1171 @2013 The Michigan Daily michigandailycom NEW S .............................. 2 OPINION......................4 CLASSIFIEDS-........... CROSSWORD..................6. ARTS ......... .........8 SPORTS.......................10 MARLENE LACASSE/Daily Ann Sorrell and Marge Elde, partners of 40 years, stand together in celebration during a marriage equality rally at Braun Court yesterday. A2 reacts to monumental Supreme Court decisions Justices overturn WASHINGTON-With throngs the federal Defense of Marriage man and awoman - deemed state of rainbow-clad supporters and Act unconstitutional, while the recognized same sex marriages a DOMA and Prop 8; curious onlookers just yards justicesrefrained fromrulingonthe "second class" under federal law. frn hb 'T "i"r P1v~ 1ro._-...l i.,...1;... a...... 1 ..., U m ai B II a m Qi e- as citizens respond 1 l rom te eu.N. Supreme court's marble columns, the nation's highest judicial body handed down decisions Wednesday in two anxiously awaited cases involving same-sex marriage. Ina5to4decision,thecourtruled constitutionality of state marriage bans for same-sex couples. Drafting the majority opinion in United States v. Windsor, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that DOMA - which had federally defined marriage as between a By seeking to displace this protection and treating those persons as living in marriages less respected than others, the federal statute is in violation of the Fifth Amendment," Kennedy wrote. See DECISIONS, Page 7 By SAM GRINGLAS and PETER SHAHIN Daily StaffReporters NEWS i Late-Night Route CSG proposes additional bus transport to accommodate students SEE PAGE 3 OPINION Camp Lessons Derek Wolfe reflects on how being a counselor can make a difference SEE PAGE 4 A RTS 'Death' Interview Sean Czarnecki sits down with members of Detroit proto-punk band Death >> SEE PAGE 8 SPORTS NBA Draft Preview The Daily Sports staff predicts where Hardaway Jr. and Burke will land >>SEE PAGE11