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State groups
await ruling
on same-sex
marriage
What was once
Buzzn, a mobile
application, will be
phased into CTools
By NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT
Daily Staff Reporter
The University has acquired
Buzzn, a social networking appli-
cation created by LSA senior Aas-
hay Kumar and University alum
Zakir Tyebjee, who graduated in
2014. The application allows stu-
dents to upload their course and
extracurricular schedules to find
shared free time to meet up with
friends.
Kumar said they created the
app for exclusive use by Univer-
sity students.
“There’s obviously Facebook,
but it wasn’t as exclusive to
Michigan as we wanted it to be,”
he said. “You couldn’t know your
class schedule. We wanted to cre-
ate something that would allow
University alums
encourage students
to pursue careers
with automakers
By PAIGE PFLEGER
Daily Staff Reporter
The 2015 North American
International Auto Show shifted
into drive in Detroit on Monday,
showcasing driverless cars, fully
electric vehicles and an auto-
motive industry beginning to
rebound.
For
several
companies
—
including Ford, General Motors
and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles,
formerly known as Chrysler —
the presence of University alums
runs deep.
Two former GM chief execu-
tive officers, Roger Smith and
Frederick Henderson, are Uni-
versity alums, as well as Hal
Sperlich, a former president of
Chrysler.
Inside Cobo Hall on Tuesday,
several employees of FCA empha-
sized the opportunities in the
state’s automotive industry avail-
able to University students.
Though former University stu-
dents work for a host of Detroit-
based companies involved in the
automotive industry, representa-
tives from FCA were most imme-
diately available on the floor of
the Auto Show.
“Detroit is the birthplace of the
automotive industry,” said Uni-
versity alum Erica Crane, a com-
munication lead for FCA at its
Jefferson North Assembly Plant.
“Being at the Auto Show today,
it was clearer than ever to me that
it’s going to be a huge part of the
city’s future,” Crane added. “I
know I want to be a part of that,
and U of M students tend to be
on the cutting edge of things like
technology,
engineering,
and
even the liberal arts. Those skills
can all be applied in the automo-
tive industry.”
President Barack Obama vis-
ited the Ford Michigan Assem-
bly Plant Jan. 6 to laud the auto
SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily
Sarah Zearfoss, dean of the University’s Law School, speaks on the issue of race in regards to admission at the
Central Student Government meeting in the Michigan Union Tuesday.
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
Ann Arbor Resident Sue Brewington speaks to protestors of the Keystone XL Pipeline protest outside of the U.S. Federal Building on Tuesday.
PIPE LINE PROTEST
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Court: HathiTrust does
not violate copyright law
Industry execs
hail resurgence
at Auto Show
CSG agrees to help fund
police brutality speakout
‘U’ acquires
student-run
scheduling
technology
TECHNOLOGY
DETROIT
GOVERNMENT
ACADEMICS
SCOTUS has yet
to announce
decision to hear
Michigan’s case
By CARLY NOAH
Daily Staff Reporter
The U.S. Supreme Court has
yet to announce plans to hear
a case challenging Michigan’s
ban on same-sex marriage and
many same-sex marriage advo-
cacy groups across the state are
expressing their frustration.
While the U.S. Supreme Court
has passed on hearing a same-sex
marriage case from Louisiana,
the court has yet to announce any
information about the four cases
from the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Sixth Circuit, includ-
ing the challenge to Michigan’s
ban, DeBoer v. Snyder. The U.S.
Supreme Court will have two
more conference days this month,
Jan. 16 and Jan. 23, in which these
possible cases will be discussed.
Jay Kaplan, project staff attor-
ney for the American Civil Liber-
ties Union of Michigan’s LGBT
Rights Project, said he is hopeful
that the U.S. Supreme Court will
take Michigan’s marriage case
to hear on appeal. The Michigan
marriage case, along with cases
in Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio,
is currently up for consideration
by the Supreme Court.
“Now is the time for the United
States Supreme Court to weigh
in and to provide finality of the
issue of marriage equality for all
50 states,” Kaplan said. “It’s time
for the remaining states (like
Michigan) which do not permit
marriage equality to join the fold
and a favorable decision from the
Supreme Court can provide both
that clarity and finality.”
Last spring, U.S. District Judge
Bernard Friedman struck down
Michigan’s ban on same-sex
marriage, a decision which was
appealed after the state issued a
stay on the ruling.
However, the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
reversed the lower court’s ruling
and upheld the ban in a decision
announced by the last Novem-
ber. The three-member panel of
Past resolution
called for event,
student activism,
dialogue
By TANAZ AHMED
Daily Staff Reporter
The
University’s
Central
Student Government began its
first meeting of the semester
by passing a resolution to fund
Wednesday’s Police Brutality
Speakout.
Sarah Zearfoss, senior assis-
tant dean for admissions at the
University’s Law School, also
attended the Tuesday night to
discuss initiatives to recruit a
diverse class of students.
Tuesday’s
resolution
requests $300 from CSG’s Leg-
islative Discretionary account
to fund the Police Brutality
Speakout, sponsored by CSG,
the Black Student Union and
Students of Color of Rackham.
The money will fund room
rental, audio-visual equipment
and refreshments.
Last semester, CSG passed
a resolution calling for a con-
versation on campus safety and
police brutality. Wednesday’s
Police Brutality Speakout is a
product of that resolution.
CSG’s initiatives were in
response to events in Ferguson,
Four years later,
Authors Guild filing
against digital
libraries is closed
By LINDSEY SCULLEN
Daily Staff Reporter
A lawsuit filed by the Authors
Guild in the fall of 2011 against
five HathiTrust Digital Library
institutions, including the Uni-
versity, formally concluded Jan.
6.
According to Mike Furlough,
the University’s executive direc-
tor of HathiTrust, the lawsuit
has been formally settled.
HathiTrust is a coalition that
compiles millions of digitized
titles from its 100-plus academic
and research library partners
and the University is one of its
founding members. Its web-
site, hathitrust.org, gives users
around the world the ability to
conduct full-text searches of
its 13 million volumes. It fur-
ther preserves works —many
of which would otherwise only
be available in their print copy
forms — by maintaining them
online and provides book access
to people with certified print dis-
abilities.
The original lawsuit cited
allegations of copyright infringe-
ment against the University and
four other HathiTrust contribu-
tors — Indiana University, Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, Cornell
University and the University of
California system.
Similarly, the Authors Guild
filed
an
additional
lawsuit
against Google for its digitiza-
tion of works.
The Authors Guild filed the
lawsuit believing that these
universities’ digital HathiTrust
collections infringed upon copy-
right laws, citing the fact that
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