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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Michigan hockey
team takes on Ohio
State
in
Columbus
as
it
tries
to
maintain
first place in the Big Ten.
The Wolverines beat the
Buckeyes in Ann Arbor on
Dec. 5, 8-3.
>> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS PAGE 8
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Video game
pedagogy
WHAT: Edmond Chang
of Drew University will
speak about integrating
technology — including
video games—in the
classroom.
WHO: Digital Currents
WHEN: Today at 2 p.m.
WHERE: Institute for the
Humanities Common Room
Elliott Brood
WHAT: Canadian roots
music act Elliott Brood,
with three members
switching around on vocals
and instruments, will
perform with a new release,
titled “Work and Love.”
WHO: Michigan
Union Ticket Office
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark,
316 S. Main
Banking 101
WHAT: TCF Bank will
be hosting a workshop for
students to provide tips for
starting and using your own
bank account, as well as
how to protect yourself from
instances of “identity theft.”
WHO: International Center
WHEN: Today from 1:30
p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Please report any
error in the Daily
to corrections@
michigandaily.com.
On
Thursday,
the
Obama
Administration
announced a set of new
regulations so that, beginning
today, Americans will be able
to visit Cuba for any of a dozen
reasons, and begin certain
business
transactions,
the
New York Times reported.
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In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
LEFT LSA sophomore Cammie Vercollone, women’s Ice Hockey defense, plays in a scrimmage against HoneyBaked Senior B team Sunday
at Yost Ice Arena. (Robert Dunne/Daily)
RIGHT LSA seniors Kaitlyn Tracy and Joey Gurrentz perform for the ballroom dance team at the Michigan Union Thursday. (Zach Moore/
Daily)
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Dobet Gnahoré
WHAT: Singer, dancer
and percussionist Dobet
Gnahoré, who hails from the
Ivory Coast, will perform an
artistic collective of song and
dance with French guitarist
Colin Laroche de Féline. She
was trained by her father,
percussionist Boni Gnahoré.
WHO: Center for World
Performance Studies
WHEN: Today from 8 p.m.
to 9:30 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
Theater
Republican Gov. Rick
Snyder vetoed a bill that
would
have
allowed
people
with
restraining
orders for domestic abuse and
are not explicitly prohibited
by a judge to own a gun, to
carry a concealed weapon, the
Huffington Post reported.
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Health lecture
series
WHAT: Michael P.
O’Donnell will give a lecture
on “Making the Business
Case for Health Promotion -
Total Worker Health”
WHO: School of Public
Health
WHEN: Today at 1 p.m.
WHERE: School of Public
Health, Room 1690
48-Hour Space
Jam
WHAT: Students will have
the opportunity to team
up with three other game-
developers and create a
video game in 48 hours. Free
food and prizes will also be
included in the event.
WHO: Wolverine Soft
WHEN: Today at 5 p.m.
WHERE: Windows
Training Rooms, 3rd Floor,
Duderstadt
Program seeks
to facilitate
interdiscplinary
problem-solving
BY CARLY NOAH
Daily Staff Reporter
Graduate students from nine
University schools and colleges
have been named Dow Sustain-
ability Fellows, the University
announced Monday.
The
fellowship
includes
a
$20,000 scholarship, as well as
the opportunity to work closely
with a community of scholars
focused on issues in sustainability.
Forty students who are cur-
rently enrolled in master’s or
professional programs at the
University were named to the
year-long fellowship. They were
selected from a group of nominees
from 11 programs across campus.
Each school or college could name
up to 10 candidates.
This group composes one divi-
sion of the Dow Sustainability
Master’s/Professional Fellows at
the University, as the program
also offers fellowships for doctor-
al and postdoctoral students.
The program is comprised of
students focused on interdisci-
plinary approaches to a variety of
sustainability challenges, includ-
ing issues with water, energy,
transportation, the built environ-
ment, climate change, food and
health, among other challenges.
Besides working alongside the
Dow Sustainability doctoral and
postdoctoral fellows, the students
will also participate in an interdis-
ciplinary team project designed to
provide experience tackling real-
world challenges.
Don Scavia, director of the Gra-
ham Sustainability Institute, said
in an e-mail part of the program’s
success stems from collabora-
tions of students from different
disciplines. He wrote that the fel-
lowship offers students a unique
opportunity to add practical expe-
rience to their academic pursuits.
“They will be much better pre-
pared for tackling complex prob-
lems no matter what sector they
chose to work in — corporate, gov-
ernment, NGO, academic — upon
graduation,” he wrote.
He also emphasized the pro-
gram’s importance to the Univer-
sity, noting the fellowship conveys
the power of a public university to
prepare students to solve complex
sustainability challenges.
“We are not aware of any uni-
versity, nationally or globally, that
has anything like this — train-
ing over 75 masters, professional,
doctoral, and postdoctoral stu-
dents each year in the nuances of
addressing sustainability,” Scavia
wrote.
Engineering graduate student
Selman Mujovic, one of the stu-
dents named as a fellow, said he
looks forward to using the skills
from his interdisciplinary project
team to impact the world. Mujo-
vic is currently working inde-
pendently on a water purification
project and said he hopes the fel-
lowship will help him navigate the
process of implementing it.
“I didn’t know that so many
different schools were involved
in the fellowship,” Mujovic said.
“I originally thought that it was
specifically for the College of
Engineering. I’m looking forward
to working with the other fellows
to collectively implement various
sustainability projects.”
Business
graduate
student
Daniel Patton, also a new fel-
low, wrote in an e-mail that he
expects the most rewarding part
the program will be the oppor-
tunity to work across fields of
study. Patton added that the fel-
lowship is unique in the way that
sustainability challenges can be
discussed among some of the top
graduate students in the country.
“Sustainability
challenges
can be hard nuts to crack,” Pat-
ton wrote. “Often one perspec-
tive is not enough. I hope to gain
concrete experience developing
solutions that extend my field of
Forty students named to third
group of sustainability fellows
Clean energy, education funding
among focuses for A2 legislators
Irwin, Zemke talk
new initiatives
as 2015 session
commences
BY JACK TURMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
As Michigan’s 98th legisla-
tive session kicked off Wednes-
day, Rep. Jeff Irwin (D–Ann
Arbor) and Rep. Adam Zemke
(D–Ann Arbor) returned to
Lansing with several priorities
on their agendas.
In an interview Thursday,
Zemke said he plans to empha-
size education funding during
the upcoming session. Zemke,
who is in his second term repre-
senting Michigan’s 55th House
District, said last session he
focused on supporting educa-
tors and improving school dis-
tricts, including those in high
poverty communities.
He said a chief concern for
the current legislative session is
that education could take a hit
following a House Fiscal Agen-
cy projection of a $454 million
shortfall in the state’s general
budget, released Wednesday.
“We really have to work to
preserve funding at the current
levels,” Zemke said. “And really
it should be increased, but espe-
cially given a budget deficit of
$460 million, you’re talking
about a lot of items that we have
to watch.”
He cited Republican Gov.
Rick Snyder’s package to fund
infrastructure repairs, which
would cut 20 percent of state
appropriations to higher educa-
tion from the School Aid Fund,
shifting much of the responsi-
bility for funding public univer-
sities to the General Fund.
Zemke said that loss of money
from the School Aid Fund, pre-
served for community college
and K-12 education, has poten-
tially negative implications for
higher education funding.
“University funding would
then have to come out of the
General Fund solely,” he said.
“With the projected shortfall
of the budget, we’ve really got
to be watching that university
funding to make sure that the
budget is not balanced the backs
of students.”
In an interview Thursday,
Irwin also identified high-
er education funding as an
important area for the legisla-
ture, noting in particular how
higher education funding has
decreased in the last decade.
“Michigan used to be a real
leader in the nation in terms of
education policy,” Irwin said.
“Over the course of the last
decade, especially the last two
years, we’ve really fallen off
that pace.”
To return to the state’s for-
mer stature, Irwin said Michi-
gan must engage the public and
bring education to the forefront
of the political agenda.
“Clearly, we need to get back
to a place where Michigan is
making higher ed a priority
and the public is investing more
in our institutions of higher
learning so that we can control
tuition and could try to control
student debt,” he said.
Irwin, who is in his final term
of representing Michigan’s 53rd
District, also said he wants to
renew state energy efficiency
policy and push the develop-
ment of more clean energy
resources in the state.
Irwin cited Michigan’s Pub-
lic Act 295 — which was signed
into law in 2008, but expired
this year — as a focus. The act
was a state initiative to reduce
the amount of non-renewable
energy used by utilities owned
by the state.
Irwin said Public Act 295
required that 10 percent of
power be generated by renew-
ables by 2015. Irwin also noted
many
citizens
advocated
against the act because of its
costs.
“But, the reality is that in the
last seven years, we’ve had tre-
mendous success,” Irwin said.
“Renewable power has come in
cheaper than anybody expect-
ed.”
Along with pushing for con-
tinued clean energy, Irwin said
he has already introduced a bill
this session that calls for a grad-
uated income tax in the state.
Currently, Michigan has a flat-
rate personal income tax. Under
a graduated income tax, indi-
viduals with higher incomes
would pay a larger percentage
of their income toward the tax
than those with lower incomes.
Irwin has introduced this
proposal to session in his first
term, second term and now
third term.
Irwin also said he wants to
change the adoption policy in
the state. Currently, only het-
erosexual couples can adopt a
child. Irwin said he wants to
reform the policy to allow sec-
ond-parent adoption, which is
currently not legal in the state.
Second-parent adoption refers
to parents who cannot legally
marry, such as same-sex cou-
ples.
“It is especially important
because you’ve got children in
the state of Michigan who are
living in these homes,” he said.
“They are living in the homes
headed by either heterosexual
or homosexual couples who did
not wish to marry.”
Irwin
said
the
children
are at a severe disadvantage
because they don’t receive cer-
tain legal benefits.
“Those kids deserve the
same rights as kids who are
adopted into married families,”
Irwin said. “The way that our
law are currently comprised,
those children who are adopt-
ed into those families have
less rights to inheritance, less
rights to health care benefits,
hospital visitation.”
Though not a policy pro-
posal, Zemke also announced
Wednesday that he is commit-
ted to tweeting every vote he
casts and why he is casting that
particular vote during this ses-
More Photos of the
Week online
Jones pleads
guilty
BY CARLY NOAH
THE WIRE
Shaquille Jones pleaded
guilty
to
second-degree
murder in the case of
Paul DeWolf, a University
Medical
School
student.
Jones will face 25 to 50
years of prison .
Quick games
BY KIM BATCHELOR
THE FILTER
The bi-annual “Awesome
Games Done Quick” event
for
the
Prevent
Cancer
Foundation featured Speed-
runners on live-stream com-
peting to complete games as
quickly as possible.
See SESSION , Page 3
See FELLOWS , Page 3