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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.

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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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THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

WEDNESDAY:

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.

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