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THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

Despite 
a 
26-point 

performance 
from 

Cyesha 
Goree, 
the 

Michigan 
women’s 

basketball 
team 
couldn’t 

make a comeback against 
No. 20 Iowa, falling just 
short, 76-70.

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Yemen’s president Abed 
Rabbo 
Mansour 
Hadi 

resigned Thursday after 

Houthi rebel forces captured 
his palace. Yemen is a key 
United States ally because 
it allows drone strikes in 
the area against al-Qaeda, 
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In Other Ivory Towers

MONDAY:

This Week in History

LEFT Engineering freshmen Sean Mcloughlin and Henry Duhaine assemble cardboard virtual reality goggles as part of the MHacks 
Hackathon at the Bob and Betty Beyster building on North Campus this past weekend. (Robert Dunne/Daily)
RIGHT Jeff Wilson, professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and curator at the Museum of Paleontology, measures casts of the bones 
of a Jurassic Era dinosaur at the UM Museum of Natural History on Wednesday. (Andrew Cohen/Daily)

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President Barack Obama 
will 
not 
meet 
with 

Israeli Prime Minister 
Benjamin 
Netanyahu 

during his controversial visit 
to the United States in March 
due to the visit’s proximity to 
Israeli elections, the New York 
Times reported.

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A 
driver 
assaulted 
a 

delivery driver Wednesday 
evening at around 7 p.m., 
according to a Crime Alert 
released Thursday morning 
by University Police. The 
assault occurred on Obser-
vatory St. 

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Ginsberg to 
visit University 

BY NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT

THE WIRE

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S 

Supreme Court associate justice, 
will visit the University next 
month as part of the Tanner 
Lecture series. Ginsburg will 
speak at Hill Auditorium on 
Feb. 6 at 10 a.m. The event is free 
and open to the public, but will 
require a ticket.

Driver reports 
assault

BY NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT

THE WIRE

China’s Theatre

WHAT: Speakers Mark 
Stevenson of Victoria 
University and Wu Cuncun 
of the University of Hong 
Kong will discuss the 
present-day importance of 
nineteenth-century Beijing 
Opera.
WHO: Confucius Institute 
WHEN: Today at 2 p.m. 
WHERE: Michigan Union-
Anderson D

Human Rights 
lecture 

WHAT: Juan E. Mendez, 
a professor at American 
University, will give a 
lecture about international 
obligations concering 
the use of torture.
WHO: International 
Institure
WHEN: Today at 12 p.m.
WHERE: Palmer Commons

Winter 
showcase

WHAT: Four musical acts, 
Deadbeat Beat, Mexican 
Knives, The Mahonies 
and Growwing Pains, 
 will 

perform. 
WHO: Center for Campus 
Involvement
WHEN: Today at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan League
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Marie 
Chouinard

WHAT: Marie Chouinard 
and her troupe will performs 
two dance sets: “Henri 
Michaux: Mouvements,” a 
choreographed depiction 
of India ink drawings, and 
“Gymnopédies,” a ballet 
centered around duets. 
WHO: University Musical 
Society
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Power Center for 
the Performing Arts

Masters recital

WHAT: Amanda Ross’ 
program will feature 
four concert pieces on 
the trumpet: Chaynes—
Concerto pour Trompette; 
Friedman—Solus; Haydn—
Concerto for Trumpet; 
and de Falla—Suite of Old 
Spanish Dances. 
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V. Moore 
Building, Britton Recital 
Hall

‘Making the 
Dead Modern’

WHAT: In the first in a 
series of lectures, Prof. Erik 
Mueggler will introduce the 
Yi nationality and its unique 
relationship with the dead. 
WHO: Department of 
Anthropology
WHEN: Today at 3 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham 
Graduate School

Ruler sought to 
modernize and 
fought al-Qaida

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) 

— Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, 
the powerful U.S. ally who fought 
against al-Qaida and sought to 
modernize the ultraconservative 
Muslim kingdom, including by 
nudging open greater opportuni-
ties for women, has died. He was 
90.

More than his guarded and 

hidebound predecessors, Abdul-
lah assertively threw his oil-rich 
nation’s weight behind trying to 
shape the Middle East. His prior-
ity was to counter the influence of 
rival, mainly Shiite Iran wherever 
it tried to make advances. He and 
fellow Sunni Arab monarchs also 
staunchly opposed the Middle 
East’s wave of pro-democracy 
uprisings, seeing them as a threat 
to stability and their own rule.

He backed Sunni Muslim fac-

tions against Tehran’s allies in 
several countries, but in Lebanon 
for example, the policy failed to 
stop Iranian-backed Hezbollah 
from gaining the upper hand. 
And Tehran and Riyadh’s col-
liding ambitions stoked proxy 
conflicts around the region that 
enflamed Sunni-Shiite hatreds 
— most horrifically in Syria’s 
civil war, where the two coun-
tries backed opposing sides. 
Those conflicts in turn hiked 
Sunni militancy that returned to 
threaten Saudi Arabia.

And while the king main-

tained the historically close alli-
ance with Washington, there 
were frictions as he sought to 
put those relations on Saudi Ara-
bia’s terms. He was constantly 
frustrated by Washington’s fail-
ure to broker a settlement to the 
Israel-Palestinian conflict. He 
also pushed the Obama admin-
istration to take a tougher stand 
against Iran and to more strong-
ly back the mainly Sunni rebels 
fighting to overthrow Syrian 

President Bashar Assad.

A royal court statement said 

the king died at 1 a.m. on Friday. 
His successor was announced as 
79-year-old half-brother, Prince 
Salman, according to the state-
ment carried on the Saudi Press 
Agency. Salman was Abdullah’s 
crown prince and had recently 
taken on some of the ailing king’s 
responsibilities.

President 
Barack 
Obama 

expressed 
condolences 
and 

offered sympathy to the people of 
Saudi Arabia.

“As a leader, he was always 

candid and had the courage of 
his convictions,” Obama said. 
“One of those convictions was his 
steadfast and passionate belief in 
the importance of the U.S.-Saudi 
relationship as a force for stabili-
ty and security in the Middle East 
and beyond.”

Abdullah was born in Riyadh 

in 1924, one of the dozens of 
sons of Saudi Arabia’s founder, 
King Abdul-Aziz Al Saud. Like 
all Abdul-Aziz’s sons, Abdullah 
had only rudimentary education. 
Tall and heavyset, he felt more at 
home in the Nejd, the kingdom’s 
desert heartland, riding stal-
lions and hunting with falcons. 
His strict upbringing was exem-
plified by three days he spent in 
prison as a young man as punish-
ment by his father for failing to 
give his seat to a visitor, a viola-
tion of Bedouin hospitality.

Abdullah 
was 
selected 
as 

crown prince in 1982 on the day 
his half-brother Fahd ascended 
to the throne. The decision was 
challenged by a full brother of 
Fahd, Prince Sultan, who wanted 
the title for himself. But the fami-
ly eventually closed ranks behind 
Abdullah to prevent splits.

Abdullah became de facto 

ruler in 1995 when a stroke inca-
pacitated Fahd. Abdullah was 
believed to have long rankled at 
the closeness of the alliance with 
the United States, and as regent 
he pressed Washington to with-
draw the troops it had deployed 
in the kingdom since the 1990 
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The U.S. 
finally did so in 2003.

Saudi Arabian leader, U.S. ally 
King Abdullah dies at age 90 

University research team begins 
testing autonomous vehicles in A2

Next Generation 
Vehicle Project 

uses camera 
technology

BY KRISTEN ANDERSON

For the Daily

As Michigan’s 98th legislative 

session kicked off Wednesday, 
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 educators 
and improving school districts, 
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 cur-
rent levels,” Zemke said. “And 
really it should be increased, but 
especially 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 responsibil-
ity for funding public universi-
ties 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 fund-
ing to make sure that the budget 
is not balanced the backs of stu-
dents.”

In an interview Thursday, 

Irwin also identified higher edu-
cation funding as an important 
area for the legislature, 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 learn-
ing 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 development 
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 graduated income tax in the 
state. Currently, Michigan has 
a flat-rate personal income tax. 
Under a graduated income tax, 
individuals 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 couples.

“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 certain 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 adopted into 
those families have less rights to 
inheritance, less rights to health 
care benefits, hospital visita-
tion.”

Though not a policy proposal, 

Zemke also announced Wednes-
day that he is committed to 
tweeting every vote he casts and 
why he is casting that particular 
vote during this session.

Zemke said he hoped to do 

this last term, but the initiative 
didn’t materialize.

“When we got into this term, I 

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