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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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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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