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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The
“Vindskip”
is
an
envrionmentally
safe ship designed by
Norwegian designer Terge
Lade. It uses its own hull as
a massive sail to propel itself
forward, and will be one of
the most environmentally
ships built to date.
3
A former member of the
Florida A&M University
band was sentenced to six
years in prison for the hazing
death of former band drum
major Robert Champion Jr.
Champion was beaten to
death aboard a bus by his fel-
low bandmates after a game.
1
The Michigan women’s
basketball team took
down
Illinois
on
Monday
night
at
Crisler
Center, 70-57. Cyesha Goree
scored 19 points and recorded
14 rebounds, her 12th double-
double of the year.
>> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS, PG. 8
2
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Internship
workshop
WHAT: As the season for
finding summer internships
approaches, learn skills and
tecniques for successfully
finding an internship.
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: Today from 4 p.m.
to 5 p.m.
WHERE: The Career
Center
“The Stakes of
Hebephilia”
WHAT: Patrick Stingy will
discuss his thoughts on the
diagnosis of hebephilia and
the role it plays on “sexu-
ally violent predator” laws.
WHO: LGQRI, Doing
Queer Studies Now.
WHEN: Today from 4 p.m.
to 6 p.m.
WHERE: 2239 Lane Hall
“The New
Black”
WHAT: Professor Yoruba
Richen will discuss how
race, LGBTQ rights and
equality correlate. She will
draw from her recent award-
winning documentary, “The
New Black.”
WHO: Science Learning
Center, LSA Dean’s office
WHEN: Today from 6:30
p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre
Writing contest
ceremony
WHAT: This year’s winners
of the fall semester writing
contest will be announced.
WHO: Hopwood Awards
WHEN: Today at 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham 4th
Floor Auditorium
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‘U’ library
workshop
WHAT: Library staff
will teach students about
library resources for
projects.
WHO: Teaching and
Technology Collabora-
tive
WHEN: Today at 10 a.m.
WHERE: Hatcher Grad-
uate Library
Healthy
finances for
students
WHAT: University
alumna Nadine Burns
will discuss good finan-
cial practices such as
budgeting and living
within your means.
WHO: Alumni Associa-
tion
WHEN: Today from 5
p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Alumni Center
TUESDAY:
Professor Profiles
THURSDAY:
Alumni Profiles
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
DANIEL KARR
Bipartisan leadership
RITA MORRIS/Daily
Instructor Portia Thomas leading her Cardio
Kickboxing Class at the Trotter House on Monday.
KICKIN ’ IT
LSA sophomore Daniel Karr
is president of the Univer-
sity chapter of Common Sense
Action, a national bipartisan
advocacy organization that
provides students a platform
for policymaking and fighting
for generational equality. CSA
focuses on addressing domestic
policy issues from the perspec-
tive of Millennials.
What is Common Sense
Action?
Common Sense Action is a
bipartisan advocacy organiza-
tion that’s main goal is to bring
Millennials to the policymak-
ing table. It is mainly a national
organization with 40 chapters
on 40 different campuses that
each have their own advocacy
plan. We all support the same
general framework for goals,
called the Agenda for Genera-
tional Equity.
What is the advocacy plan for
the University chapter?
This semester we’re focusing
on an advocacy plan to reduce
Michigan’s budget deficit. If
you really think about what is
going to affect Millenials when
we grow up and we’re living
and working in Michigan, hav-
ing a secure and solvent budget
is one of the most important
issues. Obviously the budget
is pretty complicated, so we’re
focusing on three main areas.
One, incarceration reform,
reforming our prisons and mak-
ing them more cost effective.
Two, pension reform — 80 per-
cent of Michigan’s debt comes
from misallocation of funds and
pensions. The third strategy is
something called “reality-based
budgeting,” sort of a commit-
ment by the government to
really only fund what’s most
important. That means listing
out in priority every single bud-
get item. Once you run out of
money you have to make cuts;
you cut off the bottom of the
priority list.
— JING JING MA
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Before You Were Here
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
MONDAY:
This Week in History
TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
WEDNESDAY:
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Screen Actors
Guild Awards
By ALEX INTNER
Many Netflix orginal series
won awards at this year’s
Screen Actors Guild Award
ceremony. Kevin Spacey won
an award for his performance
in “House of Cards” and
“Orange is the New Black”
won two awards.
M City vehicle
test site to open
By ALYSSA BRANDON
M City, a driverless vehicle
test site on North Campus, is
set to open July 20. The $6.5
million test track will cover
32 acres. Roads have already
been laid out and fake build-
ings will soon be added.
THE FILTER
THE WIRE
ON THE WEB...
MIKE VALERIE/AP
Alexis Deschenes walks along Main Street in Acushnet, Mass., as snow begins to fall in the SouthCoast area.
Snowstorm threatens U.S.
citizens in Northeast area
Former football
players plead not
guilty to charges
(AP) — The rape trial of two
former Vanderbilt football play-
ers began wrapping up Monday
with a prosecutor telling jurors
that video evidence and photo-
graphs taken of the crime would
be enough to convict them on
most of the charges.
Beyond the video footage
and
photographs,
testimony
from several athletes shows
the players are guilty, Assistant
District Attorney Jan Norman
told jurors during closing argu-
ments.
The proceedings capped off
a day of dramatic testimony
during which one of the former
players took the stand and tes-
tified that he was so drunk he
could not remember what hap-
pened.
Former players Brandon Van-
denburg and Cory Batey are
standing trial on five counts of
aggravated rape and two counts
of aggravated sexual battery.
Two other former players are
facing the same charges. Van-
denburg additionally faces a
charge of unlawful photogra-
phy and tampering with evi-
dence.
All have pleaded not guilty.
Throughout the trial, jurors
have seen graphic images of
the alleged sexual assault that
police recovered from cell-
phones and a laptop. Prosecu-
tors said players took pictures
of the assault and one even sent
videos to his friends as it was
happening.
“This is normally the part of
the trial where we might say
that if we had this on photo or if
we had it on video, then it would
make the state’s job a lot easier,”
Norman told jurors in her clos-
ing. “But we actually have this
uncontradicted proof in this
case,” the prosecutor said of one
of the rape charges.
Defense
attorneys
have
claimed that the players were
drunk, one of them saying his
client had an alcoholic blackout.
“Ladies and gentleman, I sub-
mit to you that the only person
who was unconscious and didn’t
know what was going on was
(the victim),” Norman told jurors
in her closing arguments.
A defense attorney for Batey
responded by telling jurors that
they would not see video or pho-
tographic evidence of his client
having sex with the coed.
“The testimony was he was
crazy drunk and didn’t know
what he was doing,” Robinson
told jurors of Batey. Robinson
also blamed a college culture
that encouraged binge drinking
and sex and said it wasn’t just
limited to Vanderbilt.
The closing arguments came
after Batey took the stand and
testified that he can’t remember
the alleged sexual assault that
prosecutors say he and three
players carried out.
Closing arguments in
Vanderbilt trail begin
Residents begin
to prepare for
inclement weather
(AP)
—
More
than
35
million
people
along
the
Philadelphia-to-Boston
corridor rushed to get home
and settle in Monday as
a fearsome storm swirled
in with the potential for
hurricane-force winds and 1
to 3 feet of snow that could
paralyze the Northeast for
days.
Snow
was
blowing
sideways
with
ever-
increasing intensity in New
York City by midafternoon
as flurries began in Boston.
Forecasters said the storm
would build into a blizzard,
and the brunt of it would
hit late Monday and into
Tuesday.
As the snow got heavier,
much of the region rushed to
shut down.
More than 6,500 flights
in and out of the Northeast
were canceled, and many of
them may not take off again
until
Wednesday.
Schools
and businesses let out early.
Government offices closed.
Shoppers
stocking
up
on
food jammed supermarkets
and elbowed one another
for what was left. Broadway
stages went dark.
“It’s going to be ridiculous
out there, frightening,” said
postal
deliveryman
Peter
Hovey, standing on a snowy
commuter train platform in
White Plains, New York.
All too aware that big
snowstorms can make or
break politicians, governors
and mayors moved quickly
to declare emergencies and
order the shutdown of streets
and highways to prevent
travelers
from
getting
stranded and to enable plows
and emergency vehicles to
get through.
“This will most likely be
one of the largest blizzards
in the history of New York
City,” New York Mayor Bill
de Blasio warned.
He urged New Yorkers
to go home and stay there,
adding:
“People
have
to
make smart decisions from
this point on.”
Up to now, this has been
a largely snow-free winter
in the urban Northeast. But
this
storm
threatened
to
make up the difference in a
single blow.
Boston was expected to get
2 to 3 feet of snow, New York
1½ to 2 feet and Philadelphia
more than a foot.
The
National
Weather
Service issued a blizzard
warning
for
a
250-mile
swath
of
the
region,
meaning
heavy,
blowing
snow and potential whiteout
conditions.
Forecasters
warned that the wind could
gust to 75 mph or more along
the Massachusetts coast and
up 50 mph farther inland.
New York City’s subways
and buses planned to shut
down by 11 p.m.