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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

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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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TUESDAY:

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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. 

