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Negotiations with bailout 
creditors move forward

In Greece, prime 
minister pledges to 
reach compromise

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — 

Greece put a brave face on 
its fraught negotiations with 
European 
bailout 
creditors, 

with the new prime minis-
ter voicing confidence Mon-
day that a compromise can be 
reached at high-stakes meet-
ings in coming days.

Alexis 
Tsipras’ 
comments 

came as Greek stocks and bonds 
took a drubbing after the radical 
left-led government renewed a 
pledge to seek bailout debt for-
giveness and dubbed the coun-
try’s rescue package — with its 
conditions of strict austerity — a 
“toxic fantasy.”

“I don’t believe there is a seri-

ous reason for there not to be 
an agreement ... with our part-

ners — just political reasons,” 
Tsipras said after a meeting in 
Vienna with Austrian Chancel-
lor Werner Faymann.

“If we are brought to an 

impasse due to such politi-
cal reasons, then I think that 
would be a decision to torpedo 
our common European future,” 
Tsipras added. “And I think 
nobody harbors such inten-
tions.”

Tsipras’ 
government 
won 

Jan. 25 elections promising 
relief for Greeks who have 
suffered through six years of 
recession and a dramatic drop 
in living standards. It’s under 
intense pressure to work out a 
deal with bailout creditors in 
coming weeks or days, which 
would unlock funds and secure 
cheap 
financing 
for 
Greek 

banks — five of which suffered 
a one-notch downgrade Mon-
day by Moody’s ratings agency.

In the radical left Syriza 

party’s first week in power, 
Greece has suffered a ratings 
downgrade and a decision by 
the European Central Bank not 
to accept its bonds as collateral 
for credit to Greek lenders. A 
flurry of visits to key Euro-
pean partners earned Tsipras’ 
government little more than 
expressions of sympathy.

Greece faces a grilling at an 

emergency meeting of euro-
zone 
finance 
ministers 
in 

Brussels on Wednesday, with 
fears of a chaotic currency exit 
returning.

German Chancellor Angela 

Merkel said Monday that Ber-
lin wants Greece to stay in the 
eurozone, but any agreement 
must be based on existing bail-
out commitments.

“I think what counts is what 

Greece will put on the table at 
(Wednesday’s) meeting or per-
haps a few days later,” she said 
after talks in Washington with 
President Barack Obama. “I’ve 
always said I would wait for 
Greece to come with a sustain-
able proposal and then we’ll 
talk about this.”

Tsipras’ government, which 

ousted the less-confrontation-
al conservatives, argues that 
Greece’s 320 billion euro ($360 
billion) debt will be increas-
ingly unsustainable unless it 
receives generous repayment 
relief that would allow its bat-
tered economy to recover.

Finance 
Minister 
Yanis 

Varoufakis dismissed the 240 
billion 
euro 
($270 
billion) 

bailout packages crafted by 
Greece’s lenders after the coun-
try nearly went bust in 2010 as a 
“toxic fantasy” that had always 
been doomed to fail.

“The time has come to say 

what officials admit when the 
microphones are turned off and 
say out in the open. ... At some 
point someone has to say ‘No’ 
and that role has fallen to us, 
little Greece,” he told parlia-
ment.

Justice Thomas objects to 
ruling on gay marraiges 

GARY COSBY JR. /AP

Yashinari Effinger kisses her spouse Adrian Thomas as they are declared a married couple by Rev. Ellin Jimmerson.

Dissent criticizes 
Supreme Court 
for overlooking 

state laws

(AP) — The Supreme Court 

is 
inappropriately 
signaling 

it intends to clear the way 
for gay marriage across the 
nation, 
Justice 
Clarence 

Thomas complained Monday 
in a stinging dissent to the 
court’s refusal to block the 
start of same-sex marriages in 
Alabama.

Bitterly objecting to Monday’s 

action, 
Thomas 
provided 
a 

rare insider’s perspective on 
the widely held view that the 
court’s embrace of gay marriage 
is a done deal.

Thomas filed a dissenting 

opinion after his colleagues 
rejected Alabama’s plea to put 
a hold on same-sex marriages 
in the state until the Supreme 
Court 
resolves 
the 
issue 

nationwide in a few months.

He 
criticized 
his 
fellow 

justices for looking “the other 
way as yet another federal 
district judge casts aside state 
laws,” rather than following 

the customary course of leaving 
those laws in place until the 
court answers an important 
constitutional question.

“This 
acquiescence 
may 

well be seen as a signal of the 
court’s intended resolution of 
that question,” Thomas wrote 
in an opinion that was joined 
by Justice Antonin Scalia. “This 
is not the proper way” for the 
court to carry out its role under 
the Constitution, he wrote, 
“and, it is indecorous for this 
court to pretend that it is.”

The opinion was remarkable 

less for the legal result it 
suggested than for its open 
criticism of fellow justices.

After 
all, 
many 
legal 

commentators have predicted 
not only the case’s outcome this 
spring (in favor of same-sex 
marriage), but the vote (5-4) 
and the author of the majority 
opinion 
(Justice 
Anthony 

Kennedy).

The number of states in 

which gay and lesbian couples 
can marry has nearly doubled 
since October, from 19 to 37, 
largely as a result of terse 
Supreme Court orders that 
allowed lower court rulings to 
become final and rejected state 
efforts to keep marriage bans in 

place pending appeals.

“If 
you 
read 
the 
tea 

leaves the Supreme Court is 
leaving, the bans on same-sex 
marriage can’t be permitted. 
They’re 
unconstitutional,” 

said University of California-
Berkeley law professor Jesse 
Choper.

Alabama became the 37th 

state in which same-sex couples 
can 
marry, 
following 
U.S. 

District Judge Callie Granade’s 
ruling in January that struck 
down 
as 
unconstitutional 

the 
state’s 
statutory 
and 

constitutional bans.

Granade had put her order 

on hold until Monday to let the 
state prepare for the change, 
and State Attorney General 
Luther Strange had asked for 
the delay to be extended for at 
least a few months.

Monday morning, probate 

judges in Alabama began issuing 
marriage licenses to same-sex 
couples, some of whom had 
been lined up for hours.

“It’s 
about 
time,” 
said 

Shante Wolfe, 21, as she left 
the courthouse in Montgomery 
with wife Tori Sisson. They had 
camped out in a blue and white 
tent to be the first in the county 
given a license.

THE FILTER
Research VP 
honored

By AMABEL KAROUB

S. Jack Hu has been elected 
to the National Acadamy 
of Engineering. Hu was 
commended by the NAE for 
his work related to the auto 
industry. He has served as 
the interim vice president for 
research since 2013.

Trotter lecture 
to feature poet

WHAT: Cheryl Clarke gives 
the inaugural Trotter lecture. 
She is a lesbian, feminist, 
poet, activist and educator. 
WHO: Trotter Multicultural 
Center
WHEN: Today at 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan League

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THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

Embattled NBC anchor 
Brian Williams said 
he 
misreported 
his 

experiences while covering 
the Iraq War for NBC, The 
New York Times reported. 
Williams will step away 
from the anchor desk as NBC 
completes an investigation. 

3

President 
Obama 
said 

“lethal defensive weap-
ons” are being considered 

if diplomacy proves futile 
in Ukraine, BBC reported. 
Further talks will be held 
in Minsk on Wednesday 
between the United States, 
France, Germany and Russia. 

1

The Michigan women’s 
basketball 
team 

travels to Columbus 

today to take on Ohio State. 
The 
Wolverines 
topped 

the Buckeyes in overtime, 
100-94, on Jan. 11 at Crisler 
Center.
>> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS, PG. 8

2

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

WCED lecture

WHAT: Award-winning 
photographer Misha 
Friedman will speak about 
his work as well as how 
to use photographs to tell 
stories.
WHO: Weiser Center for 
Emerging Democracies
WHEN: Today from 5:30 
p.m. to 7 p.m. 
WHERE: Museum of Art- 
Helmut Stern Auditorium

Targeting 
Malaria

WHAT: Dr. Margarert 
Phillips will speak about 
Malaria dihydroorotate 
dehydrogenase.
WHO: Biological 
Chemistry
WHEN: Today from 12 
p.m. to 1 p.m. 
WHERE: Medical Science 
Unit II- North Lecture Hall

“My Brothers” 
series

WHAT: The event will fea-
ture discussions about the 
experiences and issues men 
of color face in relationships. 
WHO: Multi-Ethnic 
Student Affairs
WHEN: Today from 12 p.m. 
to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan 
Union, Central Student 
Government Chambers

Charlie Mars

WHAT: The Mississippi 
songwriter will perform as 
part of his tour.
WHO: Michigan Union 
Ticket Office
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark, 316 S. 
Main 

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Talk with 
Conrad Pope

WHAT: The film com-
poser will discuss the 
process of scoring film.
 WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today from 7:30 
p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
WHERE: Walgreen 
Drama Center- Stamps 
Auditorium

Chamber 
music recital

WHAT: Students will 
perform ensembles using 
wind instruments. Per-
formances will include 
pieces by Hillborg, Pon-
chielli and Bruckner, 
among others.
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V. Moore 
Building, Britton Recital 
Hall

TUESDAY:

Professor Profiles

THURSDAY:
Alumni Profiles

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

MONDAY:

This Week in History

SANTIAGO COLAS

Literature in the classroom

RITA MORRIS/Daily

LSA sophomore Andrea Wilk carves a linoleum 
block for her printmaking class in the basement of 
East Quad Monday.

IMPRINTING

Santiago Colas, associate pro-

fessor of comparative literature, 
has taught at the University since 
1992. In 1991 he received a Ph.D 
in Literature from Duke Univer-
sity. This semester, he is teach-
ing “The Cultures of Basketball,” 
a course in the Residential College 
and “Writing the Sporting Body,” a 
comparative literature course.

What inspired you to become a 

professor?

It’s hard to know. It’s not 

something that had ever been 
a dream of mine growing up. I 
think that I went to grad school 
basically to avoid engaging the 
real world when I finished col-
lege, and I thought that might 

be a good way to stave off reality. 
But once I started grad school, I 
found that I was really interest-
ed in what I was learning and 
interested in what professors 
were doing. I think for the first 
time, (I) had an understanding 
that that was a career path, a 
possibility. And the more I did it, 
the more I realized it seemed to 
be the best combination of what 
I like to do with little of what I 
don’t like to do and viable as a liv-
ing. And that’s turned out to be 
the case.

Are most of the courses 

you’re teaching involved with 

sports?

They are now. Over the last 

few years, I’ve kind of shifted 
my area of interest in research 
and teaching from more nar-
rowly literary topics to topics 
related to the culture of sports 
and especially basketball. That’s 
another good thing about being 
a professor, is that you can 
change directions and find sup-
port for that and in that way get 
to stay young, in a way.

What is your favorite part of 

teaching?

Favorite part of teaching is, 
without question, open-ended 
discussions in the classroom.

— EMILY MIILLER

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