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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Photos of the Week
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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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