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Zingerman’s
co-founders to
speak at Spring 2015
commencement
By GENEVIEVE HUMMER
Daily Staff Reporter
The pair who produce Reuben
sandwiches so famous that even
President Barack Obama has gob-
bled one down will now face a new
challenge: crafting the perfect
commencement address.
University alums Paul Saginaw
and Ari Weinzweig, the co-found-
ers of Zingerman’s Community of
Businesses, will jointly deliver the
University’s Spring Commence-
ment address at Michigan Sta-
dium.
The two will each be awarded
an honorary Doctor of Laws,
pending approval from the Uni-
versity’s Board of Regents at
Thursday’s monthly meeting.
Saginaw and Weinzweig, both
University
graduates,
founded
Zingerman’s Delicatessen in 1982.
The deli, which was started with
a $20,000 bank loan and two
employees, now employs more
than six hundred people and
rakes in annual sales close to $50
million.
What has since become the
Zingerman’s Community of Busi-
nesses includes eight separate
businesses: the deli, Zingerman’s
Mail Order, Zingerman’s Bake-
house, Zingerman’s Training Inc.,
Zingerman’s
Coffee
Company,
Zingerman’s Roadhouse, Zinger-
man’s Creamery and Zingerman’s
Candy Manufactory.
In a March interview with
The Michigan Daily, University
President Mark Schlissel said the
co-founders have built a national
model for how to run a responsible
business.
“The attractive thing about it
is the way they’ve built their busi-
ness,” Schlissel said. “They’ve
kept it local, they have paid their
employees a living wage, they
have involved their employees in
the management decisions about
Non-profit partners
with C.S. Mott,
Beaumont hospitals
in 18th annual event
By EMMA KILBANE
Daily Staff Reporter
Standing for a cause was taken
literally Saturday as hundreds of
students remained on their feet
for 24 hours during the Univer-
sity’s 18th annual Dance Mara-
thon.
Participants raised more than
$460,000 to support pediatric
rehabilitation therapies for chil-
dren with disabilities at William
C. Beaumont Hospital in Royal
Oak and the University’s C.S
Mott Children’s Hospital. The
marathon edged past last year’s
fundraising total, which drew
more than $446,000 in dona-
tions.
“The importance of standing
on your feet is to show your dedi-
cation to the cause, that you’re
willing to make this sacrifice for
those that may have challenges
that they face on an everyday
basis,” Brian Dobmeier, DMUM
communications
chair
said.
“This is one day where you’re
going out of your way to chal-
lenge yourself.”
However, participants were
only required to stay on the
dance floor for 24 hours, instead
of 30, which they completed in
previous Dance Marathon events
at the University.
Engineering
senior
Jayesh
Srivastava, the DMUM execu-
tive director, said the change was
made to increase participation.
“There was an aspect of 30
hours that we felt excluded peo-
ple from everything that we have
to offer,” Srivastava said. “What
we feel and believe is that any-
one who wants to contribute and
GRANT HARDY/Daily
LEFT: Ann Arbor resident Colin Northrup speaks about how Dance Marathon helped him at the 18th Annual Dance Marathon at the Indoor Track and Field
Building Saturday. TOP RIGHT: Dance Marathon members and guests attend the early morning Dance Marathon Rave. BOTTOM RIGHT: LSA senior Madeleine
Frabotta, head of dancer management, leads a line dance.
Amicus briefs
stream in ahead
of April 28 oral
arguments
By JACK TURMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
After the U.S. Supreme
Court announced in January
it would hear a challenge to
Michigan’s same-sex marriage
ban, the court has scheduled
oral hearings for April 28.
Along
with
reviewing
Michigan’s case, the Supreme
Court will review similar
cases from Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee. The Supreme
Court picked up the case after
the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Sixth Circuit upheld the
upheld Michigan’s same-sex
marriage ban last November.
The Sixth Circuit Court deci-
sion reversed a March decision
from the district court that
A-list comedian
discusses his
upcoming film and
TV projects
By JASMINE RUSSELL-YEH
Online Arts Editor
Few would say that Vince
Vaughn (“The Internship”) is an
underdog in the world of comedy.
From getting jacked off under
the dinner table in “Wedding
Crashers” to successfully fertil-
izing 500 eggs in “Delivery Man,”
Vaughn’s
filmography
boasts
some of the most loved and hys-
terically memorable comedies
of the past 20 years. Yet Vaughn
often plays exactly what he is not:
the underdog.
His latest endeavor, “Unfin-
ished Business,” is no different.
It’s the tale of a small-business
owner, Dan Trunkman (Vaughn),
who takes off to Europe with
his associates, Mike Pancake
(Dave Franco, “22 Jump Street”)
and Timothy McWinters (Tom
Wilkinson, “Batman Begins”),
to close the biggest deal of their
lives. Again, Vaughn takes on an
unknown, original screenplay
and plays the guy who’s just try-
ing to figure it all out. In a con-
ference call with The Michigan
Daily, Vaughn discussed this
ongoing trend of underdog-esque
characters that he chooses to play.
“I guess I relate more to the
underdogs in life, personally.
What I like about the movie is
that these guys are in a position
that they don’t like in life. They
are involved in a job that they are
not passionate about,” Vaughn
said. “In a moment he pushes all
in and thinks that things could be
different. What’s fun is that Dave
Franco’s character is very funny
and unique and Tom Wilkinson
is, it makes it root-able that you
have a group of guys that are in a
position where the stakes are high
and you are rooting for them.”
And that’s the formula for
many of his films: take a guy who
realizes the mundane quality of
his life and wants to make some-
thing of it, something of himself.
From “Dodgeball” to “Wedding
Crashers” and now “Unfinished
Business,” this remains the case.
The beauty of these characters is
Student panel
fields questions,
discussses campus
diversity issues
By EMILY MIILLER
Daily Staff Reporter
Having anonymously sub-
mitted questions beforehand,
students gathered Sunday after-
noon to discuss the role of race
on campus and in society as a
whole. Though the Angell Hall
auditorium was far from full for
the event, the conversation was
open and extensive.
LSA
sophomore
Leamon
Wilson organized the after-
noon’s activities, titled “Let’s
Talk About: Race,” and facili-
tated conversation by directing
students’ questions to a panel
of students involved in organi-
zations pertaining to race rela-
tions. Wilson is a member of
the Global Scholars Program, a
Michigan Learning Community
and the event’s sponsor.
The four student panelists
included LSA senior Mishara
Davis, president of the Universi-
ty’s NAACP chapter; LSA senior
Olubisi Ajetunmobi, president
of the African Students’ Asso-
ciation; LSA sophomore junior
Haya Alfarhan, a member of
Michigan Women of Color Col-
COMMENCEMENT
FILM INTERVIEW
GOVERNMENT
See COMMENCEMENT, Page 2A
See DMUM, Page 3A
ROBERT DUNNE/Daily
LSA Senior Mishara Davis, Michigan Chapter NAACP President, speaks as a panelist at the Let’s Talk About Race
discussion at Angell Hall Sunday.
See SCOTUS, Page 3A
See RACE, Page 3A
See VINCE VAUGHN, Page 5A
Dance Marathon caps off
fundraising on their feet
Vince Vaughn
talks dramas,
underdog roles
‘Let’s Talk About: Race’
fosters open conversation
Supreme
Court to
consider
same-sex
marriage
Graduation
to kick off
with a Zing
this spring
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