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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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