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S. Jack Hu, interim vice president of research, speaks about annual research funding at the University’s Board of Regents meeting at the Michigan Union Thursday.
ADMINISTRATION
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ICE HOCKEY
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Aaron Dworkin to
be next School of
Music, Theatre &
Dance dean
By ALLANA AKHTAR
Daily Staff Reporter
At their monthly meeting
Thursday, the University’s Board
of
Regents
approved
Aaron
Dworkin, founder and presi-
dent of the Detroit-based Sphinx
Organization, as the new dean of
the School of Music, Theatre &
Dance. Dworkin will make his-
tory as the first Black dean of the
school.
Dworkin’s
five-year
term
begins July 20.
“I am tremendously honored to
join this community comprised of
leaders committed to scholarship
and artistic excellence,” Dworkin
said. “As we progress into an age
which redefines the definitions
of artistic pursuits, I am eager to
bring my experiences and skill-
sets to bear as we nurture and
empower a diverse student body
to embody the best of our society
in this new era.”
Dworkin was also appointed a
tenured professor in the School of
Music, Theatre & Dance.
Widely regarded as one of the
foremost violinists, he is also
known as one of the foremost
leaders of the performing arts in
the world. During the course of
his career, he has gained awards
including the National Governors
Association 2005 Distinguished
Service to State Government
Award,
Harvard
University’s
Vosgerchian
Teaching
Award
and BET’s History Makers in the
Making Award. President Barack
Obama selected Dworkin as his
first presidential appointment to
the National Council on the Arts.
He is also a MacArthur Fellow
and a member of the Royal Phil-
harmonic Society in London.
Recognizing the lack of minor-
ities in the field of classical music,
Dworkin created the Sphinx
Organization to help reflect the
diversity of orchestras in the
nation. The Detroit-based orga-
nization is a national nonprofit
that provides K-12 performing
arts education and mentorship
opportunities for minorities and
students in underserved commu-
nities. It currently reaches 20,000
Democratic caucus
introduces bills to
legalize same-sex
marriage in state
By ISOBEL FUTTER
Daily Staff Reporter
Though Michigan’s same-
sex marriage ban is currently
before the U.S. Supreme Court,
Democratic lawmakers have
decided to take action on the
issue through the legislature.
On Thursday, a group of
Democratic state representa-
tives and senators introduced
an array of bills on the issue,
chief among them ones which
would
allow
Michigan
to
become the 38th state to rec-
ognize same-sex marriages by
both legalizing it and removing
the state’s ban.
State Rep. Jeremy Moss
(D–Southfield) and State Sen.
Rebekah
Warren
(D–Ann
Arbor) sponsored legislation to
repeal the state’s ban on same-
sex marriage. State Rep. Adam
Zemke (D–Ann Arbor), State
Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. (D–East
Lansing) and State Rep. Jeff
Irwin (D–Ann Arbor) spon-
sored concurrent legislation to
legalize same-sex marriage.
State Rep. Sam Singh (D–
East Lansing) and State Rep.
Robert
Wittenberg
(D–Oak
Park) also sponsored legisla-
tion on related issues, includ-
ing marriage licenses and tax
benefits.
“It’s a whole package of
bills, covering a wide variety of
things like allowing same sex
marriage and recognizing out
of state marriages and more,”
Wittenberg said.
The legality of same-sex
marriage
in
Michigan
has
shifted significantly over the
past decade. In 2004, voters
approved a state constitutional
amendment defining marriage
as only applicable between a
man and a woman. In 2012,
Hazel Park residents April
DeBoer and Jayne Rowse sued
the state over the constitution-
ality of the amendment, lead-
ing to a protracted court battle
that concluded in a district
court ruling that the ban was
unconstitutional. That deci-
sion was appealed to the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth
Circuit, which overturned the
decision, finding the ban con-
stitutional. Rowse and DeBoer
are now appealing the case
to the Supreme Court, which
announced in January that it
would take on the case. Oral
arguments are scheduled for
April 28.
Roughly 300 same-sex cou-
ples in Michigan are currently
legally married. The couples
were married during a roughly
24-hour window between the
District Court’s decision, and
Michigan defeats
Wisconsin to keep
postseason hopes
alive and well
By JASON RUBINSTEIN
Daily Sports Editor
DETROIT — The Michigan
hockey team lives to fight another
day.
Entering
Thursday’s
game
against Wisconsin in the first round
of
the
Big
Ten
Tour-
nament,
the
Wolverines
were faced with a do-or-die situa-
tion. And fortunately for Michigan,
it prevailed against the Badgers for
the fifth time this season, 5-1.
The Wolverines struck first,
when senior forward Zach Hyman
put home a puck that had just rung
off the iron. Freshman forward
Dylan Larkin started the play, firing
the puck toward the net before the
puck ricocheted off of a Wisconsin
player’s skate to Hyman, who put it
home.
Hyman’s tally was his 20th of
the year, and the senior became
the first Michigan hockey player to
score 20 or more goals in a season
since Louie Caporusso did the same
in 2009-10. More notably, Hyman’s
goal marked his 50th point of the
season — the first Wolverine to
accomplish such a feat since now-
As election
approaches,
partnerships seen
as area for growth
By TANAZ AHMED
Daily Staff Reporter
With elections for the next
academic year’s Central Stu-
dent Government less than
a week away, The Michigan
Daily spoke to a several stu-
dent organizations on campus
about their relationship with
the body and the initiatives
they would like CSG to focus
on in the 2015-2016 school
year.
CSG currently has a Stu-
dent Organization Outreach
commission. The CSG website
states the purpose of the com-
mission is to meet with at least
10 student organizations per
week. The commission is also
tasked with creating monthly
reports on student groups’
needs and suggestions on how
to address those needs.
The
University’s
South
Asian
American
Network,
Hillel and the Panhellenic
Association responded to the
Daily, and all listed increas-
ing active collaboration with
student organizations as one
of their top priorities for the
student assembly. Black Stu-
dent Union declined to com-
ment. The Michigan Daily
was unable to reach SAPAC
and MSA for comment.
SAAN programming direc-
tor Fatema Chamak, a Public
Policy junior, said she felt it
can be difficult to receive sup-
port from CSG. She said she
would like to see CSG reach
out to student organizations
like SAAN, instead of placing
the burden of reaching out on
the organizations.
Students highlight
fossil fuels, sexual
misconduct policy
at March meeting
By ALLANA AKHTAR and
GENEVIEVE HUMMER
Daily Staff Reporters
Thursday’s University Board
of Regents meeting included
the approval of two North Cam-
pus renovation projects, seven
honorary degree recipients and
an update on the University’s
research funding.
Research report
S. Jack Hu, interim execu-
tive vice president for research,
delivered the annual research
report, which showed that the
University’s annual research
funding fell to $1.3 billion in
2014 — a slight decrease from
the record high $1.32 billion in
fiscal year 2013.
“Research is an important
mission of the University,” Hu
said. “With research, we cre-
ate new knowledge and under-
standing
that
enhance
our
educational process.”
This past year, Hu reported,
the University funded more than
3,500 graduate students and
1,100 undergraduate students
for research projects. Though
the total number of research
contracts awarded increased by
4.1 percent, he added, the total
dollar value of those contracts
dropped by about 16 percent.
Hu said the decrease in fund-
ing is due in part to the decline
in
federal
support,
which
decreased 4.5 percent this year.
To help curb decreasing federal
sponsorship, the University has
looked to other avenues to find
funding, including to industries
and foundations. Hu noted that
nonfederal source funding was
up 6.25 percent this year — a
total of $124.4 million.
North campus renovations
The regents approved two
ANDREW COHEN/Daily
LSA senior Marli Siegel, the communications director of MUSIC Matters, participates in a community building
event promoging SpringFest in the Diag on Thursday.
WHAT DO YOU STAND BY ?
See TOURNAMENT, Page 3A
See DEAN, Page 3
See REGENTS, Page 3
See CSG, Page 3
See MARRIAGE, Page 3
Nonprofit
founder
tapped for
deanship
‘U’ regents talk research,
changes to North Campus
Local legislators
seek to overturn
marriage ban
Student orgs. ask for more
collaboration with CSG
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