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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.

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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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