organized the ceremony to bring 
together all couples that wed the 
day after Friedman’s ruling. Orr 
and his husband Martin Contre-
ras, the other co-owner of Aut Bar, 
were among the couples celebrat-
ing their first anniversary.

“We realized that within days, 

320 couples were going to have the 
same anniversary, and we were 
going to have to do something that 
day,” Orr said.

Washtenaw County residents 

Diane VanDorn and Connie Greer 
also wed during the brief window 
same-sex marriage was legalized. 
Though the two had been together 
for nearly 18 years and have raised 
four children together, they said 
they were elated after they finally 
received government recognition 
and protection.

“It was exciting because our 

children are safe now,” VanDorn 
said. “My spouse has had cancer 
and I’ve had a stroke and for them 
to be protected if something hap-
pens to one of us is really impor-
tant. And now we know that they 
are safe.”

Washtenaw County Clerk Larry 

Kestenbaum also attended the 
ceremony, and recalled his experi-
ence issuing marriage licenses fol-

lowing Friedman’s decision.

According 
to 
Kestenbaum, 

there was concern about a state-
mandated stay as soon as the deci-
sion was announced. He said amid 
the worry, the county supported 
him, allowing him to work over-
time and keep offices open to issue 
as many licenses as he could.

“A lot of people felt urgency to 

do something,” Kestenbaum said.

Kestenbaum said he felt disap-

pointed by the ruling of the Sixth 
Circuit Court to uphold the ban. 
He added that he believes the 
political affiliations of some Sixth 
Circuit judges were why they sup-
ported the ban.

“I was angry when the state 

came down, I was disappointed at 
the time of the ruling but I knew 
the ruling was not going to stand,” 
he said. “So I wasn’t that con-
cerned about it, other than that it 
was going to delay everything by 
another year or so.”

The Supreme Court decided in 

January to take up the legality of 
Michigan’s ban on same-sex mar-
riage, as well as similar bans in 
other states. The Court is likely to 
rule by June.

Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher 

Taylor (D) attended Sunday’s gath-
ering to support both the couples 
that were issued licenses and those 
still awaiting the ban’s overturn.

“Hopefully the Supreme Court 

will recognize that it’s peoples’ 
right to be married without regard 
to gender and that same-sex mar-
riage will be the law of the land,” 
Taylor said.

Kestenbaum said he believes 

the Supreme Court will rule in 
favor of same-sex marriage, as 
Justice Anthony Kennedy and 
other justices have been open to 
marriage equality in the past.

“I think the Supreme Court 

decision in June will be very much 
along the lines of almost all the 
other federal court rulings on the 
matter and that this will settle and 
be done,” he said. “From there, 
I’m not sure what the next issue 
is going to be, but I think this is a 
pretty big one.”

Orr echoed Kestenbaum’s opti-

mism, saying the state will only 
have true marriage equality once 
all, not just some, same-sex cou-
ples have the opportunity to get 
married.

“One of the things I say all the 

time is that for us, we didn’t get 
marriage equality a year ago,” Orr 
said. “If we got marriage equal-
ity, Sandy and Linda over there 
would be married as well. We got 
something that straight couples 
have already, which is marriage 
privilege. So what we’re hoping for 
is a good Supreme Court ruling in 
June that will give true marriage 
equality for everyone.”

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Regents release pres. search docs

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DON ’ T FALL 

The University’s Board 

of Regents released all 
documents 
pertaining 

to the 1988 presidential 
search following a six-
year legal battle with two 
newspapers.

The files revealed the 

Board was prepared to 
nominate Vartan Grego-
rian, the president of the 
New York Public Library, 
for the job in June 1988.

Regent Deane Baker (R–

Ann Arbor) was the only 
board member opposed to 
Gregorian’s 
nomination. 

Without 
telling 
Regent 

Paul Brown (D–Petoskey), 
chair 
of 
the 
Presiden-

tial Selection Committee, 

Baker 
called 
Gregorian 

just before the Board was 
set to announce its nomi-
nation.

“I did call the man,” 

Baker said in an interview 
with The Michigan Daily. 
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support him. I did what I 
thought was good for the 
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Gregorian withdrew his 

name from consideration 
following Baker’s phone 
call.

“When 
Regent 
Paul 

Brown called to ask if I 
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him I did not want to go to 
a place where someone was 
pledging 
guerrilla 
war-

fare,” Gregorian said in an 
interview with the Detroit 
Free Press.

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secret, with the Board 
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dates’ privacy superseded 
efficiency. To avoid violat-
ing the Open Meetings Act, 
which says a group of pub-
lic officials cannot meet 
secretly, the regents met in 
groups of four throughout 
the search process.

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search 
took 
14 

months, cost more than 
$90,000 and incurred an 
additional 
$337,000 
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legal fees.

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Garden seed 
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WHAT: NYU Media 
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horiculture as a field and 
the logic of seed packets.
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American Culture
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WHERE: Tisch Hall, room 
1014 

Residential College hosts 
Midwestern publications

Voices of the Middle 

West conference 
recognizes local 

writers and journals

By TANAZ AHMED 

Daily Staff Reporter

On 
Saturday, 
East 
Quad 

Residence Hall’s atrium hosted 
literary journals from across the 
Midwest for the second annual 
Voices of the Middle West 
festival.

Midwestern Gothic, an Ann 

Arbor-based literary journal, 
hosted the event in conjunction 
with the University’s Residential 
College.

According to Robert Russell, 

event organizer and co-founder 
of 
Midwestern 
Gothic, 
the 

purpose of the festival is to 
showcase 
talented 
writers, 

independent 
journals 
and 

presses from the Midwest. A 
book fair allowed participating 
presses to display works and 
publications.

“The 
Midwest 
is 
usually 

considered 
flyover 
states,” 

Russell said. “This is a really 
cool way to show everyone what 
great authors we have and how 
different they are.”

Last year, the event had 23 

different presses and journals. 
This year, the festival was 
expanded to 36 professional 
and student publications from 
Ann Arbor, Michigan and other 
midwestern states.

Representatives 
from 

journals such as the Iowa 
Review, 
Pleiades, 
Southern 

Indiana Review and cream 
city 
review 
came 
from 

Iowa, Missouri, Indiana and 
Wisconsin, respectively, to join 
the festival.

“We want to show all the 

different voices of the Midwest,” 
Russell said. “It’s so vast. There 

are so many states and there is 
so much uniqueness.”

Student 
publications 
from 

the University such as Xylem, 
Fortnight, RC Review and the 
Lloyd Hall Scholars Program: 
Arts and Literary Journal also 
took part in the event.

LSA junior Kara Mullison, 

a member of the Residential 
College’s RC Review, said she 
was glad the festival took place 
in East Quad and included 
student publications.

“It’s nice that the festival is 

in East Quad where the RC is 
based,” Mullison said. “Student 
publications might not seem 
relevant but you come here and 
see that they are.”

On top of the book fair, 

there were also multiple panels 
throughout the day. The first 
panel was a faculty and student 
discussion on the publishing 
process. In the next panel, 
writers Melba Boyd, Caitlin 
Horrocks, 
C.J. 
Hribal 
and 

Marcus Wicker spoke about the 
Midwestern landscape.

Other panels included gender 

in the publishing industry and 
the use of Midwestern fables 
and myth. There was also an 
open mic where community 
writers could share their work.

The event concluded with 

a keynote lecture by Stuart 
Dybek, 
author 
of 
“Ecstatic 

Cahoots,” a book of short stories. 
Dybek spoke about how the 
physical place where literature 
is produced and the history of 
the location impacts the writing 
itself.

“Writers have had this huge 

magical ability to create our 
version of how we respond to the 
places that we live in,” Dybek 
said.

Recent LSA graduate Sydney 

Salley said she was impressed by 
the entire festival.

“It’s incredible how big it is, 

how many people are coming 
from all around and how there’s 
interest from within students 
and outside,” she said.

$10 more at each seating level. 
The concert’s proceeds will go 
toward MUSIC Matters’ charity 
projects.

“Some of the work that he’s 

done with the Common Ground 
Foundation and helping to teach 
underserved youth in Chicago, 
we thought it tied in very well to 
some of the goals with the lead-
ership camp that we’re trying to 
build with underserved youth in 
Detroit,” Appel said.

Information 
junior 
Madi 

Chone, MUSIC Matters talent 
and concert chair, added that 
Common’s recent spike in popu-
larity and connection to culture 
shift make him a relevant per-
former for a University audience.

“What (Common) has done 

— it’s breathtaking, it’s beauti-

ful, everything that he’s accom-
plished,” she said. “But outside 
of that, I think, considering his 
Oscar and Grammy win, and just 
the work that he’s been putting out 
recently, there isn’t really a more 
relevant artist socially that we 
want to provide a platform for.”

Common, born Lonnie Rashid 

Lynn, Jr., founded the Com-
mon Ground Foundation over a 
decade ago “to use creative arts 
to expose youth to new opportu-
nities,” according to the founda-
tion’s website.

“I think hip-hop now is kind 

of being elucidated as an art 
form that has a lot of potential to 
move social justice and to affect 
changes,” Chone said. “I think 
(Common) is not just a promi-
nent figure in that right now, 
he’s one of the figures that’s 
responsible for founding that.”

The foundation’s education 

initiatives include the Dream-

er’s & Believers Youth Mentor-
ing Program, partnering on the 
Chicago Youth Jobs Collabora-
tive and creating job training for 
underserved Chicago youth.

“I 
started 
the 
Common 

Ground Foundation because I 
wanted to help,” Common wrote 
in a statement on the website. 
“I always believed that if we 
started with the youth then we 
would be planting the seeds for 
our future to blossom.”

LSA 
senior 
Marli 
Siegel, 

MUSIC Matters communication 
chair, echoed Appel’s sentiment 
that 
Common’s 
involvement 

aligns with the organization’s 
mission. She said this year’s 
iteration of SpringFest high-
lights the idea that “it’s put on 
by students for other students,” 
not only in the University com-
munity but elsewhere.

Along those lines, Business 

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