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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Supernatural episode “The
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Osteopathic
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medicine and give students
the opportunity to network
with those in the field.
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WHERE: The Michigan
League, Vandenberg Room
Structural
equations
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to define, estimate and
test plausible structural
equation models.
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Israel
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Family Israel Symposium
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relationships between Jews
and Arabs in the context of
imperialism.
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Business talk
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Prof. Karen Golden-Biddle
will talk about how to be
a leader that creates a big
impact with few resources.
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Center for Positive
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21 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (MARCH 28, 1994)
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.
“I told him I would not
support him. I did what I
thought was good for the
University.”
Gregorian withdrew his
name from consideration
following Baker’s phone
call.
“When
Regent
Paul
Brown called to ask if I
had made a decision, I told
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.
The regents’ search was
secret, with the Board
insisting that the candi-
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.
The
search
took
14
months, cost more than
$90,000 and incurred an
additional
$337,000
in
legal fees.
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Traditional
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WHAT: Lúnasa, an Irish band,
will perform traditional music
with a rhythmic twist. The
band draws inspiration from
jazz and bluegrass music.
WHO: Michigan
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WHERE: The Ark,
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Garden seed
industry
WHAT: NYU Media
Prof. Lisa Gitelman will
discuss the development of
horiculture as a field and
the logic of seed packets.
WHO: Department of
American Culture
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
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
COMMON
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