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WEATHER 
TOMORROW

HI: 31

LO: 24

A look into the long tradition of the 
University’s Ulysses reading marathon

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Presenter discusses 
significant historical 
events in the 1970s 

to current day 

By ANDREW HIYAMA 

Daily Staff Reporter

The year 1973 represented 

a great leap forward toward 
equal rights for the gay and 
feminist 
communities 
in 

America 
— 
including 
the 

landmark Roe v. Wade decision, 
which legalized abortion, and 
the removal of homosexuality 
from the American Psychiatric 
Association’s Diagnostic and 
Statistical Manual as a mental 
disorder.

However, 
the 
year 
also 

marked a regression in trans 
rights, exemplified by gay 
and feminist protests of trans 
speakers and performers at 
gay liberation events. Susan 
Stryker, associate professor of 

gender and women’s studies 
at the University of Arizona, 
said in a lecture at Rackham 
Building on Tuesday.

Stryker’s address focused 

on how the trans community 
is in a similar oppositional 
position 
currently, 
and 

examined transgender history 
in 
an 
attempt 
to 
better 

understand 
the 
community 

today. The lecture is part of 
a Year of Conversions series 
of events that aim to engage 

Deer cull 

continues to be 
contested issue at 
Tuesday meeting

By BRIAN KUANG

Daily Staff Reporter

At their Tuesday meeting, 

Ann 
Arbor 
City 
Council 

members 
unanimously 

appointed current Interim 
Police Chief James Baird as 
police chief, concluding the 
city’s nationwide search to 
fill the role=

Baird will officially assume 

the role on Feb. 22.

The search for a new 

police chief has been ongoing 
over past months. Council 
initiallyconfirmed 
James 

White, 
assistant 
police 

chief of the Detroit Police 
Department, in November 
2015. 
White 
unexpectedly 

turned down the appointment 
to remain in Detroit.

Baird has been serving as 

the city’s interim police chief 

LeVert sits as 
Michigan falls 
at Ohio State

MEN’S BASKETBALL

UHS says over 20 
students confirmed 

ill with similar 

symptoms 

By ANNA HARITOS

Daily Staff Reporter

University officials said Tues-

day that they are looking into a 
spated illness on campus. 

“We have seen approximately 

20 to 25 individuals in the emer-
gency room and health service 
building combined who have had 
a vomiting illnesssometimes with 
diarrhea,” Dr. Robert Winfield, 
executive director of UHS, said. 
“This began sometime last eve-
ning, and people continued to be 
sick through the night, and the 
morning — some people showing 
improvement.”

In an effort to find the cause 

of the outbreak, Dr. Winfield 
has partnered up with the chief 
of the University Hospital’s ER, 
the head of infection control and 

Laura Bauman, an epidemiologist 
at the Washtenaw County Health 
Department. 

“We have tested a number of 

people who are sick by taking 
stool cultures and sending them 
to Michigan Department of Com-
munity Health in Lansing,” Win-
field said. “It takes about three to 
five days to receive results back 
for norovirus testing.”

Winfield said the final count of 

students who have been affected 
will not be known for a few days. 
Of those individuals who became 
ill and sought out help, they tend-
ed to live in either South Quad 
Residence Hall or West Quad 
Residence Hall. However, there 
were four cases that had no affili-
ation with either facility in the 
last few days, UHS reported.

“There are three ways an out-

break can occur,” Dr. Winfield 
said. “This is a season where 
the norovirus, or the cruise ship 
virus, infections can become 
prevalent — it’s a very contagious 
virus and it’s harder to kill with 
regular cleaning supplies. The 

See SICKNESS, Page 3A

Presidential 

candidate holds 
town hall at GOP 

Livonia office 

By SAM GRINGLAS

Daily Staff Reporter

LIVONIA — After departing 

New Hampshire with a much-
needed second place finish last 
week, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) is 

now banking on an equally strong 
turnout in Michigan to sustain his 
path to the presidency.

The two-term Republican gov-

ernor wrapped up a two-day swing 
through Michigan on Tuesday, 
which included stops at two col-
leges, Michigan State University 
in East Lansing and Grand Valley 
State University outside of Grand 
Rapids, in advance of the state’s 
March 8 primary. During a Tues-
day town hall of a couple hundred 
people held at a local GOP office in 
Livonia, Kasich emphasized both 

his eagerness to promote a conser-
vative agenda — including items 
like securing the border, increasing 
defense spending, passing a bal-
anced budget amendment, cutting 
taxes and regulations — and his 
willingness to work with Demo-
crats to get things done.

“If you think we’re going to fix 

social security by the Republicans 
ramming 
something 
through, 

when you go to bed tonight, check 
under the pillow for the tooth fairy. 
It doesn’t work that way,” he said.

“If I win the White House, we’re 

going to have a conservative agen-
da, and I’m going to be the orches-
tra leader, but I want everybody to 
play in the orchestra, so we can get 
these things accomplished.”

Kasich is currently polling at an 

average of 6 percent in Michigan in 
the most recent poll compiled by 
RealClearPolitics. That leaves him 
in fifth place, ahead only of for-
mer Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Trump 
is currently leading the polls in 
Michigan at 38 percent.

However, that limited polling 

See KASICH, Page 3A

DAVID SONG/Daily

Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) speaks about his accomplishments as governor and how that translates into good experience for the position as president at the 
GOP Field Office in Livonia on Tuesday. 

Wolverines can’t 
rally from down 
eight at halftime 

in Columbus

By LEV FACHER

Daily Sports Writer

COLUMBUS — As Ohio State 

honored former standout Evan 
Turner with a halftime cer-
emony Tuesday night, Michi-
gan’s fans and coaches alike 
might have winced at the mem-
ory of Turner’s buzzer-beating 
3-pointer six years ago.

That shot gave Ohio State a 

stunning win in the 2010 Big 
Ten Tournament and ended the 
Wolverines’ season in the blink 
of an eye. No such heroics were 
necessary Tuesday, however, as 
the Buckeyes (9-5 Big Ten, 17-10 
overall) jumped out to an eight-
point lead at halftime and never 
relinquished it in a 76-66 win 
against Michigan (9-5, 19-8).

The Wolverines have now 

won in Columbus only once in 
the last 14 seasons and came 
out sputtering in the rivals’ only 

regular-season 
matchup 
this 

season. Michigan missed its 
first five attempts from the field 
and quickly fell victim to foul 
trouble, with sophomore guard 
Muhammad-Ali 
Abdur-Rahk-

man spending the middle part of 
the first half on the bench after 
picking up two quick fouls.

Michigan coach John Beilein, 

who has long refused to send 
players back into games with 
two fouls before halftime, didn’t 
break from tradition, even as 
Michigan failed to generate 
offense with junior Andrew 
Dakich playing point guard.

“Very,” said Michigan coach 

John Beilein, asked how tempt-
ed he was to break his own rule 
by 
sending 
Abdur-Rahkman 

back in to spell Dakich. “But 
again, (the margin) was like two 
or three points with two minutes 
to go. … There’s no reason to say, 
‘OK, the sky is falling. And then 
they scored the last five points to 
make it an eight-point game.’ ”

The Wolverines’ options in 

the backcourt were limited to 
begin with, as senior guard 
Caris LeVert did not play after 
making his return Saturday 

ANDREW COHEN/Daily

Susan Stryker, director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona, delivers the 2016 Jean Yokes 
Woodhead Lecture on gay liberation, the women’s movement and transgender activism at Rackham on Tuesday.

See LECTURE, Page 3A
See POLICE, Page 3A
See BASKETBALL, Page 8A

CITY

‘U’ receives
reports of
sicknesses
on campus 

Kasich looks to Michigan 
after New Hampshire win 

Lecture examines progress 
in transgender movement

A2 Council 
approves 
police chief 
Jim Baird

HEALTH

