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The Michigan Basketball team celebrates after beating Indiana 84-80 Saturday. Michigan won its first outright Big Ten title since 1986. Jordan Morgan was honored before the game as a part of the Senior Night festivities.
Coleman earns prestigious lifetime achievement award American Counsel on Education recognizes pres. By JENNIFER CALFAS Managing News Editor
SAN DIEGO — While many University students traveled to the Golden Coast to laze in the
sun over Spring Break, University President Mary Sue Coleman traveled to California for a different reason: to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. Presented by the American Counsel on Education, the award recognized Coleman’s work in higher education as a professor, administrator and university president. Before ACE President Molly
Corbett Broad presented her with the award, Coleman gave the distinguished Robert H. Atwell Lecture before more than 500 higher education officials at the organization’s 96th annual meeting at the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel in San Diego. In her speech titled “Innovate, Disrupt, Repeat,” Coleman focused primarily on the impor-
tance of entrepreneurship and innovation in higher education. Calling Michigan the “first Silicon Valley,” Coleman spoke of the state’s entrepreneurial drive in the automobile industry in the early 20th century. She said entrepreneurship gives students the opportunity to navigate the ever-changing, unpredictable job market today. See COLEMAN, Page 3A
Barra will be the third woman to deliver commencement address since 1998 By SAM GRINGLAS Daily News Editor
With just a few months behind the wheel of one of the world’s largest automakers, Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors Company, has been selected to deliver the University’s spring commencement address at Michigan Stadium. The University has announced plans to award Barra an honorary Doctor of Engineering when she speaks at commencement exercises May 3, pending approval by the University’s Board of Regents at their meeting later this month. University President Mary Sue Coleman said Barra’s story exemplifies a business leader who learned every aspect of
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NASA icon gives keynote on education First woman of color in space said diverse workforce will improve innovation
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TANAZ AHMED and MICHAEL SUGERMAN Daily Staff Reporters
For some, space may not be the final frontier. Mae Jemison, former NASA astronaut, gave the keynote lecture for the 32nd annual Women of Color Task Force Career Conference at Hill Auditorium on Friday. Jemison, a physician and former Peace Corps participant, became the first woman of color to travel to space when she joined the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992. Marlanna Landeros, a member of the WCTF executive team, said the event was the largest professional development conference hosted at the University. Open to all University staff and students as well as to the general public, it was designed to promote the career and personal development
of women of color working at the University. Jemison, a visiting professor at the University, left NASA a year after her space mission. She went on to found her own technology consulting company, The Jemison Group, Inc., teach at Dartmouth College and become a professor-at-large at Cornell University. During her speech, Jemison focused on the importance of diversity in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. “We’re building and defining a path with less than a third of the intellectual capacity, the experience, the ambitions, the visions, the perspectives given to us,” Jemison said. Since scientists and mathematicians choose the topics to be researched, the data sets to be analyzed and the standards through which scientific observations are measured, Jemison said it is necessary to encourage a diverse workforce in STEM fields. Jemison noted examples of how breast cancer in women and testicular cancer were treated See SPACE, Page 3A
her industry and earned her advancements as she worked her way through the ranks of General Motors. “She represents so many different things — somebody who worked her way through the company, someone who is in Detroit helping to revive the whole Michigan economy, a real breakthrough for women’s leadership,” Coleman said in an interview with the Daily. Born in Waterford, Barra graduated from the General Motors Institute — since renamed Kettering University — in 1985 with a degree in electrical engineering. She earned an MBA from Stanford University in 1990. Barra, who has dedicated her entire career to General Motors, has held a variety of positions. She was a plant manager at Detroit Hamtramck Assembly, vice president of global manufacturing engineering from 2008 to 2009, vice president of global human resources from 2009 to See COMMENCEMENT, Page 3A
Alcohol violations increasing on campus ‘U’ reported 621 violations in 20122013 academic year By MAX RADWIN Deputy Magazine Editor
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LEFT: Jadyn Bortman performs at FrenchieSkate Sunday at Yost Ice Arena. Proceeds benefited North Star Reach, a camp for C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. TOP RIGHT: Elladj Balde performs. BOTTOM RIGHT: LSA freshman Maia Shibutani and LSA sophomore Alex Shibutani perform.
Students, Olympians raise funds for children at Yost Participants raised money for camps for young patients By AMRUTHA SIVAKUMAR Deputy Magazine Editor
They spend their days shuttling between school, training and competitions. Many of them spent the last three
weeks competing at the Winter Olympics in Sochi and are preparing for the World Figure Skating Championships in Japan in two weeks. But on Sunday, these 15 groups of figure skaters and ice dancers took their day off to be a part of FrenchieSkate, an ice show at Yost Ice Arena that raised money for children with serious medical ailments. FrenchieSkate began in 2010 when current LSA junior Geor-
gia Glastris, member of the University’s figure skating club and reigning Greek National Champion in figure skating, organized a charity ice show in a Chicago suburb to commemorate her childhood friend Francesca Persico, who passed away 12 years ago from neuroblastoma cancer. “I spent about from first grade to fourth grade holding her hand in the hospital while See FRENCHIESKATE, Page 3A
The University’s Office of Student Conflict Resolution released its annual report for the 2012 to 2013 academic year Feb. 28, highlighting shifts in sexual misconduct policy as well as upward trends in alcohol violations. There were 621 reported violations of the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities during the 2012 to 2013 academic year. Of those, 544 were dealt with by OSCR through its three resolution programs — “Formal Conflict Resolution,” “Adaptable Conflict Resolution” and “Adaptable Conflict Resolution for Alcohol and other Drugs” — which attempt to resolve issues through processes such as mediation, conflict coaching and facilitated dialogue, depending on the type and severity of the infraction. The 621 reported violations See VIOLATIONS, Page 3A
Victory for Morgan Senior Night ends with the first outright Big Ten championship since 1986
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NEWS......................... 2A SUDOKU.....................2A OPINION.....................4A
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