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Robert Crawford, a professor at the University of St. Andrews, gives a public presentation about T.S. Eliot and the Scottish Indepndence Referendum in Angell Hall Monday.
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SACUA reworks policy regarding fitness to work Existing protocol may conflict with ADA standards By STEPHANIE SHENOUDA Daily News Editor
The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs convened for its weekly meeting in the Regent’s Room of the Flem-
Judge to determine feasibility of adjustment plan by Nov. 7
ing Administration Building Monday afternoon to discuss the Fitness for Duty policy. Much of the group’s discussion centered on language regarding revision of the policy and its accompanying professional standards as they relate to University faculty and staff. The Fitness for Duty policy offers protections to University employees in the event that they find themselves physically or mentally unable
to perform their jobs, including possible financial compensation during their investigation and one year of severance pay if they are let go due to their condition. SACUA Chair Scott Masten, a professor of business economics and public policy, said the group was making progress and had recently heard from the Office of the Provost about the “source of conflict” regarding the Americans with Disabilities
Act and the University’s current standards of fitness for duty and medical conditions. Currently, the ADA places emphasis on “job performance,” and not the reason the individual is unable to perform their job, unless they choose to disclose their disability. The law specifically forbids officials from making assumptions about the reason a faculty member is failSee SACUA, Page 3
More than a year after the city of Detroit became the largest municipality to declare Chapter 9 bankruptcy in U.S. history, the decision regarding the city’s proposed plan of adjustment and the beginnings of a new financial life is now a reality. In the closing arguments of Detroit’s bankruptcy trial, the city’s legal representation held the floor most of the day, asking to confirm the plan of adjustment by reiterating the status of deals with creditors, the fate of the Detroit Institute of Art’s artworks and the pensions of city workers. The next step will be for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes to decide whether Detroit’s plan of adjustment is
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Taylor plans to model Hieftje’s goals, leadership Mayoral frontrunner will maintain atmosphere in City Council By EMMA KERR Daily Staff Reporter
With two new Ann Arbor City Council members slated to assume office and the upcoming election of Ann Arbor’s first new mayor in 14 years, times are changing. But when it comes to mayoral priorities, these changes might not be so drastic. The local Democratic primary resulted in a near majority victory for mayoral candidate Christopher Taylor, who currently serves on the Council representing the third ward. While Taylor was not publicly endorsed by current Mayor John Hieftje (D), his campaign focused heavily on maintaining a council that is a continuation of the current Council and embodies the ideals and goals set under Hieftje’s leadership. Development has been one of the most divisive issues among councilmembers in recent years and was also a hot topic during the mayoral primary. Hieftje has been a more ardent supporter of downtown development programs compared to other Council factions which have been more hesitant to allow new building projects and have advocated for a
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focus instead on the city’s neighborhoods. Julie Grand (D–Ward 3), Kirk Westphal (D–Ward 2) and incumbent Chuck Warpehoski (D–Ward 5), who will all serve on Council in 2015 due to being uncontested candidates, each have associations with Taylor and Hieftje. During her campaign for her Council seat, Grand endorsed Taylor for mayor over councilmembers Sabra Briere (D–Ward 1), Steve Kunselman (D–Ward 3) and Sally Petersen (D–Ward 2). Warpehoski and Westphal were both publicly endorsed by Hieftje. Taylor said throughout his campaign that he believes Ann Arbor is headed in the right direction, and Grand and Westphal have also applauded much of the current Council’s work under Hieftje. Grand would not explicitly say whether she supports Hieftje, but said because Taylor won the primary with a platform of continuing Hieftje’s work, it is clear the public feels confident that the city has been in good hands with the incumbent mayor and will be with Taylor as well. Taylor’s record reflects a voting history similar to that of Hieftje’s. “I’m not saying that I am or that I’m not an ally (of Hieftje),” Grand said. “I’m very pleased with the job that the mayor has done. And if you look at Chris Taylor’s victory, that is reflecSee COUNCIL, Page 3
feasible. This decision will come on Friday, Nov. 7 at 2 p.m. Bruce Bennett, the attorney from law firm Jones Day who is representing the city, reminded those present to not lose sight of how much has been accomplished in the 15 months and 8 days since Detroit filed for bankruptcy last July — a quick proceeding compared to other municipality bankruptcy cases. The city has come up with a broadly consensual plan — which includes agreement from all parties — that would discharge $7 billion in claims and reinvest $1.7 billion in the city. Bennett lauded the city’s overall efficiency in compiling a plan, calling it “remarkable” that a thorough plan was created in a timeframe that was “not widely expected when the case began.” He added that the timing also helps to mitigate the negative effects that an ongoing bankruptcy has on a city. “It is for your honor to take the next big step and confirm this plan,” Bennett said to Rhodes, adding that he’d like to see a ruling from the judge before Thanksgiving. See DETROIT, Page 3
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Attorney Mike Behm, a Democratic candidate for the University’s Board of Regents, speaks with the Daily Oct. 8.
With an eye on affordability, Behm hopes for regent seat Candidate hopes to foster more collaboration with Flint, Dearborn By ALLANA AKHTAR Daily Staff Reporter
Attorney Mike Behm, one of the Democratic candidates for the University’s Board of Regents, is running on a platform of decreasing tuition to make the University more accessible and working to increase collaboration with the University’s satellite campuses in Flint and Dearborn. In November, Behm will compete for one of two spots on the eight-member Board of Regents. One of the open slots will be vacated by University Regent Julia Darlow (D–Ann Arbor),
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who has opted to not seek another term. The other is currently held by Regent Kathy White (D–Ann Arbor), who is up for re-election. Two Republicans, Dr. Rob Steele and Ron Weiser, a former U.S. ambassador to Slovakia, are also seeking election. Regents are popularly elected by voters from across the state of Michigan. A Flint native, Behm moved to Ann Arbor in 1985 to study English at the University. Active on campus, he wrote for The Michigan Daily and sang in the Michigan Men’s Glee Club, the second oldest club in the country, and eventually sang a capella with the renowned group The Friars. After graduation, he attended law school at Wayne State University in Detroit and currently works as a litigator in Flint. Recognized by the American Trial Lawyers Association as one of the top 100 lawyers
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in Michigan, Behm also served as president of the trade association Michigan Association for Justice in 2011. “The mission of that group is to protect peoples’ Seventh Amendment rights, to be able to have a jury in front of their peers,” Behm said. “I think that’s something that’s very important.” Before deciding to run for regent, Behm was an active member of the Democratic Party for much of his adult life. In 1996 he worked as a volunteer lawyer for the Clinton campaign, and in 2004 he created programs to educate citizens about elections to discourage voter intimidation and urge people to vote. He also served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 2008. Behm said he decided to run for regent on a platform of makSee REGENTS, Page 3
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Open Enrollment for 2015 health insurance plans is fast approaching, and hundreds of thousands of Michiganders have recently signed up to receive state aid to pay for their healthcare plans. The Healthy Michigan Plan — Michigan’s Medicaid expansion — was approved in late 2013 and began accepting applications April 1. Six months in, the number of enrollees in the plan has already far exceeded projections for the first year. Michigan is one of the most recent states to expand the Medicaid program. The plan provides health care to Michigan residents ages 19 to 64 with incomes below 133 percent of the federal poverty line. For an individual without a family to support, this would be an income of $16,000 or less per year. Medicaid is a social welfare program that began long before President Obama’s 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Beginning in 1965, this program provided funding for states to expand health care to lowSee INSURANCE, Page 3
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two, but I have something to do with a third. I teach in the English Department and the American Culture Department. I also have a substantial presence in the Frankel Center for Jewish Studies. So my teaching really is of three kinds. I teach books and movies in all three. In English I tend to focus largely on the literature of the late 19th, early 20th centuries, although I also get to teach a Hitchcock course, which is a lot of fun. In American Culture and Jewish Studies I tend to teach crossover classes where I’m interested in the relations between writing about Jews and writing about
I feel about my classes the way I feel about my children. They’re all my favorite. There’s not one that I think of as being more favorite than any other. Are you dressing up for Halloween? No, I’m taking my son for a college visit on Halloween. So, unfortunately, he’s mad about it, but we’re going to have to miss it this year.
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Michigan football coach Brady Hoke said Monday that senior linebacker Desmond Morgan will redshirt. He wasn’t so candid about his plans for Jabrill Peppers. >> FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS, PAGE 8
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UHS officials encourage Families of missing Mexican hygiene before flu season students waiting for answers Efficacy of current flu vaccine so far uncertain By ANASTASSIOS ADAMOPOLOUS Daily Staff Reporter
Fall is here. And while the change of season signals the arrival of colorful leaves and pumpkin carving, it also signifies the beginning of something many prefer to avoid: flu season. Dr. Robert Winfield, the University’s Chief Health Officer and Director of University Health Service, said while the University is planning to promote vaccination a bit more than usual, the fact that there has not yet been an outbreak of cases actually poses challenges for potential prevention measures. “The influenza season has not yet begun,” Winfield said. “So we do not know the strain of flu
we will be seeing this fall, and we don’t know if there is a good match with the vaccine with the circulating virus because there is no circulating virus yet.” According to the Michigan Department of Community Health, a total of three people have been hospitalized due to influenza so far this flu season. Winfield said the University is currently focused on preparing for the unlikely scenario that an Ebola patient is diagnosed at the University or arrives for treatment at the University Hospital. The University Health System has already initiated practice drills, purchased new equipment and redesigned telephone protocols to better indicate whether the patient has been in contact with someone with Ebola or has been in countries such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and New Guinea in the last 21 days. “Part of the conversation is how to protect the community, and how to make sure the health
care workers don’t get contaminated and that other patients in the hospital don’t get contaminated” Winfield said. Peter Logan, director of communications for University Housing, said he has no knowledge of new measures for flu prevention, and added that University Health Service would direct Housing to adopt any new measures they recommend. In recent years, Logan said the University has worked to inform students about how to protect themselves from influenza and what to do if they get it. While the most common strain during flu season, influenza A, can be treated with the medicine Tamiflu, Winfield said the most effective preventative strategy is for people to keep their hands clean. Logan said Housing has several initiatives in place for students who do become ill. Feel Better Meals allows a friend or Residential Adviser to pick up and deliver specially prepared meals for sick students. In 2010, the University was the first college in the country to introduce liquid ozone as a cleaner in South Quad Residence Hall, and the substance has since been used in most residence halls as well as in the Michigan Union and Michigan League. Ozone cleaners are stronger and begin working more quickly than other types of sanitizers. “Obviously one of the key messages we encourage our residents to follow is that if they do get sick, we really advise them to stay in bed, ride it out, get well,” Logan said. “Don’t take your illness, don’t take your germs into the community and into the classrooms.”
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Three students dead after series of attacks by police TIXTLA, Mexico (AP) — Night is the most difficult time at the rural teachers college, where families have stayed on thin, bare mattresses in classrooms since 43 students went missing a month ago. The day’s distractions of meals, meetings and marches end, and the parents are left with their thoughts, questions and a simmering rage. Sleep has eluded Clemente Rodriguez Moreno, 46, since his 19-year-old son Christian disappeared with his classmates. Each night Rodriguez returns to his home close to the Raul Isidro Burgos school in Tixtla and his mind races. “What will come of them? We don’t know if he’s eating, if he’s injured, if they’re hitting him.” The families’ lives have been upended since police in the town of Iguala, allegedly on the mayor’s orders, attacked the students to stop them from interrupting a speech by the mayor’s wife on Sept. 26. Both the mayor and his wife are fugitives, along with the police chief. Three students, including one later found with the skin peeled off his face, and three people unrelated to the attack, died in a series of initial attacks. Investigators say the rest of the students were driven off to a police station, later turned over to the drug gang Guerreros Unidos and have not been heard from since. Everything since has been a nightmare, said a 57-year-old farmer from Ayutla who spoke on condition of anonymity as a precaution against reprisals. He walks his 19-year-old son’s campus in the Ayotzinapa neighborhood in a daze. “I don’t sleep for the thinking,” he said, fingering a foil packet of sleeping pills prescribed by a doctor who came by to help. “I
don’t feel like I’m living life.” His family has few resources, he said, and his son came to the school because the students support themselves. That’s what he said they were doing that afternoon in Iguala, soliciting donations. Staring at the photograph of his son after a march to demand the return of the missing, the farmer spoke one moment of the anguish of not knowing. His eyes welled with tears and he bit his lower lip. Next flashed an anger that has been building over weeks. He said he’s tired of a corrupt government that has always scorned poor farmers. He wants the guilty to pay. “If they don’t give them to us, we’ll have to proceed another way, with more resistance,” he said. There was so much confusion in those early days, said Valentin Cornelio Gonzalez, a 30-year old farmer from the municipality of Tecoanapa who dropped everything to travel to the school, where his brother-in-law, 19-year-old Abel Garcia Hernandez, is enrolled. Was the attack at the school or in Iguala? Were the attackers police or cartel gunmen? How many students were missing? Some gaps have since been filled, but the gaping one, the one families care most about, remains a void, despite the arrest and interrogation of 56 suspects so far. As of last week, authorities had located 38 sets of remains and 11 mass graves in Iguala without linking any to the students. On Monday, investigators were digging again in nearby Cocula and found more remains after the confessions of four new detainees. As of Monday afternoon, the families had not been informed about the discovery, which only adds to the growing frustration. “A lot of time has passed and still there’s nothing,” Gonzalez said. So, clad in well-worn leather
sandals, he has been marching — in the state capital of Chilpancingo, in Acapulco, in Mexico City — demanding an answer. When he first arrived at the school he and other relatives spent a fruitless day searching around Iguala. They feared for their safety, but fault the government for not doing enough: “They’re not looking for them like they should.” Mario Cesar Gonzalez, 49, the father of 21-year-old Cesar Manuel Gonzalez Hernandez, spends his days at the school pacing in cowboy boots. He’s boiling too much inside to sit for a massage or take lessons in meditation techniques offered by others who want to help. He can’t stand with the other parents before the makeshift altar in the middle of the school’s basketball court to sing a hymn. One minute he’s listening in a small circle of parents on the basketball court and the next he’s walking away, his cell phone held tight to one ear and a cigarette between his fingers. He’s so proud of his son. Even after weeks without news of their whereabouts, Gonzalez and other parents unfailingly speak of their children in the present tense. Cesar wants to fight for the poor, he said. Cesar told his mother he would help her so she could leave the department store job that exhausts her. The young man doesn’t know that after a month of living at his school and waiting for his return, his mother has lost her job. So has his father, who worked at a body shop in Huamantla. “That doesn’t matter to me anymore,” Gonzalez said. Clemente Rodriguez left his chickens, geese and pigs, as well his work delivering water jugs, to spend four days last week in Mexico City collecting donations for the school, marching and telling his story over and over. Sporting cowboy boots and an Angry Birds baseball cap, Rodriguez boasted that his son stands over six feet tall and loves to folk dance.
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New program aims to increase hiring of disabled workers Gov. Rick Snyder is directing state agencies to make it a goal to hire people with disabilities and mental illnesses. The governor issued a directive Monday that all executive agencies participate in a new program designed to attract and retain disabled employees. Snyder’s move stems from recommendations made by a mental health commission that he created last year. Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, who chairs the commission, told reporters on a conference call that the state of Michigan must “lead by example” so other employers follow. The goal is boosting overall integrated employment of disabled employees while keeping their personal information confidential.
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Woman charged with murder after beating 66-year-old A 50-year-old woman is charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of a 66-year-old woman in a suburban Detroit apartment building. The Wayne County prosecutor’s office said Monday that Tewana Sullivan of Detroit will be arraigned Nov. 6. Livonia police arrested Sullivan on Wednesday night after officers found the severely beaten victim unconscious in the building, west of Detroit. Sullivan was visiting a relative in the building. She was charged last week with attempted murder, and the prosecutor upgraded the charge after the victim died Saturday.
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Pastor performs gay marriage, keeps ordination A Methodist pastor who was disciplined after he officiated at the wedding of his gay son will be allowed to remain an ordained minister. The Judicial Council of the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination ruled Monday that a Pennsylvania church jury was wrong to defrock Frank Schaefer last year after he would not promise never to perform another samesex wedding. The council ruled on technical grounds and did not express support for gay marriage in general. Its decision is final. Reached by phone after the decision, Schaefer called it “amazing.” He said he was pleased, “not just for myself, but for everyone in the LGBTQ community and the church. This is a positive decision that keeps the dialogue going. They didn’t bar a person who is an outspoken activist and who has said that, if asked, he would perform another gay marriage.”
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UN investigator banned from Iraq by senior official The United Nations special investigator on Iran is not fazed by a senior official’s announcement that he is banned from the country, saying on Monday, “He loves banning me.” Ahmed Shaheed also told reporters he was “shocked” by the execution Saturday of Reyhaneh Jabbari, a woman convicted of murdering a man she said was trying to rape her. He said he had repeatedly raised concerns about the fairness of her trial. He spoke a day before presenting his report on Iran to the General Assembly’s human rights committee, where he is expected to speak out against the country’s second-highest rate of executions in the world. —Compiled from Daily wire reports
Bennett gave thorough explanations of each of the more contentious topics within the plan of adjustment. He spent a good portion of his time Monday discussing the feasibility of the plan, highlighting the two major qualifications: that the city meets its financial obligations and be able to recover and provide adequate city services. Bennett walked through the previous evidence presented to the court again, noting the assessments made by Mayor Mike Duggan and the city offices that determined that the city is prepared to provide services. Rhodes questioned Bennett about possible risks that could threaten the feasibility of the plan, including unknown variables such as as a new mayor and his administration. Bennett noted such variables are difficult to predict. He said the worst thing that could happen “is if the $1.7 billion is misused or perceived to be misused.” Bennett reviewed the viability of increasing property taxes on Detroiters to help repay creditors. He used a “department store analogy” to explain why the city believes raising taxes would hurt Detroit. He said when people decide where to live, they will compare the taxes and services of cities. Bennett argued that higher taxes could give individuals incentive to leave Detroit, which would further decrease the city’s tax base and, in turn, level of services. Bennett said the more central question is whether or not taxes should be reduced. Rhodes also specifically questioned Bennett about the topic of long-term pension recovery. The two discussed the projections for the plan, noting the possibility that pensions could fully recover eventually but acknowledging the complicated math and many variables that can affect the plan’s outcome. While Rhodes already made the decision that the Michigan Constitution’s stated protection for pensions does not carry more weight than any other contract agreement within the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, he returned
COUNCIL From Page 1 tive of that. I supported our presumptive mayor. Does that mean that I don’t have my own mind? Absolutely not.” There are two other new members who will take their seats on the Council in 2015: Westphal, who ran against Nancy Kaplan, a member of the Ann Arbor District Library Board, for the seat vacated by Petersen; and Graydon Krapohl, who ran uncontested for the open fourth ward seat following the retirement of Margie Teall (D–Ward 4). “I have become acquainted with the incoming new councilmembers,” Westphal said. “I’ve had some interactions with Christopher in the past in his duties as a councilmember in the past, and I am hoping it will be the case that everyone continues to be civil on Council and works for the best of the community.” Following the mayoral primary, which included four current councilmembers, some see the possibility for tension between those members who will continue to serve on Council. If elected mayor in the general election, Taylor, who won the primary with 47.57 percent of the vote, will serve alongside former primary opponents Briere and Kunselman. Kunselman, who received 16.46 percent of the vote, said following the primary that he looks forward to working with Taylor and fellow councilmembers in the future. Kunselman and Taylor have served together on Council since 2009, though in the 2008 election, Kunselman lost his seat to Taylor. Kunselman ran again in 2009 and has been on Council since. “There’s no sense of dread,” Kunselman said. “I’m keeping a very open mind and I think Council dynamics are going to continue very much how they have been, where there are
News to the topic Monday in his line of questions for of Bennett. One individual objector pressed the issue, addressing some of the minor details of the Michigan Constitution’s requirements for each retiree. In his explanation of the DIA settlement, Bennett addressed three major questions: whether the city is able to sell the DIA’s assets, whether liquidated assets can be used to pay creditors and whether the city should be compelled to sell assets at all. Bennett said due to restrictions on the DIA’s art as part of a charitable trust, among other restrictions, it cannot be sold. He added that there is no legal obligation for the city to liquidate all its assets to pay off obligations. He also said the DIA serves as a “nationally prominent cultural institution,” maintaining it could also potentially draw people back to the city. Bennett argued the $466 million pledged through the grand bargain is the best possible outcome for the DIA. Under the grand bargain, the DIA would no longer be owned by the city. Funding from the DIA, the state as well as nonprofit and for-profit organizations would prevent the sale of DIA artwork and reduce cuts to pensions. Though creditors argued failure to sell the art unfairly discriminated against them as compared to pensioners — initially believing more money could have been generated by selling the art — major creditors have since signed on to deals in which they are compensated in other ways. Bennett expressed confidence in Rhodes’ expected decision regarding the DIA, saying he intends to return to Detroit after the bankruptcy as a tourist. “I’m not in a rush; I understand the DIA will be here for a while,” he said. Other speakers Monday were Steve Howell, special assistant attorney general for the state of Michigan, representatives from various city pension organizations and three dissenters. Howell said the plan of adjustment is in the best interest of creditors. He said it is a chance for the city to move forward and grow, and called for this “unprecedented opportunity” to be approved by Rhodes.
issues that are more important to some members than others that eventually results in compromise.” In a mayoral debate earlier this year, Briere said she does not consider herself aligned with anyone in particular on Council, including Hieftje. “I don’t belong to a faction,” Briere said. “John is gone and we should get over it. Now we look at the future. As much as we may like John or agree with his policies, I’m not running against John and I’m not running to beat John.” However, the question on voters’ minds may not have been whether Briere was running against Hieftje, but rather whether she was going to make decisions similar to Hieftje’s. Taylor has aligned himself indirectly with the former mayor since the beginning of his mayoral campaign, and his near-majority victory illustrated that a desire for change was not driving voters’ decisions. “I don’t expect our government to change much, I expect it to fine-tune around the edges,” Kunselman said. “The biggest change is that when you no longer have the longest-serving mayor presiding over, there’s going to be a learning curve for everyone, even for Chris Taylor, assuming he is the next mayor. We are going to have to learn how to identify others’ positions within Council.” Though new to the Council, Grand served with Taylor on the Park Advisory Commission and said she is not concerned that there will be any lingering tensions following election season. “I’m not really concerned about the councilmembers that ran for mayor; I don’t think that’s what is driving the dynamic,” Grand said. “I’m hoping with a new mayor and some new councilmembers that we can try to get rid of some of these old divisions. I’m not naïve about that, but I certainly want to do my best to compromise.”
INSURANCE From Page 1 income individuals. Medicaid is funded by both the states and the federal government, and is administered by each state. States were not required to adopt a Medicaid program, but every state currently has a program in place. The ACA increased federal funding for Medicaid, but also required that states would pay 10 percent of the expansion by 2020. Then, in 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could continue to receive their original funding for Medicaid without expanding the program. As of now, a little over half of the states — 27 states and the District of Columbia — have chosen to expand Medicaid. Researchers from the University Medical School analyzed data from the first 100 days of the Healthy Michigan Plan, during which there were surprisingly high levels of enrollment. Prof. John Ayanian, director of the Institute for Healthcare Innovation and Policy, coauthored a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine that analyzed early data from the expansion. In its first few months, the plan enrolled over 327,000 people, more than were predicted to enroll in the entire year. By Oct. 20, 2014, the number of enrollees had reached 424,852. Ayanian suggested some reasons for the plan’s early success. One reason is the late rollout of the plan. Most state Medicaid expansions began Jan. 1, 2014. Michigan’s did not begin until April 1, 2014. Ayanian said these extra three months allowed state officials to communicate to people that they were eligible for assistance. The extra months also gave the state more time to prepare the plan’s enrollment website, ensuring its efficiency. An efficient website was especially necessary due to the initial prob-
SACUA From Page 1 ing to perform their job functions unless they voluntarily confirm their disability. “We have to make it clear that any fitness for duty policy will only apply to faculty with mental or physical illness that keeps them from adequately performing their duties,” Masten said. “There’s no way to meet both the ADA requirements and cover only physical and medical conditions if (this interpretation of) the ADA is right.” He added that working to create a policy that suits the needs of the University while complying with ADA standards will continue to be a group effort, and that the next step is getting a second opinion from a “foremost expert” in the Law School. Masten then compared the proposed language with that of the University’s existing fitness for duty policy, which currently applies to all University faculty and staff. Fitness for duty is currently defined as “being physically and mentally capable of safely performing the duties of their job,” and implies that anything outside of those standards constitutes “unfitness for duty.” “Either the current policy is
REGENTS From Page 1 ing college more affordable and accessible statewide. In terms of affordability, he said his first initiative would be to decrease the recent trend of the University’s budget being covered more by tuition and endowment and less by the state. He said if the state bears more of the costs, tuition could decrease. “I would like to see the state of Michigan reinvest in the University of Michigan and in public education,” he said. Closely linked to the cost of higher education, Behm said affordability could be improved by increasing access to need-based loans. Currently, one-third of students attending the state’s 15 public universities receive need-based loans, yet, according to Behm, only 12 percent of University students receive this type of aid. “I do not think that is an accurate reflection of the picture of what the student body should be here,” he said. “That needs to be fixed.”
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 — 3 lems with HealthCare.gov — the ACA’s online insurance marketplace — that were widely publicized in the media. “The key state officials made it a priority to test the computer systems that were required to enroll people to make sure they were working effectively before enrollment began,” Ayanian said. Ayanian said Michigan’s success could also serve as an example to largely Republican states. Historically, Republicans have opposed the expansion of Medicaid. While Michigan generally votes Democratic in the presidential election and is represented in the U.S. Senate by two Democrats, the state has a Republican governor and Republicans control both houses of the legislature. “It’s a good model particularly for other states that have Republican governors or legislatures and have reservations about expanding the Medicaid program,” Ayanian said. Open Enrollment for 2015 insurance coverage under the ACA will begin again Nov. 15. This year, the Healthy Michigan Plan will also be in place throughout the Open Enrollment period. Carrie Rheingans, project manager for the Washtenaw County Health Initiative, said HealthCare.gov will inform Michigan residents who qualify for benefits under the Healthy Michigan Plan. These individuals can then go to the plan’s website to register for said benefits. “HealthCare.gov points you in the direction you need to go,” Rheingans said. Last year, Michigan had not yet expanded Medicaid when Open Enrollment ended. For this reason, Rheingans said low-income individuals could not sign up for the expanded benefits until after having registered for their insurance plan. People already enrolled in the Healthy Michigan Plan will also see a change in the coming months. Previously, no one registered under the plan would have
to pay any fees, excepting copays, which would usually be only $1 or $2 per month. Now, if an individual falls between 100 and 138 percent of the federal poverty level, he or she will have a monthly fee in addition to copays. This fee begins six months after one starts receiving services through Medicaid, and the amount is based on how much healthcare one has received over the past six months. “Those folks will also be asked to make what they’re calling ‘monthly contributions’ to their health insurance,” Rheingans said. “They’ve looked at the cost of all of it and what quantity of services you’re using, and they make an average over those six months to say that’s about how much you should be paying every month going forward for the next since months.” Rheingans said though the fee should be low for most people, it still may cause difficulties for the people it affects, especially because many in this income range do not have bank accounts through which they can easily pay the fees. “It’s hard to know what is ‘expensive,’ because folks who are between 100 and 138 percent of the poverty line, it’s not like they’re rich people,” she said. “It’s still yet another payment, and people have to have a bank account to make these payments.” The open enrollment period for this year extends from Nov. 15 to Feb. 15, 2015. During this time, individuals can sign up for a new health insurance plan or look at options for switching from their current plan. 2014 Marketplace plans will expire Dec. 31. Students can get information about healthcare options through campus resources, such as University Health Service, or community resources, such as the Washtenaw County Health Initiative. Information is also available online at HealthCare.gov and www.michigan.gov/healthymiplan.
not compliant with the ADA, which, who knows, maybe it was just never updated, so if we don’t agree to implement the new fitness for duty policy, we’d be better off with (the ADA’s version) than the one we currently have,” Masten said. “Part of the reason for the new policy was it doesn’t encompass all the considerations that would go into an appropriate consideration for faculty, but at least this one is limited to mental and physical conditions.” Most SACUA members agreed that there was a need for specific language regarding mental and physical conditions since those are the main reasons for which a fitness for duty investigation would be opened initially. Pharmacy Prof. David Smith said he felt the ability to “safely execute one’s duties” should be the key requirement for being classified fit for duty, leaving out mention of specific mental or physical health requirements. According, to Smith, such requirements might make the language more in accordance with ADA standards, but many other members wanted to keep the language in the revised policy. Smith added that there are other probable factors that could potentially render faculty members “unable to perform essential functions” outside of mental and physical complications, but it was
deemed that most other suggested behaviors would dictate “willful refusal,” which would amount to insubordination, a cause for termination that does not apply to any fitness for duty policy. “There are experts who can provide examinations for medical issues, mental and physical,” Masten said. “If it’s a non-medical issue, who’s going to make that determination?” Currently, non-medical issues are at the discretion of the dean of the faculty member’s college, who would then open an investigation to determine whether the individual is capable of continuing to work. The group concluded that this process could be seen as “arbitrary” and that they wanted to work toward a more concrete policy. “We’d have a lot less concern about this if we were having medical professionals making this call,” Masten said. This led to discussion about excluding those without physical or mental limitations from the protections of the policy. Next Monday, SACUA will be joined by University Provost Martha Pollack. The following week, they will have their monthly check-in with University President Mark Schlissel at their regularly scheduled meeting.
To improve affordability, Behm said the University could tap into its endowment — which reached an all-time high of $9.7 billion in the 2014 fiscal year — to keep costs low and could also look to federal legislation to lower the borrowing rate for student loans. As a Flint native who works in the city, Behm said he also feels a responsibility to advocate for the University’s satellite campuses in Flint and Dearborn. Though the two campuses have typically been less residential than Ann Arbor, Behm noted how when a dorm was built for the first time at Flint in 2009, it immediately filled to capacity. He linked this to a changing culture of satellite campuses and their potential to grow in the near future. “Those campuses really offer an opportunity for the University of Michigan to interact with the students and communities of Flint and Dearborn,” he said. With respect to diversity, Behm said the University must work toward increasing racial diversity on campus, but within the boundaries of Proposal 2, the
2006 voter initiative that banned the consideration of race in admissions, among other factors. He said the percentage of Black students that make up the student body is far less than the number of Black citizens in the state. “This is a public University; it serves the mission and the people of our entire state, not just some of the people,” he said. “We need to fix that problem.” Behm also expressed a willingness to work with students to make the activities and decisions of University administrators more transparent. In July, The Detroit Free Press sued the University for violating the Open Meetings Act, arguing that the Board of Regents makes most of its decisions in private. Behm said he plans to meet with students and faculty regularly during his tenure on the board, noting that the best way to bring a perspective of the issues facing students and faculty is to interact with them directly. “That’s what makes an institution work, is open communication,” he said.
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A horror story from a lower-class traveler
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olidays are a great time in a student’s life — family, friends, food, food and more food. They’re also extremely stressful. Students have to debate how to split their time between homework and visits to home, between family members — especially in divorced households — and between time and money wasted when traveling to the ones DEVIN they love. Unfortunately, when EGGERT it comes to traveling, I’m pretty cheap. My horror story begins with a bus company that I swore to God I would never travel with again — even at my own inconvenience: the infamous Greyhound bus. Now, you don’t sign up for the Greyhound without knowing what you’re getting into. (You are Jack Dawson with a ticket to the lowest floor of a ship that you hope doesn’t get lost in the ocean and delayed for two days.) I arrived early to the packed Chicago bus station and went to the bathroom — I exited as soon as possible because there were people bathing in the sinks and someone was throwing up. I showed a worker my ticket. A pack of people from Ann Arbor followed the worker and me to the designated waiting area for our ride. Our ride was never announced, even after several inquiries as to when the bus might be coming. An hour after we were supposed to board, a worker freaked out, realizing that the station forgot to announce our bus arrival. A parent of a University student got the manager, who suddenly realized the mistake. Yet, instead of helping the situation, the manager started flipping out. When I say flipping out, I mean that the manager said that all 20 of us from Ann Arbor were liars and that she was going to get the police. If we moved, security would kick us out. We found this really strange and scary. We wondered who she was yelling at, considering our group was abnormally polite. It seemed like she was yelling at an imaginary person. Greyhound security surrounded us for an hour. Two other girls from the University and I were crying. The manager kept yelling incoherent directions. We honestly didn’t know what to do. Some adults were asking why we were being surrounded. The security said they had no idea and that the manager just told them to do so. I was shaking. A lot of people gave up and left the station. The worker who originally led us to the area walked by. I called out to him to see what had happened. He said Greyhound messed up and they were trying to cover themselves. But, he refused to tell a higher manager because he didn’t want to lose his job. After two hours of standing, the manager returned. She said we stood in the wrong area and that all 20 of us (now 11 because nine people went home) missed the announcement. It was all our fault. Out of the goodness of her heart, the Greyhound manager said we could possibly get on the next bus … if we could convince the bus driver. She also threw in that it probably wouldn’t happen
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because our group was undeserving and had bad attitudes. In tears, three of us girls begged the bus driver of the next bus to let us in. This was a situation in which none of us was from Chicago, school was the next day, and we would somehow have to rent a hotel and figure out how to get to Ann Arbor if they didn’t let us on. The bus driver was furious. She refused to let 11 of us on the bus even though there were 11 empty seats. One of the older gentlemen threw a fit on the phone to the company. The bus driver let us on after receiving a command from her radio telling her that she must let us on the bus. The bus driver ran off the bus to yell at the station owners. We all got on. I was the last, left with four seat options — all of which had the bus driver’s stuff sprawled across them. Since I was scared of the bus driver and pretty much every worker of Greyhound, I stayed standing. The people at the front of the bus sympathized with how the bus driver was treating us, and one woman moved her pillow that was blocking one of the seats so that I could sit down. I did. And, I kid you not, when the bus driver returned she accused me of stealing stuff out of her purse, which was next to me. It was awful. The only reason I was allowed to stay was that the front of the bus vouched for me, and the woman traded seats with me. After riding the bus for an hour, the bus driver said she didn’t want to go to Ann Arbor, so she was going to drop us off in Detroit (three girls were going to get dropped off in the middle of Detroit at night). I tried to message some friends in the area. Meanwhile, a creepy guy next to me kept saying things about blondes, college girls and then started singing, “What am I going to do with three hot college girls alone at night” over and over. I tried to act like I was sleeping. I opened my eyes. He was a foot away staring at me and touching my arm. The bus driver had a change of heart in Detroit and decided to drive us to Ann Arbor after an older man talked to her. For the first time, I had tears of relief, even though she dropped us off far from the Ann Arbor stop because “it wasn’t worth driving in.” The creepy guy got off with us even though he was supposed to go to Flint. He started following us. Thanks to my self-defense knowledge, I took a pen (as a weapon). I turned around and told him in an angry tone that I have a cab coming in the next minute. And, he was not allowed to follow me or get in. I kept walking with my thumb on 911. He called out some sexual stuff but whatever, he turned around and walked the other way. I did make it home to my residence hall safely. So did everyone from Ann Arbor. I ran into one of the girls I met at the Greyhound station at Charley’s. We bonded over the terrifying experience. I guess through all this, my point of this ghastly story is: 1. Don’t ride a Greyhound, 2. Time trumps money sometimes — even for the cheap, and 3. Just because Jack Dawson paid for a lower class ticket doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be given humane treatment if the Titanic sinks. — Devin Eggert can be reached at deeggert@umich.edu.
Dangerous discourse
few weeks ago, a video of Ben Affleck and Bill Maher debating radical Islam went viral. After watching it the first time, I knew that I had to write about it. Not because I thought it was particularly interesting, but because I’m still unable to comprehend how it even happened in the first place. So let’s set the scene: The video is a clip of Maher’s show, “Real HAYA Time with Bill Maher.” It ALFARHAN features Maher himself, along with Affleck, author Sam Harris, MSNBC political analyst Michael Steele and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. It opens with Maher saying that liberals have failed themselves because they’ve been unable to protect liberal principles, like freedom of speech, freedom to practice any religion, etc. Pause. The debate begins by framing a discussion on Islam, specifically radical Islam in the Middle East, by centering it on American liberalism. The panel, who are all presumably experts on the topic, is made up of five nonMuslim men. Play. Sam Harris picks up right after Maher, saying, “We have been sold this meme of Islamophobia, where every criticism of the doctrine of Islam gets conflated with bigotry toward Muslims as people.” Ben Affleck, yes, that Ben Affleck, attempts to counter, saying, “So you’re saying Islamophobia is not a real thing?” Maher smugly answers, “It’s not a real
thing when we do it.” Pause. The name of the game is positioning. Maher and Harris dominate the debate because it centers on the United States and operates under the assumption that the West is the authority responsible for combating the primitivity of Islam. It presumes that Maher and co., who do not have any actual connection to this issue, have authority on the subject, and as such they know better by default. Fortunately, they prove the opposite every time they open their mouths. Play. Harris interjects, “We have to be able to criticize bad ideas. Islam at this moment is the motherload of bad ideas.” Kristof rebuts by saying, “The picture you’re painting is to some extent true but is hugely incomplete.” They go back and forth until Bill Maher declares, “Let’s get down to who has the real answer here. A billion people you say, all these billion people don’t hold these pernicious beliefs? That’s just not true, Ben.” Pause. Yes, let’s talk about bad ideas. A bad idea is making generalizations about a billion people. There are certain buzzwords that are invoked when Islam is covered; they generally begin with Muslim women, followed by LGBTQ, followed by apostasy, followed by the mother of all buzzwords: jihad. Herein lies the root of my discomfort. Maher is not the only member of the mainstream media that invokes this type of discourse when it comes to Islam. This discourse operates under the presumption that the Muslim world is homogenous. It denies the simple idea that Muslims live complex lives. The examples are never nuanced; there is
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never a mention of intersectionality. Nobody attempts to contextualize the discussion. Muslims are often denied the right to be present in the conversation. We’re rarely invited to the table, to the panel, to the conference. An educated discussion on Muslim women and their rights is welcome. What is not welcome is using the state of Muslim women as a tool to propagate neoliberal ideology. What is not welcome is using their name to mobilize an ideology that advocates their inferiority. Who is Maher championing exactly? Why are they always talked about but never present? By leaving Muslims out of the conversation you limit their ability to
claim their reality. To quote Edward Said, you can control the East/Orient by “making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.” Maher practices neo-orientalism, a reincarnation of orientalism that pits Islam against the West. The ideology is harmful. It compromises the safety of Muslims in the West and claims authority over Muslims everywhere. It creates a hierarchy on who gets to speak on the topic. Nobody asked Maher or Harris or Affleck or Kristof to present their credentials. Their authority on the topic is never
questioned. Despite the fact that none of them is actually affected by the radical Islam they seem to discuss. Maher never actually presents any solutions. He operates with a smugness that says, ‘I am superior, these people are terrible, let me provide my unsolicited opinion for ratings.’ Personally, I don’t find anything remotely funny or intelligent about his show. Then again, maybe I’m just one of those oppressed Arab, Muslim women who doesn’t understand the work good liberals like Maher are doing on my behalf. — Haya Alfarhan can be reached at hsf@umich.edu.
The importance of not being a Cool Girl
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few days ago I finally gave in and saw “Gone Girl.” After weeks of observing my friends’ reactions of disgust and amazement and vows to never, ever get married, I decided to see if I would still have the same vaguely nonchalant JULIA reaction toward ZARINA that particular interpretation as I did when I read the book a few years ago. I did. To me, the story has always been a cautionary tale about modeling yourself around an unrealistic ideal, of catering to the expectations of others to a fault and about the motivations that cause someone to become a Cool Girl, taken to their logical extreme. A few often-cited paragraphs from the book were still the most relevant part of the story to me; the paragraphs that instantly turned a piece of fiction into a relatable, frighteningly cautionary tale where calculated, sociopathic murder previously had not. “Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl. “Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl. For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men — friends, coworkers, strangers — giddy over these awful pretender women, and I’d want to sit these men down and calmly say: You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them.” I’ve spent a long time thinking about Cool Girl without ever calling her by that name. Freshman year, my friends and boyfriend at the time discovered the “The League,” an FX show that chronicles the bro-ing out of a group of middle-aged man-children whose entire lives revolve around a fantasy football league. The wife of one of these men, the main recurring female character in the cast, is a classic Cool Girl, respected where other women are not due to the fact that her primary interests in the show appear to be, in no particular order: bro-ing out, eating meat while bro-ing out, drinking beer while bro-ing out and talking about football while looking hot while bro-ing out. Among my friends, a new standard for the ideal woman was instantly set. I actually enjoy this show for the most part. I laugh at the jokes. It’s
crude and immature in a way that I don’t even pretend to be above. The anxiety that this show caused me at the time was related to the fact that suddenly, there was a very clear-cut model of what I needed to be in order to be respected, admired, wanted and cool — and I couldn’t have been more opposite. I do not really enjoy watching football for days. I take serious issue with misogynistic attitudes. When people treat me poorly, they definitely hear about it. I’m a vegetarian. I am, at my essence, not a Cool Girl. I never have been. Suddenly, however, at 19 years old, being a Cool Girl seemed very important. Like almost everyone in college around me, I was insecure and trying to make a name for myself by adopting an identity that set me apart from what I perceived to be boring and typical. I was a feminine girl and identified as a feminist, which meant I was like all the other girls. By denying these qualities I was somehow different and above the rest. I chugged beer and approached relationships like they were the world championships of trying to out-sociopath the other person. I always cared less. I memorized football trivia. I was “less of a girl than most boys.” I laughed at sexist jokes. I was cool. Being in college and being in your twenties is a life lived in extremes. It’s a phase that results from recently being turned loose in a world that expects you to become a fully formed, fully functional, independent human being. You and everyone around you try on values and majors and styles and defining personal characteristics in the pursuit of something that fits. You’re pre-med one year and an English major the next. Your social views evolve rapidly. Faking it until you make it takes on a whole new meaning in job interviews, student clubs and social circles. Your identity in public is often a mirrored reflection of the characteristics that you believe to wholly define the certain kind of person you would like to be. Identity in college can often resemble a prototype of a future existence. Its like high fashion on a runway, an extreme version of something that gets distilled and diluted by designers who know how to adapt a vision to something appropriate for daily life before it is widely applied to clothes we see in the stores. Being in your twenties and assuming an identity can be like going straight from the runway to the streets — a phase where we try to make life duplicate art, rather than imitate aspects of it. The issue with this, of course, is that art is not a fully representative, fully dimensional portrayal of the world around us. I realized that I spent a lot of time reflecting the values that I wanted to be associated with, rather than internalizing them, processing them and then embodying them as something integral to myself and my own personality. The full result of this realization has been that I’m finally done. It’s been a long time coming, but I’m done with Cool Girl. Cool Girl is a trope. Cool Girl in her full, silver-screen glory is an affected personality put on out of inse-
curity and a need to be seen as something different than the rest. Cool Girl measures her self-worth by the men who say they love her because she’s not like other girls, even when she knows they have shallow love for an equally shallow façade. Living as Cool Girl is a kind of performance art, and like any other artistic representation of a real thing, there are elements left out of the public presentation. Behind the scenes, when the rest of the cast goes home and the camera crew packs up for the night, Cool Girl cries when she is treated like shit. Cool Girl is not effortlessly a size two — for each joke about shotgunning a pizza, there are days spent skipping dinner and despising the way she looks. Cool Girl might not actually think those sexist jokes are funny, but she laughs because she dislikes the idea of immediately being categorized and discredited as “oversensitive” or “an angry feminist” even more. For both the men who think they want her and the women who think they want to be her, so much of the appeal of the Cool Girl comes from the thrill of chasing an ideal. In a recent article, Tracy Moore of Jezebel concludes that men “who have never examined such tropes will willingly join this thrilling chase … because it is so unlike the cultural narrative (they) are taught to expect — that every woman around is trying to ensnare you long before you are ready to be snared.” If having a clingy girlfriend spells the end of bros everywhere, Cool Girl laughs in the face of death. She is distant and hot and possesses an absurd ability that can only come from some deep denial of human nature to shut down anything remotely resembling an emotion. Cool Girl lets you do whatever you want and take everything and give nothing and has no needs of her own because she is not a real person. She is never unreasonable. She is mysterious. She is one-dimensional. Because she is literally not a real person. Eventually, this performance gets tiring. Eventually, Cool Girl would prefer to be treated as a living, breathing, feeling human and not as a rare and prized commodity. Being a Cool Girl forever means denying feminism as a valuable bond, viewing relationships as a contest with a clear winner and seeing emotions as an inherent weakness. In short, it means missing out on some of the best elements of real life. In the immortal words of Lester Bangs, “the only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” I’m done with Cool Girl because I’m ready to grow up and become a real person, with faults and complexities and an identity that I develop, rather than adapt. I’m ready to be around people who think critically about who they are. Rejecting an unrealistic ideal — whatever that may be — is a critical step in becoming the person you will be for the rest of your life. I’m realizing in the process that, for all my “un-coolness,” I really like who that is. — Julia Zarina can be reached at jumilton@umich.edu.
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An apology on behalf of Michigan Football TO THE DAILY: For years, the University community has been told to “Give it. Get It. Expect Respect.” Football players are not exempt. What happened at Spartan Stadium on Saturday was unacceptable. Never mind the team’s performance. Planting a sharp object into the grass at an away game before the game and refusing to shake hands with the opposing team after a loss are just plain wrong, and more so because Michigan State is a
Send letters to: tothedaily@michigandaily.com rival. The football program represents the University of Michigan, both the institution and the people associated with it. The massive show of disrespect on Saturday is a black eye for us all. When I was in East Lansing this past weekend, Spartan fans treated me with nothing but kindness (and a lot of harmless teasing). Even when I was at that school down south, inside the stadium for the rivalry game a few years ago, the Buckeye fans were pretty nice. Yes, every school has a few fans who are complete jerks, and maybe I was just lucky in avoiding them, but it may be time that the team took a few hints from its rivals’
better fans. Michigan coach Brady Hoke said he was “not fully aware” of what happened. Be more aware and hold the team accountable for its actions. That’s the head coach’s job! I know you’re better than this, Michigan Football. On behalf of many, many Michigan fans, I apologize for the team’s actions. It would be extremely disappointing if an apology from Coach Hoke does not follow soon. Charles Zhou Second-Year Master’s Student in the School of Public Health
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie answers questions from the media about nurse Kaci Hickox’s quarantine as Republican candidate for Connecticut governor Tom Foley, right, listens Monday in Groton, Conn.
U.S. governors, Army go beyond Ebola guidelines CDC’s suggestions attempt to create national standards NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday recommended new restrictions for people at highest risk for coming down with the virus, and symptom monitoring for those at lower risk. But some state governors and even an Army commander have gone beyond that guidance. As contradictory state policies proliferate in response to Ebola fears, the CDC’s recommendations mark an effort to create a national standard, one that would protect public health without discouraging people from helping fight its spread overseas. The CDC now says even if they have no symptoms and are not considered contagious, people should stay away from commercial transportation or public gatherings if they have been in direct contact with the bodily fluids of someone sick with Ebola — say, by touching their fluids without protective gear, or by suffering an injury from a contaminated needle. Absent that direct contact, simply caring for Ebola patients or traveling in West Africa doesn’t warrant quarantine conditions, the public health agency said. But quarantines are determined state by state in the U.S., and the CDC is only empowered to issue guidelines. And even within the federal government,
authorities were improvising Monday: a U.S. Army commander in Italy said he and all his troops returning from Liberia would remain in isolation for 21 days, even though he feels they face no risk and show no symptoms. A nurse who volunteered with Doctors Without Borders in Africa was released after being forced to spend her weekend in a tent in New Jersey upon her return, despite showing no symptoms other than an elevated temperature she blamed on “inhumane” treatment at Newark International Airport. President Barack Obama has told his Ebola team that any measures involving health care workers should be crafted to avoid unnecessarily discouraging people from responding to the outbreak. That’s already happening, Doctors Without Borders said Monday: some medical workers are reducing their time in the field to include potential quarantines afterward. “The best way to protect us is to stop the epidemic in Africa, and we need those health care workers, so we do not want to put them in a position where it makes it very, very uncomfortable for them to even volunteer to go,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But the governors of New York and New Jersey defended their quarantine policies as necessary precautions in dealing with a virus that already has killed nearly half the over 10,000 people infected this year in West Africa. Maj. Gen. Darryl
Williams told The Associated Press that the decision to isolate returning troops was taken to ensure their family members’ comfort, even though none is showing symptoms, and he does not believe any soldier under his command is at risk. Speaking by telephone from a U.S. base in Vicenza, Italy, Williams said he and his soldiers will be living in isolation under controlled monitoring during the three weeks it takes to be sure Ebola hasn’t infected them. Williams returned to Italy Sunday with 10 soldiers with another 65 due back in two groups by Saturday. It’s just “normal concern,” Williams said. “There was nothing elevated that triggered this increased posture.” A senior defense official said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is expected to review the recommendations on Ebola, but has made no decision. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the Pentagon’s policy on isolating returning personnel has not been settled and implemented yet. Also absent is any uniform response within the United States to the increasing number of people and medical volunteers returning from Ebola-stricken countries in Africa. “The response to Ebola must not be guided primarily by panic in countries not overly affected by the epidemic,” said Sophie Delaunay, the U.S. director of Doctors Without Borders.
Syrian rebels clash with government troops, 35 die Rebel factions launch attacks in city of Idlib
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Members of the al-Qaidalinked Nusra Front and other Syrian rebel factions launched simultaneous attacks on army checkpoints, police headquarters, and the governor’s office in northwestern Syria on Monday, triggering hours-long clashes that left 35 troops and rebels dead. The attacks all took place in the city of Idlib, activists and state media reported. The city, which is in Syrian government hands, is the local capital of Idlib province. Monday’s attacks were the most serious there since Syrian rebels took control of scores of villages and towns around it more than two years ago. The fighting is separate from the clashes underway between Nusra Front’s main rebel rivals, the Islamic State group, and Syrian Kurdish fighters for control of the strategic border town of Kobani, further to the east and along the border with Turkey. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Nusra Front and other groups shelled Idlib and simultaneously attacked army checkpoints there. It said four Nusra Front members blew themselves up inside the city, targeting checkpoints there
and causing casualties among the troops. “It was a moral blow to the regime,” said activist Asad Kanjo, based in the town of Saraqeb, also in Idlib province. He added that calm had been restored in the city. Syria’s pro-government AlIkhbariya TV cited the provincial police chief, who was not named, as saying the attackers took advantage of a power cut before dawn to hit the checkpoints and also the governor’s office. He added that troops repelled the attackers. “There isn’t one gunman in the city now,” said the police chief. The TV later aired footage from Idlib showing bodies of two purported attackers with suicide vests. The Observatory said the rebels were helped by some policemen who were protecting the police commend and the governor’s office enter the two buildings. The buildings were retaken later by government troops. Another activist in Idlib province, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said most of the attacks took place on the southern edge of the city, near Mastoumeh Hill. The Observatory said the hill was captured by rebels, which prompted Syrian helicopter gunships to target the site. It said 15 rebels and 20 soldiers were killed at the hill. Syrian state TV said government forces repelled the attack
on Idlib and that a “large number of terrorists” were killed. The government refers to the rebels as terrorists. State TV said the attackers were led by Abu Waleed al-Libi who was killed in the battle — al-Libi is Arabic for “the Libyan.” The Observatory said that some of the Nusra Front members killed in the fighting were foreigners. In the eastern province of Deir el-Zour a car bomb exploded near a hospital run by the Islamic State group killing four people including a child and wounding others, the Observatory said. The explosion in the town of Mayadeen caused material damage to the hospital and nearby homes. Syrian state TV said the blast in Mayadeen occurred outside a medical center run by the Islamic State group. The channel said there are reports of 20 people killed by the blast. The state channel and the Observatory gave no further details. The Islamic State group controls wide areas of the oil-rich Deir el-Zour province, where some tribesmen rose against the extremist group but were quickly crushed. In Kobani, an Associated Press journalist on the Turkish side of the border said there was intense fighting in the town Monday. Sporadic explosions and occasional cracks of gunfire could be heard from a distance.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The shooting death of the beloved captain of South Africa’s national soccer team during an apparent house robbery stunned a country long accustomed to violent crime, and police launched a manhunt Monday for the intruders. Charismatic goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was known for his athleticism and easy way with fans, teammates and coaches, and his slaying delivered yet another blow to the national sports scene. The 27-year-old Meyiwa was killed about 8 p.m. Sunday after two gunmen entered the house of his girlfriend, Kelly Khumalo, a South African singer and celebrity, authorities said. He was shot in the upper body, and the gunmen, along with an accomplice who had waited outside the home in Vosloorus township near Johannesburg, fled on foot, according to police. “Words cannot express the nation’s shock at this loss,” President Jacob Zuma said in a statement, leading the national grief for Meyiwa. Zuma urged law enforcement authorities to “leave no stone unturned” in finding the killers, and police offered a reward of nearly $23,000 for information leading to their arrest and conviction. South African sports officials had already expressed sadness at the saga of Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic runner who fatally shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year. Following a tumultuous and emotional trial, Pistorius began serving
a five-year prison sentence Oct. 21 after being convicted of culpable homicide, or manslaughter; prosecutors who had sought a murder conviction plan to appeal. On Friday, former 800-meter world champion and Olympic silver medalist Mbulaeni Mulaudzi died in a car crash. South Africa hosted the World Cup soccer tournament in 2010 with relatively little incident, dispelling visitors’ fears amid a decade-long decline in violent crime. However, police said last month that there were 17,000 killings in the year ending in March, a 5 percent increase over the previous year in a country of 53 million. Crime affects people of all walks of life in South Africa, which suffers deep economic inequality and has struggled to meet expectations of better opportunities after the end of white racist rule in 1994. On Oct. 19, Jackson Mthembu, a member of parliament and a former spokesman for the African National Congress, was shot during a robbery at an ATM in the country’s east, the party said. He drove himself to a nearby hospital for treatment. Last year, the home of Desmond Tutu, the retired Anglican archbishop and Nobel peace laureate, was burgled while he and his wife slept. They were not harmed. Meyiwa was shot at Khumalo’s home while trying to stop armed intruders who demanded cellphones and money, said friend Tumelo Waka Madlala, who was inside. “As they were running away, we tried to stop them and that is when they shot him at point blank range,” Madlala told The Associated Press. Meyiwa was shot as another person struggled with one of
the assailants, and as the soccer captain moved toward the door, said police Maj. Gen. Norman Taioe, a top detective working on the case. “We don’t have anything that would suggest he was the direct target,” Taioe said. “It was during the struggle that a shot went off.” Two more shots were fired outside the house, which has no gate, he said. There were seven people in the house before the intruders entered, according to police. No one else was hurt. A cellphone was taken. Gen. Riah Phiyega, the national police commissioner, said Meyiwa’s killing was a blow to the “brand” and “image” of South Africa, adding it was important to show the world that authorities were moving aggressively to solve the case. “They will be keen to know what we are doing as police,” Phiyega said at a news conference. Meyiwa’s father told TV station eNCA that his son was providing financial help to his family, and he wept and had to be comforted by a journalist. The goalkeeper was recently made captain of the South African national team, known by its nickname of Bafana Bafana, and led it in four African Cup of Nations qualifiers this year. He hadn’t surrendered a goal in the four games, keeping the team on top of its group and on course to qualify for next year’s continental championship. He also played for the Soweto-based Orlando Pirates, one of South Africa’s biggest clubs. Meyiwa put in a strong performance in his last game, a 4-1 win over Ajax Cape Town on Saturday that sent the Pirates to the semifinals of the Telkom Knockout cup competition.
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“You’re listening to Winchester University’s only college radio station.” A smug-looking woman with her hair in a bun leans B into a mic, radio gear Dear White on. In a voice that suggests People Samantha State Theater White (Tessa and Rave Thompson, “For Colored Code Red Girls”) has just about had enough, she opens the floor for the contemporary college social justice debate to take to the big screen. “Dear white people...” The beat drops. Time slows and heads turn. Ridiculously and stereotypically dressed white people turn around in affront, looking as if they’ve been plucked out of the ’50s, complete with suede briefcases and Ivy League caps. The campus is the fictional Winchester University, a prestigious institution to which people of Ann Arbor will be able
to relate. The discussion that we’ve had here on our campus for so many years is addressed in unforgiving exactitude In “Dear White People.” Sam and her team at the Black Student Union are fighting for their right to keep ArmstrongParker, the historically Black residence hall, in opposition to the Randomization of Housing Act. Their inflammatory rhetoric is met with resistance and scorn from the rest of the campus, especially from Kurt Fletcher (Kyle Gallner, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”), the spoiled son of the school president. He and his elite crew decide to throw a wildly offensive African American-themed rager at the end of the year on the same night as the donors’ dinner (surprise). Sam continues, “A minimum requirement of Black friends needed to not seem racist has just been raised to two.” Of course, she is often met with scorn from other Black students. Troy Fairbanks (Brandon Bell, “Family Tools”), the son of the Dean of Students, shrugs off the movement. “I just don’t get it,” he says. “I mean, I haven’t run into any lynch mobs.” Reggie (Marque Richardson, “The Newsroom”) from the Black Student Union retorts, “Yes you have. It’s called the
Republican Party.” And so first time writerdirector Justin Simien turns his film into a decided polemic, sorry-not-sorry style. His script is mouthy, verbose and brutal. Beneath the film runs an undercurrent of constant angst over identity, and a contempt for the white establishment on the elite American campus that Winchester represents and that Sam calls “Fletcher’s Plantation.” “Dear White People” is an ensemble film. But Simien stretches himself thin in trying to portray every single way that a Black student can “survive in a white world.” There is Coco (Teyonah Parris, “A Picture of You”), whose straight hair weave comes to symbolize her hurting desire to be white. There is Lionel (Tyler James Williams, “Unaccompanied Minors”), estranged from his Black community because of his homosexuality, but a “Negro at the door” for the white friends he makes at a campus humor magazine. Simien wants each of his characters to stand for a typified struggle — being a darkskinned girl, being a gay Black man, being a Black man who has to “act white” to become class president. Each of these struggles can be explored
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in its own right in a stirring narrative of its own. But in trying to showcase them all, Simien struggles to do justice to each one and each of these students comes across as a stock character. The exception is a fulfilling personal arc in Sam. By the film’s end, she shows a vulnerability that speaks to a depth behind her otherwise one-faced militant demeanor. Her father is white, and since she was young she has been filled with insecurities about her own identity, and they are transposed in Freudian ways onto her relationship with her white boyfriend. She fears the Black Student Union will not accept her for it, and so Simien adds another aspect of drama as she navigates between her boyfriend and the guilt she feels in thinking she’s betraying her community. The drama is contrived, and though it is unpredictable, the story very quickly becomes a mess. The amount of coincidence in the film often renders it ridiculous. Simien did bill his film as a satire, but the exaggeration and overdone drama instead make it more like a soap. In any honest estimation, the film is not the fulfilling story it wants to be — but it does warrant some thoughtprovoking questions.
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Why do we play music at parties? It’s not so I can pretend to be super interested in the apartment’s sound system while I’m waiting for my friend to get back with a drink. And it’s not so I can ironically raise my eyebrows and smirk when “Blurred Lines” ADAM comes on. THEISEN It’s because when Beyoncé’s “Countdown” blasts through the speakers we all can jump up and down in unison and shout along. It’s because when an old ’90s favorite like “SemiCharmed Life” sneak-attacks the playlist everyone can do a double-take, then look at each other’s faces in surprised glee. It’s because music is the greatest bonding agent our society has. I was lucky enough to catch a performance/screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” along with hundreds of other people (mostly Central Michigan University students) in beautiful Mt. Pleasant over the weekend. For those of you who bury your heads in a pumpkin patch every Halloween, “Rocky Horror” is a sexually-charged, entertaining-as-hell ’70s musical that has gained probably the largest and most enduring cult following of any film ever. Put on by a theater group at CMU, the show I attended on Saturday had a 45-minute, four part costume contest (with winners that included Swedish Chef from The Muppets and “Sexy” Finn from “Adventure Time”), toast, rice and playing cards tossed around the theater at appropriate times in the film and a cadre of hecklers stationed in the balcony. Add all that to a “shadow cast” miming everything that was happening in the film on a stage in front of the screen and the show was one of the most uniquely entertaining events I had ever seen. (The State Theatre does a yearly “Rocky Horror” screening as well, but its lack of a shadow cast and pricey prop bags meant that it paled in comparison to the one I saw in Mt. Pleasant.) One thing that isn’t particularly unique about “Rocky Horror,” though, is the music. Most of the numbers are generic old-school rock ‘n’ roll songs. So generic, in fact, that one of the hecklers’ “call-backs” is a “Greased Lightning, go Greased Lightning!” that fits in perfectly with a song’s beat. In fact, if one watches the movie without a massive audience, one might think that, without the musical element, “Rocky Horror” would still be the weird, campy phenomenon it is today. No way. If the film was just a science-fiction B-movie parody/ tribute, sans music, we’d hear the phrase “Rocky Horror” today and think someone was talking about a loose woman in the Colorado Mountains. I’ve been listening to the “Rocky Horror” soundtrack practically nonstop since I got back from CMU, and I’ve found that I’m mentally filling in all of the “call-backs” from the theater’s extravaganza. It just seems so wrong on its own. I’m listening to “Over At the Frankenstein Place” and hearing the echoes of some guy yelling “Hey Janet, what’s up yer ass?” and I have to fight the urge to yell “Fuck the back row!” when “Science Fiction/Double Feature” is playing in my ear. I noticed the need for company more than anything during “Time Warp,” an early show-stopper. All the costumed fans get out of their seats and follow the directions of the song. Jump to the left, step to
the right, put your hands on your hips (“Ohhhhhhhhh shit!” we scream), bring your knees in tight. Follow that with some pelvic thrusts (while chanting “group sex, group sex, group sex”) and all of a sudden I felt perfectly at home with all these weirdos, performing incomprehensible rituals and bonding over a shared love of camp and bad taste. Weirdly enough, I felt the same way when I saw Pearl Jam play at Joe Louis Arena over a couple weeks ago. You see, I grew up with all of the classic ’90s grunge and alternative bands playing on the radio — Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, even a little Sublime. And don’t even get me started on “Smooth.” But the effect of those songs being drilled into my head from such a young age is that I pretty much hate all of them. I’ll change the station immediately if I hear the opening chords to “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” I’ll roll my eyes at “Give It Away.” I’ll probably puke if I hear Eddie Vedder sing “Jeremy spoke in class today” again (which thankfully, he didn’t do in Detroit). I’m not trying to take anything away from these classic songs, but I’ve chewed on the music so much in my life that it’s become entirely flavorless. To that end, before the show I was loudly proclaiming that I didn’t want to hear anything from Ten, Pearl Jam’s first and most recognizable album. Cut to over two-and-a-half hours into the concert (that’s not a typo — the show was that spectacular), and Pearl Jam is playing “Alive,” that song you know even if you’re not sure if you know it. Mike McCready is playing the guitar solo that closes out the song, and it’s a solo that I’ve heard probably hundreds of times before, but he’s playing it with this entirely different kind of power and energy. The notes are the same, but flannel-wearing fans are holding up their mostly empty beer cups and pumping their fists and singing along and I realize this song is a classic! And I’m so happy to be witnessing this performances with thousands of other people who love Pearl Jam and know all the words and are just so happy to be seeing this band live in concert. Music brings us together like that. There’s a reason so many couples are brought together by one person inviting the other to dance. There’s a reason why, when 110,000 people are shouting in unison at The Big House on Saturdays, they’re singing along to a fight song. Music gives us a shared ecstasy that opens new doors of friendship, love and camaraderie. At “Rocky Horror” the songs forced us to be weird together, first awkwardly then with reckless abandon, and at the Pearl Jam show, the old ’90s classics they played were beloved by everyone in attendance (myself included, eventually) and gave the crowd a chance to let loose and remember how great the band’s work is. At parties, or any other kind of social event, we need music because it starts us off on the right foot with strangers, because we remember all the other good times we’ve had while we’re listening to it and, most importantly, so when that week’s No. 1 hit song (or even something as old-school dorky as “Don’t Stop Believin’ ”) comes on we can sing along with people with barely know and people we love and bond over danceable drumbeats and soaring, crescendoing choruses. Theisen wants to put on fishnets. To help get them off, e-mail ajtheis@umich.edu.
Arts
7 — Tuesday, October 28, 2014
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Why We Should Write About Music By BRIAN BURLAGE Daily Arts Writer
In their sprawling investigation into the life of Jim Morrison, No One Here Gets Out Alive, authors Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman compare the volatile lead singer of The Doors to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine. The two authors draw many parallels between Morrison and Dionysus, a few of which include physical appearance (both are frequently bearded, robed), obsession with ritual madness and ecstasy, the power they each have over their cultish following and a reliance on artistic epiphany. (Morrison would often improvise poetry during his performances.) Among the many commonalities between Morrison and Dionysus, however, Hopkins and Sugerman advance one in particular, a singular notion that links music in the previous century with Greek antiquity and mythology — Dionysus is a dying god, a deity that voluntarily departs from Olympus and never returns. For over five decades now, the mystery surrounding Morrison’s death has placed him in similar legendry. He died alone in a bathtub in Paris, where the coroner’s speculation as to the cause of death produced conflicting stories, and where Morrison’s long-term girlfriend, Pamela Courson, never disclosed the details of his burial. Much like the god himself, Jim Morrison seemed to vanish from the earth. Engineer Glen Snoddy, who produced country music in Nashville in the early ’60s, invented distortion as it is understood today. As he and Marty Robbins were recording “Don’t Worry” in the studio, one of the amplifiers suddenly blew out. Instead of scrapping the recording and replacing the amp, Snoddy kept the tapes rolling and used the jarred sound anyway. Robbins’s guitar sounds fuzzy, electrically slowed and even a bit sour. But it was a hit with the public, and became a No. 1 country sensation and reached No. 3 on the pop charts. Demand for this new “distorted” sound grew among recording artists. Pressed for a legitimate business solution, Snoddy created a foot pedal that could be activated with the touch of a button. He sold the Maestro Fuzz-Tone FZ-1 to Gibson as music’s first functional guitar pedal. Three years later The Rolling Stones released “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” which featured the same infant fuzztone used in “Don’t Worry.” Jack Doyle, in describing the birth of “Satisfaction,” once wrote, “The guitar riff developed by Richards in any case, was initially not set for guitar, but thought as a guide for horns.” The invention of the new fuzztone served Richards’s intent perfectly — a sonic convergence of the shrillness of horns and the snakelike bite of the electric guitar. But popular newspapers, magazines, tabloids and prints put their own spin on the new sound, and declared it righteous, an embodiment of youthful protest, a brave step forward for counter-cultural music; it became representative of the political “dissatisfaction” of youth in the 1960s. And so it was, one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most pivotal songs was born of the failed mechanics in a Nashville country studio a few years before. Chuck Cleaver and Lisa Walker have been playing music together for 13 years. Their band, Wussy, a garage/indie/ folk/pop outfit from Cincinnati, is composed of members that are well above the age of 30, perhaps even 40. Cleaver and Walker work regular jobs from nine to five, and once a year they reunite to collaborate on a new album (this year’s Attica! brings the total to six). Even their Cincinnati-based record label, Shake It Records, reflects the band’s sense of age: the label’s Twitter page encourages visitors to “use the phone” as
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Music criticism, over the years, has developed into an art form in its own right.
opposed to instant messaging, since the label’s executives rarely communicate digitally. Robert Christgau, in his review of their latest album Attica!, noted that the album’s opener “…remembers, as Lou Reed once put it, how a life was saved by rock ‘n’ roll.” Similar praise came from Los Angeles Review of Books contributor Charles Taylor in his tribute to the band, in which he wrote that Wussy’s music “…brings you immediately back to the way we received rock ‘n’ roll as solitary adolescents, as if the songs were radio transmissions from a resistance we hadn’t dared to hope existed.” Christgau and Taylor — each prominent advocates of the band and absolute forces in the world of music journalism — have brought Wussy’s music into the national spotlight, noting the irony that a band so removed from the modern digitized world should make music so intensely in-tune with what it lacks. In a sense the stories of Jim Morrison, Glen Snoddy and Wussy point to a larger truth about music: that in the last 60 years, writing about its many wondrous characters, trends and events has diffused its cultural and artistic appeal at an unprecedented rate. Lead singers have been put on par with Greek gods, the invention of a small foot pedal helped spark a countercultural movement, middle-aged hobbyists have been credited with rock ‘n’ roll’s resurrection and among all these anecdotes, elevation emerges as the key distinguishing feature. Writing about music, whether online or in print, has, over time, elevated music, musicians, the musical process and overarching influences to their own levels of mythological importance. The long tradition of decades-old publications like Rolling Stone and Robert Christgau’s Consumer Guide, in combination with the digital
and strategic innovation of newer online zines like Pitchfork, have made the art of writing about music as influential as the music itself. This effect of flip-flopping influences extends back to the pioneer work of one of music’s first rock ‘n’ roll critics, Lester Bangs. Two years after Rolling Stone magazine launched in 1967, Bangs responded to an ad that called for Stone readers to submit their own reviews. He wrote a piece on MC5’s album Kick Out The Jams, and it became the first of his many scathing reviews (which would eventually get him fired). In his short 13-year journalistic career, Bangs contributed to Creem, The Village Voice, Penthouse, Playboy and New Musical Express. He flouted conventional journalism of the time, and described his own process openly: “Well basically I just started out to lead an interview with the most insulting question I could think of. Because it seemed to me that the whole thing of interviewing … was groveling obeisance to people who weren’t that special, really.” He sabotaged live performances, accused popular bands of plagiarism, disputed evaluations with high-end bosses and editors, kept a poorly trained dog in the office and he even recorded his own punk rock album in Texas (before the Ramones or Sex Pistols were even an idea). Bangs’s enduring contribution to music is rooted in this ardency with which he tried to demythologize rock stars and their astronomical personas. Perhaps the most famous example of this was his “Let Us Now Praise Famous Death Dwarves” interview with Lou Reed, a purposefully tense interaction that produced nothing but piss and vinegar between the two. Bangs was nearly obsessed with Reed’s Metal Machine Music, which he wrote about frequently and reverently. But he was even
more obsessed with getting to the man behind the sunglasses and exposing him for what he was, or rather, what Bangs thought he was: a regular guy. Many critics have since wrought their cheap imitations of Bangs and tried to rally against those same supremerock personas, but few have done so with such influence. Robert Christgau, who started around the same time as Bangs in the late ’60s, is among the few. Christgau — the Dean of American Rock Critics — has, for nearly 50 years, written about music ranging from Iggy Azalea’s pop fetishism to West African Soweto, from ’80s New Wave to ’90s art rock. Christgau’s critical methodology is simple: first, you have to know what you like, and second, you have to be able to explain why you like it — “even if the reason is completely disgraceful.” Many of his most “disgraceful” reviews, in fact, have utterly perturbed the various artists and bands themselves. Lou Reed — who seems to have had a penchant for aggravating music critics, and vice versa –– once ranted about Christgau’s “toe fucker” character in one of his performances at The Bottom Line in New York, which eventually became his third live album, Take No Prisoners. As it turns out, a few months prior, Christgau had graded Reed’s latest album, Street Hassle, and given it a B+, calling it “muddled” and “selfserving.” Similarly, in the late ’80s Christgau took to Sonic Youth to call them “pigfuckers” in his decade-end feature about music in the ’80s, and needless to say, none of his name-calling was well received by the band. In 1983, in fact, they released their third EP called Kill Yr Idols, the title track of which was originally called “I Killed Christgau with My Big Fucking Dick.” Thurston Moore sings, “I don’t know why /You wanna
impress Christgau / Ah let that shit die / And find out the new goal.” Christgau — “that shit” — was only 41 years old at the time, so the vitriol is indeed very genuine. More so than any other critic of his time, Robert Christgau and his music pedigree have succeeded in permeating music itself. Two highly influential artists from two distinct decades each felt wronged by his words, insulted to some degree. Even other music critics, like prominent publisher and columnist Russ Smith, have been known to insinuate their disapproval or disagreement with Christgau’s work.
When did writing about music become controversial? But how can one man draw so much foul play from musicians, music critics and music fans alike? At what point did writing about music become as equally controversial as making music? Through the work of early rock critics like Bangs, Christgau, Paul Williams and John Morthland, music writing has, to a degree greater than other artistic disciplines, established a kind of dual history with the art of the music itself. It’s created a unique DNA-like string of their two histories, a structure that often mingles and intersects at points of extreme tension. The fusion continues today with highly stylistic publishers like Spin, Slant, Vulture, Rolling Stone and Allmusic, as well as larger aggregate sites like Metacritic. Pitchfork, meanwhile, keeps the unequivocal, time-conscious tradition of those early rock
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Lester Bangs is universally recognized as one of the greatest rock critics of all time.
critics alive, relying upon a strict and often upsetting decimal grade system. In fact, the infamous Pitchfork review system spawned a Pitchfork reviewsreview website that provides “accurate/undeniable coverage of Pitchfork reviews” and now has its own book deal. At the same time, bands like Whirr — bands that are aware of Pitchfork’s 1.5 millionviewers-per-month readership — respond poorly to the site’s overt criticism. After their frequent collaborators, Nothing, received a 6.9 grade earlier, Whirr posted on Facebook and openly called the reviewer “a pussy” and declared that Pitchfork is “clueless about anything”. While Pitchfork’s undeniable influence and vast array of talent have ultimately dwarfed these pebble-flinging sites and posts over the past decade, their mere existence reveals an odd truth: music criticism has become so effectual and so potent in its own right, that it has spawned its own subjugate criticism; it’s become a distinguished art form. Journalistic moguls like Pitchfork as well as industry staples like Christgau have, in establishing their clout-charged brands over the years, created a distinct artistic mode from popular music criticism, replete with its own aesthetic value and merit, prone to the same public resistance and fueled by generational insight. Renowned historian and translator Frederick H. Martens, in his essay “The Influence of Music in World History,” describes music’s role on both a global and generational scale: “…music exerts its influence on the historic event principally as the carrier of a thought, one couched in magic words of incantation, the melodic summary of faith or creed, the battle-cry … the instrumental tune which is the tonal body of the words of a national song.” Music — more so than any other artistic discipline — bears the thought of a local, regional or national group in its truest and most present moment, adapting to the “tonal body” of that group and eliciting a “magic” that is utterly meticulous in its capture of time and emotion. The world of music is a world of incredible conglomeration. Cultures, tastes, histories, social movements, musical theories, rhythms and attitudes collectively compose (to borrow a phrase from David Toop) an unparalleled ocean of sound. Writing about its many features helps to retrace these streams of identity back to their place of birth, back to where all people are fundamentally the same: in the need for personal fulfillment. It was Walter Pater who put it best in his essay about the practical utility of art and its ability to elevate what’s ordinary — to fulfill each moment as they come. His intuitive and prescient read into the role of art best applies to music, in that music is responsible for creating moment-bymoment value. “Well! we are all condamnés,” Pater begins, “we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among the ‘children of the earth’ in art and song. For our one chance lies in expanding that interval, in getting as many pulsations as possible into the given time … (song) comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments’ sake.” In this way, writing about music arrests these flurrying moments in attempt to slow their hurried passing. It takes the frantic rush of life — however joyous or sorrowful — second-by-second, sound-bysound, and grapples with its emotional flux, deconstructs its seismic motion, until even the shortest of intervals begin to expand into entire seasons of human grandeur and beauty. For the unabridged version of this article, visit the Arts section at www.michigandaily.com
Sports
8 — Tuesday, October 28, 2014
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Hoke, coaches support Bolden By ALEXA DETTELBACH Daily Sports Editor
By now, everyone has probably heard of, if not seen, Joe Bolden’s actions before Saturday’s game against Michigan State. The junior linebacker took a black stake and speared the turf of Spartan Stadium near the Wolverine sideline just before the Michigan football team took the field in its 35-11 loss to the Spartans. There were talks following the conclusion of the game that Michigan State players felt disrespected, which was one of the reasons Spartan coach Mark Dantonio uncharacteristically went for a late touchdown despite the game being well in hand with less than a minute to go. “As far as the score at the end, it just felt like we needed to put a stake in them at that point,” Dantonio said after the game. “The little brother stuff, all the disrespect, it doesn’t have to go in that direction. “We’ve tried to handle ourself with composure. That doesn’t come from the coach. It comes from the program.” Meanwhile, one room over in Michigan’s postgame press conference, coach Brady Hoke was asked about the situation and said he was only aware that something happened pregame. He offered little information other than the fact that “Joe” did it — referring to one of the four Joe’s on the team’s roster. But early Sunday afternoon, Hoke issued yet another apology in what feels like a season filled with them. “I spoke with Mark (Dantonio) earlier today and expressed to him that we meant no disrespect to his team,” the statement said. “During our regular Friday night team meeting, one of the topics presented to motivate our team was a history lesson addressing
FOOTBALL RECRUITING
Taylor announces his decommitment By JUSTIN STERN Daily Sports Writer
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Brady Hoke said Saturday he was “aware, but not fully aware” of Joe Bolden’s pregame routine with a tent stake.
commitment and teamwork in a tough environment. A tent stake was presented to the team as a symbol of this concept. The stake was brought into our locker room as a visual reminder, and one of our team leaders chose to take it out on the field. “As the leader of our football program, I take full responsibility for the actions of our team. We believe in displaying a high level of respect at the University of Michigan and unfortunately that was not reflected by this action prior to kickoff.” On Monday, Hoke reiterated his responsibility for the situation and said Bolden wouldn’t face disciplinary action. Hoke also said he wasn’t told to issue the statement, but felt it was the right course of action because of his longstanding relationship with Dantonio. “I do think it was overblown,”
Hoke said. “Mark and I have done this in the past. We’ve called when we’ve had some incidents in this game.” Hoke also clarified the order of events that took place, saying he’s always the last one out of the locker room and by the time he found out the stake was making its way onto the field, it was too late to stop it. He took full responsibility for the act, not blaming Bolden for getting caught up in the emotion of the rivalry. The support for Bolden extended beyond Hoke to the coordinators and players. When defensive coordinator Greg Mattison spoke at his weekly press conference on Monday, he only had good things to say about the linebacker. “I love Joe Bolden, are you kidding me?” Mattison said. “Give me a room of Joe Boldens. Give me 11 of him, just line (them) up and put them at any
position you want. You’re going to have a lot of happy people, and me being the happiest.” But despite the internal support for Bolden, the program remains in the national spotlight for all the wrong reasons. While Michigan’s season has been less than enthralling on the field, it has stayed in the news after incidents with Coca-Cola products, potential concussions and now, tent stakes. What happens next is anyone’s guess. Notes: After missing the last seven games, senior linebacker Desmond Morgan will receive a medical redshirt for a hand injury. Hoke said Morgan will return for his fifth-year senior season. … Freshman cornerback Jabrill Peppers was removed from the team’s depth chart. He’s been battling an injury for the last four weeks, but Hoke said Peppers hasn’t yet been ruled out for the year.
Michigan received its second decommitment of the month from four-star cornerback Garrett Taylor. Here’s a rundown of how seven remaining committed high school prospects fared this past weekend. Chris Clark, tight end: Ranking: ESPN (111) Scout (23) While he is still committed to Michigan, Clark has started his search for other options. Clark will visit Southern California on Nov. 29 and Texas on Dec. 6. Clark was once committed to North Carolina, and now says he is also looking at a potential Nov. 15 visit to Chapel Hill. Brian Cole, athlete: Ranking: ESPN (142) Scout (39) Cole registered one catch for 50 yards and a touchdown, but that wasn’t enough to lead the Hawks to victory. Saginaw Heritage lost, 48-21, and is now 2-7 on the season. After a visit to Wisconsin, Cole received a visit Oct. 17 from Michigan coach Brady Hoke and offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier. Michael Weber, running back: Ranking: ESPN (169) Scout (99) In the spotlight at Ford Field for the Detroit Public School League title, Weber shined bright to beat another undefeated team, Martin Luther King High School. In three quarters, Weber rushed for 178 yards and three touchdowns on 11 carries. He also scored on a 76-yard screen pass. Cass Tech improved to 9-0 on the season. Tyree Kinnel, safety: Ranking: ESPN (191) Scout (147) Wayne recorded another
blowout victory Friday as it defeated Beavercreek, 45-7, to improve to 9-0 and No. 4 in the state rankings. The CourierJournal’s Steve Jones reported Friday that Kinnel was an expected unofficial visitor for Kentucky’s game Saturday. However, there are no reports confirming whether or not Kinnel actually visited Kentucky. Grant Newsome, offensive tackle: Ranking: ESPN (244) Scout (216) Lawrenceville was defeated, 62-14, by Hun. The Big Red are now 3-4 overall, but hold a 2-1 conference record. Newsome didn’t provide much protection for his quarterback, as the team only had 60 yards of offense in the first half. After the loss, Newsome was quoted in The Bridgeton News as saying, “I’m still committed to Michigan. If something does happen (to Hoke), I will sit down with my parents, we will talk about it and make a decision. But for now, that’s not something I am worried about.” Darrin Kirkland Jr., linebacker: Ranking: ESPN (270) Scout (120) To open the IHSAA Football State Tournament, Kirkland and his defense dominated against their rival, Lawrence North, in a 39-0 shutout. The Bears will face Warren Central on Halloween for a sectional championship. Alex Malzone, quarterback: Ranking: ESPN (NR) Scout (183) Malzone led Brother Rice to a narrow victory in the Catholic League’s Central Division championship, scoring a twopoint conversion with 24 seconds to play. Malzone finished 21-of-27 for 271 yards, four touchdowns and an interception. Brother Rice is currently No. 3 in the state.
Rutgers’ Jordan Changes to first line possible soon has ties to ‘M’ MEN’S BASKETBALL
By JASON RUBINSTEIN Daily Sports Writer
By DANIEL FELDMAN Daily Sports Writer
Tom Izzo and Thad Matta didn’t understand why Rutgers men’s basketball coach Eddie Jordan wanted to come back to college basketball. Jordan had won an NBA Championship as a player with the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1980s. He had coached the Sacramento Kings, Washington Wizards and Philadelphia 76ers. For Jordan, the answer was simple. “You know, guys, it’s my school.” So now Jordan finds himself where it all began. In his second year at the helm of Rutgers, his alma mater, he’s trying to resurrect a forgotten program. The Rutgers program wasn’t always in the desolate state it is now. When Jordan played for the Scarlet Knights from 1973-77, Rutgers fielded some of the best teams in its history, including the ’75-76 team, which fell to Michigan, 86-70, in the Final Four. For Jordan, it’s memories of that team that remind him why he’s back in Piscataway now. Jordan was reminded of how special Rutgers, and that team in particular, was a few months ago at a team reunion. “Everybody was there. That meant a lot to me,” he said. “Because I’m at Rutgers, the conversation always comes up, and it’s something I’m proud of for the rest of my life.” Led by Jordan, who was named the 1976 East Regional MVP, the Scarlet Knights entered the Final Four game undefeated. And in the contest, Jordan continued his hot play by contributing 16 points and six rebounds. The following season, Rutgers lost Phil Sellers and Mike Dabney — its No. 1 and 2 scorers, respectively — and four other seniors. Lacking
leadership, the Scarlet Knights slipped to 18-10 and missed the NCAA Tournament. Meanwhile, Jordan averaged 17.7 points, set the Rutgers’ all-time careerrecord in steals and assists and was named an honorable mention All-American. Despite the achievements, however, Jordan learned something that helped shape his coaching career: Leadership and seniority mean a lot. Without those attributes, winning will be tough, especially for his team this year. A team with just three seniors. “It’s going to be a tough challenge for us to win a lot of games,” Jordan said. “And as you navigate through the season, coaching your team from that angle as opposed to coaching a team that is going to win 14 (games in the Big Ten). We might not come close to that.” Jordan knows this year’s team is a long way from the 197576 Final Four team. Projected to finish last in its first year in the Big Ten, Jordan will have to temper expectations for his players. “You’ve got to keep their confidence level up,” Jordan said. “You’ve got to make things for them, you have to challenge them, and maybe that’s coaching across the board, but when their psyche is down and they’re feeling bad about losing, you’re not talking to kids who have a lot of confidence about winning. It’s two different reactions to that. That’s what I have to prepare myself for.” It’s going to be a process for Jordan and Rutgers. He needs better recruits. He needs better facilities. He needs time to right the ship at a place he loves. “You can’t stray from your plan, meaning you have to understand where you are,” Jordan said. “As a coach, I can’t get distracted by people that don’t understand the process.”
Pairing together two players who tallied 60 combined points last season seemed like a brilliant idea this offseason to Red Berenson. The Michigan coach knew it would come at a cost, though: Sophomore JT Compher NOTEBOOK would have to move from center — a position he has played his entire career — to right wing in order to skate alongside junior center Andrew Copp. But five games in to the season, that decision may not seem so flowery anymore. Copp and Compher have yet to tally a goal. The line’s only score came from left wing Dexter Dancs. However, the freshman said he believes goals are due for his line and said it’s just “a matter of time.” His teammates agree. “You have JT and Andrew, who are proven scorers,” said senior forward Zach Hyman. “You have Dexter, who scored his first goal on the weekend and is a good player as well. It’s a matter of time before they get going. They are doing all the right things.” But Berenson was more blunt. The veteran coach said line changes are looming for the Wolverines and the first line may get shuffled. He said moving Compher back to center could be beneficial. “We’ll see about that,” Berenson said of moving Compher away from the wing. “We’re going to talk about that; whether he gets to go back to go play a more familiar position or keep him out on the wing. … We’re not satisfied with our production.”
Four goals were reviewed in the game. All three Terrier goals were confirmed, while Dancs’ go-ahead, redirect goal was waived off due to goaltender interference. Two days removed, Berenson’s anger hadn’t subsided. “Don’t get me wrong,” Berenson said, “I want to support getting it right. If they make a call on a goal that should’ve been decided the other way even after they review it, that’s when you say, ‘How can this be?’ It’s just ironic that every goal in that game had to be reviewed. “It takes away from the game. I don’t know if the officials understand it. They’re trying to get it right, but in the meantime,
they take all the momentum out of the game. They take the crowd out of the game or to a point while waiting for them to make a decision that should’ve been easily made in 20 or 30 seconds. “There should be a time limit on it.” Dancs echoed his coach’s sentiment. “I thought it was a close call,” he said. “I thought I got pushed a bit. Obviously, I didn’t try to hit his glove. I think we just got unlucky, to be honest. I think I hit his glove after the puck was already behind him.”
“We’re not satisfied with our production.”
JACK EICHEL IS GOOD: Michigan knew it had its
hands full with Boston forward Jack Eichel — a 17-year-old sensation who is projected to be a top pick in the 2015 NHL Draft. The Wolverines, though, held him mostly in check. Eichel only tallied one point — an awkward, tip-in goal — which was his lowest output in a game this season. “I was impressed with Eichel,” Berenson said, “and our ‘D’ had their hands full. Copp played against him a lot. I thought we did a pretty good job with him.” Added freshman defenseman Zach Werenski, a fellow 17-year-old: “I mean, it’s kind of hard to explain. He’s in another gear out there. When he wants to, he can skate right by you like nothing. Yeah, we did a good job with him. He had a tip goal, but ultimately we did a good job shutting him down a bit.” And that had the Wolverines energized, even after the loss.
GOAL REVIEW FRUSTRATION: Berenson was uncharacteristically frustrated with the Hockey East officiating after Saturday’s 3-2 loss to thenJAMES COLLER/Daily JT Compher and Michigan’s top line have struggled to score despite a duo that tallied 60 combined points last year. No. 11 Boston University.