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Interim Athletic Director Jim Hackett speaks with randomly selected students at an Athletic Department town hall at the Michigan League on Wednesday.

Jim Hackett talks future, fan experience during chat Interim athletic director engages with students in fireside conversation

University President Mark Schlissel, asking him to take over the Athletic Department on an interim basis after Dave Brandon’s resignation on Oct. 31. Hackett did not even know what Schlissel looked like until he arrived on campus for the announcement of his hiring. Suddenly, he was thrust into the role of Athletic Director. He spent the early portion of his tenure evaluating the state of the football program, his department’s most crucial sport. Now, after firing former coach Brady Hoke on Dec. 2 and hiring Jim Harbaugh to replace him on

By MAX COHEN Managing Sports Editor

As a University alumnus and former Michigan football player, Interim Athletic Director Jim Hackett had been watching the events of the 2014 football season transpire from afar in Grand Rapids. But then came a call from

Dec. 30, the status of the program has settled down to a point where Hackett feels comfortable looking toward the future of Michigan athletics as a whole. Wednesday evening, Hackett met with about 20 students in the Hussey Room in the Michigan League for a fireside chat to discuss the most pertinent issues in Michigan athletics. The chat was the result of a combined effort by CSG President Bobby Dishell and the Athletic Department. Hackett engaged in dialogue with the students for an hour, looking relaxed and at ease. In

his introduction, Hackett told the students that he “went from building seats to selling seats,” a reference to his former position as the Chief Executive Officer of Steelcase Furniture. By taking on his new role, Hackett put his retirement on hold. Hackett held the fireside chat to engage the student body of Michigan to ensure that their experience with athletics is as fan-friendly as possible. One such way to accomplish this goal was brought to his attention by the owner of the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks, Paul See HACKETT, Page 3A

Curriculum group to gather feedback from students, intergroup relations facilitators By TANAZ AHMED Daily Staff Reporter

The LSA Curriculum Committee is planning to review the college’s Race and Ethnicity requirement during the next academic year. Currently, the Race and Ethnicity committee, a subcommittee of the Curriculum Committee, is working on a plan to consider a framework for reviewing the requirement. Angela Dillard, the LSA associate dean for undergraduate education, is spearheading the effort. According to Dillard, LSA Dean Andrew Martin has requested a plan to address the requirement no later than July 1. The final proposal will need to gain the approval of the Curriculum Committee, which approves any changes to the college’s undergraduate curriculum, including concentration proposals, course listings and degree requirements. LSA officials have been work-

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Litigation not likely to change CSG results Make Michigan, The Team both found not guilty in UEC cases By SAMI WINTNER Daily Staff Reporter

After the final Central Student Government election hearings Monday evening, the University Election Commission announced Wednesday morning that it had found both Make Michigan and The Team not guilty of harvesting e-mails. While the hearing results signify that neither party will be disqualified, both parties have 24 hours to file an appeal to the Central Student Judiciary. When the appeal process concludes, the UEC must then vote to certify the final results. If that process concludes without appeal, Make Michigan will retain its hold on the presidency

and vice presidency. Since unofficial election results released last week that announced Make Michigan beat The Team by five votes, there have been a total of nine complaints filed among both parties. The election was the closest CSG race in the last decade. Law student Paige Becker, the University’s elections director, said the UEC found that neither Make Michigan nor The Team committed any of the pending election code violations the UEC had yet to rule on. As a result, the UEC assessed no demerits. The CSG Compiled Code states that an election code violation may warrant a specified number of demerits, depending on the severity of the violation, to either a responsible individual or an entire party. An individual is disqualified if he or she receives five demerits, and an entire party is disqualified if it receives 10 demerits. The Team had previSee CSG, Page 3A

ing on the requirement since last year. In October 2013, Public Policy senior Carly Manes, a former LSA representative in the Central Student Government assembly, met with University administrators and discussed reforms to the requirement. Dillard made it clear that the LSA Executive Committee is not currently considering structural changes to the requirement. “Recommendations to alter the requirement in whole or in part is one possible outcome of the review,” she said. “But speculation of this possibility is a little premature.” Dillard plans to consult with LSA Student Government, Intergroup Relations, learning analytics specialists and others in the college. “One of the things that we hope to do in the review process is to make sense of student feedback and opinion about the requirement,” Dillard said. “It’s really hard because LSA has a lot of students and you all don’t agree.” She also stated she is keeping campus climate and student activism in mind while evaluating the requirement, citing Twitter campaigns like #BBUM and #BlackLivesMatter that have spurred See REQUIREMENT, Page 3A

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Michel Martin, a journalist and correspondent for NPR and ABC News, discusses women and minorities in the media at an event sponsored by the Center for the Education of Women at Kahn Auditorium on Wednesday.

In annual lecture, NPR host discusses future of media Michel Martin explores giving a voice to the voiceless By TANAZ AHMED Daily Staff Reporter

Michel Martin, the National Public Radio correspondent best

known for her coverage of issues related to race and identity, delivered the 20th Mullin Welch Lecture at the Biomedical Science Research Building on Wednesday. Martin is not the first influential journalist to deliver the lecture, which is hosted by the University’s Center for the Education of Women. Jill Abramson, the former executive editor of the New York Times, gave the speech

in 2013. In previous years, Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” and Attorney Sarah Weddington, who argued to legalize abortion in the landmark case Roe v. Wade, were the selected speakers. At the event, CEW also awarded the Carol Hollenshead Award to Obstetrics and Gynecology See NPR, Page 3A

‘U’ employs its own emergency response protocols, per Clery Act regulations By ISOBEL FUTTER Daily Staff Reporter

Early Saturday morning, many students woke up to a 5 a.m. alarm they did not set. The alert was no accident; it was an Amber Alert for a missing 6-year-old girl. The Michigan State Police issued the Amber Alert as part of an ongoing search for Hailey Betts, who was potentially in danger at the time. This was the first time the state police had used a system to deliver the alert through mobile phones. Though Michigan State Police Lt. David Kaiser told MLive he has heard some complaints about the early morning alert, he said it was crucial to spread See ALERT, Page 3A

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Benefit concert supports music therapy program Acoustic Eidolon band plays to raise money for Micah Smiles fund at Mott By ALEX JUNTTI For the Daily

Guests hurried into the auditorium at The Ark as the lights dimmed and the band Acoustic Eidolon took the stage during Wednesday night’s second annual Micah Smiles Benefit Concert. The performance drew applause from the filled auditorium, but an even more noticeable excitement radiated from the audience as the band and event organizers took time to talk about the event’s charitable mission: to Syndication continue to expand the music Sudoku therapy program at C.S. Mott Children’s and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital.

The Micah Smiles Fund for Music Therapy was founded in December 2012 by Micah Canvasser’s mother, Jennifer Canvasser. Micah spent 10 months at Mott battling an intestinal disease before passing away at 11 months old. Throughout Micah’s time at Mott, she and her family cherished the music therapy program. In Micah’s memory and in the support of the music therapy program, The Micah Smiles Benefit concert is a way to gather proceeds in an effort to enrich as many lives as of pediatric patients as possible through the healing powers of music. Canvasser said the concert aims to raise awareness for the public about the power of music therapy. “This is a therapy that is very powerful and can really uplift the kids’ spirits and help connect families together, bring a smile to

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the child’s face and get their mind off the painful surgeries and complications that they’re having,” she said. Since its founding two years ago, the Micah Smiles Fund has raised $63,000 for music therapy at Mott and has seen the department triple from one full-time music therapist to two full-time employees and a new music therapy fellow. Meredith Schlabig, Mott’s secDELANEY RYAN/Daily ond full-time music therapist, said Noir Runway accepts their award at the Michigan Difference Student Leadership Awards at the Michigan Union Ballshe tries to get to know patients room on Wednesday. on a personal level to better reach them through music. “The main overarching thing for me as a music therapist is to really hone in on who the patients are as individuals and bring who they are into the room through music when sometimes they may not feel like who they are,” on the campus community. parody of “I Believe I Can Fly,” http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ Schlabig said. Steven Bodei, assistant direc- changed to “I Believe I Can Schlabig works with patients tor of student development and Win.” on singing, songwriting, creative experiential learning, helped “There is a lot of effort that self-expression, pain managecoordinate the event, and noted it goes into this and I’m glad ment and positive coping skills. focuses on recognizing students because we have so much talShe also teaches instruments such in all arenas of campus life. ent within our university, and as the ukulele, guitar and piano. “The Michigan Difference it’s something that (the Divi“My philosophy is if I go into By COLLEEN HARRISON Student Leadership Awards is to sion of Student Life doesn’t) take a patient’s room and the child Daily Staff Reporter recognize students who are doing lightly. They’re really trying to hasn’t smiled, I haven’t done my really amazing things, not neces- recognize these individuals and job,” Schlabig said. “The amount Students, faculty and mem- sarily in the classroom,” he said. give them an opportunity to of smiles and laughter and conbers of the University commuBodei said, as the event has shine and be in the spotlight,” versation and beautiful music I nity gathered Wednesday night to evolved over the past few years, Hobson said. get to make with patients every honor students who were nomi- it’s become distinct from other Those in attendance walked a day is very rewarding to me.” nated for their leadership on cam- award ceremonies because it blue carpet as they arrived, and Mia Litzenberg, an 11-year-old pus. focuses on more than just the a photographer snapped phosinger who was recently hospitalHosted by the Division of Stu- awards, and aims to create a fun tos of attendees both individuized for severe eczema, has witdent Life, the Michigan Differ- atmosphere. ally and in groups. The Friars, a nessed the benefits the program ence Student Leadership Awards “Five or six years ago they used University a cappella group, also has to offer. She said the music recognized about 100 student to do an event that was similar to performed halfway through the therapists, particularly Schlabig, leaders and student organiza- this and it was kind of your tra- ceremony. have always been extremely kind. tions, chosen from several hun- ditional everyone sits in an audi“One of the things we’ve kind “They encourage you and they dred nominations. Nearly 400 torium and people call people’s of transitioned from is that, are always there for you,” Litzenpeople attended the fourth annual names,” Bodei said “It wasn’t very although professional staff and berg said. “When I was getting my event. fun to be at, so unless you were student life help organize the treatments, I was really depressed Awards recognized students winning there was basically no event, it’s very driven by stuand sad, but when I met Meredith and groups in various categories, need to be there.” dents so all the awards are for she was always helping me and she including art, philanthropy, athWorking with what Bodei students, most if not all of the just brought me a smile.” letics and academics. For example, described as “Oscar-esque presenters are students, perLiztenberg’s mother, Lisa, the Markley Hall Council won an style,” this year’s ceremony formers are students, it’s very added that the music therapists award recognizing best teamwork featured the two masters of student-driven, whereas in the completely changed her daughby a student organization. The ceremonies, LSA senior Simon past it was very staff driven,” ter’s attitude about her illness. Detroit Partnership was noted as Rivers and LSA sophomore Bodei said. See BENEFIT, Page 3A the group with the most impact Joshua Hobson, opening with a Read more at michigandaily.com

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Allen, perhaps as a thank-you for hiring Harbaugh away from his team’s most hated rival. Though the conversation started off with a discussion about Harbaugh, Allen’s “nemesis” when he was the coach of the San Francisco 49ers, it soon soon shifted to ticket policy. Allen suggested the idea of e-tickets, telling Hackett that fans enjoy being able to access their tickets on their phones. Though Hackett said he does not yet have anything to show for the improvement of fan experience at Michigan athletic events, he hoped the fireside chat would help him in his research-gathering phase. The first question was asked by John Lin, a third-year Law student and CSG’s general counsel. He wanted to know Hackett’s feelings on Adidas’ alternate uniforms, a topic that has seemed to divide fans in recent years. Hackett treated the question as a two-part issue, the first of which addressed the school’s use of Adidas as a whole. “In my first months here, the question of which brand we wear is a big one,” Hackett said during the fireside chat. “We’ve organized — this is a secret — a project team to look at the question of, there’s really three players: Adidas, Under Armour and Nike.” Hackett said the process of evaluating which brand of apparel Michigan’s teams will wear going forward is still in its early stages. The Athletic Department has sent out questionnaires to student-athletes, and Hackett has spent time calling athletic directors at other schools to gauge their thoughts, in addition to speaking with former Michigan football players now playing in the NFL. After the completion of the fireside chat, Hackett told the Daily that if Michigan aims to switch from Adidas, it will have to do so by the end of the year. In terms of alternate uniforms for individual games, Hackett noted that Harbaugh will have a strong influence on what the football team wears. “All the shoes are going to be black, he’s making it more conservative, Harbaugh-esque,” Hackett quipped, accompanied by a laugh from the crowd at his new adjective. “We’re letting him go. Hey, you’re the coach, and he has reasons for this.” Soon after invoking Harbaugh’s name, Hackett took the opportunity to make sure the students were satisfied with his highest-profile hire. It proved unnecessary. “Are you happy with him as a coach?” Hackett asked. Hackett burst into laughter, and so did the rest of the room. Hackett remembers Harbaugh when he was a small child, when Hackett played for Michigan and Harbaugh was known as “Jimmy.” Though Hackett admitted excitement about the upcoming Harbaugh era, he encouraged the students to keep things in perspective. “We’ve got to keep our expectations (reasonable),” Hackett said, creating an imaginary ceiling with his hands. “They just have to get the team right. From the stuff I’ve seen, I’m really excited.” The topic of conversation soon shifted to the student experience at Michigan Stadium and the tendency of many students to leave games well before they end. Hackett believes the issue will most easily be resolved by the improvement of the on-field product. “I don’t want to sound sarcastic,” Hackett said. “What I don’t want is more entertainment that’s not football. I think that works in the pros, but we’re in college. I believe college shouldn’t be like the pros. It shouldn’t cost like the pros.” Hackett specifically noted that he didn’t want the games to feel “corporate,” a complaint that was commonly voiced by Michigan fans during Brandon’s tenure. David Hershey, an Engineering senior, stated his displeasure with the piped-in music at Michigan Stadium, greatly preferring the band. Once again, Hackett deferred to Harbaugh. On Harbaugh’s first day in Michigan, right before his introductory press conference, Hackett went with Harbaugh to the suites in Michigan Stadium for a conference call. The pair looked out to the field, and Hackett asked the new coach what he thought of piped-in music during warmups. Harbaugh was firm in his answer. “I don’t care. We don’t need it,” Harbaugh said.

ously been assessed four demerits for the destruction of Make Michigan campaign materials. Two candidates, one from The Team and one from Make Michigan, have already been disqualified for e-mailing listservs that did not belong to them. The Team filed a complaint accusing Make Michigan’s campaign manager, LSA freshman Lauren Siegel, of harvesting 5,719 e-mails by gathering uniqnames from the “Crush the Calendar” UPetition, which she created. Had the UEC found the party responsible, it could have been assessed as many as 17,000 demerits. Make Michigan had alleged that The Team’s Representative Manager, LSA senior Andrew Loeb, had harvested 534 e-mails, which could have earned The Team over 1,000 demerits. If Make Michigan had been disqualified for the e-mails violation, but The Team was found not responsible, The Team could have secured the executive seats. If both parties had been found responsible and were disqualified,

REQUIREMENT From Page 1A conversation around race. The #BBUM campaign, which stands for Being Black at the University of Michigan, was launched by the University’s Black Student Union in 2013 to share the experiences of Black students on campus. In a follow up to the Twitter campaign, BSU lobbied the University to meet a list of demands, including implementing a Race and Ethnicity requirement within all the University’s schools and colleges. “I would never advocate doing the review despite these tensions but because of them,” Dillard said. “If we’re smart we’ll think with these tensions and concerns and protests and demands, all of which reflect similar tensions in our national and global history and in contemporary society.” Dillard said Martin has held formal and informal conversations with students about the subject since January. Dillard plans to launch a public history project on the requirement with the Bentley Historical

NPR From Page 1A Prof. Edward Goldman as well as to Sandra Gregerman, the director of the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. The award acknowledges individuals at the University who promote equity and social change. Martin began her address by recounting historical advancements, including lowering the voting age, the election of the first Black mayor in Detroit and the invention of in vitro fertilization. She used these examples to demonstrate the impact individuals have had and still do have on the environments they inhabit. “The world was changing even then as it is now,” she said. Martin also spoke about her experiences reporting for the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and Nightline,

BENEFIT From Page 1A Liztenberg’s mother, Lisa, added that the music therapists completely changed her daughter’s attitude about her illness. “When Meredith appeared with her guitar and keyboard, Mia forgot all of her problems,” she said. “She was a different person … it really got her mind off of the difficult times and treatments at the hospital.” At the end of their first set, Acoustic Eidolon stepped aside and welcomed Mia to the stage to perform a cover of Sara Bareilles’ “Brave” with guitar accompaniment from Schlabig. Acoustic Eidolon is composed of a double neck guitar player and cellist husband-

News the Defend Affirmative Action candidates would have assumed the presidency and vice presidency. In its opinion for these cases, the UEC defined “harvesting” for the purposes of the code. “(An e-mail) must have been removed from its original context without any form of mutual understanding between the harvester and the owner of the address,” the UEC wrote in the decision. According to the UEC, harvesting has not occurred when a student voluntarily provides his or her e-mail address for a given purpose, such as to receive messages from a party concerning the election. However, if a party or candidate recompiled e-mail addresses that were provided for one given purpose to use for a different purpose, that would constitute an election code violation. The UEC further defined what could constitute e-mail harvesting as according to the Election Code. “If candidate A goes through a listserv in order to find the e-mail addresses of a subset of that listserv — such as his friends — who he/she reasonably could believe would be

more likely than the average student to support his campaign, he has not ‘harvested’ e-mail addresses within the meaning of the Code,” the UEC wrote in the decision. In the case where a party or candidate copies all, most or even a random sample of the e-mails from a listserv whose purpose provides no reason to believe that those on the listserv would be more likely to support the party or candidate’s message than any other person, that party or candidate has acted in violation of the code. In the decision, the UEC first held that because Loeb is neither a candidate nor a party, it does not have jurisdiction to determine his guilt or innocence. Thus, the UEC could not assess him or The Team any demerits for his actions. In the case of Siegel’s actions, the UEC ultimately concluded in its decision that it cannot hold Siegel accountable for a campaign violation because it is possible that she may have reasonably believed that the students to whom she sent promotional e-mails would be more likely than any other student to support Make Michigan.

Library. The project would be open to the community, and involve undergraduates in the archival research. She would also like to work with the LSA SG on a series of open forums and discussions based on their expressed interest in ensuring the inclusion of student voices and opinions. Every year, one LSA SG executive sits on the Curriculum Committee. LSA sophomore Rachel Liang is this semester’s LSA SG representative on the committee. Liang and LSA senior Rachel Rickles, last semester’s representative, have been the primary students involved with committee’s work on the requirement. LSA senior Natasha Dabrowski, outgoing president of LSA SG, said the governing body is an integral part of the review process. “LSA SG is currently playing a role in making sure that we can communicate with students on what the evaluation process and what the requirement will look like,” she said. Last semester, Dabrowski and LSA senior Corey Walsh,

LSA SG vice president, included a question at the end of the fall election ballot to gauge student opinions regarding the requirement. The ballot question asked LSA students if current courses that satisfy the requirement should either remain unchanged, be redefined to include course options that discuss multiple social identities or include course options that primarily focus on any individual social identity. With 478 votes, most voters wanted the requirement to be redefined to include course options that discuss multiple social identities. Additionally, 275 students voted the requirement should remain as it is now, and 168 voters wanted it to include course options that primarily focus on any individual social identity. “A lot of students were talking about (the requirement) and we wanted to capture it a little,” Dabrowski said. “Now, the evaluation will be able to really capture student and faculty sentiment in a more concrete way.”

as well as hosting the NPR show, “Tell Me More,” which was one of the few public radio programs designed to primarily appeal to audiences of color. When the show was canceled as a result of budget cuts in 2014, many media critics saw the decision as a loss for coverage of diversity. Martin remains with NPR as a special correspondent focused on race, identity and gender, among other issues. In her lecture, wielded her journalistic experience to discuss the current state of news media. “We as a country and we very much in the media are still figuring out who has a voice and who does not,” Martin said. She also spent time promoting the importance of listening to all voices and not silencing minority opinions. To understand the full truth in a story, Martin said all different perspectives and narratives must

be heard. “Listen to voices that make us uncomfortable because they are not going away,” Martin said. She also discussed the ways she thinks news media should change to better reflect the nation’s population. Martin said heterosexual white men are more represented in media even though they are not the majority of the population and urged attendees to work toward changing media. “I hold all of us responsible for failing to demand a discourse … with the kind of realism about the world that we know exists,” she said. Martin concluded her lecture with tips on how to start conversations on difficult subjects. She emphasized listening to others as well as asking thoughtful questions. Martin encouraged attendees to recognize that they are engaging in difficult work.

wife combo. A cancer survivor herself, Acoustic Eidolon cellist Hannah Alkire said she can relate to stories like Mia’s, and is a strong advocate for the power of music to heal and inspire. “I remember saying, ‘If I get picked to survive cancer, I’m going back and I’m going to take our music into hospitals and help other people through their journeys,’” Alkire said. “Anything that we can do to make a journey easier is worth it.” LSA senior Amanda Schoonover, who volunteers with the music therapists, said the mission behind the benefit concert means a lot to her. “It’s near and dear to my heart,” Schoonover said. “I volunteer at the hospital with the music therapists. It’s really

cool and the artists are amazing.” The Canvasser family and Mott hope to further expand the program every year by hiring more musical therapists and providing further treatment for those who need it most.our mission to work with people in the community, to keep the patients in their community who can be cared for in their community.” Lawrence said, overall, he’s preparing to head a center that’s already on solid footing. “It’s a very strong center with a lot of resources to start with, but I think there are things that we can build on that can make it a great center, and that’s my goal,” he said.

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PUBLIC SAFETY From Page 1A the information quickly. “If it was their 6-year-old girl, they’d want us to do everything in our powers to make sure their girl was safe,” Kaiser said. “Time is of the essence in something like this.” The alert included the model and license plate number of a truck the police suspected the girl might be in. The alert was sent to all cell phones in a 200-mile radius of Flint, where the girl was reported missing. Thousands of people were notified of the details of Betts’ case. Betts was located at about 11 a.m. Saturday and the alert was subsequently canceled. Betts was found unharmed at an apartment complex in Port Huron with her father, according to MLive. Sergeant Sarah Krebs, who works in the state police’s Missing Persons Coordination Unit, said the Amber Alert played a key role in locating the girl. She went on to specify a few of the many ways Amber Alerts can be sent out. “They can be done by regions, or you can do a radius of so many miles from the epicenter of where the child was missing, which is what they did in this case,” Krebs said. “You can also alert it statewide, meaning everywhere in the state of Michigan will get the alert.” Though Amber Alerts intend to inform people of missing children, Krebs said not all missing children fit the criteria the state police follows for issuing an Amber Alert. The police must determine the child — which they define as below 17 years of age — is at risk for serious bodily harm or death. Police must also believe an immediate broadcast through an Amber Alert would decrease the chances of harm to the child. Other factors in determining the necessity of an Amber Alert include if the child suffers from mental or physical disabilities that impair his or her ability to care for himself or herself. It was believed that Betts’ father had kidnapped her. Though he is her parent, Krebs said he could still be seen as a kidnapper in certain circumstances. “The parent has to have put them in some great bodily harm and risk of death,” Krebs said. Amber Alerts are only one of several ways authorities employ the Wireless Emergency Alert system. Other alerts include extreme weather and other threatening emergencies. Even presidential alerts can be sent out during a national emergency. The alerts appear like a text message, except with a unique tone and vibration. Amber Alerts and weather alerts can be turned off on some phones, but presidential messages cannot. The University also has its own methods to alert students of possible danger. The Division of Public Safety and Security

sends out the types of alerts that inform students of potential danger. The first way the University warns students is through its Emergency Alert System which is a mass, urgent notification system that can notify students, faculty and staff of any major campus emergency. These emergencies could include, but are not limited to, when an active shooter is at large, when there is a tornado warning for the county or when there is a large, hazardous spill on campus. The second type of alert is a Crime Alert. A Crime Alert is sent out by DPSS when a crime has been reported to the law enforcement and DPSS believes it is important to warn the University community. DPSS spokesperson Diane Brown said the Emergency Alert System is used when students need to take action, whereas the Crime Alerts are meant merely to inform students. “The Emergency Alerts are used when there’s something that people need to do,” Brown said. “We don’t put Crime Alerts out on the emergency system, because the whole campus doesn’t necessarily have to take shelter or be aware or anything. They need to be aware of it, they need to know that there was still a threat. It doesn’t mean that everybody has to suddenly lock down and evacuate.” Follow-up notifications are sent out at the discretion of DPSS. The Emergency Alert System may be used to update students when it is safe to continue with their day or when severe weather has passed, for example. The two alerts are implemented as part of the Clery Act, which requires universities and colleges participating in federal financial aid programs to disclose information about crimes that may affect students in any way. “We have a legal obligation to tell people, which is why it’s different than the police in your hometown,” Brown said. “They don’t have a legal requirement to tell people about crimes, but we do. The crime alerts and the emergency alerts are part of that requirement.” Students may elect to receive Emergency Alert texts if they register their phone number on Wolverine Access. All students, faculty and staff also receive an e-mail with details of the emergency. Individuals can also check the University’s website and Twitter feed. Though the alert is spread through many different mediums, Brown believes the best option for students is to sign up to receive texts and phone calls. She said she believes the number of students who do so is not high enough. “We’ve never gotten over 40-percent penetration of people signing up for the text messages and phone calls,” Brown said. “We would strongly recommend that people register, because we rarely use them, but they are important.”

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What They Did

When I was three, momma told me to believe She said if I prayed I would get what I wanted So I asked for Mrs. K to give me a gold star that week For my good behavior, and for Beanie Babies and a new episode of Barney When I was five, dad told me that if I was good I would be rewarded. If I served others and wasn’t mean then I would get something even better. “Better than gold stars and new toys?” I asked. When I was seven, I went to Sikh camp They taught me about being selfless and kind How the company I kept was just as important As who I was And what I did So I listened and learned and went home with new pen pals When I was ten, middle school started Suddenly, I knew I was different My hair black, the rest blonde My eyes brown, the rest blue My skin tan, the rest white I knew I hadn’t changed, but their minds had Suddenly, they saw me differently And because it was Them, it meant I had become different

Knowing that I had to hide Myself So far from fourteen to eighteen My faith became internal, and I a turtle, hiding in her shell Sikhi was for Sundays and home And my whitewashed, convenient identity created for the ease of those around me was my mask But, slowly, I forgot the mask was a mask and my true self stayed in the shell because I forgot to ask it to come out When I was eighteen, I came to Ann Arbor Unaware of the transformations to come I met other Sikhs and they reminded me of my inner self that I had hid away Told me it was time to take off the mask and let go of my fear So I did, well, for some time but then I was nineteen and They killed my family friends And then I was twenty and They beat up and elderly man as he took his evening stroll And then I was twenty-one and They told me I didn’t belong I wonder how if I prayed like momma asked and was good like dad told me and served like camp taught me Why does this all happen Why is there so much Hate, leaving no more room for faith, hope, God

When I was thirteen, we moved I remember driving down Fieldstone Court for the last time, not wanting to turn around and lose sight of that house forever I remember seeing my dad cry for the first time He asked my mom for a Kleenex and wiped away the fear that rolled down all our faces in the form of clear, wet, broken hopes

So, now, where am I? I am afraid I do believe I might die for my faith But I would be honored And I know that, for the sake of us all, I have to believe That change will come Change will come

When I was fourteen, I was new again I walked into the labyrinth of my new education Afraid and alone

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JAKE HELLER | VIEWPOINT

When STEM lost its way

I’m a Biomedical Engineering major with a minor in Community Action and Social Change from the School of Social Work. The combination of my major and minor often creates perplexed faces on whoever is asking the question. The responses are typically along the lines of “engineering and social work — that doesn’t make sense.” This is the constant ideological and pedagogical struggle that has dominated my undergraduate educational experience. At the end of my undergraduate career, I feel it’s important to emphasize the underlying connection between these two apparently polar opposite academic pursuits. The unifying concept inextricably linking science, engineering, technology and mathematics to social science, arts, humanities and social justice is the principle of understanding the world around us to make life better for humanity as whole. At first it may be a challenge to see the relationship between this principle and STEM fields. However, a closer examination elucidates the connection. I believe that Albert Einstein said it best with, “All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.” In my opinion, STEM is more than equations, mathematical models and data; I prefer the view that these are techniques to understand the world. This understanding of the world can eventually lead to developments that can change our society as a whole. I believe STEM fields can realign themselves with a holistic understanding of the world by engaging STEM students in meaningful reflection and education around the people and communities that their work will ultimately impact. In my experience, cultural and social competence is a low priority in most STEM education programs. Now, I’m speaking on my own experience within the College of Engineering, however, there are applications and implications to the STEM community at large. In the College of Engineering in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, there has been, at times, a complete disregard shown for those whom our work is inherently supposed to benefit. Peers and professors have made comments that forsake the integrity of patients for the pursuit of ideal data. There are complaints that blame the

poor and “Obamacare” for taking away funding from their niche research directed at helping the wealthy, and there’s a constant stream of micro aggressions against anyone who isn’t a rich, white, heterosexual, “American” man of ideal body size. The social acceptance of complaining about the intelligence of GSIs based solely on their accent is just one example of the lack of cultural competency in the engineering community. Being able to effectively work with people who are different from you is a skill that’s essential to success in the modern world. It’s important to not only examine your own experience in the interaction but those of the person or community you’re working with. An impressive final product doesn’t mean a team was able to effectively work together. Teammates could be dismissing the ideas of others based upon preconceived notions. The product could be successful, but the potential of the product is reduced by the exclusion of teammates and their ideas. It’s important to teach cultural competency skills, such as balancing power dynamics, respecting and acknowledging differences and creating opportunities for many diverse voices to be heard. A 2005 article in the Research Journal for Engineering Education by Chubin, May and Babco explains, “Given the relatively homogeneous composition of the engineering faculty, and the profession’s workforce more generally, it behooves engineering education to assist current and future practitioners in becoming culturally competent.” Social and cultural competency should not be an afterthought. It should not be something that’s assumed to be trivial and not worth the time. Cultural competency isn’t a distraction from scientific work, but rather a realignment with its original intention. As the “Leaders and Best,” it’s our responsibility to provide our students with all the skills they need to be successful in their future careers. The College of Engineering and all undergraduate STEM programs at the University should implement cultural competency into their curriculums. This should not be thought of as a burden brought about by a liberal agenda, but instead as a means of equipping our future world-leading scientists, engineers, professors, mathematicians and members of the community with a complete set of skills to make our world a better place to call hoMe. Jake Heller is an Engineering senior.

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Learning about #Grexit

’ll be candid. I’m sure that you’re not incredibly interested in a mildly dense recounting of Europe’s current economic state. But I promise that it’s intriguing and worth knowing about, and I have a point to make about it. Plus, if it somehow comes up in conversa- MICHAEL tion, you’ll sound SCHRAMM like a genius. Oh, and you’ll get to learn the fun word “grexit” — a combination of the words Greek and exit. I like to imagine it with a hashtag in front of it. #Grexit. I knew that #Grexit would win you over. Many European countries are part of the Eurozone — a group of countries that all use the euro as a form of currency. In many circumstances, this unified currency has a variety of advantages, but currently Greece’s economy is on the verge of bankruptcy. Since Greece is part of the eurozone, this could spell disaster for a variety of countries. It could even impact the United States. The trouble began years ago, when Greece began spending far more than it could afford. Both the government and individuals continually overspent, and while this would appear to be a problem that other countries would quickly realize, Greece was able to provide fraudulent information to mask its deficits. They could have continued hiding this information if it weren’t for a financial crisis. From 2007 to 2009 a financial crisis sent ripples throughout the national economy. The downturn unintentionally spotlighted the country’s immense debts and deficits that defied Eurozone regulations. This quickly led to panic at the fear of Greece going bankrupt, causing harm to both the country and other European countries.

The downturn created a need for bailout money, which would attempt to protect Greece from bankruptcy. Eurozone countries approved 110 and 130 billion euros worth of rescue money in 2010 and 2012, respectively. While this seems like a blessing, Greece has received this money with reservations, much to the country’s dismay. The bailout money came with strict regulations on the country’s spending habits. Spending cuts on defense, education, public sector wages, social security and civil servant jobs being decreased as people retire were some of the major sanctions. This coincided with an incredibly high 28 percent unemployment rate to create an agonizing climate for Greek citizens. These living conditions created unrest within the country, and in late 2014, when Greek parliament failed to elect a prime minister, these issues surfaced. This spurred a new election in 2015 in which a member of Greece’s antiausterity party was elected into office. This man, Alexis Tsipras, demanded changes to alleviate some of the regulations hurting Greek citizens. Though Tsipras promised large changes, and he did negotiate a four-month extension to Greece’s bailout, his election has caused incredible controversy within the Eurozone. Greece is required to comply with a list of reforms to receive more bailout money, but given its current stance, there’s a large possibility that this won’t happen. Without this money, Greece may be unable to make its next repayment of 460 million euros on April 9, causing the country to go bankrupt. This bankruptcy could cause Greece to exit the Eurozone, an action which has come to be known

as a Grexit, and instead use its own currency instead of the euro. This could lead to large impacts, not only for Greece, but also for the rest of the Eurozone. If Greece tosses the euro, investors may recognize the possibility for other countries in poor economic condition to exit the eurozone. This could cause the bankruptcy of Portugal, Italy and Spain. Multiple countries leaving the eurozone could send a wide ripple throughout the economy, potentially even affecting the United States by decreasing employment and exports. Now, why does all this matter to you? It’s because of the last sentence I wrote: that this economic crisis on the other side of the world has a power to impact America’s economy and your job. Every day that you lay your head on your pillow is another day closer to April 9, when Greece’s economy could land in total failure, and it has the power to impact you. I don’t like telling people to know things for the sake of knowing things. It’s not my place to spew economic information at you because I think it’s interesting. However, it is important that you have a working knowledge about how larger issues could affect you. It keeps you prepared for a large crisis and it allows you to have a voice in the conversation. Do you think Greece is demanding too much? Do you think the Eurozone is fair with their punishments? Regardless of your answer, if the entire international population held a mostly unified stance, I believe it’d be possible to effect an outcome that could deeply impact you. And if that’s not enough, at least you learned the context for the word #Grexit.

Why does all this matter? Because this economic crisis has the power to impact you.

— Michael Schramm can be reached at mschramm@umich.edu.

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Priveleged hubris

If I could ensure one thing as a result of reading this article, it would be that you learn from my mistakes without enduring similar ones yourself. Yet this is not how life works. You must make mistakes, you must fail. The ironic fact is that any attempt to shield you from making mistakes will lead you to them faster, and with greater gravity. Here at the University of Michigan, we represent top students from the across the world, “the leaders and the best,” and, for most of us, the idea of failure has been conditioned to be thought of as unacceptable. This idea can be so profoundly instilled that many of us have likely never experienced much failure in our lives; it was simply not an option. Sure we have all forgotten about a spelling test once or forgotten our clothes for gym class and had to take the zero, but in few of these circumstances have we stood back afterward with new wisdom toward life. This was my case. The son of a former army captain with a doctorate in Ceramic Engineering and a first-generation American mother raised by a single mom, my life was very structured. Boy Scout, Eagle Scout, two-sport varsity athlete and valedictorian; my pre-collegiate life was close to perfect. I never drank, smoked, went out at night or on weekends or got in trouble. Now this didn’t mean I was never curious; you can’t help but peek over the fence to the neighbor’s yard sooner or later. Going through high school, I was very aware of the separate life many of my friends were living. It wasn’t a question of popularity, but rather a question of “was I missing out?” The bottom line was that there was no way I could ever have tried these things due to the nature of my

household, and also that I was OK with waiting. Sure, everyone wants to be cool in high school, but no TV show or movie about high school could compare with those of college. In my mind college equated to freedom, a chance to grow, a chance to not miss out. College was the finish line and the trophy. College is not the finish line; if anything, it’s the starting line following a long warm up. Yes, this sounds like common sense, but to a high schooler who has waited 18 years to get away, patience is nearly gone. More importantly, common sense isn’t common. Many may have it, but this doesn’t mean it gets used. When I went to my college orientation, I heard the drinking lecture from advisors, police and students. Bottom line: “don’t be stupid.” Well duh! Come on, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand how to not get caught. I was the top of my class; I had never once been in trouble, it could never happen to me. More importantly, I was “different than everyone else.” Unfortunately, it was this mindset that I wasn’t warned about, or if I was, I didn’t listen to it. I was untouchable because I had never made a mistake before. In this sense, even if I did listen to it, I’d never be able to appreciate it because of hubris. The mistake is thinking that years of hard work or fortune in high school will carry through college. When you get to college, no one knows you were a straight-A student or community volunteer. Your past doesn’t define you, your actions now do. The second mistake is thinking that just because you reached junior year without any mess-ups or an

MIP, you truly are “special.” No, this is just how long it takes to get careless, to push the bounds a little further. The problem? When you finally do mess up, and everyone does, you won’t know how to react. You have been so used to avoiding failure that you don’t know what to do. That was my case. That’s how an Aerospace Engineer graduating early in three and a half years woke up in a holding cell with an mip, breaking and entering, attempted resisting arrest and obstructing charges. Not only could all of these events have been avoided entirely, but there is also no reason they should have been anything more than an MIP, as the officer told me himself. I honestly believe that it was my shock in that situation that escalated things into the mess that it is now. I could not accept being in trouble as reality to the point that I fought it. The message I am sending is not that I wish I had drank in high school or participated in other mischief. What I am saying is that we only learn from our mistakes, and we need to be open to making them. It’s important to test the waters, but don’t dive in headfirst because you think you’re untouchable. I serve as living proof that failure happens to the best of us. I failed because of my hubris, because I believed that I couldn’t get in trouble, because I thought I was smarter or better than everyone else. I failed because when I made a mistake, I did not learn from it; I panicked and tried to run from it. Reading this isn’t going to keep you from making mistakes. I only hope it makes you aware that even you will make them. Joseph Sikorski is an Engineering junior.

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event spotlight: EARTH DAY moss graffiti, trivia or even taking part in a take-thetap-water taste test, there’s something for everyone. To celebrate this great Along with these events, Planet Earth we all inhabit, Michigan Dining chefs Central Student Governwill present cooking demment and Michigan Dining onstrations and pass out are co-hosting an Earth Day free samples of things like extravaganza on Fri., April donuts, apples, and trinkets 3, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 to visitors. p.m. Of course, no environFocusing on the ideas of mental celebration would sustainability and engagebe complete without some ment, the celebration will educational information. take place at two locations: The Office of Campus the Diag and Palmer ComSustainability and varimons. ous environmental student organizations will share On the Diag with students ways to “go green” at the University. All environmental enthuPublic Policy senior siasts will be able to parBobby Dishell, Central Stuticipate in the events that dent Government president, will be taking place on the said he is happy to see the Diag. More than 20 groups University collaborating. will be hosting activities for “It is great to see the students to participate in. University coming together Whether you enjoy games, to celebrate the great work By CARLY NOAH

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that is being done by students, faculty and administration alike,” Dishell said. “I look forward to seeing the celebration and hope the festivities spark even more change surrounding sustainability.”

After taking more than your fair share of free donuts, head over to Forum Hall in the Palmer Commons for a free showing of documentary “Farmland” at 2:30 p.m. The film follows the livelihoods of 20-something farmers and ranchers who have a passion for farming as it is passed down through generations. Keith Foster, a University Dining manager, said he thinks the screening of the film will be interesting and enlightening for students.

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Nigerian opposition party wins election Northern Nigerians celebrated on March 31 when Muhammadu Buhari defeated current president Goodluck Jonathan, whose People’s Democratic Party has been in power for 16 years. Buhari beat Goodluck with more than 2.5 million votes, according to BBC. Buhari is a former military ruler who ran a strict campaign against corruption. Under Jonathan as much as $20 billion of oil revenue went missing from the country, according to Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

Central Student Government votes down proposal to investigate University investigations CSG representatives voted 25-9 against the resolution to create an ad hoc committee to investigate if the University invests in companies that provide aid to Israel and potentially violate the human rights of Palestinians. The student group Students Allied for Freedom and Equality presented the resolution to CSG on March 31. Palestinian American journalist Ali Abunimah spoke in favor of the resolution, while University History Prof. Zayn Malik leaves One Victor Lieberman spoke Direction against the resolution. Zayn Malik announced on March 25 that he would Nursing and Psychiatry be leaving the platinumProfessor receives Golden selling British boy band, Apple Award One Direction. He said in Psychiatry and Nursing a Facebook post that he Prof. Stephen Strobbe gave wishes to live life like a an emotional acceptance normal 22 year old. The speech in Rackham Audirest of the boy band will torium upon receiving the continue to make music. student-nominated award The band originally began for outstanding teaching. on the British reality TV Many students nominated show, the “The X Factor,” Strobbe for his honesty and produced by Simon Cowell. openness as a professor.

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WNIT run ends for ‘M’ By MINH DOAN Daily Sports Writer

As the door closed on the Michigan women’s basketball team’s season, the three seniors — forwards Cyesha Goree and Nicole 69 UCLA Elmblad MICHIGAN 65 and guard Shannon Smith — all broke down into tears. Not only was the Wolverines’ 69-65 loss to UCLA in the WNIT semifinal their last game at Crisler Center, but their last game in a Michigan uniform. The tears flowed from the trio, especially considering how close they came to winning the game. “The emotions were running because we were so close,” Elmblad said. After back-and-forth scoring for most of the second half, Bruin guard Nirra Fields sank a jumper to put UCLA up by two. Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico called a timeout to set up a play, “Purple Three,” which would put freshman guard Katelynn Flaherty wide-open at the top of the arc with a chance to put the Wolverines (8-10 Big Ten, 20-15 overall) up one with less than a minute in the game. The play worked to perfection, as UCLA left Flaherty open at the top of the arc and she let the ball fly. The ball hit iron before UCLA (8-10 Pac-12, 18-18 overall) gobbled up the rebound, seemingly shutting the door on the Wolverines’ season. Even then, there was a glimmer of hope less than 30 seconds later when Bruin forward Lajahna Drummer missed the front end of her one-and-one. But UCLA came up with a crucial offensive rebound, and Michigan was forced to foul Bruins sharpshooter Kari Korver, the cousin of NBA player

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Senior forward Cyesha Goree closed her career with another double-double.

Kyle Korver. Korver, who killed the Wolverines all game, shooting 5-for-7 from beyond the arc and 7-for-9 overall, sank both free throws to give UCLA an insurmountable four-point lead with 21 seconds left in the game. Much of Korver’s success was attributed to her lanky 5-foot-9 frame, which gave her a height advantage over Michigan’s guards. Korver would finish with a game-high 19 points, 13 of which came in the first half. “Early in the game, she killed us,” Barnes Arico said. “We knew she was a great shooter, and I don’t think we contested her shot enough.” On the other side of the court, Michigan’s sharpshooting duo of Flaherty and sophomore guard Siera Thompson couldn’t get it going, shooting a combined 5-for25, as Thompson missed all 11 shots she took. But the seniors picked up the slack, as Smith led the team with

20 points, Elmblad finished with 16 points and seven rebounds and Goree totaled 11 points and 10 rebounds for her 18th doubledouble of the season, a fitting ending to their Michigan careers. “Everyone needs to give a hand to these seniors,” Barnes Arico said. “They’ve taken us. This has been their journey. This past month, we’ve been on their shoulders. They’ve carried us.” The first half saw much of the same back-and-forth action as the Bruins led the Wolverines by one at the break. For the game, Michigan shot 38 percent, a huge difference from the Bruins, who shot 52 percent. As the Crisler Center lights turn off for the last time this season, the Michigan careers of Goree, Elmblad and Smith end. And after the record-setting season the three put together, in which the Wolverines played in its first April contest in program history, they will be sorely missed.

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Closer than ever before T he Michigan women’s basketball team’s season ended when the buzzer sounded. Senior forward Nicole Elmblad bit into her jersey and rested her hands on her hips as BRAD she watched WHIPPLE UCLA celebrate a WNIT championship berth, something she has never experienced. The senior’s decorated career was over, and all she could do was stare at the ground as her teammates lined up to congratulate the victors. Along with her teammates, she waved to the crowd for their support before hustling into the tunnel one last time. After a 69-65 loss to the Bruins that ended the Wolverines’ season in the WNIT semifinals, they left behind a crowd that filled Crisler Center with more noise than ever before. More importantly, though, they left behind an empty space above the team’s bench — one that will have to wait a little longer to be filled by a banner. During postgame interviews, Elmblad was red-eyed as she rested her hands on her cheeks. Emotionally overwhelmed by both the loss and the effort her team had put in until the end, she knew it was her last time donning the maize and blue. But Elmblad and her team didn’t go out without a fight. Michigan refused to turn down the high-tempo game that led the Wolverines to a WNIT semifinal for the first time in five years. Even after a season filled with over-the-top victories coupled with heart-wrenching losses, the spirit was still alive and the confidence continued to grow. A few weeks ago, it was no different when the reality sunk in that Michigan would miss another NCAA Tournament. Elmblad and fellow seniors Cyesha Goree and Shannon Smith got together for dinner before the WNIT and vowed that they would maintain the winning mentality, even if it wasn’t for the national title. “We want to do something — make a name for ourselves,” Smith said. “I feel like we put it all out there.” Michigan did put it all on the floor. The Wolverines could have packed it in after a blowout loss to Michigan State in the Big Ten Tournament, but they stuck with it and ended up being one of the final eight teams in the country

still playing basketball. And they were so close to being one of the final four. They were so close when sophomore guard Danielle Williams hustled back on defense with UCLA guard on a breakaway, eventually planting her feet and drawing a charge. They were so close with 52 seconds left, when the team put the “Purple Three” play into motion, designed to get Flaherty open. It worked in getting Flaherty open at the top of the key, and she let loose a 3-pointer that could have given Michigan the lead. Goree thought they were close in that moment. Eagerly waiting under the basket for the rebound, she remembered Flaherty sinking the exact same shot from the exact same spot months earlier against Ohio State, a shot that ultimately paved the way for a win. But this was different. Instead, Flaherty’s 3-pointer rimmed out before dropping into the hands of a Bruin. Goree thought that maybe Flaherty was “just too open.” Michigan was so close each time sophomore guard Siera Thompson planted her foot and launched the ball, putting fans on the edge of their seats as they hoped she could finally make one. Instead, Thompson was held scoreless for the first time in her career. A California native, Thompson’s nerves got the best of her as she played against players she grew up with. “She’s been having a hell of a career,” Barnes Arico said. “And then tonight, she’s playing against her best friends she grew up with. That killed her. … That one’s gonna bother (Thompson) for a long time.” And it was so close when the Wolverines were down by three and UCLA missed the first of a 1-and-1 opportunity. But the Bruins grabbed the rebound, forcing Michigan to foul once more and make it a twopossession game. “We’ve had a lot of games that have went down to the wire like this, we’ve kinda been through this before,” Goree said. “We thought we had it and knew what to do at the end.” When the day comes for a banner to fill the only gap left inside Crisler, Barnes Arico said she is going to give this year’s senior class the net that she cuts down. They not only allowed the team to get this far by embodying the grit and passion Barnes Arico

wants to instill in every player, but also by setting the example that playing hard is mandatory, even if it’s the WNIT. Because Michigan still wanted to rewrite history, and it will. Elmblad, Goree and Smith represent Barnes Arico’s most successful experiment. During Barnes Arico’s second year, Elmblad became a more efficient player, ultimately finding a new niche at the forward position and improving in nearly every statistical category. In her final two seasons, she was the unanimous choice for the team captain. Smith was a latecomer, joining the squad in Barnes Arico’s second year, but still scored 920 points during her two years at Michigan, eclipsing 1,000 career points. Barnes Arico took a 5-foot-7 point guard and turned her into a versatile and speedy guard-turned-rebounder that was ruthless in transition. Then there’s Goree, who tore her anterior cruciate ligament twice and played just 32 total minutes before Barnes Arico’s arrival, but ended her career as the only Michigan player to post back-to-back seasons with 300-plus rebounds. Even in their absence, Smith, Goree and Elmblad will leave around a legacy that will live with the program for years to come. For the returners, Wednesday’s loss means one thing. “It’s, ‘Hey, if I’m ever in this position again, I’m gonna make this play,’ ” Barnes Arico said. “I hope they come back super motivated that this is never going to happen to (them) again.” No matter how close the Wolverines came to reaching the WNIT championship, getting this far has meant enough. Elmblad, Smith and Goree defied the odds even after they had switched coaches or switched schools. They showed anything is attainable. And next year, when — not if — Michigan reaches the NCAA Tournament, the Wolverines will continue to inch even closer toward banner. Wednesday night, the record book didn’t close. In fact, it has turned to a blank page, because Michigan is closer than ever before.

“I feel like we put it all out there.”

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Wolverines keep rolling By ISAIAH ZEAVIN-MOSS Daily Sports Writer

Coming into Wednesday’s game against Central Michigan, the Michigan baseball team’s offense was CMU 3 simmering. MICHIGAN 5 Over the previous three games, the Wolverines had averaged more than seven runs per game. In Tuesday’s win over Toledo, Michigan blasted nine hits — two of them going over the wall. The offensive production continued Wednesday, as the Wolverines welcomed in April with a 5-3 win over Central Michigan. On what felt like the first day of spring, Michigan (2-4 Big Ten, 16-12 overall) won its fourth game in a row to cap a sixgame homestand. After neither team recorded a hit in the first three innings, the Wolverines broke it open in the fourth inning. Senior outfielder Jackson Glines began the frame with a leadoff walk before the Chippewas (5-1 MAC, 18-11 overall) brought in Braxton Markle in relief. But Michigan gave the new pitcher no time to get comfortable. Sophomore outfielder Carmen Benedetti, the first batter Markle faced, knocked a first-pitch single

and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by junior outfielder Cody Bruder. Finally, junior infielder Travis Maezes put the Wolverines on the board with a two-run single. Wednesday’s game was Maezes’ first time playing since March 13, when he suffered a strained oblique. “It feels great to get back there,” Maezes said. “No problems, no pain, no setbacks. It’s a good feeling to be in the lineup.” And the damage wasn’t done there. Freshman catcher Drew Lugbauer drove Maezes in with a single of his own, giving Michigan a 3-0 lead to end the inning. The Wolverines continued to pour it on in the fifth inning, as junior infielder Jacob Cronenworth blasted a solo home run to open the frame. It was Cronenworth’s third home run in as many games. In the seventh, Benedetti, one of the most feared hitters in Michigan’s vaunted lineup, drew an intentional walk as he came up to bat with a runner on third base. But even from the base paths, Benedetti did his due damage: He stole second base and forced a throw from Central Michigan catcher Tyler Huntey. The runner on third, freshman shortstop Jake Bivens, stole home to give the Wolverines a 5-0 lead.

“We knew we were up against a tough opponent,” Michigan coach Erik Bakich said. “And we knew we were going to have to call on a bunch of people, but we trust those guys and we can count on those guys.” In the eighth inning, Benedetti came on in relief. Central Michigan had runners on first and second with nobody out. This time, the Chippewas did slice Michigan’s lead. After Benedetti forced his first batter to pop out and struck out the next, designated hitter Daniel Jipping drove in both runs with a two-out single. After eight, the Wolverines led 5-2. Freshman pitcher Bryan Pall came in to close out the ninth inning. Central Michigan shortstop Zach McKinstry scored on infielder Cody Leichman’s RBI groundout, but no further damage was done. After chipping into the lead, the Chippewas ultimately could not break the dam. Michigan went 5-1 on its first homestand of the season. After being swept by Nebraska last weekend, the Wolverines look to be hitting their stride. “After Nebraska, our backs were up against the ropes,” Bakich said. “But we’re not going to back down. We’re going to keep throwing punches and keep fighting.”

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CHELA’S From Page 1B Walk into Chela’s, a small Mexican eatery on South Maple Road just off West Liberty Street, and you’ll notice a fairly large, seemingly old, blown-up photograph tacked up onto one of the walls near the back. The photo is in black and white, and displays an overall-clad young child standing lazily in a dusty parking lot. There’s a small food stand behind him with the emboldened word “Taquería” pasted on its storefront. Without context, this picture is simple and mismatched against the colorful chairs and small peccadilloes dispersed throughout the eating room. But ask Adrian Iraola, the store’s owner, about the photo in the back. Ask about the little boy in the photo, and how long ago it was taken, and why it hangs so proudly from the store’s back wall.

“We were looking for more of the original street food.” Ann Arbor residents and University students swim in a sea of food varieties. From Main Street to Kerrytown to the perimeters of the suburbs, good food isn’t hard to find. It’s the glory of the college town atmosphere: a large population of 20-somethings interested in providing genuine support to a food culture for their university. We benefit, in reputation and recognition, for the culture and tradition that this excellence provides. Zingerman’s Delicatessen, Fleetwood Diner, Frita Batidos, Blimpy Burger; Ann Arbor’s best is a seemingly endless list that is slowly expanding to the outskirts of our campus, just a short drive away, to Chela’s. Adrian Iraola, a former architectural engineer and project manager for the city of Ann Arbor, had been searching for an accurate recreation of authentic Mexican cuisine. His

wife Lori Iraola, an Ann Arbor native, experienced his insatiable plight. “When he moved here, he couldn’t find it,” Lori said. “He could find a lot of very tasty food, a lot of variation of Mexican food, but we were looking for more of the original street food.” Their search was vehement and vast; Adrian chuckled even at the recollections he has amassed from his search. He referenced one attempt at a restaurant in Ypsilanti. “The dishes didn’t even resemble what they said they were selling! My wife and I came out and we got in our vehicle and we both reached for a piece of candy from the ashtray,” Iraola said. “We turned to each other and we asked, ‘Are you trying to get the taste out of your mouth, too?’ and we both said, ‘Yes!’ ” The couple faced constant disappointment in their search for an authentic Mexican taste. Dreamily and constantly, they would discuss the possibility of opening a restaurant of their own, one where Adrian could provide “real tortillas and rich carnitas and homemade asada. None of this queso dip on the tacos. I was going to have onion and cilantro and a slice of lime, the way that it is supposed to be!” But this dream was slow in coming to actual physical form. Its first foundations were first laid as far back as 27 years ago when Adrian signed himself up for small-business classes and courses in addition to his numerous early architectural projects. Adrian and Lori allowed life’s milestones to fill the next few decades of the couple’s lives, complete with marriage, children and career success, but the flame was never extinguished from the proverbial back burner on which the dream was placed. And Lori reiterates this, relaying their late night quiet discussions of the topic. “We didn’t imagine the level of popularity we had coming. We thought it would be a little ‘Ma and Pa’ diner kind of place and we’d maybe have some regulars,” Lori said. “Lying in bed, we used to think, ‘What kind of numbers are we going to do?’ ” The couple’s experiences with specious Mexican restaurants did continue to stockpile. This built-up disquietude, working

in tandem with the ever-powerful passage of time, pushed Adrian and Lori to inch closer and closer to their dream. Edging into his 60s, and following the completion of an especially large parking garage project, Lori finally motivated Adrian enough with the first moves of the Chela’s project. A former stay-at-home mom and successful equestrian coach, Lori visited numerous auctions and started buying kitchen equipment. Drawing up the business plans and designing kitchen and eating space floor plans, the side project and buried dream slowly started to build from its hypo-

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ciples of proper Mexican street food: an appreciation of simple flavors and well-prepared, properly selected ingredients. Adrian, Lori and Enrique couldn’t repeat the importance of simplicity enough. The greatest aversion and the greatest success of this institution is held in Chela’s’ refusal to tarnish or distract from the naturally abundant and richness of flavors that has always existed in authentic Mexican cuisine. Adrian likened it to a musical symphony. “There are the classics, like in music, that you don’t tamper with,” Adrian said. “To improve

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Adrian Iraola owns Chela’s Restaurant in Detroit with his wife Lori.

thetical bedrock. Adrian and his wife Lori opened Chela’s doors in May 2012 to critical success. They were, as Lori explains, unknowing of the void they were about to fill for so many people. “Just in the first few days we opened we were running out of food,” Lori said. “We had to immediately hire new staff because everything just exploded. And it’s still growing.” Harnessing the powers of authenticity, passion, incredible work ethic and simplicity, Chela’s seeks to amaze each and every customer who strolls through the door. As natives of Mexico City, both Adrian and the store’s manager, Enrique Aquino, inherently understand what flavors do and do not belong in authentic Mexican street cuisine. Perhaps even more importantly, the three have worked to buttress their restaurant with the same prin-

them would be to destroy them. We feel that way about our foods here. We stick to the basics, and don’t tamper with them, but are always focusing on the little ways we can improve things.” Take the restaurant’s vegetable tacos as an example. “In Mexico, it’s probably not a very popular item,” Lori, a vegetarian herself, said. “And there are a lot of vegetarian options here. We take what would be carne asada or barbacoa and replace them with potatoes and a sautéed vegetable mix.” They’re creating an innovative version of an unpopular option using simplicity, authenticity and a particular knowledge of what does and doesn’t belong in their foods. The freshness of Chela’s’ produce and basic ingredients is another disciplined standard of their food service. Some of the produce is hand-selected, while the rest is specially ordered for

daily deliveries from the markets that the team has determined are the best. Typically, Lori or another member of the Chela’s family ventures to local food markets daily to find and purchase the best vegetables and ingredients for the next day’s meals. “As soon as the farmer’s market opens, we start to get our zucchini and other fresh vegetables,” Lori said. “And here’s one of the surprising things: People notice when I serve corn or lettuce that was cut that day. And so yes we are good at what we do, but people notice best when you don’t serve with any additives. You can taste the freshness.” Using her developed, touchyfeely selection process and the use of high standard produce providers, like the avocado ripening center at Ann Arbor’s Frog Holler Produce, Lori is generating the axiom in all of its food service. Embedded within the restaurant’s ethos, in tandem with the authenticity, simplicity and high standards of freshness, exists an incredible sense of work ethic. As Aquino describes, the passion for their product drives the incredible work ethic of each employee. “That is something that I would like people to know. It tastes good because it is good, and it’s healthy,” Aquino said. “But it’s also so much closer to my heart, and our true passion, seeing a taco that is being made right, or a salsa that is made right.” Like Adrian and Enrique, who both emigrated from Mexico City to the United States, many of the employees of the restaurant are first or second-generation immigrants. In American culture today, the stigma of the Mexican immigrant can be incorrectly perceived. When asked about this all-too-common societal blemish and his experiences with it, Aquino spoke seriously and passionately. “These are people, myself included, who are motivated for more,” he said. “They have a passion for a better life, and are willing to work as hard as possible to reach their dreams. We have high-quality employees because Chela’s is surrounded by these ideas.” To provide more context,

Adrian provided an analogy: “Imagine the first-generation immigrants in any family. They had to work the hardest, taking any and all jobs as best they can so that they can give their ancestors a better life.” Both Lori and Adrian could describe working minimum wage jobs at exceedingly young ages; for Adrian, he was driving a car for his father’s parking lot business at the age of 11. Lori used money from her various jobs growing up to buy clothes for herself. “It isn’t that there is a lack of motivation among third-, fourth- or fifth-generation family members. It’s just that the circumstances are different,” Adrian said. “We’ve provided a great life for our children, and now they are learning how to build off of that.”

“... everything just exploded. And it’s still growing.” Before exiting Chela’s, upon finishing my interviews with Adrian, Lori and Enrique, and after being filled with delicious samples and treats, I looked back at the photograph hanging on the wall. It’s a picture of Adrian as a young boy, standing in a parking lot that his father built. Adrian’s father owned a parking lot business that placed taquería stands in each lot his company built. Light Mexican music plays from the speaker above as delicious smells start to emerge from the nearby kitchen. It’s 11:00 in the morning and the customers have already started to pour in. Sipping on a sample of their homemade limeade — the only ingredient are limes, sugar and water, just like grandma made it — an involuntary smile is painted across my face. Gazing at the photo, and then back at Adrian’s kind eyes as he stands next to me, I now understand the magic of this photo. The creation and success of Chela’s isn’t illusory, nor is it a result of fate, coincidence or highly strategic planning. This is authenticity.

LITERARY COLUMN

What’s your favorite book?

ear readers, my time with you is quickly drawing to a close. In a few short weeks I shall walk out of The Big House and into the swirling mists of uncertainty known as the real world. GRACE It is PROSNIEWSKI my duty, therefore, to use this, my penultimate column, to settle a matter of some dispute. It’s a question that invariably comes up, from icebreakers in classes to small talk with strangers. The question I refer to is, of course, “What’s your favorite book?” Readers, I must confess to you, this question terrifies me. I usually give some elusive non-answer about how it’s too hard to choose just one book. But that’s not quite the truth. In reality, I fear that fellow readers may judge my literary tastes as too pedestrian. I can’t rattle off a list of upand-coming writers to check out, as I much prefer reading the time-tested “classics.” And even then, I’d rather watch “Hamlet” than “Titus Andronicus,” and I’d rather read “Pride and Prejudice” than “Mansfield Park.” (Seriously, get outta here, Fanny.) If something as personalized and expressive as my literary tastes veer toward the commonplace, what does that say about me? Well, instead of playing into this fear, I am confronting it head on. Because I’m a rebel at heart

(just one that usually follows all the rules), instead of naming my 10 favorite books, I shall instead name 10 writers who have greatly influenced my own literary world. Presented in chronological order of when they appeared in my life, I am proud to claim all of these writers as mentors. Edgar Allan Poe I’ve mentioned Poe in several of my past articles, and he’s been an invaluable part of my literary life from the time I saw “The Raven” segment from “The Simpsons” ’s first “Treehouse of Horror” special. He had a hand in developing science fiction and mystery, and he forever changed the landscape of horror. Though many of the myths surrounding Poe stem from the lies of rival writer Rufus Griswold written after Poe’s death, there’s something oddly satisfying about being able to match the psyche of a writer to their work, and Poe and his work remain shrouded in mystery. J.K. Rowling There are people who will no doubt say I’m blinded by nostalgia in choosing Rowling for this list. To those people I say, “Come at me.” J.K. Rowling is nothing less than an outstanding writer for both adults and children. Say what you will regarding style — in terms of structure and actual storytelling, Rowling is a master. And in all her works, from “Harry Potter” to “The Casual Vacancy,” Rowling has the rare ability to make a reader truly care about a character. Jane Austen I love Jane Austen. People who dismiss her work as vapid

chick-lit completely miss her unique and biting critique of class and upper-class mores — which is unrivaled to this day. Yes, you can expect a happy ending, but so what? I’m not of the school of thought that everything worth reading has to end in doom and gloom. Perhaps most importantly, Austen led me to other great female authors like the Brontë Sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell and even Edith Wharton. And of course, her works provided hours of quality miniseries material, complete with attractive British men in cravats. Is there any greater legacy?

Why not take a walk down your own literary memory lane? Wilfred Owen I first discovered the poetry of Wilfred Owen in AP English when we read his poem “Dulce et Decorum Est.” Owen, a British solider who died in WWI, documented the horrors and atrocities he saw while in battle. He was the first time I recognized that poetry could be deeply political without sacrificing its linguistic beauty. Nathaniel Hawthorne I, like many, first read “The Scarlet Letter” in high school. To be honest, all I really got from that first reading was that Puritans were tools. My real interest in Hawthorne came on

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the heels of visiting the actual House of the Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts and the house Hawthorne was born in. After this visit, I was better able to understand and appreciate the dark romanticism of Hawthorne’s work as well as his contribution to the mythologizing of Old New England. His collection of short stories, “Twice-Told Tales” and “Mosses from an Old Manse,” are required reading in my book. Pablo Neruda I first heard of Pablo Neruda as part of a joke on, you guessed it, “The Simpsons.” However, my first experience with his work came first semester of my freshman year in my Spanish 232 class. As part of our final exam, we had to conduct a conversation with the teacher on a topic of our choosing. I chose to talk about Neruda’s poem “Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche,” or “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.” While my conversation never got much past variations of the phrase “es muy bueno, pero muy triste,” I did come to appreciate Neruda’s exquisitely haunting style. H.P. Lovecraft I’ve already written an in-depth analysis of my admiration for the undisputed king of weird fiction,

H.P. Lovecraft. His tales of darkness and madness are beyond explanation or embellishment. “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.” E.E. Cummings E.E. Cummings has a wonderfully distinctive style and wit about his work, so much so that when you see one of his poems you know it’s his before anyone has to tell you. Immediately noticeable in his poems are the unique typography and play with grammar and punctuation. But as with all poetry, the emotions behind the words are what truly set Cummings apart. His sweet descriptions of love and nature remind the reader of the best parts of this strange phenomenon known as life. bell hooks Excuse me, my Women Studies degree is showing. I debated on whether or not I should include hooks on this list, as the other entries work primarily in fiction while hooks writes in the realm of critical theory. However, hooks taught me one of the most important lessons regarding writing, specifically academic writing. Namely, if you alienate an entire portion of the population just to prove how smart you are by throw-

ing in jargon and obscure references into your work, your writing’s not worth the paper it’s printed on. Needless to say, hooks’s “Theory as a Liberatory Practice” should be mandatory reading for all professors. Warsan Shire Warsan Shire is the most contemporary writer on this list. She’s only 26 and has one published poetry pamphlet, “Teaching my Mother How to Give Birth.” However, it’s quite possible you may have already heard one of her works, “for women who are ‘difficult’ to love,” which went viral in 2011. A Kenyan-born, Somali immigrant living in London, much of Shire’s work deals with themes of home, love and belonging, all weaved into a brutally beautiful language that is both foreign and familiar. While this is by no means a complete list, I believe this is a fairly illustrative snapshot of my literary life thus far. If you feel so inclined, why not take a walk down your own literary memory lane? You might be surprised what you discover. Prosniewski is setting up her altar to Cthulu. To offer yourself as a sacrifice, e-mail gpros@umich.edu.

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PCAP helps find beauty in unexpected places

By HAILEY MIDDLEBROOK Daily Arts Writer

When you picture prisoners making artwork, what do you imagine? Is it something dark, like a roughly etched skull inspired by some grisly tattoo? Or a bitterly quipped poem, dripping with edge and resentment? In a correctional facility void of color and the vivacious hum of life, it’s difficult to believe that creativity can thrive — like plants, art must be tended to, pruned by its habitat and nourished by its creator. Beautiful art comes from beautiful situations, not necessarily in the literal sense, but abstractly: the artist seizes a desire, a motion, then encapsulates it. But first, he must have the knowledge to execute his art, from hours of schooling and practice. He must have the agency to learn, to rove and be inspired by his surroundings — all privileges that are unavailable to people who are incarcerated. Though in spite of this, prisoners — perhaps more than anyone else — have a desire to create art, not only for self-expressive and rehabilitative purposes, but also because of a humanistic need to produce something of value. What makes something valuable? We treasure Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa because of its antiquity and haunting realness; we prize our mother’s jewelry collection because of its sentimentality and hushed worth. We value our friends, our essays, the college acceptance letters we ecstatically received. We latch onto landmark paintings in the Louvre and our own tiny trinkets of memory because of their uniqueness, for an object’s value comes from it being one of a kind. Sometimes the sheer knowledge of one’s own value is the tipping point between a deadly fall down the wrong path and the drive to do something great in life. Ashley Lucas, director of the University’s Prisoner Creative Arts Project, found herself teetering on this point at age 15, when her father was summoned to a long prison sentence. In his absence, Lucas floundered in school and drifted toward a rough crowd, struggling to find a purpose each day. “Theater saved her life,” said Phil Christman, Lucas’s husband and editor of the PCAP Literary Review of Creative Writing by Michigan Prisoners. “As a teenager, Ashley took refuge on stage and threw herself into acting. She eventually performed a onewoman play expressing the clashing emotions she had been feeling, which drew University attention and earned her a scholarship to study drama.” Realizing the power of art, not just as an outlet for creative expression but as the turning key to a meaningful, fulfilling life, Lucas was inspired to give the men and women incarcerated in Michi-

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Artwork created by prisoners as part of the Prison Creative Arts Program.

gan the same experience through PCAP. Initiated by University students in 1990, the project has since expanded its outreach: hosting annual events, including the Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners; showcasing the best artwork and writing submitted by Michigan prisoners, as well as a juvenile art show; directing the Portfolio Project, a one-on-one program that assists prisoners in preparing portfolios of their artwork to present to judges and future employers, and the Linkage Project, which provides a creative community for adults returning from incarceration. PCAP also organizes collaborative workshops within correctional facilities and urban high schools for theater, creative writing, art, dance and music, driven mainly by small groups of University undergraduates. Facilitating these workshops is a richly rewarding way to get involved as an undergraduate, not only because they give volunteers insight into the justice system and allow them to tune their own artistry, but also because of the impact they make on those incarcerated. At the book release and reading of the Literary Review on Sunday, Barbera Montez, wife of Steven Montez, read the essay “Confluence” on the behalf of her husband, who wrote it. Before beginning, she addressed PCAP by saying, “Thank you for giving the voiceless a voice. Even more, thank you for listening to what they have to say.” The Literary Review, published annually, is a compilation of the best creative writing submissions from prisoners, as voted on by a large group of readers in the Ann Arbor area. I was fortunate to be one of the readers for this year’s volume, working with Christman, assistant editor Denise Dooley, copy editor Ian Demsky and others to determine which works to publish. Submission criteria are simple: anything goes, from poetry to essays, as long as the content is not explicit enough to shut down PCAP. “Really, criticisms of the Department of Corrections should be made,” Christman said, explaining what can and cannot be published. “But there’s a big dif-

ference between writing a memoir about how bad prison food is and saying that you want to harm a particular officer.” The fact is, writers write from experience. It only makes sense that frustration, confinement, isolation and homesickness are recurring themes among submissions. These themes come even more alive when reading the writer’s personal statement — a note to the reader that often describes the circumstances that led to his or her prison sentence, told in heartbreaking honesty. For me, these notes made it difficult to reject submissions; I wondered what Christman thought. “Deep down, you know that these are people who have been told ‘no’ their entire lives,” Christman said. “But you have to look past this and read them critically like anything else. The crueler thing would be to accept everything — it would devalue the writer’s integrity.” “One time a writer we published asked me, ‘Are you all just doing this to be nice?’ It broke my heart,” Christman continued. “He wanted so badly to be taken seriously that it was impossible for him to believe that we heard him, that he had made something beautiful.” The man was Thomas Engle, a talented writer who has been featured in several volumes of the Literary Review. Having now returned from incarceration, Engle appeared on Sunday to read his own story, “Jim.” I was able to catch Engle on his way out of the Art & Architecture Auditorium, where the reading was held. I hoped that he could reveal how, despite being removed from much of life’s beauty, creative inspiration still thrives within prisoners through PCAP. “Their minds have been untapped — they have the focus and determination of those that have had no chance to express their talent,” Engle said. “The sad and lonely have a story to be heard.” Though the sad and lonely may be imprisoned in body, they cannot be confined in mind. The mission of PCAP is to sift through the feelings of hate, of hopelessness and hurting, to seek a light and pull it shining to the surface.

SINGLE REVIEW Rihanna said she wants her eighth album, currently referred to as R8, to be “timeless.” Not long after, Awe get “Bitch Bet- Bitch Better ter Have My Money.” Have My Will every- Money one still be Rihanna “turning up to Rihanna Roc Nation while the whole club fucking wasted” in 40 years? I mean, I probably will be, but I may be a poor judge of timelessness. Rihanna gave us her timeless “FourFiveSeconds,” and I am happy to see Riri return to some of her signature thumping in-you-face fighting lyrics. She knows she is hot; we know she’s hot; and she knows that we know that she’s hot.

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The beats are surprising minimalist for producer Kanye West; without any deep bass drops, this song gets its flow from Rihanna’s lyrics and their delivery. Her flow is infectious, especially in lines such as “Louis XIII and it’s all on me,” and “Shit, your wife in the backseat of my brand new foreign

car.” At first listen, the song may sound as if it lacking a catch, but after a few more plays it will have listeners chanting along. I don’t know if this bitch has Rihanna’s money, but I will gladly throw her my $1.29 to have this sure-to-be hit in my music library. -CHRISTIAN KENNEDY

block away from my apartment in Rome, next to the barber and the stop for the 44 bus, is a small, red restaurant called Home Baked. When I first eyed it two months ago, I assumed it was just a normal café, the name due to the Italian love of English phrases like GIANCARLO “Snack Bar” BUONOMO or “Happy Hour.” But Home Baked serves “American” food — you can get a latte there, or a bagel, or a bacon-egg-and-cheese. When my professors were introducing the neighborhood the first day of class, one of them mentioned Home Baked, and quietly advised us to “not let it become a crutch.” I harrumphed at his warning, not because I thought it was wrong, but rather because I assumed it could never apply to me. I was in Rome, for Jupiter’s sake — why would I waste even one meal on American food? I couldn’t even fathom why Italians would go there, when they had cappuccinos and cornetti on every corner. But then again, I often find myself becoming obsessively, even fanatically locavore here in Italy. Not in a slow-food, “These onions were grown a mile away away and the chicken’s name was Beyoncé,” kind of way. It’s more a heightened sense of regionalism, an acknowledgement that Italy is, in a sense, made of many different countries. For a long time, this was a literal truth. Italy was fragmented into various city-states. There was a Kingdom of Sicily. There was a Republic of Venice, whose power ebbed and flowed like its famous canals. Rome was, naturally, an independent territory ruled by the Pope. These mini-nations had their own governments, their own armies, their own culture, even their own loosely related languages. What we think of as “Italian” today is really just the dialect of Medieval Florence, which Dante famously wrote in.

This system continued until the 1860s, when the various Kingdoms were pieced together (after many battles) to form one, Frankenstein-like nation. So vast were the cultural, economic and linguistic differences between the new citizens that one statesman, Massimo D’Azeglio, claimed “We have made Italy. Now we must make Italians.” And after decades of television, highways, education (and fascism), Italy has succeeded somewhat. But there remains an intense spirit of regional identity, with many people considering themselves Neapolitan or Roman or Sicilian before Italian. With all of this in mind, I always make a point of sampling the delicacy of any new city or region I travel to. In this food-obsessed and fragmented country, those two descriptors can be one in the same. And in the last month, I’ve made quite a journey. I started out in early March, in Calabria, the toe of the boot-like Italian peninsula. In the small town of Paola, where my bus had stopped on a windy afternoon for lunch, I hunted for something — anything — to eat indigenous to the area. Ducking into a small salumeria with two friends, I cautiously approached the counter and asked the grizzled proprietor if he had any ’nduja (ahn-doo-ya), the uniquely Calabrian cured pork spread made with red chilis. He broke out into a huge smile, and replied that he had a jar of his homemade version. A few euros later, and I received a plate with several slices of toast, thickly spread with dense, artery-red ’nduja. The fat seeped through the bread and glistened on my fingertips, as I took less-than-delicate bites and felt my lips glow from those incredible peppers. It tasted like Calabria. Two days later, I took a ferry from the lapis-lazuli waters of Calabria, onto the periwinkle shores of Sicily. I could devote a bakers dozen columns to everything I saw and ate there, but my first meal felt the most emphatically Sicilian. In Taormina, a seaside town in the northeast corner of the island, at a restaurant named “La Grotta

Azzura” tucked away in an alley, I waited a half-hour before the pasta arrived to the table on a silver platter. Our scruffy Adonis of a waiter tossed the linguine before doling out the portions. The long noodles were coated with a silken sauce of cherry tomatoes, flakes of swordfish, and caperberries the size of gumdrops. It was one of the most intense things I had ever tasted; those tomatoes, jiggled in a hot pan until they burst, were the most tomatoe-y tomatoes I’ve sampled. It tasted like Sicily. My next stop: Ann Arbor. I flew back there after Sicily, and in the days leading up to it, all I could think of was the food there. Not with dread or disgust, but hungry anticipation, like a man about to be released from prison. And yet, I wasn’t craving American food, but rather the cuisines of Vietnam, China and Mexico. My entire frigid week there, I ate nothing but bibimbop, burritos and baozi. It tasted like America. Italy and America are very different, gastronomically speaking. Not simply because disparity in ingredients or cooking methods, but more a matter of focus. If I could narrow “Italian” food down to one ethos, it would be making things taste like themselves. An orange in Palermo tastes like a whole grove of oranges. A slice of prosciutto in Ravenna tastes like the pig was eating other pigs. I can only narrow down American food to an ethos of non-narrowness. Whatever it sacrifices in terms of intensity of flavor, it regains in diversity, for better or for worse. Since I’ve come back to Rome, I always look at Home Baked a little differently, trying to imagine what an Italian might think of it. Maybe they really do think of it as a foreign invader, peddling fodder for flabby tourists. But maybe it’s an amusing little addition to the status quo, an occasionally fun treat, never a member of the family, but a good neighbor, nonetheless. Buonomo is eating a hamburger in Italy. To ask what’s wrong with him, email gbuonomo@umich.edu.

FILM NOTEBOOK

The uncanniness of fear in ‘It Follows’ By CATHERINE SULPIZIO Senior Arts Editor

The evaluative index for scary movies is rarely their ability to be re-watched. Even the scariest disintegrates under a second viewing — neither makeup nor special effect nor narrative arc can launch itself very far without the element of surprise propelling it. “It Follows” is different. Traditional scares still abound in the film, mechanized by the now-famous score and figures that loom into central focus. But just as “It Follows” raids the toolbox for formal techniques, its real sticking power is less synthetic. “Sticks” is a fitting word. After all, the fear “It Follows” generates isn’t of the atomized variety, like in a movie like “The Conjuring” where the monster can be categorized, and therefore predicted, by its phenomenon. The monster of “It Follows” is formless: With no backstory or recognizable figure, the monster is a flytrap for the characters’ various psychic configurations. Fathers and mothers take on the nude form of “it,” a trick which exploits our visceral disgust to anything Oedipal. The movie harnesses yet another Freudian principal, the uncanny. On one hand, unheimlich, its German term, connotes the familiar and at-home; on the other hand, its second meaning refers to the concealed and secret. So the word itself holds a dialectic set of meanings at its pole and

antipode: the domestic and the strange. Under the uncanny, the entire landscape becomes fair game for this ambivalent hold. “It Follows” plasters pulpy references across the screen — female protagonist Jay’s lurid blonde hair and lingerie glisten in the moonlight while she makes seamy love in an old sedan’s backseat. But the film’s most potent chemical for the uncanny is nostalgia. Teen crushes are imbued with life-or-death stakes; childhood friends band together to ambush the monster like the gang in Scooby Doo. Though Michigan natives will recognize some locations, the suburbs are indistinguishable from Anywhere, USA. Most importantly, parental figures are reduced to generic peripheral blurs that hover in the background. And instead of thrusting the teens into the realities of adulthood and responsibility, the monster is an extension of adolescence. After all, the purely physical aspect of sex is not the ground that the monster preys on. Rather, it’s teenage sex’s clearinghouse of lore — its urban myths, its allures, negotiations and anxieties — that produces the monster. Even the name “it,” which is all one can call the monster, turns a condition into a taboo. If a 30-year-old contracted “it,” she would go to a doctor covered by ObamaCare or take the morning-after pill. But for the adolescent sequestered from the adult world’s decisive rationality,

the monster festers. This dark side that dims adolescence’s halcyon glow marks “It Follows” ’s turn into the uncanny, because there is something off about the world. Unlatched from temporal referents, the film derives its nostalgia from cans of soda with brands that don’t exist and a strange e-reader nestled in a clamshell compact, all cast under a Polaroid hue. The result is a familiarity that is hollow, a nostalgia that rings false. Even the camera lacks a grip on identity. In one shot, Jay, tied down to a wheelchair, shudders. And almost imperceptibly, the camera shudders as well, as if it forgets who it is. It forgets what its job is too. During moments of suspense, the camera discards its role to telescope details with a hyperaesthete’s eye, lingering on vivid green grass à la “Blue Velvet” or a shock of shimmering hair. In another much talked about shot, Jay and company talks to a school administrator as the camera scans the office in a slow, 360-degree circle of paranoia, trying to apprehend if “it” is among the strangers in the room. The evaluative index for a scary movie comes down to “does it scare you?” “It Follows” doesn’t just scare, it crawls under your skin and casts the film’s aesthetic gaze on everything you see. I saw “It Follows” twice. The first time I jumped more, the second time I was no less engaged. The adrenaline spikes are exhaustible, but what pervades is the sense of dread — not an accelerating anxiety, but a deadening gloom.

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CLUB PROFILE

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Engineering Sophomore Daniel Tresnak prepares to toss a quaffle.

By MELINA GLUSAC Daily Arts Writer

The Kellogg Eye Center looks a lot like Hogwarts. At least, from where I’m standing it does. I’m in the heart of Riverside Park on a very cloudy, very British day. The grass looks mossy; my boots are getting wet and muddy. The Kellogg Eye Center is peaking through the back of the field, its impressive stature reminding me of J.K. Rowling’s famed school of Witchcraft and Wizardry despite the two’s architectural differences. But

all that doesn’t matter. There’s a quidditch game going on. Founded in 2010 and originally a subset of the Michigan Muggles, the University’s quidditch team is on the rise. Later this month, they’re sending a 21-person roster to the World Cup in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where they’ll be among 80 other teams from around the country — and they’re doing all this with a less-than-magical catch. “Having a broom between your legs is really hard,” said LSA junior Lisa Lavelanet, quidditch team beater. “It’s just

very foreign for people, so it’s hard to really gauge how good they’re gonna be once they get used to it.” Though growing in popularity, quidditch remains a bit of a mystery to the typical sports-minded public. The team broke it down for me. “It’s a poor man’s lacrosse, basically,” said keeper Eric Wasser, a University alum. “There’s no sticks, but you’re still scoring on, you know, a pitch — four on four with the quaffle play, with the added addition of dodgeballs as bludgers. And those bludgers, if

you get hit by one thrown by the other team, you have to step out of the play and touch your own hoops before you can continue playing in any way.” LSA junior, quidditch publicity chair and chaser Meaghan O’Connell notes the roughness of the game. “I kind of call it a mix between rugby and handball. The rugby part is because it is full contact,” O’Connell said. “We don’t do it much at practice because we’re trying not to kill each other, but if you go to a tournament, you see people just getting tackled, like full-out taken down.” Prior sports experience is a must. Everyone on the team has some athletic background, according to Wasser. No spell can poof you away from the tackling, sprinting, throwing and catching. “If you’ve never played contact sports and you’re not comfortable getting hit, this is not the place for you,” Lavelanet said, chuckling. “People figure that out pretty quickly once they’re actually at tryouts.” A standard broom-riddled year looks like this: after advertising at Festifall and gaining solid exposure, tryouts happen right after Welcome Week. Midwestern regional qualifiers are in early November — and then there’s April’s coveted World Cup. Even when they’re given a break from this hectic schedule, the team still must stay in shape. “Especially because we have an off-season, I’ve gotten more disciplined. When we’re not playing in the winter, we do workouts on our own. A lot of us have started lifting, which I didn’t have to do in high school,” O’Connell said. “It’s a

MUSIC VIDEO REVIEW Take a moment. Reminisce on Queen Elsa’s coming-of-age, I’m-a-bossB+ ass-bitch moment in Ice “Frozen.” The ridicu- Princess lously catchy “Let It Go” Azealia Banks backs her Prospect Park up as ice — crystalline, Disney ice — streams seamlessly from her hands, creating a lovely little mansion for her and only her. Charming, right? Well, Azealia Banks ain’t Elsa. The queen of throwing mad ice on Twitter just dropped her new video for “Ice Princess,” off the great Broke With Expensive Taste, and it’s mystifying but undeniably Banks. She’s a fierce, frozen, Medusa-esque dictatress owning her throne in a universe of arctic blue. Everything is surreal — from her army of ice robots to her giant chrome snake, which takes her wherever she needs to go

lot of like doing stuff on your own, knowing that it’s going to pay off in the spring.” Wasser recognizes the dedication the seemingly trivial sport demands, as well. “90 percent of the team who’s going to World Cup works out three or four days a week and stuff. It’s just like any other sport in that aspect, and we get looked down upon because it’s quidditch, but at the same time, for most of us, we don’t even think about Harry Potter at all,” Wasser said. That last statement was an Avada Kedavra to my heart. “Really?” I inquired. “For me, there’s no more Harry Potter,” Wasser said. “I read Harry Potter as a kid, and then, like, I don’t know. I came out to play this because I didn’t wanna like commit to a super serious club sport or varsity sport in college. This is more relaxed; we have more control over it because it’s all student-run, but like when we’re actually playing, it’s serious.” O’Connell elaborated on the death of The Boy Who Lived in her teammates’ eyes. “I was like, ‘Oh, quidditch! It’s Harry Potter! That’s cool!’ when I was like interested from the beginning, but, like Eric said, after my first week of practice I wasn’t thinking about it,” O’Connell said. “I feel like I’m a huge anomaly,” Lavelanet said. “I’m a super-fan. I love it so much. I like it probably more than the rest of the whole team combined.” All three answered promptly when asked what their favorite books were, though. For Wasser, it’s “The Order of the Phoenix;” O’Connell likes “The Prisoner of Azkaban,” and “The Chamber of Secrets” occupies a particular place in Lavelanet’s memory.

“I’m really attached to two because two was like the first one I could really, like, read on my own at a good pace, just because I was little when they came out,” Lavelanet said. “So I have, like, a special attachment to that one.” Though small in numbers at today’s practice due to injuries and the like, passion is not lost among the team. O’Connell is eager to tell me about one of the coolest reallife revisions quidditch has to offer. In the Wizarding World, tiny gold spheres are self-navigating and airborne, but “Muggle” quidditch is a little different. “The third element we didn’t play with today is the snitch. So, that’s a person with shorts and like a little ball,” O’Connell said, gesturing to her backside. After 18 minutes pass in a game, the snitch is released, and each team’s seeker (Harry Potter’s position) strives to catch it. “And that kind of looks a lot like wrestling, like more than you’d expect,” Lavelanet said of the catching maneuver. “It’s evolved into being a wrestling match.” O’Connell and Lavelanet hunch over and start to simulate a spirited, intense duel for me. After, Lavelanet muses on quidditch’s vitality. “It’s like playing any sport. I feel like especially since it’s full contact, you’re much more energized — at least, for me. I used to play volleyball, and I’d always feel like there was something missing, and it was contact,” Lavelanet said. “As a beater, you’re out there with one other beater, so it’s kind of like you and your partner. So, especially if someone is like roughing up your partner, it’s definitely just like a very good — I don’t know, it gets you going. You want to win.”

EPISODE REVIEW

PROSPECT PARK

in her gangster winter wonderland. It’s creepy, to be sure, but so chill (no pun intended). The groove of the song matches the low-key colors and overall pace of the video — everything is going swimmingly, so far. Soon, random conglomerations of rainbow colors appear in the sky as Banks is overlooking her splendor. So she goes off to battle them on that weird-ass snake, eventually

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freezing the volcano they’re coming from. But her army betrays her, picking at that ice until the volcano erupts and Banks is engulfed in kaleidoscope flames. Does she die? Is this a metaphor for the implications of totalitarian leadership or her career? We’ll never know. Banks is a super-diva enigma. That’s the madness and the genius of the “Ice Princess.” -MELINA GLUSAC

“The Fosters” can be a deeply frustrating show sometimes. There are times where it, brilliantly, B tells stories untouched by The anything else Fosters on television. Yet, its need Season 2 to amp up the Finale drama to artiABC Family ficial levels plays other moments as fake. The finale amplified both the good and the bad of the series. The series has mostly done well by its two main characters, siblings Callie (Maia Mitchell, “Teen Beach Movie”) and Jude (Hayden Byerly, “Parenthood”), and the finale was no exception, bringing both of their season-long arcs to their natural conclusions. The moment between Callie and her father, Robert (Kerr Smith, “Life Unexpected”), allowed their relationship to deepen to a point where they actually felt like father and daughter. Over the course of the season, the series did an excellent job portraying the relation-

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ship between Jude and Connor (Gavin MacIntosh, “Parks and Recreation”). The moment when Jude finally calls Connor his boyfriend is a beautiful payoff to their love story. However, what doesn’t work about the finale is the cliffhanger ending involving Mariana, Jesus and Anna crashing their car. The episode takes a slow approach, showing them driving, then Anna going into labor, then the decision to continue driving despite that, then the 911

call stating there was “one confirmed fatality.” It was a maddening way of building tension, ultimately ending in a crash that wouldn’t have been there if it wasn’t the finale. It felt artificial and out-of-place from the rest of the episode. It’s a shame that the series had to force a cliffhanger ending, because the other stories involving Callie and Jude were lovely closings to their arcs and the season as a whole. -ALEX INTNER

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