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School of Music, Dance and Theater freshmen Cailin Ferguson (left) and Alyssa Gorman (right) dance improv under trees outside the Central Campus Recreation Building for a dance composition class on Tuesday.

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New device could prevent the spread of breast cancer Mechanism developed at ‘U’ could also improve early detection By IRENE PARK Daily Staff Reporter

University researchers published a study last week that

could lead to a lower mortality rate for breast cancer patients. Lonnie Shea, professor of biomedical engineering and chemical engineering, and Jacqueline Jeruss, associate professor of surgery, developed a device to attract and capture cancer cells. The aim: improve early detection of breast cancer that spread to other organs — such as lungs, liver, brain and bones — and form tumors, which is called metasta-

sic breast cancer. This can subsequently cause organ failure. The study, published in Nature Communications, reports the device can not only aid early diagnosis, but also prevent breast cancer’s further spread. Shea said metastasis is often discovered when the tumor has already spread to other organs and the organs’ functions are impaired. “Unfortunately, the available therapies are not very effective

at that point,” Shea said. According to the National Cancer Institute, breast cancer is the second most common cancer for women in the United States, and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women. There are about 230,000 new cases in women and 2,300 cases in men each year. The porous, sponge-like device described in the study is See BREAST CANCER, Page 3A

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With college application season in full swing, the White House launched a new initiative Saturday to provide a comprehensive college data source for prospective undergraduates. The College Scorecard — which includes data by college on cost of attendance, graduation rates and student loan debt — is intended to help families determine which schools may be the best fit. The scorecard also contextualizes each school’s set of data by providing comparisons to national averages. The site also links to resources that provide students with information on federal financial aid packages, as well as a tool that forecasts the federal aid students

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Marijuana use among students reaches new high Study finds daily use climbed nationally, though prevalence in A2 remains unclear By KATIE PENROD Daily Staff Reporter

Students in the United States are using marijuana at the highest rate since 1980, according to recent results from a survey conducted by the University’s Institute for Social Research. Though the numbers attracted significant attention nationally, it’s unclear whether the findings mirror trends at the University. The study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Research and conducted annually for the past 35 years, found that one in 17 college students smokes marijuana on a daily or near-daily basis. The number of students who said they had used marijuana within the past 30 days also increased in recent years, from

17 percent in 2006 to 21 percent in 2014. Additionally, the percentage of students who said they had smoked in the past year increased from 30 percent in 2006 to 34 percent in 2014. Lloyd Johnston, a research professor and senior research assistant at the Institute for Social Research, said the survey doesn’t provide a definitive answer as to whether these trends apply at the University. Because the survey pulled from students nationwide, there is no data specific to Ann Arbor. However, he said because the University is academically rigorous and selective, marijuana use might not be as prevalent compared to other schools. On the other hand, Johnston said the perception of marijuana’s risks has decreased in recent years, leading to increased use in many parts of the United States. The survey found the percentage of high school graduates, ages 19 to 22, who thought marijuana was dangerous decreased from 55 See MARIJUANA, Page 6A

would likely receive. Along with the rollout, the U.S. Department of Education highlighted the University’s for its high graduation rate and low costs for low-income students. The University was one of 30 schools to make the list, which included several Ivy League schools like Harvard University and Yale University. Only six public universities made the list, including two of the University’s peer institutions, the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Obama has recently introduced several policy initiatives focused on higher education, including a plan to move the Free Application for Federal Student Aid deadline forward to align the delivery of aid packages with college decisions, as well as a $175-million grant competition to promote apprenticeships. Along with First Lady Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Obama is leading a nationwide tour focused on education. The presiSee SCORECARD, Page 3A

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Engineering sophomore Jacob Lutz plays pool with friends at the Michigan Union Pool Room on Tuesday.

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Provost open to idea of increasing Friday courses Pollack: Proposal could decrease alcohol consumption on Thursdays By SHOHAM GEVA Daily News Editor

University Provost Martha Pollack said Tuesday she was supportive of a faculty recom-

mendation that more classes be held on Friday to address excess student drinking. The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs suggested the proposal Monday during their weekly meeting, which Pollack attended. “I am very concerned — I think as is (University President Mark Schlissel), and Vice President (for Student Life E. Royster) Harper — about the issue of drinking on campus,”

Pollack said in an interview with The Michigan Daily. “And we do know that one of the issues is that now the weekend often spans three days and that there is a problem with Thursday evening drinking and there is research that shows that Friday classes cut down on Thursday-evening drinking. So, because I actually care quite deeply about the safety and well-being of our students, I See PROVOST, Page 6A

Central Student Government convened for their second meeting of the semester on Tuesday to outline several initiatives for the upcoming year. Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones also addressed the assembly to promote a close working relationship between CSG and her office. CSG President Cooper Charlton, an LSA senior, also lauded the assembly’s joint initiative with University Dining to open dining halls on last Saturday’s game day up to three hours earlier than normal weekend hours. The effort aimed to curb unsafe drinking by providing students, particularly freshmen, access to food before tailgating activities. See CSG, Page 3A

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U. Texas fires athletic director letics Men’s Hall of Honor. Cornell makes changes to its sexual assault policy Cornell University will now include additional protections for sexual assault survivors, the Cornell Daily Sun reported Friday. These additions were made to align with a forthcoming New York State law, which, among other statutes, requires universities to use an “affirmative consent” standard when investigating possible instances of assault.

Affirmative consent is defined as “a knowing, voluntary and mutual decision among all participants to engage in sexual activity.” “Our efforts to address sexual assault and violence on our campus will continue to evolve as we partner — faculty, students and staff — to create a safe and inclusive place to study, live and work,” said Mary Opperman, Cornell’s vice president for human resources and safety services. ­ MICHAEL – SUGERMAN

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WHAT: The University is offering free Group X classes in Zumba, a LatinAmerican dance fitness program combining fast and slow dances, such as merengue and salsa. WHO: Graduate Society of Women Engineers WHEN: Tonight from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: North Campus Recreational Building

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Law School student Kya Henley selects produce at the M Farmer’s Market outside the Michigan Union on Monday. The market sells locally grown fruits, vegetables and flowers every Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. through the end of October

M Farmers Market debuts with fresh goods outside the Union Weekly market returned Monday, included new food demonstration BY ISOBEL FUTTER Daily Staff Reporter

Packing the fridge with fresh fruits and veggies just got easier. By popular demand, M Farmers Market is setting up shop weekly this semester to provide fresh options to students. The first market was held by the fountain outside the Michigan Union on Monday morning. The event featured fresh produce from Zilke Farm, located in Milan, Mich. Each week, the farm provides a selection of produce, and students are able to purchase fruits and vegetables at a reasonable cost. The event also featured a food demonstration led by Frank Turchan, executive chef for Michigan Dining, to exemplify how students can create healthy meals despite their busy schedules.

LSA senior Sushmitha Diraviam, chair of the Health Initiatives Committee for Central Student Government, has been working closely with the committee, as well as MDining, the University of Michigan Health System and University Unions to organize the event. “It brings a lot of stuff to campus such as local produce, education, sustainability and accessibility of fresh produce,” Diraviam said. “Finding fresh produce on campus is a little bit of a problem and I think this event helps to solve that issue.” In past years, the M Farmers Market has been held only three times during the fall semester. However, this year, the organizers decided to hold the market weekly. “It’s specifically due to the demand,” Diravia said. “Having them every week will allow people to know that Mondays are the market days and it’ll get ingrained into people’s heads.” LSA junior Harrison West walked by the market and stopped to look at the available produce Monday. “I was walking to go make lunch, when I saw this,” West said. “Fresh

food is good, so I thought I’d check it out.” LSA junior Kelly Rea said she was pleased with her experience at the market. “It offers a different way to get food outside of dining hall and fast food options,” Rea said. Engineering freshman Maggie Braunreuther stopped by the event and bought some peaches and plums. “It’s close to my dorm, so I thought it was great,” Braureuther said. “It gives an opportunity for students to give back to the community and support sustainable foods.” Alongside the available produce, the market also handed out free bags and T-shirts to students and other shoppers who stopped by the event. Keith Soster, director of Student Engagement for Michigan Dining, said he believes the markets have been a huge success. “Students enjoy them, faculty enjoy them and the Zilke’s always bring a variety of goods,” Soster said. The markets will likely run through the end of October. Read the rest online at michigandaily.com

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State lawmakers tout “Yes Means Yes” campaign State Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. (D–Meridian Twp.) and State Rep. Tom Cochran (D–Mason) proposed legislation to require schools to strengthen their definition of consent in their sexual education courses, the Detroit Free Press reported. The legislation would clarify that sex without a verbal “yes” could be assault. The bill would also clarify that individuals can take back their consent at any point and that just because two individuals are in a relationship does not mean unwanted sex is not sexual assault.

‘U’ business school wins national honor for diversity work The Ross School of Business received the 2015 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award for the school’s efforts to integrate diversity and inclusion throughout its programs. The award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine is a national honor and the will be featured in the November 2015 issue of the magazine, along with the 91 other winners of the award. The magazine commended the Business School for its efforts in inclusive excellence displayed on the school’s website. In addition, the school has many student-led groups and conferences that promote diversity. The Business School also recently launched a new Identity and Diversity and Organizations requirement for undergraduates this fall, providing students with the opportunity to gain experience working on diverse teams, as well as encouraging a positive organizational culture.

School of Music, Theatre & Dance reopens Moore Building After a three-year, $29.5 million renovation, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s Earl V. Moore Building on North Campus reopened its doors for students to enjoy improved music study facilities, the University Record reported. Originally designed by famed architect Eero Saarinen in 1964, the building will now feature a new entrance and lobby, a large rehearsal hall, a music technology center, a lecture hall, a suite of percussion practice rooms and new classrooms.

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Dean of Students Laura Jones describes her position to new and returning Central Student Council members and urges them to use her as a resource during the CSG meeting at the Union on Tuesday.

CSG From Page 1A “We were able to, in my opinion, prevent some trips to the hospital because students had food in their stomachs,” Charlton said. Between the hours of 7:15 and 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, 1,394 students swiped into South Quad, compared to the 114 that arrived after the traditional opening time. Hill and Bursley dining centers also had an increase of student diners during game day’s early hours. Though CSG made efforts to increase the frequency of buses to North Campus on Saturday, Charlton said a higher concentration of buses will be required on future game days to meet the demand of large groups heading to central campus. CSG also addressed the upcoming revision period for the University’s Statement of Stu-

SCORECARD From Page 1A dent’s first stop was at Macomb County Community College in Warren last Wednesday. In Warren, Obama said employers are increasingly requiring some form of higher education for new hires, a sentiment he echoed in his weekly address Saturday. In both speeches, the President said higher education is the best ticket to the middle class. “By the end of this decade, two in three job openings will require some higher education,” he said Saturday in his weekly address. “That’s one reason why a degree from a two-year college will earn you $10,000 more each year than someone who only finished high school. One study showed that a degree from a four-year university earns you $1 million more over the course of a lifetime.” In the weekly address, Obama argued that because it is becoming a necessity to earn a degree beyond a high school diploma to succeed in the workforce, it is important that prospective students have access to the kind of data the College Scorecard provides.

dent Rights and Responsibilities. Public Policy sophomore Jacob Pearlman, CSG chief of student general council, requested the assembly’s participation in the amendment processes. The document is amended once every three years, and he requested assembly members take advantage of the opportunity and propose amendments. Jones addressed the assembly about how a close relationship between CSG and the Dean of Students Office may improve the various services and programs they offer. Jones spoke of initiatives new to campus since her appointment such as the Expect Respect campaign, which aims to promote an inclusive campus environment, and the Beyond the Diag program, which provides an extension of University resources for off-campus students. “Seven years ago when I arrived on campus, we did not have anything in place to meet

“You’ll be able to see how much each school’s graduates earn, how much debt they graduate with, and what percentage of a school’s students can pay back their loans — which will help all of us see which schools do the best job of preparing America for success,” he said. The White House said in a press release Saturday that this data is critical because college costs and student debt are growing. “Students struggle to find clear, reliable data on critical questions of college affordability and value, such as whether they are likely to graduate, find middle-class jobs and pay off their loans,” the release said. Susan Dynarski, professor of education, public policy and economics at the University, said the University does a good job providing funding for its low-income students, especially in comparison to Ivy League schools. College Scorecard reports the average annual cost for instate students at public universities who are federal financial aid recipients. It also provides a cost breakdown based on family income and a tool that allows students to calculate their personal net cost of attendance. Accord-

the needs of off-campus students in a formal sort of way,” Jones said. “I worked hand-in-hand with the Central Student Government at the time and students on the then-safety commission who conceived of what Beyond the Diag should be.” Jones said she hopes throughout the next year, her office and CSG can work together to ensure these programs continue to grow and evolve. Much of the meeting was spent allocating responsibilities and community initiatives to specific committees. Several new members of CSG stressed the importance of keeping their campaign promises, specifically their goal to increase the assembly’s transparency. Initiatives discussed include plans to increase outreach through social media, as well as implement regular coffee cart conversations where CSG representatives are positioned around campus to interact with students

small and can be implanted in the patient’s body. It acts as a “scaffold” by trapping metastatic cancer cells from the patient’s bloodstream during the early stages of cancer. Jeruss said the device could be extremely useful because it would serve as an early warning system for metastasis. Once the cancer is detected, early chemotherapy could prevent the spread of cancer to other organs. “We may be able to preserve the integrity of the organs and ensure longer survival,” Jeruss said. In addition to detecting metastatic breast cancer, the device can prevent its spread. When tested in mice, 88 percent fewer cancer cells spread to the lungs of animals with the scaffold as compared to those without. Jeruss said this ability to offset cancer spread came as a surprise. “The original intent of the work was to examine an inter-

vention that could be used for early detection,” Jeruss said. “But we then came to find that we were able to offset the advancement in metastasis with the device. That was a striking finding for us.” Jeruss said the device will next need to be tested in human breast cancer patients through a clinical trial. She added that the device may be useful for former breast cancer patients who need to watch for a recurrence, or for high-risk healthy patients. So far, the device has only been tested for breast cancer cells. Jeruss said researchers are examining the device’s potential usefulness in treating other cancers, including ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer. Shea said the device is not only useful for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, but also for uncovering how metastasis occurs. “This device is useful for trying to understand the system,” Shea said. “We can design an implant and investigate the

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President Barack Obama speaks alongside Dr. Jill Biden, Second Lady of the United States, at Macomb Community College in Warren Michigan on September 9, 2015.

ing to the scorecard, the average annual cost for in-state students at the University is $16,287, which falls just slightly under the reported national average: $16,789. The median earnings of University graduates who received federal financial aid, 10 years after their first year at the school, totals $57,900 — more than $20,000 higher than the reported national average. Scorecard says 78 percent of students who

attended the University are earning more than the median high school graduate. The site reports 37 percent of students at the University receive federal financial aid and the median federal debt for students who graduated from the University is $22,000. Scorecard notes that 93 percent of University graduates are in the process of paying down their debt — almost 30 percent higher than the reported national average. Dynarski said the scorecard is useful because it provides prospective students with a more comprehensive picture of the institutions they may attend. She also said when the Obama administration launched the College Scorecard, it released the data it contains in raw form, which could enable other institution’s to find innovative ways to disseminate the information to students. “This means that all of the nonprofit organizations out there that aim to help students navigate the college application process can take this data and generate their own scorecards, their own apps for smartphones,” she said. “So I think the point is for it to leverage the capacity of other organizations to help students.” Dynarski cautioned, however, that the comparison the site makes between each schoolspecific metric and the national average is not always the most useful tool to look at in determining the performance of a particular institution. To assess whether or not University graduates are successful, she said comparisons should be drawn only between the University and its peer institutions, such as the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Virginia. Students at these schools, she said, come from similar backgrounds and have similar educational abilities

to University students — which differ from those of the median college student. “I don’t think it would be accurate or helpful to focus on, ‘Look: University of Michigan graduates make more money than the typical college student,’ because the typical college student is going to a non-selective institution and they weren’t at the top of their high school classes,” she said. “Michigan can’t get credit for how smart (its students) are coming into Michigan.” According to the scorecard, the University of California at Berkeley has a graduation rate similar to the University’s, and its median graduate earns about $5,000 more a year than the University’s. The University of Virginia also has a similar graduation rate to both schools, and its median graduate earns very close to its counterpart at the University. In an e-mail interview Tuesday, Stephen DesJardins, professor of education and public policy at the University, said he likes the scorecard because it acknowledges that prospective students are consumers of information, and provides them with the information they need, based on “official” government data. He said it would be most useful to what he called “traditional students:” those looking to attend a four-year institution straight out of high school. DesJardins said the scorecard would be of limited use for non-traditional students. He noted that while the tool is helpful, it does not necessarily meet all of the Obama administration’s goals regarding the provision of higher education data. He said the administration has stated its goal to hold higher education institutions more accountable, and added that this tool does little in that regard.

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efore the finales of “Friends” and “Seinfeld,” of “Lost” and “How I Met Your Mother,” one of the biggest endings in television history had 50 million Ameri- BRETT cans eagerly tuned in. In GRAHAM 1992, ending 30 years in the spotlight as a cultural and comedic icon, the god-king of late night, Johnny Carson, sat on a stool and bid his audience “a very heartfelt goodnight.” Two weeks later, a charismatic Arkansas governor made an appearance on “The Arsenio Hall Show,” playing “Heartbreak Hotel” on the saxophone on his way to becoming President Bill Clinton. It’s been almost a quarter-century, and the relationship between late-night television and politics has never been the same. Under Carson, “The Tonight Show” on NBC had always been an apolitical haven. Johnny religiously avoided inviting political figures onto his stage, mentioning his own ideological stances or influencing his viewers in any way. This all changed with his successor, Jay Leno, who regularly hosted political figures during his tenure. At the turn of the century, the political gaffes of the Bush administration proved low-hanging fruit for nascent programs like “The Daily Show,” “Real Time with Bill Maher” and, later, “The Colbert Report.” David Letterman routinely discussed politics, especially during the Iraq War. Political satire was in its golden age, from Tina Fey’s impression of Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live” to President Obama’s frequent visits to late-night programs (nine as of March 2015). For most current undergraduate students, the first election for which they fully understood the circus that dominated news, conversation and television was in 2008. For every election since, there has been one constant — skits, caricature, impressions and a never-ending supply of mockery. Of the more than four million viewers who loyally tuned in to “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report,” Nielsen ratings show an audience that was consistently young and consistently male, which is a difficult-to-reach but influential demographic. Last Tuesday marked the end to months of flux in late-night television, a changing of the guard. “The Late Show” on CBS has a familiar face, but with a hint of uncertainty. Colbert has broken character, but is it forever? Does he have the same freedom for political evisceration that he had on cable? Will he use it? Stewart and Colbert left us with Wilmore and Noah. Only Jimmy Kimmel seemed to stay in place, and his politics remain a mystery. In the span of a few months, the late-night locker room has done a complete overhaul, sporting a new roster, one that is comparatively vanilla when it comes to politics. Granted, a lot remains to be seen. But if the first three months of Larry Wilmore’s “The Nightly Show” is any indication, Comedy Central has lost two all-stars for a rookie and a wildcard. Some have exaggerated the bond between millennial politics and television, referring to Jon Stewart as this generation’s Walter Cronkite, but that is a step too far. “The Daily

Show” never claimed to be a source of news or tried to win the trust of its viewers; it simply acted as a compass. When something notable (or noticeably ridiculous) was going on in the world, Stewart, Colbert and Letterman pointed in its direction and laughed. Millennials across the political spectrum could laugh with them, or at the very least appreciate their craft (which is not so much the case with John Oliver’s very loud and very liberal crusade on HBO). So what does this mean for the nearly 80 million millennials, nearly all of whom will be of voting age in 2016? For starters, take into account that according to the Pew Research Center, 50 percent of them consider themselves independents, compared to only 39 percent of Generation X and 37 percent of Baby Boomers. Then, add the fact that 70 percent of millennial Facebook users read articles posted by other users on a regular basis and 42 percent frequently post or share news stories themselves. Now, the curveball — less than a quarter of millennials actually vote. If any one candidate were to motivate and capture this huge demographic at least in part, they would immediately be a contender for a major party’s nomination. But this will be difficult if late night doesn’t step up, if clips of tirades from Stewart, Letterman and Colbert (in character) are not being shared on the web. We can no longer expect to see headlines like “Watch Jon Stewart Eviscerate Fox News on Last Night’s Daily Show.” Americans cannot expect a political medium that a generation has known for all their lives be deprived of its politically charged founders with no effect. Make no mistake, millennials will not be able to escape the 2016 presidential buzz. Twitter will be taken over by every primary debate, candidates have invaded Snapchat and Hillary Clinton hit the whip and the nae nae on The Ellen DeGeneres Show just last week. Candidates (and their campaign managers) are making attempts to appeal to a young audience, but without familiar voices discussing the issues every night, will anyone really listen? Entering 2016, look for the candidate who can replicate what late-night comedians did so well for more than a decade, exciting people about otherwise dry, lifeless politics. Look for the candidate who can rise above “Trumpmania” and become a focal point in monologues from Conan and Kimmel. Of course, there is the distinct possibility that without late night at the helm, millennials twist away in the wind next year, that a 23-percent voter turnout in 2014 becomes 20 percent or less in 2016. The much more interesting prospect, however, is that without their political compass, millennials use every bit of their social media acumen, love of crowdfunding and demographic weight to shake things up and make this election year a dogfight for their attention. Speaking as a millennial, that option sounds pretty good to me. — Brett Graham can be reached at btgraham@umich.edu.

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lisabeth Kübler-Ross’ 1969 book “On Death and Dying” proposed a new and revolutionary model for predicting the emotions associ- MEGAN ated with loss and MITCHELL tragedy in human beings — we know it today as the “five stages of grief.” Ross’s model has been modified since its original publication to include potential grief-causing life events less traumatic than losing a loved one. I suppose Ross didn’t expect that another source of grief could eventually be freshman-year dorm assignments, of all things. A common question among students when socializing both in and outside of class begins with the everpopular “where are you living?” It’s a question that can turn into a moment of bonding or elecit a sigh of jelousy, especially when one’s living situation is completely out of their control, as is the case with freshmen and many sophomores. Acclimating to college is arguably one of the biggest transitions we students will face in our lives. We learn to become independent while finding a happy medium between work and school. Our living situation is crucial to success on both sides of this balance. Ideally, we would want to both focus and relax, which is hard to do with a small room and person we’ve never met before. And with most students entering the housing system blindly, all we can do is hope and pray that we somehow end up with a carbon copy of ourselves for a roommate. So, as we are forced to wait for contracts to come out, we do what any rational human being would do in our situation. We begin the paranoia. Words that were once centered around things like “organized” and “clean” and “goes to bed at a respectable time” shift and morph into more realistic things like, “Will her boyfriend be a problem?” or “Is this girl a psychopath?” It’s a neverending cycle of unlikely situations that we use to torture ourselves just enough to prepare for the worst. Thus, housing becomes probably the most painful torture device in the dungeons of our mind. At this point, I am not afraid to admit that the thought of ending up on North Campus kept me awake at

night as soon as contracts began to be released. In possibly the biggest first-world problem ever phrased, I was worried about getting to the closest Starbucks without taking a bus to feed my late-night cravings. You heard me right. So I thanked whatever deity had taken pity on this anxiety-ridden college freshman when the words “North Campus” did not appear on my housing contract. I began a happy dance, subsequently stopping dead in my tracks when a thought occurred — where on Earth was Mary Markley Hall? It was at that point I went through what I now refer to as “The Five Stages of Residence Hall Grief.” The first stage was denial. I had looked up the residence hall in which I was to spend my first year of college in and I was in utter, complete denial. So much so that I refreshed the browser twice and read the assignment out loud just to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating or having a nightmare or anything. It was insane and I was insane for acting like a spoiled child for those first few moments. I didn’t care that I was going to a top university or that my roommate and I might immediately hit it off, as we eventually did, or even that I didn’t end up on North Campus because in my mind, I was even more isolated than North Campus would have put me. So my denial morphed into anger and I blew a fuse — a really big fuse. To put it lightly, I was frustrated. To put it heavily, I was absolutely furious. At orientation, we were smothered with the lush, glimmering newness of East Quad Residence Hall and here I was, stuck in an older dorm that was both seemingly isolated from the excitement of Central Campus life and full of cockroaches. I was angry when the showers were full, when the morning walk to class took 15 minutes and when I visited a dorm that was nicer than mine. Why me? No, seriously. Why me? Deep down, I knew I was overreacting, but at the moment, I really didn’t care. I just wanted that shiny, new drywall and those polished wood floors. Bargaining, the second stage of grief, began when I first saw the cramped 10-by-12-foot room that would become my home for the next eight months. I subsequently lost whatever optimism I had recovered right there and then. Maybe I could switch? No big deal, problem solved.

Except I couldn’t switch. With this realization began the self-blaming period. Maybe if I had been smart enough to make Honors, I could have lived in South Quad Residence Hall. If I had known I wanted to do language, I could have lived in East Quad. I was beginning to lose my anger, only to have it shift into blame. Depression, the fourth stage, began immediately when my butterfly chair wouldn’t fit anywhere in the room. Something that was once again silly somehow released the frustration that had been building throughout the weeks before college. I had said goodbye to my family and said hello to an empty room, awaiting the arrival of my roommate in solitude as I halfheartedly unpacked to the droning songs of Pandora. Acceptance, the final stage, was the hardest and therefore came slowly, creeping up on the edge of my mind throughout the first few weeks until I couldn’t recall anything prior to the new happiness I had built for myself. This last stage became a hall full of wonderful girls; a fake speakeasy in the lounge; watching the seasons change outside my oversized window; falling asleep watching movies lit by a 13-inch screen and bagel runs on cold Sunday mornings. Acceptance began with friends and never ended. The five stages of grief applied to my living situation in a big way. It enabled me to form an opinion and false idea of what my freshman year in Markley would be like before I had even moved in. In reality, acceptance was the only stage that mattered. The rest of the stages are faraway memories now, remnants of a time of weakness and selfishness that I can hardly even remember. We all hope to get that one dorm, that one room that we map out perfectly and mentally decorate, so when we end up with something completely different, it catches us off guard. The best thing to do is to grieve, to go through all the stages of grief until you get the negativity out of your system so you can finally accept your situation and learn to make the best of it. After all, you’re only a freshman once. — Megan Mitchell can be reached at umeg@umich.edu.

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hile scrolling through Instagram a few weeks ago, envying those who already had returned to Ann Arbor before Welcome Week, I laughed at a picture of the words: “Some days you eat salads and go to the gym, some days you eat cup- GRACE cakes and refuse CAREY to put on pants. It’s called balance.” Five minutes later, I received a text from my older sister with a screenshot of the same exact post, followed by a “hahahahahahahaha” and a couple of crying-from-laughter emojis. The reason we were laughing so hard? Those 24 words pretty much sum up everything that I can say about staying healthy in college. In all seriousness, personal health — regarding physical activity and nutrition — is an area that I have grown into over time. As with many other people, I grew up athletic. From figure skating to 10 years of competitive gymnastics and a few short stints in ballet and diving, I spent anywhere from 10 to 20 hours per week in a gym. After high school, I rode my accelerated metabolism for at least a year before I felt any different. I’ve never trusted scales or counted calories because, for me, it is a lot more than how my clothes fit or what I see in the mirror or any number that represents how “healthy” I am. Instead, it is the feeling I get in the pit of my stomach after knowing I am not fueling my body in the correct way or moving enough to keep my muscles strong. At first I wholeheartedly resent-

ed the idea of forming new eating habits, and maybe this was because my sister was overly strict about what she ate. Her habits made me believe the concept of a healthy diet involved things like cutting out entire food groups. At this point, she and I were on polar-opposite ends of the nutrition spectrum, and I believe that together, we helped each other meet in the middle. Eventually, I found my way back to a fitness routine that now keeps me excited to go back to the gym. Full disclosure: I had a giant bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream for lunch today, so I cannot claim to have it completely figured out. No one does, but as a wise Instagram photo once said, “It’s called balance.” Balance can be a tricky thing to find in college, especially at a university as difficult as Michigan. Classes are tough, and finding a place to study during finals is even tougher. For a long time, I used the excuse that I didn’t have the time to exercise. Time to do anything other than eat, sleep and study was a precious resource that, when I found, I sometimes forgot what to do with. If I had time to exercise, didn’t I actually have the time to study more? Exercising must be a waste of that precious resource. And nutrition? How can I be expected to make healthy eating choices at 2 a.m., when I’m staring into the case at Bert’s, deciding between the double chocolate chip muffin and an apple? Muffins go better with coffee; that’s all I have to say about that. The thing is, this all-or-nothing health and fitness attitude is not in anyone’s best interest. There’s a time for salads and there’s a time for cupcakes, we just have to be self-aware enough to know which time is which.

It’s true, however, that a cupcake a day will certainly not keep the doctor away. In order to physically and mentally stand up to the tasks presented in the classroom, steps toward a healthier lifestyle need to be taken outside of it. A 2015 study conducted by Maite Pellicer-Chenoll et al. demonstrated that high-energy expenditure and good physical fitness of students was associated with low BMI and high academic performance. It is true, however, that better academic performance may not be solely explained by physical activity and that there are other variables involved. One perspective is that attitude and motivation toward physical activity also, in a larger sense, play a role in determining an individual’s outlook on academics. The catch is that physical activity can perpetuate this motivation, which, in turn, can lead to better academic performance. Although scientific evidence can be reassuring, I believe that to see the positive results of healthy decisions, we don’t even have to look as far as research. I recommend this: Instead of using your study break to watch reruns on Netflix, work out for an hour. Before you go for a third cup of coffee, try going to sleep and waking up an hour earlier to finish your paper. Take a few seconds to reflect on what your body is telling you, and compare it to how you’ve felt in the past. When are you more efficient? When do you feel less stressed? When do you feel happier about where you are academically, socially, mentally and physically? Maybe today it’s a cupcake, but tomorrow it’s salad and the gym. — Grace Carey can be reached at gecarey@umich.edu.

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“What the fuck grandma?!?!”

Strongest work yet from Baumbach and Gerwig By VANESSA WONG Daily Arts Writer

As students and future successful people, we all see college as a time to be unique, but most often we emulate people we admire Ato develop our own identities. Mistress In “Mistress America,” the America hilariously well- Sony Pictures scripted second State Theater collaboration between Noah Baumbach (“Kicking and Screaming”) and Greta Gerwig (“Frances Ha”), a lonely college freshman finds her role model in an older sister figure. Though initially reluctant to involve herself in her mother’s impending marriage, Tracy (Lola Kirke, “Gone Girl”) meets her soon-to-be stepsister, Brooke (Greta Gerwig). Whereas Tracy is the archetype of precocious-butnaïve-Faulkner-name-dropping English major, Brooke, 10 years older, trailblazes the path to the yuppie paradise that lies in Tracy’s future. Brooke crackles with hyperactivity energy, hurling out neatly-packaged Twitticisms and drunken life anecdotes with deadpan timing that would make Lore-

lai Gilmore bow at her feet. She’s essentially the Manic Pixie Dream Girl grown up. In between teaching Soul Cycle sessions and singing on stage with a band, Brooke dreams up plans for a restaurantslash-market-slash community center that also moonlights as a yoga center on Tuesdays, and if that doesn’t work out, she has this amazing TV show idea, and oh, there’s this really rich guy from high school who is totally still in love with her, ya know? Tracy doesn’t actually know, but she eagerly jumps into Brooke’s life with infatuated admiration. She finds Brooke so compelling that she writes a story about her and takes every chance she can get to stay overnight at Brooke’s fancy apartment and tag along to concerts and business meetings galore. Eventually, Tracy helps Brooke turn her restaurant idea into reality, and in true Brooke-fashion, it’s an eccentric adventure. The characters are parodies and real people all at the same time, masterfully assembled. They’re not forced out of their stereotypes unnaturally, à la High School Musical’s “Stick to the Status Quo” (“I bake!”), which lacks subtlety and, to some extent, realism. Though Tracy idolizes Brooke’s charisma and supports her almost unconditionally, she recognizes that Brooke can’t go through her whole adult life bearing this youthful banner. Even the supposed enemy

in the film, Brooke’s high school nemesis whose life is the picture perfect image of “boring” white picket fence type success, adds a much-needed dose of reality to Brooke’s erratic antics. Refreshingly, neither Brooke nor Tracy eradicates her flaws over the course of the film, but rather learn to recognize them and accept them regardless. The film doesn’t tie everything up in a bow; the characters end as works in progress. It feels almost sweeter this way, that they receive a happy resolution but don’t have to be perfect or end a life chapter to do it. In the final scene, which couples heartwarming sisterly love with Tracy’s overwrought prose for one last joke, I didn’t feel the buoyant warm and fuzzies I’ve come to associate with Baumbach/Gerwig collaborations. There is actually quite a bit of character depth, but the script is so self-aware (and aware that it’s self-aware) that the satire often overwhelms emotion. Still, the script is witty enough to hold its ground. Before “Mistress America” hit the scene, “Frances Ha” was arguably Baumbach and Gerwig’s best work to date, both as individuals and collaborators. But now, the duo takes all the razor-sharp wit that they’ve previously been known for and amps it up for a delightful romp through a developing sisterly relationship.

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Five songs I should have heard before By RACHEL KERR Daily Arts Writer

I’d like to think I’m pretty “with it” when it comes to music; I frequently check blogs, skim through Reddit, scour the Internet for leaks, etc. But, sometimes stuff slips through the cracks and doesn’t reveal itself until my friend is giving me shit because, how have you not heard about this band/artist/song? Once the embarrassment subsides and the how the fuck did I miss this? moment passes, you probably have some pretty good tracks to catch up on, like I did with these. #FutureHive. “Baby”– Ariel Pink’s Haunta bitch to eat at Chipotle” sound so ed Graffiti Ariel Pink’s dreamy 2012 cover sentimental. “Gardenhead / Leave Me of Joe and Donnie Emerson’s Alone”– Neutral Milk Hotel “Baby” popped up on a friend’s Most Neutral Milk Hotel fans, Spotify playlist earlier this summer, and I’ve since described it as when prompted, will rave about the “perfect song.” It’s warm but their 1998 album In the Aeroplane cloudy, mysterious but satisfying, Over The Sea. It’s deeply loved by contemporary but nostalgic. And indie fans and indie critics alike; Pink’s sultry vocals take the track Pitchfork gave it a perfect 10/10 – to new heights, hit-single wise and not to say Pitchfork is the ultimate new-depths, heart wise. authority, but hey, it still means something. Fans of the group are “Codeine Crazy”– Future Sorry, but I had to throw this much less familiar with On Avery one on here because I have half Island, the album that preceded ironically, half un-ironically been their magnum opus. However, this calling “Codeine Crazy” the best track hinted at the gold Neutral song of 2015, even though it tech- Milk Hotel would soon strike, at nically dropped almost a year ago the potential they were about to on Future’s 2014 mixtape, Mon- unlock. “In Dreams”– tomemisu ster. What works about the track I found this gem hidden at the is it’s versatility — it can be both a banger and a ballad. Never before end of an episode of the web series have I heard the phrase “I just took “High Maintenance” (thank God

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I always watch the credits) and I haven’t been the same since. When almost every verse begins with “when I look around my heart … ” it’s impossible not to get sentimental. Its bedroom-y feel is only accentuated by the low-quality recording, in which you even hear a chime from the artists cell phone if you listen close enough. Talk about intimate. “Beach Community”– Joyce Manor I don’t know what I was doing in 2011, but I know what I should have been doing in 2011: listening to more Joyce Manor. I heard their self-titled LP in high school but never really gave it more than a listen or two. Maybe I’m angstier than I was at 16, but this shit really resonates with me now. The postpunk ballad is loud and angry and that’s just how I like it.

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Becca, filming the visit documentary-style, hopes to find an “elixir” — some sign of forgiveMany horror movies, like ness that will lead Paula to rec“Paranormal Activity” and oncile with her parents. this year’s “The Gift,” follow The emotional crux of the the same forfilm rests on Becca and Tyler’s mula. The attempts to help their mother, Bprotagonists all the while agonizing over first encounthe father who left them years ter some- The Visit ago. In the middle of the film, thing slightly Universal the horror element is dropped unusual and Pictures almost entirely in favor of a brush it off. sequence where Becca and With each Rave and Quality 16 Tyler conduct talking head passing day, interviews with each other. stranger Tyler, after spending most of things begin to happen, and the movie cracking wise jokes it becomes impossible to dis- and rapping terribly, bashfully miss the series of events. By the admits he feels responsible for last act, the film has built up a their father’s abandonment. In steady growth of subtle threats Becca’s interview, Tyler calls until a climax of violence and her out for an insecurity she general insanity. has never mentioned. It’s a pair “The Visit,” the newest hor- of scenes that carries a surprisror movie written and directed ing amount of emotional heft, by M. Night Shyamalan (“The and in a sea of talentless child Sixth Sense”), sticks to this actors, DeJonge and Oxenbould common schematic, bearing create a sibling relationship resemblance to “Paranormal that feels authentic. Activity” both with its found footage style and its method of juxtaposing eerie nighttime shots and bright morning scenes. In “Paranormal Activity,” morning scenes allowed the viewer to breathe a sigh of relief after the high tension of the night. In “The Visit,” unfortunately, each morning signals another tedious wait until the next burst of plot movement. Unfortunately, the ostenWhile the thrills of “Paranor- sible primary plot of the movie, mal Activity” were enough to involving Becca’s quest for inspire dread for the next night, the “elixir,” is more of a glothe thrills of “The Visit” spark rified subplot in service of a little suspense. fairly by-the-numbers horror The film follows young ama- story. In between cheap jump teur filmmaker Becca (Olivia scares, there aren’t many genDeJonge, “Hiding”) and her uine thrills to go around. For obnoxious little brother Tyler most of the movie, Shyamalan (Ed Oxenbould, “Alexander and makes the interesting choice to the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, ground most of the grandparVery Bad Day”) as they spend a ents’ creepy moments in probweek with their grandparents. lems many elderly people run Becca and Tyler’s mother, Paula into instead of demonic malevo(Kathryn Hahn, “Transpar- lence. Nana (Deanna Dunagan, ent”), had a falling out with her “August: Osage County”) stumparents after a fight years ago. bles around the house in the Daily Arts Writer

The thrills of ‘The Visit’ spark little suspense.

middle of the night in confusion, showing symptoms of dementia. Pop Pop (Peter McRobbie, “Lincoln”) has a stash of soiled diapers hidden away as a result of his incontinence. There is an element of creepiness to the sight of Nana projectile vomiting in the middle of the night and the shot of Pop Pop sticking a gun into his own mouth, but it rarely feels dangerous. If the problem is simply that these people are getting old and confused, what physical threat do they actually pose?

A classic Shyamalan twist. Luckily, there’s a Shyamalan twist waiting to kick off the third act that shows the true danger of the scenario, and once it’s revealed, the film finally kicks it into high gear, descending into all-out lunacy. Finally, the elements of dark humor that the beginning of the movie hinted at come out in full force. In one inspired scene, Becca and Tyler sit and nervously play a game of Yahtzee with their grandparents, and there’s no pretending that it’s just a normal family game night. It’s a marvelous scene, both hilarious and tense, and every scene thereafter combines those conflicting tones brilliantly. There’s a time and place for atmosphere and slow buildups, but “The Visit” shows that, like action, horror can often be at its most fun when the story stops stalling and the filmmakers start having fun. The film ends on a solid note, but it’s difficult not to wish less time was spent on “old people problems” and more on the true horror beneath the surface.

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EPISODE REVIEW “Masters of Sex” has passed the midpoint of its season, but the show still lacks direction. Thankfully, “Masters” has retired some of the Bridiculous plotlines Masters that plagued of Sex earlier episodes of Showtime the season Sundays at 10 p.m. (hello, boob-grabbing zoo gorilla) and stopped trying to make us care about Virginia’s teen daughter — but the show has some work to do if it’s ever going to be good enough to deserve Josh Charles. “Masters” is seldom successful in handling its endless roster of side characters and subplots, but somehow, guest actors like the aforementioned Josh Charles keep signing up to be on this show. Emily Kinney (“The Walking Dead”) plays Nora Everett, an old neighbor of Bill’s who joins Bill’s sex study as a “surrogate” to help men with erectile dysfunc-

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tion. Knowing that Nora was an old neighbor of Bill’s and he hasn’t seen her since she was a child, their flirty student/ teacher relationship is deeply creepy — and it doesn’t help that Kinney’s youthful appearance makes her look very, very underage. Legendary comedian Sarah Silverman doesn’t get much to do aside from wanting a baby, and actual full-time cast member Caitlin FitzGerald (“Adult Beginners”) hasn’t been granted an interesting storyline for

Libby in almost two seasons. “Higher Anxiety” provides standard fare for an episode of “Masters of Sex” — obvious relationship metaphors, poorlydrawn female characters, beautiful production design and period costumes that almost distract from the bad writing — but “Masters” as usual is not good enough to properly honor the show’s excellent cast. Get your act together, “Masters of Sex.” For the love of Josh Charles. - CHLOE GILKE

TRAILER REVIEW M. Night, bro, what the hell? It’s not even that I want your trailers to be effective anymore. I just don’t want to F-laugh where you expect The Visit me to be Universal disturbed, or Pictures even a little curious. It makes me feel terrible. You deserve so much respect for your first two features, but I can’t justify respecting you. Your films make money, but I cannot call you a success. “The Visit,” being produced by the same guy that has produced every single other mainstream American horror film (“Paranormal Activity,” “Insidious,” “Sinister”) — looks like brand recognition rather than an attempt at a comeback. After “The Sixth Sense,” we unfairly expected the next big thing, and yet you delivered

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with “Unbreakable.” One could argue the merits of “Signs” if he really put his mind to it. But those years are long gone. In the last 10 years, you’ve graced us with your abominations “The Happening” and “The Last Airbender” and “After Earth” and “Devil.” And the trailer alone for each of those films indicated the poor quality of those movies. Can’t you

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at least deliver a trailer with a ray of sunshine? Can’t you learn from your mistakes? Do not see this movie. Do not make M. Night think he’s still relevant. Do not give him your money. Watch the trailer so you can laugh at Granny asking, “Can you get in the oven, dear?” But that’s it. No more. - JAMIE BIRCOLL

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percent in 2006 to 35 percent in 2014. “The proportion of people both college age and adolescent, for that matter, who see marijuana use as dangerous has been declining fairly sharply,” Johnston said. “I think that almost always leads to more use. Conversely, if we see an increase in perceived risk, that usually leads to less use. I think the key belief about whether it’s dangerous or not has been changing a lot. I think that has contributed considerably, if not totally, to the increase in daily use.” LSA junior Ian Vamossy, assistant director of the University’s chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, said University students now see marijuana in a similar light as alcohol — a perception that has helped make marijuana use among students more common. He said the “War on Drugs” has failed, and hopes for a more open approach to drug policy in

the future. “I just think the stigma is finally breaking overall,” he said. “People know that it’s not necessarily healthy, but it’s less damaging than tobacco. I think a lot of the people who grew up in the Reagan administration with ‘just say no’ are growing up and finally realizing that it’s not the right way to go about it.” An LSA sophomore interviewed by The Michigan Daily said she uses marijuana recreationally and enjoys the social aspect of smoking. The student was granted anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the topic. She also noted Ann Arbor’s relative openness to marijuana compared to other communities. “The local people are already comfortable with having dispensaries on the main streets and hosting something like Hash Bash, which has been around since the ’70s,” she said. “It’s always been the culture of Ann Arbor that it’s not a detrimental part of their society. Weed is so widespread, and as widespread as alcohol is in other places. The liberal vibe of Ann Arbor is what

keeps it going.” Another finding: daily cigarette use has significantly decreased, from a 19 percent usage rate in 1999 to a 5 percent usage rate in 2014. Johnston said a number of young marijuana users are grappling with poor mental health, and, in turn, look to marijuana as a coping mechanism. “Probably a disproportionate number of those users are dealing with depression or psychological conditions and using marijuana to escape their feelings,” Johnston said. “That’s not the only reason, but I think that’s got to be part of that population.” The LSA sophomore interviewed by the Daily said an increasingly prominent conversation about marijuana may pave the way for more widespread use. “I think people are realizing that the effects aren’t as bad as our government has tried to show us with making it illegal,” she said. “People are more willing to try smoking, and then as more people do, it becomes more accessible.”

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PROVOST From Page 1A am completely open to that idea.” Currently, the University’s schools and colleges are strongly encouraged to have 15 percent of their classes take place on Friday, based on a 2012 plan that restructured how the University scheduled rooms to better make use classroom space. The plan included adding classes on Friday, as well as more classes during non-peak times — 9 a.m., 12 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Currently, the Fall 2015 undergraduate LSA course guide lists 809 courses that have at least one of their class days on Friday. How a change like this might

actually be implemented varies, Pollack said. “When we implemented the (2012 plan), it was a policy that came from the provost’s office,” she said. “It wasn’t an absolute demand — you must do it — but we said to the deans, ‘These are targets and every year, when you come in for your budget meeting, we’re gonna look to see how you’re doing on your targets. So that would be one approach. If it came out of SACUA, it could be the faculty themselves saying, we want to have this. There are just different ways it could happen.” In terms of other ways academic policy could impact excess student drinking, Pollack noted that faculty members have also

proposed the idea of discussing the issue in the classroom. The University recently released several policy efforts to address alcohol abuse. At Monday’s SACUA meeting, several professors suggested ways to approach the issue in an academic setting, such as telling students about alcohol-free events on campus. “That’s the place where what goes on in the classroom has to come from the faculty,” Pollack said. “They’re the ones who have the expertise and knowledge and know what’s appropriate and not appropriate. I would not require faculty members to address it in the classroom, but I would be supportive of it and provide information.”

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Penn State mistakes fuel Hoop dreams Stribling even as a starter pushed aside By JAKE LOURIM Managing Sports Editor

Junior cornerback Channing Stribling was speaking to the media Tuesday night about his past issues with consistency, about his lack of focus, about getting stronger and faster. He talked about proving himself and keeping his head up. It was clear he was avoiding a big elephant in the room. “I’m assuming you’re talking about Penn State,” a reporter said. “Yeah, of course,” Stribling said with a wry smile. “Penn State.” The cornerback recalls immediately the game in question. It was the low point of his career, a night game in State College on Oct. 12, 2013. He still watches the film at least once a month. “It’s still with me,” Stribling said. “It’s just knowing what mistakes I made, knowing that if I get the same play, it won’t happen again.” That night, the No. 18 Michigan football team rolled into Happy Valley at 5-0. The Wolverines led, 34-27, with 45 seconds left. Penn State had the ball on first down at its own 34-yard line. Stribling, then a true freshman, was in at cornerback, matched up on the strong side with Penn State’s Brandon Felder. Nittany Lions quarterback Christian Hackenberg took the snap, evaded the pressure, stepped up and threw down the right sideline to Felder. Stribling mistimed his jump at the Michigan 40-yard line and tipped it to Felder, who fell down with the ball at the 37. Penn State rushed to the line and spiked the ball with 35

seconds to play. On the next play, Stribling lined up on the weak side opposite the Nittany Lions’ top receiver, Allen Robinson. Again Hackenberg threw downfield to Robinson, and again Stribling mistimed his jump. Robinson, standing near the goal line, jumped and pulled down the pass over Stribling at the one-yard line — Stribling’s mistake again. Penn State punched in the game-tying touchdown two plays later, and four gut-wrenching overtimes after that, the Nittany Lions won, 43-40. The rest is history: Brady Hoke’s Michigan team lost five of its next seven games to end the season. Stribling knows what he did wrong on each of his mistakes that night. On the first, he lost the ball in the lights and should have reached up higher to bat the ball down. On the second, he misjudged Hackenberg’s arm strength and let the ball sail over his head. “Everybody says (Robinson) ripped the ball out, but it really was on me the most,” Stribling said. “That’s why it hurt the most — because it was mostly me misjudging the ball instead of him just making a great catch. Of course it was a great catch, but it was mainly on me misjudging the ball.” Whenever Stribling watches the film of that night, he recalls his mistakes. Defensive backs have to have a short memory, and Stribling does. But in this regard, he wants to remember. He wants that night to stick with him, so that he can be better for it. “It’s just to watch and remember and make sure that next time if it happens, I’m

focused,” Stribling said. “It’s in the back of my head to make sure you do this and that. It’s not (thinking) I could have done this or that.” His problems since his true freshman year have been with consistency, or lack thereof. He has had good days, then bad ones. He knew he had to fix that to become the cornerback he is this year. He has earned the first two starts of his career in Michigan’s first two games this season, emerging from a deep crop of defensive backs in competition. To avoid repeating the mistakes he made two years ago, Stribling would have to focus better. In fact, he used the word “focus” nine times in a seven-minute interview Tuesday — a sign that it has become his greatest emphasis. “You don’t understand how much effort and focus I put into this season itself,” Stribling said. “It’s so much effort.” He used to come home from practice, watch TV and relax. Now it’s all football: He comes home, watches film, eats and watches more film. All of it goes into making sure 2013 doesn’t happen again. He was in spot duty that night, but he isn’t anymore. Michigan counts on him more now as a starter, so he knows he has to be stronger. “You make a mistake, you’re good, just make sure it doesn’t happen again,” Stribling said. “Make sure you make the play.” It was a long process for Stribling to earn that trust again, and he didn’t initially know how long it would take. He admitted sometimes he would overestimate his progress. “Yeah, sometimes, it’s always like that,” Stribling said. “You

always think you’re right, and the coaches are like, ‘No, you’re not.’ It’s just a matter of just growing up, staying focused and understanding that the coaches are on you the most because they believe in you and they know that you can do great things. It’s just focusing on what they tell you you need to focus on.” From a confidence standpoint, the progression was also slow. After his first time on the big stage was a struggle, it took time for him to work his way back up. He knew he had to come back and keep making plays. Then he had to do the same as competition raged on with the new coaching staff. That’s when he made his move to the top of the depth chart. “I think with the coaches, they’ve (given) great effort and take the game more seriously,” Stribling said. “Not that the last coaches didn’t take it seriously, but it’s more of an NFL style. Like, if you make the play, you make the money. As long as you do your job and make sure you give great effort, make sure everything that you put into football is 100 percent, it’ll come out great.” At a stronger 6-foot-2 and 178 pounds, the jump-balls Stribling once lost to Penn State should now be a strength. If he falls behind, he has the length to make it up. But he also can get caught sliding his feet, and then he has to move quickly to catch up. Physically, Stribling has established himself. Mentally, he now believes in himself. To the coaches, he has proven himself. All contributed to him becoming a starter this year, even if it took a nightmare in Happy Valley to start the process.

‘M’ finishes 12th in Cougar Classic By NATHANIEL CLARK Daily Sports Writer

Legendary entertainer Bob Hope once said, “If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.” The Michigan women’s golf team opened the 2015-2016 season by working its way to a 12th-place finish out of 20 teams at the threeday Powerade Cougar Classic in Hanahan, South Carolina. The Wolverines missed the top10 by just three strokes and the top-seven by five. “We had a pretty tremendous opportunity playing some of the top teams in the country,” said Michigan coach Jan Dowling. “Unfortunately, we didn’t finish

the way we wanted to. But (the tournament) gave us the confidence that we’re on the verge of being in the mix of the top teams in the country and that’s exciting.” Junior Grace Choi led Michigan by finishing 15th with a total score of 219. Her best round came Monday with a score of 72 — exactly par. She birdied four times during the round, including three times on the back nine holes. Choi has now finished in the top-20 seven times in her collegiate career. “It was a solid finish for (Grace),” Dowling said. “She’s a grinder, and that shows a lot of character.” Sophomore Megan Kim was the Wolverines’ runner-up scorer, placing 40th with 225

“She’s a grinder, and that shows a lot of character.”

strokes. Her strongest round came on Sunday, when she shot 73 and earned birdies on the seventh, 10th, 13th and 18th holes. Michigan’s lone senior, Catherine Peters, battled back to finish 50th overall after a 78-stroke round on Sunday left her in 78th place. Freshman Elodie Van Dievoet, one of two freshmen on the Wolverines’ roster, made her collegiate debut at the Cougar Classic. She came out of the gate by shooting 73 with two birdies and found herself in a tie for 24th with Choi and Kim after Sunday. “I think the course gave (Van Dievoet) a great taste of what American collegiate golf is all about,” Dowling said. “She’s got plenty of talent and had plenty of birdie opportunities.” Van Dievoet, however, was unable to replicate Sunday’s performance and ultimately placed 77th with 232 strokes. Rounding out Michigan’s

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Junior Grace Choi (right) led Michigan by finishing 15th with a total score of 219 at the Cougar Classic.

scoring was sophomore Emily White, who finished 97th and scored 239. White reduced her stroke count in each successive round and finished her final round Tuesday with birdies on the ninth and 11th holes, scoring 78. The Wolverines will have two more tournaments before the fall is over. While Dowling said that the Cougar Classic will likely be the Michigan’s most difficult tournament, she still believes the experience will pay off. “Next week at Wisconsin will be a wonderful opportunity for our team to come together,” Dowling said. “We’re playing a really fun format.”

Taco Charlton and Drake Harris still love the game of basketball By ZACH SHAW Daily Sports Editor

With at least three scholarships available for next season, the Michigan men’s basketball coaches are scouring the nation in search of top basketball recruits. If the chips fell into place, however, the Wolverines’ next star might already be on campus. Then again, they might be busy. Sophomore receiver Drake Harris and junior defensive end Taco Charlton — both standout basketball players in high school — discussed the possibility of rekindling the hardwood flame Tuesday after football practice. “We’ve joked around about it (with the coaches), nothing too serious,” Charlton said. “I love the game of basketball. It’s something I’ve played since I was a little kid, but nothing too serious anymore.” Charlton, who has been close with senior guard Caris Levert since before kindergarten, helped recruit Levert to Michigan and even teamed up with the potential 2016 NBA draft pick in beating a team featuring senior defensive end Chris Wormley to win the Ohio state title in basketball. Charlton’s ties with Michigan basketball are still strong today. “We’ll have some discussion about it maybe down the road,” Charlton said with a grin. “We have friendly talks, but it’s mostly just, ‘How are you doing?’ talking about Caris

always.” Harris, who averaged 24.2 points per game at Grand Rapids Christian High School and was a Michigan State basketball recruit before switching to Michigan football, was less open to the concept after missing all of last season due to injury. “There’s a lot of 6-foot-3 guards out there in the country,” Harris said. “I just found a passion for football after my junior season, and from there I just wanted to play football and this is what I wanted to do. “I didn’t get to play senior year of basketball because I enrolled early — it was a tough decision.” Both Harris and Charlton continue to play pickup basketball in their spare time, and have close relationships with the basketball team. Beilein even joked about welcoming Charlton on the team on Michigan’s radio broadcast Saturday, noting that he saw the defensive end do a ‘360’ dunk in flip-flops when he recruited Levert. “Coach Beilein, that’s my guy right there,” Charlton said. “I love those guys. Ever since they recruited Caris, I’ve been close with (the team). I helped Caris move in, we knew each other since preschool, so it’s a relationship we’ve always had. “Growing up, we always wanted that dream, it used to be NBA dreams for both of us, now we have our different sports … I’m just happy he’s having the success he’s having.” Harris and Charlton are happy with their decision to stay on the gridiron, and don’t plan on changing yet. But are they retired? “I believe so,” Harris said with a smile.

“Coach Beilein, that’s my guy right there.”

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Bunting’s father lives on in his memory Tight end’s pregame song helps him remember his father By MAX BULTMAN Daily Sports Editor

Ian Bunting’s musical tastes are diverse, ranging from reggae to rap to classic rock. But when it comes to his pregame routine, his final song is a constant, just like the man it represents. Before each game, the redshirt freshman tight end plays “Wild Horses” by the

Rolling Stones. Its somber tones and slow-strummed guitar aren’t the typical hype-up music for a college football player, but that’s exactly the point. “Wild Horses” is the song that was playing when his father, Stephen Bunting, passed away. Ian was 19 on February 18, 2015, when his father died after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. Stephen was a far-tooyoung 59. “He was and still is my inspiration,” Bunting said. The song goes: “Faith has been broken, tears must be cried. Let’s do some living after we die.

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Ian Bunting dealt with the loss of his father during Michigan’s offseason.

Wild Horses couldn’t drag me away. Wild, wild horses, we’ll ride them some day.” In this context, the lyrics to Wild Horses are both touching and heart-wrenching. To Bunting, though, they aren’t a source of pain. “It’s just soothing,” Bunting said. “It calms me down, makes me think of my dad, which is awesome. That’s all I need before the game.” It’s remarkable in its own right that Bunting is composed when opening up about the feelings associated with his father’s passing. Bunting was emotional, of course, but he was also reflective. He has come to terms with the loss about as well as anyone possibly could in such a short span of time. “It’s definitely been tough, but everyone goes through stuff, everyone’s got a story, everyone’s got (adversity),” Bunting said. “(Mark) Naylor, one of our strength coaches, he helped me a lot through that. He told me, ‘Everyone’s got (adversity), you can either make it your excuse or you can make it your story. I try to make it my story and not an excuse.’ ” At the time of his father’s passing, Bunting was already dealing with all kinds of change on the football team. Jim Harbaugh had just been brought in as coach, and he had to balance staying afloat personally while also juggling a coaching transition and school. But rather than sinking under the pressure and uncertainty, Bunting learned to use the football team for recovery instead of letting it become another source of stress. “It was a lot. At times it was — sometimes you’ve just to put the blinders on,” Bunting said. “You go out to practice and that’s time you can forget about everything.

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Redshirt freshman tight end Ian Bunting caught two passes for 33 yards in Michigan’s win against Oregon State.

It’s like an outlet. You can just go take out whatever anger you have and just forget about things for a while. “Hardest thing that’s ever happened to me in life. But I’ve learned from it. And I’m stronger because of it.” Stephen Bunting played high school football, but it was in Bunting’s other sports that his father coached him growing up. Bunting was much younger at the time, so doesn’t remember everything, but he does recall

playing for his dad on his childhood basketball, soccer and baseball teams. The parent-coach relationship can be a difficult one to navigate, but as Bunting remembers it, his dad had a knack for balancing the two. “He knew how to work me hard and not be overly critical,” Bunting recalled. “But he was definitely critical, and gave me pointers and let me know when I needed to do better.”

“Hardest thing that’s ever happened to me in life.”

Now, those memories, however faint, are part of what Bunting has to remember his father by. There was an especially poignant moment before Michigan’s season opener against Utah. Stephen’s brother had played for the Utes, creating a fitting way for Bunting to play his first game after losing his dad. He played “Wild Horses,” and in his first-ever college game, Bunting had a 12-yard reception. Stephen was able to see the Wolverines play a few times when he was sick, but his son was redshirting. He never got to see Ian play college football. “He’s got the best seat in the house now,” Bunting said.

Consistency key for Michigan By KEVIN SANTO Daily Sports Writer

For the past few years, the Michigan men’s soccer team has been plagued by inconsistency. Consider the 2013 campaign, when the Wolverines tied teams Detroit at like Bowling Michigan Green and Matchup: Oakland, yet Detroit 2-2-2; defeated No. 12 Michigan 2-1-1 Creighton. When: Or just last Wednesday year, when 7:30 P.M. Michigan Where: earned wins U-M Soccer against No. 6 Stadium Notre Dame and No. 12 TV: BTN Plus Michigan State but suffered losses against Bowling Green and Western Michigan. Now, as the Wolverines (2-11) prepare to face Detroit on

Wednesday, a familiar task is looming over them: defeating a respectable team in the wake of impressive performances against national powerhouses. But for fifth-year senior forward Colin McAtee, the 2-1 overtime victory against Niagara on Sept. 6 convinced him this team is different from those of his past. “Last year, we struggled in these games,” McAtee said. “(But against Niagara) we were relentless — we kept going and we didn’t disrespect them. We found a way to win. That was a big turning point, because that gives us the confidence that we can go into those games with the same mentality, and I don’t expect anything different this Wednesday against Detroit.” The Titans (2-2-2) graduated just four players in 2014 after battling Michigan to a 0-0 tie in their matchup at U-M Soccer Stadium last year. Defensively, the Wolverines will be forced to handle Detroit’s balanced attack, led by forward Tyler Moorman and midfielder Spiro Pliakos. Moorman and Pliakos lead the team with three goals and three assists, respectively, but there is plenty of firepower behind them as well. Aside from the duo, the

Titans have seven players who have contributed either an assist or goal this season. Though sophomore defender Billy Stevens is a game-time decision after suffering a face injury at Maryland, the back line should still be capable of containing Detroit’s threats. Michigan has allowed just three goals this season, and sophomore Evan Louro will continue to anchor the Wolverines in net. The goalkeeper boasts a .718 save percentage and two clean sheets. If necessary, Stevens would likely be replaced with freshman Marcello Borges. On the opposite end of the pitch, Michigan is averaging more than one goal per game, led by freshman Francis Atuahene. After his hat trick against West Virginia, he leads the Big Ten in goals scored and is poised to wreak havoc against the Titans’ defense with his on-ball skill. Though Atuahene has looked unstoppable when taking defenders one on one this year, Nathan Steinwascher — the 2014 Horizon League Goalkeeper of the Year — will be waiting for him when he finds scoring opportunities. Of the obstacles the Wolverines have to overcome, Michigan coach Chaka Daley

feels the greatest is their mindset. “If we want to be a consistent program nationally, (we can’t) take any days off in preparation or approach,” Daley said. “Detroit is a tough team to play against. They have a different style and they have the personality of grinders. We have to dictate the game more than them.” Following their game against Detroit, the Wolverines will host Northwestern for their Big Ten home opener on Sunday, at which there will be a ceremony commemorating 125 years of Michigan athletics. As a comparatively young program of 16 years, the ceremony will have a unique meaning for the Wolverines. “Only being 16 years old, you get to look at it and dream of what you could be in 20, 30, 40 years when these guys come back and I’m a retired old man,” Daley said. “What you’re creating is that legacy. And certainly other sports have done that, with softball almost 40 years and football has 135 years. “From that standpoint, it’s something you look at and try to emulate, and hope that you can bring that kind of prominence or recognition to your program one day.”

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Fifth-year senior Colin McAtee (center) believes this is the year Michigan can correct its struggles against lesser foes.

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here is no drink called a “chai tea latte.” I’m sorry, but it just doesn’t exist in the same way that Hallmark Holidays don’t exist. A “chai tea latte” is the Grandfather’s Day of coffee shop drinks — neither of them is actually real and is made to sound more exotic or genuine to siphon more money out of you. Every time someone in front of me at the Starbucks line — or the Panera line, or the Espresso Royale line for that matter — orders a “chai tea latte,” a little part of me dies. The name sounds quite a bit silly when you realize that, when translated from Hindi, it actually means “tea tea latte.” You’re ordering a “tea tea latte” and it makes absolutely no sense. My particular gripe with modern coffee retailers is interesting: I drink coffee like it’s water. And I’m not talking about some diluted, cinnamon-spiced mochafrapped nonsense. I mean dark-roasted, pitch-black coffee. It doesn’t matter if it’s the crappy, generic office-brand or

imported, hand-roasted Brazilian beans from the depths of the Amazon. If it tastes bitter and keeps me up, I will drink it. That sounds terrifyingly unhealthy and a little bit crazy, and I should definitely work on weaning myself off of caffeine, I know. Based on what you know about my coffee addiction, I really shouldn’t care too much about what a “chai tea latte” is or why it’s popular or why it has become such a staple on coffee shop menus in the past few years. But here’s the thing: I inherited the caffeine addiction from my dad, because the first thing he drinks before he leaves for work is the chai my mom makes for him every morning. He’ll always beeline to pull out his mug and takes out a sieve that perfectly fits his mug from the cabinet beneath the stove, to filter out the leaves when he pours his tea into the cup. My dad can’t get through his day without drinking chai. When we went to India about five or six years ago as a family, the first thing he bought

to bring back with him was a Costco-sized container of Wagh Bakri, a very strong brand of chai. He kept sniffing the lid and saying, “Smell the chai, Tanya.” It was weird, yes, but I’ve grown up seeing that every morning while getting ready to go to elementary school, middle school and high school. Just as my dad watched his own father do the same thing his whole life, and my grandfather watched his father before him, and so on. Chai is deeply ingrained in Indian social culture. The tagline for Wagh Bakri is roughly translated to “warmth of relationships.” It’s plastered on all of their billboards and a recurring theme in their television commercials. The first thing my grandmother, aunts, and uncles in India offer guests to their homes is not coffee, or water. It’s chai. Author Divya Prakash Dubey, in another rough translation from Hindi, writes in, Masala Chai, his short story collection, “chai is basically like another form of social networking.” It builds connections and relationships; it acts as a source of comfort and warmth. Chai is rooted in Indian culture in the same way coffee is distinctly an American habit. That’s why I can’t help but get annoyed when coffee shops advertise chai with a completely inaccurate term in an attempt to sound exotic. Chai should remain a menu item in coffee shops. But it shouldn’t be referred to as a “chai tea latte.” I admit that in the larger scheme of cultural appropriation crimes committed by the western world, a “chai tea latte” is hardly pressing. But it’s still important.

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I was bitten by a squirrel BY ALEX BERNARD

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have met the devil. He has a bushy tail. Let me explain. On a dry February morning freshman year, my friends and I met by the Cube to travel to Pennsylvania or Indiana or somewhere like Indiana and Pennsylvania. Iowa? I stood with Karibou (his real name is Adam — no explanation necessary). We were talking about something light — lamps or feathers, can’t remember which — when something distracted us: a squirrel, the size of a microwave, scuttling beneath a barebranched tree. I held out my hand and performed my self-taught squirrel call: Tk-Tk-Tk-Tk-Tk. He advanced. Cautiously, at first, then closer and closer, until his wet, disease-infested nose grazed my middle finger. Then, because I didn’t have food, he scurried away. It hurt like hell. “Damn,” I thought and said. Where would I get food? Iowa? I turned. Karibou was eating cookie crumbs out of pink Tupperware. A sign, I decided, if not from God then from the squirrels. “Hey man,” I said, all coy. “Could I have some of those cookie crumbs?” Karibou paused, thought and said, “Only if you use them to feed the squirrel!” Me: “You know I will!” Karibou: “Hellz yeah.” And so it was. I placed the cookie crumbs on the ends of my fingers and approached the squirrel. He was staring at me with what I’d later recognize as I-can’t-tell-thedifference-between-crumbsand-fingers eyes. At the time, I thought it was the hey-friendwanna-hear-a-forest-song look. Mistakes were made. Tk-Tk-Tk-Tk-Tk. A few steps closer. Tk-Tk-Tk-Tk-Tk.

He scuttled up to me. Tk-Tk-Tk-Tk-Tk. There was animal in his eyes, but also brotherhood. Or was that a fruit fly? Tk...Tk – Crunch. Pain. Shock. Confusion. Incomprehension. Synonyms. He bit my middle and index fingers, dug his teeth deep into my skin. Sharp, unnatural pain coursed through me — also, betrayal. “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH,” I said. The squirrel said nothing. His mouth was full. I tried to pry him loose, but his teeth were latched into my fingers like hooks in fish lips. I tugged and grunted and tugged and moaned, but no give. My hand was too delicious. I panicked. What to do! Lose my fingers? Don’t be dramatic. Scream louder? On it. Call my parents once a week? Irrelevant. Then, ol’ Alex thought of something he hadn’t before: Say, I’m stronger than a squirrel. With a mighty yank, I pulled my arm. My hand followed. Eyes closed, teeth clenched, I threw my fingers back and up like a jazz dancer (is that a thing?). The squirrel’s bite loosened, and I was free! But don’t cheer yet, friend. Seriously, sit down, Clare. The worst was still to come. Over my head, a fat brown shape the size of a stunted toddler sailed twenty feet through the air and landed – thud – by the Cube. I’d chucked him. My God, I chucked a squirrel! Balls. He gathered his wits, gave me a reprehensive look and left. A Bite and Run. I cradled my blood-soaked fingers and said things like, “How!” and “Why!” and “Hellz no!” Then, I composed myself, washed my cuts and called University Health Services. “Squir-

rels don’t have rabies, hun.” Phew. All I needed was a tetanus shot within the past seven years, which I had. (High-fives self in face!) No tetanus here. (Just deep, incurable emotional scars.) Before I could hang up, find a Star Wars band aide and call my therapist (Mom), the nurse offered some advice. She: “You’re not supposed to feed the squirrels.” Me: “Well, now I know, but it was fat so... ” She: “You’re especially not supposed to feed the fat squirrels.” Me: “Well, madam, I assumed that because it was fat, it’d been fed many times. (I cough. My voice gets higher.) I assumed it was tamed. I figured it might be jolly!” She: “Ah-heh-heh. No ... heh.” That was three years ago. I’m older now, taller. I drink whisky (1/8 whisky, 7/8 coke). I think about more things, but for shorter time and with less depth. I’m an adult. And I’m afraid of a small woodland creature. Because he’s still out there. Waiting. If you see him, call me. He’ll be the one stubbing out a cigarette, slipping on a pair of sunglasses and popping the collar of his “Hell’s Squirrels” black leather jacket. His name is Nuts the Ripper, and he is dangerous.sure a miracle, in the form of a sex tape, is in his imminent future. Maybe that’s why Selena’s doing all that yoga?

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“It’s nice to be able to use your mailbox. Everything’s so instant now that it’s nice to take a second and write. I just wrote four pages to my friend (at Wayne) ... I send tea with my letters to her, too.” – LSA freshman JESSICA LEININGER, while writing a letter Tuesday night

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Navigating roommate conflicts at the ‘U’ by Lara Moehlman, Daily Staff Reporter

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hen Jack arrived and met his roommate his freshman year, things were going great. The two, living in Northwood III on North Campus together, weren’t best friends, necessarily, but spoke regularly, played video games, and occasionally hung out.

Then, upon returning from spring break, their friendly relationship changed suddenly. “He refuses to respond to me and talk to me, and I have no idea why,” Jack recalled of the sudden shut out. And that’s when Jack started noticing peculiar behaviors: His roommate would be drunk on weekdays, lock Jack out of the room — leaving Jack without a change of clothes for three to four days. Jack’s whirlwind of a story isn’t a peculiar one. It’s something college roommates see increasingly across the country. At an orientation session over the summer, incoming students and their parents were asked a simple question: “By a show of hands, how many of you shared a room growing up?” The vast majority of the parents in the room raised their hands. Most of the incoming class of 2015 kept their hands down. This generational gap is due in part to the modern cultural trend toward smaller families, a New York Times article

reported. Room-sharing inexperience, along with other current societal factors, may be to blame for the rapid rise in roommate conflict on college campuses nationwide, according to the piece. Additionally, texting and social media, cornerstones of the Millennial generation, both provide outlets for roommates to hide from direct confrontation behind the comfort of their cell phone screens. However, Pamela Davis-Kean, a University professor specializing in developmental psychology, said there is no empirical evidence to support that social media and texting have directly increased roommate conflict. She added that a lack of communication is an issue affecting people of all ages. “I don’t think college students are any better or any worse than people are at trying to figure out: how do you tell someone that they’re really annoying you?” Davis-Kean said. “There’s always been roommate conflict.” She does, however, believe that texting and the convenience of communication have led to the “prolonged parenthood.” In the age of constant communication, parents are more connected to their children, and therefore more likely to continue parenting their child well beyond his or her twentieth birthday. This extension of adolescence is a potential indication of college students’ increased dependence on their parents to solve their conflicts, especially their roommates. Carrie Landrum, program manager at the Office of Student Conflict Resolution, said many cases of roommate conflict — in fact, the majority of cases OSCR sees — stem from a lack of direct communication. “The anonymity that often comes with using some social media platforms contributes to peo-

ple saying things in a different way than they might if they saw them in person,” Landrum said. Landrum said this phenomenon is rooted in neuroscience. Mirror neurons in the brain are activated when we act and when we observe others performing those same actions, allowing humans to identify and recognize basic universal facial expressions, such as happiness, hurt and sadness. But when electronic communication preclude face-to-face interaction, roommates can struggle to understand each other’s emotional responses. “We can exacerbate conflict rather than make it better,” Landrum said. Roommate relationships also suffer when students avoid communication altogether. Landrum said silent expectations, standards to which roommates hold each othver but don’t express openly, can set students up for failure. For Kaitlyn, a nursing sophomore who lived in Oxford dorms last year, a lack of communication defined her negative housing experience. After choosing to room blind — an option Housing reports 62 percent of incoming freshman choose — Kaitlyn found her roommate to be shy and unfriendly. “We were civil to each other and it was fine — no big deal,” Kaitlyn recalled. However, things turned ugly when Kaitlyn asked her roommate to let Kaitlyn’s boyfriend, who goes to another school, stay in their room overnight. Kaitlyn recalls her roommate refused to discuss the issue. “Because she refused to talk to me straight up in the beginning, from then on the only times we did talk it was very hostile,” Kaitlyn said. “I kind of avoided her. We slept in the same room, but we didn’t talk, and then when I tried to reassess the situation and talk to her, it was just a hostile experience.” Kaitlyn’s roommate switched dorms shortly after Fall Break and cut ties on social media. According to Amir Baghdadchi, University Housing spokesperson, roommates’ unwillingness to even address uncomfortable issues is a common occurrence. “In housing, when we see a conflict arise, the first thing we’re trying to do is understand ‘OK, have these roommates even talked about it,” Baghdadchi said. Many times Housing officials find the answer is no. University Housing requires all students sharing a room in a residence hall to fill out a “roommate contract” within the first week of school. Students fill out items such as what they feel comfortable with their roommate borrowing, how they feel about overnight guests, and any cultural identities or customs they want their roommates to respect. Baghdadchi said the roommate contract works as a preventative measure, forcing students to have the uncomfortable conversations they might otherwise avoid. “If you think about it, when you have two or more people who have never lived with someone before — certainly they haven’t lived with someone who they just met or is outside their family — neither of them wants to be the kind of roommate that brings up uncomfortable stuff,” Baghdadchi said. Though these contracts may initiate communication between roommates, further conflicts naturally arise. In these situations, University Housing recommends students seek help from the Office of Student Conflict Resolution, which offers resources such as one-on-one conflict coaching sessions and mediation services

to students living both on and off campus. At first, Jack, who experienced sudden conflict with his roommate freshman year, didn’t want to escalate the problem further. “I didn’t want to get the University involved if I didn’t have to,” Jack said. Finally, Jack e-mailed his residential adviser that he was no longer comfortable living in his room. In response, the University organized a peer mediation session between Jack and his roommate. However, Jack says his roommate denied everything at the session, saying he was a heavy sleeper and that sometimes he couldn’t open their door because he couldn’t hear Jack knocking. The mediator wrote his story off as a simple case of miscommunication, Jack says, and Housing services eventually refused to grant Jack a room change, saying that because there were only two months left of school, he should “do his best to work it out.” Immediately after, Jack moved into a friend’s off-campus apartment for the remainder of the year. Reflecting on the situation, Jack said the University failed him, and he wished the issues could have been resolved in a more efficient manner. **** On the topic of student health and academic success, DavisKean, the professor of developmental psychology, said from her perspective a University should never say a student has to stay with his or her roommate. “If it’s getting in the way of somebody being academically successful at U-M or it’s hurting your mental health or physical health, then those are things that we should be doing something about,” Davis-Kean said. While the University has a room swap program that allows students to post on the Housing website looking for others’ to trade rooms with, this system is dependent on other students’ requests and can be a time-sensitive process. This system also assumes that a student would be willing to live with the roommate another student is actively trying to avoid. Despite the national rise in roommate conflict outlined in the New York Times article, the University Housing maintains that it has not seen a rise in roommate conflict. Though many colleges and universities require students to take questionnaires, asking them basic questions like what time they generally go to sleep, their partying habits, among others, the University’s roommate matching process is currently random. For the time being, it appears the system is here to stay. “We did a pilot a number of years ago with a questionnaire,” Housing spokesperson Baghdadchi said. “It turned out to be no more successful than rooming blind.” Mallory Martin, associate director for Housing Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution, works with residents, residential staff, and hall directors across campus to address conflict resolution. In an e-mail to The Michigan Daily, Martin wrote because many roommate conflicts are inherently different in nature, each requires a different path to resolution. “Conflict can show up in different ways so there is not one approach or pathway for all resolutions. It starts with listening, and trying to understand what’s underneath the conflict: part of the issue could be a health condition or stress, for example so we want to make sure we’re really helping in the right way.”

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Ice Bucket Challenge, one year later by Irene Park, Daily Staff Reporter

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t’s been a little over a year since the Ice Bucket challenge took the nation by storm. But, at the University and beyond, researchers are still feeling the tingle. Following one of the nation’s largest charitable fundraising drives outside of a natural disaster or emergency, the ALS Association — the primary benefactor of the initial social-media movement — is well on its way to distributing the $115 million raised since last summer. (By comparison, the charity brought in $5 million during the same period in 2013, the year before the Ice Bucket Challenge went viral.) Stephen Goutman, assistant professor of neurology and director of the University ALS Clinic, said the Challenge not only raised money to support ALS research, but it also raised awareness of the disease. “The number of people search for ALS on websites such as Wikipedia skyrocketed,” Goutman said. “Prior to this challenge, many individuals were not familiar with (ALS) and the devastating symptoms associated with it.” Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that kills nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. When the disease kills motor neurons, which connect the brain, spinal cord, and muscles throughout the body, the brain can no longer control muscle movements. ALS patients in the later stages of the disease become completely paralyzed and experience severe muscle wasting. The inability to control muscles can lead to difficulty swallowing, walking, and breathing. Currently, there is no cure for ALS. “It is really important to increase the recognition for this disease not only to help strengthen advocacy efforts aimed at improving care for patients, but also to help raise money to fund the muchneeded research efforts to find better treatments and cures for this disease,” Goutman said. The effects are being felt nationwide. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University credited the Ice Bucket Challenge in helping to raise funds for continued studies. Last month, Philip Wong, professor of pathology and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, and his colleagues published a study in Science that demonstrated the role of clumps of proteins called TDP-43 in the brain cells of ALS patients. “Without (the funding), we wouldn’t have been able to come out with the studies as quickly as we did,” Wong told The Washington Post. The ALS Association has said $47 million of the $115 million raised has been spent or budgeted toward scientific purposes. The Association revealed its full plan on how the money raised from the Ice Bucket Challenge will eventually be spent: $77 million on research, $23 million on patient and community services, $10 million on public and professional education, $3 million on fundraising, and $2 million on external processing fees. Since there is still no cure for ALS, the majority of raised money will be spent on

research to find one. The viral social media sensation has since credited to Pete Frates, a former Boston College baseball player who was diagnosed with ALS in 2012. Since his diagnosis, he was active in advocacy and fundraising for the disease. Frates and his friend, Pat Quinn, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2013, started the challenge — and named the ALS Association as the benefactor — after watching a similar ice-bucket video online. As of September 2014, there were more than 17 million videos related to the challenge posted on Facebook, which were viewed over 10 billion times by more than 440 million people, according to the Association. Numerous high-profile individuals participated in the challenge, including President Barack Obama (who did not actually do the challenge but made a donation instead), Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, LeBron James, Oprah Winfrey, and Taylor Swift. Even some University professors accepted the challenge, including Eva Feldman, professor of neurology and director of research at the University’s ALS Clinic, who has performed research on a revolutionary stem cell therapy for the disease. But, at the peak of its popularity, the movement was met with some criticisms. Critics voiced their concern about how it was unsatisfactory in meeting its goal of raising awareness about the disease. Jacob Davidson at Time magazine called the challenge “problematic in almost every way,” mainly criticizing how the challenge did little to explain what ALS actually is. Davidson noted that some people like Ethel Kennedy, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Matthew Lauer, host of NBC’s “The Today Show”, participated in the challenge without even mentioning the disease. In spite of its flaws, Davidson also noted that the challenge has done “a lot of good” but should be improved. Paul Marantz, associate dean and professor at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, argued on his blog, “The Doctor’s Tablet,” that it is dangerous for the public to think the Ice Bucket Challenge was the reason for a scientific breakthrough in ALS research for several reasons. “Let us not mislead the public about the significance of individual, incremental steps in the arc of science, nor promulgate the notion that ‘crowdsourcing’ scientific discovery will get us where we need to go,” Marantz wrote. Regardless, the ALS Association hopes to continue the success of last year’s Ice Bucket Challenge. The charity reintroduced the challenge last month with a hashtag #EveryAugustUntilACure, adopting the challenge as a yearly initiative. Barbara Newhouse, president and CEO of The ALS Association, said in her statement the initiative would continue every year until there is a cure for ALS. “Progress is being made when it comes to finding treatments and a cure for (ALS), and we’re so grateful for the support this August and every August until there’s a cure,” Newhouse said.

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Personal Statement: Growing up in haunted houses by Hailey Middlebrook, Daily Arts Writer

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he haunted houses began with cardboard boxes. It was two weeks before my seventh birthday, when my family still lived in our Lincoln Log home in Colorado. My dad brought back a dozen shipping boxes, the long and skinny kind that hold coat racks, just wide enough for my friends and I to crawl through, tunnel-style. I frowned as he disappeared into the basement, ribbed cardboard knocking down the jack o’ lanterns I’d just set up. It was late October, a few blustery nights before trick-or-treating; just close enough to November fourth to throw my first Halloween-themed birthday party. My dad, a ghost story master and scary movie fanatic, was hooked on Halloween. Maybe it was because he’d met my mom at a Halloween party when he was in law school and she in medical school; she’d dressed as a baby and he was a boxer, a “total knockout,” he would joke. Or maybe it was the way mine and my younger sister’s eyes would widen around the campfire as he told us about the howling ghost dogs in the woods — when he’d pause, our hearts thudding — and our mom would sweep in on cue, tying up the story with a happy bow. We’d snuggle in the tent, all warm bodies and crickets, sleeping soundly with dreams of friendly ghosts. When I started planning my birthday party, little organized queen that I was, I was strict with my theme: spooky spiders, not friendly ghosts. As a wizened first grader, I’d seen my fair share of scary things. I’d ridden the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney World. The scarier the haunted house, I decided, the more fun the party was. And so it began. **** Eleven years later, orange lights bobbed in the mist as we made our way to the castle-house on the hill. My heels clicked on the concrete, calf-high leather, the closest thing to cowboy boots I could

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find in my dorm room trunk. I’d linked arms with my friend, another freshman in West Quad, our matching tied-up flannels and cutoffs brushing with each step. Cute cowgirl: instant Halloween party costume. The castle was packed. A thick fog of smoke and body heat made faces hazy, their movements blurred and jaunty, like the final room of our haunted house: Zombie hiding in corner, strobe lights, FOG MACHINE! Except these zombies were different — all lumberjacks and bunnies and cats, laughing too loudly and staggering to the beat of Rihanna. Alive. Friendly ghosts, as long as you didn’t get too close. The “no touching” policy didn’t apply to this haunted house. **** When I outgrew the cardboard boxes, around middle school, our garage became the new haunted house. The construction would begin in early October: bendy boards of plywood, stapled together in a narrow maze, covered in black sheets of plastic. The scent of plastic stayed with me, even after we packed away decorations. Even after the season changed, the years passed, my new home became a dorm room. My college roommate baked banana bread because it smelled like home; I lingered unknowingly by hardware shops. The chemical smell always stopped me, slinging me back to fall, to my family, to our haunted house kingdom. Designing the house was my favorite part. The plan was simple: I’d bring my friends to the side door of the garage (where I’d pause, to heighten anticipation), then enter the main room, occupied by a haggard skeleton in a rocking chair and a phony chandelier, creepy music overhead. We’d twist through the dark plastic walls, shrieking from my dad and brother jumping out of corners, their faces hidden by masks. The last room was thick with smoke and strobe lights; and my brother, suddenly lunging from the fog.

Screaming, scrambling, we’d bolt through the front door into my mom’s candlelit living room, surrendering to the smells of freshly baked carrot cake and caramel apples. Sugar smeared on our fingers, we’d tell each other ghost stories, giggling to prove we were brave. **** Our laughter pierced the quiet in Jess’s apartment, its shrillness wafting up and out of the balcony doors. It was our last night together as summer interns; but really we were celebrating Jess, who’d already graduated and landed a full-time job as the magazine’s art editor. While three of us were heading back to college for our senior years, Jess would stay here, alone in her brand-new life. The furniture wouldn’t be here for a week, when her parents could drive it up. Empty, the room was massive, smelling of plastic sheets. Cardboard boxes towered in the corner like hulking monsters, casting shadows over our huddled circle on the floor. We sipped wine from Dixie cups and talked about the future. “Are you scared?” I asked Jess, the question burning the tip of my tongue. “All the time,” she said after a minute; the room hushed. Fingers clenched around Dixie cups. “Right now, I have a job, an apartment, a boyfriend. But a year from now, that could all change. Don’t know what’s around the corner, ya know?” I watched the red wine swirl in my cup, like the fake blood I used to paint on my brother’s face. The floor creaked in the silence, eerie and empty. But Jess’s apartment wasn’t so much haunted as it was waiting, testing her. Weeding out the screamers, leaving the brave alone. I realized then that the real haunted houses in life can’t be designed, their twists mapped out and surprise scares planned. They don’t always stick to the theme, your vision, no matter how organized you are. I don’t build haunted houses anymore. But I’m learning to feel my way through the dark.

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V I S UA L S TAT E M E N T: A R T S C A P E Each year the main stage at ArtScape draws large crowds that come to listen to the free music, even if many have never heard of each group before. In 2015 the headline act was Michael Franti & Spearhead on Saturday. Here, the audience lines the hill of the old Mt. Royal Train Station where the main stage is located to see the final performances on a Sunday night in July.

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Grant Hardy Members of the Capoeira Angola Baltimore chapter perform near University of Baltimore on Mt. Royal Ave. at ArtScape on the festival’s last day.

Four roller-skaters talk amongst themselves while preparing to dance on skates at ArtScape in Baltimore.

For over thirty years, ArtScape, the largest free arts festival in the U.S., has taken place over a three-day period in mid July, centered in downtown Baltimore between Penn Station and the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Most vendors and performance stages are located on either Charles St. or Mt. Royal Ave. The event annually draws more than 400,000 attendees, despite very hot and humid weather. Both local and national artists are drawn to the festival resulting in a diverse display of art and performance. Highlights include the main performance stage by the Maryland Institute College of Art and an extensive menu of international food served around the festival.

LEFT: Though there are many scheduled performances by artists on multiple stages over multiple days, many local musicians simply play amongst the crowd on the sidewalk for tips. This saxophonist played for those taking a break to eat by a group of food trucks on the final day of ArtScape. RIGHT: Always held in mid-July, ArtScape is plagued by high-temperatures that are compounded by Baltimore’s consistently high humidity. Multiple cooling stations offered at the event combat highs that in past years have reached triple digits.