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LSA senior Amy Pestenariu, Martha Cook board president, loads items into a safe for the 2015 time capsule at a brunch on Sunday. Current and former residents of the building gathered in Ann Arbor this weekend to celebrate the building’s 100th anniversary.
Residents, alumni mark Martha Cook’s 100th year Weekend festivities celebrate residence hall’s contributions to campus
the weekend to celebrate the residence hall’s 100th year. The three-day anniversary celebration included a barbecue, organized dinner outings at various Ann Arbor restaurants and a gala dinner featuring remarks from University President Mark Schlissel, the weekend’s keynote speaker. The weekend concluded with a time capsule ceremony where attendees opened a time capsule from 1993 and created a new capsule to open in 2115.
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Current and former residents of the Martha Cook Building — one of the University’s all-female residence halls — gathered over
During his remarks at Saturday evening’s gala, Schlissel said the Martha Cook Building contributes to the culture of the University. “I believe that every moment at the University represents a precious opportunity to learn,” he said. “The opportunity to learn outside the classroom is especially true of the Martha Cook Building. You have created a unique learning environment where everyone feels equally included. Throughout its
impressive history, Martha Cook has been known for bringing together diverse group of women and is a cherished part of the University of Michigan community.” Constructed in 1915 with funds from University alum William W. Cook, who named the building after his mother, Martha Cook is the only residence hall at the University with its own alumni association. The first women Martha Cook See MARTHA COOK, Page 3A
Schlissel details new program available to students in Ypsilanti, Southfield schools By ALLANA AKHTAR Daily Staff Reporter
The University will introduce a new program to increase racial and socioeconomic diversity among students by giving local high schoolers the chance to earn a full, four-year tuition scholarship, University President Mark Schlissel announced Friday morning. Titled Wolverine Pathways, the new program will come at no cost to students. The first iteration of the program will choose 120 students — 60 seventh graders and 60 high schoolers — for Wolverine Pathways in January from the Southfield and Ypsilanti school districts. Though the first round will select only students from those grade levels, the University aims to expand the program with each year, encompassing students in
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Energetic start lifts Michigan over RPI, 5-2 Freshman Warren scores two goals, Wolverines head home at 3-0-1 By KEVIN SANTO Daily Sports Writer
TROY, N.Y. — On Oct. 11, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute became a giant killer. Just three games into their season, the Engineers hosted then-No. 1 Boston College and sent the national powerhouse home with a 2-1 loss. And as No. 11 Michigan entered RPI’s Houston Field House off the back of a near upset against Union, the Wolverines were in danger of suffering the same fate as the Eagles. After that Union matchup, Michigan center JT Compher made it clear that starting with less energy against RPI, or any team, was unacceptable — something
the Wolverines clearly took to heart. Just three minutes into the first period, freshman forward Brendan Warren received the puck in the slot from freshman center Cooper Marody and lit the lamp for his first collegiate goal to give Michigan a 1-0 lead. After that goal, the Wolverines didn’t trail for the remainder of the game, defeating RPI, 5-2. The rest of the frame remained scoreless, but the energy that Compher called for was evident nonetheless. “We had a really good start today,” Warren said. “We were getting pucks deep, working down low and getting some pressure to the net. That’s something we didn’t do yesterday. We were kind of sitting back trying to play up high and be cute, and we were letting (Union) have chances. So we were on (RPI) today.” The Wolverines (3-0-1) pressured the Engineers early See HOCKEY, Page 2B
grades seven through 12. “Inseparable from our efforts to enhance our academic excellence as a public good is our work to improve diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Michigan,” Schlissel said at a breakfast for campus leaders. “We cannot be excellent without being diverse, in the broadest sense of that word.” The students will work with tutors and mentors in math, English and science during eightweek sessions in the fall, winter and summer. If these students successfully complete the program, apply and are admitted to the University, they will earn a scholarship covering all tuition fees for their 4 years. University Provost Martha Pollack’s Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, led by Robert Sellers, vice provost for equity, inclusion and academic affairs, devised Wolverine Pathways. The program provides many other resources for low income and minority students, such as leadership opportunities, cultural events, test preparation, visits to campus and resources for See SCHOLARSHIP, Page 3A
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Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley greets 8-year-old refugee Mohammad Assad at the Arab American Institute’s Yalla Vote Conference at the University of Michigan-Dearborn Social Sciences Building on Friday.
At Dearborn stop, O’Malley denounces Islamophobia Presidential candidate meets with Syrian refugees By SAMANTHA WINTNER Daily Staff Reporter
Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, spoke on the University’s Dearborn campus Friday
afternoon, highlighting elements of his vision for foreign policy related to the Middle East. His speech was one event of the three-day Yalla Vote summit held by the Arab American Institute, a national nonprofit. The summit’s goal was to provide an opportunity for leaders of the Arab American community to engage with presidential candidates and politicians on international
issues. Arab Americans make up about one third of the city’s population. The AAI said all presidential candidates were invited to the event, but O’Malley was the only one to appear at the event in person. Democratic candidate U.S Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.), as well as GOP candidates U.S Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), are scheduled to deliver video See O’MALLEY, Page 3A
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Prevention is key. With that mindset, the University’s Counseling and Psychological Services is looking to reach a broader population of students. This fall, CAPS is kicking off Leaders at their Best, an initiative that aims to wield positive psychology to reinforce students’ strengths and prevent mental health crises. CAPS launched Leaders at their Best on Friday with a three-hour workshop in the Michigan Union. The event featured six stations, each one introducing a different element of positive psychology — creativity, mindful movement, gratitude, mindfulness, resilience See CAPS, Page 3A
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Author and journalist Óscar Martínez delivered the keynote address at Friday’s Crisis in Context Conference on Central American immigration with the story of a mother and her 2-year-old child’s journey to the United States atop cargo trains. The conference focused on the difficult decision many Salvadorans make to immigrate.
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Coming off of wins over Valparaiso and Duquesne, the Michigan men’s soccer team was feeling energized entering Saturday night’s matchup at Indiana. However, that feeling was short-lived, as the Wolverines were left to rue their missed chances in Bloomington, falling to the Hooisers, 1-0.
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Students explore world of sports business at Ross conference Organized by students, annual event draws more than 400 attendees By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter
More than 400 students gathered Friday at the fourth annual Michigan Sports Business Conference to hear from several speakers prominent in the field. Jaymee Messler, president of the sports media platform The Players’ Tribune, delivered the afternoon keynote address, in which she discussed her company’s unique take on sports media and gave advice for young women looking for careers in the sports industry. Messler said the goal of her online publication is to give athletes the opportunity to tell
their story in a way that they would not be able to with traditional media. Founded by former MLB player Derek Jeter, the site provides athletes the chance to directly tell their own stories through a variety of mediums, whether articles, videos or other formats. “Each athlete is paired with an editor and if there’s something specific that the athlete wants to talk about, the editor will work with them to transcribe their conversation,” she said. Messler said this kind of relationship is built on trust. “Because they know how that’s going to be, their guard is down and they’re a lot more open,” she said. “Nothing goes up without the athlete’s approval.” Messler said people are beginning to see The Players’ Tribune as an alternative sports news site and not as a much as a direct competitor to
traditional media. “We do look at ourselves as a complement to the media, not in any way, shape or form a replacement,” she said. “Now that we’ve been around for a little while, it’s clear that we aren’t going to be a threat.” Messler also gave advice to women aspiring to join the male-dominated field of executive-level sports management. She emphasized the importance of having confidence and looking to established women as mentors. “I would just say, be proactive, be confident, be yourself,” she said. “Think about what you’re passionate about and what experiences you want to have. Look for people like me in the industry and use them as a resource. Look for mentors.” On the sports industry as a whole, Messler said she is pleased with the changes she has seen in regard to opportunities for women. “One thing that I’m very happy to see is that there are a lot more jobs and opportunities available for women today then when I first started getting into this industry,” she said. Business sophomore Jenn Smith said she appreciated hearing from a woman in power within the sports industry. “I thought it was really helpful just to see a woman in a powerful position speaking to us,” she said. “In the Business School you don’t get to see a lot of women that are in those positions that you can actually talk to and look up to.”
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50 survivors attend Hillel Conference on the Holocaust Attendees tell World War II stories at 9th annual meeting By JACKIE CHARNIGA Daily Staff Reporter
More than 50 Holocaust survivors from Metro Detroit convened at Hillel on Sunday to share their experiences with students during the ninth annual Conference on the Holocaust. The room held roughly 30 numbered tables, with one or two survivors seated at each. Attendees were encouraged to move from table to table, hearing accounts from those who were displaced from their homes during World War II. Tilly Shames, executive director of Hillel, said descendants of Holocaust survivors have a responsibility to learn about their journeys and inform
future generations. “We’re at a time where we will not have many years left with Holocaust survivors who can share their first-hand accounts of their lives in Eastern Europe before, during, and after the Holocaust,” she said. LSA sophomore Gabby Roth, co-president of COTH, said her involvement with the organization was influenced by her late grandfather, a Holocaust survivor from Czechoslovakia who made a priority of preserving his memories for future generations. “It was really important to me to do something on campus that honored his legacy,” Roth said. “It’s definitely a big part of my identity, and I wanted to get involved in something that educated people on campus about the Holocaust.” Roth said it has become increasingly difficult for COTH to contact the same volume of survivors, as many pass away each year.
“From last year to this year it was much harder to get survivors to come,” Roth said. “It’s really unfortunate, but it’s the last few years that survivors are around to tell their stories.” Roth said students are eager to hear survivors recount their histories, but often find it difficult when probing for details. “The survivors, that’s what they want to do, they want to answer these questions, they want to educate people,” Roth said. Business senior Ariel Berger, co-president of COTH, said the organization began with the goal of keeping Holocaust memories alive. “As students, we are presented with the incredible opportunity of being able to hear first-hand the stories of these survivors and their unimaginable hardships as well as their triumphs,” Berger said. Read more online at michigandaily.com
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Participants begin the Purple Run 5K outside of Pierpont Commons on Saturday. Proceeds from the event were donated to the SafeHouse Center, a local organization that helps survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
DPSS hosts first annual SafeHouse 5K fundraiser North Campus event promotes domestic violence awareness By ANNA HARITOS Daily Staff Reporter
Early Saturday morning, about 250 people lined up outside Pierpont Commons to participate in the first annual Purple Run 5K run/walk held by the the University’s Division of Public Safety and Security in conjunction with the Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office. The goal of the run was to raise awareness for domestic violence and to fundraise for the SafeHouse Center. Entertainment for the event was provided by Soultivity, a band of local attorneys from Ann Arbor. Brian Mackie, the prosecuting attorney of Washtenaw County since 1993, kicked off the event. “When you leave you should tell everyone what you did,”
CAPS From Page 1A and self-compassion. Positive psychology employs these techniques, among others, to cope with anxiety and increase quality of life. Christine Asidao, CAPS associate director of community engagement and outreach, said the goal is to reach students with a wide variety of mental health concerns. “Leaders at their Best is really about increasing resiliency, wellness and wellbeing across the U of M campus and specifically focused on our students,” she said. “We see students who are coming in in a lot of distress, and we want to help those students, but we also want to help those students who might also be doing pretty well but just sometimes forget because finals are coming up, things are getting really busy, time seems to be going really quickly.” Over the next several weeks, CAPS will host a series of workshops dedicated to the various elements of positive psychology. “If you can highlight what people’s strengths are, have
MARTHA COOK From Page 1A alums started the association in 1918. The dorm’s alumni association assists in awarding scholarships to current residents and organizes fundraising efforts and events like the 100th anniversary. Sheila Davis, the 100th anniversary general chair who organized the event, said the activities allowed alumni to reconnect and meet the current generation of women living in the building. Davis said the anniversary serves as an important milestone for the Martha Cook Building
he said. “You are champions of justice for running this today. More than 1,000 domestic violence cases a year, and that it is one of the most underreported crimes means that it’s the tip of the iceberg. We can’t tolerate that level of violence and misery that has to change.” After opening statements by Mackie and Barbara NiessMay, executive director of SafeHouse, the race was started by Arnett Chisholm, dean of admissions and student life at Washtenaw Community College and assistant track coach at the University. The loop was centralized on North Campus, and runners and walkers alike went about it at their own pace. The first finisher was Engineering sophomore Charlie Castelli, who had a self-timed 18:27 finish. The time it took for participants to complete their route, however, was not the main focus of the day. According to DPSS, every 60 seconds, 20 people are victims of intimate violence. In addition, every year, an average
of 54 officers are killed in the line of duty responding to domestic violence calls. During the event, Niess-May advocated for the resources that SafeHouse provides. “We support survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence by putting qualified trained counselors in front of people in crisis, and need help for what’s going on in their life. We also offer shelter, support groups, legal advocacy, (personal protection order) assistance, some limited financial assistance.” The event drew numerous University participants including first-year Medical student Jennifer Neva. “I am a big fan of SafeHouse and the work they do for the community,” said Neva. “In medicine we often think that health issues related to domestic violence don’t get the attention they deserve, so this is a really good way for people to learn about these issues and help support the cause.” The organizers plan to make the Purple Run an annual event, and hope for more people to get involved in the cause.
people really be attuned to what’s going on in the moment, say through mindfulness, it can really improve a person’s overall sense of wellbeing,” Asidao said. At a meeting last spring, Asidao initiated a conversation about positive psychology with CAPS’s community outreach group. From that discussion, Leaders at their Best was born. LSA senior Micalah Webster, a member of the CAPS student advisory board, said part of the initiative’s goal is to teach students skills they can implement in their daily lives. “Things that people could really learn, skills they could walk away with and that they could keep doing afterwards, something that could just get people excited and have a really nice break.” Asidao said student feedback from events held over the next few weeks will determine what is next for the initiative. According to her, feedback from various student groups has been positive thus far. Webster, an organizational studies major, said one of her classes is conducting a research project that will measure the efficacy of the Leaders at their Best campaign. The project
began by sending out a presurvey asking students what forms of positive psychology they already practice. This survey, which roughly 300 students responded to, will be used as a baseline. After the preliminary group of Leaders at their Best events conclude, the class plans to follow up with students from the pre-survey to see how their positive psychology practices have changed. “We’re really just looking at how this all is functioning just so in the future we can make sure that we’re constantly putting forth the best and most effective campaigns that are evidencebased,” she said. Asidao is hoping the initiative has an impact on students’ daily lives. She said prevention is an element of student mental health that often falls by the wayside on college campuses. By promoting preventative techniques, CAPS is hoping to address mental health issues before they become crises. “To really think about prevention as an actual way of intervening with our students is a big deal,” Asidao said. “What we’re trying to do is give tools to students before problems get too big.”
and its history of forming lasting bonds and friendships. “Cookies” past and present bonded over their experiences in the dorm, including University alum Beth Johnston, who said living there helped her form lasting friendships that have continued through her involvement in the alumni association. “Everyone from freshman to graduate students living there, you really have a diverse group of women to draw experience from,” she said. “I remember sitting at dinner and having a problem and talking to a grad student who put things in perspective and evoked wisdom. It felt like I had just talked to an
older sister who set me straight. You don’t get that at a normal dorm or at an apartment.” Nursing senior Carrie Ramseyer has lived in the Martha Cook Building since her freshman year and said she is grateful to be celebrating the dorm’s 100th anniversary during her last year on campus. “This event means so much to me that I am able to be here my senior year at the 100th anniversary. The fact that so many other Cookies have come to celebrate with us it’s phenomenal,” she said. “I am very excited that Martha Cook has lived strong for 100 years and will continue to do so in the future.”
addresses to the summit Saturday. O’Malley is currently polling below 1 percent in the Democratic contest. O’Malley noted several times in his speech that Islamophobia and xenophobia are rampant in the United States today, and said he understands it can be discouraging to be an Arab American or an American Muslim. “At the Republican debate, Donald Trump said it wasn’t fair that he didn’t know the names of terrorist leaders because, he said: they all have Arab names,” O’Malley said. “Ben Carson flat out said he would not be comfortable with a president who happened to be Muslim. One wonders, from a man who understands the value of education, what sort of message that sends to Muslim American little boys and girls studying American history.” He acknowledged the threat terrorist groups in the Middle East, such as the Islamic State, present to the United States, but cautioned that fear should not prevent Americans from being open or inclusive. “There are other ways to lead then at the end of a drone strike,” he said. “And in the face of this humanitarian crisis, we need to step up … The image of our nation is not a barbed wire fence, it is the Statue of Liberty.” O’Malley went on to say that America’s role of world leadership should be one of morality and compassion, referencing the estimated 9 million refugees who have fled Syria since a civil war began in the country in 2011.
SCHOLARSHIP From Page 1A their parents or guardians. The launch of Wolverine Pathways follows the enrollment of the most racially diverse freshman class since 2005. Underrepresented minority students represent 12.8 percent this fall’s incoming class, a 2.8-percent increase from last year’s incoming class. In 2005, underrepresented minorities made up 13.8 percent of the entering class. However, representation of minority students slowly declined following the statewide ballot proposal Proposal 2, which banned the use of race-based affirmative action
Monday, October 26, 2015 — 3A The question of who has responsibility for taking in the refugees has prompted international debate in recent months as the number of immigrants has increased, with many European countries split on how many refugees they are willing to accept. The U.S. has so far taken a background role, accepting 1,500 refugees, though the White House announced in September plans to accept 10,000 more. O’Malley has been vocal in his commitment to provide American support to refugees, and was the first candidate to respond affirmatively to a request from the International Rescue Committee to the U.S. government to accept at least 65,000 Syrian refugees by 2016. GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has also announced support for the request. “If Germany, a country with one-fourth our population, can accept 800,000 refugees this year, another half million in subsequent years, surely we can accept 65,000,” O’Malley said. Before O’Malley’s speech, three recent immigrants to the United States addressed the crowd about the hardships they faced leaving the Middle East for the United States to provide their children with safer lives and more opportunities. O’Malley spoke with them in a session also open to press to discuss improvements to the American immigration process. Troy resident Noor Al Dabbagh, who arrived in January 2014 from Iraq with her husband and son, told O’Malley about her and her husband’s long wait to receive a work authorization, which, she said, was particularly challenging because the money
they had saved was running out. Because her family had yet to receive asylum status, she said, they did not qualify for any government assistance for the unemployed or medical insurance to cover the costs of living. Dearborn Heights resident Radhia Fakhrildeen spoke of leaving a prosperous life in Iraq behind to come to the United States in January 2014 with her children. She told O’Malley it has been particularly difficult to establish a life for her family in the United States because she has not been able to find a job and because her husband’s application to join her was denied. In response to the immigrants’ stories, O’Malley said the immigration system must be modernized and families should not be broken up. He told media that there needs to be a new and better approach to balancing security concerns with the lengthy screening process that currently exists for individuals seeking entrance to the United States. “I don’t believe that we should shortchange the background and the security checks, but I believe we have to act like lives depend on our being able to improve these processes and do a much better job of it quickly without cutting corners,” he said. Speaking to reporters, he said the past of every American contains a story or an experience that could help them empathize with Syrian refugees. “Our people were all once immigrant people, and that is the beauty of the United States of America,” he said. “With the exception of Native Americans, we were all once strangers in a strange land.”
in public entities. Schlissel thanked Kedra Ihsop, associate vice president for enrollment management, and her team for working to enroll a more diverse student body within the confines of the law. He noted Ishop made significant changes to financial aid, recruitment and admission policies during his first year at the helm of the University. “I want to thank the many individuals who have worked very hard to achieve these gains in a relatively short time,” Schlissel said. The University also launched a new website detailing their diversity efforts: diversity. umich.edu. The website provides resources for students, as well as provides a space for online
discussions regarding issues of inclusion. For more discussion on diversity within campus, Schlissel is hosting a campuswide diversity summit open to all members of the community on Nov. 10. Last February, Schlissel launched a Strategic Plan for Diversity to improve equity and inclusion on campus. He appointed 60 facilitators within each college and campus unit to collaborate with faculty, staff and students to outline diversity efforts unique to their unit. At the breakfast, Schlissel said these individual unit plans are due by the end of the academic school year.
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Changing our perceptions
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n the past decade, the American public and the world at large have been exposed to a problem — the rising prison population in the United States. People know American prison facts so well they can probably recite them in their sleep: America holds roughly five percent of the world’s people, but 25 percent of the world’s prison population. Between 30 and 41 percent of juveniles have been arrested by the time they’re SAM 23. Over the last 30 years, COREY our prison population has increased more than 400 percent. Many prisoners are ineligible for student loans, public housing and food stamps, and are isolated from support systems after doing their time. The Black Lives Matter movement, which has increased news coverage of killed or incarcerated young black males, and the popularized “The New Jim Crow” book by Michelle Alexander, have led people to believe that the problem of mass incarceration lies in the imprisonment of too many nonviolent drug offenders. The solution, therefore, seems obvious: Release nonviolent offenders and provide less punitive, more rehabilitative options. That feels good in theory — a simple solution for a simple problem. Unfortunately, that formula seldom applies to life. While we should reverse extreme policies hindering this population, solving the problems regarding nonviolent drug offenders will not solve problems in America’s criminal justice system. Why? They don’t make up that many offenders. That is, 90 percent of general offenders are in state institutions, and 17 percent are there for drug-related crimes, meaning that if we were to release all nonviolent offenders, it would decrease the prison population by approximately 300,000. That’s significant, but will not combat the larger issue. Additionally, while it is true that close to 44 percent of federal prisoners are locked up for drug crimes, federal prisoners make up a small portion (about 216,300 as of 2014) of our prison population. Fortunately, within this context, drug laws have become increasingly lenient. From 2009 to 2013, drug laws were made more forgiving in 40 states. Due to the high expenses of housing inmates, increasing use of drug courts and decriminalization of marijuana, our perspective on drug use and treatment has shifted; the nation has moved away from punishment and toward rehabilitation. As a result, the wellknown (and smaller) issue of harsh drug policies has become somewhat resolved. And yet, even beyond the understanding of nonviolent drug offenders, there are more misconceptions about problems plaguing our criminal justice system. Specifically, private prisons and mandatory minimums. It’s commonly believed that private prisons are deplorable institutions, set to exploit prisoners and imprison as many people as possible. Yet, according to the ACLU, private prisons contain just 6 percent of state prisoners and 16 percent of federal prisoners. Although these institutions
are incentivized to imprison more people, they were created as a response to mass incarceration, not as instigators of the issue. They’re not the main concern. Additionally, mandatory minimums are seen as unjust structures that have wildly increased prison populations. However, prisoners have not served much more time due to these sentences. According to David Brooks, “Roughly half of all prisoners have prison terms in the range of two to three years, and only 10 percent serve more than seven years.” To be sure, mandatory minimums are not “good.” But, again, they are not the main driver of mass incarceration in this country. Clearly, though, there are problems in our criminal justice system; we don’t have the largest prison population for nothing. It seems that the answer lies in our prosecutors. From the 1990s to the mid-2000s, district attorneys became more aggressive with their felony charges, ultimately imprisoning people for longer periods — increasing imprisonment even while the number of arrests was decreasing. The reason these persons delivered harsh sentences is murky, possibly due to toughon-crime policies, the war on drugs and political motivators. Ultimately, though, these actions were likely propagated by the belief that criminals are bad people, not people having done badly in a difficult situation. Maybe if we change how we see them, not as callous, manipulative or insane individuals, but rather as humans who falter and make mistakes based on their lives’ contexts, we will avoid unfairly harsh penalties. Now, you may be asking, if we are to shape our perspectives, does that mean that everyone should be let go? Should there be no punishment for the crime? Of course not. However, we need to suggest proper restitution, thereby allowing perpetrators to right their wrongs: apologize, rehabilitate themselves and pay it forward to the community of which they’ve damaged. Provide them autonomy by giving them a purpose and the opportunity to augment something else — specifically if it can help their victims (or victims’ family). Two New York-based programs embody this sentiment: the Bard Prison Initiative and Work For Success program. The former allows prisoners to earn a college degree while the latter provides them opportunities to work after being released. Each helps reduce recidivism rates, expand the economy and instill hope in people who were formerly lost in the system. In order to implement these kinds of programs, we must believe that troubled people can restore justice. We should allow people the opportunity to alter the way they see themselves and their world, and contribute positively (directly or indirectly) to those they’ve harmed. Truly, that’s the beauty of human nature within our society — we can advance ourselves and avoid a zero-sum game, with a definite loser and winner. That is, our capacity for improvement can make everyone in our world better off. Whether it’s reform, rehabilitation or introspection more broadly, our malleability allows for limitless possibilities. — Sam Corey can be reached at samcorey@umich.edu.
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ast week, I sat through a women’s studies lecture on body image. Thanks to the comprehensive health education I received throughout middle and high school, I was already familiar with most of the material. I knew anorexia’s telltale signs, and I ANNE understand that KATZ binge eating is considered an eating disorder alongside bulimia. Body Mass Index is a misguided way to measure if someone is a healthy weight or not, and dieting almost never, ever produces sustainable, long-term weight loss. I’ll admit that it wasn’t until we arrived on the PowerPoint slide about objectification that I sat up in my chair and started to actively listen. I already knew what objectification was — when society views the female body as an object, as opposed to a whole being that’s lived in and experienced — and I knew that it’s definitely not a good thing. Objectification is dangerous for a whole host of reasons: It lowers women’s selfesteem and makes us believe that our value is tied to our physicality, sometimes leading us to eating disorders as a desperate attempt to maintain a “desirable” figure. When women are reduced to objects, violence against us is internalized as normal, and both men and women dehumanize us and see us as less competent. But this isn’t even the worst part. For me, the most disturbing trend stemming from objectification is when women turn this practice onto themselves. Some women tend to objectify their own bodies by internalizing a third-person’s perspective of themselves, something that, according to a survey published in Psychology of Women Quarterly, leads to decreased cognitive performance, increased feelings of shame and anxiety, and restrained eating. Just like advertisements that grue-
somely dismember a woman’s body to isolate sexualized parts, we sometimes look in mirrors and chop ourselves up, too, falling victim to the notion that our body is not a holistic experience, but merely a collection of things — legs, bust, torso — that can each be isolated and, in turn, scrutinized. This is the element of objectification that quite literally took my breath away, but not because it was surprising. Like most of the lecture material, I was already familiar with objectification theory. I had learned about it in my middle school health courses when I was 13, and although I understood its pervasive and damaging effects at the time, I remember that I never really wrapped my head around it. In eighth grade, I had yet to truly experience body surveillance and shaming. At the risk of sounding obnoxious, at 13, I didn’t have a single reason to be selfconscious of my body. I had grown up athletic, pretty, confident and so outspoken I verged on loudmouth. Because I wasn’t embarrassed of my body in the slightest bit, the notion of systematically and relentlessly surveying my figure for flaws was so far from reality. I easily dismissed self-objectificationn as inapplicable. So when the bell rang on the last day of school in June 2008, I didn’t think critically about self-objectification and wouldn’t until it eventually became my own reality. Fast forward to Wednesday of last week. I’m 21 now, and am hyperaware and self-conscious of my looks. I didn’t realize how often I self-objectified until my professor forced me to face it head-on with two simple questions. First, how often do you look in a mirror? As she counted upwards, 1, 2, 3 … to as many times as you walk by anything reflective, I kept my hand raised. Second, when you look in the mirror, what are you looking for? Are you seeing if your hair or makeup is in place, or are you focusing in on a part of your body? My face burned. I felt so embarrassed. I felt so superficial. It was like my professor was reading my mind. Every morning when I
get up, I stand in front of my mirror and look at my stomach. It’s my least favorite part of my body, and I vigilantly watch it to see if it looks bloated. I’ll lift up my shirt and look at it, then stand sideways and see how much it sticks out. I’ll search carefully to see if that late-night piece of pizza settled anywhere on my hips. Isolating my stomach is part of my morning routine, and it’s a textbook example of self-objectifying. I can’t wholly blame “society” for relentlessly pressuring me to look a certain way, and the source of my body image issues is more complicated than glossy magazines that equate beautiful to thin. Everyday, I internalize conflicting signals telling me to both love my body, but at the same time constantly work to improve it. That I should adore the skin I’m in, but to make sure that skin is waxed, clear and made desirable with a host of products. When I look at my stomach, part of me is admiring my curves, while the other part is desperately ensuring that they never, ever soften with time (or pizza). Although my mirror survey could be seen as partially congratulatory, treating my body as something that must maintained to look a specific way is degrading, and now, at 21, I finally get it. If eighth-grade Annie could see me in the morning in front of my mirror, she’d probably shove me, tell me to knock it off and to quit being so vain. My surveillance is not healthy, and it took last Wednesday’s lecture to realize that it’s more than just a dumb habit — it’s detrimental to my overall self-worth and confidence. I must work harder to view my body not as a collection of parts, but as a whole, spiritual being that can combat the onslaught of messages telling me my worth is measured in pounds and inches. Last Wednesday’s lecture made me realize that I was more confident at 13 with braces and zits than I am today, and frankly, that’s just backwards. It’s about time I change that. — Anne Katz can be reached at amkatz@umich.edu.
Don’t fall into the two-party trap
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he polarization of America’s political parties might be brainwashing us all. Hillary Clinton’s 11-hour testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing put the former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate at the mercy of TYLER interrogative SCOTT congressional representatives. And for nearly every minute, a bitter battle between the two sides of the aisle waged on. Like Bernie Sanders, U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D–Md.), a member of the committee, has had enough with the e-mails. He concluded, “It is time now for Republicans to end this taxpayerfunded fishing expedition.” Meanwhile, Republican members of the committee maintained the full-court press on Clinton along with stern looks and an icy indifference to humor. The conservative base continues to exist in its own subset of reality regarding Benghazi. Now many of the major news outlets agree, none of the investigations drummed up anything significant about Clinton. But this does not include Fox News (sigh), which continues to label Clinton a liar. The partisan tension is so tangible now that CNN reports the hearing “is unlikely to have changed any minds.” We’ve survived the Benghazi round unswayed, so until another event causes controversy, the two parties have been called back to their corners in what is ultimately the fight for the 2016 presidency. Listening to Cummings during the Benghazi hearing, he spoke with an impassioned voice and appeared to be emotionally stirred during parts of Clinton’s testimony. Meanwhile the Republican congressmen were cold and stern, like Bond villains. But I’m a liberal. To see it that way, am I conforming to the rules of partisanship? I struggle to determine whether I’m judging conservatives by what they say on the record or my preconceived
ideas about them. By stepping into the shoes of a conservative sympathizer, it’s easy to buy their argument. They’re steadfast, serious and seem to hold their beliefs loyally. To each party, the other one seems to be made of buffoons and cheats, leaving middle-of-the-road-Americans with a difficult choice to make. Political beliefs are influenced by other values. Conflicting principles lead to political debates where no solution is possible because both arguments make sense. Thanks to the two-party system, American voters are pressured into voting one way, and choosing a candidate based upon shared beliefs. But what if that same candidate also pushes for initiatives that would work against the voters’ self-interest? It’s hard to imagine a tougher political position than being something like a devout Christian living in poverty, a voter who watches the GOP simultaneously champion religious beliefs and rail against most social programs. Seemingly major political distinctions like these are glossed over by the two-party system of politics, and voters don’t know how to vote in their own self-interest rather than for the politician who best resonates with the party. Calling someone a Republican or Democrat means as much as anything they could say in their own defense. Titles resonate with the public more than a substantive debate about the issues (unless you’re Bernie Sanders). Americans seem to spend little time thinking about their own beliefs. I call this the “Shut-up-and-take-my-money” theory of voting. The quickest way to identify a conservative extremist is to find the person who hates Democrats, and vice versa. When loathing for the enemy is a prerequisite, any move to compromise can cost you your livelihood. Just ask John Boehner. The stalemate that couldn’t be ended by an 11-hour hearing in the House of Representatives will face one of two possible outcomes. First, the deep chasm that divides the two parties could remain unbridgeable until Election Day, and we can publicly look forward to 12 more months of dogmatic spitfire until the next president is decided.
Or, anyone intending to vote should take a deep introspective look at their own values and analyze their roots. This is the more hopeful, albeit much less likely, way to cut down the confusion and noise of the partisan divide on an individual standpoint. Whether it’s legalization of marijuana, an increased minimum wage or a white-hot military response in Syria, each unique belief has its own nuanced set of motives and values that we often fail to analyze within ourselves or our candidates. The outcome of the election is the prize. At the moment the next president is announced, both parties get to see how well their campaigning strategies paid off and how many of the undecided they could lift up onto the bandwagon. After all, a CEO doesn’t need to be persuaded to vote for tax cuts. Whichever party claims the presidency will shuffle the deck — the game of politics will start anew and the Benghazi hearing will become a distant memory. Society is so accepting of authority that it has allowed marketing firms and microphones to hijack our political system. The parties and their supporters tell us what to believe. It is easy to trust a voice on the radio, or someone giving a lecture, because they speak with some authority. Yet the system works best for individuals who choose candidates that conform to their own beliefs and fight the social obsession with joining one of the two existing clubs. We can go through debates and hearings until the C-Span satellite crashes to earth, but the voice each voter should be concerned with the most is their own. Holding a freeform debate with the mirror should be higher up on everyone’s agenda in order to to establish a set of personal beliefs, and make it harder for political ad-men to buy and sell voters to big-politics. The broad scope of twoparty politics is too unspecific. It compromises individual values for conventional wisdom. Joining under either party’s flag with no selfawareness groups members into a faceless mass to be directed onward, and is a willing loss of liberty. — Tyler Scott can be reached at tylscott@umich.edu.
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FILM REVIEW
Monday, October 26, 2015 — 5A
COMMUNITY CULTURE NOTEBOOK
‘Kasbah’ hindered Evaluating modernist Bill Murray blunders through the Middle East and a middling comedy By LAUREN WOOD Daily Arts Writer
Richie Lanz (Bill Murray, “Groundhog Day”) is a washedup music manager who is still searching for the success- Cful act that will solidify Rock the his place in history. But, Kasbah much like Rave and Lanz, “Rock Quality 16 the Kasbah” strives for Open Road Films greatness with such fervor that it misses the opportunity to at least tell a somewhat decent story. With a jumble of serious to superficial focuses and underdeveloped characters, the film stumbles on its way to success. Jumping from situational comedy to action film to heartfelt drama, “Rock the Kasbah” is never able to gain momentum on the genre rollercoaster it pulls its audience through. After his unstable rock star client, Ronnie (Zooey Deschanel, “500 Days of Summer”), abandons him in Kabul at the beginning of their haphazard USO tour, Lanz must find a way back to the U.S. without money, a passport or any clue of what he’s going to do next. After a drawn-out journey through the war-torn city — where he meets the mystical call girl Merci (Kate Hudson, “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”) and
gets wrapped up in an ammo exchange between American trader Bombay Brian (Bruce Willis, “Die Hard”) and a local village — Richie finds purpose when he meets a young Pashtun girl who dreams of being a famous singer. Fighting against the girl’s family, the producers from the singing show “Afghan Star,” and the country’s traditional culture, he manages to find her national recognition when she is given the opportunity to perform on national TV. While the plot seems fantastical enough to produce an engrossing film, its quick shuff le through thin characters leaves the audience unsure and unattached by the end. Lanz and Ronnie have barely had a few minutes of screentime before the central plot point of an Afghanistan USO tour is introduced, and it’s difficult to stay investment when things begin to go haywire in Kabul. Ronnie is gone within the first half hour, and the absence of her character adds a sense of distrust to the rest of the film’s introductions. Additionally, there’s a strange sense that all actors involved are playing a slightly altered version of themselves, with Deschanel as the unstable waif, Murray as the unsatisfied witness and Hudson as the enigmatic seductress, attempting to reprise her role as a mysterious groupie in “Almost Famous.” The story comes solely from placing these already known characterizations in a completely unknown and unpredictable setting. While this story-building strategy tends to succeed in some films, in “Kasbah,” it only serves to cheapen an already jumbled plot. The strange taste these characterizations leave is only intensified through the juxta-
position between the war-torn Middle East and colorfully mindless rock star characters through whom we see the setting. There’s something uncomfortable about Lanz deciding its worth risking a young Pashtun girl’s life because he believes she is talented, or watching him walk through the streets, disheveled in a paisley shirt and rose glasses, while children run after him asking for money or treats. While the characters are not completely unaffected by the situation — Ronnie skips town as soon as possible, Richie screams for minutes in disoriented terror after his car drives over an IED — these moments are approached with a comedic jab that suggests we should recognize these incidents as play. The film’s only redeeming factor comes from its images. Morally, it’s strange to look at Ronnie and Lanz walking bedraggled through the rubble and smoke-filled streets in metallic bell bottoms and velvet jackets, visually it’s a vibrant and extremely rock ‘n’ roll picture. They drive a vintage yellow taxi through endless desert hills, and Merci’s illuminated, multicolor trailer sits behind countless loops of barbed wire on an empty street. The mise en scene presents a tension that continues through the story — if only this story was strong enough to justify the dynamic images that compose the film. Following a group of pseudo rock stars through the Middle East sounds like a colorful thrill ride, but with f lat characters leading us along a confusing and unmotivated plot, “Rock the Kasbah” edges past exciting and into the realm of pointless exploration.
FILM NOTEBOOK
My ‘Rocky’ first time By MADELEINE GAUDIN Daily Arts Writer
Before Friday night, the closest I’d come to the spectacle that is “Rocky Horror Picture Show” was a Halloween special of “Glee” that centered on PG-13 covers of the movie’s hit songs, and that one scene in “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” where Emma Watson dances on stage in black lingerie to the horror and delight of a young, naïve Logan Lerman. Neither one of those experiences could prepare me for the real thing, and that became quite clear when I started doing some preparatory research. After the fourth fan forum page, I started to get nervous. Was I expected to dress up? Should I buy props? Will people know that I’m a “Rocky Horror” virgin? After much debate and Googling, I settled on an all black ensemble, mostly because corsets are expensive, and it was cold outside (and if I didn’t blend into the crowd I could at least blend into a dark corner). The time finally came, and I arrived at the State Theater to find it more crowded than I’ve ever seen it before. I guess this brings out a different crowd than Tuesday night screenings of indie dramedies. Some people are wearing jeans and I let out an audible sigh of relief, but there’s also a good percentage of the crowd in full drag. Chest hair and lingerie seems to be the uniform of choice. I don’t make it up the stairs before a woman in cat ears and fishnets has marked my forehead with a red lipstick V, for virgin (so much for blending in). Thankfully, there seem to be some other V’s walking around and none of the veterans are bothered by the fact that none of us seem to know what’s going on. I am handed a red balloon with my Sour Patch Kids and make my way to the theater. Before the movie begins, an usher dressed like a French maid asks for three virgin volunteers. I heard a rumor that they make you fake an orgasm, so I don’t raise my hand. Luckily for these three, they are only asked to blow up a condom balloon. Then all us V’s are asked to blow up our red balloons and metaphorically pop our cherries.
Finally, the lights dim, and the crowd goes wild. Actually the crowd has been going wild this whole time, but the volume increases exponentially when a pair of lips appears on the screen. Once the movie begins, it doesn’t take long for the group leaders to assert themselves: two men, one on either side of the theater who yell louder and more frequently than anyone else. If they’re the lead actors, the rest of the theater is the chorus. Everyone (including me, thanks to the Internet) knows to yell “slut” at Janet and “asshole” at Brad — the “Rocky Horror” basics. But, these two men have a whole script of jokes timed perfectly to the movie. The ringleader in my half of the theater is an older guy, possibly the oldest one in the theater. He’s dressed as Eddie, a secondary character who gets icepicked to death and then served for dinner, and he’s hilarious. Two minutes don’t go by without this guy throwing out a great one-liner. This is clearly his own script. He namedrops local celebrities and jokes about the Michigan State game (to mixed reactions; perhaps that wound is still too fresh). As much as everyone here loves to yell, they also love to throw things. Rice, water and toast are all airborne during the movie. And, it seems there is a prop for everything. Even the “light over at the Frankenstein place” appears in the audience in the form of approximately one hundred tiny flashlights waving back and forth. “Rocky Horror” is like a big inside joke that you’re supposed to catch on to. There’s a performance aspect to the whole thing, as if the veterans are putting on a show for the virgins. It doesn’t really matter that I don’t have a flashlight or a costume. Because, as I’m singing along (some of the lyrics are much dirtier than the “Glee” covers) and stumbling through the call-andresponses, it feels good to be, at least temporarily, part of this weird and wild community. It’s nice that these veteran fans can love something without taking it too seriously. Don’t watch “Rocky Horror” on your laptop or even on your friend’s
TV— throw on a corset and some red lipstick, and go lose your virginity.
aesthetics in 2015 By GRACE HAMILTON Daily Arts Writer
“Art for art’s sake” is the translation of a popular French 19th century slogan (l’art pour l’art), registering the modernist sensibilities that were sweeping through Europe at the time. That kind of art, removed from philosophical, moral or political investments, seems different altogether from the artistic aspirations of today’s mega-artists like Kanye West who “will die for truth and that’s what’s closest to art.” Which kind of art is “better,” anyway? My dad (and many of his friends) might insist that Handel is the greatest musician of all time. In fact, my first concert was Handel’s opera “Hercules.” Thankfully, my mom took me to Jingle Ball 2004 later the same year for some sweet notes from the great classic Ashlee Simpson. My best friend’s dad, on the other hand, would lay down his life in defense of The Beatles as history’s musical all-stars. Others faint to the stylings of Justin Bieber. How do we reconcile the opposing pedestals and success of “Fifty Shades of Grey” with 2013 Best-Seller “Americanah” and the classics of Steinbeck and Hemingway? The Beliebers and the Met season ticket owners? Can these cultural preferences be attributed to taste alone? One looks down at the other, and the other scoffs and turns to its own audience. Everyone is familiar with the cultural division I’m describing, between “high” culture and popular culture. However, most of us, myself included, aren’t too sure how the difference comes about in the first place and what makes it so. Thankfully, for those exploring the question, others have attempted to do some of the answering. Last week, in my reading for a French Modern-
ist art history course, I worked through a highly influential essay by Clement Greenberg, “Avante-Garde and Kitsch,” published in 1939 in the Partisan Review. Greenberg’s essay means to draw a distinction between true, genuine culture and popular art. As Greenberg observes culture becoming increasingly stagnant in the mid 20th century — avoiding controversy, repeating classical themes and following rules, the “avantegarde” emerge. They belong to the ruling class, although they consider themselves separate from it. This new group’s project is to create pure art: “art for art’s sake,” and save “genuine” culture in the midst of ideological confusion. But with the avante-gard comes the rear-gard — this kind of culture is summed up by the German word kitsch, and refers to popular art, commercials, magazines, literature, music videos, cartoons and toys. In Greenberg’s understanding, kitsch borrows form the genuine culture, converts and dilutes it into a digestible form for the masses. Kitsch was a response to the needs of working people for entertainment and culture, without complication. If some part of culture is “genuine,” then kitsch represents the debased and trivial — yet simultaneously deceptive — part of culture. Kitsch mimics genuine culture and high art. It produces the same effects images, materials and references that are easily understood, which gives the spectator a shortcut. It is complex, multilayered and appears to seek some kind of truth. And sometimes, Greenberg says, kitsch can produce something important. In the time of Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin, the spread of kitsch was a danger, art that was readily prepared to
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become part of the machine and put culture in handcuffs. Undoubtedly, it did take hold under these leaders, with doctrines like “socialist realism” that controlled art in Russia. Kitsch relies on the capitalism machine and wealthy for its production and success, as the machine comes to rely on it. It is the “umbilical cord of gold.” In this way, Greenberg was right about kitsch becoming an international language. He was wrong about some things, though. The avante-garde never gave up or succumbed to pressure of popular culture. In fact, through the rest of the 20th century, and certainly in my lifetime, it has increased in recognition: Think of the rise of Jazz music. It has innovated: Think of Andy Warhol, who mimicked pop culture in order to elevate it to the status of high art. It has merged mediums: Think of Pina Bausch dance productions, their set designs and use of sound. Of course, art today, in any form, is still part of the apparatus of money and power. There is more to be done in extending access to art through all classes and geographies. But the lines between avante-garde and kitsch are no longer as stark as they once were. The woman at the coffee shop reading Steinbeck last week may be in a different coffee shop today reading “Fifty Shades” (though possibly with the cover sleeve removed). There are fewer boundaries and fewer rules in today’s cultural landscape. Controversy need not be avoided by instead focusing on the abstract, in absolutes. Artists can make “art for art’s sake,” should they choose, or they can sing about their hotline nostalgias. Both are needed, and both have been fulfilled. Greenberg’s cultural stagnation has been taken off pause.
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5SOS makes punk ‘Buffy’ ahead of her relevant again time, even in 2015 By SOPHIA KAUFMAN Daily Arts Writer
Pop-punk band’s sophomore album is even better than its first By DANIELLE IMMERMAN Daily Arts Writer
Ashton Irwin, drummer for 5 Seconds of Summer, proclaimed Sounds Good Feels Good would be “epic gnarly super dope cool Aawesome titties sweet stuff,” Sounds and he was right. Sounds Good Feels Good Feels Good Good, 5 Seconds of Summer’s 5 Seconds of Summer sophomore album, solidi- Capitol Records fies their place in the poppunk world. Endorsed by Alternative Press and bands like All Time Low and Fall Out Boy, 5 Seconds of Summer are no doubt on their way to dominating the pop-punk scene. Though they are seemingly more pop than punk, their collaboration with pop-punk virtuosos All Time Low, Benji and Joel Madden and John Feldmann has no doubt taken them from “the guys who opened for One Direction” to the guys you should take seriously. Compared to their freshman selftitled album, 5 Seconds of Summer sounds more confident and sophisticated this time around. Each song features its own stylistic hallmark trait, whether that be honest lyrics, an unusual vocal shift or a mind-blowing instrumental moment. This, combined with the more evident pop-punk
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undertones, makes for a pleasing sophomore album. I wasn’t sue how I felt about Sounds Good Feels Good when I first listened to it, but after listening to the album for the fourth time through, I can safely say that it’s low-key amazing. It’s amazing because this 17-track deluxe edition of the album will find mainstream-radio success in a time when pop-punk is a genre of music that most people don’t care about. The only other pop-punk band known to the masses is Fall Out Boy and maybe Panic! At the Disco. 5 Seconds of Summer’s unique position as the new pioneers of pop-punk makes Sounds Good Feels Good not only a relevant album but one that determines the future of an entire music scene. The best song on the album by far is “Castaway” — this is both the most punk and the most instrumentally and vocally unique track. The rhythm is undoubtedly catchy, and the genre’s standard angst and attitude are more present than ever.
The multiple layers of the song add a complexity that you can’t help but listen to on a nonstop loop, making it an all-around high-energy standout song. In addition to “Castaway,” there are several other unique songs that give Sounds Good Feels Good the solid support it needs to be a game-changing album for the Australian quartet. You can see the band’s punk influences throughout the album, but “Outer Space/Carry On” particularly echoes Green Day’s “Holiday/ Boulevard of Broken Dreams” in that the two songs flow together by way of a guitar reverb. While “Outer Space/Carry On” is an example of the band’s growing pop-punk maturity, “Invisible” and “Broken Home” are prime examples of how the band writes about their own experiences with insecurity, depression and anxiety. This is important because mental illness is a problem that plagues all societies around the world, so their music can help others and serve as an anthem for those battling similar issues. Considering the fact that most pop-punk songs start sounding the same after a while, I’m impressed that Sounds Good Feels Good manages to incorporate a plethora of unique tracks. It helps that various pop-punk artists helped 5 Seconds of Summer write some of their songs; each artist has their own distinct style that influenced their writing. For example, Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low contributed to the upbeat pop-heavy “Catch Fire” while the influence of the Madden brothers, two-fifths of pop-punk band Good Charlotte, can clearly be heard on the album’s first four tracks. Interestingly, the two best songs on the album were written by just members of the band. “Castaway” was written by Hood and Hemmings, while “Jet Black Heart” was solely written by Hood and Clifford. If the two best songs are written by the band, this signals that their future work can only get better. Sounds Good Feels Good is 5 Seconds of Summer’s way of breaking into the pop-punk scene. It’s only a matter of time before they dominate the genre and leave their mark on it and the music industry as a whole.
I’ve made some big mistakes in my life. Calculating how many hours I spent bingewatching every episode of “Degrassi” in 10th grade was one of them. Spending the first two months of this summer binge-watching all of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” for the first time was not. (But I still refuse to do that math.) I’d heard references to “Buffy” before, but I’d never seen an episode until the cool girl who lived in the dorm room across from me last year physically dragged me from my room into hers and made me watch the pilot. (She is now my roommate. Coincidence? I think not.) I was hooked after just a half hour. And after watching the first season, I could understand why Buffy has the cult following she does. The show is funny and well-written, and being from the ’90s, just campy enough to be endearing. Seeing faces I had always associated with other movies or shows — Sarah Michelle Gellar from “Cruel Intentions” and David Boreanaz from “Bones” — was strange at first, but now it’s impossible to think of them as anything other than part of Buffy’s posse. But one thing especially stood out while watching this show: In terms of feminist writing on TV, “Buffy” was ahead of its time. Series creator Joss Whedon said that he wanted to reverse the blondegirl-always-getting-eatenby-monsters trope and write a blonde girl who was able to kill the monsters herself. At first, I was skeptical. In trying too hard to reverse a trope, it’s easy to fall victim to other kinds of stereotypes. That’s how the Manic Pixie Dream Girl waltzed onto our doorsteps — people started writing women characters who were “different” or “not like other girls,” and we ended up with disasters like Natalie Portman in “Garden State.” But over and over, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” proved to be an answer to my feminist prayers. Whedon got a lot of things right, not the least being how to write a real love story between a human and a vampire — not one that portrays a controlling relationship and a stupid heroine. Certain Young Adult novelists should have watched “Buffy” more carefully. One of the main things that I love — other than the fact that Buffy is the most powerful in her town as the one Slayer of vampires — is how the men, particularly Giles and Xander, are portrayed on the show. Giles may be the adult, but he
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never questions the fact that at the end of the day, it’s Buffy calling the shots. He never patronizes her because she’s a teenage girl. And while there are some side jokes here and there about how Xander needs to maintain his “manliness” because he’s always in a girldominated environment, his character never falls prey to the idea that men can’t be emotional. “Buffy” also captures elements of teenage sexuality with well-written scenes and nuanced performances. For example, Willow and Tara’s relationship is organically introduced and maintained. The best thing about this relationship is how no one makes a huge deal out of it involving two women. It doesn’t feel like the writers are saying, “How progressive are we? Lesbians! Look! There are two of them!” They don’t oversexualize Willow and Tara, nor do they remove their sexuality.
After watching the first season, I can understand why Buffy has the cult following she does. On a more humorous note, there are two other characters who love sex and aren’t ashamed to show it: Anya and Faith. No one shames them for loving sex and initiating it frequently. Of course, Buffy’s relationships are always given the most screentime, but some of the most honest depictions of relationships belong to these other characters. In addition to giving all of the women a large measure of sexual autonomy, “Buffy” splinters a concept that is so often disguised as female empowerment, that sometimes we don’t recognize it as
problematic at its core — the idea of the Alpha Female and her bitches. Even though Buffy is “the Slayer,” Faith is “the Slayer,” too. They don’t always get along in the beginning, but it’s never the case that there is a finite amount of power that must be split between them — there’s only double the power. It’s nice to finally see two totally badass, funny, attractive, intelligent women go head to head — but without needing to have one finally come out on top. By the end of the series, there is plenty of room for both of them. Lastly — and I know some people disagree — I think the finale holds one of the keys to “Buffy” ’s feminism. Though I think the finale had its problems, I’ll always love it for its final message about empowering women. Buffy and Willow work some magic so that every girl out there who has the potential to be a Slayer becomes one. There’s a beautiful montage of girls all over the world suddenly finding themselves with super-strength and a new confidence in their eyes; one girl hits a home run out of the park, while another one catches the man’s fist that was about to hit her and throws it aside, slowly standing up. I know “Buffy” isn’t perfect, even when looked at within the context of the decade it was made. There is a noticeable lack of people of color in the show, and most seem to be from an ambiguous middle class. But it is one of the most overtly feminist shows I’ve ever seen — especially for shows directed at teens, which is important. And in a world where people are still questioning whether the masses will still be interested in something if it unapologetically features strong women, “Buffy” ’s popularity and importance can’t be overlooked. If you haven’t watched it yet, you should. It’s on Netf lix. You have no excuse.
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EMPIRE SKATE Improving defense seeks consistency By KEVIN SANTO Daily Sports Writer
TROY, N.Y. — The No. 11 Michigan hockey team has played just four games this season, but its 2015 campaign already looks much different than the last. Last year, the Wolverines opened the season with a loss to Ferris State before falling to 2-5 over the following six games. This year, Michigan stands at 3-0-1 after leaving upstate New York with a tie and win over No. 18 Union and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, respectively. But despite the contrasting starts, one thing has followed the Wolverines from 2014: defensive inconsistency. This weekend, the defensive unit showed it’s more than capable of excellence, but only on occasion. The talent is there, it’s just a matter of bringing it out on a game-to-game basis. To start, sophomore defenseman Zach Werenski has been as good as advertised, and junior Michael Downing has complemented him well on the first line. Junior Nolan De Jong has improved drastically after an impressive offseason that earned
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acknowledgment from the coaching staff. Freshmen Nick Boka and Joseph Cecconi have quickly adapted to the collegiate level, earning significant minutes through the first four games. To round out the regulars, sophomore Cutler Martin has been a physical presence on the ice. But in its two-game road trip this weekend, Michigan’s defense looked like two completely different teams. The Wolverines allowed Union to pile on five goals on 33 shots Friday, and would have suffered an upset if it weren’t for late heroics from junior center JT Compher and senior forward Justin Selman. Michigan struggled to clear the puck out of the defensive zone and committed careless turnovers that turned into dangerous opportunities for the Dutchmen. “Part of it is we had some bad shifts where we didn’t get the puck out of our zone and we tried to beat guys one on one,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “We got a lot of little hockey plays that we’ll talk about that we can do better. There were shifts where it was like (Union) had a power play, See DEFENSE, Page 2B
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hree seasons ago, it was hard to imagine the Michigan hockey team would end up here. Three seasons ago, the Wolverines missed the NCAA Tournament with a loss in their last JAKE game of the LOURIM season, and then it happened again in 2014, and again in 2015. All of a sudden, none of the players on their current roster have played in the NCAA Tournament. “I’ve never had a taste in the tournament, and I’ve been here almost four years now,” said senior forward Boo Nieves on Wednesday. “It’s definitely harder, because every year it feels like I’ve been getting farther and farther away. We need to make sure we do things right the first time so we don’t find ourselves digging ourselves a hole.” That three-year skid is a dubious one, but if you’ve followed the program at all, you know about the one that came before it. From 1991 to 2012, Michigan reached 22 consecutive NCAA Tournaments. There’s a fine line between trying to forget that streak and trying to emulate it. It can be the Wolverines’ worst enemy or their best friend. On the one hand, it seems more than anything like the elephant in the room. On the other, it’s part of the tradition of the program, and it’s better to have that tradition and try to build on it than not to have it at all. “We don’t want to over-dwell on last year or the year before,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “This is a new team, a new season and a new schedule. But
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Michigan coach Red Berenson has encouraged his team to put greater emphasis on early-season non-conference games to prepare for the NCAA Tournament hunt.
we know as coaches we’ve got to get off to a better start, and we’ve got to be a better team for the whole season.” But no one on this year’s team has played on an NCAA Tournament team, and if that remains the case next spring, the senior class will be the first one in a quarter-century to graduate without an appearance. Six players on the 2015 roster were 14 the last time Michigan played in the NCAA Tournament, and that statistic will only get bleaker if the streak continues. Fortunately for the Wolverines, the brighter days aren’t too far in the past yet, and the coach at the helm knows how to get them back there. The biggest key Michigan has talked about
so far is taking care of business in early-season non-conference games, which it hasn’t done in recent years. “It’s been tough trying to wait until the last minute the last three years,” Nieves said. “This year, it’s my last year, so I want to make sure that we get off to the right start so we’re not stuck on our heels in the Big Ten Tournament.” Nieves remembers those situations well, as they have come in the past two years (before that, it was the CCHA Tournament that decided Michigan’s fate). The Wolverines know what forced them to go down to the wire: They didn’t win the nonconference games they should have.
In the past three seasons, when Michigan missed the tournament, the Wolverines were 19-13-2 outside their conference, excluding postseason contests. In the previous four years, when they made the tournament in each one, they went 22-10-3 in the non-conference. One game per season might not seem like a big difference, but when you consider the margin by which the Wolverines have missed the NCAA Tournament, it’s all the difference. Sure, Big Ten Tournament losses to Penn State (2014) and Minnesota (2015) were the immediate causes, but Michigan’s struggles dated back far earlier. The Wolverines can’t win the Big Ten Tournament in October
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DEFENSE From Page 1B and we couldn’t get out of the zone. “So that’s where we were tired and we just couldn’t get off to change. It was a little bit of a test for our team, and we got away with it.” Yet the next day, the Wolverine blueliners held RPI to just two goals on 21 shots — making their defensive performance on Friday appear to be an anomaly. They tallied 18 blocked shots, cleared the puck more effectively, ramped up the physicality and limited the same turnovers that plagued them against Union. Friday night’s foe was the stronger one. RPI is unranked, while Union is the 18th-ranked team in the nation. After the Engineers beat then-No. 1 Boston College on Oct. 11, though, there was no question that RPI had talent — regardless of ranking — that needed to be contained. That makes Michigan’s defensive inconsistency even more puzzling. “Our team defense was better, (we had) more backcheck, more shutdown and more playing the way we can play,” said freshman forward Brendan Warren. “We kept pucks out of the net, and that let us play more offense.” Michigan didn’t pay for its costly mistakes this time around, but without consistent defensive play, the Wolverines might not be so fortunate next time.
or November, but they can put themselves in a good position by winning games against nonleague opponents. “I think I can speak for pretty much anyone that’s played for Michigan hockey that you’re not going to take a game for granted,” said junior forward JT Compher. “That’s the way we’re playing this year — you’re not taking any game for granted.” That emphasis shows up in several areas. Michigan is working harder to score first this season, but also to win the third period and hold down leads. The Wolverines also know they have to protect their home ice, where they dropped games to New Hampshire, Penn State and Michigan State last season.
Nieves said that new mindset has made a difference in the team’s energy so far this season. No longer can the Wolverines lose focus early in the season and make up ground in March. Through two weeks of the season, they have avoided danger. They escaped Mercyhurst at home twice, 3-2 and 6-4, and then came away from upstate New York with a 5-5 tie against Union and a 5-2 win over Rensselaer. None of those results will put the entire country on notice, but Michigan has taken its new attitude and used it to avoid a potentially résumé-killing loss in the first two weeks. Maybe that’s good enough for now. Berenson doesn’t have to go back far in the history books to find a time when they failed to do even that. Last year, a talented team dropped the opener at Ferris State, lost at Boston University three weeks later and then suffered two blowout losses at Michigan Tech. At that point, the Wolverines were 2-5, and as Berenson said Wednesday, “All of a sudden, we were on our heels. We really never recovered from those.” Two years ago, Michigan went 8-4-2 in non-conference play but fell to Penn State in the Big Ten Tournament, dropping out of the NCAA Tournament field. “That’s how one game can change your whole RPI and your season,” Berenson said. “We’ve got to worry about every game.” “Every game counts” is an old adage that almost every coach uses, but the Michigan hockey team knows it better than anyone else. Three years of heartbreak will teach you that.
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Sophomore Zach Werenski leads a retooled defense for the Michigan hockey team.
HOCKEY From Page 1A and often, forcing turnovers and turning clearing the puck into a virtually impossible task for RPI. Michigan connected well through center and outshot the Engineers (1-4-1), 6-4. Though the shot difference between the two clubs wasn’t significant, RPI’s carelessness with the puck and the Wolverines’ defensive pressure allowed them to enjoy the majority of possession. “We were coming off a hardfought game last night, and I think that helped us get a good start,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “We had the juices running, we got into playing a fast game last night, and I think that really helped us.” The Engineers’ most dangerous opportunity came with 8:31 left in the period, when RPI broke out on a three-on-two counter. Forward Travis Fulton received the puck in the circle and fired a shot on net, but junior goaltender Zach Nagelvoort was up to the task. Michigan answered its captain’s call for energy to begin the second period as well. Just 28 seconds into the frame, junior forward Tyler Motte
carried the puck through the right circle before backhanding it from his knees inside the far post. With his spectacular effort, Motte put the Wolverines up 2-0 against the Engineers. Each side notched another goal in the period — RPI’s after a combination between Fulton and Zach Schroeder, and Michigan’s coming off the stick of sophomore forward Tony Calderone. The Engineers looked more comfortable in their offensive zone in the second, accumulating three more shots than they had in the previous period. Yet the same could be said for the Wolverines, as they tallied 11 shots compared to their total of six in the first. The third period remained quiet on both ends until the 13th minute, when RPI forward Jake Wood found twine during a power play to reduce Michigan’s lead to one. The goal gave the Engineers new life, as they looked more threatening on the offensive end. But they never mustered the tying goal before the Wolverines could respond with a lamp lighter
of their own five minutes later. Michigan iced the game with 1:34 left to play, finishing an empty-net breakaway for its fifth goal of the game. Nagelvoort was impressive throughout the contest, tallying 10 saves. Though the second goal he conceded could have been saved, the first goal he surrendered was largely due to an impressive effort by Fulton. The RPI forward drew Nagelvoort out of position while in possession, before laying the puck in front for an easy tap in. With the victory over RPI, the Wolverines finished their upstate New York road trip with a win and a tie — and in the process have accomplished one small thing to begin the season that Boston College couldn’t. “These were two tough teams in two tough buildings (this weekend),” Berenson said. “This is good for our team to get a positive feel about our own team on the road. We had a lot of young players play well, and so I’d say it was a good experience for us.”
“We were coming off a hard-fought game last night.”
As the No. 2 Michigan women’s cross country team looks ahead to the Big Ten Championships next week, Friday’s EMU Classic gave some of the team’s younger and more inexperienced members an opportunity to showcase their development and continued improvement. The Wolverines did not disappoint in the 5,000meter contest, as dry course conditions propelled six of the seven Wolverines to finish the race in under 18 minutes. All seven finished within the top 25 runners. More so, several of the Wolverines met personal goals in Friday’s race, according to Michigan coach Mark McGuire. Leading the way for the Wolverines was redshirt sophomore Corrine Florie, who placed sixth overall. Florie missed the cut for this year’s postseason roster and came into Friday’s race with something to prove. She clocked in with a personal record of 17:41.6, about 26 seconds faster than her 5,000-meter time at the beginning of the year. “You can’t let the pressure get to you,” Florie said. “You still have to come out and perform, and it’s the time and the results that matter.” Trailing just a few seconds
behind Florie was redshirt junior Gina McNamara, whose 17:48.7 time was a new personal best on the course, placing her eighth to narrowly beat out fifth-year senior Laura Addison (17:48.9). Other notable performances came in the form of new top 5,000-meter times for redshirt freshmen Ellie Leonard and Holly Petrusson, who finished 11th and 14th, respectively. Sandwiched between them was senior Olivia Bracket, who came in 12th. Rounding out the Wolverines in uniform was redshirt freshman Sydney Badger with a time of 18:26.6 and a 22nd-place finish. Following the race, McGuire reiterated the significance of Friday’s meet for the development of his program. “We’re going to have some people step into some new roles,” McGuire said. “This type of meet serves as a benchmark for people that will move on and could very possibly be going to the Big Ten meet next year.” According to McGuire, for many of the race’s participants, the EMU Classic will be the last race they run this fall before track and field begins in the winter. As a result, the runners treated the race like it was the postseason. Regarding individuals in Friday’s race, McGuire had a resoundingly positive outlook for the team’s future and the young talent it currently possesses. “We will have athletes that ran today run in the Big Ten meet next year, I can tell you that for a fact,” McGuire said.
“We’re going to have some people step into some new roles.”
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Wolverines turn in mixed performance Michigan rests top runners to prepare for Big Ten Championships By LOGAN T. HANSEN For the Daily
DEXTER, Mich. — With the Big Ten Championships looming on Sunday, the top nine runners for the No. 5 Michigan men’s cross country team took the Big Finishers time to get some extra Michigan practice and competitors at rest in on EMU Fall Classic Friday. Other 3. Kyle Kroon members of 9. Colin Martin the team, 10. Chase however, Barnett received 13. Cody a taste of Snavely 14. Will Burke competition at the Eastern 15. Alex Moran Michigan Fall 22. Austin Classic, a 5K Benoit race held at Hudson Mills Metro Park in Dexter. The Wolverines brought eight uniformed athletes to the event, with several others running unattached. Out of 81 competitors, fifth-year senior transfer Jonathan Phillips (15:03.1) and redshirt freshman Kyle Kroon (15:10.1) finished second and third, respectively, though Phillips ran unattached. The two leading men for Michigan finished behind only Justine Kiprotich (14:58.7), who was running unattached for Michigan State. “Going into it, it was good to have a few races under me,”
Kroon said. “It was the first time I was the top guy on our team going in, so it was a different mental game.” Friday’s meet was the second time Kroon had run at Hudson Mills. His performance proved to be a 40-second improvement from his first outing there at the beginning of last season. Phillips, who is not eligible for the Big Ten Championships, has been training with the Wolverines all season to prepare for indoor and outdoor track. “I was a little bummed about getting second, getting outkicked,” Phillips said. “But I put forth a real solid effort — (I) went out hard and kind of got in there right from the gun and just kept at it, kept grinding the whole race. I was pretty happy with that.” Five other uniformed Wolverines finished in the top 15. Joining Kroon in the top 10 were redshirt freshmen Colin Martin (15:22.4) and Chase Barnett (15:23.7), who placed ninth and 10th, respectively. They were followed by redshirt sophomore Cody Snavely (15:27.8), redshirt sophomore Will Burke (15:27.9) and senior Alex Moran (15:29.8), who finished 13th through 15th, respectively. Freshman Keenan Rebera (15:17.5) joined Phillips as the other unattached runner from Michigan to place in the top 10, coming in at seventh. “(This) was a chance for
“If we come in and put it all together, we’ll have a shot to win.”
VOLLEYBALL
Buckeyes outlast Michigan in four No. 6 Ohio State wins tight match, hands Wolverines second straight loss By COLE ZINGAS For the Daily
The No. 24 Michigan volleyball team was looking to defeat a ranked opponent for the first time since OHIO STATE 3 1 upsetting MICHIGAN then-No. 10 Ohio State last year, but on Saturday night, the Wolverines couldn’t achieve their goal. Michigan (5-5 Big Ten, 15-6 overall) fell to rival No. 6 Ohio State at Cliff Keen Arena, 3-1. Recurring late-set mishaps by the Wolverines led them to lose the final two sets. The Wolverines were in each set until the end, and all four sets were decided by two points. “We just need to get two points better,” said junior outside hitter Abby Cole. The game plan for the Wolverines was to have a balanced attack, and coach Mark Rosen rotated players’ positions, subbing in and out frequently, so everyone could get in on the action. Seven different Wolverines recorded kills in the first set, but Rosen still wasn’t happy with the production from his team out of the gate. “I don’t think Ohio State played great in the first set,” Rosen said. “I think we let them do what they wanted to do because we didn’t play defense.” Michigan lost the first set, 25-23, but came back in the second behind big late-set kills from Cole and sophomore outside hitter Adeja Lambert to tie the match at one game apiece. The Wolverines led the Buckeyes for the majority of the third and fourth sets, but
guys that didn’t make our Big Ten roster to get a competitive opportunity,” said Michigan coach Kevin Sullivan. “I need them to stay sharp in case we need to put them in for regionals or nationals, so part of it was making sure that we’re staying in a competitive mindset and staying focused on the full extent of the season.” Though the Wolverines’ secondary lineup turned in a wholly impressive performance at Hudson Mills, Sullivan made it clear that Michigan is not only looking to win, but to dominate its opponents. “I thought it was a little bit of a mixed bag,” Sullivan said. “We had a few guys running in jerseys that need to take another step up. We didn’t quite see what we were looking for today from some of those guys, but we’re going to keep plugging away and keep working at it.” The EMU Fall Classic was the final race of the regular season for the Wolverines. Next up is the Big Ten Championships, which will take place in Chicago at the Sydney R. Marovitz Golf Course on Sunday. “I think our guys are feeling good,” Sullivan said. “We’re in good shape going into Big Tens. We’re going to have to come with all nine guys running their best, but if we come in and put it all together, we’ll have a shot to win. “We expect to be competing for a championship.”
couldn’t put their rival away. Ohio State (8-2, 19-3) came right back whenever it was down a few points, and was able to save two crucial set points in both the third and fourth sets. The Buckeyes went on to win both of those sets, 28-26. Cole recorded six kills in the fourth set, along with three blocks, but it wasn’t enough to beat a consistent attack from the Ohio State front line. Outside hitters Elizabeth Campbell and Luisa Schirmer combined for 33 kills in the match, including the Buckeyes’ final four kills to finish the deal. Losing to the Buckeyes at home on Saturday marks Michigan’s third loss to a top-10 team in the last two weeks, after falling to No. 5 Penn State at home on Wednesday and at No. 4 Nebraska on Oct. 10. But the team isn’t making excuses. “We’re not happy with having tight matches with those teams,” Rosen said. “We want to beat those teams, and I think we’re good enough to beat those teams.” Michigan’s Big Ten schedule doesn’t get any easier, and the Wolverines emphasized the need for a better, consistent team effort going forward. “One of our goals was to be balanced offensively,” Rosen said. “But I don’t think we got balanced production.” Michigan totaled a mediocre .173 team attack percentage for the match, compared with Ohio State’s mark of .269. Two close losses in a row have the Wolverines looking forward to a week of practice before heading to Northwestern and Illinois this coming weekend. There they will look to do better late in sets, and improve upon their eighth-place Big Ten standing. “We put ourselves in positions to win every set,” Rosen said. “Now we have to take that next step.”
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Senior defender Christina Murillo led a Michigan back line that shut out Purdue in Saturday’s 1-0 win.
Defense leads Michigan By JORDAN HERBSTMAN For the Daily
It took 91 minutes, but the Michigan women’s soccer team was able to beat Purdue 1-0 in overtime 0 PURDUE Saturday, 1 MICHIGAN completing its second consecutive shutout. In a physical battle, the Wolverines came away with a win on Senior Night thanks to an excellent defensive effort. Prior to the game, the Wolverines stressed one thing: leaving the seniors with a lasting memory. After 90 minutes, the match was still tied at 0-0, and Michigan had outshot the Boilermakers, 11-7, but its objective was still incomplete. Like the Wolverines’ previous game against Minnesota, this match required overtime. Just two minutes into the extra frame, junior forward Nicky Waldeck, off a pass from freshman forward Reilly Martin, broke free and scored the only goal
of the game, giving Michigan and the seniors the final home victory of their season. “I felt like tonight the girls were really aggressive taking their chances,” said Michigan coach Greg Ryan. “They’re doing really well.” After a late loss to Wisconsin and a scoreless tie with Minnesota, Michigan (6-2-2 Big Ten, 11-5-2 overall) was in need of a win against Purdue (3-6-2, 8-8-1) in order to stay near the top of the conference standings. The match began balanced, as both teams’ defenses kept the opposing offense away from the goal. “We always try to set play, and I think that just really helps our attacking line get the ball and get more shots off,” said senior defender Christina Murillo. The Wolverines began to put more pressure on the Boilermakers’ defense by maneuvering through the field to create open shots, though Michigan was unable to put the ball in the net. The Purdue goalkeeper stood tall in the
first half, deflecting tough shots and making key saves. Various offside calls early on stopped scoring opportunities for the Wolverines as well. Michigan’s best scoring chance in the first half came in the 37th minute, when a Purdue defender got tangled up and lost control of the ball near her own goal. The ball found freshman midfielder Abby Kastroll, whose shot was stopped by the Boilermakers once again. At the end of the first half, the Wolverines had outshot Purdue, 5-3. “In the locker room at halftime, it wasn’t really much changing anything, it was to continue to keep the foot on the gas,” Waldeck said. “It was to just not let up and continue what we did in the first half.” Though Michigan played at a much faster pace than it did in the first half, both teams controlled the ball equally in the second half, with neither able to find the net. But the Wolverines persisted, and Waldeck’s tally left the seniors in good spirits.
4B — October 26, 2015
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