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ments in number of untested rape kits, according to survey results released Thursday by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette. The attorney general’s survey found 1,189 untested kits in total, not including police departments in Wayne County. The survey was prompted by a 2009 study that found 11,000 untested rape kits in Wayne County, which is why the county was excluded in the survey. According to the survey, AAPD currently has 65 untested rape
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The Ann Arbor Police Department ranks 6th highest out of 548 Michigan police depart-
kits. Overall, the number of untested rape kits in Washtenaw County ranked 6th-highest out of the 83 counties in Michigan. The vast majority of counties included in the survey data had zero or nearly zero untested rape kits. 14 had 30 or more untested rape kits. Of those counties with 30 or more untested rape kits, 50 percent are home to a university or college. The University of Michigan
Police Department reported 0 untested rape kits. UMPD’s jurisdiction includes sexual assaults that occur on University property or at a university function. Other universities, however, reported significant numbers. Of the 11 university police departments in Michigan, Western Michigan University Police Department reported 40 untested rape kits, Eastern Michigan University Police Department reportSee KITS, Page 3
At Michigan League, faculty and students talk diversity efforts By ANDREW HIYAMA For the Daily
LSA Dean Andrew Martin hosted about 20 students and faculty in the Hussey Room of the Michigan League Thursday to discuss the University’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Plan. The event, #withDeanMartin, was one of a series of ongoing town hall-style forums held by Martin with the aim of facilitating communication and openness between the students and administration. In the first of three planned guided forums on diversity, the discussion began with highlighting the role of admissions in diversifying the University.
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App aims to spark student connections “Branch,” developed by two seniors, links likeminded individuals By KATHERINE CURRAN For the Daily
Almost two years ago, LSA senior Ryan Wolande and Engineering senior Kevin Lee felt frustrated with connections present-day social media provided — sparking a desire to create an app that made connecting online a more personal and interactive experience. For Wolande and Lee, that desire turned into developing Branch, a social app that aims to harnesses people’s desire to connect with others in a more personal way. After users of the app post anonymously to a “Spot” on campus, such as the Shapiro Undergraduate Library or the Michigan Union, anyone can respond to their post and start a conversation. If the users conversing feel comfortable, they can later send each other a “profile share request” to reveal their identities and meet up in the real world. “People are glued to their phones,” Wolande said. “Social media today is not a social experience, it’s an experience with a phone.” Wolande said Branch, now available on iOS and coming to Android mid-February, allows
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Martin said while the admissions process is fundamental, recruitment is perhaps more important in creating a diverse environment. “The way in which we recruit students, and the way in which we orient students, and the way in which we sort of welcome students to join our community defines the climate for what we end up having on campus,” Martin said. The explicit use of race and other demographic factors in admissions for public colleges in Michigan was banned in 2006 by a statewide ballot proposal. Martin noted the importance of reaching out to communities from which — due to differences of socioeconomic status — the University doesn’t receive many applicants. Angela Dillard, associate dean of undergraduate education, also addressed facilitating more inclusivity in study abroad See INCLUSION, Page 3
users to connect one-on-one and post exact locations. He added that Branch is different than apps like Tinder, which people also use to meet each other in person, because it focuses more on real connections rather than appearance. “It’s the only one that allows you to start as anonymous so you can express yourself fully without being concerned of being judged, while it still has the potential of meeting people in the real world,” Wolande said. Currently, Branch has about 100 active users and a total of 300 to 400 downloads. However, Wolande said he and Lee hope the usage of the app will increase exponentially once they start marketing Branch in mid-to-late February. He noted that the Branch team has secured a $20,000 investment from an unexpected angel investor and plan to use the money to promote the app by hosting events at bars and handing out free merchandise, like T-shirts, koozies and lighters. “We hope to have 5,000 to 10,000 users by the end of the semester and then hopefully achieve campus-wide use after the beginning of next semester,” Wolande said. If Branch becomes more popular campuswide, Wolande said he thinks it will be a useful social tool for incoming freshmen in particular by making the University seem less overwhelming. See APP, Page 3
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Kedra Ishop, Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management at the University of Michigan, addresses the crowd gathered for the discussion of the importance of diversity in higher education at Rackham Amphitheater on Thursday.
Schlissel, higher ed. leaders talk about campus diversity Panel aims to promotes awareness, responsibility about equity By CAITLIN REEDY Daily Staff Reporter
As part of the University’s ongoing initiative to build campus diversity and inclusion, University President Mark Schlissel hosted a public panel discussion with various leaders in higher education Thursday. The talk, titled “Facing the Challenge: the continued commitment to diversity in higher education,” took place at the Rackham Graduate School. The University’s National Center for Institutional Diversity partnered with the American Council on Education to bring together higher educa-
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tion leaders and leading faculty members the University. For the event, representatives from Rutgers University, the University of Maryland, the University of New Mexico and EducationCounsel, an education consulting firm, were present at the discussion. Schlissel kicked off the conversation with comments on the role of public institutions in today’s society and the responsibility they have to encourage diversity. “Ensuring the diversity of its academic community is perhaps the biggest challenge facing institutes of higher education,” Schlissel said. “Racial strife has exposed wounds and inspired students to protest. All must feel welcome. Those of us at public institutions have a special role to serve all of humanity. Race and ethnicity are undoubtedly key factors in expanding our reach.”
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Robert Sellers, vice provost for Equity, Inclusion, and Academic Affairs, said he thought the panel brought in leaders to address the changes happening in our world in regard to diversity. “This special panel is part of a larger ongoing two-day conference … The panel today is particularly timely given a lot of the activism going on in our campus today,” Sellers said. “Most importantly, the panel today is timely because of what is going on in our society. If higher education is going to meet the needs of this more diverse society, we need to open access to communities that have never had access before.” The night’s discussion also came at a significant time judicially, as a landmark case is being heard this term by the U.S. Supreme Court against the University of Texas-Austin for See DIVERSITY, Page 2
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Starting Monday, a smoking restriction for Ann Arbor city parks will expand from prohibiting smoking in 77 parks to including 79 additional parks, the city announced last Friday. The ordinance now applies to a total of 156 out of 159 city parks. The smoking prohibition not only applies to smoking traditional cigarettes, but also to cigars and pipes and e-cigarettes. In April 2014, the Ann Arbor City Council approved the outdoor smoking ban that allowed the city administrator to select certain parks to become smoke-free. Following collaboration with the city’s Park Advisory Commission, the ban went into effect February 2015, but only affected 77 parks in the city. The only recreational areas that will be exempt are Cobblestone Farm, Huron Hills Golf Course and Leslie Park Golf Course. Josh Landefeld, deputy manager of Parks and Recreation, said there never was a huge issue with smoking in parks prior to the ordinance. However, he said having a See PARKS, Page 3
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WHAT: Ana Ferdnandez , art tecaher at the University’s Residential College, will exhibit her artwork in the Wearing the Body exhibition. Her artwork focuses on the interaction between fashion and ideas about femininity. WHO: Residential College WHEN: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: East Quadrangle, Benzinger Library
WHAT: Sam Jacob, founding director of FAT, architect, writer and critic, talks about his work on the Hoogvliet Heerlijkheid project, a park exploring ideas of populism. WHO: Taubman College of Architecture WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Art and Architecture Building Auditorium, room 2104
WHAT: Award winning journalist, lecturer and advocate Jimmie Briggs will share his experiences and host a workshop to improve storytelling skills. WHO: Design and Business WHEN: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union, Wolverine Room
WHAT: Drexel University’s Dr. Kenneth Hardy will speak on the role of African American communities as sources of healing for youth and family trauma. WHO: School of Social Work WHEN: 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: School of Social Work Building, Educational Conference Center
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Friday flicks: “Steve Jobs” WHAT: Friday Flicks will be offering a free showing of the movie “Steve Jobs,” a biographical film about the former Apple CEO. WHO: Center for Campus Involvement WHEN: 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room
M-Flicks: “Spectre” screening WHAT: Free screening of the newest James Bond film “Spectre” starring David Craig. WHO: M-Flicks and University Activities Center WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Natural Science Auditorium
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At their meeting on Monday, City Council members are slated to discuss relations with the University, Take Back the Night and TEDxUofM. Resolution to Approve Riverside Park Parking Lot and Lease with the University of Michigan The Ann Arbor City Council will consider a resolution that would allow the University to use city-owned land as a parking lot. If the resolution is approved, the University will acquire the right to use 18 parking spaces located off Canal Street in Ann Arbor. Eight votes are required for the
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The No. 6 Michigan hockey team defeated No. 15 Penn State, 7-4 Thursday. Freshman forward Kyle Connor and senior forward Tyler Motte scored two goals each.
Penny Stamps Symposium on Ovid, Lyly and speakers Benserade WHAT: Shunsuke Iwai, creative director at top technology firm, and Ben Matsuzaki, president of Herman Miller Japan, talk about using art and design for economic vitality. WHO: Stamps School of Art and Design WHEN: 6p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Rackham Amphitheatre
approval of this resolution. The University would be permitted to use the land for a duration of two years, from March 1, 2016 through Feb. 28, 2018 with the option of renewing the lease when it ends. During this time, the University would pay the city a yearly rental fee of $12,177 which is $676.50 per parking spot. Each party would be responsible for its own liabilities and insurance as related to the property in question. No third party would be permitted to use or benefit from the land. City Council has passed resolutions in the past renting parking lot spaces to the University. In 2014, the city passed a resolution allowing the University to rent parking lots off Fuller Road in Ann Arbor for a duration of two years with an option to renew at the end of this period. Resolution to Approve Street Closings for the 2016 Take Back the Night Rally and March A resolution for permission to
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WHAT: A symposium will feature a variety of speakers discussing various aspects of transformation of the works of Ovid, Lyly and Benserade. WHO: Institute for the Humanities WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. WHERE: Rackham, West Conference Room
Department of Defense partners with ‘U’ to research traumatic brain injuries Study could have particular impact on athletes and members of military
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French police arrested a man carrying two guns who attempted to enter a Disneyland Paris hotel Thursday, BBC reported. His bag triggered the hotel’s metal detectors, and he also carried a copy of the Qu’ran and a box of ammunition.
close city streets on April 6, 2016 for the 38th annual Take Back the Night event. Take Back the Night is a protest against sexual assault that aims to allows survivors and supporters to speak out against sexual violence and rape culture. Each year, this event sees participation from University students and faculty as well as members of the Ann Arbor community. If approved, the resolution will allow portions of South State Street, East Liberty Street, South Fourth Street, West William Street, Thompson Street and East Madison Street to be closed during the event. Resolution to Approve Street Closings for the TEDxUofM Event A second street closing resolution will be presented, asking for approval to shut down Washington Street between Thayer and Fletcher streets from 6 p.m. on March 31 to 6 p.m. on April 1, 2016. The shutdown is for the 7th annual TEDxUofM conference. Last year’s conference drew a crowd of 1,700 people The theme for this year’s conference has not yet been announced. In past years, themes have included “Constructive Interference,” “Against the Grain” and “Inform/Transform.”
DIVERSITY From Page 1 using race in their admissions, Fisher v. University of Texas. The Fisher case echoes a suit that was brought against the University over its use of race in admissions to the Supreme Court in 2003, Gratz v. Bollinger. Though the court utimately ruled that parts of the University’s affirmative action were legal, in a subsequent 2006 ballot proposal banned the use of race, gender and
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Focusing on athletes and members of the military, the University of Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care has partnered with the Combat Casualty Care Research Program under the U.S. Department of Defense to research traumatic brain injury treatment. Dr. Kevin Ward, director of the MCIRCC and Fast Forward Medical Innovation, said the collaboration was key to the research initiative. “You have the great minds and integrated science teams at Michigan through MCIRCC, which is focused on critical illness and injury,” Ward said. “You’ve got the Department of Defense which also has a lot of resources and experience to bring. And then you have this family from the Detroit area that has made this magnificent gift. When you combine all these things, I
other demographic elements in public college admissions in the state. During the panel, Kedra Ishop, associate vice president for enrollment management at the University, said she understands the precarious situation of admissions and the role race plays in it. Ishop told the panel that for every applicant to the University, the admissions office must consider what lead the prospective student to apply and who they are as students in order to identify possible advantages and disadvantages in the admissions
think that more is possible. It is all about integration.” For student athletes at the University brain injury research is particularly relevent, as many of them have experienced such injuries during their time as athletes. Ani Sarkisian, forward for the University’s women’s soccer team, has had three concussions. She said brain injuries have a big impact on athletes. “I think any sport would appreciate research on (severe traumatic brain injuries) done,” Sarkisian said. “We would really appreciate having any more prevention or precautionary things done to prevent concussions because right now it’s the only thing that really takes athletes out of their sport. You can bring them back from a hurt arm or a torn ACL, but when it’s about your brain it is a totally different issue.” The research is supported by a 2015 donation to the University from the Joyce and Don Massey Family Foundation donated to the University in 2015 to fund research surrounding technological innovation, patient/family support, clinical treatment and therapy
process. “How do we know, think about and communicate with our student body about who we are; and with the way we represent test scores; and how we represent our student body?” Ishop said. “Certain populations don’t apply to us because they think they can’t get in. Low-income students don’t apply as much and we have to change how we represent ourselves to them.” Overall, the panel agreed that it is time to finish what was started during the Civil Rights Movement.
to those suffering from a traumatic brain injury, or TBI. The Foundation was set up to honor a family member who suffered from a TBI. Department of Defense service members and families suffer from the most traumatic brain injuries in the United States, making brain injury research a particular area of interest for them as well. The Department of Defense has a unique level of experience and resources to bring to this initiative, including field medics who will act as mentors, according to a press release. Dr. Ward said military personnel’s constant exposure to TBIs has the potential to further enhance research in the area. “Over these years, traumatic brain injuries have been a huge problem for the military, where it has sort of become the signature injury,” Ward said. “We have not, holistically around the world and medicine and science, been able to move the dial. There are very few benefits to war, but one of those things is learning about trauma medicine.”
Nancy Cantor, chancellor of Rutgers University, said all universities should strive for inclusion to give all students a pathway to opportunity. “We need to think of our place in the world. It’s about what is happening and what has happened,” Cantor said. “We are in a paradoxical moment where we are dramatically changing. How are we going to be the engines of opportunity that universities supposedly have always been?”
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State research economic benefits top $17 billion The state of Michigan’s University Research Corridor contributed $17.5 billion to the Michigan economy in 2015, according to a University press release this week. The URC is a collective of research by the University, Michigan State and Wayne State, and boosted economic activity in every region in the state due to student spending, spending on operations and alumni earnings. The URC’s overall earnings are up this year from 2014, as is the number of patents issued and transfers of research and development. For every dollar invested in URC universities, the press release announced, the state receives $22 back in benefits.
State workers in Flint were warned about water The Detroit Free Press reported Thursday evening that state workers in Flint arranged for coolers of filtered water in their offices in January, even as they announced to the public that the city’s water was safe to drink. “While the City of Flint states that corrective actions are not necessary, DTMB is in the process of providing a water cooler on each occupied floor, positioned near the water fountain, so you can choose which water to drink,” read a notice from the state Department of Technology, Management and Budget. Spokespeople from the DTMB responded that its office provided water coolers due to health notices posted in December that the city had claimed already subsided, and never deemed the water unsafe, but instead provided alternatives for its employees.
Detroit teachers sue city public schools The Detroit Federation of Teachers filed a lawsuit against Detroit Public Schools Thursday morning and demanded the city’s emergency manager step down due to the condition of school buildings. The lawsuit, on behalf of the union and its national and state affiliates, argues that the rundown buildings cause students “to spend their young lives in deplorable surroundings,” and suffer irreperable damage to their health as a result. The union also called for improvements to building codes and a cohesive plan for remodeling school buildings. —RIYAH BASHA
PARKS From Page 1 smoking ban in place helped the city become a smoke-free environment. “Part of the goal of the parks is to provide places of health and wellness for the citizens of Ann Arbor, and with the trend of non-smoking areas, especially in public due to secondhand smoke, we just feel that parks are an obvious place to be smoke-free,” Landefeld said. Since the ordinance went into effect, Landefeld said there have been no tickets issued and no negative feedback from residents. Councilmember Chuck Warpehoski (D–Ward 5), who introduced the original legislation allowing the city administrator to declare parks smoke-free zones, said his interest in the topic stems from having three young children. “Our parks and playgrounds should be places of health, not places where kids are going to be exposed to second-hand smoke or picking up cigarette butts and putting them in their mouth,” Warpehoski said. Warpehoski said after his legislation was passed, the decision on implementation was handed over to the Parks Advisory Commission, who made the first recommendation as to what parks were going to be the first to hold the ordinance. The initial 77 parks placed priority on playgrounds and downtown parks. “I think that we’re moving in the right direction,” Warpehoski said. “We’re setting up policies to make sure that more and more of our parks are places for health and not places for hazardous second-hand smoke.” Councilmember Sabra Briere (D–Ward 1), said council heard many complaints about people smoking in public areas prior to the bans being set in place. “The city had no regulation to enforce any kind of control because there was no ordinance,” Briere said. “People who found themselves at play areas with adults who were smoking, or in front of City Hall where everybody was smoking right outside the door, there was no legal recourse. They could request all they wanted that the smokers move aside, but the smokers sometimes didn’t feel very much like doing that.” Briere said the city placed the ban on only about half the parks initially to find out how it might impact residents. Echoing Landefeld, Briere also said she has not received many grievances from Ann Arbor citizens regarding the ban. Most of the attention the issue received has come from the media, she added. “The biggest concern I’ve heard anybody mention includes e-cigarettes,” Briere said. “People who believe they are being healthy by smoking e-cigarettes instead of tobacco
with fire are resentful that this applies to e-cigarettes. I don’t exactly understand that because, in my view, this is about smoking in parks, it’s not (just) about smoking.” Briere added that she believes e-cigarettes contain other chemicals that could be just as, if not more, harmful as the chemicals in regular cigarettes despite some arguing they are a healthier alternative for limiting secondhand smoke. The New York Times reported that research is inconclusive on the topic, “Someone who is smoking in a nature area may find this an extraordinarily inconvenient solution for their rights, and I can appreciate that, but at the same time, I find myself thinking, (I’m) not going to embrace the idea that you have the right to smoke next to me,” Briere said. Councilmember Julie Grand (D–Ward 1) said she was not on council when the decision was originally made, but because the ordinance is very similar to those in other cities, she does not believe the city is overstepping their bounds in enforcing this policy. “We just wanted to make sure that our parks were available to all residents, including those that are non-smokers, and that smoking wasn’t an appropriate activity in our city parks,” Grand said. Much like Briere, Grand said she has not received any complaints regarding the ban. “Initially there were concerns about enforcement,” Grand said. “It was put in place mainly so that if you don’t want to see smoking in the parks, that you as a resident have the ability to point to the sign and to the policy and to be able to ask a smoker politely to stop, and to have that policy behind you when you make that request.” The locations still exempt from the ban, Grand said, still allow smoking since people often smoke cigars while golfing. As well, one of the locations Cobblestone Farm is frequently reserved by the public for weddings and other events, and the venue prohibits smoking inside the building. Overall, Grand said she is pleased that the policy has been expanded. She said she believes the ban can encourage residents to ask someone not to smoke and help maintain a clean environment. “It’s all self-enforcement,” Grand said. “There is a provision in the ban that one could potentially alert public safety of non-compliance, but the intent of the ban was really self-enforcement that you, as a resident, could hopefully feel comfortable politely reminding someone of the policy, and that that hopefully will be enough to make sure that someone isn’t smoking around you or your family members.”
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INCLUSION From Page 1 programs. “If we got every program to step back and ask itself questions about differential impacts, the effects of that would just be amazing,” Dillard said. Another prevalent subject was how faculty and graduate student instructors can be included in the initiative. Many students voiced support at the discussion for faculty and GSIs to be trained to encourage student engagement with diversity initiatives in their departments. Dillard acknowledged that there is room to improve instructors’ sensitivity to issues of minority students, while adding that GSIs are often inadequately prepared to recognize and listen to concerns about the different ways in which students learn. Discussing some of the diversity mandates that LSA currently implements, Martin asked the audience about their views on the goals of the college’s race
KITS From Page 1 ed 7, Michigan State University Police Department reported 5, Saginaw Valley State University Police reported 4 and Central Mich University Police Department reported 1. Other universities had zero. Andrea Bitely, the attorney general’s director of communications, said city size could play a role in the varying numbers of untested kits among different departments. “Larger population centers are most likely to have more sexual assault kits in general,” she said. “That’s why you see bubbles in certain places and it’s more associated with population than it being a college town.”
and ethnicity course requirements. Currently, LSA is reviewing the requirements as part of their planning process for the University’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiative. At their meeting Tuesday, Central Student Government also discussed several resolutionsaimed at strengthening the requirements. Many students at the forum said they thought R&E courses were lacking meaningful engagement and integration outside of the classroom. Citing other mandated programs like Change it Up! — a program that aims to increase bystander intervention education — as well, one student suggested a long-term program would be more effective. In response, Dillard pointed out the difficulties in expanding the program so drastically. “How do you get that result, but without putting ‘forcing everybody’ into the same sentence?” Dillard asked. Kinesiology junior Kristin Roberts said she was pleasantly surprised by the event, noting jokingly she only attended for State officials now plan to use the survey data to coordinate local efforts to process the kits with help from state police. Bitely noted that some kits may have been left untested intentionally. “Some of them were associated with crimes where the suspect confessed or pled guilty or the police knew what happened and they were able to secure a conviction or a plea in another way,” she said. “Just because this kit was not tested does not mean justice wasn’t served.” Diane Brown, University Police spokesperson, said she could not comment on the descrepancy between reported AAPD and UMPD untested rape kit numbers. AAPD Detective Lieutenant Robert Pfannes did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
the free food. “It was definitely needed,” Roberts said. “We could see that they were actually listening to us, agreeing with different points we were saying and kind of explaining what was going on.” LSA junior Reid Klootwyk, LSA student government vice president, said he felt the event was a unique opportunity. “I think Dean Martin and Dillard are both really open to student engagement, which is key,” Klootwyk said. “It’s not common for students to be able to engage in dialogue with deans, on all sorts of issues, and they’re open to hearing our voices.” Klootwyk added that he was appreciative of the focus on faculty involvement in the diversity initiative. “It wasn’t the proposed guide for the discussion, but I think there’s a lot to be said about the way that GSIs and faculty alike are trained,” he said. “The deans are the ones who make those calls, so yeah, it was really interesting.”
APP From Page 1 So far, users have posted questions on the app concerning schoolwork, like the latest statistics problem set or EECS 314 homework. Some posts ask for advice on things, such as where to live, what classes to take or where to order Chinese food. When asked what future he envisions for Branch, Wolande answered simply. “I just hope it becomes the natural solution for someone who wants to get a quick game of pickup basketball going,” he said.
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chool buildings fester with mold and 2017, when a seven-member elected school vermin. Students fill frigid classrooms board would take power. beyond capacity. Teachers instruct Suspiciously absent from these plans are from outdated textthe voices of teachers, students and their books, if they even have families, without whom the need for change books at all. within the district would have gone unnoFor the students and ticed. teachers of Detroit Pub“Those closest to the problem, being stulic Schools, these sendents and families, have great ideas of their tences do not amount to own that they can contribute about the use of a mere horror story: It is resources, and they should be allowed to do their reality. so,” said Camille Wilson, an associate profesThe Detroit Federasor in the School of Education. tion of Teachers, the Wilson argues that for any tangible change REBECCA district’s primary teachto occur, community involvement — on both TARNOPOL ers union, brought these the district and school level — is necessary. issues (and many more) Yet Snyder’s legislation fails to take comto light after sick-outs munity voices into account. In fact, the state closed more than half of Detroit’s schools seems to hush them in order to promote its over the past couple of weeks. Though the own agenda — one that hasn’t worked over sick-outs are a fresh tactic taken on by DFT, the past seven years. the problems they protest are anything but Teachers, for example, are kept as far new. away from the bargaining table as possible: “Teachers in DPS have been talking about Following a sick-out that closed 88 of DPS’s these things since I was in middle school,” 97 schools, the district filed an injunction said Michael Chrzan, an LSA and School of against DFT and other participating parties, Education senior. Chrzan, who attended DPS citing that the sick-outs “deprived (students) for his entire grade-school education, gradu- of their right to attend school” and are a ated from Renaissance “waste of taxpayer money.” High School before comThough the court ruled ing to the University. He against the injunction, the describes his experience state’s will to suppress the For any tangible at Renaissance, one of the voice of those closest to the change to occur, district’s premier magnet issue is cause for alarm in schools, as “atypical” comitself. community pared to other high schools The legislation also in the city. Though Renaisimplements a system that involvement is sance had a “college-going feigns autonomy. Sure, culture,” fantastic teachers Detroiters get to elect their neceessary and state-of-the-art faciliown school board, but the ties, Chrzan admitted it emergency management was not entirely immune to system will stay, allowing the problems that plague the cash-strapped the state to continue to exercise control over district: Outdated textbooks, large class sizes the district. with inadequate resources and teacher layThe state’s rhetoric on the issue is all the offs were still a reality at his high school. more concerning. In his State of the State DPS has struggled over the past couple address, Snyder emphasized the need to decades as the district’s enrollment has improve students’ ability to transition from continually dwindled while its debt has high school to jobs, implying that higher eduincreased. Emergency managers, appointed cation is not an attainable — or reasonable by the governor, have governed DPS since — goal for students in DPS. To succeed aca2009, after the state deemed the district demically, students in DPS often overcome incapable of handling its own finances. The hardships that students in other districts do emergency manager has complete author- not, but receiving a college education certainity over the financial (read: all) matters of ly isn’t an impossibility for them. Many DPS the district. Since emergency managers students graduate and matriculate to colleges took over DPS, its debt has only deepened; each year. in 2015, under the governance of Darnell At the University, however, the number of Earley, 30 to 40 percent of state funds allo- students hailing from DPS, Michigan’s largcated to DPS were used to pay off city debt est school district, is miniscule. Yet this is not instead. a reflection of poor admissions on the UniverThere is no doubt DFT’s tactics have been sity’s end inasmuch as it is a reflection of the effective in exposing their cause. Photos repressive system below it. In order to level posted to the union’s Twitter account gar- the playing field of college admissions, we nered national attention, and the American must fix the problem before students’ senior Federation of Teachers joined forces with year of high school. We must create equity DFT to spread their cause. Sick-outs caught among our country’s schools so that innerthe attention of politicians on both local and city students are afforded the same academic state levels, as Mayor Mike Duggan toured a opportunities as students in more affluent handful of Detroit’s schools to inspect their neighborhoods. conditions, and Gov. Rick Snyder called for Most students in Detroit simply do not immediate action in his State of the State have access to the academic and extracuraddress. ricular resources that students who attend Snyder’s proposed legislation would split schools in districts just outside of the city’s the district into an “old district” and a “new limits have. And, as of now, the state has no district.” The old district would exist solely true plan to fix that. to address DPS’s accumulated debt, while the For Detroit, perhaps the best route to new one, named Detroit Community School equity is to let the people shape the district District, would facilitate schooling. $250 mil- themselves. lion from the state’s general fund would fund the new district. A nine-member interim —Rebecca Tarnopol can be reached school board appointed by Snyder and Dugat tarnopol@umich.edu. gan would govern the district until Jan. 1,
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Observing our intermingling F rom my seat here in Mason Hall, I can hear the constant clicking open and closing of the doors, the sounds of hundreds of fellow students filing in and out. I can see these students ignoring their peers’ efforts to try to get them to acknowledge their work on ISAIAH campus, with, ZEAVINat most, a donaMOSS tion, but more likely, about 15 seconds of time — but the sacrifice is too great for these students. I acknowledge my guilt in these situations as well. Rushing to class, how dare anybody try to stop me? Sitting here, though, hearing and watching all of this happen, I notice this guy next to me who is eating a banana while plugged into his computer screen, watching a YouTube video of some man talking. Every now and then, the fellow to my right chuckles to himself; alas, he has just scarfed down the last of the ripe banana that he has been caressing in his right hand for some time now — but instead of feeling the all-too-familiar loss-ofbanana blues, our man produces the most ferocious of chuckles yet (still silent, totally to himself, but as a witness sitting just a few feet away from him, I see the extraordinary passion in his eyes; this chuckle is like no other), his eyes still glued to the screen. Suddenly, his face turns serious, and his hand lowers onto the control pad of his laptop — perhaps he will now be changing videos, moving on from this moment that has provided him with an intimate session of joy that no one, besides me, has noticed. I wonder how he would react to knowing that this laughter was not actually private, that it has all been observed by me. Who am I to this person? Nobody — a student, a random student, and sure, he and I go to the same school, but that does not actually feel like it means all that much, does it? This shared affiliation of ours does not provide enough information for me to confidently guess anything about this person — his background, his beliefs, anything. So, in effect, I am nothing to this person. I don’t mean anything to him. And this happens thousands of times, every day — passing by students on the Diag or sitting next to them in the Undergraduate Library. These are students whom I have never seen before and may as well never see again. Sometimes, I might even have a nice exchange with one of them — earlier today, sitting here, a girl offered part of her table for the endless school supplies billowing out of my backpack. “No,” I said. “It’s fine. But thank you!” And we shared a smile, but then it was immediately back to business;
she focused once again on her computer, and me on mine. But I want more! I thought. You seem gentle and kind! Can we be friends? This question of intimacy, then, becomes very important to my Michigan experience: where to find it, how to properly test its validity. I have found that this phenomenon of passing strangers, of having no reliably informative link between me and my peers, can often make attending this university very difficult. It can feel like I am not making up any ground, like my experience here is becoming no more personalized or intimate or regulated by me. It instead feels like this stream of strangers will continue endlessly, regardless of the friends I make, and that I will always feel tiny here, I will always struggle to believe my presence here changes anything, at all. The challenge becomes, then, to make friends whom you trust and care about enough; friends who will make the experience here feel sufficiently used; friends who provide ample space for me to feel socially relaxed. But this creates perhaps the most destructive element of the Michigan social scene: Since the school is so huge and the feeling of isolation so scary, everybody (myself included) finds their friends and then clings to that group tightly, holding on for dear life, knowing no other option. In the end, the campus feels colder, because while people have formed bonds within their respective social groups, hardly anyone is invested in the larger community. Hardly anyone is invested in making new friends, friends beyond the group you already know, because to do this is to take a risk. We greet those people who do try to engage “strangers,” to begin a conversation across the all-too-rigid boundary, with silence. This is what often makes it impossible, as I walk alone through our campus’s halls, for me to feel comfortable enough to be myself. And this lack of comfort makes me not want to stop for peers whom I do not know, even if those peers are trying to stop me for a valiant and worthy cause. Since I do not know you, since I have never seen you before and will never see you again, I have no reason to do you a favor. Sure, we go to the same school, but you are not a part of the group about which I care, the only group that matters to me. And this has affected my experience here deeply, to the point that I have daily conversations with friends where we explicitly judge our peers based on shallow attributes — how they are dressed, whether they are in Greek life or not — and I find myself making these judgments about people before I even speak to them. Before coming to Michigan, I never did this — at least not as consciously and deliberately as I do now. My logic goes something like this:
Because you are not what I know, because you share some things that I associate with groups on this campus with which I am not familiar, we cannot be friends. And my hunch is, from hearing students who have never set foot in co-ops deride them for their “weird dirtiness” to others describing Greek life as entirely full of bad people, that I am not alone, that so many of us are complicit. The identity question that divides this campus most, I think, pertains to Greek life: Are you in or out? But, for our purposes here, I think we can set aside our differences. I do not wish to make the point that this isolating and judgmental treatment of each other pertains only to one side of the social spectrum on campus. I have been kicked out of a frat party because of my non-Greek affiliation, even though I was just trying to hang out with a dear friend of mine from home, a freshman, during Welcome Week. Likewise, at a co-op, I was explicitly called out for wearing a specific brand of fleece. Two girls came up to me and sarcastically said, “Nice brand, man. How much did that cost?” Silently, dejectedly, I turned around and walked to the corner of the party where my friends were hanging out. In our classes — conglomerations of students throughout the University’s social spectrum — we have 10 minutes set aside, often before the professor has arrived, before class has “begun.” And how do we use this time? We take out our phones or our laptops: achingly, urgently trying to reconnect with the familiar, because the world in front of us, inhabited by “strangers,” is too much to confront. Imagine a world without these gadgets, these crutches upon which we can rest any fear of having to interact with each other. Our colloquial nickname for these 10 minutes, “Michigan Time,” makes perfect sense, for this time serves as a microcosm of the entire university, of how we all treat each other all the time. And it is not only students who are complicit in this problematic social environment. Throughout my time here, it has been rare to come across an instructor who cared enough about the class’s well-being to enforce conversation between students. Professors only learn their students’ names by the middle of the term, and that’s only if the class is small enough. This fosters an environment of apathy toward one another: I only care about the work you do here, and nothing more. I only care about what is relevant to me.
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Kanye West’s “facts” are facts “ Yeezy, Yeezy, Yeezy just jumped over Jumpman!” exclaims the notorious, self-proclaimed King of Pop, Mr. Kanye West in a recent single, “Facts.” Within the song, Kanye chronicles his experience with corporate America, his struggle with intellectual property and fallout with Nike, and his newfound success with Adidas, which has propelled him over the jumpman, Michael Jordan. The moral of Kanye’s “Facts” is that he simply cannot be bought or halted by corporations and Mr. West is by far one of the only hip hop artists who has taken deliberate actions toward denouncing corporate control over artists. Unlike Kanye, many artists and athletes alike who receive endorsements are less prone to speak out on controversial topics or against corporate control due to the fear of financial loss from their respective sponsors. Hence, as Kanye so vividly articulates, one can see that endorsements and sponsorship can coerce artists and athletes into acting “politically correct.” Nevertheless, Kanye West’s “Facts” is a track that not only criticizes corporations, but any form of authoritative control. As a college student, particularly a student of color, I have found myself in coercive situations with an authoritarian professor on numerous occasions, that have always ended in me being silenced. Junior year, as I sat in my Engineering 202 class, I found myself shocked at what my professor had said before the class. “If you don’t bring a calculator to
your exam, I will chase you out of here like a lynch mob,” noted my professor. Within the class of 50 students I glanced over at the one other Black student, who I found looking back at me in awe. Her facial expression let me know: Yes, that just happened. She and I talked briefly after the class ended and we agreed that what we heard was completely unacceptable, but there was just one catch. The teacher distributed our grades. As a result, we collectively decided not to address the teacher’s actions because we felt it could negatively impact our class evaluation and ultimately our letter grades. Moreover, we were not sure if two Black students complaining about a tenured Caucasian professor would be heard by anyone and taken seriously. Hence, we were ultimately silenced and coerced out of fear. Given how often students of color are the minority in classroom settings I would imagine that this happens far too often. If you were ever wondering what a microaggression is, here is your example. Microaggressions are real. They are unacceptable. They are coercive. And those “Facts” are facts only. ——Michigan in Color is the Daily’s designated space for and by students of color at the University of Michigan. To contribute your voice or find out more about MiC, e-mail michiganincolor@umich.edu.
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STYLE EVENT
Fashion fell from EnspiRED supports Grace Coddington fashion for a cause
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hroughout my teen years, the dog days of YOLO summers fell into a monotonous rhythm — I slept the daylight hours away, forced older friends to play chauffeur and take me on destinationless drives at dusk and filled the rest of the time with friends, food or films CAROLINE (on a good FILIPS day, the whole trifecta). On a characteristically tame summer night, I stayed true to myself and stayed in, but this time it was socially excusable — I was recovering from a nasty sunburn (an unfavorable outcome from the one day I forwent an afternoon snooze to “enjoy nature”). The year was 2010 and video stores were my second favorite destination after bookstores (RIP Borders on Woodward St). Pre-nationwide Blockbuster extinction, my cinematic indecision always got the best of me as I scoured the shelves. I could usually be found debating between the safe choice of “Legally Blonde” or something I wasn’t able to quote from opening to closing credits. Elle Woods’s romantic odyssey suddenly seemed less interesting when R.J. Cutler’s Vogue documentary “The September Issue” caught my eye that day; or rather, its cover of the magazine’s icy editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Furclad, sporting a pursed pout and hiding behind oversized shades, it instilled an incalculable fear in me (an effect I still dream of having on others). I was at the peak age of pretending to be interesting via documentary viewing, so I picked up the fashion flick, my sunburn still sizzling. Despite my ever-fleeting attention span, I was captivated for the entire 90 minutes. I repeatedly got the chills, which felt like more than a sunburn side effect. I like to think the goosebumps were my body’s response to a divine intervention of sorts — during which the chic spirit of Diana Vreeland or Beatrix Miller propped themselves next to me and planted the seedling of my sartorial dreams. It sounds far-fetched, but I can’t fathom a logical explanation for my immediate attachment to Vogue’s creative director — the
film’s accidental star, the frizzy firecracker and crazy cat lady — Grace Coddington. Upon my first view of the film, Grace’s instant allure stemmed from her superficial markers. In the offices of the fashion bible, she seems completely out of place in her standard uniform — black portmanteau, bright red locks utterly unkempt and the occasional barrette highlighting her makeup-less face, all while shuffling around Condé Nast in orthotics. I was completely taken when she delivered her sharp British wit — uttering either wry backtalk to her boss, something comically sensible, or something hilariously crude. And then, there’s her work. At its simplest, she devoted her days to spinning our favorite fairytales in a most enchanting light; she made the contrived look effortless. I, like most of the fashioninclined ilk I admire, was introduced to Coddington during my inaugural view of the doc. Following what will likely remain my most formative viewing experience, I was instantly less interested in my future and more intrigued by Grace’s past. From that fateful day forward, I charted Grace’s story to the best of my abilities. I pored over her stunning spreads, immersed myself in her 2012 self-titled memoir and, above all, loved how all her work reflected her distinct disposition — somewhere between staunch pragmatism and free-spirited romanticism. I loved how she was Wintour’s consummate complement and perfect foil — always unraveling the EIC’s tyranny with her autonomy. Being the selfish being that I am, I tend to be most interested in the tales of those that I can relate to — so for years, I’ve been piecing together Grace’s narrative thread, which I imagine is somewhat similar to how she storyboards spreads. The more I learned about her, the more she reminded me of myself — a general loner with a taste for adventure, a stomach for uncertainty, an inherent fickleness and the inability to take anything too seriously. So despite Coddington being my kindred spirit who definitely doesn’t know I exist, I was sad last Wednesday when I realized her decades-long Vogue chapter was ending — but not really. She’s still committed to direct four spreads a year, but at the age of 74, she has
decided it time to pursue more professional projects — collaborating on a fragrance with Comme des Garçons and assisting in the production of her memoir biopic, to name a few. I was sad because I know, as the fashion community knows, that she’s completely irreplaceable. The thought of someone else’s creative eye directing our beloved book is unsettling. I’m shy to embrace change, sorry. Not unlike life itself, the fashion industry is quick to change — with each season the dominant styles shift, positions are taken and lost and we’re reminded how everything is heartbreakingly fleeting, fickle and seldom fixed. When I saw the New York Times report on Grace’s future, I thought about the fashion world at large, past and present. I’m not going to pretend the industry doesn’t have clear faults — latent racism, excessive fatshaming and a quickening pace that hinders creativity. But at its best, the industry makes us think and wonder. When Grace decided to step down, I started asking the questions that every generation within a given field asks when the greats and standard-setters start to slow down. It’s scary to consider the inevitability of our influencers fading away; it’s scary to think these iconic names and storied fashion houses will all be gone someday. Personally, the scariest part is that these legacy brands and publications will (hopefully) take chances on young, scrappy hooligans like me and expect us to take the reins and run with our creative impulses — using only our instincts and influences of the bygone icons to set the standard for the next generation of hopefuls. There’s a particularly moving scene in the doc when Grace taps into her signature self-awareness, as she stands outside the Archways Versailles (because of course that’s where she is). “I think I got left behind somewhere, ‘cause I’m, you know, still a romantic … You have to go charging ahead. You can’t stay behind,” she said in “The September Issue.” That scene didn’t faze me when I was 14 and sunburnt, but last week when I re-watched the documentary and considered Grace’s future, the chills were alive. If you want to hang with Filips, she’ll probably send an Uber for you. E-mail her at carofil@umich.edu.
FILM NOTEBOOK
By DAILY STYLE WRITERS On Jan. 23, EnspiRED, the University’s student-run fashion organization, hosted an Instagram-worthy event right here on campus in celebration of its 10th anniversary: Rouge. Rouge was a fashion show meant to bring awareness to the arts, not only on campus, but also to the Fleming Elementary School community in Detroit, to which the event’s proceeds went. Reminiscent of Fashion Week, the long runway was surrounded by rows of seats for family and friends alike to truly appreciate the unique styles that strutted down the catwalk. The event was comprised of eight individual themed scenes. Accompanied with videos, music and fabulous walks to match, the varied themes included mimes, dolls, clowns and in true freakshow fashion, monsters. With a lively and packed room, LSA senior Brysan Porterfield, EnspiRED president, said this year’s show yielded the largest amount of donations so far. Rouge featured apparel and accessories from many designers that ranged from local Ann Arbor businesses to University alumni and high profile chains. Pitaya, Verbana, Victoria’s Secret, Ragstock and Today’s Clothing, to name a few, loaned clothes for the Rouge event. Local designers such as Grant Henerson and Caleb Moss also helped curate looks. With apparel supplied from such varied sources, the range in fashion ensembles we saw crossed lines and transcended boundaries. With an impressive and expansive array of sponsors, EnspiRED’s event was calculated and ultra posh. This atmosphere was exemplified by all of the little extras the org provided, from freshly popped popcorn and colorfully spun cotton candy before the show to the various raffles and prizes that were given to lucky guests with a winning ticket. Though the fashion seemed an afterthought compared to the show’s stunning theatrics, it was far from forgettable. Among the various thematic “scènes,” aesthetic standouts included the Scène du Clown, Scène de la Poupee, Scène la Rue and Scène Sauvage. The opening Scène du Clown consisted of relatively tame looks in comparison to the
rest, but was punctuated with playful touches — punchy, bright makeup, jugglers and a skirt replete with balloons. The models in the Scène de la Poupee channeled their inner dolls with more fanciful, delicate dresses and tutus, with the makeup transforming models into mannequins. Models also slowed their sashays down the runway with an eerie stillness for a complete doll effect. Scène de la Rue showcased the most wearable looks — activewear, ripped jeans, boss vests and an unforgettable gold jacket for the adventurous menswear shopper. Things took a more risqué turn as the models of Scène Burlesque nearly bared all in lingerie of the lace, silk and net varieties. The penultimate Scène Sauvage also took a strong activist stance, stressing the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement. Models rocked nearly every subtype of dress — prep, hippie, boho, professional and urban trendy. *** Needless to say, the Daily Style Squad was impressed with the sheer amount of talent and fashion choices we saw. However, what does it take to plan an event like this each year? Turns out, a lot of hard work went into putting on Rouge, from choosing the theme to deciding between the carefully curated models. With the planning beginning in early September of last year, LSA junior Ify Odum, EnspiRED Image Consultant, explained to the Daily that it takes “a lot of teamwork, communication and dedication to pull off a show like this.” Besides planning the themes and coordinating the logistics for an event such as this, there is also the key task of assembling the models and the style looks. Everything from the clothing, down to the makeup and props used on the runway, was specially designed and curated for each scene’s theme. “Model coordinators work with fashion consultants and creative directors to ensure that the models we chose for this year’s show had the right walk, attitude and confidence,” Odum said. EnspiRED’s model coordinators are specifically responsible for choosing which outfits each model would wear based upon
what they were comfortable with as well as what the coordinator’s vision was for the theme. This wasn’t an easy process, Odum said, adding that it took hours of fitting sessions to decide and coordinate individual ensembles. To choose what each model was going to wear in relation to the different scenes, Odum and fellow image consultant, Darbee Pass, also an LSA junior, both worked for two days straight to decide individual outfits and get the fittings perfected. And just like in typical runway show fashion, there was little input from the models themselves, in terms of the outfits and makeup they adorned. That was left up to the image and fashion consultants to decide. Beauty is a huge part of any stylized look; hair and makeup can make or break an outfit choice. Makeup artists drew inspiration for the makeup looks by working with the scenes that the models were in. For this show in particular, the makeup and hair was unique, trendy and flawless. *** In addition to the fashions, what impressed us was the professionalism of each model. Right away we knew this wasn’t going to be just a fashion show run by University students. The confidence, grace and pure passion each student had on and off the runway made the experience all the more fun and authentic. “The models practiced every Sunday for two hours for about four months,” Odum said. In addition, in order to walk in the runway show, each model had to do one day of community service. One option was volunteering at the local children’s Hands on Museum, holding true to the organization’s mission of bringing awareness to the arts in our local communities, especially amongst creative youths. “Each model had their own reasons for modeling, whether it was to get over a fear or just to strut their stuff,” Odum said. Having raised just shy of $1,000 for Fleming Elementary’s arts programs, Rouge was fashion for a significant cause, in support of creativity amongst University students as well as our local communities.
CONCERT REVIEW
Lizzie in my dreams Elle King transcends at Majestic Theatre By LAUREN WOOD Daily Arts Writer
This weekend, I traveled back into the depths of the grade school movie vault, though not entirely on purpose. For a class, I watched the original “Cinderella” cartoon, which I had not seen for probably a decade. When I sat down to eat dinner one night, “High School Musical” was playing on TV, and when I visited the childhood home of my roommate in Chicago, we unearthed a DVD copy of “The Lizzie McGuire Movie” and couldn’t resist. While watching these movies, the plots were familiar, as was the overly emotive dialogue and highly stylized sets. But what stood out to me most were the objects that surrounded these films’ constructions. The beads strung up on one of the mouse helpers’ tails in “Cinderella” nearly jumped out of the screen and rolled across my own kitchen floor, so memorable to me they seemed completely separate from the plot of stepsisters and fairy godmothers. While watching “The Lizzie McGuire Movie,” my roommate Caroline pointed out every item of Lizzie’s very 2000s wardrobe, moments before they would appear on screen. “In the next scene she’s going to wear the blue hair clip.” “Wait for it, they’re almost to the shot of her spinning in the red shoes.” And when these objects did come up in the film, I could see them in the world of
the movie just as easily as I could imagine them lying at the bottom of my cluttered closet at home. In a class last semester, while talking about memoir and the detail of description, my teacher told us that half the memories we hold as true are actually the stuff of our dreams. When we speak or think of the past, we do not pull ideas from a memory storage bank but instead reconstruct what must have happened from details we have held on to. In another class about film history and theory, I learned that some early fictional films were imagined as one of the closest things we have to dreams, and the film industry was sometimes called the “dream factory.” If we think about this connection between movies and dreams, and between dreams and memories, it’s difficult to find a line of separation between our own experiences and the events we watch play out on screen. With enough distance, everything falls into our memory as real, and our own lives begin to bounce and blend with those of the characters. Of course, this is difficult to do with things like events or locations. I know I haven’t sung on stage at the Roman Colosseum at age 14 to a crowd of my shocked and awed classmates and snubbed Italy’s most famous young pop star (although I really, really wish this had happened.) But, looking at a blue hair clip on screen and looking at one in the bathroom cabinet my sister and I have stuffed with an
inordinate amount of Claire’s merchandise over the years is harder to differentiate. I know this seems trivial: who cares where that hair clip came from, and who cares why it shocks me when it comes up in a movie? But what’s weird about all of this is the way it shocked a room full of girls who had grown up in different cities, going to different schools and living completely separate lives. In a basement in Chicago, we were watching a pretty stupid, but nonetheless amazing movie and we all simultaneously went silent, realizing that something we had remembered as real was not ours. It had only lived on screen. In some section of our pasts, we had mixed in elements of some same stuff, and we had experienced that thing together from miles apart. So what happens if we take Lizzie McGuire’s blue, flowery hairclip and switch that out with something bigger, like a car, or maybe a house, or even a city. With wide reaching movies like this one, there is a generation of kids, eyes wide on the screen, coming to know these things as ideal, and integrating objects they’ve never even touched into a wide collective memory. There’s something strong in that, something hard to nail down and understand but pervasive nonetheless. There’s an understanding that strings our bumping, opposing consciousnesses together, and a place where our movies fade into reality.
By CHRISTIAN KENNEDY Daily Music Editor
Elle King didn’t play The Majestic on Wednesday night — she transcended in it. She has all the makings of a rockstar: drinks like a fish, swears like a sailor, dresses eccentrically and, most importantly, puts on a damn good rock show. The rescheduled, sold out show, refused to lose any amount of steam throughout King’s set. Draped in a black and white fur coat, the 26-year-old singer/songwriter worked through material from her debut LP Love Stuff complemented by a handful of widelyappreciated covers. First and foremost, an Elle King concert is a good time to be had by all. Two songs in, she admitted to the crowd she had forgotten her drink and conversed until one was brought to her — her wry sense of humor was the perfect complement to her alt. rock sound, making the personality, and the sometimes dark humor present in her music, feel all the more genuine. Before rolling through “Under The Influence,” she declared, “I’m drunk,” laughing with the crowd and asking them to raise their glasses because no one likes to drink alone. She made a spur-ofthe-moment decision to throw a
mash up of Nick Jonas’s “Jealous” and The Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face” partway through the setlist — demanding that even the shyer concert goers dance. More dazzling than her personality, was her voice. Her singularly soaring and raspy delivery didn’t come as a surprise, simply because it was so pure on her record, but even live there seemed to be a bit more growl in her delivery, infusing more energy into the set. She showcased the majority of Love Stuff, prefacing most tracks with short stories on inspiration or uninhibited ramblings. After performing Grammy-nominated top ten hit “Ex’s & Oh’s,” King poked fun at herself when she unabashedly called herself a slut. King’s voice allows for both of her tones — lowly blues-country singer on “I Told You I Was Mean,” “Make You Smile” and “Kocaine Karolina,” and growly rocker on “Where The Devil Don’t Go” and “Last Damn Night,” to maintain the crowd’s focus at all times. The band-heavy tracks pulled energy from the crowd, while the slower songs demanded attention solely because of King’s delivery. At the beginning of the show, she announced a special surprise would be coming if the crowd stayed until the end. The surprise, to make up for postponing
the show in November, came in the form of a three song encore, which was the the energetic climax. First — for Detroit — King spat the entirety of “The Real Slim Shady.” “Pinching nurses asses when I’m jacking off with Jergens / And I’m jerking but this whole bag of Viagra isn’t working,” is way more charming behind King’s persona — she added some miming for explanation, laughing collectively with the crowd. Next up was a cover that helped get her noticed, a folk-indie rock mold of Kia’s female satisfaction anthem, “My Neck, My Back.” Between the two covers in King’s encore and “Oh! Darling” during the set, there’s no question: Elle King can do it all. She capped off the show with her upcoming single “America’s Sweetheart.” She delivered the verses with a wicked smile and blew through the song’s evenbetter-live chorus. Drums vibrated off every surface in the room and the passion of King’s delivery took the crowd just a little bit higher before the night was over, building more energy with each chorus. King certainly isn’t America’s sweetheart — she’s not rock ‘n’ roll’s either (yet) — but on Wednesday night a much-hyped show proved, at least for a night, she was Detroit’s.
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Detroit’s lost ’60s punk band, MC5 You should listen to this Motor City blast from the past By MELINA GLUSAC Senior Arts Editor
On one of those listless Christmas break days, when the wind is bitter but there isn’t any snow to make up for it, I decided to go to Third Man Records. I live about 15 minutes from downtown Detroit and was, at the time, the sweaty kind of “embarrassed” because I hadn’t yet visited Jack White’s hot new music shop (and soon-to-be record factory). So I went, a good month after its opening. The place is loaded with vintage knick-knacks, guitar-heavy vinyl and other Nashville-punk impedimenta — so, yes, it reeks of White. But that’s a damn sexy smell to emit, if I should be so bold. A series of headphones and small screens popping out of the wall at the back of the shop drew me in like a weary sailor to a mermaid — what was there to listen to, to behold? Unreleased White Stripes stuff? More face-melting guitar solos? Clips of White eating his breakfast (I imagine he starts his day off right with cigarettes, whiskey and blues progressions), a la DJ Khaled? I intended to find out. My father beat me to the punch and was taking off his headphones as I arrived at the last station. “That was so cool,” the suburban gent that spawned me exclaimed. I looked at his screen and saw a handful of scraggly-looking dudes in black and white, performing some explosive live outdoor concert in Detroit in, like, 1969. The lead singer was way too into it. “Who the hell are they?” I squinted at the screen. “What is MC5?” Dad was shocked to find out about my lack of musical knowledge. (Why is he still smarter than me? Is college working?) He
explained how crucial the band was, how amazing, how crazylong-lasting-influential their music was on the rock genre and especially the punk scene. Punk rockers. From Detroit. In the ’60s. Okay, I could wrap my head around that — but legends? I didn’t know. They must be good, I thought hesitantly, if White devoted a little corner wall and headphone set to their legacy in his slightly self-indulgent shop. There must be something there. So, naturally, I put off listening to them for a few days. Part nervousness, part embarrassment, again — but if it wasn’t too late to go to Third Man Records, it wasn’t too late to start listening to MC5, alone, in my room, a few days before school started back up again. Cue: “Kick Out The Jams (Live)” and the beginning of a Spotify-driven, MC5 introductory shuffle session. “Kick Out” is the one they’re known for, and that’s completely as it should be because the song could demolish a building after one play, probably. Ramming guitars, white-knuckles-on-the-dashboard drums with melodious lines, it begins — ever-so-subtly — “Kick out the jams, motherfucker!” Um, MC5, your punk is showing. I was hooked. I am hooked. I can try to blame it on the voice — the late Rob Tyner’s pipes are both soulful and edgy, passionate and hard, crunchy with a little bit of chocolate syrup deftly drizzled into the mix. But then I can also blame it on the instrumentation — it’s tough to dispute the virtuosity, the raw emotion of Wayne Kramer and Fred “Sonic” Smith on the guitar. There wouldn’t be an MC5 without that six-stringed goodness. And then, of course, I could talk about the oft-overlooked backbones: Michael Davis’s intricate bass riffs, Dennis Thompson’s ramming drums. With any band, though, it’s the combination of all those elements that’s ultimately the culprit, the reason for excellence and listen-ability, and MC5
is no exception to that rule. They just worked. But then, a song emerges from the rock ‘n’ roll fog and clangs at the elusive tuning-fork artery in your heart. A case like this is rare. And it makes you cry and smile and it lets you know that the band you’re listening to — MC5 — is anything but just another rock group from the ’60s. “Miss X” starts up easy, some thudding piano chords occupying its first few precious seconds, but then gun-gun-gungun-gun—“Oh, now, yeeeah!” It starts for real, oozing sex and angst and frustration at an exponential punk-rock rate. A tonally descending background singers mirror Tyner’s dilemma, his own descent into the body of the woman that makes him weak. He pushes and pushes, with “undulating hips,” until one final yawp to end all yawps ever yawped is yawped. It’s desperation; it’s love; it’s pain; it’s love. And damn it, isn’t that what all musicians have been banging on about, for all these years? I don’t know when this affair will end. It’s not under cover of darkness, nor is it shameful. I’ve been telling everyone I’ve run into the past few weeks about my burning obsession, but no one seems to understand how badly I want to be Miss X. *** Dad called me the other night, and I told him what this article was going to be about. “Oh, so now you’re a fan?” Well, I’d like to thank Jack White for introducing me to the backbone, the invisible inspiration behind so many bands that have existed post-MC5. And Detroit, for housing the shaggy-headed gang that birthed Kick Out The Jams (Live), Back in the USA, and High Time, three of the most important albums since ’69. Together, they’ve made the new semester a little less lost, a little less listless and a lot more rock ‘n’ roll. So sonically speaking, I’m in love.
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Rihanna’s brilliant and personal ‘ANTI’ By CHRISTIAN KENNEDY Daily Music Editor
Rihanna’s eighth studio album, ANTI, had much of the world convinced her career was about to take a blow. Between the endless A delays, lackluster respons- Anti es to “Bitch Rihanna Better Have My Money” Roc Nation and “American Oxygen” and a horribly-executed album launch, Rihanna had dug herself quite the hole — a hole that desperately needed to be filled with an album full of Bad Gal Riri’s club jams followed up by her massive world tour to establish her mojo again, but that’s not what ANTI is. After seven albums in seven years (2005-2012), Rihanna churned out hit after hit — there’s a reason she’s the only artist to have sold 100 million songs. But despite all of her success, her sound and approach remained stagnant, the only shift coming when she honed in on her technical skills with Ne-Yo (remember “Hate That I Love You”?), went darker on Rated R and embraced an island vibe with Loud. Beyond that, Rihanna’s consistent sound has allowed her to consistently
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maintain her Bad Gal popstar persona — until now. ANTI offers the most nuanced Rihanna album yet. It would appear the fouryear break from dropping LPs loaded with dancefloor jams and anthemic boudoir bangers allowed the singer to reimagine her own sound, resulting in an experimental album the blends trap, R&B, soul, psychedelic rock, hip-hop and, of course, pop. The 13-track album starts with bass-heavy, defiant opener “Consideration,” on which Rihanna asks a slew of questions that, if listened to, foreshadow the change in Rihanna’s sound: “Run it on back, will it ever make sense to me?,” “Why you will never let me grow?” and “Darling would you mind giving my reflection a break / From the pain it’s feeling now?” The track features SZA and hints at Rihanna’s professional frustrations, going as far to say, “Let me cover your shit in glitter.” And just under 45 minutes later it’s only Rihanna and a piano on “Close To You,” an emotionally raw ballad recounting a lover lost. The journey between the two showcases Rihanna’s most diverse offerings, possibly even attaining the “timeless” sound she has been yearning after for so long. “James Joint” and “Kiss It Better” comprise the romantic moments of serotonin-laced beats. The former is a declaration of a smoked-down love, and the latter features percussion and synths flowing beneath Rihanna’s electro delivery — the neon-pink aura the song exudes is reminiscent of Carly Rae Jepsen’s “All That.” The first single from ANTI, “Work” soared to the top of the iTunes charts and took over radio, but the response felt mixed. The song’s not bad, but the chorus is one word and then, all of a sudden, Rihanna sounds like she’s ten drinks in(?). “Work” made no strong commitments to any singular sonic leaning — it’s not a pop masterpiece nor a trap house hit, but the stimulating beat and Rihanna’s quick delivery bolster its assets. Rihanna in “Desperado” begins the shift in the album to darker themes and heartbreak. The cinematic sound finds sinister urgency in the sharp whips of cymbals and experimenting with tone, creating an effect of walking from one room to another, hearing the music’s volume and pitch shift slightly. Riri and tour opener Travi$ Scott take ANTI to its darkest chapter on “Woo”. The instrumentation — nearly con-
stant throughout the song — is undoubtedly angry and the lyrics are more of the same: “I bet she could never make you cry / Cause the scars on your heart are still mine / Tell me that she couldn’t get this dick.” Anger turns into well-earned narcissism on “Needed Me.” The sensual, empowered declaration of necessity tears into an ex: “But baby, don’t get it twisted / You was just another n***a on the hit list / Tryna fix your inner issues with a bad bitch / Didn’t they tell you that I was a savage / Fuck your white horse and a carriage.” Moving from sensual to sexual, “Yeah, I Said It,” co-written with Timbaland, is notable for its relaxed delivery and lyrical couplets and boasts enough sex necessary for a proper Rihanna album — the bassline line alone oozes sexual appeal. Perhaps the most surprising ANTI offering is a cover of Tame Impala’s “New Person, Same Old Mistakes,” “Same Ol’ Mistake.” The cover, still produced by Kevin Parker, doesn’t stray far from the original composition of 2015’s Currents, but the dark vibe and thematic elements transition the album into its final act. “Never Ending” foils the complexity of “Same Ol’ Mistake” with its beautiful chord progression and unplugged production. “Love On The Brain,” a retro slow jam, borrows stylistically from Amy Winehouse’s “Wake Up Alone,” to offer a tough sound as the song seems to reminisce over Rihanna’s abusive relationship with Chris Brown. The first chorus introduces the dynamics, “I tried to buy your pretty heart, but the price too high,” and the chorus furthers the tragic love “It beats me black and blue, but it fucks me so good.” The last track before the closer, “Higher” is the strongest vocal display Rihanna’s offered. No longer looking for the crispness of her previous pop-centric efforts, “Higher” features her raw voice, rasp included, in the soulful interlude to the album’s closer. With her 8th studio album, Rihanna paints a vivid picture moving deliberately from track to track, showcasing love, loss, sex, abuse and personal growth. Waiting for ANTI seemed like hell to dedicated Rihanna fans, but it doesn’t sound like a party for Rihanna either. The album’s experimental feel for the established superstar may turn some away, but Rihanna’s made it clear that others don’t decide what type of box she belongs in. If ANTI isn’t a concept album, it certainly feels like one — and a concept worth waiting for at that.
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Top line shines as ‘M’ cruises past Penn State By JUSTIN MEYER Daily Sports Writer
STATE COLLEGE — Just outside the closing minute of the first period, Michigan senior goaltender Steve Racine 7 MICHIGAN lay in the PENN STATE 4 crease with his face buried in the ice as the crowd roared. Off to a shaky start, Racine had just conceded a cringeworthy goal to No. 15 Penn State on a shot from outside the blue line. A fan held a sign up to the glass reading: “It’s all your fault!” And it was Racine’s fault. He had hit the puck with his glove, missing an easy save, only to see it drop behind him into the net to make the score 2-2. But the goalie stayed there for only a second before picking himself up off the ice. And, eventually, the sixth-ranked Wolverines picked themselves up, too, besting the Nittany Lions, 7-4. SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily “That was a good test for Freshman forward Kyle Connor has scored 20 goals in 22 games this season, including two against Penn State on Thursday at Pegula Ice Arena. our goalie and our team — not to let that goal upset us,” said linemate, junior forward Evan the net. Not a single Penn State the Nittany Lions in 2015. That trend continued with a Michigan coach Red Berenson. Allen. Those two had played player was in the offensive zone. The combination of similar string of three goals when the “We didn’t.” a combined 19 of a possible It was a wild way to open styles and impressive speed Wolverines’ electric first line For the hockey purist, the 44 games this year going into the game, but that might have made for a jolting contest in put Penn State in a 5-3 hole. first period was one to forget. Thursday. been expected which momentum was nearly “It can be any line, as we’ve But boy, was it exciting. The given the impossible to find. seen from the beginning of the Michigan (6-1-2 Big Ten, 15-3- pandemonium recent history “(Penn State has) earned year, with Cooper Marody’s line 4 overall) opened the scoring was capped off between the a lot of respect from the Big really getting off to a hot start,” amid confusion. Junior forward in Michigan’s two teams. The Ten conference,” Berenson Motte said. “I guess it’s our turn Tyler Motte put away a puck defensive end Wolverines said. “Particularly with us, the now.” that fluttered high above the ice with Racine’s have been way they’ve handled us. We Connor, alone, has 20 goals and fell almost directly to his error. A long frustrated by had to have an A-game ready, in 22 games this season. stick in front of the left post. shot hit the the Nittany otherwise it wouldn’t be good Continuing his streak, the Penn State’s Chase Berger goalie square Lions over enough.” 19-year-old had two goals and countered by working through in the chest the past two Michigan was closest to two assists on Thursday night. traffic to beat Racine to a and bounced. seasons — establishing control in the He opened the scoring by rebound. The senior Penn State second period. Freshman Kyle finishing a breakaway gifted by Then, it was sophomore knocked the rebound with his eliminated Michigan from the Connor and juniors Tyler a diving play from Motte. forward Niko Porikos scoring glove and watched, helplessly, Big Ten Tournament in 2014 and Motte and JT Compher have Connor later found Compher form the high slot with his first as the puck lazily drooped the Wolverines dropped three of easily outscored any other line alone in front with a perfect career goal on an assist from his backward over his head and into four regular season matchups to in college hockey this month. backhand pass and capped off
“(Penn State) has earned a lot of respect from the Big Ten.”
the period by batting a rebound out of the air. Penn State (6-3-0, 16-6-3) finally got going again with just over three minutes to play in the period on a goal from Tommy Olczyk — but it wasn’t nearly enough. The third period got off to an odd start when Michigan’s coaches were absent for the puck drop. “This building wasn’t designed for the visiting coaches to get to the bench,” Berenson said. “You have to walk down this hall and it seems like you go around campus to get to the visitor’s bench. So we didn’t leave on time. We missed the first shift. The players were all laughing about it on the bench. “I’m not sure who was coaching.” Neutral zone play opened up in the third and the Nittany Lions threatened throughout the final period. Michigan answered the challenge, though, tightening up defensively and adding a pair of goals. Penn State didn’t help itself in the third period either, conceding a long 5-on-3 power play for the Wolverines. A late goal simply wasn’t enough to climb out of the growing deficit. It wasn’t always pretty, but Michigan played a resilient 60 minutes of hockey in State College. And they were victorious, despite the dejected Racine lying on the ice at the end of the first. It just wasn’t the same old story of the Nittany Lions frustrating the Wolverines. Michigan and Penn State will meet again Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York, part of a doubleheader with the Wolverines’ and Nittany Lion’s basketball teams. Hopefully, next time, the coaches can get to the bench.
Dawkins blends style and practicality Foul trouble hurts ‘M’ in loss at Iowa WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
By LEV FACHER Daily Sports Writer
Thirty minutes before the start of any Michigan men’s basketball game, all eyes are on Aubrey Dawkins. As the Wolverines huddle at center court for a final check-in, the sophomore guard emerges from the pack carrying a basketball and a grin. His task is simple: provide Michigan, and any fans already in their seats, with a healthy dose of pregame energy before the team jogs through Crisler Center’s south tunnel en route to the locker room. Dawkins gets it done with a dunk. Some days, it’s a 360-degree spin leading into a twohanded slam. Others, it’s a lefthand finish off an alley-oop Dawkins throws himself off the backboard. Sometimes, a teammate throws him the lob, and occassionally, it’s as simple as a soaring, right-handed spike off a jump Dawkins starts from a distance that seems impossible. As it happened Wednesday, the soaring right-handed spike did prove impossible during the second half of Michigan’s 68-57 victory over Rutgers. Had Dawkins converted, he would have found himself the star of SportsCenter. Instead, the missed dunk became an emblem for a flat, uninteresting game that saw the Wolverines struggle to put away a team still winless in eight tries against Big Ten opponents. Dawkins described the attempt as “Blake Griffin-esque” after the game and said he “most definitely” would be admonished down the line by Michigan coach John Beilein. “He has to understand: You’ve got to be good before you’re great,” Beilein said in his postgame press conference. “You can’t skip steps. I think he understands that. … We had the same thing with Glenn Robinson (III), who had a lot of ‘my bads’ when he tried to dunk it with one hand — and Mitch McGary.” The comparison to Robinson, who left for the NBA Draft
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Sophomore guard Aubrey Dawkins has displayed remarkable athleticism in his first two seasons at Michigan.
after the 2013-14 season, was more apt than perhaps even Beilein realized. Robinson was Dawkins’ predecessor as the performer of the pregame dunk, but it’s a ritual that, bizarrely, Michigan coaches never witness live. Beilein, along with assistants Bacari Alexander and LaVall Jordan, haven’t yet emerged from the locker room when dunk time rolls around. Beilein’s third assistant, Jeff Meyer, supervises warmups, but he returns to the locker room before the players and isn’t there to watch the final minutes. “I’ve never seen it,” Meyer said before Wednesday’s game. “I leave when the clock reads 36 minutes (before tipoff ).” The dunk takes place closer to the 32-minute mark, and it might be better that way. Dawkins, who lost his starting spot early in the season, displays as much raw basketball talent as any of his teammates. At points throughout his two years at Michigan, however, his athleticism has seemed to translate to the type of ostentatiousness on display
Wednesday. The lesson, Beilein said, is obvious. “Go up and dunk it with two (hands),” Beilein said. “It’ll still make the highlight reel. Just go up, but get it with two hands.” Dawkins, for his part, understands his limitations. The miss Wednesday was more a miscalculation than an attempt at posterization, Dawkins said — he jumped from seven feet away because he expected to draw contact once the Rutgers defender met him in the air. With no red jerseys nearby, Dawkins instead found himself hurtling through open space, with a desperation attempt at essentially throwing the ball through the rim his only hope of converting on the place. Dawkins, speaking to reporters on Tuesday, said he doesn’t have a go-to dunk and unknowingly foreshadowed Wednesday’s miss. “There’s only so many dunks you can really do,” he said. “Especially ones you can make consistently.” Modest as he is, Dawkins’ arsenal is hardly limited. Given
his athleticism and the dunking ability he possessed as a true freshman, there was never much doubt as to who might replace Robinson. “Usually the most athletic guy does it,” said junior guard Derrick Walton Jr. on Tuesday. “It was kind of obvious that once that time of warmups comes, everybody would pretty much back up and let (Dawkins) do what he does.” Junior forward Zak Irvin said Tuesday that Dawkins is the Wolverines’ best jumper, echoing Walton’s recollection that Dawkins became the natural choice to succeed Robinson as soon as he arrived on campus. The vast majority of the time, the abilities Dawkins displays in warm-ups and in practice translate seamlessly to his in-game performance. The mentality, of course, is different. Dawkins gets a second chance if he misses his pregame dunk. He was afforded no such second chance Wednesday. Then again, there was no need for second chances against Rutgers.
Foul trouble has been a problem for the Michigan women’s basketball team the entire season, and MICHIGAN 69 85 IOWA Thursday’s game against Iowa in Iowa City was no exception. The Wolverines received a 31-point performance from sophomore guard Katelynn Flaherty — her fourth 30-point game of the season — but it wasn’t enough for Michigan to overcome its foul trouble in the post, as the Wolverines fell to the Hawkeyes, 85-69. The sophomore guard shot 5-of-6 from 3-point range on her way to 24 points in the first half. Michigan only trailed by one at the break, but it was all downhill from there. “We were up, I think our confidence was good, I think we were getting in transition,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico in an interview with MGoBlue.com. “Katelynn was really shooting the ball exceptionally well, and then we had a bunch of fouls where we might have been up 10 at one point, and then they started making their foul shots and they cut the gap.” Michigan was in foul trouble early, specifically in the post, as senior forward Kelsey Mitchell and freshman center Hallie Thome committed three and two first-half fouls, respectively. The team’s foul trouble pushed Iowa into the bonus with 2:36 left in the first half, sparking a 13-4 run to end the opening stanza, with five of those points coming from the charity stripe. Michigan started the second half cold, missing its first five shots as Iowa extended its lead to 10 with 4:36 to go in the third
quarter. Thome quickly committed her third foul less than three minutes into the second half, further adding to the Wolverines’ trouble in the post, as she headed to the bench yet again. With Thome taking another seat, Iowa forwards Chase Coley and Megan Gustafson took advantage of the foul trouble inside, as both players posted double-doubles in points and rebounds. “Defensively we did a decent job on them in the first half,” Barnes Arico said. “But in the first half they made seven 3s, so (in the second half ) they weren’t making as many 3s, they were really trying to attack inside, and that’s been an area of struggle for us all year.” With two starters looking to avoid fouling out, Michigan needed to get production from other sources. But the team did not receive much support from its bench in the loss. The Iowa reserves outscored the Wolverines’ bench, 33-6, and even though four Michigan starters made it to double digits, it wasn’t enough to counter the Hawkeyes’ advantage off the bench. A crucial part of Michigan’s downfall was Iowa’s 84-percent shooting from the free-throw line, as the Hawkeyes took full advantage of Michigan’s 23 total fouls. Though the Wolverines were able to cut the deficit to six in the final minutes, Iowa imposed its will on the game and pushed its lead to 16, the Hawkeyes’ eventual margin of victory. “Losing is never fun, and it’s never easy for anyone and I just think that it’s a process,” Barnes Arico said. “Instead of looking at the wins and losses, a lot of times we’ve just got to look at ‘OK, let’s be better next game.’ ”
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Timeline: Hackett’s A.D. tenure By JAKE LOURIM & MAX BULTMAN Managing Sports Editors
With Connecticut athletic director Warde Manuel set to take over the same role at Michigan, interim Athletic Director Jim Hackett’s tenure is winding to a close. In possibly the most productive 15-month stretch in Athletic Department history, Hackett oversaw the transition from Brady Hoke to Jim Harbaugh as football coach, negotiated a record apparel deal with Nike and extended basketball coach John Beilein’s contract, among other initiatives. Hackett, a former Steelcase CEO and Wolverine football player, returned to his alma mater at a time of relative instability and will leave the department in better shape than he found it. The Daily looks back at some of the highlights of his tenure. Oct. 31, 2014: Dave Brandon resigns, Hackett named interim Athletic Director. Amid mounting public dissatisfaction from students as well as alumni and donors, University President Mark Schlissel accepted Brandon’s resignation and announced Hackett as the interim Athletic Director. At the time, Schlissel said the decision was “in the best interest of student-athletes, the Athletic Department and the University community.” Dec. 2, 2014: Hackett fires Brady Hoke. Following a 5-7 season that included losses to Michigan’s three biggest rivals — Notre Dame, Ohio State and Michigan State — as well as defeats against Big Ten newcomers Maryland and Rutgers, Hackett decided it was time to let Hoke go. In a statement, Hackett said: “This was not an easy decision given the level of respect that I have for Brady. He has done a great job of molding these young men, making them accountable to their teammates, focusing them on success in the classroom and in the community. “I wanted to make sure that Brady received adequate time to exhibit the results that would come from his effort and I believe that Brady and our coaching staff had enough time to produce those results and unfortunately they are not there. In the end, I feel that moving in a different direction is the right decision.” In the same press conference came his remark about the Athletic Department’s commonly used term of pride. “I want to get rid of the word ‘Michigan Man,’ ” Hackett said that day. He did so to avoid restricting it to men, to leave Bo Schembechler’s original remark in context and to emphasize the selflessness that goes along with the term. And thus began a coaching search Hackett later revealed as being called “Project Unicorn.” You presumably know the result, but in case you don’t… Dec. 30, 2014: Jim Harbaugh introduced as head football coach. Harbaugh was the golden goose, the prized unicorn of Hackett’s search. After weeks of rumors
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Interim Athletic Director Jim Hackett made significant progress in just under 15 months on the job.
both promoting and tempering the possibility of Harbaugh returning to Michigan, the former All-American quarterback was announced as the team’s new coach. In just two months, Hackett had already delivered the prize that will headline his tenure. At the time, then-redshirt junior center Jack Miller praised the deal, giving Hackett the bulk of the credit. “I knew it was going to be something special if we got it done,” Miller said at Harbaugh’s announcement. “Kudos to Jim Hackett for doing that. … We hit the home run everyone was looking for.” April 1, 2015: Hackett holds fireside chat to interact with students. When Hackett took over, the popularity of the Athletic Department was at a low point. Ticket sales to both alumni and students had plummeted, and numerous off-field incidents had plagued the department as the fall of 2014 wore on. Students were planning to wear shirts calling for Brandon’s firing at the football game against Indiana the day after he resigned. One of Hackett’s main achievements was restoring the pride in the Athletic Department and repairing relationships with the students. While he achieved a good portion of that effort just by replacing Hoke with Harbaugh, he also took the time to interact with students on their views at a fireside chat last spring. At that point, Hackett was also in the process of evaluating the apparel deal that he signed three months later. He also expressed a desire to improve the fan experience at Michigan Stadium, making it less “corporate.” “I don’t want to sound sarcastic,” Hackett said at the time. “What I don’t want is more entertainment that’s not football. I think that works in the pros, but we’re in college. I believe college shouldn’t be like the pros. It shouldn’t cost like the pros.” Another aspect involved playing less piped-in music in the stadium and using more of the Michigan Marching Band. In September, band director John Pasquale said he had seen improvement in that area. And, of course, the chat was
the first interaction with students about Harbaugh’s hiring. The enthusiasm showed, and the results followed on the field last fall. July 6, 2015: Michigan agrees to apparel deal with Nike through 2027. In total fairness, this couldn’t have been a hard decision to make. Nike is an apparel juggernaut, and the Michigan brand is so valuable that the school had Nike, Under Armour and Adidas all competing for it. However, the deal Michigan got was quite impressive. The financial figures of the deal were released later in July, totaling $169 million over the 15 years of the contract. Over the course of the contract, the money will be divided into $76.8 million in cash, $80.2 million worth of apparel and $12 million in up-front money last summer. “After careful consideration, the right partner for the University of Michigan was Nike,” Hackett said at the time. “This decision, this partnership is about more than Michigan athletics; at the core, it is about our University community and it is about two great names reuniting for an opportunity that speaks to more than uniforms and apparel.” In another part of the deal, Michigan will become the first football team to wear the “Jumpman” logo, part of the Jordan Brand, and the men’s and women’s basketball teams will also join the Jordan Brand family. Oct. 18, 2015: Hackett writes an open letter to Michigan fans in support of the football team. The day before was one of the low points of his tenure. Seeking its first win over Michigan State since 2012, the Michigan football team never trailed until the final second of the game. With 10 seconds to go, and with the Wolverines ahead 23-21, fifthyear senior punter Blake O’Neill dropped the snap on what could have been a game-ending punt. He took a hit when he picked up the ball, and Michigan State’s Jalen Watts-Jackson returned it for a touchdown to win the game. Some Michigan fans took to social media to express their frustration by criticizing O’Neill after the game. The following day, Hackett
wrote an open letter on the Athletic Department’s website condemning those fans’ actions. “Today I awake to the shocking reality that our community who care so much about this program would send hurtful, spiteful and vicious comments to one of our students,” Hackett said. “To be clear, such comments come from a small minority, none of whom are reflective of our institution. “The people I have been associated with my whole life around this fantastic program — some whom are living and some whom have passed on — would never, I repeat never, spread blame.” Nov. 4, 2015: Hackett extends Beilein’s contract through the 2020-21 season. Four weeks before the University announced it would start looking for Hackett’s replacement, the athletic director’s last significant action was signing Beilein to a two-year contract extension. The coach said after the deal that the extra security helps with recruiting players and assuring them that he will be the coach for the duration of their careers. Beilein, who turns 63 next Friday, is in his ninth season at Michigan with a 182-115 overall record. “John is one of the most respected coaches in the country and revered people within the university community,” Hackett said in a statement. “While he has accomplished many great things on the basketball court, it is his leadership, guidance and role as an educator that truly makes him one of our great ambassadors. We look forward to John continuing to represent the University of Michigan for many years to come.” Dec. 2, 2015: Schlissel begins a search for a permanent athletic director. In 13 months on the job, Hackett had accomplished more than anyone could have expected him to, especially considering the circumstances he inherited. But Hackett’s status was always in the short term, and after a little more than a year, the end neared. With the football season over, the apparel contract signed and no open coaching vacancies, Schlissel
began another transition. He would head a seven-member search committee comprising Hackett; his special counsel, Liz Barry; the faculty athletic representative, Anne Curzan; women’s soccer player Corinne Harris; softball coach Carol Hutchins; Chief Financial Officer Kevin Hegarty; and alumnus Stefan G. Humphries. While announcing the search, Schlissel expressed his appreciation for Hackett. “I could not have asked for more from a leader,” he said in a statement. “He stepped up at a moment of need and has
served the institution with great distinction. Personally, he has been a pleasure to work with and I will always owe him a debt of gratitude.” Meanwhile, Hackett, in one of his last public remarks as the Athletic Director, looked back on his time in the position as a “love story.” “It began with President Schlissel calling and asking if I could help,” Hackett said. “I have another friend in business who said sometimes you do things for God and country. I love the University, and I felt compelled to come and help.”
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Hackett had a defining moment when he wrote an open letter in support of Blake O’Neill after the Michigan State game.