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Kasich looks to Michigan after New Hampshire win Presidential candidate holds town hall at GOP Livonia office By SAM GRINGLAS Daily Staff Reporter
LIVONIA — After departing New Hampshire with a muchneeded second place finish last week, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) is
now banking on an equally strong turnout in Michigan to sustain his path to the presidency. The two-term Republican governor wrapped up a two-day swing through Michigan on Tuesday, which included stops at two colleges, Michigan State University in East Lansing and Grand Valley State University outside of Grand Rapids, in advance of the state’s March 8 primary. During a Tuesday town hall of a couple hundred people held at a local GOP office in Livonia, Kasich emphasized both
his eagerness to promote a conservative agenda — including items like securing the border, increasing defense spending, passing a balanced budget amendment, cutting taxes and regulations — and his willingness to work with Democrats to get things done. “If you think we’re going to fix social security by the Republicans ramming something through, when you go to bed tonight, check under the pillow for the tooth fairy. It doesn’t work that way,” he said. “If I win the White House, we’re
going to have a conservative agenda, and I’m going to be the orchestra leader, but I want everybody to play in the orchestra, so we can get these things accomplished.” Kasich is currently polling at an average of 6 percent in Michigan in the most recent poll compiled by RealClearPolitics. That leaves him in fifth place, ahead only of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Trump is currently leading the polls in Michigan at 38 percent. However, that limited polling See KASICH, Page 3A
UHS says over 20 students confirmed ill with similar symptoms By ANNA HARITOS Daily Staff Reporter
University officials said Tuesday that they are looking into a spated illness on campus. “We have seen approximately 20 to 25 individuals in the emergency room and health service building combined who have had a vomiting illnesssometimes with diarrhea,” Dr. Robert Winfield, executive director of UHS, said. “This began sometime last evening, and people continued to be sick through the night, and the morning — some people showing improvement.” In an effort to find the cause of the outbreak, Dr. Winfield has partnered up with the chief of the University Hospital’s ER, the head of infection control and
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COLUMBUS — As Ohio State honored former standout Evan Turner with a halftime ceremony Tuesday night, Michigan’s fans and coaches alike might have winced at the memory of Turner’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer six years ago. That shot gave Ohio State a stunning win in the 2010 Big Ten Tournament and ended the Wolverines’ season in the blink of an eye. No such heroics were necessary Tuesday, however, as the Buckeyes (9-5 Big Ten, 17-10 overall) jumped out to an eightpoint lead at halftime and never relinquished it in a 76-66 win against Michigan (9-5, 19-8). The Wolverines have now won in Columbus only once in the last 14 seasons and came out sputtering in the rivals’ only
regular-season matchup this season. Michigan missed its first five attempts from the field and quickly fell victim to foul trouble, with sophomore guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman spending the middle part of the first half on the bench after picking up two quick fouls. Michigan coach John Beilein, who has long refused to send players back into games with two fouls before halftime, didn’t break from tradition, even as Michigan failed to generate offense with junior Andrew Dakich playing point guard. “Very,” said Michigan coach John Beilein, asked how tempted he was to break his own rule by sending Abdur-Rahkman back in to spell Dakich. “But again, (the margin) was like two or three points with two minutes to go. … There’s no reason to say, ‘OK, the sky is falling. And then they scored the last five points to make it an eight-point game.’ ” The Wolverines’ options in the backcourt were limited to begin with, as senior guard Caris LeVert did not play after making his return Saturday See BASKETBALL, Page 8A
Laura Bauman, an epidemiologist at the Washtenaw County Health Department. “We have tested a number of people who are sick by taking stool cultures and sending them to Michigan Department of Community Health in Lansing,” Winfield said. “It takes about three to five days to receive results back for norovirus testing.” Winfield said the final count of students who have been affected will not be known for a few days. Of those individuals who became ill and sought out help, they tended to live in either South Quad Residence Hall or West Quad Residence Hall. However, there were four cases that had no affiliation with either facility in the last few days, UHS reported. “There are three ways an outbreak can occur,” Dr. Winfield said. “This is a season where the norovirus, or the cruise ship virus, infections can become prevalent — it’s a very contagious virus and it’s harder to kill with regular cleaning supplies. The See SICKNESS, Page 3A
Deer cull continues to be contested issue at Tuesday meeting By BRIAN KUANG Daily Staff Reporter
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Susan Stryker, director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona, delivers the 2016 Jean Yokes Woodhead Lecture on gay liberation, the women’s movement and transgender activism at Rackham on Tuesday.
Lecture examines progress in transgender movement Presenter discusses significant historical events in the 1970s to current day By ANDREW HIYAMA Daily Staff Reporter
The year 1973 represented a great leap forward toward equal rights for the gay and feminist communities in
America — including the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion, and the removal of homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as a mental disorder. However, the year also marked a regression in trans rights, exemplified by gay and feminist protests of trans speakers and performers at gay liberation events. Susan Stryker, associate professor of
gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona, said in a lecture at Rackham Building on Tuesday. Stryker’s address focused on how the trans community is in a similar oppositional position currently, and examined transgender history in an attempt to better understand the community today. The lecture is part of a Year of Conversions series of events that aim to engage See LECTURE, Page 3A
At their Tuesday meeting, Ann Arbor City Council members unanimously appointed current Interim Police Chief James Baird as police chief, concluding the city’s nationwide search to fill the role= Baird will officially assume the role on Feb. 22. The search for a new police chief has been ongoing over past months. Council initiallyconfirmed James White, assistant police chief of the Detroit Police Department, in November 2015. White unexpectedly turned down the appointment to remain in Detroit. Baird has been serving as the city’s interim police chief See POLICE, Page 3A
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cern about travel to areas affected by the Zika virus. Last week, the University issued a warning for travelers from Robert Winfield, the University’s chief health officer. “As spring break approaches and many U-M students, faculty and staff are preparing to travel — especially to destinations in South and Central America, Mexico or the Caribbean — I want to share important information about the Zika virus,” the warning read.
The travel warning referred students to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionfor more information. The CDC has issued a Level 2 travel alert, meaning travelers should “practice enhanced precautions” in countries affected.” These countries include popBy MEGAN DOYLE ular Spring Break destinations, Daiily Staff Reporter such as Mexico, the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands and other countries As Spring Break quickly in Central and South America. As approaches, University of Michisuch, the University has issued a gan officials have expressed conwarning to students planning to travel to impacted areas. Zika virus outbreaks have GREG GOSS/Dailly additionally occurred in areas of LSA senior Cooper Charlton, Central Student Government president, speaks about executive matters at a CSG meeting in Africa, Southeast Asia, the Pacific the Michigan Union on Tuesday. Islands and the Americas. Puerto Rico documented its first case of the Zika virus as recently as December 2015. Joseph Eisenberg, chair and professor of epidemiology in the School of Public Health, said very Sudoku Syndication little research has been done abouthttp://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ the Zika virus. “We just don’t know a lot,” the assembly since thisfall. After its request for an advisory comEisenberg said. “We want to err an initial move by the Univer- mittee to preside over elections on the side of everyone being safe, sity to release the evaluations to make sure everything goes and that’s the reason for the travel in October, faculty governance according to code as CSG’s elecwarnings.” expressed significant concern tions draw nearer. According to the CDC, Zika about the impact of it, ultimately CSG counsel Jacob Pearlman, EASY virus is spread primarily through voting to block the release later Public Policy sophomore, said mosquito bites. Common sympBy ANNA HARITOS that month. Before the vote took that he had hired third-year law toms include fever, rash, joint pain Daily Staff Reporter place, University Provost Mar- student Nick Loukides as the and conjunctivitis or red eyes. The tha Pollack said she would be body’s assistant student general illness is fairly mild, with sympAt their meeting Tuesday, willing to slow down the release counsel to help enforce the electoms lasting several days to a week, Central Student Government process if faculty continued to be tion code. According to Pearlbut there is no known vaccine to addressed progress on a range of opposed to it. man, the position’s task is to file prevent it or medicine to treat it. both long-term issues, like course Since then, Charlton said complaints to the University The concern for the internaevaluations, and new ones, such CSG has been working with the Elections Commission for violational epidemic, however, largely as resource guide for undocu- administration and the Faculty tions to the election code. comes in the risk for pregnant mented students. Senate to let students have access The position holder will be women. Though the symptoms of Executive Communications to course evaluation data. responsible for representing CSG the virus are mild, Zika virus can During his executive commuDuring his remarks, Charlton in election violation, and will be spread from a pregnant woman nications, CSG President Cooper also praised the fact the Univer- write amicus briefs, which the to her unborn baby, causing a Charlton, an LSA senior, said the sity Athletic Department said the body is defining as reports that serious birth defect called microbody is working with faculty on prices for football season tickets will be generated for each party cephaly. Microcephaly can impact moving forward to release course for Fall 2016 will not increase detailing the party’s perspective brain and skull development in evaluations to students. from the previous season. on other election disputes. infants, which can lead to stillbirth “There is progress being made “I’m excited to see the athletic The position is new this year, or death after a few hours. on course evaluations,” Charlton department’s commitment to and pays $18 an hour. Eisenberg noted that the consesaid. “I’m very pleased with our students,” he said. “Specifically Resolutions quences of travel to areas that are collaboration with faculty, spe- around student ticket prices. The CSG voted to support the crehighly affected with Zika virus cifically SACUA. 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SICKNESS From Page 1A second way can be food-related, and symptoms usually occur six to 10 hours within consumption. The third potential cause is from germs that are alive inside some kind of food — things like E. coli and Salmonella.” The Office of Public Affairs, University Housing and the University Health Service state that there is no determination on the cause of the vomiting and diarrhea outbreak that has occurred on campus. The dining halls also reported no absences of their student staff. Some students affected by the illness have turned to social media outlets like Twitter and Yik Yak to voice their concerns and frustrations, in several cases drawing a response from University Dining’s Twitter. Though the source of the outbreak is still unknown, students said they believe it has been caused by food in South Quad dining. LSA freshman Sean Lang, said he believed he was experiencing food poisoning. “Yesterday all I had to eat was a bowl of Frosted Mini-Wheats before my 9 a.m.,” Lang said. “Later, I ate at SQuad again, and I got a stomach ache around six and things went downhill from there. I got a pretty bad headache and began having diarrhea, and then around 11 at night I puked, but only once — other people I’ve spoken to have complained about puking through the night.” Amir Baghdadchi, the University Housing Communications director, siad they do not currently have any information on the matter other than the reports of illness in both students and faculty. “At the moment there are reports across campus of both students and staff falling ill,” Baghdadchi said. “We’re working with University Health Service to both treat the students and ascertain what the cause is. We have no information that suggests that food poisoning is the case at this moment. We in University Housing don’t have information about it.” Resident of South Quad Johnny Goldenberg, LSA freshman, said in an interview he was surprised by the Unviersity’s decison not to notify residents immediately, noting that several resident advisors said they were notified. “It’s wrong to try to cover it up and not warn students whatsoever,” he said. Goldenberg added he feels the University did not acknowledge the situation, possibly contributing to the spread of a potential virus. “It’s just weird because if people went the hospital last night, people have been eating the entire day (at South Quad) and even if it’s gone, they could at least be like ‘some of these foods might have stuff in them be careful’ but there was nothing,” Goldenberg. “And a lot of people are really mad about this. In my opinion it’s really a mishandling of the situation. Because people have finals too, like people cannot get sick right now and people are barfing their brains out.”
CSG From Page 2A information regarding legal and financial resources on and off campus. According to the resolution, the responsibility for the maintenance of the guide would either fall under the duties of Campus Inclusion Commission chair or to someone else to be appointed to the body at a later date. Another resolution passed Tuesday night to partner with the Office of Greek Life for a diversity, equity and inclusion symposium to take place on March 28. The resolution states that CSG will co-sponsor the symposium and host Jasmine Rand — the attorney who represented the Trayvon Martin’s family — to speak on the topic of diversity, equity and inclusion on college campuses. Confirmations Four LSA representatives were confirmed to the assembly’s legislative branch at Tuesday’s meeting. Freshman Michael Sacchetti, freshman Allison Tuohy, sophomore Dylan Bennett and sophomore Craig Motola were all officially added to the assembly.
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POLICE From Page 1A since Aug. 1, 2015, after the retirement of previous Police Chief John Seto. Seto had been with the AAPD for 25 years and transferred to a position in the University Housing Security and Safety Services in May 2015. Baird’s appointment was well received among the councilmembers. Jack Eaton (D–Ward 4), who had expressed support for White, embraced Baird’s appointment and stressed that Baird deserved unanimous support from Council. “James Baird is a very capable professional of the highest integrity,” Eaton said. Julie Grand (D–Ward 3) praised Baird’s patience and dedication throughout the long process, noting she appreciated his constant thoughtfulness and responsiveness. “After everything, he still remains committed to Ann Arbor,” Grand said. Councilmember Chuck Warpehoski (D–Ward 5) expressed confidence in Baird’s capability as police chief, pointing to an interview between the appointee and councilmembers during which Baird discussed addressing biases in police training. Baird became deputy police chief in 2013 and has held
LECTURE From Page 1A in “yearlong conversation about transformation and its histories, politics, aesthetics, and social practices,” according to organizers at the Institute of Humanities. In her lecture, Stryker said the anti-trans protests of 1973 symbolized a reversal of the direction things had been going for the movements, noting that American society post-World War II seemed especially hospitable to emergent forms of personal identity. Stryker then chronicled the events of 1973 she thought were responsible for the gay and feminist abandonment of the trans community. Principle among her list of events were the Roe v. Wade decision, the Paris Peace Accords — which ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam — and the declassification of homosexuality in the DSM. Although she acknowledged the Roe v. Wade decision was a victory for women’s right to choose, Stryker said the case was argued on narrow grounds of a liberal right to privacy, rather than the more fundamental right to reproductive autonomy and freedom. “Without the war to provide a common focus for leftist, third-world and countercultural activism, oppositional movements began to fracture,” Stryker added. As well, with the end of the Vietnam War and thus the end of the draft, gay and countercultural men who had formerly embraced. “Personal forms of antimasculine counter-conduct” instead adopted “macho styles that are more consonant with conventional masculinity,” she said. And although the removal of
other positions throughout his 23-year career with the AAPD, including professional standards lieutenant and crisis response unit sergeant. Also discussed at Tuesday’s meeting was the topic of Ann Arbor’s deer cull, which has been an ongoing controversy in the city in recent months. Several speakers at the meeting charged that the decision to carry out the cull was based on little statistically valid evidence. Lorraine Shapiro, Ann Arbor resident, cited a Feb. 1 post on the city website that said a deer management assessment report will be conducted in May, which will include results from an Ann Arbor City Hall survey. Shapiro expressed concern, pointing to a prior 2014-2015 survey which showed support for the cull that she said was flawed and biased. Shapiro alleged that the survey was taken by less than 0.4 percent of the Ann Arbor population, citing a sample bias. She also claimed three questions began with a pro-cull statements. Challenging councilmembers to be more transparent about the purposes and motivations behind surveys, she said she expects them to include all stakeholders in a statistically valid, unbiased survey during the next round of data collection. “Let’s do a statistically valid
homosexuality from the DSM was certainly a victory for gay liberation, Stryker said, it allowed the gay community, now incorporated to a greater degree into society, to view the trans community as other. The anti-trans sentiment in the gay and feminist communities wasn’t universal, Stryker said, but where it did exist, it took an intolerant tone. Speaking about trans activist Sylvia Rivera’s criticism of the gay community during the famous Gay Pride Rally in 1973 and its harsh reception, Stryker said a significant faction within the conference viewed trans women’s existence as the exploitation of women. She ended the lecture on a hopeful note, pushing her audience to take action. “We can’t undo the decades of estrangement that characterized the relationship between trans, feminist and gay politics,” she said. “But we have the materials for imagining a counter-history at a time when transgender issues are now experiencing unprecedented levels of visibility. We have a chance now, if we are willing to embrace it, to reactivate the best impulses of that earlier time, and bring those visions to bear our actions today,” she said. LSA senior Ashley Burnside said she enjoyed the event, saying it gave her a better perspective of historical antitrans movements. “I enjoyed how she incorporated the video of Sylvia Rivera’s speech and the counter-speech,” Burnside said. “I had seen Sylvia Rivera’s speech but not the one that went after her, and I thought that was really interesting to see them both together like that and to hear her (Stryker’s) response to the two speeches.
survey this time,” Shapiro said. “Let’s have no more garbage in, garbage out.” Audience members carrying signs reading “Stop the shoot” and “Save the deer” applauded and cheered, “Stop the shoot.” during remarks. Grant Shafer, Ann Arbor resident, was also among the residents who expressed disapproval toward the deer cull. He suggested that the USDA Wildlife Services violated the terms of their permit, citing a story of a resident who reported a deer shot outside the permit period. He also called for another investigation into poaching in a unspecified densely populated neighborhood, saying that either Wildlife Services or poachers fail to clean up the deer remains. Other sanitation concerns about the cull were brought up at Tuesday’s meeting. One resident said he was worried that the bullets used to kill the deer would contaminate potential meat sources used in food pantries. The city’s agreement with Food Gatherers is a requirement for the city’s deer cull permit, and Michigan Radio reported the president of Food Gatherers, Eileen Spring, is certain the deer meat will uphold food safety regulations.
VIRUS From Page 2A just the consequence for you, but the consequences of spreading the virus,” Eisenberg said. He added that Michigan is less at risk for spreading the virus than warmer areas of the United States because mosquitoes carrying the virus tend to frequent areas with consistently warmer climates. LSA sophomore Jacob Meyers, who will be traveling to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for Spring Break, said after skimming the University’s travel warning, he appreciated that the University is warning stu-
was conducted before results from New Hampshire, where Kasich pulled in 15.8 percent of the vote and bested Florida senator Marco Rubio and Texas senator Ted Cruz for the second place spot behind Trump. Kasich is polling at 4.7 percent nationally, according to an average of recent polls compiled by RealClearPolitics. With the Michigan trip, Kasich is mirroring a strategy employed during the earliest portion of the primary season, in which he skipped out on Iowa and its more conservative, Evangelical electorate to hold hundreds of town halls in the Granite State. “We have to do really, really well in this state, I mean — or I have to roll up the carpets and go back,” he told a crowd Monday in Allendale, home of GVSU. Aaron Kall, director of the University’s debate team and an expert in election politics, said Kasich will likely count on Michigan, Ohio’s neighbor to the north, to carry him through to his home state’s primary the following week. “If he can have a surprise second place showing here, that would really give him momentum going into Ohio, the real prize for him,” he said. According to Kall, Kasich will likely concentrate his efforts in college towns, Metro Detroit and Grand Rapids — places with more traditional, moderate Republicans less influenced by Tea Party leanings. The Ohio governor has emphasized his willingness to stray from the party line — telling the crowd at Michigan State that there is no question that humans contribute to global warming and that people should accept the Supreme Court’s ruling on samesex marriage — but also thanked the student-heavy crowd for coming, though he wasn’t “giving away free college” as Sen. Bernie Sanders (D–Vt.) has proposed. In Livonia, Kasich also broke with the party line in emphasizing the challenges inherent in repealing the Affordable Care Act, recalling a woman from Maine who told him she spent her whole life trying to get health insurance until ObamaCare was passed. Kasich was one of several Republican governors, a group that also included Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R), to adopt a Medicare expansion in his state through the Affordable Care Act.
dents about the virus. “I kind of just hope it won’t really affect me, but obviously I’m aware of it now, which I think is good,” Meyers said. “So if anything weird goes on, or people get sick or something, obviously I’ll be more careful, but I’m not too concerned about it.” Despite the warnings from the University, some students planning travel to the area have expressed their skepticism. Meyers noted that as most Zika virus warnings focus on women who are currently or
On Tuesday, he also fielded a question from the audience related to research funding. He said increasing research dollars for institutions like the National Institutes of Health would be a priority, and can be done even while curbing the country’s spending overall. During Tuesday’s event, Kasich repeated a family history he often shares at town hall events — telling the crowd that his father was a mailman and his grandfather a coal miner. That’s a narrative that could resonate with blue-collar workers in Rust Belt states like Michigan. Steven Gould, a real estate developer from Plymouth who attended Tuesday’s town hall in Livonia, said Kasich reminds him of another Midwestern governor: Michigan’s Snyder. “What I mean by that is they’re common sense Republicans, and they’re administrators,” he said. “What they’re doing right now in both Ohio and in Michigan is they look at our budgets somewhat like a business person does over a politician, and they prioritize their spending. I don’t have a problem with compromise. I have a problem with nothing getting done.” When it comes to the Flint water crisis, Kasich has avoided criticism of Snyder but has been more vocal about the issue compared to most of the GOP field, citing his own experience dealing with water contamination in Ohio. During a rally in East Lansing, Kasich called for increased investment in infrastructure and tougher federal regulations regarding how the public is notified of drinking water contamination, though he defended Snyder’s response to the crisis. “What I will say is I think Snyder’s probably working day and night, and probably not even sleeping, trying to get on top of the whole thing and fix it, but it is a challenge. Water is important. Clean water is important.” Throughout Tuesday’s event, Kasich kept to his pledge to run a positive campaign and declined to bash any of the other contenders in the race — Republican or Democrat — as is custom at most campaign stops. “There are so many different ways the things that the Lord has given us can be used to heal this world,” he said. “And when we think that way, and we go that way, and we stop screaming at one another because you watch Fox News and you watch MSNBC, I wear red and you wear blue, you know what, we’re all Americans.”
are planning to become pregnant, he felt it did not necessarily apply to him. LSA sophomore Zac Vogt, who will be going on a Caribbean cruise for Spring Break, echoed Meyers’ sentiment about the travel warnings. He said he did not read the University’s e-mail containing the travel warnings, though he has heard about Zika virus on the news. “I’m not very concerned,” Vogt said. “It doesn’t affect me.”
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JASON ROWLAND | OP-ED
In defense of Scalia
As soon as I heard the news, I immediately dialed my grandparents to let them know — we like to keep each other up to date on current events, lest we both fall too deep into our respective “bubbles.” Upon answering the phone, however, my grandmother beat me to it. “Scalia is dead!” she happily informed me. Happily. As our conversation progressed, I began to realize that her detestation of Justice Antonin Scalia was deep-seated and, quite honestly, justified. It’s pretty easy to see why a woman who grew up in the Jim Crow South would take objection to a Supreme Court justice who claimed in court that he was “just not impressed by the fact that the University of Texas may have fewer (African Americans). Maybe it ought to have fewer.” Still, I have a moral problem with celebrating the death of any human being — especially one whose only crime was disagreeing with me (on about every topic imaginable, but that’s beside the point). In America, we pride ourselves on freedom of speech. Underlying this concept is the idea that free speech guarantees all of our nation’s voices are heard and valued, on both sides of the political spectrum. When I recognized that Justice Scalia’s views weren’t outliers in our greater contemporary society — that is to say, many Americans shared the same values he stood for and defended — I began to at least wonder if maybe he did deserve a spot on the bench. Cultures do, however, change a lot over time. When Justice Scalia was nominated by former president Ronald Reagan in September
1986, the American political landscape was vastly different than its current-day form. In 1986, the same year Scalia was appointed, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld an anti-sodomy law that banned homosexual acts in the state of Georgia. Today, however, a majority of Americans support same-sex marriage (in comparison, just 35 percent supported it 10 years ago). These numbers seem to suggest that Scalia’s presence on the court, while maybe it made sense when he was appointed, didn’t make sense in 2016. However, that argument ignores the reality that 39 percent of Americans still do not feel that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. While that is 11 percent shy of a majority, it stills shows that a large section of U.S. citizens hold views that Scalia defended. Without him on the court, would their voices have been heard and considered. It’s not that I think basic rights should be left to the tyranny of the majority, but at the end of the day, we do live in a democracy where these issues are discussed. All of this is to say that despite the vitriol surrounding Justice Scalia, he was not the boogeyman we often paint him to be. Rather, he is a product of our democracy, and all he did was ensure that all of our country’s voices were heard. At the end of the day, I try not to forget that just because I didn’t agree with many of Scalia’s core tenets, others did agree with him. And they have just as much of a right as I do to be represented on the bench. Jason Rowland is a senior editorial page editor.
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Valuing activism in local politics
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ollege students are perhaps some of the most educated and opinionated voters in the country, as we exist in a sphere of constant debate and idealism (and political memes, too). However, we often focus on the larger, more dramatic political theaters — federal and international governments — and end up ignoring the equally important local politics of the areas and states in which we reside. CONNOR Zachary Ackerman, KIPPE recent University of Michigan graduate, Ann Arbor City Council member, and former Daily columnist, who was kind enough to sit down for an interview with the Daily, defies this phenomenon. He serves as a great example of how to get involved in local politics. At the age of 22, Ackerman was the first University student to be elected to a spot on the Ann Arbor City Council in 23 years when he took office this fall. He ran a fierce campaign and was elected, in part, because he went door to door launching a ground campaign to get to know voters on a more personal level. Though becoming an elected official is a daunting task, starting much smaller can also be rewarding. Ackerman has done exactly that, working as an intern for a local candidate Pam Byrnes campaign to be a representative in the U.S. House in 2014. Needing signatures from citizens for a petition to get Byrne on the ballot, he had to stand outside of the Jackson Post Office on tax day in freezing temperatures. During those hours, he met a diverse group of people who illustrated an important part of local politics. The first man he met drove up in a pickup truck, covered in the trappings of a construction worker or carpenter. This man had no interest in politics, so he didn’t sign the petition that Ackerman was offering. He went into the post office, sent what he needed, got in his truck and left. However, for some reason he returned and gave Ackerman a handful of hand warmers, and signed the petition before leaving again. Next, there were three women, who when he stepped forward and asked them to sign, declined, as they supported Republican candidate Tim Walberg in the race. They were about to go on their way when Ackerman
noticeably shivered, and in that moment, they agreed to sign, saying they would do it if it got him home sooner. Finally, another man wandered up to the post office. He listened intently, and very earnestly wanted to get involved. However, when Ackerman offered to let him sign, he made several unintelligible marks on the paper that wouldn’t count as a signature. Despite being illiterate, this man was trying valiantly to be involved in the political process. In each of these cases, the decision of these individuals to get involved depended on an emotional response, not an ideological urge. These interactions illustrate why local politics is so important: They make us realize our personal and emotional connection to politics, and allow us to be easily involved. If you knew your vote on a proposal would perhaps save you a flat tire in the future, because it would have passed a road repair bill, would you have used it? If you realized you could influence state politics by volunteering in a campaign that might help improve the schools in your area for your children, would you do so? If becoming representative could help better improve your life and the lives of those close to you, why not become one? Sadly, in a country with low voter turnout in every type of election, local elections have the worst voter turnout of all. This fact, paired with distrust of both the government and the parties that compete to run it, leads to a democratic process in a severe state of disarray, where few people seem to want to answer these questions. While I am not arguing we turn inward and ignore the role that national elections have, focusing on local politics can have just as profound an impact. Each of us can answer those questions in our own little, unique ways. We can answer them by voting, volunteering or serving. We can answer them by running for office, or working to help a city council member get elected. Or we can do so by a much simpler action, such as filling out a petition for a statewide or national issue. We can change our campus, our hometown or wherever we may live in the future by participating in local politics. By changing that little bit we can on an individual basis in the places we live, we can, together, change a lot. Connor Kippe can be reached at conkip@umich.edu.
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Connecting in the winter
houtout to all current freshmen: You missed a couple of really hard winters, and we got a taste of what those winters felt like this past weekend. Those who’ve been at the University for a year or two might have a better understanding SUSAN of what I’m LAMOREAUX talking about — that bonechilling, soulsucking, wind-chill-induced cold. For students who moved to Ann Arbor or the state of Michigan from far away, this kind of winter weather probably feels like a never-ending nightmare. Subdued by the winter chill, I find myself turning to my cell phone and laptop for distraction, and I know I’m not alone in this. When we’re trapped inside on frigid days (such as this past Saturday, with wind chill registering in the negative teens and 20s), I find that human communication takes second place to whatever new things the Internet has to tell me. It becomes all too easy to curl up under a blanket, turn on Netflix and tune out everything else. It’s cold, and everyone has the excuse of being burnt out after fall semester. That shouldn’t be an excuse to forgo making connections, but it often is. I’m not necessarily talking about phone conversations — I mean those person-to-person interactions that happen at random when you’re walking across campus, those times when your eyes meet and you smile at someone you don’t know. Instead of giving those interactions a chance to happen, the cold weather offers an excuse to watch our feet instead of trying
to care about others. We keep our shoulders hunched as we rush between classes, trying to spend as little time as possible in the snow and wind. Hoods are pulled up; knit hats and headbands shield our eyes. Earbuds block out the sound of slush crunching underfoot. People don’t stop to exchange smiles with the strangers they pass. This past weekend, I did my best to bury myself in assignments and make the time pass by tidying up my space. It always feels good to get homework done well before it’s due, but what makes more of a dent in my day is visiting with my family. When it gets really cold, the same barrier that restricts conversations in the middle of the Diag seems to hang over the house, making everything
“We keep our shoulders hunched as we rush between classes, trying to spend as little time as possible in thew snow and wind. People don’t stop to exchange smiles with the strangers they pass.” a drag. When I’m already curled up on the couch, the last thing I want is to face the wider world — even if that just means my dining room. It can seem like too much effort to start a conversation. But often, time spent talking that way lights up the cold and snowy air outside and helps the day to go by a little faster. Coming together over meals forces us to spend time together, even if we’re just sitting side by side and reading — it gives
us a chance to acknowledge one another, and the work that goes into preparing our food means a chance to drag ourselves away from our screens and back into the world. On campus, I’ve had other little interactions that gave richer meaning to these winter weeks. I stopped by the office of a professor I took a class with in the fall; asked a girl who’d slipped and fallen on the ice if she was OK; encountered someone who’s doing the New England Literature Program this coming spring and got to tell her that I was in her place one year ago. When I have a dollar in my wallet and a minute to spare on my way from one class to another, I stop and buy a Groundcover on the corner of South U and East U. My phone stays put away while I cross campus, which means I’m looking up and watching what’s going on around me. If the wind isn’t blowing so hard that I need my hood up, I do my best to smile at everyone I pass. Not everything about winter is good, but not everything is terrible, either — as with anything else, there’s a give-and-take. With two decades’ worth of Ann Arbor winters already behind me, I look for the things that make winter beautiful: the snow-covered Arb and frozen Huron River, sunsets in purple and gold, the number of times people return my smiles. The cold bothers me as much as anyone else, but there are other things to focus on; temperature isn’t the single thing that defines this season. Good food and pleasant company can help to break up the monotony of gray days. Spring always comes again, so we might as well enjoy the months leading up to it — and maybe even forge some new friendships along the way. Susan LaMoreaux can be reached at susanpl@umich.edu.
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Introducing Your Michigan
The University of Michigan is a community full of diverse ideas — of brilliant, compassionate and kind students. Most importantly, the University would not be the place it is without you. Student input and advocacy make this place the amazing university it is. Without your voice and work, this campus wouldn’t be the special place that it is for our generation of students and for the next generation of Wolverines. That’s why we write today to announce our candidacy and express how excited we are to hear your voice, your ideas and your beliefs. As a new party, Your Michigan wants to create an atmosphere in Central Student Government where all students’ narratives and ideas are not only heard, but supported as well. We understand the limits of Central Student Government, but believe in the limitless nature of student activism here at the University. Join us as we work toward tangible change — as we shape effective and innovative policies that better every student’s experience. Your Michigan’s executive team, Thomas Hislop and Cam Dotson, have the leadership skills, experience and love for the maize and blue that CSG needs today. We are committed to changing the culture of student representation that currently exists, and ensuring that all experiences on this campus are appreciated, heard and considered. Our experience has taught us how to govern effectively, but it has also shown us that change is needed. Join us as we revitalize the Maize Rage and move the upper bowl student section to the center of the court so that students are more connected and united during basketball games. We are working with the Athletic Department to create a revamped Maize Rage that is both financially feasible and brings students closer together. We are not blindly promising more lower bowl seats,
but rather thinking creatively as to what seating arrangements allow for the best student experience possible. As the University prepares to welcome our new athletic director, Warde Manuel, it is imperative that our campus leaders ensure student input is considered and that the student experience at athletic events continues to improve. Join us as we engage in meaningful discourse about sexual misconduct on campus. We want to advocate for more peer educators in extracurricular clubs, athletic teams and Greek organizations. We want to expand the Panhellenic Association’s very successful Peer Educator Program so that more groups have a resource that can educate them on this important issue and help in their times of need. This will create a bridge between student groups and the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, so that students who want to learn more or need support have an easy path to SAPAC’s incredible resources. Join us as we foster dialogue between CSG representatives and students through town-hall forums with student-dictated agendas. In the past, students have voiced their concerns that CSG is not transparent enough. We want students to feel that we are a resource for them and truly represent them. Your Michigan will empower students by creating town-hall forums that, on occasion, replace the formal CSG meetings. These forums will promote a productive dialogue between elected officials and students who want their voices to be heard but who are turned away by the formal format of the weekly CSG meetings. Join us as we create a more diverse university of tomorrow by supporting student organizations that do amazing work in nearby urban communities. President Schlissel recently commented on
increasing the amount of minority representation on campus, and Your Michigan is dedicated to assisting in that process. As the administration works to increase minority enrollment, Your Michigan wants to assist and support the organizations doing great work in surrounding communities by subsidizing these programs’ traveling expenses, and show these students that the University is an attainable destination for any motivated student. Join us as we establish a new, centralized mentorship program for incoming international students to ease their transition into this rigorous, new environment. Our program, “Welcome hoMe,” will ease international students’ transition to this major American public university. The program is rooted in the concerns of international students who often arrive and feel isolated or disjointed from the rest of the student body. It is incredibly important that we provide these fellow Wolverines support just as we do for other students through programs such as Leaders and Best. Our centralized program would provide a group of trained, dedicated mentors to any international student as soon as they arrive on campus. Join us. It’s your time, your voice and your Michigan. These are just a few of our ideas, as we continue to advocate for a safer, innovative and empowering campus. Our platform is far from finalized; we want to make sure that you have a chance to deliver feedback, to give your thoughts and to make an impact. Feel free to reach out to us through social media, and make sure to come join Your Michigan this Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Ross School of Business room R1240. Your voice matters, and we want to make sure it is heard on this campus. Cam Dotson and Thomas Hislop are LSA juniors.
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HEALTH COLUMN
Is hot yoga worth it? So. Much. Sweat. More sweat than I’d sweated at Disney World, late afternoon in midJuly, waiting in an hour-long line for the teacup ride. More sweat than I’d sweated in my first college cross country meet, a 2 p.m. HAILEY race in MIDDLEBROOK 95-degree heat, after which my teammate had to be driven to the hospital for heat exhaustion. If you’ve ever practiced hot yoga, like the Hot Vinyasa class at Center For Yoga, you know exactly about the sweat I’m talking about. At first, you welcome the heat — the 100-degree yoga studio is dimly lit, a deliciously warm haven for your frozen body. You stretch happily on your mat, feeling your toes thaw out. You bend into Child’s Pose, sinking into the floor like a puddle, letting stressful thoughts slip away. Thirty minutes later, you’re the one slipping away, because a yoga mat is no match for the obscene amount of sweat pouring out of you. In the classroom, things aren’t so zen anymore — “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons is pumping through the walls, the guy next to you has his backside in your face doing Star Pose, and you’re kicking yourself for not bringing a towel to class. As you hold a never-ending plank position, adjusting your sweaty hands, you can’t remember why you liked the heat in the first place, or why you thought yoga was meditative. You might even wonder, is hot yoga worth the hype? Though hot yoga was introduced to the U.S. relatively recently, popularized by Bikram Choudhury (founder of “Bikram Yoga”) in San Francisco in 1972, its roots stretch much farther in history. For centuries, yoga has been performed in heat out of necessity. India, the birthplace of yoga, is notoriously hot — temperatures average around 100 degrees in the summer — and with infrequent air conditioning, heated yoga is a given. So when Choudhury and other yoga masters moved to
cooler climates, they noticed they were shivering while holding their poses. They soon brought space heaters to studios, believing that a heated room allows muscles to loosen, blood capillaries to dilate and toxins to be released. Today, you can practice yoga in an 100-plus degree room almost anywhere in the U.S. — even if you live in an arctic climate like Ann Arbor. But as much as hot yoga enthusiasts promote the benefits of heat, there’s reason to be wary of the practice. In a recent study sent out by the American Council on Exercise, researchers were shocked to find that yoga participants’ heart rates and core body temperatures had skyrocketed after a 90-minute Bikram Yoga class, with one man reporting a temperature of 104 degrees and a heart rate in the 92 percentile of maximum heart rate. “The dramatic increases in heart rate and core temperature are alarming when you consider that there is very little movement, and therefore little cardiovascular training, going on during class,” said Emily Quandt, the leader of the study, in a press release. Physicians agree that body temperatures above 100 degrees can be classified as a fever, while a temperature exceeding 104 degrees, or hyperthermia, is considered life-threatening and requires immediate medical attention. The cure for hyperthermia is intuitive: get to a cooler place. But in an hour-long or 90-minute continuous class, with the room temperature set at 105 degrees, there is really no reprieve from heat. And though our bodies fight to keep cool — hence the buckets of sweat — our natural tendency is to wipe the sweat from our face and hands, which dangerously traps in even more heat to our bodies. “I tell my students to never wipe their faces,” said Bryan Bennett, a lead instructor at the Center For Yoga, who met me for coffee at Elixir Vitae. He explained that the heat opens up our pores, allowing not only cooling sweat but impurities to be released. When we close these pores by wiping our faces, we absorb both the heat and unhealthy toxins, which can cause blackheads and skin irritation.
Bennett cites the heat of hot yoga for more than just glowing skin. During his 200 hours of training, he was taught the core reason for heated yoga: like metal, the human body can bend into any form if enough heat is applied. The heat of the room, coupled by the heat built up in our bodies during an hourlong class, allows us to stretch further and breathe deeper — both keys to a better yoga practice. Still, Bennett believes that heat isn’t necessary for yoga; besides loosening the body, heat mainly functions as a distraction. “In yoga, you’re taught to resist all reactions,” Bennett said. “The highest form of yoga, meditation, is complete stillness of the body and mind. When you’re in a hot room, there’s a new obstacle to hurdle — you have to accept the sweat, let it fall, then find your breath again.” What about the risks of hot yoga? “There have definitely been people who are ill-prepared,” Bennett said. “If you’re hungover and dehydrated, or have a heart condition, hot yoga is not for you. Pregnant women shouldn’t practice either, unless their bodies are accustomed to the heat.” Bennett said with proper hydration, patience, and practice, hot yoga has the power to improve muscle strength, flexibility, physical immunity, mood and mindfulness, which are all essential to busy college students. After all, he explained, yoga poses were established as a way to loosen the stiff joints and weary minds of monks who had been meditating all day — not too different from a long night of homework in the Stacks. As I listened, I remembered my own hot yoga experience: the heat, the sweat, the wishing it would be over already. I certainly didn’t feel meditative during the class, but for the entire hour, I was focused on one thing: finishing. For the first time in days, no thoughts of school, to-do lists, or dinner plans had crossed my mind. Maybe zen comes in sweaty packages after all.
‘Murder’ flounders with cliched premiere Daily Arts Writer
ABC’s “How To Get Away With Murder” is one psychotic break away from not getting away with murder at all. Wrapped up Bin a tangled mess of lies, the How to Get characters of Away with Shondaland’s latest hit return Murder for the second Thursdays mid-season 10 p.m. premiere, and are more ABC twisted than ever. While Viola Davis puts on a performance well-deserving of another Emmy, the rest of the mid-season premiere falls victim to a haunted past that casts a shadow on the show’s future. The second season opened with a shock as Annalise Keating (Viola Davis, “The Help”) lays screaming for help in a pool of her own blood. Loyal fans took to the #WhoShotAnnalise hashtag, tweeting predictions and reactions each week for the highly anticipated Thursday night Shonda extravaganza. November’s mid-season finale finally provided some answers, but in true Shonda Rhimes fashion, the answers were not nearly as satisfying as one would
have hoped. Providing little clarity, Thursday night’s episode spans six agonizing weeks of Annalise’s recovery, resurrecting old demons uncovered at the shooting as she attempts to save herself and the Keating team from murder’s consequences yet again. After an electrifying first season, “How To Get Away With Murder” is falling into the alltoo-familiar structure of most murder/crime shows: someone does something really stupid (usually murder), and, instead of coming clean, tries to cover it up. Eventually, the consequences of the first really stupid thing don’t seem that bad compared to the mess of blood, lies and betrayal that have accumulated as a result of the cover-ups (usually more murders), and an initially captivating show becomes too convoluted for its own good. Slowly, rooting for the characters who were initially at the wrong place at the wrong time becomes harder as “victims of unfortunate circumstance” are stripped down to “empty villains.” Such is the fate that plagues Wes (Alfred Enoch, “Harry Potter”), one of the Keating Five and the undeniable center of all the murderous fallout. One wrong decision after another, Wes, the doe-eyed underdog at the beginning, has steadily lost relatability with viewers, and
FILM REVIEW
ARTIFICIAL EYE
Yeah, I just did it on ‘em.
Unfiltered love in ‘45’ By ANA LUCENA Daily Arts Writer
In the movie industry, having the love life of an older couple as the focus of a film is a welcoming change — a breath of fresh air from the slew of fun but short-lived A flings between young adults 45 Years that flood the Michigan market. Since Theater unhappy marriages are the Artificial Eye cinematic norm, the authentic portrayal of the successful relationship between the two in “45 Years” made the film even more endearing. The film is about Kate (Charlotte Rampling, “The Forbidden Room”) and Geoff Mercer (Tom Courtenay, “Dad’s Army”), an elderly couple planning a party for their 45th wedding anniversary. The festivities are to compensate for their 40th anniversary celebration that was cancelled due to Geoff’s unanticipated bypass surgery. The speed with which the backstory is introduced through dialogue without compromising the linear narrative is remarkable. Six days before the party, Geoff receives a letter informing him that the body of his ex-
the psychological trauma he is unable to shake off in the second mid-season premiere further alienates him. However, Wes is not only the center of his own destruction, but of Annalise’s as well. A complicated backstory between the two begins to unfold at the expense of the rest of the characters, stealing time from Laurel (Karla Souza, “Instructions Not Included”) and Frank’s (Charlie Weber, “90210”) budding relationship and Bonnie’s (Liza Weil, “Gilmore Girls”) turn to the dark side, as flashback-driven storylines compete for screen time with those unfolding in real-time. Despite the decline in character and plot development, “How To Get Away With Murder” still shines with a groundbreaking performance from leading lady Viola Davis. High on painkillers and bleeding through her raw stitches, Davis is mesmerizingly disturbed in the best way. Drug-laced strawberry ice cream spills down her chin as she slips into a hallucinogenic frenzy, and yet she is still able to pull her shit together to outsmart everyone in court. Her pain, however haunting, is what keeps the ruthless lawyer in the realm of humanity, allowing the complexity of her character to color a show overwhelmed in unrelatable darkness.
lover Katya, from the 1960’s, was finally discovered in a glacier in Switzerland, where he last saw her before she was trapped in a crevasse. This memory from his past causes him to lament the loss of his carefree youth. The way Kate supports him through this identity crisis, from encouraging him to pick up the German he lost from his time abroad to comforting him when he has difficulties in bed, is touching. Her sweet nature makes the intimacy and understanding of the relationship a beautiful promise to root for. The couple divides the household chores around each of their strengths and sleeping schedules, demonstrating their compassion for each other as individuals. It’s no surprise they are still together after so many years, as the two have learned how to skillfully meet each other’s needs. However, Kate becomes increasingly upset as Geoff becomes preoccupied with Katya. He goes so far as to show interest in going back to Switzerland and seeing her one last time before she is buried. The blatant disregard Geoff has towards the big celebration of their anniversary illustrates the drama of the film — Kate restrains Geoff’s individuality, wanting the two of them to equally contribute to their achievements as a couple.
The opposing yet reasonable desires of both characters solidifies the conflict. There is not much plot to “45 Years,” but the film paints the entire world of elderly couples with excellent care. The performances by Rampling and Courtenay are outstanding, bringing to life the nuances of their respective conflicted characters. The use of intertitles to divide the plot into six distinct days keeps the plot continually developing without ever letting the pacing or structure of the film feel predictable. It manages to highlight the film’s realism without ever breaking its focus on the fate of the Mercers’ relationship, which is no easy feat considering the vivid characters that populate the protagonists’ lives. In an age where over 30 percent of marriages end in divorce, it is heartening to see such a tender portrayal of enduring attachment. Not the happy endings of fairy tales, but the actual commitment of two people who care for each other and want to fight the world by each other’s side in spite of their differences. Even though it is but one purifying drop in the sea of sleazy romance films, “45 Years” is testament to the fact that we are still capable of entertaining the elusive concept of true love,
COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW
‘Triplets’ come to A2 By KELLY MARTINEK
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TV REVIEW
By DANIELLE YACOBSON
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 — 5A
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On Friday, the University of Michigan’s Musical Society will present “The Triplets of Belleville,” an event that combines cin- The Tripema and live lets of music into one Belleville unique experience. Fri. February “The Trip- 19, 8 p.m. lets of Bel- Michigan leville” is an Theater animated film, written $30-$58, $12 and directed or $22 with by Sylvain Student ID Chomet. The film was released in 2003. It tells the story of an old woman, Madame Souza, who goes on a journey to rescue her grandson, a Tour de France cyclist named Champion, from the French mafia. Mark Johnson, UMS senior programming coordinator, was a part of the team that brought this production to the University. “It’s a film that I saw in its original release at the Michigan Theater and I fell in love with,” Johnson said. “It’s so joyous and remarkable and artistic. It’s a universally admired piece of art.” Friday’s event is a part of UMS’s Jazz Series. Audiences will get to see the film’s unique animation, accompanied by “Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville,” an on-stage eight-piece orchestra performing the film’s jazz music and sound effects live. The band is led by Benoit Charest, the film’s composer. “It’s really an incredibly special opportunity to host the composer of the film score, Benoit Charest, in Ann Arbor,” Johnson said. “It’s exciting, there’s a certain level of improvisation in the music they’re making. It’s performed in the
style of ‘Le Jazz Hot,’ which is a style that was popularized in 1920s Paris. It’s period music.” Charest was nominated for a 2003 Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Belleville Rendezvous,” a song from the film. In a press release, he said his music has been influenced by jazz, French singers of the ’50s and’60s and Frank Zappa. “There’s two really incredible features in this presentation,” said Mallory Schirr, UMS marketing and media relations coordinator. “The animation is just beautiful, it’s a heartwarming story, it’s an incredible film. But I think one of the most unique experiences that you could have is being able to watch the film with the live score. There’s going to be nothing like having a live jazz performance right in
front of you as you’re watching the film.” Schirr also said she thinks this unique performance has many facets that will appeal to a variety of audience members. “Even if you’re not into music, if you’re into movies, if you’re into film or animation, I think it’s something that will resonate really well with people across the entire University,” she said. Johnson agreed that the combination of the film and the live music make this event a unique experience. “All of the musicians will be onstage, performing, visible to the audience, directly underneath the screen,” he said. “It’s the live film score from the creator and composer himself, with hand-picked musicians to play the parts.”
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Some call him arrogant, I call him confident By SHIMA SADAGHIYANI Daily Arts Writer
When I was six years old, I used to play a game in the summer called “Saving the Kingdom.” In this game, I would recruit all the other kids in my neighborhood to pretend that we were trying to save the kingdom we lived in from mysterious and dangerous outside forces. At least, that’s what I told my friends to get them to play. In reality, the game was a shameless ploy on my part to not have to do anything for myself all summer. Day in and day out, I, the self-proclaimed queen, would sit on the patio with a ragged crown of dried dandelions on my head, sipping on lemonade, while my friends did everything I told them to do, all under the guise of protecting the kingdom. It was empowering, the one summer of ruling my own little world. Of course, it all came tumbling down when my mom caught on to what was occurring in her own backyard. My crown was thrown away, and I was sat down for a crash course on what it means to be humble. Under my mother’s watchful eye, both my ego and my ambitions of becoming a queen slowly died down.
My first Kanye West song was “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” when I was in eighth grade. My middle school self, completely contrasting my six-year-old self, was restrained and too shy to speak up in front of anyone. My self-esteem, much like the majority of other prepubescent kids, was at an all time low. However, as soon as I heard the unapologetic “excuse me? Was you saying something? / uh uh, you can’t tell me nothing,” I was hooked. The energy and arrogance emitting from this song reminded me of the little girl I used to be, who had endless selfconfidence and dreams to the sky and beyond. By the last line, “then you can’t tell me nothing, right?” I felt energized, self-assured and completely in control of my life. It was then, in eighth grade, that I had an important realization: Kanye West’s narcissism gives me life. Much like his celebrity persona, Kanye West’s music somehow manages to simultaneously say both “fuck you” and “I’m too important to give a fuck about you.” In “H.A.M” the combination of driving beat and vigorous, in-your-face lyrics brings a pulsing energy that nearly implodes the speakers. By the time the song gets to the chorus, you know both you and Kanye West are about to go “HAM / Hard As a Muthaf-cker.” Similarly, “Stronger” is just as empowering.
“There’s a thousand yous, there’s only one of me” makes you want to own your originality, and the constant muted “make it better” in the background gives you the assertiveness to turn every surface you walk on into your own personal red carpet. For me, Kanye West has helped in many different scenarios. If I needed pump up music before a big football game, I immediately blasted “Who Gon Stop Me.” If I needed a confidence booster before a competition, a huge test or an important moment in my life, I always put on “I am A God.” If I felt like I was going to die at the gym, I consistently played “No Church In The Wild” on repeat. On long car rides, my friends and I would roll down the windows and scream everyone’s favorite, “Gold Digger.” In every situation, Kanye West was there to provide some much-needed composure. And maybe that’s the reason why he is such a huge force in popular culture: there is a little part in everybody that wants to have that take no prisoners, self-absorbed confidence that his music inspires. I want Kanye West to always keep obnoxiously calling people out on Twitter and to keep making songs that are the musical equivalent of rocking an entirely leather outfit so that, one day in the future, I can hope to truly love myself as much as Kanye loves Kanye.
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The Michigan Daily’s conversation with Gone Gone Beyond’s David Block was as broad and wide-ranging as Block’s musical projects. His most recent project in futurefolk, Gone Gone Beyond — with Danny Musengo on vocals, Paul Weinfield on guitar and Block on production, synth and pretty much everything else — just released its first, self-titled album. Prior to this project Block has collaborated with countless musicians as The Human Experience — not only working with artists from all different genres and from all different areas of the world, but also producing his own solo work. In a minidocumentary available on his website Block says his goal as a musician is to make electronic music more than just random bits and wobbles of sound — to incorporate acoustic and classical instruments from different time periods and regions around the world. Having played at festivals both local and international — including Electric Forest in 2014 — Block is planning
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on touring again soon with Gone Gone Beyond. In a phone interview with the Daily he shared his thoughts on Gone Gone Beyond, art and music in general and the human condition in an increasingly digital world. The Michigan Daily: Gone Gone Beyond’s first album just came out. So I guess first of all you’re working with Paul Weinfield and Danny Musengo — how’d you guys meet? David Block: Well I met Danny two years ago. Danny had worked with Paul before, and Paul just kind of fit in and now they have Gone Gone Beyond. Danny pays attention to intention, which is an integral part of how I create music. TMD: Yeah, I was going to ask you about intention. Gone Gone Beyond seems to have a very specific sound, because it’s reminiscent of other futurefolk artists that are popular right now. What was the intention behind that? How does spontaneity and intention play into all this? DB: My primary intention is to expand the hearts and the minds of listeners — really just to connect ourselves to our humanity through stories and through music. That’s the primary intention. It’s either a blessing or a curse — sometimes both — but I have no format with how I do anything. Apparently I have a sound — I don’t hear it, because everything I do sounds so different. I guess some people say they can hear a Human Experience track and tell it’s mine fairly quickly even if it’s some of the world music I do or more of the futurefolk. I would say that when I sit down with any group of players I just use the tools that I have. Being a collaborator, which is also one of the foundational elements of my work and one of my most powerful skills I integrate what I can do with what someone else can do. It’s a combination of my vision and Danny and Paul’s songwriting. TMD: In reading some of the things you’ve written and listening to your music, it seems like spirituality is a driving force for you in your music. You worked with Hacking Arts at The Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, a project seeking to inspire youth to merge creativity and technology — how do you merge creative expression and even spirituality with technology? DB: First, I think it’s interesting how we use the word ‘technology.’ Your creativity and creative expression are your human technologies, which are exceptionally powerful. You are a human interface; your consciousness is an interface for reality. So that is a technology in itself. It has exceptional functionality. It has these things called the senses, which make you believe that you are real. TMD: Make you think you’re real. DB: Yes, it’s a very effective interface. Every single human has one. It perceives light and sound and touch. When I was at MIT some of the people there were showing me how
to do some new, augmented technology. I’m like looking around the world right now. I’m standing right in front of Radio City Music Hall. I’m looking at, you know, 500 people walking by and they’re all looking at their iPhones, which none of them had five years ago, and some of them are FaceTiming each other. That was like fuckin’ Jetson’s shit. That was on the Jetson’s like 25 years ago. And now, what’s about to happen is they’re about to launch the first consumerlevel virtual reality experience. Basically, people are going to have this new technology where they’re going to be able to quite literally create worlds. It is about to change the entire way we interact with other humans and the world around us. And it will be a possible tool that will really fuck stuff up and possibly really change the way that we do our spirituality. You’ll probably have virtual gods and all sorts of crazy shit. So the game is about to change and that’s interesting. TMD: Yeah, it’s exciting and terrifying all at the same time. DB: Totally, yeah. Who knows? We’re either gonna change for the better, or we’re all gonna die. We’re at the tipping point right now. It’s serious and not serious. We’re in a very crucial time in humanity where I think we really need to be checking our intention and how we are interacting with the world, how we’re treating each other, what products we’re consuming and all of these things. It’s really important right now. TMD: It’s absolutely crucial. Touching back on spirituality, I Google-searched Gone Gone Beyond and what showed up was the Heart Sutra of Mahayana Buddhism. Was that a part of your thought process as the three of you named this project and if so, why? DB: Originally the name of this project was WAVS. It was about higher consciousness. Everything is just vibrating — sound waves, light waves, etc. — everything is a series of vibrations in space. But there’s another band called Wavvs and we were like, fuck it we don’t want to compete with that. But I had been working with another artist, and in this song I found the Heart Sutra, which translates to ‘gone, gone beyond, gone beyond the beyond. So be it.’ Part of what was so exciting about the name is the Heart Sutra is about the expansion of the heart, the expansion of the mind to go beyond all we can possibly comprehend. We want people to challenge reality. We want them to challenge conformity. We want them to push their boundaries and I do hope that when they Google it, they discover something like the Heart Sutra. That way, if and when we reach the mainstream, that people will be Googling this and they’ll find the Heart Sutra — and other things like it. I’m not a Buddhist but I do take a lot of the concepts there and appreciate them. Gone Gone Beyond’s new self-titled album is available on SoundCloud for listening and on Bandcamp for downloading.
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n road trips, Steve Racine always stays alone. It’s been that way since his freshman year. The Michigan hockey coaching staff never told the senior goaltender why he gets JASON his own RUBINSTEIN room in the team hotel, but Racine has a guess. “I think (coach Red Berenson) just wants me to focus more,” Racine said. “Doctor’s orders.” In any case, Berenson’s plan is finally working. After three and a half years, Racine is playing the best hockey he ever has in a Michigan uniform. Berenson named him the team’s bona fide starter more than three months ago. For his last six games, he boasts a .931 save percentage, a career high for any stretch over five games that he has played. And this past weekend, he was the only reason Michigan managed to escape Madison with five points, rather than three. In Saturday’s contest against Wisconsin, the Wolverines won in a shootout, despite surrendering four goals. “You should’ve seen him at Wisconsin,” Berenson said. “He stood on his head, and we had no business winning the game based on the chances we gave up. “That was his best game of the year.” It’s odd that Berenson would call Racine’s best game of the year one in which he let in four goals. But he’s right. Racine handled 50 shots in that game. He made sprawling kick saves and swooping glove saves on countless Wisconsin 3-on-1 opportunities. They were grade-A chances, and goals Michigan fans wouldn’t shake their heads at if Racine were to let any of those pucks in. “We haven’t done a great job helping him out all year,” said junior forward Tyler Motte. “It’s something we’re focusing on — the D-zone and doing our best to help him out.” Motte referenced the defensive lapses that don’t seem to go away, no matter how many times the players have stressed they are working on them. You don’t have to dig deep in the history books to see that Michigan has dealt with this before. Just look to last season.
The Wolverines finished the year with the nation’s best offense, yet ranked in the bottom half in team defense. What did that get them? Nothing. Fast-forward eight months, and now you have a strikingly similar Michigan team. The Wolverines average 4.78 goals per game — nearing Quinnipiac’s record of 5.42 goals per game, which was set in 1999. However, like a year ago, the Wolverines allow 3.00 goals per game, which ranks in the bottom half of the NCAA. But that’s no longer because of a lack of solid goaltending. “I’m still lamenting our goals-against,” Berenson said. “It’s not our goalies. A couple years ago, we would’ve said our goalie needed to play better, but our goalies have given us a shot.” A big part of that is the addition of Steve Shields, a former Wolverine great, as goaltending coach. Whereas Racine used to have a goalie coach just twice a week, he now has one around every day to help fine-tune even the smallest aspects of his game. In Friday’s 4-1 win over Wisconsin, Racine allowed one goal that shouldn’t have counted — officials failed to notice the puck slid in through the side of the net. But Shields still found a way to coach Racine about that moment. “Working with Steve allows me to know exactly what I need to do and to learn what I’m doing when I am playing my best,” Racine said. “We found a direct correlation to how I’ve been practicing leading into games, and working harder is just giving me the foundation to have good weekends. “I tell him all the time about how happy I am to have him here. He understands exactly what I need to do to play my best. The way I feel when I am playing well, he knows that exactly and can tap into that and help me to play my best.” It has certainly showed in Racine’s last 12 games as the starter — the longest starting stretch of his Michigan career. He has given his team a chance in each of those games. So when the Wolverines hit the road for the postseason, and likely the NCAA Tournament, two things are for certain: Racine will show up as he has all year, and he’ll have his own hotel room — doctor’s orders.
“I think Red just wants me to focus more. Doctor’s orders.”
Rubinstein can be reached at jasonbr@umich.edu and on Twitter @jrubinstein4.
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Senior goalie Steve Racine has done his part to bail out the Wolverines lately.
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‘M’ looks to build off past At leadoff banquet, Bakich gives nod to successful teams in program history By NATHANIEL CLARK Daily Sports Writer
In his opening remarks at Friday night’s Leadoff Banquet, Michigan baseball coach Erik Bakich said, “Teams that win together stay together.” These words rang true at the event, as several members of the 1953 and 1962 national championship teams were present, decades after they won their titles. The quote also applies to the 2015 Wolverines. While they did not win a national title, they did capture Michigan’s first Big Ten Tournament title and NCAA Tournament appearance since 2008 — a winning team by any measure. And, for the most part, the squad has stayed together for the upcoming season. While the Wolverines lost multi-position star Jacob Cronenworth to the Major League Baseball draft, key contributors such as junior lefthander/first baseman Carmen Benedetti, junior left-hander Brett Adcock, senior left-hander Evan Hill and sophomore shortstop Jake Bivens have returned. At the banquet, Bakich also spoke of how each Michigan team has built off the Wolverines’ 150-year history. “Bill Mogk and Paul Fancher (in 1953) paved the way for Dick Honing, John Kerr and the rest of the 1962 team that’s back there. I mean, what an honor it is to be with you guys, to hear your stories. For you to share your experiences, that’s something that I know every one
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Left-hander Evan Hill will be a co-captain for his senior season at Michigan.
of our players, every member of Team 150, is privileged to share the room with you guys tonight. As we carve out our journey, we hope to follow in your footsteps.” Many people already feel that last year’s Michigan team paved the way for the 2016 edition. Baseball America placed the Wolverines 15th in its preseason rankings, making Michigan the the sole cold-weather school in the top 25. Consequently, the Wolverines are the favorites to win the Big Ten, a big jump from last year, when most projections had them finishing third or fourth in the conference. But Michigan’s goals don’t end with the conclusion of the Big Ten Tournament. The Wolverines are looking to appear
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Michigan heads to College Park By CHRIS CROWDER Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan women’s basketball team will have its second crack at pulling off an improbable upset Michigan at Wednesday, when the Maryland Wolverines Matchup: head to Michigan 15-10; College Park Maryland 23-3 to face No. 6 When: Maryland. Wednesday In the 7 P.M. two squads’ Where: Xfinity matchup in Center Ann Arbor on Jan. 14, TV/Radio: BTN Plus Michigan nearly came out with the win. The Wolverines (7-7 Big Ten, 15-10 overall) came into the fourth quarter down by just three with the home crowd fueling the comeback. But with their two post players, freshman center Hallie Thome and senior forward Kelsey Mitchell, in foul trouble, the taller Terrapins outrebounded Michigan by 10 and found easier baskets in the paint to seal a 74-67 win. At the time, sophomore guard Katelynn Flaherty said the Wolverines could still win the Big Ten, as they were just five games into the 18-game conference schedule. After the Maryland game, Michigan was 2-3 in conference play. Now in ninth place in the conference with just four games to go, the goal of winning the Big Ten is unattainable. And at this point in the season, a win against the Terrapins in Maryland will be just as difficult to pull off. Maryland (12-2, 23-3) has lost to just two teams this season — No. 5 Ohio State (twice) and No. 1 Connecticut. All three losses have come by single digits, proof that the Terrapins deserve to be regarded as one of the best teams in the nation and are capable of staying close to elite teams.
However, Maryland is coming off a game in which it didn’t play its best. It beat Northwestern — a preseason Big Ten darkhorse now 3-11 in the conference — by just nine. The Terrapins aren’t invincible, but they are tough to beat, even if they don’t play their best game. “Maryland is an incredible team, and (they) have a tremendous program,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico in her weekly radio appearance with WTKA on Tuesday. “They’re led by a guard (Shatori Walker-Kimbrough) who scored 41 the other night and then 35. We might have to change the lineup again, because we’ve been playing small to match up on rebounds.” For Michigan to pull off the upset this time around, it will need to play one of its best games of the season. In its earlier matchup against Maryland, the game was in the Wolverines’ grasp. If the Wolverines can stay out of foul trouble, allowing their taller players to get more rebounds, they might have a chance. But again, this is a different atmosphere. The Terrapins boast one of the best home crowds in women’s college basketball and have lost only once at home this season. The Wolverines are also clinging to hopes of a berth to the NCAA Tournament. A victory against the Terrapins would be the resume builder they need in order to have a shot. The following three games come against teams behind or tied with them in the Big Ten standings. Winning on Wednesday may give Michigan the momentum to make the Big Dance for the first time since 2013. After all, the Wolverines have won three straight Big Ten games for the first time since that season. “We don’t want the season to be over, so it’s a process to get there every day,” Barnes Arico said.
in the College World Series for the first time in 32 years, a feat they accomplished five times from 1978 to 1984. One banquet guest, former Michigan coach Moby Benedict, played multiple roles in jumpstarting Michigan’s success during that era. “Coach Benedict epitomizes Michigan baseball and this proud tradition of ours,” Bakich said. “He was the head coach here from 1963 to 1979 and an assistant coach on the 1962 national title team. The accolades, the championships, the trips to the (College) World Series, are all on the wall at Ray Fisher Stadium.” Yet in spite of the Wolverines’ success last year and the
expectations for 2016, Bakich insisted that accolades aren’t everything. “(The 2015 Big Ten Tournament) wasn’t about getting a ring, or a trophy or a title — even though those are great things to get,” Bakich said. “It was more about, ‘How much fun can we have on a baseball field?’ and ‘How can we best represent the University of Michigan?’ It was an easy message to deliver to the team because we’ve talked about it all the time.” Michigan’s senior captains, Hill and catcher Domenic Jamett, echoed Bakich’s sentiment. “There’s a quote in the bulletin board in the nutrition lounge from the 1953 national championship team,” Jamett said. “It reads, ‘We are proud by the high standards that are set and the successes that we achieved. They’ve inspired us to perform with confidence and behave responsibly.’ I think that’s a quote that not only summarizes that team, but also our program.” The Wolverines will have their first chance to prove that they are deserving of the preseason praise this weekend, with a four-game series against Canisius. It is part of a stretch of 19 games on the road for Michigan before it returns home to face University of Illinois at Chicago on March 25. “I’m excited for what’s in store for Team 150 as we dig our toes into opening day in a week,” Hill said. “I’m honored to share the field with these guys I call my brothers.” The sentiment of “teams that win together stay together” rang true for the 1953 and 1962 squads. The 2016 Wolverines will have to wait and see if they will be remembered as a squad that won together and stayed together.
WOMEN’S GOLF
Dowling encouraged despite sluggish start Wolverines start winter with 13th-place finish in Puerto Rico By BILLY STAMPFL Daily Sports Writer
After a break of nearly four months, the Michigan women’s golf team returned to action Sunday at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic. In a tournament that included 16 teams, the Wolverines settled for 13th place after recording a score of 916 — 52 strokes over par and 49 behind champion Georgia. Some may find reason to be discouraged by a disappointing finish on Tuesday, especially after a fourth-place showing to conclude the fall season in October at the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown. But Michigan coach Jan Dowling voiced few serious concerns regarding her team’s play in Puerto Rico. “Everyone had things to work on over the winter,” Dowling said. “It was really cool to watch them integrate those things into their games this weekend. We’re going to build on that and continue to improve.” Dowling’s positivity may be a result of her understanding that a long break from outdoor play — coupled with the “discomforting” feeling of competing on grass again — makes returning to competition difficult for her players. Despite some adversity, senior Catherine Peters had little trouble shaking the rust from winter, as she tied for 18th with a team-best score of 223. Peters attributed her hot start to the
spring campaign to her focus on improving key weaknesses over the past three months. “I honestly just worked on my putting,” Peters said. “I’m pretty technical with my swing, so I don’t change it very often, but my putting needed some work.” Much of Michigan’s fate this season will be decided based on offseason training. Finding motivation over the winter to improve even more wasn’t hard for the Wolverines after a strong finish to the fall season. “This team is intrinsically motivated to begin with,” Dowling said. “But (the Las Vegas Showdown) definitely added fuel to our fire to continue to show what we’re capable of this year.” As the lone Wolverine senior, Peters has embraced her role as unofficial captain on a young squad. On a roster with five underclassmen out of the seven golfers in all, she realizes she has no choice but to set a good example. “I know that the other girls look up to me, especially in terms of hard work and setting the pace for practice and workouts,” Peters said. “I have to make sure I always have a positive attitude.” Behind the encouragement of Dowling and the leadership of Peters, Michigan can only improve as they return from Puerto Rico. They’ll travel south again in two weeks to compete in the Hurricane Invitational in Miami, hoping to recover from the rocky start and build on offseason progress. “Overall, we showed a lot of great signs this week,” Dowling said. “The more and more we’re competing, the better we’re going to get.”
“Everyone had things to work on over the winter.”
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Fatigue plagues Michigan in Columbus Foul trouble, LeVert injury force Walton, Irvin to play 75 total minutes By JACOB GASE Daily Sports Editor
COLUMBUS — Down the home stretch of the Big Ten men’s basketball season, it seems averaging nearly 36 minutes per conference game has finally caught up with junior guard Derrick Walton Jr. and junior forward Zak Irvin. Walton already fell victim to a cold spell just three days ago in Michigan’s victory over No. 18 Purdue, a game in which Irvin played the hero with 22 points and the go-ahead basket. But Tuesday at Ohio State, neither player could get a rhythm going, and each finished 5-for-14 from the floor in the 76-66 loss. The Wolverines’ two on-court leaders did reach double-digit scoring with some late baskets in the second half, and junior forward Mark Donnal tallied a team-high 17 points of his own. But Michigan consistently struggled to keep up with the Buckeyes, who made 54 percent of their shots and caused the Wolverines to commit several quick fouls, especially in the second half, while also holding them to 39-percent shooting. “Derrick was still fatigued from the Minnesota game on Saturday, and now (he had to) go back (and play) again,” said Michigan coach John Beilein. “They did almost nothing on Sunday, so we could really get some rest for them, but there’s a lot of minutes being logged out there.”
Continuing a common theme from Michigan’s losses this season, the Wolverines found themselves unable to solve an opposing defense that imposed its length on them, forcing them to take low-percentage, contested shots. Walton and sophomore guard Duncan Robinson — two generally prolific 3-point shooters — shot just 2-for-12 combined from beyond the arc, and tired legs certainly didn’t help. “When an elite shooter like Derrick goes 2-for-something the last couple games, it’s a bad number,” Beilein said. “Duncan as well. Ohio State’s defense is really good. We’ve played four or five teams in this league (like that).” The most tangible evidence of Michigan’s fatigue didn’t even come from the players on the floor — it came from the notable face missing. Senior guard Caris LeVert, who made his return and played 11 minutes Saturday after being sidelined for six weeks with a lower-left leg injury, was unable to practice yesterday after feeling sore, leaving him out of the lineup for Tuesday’s game. Beilein declined to specify whether it was the injury flaring up or just general soreness; LeVert hinted toward the latter when he spoke with reporters Monday. Slowly working LeVert back into the lineup was supposed to be a major focus for Beilein over the final few games of the regular season, but with so much uncertainty surrounding his status, the Wolverines have been unable to settle on a plan of attack or establish clear depth in the rotation. “We were very hopeful that with those two days in between, we’d be able to do some things to
“There’s a lot of minutes being logged out there.”
give us some type of continuity of what we’re going to run against these guys in the future,” Beilein said. “We couldn’t dummy with (LeVert) or anything yesterday, just because we want to be so cautious knowing we have another game Sunday.” And that game Sunday won’t be a picnic either — Michigan will travel to College Park to face No. 6 Maryland, which has only lost one home game this season despite being upset in Ann Arbor in January. Having a few more days off should benefit the exhausted Michigan team, but no matter what Beilein says, the Wolverines themselves refuse to acknowledge their weariness down the stretch as they battle for an NCAA Tournament berth. “I think every team goes through this, three games in seven days,” Irvin said. “I don’t really JAMES COLLER/Daily want to use fatigue as an excuse.” Junior forwards Mark Donnal (top) and Zak Irvin (bottom) combined for 32 points at Ohio State on Tuesday night.
BASKETBALL From Page 1A in a 61-56 win against Purdue. LeVert was expected to play in his final regular-season visit to his home state but was instead forced to watch his former high school teammate, Jae’Sean Tate, account for the margin of victory and then some with a 13-point effort. Beilein reiterated after the game that “pain is (LeVert’s) guide,” and said LeVert was too sore to practice in the wake of the 11 minutes he played against the Boilermakers. The Wolverines had hoped the two days between the Purdue win and the trip to Columbus would have allowed for some sort of continuity, but they found no such luck, as
LeVert once again was unable to play after giving it a try during shootaround earlier in the day. “There’s been an effect (from the absences of ) him and Spike all year,” Beilein said, asked if LeVert’s absence changed his game plan. “No. Ohio State had an effect on our game plan today.” Michigan fell into a hole with Abdur-Rahkman on the bench, and its foul troubles came back with a vengeance in the second half. The Wolverines recorded six team fouls in the period’s first five minutes, including two in a four-second stretch from sophomore guard Aubrey Dawkins. Redshirt sophomore guard Duncan Robinson and Dawkins also finished with four fouls apiece, limiting Beilein’s options in the game’s final stretch.
“Ohio State had an effect on our game plan today.”
It may not have mattered, as Michigan’s shooters went a combined 5-for-24 from 3-point range, including a 1-for5 performance from Robinson, who has struggled as of late. Junior forward Mark Donnal proved Michigan’s only consistent source of scoring, as Michigan’s backcourt juniors — forward Zak Irvin and guard Derrick Walton Jr. — shot a combined 10-for-28 from the field. Donnal did well to score in the paint and finished with 17 points, but his performance wasn’t nearly enough as the Wolverines’ perimeter-centric offense sputtered around the 3-point arc. Irvin finished with 15 and Walton finished with 13. The loss cuts deep into the Wolverines’ margin for error as they vie for an NCAA Tournament bid. With the loss, Michigan likely needs a win at home against Northwestern as well as one out of three versus No. 4 Iowa, at No. 6 Maryland and at Wisconsin to be secure in its standing for the 68-member field.
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A Filtered Life: Walk Like A Woman BY R ACHEL PREMACK
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t a storytelling on campus a few months ago, my blood was boiling. A girl around my age was reading a piece on feminism, but she was highlighting the reasons why her desire to lead made her “not a woman.” She said she was defying gender norms with her desire to succeed; she was acting like a man when she accessed success. “I’m not a woman when I say I want to be president of the United States.” Perhaps what she meant was that people would not associate her actions as being female when she acts this way. But it made me uncomfortable. She was shaming her identity rather than celebrating it. Why are we women always trying to shed our femininity? Why are success and being female at odds? Why are we told to “grow some balls” when we want to succeed? Is there anything good about being a woman? Advice for women in the workplace typically emphasizes the need to be more assertive. Speak up in meetings. Negotiate for a raise. Brag. Become male, essentially. And while that’s necessary for survival, at a certain point we’re becoming self-hating women. We don’t want to have any feminine traits. Moreover, when I’m told to act like a man, I wonder if men are ever told to act like a woman — a better listener, creative, generally not socially inept — or if it’s just women who should change themselves. Take nursing and engineering — both dominated by one gender, and both rapidly growing professions. The tribulations of being a woman in the sphere of engineering are a common topic of discussion. And rightly so — women in engineering have to face, to be brief, a whole fucking lot of shit. To respond to that problem, a slew of nonprofits, politicians and companies are focused on getting women into tech. But why don’t we want more male nurses? The numbers prove that nursing is growing more quickly than software, in both number of jobs and salary. Home health care services and outpatient care services are projected to lead salary growth in America, respectively, at 4.8 percent and 4.1 percent in the next decade. The first software jobs are further down the list — tech consulting services and software publishing will grow at just over 2 percent in the next decade. Only 9.4 percent of nurses are men. People are con-
THO U GHT B U B B LE : SPRING BRE AK cerned that women aren’t encouraged to be logical and interested in science, but no one seems to care that many men lack the empathy and intelligence necessary to become a nurse. My move to take a programming class my freshman year was lauded as some sort of bold feminist move that would be rewarded with a great internship, but no one seems excited about men in the School of Nursing — despite the stability and excellent expectations for growth that field promises. I’m supposed to take programming courses not because it’s a growing industry, but because it’s a male-dominated one. If that wasn’t the reason, then why don’t we see more campaigns to get men involved in nursing? We’re championing a wrong sort of gender equality. Certain brands of feminism have become about dropping everything womanly just to become male. It’s gotten to the point where completely neutral behaviors are seen as negative, solely because young women overwhelmingly have them. It’s bad to be emotional simply because it’s bad to be a woman, and industries like education, nursing and publishing, which are overwhelmingly female, aren’t prioritized due to their demographic makeup.
“I’m planning on going to California for spring break. I’m going to visit family and eat a lot of In-N-Out Burger.” – Engineering sophomore Nichole Nguyen
*** I cried at my internship last summer. Hunched over my desk, hiding my face, drops fell off my face onto my desk after one of my bosses was short with me in front of our entire office. This was bad, but thankfully no one noticed. I was too ashamed to tell anyone, especially my mom and especially my female friends. I committed the biggest vice — the number one way a woman can lose respect from everyone around her in the workplace. At 20, I had already failed at the office gymnastics I’m required to do to avoid being slapped with the label of “emotional.” I’m sick of being ashamed that I cried. I’m sick of being scared that I wear skirts too often, or that I absentmindedly touch my hair. None of these actions are inherently bad, save for the fact that women tend to do them. When I enter the workforce, I certainly intend to negotiate my salary and state my opinions in meetings. Not because I’m tapping into some secret Y chromosome within me, but because I’m very happily being a socially savvy, creative and intelligent woman.
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on the record: kanye west on twitter “Shut the fuck up and enjoy the greatness.” — Rapper KANYE WEST on his new album, “The Life of Pablo,” which was released earlier this week exclusively on the streaming service Tidal.
“The system is designed for colored people to fail and one of our only voices is music.” —WEST on the music industry and avenues of expression.
Bet Your Mind B Y K ATA R I N A M E R L I N I your pockets always filled with star stuff wrapped in paper thin skin rolled tighter than a chrysalis then lit inhale stardust your eyes shine brighter than the fluorescence reflected off my sweat stained stomach diamond rings between my teeth clouded eyes we’re all smiles we’re all smiles unsteady smiles honey filled syringes tie me off with your tongue be sure to close the door behind you
“Yes I am personally rich and I can buy furs and houses for my family but I need access to more money in order to bring more beautiful ideas to the world. If I spent my money on my ideas I could not afford to take care of my family. I am in a place that so many artist end up.” —WEST on his balance of family support and creative endeavors.
“I made Dark Fantasy and Watch the Throne in one year and wasn’t nominated for either ... I will have over 100 Grammys before I die. I am the Jordan and Steph Curry of music, meaning I’m the best of 2 generations. —WEST on his perceived lack of critical recognition and his place in music history.
Zooming In: Women and Intimidation BY L AR A MOEHLMAN
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hen I was a senior in high school, I participated in a young women’s leadership workshop run by the large consulting firm McKinsey & Company. At our first event, we were told to introduce ourselves and share something we exceptional at. There was a catch though: we weren’t allowed to attribute our successes to anyone but ourselves. It seemed like a simple task at first, but after just two or three introductions, I realized the icebreaker would take longer than I had imagined. Many girls subconsciously modified their accomplishments with phrases like “people tell me I’m good at” or “I guess I’m okay at” and, upon each sign of hesitation, the facilitator would instruct them to start over. It was as if each girl was embarrassed to take ownership over her own varsity letters, Model U.N. awards or artistic achievements. I was no exception. Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook and author of Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, has identified the tendency of women to underestimate their own abilities as a key factor in the presence and persistence of the modern-day glass ceiling. A September 2015 report by Mckinsey and LeanIn.Org surveyed 118 companies with roughly 30,000 employees each in an effort to research the current state of women in corporate America. The study found that women are underrepresented at every corporate level, with the greatest disparity at senior leadership levels. A 2003 Carnegie Mellon University study found that, of young adults entering the workforce out of college, 57 percent of males negotiated their starting salaries compared to just 7 percent of women. In short: women are doing amazing things, but they won’t demand credit for it. For some reason, women think their work and their accomplishments are somehow less deserving of recognition than that of their male counterparts. Traditionally, I’ve attributed corporate America’s gender gap to a history of sexism and social barriers both in the office and at home. But what if women aren’t achieving their goals largely because of themselves? What bothers me the most about this observation is that it seems uncomfortably accurate. I constantly remind myself and anyone who disagrees that I get good grades because I study for hours on end– not because
I’m smart. I’m good at writing because I revise each sentence, word and comma placement countless times before hitting “print;” not because I’m a good writer. And no matter how prepared I am for an exam, I continue to tell the guy in my class who asks me how I feel about it directly afterward that “I’m not sure.” What gets to me is that I really am not sure, and apparently so are my peers. Sitting in that office building, I was surrounded by impressive girls from all over New Jersey– each intensely driven and bound for elite colleges and universities. But when prompted to take ownership over our own achievements, many of us automatically attributed them to other people. I don’t know why women are more likely than men to tell themselves they aren’t good enough, they don’t deserve a promotion and that their successes are only a product of the help they receive from those around them. Looking around the room, I remember thinking to myself how each girl was undoubtedly bound for a successful career in business, government, medicine etc. But what if our own reluctance to identify and demand recognition for our strengths is the thickest glass standing in the way of our professional goals?
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An Ann Arbor Odyssey A day with ‘Ulysses’ By Amabel Karoub, Daily Staff Reporter
Photos by Grant Hardy / Daily
Telemachus: 8:11 a.m. The epic begins with a ringing phone. I pull my pink comforter off of my body, climb out of bed and answer the phone. I open my front door to find Kelli, a fellow “Ulysses” reader. Kelli has dark hair, a nose ring and a wide smile. I realize I’ve never actually had a conversation with her. For our final exam in John WhittierFerguson’s class on James Joyce, we will be reading all of Joyce’s “Ulysses” aloud. I offered my apartment as a starting location because the novel opens in a tower, and I live on the 10th floor. It’s not Dublin, but I do have a pretty good view of the Diag. Kelli and I make awkward small talk in my kitchen until Yardain walks in, unannounced. Yardain was one of my first friends freshman year, and now, in the middle of our senior year, our relationship has an easy familiarity. Proving this point, he immediately begins cracking eggs into a large glass measuring bowl. Watching him, I realize I’ve made my first error of the day. “Oh no!” I say. “I don’t have olive oil.” “It’s fine,” Yardain says. “It’ll be fine.” I don’t listen. I played a key part in organizing our group’s reading, and I can’t shake the feeling that I’m going to mess it up somehow. I race downstairs, walk to 7-Eleven and buy some spray oil. I find that the weather is unseasonably warm for mid-December. When I get back, Yardain delegates me to the vegetables. I begin chopping up onions, mushrooms and red peppers as group members file in. There are 12 of us in total. My apartment is small, and soon every chair is accounted for. Three people sit at the kitchen counter, four on the couches and two in desk chairs I stole from bedrooms.
David joins Yardain and I behind the kitchen counter. David is the English major version of a class clown. In class, he openly begins questions with, “So, say I haven’t done the reading…” We all love him, including John, our professor. Actually, I think John loves him most. David begins making bacon, which he picked out when we went grocery shopping yesterday. He reminds me a bit of Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of “Ulysses.” Both eat pork for breakfast even though they are Jewish. Both are unconquered heroes. The premise of “Ulysses” is this: Bloom walks around Dublin, Ireland for an entire day. He believes his wife, Molly, is cheating on him at home and refuses to return until late into the night. We plan to mirror Bloom’s progress. We’re going to walk all over Ann Arbor as we read, trying to spend each chapter somewhere similar to where Bloom was in Dublin. All 18 chapters of “Ulysses” are named after and based on chapters in Homer’s “Odyssey.” “Ulysses” is a modern-day epic. At some point in the morning, someone begins reading. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him by the mild morning air. The reading progresses smoothly from one person to another. The sound mixes with the sizzling of the bacon and the pouring of coffee. It all feels calming, like a bedtime story. Some people are better readers than others. One group member, Nick, is particularly fantastic. It seems he was born to read “Ulysses” aloud. As Nick reads, I pack my backpack.
Throughout the day, Bloom keeps with him a bar of lemon soap and a crumpled up letter. I pack smarter, albeit nearly as light: a zip-lock bag of goldfish, a phone charger and a small notebook. We finish the first two chapters, which are relatively short, and everyone begins to cheer. “Shut up and read,” David exclaims. And we do. Someone begins reading the third chapter as we all stand up and put our coats on. It is time to leave my island behind. I lock the door behind me and feel an ocean of uncertainty ahead of me. Who will I be when I return? *** English Professor John Whittier-Ferguson is sitting in his office eating a bagel with cheese. John is tall, thin and undeniably heroic. He is dressed in a royal blue button-down paired with dark wash jeans. Every two years, on average, John teaches a course devoted almost entirely to “Ulysses.” In the class, which I took in my Fall 2015 semester, we spent the first five weeks with Joyce’s “Dubliners” and “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” then dedicated a full nine weeks to “Ulysses.” At the end of the course, students get together in groups and read “Ulysses” aloud from start to finish. Though optional, the reading stands in place of a final exam. Students who don’t participate take a written final that involves passage identification. I ask John how the reading is graded. “Everyone gets an A,” he says. “It’s so much harder than the exam.” John’s office is a tribute to Joyce. The bookshelves are lined with secondary texts, like “Ulysses Annotated” and a full set of “Finnegans Wake” encyclopedias. “Some books have these sort of cultish things
around them and this is one of them,” John says of “Ulysses.” He’s not wrong. “Ulysses” takes place on June 16, 1904, a day that has now been dubbed “Bloomsday,” in honor of Leopold Bloom. All over the world, in places from Canada to Croatia, people honor the book by reading it aloud, often in marathon readings like ours. Bloomsday began in Dublin in 1954. The University’s tradition began 37 years later, in 1991. John was just out of graduate school at Princeton University, and it was his first year teaching “Ulysses.” Three students — Ethan Goodman, Jessamyn Hatcher and David Zaft — floated the idea of a reading instead of a final. “Like so many great things, it’s student-led and student-originated,” John says, modestly. John is the type of professor who keeps in touch with his students after they graduate. Every time he mentions a “Ulysses” veteran, he follows their name with what they are doing now. Things like, “He went into the Peace Corps,” or “He’s back in town, applying for an MFA.” I wonder, hopefully, if I will be one of these students in 10 years. *** Proteus: 9:21 a.m. We don’t want to split up, so all 12 of us crowd into one of my building’s two tiny elevators. The elevator travels two floors down then opens again. A boy stands still for a moment before entering. “Is the other elevator broken?” he asks, confused as to why there are so many of us. “Sure,” I tell him. We reach the first floor and step out, like clowns getting out of a car. David reads as we walk through the Diag. His reading is quick, and
it will only get quicker throughout the day. He is the fastest reader out of all of us. It’s still early enough that the campus is pretty much deserted, and I feel peaceful as we walk. Soon, I’ll be graduating, leaving all of this behind. It feels right that I’m experiencing Ann Arbor, an old place, in a new way. We end up in Mason Hall, sitting on the tiled floor with our books on our laps as students hurry past us, yawning on their way to their 10 a.m. classes. Now, Yardain is reading. He keeps his voice deep and puts extra stress on every third word. A wayward freshman approaches our group. “Are you guys registering?” he asks. “No,” we all chant in unison. He walks away, embarrassed. As chapter three ends, I run upstairs to turn in a final paper for an English class. I hand it to my GSI, Dory, then tell her I can’t stay for our discussion, because I need to get back to my “Ulysses” reading. She doesn’t mind. “I’ve heard of that before,” she says. “That is so cool!” *** Calling Ethan Goodman, I feel as though I’m about to talk to a famous person. Twenty-five years ago, this man was ambitious enough to convince his English class to read all of “Ulysses” aloud. He now works at an important-sounding New York law firm. Though John takes no credit for the creation of the reading, Ethan says John’s teaching style played a crucial part. “The way John ran the class, which was really a collaborative discussion group more than anything else, seemed to naturally lend itself to a capstone that was more than sitting in a room and writing in a blue book,” Ethan says. I can stand behind this — John’s classroom does not feel like a place where there is a right answer. Rather than lecture at his students, John helps us to dig deeper into passages that interest us, leading us to unlock key parts of the text that may be difficult to access. A blue book exam does not seem the best way to assess how far a student has come with the text. Ethan and his classmates did the reading on half-Bloomsday — so December 16, 1991. At that point, students hadn’t yet begun to travel around Ann Arbor, trying to match Bloom’s path in Dublin. “Back then it was all in one place,” Ethan tells me. The things Ethan says about John’s class, “Ulysses” and Ann Arbor sound almost too familiar. It’s as if nothing has changed in all of these intervening years. I ask Ethan how “Ulysses” has affected him over the years. It feels like I am about to hear my future. “It seems to reveal itself in various ways depending on where you are in your life,” he says. “When you’re a student … it can be one thing, but later on, when you pick it back up, you’re going to see certain things in a whole different light just because you will have gained some life experience.” *** Lestrygonians: 1:10 p.m. A few chapters later, we’re all starving. In four hours, we trek all over campus. From Mason Hall we go to the cemetery on Observatory, where David sits on a grave and Yardain says, simply, “Don’t do that.” Then, we retrace our steps back
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to the Student Publications Building, where we all have chairs for the first time in a while. Now, we’re at a long, Harry Potter-esque table in Pizza House, waiting for our food. It’s a Friday afternoon and the restaurant is predictably empty. Music plays overhead, but it can’t compete with the sound of us reading. The waitress approaches and seems unflustered by our open books. It’s as if people come in here reading “Ulysses” every day. Honestly, I’m sure she’s seen weirder. We order two large pizzas — one vegetable, for noncarnivores like myself, and one pepperoni. Bloom is also eating lunch. A Gorgonzola cheese sandwich. An interesting choice for a man who ate pork kidneys for breakfast. My vegetarian pizza makes me feel closer to him. Greaseabloom. There’s so much in “Ulysses” I’ll never get. Having studied the book for three decades, John recognizes this. He does not expect his students to understand the entire book. Part of the beauty of the marathon reading is that group members all come with their own backgrounds, and we all have certain parts we understand best. “It’s hard to think of a book that’s harder to read in a college assembly of people, because it’s very hard to do on your own, even with good notes and all the best will in the world,” John says. “It’s one of those things that it really helps to be a part of a group, encouraging everybody together.” At Pizza House, I sit next to Nick, the one who’s excellent at reading aloud. It turns out Nick has even more secret skills: He is a diehard Shakespeare fan. Lucky for me, I have been in the market for a Shakespeare fan. Joyce’s references to Shakespeare are nearly constant. Nick begins to explain a theory about Hamlet that Joyce presents in “Ulysses”. When he finishes, I still don’t really get it, but I’m captivated anyway. Here I am, in Pizza House, reading “Ulysses” aloud and discussing theories on “Hamlet.” This, I think, this is the reason I became an English major. ***
John has a dream that, he admits, will never be realized. He imagines all of the generations of “Ulysses” marathon-readers will one day all stand in a room together, talking about the book. In writing this article, I have sort of helped fulfill John’s dream. I keep reaching out to former readers, reminding them that they did this amazing, insane thing and I did it, too. We might be in completely different places in our lives, but we all have one thing in common: an almost unhealthy obsession with Joyce. I have already talked to Ethan, a member of the first generation of readers. Next, I call Tom McBrien, who is of the most recent generation besides mine and a former Daily Copy Chief. He did the reading in the Winter 2015 semester. Though Tom and I are much closer together in years, his observations about the reading are completely in line with Ethan’s. Tom gives a description of the reading that leaves me laughing out loud and nodding emphatically, though he can’t see me. “It was like an English major hazing,” he says, seriously. Like me, Tom did the reading in his senior year. He says, at the time he did it, the opportunity to wander all over Ann Arbor was particularly special. He knew that his time with these places was coming to an end. “It’s kind of an emotional thing going to all these different places in Ann Arbor that I’ve been before, but meshing them with this incredible work of literature,” Tom tells me. “It became part of how I see the city.” Like many of us, Tom’s experience with “Ulysses” has affected the way he sees the world. He says he’s found that “Ulysses” has this way of mirroring life in a way that’s almost spooky. “There are so many things in it that are unforgettable and these things keep cropping up,” he says. “I don’t know what kind of wizard James Joyce was, but he found the most amazing way to capture so much of life in that book.” *** Sirens: 4:32 p.m. Eight hours in, the rhythm of the book
becomes the rhythm of my thoughts. My thoughts are wandering. My wandering thoughts. “Ulysses,” as a book, has a liveliness to it. The book presents thoughts and ideas that can’t be attributed to any character. It is, at turns, musical or mocking or angry or tired or sad. “Sirens” does not abide by the laws of narrative, but by the laws of music. It has a prelude. It repeats words just for the sake of sound, and has random interludes everywhere. When we reach the prelude of Sirens, we are all standing on an Ann Street sidewalk. We gather in a circle and hold our books into the middle like hands in a cheer. We take turns reading single lines. It is windy with a slight chill. The words are a spirit, a possession jumping from person to person. Bronze by gold heard the hoofirons, steelyringing. Imperthnthn thnthnthn. Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips. The thing about these lines is they start to make sense when read aloud. Hearing them, I realize that Joyce heard them, too. That a chapter relying on sound can’t make full sense if read silently. “It shows me how much Joyce read it aloud in his head,” John says later. “He has a very amazing sense of the spoken word and the rhythm of things.” I don’t doubt this. Joyce was a lot of things: novelist, poet, lover, father, closet atheist. He was also a singer and a pianist. In all of his works — from his short stories to his novels — there is distant music. As of the late 1920s, scholars agreed that both Homer’s epics — “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey”— were probably the result not of one man’s genius, but of a centuries-long oral tradition. Homer was just the guy who thought to record them. Joyce wanted to write an odyssey. And he took it one step further than I realized. Read more online at michigandaily.com
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What We Talk About When No One Is Listening
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by Natalie Zak, Daily Arts Writer
here’s self-control and then there’s self-indulgence. I’ve always struggled to find a balance between the two. In almost every aspect of my fledgling life it has seemed like I have no control over my actions. Impulse and gut reactions characterize the majority of what I do, and this fundamental flaw is most evident in my speech. As a result, I have turned a singular question over and over again in my mind for years as it has slowly eaten away at the thin line between control and indulgence: Why do I keep talking when all I want to do is shut up? I wish I could put it more delicately, but alas I must be blunt. This tendency of mine applies to conversation, writing, even my laughter. I consistently overshare on certain aspects of my life while offering little to no information about others, and more often than not I find myself digressing on topics that need not be addressed. The talking characterizes times of discomfort and anxiety and, sadly, has become a trait with which people identify me. Although I may suffer from periods of silent self-examination, I find myself unable to suppress this deeply ingrained urge to speak. I berate myself afterward, knowing I should have kept to myself, but nonetheless the cycle continues. There was an ongoing joke in my childhood that fell somewhere along the lines of “Natalie’s stories are the worst.” Harsh, yes, but true. I could not differentiate between what would intrigue people and what only intrigued me. As a child, it all blended together, and thus poor victims would be stuck in the abyss of my storytelling, forced to await an ending that never came. For those wishing to spare my feelings, there was no merciful death. I always was a talker, and my parents were the only ones that could shut me up. This rejection that I faced at home made me search for eager ears in the faces of strangers. Those poor adults did not know that their blind politeness would be their downfall. Like me, they probably learned their “yes pleases” and “no thank yous” at a young age. Unlike me, they did not use this lesson in human decency as a way of tricking people into listening to a tale that lacked tears and never triumphed. I engaged anyone, anywhere. My unsuccessful soccer career can be credited to the rule-abiding referees that would humor me. Instead of chasing after the ball like a normal, goal-oriented child, I would stand by the referee, chatting with him about the stunning weather at the indoor soccer field. Swimming followed a similar course, as there is recorded footage of me standing on a swim block in the middle of a race enthusiastically talking to the timer as he tries to focus on both my precariously positioned body and the swimmer in the lane before me. Sadly, I haven’t grown far from my childhood ways, and my youthful faux pas continue to be relevant to my current storytelling abilities. Although I have thankfully improved my vocabulary and grown more reliable in my testimonies, I can’t seem to find the appropriate filter that distinguishes between the fascinating and the mundane. Surely it’s a subjective matter, but that does not excuse the multiple times I’ve been interrupted simply because my story was dull. There remains this small issue of me regarding every
audience as wholly invested in my every word, and in this regard, narcissism is considered one of my most flattering traits. I’ve started to recognize the face of a disinterested listener, and when I do, I immediately begin floundering for help to avoid drowning in my own abyss. Not until recently, however, has this problem caused me a great deal of anxiety. Oversharing is a deeply ingrained fear of mine, a potential consequence of my upbringing. Age 15 and brimming with unease, I approach my dad with a proposition: As a reward for my good grades, I want to dye my hair. Keeping the situation purely hypothetical, I explain to him how this change would be temporary and wouldn’t affect my good character or steer me down the emo path I had narrowly avoided in my youth. Not missing
a beat, he counters with a new and improved hypothetical situation. “How about instead, you draw a metaphorical teal line down the center of your face, and it can be special, because nobody except you will know it exists.” Message received. I’m a Zak, and Zaks are inherently private people; we don’t ask for undesired attention, and we don’t place ourselves in that unforgivable center. I couldn’t dye my hair because that’s exactly the kind of edgy statement I was supposed to desperately avoid making. Three years later, this teal line still inches down the center of my face as a reminder whenever I find myself on the brink of oversharing. I can no longer differentiate between news that is worthy of sharing and news that should be kept to myself. I can ensure though that I’ll feel guilty no matter what the decision. Specific people must be approached with specific topics in mind, or else our conversation will slowly descend into me drawing out tangents and reemphasizing punch lines as I await an enthusiastic response that never comes. Humans are struck with the need to share not because we’re egotistical, which is what I’m naturally inclined to believe, but because it’s ingrained in our nature. In psychol-
ogy, self-concept describes how human beings are made up of three schemas: self-esteem, self-knowledge and the social self. These schemas are almost entirely defined by our interactions with others — how we estimate our self-worth based on how our quirks and tendencies are perceived. I have no reason to fear oversharing or divulging precious information, for it is simply human nature. Knowing this does not make the burden of anxiety any lighter, but knowing I’m not alone in my fears does. We also evaluate ourselves based on how people react to our words, appearance, hand gestures, eyebrow raises — and maybe that’s why I find myself still talking as the anxiety continues to rise. I feel the need to correct the verbal missteps and untie the social tongue twisters that I trip over day after day. Word vomit plagues me, and I suffer from an almost critical case. It claims the strongest among us, but like all fits of nausea, can be appeased by a monitored diet of saltines and ginger ale. Unlike nausea though, the anxiety isn’t fooled by offerings of carbonated beverages and wheat. Instead, it simply extends to sanctuaries like the classroom. When conversation in a room dwindles and awkward silence begins to settle in, I take it upon myself to relieve everyone of it. Screw dignity, pride and a general feeling of self-worth; I will throw myself into the lion’s den, take a bullet for surrounding contenders and toss myself under the bus simply to resolve these intolerable silences. The teacher will pose a question only to be met with acknowledged silence, and I settle into my accustomed biblical role. Nailing my hands and feet into the bark, I prepare my spirit, open my mouth and immediately black out. What occurs in the next few minutes is a mystery to me, not because I’m baffled by my ability to compose complex statements, but because I genuinely suffer from a temporary lapse in memory. I liken it to a “Memento”-type situation, except nothing was murdered, other than the written word of intellectuals that came before me. A wise, fictional fool by the name of Michael Scott once said, “Sometimes I start a sentence and I don’t know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.” I often find myself relating to the words of this fictional fool, both in my writing and when I talk. The sentences I construct are built in lieu of the self-concept, constantly being reformed and torn apart by the reactions I perceive from those around me. I may never know where I’m going with it or how it will end, but I can be sure that it will end at some point. And that’s all that matters. As individuals we communicate through more than just our words; looking past the inane lava spilling forth from our mouths, it’s the actions, facial expressions and silence that describe us best. Looking in the mirror now, the teal line is beginning to resemble a scar, but not one that I’m forced to bear in reality, only hypothetically, and that makes all the difference. ILLUSTRATION BY EMILIE FARRUGIA
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 // The Statement
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My Life as a Young Dad by Logan Hansen, Daily Sports Writer
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was 16 years old when my son was born. And I remember, clear as day, sitting in that hospital room and holding him for the first time. The smile would not leave my lips, and my eyes could not be bothered to remain dry. A couple of days later, I drove he and his mother to her parents’ house twenty minutes away from the hospital, and I dare say it was probably the slowest and most careful I have ever driven in my life. I got a job that summer, before my junior year of high school, washing dishes at a steakhouse-type restaurant. In August, I would wake up, drive the ten minutes to work down M-22, clock out just in time to head back into town and participate in two-a-day football practice, and then end the day spending time with my newborn son at his maternal grandparents’ house. As a guy that was generally awkward around little kids, it took me a good deal of time to become used to being a parent. Especially in high school I found this hard. I grew up in Northern Michigan, where, in a network of small towns and small high schools, everyone knew everything about everybody else. I’d walk into a neighboring school’s gymnasium to cheer on our varsity basketball team, my son secured in my arms, and I would get the distinct sense that all of the opposing school’s kids were looking at me, judging me. When I found out my girlfriend was pregnant, it was impossible to keep some negative thoughts out of my head: Now I’m going to be one of those kids who threw everything away for one night of unprotected fun, I thought. Now I’m going to be perceived as a lesser person, someone for whom the potential of success has been substantially lowered. I had done most everything right up to that point. I had great friends, did well in school, volunteered my time at almost every opportunity. And all of a sudden, I felt as if the mortal error had been committed and everything that preceded it was for naught. But it was not the end of the world. Not even close. My friends, while shocked at the news, could not have been more supportive. They jumped at the opportunity to be honorary “uncles” for my little guy. They let me know I was still a “good” person, and they wouldn’t look down upon me for becoming a dad at such a young age. My parents and my son’s maternal grandparents offered as much help as they could, which was and continues to be a service to me that I will never be able to thank them enough for. Because of them, the question of continuing my education or not was one that needn’t be asked. Coming to the University of Michigan, though, presented me with new challenges as a young parent. When I said goodbye to my then-two-year-old son before leaving for college, I do not think I fully grasped what it would be like, what it would mean, to be four hours away from him for a greater part of the coming academic year. But I understood the depth of that distance soon after arriving in Ann Arbor. After maybe five days on campus, I missed a call from my son on a Saturday. He left a voicemail. “Hi, Daddy. I miss you. Come back. Bye.” So then I sat there, and wondered: Was going to school this far from home really a good idea? Was my dream college something that should have just stayed a dream?
I rationalized and justified and defended my decision to myself. I said, you’re going to a great school, which will lead to a great career, which will allow you to provide for your son in the future. But I still sit here and wonder, as a senior in my final semester at Michigan, whether I made the right choice in coming here and staying for four years. And I think back to freshman year, when I felt like I had a big secret to keep from everyone all over again. Telling my friends at college that I was a dad was never an easy thing for me, and to some extent, it still isn’t. Approaching the subject with new people is like entering the gymnasium in that other high school, fearing how they will react, what they’ll think of me. My sophomore year I took a developmental psychology course, and on the first day, just out of curiosity as it related to the course material, the professor asked the 200-person class if anyone had children already. I didn’t raise my hand. The subject of having kids has come up during my time here on a number of occasions, and it is always in the context of looking toward the future. For me, that
future began six years ago, when I first learned I was going to be a dad. All the anxiety and stress and guilt I’ve experienced over my own insecurity is something I am disappointed in myself with. After all, everyone I have met, generally, has not reacted in a negative way to my having a son. And, more significantly, all of the joy and pleasure and happiness that my son has brought me over the past five and a half years overshadows those negative feelings by far. He is smart as can be, funny in a way that oftentimes only kids can get away with — by being brutally honest — and his hugs are the ones I most look forward to. Looking back on that first day in the hospital, holding him for the first time, tears threatening to wash down my face, I could never have imagined how much of a blessing in disguise that little guy was going to be. And if I told you I didn’t cry while writing this, I’d be lying. ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY WATERS
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016 // The Statement
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Senior Michael Strathern finds his grip as he prepares to compete on the still rings against Oklahoma on January 23, 2016.
Young fans shine their cell phone lights before Michigan’s basketball game against Rutgers on January 27th, 2016.
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Carley Wayne stunts during a media timeout during a women’s basketball game against Ohio State on January 21, 2016. Redshirt freshman Jabrill Peppers laughs Lead vocalist Tyler jokingly with a Penn State player as they Joseph performs congratulate each other on a good game on “Holding On To You.” November 21, 2015.
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Colt Bakich, son of University of Michigan head baseball coach Erik Bakich, holds his hand out to high five other children running the bases after Michigan’s last home game on May 16, 2015.
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