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“Growing up I didn’t even know I was allowed to say I was an American.” “I kind of learned to hide who I was.”
50% of Muslim students witnessed the perpetuation of stereotypes by other students, faculty, or staff members
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55% of Americans view Islam unfavorably
of self identifying Muslim American reported having experienced discrimination having to do with their race or religion (on campus)
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Left quote: University alum Areeba Jibril. Right quote: LSA senior Tina Al-khersan. Source: 2016 YouGov poll and the University of Michigan Islamophobia Working Group report.
Muslim students say Islamophobia is frequent, underreported on campus
National trends impact experiences at University of Michigan and beyond According to LSA senior Jennifer Alpert, a witness to the incident, a man — who she described as a white male in his On the day before the 15th late 30s — shouted at the couple anniversary of 9/11, a Muslim while they were leaving Noodles & couple was harassed at a downtown Company, cursing and relating the restaurant on State Street. couple and Islam to the devil. LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter
Alpert said everyone was in shock — no one reacted at first. The woman then began to cry. Moments later, Alpert said someone approached the couple and offered words of comfort. The restaurant manager said the couple quickly left the property. No
employees witnessed the incident, the police were not called — and life, the bustle of students on the Diag during a warm fall Saturday in Ann Arbor, carried on. “It just surprised me,” Alpert said. “Ann Arbor is a very liberal See STUDENTS, Page 3
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The number of sexual assault reports received by the University of Michigan’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center increased by nearly 200 percent in 2015, according to the annual University report detailing crimes reported to security personnel. The Security and Fire Safety Report was released by the Division of Public Safety and Security in September. It encompasses reported crimes related to alcohol and drugs, as well as sexual assault. Sexual assault reporting increased from 35 reports in 2013
and 44 reports in 2014 to 124 in 2015, a 182 percent increase, according to the report. Additionally, in 2015, there were 31 reported incidents of intimate partner violence, compared to six and four in 2014 and 2013, respectively. There were also 41 reported incidents of stalking and 25 incidents of sexual harassment, compared to single digit numbers for 2013 and 2014. All of these incidents were reported prior to the implementation of the University’s new sexual misconduct policy, which went into effect on July 1. The policy now includes genderbased harassment and intimate See CRIME, Page 3
School of Public Health recognizes A activist ‘U’ officials group holds former dean Ken Warner at symposium talk mental
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The University of Michigan School of Public Health held a day-long symposium Monday honoring former dean Ken Warner’s work on tobacco control and population health. About 850 people were in attendance at the biennial event, which in addition to honoring Warner — who is set to retire next May — also encouraged dialogue surrounding other contemporary issues in public health, improving relations between communities about these issues and the future of both public and environmental health. The event is one of many slated to mark the School of Public Health’s 75th anniversary this school year. Both University Provost Martha Pollack and U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) attended the event, and all classes in the School of Public Health were canceled in hopes that students would attend. Cliff Douglas, adjunct professor at the School of Public Health and director of the American Cancer Society Center for Tobacco Control, discussed a number of Warner’s accomplishments before introducing him to speak. He emphasized that Warner has taught a number of courses in public health policy, tobacco policy and economics of disease prevention and has altered public perceptions of tobacco use
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Approximately ten members of the Ann Arbor Solidarity with Farmworkers Collective and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers gathered outside the Michigan Union Monday evening to protest Wendy’s for their purchasing choices. A2SFC is a local organization advocating for farmworkers, racial justice, immigrant rights and bringing an end to wage theft and labor exploitation. For the past year and a half, A2SFC has been working with the National Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a workerled human rights organization based in Immokalee, Fla., to raise awareness of CIW’s Fair Food Program. The Fair Food Program is a partnership between farmers and retail food companies that aims to guarantee humane wages and working conditions for fruit and vegetable farmers. While Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Subway and Burger King have joined the Fair Food Program; Wendy’s is one of the few major See WENDY’S, Page 2
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worldwide through consulting for various public health boards. “Ken Warner has been a tenacious campaigner for public health,” Douglas said. “He has left the type of humanitarian record that we can all aspire to.” Following Douglas, Warner took the stage to discuss the modern history of tobacco use and the global smoking epidemic. “Smoking remains today our nation’s, and the world’s, leading
cause of preventable mortality,” Warner said. He said individuals who smoke smoke an average 18 cigarettes today — each of which contain over 7,000 chemicals harmful to the body. For these reasons, Warner said he has dedicated his life to policy changes and altering public perceptions and misconceptions about smoking. He also emphasized the role of tobacco control as a
collective effort to reduce the toll of tobacco use and eliminate health disparities among races and socioeconomic classes. Control-oriented policies include preventing kids from starting, helping adults to quit and protecting nonsmokers from exposure to secondhand smoke. “As the surgeon general told us not very long ago, it is smoking — the inhalation of the products See SYMPOSIUM, Page 3
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A panel discussion with Counseling and Psychological Services leaders and Angela Dillard, associate dean of undergraduate education, stressed the University of Michigan’s commitment to providing students with mental health support to cap off the end of the first campus Mental Health Day Monday. LSA sophomore Nicholas Meier, an LSA student government member, spearheaded the daylong event along with LSA junior Nicholas Fadanelli, a fellow LSA SG member. Meier and Fadanelli said they started Mental Health Day to bring to light various mental health resources available to University students. “We saw that there’s a lot of opportunity for collaboration across campus with mental health groups; we feel like it’s a big issue,” Meier said. “This idea came up from a meeting we had last year, like how can we get more people to know about the mental health issues on campus.” The day’s events also aimed to inform the community about See TOWNHALL, Page 3
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WENDY’S From Page 1 fast food chain that has not. Over the past two weeks, members of the CIW have been touring the Midwest, leading demonstrations similar to the one Monday evening. Oscar Otzoy, a member of CIW and farmer in Immokalee, Fla., was present at Monday’s protest and said students’ involvement is important in the movement because of their power as consumers. “We’re here in Michigan; we’ve been in different parts of Ohio and also Kentucky, all to bring this message and to connect with students and people in different communities about how they can be part of this solution that’s changing the lives of so many farmers,” Otzoy said.
The Union Wendy’s did not reply to request for comment. Otzoy urged University of Michigan students to get involved with A2SFC. He said students can attend A2SFC’s weekly meetings and sign their local petition to urge the University to end its contract with Wendy’s. Rackham student Ariana Hall joined A2SFC after hearing about it from a fellow Rackham student Kim Daley, an A2SFC co-founder. “I think it’s important to know where your food is coming from and who’s doing that work and make sure we’re supporting all those people,” Hall said. Daley and Drew Nowak, an A2SFC co-founder, said they have reached out to the Union to see if they will reconsider doing business with Wendy’s. “I recently contacted the
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I think it’s important to know where your food is coming from. to make sure that students on campus supported it,” Daley said. When the Fair Food Program was implemented in Florida,
A day before the voter registration deadline, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton visited the state to urge Michigan students to sign up to vote. More than 4,000 individuals piled into the Matthaei Athletic Center at Wayne State University to see Clinton speak Monday, with attendees filling almost the entire space. The speech focused almost exclusively on issues affecting either young voters and the state of Michigan as a whole from college affordability to the comeback of the car industry due to a federal bailout, the latter of which Clinton emphasized she supported. Getting students to vote in itself, she told the crowd, was critical. “I know there’s been a lot of
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negativity and it’s easy to get cynical — but I’ll tell you that’s what the other side wants you to do,” Clinton said. “They want you to just say, ‘Well, I’m not going to vote because it’s so nasty.’ But that’s the main reason to vote.” Clinton’s stop in Michigan falls at a particularly intensive time in the campaign: a day following her debate against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at Washington University in St. Louis, and a day before Michigan’s voter registration deadline. The pertinence of the latter was highlighted from the very beginning of the event, with U.S. Reps. Brenda Lawrence (D– Mich.) and John Conyers (D– Mich.) and U.S. Sens. Gary Peters (D–Mich.) and Debbie Stabenow (D–Mich.), among others, all urging voters in attendance to register to vote and bring a friend to the polls on Nov. 8. Coming to Michigan Monday also hinted at the importance
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instead of joining the program, Nowak said Wendy’s, moved all tomato sourcing to Mexico from the United States, specifically to farms known for poor labor practices. According to Nowak, this is a clear violation of the University’s contract with Wendy’s. “We have copies of Wendy’s’ contract with the Union and the University of Michigan’s code of conduct for vendors, and there is a clause in there that says none of the Michigan vendors can source their materials from places who have been known to use forced labor,” Nowak said. Daley said a representative from the Union is willing to meet with A2SFC to discuss Wendy’s’ possible violation of the contract. A representative from the Union was unavailable for comment at the time of this article.
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STUDENTS From Page 1 town and this shows that it can happen anywhere, not just at like, a Trump rally.” The incident at Noodles & Company was one, isolated moment. But for many Muslim students on campus, these stories are not surprising — and they say they are more frequent than others in the campus community likely realize. A long-term trend Nationwide, rhetoric around Islamophobia has heightened in the past year after terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino and statements from politicians like Republican president nominee Donald Trump, who is calling for a ban on immigration for all Muslims. According to the FBI, hate crimes have decreased for every group except for MuslimAmericans since 2013, and according to a recent YouGov poll, 55 percent of Americans view Islam unfavorably. On campus, several incidents over the past year have brought discussions around Islamophobia to the forefront. In March, students found anti-Islam chalkings covering the Diag.In April 2015, controversy arose over the screening of the film “American Sniper,” on campus, with several Muslim students on campus reporting receiving hateful messages and in some cases death threats. American Culture Prof. Evelyn Alsultany, director of Arab and Muslim American Studies, said there is a trend of prominent acts of hate against Muslim students nearly every semester. “In my experience on this campus, something explicit happens at least once a semester,” she said. “Every semester there seems to be an issue that comes up that highlights Islamophobia in our society and the impact it actually
CRIME From Page 1 partner violence as part of sexual misconduct, and changed wording around definition of consent. According to the policy, genderbased harassment includes harassment “based on actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.” Intimate partner violence refers to physical violence, or a threat of physical violence, between individuals in a sexual, dating, spousal, domestic or other intimate relationship. In a March interview, SAPAC Director Holly Rider-Milkovich said a main reason for expanding the policy was to ensure the University’s compliance with the Clery Act and Title IX, two
SYMPOSIUM From Page 1 of tobacco consumption — that is the problem in tobacco, and we need to keep our eyes focused on the prize,” Warner said. “I say that tobacco control is the United States’ most important contribution to public health in the past half-century. It’s our greatest success story.” Later in the day, the event moved from Rackham to the School of Public Health, where a number of luncheon panels and forum discussions took place. These discussions were dedicated to a variety of public health concerns including epidemiology, big data and health in a changing environment. The panels
CLINTON From Page 2 majority of attendees did not appear to be college students — and devoted much of her speech to discussing the issue of college affordability and higher education reform. “We’re going to make public colleges like Wayne State tuition free,” she said. Targeting voters on the fence affected by student debt, Clinton pointed out Trump has not specified a plan to address higher education reform whatsoever,
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has on students. Also I think it’s more common than we would expect to be on the subtle level.” This trend has also held true into this semester. Last Monday, following a week of similar incidents and subsequent protests, fliers containing anti-Muslim sentiments were posted across campus. LSA senior Adam Mageed, president of the campus Muslim Coalition, agreed with Alsultany about the frequency of the events — something always happens, he said. “In regards to the posters, I don’t know if there is really all that much to say other than I’m not terribly surprised,” he said. According to the University’s Islamophobia Working Group’s report — submitted in February 2016 to the administration to be considered in the campus-wide Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative — 63 percent of selfidentifying Muslim-American students reported having experienced discrimination due to their religion. Growing up different LSA junior Haleemah Aqel said she isn’t sure when she first became aware that she was treated differently because of her ethnicity. “I don’t remember much about elementary school or middle school, but there was always that difference,” she said, adding that high school was when she really began noticing outward aggression. In one instance, Aqel said, she had a coach who placed her on the bench for an entire game after blaming her for a negative remark on social media concerning them, which she said was posted by another student. “I was the only brown, ArabMuslim girl on the team,” she said. “He didn’t tell anyone on the team why I wasn’t playing … I went to our locker area and I was crying. I didn’t understand why.” Aqel said this was not the only instance of hate in her high school
experience. Students would slip notes into her locker with phrases like “terrorist”, and she would encounter hateful messages posted on social media by peers or teachers. Throughout all of this, she said, she did not feel that the other students in her predominantly white school community ever truly supported or understood her. “It was so painful because I tried talking to people about it, but I didn’t really have that support,” she said. University alum Areeba Jibril said while growing up she noticed many of her community members felt a lack of safety following 9/11. “I didn’t really understand what had happened,” she said. “I didn’t understand why everybody was so scared, but I knew there was this atmosphere of fear that had to do with my identity.” She added that for a long time, she never felt she was allowed to refer to herself as an American due to this sense of being an outsider. “I always knew that I was different,” she said. “Growing up I didn’t even know I was allowed say I was American, even though I grew up here, because I knew I was different. That’s a label that I’ve always had to fight to be able to call myself.” Outward choices Despite the discrimination Aqel described, she said she does not feel as targeted as some of her friends who choose to wear a hijab. In particular, she noted a 2015 shooting at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where three Muslim students were killed in talking about her friend’s experiences. “The one thing after every phone call (my mom) tells me ‘be careful, be careful’ and it’s scary that she says that,” she said. “I’m not visibly Muslim, but I see my friends and I think every day ‘I hope nothing happens to you’ … It’s something that’s always in the back of my mind, like, I don’t know what’s going to happen today.”
Mageed echoed this sentiment, saying he feels that he can often talk with people without them realizing he is Muslim. “To the layman, I wouldn’t appear very Muslim-y, and because of that I kind of get to walk around as almost a bystander,” he said. “Sometimes that is beneficial.” Similar to Aqel and Mageed, LSA senior Tina Al-khersan said she feels she can often pass as white and avoid the discrimination given to her peers. However, for Al-khersan, this has meant losing part of her identity. “I kind of learned to hide who I was,” she said. ‘I didn’t say ‘Oh, I’m Iraqi or I’m Muslim.’ It was just kind of ‘I am Tina’ … It was just trying to blend in. I’d been conditioned to hide these identities.” Aqel, Al-khersan and Mageed all said they feel their lack of an obvious Muslim appearance has shielded them from discrimination that many of their friends face. On the other hand, Jibril, who wears a headscarf, said her experiences on campus have differed from students who can more easily pass as white. Her first day on campus as a transfer student in 2014, Jibril says she was spit on. Since then, she has faced discrimination in the form of what she described as small stereotypical comments nearly every day, and more aggressive confrontations at least every few weeks. “We have to be worried when we are walking down the street — not only because we are women,” she said. “I feel a little extra paranoid because I’m wearing a headscarf, so sometimes that means I’ll be sexually harassed and sometimes that means I have to deal with Islamophobic comments.” Jibril said she does not normally call the police for incidents such as being spit on or harassed, as the perpetrator often disappears quickly, and she does not believe the individual occurrences are significant enough to report. However, despite experiences
with hate, Jibril said she does not allow uncertainty to affect her daily life. “Even if I feel unsafe, I feel like I have to act like I don’t,” she said. “I have to convince myself that I don’t care because I’m not going to let anyone take my freedom away because they have tried way too often.” Each student interviewed noted that they cannot represent the thoughts and experiences of all Muslims. Jibril added that she thinks it is important to understand that Islamophobia doesn’t just affect Muslims, but also people of other ethnicities or religions such as the Sikhs who are often subject to Muslim and Arab stereotypes. Finding Community on Campus Despite memories of discrimination, Aqel, Al-khersan and Mageed all agreed that coming to Ann Arbor was an improvement from their predominantly white hometowns because they were able to find a Muslim community on campus. Al-khersan said she found a place of refuge within the Muslim Students’ Association, which she was president of in 2015. “For me, I think more than anything they provided a community,” she said. “More than anything they provided a place where I don’t feel like I have to explain myself.” LSA senior Misba Saleem, vice president of MSA, said she first got involved with MSA when she came to campus her freshman year and is now continuing outreach to firstyear students, so they know there is a safe place for them. “We do a lot of outreach to freshmen,” she said. “We want them to know that we have a really welcoming community with unconditional support for each other.” Mageed said one of the most positive aspects of having this community is the ability to be around people with similar experiences and spirituality. “According to my own
experience, I think there is a lot of benefit in feeling that sense of understanding with other people,” he said. “People who can identify the questions that go through your mind and those feelings of discomfort you may sometimes experience.” Balancing reputation and reality Ann Arbor often has a liberal reputation, bolstered by a allDemocratic City Council and a track record of voting consistently for Democratic state and federal officials. Because of that, it can seem separated from the Islamophobic rhetoric seen in other parts of the state and country, but all the students interviewed agreed that this is definitely not the case. Because of instances like the Diag chalking last spring, Aqel said there are times where the overall campus community reminds her of her experiences back home and she no longer feels welcome. She recalled a teacher during high school who told her she would be able to find a more welcoming community at the University. “I just remember she said it will be a better place,” she said. “Because of the liberalness of Ann Arbor I guess it does have that safety aspect of it, but those little attacks, seeing those makes me question ‘Is this really a better place?’ I mean it is, but why am I still dealing with these things?” Alsultany said attacks on Muslim students happen across campus in the form of both macro and micro aggressions, such as insensitive or inappropriate comments based on stereotypes. The Islamophobia Working Group report showed that 50 percent of Muslim students witnessed the perpetuation of stereotypes by other students, faculty or staff members. Al-khersan said upon arriving on campus, she felt a great sense of community across the University.
federal policies that govern sexual assault reporting and investigations at public universities. “As we are looking at these numbers going forward, with the new policy in place, we are hopeful that we are going to see an increase in accessing services, an increase in reporting information, especially as we’ve made some changes to the scope of the policy,” she said. At the time, Rider-Milkovich said an increase in reports continues to be a goal of SAPAC, and added that she expects reports to continue to rise. “That significantly increased aggregate number (of reported sexual assaults), really, I think, is the outcome of a lot of concerted effort on the University’s part, on SAPAC’s part, to make ourselves more accessible to students, as well as more awareness and more
comfort with seeking services.” LSA junior Brent Kim is a volunteer in SAPAC’s Networking, Publicity and Activism Volunteer Program, which organizes and promotes SAPAC events and resources on campus. He said he believes the increase in reports is in large part due to the increasing awareness of groups like SAPAC and the University’s Counseling and Psychological Services. “I definitely think SAPAC is getting a lot more traction — that and CAPS together,” he said. “My opinion is that young people are getting more riled up about these sorts of issues. They see these sexual assault cases coming up and it’s just unfair. There’s kind of that revolution going on, and people are noticing that, and they feel like they need to speak out.” Kim also said as students learn more about campus resources,
and as these entities are promoted by certain groups like SAPAC, more sexual assault crimes will be reported. Kinesiology junior Cass Bouse-Eaton is the director of the Sexual Violence Education and Empowerment division of the Panhellenic Peer Educator Program. She said their goal is to allow sorority members to feel comfortable sharing their experiences with sexual assault with one another. Speaking to the increase in reports, Bouse-Eaton said she thinks it’s the result of increased communication. “I really think it’s because people are starting to take the issue more seriously within their communities,” she said. “People are talking to each other more, it’s becoming less of a thing of shame. I think that when a survivor sees
it as something that is not their fault, and something that is a crime perpetrated against them, they feel more comfortable coming forward and speaking about it, because they see it as an actual issue and not something that they caused to happen to them.” In addition to an increase in reports of sexual assault, drug law violations referred for disciplinary action on campus property increased from 147 in 2014 to 281 in 2015. Similarly, liquor law violations referred for disciplinary action increased from 1,429 in 2014 to 1,629 in 2015. While crime reports increased 2015, enrollment last year stayed largely the same and undergraduate enrollment decreased slightly by 0.3 percent. The University has taken several steps to decrease instances of alcohol and drug violations on
campus in recent years, including shortening move-in week for freshmen from four to two days in 2014. The effort had mixed results, as alcohol-related activity declined on-campus but increased off-campus in the first year of the program. Welcome Week has continued to be just two days long in the past two years. The University also piloted a program last year to alert parents of first-year students if the student commits a violation accompanied by other serious behavior, such as needing medical attention or damaging property. Administrators later explained the University would alert parents only a case-by-case basis. Other categories in the report, including burglary on and off campus, domestic violence and weapon law arrests, stayed fairly consistent between 2014 and 2015.
ways to improve mental health is through communication. CAPS recently held an event on the Diag which aimed to spread messages of hope to help those struggling with feelings of hopelessness or depression. “I want to make sure that we are definitely having a dialogue about mental health, so coming to events like this is really, really important,” Asiado said during the town hall. “Part of it is about increasing awareness, decreasing stigma, educating others in terms of ‘how do you help yourself, how do you help a friend.’ ” CAPs representatives also noted several changes in their services. Last year, the CAPS After Hours program launched on campus, in
which on-call licensed therapists talk with and listen to students when CAPS offices are closed. As a move to increase the availability of this resource, the number of the After Hours program has been placed on the back of all University of Michigan Mcards. Though most information about CAPS can be found online, CAPS Director Todd Sevig told the audience that the number one reason people discover and go to CAPS is because a friend told them about their resources. For this reason, CAPS emphasizes community education, specifically to students, professors and GSIs.
consisted of faculty members from all disciplines both at the University and other institutions. Public Health student Anita Nsubuga said she attended the symposium due to her interest in global health. She called Warner’s speech enlightening and said she thought the panel she attended, “Changing World, Changing Epidemiology,” was a good avenue for students to explore the topic further. “I really hope people got an understanding of how complicated the global health arena really is — there’s more than just the disease, there’s the social element, there’s the disparities, there’s a whole hierarchy of different mechanisms at hand,” Nsubuga said. Public Health student Stuart
Hammond said he thought the symposium was effective in having a variety of speakers, not just faculty members, adding that many of the topics were related to his multidisciplinary interests. As well, he said that the symposium addressed a need for future epidemiological action in health crises. “It’s both that you have this great need for epidemiology, where we had to demonstrate that smoking was a problem and all the diseases it was causing and being associated with and its effects on people’s health through things like secondhand smoke, but then you had to move and translate that work from epidemiology into policy changes,” he said.
which was appealing for students such as Wayne State freshman Misbah Arshad. “I love Hillary Clinton,” Arshad said. “In the beginning I did vote for Bernie Sanders but after seeing what Trump was going to offer, Hillary Clinton was the reason I really wanted to get involved in this election.” The candidate also did not spare attacks on her opponent. “Did anyone see the debate last night? I bet you’ve never seen anything like that before,” Clinton said of Sunday night’s debate. She also called on Trump to release his income tax information
— pointing to audience attendees, she said they have most likely paid more into federal income taxes than Trump. Taxes, Clinton pointed out, go to fund programs that directly impact Michigan voters in the audience. “Last night he admitted he hasn’t paid a dime in income taxes in years,” Clinton said. “That means zero for Pell Grants, zero for the military, zero for our vets. He hasn’t contributed his fair share on any stretch … I believe every single one of us in this room today has paid more in federal income taxes than Donald Trump has.”
TOWNHALL From Page 1 mental health awareness initiatives that CAPS and LSA are currently working on. At Monday evening’s event, the panelists highlighted different services already available to those struggling with mental illness, such as individual therapy, group therapy and crisis walk-in sessions, as well as a Wellness Zone that has light therapy machines and meditation areas, from CAPS. CAPS also conducts workshops to combat stress and time management. Christina Asiado, CAPS associate director of community engagement and outreach, said one of the best
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IBRAHIM IJAZ | OP-ED
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Leave the locker room
f you haven’t heard, Donald Trump is in a lot of hot water. In a video recording from 2005 released on Friday by The Washington Post, Mr. Trump is recorded making crude and sexist remarks regarding women. Last night, Trump said, “Certainly I’m not proud of it. But this is locker room talk.” What Trump refers to as locker room talk is an expansion of his already atrociously long list of sexist statements. The 2005 recording is filled with statements like “I did try and f--- her. She was married” and “When you’re a star, they let you do … anything. Grab them by the p----. You can do anything.” Such maliciously prejudiced language isn’t just meaningless and excusable by the likes of Trump. It is a glimpse into the future of possible intolerant and undemocratic policies. We as a nation must try our hardest to avoid these. Voter registration closes on Oct. 11, so if you can vote, don’t waste the opportunity and register to vote here. During the second presidential debate Sunday night, moderator Anderson Cooper called the 2005 tape “the single most talked about story of the entire 2016 (cycle) on Facebook.” But Trump is quick to deflect the magnitude of the issue by claiming that his 11-year-old words do not reflect him as a person. This raises the question: Will Trump’s words today carry any weight 11 years down the road? Who is the real
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Trump if his words can’t speak for him? When Cooper directly questioned Donald Trump about committing sexual assault, he instantly denied such actions, but immediately changed the subject to how he plans to “make America safe again,” through tighter border control. How does the hanging-by-athread GOP nominee expect Americans to feel safe when he sexualizes and objectifies half the population? Whether Trump likes it or not, his “locker room” rhetoric normalizes sexual assault and humanizes assailants. In essence, Trump’s speech in the video is the exact opposite of his slogans of safety and greatness. To shine a different light on Trump’s sexist rhetoric, let’s take an example on a gun range. A few hypothetical buddies are out on the theoretical range, holding imaginary guns and joking about how many makebelieve people they could kill with their weapons. Is rhetoric like this really harmless? Words that devalue human life are incredibly harmful to society; they numb the empathy of their speakers and listeners. Donald Trump’s words desensitize us. GOP leaders are finally starting to take note of Mr. Trump’s harmful and divisive rhetoric. A USA TODAY network survey found that more than 30 Republican governors, senators and elected representatives have denounced Trump. The survey found that many GOP leaders are instead opting
to write in Trump’s running mate Gov. Mike Pence. This recent development adds to the current tensions between the vice-presidential nominee and Donald Trump. On Saturday, Mike Pence said he “cannot defend” Donald Trump’s sexist and misogynistic comments, claiming that he was offended “as a husband and a father.” How does Trump react? When asked about his running mate’s stance on Syria, he claimed, “He and I haven’t spoken and I disagree.” Really, Trump? Is your reality so small that there’s not even room for your running mate? I ask the American electorate: Does this look like democracy to you? Is our democracy one in which we demonize war-fleeing refugees, equating them to the “great Trojan horse?” Is our democracy one in which a politician can threaten to throw their opponent in jail once elected, as Trump did to Hillary Clinton Sunday night? Is our democracy one in which one half of the population should continue to fear sexual assault because of excusable “locker room talk?” This is the democracy Donald Trump wants to create. “We have a divided nation because of people like her,” Trump claimed. Sorry Donald, but as the only nominee for the presidency of the Divided States of America, the division you see is directly because of people like you. Ibrahim Ijaz is a public policy junior
It’s time to show up
et’s face it: There will never be a convenient time for those who are privileged to confront the barriers to liberation for those who are oppressed. As a first-year graduate student entering into my fifth consecutive year as a student here at the University of Michigan, there inevitably comes a time every year when I have to confront the rising tensions between pro-Israeli Jewish students and Palestinian students and their allies on campus. Every year for the past four years, I have found a voice on campus that exposes the complexities of the IsraelPalestine conversation. In what is already a saturated space, I had the privilege of keeping my internal dialogue to myself. I have waited a week since tensions arose yet again this year, but I have not seen or heard a voice that claims my conscious. This past Tuesday, members of the student group Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) held their annual demonstration on the Diag, depicting the challenges and harsh conditions Palestinians face on a daily basis from the Israeli West Bank barrier’s presence and enforcement by Israeli soldiers. During this time, many pro-Israel Jewish students were not on campus to respond to the demonstration because they were observing Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. As a result, many Jews felt excluded from the conversation that SAFE members were initiating.
This past week, many Jewish students have voiced that the situation seems unfair, unjust, uncomfortable and contrary to our campus’s values to create dialogue and understanding around conflict. As a Jewish student myself, I cannot help but feel frustrated by my community’s response. Let me be very clear: We do not get to decide when it is convenient for Palestinians to fight for their liberation from Israeli oppression. Every day, Palestinians are victims of gross injustices perpetuated by the enforcement of the separation barrier and Israel’s action around it. That is an undeniable fact. Since the day I began living on this campus more than four years ago, the greater Jewish community has shut down nearly every action that has sought to expose the Palestinian narrative by claiming anti-Semitism and falsely suggesting that this topic is too divisive for our campus. From my perspective, it feels that we as a Jewish community have largely passed over our opportunities to build relationships with Palestinian students and have actively failed to affirm the conditions that cause these demonstrations to exist at all. We are implicated in the struggle but refuse to share the burden of vulnerability. As a Jew who stands in vehement opposition to the occupation, it is my responsibility to recognize
that while I was sitting at Rosh Hashanah services on Tuesday, men, women and children in Palestine were still living under the harsh conditions they are subject to under the occupation. It is a privilege that I can enter and exit the IsraelPalestine conversation at will, while Palestinian students on campus are forced to confront it every day. The urgency to end the occupation cannot wait any longer, and it certainly should not have to wait for an opening in the Jewish calendar. In social justice spaces, we often talk about showing up. Physically and emotionally, we must internalize this philosophy if we ever want to end the occupation; then, and only then, will we be able to move toward peace for all. Jewish students may not have had the opportunity to show up and stand in solidarity with Palestinian students last week, but we can show up now. We can help one another learn about Palestinian narratives by holding a teach-in and we can show up to SAFE events as active listeners with open hearts and open minds — we have the opportunity to mobilize our privilege. I beg my Jewish community to understand what is at stake so that we can truly begin working toward a just peace.
Eli Zucker is is a first-year Social Work student in the Jewish Communal Leadership Program
What the Daily gets wrong about rights
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he Michigan Daily’s society’s right to literacy than Editorial Board recently either of those. The National claimed that literacy is Center for Education Statistics a “crucial skill, not a right.” Its has already conducted studies argument hinges upon the belief on the literacy of Americans. that creating a federal right to No doubt, these data are theoryliteracy would be impractical laden, and what constitutes for a number of the best measure of reasons, such as the literacy would have inherent difficulty to be left up to the in quantifying courts, but claims literacy. I find both that the difficulty its conclusion and its in measuring axioms legally and literacy disqualify morally untenable for it from being a a number of reasons, constitutionally but most importantly enshrined right are because rights are vacuous. ROLAND not contingent on DAVIDSON The second practicality; they erroneous exist outside of that realm. assumption made is that Historically, arguments of rights are siloed. The Editorial practicality have been used to Board notes the Youth and disenfranchise and oppress Education Law Project lawsuit marginalized communities. “(argues) that people who are During the era of American illiterate cannot exercise other slavery, opponents of constitutional rights such emancipation claimed that as political participation … ” freeing the slaves would lead to However, they never counter mass riots and the destruction of this argument directly, instead the Union. Obviously, this didn’t focusing on the aforementioned happen. It wasn’t that slaves “infeasibility.” However, shouldn’t be free as a matter of the Youth and Education morals, but it wasn’t feasible Law Project actually makes to do so. This isn’t to place the an incredibly compelling Daily on equal moral footing argument. Rights beget rights. as advocates of slavery, but to A woman’s right to abortion is historicize these sorts of claims. borne from her right to privacy. We don’t decide something is Our right to vote protects us a right because it’s practical, from voter intimidation. We rather because it is the morally can’t view our constitutional correct thing to do. and human rights in isolation; The Daily also argues that instead they build upon and “literacy is difficult to quantify protect one another. because it is not easy to measure.” A useful analog is Title IX This argument against the right (which the Editorial Board to literacy doesn’t hold water. We originally incorrectly claimed have plenty of rights which are is both part of our Constitution not difficult, but nigh impossible — it’s a piece of legislation — and to measure. How is it possible to guarantees all children a right quantify our right to free speech? to education: It protects people Or a person’s constitutional from gendered discrimination protection from cruel and in education). While it was unusual punishment? Those are initially conceived to promote both normative judgments that women, it has recently been courts have to make. used to force institutions of I would submit that it’s higher education to confront actually easier to measure a the horrors of rampant sexual
assault on their campuses. Making literacy a right through our Constitution’s equal protection clause is historically consistent with how the expansion of our rights have worked in the past and would provide a powerful legal framework, empowering educational activists. Does a right to literacy mean every single person in the United States must be literate? I don’t think any court would take that approach. Common sense dictates that there will always be people who never learn to read. That’s the difference between a right and a mandate. I don’t take advantage of my Second Amendment right, but I still have it. What a right would do is place a greater onus on our government and educational system to ensure that all of our citizens can equally participate in our government. Finally, the Daily makes the assumption that the lawsuit necessarily detracts from attempts to improve public schooling through legislation and funding increases. The politics of activism and our political attention economy are complicated, and simply telling local activists where “immediate action should be focused” reeks of privilege. The Editorial Board’s decision that literacy is not a right and the rationale behind that conclusion are both deeply flawed and show a basic misunderstanding of why we have human and constitutional rights in the United States. We do the right thing, not because it’s easy or practical, but because it needs to be done and ensuring our citizens’ literacy is no different.
Roland Davidson can be reached at mhenryda@umich.edu
MAX RYSZTAK | COLUMN
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Real conservative tax policy
n every election, tax policy national debt by this amount is seems to be one of the major hardly a conservative proposal. issues of each candidate’s Trump’s plan may reduce the campaign. Candidates often amount of money Americans fight over the specifics of each pay in overall taxes, but with other’s tax plans, tout how their such large-scale effects, he own proposals will help the most seems to propose two issues in people climb the socioeconomic contradiction with each other. ladder and strive to appear Hillary Clinton’s plan, knowledgeable on how these however, doesn’t do any better. issues affect the lives The Tax Foundation, of everyday Americans. another nonpartisan This year especially, research center, tax policy has become argues that Clinton’s a critical issue in the plan “would enact campaign. And while a number of tax this is certainly one of policies that would the most complicated raise taxes on and dense issues we individual and face, it is also one of business income,” the most important. resulting in greater MAX As college students, government RYSZTAK we often rely on every revenue. While no paycheck just to get by. Yet conservative would argue taxes with something that affects us should be abolished, Clinton’s every two weeks, we hardly pay plan also doesn’t add up because attention to how much or why a it reduces the amount individuals certain amount is automatically can put back into the economy taken out. By looking, no matter and has negative long-term how briefly, at the actual policy effects on our economy. This that affects all of our money, we uneven approach is “more of the can become more educated on an same” and wouldn’t solve the issue of tremendous importance. core issues in our tax system. Given Republican presidential So what solutions work? nominee Donald Trump’s wealth Conservatives, like Speaker of and his refusal to release his tax the House Paul Ryan for example, returns, the left has fought hard have proposed many great to paint Trump as a hypocrite solutions that would start to fix on taxes who seeks to protect the entire tax structure. These only the upper class. Conversely, are three of the most important Trump seeks to portray solutions we can implement in Democratic presidential nominee our tax system: Hillary Clinton as a “Washington Tax cuts in combination with Elite” who won’t actually help spending cuts: Conservatives real Americans. generally believe in acrossTruth be told: Both candidates’ the-board tax cuts, but the tax plans do not help a large implementation of spending cuts proportion of Americans. is absolutely necessary when While Donald Trump’s plan cutting taxes. When politicians severely cuts taxes for both cut taxes but don’t cut spending, individuals and businesses, our debt rises. Unfortunately, allowing most Americans to keep both sides of the aisle are more of their own money, his currently guilty of this problem, math doesn’t add up: His proposal resulting in the dramatic and would add an unspeakable uncontrollable increase of our amount to our national debt. national debt. This is a simple The Tax Policy Center, a largely issue for politicians to solve: independent research institute Don’t budge unless tax legislation dedicated to the research of tax includes cuts to government policy, finds that if “tax cuts are spending. not offset by spending cuts, the Total simplification of the tax national debt would rise by an code: We also need to simplify estimated 39 percent of GDP in our tax code. With more than 2026 and by nearly 80 percent 50,000 pages of regulations of GDP by 2036.” Increasing the on how Americans pay their
taxes, it’s almost impossible to do taxes without hiring outside help. The mere fact that our code is too complex for our citizens, our regulators and even our politicians to understand is simply embarrassing. While this type of policy will always be extremely complicated, it’s important that we are clear, consistent and transparent when it comes to collecting government revenue. We’re even adding a hidden tax, as our system is so complicated we force most of our citizens to pay for external assistance (i.e. online, legal or professional counsel). Encourage investment: Finally, we need to encourage Americans to invest in their own economy without fear of losing additional profits to the government. With extremely high rates on investment, the justification for risking one’s money (especially with such high investment tax rates) becomes increasingly difficult in already uncertain conditions. By allowing individuals to keep more of their investment earnings, we could increase the pace at which the economy grows and the level at which our citizens are involved. Overall, these three ideas are not present in the current candidates’ tax proposals (at least without contradictions). The debate over taxes has been around for decades. It almost seems as if this is a problem that we will not be able to face. The left usually favors government redistribution to those in poverty and continued implementation of the current system, but the right typically argues for in a total revamp of the current structure with redefined brackets and rates. It’s clear that this isn’t an easy issue to fix. It’s obvious that there are irreconcilable differences between the two sides. But maybe if we implement real conservative proposals, different from those of President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush, something might change for the better.
Max Rysztak can be reached at mrysztak@umich.edu
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HBO
“I thought this was Westworld.”
‘Westworld’ sets the tone for future HBO dramas Stylish, expensive new show features a wealth of talent and ideas ALEX INTNER
have sex with them. The world and the hosts are maintained by Whenever an HBO drama a group of programmers and stopremieres, there’s always buzz rytellers who give the hosts their around it. The network has estab- qualities and aim to make them lished itself as one appear to be as of the places to authentic as poswatch good TV sible. through its dra“Westworld” mas of the late earns all the style “Westworld” ’90s and early ’00s. points, as the show’s Series Premiere But, no show in the visuals show how past few years has well the drama Sundays at 9 p.m. been more needed spent its $100 milHBO by the network lion budget. The than “Westworld.” splendor of the Given that the rest world is clear from of their drama lineup will be end- the first scene, as the camera ing in the next two years, the net- showcases sprawling desert viswork is desperately looking for an tas, shot in California and Utah. alternative to “Game of Thrones” The main town where the show that can be their flagship for sev- is set has a traditional, Western eral years to come. feel. The designers clearly cared Based on the first two episodes, about the details in the backit’s unclear whether the show will grounds. Though the futuristic be capable of doing that. It clearly world outside Westworld can has a handle on its technical ele- seem generic at times, the way the ments and it has a ridiculously tal- drama darkens the background of ented cast, but it spends the first all the behind the scenes locations two episodes doing quite a bit of contributes to the ominous feel of world-building, and while that’s what the people who run Westfascinating, the show’s long-term world do. storytelling goals are uncertain. There’s also no denying how Until we know where the show good the cast of “Westworld” is. is going, it’s going to be tough to The drama features everyone know if it can gain strength like from seasoned TV actors to Acad“Thrones.” emy Award winners. The robot “Westworld” is set in an exten- crowd features composed persive theme park of sorts. In the formances from James Marsden park, robot “hosts” populate the (“Enchanted”) and Evan Rachel world, giving paying customers Wood (“Across the Universe”), the ability to act as if they’re in the both in their first series regular Wild West. The guests can adven- roles in over a decade. Wood espeture with the hosts (each one has a cially nails the range of emotions story of their own), as well as free- as Delores, as she’s asked to play ly kill them in a gunfight or even both robot and human. Behind the Daily Arts Writer
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scenes at the park, the ensemble gets even deeper. Not only is there a surprisingly restrained performance from Shannon Woodward (“Raising Hope”), there’s also fascinating work from Jeffrey Wright (“The Hunger Games”) as one of the robot programmers. Anthony Hopkins (“Silence of the Lambs”) also appears in his first regular television role in decades. He appears sparingly, but when he does, his gravitas takes over the screen. The first two episodes have to do so much work in building this world and introducing its sprawling cast of characters that it doesn’t necessarily have time to introduce the ongoing arc of the series. It introduces the idea of a software update giving the hosts the ability to have “memories,” and it hints at the impact that code is having on them. There’s also a mysterious character played by Ed Harris (“Game Change”) who runs around killing hosts to reach a hidden maze. The work they do here is intriguing, but it’s much too soon to tell whether there’s an arc that can support an entire series here. Based on the early ratings for “Westworld,” it looks like it’ll get the time to unravel its arc and show us what it has in store. It premiered to just under two million viewers, or a little below what “Game of Thrones” earned in its first episode. Its fascinating world and brilliant cast will be enough to give it time to unfold its story, but to attain longevity, “Westworld” will need to have the story to back up its initial ideas.
FILM REVIEW
Burton continues mediocre streak ends up travelling to Wales for closure and upon entering the orphanage is transported back “Miss Peregrine’s Home for to 1943, where he meets Miss Peculiar Children” is a fairly safe Peregrine (Eva Green, “Penny addition to Tim Burton’s career. Dreadful”) herself, along with the It’s too bad that its special children, unfocused writor “peculiars”, ing holds back the who live there. If cast from reaching you’ve ever seen their full potential, an “X-Men” movie, “Miss Peregrine’s especially considthe group dynamHome for Peculiar ering its promising ics are very similar, Children” premise. Certainly which is not sura visual director, prising given that 20th Century Fox Burton has recogscreenwriter Jane nized this artisGoldman wrote Rave and Quality 16 tic blind spot in the very script his work before, for “X-Men: First having stated, “I wouldn’t know Class,” along with the story to a good script if it bit me in the “X-Men: Days of Future Past.” face.” But considering the film The story then loops itself like is an adaptation of a compelling “Groundhog Day,” but there are so New York Times best-selling YA many plot points stuffed into the novel, it is tragic to see a a source movie it is not clear what direcmaterial prime for commercial tion it’s heading in once the action and critical success not be taken starts. The gist of it is some of the advantage of. peculiars have gone bad and are Asa Butterfield (“Hugo”) stars led by a peculiar-eating Mr. Baras Jake Portman, a teenage boy ron (Samuel L. Jackson, “Age of from Florida who is close to his Ultron”), which ultimately leads grandfather, Abraham (Terence to fighting as the climax. Frankly, Stamp, “The Adventures of Pris- the fighting doesn’t make a difcilla, Queen of the Desert”). Abra- ference either way, considering ham hails from Poland and was a the bulk of the film was seeing small boy when Nazis occupied the peculiars do their thing. As the country and forced his fam- an added bonus for the YA novel ily to send him to Wales for safety, crowd, a romance between Jake where he lived in Miss Peregrine’s and weightless, floating peculiar orphanage. He tells Jake fantasti- Emma (Ella Purnell, “Never Let cal stories of his travels with scary Me Go”) wedges its way in as one demons and creatures that cap- of the few recognizable story arcs ture his grandson’s imagination. throughout the film. It’s good to While Jake’s parents tell him the see plot development invested monsters in Abraham’s stories are where it’s needed. his grandpa’s way of coping with There is a whole lot of CGI is in his haunting memories of escap- “Miss Peregrine’s,” but every mining the Nazis, he is not willing to ute detail pays off to bring to life let go so easily. the fantasy of Chandler Riggs’s When Abraham dies under novel. It is thankfully difficult to mysterious circumstances, Jake tell where the green screen ends ANA LUCENA
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and real props begin because the cinematography does such a beautiful job of capturing the characters looking in place within their environment, in the fantastical part of the past Miss Peregrine inhabits and in the present. Though Burton is in his element here, this is a letdown, more of what he’s already done. The fantastical visuals are the same ones used in Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” series, with the familiar dark tone and even British setting featured in many of his other movies. The way the lonely protagonist ends up winning the day is executed here with the gothic sentiment Johnny Depp has portrayed countless times before. The young cast of peculiars fare well, but aren’t given a chance to dominate a scene and show their skill. Butterfield, for his part, faces the same issue he had in “Ender’s Game’ where he can’t stand out from the vast and poorly-defined YA novel universe his character is enveloped in. After Tim Burton brought more attention to how the entire cast is white by making confusing comments excusing the lack of racial diversity in “Miss Peregrine’s,” one can take comfort in at least not seeing frequent collaborators Johnny Depp or Helena BonhamCarter cast in yet another one of Burton’s films (the only Burtonesque trope he doesn’t follow in this movie). Instead, we get the screen-commanding Samuel L. Jackson rocking the role of Barron, collaborating with the director as the first person of color to lead a Burton film. God bless 2016 — and God bless the talented cast and crew with their next project if they thought this fuzzy blockbuster was going to help their bright stars burn brighter.
SHOWTIME
Why is there a harp and like graduation and like angels?
‘Shameless’ finds itself at a major crossroads in its latest season opener Showtime series’s seventh season starts with a return to the status quo. SHIR AVINADAV
the family. Then came her brief, doomed marriage to Gus (Steve After a season finale that left Kazee, “Working Class”) and her both its characters and audience subsequent relationship with Sean reeling, “Shameless” returns to (Dermot Mulroney, “New Girl”) its status quo. The that held a small bit Gallaghers have of hope and even all undergone greater heartbreak. extreme changes: This final straw for Lip (Jeremy Allen Fiona puts her off “Shameless” White, “Movie relationships in SeaSeason Seven 43”) was dropped son 7 as she focuses off at rehab, Fiona’s on her job and the Premiere (Emmy Rossum, family. Rather than Showtime “The Phantom of playing the game of the Opera”) wed“who will Fiona’s Sundays at 9 p.m. ding was brought love interest be this to an abrupt halt, season?” the season Debbie (Emma will hopefully focus Kenney, “Epic”) had her baby, Carl on what makes Fiona the relatable (Ethan Cutcosky, “The Unborn”) and admirable character that she lost his virginity and Frank (Wil- is. liam H. Macy, “Boogie Nights”) As she bustles through the Galwas thrown into a lake. In this sea- lagher house waking up its inhabson’s premiere though, the series itants, a familiar image of a day manages to re-establish a sense of in the life of the family ushers in normalcy as its characters grapple a renewed sense of the ordinary, with regaining control over their even though all the characters are lives. now in vastly different stages of Now entering its seventh sea- their lives. son, “Shameless” has established Integral to this return to nora clear narrative pattern for its malcy is Frank’s survival after ensemble of unique and complex being thrown into the lake in the characters. Each character is dead of winter. He awakes in a hosfaced with an obstacle or opportu- pital bed after being in a coma for nity that challenges their assumed nearly a month, depicted by a surpattern of thinking, and we’re real underwater dream sequence taken along for the ride until their that resurfaces the events leading circumstances inevitably turn up to his coma (none of which he disastrous and they return to their remembers upon waking up). In routine for a while. typical self-centered Frank fashFiona is a prime example of this ion, he is disappointed that no one paradoxically circuitous charac- came looking for him while he was ter development. Her storyline hospitalized, unaware that his through the past six seasons has own family were the ones that put hinged on a series of failed rela- him there. Frank raiding the Galtionships. Each time, her pursuit lagher fridge and hauling himself of a life independent of her fam- up to Fiona’s room and nailing the ily leads to a period of happiness door shut is nothing if not a familthat blinds her to the grave out- iar scene, but it raises the question comes to come. Her first relation- of his significance to the overall ship with Jimmy (Justin Chatwin, plot of the series. “War of the Worlds”) not only led Now that the kids are grown to heartbreak, but also to a drug and Fiona has established heroffense that put the youngest Gal- self as their primary caregiver, lagher, Liam (newcomers Brennan they are out from under Frank’s Kane Johnson and Blake Alex- thumb. His typical antics are ander Johnson), in peril, and put minor inconveniences compared her on the outs with the rest of to the individual problems the Daily Arts Writer
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family members each face in their own lives. Debbie resorts to theft to provide for herself and her baby, Lip readjusts to life outside of rehab (which didn’t seem to have much of an impact on him), Ian (Cameron Monaghan, “Gotham”) jealously follows his boyfriend, Caleb (Jeff Pierre, “War Dogs”) on a dinner date with a high school girlfriend and Carl... well, Carl must cope with the revelation that he’s the only uncircumcised Gallagher after his girlfriend Dominique (Jaylen Barron, “See Dad Run”) refuses to give him a blowjob. In possibly one of the most hilarious twists in Carl’s story, he electively gets circumcised at the age of 16, unblinking at the $1500 sum of his operation, just to get what he wants from his girlfriend. Carl’s determination is unparalleled by Frank’s, however, whose ability to fight off mortality despite his dependency on alcohol and drugs continues to surprise even his family. While entertainingly cynical, Frank’s perspective on life is no longer one that dictates the course of the story. Whatever self-serving scheme he thinks up next will likely be a small blip on the family’s radar — an annoyance rather than an obstacle — shifting the focus of the show to questions concerning the fates of the characters more central to the plot. “Shameless” now must reconsider how it’s going to answer these questions. Lip spiraling back into alcoholism, Debbie getting busted for stealing and Fiona selfdestructing in another toxic relationship would be the predictable courses of action. However, the show’s appeal is its lack of predictability, the absurd and unexpected circumstances that launched its characters into paths no one could imagine from the very first season. And if the show follows its formula, they will inevitably end up back where they started. Though a fresh start is exactly what this season needed, it needs to recapture the element of flippant absurdity that made the show so successful in the first place.
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Issues plague ‘Idiocracy’ screening JOE WAGNER
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Rarely is the cavernous Michigan Theater as full as it was last Tuesday night. The screening in question was unparalleled (at least by my experiences) to any weeknight movie I had been to at the theater, attendance especially being considered. There was a palpapable air of excitement and readiness for The Michigan Theater to bring Mike Judge’s 2006 cult classic “Idiocracy” out of retirement, with a Q&A with director Mike Judge (“Silicon Valley”) and actor Maya Rudolph (“SNL”) to boot. “Idiocracy” may have felt relevant under the second term of President George W. Bush in 2006, but the movie is perhaps even weightier as Republican candidate Donald Trump attempts to ascend to the presidency. “Idiocracy” is the tale of a dystopian America 500 years in the future where consumerism and anti-intellectualism have taken hold. In the America 500 years prior, the government wants to test new hibernation machines to see if they could save their best soldiers for when they need them most. Luke Wilson (“Legally Blonde”) and Maya Rudolph (“Sisters”) are to be the test subjects. They are
supposed to be in the machines for only a year. However, they are forgotten about and are left to sleep away for the next 500 years. They wake up to a drastically different place from the world they had known. In a world where “Brawndo,” a Gatorade-like product, has replaced water and you can attend law school at a Costco, Wilson and Rudolph must either return to the past or fix the chaos of the future. Right now seems like the perfect time to be showcasing “Idiocracy.” Both as a great opportunity to re-market the film and also to make a precient political statement, “Idiocracy” acts as an allegory, warning of what our future might hold. A Donald Trump presidency would be, perhaps, the first step towards the future world of “Idiocracy”. What’s unfortunate is that The Michigan Theater failed to deliver on anything but the bare minimum for this screening. Yes, the film was screened; however, the film was advertised as “Idiocracy” with a Q&A with Mike Judge and Maya Rudolph. It was relatively unclear that they would not actually be in attendance with the audience at The Michigan Theater but rather it was to be a live stream with them from another theater. All in all, this wasn’t the
end of the world. The film would still be played and the audience would still get to hear what Judge and Rudolph had to say about the film they made. However, this isn’t exactly what happened. Following the movie, the live stream started. Except for the fact that it wasn’t live. The first five minutes or so of the stream were shown in which Judge and Rudolph gave a little introduction to the movie and briefly talked about it. Apparently, this part of the stream was intended to be shown before the film started. Then came the technical difficulties. After a couple minutes of loading and many people walking out, the live stream came on, and it was actually live. But it was also the last three minutes or so of the stream session. The Michigan Theater then attempted to roll it back to the beginning of the postscreening live stream. Again, the stream buffered for a couple of minutes. By this point, at least 75 percent of the audience that was once in the theater had left. “Idiocracy” is and always will be an enjoyable and culturally relevant film. However, technical difficulties, bad marketing and poor planning on the part of The Michigan Theater made this event less than satisfactory.
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“These olives aren’t bleu cheese. Brb, gonna murder my husband.”
‘Girl on the Train’ speeds to an awful, but fun, crash The absurdness of this film make it so bad that it’s wonderful. MADELEINE GAUDIN
untie by the closing credits. The bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins on which the film is The absurd is king in “The based is full of thematics aspects Girl on the Train,” this year’s that work well on paper, namely attempt at a suburban-noir soap unreliable narration, shifting opera directed points of view and by Tate Taylor thematic darkness. (“The Help”). The But when transfilm follows three ferred to the screen “Girl on the Train” women whose in ways as literal lives are interas the ones Taylor Universal Pictures twined seemingly chooses, much of by fate. Spoiler the suspense, surRave & Quality 16 alert, though — it’s prise and catharsis not the cosmos is lost entirely. that has the power in this film. “The Girl on the Train” is specIt’s the men. tacularly over-the-top. It wants so Rachel (Emily Blunt, “Sicario”) badly to be this year’s “Gone Girl,” is an alcoholic who develops an all sex, revenge, careful lightobsession with Megan (Haley ing and unrealistic homes. But Bennett, “Hardcore Henry”), a “The Girl on the Train” feels like woman she watches from the a younger sister playing dress-up train on her way to and from work. with everything that worked in Megan spends her days lounging David Fincher’s thriller. Nothing around her balcony, flashing her seems to fit right. underwear to the train, and remiIt’s clear that Blunt is doing niscing about her troubled past. the absolute best she can to make Megan’s neighbor is none other Rachel likeable. That’s a difficult than Rachel’s ex-husband and his task for a stalker ex-wife who new wife — small world! sips vodka out of a water bottle It is Megan’s disappearance and always seems to be crying or and Rachel’s possible involvement about to cry. She doesn’t exactly with the incident — the whole fail. The script (written by Erin thing rendered unclear thanks to Cressida Wilson) doesn’t set her a conveniently timed blackout — up for any sort of success — her that sets the film in motion. From dialogue is either robotic or melothere, the film twists itself into dramatic, and never strikes a vein a giant knot it can’t completely of empathy or even likability. But Daily Arts Writer
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she, unlike any other actor in the film, is able to breath a little life into her pawn of a character. A lot of that comes from her ability to act drunk. With the help of some trippy editing and blurry point of view shots, Blunt lurches and stumbles, smudges her mascara and hangs her eyelids heavy in one of the most well-acted displays of drunkenness I’ve seen in a long time. I have to take a moment here to share my deepest appreciation for the creativity that goes into choosing the weaponry in these suburban thrillers. No one ever has a gun or a regular knife. Instead we get the sexy side of self-defense, where letter openers and corkscrews are lethal objects. “The Girl on the Train” is almost worth it just to see the latter screwed deeper into a cheating husband’s neck by his scorned wife. How badass, how bougie. “The Girl on the Train” is the most wonderful type of bad movie. It’s bad — there’s no denying that — but it’s brutally entertaining. There’s something to be said about a movie with poor acting, a confusing, loophole-filled plot and unlikable characters that still manages to captivate its audience. “The Girl on the Train” is a car (or really rather, a train) crash that’s impossible to look away from.
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love making fun of The Donald just as much as the next woman who is scared her life would become “The Handmaid’s Tale” under his presidency. I prefer to hear people take his comments and arguments and deconstruct them methodically one by one, but making fun of him is a camaraderie-building form of catharsis in its own right. However… The ways in which we choose to ridicule a man who is a part of the top one percent of society says more about how and what we value (or devalue) in society than it does about him. Cultural satire can do a lot to sway a nation, but Trump is already a completely polarizing figure. People either love him or hate him; there is no in between. So certain kinds of mocking depictions aren’t going to change the opinions of the people who are voting for him; they’re pandering to the people who already hate him, and thus reveal what those people find or don’t find acceptable. Some ridicule of Trump — deserved though it may be — says more about those who make, spread and praise it than its subject. For example, over the summer in New York, L.A., Cleveland, San Francisco and Seattle, several identical lifelike statues of Trump popped up on various street corners. This probably would’ve been welcome publicity for his campaign had the statues not been naked and showcasing a body that was clearly supposed to be mocked with gleeful abandon. The stomach bulged over the pelvis, which featured a penis about the size of a peanut and no testicles. The wrinkled, fleshy backside was dimpled with cellulite. The legs were spindly and weak. These pallid, pasty lumps of Trump were at first met with nothing but uproarious joy. The story blew up all over social media as people took to Twitter to praise the artists, later discovered to be the Anarchist art collective INDECLINE, and post selfies with the statues, usually making fun of the lack of a manhood. The project was called “The Emperor Has no Balls.” This exhibit was successful because it operated on an assumption that the artists and the audience both assumed to be true; that nothing would humiliate Trump more than not just making fun of him being naked, but calling into the question the size of his dick (which he has in fact defended in campaign debates). This is the same group that painted a mural of Trump, with a ball gag in his mouth, that
said “¡Rape Trump!” over it on a piece of the US/Mexico border in Tijuana about a year ago. This was Trump, after the former owner of the Miss Universe Pageant called Mexicans “rapists,” among other things. I get why both of these were so effective and celebrated. Trump is not only the most unfit for office candidate we’ve ever had — he’s never held public office in his life — he has also offended and scared pretty much every constituency that candidates try to address. His personality lends itself too easily to mockery. He is exactly the kind of blustering man everyone knew would be aggravated by making his nether regions a target of ridicule. But as much as I want to love everything that tears down a man who thinks that women should be punished for having abortions, we don’t need to hypothesize about the size of his dick to remind ourselves he would be incompetent in the Oval Office. Listening to him for five minutes could do that. He sounds like a whiny, wimpy Reddit thread, probably because he has about as much relevant experience for running for office as some of Reddit’s most popular posters.
The ways we ridicule a man say more about us than him. All that “The Emperor Has No Balls” did was reaffirm the importance of the penis in the presidential election. And “Rape Trump” was even more sobering. While no one involved in creating it expected people to actually find Trump and assault him, there’s no reason to use the specific violation of rape to pack a political punch in that kind of contemptuous way. This isn’t supposed to be a politicized critique of the work of INDECLINE; this trend goes further. The cover of The New Yorker’s Oct. 10th edition features a cartoon of him in which he is portrayed as a woman; he is in a bathing suit, wearing a tiara and heels, and carrying a bouquet of roses. He is wearing a sash across his chest that says “Miss Congeniality.” That illustration, and those like it, is just a way to get at him by doing something they know he would hate — namely, putting his head on a woman’s body. It’s a way to demean him by using the markers of femininity and womanhood (whatever that means).
But again — we have enough material to teach year-long seminars on why and how exactly Trump is unfit for office. There’s no reason at all to connect his body to a woman’s body, unless it’s to address the rape allegations against him, which so few people are actually talking about seriously, or his recently released disgusting conversations in which he boasts about sexual assault in lewd and sickening language. And let’s be honest, The New Yorker is not expecting any of their subscribers to be Trump supporters anyway. So it is almost hypocritical to condemn Republican media or politicians for their remarks about women’s bodies in the election, and then demean or make fun of Trump by putting his face on a woman’s body. People who support Trump do so because they believe that he is advocating for their best interests; they believe that he speaks honestly when no other politician will, and that he is remembering a portion of the country that everyone else has forgotten. They’re not going to be swayed by these kinds of depictions of him. Enraged, maybe, or provoked to defend, or just dismissive. But their minds won’t be changed by this kind of ridicule. If anything, they, like the rest of the consumers, will just subconsciously internalize the messages held within these politicized images: make fun of bodies, make fun of women, use the shock of the word rape as a tool. Political art holds enormous power in society to express and provoke and spur change. But the art we produce to bring light to other problems shouldn’t itself be exempt from scrutiny. When two polar opposites of a cultural spectrum — an anarchist art collective and The New Yorker — are both imbuing their work with the kind of messages that ultimately detract from their argument, poking fun at Trump by ridiculing other things that they shouldn’t be, there’s an opportunity to look beyond the mess that is Trump’s campaign and into the mess that is internalized misogyny. If you’re against Trump, and you really want to get at him, you don’t have to use rape jokes or make fun of his body or put his face on a woman’s body to tear him down. There are other things you could do that he’d hate even more anyway. Like vote for Hillary Clinton. So don’t forget: Today, October 11, is the deadline to register to vote. Kaufman is retweeting Caroline Filips. To discover both of their handles, email sophkauf@umich.edu.
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Cmp Att Yds TD 98 159 1194 11 7 10 51 1 4 5 45 0 109 174 1290 12
INT 2 0 0 2
Att Yds Avg 48 400 8.3 61 336 5.5 53 291 5.5 35 259 7.4 5 98 19.6 8 62 7.8 7 44 6.3 3 26 8.7 13 21 1.6 3 19 6.3 2 17 8.5 3 15 5.0 4 7 1.8 1 2 2.0 1 1 1.0 1 -1 -1.0 6 -9 -1.5 1 -11 -11.0 15 -47 -3.1 270 1530 5.7
Lg 57 42 34 44 63 19 17 13 4 14 10 11 3 2 1 0 0 0 9 63
TD 3 2 4 5 2 0 1 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25
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Lg 46 25 35 54 15 15 14 22 9 21 8 18 15 12 5 4 3 54
TD 5 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 12
RUSHING Player Evans Smith, D. Isaac Higdon Peppers McDoom Chesson Henderson Hill Morris Davis Crawford O’Korn Hirsch Beneducci Hewlett TEAM Allen Speight TOTALS RECEIVING Player Darboh Butt Chesson Perry Hill Poggi Evans Ways Smith, D. Isaac McDoom Crawford Hirsch Jocz McKeon Bunting Asiasi TOTALS
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Bye week comes just in time for offensive line Line averts crisis after Bushell-Beatty’s early injury Saturday, paves the way for 491 rush yards KELLY HALL
Daily Sports Editor
Khalid Hill was bored. Though it was nice to have the opportunity to sit out during the majority of the second half of the No. 4 Michigan football team’s 78-0 rout of Rutgers and watch the younger players have a chance to play, the redshirt junior fullback said he’d rather be on the field. There was no need for Hill to be in the game, though, after the Wolverines went up 43-0 with six touchdowns. Two of those came from Hill himself, and he tacked on another score minutes into the third quarter. A large part of the rushing success was due to a prolific offensive line, which got off to a less-than-ideal opening. Redshirt sophomore Juwann Bushell-Beatty started his first game at left tackle after sophomore Grant Newsome suffered a season-ending knee injury against Wisconsin, and that may have led to miscommunication on the line. The Wolverines started with two consecutive threeand-outs, but figured things out quickly and cruised along afterward. “We kind of came out slow, and then we got it going, obviously,” said fifth-year senior tackle Erik Magnuson. “Any day you have 481 yards rushing and nine rushing (touchdowns), it’s a pretty good day to be an offensive lineman; we’re pretty proud of that. We set a goal of 300 yards rushing for the game, so we had the expectations coming in, but we exceeded that.” Though he reemerged later in the game, Bushell-Beatty was hit hard on just the second play
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Michigan’s offensive line overcame an injury to left tackle Juwann Bushell-Beatty early in Saturday’s game, returned to full strength and played well all night.
of the game. He gingerly got up with the help of trainers, but it made fans ponder what exactly would happen if Bushell-Beatty was also injured. Fifth-year senior guard Ben Braden and junior lineman Mason Cole played a few snaps each at left tackle, and redshirt junior center Patrick Kugler took Cole’s regular spot at center for some time. Luckily for the Wolverines, they’re entering a bye week and will have time to figure out which formation works best. Despite being banged up, Bushell-Beatty went on to do his part on the offensive line,
which didn’t allow a single sack and limited Rutgers to just three tackles for loss. It may have been disastrous if New Jersey native BushellBeatty’s season ended in front of his family in the stands. “He did a real good job,” said redshirt sophomore linebacker Jabrill Peppers after the game. “I was more happy for him because he’s battled a
lot of injuries and some weight problems. I’ve been playing with him since high school, so I kinda saw him grow into his own. For him to start in front of the home crowd ... he went down early, but he got it together and was able to finish out the game. I was just tremendously ecstatic for him.” As of now, there’s no report that Bushell-Beatty has any
“That bye is needed ... after this bye week, it’s going to get real.”
lingering injury issues. If Michigan wants to set up a regular rotation on the offensive line, now would be the time to do it. Though all position groups will work on remaining issues throughout the bye week, the offensive line will need to safeguard against injury while finding the perfect formation. “That bye is needed,” Hill said. “It’s well-needed, but it’s also coming at a time where we also can’t take too much of an advantage of it, because after this bye week, it’s going to get real. We’re going to take this time and enjoy it, but we’re going to have to still work.”
PUNT RETURNS Player Peppers Jocz Evans Perry TOTALS
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Yds Avg. Long 249 17.8 54 27 27.0 0 15 15.0 15 6 -6 297 18.6 54
TD 1 0 0 1 2
INTERCEPTION RETURNS Player Stribling Hill, D. McCray Lewis TOTALS
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TD 1 1 0 0 2
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Avg. Long 9.0 9 9.0 9
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Yds 95 28 21 6 5 155
Avg. Long 31.7 55 14.0 15 10.5 18 6.0 6 2.5 5 15.5 55
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Yds 2625 403 189 3217
Avg. 64.0 57.6 63.0 63.1
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Yds 951 951
Avg. 43.2 43.2
Lg 56 56
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LEADING TACKLERS Player Gedeon Peppers McCray Thomas Winovich Glasgow, R. Hurst Godin Gary Wormley Hill, D. Clark Stribling Kinnel Charlton Hudson Watson Lewis Bush Metellus Glasgow, J. TOTALS
Solo 18 25 14 18 7 2 9 8 6 7 9 6 4 6 3 5 4 7 2 6 4 186
Ast Tot TFL SK PBU 33 51 8.0 3.0 1 12 37 10.0 2.5 16 30 4.5 2.5 4 12 30 3 15 22 5.0 2.0 17 19 3.0 1.0 1 9 18 5.0 2.0 10 18 2.5 1.0 12 18 4.5 1.0 11 18 5.0 4.0 7 16 2.0 1 4 10 3 6 10 0.5 5 3 9 6 9 4.5 4.0 3 8 1.0 1 4 8 1 8 1.0 3 4 6 6 2 6 210 396 60 24 23
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When he was 10 years old, Paul Schulte was in a car crash that left him paralyzed from the waist down for life. Though a passionate athlete, he didn’t want to play adaptive sports, and claimed they wouldn’t “be athletic or competitive.” But after four years of skepticism, he finally accepted an invitation to a wheelchair basketball clinic in Ann Arbor. And that was just the beginning. “I was blown away, and all my stereotypes were shattered,” Schulte said. “I fell in love with (wheelchair basketball) and threw myself at it.” Fast-forward 26 years and the Ann Arbor native, now 36, is a former three-time Team USA Wheelchair Basketball Paralympian, a two-time bronze medalist, a world champion and, most recently, an NBC analyst for the Rio Paralympic Games. Warming up for Sunday’s 11th annual Army v. Navy Wheelchair Basketball Game, Schulte — playing for Army this year — palmed the ball and brought it to his chest. He first made a left-handed layup, then one from the other side, then a mid-range swish, a baseline “J” and a straightaway three. Bucket after bucket after bucket, all while gracefully gliding across the hardwood of Crisler Center, making every turn and spin look easy. Schulte completed extensive rehab at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital before earning an athletic scholarship for wheelchair basketball at Texas-
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Arlington. He now lives in Florida, but the return home is always personal, even after competing in the last five games. “This is such a special place to me,” he said. “It was the place of my childhood heroes, watching Michigan sports. Being able to take part of the game … (Michigan’s) in my heart, it’s in my blood, so it’s wonderful to be here.” *** Schulte was one of a handful of experienced players who donned Army and Navy jerseys. The teams also featured Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine ROTC students and University student veterans. At the final buzzer, Navy prevailed, 41-32. “It’s introducing people to the game who have never seen it,” said event founder and organizer Gerald Hoff. “And the fans that come back year after year continue to come back, because they’re absolutely amazed by how great the sport is.” As an insurance representative for the University Health System, Hoff’s creation raises and celebrates veteran and disability awareness within the community. The game is one of many activities during Investing in Ability Month throughout October. As one longtime volunteer described it, the event was first held at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School with “just a boom box and a CD.” The game has transformed into an even bigger event during the past 11 years, evident by the Michigan Dance and Cheer teams, the 338th U.S. Army Band and DJ Scholar all
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amusing the crowd. The event was exclusively managed by more than 40 volunteers campus-wide. “It really makes me feel good that we have all those folks that want to participate, help out and give back to our community, and support our veterans and people with disabilities,” Hoff said. Senior Justin Kim of Michigan’s Navy ROTC program said competing opened his eyes to the amazing talent level of the experienced players. “It looks hard, but it’s even harder when you’re actually playing and have to control the ball,” Kim said. Another notable player was veteran Scot Severn, who became a quadriplegic after being struck by lightning while serving in the Army Reserve. Since the accident, he has become a medaling Paralympian and World Championship athlete and, like Schulte, is a staple of the Wheelchair Basketball Game. “These players come back because this brings the community close to them and gives them the opportunity to connect with the community,” Hoff said. Throughout the afternoon, players spoke with spectators, especially young fans with spinal cord injuries. Schulte and Severn proved to be inspirational with emotions superseding the actual game. “I can imagine (Schulte) letting (those kids) know that ‘life isn’t over for you; it’s really just begun,’” Hoff said. “It’s not just a game. It’s much more.”
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COLE ZINGAS
Daily Sports Writer
While all four players from the Michigan men’s tennis team who participated in the Bobby Bayliss Invitational this past weekend had success, it was senior Jathan Malik who made the most waves. He torched the field in both singles and doubles action on his way to being named the Most Valuable Player of the tournament. Malik excelled in all three days of action at Notre Dame, winning all four of his singles matches and three out of four doubles contests. All seven wins were dominant and came in straight sets. Junior Runhao Hua was also superb, going 4-0 in singles play and earning alltournament honors. Despite the individual recognition, however, the highlight of the weekend for Malik was his team’s performance in singles play on Saturday. Malik, Hua and their teammates junior Davis Crocker and sophomore Myles Schalet did not lose a set all day. They won two matches each to go undefeated in singles play against players from Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Memphis, Marquette and Indiana. For this feat, Malik gives some of the credit to the Notre Dame tournament coordinators, who lined the Michigan players up on four courts, allowing them to play simultaneously, side by side. “We managed to bounce off each other with positive energy quite a lot,” Malik said. “Even when one of us finished, I’d see Myles (Schalet) or Davis
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(Crocker) supporting me, watching my match.” Though the Fighting Irish were gracious hosts, Michigan players were not forgiving to Notre Dame on the court, posting a 6-1 record against them. The conditions were extremely windy all weekend, which Malik said worked in his favor — he made good use of the lob game and played the wind to his advantage. “I think I adapted quite well to a lot of the wind pangs in different directions,” Malik said. “I felt like I hit my kick serve pretty well; it kicked up quite well. “A lot of the points were, you could say, won ugly or won beautifully because the wind would blow the balls in that were going out, and it was a bit of a tussle.” Malik said along with his ability to play smart tennis in windy conditions, he was successful because he was able to change gears at the right time, going from “Gear 5 to Gear 6” at vital moments during his matches. Now, Michigan wants to keep its momentum up. But it doesn’t have to wait until next weekend’s ITA Midwest Regional Championships in Columbus to play the high level of tennis it played this weekend. “The key will be keeping the confidence up from what we had (this weekend),” Malik said. “And again, playing with each other, and using each other to improve every day. It’s great because I have some of the best tennis players in the country on my team, and they push me every day.”
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D-man Piazza shows skills on offense New divers rise to the After playing sparingly in first two seasons, junior now tied for team lead in goals
Hayden, McCaffrey, Murphy qualify for regional meet on the women’s side
ORION SANG
Daily Sports Writer
The No. 13 Michigan hockey team has had its fair share of twoway defensemen over the past few decade. From Jack Johnson to Jacob Trouba to the recently departed Zach Werenski, there has been no shortage of offensively skilled blue-liners in Ann Arbor. And it appears the Wolverines may have another found another defenseman capable of carrying on that lineage in Sam Piazza. After two games, the junior defenseman is tied for the team lead with two goals. In fact, after only one weekend, Piazza has already doubled the number of goals he scored in his first two years at Michigan. Don’t let that statistic fool you — Piazza, who would call himself an “offensively minded” defenseman, has always had the skill to play point on the powerplay unit. He just hasn’t had the opportunity, having been a healthy scratch for most of his freshman and sophomore years. But after Michigan lost Werenski and Michael Downing to the NHL last spring, Piazza has found himself with a much larger role this season. “A lot of times last year, I was the third guy in line (on the power play),” Piazza said. “When (Werenski or Downing) weren’t in the lineup, I would get some time on the power play. So I thought when they left, I might get more of a chance this year.” Added Michigan coach Red Berenson: “Once we lost Werenski, we thought Sam — right now — gives us (someone) who is a good puck-handling defensemen, can see the ice well, make good plays, got a good shot, so he’s been good. “We’ll see how that goes as the year goes on, but it’s been a really good start for Sam on the power play.”
occasion in first meet SOPHIE CLOHERTY For the Daily
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Junior defenseman Sam Piazza has been a key contributor on offense with two goals for Michigan so far.
Piazza, who has been on the same power-play unit as freshman forward Will Lockwood, senior forward Alex Kile, freshman center Jake Slaker and junior forward Dexter Dancs, has certainly had success with his shot to start the season. In Friday’s opener against Union, Piazza found the puck off a faceoff scrum before slotting it into the topright corner past the Dutchmen goaltender. Piazza’s second goal was similarly impressive. After a Union player failed to make a clearance along the boards, Piazza found the puck and lasered it into the net from the blue line, continuing his strong start.
“He’s a player who hasn’t played regularly in his first couple years, but he’s shown signs of taking the next step,” Berenson said. “I thought he showed some of that last year, and we didn’t play him maybe as much as we should’ve in the stretch run. But we’ve seen moments, and we have high regard for his offensive vision on the ice and his puck skills, and now, it’s starting to pay off for him. “Sam is playing probably his best hockey right now, and we want to build on that.” From Berenson’s perspective, Piazza’s efforts over the past couple years to improve the non-offensive parts of his game,
“Sam is playing probably his best hockey right now.”
coupled with the chance for more playing time after last year’s early departures, have helped the junior defenseman get over the hump. “He was a mature kid, but I think it was his defensive zone awareness and (defensive) commitment that he had to improve on to be the player (he is now),” Berenson said. “He came in as a captain on his team, he was a well-respected player, but nevertheless, he didn’t look as ready as he looks now. He’s so much more ready to play now without the puck. Before, he was strictly an offensive player.” Now that he’s earned his shot, don’t expect Piazza to give it up easily — he still has the mindset of a player fighting for his spot on the ice. “I feel like (the coaches) know me better now, so I’ve got a little bit more trust,” Piazza said. “But (I) never feel comfortable.”
The tune of the band and the roar of the fans echoed just like always, and yet freshman diver Kristen Hayden took it all in for the first time, standing with her fellow divers on the far side of the pool. “The energy and the enthusiasm here is like nothing I’ve ever experienced,” Hayden said, beaming minutes after her first meet — an unconventional tripleheader against Louisville that took place over the course of two days at Canham Natatorium. Hayden is only one of three divers on the woman’s team who not only dominated the meet, but simultaneously qualified for NCAA regionals. Seniors Keegan McCaffrey and Allie Murphy also qualified for regionals within two points of each other on the three-meter springboard. Hayden’s score, in particular, a 312.37, placed her above the rest. The men’s side was just as dominant. Sophomore Collin DeShaw had a memorable performance atop the threemeter board, acquiring a score nearly 50 points higher than his previous record. However, he directed attention to freshman teammate Jake Herremans, who was impressive on Friday night’s session — winning the 1-meter springboard completion and securing a spot at the regional meet. “Watching a freshman come in and win his first meet, first event, was awesome,” DeShaw said. “That pushed the whole dive team to get better and to really see what we can accomplish this year as
a team.” The dive team collectively seemed to represent the true camaraderie and interdependence the swim team shares as a whole. Michigan head coach Mike Bottom, now in his ninth year with the Wolverines, was quick to support that notion, especially with regards to the many freshman on the team this year. This year, the number of divers on the team has increased significantly. The Wolverines added two new divers on the men’s and women’s teams. On the men’s side, the new additions are crucial to this season’s dynamic, since DeShaw was the sole male diver on the squad last season. DeShaw highlighted that the new additions have strengthened his sense of competition and added positively to the practice atmosphere. “We push each other,” DeShaw said. “We try new dives every day. (In) practice, we come in and have a little bit of competition who can put the best dive in, who can jump the highest, who can lift the most weights. It’s a lot of fun.” Diving coach Mike Hilde echoed DeShaw’s enthusiasm. He believes this freshman group of men and women alike will boost the program. His expectations are to make the diving team a large contributing factor in conference play and for the team to make NCAAs. The divers will certainly be crucial to success on both the men’s and women’s teams. For Hayden, that means continuing what has already been “a dream come true.”
Effort helps ‘M’ defend home court Wolverines improve defense over weekend, beat Maryland and Ohio State to jump into top 20 for first time since 2013 COLE ZINGAS
Daily Sports Writer
The fast start by the No. 23 Michigan volleyball team Sunday at Cliff Keen Arena had the Wolverines full of energy. It was 7-1, and the Wolverines were rolling against No. 14 Ohio State, a team they hadn’t beat twice in a row since 2009. Coming off a straight-set win against Maryland on Friday, the Wolverines had shown up to play. And even though the blistering hot pace didn’t continue, Michigan’s energy never faded. During the Buckeye-dominated third set, Michigan sophomore libero Jenna Lerg ran from behind the back line and, with one arm outstretched, saved a ball with an incredible dive to set up a spike for her teammates. But Ohio State recovered, sending a spike of its own flying at Lerg, who this time couldn’t come up with the dig. The Buckeyes (2-4 Big Ten, 12-6 overall) won the set, but Michigan’s defense didn’t relent. In the following set, those same type of dives helped set up crucial kills down the line, as Michigan (4-2, 15-3) took the final set, 27-25, and the match, 3-1. “Big plays create energy, everyone knows that,” said senior middle blocker Abby Cole. “But if we have players that net consistently, our energy is really good throughout the night.” To keep their energy up, no matter the situation, the Wolverines are not afraid to hit the ground and dive headfirst to save a ball. “Personally, I’ve been doing it since third grade,” said freshman setter MacKenzi Welsh. “You do it for so long that it doesn’t really hurt anymore.” Diving again and again can be exhausting, with bumps and bruises almost a guarantee. But Cole points out that the Wolverines will do whatever it takes to defend their turf. “We need to protect our court,” Cole said. “We need to make sure
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Adeja Lambert’s (far left, #11) effort has helped put Michigan in the top 20.
the ball stays off our court.” The 6-foot-5 Cole isn’t against laying it all out for her team either. “Jenna (Lerg) and Adeja (Lambert) do a lot more diving than I do,” Cole said. “For me, it’s a long way down, so when I go down I better get that ball.” Sixteen kills by Lambert and 15 by Cole won the match for the Wolverines, but as Michigan coach Mark Rosen iterates, defense wins championships. “I didn’t think we defended great last weekend,” Rosen said. “That was really our focus all week long and so it’s really encouraging as a coach to come out and see it applied during the weekend.” And Rosen recognizes that the passion and pride he witnesses isn’t something you see on every college team. He says that fostering that energy starts with the upperclassmen. Before practice Saturday morning, the two fifth-year seniors — outside hitters Kelly Murphy and Ally Davis — were the first ones in the gym, having
fun playing a game of doubles well before practice. “I think if you go to gyms around the country, you’ll see the fifth-year senior sitting in the corner, maybe icing something, maybe stretching something,” Rosen said. “That’s what I love about these guys. They love the game of volleyball, even though they’ve been here for five years. Their bodies are a little beat up, they’ve both had multiple surgeries, but they want to play volleyball because they love the game.” As Cole puts it, “We probably pull muscles more when we’re celebrating than when we’re actually playing.” However, even with the passion that Michigan showed this weekend — defeating the Terrapins and Buckeyes and moving to fifth place in the Big Ten — Rosen knows that a very tough conference schedule looms ahead. But having played the kind of defense they did on Sunday, the Wolverines have proven that they can hang with the very best teams in the country.