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Students cite questions on entitlements, Supreme Court as most important EMILY MIILLER & NEIL SCHWARTZ Daily Staff Reporters
At watch parties for the final presidential debate Wednesday night, hosted by the University of Michigan’s chapters of College Democrats and Students for
Hillary as well as the College Republicans, students divided along party lines with two distinct interpretations of who won the debate and how each candidate performed. During the debate, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump discussed a range of
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Deer cull to restart in Ann Arbor this winter City officials release updated management plan for 2017 efforts SOPHIE SHERRY Daily Staff Reporter
The city of Ann Arbor has begun planning for this year’s wintertime deer cull, the second iteration of the city’s fouryear plan to manage its deer population. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources gave Ann Arbor permission to kill up to 100 deer within city boundaries last December. The first part of the cull took place earlier this year between January and March, killing 63 deer. Ann Arbor released its 2017 deer management plan, which calls for the use of both a lethal cull and non-lethal sterilization methods to control the deer population, Friday. The management plan also proposes developing an educational program for residents to protect their property, such as by fencing or refraining from keeping certain plants. The cull was highly unpopular among many citizens and some members of City Council — when the it was first introduced — citizens expressed concern over See CULL, Page 3A
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issues, from debt and entitlement reform, immigration, economy, the Supreme Court, foreign hot spots and fitness to be president. One of the more significant moments of the debate came about halfway through, when Trump was asked if he would concede the election if he were to lose. Over the past month,
the candidate has been raising concerns that the election will be rigged against him — claims that have been met with a critical response. In response, Trump said, “I’ll tell you at the time,” an unprecedented answer for a candidate in recent history. See DEBATE, Page 3A
Ni Una Menos movement holds protests for women’s rights nationwide ETHAN LEVIN
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Wednesday afternoon, more than 40 people — the majority from the University of Michigan Romance Language and Literature Department — participated in a demonstration on the Diag as a part of the “Ni Una Menos” movement, with the aim of exposing violence toward women in Latin America and the United States. The event was one of many of its kind that took place Wednesday across the United States to commemorate the killing of Lucia Perez, a young Argentenian woman.
Perez was brutally raped and killed last week in La Plata, the capital of Argentina’s Buenos Aires province, immediately resulting in several demonstrations across the country. “The (#NiUnaMenos) movement was originally to protest against gender violence, and especially all the women who are killed in Mexico Argentina, Guatemala and Colombia, but it’s turned into something greater,” said Rackham student Ludmila Ferrari The phrase “Ni Una Menos” was coined in 1993 in a poem written by Susana Chavez. In the poem, Chavez references See DIAG, Page 3A
Ron Weiser stresses affordability for Economist students in bid for Board of Regents talks GDP CAMPUS LIFE
Former ambassador emphasizes budget control, halting rising tuition RIYAH BASHA
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In Ron Weiser’s third bid for a seat on the University of Michigan’s Board of Regents, the former ambassador and University philanthropist wants voters to know he means business — literally. Weiser founded prominent real estate firm McKinley Associates Inc. nearly 50 years ago, and served as ambassador to Slovakia under former President George Bush from 2001 to 2005. He also chaired the Michigan Republican Party from 2009 to 2011. Currently, he has a role in Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign by fundraising as part of the Trump Victory Committee. He previously ran for regent unsuccessfully in 2014. In 2012, Weiser began a campaign for the role but dropped out to focus on his position as finance chairman for the Republican National Committee. In his 2014 campaign, Weiser focused on issues of student affordability but ultimately lost the race to current regent Mike Behm (D) by a margin of 4,835 votes. This time around, he said he hopes to capture the seat by honing in on rising tuition rates and a growing budget. “We need to keep the University as affordable as possible,” he said. “It’s not fair to burden kids.” Weiser pointed to his diverse background in both bureaucracy
and business as reasons he’s well suited for the job. “There’s no businesspeople, especially ones that have been involved in bureaucracy,” he said of the University’s current Board of Regents. “I learned a lot in the State Department about getting things done.” One current regent, Denise Ilitch (D–Bingham Farms), does have notable business experience — she is president of Ilitch
Enterprises, owner of Denise Ilitch Designs and the owner and publisher of Ambassador Magazine. Ilitch and fellow sitting regent Laurence Deitch (D–Bloomfield Hills) are running incumbent campaigns to regain their seats come the general election Nov. 8. Carl Meyers, Republican and former treasurer of the Michigan GOP, is also competing for a seat on the board. Weiser’s campaign website
touts his ability to “run the U of M like a business.” In an interview, however, he softened that claim slightly. “I would run the University not like a business, it’s more like an NGO,” he said, referring to non-governmental organizations. “Students are customers... I always take time to meet with students.” To combat the increase in See WEISER, Page 3A
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Former World Bank employee urges joint work between countries TYLER COADY
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The Ford School of Public Policy hosted a policy talk Wednesday afternoon featuring Justin Lin, former World Bank Chief Economist, on the future of economic relations between the U.S. and China. Moderated by Associate prof of Public Policy John Ciorciari, the director of the International Policy Center, the talk began with Lin offering a general overview of the recent developments in the Chinese economy. Though the Chinese government announced Wednesday that growth in GDP for the last economic quarter was 6.7 percent, Lin acknowledged that recently, growth has been a disappointment and compared to past years, this rate is low. However, Lin said China is a transitional economy moving into an era in which domestic consumer spending will drive growth. He added that other emerging economies, like those in Brazil and Russia, have also seen their growth rates decline in recent years. Comparing China to India, which is also going through a See BANK, Page 3A
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ON THE DAILY: DRAKE AND EMILY BLUNT GIVE A2 A SHOUT OUT What do Drake and actress Emily Blunt have in common? They each gave Ann Arbor a shoutout on their recent Saturday Night Live appearances. Last week, Blunt starred in an SNL skit titled “Short Film” that poked fun at the the city’s artsy culture. In the skit, Blunt, who was on the show promoting her new film, “The Girl on the Train,” plays the protagonist in a short film introduced as part of a Ann Arbor film festival, who is seen running through a forest and then, upon falling, having a moment of self-realization. After the screening of the film, the skit then continues with all of the cast members participating in a Q&A session. Actress Vanessa Bayer plays the sole audience member asking questions. Ann Arbor’s artsy reputation
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and its cultural attractions are well known, bolstered in particular by the Art Fair each summer and the actual film festival, held in March. SNL’s recent sketch is not Ann Arbor’s first mention by SNL in the past year — this past May, Drake guest starred in a sketch about workplace banter at an office supply store. In it, Drake proudly displays his University of Michigan coffee mug. When asked if he was a Michigan fan, Drake told his coworkers, played by Beck Bennett and Bobby Moynihan, that he was born and raised in Ann Arbor and was an alumnus of the University. Though Ann Arbor is more than 600 miles away from the Big Apple, it appears like the quaint college town remains on the writers’ minds.
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WHAT: This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions, including the Persian and Turkish versions. WHO: University Libray WHEN: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Hatcher Library - 7th Floor
When User Comments Meet the News WHAT: Eun-Ju Lee, professor in the Department of Communication at Seoul National University, will give a lecture about the blurred boundary between mass and interpersonal communication. WHO: Dept. of Communications WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Michigan League -
WHAT: Exhibit of 18th- and 19thcentury Japanese prints of Kabuki theater performances from artists like Utagawa Toyokuni, Utagawa Kunisada, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, and Toyohara Kunichika. WHO: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) WHEN: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Museum of Art
Cartographic Celebration of 100 Years of the National Parks Service WHAT: Historic maps from the past 100 years of the National Parks Service will be on display to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the NPS. WHO: University Library WHEN: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library 2nd Floor
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WHAT: This symposium will discuss the entangled identities of Jews and Muslims in the Middle East. It will discuss “Arab-Jews” or “Mizrahim,” Jews from Arab-Muslim lands. WHO: Dept. of Judaic Studies WHEN: 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Rackham Graduate School Assembly Hall
WHAT: Claire Treat, with the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, will be lecturing about permafrost and wetland carbon dynamics. WHO: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Chemistry & Willard H Dow Laboratory - 1210
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WHAT: The University Philharmonic Orchestra will play Dvovák’s Symphony No. 6. They will open with Don Giovanni and Rachmaninoff’s “Caprice Bohemian.” WHO: School of Music, Theater & Dance WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Hill Auditorium
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For University of Michigan professor Mary Kelley, a pioneer in the field of women’s studies over the past 40 years, teaching this year has felt especially meaningful in an election year with the first major party female nominee. Kelley said her interests in higher education and public life were first sparked by the fact that she did not encounter many females when she was in high school. “It was the absence that provoked my curiosity,” she said. “I think it was looking for women like myself; that is to say, women who had intellectual aspirations, and wanted to practice those aspirations in public life.” She later became interested
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women’s center, dedicated to providing a range of resources for women. Since 2002, Kelley has been at the University of Michigan. She said she find the school substantially more diverse and accommodating of the need for women’s studies. Women studies at the University Today, much of what Kelley discusses in her current class draws on examples from the University. For example, for many years, women were not allowed in the Michigan Union on campus, forcing them to create their own spaces to congregate, like the Michigan League and women’s only dorms such as Helen Newberry, Betsy Barbour and Martha Cook. Kelley said she likes that women on campus established their own spaces, regardless of existing restrictions. “Having gone to a women’s college, I think all female spaces for certain parts of our lives, certain segments of our lives are important,” Kelley said. She noted that because women’s studies can be an abstract field, it requires research into qualitative, not quantitative sources. For her 2006 book, “Learning to Stand and Speak”, she used archives and tangible materials to make inferences about the evolution of American women’s reading and writing practices. Her students use similar tactics to conduct their own research. Kate Silbert, a Ph.D. candidate in history and women’s studies and one of Kelley’s students, said Kelley’s redefinition of the field of higher education for women inf luenced her own project — exploring the history of female intellectual activity through messages from journals, paintings and See KELLEY, Page 3A
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University professor helped solidify the research area specifically in women’s studies during her time as an undergraduate at Mount Holyoke University, the oldest women’s college in the country, after speaking with individuals in the field. Right after she graduated college, in 1965, she took her own first steps into the topic, publishing her first book on 19th-century American female writers that yearned to prove themselves as being capable of more than domestic housewives. During her career, she’s combined expertise in history, American culture and women’s studies to help women’s studies f lourish as a legitimate discipline. As a History prof. at Dartmouth — which had only become co-ed a few years prior to Kelley’s arrival in 1977 — Kelley was part of an initiative to establish a women’s studies program and the college’s
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WHAT: A workshop to help inform international students who have a student visa or legal permanent resident status on how to best attain U.S. citizenship. The workshop will address citizenship eligibility requirements and benefits of citizenship. WHO: International Center WHEN: 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: International Center
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DEBATE From Page 1A About 40 students gathered in Angell Hall to watch the debate with the College Republicans. Before the debate, Randy Clark, a Republican candidate for state representative in Michigan’s 52nd district addressed the audience, challenging students to vote in the election and further their involvement with politics. “Everybody wants to run and hide under a rock because they can’t stand this mess that’s going on, but you really have to get involved, you have to make a difference,” he said. At the College Republicans watch party, LSA sophomore Amanda Delekta said she found the debate to be an overall positive experience, compared with previous debates and campaign tactics. “I thought that it was Trump’s best debate by far, I thought he did a lot better job staying on topic and not trying to talk over people,” Delekta said. “I thought that the moderator did a lot better job making sure each candidate respected the other person and their time. So overall I thought it was a nice statement to end a brutal campaign on both sides.” However, Delekta said she wished the candidates had discussed at greater length the issue of Supreme Court justice appointment, which she considers to be the most pressing issue of this election. “We’ll fill at least two —
BANK From Page 1A period of economic growth, Lin said China is not struggling, but is merely suffering from cyclical and external factors that do not require structural changes to its economy. “To make adjustments in economic structure is very difficult,” Lin said. “It is very important to understand the true causes … and the main reason is cyclical.” However, shifting away from China, Lin argued that the United States’ economy does need to undergo structural changes for it to fully recover from the 2008 financial crisis. “In the short run, general structural reforms are important in raising the economic growth rate,” Lin said. “We need to have an innovative way to make the structural reform … and that requires political leadership.” LSA junior Paul Miriani said Lin’s argument that the American economy requires structural changes came as a surprise. “That is not an argument that I have ever heard before,” Miriani said. “It was a lot more critical of (Obama’s) administration and the eight years (in which) the U.S. has not done what is necessary is a different perspective.” Ann Arbor resident Charles McIntosh said he wished Lin would have talked more about the differences between the U.S. economy before and after 2008. “I do not think that he talked
CULL From Page 1A residents’ safety and the moral considerations of implementing a cull in the city. However, the cull was approved 8-1 by city council, and a majority of residents surveyed were in favor of it. The management plan states that, provided non-lethal methods are practical and cost effective, the city will sterilize 40 to 60 deer, as well as aim to kill 100 more in the next year. “Our goal this year is to evaluate these methods both individually and collectively so we can see what is a costeffective means of achieving the community’s tolerance for the impacts of having the deer herd in the area,” said City Administrator Howard Lazarus. Lazarus said he believes that the education component presents a great opportunity to work with advocates of non-lethal method to find different means and methods to control the deer population. The Humane Society of Huron Valley, an advocate for non-lethal means of population control, said
possibly three — justices, which is crazy for one president, and hasn’t been done in a long time,” she said. “And that’s going to set the direction for policy in America for decades and decades.” In response to the question, Trump said he has a list of 20 conservatives who could fill the seats as justices, emphasizing the importance of their close interpretation of the constitution, while Clinton encouraged the Senate to confirm President Barack
“Our main goal is to get students thinking” Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland. Engineering freshman Lincoln Merrill also said he felt Trump performed well in this debate, citing times when he challenged Clinton on inconsistencies in her campaign. “From a policy standpoint, Trump definitely won,” he said. “I still think he could have kept his cool a little better … I think Trump did what he needed to do in this debate.” He added that he felt moderator Chris Wallace, host of “Fox News Sunday,” performed better than moderators in
about it enough, and what struck me about the difference before and after 2008 is we did not talk about public investment and corporate investment,” McIntosh said. “However, I actually think his views fit in pretty well with a lot of economic views on the right in the United States today and I do not find it a particularly surprising suggestion that economies need to restructure.” During the event, in reference to Chinese and American economic interaction, Ciorciari asked Lin about his thoughts regarding China’s exclusion from the TransPacific Partnership. The TPP is a trade deal involving the United States and 11 other Pacific Ocean nations, including Japan, Australia and Canada. “To exclude China from the TPP is not a development because China is now one of the largest trading countries in the world,” Lin said. “I don’t think this is economically advisable because not only is it not good for China, it is not good for all economies.” When asked by an audience member whether he thought that the criticism levied by politicians in the United States toward China for alleged currency manipulation and other unfair trade practices is reasonable, Lin said he believed that the focus of talks about United States-China relations should be about the benefits they brings to both countries. “To maintain good economic relations is certainly good for China and for the U.S.,” Lin said. “Politicians like to find a scapegoat.”
this week they disapprove of the 2017 Deer Management Plan. Tanya Hilgendorf, president and CEO of Humane Society of Huron Valley, said there is no absolutely no need for a cull. “We think the plan is completely unnecessary and inhumane,” Hilgendorf said on behalf of the Humane Society. “We have no deer emergency in Ann Arbor. We have no public health or safety problems. The deer are not suffering. We don’t have close to an overpopulation.” Hilgendorf also charged the cull goes against city values like tolerance and nonviolence. “We should absolutely not be using violence to solve our problems and teaching our kids that when we are frustrated we take out our guns,” said Hilgendorf. “We see so much violence in our world against people and animals, and have so much worry every single day about people getting shot. Do we really need more shooting and more killing?” As part of the 2017 plan, the city will develop a data collection plan for measuring the success of the lethal, non-lethal and
previous debates. “He hit them both equally hard on different subjects, he was the most fair of all the moderators and his performance blew me away,” he said. In Weill Hall, about 50 students attended a debate watch party organized by College Democrats, Students for Hillary and the Michigan Democratic Coordinated Campaign. LSA senior Olivia Rau, a member of Students for Hillary, said her organization aims to bring awareness to the issues discussed during the election and ensure that students are well informed when it comes time to vote. “Our main goal is to get students thinking and paying attention to the issues and providing a platform for them to get exposed to what’s happening in the election,” she said. One point of contention between the candidates that resonated with the audience came toward the end of the debate, when Wallace asked the candidates how they would resolve dwindling funding for entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, which he said account for 60 percent of all federal spending. “Social security is going to run out in the 2030s,” he said. “And at that time, recipients are going to take huge cuts in their benefits.” In response to the question, Clinton said she planned to raise taxes on the wealthy and use the money to add to Social Security. In contrast, Trump pointed to the Affordable Care Act, saying he would abolish it.
“One thing we have to do: repeal and replace the disaster known as Obamacare,” Trump said. Public Policy junior Katie Putnam said she thought this issue will play a large role in the future. “I personally care a lot about the Affordable Care Act,” she said. “And Medicare is going to be huge coming up.” Questions about the economy, which devolved in discussions of several scandals raised against both candidates, also drew strong reactions from both candidates. While Trump referred to accusations about Clinton’s deletion of classified emails, Clinton brought up 2006 comments from Trump, released earlier this month, in which he bragged about touching women without consent. “Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger,” Clinton said. “He goes after their dignity, their self worth, and I don’t think there is a woman out there who doesn’t know what that feels like.” Music, Theatre & Dance sophomore Liliana Talwatte said she thought Hillary responded strongly to Trump’s attacks. “I think she was fantastic,” she said. “She responded well (to Trump’s criticism).” Putnam said that she did not expect Clinton to respond in a way that mirrored Trump’s style. “There were some times where we were thinking that she was playing a little dirtier,” she said. “Trump was already going to do that himself.”
KELLEY From Page 2A architectural carvings. “Mary’s work has done so much to both recover the ways that women have been active and engaged, especially intellectually, over the whole course of the United States as well as being very clear about the limitations that remained in terms of expectations of women continuing to be deferential or the ways in which women’s intellectual work would be filtered or condescended to,” Silbert said. For her project, Silbert has gone to different libraries around campus to look at artifacts that show how women were able to attain the educational and political opportunities they have today, something that she noted has vast significance this election year. LSA senior Michael Gawlik echoed Silbert’s admiration for Kelley, saying the best class he has taken so far at the University was Kelley’s Sex and Gender in U.S. History, 1600-2000. Since taking it his sophomore year, Gawlik has developed an interest in women’s studies and history, and Kelley is now his adviser for his honors thesis. Gawlik’s thesis looks at differing literature narratives regarding prostitution in
educational programs. Success will be determined by looking at property damage, vehicular accidents and the health of the deer herd, looking for indications of Chronic Wasting disease in deer or Lyme disease in humans. At Monday evening’s City Council meeting, the council also approved a first-read vote on two ordinances that would allow discharge of firearms on city land. Those ordinances will come back for a second read in front of the council on Nov. 14, where the council will also vote to approve a contract with White Buffalo, the vendor chosen to carry out both the lethal and non-lethal methods. Lazarus said city officials have had extensive meetings and discussions with various groups of interested stakeholders, including animal rights activists that are against the cull and groups that are in support of thinning the deer population through a cull. “They are not going to agree with everything we ultimately decide to do but they have had the opportunity to help us shape the management plan as it exists now,” he said.
the 19th century and aims to establish how social judgments and blame of the behavior shifted from book to book. As a man, Gawlik said he has often seen misconceptions about women’s studies — for instance, the assumption that it is only related to feminism. “I think sometimes women’s studies is misunderstood by the general population of students and it’s seen as something that you should only be involved in if you’re a woman or if you’re a feminist, and I think it is something that is just really important because it provides you with a framework — as a history major — for looking at the past differently,” Gawlik said.
“I think sometimes women’s studies is misunderstood” Mentorship through research How to bring women’s studies to a more mainstream integration on campus, Kelley and her students said, remains a slight challenge. Despite her extensive work in the
DIAG From Page 1A the Spanish phenomenon of “feminicide” — a concept, according to the Ferrari, that all too many Latina women are familiar with. Ferrari said the term is used to describe the unceasing deaths and acts of violence toward girls and women in Latin America. “It’s a global. It began in Argentina, but now it is everywhere,” she said. “And today, these protests are happening across the United States at several universities including Princeton, University of Kansas, in Chicago, San Francisco. It’s a strike that begins with Latina women, but it actually involved all women.” Ana Sabau, Rackham student in the Department of Romance Language and Literature, said the Latino community in Ann Arbor wanted to commemorate Perez’s death and the problem of violence as a whole by organizing in unity. “Lots of my colleagues and myself were thinking, what
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WEISER From Page 1A costs in light of dwindling state appropriation to higher education, the current Board of Regents approved a 3.9-percent tuition hike for in-state residents and 4.4-percent increase for out-ofstate students this summer. Weiser is opposed to the board’s decision, and has proposed a freeze on individual in-state tuition from the time students begin at the University. Fellow Republican candidate Meyers proposed similar actions to stop tuition increase, and disapproved of raising University President Mark Schlissel 3 percent in light of the increase to student fees. “No one will pay more than they did freshman year,” he said. “There are always ways to spend on students … when we cut costs and find new funding sources.” Much of Weiser’s platform also focuses on his background in philanthropy and ability to fundraise. On campus, the former Dennison Building is now named after Weiser’s following his $50 million donation toward building renovations in December 2014. The former ambassador also founded the University’s Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia after returning from his posting in Slovakia in 2008. As of this February, Weiser’s donations to the University totaled $95.9 million. As the vice chair of the ongoing Victors for Michigan donation campaign, which aims to fundraise $4 billion, the largest goal of any
campaign launched by a public institution of higher education, Weiser said increasing charitable contributions is a priority for him. “With philanthropy, we’re looking for a place where we can make a difference first in the world,” he said. “I can provide time to the University and commit to the fundraising responsibility as regent.” Weiser’s political leanings — specifically his role as vice chair to the finance committee for Trump’s campaign in Michigan — have prompted some pushback from his Democratic opponents. In an interview with The Michigan Daily earlier this week, Deitch said Weiser’s political views were fundamentally “incompatible” with the University, in part due to his support for Trump. Speaking to his political leanings, Weiser said his focus was on progress. “I support politics of change, and Democrats are not bringing change,” he said. Weiser’s other focus areas include socioeconomic regional diversity, equality between Ann Arbor and the University’s other satellite campuses in Flint and Dearborn and transparency in the board’s proceedings. Specifically, he plans to invest more resources into students on all three campuses by having faculty travel between the locations and research the best practices for broadening students’ financial backgrounds. “We can learn a lot about each other,” he said. “The Board of Regents has the capacity to be more than it is … and I care about this University because of what it can do.”
field, Kelley said she does not think the creation of a women’s studies requirement on campus — much like there is a Race and Ethnicity requirement — would benefit the women’s studies movement. She said the idea of integrating women’s studies into history lectures would be beneficial, but has found it sometimes unsuccessful in practice. “The problem with mainstreaming is that it can look like it’s an add-on as opposed to just being fully part of the curriculum,” Kelley said. “The Race and Ethnicity requirement is in terms of people learning about people who happened to have been deeply disadvantaged in this culture, and certainly not all women have been deeply disadvantaged … on the basis of sex and gender. They’ve been disadvantaged to a certain extent, but not to the same extent, and I think to equate those is not appropriate.” Silbert said she felt conf licted about whether a women’s studies and Race and Ethnicity requirement could be all-encompassing, but generally felt it would be advantageous for students to think outside their traditional realm of thinking. “There are very visible ways that there are gender gaps between programs or certain spaces on this campus, but I’ve
had the experience of teaching Intro to Women’s Studies and I’ve found in those experiences once students had language for the ways that gender
could we do in the United States to show our solidarity with those movements and to also start having the conversation here,” Sabau said. “So two days ago, we organized different strikes that are going to be happening at different colleges in the United States.” During the event, a list of names of female Michigan citizens who had been killed by police since 2010 were read aloud by the protesters. Sabau said the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Kansas and other schools in New York demonstrated Wednesday as well. Sabau added that the demonstrations have a broader scope, and represent issues of class and race in addition to violence against women. “It’s a very difficult reality to live with,” she said. “Part of the show up today was to make us think about the differences and what happened specifically in Mexico, Argentina and Peru. But also, I would also think that some of these issues are
traversed by class and race, so I think that it’s important to think about how the violence is expressive of those differences.” During the event, signs and pamphlets with a list of hashtags were handed out as well. Below “Ni Una Menos” was “Viva Nos Queremos,” which was translated by Ferrari as “We Want Us Alive.” Ferrari said the hashtags and movement focuses on the lives of all women and girls; not just those from Latin America. She emphasized what she described as the value of both the physical and emotional impact of eliminating genderrelated violence in the world. “We want to have a complete life, but also an integral life,” Ferrari said. “The strike is against all sorts of discrimination, not only the violence that kills your body, but the violence that kills your spirit.”
“There are a lot of gendered ideas in American society”
can inf luence everything students express frustration,” Silbert said. “But I think it’s a healthy frustration so much of women’s studies is that learning to see.” Gawlik echoed the sentiments of both, saying the current gaps in knowledge show there is room for progress. “There are a lot of gendered ideas in American society and regardless of how liberal one’s school is, those ideas are still going to be something that students have internalized when they come to this school and that will be part of the campus culture,” he said. “So I think that even though U of M is probably more progressive than most schools … there’s still progress to be made.”
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A new approach to diversity on campus
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arlier this month, the University of Michigan launched its Diversity, Equity & Inclusion plan, committing $85 million over the next five years to “a vibrant, diverse and inclusive campus.” Though the University makes significant strides with the plan, the loudest voice in it is that of bureaucracy. While there are several important aspects to the DEI initiative, we feel that the number one strategy to creating a better campus climate, which the DEI plan largely falls short of, starts with the foundation of the curriculum we learn in our classrooms. The ideal curriculum doesn’t dilute the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion to a singular course requirement, skit or event at the beginning of one’s freshman year, but rather infuses it into curricula of all courses and course structures campuswide, over the span of students’ time at the University. The central weakness in the administration’s DEI initiative is that rather than taking this opportunity to innovate and incorporate student perspectives on what has and has not been working and rethink its approach to diversity, it doubles down on tired strategies that sound good on paper but fail to achieve real change. While the construction of a new Trotter Multicultural Center, an expansion of the Wolverine Pathways program to engage with K-12 students in Detroit and devoting financial support to departments conducting research on diversity are all good steps the plan outlines, these are not the steps that will contribute to tangibly changing the campus climate. Perhaps the chief example of the failure of the DEI to make substantive changes lies in its plan to implement a cultural sensitivity training initiative. Through this program, incoming freshman classes will be required to fill out an assessment of their cultural sensitivity, complete a unique training program based on their results and receive a certificate for completion. An online test at the beginning of freshman year will not be sophisticated enough to accurately indicate whether or not a student is sufficiently culturally sensitive to be a respectful member of our University community. By opting for this method, the University is assuming that the best strategy in promoting diversity is to concentrate this education in the first few weeks a student is on campus. In reality, this period of time is far from ideal in terms of communicating a message — students are worried about making friends, starting classes and getting acquainted with Ann Arbor. What’s more, many students may know how to go through the online motions and provide the “right answer” when prompted, simply to get the test over with. Discussing diversity is an obvious important step in introducing students to campus, but the first few weeks of freshman year should not be the first and last time students are required
to ref lect on and learn about cultural sensitivity. Someone won’t learn about implicit biases, harmful stereotypes or discrimination through a quiz. That shift will only happen through a more comprehensive redesign of how professors teach and what ideas and perspectives are incorporated into each course’s curriculum. The University should mandate that all curriculums in all classes across all schools and colleges are reevaluated by professors to include material that provides other narratives besides the dominant one typically taught in the discipline. Many classes do this already, but a significant number do not, and many of the ones that do fail to do it as thoroughly as they should. When reading lists and syllabi are made, teachers must include voices of scholars and authors from varying minority backgrounds in their field. When lecture topics are picked, professors should make an explicit effort to cover the works and thoughts of minority groups who may have been ignored or underrepresented in previous curricula. That said, incorporating themes and content that include diverse perspectives into an LSA syllabus is easier than incorporating them into a syllabus in the College of Engineering or Ross School of Business, because course content in these schools is less likely to relate to issues surrounding diversity directly. However, by shining a light on diversity, professors and GSIs — regardless of their discipline — can transform what would otherwise be a one-time push at the beginning of a student’s freshman year into the starting point for themes that span across every year. And it is imperative that each faculty member and GSI in every school on campus work toward goals of including diverse perspectives into not only their syllabi, but also in the way that the classroom environment is structured. The LSA DEI plan, like many at universities across the country, requires the development of trainings and DEI sessions for professors and GSIs to better facilitate
issues of identity and representation in classrooms. Changes like these should be applauded. In the classroom, faculty members play the most vital role in how students participate in class, and in turn, how they learn in class. Teachers must be cognizant of how their teaching styles affect students differently and then must also be good facilitators of discussions that include all voices. Only when all students are comfortable enough to share their perspective is everyone in the classroom benefiting fully from the educational experience. As well, more thought should be put into the methods that promote continued self-ref lection on one’s identity, such as a program for sophomore year, one that reinforces and builds on what is learned in the first few weeks of school. The Race and Ethnicity requirement should continue to be re-evaluated, and should be expanded beyond LSA, because themes about how to relate to others, be respectful and take advantage of the diversity this University community has to offer are equally relevant to those studying engineering or business or kinesiology. These ideas must be infused into each course curriculum campuswide in order to start to witness the kind of change to campus climate for which the DEI plan is calling. Promoting diversity at a large, public university is a daunting task, and the DEI initiative takes steps toward progress. Unfortunately, this progress is overshadowed by an administration that seems more willing to rebrand existing initiatives, rather than do the work of stepping back, reassessing its approach and implementing a more progressive strategy to accomplish diversity, equity and inclusion on campus. This would require substantial changes to the ways issues and discussions of diversity are integrated into curriculum and new training for faculty about structural and atmospheric changes to classes that will highlight diverse groups of people and different perspectives.
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Something’s burning in Midtown
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hen most people — originally designed to burn throw something all of Detroit’s household away, usually little trash — decided to start attention is paid to what importing trash from other happens next. For most cities, municipalities and commercial the final resting operations. KEVIN spot of trash is The problems a landfill, which SWEITZER associated with is simply a large, running a 30-yearcoated hole in the ground old trash incinerator on waste for trash to sit for the rest of it wasn’t meant to handle are eternity. However, for Detroit staggering. When I visited the residents, the final resting area around the incinerator, place of the most harmful I was greeted with an odor elements of trash is in the so foul that I could barely lungs of the residents of walk down the street without Midtown and Poletown East. gagging. Sadly, it wasn’t just The city is home to Detroit the smell that was nauseating Renewable Power, America’s — cars whizzed by overhead on largest “Waste-to-Energ y” Interstate 94, and a constant facility. While that sounds stream of trash trucks like a nice name, in actuality, rumbled by, spewing brown the facility is simply a large trash “juice” out of the back. furnace that runs on burned Many studies have shown trash and generates electricity that despite state-mandated and steam. Detroit’s facility pollution controls, the levels is located off the eastern of CO2, mercury, lead and edge of Midtown at the other harmful materials intersection of Interstate 94 exceed safe amounts. and Interstate 75. While many I spoke with William give it praise as an innovation Copeland, climate justice in waste management, many director for the Eastern residents refer to the tall Michigan Environmental grey smokestack as “The Action Council, which is an Incinerator,” alluding to environmental activist group a dirtier side of the waste that is working to close the management facility. incinerator. “The Detroit Originally opened in 1986, Incinerator is an outdated, the incinerator was hailed as ancient facility with some of a step in the right direction the least pollution controls for waste reduction and of all incinerators in the environmentalism in Detroit. country,” he said. The original plan for the “The owners of the facility incinerator was to burn up to show little to no concern 4,000 tons of trash per day and for the negative health and provide energy for more than environmental impacts 60,000 homes. However, the of their facility on the population of Detroit has fallen community,” he told me as we about 50 percent since 1986, walked by the incinerator’s and with that, the supply of looming smokestack. Many trash has markedly decreased. groups oppose the incinerator Faced with the dilemma of and have specific concerns being unable to keep up with about health impacts on the the power and steam needs of surrounding communities. downtown Detroit, the facility For any community, the
disposal of trash is a struggle. However, there are steps that can be taken to reduce waste. The City of Detroit only instituted curbside recycling in 2014, a program that is still underperforming, while composting services are nearly nonexistent. Even the placement of the incinerator is problematic, located right off the edge of the bustling Midtown district. This isn’t some place far away that nobody lives in, it’s right in the middle of a population center — there is even a school just blocks away from the smokestack, meaning that children inhale the exhaust of the incinerator every day. In order for Detroit to become the city of the future that it hopes to be, it must solve its waste management crisis. Incineration isn’t a viable option anymore, especially with the massive population losses that have stricken the area. “Detroit and the metroDetroit region must move toward zero waste — reducing, reusing, composting and recycling our waste,” Copeland said. “However, this can never happen as long as the region continues to be saddled ( by) Detroit’s monster of an incinerator,” he continued. This is something that must be done, because the city of the future can’t rely on an outdated system of waste disposal anymore. Reduction of waste, recycling and finding alternatives to incineration are incredibly necessary for the progress of Detroit.
Kevin Sweitzer can be reached at ksweitz@umich.edu.
MELISSA STRAUSS | COLUMN
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Let’s bring back the positive
don’t know about you, let ourselves fall into what but this has been a pretty Booker calls a “state of emotional week for me. sedentary agitation.” It is Maybe it’s the one thing to discuss typical stress of our anger at the midterm season negativity invading creeping up, our country, but we maybe it’s the toll need to channel that recent incidents anger into action. If of hate speech and we wish to erase the intolerance on negative, we must our campus have register, we must taken or maybe it’s vote and we must something deeper. MELISSA encourage others to But as I watched do the same. STRAUSS the second College students presidential debate last Sunday are in a unique position to make night, I felt a gaping pit open an incredible impact on this in the middle of my stomach. election. For many of us, this is As each minute passed, each the first presidential election punch was thrown and each in which we are eligible to opportunity for remorse and vote. For the first time, we accountability was def lected, do not have to defer to our I succumbed to defeat. The parents’ or our grandparents’ America I was raised to generations to determine the believe in — the tolerant, path our futures will take. hopeful, opportunity-ridden Yet, college students in the America they teach us about past few presidential elections as kids — was dead. I went have voted at rates of about 40 to bed that night terrified percent. In fact, young adults of a new era emerging in ages 18 to 24 constitute the this country where hate and group with the lowest voter division reign supreme. turnout of any age group in But this isn’t true. Rather, this country. At the same time, this doesn’t have to be true. people 65 and over vote at Right here and now, we have an rates of nearly 70 percent. If opportunity to alter the course we do not show up to the polls, of history. We have a chance to we cannot complain about denounce the negativity that policies that have an adverse has swept across our country impact on our lives. If we do and replace it with a positive not vote, older generations vision for our future. And the will continue to drive us simplest and most fundamental down the negative path we way to combat this negativity is already see on the horizon. through our votes. As President Obama On Monday night, I covered remarked in his commencement an event at Eastern Michigan address at Howard University University where Sen. Cory in May, “When we don’t vote, Booker (D–N.J.) campaigned we give away our power, for Democratic presidential disenfranchise ourselves — nominee Hillary Clinton, along right when we need to use with Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D– the power that we have; right Mich.), Sen. Gary Peters (D– when we need your power to Mich.) and Rep. Debbie Dingell stop others from taking away (D–Ann Arbor). The event the vote and rights of those truly could not have come more vulnerable than you.” at a more perfect time. I left We cannot do everything, but feeling inspired, invigorated voting is one small action we and hopeful that we can break can take that will have huge this cycle of cynicism. We can implications for our futures. be angry at all of the recent I’ve heard many people events, but as Sen. Booker recently saying that instead said, we must decide that “we of choosing the “lesser of two are not going to allow … our evils,” they are simply not inability to do everything to going to vote. These people undermine our determination claim they can sacrifice the to do something.” We cannot next four years of their lives
and reset at the next election when the parties put up more worthy candidates. Here’s the reality: Millions of people in this country cannot afford to sacrifice these next four years. For many, this election is the difference between poverty and prosperity, employment and unemployment, equality and inequality — even life and death. This election will determine whether people who have lived in the United States their entire lives will be deported. This election will determine whether women will still have control over their own health. This election will determine how we see race, gender, sexuality and diversity in our country: with tolerance or with division. Those of us who have the “luxury” not to vote have an obligation to vote. As Sen. Booker asserted, “The most perverse type of privilege, the most dangerous type of privilege, is that there’s a serious problem out there, but because it doesn’t affect you personally, it’s not your problem.” If we love our country and still see the light amid so much darkness, then we must vote. Sen. Booker ended his speech with an excerpt from the poem Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes: O, let America be America again — The land that never has been yet — And yet must be — the land where every man is free. The land that’s mine — the poor man’s, Indian’s, Negro’s, ME — Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain, Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain, Must bring back our mighty dream again … O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath — America will be!
Melissa Strauss can be reached at melstrau@umich.edu
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ICE HOCKEY
After three games, ‘M’ Michigan hoping summer progress carries over still unclear on goalie SYLVANNA GROSS Daily Sports Writer
MIKE PERSAK
Daily Sports Writer
A central question for the 2016-17 Michigan hockey team revolves around goaltending. After last year’s primary starter Steve Racine graduated, the Wolverines were left with three goalies who all carry question marks into the crease. Senior Zach Nagelvoort brought the most experience, but he was inconsistent last season. Freshman Hayden Lavigne was once a heralded recruit, but after a few tough years in the United States Hockey League, he wasn’t necessarily a sure bet to start, either. Freshman Jack LaFontaine was a highly rated recruit in his own right, but he isn’t as experienced as the other two. Now, three games into the season, all three have had the chance to start, but the situation still isn’t any clearer. “I can’t tell you there’s a plan that’s in stone,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “It’s probably going to take a while for us to sort out the three goalies that have played. I told them, ‘This could go on all year, it could go on for half of the year,’ but we’ll see. But I’m pretty openminded.” The uncertainty doesn’t bother the players themselves, either. Nagelvoort said at the beginning of the season that he enjoyed the competition among the three goaltenders, and on Wednesday, he echoed a similar sentiment. “I would say nothing’s changed,” Nagelvoort said. “I’ve known, and … they’ve known, that no one is guaranteed ice time, and that’s what’s going to drive us to be the best we can be
this year. “I said that we have a competitive group of guys, and that we have three different guys who can play on Friday and Saturday night and that’s going to help me to be better, help Jack to be better and help Hayden to be better, and all we’ve seen is that.” The play of the three goaltenders has been important for the Wolverines so far, and it will likely continue to be for the rest of the year. A solid performance from a goalie can cover up mistakes made by the rest of the team, and given how young Michigan’s roster is this season, the netminder is crucial to the team’s performance. This was especially evident in Saturday’s game against Ferris State. The Bulldogs outshot Michigan, 29-16, and dominated possession throughout the game. But thanks to LaFontaine’s stellar performance in net, the Wolverines were able to stay even throughout and eked out a win in the end, 2-1. Those performances don’t just happen, though. The goalies all have to be ready, no matter when their number is called. “That’s not up to us,” Nagelvoort said. “So it’s not really something you worry yourself about. It’s just kind of just more that you prepare yourself for every game.” So far, the goalies have been solid. Even when Nagelvoort gave up four goals in the team’s season-opening loss to Union, he was peppered with 40 shots. Though nobody has separated themselves as the sure starter, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. For now, Michigan believes all three are capable of getting the job done.
Nicole Munger knew she would be going over the summer to Disney World — she goes every year with her family. What the sophomore guard didn’t expect was that she would run into her teammate, junior forward Jillian Dunston, on the trip. It was a chance encounter for both Munger and Dunston, but shows how the two Wolverines value the physical and mental break in the summers from the daily grind of being a collegiate athlete. “You have to be able to do both academics and athletics,” Dunston said. “Academics are supposed to come first, but you have to find a balance. It can be tough, but you do your best. I think going home is beneficial both mentally and physically. You just need a break.” Many members of the team stay in Ann Arbor through the spring and summer terms, which makes going home for an extended period of time a welcome reprieve. But, the Wolverines don’t forget to stay in shape. At the end of each season, the coaches meet with every player to go over a set of attainable goals for the upcoming year. Sophomore center Hallie Thome took her review in stride. “I worked on strength and conditioning,” Thome said. “So I’ll definitely be able to combat the strength of the Big Ten that everyone has. As a freshman, I knew that was a big thing that I was going to have to get used to, so as a sophomore, being able to come in and surprise the Big Ten, even though it might not look like I gained a lot of muscle, it’s there.” Thome earned a spot on the Big Ten All-Freshman Team last season, finishing second nationally in field goal percentage
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Sophomore guard Nicole Munger enjoys taking time off and breaking from campus for both physical and mental health.
(63.1). Though she has impressive offensive skills, Thome is working toward “making a change on the defensive end.” Older players also benefit from the comprehensive nature of the review. They recognize the invaluable efforts by their coaches, especially Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico, to help them improve. “It’s awesome to have a coach behind you on everything you do,” said senior guard Danielle Williams. “She’s an extraordinary person, just who she is and what she’s able to do and stands for, and her basketball IQ. She comes in every day with such a wonderful attitude.” Barnes Arico is entering her fifth season in Ann Arbor. She is the first head coach to record four
straight 20-win seasons and will return her full coaching staff for a third straight season. Williams is one of four returning starters, along with Thome, junior guard Katelynn Flaherty, senior guard Siera Thompson. On the other end of the spectrum, Michigan will also welcome five newcomers to the team — four freshmen and one redshirt junior, 6-foot-5 volleyball player Abby Cole. Two of the freshmen already know each other quite well, as guard Akienreh Johnson and forward KeAsja Peace both come from Toledo, Ohio. “I’ve known (Peace) since fourth grade, so the fact that we have been blessed to keep moving forward together means a lot,” Johnson said. “Not many people
get to go to college with their best friend. And not many people get to go to Michigan and play basketball with their best friend.” Upperclassmen like Munger, Dunston, Thome and Williams have the benefit of at least one season behind them to help sturdy themselves going into the summer. But for Johnson and her fellow freshmen, the transition to college life can be difficult. They used the summer to learn how to juggle an athletic career as a college student. Johnson credits her teammates, including Peace, for making the transition smoother. With the season opener fast approaching on Nov. 12, the athletes will have to rely on their summer experience and workouts to push forward into the new season ahead.
‘M’ outlasts Terps in five-set match JAKE LOURIM
Managing Sports Editor
Heading into intermission against then-No. 1 Wisconsin on Saturday, the Michigan volleyball team dug MICHIGAN 3 itself into MARYLAND 2 a 2-0 deficit, and the Wolverines did so again at Maryland on Wednesday. The similarities between the two matches just about ended there. Saturday, in the confines of Cliff Keen Arena, Michigan came within two points of pulling off its first upset of a top-ranked team in program history. Wednesday, in a harsh road environment, the Wolverines (6-3 Big Ten, 17-4 overall) only managed to survive, staving off two late match points to outlast the reeling Terrapins (0-9 Big Ten, 8-13 overall), 3-2. “It was a different match in the sense that we went down 2-0 because we didn’t execute very well,” said Michigan coach Mark Rosen. “It was a little bit different than Wisconsin. I think Wisconsin executed really well those first two sets, and that kind of put us down, where this one we were really chaotic.” Saturday, Michigan emerged from the locker room a different team, fighting back to tie the match at two sets apiece before dropping the final set, 15-13. In College Park, Rosen’s team found itself in a deafening gym, sitting in a different locker room and facing a different emotion. “I think there was some shock — no question,” Rosen said. “I think there was certainly some (looking) around the room, and nobody expected to be in that position. But I also think there was some calm reason in people going, ‘Hey, we know what we need to do.’ I think we had a good game plan, and I think everybody clearly believed in themselves, or they wouldn’t have been able to come back and win those next ones.” Michigan needed every point, but in the end, the Wolverines avoided a major letdown. A block
by Claire Kieffer-Wright and Ally Davis saved one match point, and a kill by Carly Skjodt saved another. Back-to-back Maryland errors gave Michigan the win, and Rosen high-fived his wife and assistant coach, Leisa, while his team embraced in a huddle of excitement and relief. After the Wolverines beat Maryland two weekends ago at Cliff Keen Arena, 3-1, Rosen warned his team that this trip might be difficult — though, he conceded, he did not expect to start down 2-0. Michigan’s hope was to string together some long early runs to bounce back from the loss to Wisconsin. But it never had that chance. The Wolverines missed six serves in each of the first two sets — including the final point in each — thwarting any opportunity to take hold of the match. Meanwhile, the Terrapins blitzed them with kills on the first three points and seized all of the momentum in their loud home gym. “The beginning of the match, they jumped on us a little bit, and then it just got chaotic because it’s so loud and so just frenetic,” Rosen said. “I just thought that we really lost our composure a little bit in that. And that happens. It’s not like a video game — there’s a human factor.” The intensity in the gym caught the Wolverines off guard. Even during timeouts, Rosen said, they could hardly hear each other. Again given the opportunity to go to intermission and regroup, they did so. They shored up their serve issues, not committing any errors in the next two sets. And they passed better, forcing Maryland into some miscues of its own. It took more than an hour, but Michigan started to play the game it traveled to College Park to play.
The Wolverines took the third set, 25-18, and jumped out to a 14-3 lead to control the fourth. They received a host of contributions. With Maryland locked in on Michigan’s top attacker, senior Abby Cole, Davis led the Wolverines with 16 kills. Kieffer-Wright added 14, and Mahlke contributed 12. Cole managed just eight, yet Michigan generated enough offense to win. “I think the big thing is slowing the pace down, making sure they’re playing at their own pace,” Rosen said. “I think when you can’t get verbal communication, I think it’s really important to get eye contact and find ways to communicate and connect with your teammates, and I don’t think we did that well in the first two sets.” Heading into another home showdown Saturday night against Penn State, a win was all the Wolverines needed. Rosen knows how valuable those are in the Big Ten and also how close his team was to picking up a big one last weekend. “After the Wisconsin match, there’s no question — it stung,” Rosen said. “It hurts a little bit. But when we came in for practice on Monday, I thought everybody was ready to go and ready to focus on the next match.” The Wolverines’ next challenge is to avoid the early deficit that nearly plagued them again Wednesday. They play six more road games this year, the next one coming next Friday in a similar environment at Purdue. For now, Michigan can move on with some momentum — no small task given its schedule. “They know this conference is a meat grinder,” Rosen said. “You’re going to have that day in and day out, so I think they’re mature enough to know that hey, you gotta put it away and move onto the next one.”
“They know this conference is a meat grinder.”
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As Peppers excels, Woodson comparisons arise JAKE LOURIM
Managing Sports Editor
A name came up Tuesday at Schembechler Hall, one that doesn’t come up too often in comparisons. That name is etched on the list of Heisman Trophy winners forever, as Jabrill Peppers’ could be as well this December. The name constantly made headlines and highlight reels for electrifying plays, as Peppers does. The name is in the Michigan football record books a handful of times, as Peppers already is. Charles Woodson does not have many peers in Michigan football history when it comes to the impact he made on games from 1995 to 1997. But as Peppers stars on defense, dabbles on offense, flips the field on special teams and vaults his name into Heisman consideration, the comparisons become harder and harder to ignore. Peppers, now a redshirt sophomore, said before he arrived at Michigan from Paramus (N.J.) Catholic that he wanted to be the best player in program history. The road to that title goes through Woodson, among others. Peppers was quick to credit the future Hall of Famer when a reporter brought him up, saying he didn’t fully understand what an impact Woodson made until he started college football. “Charles Woodson, if you just look at what he did for his teams, it’s just mind-boggling,” Peppers said. “In high school, I used to embrace all that. Now that I’m actually playing at this level, seeing what he’s able to accomplish and do for his team, take away half the field, and people scared to throw at him — big-time plays in big-time moments.” Peppers used to love being considered in the same conversation. He admits he followed all of the media coverage
while he was ranked as one of the top recruits in the nation during high school. Now, in a much bigger spotlight as a Michigan star, Peppers says he tries to avoid the attention as much as he can. “I found myself trying to … I wasn’t happy with that,” Peppers said. “I was trying to make everybody happy, trying to impress too many people, and then you’re not happy. … Whatever people say about me, I appreciate it. You’re watching, so I must be doing something right.” The biggest obstacle now is that the discussions are undeniable. Peppers earns commendation from his head coach, Jim Harbaugh, who officially launched Peppers’ Heisman campaign Oct. 8 at Rutgers after Peppers ran for two touchdowns as a wildcat quarterback. Two weeks earlier, Harbaugh delivered the understatement of the year when he smiled and said Peppers was “good at football.” He also draws praise from his teammates, including fifthyear senior offensive tackle Erik Magnuson, who called Peppers the best player he had ever seen. And he gets it from those who have been around him for years, such as Chris Partridge, Michigan’s linebackers and special teams coordinator and Peppers’ high school coach at Paramus Catholic. By all accounts, the 21-yearold appears to manage it well. “Jabrill was an All-American as a freshman in high school, so he’s had, on a smaller scale, the same type of hype around him and the same things that have come to it,” Partridge said. “He’s able to handle it and focus, and the thing that Jabrill does best is he focuses
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S T A T S MICH 50.0 23.0 255.0 5.7 25 215.0 62.6% 7.4 12 2 74 470.0 48.2% 66.7% 4.0 15.5 18.6 43.2 4-9 5/2 40.7 33:07
Points/Game First Downs/Game Rush Yards/Game Yards/Rush Rushing TDs Passing Yards/Game Completion % Yards/Pass Passing TDs Interceptions Offensive Plays/Game Total Offense 3rd-down Conversions 4th-down Conversions Sacks/Game Kick return average Punt return average Punting average Field Goals-Attempts Fumbles/Lost Penalty Yards/Game Time of Poss
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OPP 10.3 11.3 99.2 2.9 2 113.7 42.2% 4.6 5 6 59.5 212.8 12.2% 41.7% 1.5 19.7 9.7 37.5 2-5 9/4 44.3 26:53
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PASSING Player Speight O’Korn Morris TOTALS
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
No. Yds Avg 25 400 16.0 23 270 11.7 15 231 15.4 6 114 19.0 8 66 8.3 5 33 6.6 4 28 7.0 1 22 22.0 10 21 2.1 1 21 21.0 3 20 6.7 1 18 18.0 1 15 15.0 1 12 12.0 2 10 5.0 2 6 3.0 1 3 3.0 109 1290 11.8
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
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Redshirt sophomore Jabrill Peppers (#5) has seen his name thrown into discussion for this year’s Heisman Trophy.
on every play or every minute of a meeting like it’s the most important thing. That’s what makes him who he is.” Partridge said he has never seen a limit to Peppers’ capacity, but Michigan keeps testing him. In the last game, Peppers played his most offense of the season. On one play, he even planned to throw the ball, an indication that more tricks may be yet to come. Peppers still tries to augment his skill set, too. Tuesday in practice, Partridge said Peppers was sitting out for a play and watched former high school
“You’re watching, so I must be doing something right.”
teammate and defensive end Rashan Gary make a move on the pass rush to get to the quarterback. Peppers went up to Gary after the play and asked if he could show him the move later. “If he makes a mistake, for example, it’s unbelievable,” Partridge said. “Because if he makes a mistake, it’s only going to happen once, probably in his whole life. He fixes it. “He also tries to make sure his teammates don’t make that same mistake. That’s the type of player he is. So we’ve used him on offense as a decoy, and he might be dead tired because he just ran an 18-play drive (on defense), and then he goes in and he has to run a fake jet sweep or something. He’s not getting the ball. He’s running it 100 miles per hour. Your team sees that.”
Peppers himself tries to stay humble — he said Tuesday he would give himself a C-minus for his performance in the first half of the season. But as the season goes on, Peppers’ numbers continue and the Heisman talks intensify, the connections between him and Woodson will only intensify, and Peppers doesn’t deny his own ability. At one point Tuesday, he even indulged the temptation to compare. “What I might agree with or where I might say I edge him is athleticism,” Peppers said. “He’s a little taller, rangier guy than I am. But I feel like if we was to race, if I was born back in the day, I probably feel like I would beat him in a race.” Maybe some comparisons are inevitable.
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Michigan assistants thrive in compeition KELLY HALL
Daily Sports Editor
Linebackers coach Chris Partridge and tight ends coach Jay Harbaugh learn from each other as much as possible. Both are relative newcomers to coaching NCAA football, and they both help coach special teams, so that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. What may be even less surprising is that this culture of learning spawns from a competition-rules-all culture in Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s staff. When Jay coaches the field goal unit, Partridge does everything in his power to make sure his own unit blocks the kick. Then, after the competition, the two will study what they can do better. According to Partridge, competition is an important aspect in everything the assistant coaches do, from having the strongest work ethic to recruiting the best young talent. That’s just part of working on a staff led by Harbaugh, who only wants highly competitive coaches. “Jim is not demanding in terms of setting the hours,” Partridge said Wednesday. “He’s demanding (that) the people he hires love what they do, and they work hard at it. So there is no ‘Oh, I’m going to sleep in today.’ It’s ‘I’m going to pop up, I’m going to get in that office, I’m going to work late, I’m going to make sure these kids are prepared for the game or prepared for life.’ Whether it’s doing class checks or calling recruits or whatever it may be, it’s an atmosphere of just loving to work.” Partridge first joined the Michigan football team as a director of player personnel in recruiting in January 2015, and a year later, was named the linebackers coach. He jumped
onto to the NCAA scene after coaching at Paramus Catholic (N.J.) High School (the alma mater of freshman defensive end Rashan Gary and redshirt sophomore linebacker Jabrill Peppers). There’s a great deal of adjustment that comes with that transition, and it appears Partridge couldn’t have landed in a better environment. “I feel like I’m becoming a better coach,” Partridge said. “You go into the bye week and you reflect on all of the players and individuals and your schemes and everything, but also, I was able to reflect on where I’ve come from. I just feel like on a constant basis, I’m becoming better. And coaches are allowed to improve, too.” A position on Harbaugh’s coaching staff entails a lot of hours. Partridge says, “We’re here early, we’re out late,” but that’s not because of a set schedule that requires the coaches to spend every waking hour at Schembechler Hall. Rather, it stems from a desire to continually develop. “When you have a guy that’s leading you put in as much work as he does and continue to push, you’re not going to slack off,” Partridge said. “Is it demanding? Yes. Does it feel demanding? No. Do you get tired? No, I don’t, personally. I don’t think we do because we just love what we do.” Partridge’s job description requires him to improve his linebackers unit, but he also maintains how critical it is to develop the players on his team, whether that’s preparing them for the NFL or life after football. “If you want to become a better football coach, find your way on Jim Harbaugh’s staff. That’s really what the culture sets. It’s the same thing with a player. If you want to become a better young man, play for Jim Harbaugh.”
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
PUNT RETURNS Player Peppers Jocz Evans Perry TOTALS
No. 14 1 1 0 16
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
No. 3 1 1 1 6
Yds Avg. Long 60 20.0 51 27 27.0 27 22 22.0 22 0 0.0 0 109 18.2 51
TD 1 1 0 0 2
Yds 9 9
Avg. Long 9.0 9 9.0 9
TD 0 0
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
TD 0 0 0 0 0 0
FUMBLE RETURNS Player Hill, L. TOTALS
No. 1 1
KICKOFF RETURNS Player Peppers Henderson Lewis Hudson Hill, K. TOTALS
No. 3 2 2 1 2 10
KICKOFFS Player Allen Foug Tice TOTALS
No. 41 7 3 51
Yds 2625 403 189 3217
Avg. 64.0 57.6 63.0 63.1
TB 22 2 0 24
No. 22 22
Yds 951 951
Avg. 43.2 43.2
Lg 56 56
PUNTING Player Allen TOTALS FIELD GOALS Player Allen Tice
FG Pct. 1-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50+ Lg 4-8 50.0% 0-0 1-1 3-5 0-2 0-0 39 0-1 0.0% 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0
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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FEAR From Page 1A Ten prominent rectangular windows, often coupled in twos or threes; a single, decorative glass eye in the center; two protruding columns announcing the porch; yes, yes indeed, this is, objectively speaking, relatively horrifying. I will give Wes Craven that. Choosing this house, as opposed to the swaths of other stately suburban homes all lined along Lincoln Avenue, was by and large the right choice. (Whether other such artistic choices in “Scream 4” were equally as potent is up for debate, and by debate I mean general critical consensus would have us to believe that the lion’s share of other choices he made were, on the whole, a failure). Given the calendar date, the increasingly glum faces of people on the street, and the faint Wilhelm scream my bank account makes at the sight of Espresso Royale, it’s safe to assume that Fall is here, and so, therefore, is Halloween. A controversial holiday, perhaps — less so for the satanic undertones and more so for the inevitable rifts among parents and children which will arise when, you know what I heard, Tommy and Cathy next door are trickor-treating for UNICEF, now isn’t that great? What wonderful children they are, truly. How giving, how selfless. Now kids, wouldn’t you want to be that selfless? No, mom, I don’t, I just want my damn Now-and-Laters. The predictable destruction of the nuclear family aside, Halloween is a great holiday. It’s the only one which seems to recognize that even when we say we don’t, everyone loves to be afraid. It’s primal, and now that we’ve decided as a society that living fully clothed and having our food served to us on an Ikea plate is preferable to hunting down wildebeests, we need some of that primal feeling in our meek, weak lives. So in celebration of the holiday, I decided that I needed to experience some of my own primal fear. Not just some contrived sound effects and fake screams — some real, instinctual, out-in-the-actual-world fear. For those who don’t know, or really even care, parts of “Scream 4” were filmed in our very own Ann Arbor. Figuring that a horror director would know where to find some fear, I paid a visit to that filming location along Lincoln Avenue (I won’t divulge the exact address out of concern that some creep would walk all the way out there for the sole purpose of staring at the setting of a fictional horror movie, which is just a house that real people live in, so stop staring at their home, creeps). But realizing that staring at an unknowing family’s home for an inordinate amount of time would probably lead to some uncomfortable interaction with the Ann Arbor Police Department, I quickly realized I needed a new plan. How else could I experience
that real, primal fear? According to World Star Hip Hop, my most trusted news source ever since the New York Times started to cause me visceral, physical reactions, Killer Clowns are having a bit of a field day. They’ve been sighted by schools, outside homes and in those creepy woods your mom told you not to go to, so I set out to see if I could coax one of these fiends to come give me a good old fight-or-flight response to really get the heart pumping. Always concerned with aesthetics, I needed everything to be perfect for this hypothetical Killer Clown interaction. I imagine Elliot Smith is playing in the headphones of someone who gets jumped by a murderous, Halloween-inspired madman — he’s sparse enough so that the details of such an event can be heard as clearly as they need to be (not too clearly, but at least with some sense of clarity) and melancholy enough that the aesthetic of the event wouldn’t be too generally disturbed by the music playing in the victim’s headphones. Elliot Smith it was. Everything else seemed to check out: alone, occasionally sad-looking Jewish kid whose hair looked really good this evening just in case he was in for an attack. I reach the nearest park — the first place where I assumed I could find some Killer Clowns. Looking around, I don’t, unfortunately, immediately see any, so I do some walking, hunting for a good killing. Alas, they don’t seem to be here on this particular Tuesday night, so I move on, though I did find a bunch of hooligan high schoolers all hanging around a playground, which was, obviously, just as horrifying. I decide I need to put myself into the oversized red Converse shoes of a Killer Clown — really try understand their psyche. If I was a Killer Clown, what would I like? Homicide, clearly, but also, perhaps, a bit of fun. Where could I find such a thing in this godforsaken town? I’d once heard that Pinball Pete’s was a provider for the swaths of angsty high schoolers and the even larger swaths of angsty Metal Frat members, so I decided to change my course and give it a try. “You’re a winner! You’re a winner! You’re a winner!” Jesus Christ, this is horrifying — perfect. I’m attacked by stimuli on every end, and in every sense. There’s a chorus of jingles, coins, and an awkward teen couple trying to figure out intimacy in a corner. But I hone in my focus: I must find a clown. No, not ill-prepared GSIs, or everyone who has ever lived in or interacted with East Quad — a Killer Clown. Focus, focus. Besides the increasingly uncomfortable teen couple, I don’t find anyone who fits the bill. I consider asking the bored looking, scraggly-bearded man behind the prize counter for some tips, but I haven’t interacted with another human in at least an hour, and I couldn’t ruin that now. I move on. I become all too aware as I walk down the street that
everyone seems to be staring at me. Or is it that I’m just staring at them, actually being aware of my surroundings? It’s hard to tell. Either way, people are looking at me, and it’s definitely fulfilling the goal of the escapade, which was to become so frightened that I’m rendered immobile. But that causes more staring, so I figure I ought to just keep going. Completely consumed by this discovery — but it’s OK, because my hair looked good anyways — I realize that I somehow have ended up in the Diag. Who knew? I seem to be running into every kind of clown but the one I’m after (killer), but since I’m here, I figure I might as well give it the college try and do some perusing. Again, I don’t see a six-foot tall sharptoothed knife-wielding clown like I was hoping. I begin to wonder whether this whole clown business isn’t going to materialize; if, just this once, the internet lied to me. But all isn’t lost in the realm of crippling fear. I’m beginning to see the happenings around me with a newfound sheer terror. A girl walks by, turns angrily to her friend and complains, “literally his only hobby is smoking weed with his idiot friends.” Which is more terrifying: that this girl just doesn’t seem to understand the sacredness of male bonding, or that male bonding does seem to generally and innately have staunch undertones of laziness to it? Existentially, I’m in crisis mode. My hands are shaking. I can’t keep stopping in the middle of the street, dammit. When I finally gather myself, I start to pass the all-female dormitories by the Union. What goes on in there I don’t know, but whatever it is I’m sure it would make me shudder. Group chants? The burning of phallic symbols? Satanic rituals? Hell, I’m already shuddering (and enjoying it of course). And there’s a couple holding hands — I’m not sure I’m going to keep it together. I’m wonderfully distraught, horrified. Don’t they know that love was invented by Hallmark? Why didn’t she have the sense to make him change out of that ill-fitting letter jacket? Doesn’t he understand that when they’re not together she sits around a table at Aventura while all her friends try to convince her that he’s no good? That literally his only hobby is smoking weed with his idiot friends? That she can’t keep pretending to be a Raiders fan just to make him happy? Don’t they get it? I’ve practically completed my walk by this time. I almost get run over by a Jeep Grand Cherokee, which amounts to be the least interesting part of the evening. No Killer Clowns were found, but I did manage to scare the shit out of myself more than a few times, so I’d rank it to be one of my more successful Tuesday nights. It turns out that you don’t need a contrived new clickbait phenomenon to celebrate Halloween the right way — just some time with your own thoughts.
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What Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ taught me about my mother’s inner life ‘Hey You’ helped navigate the labyrinth of familial love SHIMA SADAGHIYANI Daily Arts Writer
In my room, there is a colossal poster that encompasses the entirety of one wall. Printed over a brick wall background, it consists of every single song (and the corresponding lyrics) from Pink Floyd’s The Wall album. The poster came with a corresponding record, which was given to me for my 18th birthday by my mother. She winked handing me the record and the poster over my celebratory dinner, and while the rest of my family members did not understand why I clutched both items so reverently, I knew my mother and I were both thinking back to the same memory: The year is 2006, and my mom had just picked me up from the bane of my 4th grade existence (violin lessons). We are driving home. It is a gorgeous fall day, and sunlight is filtering through the windows, striking the air around me to gold. At a red light, my mom abruptly changes the “Top 40 Hits” (much to my pre-teen dismay) that had been playing on the radio to a song I had never heard before: “Hey You” by Pink Floyd. The song was dark with a cutting guitar baseline layered with disturbing lyrics, and I was confused as to why my gentile mom seemed to genuinely enjoy a song that contained the line “and the worms ate into his brain.” I pulled my legs into the cradle of my chest and rested my head on my knees as I looked over at my mom in the drivers seat. The dreariness of the song was completely at odds with the brightness in the car and the brightness in my mom’s eyes. A soft, contemplative smile played at the corner of her mouth while she off-handedly tapped her fingers on the steering wheel in time to the beat of the song. I had never seen this side of my mother before, which I guess is what prompted me to quickly reach over and grab her free hand resting on the arm-
to be brought to the forefront. She was always ready to bring in other family members, always ready to put other people before herself. That one afternoon in fourth grade was one of the first times I had seen her indisputably put her interests and history in the spotlight, separate from anybody else. I listened to “Hey You” again as a junior in high school, curious to see if the years that had passed would help me solve the riddle that was my mother. While she still remained largely unsolved, I did notice that my interpretation of the lyrics had shifted. When I was younger, I remained fixated on the descriptions of grotesque death, taking everything quite literally and morbidly. However, as time passed, I found myself looking past the surface level bleakness to the song’s underlining theme of perseverance and yearning for closeness that shone out like light escaping from cracks in a wall; a contradiction in all aspects, this song seems to gain strength from its own vulnerability. I like to think my mother does the same. I recently called my mother, desperately looking, like most college kids, for yet another piece of advice on apartment living. Toward the end of our conversation she did not hesitate to inform me that Roger Waters, an old member of Pink Floyd, is stopping in Michigan for his 2017 tour. My mother still hasn’t told me exactly why she has such a connection to Pink Floyd, or even why to “Hey You” in particular, but I’ve found that my need-to-know desire and wild daydreams have significantly diminished since the early days of fourth grade. I do not need the entirety of my mother’s memoir laid out before me in order to understand her. All I need is the excitement in her voice making the phone line between us dance and leap as she tells me about tickets on sale. All I need is the fact that when I smile, despite the miles between us, I know she’s smiling too.
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“Alaska” Maggie Rogers
For a moment, Maggie Rogers seems to be singing just for herself. Meandering through a field of knee-high foliage, the singer is free of inhibition and preying eyes. She soon finds herself amidst a sparse clearing, sprinkled with slender trees and blanketed in freshly-cut grass. It’s there that her movements begin to mimic the music — they are jumpy, slippery and elegantly jagged. Rogers flicks and twirls her wrists, at the end of which are delicately-pinched fingers. She is now walking and moving with purpose, juxtaposing the airy nature of her voice. But Roger’s isn’t left alone for long. Following her
rest between us. She glanced over and beamed at me, and I remember in that moment I was struck by how perfectly connected we seemed to be; I didn’t know why this song was so important to her, or even what the lyrics meant, but I did know how, paradoxically, everything seemed to fit so faultlessly together in that sunlight-drowned car, on that random fall afternoon. That afternoon in the car helped me realize how little I actually knew about the woman my mother had been before she filled the placeholder of “mom” in my life— which subsequently prompted the choice to religiously listen to only “Hey You” for the next two months as a way to both try and understand the meaning of the song and also to try and understand my mother. That obsessive phase ended when the image of worms invading a man’s head outside a desolate brick wall started to make an appearance in my nightmares. I deemed my hellbent mission unsuccessful, and the inner workings of my mother still remained shrouded in obscurity. But I never really let go of Pink Floyd completely. My mother remained an enigma to me. Growing up, she seemed constantly composed, untouched by her elusive past half a world away. I didn’t know many of her past experiences, and while she was never cold or aloof because of her poise, I still hungered relentlessly for more information; Sunday afternoons were filled with furtive glances into the pages of old black and white photo albums or sneaky escapades into the depths of my mother’s closet, fingers gliding over old fur coats and polka dotted skirts, always wondering what stories of my mother these objects held. Because while my mother is the warmest and most welcoming person I know, she is also selfless to a fault; selfless to the point of never talking about her past experiences because she never deemed them important enough
“24K Magic” Bruno Mars
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motions, three female backup dancers slide into view and join her in her jaunting strut. From there, the bodies and energy start to multiply. By the second chorus, the clearing has transformed into a multi-colored party scene, filled with smoke, smooching lovers and smiling friends. This Technicolor scene continues for the rest
of the video, giving audiences glimpses into the seemingly glamorous, young lives of those dancing along to Roger’s melodic, sweet voice. The video ends just as it began — with Rogers sauntering alone through brushes and brambles — linking her and her music to all things free. - CARLY SNIDER
Bruno Mars has sold 12 million albums worldwide since 2010, won four Grammy Awards and headlined the Super Bowl. His clean-cut persona and starry-eyed singa-longs won him hearts far and wide, old and young. Why would he switch up his style? Perhaps he was inspired by the immense success of last year’s collaboration with Mark Ronson — “Uptown Funk” — because on his new single, “24K Magic,” he’s seeking old-school coolness. The song shares its title with the Bruno Mars’ upcoming album and is an
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electric arrival at a groovy scene. Vibrant synths and thick bass strums strike like lightning as Mars struts across their boogie line with Prince-level swagger, boasting upon his arrival: “Pop pop, It’s show time!” The second verse is dedicated to “gangsters, hustlers, bad bitches and [their] ugly ass friends” in an ironically explicit turn
for the usually-proper pop star, but his energy makes the lyrics’ intention clear: this is a booty-shaking anthem time warped from the 1980s. Bruno Mars is just playing the part, cuban links, designer minks and braggadocio included. The world should forever be grateful that he has decided to do so. - SALVATORE DIGIOIA
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Thursday, October 20, 2016 — 3B
baked.buzzed.bored.
FILM REVIEW
in this series, three daily arts writers in varying states of mind do the same activity and write about their experiences. this week’s event:
A trip to the cider mill
DISNEY
Boop.
‘Queen of Katwe’ makes chess a compelling watch Disney film a fresh, culturally rich take on the feel-good sports movie protagonist, the gifted Phiona (newcomer Madina Nalwanga), Daily Arts Writer must feel as she approaches each match. I’ve soured on the sports Second, the film is set in the drama. Tired and clichéd, few titular Katwe, one of the outer of these films stray from the slums of Kampala, Uganda. prototypical narFar from the rative: an undertypical American privileged yet landscapes of gifted athlete other feel-good “Queen of Katwe” crosses paths Disney films, with an excellent Katwe is harsh Walt Disney coach, who sacribut culturally Pictures fices work, family rich. Ugandan and the like for pop music plays Rave & Quality 16 the pursuit of sucthroughout the cess. The athlete film and each shot struggles at first, is full of vibrant but begins to ascend at a rapid color. Nair, a Kampala resident, pace, gaining confidence — to a is uniquely able to bring the fault, perhaps — until they lose city’s communities to life. It’s a a crucial match. Then, through sort of reclamation of the Africa a humbling and rededication to that has been defined by Western intense training, the prover- description: a land of destitution bial trials and tribulation, the and disease. There’s plenty of young prodigy outperforms the that in Nair’s Uganda (the film old master and emerges victori- takes place in a slum after all) ous in a final competition. Cue but it’s not her focus. Rather, credits. Oh, and for an extra Nair turns to the socioeconomic little kick, add in a white savior dynamics in Kampala: the city narrative. Maybe you’ll end up skyline looms in the distance with an Oscar for Best Original and casts a shadow over the Screenplay. slum. The young Katwe chess “Queen of Katwe,” the latest players, led by their coach, film from trailblazing director Robert Katende (David Oyelowo, Mira Nair (“Monsoon Wed- “Selma”), are awestruck when ding”), strictly conforms to this they first encounter the wealthy narrative structure, but it man- secondary schools of the city. ages to add a bit of spin on the genre. First, the film is about chess, and despite the stationary nature of the game, “Katwe” moves rather quickly thanks to kinetic cinematography by the wonderful Sean Bobbitt (“12 Years a Slave”) and quick editing by Barry Alexander Brown (“Do the Right Thing”). It’s incredibly lean. No second is wasted, and every scene offers critical information. “Katwe” also offers an unusual At times, the film’s score, depth of character, though it is composed by Alex Heffes limited by the common tropes of (“The Last King of Scotland”) the genre. Oyelowo gives as rich bristles with vivacity. That, a performance as ever. Lupita combined with occasional slow Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave”), motion flourishes, grants us the who plays Phiona’s beleaguered ability to experience what our and overwhelmed mother, DANIEL HENSEL
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There isn’t anything new to discover about the human spirit.
confirms her status as one of our greatest living actors. And the Katwe children, entirely new actors plucked off the dirt streets of Katwe, bring a fresh vivacity unmatched by other films that used similar casting methods, like Laurent Cantet’s “The Class” and Naji Abu Nowar’s “Theeb.” There isn’t anything terribly new to discover about the human spirit here — as always, we have to try hard to succeed and we shouldn’t give up — but the film tells these canonical lessons better than its predecessors. These lessons are as old as time, but Nair’s direction breathes new life into them. Of course, “Katwe” fits cleanly within the Disney “feel-good” family sports drama genre, which is to say it comes with its fair share of flaws. The story’s structure is mostly unoriginal and its plot is predictable, though with a true story such as this one, there isn’t much to do to fix it without betraying the source material. Katende’s speeches and coaching are overwrought with chess-themed maxims that may make you roll your eyes more than a few times. There is also the occasional dramatic saturation: scenes that needlessly add to the weight of the film. A brief scene in which Katende tells a story of his mother comes to mind. Heffes’s score can also verge into John Williams-impression mode, with clear orchestral swells meant to signal a key emotional moment. “Katwe” reminds me of another film, “Wordplay,” a documentary about a crossword puzzle competition. Both prove that the specific is universal. Both depict a niche activity, one that is hard to depict as entertaining. Yet both succeed in showcasing talent and ambition in all aspects of life. We need more adventurous films like these.
You know the only better way to smoke other than hot-boxing your car? Hot-boxing someone else’s car while they drive you. (bonus points if it is to the cider mill). Idk what I’m more excited about, doughnuts (donuts????) or nature! Nature is just like meh sober but high its like ahhhhhh I am one with the earth. It’s stereotypical but u feel that shit when you’re high. Maybe I would like yard work more if I hot-boxed the garden shed before hand? *mental note to ask mom about this possibility* we can bond. DOG. not a drill. Its ears so so soft. This is the best day of the semester. (god backwards = dog fyi.) I’m V sad that we aren’t picking apples off trees instead they are in bins. This is bullshit. OK Caroline is taking way too long in this apple section I’m heading to the real attraction donuts. -Daily Arts Writer
Don’t really remember the car ride here, its fine. BUT I DO remember going to the cider mill when I was a hot shit middle schooler and thinking it was cool AF to go somewhere so autumnal with all my besties. We looked so #fresh in our UGG boots. Nothing much has changed tbh. Idk how people like walk around these places looking at the produce and various products, they are deluding themselves — IT IS ALL ABOUT THE CIDER AND/OR DOUGHNUTS (donuts?) So obviously my fellow arts babies and I charge the cider line … I hope no one can see this flask in my pants…I’m just trying to make my cider a little more “fun” if you know what I mean. (I’m trying to be more drunk, in case you didn’t get it.) I even brought some festive fireball a la Pitbull’s suggestion to put some kick in mah drank. Also: dogs. Dogs everywhere. You know what makes anything better? Dogs. You know what makes dogs even better? Being drunk. Ily cider, ily dogs, ily daily. -Daily Arts Writer
Suddenly I’ve aged 20 years and I’m now a soccer mom to two delinquents (Buzzed and Baked). But alas, the destination isn’t the field on which my future spawn will make a name for themselves, but rather the local cider mill that’s not quite that local when iPhone maps leads you astray (high key that even sounds like a WASPY mom 20 years my senior). I was hoping for an autumnal-themed day of fun, friends and refined carbs, and I guess that’s what I got, but alas, let me break it down. After a rousing drive with my two compadres, we exited my now reeking vehicle thanks to Mr. Baked. Buzzed needed some assistance descending from the height of my SUV, and as soon as she did she spotted a spotted dog (haha!). I’m unsure if Buzzed will remember that nearly her entire autumnal excursion was spent petting #SpottedDog and reminding Baked and I that ‘dog’ spelled backwards is ‘god’ so for all we know #SpottedDog is our creator. I then took a literal two minutes to peruse the apple selection and various #ArtisanalJams which I now know Buzzed found to be me ‘deluding myself’, and during this literal two minutes we lost Baked. Baked was later found face deep in a bag of donuts. Buzzed was #TooTurnt to join me in the donut line, so I never got my donuts. I didn’t even get cider. All I got was a glimpse of a soccer mom life I don’t want. What a time to be alive! - Caroline Filips, Senior Arts Editor
STORE PROFILE
Kerrytown’s Vintage to Vogue offers boho style V2V is the kind of store you want your closet to look like MADELEINE GAUDIN Daily Arts Writer
Walking into V2V’s Kerrytown location is like walking into a Bohemian dream. It’s the kind of store that you want your closet to look like, no matter what you normally wear. It’s cozy and impossibly cool, with exposed
wood shelves boasting stacks of lacey bralettes and crisp denim jackets. The boutique is a staple of Ann Arbor shopping. “It’s funny, a lot of people don’t even know, but V2V has been in Kerrytown for over 30 years … It’s got a little bit of a historic mark,” said V2V’s Kerrytown location manager Julia Goulet. Goulet grew up in Ann Arbor
and returned to the city after graduating from Michigan State University in 2014. She took over the position as the manager of the Kerrytown boutique just over a year ago, though she was familiar with it long before then, and has been infusing the store with a young, vibrant energy ever since. “I’ve shopped with V2V since I was too young and too broke
to,” Goulet said. “I shouldn’t have been shopping there.” Goulet described her personal style as “boho with an edge. A little bit, like a very slight edge, like a dull butter knife.” “I believe most often simplicity is key,” she said. Throughout the store, simple and classic sweaters are paired with tassel necklaces, and bright floral dresses hang alongside structured fall coats. The boutique makes Goulet’s personal style accessible to a wide audience with brands like Free People, Ella Moss and Velvet. “You want pieces that are going to be a part of your capsule wardrobe and you can wear them multiple different ways as opposed to out one
night,” Goulet said. Aside from the standout classics, every season there are certain pieces that catch Goulet’s eye. “One was actually in The Daily, in the photo shoot,” Goulet said. “The army green jacket with the beading on the arm — that was one that I was initially drawn to. It’s kind of nice to have something a little jazzed up.” Other breakout styles have been leather skirts, floral dresses and even denim minis. “If you asked me even a year and a half ago, the one trend I promised I would never buy into — and I totally did — was the mini jean skirt,” Goulet said. “Because it reminded me of when I was in seventh grade
and had them from Hollister.” Historically, the store has attracted an older clientele than other boutiques in Ann Arbor. Goulet said she has been “trying to appeal to a younger base … just trying to get ourselves known to the collegeage group.” In recent months, there has been a shift in the demographic of customers at V2V as more University of Michigan students seek out the boutique for higher-end pieces and brands. Part of the attraction is the vibrancy and quirkiness of Kerrytown and the careful eye with which Goulet curates the store. “We’ve got character, and that’s what I love about the store,” she said.
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4B — Thursday, October 20, 2016
FOOD COLUMN
Better places for your veggies
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Help your produce stand the test of time with innovative ideas SHIR AVINADAV
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hen I was younger, I detested vegetables. My mom, always the overbearingly health-conscious cook (though I love her for it), incorporated a serving into every meal. I would hungrily await dinner, then remember that eating dinner also meant having to eat vegetables, and apprehension replaced my hunger. Broccoli with the night’s dinner? Couldn’t stand to look at it. A salad for lunch? I would rather lose TV privileges. Now, I can’t get enough of them. Literally. I can’t get enough vegetables. As a busy college student that makes it to the grocery store twice a month, it often gets difficult to stretch my produce supplies through the month. Most produce goes bad within the week — so buying them in large quantities isn’t always the best option. But, there’s a great big world of produce out there that holds various opportunities to incorporate more veggies into our sparse college diets. When stored and used properly, these veggies stand the test of time and bolster simple, nutritious meals. Ever since moving out of the comfort and security of college dorm life, which inherently included a coveted meal plan, and into the scary threshold of off-campus home cooking, I’ve developed a means of optimally preserving and using up all of my favorite vegetables. I haven’t thrown out moldy tomatoes or found myself vegetable-less in over a year –– yes, that’s right. I didn’t have to buy less produce to do so. I simply developed a few habits and tricks that helped make the most out of all the glorious, nutrient-packed produce our (sometimes) friendly, local grocery stores have to offer. If you’re trying to pack your diet with more veggies and diminish the hassle of cooking week night meals or just trying to get your mom to stop nagging you about eating your vegetables, then read on. There’s a plethora of places where your vegetables can go rather than in the trash. Here are a few, just to name them: The oven If you have a lot of veggies (and not a lot of time), you can use my favorite method of cooking them, which is to roast ‘em. Just crank your oven to a toasty 400º. While it’s preheating, slice up your veggies (they don’t have to be perfectly sliced, just give them a few rough slices). I like to do this best with vegetables like
bell peppers, onions, eggplant, zucchini, carrots, portobello mushrooms and sweet potatoes. Just toss them in some olive oil and salt and let them roast for about 25-30 minutes (the sweet potatoes and eggplant may take a little longer). Your veggies will get a nice burnt crisp on the edges, which brings out a ton of flavor. This method is great if you’re short on time. You can eat them plain, straight out of the oven (which I often do, with some nice crusty bread and olive oil to dip in on the side). You can also toss them with some quinoa and fresh herbs for a salad or pile them up on bread with mozzarella for an easy sandwich. The options with these are pretty much endless and definitely delicious. Note: if you’re roasting eggplant and zucchini, make sure to sprinkle them with salt
Now, I can’t get enough of them. Literally. I can’t get enough veggies. after you slice them, let them sit for 10 minutes, then pat dry with paper towels to get out any excess moisture before roasting. The freezer This is probably the quickest and easiest way to preserve your vegetables when overcome with uncertainty as to how you’ll utilize them and subsequent anxiety about having to toss them out. I know, I know –– you can buy already frozen veggies at the grocery store, but I personally believe that buying them fresh and freezing them tastes better and is better for you. And you can freeze them in individual portions for quick use. I like to use this method with broccoli, cauliflower, greens and herbs. This way, I never run out of my beloved spinach or kale (which I sautée for almost every meal). For cauliflower and broccoli, it’s best to blanch them first (a.k.a. quickly boil them). Simply boil a pot of water, throw them in for 2-3 minutes, then quickly remove them by dumping them into a strainer or colander and rinsing under ice cold water for a minute or so. Just note, any vegetables you plan on freezing will be best if used for cooking rather than eating raw (i.e. Do not try to make a salad with thawed spinach). In a scramble, omlette or frittata This one is pretty much a free
for all. Eggs are an essential component of any college student’s diet and don’t believe anyone who tells you otherwise. You can put anything in a scramble and it’ll probably taste great. A few of my favorite veggies to throw in are mushrooms, kale, spinach, sweet potatoes, asparagus, tomatoes and redskin potatoes. If you’re making an egg dish, it’s best to cook the vegetables first (either in the pan or the oven). For the potatoes, you can cheat and microwave them on high, wrapped in a wet paper towel, for 5-7 minutes. Let them cool a little, then dice them up and fry them in the pan with some oil or butter for a few minutes before adding the rest of your veggies and eggs. My favorite frittata recipe uses sweet potatoes (roasted in the oven, or boiled if you’re in a hurry), sautéed kale or spinach, caramelized onions and goat cheese. I whisk 4-5 eggs with salt and pepper to taste and about a ¼ cup of milk or cream. Once my sliced onions are nice and browned (about 10 minutes) and the greens have wilted in the pan, I add in the sweet potatoes, eggs and cheese and stick it in an 425º oven for 20-25 minutes. In a soup There’s nothing like hearty soup to get you through those cold winter months in Ann Arbor. I lived off of mostly soup for the entirety of junior year because it’s so easy to make and store. Like in the latter method, you can do this with most vegetables — especially beans, tomatoes, zucchini, squash, potatoes, greens, etc. My favorite recipe: Winter Tuscan kale and bean soup. This soup is great because it uses mostly pantry items that are cheap and easy to have on hand. Dice an onion, celery and some garlic and sautée in a large pot for a few minutes. Then add some chopped kale (stems removed), two 15 oz cans of cannellini beans, two 15 oz cans (or one large 28 oz. can) of diced tomatoes with the juice (alternatively, you can dice up fresh vine or heirloom tomatoes if you have them on hand), a 32 oz box of chicken or vegetable stock and 1-2 additional cups of water. Bring it to a boil with salt and pepper to taste (or whatever other herbs you have on hand, such as dried parsley and oregano) and let simmer for 20-30 minutes (or until all the vegetables are tender). This soup is great as a meal with macaroni noodles and parmesan cheese sprinkled on top. To freeze, simply store the soup in a large Tupperware container and let thaw overnight before reheating. Or, you can let the soup cool and ladle into Ziploc bags for individual servings (just make sure to lay them flat in the freezer). Buddha bowls You may be wondering, “What the heck is a Buddha bowl?” or, “But I don’t even go to yoga!” Fear not, you don’t have to contort your body to eat these delicious and filling bowls. Buddha bowls are simply what bowls filled with grains, veggies and other healthy toppings are referred to. They are a great way to use up veggies and pantry items. I typically make mine with quinoa ( just cook according to the package instructions –– and you can substitute chicken broth for water if you have it). Then I roast some chickpeas (drain and pat dry a can of chickpeas, drizzle with olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder and paprika and bake at 400º for 30 minutes), sweet potatoes (same thing, except I only use salt and pepper to season), kale (toss in olive oil and lemon juice or sautée in a skillet for a few minutes until wilted), and whatever other veggies I have on hand (like carrots, avocado, or shredded cabbage). If you have a tub of hummus laying
EL CLUB
This looks like the opening shot of Boogie Nights.
The unspoken rules to follow when attending a small and local venue Rule one: don’t take attention away from the performance SEAN LANG
Daily Arts Writer
The greater Detroit area is peppered with charming, relatively small venues that host a plethora of local and upcoming acts week after week. If you are relatively familiar with the indie music scene, you might recognize names like the Majestic Café, Marble Bar and UFO Factory (among others). Most recently, El Club has been added to the growing roster of hip concert spots, hosting shows by Car Seat Headrest, Porches and Titus Andronicus in its first six months of operation. Despite the undeniable coolness of the venue and of the many acts who have already graced its stage, there has been one markedly uncool aspect of every show I have attended at El Club: people just don’t seem to understand the certain unspoken rules to follow when attending a show at a small venue. At first glance, my complaint — we’ll call it a grievance — might sound like indie snobbery, but hear me out. Understand first that I do not seek to blame El Club for its misbehaved clientele; there’s nothing the venue can do about it. Eventually the hype will die down, and El Club will no longer be the extra-hip new spot. But until then, as is common for newly opened bars that double as concert venues, locals will attend for “alcohol and live music!” rather than for, say, Joyce Manor or Twin Peaks specifically. This results in a crowd that is an interesting mix of young professionals — for whom the show is a spectacle — and fans of the specific artists, for whom the show is the only reason to attend.
around, you can also scoop a healthy spoonful into your bowl and you’ve got a meal. For inspiration, you can check out this one on @eggs_n_baecon (I apologize for the shameless plug for my food Instagram). If you can’t make it to a grocery store but are desperate to replenish your vegetable supply, here are some other great options:
Just crank your oven to a toasty 400 degrees Fahrenheit Fruit fairies For just $17, you can place a onetime order for a basket of handpicked (by “fairies?”) vegetables that is delivered to your doorstep for free. A weekly subscription only costs $15, or alternatively, you can create your own custom bas-
At a large venue, it may be acceptable to shout and scream “we love you!” between (and during) every song, primarily because the performer probably can’t hear you, and the rest of the audience is being loud enough that you’re not distracting anyone. In a smaller venue, this changes considerably; anything said between songs at a volume normally reasonable for conversation can and will likely be heard by everyone in the venue, including the performer.
At a large venue, it may be acceptable to shout and scream. So when one individual decides to be particularly loud, that person, whether they realize it or not — and often they don’t — is drawing attention away from the performance and directly to themselves. In the extreme, these individuals essentially become hecklers, and more than once I have seen performers at these small venues stop their shows to directly ask the person to stop or leave. Therefore, I implore you: do not be the kind of individual who is so loud that you draw attention away from the actual show. By all means, cheer at the end of every song! Lose your voice in doing so! But don’t repeatedly shout the name of the song you most desire to hear them play, even if you just “need” to hear them play it. And no matter how “clever” or downright “hilarious” your
ket from their selection of produce (individually priced). You can find more information on their website here. Replenish Some of the produce at replenish is actually, shockingly, decently priced. Though I usually resort to Replenish as my last option, a container of spinach or an onion will cost you the same (if not a few cents more) than at a grocery store. Maize and Blue Cupboard Pick up a free bag of produce from the Trotter Multicultural Center courtesy of Maize and Blue Cupboard, a nonprofit student organization that fights against food insecurity on campus by providing students with free access to grocery essentials. Food distributions are every month, so check their Facebook page for details on when distributions will be taking place. Anyways, this has been my vegetable-mongering, “Eat more vegetables!” rant — because, though we hate to admit it, our mothers are usually almost always right.
borderline jeering may be, I’d put my life on it that the show as a whole will be at least marginally more enjoyable without your contribution. These notes about etiquette should really go without saying, and they may seem underwhelmingly apparent. They are, but, for whatever reason, there remains a small portion of the population that remains oblivious, or just doesn’t care. Anyone who has been to any general admission concert has likely witnessed — if not dealt directly with — someone pushing straight through rows and rows of strangers to guarantee themselves the best spot possible. In and of itself, this behavior is relatively harmless, but the ideology from which it proceeds is dangerous. Maybe the person believes that they deserve a better spot because they’re a more ardent fan than everyone else in the audience — that’s why they showed up early to get a good spot, right? Or maybe they’ve adopted a contortedly capitalist approach in which he who shoves hardest deserves the best spot — politeness is weakness, and non-confrontational tendencies simply a reflection that you aren’t a serious enough fan. I have only the desire that you realize the following (or, even better, that the following is already painfully obvious): the show is not about you. It’s about the performer, who has spent innumerable hours producing art for not only you, but everyone in the audience. If you truly have respect for the artist and their work, then you will also respect your fellow audience members. Your goal should be to ensure that everyone has the best experience possible, not just you.
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