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Ypsilanti resident Zahra sews for Hope Carried, a local Ann Arbor company that hires refugees.
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Hope Carried aims to economically empower individuals adjusting to U.S. BRIAN KUANG
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For seven years, Ypsilanti resident Yousuf was an interpreter for American troops deployed in Afghanistan. Wearing an American uniform and carrying a rifle, Yousuf was away from his home
in the north Afghan city of Mazari-Sharif for extended periods of time, traveling the country with American combat soldiers to translate and help train local forces and often being subjected to hostile ambushes on the road. “The reason that I really wanted to work for U.S. troops and our government’s army to fight against
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the Taliban was because they were killing our people … they’d go to schools to fire on kids. They killed my cousins,” Yousuf, who asked to be identified by only first name due to safety concerns, said, adding that his long absences were difficult for his wife, Zahra. “If I get the chance, I would go and work for them again.”
After getting wounded in a firefight, and as the Taliban began targeting local interpreters for assassination, Zahra and Yousuf chose to accept an offer from his employer to resettle in the United States as refugees to protect their three sons. “They consider interpreters See REFUGEES, Page 3A
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In November, The Michigan Daily administered a women’s health survey to 1,000 randomly selected respondents at the University of Michigan campus. There were 147 respondents, with 115 self-identifying as female. The following article includes data collected in this survey, particularly with regard to beliefs about sex on campus. From a young age, LSA senior Ariana Headrick considered premarital sex a healthy and important component of a relationship. In contrast, LSA junior Alexis Babbitt, a
Community event on opioid addiction University emphasizes need for local engagement to aid in A2 ANN ARBOR
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University faculty highlight impacts of epidemic on Washtenaw County
Reversal will impact undocumented campus community
Since 2011, cases of opioid overdose deaths have dramatically increased in Washtenaw County, becoming an epidemic. At a community-wide event “In Our Midst: The Opioid Epidemic, and a Community Response” Tuesday night at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, experts discussed the crisis, and potential ways the community can engage to help find solutions. A similar event was held last week at the Ann Arbor District Library The event was hosted by Dawn Farm, a 501c(3) nonprofit organization based in Ypsilanti, with an outpatient center in Ann Arbor, that works to assist addicts and alcoholics achieve long-term recovery from drugs and alcohol. Nationwide, opioid addiction has taken an approximate 150 lives a day, five to 10 people an hour, leading to a total of 48,000 lives lost in 2015, according to Center for Disease Control. In Washtenaw County, there were 49 reported deaths from opioid overdoses in 2015, and in 2016 there have been 45 thus far. Event coordinator Mark Albulov, a residential therapist at Dawn Farm, said in an interview that breaking down stereotypes around recovery and educating on its effects was the main goal of the evening. “We want to disseminate the fact that people can and do recover, that there is an option …
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Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, stricter immigration policies have been at the forefront of President-elect Donald Trump’s platform. His policies have shifted in extremity over the passing months, from a call for a ban on all Muslim immigration to a broader ban to terror-prone nations such as Iraq and Syria. His list of priorities released after his election includes many of his initial proposals, such as deportations of undocumented immigrants, building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and cancelling executive actions signed by President Barack Obama. Trump has deemed these orders, which include ones aimed at protecting undocumented children and adolescents and the families of U.S. citizens, as unconstitutional. The main orders that Trump can immediately override once he steps into office are the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Deferred Action See TRUMP, Page 3A
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volunteer team leader for the Christian ministry organization Young Life, does not believe in premarital sex because of personal and religious reasons, and thinks it can be damaging for relationships. According to a women’s health survey administered by The Michigan Daily to female students in November, both of these views are prevalent on campus, though the latter is much more common. 72 percent of respondents in the survey said they have parents who oppose premarital sex, and 28 percent said they oppose premarital sex. Many respondents identified a variety of factors that influence opinion and belief about See SURVEY, Page 3A
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also to educate people that it is a medical disease,” Albulov said. “It’s not a moral failure, it’s not a criminal behavior, it’s a medical disease that has treatment.” Stephen Strobbe, University of Michigan clinical associate professor, said the national crises of overdose deaths and the patterns of addiction-related incidences in Washtenaw County are strongly correlated. Strobbe is also the co-chair for the Washtenaw Health Initiative Opioid Project,
a volunteer organization that unites law enforcement, public health, treatment facilities and other providers to secure opioid addiction treatment. “This is a community initiative,” Strobbe said. “A handful of experts alone are not going to turn this around, it really does take a concentrated and concerted effort and those communities who have responded cohesively have had the best outcome.” In explaining the magnitude of
the issue, he cited CDC data that shows opioid overdose deaths have quadrupled from 1999 to 2014 in the United States and exceeded the amount of motor vehicle deaths last year. He added that there were enough prescriptions written for every adult in the United States to receive a bottle of opioid pain medications. He told the crowd that the WHI implements the Lazarus Model, an evidence-driven platform See OPIOID, Page 3A
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Clinical Assistant Prof. Gina Dahlem, a nurse practitioner at the University, demonstrates how to administer naloxone, a medicine used for opioid reversal, as a part of the Dawn Farm Education Series at St. Joesph Mercy Hospital in Ypsilanti Tuesday.
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In 2017, lethal and nonlethal methods will be used on campus property RHEA CHEETI
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The University of Michigan announced Tuesday it will participate in the 2017 deer management program, in partnership with the City of Ann Arbor. The Ann Arbor City Council voted to implement a deer cull again this year, following the 2016 program, which resulted in the death of 63 deer in parks and nature areas from January to February. While the specific timing and locations of the deer culls are not yet determined, the University has indicated that Nichols Arboretum, areas between the railroad and Huron River, areas east of Fuller Road and south of Glazier Way, and areas west of Huron Parkway and south of Hubbard will be locations where lethal cull methods, including firearms, may be used. If any University property is used, it will be closed to the public from 4 p.m. until 7 a.m. on weekdays when the cull is taking place. Potential non-lethal deer See DEER, Page 3A
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ON THE DAILY: RESIDENTS OF MARKLEY SEND OSU A MESSAGE After a “Children of Yost” Twitter post on Monday morning suggested the idea, residents on the back side of Mary Markley hall used lights in their dorm rooms to spell out “Fuck OSU” Monday night, ahead of Saturday’s rivalry football game between the Wolverines and Buckeyes. Children of Yost, the informal account associated with Michigan Hockey’s student section, issued the challenge to Markley residents by tweeting out a picture of of Markley in 1977 with the same message spelled out on the back side on the building. “Yo, Markley residents. Find a way to pull this off again,” the tweet read. The group’s call to action was answered that same day, with residents posting on social media about efforts to spell out the message. Engineering senior Teddy Tran tweeted a picture at 5:40
p.m. Monday of a group of students appearing to be organizing the feat for that evening. “Lo an behold,” Tran said in the tweet. “A group of people are organizing this pretty well!” Tran said in a tweet he does not take credit for organizing the message, but did help spread the word about what was happening. “A group of other people put a lot of effort into organizing the whole thing,” the tweet read. “I just helped spread the word! Pretty incredible feat tbh.” Monday night at around 8 p.m. — roughly 13 hours after Children of Yost first issued the challenge on twitter at 6:45 a.m. — pictures began surfacing of the buildings exterior with the message. The Children of Yost Twitter account congratulated the residents shortly after. In 1977, the year when Markley residents were first documented as sending the message ahead of the Ohio State game, legendary
Michigan coach Bo Schembechler led Michigan to defeat Ohio State in Ann Arbor by a score of 14 to 6 to win the Big Ten. The team finished the season with a loss in the Rose Bowl to Washington and a record of 10 wins and 2 losses.
The 10 win and 1 loss football team has similar aspirations this year, hoping to not only beat Ohio State and play in the Big Ten Championship Game on December 3rd, but also potentially earn a trip to the College Football Playoff.
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In a statement Tuesday, the Department of Public Safety and Security wrote that DPSS was not aware until Saturday afternoon of an assault on a University lecturer last week, referred in testimony before Ann Arbor City Council Monday. Khita Whyatt, lecturer of dance in the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance, said in an interview after her testimony on the incident that she did not immediately call the police because she was so shocked, but her department chair contacted the DPSS. Two days after the incident, Whyatt said she was interviewed by two DPSS officers. During her testimony to Council, she called on the University to release a crime report about how she was knocked
down and intimidated by unknown assailants. The event follows similar incidents where crime alerts had not been released. The University has released two crime alerts of hate crimes on campus over the past two weeks. Whyatt wrote in an email sent Tuesday afternoon to recipients including University President Mark Schlissel as well as The Michigan Daily that she waited until Saturday morning to report the assault to police because she was disoriented and did not know where to reach out. “I did wait until Saturday morning to get in touch to report the incident,” Whyatt wrote. “I was in shock and still processing what to do prior to reaching out … it was also obvious that there was no way that these boys were going to be caught. Not being a student, I did not know who to report to. That must seem obvious by the fact that I
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emailed the head of my department, my dean and the president.” In the statement, Diane Brown, spokeswoman for DPSS, said they were not aware of the situation until Saturday afternoon — two days after the alleged assault — but will be conducting a thorough investigation. “When this allegation from Thursday morning came to our attention Saturday afternoon, we had officers follow up with the woman who experienced this,” Brown wrote. “We are very concerned about this incident and will conduct a thorough investigation.” In her Tuesday afternoon email, Whyatt reiterated she felt DPSS should release a crime alert. “Withholding information from the public is the same as lying, in my mind,” Whyatt wrote in the email. “Isolated events are happening all over the place and surely without a pattern. Not informing the campus is WRONG!” Brown said no crime alert was issued due to the timeliness and the lack of a perceived public safety threat after DPSS learned of the incident. “We chose not to issue a timely warning, or crime alert as we call them, Saturday night due to the amount of time that had transpired with no other similar reports,” Brown wrote. “When deciding whether to issue a timely warning, there are a number of factors we consider, including the perceived public safety threat, time of report and possible connected reports.” Brown also encouraged victims of any similar incidents in the future to reach out to report incidents as soon as possible. “We again are disturbed by this report we learned about Saturday afternoon,” Brown said. “We urge everyone to promptly report any incident of possible assault or intimidation to police so we can respond to the scene and search for suspects.”
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TRUMP From Page 1A for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, which allow for undocumented immigrants who entered the United States as children and parents of U.S. citizens to remain in the country and seek lawful employment. In a statement Monday, University President Mark Schlissel stated his support for the continuation of DACA to allow students to finish their studies at the University, saying he had joined dozens of other colleges and universities in co-signing a letter urging the federal government to continue the protections at the faculty Senate Assembly meeting Monday. Silvia Pedraza, professor of sociology and American culture,
REFUGEES From Page 1A as spies; that’s why they kill us,” Yousuf said. In April 2015, the family arrived in Michigan and was resettled in Ypsilanti by Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County. While Yousuf was able to find full-time work at a local cleaning company and attend classes at Washtenaw Community College, a language barrier and the need to care for their children — the oldest is in first grade — made it difficult for Zahra to find her own employment. But while Zahra struggled to find a job, another local community member was unwittingly creating one. One year before the family’s arrival to the United States, Ann Arbor resident Brea Albulov had begun sewing baby slings for her children after finding the commercial options unsatisfying. When acquaintances began asking if they could buy her slings, Albulov realized she could start a business and founded Hope Carried in February 2015. As orders mounted in the fall of 2015, Albulov was not only in need of helping hands, but was also increasingly unsettled by the unfolding Syrian refugee crisis. While listening to an NPR interview of an Afghan humanitarian activist who was struggling to find work after fleeing to the United States as an asylee, Albulov saw an opportunity to empower displaced individuals. “While giving money is always helpful because people need resources, providing a job can change a poverty cycle,” Albulov said. “There’s a whole subcategory of people who want to work but can’t.” After contacting Jewish Family Services and Freedom House of
SURVEY From Page 1A premarital sex, including religion, individual values and culture. The data from the survey indicated that 56 percent of students feel their parents’ religion influences how they view health issues. Respondents represented a wide range of religions, such as Christianity (50.41 percent), Judaism (5.69 percent), Hinduism (3.25 percent) and Islam (0.81 percent). One student, who asked not to be named due to familial concerns, said her parents grew up in south India and have conservative Christian views about relationships and marriage. “My parents don’t believe in premarital sex because of the Bible, because of religious reasons,” she said. “They don’t want guys to be a distraction when it comes to school.” However, she noted that her parent’s opposition to premarital sex, she is sexually active, hiding her relationships and atheism from her parents. “I don’t talk to my parents when it comes to that kind of stuff because they are conservative,” she said. “They don’t even want me to see a gynecologist.” For many teens and young adults, sex education takes place primarily through conversations with peers. Views of premarital sex are context-dependent, influenced by the environment in which individuals are brought up
said if Trump is able to accomplish all that he has outlined, it will have negative effects on many communities. “If he makes good on all of them, the next four years will be terrible,” she said. “It will of course be particularly terrible for those who are refugees and undocumented, but it will also be terrible for all those who know them, who care for them, who would like to extend a hand of welcome to people who have contributed well to our society.” Pedraza said Trump’s plans to undo these orders play into what she believes is the worst possible situation in regards to immigration policy. “Another promise he will make good on is he will dismantle Obama’s executive orders with respect to DACA, so the young DREAM Act children, adolescents and young adults and DAPA,” she
News said. “That’s all in the worst-case scenario.” Washtenaw Community College student Ivan Flores moved from Mexico to the United States with his parents when he was 6 years old under his father’s work visa, but his visa later expired after his parents separated. Flores said while living under DACA, he exists in an ambiguous situation where he is not fully legally or illegally in the country. “There’s a very weird legal gray area,” he said. “We are not here lawfully but we are not here unlawfully, and there’s no path in the system to get out of that.” The most prominent issue Flores faces currently, he said, is how fellow students do not understand the uncertainty surrounding his situation. “Even for the people I know and talk to, it’s often hard for them to understand,” he said. “Sometimes
Detroit — both of which resettle refugees in Southeast Michigan — Albulov began hiring refugee women as contractors to produce her baby slings, including Zahra. Albulov handles orders through a website and packages and ships orders from her home, dropping off fabric and picking up completed slings once or twice a week from each woman’s home. She said this has allowed them to secure paid employment despite linguistic and cultural barriers, while also still being able to care for their young children at home. Hope Carried currently employs five refugee seamstresses. Including Zahra, three are from Afghanistan, one is from Iraq and one is from Africa. Albulov said she intends to expand her hiring to all women who lack economic empowerment for varying reasons. Speaking for Zahra, who is not fully proficient in English, Yousuf said Hope Carried has helped his wife adjust to their new life. “It was hard for us, especially for my wife,” Yousuf said. “(Hope Carried) is really helping me and the whole family … as long as (Zahra) is busy, I’m happy.” Other refugees employed at Hope Carried have similar stories. Arriving in Michigan six months ago after fleeing Kabul in 2013 because her family was threatened for working in the local media, Zobaida said her job has allowed her to support her family in a way that wasn’t possible in Afghanistan. She requested to only be identified by her first name due to safety concerns. “Before I didn’t have any jobs … my first job was to work with Brea,” Zobaida said. “It’s really hard for us. I have to work and help my husband to pay back our loans.” The company has shipped more than 1,400 orders in the past year, with most customers coming through referrals. Albulov
said she is preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign to hire additional workers and purchase fabric in wholesale. She noted that the current political climate surrounding backlash against refugee arrivals to the United States has added a sense of importance to her company’s mission, adding that she would continue hiring refugee women regardless of any potential backlash against her company. Rhetoric used in President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign has caused ongoing uncertainty and fear in the resettled refugee and advocacy community, especially over the past few weeks. For his first 100 days, Trump has prioritized extreme vetting for those from “terror-prone” countries. Which countries those would include has not been fully specified. “There was a period where I didn’t intentionally promote the fact that (my workers) were refugees,” Albulov said. “But with such backlash, it actually motivated me more to be really specific about who we’re intentionally empowering, because I think that when people talk so loud about not welcoming them, there needs to be a voice that’s shouting equally about welcoming them.” Though they acknowledged the challenges they’ve faced in adjusting to their new home in Michigan, both refugee families expressed an upbeat and optimistic outlook toward their futures. “I want to improve my English, and also I want my daughter to have a bright future,” Zahra said. “It’s hard for us — we’ve got to work every single day to pay our bills … but these are money for me,” Yousuf said, pointing at his toddler-aged children, who were running around Albulov’s living room. “My kids.”
and the friends with whom they surround themselves, making a campus enviornment host to many different views. Headrick credits her willingness to talk about sex to the communities she’s involved in, including her role as peer facilitator at the University’s Program on Intergroup Relations — a social justice education program — and position as president of the Eugene V. Debs Cooperative House. “I tend to surround myself with people who are open to talking about things,” Headrick said. “In general, it is very stigmatized, but you can find pockets where it’s celebrated and encouraged to communicate about sex.” For there to be a reduction in the stigma she sees around sex, Headrick said, there needs to be an understanding of why premarital sex is important. “First of all, if you are thinking about marrying someone, you should have sex before so you know that you are going to enjoy your lifetime of sex,” Headrick said. “I think it’s an important part of your life, and if you end up with someone you are not compatible with, that would be a bummer.” However, Babbitt, who plans to pursue a career in full time ministry after graduation, said for those that practice the teachings of the Bible devoutly, premarital sex is wrong and should be saved for marriage. While Babbitt opposes premarital sex partly because of her religious beliefs, she also said
she thought sex can be damaging to relationships and should be postponed. “I have witnessed so many couples get caught up in sex and don’t end up resolving issues,” Babbitt said. “There is increased jealousy and problems. I think a lot of problems come up when a couple starts having sex.” The survey results also found that many students are not engaged in open communication with their parents on a number of health topics, including sexual health — only 4.35 percent of those surveyed said they talk with their parents about sexual activity “very often,” while 36.52 percent said they never talk with their parents about sexual activity. Respondents attributed this lack of communication largely to the fact that they have different views than their parents and that they would rather talk to peers or medical professionals. In contrast to the overall trend, Babbitt said she feels like she can talk openly to her parents about issues surrounding sex despite their differing viewpoints. While Babbitt said her parents do not oppose premarital sex, they support her decision to postpone having sex until marriage, support she said she feels lucky to have. “I tell my parents everything,” Babbitt said. “If I told my parents I was having sex, they would be concerned because they know how dead set I am on this. They wouldn’t be upset that I actually had sex.”
there’s sympathy, sometimes there’s not, but people just don’t understand what it’s like.” Social Work student Maria Ibarra-Frayre is also protected under DACA after the tourist visa she was granted when immigrating to the United States when she was 9 expired. During her time on campus, she has worked to help other undocumented students find a place on campus of their own and to expand in-state tuition rights to nontraditional students, saying she wants them to have the same rights as resident students. The University granted in-state tuition to undocumented students in 2013, but the ruling only applies to students who have graduated high school within the past 28 months, which can rule out transfer and graduate students. “I feel really passionate about college access for undocumented students,” Ibarra-Frayre said. “And
OPIOID From Page 1A started by Project Lazarus, a public health nonprofit in Wilkes County, N.C. The model posits that opioid overdose deaths are preventable and communities are ultimately responsible for managing their own health, aiming to combine ideas of public awareness, coalition action, data and evaluation, as well as community education, addiction treatment and provider education. Strobbe said to reduce the stigmas associated with substance abuse, there needs to be an understanding and acceptance by community members that it is should be seen as a medical disorder that respond to treatment. Ashton Marr, president of Washtenaw Recovery Advocacy Project and another speaker,
DEER From Page 1A management programs are also being considered on North Campus during Spring Break (Feb. 25 to March 5) when campus is less populated. Several Ann Arbor residents have expressed dissatisfaction
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 — 3A creating space where they’re safe and they can have some kind of semblance of a normal life.” Flores and Ibarra-Frayre both said they fear for their own statuses under Trump’s administration. Ibarra-Frayre noted that everyone with DACA or DAPA status are registered with the U.S. government, providing information to allow for their deportation. “I don’t think they really understand the gravity of what DACA does,” she said. “I don’t think they know that immigration has everything they need to know about me … even though, yes, it is really hard to deport 11 million people, they have the information of thousands of DACA students.” Overall, however, Ibarra-Frayre said she was most concerned about the real human lives behind the numbers — the families and students whose futures will be
directly impacted by the repeal of DACA and DAPA. “I thought that I could have a normal life with DACA, but now it might be gone,” she said. “I’m more angry than afraid … I’m more worried about students in high school who want to go to college who imagine a future for themselves that is not going to happen.” Similarly, Flores said he’s worried the country’s election of Trump will have ramifications for more than immigration — and that given the sway Trump’s rhetoric has had on millions, he finds the future of the nation more troubling than his situation. “I’m scared for the country and not necessarily myself,” he said. “I don’t think we’ve ever had a demagogue like Donald Trump get elected. The thing that scares me the most is how easily people are taken in by his lies.”
described her personal experience of being in long-term recovery from opiod use. “I’ve heard time and time again that it’s easier to write the prescription, as opposed to getting into conflict with somebody or fighting about it,” Marr said. “But the fact of the matter is they have the hand in the individual’s death if they let the addiction spiral. Doctors are in a position where they need to do no harm and give care to people, so it’s important that they understand how to treat addiction, recovery-related resources, how to safely prescribe to people, and how to treat pain.” Marr also emphasized the importance of bystander care, including calling 911 and providing resources for help, like the sheriff’s office for community outreach where she works. Clinical Assistant Prof. Gina Dahlem, a nurse practitioner at the
University, also highlighted ways police officers and first responders are combating opioid overdoses locally, through administration of the drug naloxone. She demonstrated how a bystander who isn’t a trained professional could administer naloxone, and said it was a crucial part of combatting the opioid epidemic. “Naloxone reversals are critical, these are saving lives,” Dahlem said. “The next important step is for individuals who benefit from these reversals to have links with community peers for peer support, to help treatment and lifelong recovery.”
with the city’s decision, protesting at City Council meetings and brandishing signs as they spoke out about their opposition to the city’s program to kill a part of the growing local deer population. However, biologists have noted that a deer cull would be beneficial for ecological sustainability, and officials commend the University’s actions and cooperation, as it would have been difficult otherwise to
effectively carry out the cull. The University is contributing to an estimated 15 percent of the total cost, less than $25,000, in accordance with the percentage of University-owned property within the Wards 1 and 2. Dates, times and locations have not yet been finalized, but once they are, DPSS will make sure that the community is notified and the appropriate signs are posted.
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A campus divided
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’ll be honest: I think answer: The offended students these next few years simply misunderstand the will probably be tough fundamental purpose of these for people of marginalized anti-Trump protests. identities. Many people in After sifting through many these groups, myself included, of the complaints lodged by can only describe conservatives, our expectations it’s apparent that with one word: they can be split fear. Fear of the into two groups: unknown, fear for people offended our political system that the University and, most of all, fear is espousing for my future as a supposedly “antiyoung Black male in Republican” ideas a country that more and people who don’t closely resembles think that a public JASON the racist America I university should thought only existed ROWLAND have any political in old photographs. opinions at all. Luckily, I’m not alone in my The first group, disgruntled despair. Roughly half of the Republicans, is making the nation awoke on the morning fatal mistake of categorizing of Nov. 9 with a similar sense anti-hate messages as antiof trepidation. Here at the Republican. During a typical University of Michigan, my election cycle, I would agree fears were shared by about 90 that President Schlissel’s percent of the student body, and comments were unnecessary. Trump’s unexpected victory was met by demonstrations across campus. “Ninety percent of (UM students) rejected the kind of hate … that was expressed during the campaign,” University President Mark Schlissel said at one of the most publicized demonstrations, which occurred the day after the election at a vigil on the Diag. He closed his address by reminding students that “this is the way America changes … for the better.” His statement proved to be tendentious, as conservative students came out of the woodwork to challenge his gall. But, as all of our elders can Their opposition to Schlissel’s attest, this was not a normal comments culminated in the election. Donald Trump creation of the #NotMyCampus spent the past few months campaign — an effort to hurling objectively racist and condemn the ostensibly liberal sexist insults to anyone who attitudes of top University opposed him. Denouncing administrators. that this rhetoric is not “antiWhen I broke this news to my Republican,” but instead is parents back home, they were in “pro-human decency.” If disbelief. “How could anybody the Democratic candidate be offended by what he said?” adopted Trump’s language on they asked. And sadly, I didn’t the campaign trail and then have a response for them. After went on to win the national over a week of contemplating, election, these protests would however, I’ve finally found an still be occurring. Calling out
The offended students simply misunderstand the fundamental purpose of these anti-Trump protests.
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bigotry is not a partisan issue; it’s simply an issue of civility and moral integrity. Instead of viewing these protests as antiRepublican, as many campus conservatives are doing, the correct way to judge them is as demonstrations against hateful and vile language (that just happened to be espoused by a Republican). In essence, these protests, and Schlissel’s remarks, are against Donald Trump’s divisive platform, not the party he represents. The second group, people who believe the University administrator is in the wrong simply for making any political statements, is mistaken for similar reasons. Had Schlissel come out to condemn Trump’s tax policies or his views on the Second Amendment, I would also argue that his statements were unnecessary. However, Schlissel and protesters are not reacting to the factional minutiae of Trump’s policy proposals. Their responses are a direct response to the president-elect’s hateful bombasts that target members of the University community. As a campus full of undocumented immigrants, students of color, members of the LGBTQ community and other marginalized identities, it’s the University president’s job to ensure that we’re all welcome. Had President Schlissel not confronted Trump’s schismatic rhetoric, it would have been a dereliction of duty. As much as we’d like to believe it, racism is not dead. If anything, this election has shown that over the past few decades, little has changed. Furthermore, progress won’t be made until Americans lambaste Trump’s hateful language. However, this will never occur until people realize that rejecting hate isn’t a partisan issue, but rather, it’s a matter of doing the right thing. Jason Rowland can be reached at jerow@umich.edu
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But as important as literacy may be, the United States Supreme Court has unambiguously rejected the claim that public education is a fundamental right under the Constitution. Literacy is a component or particular outcome of education, not a right granted to individuals by the Constitution. — Michigan state lawyers in last week’s response to a lawsuit filed on behalf of Detroit Public School children.
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Pressing pause on the new DNC
t should not come as a is because of his association surprise to anyone that, with the runner-up for the in the wake of the 2016 Democratic presidential presidential election, Bernie nomination. Now, he is Sanders is poised to become the overwhelming favorite the kingmaker of the to become the Democratic Party. chairman of Like a white-haired, the Democratic elderly version of National Marlon Brando Committee, a with a Brooklyn position Donna accent, the Vermont Brazile resigned senator’s inf luence is from in October. unmatched on Capitol Make no Hill. The gatekeeper mistake, this of progressivism, the will be one of the BRETT populist champion most difficult GRAHAM jobs to undertake of white workingclass voters in the for the next four primary, the key to millions of years. The next chairperson millennial voters ... For someone is responsible not only for who started his presidential bid organizing a party in disarray as a marginalized candidate, after an embarrassing loss laughed at and cast aside, suffice but will also often be the it to say that Bernie Sanders is figurehead of opposition to a doing pretty well for himself. Donald Trump administration. For examples of Sanders’ They will have unrivaled Godfather-like stature, look no inf luence when it comes further than recent comments to funding and organizing from Senate Minority Leader- congressional races in 2018 elect Chuck Schumer. The (a year in which the Senate Huffington Post reported map does not look friendly for that Schumer is “all-in” on Democrats) and the selection of Sanders’ vision for the party, a presidential candidate in 2020. and Sanders reiterated his This is why I would caution belief that Schumer “will do a Democrats who are all too great job.” Yes, this is the same ready to jump on the Keith Schumer that voted for the Iraq Ellison bandwagon. Bernie War, for the Patriot Act and for Sanders’ blessing is a coup the repeal of Glass-Steagall Act for anyone looking to succeed who’s being endorsed by the with progressive voters today. most liberal voice in the Senate. He’s a great option. But take But Bernie said it was OK, so into account the fact that this critics on the left have stayed job will be as much about tone relatively quiet. That’s the as it is about content. power we’re talking about here. Some Democrats have Perhaps the more notable responded to Ellison’s status of Bernie’s hand-picked as heir-apparent with an Democrats to help in the interesting, if unlikely, rebuilding of the party is Keith proposition: Joe Biden. They Ellison, who has served as a salivate over the idea of “Uncle representative of Minnesota Joe” taking the reins as a kind for about a decade. Ellison of post-vice presidency project, is originally from Detroit, adding that this undertaking graduated from Wayne State requires someone’s undivided University and is the first attention and that Ellison will Muslim elected to serve in be busy fulfilling his duty as a Congress. He was one of congressman. Why? Because the first elected officials to it’s Joe Biden’s tone that the endorse Sanders over Clinton Democratic Party needs right in the primary, and part of the now. reason he has garnished his The Clinton campaign was reputation as a progressive at a disadvantage from the
very beginning when it came to tone. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders could be angry, they could yell and scream and wave their arms around in frustration. Meanwhile, double standards stripped Clinton of these tools; as a woman, whenever her voice went above a normal speaking volume or became the slightest bit aggressive, she was accused of being shrill and harpy-like. It seems as though the DNC is poised to put itself at the same disadvantage. Keith Ellison is calm and collected. He looks and sounds like a professor in many ways. He doesn’t get animated, he doesn’t get loud. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing — I’m just saying that it’s not what Democrats need right now. Right now they need Uncle Joe. They need someone who can bridge the gap between the Obama coalition and the white working-class voter that abandoned Hillary Clinton. They need someone who can be stern yet statesmanlike, express anger and frustration, but do it in a productive way. Go re-watch his speech from this year’s Democratic National Convention — that’s what they need. The work that Bernie Sanders is doing right now is important. He’s building an A-team of progressive lawmakers to act as a counterweight to the Trump administration, to lead a broken party in a new direction and to set up politicians like Elizabeth Warren for a potential run in 2020. But when it comes to the chairmanship of the DNC, there’s a discussion still to be had. The election is in February, and I’m not so sure that Keith Ellison is the right man for the job. A fired-up Joe Biden, ready to scream right back in Donald Trump’s face, though? Well that’s another story entirely.
Brett Graham can be reached at btgraham@umich.edu
ANTHONY COZART | OP-ED
New conversations on Thanksgiving
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hanksgiving might be a little different this year. Yes, there will still be turkey, madness on Black Friday and Ohio State versus Michigan on Saturday. However, many of us are facing difficult and uncomfortable political discussions with family. Even if the subject is avoided on Thursday, our feelings will still be present and conflict more likely. Several of my friends have since changed their travel plans, and, as we saw in a recent New York Times article, they’re not alone. How can we make Thanksgiving this year just a little bit better? Perhaps to break the ice, or instead of avoiding politics entirely, consider discussing the value behind Thanksgiving: gratitude. Many of us already, sort of, do this. In my family, we each say one or two things we’re thankful for before eating. For me, this has often meant acknowledging positive experiences or the chance to see my brother who lives across the country. Being mindful and thankful in this way isn’t bad. Yet being thankful for things or successes, as opposed to acknowledging our gifts and responsibilities, leaves the most important ideas about our privilege unsaid. By doing so, we fail to see our own privileges accurately and to acknowledge our responsibilities. All of us at the University of Michigan have reasons to be thankful, even if in the weeks following the election it may not feel this way. We’re all gifted, be it with numbers, words, sound or athletics. Though hard work may have contributed to our successes, the support of
those around us has allowed us to develop our gifts (which we don’t morally deserve) into talents and abilities. Honesty is acknowledging the role of our gifts and of others, not our work ethic, in our success. With these privileges comes a responsibility — the etymology of the word is response to one’s actions and abilities — to others. David Brooks’ most recent book, “The Road to Character,” put this practice — of acknowledging success but not our gifts and responsibilities — into broader context. Our culture has shifted dramatically since the 1940s, from one in which individuals practiced self-effacement and restraint to one of selfpromotion and expression. We’re told from a young age and at each graduation ceremony in our lives that we alone can do anything. We’re encouraged to focus on ourselves and not others. In our meritocratic society, borrowing Brooks’ words, the “Big Me” dominates. The election demonstrated the prevalence of this outlook. Voters from both parties expressed anxieties about their jobs and concerns for their own families and religious values. This isn’t a bad thing; issue voting helps to set the political agenda and the priorities of government agencies. But so much of politics has become about me: my problems, my anxieties and my country. Trump arguably is the Biggest Me: He repeatedly touts his fame, business and $3.3 billion name. With Brooks’s thesis in mind, Trump’s wide support becomes a bit easier to understand.
We’ve given less thought to our neighbors, communities and the needs of others, in both our personal and political lives. We craft our own success stories — personally, for example, how I got into graduate school here — yet we give little attention to our gifts, graces and responsibilities. Few, including me, acknowledge that success often comes at the expense of our peers. Our culture’s shift toward the Big Me makes having conversations about politics, which many of us feel are so desperately needed, even more difficult. It doesn’t have to be this way, as Brooks writes. We can start to change this Thanksgiving. Instead of fighting over candidates, ask your family about the sacrifices they’ve made for one another. Listen to their thoughts on privilege. Discuss what responsibilities we have to others. Craft your stories from the semester differently, by acknowledging your gifts and privileges as opposed to your successes and hard work. Consider another example: Thirty-three years ago this weekend, Bo Schembechler told his players to recognize the effects of their actions on the team in everything that they did on campus. Each player had a responsibility derived from his gifts and support from the University to his line mates, coaches and the team. Let’s think differently and more deeply about gratitude to get through this week. We might even have another thing to be thankful for on Saturday afternoon.
Anthony Cozart is a graduate student in the Ford School of Public Policy.
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TV REVIEW
SOCIAL MEDIA COLUMN
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“When people say they hate you / Don’t come crawling back to me”
The artful deception of Trump’s Twitter When a cyberbully is our next president, social media has become too hostile
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was taught growing up that attention from mainstream if someone was bullying and social media is absurd, me or hurled a hurtful especially considering that the comment toward me, I should much bigger story of Trump’s ignore it and not let the malice $25 million fraud settlement get to me. I did for his fake Trump my best to follow University was that mantra, downplayed but I sometimes tremendously. Even retaliated against such a notable those who would publication like the provoke me. New York Times In retrospect, made the “Hamilton” it makes sense story bigger than that I didn’t the $25 million always react settlement story in the mature, on their Saturday SAM level-headed way ROSENBERG online front page. that I should Most of Trump’s have when it came to those online strategy — and I’m kinds of harmful situations. assuming this may be the Nevertheless, it seems like strategy of many other Internet that pattern of retaliation still trolls as well — is intended to exists today, but in a virtual provoke people who he knows form that intensifies its impact. will get offended by his tweets. With the anonymity of the This strategy only works Internet, social media users depending on how willing we can say whatever they please are to retaliate and to let his almost without consequence. malice get the better of us. Simultaneously, the online Though many Twitter users deindividuation makes people were affected by Trump’s much more susceptible to being “Hamilton” tweet, some were offended by and easily drawn undeterred. “Silicon Valley” to provocative comments, star, comedian and avid Twitter particularly on Twitter. user Kumail Nanjiani retweeted This kind of instance in an article from Politico, particular is relevant to the regarding how the American most recent Twitter controversy people are so easily vulnerable with Donald J. Trump, (a to Trump’s deceptive, taunting well-known cyberbully) and Twitter clickbait. In an even our President-elect. Last more direct response, Little week, Trump caught flack for Miss Flint posted a tweet, bashing the cast of Broadway’s reminding people that there acclaimed hit musical are way bigger issues than the “Hamilton” for allegedly “Hamilton” debacle, like, I don’t “harassing” his running mate, know, the Flint water crisis. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, A similar situation occurred who attended a showing of earlier this week when Trump the musical. In reality, the denounced NBC’s “Saturday “Hamilton” cast did not harass Night Live” on Twitter for Pence, but one of its stars, being “one-sided” and “biased,” Brandon Victor Dixon, offered implying that there should a rather powerful, sensitive and be “equal time.” Actor Alec respectful message to Mr. Pence Baldwin, who has impersonated about protecting the rights Trump since the 42nd season of American minorities and premiere of the late-night sketch people from all races, creeds show, responded with a series and orientations. of brutal tweets that put the Still, that didn’t stop Twitter President-elect in place about users from firing back against focusing on the responsibilities Trump, as hundreds flocked of his impending job and not to respond to his message with on trivial pursuits like Twitter snarky, vehement comebacks. bashing. Admittedly, Trump deserved And while it was sweet to see the hate he got for brewing such Baldwin take down Trump, the a malevolent tweet against a irony was that it still didn’t solve cast of Broadway actors who the real issue at hand, which gave the American people a is that Trump’s tweets should statement about embracing not be the forefront of national diversity and love. It’s also issues in the media. To tell the ridiculous how the man who President-elect that what he’s will be running the country for saying is stupid or wrong is just the next four years continues to giving him more incentive to fall back on hiding behind the continue making provocative hollow, vindictive shell of his statements. Pushing back and Twitter account. retaliating against hateful However, the fact that online comments is juice for Trump’s controversy against Trump and online bullies alike. “Hamilton” received way more It’s not entirely unjustified,
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though: Baldwin had the total right to call out Trump for continuing to give every single pissed off Twitter user an aneurysm, especially since he is literally about to become president of the United States. However, regardless of how articulate and witty your tweet comeback against Trump may be to you and your followers, Trump will proceed to make a plethora of politically incorrect tweets unless his presidency somehow reforms him to become a more conscientious human being, if that ever happens. Twitter often acts as a liberal echo chamber, and users like Donald Trump rattle that chamber and consequently grin about the worthlessness of our complaints. Whenever people are filled with strong emotions about something, they often go to Twitter to share their unfiltered thoughts, whether to vent about Trump or say something clever about life, pop culture nostalgia or the brokenness of society. I’ll admit that I’ve definitely been guilty of retaliating online to stuff Trump has said, especially when he wrote his infamous “Appreciate the congrats” tweet after the tragic shootings at a gay nightclub in Orlando last June. This was when then-Democratic presidential canidate Hillary Clinton retaliated with the phrase, “Delete your account,” a comment that, while fantastic in execution, didn’t end up swaying Trump’s Twitter followers to unfollow him. What, then, are we supposed to do as the 21st century members of a flawed democracy verging on a fascist regime? Do our tweets, Facebook statuses and YouTube videos possess any positive influence against the pushback of the alt-righters and trolls of the Internet? How can our passionate online venting create any change if our audience is predominantly likeminded? I’m not sure. I fear that social media has become too toxic at this point for anyone to take down radical online contrarians. Though Trump’s tweets may continue to be laced with veiled and direct misogyny, racism, sexism and blatant stupidity, the best way to react to a taunting cyberbully like Trump is to ignore him and show him that his words cannot get to us. Rosenberg is still trying to make Google Plus happen. To add him to your circle, email samjrose@umich.edu.
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‘You’re the Worst’ finale explores the difficulty of human interaction Season Three of FXX show unflinchingly tackled deep emotional issues Borges, “Preacher”) and Dorothy (Collette Wolfe, “Interstellar”) Daily Arts Writer and Jimmy and Gretchen in cross-cutting scenes of flared The characters on “You’re the tempers and aggressive hostility. Worst” are best described as, It’s riveting — and excruciating — well, the worst. to watch. These disaffected Dorothy’s Angelenos are by jealousy and turns narcissistic resentment “You’re The Worst” and callous, over Edgar’s disinterested instantaneous Season Three Finale and egotistical, success is a (Parts 1 and 2) bitterly cruel somewhat odd FXX and relentlessly, pivot, especially hopelessly broken. given the weight Tuesdays at 10 PM In the stellar part of his storyline one of the season earlier in the three finale, “You season. But Knew It Was A Lindsay and Snake,” Gretchen (Aya Cash, Paul’s standoff is a marvel of “Easy”) says as much to Jimmy dark comedy. Their storyline (Chris Geere, “Urge”): that the this season ranged from comic two of them are fundamentally absurdity — it’s easy to forget that splintered and subdued souls, and Lindsay both microwaved a used there’s not enough space in this condom to inseminate herself and wheel-spinning relationship for literally stabbed her husband in that much chaos. the back — to the most nuanced of The exchange could serve as scenes, as the show’s treatment of a sort of thesis statement for the her abortion was one of its more series as a whole. “You’re the successful moments. Worst” is interested not so much But if theirs was the most in human relationships as it is in outright hilarious, then our the futility of trying to be in one principal couple’s devolvement at all. was the most devastating. How much will we endure, Gretchen and Jimmy haven’t really, to be with the ones we traversed the traditional love? The underlying toxicity of television rom-com route: they the three principal relationships got together, and then stayed has never been more explicitly together. And in that subversion, rendered than in “You Knew the show has become more brutal It Was A Snake.” The episode and unsparing in its depiction of functions like a twisted Edward their relationship. Albee play, tracking the “You’re The Worst” is not an downward spirals of Lindsay easy watch. It’s a comedy, and a (Kether Donhue, “Pitch Perfect”) romantic one at that, but it also and Paul (Allan McLeod, “Life rejects the idealization of love After Beth”), Edgar (Desmin and monogamy that we so often NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT
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succumb to. Creator Stephen Falk (“Orange Is the New Black”) takes no prisoners: Gretchen and Jimmy need each other, and it’s impossible to imagine them apart, but it’s also inconceivable that watching their relationship won’t be akin surveying a car crash on the side of the road. Take, for example, the closing shot of the finale. It’s an explicit callback to the final shot of the penultimate episode: a split screen of Jimmy’s and Gretchen’s faces as they both drive in separate cars, right next to each other, but still separated by a barrier they can’t breach. The finale ends on a strikingly similar note. Jimmy, having just proposed to Gretchen, is completely shaken by her casual use of the word “family.” In perhaps the show’s coldest moment, he immediately leaves her, newly engaged, and drives away. The left side of the shot is Jimmy’s panicked face; the right side is Gretchen’s signature pout, fireworks incongruently bursting behind her. I’d call it cliché if I weren’t so emotionally shaken. The show is full of dramatic ironies like these, but at what point do we stop praising the show for its subversiveness and simply commend it for being its own entity? “You’re The Worst” is constantly defined by its relationship to other rom-coms, but it’s defiantly singular in its willingness to stand, unflinching, and stare down the barrel of the emotional difficulty of human connection. Intimacy and warmth and genuine meaning — these take grueling work. But the alternative? That’s the worst.
ALBUM REVIEW
Ray Toro strikes out on his first solo project since My Chem’s break-up The guitarist explores softer and sweeter work on diverse debut tenderly, with steady plucked notes that hover as the piece Daily Arts Writer unfolds, gradually transforming into a nostalgic look back at I’ve never felt more conflicted good things passed. Toro’s voice than I did when is especially soft Gerard Way in the beginning, first announced when he sings Hesitant Alien “You can run in May of 2014. I away / From all Remember the was dying for the the things that Laughter chance to hear hurt you in the him sing again past / And you Ray Toro and immensely can hide away / We’re All A Little proud that he was Or face the truth Crazy exploring music and live your life in ways he wasn’t at last” able to before, but The album is at the same time, extremely diverse the fact that he was releasing from song to song. “We Save” solo music made it clear that is heavily inspired by the blues, My Chemical Romance would with prominent, strutting bass, never create together again. The short yet expressive lyrical lines same feeling overcame me upon and dexterous guitar. As he my first listen to former MCR sings “Gunshot, black like a stain guitarist Ray Toro’s debut album. / It don’t wash out these veins,” Remember the Laughter Toro’s voice possesses a swelling comes three-and-a-half years attitude that’s never really come after MCR’s split, with little to light before. fanfare; Toro has hidden almost Remember The Laughter completely out of the public has several short instrumental sphere for the entire period. numbers interspersed within The work lies somewhere the greater album, each on the softer, sweeter end of which act as a unique of the musical spectrum, introduction to the songs that and is especially impressive follow. The transitions between considering that Toro sings and the instrumental pieces and plays instruments for almost subsequent songs are so fluid everything on the album. that I didn’t even realize the “Requiem” starts out two were separate tracks until SAMANTHA LU
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I had a closer look at the album list. “Wedding Day,” “Ascent,” “Father’s Day” and “Eruption” all contain audio recordings that conjure up very specific images when played in conjunction with their counterparts. The combination that struck me the most was “Eruption” and “Hope for the World.” Police sirens, gunshots and frantic screaming are overlaid with the voices of an emergency operator and a news broadcaster, who are both talking about the city of Ferguson, Missouri. Toro’s voice breaks across the chaos suddenly as he sings “Turn off the sound of war and hate / Honor the cries for a world that decides on love, not race.” The contrast between the two is especially striking in light of recent events. “Take the World” is another positive, encouraging piece that comes just at the right time. Toro is passionate but not overbearing as he sings “Let’s get ready / To fight for what is ours / We can take the world / And make it our own.” Faster paced instrumentals and thrumming bass lend the piece vague whispers from Toro’s rock past. Remember the Laughter is a testament to Toro’s bountiful artistic ability, proof of not only his masterful guitar talent but also a reaffirmation of his vocal prowess.
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ALBUM REVIEW
‘PC Music’ is the sound of futuristic, pure pop power
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The London-based label aims for both satire and pleasure Music’s brief lifetime. Every song has a distinctly plastic finish, and Daily Arts Writer synths reign supreme, with songs generally featuring pitch-shifted, The year is 2100. After heavily auto-tuned, and usually discovering the root of female voices; however, PC Music intelligence, has become less humans have insistent on these created not features with just artificially the singles on PC PC Music, Vol. 2 intelligent Music, Vol. 2. Various Artists androids, but If PC Music, truly intelligent Vol. 1 was a work Columbia Records androids. of introduction Not only that, but and self-discovery, these androids, like then PC Music, ourselves in the current day, have Vol. 2 is label-founder Cook (and begun to struggle with cell-phone company) in full stride. With addiction and an obsession with features by Noonie Bao and Carly social media. A small subset of Rae Jepsen — neither aggressively these anthropomorphic, sentient auto-tuned — it feels now more robots have begun making music than ever as though PC Music is as a way of both embracing and on the cusp of breaking into the denouncing the reliance of the pop mainstream. general populace on technology. The irony of this, of course, This is the music that London- is that PC Music serves based label PC Music has fundamentally as a criticism produced since its founding in of pop music, the genre it 2013. The formerly independent simultaneously and unashamedly label, now “partnered” — the channels. From the selfnature of this partnership hasn’t indulgent, overtly sexual work of been clarified to the public — with GFOTY (Girlfriend of the Year) Columbia Records, is fueled by to Hannah Diamond’s more absurdity. It is the manifestation introspective singles, it’s clear of pop taken to its logical that PC Music is aiming to craft extreme, making it, in some ways, some sort of cultural and social more social experiment than criticism. Like the initials “PC” in sonic experiment, if the two can the label’s name, however, we the be separated. listeners are left more or less in Sonically, the PC Music the dark as to “what it all means.” mindset is one that aims While the mystery surrounding for instant gratification and the label’s name itself seems more-or-less unprecedented more or less purely aesthetic, experimentation in equal PC Music is truly enigmatic in measure. The immediately nature. Early in the collective’s melodic, dance-floor-ready beats lifetime, there was significant of A.G. Cook and label-member media speculation about whether Danny L. Harle juxtapose the Hannah Diamond was and is abrasive electro-grunge of a real person, rather than just Felicita, whose most recent a hyper-polished computerEP feels more like a discarded generated avatar. Many of the Oneohtrix Point Never release label’s contributors’ identities than anything else the label has — such as Felicita, easyFun, and released to date. Life Sim, just to name those on Though tracks vary widely in this particular compilation — are terms of melodic accessibility left ambiguously up in the air and the particular organization and, especially early in the label’s of sound, the sound itself has existence, Cook was notoriously remained constant through PC stingy about giving interviews. SEAN LANG
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Perhaps this reluctance to engage and interact with the media was just one more contributor to some yetunclarified statement. Perhaps Cook simply wanted to be sure the project had secured itself before exporting anything other than music. Whatever the case may have been, on Vol. 2 this label seems either more self-assured or more aware of its goals. With the respective successes of Harle’s “Broken Flowers” and Cook’s “Beautiful,” PC Music was forced to open itself up, and its recent collaboration with Charli XCX and current partnership with Columbia Records are strong indications that they are ready to do just that. Now, PC Music is balancing accessibility — “Supernatural,” “Monopoly,” “Broken Flowers” — with more pointed commentary such as “Fade Away,” “Poison,” “Hi.” On “Fade Away” and “Hi,” the most lyrically valuable tracks of PC Music, Vol. 2, Hannah Diamond reflects on relationships in the modern day and age. On “Fade Away,” she questions whether “it’s me you like / Or the way I make you feel / Alive / But so dead inside,” while “Hi” finds Diamond playing one half of a relationship conducted purely over the internet. Here, in some of the most poignant lyrics in a PC Music song to date, she questions how people choose to portray themselves in a certain way online: “Feels like I miss you / But is it really the real you? / You say you’re as real as it gets / What do you mean?” PC Music is still young, and it’s difficult to say with any degree of certainty who the producers behind the music — Harle, Cook, GFOTY and Diamond — really are, but with the release of PC Music, Vol. 2, one thing is certain: these young Londoners either embody the future of pop music or are the earliest heralds of its demise as we know it. Whichever turns out to be the case, it’s hard not to be excited.
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DNCE’s debut can’t fulfill potential Joe Jonas hates variety in his music almost as much as vowels progresses and falls into a rut of sounding extraordinarily similar to all the others on the album. The chanting in the background Statistically speaking, Joe of the chorus, “Who call the doc? Jonas has had a pretty good / Said you gonna call the doc?” is year. After the only thing to brainstorming distinguish it from dance-rock band the rest. DNCE with now“Blown” DNCE drummer Jack featuring Kent DNCE Lawless, Jonas Jones, continues has become the the same musical Republic Records front man of themes, building the four-person up an intensity group. Joined until the beat by guitarists Cole Whittle and drops to make way for Jonas’s JinJoo Lee, DNCE released its lyrics: “I’ll never let you go / My debut single “Cake by the Ocean” sweet tooth is too strong.” Jones’s in September 2015. Since then, rap verse adds a new dimension DNCE has performed during to an otherwise cliché sound, but FOX’s television special “Grease: it still sounds like a song from the Live” and opened for Selena closing scene of a Disney Channel Gomez during her Revival Tour. original movie. DNCE’s self-titled debut Segueing into “Good Day,” album showcases 14 tracks that the track starts simple and range from slow acoustic ballads acoustically with just claps and to pop-infused dance anthems. the mantra that “Today is going Opening with aptly named to be a good day.” The whole song “DNCE,” Jonas chants “D-N- stays fairly low and monotone C-E” a cappella before launching throughout the verses, failing to into a groovy, funky dance progress beyond a happy song to vibe. Making good use of their wake up to in the morning. branding, the bulk of the song “Almost” is the first slow song consists of the lyrics, “Won’t you of the album, transitioning it to come on D-N-C-E with me.” more introspective and relaxed “Doctor You” focuses on lyrics. Jonas showcases both his bass guitar and quick lyrics to emotions and his vocal range as emphasize its sexy club sound. he sings, “Baby, we were good / But the song speeds up as it We were almost perfect,” while CATHERINE BAKER Daily Arts Writer
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light vocalizations harmonize in the background. “Almost” never strays too far from the baseline set early on, but gives the listener something other than upbeat dance hymns to enjoy. “Naked” opens with an aggressively electronic intro and continues to maintain the dance-based electric tones. Jonas speaks the verses’ lyrics and shows off his impressive falsetto in the chorus when he sings, “I wanna be naked with you / At least I’m telling the truth.” The second acoustic track, “Truthfully,” tugs at the heartstrings and narrates the ups and downs of falling in love again. It’s full of cliché metaphors and simple phrases such as, “Speaking truthfully, I love you more than you love me. As DNCE channels its inner Taylor Swift, “Truthfully” recounts universal feelings of love and loss. Closing with “Unsweet,” DNCE ends the way it began. With a few flashes of greatness, DNCE never strays from what it knows best. As the songs begin to blend together, the album starts to sound like one long dance hymn. With a little more initiative and experimentation, DNCE could have set itself apart from the rest but instead falls short of groundbreaking and leaves the listener feeling slighted.
FILM REVIEW
Polish ‘America’ is artful, crushing movie is functioning in exactly the way it’s supposed to. Daily Arts Writer This being said, the Polish film “America” is, at first glance, Sometimes it can feel like a compilation of everything moviegoers are divided into pretentious and grating about two camps: the foreign films. casual viewer and Directed by the enlightened Aleksandra critic. Popular Terpinska “America” knowledge tells us (“Czech Swan”), viewers hate the “America” tells Michigan Theater pretentiousness the story of two Polish Film Festival of the critics and teenage girls, Anka critics turn their (Marta Mazurek, noses down at the “Warsaw by crass sensibilities of the audiences. Night”) and Justine (Aleksandra Wars have raged (okay, not really, Adamska, “Miasto 44”). They but many angry articles have been live in a small Polish town called written over this, so the point still America, where they spend stands) over who movies are truly their days making up dances made for — the analysts or Joe to American pop songs and Normal. reenacting scenes from “The At their worst, most strawman Matrix.” form, casual viewers deride Fed up with their negligent any form of analytic thought parents, the girls decide to run or non-mainstream cinema away from home. They hitchhike as pretentious, and critics and are picked up by a series of dismiss popular movies at the increasingly scummy men, to outset simply because of their the point where Justine is nearly widespread appeal. raped in a truck stop motel called This problem comes to a head “The Las Vegas Hotel.” with foreign films. Derided as Make no mistake, this is a heavy boring and deeply depressing, and dark film. Within the first they’re often thought to cater three minutes, we learn that Anka only to the tastes of the most and her mother frequently have to pretentious of moviegoers, critics clean her father up after he’s made and that one dude in your English a drunken mess of himself, and class who insists on calling movies that he comes into Anka’s room “films” and has really strong every night and sexually abuses opinions about how music died her. the day Britney Spears released So yes, “America” certainly her first single. Some aspects of fits the notions most apply to this perception are fairly earned. foreign films: painful and sad Captial-F Foreign Films can against a bleak grey setting. very easily be dull, meandering, And yet, “America” is entirely pretentious and sad. But of course, unpretentious, lovingly made so can American films. and tells a genuinely engaging — No matter where the film even haunting — story. Terpinska originated, though, the idea that clearly understands that heavy a movie is somehow more artful subject matter on its own doesn’t or important just because it’s sad, make a movie meaningful, so slow or subtitled is mostly just every frame in the film is carefully nonsense. Genre is irrelevant. It considered for creating maximum can be an action movie, a rom- emotional effectiveness. In other com or a character drama — as words, “America” is not for critics long as it’s genuinely empathetic or average moviegoers — it’s for and engaging to its audience, the everyone. ASIF BECHER
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Movies like “America” (or at least, movies that deal with such weighty subjects) are often voyeuristic and detached, almost clinical in their portrayal of horrific events. It’s the idea of filming a “low” subject matter in a highfaluting way, making violence, pain and suffering appear beautiful and digestible by virtue of emotional distance between the audience and what is happening on screen. This isn’t necessarily a bad way to approach a story, and it works really well in a lot of movies — it’s essentially the thesis statement that drives David Fincher’s filmography. And yet, it’s a breath of fresh air to find a movie that places the audience directly in the minds of the characters so that we feel what they feel. The empathy comes through the details of Anka and Justine’s friendship. The outer space posters in Anka’s bedroom, the galaxy print of Justine’s jacket, the familiar way they shove each other around, the gangster rap they listen to — these details are so delicate and precise that you can’t help but hope for the best for Anka and Justine. We see every nuance of their jittery excitement when they’re standing at the bus stop about to leave America; we feel every spark of their fear at their betrayal. There’s no pretension here and no exploitation. Just the characters, their feelings and our feelings. “America” is a movie about yearning. Justine and Anka want more than anything to leave their world and live better lives, but their hearts are broken over and over by all the people they thought they could trust the most — their parents, the nice young man who took them in and even each other. It’s such an intimate, personal story, but in a way, it’s not unlike our country’s, still reeling from the events of the last few weeks. They wanted the world, and all they got was America. They’re not the only ones.
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OPP 10.9 13.5 108.6 3.0 4 137.0 44.2% 5.6 9 11 60.5 245.6 21.1% 34.8% 1.5 21.0 7.6 37.9 7-13 13/5 43.0 26:54
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Att Yds 144 750 74 547 74 417 65 417 23 163 15 154 9 47 5 37 22 36 12 31 3 19 2 17 3 15 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 -1 1 -2 1 -11 11 -16 26 -36 495 2588
Avg 5.2 7.4 5.6 6.4 7.1 10.3 5.2 7.4 1.6 2.6 6.3 8.5 5.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 -0.5 -2.0 -11.0 -1.5 -1.4 5.2
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No. Yds 44 758 38 460 29 458 9 134 13 97 6 87 5 59 6 45 3 43 2 42 11 38 2 27 2 24 1 23 2 18 1 15 1 12 2 11 2 10 2 6 1 4 2 3 184 2374
Avg 17.2 12.1 15.8 14.9 7.5 14.5 11.8 7.5 14.3 21.0 3.5 13.5 12.0 23.0 9.0 15.0 12.0 5.5 5.0 3.0 4.0 1.5 12.9
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Michigan ready to empty playbook at Ohio State
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Peppers, Samuel could decide ‘The Game’ As the world waits to hear whether Wilton Speight or John O’Korn will start at quarterback for Michigan against Ohio State, there is a good possibility Saturday’s game will be decided by something other than who’s under center. To have a chance, the Wolverines will need more out of the quarterback than they got against Indiana, when O’Korn completed just seven of 16 passes for 59 yards. But the more compelling battle will be between Jabrill Peppers and Curtis Samuel. Both are do-it-all players for their respective teams, with Samuel a versatile force on the Buckeyes’ offense and Peppers roaming the entire field for Michigan. Both would have darkhorse cases for the Heisman Trophy if Louisville’s Lamar Jackson had not all but wrapped up the award already. And with Peppers expected to see heavy time on offense in a must-win game for the Wolverines, there could be times on Saturday where they seem to be locked in a hyper-athletic call and response. There’s even a good possibility they could match up against each other directly. Peppers works as a linebacker, nickelback and safety on defense, which means he could be tasked with covering Samuel out of the backfield or split out. And if he does, he’ll be responsible for mitigating the constant threat Samuel poses. “People just, they lose their technique, they forget about their technique … when they’re looking at a great athlete,” said senior cornerback Jourdan Lewis. “They just throw it out the window and just like, ‘Let me get this guy covered,’ and not think about their technique. So
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Redshirt sophomore Jabrill Peppers has been electrifying all season, but he might face a playmaker this Saturday who can match him in Curtis Samuel.
that’s really one of the reasons he’s one of the best, because he’s so athletic and he can get in and out of his break so fast.” Through 11 games this season, Samuel has been used heavily as both a running back and a receiver. He has 84 rushes for 650 yards, seven touchdowns and a staggering 7.7 yards per carry. He also has 61 catches for 790 yards and seven touchdowns, each of which would lead Michigan’s entire team. While those numbers are no doubt intimidating, there is a silver lining buried in them. If the Wolverines can find a way to slow down Samuel — easily the most dangerous playmaker they have faced this season — they would be in great position to win. Lewis said he expects to cover Samuel some on Saturday,
which is a good indication Michigan will throw everything it has at him. And that could include Peppers. “I’ve been watching Curtis for a while,” Peppers said. “ … Phenomenal athlete, strong guy, great hands. But you go into it like you go (into covering) anybody else. Line up. Be fundamental. Trust your technique and let your athleticism make the plays.” Peppers should have an outsize impact on the game himself. His defensive numbers are not as gaudy as they were early in the season, when he jockeyed for the national lead in tackles for loss, but he still boasts an impressive 15 on the year. And while shutting down Samuel would be an invaluable contribution, Peppers will likely also need to make an
impact on offense. After a massive breakout game against Rutgers, teams have keyed in on Peppers when he’s been in the game. It hasn’t been effective enough to stifle him completely, but he has seen a slight decrease in big plays over the second half of the season. It would be natural to assume Michigan was saving Peppers’ energy for this week. But he’s never had a reputation as someone with limited energy. “There was one situation last spring ball during our four-hour practices when Coach Harbaugh first got here where we were all beat up, exhausted after a fourhour practice,” said senior tight end Jake Butt, “and it was like the middle of spring ball, so it was when it was really starting to hit us, and we were in a full padded
practice. It was about the threehour mark and Jabrill returned a punt during a punt drill, returned it like 40 yards, and then when he was jogging back to go return another one he did like a cartwheel, back handspring, backflip 360 in full pads. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, I can’t even believe you just did that.’ ” Those are the stories legends are made of, but in a matter of days, Peppers will likely meet someone who can match him. For every big hit or shifty return by Peppers, it will be just as important to stop a long run by Samuel. In a game that has Big Ten, national and maybe even Heisman implications, those stars will loom large. As Peppers and Samuel go, so could The Game.
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Yds 4681 460 189 5330
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Solo 31 43 30 32 29 13 16 10 17 11 10 10 14 14 10 7 6 6 6 6 3 3 2 1 352
Ast 63 22 33 27 11 24 18 23 13 18 16 14 9 5 6 4 5 5 4 2 5 5 5 6 366
Tot 94 65 63 59 40 37 34 33 30 29 26 24 23 19 16 11 11 11 10 8 8 8 7 7 718
TFL 13.5 16.0 11.5 3.5 8.0 8.0 8.5 9.0 8.0 5.0 2.0 1.0 2.5 1.0 0.5 1.0 0.5 1.0 102
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Senior running back De’Veon Smith may have been exaggerating when he described the No. 3 Michigan football team’s playbook as being a foot thick and 2,000 pages long on Tuesday night, but there’s no questioning that coach Jim Harbaugh’s bag of tricks is a deep one. This season alone, the Wolverines have lined up 10 men behind the ball in the now-famous “train” formation, run the read option with redshirt sophomore linebacker Jabrill Peppers as a wildcat quarterback, brought in thirdstring quarterback Shane Morris for the sole purpose of being a lead blocker and called for a two-point conversion from holder Garrett Moores. But now the long-awaited matchup with No. 2 Ohio State is on deck, and Peppers hinted that fans might not have seen anything yet. “Typically, teams save some defensive schemes, offensive schemes, special teams schemes for some games,” he said Tuesday. “This one’s for all the marbles, so everything we’ve got, we’re gonna throw at ’em.” On the Big Ten’s weekly coaches teleconference, Harbaugh was asked about how much preparation throughout the year is focused specifically on Ohio State, and he kept his answer simple: “A lot.” The Wolverines install new plays and modify old ones on a weekly basis, depending on the coaches’ game plan for their opponent. The offense has been especially fluid — the four-man running back rotation seems to have no solid formula except for Smith getting a plurality
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Senior running back De’Veon Smith hopes the Wolverines break out all of their tricks for his last game against Ohio State on Saturday in Columbus.
of the carries, and many of Michigan’s role players have seen their usage vary widely from week to week. Some weeks, the offense has relied heavily on jet sweeps to freshman wide receiver Eddie McDoom. Other weeks, the quarterback fakes the sweep and lets McDoom get open on short routes. And sometimes, like last week against Indiana, the Wolverines don’t use McDoom at all. For obvious reasons, none of Michigan’s players delved into anything specific they had planned for the Buckeyes. Even
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Peppers, one of the offense’s main wild cards, merely laughed when asked if there was anything new in store for him this week. “I guess we’ve gotta see,” he said. According to Peppers, the Wolverines are expecting the same thing from Ohio State. With weapons like quarterback J.T. Barrett (whose legs are as dangerous as his arm), freshman Mike Weber and versatile H-back Curtis Samuel under the tutelage of an experienced coaching staff, the Buckeyes are sure to have a few tricks up their
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sleeves as well. Michigan has seen firsthand how a few big plays can change a game. A 45-yard touchdown from fifth-year senior receiver Amara Darboh and a onehanded interception from senior cornerback Jourdan Lewis — both of which came in the fourth quarter — handed the Wolverines a 14-7 victory over No. 6 Wisconsin. And in a loss to Iowa, Michigan held a 10-0 lead before a safety and some big gains on short passes let the Hawkeyes get back in the game. “When our number is called, we know they have a talented
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secondary, (but) we know we have the players to make plays,” Darboh said. “When the ball’s in the air, I think it’s on us to go up and make the play.” Especially if redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight turns out to be healthy enough to play, creating a few more highlight-reel moments could be the difference on Saturday. And if that means the Wolverines have to go deep into their vast library of plays, that’s what they’ll do. “Hopefully we run all of them,” Smith said. “Every single one of them.”
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Michigan renews series with Lakers Wolverines play Lake Superior State for the first time since the end of the CCHA MIKE PERSAK
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When the Central Collegiate Hockey Association disbanded in 2013, Lake Superior State and Michigan’s hockey teams were split Lake Superior into separate State at conferences. Michigan This weekend, for the first Matchup: time since the LSSU 6-6-0; Michigan 5-4-1 conference breakup, the When: Friday, two teams will Saturday 7:30 P.M. face off again. The former Where: Yost rivalry was Ice Arena not only bred from how often the teams played each other, but also by the competitiveness of each team. In an 11-year span from 1988-1998, the teams combined to win five national titles. “They were really good, and we were pretty good, too,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “A lot of our games were showdown games in the race for first place. Of course, we were in the same conference, so we were playing them four times a year. “Lake (Superior) State was a benchmark team. If we had a winning record against them, that meant we were a good team — like a good team nationally.” Since then, the Lakers (6-6-0) have seen some struggles. The program has suffered through four straight losing seasons including an 8-28-2 mark in 2014-15 — current head coach Damon Whitten’s first season. This year, Lake Superior State — somewhat like the Wolverines (5-4-1) — has been inconsistent. The Lakers jumped out to a 6-1 start this season. Over that time, the team outscored its opponents 35-16, and rose to No. 20 in the USCHO.com poll. After that, they have
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Senior Derrick Walton Jr. and Michigan are out of town again Wednesday.
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Senior defenseman Nolan De Jong captains Michigan back onto the ice against Lake Superior State this weekend.
struggled, losing five games in a row heading into their matchup with Michigan. Despite its recent losing stretch, Lake Superior State still boasts the ninth-best scoring offense in the country. And though the Wolverines are conscious of the Lakers’ offensive potency, they have kept the focus on themselves. “We’ve been really focused on our own systems and kind of working off the (Boston University) weekend and going off of that,” said senior defenseman Nolan De Jong. “Everyone looks at the stats, and everyone looks at the
scores, so we know they’re going to be able to score a lot of goals. But we’ve been really focused on our defense and making sure we’re a solid unit back there.” So far this year, that unit has been solid. Michigan has the ninth-ranked scoring defense in the country, keyed in part by strong goaltending play. Freshman Hayden Lavigne has been especially stout, as he has the best save percentage in the country at .956. Michigan’s game against Lake Superior State comes after somewhat of a down period for the Wolverines. They played just one exhibition
“They were really good, and we were pretty good, too.”
game against the United States National Team Development Program’s U-18 team this past weekend and will have an early Thursday practice before taking the rest of the day off for Thanksgiving. Though that bit of rest can be nice for a team in the midst of a long season, it is still a long break between meaningful games. And that’s a break that Michigan is excited to end. “Bye weeks are nice, but you look at how many times we practice, and it’ll be 11 times before we get to play an actual two-game series again,” De Jong said. “Maybe it’s a bit of a refresher just to kind of get away for a second, and then get back at it. But I think we’re all excited to get back and play a two-game series and get in the groove again.”
Wolverines headed to U.S. Virgin Islands SYLVANNA GROSS Daily Sports Writer
Instead of eating turkey, the Michigan women’s basketball team will be sipping coconut water on the beaches of St. Thomas. The Wolverines flew Tuesday morning to the U.S. Virgin Islands to participate in a marquee preseason tournament, The Paradise Jam, from Thursday through Saturday. According to its website, the Paradise Jam is the second-most popular tourist attraction for the islands, right after Carnival. Michigan will spend this weekend playing against its toughest opponents of the season by far: No. 25 Gonzaga on
Thursday, Winthrop on Friday and No. 10 Florida State on Saturday. The quick succession of games will start a stretch of seven straight games on the road, and the whole team is bracing for the challenge. Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico said she expects the team to be exhausted. “Besides that, I think everyone’s going to be in kind of a similar boat. It’s an exciting opportunity for us to take our team to a place where most of them haven’t been and to experience a little bit of time away from Ann Arbor. “Part of the college experience is having a great opportunity to do this. It’s going to be great for our team, and we’ll have some time to spend with each other away
from where we’ve been for the last couple of months.” The Wolverines won their most recent contest against Western Michigan on Monday with a final tally of 66-40. Though the margin was considerable, Michigan had just made program history by scoring more than 100 points in three straight games, with the closest of those wins by 38 against Oakland on Nov. 11. Gonzaga just made it onto the Associated Press Top 25 list, but the Bulldogs are definitely worthy of their berth. They are coming off the program’s first win at Stanford, which has lost just eight games at home since 2007. Forward Jill Barta leads Gonzaga with 16 points per
game. The redshirt sophomore was just named the West Coast Conference Player of the Week for her performance against the Cardinals, where she shot 8-for-10 from the field. “It’s going to be interesting because Gonzaga is an experienced, long team that’s going to pose some problems for us,” Barnes Arico said. “They’re really experienced and real good post players and really play well together. They’re coming off a great win at Stanford.” The Wolverines received 36 points in the coaches’ poll — just one slot away from making it onto the list. Next up after the Bulldogs will be Winthrop, which is on a three-game losing streak. The Eagles are having trouble with depth and turnovers. Against their most recent opponent, East Tennessee, only one player reached double digits. To finish out the series, the Wolverines face the Seminoles, who boast guard Brittany Brown — currently the only Florida State player to garner 500 rebounds, 300 assists and 200 steals. The Seminoles’ other asset is Shakayla Thomas, who has led her team in points in three out of the four games this season. “So each night will be a little bit different,” Barnes Arico said. “I think we need to just try to take advantage of our strengths and try to continue and go in transition and use our speed and use our ability to score the basketball.” The short turnaround between Western Michigan on Monday and Gonzaga on Thursday won’t leave much room to practice or work on details. Sophomore center Hallie Thome voiced concern about the Wolverines’ starts. Thome does believe, however, that the team mindset will be a true asset for Michigan. Despite impressive players like junior guard Katelynn Flaherty, no one player is concerned about stuffing the stat sheet. “We’re very excited to play more competition,” senior Siera Thompson said. “This is a test for us, and we’re all prepared. “We’re so excited to just enjoy the sunshine. And those hotel beds.”
‘M’ travels south for first true road game BRANDON CARNEY Daily Sports Writer
The last time the Michigan men’s basketball team played an opponent from the Southeastern Conference, former Michigan Kentucky guard Aaron at South Harrison Carolina stuck a dagger in the Matchup: Michigan Wolverines’ 4-0; South heart, hitting Carolina 4-0 a 3-pointer with two When: Wednesday seconds 5 P.M. left, sinking Where: Michigan’s Colonial hope of Life Arena making TV/Radio: consecutive ESPNU Final Fours. The stakes will not be nearly as high when the Wolverines (4-0) travel to South Carolina (4-0) on Wednesday, but that won’t make Michigan take this earlyseason clash lightly. After two decisive victories in New York over Marquette and Southern Methodist, the 25th-ranked Wolverines hope the momentum from their impressive display in the Big Apple will carry over as they face their first true road test of the season. The Gamecocks also enter Wednesday undefeated through four games, but they have taken some punches getting to this point. South Carolina needed a buzzer-beater to beat Monmouth at home last week, after it blew an 18-point second-half lead and allowed the Hawks to come back and force overtime. South Carolina still has the pieces to go toe to toe with Michigan, though. Guard Sindarius Thornwell leads the Gamecocks in scoring, putting up 21 points per game thus far. At 6-foot5, Thornwell will be one of the taller guards the Wolverines have faced to date, and he will give junior guard Muhammad-Ali AbdurRahkman and senior guard Zak Irvin a difficult defensive assignment. South Carolina expects to get a performance out of Thornwell similar to what Michigan gets out of Irvin, a solid shooter who has many offensive capabilities and can hold his own defensively as well. “(Thornwell) is a consistent 35- to 40-percent shooter over his career,” said Michigan coach John Beilein. “(Thornwell and Irvin) are two seniors that really know how to play. He’s probably shooting the ball a little bit better than Zak is right now. I don’t know if his assist-toturnover is quite as good, but he’s just a good player. When you have a senior that’s been starting for a few years, that’s
what (he) should be.” Guard PJ Dozier, who hit the winning shot against Monmouth, brings a skill set and body similar to Thornwell’s that could also trouble the Wolverines. Beilein tried to recruit Dozier to Michigan back when the guard was in prep school, but due to family ties, Dozier chose to play for the Gamecocks. “I saw him as a multiposition player,” Beilein said. “A guy that was more (Caris LeVert)-like who could see the floor. He’s just a player, a 6-(foot)-6 player.” In the frontcourt, forwards Chris Silva and Maik Kotsar will match up better with the Wolverines than Marquette or Southern Methodist did. Silva is the more dangerous of the pair, averaging 10 points and seven rebounds. The 6-foot-9 forward will most likely be guarded by junior forward DJ Wilson, who has been Michigan’s most versatile defender through its opening games. The Wolverines will also be exposed to the most aggressive defense they have seen so far this season. South Carolina currently tops the SEC in rebound margin, grabbing 12.5 more boards than its opponents each game, while also forcing an average of 14 turnovers. With that said, Michigan will have to limit the Gamecocks in transition, especially having to watch for outside shooting threats. “Although (South Carolina is) not big in steals, they are a pressure team,” Beilein said. “And they’re going to try and run us out of our stuff, and we’ve got to be really good making that extra pass. We need to keep our turnovers down. They’re forcing 14 or 15 turnovers a game. They also have 14 or 15 a game so if we can play one of those games where we’re at nine or 10 turnovers … we’ll be in good shape.” South Carolina will be a tough test for the Wolverines, especially on the road. But handling the Gamecocks may only be part of the challenge Michigan will face in Columbia. After their triumph in New York, the Wolverines will need to stay grounded, as excitement around the program has risen to levels unseen since that game against Kentucky in the Elite Eight. “In the grand scheme of college basketball, we haven’t done anything,” said senior guard Derrick Walton Jr. “I think everyone has a great sense of that and nobody’s walking around and lollygagging and saying we’ve accomplished anything. We haven’t accomplished anything because there’s still a good 25 to 30 games left. We’re excited about what we have accomplished, and we’re just eager for more.”
“In the grand scheme ... we haven’t done anything.”
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t h e s t at e m e n t Magazine Editor: Karl Williams
Photo Editor: Zoey Holmstrom
Managing Editor: Laura Schinagle
Deputy Editors: Nabeel Chollampat Lara Moehlman
Creative Director: Emilie Farrugia
Copy Editors: Emily Campbell Alexis Nowicki Taylor Grandinetti
Design Editor: Shane Achenbach
Editor in Chief: Shoham Geva
How To: Pledging for Unity in the Face of Divisiveness B Y S Y LVA N N A G R O S S
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’m sure you’re really tired of hearing more about President-elect Donald Trump. Good, because this isn’t about him. This is about me. So, I’m obviously going to start with an inspirational quote that I did not say. “My mom used to say, ‘You can’t fall off the floor’ ” — Bakari Sellers, vice chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party. This past weekend I traveled to Washington, D.C. to participate as a representative of the University of Michigan Hillel in the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America. It was a little life changing and it’s where I heard Sanders speak. At the GA — that’s the cool, hip abbreviated way to say it — I got to sit four rows away from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (who claimed that she is proud to be the Notorious RBG), to Skype with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to be in contact with congressman Ted Deutch (D—FL), to be front row at a Kafe Shahor Hazak (“Strong Black Coffee” in Hebrew) hip-hop concert and to participate in multiple breakout sessions on philanthropy, media during the presidential election and the Jewish voice in Israel. Just pointing out, the above paragraph is only one sentence. Haters back off. In one of the breakout sessions, I sat in the audience of a panel filled with two Jewish African Americans, Yavilah McCoy and Gamal Palmer and Sellers, a political commentator for CNN. McCoy was strong in her stance to inspire us to march forward confident in our identities, Palmer preached the value of respecting those identities and Sellers spoke of his belief that we will all be all right. Expectedly, I walked away feeling inspired. I also had the chance to visit, as a part of the first Jewish group, the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The exclusivity of the NMAAHC (the museum is booked through March) can be equated to Hamilton, but it’s worth it. The museum is breathtakingly amazing. But the main point of this article is about a meaningful conversation I had the day after visiting the museum
with some fellow Michiganders. In brief, we spoke about how amazing the museum was, but how we did not think we felt the same impact because of the privilege of our skin. We spoke about how that wasn’t inherently bad to not understand the full weight of the museum, as we are sure others do not feel the same impact when they visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum or Yad Vashem in Israel. Though the Jewish voice is entwined with the Civil Rights movement in America, it is not the spotlight. We cannot claim that. Within this conversation among Jewish women, I want to point out two major points. The first is that we spoke about it. We talked and explained how we were affected and how we felt while maintaining the sanctity of those who were directly affected. The second is that we were there and we were inspired. We didn’t “otherize” ourselves, as Sellers puts it, or stake claim to why we were being marginalized. Because. We. Weren’t. I came away from that weekend making a pledge to myself that I will do what I think is right. I made a pledge to worry about my neighbor as much as I worry about myself. And I made a pledge to be a part of the conversation, and if conversation is too little, the fight. I know so much has been written already in the past week, and my voice isn’t adding much to the conversation. But this is as much a pledge to you as it is to myself. I have not mentioned political names sans the introduction, I have not discussed the election and I have not mentioned party names. I am a future lawyer, I see both conservative and liberal viewpoints and though I highly lean in one direction, I do not judge those who lean in the other. I believe in democracy and I believe in each other. One day, I might look back and be regretful I chose to be very careful with my words in this column. And be regretful that I did not voice everything that I wanted to. But in truth, I don’t think I will. McCoy said this to us: “This is a time for action, not for words.” And I hope whoever knows me will attest in these coming years, as I become a real adult, that my actions will be just and my words will be few.
At the GA, a very common dialogue was, “We have not forgotten,” to remind ourselves that as the Jewish community we have not forgotten our past. And so it is our duty to now stand up and protect those whose future is in danger. As a Jewish woman, I have not forgotten. And now is not a time to keep quiet and forget, either. Your economic status is not more important than the safety and security of the person next to you. Your political agenda is not more important than the safety and security of the person next door. Your beliefs about Israel, the Islamic State, in building a wall or others is not more important than the safety and security of your friends and family. I have faith in America. I am not being naive, and I am not succumbing to the disillusionment of this nation. I do not see the danger in my day-to-day life, but that does not mean it does not exist. I call on you to speak up and be heard as we enter into the real world. We are the future. We must be the change and break from our liberal bubble and see the world for what it is, and not what it should be. Listen to Sellers’ mom. How to: Have political conversations with someone you don’t agree with as an adult 1. Are you both in a combative mood, angry and unwilling to listen? 2. If yes to 1, don’t do it 3. Are you both cool, calm and collected? 4. If yes to 3, move forward 5. Listen and engage with the other’s background 6. Speak your mind 7. You will disagree 8. The world will not end 9. Don’t worry, you’re obviously in the right 10. They are the worst 11. People are the worst 12. Fake an excuse and disengage from the 13. conversation 13. “My mom is calling, she pays my tuition bill so I should probably talk to her” 14. If 9-12 don’t happen, congratulations, you win
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on the record: fake news “A fake story claiming Pope Francis — actually a refugee advocate — endorsed Mr. Trump was shared almost a million times, likely visible to tens of millions... It’s correction was barely heard. Of course Facebook had a significant influenece in this last election’s outcome.”
“I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything.” — PAUL HORNER, a fake news writer, on his influence in the election.
“While the percentage of misinformation is relatively small, we have much ahead on our roadmap.... But I want you to know that we have always taken this seriously, we understand how important the issue is for our community and we are committed to getting this right.” —MARK ZUCKERBERG, Facebook CEO, in a Facebook post Saturday, November 19.
—ZEYNEP TUFEKCI, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina who specializes in the social impact of technology, on the role of fake news in the recent presidential election.
Copy That: The Strikethrough
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BY DANIELLE COLBURN
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ast winter, I struggled with writing an application for a program that I desperately wanted to be admitted to. The most fundamental section of the application consisted of five personal short answer questions. Once I had settled on the ideas I wanted to express in my responses, I faced a whole new challenge: how to write them. I wrote freely and tried not to get in my own way, but faced a few worries when I went back to revise. This application was supposed to reflect me — but could it reflect me too much? I wanted to use a strikethrough and a few parenthetical asides, but would these cross some kind of invisible line separating acceptable from too personal? I struggled with deciding how much to allow myself as a person to come through in my answers. And by struggled, I mean struggled. I was doing homework at the same table as a few friends at the time, and I interrupted all of them to ask for help. I called my mom to talk to her about it. I may have sought advice via text. As a copy editor, my job is to proofread. My job is to fact-check, to look closely at grammar and syntax and to intuitively understand how to polish articles before they go on to be published in our newspaper. While I’m not necessarily editing for voice, editors still want to make sure that the tone of the Daily pieces follow the professional standard we strive to uphold. In this role, my waffling and questioning disappears. I trust myself to read the work of others and suggest a rewrite for clarity or a change in punctuation. I love this position. I am at my most confident in the writing process when I’m reading work with a critical eye. Obviously, reading the work of others and revising your own work are two completely different situations. My hesitancy in my application is only one instance of many in which I struggled with how to write. I have hit this obstacle in many of my other writings, some academic, some personal. It’s not that I’m uncomfortable with my ability to write. The problem is rooted in indecisiveness, in an inability to commit to my voice and move forward with the text, whether that be an application, an email or a tweet.
For many writers, writing is deeply personal. It’s almost impossible to distance yourself enough from your own work to revise it fairly. I strongly believe that it is always valuable to have another person (or a few people) review your work. However, questioning my own voice was getting in the way of my writing. It was drawing me away from how I wanted to write and toward this undefined notion of how I thought I should write. Even as I asked for advice about the strikethrough and parenthetical phrases, I knew that I wasn’t really unsure of these devices. I liked them and wanted to use them. Frankly, I thought they were funny, and laughing at my own jokes is a pretty key part of my personality. I wasn’t looking for deciding votes from the people I asked — I was looking for permission to be myself in my writing. After thinking about how much time I spent asking for someone to give me the go-ahead to write the way I was comfortable writing, I realized that something had to change. While I wasn’t going to be able to get the distance in my own writing and revising that I have when I’m editing articles for the Daily, I had to try and let myself be both a writer and an editor. I had to trust my writing skills and my voice. I had to trust my experience reading with a critical eye and use it for my own work. The goal was never to be able to write a perfect piece of work on my own, but to manage to free myself from the strange limbo I encountered each time I couldn’t decide if I was crossing a line into using my individual voice too much. I want to turn in papers that adhere to high academic standards, of course. But I also want to turn in papers that I’m happy with personally. I’m not at the place yet where I’ve stopped asking for approval entirely. I still text my mom asking for help with emails. I might not ever be able to stop questioning completely, but I’m doing better. I don’t have any authority on this matter beyond my own personal experience. With that in mind, if there’s something I’m trying to remind myself of on a regular basis because of the demands of being an English major, it’s this: don’t be afraid to write yourself into your paper.
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“I am motivated by my mom. Although she has passed, I still feel her pushing me to reach new goals and become the best version of myself. Every day, I wake up wanting to make her proud. Since I don’t have the opportunity to talk to my mom, I have to believe that she is a part of the opportunities and blessings that happen to me; that this is her way of communicating with me. I don’t want to take one of these for granted. This is the constant force that drives me to work towards my future. Whatever that future may be, I know my mom was watching over me and I will continue work to make her proud.” – LSA junior Jane Smith
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Echoes from a letterpress: A design editor reflects on the history and nature of print
By Francesca Kielb Managing Design Editor Everyone says it: Print is dead. Newspapers across the country have been going through a process of intense change, as their primary method of distribution moves from print to digital. But my position as a managing design editor for The Michigan Daily means that I lay out the front page for the print version of a paper, design the layout of photos, the creation of graphics. I create the look of the paper, the feel of it. Looking at myself and my work for the Daily through I wondered how many before me had toiled over that front page, and how few may follow. I was conflicted. I don’t subscribe to the pure nostalgia some hold for the screenless days, when books were the primary source of information. While it’s easy to dramatize the transition from print to digital using terms like death, I understood the very real benefits. What I didn’t understand is how this transition would change my relationship with the design of the paper. Would seeing how many clicks I got on a page mean as much as seeing a stranger holding up the newspaper I had designed the night before? Is there a value shift when the paper ceases to be an object? Can I still say I made something? If I couldn’t control what was happening, maybe I could at least understand it. Perhaps I could understand the ways that the paper has changed over time as technology advanced. And I found some
answers in a library basement with a bearded man named Fritz. *** One of the Daily’s copy editors had told me about the man who runs the printing press for the Wolverine Press, a letterpress shop operated by Fritz Swanson, a lecturer in the English Department. Apparently he had been there so long that when choosing his own uniqname and email he was able to pick whatever three letters he wanted. The editor told me he had showed her trays of old metal blocks of type, which they use to make books, and showed her how to use them. That’s when I realized I had no idea how the newspaper was actually made. When I was finished designing at the end of each night I simply sent over the InDesign file to the printer, and when I woke up 10,000 copies just magically appeared on stands throughout the campus. I drafted an email to Fritz’s three-letter address asking if he could take a few minutes of his time to explain printing presses and how they have changed since the Daily began printing in 1890. At 10 a.m. on a Thursday, I wandered through the basement of the Duderstadt Library looking for Conference Room 100. The only people I know who go to a North Campus library are in the College of Engineering. Even though I am a senior,
the space is dark and unfamiliar to me. The fluorescent lights flickered on the cement block walls. As I scanned the glass enclosed rooms lining the central space, I saw a black metal machine. It was an old letterpress. Smaller than I expected, maybe the size of a kitchen island, it was meant for personal, not industrial, use. I grabbed my pen and notebook and entered the room. Three people were engrossed in conversation, which I interrupted. They stared at me. There were two men and one woman. Each man had a beard — one, old and silver, the other, young and dark. Having heard the story about him being at the University for such a long time, I turned to the man with the silver beard and said, “I’m Francesca Kielb, from The Michigan Daily.” He looked confused. The younger man stuck out his hand and introduced himself. “I’m Fritz.” *** The room was covered in shelves filled with tiny metal blocks. Each shelving unit was a different font, each drawer a different weight of a respective font (bold, bold italic, medium, medium italic, etc.) These were the types of building blocks used for all print materials created between 1450 and 1950. This small room in the basement library was transformed into a letterpress studio, which were once in common use, and the
three people in the room facilitated this travel back in time. When I mentioned that I was from The Michigan Daily, the woman, Rebecca Chung perked her head up. She said she was an editor at The Michigan Daily from 1985 to 1987. According to Rebecca, that period of time saw the greatest change in the way that the paper was made. “One year we were using typewriters and the next we were using Macs,” Rebecca explained to me. Her presence in this room suggested where her preference lay. I asked why, given the grueling process, she preferred the years she used a typewriter. “Typewriter method allowed you and forced you to think concisely,” she said. “Everything I learned about editing I learned from The Michigan Daily. We were brutal.” I thought back to the night before, which I had spent at my design desk, on one of the iMacs that populate the Daily’s newsroom. Nights usually begin with a meeting of all the section editors. I find out from News which stories they want to put on the front page, and I talk with Photo about which images they want to highlight. I then confirm if we have any infographics or illustrations for the night, then oversee the design and layout of all special inserts. The night always ends with a call to the printers; after the articles have made their way through rounds of senior editors, managing editors and Copy; after I lay out the photos, place the articles on the front page and organize the spill; after the infographics and illustrations are exported as JPEGs so that they can be viewed online. After all of that, once the call happens, only four people remain in the room. I save the pages on one of the iMacs. The editor-in-chief dials the number. “Did you get everything?” she speaks into the phone. “The pages are all there? Great, have a great night!” She hangs up. Then she announces to the few of us left, “We made a paper!” Now, I imagined creating pages without our library of templates, without the ability to drag and drop, without autosettings that ensure the text is always aligned and properly sized. What would my night have looked like? *** Fritz pulled up a chair and began his story. It started with the letterpress. “You’ve worked in letterpress?” he asked. I gave a nervous laugh and said “a little bit.” I have seen someone else print a poster once but never actually done anything myself. But in that moment it felt like a lie. Over email I made it clear I wanted to learn, but then, sitting in that basement in a wrinkled blouse, clutching my pen and notebook while holding up my recording app on my iPhone, I wanted to be taken seriously. “It’s a relief printing process. It’s a recombinant process,” he continued without skipping a beat, “What Gutenberg did that was special was he created a system for casting metal type and being able to rearrange it. You’ve seen metal type before? You’ve handled it?” “Yes,” I replied, again stretching my single interaction with a press into some actual experience. I nodded a lot. He told me that while letterpresses had been used on smaller scales since the mid-1400s, newspapers were an 18th-century invention. Imagine a room. You are a worker, surrounded by other workers and their trays. You place letter by letter by hand, forming words which eventually form paragraphs that eventually form columns that eventually form one page. You can smell the metal. And it gets worse. The whole page has to be laid out backwards in order for it to appear properly on the paper that gets pressed onto it — thus why it is called relief printing. So you are letter by letter forming an illegible inverse of the actual page, and if the tray is so much as slightly knocked during the chaos of the creation process, the tiny metal letters will fall and scatter onto the floor — and you will have to start from scratch. I’m struck by the physicality of it, people making something with their hands. To them, I imagine, what I do has nothing to do with the making of a paper. To them, I imagine, my work is so far removed that it might as well be displayed the way it was created — on a screen. Fritz divides the newspaper’s constraints at this time into
three categories: labor, materials and time, or how many people can work in that space and for how long, how many sets of metal type can be bought and stored at one time and how quickly can the pages be assembled. The design of the front page is merely “a consequence of those pressures,” he said. For example, the size of a newspaper today stems from the size that was convenient for one man to make in a mold in the 17th and 18th century. The sheet sizes were set by the manufacturer and were essentially determined by ergonomics — the largest size that was still manageable for a single worker to handle. Every change, every cut or adjustment to this set size was another added process, meaning added work and time. Making a paper that filled an entire sheet, then, was the most efficient and cost effective solution. As Fritz put it, it’s “the reason why a newspaper is a newspaper, and not a news book. That is why magazines didn’t come about until much later in the game. Thus 18th-century constraints have determined the sizing standards for an era with infinite possibilities.” These conditions are why my InDesign file that I drag and click and arrange each night is the size and shape that it is. There is no other reason. And it doesn’t end with the paper size. Why is text arranged into narrow columns in newspapers rather than into a wider setting like books? There is a reason for The Michigan Daily’s ultra-condensed, four-column design on its original front pages in 1890. On the tray where text was laid out there would be set galleys, or channels built up on the press to divide the words — metal lines of separation — making columns a norm in newspaper printing. At this point Rebecca steps in. “When I was working at the Daily, I didn’t realize it,” she said. “But we had those cases, I had to send copy down by 6 o’clock at night, and then we had a typesetter named Lucius, Lucius Doyle, and he was grouchy and mean and tough and we loved him. Once he was done doing the hot metal setting, we would go look at it there and we would look at a print and we would make final decisions. The more metal involved, the fewer corrections he was willing to make.” She paused, recalling the year before they transitioned to the Mac. “I had no idea that I cared about it so much while I was there,” Rebecca said. “It was all just sinking in. But I’ll let you two get back to talking.” She returned to her work setting up the new letterpress studio. Her self-realization prompted internal debate. Why do I care that the digital file I create gets duplicated 10,000 times on paper? Why does it matter that I can pick it up on my way to class and hold it in my hands? Why is that more meaningful to me that pulling it up on a screen? And lastly, will I care like she cares when it dies? “I’m glad she brought that up,” Fritz adds. “Because the Daily was still set — do you know about the linotype machine at all?” I lie, laugh awkwardly and say, “A little.” I think he knows by now what my responses really mean, because he explains it anyway. He explains that columns such as ads would stay set up week to week to save labor. But in the meantime the rest still had to be constructed by hand — that is, until the linotype machine was made in the 1880s (though not broadly used until the early 20th century.) Now, instead of hand placing each letter, you could use a typewriter. Each letter you pressed on the typewriter would prompt that same letter in real life, in metal block form, to slide down into a line on the newspaper tray. You could type a single line of text, then that text would be cast in metal together into what was called a slug. Now, say you trip and the tray spills on the floor. Instead of having tons of individual letters scattered everywhere, you had complete lines, formed together, which could be picked up and rearranged again back to the proper order. This one machine cut work time significantly. This development explains why the column grid begins to loosen up in the early 20th century. The linotype was able to adjust the length of the lines (or slugs) that were cast, and
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therefore headlines begin to span multiple columns and graphics begin to enter into the designs because there was no longer hand-setting of pages. The efficiency allowed for flexibility. Yet it is important to note that, while minor changes have been made, papers continue to stick with essentially the same columns that were made 150 years prior. Fritz paused. It had been more than 30 minutes and I apologized for keeping him from the letterpress. He told me he needed to get back to it soon, but wanted to finish the story. I looked up and saw the other two time travelers in the room, tinkering with the letterpress machine and organizing stacks of hand-printed papers on a table. He finished the story. “It was probably a roller manufacturer in the 1950s who observed this effect first,” Fritz said. “If you print onto a glossy surface — like plastic — then if you press that glossy surface back onto paper, it will deposit that ink.” The capability to print with ink on plastic meant that presses no longer had the restrictions of metal type, and paper could instead be rolled through cylinders and printed. This technique of drawing paper through cylinders meant that the paper could be fed much more quickly, further improving the efficiency of production. Imagine you have been working a letterpress all of your life. You are accustomed to the metal blocks of type, the trays. You hold onto it for as long as you can, but eventually you just can’t compete. Offset presses are taking over. They demand less labor, they require simpler tools and they take less time. It’s a no-brainer. Fritz told me The New York Times, despite changing technology, printed on a letterpress until 1977. There was a video shot by one of the linotype operators about the last day of production on a letterpress.As I heard this, I sat there and wondered, is that heroic, to be the last to stick to a dying technology? I was nervous to bring up the potential ecological benefit of print’s death to a man setting up a letterpress, but I was curious to hear his perspective and surprised by his response. “We are in a position now where you should only print things that you have to print — that must be in print … so how can we make this more utilitarian, more functional, more useful?” he said. “How can we leverage print so that we are not just echoing the past mindlessly?” I didn’t expect that from a man who has dedicated his life to print. Fritz knew that the cost of printing was high — not just financially. He was not of the mindset that business should just continue as usual, quite the contrary. His was a mandate: to understand the past and not press repeat, to ask questions and to print that that must be in print. But how do we determine what must be in print? Does our small, local, student run newspaper make that cut and — if so, why? Time passes, and the restrictions that originally demanded every design decision no longer exist, yet the conventions linger on, a remnant of technologies long buried. Print design may just be a remnant of history based on prior necessity, repeated blindly. Because, while I may have changed fonts, increased graphics and enlarged photos, there are still six, thin columns of text on our front page. Does that deserve to be repeated 10,000 times a day? When I got up to leave, Fritz went searching through the drawers and pulled out a small piece of cardstock. On it was every letter and number from his favorite font, Kennerley. He had set each letter of metal type, one by one, on the letterpress and printed it by hand. He reached out and gave it to me. I held it in my hands. It was beautiful.
PHOTO BY VIRGINIA LOZANO / Daily
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016 // The Statement
Star-Crossed Lovers
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’m going to tell you a story. A romantic story, one including star-crossed lovers, international travel and defying odds and cultural barriers. However, I will warn you now, the end of this seemingly perfect story is yet to be determined. The scene opens on an island on the west coast of Norway, a few hours south of Bergen, the country’s second-largest city. An American girl arrives with four 11-year-olds in tow, nervous, but ready for the monthlong adventure she’s signed up for as a leader at a utopic international children’s village. Romance is the last thing on her mind. The hugs and kisses of 11-year-olds seem like all she will ever need to feel full and loved. Enter Fredrik. The Norwegian leader from Bergen. The sole male leader in a group of 10 strong women. Tall, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, great with kids — a real Prince Charming. He meets the American girl, but it wasn’t love at first sight. As she would later discover, he didn’t think he’d enjoy her company at all — she seemed so American and “too happy” (whatever that means). But isn’t that how all good love stories go? Two totally different people from totally different worlds, magnetized by fate despite the odds stacked against them? It certainly wasn’t easy for these two, this modern-day Romeo and Juliet. Although mutual feelings (or at least attraction) developed almost immediately, both were drawn into the vortex of rumors and drama that only a group of almost 50 preteens can create. She was sure that he preferred the Brazilian leader (of course), and he was quite positive she had her eye on the only other adult male at camp — another Norwegian, this one a staff member — who the kids were already trying to couple with our unwilling heroine. One night, in a horrific and embarrassing twist of fate, while the adults played a game aimed at revealing deep, dark secrets, the girl made a costly error. After spending a promising stomach-butterflyfilled day walking in the mountains with the only boy on her mind, she made a mistake during the game that led to the widely held belief that she had feelings for the wrong Norwegian. She spent the rest of the night with a pit in her stomach, telling anyone who would listen that it was a mistake, hoping it would make it back to Fredrik, but all in vain. He spent the rest of the night fuming, telling himself that he would stop his feelings for her in their tracks. They went on like this for many weeks, “coincidentally” sitting next to each other at every meal, volunteering for the same activities, the same groups. They had separately reached the same conclusion: It simply wasn’t meant to be. Until Gala Night, that is. The second to last night of camp. Everyone dressed up, the girls flaunting fancy hair and makeup, the boys pretending to shave their babysmooth faces and spraying on enough cologne to drop a horse. Fancy dinner, games, dancing. Fredrik’s station, coincidentally, was right next to the girl’s, and they spent all night making moon eyes at each other and wishing they were together, knowing that their time was short. Soon they would once again be a million miles and worlds apart, back to their normal lives like the other had never existed. Later that night, with the kids put grudgingly to bed,
by Emily Campbell, Copy Chief the leaders had a little farewell party of their own. They took a few bottles of wine down to the rocky ledge of the fjord, and talked and played games under the Norwegian midnight sun, enjoying each other’s company, squeezing as many memories as possible into their few remaining hours. The girl had conveniently forgotten to bring a raincoat, and who came to her rescue? Fredrik, of course. He offered her a seat next to him, and when it began to drizzle allowed her to share his raincoat, protecting her from the cold and the damp of the Norwegian summer. Their legs pressed together under the table, their heads leaned in towards each other ever so slightly, both hyper-aware of the electricity moving between them, but neither willing to believe the other was feeling the same. The middle of the night came and went, and the leaders made their way back to the campsite cold, wet
To be alone for a few more hours before their tearful farewell. And it was so tearful — they both cried and cried, and held each other so tightly before she walked away toward a car ready to whisk her away from her fairy tale, bound for the airport and her real life. *** I’ll let you in on a little secret: I am the girl in the story. (Surprised? Me too.) This is what happened next in my personal little love saga: I went home, sad and expecting to have to somehow forget this boy, the first to intrigue me in a very long time, because how could anything ever come of our short-lived international summer romance? But then an impossible message pinged onto my cracked iPhone screen: He didn’t want it to end, he wanted to come visit me. And I said yes. After months of anticipation and the horrors of longdistance and a six-hour time difference, he was here. Fredrik, my Norwegian fairy-tale prince, here in Ann Arbor. Tailgating a Michigan football game decked out in maize and blue, sitting across from me at Zingerman’s, cooking breakfast for me in my kitchen. It was perfect, it was a dream. Too perfect, in fact, because how is it fair that someone who makes me so wonderfully, blissfully, happy can also be so impossible, so unattainable? He lives 3,714 miles away, I’ve looked it up. How could anything ever come of this? Is it stupid to keep investing my time and energy, to keep trying? I don’t have good answers for these questions. And I’ve obviously realized that this is not a perfect fairy tale story, because those don’t exist in real life (at least not mine). But I’m travelling to Norway again this Christmas. Fredrik and I have a Skype date every week, the most recent lasting five perfect hours. Maybe I am crazy, but the way I see it, relationships at this stage in life tend to be hard and hit barriers no matter what. Perhaps less dramatic, concrete barriers than the Atlantic Ocean, but college students struggle to find what they need in a relationship, graduates move to different parts of the country (or, ahem, world), people find that they grow in different directions, young professionals find that they have different goals for their lives than they once imagined. The way I see it, any relationship at ILLUSTRATION BY ELISE HAADSMA this juncture, or maybe ever, is going to and just drunk enough on wine and laughter to make it be fraught with difficult decisions and uncertainty. impossible to go immediately to bed. Our star-crossed The future simply is uncertain for me right now. I am lovers sat together once more. He gathered every ounce careening toward graduation with very few ideas of of bravery and drunken abandon he could muster, and he where I will be next, a prospect that is both intoxicatingly gently took her hand under the table. Everything went exciting and completely terrifying. Nothing is out of the still and silent in her mind, her focus lasered in on how realm of possibilities, so I won’t discount any possible his hand felt in hers. She couldn’t believe it, but it was future, no matter how unexpected or unrealistic it may real. One by one the others trickled off to bed, and the seem at face value. It’s the same with my crazy, oddstwo were finally left alone. defying and frustrating long-distance relationship: I have On the morning of her last day in his country, they no idea where it’s going to go, if anywhere, but why reject woke up in each other’s arms for the very first time, not it as impossible when the world is only just opening up quite able to believe what had transpired. He said, “Can its possibilities to me? Why end a story before it’s even this not be awkward today?” and she responded, “ … I begun? My life is not a perfect fairy tale, it’s much more sure hope so?” He laughed and clarified: “I mean, maybe exciting — anything could happen. this could happen again?” And it did happen again. After an exhausting blur of a final day, filled with teasing, loaded eye contact, and constant blushing, they were able to escape once more.
Wednesday, November 23, 2016 // The Statement
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At the Interface of Medicine and Art by Yoshiko Iwai, Daily Staff Reporter
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he palms of my hands inch forward, slow and steady, farther and farther away from my body. My eyes close, surrounded by darkness, with dissonant sounds that clatter and ring like hovering shards of fragmented glass occasionally colliding, I feel my hands quiver in space, this dimensionless zero-gravity place. I wait in this darkness, for some sort of cue, a sign, a voice that’ll tell me exactly what to do and what to feel. Maybe a minute or so of this, and the space just beyond my hands that are stretched before me feel different — it’s charged with energy, some kinesphere crashing toward me, molecules vibrating as they bounce off the ridges in my skin. They feel warm. And then I feel a touch. It starts on my pinky, the slightest, lightest brush, hardly palpable. It timidly presses into the outskirts of my palms, and then slowly shifts to the rest of my hand. The thumb is last. I feel a sense of warmth and humility, a sort of security in a place of loss. When his hands retract, I am left alone in the dark again. Touch — it sounds sensual, weirdly sexy and uncomfortable at the same time, but what exactly is it? And do we have any idea how powerful “touch” is? I know I didn’t, and still don’t. Last Wednesday, I participated in an event hosted by the Medical Arts program in the University of Michigan’s Medical School and hospital. It was a physician-dancer collaborative event, a first of its kind. My professor in the dance department invited me to demonstrate and perform at the function, surrounded by current medical practitioners and physicians in training. When I say I am a double major in dance and neuroscience, 50 percent of reactions are a form of congratulatory amusement, and the remaining are a combination of confusion, doubt and impossibility. “Well that don’t make no sense, does it?” my Uber driver scoffs. After the twinge of animosity fades, I usually force a laugh and say something like, “Well, there’s more overlap than you think,” and change the subject. The problem is more widespread and disheartening than I had originally thought. The arts and sciences are segregated in their own worlds, the practitioners siloed into their study they often forget the other’s presence, or publicly categorized as entities with no possibility for exchange and integration. The option for crossing over hardly even exists. We are in a world where we are overstimulated by our senses and completely saturated with information that is handed to us in school and often spewed at us by society. To understand a person is to understand the world they inhabit, and the world they wish to be a part of. Trying to understand a person without their world, the context and background, seems to neglect the spokes of their wheel and the network that gives rise to the machine of miscellaneous nuts and bolts that makes up who she is. On Tuesday, I stood in a room full of medical practitioners. We did some collaborative movement exercises to tune in our senses and see the room from a new angle, a wider aperture, to understand a person from a non-traditional perspective. We played with space — how do we enter a room, exit a room, move within a confined place? These are simple ideas that seem tedious and maybe not worth exploring, but confronting a patient is as much of an improvisation game as dance.
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ness that is both artful and rigorous. No, there is no music or spotWhen I stood across light, chandeliers or dramatic fog, but from a current med student there is an audience and a performer. and we played this simple hand I remember waking up from my game for heightened sensitivity, ACL reconstruction surgery in the postI was moved by the dedication and op room of the hospital. I can still feel the curiosity he rendered. light hand that woke me up from my anesthetic I could feel my silos overlapping like daze. Despite the drugs that were circulating two waves crashing into each other, in my veins, I remember the flush of panic that standing at the confluence where these nearly made me puke on the bedside table — did two rivers cross. I was stunned by the the surgery go well? What if it didn’t, what if I possibility that maybe, just maybe, 18 can’t walk anymore, what if they had to amputate years of cultivating creativity gave me my leg? I couldn’t begin to fathom the horror and something to offer to him. grief. Maybe I could show him my safe I remember watching intensely, scrutinizing space, the dance studio — even if it is the eyes following the doctor as he lifted his hand outpatient ward of a hospital — a playfrom my shoulder and walked around the table, ground for adults, where every day, we noticing the distance between him and the bed create new movement, explore the inner rails, his posture and gait, the subtle nod that gesworkings of our bodies, and learn to use tures the nurse to walk this way, the tightness of spontaneity as our shovel and pail. And his jaw, and the loose fists at his sides that brush the this, the possibility of influencing patient pockets of his white coat. He lifts up the sheets and I care with a different type of conscientiousshut my eyes, because all I feel is fear. ness, is the answer I want to give the Uber My legs are still numb, my body is foreign and I driver, the reason for my seemingly antiam occupying a temporary container with my sloshy thetical pursuits. thoughts and medicated blood. It doesn’t matter that I’m But also, beyond the exercises and diasitting in a bed with carefully calculated and concentrat- logues of how this specific form of art and science intered fluid bags hanging at my sides, or that the crash cart is twine, I believe there is a fundamental understanding around the corner, and defibrillators are ready to percuss, of empathy and lack of judgement that comes with the or that the abundance of surgeons here guarantees me practice of music, dance, theatre, visual art and even litlife, even if I fall unconscious this instant. erature. I feel his hand on my foot. There is immense bravery in delving into your imagiIt’s gentle and humble, the way my grandpa used to pat nation and then presenting it for display. There is dedimy knobby knees. When I slowly blink my eyes open, his cation in the time and years of repetition that it takes to eyes are at my level, I wonder if he’s squatting at the foot foster creativity and curiosity. Like flexibility, these are of the bed, and then realize he is sitting on a short stool to things that need to be practiced and reinforced to be as match my eye level. There’s a smiley face Sharpied on the malleable and infinite as they were when we were young. big toe of my left foot, a little crooked so it looks smirky, There is fear in speaking your ideas and exposing yourself and the doctor reassures me the operation was successful. to vulnerability and criticism, and then incredible humilI nod and muscle a smile on my heavy cheeks and let the ity in learning to accept the arrows and fingers that are darkness take me away again into the expansiveness of it pointed directly your way. all. His movements speak as loud, if not louder than the These are not to discount the decades of training and words of comfort that escape his mouth. learning that go into the life of a physician. There is a Maybe I am just a keen observer because of 18 years part of me that is more afraid of the things that lie ahead of analyzing body positions and their associated mean- of this crossroad, the challenges and battles I do not yet ings. But just like every novel and poem has an intended even know exist. But needless to say, there are inherent audience, why wouldn’t every physician? It’s not that values in the arts and sciences that are worth taking the the motions and gestures of pre- and post-operative care time to share and explore. need to be choreographed or calculated to perfection — And maybe this is the next step we take, as aspiring but that they can carry an enhanced consciousness and health care professionals, entrepreneurs and collaborabody awareness. tors, artists and learners, to better understand the people As patient-centered care becomes a central focus of the around us and our individual purpose in this changing medical school curriculum and professionals are trained world. Maybe this is how we get a little closer to underto be cognizant and empathetic in more complex ways, standing our existence and the short time we have to there is a necessity for spatial, tactile and body mindful- make a difference.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016 // The Statement
V I S UA L S TAT E M E N T: I S HA A PR AY E R
On November 14, members of the University of Michigan Muslim Students’ Association gathered for Ishaa prayer (the fifth and final Islamic prayer of the day) on the Diag. Hundreds of other students joined in solidarity, showing their support by forming a protective a circle around the MSA members. The event was organized in response to a series of anti-Muslim incidents during the week.
PHOTOS BY RYAN MCLOUGH LI N
Chalk on the Diag reads, “Muslims you belong here.”
A student prays aloud during the prayer in the Diag.
Students sit in the Diag before the prayer.
Students talk among themselves after the prayer.
Students sit in the Diag before the prayer.
A student is interviewed for a local news channel after the prayer.