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Sociology professor Sandra Levitsky, recipient of the 2018 Golden Apple Award, gives her ‘last lecture’ on “Sociology and the Political Power of Optimism” at the Golden Apple Awards ceremony in Rackham Auditorim Monday.

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In her last lecture, Sandra Levitsky, an associate professor in the Sociology Department, presented “Sociology and the Political Power of Optimism.” That is, the topic outlined her “ideal last lecture” — an annual event held Monday evening for this year’s Golden Apple Award Ceremony and recipient, Levitsky. Levitsky is the 28th recipient of

the prestigious, student-selected faculty award and was chosen out of nearly 700 nominees. Each year, the Golden Apple Award Ceremony offers the honoree an opportunity to present their “last lecture” to students and other individuals who appreciate their work. Along with her lecture, attended by over a hundred University of Michigan community members in Rackham Auditorium, Levitsky also decided to donate to the American Civil Liberties Union. Before Levitsky took the stage, LSA junior Kyle Riebock, Golden

Apple Award Committee president, welcomed the audience and spoke to the quality of Levitsky’s role as a professor and as a mentor for students at the University. Riebock also noted her work with Sociology Opportunities for Undergraduate Leaders, which helps first-generation students academically and professionally, and her research on various social issues. “Professor Levitsky is truly a wonderful example of a professor deserving of this award,” Riebock said. “When the committee

surprised her, I was really able to hear a lot of heartfelt sentiments from her student and peers that truly moved me … Her research investigating social needs and inequality is truly inspiring and impactful.” Riebock also praised the legacy Levitsky has created so far and expressed his desire to follow in her footsteps. “As a future teacher myself, if my legacy inside and outside of the classroom can amount to even half of the legacy Professor Levitsky See APPLE, Page 3

After a third-degree sexual assault in South Quad Residence Hall at the University of Michigan was alerted last Friday, some residents were concerned about the two-day delay in the crime alert. The assault, which took place on March 27 and was reported to DPSS on April 4, was not reported to the entire student body via a crime alert until 3:40 p.m. on April 6. LSA freshman Cassandra Ritter, a South Quad resident, said she was confused as to why the crime alert was delayed seeing as though it impacted the immediate safety of residents. “I took issue with the fact that this incident was reported on April 4th, and we didn’t get any notification about it until the 6th, and all of (the previous DPSS crime alerts) were reported a couple of hours after, and some of them even an hour after,” Ritter said. “I don’t understand

why this incident, they didn’t let us know until two days after, even though this is something that directly affects us because it happened in our dorms.” Melissa Overton, University deputy chief of police, said the delay was due to lack of information from the initial report and could not be avoided. “We had to do some further investigation based on the original information we had,” Overton said. “We were trying to determine exact location, things like that. It just depends on what’s originally reported to us.” According to Overton, this was not due to doubt of the victim’s account but to ensure the accuracy of the crime alert. “The way we evaluate (a case) for a crime alert is we determine at the time, with all the information that we have, whether or not we deem it to be a public safety threat,” Overton said.

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A Black LSA sophomore has to think twice before any decision they make: once as an individual, and again as a member of the Black community. For this reason, the subject of this interview requested his name not be used in this article. He has to consider the impact of his words on how people view him as a Black person, he said. “I have to be mindful that I’m a student, but I’m also Black here,” he said. “Sometimes the intersection of that, it becomes a double workload. So, a lot of times I feel uncomfortable even voicing my opinion on certain things because I don’t want to be perceived as a radical, or against white people.” This idea of living a double life, or as this student put it, “thinking with your regular eyes and with the mind of a Black person as well,” is encapsulated in activist W. E. B. Du Bois’s term “double consciousness.” According to the sophomore, this double-consciousness permeates every aspect of his life, even in something as simple as a white female student asking to call an Uber from his phone when he was with his friends at a Black fraternity house. “I had to think consciously about it,” he said. “I had to think with two minds. I want to help her, so I’m going to allow you to order the Uber from my phone,

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More than a dozen Detroit high schoolers descended on the University of Michigan’s campus Monday afternoon for more than an average Campus Day tour. Members of PILOT, a student organization that works with first-generation and underrepresented students, showed the prospective students around campus on Monday as part of Dreams2Reality, an event offering college planning assistance and empowerment to high school freshmen and sophomores from underrepresented minority backgrounds. LSA freshman Ihunanya Muruako is PILOT’s financial director and a Dreams2Reality committee member. She said one of the goals of the program is helping the students learn more about social justice while helping them “get accustomed to college.” “We just hope that a lot of the conversations that we have are more in-depth and get them thinking about themselves,” See PILOT, Page 3

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but I also have to keep in mind that if you’re in this house with a lot of Black men, you could try to flip this into something that completely did not happen because you’re drunk, and they would believe you because you’re a drunk white woman and we’re Black men.” This caution, this obligation to constantly think about one’s race and these ways of thinking are shared by many members

of the Black community at the University of Michigan. Early experiences of racism created them, and the continued racism they experience at the University engrain them deeper in Black students’ minds. Large-scale, more publicized racist incidents have plagued and continue to plague the University, the most recent one being a student posting a blackface

Snapchat mocking the #BlackLivesMatter movement. 50 years after the first Black Action Movement began with students taking over the Fleming Building following the assasination of Martin Luther King, Jr., racism still pervades in social interactions, in classrooms, at parties, on the street and more.

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Students organize to write names of 1,000 victims on Diag following attacks MOLLY NORRIS Daily Staff Reporter

See DISCRIMINATION, Page 3 On Monday morning, the names of 1,000 men, women and children who have been killed in Syria by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime were written in chalk across the Diag at the University of Michigan. These represented only a fraction of the more than 400,000 Syrians who have been killed during the conflict, now in its eighth year. While the demonstration was motivated by the conflict in general, the chemical attack in Douma, Syria on Sunday was a call to action according to LSA freshman Basil Alsubee, who participated in the demonstration. “It is a response to the overall situation for the past couple years, but I think that what happened on Sunday really triggered this sense of, ‘We have to demonstrate,’” Alsubee said. “Sometimes we get a little complicit, and we start taking it for granted that humanitarian crises that are happening abroad are just going to happen. CHRISTINE MONTALBANO/Daily

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Four ‘U’ students awarded Goldwater Scholarships for STEM graduate study All four students nominated by the University received scholarships this year Office of National Scholarships an average grade point average recipients is their completion of and Fellowships, said in an email of 3.9 and significant research summer research opportunities interview the University was experience. at funded programs around the one of three schools where all “It’s typically one of the country. Sticking with nominees won the award, along most competitive nomination “Our Goldwater and NSFthe theme of fours in with Northeastern University processes that ONSF runs each GRFP recipients speak to the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland. year,” Dyson wrote. “This was incredibly strong culture of athletics, all four of the Dyson said the University ranks one of the strongest applicant undergraduate research that we University’s student nominees eighth in total students, tied pools we’ve had in some time.” have at UM,” Dyson wrote. “This received the Goldwater with Kansas State, with 74 total The University also had is truly one of the strongest Scholarship for the first time scholarship recipients since the multiple seniors and graduate parts of our undergraduate since 2002. The Goldwater scholarship’s inception. students receive the similar education.” Scholarship is a top award for The process for the Goldwater National Science Foundation’s LSA senior Tali Khain, one students pursuing graduate Scholarship requires a University Graduate Research Fellowships of the winners of the Goldwater careers in STEM, providing nomination, and each school Program awards. The GRFP Scholarship, has been involved recipients with up to $7,500 is limited to four nominees. provides recipients with a three- in research since her freshman in scholarship funds for their Dyson said this year ONSF year stipend for educational and year. She currently works with graduate studies. received 16 applications for four research opportunities. Dyson Prof. David Gerdes on a solar Sudoku Syndication http://www.sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ Henry Dyson, director of the nominations. The nominees had said he sees overlap between the system project in the Physics students who apply for both Department studying objects opportunities. beyond Neptune’s orbit in a “Every year when I look region called the Kuiper belt. at the recipients for the “Last summer I was at NSF-GRFP, I recognize the CalTech (California Institute many names of students who of Technology) working with EASY applied for the Goldwater professors who think there Scholarship,” Dyson wrote. might be another planet in our “Many of these applicants solar system,” Khain said. “It’s were not nominated for called the Planet 9 hypothesis Goldwater, but did go on and they think there might be to receive the NSF-GRFP another planet based on these in senior year or as first or Kuiper belt objects. It’s really second-year PhD students. cool that we are able to model So I would not want the objects that are so far away and competitiveness of the use them as indirect evidence for Goldwater nomination an undiscovered planet in our process to dissuade students solar system.” from applying.” Khain said she hopes to use Dyson credits the the Goldwater Scholarship success of the nominees to to go to graduate school for undergraduate research physics and continue to work in at the University. He said astrophysics. many applicants begin their “(Receiving the scholarship) research careers in the is extremely exciting,” Khain Undergraduate Research said. “I’ve been working towards Opportunity Program as this for a very long time and I am underclassmen. He said some honored to have gotten it.” students make substantive LSA senior Carolyn Suh, contributions to research another recipient, works in © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. BLOSSOM puzzle by sudokusyndication.com and have often authored or the Narayan Lab, studying co-authored publications. biocatalysis to try and use Another feature of the See SCHOLARSHIP, Page 3 REMY FARKAS

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PILOT From Page 1 Muruako said. Muruako got involved with PILOT through the Big House Program, which helps selected prospective students from underrepresented backgrounds navigate the University’s undergraduate application process. “We hope they get more comfortable having conversations regarding social justice so that they’re able to bridge the gap within their communities because Detroit is a very segregated place,” Muruako said. “A lot of Arab people live in Dearborn, a lot of Latinx people are in southwest Detroit and Black people are throughout the city, so we hope that these communities come together rather than just staying in their own areas.” Attendee Jennifer Penaloza is a sophomore at Detroit Cristo Rey High School. Having never visited the University before, Penaloza said she enjoyed the campus, and the social justice aspect of Dreams2Reality appealed to her. “I just joined it because I was interested in the social justice part of it,” Penaloza said. “I

DISCRIMINATION From Page 1 Entering the University LSA freshman Brian Hicks moved around a lot growing up with his father in the military. From Virginia to Panama to Germany, he has little recollection of encounters with racism, if there were any at all, early on in life. His first experience with it was when his family moved to a majority-white suburb in Iowa. “I was in ninth or 10th grade and I was riding my bicycle from my friend’s house; it was like, eight at night,” Hicks said. “That’s why my mom is super overprotective, because you really have to be when you’re Black and you live in the area we live in. This car with three white dudes pulled up, they lowered their window, and they screamed the ‘n-word’ at me.” Other students expressed experiences with teachers or friends making microaggressions or tensions with neighbors toward their families. And still, others reported practically no experiences with racism, due to growing up in predominantly Black neighborhoods. LSA sophomore Carlena Toombs grew up in Detroit and Southfield. “I wouldn’t say I experienced racism,” Toombs said. “I was always around my people. In Detroit, I was surrounded by Black people most of the time. In Southfield, even though it was a suburban area, my community was predominantly Black.” LSA junior Kayla McKinney also grew up in Southfield and said when race was discussed, it was more about celebrating her Black culture. “Race wasn’t really talked about,” McKinney said. “We talked about in a sense of

SYRIA From Page 1 But the attack on Douma was in a way kind of a wake-up call, a reminder that we have a responsibility, so it definitely motivated this protest.” Rackham student Nusayba Tabbah, one of the organizers of the event, agreed with Alsubee that complicity is an issue, especially when a conflict has been going on for a long time. “Even last year, there were chemical attacks on civilians, and for a while, people acted outraged, but eventually nobody cared,” Tabbah said. “I kind of felt like it was a cycle, and when I saw it on the news again yesterday, I felt helpless feeling like I couldn’t do anything about it.” In an attempt to combat this feeling of helplessness, Tabbah said she and a few friends got together to bring the conflict back to the forefront through the action. By putting the names on the Diag, she hoped to humanize the conflict again and make people realize real lives were being lost. Alsubee hoped by writing the names on the ground in the Diag,

thought it would be cool to go and talk about that stuff with other people who are interested in it as well.” Keynote speaker Shawn Blanchard, a Detroit native and a University alum, talked to the group after their campus tour about achieving financial success. “Who wants to be a millionaire?” he asked the students. Everyone, including the PILOT volunteers, raised their hands. The average millionaire, he told them, has seven streams of income. Blanchard said he has six streams of income, as an author, the style adviser of a suit company, a motivational speaker, a proprietor of online courses for aspiring writers, the owner of a publishing company and the founder of a fitness movement, Run This Town/Networkingout. “So if I ask you what you want to be, sometimes we can raise our hand and say one thing, but I’ll tell you guys this — that doesn’t have to limit you,” Blanchard said. “I’ll tell you guys, you guys can do anything you want to, and not only can you do anything you want to, it doesn’t matter where you’re from either.” Blanchard said his mother often had drugs in her system while she was pregnant with him, and of his seven brothers,

News Blanchard said, three have passed away and three are incarcerated. Even as a student at the University, Blanchard said he was “very non-traditional.” “I had to raise my younger brother myself,” Blanchard said. “I actually brought him up here to the University of Michigan, once he got out of juvenile, that is. I was here at the University of Michigan, working three jobs, raising a younger brother, had a girlfriend living with me, majoring in mathematics and economics … Just like I have multiple streams of income now, I had multiple issues that I had to work through.” After graduating in 2005, Blanchard moved to New York City, earned a master’s degree in secondary math education and founded a mentorship program for young men.He later moved back to Detroit and Mayor Mike Duggan appointed him director of Youth Services in 2014. In the role, Blanchard oversaw youth initiatives and worked with local businesses to created 5,600 summer jobs for young people in the city. Blanchard has since received former President Barack Obama’s Volunteer Community Service Award and been profiled by CNN. “That means no matter what you’re going through, wherever

celebrating our history and our culture, but not in a sense that there was any negative thing to worry about.” For these students especially and coming from places with large Black communities entering the University, with only 4.96 percent of the student body being Black, can be a shock. McKinney said entering the University freshman year, there’s always some sort of incident making Black students feel isolated. “What’s funny is that as a Black person freshman year, something lets you know, ‘oh this campus is racist,’” McKinney said. “Me in particular, my instance was we had this UMich 2019 chat. It was filled with a whole bunch of people and then one day someone just kicked out all the Black people.” LSA freshman Dylan Gilbert experienced this shock even though she comes from Ann Arbor, which is often perceived as more liberal and welcoming. Gilbert wrote an article detailing racism she experienced as soon as she entered the University. At her first football game, she and her friends asked a group of white students to pet their dog, only to be met with a gesture to Gilbert and the response, “If I can pet yours.” Gilbert said she did not experience this type of racism growing up in Ann Arbor. Having to constantly consider race on campus can be exhausting, LSA senior Damaris Doss said. She expressed the relief that comes with being back with her own community in Detroit. “Race is talked about a lot here,” Doss said. “And when I’m back home, it’s not talked about in the same manner that it is here. It’s something I don’t have to think about all the time. When I’m on campus, I’m constantly

thinking about what other people are thinking of me, I’m afraid if I don’t do a reading that people are going to question if I’m smart. I remember just being back home in Detroit just sitting on a bus, or walking down the street, and I feel so relieved after an entire semester of being under that pressure.” In Classrooms and Conversation “Being one of the only Black students in the classroom has happened to me probably every semester,” Doss said. This was an experience shared by all of the Black students interviewed. LSA sophomore Pascal Casimier said when this happens with him, he feels more comfortable when it is not addressed. He doesn’t want people to ask him to speak on behalf of the whole Black community. “I feel like in my experience, a lot of the time it’s better to not bring up the elephant in the room,” Casimier said. “In groups I’m a part of when I’m often the only Black person there, when they acknowledge the fact that I’m the only Black person, that’s when I feel on the outside of a group.” But, even if their Blackness wasn’t explicitly addressed, many students felt the effect of their race on teachers’ and students’ interactions with them. Gilbert reported one of her teachers continuously standing behind her and touching her hair during class. Toombs said a GSI once refused to answer her question in office hours, though he answered every white person whose hand was raised. LSA sophomore Sydni Warner said she was once rejected by students when she asked to join their group project. “We were supposed to do a

students would recognize as they went through their mundane tasks, they were stepping on the names of people who could no longer go through these types of mundane activities. “There was an intended shock value that we were going for,” Alsubee said. “You’re on your way to class, you’re doing such a mundane activity and on your way there you’re stepping on names of people who died.” LSA sophomore Layla Hak, who also participated in the demonstration, felt it was necessary to demonstrate in a public area to inspire people to take action. “People don’t talk about it enough, so I think that if it’s in a very public arena, it will cause people to start talking and maybe take action,” Hak said. “It’s so easy to just donate and raise your voice about it.” Alsubee said he thought the demonstration’s humanization of the statistics was important, and he felt it made it easier for him to relate to the victims, though the conflict is something he has been thinking about for a long time. “A big part of why the idea specifically intrigued me was

that it’s a lot more focused on the individual lives because we’re writing their names, and the idea that behind all of those names there are people who had lives and stories and passions and dreams, just like you and me,” Alsubee said. “All my life I’ve known about what’s happening in Syria, and all my life it has affected me a lot, but writing down those names, I was like ‘wow, a lot of those names resemble my name, and my name could’ve been down there.’” However, at the same time, Alsubee said he found the students’ reception of the demonstration to be ironic, given that many people seemed to walk past with nothing more than a glance. “There’s kind of an irony to the fact that a lot of people didn’t care,” Alsubee said. “They just kept walking, or if anything they shot a small glance. A lot of people did care, they did ask what we were doing, and maybe they stopped in the center to read what those names were, but it’s a little ironic to me that people keep going through their mundane daily lives, while at the same time stepping on the names of people who weren’t capable of going through their daily lives.”

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you’re from, whatever is going on at home, at the end of the day you can do anything, and as I’m standing here right before you right now, that’s proof of doing it,” Blanchard said. “And as you guys are sitting here right in this room right now, that’s proof that you guys can do it, too.” Student organizations have been on the vanguard of pipelining high schoolers from underrepresented backgrounds to the University. While the Go Blue Guarantee focuses on class disparities with guaranteed tuition and progrmas like Wolverine Pathways target specific school districts, PILOT’s programming intentionally recruits students of color, but from all over the Midwest. LSA senior Antonio Gallegos told The Daily last August the program was instrumental in closing culturally-specific information gaps. “I didn’t even really think Michigan was a possibility for me,” he said. I’m a first generation student so I didn’t know anything. The Big House really gave me the resources necessary to apply and not only apply, but once I came here even at my orientation people within PILOT, the student organization, were reaching out to me.”

group work, and I asked to join a group and they just straight up told me no,” Warner said. “Didn’t give me a reason, didn’t give me any type of explanation.” Toombs attributes this avoidance of Black students to fear. “What I notice, and a lot of my friends notice is people avoid us more so than approaching us,” Toombs said. “Like do you want to pick me to be your partner in class. Or if you look uneasy when I’m walking past you. I notice people tend to be more afraid of us, and the only time they really have anything to say is when they’re under an influence or they’re with their friends.” Other times, though, Hicks observed how comfortable people are approaching him and talking to him about his experiences and being Black. “People have come up to me and if they have some story that has to do with Black people, they feel like it’s cool to come up to me and tell me about how it is being Black,” Hicks said. Another assumption people feel comfortable making is that Black students are at the University as athletes. Warner said when she lived in South Quad Residence Hall last year, she was constantly asked if she was an athlete. The anonymous LSA sophomore said he was at BTB Burrito recently when a white woman asked him if he played on the football team. Toombs observed Black athletes are respected by white people in a way that does not translate to other Black students. “It’s funny, white people will treat Black people like they’re nothing unless the Black person is on a sports team,” Toombs said. “Regular Black man or woman, your opinion doesn’t matter, if you sit down in class, I won’t sit

SCHOLARSHIP From Page 2 enzymes to perform chemical reactions. She said this biocatalysis knowledge could offer a more sustainable method of performing experiments. Suh also worked in a biochemistry lab researching and examining how microorganisms in the gut impact human health. Suh said she hopes the scholarship will allow her to focus on her research in graduate school. She hopes to earn her doctorate in organic chemistry and go into academia and research. “I feel incredibly honored,” Suh said. “It’s an amazing opportunity and a prestigious title to hold … I feel really thankful to my lab members and all of those who have supported me and the University which has provided me with so many research opportunities.” LSA junior Noah McNeal, a scholarship recipient, works with high energy particle physics and filling in the gaps of the Standard Model of physics. He is studying in the KOTO Lab, working specifically in the decay of kaon particles. “The problems we want to solve in physics are tough

next to you, I don’t want to be your partner. Any Black athlete, they’re honestly kissing ass.” In general, these students said they are made to feel they don’t belong at the University, or they didn’t earn their acceptances through their own efforts or intelligence. Warner said people have told her she was only accepted to the University because of affirmative action — something the University does not use. Hicks said he still is met with surprise when he tells people he attends the University. “When I got into U-M, anytime someone found out in my high school that I knew was a bigot, they would act all surprised,” Hicks said. “To this day, people are like ‘Oh you go to Michigan?’ because I’m a Black man, that’s something I’ve had to deal with.” At Parties Gilbert attended fraternity parties earlier this year, just trying to relax and have fun with her friends. But she found fraternity members and other white male partygoers reacted to her presence with hateful, racist behaviors. She said males would mimic animal noises in her direction, pull her hair while dancing with her or lock eyes with her while shouting the “n-word” in songs. In her article, she wrote about a student asking to dance with her. When she declined, he responded, “Fine, I don’t like n--ers anyway.” “I feel white men are at this weird point of fetishizing me but also hating me, and that comes out a lot at frat parties,” Gilbert said. “Which is why I don’t go to white frat parties anymore. It’s either them hypersexualizing me or being blatantly aggressive toward me, or both.” Other students described similar behavior, if at times less

APPLE From Page 1 has created for herself, then my career will be more successful than I could ever imagine,” he said. Levitsky began her lecture by discussing her journey to becoming a teacher. She explained how she initially disdained academia, but after pursuing a law degree, realized she enjoyed being in front of students and tackling big questions about social issues. While Levitsky recognized the difficulty of the subject, she also noted the power which could come from sociology. “If you peel back all of the depression in sociology, our social science rests on a core of optimism, and I believe there is tremendous power in that optimism,” Levitsky said. “And I’m not talking about emotional power or psychological power, I’m talking about real political power.” Levitsky gave two examples of ways audience members could study social change: understanding what

drives a social problem and understanding the status quo. To look at an example of the former, Levitsky cited the racial inequalities against the Black community in regards to police drug searches and in the criminal justice system over the past 50 years. “The criminalization of the African-American community is one area that has gotten worse over time, it hasn’t even stayed the same over the past half-century, it has gotten worse, and it is a particularly insidious problem because there is a self-reinforcing nature to it,” Levitsky said. “We know that racial stereotypes play a role in the criminalization of the Black community but locking up the Black community only contributes to the stereotype that Black people are criminals.” To understand the influence of the status quo when looking at social change, Levitsky offered the instance of the #MeToomovement. While she acknowledged the impact of the recent activism, Levitsky also pointed out this was not the only time in U.S. history where sexual harassment issues have been

questions that we don’t have any answers to,” McNeal said. “They are fundamental and concern why we exist, how we exist and how this universe is piece-bypiece; we can understand the fuller picture.” McNeal began his research as a freshman in UROP and hopes to continue working with the lab and write a thesis. He plans to go to graduate school to study physics and go into a career as a physics researcher. McNeal said he has spent a long time working on this application for the Goldwater Scholarship and has learned more about himself and his career path through this process. “I am elated,” McNeal said. “I have been working on it all of fall semester so getting to this point was something that … has been incredibly rewarding. The inward thinking I’ve done and the introspective thinking about my future and my career goals has been invigorating and I feel that I am on a career path and line of work that suits me.” Engineering senior Eric Winsor, the fourth recipient, won the scholarship for his work in mathematics. According to Dyson, the Mathematics Department has had at least one Goldwater Scholarship recipient every year since 2002.

extreme. Warner said she feels male students avoid her at parties and has noticed white fraternity brothers trying to hook her up with the only other Black people in the room. At other times, though, she found herself being fetishized with comments like, “I’ve never hooked up with a Black girl before.” Fraternities already have a history of being involved with high numbers of sexual misconduct cases, one of the reasons for their shutdown last semester, and the fetishizing of Black women make this issue even more prevalent for them. LSA junior Joy Boakye expressed the difficulties associated with being a Black woman. “Identifying as a Black woman is honestly its own double-edged sword, because the experiences of Black men are very different, and the experiences of nonBlack women are very different,” Boakye said. “It’s a thing of being fetishized and hypersexualized, but also, statistically, receiving the least romantic interest of all racial groups for women. It’s really just a shit show, to be honest, being a black woman.” Though Black women especially are targeted at fraternity parties, all Black student interviewees reported feeling unwelcome. The anonymous LSA sophomore said during his freshman year, he and his friends tried to get into a fraternity party but were told to wait off to the side. After waiting over an hour while others entered the party, they left. McKinney said she was told by older Black students not to attend white fraternity parties for this reason.

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CARLI COSENZA | COLUMN

The truth behind your sandwich

magine this. It’s lunchtime. for Wendy’s. That’s right, the You’ve just had a busy same tomatoes that are found morning of class and now on a spicy chicken sandwich. have an hour before As a farmworker your next lecture. in the labor camp, Since you’re feeling you sleep headhungry, you decide to to-toe with other walk to the Michigan workers on concrete Union to grab a f loors. You’re forced bite to eat. Stomach to protect yourself grumbling, you head from scorpions downstairs to the and bedbugs. Each basement, which has morning, you a variety of fast-food receive a stack of CARLI options. You’re in the COSENZA tortillas that is mood for chicken, supposed to last which is perfect because there’s you throughout the day, which a Wendy’s right past the bottom will be spent picking, sorting of the stairs. You walk up to and carrying heavy buckets of the register and place your tomatoes in 90-degree heat. order: a spicy chicken sandwich You have to work quickly. If ($4.69), medium-sized fries you don’t fill a minimum of ($1.99) and a small soft drink 60 buckets with tomatoes, ($1.69). The total amount that then you will not receive you pay for your meal adds up to your pay for the day, which is approximately $8.37. Pleased by 100 pesos, or the equivalent the low price and quick service, of approximately eight U.S. you walk away excited to eat, dollars. Conditions are oblivious to the fact that the miserable. You just want to price you just paid for your meal be at home playing with your is more than a worker’s daily siblings. But you cannot stop wage at the farm where Wendy’s working or attempt escape gets its tomatoes. from the labor camp because Two weeks ago, nearly you’re afraid of what your 100 farmworkers and their bosses will do to you. Last allies held a protest in New week, another field worker York City outside the office of asked for extra tortillas for her Trian Partners. Nelson Peltz is children and was threatened the chairman of the Wendy’s with a slap from her boss. Board of Directors and CEO of The memory — and fear from Trian Partners, Wendy’s largest witnessing the threat — is still shareholder. The protesters fresh in your mind. stood outside Peltz’s office for five days, during which they fasted to call attention to the human rights abuses toward farmworkers that have been occurring for decades in the Wendy’s supply chain and protested the fact that Wendy’s hasn’t signed a binding Fair Food Agreement. Wendy’s is one of the five major food corporations in the United States, along with fast food forerunners like McDonald’s and Burger King. These are the conditions On its website, the company that hundreds of farmworkers boasts about its workers: “From have been forced to live our headquarters to the amazing under for decades, as major employees in every location, American corporations like we like to think of Wendy’s Wendy’s have outsourced as a big family.” However, the their labor costs to camps reality of how Wendy’s treats like Bioparques de Occidente its employees — specifically in other countries. In 2014, the farmworkers who produce a federal investigation was the company’s supply of launched against Bioparques “hand-chopped tomatoes” — is de Occidente af ter a astonishingly different. It is time successf ul escapee reported that consumers boycott Wendy’s. the abusive conditions to Now, imagine something authorities. The company different. You’re 14 years old, was found to have violated living in one of the poorest health and labor laws and was regions of southwestern Mexico. ordered to pay a $700,000 According to Mexican law, f ine. you’re too young to be employed. Once information from the But the law doesn’t apply to investigation reached other you because the only thing field workers and farmers that matters is that you are across North America, they meeting quota. Who are you? decided to take action and You’re a farmworker in a labor form the Fair Foods Program, camp for a company called which is composed of farmers, Bioparques de Occidente, farmworkers and retail food which is a major tomato companies. The widelygrower. It produces as many as acclaimed, uniquely successful 6 million boxes of tomatoes for organization seeks to raise the U.S. market each year and awareness about and provide is also a supplier of tomatoes humane wages and working

I can’t eat a sandwich knowing that the process to make it consciously violates human rights law.

conditions for farmworkers, along with giving them a representative voice. The FFP has received recognition from major organizations and its efforts were even recognized by the White House in 2013. Today, the FFP has partnered with almost all of the major food retailers and fast food restaurants, including Chipotle, Burger King, Trader Joe’s, Subway and McDonalds. But not Wendy’s. In fact, in response to pressure to join the FFP, Wendy’s retaliated. It abandoned its longtime Florida tomato supplier and shifted its purchases to Bioparques in Mexico in support of a work environment derived from fear, violence and corruption. Furthermore, Wendy’s released a modified supplier code of conduct that contains “no effective mechanisms for worker participation or enforcement,” despite Bioparques’s proven history of human rights violations. In October 2016, Wendy’s released a statement regarding its relationship with Bioparques: “We are quite happy with the quality and taste of the tomatoes we are sourcing from Mexico.” But what about the quality of life for the workers who picked the tomatoes with their bare hands so that consumers across the continent can enjoy a spicy chicken sandwich that costs the equivalent of a day’s salary? Personally, I can’t eat a sandwich knowing that the process to make it consciously violates human rights law. I cannot eat tomatoes that were picked by the hands of an underage child in a labor camp that doesn’t even provide beds for its workers. Furthermore, I cannot support a company that knowingly perpetuates human rights abuses in order to have a cost advantage over its competitors. And I cannot support a company that’s board of directors has the information and power to end the violent conditions forced upon its farmworkers but refuses to take meaningful action to end it even though a viable solution (the FFP) is right at its fingertips. The f ive-day fast in Manhattan was only a small fraction of the hunger pains felt by Wendy’s farmworkers at Bioparques de Occidente labor camp. But as consumers, we can make an impact too. If enough informed consumers boycott Wendy’s, then maybe the Board of Directors will be forced to acknowledge the inhumanit y of their behavior. It is time for Wendy’s to follow through with its “big family” ideals. Until then, I boycott Wendy’s, and I think that the rest of us should too. Carli Cosenza can be reached at carlic@umich.edu.

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Shedding perfectionism

rom the ages of three and competitiveness in many of to 17, dance was my my classmates. It seems natural “thing” — my in the environment primary afterhere. Our role as school activity, my college students at a source of exercise, top university asks my creative outlet. us to constantly work Though I never toward high grades intended to dance in our classes and professionally, my involve ourselves in experiences with the the “best” possible discipline have had extracurricular STEPHANIE an enormous impact activities, jobs and TRIERWEILER internships. on me. I committed hours upon hours each week This forward-looking, to ballet, tap, jazz and modern overachieving approach is often styles as a child and teenager. thought of as an important While dance gave me component to developing strength, flexibility, balance, perseverance, discipline and an artistic way to express drive. The University implicitly myself, incredible memories encourages perfectionism and a powerful sense of focus, through deeming its students it also reinforced a mentality of the “Leaders and Best.” But perfectionism that I have since I’ve found it difficult to sever found hard to shake. And while my perfectionistic approach to dance isn’t completely to blame my work from other aspects of for these thought patterns in my life — to put the cycles of me, they have certainly gone self-critique that come with hand in hand. perfectionism on pause and In ballet — which is often just be. described as the foundation of all dance — you aim essentially to achieve perfection: perfect posture, perfect body placement and perfect lines. Dancers contort themselves into unnatural positions to create this illusion by turning their hips, legs and feet out, dancing “en pointe” (on their toes), etc. Though ballet demands an ideal nearly impossible to achieve, dancer training can act as a kind of journey to hover ever closer to that perfect, seemingly effortless performance. Growing up, I would use my dance studio’s floor-toceiling mirrors to examine the I stopped dancing when technical and physical minutiae I came to the University. I of my positions and self-adjust explored different interests, constantly. Teachers would focused on academics and found give constructive criticisms my place on campus. Unlike of dancers’ movements every in dance, I can’t measure my few seconds and occasionally success in college by the height comment on our bodies. of my jumps or the precision of We’d rehearse each piece of my turns — seeing my progress choreography to death leading laid out in the mirror in front up to end-of-year performances of me — but I still began to and compete with one another consistently judge my work in for coveted lead roles. other ways, striving toward Since coming to the earning typical benchmarks University of Michigan, I’ve of achievement like As and continued to pursue perfection, internships. which had felt so salient in my At the same time, in focusing years as a dancer. And I’ve noticed on other aspects of my life, I similar thought patterns of wound up spending two years perfectionism, overachievement lacking a regular exercise

I can’t measure my success in college by the height of my jumps or the precision of my turns.

KARUNA NANDKUMAR | OP-ED

n March 24, University of Michigan students marched for their lives. In January 2017 and 2018, thousands of college students marched for the protection of their rights and diversity. Now, imagine if those 4 million citizens gathered throughout the country in protest had been gunned down. This is essentially what occurred six years ago in Syria. The violent response to a peaceful 2011 uprising against President Bashar al-Assad spiraled into a civil war that has killed and displaced millions. The situation is not improving. On March 27, the U.N. Emergency Coordinator Mark Lowcock reported that “the last few months have been some of the worst yet for many civilians inside Syria.” The Syrian conf lict displays a detrimental failure of international cooperation. However, the innovative use of international law will be necessary to achieve peace and reconciliation. The past six years make it easy to become a cynic. Negotiations have been unsuccessful, because the rebels will not stop fighting until the seemingly impossible abdication of the Syrian government. To complicate the situation, major world powers have become involved. Russian interference has shifted the balance of power in favor of the government. The Syrian opposition, trained by the U.S. and Turkey, maintains faith that international law lies in their favor. The U.N. has, in fact, passed resolutions that “reiterate the need for political transition.” The question is whether we can overcome the bureaucracy of international law. Both sides have committed

routine, trying to squeeze in time for late-night visits to the gym and feeling completely disconnected from my body. On a whim the summer after my sophomore year of college, I bought an unlimited summer package at a yoga studio a few minutes away from my Chicago apartment. And though I didn’t enter that studio intending to find anything more than a regular class schedule for workouts, practicing yoga seriously changed my relationship with myself. It helped me begin to unwind the years of conditioning that motivated me to sacrifice my well-being in pursuit of achievement. Since taking it up, I have not only been able to find strength, flexibility and most other benefits of dance, but I also surprised myself by creating a small space to shed my inclination to yearn for perfection. The rooms of the studios where I’ve practiced are mirrorless. There’s no performance at the end of the year to look to. Movement is appreciated for the sake of movement and not for an audience. No one competes with you, and you don’t even compete with yourself. Process and presence are valued. Teachers correct you only to prevent injury or suggest a deeper expression of a pose. There’s no such thing as a perfect pose. You meet each class with what you have, and it’s enough. Through yoga, I’ve sought a sense of daily presence and acceptance of things as they are. And while I get this feeling through exercise, I truly believe exploring any space and taking any regular time to cultivate acceptance of our present selves is absolutely paramount to success in college. Various facets of our lives may take unexpected twists and turns, and perfection doesn’t truly exist. In an environment where overachieving is the norm and where individual accomplishment is idealized, we must take time to separate our worth from our résumé and from our work. Stephanie Trierweiler can be reached at strier@umich.edu.

Stuck in Syria war crimes and crimes against humanity, including torture, use of chemical weapons and violence against civilians. Human Rights Watch has collected enough evidence to ensure the delivery of justice in international tribunals. First, however, we must create these tribunals. In a perfect world, the U.S. or another power could submit the case to the International Criminal Court, but Syria is not a member of the ICC, and would probably not be willing to join anytime soon. The only body with the power to authorize the use of the ICC for a non-member state or create an ad hoc tribunal is the U.N. Security Council. When the UNSC referred the case to the ICC in 2014, the resolution was vetoed by Russia and China. Though the situation seems hopeless, International Law Specialist Nicholas Koumjian would disagree. In his recent lecture at the University, Koumjian insisted upon the value of international justice, even if it comes at a slow pace and high economic cost. International justice has tangible benefits, such as satisfaction for the victims and deterrence of future crimes. Victims of the Bosnian genocide confirmed that the punishment of even a few guilty persons can restore a sense of the righteousness of the world. We must renew the search for an international solution to the Syrian crisis. Every additional hour of war indicates increased human rights violations, U.S. dollars spent on airstrikes and refugees flooding the shores of Europe. Universal jurisdiction or the prosecution of Russia could provide short-term relief. The principle of universal jurisdiction upholds the ideal

that national courts charge individuals with crimes against international law. An uninvolved state, therefore, could potentially convict criminals fleeing the Syrian conflict. If the United States or another power was truly determined, it could also charge Russia, an ICC member, with involvement in international crimes. Russia recently lost its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council. While these are both feasible options, realistically immense exterior pressure would be required to convince states to take actions that could jeopardize relationships with Russia and China. No matter what occurs, it is imperative that a peace agreement outlines a framework for judicial proceedings that address perpetrators on both sides of the conflict. Bilateral tribunals will inevitably result in the removal of the Assad regime. Syrian survivors insist that peace cannot come without justice. The crimes of the regime are too broad to be ignored. International or hybrid courts should also operate close to the community to assist in the restorative process. In the long-term, the UNSC should be reformed to prevent abuses of veto powers that impede the protection of human rights. The international legal system is still a work in progress. As Koumjian concluded, international justice is not perfect, but it’s better than nothing. In the case of Syria, it can make the difference between the continuation of a catastrophic conflict and the transition to a brighter future.

Karuna Nandkumar is an LSA freshman.

Arts

5 — Tuesday, April 10, 2018

TV INTERVIEW

HBO

Co-creators Bill Hader & Alec Berg talk ‘Barry’ EMILY BICE

Daily Arts Writer

A good actor feels everything and lives in the spotlight. A good hitman feels nothing and lives in the shadows. It’s impossible to be both. Or is it? This is the question that HBO’s “Barry” sets out to answer. The 30 minute black comedy follows a Midwestern hitman named Barry (Bill Hader, “Saturday Night Live”), who travels to Los Angeles to kill a man, stumbles into an acting class and decides to leave his life of crime behind to become an actor. Of course, this is easier said than done. Barry soon finds himself living a double life, killing by day and exploring the theatre scene by night. What results is a deeply affecting, sharply written and genuinely funny show that explores what it’s like when “the thing you’re good at is weirdly destroying you.” The Daily had the opportunity to speak with Bill Hader and Alec Berg (“Silicon Valley”), the show’s co-creators, writers and, in Hader’s case, the star. Hader and Berg began brainstorming the show back in early 2014 after their mutual agent suggested they work together. Though Hader and Berg didn’t know each other well at the time, they ran in the same comedy circles and both had individual deals with HBO. “The winds were pushing us together,” remarked Berg. After a few months of writing and one discarded idea, Hader and Berg decided to focus on a phenomenon that had previously tormented Hader: “The idea of being very gifted at something you derive no pleasure from.” This is referencing Hader’s time as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live,” during which he suffered from crippling performance anxiety. It’s a fascinating contradiction, being tortured by talent — one that Berg

and Hader wanted to further explore. After isolating the heart of the show, Berg explained that, “we pretty quickly landed on a guy who’s really good at killing but hates it, and what he wants to do is act.” It’s certainly a bizarre premise, but it works. It works very well. This is a testament to the quality of both the writing and acting on “Barry.” (Hopefully) neither Berg nor Hader have experience as hitmen, so they conducted extensive research on the profession to accurately fill out the show. This is not Berg’s first time working on a researchheavy project — learning the tech world of “Silicon Valley” required similar preparations. In both shows, Berg noted a similar trend: “You know you’re on track for something interesting if the craziest stuff you imagine is not as interesting as the real stuff you find.” Interesting is not always pleasant. “Barry” required its writers to watch torture videos and learn what getting shot actually looks like. Berg and Hader also visited many Los Angeles acting classes, which can be either a wonderful or miserable experience, depending on who you ask. Berg recalls how surprised he was when, “we saw a woman do an exercise where the acting teacher kind of humiliated her to the point where she broke down crying and, in the end, she thanked him for allowing her to access that.” This scene is almost exactly replicated in the pilot when Barry stumbles into that fateful acting class while trailing Ryan Madison (Tyler Jacob Moore, “Shameless”), the man he’s supposed to kill. There, he witnesses acting coach and self-proclaimed genius Gene Cousineau (Henry Winkler, “Holes”) berate flighty actress Sally (Sarah Goldberg, “The Dark Knight Rises”) until she breaks down into tears. “To the outside observer it

looks like abuse but actors we talked to were like, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s an exercise,’” said Berg. It is this subversion of expectations which makes “Barry” so special. The show doesn’t shy away from dark subject matter; rather, “Barry” embraces it. Beyond its hitman storylines, “Barry” offers glimpses into the less-glamorous side of working as an actor in Hollywood. As the season continues, the narrative takes breaks from Barry’s journey and follows other actors in his class. The ability to tell heavy, dark stories in short beats and still find comedy in those hard moments is one of the show’s greatest strengths. No matter where the characters are — an audition, a party, a Chechen mobster’s garage — there is humor, heart and heartbreak. As Hader put it, “It’s not like that movie ‘La La Land.’” Though “Barry” is certainly not like “La La Land,” the production process sounded like something of a fantasy. “It was this thing where you really look forward to going into work every day. It never felt like an obligation,” Hader recalled. “There’s usually a thing on shows where there’s one a-hole, you know like, ‘Ugh, we have to work around the a-hole,’ and on this show — I guess it means that we’re the a-holes — no, there were no a-holes on the show,” Berg added. “Everyone’s there to do great work and there’s none of that ego nonsense. On a lot of shows, the actors are very concerned with who has more lines or who looks cooler or who has a better trailer. Everyone was here to make the show better and that’s when things really work … when everyone’s there for the right reasons.” That everyone’s there for the right reasons is evident on screen. “Barry” is a weird, wonderful triumph, and a killer piece of television. “Barry” currently airs Sundays at 10:30 p.m. on HBO.

STYLE PREVIEW

NOiR Runway to present Exogenesis fashion show TESS GARCIA

Daily Style Editor

Student organization NOiR Runway will be hosting its 19th annual fashion show, entitled “Exogenesis,” on Saturday, Apr. 14 at the Biomedical Science Research Building. “My executive board, models and I have worked tirelessly to bring the student body a show they won’t forget,” wrote Taylor Williams, NOiR’s president and Ross junior. “With the help of our models, assistants, sponsors, and audience members we hope to execute a worthwhile show that’s entertaining, eventful and memorable.” According to Williams, Exogenesis will feature clothing from well-known designers and upcoming creatives alike. The looks, coupled with production

design, will offer audience members an extra-terrestrial experience. “Our theme ‘Exogenesis’

“Exegenesis” Biomedical Science Research Building Sat. Apr. 14 @ 7 p.m. GA $17, Preferred Exclusive $20, VIP $35

surrounds the unknown,” wrote Williams. “The place where creativity and flyness come together and go hand in hand beautifully. Deriving from the Greek term exomeaning ‘outside’ and genesismeaning ‘origin,’ these words come together to hypothesize

that life might have originated elsewhere in the universe and then spread to Earth. With a ticket to our charity runway show and our models as our muses, we are set to launch the audience towards fashion elsewhere in the universe.” The runway show begins at 7:00 p.m., while doors open to VIPs at 6:00 p.m. and to the general public at 6:30 p.m.. Tickets range from $17 (General Admission) to $35 (VIP) and may be purchased here. Proceeds from Exogenesis will support Wish Upon A Teen, a metro Detroit-based nonprofit dedicated to providing opportunities to teenagers with life-limiting medical conditions. For more information about NOiR Runway, visit noirrunway.org. For more information about Wish Upon A Teen, visit wishuponateen. org.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS COLUMN

A bad force of habit This weekend I sat in the library, rigorously trying to finish an essay. Music was playing, my feet were tapping and my fingers were frantically traveling back and forth between my mouth and the keyboard. I like to believe that if I don’t bite my nails while I write essays, I could probably get more words on the page. Yet no matter how conscious I try to be about my anxious habits, I still fall into them. I try to hide my nails from everybody. Having large hands as it is, I’m extremely self-conscious when it comes to my hands and fingers. I’ve been a nail biter since I was a kid, and although it has gotten better over time — like attending hypnotherapy sessions and meditating to become more present and aware of my actions — I still abuse my nails at least once a day. Like most people with habits, I hate admitting this to myself and to the public. Many people have anxious habits even when they don’t know it: teeth grinding, nail picking, pencil chewing. Although our minds are listening to lectures or reading our textbooks, there is our subconscious mind, sending us messages to mindlessly wander off into a long list of events, assignments, people, work, fears and more. When this happens, we’re probably worried or anxious about them, and when that stress builds, we have to transfer that energy somewhere. Sadly, we mainly transfer this energy to ourselves, where verbs like “grinding,” “picking” and “chewing” are used against our own bodies. Some habits, however, can be completely innocent and safe, like tapping your foot or twirling your hair. But it’s important to highlight

the more dangerous habits like nail baiting, binge cigarette smoking or eating and even dermatillomania, the act of skin picking. I’ve been that girl who has picked the one small bump on my face until it bleeds, and to be quite honest, I have no reason for it. Habits like these can cause immense damage to our interior and exterior bodies without us witnessing each step of a progressive destruction. For me, anxiety is like an itch I can’t scratch — it’s there and I can feel it, but I struggle to find the exact spot and alleviate it. So when

ERIKA SHEVCHEK I see something that irks me, like a hangnail or a zit, I want it to go away as soon as possible and I go at it. I take something microscopic and make it a bigger deal than it is, just like I do with my anxious thoughts. Despite all the years of intense, anxious habits, there is never a wrong time to try and cure them. I was 19 when I went to my first hypnotherapy session (when in reality I should have gone when I was younger), and it was there where I learned the importance of diving into my subconscious, finding out what it was exactly that I was anxious about and learning to control stressful thoughts. I,

along with many, learned that my anxious thoughts and habits were subconsciously developed as a child, and my brain chose to carry that stress as I grew older. It took a few sessions and my own meditative practices to really become present and to acknowledge the danger (and disgust) of this habit. When I put my fingers to my mouth, I am more aware that they are there and that what I was doing was actually painful. In a way, I bring more feeling and presence to this area of my body, which is hard considering I am so embarrassed by my fingers. It’s an active, mindful and incredibly difficult challenge to continuously tame your subconscious, but it’s surely not impossible. Even though I attended hypnotherapy (which is not the only option), I’m still attempting to cure my anxious habits. I’ve played with rubber bands to entertain my fingers or twist my rings as an alternative fidgeting activity. I take a deep breath and mentally take a step back. Meditation has taught me to be present in the moment, which can take away from those spiraling, anxious thoughts and put myself back into reality. Acknowledging your anxious habit is the first step to ending them. Whether it’s through exercise, writing or meditation, I have found different methods of building self-awareness and mindful presence in order to maintain a calm head and physical space. My fingers are used for typing and climbing and guitar playing. My fingers can be used to craft and create and cook. The more we can transfer our anxious energies into positive, useful activities, the closer we are to winning our individual battles against anxiety.

ALBUM REVIEW

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On ‘Invasion of Privacy’ Cardi B is taking names LAURA DZUBAY Daily Arts Writer

Cardi B has written a holy text for self-assurance, and its name is Invasion of Privacy. The rapper started gaining attention in 2015 as an internet celebrity and cast member of “Love & Hip Hop: New York.” Since then, she has signed with Atlantic Records and released two complete mixtapes, Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1 and Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 2, in the span of less than a year. She was bold; she was brash; she was explicit and unapologetic about it. Then “Bodak Yellow” came out — her debut single — and when it captured the nation’s attention, it didn’t just show us exactly who Cardi B was going to be. It showed us who she already was: independent, brave and packing talent in every single word. Invasion of Privacy does not disappoint. From the curtaindrawing opener, “Get Up 10,” all the way through the final epilogue, “I Do,” Cardi B’s debut studio album is an explosion of bravado, irresistible beats and lyrical mastery. There isn’t a single track that does not demand the attention of the listener. Cardi sings about money and sex, she disses her enemies and references her relationship with Offset of Migos, and every step of the way, she has something to flaunt. Maybe this is part of why she has registered so much with the public as an agent of empowerment: She’s an expert,

and listening to her music, you can’t help but want to be an expert, too. The album makes use of its many featuring tracks, pairing Cardi with well-known artists like Migos, Chance The Rapper, Kehlani, 21 Savage and SZA. In all of these cases, the artists’ talents are well matched. However, the real appeal

Invasion of Privacy Cardi B Atlantic Records of the album comes from Cardi herself, who fills in every track with the same insistent rhythms that made singles like “Bodak Yellow” and “Bartier Cardi” so popular. She repeats herself with new intonations, using hypnotic beats as her backdrops, making each line even more impactful than the one before it. The lyrics are nothing to underestimate, either. Cardi slides from one line into the next with words so deftly chosen, it’s necessary to listen to each song more than once in order to fully appreciate the lexical complexity. “Only time that I’m a lady’s when I lay these hoes to rest,” from “I Do,” has to be the freshest pun of the entire year so far. And then there’s the title of the song, which sets up expectations that the song will have something to do with marriage, only to knock them down with the chorus: “I do / What I like, I do, I do.” From “I got enough

bras, y’all ain’t gotta support me” in “Get Up 10” to Chance The Rapper’s line about “(turning) all my L’s into lessons” in “Best Life,” the wordplay that spans the entire album is artful and sharp. As unafraid as Cardi B is of baring her confrontational side, she also doesn’t shy away from the more personal. In “Best Life,” she calls out her haters: “‘Cardi B is so problematic’ is the hashtag / I can’t believe they wanna see me lose that bad.” But “Be Careful” is probably her best example of vulnerability, a tender track in which Cardi warns her lover, “My heart is like a package with a fragile label on it, be careful with me.” With questions like, “Do you know what you doin’? / Whose feelings that you’re hurtin’ and bruisin’? / You gon’ gain the whole world / But is it worth the girl that you’re losin’?” and promises that the song is “not a threat, it’s a warning,” “Be Careful” is where Cardi proves that she can draw just as much strength from vulnerability as she can from anywhere else. Just like Cardi, Invasion of Privacy is impossible to shake out of one’s mind. She’s soft on “Be Careful,” imperious and explosive on “Bickenhead” and unstoppable all the way through. The album makes full use of her talents and her almost unrivaled personality and bravery. One could say that now that Cardi B is famous, her talent isn’t going anywhere, but in a sense, that would be wrong: It’s going straight up, with no sign of stopping.

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The king of quirk: A look at Wes Anderson’s films Daily Arts Writers discuss the ‘Isle of Dogs’ director’s influence DAILY FILM BEAT Daily Arts Writers

Jack Brandon: To begin, how were you all introduced to Anderson’s films? Danny Hensel: I saw a trailer for “Moonrise Kingdom” before I was interested in film. When I finally watched it, it was so different than anything I had seen. The dialogue and character interactions were surreal, and I immediately became interested in Anderson’s films and film in general. When I realized that “The Grand Budapest Hotel” was about to come out, I got into his catalogue and watched them all. Stephen Satarino: For me, “Fantastic Mr. Fox” existed when I was child, before I knew what a director was, but I was super into it. “Moonrise Kingdom” really got me when I was older. Max Michalsky: I remember I went with my mom and younger brother to the theater, and the first movie we wanted to see was sold out, but we instead went to see “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” and I was taken aback by it. It was so unique in almost every regard. I didn’t care that much about movies at that time, so watching Wes Anderson was so overtly

different but still accessible. It was what prompted me to consider movies an art form. I found “Grand Budapest” to be a moving film. I don’t think Wes Anderson gets enough credit for that, I think people pigeonhole his films into being

All of his movies borrow from concepts and tropes that we’re very familiar with

heady or cold. There’s always this human thread running through them. I think about the traditional Wes Anderson dialogue, speaking matter-offactly and deadpan. Sydney Cohen: I remember being struck, for the first time with “Grand Budapest,” at such an overtly stylized film where every element and miniscule detail is perfectly placed, and this gorgeous symmetry I had

never seen before in a feature length film, and I was just awestruck by it. Anderson has such a distinct brand that it’s very impressive, and “Grand Budapest” imprinted on me the ideas of directors having a specific style. Jack: So what I’m getting is that Anderson’s films are very stylized and artistic, but not necessarily inaccessible. Why do you think that is? Stephen: Thematically, he deals a lot with finding the family or people coming together. I think that’s necessarily accessible. Danny: All of his movies borrow from concepts and tropes that we’re very familiar with. For example, “Fantastic Mr. Fox” is a heist movie, and with George Clooney as the voice actor, who has played heist characters before, he makes the film easy to read. When we combine that familiarity with the genre and the actor, and put it in a context where it’s quoteunquote artistic, or maybe deadpan, we can still buy into the emotional weight that the film holds because we’re able to recognize their settings and contexts from other viewings. There’s a line in “The Grand Budapest Hotel” that breaks me every time: “In the end, they shot him.” They

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don’t show the death, and it’s delivered very simply with no affectation. It still obliterates me because knowing the context, the historical setting, the characters and connecting with them from the world he has established and the one the audience lives in. Max: I think there’s a relatability, too, especially in the presentation. If you look at “Moonrise Kingdom,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” or “The Royal Tenenbaums,” they are all presented as if the audience is being told a story. There are often narrators or third parties observing the events of his stories. Anderson almost builds in company for the viewer, and I think that’s a really big thing that makes it easy to feel. It almost goes back to being a kid and being told a story by your parents. Danny: Interestingly, I think theatre and plays factor into a lot of his works, like in “Rushmore,” where the main character Max is a playwright, in “The Royal Tenenbaums,” where Gwyneth Paltrow’s character is an award winning playwright from a young age and in “Moonrise Kingdom,” when Sam and Suzy meet for the first time. Stephen: The book motif is present too. I heard Wes Anderson wanted to write novels when he was in college, and that shows itself. Sydney: The essence of childhood and playfulness is also an attractive thematic thread present in all his movies. There’s a juxtaposition between the deadpan delivery and the themes at play. Jack: Going back to the idea of style and form, Anderson’s work is very much about control, in the way that he dictates the symmetry and curates the color of each film. Do you find it restricting in any way? Sydney: It interacts with theatre, in how you would construct a scene on a stage. I feel that way when I watch Wes Anderson movies, in that each scene is an overt performance, like all the set pieces are specifically placed in a stage. Danny: He has so many fully visualized worlds, and I feel controlled by him, but he is responsibly showing me everything he wants me to see. It’s like going to a really high quality restaurant and having a chef who knows exactly

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what you want to eat out of a five course meal and presents it to you in exactly the order you want to have it. There’s other food, sure, but you don’t want it in that moment. You just want to eat what the chef gives you. It’s a little limiting, because there is such a tight control he places on actors, the performance and the camera movement, but when it’s so delightful to watch it, I don’t really mind losing that control. Jack: When is he at his best, then? Becky: “The Royal Tenenbaums.” I think what Danny was saying about world-building makes a lot of sense, like in “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” you have all these heist themes, and I think in “The Royal Tenenbaums,” all the characters have so much substance and they’re so well developed that you feel for

He has such a definitive touch to his films that harkens back to another time of filmmaking and directing

every single one. It’s silly and quirky, but it still has emotion to it. I think in some of his films, the aesthetics are distracting, like “The Grand Budapest Hotel” was a little too much Wes Anderson for me. We get it, there’s a pink hotel and there’s a bellboy, and there’s whimsy and nostalgia, and all these other things you’ve never seen before but you feel like you have. But I think “The Royal Tenenbaums” does a good job of making it more than the aesthetics and giving the characters more. Max: Talking about “The Royal Tenenbaums,” I’ve been thinking about the scene where he tries to kill himself, and Elliott Smith is playing, and asking where does that fit in Anderson’s modus operandi? Stephen: I think a lot of people don’t give him enough credit for doing daring things with his characters. People get distracted by his aesthetic, and oftentimes the stories themselves are pretty compelling. I love that scene because as far as color palettes, a lot of the film is oranges and yellows and greens, and that’s just a blue scene, except for the red of the blood. Danny: It reminds me of the pirate attack scene in “The Life Aquatic.” When I first saw it, (it) was super jarring, but the more and more I watch it, I appreciate it. Right before Bill Murray becomes an action star, all the crewmates are praying to themselves, up against the wall, at gunpoint. On first viewing, it’s a little strange, but the more I watch it, it’s so harrowing. It’s this moment of emotional realism in a movie that is formerly anything but. It’s visually a very strong blue, but after that scene, the color palette becomes a lot more natural. I tie those two together because Anderson is known for having emotionally distant characters, but there are those really important moments of emotional realism that I always feel like pays off. Stephen: There’s also the end of “Moonrise Kingdom,” when they’re on the top of the church, and it’s black and white with a blue filter thrown over it. Danny: It’s a really strong blue, it’s like experimental film blue. Jack: Back to this idea of form, “Isle of Dogs” is stopmotion, and it’s not Anderson’s first venture into the form. It’s an interesting medium for someone who is as exact and precise as he is. Sydney: For “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” I love an adult movie in a kid’s format. I think it’s so

impressive and fascinating and consuming when you watch these little characters perform a heist. I think “Isle of Dogs” will do the same, especially with the cultural specificity of Japan, and I’m interested to see how it does it. Danny: It’s interesting to see it as a method of control, because he starts using it in “The Life Aquatic,” and then again (in) “The Grand Budapest Hotel” in small amounts. Obviously in a movie about aquatic life, when the animals are hard to control and he creates so many of them, it’s useful that he uses it to create this world. I can’t imagine CGI in an Anderson film. Stop motion fits the niche of not quite real, but if you don’t look closely, it will seem real. Sydney: The tactility of the figures matches up with Anderson’s aesthetic. Becky: I think there’s this analogue thing about it, too. Anderson loves being back in time, the super nostalgic and the retro. The first animations were stop motion. Sydney: Animation is such an interesting medium. I saw “Kubo and the Two Strings” a couple of years ago. It looked like origami, but it was animation, and I think Anderson does something similar with the physicality of his figures. He takes pieces of his film and makes them part of the animation, which is impressive. Danny: I think for practical considerations as well, there’s no way that “Fantastic Mr. Fox” would have been live action, and the same goes for “Isle of Dogs.” I could not see that existing. I feel that any other form of animation wouldn’t fit his style. Jack: But I feel that the narratives in those films are fables, and these characters are very human, and you could just as easily take them back from the animal world that Anderson put them in. Max: That’s one thing I’m interested to see in “Isle of Dogs.” We talked about Anderson’s interest in the old fashioned, but “Isle of Dogs” is set in some dystopian future, and I’m curious about what he does with that. I think that’s something we haven’t seen from him. Jack: Similar to that, a lot of Wes Anderson’s films deal with childhood on the small scale, but “Isle of Dogs” looks at it from a wider lens, in terms of state control and other people. Sydney: I’m excited to see him tackle larger things, like institutions and government bodies, but he’ll likely stay in his wheelhouse and talk about childhood and relationships. Based on the trailer, with the boy and his dog, which is a very sentimental pairing, it will probably be close to home. However, the cast list is enormous and full of talent. Anderson has a big pull on people he works with. I’m obsessed with the voice talent. Jack: As a final question, what are Anderson’s contributions to film? Becky: I think he’s a great example of textbook auteur theory, like you watch the opening credits of the film, you know it’s a Wes Anderson film. He has such a definitive touch to his films that harkens back to another time of filmmaking and directing. If we could see inside Wes Anderson’s brain, it would be pastel and pretty. Stephen: I don’t know if he’s pioneering a genre or anything, but I do think he will be one of the most inf luential filmmakers. Jack: Do you think Anderson is innovative? Max: I do, but not in the way we might expect. When we think innovation, we talk about something new in technique, but he has created new things with very old tropes and aesthetics. With everything needing to have a reboot nowadays, I think that Anderson brings things from the past without being derivative. He has existed entirely outside of that, and resists the need for film to be sleek or current, and I think that choice is innovative. In the next 15 or 20 years, it will be interesting to see the films of the children he has inf luenced.

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GYMNASTICS Marody, Calderone sign entry-level contracts MEN’S Bock finishes fourth in all-around at Big Tens BENJAMIN KATZ Daily Sports Writer

Just three days after the Michigan hockey team lost, 4-3, to Notre Dame in the Frozen Four semifinals, junior forward Cooper Marody and senior forward Tony Calderone signed NHL entry-level contracts. After breakout seasons, Marody inked a deal for three years with the Edmonton Oilers and Calderone for an undisclosed duration with the Dallas Stars on Sunday. Marody and Calderone led the offensive attack as two-thirds of the lethal “DMC” line alongside senior forward Dexter Dancs. Together, the trio accounted for 53 of Michigan’s 136 goals, 34 percent of all points and a plus-minus rating of plus-48. Originally selected by the Philadelphia Flyers in the sixth round and 158th overall in the 2015

NHL Entry Draft, Marody’s rights were traded to the Oilers on Mar. 21 for a 2019 third-round pick. “I am so grateful that I had the opportunity to play for two of the best coaches in college hockey, Red Berenson and Mel Pearson,” Marody said in a statement. “Combined with their exceptional assistant coaches and support staff, they have prepared me for the next level. The teammates I have had the honor of playing alongside the past three seasons have made it the best time of my life. “The Children of Yost, the Michigan Hockey Band, alumni and fans make playing at Yost an unforgettable experience. My lifelong dream of playing at Michigan and wearing the block ‘M’ was even better in reality.” In his first full season as a Wolverine, the Brighton, Mich. native led the team in scoring with 51 points on 16 goals and 35 assists

to rank third in the country and first in the Big Ten. Marody became just the third Michigan player to lead the conference in scoring and was named to the All-Big Ten first team. On Friday, he was selected as a CCM/AHCA West Second Team All-American. Down the stretch, Marody registered four goals and five assists in six postseason games. His two tallies, including the game-winner, led the Wolverines to a 3-2 win over Northeastern in the NCAA Regionals and the 25th Frozen Four berth in program history. Calderone led the conference with 25 goals to go with 19 assists for 44 points, all career highs for the captain. He scored seven times on the power play and posted four game-winners during his senior campaign. An All-Big Ten second team honoree, the Trenton, Mich. native tallied six goals and three assists in

the playoffs. His four goals in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals against Wisconsin tied for most in a game in Michigan history. In 134 career games as a Wolverine, Calderone notched 54 goals and 37 assists. Last April, Pearson spoke with Calderone about his potential to play professionally after college. Always a sharpshooter from the slot, Pearson encouraged him to improve his skating, speed and overall conditioning to compete at the next level. Calderone put in the time to become more well-rounded, and it paid dividends Sunday afternoon. “Extremely happy to announce I have signed my first NHL contract with the @dallasstars,” Calderone said in an Instagram post. “I want to thank @umichhockey for the best 4 years of my life. I also want to thank my family and friends who have supported me and helped make this dream come true.”

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Junior forward Cooper Marody and senior forward Tony Calderone signed NHL contracts with the Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars, respectively.

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After Dmitri Belanovski closed out his second rings routine of the weekend with a stuck dismount, he pointed to the cameras. The senior — competing for a Big Ten title on the still rings Saturday night during his final competition in Ann Arbor — knew he’d executed his routine well enough to earn a good score. He scored 13.800, good for fifth place in the final. “I stuck to what I’ve been doing all year,” Belanovski said. “I definitely have the lowest start value out of these ten guys competing, but I stuck with my execution, stuck my dismount and just did what I did overall all year long.” Placing just ahead of Belanovski was freshman Cameron Bock, who earned a fourth-place finish with a score of 13.825. “Cameron has really, really come around on that event, has really developed a lot this year,” said Michigan coach Kurt Golder. “Strategy for (Belanovski), was, you know, he had a little elbow issue, we watered it down a little, went clean and conservative, and it worked out well for him.” Bock started his strong weekend Friday with a fourthplace finish in the all-around with a score of 82.800. On the floor, Bock hit a clean routine with the only deductions coming in hops on the landing of his tumbling passes. He followed up his floor routine with good form and rhythm on pommel horse, earning a score of 13.750 — his third-highest tally of the season. Four more clean routines earned him the highest finish of a freshman in the all-around competition. “I just put on on every event,” Bock said. “I hit 6-for-6 and

just came out with a really good score.” In Saturday’s high bar competition, Bock executed three challenging releases and took just a small step on his dismount to score 13.725, just 0.25 below his qualifying score and good for another fourth-place result. “He has, I think, a really smart routine,” Golder said. “One that fits his abilities well, and yeah, just real clean.” On the vault, juniors Emyre Cole and Anthony McCallum placed fourth and fifth, respectively. It was McCallum’s third vault of the season, and the performance should serve him well with the NCAA Championships looming. “I think particularly today, it’ll help him,” Golder said. “You know, he came up a little short and he was just pulling to make it yesterday, and we were very happy about that. But I think he’ll probably get a big confidence boot by his vault today.” Though each gymnast performed a perfectly fine routine in Saturday’s competition, the results did not follow how they were expected to perform after earning second place in the team competition on Friday. None of the individual competitors improved upon their qualifying scores, leading to middle-of-thepack finishes. The NCAA Championships are just two weeks away, and the Wolverines are hoping to capitalize on the momentum from the team competition and perform better than last year’s ninth-place finish. “We haven’t been in the top six, we haven’t been in the NCAA finals the last two years,” Belanovski said. “We proved a lot of people wrong with this top two finish yesterday. We’re just looking to get back in the top six and fight for that NCAA trophy.”

Wolverines improve thanks to return of seniors Finn and Morrissey TIEN LE

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Expectations are high in a program when coaches compare players to all-time great athletes like Michael Jordan or LeBron James. But those expectations were justified when applied to fifth-year runners Erin Finn and Jamie Morrissey. “Both of them here and at the end, Morrissey, the team’s happy that (Finn and Morrissey are) back,” said Michigan coach James Henry. “Because they’re our LeBron James of the program. They’re our Kobe Bryant of our program. They’re our Michael Jordan of track and field. “I mean, they’re some of the best of the best. And when the best of the best go down, your program, you’re not as good. So we’re significantly better by having those two, those young ladies in the program.” As game-changing runners for the Michigan women’s track

and field team, the long-awaited return of Finn and Morrissey could only offer improvement — and their impact on the team showed at the Battle of the Blues. The Wolverines finished second in a field of three and, more notably, with 25 career bests. After a three-year absence in outdoor track, Finn saw her first event since 2015 after redshirting her junior year and sitting out all of senior year due to injury. Normally when a player returns from injury, rust or decline might make its rounds in the first few performances. But for Finn, she immediately saw the success she and her team anticipated. The “little one with a big heart” — as Henry called her — showed just how big her heart was. Through hard work and perseverance, she ran a career-best time of 9:14.31 in the 3,000-meter event in her return. With advice from associate head coach Mike McGuire to pace herself, Finn concentrated on her timing. She ran a

74-second pace for the first two laps before finishing the final lap on a 71-second pace that allowed her a personal best — and third-best in Michigan history for the 3,000-meter outdoor race. Henry, despite grouping Finn with some of the greatest of all time, was just taken aback. Caught off guard by her dominant showing, he had in every way anticipated that rust that plagued many who return from injury. “She approached the race showing she was healthy,” Henry said. “She wasn’t going after a career best because you can’t be an injured-reserve and hurt and out and expect to just come in right away and do your best. But she’s paced herself and that’s what we want.” Morrissey, similarly, had total control of her race in her return to outdoor action. Doing her part in the team’s mid-distance and long-distance sweep, Morrissey posted a time of 2:05.11 for the 800 meters —

.02 seconds from her personalbest. She and Finn led the way for the distance runners to make their mark in the event, as they — along with seniors Claire Borchers and Haley Meier — claimed first in their respective events. But Michigan’s accomplishments to the distance events didn’t come as a surprise to Henry. “That’s the part of our program,” Henry said. “That goes the same way with all of our kids. We build our program around long distance and middle distance. They are our bread and butter. As they go, so does the team. And we just do our very best in those areas, but we build our program around distances. So it’s expected and they expect to weigh in terms of performances.” What also didn’t come as a surprise to him was the improvement showed throughout the roster, and not just by the Wolverines’ distance runners.

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Senior Erin Finn returned to the Michigan outdoor track and field team for the first time in three years and set a personal record in the 3,000-meter race.

25 career bests were posted throughout the meet, which was the main focus for the team. It was never about winning. It was about growth. “That’s what we want,” Henry said. “This was our first scoring meet before the conference meet. It gave us a chance to compete against different competition. It gave us a chance to get many of the kids involved in scoring in the meet. “Our goal was not to win the championship or this particular meet — the Battle of the Blues. Our goal was to improve. So to have 25 kids come out and do such an improvement, we might not have won but we were successful.” Meier, in addition to her twin

Hannah, helped highlight the depth Michigan displayed with their improvements. Going first and second respectively in the 1,500-meter, the Meier twins paved the way for a group of seven Wolverines to finish within the top ten. Despite the second-place finish, Michigan came out of the meet with the best outcome it could have expected. As Finn and Morrissey improved toward their best forms, the rest of the team followed suit and provided their best efforts in turn. With the pace of growth likely to continue, the comparison to great athletes might not be limited to just Morrissey and Finn, but to the rest of the team as well.

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Allan finds her groove in sweep of Penn State ARIA GERSON

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Lou Allan was waiting for the changeup. It was the same pitch from Penn State pitcher Madison Shaffer that had fooled the freshman earlier in Saturday’s game. In fact, it had fooled Michigan’s entire lineup. But in the seventh inning, with senior right-hander Tera Blanco on second and the score tied 0-0, Allan knew she wouldn’t be fooled again. When the pitch came, she was ready. Joining the Wolverines as the No. 8 prospect in the country according to FloSoftball, Allan was expected to make an impact right away. But things never turn out quite as expected, and for Allan, her fate was particularly crushing: a knee injury just before the start of the season. “I was super down the first couple — the first week,” Allan said. “ … I had this stupid injury, and (Michigan coach Carol Hutchins) just came in there every day (while) I was doing rehab during practice and say, ‘You’ve gotta come back stronger.’ ” Hutchins’ words of encouragement changed Allan’s mentality. Instead of viewing her injury as a crushing blow, she saw it as something that would make her stronger. She recovered faster than the doctors expected and seized the starting designated player job shortly before conference play. Still, recovery from injury is a process, and it took time for Allan to hit her stride. “I was kinda behind on games compared to the rest of the team,” Allan said. “So for me, it was just seeing more pitches and getting back into the swing of things.” Against Penn State, her resilience paid off. On Friday, Allan hit the ball over the fence in the top of the

fifth for her first career home run. It extended the Wolverines’ lead to 6-0 in an eventual 14-2 win. “Every week, she gets a little better,” Hutchins said. “ … She makes adjustments better than probably any kid I’ve ever seen. She can make an adjustment in one pitch.” Which brings us back to the changeup. Sure, the game was scoreless, but the scoreboard can be deceiving. Michigan left 11 runners on base through the first six innings. The Nittany Lions, on the other hand, had just five total baserunners. At the heart of the Wolverines’ woes was that pitch. Just when it seemed Michigan was about to break through, Shaffer would go to her changeup again. It would drop off the table as the batter swung right over. “We were swinging at decent pitches,” Allan said. “But then she would throw her changeup and all of a sudden, we were swinging out of our shoes.” Allan stepped up to the plate in the seventh knowing that she couldn’t let that pitch defeat her again. She would come back stronger. She took two balls and waited for the pitch she knew was coming. She swung. And, when the Wolverines needed her most, she delivered. “All I needed to do is hit it to the outfield,” Allan said. “Make it hit the green.” It did more than that. The ball sailed over the fence for a home run to get Michigan on the board, 2-0. The Wolverines would eventually win the game, 3-0, and took Sunday’s contest, 11-1, to secure the sweep. Whether faced with a significant injury or a baffling changeup, some players would have succumbed to frustration. But for Allan, it was just another challenge to tackle head-on.

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Pitching has become backbone

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baseball pitching staff struggled through the first 15 games of the season, posting an earnedrun average of CONNOR 4.66. BRENNAN Since then, the Wolverines have recovered in dramatic fashion, both from a team and pitching perspective. That ERA has decreased to 2.20 — the byproduct of younger pitchers stepping up and bettering the performances of returning starters from last year. Coming into the season, senior right-handers Alec Rennard and Jayce Vancena were expected to anchor the rotation. Alongside

veteran outfielder Myles Lewis and shortstop Ako Thomas, Rennard and Vancena were the only players seated for preseason Media Day. Following three outings earlier in the season, over which he had posted a 3.38 ERA, Rennard was shut down while recovering from a prior injury. For a struggling pitching staff, the loss of their supposed ace was an unwelcome blow. Vancena, on the other hand, has struggled mightily thus far and has been demoted from a starting role to being used intermittently as a reliever. The unexpected turn of events provided the perfect opportunity for the young guys to step up. And they have certainly done so. If you need an example, look no further than the staff’s weekend performance against Big Ten foe, Northwestern. In game one of Saturday’s

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After a strong start to the weekend, the Wolverines couldn’t hang on Daily Sports Writer

The Michigan men’s golf team placed ninth at the Aggie Invitational, in part due to an uncharacteristic weekend of Texas weather. “The weather, really all day (Saturday), it was up there for one of the two or three worst weather days I’ve ever had in fourteen years of coaching,” said Michigan head coach Chris Whitten. “It was so cold and rainy and windy.” Up against seven top-10 teams in a field of 14, the Wolverines shot 36-over (900), 31 shots behind the champion, No. 1 Oklahoma State. Leading the way for Michigan was senior Kyle Mueller, who placed fifth individually at 3-under par for the weekend. However, he and his team had an off round to begin the

tournament. “It’s a hard golf course to begin with, and we brought all the layers that we could,” Whitten said. The guys were absolutely prepared, but they were still absolutely freezing. And when you can’t feel your hands in golf, it gets tough.” Despite the unfavorable conditions and suspended play due to darkness, the Wolverines rebounded, posting the second-highest team score in the second round early Sunday morning. The effort was led by Mueller as well as senior Ian Kim, who shot 1-under and even-par, respectively. “That was just the guys’ complete, sheer determination,” Whitten said. “(The course) was still playing almost as tough in

multiple pitches that you can throw for strikes, but what makes him very good is the competitiveness with which he pitches and the poise he has on the mound as well.” Thanks to the Wolverines’ pitching staff, Northwestern suffered two shutouts in one afternoon. The youthful contingent of Henry, Dragani, Criswell, Tribucher and sophomore righthander Karl Kauffman have become the backbone of the team. More specifically, a streaking team which has won its last 15 games and currently sits atop the Big Ten. “It’s all contagious,” Bakich said. “Everybody’s feeding off of each other. The bullpen guys go in and see what the previous guy did before him that had success and follows that blueprint. The confidence among the whole pitching staff is obviously extremely high right now.”

Freshman left-hander Ben Dragani and his fellow underclassmen have helped lower Michigan’s team ERA to 2.20, making the pitchers the backbone of the team.

Michigan falters in final round, finishes ninth AKUL VIJAYVARGIYA

doubleheader, sophomore lefthander Tommy Henry posted a career-high nine strikeouts in six shutout innings of work. His dominant performance paved the way for junior reliever Troy Miller to finish the shutout with four strikeouts of his own. The second game saw freshman Ben Dragani claim his third win of the season in similar fashion. The understated left-hander, who has posted a stellar 1.13 ERA thus far this season, allowing only one hit in seven innings. Fellow freshman Jeff Criswell kept the Wildcats off the scoreboard, too before junior left-hander Will Tribucher struck out two of the final three batters to close it out. “Ben’s very talented,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich. “He was the Gatorade Pitcher of the Year in Wisconsin as a high school senior. So he came in very skilled to begin with. It’s one thing to have

the afternoon as it was in the morning, and they just got in a groove and went to work. “Kyle (Mueller) is just like a rock every single week. He’s always going to be in contention, which is fantastic for our team. And Ian (Kim) gave us a really good second round. And the guys felt good.” Through the front nine of the final round, Michigan remained in contention, ahead of three top-25 teams. The wheels came off on the back nine, though, which caused the Wolverines to settle for ninth in the tournament. “I think we made a couple too many mistakes on the final nine holes of the final round, and I wish we would have finished a

“When you can’t feel your hands in golf, it gets tough.”

little bit higher,” Whitten said. “But the guys fought pretty hard the whole time. “We just couldn’t hit enough good shots, and a couple guys missed some shorts putts, too. We had done well. It’s just that good play needs to continue all 54 holes and until the very end of the tournament. You can’t just play two good rounds or twoand-a-half good rounds.” One underlying story that affected Michigan’s lineup this past weekend was that junior starter Nick Carlson missed the first tournament in his career due to a shoulder injury. Recognizing that it will take time for the injury to heal, Whitten continues to look forward with the players he currently has. “The second round of the tournament was very good, and I think we can look at what we did there from top to bottom,” Whitten said. “And that’s what we need every round, every week.”

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The Michigan men’s golf team struggled to get anything going in the freezing weather at the Aggie Invitational and eventually finished 31 shots back.

WOMEN’S GOLF

Kim leads Wolverines at Greensboro tourney ROHAN KUMAR Daily Sports Writer

Spurred by freshman Ashley Kim, the Michigan women’s golf team came out strong at the Bryan National Collegiate in Greensboro, N.C. At the end of Friday’s opening round, the Wolverines sat in first with a team total of 291 — their best of the spring season. But the team wasn’t aware that it led the field. The tournament had a shotgun start with 36 continuous holes on Friday. There was never a moment to cherish the lead. Michigan couldn’t keep up the record pace. The team carded a 309 later on Friday to move into 10th. And Saturday, the Wolverines battled harsh weather and shot a 310 to finish in eighth. Wake Forest topped the 17-team field with an 888 threeday total — 22 strokes better than Michigan. Due to her solid play early on Friday, Kim sat tied for fourth with an even-par 72 heading into the afternoon. There, she carded a 74 to drop into a tie for ninth. Senior Emily White also excelled for the Wolverines during the first two rounds, reaching 24th place with a two-day total of 149. Michigan coach Jan Dowling was pleased with her team’s stellar play — especially putting — that helped it lead early on. “Just phenomenal golf for our program and a muchneeded confidence booster for our team as well,” Dowling said about the opening round. “To be totally honest, we

haven’t played our best golf in a couple tournaments. It was nice for the team to see what we are capable of. “The team started to see some putts fall, which was a really nice thing.” Rough playing conditions made Saturday difficult. The fairways were drenched from pouring rain, and heavy winds worsened the situation. With the tough conditions, Kim and White slipped up. They both tallied scores of 78 on Saturday and finished the tournament in 12th and 29th, respectively. The team as a whole, though, did damage control and gave up only one double bogey on the day. The tournament marked Kim’s third consecutive time leading the team. The southern California native is used to playing in pleasant conditions. Since the start of her freshman year, she’s worked with the coaching staff on controlling her trajectory, and this helped her score well over the weekend. Dowling closely followed her performance. “What was really fun for us to see was her play so well in difficult conditions. It was kind of a new experience for her,” Dowling said. “A top12 finish in that field, as a freshman on that golf course, is really impressive.” Sophomore Alisa Snyder, junior Elodie Van Dievoet and sophomore Hannah Ghelfi also competed for the Wolverines and finished 40th, 47th and 63rd, respectively. “There are certainly a lot of positives to take away,” Dowling said. “It was a great field and a hard golf course.”

“Just phenomenal golf for our program.”