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Climate Action Movement, 1U stand by calls for divestment
After protests at Board of Regents meeting, coalition reaffirms demands LIAT WEINSTEIN Daily Staff Reporter
EMMA MATI/Daily Dr. Joe Howell, professor of internal medicine, recounts the history of the University of Michigan hospital at Ford Auditorium Friday.
Doctor reflects on 150 years of history at Michigan Medicine Author discusses evolution of University’s medical school since 1869 JENNA SITEMAN Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan Medical Center hosted a lecture this past Friday on the history of its development. The lecture was given by Professor of Medical History Joel Howell. About 120 people attended the event, including doctors from the medical center and applicants for the hospital’s intern program.
Howell said the University Hospital was the first hospital in the U.S. to be owned and operated by a university when it was built in 1817. He emphasized the fact that the introduction of the University Medical School in 1850, was a key player in the hospital’s existence. At the time, it was not common for medical schools to teach in an application structured curriculum, let alone exist as a college. Due
to the absence of any licensing laws on medical practitioners, most people aiming for a medical career would simply hold an apprenticeship for two years and could open their own practice afterward. “First of all, there were no license-laws. This meant that anyone could go out and hang up a shingle and start to practice medicine,” Howell said. “If you were good, people would come to you, and if you
weren’t so good, people would stop seeing you.” Howell said the school ran a two-year program in which students would attend a specific series of lectures the first year, and then take the same exact lectures their second year. Howell explained the hospital did this in the hopes students would absorb more information. See HOSPITAL, Page 2A
Members of the Climate Action Movement and the One University Campaign released a joint statement Friday after staging a series of protests and blockading the exits of the University of Michigan Golf Course at Thursday’s Board of Regents Meeting. The statement reflects upon the decisions made at the meeting and condemns what 1U and CAM claim is inaction on the part of the University to divest from fossil fuels and equally distribute resources across the three campuses. Some of the two organizations’ principal demands to the University include extending the Go Blue Guarantee to the Flint and Dearborn campuses, committing to carbon neutrality by 2030 and freezing further fossil fuel investments. All of these demands were mentioned in the joint statement to the Board of
Regents. “The shameful response from the Administration is symptomatic of a consistent lack of funding transparency, moral accountability, and commitment to productive dialogue with the student body,” the statement reads. “Members of the One University Campaign and the Climate Action Movement understand our demands require the Administration to undergo a deep examination of its priorities, and this process is not simple.” On Nov. 25, CAM and 1U released their first joint statement announcing their list of demands and establishing a connection between the two organizations. The first statement also called on the University community to join 1U and CAM at the protests before, during and after the Dec. 5, regents meeting. No students were arrested during any of Thursday’s protests.
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Smoothie King celebrates grand opening of Ann Arbor location
Chain launches local store with ribbon cutting ceremony, raffle MADDIE MADDEN For The Daily
Smoothie King held its grand opening of its Ann Arbor location this past Saturday. The new store is located in the Westgate Shopping Center at the intersection of Jackson Road and I-94. About 20 people attended. The location held a soft opening two weeks ago, making it the eighth location in Michigan. Bob Bannatz, Smoothie King’s district leader for the state of Michigan, described the reasoning behind the brand’s plan to open 50 locations in Michigan within the next five years. “Smoothie King has a big footprint down South, and because of the cold weather and the smoothies and ice, people were afraid to move into (the north), but we found out that it’s a high-quality product,” Bannatz said. “People like it, and it sells all year round, so we came to Michigan.” Bannatz said he anticipates a mutually beneficial relationship with the students at the
University of Michigan. “Smoothies are the kind of product that fits,” Bannatz said. “We have the healthy smoothies, we have ones for wellness and slim, and then we have a dessert blend, so that’s kind of our target, what we’re looking for. So we hope to grow our relationship with the students at the University of Michigan.” Ann Arbor resident Zhao Chen, who currently works for Google, was very eager to attend the grand opening. “I tried it once at the airport. I have had the other place before, Tropical Smoothie,” Chen said. “They’re all right. So, when I tried Smoothie King out, it was so good. So, when we heard there was an opening here, we got so excited.” Other locals who hadn’t previously heard about the grand opening were also intrigued by the event and enthusiasm about the opening of a Smoothie King in Ann Arbor. Washtenaw Community College student Joel Karschbaum learned about the event that morning and said he was compelled to attend.
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SOPHIA AFENDOULIS/Daily Ty Otto, analyst for the Pacific Northwest Laboratory, discusses nonproliferation policy and the U.S. Fuel Cycle at White Auditorium on Friday.
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Friday afternoon, about 50 of University of Michigan students, professors and Ann Arbor community members gathered to hear Ty Otto, an analyst at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, speak about nonproliferation policy and how it relates to and affects the nuclear industry at the Nuclear Engineering and Radioactive Sciences colloquium. Otto began by explaining nonproliferation in the nuclear space. “The nonproliferation regime … is an overlapping set of institutions, laws, treaties, informal treaties between
governments … that are all working to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and to help roll back nuclear arsenals where they might currently exist,” Otto said. He then illustrated the difficulty of nonproliferation from a policy perspective and the many intricacies involved in nonproliferation. “The nuclear nonproliferation regime has emerged as the art of the possible and every one of these agreements requires a serendipitous alignment of political will and interest coming together,” Otto said. “The nonproliferation regime is not perfect … but when you have 195 countries in the world and you want them to all … commit to giving up their freedoms and
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rights in order to take part in these, sometimes you have to take what you can get.” Otto continued his talk by discussing the Atomic Nuclear Energy Act of 1954, specifically Section 123 of the act, which lays out the requirements for cooperation between nations. “The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 … set out a guideline in Section 123 for the requirements for peaceful nuclear cooperation with other countries,” Otto said. “And prior to that time, it was not really something that the United States had meaningfully engaged in.” He also described the issues facing the U.S. today in an increasingly competitive nuclear industry.
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“Back in the day, the United States was basically the sole provider to most of the Western world of enrichment services,” Otto explained. “But now China, South Korea, Russia, France, there is a whole host of different countries that we are competing against the nuclear marketplace, and some of them have different perspectives on nonproliferation than we do.” In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Todd Allen, chair of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences at U-M, explained why Otto had been invited and the NERS colloquium.
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HOSPITAL From Page 1A “The classes were ungraded, and by that I don’t mean A, B, C, D, I mean that you heard the same lectures, two years in a row,” Howell said. “Presumably you got more out of it the second time around.” Howell also said the University used to run two separate hospitals: one for homeopathic medicine and one for allopathic medicine. Howell explained operations were performed in the medical school amphitheater prior to the development of operating rooms. “The operations were done in the medical school amphitheater, which was a little bit dicey because dissections with cadavers were also in the medical school amphitheater,” Howell said. “After operating on patients, they had to be carried across the street and across the University to get back into the hospital.”
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In 1881, the medical school became the first to admit women. People of color were also admitted around the same time, according to Howell. Howell shared a photo of a classroom in which men of color are sitting in the back row of the class and the women are sitting in a sectioned off bench to the side. He also shared a note from the Board of Regents in 1870 and two responses from news sources of the time. “The regents resolved in 1870 that ‘the Board of Regents recognized the right of every resident of Michigan to the enjoyment of the privileges afforded by the University and that they will admit anyone with the requisite in literary and moral qualifications,’” Howell said. “And with that, we became the first major medical school in the country to admit women, and they got national attention.”
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UAAO 2019-2020 EXECUTIVE BOARD With the closing of A/PIA Immigration Awareness Week, we present this year’s UAAO Executive Board annual board photoshoot as an opportunity to raise awareness regarding former University of Michigan president James B. Angell’s role in the creation of the Chinese Exclusion Act, how this established precedence for longstanding anti-Asian rhetoric in the United States, and UAAO’s stance as an Asian American advocacy group on campus. We present this year’s UAAO photoshoot: “Can you recognize Angell with all of
our Colors?” The U.S. legislation created by James B. Angell, the former University of Michigan president that we commemorate when we participate in any institutional entity named after him, such as simply walking through Angell Hall, played a foundational role in U.S. exclusion of Chinese immigrant populations. This period of Chinese exclusion paved the way for the xenophobic propaganda that has pervaded many facets of Asian American discourse. The Angell Treaty, drafted by James B. Angell and signed by U.S. Senate on November 17th, 1880, paved the way for the Chinese Exclusion Act. In this treaty, Angell advocated to severely limit Chinese immigration to the Unit-
ed States, with justification that Chinese immigrants were unassimilable and threats to white racial purity. The Angell Treaty amended the Burlingame-Seward Treaty of 1868, which had sought to expand the right to free immigration and held provisions for Chinese citizens. Instead of supporting the pre-existing effort to expand the rights of the Chinese immigrant communities working on the transcontinental railroad, the Angell Treaty was signed as U.S. law in 1881, ending free Chinese immigration into the United States. The success of the Angell Treaty became an outlet for the agendas of anti-Chinese lobbyists, culminating into the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that barred the immigration of Chinese
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Africa hears my name and calls me to herself She doesn’t know Ayomide means Jacob Or maybe she does and ignores this because I smell like Sunday afternoons filled with Nigerian yams And fried egg seasoned with suya peppeh Africa knows the difference between peppeh and pepper but Kiana does not Kiana smells like Sunday morning breakfasts filled with slow-cooked grits And shrimp seasoned with cayenne pepper I see how Africa treats her because of this so I am caught between a rock and a hard place The rock is the dusty, potholeladden “highway” between Lagos
and Abeokuta The hard place is the breached levees in New Orleans And I wait in the middle wondering whose frustration I should carry I am wary of the line between Africa and her descendants because Africa has been born again And the diaspora are just children of the slave woman And the diaspora are just children of the same woman Every day, I find myself caught between a rock and a hard place The rock is green and white and corrupt The hard place is red and green and black and I wait in the middle wondering whose anger I should carry I am wary of the line between African-American But I don’t know if it is for connection or separation
Africa has been writhing with the pains of labor since her conception And her first born have long been forgotten
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This is now one of the best times of the year in my opinion. Even if you don’t celebrate a particular holiday, it is great to acknowledge the power of love, offering and being surrounded by others. I personally celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas — growing up in a Christian family has made this time very important to me. When I think about the holidays, I realize the integrity of culture to the traditions of these celebrations. I am used to going to church more during this season and having huge family dinners consisting of soul food and card games. But there is another holiday that I realize has ties to my heritage that I have yet to formally celebrate: Kwanzaa is a week-long holiday celebrated from December
26th to January 1st in and around the United States to celebrate and honor African heritage in our culture. For some reason when I was in elementary school learning about Kwanzaa, I always thought of it as something celebrated by people of another culture. I didn’t have any friends who celebrated it even though the majority of my friends were also AfricanAmerican, so it never seemed strange to me that my family never did. I think the reasoning for this is sometimes it is hard for people of African descent to think of ourselves as African. We are called “African-American,” but many of us have no idea what country in Africa our ancestors came from. I guess this brings the question of what African heritage means in America. When I have to check off
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The pressure increases as I find myself caught between a rock and a hard place The rock is my identity Or the one I grew up with The hard place is my destiny Where I’ve been given a chance to grow I don’t know whose purpose I should carry I am wary of the line between Nigerian and Black And I don’t know if I can keep double dutching much longer Africa sees my name and calls me to herself And knows I’m not her firstborn when she smells my clothes But she blesses me anyway
October, November and December are some of my favorite months of the year. There are holidays such as Halloween and Thanksgiving, followed by one of my favorite, Christmas. Being Muslim, I always get weird looks from people when I tell them that Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year. It’s true, I am Muslim and I love Christmas time. To specify, I love the atmosphere that comes with Americanized Christmas. I don’t love the consumerism that comes with Christmas. I don’t love the idea of minimumwage workers working overtime instead of being with their families. I don’t love how commercialized a religious holiday has become. I understand that Christmas was originally a holiday to celebrate the birth of Jesus. There are several Christian traditions that come with traditional Christmas such as going to mass, having a tree that represents Jesus and singing Christmas songs to talk about the birth of Jesus. Parts of traditional Christmas still
boxes describing myself, I always have to check off “Black/AfricanAmerican.” I am an American citizen, and I know that I have African ancestry, but somehow I always feel guilty for calling myself “African.” This is an issue that many people come across because we don’t have a straightforward answer as to where our ancestors came from. Is it okay for us to celebrate it even if we don’t feel connected to African culture? I have to be honest, if someone asked me to name one African tradition or even something of my heritage, I would struggle. This is why celebrating a holiday that is supposed to be dedicated to my “heritage” is difficult. I don’t know my heritage or what it means. This is something that I will continue to think about as I am enjoying the holidays this season –– and I might even celebrate Kwanzaa, too.
from the Philippines, a U.S. colony at the time. The Immigration Restriction Act was not amended until 1965. Angell’s abuse of power, which furthered a xenophobic and white supremicist agenda, produced and perpetuated several harmful perceptions that affect our Asian American identity, from perpetual foreignness to the model minority myth, which our community is still left to navigate. The era of Asian American exclusion can be understood as a catalyst for Asian and American to be put together as a political identity. We reclaim political exclusion when we say Asian/ American, Asian-American, and Asian American. To Stand in Angell is to Stand in Resistance.
UAAO looks onto the University’s historical involvement in Asian American exclusion with only revulsion. While our history books have propagated these exclusionary practices to have been acceptable in the time period, we reject such claims in consideration of the Chinese immigrant populations whose detestments to exclusion were never considered in the White centric history that we remember the Chinese Exclusion Act by. President Angell’s actions only become admissible by accepting a history of silencing Asian Americans through exclusion of our populations.
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laborers. The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first U.S. immigration law to ban an entire ethnic group. The Chinese Exclusion Act separated marriages, prevented the formation of families, and trapped Chinese laborers who intended to return to their homes in China. In this time, Asian populations had never asked to be American. The Angell Treaty of 1880 not only set precedence for Chinese American exclusion following 1882 through the demonization of this immigrant population, but also an era of pan Asian American exclusionary legislation.The Chinese Exclusion Act was later expanded into the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924 that barred all Asian immigration, except for migrant labor
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do exist today but Christmas in America has definitely evolved from these traditional ideas. What I actually love about Christmas time is the community, culture and happiness that seems to come with it. There are very few days in the year where the entirety of the U.S. seems to comes together to celebrate one thing happily. Though not everyone in the U.S. today celebrates Christmas, including my family, everyone has some sort of sense that it is Christmas time and that it is a time of coming together with the ones you love. With that being said, I do understand that Christmas is not always a happy time for everyone. People have bad memories associated with Christmas and not everyone has a family or someone to celebrate Christmas with. Christmas can be a hard time for many, a time of mourning, sadness and nostalgia. In my experience, Christmas has always been a time where I can watch Christmas movies, listen to Christmas music, walk down any sort of downtown and look at Christmas lights, etc. Even though my family does not celebrate Christmas
whatsoever, I have different traditions that are my own that happen during Christmas time. My friends and I play Secret Santa or White Elephant, we drive around to see Christmas lights, we bake Christmas cookies with siblings, and for an instant, we forget everything else bad going on in the world. For some, Christmas is like an escape from reality for a quick second. It is a time where you can be with the people you love and do what you enjoy. Celebrating the small things in life such as putting up lights with grandparents or decorating cookies with a sibling. So yes, I am a Muslim who loves Christmas time and most aspects of it. I come from a family that has never celebrated Christmas yet I am that person that starts listening to Christmas music right after Halloween and sometimes even before. I have 12 Days of Christmas socks and a small Christmas tree in my room. I love Christmas time because it is one of the only times of the year where people come together with their families and communities, are happy and kind to others, and there is goodwill in the air.
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never had trouble making friends. Coming into college, the least of my concerns was being able to connect with others and form new relationships. However, looking back at my first semester, I realize I neglected to acknowledge a certain tension I felt while trying to socialize with other freshmen. Something continuously made me uncomfortable, and it took me time to realize this discomfort signified a problem I never experienced before. There were consistent, subtle comments of disgust from my peers about the types of food I liked, such as raw fish and soy-sauce based dishes. There was also a dislike for the way I ate in regard to sounds my mouth made. This divide in palate and food shouldn’t have discouraged me from opening up to others — but it did. It made me ashamed of my eating habits and my cultural background as a whole, causing me to feel isolated and resulted in me shying away from communities I bonded with at U-M. I was a little disheartened but remained determined to branch out and meet more people. A group of my friends I just met decided to get poke bowls, and I was excited to explore the variety of restaurants in Ann Arbor. But throughout the meal, I had stereotypical questions directed toward me regarding eastern Asia. A girl asked me whether or not Japan experienced daylight, because all the images she saw of the country were at night. Another asked if I ate poke often, even though I never mentioned anything about my heritage. Refusing to be discouraged, I went out on a Friday night with a new group of people, and at a party one guy asked one of the girls I was with to dance, and she said no. When I later asked her why, she replied that “she had already hooked up with one Black guy” earlier that week. Even though I don’t identify as Black, it was clear that race was salient to them when considering a hook-up, which meant they filter people by race, including me.
This disconnect or feeling of alienation stemmed from the fact that, in all these cases, I was the only person in the group who identified as a person of East Asian descent. It would be grossly inaccurate to say I haven’t met people who are open-minded, compassionate and kind people. That being said, what I underestimated was the extent that microaggressions would upset me. This is not because of prejudice or ignorance, but because they created racially-charged barriers that prevented me from making friends outside my race.
Homophily fortifies stereotypes about both ourselves and other groups My closest friends back home don’t identify as my race, and until now, I surrounded myself with people who didn’t look like me. I planned to create the same communities in college. However, the past few months have highlighted the significance of race at U-M. Students recognize each other’s race and use it to create barriers in their personal communities, with or without intention. It seems to me that friend groups are often created along the lines of skin color and force people to stay in their comfort zones. I understand that diverse groups exist at the University, but I have noticed as a freshman that friend groups within the class of 2023 are often divided by race. And this isn’t uncommon. It makes logical sense that people create friendships based on similarities, and commonalities tend to not cut across race. Given this observation, I want to emphasize how crucial it is for students — especially freshmen — to create diverse relationships and
how integral and beneficial interracial friend groups can be to individuals. Researchers Thomas Pettigrew and Linda Tropp conducted the “Metaanalytic test of intergroup contact theory”, which found that intergroup contact typically reduces intergroup prejudice. These prejudices and fear of prejudice from peers convey that students expect interracial encounters to go badly, according to another study done by Elizabeth Page-Gould, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton and Linda Tropp at UMass Amherst. The study also defines the solution to this dilemma as “guided relationship-building,” which rectifies the anxiety people have interacting with groups of different races. My desire to reach out to people from different backgrounds, along with the prejudice I have encountered, could both be virtually resolved by students becoming mindful of who they are surrounding themselves with. According to Professor Miles Hewstone at the University of Oxford, behavior sociologists warn that the idea of homophily — the tendency for people to create relationships with people who are socially similar to themselves — fortifies stereotypes about both ourselves and other groups. This leads us to believe our own groups are superior, and consequently portray other groups as lesser, which can even result in a dislike of these “lesser groups.” I don’t take the comments I mentioned before to heart. I realize that, in part, what makes freshman year so difficult is the fact that we are encountering people from a multitude of different communities. University students need to take advantage of the sheer number of undergraduates in school here and create not only racially diverse communities, but communities with variation in socioeconomic background and cultural heritage. Cheryn Hong can be reached at cherynh@umich.edu.
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The juvenile justice system needs reform
n October, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a bill decreeing that Michigan’s court system will no longer automatically treat 17-year-old offenders as adults. Unless the district attorney wants to try the defendant as an adult, which it reserves the right to do, juvenile courts will handle the cases. This is a victory for proponents of criminal justice reform, and it is not the only way in which the juvenile system has improved. In the past 20 years, the population of incarcerated juveniles has been at its highest, reaching a peak in 2000, after a long spate of heightened crime in the 1990s. However, between 2001 and 2013, the number fell more than 53 percent, from 76,000 to 35,000. In addition, 23 states and Washing ton D.C. have banned life sentences without parole for juvenile offenders. In the 2012 case Miller v. Alabama, the U.S. Supreme Court banned the practice of automatically giving juvenile offenders life in prison without the possibility of parole. The court then applied that standard retroactively with the 2016 case of Montgomery v. Louisiana, which forced states to reconsider the life sentences of people who committed crimes when they were juveniles. Because of this crackdown on the practice, just three states account for two-thirds of all juvenile life sentences: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Louisiana. As of this Aug ust, 55 percent of those Michigan prisoners — almost 200 people — are still waiting for their sentences to be reviewed in accordance with Montgomery v. Louisiana. These sentencing numbers are different from state to state because each state conducts juvenile proceeding in different ways. Some states charge people as young as 16 years old as adults, while others, like Vermont, will let non-violent offenders as old as 21 be tried as juveniles.
States disting uish between juveniles and adults during criminal proceedings because young minds are different than older ones. Teenager’s brains are still developing, so their mental analysis of risk and reward is less sophisticated than an adult’s. Because young people have less mental capacity to make calculated decisions, their actions are not to be held to the same standard as adults.
Treating juveniles as adults is not just ineffective, it is counterproductive
Additionally, kids are more likely to conform to their surroundings than adults are, and prison can therefore shape their worldview and behavior much more extensively than it would an adult’s. This was recognized in 1889, when Chicago established the first separate detention system for youth. When young people are detained with adult offenders, they are more likely to reoffend upon release. Rehabilitation, the idea that the state should help criminals back into society and prepare them for their release, is one of the main theories of punishment. Treating juveniles as adults is not just ineffective, it is counterproductive to the goal of criminal justice. One way juvenile justice has changed to better accommodate this goal is through disciplinary measures that do not involve incarceration. They offer help like guidance counselors that are meant more to support the offenders than punish them. These are critical to the success of the system because they are effective in preventing young offenders from committing crimes as adults.
Despite that effort, the system still falls short all too often. More than 4,000 juveniles are locked in adult jails and prisons, which severely endangers them: a young person goes into prison, they often become victims of heinous crimes. A juvenile incarcerated in an adult prison is five times more likely than an adult imprisoned in the same facilit y to be sexually assaulted in prison, as noted by Cong ress in 2003. Racial disparities have also gotten worse in the juvenile justice system. Young African-Americans were detained, on average, at four times the rate of of their white counterparts in 2001. That difference increased f ivefold in 2017. In Wisconsin, New Jersey, Montana, Delaware, Connecticut and Massachusetts, AfricanAmerican minors are 10 times more likely than white minors to be detained. Furthermore, while the population of incarcerated juvenile offenders sharply declined during the early 2000s, it dropped much faster for white youth than it did for Black youth, which worsened the existing racial divide. This disparit y ref lects a structural bias within the juvenile justice system that extends to the criminal justice system at large. The juvenile justice system has succeeded in addressing a variet y of problems that the overall criminal justice system of ten struggles with. It has seriously brought down its incarcerated population, and states have been passing more laws protecting the rights of minors during sentencing. That said, the atrocious racial disparit y and high rate of sexual assault, especially among juveniles locked up with adults, demonstrates that the system still has large strides to make. Joel Weiner can be reached at jgweiner@umich.edu.
CHAND RAJENDRA-NICOLUCCI | COLUMN
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n a recent weekend night, a friend of mine had too much to drink, leading to some embarrassing but funny moments. These moments were inevitably captured and uploaded to social media as part of the fun. At the time it seemed natural. But thinking about it later, I wondered: Was it wrong to have shared the video without our friend’s consent? Were we unnecessarily using them for our own benefit? Sharing pictures and videos of our friends and family has become automatic in a lot of contexts. Parties, game nights, random embarrassing or funny moments — time spent with those closest to us is a consistent source of content for our social media. But should it be? Not without their consent. When thinking about this, I found a thought experiment helpful: Would you be willing to show the picture or video in question as part of a slideshow to a room of your followers? If not, maybe posting it deserves a second thought. We’ve been conditioned to assume anything and everything belongs online as part of our perpetual digital performance. See something, post something. This mentality makes everything, including the people closest to us, a means to an end — the end being a post that entertains or fulfills our particular social media goals. There is a difference between capturing moments and taking scripted snapshots. Capturing a moment involves recording something that is happening, usually spontaneously (think a picture you take of a friend doing something at a party). A scripted snapshot is where everyone involved decides to
Ask first, post later come together to take a picture or video (think the picture you take after a family event). I’m writing about capturing moments and posting them. Scripted snapshots involve a level of consent that makes posting them unsurprising. Capturing moments, however, usually involves a level of intimacy that makes posting them more invasive and problematic. We do things with our close friends and family that we don’t do with anyone else because of the trust, acceptance and bonds that come with those relationships. The funny thing about the real world is that we are invisible to most people outside of our inner circle. But when we are recorded and put online, we are suddenly visible. People who would otherwise have no interest in what you’re doing are suddenly captivated by the face staring back at them. They have a whole digital profile (name, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, etc.) to attach to the content that they’re seeing, making the irrelevant and meaningless relevant and meaningful. Our close friends and family are the only people who can break through this wall. They are the only ones who care enough to record our everyday moments, and therefore they are the only ones with the power to make the quotidian permanent, searchable and visible to everyone else. Asking for consent when sharing moments would respect those closest to us and encourage critical thinking about privacy. Asking permission acknowledges people’s autonomy and personal preferences. It treats them with respect and avoids making them simple
fuel for social media. Asking permission also forces the poster and the subject to consider the costs, benefits and motivations of a post instead of participating in the automatic sharing process common today. It would resist the commoditization of our lives and encourage conversations about social media use and privacy that rarely occur. Do parents’ embarrassing moments need to be online? Should their kids’ be? Should your friends’ weird habits or drunken revelry be posted? Maybe. Maybe not. But the question should be asked. As more and more people feel like they have lost control of their privacy online, asking before posting moments would be a small step toward regaining control. Yes, it won’t eliminate the constant tracking from tech companies, data brokers and everyone else with a vested interest in the surveillance economy. But it would encourage more awareness about privacy and the effects of technology and potentially foster healthier relationships. Thinking back to my friend, holding off on posting until asking them would have cost next to nothing (other than instant gratification) while potentially avoiding making them an instrument, embarrassing them or creating anxiety about who saw the video. It seems obvious that asking for permission before posting moments is the right thing to do in a close relationship. We care for our close friends and family in many different ways. Why should their presence online be any different? Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci can be reached at chandrn@umich.edu.
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Monday, December 9, 2019 — 5A
BOOK REVIEW
FOOD COLUMN
‘Run Me to Earth’ is oddly alienating Foodie footsteps JO CHANG
Daily Arts Writer
Midway through Paul Yoon’s “Run Me to Earth,” a woman quietly mends shirts in her hut in the mountains. Within the next few pages, she finds herself tangled in a standoff between a hysterical father and the other people in her camp, a stand-off that involves weeping, strangulation and a stabbing. Extraordinarily, this moment of violence and what should be excitement has the same emotional impact as the one of neutral stillness just moments before. Though the novel promises an intricately woven story about the aftermath and effects of war, it somehow manages to paint images of pain and graphic suffering with the same brush used to depict tranquil scenes observing birds and peaceful landscapes. This strange dichotomy is not a singular occurrence; rather, the lack of contrast between emotionally charged and depleted scenes repeats throughout the novel, rendering the plot flaccid and monotonous. The novel follows the stories of teenage orphans Alizak, Prany and Noi as they navigate bomb-ridden Laos to care for wounded civilians and obtain supplies on behalf of Vang, a doctor who supplies them with food and shelter as compensation for their services. It is 1969, and the country is being torn apart by a civil war between the United Statesbacked Royal Lao Government and Communist opposition. The novel is structured as a patchwork of voices of several characters, stretching across countries and years; but despite its ambitious arch, I was forced to admit that the end of the novel had me feeling as indifferent and unfamiliar towards its characters as I had when reading the first page. While such narrative structure allows for a more multifaceted take on traditional linear plot construction, the jarring leaps in time and indecisive switches between narrative voices render “Run Me to Earth” shallow and groundless. While these kinds of novels often have a satisfying effect of bringing the overall narrative full circle, it felt as if Yoon was reaching too far to find a way that the different voices of each section are related to each other. This is not to say that the novel is devoid of descriptive words and phrases for outward characteristics and scenes. There are
even a few passages that are unquestionably beautiful: “He fought back, got cut four times, swallowed his own tooth once, and waited a day thinking it would exit out of him — that he would get it back — and then wept when he searched for it in his own shit, alone, in a field, and it wasn’t there. His own tooth had vanished somewhere inside of him. There were times this fact bothered him more than his own hunger or the sudden volley of gunfire.” And still, despite the lyricism of these passages, they manage to merge in a way that still fails to add color to a drab landscape. Though the novel is a conglomerate of several different characters’ voices, there is an element of detachment that not only disconnects them from each other, but also alienates the reader. Somehow, even at halfway through the novel, any semblance of character development was nonexistent. Even the plot progression felt lagging, and it was extremely difficult to continue mucking through the plot without attachment to any part of the novel. Yoon’s detached and impersonal writing style works for other readers, who praise it as “a sparely (sic) written gem.” Others claim that the novel “(finds) depth of emotion in formal restraint,” but the repressed nature of this novel only served in estranging me from its characters. Perhaps Yoon intentionally wrote in a restrained manner to suggest how normalized the violence and suffering of war has become for the Laotian people. Though even if his intention is to make such a statement, it fundamentally impairs one’s reading experience by failing to create an engaging narrative and presenting characters to which readers find it difficult to forge connections with. “Run Me to Earth” addresses an interesting and important facet of history, but with an approach that lacks emotional weight and urgency. While it is not an enjoyable read, the novel lacks enough traction to even formulate an aggressively negative review.
Run Me to Earth Paul Yoon Simon & Schuster
ELI RALLO
Daily Food Columnist
My eldest cousin just passed his second level sommelier test. A sommelier is a trained wine professional who generally works in a fine restaurant with an expertise on food and wine pairing along with wine selection. He’s the first of the six cousins to become a sommelier — my father and my uncle have both been sommeliers since their mid twenties. When we turned 15, all five of us — my two brothers, two cousins and I — started working in our family’s restaurants. We didn’t have much of a choice, I suppose, but we also wanted to be there. Our evenings were spent in the crazed push and pull of a smoky, beloved building on Riverside Avenue — Basil T’s — a place where, among homemade beer and perfectly crispy pizzas, the five of us were raised. Instead of learning to ride bikes or fill out multiplication tables, we focused on how to grate parmigiano reggiano, how to use a prosciutto cutter properly, how to pour the perfect ratio of olive oil to balsamic vinegar. These restaurants feel more like home than our parent’s houses. They are the product of so much labor and so much love, they rest on my father’s shoulders like tangy, sweet tomato sauce on top of ropes of homemade pasta. They are physical manifestations of my family bloodline, a consistent reminder of my heritage, a sanctuary of Italian wines and Sicilian rice balls, and most importantly, a love letter to the place I love most: Italy. From hostess to waitress to bartender, I certainly wore as many hats possible in the restaurant industry (save line cook or sous chef because I’m not a very good cook, embarrassingly), and fell in love with quality food and the almost poetic, out of the ordinary experience that is a Saturday night in an Italian restaurant in New Jersey. At most jobs, one can anticipate how a day will go — but in a restaurant, nothing will ever be concrete or known until it occurs. The customers, filling the tables I’ve known and adored for my entire 21 years, are the audience. Eating at a restaurant is an experience from start to finish. In many ways, a chef is an artist. A restauranteur is a conductor. From soil to plate, ingredients are thought out, carefully placed, creatively paired. Long before the forkful of ricotta gnocchi paired with roasted eggplant and bufala mozzarella is suspended on a fork, steaming below your nose, it’s been methodically thought through.
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TV REVIEW
For the gossip girls: ‘Dare Me’ is a ghost of teen dramas SOPHIA YOON Daily Arts Writer
When you’re in peak adolescence, the world seems like it’s going to end at any second. Every test you fail, every sports game you lose, every dance you go to without a date — it’s all amplified by the thousands until you graduate and realize it meant so little. But while you’re there, it’s comforting to know that you’re not the only one that sees things through a movie lens, which is why shows like “Pretty Little Liars” and “Gossip Girl” have been so successful in their reign of television. “Dare Me” merges the good and bad of the modern teenage drama into a mixture of sorts: it’s a blend of high school pettiness, toxic friendships, sports competitions, crime, cheating and random dance scenes. Based off the book of the same name by Megan Abbott, the television adaptation centers around a group of teenage girls, each a mirror image of a type of high school girl we’ve seen in the past. Seeing as they’re all on the cheerleading team, they
carry a sense of superiority with them as they go throughout high were suitable for a younger audience to be watching in the first school. That is, until a championship-winning new coach takes over, place. As the girls train for the cheerleading competitions, several and the team struggles with the new structure. of them show clear symptoms of having an eating disorder, but none At its best, the show is well-paced and unpredictable. The lighting of them are called out for their unhealthy habits. For instance, one is dim and ominous; it captures the essence of the girls is seen bent over the toilet in an attempt to vomit, and when she struggles to of the typical teen drama and makes us feel do so, is kicked in the stomach by one of the like something is always lurking around the cheerleaders to help her out. While it’s clear to corner. Its tone makes you feel on edge while healthy adults that this is abnormal behavior, watching it, and it’s hard to tell what the main Season One Premiere it may not be to impressionable teenagers. conflict is going to be. The small, ongoing The best way the show can succeed is to find passive-aggressive moments edge toward the USA Network feeling that the correct target audience, and as of now, Sundays @ 10 p.m. it seems to be floating in a limbo between something’s going to demographics. Like most other teen dramas, it’s the implode at any moment — the main quality of the script that lacks the most attention and care. Each comeback and show that keeps viewers locked in. motivational quote is reused and recycled from other dramas, and It’s evident that the show is primarily if anything’s predictable about the show, it’s what each character is targeted toward a young teenage going to say next. With a script that hits harder and flows smoother, audience, but it’s entertaining enough the show could likely draw itself in the direction of an upper teenage that someone else may continue to audience. As of now, “Dare Me” comes off as a coming-of-age story watch it without being too invested with toxic themes that tweens might have to avoid (depending on into the lives of each character like the their current mindstates). There’s entertaining aspects of it for all adolescent age groups, but the task at hand remains in the hands of targeted audience would. However, it was a struggle to figure the creators, who need to determine the direction they want to take USA NETWORK out whether the topics of the show the show in and who they want to lock in as their target audience.
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PUBLISH OUR LOVE
Publish Our Love: ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ that’s right SAMANTHA DELLA FERA Senior Arts Editor
In the final scene of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” George Bailey opens a copy of “Tom Sawyer” that was found under his Christmas tree. Written on the back of the cover is the inscription: “Remember no man is a failure who has friends.” As a crowd of loved ones sings “Auld Lang Syne,” George squeezes his young daughter and declares “That’s right!” He turns to the sky, winks and repeats, “That’s right.” For most of my life, Frank Capra’s (“It Happened One Night”) “It’s a Wonderful Life” has been synonymous with Christmas, my unequivocal favorite time of the year. It can’t be Dec. 25 until I’ve watched the movie one, two, sometimes three times, with a mug of hot chocolate in hand, surrounded by the balsam scents and white lights of my living room. Yet for a movie so associated with Christmas, it depicts very little of it. The majority of the film takes us through the life of George Bailey (James Stewart, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”), a selfless family man living in the quaint village of Bedford Falls. No matter how many times I’ve watched the film, I am astounded every time by just how much of it is dedicated to simply setting up George’s life. From a young boy to a grown man, you are shown how George has lived his entire life for the benefit of others. He jumps into icy water to save his little brother while they sled as children. He risks his job at a drug store as a teenager by not delivering pills he saw the distressed pharmacist accidentally fill with poison. He gives up his dream of going to college and traveling to take on the family building and loan business after his father dies. Following this man through his life, it’s easy to become attached. Watching him experience love and pain, joy and despair, George becomes a living, breathing force jumping off the screen into real life. I know how the story starts and I know how it ends, but everytime I watch I feel myself praying for a happy ending, waiting for the moment that someone finally gives back. But each time, nearing the end of the film, it seems that life has still not repaid George. As the film takes us into the present day, the Bailey Building and Loan business has been forced into thousands of dollars of debt. To pay off these debts with life insurance, George goes to a bridge on Christmas Eve to commit suicide. But somebody jumps before him, and George dives into the freezing river to save them. The man George rescued is Clarence — an angel, second class — and in order to earn his
wings, Clarence must prove to George just how important his life has been for others. The remainder of the movie shows how miserable everybody is in a world where George had never been born. His brother died in that icy water, the pharmacist went to jail and even Bedford Falls is not the same, now named after the avaricious banker that is trying to run George out of business. For a movie entitled “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the majority of the film is quite dreary. Greed, suicide, war — these aren’t exactly the themes one would expect from a Christmas story. But that is what makes the story so real, so persistent. With every year I watch the film, with every new life experience, I understand George Bailey a little bit more. When I was a kid I didn’t know why George went to the bridge that night, but now I see. Misery doesn’t end when the holidays start, and even a life of selflessness can feel empty. Capra doesn’t sugar coat life they way the other candycolored Christmas movies do. The emotions from George Bailey and those who have come to love him are raw, breaking the surface of life’s unyielding struggles during a time of year they are most stifled. Perhaps it’s that desperate need for catharsis that makes the end of the movie so moving. As George returns to the bridge and cries desperately for his life back, snow begins to fall and he races through town, hugging and waving at everyone in his way. He returns home to a parade of people whose lives he touched, waiting to give him money to pay off his debts. A bell chimes on the family Christmas tree and his daughter utters the famous line: “Teacher says, every time a bell rings, and angel gets his wings.” The story is one of classic Christmas feel-good victories, and like its protagonist, the movie itself also has somewhat of a comeback story. Following its release in 1946, “It’s a Wonderful Life” was a complete box office flop, to the point that it shuttered Frank Capra’s production company. Yet 30 years later, after someone forgot to file an updated copyright request, the movie became public domain and networks played it every day, every hour, during Christmastime.
Perhaps that’s the greatest allure of the movie: its timelessness. It’s been over 70 years since “It’s a Wonderful Life” was first released, but to this day, it gives family and friends occasion to squeeze together onto couches and under blankets to watch George Bailey’s story play out. Everybody wants to see themselves in George Bailey, in a world where nobody would be better off without their presence. Where everything one does somehow affects someone else which affects someone else, and so on. It’s a message even a toddler watching it for the first time in her grandparent’s basement can understand. Nobody’s life is worthless. For 20 years I’ve been watching Frank Capra’s unlikely masterpiece in the lead up to Christmas. I don’t race my brother down the steps on Christmas morning anymore. My presents to family are bought with money from jobs rather than twisted together with construction paper and pipe cleaners. I’m too far away from home to help string up the lights, and there’s an empty seat at our Christmas table now. The sad truth is that sometimes, it truly is a terrible life. There is pain, loss, helplessness. It is easy to look around and give up, to feel beaten by life. But the most important scenes in “It’s a Wonderful Life” aren’t the ones PUBLIC DOMAIN predicated on sacrifice and anger. They’re the silent promises to love someone until the day you die. The pocketing of petals to bring a young girl’s flower back to life. The quiet prayer muttered in a crowded bar. The decision to jump in to save someone else before you save yourself. Believing that even at the lowest point, there is hope. As much as the world has changed since 1946, and as much as my life has changed since that first viewing, “It’s a Wonderful Life” has not gone away. I predict it never will. The human desire to feel needed transcends time and age. The six year old watching next to their grandmother may be inspired to reach out one more hand, to be kind to one more person. The grandmother may reflect on her many years, and be grateful for the good and the bad. Like the motto hanging in the Bailey office insists, “all you can take with you is that which you have given away.”
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COMMUNITY CULTURE NOTEBOOK
Battle of the ‘Nutcrackers’: The holidays are for ballet ZOE PHILLIPS Daily Arts Writer
It’s that time of year again — Christmas trees sit outside of hardware stores and string lights line rooftops. Cookies are in the oven and carols on the speakers. The holidays are here! There are many things I love about December. Soft sweaters and fuzzy socks top the list, along with warm drinks and cozy nights. Behind the generalized jubilee, however, lies another reason for my Christmastime affection. It’s Nutcracker season. It’s time for Sugar Plum Fairies and Snowflakes to grace almost every stage of the world, launching a yearly resurgence in the public’s proclivity for dance performance. Nutcracker season is the only month of the year when my love for ballet aligns with the rest of the world’s. For 30 days, I revel in the same classical music as everyone else in Starbucks who hears it over the speakers. I see images of my beloved art form in the windows of Hallmark stores and on billboards on the side of the highway. I cherish this opportunity to share what I love so much with an audience that is so big. In a report from DanceUSA, “The Nutcracker” makes up an average of 48 percent of revenue for American ballet companies — that’s almost half their money from only one show. The story of “The Nutcracker,” like many ballet classics, is very odd. A little girl bursts into joyful dance upon receiving a weird nutcracker doll from her even weirder Uncle Drosselmeyer. Later that evening, she encounters a
pack of life-size rats led by an evil Rat King trying to attack her for reasons that are completely unclear. She then watches as her doll turns into a life-size soldier and she ends up killing the Rat King by simply hitting him once on the head with her ballet slipper. After the rats leave, she flies off into a land of sweets with her nutcracker, who has now turned into a prince. Needless to say, no one goes to this show for the narrative. We are there for the beautiful music and Christmas themes, which is why the production has been successfully redesigned so many times.
This statement then begs the question: Which is the best? Which choreography, whose costumes and what version of the story is most effective? Well, I quite like the Waltz of the Flowers by George Balanchine, and the Mother Ginger costume from Pacific Northwest Ballet. The San Francisco Ballet drops so much snow during their Waltz of the Snowflakes that it’s awe-inspiring to see the dancers able to keep moving without slipping. The Royal Ballet has a beautiful pas de deux (dance for two) in the first act and their Sugar Plum adagio at the end of the ballet is so well-matched to the grandeur of Tchaikovsky’s genius music that even watching it on my phone makes my heart swell. But that’s just me. The true beauty of Nutcracker lies in its accessibility. By nature of its mass production, December is the best time of year to go to the ballet. Even locally, you can see the Academy of Russian Ballet at the Michigan Theater on Dec. 14, or there’s a performance supported by the Ballet Detroit Foundation at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre on Dec. 15. Randazzo Dance Company will perform their version at the Power Center on Dec. 22 and you’re only a quick Google search away from finding dozens more possibilities in Ann Arbor’s neighboring towns. For many dancers, the Nutcracker will be their first or only chance to perform. For many audiences, it will be the first time they’ve seen a ballet. The intersection between these two firsts, underneath a flurry of snow and a dash of sugar plum sweetness, is often what makes this production so special.
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ALBUM REVIEW
Camila gets cozy with ‘Romance’ in a sweet ode to love KATIE BEEKMAN Daily Arts Writer
Just in case you’ve missed their steamy award show performances or f lirty social media banter, I’ll break the news: Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes are an item. That’s why the title of Cabello’s sophomore effort, Romance, shouldn’t come as a surprise. Nor should the album’s content — a deep dive into Cabello’s rose-colored vision of love to the tune of anthemic pop. Luckily, however, it isn’t all loveydovey as Cabello attempts to capture the dark, thrilling and painful aspects of romance whether you’re in it or not. “My emotions are naked, they’re taking me out of my mind,” Cabello confesses on “Shameless.” It’s the perfect track to plunge the listener into the emotional landscape of Romance and peek into Cabello’s headspace: nervous, overwhelmed and very much in love. The music itself feels heavy. Guitars close in on Cabello until she absolutely has to spill her feelings. If “Living Proof” is the aftermath of her shameless confession, the situation worked out in her favor. Cabello is blissful. Thematically, this song is the pickup line, “Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?” on steroids. “Where did you come from baby / and were you sent to save me?” she asks wide-eyed. In the chorus, Cabello’s voice reaches the heavenly heights she sings about, an impressive feat no matter how you feel about her gushing. Cabello is more clearheaded when fending off a former f lame. “So you want me now? That’s Camila Cabello funny / ‘Cause Epic Records you didn’t give a … back then” she sings on the Latin inspired “Should’ve Said
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refreshing. A subdued ode to the toxic person who plays her “again and again,” Cabello sounds just as passionate in love as in misery, if not more so. “I’ve known you forever / now I know you better” Cabello winks on “Used to This,” which chronicles Camila’s journey out of the friendzone with Shawn. It’s sweet, but it stands out for feeling real. Cabello grounds her feelings in experiences instead of the abstract. “No, I never liked San Francisco / never thought it was nothin’ special / ‘til you kissed me there” she admits. But out of all of the touchy-feely songs on Romance, Cabello’s song for her dad, “First Man,” takes the cake for being the mushiest. A piano ballad that follows her going on a date to walking down the aisle, she thanks her dad for being the “first man” to really love her and reassures him about her boyfriend. Romance is like a box of chocolates, except with each track, you kind of know what you’re going to EPIC RECORDS get. Nearly every song is sweet and chewy, pleasant Cabello and the listener both are overwhelmed by her rush to listen to with excellent vocals. However, even a theme of thoughts. Cabello wholeheartedly dives back into the sweet side of as compelling as love can get love on “Easy.” The message is straightforward — thinking tiring after 14 songs. One can’t that you’re “hard to love” until the right person makes it help but crave some saltiness, “seem so easy,” but Camila is playful about it. Her lover lists more hurt or melancholy, “her crooked teeth” as one of his favorite things about her and for balance. This isn’t to dismiss listening to the album she coyly asks, “Anything else?” The only explicit track on the album, “This Love” finally altogether persay, just make gives Cabello some edge. “Fuck this love / Get out of my sure you wait until you’re really veins,” she cries. It’s the moment romance burns her and it’s in the mood for romance.
Romance is like a box of chocolates, except with each track, you kind of know what you’re going to get. Nearly every song is sweet and chewy, pleasant to listen to with excellent vocals.
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It.” It’s a much-needed dose of sass and suitable dance-alonein-your-room material. “Feel It Twice” is the f lip side of this poor timing. Cabello is sympathetic to the person she fell for “two years” ago, but who only just made up his mind about her now. “I know love is the loneliest place when you fall alone,” she sings from experience, but this time it’s her telling him she “doesn’t feel the same.” As the song builds, her voice echoes until
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In conversation with Grace Tulsan NINA MOLINA For The Daily
As I entered Literati, I walked by Grace Tulusan, author of “The Body Papers,” who sat in the back of the room with a small smile and an earnest glow in her eyes. The lights on the second floor of Literati Bookstore dimmed, and the seated audience murmured in quiet excitement as she weaved her way to the front. On her final stop on the book tour for her memoir “The Body Papers,” winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing author Grace Talusan began her talk with why she had to get these words out and onto a page. The catalyst was her niece’s eye cancer diagnosis, a reminder of life’s fickleness. It also served as a reminder that voices like hers mattered and needed to be heard. Talusan said she never considered herself worthy enough to be a protagonist. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s in New England as a Filipina-American, she only ever saw her identity portrayed as a joke or caricature. As she began writing the essays that would eventually be compiled to become the memoir, Talusan wrote a story for her former and present self. At two, Talusan and her family immigrated to New England. In a mostly white town, the Philippines faded into a faraway place people knew about because of the U.S. military bases set up there. In the excerpts Talusan read from her memoir, she unraveled the necessity detailing the immigrant experience. Otherwise, others would take over that narrative and misconstrue the truth. In a mixed-status family (having some documented and undocumented family members), Talusan’s family was granted a path to citizenship with an amnesty bill passed in the ’80s, a compassion toward immigrants she fears has been lost today. As one of the Filipina-Americans attending the lecture, it was almost unnerving hearing Tagalog words in public and having experiences to relate to. I rarely found books or any forms of art that I could culturally relate to. In this way, Talusan is the electrifying mouthpiece for the
unseen and unacknowledged, especially those silenced by a society not made for them. Talusan, like so many other minorities in the U.S., lived that unwritten narrative and finally wrote it down. Talusan described the experience of being told that “Filipinos eat dogs” and discovering that Filipinos were on display at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. In a scrapbook during her research, she found a photo of her great-grandfather at the fair, playing the piccolo in a military parade, in what Talusan called America’s “ideal outcome of colonialism.” Talusan argued that assimilation becomes erasure, as even her parents told her to only speak English, eventually losing any Tagalog she knew. Talusan skillfully weaved her Filipinx identity with the anxieties of having her personal trauma public for the first time. “The Body Papers” is about the unsayable. Living with anxiety, depression and PTSD, Talusan feared the world and those she loved most would turn on her once the bomb exploded — once the truth that she was a survivor of abuse surfaced. She worried about how the people closest to her would react. A major support system for her, Talusan’s writing circle told her that there was no need to protect those who did not need protecting: Her abusers and those who didn’t believe her. In revealing her truth, Talusan hoped it helped survivors feel less alone. Her publisher warned her that “a book is a bomb.” Talusan joked that she initially heard “balm” instead of “bomb.” And when the memoir dropped, the bomb did explode and reverberate around the country and the world but not in the way she expected. Critically acclaimed but more importantly with the flood of love and gratitude from readers, Talusan was embraced by every person with a passion for words and for an understanding of the pains and joys of being human. In the process of crafting the memoir, Talusan learned to cultivate writing as a relationship with herself. Much of Talusan’s talk explored writing as a joyful and cathartic practice. An audience member asked what kept her writing, even if she was afraid. Talusan said her rage over why stories like hers are not out there fueled her. And, because, despite that anxiety and pain, it was writing that pulled her out of those depths every time, to realize the joy in living again.
Talusan is the electrifying mouthpiece for the unseen and unacknowledged, especially those silenced by a society not made for them.
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A grueling, late-night victory against one of the country’s most consistent powerhouses can leave a team limping unsuspectingly into a game two days later against a weaker in-state opponent, ripe to be upset. Instead, Michigan’s momentum from the end of Thursday’s electric victory over Syracuse continued into Sunday as the 24th-ranked Wolverines (8-1) muscled their way to a 79-64 win over Oakland (4-4). The victory wasn’t without its struggles. A high-scoring first quarter ended in a tight 22-21 lead for Michigan, but a strong second quarter gave the team essential breathing room to sustain its lead, coming into half up, 40-28. The Grizzlies narrowed the gap to four points with 2:18 left in the third quarter, going on a 13-4 run over the span of three minutes and missing only one shot. Just as they did in the second quarter, though, the Wolverines slammed the door shut with offensive rebounds and secondchance points, freezing the heat Oakland built up on the offensive end. “I think just really making in-game adjustments, that’s the biggest thing coach has challenged us on,” said sophomore guard Amy Dilk. “Being able to recognize how a team is scoring, and then stopping that player or that set from executing.” Despite the Grizzlies shooting 60 percent from the field in the first quarter and going 3-for-4 from beyond the arc, Michigan kept pace by playing to two of its strengths — one emerging in its most recent matchups, another a season-long dominance. The Wolverines forced seven turnovers in the first quarter, scoring 10 points off Oakland’s mistakes — eventually finishing with 29 points off turnovers. Senior forward Kayla Robbins, who is becoming one of the team’s most impressive defenders, had three steals in the first quarter. Unlike the previous game, however, Michigan found its success without laying out its press-and-trap defense, instead reading the Grizzlies’ passes from the start. Dilk, senior guard Akienreh Johnson and Robbins all converted easy, full-court runs for layups. On the offensive glass, nothing could stop the Wolverines, who tallied six offensive
rebounds in the first quarter alone, totaling 17 after 40 minutes. Freshman center Izabel Varejão, at one point, put up a layup and missed, but followed it up with a standing offensive rebound and a second-chance layup. “I think that’s a strength of our team,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “(Johnson), (Robbins) and especially Naz (Hillmon) are just tremendous, tremendous offensive rebounders. So don’t get discouraged on that first shot not falling, but keep tracking it down.” All told, the Wolverines showed they could bend, but not break, against a streaky offense that could hurt them from beyond the arc. And when they were pushed, they pushed back — going on an eight-point run to close out the third quarter. Even with its overpowering starting five, Michigan needed its bench to spur on the starters who were dealing with their own set of nicks and bruises from the overtime affair on Thursday. In the second quarter, freshman guard Maddie Nolan checked in and, after dishing a backward pass to Johnson, was standing alone, unguarded, in the corner. Johnson held onto the ball and took a long three as the shot clock wound down, bouncing off the front of the rim. Nolan anticipated the bounce and was all alone to collect the rebound, split two defenders and finished through contact. As time wound down in the fourth quarter, junior guard Priscilla Smeenge caught fire and drained two 3-pointers and two layups. “We were dragging a little bit, and we talked about it this morning, what can we change up if we need a little bit of a spark,” Barnes Arico said. “We talked about maybe putting (Smeenge) at the front of the press. She’s just so athletic. Having her run around a little bit and be annoying, and just give us a little bit of a lift.” Added Smeenge: “We’ve had a lot of backto-back games these past couple days, like a lot of people were kind of tired and we had a lot of injuries coming into today’s game and so you never know when you’ve got to be ready when your number’s called. It was really exciting, I mean my teammates did a great job of finding me and having confidence in me to shoot it, so it was really helpful to have their support.” The Wolverines ultimately avoided a collapse, springing forward and keeping momentum from Thursday’s win.
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Citrus Bowl provides unique opportunity In drawing matchup with Alabama, Harbaugh and Michigan get a chance they wouldn’t otherwise have in the bowl game
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he bowl game has become an annual metaphorical zombie for the Michigan football team. The team traverses to some warm, southern city, still wallowing from the letdown MAX weeks prior, patently MARCOVITCH unmotivated to face off against an SEC opponent. For the last three years, the Wolverines have taken their lumps, underperformed, then haphazardly spewed that next year will be different. In some ways, it’s understandable. Expecting a bunch of college kids to recuperate from the most devastating loss of their lives to properly prepare for a glorified exhibition game is, perhaps, too idealistic. The equally-understandable fad of skipping bowl games so as to not risk injury (and poor game tape) doesn’t help. This year could be the same. But Michigan has a unique opportunity here to make it different. Saturday, it was announced that Michigan will head to Orlando, Fla. to face off with Alabama in the Citrus Bowl. This is not a Crimson Tide team on par with those of the recent past, with the injury to quarterback Tua Tagaviloa casting a pall over a forgettable season in Tuscaloosa. But it could be a game of euchre for all I care — if Jim
Harbaugh and Michigan beat Nick Saban and Alabama in anything, it will matter. It will matter for recruiting. It will matter to a downtrodden fanbase. It will matter for morale. It will matter as a springboard to next year. “A very, very elite team,” Harbaugh said on a conference call Sunday. “Our preparation will have to at its highest level. Good to know who you’re going to play and get started on preparing for the bowl game. Will be a big-time matchup. We’re very much looking forward to it.” The Wolverines haven’t won a bowl game since 2015, a 41-7 win over Florida, which provided a bridge from Year One of the Harbaugh era into a season that should have ended in a College Football Playoff berth. Optimism was at an all-time high. It seemed a matter of if, not when, Harbaugh would bring this program to glory. Each year since that win in 2015, Michigan has lost the last two games of its season. Harbaugh has garnered a reputation for his team falling flat at the end of the season (a tad harsh, given one of those games is against Ohio State, a perennial CFP team, but still.) Though you can scoff, a win against Alabama would give Michigan double-digit wins for the fourth time in five years. The last time Michigan had four double-digit-win seasons in five years? 1976-1980. Dismiss that if you wish, but it’s a testament to both the understated success Harbaugh has had in getting the program back on track, and also the
A very, very elite team. ... Will be a bigtime matchup.
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The Michigan football team will have a unique chance to salvage its season when it plays SEC powerhouse Alabama in the Citrus Bowl on New Year’s Day.
unreasonable expectations this fanbase places on him. It’s not unreasonable to expect a Big Ten title here and there, to be sure, but it’s willfully ignorant to blanketly chalk up his tenure to a failure. Of course, there is the possibility — nay, the likelihood — that the Citrus Bowl will be nothing more than a superior team beating down an inferior one. The Crimson Tide are more talented at every position, perhaps quarterback aside. Even in their worst year since 2010, they will be a double-digit favorite. As they should be. But you want to do something
that will quell mounting concerns about the future of this program? Here you go. Beat the team that has won five of the last 11 national titles, the program that has defined the last decade of college football and the coach who will go down as perhaps the greatest to ever do it. More importantly, for the first time in Harbaugh’s five years in Ann Arbor, beat a team that is, on paper, more
talented. “My feeling about the team is we’re right there at the top,” Harbaugh said after last year’s 41-15 loss to Florida in the Peach Bowl. “But we have to put it over the top, especially in the big games at the end of the year.” A win on New Year’s Day will do little to appease the necessity for this team to start beating Ohio State. It will not make Michigan
My feeling about the team is we’re right there at the top.
de facto Big Ten champions. It will not secure anything in the future. It won’t drastically alter the trajectory of anything as it relates to this team’s standing in the national landscape. But a win against Alabama will send Michigan to the offseason on a high note and restore some semblance of optimism that brighter pastures lie ahead. Optimism. Remember what that felt like? Marcovitch can be reached at maxmarco@umich.edu or on Twitter @Max_Marcovitch.
Feeling bluegrass Michigan falls to Kentucky in three-set sweep, ending season in Round of 32 BRANDON TRACHTENBERG Daily Sports Writer
For the No. 22 Michigan women’s volleyball team, the NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship was a tale of two games — one in which the Wolverines were dominant and one in which they got dominated. In the last two games of the season, Michigan swept and got swept by two teams in Kentucky to to end its 2019 campaign. Michigan (21-11) made its 13th appearance in the NCAA Tournament in the last 14 years and its 19th tournament appearance overall — 18 of them with Michigan coach Mark Rosen. The Wolverines were placed in the region hosted by No. 9 Kentucky, a tough matchup if it came to be. Michigan traveled to Lexington, Ken. to first compete against Northern Kentucky (19-13) in the first round. The Wolverines handled business, finishing off the Norse in a clean, three-set sweep. “It’s good to advance, it’s good to move forward,” Rosen said. “I thought Northern Kentucky played really well … Proud of our players for taking care of that and moving on. Excited about it.” Michigan started out the match struggling in the first set, hitting just .167. Unfortunately for Northern Kentucky, though, the Norse hit even worse and were unable to take advantage of the Wolverines’ early struggles — losing the set, 25-22. Michigan bounced back, improving its hitting percentage to .370 in the second set and .342 in the third set, winning both, 25-15 and 25-22, respectively. Freshman middle blocker Jess Robinson and senior middle blocker Cori Crocker led the attack with a .500 hitting mark, each having at least eight kills. “Both her (Crocker) and Jess, I thought did a great job,” Rosen said. “Both middles hit .500. They were two and three in kills
for us … I thought that that was great that we had that option to go to when our outsides were struggling, and it was great that we passed the ball well enough to get them the ball.” When asked about her success, Crocker credited her teammates for her success — something she has done all season. “I’m not here without her (senior setter MacKenzi Welsh) being here for sure,” Crocker said. “I think she definitely got me in positions to put the ball away.” Welsh, a key contributor for the Wolverines all season, led the team with 36 assists. Setters serve as the core of any volleyball team and Rosen believes it helps that Michigan had a senior with experience at that position. “The nice thing is our seniors have been in the NCAA Tournament four years in a row,” Rosen said. “It’s awesome to have a senior who’s played in an NCAA experience to be the one who steps in.” The Wolverines had a tough turnaround after their first round game on Friday as they faced No. 9 Kentucky (25-6) the next day. Heading into the matchup, the Wildcats’ success could be largely attributed to their outside hitter and SEC Player of the Year, Leah Edmond, and SEC Libero of the Year, Gabby Curry. Kentucky proved too much for the Wolverines, winning in three sets and ending Michigan’s season. “They run a good tempo, it’s fast,” Rosen said. “We had a pretty good idea of what they were doing, we just didn’t do a very good job of stopping it … There were times we played well, but there were times where we were very inconsistent with out offense … It’s not a good combination. They certainly outplayed us today.” Michigan failed to hit over .200 and averaged .146 for all three sets. Kentucky, on the
other hand, hit the ball at the .323 mark — including a .438 hitting percentage in the second set. Edmond and outside hitter Alli Stumler led the charge offensively for the Wildcats, with 15 and 11 kills respectively. Curry also made her impact felt with a match-high 19 digs. Sophomore outside hitter Paige Jones led both teams with a match-high of 16 kills and Crocker led all players with a game-high of .500 hitting percentage, but those performances weren’t enough to overcome the juggernaut Wildcats. It wasn’t the way Michigan wanted to end its season and send its seniors off, but it was the goodbye that they got. “This team’s worked really, really hard to become the best version of themselves they can be,” Rosen said. “So, I’m really proud of how hard this team worked and how committed they were to our process and really developing as a team … I really am super proud of this team and very appreciative of what they’ve done for our program and Michigan athletics.”
NICHOLAS STOLL Daily Sports Writer
Out of the 16 games in the second round of the NCAA Women’s Volleyball Tournament, only three were won by lower seeded teams — and Michigan was not one of them. After sweeping Northern Kentucky (19-13) Friday night, the 22nd-ranked Wolverines (21-11) fell to No. 11 Kentucky (25-6) in straight sets Saturday night, as the Wildcats out-hit Michigan, .323 to .146, and sided-out over 15 percent higher. But this was expected. The Wolverines were supposed to beat Northern Kentucky. Michigan was supposed to lose to Kentucky. That is exactly how the Wolverines’ season has gone, nearly without fail; they have beaten the teams they were meant to beat and have lost to the teams they were meant to lose to. Michigan’s record against the five Big Ten teams that finished above it in the standings — Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, Penn State and Purdue — was a combined 0-7. Its record against the eight teams that ranked below it? 13-0.
So when the Wolverines arrived in Lexington, Kentucky for their fifth-straight NCAA tournament appearance, the outcome was allbut decided. They were going to beat Northern Kentucky in the school’s first-ever tournament berth, and they were going to lose to Kentucky, which touted the SEC player of the year and libero of the year — Leah Edmond and Gabby Curry, respectively. But that doesn’t mean that Michigan coach Mark Rosen was disappointed in the outcome. “I’m really proud of this team,” Rosen said. “Tonight’s a frustrating night. It’s a difficult night but when you get to a point like this when the season’s coming to an end. I think you have to look at the big picture, and the big picture is this group. This group came a long way … I’m really proud of how far they’ve come. I think that I couldn’t be more appreciative of what this group’s done.” The group did what it was supposed to be able to do — no more, no less. And now, after the season is over, Rosen and its players will move on to the next season, but not without any losses. The Wolverines are losing
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Coach Mark Rosen and the Michigan volleyball team ended their season with a straight-sets loss to Kentucky on Saturday.
seven seniors — out of 18 total players on the roster — four of which started in the weekend’s NCAA tournament matches. This includes Big Ten first-team setter, MacKenzi Welsh and Big Ten second-team middle blocker Cori Crocker. In a large senior class, the loss is sizeable, but the seniors aren’t leaving without making their mark. “I thought this group really did a great job of stepping up to be senior leaders and senior veterans and really set a great course for our young players coming in,” Rosen said. “It’s been a great group.” The young group is anchored by sophomore outside hitter Paige Jones. In only her second season, she was unanimously named to the All-Big Ten First Team and leads Michigan in kills and service aces. Among the freshman, outside hitter May Pertofsky and middle blocker Jess Robinson were named to the Big Ten AllFreshman team after strong freshman seasons. This group also includes players that haven’t seen the court as much this year, but show promise. Players such as freshman defensive specialist Amber Beals who got her chance to prove herself against Kentucky. “We were subbing a lot in the sets, more than me normally do,” Rosen said. “Unfortunately it didn’t work, but I thought the players that went in really were ready to go in and try to get an impact, and I thought Amber did a great job.” At the end of a season that went as expected, Rosen looks forward to his 22nd season as Michigan’s head coach and looks to a core of young players to fill the positions left open by the graduating seniors — but not without reflecting first. “I think they’ve been a really fun team to work with,” Rosen said. “They work hard every day. They’re good personalities. They’re team players. So I really am super proud of this team and very appreciative of what they’ve done for our program and Michigan athletics.”
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All game, the No. 4 Michigan men’s basketball team had one roadblock to an otherwise easy win: Iowa big man Luka Garza. On his way to an astounding 44 points, Garza was a force to be reckoned with in the low post, dominating in his back-to-thebasket play. The Wolverines (8-1 overall, 1-0 Big Ten) saw early that Iowa’s (6-3, 0-1) offense started and stopped with Garza, but they were helpless to stop it. In the end, it didn’t matter, seeing as Michigan’s offense was firing on all cylinders and strode past the Hawkeyes en route to a 103-91 win on Friday night. Seemingly every time the ball touched his hands, Garza was unstoppable in his efforts to put the ball in the basket. By the end of the game, Iowa’s offense felt unmistakingly routine. Push the ball up the floor. Get it to Garza. Garza goes up for two points. Repeat. “Well, he’s a guy who’s got a ton of different moves,” said Iowa coach Fran McCaffrey. “I thought we did a really good job of getting him the ball, made a concerted effort to do so. He never stops moving. He sprints hard in transition and posts hard, so he’s a handful for any defender who’s trying to guard him.” The Wolverines’ response seemingly prioritized keeping their big men out of foul trouble as opposed to making Garza’s path to a bucket as difficult as it could’ve been. Michigan coach Juwan Howard was operating under a near auto-bench policy for his big men after picking up a foul with senior center Jon Teske, sophomore center Colin Castleton and senior center Austin Davis all seeing the floor. Teske, known for his defensive prowess in the lane, picked up four fouls and was unable to contain Garza’s post presence. Castleton and Davis fared much the same throughout the game.
Fouls were a recurring problem for the Wolverines, with the team picking up 19 in the game and Teske and Simpson both in foul trouble. The crowd at Crisler Center looked to be a factor in the game, letting the refs hear their discontent following every blow of the whistle — a number that kept building for Michigan’s key players. On the other side of the court, the Wolverines’ offense was everything that it lacked in its first loss of the season against Louisville last Tuesday. Senior guard Zavier Simpson was effective in distributing the ball, totaling seven assists and the team found its offensive balance again with shots falling from behind the arc and the guards feeding the big men down low to get points in the paint. Everyone got in the action, too, with six of Michigan’s players scoring in double digits. The Wolverines got there by taking advantage of Iowa’s lax zone defense and were able to find lots of easy looks in the paint. Leading the charge was freshman forward Franz Wagner led the charge with 18 points — nine of which came from the free throw line. “I shot like 10 free throws, so I got to the line,” Wagner said. “It’s always good to find a rhythm. I just try to take what the defense gives me, just getting to the basket helped us today, getting some easy ones early.” The bench players provided a spark in the game offensively, highlighted by sophomore forward Brandon Johns Jr. who led the team at half with 10 points and finished with 12. After coming into the game in the middle of the first half, Johns drilled two 3-pointers and threw down a ferocious slam upon entering in the second. Johns was also a menace on the glass, totaling eight rebounds. On a night where Michigan’s defense wasn’t up to the task, its offense carried the load. “Well, we played with pace,” Howard said. “One thing that we did not do was just walk the ball up the floor. We knew that they were
gonna come with a lot of pace, too … Just kept encouraging our guys to stay in the moment. Can’t celebrate after a bucket, get back, and make sure you talk on defense, so on the offensive end, we’re able to get out in transition.” This mentality manifested itself with Davis’ play. With Castleton sitting after taking an elbow to the face in the first half, Davis got the crowd excited with back-to-back dunks later in the second half, then sprinted down to the other end of the floor rather than revel in his play. The difference in the offensive performance for the Wolverines came down to Simpson’s ability to control the game from halfcourt as well as the other guards finding success controlling the basketball and finding good taking advantage of Iowa’s zone defense. Simpson picked up three quick fouls in the half’s opening four minutes, but quick to respond, junior guard Eli Brooks drove to the lane and found a wide-open Teske for the easy slam. When it was all said and done, Garza was left with nothing to show for his legendary numbers other than a spot in Iowa’s record books.
ABBY SNYDER
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Michigan teams of years past have at times tended to rely on a few players – the Jordan Pooles and Moritz Wagners – for much of their success. But so far this season, the fourthranked Wolverines have been winning more on the strength of the many than the success of a few. Friday night’s 103-91 win over Iowa, their first conference matchup and Big Ten victory of the season, was the perfect example. “I saw great production out of (the bench) tonight,” said Michigan coach Juwan Howard. “I saw them playing with a lot of energy, a ton of effort, and just playing inspiring basketball. It was great to see that.” Some of the most impactful players weren’t starters on Friday night. Sophomore center Colin Castleton has also seen his fair share of time off the bench this season, especially when senior center Jon Teske
has been in foul trouble, and he looked good when Teske again racked up a few fouls early before exiting the game to get stitches in his lip. But bench players with less in-game experience were just as much of a factor in the game. With Teske in foul trouble and Castleton injured, redshirt junior forward Austin Davis saw extended playing time for the first time this season. Sophomore guard Brandon Johns Jr. saw more minutes than he normally does as well. Davis had eight points and three rebounds on the night and put up a dunk from behind the net around the eightminute mark and two more on either side of the seven-minute mark, to the delight of the fans in the crowd at Crisler Center. Johns accounted for
12 points – his first career double digit night and a new career high – and threw down a massive dunk of his own at the 12-minute mark. “Before the game, I was really thinking to myself, I can contribute more,” Johns said. “I can help out my teammates – just being out there on the floor. I’m not doing anything different. The rebounding’s good, for sure, but I felt like I can be there – I can be a presence on both ends, so I always just really want to be aggressive, on offense and defense.” It was a stark contrast to the Hawkeyes, whose nineman rotation was about what the Wolverines had expected it to be. Michigan looked effective all night on defense, even successfully putting a lid on Iowa’s star guard, senior Jordan Bohannon. Although the bench lacks size to a certain extent, with the exception of Davis, a 6-foot-10 behemoth, and especially compared to both Michigan’s starters and Iowa’s very physical team, the defense was solid all night, no matter who was on the floor. Michigan held Iowa to just 20 percent on their 3-point attempts and came up with 38 rebounds in a dominant first conference victory. “We have this motto on our team: ‘Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready,’” Howard said. “That’s how our guys responded tonight. I’m just so proud of their effort.” Although there have been, and certainly will continue
I saw great production out of (the bench) tonight.
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Junior guard Eli Brooks was one of six Wolverines to finish in double figures in Michigan’s 103-91 win over Iowa.
Garza raises questions about defense ‘M’ finishes second in crowded field DANIEL DASH
Daily Sports Writer
As the modern style of men’s basketball continues to evolve with an emphasis on 3-point shooting, teams across the collegiate and professional ranks have ditched the traditional ‘5.’ But not in the Big Ten, and not in Ann Arbor. In a conference ruled by some of the country’s most talented big men, traditional centers are alive and well. The short list of testaments includes Michigan’s Jon Teske, Iowa’s Luka Garza, Ohio State’s Kaleb Wesson, Purdue’s Matt Haarms, Illinois’ Kofi Cockburn, Minnesota’s Daniel Oturu and Penn State’s Mike Watkins. In Friday night’s 103-91 win over the Hawkeyes, the fourthranked Wolverines saw the impact of a dominant Big Ten center firsthand. Garza entered the game as the nation’s only Power Five player averaging 20 points and 10 rebounds, and promptly poured in a career-high 44 points against Michigan. Garza showcased one of the conference’s best lowpost repertoires Friday night, using his full arsenal of reverse layups, post hooks and midrange jumpers to record the third-most points in Iowa history. “He’s a guy that’s got a ton of different moves,” said Hawkeyes’ coach Fran McCaffery after the game. “I thought we did a really good collectively of getting him the ball, (we) made a concerted effort to do so. He never stops moving, he sprints hard in transition and posts hard, so he’s a handful for any defender that’s trying to guard him.” Throughout the night, the Wolverines had no answer for Garza. Michigan coach Juwan Howard initially tried stopping him by assigning three different defenders, but when Teske, sophomore forward Colin Castleton and senior center Austin Davis tried their hand at halting Garza’s big night, they
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Iowa forward Luka Garza scored a career-high 44 points against Michigan.
found themselves out-muscled or in foul trouble. Castleton, in particular, took an errant elbow to the face that required stitches on his lip before he made a second-half return. By halftime, Garza had already racked up 27 points. He was responsible for 11 of Iowa’s 15 field goals, while 24 of its 38 points came in the paint. Howard tried to draw up different defensive assignments, traps and doubleteams against Garza, but none of it seemed to matter. “We were just trying to make it tough on (Garza),” Davis said. “Tough to get the ball, tough once he got it, just tried to make it as hard on him to score as possible. … We know he’s a great player, we knew that coming in.” Friday could very well have been an outlier. Regardless of whether it was, Michigan is in a good place to learn from it. The Wolverines’ porous interior defense allowed Iowa to post 91 points, even as it shot just 3-of15 from beyond the arc. With an influx of frontcourt depth this season, it’s best to learn such a lesson in December as opposed to March. At 7-foot-1, Teske has been an impactful paint presence since stepping into the starting center role last season. He’s averaging 2.1 blocks per game across 46 starts, while Castleton is averaging just over two rejections per 36 minutes in his career to date. But their real value lies in altering close-range looks with
their size. Against driving guards and fellow centers around the rim, the presence of Teske or Castleton often forces opposing players to take off-balanced shots from uncomfortable angles. Without a reliable backup center last season, there was pressure on Teske to remain on the floor. That wasn’t the case the season before, when he averaged just 12.3 minutes while playing behind Moritz Wagner. Teske’s minutes more than doubled following Wagner’s departure, which brought about a necessary learning curve in staying out of foul trouble. He answered the call, improving from one foul per 7.6 minutes to 12.6 minutes, but Michigan still struggled without him on the floor. After beginning the season as the primary backup center, Davis fell out of the rotation as Castleton and forward Brandon Johns Jr. spent much of their freshman seasons adjusting to the college level. This season, though, Michigan is better equipped to weather stretches without Teske than it was a season ago. And as a result, he and the centers behind him are afforded the luxury of defensive aggression. With a long line of strong Big Ten centers on the upcoming docket, that aggression has to become a staple of the Wolverines’ interior defense. Otherwise, Garza’s performance could be just the beginning.
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The No. 19 Michigan women’s swim and dive team finished second at the Minnesota Invite this weekend.
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While there was an admitted talent gap between the Michigan women’s swim and dive team and its rivals, the Wolverines relied on long-term development to power past more highly-ranked opponents at this weekend’s Minnesota Invite. No. 19 Michigan came in second out of seven, falling 422.5 points shy of first-place No. 3 California. Michigan (3-0) came out of the weekend with 10 top-three finishes and seven athletes qualifying for NCAA Championships. The second-place finish was better than Michigan coach Mark Bottom was expecting facing the Golden Bears, No. 5 Texas and other top teams. Bottom had reason be worried after losing a dominant senior class last spring, comprised of Siobhán Haughey, Catie DeLoof and Jamie Yeung, who led the team to a third-place finish at the NCAA Finals. But after this week, it’s clear this won’t be a rebuilding year for the Wolverines. The team’s depth was evident in its relay — made up of seniors Chloe Hicks and Miranda Tucker, as well as junior Daria Pyshnenko and sophomore Maggie MacNeil — in which they placed third behind California and the Longhorns. Junior diver Christy Cutshaw
secured valuable points for the team with her first-place finish on the platform dive. In recent years, Michigan has been a dominant program, but has yet to best the Golden Bears in the postseason. Bottom attributes the gap to different levels of recruiting. California typically has a top-10 recruiting class in the county, while the Wolverines focus on developing their athletes once they get to Ann Arbor — a strategy Bottom thinks will be integral to the team’s future success.
We’re getting better and that’s what we want to do. “We recruit well and develop greater athletes,” Bottom said. “That’s kind of what we’ve done in the past and will continue to do. We won’t always get the best athletes — as a matter of fact, we get very few, but we get some and we develop a great team.” That development seems to have paid off. Friday, MacNeil tied
the NCAA and U.S. Open records on the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 49.26 seconds. While she already has a lot to show for her time at Michigan, including the Big Ten of the Year accolade and four Big Ten Championship titles, Bottom stresses that MacNeil’s success is a product of the work she’s put in since joining the team. “She didn’t come in a superstar,” Bottom said. “She came in a good swimmer, just like a lot of our girls. They have hope that they can achieve some of the things she’s achieved. She’s real good about understanding where she came from and encouraging others to follow that path.” Many other members of the team followed MacNeil’s lead, setting personal-best’s and approaching school-wide records. Hicks clocked in at 1:53.12 minutes on the 200-yard backstroke, trumping her previous record by almost 10 seconds. Pyshnenko just edged out her previous record of 50.20 seconds on the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 48.12. “We’re getting better, and that’s what we want to do,” Bottom said. “Every time we get to a mid-season meet like this, the idea is that you want to be as close to your best in season times and better than last year’s end of season times. That’s where we’re moving.”
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‘M’ to play Alabama in Citrus Bowl ARIA GERSON
Ever yelled “We want Bama” as a joke when Michigan had a good game? Well, you got your wish. It’s official: the 14th-ranked Wolverines will be headed to Orlando to play No. 13 Alabama in the Citrus Bowl on New Year’s Day. “Certainly a privilege and an honor for our team to be … playing a great team like the University of Michigan with great tradition and a great coach in Jim Harbaugh,” Alabama coach Nick Saban said on a conference call Sunday evening. “And this is something that we — a challenge that we certainly look forward to.” Harbaugh is 1-4 in bowl games during his time at Michigan, though the one he did win was also the last time the Wolverines were in the Citrus Bowl, where they beat Florida to conclude the 2015 season. All three teams Michigan lost to in the regular season made either the Playoff (Ohio State) or a New Year’s Six bowl (Wisconsin and Penn State), clearing the way for the Wolverines to get a spot in the Big Ten’s top non-New Year’s Six bowl. Meanwhile, the powerhouse Crimson Tide seemed destined for a College Football Playoff spot — what would’ve been their sixth in six years of the Playoff — for most of the season, but when quarterback Tua Tagovailoa went down for the season with a hip injury and Alabama lost to rival Auburn, it fell out of a New Year’s Six spot altogether. Still, the Crimson Tide are second in the country in SP+ and have the third-ranked offense and the No. 6 defense. Michigan is 19th and ninth, respectively. “The Alabama team is a great team,” Harbaugh said. “I have the utmost respect for them. They’ve set the bar for college football over the last many years, the model of success and credit to Nick Saban and his coaches. High-powered offense, a great defense, and I’ve
Dilk cuts down on turnovers in win JACK KINGSLEY
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The Michigan football team is looking for its first bowl win since 2016.
already started to look at them. “… That offense, they average somewhere around 48 points a game and their two offensive tackles look to be guys that could be top-20 picks in the draft. A lot of good receivers. This could be the best group of receivers maybe ever. Three top picks, probably three first-round picks in that group and two really talented running backs. Very impressed with (quarterback) Mac Jones and the defense is, the other thing is, the special teams is dynamic. The punt returns, kick returns, those two especially. We’ll need to have a great plan in regards to all three phases of the game. Excited for the opportunity.” The two teams last played in 2012, when they met at a neutral site for the season opener. The Crimson Tide won in a blowout, 41-14. Before that, their most recent matchup was in the 2000 Orange Bowl — 20 years to the day before their upcoming Citrus Bowl tilt — where Tom Brady led the Wolverines to a 35-34 win in the first-ever overtime BCS Bowl game. Though Michigan and Alabama rarely play each other, there is still some level of familiarity. Offensive coordinator Josh Gattis spent the 2018 season as the Crimson Tide’s co-offensive coordinator as they made a run to the national championship game. Shea Patterson also faced off against Alabama as Mississippi’s starting quarterback in 2017. Saban and Harbaugh only really have a passing relationship, but as coaches of two blue blood
programs, they respect each other and know the Citrus Bowl will bring a unique challenge. “I have a lot of respect for Jim,” Saban said. “I think he’s been a great coach and done a great job at Michigan, did a great job every place he’s been prior to that. We have a lot of respect for the University of Michigan, their program, their tradition and the job that he’s done as a coach.” Normally, the Citrus Bowl doesn’t feature marquee matchups by design. But when schools with two of the largest fanbases in the country fell there, the meeting seemed like a no-brainer for the bowl. Most of the Wolverines have not announced whether they intend to play in the bowl, though linebacker Josh Uche and tight end Sean McKeon, both seniors, have indicated that they will play. “We still got one more game to play for,” McKeon said after the loss to Ohio State. “One more game to win. Looking forward to preparing with the team one more time and trying to get that (win).” With a match against one of the consistent best teams in the country, that task just got quite a bit harder. “It’s a fabulous team,” Harbaugh said. “A very, very elite team and as I said, credit to Nick Saban and the coaching staff and our preparation will have to be at its highest level. Good to know who you’re gonna play and get started. It’s a big-time matchup. We’re very much looking forward to it.”
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ball more on the offensive end. (She’s) showing great discipline.” Added Dilk: “Coach is doing a great job of if I make a mistake, just let it go — don’t dwell on it. There’s a lot of game left to be played.” From a ball security standpoint, Sunday was Dilk’s best game since the loss to Notre Dame, when she played the entire game. While Barnes Arico didn’t think that fatigue played a role in Dilk’s lackluster fourthquarter play, she has made an effort to give Dilk a few minutes on the bench in every game since — especially when she makes a bad turnover. This change is in large part to Barnes Arico’s newfound trust in sophomore guard Danielle Rauch, who has appeared in each of the last four games at point guard. While lacking some of Dilk’s scoring prowess, Rauch has shown the ability to be a capable floor general with Dilk off the floor and has impressed on the defensive end, grabbing four steals over the four-game
stretch. Rauch played an important role in a 12-2 Michigan run to end the first half, assisting on two of the Wolverines’ five field goals in that span. Having the ability to put Rauch in for extended periods of time has helped Dilk calm down after making a bad decision and keeps her fresh for the end of the game. “I think Danielle has proven in practice every single day she’s ready for the opportunity,” Barnes Arico said. “She limits her turnovers as well and her decision making has been really good for us. “Just to give Amy a break every now and again to get her re-focused and locked in really helps Amy, as well.” The change in Michigan’s use of Rauch has paid dividends for Dilk, allowing her to calm down when her play gets sloppy. Sunday showed just how much of a weapon Dilk can be when she takes care of the ball, and a spell on the bench after a poor decision has made this version of Dilk the new norm.
Oakland had just cut the Michigan women’s basketball team’s lead to seven, in the midst of a 10-4 run, and Amy Dilk had the ball at the top of the key. The sophomore guard looked to do what she does so often: find sophomore forward Naz Hillmon in the paint and let Hillmon go to work. But this time, Hillmon wasn’t open, and Dilk threw the ball over her head — Dilk’s second turnover of the game. On the ensuing possession, Grizzlies guard Alona Blackwell drained a corner 3-pointer, and the Wolverines found themselves leading by just four with two minutes remaining in the third quarter. This wasn’t an uncommon occurrence for Dilk. She averages over 3.5 turnovers per game, and her greatest ball security issues have come when the stakes are highest. In the Nov. 23 loss to Notre Dame, Dilk had three costly fourth-quarter turnovers, leading to a blown five-point lead. While Dilk has let her play spiral after bad turnovers in the past, she showed improvement Sunday. She didn’t turn the ball over the rest of the game, and on each of the next three possessions made no attempt to be the hero as she had against the Fighting Irish. She made easy passes, took an open shot in the paint and made a great bounce pass to a cutting Hillmon for an easy layup. The Wolverines scored on all three possessions, extending the lead to 10 — a lead they wouldn’t give up, defeating Oakland, 79-64. “Amy Dilk’s decision making has really really taken strides in the positive direction,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “She’s really conscientious and trying to EMMA MATI/Daily stop hitting the home run Sophomore guard Amy Dilk had just two turnovers against Oakland on Sunday. pass initially and moving the
Amy Dilk’s decision making has ... taken strides
Wolverines fall to Nittany Lions, 3-1 Offense falls short in Penn State loss MOLLY SHEA
Daily Sports Writer
Almost. The Michigan hockey team (6-10-2 overall, 2-7-1-0 Big Ten) almost completed a comeback against No. 6 Penn State (125-0, 7-3-0-0). And if it had, the comeback would’ve marked the first time this season the Wolverines were able to do so, amid their first Big Ten sweep. Instead, the game followed the same trajectory that can sum up the first half of the Wolverines’ season — they played well enough to win, but ultimately couldn’t finish the job. “We played hard,” said Michigan coach Mel Pearson. “All we can do is ask our players to give it their best and lay it on the line and walk out of here knowing they did that. I don’t know if we can play much better than we did tonight. We fought our way back from that two-goal deficit, and I thought in the third period, we were the best team.” But really, the Wolverines had sealed their fate by the time the first period ended. The Nittany Lions nabbed a 2-0 lead heading into intermission, and though the Wolverines responded quickly, it wasn’t enough. When the clock expired at Yost Ice Arena, the scoreboard favored Penn State over Michigan, 3-1. The Wolverines’ two-minute struggle started when they took a penalty for too many men on the ice. It happened while senior defenseman Griffin Luce was heading off the ice for a line change. His replacement, freshman defender Keaton Pehrson, had already come over the boards. Luce was a just a step from the bench when the puck ricocheted off the boards and hit his skate. The referee blew his whistle — and for the third time that period, Michigan was going to have to kill a penalty. The Wolverines had successfully killed the Nittany Lions’ first two opportunities, and they hoped to continue their shutdown of Penn State’s power play. But these hopes were thwarted 18 seconds later, when Nittany
Lions forward Nate Sucese buried a one-timer to beat sophomore goaltender Strauss Mann. In the wake of Sucese’s goal, Michigan needed to regroup and badly. But it would have to wait for the intermission, because barely a minute after the first goal, Penn State extended its lead to 2-0. There were just seconds remaining when Nittany Lions forward Evan Barratt found the puck at the top right side of the crease. Carrying the puck on his stick, he danced around Mann and finished on a wide open net. “I think that was just a lapse,” said redshirt junior forward Luke Morgan about the second goal. “We took the penalty, that’s tough, and they score (while we’re) shorthanded. We might have put our foot off the gas at the end of the period a little bit. You can’t do that. They capitalized on that.” Then, when the puck dropped to signal the start of the second period, Michigan mustered a quick response to the Nittany Lions’ late offensive push. The Wolverines pushed into the offensive zone off the opening drawing. Junior forward Michael Pastujov found himself in the middle of a battle along the boards. Pastujov was checked by a defender and lost his balance but not before he threw the puck across the ice and toward the goal. Simultaneously, redshirt junior Luke Morgan streaked towards the net. Pastujov’s pass crossed his path, and in one fluid motion, Morgan rifled the puck into the goal. With Morgan’s goal, Michigan inched closer to a comeback, but still trailed, 2-1. “It was huge,” said senior forward Will Lockwood. “You could just tell, the momentum swung there. That was really big for us. I’m really surprised we didn’t get another. I think if we got that next one, got that bounce, we would’ve won the game, no doubt. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, but that first goal was big for us.” As the storyline has been all season, the Wolverines had chances, but didn’t finish them. They outshot Penn State in both the second and third periods,
tallying a total of 43 shots on net. But none of these chances crossed the goal line, none of them aided the attempted comeback. With time running out, and Michigan still applying pressure, still searching for an equalizer, still looking to prove it could stage a comeback Pearson made the decision to pull Mann for an additional attacker. It almost worked. As Mann skated to the bench, Pastujov climbed over the board and skated into the offensive zone. Fifty second later, he was faced with an open net, as the Penn State goaltender was sprawled on the ice. Pastujov fired a shot. It went just over the crossbar. The Wolverines had almost tied the game. But not even twenty seconds later, Nittany Lions forward Denis Smirnov shot the puck into the empty and made the score 3-1. As the teams lined up to shake hands, the Wolverines’ ability to respond quickly to adversity didn’t matter. All their offensive opportunities didn’t count for anything more than stats in a column. When the game ended, the score sheet favored Penn State and though Michigan almost staged a comeback, the only thing reflected in the stats was how damaging its two-minute mental lapse proved to be.
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Standing just below the left circle, Michael Pastujov received a pass from Jacob Hayhurst behind the net. In an instant, without wasting time settling the puck for a shot, Pastujov snapped a wrist shot toward the mouth of the goal. Penn State’s goaltender, Peyton Jones, lied prone in the crease as Michigan applied pressure. It looked as though Pastujov was going to find twine and tie the game at two goals apiece with just over a minute left. The Wolverines even began to celebrate as the puck flew toward the net, thinking there was no way it wouldn’t be a goal. Pastujov was quick with his release, and he had a wide-open target to shoot at. But instead, somehow, some way, Jones got a piece of the puck, deflecting it high and neutralizing the scoring chance. Seventeen seconds later, forward Denis Smirnov hit the empty net to make it a 3-1 game with under a minute left. Michigan’s chance at coming back and getting the sweep was gone. “It’s kind of just been the same story all year,” said senior forward Will Lockwood. “Guys just gotta bear down on chances,
including myself, and that’s just a mindset. We gotta come in with that mindsight right at the beginning, but I think we’re doing a lot of the right things.” Throughout Saturday’s game, the Wolverines struggled to finish on scoring opportunities. And as Lockwood said, Michigan’s offense has told the same story throughout the season. Through their 18 games this season, the Wolverines rank third in the nation with 584 shots on goal. Their shot percentage, however, is 58th out of 60 teams at just 6.7 percent. The numbers state it about as plainly as anything could — Michigan just cannot find the back of the net. In Saturday’s matchup, the Wolverines put 43 shots on net and attempted 68 in total. They scored only one goal. “We continue to struggle scoring goals,” said Michigan coach Mel Pearson. “Last night, we didn’t score on our best chances. You saw we got four, and we could’ve had nine. Tonight, we could’ve had I don’t know how many.” And it isn’t a matter of not getting opportunities, as the Wolverines’ third place shot total demonstrates. Every game, players fail to convert on Grade-A scoring chances.
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Sophomore forward Nolan Moyle was one of many Wolverines to struggle in Saturday’s 3-1 loss to Penn State.
Saturday, that stood out about as much as it has all year. Throughout the lineup, Michigan missed chance after chance. Senior forward Jake Slaker was stopped by Jones on a oneon-one breakaway from pointblank range. Jones stopped sophomore forward Garrett Van Wyhe that way, too. Late in the game, when Pearson pulled sophomore goaltender Strauss Mann to give the Wolverines an extra attacker, they continued to fail to execute on scoring opportunities. Pastujov missed the best look Michigan had with the extra attacker, and freshman forward Johnny Beecher had a couple chances of his own that couldn’t find the back of the net. In the third period, Michigan outshot Penn State, 19-10, but couldn’t get a goal out of it. “We probably had as many good chances this weekend as we’ve had all year, against a team that has played well defensively,” Pearson said. “Against a team who likes to spend a lot of time — I don’t think we spent much time in our zone in the third period when the game’s on the line.” Even earlier in the game, when the Wolverines were attempting to battle back from a one-goal deficit, Michigan demonstrated an inability to convert on chances. Sophomore forward Jimmy Lambert had two open looks on the power play in the second period. Hayhurst, too, had multiple chances on the doorstep of the crease and couldn’t punch the puck in. And as the Wolverines continue to try to dig themselves out of last place in the Big Ten, the offense needs to find a rhythm. Michigan hasn’t won this year when it’s scored less than four goals, and the Wolverines average just 2.17 goals per game. It’s becoming clear that without the offense finding a way to light the lamp, this team will continue to struggle at the bottom of the conference. “We have to score goals,” Pearson said. “And we’re not doing that.”