After the Presidential Search Committee conducted a nationwide search of potential
“I think I’d like to see President Ono embrace us,” Lederman said. “Not because we should or need
Ono told The Daily in an exclusive interview that he believes in order for other campuses to feel as if the administration is invested in them, there has to be an effort from the administration to be present on those campuses. He claimed that he was going to spend time on both the Flint and Dearborn campuses, and that he would support their “great” leaders.Reflecting on the relationship between Schlissel and the Flint and Dearborn campuses, Jacob Lederman, associate professor of sociology on the Flint campus and active member of the One University campaign, said he believes Schlissel’s relationship with the Flint and Dearborn campuses was always“Unfortunately,distant. Schlissel just never really took a big interest in the Flint or Dearborn campuses,” Lederman
U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, spoke with University of Michigan students at the Michigan Union Friday night. The event was co-hosted by the Michigan-Hawaii Student Association (MIHI) and the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association.
embrace that mission,” Lederman said. “I don’t think Schlissel could ever understand what we meant by investment and equity if it didn’t mean becoming like AnnTheArbor.”U-M Flint and U-M Dearborn campuses have historically served a disproportionately large portion of marginalized students in the state of Michigan. However, the two satellite campuses have traditionally received less financial aid resources compared to the U-M Ann Arbor campus.
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CSG president Noah Zimmerman, LSA senior, and CSG chief of staff Meera Herle, LSA junior, also handed out t-shirts and greeted students at the event. Zimmerman said he was excited by the number of students who had shown up wearing rainbow attire and were participating in the activities, despite the adverse weather.“Seeing all the students coming
“Half the battle is showing up,” Hirono said. “By ‘showing up’ I don’t mean just physically showing up for things but staying the course. Because the battles we thought we had won don’t stay won, so eternal vigilance is required.”
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On Thursday, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the meaning of the amendment is still identifiable despite the errors in the“Theproposal.only challenge to the petition is in regard to whether there is sufficient space between certain words of the text of the proposed amendment,” the order reads. “The ‘full text’ of the amendment is present: regardless of the existence or extent of the spacing, all of the words remain and they remain in the same order, and it is not disputed that they are printed in 8-point type. In this case, the meaning of the words has not changed by the alleged insufficient spacing between them.”According to the order, the Board of Canvassers must approve the petition as sufficient for placement on the general election ballot by Friday. The court also directed the Secretary of State to include the Reproductive Freedom for All proposal on the general election ballot.
Hirono said throughout her legislative career, she has learned the importance of perseverance when fighting for the causes that matter most. Hirono pointed to the stalled Voting Rights Act and the overturning of Roe v. Wade as examples of why people need to continue to “show up.”
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Shbeib Dabaja, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences at U-M Flint, said a lack of funding on U-M Flint’s campus results in a lesser campus life experience.
With Ono taking office on October 13, students and faculty on the Dearborn and Flint campuses spoke with The Michigan Daily about their hopes and expectations for the new era of the University.
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consequences.Lastyear,the Business School made special exceptions for Business students who tested positive, but that clause has since been removed from the 2022 syllabi. All Business juniors participate in the Ross Integrative Semester (RIS). Through RIS, each student is enrolled in four mandatory core courses and must complete a culminating entrepreneurial project by the end of the Theterm.2022 RIS syllabus, which outlines general policies for all of the classes juniors must take, states that students are allowed one absence from their Business Communication course and three absences from the other core courses during the semester.
representation of Pacific Islander people as well … puts something in (the audience’s) brains about being aware of Hawaii, being aware of AAPIHironogroups.”began by discussing her career as an elected official, which began in the Hawaii State Senate in 1981. When elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, she was the first Asian American female senator and the only immigrant serving in the Senate, having moved from Japan at age eight.
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Hirono said her initial political awakening was participating in protests against the Vietnam War.
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The night of January 15, 2022 was not one to forget for students at the University of Michigan. That evening, over 100 students gathered outside the house of former U-M President Mark Schlissel just hours after news broke that he had been fired for an “inappropriate relationship” with an employee. This was the beginning of what would be months of an outpouring of hope and anticipation from students, faculty and staff alike for the future of the University.
Some students, including one Business junior who has asked to remain anonymous for fear of academic retribution, tested positive for COVID-19 during the first week of classes. According to emails the student received from faculty after reporting their absence, the student’s isolation period used up two of their three excused absences.
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“In the rare case that you must miss more than the allotted number of classes, you must contact your instructor as soon as possible,” the syllabus reads. “The decision to excuse you from class is at the discretion of faculty.”
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Though the sky remained overcast and rainfall graced the University of Michigan campus until late into the afternoon, hundreds of members of the campus community showed up Sunday for the annual Pride Outside at Palmer Field. Dozens of student organizations set up tables to welcome new and returning students to campus, and a variety of drag performances kept the energy high throughout the afternoon.
The student, who will be referred to as Sam, tested positive Monday afternoon and had to stay home the rest of the week. In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Sam said when they looked at their syllabi for the attendance policy, they were shocked by the lack of leniency during the ongoing pandemic.
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“I was not one of the leaders of the anti-war movement, but (protesting) was enough for me to question, for the first time ever, what our government was doing,” Hirono said. “I became friends with other politically active people …, and so we all kind of decided that we needed to do more to get seats at the table.”
Though getting sick and having to miss class is a stressful experience for all students, some Ross School of Business juniors are especially worried about how it could impact their grades this fall. Despite the University’s five-to-10-day isolation policy for students who contract COVID-19, Business juniors get only three absences per semester in the majority of their classes before they face potential academic
“On campus, it was a struggle to keep students involved, and I think a lot of it stems from campus equity and equitable investment,” Dabaja said.
“That increase(s) (the) conversation of ‘How can we make campus life similar to what it is in Ann Arbor?’ or ‘How can we bring Flint into the fold of Dabajathings?’” said these conversations are his main hopes for Ono’s “Really,presidency.that’sthe crux of everything,” Dabaja said. “To be able to work on these issues. To not only understand that there’s an issue, but to find common ground on how to solve the issue.”
In an interview with The Michigan Daily, LSA sophomore Ellie Omori-Sampson, founding member of MIHI, said their main goal for the event is to promote Hawaiian representation at the University of Michigan. She said she feels Pacific Islanders are underrepresented within Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.“Evenin ‘AAPI,’ ‘PI’ is very much underrepresented in AAPI spaces on campus, which I’ve noticed,” Omori-Sampson said. “So bringing a senator from Hawaii who is Asian American, who is fighting to promote the
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to move closer or appear closer to the Ann Arbor campus, but precisely because our mission is so different and so important.”
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On Thursday, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the Michigan Board of Canvassers must place two constitutional amendments on the Nov. 8 general election ballot: Reproductive Freedom for All and Promote the Vote 2022. Earlier this week, the Board of Canvassers had deadlocked votes for both initiatives, requiring backers of both amendments to file appeals in order to secure a spot on the ballot.
Lederman, Schlissel didn’t understand that Flint and Dearborn campuses serve different communities and have different goals than the Ann Arbor campus.
With the Hill Neighborhood having a number of freshman dorms, she was glad to see freshmen stopping by.
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According to Dabaja, this sense of campus life is crucial to maintaining the Flint campus in the“Campuslong-term.life is crucial to the longevity of the University of Michigan-Flint, and I think that starts with funding,” Dabaja said.
Among those expressing hope were members of the One University campaign, an organization that lobbies for equitable funding across all three of the University’s campuses: Flint, Dearborn and Ann Arbor. Throughout Schlissel’s tenure, One University expressed criticism of his actions, including in May 2021, when Schlissel portrayed the expansion of the Go Blue Guarantee to Dearborn and Flint campuses as both a financial and academic burden to the Ann Arbor campus. Upon Schlissel’s firing, One University released a statement reiterating its discontent, as well as hope that the Board of Regents would select a president who would carry out “more democratic and transparent governance on all levels across our three campuses.”
In an interview with The Daily after the event, Hirono urged young people to vote in the upcoming Nov. 8 general election, especially with a constitutional amendment to protect abortion access on the ballot in Michigan. “Democracy is at stake, especially for the young women,” Hirono said. “They have fewer rights than their mothers and even their grandmothers — that should motivate them to one: get really angry about it, and then, (two:) do something. Right now, the ‘something’ they can do is to vote.”
On Sept. 1, Board Chair Anthony Daunt (R) and Board Member Richard Houskamp (R) voted against putting the Reproductive Freedom for All amendment — which would codify the right to abortion access in the Michigan Constitution — on the general election ballot. Though the amendment amassed over 730,000 signatures, the Board claimed formatting errors on the proposal, including a lack of spaces between some words, rendered the signatures invalid. Mary Ellen Gurewitz (D), the board’s vice chair, voted in favor of the amendment, along with Board Member Jeannette Bradshaw (D).
Every year, the University’s chapter of Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (oSTEM) collaborates with Central Student Government (CSG), the College of Engineering and the Spectrum Center to coordinate the celebration of LGBTQ+ identities on campus. CSG members and Spectrum Center volunteers were interacting with students, handing out pronoun pins and “Michigan Pride” t-shirts throughout the event.
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“I think President Ono appears to be someone who wants to get to know people and understand their perspectives,” Lederman said. “I think that will go a long way on Flint’sLedermancampus.”said he hopes Ono will apply this mindset when considering the three campuses of the University and their unique needs.
candidates beginning in February, the Board of Regents named current University of British Columbia President Dr. Santa Ono as Schlissel’s successor on July 13.
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out here, especially on such a rainy day, is really great to see,” Zimmerman said. “The turnout is impressive and it’s been nice to see everyone get involved.”
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In addition, the U-M Flint and U-M Dearborn student bodies differ greatly from U-M Ann Arbor in terms of socioeconomic status. Based on the 2021 campus data snapshot, 40% of U-M Dearborn students and 52% of U-M Flint students received Pell Grants — a federal grant awarded to highachieving students with financial need — whereas 17% of U-M Ann Arbor students received the same grant.Lederman expressed his support for Ono and said he believes Ono has a mindset that would be welcome on the U-M Flint campus.
Herle discussed how the event’s location helped bring in new students.
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Dabaja said one issue he believes should be addressed is the GPA requirement for the Go Blue Guarantee that only exists for the U-M Dearborn and U-M Flint campuses. The Go Blue Guarantee — a freetuition scholarship for in-state
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“I think amongst the faculty on our campuses, particularly in Flint, there is a sense that we have a very different mission than, for example, Ann Arbor, and we
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“The union has never been included in these decisions,” Eno said. “Now, of course, grad workers went on strike in fall 2020 after trying for months to communicate and get information in a meaningful way from the administration about campus safety. So unfortunately, the University’s lack of transparency and engagement with the community at this point seems prettyLSAstandard.”freshman Toby Buckfire believes the masking and vaccination policies work as they currently“Overall,are.I still do feel pretty comfortable even if most people do not wear masks just because of everyone having vaccines,” Buckfire said.
“They don’t seem to have much of a relationship with … the level of community transmission. So in that sense, the University is placing the responsibility for keeping ourselves safe on us as individuals, as students, as workers.”
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quarantine housing provided by theUnlikeUniversity.thefall 2021 semester, this semester introduces a new COVID-19 policy that says masking is optional in almost all indoor spaces on campus. While students, faculty and staff were required to wear masks inside classrooms and recreational spaces last year, the majority of students are choosing to forgo facial coverings in fall 2022. Masks were also required during the entirety of the winter 2022 semester.Since the semester began, students and faculty have expressed mixed feelings about the optional masking protocol, with some saying the freedom has boosted class culture while others say they still feel unsafe in large groups.When asked for comment on future changes in masking policies and the current number of COVID19 cases on campus, University spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen pointed The Michigan Daily to the Sept. 2 message sent out by Robert Ernst, U-M chief health officer, on
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COVID-19 vaccinations in an effort to prevent severe cases of COVID-19, with a few medical and religious exceptions. Currently, 95% of students, 95% of faculty and 90% of staff are up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations.
Public Policy professor Paula Lantz is one professor who is requesting that students wear masks. She said she is “respectfully” asking students to mask even though she cannot require it.
Pandemic restrictions like mandatory masks in classrooms and the testing requirement for unvaccinated students are gone for the Fall 2022 semester. The masking requirement was removed at the start of the spring semester while the testing requirement — which required unvaccinated individuals to undergo weekly COVID-19 testing — was lifted for the start of the fall semester.
As a result of these changes, instructors — including those who are immunocompromised — are no longer able to require masks within their classrooms. This has led to disputes between the University of Michigan and the Lecturers’ Employee Organization (LEO), which believes its members should be able to require masks within their instructional spaces.
Lantz said she plans to follow COVID-19 guidelines outlined by the Washtenaw County Health Department, which showed that the COVID-19 level in Washtenaw County was “high” and wastewater COVID-19 levels were “extremely high” at the beginning of the fall semester.“Ihave told my students that while current campus policy is that masks are optional in class, I am ‘respectfully requesting’ that they wear a mask in class and when speaking to me one on one,” Lantz wrote. “It is not a requirement, but a respectful request based on public health science (and) guidance, and also the fact that a number of people in my courses this fall — including me — are at high risk for COVIDMaskingcomplications.”isnotjust an issue for lecturers; graduate student instructors are also experiencing a new semester without mandatory masking. Rackham student Jared Eno, Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) president, said he feels the new masking policy does not reflect current community
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current quarantine housing and masking protocols. The message outlines the isolation procedure for on-campus students and makes suggestions for what offcampus students can do to protect themselves.“Asthe fall semester gets underway, campus is buzzing with excitement and interactions through orientation activities and social gatherings,” Ernst wrote in the message. “Not surprisingly, with the repopulation of campus, we are seeing transmission of COVID-19 within our community.”Washtenaw County’s community COVID-19 level currently stands at a “medium” level, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC requiredstudents,maskingUniversityindoors,aorimmunocompromisedrecommendsindividualsthosewhoareathighriskforseverediseasewearamaskwhichisinlinewiththeofMichigan’scurrentpolicy.Forthefallsemester,allU-Mfacultyandstaffaretobeuptodateontheir
The positivity rate for COVID19 cases during the first week of fall 2022 was 6.3%, an increase from the 0.8% campus positivity rate the first week of fall 2021. However, this semester’s positivity rate is consistent with the 6.1% rate during the first week of the winter 2022 semester. Overall, the current positive cases numbers are substantially lower than they were at the beginning of the winter 2022 semester when there were 1,918 positive cases reported in the first week.
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Eno also said he believes the new policies are putting immunocompromised students and faculty at risk.
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“Well over 90% (of LEO members) agree that instructors who, for whatever reason, feel unsafe in their classroom ought to be able to require students (to) mask,” Herold said. “(We’ve been told) we can’t do it. I think there are departments that are sort of saying, ‘Well, if you ask students
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“This university policy is making all of us vulnerable to COVID including potentially long term effects, or long COVID,” Eno said. “That’s true for all of us, but particularly for immunocompromised grad students and immunocompromised people in general. People who live with or have friends or family who are immunocompromised, it’s putting all those folks in a pretty terrible position of choosing between their livelihoods and their health.”Boththe leaders of LEO and GEO feel many of these issues are a result of a lack of communication between the University administration and instructors.“TheUniversity frankly isn’t very interested in what we have to say at this point,” Herold said.
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Not all faculty members were opposed to the new policy. Statistics professor Jack Miller said the move to optional masking reduced the friction of enforcing mask mandates.
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to please mask, they’ll probably all do it,’ which I think has been some people’s experience, but there are other departments who say you can’t even say, ‘Please mask.’”
Kirsten Herold, LEO President and Public Health lecturer, said a majority of LEO members want to have authority over requiring masks in their classes.
“I think (mask) optional is probably best because the enforcement has been very difficult,” Miller said.
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“These (policies) are basically optional at this point,” Eno said.
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The students who went on the trip to northern Michigan were all members of NASA, and they were able to participate in community discussions with the tribes they visited. Along the way, the students also had the opportunity to meet with the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians and the Burt Lake Band.
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The syllabus specifically lists religious obligations, funeral attendance and athletic travel as reasons students are likely to be excused from more than three classes; COVID-related absences are not
“I thought it was important to foster community building,” Crampton said. “We’ve been getting a little bit bigger each year in the past couple of years with NASA. So it’s kind of important to get comfortable with one another and kind of establish those relationships and hope to carry that out through the school
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count against their attendance record. With two strikes already, and the possibility of subsequent absences, Sam fears for their participation grades in the future.
The student-directed musical has been shown since 2012 to inform students about the “magic” of the bus system at the University.
PB: A lot of it is to be determined. Robert did an amazing job of really building the program from the ground up. And that was a huge
“I don’t understand why there’s zero COVID exceptions, because we’re definitely expected to not go to class if we’re sick,” Sam said.
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The musical’s absence will be felt by the community, upperclassmen say, though it is unclear how many students still remember Billy on campus today. LSA senior Noor Khan watched Billy Magic when she first came to campus as a freshman three years ago. She said it is hard to think the past two years’ incoming freshmen have missed out on what was, for so many years, an instrumental part of orientation.
When asked about the policy in general, Broekhuizen said it aligns with University isolation guidelines. She said the University is encouraging faculty to be flexible with students who test
First-ever trip organized by Native American Student Association, Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs
I hope and want to make sure that we use those lessons to increase efficiency as well as improve the services that we provide to the students.
The trip, which took place in August, was sponsored by the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) and NASA, who hoped this would be the first of many trips to Indigenous communities. The trip took place Aug. 11 to 14 and allowed the participants to travel to various locations in northern Michigan where they visited native cultural sites, met with tribal elders and attended the 29th annual Odawa Homecoming Pow Wow — an annual celebration organized by the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians that takes place in Harbor Springs.
“The fact that the freshmen for the past two years haven’t had that experience is a little crazy to imagine because I feel like, as small and short as that clip was, it was definitely a part of Michigan culture,” Khan said.
a video about the transportation system, which he thinks might have been the Billy Magic video, but is not certain“Ididn’t go out of my way to look at what the University was saying about (campus transportation) because my solution for a lot of stuff has been literally looking on Reddit,” Kopicko said. “That’s where I got my informationUniversityfrom.”spokesman Rick
“It’s amazing that The Michigan Transportation Video, originally released in 2012, still has such a huge fan base among students,” Fitzgerald said. “We truly appreciate the love that everyone has for Billy Magic and all of those involved in theKopickovideo.” is not the only one to have sought external resources when attempting to navigate U-M busing. In 2021, Engineering sophomore Efe Akinci created an unofficial app, M-Bus, which tracks Michigan Blue Buses and lists expected arrival times. The app had 650 downloads after just one day on the Apple App Store.
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hard times for everyone and I hope that they don’t have to experience it again.Some of the goals I have just as a regent are, number one, to provide a world-class education to all of our students at an affordable rate. Now, affordability is different for every student. As you’ll notice, with our last budget that we approved, we had a tuition increase. But that tuition increase is really designed to make Michigan more affordable to everyone, whether it be to those who are fortunate to have a home with a high family income or those that are not. State government
Paul Brown: Going into fall semester, my number one goal is a safe and smooth entry for all the students, especially those who have had to experience some of the inconveniences of the COVID period. We may only have another year with them on campus, and we really want to make sure that experience is the full Michigan experience that we have to offer. I recognize those were really, really
Conti, the secretary of NASA, took part in planning the trip over the summer. She said her Native American roots stem from Oklahoma and that in Ohio, where she lives now, there is little Native American presence. Conti said the trip helped expose her to the culture of native tribes outside of the Cherokee.“Itwas really cool because I’m not associated with a Michigan tribe, so it’s really cool to learn some cultural facts about native tribes that are outside of your own,” Conti said. “It’s different because where I spent the last few years, there is not a very heavy Native American community presence. The Pow Wow we went to was huge, it was a huge community gathering. There was a very large Native presence.”
recorded classes, too … but this year they don’t even do that.”
Co-chair of NASA Zoi Crampton, Environment & Sustainability and Art & Design senior, said one of the main goals of the trip was to foster connections between U-M students and Indigenous communities. She said NASA membership has been steadily growing over the past couple of years, which hopefully represents an increased interest in Indigenous culture at the University.
Wilkerson said one of her favorite activities on the trip was a visit to the University’s Biological Station and the nearby Burt Lake Band property in Brutus, MI. There, students were able to engage with the Burt Lake Band tribe and visit a garden the tribe refers to as Izhi-Minoging Mashkikiwan, or the “Place Where Medicines Grow Well.” The garden, which includes a variety of symbolic plants used for medical and ceremonial purposes, was designed in part by past U-M students in collaboration with the tribe.
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Engineering junior Ethan Kopicko does not remember Billy Magic, though he would have included the Michigan Transportation Musical as part of his online orientation materials. He said he learned to navigate the University’s bus system through the third-party app, Reddit, instead of with Billy’s help. He said he watched
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None of those recommendations will be effective, though, if students believe they have to make a choice between their grades and their health, Sam said.
appearing in various memes, posts and accounts on social media, even dominating the splash screen of campus Facebook group UMich Memes for Wolverteens for a time.
Business junior Pari Patel said she does not see why the RIS policy was changed from last year’s while the University’s mandatory COVID-19 isolation policy remains in effect. She also emphasized that her professors are not recording classes this semester, potentially making it more difficult for students who are isolating to stay on top of their coursework.“Idothink there will be COVID outbreaks, so there should be separate absences in case you get sick,” Patel said. “Last year they
“NASA is really awesome because I am learning a lot about Native Americans in general,” Conti said. “I
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“I understand you’ll be fine if you only get COVID once, but then it’s so likely that someone might get COVID (again) or the flu or something crazy and miss two more classes,” Sam said.
don’t (usually) have the ability or the opportunity to sit in and have lunch with 20 or 30 other people who share some of my heritage. It’s amazing.”
The musical was written by Music, Theatre & Dance alumna Emily Lyon in 2012 through a student-run production company called Filmic. It is a PSA-style musical sharing tips and tricks for getting around campus with freshmen. The musical includes the U-M Blue Buses, the Ann Arbor public bus system known as “TheRide” (AATATA) and other safe transportation options for students.
MESAyear.” Program Manager Andrea Wilkerson also helped plan and attended the trip. Wilkerson, who identifies as Native American, graduated from the University in 2012 and was a part of NASA when she was an undergraduate. Though she started having conversations about the possibility of a Native American Student Trip in the fall of 2020, the planning process was put on hold during the pandemic. At the beginning of this past summer, NASA and MESA picked up right where they had left off and started coordinating the in-person trip once “(MESA)again.builds lots of relationships with student organizations like NASA,” Wilkerson said. “Being the (NASA) adviser and being in the (Indigenous) community (means) knowing some different experiences that students would be interested in and working closely with the NASA leadership over the last three years … (until) things became extraordinarily more safe to be able to make that trip out of town.”
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to campus health and safety measures. If students violate those measures and come to RIS classes sick, they may also face academic repercussions, according to their syllabi.“Your ability to participate in your courses in-person as well as your grade may be impacted by failure to comply with campus safety measures,” the syllabi reads.Sam said they are concerned the combination of these policies will lead Business students to not take COVID-19 tests if they have mild symptoms or have knowingly been exposed to the virus.
“I definitely think people are going to go to class with COVID,” Sam said. “When I told my friend I had COVID, she was like, ‘I’m just never going to take another COVID test.’”
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In the Fall 2020 semester, RIS students were allowed to attend class virtually without using up an absence if they were unable to come in person. That is not an option this year, as there is no way for students to join remotely.
“On a decentralized campus, there is of course variability between schools and colleges on how absences are discussed and handled,” Broekhuizen said. “Faculty are encouraged to be flexible in their expectations as community health conditions continue to evolve, particularly over the first few weeks of the semester.”Still,Sam said they are not confident they would be able to miss a RIS class again this semester without penalty. It’s a Catch-22 situation, though, Sam said, because their course syllabi also suggest they could be punished for coming to class in person if they are sick. In each of the individual syllabi for RIS courses, except for Business Communications, there is a shared “Health and Safety” section, which asks students to adhere
That’slisted.achange from last year, when RIS course syllabi specified that the three absence policy referred to absences for career recruiting, events and “non-COVID related illnesses.” According to the 2021 RIS syllabi, students with COVID-19 were asked to email RIS faculty to get their illness-related absences excused separately, which is no longer an option to students thisTheyear.change is leaving students like Sam who contracted COVID19 during the first week of classes concerned that their illness will
Beloved transportation musical removed from first-year orientation programming
Fitzgerald added that the orientation team collaborated with Logistics, Transportation & Parking on the orientation presentation this year to create a section that focuses on buses and other transportation options. The presentation includes information about the U-M Blue Bus system, TheRide and other on-demand transportation services such as SafeRide, according to Fitzgerald. It’s all of the same information, just without the “Magic.”Khan said she will not forget about Billy anytime soon. Almost ten years’ worth of U-M students will have graduated with the shared memory of Billy, ensuring that for them at least, he will remain a cornerstone of campus culture.
Billy Magic’s performance this year, the University provided her with QR codes for information about utilizing the Blue Bus system at orientation. She had never heard of Billy.“They just told us about the different apps and that was it,” Peek said. “They said ‘Download these two apps and you will find your way to the buses. It was short and sweet.”
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Students reflect on campus icon Billy Magic, bus system education
“Ross is definitely more strict than some other schools,” Sam said. “I don’t really see how it’s contributing to our education.”
According to LSA freshman Alyssa Peek, instead of watching
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When asked whether the Business School is at all concerned that the policy might encourage students to attend class in spite of illness or refrain from testing, Broekhuizen did not answer.
Though the RIS syllabus does not prohibit faculty from recording lectures, in emails obtained by The Daily from Business School faculty to COVID-positive students, 2022 RIS standards do not support sharing video lectures.
Herculean effort that he had to do to achieve that. I really think we have a good foundation and structures throughout the institution. I would say that because so much work has been done to build the structures, there wasn’t enough progress in creating diversity, whether it be the actual objective numbers that equal diversity in some metrics, or the actual climate on campus, and that’s understandable because it was just building it from the groundNow,up.what I’ve encouraged
Ask almost any student who attended the University of Michigan in the past decade to tell you about “Billy Magic,” and they will regale you with tales of their freshman orientation — of sitting in a stuffy assembly hall and watching “The Michigan Transportation Musical.”
But for the past two years, the video has been conspicuously missing from freshman orientation, leaving older students with one question: where did Billy Magic go?
When LSA sophomore Josie Conti first stepped foot onto the University of Michigan’s campus last fall, she immediately started looking for ways to connect with other Native American students, a group that makes up just 1% of the undergraduate population at the University as of fall 2021. Conti, who identifies as Cherokee, has since found a place in the Native American Student Association (NASA). This past summer, Conti and 14 other U-M students had the opportunity to connect with various Indigenous tribes in northern Michigan on the University’s first ever Native American Student Trip.
The video features a charismatic character named Billy Magic who embodies an unparalleled enthusiasm for mass transit and teaches his co-star “the Kid” about it. Billy has ascended to “memestatus” among students who watched the video at orientation,
positive for COVID-19 especially at the beginning of the year.
has obviously decreased its contribution percentage to higher education. It’s been left to the universities to redistribute that wealth. So it’s really important to me that we are disciplined in our cost structure and also progressive in our fee structure. I think we’re doing a very good job at achieving at least the latter.
“Billy Magic was kind of a symbol, a bit of an icon, that you experience during your freshman year,” Khan said. “I haven’t seen that video in three years, but I vividly remember it.”
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Fitzgerald wrote in an email to The Michigan Daily that Billy Magic was removed from this year’s orientation since the video includes outdated information from 2012 that may confuse incoming students. Still, Fitzgerald acknowledged the impact of the video and the historic role it has played in orientation.
The last time new students were introduced to Billy, however, was in the summer of 2020, though orientation was virtual. The video was not played at freshman orientation in 2021, and did not make a return this summer either.
When asked to clarify whether or not RIS faculty can record lectures for sick students this fall, University spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen did not answer.
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women in STEM deal with on a daily basis. Ironically, what started as a rant propelled her
I fit the stereotype of the nerdy teenager who condescendingly dismissed anyone’s attempt to discussWhensports.Istilllooked distastefully upon sports, I had moments where I started to realize the attraction of watching them. These moments occurred when I watched sports movies, stories often inspired by Hazelwood’s
Bee encounters many of the struggles that women in STEM often face. Whether it’s dealing with mansplainers, sexist bosses or being straight up sabotaged, Bee goes through a lot while just trying to do her job. Worse still, her ideas aren’t taken seriously unless one of her male colleagues
While Bee and Levi both have successful careers in their respective fields and are paired together on an equal playing field, the characters in “The Love Hypothesis” had a more conflicting relationship as teacher and student. Beyond that, the characters in “Love on the Brain” have more to offer than their brains or their … well, if you’ve read the books, you know. Bee may be an insanely smart neuroscientist, but it’s her infatuation with “Love Island” and her downloading of Couch to 5K apps she hardly ever uses that makes her so much more relatable.Inthefirst chapter, we learn that Bee’s also faced a lot of hardship in her life. As a kid she moved around constantly; she’s been struggling to
move forward professionally; she was engaged but called it off after finding out her fiancé slept with her best friend. Having poured so much of herself into her career, Bee is left to wonder who she’d be without it. Levi, in contrast, is more than your run-of-the-mill tall, dark, handsome stranger. He’s on Bee’s side whenever something goes wrong, he notices even the smallest things about her and he never tires of telling her how he feels. Also, he goes to therapy.
EnoughHavingsaid.aPhD in neuroscience herself, Hazelwood knows exactly what she’s writing about — both the good and the bad of the field. She masterfully raises important questions about gender disparity in the sciences without the story coming across as “preachy.”
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“Love on the Brain” follows Bee Königswasser, a neuroscientist who has just been offered a dream career opportunity: working for NASA on a special mission. Life in academia is unpredictable (particularly when it comes to job security), so Bee needs everything to go well, but right away she has her work cut out for her. The equipment she needs isn’t ready. She doesn’t have the right credentials to get into her building. But worst of all, her co-leader on the project is Levi Ward, her hot but sworn enemy from grad school … or so she thinks.
Sports have surrounded me throughout my life. Every year, my parents drove me to a new team event, trying to see if I preferred baseball or soccer, if I was better at tennis or basketball. My dad spent hours watching games on the weekend, talking to my older brothers about sports news so often I don’t remember them talking about much else. I enjoyed growing up outside and playing games with friends, but the obsession with following sports never clicked for me like it did for my brothers and friends.
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repeats them in his own words — a phenomenon she refers to as “Sausage Referencing.”
How does Bee deal with it all? Her Twitter account, “What
I didn’t understand why people would watch strangers play games they often didn’t play themselves.
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Given the success of Hazelwood’s debut “The Love Hypothesis,” it’s no surprise that
The best kinds of romance novels will do more than give you butterflies in your stomach. You might cry or scream into your pillow, or in the case of Ali Hazelwood’s newest release “Love on the Brain,” you might walk away feeling smarter after reading.
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Would Marie Do,” inspired by her idol Marie Curie, is Bee’s safe space where she shares her and her female coworkers’ experiences to highlight the harassment that
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this new “STEM-inist romcom” was one of the more anticipated romance books of 2022. At first glance, the two stories are similar — intelligent but struggling scientists, tall love interests that “hate” their heroine and plenty of Star Wars references — but their differences surpass a simple change in trope.
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Elrond illustrates the implications of a significant difference between the different races of Middleearth: life span. Although Dwarves may live for centuries longer than humans, Elves are even more invulnerable to the toll of time. 20 years is the blink of an eye for Elrond, but Durin has lived a life all without a dear friend paying him any mind. The longevity of the Elves has been commented on in the past, but the personal and quite substantial implications such a difference entails were never properly examined. “The Rings of Power” remedies that by offering a heartfelt and fresh look into the dynamics of such interracial differences.
After all, his novels in the 800page range like “Under the Dome” and “11/22/63” rely on incredibly intricate world-building of places
Twenty-one years after the release of “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” and eight years after the conclusion of the prequel trilogy, “The Hobbit,” Prime Video takes on the franchise to deliver another adventure into Middle-earth with “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” This pre-prequel series takes place long before Mr. Frodo took the scenic route to Mordor — 5,000 years in the past, in the Second Age of Middle-earth.
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the relative mundanity of Sentry, Ill. leaves you only 400 or so pages to spend in the land of Empis, the alternate world that lies at the bottom of a winding set of stone steps inside that weird shed in Mr. Bowditch’s yard. As soon as we enter Empis with Charlie, you can’t help but wonder why on Earth (get it?) we spent so much time in Illinois when there was a world with giants, talking crickets, curses, reanimated
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Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi, “Bombshell”). Together they discover the first hints of Sauron’s plannedHundredsreturn.of miles away, the Harfoots — little forest and fielddwelling creatures — return our beloved hobbits to the screen, with the rambunctious Nori (Markella Kavenagh, “My First Summer”) taking a page out of Bilbo’s book by
Mr. Bowditch recovers from his lifethreatening injury, Charlie takes care of him and his increasingly arthritic dog. Mr. Bowditch has a weird backyard shed and an even weirder amount of solid gold pellets, but Charlie takes this all in stride.
thousand with his longer novels like “The Stand” and “It”), and this heartwarming story — boy, dog, old man — is only the first 200. Past those first couple hundred pages (if you get that far), the story starts to more closely resemble the strange and horrific worlds King is famous for.It takes King a long time to actually get to the meat of the story. Two hundred pages with
J.R.R. Tolkien’s work is often invested in the spectacular: magical adventures focused on the grand and dire. While the show most assuredly offers adventure, it is also concerned with the more intimate and personal side of Middle-earth and its many creatures. Durin’s conflict with
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For fans more interested in the world-building and the rich lore of Tolkien’s work, “The Rings of Power” has plenty to offer as it gives us a look into the famed glory of old Middle-earth. With incredible depictions of ancient Elven cities styled after the likes of Rivendell and the strength and beauty of Kazan-dum (that sharp-eared fans may recall Gimli assured the Fellowship of in “LOTR”), “The Rings of Power” is a visual masterpiece.
Stephen King’s newest novel, “Fairy Tale,” follows a teenage boy from Illinois named Charlie Reade who saves an old man’s life. The old man, a stranger named Mr. Bowditch, has an aging dog named Radar, whom Charlie immediately and irrevocably falls in love with. As
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With its first season airing in 2018, “I Am a Killer” takes a straightforward approach to covering the beloved genre of true crime. The documentary features interviews with inmates serving time on death row and in maximum security prisons. The inmates share information about themselves and their accounts of the murders they were convicted of. “I Am a Killer” pairs these accounts with interviews with the inmates’ families, the families of the victims, the law enforcement involved in the case and supplemental information such as crime scene shots and 911 calls. The latest season features six such cases. While nothing in the documentary is explicitly graphic, the no-frills accounts of the inmates’ backgrounds and the crimes they committed make for a harrowing watch.
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Of course, this is King we’re talking about. “Fairy Tale” clocks in at a whopping 607 pages (not surprising for fans of King, who are used to page counts of over a
The show introduces a new palette of characters but brings
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skeletons, two moons and magical butterflies lurking just beneath our feet. King is famous for taking his time when it comes to world- and character-building in his novels, so the beginning of “Fairy Tale” being somewhat normal isn’t surprising.
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While “I Am a Killer” allows convicted inmates to discuss their crimes, it does not absolve them of wrongdoing. Instead, the evidence presented is meant to provoke reflection from the viewers. Depending on the circumstances of the case, each episode opens with a different statistic regarding crime in the United States. The first episode
recognizable to us — just familiar enough that King can then make them feel wrong. But spending a third of the book recounting a world that looks just like ours leaves the world of Empis — one we as readers are ostensibly much more interested in — feeling less fleshed out.
The magic of Stephen King’s ‘Fairy Tale’ is there — but is lessened by its pacing and ableism
back some familiar faces to connect “The Rings of Power” to the original trilogy. Among the new characters is Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova, “The Undoing”), a classic Western sheriff type, who is an Elf soldier stationed on the outskirts of the land of Men with a forbidden love — a human healer
In this Middle-earth, all is quiet and well, yet storm clouds loom in the distance. The Elves are at the height of their power and splendor, enjoying the supposed end of a centuries-long war against the forces of evil. Sauron (yes, the big fiery eye — but this time in human form) remains the enemy in power but is forced into hiding where some believe he is conniving to strike again when the forces of light are least expecting it. Something is brewing in Middle-earth — yet many choose to look the other way.
getting in over her head as she deals with the arrival of the Stranger (Daniel Weyman, “The North Water”). The likes of Galadriel (Morfydd Clark, “Saint Maud”) and Elrond (Robert Aramayo, “Behind Her Eyes”) are reprised as daring younger versions of their regal counterparts in “The Lord of the Rings” (LOTR). Despite the
widespread belief that Sauron’s reign of terror is over, Galadriel, commander of the Elven Northern Armies, remains vigilant, relentlessly pursuing Sauron to the far-reaching corners of Middle-earth, searching for a hint of his return. Elrond, on the other hand, remains his wise and clever self as he is tasked with aiding the Elven master smith Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards, “The Crown”) with the construction of a forge like no other with “a flame as hot as a dragon’s tongue and as pure as starlight.” Elrond’s task leads us to a place that we have seen before, but in a much different fashion: Kazad-dum, known in the original trilogy as the long-abandoned Mines of Moria. Here we are introduced to the Dwarf Prince Durin (Owain Arthur, “The One and Only Ivan”) who, after Elrond missed his wedding and the birth of his two children over the last 20 years, is vexed with the elf.
of the third season, “A Question of Loyalty,” opens with the statistic that while 8,000 people are convicted of murder every year in the United States, fewer than half actually confess to their crime. The second episode, “Someone Else,” tells us that of the more than 135,000 people incarcerated for murder in the United States, over 25% have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness. Statistics like these in conjunction with the various differing accounts presented in the documentary cause viewers to think hard about the reality of our justice system. How many inmates in maximum security prisons actually deserve to be there? Even though we hear Victoria Smith, the inmate featured in episode one, say, “I just killed my husband,” can we believe that’s the truth? On the other hand, interviews with loved ones of the victims and detectives involved in the case paint a truly gut-wrenching portrait of families suddenly torn apart by violent crime. In either case, no matter the inmate’s story, “I Am a Killer” tells us that the consequence of their actions is always the same: the death of a humanDespitebeing.the clickbait-y title, “I Am a Killer” forgoes the sensationalism of murder in favor of a careful examination of each individual case and its relation to the justice system. With painstaking detail, the documentary interviews those on all sides of every case, curating an objective view of each inmate’s story, yet pushing us to think more about the nuances surrounding everyone’s account.
What makes a murderer? When you try to imagine someone who’s taken another person’s life, what kind of person comes to mind? Are they merciless and cold, or are they remorseful and misunderstood? It’s these questions that Netflix’s “I Am a Killer” invites in its third season.
(insert season/year here)” and “What The Internet Did/The Bizarre Modern Reality” — the aforementioned breakdowns of those titans of art.
Walsh commonly writes about his deepest interests: anime, manga, video games, horror, genuinely epic (in the Greek literature sense) events from the world of martial arts and breakdowns of what modern society and the internet have done to media mammoths such as “The Simpsons,” “Sonic the Hedgehog” and “Garfield.” These topics are sorted into a wide variety of series (though not so much in his playlists, which is why I’m linking mostly example videos) on his channel: his most common being “Why You Should Read/Watch/Play:(insert media here),” “My Favorite Things
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history is nothing if not a compilation of my favorite genre: enemies to lovers.
In fact, what I enjoy most about “Mo” is that the show never fails to make an Arab viewer feel like they’re somehow in on the joke, not bothering to stop and explain to a presumably non-Arab audience. It’s all in the details, like how Mo constantly carries around a pocket-sized bottle of authentic Middle Eastern olive oil the way some people do Tabasco sauce. Or how he takes off his shoes when he enters someone’s home or a place of worship. Or the way people presume he’s Mexican, or that the “Palestine” he’s referring to is the city in Texas a few hours away, which Mo quips is “a real branding problem.” In one scene, he gets visibly upset upon seeing “chocolate dessert hummus,” an abomination that takes cultural appropriation to unforeseen
My father, an immigrant to the United States, was now working for the United States’s Center for Disease Control
Enemies to lovers.
I am not my ancestors’ wildest dreams,Iama product of conquest.
In its second half, the show tends to fall a bit flat narratively as it unnecessarily raises the stakes. With the constant threat of deportation looming over him, Mo’s life already feels like an overworked pressure-cooker,
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unfinished manga “Berserk” by the late Kentaro Miura. For one of the first times in my life, I found myself able to feel so strongly about something not exceptionally sad that I would weep. I found myself inspired to do the Supersame.Eyepatch Wolf’s style is one that I realize I have been unconsciously emulating, and while writing this, I feel imprisoned by my inspiration from him. I’ve based this piece on his video structure, I’ve written so many video essay drafts and can visualize the edits I would make in my head all in his style, and while that structure can be comforting, it can still feel like a confinement.
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the Lovecraftian horror of “Garfield” fan-creations.
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Wallah, bro, ‘Mo’ is modern-day Muslim-Arab American realness
Iconic manga authors might never see Walsh’s videos, but a creator that engages with the
Except,himself.Idon’t think I should.
In this intersection of nerd culture and academic analysis, I never expected to feel any kind of emotion from it. However, this resonance comes from a fundamental truth that Super Eyepatch Wolf weaves into all of his videos — that every piece of art is ultimately the communication of emotion from the creator to the interpreter, which Wolf then filters through his lens and experience to transform a view on the piece to make us empathize both with the author and essayist. He gets very personal in a lot of videos, but it’s never just some random placement of pathos. Rather, what he references is meant to enhance the analysis of the art and to empathize with the authors that impacted him: interjecting his own experiences with self-identity in the context of “Undertale” and its creator Toby Fox, his existential crises when viewing “Garfield” as a cultural behemoth that has long eclipsed his creator Jim Davis and the infinite struggle for finding happiness in the forever-
films and shows, it hasn’t really been done before. For once, Arabs aren’t the butt of the joke: Instead, the way that the world blatantly misperceives and disregards us is.
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Within the first two minutes of “Mo,” our titular character has hopped from Spanish to English to Arabic in the span of one scene. Such is the pace of the show, and the life of Mo Najjar — loosely based on star Mohammed Amer (“Ramy”) himself — who seems to be constantly experiencing one life speed bump after the next. After performing stand-up for over two decades, with many a Netflix comedy special of his own, Amer’s “Mo” is a refreshing addition to the “stand-up comedian to self-titled comedy series” pipeline, which hasn’t really been all that fresh since the days of sitcom classics like “Seinfeld” or “Everybody Loves Raymond.” Co-created by Ramy Youssef (“Ramy”), that other Arab comedian your white friends might have heard of, “Mo” tackles the complexities of navigating life
When I first found YouTube video essayist Super Eyepatch Wolf in the winter of 2020, I teared up a little at the first video I viewed, watched a few more that aligned with my interests and then moved on to other YouTubers. However, they just didn’t seem to have the same spark as this first video essayist, and so I returned and watched every piece of content he put out, staying updated for more. Then again, as I went back through every single one of his videos in research for this piece, I realized that one of my favorite content creators had cursed me. So please, put on an ambient track, prepare yourself for us getting personal and listen to what Super Eyepatch Wolf did to myJohnwriting.Walsh, the man behind Super Eyepatch Wolf, is not a furry — though he doesn’t resent the question or the community — he just thinks D-Dog from “Metal Gear Solid V” is badass.
heights and has plagued American grocery stores everywhere (Trader Joe’s, you will pay for your crimes). It’s the way that on numerous occasions, his mom (Farah Bsieso, “Daughters of Abdul-Rahman”) becomes every Arab mom I know and randomly starts speaking in Arabic when she’s around white people and doesn’t want them to understand. And although the subtitles translate all of the Arabic dialogue into English, there’s an inherent cultural context that makes the tone of an exasperated “astaghfirullah” or a perfectly timed “3anjad?” all the more hilarious.Asa comedy, “Mo” could have very well quit while it was ahead, with the well-constructed dialogue and self-aware jokes, but its story strives to go deeper than that. It tackles some serious subject matters, most of which are fairly taboo topics within the Arab community, or any community, such as addiction, trauma, mental
in America as a Muslim, an Arab and a refugee with an insightful story and plenty of self-deprecating laughs to go around.
Centered around its self-titled protagonist, Mo is a Palestinian refugee living in Houston, Texas, who’s currently juggling two cultures, three languages and a side hustle as he and his family seek asylum and citizenship in America.Even on the relatively small spectrum of Arab-American representation in mainstream Western media, “Mo” could not be more different from its privileged, millennial cousin “Ramy” — which makes sense, as it is wholly unrealistic for a single show, or even two shows, to be in any way representative of the experiences of Arab and Muslim Americans as a whole. And yet, the niche of Arabic culture that much of the show’s best comedic material resides in is so incredibly nice to see on screen, because aside from a small ring of
health and therapy. The layers of guilt surrounding his father’s death, as well as the Najjar family’s disheartening journey to receiving asylum, take a heavy toll on an otherwise brightly easygoing, “life of the party” Mo. These emotional undercurrents shine through in episode three, when he discovers some unsettling information about his father, as well as in episode five, in which Mo rekindles a taut relationship with his estranged sister Nadia (Cherien Dabis, “May in the Summer”). His family and friends try to keep him grounded and afloat, yet there remains that pesky awareness tugging the threads of his life loose, always looking over his shoulder for the day when it’ll all fall apart.
Years later, I arrived at the Maputo International Airport reading in big red letters, “Bem Vindo A Moçambique” (Welcome to Mozambique).
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In watching so many of Walsh’s videos and podcast appearances that his lovely Irish accent now voices my inner monologue, I stumbled upon him explaining that the concept of him being picked apart by strangers on the internet is terrifying to him, as it should be to anyone. I don’t think I can — and I won’t — say anything about Walsh that he doesn’t already know about himself.
I am an unexpected consequence of the Portuguese empire who is now studying the Portuguese empire.
colliding.Thefirst western power to land on the coast of Nigeria was theAtPortuguese.thestartof the slave trade, the Portuguese arrived at the shores of West Africa unable to communicate.Theyspoke their language slowly and after a while, Nigerian marketers and townspeople began to pick it up.
The residue scraped off the bottom of the pot consists of lost language lost familiesculturebroken apart sleepless nights and racial prejudice.
Then, when the British arrived,mypeople began to speak an English mixed with Portuguese Hence the word “pidgin” was coined from the Portuguese word “pequeno,” meaning small.
The United States has always been affectionately labeled a melting pot, yet we tend to forget what is burned at the bottom.
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I am not my ancestors’ wildest dreams,Iama product of conquest.
I was hooked on the premise of two seemingly opposite beings
From Mansa Musa to Ketanji Brown Jackson,
A history full of enemies to lovers.
He has two very central interests, the first being the impact of formative media — art that influences one’s identity. The second is the power of long-term storytelling, like the decades put into professional wrestling, “One Piece” or the forever-unfinished “Berserk.”
Nigerian Pidgin English became a language of resistance andthatanti-colonialism3.5million Nigerians speakincludingdaily my household.
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in a country plagued by the same colonial disease of his own homeland.There,in Mozambique, it was at a college fair where I met a recruiter from the University of Michigan.
interpretations of his identity on the internet might see this piece. He’s a figure now so prolific that his channel was analyzed for a Rutgers graduate thesis. It’s worth focusing on how Walsh handles this inevitable scrutiny of being on the internet — in his years of being a YouTuber, he has compartmentalized who he is, what work he has to put into the channel and what that work means to people. Rather than losing himself to a persona and burning out long-term like so many other YouTubers do, he modifies the amount of hours he works per week to keep the life of John Walsh and Super Eyepatch Wolf separate. It’s something to be commended, especially in his transparency of how YouTube fame actually makes him feel. So, to talk about this channel’s impact on me, I’ll talk about more Wolf than Walsh.
always on the verge of exploding, which makes the inclusion of action-packed, high-intensity scenes, like Mo accidentally crossing the border to Mexico or getting stuck transporting a bag filled with drugs, all the more superfluous. It’s a little disappointing to watch the show sporadically rely on these cheaply exciting blips to up the ante of the plot. It only further destabilizes the tenuous ground Mo walks on and threatens to overtake the more intimate moments throughout the season.Narratively, “Mo” is not without its faults, and it’s by no means the most well-written comedy series I have ever seen. But it works, in its own way, on a profoundly emotional and genuinely comedic level to portray the complexities of one person’s semi-autobiographical story and in the process, the far too common experiences of displacement of millions of refugees.
His videos are edited with the perfect blend of smooth narration and occasional comedic breaks, with the perfect sound setting to enhance each part, voicing his thoughts in a light Irish accent that gives his work the ethos of a nature documentary narrator as he does incredibly deep dives into so many subjects. However, as deep as Walsh’s rabbit holes go, he always finds some meaning in the madness. He imparts it to the viewer before telling them to take care of themselves and that he’ll see them next time. These seem like simple structures to follow, but several details make Walsh stand out to me: his innovations, skillful editing, emotional resonance, examinations of authorial intent and intense attention to his subjects.Incontrast to the edgy YouTube alt-right pipeline (and adjacent) content I think I and a lot of other teenagers on the Internet were unfortunately exposed to, Walsh is a breath of fresh air, especially in the anime community. He has discussed at length how he wants his channel to be a safe space from the bigotry that pervades so much of the Internet and is conscious of his identity as a cis white
This fascination was not limited to novels or to my childhood,from“Pride and Prejudice” to the movie “Clueless,”
I discovered Super Eyepatch Wolf’s channel at a dark time in my life — both literal and figurative. It was a winter night in my room, only illuminated by the glow of my monitor and my lamp. It was another night I spent killing time playing video games and simultaneously watching videos in an attempt to overstimulate myself out of the emptiness quarantine filled me with. I found a dissection of the frenetic fandom growth of one of my favorite games — “Undertale.” After its 40-minute runtime, I found myself sobbing, something that I absolutely wasn’t expecting from a random video essayist. I found myself having similar reactions to new videos and rewatches, including his explanations on professional wrestling heels, his beloved but admittedly very-weird manga “Gantz” and a deep dive into
When I look at Super Eyepatch Wolf’s catalog of videos working off of existing art, I see that same struggle — something he’s even voiced explicitly. However, I think one can find salvation in that struggle. While Super Eyepatch Wolf’s videos have now become transformative to what they analyze, it was only ever because he wanted to innovate.
Enemies to lovers — a popular trope in romantic fiction where two characters who have a long history of conflict with each other clash into love in a way that my twelve-year-old mind found to be absolutely captivating:Thedimwitted jock and the brainy girl who spent all her time in the Twolibraryfeuding coworkers
I write poems and I write songs in a language that was forced upon my people.
I am a university student in a land which my brothers and sisters were forced upon.
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man in that role. In addition, he does the work to contribute to other creators’ videos on progressive discourse, such as F.D Signifier’s “Dissecting the Manosphere.” However, perhaps the most iconic and indicative example was when Walsh found out part of his video was stolen by far-right Christian extremists and monetized without credit as part of a documentary on why anime is Satanic. He didn’t take much action against his work being stolen, but upon finding out the group was extremely homophobic and transphobic, live-streamed the entire documentary as a charity event to raise money for LGBTQ+ organizations. Walsh’s emotional intelligence is also illustrated by his analyses of the authors of the art his essays are on — whether it’s webcomic artist ONE’s determination reflected in the eponymous hero of “One Punch Man,” the evolution of Hirohiko Araki and his characters in the “Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure” series, or Yoshihiro Togashi’s frustrations with being a mangaka funneled into “Yu Yu Hakusho.” That being said, let’s take a closer look at Walsh
The Romeo and the Juliet
A beautiful story that still leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
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Now the tale of the first generation, the third culture kid, is not a new one — countless poems and songs have been written about this exact experience yet no two are the same.
As a child, I loved reading romance novels that were probably too mature for my young brain to consume but my favorite romantic cliché was enemies to lovers.
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When I started first grade, I became distinctly aware that I wasPart“different”.ofthis difference mani fested itself not only through my skin color but also through my hair, something the other first graders made sure that I knew.
“Your hair is so soft!” a peer would say, coming up from behind me to pat it gently with their two hands. Others would stick their fingers and pull on my strands, mouth agape in wonder when it would spring back to its perky glory.
The Hatred I used to hate myself. There are particular parts of ourselves that we feel disdain toward. The way your forehead creases when you smile, the stub born blackheads you can’t remove or the tiny bumps on the ridges of your teeth. We all have these dis likes, and we all have things we so desperately want to change. For me, I felt inner rage toward one thing:
To be honest, I never really thought of my hair when I was younger. As a rambunctious 4-year-old, the state of my hair was the least of my troubles. I was more concerned with having my daily dose of chocolate milk and weekly fix of PBS’s “Word Girl.”
“Please stop!” I wailed, salty tears streaming down the cor ners of my eyes and snot dribbling down my face.
“I don’t have to pay for parking downtown … parking (was) killing me,” said Currently,Yglesias.on-street parking rates run at $2.20 per hour Mon day through Saturday during day time hours, and parking structures charge $1.20. Given the incremen tal nature of these parking costs, every minute spent on campus counts for those commuting by car, and a sense of efficiency takes hold of one’s actions, limiting the possi bility for spontaneity.
“I’ll drive to the park-and-ride on Plymouth Road and then I’ll take the plus-40-minute bus to campus. That way I’ll (do) work on theLSAbus.”senior Casey Guilds simi larly utilizes their downtime on their morning commute. Although Guilds lives near downtown Ann Arbor and the U-M campus, they utilize the Ann Arbor Transpor tation Authority’s routes 4 and 25 traveling to and from their job as a lifeguard in Pittsfield Township, as they cannot drive due to a dis ability.“It’s good for me to relax,” Guilds said. “It’s nice to listen to a podcast episode and since the
“I was at home in Canton because I would be helping with (my mom’s) business … and it was just much cheaper commuting into U of M,” Oral said. “My freshman year I had a huge argument with my mom about whether or not I should live on campus and she won out because mom’s always right, youDespiteknow.”living in close quarters with his parents, Oral was still able to find his own independence as a new student. Banding with other commuting classmates, he car pooled with friends for the 25-min ute drive into Ann Arbor.
For a semester or year-long option, the U-M Logistics, Trans portation and Parking office markets the Student Orange and Student Yellow/After Hours park ing permits for undergraduate commuters, with a cost of $84 for the Student Orange and $237 for the Student Yellow per calendar year. However, only those with class standing of junior and above can purchase these permits. Addi tionally, the lots that are available to the permit-holders are located on the outskirts of campus and an extra bus ride is required to get to most academic buildings.
As I walked in with two puffs on either side of my head, my predominantly white peers were amazed at the fact that my strands seemed to defy gravity.
A Change
“For me, time is money. The more that I park downtown, the more I pay for parking and the more trips I make, (and) the more I have to spend on gas,” Galvez said. “Whether or not I spend that with friends or I spend it studying, since I only have so much time down town it’s something that I try to plan very wisely.”
When I was in my junior year of high school, I, like many in-state students, drove a couple of hours to Ann Arbor to take a tour of the University of Michigan. Sprinkled among other digestible one-liners about the school, our tour guide proclaimed that at the University, even “off-campus” housing was still essentially “on-campus.” To emphasize this, she pointed across South University Avenue, where just steps from the Diag sat high rise apartments and homes filled with students modeling how I could be living in a few years.
Deciding to Free the Frizz
LSA senior Jesus Galvez lived in an on-campus residence hall his freshman year before making the decision to move to Ypsilanti for the remainder of his saidtoandhavesolivewasfoundaablesocomeorhaveoftendegree.graduateunder“Myfamilydoesn’tthetimemoneytoseeme,Ihavetobetoaffordvehicle…IthatiteasiertoelsewherethatIcanavehiclecommutesee(them),”Galvez.Andwhen
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shuffled my way to the bathroom. My mother scrubbed the heavily viscous shampoo that smelled of mint, scratching her fingernails deeply in my scalp as the soap cascaded down my hair and into my eyes, temporarily blinding me. After, I sat between her legs as she tore the comb through my wet, thick hair, black clumps falling to the ground like snow. I heard the rips, tugs and snaps as my hair fell, my eyes beginning to gloss.
From the Civil Rights move ment in the 1960s to the enslave ment of Black individuals, our hair was a way to curate a sense of freedom during times when we were denied it. Black activists wore large afros to signify their march against inequality and enslaved people braided corn rows to act like maps so they could find their way to freedom.
And while oth ers would prance around my head and insert their fin gers into my mane, I
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as another cost-cutting measure. Yglesias praises his lack of parking costs by using the bus in combina tion with the free park-and-ride.
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gently through my curls to cre ate a fro. Instead of resentment, I found a sense of peace, of love and tranquility in doing my hair. I had finally grown to no longer hating myself. In fact, I began to love who I was, from head to toe.
Reflection
Faced with the one-two punch of both added cost and an addi tional leg of travel, none of the interviewed commuters opted to purchase any of the U-M permits, and instead devised their own adhoc methods.
We moved to the living room to finish the exhaustive process. There I sat, criss-crossed on the carpet floor with the hum of PBS Kids harmonizing with my heavy sniffles. As my mom twisted my hair and clipped little butterfly barrettes at the end, I began to experience the feelings of resent ment that came along with my hair. The uncomfortableness of wash days morphed from me hating the mere situation to me hating the cause of that situation — my identity.
Despite the apparent benefits of their moments in transit, many describe their bus commute as far from perfect. Guilds’ journey includes a 20-minute walk after the lengthy bus ride due to the relative lack of fixed route service southwest of I-94. TheRide does offer FlexRide on-demand service in the area, but it has limited hours of operation and no service on weekends.“There are some days where I wake up and my pain is really bad … and I’m really struggling to weigh the option of walking those 20 minutes,” Guilds said. “I could buy an Uber … (I have to decide) which one is more worth it, my body or myLSAmoney?”junior Justin Green also found difficulty in getting over the initial hurdle of deciphering Ann Arbor’s bus systems.
“(The buses) use … you could call them ‘code names’ for dif ferent places to go to. If you don’t know the acronyms and things like that, you’re gonna get your self lost” said Greencialonmajoringless,confusion.stopsandwithlearningaddedconstructionGreen.Downtowntothecurve,removedrelocatedcausingNeverthecommutbybusposesbenefitsthefinanfront,withcitingit
“My freshman year I would pick up one of my best friends and we would commute together so the car ride was really fun. It would be us just vibing the music … It was
Yet, it was special days known as “wash-days” on which I noticed how painful and exhaus tive the process of doing my hair could“Chinwe,be.
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Though there are many motiva tions to live off campus, many U-M undergraduates cite finances as the leading factor that puts them beyond Ann Arbor’s city limits.
route goes right to Meijer, I can do two trips in one: to work and also to do grocery shopping.”
My hair.
And depending on one’s meth od of transport, academic multi tasking is possible in addition to enjoying the social element of the commute. LSA senior Dante Ygle sias spends part of his multi-modal routine completing assignments when he doesn’t have to drive.
Yes, my hair was the reason I hated myself. When I was eleven years old, I looked in the mirror, and the nappy mess grew larger and uglier before my eyes. The tears that threatened to flood my eyes were met with an anger and infuriation that rose from the depths of my being. I tried to pin my kinky hair with clips so it could at least have the appearance of being longer than its shrunkenup state. I devised a concoction of thick hair butter, Eco Style gel and Cantu leave-in conditioner so my hair would fit the standards of being loosely curled. Yet, with out fail, it would bunch right back up in its undefined, frizzy, kinky, coily state. I loathed myself for being simply myself.
it’s time to do your hair!” my mother yelled, muffled by the sound of water running from the sink in large, steaming billows.Iwinced, already preparing myself for what was to come as I
The societal struggle with appearance is further compli cated by the fact that hair encom passes identity, expression and creativity. Within the Black com munity, hair can be one of the big gest ways we express ourselves, express our culture and connect with our roots. Barring us from wearing the hair on our heads is repulsive. To tell us to straighten our hair to be presentable, in order for us to move from assis tants to executives, in order for us to be treated with genuine dig nity, can never and will never be right.Hence, in March 2022, the House passed the CROWN Act, which prohibits race-based hair discrimination in both profes sional and educational opportu nities. Sponsored and drafted by California senator Holly Mitchell, a woman of Color, this act is one step forward in helping to dis band the prejudices assigned to POCs and African Americans. It is meant for that Black girl with the large afro who dreams of becom ing a doctor and the boy with the long locs who wants to become a chef. It is meant for the Black mother with cornrows who works double shifts at the hospital. It is meant for me: a Black 18-yearold who has strug gled with her identity and love of her hair since she
This is especially true within the workplace and educational systems. Coily hair and locs are still viewed as ‘unkempt’ and ‘unprofessional’ by many employers, which not only harms the individual, but also disre gards the deep history of Black hair. A study done by DOVE reported that 80% of Black women are likely to change their hair to another style to comply with social and academic pres sures. Another study done by the Perception Insti tute reported that
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The hatred of my hair
At its best, commuting is empowering, bringing indepen dence and freedom from constant university stressors. But at its worst, it’s isolating, time-consum ing and harmful to the academic and social relationships crucial to a conventional college experience.
is more expensive than 93% of areas nationally. Nevertheless, for many students still financially dependent on family members, the choice between a convenient loca tion and financial stability is not one at all –– especially given the University’s extraordinarily high median income among enrollees’ families. But for some, compro mises must be made, and home becomes a place far from Hatcher Graduate Library’s shadow.
began to envy my straight-haired classmates. After coming home, I would put a long black shirt over my head, imagining myself in an ideal world — a world where I had long straight hair, a world where I could move my hair freely like the girls who stuck their heads out car windows, a world where I could possibly love my curls.
The Beginning
The journey of self-love is never a consistent or finite one. The feeling that I had after my nana did my hair definitely did not continue for the rest of middle school and beyond. The social stigma surrounding Black hair and the topic of desirability, especially for dark skin women, still deeply affects me.
Over two years ago, I decided to twist my hair up and start my loc journey. Maybe it was the quarantine boredom, but more so it was the desire to have a lowmaintenance hairstyle that was also something I could achieve naturally.Thefirst few months are often referred to as the ‘ugly stage’ due to the abundance of frizz and matting that happens. Dur ing that stage, I wore a variety of headscarves and wraps to cover up the ‘madness’ that was on top of my head. However, during the summertime, my head began to sweat with the culmination of the heavy fabric and my thick hair. Unable to take any more per spiration, I decided to ditch the scarf and wear my hair out. A little bit above my ears, my locs stuck out in every direction, frizzy and short. Yet, in all that it was, I had grown to appreciate it, during both the good and bad hair days. For the frizz was truly — and authentically — myself. And for that, I learned to love it.
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honestly a good experience.”
Eventually moving into East Quad a mere two years later, I whole-heartedly bought into the tour guide’s characterization of student housing. Many off-campus residences were actually closer to classes in Mason Hall than my own on-campus dorm room. My second-year bedroom was only two blocks away from my first, and currently, my commute to class consists of a brisk 10 minute walk throughAlthoughKerrytown.theUniversity does not publish statistics on what per centage of students commute to Ann Arbor, the Office of Under graduate Admissions reports “just about all first-year students decide to live on campus.” How ever, catch-all statements such as these overlook those who don’t fit the University’s seemingly simple criteria, leading to broad and unin formed conversations about how some undergraduates live and work.What is objective is that the walkable convenience I, and many other students, enjoy comes at a cost. The Ann Arbor Metro area has the highest fair-market rent prices in Michigan and rent here
During her visit for the holi days when I was 12, my nana revealed she had recently discov ered the world of natural haircare and as a result, had her hair in beautiful twists. I was consumed by this new idea, spending my time reading and watching videos of Black individuals with afros, twists, locs and braids that had the same hair texture as mine. One day during the break, she gently combed my hair from ends to roots, lightly spritzing it with water.My hair seemed to be given new life; it was healthier, shinier and had movement. And as I con tinued to see others embracing their hair, wearing it freely with out hesitation, I began to do the same. The day after my nana twisted my hair, I took the twists out, raking my hands
when I was not in pain doing my hair back when I was a 4-yearold, I would still cry, because I thought I had to live in this real ity forever. For years, I thought that the frustrations that my hair had tortured me with were some type of However,curse. now I know this was entirely false — the prior hatred of my hair has led me to dive deeper into the stem of that hate. Was it really my hair that I hated? Or was it the fact that I felt abnormal and isolated in my predominantly white spaces? I have come to realize that the lat ter is the case and that the hatred of my outer appearance stemmed from an inner conflict of selfworth and validation. No, my hair wasn’t a curse but rather a gift; it has shown me that to love your self, you must first fully accept who you are.
one’s childhood home is relatively close by, that can be an appealing living option for some. LSA senior Buraq Oral opted to continue living with his parents in Canton after high school graduation.
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anxiety when it comes to dealing with their hair.
It felt nice. And my shoes were the first thing to go.
That was faith. And yes, in that moment, it was borne out of neces sity. I was 16, new to delinquency, awkward and terrified. And in that moment when I felt like I was careening, I needed something omniscient and omnipresent to center me. Even just for a morning.
my sister lived in Chicago and I had decided that she shouldn’t have nice things. I have a distinct memory of being 13 and watch ing Game Seven, half-dressed in hockey pads, standing outside of a locker room.
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But I don’t think the circum stances negate the belief. Because faith isn’t a static thing. I had it then, and I don’t know if I have it now. But I don’t think that either state of belief is permanent. I think this cycle of belief, skepticism and secularism applies even in a nondivine context.
*** I remember when I was 16, I got way too drunk for the first time. It was a day or two before New Year’s and my parents left me at home with my Grandpa because they deemed me “level-headed, intelligent and mature.” So being the “level-headed, intelligent and mature” child I was, I stole my Grandpa’s gin and took shot after shot with my friend Michael in a park play Michaelstructure.didn’thandle the gin well, and within the hour, he was vomiting everywhere. On my couch, on my floor, on me. It quick ly dawned on me that I was in way over my head. I could only sit in a rocking chair, hold back tears and let Michael sleep. I was convinced that he’d choke on his vomit and die if I let him out of my sight, and that it’d be my fault if he did. I finally walked him home at 5 a.m. because his family was leaving on a road trip, but of course his parents caught us because we were neither quiet nor particularly intelligent with our entry strategy.
He probably lamented the woes of his Philadelphia Phillies and I probably pretended like I knew what was going on in the Giants organization. I always liked talking about baseball, but I never quite had it in me to watch enough games to sound smart. I’d watch when the Giants were good, or when “Jeopardy!” wasn’t on, but rarely without some sort of prompting.In2016I had a personal connec tion to the World Series because I wanted the Cleveland Guardians to win. Not because I particularly liked Cleveland, but rather because
It was the bottom of the eighth — the Guardians were down two and the Cubs had their star closer, Aroldis Chapman, in. The game seemed all but over. There was a runner on second, and this real mediocre player was up to bat for the Guardians named Rajai Davis. He was a “journeyman” type who bounced around from team to team and never really stuck. He was having a bad series, and was not at all who Cleveland wanted at the plate. But there he was, playing out the moment we’d all dreamed about while playing catch in the driveway.Onthe seventh pitch of the at bat, he launched the ball to deep left where it snuck over the wall
and knocked the cameraman over — and I went insane.
out, I became acquainted with a new level of loneliness. I had friends in town, but my meal prep aration, my laundry, my living room television consumption — the little whims and activities that comprised my life — took place largely alone.
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I had never thought deeply about my gender before, but with a newfound awareness of the gen der system I lived in, I realized
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After church that morning, my Grandpa and I went to breakfast at a diner, and while I can’t tell you exactly what we talked about, if I had to bet I’d say he told me a brilliantly meandering life story before we talked about horse rac ing and baseball.
What is a man?
But aside from the half-baked devotions to God and baseball that were instilled in me throughout my upbringing, I’ve realized that these two things still occupy very similar spaces in my life. I go to mass, and the ballpark, maybe four times a year respectively — and usually with my grandpa. Half the time I get bored while I’m there and I don’t know whether I’ll carry on the practice in the future. I could retain a loose connection to both, or it could fade. But the moment someone mocks either institution, I get really defensive.
Walking freely
it make me feel lucky two years ago?
sure as hell like the ambiance of a ballpark.
way.
waxed and waned, my aversion to foot visibil ity only grew stronger, until even tually, the casual covering of feet became an undercurrent in my life: unheard, like the hum of an air conditioner I’d forgotten was running. Only with all the noise switched off and the housemates shuttled away was I finally made aware of how loud my fear had been.The day my roommates moved
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In many cases, I think faith embodies more than just the stated belief. Yes, there’s a holy book to follow, but I think the core tenet of belief is that there is an order and justice present in a seemingly cha otic life. And just because I don’t totally know if I believe that’s true doesn’t mean that I don’t envy that comfort, and dislike when it gets disrupted.Intheory, I’m a big fan of both God and the Giants, but the honest to God truth is that I don’t know if I believe in God, and I don’t know if I give a shit about baseball. But I like faith being an option, and I
The natural goings-on of the city block reach out to me – not just through droll sights of the determined pedestrians on fad ing crosswalks, through ringing sounds of the fresh construction on another high-rise, through unfriendly scents in a nearby pile of neglected compost, but most often, through solid feel of the steady earth beneath my feet. The day we started wearing shoes, humankind abandoned our fifth sense.Stepping gingerly down onto the sidewalk, I scan for broken
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I never thought that others might not. But suddenly, my edu cation forced me to think about the above considerations. For the last few weeks that semester, as I studied the history of sexuality, my gender and I were in a tug of war. I came to realize then that I’m not particularly interested in the expectations that come with being a “man,” spanning from closing off segments of my emo tional range to not being allowed to sit with my legs crossed. Fol lowing these expectations makes me less happy. Yet, it’s difficult not to observe them.
I think I was 17 when I came to the realization that my relation ships with God and Major League Baseball are very similar.
gentle. I’m fluid.” Surely we all must? Right?
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So I got back at about 6 a.m., cleaned up the vomit, and stared at the fan for two hours. I was still half-drunk and convinced that Michael’s parents would hate me. I knew that my parents would find out and presumably hate me. And frankly, I thought that I would hate me.But for some reason, I walked back downstairs about two hours later, and my Grandpa was awake.
Leaving my last “History of Sexuality” lecture, I pondered: What attaches me to this label of a “man?” Does it serve what I want from my life?
Aversion to bare feet has been a long-lasting cultural trend in America. In 1969, the town of Youngstown, Ohio made it illegal to walk barefoot downtown, an ordinance which was eventually declared unconstitutional. On the University of Michigan’s campus, some dreaded combination of Ann Arbor snows, OnlyFans jokes and blowback from vestigial hippie trends have rendered the exposed foot a subject of friendly ridicule.
And I’d try. I’ve always loved going to games. Whether it was the Giants, or their minor league affiliate, I could sit in a ballpark and watch a game any day. Enjoy ing early summer evenings with fresh air and Cracker Jacks, chant ing and heckling, and watching the truly bizarre intermission games involving golf, faux horse rac ing and children face planting, I’d feel contentment like I felt in that church.
Once my housemates leave for the summer, I stop wearing socks altogether.Thewood making up the floor of my front porch, paint long faded, turns slowly to compost day by day. The floor sits damp beneath my bare feet, and all around, Church Street recovers from a summer storm. There’s no damage to count, but remnants rise for the eager observer. The pavement remains slick and dark and the city sun hides behind a low-hanging mist. Residents peek shyly from their front doors, peer ing upward every few minutes, as if succumbing to a delayed bio logical instinct: lightning inspires fear. I watch two men unload sup plies from an unmarked white truck; they’ve patched the same twelve missing bricks in Weiser Hall for ages.
In that moment, baseball became everything it was cracked up to be. In the most exciting and suspenseful way, the underdog came up big when it mattered most.
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On most days, I feel like a man. That makes some sense, given I was socialized as one. I’ve often associated my manhood with soccer, a sport I’ve played since preschool. I loved the rhythm of the ball and foot, the hive mind of a team. I was always told that I was a fun player to watch, mov ing gracefully with the ball, like a dancer weaving through a crowd and discovering space. For most of my life, soccer ate up at least two hours of my day, five days a week. As the field dominated my time, so did its gender norms.
I thought to myself, “God this is incredible, I gotta watch more of this.” In that moment, baseball was a romantic and poetic thing that I knew I needed to love.
intense wave of tranquility. The sun was shining warmly through the stained glass, the priest was speaking on love and sin and I felt content.There’s this moment in Catholic mass after you receive communion when you kneel and pray. And as I knelt, I understood that my life would go on, long past the gin and vomit and parental retribution that I was sure I’d face. I under stood that the world would keep spinning, and that I’d be okay.
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glass. Shards of a long-discarded Budweiser bottle lie on my left. The newfound danger thrills, and I discover the safe path on my right. I traipse down the street, bound for Palmer Field, arches of my feet aching with every con tact to the pavement’s unforgiving flatness.Grass poses a new challenge. The squelch in the dirt screams, “you’ll have to shower immedi ately,” but I walk on anyway. The moisture reminds me of life, of hope, and just now, I realize I’ve been away from them too long. Once, in middle school, my brother remarked that I had “Hobbit feet,” and thus, an aver sion to exposing my bare feet was born.The comment wasn’t malicious or personal. His remark that day was merely the punctuation mark on a sentence that had already been written. Long gone were the days of absent-minded flip flop ping. I’d grown up, and the sub sequent loss of tactile sensation in my feet was a price I’d gladly pay for
I was half-born into both Catholicism and the San Francisco Giants because with each, only one parent really cared. My dad would lecture me about all the mediocre ballplayers from his heyday and my mom would take me to Catholic school every Sunday — the after math of this is that I can now name an equal number of saints and baseball players from the 1970s.
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Do I think the bill brings me luck
For example, I have a lucky five dollar bill tucked into the right side of my wallet behind a Walgreens receipt. I won it from a gas station lottery ticket I bought the night I turned 18, and when I walked out of the 7-11 that night, I was con vinced that I must be lucky. The bill must’ve been an omen of this, so I decided I’d keep whatever luck had stuck itself onto that bill, and tuck it into my back pocket.
I think I treat faith the same
I remember sitting in that pew, barely sober, and feeling an
I might have always been more conscious of its weight on me than my other cis male peers. Didn’t we all question why we have to deepen our voices when talking on the phone? Did no one else consider how the paleness of their skin allows their lips, a light but notable pink, to appear as if they were wearing lipstick and think about the sex appeal of their nar row hips? Did more than a few of us occasionally adopt hyperfemi nine behaviors when drunk? Hips swaying as I walk, thinking “I’m
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Yes. And I’m glad it was with me then, so I’ll keep it in my back pocket now.
Knowing nothing of the seven disastrous hours that had just occurred, he asked me something he always asks me: “Do you want to go to church?” And for the first time in a while, I said yes.
The spirit of a sports team is mostly one of hypermasculine comradery. These were boys I won state titles with. How could we not cling to a sense of fra ternity? Many of us did. But in eighth grade, this macho envi ronment also enabled one team mate to repeatedly tell me that I was a “faggot.” I remember how ostracized I felt, how quickly I had been degraded from being recognized as a teammate to being targeted with a slur.
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There were no spectators at home to comment, “Put those bad boys away” or “I see the dogs are out today” or even just “Woof.” In fact, I walked, shoe-free, straight out the front door to set my Nor folk Pine plant in the afternoon sun.In our little red house, other wise teeming with the quirks and every-day amusements of commu nal living, the unwritten addition of, “Those with bare feet will be mocked” never made much sense to me. It’s not unique to us, is it?
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Many camps are aware of the inequity, and offer scholarships and grants to families in need.
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In addition to getting the word out, the scholarships offered should be accessible to everyone. Many of the scholarships available now have time-consuming applications that often leave families feeling confused and hopeless. Simple scholarship applications that require only basic personal and financial information are most effective in matching families with the aid they need. FJC recently launched BunkConnect, a program that allows families to input only a small amount of information and be rewarded with a number of different Jewish camps that match their requests. More programs like this would lead to more families discovering aid opportunities they may not have even realized existed.Some would argue that Jewish overnight camp is a luxury, and that if you can’t afford it, there are numerous other ways to instill your child with a strong Jewish identity.
As the weather got warmer and the final days of school dragged on, talk of summer plans bounced around the classroom at remarkable speed. Many would spend the time off on family vacations. Others would be at home, spending time with friends and relatives. For me, however, the imminent arrival of summer could only mean one thing: it was time to go to Fromcamp.the ages of 7-17, I was lucky enough to spend my summers at Camp Ramah in Canada, a Jewish sleepaway camp tucked away in the Muskoka region of Ontario. My days were spent running free with friends, swimming in the lake and making life-long memories. The daily activities, however, were only the tip of the iceberg of what camp had to offer.
First-time camper incentive grants are available through One
Of course, there are a lot of ways we could do better by college students. Eliminating student debt altogether while also moving forward to include college in our national promise of free universal public education would make the most sense.
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The rising prices are no surprise.
Growing up, June was always a month of unbearable anticipation.
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due to something we’re not hearing enough about: the relationship between measures used to target inflation and increasing student debt.There’s no reason to go very deep into rampant inflation and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes in response. That discussion is happening literally everywhere else. What we do need to talk more about is the fact that these solutions have saddled college students with a disproportionate share of the harm caused by inflation. That’s because, when the Fed raises interest rates to slow inflation, the yield on 10-year Treasury bonds goes up. Basically, these rates are what the government pays out to people who invest in it — the returns on American debt. For college students, this is important because, since 2013, student loan rates have been tied to treasury bond rates. The cost of student loans is linked to the cost of federal debt. But there’s one important thing to notice: student loans tack on another 2.05% on top of the treasury bond rate. That’s right. Here in America, we charge our kids more to borrow money for schools than the lender pays out when it borrows money. We
For many — especially those covering the cost of a Jewish education during the school year — covering these exorbitant costs is simply unattainable. No amount of budgeting or saving can make something so expensive affordable. This leaves a large percentage of Jewish children unable to experience everything Jewish camp has to offer.
While participating in the fight songs in the Big House every Saturday and posting the occasional tweet does make a difference in the public perception of the Office of the President, structural change cannot come without trust. In the past, there has been a severe lack of faith in our leadership, but Ono can assuage this distrust by prioritizing the needs of students rather than those of his office. We expect for Ono to not only communicate with students but more broadly to reembody the aura of a trustworthy and thoughtful campus administrator. Renewing this belief in University officials
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This disgusting price gouging is another example of the ways current financial policies push off the cost of unsustainable capitalist growth on future generations. Young people did not cause the current rates of inflation, but they will be harder hit in the short term by a recession in response to interest hikes. In the long run, they will also be worse off if they have to take on costlier loans on their own futures to stabilize the economy. Perhaps the most obscene thing is, when inflation eventually does go down, rates on treasury bonds will too. But student rates are locked in. Today’s students will pay high rates on the loans they take out this year, no matter what the economy looks like when they graduate. Something has to be done.
For some, myself included, camp is a glimpse of Jewish culture they may not get to experience otherwise. Growing up in a household where synagogue was a once a year event, Friday nights were nothing out of the ordinary, and no one spoke a word of Hebrew, summer camp was like superglue — binding me to a strong Jewish identity I would carry with me into adulthood. At camp, I was proud to be a Jew.
Sleepaway camps are no longer just a few cabins by the lake, but instead high-end facilities decked out with the best, most expensive equipment — rock climbing walls, pools, water trampolines — all with a hefty price tag of their own. Not only that, but camp professionals are paid extremely well, with directors at non-profit camps having an average salary of $125,000 per year. For-profit camp directors can make even more. The financial burden is therefore left on the families who elect to send their children to these camps, but where does this leave low-income Jewish families?
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is the backbone by which change can happen, as trust permits open dialogues and a confidence in the authority figures that dictate so many important matters on campus.Santa Ono’s agreeableness distinguishes him from our last dormant and somewhat stiff president. A popular figure around his previous campuses, Ono has proved that he is capable of naturally engaging with the student body and the University as a whole. For instance, Ono has actively endorsed the University’s athletic department, and, during his time at the UC, he got into uniform and started practicing with the football team. He was also spotted at several Cincinnati games cheering for the team.On top of this school spirit, Ono is a talented cellist, having studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Maryland. At UBC, he was quite involved in the music department, and not just administratively. For example, he performed at a pop-up concert with several music students at a train station, which was a pleasant surprise for individuals boarding.Onois a well rounded individual to say the least, but what has he done in regards to the pressing issues many North American universities face? Well, for starters, he’s an active leader in the University Climate Change Coalition, an organization that’s dedicated to reducing carbon emissions and relying more on renewable sources of energy. Ono’s work at UBC showcases his passion for this, having worked to implement several decarbonization programs, such as the Bioenergy Research Demonstration Facility. Additionally, since 2007, UBC has reduced its GHG emissions by a resounding 30%. On historically unaddressed issues, such as mental health, Ono has voiced his concerns and taken important action at the UC. Following a suicide in 2016, Ono took immediate action by providing all UC students with free counseling sessions and promoting several fundraisers, such as the 1N5 — which seeks to fight the stigma associated with mental illness and provide resources for those in need of therapy. In a moment of vulnerability, he even spoke out about his struggle with mental health in an Enquirer interview, stating that he personally suffered
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As someone who teaches classes for incoming students, the fall is an exciting time. I get to watch all these beautiful humans explode into new things. There’s so much potential. As a first-generation student myself, I often find myself having conversations with other first-generation college students. Sometimes these are amazing, as I get to watch new students gape at all the possibilities in front of them. But often there is a hefty batch of nervousness, particularly around the amount of debt required to come to the University of Michigan. These students can expect to finish undergrad with tens of thousands of dollars in debt with sometimes quickly-compounding interest on top of that. Nationally, the burden of student debt is worse for firstgeneration students or those from lower/working-class or racially minoritized families.
In essence, when it comes to school pride and mild domestic liberalism, Ono seems to check off some boxes, but only if we blur over fundamental parts of his history. Compared to our last president, Ono definitely seems to have more of a face to him. However, when it comes to sexual assault culture, students cannot be wholly optimistic about the appointment of Ono.
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Happy Camper, a program funded by the Jewish Foundation for Camp, who also offer numerous other scholarships. Wildflower for Kids — an organization dedicated to helping children move through grief and loss — also uplifts the camp experience, offering scholarships to kids who have lost family members. However, these scholarships are often not near enough. Most consist of
“discounts” off tuition that barely make a dent in the thousands upon thousands of dollars camp demands.Sothe question remains — how can we make camp more affordable? Aside from investing in more generous scholarship opportunities, keeping the Jewish community informed on different available scholarships is incredibly important. The same way that college scholarship programs do outreach to inform prospective students of their scholarship opportunities, foundations like FJC should be reaching out in different communities in order to target individuals who would benefit most greatly from their scholarships, and who may not even be aware of the benefits of camp for their children.
expect to make some side cash from students going to school.
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Further,forward.Ono has spoken prolifically about his commitment to tackle sexual assault culture at UBC, going so far as to say that he had “the final word in terms of discipline in these kinds of cases.” He even promised to bring in and work with experts on how to address rape culture at UBC. Thus, considering his charisma and professional dexterity in handling a variety of pertinent and pervasive issues on college campuses, it seems that the Board of Regents was right in unanimously approving his appointment as the next University president.Unfortunately, a modest probing of Ono’s resumé does point to potentially troubling realities. During a period of his tenure at UBC, for instance, an ongoing investigation carried out by the United States Department of Education assessed several complaints pointed at Ono’s administration in regards to discriminatory practices that failed to properly respond to sexual violence incidents that it had awareness of. He was ultimately cleared of involvement in any discriminatory practices in the investigation.Thispotential dismissal of sexual violence extends past Ono’s time at UBC. With nearly 100 reports of sexual assault on the UC campus in 2015, this ultimately subjected students to a “sexually hostile environment,” a quote taken from a letter that the Department of Education sent to Ono. Given the University of Michigan’s historical failure to cohesively address sexual assault allegations,we are hopeful that the new president may offer more than just lip service when it comes to sexual assault culture.
search for a new University president has come to an end. Following the unpopular tenure of formerPresident Mark Schlissel and his termination by the Board of Regents, students and faculty alike questioned who would be next to take the job. This summer, after months of searching, the University hired Dr. Santa Ono, sitting president of University of British Columbia (UBC) and former president of University of Cincinnati (UC). Ono has not only been appointed to lead the University of Michigan onward, but has been chosen to revitalize and fortify the relationship between the University president and the student body. With the loss of trust that accompanied the previous administration, the reconstruction of this connection is essential in order to make institutional progress.Toknow the student population, you must interact with them. At Ono’s previous institutions, he found multiple ways to connect with students and make his presence known. Whether it be crowdsurfing at homecoming football games or effectively using social media platforms, Ono has taken initiative to meet with students rather than forcing them to come to him. This people-oriented, personable presence makes a difference: it allows for comfortable connections to be made between the president and students. We expect Ono to uphold this commitment to connecting with students just as closely in his new position.
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Shabbat — the Jewish day of rest — is also a central part of Jewish life at many camps, with normal activities coming to a halt each Friday as the camp gathers to celebrate the end of the week with songs and prayer.
In the early 20th century, these camps offered freedom for Jews to observe Jewish traditions at a time when many were facing pressure to assimilate. Since then, Jewish camps have multiplied across North America, with the Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) reporting over 150 different overnight camps in their 2021 Jewish Camp Census. These camps offer an enriching experience for Jewish children and young adults, immersing them in Jewish cultural and religious practices, while still offering them the authentic, fun camp experience.Jewishcamps vary widely in religiosity, serving all different sects of Judaism. For some, prayer is a part of the daily schedule, with services in the morning and evening. Hebrew may also be integrated into campers’ daily lives, with buildings and activities having Hebrew names, and staff and campers conversing in Hebrew whenever possible.
perspective. From the ages of 8-15, he attended Camp BarneyMedintz, located in Cleveland, Ga., and was able to gain an incredible sense of Jewish pride and community during his time as a camper. “Camp made being Jewish fun,” he said. “It made me want to carry it with me into the future.”Thevalue of the experience is undeniable, yet the picture is far
from perfect. For many Jews — low-income Jews in particular — Jewish summer camp is nothing but a pipe dream. Parents are expected to cough up a hefty amount for their child’s camp tuition, far more than many are able to afford. At a camp considered to be on the “inexpensive” end, a parent may be shelling out as much as $200 a day for their child, a number already far too high for many working class families. This is nothing, however, compared to the financial demand of other much pricier camps, where parents may find themselves dropping as much as $2000 a week on their child.
When it comes to exploring one’s developing sexuality, girl talk is essential for validation, whether you’re a teenager or an adult. Women and those who identify as feminine have to consider multiple facets that raise multiple questions: how am I supposed to act? What is the feminist thing to do? What do other women expect from me? What do men expect from me? What do I want to do? More often than not, we need help from peers, friends, mothers, sisters and others to find the answers.
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Today we live in a wearied America where tensions run high and trust in government runs low. With over three quarters of Americans convinced the country is headed in the wrong direction, the need for political stability is perhaps as high as it’s ever been. With inflation, the economy and poor leadership ranking among the top issues for Americans, conservative leadership is needed to balance out a progressive agenda that has achieved some success, but has largely gone unchecked with Democrats in complete control of the legislative and executive branches. Unfortunately, the Republican Party in its present form is ill-suited to meet this challenge and needs to change dramatically to once again become a constructive contributor to the two-party system.Upuntil the 2016 election cycle, the Republican Party prided itself on fighting for family values, public safety and a strong economy, but the last 6 years have seen the party’s leadership lose focus entirely.
In other words, if we hadn’t started transitioning to a greener economy when we did, many people who are working now and taking home a check would not be.
In addition to the dangerous election security narrative, Republicans have shifted to become more extreme on other issues like abortion. After the Dobbs decision this summer, the party’s leaders raced to implement stringent bans on abortion, with some GOP members even pushing for national legislation to prohibit all abortions through the Heartbeat Protection Act, introduced by U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa. Beyond national politicians, the GOP is being completely remade at the state and local level. In Michigan, Tudor Dixon, the GOP candidate for governor, has pushed the false election narrative and promises to prohibit abortion in all instances, including rape, if elected.
With all these extreme stances, the Republican Party is on the brink of falling into irrelevance and needs to immediately pivot to save itself from becoming a fringe organization. As anti-Trump Republicans in leadership thin out, however, the GOP is left with fewer and fewer examples of what a moderate agenda might look like. Luckily, an example of
so. Predicted to help lower greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 40% by 2030 — and 50% when coupled with the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of last year — it makes significant strides to curb the climate crisis. But let’s not forget about the economic benefits as well. At a time when many are feeling the pinch of inflation and rising gas prices, this legislation will bring welcome respite in the form of good jobs and savings on energy costs. The Inflation Reduction Act is a big win for the state of Michigan — a win that is only possible because of bold leadership and a strong call for change from millions of residents across our state.
One of the greatest benefits of girl talk is giving women (particularly younger women) an understanding of how to deal with men — specifically, how to approach sexual relationships with them. Because, frankly, the U.S. is failing at that. As of 2020, only 29 states and the District of
This quest for answers doesn’t come to an end with maturity. Girl talk is essential at a young age because that’s when our minds and identities are most vulnerable, and it is crucial that we develop an understanding of ourselves that is centered around self-love and
than those powered by internal combustion engines, helping keep the price to power a vehicle low. It’s why I championed bipartisan legislation to enhance EV charging infrastructure in our state. The energy equivalent right now to fully power an EV is the equivalent of paying $1.40 for a gallon of gas. And that’s with today’s rampant price gouging, with gas prices remaining stubbornly high. With advanced battery technology and wider EV adoption, that cost will only go down. The IRA, with rebates up to $7,500 toward the purchase of a new electric vehicle or up to $4,000 toward the purchase of a used electric vehicle for low and moderate-income families, helps to put the cost of an EV within reach for all Americans.
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acceptance. However, once you get older, a lot of things also get messier. Decades into a career you might find yourself still having to deal with male chauvinism in the workplace and figuring out how to balance your ambitions with your family. Because while we may be more empowered and independent than a century ago, our previous responsibilities still fall on us. We are still expected to be mothers – and present ones at that. Additionally, we are to be in charge of meals and décor and generally providing a happy home, even with a male partner at our side.Reconciling social expectations with our personal beliefs and desires is no simple task. We need to help each other answer questions like: “should I lose myself to my sexual desires if, come Monday, I’ll feel crappy if they haven’t texted me?” There’s a lot to unpack in this example alone. For instance, do you feel crappy because you honestly liked them? On the other hand, do you feel bad because you’re
Since Donald Trump left the White House, his power within the Republican Party has arguably increased. In the two years since his loss, he has used his influence to close ranks and fight back against those within the party who question his election narrative. His level of control has been stunning, with only two House Republicans who voted to impeach him advancing to their general elections.
write to you, the faithful, occasional and everywhere in between readers of The Michigan Daily, as the newly elected editor in chief of this publication. The details of this transition in leadership may seem pedantic, complicated and unnecessary to your engagement, but are nonetheless essential to maintaining transparency. We are a publication that has operated for over 130 years, providing an accurate and fair account of the news and issues of consequence while maintaining editorial independence and accountability to its readers. As such, this communication felt especially necessary.
Unfortunately, the previous editor in chief had to step away from The Daily for personal reasons after the end of the Winter 2022 semester. After they announced their resignation over the summer, I, as managing editor, stepped in as acting editor in chief in their absence. Following this, the appropriate steps were then taken, in accordance with the bylaws of our organization, to
Since taking office, Youngkin has aggressively cut regulations and red tape surrounding the creation of businesses, part of his goal to add 400,000 new jobs and 10,000 startups over his term. In addition, he has worked to cut taxes across the board, reducing taxes on veteran retirement pay, eliminating the grocery tax, reverting the gas tax hike and instituting the largest tax refund in Virginia history. With these popular policies, Youngkin has fortified Virginia’s economy and demonstrated the true power of classic conservative values.
If & when Joe Biden and Democratic leadership continue to lose support, Republicans have an opportunity to capitalize on their political weakness by retaking one or both houses of Congress. Even if the GOP succeeds in doing so with their current agenda, however, implementing the dangerous policies their platform proposes would further alienate the party from voters in future election cycles and fail to improve the lives of most Americans. With the right mix of policies, Republicans can remake their tarnished image and provide relief and stability for everyday Americans in a turbulent time.
from the pandemic was slow, Michigan’s clean energy sector grew by over 20% in the latter half of 2020, leading our state’s economic recovery. Additionally, the shift to hybrid and electric vehicles brought over 24,000 new jobs back to our state. In total, clean energy in Michigan accounts for over 100,000 jobs, with nearly 20% of those jobs being in rural communities, and that number is growing fast.
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Iknow what you’re thinking: the term “girl talk” reeks of uncomfortable, preadolescent years where your clothes fit differently every day and you’ve ruined one too many pairs of jeans when it was “that time of the month.”
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replicating antiquated notions about sex, that on Friday you claimed to have forgotten, that tell you you should care? Girl talk is the medium through which we get closer to answering all these questions. By sharing experiences and perspectives, women can help each other find the solution that best fits their desires and personalities. We can help each other avoid falling into the traps that our intrinsically sexist upbringing has laid out for us.
In Michigan, we innovate. From cars to medical equipment, aerospace manufacturing to defense vehicles, and even energy production, Michigan remains one of the top states in America for high-paying manufacturing jobs. In fact, nearly 20% of Michigan’s economy is based in manufacturing. That’s nearly $100 billion of economic output and over half a million jobs for ourOurstate.economy is as strong as it is because we don’t just look to the jobs of yesterday, we are retooling to compete in this global economy for the high-paying jobs of today and tomorrow. The pandemic hit everyone hard, but one major bright spot was our clean energy and transportation industry.
It’s time girl talk got the respect it deserves for encompassing one of the most pertinent conversations of the 21st century. Today, we are no longer confined to the cultures and societies we grew up in. Through social media, women are exposed to a vast array of ideals and beliefs on how to be true to ourselves — on what that truth even is! Girl talk is a bridge between theory and practice where we can be transparent and honest about the struggles of our womanhood.
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That brings us to the transformative climate, healthcare and economic investments made in the bipartisan Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which President Biden signed into law last month. The IRA will hasten the transition to a cleaner economy, creating scores of high-paying jobs across
or education, being a woman in a male-dominated world always is a challenge. Through girl talk, women get to feel empowered, confident and prepared to take on the world. Most of all, we don’t feelForalone.years, my best friend and I have relied on girl talk. When we were 14, we wondered what it said about us if we kissed two guys in one night. At 17, we tried to determine at what point in a relationship oral sex was socially accepted. Today, we try to balance our sexual desires with their very real consequences. In a world where feminine roles in society are constantly being re-evaluated, we are often unsure of how to behave. These conversations help to alleviate that uncertainty.
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a reformed GOP can be found in the policy proposals and governing styles of Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, both of whom have fought to maintain independence from Trump. If Republicans are serious about helping restore balance to a fractured political system, it’s paramount that leadership ditch Trump-era priorities and focus on the mainstream issues championed by Romney and Youngkin.Whilethe GOP has moved further to the right, Romney has been an outlier in continuing to push moderate policies that align with the family values he ran on in 2012. Most recently, he proposed a plan to send most parents up to $350 monthly per child. As opposed to the vitriolic proposals of many other Republicans, this policy would reach back to the roots of the GOP and help improve quality of life for many families. According to the Niskanen Center, Romney’s proposal would slash child poverty by approximately 12.6%, a tremendous boost to the working class Americans that Trump Republicans claim to fight for. In addition, it could provide couples with the support system they need to expand their family comfortably, without concerns about feeding and providing support for their children. Rather than forcing women to start families against their will through abortion restrictions, this policy would offer a healthy boost to the family values that Republicans have traditionally embodied.
having conversations between themselves under a male-imposed societal framework whose core belief is that the feminine experience is of little to no significance. Men were the bearers of the realm of importance: they held the keys to inclusion, respect and equality, and they weren’t about to include feeble-minded women in their scope.
technologies like solar panels and battery cells prompt innovation andCleanhiring.energy jobs already pay 25% more than the national median, putting more money into people’s pockets, and these jobs are far more likely to include health care and retirement benefits. Once more, the median wages in solar, wind and grid modernization are higher than jobs in coal, natural gas and petroleum fuels. All people — even those who do not work in the clean energy economy — will benefit greatly from this investment. More higher-paying jobs mean other companies wanting to compete and hire workers will need to pay more, raising wages across the board.
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Perhaps the most high-profile Republican to oppose him, U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., recently lost her primary by a colossal margin of over 37%
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Another example of a Republican bucking the trend of their party is Youngkin, whose economic policies helped Virginia make a strong
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pandemic recovery. While other Republicans have diverted their focus from economic reform, a large part of Youngkin’s agenda has centered around helping small businesses, promoting job creation and helping individuals weather economic hardship. With economic problems ranking as the top issue for Americans, Youngkin has advocated for measures that focus on household problems rather than ideological squabbles.
But perhaps even more importantly, the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) that the IRA has encouraged will lead to huge savings on a family’s daily commute. EVs cost less to power
Much of the commentary around the Inflation Reduction Act has focused on the significant impact that the legislation will have on our climate, and rightfully
Now, the party of Reagan and McCain has been overrun by conspiracy theorists, right-wing extremists and hate groups. With Joe Biden’s approval rating down nearly 10% since the start of his term, the GOP looked destined to achieve a tremendous midterm victory just a few months ago. As the party continues to devolve, however, they risk distancing themselves from everyday Americans and failing to take back the House and the Senate this November.
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And no wonder! Judging by its definition, the term sure seems like it was coined by a man. Girl talk (apparently) is “conversation between women or girls, typically about subjects considered to be uninteresting to or inappropriate for men.” How can we not cringe at the thought of having girl talk when its meaning conditions women to think of themselves as people with very little of significance to say to each other? Periods, bodies, feelings. These aren’t matters of importance! Not like drinking, sex and sports, anyways.Fordecades, women have been
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Michigan and helping households save on their energy bills, all while reducing toxic greenhouse gas emissions. The benefits to our state will be tremendous, as highlighted by the members of our statewide congressional delegation who lent their support to this landmark piece of legislation.Astudy commissioned by the BlueGreen Alliance estimates that the investments included in the IRA will create as many as 9 million jobs nationwide over the coming decade — all supported by strong labor and prevailing wage standards codified in the bill. Through record investments in green power sources such as wind and solar, the bill is projected to create 5 million jobs in the clean energy sector. The legislation is a particular boon to the manufacturing industry — a critical component of Michigan’s economy — as tax credits for the production of critical
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Therefore, throughout history, discourse between women has both been written off as trivial and has been silenced, sometimes brutally. In 1917, 33 women suffragists were beaten and tortured at a prison in Virginia for peacefully picketing outside the White House. Incumbent president Woodrow Wilson wrote to his daughter at the time that suffragists “seem bent on making their cause as obnoxious as possible.”So,ifnot about superficial, trivial matters, what constitutes girlGirltalk?talk is about sharing the female experience. Whether it be sex, identity, relationships, work
Columbia mandate sex education. 35 states require schools to stress abstinence in the case that sexual education is taught. Only 16 require instruction on condoms or contraception, and only nine require talking about consent.
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He was exactly what Michigan needed last year. He was reliable, safe, smart. He made the right decisions, and most importantly — he won football games.
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Kaepernick got the chance to showcase himself in prime time in a Monday Night Football show down against the Chicago Bears and thrived — throwing for 243 yards and two touchdowns. For Harbaugh, there was a little deja vu under the lights against Hawaii.
From the opening whistle, Michigan looked dynamic and con nected. An early string of passes led to a corner kick in the third minute, the first of five total corners for the Wolverines. A through ball in the 10th minute led to another chance in the box, and a one-two play in the 25th minute – one of many through out the game – facilitated the second
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Every time McCarthy stepped on the field Saturday night, cheers rang out in Michigan Sta dium, beckoning the former fivestar to dazzle with his legs or unleash his arm strength.
Enter McNamaraMcNamara.immediately made an impact, hand-delivering a 46-yard touchdown to thensophomore receiver Cornelius Johnson. It was the beginning of Michigan’s third-largest come back in program history, and McNamara was the orchestrator.
The equalizer came in the 77th minute when a collision between fifth-year goalkeeper Izzy Nino and an opposing player allowed the Buffaloes a penalty kick, which forward Civana Kuhlmann converted into a score.
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ther player had separated them selves through fall camp, and Harbaugh — always infatuated with competition — wanted to see it play out on the field.
Michigan had a few chances to take the lead in the final 13 minutes, the closest of which occurred with five minutes left on the clock. Junior defender Sarah Bridenstine crossed the ball to Woods in front of the goal, but Woods’ header soared just wide of the “It’snet.unfortunate to give away a PK,” Klein said. “But I thought … our ability to generate opportuni ties to give ourselves a chance was a great response by our girls.”
Nobody had a problem with McNamara then.
Corner qualms prove fatal in 2-1 loss at Louisville
From the start, it was appar ent that both teams were evenly matched. Entering halftime score less, the Wolverines had outshot the Cardinals 3-2, but they were out cornered, 2-0. This pattern contin ued into the second half, as corners ultimately proved to be Michigan’s downfall.“Wegot tons of opportunities at the last minute of the game,” Michigan coach Marcia Pankratz said. “And we have to capitalize and actually execute under pressure on those corners and score. And we failed to do that.”
It was a game where the expe rience and readiness of the two quarterbacks begged no ques tions, McNamara throwing for 383 yards and two touchdowns, his lone interception plucked right out of the hands of tight end Luke Schoonmaker. He was a positive in a game that caused the Wolverine faithful great distress, and McCarthy was the unready, mistake-prone freshman that cost them the game.
The Wolverines struck first with a goal from fifth-year forward Katie Anderson with two minutes left in the third quarter. But Louisville wasted no time, answering with a goal off a penalty corner deflection within a minute.
There was no such welcome for CadeWhenMcNamara.itwasthe senior quar terback’s turn to assume position under center, taking his right ful opportunity to prove himself — just as McCarthy did in Game One — the Big House sounded empty. That is, of course, until McNamara faltered. After taking a sack on third down of his first drive, boos rained down from the crowd.Itcame from the same people that shouted in jubilation, storm ing the field by his side, when McNamara led the Wolverines to a win over Ohio State last November — the first in a decade. The same people who serenaded
“We’ll start J.J. next week,” Har baugh said. “He’s earned that by performance, by merit.”
ple together, that rallied them to wins over rivals and to champi onship trophies. For a season, he was the guy.
withTheit.”Wolverines’ team chem istry showed on defense as well. Michigan’s defensive game plan centered around eliminating options in order to make Colo rado’s plays more predictable. By consistently tracking back and defending together as a whole team, the Wolverines accom plished that objective.
player during the insertion. Even with that advantage, Michigan couldn’t score in what was its most favorable chance of the quarter.Despite outshooting Louisville 11-6, the Wolverines couldn’t take advantage of their opportunities when it Headingmattered.intoconference play, it’s clear what Michigan needs to work on moving forward. The team struggled with corners in their previous game, too. But if the Wolverines can generate — and capitalize on — more penalty cor ners and prevent their opponents from getting as many good looks, the team will be in good hands. If not, Michigan is in for a dif ficult season.
As Klein acknowledged, nonconference is the time for that connection to progress.
Heading into this season, he deserved every chance to keep his job. And as far as everything out of camp — from Harbaugh, players, McNamara himself — he was making a legitimate case in practice to remain the starter, even being named one of the team’s five captains.
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McNamara’s leadership and poise as he led Michigan to its first out right Big Ten Championship since 2003. The same people who cele brated as the Wolverines claimed their first-ever College Football Playoff berth with McNamara underThiscenter.isnot the time to turn on McNamara, and it’s certainly no time to forget what he’s done for Michigan.First,let’s remember where McNamara’s story began. It was under the lights in Piscataway two years ago, playing a lowly 1-3 Rutgers team. It should’ve been a walk in the park game, in and out with a win. Instead, the Wolver ines found themselves in a 17-0 hole with then-starting quarter back Joe Milton floundering.
In spite of the recent QB competition, Cade McNamara has cemented himself in Michigan football history.
The difference in penalty corners proved critical in the No. 4 Michigan field hockey team’s loss to fifth-ranked Louisville.
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Whether a meme or a rally call, McNamara’s words after the game echoed through the Wol verines’
“I feel like the level of play I’m playing at is very high right now in terms of where I’ve been in my career,” McNamara said during fall camp. “I have gotten much better than I was this time last year or even at the end of the sea son last year. And I’ve recognized PHOTO/Daily
that and obviously, my team mates have as well.”
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Harbaugh has now had a taste of the College Football Playoff, and a quick assessment of the current college football landscape shows that his team this year has a pretty good shot to get back.
“I feel like ever since I met Cade, he’s been a leader,” senior defensive back Mike Sainristil said during fall camp. “In 2020, when he got the opportunity to help turn the Rutgers game around … I feel like from that point on guys just view Cade very differently.“Thisisour quarterback.”
With Farkas at the helm, the Michigan offense finished the game with 16 shots, seven of which were on target. The Buffaloes ended with 15 shots, three of which were on goal.A major chance for the Wolver ines to extend their lead came in the 59th minute, when junior forward Sammi Woods delivered a ball to Wolfe at the top of the 6-yard box. Wolfe failed to capitalize though, as her shot went just wide of the right post.Despite being unable to finish, the chance illustrated Michigan’s improved team connection; it was sparked by through balls and onetwo“Non-conferencepasses. is the time for building chemistry and building connection on and off the field,” Michigan coach Jen Klein said. “(It’s the time for) learning each other’s tendencies and really get ting into that good possession zone. I thought tonight we did quite well
McNamara was the man inside the locker room that brought peo
“Lily is a huge threat offensive ly,” Wolfe said. “She clearly scores many goals, she’s strong in tackles … she’s just the perfect attacking mid.”
It’s without an ounce of doubt that McCarthy is the best quar terback after two games, and he’s the right quarterback for Michi gan right now. But that wasn’t the case last season — that was McNamara.Sofeelfree to cheer on McCar thy, place the crown upon his head and hope he takes the Wol verines to the promised land. But don’t bash McNamara — and certainly don’t boo him. He was exactly what Michigan needed last season. And at one point, he was what you all wanted.
As the game remained tied for the first 10 minutes of the fourth quarter, it grew more physical. The teams traded green cards, but nei ther could capitalize when they
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were up a player. With four-and-a-half minutes left, the Cardinals were awarded two penalty corners, bringing their total up to seven on the game. On the second, a rifling shot found the back of the cage for what ultimate ly ended up being the difference maker.“You gotta execute a corner defense,” Pankratz said. “So we have to work on that this week.”
Up until Saturday’s press con ference following Michigan’s win over Hawaii, Harbaugh remained adamant that he had yet to name a starter. He was careful not to praise one player without complement ing the other; He mused about his biblical approach and reminded reporters that no one knew what the future held.
Michigan (4-2-1 overall) played to a 1-1 draw against the Buffaloes (5-0-2) in a balanced, aggressive match characterized by the Wolver ines’ strong team chemistry.
“This is a new team, we lost a lot of people last year and we have a lot up and coming, and I think this is one of the first games that we’ve put it together as a team.”
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pionship. But with McCarthy they can shatter right through it.
ning a Andchampionship.anationalchampionship is what Harbaugh craves more than anything.It’swhy he flirted with NFL openings, hoping to have another chance to pursue his dream of final ly hoisting a Lombardi. It’s why, when he ended up remaining at the helm in Ann Arbor, he declared winning a national championship would suffice just as much.
It feels like the moment that best epitomizes Cade McNamara — doubted, scrappy, but always a
But as the Wolverines head into their final game before Big Ten play, the time to finish developing that chemistry is running out.
Lest we forget the woes McCarthy faced last season. The then-freshman quarterback was prone to errant throws, poor deci sions and game-changing gaffes. It was McCarthy that faced the divisiveness of the Michigan fan base last season, being lambasted over his fumble and other near-
And fans of the Wolverines should be happy about that. One injury-inducing play could make McNamara QB1 once again, espe cially considering McCarthy’s propensity to draw contact while creating plays with his legs.
This time, though, Harbaugh didn’t have lengthy tribulations to help him dodge questions about naming a starter. It took him less than 30 seconds to prove his mind
It’s a situation Harbaugh is actu ally familiar with. In 2012, when he was head coach of the San Francis co 49ers, his team started 6-2 with Alex Smith at quarterback, who had led them to the NFC championship the year prior. But in Week 10, Har baugh gave the start to his upstart second year QB Colin Kaepernick, who possessed a dual threat ability that Smith just lacked.
On the first of the final three cor ners, a Louisville defender stepped over the line too quickly, which led to the Cardinals losing a defensive
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The Michigan football team’s quarterback competition has run its course, with sophomore J.J. McCarthy coming out the other side victorious. The decision was plain as day for Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, and the Wolverine faithful have patently anointed McCarthy Ann Arbor’s messiah.
was made up.
McCarthy carved up the Rain bow Warriors’ defense and left zero doubt that he should be the starting quarterback moving forward. He twirled in crisp passes, effortlessly moving the offense down the field
“I think our biggest strength today was just playing as a team,” senior forward Dani Wolfe said.
“It’s very similar,” Harbaugh said. “A lot like that Monday night game that Colin played against the Bears, that looked a lot like what J.J. was able to do out there tonight.”When Harbaugh did pivot to Kaepernick, he never looked back and the 49ers made a run all the way to the Super Bowl — still the closest Harbaugh has come to win
But Harbaugh doesn’t just want an invite anymore. And he knows with an elite quarterback, reach ing the pinnacle of college football can be more than just a far-fetched talkingHarbaughpoint. waited as long as he could. But after McCarthy’s elec trifying performance on Saturday, there were no more cliches left to say about the quarterback competi tion.Moving forward, there’s only one option, and it’s McCarthy.
turnover against Michigan State, essentially blamed for the loss.
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McNamara is the quarterback that took the Wolverines from the worst season they’ve had in years to championship banners, playoff appearances and the everso-coveted win over the Buck eyes. His significance to today’s Michigan football program is unmeasured.SoasMcCarthy’s reign as QB1 officially begins, remember that — and don’t rewrite the narrative.
leader. Always positive.
for easy scores. It was a thrilling encore to the mobility he displayed against Colorado State, proving his arm is just as much a threat as his legs.Harbaugh made it clear he had two worthy candidates to be QB1 and the best player was going to win the job. In response, McCar thy handed in a damn near flaw
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less resume, proving the hype surrounding him since he commit ted in 2019 was warranted.
Down by one goal with just over four minutes left to play, the No. 4 Michigan field hockey team pulled sophomore goalkeeper Caylie McMahon to bring an extra attack er onto the field.
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The Wolverines drew three pen alty corners and fired off multiple shots in the ensuing three-minute period but were unable to capitalize, as Michigan (3-2 overall) fell to No 5. Louisville (6-0), 2-1.
But that’s the bitter pill Har baugh finally had to swallow on Saturday. The Wolverines know what their ceiling is with McNama ra — and it’s a pretty high ceiling, one that can win a Big Ten Cham
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By contrast, Michigan only had four penalty corners — three of which came in the last two minutes of the game. And on each one, the Wolverines failed to convert.
shot of the night for senior forward LilyColoradoFarkas. matched Michigan’s opening energy, generating backand-forth action in the first 25 min utes. But with her third shot of the game in the 26th minute, Farkas broke the ice and put the Wolver ines on the board. She used a quick scissors move to beat a defender on the left flank and shot across the goalkeeper, netting the ball in the bottom right corner of the goal.
Now it’s true, the teams that Michigan has faced so far haven’t been the strongest opposition. Frankly, they may be some of the worst teams in the FBS. But McCarthy looked exactly how a highly touted, former five-star prospect should look against an overmatched opponent. McNa mara, on the other hand, simply did not.McCarthy produced touch downs on five of his first six drives without a hitch. Then McNamara, facing the same defense with the same resources at his disposal, floundered. His first drive ended in a sack and as he jogged off the field, boos rained down from the student section — the same section that flooded the field in jubilation when he led the Wolverines over Ohio State just last November.
After losing numerous key con tributors in the offseason, the Michigan women’s soccer team faced struggles in replicating last year’s dominance throughout its early-season matchups. Its two losses came in a similar manner, stemming from difficulties with communication, connection and finishing.Heading into Thursday’s match up against No. 19 Colorado, the unranked Wolverines looked to improve in all areas. They weren’t perfect, but they certainly showed growth and potential — specifically in communication and connection.
The Wolverines walked off the field on Thursday with a twinge of disappointment, but it was cou pled with a recognition of their improved team chemistry.
McCarthy waited years to walk through the Big House tunnel as the starting quarterback of the Michigan football team. So perhaps it’s fitting that, on the day of his first collegiate start, he had to wait a little while longer.
The show was on.
Since then, McCarthy has merely taken off.
“He controlled the whole game,” Corum said. “He was confident.”With6:22 left in the second quarter, McNamara relieved McCarthy, seemingly indicating that his sensational evening had ended. But four minutes later, McCarthy re-entered the game to a chorus of cheers. He promptly led the Wolverines 52 yards down
can be Saturday night. In seven first half drives, McCarthy went 11-for-12 with 229 passing yards and three touchdowns, good for a 334.5 passer rating. On those seven possessions, the Wolverines found the endzone six times.
“Everything he does in practice, he transferred over here to Main Street,” didn’tless.”nothingexpected“Sosaid.CorumbackrunningjuniorBlakeIMcCarthy
The decision, in the wake of a months-long, “neck-andneck” quarterback competition with senior Cade McNamara, is a culmination of McCarthy’s ascension. McCarthy had already done enough to warrant a battle with McNamara, the incumbent who steered Michigan to a Big Ten Championship and a College Football Playoff berth last season.
When McCarthy took the field for Michigan’s first offensive series, the majority of the crowd stood — perhaps because of the damp seats, perhaps in anticipation. Immediately, the theatrics began.
Michigan obliterates Hawaii in J.J. McCarthy’s first start
On the Wolverines’ second play from scrimmage, McCarthy lofted a 42-yard touchdown pass to junior receiver Roman Wilson.
At 8:18 pm — 13 minutes after the originally scheduled kickoff time between the fourthranked Wolverines and Hawaii — McCarthy emerged from the tunnel. The weather delay had tamed his grand entrance: There was no banner for him to touch, no marching band to serenade him. The stadium remained eerily quiet and empty, the soaked fans still locked outside the gates.
So when the game started, the sophomore quarterback created his own pomp and circumstance. In a 56-10 rout of the Rainbow Warriors, McCarthy — long pegged as Michigan’s quarterback of the future — made an irresistible case that he should
throw an incompletion until the waning minutes of the first quarter, only doing so because graduate receiver Ronnie Bell dropped a pass that hit him in the chest. Early in the second quarter, he delivered a 54-yard strike down the seams to senior receiver Cornelius Johnson and followed that picture-perfect pass with a 13-yard touchdown dart to Bell.
Junior edge rusher Braiden McGregor and junior safety R.J. Moten recalled huddling with teammates, eyes glued to the whiteboard held by co-defensive coordinator SteveTheyClinkscale.didn’t get a chance to watch McCarthy.“Butthen we hear the crowd erupt,” McGregor recalled.
“Every single day,” Harbaugh said, “he’s been about as good as canHebe.”was certainly as good as
On the ensuing drive, he placed a 33-yard back shoulder fade into the lap of sophomore running back Donovan Edwards, setting up Michigan’s fifth touchdown. It all looked so easy, so effortless. And it felt that way on the Michigan sideline, too.
Yet two-and-a-half weeks ago, the complexion changed. Harbaugh maintained that McCarthy’s game reached an “inflection point” on the season’s eve, when the Wolverines held a scrimmage at Michigan Stadium.
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like, ‘Oh,’ and then we see what happened.”AsMcCarthy flourished, that scene repeated itself.
the field, a drive that closed with perhaps his best pass of the night: a 17-yard strike across his body, while stepping up in the pocket, to Johnson in the front corner of the“Thatendzone.was outstanding,” Harbaugh said, later conceding that he can’t remember ever making a similar throw. “He was phenomenal. A phenomenal performance.”Byhalftime, McCarthy’s job was done. He staked Michigan to a 42-0 lead, keying a domineering performance. In the second half, the offense stalled — a reminder, as Corum alluded to postgame, why the Wolverines approach every game as if the opposition is Ohio State or Michigan State. They expect that level of intensity.AWeek Two game against Hawaii won’t normally conjure that emotion. But those who tuned in — whether it be the 110,012 who outlasted the storm, the millions who watched from home or Harbaugh himself — surely left with the same impression, awestruck by McCarthy’s brilliance.
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be the quarterback of the present, too.“J.J. had a near flawless performance,” Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said. “… I thought he had a great game. He’s playing really well. We’ll start J.J. next week. He’s earned that by performance, by merit.”
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“He was prepared, ready to go,” Bell said. “I mean, he was rolling.”Part of McCarthy’s success can be attributed to Hawaii’s own ineptitude, but he had to confront adversity, too. Pregame, he stayed loose by throwing in the tunnel while awaiting clearance to return to a soaked field. And amidst a grueling quarterback competition, every throw — every decision — carries extra weight, regardless of the score or the opposition. That scrutiny adds an extra layer of pressure, even against an outmatched opponent.
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McCarthy seemed unfazed.