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Hunter Lochman, chief marketing officer for the University’s athletic department, right, discusses the new student ticketing system with members of Central Student
Basketball ticketing changed Students must claim tickets online 72 hours before tip-off
By ALEJANDRO ZÚÑIGA Daily Sports Editor
Less than a year after modifying its policy for student football seating, the Athletic Department will change the way in which men’s basketball tickets are distributed. At a Central Student Government assembly meeting Tuesday
night, Chief Marketing Officer Hunter Lochmann announced a new system, effective immediately, in which students who purchased full season tickets will have to individually claim games they plan to attend. He said the move will help improve the atmosphere at Crisler Center, which was often not filled to capacity last season because many students attended just a handful of games. “We want Crisler full,” Lochmann said. “We want a loud arena.” According to Lochmann, an average of 46.1% of student tickets were used per game in
2012-13, well under the Big Ten average of 67%. This season, 4,500 tickets were sold — an alltime high — despite there being just 3,000 seats allotted for students. If seats go unclaimed by students, they will be made available to the general public. Under the new system, Michigan’s 17 home fixtures will be split into six different pods of three or four games each. A couple of weeks before each pod’s contests, tickets will become available online for a 72-hour period. Students can then select which games they plan to attend, and the ticket will then be electronically transferred to
the student’s MCard where it can be used or sold. “The only con is not every student is guaranteed a seat,” Lochmann said. “But I think — we don’t know this — that if you want to go to every game, you’re going to go to every game.” The first online claim period will open Oct. 8, and the Wolverines’ first home exhibition tips off on Oct. 29. However, if a student twice claims tickets that he or she does not use, he will not be eligible for tickets to the next pod of games. If a student misses four claimed games, he will not be eligible for See ATHLETIC, Page 3A
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Prep for Beyoncé show was complex Marching band members, staff say show was one of the band’s most difficult
Woman reports sexual assault on Maynard St.
Ann Arbor Police release surveillance photo of suspect By ADAM RUBENFIRE Managing News Editor
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Members of the Michigan Men’s Gymnastics team show off their skills on the Diag Tuesday.
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There aren’t many things that can dazzle a student section quite like 400 Michigan Marching Band members twinkling in time to songs made famous by Queen Bey herself. But that’s exactly what happened when the marching band turned down the lights at a Beyoncé-inspired halftime show during Saturday’s football game against the University of Notre Dame. The idea for the show originated at the end of winter 2013 and the concept developed over the summer. Award-winning drill designer Cory Meals wrote the drill formation and former director Scott Boerma — now director of bands at Western See BEYONCE, Page 3A
Implementing an agenda on campus doesn’t come cheap. With lower-than-expected total student enrollment for this academic year — 38,125 students — to contribute to student government dues and about $50,000 less than expected from last semester’s carry-over, the Central Student Government budgeted $301,104 for the fall semester. The new budget is approximately 12 percent less than what was available winter 2012. Unlike previous semesters — where commissions were allocated funds individually along with the other budgeted expenses — the 25 executive commissions were not allocated funds for the fall. As per the new commission structure implemented during the summer by CSG President Michael Proppe and Vice President Bobby Dishell, the commissions are responsible for compiling research-based reports until November. The reports include information on the funds required during the remainder of the year to drive
initiatives. In the meantime, if commissions require funds for their fall initiatives, they will draw from the $14,700 allocated to the commission discretionary fund. During the meeting, Proppe said this structure solved the dual purpose of allowing a greater allocation to the Student Organization Funding Commission — the body primarily responsible for funding voluntary student organizations — and accommodating the reduced budget. Despite the new commission structure, SOFC was allocated about 12 percent less than what they were given last semester. A portion of the debate surrounding the budget was dedicated to passing an amendment that mandated that a minimum of 5 percent of the SOFC budget be spent solely on graduate student organizations. On the other hand, Proppe said it’s necessary for the political insurance to be written into the budget, as graduate student organizations did not face discrimination when applying for funding through SOFC along with other undergraduate organizations. “I don’t think it is a good idea to earmark a percent of the SOFC budget to graduate students,” Proppe said. He added See COUNCIL, Page 3A
Committee leads path to pick Coleman’s successor Lack of students rare among public school committees By JENNIFER CALFAS Daily Staff Reporter
The search for the next University president is complex, to say the least.
The University’s Board of Regents announced the formation of a Presidential Search Advisory Committee in July. The committee, carried out by Russell Reynolds Associates executive recruiting firm and seven faculty members, has already met — and will continue to do so — to evaluate potential candidates for the next president of the
University. University President Mary Sue Coleman announced her retirement at the April regents meeting. It will begin on July 31, 2014. Regent Katherine White (D–Ann Arbor) wrote in an e-mail interview that the firm and the advisory committee will assist the board “in See PRESIDENTIAL, Page 3A
A woman reported that she was sexually assaulted early Sunday morning on the 300 block of Maynard Street, according to the Ann Arbor Police Department. Between 2:15 and 2:36 a.m., a 29-year-old female was walking to her vehicle on the 300 block of Maynard Street when an unknown male who had been walking toward her exposed himself and touched her, according to AAPD. The woman said she punched the suspect, who ran toward a nearby stairwell. The incident is currently being classified as fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, which is a misdemeanor. In addition to providing a surveillance photo, AAPD describes the suspect as a male of unknown race but medium complexion. The suspect is estimated to be in his early 20s, 5’6” to 5’7” in height and 130 pounds. He has brown straight short hair, a clean-shaven face and brown eyes. The 300 block of Maynard is
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close to Betsy Barbour, Newberry Hall and the Student Activities Building. Anyone with information about the incident or the suspect is asked to call the Ann Arbor Police Department at 734-794-6930, extension 49329, or Unviersity Police at 734-7631131.
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The University of Georgia-Athens Student Government Association has decided to petition the state legislature in 2014 for a taxfree holiday on textbooks, The Red and Black reported. Jon Goodfriend, the SGA senator who authored the resolution, said Georgia students pay $70 per year in taxes on textbooks. When accounting for full-time students across the state, textbook taxes amount to $15.3 million in revenue. Students in Utah recently convinced the state that textbook sales served a mission of higher education and should receive a tax exemption similar to other nonprofits. At UGA, university
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libraries do not pay sales tax on the acquisition of new books. Currently, 22 states grant some form of tax relief in textbook sales. Georgia already designates a tax-free weekend for school supplies, as well as children’s books, thesauruses and dictionaries. University of Maryland expands police jurisdiction to off-campus neighborhoods Administrators at the University of Maryland-College Park announced that university police would expand their jurisdiction to cover more off-campus areas, The Diamondback reported. The policy will stipulate
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WHERE: 1000 block of Greene Street WHEN: Monday at about 11:40 a.m. WHAT: A forced entry burglary resulted in nothing missing, though an interior door was found to be open, University Police reported.
WHERE: State Street WHEN: Monday at about 7:05 p.m. WHAT: There were two people found loitering in the street, University Police reported. Officers asked the subjects to move to the sidewalk.
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WHERE: 500 block of State Street WHEN: Monday at about 4:15 p.m. WHAT: A University vehicle was vandalized with black spraypaint while outside of the Union, University Police reported. There are no suspects.
WHERE: 1000 block of Wall Street WHEN: Monday at 11:40 a.m. WHAT: A 79-year-old driver was arrested at the scene of a two-vehicle accident, University Police reported. The subject was arrested for driving with a revoked license, and there were no injuries.
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WHAT: The Multicultural Greek Council will be showcasing its different chapters for students interested in joining. Members will be available to discuss history and traditions of the organizations. WHO: Office of Greek Life WHEN: Today from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. WHERE: The Diag
WHAT: Experts from across the country will discuss American strategy with Israel and the Middle East. There will be substantial time provided for audience questions. WHO: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. WHERE: Weill Hall
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WHAT: The MHealthy Wellness Champions will be holding their second annual event providing massages, flu shots and seasonal fruits and vegetables for all students. WHO: Law School WHEN: Today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Plaza between South Hall and Weill Hall
WHAT: Music veteran Che “Rhymefest” Smith will discuss the use of hip hop for social change, specifically in the prisonindustrial complex. WHO: Center for Campus Involvement WHEN: Today at 6 p.m. WHERE: Rackham Graduate School, Rackham Amphitheater
new zones, measuring about a square mile, in which both university police and local law enforcement agencies have enforcement powers. The university police chief said the department added eight officers, two squad cars and a patrol motorcycle to better protect areas in which students reside. “Ours is a safe community,” University of Maryland President Wallace Loh said. “This initiative is to make our community even safer.” The changes are occurring along with an expansion of the university’s code of conduct to these off-campus areas. — SAM GRINGLAS
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65-year-old veteran Mike Bowen, who is running for every veteran who did not return from Vietnam, will complete his 58,282nd mile on Friday, ABC News reported. Bowen began his mission in 1982.
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EU auto sales hit new low Acapulco tourists stranded; Spain drops the most drastically, Britain witnesses expansion
unemployment rate remains high at 11.0 percent, making many consumers unable or afraid to buy a new car. Governments hit by the eurozone debt crisis have cut back on spending and raised taxes to try to manage oversized debt levels, slowing their economies. The hardest hit countries, such as Greece and Spain, face even higher jobless rates that have hurt sales of moderately priced vehicles especially hard. Luxury carmakers are doing better. The August downturn was distributed across Europe’s biggest markets. Germany saw a 5.5 percent drop, despite a stronger economy than in other members of the 17-county eurozone. Registrations fell 10.5 percent in France, 18.3 percent in Spain, and 6.6 percent in Italy. Britain’s was the only major market to expand, rising 10.5 percent. Analyst Carlos Da Silva at IHS Automotive said the
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Car sales in Europe are still sagging despite the return of modest economic growth. For the first eight months of the year, passenger car sales in the European Union were off 5.2 percent to 7.84 million compared with the same period last year, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association said Tuesday. That’s the lowest JanuaryAugust figure since the group started keeping track in 1990. New car registrations in August fell 5 percent from a year ago to 653,872, the association said. The economy in the 28-country Sudoku Syndication EU grew 0.4 percent in the second quarter, ending a recession. But the
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figures suggested the market was bottoming out because the decline had slowed from 9.7 percent in the first three months of the year. “Decline is still on the menu but the rate of descent has nearly been halved,” he said. Global auto executives remain cautious, however. They said in interviews at the ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) Frankfurt Auto Show last week — The death toll rose to 47 that while the European market Tuesday from the unusual may have reached the bottom, one-two punch of a tropical they do not see any significant storm and a hurricane hitting increase in demand this year. Mexico at nearly the same time. The European market Authorities scrambled to get contrasts with a rebound help into, and stranded tourists in the United States, where out of, the cutoff resort city of figures show sales are on track Acapulco. to reach 16 million vehicles a With roads blocked by year — the level from before landslides, rockslides, floods the recession. European and collapsed bridges, Acapulco annual sales were 15.6 million was cut off from road transport in 2007 — but are heading for after Tropical Storm Manuel just under 12 million for all of made landfall on Sunday. this year. The terminal at the city’s Among the major carmakers, international was flooded, but Germany’s Volkswagen Group not the landing strips. http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ was off 11.2 percent in August Commercial carriers and the while France’s PSA Peugeot Mexican military responded Citroen slid 17.3 percent. by setting up flights ferrying Renault Group rose 6.0 percent tourists to a nearby concert and General Motors was up hall instead of the terminal. 0.5 percent — as a large jump Emergency flights began in sales of Chevrolet-branded arriving in Acapulco to evacuate vehicles made up for a 3.4 at least 40,000 mainly Mexican percent fall in sales of its main tourists stranded in the resort European Opel and Vauxhall city where some streets were brands. Ford was off 1.5 percent. transformed into raging brown Luxury brands did better. rivers. Daimler’s Mercedes was up 8.9 Interior Secretary Miguel percent, excluding its compact Angel Osorio Chong told the Smart city car, and BMW AG Radio Formula that 27 people rose 9.5 percent, excluding its had died because of the storm Mini brand. However, VW’s in the Pacific coast state of Audi luxury brand, a chief Guerrero, where Acapulco is competitor for Mercedes and located. Osorio Chong said 20 BMW, was off 5.6 percent. more people died nationwide, The biggest market share many as a result of former over the first eight months hurricane Ingrid, which struck remained with Volkswagen the Gulf coast on Monday. Group, including the company’s Mexican meteorologists said other brands such as Audi, Seat it was the first time since 1958 and Skoda, with 24.9 percent, that two tropical storms or up slightly from 24.8 percent. hurricanes had hit both the The auto association also country’s coasts within 24 issued figures for July, which hours. showed a 5 percent increase While most Acapulco over the previous year. July had hotels seemed to be operating one more working day than the normally on Tuesday, many previous July, while August had outlying neighborhoods were one less. without water or electricity, and
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floodwaters were knee-deep at the city airport’s check-in counters. Federal officials said it could take at least another day to open the main highway to Acapulco, which was hit by more than 13 landslides from surrounding hills, and to bring food and relief supplies into the city of more than 800,000 people. Two of Mexico’s largest airlines, Aeromexico and Interjet, began running flights to and from the still-swamped international airport. Those with tickets got first priority, then families with small children or elderly members, officials said. Interjet’s director Luis Jose Garza told Milenio TV that his airline’s first flight was taking 150 passengers back to Mexico City and it hoped to run four to six such flights Tuesday. The Guerrero state government said 40,000 tourists were stuck in the city, while the head of the local chamber of business owners said reports from hotels indicated the number could be as high as 60,000. Many tourists finally emerged from their hotels Tuesday morning after days of pelting rain. “We realized the extent of the disaster for the first time because we were closed in and only saw rain and flooding,” said Alejandra Vadillo Martinez, a 24-year-old from Mexico City staying with seven relatives in the Crowne Plaza Hotel overlooking Acapulco’s bay. The main coastal boulevard was open Tuesday and most hotels appeared to have power, water and food. But that was little consolation to those unable to leave. “We’ve realized that it was a mistake to come to Acapulco because all we saw was rain, rain, rain,” said Guadalupe Hernandez, a 55-year-old housewife from the Mexican capital.
The situation was far more serious in the city’s lowincome periphery, where steep hills funneled rainwater into neighborhoods of cinderblock houses. City officials said about 23,000 homes, mostly on Acapulco’s outskirts, were without electricity and water. Stores were nearly emptied by residents who rushed to stock up on basic goods. Landslides and flooding damaged an unknown number of homes. Natividad Gallegos said she returned Monday from shopping to find her house in a poor Acapulco neighborhood buried by a landslide that killed six members of her family, including her two children. “I saw a lot of strangers with picks and shovels, digging where my house used to be,” she said, weeping. The coastal town of Coyuca de Benitez and beach resorts further west of Acapulco, including Ixtapa and Zihuatenejo, were cut off after a river washed out a bridge on the main coastal highway. Marcela Higuera, who runs a bread stall in the Coyuca market, said the only aid that had arrived so far was a helicopter that rescued stranded flood victims. “Flour’s already run out. There isn’t any in Coyuca,” she said, adding that the Coyuca River had swept away the bridge and riverside restaurants, and flooded lowlying neighborhoods. “This is the worst storm that I’ve seen.” “There are hundreds of people in shelters and they’re begging for clothes and blankets because everything they have is wet,” Higuera said. “They had to leave without taking anything.” Remnants of Manuel continued to drench Mexico further up the Pacific coast and the U.S. National Hurricane Center said it could regain force near resorts at the tip of the Baja California Peninsula.
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Asian carp found in water near Lake Michigan The recent discovery of a large Asian carp near Chicago underscores the need to protect the Great Lakes from the voracious fish and other invasive species that could slip into Lake Michigan, two members of Congress said Tuesday. “If Asian carp are not stopped before they enter the Great Lakes, they could destroy the ecosystem, as well as the boating and fishing industries, and hundreds of thousands of jobs,” said Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat. The director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Asian carp program reported the find last week during a Great Lakes conference in Milwaukee that drew hundreds of environmental advocates, scientists and government officials from across the eight-state region and Canada.
DETROIT
$30 million fund issued to redevelop Woodward Avenue A $30 million fund has been launched to promote physical redevelopment along Detroit’s Woodward Corridor. The Kresge Foundation and NCB Capital Impact say the money will be used for real estate projects that promote density and diversity in the city’s core. The project is being announced 2 months after stateappointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr made Detroit the largest city in the U.S. to file for bankruptcy. The fund will provide longterm fixed rate loans to let developers start construction more quickly. Kresge President Rip Rapson says the Woodward Corridor Investment Fund is an example of one of the tools needed to support revitalization in Detroit.
DENVER
Colorado flooding could keep tourists away A little more than a year after Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper insisted his wildfire-ravaged state was still “open for business,” he may have to throw another lifeline to the state’s billion-dollar tourism industry as the world takes in the startling images of dramatic flood rescues and washed-out roads. The flooding has struck at the very mountains that give the state its identity and attract millions of hikers, campers and skiers. Months and possibly years of painstaking, expensive repairs lie ahead, but Colorado officials must also deal with a second problem— the risk that catastrophic damage could keep tourists away, even from places that are unharmed.
CAIRO
Spokesman for Muslim Brotherhood
arrested by police
Egyptian police arrested the main English-language spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday along with other senior members of the group, all charged with inciting violence, state media and a security official said. Gehad el-Haddad had emerged has one of the group’s most well-known faces, appearing regularly in foreign media to defend the Brotherhood’s policies during Mohammed Morsi’s year as president and following Morsi’s July 3 ouster by the military. His father, Essam el-Haddad, was a senior foreign policy aide to Morsi and has been in detention with Morsi since the coup. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki criticized the arrest as politically motivated. —Compiled from Daily wire reports
any more tickets. Even if he sells the ticket to someone who then chooses not to attend, the student will be penalized. “We don’t want to play a guessing game of who’s coming,” Lochmann said. Lochmann added that the system has worked well in other schools, including at Kansas. Entry to Crisler Center on gamedays will commence as in
BEYONCE From Page 1A Michigan University — wrote the music. While some of the content for halftime shows, such as scripting, is student-generated. Just like University athletes, marching band members return to campus early to prepare for the fall sports season. Information graduate student Kayla MacLennan, currently a staff assistant for the marching band, performed with the band during her four years as an undergraduate student at the University. She said the band begins intense practices about two-and-a-half weeks before classes begin, often drilling from about 9 a.m. until 10 p.m. “Our style is different than anywhere else, so everyone kind of has to start from scratch, and then we get time to start (practicing for) our first show,” MacLennan said. There’s also a weekly “challenge process” during the school year to decide which members will actually perform for which games. Out of 405 members, only 235 perform in the pregame and 280 perform at half time. The chosen members are noti-
PRESIDENTIAL From Page 1A this monumental task,” which includes developing a pool of candidates, conducting interviews and recommending candidates to the board. The firm and the seven faculty members serve as the Presidential Search Advisory Committee to the Board of Regents, who alone serve as the Presidential Search Committee. Ultimately, the final choice for the next president will be left up to the board. Unlike past years, the advisory committee doesn’t include a student representative. Under the State of Michigan Constitution, the regents “shall, as often as necessary, elect a president of the institution under its supervision,” meaning the board has “the sole authority and responsibility” to elect the president, according to White. Out of the top 25 U.S. public universities, the University of Michigan and Clemson University are the only institutions that didn’t include students on their most recent presidential search committees. The College of William and Mary did not have a formal committee beyond its Board of Visitors in its most recent search. Instead of allowing students on the actual search committee, the regents and their advisers announced the dates of public forums that will allow students, faculty, alumni, staff and the general public to weigh in on the presidential search. The forums will be question-and-answer based, and will survey attendees on the qualities they desire in the next University president. White wrote that the forums will allow the committee to gather “different perspectives” on important qualities necessary in the next president. The committee will take the information into account when making recommendations to the board to select the new president. To develop a diverse selection of candidates, the board will consider contenders nominated by
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previous years; those who arrive earliest will earn bleacher seats. For the Wolverines’ marquee contest against rival Michigan State, the Athletic Department will distribute its allotment of 3,000 tickets to the students who attended the most games. “(The Michigan State game) is where we’re going to reward our most loyal students,” Lochmann said. Students who do not like the new policy can request a full refund, and the Athletic Department plans on email-
ing season ticket holders with an outline of the new process before the end of the week. If a student does not request a full refund, she will not receive a refund for games not attended during the season. Lochmann said demand for student tickets is at its highest point since the Fab Five era in the early 1990s. The new system allows for the Athletic Department to grant full season tickets to every student who requested them while avoiding a split package in which students only
fied on a Friday, and rehearse the following Monday through Friday for an hour and a half each day. The band never repeats the same show at home, giving them a lot of shows to learn and little time to learn them. For Engineering junior Ruiqi Chen, rehearsals during the school year that led up to the Beyoncé show weren’t always enough. He described the cycle of practicing and performing for the shows like studying for a test. “If you don’t do your homework, you’re not going to do well on the exam, and the exam is the halftime show,” Chen said. For Chen, who said he tends to have problems when it comes to dance moves, the dance break in the middle of the Beyoncé performance was particularly challenging. The increased participation of the dance team this year has led to the creation of more complicated dances performed at halftime. Yet another elaborate — and in some ways perplexing — aspect of the Beyoncé show was the use of lasers. Spectators may have noticed a larger-than-life figure swaying to the music along with the band. That image was actually cre-
ated by pre-recording a member of the dance team, making her movements into a silhouette and then outlining her figure in laser beams to be projected during the show. MacLennan said while the band directors always want members in perfect formation, the added element of laser beams shooting from the press box made staying in formation an even greater necessity. “We had to be really careful,” she said. Chen said performing in the dark was a peculiar experience compared to previous shows. “It was a little bit scary when I couldn’t see where I was going. We never fully rehearsed with the lights off,” he said. Last Saturday’s performance marked the first time the stadium lights were ever turned off at a football game halftime show at Michigan Stadium MacLennan cited the support of the Athletic Department and talent of marching band members for the success of the show. “Dave Brandon is extremely supportive of the band,” she said. “We wouldn’t be able to do the cool things that we do without that (support) … or even get those really cool blinky bracelets. It’s
the search firm as well as names received at the search committee’s e-mail address, umich. president@russellreynolds.com, to which the public can submit recommendations. White could not give many details on the search process itself, since the process is still underway and its details are private. However, University alum Matt Nolan — former Michigan Student Assembly president and member of the 2001 search committee that chose Coleman — said the committee he participated on spoke with former University presidents as well as the current president at the time, Lee Bollinger, who now serves as the president of Columbia University. The 2001 group — which also included University alum Lisa Jackson, current regents White, Laurence Deitch (D–Bloomfield Hills) and Andrew Fischer Newman (R–Ann Arbor) and Athletic Director Dave Brandon, a former regent — fielded through many resumes and CVs, eventually narrowing down candidates and conducting interviews. Nolan said he felt fortunate to participate on the board, especially since he heard from Coleman before she was hired on why she deserved to be the University president. “Hearing in her words sort of why she would want to leave the position she was in to become president of the University of Michigan, to me, underscored my appreciation for how special of a place Michigan is and just how really unique it is not just in the state, not just in the country, but in the world it can bring together,” Nolan said. Nolan and Jackson served as student representatives for the group — a role missing in the current committee. Nolan said he felt his presence allowed the group to remind the committee of the importance of students and to take that point into consideration during the search process. However, times have changed. With the advent of social media, Nolan said, a student representa-
tive on the committee runs the risk of breaching privacy and possibly leaking secretive information. However, students plan to take the input that they do have with great stride. The University Council established a student committee that will gather student opinions on the qualities desired in the next president through a five-question survey to be e-mailed to the student body. The compiled feedback from that committee will be presented at the public forum on Sept. 26. Since the group is recognized by the regents, White said the committee is “crucial” in aiding the process. One year ago, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill — another large, public research university — underwent and completed a chancellor search with a 21-member committee that held four public forums that were similar to the University’s upcoming meetings. The committee included members of the school’s Board of Trustees, students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members. The UNC committee selected R. William Funk & Associates to help the search process for a price of $120,000, excluding additional travel and general expenses. It also set up an e-mail address to which the public could send their opinions and nominations. Although the committee met privately, they published their meeting location, dates and some of the minutes for the public to see. The committee held a total of 19 meetings, including the public forums, between Nov. 2012 and March 2013. The chosen chancellor, Carol Folt, who served as interim president at Dartmouth College before former University Provost Phil Hanlon took office, was appointed in April. However, as the committeesponsored public forums began Tuesday, the decision on who the next president of the University will be inches closer and closer with each opinion offered. —Daily News Editor Alicia Adamczyk contributed to this report.
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BUDGET From Page 1A that any representation issues could be addressed through the newly created Graduate Student Engagement commission. Assembly representatives further debated the distribution of money between the executive and legislative discretionary funds. The budget proposed that the executive fund be allocated $2,000 more than the legislative fund; representatives, however, debated over this margin. Despite the reduced total budget, the legislative fund was allocated $2,500 more than what was the previous semester
and the executive fund would be given $4,500 more than last semester. LSA senior Pratik Ghosh said he believed the assembly’s work warranted additional legislative funds. “While the (greater legislative discretionary funding) is unprecedented, I think this assembly is unprecedented,” Ghosh said during the meeting. “We’re going to get a lot done.” In addition, the committee unanimously approved a resolution that would suspend the assembly from its traditional responsibility of allocating a portion of the fall budget to the upcoming 2014 summer assembly.
Search committee holds public forum on med. campus Speakers seek pres. with experience in health care By SAM GRINGLAS Daily Sports Editor
The first set of six public forums on the search for the next University president convened Tuesday on the Medical Center Campus and at the University’s Flint Campus. Regent Katherine White (D) led the discussion Tuesday evening, along with Alison Ranney, a consultant with the firm hired to conduct the seaarch, RussellReynolds Associates. Three faculty members of the Presidential Search Committee and four additional regents— Julia Darlow (D), Mark Bernstein (D) and Shauna Ryder Diggs (D) — jotted notes and asked follow-up questions to about 25 students, faculty and community members gathered in the Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building’s auditorium. After briefly explaining the search process, White and Ranney asked the crowd of mostly faculty and medical students to consider the challenges the University will face over the next one, five or twenty years as well as qualities they would want the committee to keep in mind when choosing a candidate. While a few periods of silence occurred in the mostly unfilled auditorium, a steady flow of comments generally characterized the forum. Comments centered on a wide array of issues and challenges. Some were focused on the University of Michigan Health System, with multiple speakers expressing the importance of a candidate with a background
at an institution with a hospital. Two other contributors also expressed the importance of facing the challenges of the changing landscape of healthcare, following passage of the Affordable Care Act. More generally, multiple medical school students addressed college affordability, touching on topics such as scholarships and tuition costs, as well as the need to attract students from diverse backgrounds in terms of race and socio-economic status. Other comments addressed alumni engagement and building cohesion and partnership between University of Michigan units and campuses, in Flint and Dearborn. Peter Farrehi, an assistant professor in the department of internal medicine, pointed out that the next University president effect not just the campus in Ann Arbor, but the entire state of Michigan, including cities like Flint and Dearborn. “The state is in dire need of the University’s leadership,” he said. Farrehi mentioned that many people are interested in becoming more global, but the University and its next president must place greater emphasis on supporting the local community. Multiple commenters mentioned community-oriented needs as challenges that are just as important as the University’s global expansion, both in the scope of the hospital and the University at large. In an interview with The Michigan Daily after the event, White said many of these concerns were also echoed earlier in the day at a forum on the Flint campus. The next public forums will occur on Thursday, Sept. 26 and Friday, Sept. 28.
Brazil to depart from U.S.-centric Internet Nation increases net independence, cites concerns with NSA RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington’s widespread online spying, a move that many experts fear will be a potentially dangerous first step toward fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by governments. President Dilma Rousseff ordered a series of measures aimed at greater Brazilian online independence and security following revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted her communications, hacked into the stateowned Petrobras oil company’s network and spied on Brazilians who entrusted their personal data to U.S. tech companies such as Facebook and Google. The leader is so angered by the espionage that on Tuesday she postponed next month’s scheduled trip to Washington, where she was to be honored with a state dinner.
Internet security and policy experts say the Brazilian government’s reaction to information leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden is understandable, but warn it could set the Internet on a course of Balkanization. “The global backlash is only beginning and will get far more severe in coming months,” said Sascha Meinrath, director of the Open Technology Institute at the Washington-based New America Foundation think tank. “This notion of national privacy sovereignty is going to be an increasingly salient issue around the globe.” While Brazil isn’t proposing to bar its citizens from U.S.based Web services, it wants their data to be stored locally as the nation assumes greater control over Brazilians’ Internet use to protect them from NSA snooping. The danger of mandating that kind of geographic isolation, Meinrath said, is that it could render inoperable popular software applications and services and endanger the Internet’s open, interconnected structure.
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Michigan should be cautious with this program
his month, Michigan became the eighth state chosen to receive aid from the Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance Lab at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The crux of this social impact bond model is that private investors team up with state governments to create and finance social-service programs. The bonds, also known as pay-for-success contracts, allow governments to explore solutions to persistent social problems while saving taxpayer dollars. In light of recent budget cuts made by the states GOP leadership and legislature, the advent of this program comes with good timing. However, because of the lack of sufficient empirical evidence on the success of the program, the state must proceed with caution. SIB Lab’s venture into social-impact bonds is the largest in the United States to date. The bonds provide states with money for programs that were previously underfunded to tackle pressing issues such as recidivism, lack of earlychildhood education, homelessness and more. If the programs succeed, taxpayers pay the investors back with a profit. Bonuses are also awarded if programs exceed target levels. If the programs do not succeed, however, taxpayers incur no cost, and investors receive no returns. What makes the bonds worthwhile is that through pay-for-success contracts, states are able to reap the benefits of these programs with little risk up front. The contracts encourage private investment and also allow state governments to reallocate existing funds to other underfunded matters. Additionally, fellows from the SIB Lab monitor the programs, eliminating the possibility of investor corruption and an expensive bill for the government and taxpayers, as was the case when school administrators fabricated test scores to receive money from the No Child Left Behind program. The chief complaint against social-impact bonds is that they lack performance data.
Although considerable success has been seen in Britain and Australia, it’s difficult to tell if the program will thrive in the United States. New York and several other states have only just begun the program. That being said, it’s imperative that the state of Michigan takes all risks into consideration and is as transparent as possible throughout the process. Moreover, the state should play a significant role in the search for investors in order to provide greater oversight. The recent balancing of the state’s budget has severely curtailed funds for critical social programs, such as the Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative. Social-impact bonds have the potential to ease these blows and increase the amount of money flowing into our economy without crippling our tax base. Snyder describes Michigan as “the nation’s Comeback State,” but if the state wants to make a significant economic recovery, it should not do it by taking this program at face value and gambling on people’s livelihoods. The state legislature certainly welcomes this program as it applied to be a part of it, but it should embrace it carefully.
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ello. My name is Emily. And I’m a serial dater. “Serial dater?” you may be asking yourself. “What in the what is a serial dater?” Well, a serial dater is essentially a person who is addicted to relationEMILY ships. All of the PITTINOS crap that comes with dating someone — the initial chemistry, the morning sex, the fights for blankets, the buying of Christmas presents, the driving to the airport, the meeting of the parents, the lusting after others, the fighting over commitment issues, the breaking up, the making up, the breaking up again — all of it gives us purpose in our lives. We can’t stop caring for people, no matter how lost they are, because we’re awesome at it and it makes us feel high. We’re the kind of people who look at a 20-something alcoholic with an I-will-destroy-you glint in his eye and say, “I could work with that — he seems like a great guy.” It’s dangerous, stifling, invigorating, messy, gooey, garish, hideous, lovely. It’s a trip. It’s a sickness. So far, I’ve got my eight-month chip for singleness — which I define as staying out of monogamous relationships. Many of you may be thinking, “Big whoop, lady, that’s nothing.” However, it’s not nothing to me. Since I started dating at age 14, I was never out of a relationship for longer than three weeks, until now. And being single for the first time since I hit puberty was both fascinating and as difficult as trying to recite the alphabet backwards …
in Sanskrit … with marbles in my mouth. Of course, the biggest adjustment was loneliness. I didn’t like the idea of coming home to myself. After a day that made me feel small, I couldn’t sit in my bed with my head in someone’s lap. I learned to cook for one like the divorcees in romantic dramas do, using only handfuls of pasta and half an onion. I missed intimacy — sexual and otherwise. But I got myself excited about dipping into the world of more casual contact, propelled by the revolving doors of flirtation. Singleness makes everyone a suspect for future coitus. At parties, I was eager to mingle with the rolling bodies, giggling and grazing forearms. On the bus ride to North Campus, attractive strangers would make eye contact with me as I gauged their interest and imagined them with their clothes off. Buses had never felt so sexy, and neither had I. Over the next couple of months, I fell in and out of beds. Every weekend the possibilities seemed infinite and I’d even tidy up my room before going out in case I brought someone home. I hooked up with a range of people, from a 26-year-old gardener to a young poet from Marquette. I doubled the number of people I’ve slept with and had some pretty bad sex. In the beginning it was exhilarating, but after a while all that fornication felt stagnant and empty. I never stopped craving the closeness I’d become accustomed to all of those
years, and I caught myself relapsing into my old ways a couple times. I’d sleep with someone and imagine “being” with them, no matter how little we had in common or how broken they were. But, unlike before this whole single experiment, now I hear myself whispering, “And how long have you felt depressed?” to a near stranger on the pillow next to me. An “Eject Immediately” siren now sounds in my brain. Any good quiz in Cosmo will tell you that singleness forces personal growth, and the cliché is as true for me as anyone else. I realized that I will always get invested in the lives of people I sleep with, so after seeing what the world has to offer, I’ve become more selective with my romantic entanglements. It turns out that the problem with serial dating isn’t the dating itself, but rather the absence of choice that comes with a constant stream of lovers. If you open yourself up to anyone who comes along, all kinds of losers are bound to come in with the tide. This will probably sound like old news to most of you, but some of us have to learn to be picky. Instead of jumping into bed or a relationship with any warm body that comes along, I’ve started to think more critically about what I want in a partner. All people need love in their lives, but that doesn’t mean I have to be the one to give it to them.
Buses had never felt so sexy, and neither had I.
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DAN WANG | VIEWPOINT
Miss-representation “How the fuck does a foreigner win Miss America?” they said. “Miss New York is an Indian ... With all do respect, this is America.” In the shadow of Nina Davuluri’s historic win at the Miss America pageant, her fellow Americans flocked to Twitter to voice their patriotism. “So Miss America is a terrorist,” they cried. Davuluri’s crowning on Sunday marks the first time an Indian-American has won the prestigious scholarship pageant — a day to be celebrated as America trends toward a collective tolerance, and yet the moment is marred by prejudice and ignorance. Born in Syracuse, N.Y., Davuluri legally deserves the second half of her descriptor — Indian-American. She attended the University of Michigan, earning a degree in brain behavior and cognitive science, and plans to pay back her debt to U.S. society by applying to medical school. For some Americans, however, this isn’t enough. “WHEN WILL A WHITE WOMAN WIN #MISSAMERICA? Ever??!!” they protest. While the racist remarks directed towards Davuluri are certainly not a sentiment shared by the majority, I know it’s a dialogue that all minorities in America have heard before. I, like our new Miss America, don’t look like the prototypical American — but you already knew that. Wang might be equivalent to Smith in China, but here it’s a dead giveaway. Despite
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being born in Michigan, I look like I was born in Hong Kong. And because of these differences, I am occasionally invited by other Americans to go back to my own country. Usually, they address me as a “chink” — rude. But, it’s not just me. Minorities all across the country have experienced something similar to varying degrees. I want to be American, yet sometimes I can’t help but feel that America doesn’t want minorities like me. Davuluri was born in New York, but she looks like she was born in Mumbai, leading some to say, “If you’re #MissAmerica you should have to be American.” I know that most Americans are not so bigoted, and that the general consensus is that diversity is something to be celebrated. I know the United States is one of the only nations on earth that has to balance so many different people. And I know that, for the most part, we are doing a good job of coexisting together. But it’s insulting to suggest that we are a post-racial America. And it is insulting to hear other Americans bemoan the efforts of expanding diversity and compassion as excessive and unnecessary. When the first American of Indian descent is crowned Miss America and a group of Americans respond with, “Asian or indian are you kiddin this is america omg,” I know we’ve still got work to do. Dan Wang is an LSA senior.
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I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I’m an adult, and I’m acting like a kid.” — Miley Cyrus on her celebrity status in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar.
MUNMUN KHAN | VIEWPOINT
‘You’re not American enough’
I don’t like beauty pageants. I don’t like the parading on a runway, the gawking at women or the body image issues it perpetuates. But I hate racism and bigotry even more. Sunday night, Nina Davuluri was crowned Miss America 2014. According to the University Alumni Association, Nina “was on the dean’s list and earned the Michigan Merit Award and National Honor Society nods while studying at the University of Michigan, where she graduated with a degree in brain behavior and cognitive science. She’ll also serve as a spokesperson for STEM working with the Department of Education.” Not only was she the first Indian Miss New York, but she’s now also the first Indian Miss America — a cause for celebration. But before Davuluri even had the opportunity to feel the weight of all those crystals on her head, Twitter was ablaze with ignorant remarks — calling her a terrorist, saying she’s connected to al-Qaeda and arguing that the pageant needs background checks. I really want to scream, “You are ignorant!” to every foul mouth that has tweeted these bigoted statements, sort of in the “you get a car” voice of Oprah. However, let me digress and let’s talk about Islamophobia. We’ve come to a point in modern history in which there are times known as pre-9/11 and post-9/11. Pre-9/11 is when I was a fifth grader, and the world was all rainbows in my eyes. Post-9/11 has been filled with attacks on Sikh and Muslim Americans. The lack of knowledge of Islam and the stereotyping of turbans meant that innocent Sikh community members were attacked, Muslim women’s hijabs were torn off, and even 10 years later, we still have these attacks on anyone who just “looks Muslim.” This constant image of what a Muslim looks like means that every time there’s a national tragedy, Muslim Americans are holding their breath, afraid of the backlash that comes when national channels pinpoint Muslims
as inherently evil. Somehow, it’s anti-American to be Muslim. When Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton, was accused of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood by House Republicans, Republican Senator John McCain came to her defense: “Put simply, Huma represents what is best about America: the daughter of immigrants, who has risen to the highest levels of our government on the basis of her substantial personal merit and her abiding commitment to the American ideals that she embodies so fully,” McCain said. “I am proud to know Huma and to call her my friend.” Doesn’t Nina also represent “what is best of America?” Her parents immigrated to the United States 30 years ago. Her dad is a physician, she graduated from a top university and is headed to medical school. In her time at the University, she not only balanced books, but also was heavily involved in the campus community. If any of these ranters did their homework, they’d know that Nina actually observes Hinduism. But then again, how much homework do you do before you hate? There’s also an issue of cultural appropriation. Nina was told her Bollywood dance was a “risk” because it would be “too foreign” for the Miss America competition. But it would’ve been totally cool to do Irish performance or something “American.” The narrative that “American” — which often excludes South and Central America — somehow has to be a total absence of anything not continentally connected to the United States is narrow. Representation of heritage isn’t un-American. Somehow when an Indian woman claims her cultural identity, it’s disgusting and unAmerican. Sorry, but I don’t walk into Urban Outfitters for the tribal “look.” My look is mine. My look is my blood, my history and my family. It’s mine. It’s bad enough that oppressions of women of color exist, but often-
times the experiences of AsianAmerican women are also ignored. The “Model Minority” myth gives privileges to Asian-Americans by claiming they can “pass as white” and by their portrayal as more competent, but ignores the heterogeneous identities and cultural norms of the people. Asian doesn’t mean just Chinese, and Indian doesn’t mean non-Asian. Nina does have a lot of privileged identities — her University education, her physician father, her likely comfortable economic status, and now the power of a social network and fame. But as seen through the backlash online, despite these privileged identities and being from Syracuse, N.Y., it’s not “American enough.” This, my friends, is the issue that pervades many recent immigrant children, “third-culture kids” and anyone with a tint of complexion that isn’t European. We are told, “You’re not American enough.” The storm created after Nina’s crown is ultimately a good thing. Seeing a University alum who might also be struggling like me to find that “right” foundation and watching her respond with articulate and charismatic statements to bigotry on a national platform means we are doing something right. Seeing my friends’ anger after reading bigoted tweets means we are headed in the right direction, but we need to continue to challenge these notions of what “us” and “them” mean. Being Indian-American does mean that this pluralism exists, or that honoring heritage doesn’t negate U.S. citizenship. I have high hopes of Nina in her new stage. The talk of diversity isn’t sterling, but maybe something sterling can come out of using the Miss America title to challenge racism in this country. My brown skin is just as American, my heritage is just as strong, and I am just as proud. Munmun Khan is an LSA senior.
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FILM REVIEW
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This is the face of fatherhood.
The ultimate ‘Family’ spins novel mob tale INTERSCOPE
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Brand New excites concert crowd Long-awaited tour delivers thrilling performance By TYLER BAILEY Daily Arts Writer
Eager fans scrolled through their phones, checking old setlists and swapping ideas of a perfect Brand New set as they stood waiting in a line that stretched two blocks before turning a corner and finally ending beneath a Grand Rapids overpass. All was pretty much expected for a show that had sold out within an hour. When the last of the crowd finally filed in about an hour and a half after doors opened, around 1,700 people packed into The Intersection got their — perhaps once-in-a-lifetime — chance to see the elusive band play. For many in the crowd and around the world, Brand New is a sort of punk-rock messiah, certainly one of the most critically acclaimed and significant bands in the indie-punk genre. Countless modern acts constantly praise the New Jersey outfit as an artistic influence, and they are almost universally loved by fans of the various sub-genres of modern punk and alternative music. One of such bands, The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, provided a solid opening act with atmospheric post-rock passages and emotionally charged outbursts prepared the crowd for the headliner, building up the energy and anticipation of the crowd. After nearly 30 minutes of darkness, the crowd’s eagerness reached a peak as the opening bass kicks of “Tautou” marked their entrance. It was clear that everyone present was preparing for what they all knew was coming after the subdued and meandering introductory song,
as everyone sang along to frontman Jesse Lacey’s slow-building melodies and simple guitar work. Finally, the tension so carefully built over these past few hours was explosively released as the final ringing notes of the introduction transitioned seamlessly into “Sic Transit Gloria … Glory Fades.” The full band outburst perfectly punctuated the feelings of the crowd and provided a perfect release for the fans. After the initial excitement, the crowd’s energy only grew as the opening chords of “I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light” affirmed some fans’ hopes — they were indeed going to play Deja Entendu, their acclaimed 2003 album, all the way through. During the set, Lacey worked the crowd well with the wit and composure of a man who has been on stage for over 15 years. “I’m 35 years old, I can’t do this shit anymore,” Lacey joked early in the set while tuning up between songs. A short cover of a few bars of Modest Mouse’s “Trailer Trash” was also a crowd-pleaser, a sort of inside joke as well as an homage to a contemporary influence. Along with these jokes and banter, Lacey was quick to give his fans and supporters appreciation and thanks as the band made its way through their selection of songs. Overall, the set’s energy began to dwindle near the end of the album play-through as the energetic anthems gave way to slow introspective songs. This wasn’t necessarily detrimental to the overall performance, as it gave the tired fans an opportunity to enjoy the musicianship without the hectic scrambling present in the crowd during some of the louder songs. A highlight of this section of the set was a wonderfully stripped down version of “The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot,” which mainly consisted
of Lacey alone singing and playing guitar until the whole band joined in at the end for a powerfully expressive finish that highlighted the band’s strength as a unit. After the acoustic album finale “Play Crack The Sky,” the band continued with their almost two hour-long set by playing songs from their most recent effort, Daisy, as well as those from The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me. The concert lacked any songs from Your Favorite Weapon, which marked the band’s debut in 2000. This is understandable as the band’s extensive catalog of songs allow them some separation from their less-developed first album. Less understandable, however, was the noticeable absence of the songs “Jesus Christ” and “Sowing Season,” two of the band’s most popular songs. The set’s closer, “Luca,” conveyed the overall feeling of the entire performance with many standing in subdued appreciation during the slow, strippeddown sections before going wild and screaming along to the song’s climactic explosions. After the conclusion of the set, many fans were left waiting for an encore that might have contained one or two of the stillunplayed hits, and their chants of “one more song” were left unanswered as the lights went up and the crew began putting away the equipment. This lack of closure seemed like a slight snub to the fans for whom Lacey professed his appreciation for earlier in the set — even more disappointing compared to the transcendental nature of the performance. Alas, all things must come to an end, and even without the encore most fans were left with the satisfaction of finally being able to see the iconic band perform live while they still had the chance.
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Robert De Niro is a family man. Plain and simple. OK, so maybe I have no idea if he’s a family man in real life, but if his career B decisions are any indication, The Family he certainly is. He loves to play At Quality 16 the patriarch of and Rave a family. SomeRelativity times it’s a literal family, like in “Meet the Parents”; sometimes it’s a family in the mafia sense of the word, like his role as Al Capone in “The Untouchables.” In his new film, “The Family” (who woulda thunk?), De Niro combines the best of both worlds as the father of a family trying to lead a normal, safe life after snitching on his other Family (the mob!). Giovanni Manzoni (De Niro) and his family have been in the witness protection program for 10 years, but can’t quite get the hang of the whole “laying low” thing. Giovanni’s violent nature aside, his wife, Maggie (Michelle Pfeifer, “Scarface”), son, Warren (John D’Leo, “The Wrestler”) and daughter, Belle (Dianna Agron,
TV’s “Glee”) make enough trouble to justify their own police detail. As the family situates themselves in their new home near Normandy, each character’s storyline plays out with a delightful blend of cringe-worthy misdeeds and endearing good nature. The real problems arrive when the Manzoni’s past threatens to catch up with them because, of course, there’s only one real way out of the mafia — in a box.
De Niro #1 Dad in the World The film parallels the stories of each character by frequently flashing between them. Especially effective in this respect are the match cuts incorporated by editor Julien Rey (“The Lady”) and director Luc Besson (“The Fifth Element”). This storytelling method allows the audience to see a wide range of narratives — a young woman discovering her sexuality, an adolescent boy trying to fit in at a new high school, a mother struggling to turn over a new leaf and a for-
mer heavyweight in the world of organized crime coming to terms with who he was and who he has become. The diversity in these storylines, highlighted by common themes of violence and togetherness, creates a complete picture of the family. If you’re aware that Tommy Lee Jones (“No Country For Old Men”) is in this flick, then you’d probably guess that he plays a cop — and he does — and he kills it, as always. Nobody can capture the essence of a too-old-for-thisshit federal agent quite like TLJ — typecasting rules! Captivating though it is, “The Family” takes the easy way out when it comes to key plot developments. All of the drama at the end of the film is a result of happenstance that, while not diminishing the legitimacy of the film completely, gives very little credit to the villains and cheapens an otherwise well-thought-out script. Giving a unique take on the mob movie, “The Family” is expertly paced and doesn’t bore — more likely you’ll wish the running time were a tad longer. And if you’re a fan of De Niro, make sure you check him out in his ultimate family-man role.
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Travel to Lovecraft Country By GRACE PROSNIEWSKI Daily Arts Writer
My interest in H.P. Lovecraft began while reading the thoughts of another master of horror, Stephen King. King’s statement that Lovecraft was the impetus for his literary life in horror caught my attention. Acting as the single greatest influence on a man who wrote such chilling pieces as “The Man in the Black Suit” and “Suffer the Little Children,” I was impressed and intrigued. Then suddenly, Lovecraft began to pop up more and more. I quickly decided I needed to see what all the fuss was about and planned to read one of his works. However, the sheer number of stories, coupled with the fact that I found the short-story format an awkward fit to my schedule, meant that I kept pushing it off. Enter my summer job. Sitting in a small, isolated booth for upward of two hours a day, I found the length, and atmosphere, of Lovecraft’s stories a perfect fit. With high temperatures and some unreasonably angry patrons, it’s no wonder I turned to tales of terror and madness. I discovered a very devoted fan base, covering everything from RPGs to theoretical postulates on the Cthulu mythos. Indeed, I’m still very much a newbie to the cult of Lovecraft. But even so, I’m here to initiate you. Lovecraft is best known for his
unique brand of weird fiction, a combination of the supernatural and the scientific. Lovecraft himself describes it best in his essay, “Supernatural Horror in Literature”: “The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain — a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space.”
Cosmic horror walks the line between science and fiction. If that description didn’t just blow your mind, then you’re wrong. Lovecraft can make evil cults, ritual human sacrifices and decaying ancient abodes fall per-
fectly in tandem with talk of nonEuclidian geometry and the very nature of space and time. This scientific veil increases the scariness of the stories because it provides a sense of reasoned, rational thought to an otherwise unbelievable, albeit disturbing, world view. One of Lovecraft’s signature features is his rich, darkly disturbing New England settings. Coined “Lovecraft Country” by scholars of his work, picturesque and not-so-picturesque fictional towns appear frequently throughout. From the prestigious Miskatonic University situated in the bustling city of Arkham, to the dilapidated coastal town of Innsmouth, Lovecraft Country is the quintessential old New England, filled with puritanical fears and myths. Lovecraft’s antiquarian tendencies, dwelling specifically on the gentry and customs of colonial New England, give his works an added depth of foreboding and eloquence and harkens back to the literary tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne. All other things aside, he’s simply a fantastic writer. The chase scene in “The Shadow over Innsmouth” will leave you breathless and the ending of “The Haunter of the Dark” will have you hesitating before you turn off the light. So pick up a tale and join us. Just don’t try checking out the Necronomicon at the UGLi.
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Jacques Greene’s remix strips down the original song By ERIKA HARWOOD Daily Arts Writer
I’ll admit: I’m slightly (and sadly) prejudiced toward remixes of songs I adore. I speak from past listening experiences when I say that shoving unnecessary dance beats or a dubstep-style drop on a flawless original is essentially akin to taking a dump on a Picasso. Anyone armed with a laptop with a half-full battery can take a song and embellish it with technological nonsense, but Jacques Greene’s veteran touch makes his remix First seen on of Autre Ne Veut’s
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“Play By Play” stand out as so refreshing. For the past few months ANV’s “Play By Play” has been my go-to song. Despite a play count in the triple digits, I still listen to it multiple times every day — like a psycho — and have yet to get sick of it. Filled with layers upon layers of Arthur Ashin’s R&B-style crooning on top of dazzling electronic sounds, every listen provides a new experience. Unarguably, the song overwhelms, but in the most euphoric and transcendent way imaginable. Then I saw this tweet by Ashin: “I’m not sure that it can be overstated that @jacquesgreene made a remix of Play By Play.” I cried a little. Is nothing sacred anymore? Is it possible for music lovers to have one beloved song go untainted by some bearded Brookyln-ite’s shitty keyboard?
Apparently so, because this remix isn’t terrible. It’s actually pretty damn good. And to top it off, Greene’s beardless — so as far as the glass ceiling of DJs go, he seems to be making an attempt to shatter all barriers. Instead of distorting and misusing the original (the ultimate crime of awful remixes), Greene’s version strips it down, crafting a distinct, alternate vision of Ashin’s track. The muffled beats build slowly during the course of the song’s nearly seven minutes and keep you clutching to Greene’s every sound and Ashin’s every word. Don’t get me wrong, the original will always reign superior in my eyes, but as perfectly executed remixes go, Greene knows how to kill it. — The original version of this article was published on The Filter, the Daily Arts blog, on Sept. 13.
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Let me start by saying, I love Mindy Kaling. I not only follow her on multiple social networking platforms, have read her book and watch her TV show, but also follow some of her staff writers and friends on Twitter. I am under the impression that she can do no wrong. A funny, smart and creative woman of color, she deserves to be everyone’s role model. That being said, I have a lot of friends who find her show, “The Mindy Project,” to be lackluster. They watched a few episodes during the first season and stopped when they were not consistently
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Will prescreening become the new primetime? Franco is not the only man worth watching on the show. Anders Holm, well known for his role as “Ders” on Workaholics, plays Dr. Lahiri’s love interest and remains perfect. A goofy priest, he could be the lead in any rom-com. His quirkiness comes off as endearing and not annoying, making me swoon every time he appears on screen. Mindy’s other suggested love interest, her partner at the practice, Danny Castellano — played by Chris Messina (“The Newsroom”) — is also swoon-worthy. Dark and moody, the tension between Castellano and Mindy makes me giggle-scream into my pillow. The effects of the early release
have yet to be seen. Will it cause lower viewership during the network premier? Any fans that have an Internet presence surely have watched the episode already. While some may re-watch when it airs, others will be absent from this week’s numbers. On the other hand, a surge in viewership may occur due to the premier inspiring new fans to go back and watch the previous season. In a culture based on instant gratification, seeing if early, purposeful releases become more commonplace will be interesting. While early album leaks occur somewhat commonly, TV shows have not been as affected by this digital era in which we live. But with audiences becoming more impatient, will movie and TV shows fall to a similar fate as the music industry? My prediction has advertisers and producers unhappy with early releases, though perhaps more networks will purposefully release their shows early with built-in advertisement spots as result. The other thing to consider is how competitive traditional television networks can be when Netflix and the like can release entire series in one fell swoop. Viewers like the independence of watching what they want when they have the availability. As college kids may know too well, it allows those of us who have no self control to bingewatch entire series. With the busy lives that people lead, having the ability to choose how and when to interact with media may ultimately triumph over the traditional setup of cable. The early premier of “The Mindy Show” secured my love and devotion to the newest season. For FOX’s sake, my fingers are crossed that its tactic produces favorable results, and that they do not regret the early release. Perhaps this will encourage other networks and shows to reward viewers with unexpected and unhinged access to content.
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Courtney Avery slated for full return Saturday By LIZ VUKELICH Daily Sports Editor
Defensive coordinator Greg Mattison seemed fairly confident in his Tuesday assessment that senior cornerback Courtney Avery would be fully available NOTEBOOK to play against Connecticut, three weeks after undergoing arthoscopic knee surgery. Avery dressed against Notre Dame but was only available in a supporting special teams role. He didn’t play against Akron. “Some programs might’ve thrown him in a lot in these last two weeks when they cleared him, but we’re not going to do that,” Mattison said. “We’re going to make sure a guy is healthy, 100 percent. I know he’s really anxious to get going, and we’re anxious for him to be in there also.” But as excited as Mattison is at the prospect of Avery’s return, one looming question remains: where does he even fit in with the rest of the secondary? The problem lies within the Wolverines who have filled in since Avery’s absence — Mattison cited sophomore Jarrod Wilson and fifth-year senior Thomas Gordon as players who have stepped up to the two safety positions.One position that Avery certainly won’t play, though, is the nickel. “(Redshirt sophomore) Blake (Countess) has done a real good job for us there, so we’ll keep him there and the next corner up would go at the corner,” Mattison said. Countess has three interceptions in two games.
INSTANT MEALS: In what way did the Wolverines treat their game against Akron like a microwave? According to offensive coordinator Al Borges, the Wolverines seemed to expect the same instant gratification when playing the Zips as they do when cooking a frozen meal — that a touchdown or a sack would come as easily as pushing a button. “The big thing about a game like that, because you’re playing a team that you’re heavily favored (against), there’s a natural tendency for everyone to think every time you get the ball you should score (and) every time they get it, they should be stopped,” Borges said. “If that doesn’t happen, everyone starts freaking out. … These are the types of things that are a perfect storm for the team to upset you.” Borges didn’t anticipate having to keep on-field frenzies to a minimum against Akron. He also didn’t expect having to do so much coaching and re-coaching during the game either. After watching the Wolverines struggle play after play, it was clear to Borges his message wasn’t getting through to his offense. “How many times am I telling you the same thing time and time again, and you’re just not getting it?” he asked. “It’s a different deal when you’re playing on Main Street than when you’re playing on State Street. “A great coach demands what he wants, he doesn’t suggest it.” CABLE, ZERO, TRAIN: Michigan coach Brady Hoke said he knew what the final defensive play call that would save the Wolverines from Akron was going to
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Senior defensive back Courtney Avery has played limited minutes recently.
be before Mattison even called it. The play — “cable zero train” — was a full-on blitz, with complete man-to-man coverage from the cornerbacks and no help from the safeties. “Everybody has a responsibility. Everybody has a gap. Everybody has to execute that defense perfectly, and they did,” Mattison said. “In that defense, if you take a false step, you’re a second late.” And no one executed better than junior linebacker Brennen Beyer, whose hit on Akron quar-
terback Kyle Pohl preserved the Wolverines’ perfect record. And apparently, all it takes to pull off that type of play is being a “Michigan man,” at least according to Mattison. “He just does what he’s coached to do every time,” Mattison said. “When he doesn’t, he will tell you before he doesn’t. That’s what we want in a Michigan defensive player, and that’s what he’s responded to do week in and week out, play in and play out.”
Wednesday, September 18, 2013 — 7A
MEN’S GOLF
Wolverines finish 3rd By JEFF GARLAND Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan men’s golf team opened the season Monday with a third-place finish in the Wolverine Intercollegiate at the University of Michigan Golf Course behind standout Chris O’Neill. The sophomore posted an impressive five-under-par 66 in his final round Tuesday, which brought his tournament total to seven-under par, good enough for an individual runner-up finish. Despite the low score, he didn’t necessarily play his best golf Tuesday. He managed to make putts when he needed to, though, which was a point of emphasis for him this offseason. “My putting has gotten significantly better since last season,” O’Neill said. After a tee shot deep into the trees, a lateral punch-out to the edge of the fairway and a straightforward approach onto the 15th green, the sophomore drilled a 10-footer into the back of the cup to save par. O’Neill pumped his fist as the ball rolled in. O’Neill’s best shot of the day came following a wayward tee shot on the par-3 12th hole that left his ball in a nasty green-side bunker. “There was a big slope,” O’Neill said. “I was able to land it on top of the slope with a bunch of spin, and it was able to check and then release down the slope. I just got lucky enough to have it on exactly the right line for it to go in.” O’Neill’s performance was complemented by sophomore lefty Brett McIntosh. He shot a one-under 212 for the tournament — good enough for a share of sixth place individually out of a field of 60. Collectively, the team finished four over par for the two-day, 54-hole tournament, five strokes behind the winner, Michigan State. Lamar finished second
with a score of one-over par. This tournament marks the only time the team will play at its home course all year. The last time the Wolverines played competitively as a team was the 2012-13 Big Ten Championships in April, when Michigan placed 10th out of 12. Despite the result, expectations are high for this year’s team. “We’ve got to compete at a high level, and we’ve got to compete to win tournaments,” said Michigan coach Chris Whitten. “That’s our expectation.” With a roster composed of three freshmen, three sophomores and one junior, this year’s group lacks the senior leadership of last year’s, but the current collection of talent is very exciting for the third-year coach. “This group is going to be together for a long time,” Whitten said. “The thing about them that stands out is the chemistry they have with each other, and we’ll get better because of that.” O’Neill is the team’s undisputed leader, both on and off the course. He is the team’s returning leader in scoring average, having posted a 73.96 mark per round last year. “I’m only a sophomore, but I did it last year,” O’Neill said. “It’s hard, especially for the freshmen coming in, so I’m just trying to show these guys how it’s done.” For the Wolverines, finishing in the top three of any event is always a team goal. In that respect, this was a successful tournament for Michigan. “We were in it with a chance to win with nine holes to go,” Whitten said. But the Wolverines were unable to come from behind and win at the end. Going forward, look for this team to play more aggressively down the stretch to put it in position to win tournaments.
Michigan blanked by Irish in road contest By SHANNON LYNCH Daily Sports Writer
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Junior linebacker Brennan Beyer saved the game against Akron with a hit on the quarterback at the goal line.
Pass rush a chief concern By MATT SLOVIN Managing Edior
Defensive coordinator Greg Mattison anticipated the question almost immediately after sitting down for his Tuesday press conference. “I might as well answer it before you ask,” Mattison said. “What about the pass rush?” Mattison feels that it’s him, not his defensive front, that has the most to answer to after another lackluster effort of pressuring the opposing quarterback in Saturday’s narrow win over Akron. He also expressed surprise that all of the teams Michigan has faced so far have opted to go into max protection. Senior defensive tackle Jibreel Black noted that teams are quickly picking up on the increased emphasis placed on the pass rush in camp. “We’ve got a lot of athletes on our defensive line,” Black said. “We’ve really got to focus, tune in and get past that max protection.” According to Mattison, teams are choosing to turn games against the Wolverines into possession battles, challenging Michigan to either send more men to pressure the QB or sit
back and get shredded apart. So far the Wolverines have opted for the latter option, getting torched for 346 yards per game through the air. Still, Mattison acknowledged that all the criticism of the defensive woes shouldn’t fall on the pas rush. After all, it’s only three games into the season and some leeway is warranted for each defensive lineman to figure how to fulfill his role. The secret to an effective pass rush is success in individual matchups. That has eluded Michigan to this point, and according to Mattison, it will continue to until the defensive front masters moves it should be grasping. The Wolverines defense was held without a sack against the Zips and has collected just five sacks through three weeks. “I don’t think we’re overwhelmed,” Black said. “We didn’t digest the information as well as we could’ve so that’s why we’re going back to the drawing board.” Black also said that it would be unfair to judge the line exclusively by its sack totals, though he did say, “The numbers don’t lie.” According to Black, this week in practice has marked a return to fundamentals for the unit. The Wolverines will con-
tinue to rotate speedier bodies into obvious passing situations, because they lack the movement that players like 301-pound fifth-year senior defensive tackle Quinton Washington and 315pound sophomore defensive tackle Ondre Pipkins have from the outside. As the unit continues to search for solutions going forward, Black said he wouldn’t take it personally should Mattison decide to dial up more blitz’s. “We want to do what’s best for the team,” Black said. “If it’s best for the team to blitz certain quarterbacks, that’s what we’re going to do.” Whether sending more than four rushers will solve Michigan’s pass rush problems remains to be seen. But a change is needed before the lack of pressure shows up as an ‘L’. After all, a goal-line stand with an all-out blitz on the last play of the game is all that kept Michigan from a devastating loss to Akron. “I told them on Sunday, it’s not acceptable how we’re pass rushing,” Mattison said. “Apparently, I’m not doing a good job of teaching you, and I’m going to do a good job teaching you because we are going to be able to pass rush.”
It’s been nearly 11 months since the Michigan men’s soccer team has earned a regular-season victory on the road. Tuesday night, the Fighting Irish shut down the Wolverines, 3-0, in South Bend, Ind., making that stretch of time a 0 MICHIGAN NOTRE DAME 3 little longer and a little more painful for the team, its fans and Michigan coach Chaka Daley. After posting a 1-5 road mark last season, the team is hungry for wins in enemy territory, and it showed on the field against Notre Dame. But so did its inability to capitalize on offensive chances. The Wolverines racked up 13 fouls in the first half alone, and freshman defenseman Andre Morris was issued a yellow card in the 43rd minute, the first of three cautions for the team on the night. The Wolverines tacked on another 10 fouls in the second half, while freshman midfielder
Brett Nason and senior defenseman Ezekiel Harris were the Michigan players tagged with yellow cards. While it was the Wolverines (1-2-2) that had the game’s first scoring chances off shots from sophomore forward James Murphy and junior midfielder Marcos Ugarte, Notre Dame (3-0-2) was able to capitalize early on when senior forward Harrison Shipp tucked the ball behind Grinwis and into the left corner of the goal in the third minute. Notre Dame scored again in the 24th minute off a header from sophomore midfielder Evan Panken, and its final marker came in the 81st minute off a breakaway goal that slid in the lower-right side of the goal. Each team posted seven shots in the first half, yet Michigan couldn’t put the ball past senior goalie Patrick Wall. Murphy and senior forward Fabio Pereira, two of Michigan’s top scorers, continuously missed outside the box or gave the ball right back to Notre Dame. Michigan had to fight on
defense after the break, unable to move the ball up the field until a good 20 minutes in. The Fighting Irish maintained possession for the majority of the half, not allowing the Wolverines to even get a second-half shot off until the 67th minute. Michigan had only five shots in total in the second half to Notre Dame’s 12. While Grinwis allowed three goals, he also came up with five saves, tied for his season high. Co-captain and redshirt junior midfielder Tyler Arnone gave the Wolverines their best chance for a goal in the 79th minute, beating two defenders from 19 yards out before firing a left-footed blast that was deflected out of bounds by Wall for a corner kick, one of six Michigan earned on the evening. The loss was a tough pill to swallow for a team that is so badly in need of road wins, and it served as a reminder that it will take more than an aggressive onfield presence to win games. Note: Michigan coach Chaka Daley refused to comment after the game.
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Sophomore forward James Murphy led all players with four shots on goal in the loss.
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Racine enters year as No. 1 goaltender By GREG GARNO Daily Sports Writer
Featured on sophomore goaltender Stave Racine’s biography on the Athletic Department’s website is his list of accomplishments. Included are his career achievements, highlights from last season and game-by-game statistics. But one category — the shutouts — reads different than the others. Instead of the number NOTEBOOK zero, it reads, “To come.” The phrase, though common for future milestones on MGoBlue.com, says a great deal about the confidence the Michigan hockey team and its coaching staff have in Racine this season. In the team’s first week of practice, Michigan coach Red Berenson declared Racine the Wolverines’ starter for their Oct. 9 season opener against Boston College. “Now, I think it’s a whole different ballgame,” Berenson said. “He’s been through a year of the routine. Of school, and hockey, and off-ice training and he’s had the ups and downs. Fortunately, he finished on a high. “If 90 or 100 percent of the game is mental, then he’s got a lot more confidence going forward.” Last year, it took the Wolverines nearly three quarters of the season to decide on a starting netminder, but the way Racine played at the end of the season was enough to set him apart. Racine started the final 10 games of the season, in which he allowed 2.1 goals per game and posted an 8-1-1 record. He also made three saves to assure Michigan a shootout win in the regular-season finale against Ferris State. At the beginning of last year, Racine was slowed due to a summer hip surgery that kept him off the ice for six months. In his first nine games, he posted a 2-5-2 record, leading Berenson to rotate goalies for the duration of the season. “This is definitely the hardest I’ve worked in the summer,” Racine said. “Fitness-wise, I’m much stronger than I was at the end of last year and especially at the beginning of last year.” But Racine’s improved season doesn’t guarantee that his spot is secure for the remainder of the season, according to Berenson. Freshman goaltender Zach Nagelvoort, a late commit from the United States Hockey League,
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Junior forward Alex Guptill led Michigan in goals scored with 16 last season.
has been declared the primary backup. The Wolverines already feel more confident with Racine starting in net after his success last year. That confidence will be needed after Berenson said that the sixth defenseman spot is still up for grabs. “If every time he turned the
“It means I don’t have a better place to go.” puck over and it ends up in your net, pretty soon you’re fighting the puck,” Berenson said. “I mean, if I make two or three mistakes, then maybe I can get that behind me and get my game together. “It’s a team thing. I think our whole team has a lot more confidence in Steve Racine than they did a year ago.” GUPTILL SITS OUT: Tuesday, Berenson announced that junior forward Alex Guptill — last year’s leading scorer — hasn’t been skating so far. Berenson didn’t specify as to why, but said that he removed him “because of something that happened this
fall.” Berenson didn’t say how long Guptill would be off the ice, but said he would be back at some point. Guptill was also one of three players Berenson listed as needing a breakout year, along with senior forward Luke Moffatt and junior forward Phil Di Giueseppe. Last year, Guptill led the team with 16 goals and finished second with 20 assists. He is expected to be one of the top forwards, should he continue his form from last year. WILY VETERAN: Red Berenson has been coaching so long that he has impressed himself. That, or he needs something else to do. When the season begins on Oct. 9, Berenson will begin his 30th year at the helm of the program, by far the longest-tenured coach in program history. “It means I don’t have a better place to go,” Berenson said. Berenson said that the lateseason stretch in which the Wolverines climbed four spots in the CCHA standings over the final weeks was rejuvenating. Berenson’s 789-389-82 record makes him the fifth-winningest coach in Division I history and No. 2 among active coaches. “The plan wasn’t to come and stay necessarily, it was to come and be at Michigan again,” Berenson said. “To try and resurrect the program and help players live the dream.”
Without King, ‘M’ looks to freshmen By JASON RUBINSTEIN Daily Sports Writer
Prior to the end of last season, the Michigan men’s tennis team knew it was losing a one-of-akind player in Big Ten Athlete of the Year Evan King. When it was all said and done, the wily veteran became the program’s alltime win leader and arguably the greatest player it has ever had. How do you replace that? Coach Bruce Berque will be the first to tell you: it starts with recruiting. And he took a big step toward finding the next King when he announced the commitments of Tyler Gardiner and Kevin Wong in January. Gardiner and Wong certainly won’t be expected to completely replace King, but Berque hopes that they bring competiveness to bolster a deep, senior-heavy team. The freshmen feature strikingly different backgrounds. Gardiner hails from Novi, Mich., while Wong grew up in Hong Kong. Despite learning the game thousands of miles apart, Berque sees similar traits in the two freshmen. “They are both good athletes and neither of them are very big physically,” Berque said. “They
are both all-court players and have hands at the net, allowing for good doubles skills.” Getting the freshmen to Ann Arbor, though, was a completely contrasting process. Tennisrecruiting.net, an American tennis recruiting service, rated Gardiner as a fourstar recruit after he won the Michigan state championship his junior year and placed second his senior year, amassing a 63-2 highschool record in the process. But not even King held his own during his freshman year campaign facing the stiff Big Ten competition. “In high school, (Gardiner) was just that much better than people, but it’s a whole new level he’s about to dive into,” Berque said. “For him to continue his success at the college level, he will have to outwork his competition and get more competitive and not just for the team, but for himself.” Wong took a different path. Growing up in Hong Kong, exposure to the U.S.’ collegiate system can be difficult. However, Wong played several International Tennis Federation tournaments, including some in the United States. Michigan has had a player from Hong Kong before. Brian
Hung, a 2006 graduate, is one of the greatest doubles players in school history and holds the record for most doubles wins in a season. Wong knew about Hung’s success in Ann Arbor before the recruiting process began, so he always had an eye on Michigan. Wong ranked as high as No. 93 in the ITF and has two victories against blue-chip recruits. But despite the prior successes, the freshmen shouldn’t expect to see King’s result right away. “My expectations for them are to have high expectations for themselves and to really push themselves to put them in a position to help the team in the lineup,” Berque said. “I think it’s a stretch for both and a good goal for both. We will be constantly re-evaluating and resetting new goals as we go along.” King’s void inherently leaves the No. 1 singles and doubles spots open for competition. Is it a spot a freshman can jump into? Probably not, but Berque wouldn’t rule it out. After all, Gardiner and Wong each have elite doubles skills, while Wong has three ITF doubles championships on his résumé. “They are the dark horses,” Berque said. “I think it’s realistic they see the lineup, but also a stretch.”
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the fashion voyeur: military time by adrienne roberts Fashion has never had what you would call a “tight-knit relationship” with feminism. The associations are seemingly irreconcilable. Feminists traditionally don’t stand for materialism; the fashion industry doesn’t stand for frumpiness. Yet it’s hard to argue that fashion isn’t a very real form of self-expression. What we purchase, and how we put those pieces together, is a very tangible statement about who we are and how we want others to see us. Fashion is a way to communicate your identity, whether you’re a feminist or not. What we’re seeing on the runway, as well as on the streets of Ann Arbor, are women dressed in military inspired clothing, from lace-up boots to brass-buttoned jackets. On the runway for the Fall 2013 season, Michael Kors showed women dressed in camouflage mink coats and goggles. Charlotte Ronson, Rachel Roy and Rebecca Minkoff all were inspired by military style. Prabal Gurung perhaps took the trend most literally, limiting his entire collection to army green as the primary color. According to Fashionista.com, Gurung drew his inspiration from the measures the U.S. military has taken to adapt their uniforms to the growing number of female troops. Other articles, however, say that Gurung was inspired by an all-female conclave in the Carpathian Mountains where “women are supposedly trained in the martial arts to build selfconfidence and are generally empowered to combat a culture of gender inequality and sexual trafficking.” While the article notes that this conclave’s existence is questionable, it’s certainly a statement regardless. Male and female designers both
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lsa senior joanna rew pairs a military green jacket with leather shoulder pads with black skinny jeans. created clothing for the powerful women they were inspired by. But this trend is hardly new. In World War I, British soldiers needed coats to keep them warm in the trenches, and Thomas Burberry is credited for designing the first ever trench coat. By the 1940s, the trench coat was deemed a stylish piece. Since then, military-inspired styles
have been seen on the runway, from U.S. army jackets in the 1970s to combat boots in the 1990s. Military style today has been stripped of any meaning in support of the military (if anything, it’s most likely ironic); instead, military-inspired clothing makes a very specific feminist statement when it comes to fash-
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ion. Trench coats and camouf lage pants don’t exactly scream sex, and women are literally buttonedup or laced into their clothing. It’s utilitarian and, furthermore, it’s definitely not a style that’s worn for the attention of a man. This is women dressing for women at its finest. This type of clothing, in its androgyny, effectively obstructs the male gaze. Women have been dressing like this for hundreds of years, wearing clothes that have no explicit sex appeal and that make references to women in heroic roles. This is nothing new, yet the fashion industry and feminists are still not on the same page. It’s interesting that college women are overwhelmingly adopting this trend and communicating a very specific identity. It’s by no means overkill; one small piece, from leather shoulder panels on a military green jacket to brown lace-up boots, delivers the message. I think we’re finally seeing the start of not just the military trend coming back into style once again, but also the eventual unification of fashion and feminism.
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“I made a lot of mistakes today. It was probably my worst game ever, but it won’t happen again.” – DEVIN GARDNER, redshirt junior quarterback, on barely grabbing a win in Saturday’s game against Akron.
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Actor Zac Efron, who plays a frat bro in the upcoming film “Neighbors,” secretly completed a stint in rehab five months ago, according to E! News. Sources say he’s healthy and no longer drinking alcohol. Let’s hope this former Disney star can keep clean.
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hey are multinational, multiracial. They are the GSIs leading your Friday chemistry discussions, your group members in your Design and Manufacturing course and researchers scurrying around campus labs in white coats. Some will be management consultants for Accenture. Others will be computer engineers for Amazon, Google and Facebook. Big names. Important names. Still, some will be told to leave. Chan Woo Kim, a senior studying Industrial and Operations Engineering, knows this. As a South Korean citizen who grew up in Hong Kong, his job search will be harder than usual, despite graduating with a degree that could normally land him a nice consulting gig. “I want to work here,” he said, seated in the basement of Espresso Royale on South University Ave. He paused, then added, “But, ya’ know, that visa thing, that green card, citizenship — it’s a big obstacle.” As an international student, Kim is here on an F-1 visa, which gives graduates with the minimum of a bachelor’s degree or a comparable degree 12 months of Optional Practical Training, or OPT. For graduates in science, technology, engineering or mathematics that period can be extended to 29 months. To stay any longer requires an H-1B visa — a program started in 1990 for temporary immigration to the United States and is issued for three years but can be extended to six years. But H-1B visas are hard to come by. They’re capped at 65,000 per year with an additional 20,000 for holders of U.S. advanced degrees. Institutions for research and higher educa-
tion are exempt from the annual H-1B visa cap, according to Louise Baldwin, associate director of the University’s International Center. Which means even if the 85,000 visas disappear, the University, for example, could still hire foreign employees on H-1B visas. A company like Google, however, could not, which makes securing a job — and staying in the U.S. after getting a degree — difficult for international students. While the immigration reform bill that passed in the Senate in June would increase the number of H-1Bs to as high as 180,000, it has yet to pass in the House of Representatives. A NATIONAL DEBATE AT THE UNIVERSITY
High-tech industries want foreign talent. Just ask Mark Zuckerberg, whose political action committee FWD.us was formed to lobby Congress on immigration reform. Other members of FWD.us’s leadership include Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn, Aditya Agarwal, vice president of engineering at Dropbox, and Bill Gates. They want foreign talent with skills their companies can use. This year, the national H-1B visa cap was reached just five days after the applications went live. In 2012, it took 10 weeks. So does it make sense to keep this current limit in place when demand is so clearly outstripping supply? James Duderstadt, University president emeritus and professor of science and engineering, says no. “We spend a tremendous amount (of resources) educating international students of extraordinary talent,” he said. “And then when they
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finish their degrees, in many cases, they would like to stay here and we tell them to go away, which is crazy.” With 21 other corporate and academic leaders from around the country, Duderstadt helped author “Research Universities and the Future of America,” a series of 10 recommendations to Congress on how to improve U.S. research universities. The study proposes a streamlined process to give green cards, which allow permanent residence in the United States, to international students graduating with master’s degrees or Ph.D.s, keeping them in the country and keeping the U.S. globally competitive. In 2009, 55.2 percent of doctorates given to temporary visa holders were for engineering, while 42.4 percent were for the physical sciences, according to a national study. At the University from 2009 to 2012, international students accounted for more than 50 percent of total enrollment in the College of Engineering Master’s and Ph.D. programs. “We have universities capable of attracting talent from around the world,” Duderstadt said. “We ought to make it easy for people we attract to stay here, if they choose to do so.” Yet, some say international students are admitted to universities at the expense of citizens from minority groups, such as Latinos, blacks and Native Americans, that are historically underrepresented in the science and engineering fields. But Duderstadt, quick to give a historical analogy, said the nation has always relied on foreign talent for scientific innovation, from European immigrants in the twentieth
century to Asian immigrants today. It gets tricky when universities try to attract world-class talent and serve local populations simultaneously. Given the eroding state support for public universities, you can’t really do both, he said. “The University of Michigan is kind of on a knife edge right now,” he said. “I don’t think we have the answer yet of how we meet both the public purpose of public universities in this country, which is to serve a very gross spectrum of our population, and at the same time act as a talent magnet to recruit United States talent from around the world that kind of fuels our economy and provides leadership.” Most foreign nationals pay full international tuition, with few scholarships available to them. This, too, jeopardizes a public institution’s purpose, especially if it purports to serve the “common man,” Duderstadt said. “Public universities are attracting a very large number of wealthy international students that come with the capacity to pay $50,000 a year for their education,” he said. “To the degree that the common man is being redefined as someone that can pay $50,000 a year, we’re not meeting our public purpose.” Kim agreed. “It takes a huge toll in terms of finances,” said Kim, the engineering senior, who pays full tuition. “But the way I look at it, it’s a good investment as long as I stay dedicated to my program.” But why is it a good investment for Kim, given the tough visa requirements? According to Duderstadt, the reason is simple: he’s needed. Those who need him — high-tech industries — are pushing hard to get him to stay.
“We’re just not producing enough of these folks in the United States,” Duderstadt said. HIGH AND LOW (TECH) CLASSES
In scientific circles, there’s a debate that goes something like this: Businesses say they can’t find the talent they need in the domestic labor market. Critics say the talent is here, but foreign workers are preferable because they work for cheaper wages. “What is happening is that the people who run this industry are getting everything they want, and the workers are being completely ignored,” Kim Berry, president of the Programmers Guild, told The Verge, a technology news publication, in July. “American workers are being passed over in favor of foreign workers who make far less money, and politicians seem oblivious to our plight.” According to a study done in May at the Brookings Institution, an independent research think tank based in Washington, D.C., workers on H-1B visas are paid more than their American counterparts working the same jobs. In 2010, there were 5,439 H-1B engineers between the ages of 26 and 30 whose wages averaged $75,376. Their American counterparts averaged $65,686. Likewise, for engineers ages 31-35, there were 4,580 H-1B engineers whose wages averaged $82,604 while their American counterparts averaged $78,195. “For every prominent H-1B occupational category, except life scientists and operations specialties managers, wage growth was stronger than the national average since 2009,” the report states. Though this appears to contradict the image of H-1B workers as exploited and underpaid, the
report also says “about 25 percent” of H-1B visa requests are for jobs that don’t require more than an associate’s degree, meaning “the current U.S. workforce could be trained to do these jobs at relatively little cost” instead of relying on foreign labor. And according to a February report from Computerworld, the majority of H-1B visa recipients receive training in the U.S. and then return to their home countries to continue working. According to The Verge, “the largest employers of H-1B workers aren’t firms like Facebook and Microsoft, they are actually outsourcing companies like InfoSys, Tata and Wiproc.” This indicates high-skilled international scientists and engineers fill vital, otherwise vacant, highly-paid positions, while the mid-level IT worker is competing with someone willing to take a slightly smaller paycheck. “GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY I GREW UP IN”
Chandramouli Nagarajan, a senior studying mechanical engineering, wants to go home, one day. Born in India, he grew up in Ghana and considers it home. A smile breaks across his face as he describes the markets, beaches and warm weather he was raised in. He talks about “giving back to the community (he) grew up in” since Ghana’s economy is developing and growing — he wants to be a part of that change, using the skills he gained here. But first he needs experience, American experience. He’s only just starting the job hunt, but already the harsh reality of finding an employer willing to sponsor him for his visa is beginning to sink in.
“You see a hundred job postings online,” he said. “Then you hit that check mark saying ‘accepting international’ and it easily goes down to like 10 or even less than that. So that’s pretty scary.” Not to mention the visa hunt. “They have a quota on how many H-1 visas they give out,” he said. “And that disappears. Like every year it fills up within a week and then it disappears totally.” Kerri Boivin, director of the College of Engineering’s Career Center, said she frequently encounters companies unwilling to hire international students. They could put all their resources into hiring a student, only to have that student’s visa application rejected. “During their recruiting in the fall, if they have a domestic student and an international student who have the same qualifications, they’re mostly going to go with the domestic student,” she said. Companies most likely to hire foreign graduates, she said, are those that do not have government contracts and do not require a security clearance. In “Is American Science in Decline?”, Sociology Prof. Yu Xie, one of the paper’s co-authors, argues that salaries for science careers have not kept pace with highly-educated fields such as law, medicine and business, thus lowering the cost of doing science in the United States., while also making scientific careers less attractive. Moreover, “science is globalized,” Xie said, and undergraduate science training in countries like India, China and South Korea is often comparable to that in the United States While it’s known that elementary math and science educations are lacking in the United States, it
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still has the best graduate programs in these fields, he said. Given recent trends of foreign graduates returning to their home countries to live and work, he says it’s necessary to make the United States an attractive place to live and work for skilled graduates in STEM fields. Otherwise, they’ll leave, he said. “H-1B problems? Pivot to Canada,” reads a billboard in California, an attempt to attract the brightest tech wizzes out of Silicon Valley and into Canada, a country with more lax visa requirements. In the past year, Boivin cited an increase of companies hiring international students to work at branches in their home countries. Will Nagarajan work for a branch of Dow Chemical or Exxon Mobil in Ghana or India? For now, like most seniors, he’s figuring it out, with an added twist — he could be forced to leave after spending upwards of $200,000 for his education. Lately, he’s begun to think about congressional policy for the first time. He has to. After all, it could seriously affect him. “(Companies are) looking to hire very advanced technical-skills people. But … there aren’t necessarily Americans that have those skills,” he said. “I guess the policies were mostly probably made to keep jobs for Americans. And, I mean, I agree with them.” He paused, rubbing his hands together, thinking. “But if there isn’t really an American who can fit the job then shouldn’t the company be given the free chance to bring in the international person who can do the job?”
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hat would you expect to see in a University sponsored feminist magazine? A howto on the most effective ways to burn your bra? A picture of Todd Akin with a bulls-eye over his face? A hundred things to say while rejecting the creep that hit on you at Rick’s? Since early 2012, the monthly magazine What the F has been working to connect the women of the University, giving them a place to go every time they’ve seen something in the media or their daily lives that made them say, “What the eff??” “Fresh, funny, factual, feminine, feminist, f*ck,” is what the “f” stands for in the magazine title. You’re probably not used to seeing that last word associated with University publications, but What the F, the official women’s health publication on campus, has been pushing the envelope ever since its creation two years ago. What started out as two girls in a women’s health class tasked to find a way to use the media to promote women’s health is now a monthly publication that prides itself on bringing “lady Wolverines” accurate information in an edgy manner. LSA senior Jennifer Spears, What the F president and founding editorial board member, sees the magazine as a catalyst for dialogue and discussion regarding women’s health and other issues. As president, Spears works to expand What the F’s presence beyond the printed magazine by hosting events in order to allow people to learn more about the publication and the issues they advocate for, such as showings of the documentary “Miss Representation,” which criticizes in the role of women in the American media. This year, the ladies of What the F plan to take their stories online with a website launch in an attempt to expand their readership beyond 2,000 printed copies. “Aside from being a magazine, What the F brings social change to campus and gets a conversation started by bringing these issues to the forefront,” she said. “Working in a publication that goes to such lengths to be not racist, sexist or violent really made me more aware of how much the media is into those things.” With regards to feminism, Spears hopes the magazine dispels the misconceptions that many have about the movement. “I think that everyone should be a feminist,” she said. “It’s not like women are trying to take over the world, we just want to be equal and I think people who don’t think that are just misinformed. We’re not man-hating feminists, and we understand that men also have issues. We just want to
be represented equally.” For Co Editor in Chief Brianna Kovan, also an LSA senior, her journey with What the F began with her interest in publishing. “I want to pursue (publishing) as a career, but it’s disheartening to see how many magazines that claim to be aimed at women end up being very male-centered,” she said. “The neat part is how (What the F) combines the literary aspect as well as social-justice themes, which I’m really passionate about, but I feel like don’t
and fighting for social justice.” Kovan added that people are often shocked by her beliefs, frequently receiving the comment that she “doesn’t look like a feminist” — a preconceived idea of a man-hater with hairy armpits clouding their ability to hear her message. “When people say that to me, I just have to laugh,” Kovan said. “It definitely reminds me why it’s important that we have this publication on campus.” When asked about the shock-factor of some of their articles, Kovan explained
“I think that everyone should be a feminist. It’s not like women are trying to take over the world, we just want to be equal and I think people who don’t think that are just misinformed. We’re not man-hating feminists, and we understand that men also have issues. We just want to be represented equally.” Jennifer Spears, LSA senior always go together.” Kovan said before joining the What the F staff, she was hesitant to describe herself as a feminist because of the stereotypes and implications. “After doing (Residence Advisor) training and taking some women’s studies classes, I realized that my ideals align with that of many feminists,” she said. “The thing that I like about feminism is that you can define it for yourself and really be whoever you want to be. For me, it’s not about superiority over men but about sparking debates
that it’s one of her favorite things about What the F. “My favorite article was one from last year where an artist made a compilation of all of these plaster-cast vaginas,” she said. “The article that went with it talked about the process and how it was done, as well as why they did it, and it was really cool. I think it probably freaked a lot of people out, but when you take that strong of a stance on something you’re probably going to do that.” Stories in the publication run the gamut from personal stories regarding sexual
assault to vagina cupcakes and tips for finding the perfect vibrator. They’ve got opinions about Miley Cyrus’s performance at MTV’s Video Music Awards, the wage gap, Congressman Todd Akin, Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” and the heteronormative nature of the Disney princesses. LSA senior Jillian McConville said working at the magazine helped cultivate her interest in women’s issues. “I fell in love with everything that the magazine stands for working at What the F,” McConville said. McConville also admitted that prior to working with What the F, she was wary of the F-word. “Feminist is a very intimidating word for a lot of people and it carries a lot of unnecessary negative stereotypes,” she said. “I would have never really told any of my friends that I was a feminist at the time, but junior year of college, I had this realization that I did identify with a lot of things that feminists stand for and I would be proud to say it.” McConville added that working for the magazine has opened her eyes to the realities of complex women’s issues, both at the University level and on a global scale. “Working at What the F has helped me embrace a lot of things about femininity and also myself, giving me the ability to observe women in a broader scope,” she said. “As a Christian, white woman, I’ve never had to consider what other religions and races experience in their fight for their rights and equality, but this has helped me to see that.” McConville said she appreciates the varied content within the pages of What the F. “My favorite thing about What the F is the articles that people have been strong enough to write about their experiences with rape and sexual assault, because I’ve seen firsthand the impact that it has on people who read it and have had a similar experience and are still trying to find their strength,” she said. “But on the other hand, you’ll see some shocking things too, like this portrait that was done by a really talented artist, made entirely of period blood. You never know what you’re going to find between the pages of What the F.” McConville adds that What the F is made to empower women, taking issues that seem taboo and making them more approachable. “The general consensus is that periods are super gross and awkward and we should never talk about them ever, but newsf lash, we all have them, so why is that weird?”
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hen I first came to New Jersey from Bangladesh, I stayed in a two-bedroom apartment that was about 1,070 square feet altogether. I would spend the next 12 years of my life there. The apartment complex was called Quail Ridge and located in the suburban town of Plainsboro. These are the only statements I can make about the place where I grew up that aren’t muddled by conflicting emotions. The front door was both a cheerful cherry red as well as a mocking vermillion. The cube-shaped bedrooms were both comforting and suffocating. The living room was a soothing crème on lazy Sunday afternoons but an apathetic beige on angry Friday nights. I rarely called the place home. It was either my apartment or simply Quail Ridge when I described it. As a 6-year-old, the words Quail Ridge evoked images of sharp-eyed quails roosting far above on the roofs of the buildings. I imagined that they spent their time watching and observing those below them mercilessly. It was difficult to tell to what kind of conclusions they came to from their observations. These quails had indiscernible expressions much like my new classmates in Mrs. Hansen’s second-grade class. My apartment became the physical manifestation of all that was foreign to me in America — the blue-eyed children, the funny language and odd food. My house in Dhaka was a rectangular, pale pink building sandwiched snugly between a weathered, mustard-yellow house and an unfinished seven-story apartment. The apartments in Plainsboro were surreal in comparison. Quail Ridge was rows of buildings with redshingled roofs and wooden balconies. I would wander with my mom through the neighborhood and stare in bewilderment at the uniformity of it all. My first month in Plainsboro, I had trouble remembering which one of the buildings I was supposed to go to. We had little furniture and had more take-out than I ever thought my mom would allow. All of this led me to the conclusion that this was all a long vacation. For an extended holiday, I concluded that the apartment was an acceptable hotel. Home was the house where I woke up to the noise of construction every morning. The idea of a holiday was squashed when I was enrolled into school. I counted down the days until I could return for the summer to Bangladesh in June and cried every
by Tanaz Ahmed August when I was forced to leave. I told everyone that I went to study in America and thus could only come home once every nine months. This pattern continued on for a while even when I began to notice that I seemed to have less and less in common with my friends in Bangladesh each year I visited. We were living different lifestyles. I was learning about the American Revolution and they were learning about the Bangladesh Liberation War. I used a washing machine and they had maids. Because of my half-com-
only meant to be placeholders for something nicer at the “new house.” Days congealed into months and months into years and we were still living in Quail Ridge. Yet, in those 12 years, we did not change our attitudes towards the apartment. Explanations, rationales and excuses were given for why we had outstayed all of our neighbors and even the complex’s managment companies. The apartment was small and crowded for a family of five. Things like money and jobs always seemed to get in the way of obtaining another
pleted education in Bangladesh and my lack of practice, I slowly forgot how to read and write Bengali. Quail Ridge became a place where I didn’t have to be ashamed because I couldn’t read the street signs and where my friends didn’t giggle at the notion of living in apartments that looked like everyone else’s. After a few years in America, my parents sold our house in Bangladesh to distant relatives. Soon my relatives referred to it as their home. If the house in Dhaka was no longer my home, then why didn’t that make Quail Ridge my home by default? Quail Ridge was supposed to be a transitional place for us, or at least that is how my parents had planned it. We never bothered painting the rooms because it was accepted that we would be moving out soon. My mom never bothered to fully decorate the apartment. “I’ll get this when we get our new house,” was the line every time we went to Home Depot or Lowe’s. The sofas, the curtains and even the dishes we bought for the apartment were all
apartment. The countless disappointments became the main source of contention for my family. They became bitter and exhausted. The apartment mocked my parent’s aspirations of having lifestyle as comfortable and accommodating in America as they had in Bangladesh. While my parents spent their days dreaming of a pale pink home in America, my brothers quickly abandoned Quail Ridge. They were both in college by the time I was ten. After graduation, they wasted no time finding places of their own. Quail Ridge was regarded as a location where they briefly stayed and a place where they didn’t want to particularly return to. After I finished high school, my parents finally found a new place. As I packed for college and put away the rest of my things in assorted cardboard boxes, I was surprised by the sheer number of dusty, dog-eared chapter books and crumpled science projects appearing from the depths of my closet. Proof of my
long existence at Quail Ridge was scattered everywhere. The wall next to the TV was marked with a small line of wobbly pencil marks indicating my long held aspirations of one day becoming six-feet tall. The taupe carpet in front of my parent’s bedroom door was stained by greenish blue splatters, evidence of a nine-year-old’s attempt to be Van Gogh. Although the number of bedrooms and bathrooms in Quail Ridge are the only things I can describe that aren’t entangled with a slew of emotions, it’s all I know about the new place my parents are moving to. I don’t know how the color of the front door or the shape of the room will make me feel. The introduction of a foreign location makes me want to romanticize what that small apartment in the quiet town of Plainsboro meant to me. But as much I want to pretend as though I always loved Quail Ridge, I know this is far from the truth. Home is a far more malleable concept than I ever let myself think it could be. Home has a variety of traditional definitions. It can be the location a person originates from or the place where someone resides. Home can also be a feeling of being in harmony with one’s surroundings. Quail Ridge isn’t the place where I am from nor is it the place where I am currently living. My living environment there was usually inharmonious. When I was younger, calling Quail Ridge home meant that I was rejecting my past and Bangladeshi roots. As I grew older, I didn’t want to embrace the place because my feelings were at odds with the rest of my family. My parents didn’t consider Quail Ridge home and neither did my brothers. For my parents, it was a daily reminder of everything they hadn’t accomplished. To my brothers, it only brought back memories of too many toothbrushes in the bathroom and endless shouting in the living room. Would calling Quail Ridge home mean that I wasn’t being supportive of my parent’s hopes or that I was pretending it didn’t hold ugly memories? I realize now that accepting Quail Ridge as home means I am finally comfortable being a Bangladeshi American. It means accepting that home for me is where I have experienced both painful events but also wonderful ones, like learning how to read an entire book on my own or discovering my love for painting. Tanaz is an LSA sophomore.
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013 // The Statement
“Can female students have it all after graduating from the University?” with Associate Prof. Elizabeth Armstrong and Business junior Sumana Palle Sumana Palle, a Business junior and executive board member for What the F feminist magazine, and Associate Prof. Elizabeth Armstrong, a sociologist who specializes in gender and higher education research, met at The Michigan Daily newsroom to discuss this question. Below are selected excerpts from their conversation.
“People are always going to have to make choices about what things they care about, and that’s men and women. It’s just women are usually put in that situation of having to make harder choices.”
Sumana Palle: I mean, I know the intention wasn’t bad, but when I first read the question I was kind of offended, I felt like it was a bit sexist. It was such a gendered question as if something different is expected of male students than female students. Which it is, in reality, but I feel like at this point we should try and combat that as opposed to asking if it is possible for females to have the same quality of life — I felt that the question was implying — as males. Prof. Elizabeth Armstrong: That’s interesting. I guess the way to rephrase the question … is how do both men and women kind of build lives out of college where they can combine work and family, personal and professional success, and what are the conditions for that? SP: Right, and I felt like the question should more be what can we do to make sure that female students can have it all, as vague as that is. What can we do to make sure everyone regardless of race, gender, sexuality, whatever can have whatever they want to have, and that should be the question. EA: Expanding the options. SP: Right. EA: But, then of course, that immediately leads to what are some of the things that tend to reduce those options for people. And of course, that would vary depending on what kind of group they’re in whether it’s gender or race or disability or sexual orien-
— Prof. Elizabeth Armstrong
tation, so, I don’t know.
making hard choices. So, it shouldn’t be a kind of dichotomy.
--SP: Exactly. SP: I feel like a lot of our conversation about strong women tends to surround, well, either you’re this way or this way. The conversation tends to be divisive. You’re either the woman who chooses to have the career and you’re the bitch and you’re the one who sacrifices what is “important.” And you have the women who choose the family home, and, you know you’re the weak link who went against everything strong women have fought for in history and, I don’t know, I think the question implies there’s a black and white when really … EA: Well, it’s usually both “and” when people really want it all. They want to be able to be nurturing and professionally successful. And both strong and vulnerable and not have to be forced into
EA: Yeah, but it often gets pushed and it’s often assumed and it’s often put in a situation where it’s put on the individual, where it’s women who are deciding, “Oh, is she opting out or is she pursuing her career” when, in fact, the sort of circumstances in which people are placed are sort of forcing the hard decisions … SP: Exactly. EA: So it’s not the people are different so much as the decisions push people really in a dramatic way, either one way or the other. SP: Right. And I feel like we’re kind of in a changing environment where it’s not just female students who have to choose this, it’s also the male. We’re
no longer in traditional gender roles where the guy’s the one who kind of can have it all — he has the wife who chooses to stay home with the family. That’s no longer in existence. EA: No, and I think it’s still possible for some men, but I think that people miss out. When men are in a situation, or women, where their work demands are such where they can’t participate in the kind of meaningful moments in the lives of the people they care about, whether it’s children or other loved ones, where their at work and can’t leave when there’s a school play or a major hospital thing going on or a doctor’s appointment. It’s painful, it’s not really human if people can’t have the sort of f lexibility to do the things they need to do to take care of the people in their lives. And that has a real kind of class component to it too, because it’s likely that, you
know, one of the things graduating from the University of Michigan will buy most people, is the opportunity to have the kind of quality of work where they’ll have the f lexibility where they will be able to leave work to go to the doctors appointment whereas other people aren’t going to be able to have that if they’re going to get fired by taking the time. SP: Which, going back to what you were saying about the man having to sacrifice, that’s the other problem I had with the question that it kind of made it seem like only females have to face this choice but men do too. EA: Well there’s just a lot of things that it’s possible to want. So, I mean, in that sense there it comes to a kind of value-based thing. There’s the issue of what kind of structural arrangements can be set up to make it possible for people to have lots of different things that they value in their life but then it’s also the case that it probably isn’t possible for anybody — man or woman — to really fully engage in the nurturing of, like, five children and have a super, super amazingly ambitious career. I mean, they may be able to have five children and do that if they don’t actually fully participate themselves in the process of nurturing them, but there is a finite quality of life. I mean, we’re not going to all climb Mt. Everest and be president and have ten children. People are always going to have to make choices about what things they care about, and that’s men and women. It’s just women are usually put in that situation of having to make harder choices. SP: I completely agree! … And I do see where the question was coming from, I don’t want to completely bash the question, but in society, like you said, women do have to make harder choices and for us, I feel like it’s always a fight.