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Prof. to talk addiction in regard to Buddhism Psych. professor will attend conference with Daili Lama

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Issamar Almavur, a BAMN organizer, attends a speech by Jennifer Gratz at an event about the affirmative action case in North Quad Tuesday.

Gratz speaks at N. Quad Alum reflects on 2003 affirmative action case

By CAROLYN GEARIG Daily Staff Reporter

Jennifer Gratz, plaintiff in Gratz v. Bollinger, a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court case challenging the University’s race-based admissions policies that were

in place, spoke to more than 150 people at North Quad Residence Hall Tuesday night.

Student organization Young Americans for Liberty hosted the event, which was held in a large classroom that was standing room only. Outside, a crowd holding signs and chanting through megaphones protested Gratz’s views on affirmative action.

During the talk Gratz discussed the history of her

case as well as current events surrounding affirmative action.

Students and visitors from surrounding areas — including several high-school and middleschool students from Detroit — asked her questions and gave their opinions on the issue, at times raising their voices and engaging in arguments with Gratz.

Gratz’s talk came after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments Oct. 15 for Schuette

By RACHEL PREMACK Daily Staff Reporter

v. Coalition, which seeks to reverse the 2006 ballot initiative that amended the Michigan Constitution to ban race and gender consciousness in college admissions, commonly called Proposal 2.

Gratz sued the University in 1997 after she applied and was denied admission to the College of Literature, Science and the Arts in 1995. At the time, the University used a 150-point See GRATZ, Page 3A

Kent Berridge, the James Olds Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, hesitated a year ago before taking the offer to discuss his research on addiction with the Dalai Lama.

“It seemed so overwhelming; it was certainly nothing I would put myself forward for,” Berridge said. “I didn’t feel quite up to what the Dalai Lama group might want.”

But now Berridge is in Dharamsala, India, the site of the exiled Tibetan government, preparing to participate in Mind & Life XXVII: Craving, Desire and

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ANN ARBOR

City Council requests removal of marquee

Councilmembers say giant video screen on East Stadium Dr. distracts drivers

By MATTHEW JACKONEN Daily Staff Reporter

Certain members of the Ann Arbor City Council hope to see the new marquee digital bill-

board at Michigan Stadium shut off – at least partially.

Monday night, Councilmember Christopher Taylor (D–Ward 3) announced he, Margie Teall (D–Ward 4) and Marcia Higgins (D–Ward 4) will bring forward a request to discontinue the digital billboard at the next council meeting on Nov. 7.

In June, City Council passed an amendment to the existing outdoor advertising ordinance that prohibits the introduction

Addiction. It’s the 27th lecture sponsored by the Mind and Life Institute, a nonprofit organization that investigates the intersection between Buddhism and science founded in part by the head monk of Tibetan Buddhism.

All experts in their respective fields, the dozen event speakers typically include philosophers, scientists, psychologists and Buddhist monks. Berridge said he looks forward to the interdisciplinary perspectives the dialogue will offer.

Psychology Prof. David Meyer attended and organized a research dialogue with Daili Lama in 2009.

He said the interdisciplinary nature of the dialogues led to “profound new insights.”

“Buddhism has a lot of neat ideas that you can bring into a scientific framework to pursue further and that will advance both the science and, like the Dalai Lama would want, the Buddhism,” Meyer said.

See LAMA, Page 3A

of digital billboards into the city or the transformation of old billboards into digital ones.

Taylor said he and the other supporters are going to suggest that the University discontinue use of the billboard off East Stadium Boulevard because it can be distracting to drivers.

“We are going to request they … either decommission the billboard, or, if they decline to do that, to limit its usage to events See MARQUEE, Page 3A ERIN KIRKLAND/Daily

Grizzly Bear of Therapaws gets some attention from University students on the Diag Tuesday. Puppies came to the University as a stress reliever and part of the week-long Investing in Ability event.

CITY COUNCIL

From NYC to A2: Westphal Student and alum partner up to runs for council in 2nd ward launch South U food cart court BUSINESS

Candidate says council should focus on long-term issues

By FARONE E. RASHEED Daily Staff Reporter

With the general election approaching on Nov. 5, Ann Arbor resident Kirk Westphal is gearing up to run for city council in the Second Ward.

Westphal grew up on Long Island before subsequently moving to New York City. He describes the decision to move to Ann Arbor nine years ago as a mutual one with his wife.

“After we got married, we thought, ‘What’s the next phase of our lives?’ ” Westphal said.

“We both were still fans of New York, but we felt like it was time to see something else for a while.

We were thinking of starting a family, so we decided we need-

ed to pick a place we’d be happy regardless.”

Westphal got his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, earning an economics degree from the Wharton School. Upon moving to Ann Arbor, he acquired a Master’s degree in urban planning from the University.

While Westphal worked in marketing and advertising in New York, he now devotes See KIRK, Page 3A

Founders own Beet Box, formerly in Mark’s Carts

By ANASTASSIOS ADAMAPOLOUS For The Daily

South University Avenue will see a new addition to its already wide array of food options once

a new food cart enterprise opens.

The cart collection, named Eat The Hub, will take over an outdoor space located at 1215 S. University Ave. between Momo Tea and University Towers.

University alum Alex Perlman, co-founder of Eat The Hub, said he started the venture with Public Policy senior Noah Hoffman after working

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at the Beet Box cart at Mark’s Carts, a food cart space that has been running for three years on West Washington Street.

Hoffman said that Eat The Hub expects to open during the fall semester, but doesn’t know the exact date as final details are being settled with Washtenaw County. Though the opening date is not set, Perlman said See CARTS, Page 3A

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Bomb damages Sleeping Bear Dunes outhouse A bomb explosion severely damaged an outdoor toilet at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northwestern Michigan but caused no injuries, officials said Tuesday.

The device apparently detonated around 4:30 a.m. Sunday, Leelanau County Sheriff Mike Borkovich said. His office received a call from a man who heard the boom and said it shook his house.

Deputies searched the area but found nothing suspicious.

Later that day, someone reported damage to the outhouse, located at the School Lake boat launch in Cleveland Township about 2 miles from where the initial caller lives.

Technicians with the FBI and the Michigan State Police determined that a bomb had been placed in or next to the outhouse, Borkovich said. He said he couldn’t provide any details about the device.

DETROIT

Review shines light on Detroit streetlamp troubles A review of two Detroit neighborhoods reveals that nearly half of the streetlights don’t work.

The Public Lighting Authority of Detroit said Tuesday that about 2,200 of more than 4,900 streetlights in the block-by-block review are out.

The review is the first phase of two pilot projects and will be used to design new street lighting for both areas. Installation of new lights is expected to start next month.

Fewer than half of Detroit’s 88,000 streetlights are believed to work, resulting in complaints from residents and business owners. Entire blocks are left in the dark at night because overhead lights are blown or busted, or because the wiring has been ripped out of ground-level transformer boxes by thieves.

OAKLAND, Calif.

SF transit agency, unions reach deal to end strike The San Francisco Bay Area’s main commuter train system and its unions reached a tentative agreement on a new contract Monday night, ending a crippling four-day strike.

Union officials announced the deal, which still requires approval from union members, then from the Bay Area Rapid Transit’s board of directors.

BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said limited service would begin Tuesday at 4 a.m. on all lines. BART officials hoped trains would be running at full strength in time for the afternoon commute.

BART is the nation’s fifth-largest rail system, with an average weekday ridership of 400,000.

STOCKHOLM

Norway freezes aid to South Korean climate group The Norwegian government said Tuesday it has frozen its donations to a South Korea-based environmental organization after reports emerged that its chairman spent huge sums on flights and food.

The Global Green Growth Institute, which advises developing nations on low carbon growth policies, came under fire in Denmark last week after it was revealed its Danish chairman, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, spent more than $180,000 on first class flights and food during 15 trips. Lokke Rasmussen heads Denmark’s liberal party Venstre and served as the country’s prime minister in 20092011.

GGGI’s finances have previously been criticized in an audit in South Korea.

—Compiled from Daily wire reports

LAMA From Page 1A He added that Buddhism as a spiritual practice leaned towards a scientific approach.

“The Dalai Lama has said if there are any beliefs in Buddhism which turn out to be contradicted by what scientists are finding, then Buddhism is going to have to change its beliefs so it’s consistent with science,” Meyer said The Mind and Life Institute chooses a topic each year for its week-long dialogues.

Addiction, the topic this year, is a key question in Buddhism and science alike. Buddhism posits craving as the root of all suffering. An overabundance of craving can develop into addiction, which concerns psychologists like Berridge.

“Addiction is basically just a kind of chronic craving

GRATZ From Page 1A scale to evaluate applicants, and 100 points were needed to guarantee admission. While a perfect ACT or SAT score was 12 points, a 20-point bonus was given to applicants who identified as African-American, Hispanic or Native American.

In her remarks, Gratz suggested that University’s definition of diversity is too limited to race.

“If the director of diversity was here right now, he or she couldn’t tell you how many cello players there were,” Gratz said. “She couldn’t tell you how many redheads there were. But she damn well could tell you how many Blacks, how many Hispanics, how many Native Americans there are.

That right there is what they mean when they say diversity.”

Though it’s often alleged and the Court has opined that the policies benefit the entire campus by increasing the perspectives available, Gratz finds them

News over which somebody who is addicted doesn’t have control,” Meyer said. “Regardless of whatever you’re addicted to, you’re going to have very intense cravings and it’s impossible to completely satisfy that craving.

As a result of being unsatisfied, you suffer.”

Berridge’s role at the dialogue is to explain the scientific background of addiction. It is impossible to discuss solutions to addiction without understanding how an addict’s brain functions.

“I think that my perspective might help them to understand the essence of craving and the essence of good and bad cravings,” Berridge said. “I’m there to describe the problem better and help them come up with a better solution.”

Berridge’s research shows that there are two sections of the brain behind cravings: wanting and liking. A person

unjust and against the constitutional value of equality.

“It argued that I should, for the good of society, accept discrimination,” she said. “We should be working toward the promise of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. We should be judging people based on their character and their merits, not based on their skin color or their sex.”

Gratz v. Bollinger was heard by the Supreme Court in 2003, where it was found unconstitutional to have a point system based on one’s race. However, on the same day, a decision was made for Grutter v. Bollinger, which questioned the legality of affirmative action admissions policies at the University Law School. Law School policies were found constitutional because it employed a holistic rather than formulaic approach to admissions.

“On the day where I had this great personal victory, I literally felt the weight of an entire movement on my shoulders,” she said. “It was a lonely battle.”

Liana Mulholland, a Detroit

wanting an ice cream cone because they like ice cream would likely have both areas of their brain activated.

Addicts, conversely, may have the “liking” sections of their brains turned off, but their active “wanting” sections can impel them to seek substances that they know are harmful and that they do not like.

These conferences improve the public well-being in the long run, Meyer said. The Mind and Life Institute uses the information discussed in these meetings to decide what research to fund.

Meyer said he valued the opportunity to meet the Dalai Lama in 2009, whom he noted had both profound humility and keen intelligence.

“You would never start off expecting that some day you might wind up having a personal conversation with someone like the Dalai Lama.”

resident and University alum, attended the talk because she is an organizer for By Any Means Necessary, a national organization with membership on campus that fights for affirmative action, equality and immigration rights.

“This is something I’ve been fighting for since I was 13,” she said. “As someone who grew up in Detroit and went to public schools in the city and the suburbs, I really got to see that there are real separate and unequal conditions in our society.”

LSA sophomore Cody Chipman, YAL co-president, said they had Gratz speak because she represents views of the organization.

“We try to have a mix between intellectual discussion as well as activism and hosting speakers like Jennifer,” he said.

Gratz said her movement is far from over.

“Our government needs to say we judge people based on content of character not color of skin,” Gratz said. “That’s what I fight for.”

Amnesty criticizes U.S. drone program in Pakistan Laborers, elderly woman indicated as victims of U.S. missile fire ISLAMABAD (AP) — Amnesty International called on the U.S. to investigate reports of civilians killed and wounded by CIA drone strikes in Pakistan in a report released Tuesday that provided new details about the alleged victims of the attacks, including a 68-year-old grandmother hit while farming with her grandchildren.

Mamana Bibi’s grandchildren told the London-based rights group that she was killed by missile fire on Oct. 24, 2012, as she was collecting vegetables in a family field in the North Waziristan tribal area, a major militant sanctuary near the Afghan border.

Three of Bibi’s grandchildren were wounded in the strike, as were several others who were nearby, the victims said.

The U.S. considers its drone program to be a key weapon against insurgent groups that it says stages cross-border forays into neighboring Afghanistan.

But the belief, widespread in Pakistan, that the strikes kill large numbers of civilians sparks resentment and complicates the two countries’ ability to coordinate efforts against militants based in the country, including al-Qaida.

An even deadlier incident noted by the report — titled “’Will I be next?’ U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan”— occurred in North Waziristan on July 6, 2012. Witnesses said a volley of missiles hit a tent where a group of men had gathered for an evening meal after work, and then a second struck those who came to help the wounded, one of a number of attacks that have hit rescuers, the rights group said.

Witnesses and relatives said that total of 18 male laborers

with no links to militant groups died, according to Amnesty.

Pakistani intelligence officials at the time identified the dead as suspected militants.

The U.S. did not respond to request for comment on the strike. President Barack Obama said during a speech in May that the U.S. does not conduct a drone strike unless there is “near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured.” But Amnesty said the U.S. is so secretive about the program that there is no way to tell what steps it takes to prevent civilian casualties.

They say it has “failed to commit to conduct investigations” into alleged deaths that have already occurred.

Several different organizations have tried to track the number of civilian casualties from nearly ten years of drone strikes in Pakistan, including the Long War Journal website, the New America Foundation think tank and the Bureau of Investigative journalism. These groups indicated that the attacks have killed between 2,065 and 3,613 people, the report said. Between 153 and 926 were thought to be civilians.

Amnesty said it is concerned that the attacks outlined in the report and others may have resulted in unlawful killings that constitute extrajudicial executions or war crimes, even though the U.S. insists the strikes are legal.

“We cannot find any justification for these killings. There are genuine threats to the USA and its allies in the region, and drone strikes may be lawful in some circumstances,” said Mustafa Qadri, Amnesty International’s Pakistan researcher.

“But it is hard to believe that a group of laborers, or an elderly woman surrounded by her grandchildren, were endangering anyone at all, let alone posing an imminent threat to the United States.”

Amnesty called on the U.S. to comply with its obliga-

tions under international law by investigating the killings documented in the report and providing victims with “full reparation.”

The U.S. carried out its first drone strike in Pakistan in 2004 and has carried out nearly 350 more since then, the majority of which have been in North Waziristan. President Barack Obama significantly ramped up attacks when he took office in 2009, and the number peaked the following year with over 100 strikes. The frequency has steadily dropped since then, partly because of growing tension between Pakistan and the U.S. There have only been around two dozen strikes so far this year.

Pakistani officials regularly denounce the attacks in public as a violation of the country’s sovereignty, but senior members of the government and the military are known to have supported the strikes in the past.

“Amnesty International is also extremely concerned about the failure of the Pakistani authorities to protect and enforce the rights of victims of drone strikes,” said the report. “Pakistan has a duty to independently and impartially investigate all drone strikes in the country and ensure access to justice and reparation for victims of violations.”

Amnesty said victims they interviewed with no apparent connection to militant groups have either received no compensation or inadequate assistance from the Pakistani government.

The top political official in North Waziristan gave Bibi’s family around $100 to cover medical expenses for the children injured in the strike, even though the total cost to the family, including loss of livestock and repairs to their home, was around $9,500, the rights group said. None of the victims in the attack on the laborers received compensation, Amnesty said.

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MARQUEE From Page 1A at Crisler Center or Michigan Stadium,” he said.

Though Taylor noted he is aware of the University’s “appropriate” autonomy from the city, he still hopes they will at least understand the issue at hand.

“In my view, complying with this request does not undermine their autonomy and would be a neighborly act,” Taylor said.

Councilmember Sabra Briere (D–Ward 1) echoed Taylor’s concerns for the safety of residents who may be distracted by the board while driving but said she disagrees with Taylor in the hours the board should be turned off.

“It’s most distracting at the times when there’s the most traffic in the area, both pedestrian

KIRK From Page 1A himself to urban planning and filmmaking. His documentary, “Insights into a Lively Downtown,” uses the city of Ann Arbor as a model to highlight the essential features of downtown city planning.

Shortly after moving to Ann Arbor, Westphal sought to get more involved in local affairs.

He was soon appointed to the city’s planning commission, which he now chairs, as well as the environmental commission.

Westphal cites his experience with these groups, as well as his business background, as disting uishing characteristics qualif ying him for city council.

“I’m grounded in data and lessons from successful cities,” Westphal said. “I bring a perspective based on what has worked elsewhere.”

Westphal added that he’d like to see more University involvement in local affairs.

He applauded the efforts of his

CARTS From Page 1A the enterprise will be a temporary project because their lease ends in April.

Perlman said he expects there to be three to six carts, including The Beet Box and Cheese Dreams, both of which he co-owned and were operated at Mark’s Carts for two seasons. Some of the expected carts would like to set up in January, Perlman said, adding that he hopes it will have “a ton of variety by the time it ends in April.”

The outdoor space will be renovated by a project design team. He said the space will have the necessary room and electricity to run the operation as well as a temporary structure to help combat bad weather.

Perlman said he chose the loca-

and vehicular, and that’s just before games,” Briere said. “Some members of council were thinking in terms of allowing it to be lit just before games. I don’t have a strong view of how distracting it is on a regular basis, but I can tell you when I’ve driven by it, it’s distracting.”

Jim Kosteva, the University’s director of community relations, said in a statement that while the University respects the council members’ opinions, it maintains that the sign doesn’t pose a safety threat.

“This may simply be a matter of the city and University disagreeing about the marquee’s use, size and effect,” Kosteva said in the statement. “We believe the marquee can safely inform patrons about events that they or their families might enjoy that wouldn’t receive attention otherwise.”

opponent, Conrad Brown, for running as a current University student.

“Local activism used to be cool,” Westphal said. “I’ve seen photos and read articles about protests on South U during particularly divisive national issues; I’d love to see that come back because a majority of our city is somehow affiliated with our University, so to be missing that voice is, I think, to all our detriment.”

Westphal considers the Downtown Development Authority and the city’s zoning policies as relatively successful, but thinks they require evaluation and tweaking over time.

Westphal said the greatest difference between his platform and that of Jane Lumm, an independent who currently represents Ward 2 on the council, is a focus on long-term goals.

“I never had aspired to political office, I just think it was time for me,” Westphal said. “I felt like I wasn’t getting great representation. I would hate to see Ann Arbor enter an era of missed opportunities.”

tion because of its close proximity to the Diag and its spot in an area where students frequently eat, but more options would be welcome.

Sumi Bhojani, who co-owns and operates the Hut-K cart in Mark’s Carts, will relocate to the Hub once Mark’s Carts closes for the season in October or November. She said she’s excited for the new location and thinks the space will offer different food options than Mark’s Carts.

The Beet Box cart will have the same menu, Perlman said, but will serve “linners,” which are hot meals served between lunch and dinner, starting at around 4:30 p.m.

Perlman said the food will be prepared quickly and packaged to go as Eat The Hub will be making deliveries as well.

Eat The Hub will be open late in the night, closing at 3 a.m. on busy nights.

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The battle for donor equality A federal ban on gay men donating blood is scientifically flawed

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s Michigan’s annual Blood Battle blood drive against the Ohio State University approaches, Blood Drives United, a student-run organization, is starting a petition to overturn the ban on gay men donating blood. Currently, any male who says they’ve had sexual contact with another male is permanently banned from donating blood. This question harms both agencies trying to maximize blood donations and villainizes gay men. As a prejudicial ban long overdue for an appeal, the suggested alteration of gays donating blood should be implemented and the movement supported.

The petition, organized through We The People, the White House’s petitioning platform, supports replacing the current survey question with one that will continue to prevent the spread of HIV, the justification used for barring gay men from donating. The Food and Drug Administration currently prohibits gays from contributing because they are “at increased risk for HIV, hepatitis B and certain other infections that can be transmitted by transfusion.”

The proposed new question, which asks if anyone has had unprotected sexual contact with a new partner in the past 12 weeks, would still allow an accurate screening process for these types of diseases. However, instead of targeting gay men and their sexual histories since 1977 — as the policy reads now — this new question significantly reduces the risk of anyone of any sexual orientation from donating potentially contaminated blood.

From a scientific standpoint, the risk of gay men donating HIV-infected blood is an outdated stigma. Even with the gay population having a higher HIV percentage rate than other sexual orientations, new technology has minimized the risk of transmitting the disease. Every

donated sample gets screened for HIV, and the odds of a false negative are one in two million.

Therefore, there’s no scientific purpose for gay men not to donate, which is agreed upon by numerous medical establishments, including the American Medical Association. “The lifetime ban on blood donation for men who have sex with men is discriminatory and not based on sound science,” William Kobler, an AMA board member, said in a statement in July.

The ban on gays donating blood has been prejudicial and technologically illogical for longer than necessary, and it’s time for a change. Numerous pieces of legislation have tried to overturn the ban since 1997, and considering hospitals continuously have a low blood supply, the time has come to allow gay men to donate.

The proposed question addresses the FDA’s concerns while also including a group of donors that should have been eligible long ago. With the petition only needing 100,000 signatures for the Executive Branch to view the proposal, hopefully this could be an important step in the battle to end the stigma and be a step toward social justice.

RYAN DAU | VIEWPOINT

Laughing at Laffer During a White House meeting with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in 1974, Arthur Laffer, a newly minted economics Ph.D. from Stanford University, sketched on a paper napkin a simple parabola which he believed perfectly captured the relationship between marginal tax rates and government tax receipts. Supply-side economics and the modern Republican Party were born.

Supply-side economics, the belief that the key to maximizing economic growth lies in cutting marginal tax rates, was always too simple and rustic for academic macroeconomists. Laffer and other supply-siders built their careers in insulated right-wing think tanks and periodicals — far removed from the peer-reviewed world of academia. Faith in the power of tax cuts to deliver America from the evils of unemployment and sluggish growth never had a home in the ivy tower. And to this day, there are literally no supply-side economists in tenure at any major American university.

So if supply-side economics lacks the rigorous, well documented and well researched theoretical backbone that only thorough academic debate can provide, what about Laffer’s scrawled graph is so intellectually persuasive for the right? This exploration of the underpinnings of the Laffer curve is best undergone by entertaining two simple questions on public policy.

First, if the government was to set marginal tax rates at zero percent, how much revenue would the government take in? A softball question: If there’s no tax, then the government collects no taxes, so there’s zero tax revenue.

Second, how much revenue would be collected if marginal tax rates were set at 100 percent?

Intuitively, most would say that all income would go to the feds in tax revenue, but why get out of bed and head to work in the morning if all your wages are gobbled up by faceless bureaucrats?

Clearly, there is no incentive to punch the clock if your income is eaten whole by the gluttonous maw of the IRS. Thus, a marginal tax rate of 100 percent will leave federal coffers untouched and empty as the populace leave their workplaces unattended. That means the revenue-maximizing tax rate must be between these two extremes.

In terms of public policy, the implications of the Laffer curve are also straightforward. If tax rates are to the left of the maximum tax revenue point we can hike them to increase tax revenue, and if tax rates are to the right of this point we can cut them to accomplish the same. A correct theory, albeit an uninteresting one, is that real controversy is not with the Laffer curve itself, but rather with the “Laffer hypothesis.”

Laffer used his parabola to make two suppositions about the economy. First, the United States was far to the right of the tax rate that maximizes revenue, and second, the optimal tax rate is close to zero percent. The policy implication was, and

still is, immensely appealing to conservatives.

If Laffer is correct, the federal government can drastically cut income tax rates while simultaneously producing a deluge of federal tax receipts.

Laffer also claimed that these cuts would produce sweeping economic growth as workers increase their productivity in response to higher effective incomes. Math may not be sexy to Republicans, but a proposal which succinctly vilifies Big Government certainly is.

Taking Laffer at his word, former President Ronald Reagan cut the top marginal tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent. But rather than creating a revenue bonanza, the federal debt reached a historical high of $2.85 trillion — a threefold increase in the tab left by the Carter administration. While there was a tepid increase in tax revenue, when extraneous factors that automatically raise tax receipts are factored out, the tax rate change had a neutral or negative impact on revenue growth, as detailed by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

But what of Reagan’s impressive growth record? Per capita GDP increased at an average annual rate of 3.4 percent during Reagan’s years, but two confounding variables make it extremely difficult for tax cuts to be credited as the proprietary source of the 1980s boom. First, much of that growth is attributable to the economy making up for lost time after bottoming out during the 19811982 recession at an unemployment rate of 10 percent. In the business cycle, deeper slumps make for headier booms, so Reagan benefitted from a rising tide of economic activity entirely outside of his control. Second, throughout this period, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, after raising the federal funds rate to a sickening high of 20 percent to squash stagflation, progressively cut interest rates throughout the 1980s, increasing investment spending and buoying economic growth. Moreover, supply-side economics’ ingredients for growth, higher labor productivity and a greater national savings rate never materialized.

Labor productivity grew slower under Reagan than it did under Carter, and the national savings rate fell from 7.8 percent of GDP to 4.8 percent by the close of Reagan’s term.

So the question becomes if tax cuts weren’t a magic bullet in the 1980s, then what are the odds that they’ll be beneficial in 2013 under a tax regime which is much more lenient than the one which faced Reagan?

When Paul Ryan and Rand Paul crow about the virtues of slashing tax rates, they have in the back of their minds Arthur Laffer’s total misunderstanding of his own invention. In other words, treat economists and policymakers who cling to the supply-side doctrine with the same respect owed to a chemist who thinks that phlogiston creates fire.

Ryan Dau is an LSA freshman.

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struggle a lot with binaries.

It isn’t surprising that they’re everywhere. In a world with so much complexity and uncertainty, they offer an easy shortcut to understanding what it means to be: masculine versus feminine, ZEINAB west versus east, KHALIL religious versus secular and the one ever present in academia: emotional versus logical.

Binaries are problematic for a lot of reasons. Not only do they leave no room for the grey in-betweenness that most things actually fall into, but they also hierarchize categories.

In the case of emotion versus logic, the latter always trumps the former, especially when it comes to knowledge and scholarship. The problem with ranking binaries is that we’re not only ranking concepts, but identities and experiences informed by these concepts. In this case, the logic-emotion binary elevates Eurocentric cultures that emphasize less expressive ideals, while debasing non-western/non-white cultures that may be differently or more emotionally expressive.

The logic versus emotion question plays out in many scenarios between both people of oppressed and privileged identities. In dialogues, for example, although all participants may be processing their emotions in their own ways, privileged folks often set the guidelines for how to do so. By universalizing arbitrary rules on what kind of emotional expressions are and aren’t permissible, they police the emotions of everyone else in the room.

Recently, I was in a conflict resolution meeting that involved two white men on one side and a diverse collective of people of color on the other. My friend, who was clearly upset and hurt by the incident we were addressing, steered away from speaking in abstracts like some in the room, and instead took a courageous risk by telling how the incident personally impacted her and explaining what was going on inside.

Her transparency and exposed vulnerability was met with fierce

tone policing, shrouded through whitewashed phrases such as, “Can’t we have a civilized discussion?” and “I can’t speak with someone angry who isn’t even looking at me,” and “I advise we speak with more tact and decorum.”

This sort of emotional policing, especially when it occurs during conversations related to race, only perpetuates racism by setting a dynamic where white people are instructing people of color on how to express their emotions and how to speak — about race or otherwise.

Beside being very racialized, the logic-versus-emotion notion is also very gendered. Rooted in patriarchal norms, this binary renders profound intuitions and emotional energy as things specific to women. And even if women consider these powerful sources of knowledge, these elements are regarded as inherently weak and dubious because of their perceived femininity.

Ironically enough, the “emotional” label is applied irrationally and inconsistently.

For example, when men exhibit anger, they’re not seen as “being so emotional” but as “just being men.”

Because aggression is deemed an integral part of hypermasculinity and therefore looked at favorably, anger by men often isn’t even viewed as being emotional. And even if it is, it’s viewed as a justifiable, good type of emotional.

On the other hand, if a woman is even slightly passionate while speaking and resists being silenced in the process, she’s not only labeled emotional, but as the bad kind of emotional — a derogatory word, loaded with all sorts of inferiority undertones.

Regulating what is and isn’t deemed emotional and what types of emotions are deemed good or strong, bad or weak depending on who practices them is groundless and oppressive.

Erasing emotions because we think doing so somehow leads us to better and higher forms of knowledge is a hegemonic norm that ought to be questioned. Why should an

abstract theory or scholarly “factual” pieces be looked at as the only way of knowing, or as more informative than our lived experiences? Who does abstract theorizing benefit and whose perspective does it center?

Whose perspective does it leave out?

It’s a strange feeling to be studied and spoken about by others in the same room. In class recently, we looked at Muslim women in the Middle East. Obviously, everyone had something to say. The class sat there for an hour and half intellectualizing the shit out of everything.

Somehow this conversation was supposed to relate or speak to my people, our history and, to some extent, me. But none of it did. When I finally mustered up the energy to bring in my personal experience, what I said stood contrary to what the reading said, which made things complicated for the instructor who centered the discussion around a particular academic perspective and for the students who wanted so badly to consume it as Truth.

There are no number of books, essays or equations that can teach what I know through my experience as an ArabAmerican woman. By foregrounding my own experiences and the diverse experiences of other Arab-Americans and women of color, I am able to decenter and destabilize the whiteness and maleness that we’ve been taught to place at the center of all that we learn.

This shift in perspective affects how I think about readings for class, how I take in what my professors say and how I choose to write about and produce knowledge.

There is no need to pretend that we live in a postemotional society.

Nothing appeals to me about a society that fears feelings and won’t admit that emotions are very much tied into learning. Our lived experiences and intuitions shape how we receive knowledge because what we feel cannot be divorced from what we know — for all of us.

Regulating what is and isn’t emotional is groundless and oppressive.

— Zeinab Khalil can be reached at zkha@umich.edu.

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A different football game

“You’re missing football season?”

Their accusatory tone insinuated I was some sort of witch, or worse, a communist.

When I broke the news to my friends and family that I’d be spending a semester in Washington, D.C. as a part of the Michigan in Washington Program, I was met with congratulatory praise along with an assessment of my mental health — admittedly, no one in his or her right mind would miss football season.

When I arrived in Washington, D.C., my MIW program manager, Margaret Howard, told us to prepare ourselves. Why? Because after Labor Day weekend, D.C. would “have its game face on.” I wasn’t really sure what she had meant by that, but I’d find out soon enough.

I was still bitter about missing game days, and the Snapchats of my friends bleary-eyed with school spirit(s) didn’t exactly ease my nostalgia. I wanted to scream the fight song until I sounded like a chain smoker. I wanted to dance on elevated surfaces until I had shin splints. I wanted to be in the stands dutifully shaking my yellow pom-pon. As I soberly lamented my circumstances, little did I know that while I’d be missing football season in Ann Arbor, right here in D.C. I’d get to watch one of the biggest game of winners and losers in 17 years.

Cue the government shutdown.

After only a month of my internship and weeks of political brinkmanship, it had finally happened: Congress had shut the federal government down.

But what exactly does that mean?

Congress couldn’t agree on how to fund the federal government, and without funding, the government can’t remain open. As a result, hundreds of thousands of government workers were furloughed until the tentative date of reopening. Many Washingtonians, including a handful of the 23 MIW students who are federal-government interns, were rock-

ing what has cynically been referred to as furlough casual or shutdown chic — jeans and a T-shirt.

While Congress was tone deaf to the angry outcries of hardworking Americans, I found myself asking, “By God, man, did no one think of the interns?”

But the politicians cried, “Nay!” On the contrary, they argued.

Speaker of the House John Boehner said, “This isn’t some damn game!”

Well, Mr. Speaker, it sure seems that way to us.

If the shutdown showdown were a football game, certainly Sen. Ted Cruz would be the Republican Party coach. With an act of bold political obstructionism patriotism, he convinced both teams to play into the end zone of no return — the debt ceiling. He gave them something to fight for and against: Obamacare. His pep talk lasted 21 hours, making me think he might have taken former Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler a little too seriously when he said, “Those who stay will be champions.”

Sen. Rand Paul also seems to think this is a game. In fact, I know he does.

In a candid, hot mic moment captured by local news station WPSD 6, he told Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, “I think if we keep saying, ‘We wanted to defund it. We fought for that and that we’re willing to compromise on this,’ I think they can’t, we’re gonna, I think ... well, I know we don’t want to be here, but we’re gonna win this, I think.” Now that’s a gaffe that makes Mitt Romney’s tree appraisal look like the work of an expert arborist.

But, didn’t Boehner just say that this isn’t a game? Hey guys, is there something you’re not telling us? Have you been — dare I say it — lying to us?

As D.C. continues to say this isn’t a game, we all know that’s a joke. And Miley Cyrus knows it, too. In Saturday Night Live’s parody, “We did stop (the government),” her witty lyrics and lewd portrayal of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R–Minn.) leaves view-

ers with a bad aftertaste, similar to the one Congress has left us with. If you can get past the scuzzy images of who I’m assuming to be President Barack Obama and Uncle Sam, Miley makes an important point: Politicians don’t seem like real people to us; they are two-dimensional characters with talking points, and we don’t respect them.

In the days leading up to the reopening of the government, when my own faith in our two-party system was at an all-time low, Washington Post chief correspondent Dan Balz came to speak to the MIW students. He was asked if he had lost faith in Washington and his answer took me by surprise.

“I’m a long-term optimist and a short-term pessimist.”

Why? Because those who vote will solve this, and even though it may take a while for things to change, they will change. And strangely enough, I believe him.

As I sit here writing this, I’m sipping some cold, terrible coffee out of my ornamental Starbucks “YOU ARE HERE” Washington, D.C. collection mug. YOU ARE HERE — what a funny thing to put on a mug. I know I’m here; we all are.

I once got to ask Chris Cillizza, the founder and editor of The Fix, what sport he thought politics was most like. He told me football.

At the University, we love football.

We wake up every Saturday at some ungodly hour to the smell of Crystal Palace vodka singeing our nose hairs to cheer on our team.

If Washington has its game face on, so should we. To paraphrase Dan Balz, let us be short-term pessimists about the current condition of politics and long-term optimists that we can make a difference because we are here. Otherwise, this is just a game of losers.

So here’s to being a team player.

Natalie Ertzbischoff is an LSA junior.

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013 — 5A

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Transition year for Michigan

By SHANNON LYNCH Daily Sports Writer

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Senior forward Nkem Ezurike, now the new Michigan career scoring record holder, has helped build the women’s soccer program into a national contender during her four years in Ann Arbor.

Ezurike: What I have is greater than anything else

By JAKE LOURIM Daily Sports Writer

Senior forward Nkem Ezurike sits on the bench at the U-M Soccer Stadium, looking out at the field she dominates. Sunday, she became the greatest goal scorer ever to play at Michigan, in the greatest era since the 1990s, on perhaps the greatest team Michigan has ever had.

It is dreary, quiet and empty, except for a groundskeeper on the field. The lights are off, the bleachers vacant. That will all change three nights later.

It wasn’t always like this, the confident dominance around the program. When Ezurike came to Ann Arbor, the rise of Michigan women’s soccer was in its infancy. There was no stadium, no field and no bench. The uniform she wears did not exist, nor the nets she hits with every goal, nor the supporting cast alongside her.

Ezurike is outside the lines of the field, so she is calm, unassuming and soft-spoken. When she is on the field, she is a terror, eager to beat anyone in the way of her journey.

“It’s really funny to me because she’s not like that at all off the field,” said freshman forward Madisson Lewis. “She’s such a jokester, and she’s always so calm.

She’s a completely different person on and off the field.”

Ezurike sits here at the crossroads of two journeys: one to become the greatest goal scorer in Michigan history, the other to take the Wolverines to the top tier of women’s soccer. The first journey is over. The second? Well, that’s just getting started. *** In 2008, Michigan coach Greg Ryan’s first season, assistant coach Dean Duerst called Ryan from a college showcase tournament in Canada with a message: There’s a kid up here you’re going to want to see.

Her name was Nkem Ezurike, which is Nigerian, meaning “What I have is greater than anything else.” She has lived up to that name.

“If there’s a player we need to try to get into our program as soon as we can, it would be Nkem,” Duerst said. “She also was the right fit in terms of what we call a target player.”

In Ryan’s first two years, Michigan survived on 1-0 wins and scoreless ties. The Wolverines

won four games in his first season and six in his second, with just one in the Big Ten each season.

He knew there was a ceiling for his teams as long as they kept playing like that. He needed a natural goal scorer, like he had in Abby Wambach when he coached the U.S. Women’s National Team.

In his first year, Ryan asked a fellow coach how many Big Tencaliber players he had on his roster. The answer was one. His goal was to rebuild the program, and he knew if he could nab Ezurike, that would be a start.

The coaching staff promised Ezurike an immediate role on the team — there was no adjustment period. The journey to the record started then.

“I don’t know if I ever put it in perspective of that,” said senior midfielder Meghan Toohey. “But I knew she was going to be by far one of the best forwards this program’s ever had. When she started scoring and scoring and thinking about the record, I knew for sure that she was going to beat it.”

Ezurike is quiet about her individual impact on the team, but her teammates and coaches aren’t. They know the difference between Michigan with and without her. The truth is, the Wolverines go where Ezurike takes them — from nine goals in 2010 for an NCAA Tournament appearance, to 15 goals in 2012 for a Sweet 16 berth, to 10 so far this year as Big Ten contenders.

But Ryan knew he needed more than a goal scorer. He needed a team of leaders and pure, diehard competitors. Ezurike was that, too: when she steps inside the lines, a strange transformation happens. She goes from quiet to loud, unassuming to assertive, shy to fiery.

“She just becomes Nkem,” Ryan said. “She becomes that other Nkem that everybody loves to see on the field.”

A referee ignores contact against her, and she yells across the field to him. Another player pushes her, and she gets into the player’s face. She misses a shot, and she glares.

Why? Because they have one thing in common: they’re all in the way of Ezurike’s journey.

“In the previous years, all the seniors had that sense of urgency, like it was their last shot,” Ezurike said. “You definitely don’t understand it until you’re actually a senior. It’s kind of like desperation, that urgency to do well and

end on a high.”

Three years after she first stepped onto the field as a freshman, Ezurike is on her last goround. There is no next season, no alternative to winning now. *** Ezurike’s career has not been a smooth ride. Within every striker is the pressure to score goals and carry the team every game.

Ezurike needs to be a contributor, and when she’s not, it weighs on her.

“I wouldn’t say that it worried her pulling her confidence down, but it definitely challenged her,” Toohey said. “One reason Nkem is as good of a player as she is, is that she is hard on herself but doesn’t put too much pressure on herself that takes away from scoring an easy goal.”

Ezurike said the hardest time of her career was her sophomore year, when Michigan returned the bulk of its 2010 NCAA Tournament team. Ezurike, of course, expected more, perhaps a further run into the tournament.

Instead, the Wolverines took a step back: they finished just a shade over .500, won four Big Ten games and gave up three or more goals four times.

Now, in the dark stadium, the empty field seems emptier when Ezurike thinks about those moments, the moments that tested Michigan’s ability to rebuild.

“We knew we had the potential to be a really good team,” Ezurike said. “Not being able to execute, that was difficult and hard to handle. We grew from it, we learned from it and then we went on to have a good season the next year.”

Ezurike’s mother, Christie, knows her daughter. She knows how much pressure she puts on herself.

“It was really tough because (Ezurike) is sometimes too hard on herself,” Christie said. “When the team is not doing well, she gets really down. When that happened, she was disappointed. She was a little bit hard on herself, but she bounced back.”

That was not Ezurike’s last goround.

The next year, Ezurike missed the first four games of the season to play in the U-20 World Cup for Canada in Japan. When she returned from a 13-hour time difference to a new team and a new season, she struggled. She didn’t score in the first four games — her

longest drought since early in her sophomore season — and Michigan lost twice, including once in the last minute of regulation.

Ryan said he went to lunch with Ezurike and talked with her to ease her frustration. He taught her to move onto the next chance after she missed one.

In her fifth game, Ezurike scored twice to lift Michigan to a 3-0 win. She went onto score in 11 of the last 15 games, including the overtime winner in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

“Her freshman year was a great year for her,” Duerst said.

“The next year was a good year.

But I think last year was kind of like Nkem coming out.” *** The lights are on and the stands are full now at the U-M Soccer Stadium, a far cry from when Ezurike sat there alone three days earlier. Michigan is playing Indiana to stay in contention for a Big Ten championship.

None of the players are math majors, but they know this: there are 33 points possible in Big Ten play, and they have already lost five of them.

Ezurike knows this, too, so when she misses a shot high in the first minute, then again in the 12th minute, then wide right in the 14th and wide left in the 21st, she grows more and more impatient.

In the second half, with the game still scoreless, Ezurike battles with an opponent in the box and gets called for a foul. The competitiveness in her simmers, and she yells a few words to the referee.

But this is a different Ezurike than the one from three years ago, so Michigan is a different team. The 18-year-old Ezurike might have kept talking and been given a yellow card. The young Michigan team might have fired shots wide and high until the stadium lights went off, falling to yet another 0-0 tie.

Instead, Ezurike says her words, then roams around the final third for a few moments.

These moments make careers, when players are struggling and still find a way to help their team win.

She stands in one spot, catching her breath and checking her emotions. Then she cuts inside, looking for a pass that can bring her one step closer to finishing one journey and continuing the

other. *** As with all questions about herself, Ezurike is mum when talking about the record.

She’s scored so many times on this field, but she hesitates to talk about them. The other players start to mill around, trickling into the stadium. Ezurike starts to credit them.

But the stats show Ezurike’s impact: last season, the Wolverines won eight of 11 games in which she scored and only four of eight in which she didn’t.

Sunday, Ezurike scored twice to break the record.

Ezurike claimed last week that she wouldn’t celebrate any differently than any other goal, but it was clear she knew what it meant.

After the record-setting goal, she received a hug from almost everyone else on the field with a joyful smile. When the game ended, she went over to the opposite side of the field, where her mother, Christie, awaited after making the trip from Nova Scotia.

Ezurike insisted last week that she wouldn’t get swept up in the emotion, but she did.

“I think it would mean a lot to Nkem to achieve (the record),” Ryan said last week. “She’s such a humble person that she will be the last to mention it. The way she plays, she’s in the limelight, but that’s not who Nkem is. I think it’s one of those things that she’ll be very quietly proud of for the rest of her life.”

Mother and daughter met again later, and Christie beamed with pride. She knew how much went into that moment — all the hours of work, the frustration on the field, the phone calls home, the talks with Ryan, every one of those 45 goals and even a 1,000mile trip from Lower Sackville, N.S. “She’s a great daughter,” Christie said with a proud smile. “When she comes home, you know she’s home because everything will be taken care of.”

Every one of her 45 career goals has added something to the Wolverines’ program. Her 46th will, too, as will her 47th. It may be her goal that clinches Michigan’s first Big Ten championship ever, or her goal that moves the Wolverines along in the NCAA Tournament.

The numbers, at that point, are irrelevant. Ezurike is chasing history, but not the number 44.

The Michigan women’s basketball team performed far beyond expectations last season – it raced to the best start in program history by going 15-2, tied a program record for wins with 22 and earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament, advancing to the second round.

The Wolverines had a lot to be proud of, but even more to worry about. Michigan lost five seniors, who together accounted for 84 percent of the team’s scoring.

Beginning her second year as head coach, the ever-optimistic Kim Barnes Arico took to the podium Tuesday afternoon to address the media for the first time this season. Right away, she called this year one of transition and growth.

Official practices started just 15 days ago, and with four freshmen, two transfers and only one returning starter, there are still a lot of unknowns about the team.

The Wolverines were given a chance to play in Europe earlier this summer, which gave Barnes Arico and the coaching staff an opportunity to experiment with the lineup while also preparing the young group for the adjustment to college ball.

“Sometimes for the freshmen, that’s a big part that’s really difficult for them is the speed of the game and the strength of the other players that they’re going to face,” Barnes Arico said. “A lot of these kids were coming off of ACL injuries in the last year and didn’t get to play at all, so it gave them an opportunity to get back on the court before the official season started.”

The Wolverines will face an array of challenges over the coming weeks, and the coaching staff faces the task of preparing both their young players and their inexperienced upperclassmen to face serious competition.

UNTIMELY INJURIES: Sophomore Kelsey Mitchell was a standout rebounder in Europe and one member of the team Arico was expecting to make an impact after missing all of last season with an anterior cruciate ligament tear.

However, the forward recently suffered a broken foot that required surgery and is expected to sit out three to five months.

“That was obviously a horrible blow to our program when we lost her again, and I’m sure it’s really devastating to Kelsey as well,” Barnes Arico said.

Mitchell wasn’t the only Wolverine who battled ACL issues last season – four Michigan players were confined to the bench in 2012-13 with knee injuries. Senior forwards Val Driscoll and Kendra Seto both return to the court this year, but neither have had the chance to play for Barnes Arico in regular-season games.

SIZING UP THE COMPETITION: A lack of size may be the biggest issue the team faces this season, with seven players listed at under 6-foot. But Barnes Arico has done work to combat the issue, including an atypical recruiting move to land junior forward Nicole Flyer.

The story of Flyer’s journey to Crisler Center is a bit unorthodox. She’s a junior walk-on, who was previously a varsity athlete at Michigan on the women’s rowing team. Barnes Arico laughed thinking back on how she sent her coaches out on campus to find a girl over 6-feet tall.

“We were in a position with injuries that we needed somebody that had pretty good size, so I put my people on a mission,” she said.

“We did our homework on her, she came by the office, and she’s been incredible.”

The team has also focused on channeling its other strengths to make up for the lack of height.

“We really put emphasis every single day in practice on blocking out, being able to chase balls down and really doing a ton of drills to make sure that we’re trying to work on that,” Barnes Arico said.

“Pretty much every contest we’re going to be in this year, we’re going to be the smaller team, so that’s definitely a concern of ours.”

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6A — Wednesday, October 23, 2013

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Once a heckler, Nagelvoort is just fine on the other side

By JEREMY SUMMITT Daily Sports Editor

As freshman goaltender Zach Nagelvoort skated from the bench to the Michigan crease just minutes into the third period of Friday night’s game at New Hampshire, hundreds of people were calling his name. He was excited, but nervous.

Ever since he was little, Nagelvoort dreamed of putting on a Michigan sweater. His grandparents have had season tickets to Michigan hockey games, right behind the opposing team’s penalty box, for longer than he can remember. He says he was the little kid always heckling the guy in the penalty box. His grandparents didn’t seem to mind.

But Friday, he was the one taking the heat from raucous fans stacked directly behind his net.

There was never a question if he relished every second of it.

“I absolutely love when there’s a student section right behind me or something, ripping me apart,” Nagelvoort said. “Nothing gets me more fired up. Especially when they call me by name, I just love it.”

When the Wolverines traveled to New Hampshire last weekend, they knew the crowd would be similar to the rowdy folks in Ann Arbor. It wasn’t anything new, except Michigan would be on the receiving end of the hostile chants. No one was more prepared for their name to be called by 1,000 screaming hockey fans than Nagelvoort, though.

From his grandparents seats, Nagelvoort used to watch Marty Turco, Al Montoya and Shawn Hunwick dominate the Michigan crease at Yost Ice Arena. All eyes were turned toward Nagelvoort this weekend, though, after the starting netminder, sophomore Steve Racine, was forced to leave the game with a groin injury.

The Wolverines tied New Hampshire, 1-1, on Friday thanks to Nagelvoort’s 15 total saves in the third period and overtime, including a penalty shot that hardly fazed him.

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Freshman goalie Zach Nagelvoort filled in for sophomore Steve Racine.

ders like that, shootouts are like my favorite thing in the world,” Nagelvoort said. “To get a penalty shot in my first opportunity to be playing is the best thing that could have happened.”

Sophomore forward Andrew Copp has played with Nagelvoort since they were 5 years old, and he still remembers how Nagelvoort would play best in the most crucial moments. In Racine’s absence Saturday, Nagelvoort picked up his first collegiate win after making 22 saves in a rematch against the Wildcats.

“The results speak for themselves,” said Michigan goaltending coach Josh Blackburn. “He came in and played outstanding, and you know, killed some penalties, even a penalty shot. Getting thrown into the fire like that isn’t easy.”

Nagelvoort didn’t think his chance would come this weekend at New Hampshire. He didn’t really expect to be playing goalie as a youth player either.

In mini mites, the youngest age

group of youth hockey, everyone gets a turn to play goalie. While Nagelvoort doesn’t vividly recall his first game in goal, he knew he played well enough to make the position a possibility for the future.

Just a year later, he tried out for Copp’s father’s team, and ended up being one of the only goalies that showed up. He made the team and has been a goaltender ever since.

Nagelvoort wasn’t recruited that seriously during high school, where he had stints with both the Detroit Compuware AAA team and the Traverse City North Stars, a North American Hockey League team.

His chance to finally play hockey in Ann Arbor came after two more season-long campaigns with other NAHL teams. Nagelvoort played for the Soo Eagles in Sault Set. Marie, Mich., before heading west to South Dakota to join the Aberdeen Wings, where he got on a bit of a hot streak that attracted national attention.

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Nagelvoort went 8-1-1 with a .949 save percentage in his 10 games with Aberdeen.

Michigan assistant coach Billy Powers paid Nagelvoort a visit in South Dakota to watch him in person. After playing to Powers’s liking and sharing a good conversation after the game, Nagelvoort jumped at the chance to be a Wolverine.

“He’s paid his dues to get to Michigan,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson.

Copp remembers Nagelvoort as a well-mannered, hard-working kid throughout their youth hockey days. Copp was thrilled to hear they would be in Ann Arbor together when word of Nagelvoort’s recruitment came around.

“I actually went up to him the other day, and I’m like, ‘Who would have thought when we were playing mini mites that we would be wearing Michigan sweaters right now?’ ” Copp said.

“I love the spot we’re in.”

According to Copp, Nagelvoort always had a good sense of humor, and he still does. In practice, whenever Nagelvoort catches the puck, he usually throws the saved puck directly back at the forwards to let them know it’s not in the net.

“Goalies are always a little nuts,” Copp said. “It can get a little annoying when you want to score goals and not him having the puck thrown at you.”

Dating back to the under-12 national championship with Detroit Compuware — where Nagelvoort played with Copp and former Michigan defenseman Jacob Trouba — Nagelvoort was always a jokester with a knack for staying loose in tense situations.

Last weekend was no different, and all the practice he had poking fun at opposing players as an elementary-school kid served as preparation for the hostility he faced in the seats behind his own net at New Hampshire.

Nagelvoort says this past weekend was the most fun he’s ever had playing hockey. In an arena more than 850 miles from where he and his grandparents always sat in Ann Arbor, he felt right at home.

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Speaker builds relationship with Hoke, Gardner

By MATT SLOVIN Managing Editor

In the week following Michigan’s four-overtime 43-40 loss to Penn State on Oct. 12, motivational speaker Eric Thomas visited Ann Arbor to address the team.

His message was simple — adversity can make or break your season.

“This is a defining moment,” Thomas said he told the Wolverines last week. “You have to decide what this game is going to do to your season.”

It was the second time that Michigan coach Brady Hoke had invited Thomas, a speaker, educator, activist, author and minister whose website promises “high-energy messages,” to speak to the team. Thomas, who grew up in Detroit, had spoken to the Wolverines after the nailbiters in consecutive weeks over Akron and Connecticut, telling them, “They weren’t playing to their full potential.”

Thomas said he was incredibly proud of the way the offense responded Saturday in the 63-47 win over Indiana, especially redshirt junior quarterback Devin Gardner, his protégé.

“I told him, ‘When you play to the level of your game, there’s nobody out there that can stop you. You’re dominant,’ ” Thomas said. “The offense responded.”

Thomas works with sports teams at all different levels and has spent time with the Detroit Lions’ defensive backs and the Washington State, Penn State and Purdue football teams. But Hoke has carved a special niche for Thomas this year in Ann Arbor. Rather than simply bring him in for a one-time address, Hoke wants Thomas to feel like a part of the team. Thomas referred to his work with the program as being like a retainer paid to an attorney.

“Coach has really established a relationship with me,” Thomas said. “He said, ‘We want you to be a part of what we’re doing as much as this relationship will allow.’ ” Thomas took those words to heart and began to develop a close mentorship with redshirt junior quarterback Devin Gardner. Thomas and Gardner try to speak twice a week, including once a few hours before each game.

According to Thomas, Gardner’s turnover woes for much of the season have been the result of mental lapses, not any talent

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deficiency. Since the two began working together, Thomas said he has noticed a maturation in Gardner that is “striking” even compared to where the quarterback was just a few weeks ago.

Gardner said last week that Thomas’s visit after the loss to the Nittany Lions helped the team “kill the noise” of public criticism toward the Wolverines.

While Thomas can’t diagram X’s and O’s, he hopes his presence will be felt by the team on Saturdays. He said mental preparation alone can’t win football games, but the team that has the better mentality will often come out on top.

“Let’s be honest,” Thomas said, “any Big Ten program has guys that are the same frame, play the same position, had similar success stories in high school.

There isn’t a whole lot of difference pound for pound.

“The edge that you have, the way that you separate yourself from the pack, is when you have that mental fortitude, mental focus, and can bring the athleticism and the knowledge of the game.”

Though Thomas addresses the full team during his sessions, he said his ultimate goal is to reach the captains, whom he then relies on to carry his message onto the field on game days, as well as in practice. He said the last 10 minutes of his speeches are geared exclusively toward the leaders in the locker room.

Michigan’s next game, at Michigan State, will be a difficult one for Thomas to watch.

Thomas, a high-school dropout, received his GED and then graduated from Michigan State, something he said he uses to motivate inner-city products like himself.

He’s currently working toward his Ph.D. at Michigan State. His son, Jalen, named after former Michigan basketball star Jalen Rose, is a freshman in East Lansing. But Thomas grew up a Michigan fan and, because he works so closely with the Wolverines, he’ll feel conflicted next Saturday.

“But I’ve got to root for the home squad,” Thomas said. “It’s going to be hard because I love Devin. I love the coaching staff and all the guys, but I’m a Michigan State graduate so I’m hoping they can pull it out.

“The only good thing is they only play once a year. Outside of that game, I’ll be able to pull for both of them.”

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Donnelly to draw ‘Wife’ is better than good on feminist reality T o say “The Good Wife” is on a roll would be an egregious understate-

New York cartoonist to discuss her work, experience

By MAX RADWIN Daily Fine Arts Editor

“(I have an) appreciation for the power of cartoons to get at the truth, to get at the issues quickly and succinctly,” Penny W. said New Yorker cartoonist Stamps Liza Donnelly Lecture during her Series: Liza 2011 TED Talk.

“And not only Donnelly that, (but) it Thursday at can get to the 5:10 p.m. viewer through not only the Michigan Theatre intellect, but through the Free heart.”

Now, as part of the University’s Penny Stamps Lecture Series, Donnelly will speak about her time as a journalist, an artist, an author and a feminist — all titles a cartoonist can take on when she picks up a pencil and sketchbook.

Cartoons are perhaps as much an under-appreciated art form as they are an under-appreciated vehicle for delivering the news.

Beyond the obscure references that subscript a political panel, or the weird little doodles that appear on the corner of pages in The New Yorker, Donnelly recognizes the cartoon’s cultural relevance and longevity.

“You can get an idea of what happened in the country by

looking at its cartoons,” Donnelly said. “It’s fascinating to see what the morals were and what the thoughts were of the public.

It’s a great way to study history, to look at the cartoons.”

Cartoons are a strange medium, though. They mix journalism with op-ed, but are, on the simplest of levels, art. In this way, Donnelly said cartoons have a unique and powerful effect on the audience.

“I think good journalism and good opinion helps people see what might be going on,” she said, “But cartoons have a way of — because they’re visual, they’re not like a long article — they can have an immediate impact, a visceral impact.”

Donnelly has published 15 books throughout her career, all of which showcase her cartooning and quick wit. Her next book, “Women on Men,” is set to release this fall.

“All the cartoons in the book are women poking fun at men lovingly,” Donnelly said. “It’s about how women can use humor … to change their roles.”

The upcoming release will feature new drawings, with a few New Yorker cartoons as well. Donnelly also said the text of each chapter will be written in her own handwriting, as opposed to typescript.

Donnelly’s books often focus on relationships, the more recent of which look heavily at those involving women. Her 2005 book, “Funny Ladies,” about women cartoonists at The New Yorker, is a marker of her focus on the feminist perspective.

“Since then, I just started

thinking about how I could draw and make funny situations and make humor about feminism,” she said, “but also about women’s rights, like what stupid things we do as women and also things that are done to us in our culture that we can make light of. And, by making light of them, then we can maybe see how they’re wrong.”

Donnelly came into her own as an active, cartooning feminist this past year when she served as a cultural envoy on a trip to Israel and Palestine, where she spoke about the impact cartoons can have politically and on women.

This effort also reflects Donnelly’s desire to connect with the international cartoon community. Her website, World Ink, showcases the work of cartoonists from all over the world.

Donnelly has worked with cartoonists from Europe, Australia, Africa, South America and the Middle East.

“It’s interesting to see everybody’s perspective on the world,” she said. “I wanted to have a place to showcase some of these people’s works.”

Donnelly will come to Ann Arbor to speak about her experiences: from the internal and external factors that have morphed her view on the world and the direction of her cartoons to political activism and the creative process.

And maybe, if there’s time, she’ll tell the audience about her trouble with drawing cars, too.

“I don’t draw cars very well,” she said, laughing. “… They look like boxes on wheels.”

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USAS to fight for workers’ rights

By GIANCARLO BUONOMO For the Daily

On April 24, the deadliest garment factory disaster to date occurred in Savar, Bangladesh.

The Rana Plaza building, which United housed mulStudents tiple garment factories, col- Against lapsed, killing Sweatshops 1,129 people, many of them VIgil the primary Thursday breadwinners at 6 p.m. for their families. The dead- The Diag liest garment Free factory disaster in U.S. history pales in comparison, with a stilltragic 146 deaths. To remember the victims of the Rana Plaza disaster and raise awareness about how future disasters can be averted, the campus chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) will be holding an interfaith vigil Thursday on the Diag.

Despite its name, USAS is not strictly limited to campaigning against sweatshop conditions.

Past, present and future projects have ranged from organizing campus workers to a “Kick Wall Street Off Campus” initiative.

“We think of the term ‘sweatshops’ broadly, as including all fights for workers’ justice,” said LSA sophomore Arielle Wisbaum.

However, USAS’s main focus this year is on sweatshops in Bangladesh.

“Right now, what we’re doing is more important than ever because three of the largest garment factory tragedies actually happened in the past year, and in the past eight years, 1,800 workers have died in Bangladesh,” Wisbaum said.

“And it’s even more relevant, just because last week there was

another factory fire where 10 more factory workers died, so this is something that’s urgent.”

This week will mark the sixmonth anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster, so all USAS chapters across the country have declared a national week of action. Even amid all the activism on campus, USAS feels strongly that its initiative can and should get students’ attention.

“These workers were producing University of Michigan apparel,” Wisbaum said. “Sometimes it’s hard to imagine that, because it’s not directly on our campus.”

“To stay silent while people burn, we might as well be lighting the match ourselves,” said LSA freshman Jean-Phillipe Dubois.

Thursday vigil to remember victims of injustice.

USAS understands, however, that making an impact will go beyond students forgoing their maize-and-blue T-shirts and snapback hats. In order to produce palpable and hopefully permanent results, USAS has and will use the University as monetary leverage.

To prevent other disasters, the UNI and IndustriALL global trade unions have created the “Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety,” which defines mandatory standards for worker and building safety in garment factories. Numerous brands, including Abercrombie & Fitch and Puma, have pledged to only use factories that follow

the accord. USAS will lobby the University to sever its contracts with any company that doesn’t sign this agreement.

“We should be able to use the University to leverage our power as students to change the way that these corporations do business,” Dubois said.

USAS has used this strategy before. Last year, Adidas closed down one of its factories in Indonesia but didn’t pay the workers $1.8 million of severance. USAS lobbied the University to cut its $16-million contract with Adidas, and Adidas eventually gave the workers their severance package.

USAS doesn’t advocate eliminating sweatshop labor, which some argue is an unpleasant but wholly necessary means for poor countries to build their economies. However, USAS maintains that improvements can and must be made for the sake of workers.

“There’s no reason for them to be unsafe,” Wisbaum said.

“These corporations have money to make these buildings safe.”

In many ways, the work USAS is doing mirrors the work that was done 100 years ago, in the United States, to maintain worker and building safety during the rise of industrialization.

When the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burned down in 1911, killing 146 workers, new commissions and labor laws were created to reform the unsafe conditions that led to the fire.

“We’re helping them fight the fight that we once fought,” Wisbaum said.

This vigil could be one step for the entire University community toward becoming more informed and responsible consumers.

“People do care once they know,” Wisbaum said.

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ment.

The legal procedural, created by husbandwife dream team Robert and Michelle King, is barreling through a narrative streak that, frankly, I can’t KAYLA recall ever UPADHYAYA witnessing.

I can think of a few dramas in recent years that have similarly pulled aweinducing multi-episode streaks out of their hats — the Defiance arc on “Scandal,” the second half of “Orphan Black,” ’s first season, “Confessions” through “Ozymandias” on “Breaking Bad.” But whereas these three “super stretches” happen well into their respective seasons, “The Good Wife” isn’t a slow burn: It’s coming out of the gate at breakneck speed. Never before have I seen a show launch its fifth season with so much energy and so few missteps. In these first four episodes, “The Good Wife” brings us back into its richly drawn world, but does so without forsaking the crucial element of surprise that has kept us intrigued for nearly four years. Season five feels familiar and heart-racingly exciting all at once, and that’s a balance most TV dramas struggle with while “Wife” dances around them with ballet-like elegance.

How do you keep viewers on the edges of their seats five seasons in when you’re churning out 22 episodes a year and chained to the FCC’s regulations? “The Good Wife” answers: easy peasy; cable schmable; watch and learn.

So, let’s back up a bit. The show’s mastery didn’t come out of nowhere. The creative forces behind “Wife” have been laying the groundwork to get here since day one. At its base, the show is still a legal procedural, driven by its case-of-the-week format, with the occasional longer arc woven in. But the show’s world is defined first and foremost by its characters. It’s one thing to have a lineup of outstanding regulars, but “The Good Wife” takes it to the next level with the best roster of recurring and guest performers on television. Minor recurring characters don’t just add color or fill space; they’re part of the dynamic and detailed fabric that seduces viewers week after week.

Which is why it comes as no

surprise that the most recent episode “Outside the Bubble” — which throws several of the carefully constructed non-regulars that pepper the show back into the mix — works so well. Seeing Elsbeth Tascioni, the scatterbrained wild card of a lawyer who’s played with manic perfection by Carrie Preston, feels like reuniting with an old friend, and that’s as much a testament to Preston’s Emmy Award-winning performance as it is to the writers’ meticulous attention to even the smallest of characters. Rita Wilson also returns as tough-bitch lawyer Viola Walsh, and Gary Cole’s gunslinging Kurt McVeigh shows up for a political joust with Diane’s bleeding-heart friends.

Florrick and crew are on fire.

“Outside the Bubble” isn’t just a masterclass in character work; it epitomizes the writers’ prowess at upthrusting the stakes and even threatening the show’s narrative structures if need be.

From the very start, the show has scrutinized the battle between personal and professional lives and how the two spheres intersect, interact and complicate one another (the show’s obsession with this theme doesn’t come out of left field, considering its showrunners are married). Shifting power dynamics have brought Diane to the narrative forefront more so than Will this season, allowing Christine Baranski to showcase her strongest work yet.

In “Outside the Bubble,” alliances and relationships are challenged and reshaped, and each and every character is evolving in significant, premise-altering ways. And it all turns on this concept of keeping — or, rather, failing to keep — personal politics separate from professional lives.

“Bubble” reignites the personalversus-professional confrontation, and the highly anticipated episode coming to us Oct. 27 promises the conflict will reach a boiling point.

The pieces are all set up, and the next episode, fittingly titled “Hitting the Fan,” is positioned to knock them all down (or, at least, Will promises to throw them all off a desk in a storm of fury).

“This was never meant personally,” Alicia insists to Will in the “Hitting the Fan” teaser. She might believe her own words, but the emotional underpinnings that

make these characters more than just well-dressed, sharp-tongued lawyers are, of course, extremely personal. Lockhart/Gardner might run like a machine on the surface, but it breathes and bleeds with the desires, dreams and feelings of its lawyers. Super-charged relationship dynamics blur the boundaries between professional and personal realms, making “The Good Wife” as much a character study as it is a powerfully gripping exploration of politics, sex, morality and the workplace.

The writers enrich these larger themes by imbuing them with topical, controversial conversations pulled from the headlines.

That’s “The Good Wife” ’s third magical ingredient: its devilishly smart social commentary. These first four episodes of season five, again, epitomize this strength, incorporating stories about reproductive justice, privacy rights and the death penalty. And these aren’t just plot devices; the writers engage relevant issues in a way that challenges assumptions.

With one of the most intelligent writers’ rooms working right now, “The Good Wife” makes you think. In “Outside the Bubble,” when Will signs an affidavit swearing he has never had sex with an underling in his office, Alicia quietly challenges him with a perceptive cross-examination of exclusionary definitions of sex. Questioning social constructions of sex and sexuality? That’s something we do in my women’s studies classes. Seeing it happen on my TV screen is nothing short of remarkable.

In its promo, CBS touts “Hitting the Fan” as the best “Good Wife” installment of the year, and I’m inclined to believe the claim.

I’ll go so far as to say that if it only lives up to half my expectations, it’ll still be one of the finest hours of programming I watch this year, and I won’t insult the series with any qualifiers like “on broadcast television” or “for a procedural.”

“The Good Wife” has more than proven its capacity to creatively compete with any of its cable contemporaries.

With the stability of Lockhart/ Gardner teetering and the Florrick/Agos masterplan in motion, there are a lot of moving parts in play this season. And I’m on board for each and every one of them.

My one complaint? Can we get some more Kalinda Sharma in there again, please?

Upadhyaya is counting down to ‘Hitting the Fan.’ To watch with her, e-mail kaylau@umich.edu.

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Lusophone Film Festival to bring Portuguese cinema to the ‘U’

By KATHLEEN DAVIS For the Daily

As the sixth-most widely spoken language in the world, just three places behind English, Portuguese is surprisingly Lusophone underrepreFilm Festival sented at the University.

Screening of However, ‘Passerby’ things are starting to Thursday at change.

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The University has been Michigan Theatre sponsoring Free the first-ever Lusophone Film Festival, an ongoing event that shows Portuguese language films for free at both the Michigan Theatre and the University of Michigan Museum of Art’s Helmut Stern Auditorium.

The festival is spearheaded by Prof. Fernando Arenas, a recent addition to the University’s faculty and the creator of the newly added Portuguese minor.

Arenas’s background is based from the University of Minnesota, where he taught for several years. During his time there, he developed a full-fledged Portuguese program, which he hopes to bring to the University.

“When I came to Michigan, one of the primary objectives

was to create a Portuguese program as well as promoting Portuguese language,” Arenas said.

Part of the promoting has been the formation of the film festival, the first of its kind in Ann Arbor.

The festival itself has been ongoing since mid-September and will be showcasing seven films over the course of 12 weeks. The films come from independent filmmakers in various Portuguese-speaking countries all over the world, including Brazil, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau.

As for criteria beyond the language, Arenas had some specific guidelines: “They’re all very recent productions,” Arenas said. “The films are also more alternative and speak about social, political and historical issues.”

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The content of the films varies and features a range of topics from kidnappings, to old age, to social classes. Many of the films have also previously been

featured in prestigious film festivals such as the Toronto International Film Festival and the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Attendance for the festival has been “excellent,” as Arenas put it.

“We’ve had 70-80 percent of the venues full, both at the Michigan Theatre and at the UMMA Helmut Stern Auditorium,” Arenas said.

Each of the screenings features an introduction by a University professor who is highly familiar with the topics presented in the film and a Q&A session that encourages active participation by the audience.

Year one of Lusophone is only the beginning. Arenas hopes the film festival will be the first of many events within the university that promote Portuguese as a more mainstream language.

In the future, Arenas hopes that the film festival can bring film directors and Portuguese scholars to campus, and also expand the schedule to feature short films and documentaries.

“We’re trying to create a presence of the Portuguese language and culture here in Ann Arbor and southeastern Michigan,” Arenas said. “Also to bring attention to the vitality of the language and the vitality of its culture.”

8A — Wednesday, October 23, 2013

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‘Saul’ aims to be its own type of ‘Bad’ The AMC spin-off hopes to stand on its own

By MADDIE THOMAS For the Daily

Are you a prominent cable network on the brink of irrelevancy?

Are two out of three of your hit shows ending or in their final seasons? Did your buddy Badger just get caught trying to sell meth to an undercover cop? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you better call Saul!

AMC recently confirmed that development is underway on the new TV show, “Better Call Saul,” a “Breaking Bad” spin-off starring Bob Odenkirk as everyone’s favorite euphemism-loving, flashyshirt-wearing, criminal lawyer, Saul Goodman. The show is being developed by “Breaking Bad” creator-showrunner Vince Gilligan and producer-writer Peter Gould, who created the Saul Goodman character. Information regarding the new series is limited, but it is confirmed to be a prequel in the hour-long format and, according to Gilligan, it’s “more dark than it is funny.”

It’s easy to see why AMC would want to lock this down; it’s a pretty sweet deal. With the loss of “Breaking Bad” this year and the final season of “Mad Men” looming in the distance (though they did manage to buy themselves some time by stretching “Mad Men” ’s final season across two years) AMC desperately needs to reconstruct itself.

The reliable and familiar name of Saul Goodman can help keep their viewers interested long enough for

them to find their next big thing. If we’re lucky, maybe Saul Goodman could even be that next big thing.

But the successful spin-off is a rare find. It’s a tough balance to strike — if the new show disappoints its audience, you risk tainting the image of the original (like when “Scrubs” let that weird, shitty spin-off under the same name happen instead of dying respectfully like it should have). Some spin-offs are doomed from their conception, like the “Friends” spin-off, “Joey.” The logic sort of made sense: “Joey is funny on ‘Friends’ so he will be funny in his own show!” But an idea spawned from good intentions ended up being a miscalculation. As any good television critic in the early 2000s could’ve told you, “Friends” worked because it was truly an ensemble comedy. Removing one part from the whole left that part floundering, exposed and facing mixed reviews, ultimately leading to cancellation in the second season.

Similar worries seem to plague today’s die-hard “Breaking Bad” fans. I hear a lot of concern over whether or not Saul will still work as a character when he’s not acting as a foil to Walter or as a comedic relief in a tense situation. There’s a lot of speculation over whether AMC is just trying to milk “Breaking Bad” for every penny its worth.

Some are simply concerned that if “Better Call Saul” fails in any way, the entire “Breaking Bad” name will be forever ruined. But for every “Joey” there is a “Frasier,” and when a team of highly competent creatives put their reputations on the line for a show, you have to trust that they have a few tricks up their sleeves. “Breaking Bad”

’s immense success, including the recent Best Drama Emmy win, has solidified Vince Gilligan’s reputation as one of the pre-eminent creative geniuses in Hollywood right now. His name is one of the most valuable in the current industry, and he’s allowing it to be attached to the new series. If that’s not a sign that he has given his blessing, I don’t know what is.

If there’s anything I’ve learned from “Breaking Bad” (apart from meth is bad and stuff), it’s that Vince Gilligan is a man you should trust. Saul has consistently been a fan favorite, and lawyer shows have consistently been popular (see: “Law & Order,” “Boston Legal” and “The Good Wife”).

Honestly, Odenkirk is talented enough that I’d probably tune in every week even if “Better Call Saul” ended up adopting the formulaic structure of “Law and Order.” But we all know there’s too much good material for that to happen. In fact, the show being a prequel opens all sorts of doors for the writers to peek into if they wish, including the possibility of bringing Jonathan Banks back to play beloved hit man Mike Ehrmantraut.

“Better Call Saul” is not going to be the next “Breaking Bad,” (mostly because that title has already been bestowed upon “Low Winter Sun”) but it doesn’t have to be. It’s normal to be anxious or skeptical, especially with something as big as “Breaking Bad” ’s reputation on the line, but Vince Gilligan’s approval should put fans at ease for the coming months. “Better Call Saul” can be independently successful and, in that way, do its parent show justice.

Maybe it was naïve to settle in for the pilot of “Reign,” the CW’s new historically set series, with high hopes.

“The Tudors” D+ is famous for taking his- Reign torical liberPilot ties (Henry as a hottie? Please.), Thursdays at and that was on 8:30 p.m. premium cable.

Here I was, CW thinking it was admirable, even daring, for the CW to step out of its comfort zone of vampires and teen queens to give viewers something radically different. Then, the episode actually started.

In CW fantasyland, Mary Stuart (Adelaide Kane, “Teen Wolf”) is cloistered away in a convent from the age of 9 for her own protection. Um, no. Since ascending to the throne at six days old, the real Queen Mary had, by all accounts, an untroubled childhood. She moved to the French Court when she was 5 and was considered both clever and highly beautiful. But why let a little thing like history get in the way of a good, juicy plotline?

The inaccuracies mount from there. Perhaps the most atrocious is the rendering of Francis (Toby Regbo, “One Day”) as a goldenstubbled, horse- and woman-riding heartthrob. It’s all about the eye candy where the CW is concerned; nevermind that the actual Francis — because these people

did exist in reality — was sickly and short. Even Nostradamus isn’t immune. Played by Rossif Sutherland (Donald Sutherland’s son!), the prophesier looks remarkably agile and handsome for someone who should have been close to 50 at the time.

And while we’re literally throwing history out the tower window, there’s also Sebastian (Torrance Coombs, “Heartland”), King Henry II’s (Alan Van Sprang, “Immortals”) illegitimate bastard that, by the way, never existed.

The one thing the CW knows it excels at is forbidden love triangles between brothers, even imaginary ones.

History thrown out of the tower window.

The most irritating thing about “Reign” isn’t that the series refuses to follow any semblance of history; no one was expecting exact adherence, though a shred would have been nice. It’s that creator and executive producer Laurie McCarthy (“Ghost Whisperer”) took a fascinating, compelling and ridiculously smart woman and turned her into a giggling mess. All the CW’s Mary seems to care about is applying eyeliner perfectly, dancing barefoot and finding her true love. Sure, she casually mentions that she has a country to look after.

But does that enter into any of her

decisions? Sadly, no.

The real Mary, Queen of Scots, lived a life brimming with intrigue, from multiple marriages and commoner uprisings to an eventual execution. If the CW was going to ignore all of that, why even call this the story of Mary Stuart? Why not invent a completely fictitious Queen, who would be free to dally with bastards and converse with unseen spirits without personally offending viewers?

Moving on from the mutilated remains of history, “Reign” isn’t terrible. Boiled down, it’s just a teenaged soap opera, with cornets and corsets rather than Constance uniforms and Prada bags. And as a point in its favor, it’s stunningly filmed. The vistas are sweeping and grand — the series was shot on location in Ireland — and everyone looks terribly beautiful.

There’s also a sufficient amount of sex to make it scandalous, especially when considering the tween-centric focus. Mary and her four BFFs sneak in to watch a public consummation, followed by a masturbation scene cut short while King Henry II looks for some wall-banging action. So, at least there’s that.

If disbelief is suspended, the pilot holds up as slightly humorous and more than a little ridiculous. The hope is that the CW’s young, target audience doesn’t come away from the series believing there’s truth in the subject matter. Otherwise, Queen Mary ends up as little more than a lovesick pawn, and that would prove the worst offense of all.

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‘Collar’ switches up tired formula

By ALEX INTNER For the Daily

Starting with the premiere of “Burn Notice” in 2006, USA Network has made a name for itself by making easyto-digest hours B of television set in aesthetically White Collar bright places.

They have a Season five small arc that premiere continues week- Thursdays to-week (usu- at 9 p.m. ally covered in the beginning USA and the end of each episode), but they mainly focus on weekly cases. Shows like “Royal Pains” have embraced this model, making episodes that are easy to keep up with, but are not necessarily entertaining.

“White Collar” has never been completely comfortable with this structure. Over the first four seasons, it has helped usher in a change at the network by not blindly following its strict structure. It put more of an emphasis on the serialized arc and the character relationships than other shows on the network, leading to a much more interesting and fulfilling show.

The premiere sets up what should be another solid season.

The previous season ended with FBI Agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay, “Party of Five”) arrested for a murder he did not commit, and the premiere deals with criminal Neal Caffrey (Matt Bomer, “Chuck”) trying to save him from going to jail. Neal makes a deal

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with a criminal named the Dutchman (played by the always welcome and always amazing Mark Sheppard, “Supernatural”), and, in return for dealing some gold (stolen by Neal) and assistance with his upcoming appeal, the Dutchman set Peter free.

At the center of the show is the most compelling element: the relationship between Neal and Peter.

Over the course of four seasons, the writers have built a relationship where, even when there is not total trust, the two characters respect one another. Watching Bomer and DeKay work together on screen is amazing, and the chemistry they have built shows in their interactions on screen.

Light yet solid entertainment.

“White Collar” usually structures its arcs around this friend-

ship. The writers put some obstacle between the two (usually involving Neal keeping a secret), creating tension between them.

They use the same outline for each season, but the variations they use are different enough that the repetition is not a problem.

Even with the already strong plot, a good case of the week can make a huge difference. This week’s case, involving Peter looking into Neal’s theft, was entertaining enough. It wasn’t gripping television, but Neal working around Peter’s investigation to cover up his theft was fun to watch.

It doesn’t aim to be one of the best shows on television, and it’s not, but “White Collar” is enjoyable and lightweight. It’s great to watch Bomer and DeKay work together. Even if the show has done the “Neal does illegal things and keeps it from Peter” plotline before, there is enough to differentiate it from similar arcs in the past, making the show better than the average USA procedural.

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the fashion voyeur: leather looks Leather jackets have gone through major changes — some, quite awful — throughout the past decades. I remember getting weird stares as I walked into my third grade classroom, unwillingly dressed by my mother is a stiff, blazer-shaped leather jacket.

Since then, I’ve had the impression that leather either made you look like you’re in a motorcycle gang, a Sandy from “Grease” wannabe or an S&M-loving dominatrix. However, in the past few years, leather has become infinitely more feminine, wearable and mainstream.

Leather has quite an interesting and varied history. The material first became popular for clothing during World War I, when leather jackets were created for practical reasons — to protect aviators from the elements when flying. Soon after, women were wearing leather leggings reminiscent of those worn by the men on the frontlines.

In the late 1950s, the Greaser subculture was born; a youth movement that became a popular expression of rebellion. In this time, leather jackets were seen as a fashion statement that meant you ignored laws and were therefore dangerous.

Leather finally made it onto the runway in 1960 when Dior’s 24-year-old haute couture designer, Yves Saint Laurent, showed leather jackets in their winter collection. He was soon fired after being heavily criticized that the jackets took away from the lady-

like tradition of Dior. Leather jackets, at this point, were still considered “gritty streetwear.”

However, Saint Laurent’s jackets were sleek, cropped and fur-lined — a huge departure from leather’s rebellious roots.

Leather jackets developed their BDSM associations in the 1970s as the Punk era developed in Britain. Vivienne Westwood, one of Britain’s most famous designers, had the goal of bringing the dark world of sex — including bondage and S&M — to the streets of London. When the Punk movement eventually became more mainstream, many people in Britain and the United States could be seen wearing leather jackets adorned with safety pins and duct tape. In this time, women were trying to make a feminist statement by wearing clothing that was traditionally seen as more masculine. For example, women would wear a pink tutu, but add fishnets, combat boots and a leather jacket to the outfit.

We’re now seeing a combination of Punk influences with the more feminine leather jacket on the runways of designers like J. Mendel — a designer known for his ethereal and luxurious clothing, who dresses the very girly Taylor Swift. He showed a collection with many leather jackets.

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latest collection was inspired by female boxers, and his models wore fur trimmed leather jackets with his rendition of “boxing gloves.” Wang wanted his models to look powerful and intimidating, and his show even opened with the theme song of Rocky III, “Eye of the Tiger.”

This combination of feminine details and Punk inspiration translated over to the streets of Ann Arbor.

Students are pairing black, cropped leather jackets with combat boots and menswear shirts. However, colorful scarves and delicately printed pants are added to these looks, toning down the biker influences of the jackets.

What we’ve seen in the past with leather jackets are extremes. Women either looked like subjects of dark, sexual fantasies or Harley Davidson biker chicks. Both looks, however, are not exactly something you can show up to class in. Now, leather jackets are much more versatile. I think, finally, that leather jackets have evolved into a powerful, statement-making piece without looking too sexualized or overly-rebellious.

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“It’s kind of funny, and I’m working on just owning the fact that I looked ridiculous because there’s nothing I can do about it.”

– JANINE HUELSMAN, LSA junior, about starring in a gif gone viral from Saturday’s football game against Indiana University.

“Making mistakes is OK; it’s more than okay because in order to get somewhere, you have to make mistakes.”

– JEFF KIRSCHNER, University alum and founder of the datadriven environmental initiative Litterati, on embracing failure.

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lsa freshman rachel cullen, left, tones down a cropped leather jacket with a basic t-shirt and combat boots. lsa junior chelsie kastl, right, lightens up a primarily black, leather look with a colorful printed scarf.

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rom the passenger’s seat, I can see everything: grass, McDonald’s, speed signs we’re ignoring, food advertisements we’re not, the slender arc of the interstate, hung like a gray-swept sheet before us. “Road trip!” my sister hollers from the driver’s seat, her palm grazing the wheel. “Hey, we should Snap somebody.”

Reaching for my iPhone, I scroll until I reach my most used app. The signature ghost mascot beams up at me, its tongue poking out of its mouth as if to suggest we’re both

By Carlina Duan the insiders to some hideous secret joke. I tap. My iPhone camera pops out, and — in true selfie-mode — I pucker up in front of the camera, duck-facing it, and press the button.

The October light splashes across the camera lens, obscuring my face with shafts of glitter.

Typing in a quick caption, I caps-lock, “FALL BREAK! ON OUR WAYYY” and check the green boxes of all my Snapchat friends, sending to as many people as I can.

My sister and I are currently two out of the estimated 8-million registered Snapchat users,

who are cumulatively trading approximately 350-million images daily. The free image-messaging phone application designed by two Stanford University students in 2011 is a hit among smartphone users. It allows users to send photos and videos to each other that disappear after a chosen period of time — users can set the image for anywhere between one to ten seconds. Users can additionally create captions and use a drawing tool to embellish photos with hand-drawn accents. Snapchat users thus communicate with one another by giving and receiving “Snaps” —

images or videos which both capture and illuminate the embarrassing, the ordinary and the “selfie” of every day.

With the intent to allow users to “have fun” written into its Terms of Usage, Snapchat was welcomed into the social media sphere as an amusing, even humorous app used to take funny shots of yourself, or of friends. Even its famous ghost mascot, named “Ghostface Chillah,” after the Ghostface Killah of the Wu-Tang Clang, suggestively implies a lighthearted, easygoing tone.

As of June 2013, Snapchat has removed the facial expression from Ghostface Chillah, as a result of a lawsuit disputing the original founders of the app. Snapchat, currently worth a self-reported $800 million by its investors, faces an ongoing legal battle between three Stanford graduates: Reggie Brown, Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel, according to Business Insider. Brown claims that Murphy and Spiegel unfairly expelled him from the company, and in doing so, snatched away his role as co-founder of the app. Furthermore, Brown asserts that the original Ghostface Chillah design was developed by him.

With the latest iPhone iOS update, Snapchat released the following statement on its blog on June 6: “Many of you have noticed that in our latest iOS update, v5.0 Banquo, our mascot no longer has a facial expression,” the blog noted, “This isn’t because we forgot the face - it’s because you are the face of Snapchat.” The blog post further observes that the faceless mascot more accurately portrays the “diverse experiences” of the entire Snapchat community.

Despite changes to its mascot, Snapchat has continued to offer its users with one main quality: transience. Many users took advantage of Snapchat’s ephemeral, disappearing photos by capturing themselves at their supposed “ugliest.” Some users intentionally took “unattractive” pictures of one another — or of themselves — and traded them. Double chins, pursed lips and crossed eyes were documented and sent at no risk, since Snapchat images are designed to disappear.

Snapchat essentially offers its users what other social media sites could not — a way to interact with impermanence; a low-risk, personal statement of sorts. School of Information Associate Prof. Clifford Lampe observed that Snapchat might not even fall under the category of traditional “social media” sites.

“With most social media, you have public statements that go out to people,” said Lampe, who is on the Board of Publications that oversees the Michigan Daily, referencing Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. “Snapchat is pretty direct communication, typically one-on-one.”

Lampe acknowledged the existing history of criticism against most social media.

“We’ve had a narrative for quite a while now of ‘How can young people be saying all this stuff on Facebook and Twitter? Don’t they realize it’s there forever?’ Well, someone said, ‘Let’s make an app where it’s not there forever,’” Lampe said.

Thus, Snapchat fills a void in the social media sphere of information that vanishes, and still maintains active communication between two people.

Snapchat also marks the recent change in social media to a more visual-enhanced culture. Communication Studies Prof. Scott Campbell notes that the history of new media was initially text-based.

“Now,” he said, “the visual component is becoming as important — or almost as important — as textual-based communication.”

Image-based communication has seemingly heightened with the Millennials, a generation comprised of people born 1980 to 2000. When I log onto Facebook, my newsfeed blares with photos of cider mill donuts, kissy-face emoticons and profile picture updates. On Instagram, a

friend poses, arms poised delicately, pretending to hoist a patch of bulky pumpkins. And scrolling down Tumblr, snapshots from the “Breaking Bad” finale clutter my screen. These days, it’s hard not to find a communication outlet that lacks images. After all, we are primarily visual creatures. We like to see.

Engineering junior Raj Vir, a hacker and web designer, believes technology’s high-quality cameras make Snapchat’s visual qualities all the more appealing.

“You can convey a lot in texts, but obviously you can convey way more in pictures,” he said, “Like the old saying goes, ‘A picture is worth a thousand words,’ and now phones with highquality cameras allow good communication.”

And yet, the rise of images has not diminished other ways we talk to one another, according to Campbell.

“I’d consider (the visual) as an added layer of communication … it’s not taking away from other forms of communication,” he said, “This visual component is communication.”

In 2009, Campbell, one of the contribut-

build our relationship.”

Snapchat can thus be used to reaffirm and upkeep social relationships — a way to virtually tap on the shoulder or hug.

“What’s really important and good about (Snapchat) when it launched was that it wasn’t necessarily about the app itself,” Vir said, “It was the network of friends you had on the app. You talked to, at most, 10 friends. Every Snap you got was hand-picked for you.”

Campbell agrees.

“When you reach out to somebody with a Snapchat, that’s a symbolic gesture,” he said.

“That’s an affirmation that you’re thinking of somebody, and they’re in your social circle.”

It seems the app has taken on a different purpose other than swapping selfies. Snapchat has been used to document experiences and share rather mundane moments. Snapchats aren’t only limited to portraits of people. I’ve been sent Snaps of beach-water. A nice burger from Sava’s.

Cats. More cats. Slabs of fudge, with the caption “boss gives me fudge at work lol.” Lately, Snapchat seems like a way for users to record experi-

“When you reach out to somebody with a Snapchat, that’s a symbolic gesture.

That’s an affirmation that you’re thinking of somebody, and they’re in your social circle.”

— Communication Studies Prof. Scott Campbell ing authors to a “Teens and Mobile Phones,” revealed that two main modes of cell phone usage in teens are text messaging and sending photos to one another.

“We correlated (cell phone usage) with peerto-peer interaction, and there was a positive correlation,” Campbell said.

So, even when young people are not together, they’re not necessarily replacing their face-toface interactions with digital ones. They’re, as Campbell puts it, “filling in the gaps.”

In 2013, an app like Snapchat — that has the ability to both capture and dissolve the visual — seems to fulfill a desired need.

“I think we’ve always wanted to appreciate and share moments in ways that are not archived,” Campbell said. “People are not interested in archiving everything permanently.

The archiving of our experiences online could become overwhelming to some.”

Not only overwhelming, but meaningless. On my Facebook newsfeed alone, it seems pointless to upload the eight iPhone photos I took of my diner breakfast from various angles, with different color effects. Rather, Snapchat is a way of privatizing communication, and accessing control. Furthermore, it helps “socially groom” relationships, according to Lampe.

“Snapchat helps younger people keep control of a message,” he said, “When I Snapchat to somebody, it’s me signaling I’m spending my limited attention on them, which helps

ences rather than selfie-shots.

“I think it might just be the case of people using Snapchat more often,” Vir said, “Previously, you might’ve just used it to send pictures of your face, and now it’s just moments.”

These shared moments — documented through Snaps that disappear — mimic the true nature of ephemeral time.

“The idea of ephemeral conversations that go away and disappear fulfill a deep need for people,” Lampe said, referencing the “Right To Be Forgotten” movement in Europe, where Internet users of sites like Facebook and Google campaign for the basic right to not have permanently-stored information preserved online.

The basic need for information to disappear — to be forgotten — is increasingly advocated as a necessity. So in regards to the future, Lampe believes the ephemeral “feature is going to be important.”

And while users seem to embrace the transient nature of Snapchat, it’s easy enough to take a screenshot of a Snap, saving it forever into one’s camera roll. Traditionally, Snapchat friends are notified if a screenshot of their image is taken.

However, Vir figured out a way to combat the problem earlier this year through a hack that would eventually earn him fame in the web world. Vir discovered that one could save a Snapchat screenshot without letting the user get notified. Simple: a user double-taps the home button on their smartphone after taking a screenshot.

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However, Vir acknowledges that Snapchat itself is not an app that demands a lot of screenshot preservation: “They’re pretty low-quality, random pictures.”

The very nature of Snapchat photos then, is meant to deteriorate. But is Snapchat usage meant to last in the long run? It’s hard to predict. As of Oct. 3, Snapchat launched a new feature titled Snapchat Stories, which allows users to create a 24-hour Snap narrative by combining together various Snaps that last on a 24-hour cycle.

Vir believes Snapchat Stories disturbs the simplicity of the app.

“Snapchat is ridiculously simple (as opposed to picture messaging). You just open it up, and the camera is right there,” he said, “‘Stories’ adds a lot of distractions to the app. It’s less personal.

I disagree with it.”

And yet another element could get in the way of Snapchat’s legacy: mom and dad. Campbell notices a consistent trend that’ll determine whether or not various communication platforms ultimately survive among the young generation.

“There’s a little bit of a cat-and-mouse game going on. Young people are hopping onto some of the new channels of new media,” he said, “Once the grown-ups get on and pay attention to what they’re doing, it loses a bit of its cultural capital for young people. It loses some of its coolness, and they move onto other new things that older generations will eventually hop onto.”

Take Facebook, for example. After Facebook caught onto the older generation of parents, grandparents, bosses and teachers, the Millennials began “reducing their Facebook activity in leaps and bounds,” Lampe said. “One thing young people like to do is maintain the boundaries against old people.”

Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. After all, we’re generationally different from one another, as well as positioned at different psychological stages of development.

“The biggest psychological consequence (Snapchat has) is that it does help a younger generation, especially a college-age generation, to establish their own identities and differentiate themselves from one another,” Lampe said, “Part of establishing identity is thinking: What does it mean to construct myself? How do I construct my identity around social circles? What audience am I presenting myself to?”

Whereas previous generations illuminated their identities through more visceral avenues of clothing, or music choice, Millennials have another mode of expression: online imagingmediums such as Snapchat.

“It’s all about how you use these tools,” Lampe said, “If I communicate positive messages and wish you a good day, that might make us both happy. But if I just communicate anger or sarcasm, that might be detrimental to our happiness.”

As Snapchat is relatively new, it may be too early to tell. There is currently no established scientific research on the app, although both Campbell and Lampe predict studies to come in the near future.

In the meantime, walking through the Diag, I spot numerous others raising phones to their faces; to the squirrels; to the wet, reddening leaves; caught in a continuous Snapping frenzy.

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The ‘U’ in the ‘D’

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t all started in 1817. Augustus Woodward, Rev. John Monteith, Fr. Gabriel Richard and William Woodbridge forged a plan to establish the University of Michigania. But many would be surprised to know this story isn’t set in Ann Arbor: It takes place in Detroit.

The University was established in Detroit in 1817 and moved to Ann Arbor 20 years later.

While the University prospered, Detroit has lost much of its population and economic activity, and gained a national reputation as an eyesore.

But today, there’s a shift in this relationship. Though many problems still exist, like the aftermath of the city’s historic bankruptcy, it’s now cool to live, work and play in the city, from Corktown to Midtown.

There’s little cool factor in the University’s presence in Detroit, according to administrators. Rather, they say the relationship between the ‘U’ and the ‘D’ has been 196 years in the making.

Cynthia Wilbanks, the University’s vice president for government relations, said in a statement that the University’s support of the city is inherent if one considers that the institution has had roots in Detroit since the early 1800s.

“Even if the University had not been founded in the city of Detroit, there would likely be a type of interaction that you see today,” Wilbanks said. “But I would argue that the bonds of the relationship are so historic that it has helped to guide our interactions with the city for many, many years.”

Wilbanks — who has played a large part in organizing the administration’s efforts in Detroit — said the University has been in Detroit for some time and will continue that presence.

Wilbanks said the recent spike in public and private involvement in the city has only made it more enticing for University research and programs.

“There is a cool factor right now - it’s attracting students, and it’s attracting more companies to be a part of Detroit’s rebirth.

Right now, we see many in the private sector working hard to achieve success - and all of that enthusiasm lends itself to a more vibrant city,” Wilbanks said. “I would make the case that it makes it even more attractive for our students and faculty to work in an environment where they can contribute to the city thriving well into the future.”

In recent years, companies have flooded the city. Singer Kid Rock, a Detroit native, capitalized on the city’s recent fame with his “Made in Detroit” clothing line. Several tech companies, including Twitter and Uber — a popular car hire app — have launched offices in the city, and an array of startups have popped up.

Chrysler announced they’ll move 70 employees into the city, and even Chinese

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A design on the windows of the University’s Detroit Center, founded on Woodward Avenue in 2005.

companies have flocked to Detroit, attracted by new automotive technologies.

Billionaire Dan Gilbert, chairman of Rock Ventures, LLC, and Quicken Loans — the nation’s third-largest mortgage lender — will soon own a large proportion of the downtown area, which he has inundated with workers from his family of companies.

Dan Mullen, vice president of development for Bedrock Real Estate Services — the real estate arm of Rock Ventures — told MLive that companies and organizations are moving to the city because they know they’ll be noticed as Detroit rebounds. He pointed to New York-based Roasting Plant, which opened one of its unique coffee shops in Detroit earlier this year.

“If you were to open up another coffee shop in downtown New York or Chicago, you probably wouldn’t be able to receive the same amount of traction or PR or have the same affect in general,” Mullen said. “Folks are realizing this and taking advantage of it.”

If, as Mullen says, moving to Detroit means easy attention for businesses, is the University attempting to follow the “Detroit fad”?

Public Policy senior Donavan McKinney, vice chair of the Central Student Government Commission on Detroit Engagement and a Detroit native, said it’s possible that work in Detroit could be used to create a positive image in the face of a poor racial climate on campus and low Black student enrollment.

“I would hope the University is doing this just to promote awareness, and is conscious of the fact that we have one of the most influential cities that has ever crossed the history of cities,” McKinney said.

McKinney said he supports the University’s efforts, including the Detroit Connector shuttle project, the weekend bus service to Detroit he helped organize.

“I really don’t feel that U of M is here for show,” Adell Austin Anderson, director of the University’s Detroit Center, said. “Because it’s been decades … it has been here during times where it wasn’t ‘cool’ to be with Detroit, when Detroit in the ‘70s was seen as the murder capital of the world and stuff like that — U of M was here in some form or fashion.”

The Detroit Center — which opened in 2005 — is a visible symbol of the University’s involvement in Detroit. A large building sign, lamppost flags and window art bearing the iconic Block ‘M’ make the University’s presence on the corner clear.

Anderson sees the Detroit Center more as a headquarters — where University faculty, students and staff can get support for their service and research efforts in the city’s many underserved neighborhoods. This is evident in the University’s opportunities for students in Detroit. The Semester in Detroit program began in 2009 and allows students to live and study in the city for an extended period of time.

Even as the city filed for bankruptcy this past July, Craig Regester, associate director of the Semester in Detroit program, told The Michigan Daily he didn’t believe students would be dissuaded from studying in the city.

The University isn’t the only college visible in Detroit. Midtown — where the Detroit Center is located — is already home to a major university — Wayne State University.

A few blocks down Woodward, Michigan State University’s Detroit Center is housed in a two-story, 22,000 square-feet building built in 1912, while the University’s space takes up only part of the first floor of an office building. Even Grand Valley State University, a much smaller institution, has entered the game, snatching a beautiful space in the heart of downtown within clear visibility of Comerica Park — and the appropriate advertising signage to match.

Compared to its competitors, Anderson said the University hasn’t created a lot of buzz about its presence in the city.

“The University has been here, but there hadn’t been this visible symbol,” Anderson said. “We probably don’t do a good enough job in letting people know about everything that happens here.”

Elizabeth Birr Moje, Education professor and the School of Education’s associate dean for research and community engagement, said the University does stand to benefit greatly from its work in the city of Detroit.

But she’s not referring to any sort of reputational benefit.

Moje said the University has shifted from an effort focused on outreach to one that is focused on engagement and service learning.

Rather than simply sending individuals to the city to volunteer in underserved communities, faculty, staff and students in Detrit help those in need and gain valuable educational experiences.

“We have just as much to learn from our service as we have to give,” Moje said.

Education students and faculty work directly with the Detroit School of Arts, located down the street from the Detroit Center. Along with a coalition of other campus units, the school also works in several institutions around the area. The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program has also begun offering research projects in Detroit, Moje said.

In Moje’s line of work, working in a city like Detroit helps both teachers and researchers gain insight into a unique educational environment.

“Doing research in Detroit provides one with an opportunity to connect with people who are really struggling with some of the biggest challenges in our country right now,” Moje said, noting that knowledge gained could be applied to struggling communities around the country.

In regards to practicum work, Moje called working in a city like Detroit “the ultimate teaching challenge,” noting that it’s exactly where she wants her students. She said educators in Detroit are the best example of teachers who are working extremely hard to meet the needs of their students.

“If you’re trying to learn how to be a teacher, part of what you’re learning is how to be a teacher in a particular context, and to figure out, ‘How do I work with a community that I may not know well?’” Moje said.

Student leaders on campus agree. Public Policy junior Patrick Sier, chair of the Central Student Government Commission on Detroit Engagement and major events director for the Detroit Partnership service-learning student organization, said that regardless of how one looks at it, the University stands to benefit from a healthy, vibrant Detroit.

“When you have a stronger, greater Detroit region — which Ann Arbor is really a part of — then you have a stronger University at the same time,” Sier said. “The University acknowledges from a self-interest standpoint that when Detroit rises, they rise, and when Detroit falls, it hurts them too.”

LSA senior Samantha Edwards, the Detroit Partnership’s executive director, said it’s up to students to give Detroit a chance.

“Students should at least try it out. You can’t count it out before you try it,” Edwards said. “College is a learning experience. It’s a time for you to experience a more diverse atmosphere. It’s about broadening your horizons.”

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Defiance

by Karen Hua

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o, stupid, you’re too old to have fun!” At 16, this was my life mantra, mostly because it was my parents’ response to anything I wanted to do. It was always, “Karen, you have to eat this and wear this and say this.” “Fun” to me was locking myself up in my room, and escaping into the world of Harry Potter — in the form of rereading the books for the 77th time. Some might have called me antisocial. I was fairly satisfied with this perception of “fun”, though part of me wished I could have a wee bit of a taste of being a teenager. In my daydreams, I saw myself as Harry’s muggle parallel, and I was convinced that I too would break free from my cupboard under the stairs one day.

My opportunity came two summers ago, when the premiere of the final Harry Potter movie, “Harry Potter and the Dealthy Hallows: Part 2” took place in New York City. The weekend of the premiere happened to be when both my parents and my friend Ray’s parents were away. I knew that weekend would be the experience of a lifetime, my rightful farewell to Harry Potter and my only chance to be a real teenager.

We had exactly $200 for two people for three days in the biggest city in the world. Before we could change our tentative, adolescent minds, we found ourselves in front of the bus station in Boston, bright and early at 8 a.m. It might as well have been four in the morning though, since I spent all night tossing and turning in my bed.

I gave Ray a nervous glance, and he returned the look. We carried a hot pink, two-person tent and one small duffle bag, crammed with our clothes and our precious $200 cash.

“Ray, we are definitely fucking crazy,” I muttered.

“Last time I checked, I wasn’t fucking anyone named Crazy, but okay,” was all he replied, his face still. He grabbed my arm and dragged me into the Lucky Star bus ticket line. I wanted so badly to just pull him back home, curl up in my room where everything was always okay and forget we ever planned this stupid trip.

But before I could do anything, before he

could change his mind, he blurted, “Two round-trip tickets to New York City.

Return in three days.”

Everything seemed to move in slow motion as we shoved our bags in the underside compartment of the bus and stood with our tickets in front of the bus door.

“Hey, you on or off?” the bus driver yelled impatiently. I looked at Ray and thought about all the nights we sneaked onto Skype at 3 a.m., planning every tiny detail of this trip. I remembered skipping lunch every other day for the last four months of sophomore year, just to scrape up the measly money. But mostly, I remember dreaming of this experience, almost peeing myself with excitement in my sleep (yes,

that is a thing). Ray looked at me, and then finally shouted, “We’re on!” There was no turning back now.

For the next three hours on the bus, we played so many games of Hangman, Pictionary, and tic-tac-toe that I still heave at the sight of those games. We had just begun to doze off when tall, looming buildings flooded our line of vision. The bus finally came to a halt.

This was it.

It was noon when we finally arrived at the Lincoln Center station, after taking the subway through a maze of hurried business people and tourists who were all slightly more agitated than we were and who were cramped together because they clearly enjoyed sharing body odor. Our T-shirts stuck permanently to our backs, and our throats screamed for water. I

wanted a nap more than anything in the world. Was that too much to ask for? Was it still too late to turn back?

As we trudged up the subway stairs, we were immediately hit with the energy of cheers and laughter all around. Before we knew it, we found our small-town selves in the midst of the massive Lincoln Center, where suddenly, the dreadful heat, hunger and exhaustion were all forgotten. In front of our own eyes was about half the world’s wizarding population, all dressed in robes and carrying wands. The entire street was lined with tents of every single color, all crammed together on the sidewalk. A boy no older than 10 shot past us, headto-toe in Harry Potter gear, glasses, scar

around and rewarded all of us for our hardcore camping with … red carpet tickets. Ray and I started jumping up and down and shouting. It seemed some dreams do come true, even if they are the trivial wishes of a teenage girl.

For the rest of the day, I laughed, I cried, I screamed until my lungs gave out. On the red carpet, I got a hug from Draco Malfoy, an autograph from Hermione Granger and I told Neville Longbottom that I loved him; I met the characters I grew up with and watched the story I adored come to a close.

To me, the actors were still the characters that taught me bravery, compassion and acceptance. They were the ones who gave me a magical childhood I wasn’t forced to grow out of.

As always, though, all good things must eventually come to an end. Before this trip, I used to believe I was so independent because I was required to “grow up” so quickly and forget about fun. I never realized how dependent I actually was, merely waiting for my next command. I’ve come to learn that independence is part rebellion; it’s about recklessly trying new things, failing sometimes, and in that process, learning to live. Independence is sometimes about camping out on the streets of New York City for a weekend to meet a bunch of storybook characters.

I suppose there are two morals to this story.

First, though it’s difficult ILLUSTRATION BY MEGAN MULHOLLAND to admit, there is an and all. Right behind him ran a stout expiration date on blaming my parents woman with stark white hair, wand in for missed opportunities, but there isn’t hand, screaming, “Expelliarmus!” People one on making a change in my life. If lounged in their beach chairs with their Harry Potter has taught me anything, books propped open, or engaged in heated defiance isn’t about breaking all the rules trivia debates. Cheering fans held posters and blind disobedience; defiance is about crying, “Rowling is our Queen,” “Thank understanding myself and my limits, then you for my childhood” and the classic having the courage to step outside the line, “I’d go sleazy for Ron Weasley.” cupboard under the stairs.

And I knew right then and there, that The second moral is that Harry Potter all the qualms and insecurities I had on heals. Fangirling heals. Or in simpler terms, this trip would dissolve to become the best passion heals. When everything else in life experience of my short life. All of this shit is drab, finding something worth giving would be worth it. Screw the consequences; a shit about — that heals you. So thanks, we were going to live it up.

Harry, for casting “lumos” in my life and For two hot nights, we nestled in for letting me see a bit of the world. our sleeping bags on the sidewalk, P.S. My parents still don’t know about surrounded by international strangers, this trip. all as crazy and foolish as we were. And on the day of the premiere a man came Karen Hua is an LSA freshman.

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013 // The Statement

V I S U A L S TAT E M E N T:

RO OS ROA S T Out of all the local coffee roasters around Ann Arbor, one of the most visible on campus is Roos Roast. Founder and operator John Roos started the company after working in the food industry “in preparation for Roos Roast.” Roos’s goal is to provide ethically sourced and locally roasted coffee; almost all of their products are fair trade and organic. Roos often participates in events on campus. He is a sponsor of North Quad’s Peacha Kura talks, where he serves coffee to the guests from a bicycle he modified into a mobile coffee bar. Their process includes receiving raw coffee called “green beans,” which they roast in-house. They then package the coffee in bags that are screen-printed in-house with designs created by Roos.

Roos Roast is then shipped to stores such as Whole Foods and sold at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market and in-house.

— Text and photos by Nick Williams