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‘U’, Peace Corps sign program agreement School of Information becomes the first to be involved in two new initiatives By CLAIRE BRYAN Daily Staff Reporter
After a ceremony Wednesday afternoon, the University’s School of Information expanded its partnership with the Peace Corps through two new initiatives. The first agreement allowed the University to create its own branch of the Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program. The Coverdell program provides financial support and academic credit to any students who have previously served in the Peace Corps, allowing them to count part of their time in the organization towards graduation. The second created a partnership with the University and the Master’s International Program, which will allow students to start their Masters in Science in Information before serving in the Peace
Corps and return to it once they complete their service. This program is the first ever at an Information School. According to Judy Lawson, assistant dean for student and academic affairs, students’ time in the Peace Corps will fulfill six internship credits, a total of 360 hours. After returning to the program, students will be required to participate in the Initiative for Information Impact—a set of service based projects including Alternative Spring Break, Citizen Interaction Design, Global Information Engagement Program and Michigan Makers, Lawson said. “I think the interest around the School of Information is one that has really grown out of the existing relationship but also a realization, both on the part of the Peace Corp and people here at Michigan who have worked with the Peace Corps, that there is a real need within the work of the Peace Corp around information technology,” James Holloway, vice provost for global and engaged education, said. For example, there is a new See PEACECORPS, Page 4A
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Acting director of the Peace Corps Carrie Hessler-Radelet speaks at the Ford School of Public Policy Wednesday about the past, present, and future of the organization.
Leader talks Corps’ goals Director of Peace Corps examines organization’s future By JOEL GOLDSTEIN For the Daily
Fifty-four years ago, U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, then presidential candidate, held an
impromptu election speech on the steps of the Michigan Union, where he proposed to more than 5,000 students the idea of the Peace Corps, a volunteer organization to help impoverished nations. One year after Kennedy’s speech, the Peace Corps was established through an executive order. Since the establishment of the program, the University has supplied the fourth most volunteers to the
organization, with 2,556 graduates serving in the Peace Corps. Carrie Hessler-Radelet, acting director of the Peace Corps, spoke at the Ford School of Public Policy Wednesday, discussing the future of the organization. The talk was part of a series of policy talks held at the Ford School this year. Recently, Hessler-Radelet has focused on improving efficiency and safety within the organization. The Peace Corps
experienced scandal prior to Hessler-Radelet’s tenure due to allegations of covering up sexual assaults of volunteers while they were abroad. Hessler-Radelet implemented the standards of the 2011 Kate Puzey Peace Corps Volunteer Protection Act, which are meant to train and protect volunteers. Hessler-Radelet has served as acting director since July 2013. Before serving with the Peace See GOALS, Page 5A
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Students look at ‘U’ disability efforts
Teach for America to start new training program for volunteers
Advisory Board meets to discuss possibilities for better campus climate By CHARLOTTE JENKINS Daily Staff Reporter
At a Services for Students with Disabilities Student Advisory Board event on Wednesday, Business senior Rohit Kapur recited a Mike Myers quote that spoke to him. “If I went by all the rejection I’ve had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago,” the Myers quote reads. “These words resonate with me in not only in terms of rejection from the general public and members of the opposite sex, but from potential future employers as well,” Kapur said. Kapur was one of seven stuSee BOARD, Page 4A
Summer session to be extended to yearlong curriculum By EMILIE PLESSET Daily Staff Reporter
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The Michigan Hybrid Racing team unveils their new racecar in the FXB building on North Campus Wednesday.
Team unveils new hybrid race car for competition Hybrid Racing Team to attend New Hampshire tournament By PAULA FRIEDRICH Daily Staff Reporter
A sweep of blue fabric unveiled the MHybrid Racing team’s car in the atrium
of North Campus’ Francois Xavier Bagnoud Building on Wednesday night. The team will take the car to the weeklong Formula Hybrid competition at the end of April for its third showing at the competition in New Hampshire. Cars compete in acceleration, autocross, endurance and marketing competitions. The MHybrid team took fourth place last year.
After unveiling the car, the team removed its shell to reveal the jumble of wires, gears and tubes that makes the vehicle go. With 20 percent less weight than last year’s car, the vehicle features an organized and modular electric system. “Last year, we had our first working car that actually could run and so from there we learned a lot of things See RACECAR, Page 5A
For 24 years, the Teach for America program has catered to college graduates hoping to help underprivileged students through a two-year teaching stint in schools across the country. While many TFA applicants hear of rewarding experienced garnered through the program, they are less likely to be informed of the problems corps members experience once in the classroom. Many alumni have criticized the TFA program for undertraining corps members and throwing inexperienced teachers into difficult classroom situations. The summer prior to their first year in a classroom, prospective teachers must complete a five-week teaching crash course. University alum Rohan Dharan, a current Las Vegas-based corps member,
said the crash course was similar to “cramming” an education degree in five weeks. “I definitely learned a ton at institute, but teaching is such a multi-faceted thing,” Dharan said. “Until you’re in a position running your own classroom, figuring out what works for your kids, I can’t say I walked in 100 percent prepared.” The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR and other news organizations have published first-hand accounts from TFA alum who had experiences similar to Dharan’s involving apparent lack of preparation. In an effort to confront this criticism, TFA co-CEOs Elisa Villanueva Beard and Matthew Kramer announced recently that next year early TFAadmitted college seniors will participate in a year-long pilot program. The program will focus on teacher education and will provide participants with an extra year to practice their teaching skills before they are in charge of their own classroom. Kendra Hearn, University Coordinator of the TFA-Detroit See TFA, Page 2A
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go slower, but, also, I think the market is shifting from large corporations to startups and small businesses. What did you do to gain insight into your company? I got involved in the startup community in Chicago and saw the perspective from the business owners, which was that they couldn’t afford legal help. A lot of people don’t understand how important it is to have a lawyer and take steps to prevent themselves from getting into legal trouble. This is a way to help people realize how important it is and also give them an easier way to get it done.
How did you conceptualize the idea of LawStud.io? I’m in my third year of law school right now and I had the opportunity to work in two different law firms. I saw the inefficiencies of the law firms and thought, “How can we fix these inefficiencies?” A lot of it is a lack of technology that makes things
What experiences at Michigan did you bring to your startup experience? During my time at Michigan, I had the opportunity to get involved ... I started working at Telefund my freshman year and got promoted to student manager position, which was a really good experience for me to be able to take on full responsibility and learn how to lead and manage a team. Also, Michigan is a big school, and you have to be aggressive in getting involved. No one really hands you anything on a plate. Those were all useful skills that helped me do what I’m doing now. — KAITLIN ZURDOSKY
Tenebrae Same-sex halted College funding performance THE PODIUM
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The temporary stay on same-sex marriages was elongated in a 2-1 majority opinion from the federal appeals court. Marriages will not be able to continue until the Sixth Circuit Court rules on an appeal to the legalization of gay marriage.
Jarron Bowman explores Michigan’s proposal for college funding. Although the new policy allows universities to pay student tuition, a percentage of their after-college wage would be taxed. This proposal helps students in financial need, but it also has consequences.
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Students for Life planned to protest Roe v. Wade and discuss unsafe abortion facilities. Students for Choice organized a similar gathering to provide an alternate perspective.
WHAT: Hailing from Great Britain, the Tenebrae chamber choir will be performing an assortment of Lenten music. WHO: University Musical Society WHEN: Today 7:30 p.m. WHERE: St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 2270 E. Stadium Blvd.
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organize the first-ever Makerfest event. Other participants included the Ann Arbor District Library, Maker Works, U-M Computer and Video Games Archive and Michigan Makers. Makerfest was the brainchild of LSA freshman Kenny Heindel, program assistant for the Center for Campus Involvement, a student-focused department that aims to offer both undergraduate and graduate students a variety of organizations and events, such as UMix. According to Heindel, the idea for Makerfest came about when the Center for Campus Involvement asked him to collaborate with an academic department to create an event. “I suggested a Makerfest where people can go to different stations and do things that have to do with technology,” Heindel said. Makerfest gave both students and the general public the oppor-
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At Makerfest, so many attendees tested out the Google Glass that eventually the battery died before everyone had a chance to gaze at its tiny display. Students and members of the Ann Arbor community gathered in the Pendleton room of the Michigan Union Wednesday for two reasons: to get hands-on experience with the latest technology and learn about the new Bachelor of Science in Information. The Center for Campus Involvement and the School of Information teamed up to
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WHAT: Penelope Spheeris will be discussing her work as a director and filmmaker. She has produced several documentaries chronicling the history of American rock ‘n’ roll. WHO: Penny Stamps School of Art & Design WHEN: Today at 5:10 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Theatre
WHAT: Panelists will examine the intersection of diversity, contemplation and consciousness at this open discussion. The panelists will also take time to answer audience questions. WHO: Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies WHEN: Today from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Great Lakes Room (Central), Palmer Commons
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tunity to interact with new technologies at a variety of stations, including Google Glass, Xbox One, 3D printing, laser etching, squishy circuits, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, coding, crochet and cookie decorations. Attendees could also find a station on the new Bachelor of Science in Information, which provided information about the program and the opportunity to schedule an appointment with an advisor. The BSI program, an upperlevel program for juniors and seniors, focuses on how people connect with technology and how people share information with organizations. The program also focuses on making a bridge between the client and the technical sides of an organization. Undergraduate program adviser Katy Ross said the School of Information had been discussing creating the program for many years. Ross said she kept hearing from students who wanted to take courses outside of their school and engage with the School of Information. “We felt like it was time to go ahead and launch our own degree,” Ross said. The BSI program will be offered beginning in Fall 2014. To apply, students must have at least sophomore standing and must have completed a series of prerequisite courses. Ross said the School of Information already accepted the first round of students into the BSI program, including Information sophomore Madison Garver, and Heindel who will be transferring to the School of Information next year. Heindel said he was pleased with the turnout of the event and hopes to organize the event again in the future. The Google Glass station was the most popular attraction among event participants. Attendees waited in line to test out the new piece of technology, which integrates Google’s
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TFA From Page 1A Teacher Education program, said the University teaching certificate hopes to join TFA in teaching future teachers. “This for us is all about opportunity to be a part of the preparation solution and help them go in as well prepared as they possibly can,” Hearn said. For many corps members, the TFA teaching course is the only formal education training they receive. Dharan, who graduated in 2013, said during the training program, he and a group of four other teachers taught a morning kindergarten class together and took turns acting as the lead teacher. In the afternoon, they attended sessions discussing how to make lesson plans and interact with students. Dharan said he felt like he did not have enough classroom experience prior to the beginning of the school year. “You really don’t get a sense of a whole day and what a whole classroom experience looks like until you’re in it,” Dharan said. “No matter how good the training is, the more time
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you can spend in a classroom before you enter the program, the better off you will be.” The original summer training program also provided a general knowledge of how to teach every age bracket. However, University alum Carly Goldberg, a current Chicago-based corps member, said she did not have the opportunity to connect with kids in the age group she teaches and did not receive sufficient training in her field. Over the summer, Goldberg trained with a high school class, but taught in a middle school in the fall. “When I started teaching middle school, I hadn’t been in a middle school classroom since I was in middle school,” Goldberg said. “In college, you’re used to taking a class where the professor just talks to you the whole time. You have to learn that that’s not how kids learn things.” Dharan said he felt he could have been better prepared to teach his first grade class and felt unprepared to teach his students how to read. “There have been moments where I’ve been like, ‘I really feel like I needed more preparation on how to actually teach a child to read,’ ” Dharan said.
application in development that will allow Peace Corps volunteers to manage and track their medication and health while serving. This is incredibly important for volunteers who are frequently in
places that do not offer essential medical benefits, Holloway said. The University’s graduate programs have nine previous agreements with the Peace Corps, including the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the School of Natural Resources and Environment, See PEACECORPS, Page 4A
Android user interface into glasses that the user can wear and use hands-free. Garver was among the attendees who waited in line to try out the Google Glass. Though she did not have the
opportunity to fully test the Google Glass, she enjoyed the other stations as well. “I’ve seen some really cool stuff that indicates where the future of technology might be going,” Garver said.
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TFA teachers can attend the five-week training course at eleven campuses around the country including Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The institute training courses take place in June and July.
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The crash course teaches corps members, many with no prior background in education, teaching and course objective skills in an intensive schedule that can begin at 6:30 in the morning and end at 10:30 in the evening.
In the morning, members collaborate to teach a classroom of students and may rotate times to lead the classroom. Corps members teach for an average of two-hours a day and are observed by veteran teachers. Teachers provide corps members with feedback and support throughout the program.
Throughout the day, when members are not teaching they are given opportunities to plan or rehearse lesson plans, observe other corps members teaching, or attend curriculum objective sessions.
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In the evenings teachers participate in corps member advisor groups and reflect on their continuous progress and the challenges they face. They may also attend workshops or learning team meetings.
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An ethical investment The ‘U’ must monitor the moral consequences of its financial commitments
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ed by the Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, the movement for the University of Michigan to investigate its financial investments has received significant and well-deserved attention on campus. In the last few weeks, SAFE has raised legitimate concerns about the University’s ethical standards for investment, calling attention to alleged human rights violations by companies the University has invested in. The activism led by SAFE and its allies is admirable, as the group has brought to light disturbing questions about the University’s behavior. The University cannot allow the allure of profits to muddle the school’s ethical standard. As with all of its actions, the school must hold itself to a fundamental morality when making financial investments. Last Tuesday, the Central Student Government voted to indefinitely postpone a vote on Assembly Resolution 3-050 proposed by SAFE. The resolution called for CSG to petition the Board of Regents to create an ad hoc committee to investigate University investments in companies accused of violating human rights, including General Electric, Heidelberg Cement, Caterpillar Inc. and United Technologies. The CSG Student Assembly voted to indefinitely postpone a decision on the resolution. CSG’s refusal to vote on the resolution was a failure in the institution of student representation. A student government has a responsibility to listen to consider the demands of the student body. The student government is not bound by any requirement to only represent a majority voice on campus. In fact, as the representative body, CSG is obligated to highlight the perspective of minority and underrepresented groups. A blind endorsement of the majority prerogative is to create a dangerously homogenous voice. The University of Michigan is a diverse institution that values all points of view, and the student government should act as such. By refusing to even allow a robust debate on the proposed resolution, the CSG Student Assembly effectively ignored the very constituency they were elected to represent. Furthermore, by enacting an indefinite postponement and thus denying future dialogue, CSG not only failed to listen to students, but effectively silenced SAFE and the 37 student organizations in support, a significant student voice on campus. With CSG presidential election polls closing tonight, the next administration needs to take steps to ensure that this injustice does not happen again. The University’s investment strategies must adhere to a code of ethics. Currently the school has an existing President’s Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights in which the University vests power to protect human rights and labor standards in all agreements involving University licensing. It protects several areas of human rights, including labor rights, women’s rights and health and safety standards. While their commitment to social justice wherever the University logo appears is admirable, similarly high standards should be applied to University investments. As a public institution, created by a government that supposedly charges itself with the pursuance of human rights, the University has a responsibility to continuously monitor all investments that may be contradictory to its values. By investing in companies that are engaging in human rights violations, the University is complicit in those actions. Failure to monitor ethical issues surrounding its investments indicates detrimental moral values and a solely profitmotivated mindset on the University’s part. As a state-funded institution, the University must be ethically proactive in all of its actions. Failure to adhere to these ethical guidelines is a direct contradiction of the University’s commitment to social justice issues. In order for the University to create an ad hoc committee, three conditions must be met. According to the CFO’s statement on University investment, there must be a general campus consensus, the organization, industry or entity in question has demonstrated behavior antithetical to the core mission and values of the University and these bodies can be proven to be responsible for their implications. However, these requirements are unnecessary. These
red tape barriers allow the University to keep investing in companies that don’t fit our ethical and moral standards. The University should always have a committee reviewing whether or not organizations, industries or entities we invest in comply with ethical and moral standards — not just when they have already significantly violated human rights. In doing this, the University would not be breaking new ground. Stanford University’s Statement on Investment Responsibility states its trustees are responsible for taking into account ethical factors when setting investment policies and voting practices to address allegations of “substantial social injury” while investing, or considering an investment in corporations. The University should have a strict code of ethics in place as demonstrated by Stanford, and ensure that it carefully evaluates how its endowment is being spent. Investment decisions not only represent what virtues the administration supports, but also reflect the interests of the students and alumni. Donations and tuition make up a significant amount of endowment, and not letting the students or alumni have a say in, or for that matter even suggest to look into social implications of the University’s investments, is in itself an act of undermining their rights. Columbia and Harvard University each also have an Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility comprised of four faculty members, four current students and four alumni. These committees formulate recommendations on what social, environmental and political policies that shareholders should support. This information is then relayed to other committees who determine proxies on social issues. The committees occasionally investigate investment and divestment policies as well. In 2009, several students advocated for the creation of a similar group at the University without success. It is vital that the University establishes a system similar to the ones enacted by Harvard and Columbia. The committee must directly acknowledge the interests of the student body and alumni while making investments, especially considering its vast student body and the diverse communities it encompasses. Just as this University has grown from a backwater college in the forested Midwest to one of the world’s leading academies of thought and action, so too has our inviolable moral duty. We commend any student group that calls on this institution to live up to the high ethical standard that it sets for its students, and indeed itself, in so many other areas. If nothing else, SAFE and its allies have re-centered the campus conversation on the balance between the University’s fiduciary and moral imperatives. Any company complicit or duplicitous in human rights violations is unworthy of our investment and the many exemplary individuals who have helped build the endowment over the course of generations. To that end, the University needs to institutionalize a permanent mechanism to evaluate complaints against companies that are suspected of doing business with unethical regimes. A committee composed of faculty, students, administrators, alumni and community members can dutifully and thoroughly evaluate these claims and publicly recommend to the Board of Regents whether or not these companies merit divestment or other sanctions. Until such a committee is established, willful blindness will continue to be a poor substitute for defining leadership on one of the pressing issues of our time.
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No close friend left behind
hink about all the friends you’ve made since getting to college. Have a number? Great. Now, here’s a harsh reality: for every 12 friends you’ve made, you’ll only statistically remain friends with one of them. For many MICHAEL Michigan stu- SCHRAMM dents, college is the best opportunity to make friends. Newfound independence, plus 40,000 people our age, equals social interaction. We’ll never again live in a microcosm so designed for creating relationships. So we take advantage of our surroundings. We make friends in our residence halls, classes, student clubs and Greek communities. Some of these people become our close friends, even our best friends, but after we vacate our dorms, finish classes and leave our organizations, we too often leave our friends along with these spaces. This shouldn’t happen. Of course, we can’t maintain every friendship, but we’re not maintaining many that we should. Now, not everyone’s terrible at maintaining connections. It’s entirely possible that you easily stay in contact, but statistics say we’re generally not. A recent study showed that we have 396 friendships over the course of our lives, yet we only maintain 33 at a time. Out of 33, only six are considered close friends. Here’s another statistic: seven out of 10 people identify losing 11 out of 12 friends as one of their biggest regrets, so losing touch isn’t a habit we welcome or accept — it’s a legitimate problem. Which makes sense. At our core, we have an innate desire for companionship. We try avoiding a lonely state, but our constant busyness makes scheduling friend time difficult. After enough time, we lose touch with many once close companions, and both parties feel uncomfortable initiating a conversation. Post-college life worsens the situation. Moving, work and children cause increased busyness, meaning we have fewer opportunities to make new friends. Couple this with our inability to stay in touch, and we push needed socialization on fewer people. This toxic trend continues as we settle into long-term relationships. Our romantic partners increasingly engulf our needs until our friendship circles narrow significantly — even totally. And though romantic partners provide an otherwise unattainably powerful friendship, they alone cannot satisfy the human craving for
interaction. One reason is we examine our friends’ personality traits and incorporate the ones we most enjoy into ourselves. As we become familiar with each individual, we come to understand their ingredients — what makes them them. After spending enough time together, we pinpoint the traits we admire. Eventually, conscious or not, we merge these traits into our identities. Maybe witnessing your friend’s level-headedness gives you composure in stressful situations. Perhaps hearing a rationally grounded yet emotional boyfriend rant causes you to feel and express your emotions. Regardless of which traits you appreciate, no single person demonstrates every admirable characteristic. We need many people with differing traits to be the best person that we can be. Friendships are more than a tool for self-improvement. They’re fundamental in getting the most out of life. Outside of necessary alone time, life is simply better enjoyed with people. Favorite pastimes can be fun alone, but oftentimes being with a friend enriches these activities. I’m sure we can all look to our last lunch, movie, workout or night out and remember the highlights and memories came from moments driven by social interaction. Friends also invite us to activities we would otherwise never do. You may never realize that you love grabbing coffee or taking walks until a friend makes the suggestion, but they may quickly become favorite pastimes. You don’t even need active conversation to enjoy friend time; even comfortable moments of silence can feel enjoyable with a friend. Whichever activity is chosen, having an assortment of friends maximizes these experiences’ values. Going to lunch with different people can be drastically different, but you enjoy each one. Part of this enjoyment comes from having a wide variety of interactions and personalities, and no matter which friend you choose, activities feel considerably more fun with lifelong friends who know you intimately. But friendships aren’t just useful during good times; they aid us in times of struggle, and we need a variety of people to guide us through problems. Different friends possess different strengths. Some friends are perfect for relationship advice while others prove the perfect confidant for family issues. Different friends even fill specific subcategories among different topics. Sometimes you just need an emotional vent while other times you need advice. At times you need someone to validate your opinion while occasionally you need your
friend to empathize and express the frustration you’re experiencing. I’m sure it didn’t take this column for you to realize that friendships are important. I think every student agrees that great friends enhance life, but if we understand this, why don’t we maintain them? They provide us with substantial benefits, yet the effort we invest in them doesn’t equal their significance. This imbalance likely stems from how rapidly we befriend in college. After leaving a residence hall, class or organization, we quickly enter another where we make other great friends — assuming life will always occur like this and enduring friendships will effortlessly last. However, similar to the flawed logic of love’s effortlessness, friendships require attentive nurturing. And as we move, marry and have children, maintaining friendships — let alone making new ones — will become increasingly difficult. As college students, we’ll never have a better opportunity to make friends. So while you have the opportunity, consciously develop friendships with people you enjoy. Send the text message about planning a lunch catch-up. Or get coffee. Or play video games. Or go work out. Or Skype them if you’re far away. It may feel uncomfortable if you haven’t spoken in months, but receiving the “Yes! I’ve missed you,” text trumps the potential awkwardness and occasional non-response. I promise. If you consistently do this, you and your friend will develop the ability to remain close even without speaking for awhile. That’s important, because life is busy and you can’t get lunch with 60 people every week, but you can keep in touch with 60 people you value. But don’t feel like you need 60 friends. Everyone’s different, so everyone requires a different number. If you only have 20 friends, that’s fine as long as you haven’t lost someone important for lack of keeping in touch. Whether or not you remember, if you really cared about someone, you had a reason, and seeing them again will likely remind you of their significance. These people deserve a place in your life. Though quality is better than quantity, quality and quantity are better than just quality because progressing through life is better when done with many people you’ve known for a long time. Sharing your life and creating memories are always better with people you care about, or more importantly, who care about you. — Michael Schramm can be reached at mschramm@umich.edu.
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS Barry Belmont, Edvinas Berzanskis, Nivedita Karki, Jacob Karafa, Aarica Marsh, Megan McDonald, Victoria Noble, Michael Schramm, Matthew Seligman, Paul Sherman, Allison Raeck, Linh Vu, Daniel Wang SAM DICKSTEIN AND GREG TERYNN | VIEWPOINT
Stand with FORUM Now, more than ever, students are frustrated with Central Student Government. Some feel their voices are not being heard, others are concerned that the current administration only has a specific demographic of students in mind and a vast percentage of students have no idea what CSG has been working on this past year. This administration’s initiatives included a costly bus route at the expense of student organization funding and a changed ticket policy this year. But there is much more to CSG. Or at least there should be. CSG needs immediate redirection to become a relevant body and fulfill its purpose of serving the students. Our Central Student Government has great potential to be a unifying organization for the varying perspectives on campus, a resource for students and groups looking to influence improvements at Michigan and a place where all students feel their voice is not only germane, but cherished. It’s that potential that led us to FORUM. A former chair for an opposition party, seniors with no tangible stake in the outcome and students from all different perspectives and demographics — these are the campus leaders that make up FORUM. Over and over again you’ve heard
us say we’re out to empower students, creating a more open dialogue at Michigan — and we mean it. It started with the open and transparent way we recruited our candidates so that everyone who wanted to join had a fair shot. But it doesn’t end there — even if we win this election. An open dialogue must be constantly evolving. It shows that we’re always thinking, always tweaking our ideas based on your input. The past few weeks we’ve been on the Diag and at Pierpont Commons asking students “What do you want a FORUM for?” in your student government. The response has been impressive and overwhelming. Students want more transparency within CSG, with many students noting the fact that pieces of legislation passed by this year’s assembly are not even accessible on the CSG website, a clear example of the current administration’s failure to reach the students. They want increased security and safety at the University, more sustainability initiatives and a more open and inclusive campus climate among many other ambitious platforms and causes championed. We’ve delivered on some of those things already. We’ve lobbied University Health Services for online
appointment-making. It’s now a reality. We’re working with the University Administration to reform the Race and Ethnicity requirement to become more relevant and constructive. We’ve had FORUM rep collaboration in everything from initiatives for increased minority enrollment, institutional expansion of voter registration and broadened access to contraceptives on campus in residential halls and at UHS. We believe in Carly Manes, Pavitra Abraham and the representative candidates we have selected as a group that can come together to finally have the constructive, meaningful campus dialogue that has been missing from the current government. This group is united because the status quo is not sufficient for this student body. We are not a monolith; our party is a collection of diverse perspectives. But what we have in common, what binds us, is our passion for improving the daily lives of all students, not a select few. And that’s why we stand with FORUM. Join us on March 26 and 27 at vote.umich.edu. Sam Dickstein is is the FORUM’s Party Chair and Greg Terynn is FORUM’s Communications Director.
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PEACECORPS From Page 2A the School or Education, the School of Nursing, the School of Social Work and the School of Art and Design. Holloway and Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, dean of the School of Information, signed the agreements with Carrie Hessler-Radelet, acting director of the Peace Corps. “The School of Information is committed to giving students opportunities to help people use information, with technology, to build a better world,” MacKie-Mason wrote in a press release. “The Peace Corps offers students an unparalleled chance to put that knowledge into practice, creating innovative solutions to help others.” University alum Gabriel Krieshok, who served with the Peace Corps in Madagas-
car, said in a press release his experience allowed him to see the impact technology has on a community. “The University of Michigan’s School of Information afforded me the tools and hands-on experience to make an impact on international development issues,” Krieshok said. The University frequently ranks as a top contributor of Peace Corps participants. Last year, the University placed fifth nationally and third among Big Ten schools, trailing the University of Wisconsin and Ohio State University. In 2013, 81 graduates went on to work for the Peace Corps. The University has historically maintained strong ties to the Peace Corps since its creation, which President John F. Kennedy announced on the steps of the Michigan Union in 1960.
BOARD From Page 1A dents who discussed living with disabilities as part of the SSD Student Advisory Board event speakABLE at Hatcher Graduate Library where each student spoke individually about their experiences. Kapur discussed his frustration with being rejected after 22 consecutive job interviews. As a Ross student, one of the top business schools in the country, Kapur said he realized that discrimination was playing a factor. During a meeting with a representative from General Motors, the representative told Kapur that he had not interviewed someone in a wheelchair in the past 15 years. “The University of Michigan emphasizes diversity,” Kapur said. “But I feel the University could excel more at teaching us how to deal with a world that isn’t as open to diversity as we would hope.”
Rackham student Alison Stroud, who is deaf, said that she felt comfortable coming to the University as a student with a disability, but thinks there are improvements that could be implemented. Stroud said that as a freshman, she had some of the most difficulty when attending mass meetings and speaker events. She said she wants the University to consider making screens with transcripts, such as the one at the SSD event, present at most events. Stroud added that she would like the University to expand its course offerings featuring disabilities, especially since the University does not have a disabilities studies curriculum. LSA junior Ryan Bartholomew, chair of Central Student Government’s Commission on Campus Accessibility and Disability Affairs, discussed his experience as a transfer student living in North Quad with a roommate with a disability. He said they quickly became close friends.
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Bartholomew said he realized the “deplorable” evacuation protocols for students with mobility impairment during an unplanned fire drill in North Quad last year. He said DPS did not have a realistic plan for evacuating students with disabilities, and the North Quad resident advisors neglected the issue. Bartholomew and his roommate met with University representatives, who were “shocked” at the state of the current protocols to reform the policies. LSA junior Callan Luch spoke of her experience of being afflicted by undiagnosed schizoaffective disorder while at the University. The University was supportive and, since her return, she has seen a psychiatrist through the University Health System and a psychologist through CAPS. Luch added that the University’s Office of Financial Aid awarded her a scholarship to cover her hospital bill of more than $11,000 after her initial stay. Luch said that she wants to be an advocate for defying negative stereo-
types about people with disabilities and mental illness. “I am not what happened to me,” Luch said. “I am what I choose to be.” LSA sophomore Drew Clayborn broke his neck while performing a back flip four years ago. He said that with the diversity present on campus, students can always find others they are similar to, but it is more difficult to find students willing to reach outside their comfort zones to people who are different from them. Bartholomew discussed the theme of “otherness” and how society views people with disabilities fearfully as others. Bartholomew said this is a dangerous narrative. Social Work student Lloyd Shelton said many view disability as a limiting term that assumes people with these characteristics are weaker and less than others. “This is not what I saw of everyone who spoke today,” Shelton said. “When I look around the room I don’t see weakness … I see greatness and I see victors. I see champions.”
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RACECAR From Page 1A about how to design it, how to test it,” said Engineering junior Ben Wang, the team’s electrical lead. “We learned from mistakes.” Five teams — mechanical, controls, electric, aerodynamics and business — came together to build the car from scratch, excluding a few motors and batteries. The front wheels are powered by electric motors, and the back wheels by a combustion engine. Engineering senior Connor St. John, team co-captain, said it’s the first year that the car looks like they “put thought into it.” He said the last two years were wellthought out too, but that this car is better designed — a jump that he credits to the experience gained in the last two years. “We really stepped up our game. We took a lot more design considerations,” said Engineering
junior Forrest Coghill, the team’s co-mechanical lead. “I would say the whole vehicle is a little more streamlined.” Coghill, who will lead next year’s team with Wang, said the future of the Formula Hybrid competition is uncertain as industry sustainability preferences and standards are in flux. “Companies like Tesla are pushing electric vehicles and I think that’s ultimately where the industry is going to go,” he said. “So I could also see the competition going in that direction.” That means the team may have to prepare to adapt to possible shifts in the competition. Coghill said he imagines this change could take the form of a modular base frame that can support both hybrid and fully electric systems. Engineering senior Karan Patal, team co-captain, added that the car was complete two-and-a-half weeks earlier than it was last year, which the captains credit to a motivated team.
GOALS From Page 1A Corps, Hessler-Radelet worked with Johns Hopkins University to develop Indonesia’s first comprehensive AIDs management program. Since taking the reins at the organization, Hessler-Radelet has created advocacy and support groups for volunteers who were victims of violence while abroad. “The thing that keeps me up at night is volunteer safety,” Hessler-Radelet said. Earlier Wednesday, the Peace Corps announced a new partnership program with the University’s School of Information. The Peace Corps aims to tackle problems in public health, climate change and entrepreneurship, all while creating a rewarding experience for volunteers. Hessler-Radelet spoke about
improving the diversity of volunteers serving in the Peace Corps. To achieve diversity, the organization shortened the application process from eight hours to one hour as well as provided scholarships for volunteers who want to return to college. Additionally, each regional recruiting office plans to hire one diversity recruiter. The organization is also working to streamline the application process, with the goal of sending applicants abroad within six to nine months of their application. Hessler-Radelet hopes to double the number of applicants with the new process. Fifty years after the launch of the Peace Corps on the steps of the Union, Hessler-Radelet believes the organization is still relevant. She said at least 12 presidents of African nations credit the Peace Corps for providing services that allowed them to achieve their
Thursday, March 27, 2014 — 5A current success. Even though the organization has been successful, Hessler-Radelet said there are issues she still wants to address, namely continuing to ensure volunteer safety. However, she added that research has found that a Peace Corps volunteer is at no greater risk serving abroad than someone living in the United States. Another issue that worries Hessler-Radelet is funding. The organization, which draws funding from the federal government and private donations, currently receives $1 from every tax-paying American. Despite being constrained by funding, the Peace Corps has spread to 139 countries and trained close to a quarter-million volunteers. Even with the problems facing the Peace Corps, there was a strong turnout from former Peace Corps volunteers at Wednesday’s meeting.
“It looks like there’s progress for the Peace Corps, whereas before it felt like the Peace Corps was staying as it was,” Rackham student Geraldine Montesinos, a returned Peace Corps volunteer, said. Hessler-Radelet announced other new ventures including collaborations between universities in the United States and those in host countries, as well as non-governmental organizations. She is also using data to focus on allocating resources to make the most meaningful and cost effective changes to the organization. At one point in her speech, Hessler-Radelet asked the returned volunteers to stand up. This was her way of demonstrating the tangible impact the program makes. “Sometimes it’s a mayor, a minister, a mom,” she said. “All who feel like their life was transformed by a Peace Corps volunteer.”
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Faerber factor: Michigan’s new weapon Rescued from death as an infant, sophomore making a splash for the Wolverines By MAX BULTMAN Daily Sports Writer
Timothy Faerber is flying through the air. While the rest of the Michigan men’s swimming team goes to the locker room and ices its muscles, Faerber is still flying. One rotation, a tuck, an extension, and then Faerber enters the water. “Over! You’re over!” shouts diving coach KZ Li from the deck, letting the sophomore know he rotated a few degrees too many. Faerber bobs back up above the water, paddling to the wall and propping himself onto the deck. He nods his head at Li, and then turns to a reporter, sitting two chairs down. “Is it OK if I do one more?” he asks, as if he’s bound by the reporter’s schedule and not the other way around. Faerber gets back up on the board and does another. He overrotates again. “One more. I’m really sorry.” This time, he hits it clean. His rotation is fluid and his splash is minimal. Michigan coach Mike Bottom isn’t seeing any of this. He’s wrapped up in adjusting the strokes of the women swimming laps in the middle segment of the pool. And that’s not all that surprising. Old habits die hard, and diving hasn’t been an integral part of the season for the second-ranked Wolverines. While their swimmers grace the covers of Swim World Magazine and dominate the conversation on online swimming forums, Faerber and the dive team fly under the radar. But that won’t always be the case. Faerber’s making sure of that.
Understanding the natural dangers of a 32-foot fall, Faerber clears his head and takes the plunge. On this dive, he didn’t mess up. When Faerber hit the water, the home crowd erupted instantly. That morning, Faerber had become the first Michigan diver in 11 years to make the finals in all three diving disciplines. And with that dive, he had just placed fourth in his second consecutive event, despite qualifying eighth at each height. That was a feat Bottom couldn’t possibly miss. In his five-year tenure — which has included four Big Ten titles and a national championship — Bottom had never had a diver perform as well as Faerber. A year earlier, no one could have seen this coming. For Faerber, the journey to that moment on the 10-meter platform couldn’t have had many more obstacles. *** On Oct. 25, 1994, Tim Faerber was dead. At birth, he inhaled bodily acid, which was dissolving his lungs as his umbilical cord strangled him. “Basically, I was born with buds for lungs,” Faerber said, as if he had said it a hundred times before. Though he was clinically dead, doctors tied off his carotid artery and hooked him up to an experimental new machine in an attempt to circulate his blood. No one before him had ever survived the procedure without complications. People had made it, but not without limitations. It was a miracle that he lived at all, let alone that, seven years later, he began diving competitively. It’s clear in the way Faerber speaks about his unusual birth that it hasn’t played a serious role in his identity. He’s thought about it, sure, just like he thinks about what could or could not happen every time he stands atop the 10-meter platform. But in no way does it define him. Still, that didn’t stop him from trying to reconnect with the man who saved his life. The doctor who invented the experimental procedure — whose name Faerber doesn’t even remember — now works at the University of Michigan Hospital. “When I came here for a recruiting trip, I actually sent him an e-mail,” Faerber said. “I thought he would be interested in talking to me, but he never responded. I still would love to talk with him.”
“Last year, I was focused on just trying to do well for myself.”
*** Ten days earlier, Faerber stood 10 meters above the water, at the same pool, preparing for his final dive at the Big Ten Championships. For once, his whole team was watching. With 32 feet of free fall between his feet and the water, the sophomore took a deep breath before jumping. “I’m still scared,” Faerber said later, laughing at himself. “I guess I’d be less scared if I had never messed up. But I have.” But he knows there’s only one way down, and that’s to jump.
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Michigan in the fall of 2012, Li saw a completely different man than the one who wowed the entire pool deck at the Big Ten Championships. “A lot of guys, when they get to university, they think it will be easy. They don’t want to work,” Li said. “They want to have fun.” That attitude, Li thinks, worked its way into Faerber’s mind during his freshman year. Coming in, he had just qualified for the Olympic Trials straight out of the junior national diving circuit. At the time, though, he didn’t have enough confidence in two of his nine dives off the 10-meter platform, leading him to skip the trials. He chose to miss the chance to compete against the nation’s top talent. “It was the fear thing,” Faerber said. “I’ll regret (not going) for the rest of my life.” Once he got to Ann Arbor, he learned, the hard way, the importance of correcting his attitude — including the type of mindset that led him to skip the trials. He struggled to keep pace with tough engineering classes and missed a few early-morning practices. He didn’t immediately find his place on the team. He misjudged the level of competition he was up against in the pool and out of it. “I forgot about the school part,” Faerber said. “It was not a good year for me in a lot of ways. I came in thinking (diving) was going to be easy like it was in juniors. And it wasn’t. There are people in college you’ve never heard of. I thought, having gone to all the national meets, I would have already heard of everyone.” The Big Ten’s loaded field of divers overwhelmed the stillmaturing Faerber, who finished 24th, 18th and 10th in the 1-meter, 3-meter and 10-meter, respectively, at the conference meet his freshman year. Beyond that, physical exhaustion, coupled with a tough transition period in the College of Engineering, made Faerber’s first year at Michigan arduous. “We offered him, a few times,
the chance to stop,” Li said. “We told him ‘Hey, you’ve got a real life choice.’ And every time, he said ‘No. I want to keep doing it.’” And even though he persevered, the results didn’t show up right away. Despite an improved performance from the Big Ten Championships, Faerber failed to qualify for nationals. His team won the NCAA Championship last season, while he sat at home watching. *** Like the other challenges the sophomore has faced, a change in attitude helped overcome his struggles and put him onto the right track. “Last year, I was just focused on trying to do well for myself,” Faerber said. “I think that was a big part of why I didn’t do so well. This year, I’ve become a lot closer with the rest of the team.” The scene he faced at Big Tens was the embodiment of that. Not a single Michigan swimmer was looking away from their teammate on the platform. “It was awesome,” Faerber said. “I’ve never experienced anything like that.” The fact that he narrowly missed qualifying for NCAA Championships out of the nation’s toughest zone doesn’t change that he’s the best diver the Wolverines have had in 11 years. He broke personal bests in the 1-meter and the 3-meter events. He broke the drought of diving success at Michigan. He grew up. Halfway through his collegiate career, Faerber is in a great position. Next year, Faerber will be one of three returning Big Ten divers to have qualified for finals in all three events. He projects to finish top five in each discipline, and could push the top three.
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Timothy Faerber said he can’t remember when diving wasn’t a part of his life.
At the rate he’s progressing, diving will no longer be so readily discarded from the highlights of Michigan swim meets. In a conference with powerhouses like Purdue and Indiana, Faerber has the Wolverines on their way to notoriety in the diving well. But he doesn’t do it because he needs to win the Big Ten or dive at Olympic trials — though he very well could do both. First and foremost, he loves diving and loves doing it well. “It’s kind of all I know,” Faerber said. “I don’t remember not diving.”
“It’s kind of all I know. I don’t remember not diving.”
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Today, Faerber is in Ann Arbor, just like he was this time last year. The rest of his team is in Austin, Texas fighting for a national title, just like last year. But as far as comparisons go, that’s about as similar as the two seasons have been for Faerber. While he hopes to move into the School of Kinesiology
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to study movement science, Faerber has worked through his kinks transitioning to the rigorous academic life. Through his engineering classes, Faerber has learned a thing or two about exponential growth — enough to see it taking place within himself, at least. “My studying’s better, my time management’s better, I wake up better. Everything is better,” he said. With a better routine and better focus, Faerber has found even more time to devote to bettering himself as a diver. “The other day, I was at the library, and I ended up watching the European prelims for, like, an hour and a half,” Faerber said. “Stuff no one would ever watch.” While the Wolverines do their warm-up laps in Austin, Faerber will be in the pool at Canham — or maybe, in the air. He’s probably there right now. “He can’t get away from diving,” Li said. “I can see it. He can’t quit if he tried.” So he does one more.
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Michigan’s starting guards are 6-foot-2, 6-foot-6 and 6-foot-6. Tennessee’s are 6-foot1, 6-foot-6 and 6-foot-6. But the similarities in size get quickly obscured by the differences in style. The Michigan men’s basketball team works its offense around the perimeter — playing off of ball screens and finding drive-and-kick opportunities. The Wolverines rotate the ball quickly and look to exploit cracks in the defense with prolific 3-point shooting. The 11th-seeded Volunteers, meanwhile, work the ball from the inside out. The guards — Antonio Barton, Jordan McRae and Josh Richardson — don’t generate the offense like Michigan’s guards do. Six-foot-eight, 260-pound wunderkind Jarnell Stokes gets a lot of touches and passes out of double teams when opponents give him attention in the post. The junior forward is averaging 20 points and 15 rebounds in the NCAA Tournament, but has just as many assists on the season as Barton, the starting point guard. Another 6-foot-8 load, Jeronne Maymon starts alongside Stokes, and while he lacks the scoring presence, he knows how to catch the ball, keep it high and play back out over the top of the defense. “This is a team that is a difficult match for us because they have great quickness on the perimeter,” said Michigan coach John Beilein on ESPN’s Mike and Mike radio show. “And they play with a classic two big guys on the blocks that just beat us up.” Unlike No. 2 seed Michigan, however, Tennesssee doesn’t win with knockdown 3-point shooting. The Wolverines make 40 percent of their attempts while Tennessee shoots 33 percent. Four Michigan regulars shoot better than 40 percent behind the arc, while Tennessee’s most accurate gunner, McRae, makes 36 percent. The Wolverines shoot five
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Sophomore guard Nik Stauskas is Michigan’s biggest 3-point threat, and the Volunteers are keying in on stopping him.
more 3-pointers per game, and the expected advantage for Michigan after considering both the accuracy and quantity of 3-point shooting is nearly 10 points. It’s no secret to the Volunteers who they need to key in on, specifically. Sophomore guard Nik Stauskas has Tennessee’s attention. “He shoots threes, he can drive to the hole, he can do pretty much everything,” Richardson told reporters Tuesday. “It will be a tough cover again. Their offense pretty much flows through him, and he leads in points and assists, so it will be crucial to get him out of his rhythm.” But just in case that sounds like Richardson is worried about the matchup… “It’s just another player,” he said. “I have been guarding guys like that for a while now. It’s nothing new.” Richardson is the team’s second-leading scorer behind McRae, and he led Tennessee with 26 points on 9-for-13 shooting in Sunday’s 83-63 pummeling of Mercer. Though he won’t command a lot of attention behind the 3-point line, his shooting has
“They have great quickness on the perimeter.”
improved in the last few weeks. Similar to a handful of Texas players last week, Richardson is most effective putting up floaters and mid-range jumpers. According to Tennessee coach Cuonzo Martin, Richardson went through some of the same self-efficacy doubts as sophomore forward Glenn Robinson III. “I know as a player, sometimes coach wanted me to shoot the ball, and I wasn’t as assertive early in my career to shoot the ball,” Martin said, analogizing himself to Richardson. “But it is how he is feeling, and if his shots are going, he is aggressive, he is going to be extremely tough to defend.” McRae, however, is Tennessee’s major scoring threat. In many ways, he resembles the man he’ll most likely guard — sophomore guard Caris LeVert. Both players are listed at 6-foot-6 and 185 pounds, and both have long, lanky limbs that help them deflect balls in the passing lanes, jump stop into the paint and finish with either hand on either side of the rim — over and around the outstretched arms of post defenders. The Tennessee senior averages 18.6 points per game, but even if he, along with the rest of the Volunteers are on top of their games Friday night, Martin knows that still may not be enough. “The (Wolverines) shoot it
very well,” Martin said. “We have to contest that line. But the thing about it is … they run their plays, and it’s almost like you would like for them to score out of their set plays because when the set plays break down, they have four guys that can take you off the dribble and make plays and make shots. “The margin for error is very slim.” NOTE: Wednesday, Stauskas was named a first team AllAmerican by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. He is the eighth Michigan player to receive the distinction. The last was Trey Burke in 2013.
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Michigan’s percentage from beyond the arc, thanks in large part to guard Nik Stauskas.
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3-pointers made by the Wolverines in the Round of 32 against Texas.
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Average margin of victory for the Volunteers in this NCAA Tournament.
Lawrence leads bookish Wolverines By MAX BULTMAN Daily Sports Writer
When the Michigan softball team went on Winter Break, Carol Hutchins gave them homework. The Michigan coach gave each player a copy of Tim S. Grover’s Relentless: From Good
to Great to Unstoppable, a book meant to teach athletes how to harness their intensity and turn it into killer instinct. Early in the season, it looks as though the Wolverines have done their homework and done it diligently. After splitting 10 games with ranked teams in non-conference
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Sierra Lawrence is showing marked improvements from a stellar freshman year.
play, Michigan (3-0 Big Ten, 22-6 overall) thumped Indiana by a combined 29-4 in three games over the weekend. The clearest example of that offseason growth comes with sophomore outfielder Sierra Lawrence. While she had already earned a first team AllBig Ten distinction last season, Lawrence has played at a new level this year. “She has great hands, she has a great eye, but her timing was just off,” Hutchins said. “Her timing is a lot better this year, and her confidence is a lot better. And that’s the goal — you want them to get better from year to year.” In her standout freshman campaign, Lawrence batted .314 with 38 RBI and seven home runs in 63 games. Those are tough numbers to improve on for any player, freshman or otherwise. But through 25 appearances this season, she’s hitting .357 with 28 RBI and three home runs already. All of it, Lawrence says, is a result of her offseason growth. “I worked on everything, basically,” Lawrence said. “Offense, defense, my mentality, just everything.” Perhaps the most startling aspect of her torrid pace is that it
has come against the nation’s top competition — something she won’t see much of for the rest of the regular season. “For (Lawrence), the sky is the limit,” Hutchins said. “I thought she had a ton of untapped potential last year.” That potential is showing itself every time Lawrence comes to bat. Whereas the Wolverines have faltered from time to time with runners in scoring position, Lawrence has come through to the tune of a .429 batting average and 28 RBI. She has been even better with the bases loaded, when she’s gone 4-for-5 with two grand slams. “I just know my team is looking up to me and expecting me to step up when it’s time,” Lawrence said. That kind of attitude resonates through the whole team. Senior outfielders Nicole Sappingfield and Lyndsay Doyle have made similar comments after clutch hits late in games, and it’s somewhat of a catch phrase for Romero. That’s no accident. Hutchins handpicks books like Relentless to instill that mindset in her players, and it works. Chapter and verse.
The Michigan baseball team entered Wednesday’s home opener with a bitter taste in its mouth after being upset by in-state foe 4 Western WESTERN MICHIGAN 12 Michigan last season. But the bitterness became sweet as the Wolverines dismantled the Broncos, 12-4, scoring eight runs with two outs. Michigan tallied six two-out runs in the fourth inning to take the lead over the Broncos and never looked back. After two quick outs, Western Michigan’s pitchers were unable to find the strike zone, hitting one batter and walking three others. “To think that we were capable of doing that gives us a lot of confidence,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich. “It was just a big separator inning, and to do it with two outs really just gave our guys a lot of momentum.” With the bases loaded, junior first baseman Kendall Patrick hit a two-run single — his second of the game. Junior second baseman Eric Jacobson followed with a one-run single. Jacobson has been firing on all cylinders for the Wolverines since starting against Indiana on Saturday. With two hits against the Broncos, Jacobson raised his average to .444, which leads the team and would top the Big Ten if he qualified. “Confidence and aggressiveness is the key,” Jacobson said. “It’s exciting that I can provide a spark to the lineup.”
Added Bakich: “I think the baseball gods are just rewarding a kid that works extremely hard.” The Broncos had some luck early. Andrew Sohn reached third base after a fly ball got by the Wolverines, and senior right-hander Alex Lakatos wasn’t able to find a rhythm, walking two hitters and surrendering two hits. It didn’t faze the Wolverines. Michigan answered handily in its first turn at bat with Patrick hitting a two-run single, scoring sophomore third baseman Jacob Cronenworth and junior outfielder Jackson Glines. Freshman left-hander Brett Adcock relieved Lakatos after only one inning, providing three scoreless innings while tallying two strikeouts en route to his first win of the season. “He had some tough luck early where it seemed like everything he threw up there found a hole and was hit very hard,” Bakich said. “He’s settled in, and we know he will throw strikes. We have a lot of confidence when he goes in there. “Him putting up a few zeroes there was a big part of the game and critical for us to not only tie it up, but to take the lead.” The Broncos relieved lefthander Derek Schneider, who recorded three strikeouts, after one inning. Schneider picked up the win in Michigan’s home opener last year. Junior shortstop Travis Maezes continued his timely hitting with a leadoff triple in the third inning. Glines knocked him in to tie the game, 3-3. Senior catcher Cole Martin also had a sound defensive game, easily throwing out a runner stealing. Martin’s defensive prowess got him named to the 2014 Johnny Bench Award watch list, an accolade given to the nation’s top catcher.
“It’s exciting that I can provide a spark to the lineup.”
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Therapeutic music and art at UMHS
We walk into the dark of the hallway in the quiet hours of the hospital. A sheen of light stretches down the tile floor of the hallway, long and polished smooth. As we walk, the sheen of light retreats just ahead of our stride. We follow the light into the dark. Today’s hospitals operate smoothly and always with an air of solemn importance. It makes you wonder whether its cold affectations ever put a distressed mind to rest, or rather they give you the impression that they are directing traffic. Creating warmth in an otherwise sterile environment is the essence of what Gifts of Art is all about. A program that has been part of the University of Michigan
Health System since its inception in 1984, the mission of Gifts of Art is to reach out to folks struggling through a difficult time, to engage both patients and loved ones in the cathartic undertakings of art, and thus, to ease their healing process. As Program Director of GOA, Elaine Sims, who has worked in the field of arts and healthcare since 1990, has seen the burgeoning of her field with a bird’s eye-view. “The arts until the modern era were always present in healthcare,” Sims said, recalling the historical trajectory of the application of arts in healthcare. “They went their separate ways for a while, and then they reconnected.” In the late 1980s GOA helped to
develop an organization of people involved in applying arts to healthcare. In 1990, at a meeting held at the University of Michigan Health System, that same organization was named the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, which has since been renamed as the Global Alliance for Arts and Health. It is a coalition between people across the world with the common goal of, among other things, “advocating for the integration of the arts into the environment and delivery of care within healthcare facilities.” “Medical culture in this country is just an enormous issue — access, funding, how we’re funded versus how other countries consider it a human right to have access to
healthcare,” Sims said. Healthcare is a battle in this country, and arts now joins the fray as a “re-humanizing” force in the hospital. Elaine Reed, who has been leading me through the hospital quiet hours, is the coordinator of GOA’s Bedside Art program. She introduces me to a red-haired patient named Jackie Canamore. Jackie is a 64 year-old woman from Davison, MI. Her husband was originally treated for Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) which brought on another disease: acute leukemia. Since qualifying for a research program at the hospital, and undergoing further treatment, he is cancer-free. Now, they must wait for his blood count. See GIFT OF ART, Page 3B
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Stamps highlights Penelope Spheeris ‘Wayne’s World’ director to speak at Michigan Theater By GRACE PROSNIEWSKI Daily Arts Writer
The Penny W. Stamps Speaker Series aims to bring the best emerging and established artists to Stamps engage with the University Speaker and the Series: community as Penelope a whole. In conjunc- Spheeris tion with the Thursday Ann Arbor March 27 Film Festival, the Michigan Theater Penny Stamps Free Speaker Series will welcome director, writer and producer Penelope Spheeris. Spheeris is best known for directorial works, including the highly inf luential “Decline of Western Civilization” documentary series and comedy films like “Wayne’s World” and “The Little Rascals.” Recently, an effort to restore Spheeris’ work has beg un, including her student films from UCLA, some of which will be shown at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. As part of her Stamps lecture, Spheeris will be talking about her films unique relationship with music. “ We called it ‘Rock and Roll Anthropolog y’ because my career really was started and based in music from the ver y beg inning,” Spheeris said. “And music has had a real big part in all of my f ilms. So we’re really talking about how music has inspired me as a f ilmmaker to make movies.” While Spheeris’ filmography — with a healthy mix of independent, feature and documentary film — makes it seem like she’s had the pick of her projects, that’s not necessarily the case.
“When people say I have an eclectic body of work, yes it’s very, very true, but it’s because I took whatever job I could get,” Spheeris said. Surprisingly, that didn’t change after she directed 1992’s massive hit “Wayne’s World.” “Once I got ‘Wayne’s World,’ I was only offered comedies, and goof y comedies at that.” Spheeris spoke about the gender issues that underlined her situation and that continue to affect women directors today. “When you’re a woman in this business,” Spheeris said, “You take what work you can get. It’s really difficult.” “Guys have the luxury of picking and choosing,” she continued. “Male directors can make a film that fails big time and then get arrested the next week for drunk driving and they can keep making movies. But women have to really walk the line and take whatever they can get.” Compounding these difficulties, Spheeris said there was a dearth of female mentors when she started her career. “There are more women directors than when I started,” Spheeris said. “I mean, I really didn’t have any role models to look towards. When I was a 25 year-old starting out in the business, I didn’t have a 40 year-old woman director to use as a role model. There just weren’t any.” Unfortunately, the uptick in female directors has not balanced out the power dynamics in Hollywood, and Spheeris doesn’t see it happening any time soon. “Are there more of us?” Spheeris said. “Yes. Are we equal? Far from it. Do I ever see in the crystal ball a time when women would take over the world of film directing? I can’t imagine, a nd it’s really too bad.” When talking about her favorite movie she’s made, Spheeris touched on the dif-
ficulty her films have faced in regards to distribution and music rights. “My personal favorite is Decline of Western Civilization Part 3,” Spheeris said. “That’s the one no one’s seen, because the only way I could get it distributed was if I gave away rights to the other movies and I wouldn’t do it. So no one’s seen it and it was heartbreaking. But you know I did a movie with Sharon and Ozzy called ‘We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n’ Roll’ and it’s never been seen either because of rights issues.” Spheeris also spoke about the financial difficulties facing new directors trying to make it in the industry. “Right now it’s sort of the same thing going on with the class in America,” Spheeris said. “The upper class is doing very, very well and that will equate to high budget studio temple movies, and then you got those little tiny movies that are doing kind of ok, but everything in the middle is just lost. And it’s too bad because there are a lot of good movies in there that we just don’t get to see.” The situation is so dire that Spheeris expressed doubt as to if she would even become a filmmaker today. “If it were me starting out today, given the landscape and the calamity that’s going on out there because of the technolog y, I don’t even know if I would do it today, honestly,” Spheeris said. “You had to be very committed back then, especially if you were a woman, but you have to be a 1000 percent more committed to do it today. I don’t mean to be discouraging, but I feel like I have to be honest about it.” While her main goal is getting the “Decline” films distributed, Spheeris is also in talks for several other film and television projects. “I’ve got a lot of things going. I always do,” Spheeris said. “You’ve got to in Hollywood, and just hope that one of them sticks to the wall.
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Juicy J performs at the Crofoot Ballroom in Pontiac.
Juicy J finally getting the success he deserves. But at what cost? It’s a little after 11 p.m., and I’m at the Crofoot Ballroom in Pontiac, Mich. waiting for Juicy J to come on. Suddenly, the lights shut off, Juicy’s DJ cues up some music and Mr. Trippy himself struts on stage to the JACKSON looming synths of HOWARD “Stop It.” “Who’s fucked up tonight?” Juicy screams, to the delight of the crowd. He smiles. Business as usual. Or so it seems. Three years ago, I saw Juicy play the House of Blues in Hollywood, Calif. At that point, in 2011, Juicy had barely established himself as a solo artist and only had a few mixtapes to his name, certainly not a relevant studio album. The show was absolute chaos. Juicy ran out with a bottle of Bombay gin and poured it all over the crowd and stage, massive girls with even more massive asses twerked on stage for Juicy’s approval and the show itself had to actually stop for a second due to the brawl that erupted in the mosh pit between two large men wearing Oakland Raiders jerseys. At that show, Juicy performed strictly mixtape material, and it felt like everyone who was sober enough to rap along knew the words. These were not songs you heard on the radio; instead it was a set of classic tape anthems like “Get Higher,” “Zip And A Double Cup,” “Riley” and “Pills Weed Pussy.” At the House of Blues that night, Juicy’s antics — twerking contests, blunt smoking, Bombay gin dancing (check out his aptly named song, “Bombay Gin Dance”), riling the crowd up — felt genuine. Sure, the people at the show came to bask in the hedonistic ignorance that is Juicy J, but Juicy didn’t have to front and play along. He knew why we were there, that we had downloaded his mixtapes from obscure internet sites, that we had been down with him since the “Sippin’ on Some Syrup” and “Slob on My Knob” Three 6 Mafia days. Look, the last thing I want to be is the fan that says some shit like, “I hate so-and-so because they blew up.” Because in terms of me and Juicy, that’s just false. I love how big he’s become; I applauded him for linking up with Wiz Khalifa’s Taylor Gang imprint and freaked out when I saw he was featured on a Katy Perry single. I love that crazy motherfucker Juicy and I’ll support him through whatever. He deserves it. But I can’t help comparing my recent experience of seeing Juicy perform in 2014 — in promotion of his new studio album — to seeing peak mixtape-era Juicy play in 2011. First and foremost, I was shocked at the audience. Now, this might sound ridiculous coming
from a white college student like myself, but the Pontiac show was majority white college students, mostly frat bros and various drunk chicks grinding in front of them. There were so many white people that when Juicy pulled girls up on stage to take selfies — some ridiculous shit that he never would’ve done before — he had to actively seek out a Black girl because he could only find white ones. Okay, I know what you’re thinking and let me be really quick to defend myself: I really don’t care about the race of the people at a concert. I truly don’t. But what killed me was the population of white — and Black and Latino and Asian — college students who drunkenly sang along to “Bandz A Make Her Dance” and whose highlight of the night was when Juicy performed his guest verse from Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse.” Ironically, Juicy went on an entire rant listing his accomplishments — Oscar winner, Three 6 Mafia founder — and asked repeatedly to the crowd if they’d been fucking with him since day one. The crowd roared. Juicy proceeded to play almost exclusively new music and guest verses, which is fine, but when he did drop a hint of some “day one” material — comparatively, his mixtapes are like “day seven” stuff — there was no palpable crowd reaction. No one knew it. What really bummed me out was when he played “Who Da Neighbors,” one of his classic songs and also one of the craziest songs ever recorded, and almost no one knew the words! And these are easy and really fun-ass words to know: “My mansion sittin’ on 40 acres / Who da neighbors? / Kobe Bryant from the Lakers / Now that’s paper.” Instead of the massive tornado of hands and moshing I expected, some kids bobbed their heads, more checked their phones and I was left screaming every word alone (“Get money / get pussy / smoking weed forever!”), whereas at the
last show I’m pretty sure I rapped the entire song face-to-face with a shirtless guy with dreads who let me hit his blunt. The blame isn’t with Juicy’s fans, though. Juicy’s craft of making explicit, drug-loving, sexencouraging, violence-provoking music has become a novelty that, like everything birthed on the periphery of culture, has seeped into the mainstream. Juicy has an app with his own ad-libs, a solo deal with Columbia and pop hit maker Dr. Luke’s own label and finally got a No. 1 hit by getting the feature on Perry’s “Dark Horse,” which Dr. Luke himself conveniently produced. I sound like an asshole — I know. But it was so weird for me to see Juicy doing his usual antics and craziness — screaming “Who smokes weed?” and, pointing to a skinny white kid, “You look like a virgin. Go get some pussy tonight!” — and it feeling forced. It’s become performance art. Clad in black with a fresh pair of Kanye’s Nike Red Octobers, Juicy looked like a rap star and not the dude I came to love from North Memphis. That’s okay, it really is, but I couldn’t help but yearn for the absolute chaos, rawness and complete bliss of that 2011 show, where it felt like any minute Juicy would launch himself into the crowd to hit a joint or smack someone. I’m never going to stop listening to Juicy J or Three 6 Mafia because I love the music too damn much, and I also want to keep supporting Juicy because after over 20 years, he deserves this success. But I’ll forever hold on to the memory of dripping sweat, screaming till I was hoarse and getting punched in the stomach by a man the size of a Volkswagen in the middle of that House of Blues mosh pit as what I know to be the real Juicy J, or what he used to be, anyways.
Howard is rapping along with a shirtless guy. To join him, e-mail jackhow@umich.edu.
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Juicy J sang his verse in the hit Katy Perry single “Dark Horse.”
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GIFT OF ARTS From Page 1B It is now the Canamores’ 63rd day at the hospital, and every day Jackie has gone to the hospital and waited at her husband’s bedside from nine in the morning to five in the evening. When we meet, she sits down heavily in a wheelchair in the hallway, with her husband asleep in the room. She has red hair and speaks with a folksy tone pleasing to listen to. “I’ve never seen a 64 year-old color before,” Canamore said. “But I did, because I was so bored.” Reed pushes a cart packed with small projects she gives out to patients — bracelets, pictures, coloring books. She had given Canamore four bracelets yesterday. Canamore made all four bracelets, and she has since given all four away, one to a valet because she enjoyed watching him with his family. On that same floor on which the Canamores reside, Merideth Hume works as a unit host. Her responsibilities include connecting patients to the services offered by the hospital, such as GOA. “The question Mrs. Canamore asked this morning was: ‘When is that gal coming around, you know, with the art carts?’ ” Hume said. The art cart Reed pushes
through the halls also carries replacements for the pictures in the patient’s room. She allows them to pick out a painting they like, talks to the patients about their choice, giving them a history of the work and the artist who painted it, and she hangs the it. It’s a small gesture, but important nonetheless. “I’ve noticed this over the years: The artwork can make a huge difference,” Hume said. The eighth floor is dark and somber, and in many ways, separate from the rest of GOA’s work. Downstairs, throughout the corridors and waiting lobbies, a passer-by will see evidence of Sims’s efforts hung on walls and stood in display cases, often with whimsical results. A clown with fat marks of face paint doffs his top hat. A frog carved from wood stares mystic-eyed out from the glass case into nothing, skin crawling with little turtles and frogs. Yet there is meditative work, too, being displayed: a blue rocking lawnchair, an oil canvas painting of a window opening to sunlight. Extravagant with art, the landscape of this hospital is a testament to GLAAH’s movement to enhance the landscape of hospitals across the world. Carrie McClintock, the Communication Coordinator of GOA, has degrees in both Fine Arts and Performing Arts, having
studied at Rice University and the University of Arizona. “We’ve had staff tell us,” McClintock said, “That when they’re busy, going back and forth between different procedures, they stop for a few moments, taking in some of the art really calms them down and makes them feel more able to take on what’s next.” She also explained that what they do at GOA is not music and art therapy; it’s therapeutic music and art — a distinction people often miss. “It’s just for its own sake,” she said. Yet there is also a sense of solidarity in what GOA does. In their most recent collaboration with the University of Michigan, GOA sought out the stories of both patients and staff — their wishes, hopes and dreams — which were then written down on blue pieces of paper and given over to School Art & Design Prof. Anne Mondro. She and her class then folded the pieces of paper into round fans — 1700 in all — into a design by an artist named Katy Bergman Cassell. Those stories are now rippling 16 feet in length in the form of a surging blue dragon. It is called the Dragon of Wishes, Hopes and Dreams — a permanent fixture in the University Hospital. “A dragon is a symbol of transformation, so it’s very appropriate
MUSIC VIDEO REVIEW The Art Pop Film “G.U.Y.” is unusual for a music video, but expectedly eccentric for Lady Gaga. The production starts off with a gang of businessAmen in a full G.U.Y. out brawl over money that is Lady Gaga cluttered all Interscope over an open field. The camera zooms in on Lady Gaga in a bird costume that has been struck by an arrow, and then depicts her struggling across the plane. Magically, the bird/person somehow manages to make it to the gates of what looks like a modern Oz. Guards in stylized trash bags pick her up and parade her in a pose that is reminiscent of a crucifix through the vibrant and expansive open-air palace that lies behind the gates as dancers shimmy around them. Finally, the guards hand
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over her body to a synchronized swim team and the more substantial music video portion starts. It definitely “heats up” from here — Lady Gaga is displayed in a nude pose, only covered by a blanket and pantyhose. The shoot primarily alters between various stages — the pool at the palace with Perez Hilton in the sky, an Egyptian scene with an indoor pool, a dance sequence with the lights dimmed and then a contrasting bright white
scene with reefs overhead. The video closes with an inundation of men in suits exiting the gates of the massive landscape. On the whole, Lady Gaga’s “G.U.Y.” is a wildly creative video with an expectedly bizarre flair. If the video itself doesn’t impress, then the four minutes of credits rolling for this seven-minute video prove how much time and effort went into this over-the-top production. —KEN SALANDER
TRAILER REVIEW If the producers of “Insidious” and “Paranormal Activity” have taught us anything, it would be Athis: demonic possession Oculus and creepy Relativity Media antique objects often go hand in hand, and when this dueling terror-combo decides to raise hell, the result is pure cinematic horror. A broad, wooden-framed mirror is the focus of the film, as all evil and fright gravitates within its sinister control. Throughout the centuries of the mirror’s existence, the families dwelling in its presence have been repeatedly driven to criminal insanity, as those who get possessed by its evil embark on sudden killingsprees and slaughter their entire
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families. For years, investigators overlook the evil of the mirror, that is, until a family in the present day becomes suspicious of its possessive powers. Sure, “Oculus” would seem to fulfill the quota of surprise moments, gruesome-looking evil figures lurking in the dark and heart-wrenching intensity. But the film also promises so much more. Cleverly written and smartly shot, it reveals a
multitude of converging themes: historical drama, family disintegration, sibling relationships, mystery, semblances of time travel and the good versus evil conflict. Instead of relying on the basic horror-movie template to create a good scare, “Oculus” utilizes depth of character and a multi-faceted story to drive home a serious mental, emotional and spiritual fright fest. —BRIAN BURLAGE
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for the hospital,” McClintock said. In the hallways the sound of live music can be heard playing in the rooms of patients, and even in waiting lobbies through a program called Music While You Wait. On March 20, Jazz and R&B artist Tracy Kash Thomas played her music for a tired group of folks in the main lobby of the University. This is her second time doing so. “It’s wonderful that music is brought in to help with healing,” Thomas said. “And the audience is always so grateful, too. People are always just so enthusiastic about hearing live music in a place where you wouldn’t expect — in a hospital lobby.”
It’s not art therapy, it’s therapeutic music and art. In one of their most popular programs, Bedside Music, GOA brings musicians into the rooms of patients, a much more intimate space than a lobby. In the GOA workroom, Greg Maxwell tunes his guitar where he happily sits. As we spoke he played small riffs, his fingers instinctively set to play. He received his training from the Music for Healing and Transition Program, which is a national organization that prepares its members to play therapeutic music at patients’ bedsides. It is GOA policy that all bedside musicians receive training from MHTP, or an equivalent qualification. “Because the hospital is a pretty high-intensity environment, it’s hard for people to relax,” Maxwell said. “And being able to relax is key to your healing.” Part of the difficulty of
Maxwell’s job as a bedside musician, for which MHTP has trained him, is being able to understand where a patient mentally lies on the spectrum of health, and how to apply the appropriate music. “We start based on our observation and our assessment,” he said. “From there, we are continually observing the patient. If we need to shift our music, then we shift our music.” “It’s amazing — the change in the atmosphere when a musician starts playing,” he went on. “I’m not joking when I tell people we will never have too much music in this hospital. It’s just not possible. Even with 28 volunteers (who play in public spaces), each one playing an hour a week, that’s out of hundreds of potential hours a week anywhere in this hospital, we’re still just scratching the surface.” Canamore herself may be among those just below the surface — a musician has yet to come to her room. “When I hear those musicians when I’m going back and forth to the door -- I love the music, especially the harp,” she said. “Sometimes when I come down into the Taubman Center, I’ll hear a piano player, they had jazz band down there one night, and it was really nice. I’m usually pretty busy, but I take a few minutes to enjoy the music, yes.” The success of GOA in Ann Arbor feels like a blessing to Sims, whom McClintock described as “very instrumental in helping to propagate the field of arts in healthcare.” At GOA’s disposal lies a vast pool of opportunity from which to draw resources and talent. “I don’t want to go out on a limb, but ours is probably if not the most extensive and varied, (then it is) certainly one of the largest in the country, maybe even in the world,” Sims said. Adding further to that success,
Dr. Robert Kelch, former executive vice president for Medical Affairs, reserved five million dollars in institutional funds to match dollar for dollar any contribution made to GOA, an endowment that could amount to ten million dollars total. Perhaps most critical to the success of GOA, however, is the culture of the university itself “We have the intellectual climate, the people that come and bring new ideas and new thinking which helps to stimulate and keep things growing and moving,” Sims said. “Sometimes, I feel like a kid in a candy shop here.” As I leave the quiet hours of the eighth floor, and Canamore returns to her husband, and Reed returns to work, I take the elevator down to the main floor of the hospital. I pass the exhibits and galleries one more time. A few people stop and peer at the paintings, some stooping with their hands in their pockets, and move on to the next display. Outside in the courtyard, where GOA hosts outdoor concerts in the summer and spring, there is a small garden called the Friends Meditation Garden. In the winter, it is chained off, covered in snow, empty. In the main floor lobby next to the wall is an exhibit showcasing an antiquated office of a doctor from another time. It lays behind a wall of glass. Everything inside sits perfect, unmoving — unsettling. Below, a short paragraph explains how hospitals were once charity organizations, and personal physicians the only reliable source of healthcare, and times were changed. When I finish reading, I look around at the paintings of Black men and women draped in African garb on the wall, the huge mobile hanging from the ceiling. I imagine the walls blank. I imagine the ceiling unadorned. A hospital without music. One must wonder if a hospital were a form of charity, what then would art be. I pick up my stuff and I leave.
EPISODE REVIEW “Bates Motel” has never shied away from its inherent strangeness. When you’re telling the story of a A too-closefor-comfort Bates Motel mother and Check-Out son — a story A&E that ends with the mother’s corpse rotting in the basement — there’s no option but to embrace the crazy. And in that vein, “Motel” ’s latest episode, “Check-Out,” does not disappoint. “Check-Out” is “Bates Motel” ’s most significant reminder of its source material. The prequel to one of Hitchcock’s most iconic films, “Bates Motel” had continually dropped hints about Norman’s future in season one — his blackouts, his fascination with taxidermy. But in “Check-Out,” Norman goes full “Psycho,” assum-
ing Norma’s personality and attacking her estranged brother. The episode’s climax was one of the series’ most exciting moments to date. Under John David Coles’ superb direction, “Bates Motel” imaginatively recreated the original film’s big reveal — butcher knife, multiple personalities and all.
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Showcasing character development, thrilling action and Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore’s equally masterful performances, “Check-Out” stands as a potentially series-defining episode — one that brought us as close as we’ve ever been to that rotting corpse in the basement. —ALEC STERN
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ART ATTACK
Kids engage with the arts at UMMA Art education alive and kicking at Museum By ADAM DEPOLLO Online Arts Editor
In the age of No Child Left Behind and its latest incarnation, the Common Core State Standards, arts education has slowly faded from prominence in public school curricula as districts struggle to meet education standards with shrinking budgets and increasing class sizes. Politicians questioning the economic value of nonSTEM education often single out the fine arts, in particular, as a subject with no practical use — President Obama recently recommended that young people forego an art history degree in favor of jobs in skilled manufacturing. Arts education is, however, very much alive and kicking at centers of higher learning like the University of Michigan. The University of Michigan Museum of Art provides the entire University and Ann Arbor community with access to a f luid collection of artwork from around the world while offering a wide variety of tours, performances, films and lectures aimed at creating a learning environment and benefitting the public. In addition to its work in Ann Arbor, Ruth Slavin, UMMA’s deputy director for education, explained that UMMA has, in recent years, expanded its services to reach learners of all ages and provide opportunities for kids to interact with art on a personal level. “We’ve always had a healthy elementary school population that comes — we serve about 5,000 kids a year through that elementary school program,” Slavin said. Aside from the area immediately surrounding the University, UMMA has expanded its educational outreach programs to include 22 different school districts and 16 independent schools from across Michigan. The proximity of local Washtenaw County schools allows for closer working relationships with the museum, however. “We have a partnership with Ypsilanti High School, where each high school student is coming at least once this year, and 11th and 12th graders are coming twice. So we serve about 400 students through that program,” Slavin
said. Serving more than 5,000 students each year can be a challenge, especially for a small museum like UMMA. But, as Slavin explained, the museum’s small size allows UMMA to provide unique experiences for its K-12 visitors. “We don’t have any canned tours,” she said. The museum works to tailor its tours to each group of students that comes through its doors and to provide an educational experience that goes beyond the limitations of a particular subject. “With Ypsilanti High School this year, Pamela Reister, my colleag ue, really worked in depth to find out what the kids are studying and to make connections, not only between content and subject matter but also between skills that they might be learning,” Slavin said. “Let’s say it’s writing essays and making an arg ument — then we look at a work of art and pose a question in response to which you could form an arg ument. And then you look for evidence in the work of art and outside the work of art.” Recent grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan have also helped UMMA expand the use of technolog y in its educational programming. Aside from purchasing a number of iPads to add digital media to gallery walks, the museum has been able to expand its online presence and provide remote access to its collections. “We have a content management tool for the museum called ‘Many Voices,’ which allows teachers and students to explore the museum from their classroom,” Slavin said. “If kids come and do the ‘Art Rocks’ tour, they can then go back and the teacher can get the media that was shown on the iPad digitally through that interface.” Although UMMA receives fewer school visits during the summer when classes aren’t in session, it continues to provide educational programming for K-12 students throughout the year. The museum’s summer programs provide an even more intimate and personalized experience for students. “Usually the kids come for an extended period … and the idea is to make a vivid, fun, creative and exploratory experience for the kids, to
not only boost their specific learning but also provide motivation for learning and excitement,” Slavin said. “It’s pretty special, you know, a lot of times they get to be in the museum when it’s not open to other people. It’s a pretty nice feeling, going from thinking ‘I don’t know if that’s a place for me,’ to thinking ‘Wow, I’ve got this special behindthe-scenes experience.’ ” UMMA also partners with the School of Education to provide an immersive program for students learning English as a second lang uage. “There the kids wrote plays, wrote poems, did artworks, planned speeches and then there was a night where their parents came in addition to the student-teachers and teachers for a demonstration of their learning across many art forms,” Slavin said. “For some of those parents that was the first time that they had seen their kid in an English performance. I came that night just to see and I was kind of, just f loating on a cloud, because I thought, you know, this is really what can happen when you have a partnership.” At UMMA, arts education isn’t an end in and of itself. As the museum’s programs for ESL, English as a Second Lang uage, students and its individually tailored tours demonstrate, the arts can be an important tool for helping students develop skills that will serve them in all of their academic subjects. “If a kid is uncomfortable here and not excited about art and they just go home with facts, we don’t consider that a success,” Slavin said. “It’s all about motivation to learn more. It’s all about sparking curiosity, making them comfortable and moving their knowledge along a little bit.” When education is limited by an endless stream of standardized tests and pre-prescribed curricula, it’s easy to lose the sense of wonder one feels when grappling with deep questions and the appreciation for the world possible through the acquisition of knowledge. Arts education at UMMA, as Slavin explained, is best viewed as a way to keep that sense of wonder alive. “We try to look for the big issues and the big questions that art can raise that aren’t in a vacuum in the art world, but spread out to science, spread out to literature, politics, social life, history, because that’s what makes it interesting.”
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Professor of Theater Malcolm Tulip attended the prestigious Lecoq School.
Tulip: A man of the stage By ADAM DEPOLLO Online Arts Editor
Malcolm Tulip is, above all, a man of the stage. Over the course of his career, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance Associate Professor of Theater has worked in all facets of theatrical production — as an actor, director, playwright and choreographer. The many strands of Tulip’s work, however, are tied together by his love for the physical spectacle of theater — a love he developed in his native Lancaster, England, and honed into his own personal style, beginning with his training at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. “I went there because the training there was about two things: One was a physical approach to theater, which means that, in some ways it’s the spectacle that counts,” Tulip said. “This training is a lot about how you get your physical vocabulary to be able to express whatever you want.” In his acting roles, Tulip puts the command of physical vocabulary he developed at the Lecoq School on display. In one of his productions, the one man show “I Am My Own Wife,” Tulip took on the role of Charlotte von Marlesburg, an East German transvestite, and 34 other characters during the course of two hours. “The training I had with changing physicality in a bold way from character to character really came into play,” Tulip said. “And it’s not just the shape that you take on, it’s then the quality of movement, what kind of gestures each character makes, some shameless use of accents. I mean there’s one scene with Charlotte and, I think, eight reporters from around the world.” Tulip’s study of clowning and vaudeville also informs his approach to acting and his original works. He teaches a class on clowning for senior theater students each fall and
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developed “Quick Comedians & Changeable Taffeta,” a piece combining Shakespearian fools and clowns with modern clowning techniques, which he performed with University students at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. In his approach to directing and staging plays, Tulip emphasizes open communication with his actors and a f luid development of the vision for each play. “I attempt to establish an atmosphere of investigation. I try and allow enough time in the early stages for everyone to understand that we’re all searching, that we’re all playing,” he said. But, at the same time, he adds his own personal touch of f lamboyance and grandiosity to each production.
Loving spectacle of theater. “I like what goes on stage to appear painterly or like a rich kind of movie, as in texture,” Tulip said. “I believe that what we’re doing is supposed to be taking an audience beyond the everyday, so I’m not a big fan of what people call naturalistic. My belief is that once it’s on stage in front of an audience, it’s already not naturalistic because, let’s face it, we’re pretending. And I enjoy pushing that to extreme.” The emphasis Tulip places on the spectacle of theater carries through in his original productions, which always include live music in addition to the action happening on stage. “I think it’s just an in-your-face reminder of the theatricality of the presentation. It’s like music hall and vaudeville, it’s like circus,”
he said. “I think there’s an immediacy that people respond to when they hear music and see it being played right there that energizes them, and energizes their attention in a completely different way. Their intellect is freed from having to understand in the same ways — not that they don’t have to understand — but their ears are receiving different signals. But also you can see that I use it in the same way you would have the music for a cartoon.” While Tulip revels in pushing the theatricality of his productions to the extreme, he also has a deep appreciation for older styles and the traditions of the stage, an appreciation he developed in part at the Lecoq School. “The other part of the school was about encountering what they call ‘le grand style,’ the ‘big styles’ in Greek Tragedy, Commedia dell’Arte, melodrama, a thing called bouffon — buffoons — and clown,” he said. “Nostalgic? Yes, I do have that aspect to myself. I think I am old-fashioned in many ways, while making theater in the present. I like the traditions, I like the old traditions, I really do.” Ultimately, however, Tulip seems most proud of the uniqueness of his style and the new life that that style can bring to theater. “Obviously everything I see … some of it is going to sink in and be somewhere in my toolkit at some point. But I think I can honestly say that I don’t look to other productions of a play that I’m going to do for clues,” he said. “The given is the play, you’ve got the text and that’s it. What’s going to make (the work) exciting is that it’s new people having a relationship with this play.” Tulip will be acting in and providing choreography for a production of “One Man, Two Governors” at the Heritage Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia this July.
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Hitchcock, Scorsese, Spielberg, Bay.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West pose for the cover of Vogue.
Mark Wahlberg calls “Transformers” “the most iconic film franchise in movie history.” Wild ‘N Out Nick Cannon dons whiteface to promote new album “White People Party Music.”
A Brief Experiment of Infinite Jest First images of Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace released.