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inside NEWS City Council election previews Contested races in Wards 1 and 5 >> SEE PAGES 2 and 3

NEWS

‘Ban the Box’ may

cause discrimination Employment reform has unintended consequences >> SEE PAGE 3

OPINION

A separate movement Kevin Sweitzer writes about a new movement at the DNC. >> SEE PAGE 5

ARTS

The Versatile style of Hillary Clinton A look at her fashion over her long political career >> SEE PAGE 7

SPORTS Non-conference schedule released The men’s basketball team faces lackluster competition >> SEE PAGE 10

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A young boy protests the DNC in support of Bernie Sanders with his father outside the Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA.

Young people rock DNC with protests, but students sit back Millenials fall behind Clinton

By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter

PHILADELPHIA — Amid leaked DNC emails and fears of a divided party, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ supporters ignited protests throughout Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention this week. Additionally, many delegates at the convention came in protest with taped mouths and rampant booing of various speakers who praised presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

Protesters came from varying demographics, but the majority tended to be millennials — a core group of support for Sanders throughout the primary season.

However, few of these young people were current students. Out of 25 young people to whom the Daily spoke with at various protests, just five were current students. Three of those five students stated they intended on supporting Clinton in the general election, despite their reluctance.

Catherine McGurk, a student at Arcadia University, said she plans to vote for Clinton because the movement Sanders started must begin on a smaller scale.

“I believe that grassroots works from the ground up,” she said. “So local elections are more important if you are trying to get a grassroots candidate elected, someone who is an independent, for example. But at the presidential level I believe it is still Republican or Democrat, and Hillary is more aligned with my beliefs, so I’m going to pick her.”

The students also agreed that

the majority of students on their campuses plan to support Clinton despite their initial commitment to Sanders.

Angel Green, a member of the Up to Us movement which supports Sanders’ campaign and grassroots change in government, confirmed that while her group is — at its core — made up of young people, just a few members are current students.

Many of these students and young people are protesting because they fear the consequences of a Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump presidency, equally. On campus, according to College Democrats chair Collin Kelly, a rising LSA junior, the mentality is a little different.

“I know that people aren’t as enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton as there were about Bernie Sanders,” Kelly said. “But even the most skeptical person of (Hillary

Clinton) is more scared of what would happen if Trump were elected.”

Nonetheless, the recent Wikileaks release of e-mails showing the DNC was clearly biased against Sanders may cause more students to join the “Never Hillary” or “Still Sanders” movements.

Students for Sanders president Nick Kolenda, an LSA rising junior, wrote in an e-mail interview with The Daily that, though he views the movements as slightly dangerous, he understands the frustration among Sanders supporters.

“Personally (as a “Never say never” kind of person) I think that it’s risky if you’re a progressive supporting that particular movement as we live under a majoritarian system,” he wrote.

“However, after the revelations from Wikileaks, the anger is See DNC, Page 9

2 NEWS

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Pokemon Go captures A2 and University community Game benefits players and businesses but has safety concerns

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Leeser hopes to shake up City Council in Ward 3 bid

more than 40 million times on than what I usually do.” the App Store and Google Play, Ilagan is one of the moderators bringing in more than $45 million for a Facebook group called in net revenue.

Pokemon Go: Ann Arbor — a During the game, players walk group for Pokemon Go players around the real world to catch in Ann Arbor to share tips with Pokemon — the game uses a other players about where to find a smartphone camera to detect the certain Pokemon, organize groupBy IRENE PARK and Pokemon and the phone screen playing events and establish a MADELEINE GERSON to prompt the player to throw a “sense of community” among the Summer Daily News Editor and Daily Pokeball to catch it. In addition, players. As of Wednesday, the Staff Reporter players can walk to designated group had 463 members.

By BRIAN KUANG locations called “PokeStops” to Not all students are Pokemon Daily News Editor University of Michigan students collect items like Pokeballs, which Go fans, however. LSA sophomore and Ann Arbor residents, like the are required to catch Pokemon.

Davon Smith said there are too Kevin Leeser, a nurse at the rest of the world, are working hard Recent LSA alum Roxanne many risks associated with the University of Michigan Health to catch ’em all.

Ilagan said that she was first game, so she did not download the System, hopes his bid to unseat Pokemon Go, a game attracted to the game because she app. incumbent City Councilmember app developed by software has been a fan of the franchise, but “Playing Pokemon Go, you are Chuck Warpehoski (D–Ward 3) development company Niantic, she grew to like the game because wandering into unknown places; can shift the state of affairs in city has captivated millions of players. it encourages her to be more given that people know where government to be more receptive The game has already broken physically active.

PokeStops are when they find to the needs of constituents. several records, including the “I was a huge Pokemon fan them themselves, anyone can have As a new father, Leeser says number of downloads on the Apple growing up, so I naturally access to your location and you can he saw the traffic layout around App Store during the first week of downloaded the app,” Ilagan become a target,” Smith said. his neighborhood to be a hazard release — 7.2 million downloads, said. “I really love the concept While Smith said the social to his children, as did many of towering 2.2 million of walking to new places for aspect of the game exposes players his neighbors. However, when he downloads for Pokestops and Pokemon. The to potential threats, Ilagan said pushed to lower the speed limit of Angry Birds 2. other day, I walked all the way to it actually encouraged her to his residential streets to 25 mph Sudoku Syndication The game has Gallup Park from Central Campus http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ play. According to a Wall Street several years ago — among other been downloaded … I walked 30 more miles last week Journalarticle, the game requires improvements to pedestrian safety that players show up in person at — Leeser said city government PokeStops, so it catalyzes social was too slow to address the issue. interaction among players.

“Being a nurse, I see the actual “Without the game, I ramifications of these accidents wouldn’t have had any reason that were happening,” Leeser said, MEDIUM to talk to (the other players) noting there were three deaths … I think it has definitely in Ann Arbor from pedestrian influenced my decision to play accidents in 2015. “If (the public) since I do think it’s significantly could see how serious some of more fun to meet people or walk these accidents are … it’s head to new places with friends,” injuries, lifelong injuries. To me, Ilagan said. it’s a public health issue.”

While Pokemon Go has Leeser says this is a broader garnered attention for its reflection of citizen disengagement social and health benefits, the from City Council, which drove therapeutic uses of the game him to unsuccessfully mount may not be as well known. The a write-in challenge against University Health System’s Warpehoski’s Ward 3 colleague C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital Chip Smith (D) in 2015. is utilizing the game as a “You can sit there and go to part of a therapy that enables City Council meetings and pour children with serious illnesses your heart out, and City Council to cope with treatment. USA can just go, ‘yup, thank you,’ and Today featured a video of then vote against you,” Leeser patients at Mott, many of whom said, referring specifically to how have not left their beds for the council brushed aside vocal weeks, laughing while playing opposition to the Ann Arbor Pokemon Go with nurses, deer cull from residents, though doctors and other children. city surveys have indicated the © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. majority of the city continues to OPTIMISM Puzzle by sudokusyndication.com support lethal culls.

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NEWS 3

Candidates for City ‘U’ experts weigh pros and Council’s first Ward cons of double mastectomy maintain split visions

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Incumbent defends seat against two challengers

By ISHI MORI Daily Staff Reporter

City Councilmember Sumi Kailasapathy (D–Ward 1) faces two different challengers — Jason Frenzel and Will Leaf — in next week’s Democratic primary for City Council elections.

Incumbent Kailasapathy is a fiscally conservative pragmatist who has held her City Council seat since 2012. A child of Sri Lankan academics, Kailasapathy came to the United States to attend college and is currently an accountant at Edwards, Ellis, Armstrong & Company, P.C., an accounting firm based in downtown Ann Arbor.

As a candidate with a financial background, Kailasapathy said there are low-hanging fruits when it comes to increasing revenue and cutting costs in city government. She named revisiting the tax capture policies of the Downtown Development Authority and the Local Development Funding Authority to make their revenue cap $4 million instead of the current $6 million as one way to increase revenue.

In a July 12 televised candidate forum, she pointed out that revenue for these entities increased by 50 percent over the last four years, advocating and redirecting that income to city funds. She says there are challenges, however.

“I think a lot of council members feel indebted to the DDA members because a lot of them support the candidates who are running for City Council and they really don’t want to step on their toes,” Kailasapathy said in an interview with the Daily. “Anything to do with the DDA, council members are very hesitant to take action even though there was all this extra money this year that was beyond

projection.”

This commitment to fighting existing structures was showcased in the televised forum when the candidates were discussing the portions of emails regarding the construction of a planned Amtrak station redacted by city staff members in June.

City Council candidate Jason Frenzel said that, though he supported maximum transparency, he felt there was a justified reason for city staff in withholding information.

“I think in (the e-mail) conversation we need to realize what’s the situation,” Frenzel said.

“We don’t as a public understand what that conversation is and what it was, why it was redacted.

In my honest opinion, I know our staff to be strong, professional leaders in their industry … and I think challenging our staff in a public forum isn’t necessarily a valid way for an organization to behave.”

Kailasapathy quickly pounced on Frenzel’s ambiguity, stating that she supports a Freedom of Information Act request concerning the redacted portions, especially because the documents in question do not reveal the location of highly classified government nuclear plants.

“This is not national security issues we’re talking about, spies or spying on other countries,” Kailasapathy said in an interview with the Daily. “This is about that train station, and if you want the train station to serve best for our people’s needs, at every stage it should be transparent.”

Kailasapathy also suggested Frenzel cannot make the necessary reforms for transparency because of his financial and family ties.

“DDA reforms, having oversight, term limits … I doubt Jason Frenzel will be able to do that because I think his backing comes from the DDA and his stepmother (Sandi Smith) was the head of the DDA.”

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Doctors say surgery is case-based and not for everyone

By MEHRUNISA KHAN Daily Staff Reporter

When it comes to a patient’s decision on how to treat a health threat, knowledge is key to navigate through a myriad of treatment options.

Each year, more than 230,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer, and more than 40,000 will die from the disease. It is considered a common medical condition in women; one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer sometime in their life.

Steven Katz, University of Michigan professor of internal medicine, explained that the treatment process can be stressful, since there are different options for patients, including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and pills. Information for treatment recommendations has become increasingly complicated, as it now includes stages of cancer, its spread and the biological characteristics of the cancer.

“All women have the decision about surgery, and it’s not that easy to do because they have to consider the choices they have for surgery and all of the other treatments that go into the management of breast cancer,” Katz said.

One possible breast cancer treatment is bilateral, or double, mastectomy, which removes both breasts to prevent cancer.

The number of women who

underwent double mastectomies performed has tripled in the past 10 years. In 1998, 3.6 percentof women younger than 40 had the procedure, but, in 2011, the percentage jumped to 33 percent.

In spite of this increase, double mastectomies do not necessarily improve chances of survival, Katz said.

Michael Sabel, University chief of surgical oncology, wrote in an e-mail to the Daily that some double mastectomies can be warranted. Genetic testing looks for changesin a patient’s genes, proteins or chromosomes. For breast cancer, mutations in genes called BRCA1 and BRCA2 put patients at a higher risk for breast cancer. Younger women who have the cancer or are at a higher risk for developing breast cancer in the future may choose to undergo double mastectomies to prevent a second or first incident of breast cancer, respectively.

“In 2002, genetic testing became available for decision making prior to surgery and so younger women with breast cancer, or women with very strong family histories, could undergo genetic testing, and, if they harbored a genetic mutation, they stood a high chance of developing a (second) cancer and thus opted for bilateral mastectomy to not only treat the known cancer but also prevent a second cancer in the future,” Sabel wrote. “However, genetic testing is (im)perfect — there are young women or women with very strong family histories who test negative for a genetic mutation, and we don’t know every gene responsible for breast cancer, so many women who are considered high-risk may also opt

for bilateral mastectomies.”

Sabel said, in addition to genetic testing, other factors — such as imaging from MRIs or improved reconstruction surgery — could be involved in the decision to have a double mastectomy.

However, Sabel wrote there is still misinformation on the benefits of a double mastectomy that can mislead women in their decisions. Sabel cited media coveragesof celebrities who have had double mastectomies, and other social media outlets as possible sources that spread misinformation.

“While doing the more drastic surgery may reduce risk of a (second) cancer, for most breast cancer patients that risk is not that high and it is important to note that bilateral mastectomy does not improve survival over other options, such as breast conservation,” Sabel wrote.

“These ideas likely come from multiple sources.

We just wrote an article studying the possible impact of celebrity news reporting on perpetuating this.

There are more blogs, support groups, websites, etc. about breast cancer that may propagate this. There is also likely word of mouth from family or friends who have gone through breast cancer treatment.”

Katz explained that the pressure of the situation tends to make patients react quickly — going with their guts and the recommendations of their doctors.

Sometimes these decisions are made after one visit.

“In that context, people, men or women can prefer or favor an extensive treatment See MASTECTOMY, Page 9

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cience is a human invention, based on the unique ability to employ rational thought toward observation.

DAVID The Greek MERTZ philosopher Aristotle championed empirical observation as the best way to draw universal conclusions about the world. The sun rises from the east. Living things need food to survive. These are truths which all developed minds agree upon. However, while a human invention, rational thinking guides only a portion of human thought.

Humans have other influences too — less cerebral and more deeply ingrained.

Many Americans, especially, often seem portrayed as rejecting rational thought. Watching and reading the news lately, especially about the Republican National Convention, I am reminded of how many people apparently let go of reason and fact for the sake of their beliefs or out of a strong emotion such as fear or determination.

This is an age where social media and other outlets enable anyone to voice their arguments to the widest audience possible, without the necessity for factchecking. Donald Trump has, over the course of a year, captured the support of people who have ignored factual arguments or have been unable to justify their convictions for carefully-considered, specific reasons.

Instead, they feel uncertain of the direction they see in their lives within a moreglobalized, unfamiliar world.

Trump hasn’t delivered many specific step-by-step plans for how his administration will carry out their policies in order to draw votes, but he also hasn’t needed to.

Equally amazing, if not more so, has been widespread refusal

in the United States to accept human responsibility for climate change through the increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide to unprecedented levels and rising temperatures. Proponents for more sustainable practices hammer away that 97 percent of climate scientists agree about human activities accelerating climate warming. The scientific method confirms this again and again, yet it didn’t prevent a U.S. senator from bringing a snowball onto the Senate floor during winter in Washington as evidence for the unlikelihood of climate change’s existence. As of two years ago, half of all Americans didn’t ascribe to this belief either.

Their opinions are rationalized by something other than science.

Today, the scientific method and rational thinking still hold tremendous sway in our society.

The professions of medicine, engineering and science are among the most prestigious to be achieved.

Humans have been able to utilize the rational mind to succeed in some of the greatest feats in history: the construction of towering structures, sending people to the moon or to live for months in space, and building the Internet to enable instantaneous mixed-media communication between continents.

This is not a critique of those who make decisions on divisive issues informed by something other than science and rational thinking, but a consideration of why such people arrive at the opinions they have. Every individual has the mental capacity to think rationally, but no individual chooses to in all situations. Even the most utilitarian of individuals, to some degree, may cave to their less rational desires.

It’s easy for a supporter of a cause, like transitioning to cleaner energy, to portray their opponents as unintelligent and uninformed.

But those who may not require the latest science to inform their opinion often have a deeper-rooted rationalization. For example, some opponents of clean energy who favor the use of fossil fuels have relied on those forms of energy for their livelihood.

I remember visiting the tiny, struggling Appalachian town of Dante, Virginia (pronounced “Daint”), whose economy has relied on coal mining for 100 years. Its inhabitants lamented the industry’s transition to other fuel sources.

The movement to transition toward cleaner energy has seen coal as part of the problem, but investing in the technology to eliminate emissions due to coal burning may make as large an impact in the short term as beginning to switch the power grid to renewable sources.

The decision by so many Americans to subscribe to feelings over facts concerning critical national issues is worrisome. Yet, to additionally barrage someone with science-backed data in attempt to dismantle their arguments proves ineffective toward reaching common ground. What then can be done to create harmony between viewpoints when those viewpoints are informed by such different reasoning?

The solution requires patience and dialogue. Those of us who rely on the scientific method and rational thought to inform our understanding of the world should seek to understand the rationalizations others make to support their convictions.

Sometimes their rationalizations are very personal. When the rest of the world believes that Americans value science less than other developed countries, what they are actually seeing is diversity.

—David Mertz can be reahed at drmertz@umich.edu.

PHILADELPHIA - As the last days of the Bernie Sanders campaign come to a close, the Vermont senator has a lot to do to unify KEVIN the Democratic SWEITZER Party. All week, protesters have marched through the streets of Philadelphia, shutting down major intersections and hosting massive rallies. Among delegates and protesters alike, rumors swirled about a potential protest of the roll call vote, the vote that awarded the nomination to the nominee.

In his highly-regarded speech Monday night, Sanders said that he “looked forward to (the delegates) votes on Tuesday night.” This symbolic gesture was possibly the last chance that Sanders supporters had to stop Clinton from securing the nomination, and their votes would be the symbolic gesture that they were opposed to the nomination of Clinton.

One protester I spoke to, who wished to not be named, indicated that he felt it was possible for Sanders to still win the nomination.

As we headed into the Tuesday roll call vote, rumors swirled about a potential uprising by the Bernie Sanders delegates from across the country.

Tuesday, per the rules of the convention, a roll call vote was taken, and in an act of unity, Sanders asked for a rule change after every state stated their votes and allowed Clinton to be nominated without contest. Bernie Sanders had fallen in line, and it was over.

Shortly after, hundreds of Bernie delegates walked out of the convention hall and occupied the media tent in an act of resistance to the nomination of Hillary Clinton as the party’s nomination. This means, more than anything else, that Bernie Sanders has separated from his movement. All throughout the convention, I heard angry statements about people leaving the party, but by walking out, the delegates had sealed their fates.

The ultra-progressive wing of the Democratic Party is no longer a part of the party, and their insurgency should be treated as such.

Keep in mind, these weren’t

the sweaty and screaming radical Green Party and socialist movement members that were outside the gates. No, these protestors were elected and certified delegates of the Democratic National Convention.

It’s reached a point that Michigan Democratic Party member Lena Thompson said that “It’s up to (Clinton) to win us over” and that without that, there would be no support from Sanders supporters.

Many Sanders supporters are falling in line, and many are also facing the realization that Hillary Clinton is the only other alternative to a Donald Trump presidency. However, many more are dragging their heels to a notion of an illegitimate election.

Several delegates handed me a report that insinuated that vote totals could be off by “sometimes more than 10 percent,” telling me that this was due to paper ballots being miscounted by corrupt party officials.

There are legitimate concerns to be had about the bias of the DNC, especially in light of the recent e-mail hack, in which e-mails were leaked from the DNC that mocked and talked down the Sanders Campaign. However, there is no version of reality in which an elaborate scheme involving ballot counters took down the entire Sanders campaign.

During the nominating process, many regards and congratulations were issued to Bernie Sanders.

These are all great steps to ensuring that Donald Trump does not win in November, but buying into the belief that “Clinton stole the primary, so she can steal the general as well”, as Michigan delegate Alan Benchich believes, won’t solve anything.

The primary is officially over, and so is the candidacy of Bernie Sanders.

The platform of the Democratic Party is the most progressive it has ever been, and Sanders has changed politics forever. Now, it’s time to elect Hillary Clinton and save the country from the fate it faces under Donald Trump.

—Kevin Sweitzer can be reached at ksweitz@umich.edu.

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Civics and Pokemon Go

his is not another think piece about Pokemon Go. But it’s kind of crazy how Pokemon Go took over the MADELINE mobile (and NOWKICKI augmented reality) world over the past few weeks.

Perhaps this is the political science minor in me, but the first thing I thought about as I played the game (besides what a lure module does) was how I was visiting, for the very first time, community centers, public buildings, city halls, courthouses and libraries in my community and the surrounding areas — many of which I never knew existed.

By this point in 2016, there’s quite a lot of political fatigue.

The Republican nominee is a certified racist, misogynist and xenophobe with a frighteningly cultish fan-base, whose outright lack of public policy experience and violently unbridled temperament somehow propels him forward at every turn. The Democratic nominee should be one of historic allure, a symbol for gender parity and expert policy negotiations, but who is quelled piecemeal by her very own history, a potpourri of errant decisions and, of course, the enduring twilight of sexism. And this is all without mentioning the nearly weekly travesties that continue to devastate communities from Nice to Baton Rouge to Orlando to Dallas. The political climate is, for many, exhausting.

And yet, here we are. We are running around unabashedly.

Outdoors. Frequenting public spaces where local politics — perhaps the most practically impactful form of government — is practiced. Pokemon Go has brought us away from the lugubrious state of national politics and instead directed us, by way of Eevees and Bulbasaurs, to the steady centers of our cities. There lies an immense opportunity here for public engagement at a scale we have not yet experienced.

Ideally, the political system should be, in Lincoln’s seminal words, “of the people, by the

people, and for the people.” But when more than 80 percent of eligible voters fail to participate in local elections, the system breaks. We can see how broken it is every day on the news at a federal level. We can see how broken it is every day when state budget mismanagement leads to a horrific endemic. We can see how broken it is every day when living, breathing children come second to greed, corruption and making up the bottom line. And yet, still voters do not exercise their hard-fought right of participation.

What if games like Pokemon Go could change this? Millennials longing for nostalgic fun are being exposed to public places of organizing and change — what if there were augmented reality rewards (whether in Poke-form or through another innovation) for actually taking the next step and shaping that change. What if voter education and information was not done just by dreaded phone banking and door-to-door canvassing but was something people were incentivized to do?

What if you saw a Vulpix near your polling place, and then were motivated to register to vote? What if, during your quest for a set of Pokeballs, you were greeted by some milestones about how to participate in city council meetings? How much more engagement could we get?

I don’t think Pokemon is the necessarily avenue we should take to pursue civic engagement.

It’s fun, it’s a game and it needs to remain fun to retain its user base and value — that’s just how capitalism works. Pokemon Go is just an initial dose of augmented reality in the mobile tech world. Games like this have massive potential to catalyze our catatonic (and frankly, shameful) public participation rates. And maybe once that happens, we won’t see such a broken system each and every day. Maybe then, finally, we can have a body of organizers, participants and voters who ascend the ranks of politics for a politics of, for and by the real people.

—Madeline Nowicki can be reached at nowickim@umich.edu.

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CJ MAYER | OP-ED

The danger of the RNC’s tone One Trump adviser called for Clinton to be killed by a “firing squad,” C-list speakers angrily screamed at the American people that we are all in grave danger and chants of “Lock her up,” reminiscent of authoritarian regimes imprisoning political enemies, rang through the halls.

The vitriolic atmosphere of the last week sought to target our fears and inner demons. The Republican National Convention showed what four years of Trump would be: division and hatred.

We are not a “divided crime scene,” as Trump said, and our country is not on the verge of destruction. Trump attempted to frame his convention in terms reminiscent of Nixon in 1968 — that the world is in utter chaos, and he will restore “law and order.”

However, Trump has failed in two ways. First, while violence floods our newsfeeds and terrorism seems to strike every week, this is not 1968. For context, our country is not in a troubling overseas war with 500,000 American soldiers on the ground like Vietnam, our crime rate is dramatically down and our racial discord at home does not compare to the riots, assassinations and violence of 1968. The fervor for a

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law and order candidate is not what it was. Furthermore, Nixon allowed for hope and a new future in his dark talk — Trump has dived into the darkness without providing a vision for a brighter future.

There’s another way though; we do not have to be filled with so much fear and hate. Robert F. Kennedy embodied this desire for togetherness in dark times. On the day of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968, RFK stood on the top of a truck bed and broke the news to an African-American community in Indianapolis. While the news created protests and violence across the country, the one place that remained peaceful was Indianapolis — largely in part to RFK’s plea.

He said: “What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but is love and wisdom and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be Black.”

This is what we need in our country. The president is our ambassador to the world, and he or

she can frame the hearts and minds of our country. Our kids are watching and the future of our country is taking their cues from our current leaders. Trump spews hatred and division because this is his strategy to win; we do not need more of that. We need a leader who won’t tell people to fear and divide, but beg people to come together.

Michelle Obama’s convention speech exemplified what we need.

Not divisiveness but, “when crisis hits, we don’t turn against each other — no, we listen to each other. We lean on each other. Because we are always stronger together.” Clinton is not RFK, and there are numerous, reasonable issues with her potential presidency — but she’s what we’ve got. Trump’s divisive rhetoric alone will tug at the pluralism that defines the United States, and the hate and anger he brings will clout and hurt our country in innumerable ways, starting with our political environment and trickling down to how our children act. Take a step back and look at the big picture: Our founding principles of acceptance and understanding cannot stand for a candidate who rolls down the slippery slope of sanctioned hate.

—CJ Mayer is an LSA sohpomore.

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MUSIC REVIEW

Gucci’s homecoming album a strong showing Artist makes statement after release from prison

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Gucci Mane’s propensity for trouble never really got in the way of his prolific music career. In his approximately 2 years spent locked up at B+ USP Terre Haute, Gucci Everybody released Looking over twenty Gucci Mane different projects, largely Guwop Enterthanks to a prises/Atlantic backlog of old verses and an ever-so-loyal team of producers, artists and marketers behind him.

After his various flirtations with the law and the dwindling image of his label and crew, the deluge of releases was a last-ditch attempt to maintain the artist’s relevancy as trap royalty — at least until he can go back to warming the throne himself. With millions parading #FreeGuwop all over Twitter as a gesture of support, Gucci and his team’s efforts didn’t go unheard, making the anticipation for Gucci’s first release postprison all the more sweet for his fans. Atlanta’s rap scene has seen an upheaval of sorts since Gucci’s incarceration, introducing newfound mainstream media attention and a smorgasbord of new players to the game. In the face of that, Gucci finds himself comfortably at home on Everybody Looking — a project that comes less than two months after his release. Despite some loose ends on the album, it’s as if he never left in the first place.

Helmed by Atlanta producers Zaytoven and Mike WiLL Made-It, Everybody Looking was tasked with the responsibility of ensuring fans (and quiet critics) that Gucci has yet to deviate from his form. With standout songs like “1st Day Out tha Feds” (initially released as a single) and “Guwop Home,” Everybody Looking packs

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a sonic punch, especially in the face his past two-to-three years of releases. Despite a steady flow of content while in prison, thanks to the haphazardly-slappedtogether nature of his many prison-era releases, a Guccisized void was still glaringly present in Atlanta’s trap scene.

The amalgamated image of what Gucci is as both a personality and a rapper slowly became muted in those absent years, taking away the authentic and bombastic aspects of his character from prominent public display. Everybody Looking eschews those mistakes, instead conveying Gucci in a light that wouldn’t be expected so soon after release from prison. He sounds clear, sober, healthy — but he also sounds strong, aggressive, and more full of life than ever. It’s the Gucci Mane we haven’t heard in years.

Despite Everybody Looking’s refreshing predisposition relative to Gucci’s past releases, it’s still necessary to observe the work through an objective lense. Gucci and his team’s past misjudgements don’t serve as a license for unabated praise. For all the charm Gucci serves on the record, the lack of aural variety can leave listeners longing for more. Zaytoven and Mike WiLL deliver with an arsenal of beats they had to have been saving for a project like this, but Gucci’s bars, as entertaining as they are, don’t seem to match the celebratory quality of production that backs them. Gucci isn’t known for being a master lyricist, but he’s had more memorable moments stringing together bars and verses on past tapes. Some fans might

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expect something next-level on a release like Everybody Looking, but those same fans probably have a history of having unreasonably high expectations too.

Even in the face of those critiques, Gucci’s homecoming project has an incomprehensibly charming gusto. Hearing Gucci happy, healthy and sober makes the album enjoyable purely on its own. It’s assurance that Atlanta’s rap godfather hasn’t left his patrons yet. It’s a promise that he has a lot more for us too.

He makes playful and humorous jabs concerning his otherwise sordid upbringing, and he frames his rise to fame in ways that can only be described as fodder for inspiration. Gucci shows that prison matured him, both musically and personally, involving mainstream artists of rap’s new school with elements of the genre that Gucci can accurately call his own. It’s a message of redemption and success rather than simply being a piece of art — fitting, considering the kind of person Gucci is.

Everybody Looking isn’t Gucci’s magnum opus by any means.

That’s probably not the point of it either, though. For an album hurriedly churned out in a matter of weeks, its quality exceeds the expectations it set for itself; for a rapper who’s had his fair share of trials and tribulations, it’s also an album that expresses a strong and resilient man whose best years are ahead of him rather than behind. Everybody Looking deserves a listen, not because it’s Gucci’s best yet, but because it’s a sobering message of the Gucci we have yet to see.

“Star Trek Beyond” had something to prove this summer. In a year when the big box office stories focus on how sequels B+ are both critical and finanStar Trek cial flops, “Star Trek” had to Beyond show it wasn’t Paramount another pure Pictures cash grab and had a reason Rave & Quality 16 for existing.

While it’s not the best new movie this summer, the new “Star Trek” film is a damn good time and clearly had effort put into it. Does it have the depth of other summer blockbusters like “Captain America Civil War” or “Finding Dory”? No, not really.

But, ultimately that doesn’t matter here.

“Star Trek Beyond” starts with the Enterprise and its crew being sent to rescue a stranded crew, but they’re then attacked by Krall (Idris Elba, “Luther”), who wants to steal an artifact that’s onboard.

He and his crew proceed to destroy the ship during the attack.

The crew then ends up scattered across the planet, meeting new friends in their attempts to get off the planet and stopping Krall from destroying a major Star Fleet base.

The film’s biggest redeeming quality is how purely watchable it was. Simon Pegg (“Shaun of the Dead”, who co-wrote the screenplay with Doug Jung and played the character Scotty) brought his sensibility to the script, peppering many of the characters’ interactions with witty jokes. At its best, the banter sang off the

screen, causing raucous laughter.

The talented cast embraced these moments, especially Pegg, Karl Urban’s (“Almost Human”) Bones and Zachary Quinto’s (“The Slap”) Spock. These moments allowed the movie to relax, creating a fast and loose feeling that carries it from beginning to end.

It helps that the franchise brought in a visually talented director in Justin Lin (“Furious 7”) to replace J.J. Abrams (who was busy making this little “Star Wars” film). The film’s action scenes crackled with excitement.

As the camera swooped around the fighting, Lin made us feel a certain excitement, just like he did so well in the “Fast and Furious” movies he directed. This is especially true in Kall’s attack of the Enterprise. This sequence went on for multiple minutes, and were some of the most exciting moments in the movie.

Despite the movie being a goof watch, it wasn’t without its problems. The film didn’t really attempt to add much depth to the characters, something the first film did so well with the relationship between Spock and Captain Kirk (Chris Pine, “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit”). Elba did what he could with the villain role, but the character doesn’t get any background until the film’s third act, and the twists felt like halfhearted attempts at creating a character instead of a caricature.

Still, it’s easy to overlook how hard it is to make a competent summer blockbuster. This moviegoing season has been filled with efforts where the filmmakers clearly didn’t care. That makes “Star Trek” a refreshing breath of fresh air with its banter and incredible action scenes.

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The versatile style of Hillary Clinton A chronicle of the candidate’s fashion over the years

By ANAY KATYAL and LYDIA MURRAY Summer Senior Arts Editor and Daily Staff Reporter

Hillary Clinton’s wardrobe has been the talk of Washington media during this election cycle, but she’s no stranger to the commotion. From her years as First Lady to the advent of her political career, Hillary Clinton has seen a variety of stylistic transformations, all equally iconic and defining for the time and era of her personal career.

Clinton has sported a variety of looks during her time in the public eye, each and every one distinctly representative of the role she’s had to play. During her time as First Lady of Arkansas, a primp and proper demeanor warranted a no-nonsense bob coupled with pinstripe dresses to humanize her to state constituents as she worked to bring attention to social issues such, including the Arkansas school system. As her husband took the Oval Office, Clinton took to stronger, more assertive colors and silhouettes (later adopting her signature shortcut) as she took on nationally-defining initiatives, like helping to establish the Office on Violence Against Women.

Pant suits of all types of colors become her norm as Clinton tried to level with her male counterparts in her run-up to becoming Senator of New York (and later Secretary of State under the Obama administration). But why the different phases?

Was Clinton moving with the everevolving psyche of fashion, or was there something more fundamental to her stylistic progression?

For men in business, dressing the part is a simple task. A well fitted suit and tie largely does the trick when it comes to “professional dress.” For women, the decision is more nuanced, requiring many more moving parts. Skirt or pants?

A solid color or patterned? Muted or bright colors? The most difficult aspect of this cascade of decisions is treading the fine line between looking fashionable while maintaining professionalism (and avoiding any provocation).

Nina McLemore, CEO of Nina McLemore Designs — specializing in professional apparel for women — has styled many prominent female political figures today, Hillary Clinton included. McLemore discussed this phenomenon in an interview with The Daily, speaking about the perfect balance required in today’s political landscape.

“This points to the divide, or fine line, I would say, that women walk between looking frumpy or dull and being too sexy,” she said. “It’s a very difficult line to manage.”

McLemore said, for Clinton, she does not have much time in her busy schedule to consider what she wears, but still needs to display an air of confidence in her attire.

“She doesn’t really have time to focus on her wardrobe,” she said.

“She needs to wear clothes that are attractive but are also displaying confidence and power.”

Comparatively, McLemore said, Michelle Obama — a woman of similar education and means as Clinton — dresses in a more traditionally feminine way, largely as to not distract from President Barack Obama’s role as the dominant figure of the White House. Instead, she characterizes herself in a more supportive and mothering light, a stark illustration of the difference in roles the two women play.

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“Michelle is a very strong, very smart, very well educated woman,” she said. “My guess is that she has chosen to portray an image that is not so strong and not so hard edge … I think she wants to come off as a youthful, energetic mother rather than a strong powerful woman.”

Clinton has occupied both of these roles in her style. As First Lady of both the United States and Arkansas, Clinton’s look harkened back to days of Jackie Kennedy vibe, sporting skirt suits and dresses. She also opted for more feminine colors and patterns.

As First Lady, Clinton’s held a role of having to be a mother to her family, while simultaneously having to convey aspects of that role in pronounced ways for the public eye.

A shift came when Clinton’s political aspirations came to fruition in the race for New York’s Senate seat.

Suddenly, Clinton former image was exchanged for a persona that more assertively exuberated confidence and professionalism.

In this stage, dresses were turned in for her signature famous bright pantsuits and strong red lipstick. Clinton went from embodying Jackie Kennedy to channeling Angela Merkel, shifting her fashion as she changed roles.

Clinton’s style remained largely the same throughout her tenure as both Senator and Secretary of State. Her hair was kept longer than what she currently sports, and she often wore her hair tied up with a scrunchie. For Clinton, this was an easy fix to weathered hair after

hours of travel when she had to look photo ready after spending hours on an airplane. It illustrated the weathering aspects of her job at the time.

Per McLemore, hair is one of the most important aspects of a woman’s look. For women with longer hair, she said, having a neat, up-do conveys the most professional and assertive look.

“I think it is much better if you have longer hair to pull it back or put it up,” she said. “And not have it hanging on the front of your jacket.”

Back on the campaign trail, Clinton once again rocks her short, fluffy cut and has kept the pantsuits — but with a twist. Clinton now employs an arsenal of designers and has shored up her wardrobe budget to match — the New York Post reported that Clinton likely spent $200,000 on her campaign wardrobe, including a $12,495 Giorgio Armani tweed jacket she wore for a speech about inequality.

However Clinton isn’t the first female politician to do so. According to the New York Post, Sarah Palin received $150,000 worth of clothing from the Republican National Committee while running for Vice President in 2008. It’s a challenge that crosses party lines.

Relative to Clinton’s world of ever-changing (and ever-scrutinized) style, there’s something to be said about the stylistic aspect (or lack thereof) in the lives of her male colleagues and counterparts.

Donald Trump, her latest adversary, seemingly does not exist in a world with the same pressures or

expectations, illustrative of the different difficulties the two face when it comes to their approach toward the public eye. McLemore says she believes Trump has variations of only one suit.

“When I was looking at what Donald Trump wore, it appears to me that he has one style of suit,” she said. “He has a tailor that just makes it for him over and over again. He just changes the fabric for some.

There is no uniform for women.

Politicians like Clinton seemingly have to grapple with a kind of stigma unseen by their male counterparts.

According to McLemore, humans are hardwired to immediately associate power with male figures who are tall, handsome and dressed in a suit. Women, on the other hand, have to work to break this image.

“We have become to recognize the CEO as the person in the suit and the tie,” she said. “Women are not that image.”

And Clinton recognizes just that. Her stylistic progression is indicative of a woman whose selfawareness has supplemented her career successes. The kinds of challenges she has had to face in her professional rise are far from the conventional tribulations male politicians face, and her answer to those challenges echo strongly for women who find themselves in a similar place. From her role as a doting and caring mother, her public image experienced an upheaval in her transition to becoming the politician we know today.

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University named to national precision medicine program Faculty will develop methods to better analyze patient data

By MAYA SHANKAR Daily Staff Reporter

The University of Michigan School of Public Health has been named as one of the institutions to participate in the Data and Research Support Center, a program funded by the National Institutes of Health.

The program is part of a national project, announced

by President Barack Obama in January 2015, called the Precision Medicine Initiative.

Funded by the NIH, the initiative dedicates $55 million to help further research in the growing field of precision medicine.

Precision medicine — previously as personalized medicine — aims to treat diseases individually based on each patient’s lifestyle, medical history, environment and genetics. Using precision medicine, doctors can better create tailored treatment plans that are more effective and efficient for patients than those planned for the average population.

There are several components to the initiative: enroll one million participants, collect their genetic samples and health data, and make the data accessible to researchers and scientists. The University will work with several other institutions to develop ways to gather and organize the data from various participating health systems.

The program as a whole will also develop methods to analyze the data and protect the privacy of those who share it.

Goncalo Abecasis, chair of the University’s Biostatistics Department and the Felix E. Moore Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, said the University’s particular role is to develop tools for scientists to better understand and use the collected data.

“We are part of a team that’s led out of Vanderbilt and Google,” Abecasis said. “They’re going to be organizing all the data and genetic information coming in from the different health systems. Our particular role is going to be to develop research tools that scientists can use to ask questions about the data. For example, they can log into a secure environment and explore the data and understand a specific connection between a certain gene and a certain disease.”

One reason the University was chosen to participate in the program is it’s role as a leader in precision medicine research, with current areas of expertise including precision oncology, drug development and targeted therapies, obesity research; health outcomes research and analysis; social research and new approaches to big data.

In addition, the University Health System is one of several major medical centers that gathers genetic data and relevant health information from patients who consent to share it for research purposes. For example, the Michigan Genomics Initiative — which began before the Precision Medicine Initiative was announce — has the genetic and medical information of more than 32,000 participants.

Abecasis said the Michigan Genomics Initiative was one of the reasons the University was chosen to participate in the project.

“I think specifically why we were selected is because the University has a history of developing research tools for using genetic data and making those tools available and accessible to the community,” he said. “For us, it is a great opportunity to be involved. For a lot of what we do in trying to understand human disease and human genetics, having a study of a million people connected to rich data is going to be the future and the start of many exciting things.”

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DNC From Page 1 understandable. The idea that “Clinton won fair and square” is kind of out the window at this point after it was revealed that the party put its finger on the scale for Clinton. It’s difficult for many to see the nomination as legitimate.”

Kolenda added that he is unsure of exact numbers, but the support among members of his organization is divided, with many going in both directions.

With Michigan coming into greater play this election season, the turnout of students and whom they support will play an important role. Sanders, who endorsed Clinton earlier this month, has called upon his supporters to rally behind Clinton, but to little avail. Monday morning, he was booed when addressing fans when he requested that they stand behind the party’s nominee.

Protesters, when asked about Sanders’ endorsement of Clinton, had a common response, stating their movement is about more than Sanders. Green said she believes there needs to be change on a grander scale and people should not have to choose between only two candidates.

“We need to be the change,” she said. “That’s the bigger umbrella reason of why I’m here. Bernie Sanders is amazing, but he’s one person, and we all need to be in this together. … We believe that this is not the end and we do not have to choose between the lesser of two evils.”

WARD From Page 2 The incumbent Warpehoski — who is the director of the local Interfaith Council for Peace & Justice — held his City Council seat since 2012 and disagrees with Leeser’s assessment of city affairs. While he acknowledges Leeser holds positions aligned with many locals, Warpehoski argues he pragmatically accounts for both his constituents’ needs and the opinions of experts.

“The role of elected officials is to listen to everybody, the constituents as well as the subject matter experts — the traffic engineers, the attorney — taking all of that in and making the best decision for the good of the community,” Warpehoski said.

“It’s not always governing by the

Kolenda agreed with this sentiment, saying that the movement has become larger than just the presidential election and students.

“Sanders was incredibly popular with most people under 45,” he wrote. “He came incredibly close to the nomination, even with the DNC actively trying to harm his campaign ... There are also many Sanders supporters (some I know personally) who are now running for office. The movement is more than just young college students.”

Despite the large crowds of protestors at the convention, and the overarching movements, many still believe students will rally behind Clinton.

University Public Policy lecturer Rusty Hill said he believes most students will vote for Clinton, while those who will vote third party or for Trump will stem more from young working people.

“I think there is a divide among young people,” he said. “On college campuses, the youth that vote will overwhelmingly for Secretary Clinton, but among non-college youth, those people that are working, trying to scratch some jobs together, there may be some ground for a Trump or third-party vote.”

Kelly agreed with this sentiment, stating he believes students on campus will rally behind Clinton, with only a few stragglers voting third party.

“Sen. Sanders knows himself that it’s about the movement, not just one person,” he said. “I think we will see a lot of his supporters start going the fold and getting excited about electing Clinton.”

poll numbers. It’s not about doing whatever the experts say; it’s about bringing that all together into a holistic approach to public service.”

While Leeser has been outspoken in arguing the Ann Arbor deer cull has been a waste of city resources, Warpehoski maintains the opinion of expert ecologists in his support for a continued lethal cull. Leeser supports immediate action to petition for EPA intervention on the Gelman dioxane plume — a widely debated city issue — while Warpehoski insists city and county authorities pursue the federal option only if it can be better handled by federal authorities than by Michigan’s environmental regulators.

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MASTECTOMY From Page 3 regiment — more extensive than it’s necessary,” Katz said. “For years, we’ve been talking about overtreatment of cancer, or overtreatment of anything and often blaming the doctors and characterizing the doctor being too aggressive. In one thing I have researched and learned was that patient’s partner often would have the preference to treat more extensive than it’s clinically indicated.”

Katz believes patients who think more extensive treatment is better contributes to the rising rates of double mastectomies. He warned that extensive surgery, not just mastectomies, can lead to such side effects as life-long swelling of the arms.

Katz believes there is a more general problem: working with patients to counter the immediate reaction to a health threat.

There is an enormous need for clinicians to help navigate patients in their cancer treatment since the decision is much more complex than before, Katz stated.

Though the tests for breast cancer usually can identify which patient can benefit from which treatment, in some situations, it is uncertain what the best course of action is. For such situations, he said, patients want to go for the more extensive treatment to go back to their normal routine or to assure themselves that they did everything they could.

“It is the kind of psychological factor that drive people to prefer the most aggressive treatment when in fact the most aggressive treatment will not improve their health, life expectancy or

survival,” Katz said.

Katz believes doctors are trying to encourage lessintensive treatments to prevent harm. Physicians recognize that treatment can harm and even kill patients, he said.

Sabel wrote that double mastectomies may, nevertheless, be the right decision in uncertain situations.

“The peace of mind (the psychological benefit) of bilateral mastectomies might be a sound decision for them. It is hard to say if it is ‘the best one’ and my job as a doctor isn’t to make those decisions for the patient, but to (educate) and advise them,” he wrote. “Clearly I try to steer patients away from poor decisions, but when two treatments have equal survivals, even if one is more ‘drastic’ it is hard to say it is a wrong decision.”

Sabel added that the key is to learn why a patient wishes to have a double mastectomy, while informing what will or will not work.

“So women who think they will live longer because they have this operation need more education,” Sabel wrote. “But many women are frightful of a (second) cancer, even if the risk is low, and the idea of yearly mammograms can be stressful, particularly if they get a call-back or need a biopsy.”

Ruth Freedman, chief administrator of the University’s Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, is an advocate who leads the University Breast Cancer Advocacy and Advisory Committee.

The committee has monthly meetings to provide the best information for breast cancer patients and survivors, helping them with their decisions.

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The committee aims to clarify facts so that patients understand their best course of action and become knowledgeable advocates. The committee also communicates regularly with researchers from organizations, such as the American Cancer Society, to give them feedback on their work and clinical trials on how it would affect their patients.

While acknowledging that the chance cancer can spread from one breast to the other breast is little and thus a double mastectomy may be unnecessary, Freedman emphasized the decision is ultimately left to the patient.

“For them, given their situation, (double mastectomy) may be the best course of treatment if they are young women or single moms,” she said. “Or if their own emotional status is one that they can’t live with the possibility of cancer in the other breast, even if it could go elsewhere as well, it’s not necessarily a guard against any other breast cancer.”

When it comes to decision making, Katz recommended patients not make rushed decisions. He stated that, being diagnosed with breast cancer is not a medical emergency, so patients should take the time to think, gather information and make careful decisions with their physicians. Patients should also find out rationales for recommendations, he emphasized, and be satisfied with them.

Along with the cognizant patients, doctors should be mindful of the patients and keep themselves updated on their patients, he added.

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Non-conference schedule released

By ETHAN WOLFE Summer Managing Sports Editor

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Senior Abby Cole will play center for the women’s basketball team in addition to her role on the volleyball team.

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team for 2016-2017 season

By CHRIS CROWDER Daily Sports Editor

Abby Cole’s plan to play basketball for the Wolverines hasn’t ran into any snags.

Michigan volleyball’s 6-foot-5 senior made the announcement that she would play basketball this upcoming season on her Instagram in November, but the move was just made official Thursday.

“Following the holiday break during my sophomore year, I had some honest conversations with (volleyball head coach) Mark Rosen,” Cole told MGoBlue. “He was very supportive of my desire to play basketball again, knowing that my commitment to the volleyball program would not waiver. Mark connected me with Coach Arico, and when she offered me the chance to continue my basketball career, I could not turn her down.”

Cole will finish her final season of volleyball as one of the team

captains. The AVCA Second Team All-American just received LeBron James-esque treatment by having her likeness on an enormous poster on the outside of Cliff Keen Arena.

After the upcoming volleyball season, Cole will join Kim Barnes Arico’s squad and then will have another year of eligibility left to solely play hoops during the 2017-18 season.

“Her length is incredible, and she moves so well for her size,” Arico said in an interview with MGoBlue.

“She is an elite-level athlete who will bring another dimension to our team. When she approached me about playing basketball, I was thrilled. She will be an amazing ambassador for our program.”

In Cole’s senior year of high

“(Rosen) was very supportive of my desire to play basketball again.”

school in 2013, she was named Class A Player of the Year for basketball and was a Miss Basketball finalist. She racked up two state titles for Grand Haven High School and averaged 13.9 points, 9.6 rebounds and 7.9 blocks per game as a senior. She will play center alongside 6-foot-5 sophomore center Hallie Thome, giving the Wolverines more of a punch down low.

This summer, Cole has played for the U.S. Collegiate National Volleyball Team in China. She was just named tournament MVP while averaging 11.25 kills per match. She is dominating in volleyball at the moment, but will be brushing up on her basketball skills once volleyball season ends. With her being one of Michigan’s best high school basketball players just three years ago, she’ll be a helpful addition to the women’s basketball team that reached the WNIT semifinal in each of the last two seasons.

Wednesday, the Michigan basketball team’s 14-game non-conference schedule was released, and like last season, it features lackluster competition.

This season’s exhibition game against Armstrong State on Nov. 4 will include another matchup that holds ties to head coach John Beilein. In last season’s exhibition, the Wolverines hosted Le Moyne, where Beilein used to coach and where his son Patrick currently reigns as the head coach. Against Armstrong State, former Michigan basketball star Cazzie Russell returns to Ann Arbor as the current assistant coach for the Pirates, The Wolverines’ regular season non-conference slate, though facing marginally stronger opponents according to the ratings percentage index, will see another weak home schedule: Texas (Dec. 6) and Virginia Tech (Nov. 30) are the lone teams in the RPI’s top 100 that Michigan will host, with the matchup against the Hokies being apart of the ACC/ Big Ten Challenge.

The Wolverines’ opening games against Howard (Nov. 11) and IUPUI (Nov. 13) in Ann Arbor will take place as a part of the 2K Classic. Following those two games, Michigan will fly out to New York City to Madison Square Garden for the 2K Classic Championship Round. There, the

Wolverines will square up against Marquette (Nov. 17) and either Pittsburgh or SMU (Nov. 18) in the championship or consolation game.

Perhaps some of Michigan’s most competitive non-conference games will occur on the road against South Carolina (Nov. 23) and UCLA (Dec. 10). Both teams missed last year’s NCAA Tournament, but the Gamecocks are currently ranked No. 72 in the RPI. The rest of the non-conference games include home matchups versus Mount St. Mary’s (Nov. 26), Kennesaw State (Dec. 3), Central Arkansas (Dec. 13), Maryland Eastern Shore (Dec. 17) and Furman (Dec. 22).

Though the home games seem unexciting, Beilein is excited about many of the games the Wolverines managed to land.

“We were successful in scheduling some very competitive homeand-home games for 2016,” Beilein said in a statement. “These games not only guarantee a strong RPI but provide our fans some exciting non-conference games in Ann Arbor. These types of opponents have always proved to be excellent preparation for our tough Big Ten schedule.”

Barring any upsets in their nonconference schedule, Michigan will likely have to repeat what it did last season against Big Ten opponents to secure another spot in the NCAA Tournament.

“Her length is incredible and she moves well.”

JAMES COLLER/Daily

The Wolverines will be heading to New York for the fifth straight season.

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WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

Finn, ‘M’ address

past inequalities The senior delivered new varsity jackets to several alumni

By ORION SANG Summer Managing Sports Editor

A glance at the two Michigan varsity jackets lying sideby-side was all anyone needed to realize something was wrong.

One jacket, given to former male athletes, features a block M displayed in the normal hue of maize that those who watch Michigan athletics have come accustomed to seeing. The other jacket, given to former women athletes who played on varsity teams from 1973 to 1991, features a smaller, darker block M — along with sleeves that are a different color from the first jacket.

To former Wolverines, many of whom brought up the issue throughout the years, this discrepancy in varsity jackets wasn’t just a matter of a difference in design — it was a matter of equality.

Erin Finn, a senior track-andfield athlete, first found out about the inequity as a freshman when she attended a panel on the issue and was immediately drawn in.

She persisted in reminding people of the issue, and she asked for something to be done.

And when Michigan Athletic Director Warde Manuel decided that it was time for the athletic department to correct its past mistake, Finn was one of the people contacted, because of her previous efforts.

She was asked to write a let-

ter to the women who would receive the new jackets, and was also tasked with delivering the new and improved varsity jackets to local alumni starting in July — something that was a unique experience in itself.

“Most of them don’t cry, but you can tell they’re trying to hold back teary-eyed emotion,” Finn said. “They get this completely joyful smile.

They’re just so happy to finally have their jacket. It’s like now they’re finally accepted. It’s a wonderful feeling for them and you can tell that they’re just so excited, so happy and so thankful that Michigan did the right thing.”

Finn, one of several returning veterans for the Wolverines next year, used the opportunity as a chance to educate her teammates.

“I’ve been trying to let everyone know that things haven’t always been as good as they have now,” Finn said. “Women didn’t always have equal opportunities. I’ve just been reminding everyone how lucky we are and trying to get (people) involved in helping hand out the jackets so they can see on a first-hand level how lucky we really are.

“It’s an incredible honor. I can’t even begin to express my thanks to these women for setting the precedent of what it means to be a Michigan woman and opening these opportunities that we get to experience today because of what they went through. To be able to thank them myself and to see the joy on their faces when they received their jackets was so, so special. I can’t even put it into words.”

“They’re just so happy to finally have their jacket.”

“I can’t even begin to express my thanks to these women.”

ALLISON FARRAND/Daily

Erin Finn (left) was an integral part of the recent deliveries of new varsity jackets to former Michigan women athletes.

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FOOTBALL

‘M’ embracing a higher standard

By JACOB GASE Daily Sports Editor

JAMES COLLER/Daily

Redshirt sophomore linebacker Jabrill Peppers was put on the Nagurski and Thorpe Award preseason watch lists.

Notebook: Harbaugh, Big Ten coaches address media in Chicago

By KELLY HALL Daily Sports Editor

CHICAGO — Monday, six coaches took the podium at Big Ten Media Days to give their opening remarks, but the Wolverines were discussed in more than just Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s Q&A session.

The Michigan football team kicks off its conference schedule on Sept. 24, when the Nittany Lions travel to Michigan Stadium, but the competition is already starting to heat up.

NO RUTGERS RIVALRY “YET”: After Michigan plucked a few prized recruits from the state of New Jersey last spring (including No. 1 recruit Rashan Gary), Rutgers’ and the Wolverines’ fan bases butted heads on social media.

First-year Scarlet Knights coach Chris Ash, who served as Ohio State’s co-defensive coordinator prior to arriving in Piscataway, was asked about the fan rivalry between the two teams.

“I’ll start by saying there’s no rivalry with Michigan yet,” Ash said. “They’ve done some things that we have not been able to do, and I think it’s great when fans get a chance in the offseason to talk about college football and have fun with college football. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Coach Harbaugh and the job he’s

done at Michigan and the program they’ve had for several years.”

PEPPERS MAKES PREASEASON WATCH LIST: Redshirt sophomore linebacker Jabrill Peppers was named on the East Division Big Ten Football Preaseason Watch List along with Michigan State’s Malik McDowelll, Ohio State’s J.T. Barrett and Raekwon McMillan and Penn State’s Saquon Barkley.

Harbaugh had nothing but good things to say about Peppers, listing him as a multi-threat player.

“He can play just about anywhere on a football field and be effective,” Harbaugh said. “Put him in a corner, put him in a safety. Put him in a nickel. Put him in a linebacker. Ultimately probably nickel is his best position. He can be a returner of the punts, returner of the kickoffs. He could be a gunner. He could be a hold-up guy.

Offensively probably right now could probably be our slot receiver and would give De’Veon and all of our running backs a run for their money to be the best running back on the team. Could be a wildcat quarterback. Could be an outside receiver. Can run all the reverses and fly sweeps.

“So I think you get the picture.

He is a tremendous athlete.”

FITZGERALD REMEMBERS SHUTOUT: After leading the Wildcats to a 6-2 Big Ten record

last season, Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald gave a nod to Michigan, which handed the Wildcats one of its two in-conference losses.

The Wolverines shut out then-No. 13 Northwestern 38-0 at the Big House, resulting in the Wildcats’ worst loss of the season.

“I thought (Michigan) played outstanding,” Fitzgerald said on Monday. “When you get on the bus and you pop the tape on that’s the first thing you do as a coach. You pop on the tape and you go: ‘We should have done A, B, C.’ But wow do they do it well. And you tip your hat and you move on, get ready for the next week.”

CHESSON CHECK-UP: After being sidelined in spring practice due to a leg injury, fifth-year senior wide receiver Jehu Chesson is expected to be healthy by the start of fall practice, which starts on Aug. 8.

Chesson will have some healthy competition at the position with fifth-year senior Amara Darboh, who Harbaugh now believes is Michigan’s top receiver.

“Amara Darboh, I would say he’s our top receiver right now,” Harbaugh said. “And as we went through the season last year, I thought that was Jehu Chesson.

And then Amara surged during spring ball there, and they’re in a very good-hearted competition there to be our best receiver.”

CHICAGO — For the second straight year, Jim Harbaugh walked into the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place as the center of attention.

Still sporting his signature skinny block ‘M’ hat despite wearing a full suit, the second-year Michigan football coach was the main attraction of the first day of Big Ten Media Days, with a throng of cameras and microphones swarming his podium in a hotel ballroom.

Such attention is probably to be expected given the social media buzz that surrounded Harbaugh since his hiring back in Dec. 2014, but this year’s circus came with one major difference. After a 10-3 inaugural campaign featuring a 41-7 throttling of Florida in the Citrus Bowl and the narrowest of losses to eventual playoff-bound rival Michigan State, expectations are through the roof.

“We raised the bar when we played Florida,” said senior tight end Jake Butt. “That’s now ground zero. ... I don’t think we’re chasing anybody.”

The Wolverines are ranked in the top 10 in most preseason polls released to date, with USA Today placing them as high as third — trailing only the final two teams standing last season, Clemson and Alabama. Among Big Ten foes, most of the polls have only Ohio State ranked ahead of Michigan, with Michigan State and Iowa a few steps below.

As expected, neither Harbaugh nor the players joining him in Chicago on Monday would say they pay attention to the hype, but none were too shy to admit they had equally high hopes.

“The message is simple: We want our dreams to be big,” Harbaugh said. “We want our goals to be lofty — so much that people will laugh at us. If they’re not laughing at us, we didn’t set high enough goals. (We also have to) understand that they can be achieved, but they have to be worked for. Such a simple message, but it just might work.”

With a pair of first-team AllAmericans in Butt and senior cornerback Jourdan Lewis, a wealth of experience on both sides of the

ball and do-it-all players like redshirt sophomore linebacker Jabrill Peppers, it’s not hard to see why the bar is being raised.

“We can contend for (a championship), of course,” Lewis said.

“We have the talent, we have the young guys to come in and help us out, we have the coaching staff. We have everything in place to be one of those programs to say we can contend for a Big Ten or (national) championship.”

Media days are typically brimming with optimism for every team, but the Wolverines have drawn theirs not only from their 10 wins last season, but the way they rebounded from tough losses.

Michigan won the next game following each of its three losses in 2015 — the first time since 2011 the Wolverines had completed a season without losing back-to-back games.

Part of the Wolverines’ resiliency came from their new coach’s attitude, which the players noticed right away.

“In past years, when we lost, one loss would turn into two or three losses, and everyone would be down on themselves,” Butt said. “You could kind of feel we were leaning towards that when we got in the locker room (after last season’s opening loss to Utah), but Coach Harbaugh looked at all of us and crushed that right then and there.

“He told us he was proud of us, he was proud of the way we played, and that we’re gonna be just fine going down the stretch. And we all believed him, we all bought into him at that point. It was such a different feeling.”

After the triumph in the Citrus Bowl, the feeling has carried over into 2016. Though Harbaugh is 0-2 against Michigan State and Ohio State and the Wolverines haven’t won a Big Ten title since 2004, the team is starting to think that their coach — with all of his eccentricities and his media circus — might be the person that can bring them back to the top.

“It’s madness, it’s genius,” Lewis said. “It’s a fine line between crazy and genius. You can see it — he has a method to his madness. Everything is calculated, everything he does is for a reason.”