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Yousef Rabhi wins race for State House of Representatives

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All contested incumbents win re-election Tuesday

By BRIAN KUANG, KEVIN LINDER, ISHI MORI Daily Summer News Editor, Daily Staff Reporters

Of the five City Council members up for re-election this year, only three were challenged in the Democratic primary. In the Tuesday primary election, all three prevailed, and, because Ann Arbor traditionally votes overwhelmingly Democratic, Councilmembers Sumi Kailasapathy (D–Ward 1), Graydon Krapohl (D–Ward 4) and Chuck Warpehoski (D–Ward 5) will most likely be re-elected in November.

In an interview following the final tally, Warpehoski said Tuesday’s results are an affirmation of the present state of affairs in local government.

“When three of the six seats are uncontested, and those three seats are won by the incumbent, I think that shows there’s a high level of satisfaction with the direction the

city’s headed in,” Warpehoski said, also noting Mayor Christopher Taylor was also unchallenged for re-election. “I think the voters have said that they want a continuation of the policies that they’ve been seeing.”

In addition to all incumbents being re-elected, Warpehoski noted that voting along the lines of specific issues also fell along the status quo of Ann Arbor. For example, Warpehoski pointed out that Kailasapathy has been more skeptical of new development in the city than her colleagues on the council, as well as her two challengers. Though she was ultimately re-elected, her more development-friendly challengers Jason Frenzel and Will Leaf collectively secured 55 percent of the vote.

“It shows that there’s a sense that having a diversified economy is something that’s valued in this city,” Warpehoski said, referring to the election results. “And people recognize that means we need to add housing capacity and office capacity to support the diversified economy.”

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the Ward 4 and Ward 5 races, Warpehoski noted. Incumbent Krapohl and his challenger Diane Giannola were more friendly to further expansions in downtown than the third candidate, Eric Lipson, and, collectively, they received 63 percent of the vote.

In Warpehoski’s own re-election race, his challenger — Kevin Leeser — had been vocally opposed to the construction of high-rise student housing and was defeated by 1,304 votes.

Leeser told the Daily after the results were released he intends to continue to advocate for improved pedestrian safety — his signature campaign issue — as a private citizen and reiterated that he is unhappy with the city’s current level of safety.

Of the three incumbents, only Kailasapathy — who has frequently been a dissenting voice against the majority on the council — was not endorsed by Mayor Taylor, who opted to endorse her opponent, Jason Frenzel. The Ward 4 race was particularly close, with Kailasapthy and Frenzel neck-and-neck for votes until the final precinct reported.

In an interview after the results See CITY, Page 8

Yousef Rabhi has been announced as the winner of the Democratic primary for the Michigan House of Representatives’ 53rd District seat with 16 precints reporting, edging out his opponent Steven Kwasny.

With all but four precints reporting, Rabhi recieved 7,237 votes to his opponents’ 1,225 with a voter turnout of at least 14 percent.

Washtenaw County Commissioner Yousef Rabhi declared his candidacy when incumbent State Representative Jeff Irwin (D–Ann Arbor) was barred from running for re-election due to term limits.

Rabhi had widely been considered the favorite to succeed Irwin, receiving Irwin’s endorsement.

Rabhi also earned endorsements from the majority of local elected officials in Washtenaw County — including Mayor Christopher Taylor and the entire Ann Arbor City Council — as well as statewide advocacy groups including the American Federation of Teachers Michigan and the local chapter of United Automobile Workers, which represents Ann Arbor.

Rabhi was challenged in the Democratic Primary by Steven Kwasny, a 28-year-old Eastern Michigan University student, whose central issue was campaign finance reform. Kwasny explicitly refused to accept financial contributions to his campaign and relied solely on web advertising and volunteers.

Addressing supporters at a restaurant in Downtown Ann Arbor, Rabhi criticized the Republican See COUNCIL, Page 8

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Through leadership and entrepreneurship practices, concern for global sustainability and areas of study spanning from business economics to finance to management, the University of Michigan Ross School of Business has consistently ranked among the nation’s best — ranking fourth in undergraduate schools nationwide by the U.S. News and World Report. Yet there is an additional aspect of the business school that has greatly expanded since the school’s establishment in 1924: research.

Whether one is studying an arguably more traditional aspect of business, such as accounting and marketing, or focusing on innovative business models, researchers at Ross are exploring a variety of topics to sustain a successful business program and improve economic relations throughout the world.

Accounting – Role of Business The Paton Center for Research in Accounting was established to honor William Paton, a University alum and former University accounting professor. Some of Paton’s accomplishments include developing innovative accounting techniques and founding of the Accounting Review — the oldest scholarly journal in accounting — in 1926.

Paton’s students — many now in their 80s — created the center to recognize Paton as a respected member of the academic community and worldknown thought leader, Catherine Shakespeare, faculty director of the Master of Accounting Program, said.

“He created a sense of excellence around accounting — made it a rigorous scientific discipline,” Shakespeare said. “The center was founded in his honor and the purpose of the center is excellence in all things accounting.”

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center specifically focusing on accounting didactics and research has been beneficial to advancing Paton’s mission, especially for doctoral students.

“We are the number one accounting Ph.D. program in the country with a long history of incredibly successful alums, and I think that’s in part to do with the support of the Paton Accounting Center,” Shakespeare said.

In addition to encouraging students to enter the accounting field, the center helps to change common misconceptions about what the field actually entails, Shakespeare said. One such misconception is that accountants work in isolation with a calculator, but Shakespeare said accounting — especially modern accounting — is much more interactive and collaborative than people think, as accountants work with many people in companies and firms to review their information and make decisions.

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decisions?,’ whether internally in the firm or externally as a stakeholder,” Shakespeare said.

“You have to be able to understand that everything is based in numbers and relationships. That’s really what accounting is about: is being able to understand the story the firm is able to tell you about its financial performance.”

Shakespeare said while there are two main types of accounting — financial and management — she focuses her research on the former, which involves businesses and publicly-listed companies that externally report required information to their shareholders.

Shakespeare’s work is often policyoriented since she works with global standard setters in relating the importance of regulation in financial institutions. Standard setters set strict guidelines that establish how companies should reveal their information to shareholders and investors, controlling what consumers and shareholders see regarding the See ROSS, Page 9

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was closely following the convention this week, as a good politically-minded student does.

Blown away MADELINE by the high- NOWICKI minded oratory and passion from the likes of the Obamas, Khizr Khan and Joe Biden, I began to get nervous for Clinton’s big moment. Her address to the world as the first female nominee was billed as “the biggest moment of her career,” which is a lot of pressure for anyone, let alone a noted introvert. In a sea of idealistic (and potentially unrealistic), Clinton represented incremental pragmatism. Not necessarily the aspirational, inspirational candidate we saw eight years ago. It seemed like so much was riding on this speech, so much which, in the past, Clinton was unable to deliver. And all I could hear was “Fight Song” looping incessantly and cloyingly both on television and inside my head. Both my nerves and my irritation grew.

As she entered the stage, beaming ear to ear and in a gleaming white — you guessed it — pantsuit, Clinton appeared confident, cool and ready. Her speech was relatively solid, not crazily awe-inspiring or laced with satire, but what did you expect from her? From the “texts from Hillary” meme to the role she took on as First Lady, Clinton has always had the no-nonsense reputation of getting into the behind-thescenes work. She’s known for meeting with Republicans while in office, passing practical bipartisan legislation in the Bush-era legislature and trying — sometimes unsuccessfully, and sometimes incorrectly — but

trying nonetheless, to slowly but surely change policy.

And then the camera panned over to the audience. In the corner of my eye, I glimpsed her.

A girl, not older than thirteen, stood on the sidelines, gripping a “Stronger Together” sign, a big braces-filled smile on her face and her wide eyes behind frames, hopeful and glassy. That was when I felt it, the weight of this historic moment. Until then, I had been pragmatic about my support for Clinton. She was experienced and was winning, therefore I was going to get behind her. But when I saw this girl, coupled with Clinton’s line, “when there are no glass ceilings, the sky’s the limit,” I became filled with a love and an obligation to my younger self and to girls everywhere. I became enthralled by the history of the moment, and I became enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton.

This was the moment I realized that this night, this convention, this election, was for the girls. The girls who are told from age 2, when their little brothers and sisters are born, that they will be just such a good mommy one day. The girls whose moms never faltered in showing what true strength and sacrifice looked like. The girls whose dads realized why gender equality was so important when they first heard their daughter’s mind at work.

This is for the girls who practice their class presentations over and over again because their voices are too quiet or too loud or too angry.

The girls who are told to smile more. The girls who are told to let boys be boys. The girls who take the group project into their own hands, but share the A+ grade with everyone on their team. The girls who know that despite doing this

work, they’re still paid less in the end. The girls who try so hard that they sometimes lose their way, but they keep going and keep searching and keep striving. The girls who sometimes have doubts in their abilities, especially when they are the only girl in the room, but keep working and learning and growing anyway. The girls who are told to ask fewer questions. The girls who are told that reading that much gives your eyes wrinkles. The girls who get angry when someone tells them to just take the joke. The girls who are scared that hard work won’t be enough to get recognized.

This is for the girls who are told that they can’t wear pink or they’re not going to be taken seriously.

The girls who are told that they can’t play sports or be an engineer because they’re not going to find a man who will like them. The girls who train harder at practice, put in more hours at their part-time job, take time to comfort their friends and never, ever stop caring about what they can do for others.

This is for the girls who have never had a woman to lead them, a woman to look up to, a woman to let them know that this it is truly possible to put yourself out there and actually win. This is for the girls who have never had a woman to lead them, a woman to disagree with, but a woman to represent the powerful apex of the nation. This is for the girls who want to see more women who look and feel a little bit more like them rise to affect change at the highest level, today and tomorrow.

This is for the girls who are now women, but deep down are still those audacious, caring, brave, hardworking, bossy, intelligent, thoughtful girls.

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

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can’t handle how quickly this summer is coming to an end.

It seems like I just got out of classes, that only a few ELENA days ago I was HUBBELL moving out of my dorm room and into my summer housing. It seems like yesterday I was excitedly meeting up with my friends who were also staying in Ann Arbor for the summer, and making overthe-top plans for how we would spend our free time together, like kayaking or going on a road trip (most of our time together was actually spent watching movies and TV shows). I feel like I still have a lot more relaxing to do, a lot more napping that needs to be done, a lot more TV that needs watching. I feel like I need more time to prepare myself for what is coming next, because what is really scary to me about the fact that the summer is almost over is that my college experience is also almost over.

OK, I’m only a rising junior, so it’s not like the end of college is really imminent, but I feel like I haven’t earned the title of “junior” yet. I still feel like that freshman who nervously sweated whenever a professor called on her and who spent hours during Welcome Week trying to find where all the classes on her schedule were so that she didn’t show up late to class on the first day. And though I’ve accepted the fact that I’m now late to everything and that the pain of embarrassing oneself in front of an entire college class is something I will just have to live through, I don’t feel like an upperclassmen.

I’m not mature, I don’t have my life together (whatever that even means), I don’t have the wardrobe I deserve — all things I thought I would have by the time I was considered “almost done” with my college career.

In all seriousness, though, I honestly feel like my life is moving way too fast. Even the people who, to me, have their lives together confess their fear at thinking about what is to come, their disbelief at how quickly their time at college has gone by. We all knew that college would be a defining time in our lives, but we didn’t know that it would be over so soon. Maybe my fear isn’t focused on how notready I am for the future, but how I still feel like I need a lot more time to goof off and be a kid — or at least a stupid college student.

To be honest, how ill-prepared and confused I’m feeling is making me incredibly nervous for the future and forcing me to realize that what I was taught by “13 Going on 30” that nobody ever actually feels like an adult is completely true.

How are we expected to live our lives when it seems like everything is moving at 100 miles per hour? I have this image of myself going down a waterslide, and in this image, instead of allowing gravity to do what it does best, I’m pushing against the plastic walls for dear life.

Perpetually stuck in the same space by choice, water rushes around me until I eventually get tired and give up, tumbling awkwardly down the waterslide (sorry about the terrible metaphor). This is sometimes what I feel like doing — forcing everything and everyone to stop changing. Of course, I’m not sure how I would accomplish this feat, but also something tells me I should stop wishing for it. Maybe it’s the final seasons of “That ‘70s Show” and “Scrubs” that subconsciously taught me that sometimes change and giving up is the better and less disappointing option.

So how do we deal with a world that moves so fast during the period in our lives where everything is changing? How do we find stability?

To be honest, I have no idea. The world is now a place where people rarely have the same job their entire adulthood and everybody is always moving around — I’ve been told by my parents that my twenties will be the wildest ride of my life. I’m not sure where my life is going, what job I will end up with, where I will end up living — so many important aspects of my future are completely out of my control.

Instead, I’m trying to focus on the things within my control: who I spend time with, what I spend time on, what I decide to. I don’t want to look back at my twenties and realize that I took every opportunity that came my way and met a bunch of new people, but that I never developed any good friendships, never stuck with one cause, never laid any foundations. Values differ from person to person, but relationships are what I have decided to focus on. Though I didn’t decide where the highway was being built, at least I can decide to stay behind the wheel of the car.

—Elena Hubbell can be reached at elepearl@umich.edu.

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hen I first began working at the law firm I was interning for this summer, I’d ANNA never heard POLUMBOof Mam or LEVY Quiché — two different ethnic groups indigenous to Guatemala. In fact, this summer was the first time I had heard of Spanish-speaking Ladinos, persecuting indigenous peoples of Central American countries because of their indigenous traditions, culture and the fact that Spanish was not their first language. In fact, quite a few of our clients spoke little to no Spanish, only their indigenous language (Mam or Quiché). Before this summer, I did not understand that clear distinction, and I wasn’t fully aware of all the different ethnic groups in these regions, nor did I understand the different languages of the regions.

And immediately after realizing that I had been unaware of these important facts up until that point, I felt embarrassed, ashamed that I didn’t know all this before. Through listening to the stories of many of our clients and potential clients and learning about the prevalence of this persecution, I thought I should have known these facts already.

In this moment, I felt as though this signified a great ignorance of important history, culture and people that I was ashamed to admit. My whole life I’d thought I was attuned to other peoples, other cultures, different places. I felt the security of what I thought I knew shatter — but fortunately, it was only for a brief moment.

After talking with family and family friends, sharing what I had learned in my first few days at work, I realized, to a varying degree, that many others were not completely aware of what I’d just learned either. Other people that I admired for their knowledge and understanding of various important issues also knew very little about this. It wasn’t just me, and it wasn’t abnormal.

While I would have loved to be able to come to a conclusion without others, since I still struggle to accept parts of myself, and self-consciousness

still follows me around, seeing others react as I had helped.

And even when a friend or family member did know these facts that I was only just learning, they never made it a big deal that I didn’t. Instead, they simply shared in my anger in the persecution of these people, not even making a point to acknowledge that I didn’t know all the facts sooner.

Upon reflection, I was quick to beat myself up for not having all the knowledge on the subject, for being “out of touch.” But the reality is, how can we possess extensive knowledge about everything? That isn’t something we can neither expect of ourselves nor should we expect that of others. In fact, professionals specialize for different reasons, and they put aside any pride they may feel that they are an expert, when they are not well versed in another area of their profession. The same thing, I believe, can be applied to everyday knowledge.

As someone who works hard to understand and appreciate different peoples and different cultures, it worried me that I didn’t have all my facts. And while at first I felt that it was my fault, it doesn’t do any good to fixate on what we didn’t know and should have. Instead, appreciate it as a learning experience and realize that it is impossible for us to know everything.

Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, no one has all the answers. No one is above learning something new. And while this may seem obvious, it is something I don’t believe we focus on enough. We are so preoccupied with being right, thinking before you speak, that questions and unfinished thoughts can feel unwelcomed.

We learn new things every day for the rest of our lives, and it is important to acknowledge that and to see it as a positive thing.

As opposed to raising an eyebrow when someone confesses they didn’t have all the facts or running for cover when you discover you didn’t have the answer, encouraging learning every day is important.

And not only is it important, but it is unavoidable. I can assure you that in your lifetime, you will most certainly be tripped up

by a question or find yourself at a loss for an answer more than once, and that is nothing to be concerned with.

When I started out writing this piece, there were at least a dozen times I almost deleted everything I’d written or tried to downplay what I’d learned to make it seem as though there wasn’t such a big hole in my knowledge. I certainly considered writing on a different topic to avoid what embarrassment I might feel once it was published or to dodge any judgment I felt might come my way.

But as I continued to write this piece, I realized it was important for me to get it out there, as I thought it could speak to not just my own worries, but those of others. We shouldn’t have to live in a world where we are embarrassed or afraid to admit we learned something new.

Having knowledge is a wonderful thing, but so is learning new things. Even if it seems like you should have known it before, that may simply be the high standards you set for yourself.

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haven’t learned, you are no less sensitive to other peoples or other cultures. You are not ignorant. It doesn’t mean you don’t spend enough time wanting to understand and be compassionate toward others. It isn’t about what you know from the get-go that defines who you are, but it’s what you do with what you learn that shapes the person you are.

You aren’t Google or Siri.

You’re human.

—Anna Polumbo-Levy can be reahed at annapl@umich.edu.

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A time to remember: ‘Bourne’ subpar seeing ‘Hamilton’ in NY

By MATTHEW BARNAUSKAS Daily TV/New Media Editor

Experiencing the phenomenon in the room where it happens

By ALEX INTNER Summer Managing Arts Editor

NEW YORK CITY — “How could ‘Hamilton’ possibly live up to the hype?”

That’s the question I was asking myself as I walked into the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Monday night.

It’s a musical that has blown up like no other I’ve seen in the decade I’ve been following the genre. Its soundtrack is everywhere, resale tickets were selling for as much as 12 times their normal cost at their peak, the show won 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical — and it even became the first musical ever to perform live from its stage at the Grammy Awards.

It was impossible to tune out the noise surrounding the show, and nearly impossible to tune out the actual music itself. I entered the theater having only heard a few songs from the musical, having waited nine months since the purchase of my tickets knowing very little of what I was about to see (besides having constantly heard that it’s one of the best musicals of our time).

The best thing I can say about the experience is that it lives up to the hype. As I’ve said before, Hamilton rests on a premise that shouldn’t remotely work. A hiphop musical about founding father Alexander Hamilton? It sounds ridiculous on paper. However, Lin Manuel Miranda injects life into these characters by giving them songs with energy, drive and emotion. The show moves at a breakneck pace, telling the story of the rise (and fall) of one of the nation’s founding fathers.

Even though I knew the story of the show (shocking spoiler: Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton), that didn’t mean the show lacked stunning surprises.

There’s nothing like hearing most of this score for the first time with the accompanying visuals, meticulously created and staged by director Thomas

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Kail and choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler. Not only is “Satisfied” one of the strongest songs in the show, but the rewind effect between Angelica’s toast at Alexander and her sister Eliza’s wedding and when it plays from Angelica’s perspective is one of the strongest visuals in the show.

The musical also employs a double turntable as a major part of its set, using it to great effect as it spins the action around the center of the stage. As the show moves along and duels occur, being able to keep the action constantly moving added to the frantic energy of the show.

Yet, a Broadway musical is nothing without its cast, and for the most part the cast of mostly understudies, alternates and replacements was strong. Miguel Cervantes, who will be playing the role of Alexander Hamilton in the Chicago cast, was on for the lead role, taking a few practice runs on the Broadway stage before Chicago rehearsals start in earnest. He definitely has the singing voice and rapping skills to take on the role, as he held the show together with the skills of a much more seasoned actor in the lead role.

Seth Stewart was on for Marquis Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson, and while it was weird to see the role be played by someone who’s bald, he had the wit and energy the role requires. Lexi Lawson, the permanent replacement for Eliza seems to need more time to grow into the role, but the seeds of how good she’ll eventually be were there, especially with the emotion she brought to the song “Burn.”

The only cast member who I found to be somewhat lacking was Austin Smith, one of two actors sharing the role of Aaron Burr

until Brandon Victor Dixon moves in later this month. In the first act, he seemed to lack passion and fire.

He showed the emotions in “Wait for It,” but it was clear he wasn’t actually feeling it. However in “The Room Where it Happens,” something must’ve woken up in him, because he made me feel Burr’s jealousy toward Hamilton in a way that he hadn’t earlier in the evening.

However, there were still a couple members of the original cast left. Christopher Jackson showed me why he was nominated for a Tony Award as George Washington. He plays with the role as only someone who has spent a year-and-a-half finding the nuances in a character can. In his shining moment, “One Last Time,” Washington points across the audience saying “History has its eyes on you.” Because of Jackson’s delivery and all of the noise this year’s election had brought, that moment lands with one of the strongest gut-punches of the evening.

Still, eventually the performances I saw will fade away.

I’ll forget Cervante’s heartbreak as Alexander’s son gets killed in a duel, Smith’s anger in “The Room Where it Happens,” Stewart’s sardonic looks at the audience as Jefferson, Lawson’s inflection as she sang “Burn,” and Alysha Deslorieux’s powerful belt in “Satisfied.” They’ll disappear behind an original cast recording I’m likely going to listen to hundreds of times in the future.

But, I’ll never forget how those performances made me feel. I’ll never forget the laughs and the tears and the fun and the beauty that occurred in the room where it happens.

It’s been four years since “The Bourne Legacy” and nine years since Matt Damon (“The Martian”) stepped into the role of the C+ titular amnesiac CIA assas- Jason sin.

Director Paul Greengrass Bourne (“Captain Phil- Universal lips”) returns to Pictures helm the series, reuniting with Rave & Quality 16 his longtime editor Christopher Rouse (who won an Oscar for “The Bourne Ultimatum”) to pen the screenplay. With all these pieces in place, it would seem that the Bourne series would be primed to return to the genre-defining, award-winning form it once held. However, “Jason Bourne” takes a few too many steps back and creates an entry that feels more like a retread than a return to relevance.

Greengrass still proves himself a competent hand in guiding the series’ action, being one of the few directors who knows how to effectively use a handheld camera, capturing the whirlwind pace of Bourne’s combat prowess, avoiding the downfalls of “shaky cam” and maintaining a consistency and comprehensibility that’s often lost in lesser hands. However, despite all of Greengrass’s technical strengths, I found myself struggling to buy into the suspense and stakes the film presented on screen.

Unfortunately, this arises from the generally derivative nature of the script, which often cuts from the Bourne cloth but does little to reinvigorate the formula. For some, this return to the status quo will be more than enough, but for a series that once found itself at the forefront of the form, it’s hard not feel disappointed by how formulaic and halfbaked “Jason Bourne” feels. Perhaps the series should have also found a way to bring writer Doug Liman (who also directed “The Bourne Legacy”) back as well.

Picking up years after Jason Bourne exposed Operation Blackbriar, the film finds Bourne just getting by, taking part in the occasional bare-knuckle brawl to make a little cash. But when Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles, “Silver Linings Playbook”) reenters his life with information regarding Bourne’s father and his

subsequent recruitment into Treadstone, Bourne is thrust back into a world of conspiracies and a life on the run, pursued by CIA director Robert Dewey (Tommy Lee Jones, “No Country For Old Men”) and his protégé, Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander, “The Danish Girl”).

While the cast is full of top-notch talent, its talents are mostly wasted on characters that either feel like repeats of previous Bourne archetypes or underdeveloped plot points.

Jones is the typical, old CIA villain previously played by the likes of Chris Cooper and Brian Cox. Meanwhile, we have the typical CIA assassin played by Vincent Cassel (“Black Swan”) that hunts Bourne with deadly efficiency. The presence of these figures isn’t detrimental; it’s their lack of differentiation that makes them struggle to become fully formed characters. They’re merely types and are never given the chance to define themselves in compelling ways. Cassell’s assassin has the inklings of a unique animosity towards Bourne, but it’s eventually jettisoned for something far less intriguing. The only new character that “Jason Bourne” is able to provide some adequate layers to is Vikander’s Lee, whose loyalties are shifting between idealism and ambition.

Meanwhile, the film admirably tries and mostly fails to place itself in today’s world. With references to Edward Snowden, a Julian Assangeesque figure and questions about privacy in a digital age, “Jason Bourne” attempts to be topical, but these ideas are never elevated beyond the passing mention or quick scene that provide little to no commentary on the issues the film wishes it could address.

These underdeveloped ideas extend to questions about Bourne’s psychology. There are some decent questions about Bourne’s purpose and whether he can be brought back into the CIA fold. But like most characters and themes in “Jason Bourne,” the exploration of these questions yields few compelling answers.

While “Jason Bourne” brings back some of the series’ biggest heavyhitters it fails to utilize them in ways that breathe new life into the series, instead falling back on well worn tropes that are starting to lose traction. “Jason Bourne” may feel like a potential new beginning for the series, but it’s unable to distinguish itself from what came before.

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Latest Disgust-‘Nado’ ‘iiiDrops’ fresh Syfy’s latest provides an unintentional dose of despair and sadness

By MEGAN MITCHELL Daily Arts Writer

After reaching only the first hour in my two hour and four minute (yes, I counted the minutes) viewing of the low bud- F get-turnedsmash hit Sharknado “Sharknado” series’ fourth 4: The 4th installment, Awakens I contacted my editor in TV Movie a desperate Syfy plea to end the torture. Dear god, please let it end.

In 2013, the world was introduced to a bizarre, yet strangely enthralling concept: a “sharknado.” And surprisingly, the first film gained a major following, mostly stemming from the kind of guilty pleasure viewing that goes hand-in-hand with a Syfy production. It’s easy to spend a lazy Sunday at home with the often ridiculous and out-of proportion movies the channel is infamous for. This time, however, it’s become just too ridiculous to be anything short of painful.

“Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens” begins with an intro à la “Star Wars,” but in a manner that would draw cringe from even the most mercurial fan of the franchise. With the scrolling yellow letters littering the screen, we brace ourselves for the pain. The fourth movie begins five years after the events of the third movie, “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!” that premiered in July of 2015. Following the film, fans were called upon to decide the fate of April (Tara Reid, “American Reunion”) via Twitter hashtags for #AprilLives or #AprilDies, respectively.

First, there’s Shark World, an entire Las Vegas hotel dedicated to sharks that’s about to get hit by the first, of many, sharknados during two long hours. At this point, Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering, “Dancing With the Stars”), sensing the oncoming storm, sets out to save his newlywed son (Cody

By HARRY KRINSKY Linley, “Hoovey”) from skydiving into a sandstorm of sharks, which ensues a mid-air car landing and a wild ride on the Treasure Island pirate ship. I wish I was kidding.

Usually, these movies are ridiculously over-the-top, but there are too many aspects that stand out against the poorly-generated CGI for it to be easily dismissed (for example, April’s terminatorstyle body, which enables her to run a distance of approximately 30 miles by plugging herself into a wall outlet like an iPhone). Or, the fact that a sharknado began in Las Vegas and miraculously migrated to Niagara Falls in the span of a day. Or maybe the chainsaw store that conveniently lined up eight fire extinguishers against a fence when needed.

Maybe even the unacknowledged death of a newlywed wife via flying sharks? I could go on all day.

The point is, “Sharknado 4” fails to succeed in creating an equal balance between a popcorn movie event and a bad production, which its predecessors miraculously managed to pull off with relative ease and success. It all boils down to one logical conclusion: “Sharknado 4” tried to impossibly pack a multitude of things in a two hour span, ultimately losing its audience as one thing progresses into another at a ridiculous pace. With little character development to go off of in the fourth installment, Syfy instead chooses to jam in sharknados and action sequences everywhere.

As a result, the pain and “deargod-please-make-it-stop” mantra crescendoes to unbearable levels, even for something so crazy as a “Sharknado” franchise film.

After the first hour passed and the dust-sharknado progressed into a boulder-sharknado, cowsharknado and an oil-sharknado, which morphed into a fire-sharknado and later progressed into a lightning-sharknado-turnednuclear-sharknado, I lost all hope that the film could be brushed off as another run of the mill Syfy production.

In creating so many “-nados” to fill in for character introductions and growth, the film lost an essential concept the first film touched on: family. In the previous three films, Fin Shepard was on a mission to save his loved

ones from the sharknado event.

There was motivation and plot to keep the movie running forward.

However, this installment feels sloppy and lazy, opting instead for more action sequences and aimless wandering rather than a set direction. Whether this was intentional is unclear, but the change in gears certainly didn’t work for the fourth installment.

Running from Las Vegas to Texas to Kansas to Chicago and ending up in Niagara Falls via a falling house created an unsavory experience for viewers. They already made us believe in a sharknado, but a sharknado that can trek cross-country? Seems a little unrealistic.

After their Kansas house was uprooted and they rode the winds to Chicago, the end was finally coming into sight. Amid dry references to popular pop culture and a surprising lack of good old-fashioned celebrity deaths (because that’s why we’re really here, right?), the film seemed to reach a conclusion, sparked from the deaths of multiple major characters, who, for your information, were eaten by increasingly larger sharks in a grotesque Russian nesting doll fashion.

They were then swallowed by the endangered blue whale, who just happened to be hanging around Niagara Falls at the time, because otherwise its presence would make absolutely no ecological sense. In the meantime, April uses her cyborg abilities to fly into the falls after her five-year old son, who thinks his real mom is a shark, and save him from the rapids. After only just returning to solid ground, the child picks up a well-placed tiny chainsaw and proceeds to cut open the nesting doll of sharks and whales to unearth the remainder of his family members. Seriously, does nobody watch this kid? Anyway, the movie ends quite suddenly with Nova’s (Cassie Scerbo, “Make it or Break it”) return on a flying Eiffel Tower, which leaves the franchise open for another installment next July. Although, in the meantime, I’ll be praying that we won’t have to witness a “Sharknado 5,” because I’m honestly out of ideas. What could possibly follow a nuclear-sharknado?

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“You take a little Biggie and a little Big L, add an adolescent on the corner with packs to sell. You take a little Em and Andre 3k, and guess B+ what you got, the 2016 2Pac, back and iiiDrops improved.”

The verse — or Joey Purb rather, the really Savemoney scorching hot take — comes from the 10th track of Joey Purp’s most recent mixtape, iiiDrops (pronounced “Eye Drops”). Purp is a little overzealous in his comparisons, largely because he overrates his bars by putting himself in such company — but at the same time, it’s also what rappers do. The line is offbase mainly because of who Purp compares himself to rather than making the comparison at all. Purp isn’t necessarily a mix of Big L, Biggie, Eminem or Andre3000. Rather, he embodies the likes of Jay Z, Kendrick Lamar, a dash of Kanye West — and sure, a bit of Big L too.

The mixtape’s first song, “Morning Sex,” sounds like a mix of Ye’s “Devil in a New Dress” and Jay Z’s “Encore” if that isn’t proof enough for you.

Purp is a member of the Savemoney Crew, a large, loosely linked Chicago based collective of rappers and hip-hop artists that features the likes of Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa. Prior to iiiDrops, Purp had been rather quiet, having last released a project in 2012. In the time between his mixtapes, Purp saw his fellow Savemoney brethren abruptly ascend to varying levels of fame (some arguably reaching the top of the rap game, depending on how much you enjoyed Coloring Book). iiiDrops reflects this brooding period in Purp’s life. It’s efficient, consistent and anything but repetitive, an especially impressive feat for an 11 track mixtape.

In his time spent away from the limelight, Purp manages to craft something distinctly new school with iiiDrops. And I don’t mean that in the sense of being a trippy, synthy, sampling-Mario-noiseswhile-autotune-flexing mess.

Rather, it’s new school in the sense that embodies the classic sounds of ’90s rap, but ’90s rap that was obviously made with the help of a MacBook Pro. Purp exists within

the ’90’s boom bap tradition without restraining himself to it, testing musical boundaries with nuanced beats and unique flows between tracks and choruses. It’s a subtle play on convention, which is (ironically) brave in the current day rap climate.

All this comes to a head on “Photobooth,” the halfway point in the album — and, by far, the project’s most complex track. The beat shifts three different times and cuts out in a variety of places. By my 10th listen I can’t decide if the scratchyscreechy sound makes me want to plug my ears and hide or vigorously headbang to the song. The bars match this purposeful confusion — it’s pissed off, celebratory, socially aware, serious and funny.

Then there is “Girls @,” which features a Chance verse that reminds everyone that Chance is, first and foremost, the face of Savemoney. “Girls @” is fun. It’s the kind of song that might play at a bar, but the kind with strange, pretentious paintings on the wall and an atrium with ferns (but still a bar I’d love to go to). At first, the single feels out of place. It’s happy, basic, and a song simply about Purp and Chance repeatedly asking “where the girls at.” It lacks some of the frustration and anger that the rest of the tape teems with. There’s a perfectly reasonable argument that the single doesn’t belong on the tape, but it’s also possible the lighthearted digression is exactly what the project needs. iiiDrops ventures to paint a picture of a community and of the kind of life within that community, and “Girls @” is a light-hearted facet of that illustration.

Ultimately, iiiDrops introspects and reflects. Something happened between 2012 and 2016 for Purp.

Maybe it was seeing his Savemoney friends like Vic and Chance succeed in bringing their more socially aware music to the masses. Maybe it was realizing a need for profundity in his music. Whatever it may be, Purp’s transformation conveys a type of rapper who’s confident in his convictions and unafraid to tackle the kind of heavy commentary needed in today’s hip-hop scene. iiiDrops might get lost in the shuffle of 2016’s rap mega-drops, but the tape finds itself in more earnest company than other similar projects that have been released this year.

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were announced, Kailasapathy attributed her victory to her constituents’ satisfaction with her frequently dissenting opinions, particularly in her push for greater transparency regarding a proposed Amtrak project in Ann Arbor. “This whole issue about the transparency, which erupted a couple of months ago, really made people worried,” she said. “Why should local government be secretive on an issue that should be publicly discussed and publicly debated? I really cared about checks and balances; I really cared about transparency. I strongly believe in these values too. … Just that one issue of transparency tipped the scale for us.”

The three-way Ward 5 race between Krapohl, Lipson and Giannola was the closest of Tuesday night, with Krapohl pulling ahead of Lipson by fewer than 100 votes.

Krapohl expressed relief after the final ballot count was clear and told the Daily his victory affirms

COUNCIL From Page 1 administration of Michigan and laid out an agenda focused on funding for public education, environmental protection, LGBT equality and government transparency. However, he also acknowledged the challenges in implementing his agenda posed by the Republican-dominated state government and firmly stated that he would fight for a Democratic majority.

“We have so much work to do in a state that has gone so far in the wrong direction over the last six years,” Rabhi declared. “A state that has eroded its public education system, and taken down the quality of our Great Lakes, and our air and our environment. A state that has discriminated against those that are gay or transgender or lesbian in our own communities. We live in a state where some are succeeding but not everyone. A state where transparency is not a priority and where democracy is not something that is accesible to everyone. We here in this room will change that.”

“This state is not about those values. This state is about clean air and clean water. This state is about treating everyone fairly. This state is about making an economy that works for everyone and that our public education system is funded so that we can invest in the future of our state, of our nation, of our world. ... Today isn’t about me, today is

the popularity of his pragmatic and non-partisan leadership style among voters.

“There was a large turnout, more than what is normal, so people have said the direction of what they think is important and that did not necessarily fall in line with what my challengers were saying,” he said.

Krapohl’s opponents both conceded the voters of Ann Arbor had made their choice.

“I think that this was a very substantive, honest and fair campaign,” Lipson told the Daily following the release of the election results. “He won fair and square and that’s what it’s all about. The people have made their decision. He is a competent and honest guy. We had policy disagreements and the people made their choice.”

However, Giannola also re-affirmed her policy differences with Krapohl.

“I don’t feel like Graydon did a great job last year,” she said. “But if they vote him back in you get the official that you vote for.”

about Ann Arbor, today is about our state and today is the beginning of our effort to take back the Michigan House of Representatives to turn it blue!”

However, Rabhi also acknowledged that the current Republican majority in the state legislature poses a challenge to his policy goals. Therefore, Rabhi said he would need to take a bipartisan approach while also reforming state-level governance to push for a Democratic majority.

“In order to do those things we first need to change the way our state is structured,” he said, listing off campaign finance reform to limit the power of political action committees, improved transparency that would subject the Governor of Michigan to Freedom of Information Act requests and fighting Republicanbiased gerrymandering as additional priorities.

Rabhi also complimented his opponent’s campaign, emphasizing the need for political debate in civil society and sympathizing with Kwasny’s focus on campaign finance reform.

“I think that he ran a great campaign,” Rabhi said. “I think it’s important in a democracy to have multiple perspectives addressed, so I appreciate the fact he ran.”

Rabhi raised $51,820 through the campaign cycle and spent $18,296.

Kwasny self-funded his campaign with $430 and spent $339.

Kwasny was unavailable to comment for this article.

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“I think the benefit of academic accounting, in at least my part of it, is we are very unbiased,” Shakespeare said. “We provide neutral perspectives of how the world works and what the information is. I think in that regard, being neutral observers helps inform standard setters. … If we can improve on efficient capital allocation, then I think the economy is better off.”

Both the Center and Shakespeare have a central mission to help people understand the relevance of accounting within a business.

“We want to create people who will be thought leaders in accounting, whether it be Ph.D.s, whether it be practicing accountants,” Shakespeare said. “Having a really deep understanding of what I would call the institution of accounting — the world of accounting — is really important in trying to identify how do you attract the very best into accounting.”

Entrepreneurship – Bridging Gaps Peter Adriaens, University professor of entrepreneurship, was hired by the University in 1992, but he did not begin his career at the Ross School of Business. Instead, he was a professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering, working to develop engineering technologies related to sustainability efforts.

Yet, Adriaens said he realized that for his “applied research” to be considered in the marketplace, he had to first consider business models. Adriaens soon made the switch from engineering to business, hoping to teach entrepreneurship to engineering students, where business models are designed based on the types of investments they could receive.

Following his work with entrepreneurship, Adriaens made one final transition to teaching finance to design financial technologies and create finance models — an area in which he continues to work today.

Adriaens uses his roots in environmental engineering in conjunction with his knowledge of finance to work on a number of projects, including the Global CleanTech Cluster Association.

Adriaens, co-founder of the Switzerland-based association, said his primary focus with the

company is to provide global clean technology.

With more than 10,000 companies in 27 countries worldwide incorporating the use of 54 economic development clusters — geographic concentrations of firms that address the common needs of the businesses within the cluster — Adriaens said he helps develop regional economic activities that help countries and regions transition from traditional fossil fuel economies to green economies. Some green economies include water sustainability, LED lighting and coastal energy, which refers to developing companies on coastal locations to create energy.

“Including the U.S. and in Europe and Canada and all the developed economies, we have over the last 100 years essentially, in an unlimited way, accessed all natural resources, all natural capital,” Adriaens said. “The natural capital — this is water, this is soil, this is anything that you use that nature provides you, trees, water, soil quality, biodiversity.

We’ve used it to actually create wealth from that. But we have not really sustained that or reinvested in that.”

Because of this, Adriaens listed a number of reasons why Global CleanTech is crucial to all countries involved, including environmental policy decisions as well as from a moral and financial standpoint. Adriaens mentioned a recent emphasis on circular economy, which produces no waste and pollution since the products reenter the system.

“Right now we’re really starting to think about circular economies, so these are economies that not only take out but also put back in,” Adriaens said. “And the question is how one does that from a financial perspective, how one does that from a material perspective, how one does that from an emissions management perspective.”

Adriaens is also the CEO of the KeyStone Compact Group, which is an asset management firm that designs and structures investment funds or pension funds to make investing in sustainability easier globally. Adriaens said he hopes to continue this type of work by developing financial technology to analyze the financial risk of an investment opportunity, using the design and execution of new investment instruments to bring a variety of funds into the sustainability space.

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Kellie Halushka, vice president of membership of the InterCooperative Council in Ann Arbor, is fondly remembered for her involvement at the University of Michigan, both academically and socially, and for her candid spirit. Halushka was a rising LSA senior studying English who had been accepted to the sub-concentration in creative writing.

Halushka, who passed away suddenly after an accident July 10, 2016 at 20 years old, was

PREMATURE From Page 2 solution,” Assari said. “If you undo the effects of education on number of chronic conditions or the progress of (CMC), education would still have some effect on mortality. The way education and the way race influence mortality may have similarities and differences.”

Julia Carter, an epidemiology student at the University of Pittsburg, has been working with Assari for her summer internship through the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research in the Immersion in Health Disparities Research Program.

Carter said she and Assari see

originally from Troy, Michigan.

Halushka served as the vice president of membership of the ICC as a firm believer in intentional communities and creating safe spaces for people to openly express themselves.

School of Information senior Carolyn Gearig, a longtime friend and former Daily staff editor, said she would always remember how Halushka would keep a positive attitude even when she struggled in her personal life.

“Even when things were really bad she just was also funny and really witty,” Gearig said.

“A lot of people say she was really the only person who they

felt like understood them,” she said. Halushka will also be remembered for her uniqueness and dedication to being entirely herself.

Recent LSA alum Alex Heimbaugh, a close friend of Halushka’s, said one way she would remember her friend is by the way she treated all people with a sense of dignity and kindness.

“I guess I feel really lucky because sometimes this happens to people and there’s loose ends or people don’t know how they felt about them, but we all knew Kellie loved us a lot,” Heimbaugh said. “She was good at that.”

racial disparities like these in every aspect of health. However, aside from the factors that could play a role in the risk of mortality mentioned in Assari’s study, Carter said she thinks culture is another element that needs to be considered.

“Culture plays a big part in health disparities, especially along race lines,” Carter said.

“For minority populations, culture isn’t often times taken into account. For example, obesity — if you go and see a primary care physician and they don’t take into account the contextual factors as to why you might be obese or why a minority individual might be obese, the interventions proposed are not going to be effective.”

Carter agreed with Assari’s findings that race and socioeconomic status work both together and separately.

“Race and (socioeconomic status) are so interlinked,” Carter said. “It’s so hard to separate those two because they go so hand in hand. At what point do you know if this is a race thing or a (socioeconomic status) thing, given that race and (socioeconomic status) are linked?”

Additionally, Carter said showing different stratified levels of socioeconomic status — rather than limiting research to simply poor versus wealthy — is crucial in showing a negative progression in health and chronic conditions.

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Nike rally celebrates new Michigan apparel

By ETHAN WOLFE Summer Managing Sports Editor

SINDUJA KILARU/Daily

Real Madrid wing back Marcelo won “Man of the Match” for his two-goal, one-assist performance.

Real drops Chelsea at Big House

By ORION SANG Summer Managing Sports Editor

There were questions about whether this year’s International Champions Cup match between Chelsea and Real Madrid at Michigan Stadium would live up to the expectations placed upon it after the 2014 contest between Manchester United and Real — a game that set the U.S. soccer attendance record with a reported crowd of 109,318 people and featured appearances from Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Wayne Rooney.

Saturday’s game, in contrast, had less star power on both sides. For Real, Ronaldo, Sergio Ramos, Karim Benzema, James Rodriguez and Luka Modric all sat out, leaving Marcelo as the most recognizable player in the lineup.

Meanwhile, Cesc Febregas and Diego Costa were out for Chelsea, while Thibault Courtois and Eden Hazard came in as substitutes long after the game had already been decided.

There was also the threat of bad weather looming over Saturday’s contest — Ann Arbor was deluged with rain for most of the morning, with thunderstorms forecasted for the afternoon.

But when 3 p.m. rolled around, the rain had stopped and Michigan Stadium was filled to the brink

with fans eagerly supporting their teams, regardless of whether the superstars were on the pitch or not.

The 2016 ICC contest drew 105,826 people, good for second on the alltime U.S. attendance record list.

And in the end, even while missing most of its regular lineup, Real Madrid emerged with a 3-2 victory over Chelsea, thanks to the efforts of Marcelo.

The left back opened up the scoring in the 19th minute with a strike from just outside the box, curling the ball past Chelsea goalkeeper Asmir Begovic.

Marcelo struck again just seven minutes later, when he made a run down the left side of the pitch, squeezed past two Chelsea defenders and put the ball into the short side of the goal, a display of skill that drew roars of applause from the crowd.

The left back was the catalyst once again for his team’s third goal. Playing give-and-go with his teammate, Marcelo made another run before leaving the ball for his teammate Mariano Diaz — who promptly unleashed a strike from ten yards outside the box into the net.

“Maybe physically, (Marcelo) wasn’t as good as the rest, but in the field he’s been the best,” said Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane after the game. “It’s been a joy to watch him play. Since

Montreal, it’s been spectacular to see him. He’s an important player, and as you can see he’s the captain.

It’s the captain’s job to give an example. Overall, I’m happy with his match, and ultimately, I think that’s the idea: to get our rhythm back.”

After its listless first half performance, Chelsea outscored Real 2-0 in the second half. Star forward Hazard entered the game in the 67th minute and made his presence known, scoring two goals in the 80th and 90th minutes, respectively.

But for the Blues, it was too little, too late, and Real captured a victory in its second game at Michigan Stadium after a 3-1 loss to Manchester United in 2014.

A day after saying he wanted to see a better performance from his team, it appeared Zidane got his wish.

“Ultimately, what we were looking for was to start strong,” Zidane said after the game.

“Overall, I’m satisfied with how the team played. We’re in the preseason, but we’re looking to see something more from the team, and I’m happy with what I saw.

“The team is doing well.

We’ve seen the team get better.

Obviously, we’re ten days from the Super Cup, but I think what we’ve seen is sufficient to know that we’ll be ready.

If you asked “Fab Five” member Jimmy King about Sunday night’s Nike Welcome Rally in Ann Arbor, he would say the city was partying like it was 1989 — the last time the Michigan basketball team won a national championship.

As Michigan’s contract with Adidas expired and the Nike and Jordan Brand era began, hundreds of people filled the street in front of The M Den on State Street to celebrate the new-look Wolverines — with some eager fans showing up as early as 8:20 a.m.

Both current and former Wolverines alike attended and spoke at the Welcome Rally, including King, former Wolverine linebacker Lamarr Woodley and former Heisman winner Desmond Howard, all of whom were dubbed as “special guests.” Other speakers included members of the Michigan football such as head coach Jim Harbaugh, De’Veon Smith and Rashan Gary, and players from the basketball team like Derrick Walton Jr. “I’m pretty sure Jordan’s gonna treat us right,” Walton said. “I like Jordan as a brand and it’s good for our school and will generate some more excitement.

It shows the power of the Block M. “There’s a lot of excitement around here and I’m just happy to be a part of it.”

Much of the hype surrounding the Michigan football approaching the 2016 season was made very apparent, especially when Harbaugh took the stage, as definitive talk about winning a national championship came to light.

“I have lived 52 years, a lot

of those years in Ann Arbor, and I have never seen anything like this,” Harbaugh said to the crowd. “This is what Ann Arbor will look like after we win a championship.”

Similar sentiments were shared by King, who also added: “We look good. We feel good. We play good.”

Michigan Athletic Director Warde Manuel was also in attendance at the Welcome Rally.

The event had been a long time coming for Manuel, who signed the deal with Nike — then the largest school apparel deal in the country — just three days into his tenure at Michigan.

“It’s really special to see all the fans here excited to take the next step in what we’re doing. I didn’t know what to expect (from the rally), but for Michigan, this is the way we do things.”

Aside from the high-caliber speakers, other aspects of the festivities included performances from the Michigan Marching Band and cheer team, a video introducing the transition to the crowd and free food for those patiently waiting for the store to open.

For the apparel itself, the power of the Nike “swoosh” made its presence known. The clothing line included a number of similar styles seen in the Adidas clothing, but with the different logo.

The notable variations were seen in the shoes, which brandished the famous “Jumpman” logo, and a long-sleeve shirt designed by Harbaugh featuring the “Jumpman” logo and Block M. And when the clock struck midnight and the doors of The M Den opened, it was finally official: Nike was back in Ann Arbor.

“This is what Ann Arbor will look like after we win a championship.”

“It’s special to see the fans here excited to take the next step.”

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A fitting marriage

By ORION SANG Summer Managing Sports Editor

ZOEY HOLMSTROM/Daily

Jim Harbaugh was in attendance at Nike and Jordan Brand’s reveal of Michigan’s new football jerseys.

Harbaugh, ‘M’ unveil jerseys

By ORION SANG Summer Managing Sports Editor

DETROIT — At midnight Sunday, Michigan’s new apparel contract with Nike began, culminating in a release event that took place in Ann Arbor.

Tuesday, the festivities continued — albeit on a smaller scale — when Nike and Jordan Brand revealed the new Michigan football jerseys with a private presentation at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.

It was just another step in the beginning of a new era of Michigan apparel.

The event began with Michigan alum Dana Jacobson, a sports anchorwoman at CBS, addressing the crowd before handing the mic off to several other speakers.

“These two brands coming together has created something powerful,” said Larry Miller, the president of Jordan Brand. “What started as a phone call between Michael Jordan and Coach Harbaugh has come to fruition today.”

Michigan Athletic Director Warde Manuel also attended the event and praised Nike as the “best apparel company (and) a leader in the nation.”

“The Jordan Brand continues the legacy of Michael Jordan,” Manuel said. “But Michael builds his legacy off the same qualities that we have here at the University of Michigan.

The legacy transcends sports, and we are excited to be the first football team in the country to wear the Jumpman on the field.”

Following Manuel’s comments, Jacobson led the group into a room containing several display cases of new Michigan Nike outfits — and also former Michigan Heisman Trophy winner Charles Woodson, one of the special guests on hand for the jersey unveiling.

“When you think about Michael Jordan (and) Jumpman, you think about excellence,” Woodson said.

“You think about the University of Michigan as a university and as a sports team, and you think about excellence. It goes back to a long time ago, way before me and you.

“I feel like right now we have our swagger back. It’s all about looking good and feeling good. That’s what that Jumpman on our jersey means to us.”

Later, head coach Jim Harbaugh — who attended the event dressed in apparel that he had helped design himself — explained the backstory of how Michigan and Nike’s partnership came to be as Michigan’s new jerseys were revealed to those in attendance.

Harbaugh detailed how his son Jay, the tight ends and assistant special teams coach, approached him and suggested that Michigan “should be Jordan.”

Then, Harbaugh got a call from Michael Jordan himself — someone who Harbaugh described as “one of the most evolved human beings in the world.”

During their conversation, Jordan said that he wanted Michigan to be the first and only football program in the world to carry the Jumpman logo — and

Harbaugh was all-in.

“I said, ‘You had me at hello,’ ” Harbaugh said of the conversation between him and Jordan. “We’ve been working for this for a very long time. The other thing that (Jordan) said that I thought was profound was that, ‘You know what Nike means to Oregon (and) you know what Oregon means to Nike.

Michigan can mean that to Jordan.’

And that I thought was powerful, that I thought was very profound. “(The conversation) was about the team. (Jordan) respects the University of Michigan. He respects his own school, North Carolina.

He’s very fond and talks about that as well. But I could feel that he respected Michigan. He respected the fact that we are pouring our heart and souls into making Michigan football great. That was a compliment on the highest level.”

The jerseys themselves don’t look much different from those worn last year in Harbaugh’s first season as coach. The main difference is the presence of the Jumpman logo above the number and a matte finish on the helmets.

But much of the design is the same, and that’s apparently the way Harbaugh wanted things — though he left open the possibility of future changes.

“We’re not going to change the uniform design at this time, but I stand open to (Nike and Jordan Brand’s) ideas,” Harbaugh said.

“Some people just think of things better than other people do. They obviously do a tremendous job at the highest level.”

The fans started showing up at 8:20 — in the morning.

They trickled in as the day went on, setting up lawn chairs and gobbling burritos from the Chipotle next door.

And as the sun set in Ann Arbor, the line only grew bigger as fans eagerly awaited The M Den’s release of brand new Michigan Nike products. At midnight, the school officially began its new contract with the apparel giant and severed ties with Adidas.

When the intersection at Liberty was blocked off, State street was flooded by hundreds of people — some there to buy the newest gear, the rest there simply to take it all in.

But at what point could things have been considered to be over the top?

It could’ve been when a stage more apt to be seen at a music concert was set up across the store.

It could’ve been when members of the marching band, dance, basketball and football teams all arrived to entertain the crowd.

And it most certainly could’ve been when Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh arrived and transformed the once docile crowd into a writhing mass of outstretched hands, pleading for the head man to pay attention to them with cries of, “Jim! Jim!” Though Harbaugh would later climb upon the stage and tell the crowd that the rally was unlike anything he’d ever seen in his life, he seemed at home Sunday night.

If anything, he delighted in the attention, at one point walking straight through the crowd and slapping five with as many hands as he physically could.

And that’s the thing: For Michigan, the switch to Nike and Jordan Brand and all its surrounding hoopla is only representative of the change that Harbaugh has brought to the football team in the short time he has been here.

For a team that was once missing — for lack of a better term — swag, Harbaugh and his Wolverines have certainly gotten their swagger back now.

It was just two years ago when Michigan’s former head coach Brady Hoke publicly apologized after a humiliating 35-11 beatdown at the hands of rival Michigan State for “poor sportsmanship” — former linebacker Joe Bolden had run

out onto Spartan Stadium before the game and driven a tent stake through the middle of the field in a brazen act meant to inspire his team.

Now, could you imagine Harbaugh apologizing for anything at all?

In just a year and a half, he has drawn criticism from what feels like most of the college football world — for both his antics on the field and off of it.

He has led a march through the South in both offseasons, holding satellite camps in the backyards of his SEC counterparts and, when challenged by those same SEC coaches (and even the NCAA), he has taken shots at his criticizers on Twitter — something Nick Saban and ‘The Georgia Coach’ can tell you about.

His football team has only followed suit. Last season, Michigan bounced back from a total of five victories in Hoke’s final year to win 10 games, and the Wolverines ended the season with a 41-7 romp over a highly-rated SEC team. This year, with most contributors returning, they appeared poised to compete for a spot in the College Football Playoff.

And what better way for Michigan to show off its new demeanor than with Nike, the flashiest and most popular apparel brand?

If Adidas and its sometimes tacky, alternative jersey designs represented the Michigan of old, Nike and Jordan Brand represent Harbaugh’s Michigan.

In your face, with a bright variation of maize, dubbed ‘amarillo.’ Proud and unafraid to show it, with a large block M and the famous Jumpman logo printed everywhere and on everything.

Everyone knows the swoosh when they see it — just like how they’ll know Harbaugh and Michigan, whether through watching the coach mean mug his way through a music video or by watching the Wolverines fight their way through the Big Ten. Has it been mentioned yet that Michigan will be the first team to ever wear the Jordan Brand logo onto the gridiron? And that Michael Jordan himself will be there at Michigan Stadium as an honorary captain in the matchup against Hawaii on Sept. 3?

And if that seems over the top at all, at this point — after this night — it shouldn’t.