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University collaborates with NASA on satellite CAROLYN GEARIG/Daily

Campus team works to create new way to measure hurricane systems

Two hundred students gathered in the Modern Languages Building Tuesday night for a debate over a Central Student Government resolution that called on the University of Michigan to divest its investments in several companies that allegedly commit human rights violations against Palestinians. The resolution failed.

Central Student Government resolution to divest fails 34-13

Over 200 gather to debate removal of financial support from companies NISA KHAN

Daily Staff Reporter

At their weekly meeting Tuesday, Central Student Government voted 34 to 13 to reject a resolution that would have called on the University of Michigan to

divest its investments in several companies that allegedly commit human rights violations against Palestinians.

The resolution, which was brought to the assembly by student organization Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, initially considered a range of companies, but was limited

during the meeting to only Boeing, G4S, Hewlett-Packard and United 130 Technologies.

This is the 10th attempt since 2002 to pass the resolution at the University, including in the past two years, following in the path of similar resolutions at many other schools around the country. The vote this year was

less close than it has been in previous years.

The resolution charged that University investments in these companies are unethical because they oppress Palestinians due to their business practices in Israel or products they produce. It See CSG, Page 3A

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A project created by Christopher Ruf, professor of atmospheric science and electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, will culminate with the launch of a $151 million Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System Dec. 12.

The launch was announced Friday by the University.

CYGNSS, whose inaugural flight will be from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, has been a collaborative effort between Ruf’s team and NASA. Ruf said the project aims to measure previously unknown

details on hurricane systems, such as surface winds and precipitation fields, to provide more frequent and accurate measurements throughout the life cycle of tropical storms and hurricanes. According to a NASA press release, the project will be a “fundamental improvement in hurricane forecasting.”

EJ Olson, marketing and communications specialist for the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences in the College of Engineering, said CYGNSS is revolutionary because of its ability to penetrate the heavy rain of a hurricane’s eyewall.

“This will give scientists, for first time, the ability to see into See NASA, Page 3A

‘U’ chapter of BAMN rallies downtown At forum, Tri-campus to protest Trump, ethnic intimidation discussion officials

HEALTH

talk opiod addiction Community event aims to highlight local impacts of issue COLIN BERESFORD Daily Staff Reporter

An opioid addiction epidemic that has taken lives across the country has had significant impacts in Washtenaw County, prompting the community forum “An Opioid Crisis in Washtenaw County: What Can We Do?” Tuesday at the Ann Arbor District Library.

The event was hosted by the University of Michigan Depression Center, part of the Bright Nights community forum series.

Nursing Prof.

Stephen Strobbe began the forum by outlining the scope of the opioid epidemic locally and nationally, as well as suggesting causes of the crisis.

Strobbe said there were 48,000 opioid-related overdoses in 2015 alone, a number that has been rising exponentially. He attributed the primary cause of addiction to opioid prescribing practices in the United States.

“There were enough prescriptions written in the past year to supply every single adult in the United States with See OPIOID, Page 3A

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More than 100 students marched in defense of immigrant rights, recent crimes ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter

The chant “No Trump, no KKK, no racist, sexist U.S.A.,” echoed throughout the University of Michigan campus Tuesday night as more than 100 students, faculty and community members attended a rally and march described as stopping “Trump’s racist vision for America.”

The University chapter of BAMN — the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality

By Any Means Necessary — organized the event.

The march aimed to defend immigrant rights and advocate against the militarization of the United States-Mexico border, citing President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign pushes to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico and incarcerate or depart two to three million undocumented immigrants.

Additionally, the protest addressed recent ethnic intimidation attacks on campus since Trump was elected president.

In the first incident, a white male threatened to light a female Muslim student on fire if she did not remove her hijab Friday. Additionally, a male student woke up to find a swastika painted on his apartment door, and another female student was yelled at for being in America and

pushed down a hill by two men referencing religion.

Immediately following the election last week, the Rock was also painted with the phrases “fuck America” and “kill ‘em all” over logos of the Republican and Democratic parties.

Before the rally, Art & Design sophomore Keysha Wall, an organizer of the event and member of BAMN,

said the purpose is to show solidarity with minority students and make it known that ethnic intimidation crimes will not be tolerated.

“Specifically after the Muslim woman was attacked on campus, it was even a fight to have UM DPSS mark this as a hate crime … this has been necessary,” Wall said. “It is necessary as soon as possible to make a stand and remind

those bigots that they don’t get to get away with this. They don’t get to get away with threatening and intimidating anybody on this campus.”

At the start of the event, attendees gathered in the Diag and listened to event organizers as they brought forth their concerns regarding Trump’s policies.

Police later followed behind See BAMN, Page 3A

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BAMN organizer Kate Stenvig speaks to protestors before leading a march against President-elect Donald Trump across campus and downtown Ann Arbor Tuesday.

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Faculty work to improve governance structures across University RACHEL COHEN Daily Staff Reporter

Throughout this semester, there has been ongoing discussion at Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs meetings over the creation of a tri-campus task force between the different faculty governance structures at the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor, Flint and Dearborn campuses.

Details regarding the task force, including membership, may be determined at the next Senate Assembly meeting on Nov. 21.

SACUA member SilkeMaria Weineck, chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, said on Nov. 9 in an interview discussion for the creation of a tri-campus task force began this semester due to concerns from representatives of Flint and Dearborn regarding governance issues at their respective campuses.

In particular, she said there is confusion over how the faculty governance structures at each campus should interact with each other.

At the first meeting of the See TASKFORCE, Page 3A

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BRIEF: WOMAN REPORTS BEING CUT BY ASSAILANT DOWNTOWN A woman’s face was cut by an unknown assailant Tuesday afternoon as she was walking on Liberty Street, according to the Ann Arbor Police Department.

The woman, who is in her early 20’s, said she was walking down the street wearing headphones and was unaware if her attacker addressed her before cutting her face.

AAPD Sheriff Patrick Ouellette said the woman was walking from Angell Hall to Starbucks, and was attacked after leaving the cafe while headed eastbound on Liberty Street towards the Michigan Theatre. He could not confirm whether the woman is a University of Michigan student.

“She was walking up the sidewalk when the subject came up from behind her and scratched her left cheek with a safety pin he was holding in his hand,” Ouellette said.

The suspect then ran out

towards State Street. He was described as a white male in his 40s wearing a black baseball cap and a dark colored hoodie with dark sweatpants. He could not confirm a motive.

“There was no conversation between the victim and the suspect, so it was unknown why he came up to her,” Ouellette said.

“Why he did this, we don’t know.”

He added that the victim’s

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injuries were minimal, and the superficial wound over her cheek didn’t require stitches.

Ouellette said AAPD will pass the case on to their detective division to follow up on the case.

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Symbols of blood drops are left in yard of the Diag to encourage students to donate blood on Tuesday.

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Fresh Produce Sale WHAT: Fresh fruits and vegetables from sustanable local food sources on sale for students.

WHO: Student Organization: Student Food Co. WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

WHERE: Mason Hall

Beijing Opera Costume Exhibit

WHAT: Robes, make up, masks and props from the Beijing Opera will be on display at the University for one day only.

WHO: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan WHEN: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

WHERE: Michigan Union, Willis Ward Lounge

Startup Workshop

SAPAC’s 30th Annual Speak Out

WHAT: Workshop to discuss fundamental questions entrepreneurs encounter when launching a new business.

WHO: Innovate Blue WHEN: 5:30pm - 7:00pm WHERE: Ross School of Business, room R0240

WHAT: The Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center will hold a confidential forum for survivors of sexual assault to share their stories.

WHO: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center WHEN: 7:00pm - 9:30pm WHERE: Michigan Union, Union Ballroom

Symposium Honoring Rev. Jesse Jackson WHAT: Rev. Jesse Jackson will deliver a keynote speech at a day-long symposium honoring civil rights and his legacy.

WHO: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy WHEN: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00pm WHERE: Rackham Graduate School

Ukulele Concert WHAT: Jake Shimabukuro, whose ukulele adaptation of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” went viral on YouTube, will perform in concert.

WHO: University Musical Society WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

WHERE: Hill Auditorium

Thanksgiving Dinner

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WHAT: Dinner in the dining halls on Wednesday will feature Thanksgiving treats including stuffing, turkey, mashed potatoes and pie.

WHO: Michigan Dining WHEN: 4:00pm - 9:00pm WHERE: Dining Halls

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Asian Language Study Abroad Info Session WHAT: Information session for students who are interested in completing their 3rd- and 4thsemester language requirements through a 10-week study abroad in China.

WHO: Center for Global and Intercultural Study WHEN: 5:00pm - 5:30pm WHERE: 202 South Thayer Building, room 6000

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Man responsible for paintings says he wanted to make political statement ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter

Tuesday afternoon on the Diag, a man wrote both President-elect Donald Trump

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The man, Victor Sedlak, who stated he was a former student at Michigan State University, said he first wrote Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” and then Clinton’s campaign slogan, “Stronger Together,” on the Diag to gauge how people would react and illustrate how students of minority political views can face discrimination.

“People harassed me,” Sedlak said. “The general message is you can be conservative with liberals and no one is probably going to hurt you, and you can be liberal with conservatives and no one is probably going to hurt you. They won’t hurt you, but they will sure as shit discriminate against you.”

On Sunday night, hundreds of University of Michigan community members signed a petition condemning recent protests and vigils held on campus, as well as statements made by University administrators, over the election of Donald Trump for president. Over 300 signed the petition as of Sunday night, showing See CHALK, Page 3A

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Nursing Prof. Stephen Strobbe introduces panelists for a discussion of the dangers of opium at the Ann Arbor District Library on Tuesday.

OPIOID From Page 1A a bottle of opioid medication,” he said.

Strobbe highlighted in particular the role health care practitioners play, saying the number of opioid prescriptions that have been written for between 1999 and 2014 have quadrupled as managing patient pain has become a priority in treatment.

Localizing the issue, Strobbe noted that in Washtenaw County in 2011, there were 29 opioid related deaths. In 2014, there were more than 65.

“So what has happened here at home?” Strobbe asked the crowd. “The graphs look very similar to what they do nationally and that is that we saw a marked increase in just the period from 2011 to 2014 among Washtenaw County residents alone.”

According to the Washtenaw County Public Health Opioid Report from June of this year, since October 2015, there have been about 20 Washtenaw County residents who have overdosed on opioids. Of

CSG From Page 1A would not have automatically ensured divestment from the investments, but rather would have called on the University’s Board of Regents to form an ad-hoc committee to investigate the University’s investments in the area.

“Israeli state policy infringes upon Palestinian human rights,” the resolution read. “The University of Michigan’s investments in the aforementioned companies, which are involved in socially irresponsible and unethical activities in Palestine, not only personally impact Palestinian students at the University of Michigan, but also calls into question the University’s commitment to invest in socially responsible companies.”

The resolution also stated that divestment would defund the “weapons and equipment used

NASA From Page 1A the eye of the storm, and give a better understanding of sea process during these events,” Olson said. “We have a team of scientist here at Michigan, along with a few Ph.D.s, for this project.

It has truly been a departmentwide effort.”

According to NASA’s blog on the project, CYGNSS will be able to penetrate the eyes of storms through a system of eight microsatellite observatories.

Through GPS technology, the stations will measure radio waves reflected from the Earth originally caused by satellites used for phone calls, Internet and many other common uses.

Each of the eight satellites will carry a GPS receiver that measures the strength of the

those incidences of overdose, 25 percent of overdoses were fatal.

Opioid and heroin overdose data show that there have been 45 opioid-related deaths in Washtenaw County in 2016.

Marci Scalera, clinical and substance use disorder services director of the Community Mental Health Partnership of Southeast Michigan, emphasized the importance of talking about this crisis and the work her organization is currently doing to address the issue.

“Many people don’t have an understanding of how prevalent the problem is, so we are … wanting to ensure that people understand that this is a problem, we want to reduce stigma, we want to save lives and we want to get folks into treatment,” Scalera said.

Nursing Prof. Gina Dahlem also highlighted several successful efforts to train Washtenaw County community members on how to administer opioid overdose reversal medications.

“Since we first started to train the sheriff’s department in August 2015, within the first two weeks, we had our

first officer that was able to use (intranasal) naloxone to reverse an opioid overdose,” Dahelm said.

Two of the other panelists, former heroin addicts who are currently in long-term recovery, also shared their experiences.

“At the very end of my addiction, I was sleeping in my car for weeks at a time, I weighed 30 pounds less than what I weigh today, my hair was falling out,” said Washtenaw County resident Ashton Marr, an Eastern Michigan University student. “I was miserable, I was tired and I knew I couldn’t go on like that.”

While many panelists focused on the success of training efforts and community involvement in the administration of opioid overdose reversal drugs, Dahlem also noted how to recognize an overdose during a Q&A session after the panel.

“If the person does not respond in a loud voice and you see signs of shallow breathing … blue lips, blue fingernails, lack of oxygenation, as well as unconsciousness … then you can suspect that person is in opioid overdose,” Dahlem said.

in Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and in violation of international human rights law.”

However, some opponents of the resolution charged that voting in favor of divestment would gesture to the student body that a decision had been reached on the issue for the assembly as a whole, dividing communities and ending dialogue on the issue.

LSA junior Joe Goldberg, a CSG representative, said he voted against the resolution because he said it challenges what he stands for as a member of the Jewish faith with a complicated relationship with Israel.

“This resolutions challenges the core of what I stand for... this resolution calls for the delegitimization of Israel and that is not what the majority of this campus stands for,” Goldberg said. “This resolution divides and more important pits students against each other.”

For the debate on the resolution, CSG moved its

signal from the Earth’s oceans.

When the signal is strong, this means the ocean is in a state of calm; if it is weak, there is a lot of wave activity with strong winds.

In a May interview with NASA, Damen Provost, project manager and physics researcher at the University, said they were testing the satellites using several methods to ensure their continued functionality in the hostile environment of space.

“For the space environment, there are thermal and vacuum issues, so we have a chamber that can simulate what CYGNSS will see in orbit,” Provost said.

“We have a vibration table that can shake it, it is a bumpy ride up to space. If anything breaks we want to make sure we can fix it here on the ground.”

CYGNSS is expected to be used for two hurricane seasons and will return to Earth after about two years in orbit.

meeting from its chambers in the Michigan Union to the Modern Language Building to accommodate nearly 200 student attendees.

Many hundreds more watched a Michigan Daily livestream of the proceedings. The more than four-hour long meeting, which also considered other CSG business, drew many speakers on both sides of the resolution.

History Prof.

Victor Lieberman, who teaches classes on the Israeli-Palestinian conf lict and has addressed the body on the past few occassions divestment has been discussed, also spoke out against the resolution. He charged that it did not meet the three prongs for divestment outlined by the University — that the institution must be uniquely responsible for the problem, there were moral or ethical issues surrounding the support of that institution, and consensus at the University against that group.

The University has only divested twice in its history,

TASKFORCE From Page 1A semester, several members of faculty governance at the satellite campuses — including Jerry Sanders, UM-Flint associate professor of biology, Sarah Lippert, an associate professor of art history at UM-Flint and Quamrul Mazumder, UM-Flint associate professor of mechanical engineering — discussed concerns about the structure of and faculty role in governance.

Of the faculty members in attendance was Robert Fraser, associate director of graduate programs, research and scholarly communication at UM-Dearborn.

In an interview Tuesday, Fraser reiterated the discrepancies that arise due

attendees as they marched in the streets throughout campus, taking a route past popular buildings and residence halls.

There have been several BAMN rallies on other university campuses similar to Tuesday’s, including two at Wayne State University last week and another one in Detroit occurring Tuesday as well.

LSA sophomore Elena Schmitt, a member of the LGBT Michigan organization, said prior to the event she had watched a man writing Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” in chalk on the Diag. Schmitt said after talking with the man, who defended Trump’s platform, she saw how necessary action and rallies were.

“The most alarming part was

CHALK From Page 2A solidarity with an open #NotMyCampus letter to administrators written by LSA sophomore Amanda Delekta.

Last Wednesday, a vigil and anti-Trump rally attracted a crowd of nearly 1,000 University students, faculty and staff, as well as community members, in protest of President-elect Donald Trump’s win.

About 30 students gathered as Sedlak was writing “Make America Great Again,” and some poured water on each letter in response after he wrote it.

Minutes later, when Sedlak began writing “Stronger Together,” students continued to pour water over the message.

LSA senior Sean Smith arrived on the scene after one of his friends notified him that someone was chalking the Diag with Trump’s campaign slogan, and said he came to wash it off.

“Somebody told me we had a (Trump) supporter writing “Make America Great Again”

from South Africa over “serious moral or ethical questions” raised by its policies of apartheid and from tobacco companies in 2000. In 2015, CSG voted to formulate an ad hoc committee to investigate the University’s investments in fossil fuels, a precedent the resolution drew on in its argumentation.

Public Policy senior Lucky Mulperi, a CSG representative, said he voted for the resolution because he wanted to represent the small faction of Palestinian students on campus.

“I’m an Indian Hindu, so I have no real personal stake in this besides my own concerns.

But Mathma Ghandi went ahead and said with a small group of people, India needs to lead,” Mulperi said. “I really think that is the most important thing for all to realize that these discussions will never occur unless as...a small group of thoughtful, committed students change the world.”

University alum Devin Jones, who said he was a Palestinian

to differences in governance structures at each campus. He noted the University Senate Assembly in Ann Arbor is composed of all the votingeligible faculty from the University, which includes all three campuses. According to the board’s bylaws, decisions made by the Senate Assembly are binding actions on the three university faculties.

However, Fraser noted that decisions made at this level often do not extend to the Flint and Dearborn campuses due to miscommunication.

“If at the University Senate Assembly in Ann Arbor … everybody votes for a particular proposition over which we have authority, jurisdiction, binding action. In the Ann Arbor structure, it is enabled usually within a very short period of time,” Fraser said. “Often at Dearborn and Flint, the

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how much he excused Donald Trump’s … language against women — the ‘grab women by the pussy’ comment,” Schmitt said. “And I asked him about the sexual assault allegations, and he said that it doesn’t matter. He said the University of Michigan says that conservatives don’t have the freedom of speech.”

Schmitt added that the rise in instances of discrimination on campus — which she found surprising due to the perception of Ann Arbor as liberal-leaning — was another primary reason she attended the rally.

A Ypsilanti resident who only gave his name as Steve said he drove through heavy traffic to make the rally because he thought it was crucial for all community members to be present.

“We need to stand up to the hate and oppression that a lot of people are getting, and those

of us in a position to be able to act and to be involved should be acting and getting involved,” Steve said.

Rackham student Lamin Manneh said he attended because he has concerns about Trump’s immigration policies, citing Trump’s proposed ban on Muslim immigration during his campaign in particular.

“One of the main concerns is immigrants and what this new administration is going to do with regards to immigrant issues, which will probably make life very hard for a lot of immigrants — both documented and undocumented,” Manneh said. “For me, it’s important that we do not normalize Trump’s presidency and that we are in a constant state of protest.”

Event organizers announced that they are planning to have a similar march Thursday night as well.

in the middle of the Diag,” Smith said. “We just came in here to get this off the Diag.”

Smith said he didn’t take issue with Sedlak trying to express his political views, but was bothered that Sedlak was writing “Make America Great Again,” a message that he said he believes represents exclusion of minorities, racism and fascism.

“It’s not necessarily the fact that he was expressing his political beliefs, it’s more so the implications behind that statement and what it’s emblematic of — I think that’s what people had a problem with,” Smith said. “I personally had a problem with him putting “Make America Great Again” in the Diag, because who does that then exclude from that narrative?”

Smith said he was not impressed with any broader message Sedlak was trying to spread, especially after witnessing Sedlak take off his red “Make America Great Again” hat and put on a hat bearing Clinton’s campaign logo.

“He’s basically trying to be a troll,” Smith said. “He thinks

he’s the Riddler or something like that. He’s trying to cover up what he’s doing by playing both sides, but it’s not working — that’s what I’m gathering from it.”

When asked if Sedlak could be initiating a dialogue, Smith said he didn’t think so.

“He’s not inciting conversation,” he said.

Police brief ly arrived at the scene to monitor the situation from afar, but declined to comment on the situation, saying there was nothing illegal happening.

An LSA student who gave only his first name, Robby, said he was also confused as to what the message was, but recognized Sedlak had a right to free speech.

“This guy is either a jokester — I’m not quite sure what he is — but he was exercising his right to free speech,” Robby said. “Everyone got triggered over nothing.”

Sedlak said the whole incident was also part of a marketing ploy for his website on American politics.

“It was an elaborate marketing ploy and it worked brilliantly,” Sedlak said.

citizen, told the story of his mother and grandfather, born in the same house on the same street, but facing drastically different political climates in their lifetimes.

“But she was born in a different state… We were not indigenous to our own land because we were on the wrong side of a battle, a battle that wasn’t our fault,” Jones said. “Basically, we were stripped of our Palestinian identities and forced to become Israeli citizens.”

Public Policy senior Matt Fidel said for him, the resolution does not represent peace, and instead is seeking for a scapegoat in the IsraeliPalestinian conf lict.

“Divestment emboldens the radical wings of Israeli and Palestinian governments, which oppose peace,” Fidel said.

“Divestment drives our campus apart at a time when we need to come together the most…it will only fan the f lames of conf lict both over there and right here on campus.”

“We should all pray for a day

when peace can be achieved between Israeli and Palestinian citizens. We should pray for a future when Israeli and Palestinian families do not have to face the threat of daily violence. We should pray for a future when Palestinians are able to live in an independent Palestinian state free of any Israeli interference.”

After the resolution failed, many CSG representatives discussed why they voted in favor of the resolution. During this, several attendees began to shout and chant. CSG Vice President and LSA senior Micah Griggs allowed Jones to speak to the body.

“When you argue on the claim that we did not know what we were talking about, that you are somehow better than us...that is the epitome of privilege,” Jones said. “[I am] paying tuition, in which a portion of my tuition goes to companies that go to the oppression of my people...You have to live with this. You have to stare me in the the face.”

communication is not made or the authority is not recognized, and there is no effect on either Dearborn or Flint with their faculty governance.”

Weineck said while SACUA and the Senate Assembly are meant to cover all three campuses, representation is mostly from Ann Arbor faculty.

Additionally, Ann Arbor does not have a separate faculty governance structure like the Flint and Dearborn campuses do.

In part because of this, the tri-campus task force will assess differences in the governance structures and determine how the three campuses can better work together, Weineck said.

“We’ll look at two things: first, have a task force with representation from all three campuses that explores how faculty governance works at the three campuses and whether

there’s room for improvement, either in structure or in practice,” Weineck said.

“Second, to explore how the faculty governance organizations on the three campuses can strengthen each other, perhaps better, and work with each other and whether we need to maybe reconsider or make suggestions on how to change the current structure.”

UM-Dearborn Associate Economics Prof. Chris Douglas, chair of the Faculty Council at UM-Flint, said in an interview Tuesday he hopes the task force will strengthen the governance ties between the three campuses.

“We’re separate universities, but we’re all in the Michigan system, so I think we’re looking for ways to work more closely together on issues related to the faculty governance,” Douglas said.

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ver the past week, happening, of the hate crimes the most uplifting on our campus and in our nation. words I’ve heard came No mention of the fact that from a classmate millions of people of mine: She said today fear for their she has never felt lives. One professor more terrified of ended a class of mine the future, and, early, but stayed in simultaneously, she the classroom, saying has never felt more he feared for his life if immediately aware he were to go outside. of her responsibility And this to help and to look ability to be silent out for other people, demonstrates white particularly people privilege in practice.

ISAIAH who are targeted by ZEAVIN-MOSS We can only be xenophobia, white silent because none supremacy and all of these policies that Donald Trump embodies. directly target our lives. We Trump is the living, do not have to address Trump, breathing manifestation of we do not have to adjust white supremacy. And he has our syllabi. Why would we? just been given the keys to the Instead, we will talk about it most powerful position in the once, for 30 minutes, and move world. White supremacists, on. Relatively speaking, this of course, have always been is the same way in which we here, and the consequences (speaking specifically to white of their ideologies have been people) digest the murders of made manifestly visible. We as a nation have barely been able to suppress the fact that we largely operate in a way that normalizes white supremacy (think of the habitual way in which we as a culture respond to murders of young Black men by police — outrage, “this cannot happen,” move on to the next story, repeat). But Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, served as a coming-out party for white supremacy. No need to suppress it anymore. It is the definition of young Black men by police. mainstream America.

And so the response might For the most part, I have be: But if it doesn’t affect you, been really pleased with why would the professor have the outpouring of love from to talk about it? our University of Michigan Because the professor’s community. People are talking job is to help educate us, the about fundamentally changing students, on the most pressing, their lives in response to this urgent questions of our day. election — myself included. And these are not questions I am not going abroad next about the ways in which semester because I need to some dead white poet uses stay here and help. And I am metaphor when talking about not alone. blackbirds or forests or snowy But I have also felt shocked evenings. Instead, let’s talk at the silence in some of my about white privilege. Let’s classes. Interestingly enough, talk about the fact that none of this silence pervades classes us apparently feel compelled to taught by white men and speak about what is happening with students who are almost in this country. Why is that? all white. In these classes, Since the election, I have had there is no mention of what is classes that could have taken

We need to be engaging with the questions of our time.

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place in any time throughout history at this university. This is unacceptable.

We need to be engaging with the questions of our time.

We need to be reading and considering voices that grappled with these similar questions.

Because, of course, these questions have always been relevant — white supremacy has always reigned in this country.

So people have been responding to it every day, forever.

But times have fundamentally changed. We are now dealing with a man, our president, who has 20 sexual assault allegations against him and who openly mocked a disabled reporter.

We are dealing with a chief strategist who once told his wife that he didn’t want to send his kids to a certain school because he didn’t want his kids to be learning with Jews. This is our world.

Teachers, administrators: It is your job to prepare us for this world, to demand that we engage with what is going on. If this means having conversations with which you are uncomfortable, that is a good thing because that discomfort means, most likely, that you need this conversation just as we do. So why don’t we, students and teachers, if only for a moment, operate on some sort of a level playing field, in which we are all learning from one another about these icky terrifying issues?

Do not fear this sort of collaborative learning. Just as my peer told me last week, now, more than ever, we need to rely upon one another, to look out for one another, to help one another learn and be safe and continue to grow despite this monumental force of division that has been rewarded with the highest office in the world.

Silence, on the other hand, favors this force. It is what it wants. Do not obey. Do not give in. Fight.

Collaboratively disrupt.

Isaiah Zeavin-Moss can be reached at izeavinm@umich.edu

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ike so many others, I woke up several days after the election hoping I was still only trapped in a horrible nightmare. I was scared to walk outside — not only because of the tangible fear of living in this country with Donald Trump as president, but because doing so felt like I was starting to accept that this is my country, regardless of how foreign it feels.

I cried just twice before noon — an improvement from the days before — and went to class for the first time in a week. The gravity of what will come of our next presidential administration is still unknown, but as I continue to talk to people around me, I hear more and more of us saying we are ready to fight.

Last night, I stood in a room with more than 100 people from just Washtenaw County, all of us having volunteered our time to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. On my left was a middle-aged, gay, white man, and on my right was an elderly Black woman. When one of the organizers, a young Muslim man, got up to speak, he said what I was thinking: Our volunteers look like America. The thing about elections is that they’re all about numbers, and the numbers say nothing about our intensity, our love and our fervor.

Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, which means that more people in this country voted for the most qualified presidential candidate this country has ever seen over someone who only had to tap into hatred that has existed for centuries. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, which means that more people in this country are ready to fight than to hate. Many higher-educated and higher-income people

voted for Clinton, which means that our fight will have more funding, more strategy and more experience. There are too many people of color, women, queer folks and people with hearts who will not give up over the next four years, just as Clinton hasn’t given up for the past 30.

The numbers don’t show that our team is stacked.

If you voted for Donald Trump or Gary Johnson or Jill Stein or wrote in Bernie Sanders, I challenge you to think about how the people of color, LGBTQ folks, undocumented people, people with disabilities, womanidentifying people or any other marginalized person you have ever met will be affected by a Trump presidency. And then I challenge you to think about how you will be affected by a Trump presidency. If that disparity makes you sad, angry or uncomfortable, then I want you on our team, because this dangerous embarrassment is your America now, too.

Our presidential election has made me fear for my safety and the safety of those around me.

But if we are going to wake up every morning terrified, then those of us who are ready to fight must force ourselves to understand why fear won this election. Whether it was the fear of a challenge to whiteness or the fear of losing more jobs, the sentiments that captivated so many people in this country are valid. Rather than radicalizing people who were motivated by that fear, we should work to address it alongside the fear that systemically marginalized people have felt throughout this country’s history.

Donald Trump is our president, and this is our country, and denial is only the first stage of grief. But if we want change, we can never tolerate the final

stage as acceptance. This cannot be like another mass shooting or episode of police violence, during which the pain wanes over time. Perhaps we let go of that pain because our society is quick to absolve a usually white shooter of blame, and to accept police violence against Blacks as nothing extraordinary or needing special attention. This pain is not new to marginalized communities, and we should look to them as examples and leaders in this fight.

As time goes on, may we never settle into this — may we always be uncomfortable with the hatred and resentment that people in this country have accepted as normal or even desirable. We will learn new coping mechanisms and agents of change as time goes on, but we must never forget how we felt on Nov. 9. That pain will stay with us every day, and we will counter it with the knowledge that change only happens when we show up more than once every four years on Election Day. On Feb. 1, 2016, I stood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and watched the first woman in history win a presidential caucus. That was one of many cracks in a glass ceiling thicker than we thought it was. I have no doubt that we will throw everything we have until it shatters all over anyone who doubts the resilience of our communities. As a woman, as a queer person, as a Jew, I will continue to wake up terrified. But as someone who has worked relentlessly on Clinton’s campaign for the past 15 months, I will believe in the passions of people who will never quit working to keep the dream of progress, safety and humanity alive.

Molly Aronson is a public policy junior.

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ear Vice President Harper, Last week, I received an email from you reminding students of the 35th annual Blood Battle with Ohio State. In your email, you encouraged students to sign up to donate blood, helping “us win and … save lives.” I’m responding to you now to say that even though I am a healthy, able-bodied young man, I will not be donating blood.

I will not because I cannot, and this is because I am a gay student at the University of Michigan.

In your letter, you informed me that throughout the drive’s existence, the University of Michigan has collected enough blood to save the lives of more than 644,000 people. This grand accomplishment is something we should be proud of: These are lives that matter. Yet, I can’t help but feel that we can improve the manner in which we conduct this meaningful public health initiative.

As you are probably aware, under the current FDA regulations the Red Cross cannot legally accept blood from a “man who has had sex with another man during the past 12 months.” Gay men are not alone in these regulations.

They also apply to any “female who has had sex during the past 12 months with a man who has had sex with another man in the past 12 months.” Consequently, the FDA requires blood from these groups of people to be deferred unless a person of this group abstains from sex for 12 consecutive months. This directly “defers” the donations of all sexually active gay men, bisexual men and any heterosexual or

bisexual women who have had sex with gay or bisexual men.

I am aware that donating blood saves lives. I am aware that HIV disqualifies any infected individual from donating blood.

I am aware that the majority of newly diagnosed HIV cases are within the gay demographic.

I am aware that “window periods” make detecting the disease less certain. I am aware that the FDA and the Red Cross take the health of the people receiving blood donations very seriously and consider their treatment of policy very thoughtfully and conservatively.

But I am also aware of research that suggests that an individual sexual risk assessment is just as effective as the prohibitory and generalizing policy that the FDA has adopted; that HIV can be prevented through the use of safe sex and even medication; and that it is mandated for health care professionals to screen donated blood for HIV prior to transfusion.

I would like to contextualize the FDA’s policy within our own University’s policy on non-discrimination. We, as a University community, claim: “The University of Michigan is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, height, weight, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.” Yet, because of my sexual orientation, I am not offered the same opportunity to help my school or my community through

participation of this historic blood drive. Instead I am “differed.”

Yes, I am “differed” along with those who, according to the Red Cross, “have ever used needles to take drugs … not prescribed by (their) doctor … have ever taken money, drugs or other payment for sex … (or) in the last 12 months have been in juvenile detention, lockup, jail, or prison for more than 72 hours.” This bears the offensive implication that, because of my sexual orientation, I am inherently hazardous to my community.

In other words, my health, my lifestyle and my merit are questioned primarily on the basis that I am gay. Therefore, it seems to me that as a healthy, monogamous and responsible person, I am being unfairly and unnecessarily “differed” from one of the cornerstones of my University’s history.

This annual Blood Battle presents me with two choices: For 12 consecutive months, I can rebuke a part of my identity in order to donate blood, or I can live freely while accepting the systematic discrimination that the University perpetuates annually.

Neither of these options are ideal. So, perhaps, the 35th annual Blood Battle presents our University community with an opportunity to follow up on our self-attributed “Leaders and the Best” character. Perhaps, we can speak out against this implicit discrimination. Perhaps, we can unite to change our tradition into a wholly inclusive process.

Your email reminds me of this.

Sincerely, Daniel Anthony Daniel Anthony is a School of Music, Theatre & Dance senior.

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Meek is not a bad rapper

Wednesday, November 16, 2016 — 5A

TV REVIEW

‘DC4’ is an act of redemtion for the lambasted musician coming off a high from his wellreceived release If You’re Reading Daily Arts Writer This It’s Too Late, and curated and cut-down on his own social Meek Mill is not a bad rapper. media to balance against Mill’s Let’s repeat that: Meek Mill is not seemingly unhinged and childish a bad rapper. slew of follow-up tweets.

If you’ve spent any time on While Mill should have just Twitter in the last year, that entered the studio and told it as it might come as a surprise. After was, ignoring the internet entirely, his horrible — absolutely horrible he failed to understand the way — handling of his beef with these things work. By the time Drake, Mill became “Back to Back” the face of “trash” came around rap, a nice hashtag he had already that requires little lost, his abysmal DC4 effort or evidence to response track support, but takes up putting the nail in Meek Mill few characters out of the coffin. the allotted 140.

That MMG/Atlantic But Mill’s background is rapping is not trash. essential to keep Rather, Mill’s publicity skills and in mind with Mill’s first full-length clearly anyone who could’ve said release since that implosion. It’s anything — seriously, anything clearly a moment which caused at all — to him throughout that Mill an identity crisis as the beef are. In some respects, he public turned against him, and earned his criticism. A native of he uses DC4 to express some of South Philadelphia, a product that frustration. It’s a refreshing of a difficult upbringing which reminder of Mill’s rap prowess, involved police brutality, the loss but also brings up questions as to of his father to an armed robbery, where that anger and that intense and an intense, escapist focus on focus was when under pressure. battle rapping in his teen years, Still, DC4 largely succeeds in Mill should have possessed the reaffirming that Mill still has credibility and the experience to skill behind the mic. He has a hold his own in a rap battle with a penchant for powerful opening former “Degrassi” actor. tracks, and “On The Regular” But Mill fell into the trap of delivers on this end. Recalling his appealing to Twitter to fight first Dreamchasers mixtape and his battles. For a rapper who the opener to his last album, the brandishes Glocks on his tracks, track samples Carl Orff’s ominous it came across as petty when he “O Fortuna,” peppered with sharp took to the internet platform to gunshots. Mill is not holding his complain about Drake failing to trigger finger back, and his bars “retweet” his album drop. Meek’s are tight and pointed. But it’s no very valid critique about Drake “Dreams and Nightmares,” and hiring ghost writers rather than it won’t turn around detractors penning his own bars was buried quite in the way his first track on in the Toronto native’s perfectly his supposed “comeback project” coordinated response. should.

Drake, following the cardinal Like all of Mill’s projects, DC4 social media rule which Mill fluctuates between strong flashes seems to be completely oblivious of brightness and throw-aways. to, appealed to the hashtag, to the It’s the stand-out individual tracks slogan, rather than true credibility. which support his projects, not the Never mind that “Charged Up,” works as a whole, and DC4 is no Drake’s initial response track, was different in that respect. underwhelming and skirted the Take the transition between issue at hand almost entirely. The “Shine” and “Froze.” The former true punch came in the timing — feels like the clearest response he dropped it on his brand new to his past beefs, and functions Apple Music Radio Show, just almost like a diss track in its ability MATT GALLATIN

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to brush off his detractors and look to what matters, telling us on no uncertain terms, if it “Wasn’t for this music / I’d prolly be dead.”

That high moment, though, moves to one of the missteps of the album, the Nicki Minaj and Lil Uzi assisted track “Froze.” It’s messy and lacks any cohesive rapping, save for a short stint by Minaj, to salvage itself. That back and forth can be a bit too common on this tape.

But while those two features don’t necessarily meet expectations, the guest list on this project is particularly important.

It reads as a kind of who’s who of rap, as well as an alignment along pro-Drake, no-Drake lines. A number of rappers here have been involved in their own spats with the crooner, Tory Lanez and Pusha T being the most prominent.

At times those features have a tendency to overtake Mill himself.

“Offended” is a Young Thug song in every way but name — that sparse, murky production and a never ending hook. You might have to listen to it more than once to even realize that Mill has a verse somewhere within the dominating interplay between Thug and up-and-comer 21 Savage. That the track is one of the highlights of the tape is a testament to the skill of the features, but also raises concerns for Mill’s own ability to craft a track.

However, keeping to that back and forth mixtape pattern, Mill proves this worry wrong with “Lights Out,” perhaps the best track here. It’s classic Meek Mill, putting his angry bars at the forefront and keeping the production just bare enough to make its impact and fall away.

The end result is a mixed bag, equal parts moving and equal parts forgettable. The high notes, though, are high enough to place Mill back on his feet, and with some credibility regained at that.

It’s not the roaring comeback that he could have used, and it’s hard to rationalize why he would continually push back and increase the anticipation for such a nonexplosive tape, but nonetheless it’s a solid reminder that Mill isn’t done quite yet.

MARTHA STEWART

There seem to be some ‘Blurred Lines’ in this photo.

Stewart and Snoop serve a ‘Potluck’ Though an unlikely pair, VH1 finds mild success with cooking duo show “Martha,” the two look a little uncomfortable working with Daily Arts Writer each other on a more permanent basis.

For any flourishing television When guest star Seth Rogen series, intercharacter chemistry (“Sausage Party”) comes on is essential. The budding romance stage, you can still feel a hint between Jim and Pam on “The of discomfort emanating from Office” drew its fair Stewart. However, share of viewers you can also begin to the series when to see a thaw in her it was still on air. personality, as the The same goes for added company “Martha & Snoop’s various other series takes the banter Potluck Dinner such as “Parks from scripted to Party” and Recreation” friendly. Perhaps Seson Premiere and “The Mindy the original Project,” to name awkwardness was Mondays at 10 p.m. a few. In the a by-product of aforementioned first episode jitters.

VH1 examples, From their long intercharacter history together, dynamics propelled you can assume the series forward for many Martha and Snoop’s friendship successful seasons. Whether these has had proper time to grow, relationships are pre-established something that comes out as the or not, successful character episode progresses onward. Yet, pairings have the potential to as an alum of network cooking decide the fate of an up-and- shows, Martha does come off coming series. Schematics aside, as territorial, working hard to “Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner overcome the scripted banter only Party” is a lesson in building to ultimately fall back into old character dynamics and the routines. importance of chemistry, even if Getting past Stewart’s robotic the show takes a while to build the mannerisms in the start of the stars’s chemistry. episode, the duo soon falls into Throwing Martha Stewart a rhythm — a slow one at first, into a kitchen occupied by stoners but a rhythm nonetheless. By probably wasn’t the brightest idea. the time special guest stars Wiz It’s hard not to notice Stewart’s Khalifa and Ice Cube join the blatant lack of interest from the duo on stage, the ambiance is beginning — in fact, she looks as friendly and funny. Stewart and if she’d rather be anywhere else. Snoop progressed through the Despite the unlikely friendship episode from territorial beasts of that formed between Martha and their own specialties to a wellSnoop Dogg back in 2008 on her oiled machine, the (vegetable) oil MEGAN MITCHELL

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creating a smooth flow between the stoner and former network homemaker, lightheartedly joking as they batter some chicken. It’s nice to see the sudden change, as it promises that the concept behind a cooking show starring a rapper and a homemaker could turn out as interesting as its title suggests.

What really stands out in “Potluck Dinner Party” is not the celebrity bake-off, but rather the interactions between the hosts and their respective guest stars. Not only do the guest stars provide a medium through which Snoop and Martha get into an off-the-teleprompter groove, but they also throw in some hilarious anecdotes throughout the show’s 40 minute run time. The first episode itself is titled “Putting the Pot in Potluck,” which resonates well with Rogen, who jokingly brings a fire extinguisher onstage that is not intended for a cooking fire. The talk of the night is pot, and given some of the users onstage, you can only guess the shenanigans that ensue. So as the night rolls on and the drinks multiply, the quartet takes their food to a game of “Two Thighs and a Truth,” a play on the popular game “Two Lies and a Truth,” as Ice Cube judges their cooking masterpieces. Through the impromptu interactions which display a lightheartedness and genuine fun between the duo there is a shimmer of a hope that this eccentric cooking series has a shot at success in the coming episodes.

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‘Dream’ a step forward for Rostam

FILM REVIEW

‘Certain Women’ taps into desires Director Kelly Reinchardt charts four female lives in rural Montana is struggling to maintain its old charm, which fades fast as populations shift to nearby Bozeman or Billings, the Stillness is the move in latter of which gets a mention “Certain Women,” the latest toward the film’s beginning. film from acclaimed indie Those who stay have limited director Kelly Reichardt opportunities, little work (“Night Moves”). and bleak lives, An anthology film covered in a with segments thin layer of that are only early winter cursorily linked, snow.

Among “Certain Women” “Certain Women” the rugged Michigan Theater depicts the lives mountains that of four women frame their IFC Films in and around small city, each Livingston, woman is forging Montana.

The a new path for screenplay was adapted herself, but the resources are

by Reichardt from a short slim. story collection by Maile Reichardt’s commitment Meloy, a fiction writer from to molasses-like pacing can Montana. In one segment, prove a deterrent — especially Laura Wells (Laura Dern, considering not too much “Wild”), a lawyer, tries to really happens in each segment console her deranged client. In — but the performances she another, Gina Lewis (Michelle coaxes out of her actors are Williams, “Blue Valentine”) nothing short of superb. Dern tries to buy sandstone from as an experienced lawyer an elderly friend for a house without the trust of her client, she is building with her family Fuller (Jared Harris, “Mad from the ground up. In the Men”), exhibits a repressed third, Jamie (Lily Gladstone, frustration surely shared by in her film debut), a young the perennially overlooked. rancher, strikes up an almost She slips between sympathy romantic friendship with Beth for Fuller and an irritation Travis (Kristen Stewart, “Still at his deranged mental state.

Alice”), who teaches a law Williams is quietly devastating, class. a wife and businesswoman Livingston sits at the angry with her husband for foothills of Yellowstone accidentally creating divides and is one of those railroad between her and her daughter, towns, developed in the early while Rene Auberjonois 20th century as migrant (“M*A*S*H”) easily workers moved westward in (hauntingly even) transforms search of new employment into a confused elderly man. opportunities. But in 2016, the Stewart, experiencing a city hasn’t grown much and critical renaissance of her own, DANIEL HENSEL Daily Arts Writer

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is a natural fit in Reichardt’s whispered world, engaging in dialogue devoid of the artifice that plagues too many other films.

Cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt (“Indignation”) aptly captures Livingston’s bleakly stagnant citizens. The camera, almost never moving, focuses in on each character, allowing a full display of thoughts, emotions, feelings, questions and, importantly, decisions.

Blauvelt’s photography is a cinematic Minnesota nice, granting each individual their due time that seems to move westward across the Dakotas.

That stillness, though, can be sinister. In one segment at a crime scene, tension mounts and the scant editing can make the heart pound.

The nature of sparseness in this film is such that whenever frills are added, they naturally carry more weight, tipping Reichardt’s hand ever so slightly to prove what is important and, perhaps, what can be dismissed. Scored music plays prominently one time, at a heartbreaking juncture in the film’s last third. For Jamie a brief respite from her unending hours on the farm must come to an end, and she’s left despondent. So, too, are our other characters, in their own ways. Perhaps that solemnity is rooted in the nature of modern society’s treatment of women.

Maybe it’s just Montana in the quiet winter. Reichardt, either way, is uniquely gifted at capturing that deep desire to escape.

In a collab with Hamilton Leithauser, ex-Vampire Weekend member soars pace completely with a rolling, bass-driven melody and closes Daily Arts Writer shortly after a brief harpsichord line, evidencing the pair’s musical When Rostam Batmanglij comfort with the genre and its announced his departure from associated conventions. indie staple Vampire Weekend, As tends to be the trend with the community albums whose lamented. Many instrumentation fans still do, invokes nostalgia, but Rostam’s the lyrics follow recent work suit.

Focusing I Had A Dream That with Hamilton primarily on past You Were Mine Leithauser relationships Hamilton Leithauser (former vocalist and wishes for + Rostam for The Walkmen) what could have should put to been, could be or Glassnote Records rest any doubts might one day be, about his future Hamilton’s vocals involvement in are appropriately music and the quality of his work melancholic. They provide a separate from Vampire Weekend. good balance for their relatively Now, with Leithauser, Rostam’s jubilant backing while skillfully work sounds more traditional, avoiding the wallowing feeling inspired by oldies while remaining often associated with nostalgia. distinctly baroque in nature. On On “The Morning Stars” I Had A Dream That You Were — a rambling, percussive ode Mine, the duo’s debut, plainly but to a past lover — Hamilton is carefully arranged piano, (slide) the metaphorical ghost of his guitar, bass, exuberant percussion relationship, wondering who and the occasional organ provide could possibly have replaced him. a backdrop for Hamilton’s It is followed by “1959,” in which intrinsically emotive rasp.

Hamilton sings of his mistakes Although the album recalls the in a relationship, reminiscing work of American songwriters of on inside jokes and reflecting old — Dylan and Cohen, especially on mortality, while coming to — Hamilton and Rostam seem terms with his baser tendencies. focused on not simply rehashing The track also features Angel what has already been done Deradoorian (formerly of Dirty so many times before. “Rough Projectors), the sole guest Going (I Won’t Let Up),” with it’s appearance on the album. unashamed “sha-doobie sha-dooEmotionally charged standout wop” backing, is perhaps the most “The Bride’s Dad” is the brief immediate indication of the duo’s narrative of a deadbeat, unkempt deeply unironic love for the gaudier father singing at his daughter’s music of North America’s past. wedding. Nostalgia remains the “You Ain’t That Young Kid” echoes dominating tone, but in a more this love, with a classic harmonica- playful sense than a sorrowful one and-piano opening, but exemplifies here. The wedding guests are a Hamilton and Rostam’s more mix of amused and uncomfortable modern approach. The song starts as he’s escorted, crying, from the on harmonica, but transitions to a stage, but all he cares is that “(he) swinging slide guitar, then changes caught (his daughter) smile / From SEAN LANG

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the corner of (his) eye.”

Songs like leading single “A 1000 Times” and “In a Black Out” will draw listeners in with their straightforward poppiness and anthemic qualities, but the appeal of these two decreases with time. In “A 1000 Times,” a man wanders the streets of the city — New York? — and finds himself accidentally in front of an old lover’s house that has now been boarded up. The song is a rousing call, a passionate cry into the dark, but teeters on the edge of being repetitive. Meanwhile, “In a Black Out,” which is more or less the paragon of accessibility in a song — it was recently featured in a television ad for Apple, if that helps give you an idea —simply sticks out stylistically from the rest of the album. It sounds more like it was written to serve as proof that the duo knows how to craft an immediate earworm, while they would, on the whole, really rather not.

When all’s said and done, Hamilton and Rostam make a formidable pair. Hamilton’s voice — breaking, bending and soaring over Rostam’s straightforward piano — ensures that the sometimes cliché tropes employed still come across as genuine. The pair cover an impressive amount of ground, sonically speaking, and it is not difficult to imagine nearly any song on the album faring well as a single.

At the very least, I Had A Dream is an exciting new step for both Hamilton and Rostam, and one that should reassure fans of both artists’s previous and solo work. The album functions well as an anchor for the duo, a starting point that recalls both Vampire Weekend and The Walkmen while also establishing this new project and wiping clean the slate of stylistic expectations.

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‘Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun’

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wo weeks ago, when I album do I listen to while a girl had to choose a poem on my campus is forced to remove to memorize and recite her hijab? How can beauty live for an English class, I chose W. among so much ugliness? Is it fair H. Auden’s “Stop all the clocks” to make time for it? because I thought it was beautiful.

I wanted to “cut off the It captured the frustrated grief I telephone.” I wanted a moment had felt after breakups and other of complete silence and stillness. mundane tragedies.

But the world does When I had to not wait for a broken recite the poem in heart. class on Nov. 9, it But then, on captured something Friday, I saw similar, but much “Moonlight” — and more intense.

I encourage you all Tuesday night was to do the same. Not really hard for me. only because it’s Watching the election the best movie I’ve play out on CNN seen (and probably felt like someone MADELEINE will see) this year.

GAUDIN was telling me that But because the everyone who had experience of seeing told me I could do anything was a beautiful movie in a theater lying. As a white woman, I know it full of people was the most was exponentially more difficult reaffirming experience I’ve had for many others. A crushing since last Tuesday. sadness and a mobilizing anger It was the most diverse crowd were fighting for space in my — in terms of race, age and gender brain.

— that I’ve ever been in at the The poem captured something Michigan Theater. It was also the that I was struggling to put into largest crowd I’ve seen there. It words. It was anger at the world felt good to sit next to someone for continuing to go on and be I didn’t know. It felt good to be a thing of beauty despite the forced to be in community with ugliness of its inhabitants. I’ve people I did not know. It felt good never wanted to “pack up the to know that we could be brought moon and dismantle the sun” together through art. more than I did when I woke “Moonlight” would have been up on Wednesday morning to breathtaking on any day of any brilliant sunshine, golden trees year. But on the Friday after the and a cloudless sky.

2016 election, it was even more On my walk to class I put on so. Because it told the story LCD Soundsystem’s “Someone — with beauty, honesty and Great” in search of some joy and humanity — of the exact type a eulogy to the president that of person who does not belong could have been. And then James in “Trump’s America.” A poor, Murphy sang: “The worst is all gay Black man. No one in the the lovely weather / I’m stunned, movie fit Trump’s definition of it’s not raining.” And I felt it beautiful. again: anger at the audacity of Film is, at its best (and it’s often beauty and guilt for taking time to not at its best), a vessel for voices indulge in it. that are not easily heard. I’m Art felt trivial. It felt small sure that in the coming months and unimportant against the and years many more voices will nightmare that was unfolding be silenced. That’s all the more around me. How can I go to the reason to use art as a microphone movies when people are painting for the silenced. swastikas on storefronts? What It takes a thousand — maybe

even a million — voices to create change. And what I’m realizing is that those voices don’t need to speak through the same medium.

We need filmmakers and singers and politicians and poets and scientists.

I still don’t know what to do or what I should do. Part of me still feels an odd guilt about the time I spend consuming rather than creating, watching rather than fighting.

But what our country seems to be in desperate need of is a big dose of empathy. And I can’t think of a better syringe to deliver that than art. Nothing forces you to inhabit the headspace of another human the way art does. In some ways, art is the closest we ever get to really understanding each other.

I think we still have an obligation to make and consume art. But that can’t be it anymore.

You can’t just fight and you can’t just go to the movies. Those two things are going to have to find a way to shape and spark each other. Art has the power to ignite change, but only if we make art that wants to ignite change and consume art that wants to change us.

This is how empathy and giving voice to the voiceless meet each other. It’s going to become more and more important (and it’s already pretty damn important) to read books, watch movies and listen to music created by people that are not like me — that do not look like me or think like me.

Togetherness begins with empathy and I believe that all the parenting magazine thinkpieces are right when they say art is one of the best (if not only) ways to teach empathy.

So get angry. And then make something beautiful out of that anger. Teach something, learn something. The time to “silence the piano” has not yet come.

Is the sun a planet? Send your answers to mdgaudin@umich.edu

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The cast of ‘The Walking Dead.’

Stones are boring on ‘Havana Moon’ Live album from Cuba offers little for the English-speaking listener kept to a minimum, and when it is included, it’s almost entirely spoken in Spanish, remaining true to the language of the country Few bands captivate the soul hosting the band. My minimal of rock ‘n’ roll like The Rolling skills with the Spanish language Stones do. For over half a century, created a hiccup in the personal they’ve been playing their tunes connection that’s typically created to millions of fans by the banter in a across the globe. live album, one I’m On March 25, The sure is felt by many Rolling Stones attempting to enjoy made music history the album to its Havana Moon by being the first fullest.

The Rolling Stones international band Despite the to perform in disconnected Universal Music Havana, the capital banter for English of Cuba, since the speakers, the music United States first itself remains true lifted its embargo sanctions on to the spiritedness of rock ‘n’ roll, the country, marking a cultural the unflinching desire to bang milestone in bringing large-scale your head and sing along. At 73, performances back to the people it’s pretty damn incredible that of Cuba. The Rolling Stones felt Mick Jagger doesn’t fall flat in the show was so important that performance. With classics like they recorded yet another live “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Honky album and film to add to their Tonk Woman” and “You Can’t repertoire — an already massive Always Get What You Want,” the list of 12 — with impressive sonic setlist was primed for the essential flair, but lackluster filler for what’s electricity and nostalgia that expected of a live album.

Jagger delivers on all fronts.

With a length of two hours, A particularly well executed Havana Moon is truly only for the moment in the set is the transition most diehard fans without the from “Angie” to “Paint It Black.” accompanying video recording The move from a light-hearted of the performance. Banter is anthem to the dynamic guitar DOMINIC POLSINELLI Daily Arts Writer

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SNL shines with host Dave Chapelle Seasoned comic provides a light in the dark after the U.S. election like Hillary was doing well in the polls and yet — I know the whites.

Daily Arts Writer You guys aren’t as full of surprises as you used to be.”

At the end of what felt like Following up his response to a bleak week for many, “SNL” the election, Chappelle reminded provided its usual comedic relief audiences that other important with a dramatically different tone. issues still deserve our attention.

This week’s show, hosted by In the best line of his opening Dave Chappelle (“The Chappelle monologue, Chappelle jokes, Show”) took an “Why do we have inevitably more to say that Black serious note lives matter? Now in the wake I admit that is not “Saturday Night Live” of what was a the best slogan, shocking and but McDonald’s Season 42, Episode 6 devastating already took, Saturdays at 10 p.m. election result ‘You deserve a for many. Both break today.’ ” NBC the show and Chappelle’s candid Chappelle humor and ability took the to deliver frank opportunity to express a comedy that gets the point across hopeful sentiment regarding the makes his monologue a linchpin of country’s future and pause for this week’s show. reflection about how the nation Though his monologue got to where it is now. The cold perfectly encapsulates the open was scrapped in favor of sentiment following the election a heartfelt rendition of the late with practiced humor, he also Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” appeals to audiences with a performed by Kate McKinnon more serious undertone in a (“Ghostbusters”) dressed as mic-dropping line, “I’m going Hillary Clinton. Rather than to give Donald Trump a chance parodying Clinton as she usually and I hope that he’ll give us, the does, McKinnon embodied her historically disenfranchised, a spirit and quoted her concession chance too.” speech, “I’m not going to give This powerful opening up, and neither should you” in an monologue perfectly transitions appropriately poignant opening. into the first and funniest sketch Despite this message of hope, of the evening — poking fun at the show went on to mock the liberals who were dumbfounded election results and the country’s by Trump’s upset victory on responses to it with its trademark election night. Chappelle plays satire, some unexpected new the skeptical attendee deriding sketch formats and Chappelle the others’ confidence in at the helm. With an edge of Hillary’s prospects. Audience cynicism, the first-time host members may have heard many discussed the week’s events in his of the lines they themselves opening monologue, touching on uttered during election night, the Black Lives Matter movement which turned frantic as Trump and pointing to President-elect claimed more and more electoral Donald Trump’s most grating college votes. But the overall flaws. message delivered in this honest However, Chappelle may have depiction was that people who surprised audiences by claiming were confident in the results he himself wasn’t surprised by were blinded by the drastic the election results, stating “You partisan gap that determined the know, I didn’t know that Donald election. Chris Rock (“Grown Trump was going to win the Ups”) even made an appearance election. I did suspect it. It seemed supporting this, bursting into SHIR AVINADAV

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hooks of the iconic song perfectly display why The Rolling Stones have remained relevant all these years. They deliver what fans of rock ‘n’ roll want and need out of a concert, while maintaining the stage presence necessary to satisfy thousands of fans per show.

Outside of the music itself, Havana Moon offers little for a live album, and considering its length, it becomes an unnecessarily winded 18-track Stones playlist due to the cheering in between each song. It’s understandable that The Rolling Stones wanted to capture the historic concert, but as a standalone album without the visual performance, it simply lacks any compelling reason to pay much attention to it.

Havana Moon does a great job capturing the sonic energy of a Rolling Stones performance, but it lacks a reason for existence outside of being a soundtrack to the DVD recording. It’s just more efficient to copy the setlist onto a playlist than sit through two hours of an album with minimal additions to the flair that accompanies a rock ‘n’ roll concert. The historic prevalence has natural importance, but other than this context, Havana Moon lacks many facets that can make a live album great.

laughter alongside Chappelle when SNL cast member Beck Bennett sadly notes, “This is the most shameful thing America has ever done.” Their laughter says it all.

Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the election on “Weekend Update,” with Jost comparing Trump’s presidency to the plot of “The Intern,” and a barely secondlong sequence listing the names of the record-breaking number of female minorities elected to the Senate set to the tune of Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song.”

The song barely finishes the first line of lyrics before the clip ends.

Though the nature of the segment is mostly to blame for an excessive amount of election material, most of it falls flat (especially following Chappelle’s monologue and the first sketch). However, Jost and Che pull through with some amusing lines and are ultimately saved by McKinnon’s best appearance as Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appearance yet.

McKinnon downs a huge bag of Emergen-C and claims she has “horcruxes” hidden, refusing to let her old age get in the way of her job now that Trump’s president.

Having addressed just about every aspect of the election throughout the show, “SNL” turns to analyzing itself. Though not one of the strongest sketches, “Inside SNL” is delightfully surprising in contrast to the cynical tone taken by most of the previous coverage of the election.

Cleverly using the post-game analysis format, “Inside SNL” takes a look at what doesn’t work in a sketch, with members of the cast delivering cliché lines about their performance. The smart framing and pure silliness of the sketch makes it a refreshing break from all the political satire.

Despite one of the toughest weeks the United States has had in recent history, “SNL” pulls through with a standout episode, reassuring audiences that it will be there to make us laugh as always.

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S T A T S MICH 44.5 23.6 236.3 5.3 37 231.5 63.2% 8.3 17 4 72.5 467.8 46.5% 61.5% 3.3 17.8 18.0 41.9 12-17 10/4 45.7 32:59

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Cmp Att Yds 160 257 2156 13 18 114 4 5 45 177 280 2315

TD 15 2 0 17

INT 4 0 0 4

Att Yds Avg 121 592 4.9 65 508 7.8 61 415 6.8 69 411 6.0 21 161 7.7 15 154 10.3 9 47 5.2 5 37 7.4 22 36 1.6 3 19 6.3 2 17 8.5 3 15 5.0 6 12 2.0 1 2 2.0 1 1 1.0 1 1 1.0 2 -1 -0.5 1 -2 -2.0 1 -11 -11.0 10 -15 -1.5 26 -36 -1.4 445 2363 5.3

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TD 8 3 6 5 3 0 1 1 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 37

No. Yds 43 746 38 460 27 446 7 124 12 93 6 87 5 59 6 45 3 43 11 38 2 27 2 24 1 23 1 21 2 18 1 15 1 12 2 11 2 10 2 6 1 4 2 3 177 2315

Lg 46 37 40 54 15 56 33 15 18 17 21 22 23 21 15 15 12 7 5 4 4 5 56

TD 6 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17

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Managing Sports Editor

A year ago, Jehu Chesson was most commonly seen wide open, awaiting a pass that he would probably turn into a touchdown.

Chesson’s redshirt junior season underwent a second-half breakout that saw him climb into the conversation as one of the Big Ten’s best receivers and even threw his name into NFL draft consideration toward the end of last season. And then came the injury.

Playing against Florida in the Citrus Bowl, Chesson sustained a leg injury and had to go on crutches. He wasn’t medically cleared until just before fall camp, forcing him to miss out on nearly the entire offseason.

In the time since his return, he hasn’t made the same impact he did late in 2015. He has just two receiving touchdowns and is averaging 44.6 yards per game, a significant drop-off for a player who caught over 110 yards in three of Michigan’s last four games last season. But when asked about the drop-off on Tuesday, Chesson declined to blame the injury for his decreased production.

“I felt normal going into camp,” he said.

In the Wolverines’ 14-13 loss against Iowa on Saturday, Chesson was held in check for just two catches for 30 yards. On one crucial play late in the game, he appeared to have a chance to haul in a critical first down, but instead the ball was pulled away

by Iowa’s Manny Rugamba.

The first down alone would not have been enough to give Michigan the win on its own, but it would have put the Wolverines in field-goal range with a full set of downs. Tuesday, Chesson took responsibility for the play.

“I let the guys down on that one,” he said. “Something I’ll

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Fifth-year senior wide receiver Jehu Chesson had an impressive game against Maryland on Nov. 5, but he’s still looking to replicate his numbers from last season.

learn from, and we just gotta keep pushing. Obviously you’ve gotta use your hands, regardless of where the ball is, the expectation is to make that play.

We need that play so badly.”

One factor that could provide Chesson a spark is a potential change at quarterback. Multiple outlets reported Monday that Wilton Speight would miss the remainder of the regular season with a broken collarbone, though Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh denied those reports.

He did admit, though, that Speight was injured, so there is a possibility Michigan could switch to redshirt junior John O’Korn under center.

Speight seemed to develop a rapport with fifth-year senior receiver Amara Darboh, who became the quarterback’s go-to target on deep balls. But Chesson, who filled that role for Jake Rudock last season, is still very much a threat in the passing game. It’s possible he will find chemistry with O’Korn should Michigan call on the backup, which could signal an increase in targets for Chesson.

Against Maryland, Chesson played his most productive game of the season, pulling down five catches for 112 yards and a touchdown. After that performance, Harbaugh was quick to say there was no

special mandate to target the fifth-year senior.

“It wasn’t a plan to feed Jehu, but it’s been a really interesting dynamic,” Harbaugh said.

“I would say this. Here’s the greatest share of it, really, is I thought there were times last year where Jehu was playing great. Amara became the beneficiary of that in games last year, and then Amara would have a big game, so it’s probably no coincidence.

Amara’s been doing some great things — last week had a big game, 11-catch game, over 100 yards — and then Jehu becomes the beneficiary of that.”

Now, though, with a new

quarterback in the huddle, the target distribution could change once again. Chesson has long been expected to break through, and perhaps O’Korn could use his playmaking ability in the event Speight can’t go.

But, at least publicly, he says he won’t go into the game with any specific goal of upping his game to help O’Korn.

“Once you start thinking about it as playing up to something, then what were you doing when you weren’t playing up to that?” Chesson said. “I don’t personally have that mindset because I want to play at a level that I can be consistent, through and through.”

PUNT RETURNS Player Peppers Jocz Evans Perry TOTALS

No. 16 1 1 0 18

Yds Avg. Long 276 17.2 54 27 27.0 0 15 15.0 15 6 -6 324 18.0 54

TD 1 0 0 1 2

Young running back was shocked by last-second loss, vows to ‘make sure we keep our heads straight’

INTERCEPTION RETURNS Player Stribling Hill, D. McCray Thomas Lewis TOTALS

No. 4 3 1 1 2 11

Yds 60 36 22 4 0 122

Avg. Long 15.0 51 12.0 27 22.0 22 4.0 4 0.0 0 11.1 51

TD 1 1 0 0 0 2

Yds 9 9

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TD 0 0

Yds 198 34 28 28 26 6 320

Avg. Long 24.8 55 11.3 18 9.3 13 14.0 15 26.0 26 6.0 6 17.8 55

TD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

FUMBLE RETURNS Player Hill, L. TOTALS

No. 1 1

KICKOFF RETURNS Player Peppers Lewis Hill, K. Henderson Evans Hudson TOTALS

No. 8 3 3 2 1 1 18

KICKOFFS Player Allen Foug Tice TOTALS

No. 68 8 3 79

Yds 4356 460 189 5005

Avg. 64.1 57.5 63.0 63.4

TB 36 2 0 38

No. 33 27

Yds 1382 1138

Avg. 41.9 42.1

Lg 56 56

PUNTING Player Allen TOTALS FIELD GOALS Player Allen Tice

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12-16 75.0% 0-1 0.0%

LEADING TACKLERS Player Gedeon Peppers McCray Thomas Hill, D. Winovich Wormley Glasgow Hurst Gary Charlton Godin Lewis Stribling Kinnel Watson Bush Clark Glasgow, J. Metellus Hudson Furbush Pearson TOTALS

Solo 31 38 27 29 29 9 14 8 16 10 10 9 13 10 10 6 6 6 7 6 3 3 2 325

Ast 53 21 29 21 11 23 16 22 12 15 14 14 5 8 4 5 5 4 4 2 5 5 5 328

Evans, freshmen move forward after defeat

Tot 84 59 56 50 40 32 30 30 28 25 24 23 18 18 14 11 11 10 11 8 8 8 7 653

TFL 13.0 14.0 9.5 3.5 7.5 7.5 5.0 8.5 5.0 5.5 2.0 2.5 1.0 1.0 0.5 1.0 0.5 1.0 90

SK PBU 3.5 2 4.0 3.5 4 6 3 4.0 5.0 2.0 1 3.0 1.0 5.0 1.0 7 9 3 1.0 1 33 37

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After the Michigan football team lost to Iowa over the weekend, senior running back De’Veon Smith told his teammates that they needed that loss, and they could learn from it.

He felt the Wolverines had gotten too comfortable, and in order to move forward, they would have to focus more in practice.

Freshman running back Chris Evans listened to his older teammate. For the freshmen on the team, the loss at Kinnick Stadium was their first-ever taste of defeat.

“Yeah, I was surprised (by how the loss felt),” Evans said.

“When they ran on the field, I was like, ‘Oh my goodness,’ like this is some crazy stuff. It was ridiculous.”

He went on to describe the Hawkeye fans storming the field as “like a movie.”

The loss didn’t feel real until hours later, when Michigan was waiting for its plane to take off on the tarmac.

“As I was sitting there, I’m like, ‘Dang, we just really lost,’ ” Evans said. “And then it popped up on the TVs behind the seats, a recap of it and stuff, so that really hit hard.”

The freshmen on the squad have their own group chat, and when it sank in that the team would no longer be undefeated for the first time in their short careers, emotions flared.

“We could tell how people switched, like changed, because we haven’t really been in that situation,” Evans said. “So we saw really people’s true colors after they got mad, and their anger built up and stuff. We’re

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Freshman running back Chris Evans led Michigan with 52 rushing yards Saturday, but he also suffered the first loss of his career at Michigan.

just talking, like we just gotta make sure we keep our heads on straight when it’s our time.”

In a way, the freshmen have been spoiled by Michigan’s success. At the same time, the rookies have contributed to this season and have ownership for its success just as much as some of the veterans do.

Evans was the leading rusher against Iowa, and defensive end Rashan Gary, offensive lineman Ben Bredeson and wide receiver Eddie McDoom all played major roles in their units as well.

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eight times for 52 yards, he was still upset with his performance.

“I feel like I would get through the gap,” Evans said. “But I was getting down on myself because I feel like the offense, we really needed a big play, but I felt like I couldn’t do that for us.”

The freshmen reaction to the loss was somewhat expected. But older teammates have been there

before, and some are even impressed with the way they’re handling it. Those who have experienced losses before agree that perhaps an initial exposure to it could be positive.

“I think they’re all fired up and ready to attack this week of practice,” said redshirt sophomore tight end Ian Bunting. “We have a very mature

“When they ran on the field, I was like, ‘Oh my goodness.’ ”

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group of freshmen and a lot of guys that are playing. That was a big learning experience for them I think, and for everyone on the team.”

For someone like Evans, who this summer plastered to his ceiling magazine articles that wrote him off as an instant redshirt, the loss stung. After overcoming criticism that he wouldn’t be able to contribute in 2016, this was his first major defeat.

Against Indiana, the Wolverines will get to see for the first time how their freshmen rebound.

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Freshman defenseman Luke Martin has saved a spot for himself on the ice with his success on the penalty kill.

Martin gains confidence as penalty-kill specialist AVI SHOLKOFF

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With his team on the penalty kill and the score level in the third period of Saturday night’s game against No. 4 Boston University, Michigan hockey coach Red Berenson put defenseman Luke Martin on the ice. Martin, known for his physical blocking style, was tasked with maintaining the 1-1 score for two minutes while the 18th-ranked Wolverines played with a one-man disadvantage.

Once the power play began, two Boston University players took shots that went just wide before forward Kieffer Bellows recovered the puck for one more opportunity. Bellows slapped a shot hoping for a go-ahead goal, but Martin’s 6-foot-3 frame deflected it and the puck sailed away. Bellows had another chance, but Michigan freshman goaltender Jack LaFontaine saved it.

It was Martin’s fifth block of the game and his 25th on the season, both team highs.

“I think it’s something he’s learned before he got here, and now he realizes how important it is here, too, to be able to block shots,” Berenson said Monday. “He’s got a smart stick. He reaches with his stick defensively. He’s good and is learning how to play physical at this level. He uses his strength and his size, and it’s all part of development.”

Added Martin: “(There’s) not that much technique. It’s about having the will to get in front of it. I think at the end of the day, I (block shots) so when I get back to the bench everyone’s going to give me a pat on the back.”

As the youngest player on

a youthful Michigan team, Martin experienced some nervousness early in the season. Berenson believes that Martin’s experience with the United States National Team Development Program last year gives the freshman momentum and confidence to play in rowdy college arenas all over the country, just as he did last year.

To help ease this transition, on all road trips, freshmen room with upperclassmen.

For the team’s trips to the East Coast and Arizona State, Martin has stayed with junior defenseman Sam Piazza, whom he credits with easing his early-season jitters. “(Piazza’s) a very calming influence,” Martin said.

“Especially for our first couple away games I was getting a little nervous, and I think he could tell. He was very good at calming me down. He reminded me to trust myself and trust my game. Obviously, he’s a very calm player so that carried over, and it was a huge help.”

Added Berenson: “A veteran player can help the young player, he can just remind him of whether it’s our systems, or what we do in this case, or what we do in that case, or in that situation. It’s just so (the freshmen) have somebody experienced with them, to show them that they’re playing the right way. If you get two young guys together, and especially if one of them gets rattled, they don’t have an older player to settle them down and give them some leadership.”

While many of Michigan’s wingers from last season graduated or left for the NHL, many of its defensive mainstays remain in Ann Arbor. As a

result, Berenson pairs his younger players with veterans on the ice, especially early in the season. Through his first 10 games, Martin has played with Piazza, senior Nolan De Jong and senior Kevin Lohan. Martin calls it “a treat” to play with these veterans and believes each of them bring different aspects to assist Martin as he grows as a player.

Last Friday night, the Wolverines scored two powerplay goals within one minute.

The second was aided by Martin, who Berenson terms “the quarterback” of the power play.

“When I’m up top, I keep it simple,” Martin said. “I don’t really try to overcomplicate things. I’m good at getting shots through to the net, which generates offense. The guys on my flanks and in the middle, they complement me and they cover me when I make mistakes real well.”

Martin is the only freshman defenseman to have played in every game thus far, a testament to the confidence that Berenson has in him. Martin looks to improve as the season marches forward, displaying strength in shot blocking and for having the knack of being at the right place at the right time — he leads the Wolverines in plus/minus with a whopping plus-eight.

“I think he’s making progress,” Berenson said.

“I think he’s getting more confidence, getting experience. I think he’s learning what it takes to play well at this level. I think (defenseman) is the hardest position to come in and play as a freshman because you’re playing against really good forwards on other teams and I think he’s holding his own so far.”

In the week leading up to the Michigan men’s basketball team’s exhibition opener against Armstrong State, Moritz Wagner could sense that his role on the team was changing.

Coach John Beilein began to have the sophomore forward join the first unit during practice, but Wagner still didn’t know if he would crack the starting five. It wasn’t until the day before the game that Wagner found out for certain when Beilein told him.

With 15 points on 7-for-9 shooting — tied with senior forward Zak Irvin for the highest output of the night — Wagner stole the show. In 25 minutes on the floor, fewer than only Irvin and senior guard Derrick Walton Jr., he justified Beilein’s decision to start him over redshirt junior Mark Donnal, one of the breakout players from a season ago.

“You see the way he runs the floor. You saw his skill level a couple of times, too. His development is huge,” Beilein said. “… His defense is much better, and he stayed out of foul trouble. The big thing is we think he can take a lot of guys his size off the bounce.”

The competition for the ‘5’ spot in the starting lineup between the two big men, which has been brewing throughout the summer and fall, looked all but settled. Wagner emerged with the edge over his more experienced counterpart, and the discussion seemed to be over.

Until last weekend, that is.

Against Howard and IUPUI in the first two games of the regular season, Donnal showed up in a big way for the Wolverines.

Providing a spark off the bench

that Michigan sorely needed at certain sluggish moments, Donnal proved that he could still be a difference-maker, rather than an afterthought.

In Friday’s matchup versus the Bison, Donnal played nearly 10 more minutes than Wagner — despite being his backup — and made the most of the increased floor time. He finished with 12 points and six rebounds, the team’s second-highest total in each category on the night. Walton beat him out with 20 points, and redshirt junior DJ Wilson topped him with eight boards.

The bench duo of Donnal and Wilson combined for 21 points and 14 rebounds and helped the Wolverines snap out of an early funk, in which they simply couldn’t score for the first five minutes of the game. As the sixth and seventh men in the lineup, the pair gave Michigan the boost it needed to secure a 76-58 win.

“That’s our job, to be energy guys off the bench,” Donnal said. “What we’re trying to bring every game is energy (to) pick up the guys on the starting five and not have a drop-off when the bench comes on the floor.”

In Sunday’s game against the Jaguars, Donnal’s numbers on offense fell to eight points and three boards, but his contributions mattered most on the defensive side of the ball.

IUPUI put up a strong challenge in the first half, maintaining a considerable lead while the Wolverines attempted to whittle away at the deficit. Though Michigan finally took the lead with seven minutes left, it gave it right back and the Jaguars held onto a 32-30 advantage with four minutes remaining. That’s when Beilein decided to put

Donnal in the game.

The move worked wonders, as Donnal’s presence shored up the defense and helped the Wolverines hold their own in the face of the offensive barrage of the Jaguars. Michigan held IUPUI scoreless to close the opening half, launching a 13-0 run to enter halftime with a 43-32 advantage that it wouldn’t relinquish.

“When Mark went into the game, it changed things defensively. He can plug gaps,” Beilein said. “(Wagner) is still trying to learn where he should be sometimes. He’s guessing sometimes, and the game needs to slow down for him in ball screen coverage. … When they see a center trying to figure things out, they just attack the big guy. Mark plugged that up, and that was a big difference.”

Just like that, the competition is back on.

Beilein may not have officially reopened it, and he kept Wagner as the starter so far, but he also seems to have an open mind about the topic. He may stick with his decision, but after two standout performances, Donnal might have changed his mind.

“That’s what we have to sort out is what’s the best lineup really for every game,” Beilein said. “There’s some hardcharging teams in the Big Ten. …

Mark can plug and do some great things — not going to jump out of the gym. He just needs to be there and be strong going after the ball. I’m proud of the way he’s played so far; it’s two good games back to back.”

While Beilein’s choice may change on a nightly basis, what won’t is that if Donnal can maintain the level of production he has exhibited off the bench thus far, he will find the floor.

Flaherty, Gondrezick star in wins, earn weekly conference accolades MAGGIE KOLCON Daily Sports Writer

The Michigan women’s basketball team sits in the shadow of Big Ten foes, No. 6 Maryland and No. 7 Ohio State, but it is making a case for more recognition in the conference. The Wolverines trounced Oakland, 101-63, on Friday night, and followed that impressive performance with a 107-35 blowout over Niagara on Sunday afternoon in the first weekend of regular-season play.

Two Michigan players, junior guard Katelynn Flaherty and freshman guard Kysre Gondrezick, were honored by the Big Ten after their performances over the weekend.

Flaherty earned her spot on the Big Ten Player of the Week honor roll through consistent goal scoring, leading the team in both games. She racked up 23 points against the Golden Grizzlies, and she tallied 14 more against the Purple Eagles in just 17 minutes of action to become the 10th player in Michigan history to score 1,300 career points.

“I think our whole team came out with a little butterflies (against Oakland),” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “And in the first half, we didn’t shoot the ball exceptionally well. But then Katelynn got hot in the second half, and for her, the difference is she’s facing every team’s best defender from the start.”

When the rest of the Wolverines — especially Gondrezick, who was playing in her first collegiate game — got rid of their first-game butterflies, they provided enough of a distraction that Flaherty was left with plenty of time to get her shots off. Gondrezick, who was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week, came off the bench and scored 19 points in just 18 minutes against Oakland, effectively drawing some of the Golden Grizzlies’ defenders off of Flaherty.

The week before, Gondrezick was the only freshman to get significant playing time in the Wolverines’ exhibition game

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Kysre Gondrezick made a statement with 31 points in two games this weekend.

against Wayne State, but she was not able to land any of her attempts to score her first points.

“I’m glad I got (the exhibition game) underneath my belt,” Gondrezick said. “Just being in front of the Michigan crowd for the first time and playing on that floor was so surreal for me. I think I approached the game too fast. I didn’t let it come to me.”

Gondrezick proved her exhibition debut to be a fluke when it counted, though. Over the weekend, she quickly became the Wolverines’ second-leading scorer behind Flaherty with 31 points over two games. She has also contributed a team-high nine assists.

Her solid play paved the way for the rest of the freshman class to get off the bench. Freshmen guard Kayla Robbins, forward KeAsja Peace, and guard Akienreh Johnson all contributed their first collegiate points on Sunday, with 12, four and eight, respectively.

“(Gondrezick’s) a basketball player,” Barnes Arico said. “She really has a great understanding of the game. She led our team in assists the other day. She can score the ball, she can rebound the basketball, but she’s gotta continue to get better. She’s going to have some bumps in the road, but she’s got a chance to be a special player for us.”

Added Gondrezick: “Scoringwise, I just have a knack for putting the ball in the basket, but my focus right now is impacting the team through other facets of my game, whether that’s dropping dimes, or rebounding, or collapsing on the defensive end and getting steals.”

With Flaherty to look up to, there’s no reason to believe that Gondrezick will not have an impactful presence for Michigan.

If both players can manage to remain consistent, opposing teams will have a quite a pair to defend against.

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All Around the World: On the Other End of Exchange

BY ISOBEL FUT TER

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he summer between my freshman and sophomore years, my family housed our first exchange student.

At the time, Caro, a bubbly soccer player with an infectious smile, was a junior in high school from Bully, a small French city. She came to Midland, Mich., where my family lives, through the Rotary Club Exchange, which provides high school students with the opportunity to spend a year abroad with three or four different host families to better understand local culture.

As British expats in the United States, my family provides a unique perspective for exchange students. The students come to the United States to learn the American way of life, but staying with a British family changes the experience. As Caro’s last family in her rotation, she was well accustomed to the American way of life by the time she moved in. Her English was basically fluent and she had a good group of friends at school. I was moving home from my first year in college, happy that I’d be coming home to something — or more like someone — new and exciting. The idea of having a new person living in our house was cool. I looked forward to the opportunity to interact with Caro and share with her my life experiences and opinions. Caro was someone else to hang out with, talk to and practice French with.

I was excited to have the entire summer to get to know her.

As the months went by, Caro and I got close, and the experience became so much more. It slowly became more normal to see her hanging out at my house, and she became another person to hang out with when things at the house were slow. She told me about her life, I told her about mine and we got to know the nuances of each other’s cultures, backgrounds and families. I learned about the French school system, and how when Caro went back to France, she would have to take the bac, a standardized French exam that determines what you can study at college. I told her about college at the University of Michigan, where we can — and often do — change our majors and programs in a matter of days.

We taught each other swear words in our respective languages and laughed about it like children for hours.

We even planned times to visit each other in the future, or meet wherever in the world we may end up.

With all good things, Caro’s stay came to an end and it came the time to say goodbye. Even after a few short months, we had bonded and created a deep friendship. It made me sad to say goodbye to her, as I felt like she was becoming a part of our family. Though she was two years younger than me, she felt like a sister and someone I would see every morning, pouring cereal into her bowl or, after dinner, doing work at the kitchen table.

After Caro left, my sister, Maddy, departed for her trip to France. She was participating in the same program as Caro and would spend a year abroad in Rochefort, France. Having Caro stay with us was a good opportunity for Maddy to see cultural exchange from the other side. Maddy was 16 years old when she went abroad going, and going abroad during junior year of high school is frightening. She could see the different emotions Caro might go through, how Caro would adjust to our culture. And, luckily, Maddy and Caro got to meet up across the world in Caro’s hometown.

The house was lonely with my brother the only child left ILLUSTRATION BY EMILIE FARRUGIA

at home. I visited often to keep my mom company, as the house went from six people to three in only a few weeks.

It wasn’t long until my parents made up their minds: We would have another exchange student as soon as possible.

When Maddy came back this last summer, a new exchange student shortly followed. This time: a 16-year-old German boy named Lukas. When I went home for Fall Break, I met him for the first time and we had the opportunity to hang out and get to know each other.

Though Lukas is in the same program Caro was in, the experience has been totally different for my family. As each person has different interests, motivations and aspirations, Lukas and Caro could not be more opposite. Lukas is a 6-foot-7-inch analytical, musically talented performer and the perfect contender for our high school’s basketball team. Having never played basketball before, I found it comical that in the four days I was home, Lukas was outside practicing every day and learning a very stereotypical “American sport” to satisfy the Dow High coaches that saw a very, very tall kid join the school in September.

I am so thankful that my family hosts exchange students because I get this invaluable opportunity to be a big sister to someone new. Accepting a new person into your home, and your status quo, can be really difficult. When it goes right, the experience is so rewarding and fun.

Saying goodbye to Caro was one of my saddest goodbyes, and I’m sure Lukas’ goodbye will be equally sad.

In the future, I encourage anyone and their families to host an exchange student because the experience is invaluable. It’s not like travelling to another country and experiencing the culture firsthand; rather, it’s watching someone else grow within your own culture.

I saw Caro perfect her English, play for her high school soccer team and travel all over the country. Similarly, I see Lukas dedicating himself to basketball, playing in our high school band and even carving a pumpkin for the first time. It’s so fun to watch someone observe, ask questions and soak up everything you take for granted each day.

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NOW MORE THAN EVER: 10 student leaders put the conversation about progress in context

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ery soon after enrolling at this campus, the illusion of inclusivity was shattered for me. Throughout the years this has become clearer, as time and time again I have watched Islamophobia being ignored at the University of Michigan and throughout the country. At the end of my freshman year, I, along with other Muslim students on this campus, was forced to create my own safe spaces due to the University aligning itself with the media’s conflation of Muslim students’ demand for safety and respect as an attempt at stifle others’ freedom of speech.

This experience made me think about the way in which other minorities on campus are marginalized, our shared sentiments and how our oppressions are inextricably linked.

I asked student leaders who have experience working on issues of diversity, equity and inclusion — either within their own communities or with the administration itself — to send me reflections on this issue. I originally conducted interviews with them in late October after the launch of the University’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion plan. However, in light of the election of Donald Trump, I felt that the conversation needed to be revisited so that these perspectives could be viewed in the context of a dramatic shift in the sociopolitical climate of the United States, a shift that will inevitably affect our own campus.

These students were asked one question: What would you share with the administration regarding diversity, equity and inclusion and campus climate?

As a hijab-wearing Muslim woman it was heartbreaking to me that another Muslim student on this campus would be threatened just for practicing her faith, and yet, I have seen more support from students, faculty, and administration than ever before. The truth is that Donald Trump’s victory is a product of a foundation of fear — built on implicit biases and frustrations that are and have been embedded in this nation for a long time.

We must look in the mirror and ask ourselves what this country really is and what we can do in our power to create a more inclusive campus despite this shift.

Now it is more important than ever to have these conversations about what needs to be done in order to create a more inclusive and equitable world. The goal of this piece is to encourage and foster dialogue in a way that personalizes these experiences and allows readers to think of their own ideas.

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JASMYNE JACKSON THIRD-YEAR MED STUDENT / FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE BLACK MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

CHANNING MATHEWS RACKHAM STUDENT /MEMBER OF THE STUDENTS OF COLOR OF RACKHAM EXECUTIVE BOARD — CURRENTLY RACKHAM LIAISON, FORMER PRESIDENT

The administration has to make these issues relevant to every single student that comes across this campus, regardless of their identities or backgrounds … The biggest question that administration needs to answer right now is how will it protect the safety of the students, both physically and mentally. The outburst of hate crimes on campus and propaganda that appeals to hate and fear is not going to be addressed simply by acknowledging the problem in an email, or several emails for that matter.

We need concrete action steps to protect our students, especially our Muslim and Latinx communities who are being openly targeted in election aftermath.

I cannot comprehend the cognitive dissonance it takes to value diversity yet believe that students are not academically and emotionally affected by the overt and covert acts of intolerance that occur nationally as well as on this very campus. As a Black, queer, female medical student, it is exhausting to unpack the psychological trauma of attacks on my personhood. When I was leaving the hospital after a night shift, I received a phone call from my dad. He stated that he heard about the racist flyers on my campus and told me he loves me and to be careful. This is 2016. In reaction to “Kill em all” and “purify America” being painted on The Rock post-election, my cousin told me to be careful. I should not be told to be careful because of my race in 2016. A man threatened to set a woman on fire because of her religious beliefs and thus, forced a member of our community to remove her hijab. We have a humanistic obligation to protect those who are the most vulnerable to the manifestation of the hateful rhetoric that has been spewed out across the country. Some members of our community do not feel safe, and safety is a human right — it is an essential part of public health. The University has a responsibility to never be complacent in the face of injustice and needs to critique what aspects of this campus facilitate actions of hate. I stand in solidarity with people of color, my Muslim brothers and sisters, immigrants, women, individuals with disabilities and the LGBTQ community. I will devote my Michigan degree to uplifting, and for me, that is the true Michigan Difference.

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LSA AND BUSINESS JUNIOR / INVOLVED IN DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION EFFORTS IN THE ROSS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS/ INVOLVED IN ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN VOTE — MICHIGAN CHAPTER

LSA SENIOR/ DIVERSITY PEER EDUCATOR IN COUZENS HALL

Administrators must earn the right to put diversity on the University’s brochures, website, etc. The University has to provide for its diverse community, and right now, that means making sure marginalized students (Muslim students, students of color, immigrant students, LGBTQ students) are safe. That is a human right that the University has a responsibility to protect. I would tell administrators to genuinely ask themselves if they are doing the absolute most they can; I recognize that they can’t alienate groups of people and they have multiple interests weighing on them, but even given all of that, are administrators honestly doing the most they can to take action for students?

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The unpaid and unrecognized emotional labor of people of color on this campus has increased. Student organizers and leaders are carrying a lot of weight on their shoulders … What I need from the administration is a continuation and a step further in the messages they have already been sending. While the intentions of their anti-hate campaign are good, I would like to point out that some ideas are hateful and some of the discourse that has been occurring is hate speech. It is not the responsibility of marginalized communities to be re-traumatized over and over again because they are taking the time to educate others about oppression and experiences of hate. As for me, I will continue doing the work that I do to make sure that every single person on this campus, particularly those in my care in my residence hall, are safe and know that I am here for them. I love and support you all, and I will always be there for you.

MADINAH LUQMAAN SOCIAL WORK STUDENT/ PEOPLE OF COLOR COLLECTIVE

When you’re used to privilege, equality feels like oppression. When you are used to everything benefitting you, and suddenly, other voices are being heard more than yours, you’re of course going to feel somewhat left out … We are all aware that Republicans are not heartless folks. However, the Republican candidate built his campaign on hurting others through fear and exclusion. So when people decided it was more important to vote for someone who actively used violent language and made promises to harm large groups of marginalized folks, they should not be calling for those belonging to the threatened groups and their allies to, “get over it.” The hateful acts on this campus have shown that people aren’t accepting diverse groups of people and their right to exist. I’m sorry Republican students feel unsafe, but no one is threatening to light them on fire, deport them or throw them down hills.

TINA AL-KHERSAN LSA SENIOR/ EXECUTIVE BOARD OF MICHIGAN REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM/ MEMBER OF THE LSA UNDERGRADUATE CLIMATE COMMITTEE

This election and the rhetoric that has ensued after is not about just politics. I pride myself on being someone who is capable of reaching across the aisle and hearing other viewpoints, regardless of whether I agree with them or not. However, I am not always granted the same opportunity because of my religion and ethnicity. This is especially true now. I see people encouraging others to listen more, but what I am worried about is people not giving my viewpoints a chance simply because I call myself a Muslim. So to me, this election is about much more than just politics — it’s personal. How do I go about engaging in thoughtful and challenging dialogue when people across the aisle will inevitably and automatically see my viewpoints as less legitimate simply because of who I am?

SHEEMA REHMAN LSA SENIOR / CO-VICE PRESIDENT FOUNDATION FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL RELIEF OF CHILDREN

It’s important to include everyone in this conversation because we all belong to different communities and are affected by issues differently, but at the end of the day we are all members of this university. Issues that we face today are not new, but rather they have become normalized given the rhetoric used by political figures, especially as much more visibly hateful messages are surfaced, rather than floating in the background as they have had been in the past.

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Water: My Sister’s Savior, My Best Friend

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he first time I fell in love with water was the first time I almost drowned. I was 2 years old and running around my second home: The Valley Swim Club. My dad noticed I wasn’t eating lunch at the picnic table, so he went looking for me by the pool. There I was: submerged like a rock at the bottom of the shallow end.

My dad, the hero in this story, claims that he yanked me out of the water by my arm as I coughed hard to get the water out of my throat. The funny thing is, I would be taking swim lessons in that same shallow end three years later.

After swim lessons I was immediately signed up for competitive swimming at the age of 6. It was the Delaware Valley Summer Swim League, and my team, the Valley Sharks, was the smallest and worst team in the conference. I remember wanting to swim butterfly, the most awkward and physically challenging stroke in the sport of swimming (bless my ambitious, six-year-old soul). Circling my arms as fast as I could, I felt so powerful going through the water as I swam that one, 25-meter lap.

Little did I know, I would continue swimming for the next 13 years.

As strange as it sounds, swimming comes more naturally to me than walking. I never feel out of place in the water — my body immediately adapts with each stroke. I had only swum in the summers, but when I got to high school, my senior sister convinced freshman me to join the swim team instead of the basketball team. I had loved swimming, but I knew it would be tough: two (and sometimes three) practices a day, late nights and super early mornings, Saturday practices, and in general, extremely difficult workouts. But for some reason, something was calling out to me to do this … to continue swimming. So, I reluctantly obliged.

Soon enough, I was racing my sister in the 100 Butterfly, something I had never done before due to our separate age groups. It was always Lauren first, Erika second, and that only made me want to do better every race (Shevcheks live

by Erika Shevchek, Daily Arts Writer off of competition). The pool was the second home for my sister and me: We both grew up swimmers and became lifeguards, we both chose swimming over any other sport, and we both felt that we were most dominant in water.

But in June of 2013, the pool changed for us completely.

A dive into a black-bottom pool made Lauren paralyzed from the nose down. The one person who knew water better than I did was now struggling to move, let alone swim. I asked her what it felt like to be in that pool, losing all the feeling and function in her body. She told me, “With every kick back to the surface, I lost more sensation. Then my legs just stopped working. I felt like a mermaid.”

It’s been a tough journey of recovery for Lauren since then. But, despite the catastrophic accident, my sister is still the same person she was before. The doctors had told her that even though the impact of the dive was so crucial, the water pressure saved her brain. The water saved my sister.

I have not looked at a pool the same way since. There will always be a scar of pain when I see the water and when I dive in for my own races. Yet, Lauren’s brain wasn’t the only one that was saved by water.

My senior year of high school I was diagnosed with severe anxiety. There were days when I genuinely could not handle the world, including myself and my own thoughts. However, I had a volleyball and swim team to lead, colleges to apply to, records to break. I concealed my anxiety with a façade of smiles and confidence.

Truthfully, the one thing that got me through that period of time was the power of the pool.

That season I had set enormous goals for myself. With two torn rotator cuffs and a mental illness, I planned to break school records, go to districts (for 50 freestyle and the 200 free relay) and overall, have my team win as many league meets as possible. I channeled all of my energy, my stress and my deteriorating thoughts into the sport.

And somehow, my anxiety turned into accomplishment. I stood at the top of the podium with my relay, holding our

gold medals and knowing that our names and the recordbreaking time would be up on the board.

As any swimmer knows, the physical act of swimming is meditative. You can’t hear anything but the rippling motion of the water and your own thoughts. You somehow think of everything and nothing — it’s being mindful and mindless at the same time. It’s pure magic.

The water gets sucked into my skin; it runs down my hair, through my teeth. I can feel my heart thriving as if the water has entered my bloodstream. When I couldn’t tell others about my issues, the pool was all ears. When I had to cry, the goggles caught my tears. Personally, I believe water to be the most damaging and powerful force, but here I am also feeling so safe and content when I am in it.

Those who are close to me will know that when I am sad, I swim. When I am angry, I swim. When I make a huge mistake, I swim. When I need to dissect my thoughts, I swim. When I need to leave the world for a while, I swim. My body doesn’t have to think about the motions — it acts on its own. It knows when to flip, when to breathe, when to change from fly kick to flutter kick, when to break out of streamline and all the in between.

Even though I almost died in the water when I was two, having the outlet of swimming and having my body react the way it does when it is in the pool has been my biggest blessing.

Though water is my safe haven, there still remains that slight touch of fear. However, even my sister’s injury did not stop her. By summer of 2015, she was back in the pool with my mom, trying to do strokes and float on her back (a form of hydrotherapy/rehabilitation). I slipped into the water next to Lauren, who sat in this cute, adult floaty. I looked at her, I looked at the water: “You know, we haven’t been in a pool together in four years,” I told her. The water still had its binds, and regardless of our rough journeys, it had brought my sister and I back home.

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Where Do We Go From Here?

by Eliana Herman, LSA Junior

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ast Tuesday night, I watched the map of the United States turn bright red and I felt a fist grip my heart. I had been trying to do homework and watch election coverage at the same time, but I’ve never been the best multi-tasker. As the night progressed, my notebook fell to the side and I found myself intently reading Washington Post coverage, analysis and speculation. Hours passed in minutes, and Hillary Clinton’s path to the White House went from assumed to unlikely to impossible. I wanted to stay up until the end, until every vote was in, because in my persistent optimism I waited for a deus ex machina, I waited for my own state to turn blue at the last minute.

But, as we all know now, that didn’t happen. Michigan is still unaccounted for. I ended up falling asleep, feeling genuinely afraid of my own country, of the people who voted for Trump and his sexist, xenophobic, homophobic and racist rhetoric.

Needless to say, the next morning was painful. My heart still ached, and I still felt afraid, lost in my own country for the first time. Who were these people? Did they hate me too, because I’m a woman and Jewish? Are they sitting next to me on the Commuter North? Are they the swimmers I’m guarding at the Central Campus Recreational Building? But as the day passed, and I went through the motions of a normal Wednesday, I overheard conversations all over campus about how we can get through this together, and that we can’t give up. I saw chalkings all over the Diag, proclaiming that this is still home, that we all belong here, that love is strongest of all. And throughout the day, I felt my various communities within and outside of the University of Michigan offering immeasurable support to one another. Being there for one another, because what else could we do? I felt loved, supported and heard by my friends and family. As I experienced this outpouring of love, my hope began to come back. It was also sad, to see my friends crying, fearing they will be persecuted simply for being themselves. Wednesday was bittersweet; I could feel the genuine fear of my friends who were the target of Trump’s rhetoric. I also felt the strength and optimism of a people that will not let hate prevail on this campus, in this country or in the world. I felt more determined than ever before to make a change, to push the government in the direction of justice.

Because, as disillusioned and helpless as I’ve felt time and time again, I know that the American government, though in some ways corrupt and owned by Big Business, is still for the people and by the people. We have to speak up. We have to make it impossible for them to compromise our autonomy over our bodies, to intersect our communities and wildlife with pipelines, our right to have clean water, and our right to marriage equality for all. I know this seems overly optimistic, but there are reasons why I feel this way.

The week before the election, I watched Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary, “Before the Flood.” It was about climate change, the politics around it and the science of our devastatingly changing climate. As anyone who has ever seen a film about climate change can imagine, it got pretty bleak. But near the end, DiCaprio showed how public opinion can change the actions of politicians.

There was a clip of President Barack Obama in 2008, saying he was against same-sex marriage. The reason he said this was because he thought the majority of his constituents felt this way, and he did not want to lose their votes.

Clearly, as Obama felt public opinion change, he changed his own position on same-sex marriage. Our opinions count. Our voices matter. We just have to use them.

As a white, female, Jewish college student, I don’t really know why people voted for President-elect Donald Trump. Not only did he spout hateful rhetoric through the entire election, but I’m pretty sure he is the least qualified person to ever run for president. But I’ve been working to understand where his voters were coming from, because I cannot just write them off. Though we have many differences, fundamentally they’re just people, like me. We will not get anywhere if we ignore these individuals, because that is what caused Trump to be elected. Love trumps hate, and that doesn’t mean only loving the people who voted for Hillary Clinton. Showing compassion to all people, and really trying to understand them, is the only way to keep moving forward.

We need to think about what our country stands for.

America: the land of the free, the home of the brave. A nation of many different cultures, religions and ethnicities, living together, and thriving. Or a nation that builds a wall? A nation that threatens to burn women in hijabs?

A nation with swastikas spray painted on walls? That is not my nation. I refuse to accept that as the America

I’ve grown up in. I still believe that love is strong. If we meet each other, and really try to understand each other, I think that hate will fall away. We are all just people, and we have a responsibility to treat each other the way every person inherently deserves to be treated, regardless of politics.

Now, almost a week has passed since the election. This time last week, I was straining to get a glimpse of Obama over the shoulders of three extremely tall men at Ray Fisher Stadium, feeling the hope that Obama’s speeches provide. Last Tuesday, I was elated, thinking that last glass ceiling was about to be shattered. Since last Wednesday, two crime alerts have been sent out, regarding ethnic and religious intimidation that occurred on campus, right near my house. If this is happening here, in “liberal” Ann Arbor, I’m scared for the rest of the country. But also, there has been a protest against this intimidation, and many have gathered in the Diag to show their support for tolerance and love. Today, I feel a bit less optimistic than I did last Wednesday. I think the reality of the next four years is starting to set in. And yet I refuse to give up hope.

I will hold on to love and optimism, and tolerance, and I will not stop advocating for a compassionate and empathetic understanding of all people.

ILLUSTRATION BY EMILIE FARRUGIA

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016 // The Statement

»NOW MORE THAN EVER

ALL PHOTOS BY DAVID SONG/DAILY

EMILY LIU LSA SENIOR /FORMER SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION AND AWARENESS CENTER CO-COORDINATOR

Inclusion and safety are at the core of the University of Michigan’s values and mission; our academic and co-curricular feats would not even be conceivable without the contributions of people of color, Muslim folks, LGBTQ-identifying individuals, indigenous peoples and sexual violence survivors, represented in students, staff and faculty. Some students feel silenced by the University’s support for those who are hurt by the election of Donald Trump and they themselves feel prejudiced by the University for “taking sides.” I, however, implore the administration to keep in mind the structural hierarchies and systems of power, privilege and oppression in place outside of the bubble of our University. The administration should consider centering and prioritizing the voices and perspectives of those community members who have faced structural violence, discrimination and exploitation that has historically and continues today to be validated, justified and perpetuated in our country’s institutions — and now, in the White House. We’re asking, begging you to step up and help us make Michigan the kind of University that it prides itself on being.

MS

NICOLE KHAMIS

LSA SENIOR

LSA SENIOR / FOUNDER OF MICHIGAN REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

[Editor’s note: Given the sociopolitical context, safety is something that our contributors have to take into consideration. This contributor, due to a concern for safety, only felt comfortable sharing their initials.]

After the election, I realize how much incidents outside of campus also affect students on campus and lead to incidents on campus. It has definitely been very difficult following the election for me to continue on with daily life and tasks, but this time I have felt that I have received more support than usual. I have had professors, GSIs, students, etc. acknowledge and be cognizant of the fact that the election results definitely affected me in negative ways and will continue to do so. The outpour of support has been very refreshing, and I appreciate all the people that have reached out to me. Students will continue to be negatively affected by incidents off campus as well even if nothing directly happened to them. Everyone needs to stand up, show support and show up. If there is an event/ protest/vigil related to incidents on campus, show up and then be willing to learn from the experiences of those that are marginalized. Listen, learn how to be an ally and to unlearn the isms and phobias, and be willing to change your view points. Share what you learn with more people on campus and even your families. Ask marginalized folx how they would like to be supported. You can not sit idly and pretend like nothing is happening or undermine someone’s experiences. Think and come up with more preventative measures and learn new ways to support those on campus, especially those who hold marginalized identities and have intersectional identities that make things even more difficult for them. As a PoC and Muslim American, I have always needed everyone’s support and will continue to, so realize that your allyhood is and should be the beginning of your activism.

It’s hard to put into words the disappointment I have felt over the past couple of days. My disappointment has nothing to do with partisanship, but everything to do with the fact that a man, who ran a campaign on white supremacy, racism, sexism and xenophobia, is now our president-elect — and more so, that half of our country supports the sentiments that this individual has propagated throughout his campaign. What this election has affirmed to many of us — women, individuals of color, immigrants, refugees, Black individuals, individuals with disabilities — is that to half of this country, we are simply disposable. I will not wait until this individual has done something to oppose him — it is too late for that.

Hate crimes have spiked 78 percent throughout the campaign and are happening on campus. Racism, sexism, islamophobia, etc. have all become legitimized. I hope that many of us remember the shock and pain that we felt to see all of the progress of eight years disappear in the two minutes that put our current president-elect over the edge. And I hope we all make a promise to ourselves to never let something like this happen again. It is time to organize and mobilize, to build coalitions, to lean on one another and reject hatred at every turn. I do believe in us because when I look to the future I see my fellow classmates fighting for a better world beside me. We must remember that out of the darkness comes change; it will not be easy, and it will not be without struggle. But, I’m ready. This is the moment where we decide who we are as a generation; welcome to the fight.