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Reverend Jesse Jackson speaks at a walkout organized by Students4Justice to protest racism on the Diag Wednesday.

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Hundreds of students and community members march, sometimes blocking streets, during the Students4Justice campus walkout Wednesday.

Nearly one thousand march through campus in walkout

Rev. Jesse Jackson emphasizes empowerment at student-organized event NISA KHAN & TIM COHN

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Nearly a thousand people gathered on the Diag and marched through University of Michigan buildings for a student walk-out protest against racism on campus following President-elect Donald Trump’s upset win Wednesday

afternoon.

The walkout, which was organized by the student organization Students4Justice, was also attended by civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson.

Prior to the event, the Students4Justice released a list of demands that they hoped to achieve from the protest.

The list included demands for University action to protect

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underrepresented minority students by re-channeling resources, as well as a call for the University to be an immigrant sanctuary site, to double its commitment to rejecting racial harassment, to divest from unethical corporations and to remove all symbols and fliers associated with the alt-right movement and those encouraging white supremacy.

LSA junior Lakyrra Magee, one

of the event organizers, highlighted the call to make the University a sanctuary campus — a designation that would empower Universities to limit institutional cooperation with federal immigration officers seeking out undocumented students— as among the most significant demands.

“Our main message was this: Because President Schlissel came See WALKOUT, Page 3A

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Rev. Jesse Jackson puts our struggle in context with MiC Civil rights legend shares thoughts on recent campus incidents following election MICHIGAN IN COLOR Senior Editors

Jarred and unsettled, Michigan in Color has shared in the sentiments of many students, faculty and staff on campus: fear,

confusion, hopelessness, urgency and the need for action. Given that Michigan in Color is a space by and for people of color, our work has centered on providing MiC as a space and a platform for students to make sense of the See JACKSON, Page 3A

Annual SAPAC Speak Out provides ‘U’ releases survivors space to share their stories statement CAMPUS LIFE

International students find freedom and frustrations In transition to ‘U’, challenges in maintaining identity, acquiring work NEIL SCHWARTZ Daily Staff Reporter

For many incoming freshmen, leaving home for the first time is a source of excitement and fear, regardless of how far they’re going.

But for international students, like Music, Theatre & Dance junior Jessica Gomes-Ng, living thousands of miles from home for years at a time is adds new elements to that experience.

Gomes-Ng said studying in the United States was an easy transition because of her previous education at international primary and secondary schools in New Zealand, Vietnam, Belgium and Singapore.

“I went to an American school See STUDENTS, Page 2A

Audience places flowers on painting of tree during 30th iteration of event KAELA THEUT

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A diverse crowd of about 100 people filled the Michigan Union Rogel Ballroom Wednesday night to listen as male and female survivors of sexual assault shared their stories at the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center’s 30th annual Speak Out event.

The event was organized

by SAPAC’s Networking, Publicity and Activism Volunteer Program, led by LSA senior Alyssa Dunbeck and LSA junior Srinidhi Subramanian.

SAPAC, a University entity, trains students to act as a peer network for survivors of sexual assault and aims to advocates for social change through professional services, such as counseling and crisis hotlines, for the campus community.

Dunbeck and Subramanian opened the program by noting the survivors’ stories

were confidential, and the speak out aims to provide a safe place to empower survivors to share on their own terms. They asked that only survivors of sexual

assault talk in front of the audience, and defined sexual assault as an umbrella term that includes rape, stalking, sexual harassment and intimate partner violence.

The Michigan Daily was asked to not quote directly from any survivor’s story.

Survivors were given the opportunity to speak at any See SAPAC, Page 2A

about 2017 graduation

Information about plans follows student petition on ceremony EMILY MIILLER Daily Staff Reporter

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A program for the Sexual Assault and Prevention Center’s 30th annual Speak Out rest on the chairs for audience members before the event in the Michigan Union Wednesday.

In a Wednesday press release, the University of Michigan stressed that the 2017 commencement ceremony — the bicentennial ceremony — will include multiple in-person speakers.

The release came after a petition circulated among seniors this week alleging that there were tentative plans to ompile a video of past speakers instead of one or both of the traditional speakers — typically a student and a keynote speaker.

Engineering senior Clare Hyde said she created the survey Sunday after confirming that this was the committee’s plan for commencement with several individual sources, including See BACKLASH, Page 3A

The B-Side Daily Arts Writers explore food and cooking, including a trip to a pie-making class and a review of Ina Garten’s new cookbook.

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BRIEF: INCOMING UNIVERSITY REGENT RON WEISER TO PLAY ROLE IN TRUMP INAUGURATION President-elect Donald Trump has selected incoming University of Michigan Regent Ron Weiser as a finance vicechair for his inauguration this January, meaning Weiser will be serving in that capacity when he starts in his role as regent.

Weiser, a University of Michigan alum and previous chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, was elected to the board along incumbent Regent Denise Illitch (D), edging out incumbent Regent Laurence Deitch (D) and moving the board to a 5-3 Democratic majority instead of its current 6-2 balance. He ran on his promise to freeze tuition

STUDENTS From Page 1A in Belgium, so I was around that type of environment for a while,” she said. “I was a little homesick for a while, but I got used to it because I’m quite used to being independent.”

According to the University of Michigan admissions website, international students make up 14.4 percent of the University undergraduate population and originate from 118 different countries. Despite obstacles such as securing jobs in the United States, this number continues to grow.

Across the nation, the number of international students studying in American universities is at an all-time high. According to the annual Open Doors report released Monday by the Institute of International Education, since 2015 the number of international students in the United States has grown by 7.1 percent to reach 1

SAPAC From Page 1A of the microphones stationed around the space. The audience was urged not to clap, but to sit in silence as a show of respect and to ref lect on the survivors’ words. Because the content shared in the event could have been potentially triggering for other survivors, SAPAC advocates were stationed outside the doors to talk if anyone needed to exit the space and survivors could go

“It’s a space for survivors to share their stories and we almost had no lulls.” to a “debrief” after the event.

After the event, Dunbeck

rates and balance the growing budget.

Protests and vigils over Trump’s election, as well as several hate crimes reported in the aftermath of his election, have been frequent on campus over the past few weeks, with many students expressing fear and concern about what impact the next president could have.

Prior to serving on the inauguration committee, Weiser was also part of a national fundraising effort for the Trump Victory Committee during the campaign season, which Deitch frequently noted in his campaign. In an event last week, Weiser said he agrees with Trump’s economic

million total.

Many students from global backgrounds, like Gomes-Ng, attended international schools either in the United States or elsewhere for their primary and secondary education. University alum Alice Song, who graduated in 2015, said her parents’ decision to send her to boarding schools in Thailand and Canada was influenced by their concerns with the Korean school system.

“It’s a lot of studying and conformity (in Korea),” Song said. “Everyone takes the same classes and there are not many extracurricular activities or resources available.”

Many international students said the highly rated programs offered by the University are also a strong draw for enrollment, particularly in specific fields of study like engineering or premedicine. Engineering junior Tay Tantivirun said he also likes the emphasis that both his international schools and the University place on learning

said she thought it ran smoothly, noting that there was never a long pause between the survivors’ sharing of stories.

“I think it went really well,” Dunbeck said. “It’s a space for survivors to share their stories and we almost had no lulls in the conversation at all.

Everyone went up right after another and got to tell their story.”

As the SAPAC Speak Out is an annual event, the co-coordinators said they drew on how the event has been run in the past to ensure the continuity of the message of the speak out.

“I think in general, from our notes from previous co-coordinators, I think it’s maintained the same idea throughout, the structure of the event is pretty much the same,” Subramanian said.

Dunbeck and Subramanian ended the event by inviting audience members to place a f lower on a painting of a tree at the front of the room, to show their solidarity with survivors of sexual assault. They also

policies but does not agree with all of his rhetoric in response to questions about his support for Trump.

“We all make choices, and I’m an economic conservative and I think that some of the things that I believe in are fundamental, and I don’t believe that they’re being promoted in order to take advantage of the disadvantaged,” Weiser said.

“I spent most of my life trying to help the disadvantaged, not take advantage of them.”

He could not be reached for comment Wednesday on the appointment.

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outside the classroom.

“The difference between my international school and public schools in Thailand is that they really emphasize sports and doing activities,” he said. “That’s what I like about coming to Michigan.

You’re not just here to study.”

A shift in identity For many students, their time studying in the U.S. is characterized by the personal as well, experiencing shifts and changes in their identities.

Song, who identifies as bisexual, said escaping the constraints of traditional Korean society and studying abroad has allowed her to explore who she is and become more open-minded.

“Here, there’s a lot more freedom as to what you can identify with or what is OK,” she said. “I feel like when I go to Korea it’s like I have to be in a certain way because that’s just how it is considered. People care a lot.”

She said she has not told her family about her orientation

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University of Michigan alum Bryon Maxey discusses his student activism during his time at the University at Rackham Ampitheater Wednesday.

because she believes her mother’s conservative upbringing in Korea has contributed to a lack of understanding of the LGBTQ community.

“She’s trying really hard to understand,” she said. “It’s me that’s changing, not her. That’s why it’s so difficult to talk about certain things because it’s hard to understand from her perspective.”

Song said she felt a disconnect with her identity during sophomore year overall — living outside of Korea for so long made her lose connection to her ethnicity. She also said she was influenced by the fear of being associated with negative stereotypes reflecting international students.

“I didn’t very strongly identify as a Korean,” she said. “There was nothing good that could come out as identifying as Korean because there were a lot of stereotypes about Asians in general or studying abroad that I didn’t want to be associated with.”

encouraged members to write down their stories and place them in a designated box at the back of the room if they did not feel comfortable speaking in front of a large audience.

Dunbeck said she has volunteered with SAPAC for four semesters and was inspired by her mother, who works as a police officer

Tantivirun echoed these sentiments, saying the prolonged time he has spent outside his home country has left him feeling alienated in both Thailand and the United States.

“I’m really different from people back home in Thailand because I’ve been abroad for so long,” he said. “Sometimes I feel like an outside when I’m home.

And sometimes when I’m in the United States, I don’t feel exactly at home.”

Despite this, Tantivirun said he is glad to be attending school in the United States. He said leaving the country he has lived in for most of his life to learn in a new environment has allowed him to see opportunities that he did not have at home.

“You’re so used to the world that you live in,” he said. “But once you move out, you start realizing the flaws and what’s wrong with certain things.”

Life on campus Coming from an international school, Tantivirun said he

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She said she wanted to make a positive impact like her mother, and to support survivors.

“We want all the survivors to know that we believe them, we support them and if they need any help to come and see SAPAC or to call our crisis line,” Dunbeck said.

LSA sophomore Nicholas Maternowski attended the event as a SAPAC volunteer.

Volunteers wore “I Believe You” buttons and directed survivors to an advocate if one was needed. He said he was pleased with how the event went, especially in terms of how sensitive the subject matter was.

“I think it went really well,” Maternowski said. “I mean it’s obviously a difficult topic for people to talk about, so it’s just very powerful to see people talk about their experiences in such a open space. It’s very eye-opening.”

was prepared to handle the difference in the environment of American colleges. He credits this ease from culture shock to the extracurricular activities offered at the University, citing student organization BLUElab in particular as an outlet he could use to discover what he was passionate about. The organization, comprised of 12 multidisciplinary project teams, promotes collaboration with local and international stakeholders on a variety of issues.

“It really changed my perspective,” Tantivirun said. “I really want to do engineering for humanitarian purposes. In the long run, I want to come back home and help out my country.”

For Song, her time in Englishspeaking international schools in Thailand and Canada was also beneficial in transitioning into post-secondary education in the United States.

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MICHIGAN IN COLOR JACKSON From Page 1A about face taken by world around us. As events unfold rapidly, this world seems increasingly against us, our prosperity, our joy and our very existence. Tuesday morning, Michigan in Color was given the opportunity to reflect, to connect with the living and breathing history of civil rights activism in the United States by interviewing Reverend Jesse Jackson. MiC editors discussed in depth the impact of these recent elections with Reverend Jackson.

We inquired about the future of this country, of activism and the continuing the fight to dismantle our interconnected oppression. We wanted to know what this moment meant to him in the context of a lifetime of activism. How had he been making sense of the larger sociopolitical implication of the recent election of Donald Trump?

The conversation unfolded into a narrative of struggle, perseverance, and perspective.

Although not religiously affiliated, all of the editors can attest to that fact that the experience was in fact spiritual. His words, etched in over half a century of experience, spoke to our past, present and future. A better future.

Four themes emerged from our discussion: accountability, responsibility, action and hope. No words could ever fully encapsulate the experience and we continue to process our conversation and its implication for our lives and the lives of those around us.

However, the senior MiC editors present you with short reflections, intentionally weaving in the words of Reverend Jackson and the experiences of our campus climate and world. These messages we share with you all.

WALKOUT From Page 1A out and said he cared about diversity and marginalized students, we are here to show so many students at the University, people who are living in Ann Arbor, support the University of Michigan becoming a sanctuary campus,” she said. “And if President Schlissel really cared about (protecting) marginalized students, this is one concrete way he can do it besides showing up.”

Protesters cited a number of concerns during the walkout, including the two hate crimes in downtown Ann Arbor that have been reported to police since Trump’s presidential win last week.

On Friday, a woman was threatened and forced to remove her hijab. On Saturday, a woman was pushed down a hill and verbally harassed.

Additionally, many speakers discussed anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ and anti-Muslim posters, many of them promoting themes of white supremacy, that have been found

BACKLASH From Page 1A student advisers to the committee.

Hyde received 1,152 responses from seniors by midnight Monday, of which 97 percent expressed a negative opinion about replacing speakers with videos.

She said she decided to circulate the survey as part of a larger complaint to the bicentennial committee and the subcommittee dedicated to planning the commencement ceremonies because she anticipated a more traditional celebration to commemorate graduation from the University.

“You could do it in addition, but it shouldn’t change the program because people have been looking forward to potentially being a student speaker,” Hyde said.

“They’ve been coming with all these different ideas to talk about and be inspiring to their fellow classmates and future colleagues.

And they want to have some bigname, inspiring person coming and talking with them to inspire them for their future as well. This is supposed to be a celebration and you’re supposed to be excited about it, but I feel like a video doesn’t do that justice.”

The press release, University spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald said the aim of the University is to make

RESPONSIBILITY “They were hoping students would be indifferent by telling them ‘you’re our future’. You are not our future.

You are right now. What you do or going to do matters right now.”

Reverend Jesse Jackson guided us through the tumultuous journey of social and political change in a time where today’s climate is extremely hostile towards marginalized communities. He instilled a great sense of urgency upon us. In a time of violent oppression, it is no longer an issue of building the future, because the future is now.

“What you do or don’t do matters right now. Whether you finish school or not matters right now. If you’re developing skills or not developing skills it matters right now. If you vote or you don’t vote, it matters right now.

So you put political options on hold.

No.” Apathy has no place in the now.

Making the passive decision to be silent is the active decision to accept oppression in the case that the tools are available for us to create change as individuals at the university. Yes, there is a struggle to build and protect resources, but simply witnessing it is definitely not enough. As individuals, we cannot let our grief, our anger, discourage us. It must liberate us to learn, develop and take political action.

In light of the presidential election, Reverend Jackson told us, in response to Colin Kaepernick’s decision to not vote, that the most important weapon combating the enemies of systemic oppression, prejudice and discrimination is voting.

“One weapon is marching feet.

One weapon is voting. One weapon is boycotts. One weapon is intellectual strengths. One weapon is mass organization. The strongest of these weapons is voting, because it sets laws.”

We have the tools to us as communities to initialize change,

posted on campus several times in the past few months.

LSA junior Alyiah Al-Bonijim spoke to the crowd about her frustrations with Islamophobic comments triggered by her choice to wear a hijab.

“For what? Because you want to see my hair? Is that what is important to these fucking white people?” Al-Bonijim asked the cheering crowd, saying that forcing a woman to take off her clothing, including the hijab, was sexual assault.

Protesters also touched on the failure of a Central Student Government vote Tuesday night to divest from corporations that have allegedly committed human rights violations against Palestinians.

Many in the crowd yelled negative chants about CSG during the walkout.

Following the initial assembly on the Diag, the protesters marched throughout Central Campus, also entering buildings to continue their chants.

As the march moved through campus, student organizers, as

the event memorable for attendees.

“One voice is not enough to fully celebrate this historic commencement,”he said. “We want to make this a truly memorable experience for the students of our bicentennial class and their families.”

According to the release, the ceremony will include a music performance by a nationally recognized individual or group, as well as speeches from and recognition of alumni and a video created by current students.

Graduating students will also sit on the field for the event, a break from tradition.

Details of the ceremony are slated to be announced in early 2017.

LSA senior Francesca Sands who was sent the survey this week, said in an interview before the University release she was surprised and angry at the thought of replacing either speaker with a video.

Sands said she anticipated commencement speakers who would address current events, especially in light of the recent win of President-elect Donald Trump.

She said she felt a video could not sufficiently address the particular salient issues facing soon-to-be graduates currently on campus.

“Especially with the climate after the election, with everything socially and politically, we’re going to be graduating terrified, pretty

but we cannot forget our civil duty to let our voice be heard through our vote — a right we have been afforded through the struggle of great visionaries.

“We marched too long and bled too much for the right to vote to walk away from it as if it does not matter.”

It is our responsibility to learn from those have paved the way for us to continue their cause. They have lit the torch to illuminate the darkness and they have passed it onto each and every one of us to get us out of it.

We have a duty to make a change. It starts with ourselves. It starts with you, and it’s happening. Right now.

— Christian Paneda, Michigan in Color Senior Editor ACCOUNTABILITY “If (a woman’s) hijab is snatched off, it’s like someone else is putting Blackface on. We should all be offended by each other’s burden. We should share the burden. The more you share, the easier it is to bear.”

As a nation we have to hold one another accountable for the America we want to be and for the values we have espoused. In his final months in office, President Obama urged the American people to hold their next president accountable, to make them better like we did for him. This is true now more than ever.

More than ever, we need to be engaging with our elected officials — and not just about the issues that affect us personally. We should all be disgusted by the hate crimes happening in our country. We should all be appalled by the idea of legislation that would militarize police, register Muslims, threaten women’s autonomy and strip LGBTQ rights. We have to organize and demand that our elected officials do not turn the clock on progress, no matter their political affiliation. As Reverend Jackson said, “we’ve got to protect the gains we’ve made.”

To the Republicans and Trump supporters who are quick to say they aren’t racists, misogynists

well as Jackson, led the crowd in a number of chants condemning racism, sexism, islamophobia and xenophobia.

Chants included slogans such as: “No justice, no peace,” “Hey Hey, Ho Ho, these racist folks have got to go,” “No Alt-Right, no KKK, no fascist USA” and “Black Lives Matter.”

“Thanks for stepping up and fighting back,” Jackson told the

“For what?

Because you want to see my hair?” crowd. “Do not let any election oppress your dreams … Red, yellow, black and white, you are all precious in God’s sight. We must learn to live together. This land is a land of multiculturalism.”

Jackson led student chants, showing solidarity with those all of those who felt marginalized in

much, and I think that needs to be addressed,” she said. “I feel like a video highlighting parts of other speeches from past years isn’t addressed to us or the time we’re going to be entering the world in. I was disappointed.”

She also voiced her concern over the perceived lack of transparency and student input in the planning process.

“I’m worried that people will be caught off guard by this decision in March, whenever they’re supposed to release the speaker,” Sands said.

“And then there’s nothing they can do about it.”

Hyde closed the survey Monday night after receiving additional information from the Bicentennial Advisory Committee that it would not entirely replace both speakers with videos. However, she said the committee had not communicated this to the student advisers she knew on the committee at the time she released the survey.

She said, in general, she felt the committee could have communicated more with students from the start to confirm this was an acceptable change to the traditions of the ceremony.

“Even if they were planning on changing it, the students should have been consulted,” Hyde said.

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or xenophobes, prove to us by your actions that you are not. As your candidate takes office, the onus is on you to make clear that you will not stand for the violent dismantling of minority rights.

As Reverend Jackson poignantly stated, “to vote for Trump you’ve got to excuse an awful lot of mean things. You’ve got to excuse attacks on Muslim immigrants, excuse attacks on Black people. You’ve got to excuse misogyny… and so, when people make their choices there’s consequences for their choices.”

If you don’t stand for racism, misogyny and xenophobia, stand up for the rights of your fellow Americans.

For those of us most negatively impacted by the upcoming presidency, it is often difficult to engage with the other side. It should not always be on us to advocate for our lives and our rights to exist peacefully in this country. But that doesn’t mean we can disengage from the collective history our struggle for civil rights in this country.

We cannot altogether disregard a political system, that without our protest, will continue to perpetuate our oppression. In this democracy, a system where the loudest voice rules, we cannot be silent.

— Sabrina Bilimoria, Michigan in Color Senior Editor ACTION “As long as there’s massive direct action that’s nonviolent and disciplined with a point, you can be heard.”

The fight for civil rights is not over. The Voting Rights Act may have passed in 1965, but the 2016 election was marred by the success of laws aimed to suppress Black and other marginalized voters. In addition to still fighting for the right to vote, xenophobia, racism and sexism are now being turned into policy. People question our Muslim friends’ loyalties and the Latinx community’s right to be here. The

the past months, including Black, Muslim and Mexican-American students.

“We are all sanctuary,” he said.

“We love each other. We care for each other. You take one of us, you must take all of us. We are not going anywhere. This land is our land.

We will outlast the meanness, we will outlast hate. We will outlast violence. Love will conquer hate.”

According to the event page on Facebook, the walkout was part of a national walkout movement at universities across the country.

“This walkout is a national movement that is happening in response to the election, as well as the increase in hate crimes and other forms of violence against marginalized (folks).” The event description says “We are doing this to hold President Schlissel and our Regents at the University of Michigan accountable for their claims of valuing diversity and student safety and well-being.”

There was a brief moment of silence at the Burton Memorial Tower, where students told stories of their own personal struggles.

Thursday, November 17, 2016 — 3A fight for civil rights is not over.

We face social, political and economic concerns, but if we do not mobilize we will not be heard.

Reverend Jackson said, “If they attempt to undermine protections to the right to vote, that’s cause for direct action. If they threaten Roe vs. Wade and women’s rights of self-determination, that’s cause for action. If there’s thoughts for increasing student loan debt, that’s cause for action.” If we stay silent, our hopes and dreams for a more equal America can not, and will not, be realized. We have two options, our vote and our voice. With our vote, we choose those who represent us. With our voice, through direct action, we represent ourselves and the causes we want righted. We must act to protect the gains we have made and to fight those who wish to take them away. However, the call to action is not a call to violence.

Reverend Jackson said, “We need constant disciplined direct action, nonviolent because when action becomes violent, violence becomes the subject line instead of the subject itself.” Through peaceful protest we begin to raise awareness, through violence we create reason to disavow our actions. The stakes are too high to permit others to hijack our message.

Fifty-one years ago, Reverend Jackson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and other members of the Civil Rights Movement marched to end Jim Crow laws and create a better America. Today, we are privileged to follow in their tradition of using nonviolent direct action to fight for our cause.

— Ashley Tjhung, Michigan in Color Senior Editor

Reverend Jackson has seen it all. He has labored in the trenches for decades and endured a lifetime of systemic oppression, prejudice and discrimination. He’s witnessed first hand some of our greatest historical victories as people of color, but he’s bore first hand some of the consequences of our failures. Yet, despite every obstacle, every failure, every challenge, he has remained steadfast in his fight for civil rights and social justice.

His life and experiences are are a testament that today, we must not lose hope. Just as he and the activists who have come before us were longsuffering in their struggle for justice and equality, we too must continue our struggle to be seen, heard and understood. What our society faces now is yet another changing tide in America’s racial and political climate that we must overcome. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

Reverend Jackson tells us we must acknowledge the challenges that face us and work together to address them. We must learn to share the burdens of marginalized communities. We must recognize the selling of fear and false hope by those in power and work to find our own genuine hope.

The heart and soul of America is at stake, and the greatest challenge ahead of us lies in our ability to unify to fight this good fight for justice.

Will we continue to be divided or are will we learn to work and live together?

— Alyssa Brandon, Michigan in Color Senior Editor

“At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.There’s a tug of war for the soul of America. We’ve survived apart, but living together, that’s the great American challenge.”

“You must position yourself with your moral weaponry. We intend not to marginalize apartheid, we intend to eliminate it. We don’t attempt to marginalize those opposed to a woman’s right to self-determination, we intend to fight for the women’s right to self-determination. The lines are drawn clearly.” — Reverend Jesse Jackson.

At the end of the walkout, organizers asked for white supporters to block State Street so protesters could safely gather at Angell Hall for the speakout.

White students were asked by organizers to peacefully block the roads and talk to the police in order to protect the lives of brown and Black people, who were said to be targeted more at student gatherings.

Rackham student Vikrant Garg, a walkout organizer, asked for a nonviolent protest and for all students involved to march peacefully.

“We see a lot of white folks here,” he said. “We need you on the sidelines to protect us … there are going to be parts where we shut down the street. We need you all to be there to protect us. This is nonviolence, we recognize that violent acts you may commit will, in the end, hurt us the most.”

The walkout is one of the largest events to take place after the election on campus. On election night, an impromptu vigil consisting of roughly 30 students coalesced on the Diag at about 3 a.m., an hour after Trump was declared

victorious. The next night, a vigil attended by about 1,000 students took place, during which University President Mark Schlissel and CSG President David Schafer, an LSA senior, called for campus unity and inclusivity. Multiple protests against the president-elect and in reaction to the hate crimes has since occurred.

At Wednesday’s walkout, LSA junior Victoria Johnson said she came to the event in hopes of reaching the administration’s attention regarding the problems facing minorities on campus.

“These problems have been boiling up for a long time — this isn’t anything new,” she said. “But I think the election, I think what happened, has been tipping the scale. Now these people who have always been against the rights for me and my rights and who I stand as a person, my identity. They feel empowered to speak out and act on these hateful feelings they have. And that’s why I am here, because my rights are at stake. And not just my rights, but my safety. And I feel like it’s important to make the University be held accountable for it all.”

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It’s #notmycampus — it’s ours

here have been many consider why such a vast “not mys” this week. portion of the country “Not my campus.” didn’t.

Understand why, “Not my president.” “Not my overwhelmingly, people country.” You’re all right — of color, Latinx, Muslims, these things are not yours. coalitions of women, those They are ours. We should who identify as LGBTQ+ and be concerned by more are so upset. how polarized Understand why things seem, and they feel unsafe. perhaps by how we Trump’s diction may be complicit throughout in amplif ying his campaign, that polarization. intentionally or What we share not, has seemingly and how we share made these it is increasingly contingencies even contentious.

This subject to MICHAEL more election and its discrimination, aftermath illustrate SUGERMAN hate and violence as much. than they were before. We’ve This isn’t a call for unity. seen it in our Ann Arbor Unity is overrated. We won’t bubble, and the reality is, many always agree on matters of who have been and are being politics. In fact, it’s important marginalized feel that having not to, because more often than voted for our president-elect not, what makes a policy “good” constitutes tacit approval of falls to normative judgment. these consequences.

Sharing and debating a wide Ultimately, then, now swath of opinions is invaluable; is not the time for either such discourse broadens our disillusionment or reticence. collective worldview and These will exacerbate political creates the framework for stratification and othering — compromise. which we cannot afford.

Now more than ever we need If you signed the to (re)learn how to coexist, “#notmycampus” petition, and to approach conflict I think you’re misguided. with civility and respect, not You don’t get to call judgment and violence. That “microagression” when it suits much is true regardless of the your agenda, but decry an candidate for whom you voted. overly sensitive, “politically We are all human beings with correct” America when your basic shared desires — these status quo is challenged. include security and wellbeing, If you’re so upset by the with applications from physical election’s outcome that you to financial to psychological. declare Trump is “not my Our individual pursuit of what president” and the U.S. is “not we need varies infinitely, but my country,” I think you may at its core we can find common be misguided, too. People of all ground. backgrounds talk about being If you didn’t vote for disenfranchised by the system Trump, consider why such in one way or another, and the a vast portion of the United reality is that in democracy, States did. Know that their we are all part of the system frustration and anger might in some capacity, even when have paralleled what you feel we feel outcast. Accepting this now if Trump had lost. Many isn’t easy, especially when Trump voters feel they are the institutional odds are being mischaracterized as historically stacked against you. racist, bigoted xenophobes — Instead of retreating to and yes, clearly, some of them our corners, let’s talk to each are this way — but why might other. It’ll be hard. Emotional. scores of people have voted for At times, triggering. But him in spite of concerns about it will be necessary if we his language? have any hope for some Because they supported his semblance of reconciliation. economic policies? Because I think it’s going to require border definition and national adopting certain practices that security are reasonable common opponents of “political concepts? Because Clinton correctness” hate: creating epitomized dynastic politics safe spaces, dispersing trigger and had so much baggage that warnings and acknowledging she didn’t seem worth it? The microaggressions when list goes on. Trump’s following applicable. should not be ignored, and Before you write these perhaps members of it have concepts off, consider that been, in one way or another, for labels tend to be more divisive quite some time. than the concepts they define.

If you did vote for Trump, Some say trigger warnings and

safe spaces are soft excuses for avoiding conflict. But, if I suggested that we warn students before a screening of “A Clockwork Orange” (which contains graphic rape scenes) that its content could prove traumatic for victims of sexual assault, I doubt I’d be rebuked.

If I suggested implementing a judgment-free zone for people to ask difficult questions about race for which they may feel apprehensive, ignorant or just plain stupid, my conjecture is that few would object.

Don’t recuse yourself from dialogue that makes you uncomfortable. Be open to ideas you may disagree with, or even those which may offend you, so that we may find the common ground underlying opposing positions. On matters of policy, know that it’s OK if we don’t resolve our differences, but on matters of humanity, know that doing so is imperative.

We should all be outraged by the crime alerts of the last few days. So, regardless of your political affiliation, be an ally to the marginalized. This is a term with which I wasn’t all that familiar until recently, and I turned to my Facebook friends to help me define it.

They said “allying oneself” to the marginalized entails listening to them; protesting alongside them even when our experiences are not shared; advocating fairness, equality and equity; intervening when we come into contact with family, friends, acquaintances and strangers alike who push unjust rhetoric or ideology at the expense of others.

It’s about asking people how you can be helpful, even if you don’t relate to what they’re going through. Really, being an “ally” is just having basic human decency. We are all capable of that.

The result of this election is set in stone, and we need to work together to move forward from here. Facebook posts and catchy Twitter hashtags aren’t enough.

Subversions of our democratic systems, like petitioning the Electoral College to change the outcome, aren’t the answer either. Conversations with homogenous groups who share our opinions will only further divide us.

Do you want change? Let’s be good to each other, even when we disagree. Let’s do our homework. Read newspapers, get civically involved, vote and start listening. We can do this.

Michael Sugerman can be reached at mrsugs@umich.edu.

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uesday night’s debate and vote on a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions divestment resolution against Israel would be exciting — if it weren’t so repetitive. This is the 10th time this spectacle has taken place, and every time, with a lot of acrimony, the resolution is voted down — and largely for the same reasons. I support Palestinian rights and statehood. I oppose the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

But I opposed this resolution.

And now, I’d like to send a clear message to divestment supporters, identifying the things they can do to strengthen the next divestment campaign and enable a resolution to pass.

First, don’t make it a BDS resolution. The BDS movement is toxic because of both its means and its ends. The BDS platform is that Israel, and only Israel, should be subjected to total political, economic and cultural boycott: Everything Israeli should be totally offlimits. And the BDS platform’s express purpose, per its own central committee members, is to destroy Israel. This time, divestment campaigners tried to insist that their resolution didn’t support these means or ends, even as the text of the resolution and the campaign around it were all about BDS. Next time, really and sincerely cut yourself off from BDS. Denounce it in the text.

Second, legislate a process, not an outcome. This resolution was directed solely against Israel without any effort at neutrality or consistency and identified specific companies to target.

Pro-resolution speakers insisted that the resolution was the beginning of a conversation, but the outcome was baked in. Next time, write the resolution properly. Identify an objective and neutral set of criteria for divestment on human rights

grounds and empower a body to apply them consistently to every country and company the University of Michigan invests in. Or, better yet, empower a body to take broad input from students and professors across the University to create divestment criteria. And if occupation is a consistent criterion for divestment, be prepared to divest from Turkey, China, India, Russia, Israel, Morocco, Ethiopia, etc., for their respective occupations.

Third, be extremely scrupulous about avoiding anti-Semitism. A lot of council members voted no because they were worried, reasonably, about intercommunal stress. These divestment campaigns are run in such a manner that they can reasonably be interpreted as attacks against Jewish students.

The Palestinian campus group Students Allied for Freedom and Equality began its divestment campaign this time with incendiary public demonstrations against Israel only, timed specifically to take place during two major Jewish holidays. Then, last night, its speakers disparaged anti-resolution speakers for “hanging out at Hillel” and “going on birthright.”

Last year when this resolution was up, it was even worse. Jewish council members were doxxed and received death threats. SAFE activists shouted ethnic slurs on the Diag and posted online under their own names.

SAFE, in its institutional capacity, protested Central Student Government inviting a University of Michigan professor to speak on the history of the region on account of his Jewish ethnicity. Next time, divestment supporters should be extremely careful not to do any of these things. They should run their campaign in a scrupulously non-prejudiced manner, and act immediately to condemn and correct any

prejudice instances that do occur. That would do a lot to reassure people.

Fourth, be open about the process. This resolution was launched as a sneak attack.

The vote was only announced two days beforehand. Space in the hall was limited with a ticket process. The text of the resolution wasn’t announced until the day of the vote, and even then, only by request. The authorship of the resolution was kept secret until halfway through the council session, and then disclosed only after several points of order. Prodivestment council members tried to insist that the council vote secretly; they wanted to enable people to pass the resolution without owning up to their support for it. These are all red flags. Next time, write a resolution you can proudly vote on in public, and put the text out with authorship well before it’s introduced. Engage people to figure out how to improve it and address concerns.

With these measures, a divestment resolution, not against Israel, but against human rights abusers defined by reference to objective criteria, would enjoy a much higher chance of passing. After 10 attempts, I think divestment advocates owe it to themselves more than anyone to take their movement seriously and address the mistakes of the previous campaigns so they can pass something productive.

And if they don’t? If the 11th and 12th and 13th campaigns look just like this one, with a BDS resolution against Israel alone rushed through with the greatest possible surreptitiousness amid a flurry of anti-Semitism? That would be a clear signal to the rest of us about what the purpose of these campaigns really is.

Ari Allyn-Fueur is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Bioinformatics.

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Action against DAPL needed

ow that Donald Trump has been elected, it is time to face the truth about the outcome of the Dakota Access Pipeline. North Dakota is the second-largest domestic oil producer in the United States.

Trump backs measures to upgrade United States oil and gas infrastructure and won the state of North Dakota by a wide margin.

Currently, 85 percent of the DAPL has been built. The only part that remains is the section planned to be built under the Missouri River. This past Friday, Kelcy Warren, the CEO of Energy Transfers Partners, the Dallas-based construction company in charge of building the DAPL, stated that the incoming Donald Trump administration is “100 percent sure” the pipeline will be approved. This year, Warren donated $103,000 to the Trump campaign.

Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R­­ –N.D.) is a proponent of the pipeline and serves as one of Trump’s agricultural advisers.

He activated the North Dakota National Guard to deal with the protests, which currently has a traffic checkpoint a few miles south of the main protest encampment. Though the president-elect has yet to comment on the pipeline, his campaign financial disclosure forms reveal that he has a financial interest in its completion. He has reportedly invested between $500,000 and $1 million in Energy Transfer Partners.

The #NODAPL movement in Standing Rock, N.D., is a place that has stood in direct opposition to environmental devastation, as well as spiritual and cultural genocide. The $3.7 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, a black snake of fracked Bakken crude oil, is planned to travel under the Missouri River and rip through the sacred land of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. It is not a question of if, but when, it will burst, destroying one of the world’s largest sources of

freshwater and spilling 500,000 gallons of toxic sludge into what is currently drinking water for people of the Standing Rock tribe and communities in South Dakota.

Enbridge Energy Company, which has the largest ownership stake in the Bakken Pipeline — which includes the DAPL — at nearly 30 percent, is responsible for many U.S. pipelines, including Michigan’s own aging and crumbling Line 5 that transports tar sands crude oil under the Straits of Mackinac. We cannot forget Enbridge’s Line 6B that burst and contaminated the Kalamazoo River in July 2010, one of the severest and costliest oil spills in U.S. history.

The construction and inevitable spills of pipelines in recent years have not only wreaked environmental havoc, but continue the 500year genocide that threatens to extinguish the natural way of life that indigenous people know to be a familial and inseparable connection with all of Earth.

From the occupation of a prayer camp called the Sacred Stone Camp — a paryer camp established in April of 2016

by LaDonna Bravebull Allard of the Standing Rock tribe — the #NODAPL movement has tremendously expanded to become many camps. The camps continue to grow daily — as a gathering of water protectors from hundreds of tribal nations and countries standing in solidarity against the pipeline.

The message that has drawn people to come together in resistance and communal prayer is the knowledge that water is life. And it is the inarguable attack upon life that has caused the water protectors to react in nonviolent direct action against Dakota Access.

Water protectors literally stand and live in the path set for the Dakota Access Pipeline, blocking construction with their bodies. Law enforcement departments from five states and the National Guard have

been called in to intimidate, attack, arrest and forcibly remove protectors with riot gear and military tanks.

County, state and federal government officials have failed to condemn these acts of excessive force, choosing instead to side with corporate interests.

On our campus, an interdisciplinary group of students has come together to spread awareness at the University of Michigan about the DAPL. We have written a comprehensive and educational zine to explain the background and timeline of the Standing Rock Sioux, the cultural significance of the water, the legal challenges at play and the importance of the current resistance. We hope this publication serves to provide critical information about the resistance at Standing Rock so you can best be of service and navigate your role as an ally to the indigenous people on the frontlines.

The #NODAPL movement of Standing Rock continues to stay strong in the face of these injustices through prayer that roots protectors in love and healing. As the inauguration approaches, Dakota Access will push harder to put the pipeline through at all costs. Now more than ever we need a strong coalition of water protectors, allies working in solidarity and decisive action from the Obama administration to reroute the Dakota Access Pipeline and defend indigenous rights.

This Friday, Nov. 18, there will be a zine-release fundraising event for Standing Rock in North Quadrangle Space 2435 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. There will be free food, zines, audio interviews and information about the moon dance ceremony, as well as a visual gallery of the occupation in Standing Rock, N.D., and a drum circle. Contact us at michsolidaritynodapl@ umich.edu.

Noor Ahmad is an LSA senior and Zach Kolodziej is an Art & Design senior.

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of top-level recruits NATHANIEL CLARK Daily Sports Writer

The Michigan women’s basketball team came into the 2016-17 season expecting big things from freshman guard Kysre Gondrezick, who scored 72 points in a playoff game for Benton Harbor High School and was named Miss Basketball in the State of Michigan.

While the Wolverines have played just two games so far, Gondrezick has showcased her basketball prowess in both contests. In Michigan’s victories over Oakland and Niagara, she scored a total of 31 points, totaling nine assists and three steals in a combined 35 minutes of play.

Gondrezick’s performances were enough to win her the honor of Big Ten Freshman of the Week, an award now-sophomore center Hallie Thome won last year. “(Gondrezick) does have the chance to be a really special player,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “She comes from two parents who played basketball at the highest level. She has grown up in the gym. She has a great feel for the game.”

This week, the Wolverines signed two new recruits that will likely have similarly lofty expectations next season.

One of them is guard Deja Church of Southfield, Mich. She is the No. 67 prospect in the nation according to Prospects Nation and was named Michigan Class A Player of the Year in 2015-16 while leading Southfield Lathrup to a 21-5 season. Like Gondrezick last year, Church is a candidate for Miss Basketball this year.

Church’s transition to Michigan next season will be easier than it is for most, as she

played AAU Basketball with Gondrezick and freshman forward KeAsja Peace on the Michigan Crossover. “(Church) is a tough-nosed guard,” Barnes Arico said. “An important thing for us, really what we’ve tried to do the last few years is to try to get the best player in the state to stay at home.

She had initially decided to go elsewhere and before signing day, she changed her mind and said, ‘I can’t let this opportunity at the University of Michigan pass me by.’ ” Barnes Arico traveled a little further to find her other big-name recruit.

Forward Hailey Brown, the No. 38 prospect according to HoopGurlz, will move from Hamilton, Ontario, to play for the Wolverines. Brown has played for the Canadian National Team since 2013 and averaged 10.0 points and 8.8 rebounds in five games at the 2016 U18 FIBA Americas competition.

“Brown is an outstanding ‘4’ player,” Barnes Arico said. “With Jillian Dunston being a senior next year, that’s an area where we wanted to add a player for sure.

She is a 6-foot-2 kid who can play with her back to the basket. She has international experience and has traveled the world playing basketball since the age of 14.”

Church and Brown will be essential additions to Michigan in 2017-18, as the Wolverines will lose senior guards Siera Thompson and Danielle Williams to graduation after this year.

While next season is still a long way away, Church and Brown should give Michigan two new faces to get excited about, just like Gondrezick and Thome did the last two years.

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Big Ten roundup LANEY BYLER

Daily Sports Writer

Just two weeks remain before the No. 16 Michigan hockey team kicks off Big Ten conference play in December against Penn State.

At this point in the season, each of the teams in the conference have had a chance to establish a résumé. Here, we break down their preseason results in preparation for the upcoming Big Ten season.

No. 7 Minnesota The Golden Gophers have played just eight games so far this season and have skated to a 4-2-2 record, with both losses at the hands of No. 12 St. Cloud State.

However, one of Minnesota’s most redeeming qualities that has been evident so far this year is the depth on its roster. Four different players have scored four goals each over the course of eight games, with 13 of the 21 players on the roster recording at least one goal.

No. 10 Penn State Not only have the Nittany Lions made program history with their highest-ever ranking in the USCHO poll this week, but senior captain David Goodwin also became the first Penn State player to reach 100 career goals.

The Nittany Lions are currently holding on to a seven-game win streak and have an overall record of 9-1-1.

Penn State boasts an .864 win percentage for the season, the best in the Big Ten. The Nittany Lions will host Michigan in the teams’ first pair of conference games in two weeks.

No. 14 Ohio State Like Penn State, Ohio State has only recorded one loss this season, a 6-2 game agaist Robert Morris. Also like Penn State, the Buckeyes have played 11 games so far, racking up a 6-1-4 record.

Their penchant for ties isn’t exactly helping them move up in the polls, but it hasn’t hurt them either. They were ranked at the same spot last week.

The Buckeyes have plenty of seniority on their team, and they recently had two senior forwards receive weekly honors stemming from their performances against Connecticut last week. Nick Schilkey is currently tied for second in the NCAA in goals and recently tallied the 100th of his career, while David Gust scored four goals in a single game. Their contributions have helped Ohio State’s offense establish itself as one of the best in the country.

Wisconsin The Badgers have only played eight games so far this season, like Minnesota, but they’ve tacked on an additional win and loss for a mark of 5-3-0.

Despite the fact that the Gophers are tied for 10th nationally in offense, their struggling defense — which is ranked 48th and let up a combined eight goals in two losses to Northern Michigan — has held them back.

Michigan State Michigan State rounds out the bottom of the Big Ten, with twice as many losses as wins (3-6-0). It suffered a pair of onesided losses (6-1 and 7-3) against Lake Superior State, whom the Wolverines will face after their next exhibition against the U.S. National Team Development Program. The Spartans have also lost two games to No. 1 Denver and one game each to Michigan Tech and Ferris State.

However, both of Michigan State’s losses to Denver (7-2-1) were particularly low-scoring.

The first game ended with the then-No. 6 Pioneers scraping out a 2-1 victory, where all three goals were scored in the third period. The second game settled at 3-1.

KEVIN SANTO

Daily Sports Editor

Once again, the Big Apple is beckoning for the Michigan men’s basketball team.

Last season, the Wolverines traveled to Madison Square Garden to take part in the Big Ten’s inaugural “Super Saturday” event on Jan. 30, which featured a basketball and hockey doubleheader against Penn State. Michigan won that contest, 79-72, and now, it is returning to The World’s Most Famous Arena on Thursday to tip off against Marquette in the 2K Classic Championship Round.

“I can’t wait,” said senior guard Zak Irvin. “(We are) 1-0 since I’ve been in the Garden. (It was) nice to play there last year against Penn State. It’s always nice going to New York because it feels like a home game, just from the alums and fans we have across the country.”

The Wolverines notched two wins against Howard and IUPUI in the tournament’s Ann Arbor regional, but those programs are a far cry from the competition they will be facing as the season rolls onward.

The matchup with the Golden Eagles, on the other hand, could provide the first true barometer of where Michigan stands.

Outside of losing Henry Ellenson, who led the team in both points and rebounds per game his freshman year before being drafted 18th overall by the Detroit Pistons, the Golden Eagles are returning most of their major contributors.

Center Luke Fischer and guards Haanif Cheanham and Traci Carter figure to be the most notable of that mix.

Fischer and Cheanham finished second and third, respectively, behind Ellenson in both scoring and rebounding last year, while Carter is entering his second year as Marquette’s point guard after averaging 4.6 assists through 33 games during his freshman campaign.

Though it’s a limited sample size, the Golden Eagles have elected to start four guards alongside Fischer through the

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The Michigan men’s basketball team will face its first true test of the season Thursday when it takes on Marquette.

first two games this season.

With ample scorers on the perimeter, Marquette is poised to be Michigan’s first real opportunity to see how far it has come defensively after hiring assistant coach Billy Donlon. It’s not often that the Wolverines are the bigger team on the floor, but the Golden Eagles’ personnel could prove beneficial for Michigan.

“I think all of our guys have done a great job just holding each other accountable and just knowing that defense does win championships,” Irvin said.

“That’s one of the huge things that we want to have a point of emphasis on this year, is be able to defend people, and I think this is going to be a good test for us, going against Marquette tomorrow.”

Added Michigan coach John Beilein: “They’ve only got the two big guys that are playing, Fischer and Heldt — he’s 6-foot-

10. We’ve got five of those guys on our roster. They’ve really got more depth on the perimeter.

Hopefully, our size at some of those positions may affect some things, especially DJ (Wilson) and Duncan (Robinson) at 6-foot-8, 6-foot-10.”

While it may have an advantage on the boards, especially with Wilson averaging 11 rebounds per game, there are still some aspects that could spell doom for Michigan.

The Wolverines have been plagued by slow starts so far this season. Against Howard, Michigan couldn’t get on the board until junior guard Muhammad-Ali AbdurRahkman sank a 3-pointer over five minutes into the first half.

In their matchup with IUPUI, it was more of the same, as the Wolverines traded baskets with the Jaguars until shots started to fall in the final four minutes.

That issue could be

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compounded by Marquette’s aggressive defense, which is tied for 23rd nationally with 10.5 steals per game.

“For some reason, we’ve come out and haven’t got off to a type of start we want to get to, but we can have those good runs at the end of the half,” Beilein said. “I know Marquette, their steals are really high. They’re going to come out and try to impose their will. If we do not take care of the ball and make the shots we’ll get behind early. We’ve got to really take care of the ball from the very beginning.”

If the Wolverines come out sleepwalking Thursday, they could be staring at their first loss of the season. *** Depending on its outcome against Marquette, Michigan will face either Southern Methodist or Pittsburgh on Friday.

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TD 15 2 0 17

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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

RUSHING Player Smith, D. Evans Higdon Isaac Peppers McDoom Chesson Henderson Hill, K. Morris Davis Crawford O’Korn Hirsch Wilson Beneducci Hewlett Gedeon Allen TEAM Speight TOTALS RECEIVING Player Darboh Butt Chesson Perry Hill Evans McDoom Poggi Crawford Smith, D. Wheatley Ways Henderson Isaac Asiasi Hirsch Jocz Harris McKeon Bunting Johnson, N. Peppers TOTALS

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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

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

Avg. Long 9.0 9 9.0 9

TD 0 0

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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

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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

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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

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O’Korn has teammates’ confidence JACOB GASE

Daily Sports Editor

In all likelihood, John O’Korn is now the starting quarterback of the Michigan football team.

That was a sentence a lot of fans expected to read before the first game of the season, before the emergence of redshirt sophomore Wilton Speight ultimately relegated O’Korn to a backup role.

But now, with Speight sustaining an unspecified shoulder injury in a loss to Iowa last week, the starting job appears to finally be in O’Korn’s hands.

For a team with College Football Playoff hopes — the third-ranked Wolverines (6-1 Big Ten, 9-1 overall) still control their own destiny despite the loss — losing a starting quarterback with just two regular-season games remaining might be a cause for panic. O’Korn’s teammates, though, don’t seem to have that mindset.

“We’re gonna be running the same exact plays,” said senior tight end Jake Butt.

“John’s been doing a great job understanding his role, and he’s been ready every single week and preparing every single week as if he were the starter. If his number is called, I’m confident — everyone’s confident — that John will be able to get this job done for us.”

It doesn’t seem to be blind confidence, either. Several of O’Korn’s teammates pointed to his methods of preparation and said they’re not expecting much of a drop-off.

That preparation started last season, when O’Korn had to sit out a year after transferring from Houston. He couldn’t play in games, but he was the quarterback of the scout team and earned scout player of the week honors several times.

Even after losing the job this

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Redshirt junior quarterback John O’Korn may be thrust into action on Saturday if redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight is unable to play.

year, O’Korn didn’t scale his preparation back. According to Butt, O’Korn likes to sit in the front row at meetings, is one of the first players to watch film and is one of the best note-takers on the team.

Though he hasn’t been calling the shots on the field, O’Korn has earned the respect of his teammates — including fifthyear senior defensive lineman Chris Wormley, who said he wishes he spent as much time preparing as O’Korn did.

“John’s done a great job all year of being a leader, whether (he’s) playing or not,” Wormley said. “He’s still a leader in my eyes, at least. He watches film after practice probably more than anybody I’ve ever seen at the college level, which is weird for somebody that isn’t asked to play as much as he does. ...

But with him doing that for the last two, three months, it’s gonna help him out big time if he’s starting on Saturday.”

O’Korn won’t have Speight’s

“We’re gonna be running the same exact plays.”

10 games of preparation under his belt, but he does have one extra tool to help him out: his feet.

Standing two inches shorter and 30 pounds lighter than Speight, O’Korn has a proven ability to move around in the pocket and even pull off designed runs — as evidenced by his performance in this year’s Spring Game, where he tallied 28 rushing yards and a touchdown.

“You see Wilton try and scramble and it looks like it hurts,” Wormley said. “But for O’Korn, he’s a little shiftier, a little faster and more athletic.

He’s got a great arm, so I’m excited to see what he can do too.”

The rest of the team seems

quietly confident, as well — according to running backs coach Tyrone Wheatley, it’s “plug and play.” Wheatley confessed that in practice, he’s usually zoned in on his own position group, but he’s noticed no peripheral difference under center.

For Michigan to accomplish its lofty goals — starting with beating Indiana on Saturday and winning a possible playoffdeciding matchup at No. 2 Ohio State after that — it will need those differences to be as muted as O’Korn’s teammates expect them to be.

“O’Korn is gonna do well — you don’t look at it as a drop-off, you don’t look at it as anything different,” Wheatley said. “It’s the next guy in. Game normal.”

Wolverines look back on chaotic finishes JAKE LOURIM

Managing Sports Editor

Chris Wormley had been in the situation before. He looked, then took a deep breath. And then he had one thought: Get off the field.

Iowa’s Keith Duncan had just kicked a game-winning 33-yard field goal as time expired, and then came the Hawkeye fans streaming onto the field. Wormley knew he wouldn’t want to be caught up in that chaos.

And as he hurried off the field — his only prerogative to get to the locker room quickly — an Iowa fan accidentally collided with the 6-foot-6, 302-pound defensive lineman and flew backward to the turf.

“I was heading for the locker room after that loss, so I wasn’t thinking too much about who was in my way, who’s not in my way,” Wormley said Tuesday. “I hope he’s doing OK.” It looked like a scary moment at first, but Wormley said he feels better about it now that he knows the fan is OK. The fifthyear senior even joked that he’d be willing to be the “poster child” for a brochure at every game called “Field Storming 101” that taught fans how to avoid injury.

The fact is, Wormley has been through plenty of moments like Saturday’s, though that was the first iteration in the past two years that induced a rush of fans from the seats. In that span, the Wolverines have played in four games decided on the final play, winning two (at Minnesota last Oct. 31 and at Indiana last Nov. 14) and losing two (versus Michigan State last Oct. 17 and at Iowa on Saturday).

“It wasn’t the greatest feeling I’ve ever had, I would say that,” said redshirt sophomore tight end Ian Bunting about Saturday.

“I kind of just walked off the field

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quickly to avoid as many people as I could. It was just … it sucks to lose. It’s never good to lose.

Especially when you’ve won all your games this season other than that one.”

The most famous crucial play of the four, of course, was last year’s muffed punt snap against Michigan State, which the Spartans returned for a touchdown and a 27-23 victory.

That time, a full crowd of 111,740 watched in shock as the game changed and the visiting players piled on each other in the end zone with no time left.

Michigan followed that up with last-second escapes in two of the next three weeks. At Minnesota, the Wolverines trailed for most of

the second half and lost starting quarterback Jake Rudock to an injury. But then-backup Wilton Speight stepped in and threw a go-ahead touchdown to Jehu Chesson with 4:57 left and added a two-point conversion that put his team up by three.

The Golden Gophers marched down the field on a 13-play, 74-yard drive and landed inside the 1-yard line. There, Michigan’s defense stuffed a quarterback sneak as time expired, a play that — like the others — many watched with bated breath.

“I guess just everything’s out of your control at that point,” said redshirt junior defensive tackle Maurice Hurst. “… There’s nothing you can really do. You

really (don’t) want to just have to have that feeling that you wish you could have done more. …

That’d be terrible if you felt like you could have done a little bit more to change the outcome of the game.”

Yet the Wolverines found themselves in a similar position two weeks later at Indiana.

Depleted on the defensive line and facing an up-tempo spread offense, they again trailed in the fourth quarter before forcing overtime on a touchdown pass from Rudock to Chesson with two seconds left. In the second overtime, safety Delano Hill broke up a fourth-down pass to preserve the victory and bring his teammates rushing onto the field

to celebrate.

Michigan had coasted in seven of its first nine wins this year by at least 17 points, and Saturday was the latest drama it had faced in a game all season. This time, the Wolverines ended up on the wrong end of it. They have seen both sides enough to know that it makes for a nerve-racking finish in either case.

“It depends on what side you end up on,” Bunting said with a wry smile. “If you end up on the side that we were on last week, it’s disappointing and it’s frustrating.

But that’s football, and it’s gonna happen. That’s what we sign up for. We sign up for, when we come to Michigan, to play in games like that and to win games like that.”

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ADVENTURES IN PIE-MAKING: Cutting a slice of home in a post-election kitchen

By Madeline Gaudin, Daily Arts Writer Design by Anne Lynch and Katie Beukema

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PIES From Page 1B My pie odyssey began last Wednesday at a pie dough class taught in the basement of the downtown branch of the Ann Arbor District Library. I had a hard time dragging my heavy heart the few blocks from my apartment — it was Nov. 9 after all.

I can’t bake. I can’t even cook.

I really like microwaving frozen meatballs and eating cereal. I love takeout and those pink frosted cookies from Meijer. But a week ago I made an oath to a beautiful Senior Arts Editor that I would bake a pie for the B-side.

That’s how I found myself squishing a chunk of butter in my bare hands in the basement of the library on the worst day of the year.

And I am so glad I did.

Before I dive into the details of flaky crust and cheesy pie toppings, I want to express my gratitude for the other people who attended the event with me. Nothing could have reaffirmed my beliefs about the innate goodness of people more than baking pie dough in a basement with 12 strangers — most of whom were women and not native English speakers.

The woman sitting across from me asked me what I do for Thanksgiving. She was new to the class, and she was trying to master an apple pie before the holiday. She scrolled through photos on her iPhone to show me pies — pies with sunken crusts, pies that were burnt and pies that looked beautiful but were (she assured me) not good at all. It felt good to know that in the midst of so much division, strangers still want to show you pictures of food on their phones. People still want to connect with each other.

“I started when I was about six at my grandma’s knee making chocolate chip cookies,” said Keegan Rodgers, head baker and bakery manager at the People’s Food Co-op, as well as the class’s teacher. “That started my love.”

Rodgers has been teaching baking classes through the co-op for five years. He began last week’s class by going over the dissimilarities between various types of dough.

“These are the greatest baking instruments you’ll ever need,” he said, lifting two butter-covered hands into the air.

We mushed the blocks of butter and began to mix them into the flour. Rodgers teaches a technique from this mixing called frisage.

“Fan money with your fingers,” he instructs us. The process involves coming up from under and pressing the butter through the flour and salt until the mixture is the consistency of cornmeal.

The process of encapsulating the flour in the butter is what creates flakes. It’s also a reason to use additional flour sparingly when rolling out the crust. Flour that does not get encapsulated in butter is what makes the dough dry or hard.

The next step is to add the water.

Rodgers suggests adding a tiny bit of vinegar to the water before adding the liquid to the dough, then just dumping it in. None of the sprinkle and mix method that many food writers promote.

And then you just mush around

the dough, folding it in on itself over and over, until the dough no longer sticks to your fingers.

That’s when you know it’s done — when your hands aren’t covered in dough any more.

And that’s it. The first half of my journey was complete without any injury or tragedy. Maybe baking pies can be easy — a sentiment Rodger agreed with. For students trying to bake in smaller kitchens, he recommends sticking with the Thanksgiving staple.

“Pies really are the way to go,” he said. “They’re so versatile.”

His personal favorite is a lemon meringue, but more traditional fruit pies are often easier for amateur bakers (like myself).

Now I had the dough, but I didn’t know what to fill it with. So, I called the best chef I know — my dad. He passed on a recipe for an apple pie, an American classic.

I knew the recipe he sent would make a very good, very normal apple pie. But, I tried something a little different for my pie. The first adaption was pretty tame — my dad likes to use half apples and half pears when he is making his pies. The risk level for this culinary swap was low. Apples and pears are basically the same thing, right?

The second change was a little more dramatic. My grandfather used to eat his apple pie with a big slice of cheddar cheese. When my dad passed that mental image down to me during our phone call, I was disgusted. Dairy in general is something I don’t like to think about too much — people who can drink plain milk are the worst kind of mythical creature. But I tried it. What is Thanksgiving all about if not familial oddities?

The recipe my dad passed along included instructions for making a cheese topping for the pie, so I decided to try that. I had to trek across town to get a cheese grater. I was originally going to use my pre-shredded Mexicanblend cheese mix from Trader Joe’s, but a quick Google search told me that would be “completely gross.”

When I sat down to actually make the pie, I realized I didn’t have a pie tin. I almost had a pie tin, but I accidentally broke the ceramic one I was going to buy in the checkout line at Meijer and was too embarrassed to go back for another one. Alas, I went to CVS and found a cake pan that seemed sufficient.

Back home, I peeled and cut my apples and pears. I mixed my sugar and spices and coated the sliced fruit, but when I got out my dough I realized — yet again — how grossly unprepared I was for this adventure. I didn’t have a rolling pin. So I used a combination of a wooden spoon, a potato and my hands to roll/ smash the dough into sort of a circle.

Instead of covering my pie with a second crust, I baked it open like a tart (but, very different from a tart!) at 450 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes. Then I grated my sharp cheddar over the top. The recipe told me then to put the pie in a broiler. “What is a broiler?” you might ask. I’m still not sure, but it sounds like a mixture of baker and boiler. My oven (miraculously) has a broil feature so I set out to use that. I left

my cheese-coated pie in the oven on broil for about five minutes.

When I took it out, it looked — and smelled — surprisingly delicious.

Then I went to cut myself a piece. I wanted so badly for my pie to be a success. It looked beautiful, and it smelled beautiful. I sunk the knife in expecting to hit the crisp lower crust but I got nothing.

Nothing. The pie was liquid goo all the way through. I still dolloped a mound of apple/pear mush with cheese onto my plate.

It was good, it was really good, but it wasn’t a pie. The dough on the bottom hadn’t hardened like I had expected it to; it had absorbed the moisture of the apples and pears and turned into mush.

I was so close. I had the perfect dough and a great recipe. I was going to make the kind of pie my dad would make, the kind of pie my grandfather would’ve eaten.

But somewhere between my ancient oven, hand-rolled dough, cake pan and “broiled” cheese topper, something had gone horribly wrong.

Since eating the sad (but delicious) lumps of cheesy, sugary fruit with my roommate, I’ve called my dad. He assured me that anyone with a better kitchen and real baking tools could have tremendous success. So, never fear, reader! A cheese-covered pie and a slice of my weirdo family is within reach.

Recipe: Crust: · 5 cups all-purpose flour · 1/2 tablespoon sea salt · 1 pound unsalted butter, room temperature · 1 cup cold water · 1 tablespoon vinegar (mixed into water) Combine flour and salt in a bowl. Work butter between hands until it is malleable but not melted.

Mix the butter into the flour using the frisage technique mentioned earlier. Once the mix is the consistency of cornmeal, add the water and vinegar mixture. Knead dough until it no longer sticks to your hands or your work surface.

Refrigerate for up to a week or freeze for as long as food products can usually be frozen — I do not know how long that is.

Filling: · 5-6 cups apples, peeled, cored and cut very thin (I used half apples and half pears) · 1/2 cup white or brown sugar (tart apples like Granny Smith might need 2/3 cup; I used Honeycrisps with 1/2 cup brown sugar) · 1/8 teaspoon salt · 1 tablespoon cornstarch · 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon · 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg · 1 1/2 tablespoon butter · 1 teaspoon vanilla Combine sugar, salt, cornstarch, cinnamon and nutmeg. Sift over the apples and pears. Place them in layers in the crust. Dot with butter. Add vanilla on top.

For no cheese: Cover the pie with the second crust and prick the center. Bake for 10 minutes at 450 degrees. Reduce the heat to 350 degrees, bake for another 45-60 minutes.

For cheese: Bake pie for 20 minutes at 450 degrees without a top crust. Take pie out and grate cheese — sharp cheddar works well — over the top. Broil until cheese is melted. As the pie cools,

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American fast food: Selling us what we want, not what we need In a mirror to our political landscape, McDonald’s is a quick fix to hunger SHIR AVINADAV

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his past weekend, my friends and I made the straining sevenhour drive to Iowa and back for the football game only to return disappointed, heartbroken and hungry.

As we desperately sped past The Largest Truck Stop in the World, the Mississippi River and the Indiana border, eager to return home to Ann Arbor, our conversation shifted to the dense smattering of billboards advertising fast food. Signs indicating exits to McDonald’s and Arby’s popped up over a dozen times, each time beckoning us to stray off our path and satisfy our hunger with greasy, salty food. Cracker Barrel called out to us with its “Country Fried Comfort.” It sounded better and better the more signs we passed.

I recall being pretty much infatuated with McDonald’s from an early age. I was always excited by the prospect of eating there, especially since it was a rare (once or twice a year) occurrence. The novelty of eating at McDonald’s made it seem like a treat to be awaited, and any family member or friend who took me there instantly won brownie points.

The crispy fries and mystery toy prize triggered some part of my brain that made me yearn to go back again each time I went.

I couldn’t understand why my mom wouldn’t allow me my coveted Happy Meal more often. If it was so good, why did she act like it was something to be avoided or limited to infrequent indulgences?

This memory crossed my mind as my friend and I began discussing how totally and completely disgusting the poor excuse for real food the grease-soaked, sodium-laden combination of chemicals is that these establishments serve their customers. I mean, who do they think they’re fooling into thinking that it’s real food?

Six-year-old me, that’s who.

Though from an early age we’re told to eat our vegetables and restricted from choosing any of the highly appealing sugary items in the grocery store cereal aisle by our parents, there’s a basic instinct

The xx are known for mellow, chilled-out indie music that is beloved by hipsters and the mainstream alike. A band hailing from London, it’s been a few years since we’ve heard anything new from them, with their last real release in 2012.

“On Hold” is the lead single from their upcoming new album, I See You, and the band have spent a while apart. With Jamie xx having produced one of the most accomplished albums of 2015 as a solo project, there is a lot of expectation for this new album to meet the same standard.

Something that Jamie’s solo album missed however, was the joint vocals of both Romy Croft and Oliver Sim, a trait of The xx that has always made them stand out. Throughout “On Hold,” the trio swap between taking the lead, and the lyrics, talking about lost love, wouldn’t work without the other two singers and Jamie brings his top level pro-

duction to the only the second table, almost sample the band as a third has ever used, singer. and the only one “Hold On” The song to really take the The xx itself is slow, forefront. The with calmsound may be ing lyrics and more poppy than delivery, which is nothing before, but this diminishes groundbreaking. However it’s none of the band’s original the build up and the overall charm that made them so sound that is unique to The highly acclaimed. xx. When the song gets going, This band has been away there’s an unusually fast beat, for quite some time, and this but it doesn’t detract from the upcoming album has been “inhaunting guitars and synths the-works” for the better part that frolic in the background of two years. But this song cerof the vocals. This is definitely tainly presents an intriguing a song that is better listened to insight into what the album through headphones. could entail; a perfect comIt’s also a lot more honest bination of The xx’s patented and upfront than anything this ethereal vocals and slow pace, band has produced before. The working perfectly in conjunclyrics are bolder, and Jamie tion with Jamie xx’s beats and xx’s production is second to pop-tinged style that proved so none. The sample of the 1981 successful on In Colour. Let’s hit “I Can’t Go For That (No hope this album is as good as Can Do)” by Hall & Oates this first single. exemplifies the new areas - MEGAN WILLIAMS this band is exploring, being

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we all share — the desire to eat what tastes good. That desire has been tapped into and commodified by the vast majority of the American food industry and the corporations that oversee fast food chains like McDonald’s. Advertisements and packaging designed to appeal to our desires permeate the food landscape, infiltrating our homes and our newsfeeds and littering the margins of our highways.

These monstrous fast food chains market to increase consumption and reduce consciousness. Their ultimate goal is to profit. And if people are willing to subsidize places like these in return for a cost-effective, gratifying meal, no matter the form in which it’s presented to them, these companies don’t have much of an incentive to do otherwise. They sure do know their audience. Can you think of anyone else who’s made the news recently that does as well? (Hint: the new president-elect of our country, Donald Trump).

While we scrutinized the phenomenon that is the fast food industry for several miles, it hit me — the political sphere has become a lot like consumerism, selling us platforms that we’re believed to want, not necessarily the less shiny, less enticing policies and candidates we actually need.

In a sense, Trump’s campaign platform offered up a heavy serving of political fast food — promising to boost the economy and reinforce national security. The simple tag line, “Make America Great Again,” repeated over and over again and stamped across bright red hats acted as a fast food marketing slogan, extending the promise of comfort and satisfaction through superficial means.

I’m by no means a political expert and don’t claim to know the many reasons prompting individual voters to support Trump, but I can attempt to assess the mass appeal of the most prevalent ideas purported by him and his campaign.

Within the framework of the fast food industry, Trump is a Big Mac. He appeals to hungry voters (white middle-class individuals who feel disenfranchised and disillusioned with their system of government)

with a simple, yet resounding promise of satisfying them.

The frequency and repetition of his campaign slogan and auspicious rhetoric strategically made him appear favorable to an audience craving a seemingly easy, quick fix (like a cheap, readily available meal).

Surely by now, everyone’s sick and tired of hearing about the election and about Trump (especially in the form of online rhetoric), but it’s difficult to push the events of the past two weeks out of my mind as I think about the role food plays in our society and everyday lives, because the media and our political system inextricably play a similar role.

In the past few years, the media (particularly social media) surrounding the election has been inescapable, and its content has grown more sensationalized, more disruptive and more nonsensical than has ever been before. Rather than working to the detriment of a candidate who utilized this absurdity to its extreme, it worked to his benefit. And that says more about what characterizes our country culturally and socially than it does about the candidate himself.

It’s easy to disseminate information and ideas through simple means, just as it is to mass produce frozen burgers and sell them to consumers. Now that we’ve become consumers of mass media and social media, it’s more important than ever to selectively choose what we consume and how we consume it — just as we do with food.

At the end of the day, people are being sold a facsimile of what they want — whether it’s a flashy new vision of America that may be unrealistic or detrimental to its people, or a beverage containing enough sugar to knock out a small child for an hour — regardless of whether it’s really what they need.

So, to six-year-old me, the golden arches and red boxes promising an exciting new toy may have fooled me into wanting McDonald’s, but I know better now. As a country, we should know better by now too.

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You are loved and you belong here A playlist to help you search for validation in the post-election wake SAMANTHA LU Daily Arts Writer

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This playlist is for those who might be feeling alienated, rejected, disheartened or scared; your validity is not lessened by your race, gender, religion, or sexuality. You are loved and you belong here.

“Undefeatable” — Young Rising Sons We’ll start out with a pump up song: rousing beats, a catchy melodic line and fiercely empowering lyrics come together to form Young Rising Son’s “Undefeatable.” Lead singer Andy Tongren’s voice is emphatic and motivational as he sings “We are the stars and the sun / The unforgettable ones.”

“Famous Last Words” — My Chemical Romance “Famous Last Words” holds a special place in my heart because it was my preferred rainy day song of choice throughout all four years of high school. Whenever I feel especially down, I can count on this song to invigorate me again. Gerard Way’s voice is candidly passionate as he proclaims “I am not afraid to keep on living / I am not afraid to walk this world

alone,” an inspiring message that is especially important in the tumultuous days after the election.

“Kill V. Maim” — Grimes Grimes delivers an energetically fast paced anthem that urges listeners to go against the grain. The song glorifies rebellion, and is noticeably brighter in comparison to many of the other songs in this playlist, due in part to the breathy, sometimes piercing quality of Grimes’s voice. Grimes champions the weird; most of her music videos are downright bizarre, yet she always exudes a creativity and confidence that we all hope to emulate.

“My House” — PVRIS A playlist without my favorite band? PSYCH! YOU THOUGHT! All jokes aside, “My House” is about reclaiming one’s personal space and standing up to someone that previously seemed unchallengeable. This isn’t PVRIS’s most famous single for no reason; vocalist Lynn Gunn’s voice is vibrant, strong and effortlessly smooth.

“Shut Up!” — Simple Plan When a situation gets to be damaging, frustrating or disheartening, it can be good to take a moment to step out, take a deep breath and reaffirm

yourself. This song perfectly captures how one feels when it all gets to be too much, while simultaneously encouraging listeners to embrace the unique parts of their individuality.

“You’re Going Down” — Sick Puppies “You’re Going Down” is a violently intense piece filled with ominous, heavy guitar and seething, angry lyrics.

Lead singer Shimon Moore’s voice oozes a rich vengefulness that comes across in his lyrical delivery, especially at the crux of the song, when he sings “One of us is going / One of us is going down” and “You’re the one that’s going down.” “begin again” — Purity Ring Purity Ring is unique for its elegantly poetic lyrics, many of which come from vocalist Megan James’s personal works that were originally not intended to be published.

“Begin Again” is a captivating piece from start to finish, with a beautiful and distinctive underlying bass buildup that brings out the delicacy of James’s voice. The song is filled with references to rebirth and renewal, a reminder that there will always be good things to come, no matter how dark the world seems at the moment.

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Motte & Bailey Bookshop has been a Kerrytown staple since 2000.

A reverence for history at Motte & Bailey Bookshop Kerrytown’s used book shop is a fixture for bibliophiles MATT GALLATIN Daily Arts Writer

“Brothels and pharmacies make more money, that’s for sure,” said Gene Alloway, owner of Motte & Bailey Booksellers, a rare and used bookstore on North Fourth Avenue. “There’s a saying that if you want to make a million dollars in books, start with two million.”

The brothels and pharmacies of questionable practices Alloway referred to are more than just lucrative businesses: they apparently once operated (although not, rather unfortunately, at the same time) within the same walls as Alloway’s bookstore.

But if a bookstore seems like a mundane follow-up to those more salacious ventures, a

“Brothels and pharmacies make more money, for sure.” step inside Motte & Bailey bookstore puts those concerns to rest.

Among old New Yorker magazine covers, children’s books and coffee-table-ready novels on Rembrandt, Motte & Bailey bookstore carries a comfortable quaintness that feels particularly Ann Arbor in nature. The store name is playfully displayed on the window with words that curl back and forth, recalling a storefront in a Harry Potter film. The actual history of the books inside, though, can be a bit more vicious than a noseless Ralph Fiennes.

According to Alloway, one such piece of history that passed through the walls stands out in particular — an original declaration written by the University of Michigan’s president in the late 19th century. In it, the president bans University students from visiting the local Ann Arbor bars because, he says, students would tend to have too much to drink and find themselves, perhaps, too belligerent for the collective good. As Alloway puts it, “There’d be huge brawls right in the middle of the street, weekend after weekend, between the University students and the German workers.”

Alloway’s reverence for history is important in holding the store to its niche. For a college town filled with eclectic bookstores, there’s still a carefully curated atmosphere to the store, and it’s that individualism, Alloway says, that makes room for what he estimates to be more than 20 different booksellers in the area.

“We all have our slightly different focus,” he said. At the bottom level, yes, all of us want that nice copy of ‘Catcher in the Rye’ — all of us would buy the

first edition and sell it for lots of money. But on the day-to-day level, we all have our different foci.”

This keeps the high supply of local bookstores from devolving into the kind of intra-trade warring that, say, the New York Ice Cream Truck Mafia found itself in. The local booksellers are not, Alloway says, walking up to each other’s collections with bats or a Zippo lighter.

Rather, Alloway will happily direct customers to the local bookstore that most fits their particular needs. (While I sat there, he recommended that a young woman searching for Jane Austen peruse the West Side Book Shop.)

So while Motte & Bailey does have an array of material, its strength, Alloway says, is still based in what he first took to the web back in 1996 when he opened a website as a book seller, focusing mainly on rare books in the subjects of classical history and the military.

What started solely as an online enterprise, however, eventually became a physical store in 2000, as Alloway and two friends — John Murphy II and Paul Hare — found themselves both with an increased interest in bookselling and in the midst of a philosophical disagreement with the University of Michigan library, where Alloway worked for a number of years as a librarian after receiving degrees in classical history and librarianship. Alloway uses the transition of mediums through music as an analogy: “Whenever there’s a change in technology, things get lost,” he said. When you went from Edison recordings to the first vinyl, there were things that didn’t come over. And when you went from those early 78s, the 33s, and 45 RPM vinyls, again, not everything came over. And then the same way cassettes and 8-track tapes and CDs and now digital. At every step, there are things that are unique to whatever mediums are available. The University, to me, was ignoring that.”

John Murphy eventually left the store for law school while Paul moved to Kansas, leaving Alloway as the sole consistent appraiser. But Alloway still makes sure to keep the values the store was founded on fresh.

He only scans original copies when uploading books online, places his focus on the most relevant content in a genre regardless of publishing date or what’s popular at the given moment and above all, he tries to make bookselling a more personal venture, rather than a faceless transaction.

That love for the books themselves, the leather and not just the ink, finds itself in the store’s unofficial motto: “Each book has its own destiny,” a quote that hangs in the back of the store. For Alloway, it represents the idea that he, as a seller, is just a stop on a long journey these books will make.

And those journeys, too, tell their own stories.

One recent one in particular stands out to Alloway, he says.

He recently acquired a large

19th-century volume of the female aristocracy in the early reign of Victoria, beautifully bound and containing steel engravings of each woman.

But two listed in the table of contents are absent. Thinking the error might just be individual, he reached out to the libraries where the rest of the approximately 12 copies are held. Of the seven who responded, all said the same two women were missing.

It’s those kinds of “So what happened?” questions that are so enticing about original bookselling and collecting, Alloway said: “The things that you could never find out unless you literally look through it page by page.”

It seems Alloway is not the only one who finds in-person browsing and hands-on bookkeeping exciting. While the store started online, in-store sales now far surpass online sales. Alloway cites the enormous imbalance of supply over demand with online competition as one factor. Another more powerful element at play, though, is that

Nobody has the time, money and space to read everything. book buying and browsing is an experience, and an oftenpersonal one that people like to have a guide for. Most of us can’t traverse an entire map on our own.

“It’s about leading people into directions,” Alloway says.

“Someone reads a general book on World War II, and then they want to read a book on a particular battle, and then they want to read a book on a particular unit and then they want to read a biography of a general of that unit. That’s what’s really nice.”

To help sort through the broadness of any given category, Alloway says, it’s important for the bookseller to be able to tell readers, “Read this, not that.” As he so accurately lays bare, nobody has all the time, money or space to collect and read every book they might want.

If the business of bookselling and collecting seems serious, it’s because it is. Alloway relayed a story to me of a German family he worked closely with to return a stolen manuscript. In turn, they told him of their relative, a librarian, who hung himself because their family estate was looted so heavily by the Russians during World War II. “He just couldn’t protect all of the books.”

The Motte & Bailey Bookshop may not yet be that zealous, but it’s an important staple in the ever-growing field. As Alloway puts it, “There are always small gaps that can be filled with books.”

‘Cooking for Jeffrey:’ An iconic love story between the Gartens and food From Dartmouth to the Hamptons, romance knows no bounds the words of Garten herself, “how great is that?”

Managing Arts Editor On first glance, I joked to my friends that the title of Ina Garten is a powerhouse. the cookbook seemed bad for When the Food Network train feminism. I never thought badly hit new heights of popularity about Ina for it — Garten is old in the mid-aughts, Garten enough to be my grandmother, reached a new level of celebrity and I am well aware of how status attained by only a few gender roles have shifted since other chefs on the network. she was in college. However, I Her long-running was surprised to series, “Barefoot see her actually Contessa,” has tackle the topic “Cooking for been on air since of feminism in Jeffrey: A 2002, making it her introduction: Barefoot Contessa one of the longest “I often say Cookbook” running series on [Jeffrey] was the the network. first feminist Ina Garten In each I ever knew; Oct. 25, 2016 episode, Garten he believed is effortlessly that I could Potter charming as she do anything I cooks a meal for wanted to do.” a special guest — The couple’s be it friends, a celebrity or her mutually beneficial relationship longtime husband, Jeffrey. Ina is highlighted several times in and Jeffrey’s relationship has “Cooking for Jeffrey.” It’s one reached an almost cult status, thing to see their relationship as the pair (who have been on television, where Ina is married since 1968) have a queen of the kitchen and chemistry that would make any Jeffrey seems happy just to cynic a believer in true love. be on the receiving end of her When so many marriages end in production. It’s a completely divorce these days, how can we different thing to read Garten’s not rally around a couple who heartfelt gratitude for finding has made it work for almost 50 a relationship that allows both years? people to follow their goals It was no surprise, then, while loving each other deeply. that Garten’s 10th cookbook, While flipping through released last month, is titled “Cooking with Jeffrey,” I was “Cooking for Jeffrey.” The fascinated that not only did glossy hardcover is two every recipe sound delicious, parts cookbook, one part but they all looked like love story. The introduction something I, an amateur home traces the history of Garten’s cook, could whip up without relationship with cooking and too much trouble. One of the her relationship with Jeffrey. reasons Ina Garten has become The two things are inextricably a Food Network icon is her interconnected, Garten says. penchant for simple meals According to her, Jeffrey was that require ingredients you the one who encouraged her to probably have in your fridge. work in the food industry and While there are recipes that pursue her dreams in the public require a thoughtfully planned sphere. grocery run (“Fried Oysters Jeffrey is no stranger to with Lemon Saffron Aioli,” for attaining lofty goals himself; instance), most of the recipes he’s Dean Emeritus at the Yale are something you could School of Management, and has easily make with a few hours worked in several presidential notice. In Ina’s recount of her administrations. Not to be culinary history, she explains outdone by her husband, that she finds the best meals Garten has an extremely are often the simplest, coming impressive resume from before from perfected classic recipes. her venture into the food world. This explains the prevalence She worked in the White House of meals with humble names during the Ford and Carter like “Roast Chicken with administrations writing policy Radishes,” “Parmeasan Roasted papers on nuclear energy. In Zucchini,” and “Roasted Italian KATHLEEN DAVIS

Meatballs.”

For a television personality, Garten has done a wonderful job making her audience feel like they share an intimate connection with her. Skimming through the blurbs written at the top of each recipe, I found myself reading some of her iconic phrases in her voice, like I was watching the recipe unfold on her show (“How smart is that?”). It’s hard to tell if you want her to be your grandmother, or your mother, or your Hampton neighbor.

But the overwhelming reaction is that her fans do want her in their life in some capacity because she seems like such a fun and friendly person. Her voice translates nicely from “Barefoot Contessa” to her cookbooks, a hard-to-achieve skill that has certainly been perfected from years in the business.

Sitting down with “Cooking for Jeffrey” is the reading equivalent of curling up in a blanket next to a fire — the warmth Ina has for her husband and her love for cooking radiates off every page. Even for the biggest skeptic, there is something beautiful about hearing how two people fell (and stayed) in love. “Cooking for Jeffrey” not only offers a glimpse into the first few years of Ina and Jeffrey’s relationship, but you can rest easy knowing the story has a happy ending almost five decades later.

As Garten reminds us in her “Planning a Party” chapter, food is no fun unless you’re sharing it with the people you love, be it friends, family or Jeffrey.

Cooking for others is a selfless act that can be deeply personal, and the ritual of sharing a meal is only productive if we’re building on our relationship with that person through conversation and laughter.

Though especially important in this political climate, this lesson is something that each and every one of us should hold deeply. Besides, if we learn anything about sustaining a marriage from Ina and Jeffrey’s relationship, it’s undeniable that sharing lots of delicious meals has only helped.

MUSIC VIDEO REVIEW In the wake of the 2016 election, millions of Americans are hurting. They’re scared for themselves, their friends, their families, even complete strangers. Also in the wake of Trump’s win, we’ve seen an uptick in blatant hate; this week alone three women have been attacked or “intimidated” in Ann Arbor — a liberal Mecca of sorts in comparison to much of the country. Nonetheless, when the darkness seems to be the darkest it has been in recent years, the brightness shines even brighter.

Alicia Keys and A$AP Rocky vibing in a backyard to “Blended Family (What You Do For Love),” the lead single off Keys’s new album Here, exudes that brightness. The video’s three and a half minutes

are a collage of infectious from Keys’s family, there. He kisses including his step mom on husband Swizz her cheek and “Blended Family (What You Beats, their a room erupts Do For Love)” children, as into laughter Alicia Keys feat. A$AP Rocky well as Swizz’s as he delivers, ex-wife and “And shoutout their children (Keys’s stepto the step sisters and the step children), intermingled with brothers / And god-sisters, who other blended families from all eventually slept with us.” walks of life. The energy bubbles Still, the video’s peak, without with love and affection, further a doubt, is Keys and Rocky enhanced by the song’s simple stunting together, feeding into yet uplifting guitar chords and each other’s energy, each other’s honest commentary and relaxed smiles. She mouths his verse as delivery from the songstress. he flows next to her, their bodies The video’s energy, powered by lost in the music rather than adoring looks and slow-motion choreographed around it. The hugs, overflows with Rocky’s track and video serve as a much verse. He begins pacing, rapping needed reminder: “I know how into a notebook while jotting hard it gets / But I swear it’s down lyrics and the smiles worth it, worth it.” only grow wider and more - CHRISTIAN KENNEDY

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Considering the action movie as a mirror for life How the East and West are involved in action-packed films VANESSA WONG Daily Arts Writer

Action movies are more than just car chases. In the debris of every explosion, we find answers to questions that form the crux of human society: Who is the enemy?

Why do we fight them? What distinguishes them from us?

Historically, action movie tropes have evolved alongside American foreign policy and global trade relations. We once had the Godfather and bands of Italian mobsters. Then came Russian gangsters and spies. Now we’re boarding private jets to coolly futuristic Asian metropolises, shooting at each other from the glittering towers of Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong or Macau and sipping a cocktail in the hotel bar afterward.

We see this in “Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift,” “Pacific Rim,” “Transformers: Age of Extinction” and more. Even less action-based thrillers jumpstart their plotlines with an injection of foreign travel, like “Contagion,” which began in a Hong Kong casino. “Skyfall,” one of the highest grossing films in the past few years, continues the James Bond legacy in a Shanghai skyscraper and the fictional Golden Dragon Casino in Macau.

For “Skyfall,” screenwriter John Logan explained that production deliberately sought out locations that were “in opposition” to London with an exotic quality that made them “places for Bond to be uncomfortable.”

But it’s not just Bond that’s uncomfortable. So is the audience, a presumed monolithic body of English-speaking, non-ethnic Westerners. It is this discomfort — this newness, foreignness — that creates the movie’s thrill. These

cities are meant to be unfamiliar, harkening back to our most primal instinct to fear the unknown.

The dynamic is not limited to Asian cities alone. Action movie franchises take viewers all over the world, from Latin America to the Middle East, precisely because foreignness is inherently suspenseful. For Western audiences — particularly American ones — Asia has the stereotype of being perpetually foreign, taking the feeling of thrill even further.

Moreover, because the audience generally does not have first-person experience visiting international cities, screenwriters have the freedom of imagining whatever they want to fill that blank space. Asian cities, specifically, are tied to the image of high-tech futurism and consumerism, making them places where slick new gadgets, sly transactions, anything the mind can conjure up, flourish.

The setting is also about money, and characterizing protagonists along certain class lines. Notably, Bond doesn’t dally in the agricultural fields of Southeast Asia — those are reserved for stories of ancient treasures or war-related espionage. Instead, he only visits Asia’s economic powerhouses, and of those, only the cities that have the strongest trade relations with the US and the UK. Here, his enemies are wealthy Asian businessmen or Western expats. His choice of associates — even in the villains he fights — is just one physical marker of Bond’s status as a sleek, cosmopolitan protagonist. He has his Armani suit, his Rolex and, now, the international network connecting him to pockets of power across the globe. He has both the financial

means and the elite connections to jetset between London and New York, and now Shanghai and Macau. The plot is no longer just domestic. The more foreign backdrops the movie has, the grander the scale of the action, creating ever-higher stakes to indulge in.

There also is a real-world political and financial element in the trend of setting blockbuster action movies in Asia. Lately, Chinese investors have funneled a lot of money into Hollywood media companies, and Asia is a growing market for these action movies. The latest “Transformers” movie was heavily promoted in China and became the country’s highest grossing film at the time of release.

Some production companies respond to this new audience by creating special export versions of the film with after-edits making the storylines more relatable to Chinese viewers. It could be that now, writers are moving the entire stories to Asia — an artistic decision fueled by the global economic market.

But in practice, these international locations are used as nothing more than backdrops for (usually) American protagonists to play in. Instead of using the setting to shape the plot, it seems that it’s simply thrown in as an afterthought to add extra stimulation for audiences and production companies alike.

Since movies are a mirror reflection of society, it means we as viewers have an underlying mindset that enables this type of cinematic ethnocentrism. We should question why that mindset is so common and ask ourselves: are we making backdrops of foreign places in our own lives?

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In 2016, young female filmmakers shouldn’t need to give disclaimers Instead of apologizing, women going into film should feel empowered DANIELLE YACOBSON Daily Arts Writer

Last week, a relentless paranoia consumed my life as I prepared to direct a live talk show in my media production class.

For exactly three minutes, I would take my turn in the director’s chair, giving commands while juggling three cameras, audio, graphics and cues to the talent. I was to follow a semi-scripted outline and make decisions on the fly, while my professor silently jotted down notes behind me.

It was all very stressful and very much outside my comfort zone, because, for the neurotic planner that I am, “live” is a four letter word.

I’m sure all nine students in my production class were nervous for their directing rotation. I was. I watched as each individual’s nerves surfaced in their own ways; fingers twisted in hair, bitten nails, cracking knuckles. There was another tell, one that exactly half the class employed: the disclaimer. Sorry if this sucks. I’m totally gonna mess up. I apologize in advance.

The students who used disclaimers, I noticed, were exclusively women.

I recognize that my sample size is small, but even so, I find it extremely unlikely that this was an isolated coincidence.

The fact is, all four women in my class preemptively disqualified their abilities as directors in some capacity, while the four men did not.

Disclaimers act as a sort of

defense mechanism, a way to show self-awareness in your uncertainties and ensure that you don’t appear overconfident or pompous. They are used to acknowledge that you’re not blind to your imperfections or insusceptible to mistakes. But a thought prefaced with,“This may be a bad idea, but…” is not nearly as convincing as the same one without.

Last week, a relentless paranoia consumed my life.

So why is there a gender disparity in confidence? Maybe, perhaps even subconsciously, the women in my film and television classes are less confident in their abilities simply because they haven’t seen many women take on high-powered positions in the industry. It’s no secret that Hollywood is an old boys club; any list of the industry’s “greats” will be overcrowded with old, white men. In the timeline of film and television, relatively few women have risen to great acclaim in the stereotypically male dominated roles of directors, producers, screenwriters and the like.

History has not cultivated many female role models, but there has been enormous progress. Throughout the past

decade, incredible women have been able to break through Hollywood’s glass ceiling, successfully writing scripts, directing shows and running studios. And the women that are breaking through the boundaries are confident in their abilities and stand by their ideas. No disclaimers.

It’s infinitely easier to go along with the status quo.

When predominantly men raised their hands in my Art of Film class last semester, I noticed the trend, but did nothing. I, like many, didn’t want to say something wrong or divisive, was not willing to run the risk of looking bad. I only got up the courage to speak one time in that lecture: ironically, when the class was having a passionate debate about producer, author and showrunner Shonda Rhimes. I talked about her dedication to blind casting, her movement to normalize minorities through her storylines and her persistence to grow opportunities for women within the industry.

Her success, dazzling and inspiring, gave me confidence to overcome the perceptions of my own shortcomings.

The only way that progress can continue is if young women take initiative. It starts in the classroom, in our student organizations, in our internships. It’s time we take on projects that may be outside our comfort zones and have the confidence that somehow, we’ll figure it out. It’s time to stop saying we can’t before we even try.

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