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Rep. Debbie Dingell (D–Dearborn) discusses the impact of the Affordable Care Act on students at Weill Hall on Tuesday.

Debbie Dingell highlights impact of Affordable Care Act to crowd of 100

Current political discourse in GOP could repeal act which provides medical care to millions JORDYN BAKER Daily Staff Reporter

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D– Mich.) accompanied a panel at the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy Tuesday night to discuss the impacts of the Affordable

Care Act. The panel, hosted by the University of Michigan’s chapter of College Democrats along with Progressives at the University of Michigan, also answered public questions to an audience of approximately 100 students, faculty and community members.

Panelists began by laying

out facts about the ACA itself, explaining that 20 million previously uninsured Americans gained health insurance because of the act.

In Michigan, the “Healthy Michigan” plan reduced the number of uninsured citizens by 50 percent, allowing nearly 700,000 people in Michigan

to gain health insurance, according to Dingell.

The panel comes during a time of concerns surrounding a possible repeal of the ACA from GOP lawmakers.

Panelists described the idea of “repeal and replace” as more of a slogan than a plan See DINGELL, Page 3A

Jessy Grizzle, in collaboration with those at Oregon State, will test the prototype RASHEED ABDULLAH Daily Staff Reporter

If University of Michigan College of Engineering researchers continue to prototype their innovative work, you might soon be receiving packages from someone other than a mailman — instead, a robotic bird.

The University will be the first institution to program and test “Cassie,” a robot with the mobility of a bird and the potential to transform efficient energy usage. The robot, created by the Agility Robotics program at Oregon State University, will be arriving at the lab belonging to Jessy Grizzle, professor of

electrical engineering and computer science. Grizzle has also worked on robot bipeds — machines that use two legs to walk — similar to Cassie, which takes the form of a large bird. Grizzle is well-known throughout the nation for his work on bipeds and has collaborated with Oregon State University before — which is why Cassie will be tested by his lab.

Grizzle said Cassie’s inventors did not plan on its aviary appearance, but tweaked their design when mathematics proved that the robot would perform better with this form.

“Agility Robotics started See ROBOT, Page 3A

Concerns over federal funding delays CSG passes Student resolution immigration ordinance at City Council athletes

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for ME/NA recognition

Residents and council believe previous legislation had too many exceptions

Middle Eastern authors said they had to put ‘white’ on demographic forms

City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to postpone an initial vote on an ordinance intended to protect Ann Arbor’s undocumented residents, citing a need to tighten exceptions originally provided in the ordinance.

The ordinance comes after an executive order signed

by President Donald Trump in January providing for the removal of federal grants for “sanctuary jurisdictions,” which the order defines as jurisdictions that refuse to assist federal agencies in identifying and detaining undocumented immigrants.

Additionally, implementation memos for the order released Monday expanded the federal government’s authority to allow lower jurisdictions to carry out the duties of federal immigration agencies.

At the Feb. 6 meeting of City Council, members unanimously passed a resolution directing the city administrator to review the executive order and “provide advice regarding possible options or actions the city might take to protect the rights of the city and persons within its jurisdiction.”

The ordinance proposed Tuesday would prohibit city employees from asking residents about their

RHEA CHEETI

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During Central Student Government’s Tuesday meeting, a resolution to support the creation of a Middle Eastern and North African racial category on University of Michigan documents passed unanimously.

LSA Rep. Devin Jones, SAFE member — one of the four authors who identifies as ME/NA — brought up the discrepancies in how he was classified in the U.S. census and other demographic surveys.

Though he is Palestinian and the other authors of the proposal were Lebanese, Jones said they were all technically classified as “white.” Jones argued the demographic surveys did not take Middle Eastern heritage into account.

“In 1944, all Arabs were marked as white in the United States because whiteness was a prerequisite for citizenship,” Jones said. “That changed in 1952, but the status for Arab Americans and others who are Middle East and North African See CSG, Page 3A

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immigration statuses, but provides several exceptions to the prohibition. According to the ordinance, city employees would be permitted to inquire into a resident’s immigration status while assisting federal law enforcement in the

investigation of a criminal or civil offense, or while processing an arrested person.

Ann Arbor resident Jessica Prozinski said the exceptions defeated the original purpose of the ordinance, opposing it

on those grounds.

“The resolution, I believe, had good intentions, as far as strengthening Ann Arbor’s don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy,” she said. “This resolution, I think, has actually become See CITY, Page 3A

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Coach Jim Harbaugh traded in his headset for a microphone Tuesday night to judge the annual Mock Rock charity talent show at the University of Michigan Power Center for the Performing Arts, where more than 200 students and community members came to watch student athletes help raise money for the local mental health organization Fresh Start Clubhouse.

Mock Rock is an annual fundraising event organized and led by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and the Ginsberg Center where each year, the organizations determine a local beneficiary to donate the funds the show raises to a place they feel aligns with the students’ passions.

Various varsity studentathlete teams came together to create original talent acts to perform in front of their peers to help fundraise money.

Last year, the organizations chose to donate all proceeds See ATHLETES, Page 3A

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ON THE DAILY: DEATH OF DOE REMAINS A MYSTERY Last week at a trail leading into Nichols Arboretum, University of Michigan medical student Daniel Nadelman stumbled upon a dead deer. Nadelman told MLive that at first glance the deer appeared to have been shot as a part of the city’s cull from Jan. 30 to Feb. 6.

However, city officials say it was not killed during the cull.

The Ann Arbor cull sparked opposition from many residents.

At a City Council meeting last January, many residents chanted, “Stop the shoot,” and organized a number of protests and demonstrations against the planned shoot. The latest cull removed 96 deer from parks and nature areas on University properties, with an additional 54 female deer being sterilized, according to an article on the city of Ann Arbor’s website.

The remaining carcass appeared to be partially eaten,

according to Nadelman. Tom Crawford, Ann Arbor’s chief financial officer, who oversaw the deer cull, said each deer killed during the cull was removed last Thursday, leading him to believe this one died of other causes.

Because of the dead deer’s proximity to the train tracks, it might have been hit by a train, yet other possibilities still remain.

The deer could also have been attacked by a predator or shot by an outsider.

Nadelman also speculated this was the same doe he had seen before in the Arb with three fawns.

“Several months ago, three fawns were born in the Arboretum and I watched them with their mother every day until the hunt began,” Nadelman said in the MLive article.

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WHAT: An open space to inform students and faculty about campus climate and community concerns.

WHO: Residential College WHEN: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

WHERE: East Quad Residence Hall

WHAT: Conductor Christopher Kendall will lead a performance of two works by Arthur Honneger.

The winners of a concerto competition will also perform.

WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.

WHERE: Hill Auditorium

Science Cafe WHAT: This month’s cafe will discuss our climates of the past and future and discuss the mechanisms of these changes with Environmental Science Professor Chris Poulsen WHO: Science Cafes WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Conor O’Neill’s Pub, 318 S. Main St.

Kotaro Fukuma Guest Recital WHAT: Kotaro Fukuma, an award-winning international concert pianist, will perform a “Home Country” set.

WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Earl V. Moore, Britton Recital Hall

Poetry Reading WHAT: Author Amorak Huey, a Grand Valley State University professor, will read from his poetry collection “Ha Ha Ha Thump.”

WHO: Crazy Wisdom Poetry Circle WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: 114 S. Main St.

Faculty Author Celebration WHAT: Faculty who wrote monographs published last year will present their work and be honored.

WHO: University Library WHEN: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery 100

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@umichbball WHAT: Join Daniel Molden, a visiting professor from Northwestern, presents on understanding self-regulation failure based on recent research.

WHO: Department of Psychology WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

WHERE: East Hall, Room 4464

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After bipartisan pressure, the Michigan state legislature modified its initial proposal from one which would completely eliminate the state’s 4.25-percent income tax to one that will gradually lower the tax to 3.9 percent over four years.

This change occurred after nine university presidents from public schools across the state, including Mark Schlissel, president of the University of Michigan, gathered Tuesday morning in front of the House chamber to lobby against the original proposal.

The university presidents were concerned the elimination of the income tax

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Plan to reduce income tax to 3.8 percent after university presidents vocalize concerns education at the same cost now,” Schlissel said to the Detroit Free Press. “Families are already struggling to pay for college, and we don’t want to make those challenges greater. It’s not just higher ed, it’s community colleges, it’s schools, it’s infrastructure we’ve promised our fellow citizens we’re going to take care of. It’s the aid we return to our cities that allows them to provide services to our fellow citizens.”

According to the Detroit Free Press, Gov. Rick Snyder had also expressed concern over the original tax plan and the loss of revenue, remarking that the situation should be researched more thoroughly.

“The governor is always open to new ideas and welcomes the discussion on tax reform,” Anna Heaton, Snyder’s press secretary, told the Free Press. “For this particular proposal, there would need to be concrete data to demonstrate that there is adequate revenue from sources besides the income tax to ensure services for residents and investing in our statewide infrastructure would not be adversely affected.”

In a press release following the announcement of the change Synder expressed his pleasure with the change.

“I appreciate that House leadership took seriously my concerns about the longterm impact of the proposal, but I still have a billion dollars worth of concerns because there has been no plan presented as to how this will affect residents and their communities statewide.”

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WHAT: Holocaust survivor Roma Solent will give a talk on his memories from the Holocaust.

WHO: Jewish Graduate Student Union WHEN: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

WHERE: Munger Graduate Residences

MI legislation to reduce rate of income tax following opposition would lead to constraints in the state’s budget, potentially a gap of more than $1 billion in the first fiscal year and subsequently decrease university funding.

The presidents cited concerns such as higher education inaccessibility and the rising cost of a college education as reasons for opposing the bill.

Schlissel expressed concern the tax cuts would prevent universities from providing higher education at a manageable cost for families across the state. He also said the proposal would negatively affect community infrastructure.

“Our fear is that if the resources available to state government are constrained by such a large tax cut, we won’t be able to maintain accessibility to a great higher

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DINGELL From Page 1A coming from Congressional Republicans. They said if the ACA is repealed, it will need to be replaced; however, lawmakers have yet to bring forth a definitive plan for replacement.

“In the last year, we’ve heard discussion of increasing premium costs and higher deductibles, and we do need to worry about that, there’s no question about it,” Dingell said.

“There are a lot of statistics and numbers but we need to know what the facts are, we need to understand.”

Laurie Burchett, an insurance specialist at University Health Service, stated that for students who obtain an illness that needs to be treated at an outside facility, health insurance is a requirement. She has found, however, that many students at the University do not have their own health insurance and cannot receive this treatment. She continued by explaining that the portion of the ACA that allows young adults to stay on their parent’s health insurance until age 26 is crucial for college students.

Claire Fitzgerald, a senior majoring in political science, gender and health studies and business, was also a member of the panel. She described her experiences as a college student and how the ACA has affected her and her classmates.

ATHLETES From Page 1A to Athletes Connected, an initiative to support studentathlete mental health in memory of Garrick Roemer, a University student-athlete who committed suicide in 2014.

In an effort to reach out to the greater Ann Arbor community and continue encouraging their support for treating mental illness, the organizations choose Fresh Start Clubhouse, a local organization that helps adults in the Ann Arbor Community with mental illness by emphasizing employment, education, housing and wellness programs as their 2017 beneficiary.

In previous years, the event has relied solely on the audience to judge the performances; however, this year, Harbaugh was joined by his wife, Sarah Harbaugh, and University alum Summer Berman, director of Fresh Start Clubhouse, behind the judges table.

In the middle of the show, current members and employees of Fresh Start Clubhouse took center

CITY From Page 1A

problematic to the point where I think it would almost be better if it weren’t passed, because some of the exceptions in it I think are very dangerous.”

Along with several other residents at the meeting, Councilmember Jack Eaton (D– Ward 4) agreed the language of the exceptions in the ordinance needed to be revised.

“I find great substance to the objections that were raised by residents of the city,” he said. “I’ve spoken to the city attorney’s office regarding this,

TAX From Page 1A

the substituted bill will be voted on — less than a week after the committee’s hearing for the initial bill.

To reach the income tax level

“For college students in particular, the ACA gives us the ability to receive access to contraceptive provision, preventive sexual health care and the mental health support and flu shots we need in a crucial and tumultuous time without worrying about obtaining coverage outside our parents’ plan,” she said.

Fitzgerald recalled a time when she contracted mononucleosis and had to be hospitalized for a week.

She said if she were not able to be on her parent’s health insurance, paying for the large hospital bills would have been extremely difficult.

Panelists also described how women in particular are affected by the ACA, as they are provided contraceptives, prenatal care, mammograms and several other preventative screenings.

When moderators opened the floor to the audience, many attendees had questions regarding what they could do as individuals to advocate for the ACA. Panelist Michael Budros, a Rackham student, stressed the importance of outreach and education, especially toward those who may not understand the entirety of the current situation.

He said there are many people who have health insurance under the ACA without realizing it and at the same time hold a disdain for the legislation under its more common name, “Obamacare.”

“Don’t underestimate the power of talking to your friends and families, especially

stage to be recognized and gave a performance to share their message that no one is ever alone. One of the organization’s current members shared his personal story and history with depression and how, with the help of Fresh Start Clubhouse, he was able to improve his quality of life.

In response to the performance by Fresh Start and the story of overcoming depression, the Harbaughs offered to match every donation made. The organization received a standing ovation.

Co-host Drake Johnson, a fifth-year senior running back, shared how important he felt the issue of mental health for student-athletes and the fervor he has to be a part of a community that supports it.

“As an athlete, it’s very critical that we recognize how important our mental health is,” Johnson said. “Not even in just our performance but as people. I’m proud to be a part of this place because you’re not going to find this support everywhere.”

To continue the theme of mental health awareness, the women’s field hockey team dedicated its performance to

people who live in different areas,” he said. “They might know that they’re benefiting from the Affordable Care Act but hate Obamacare.”

Dingell stressed situations surrounding controversial issues like the ACA should not be made political. She said in cases that affect the well-being of citizens, public health is not a matter of political ideologies.

“This isn’t a partisan fight, it’s about real people’s lives,” she said. “There are a lot of people that are just scared to death about what’s going to happen to them, so that’s why I am so concerned about this because this isn’t a political game, it’s real people’s lives, and that’s why it does matter and it is so important.”

LSA freshman Kieran Byrne attended the panel as a member of a younger generation that has seen the ACA in action for the majority of their lives, and who hasn’t personally experienced any major effects from other health care plans.

He explained the importance of students from this generation attending panels such as this one and educating themselves on issues that could change very quickly in the near future.

“I think it’s important that people have a good idea of what’s going on in terms of the legislation that’s going to happen and what laws are already doing for us,” he said. “I think a lot of news and information is very sensationalized and it’s important to hear from the people who actually have an impact.”

“those who felt they didn’t have a message.” The team lined the stages with signs of the lyrics to Adele’s “Make You Feel My Love,” as a member of the team sang the song.

Afterward, Harbaugh expressed his admiration for the team’s performance.

“Talent, presentation and a compelling message,” Harbaugh said. “Women’s field hockey is in it to win it.”

Other teams went with more conventional talent show acts such as lip-syncing and choreographed dances.

The men’s g ymnastics team did a hip-hop dance routine, which was well received by Harbaugh.

“I thought it was dope,” Harbaugh said.

After the judges delegated, first-place went to a tie between the University’s dance team and Fresh Start Clubhouse.

Cheer team member Bailey Hedman, an LSA sophomore, came out to help fundraise for mental health after finding out about the event from her team.

“I know one of our captains is a really big supporter of this,” Hedman said. “So, the whole cheer team is here to support.”

and in consultation with them, I will be working out a better way to describe any exception we will make for this.”

Councilmember Sumi Kailasapathy (D–Ward 1) said she understood residents’ concerns with the exceptions, but pointed out the council was balancing multiple priorities with the ordinance. She specifically noted the federal funding that goes toward public housing for the city’s lowincome residents, which could be threatened by the passing of such an ordinance.

“None of us here have any doubt that the current president is a very vindictive person,” she said. “Some of you

have pleaded with us, asking us why don’t we just declare ourselves a sanctuary city and then go fight it out in the courts, because it’s a just war. And I do agree with you, but the issue is we come from a middle-class perspective where we have a safety net. The people who live in public housing are not in the safety net. They don’t have any other safety net.”

Kailasapathy said the city currently receives $1.25 million per month from the federal government in public housing grants.

Councilmember Zachary Ackerman (D–Ward 3) noted the funds provide housing for more than 1,300 Ann Arbor residents.

of 3.9 percent, the new bill, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2018, would reduce the income tax by 0.1 percent each year for three years — for the fourth year, it would be lowered by 0.05 percent.

State Rep. Yousef Rabhi (D– Ann Arbor) remarked that he thinks both the initial proposal and this new plan will negatively

affect the state.

“I think that the Republican tax proposal and its amendment are both fiscally irresponsible to the state and the wrong move for us to make — it’s irresponsible to talk about cutting income to the state,” he said. “That’s hundreds of millions of dollars coming out of police and fire departments, coming out of schools.”

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CSG From Page 1A identifying … to this day, they are still regarded as white. So basically, we don’t have a count on how many Arab Americans or Middle East Americans exist in the United States, we don’t know how many exist in the University of Michigan.”

Public Policy junior Nadine Jawad, who serves as senior policy adviser to CSG, stressed the importance of having a record of how many ME/NA students there are on campus to allocate resources toward that community and reach out to members.

“When something goes on on campus, if we want to connect with Arab American students, Middle Eastern students, or Middle Eastern and North African students and people identifying in this category, it’s very hard to reach out to a population of people that you don’t even know where they are, how many exist on this campus,” Jawad said. “If we want to advocate for resources for our community, it’s very hard to because we don’t have a breakdown of how many students there are so it makes it hard to allocate resources for this demographic of people on campus.”

LSA junior Jad Elharake said with all of the talk of representation and outreach from students and the

ROBOT From Page 1A with the design of the Atriasseries robot that we have in our lab, and then (we) used the mathematics to arrive at the robot’s design,” he said. “Hence, Cassie ended up looking like a bird as a result of math, but wasn’t designed that way in the sense of bio-inspired.”

Grizzle’s lab will be

We’re moving toward a point where both technologies are maturing programming and testing the algorithm to control Cassie, in the hopes they can steer the robot toward deliverybased functions. Xingye Da, an Engineering graduate student who works in Grizzle’s lab, said this functionality was designed to maneuver through obstacles.

“Cassie was designed for carrying and delivering packages,” he said. “In delivering a package to the front of your

University of Michigan administration, it is important to have an idea of how many ME/NA students are on campus.

“This will be our third year planning a graduation for ME/ NA students, and when we’re trying to reach out to students and graduates and seniors, there isn’t a Listserv we can go to, so we have to go by student organizations or friends,”

Elharake said. “Just to show you how dysfunctional it is … I know we talk about access and outreach and representation amongst FSAs (faculty, staff and administrators), but we don’t even know how many of

us are on campus.”

Jones said the authors hoped to see student government support for the resolution before approaching administration and sending the resolution to University President Mark Schlissel.

“All you’re being asked to do is show support for this — you’re not asked to actually create the box, you’re not asked the logistics of the box,” he said. “It’s basically going to be in the racial category, when applying to anything or under distinctions, so there would be a separate ethnic category where you could identify distinctions. This is primarily a racial category we are looking to implement, and you would just be supporting the idea.”

The resolution passed unanimously among the assembly.

Engineering freshman Mario Galindez, a member of the Engineering Student Government, proposed another resolution during the meeting to support an academic holiday on Election Day. He referred to the long lines students had to wait in on Election Day, and specified these as being a potential factor in discouraging students to vote.

The resolution proposed an academic holiday for Election Day 2020 and all evennumbered years after that.

The proposal was passed on to the resolution committee for further review.

home, the robot will probably have to climb up the stairs and go through other obstacles.”

Da added Cassie would be productive in delivering objects because of its studier structure, which can mitigate the amount of damage coming from collisions and falls.

Cassie’s functions surpass those of older robots: Grizzle’s current robot, MARLO, is another biped that “walks,” but it requires human assistance to stand up and maneuver its path.

Moreover, Cassie is designed to be able to reorient its “feet,” which makes it able to turn in its course of action — a function MARLO lacks.

“The models for MARLO and Cassie were designed for outdoor walking, so the biggest challenge for MARLO is that it’s very heavy and when we take it to the place where no mobile gantry can work, like the Michigan Wave Field or the woods ... we have to carry it on a boom to support its weight in case it falls,” Grizzle said. “Cassie does not need this and is more durable.”

Along with this engineered mobility, Cassie is set to transform energy efficiency in robots. Da explained robots, compared to humans, are very inefficient in terms of expending energy.

“Compared to humans’ energy efficiency, MARLO is five times less efficient than humans

whereas other robots are 100 times less efficient,” he said. “I expect Cassie will be even more efficient than MARLO because of its lighter weight.”

Da expects this energy efficiency to be a main feature of Cassie. He explained per its design for the outdoors, conserving energy will be a necessity for carrying out missions.

“If you think about doing outdoor exploring or rescue, the biggest concern is the battery life,” he said. “If you carry more power, of course you’ll end up weighing heavier, so there’s a tradeoff. But Cassie was designed to counter this.”

Cassie, along with other bipedal robots, was designed to harness a variety of human mobility. Dmitry Berenson, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, predicted future robots will integrate more humanoidtype parts.

“Cassie is a pair of legs, but to do useful things you would need some way to interact with the world (with arms),” Berenson said. “It’s good to develop arm and leg capabilities independently so we can focus on the core problems of each.

However, we’re moving toward a point where both technologies are maturing and need to be integrated into a full humanoid system.”

It’s very hard to rech out to a population of people that you don’t even know where they are, how many exist on this campus

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ISAIAH ZEAVIN-MOSS | COLUMN

Listen to your students

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n Friday, Feb. 10, I saw a change. That’s like me, as a young beautiful performance boy, crying because I’m hungry by the Budapest Festival but then refusing to eat the food Orchestra at Hill Auditorium. my parents give me. You cannot Before the show have it both ways. You began, as I looked cannot feel helpless around at the sea of and then refuse to gray, elderly audience engage your students, members surrounding who know best what me, I saw Mark it means to live on Schlissel, president this campus. They of the University of are the people who Michigan, sitting in the can help you feel level below me. less helpless. Their On the previous demand that you ISAIAH night, I had attended meet with them is a sit-in protest at ZEAVIN-MOSS an offer to help you the Michigan Union, feel less helpless, to organized by Students4Justice. help you take tangible actions As part of the protest, S4J wrote to push our University forward. up a list of demands that it wants Schlissel’s general the administration to meet. The unresponsiveness reminds me first demand reads as follows: of something Angela Davis, “Acknowledge our humanity and the renowned revolutionary address us-- Muslim, Jewish, prison abolitionist and civil Black, Arab, LGBTQ+, and rights leader, once said. Davis other marginalized students was asked about violence on campus-- in person on within the Black nationalist Thursday, February 9, 2017 at movement.

The reporter the Michigan Union.” suggested that violence was the Several administrators came only way to achieve the goals and met with the organizers of the stipulated by the movement. protest. But Schlissel never came. And Davis responded: I was surprised that Schlissel did “When you talk about a not attend this event, especially revolution, most people think since the demands being made ‘violence,’ without realizing that were very basic and fundamental: the real content of any kind of Recognize us, see us, treat us revolutionary thrust lies in the with the respect that human principles and the goals that beings deserve. you’re striving for, not in the way And I’d like to deliberate you reach them. On the other here why Schlissel might not hand, because of the way this have attended the protest, a society’s organized, because of the well-publicized event that violence that exists on the surface attracted students, faculty and everywhere, you have to expect administrators alike. I saw a that there are going to be such video of Schlissel confronting explosions. You have to expect protesters, who were angry about things like that as reactions. If the spate of racist and anti-Semitic you are a Black person and live emails, and the subsequent in the Black community all your lack of a concrete, immediate life, and walk out on the street administrative response, outside every day seeing white policemen of his home the night before the surrounding you. … And then sit-in at the Union. And in that you ask me, you know, whether I confrontation, Schlissel said, “I approve of violence, I mean that feel helpless.” just doesn’t make any sense at all.”

So perhaps it is this helplessness In other words, Davis is saying that renders you silent, that one should not be surprised kept you invisible on the night at violence perpetrated by the of a student protest and sitting movement when violence has in luxury seating at a classical been perpetrated by the police musical concert on the very next and by the dominant white society night. Schlissel feels “helpless” against Black and brown societies to the demands being made by for centuries in the United States. activist groups on campus.

Violence is the norm. To only President Schlissel, if I can criticize it when it is perpetrated address you here, you ought to by Davis and her colleagues is know that you are not alone. Your racist and willfully ignorant. students who make demands of And in this passage, too, you also feel helpless. And it is not Davis defines precisely the flaw actually an option for you to feel in Schlissel’s refusal to respond helpless and then to subsequently to demands: Davis criticizes refuse to meet with the very her interviewer for assuming students who are calling for violence comes only from the

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Black nationalists and not from the white supremacist United States government. Similarly, the idea that demands do not start a conversation presupposes that there are other options for these students to be taking up. It presupposes a sort of absolute innocence on the part of the administration, as if it has done nothing to perpetrate the need for demands.

Of course, these students understand that a demand is different from a request, from setting up a meeting with the president like other students — those students, for example, who do not feel as if their lives are threatened and their humanity silenced — might do. These students know what a demand is and their lived experience informs why demands are necessary.

Schlissel’s logic, then, does not even attempt to understand why demands must be made, why his students feel as if his administration does not recognize their humanity. Instead, you shy away from the demands, as if they aren’t necessary. As if these students ought to feel, of course, that a normal, egalitarian, calm conversation can happen.

So I ask you, President Schlissel, what reason has your office given these students to feel that way? What tangible, in-person, immediate action have you taken to defend these students? For example, you have not addressed police brutality in this country and you have not addressed that this might affect the experience and the perceived safety of marginalized students on this campus. You have not made your solidarity with these marginalized students publicly known; so, in turn, when activists literally came to your doorstep just to get you to make some public statement, to force you hand, you responded with a pathetic, hapless declaration of your own helplessness.

And then, on the next night, when students, faculty and administrators protested at the Union, you were nowhere to be seen. What kind of a leader — specifically as someone who has repeatedly declared yourself to be a relentless advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion — disappears as your students march, sit and advocate their humanity?

Please listen to your students.

That is all.

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

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Hope, for me, has meant a sense that the future is not yet written, and that we don’t actually know what will happen, but we may be able to write it ourselves.

— Rebecca Solnit, author, historian and activist, speaking at Rackham Auditorium in her “Hope and Emergency” lecture.

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Finding home away from home

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atasha Bedingfield’s song and watch TV. I am constantly “Pocketful of Sunshine” moving and thinking about what has unfailingly gotten assignment to do next. I pack my me through many bag in the morning, stressful situations I knowing I won’t return have experienced in until late at night. Then my 18 years of living. by 2 p.m., when all I Whether I was having want to do is watch an a tough day at school, episode of “Friends” didn’t want to go and relax, I am still to work or was in a sitting uncomfortably fight with a friend, its at the coffee shop table melody always put me where I have been in a better mood that cemented for the last would keep me from MICHELLE four hours. No longer PHILLIPS can I shower alone in exploding inside.

Recently, I’ve the bathroom, and I found that I haven’t had the same have to leave my “house” to get opportunities I once did to dance lunch. around and belt Bedingfield’s The transition from home life liberating words “take me away.” to dorm life can be a struggle that It is hard to find time to be alone, many students think they’ll know totally and completely in solitude, how to handle before coming to when living with 400-plus college, but it is hard to anticipate freshman students in a college all the changes living in a dorm dorm. I was forced to welcome will bring. This struggle that a new home that is incredibly many freshmen face is something different from my old home 42 that is not always recognized but miles away. is nonetheless valid.

Going into college, I thought I am struggling to find time I was prepared for it all. I knew to be in solitude. It is hard to the campus, the students and the always go home to someone in culture. I was ready to come to the room or someone down the school and get away from my life hall. For me, being comfortable at home. I have found that one in any space is something that I of the biggest challenges no one value wholeheartedly. I long for explicitly prepares you for is living moments when I can belt show in the dorms. College was my first tunes without any thought that I time living away from home, and I am disrupting others. had no idea all it would entail.

The experiences that I have had At college, the ability to with communal living have taught separate school from home life me to truly never be embarrassed gets increasingly difficult, and I for who I am and what I am find myself constantly thinking interested in. And, no, I still can’t about classwork. I go home to bring myself to sing in the shower people I go to school with and when I know other people are in wake up next to them just to do it there, but I commend the people all again. Constantly living around who do. I am proud of the girl people who can observe and hear who showers to Beethoven, and my every move leaves little time definitely could learn a few things for me to truly be myself, as I am from her. constantly conscious of my actions I have said it before and I will and how they will resonate with say it again: College is a growing the people who live in such close experience. Having the ability to proximity to me. adapt to certain situations in this No longer do I have time to first transitional year is really come home, sit on the couch something to be proud of yourself

for. It is hard to move to a place you are unfamiliar with and have to find new outlets for expressing yourself because the resources are vastly different here.

Next year, I will have my own room, in an apartment with friends I know and love, and will be comfortable belting Natasha Bedingfield, even if they don’t appreciate it. The difference is that when you are surrounded by people whom you are familiar with, you are more comfortable in expressing who you are, no matter who that may be. The challenge of sharing a space with individuals you don’t know or share interests or backgrounds with is tough. It’s during these moments when I stop myself from singing Bedingfield’s catchy tunes and hum the lyrics quietly so only I can hear that I realize this struggle.

Living in a dorm presents freshmen with a unique opportunity to constantly be surrounded by their classmates.

This often underestimated transition has presented me with lots of challenges that I thought I was prepared for. The struggle of moving away from home is often brushed off by the fact that students come to college to further their schooling. There is no way to be successful if we are not first comfortable in their living situation, which I have found to be the hardest adjustment. I think we should cherish these moments where we are constantly surrounded by others, and immerse ourselves in situations where we feel most comfortable.

Finding the environment where I truly feel at “home” is going to take time, which is something I have had to recognize and embrace.

And I hope that future Wolverines and current students know that this adjustment is normal and you are not alone in this struggle.

Michelle Phillips can be reached at mphi@umich.edu.

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Prioritizing student health and safety

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tudent health and safety is, without a doubt, one of the most pressing issues for students across the country. Rates of sexual assault and depression remain high: One in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted during their college years, while one in four college students suffers from some type of mental illness. These are concerns that must be on all of our radars, regardless of the nature of our connection to these issues. Simply put, when anyone is struggling or is made to feel unsafe, that must matter to all of us. Our lives are woven together, and thus we must not be apathetic when a classmate or peer of ours suffers.

When we ran for Central Student Government president and vice president last winter semester, we promised to work our hardest to utilize the organization as a vehicle to advance a safer, more inclusive campus. More than 10 months later, with little more than one month remaining in our term, we are proud to report on the great progress that CSG has made in the area of student health and safety.

At the beginning of the year, in partnership with the Interfraternity Council and LSA Student Government, we established hydration stations in high-risk areas on the first five football Saturdays of the year.

Additionally, on Sept. 17, 2016, as Michigan played Colorado at 3:30 p.m., we hosted an alcohol-free tailgate, serving 1,500 students water and pizza throughout the afternoon. One goal of ours with this event was to provide students who might be unable to drink, or uninterested in drinking, before a football game with an

alternative option to have fun.

We also wanted to ensure that those who had been drinking had the opportunity to eat and stay hydrated throughout the day.

During our administration, we have likewise worked to advance student mental health, an issue that has received an increasing amount of attention over the past few years. In late October, we commissioned the first-ever CSG Mental Health Climate and Resources Task Force which is composed of nearly 20 student leaders from mental-healthfocused organizations across campus. The task force’s central goal is to draft and present to us a set of policy recommendations that will help to destigmatize mental illness, better the climate in classrooms and expand resources for both faculty and students.

The task force will release its report shortly after Spring Break and we will work with the task force’s leaders and the University of Michigan administration over the next weeks and months to implement these suggestions.

To aid sexual violence prevention and awareness, we empowered University students to receive bystander intervention training about sexual violence and alcohol and other drug misuse.

At the end of last semester, we launched a highly successful pilot funding policy that requires any student organization seeking to claim more than $1,000 from CSG’s Student Organization Funding Commission to send at least two authorized signers to one SAPAC- and Wolverine Wellness-led bystander intervention training. More than 215 student leaders from 100plus student organizations have already completed the training.

Going forward, we must ensure

that students are receiving this education not just during their first few weeks on campus, but throughout their college career.

We believe that this policy is a step in that direction.

This year, we’ve also committed CSG to addressing sexual assault prevention at the K-12 level. On Feb. 22, alongside students from Michigan State University, CSG is coordinating an advocacy day, the purpose of which is to meet with Michigan state officials to advocate for the implementation of a sexual education curriculum that encompasses sexual harassment and assault in public schools. We believe that a stronger K-12 sexual education curriculum is one way in which we can help reduce these high rates of sexual misconduct on college campuses.

Overall, we are both proud of the strides that our administration has made in the area of student health and safety and cognizant that much work still needs to be done. It will be up to future CSG administrations to lead the unending fight against alcohol and other drug misuse, the stigma around mental illness and the high rates of sexual assault. It is our hope that they will expand the bystander intervention policy that we set in motion, work to implement the task force’s recommendations and expand the scope of CSG’s state-level advocacy about K-12 consentbased education, among other important initiatives. The work to holistically elevate student health and safety, of course, also falls to the individual student, who must continue to lead by example and forever exercise safe behavior.

David Schafer and Micah Griggs are LSA seniors.

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FILM COLUMN

In the land of women

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Carlton on work, future A thousand miles later, the singer-songwriter is all grown up (Live), Carlton also released an EP, Earlier Things Live. The Daily Arts Writer short record is a compilation of older songs from that same After 16 years, six major magical Nashville night that releases and a nod from bore Liberman (Live). When Billboard, the Grammys and asked to explain her drive to the AMAs, Vanessa Carlton compile a separate EP, Carlton refuses to slow down. She’s expelled the virtues of vinyl only getting better, really. The and the power of choice and singer-songwriter known for authenticity it brings to the “A Thousand Miles” may have digital streaming age. made a purposeful exit from “Either you’re streaming the mainstream all the time stage, but or you’re into Vanessa Carlton Carlton has never buying actual ceased to gain records Feb. 23rd, 8:00 p.m. vinyl ground; she has which is higher The Ark found her sound sound quality and navigates it is better,” $30, $37 the stage and Carlton said. studio with “I think people surefootedness. understand that medium no “There are people who matter how old you are. It is know ‘A Thousand Miles’ a superior sound, so I wanted cause everyone seems to know there to be different products that song, of course … but it’s for my followers and fans.”

16 years old, so if you were to But now that Carlton has hear a record of mine now, you done due justice to Liberman can tell I’m that pianist but it’s and its beautiful moments, she a different sound,” said singer- is ready to put on a tour that songwriter Vanessa Carlton. more encapsulating — one In a phone interview, that ref lects her breadth as an Carlton mused on the makings artist. of her latest releases, Earlier “I’m going to do some Things Live and Liberman older songs and some songs (Live), while touching on the peppered from different arc of her prolific career and records to create a little bit upcoming tour. more of variety in the show “It was probably the easiest than the Liberman tour,” way of doing a record I had Carlton said. “(We will play) ever experienced,” Carlton songs that we like, songs that said, when asked about the we want to rearrange, songs process behind her first live that haven’t been played in a record. “It was the last show while.” on tour in Nashville one night, Though the upcoming tour and it was a good night and aims to more fully encompass we captured it. People who Carlton’s decade-and-a-half don’t know much about me or long career, her work is not my life or what I’m doing now impervious to the stressors who haven’t seen a live show, of the present day. Touching (Liberman [Live] ) is a good on the tense socio-political record to get.” climate, Carlton spoke of the Nodding to her now-veteran essential role that art plays in singer-songwriter status, bringing people together.

Carlton confessed it took time “Right now, I’m so disturbed for her to build up the self- by what’s happening to civil assurance to do a live album. rights in this country and as “Over the years I really have a woman reproductive rights been able to evoke more of a are really under fire and so vocal confidence and sound, I feel very protective of my and I’m glad I waited so long,” daughter and I feel protective Carlton said. of the earth and of human Coming hot off of Liberman beings,” Carlton said. “I think CONNOR GRADY

more than anything ... an artist during this time, the most valuable place is making art and making something beautiful or something that can connect people, or something that is telling the truth about the present day.”

Despite her personal feelings concerning the state of the nation, Carlton does not plan to make her show a political spectacle. Instead,

Right now, I’m so disturbed by what’s happening to civil rights in this country

embarks on her tour with a hope for partnership and trust between her and her audiences.

“There is a trust that you are going to be taken care of by the audience and that the audience is going to be taken care of by the artists, you gotta be there for each other,” Carlton said. “With every tour there’s usually a handful of really great feeling shows that transcend the typical performance and you go someplace else.”

It is these moments — these instances of transcendence — that make the grind worthwhile for Carlton, that have driven her to break from the mechanized pop mold and break into her own voice. “(‘A Thousand Miles’) is 16 years old, so if you were to hear a record of mine now, you can tell I’m that pianist but it’s a different sound,” Carlton said.

“I’m still privileged that I’m able to have a vibrant career doing music and making albums in a way that I want to make them. I’m not a part of the huge machine anymore, I left that … and never looked back.”

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In many ways “Julieta” of the modern woman. The noticeably lacks the stylistic central figure, Julieta, is a woman ticks of its writer/director Pedro defined by loss, first by the death Almodovar. It’s tame, as far of her husband and next by the as Almodovar is abandonment of her concerned, sticking to daughter. Almodovar a simple plot, downgets increasingly to-earth characters close to her over the and not even a hint of course of the film, singing. sifting through the What it does retain is nuances of her psyche.

Almodovar’s signature He understands her feature — women. And, deeply enough that he not just any women, can visually form her real women, some of with very little spoken the realest women MADELEINE dialogue (the film created by a man was originally called GAUDIN possibly ever. It’s easy “Silence” but the name — so easy it’s almost boring — to was changed to avoid confusion find what’s wrong with onscreen with Scorses’s film of the same portrayals of women. What’s much name). more interesting, and cosmically To Almodovar, it seems, women reassuring, is looking at all the ways are the fabric that hold the universe Almodovar gets it right. together. His film “Talk to Her” is Almodovar rose to international a perfect example of this. Despite acclaim following his 1988 film being comatose, the two women “Mujeres al borde de un ataque at the center of this film hold it de nervios” The film’s title is together. The other characters poorly translated into English as are reliant to some extent on their “Women on the Verge of a Nervous presence.

Breakdown.” That film, screened in Some criticize what they call my high school Spanish class, was Almodovar’s stylization or even my first introduction to Almodovar. fetishization of female suffering, In the film, a web of people something the director seems to become increasingly tangled address in his 1999 Oscar-winning in each other. In classic, almost film “All About My Mother.” This is Shakespearian comedy, Pepa loves a common criticism pointed at gay Iván whose son Carlos and his men who make art about women. fiancé Marisa want to buy Pepa’s And yet, empathy and beauty apartment where she’s trying are not mutually exclusive. to console Candela, etc. etc. It’s Almodovar’s film do not need to be hilarious and impossibly confusing. come any less beautiful to be real In the middle of it all is Pepa, a and deeply true. His picture of the hurricane in the best sense of the experience of women, painted in word. She’s manic and destructive striking colors and perfectly laid and most of all a force. out shots, is one steeped in a deep His latest, “Julieta,” joins a understanding of what it means to portfolio of films that demonstrate suffer mundanely. It is very easy to Almodovar’s keen observation of show Day 1 of grief, Almodovar has and empathy for the daily suffering mastered the art of Day 1001.

Raised by a strong community of women, Almodovar is clearly attuned to the ways women interact with each other. Themes of maternity and sisterhood dominate his family dramas.

Part of what sets Almodovar’s women apart from other cinematic representations is his deep understanding of female friendship. Contrary to what gal pal rom-coms might lead you to believe, the backbone of female friendship is not two women telling each other how much they like each other and swapping relationship advice in a trendy bar. So much of female friendship is unspoken.

Its essence is in moments like the one in which Beatrice helps Antia lift her depressed mother from the bath. Or when Julieta returns to the park where her daughter and Beatrice used to play, only to discover Beatrice has done the same.

Some American filmmakers like Noah Baumbach and Mike Mills have captured the parts of womanhood that elude so many others. Baumach’s 2015 film “Mistress America” examines the overlapping nature of sisterhood and friendship and Mills’s “20th Century Women” examines the role three women play in the development of a teenage boy. Both films capture the empathy and tenderness that Almodovar’s films exude.

So it’s not impossible. Male filmmakers can put real women on the screen. What is takes it seems is a simultaneous look inward and outward, a close examination of the women around the director and a reflection on how they shaped the director himself. Almodovar is a standout, but he’s not alone.

CONCERT REVIEW

Young the Giant steps up ERIKA SHEVCHEK

Daily Community Culture Editor

In all honesty, when my roommate asked me if I wanted to see Young the Giant in concert with her, I wasn’t too stoked. I love going to alternative concerts, especially bands that are not as popular as they once were. But I’ve never listened to Young the Giant beyond their hits, and based on those I didn’t think this was going to be anything to rave about. Boy, was I wrong.

20 Monroe Live, a new venue in Grand Rapids, MI, consisted of a general admission pit and a high mezzanine. The stage’s backdrop was a simple black and grey mountain, the same outline of the mountain that appears on Young the Giant’s Home of the Strange album cover. The small flags printed on the album cover also came to life where six of them hung on either side of the stage.

After much waiting, and with absolutely no warning, Kanye’s “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1” blasted through the venue as opener Lewis Del Mar strutted out on stage to a roaring welcome. I was lost, because I never even heard of these guys, but they walked out to fucking Kanye, so I had faith.

The moment Danny Miller, lead singer and guitarist of the band, sang the lyrics, “Can you please / Sit the fuck down,” the crowd, including myself, went crazy. And with the rest of the set, the audience seemed to sing along.

The experimental alternative band chose to perform most of

their album in a screamo style. As someone who knows nothing about screamo nor Lewis Del Mar, I was still highly impressed. Although I was later told the group is not screamo at all, I was interested in listening to their original album.

Cross-pollinating acoustic instruments, like the guitar, woodblocks and sleigh bells, with an electric sound, like heavy bass, keyboard and electric guitar, Lewis Del Mar provided a new sound for the audience. They were the definition of “a great opener,” and immediately took the the spotlight for the night.

With that, I had high expectations for Young the Giant.

The band walked out to fog machines and bright lights, reflected from the stage and the audience. Opening with “Jungle Youth,” one of the less popular songs off Home of the Strange, the energy held at the top, like a rollercoaster — but it never dropped. In other words, it was uneventful.

Still, the band picked it up with crowd favorites “Something To Believe In” and “Titus Was Born,” which involved a lot of sweet harmonies from the band members.

And yes, right in the middle of their set, they played the song that made them famous: “Cough Syrup.”

I almost wish they didn’t play it, hoping the band would move on from the trite hit. But they did, and although it might have bugged me, I still sang along.

They kept going with some older material, including “Mind over Matter” and “Apartment,” and the crowd raved over these

hits, feeding into a comradery for audience members.

With a mix of high falsetto riffs from lead singer Sameer in “Mr. Know-It-All” and a deep, ’80s groove bass in “Elsewhere,” the band began to pick up the intensity, or at least kept it varied.

One of the highlights of the entire show was when Sameer whipped out the ukulele, introducing the nostalgic and mystical “Art Exhibit.”

With a single spotlight on him, Sameer said: “This song is about how memories warp and change.”

It allowed the crowd to relate to his nostalgia, especially as the set background turned into a simple starry night sky.

The band returned with the second half of their upbeat set, including “Amerika” and “Silvertounge,” which were accompanied by intense technicolor lighting.

And of course, the band couldn’t leave their concert without their hit “My Body,” which I will admit, I was less moody about. There was a type of refreshing freedom and adolescence that came with it, allowing me to wrap my arms around my roommates as we belted the lyrics to the song of our early teens.

There were elements to Young the Giant’s concert that were lackluster. But their sound, their combination of different instruments and their diverse set list proved my pre-notioned ideas wrong. They are unique, and they are truly embedded within their own category of music.

Arts

6A — Wednesday, February 22, 2017

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FILM REVIEW

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History, myth & ‘Neruda’ ‘Doubt’ on uncertain start and leaves his upper-class life — far away, despite his rhetoric, Daily Arts Writer from the trials of the workers — which consists of poetry during “I don’t smoke,” Jackie the day and parties at night.

Kennedy whispers to the In flight from the government journalist writing a profile on police, Neruda strides across her as she exhales a cool puff of Chile like a Colossus, and the smoke in Pablo Larraín’s “Jackie.” detective Oscar Peluchonneau Larraín’s English-language debut (Gael Garcia Bernal, “Mozart in examined Jackie Kennedy as both the Jungle”) scurries after him, woman and image like a mouse at his in the aftermath feet. Peluchonneau “Neruda” of her husband’s narrates the Michigan Theater assassination. Her action of the words here are film, frequently 20th Century Fox an assertion of castigating Neruda power, an attempt for his bourgeois to control the story that will be excesses yet admiring his poetic crafted and the memory that will gifts. The chase covers over a be perpetuated. Along with Jackie year, during which Neruda writes herself, Larraín’s film meditates his epic poem “Canto General,” on the methods by which history the early drafts of which are is made, by which men and clandestinely distributed women of flesh and blood become throughout the world. figures of paper and ink.

Whereas Jackie is the center of “Neruda,” Larraín’s feature her film’s universe, Neruda shares about the Chilean poet and the spotlight with Peluchonneau. politician (Luis Gnecco, “Narcos”) Indeed, the tension between the is an unconventional biopic of an two provides all of the drama. At altogether different nature. And every hiding spot, Neruda leaves once again the focus is on the a potboiler detective novel for relationship between history Peluchonneau to pick up, at once and myth. It begins in 1948, as teasing him and encouraging his Chilean democracy descends into hunt. The investigator seems to dictatorship and the conservative be a character plucked out of one government cracks down on its of these books, a man hapless communist opposition. Neruda and delusional, who stakes is, of course, the most famous professional glory on a case that of Chile’s communists and the he hasn’t the skill to complete. party’s most prominent figure in The film is less a rumination on the Senate. Faced with jail, exile Neruda’s place in Chilean history or hiding, he chooses the latter than a political thriller that prods KARL WILLIAMS

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and ironizes his aggrandization by both himself and others. As the film goes on, Peluchonneau realizes that he will not capture Neruda but mythologize him, that he is an invention made for this very purpose. As Neruda’s wife Delia del Carril (Mercedes Morán, “Motorcycle Diaries”) tells him, he is just a supporting character in the life of the great poet.

Yet the film is never this simple.

Larraín’s Neruda is hardly a gilded monument. He is, without a doubt, a man: Impetuous, loving, charming, arrogant, stubborn. He has no reservations about drinking or adultery, spending a not insignificant amount of time, even in hiding, at a brothel. He is tender and cruel, self-aggrandizing and a man of the people. He’s packed with contradictions.

Eventually, after months of running, Neruda and Peluchonneau meet in the southern Andes. Peluchonneau lies dying, after being hit in the head with a large tree branch by the employees of the landowner who housed Neruda for a night.

His blood glazes the bright snow.

The infamous man meets the forgotten. And the film seems to wonder: Who has made who?

Larraín’s film doesn’t have any easy answers. Rather than explain the meaning of Neruda’s legacy, it prods the complexities of how history is created and proliferated, and the result is, once again, a film as strange and compelling as its subject.

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professional manner — however, justice doesn’t hold a place for Daily Arts Writer emotional connections between the convicted and their defenders.

The premise behind CBS’s Adding in a jailed mother, and newest series, “Doubt,” is an Sadie is mirror image of Heigl’s interesting concept, but one previous role, in both mannerisms without passion or conviction. The and inflections alike. Heigl still series follows renowned lawyers commands a scene, not in the Sadie (Katherine Heigl, “Grey’s conventional manner, but instead Anatomy”) and Albert (Dulé with over-the top emotional Hill, “Psych”) as they work to context, reminding viewers in a prove that pediatric recurring and neurosurgeon uncomfortable “Doubt” (Steven Pasquale, manner of her Series Premiere “Rescue Me”) is, humanity. This is beyond a reasonable quite unfortunate CBS doubt, completely for “Doubt,” Wednesdays at innocent of a crime which has created 10:00 pm committed 25 years a character prior.

However, who, perhaps pathos clashes with developed for a professionalism when Sadie finds specific role, comes off as flat and herself falling for the convicted, a unoriginal. fact that is especially chilling when The development of a unique she admits a startling truth — her personality is not the only thing lack of certainty that Billy did not that “Doubt” struggles with in commit the crime with which he separating itself from series of stands accused. a similar nature. Though there One of the downsides of are not many facets of Sadie’s “Doubt” is the obvious struggle personality that are standoutish that Hill and Heigl face when it — a young, independent woman comes to falling out of old habits. who is eco-conscious and friends Albert (Dulé Hill, “Psych”) is with her co-workers — the minor overly serious, to the point that characters of “Doubt” are truly his humor feels forced and out of generic. In fact, it often feels context — highly reminiscent of as though, in developing an his time on long-running comedy overstuffed plot and focusing series “Psych.” It seems like too heavily on introductions, Heigl struggles with breaking the writers neglected to award the mold as well, pushing her a personality to these members “Grey’s Anatomy” character to of the cast. For a more obvious the forefront of her performance. example of this neglect, one should In her role as a surgical resident, look no further than resident Heigl played up the flawed and dumb blonde Tiffany (Dreama emotional doctor, unable to make Walker, “Don’t Trust the B---- in it through an episode without Apartment 23”), who continuously letting her emotions overtake reminds viewers that just because her priorities as a professional. she’s from Iowa doesn’t mean As a lawyer, she owes the public she milks cows all day. Even boss and family of the victim closure, Isaiah (Elliott Gould, “Mash”) is something that is done in a given less than stellar dialogue MEGAN MITCHELL

to work with, his lines often bordering on the obscene and soapy. Like many of the characters on “Doubt,” an interesting plotline is disregarded for cheesy oneliners and a lineup of stars who feel as if they cannot pull themselves out of their comfort zones.

Despite a cast with overly dramatized background stories, Laverne Cox (“Orange is the New Black”) is open regarding her sexuality, but in a subtle manner which feels more natural and fits comfortably into the dynamic of the series. As someone who has faced injustice firsthand, her choices as a lawyer are much more structured and passionate.

In the few times that Cox takes over the scene, she commands the screen with the conviction with which the remainder of the cast struggles. That being said, Cox is also given limited screen time, and though she shines in the courtroom, the transition between lawyer and bar patron is a sudden shift that doesn’t sit well with Cox and dulls her overall performance in the series.

However interesting the plot of “Doubt” sounds on paper, there is a haunting presence of “Law & Order” and performances of series past that holds “Doubt” back from reaching its intended potential.

Though the narrative has aspects which could be compelling, the line delivery is less than stellar and an issue that does not sit comfortably with the series. I’ve yet to watch the remainder of the season, but if “Doubt” can clear up some of the standout issues experienced in the pilot episode, it may live up to the status of “Law & Order.” Then again, with so many similar series currently airing under the same premise, “Doubt” is an easily forgettable addition to this season’s lineup.

FROM THE VAULT

‘Allegiance’ sheds light VANESSA WONG Daily Arts Writer

In remembrance of FDR’s Executive Order 9066 authorizing Japanese American internment on February 19, 1942, Rave Cinemas screened the movie version of the Broadway musical “Allegiance,” which tackles like in the camps.

The musical was created by “Star Trek” actor George Takei, inspired by his own experience growing up in an internment camp.

It follows the Kimuras, a threegeneration family of Japanese immigrants, as their wishes for the future are stamped out once they are uprooted from their homes and transported to Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming. George Takei plays an elderly Sammy Kimura, encouraged by the ghost of his sister, Keiko to go “back to a time that no one speak of” and reflect on the painful and lasting family divide that internment caused.

When the Loyalty Questionnaire is distributed, with infamous questions 27 and 28 asking Japanese to sign their willingness to fight in the US military and forswear all allegiance to the emperor of Japan, each character takes a different strategy for resistance.

Sammy Kimura hopes to fight in the American military to prove that the Japanese are loyal citizens.

On the other hand, Frankie Suzuki refuses to join the war effort, on the grounds that he is unwilling

to fight for a country that treats his family like the enemy. This causes tensions within the family, and Keiko, who loves them both, attempts to bridge the gap.

A repeated refrain is the word gaman, which means to carry on. The families band together to start a baseball league and organize dances to make life in camp bearable. They fold the Loyalty questionnaire into an origami flower. Oji-chan nurtures a vegetable garden in the rocky mountain terrain, creating beauty and strength in a hopeless place.

Hannah, a white military nurse, who trusted that America’s government would act to keep the best interests of citizens in mind, feels torn once she falls in love with Sammy and realizes that the Japanese Americans are not enemy people. She sings: “I follow the rules, but should I?” The question echoes multiple times through the air, forcing the audience to question whether the legal system can be trusted to protect the rights of all citizens.

Because “Allegiance” tells an often overlooked part of American history, some Japanese Americans are concerned that that audiences will assume the musical’s interpretation of historical events is the ultimate truth, without knowing enough about the nuances of the time.

Some Japanese American organizations expressed concern over the portrayal of the JACL

leadership and the 442nd combat team as a “suicide mission” without acknowledging the soldiers’ honorable contributions and progress it made. Others are also concerned that “Allegiance” passes unfair judgment on those who did not resist internment, because with the safety of loved ones at risk, balancing protection and justice was an incredibly difficult predicament.

On the other hand, actor Greg Watanabe, whose own family was interned at Heart Mountain, defended his portrayal of Mike Masaoka, saying: “It’s possible to be historically factual, and still express an opinion.”

Even with mixed reactions, “Allegiance” is groundbreaking for Japanese and Asian Americans because it paves the way for more dialogue to enter mainstream media. Not only is it the first major piece of media centered around internment, “Allegiance” is the first Broadway musical created

by Asian Americans, directed

by Asian Americans, with a predominantly Asian American cast.

The ending sequence reveals that almost 120,000 people watched “Allegiance” during its run on Broadway — the same number of Japanese that were interned. “Allegiance” opens up the conversation about a rarely discussed civil injustice, educating audiences to ensure that history doesn’t repeat itself.

Sports

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017 — 7A

Lewis shines in Wolverine debut Michigan thriving SOFTBALL

PAIGE VOEFFRAY Daily Sports Writer

Miles Lewis may be new to the Michigan baseball team, but he isn’t new to college baseball. After transferring from the University of North Dakota, the redshirt sophomore left fielder wasted no time in making his mark for the Wolverines.

As a Fighting Hawk, Lewis finished the 2016 season as the Western Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year and a freshman All-American. At the end of the season he had a .360 batting average and 63 hits.

The Wolverines’ new left fielder faced the transition to Michigan due to North Dakota’s decision to cut its baseball program, leaving some uncertainty for players like Lewis. He didn’t allow this to affect his game, though.

If anything, he’s only gotten better.

In all likelihood, it was disappointing for Lewis when the Fighting Hawks’ program got cut, but fortunately for Michigan, it received what could be its most prolific threat on offense this season.

“We were fortunate enough to get him, he was a heck of a player last year,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich. “He brings that impact ability to come in and solidify an outfield role and hit towards the top of the order and I think you’ll see good things out of him.”

Lewis boasts a lot of accomplishments already in his career, and if this weekend is any indication, he will earn a lot more as a Wolverine.

This weekend, Michigan traveled to Port St. Lucie, Fla. to battle Seton Hall, and though the Wolverines split the four-game series with the Pirates, Lewis provided a nice silver lining.

After a shaky start in

Michigan’s season opener Friday, in which Lewis failed to get a single hit in five at-bats, he finished the weekend strong.

In the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, both teams were locked at seven runs apiece, forcing the game into extra innings. Lewis, though, would have none of it.

In the bottom of the 10th inning, Lewis knocked the first pitch he saw into shallow right field for a walk-off single, proving he could handle the pressure.

In that first game, Lewis had the hot bat, leading the team with four hits and driving in his game-deciding run.

His experience showed as he

“We were fortunate enough to get him”

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‘M’ remains perfect Daily Sports Writer

In its five-year history, the Michigan men’s lacrosse team has never seen a season start like this one. After their 13-5 victory over Bellarmine (0-2), the Wolverines (4-0) remain undefeated for the first time in program history.

More than 10 minutes of the first quarter passed before either team could manage a goal. It took until the 4:17 mark for Michigan sophomore attacker Brent Noseworthy to break the stalemate.

His goal was quickly followed by three more for the Wolverines, courtesy of sophomore midfielders Nick DeCaprio and Decker Curran and freshman midfielder Avery Myers.

Michigan’s 4-0 scoring run was briefly halted in the second period by the Knights’ Tucker Cisseau, but Curran and Noseworthy tacked on two more goals to give the Wolverines a 6-2 halftime lead.

Michigan continued to pad its lead through the remainder of the competition. In the third period, Noseworthy continued the success he has seen all season, notching three more goals for the Wolverines, two of which were assisted by sophomore attacker Rocco Sutherland.

While the Wolverines’ senior class dominated on defense and helped set up the offense, it was the underclassmen who found the scoring opportunities.

“Offensively, there’s a group of sophomores right now — Rocco Sutherland, Decker Curran — who are all a big part of our offense,” said Michigan coach John Paul. “Brent’s the beneficiary of what all of the other guys are doing. … We

With Michigan down by a run in the bottom of the third, Lewis led the offense to a fourrun inning. After sophomore second baseman Ako Thomas singled and stole two bases, he stood at third base with Lewis up to bat.

Lewis singled to right center, nothing particularly fancy, but it did the job, bringing Thomas home. After that, the runs just kept coming, with the Wolverines scoring three more times.

“Main thing is falling back on the training this fall, a lot of mental toughness training,” Lewis said. “That’s what our coaches prepared us for.”

After a stellar first weekend, Lewis leads Michigan with a .389 batting average and seven hits. With only one weekend under his belt, it will be exciting to see how Lewis grows with his new program.

Michigan coach Erik Bakich and the Wolverines will benefit from Miles Lewis’ transfer from North Dakota.

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spearheaded the Wolverines’ comeback late in the game. He began Michigan’s fifth inning rally with a single to right field and later would score on an RBI single from senior catcher Harrison Wenson.

Lewis used his momentum to carry him into the second game.

He notched two hits in three at-bats, but more importantly for Michigan, he earned these hits with men on base – driving in three runs in the third game of the weekend.

Though Lewis’ best day was Saturday, he proved once again Sunday that he could come in clutch when the Wolverines needed it the most.

have a couple veteran guys out there, but we’re relying heavily on some of the younger guys, and they’re getting the job done.”

It wasn’t just the sophomores who played well, though.

Senior attacker Ian King tied the school record of 113 career points, previously set by former Wolverine Kyle Jackson, and added two assists.

Defensively, Michigan played its best game of the season, allowing just five goals on 31 shots and winning 13 of 21 faceoffs. Redshirt sophomore goalie Tommy Heidt made 11 saves on the night.

“I thought it was more of a team performance today,” Curran said.

“The offense has really been clicking, putting up some pretty big numbers on the (offensive) side. For any team, when the defense steps up, it allows the offense to just get going, and I think that’s what we did today.”

As impressive as their record may be, the Wolverines have yet to face some of their toughest competition. That will change soon as they look ahead to a meeting with No. 4 Notre Dame next week.

“We’re not prepared yet, we’ve got a lot of work to do,” Paul said. “Something we’re going to be working on is just getting back to some really competitive practices we haven’t been able to do for a week.”

Still, with the way Michigan has played through the first part of its season, the Wolverines believe they can compete with the Fighting Irish.

“I think this team is a really talented group,” said junior attacker Patrick Tracy. “We know what to expect and we’re really excited for Notre Dame.”

“We’re not prepared yet, we’ve got a lot of work to do”

behind home runs MARK CALCAGNO Daily Sports Writer

With a runner on first in the top of fifth inning, senior outfielder Kelly Christner shifted the force from her back leg to the front side of her body, reached her arms out over the plate and blasted the ball over the center field wall. North Carolina State pitcher Harli Hubbard could barely turn around in time to see the pitch descend out of sight, but she didn’t need to look to know the ball was gone.

It was Christner’s third home run in Friday night’s 12-0 rout of the Wolfpack, becoming the first Wolverine since 2009 and the fourth all-time to homer three times in the same game. She was honored the Big Ten Player of the Week on Monday for the effort. “(Christner) was on fire that game,” said Michigan coach Carol Hutchins. “She really resonated with some of the timing things we had done in practice throughout the week.”

The blast proved to be a microcosm of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge for Michigan. The weekend’s four games saw the team tally a total of 10 home runs from six different players.

Sophomore second baseman Faith Canfield was one of those Wolverines. After ending Saturday night’s rematch against NC State with a grand slam, she struck again with a home run Sunday morning to help Michigan avenge an earlier loss to Notre Dame. Canfield, who was moved back to the cleanup spot in the team’s last two games, collected three hits and seven runs batted in during the second half of the weekend.

“It gives me a lot of confidence,” Canfield said. “But then again, you can’t get too high on the highs or too low on the lows.”

The performance demonstrated a strong early improvement for the sophomore,

who hit just three home runs in 44 games last season.

“All my freshman year, (power hitting) was the coach’s main focus for me,” Canfield said. “Coming in, I never really saw myself as a power hitter. I think that just buying into the coach’s plan of getting bigger and attacking harder with my swing and just looking to drive the ball has really been a huge focus.

It’s really nice seeing all my hard work pay off.”

The weekend’s offensive production also proved to be an improvement for the entire team from the week prior, when the Wolverines averaged just 5.6 runs per game and hit only one home run in five contests.

But hitting homers wasn’t necessarily the focus of last week’s practices.

“Timing has been our focus,” Hutchins said. “Last weekend we barely hit the ball out of the infield, so I was very pleased to see our timing improved tremendously. It is still a work in progress, but we are hitting (for) power a lot better.”

As with any team that finds a burst of success at the beginning of the season, finding production with regularity will be crucial for the Wolverines during two tournaments in California over spring break. Naturally, that’s a focus for Hutchins this week.

“Certainly, we’re going to come together and get more of our kids to be consistent,” Hutchins said.

“That’s a goal: to have more of the kids consistent throughout the lineup.”

Getting that power in addition to consistent contact from players throughout the order will make the Michigan’s lineup even more potent moving forward.

So early into the season, if nothing else, the dominance of the long ball is a sign of offensive improvement that will turn heads faster than Hubbard needed to on Christner’s home run Friday.

Michigan falls in close matchup with N.C. State ALEX SAYLOR For the Daily

The No. 16 Michigan and No. 7 N.C. State wrestling teams both sport top-ranked wrestlers in multiple weight classes, but the lineups from both teams in their dual meet meant that bonus points and a few close matches would ultimately decide the outcome.

The Wolverines got off to a strong start in their last dual meet of the season.

They started in the heart of their lineup, with three straight wins starting at the 157-pound weight class. Ninth-ranked senior Brian Murphy delivered a 7-4 decision to put Michigan up 3-0. No. 2 redshirt freshman 165-pounder Logan Massa nearly got a technical fall in the final seconds of his match, but could not secure his final takedown, putting Michigan up 7-0. No. 8 freshman 174-pounder Myles Amine had a dominant finish to his match, riding out his opponent the entire third period to a 5-2 decision.

After the first three matches, the Wolverines had a 10-0 lead, but then the Wolfpack stormed back. N.C. State’s No. 11 184-pounder Michael Macchiavello started to swing the momentum with an 18-7 major decision.

One of the closer matchups of the dual came at the 197pound weight class, between redshirt freshman Jackson Striggow and N.C. State’s No. 25 Malik McDonald. Striggow captured an early lead, but McDonald outlasted him for a 9-5 win, narrowing the wolfpack’s deficit to three.

In the heavyweight class, junior Payne Hayden was quickly pinned by N.C. State’s Mike Kosoy. Hayden was slow to get up, and clearly shaken,

but it was unclear how he was injured. Kosoy’s dominant show against Hayden put Michigan down 10-13.

The closest match occurred in the 125-pound match between 18th-ranked Michigan senior Conor Youtsey and N.C. State’s 12th-ranked Sean Fausz. Youtsey had a 3-0 lead heading into the third period, but Fausz scored a last-second takedown to force overtime.

Youtsey shot a single leg at the start of overtime, but Fausz scored on a counterattack, to give the Wolfpack a 16-10 lead.

With the momentum firmly in favor of NC State after earning 16 unanswered points, Michigan’s No. 7 freshman Stevan Micic had to deliver to

“But I was pretty focused on what I had to do”

keep the match close (against No. 18 Jamal Morris). He did just that, with a dominant win, securing the technical fall with a feet-to-back trip in the final moments of the match.

“It was pretty loud in there, the place was pretty packed and everyone was screaming,” Micic said. “But I was pretty focused on what I had to do.”

Micic kept Michigan in the match, as the Wolverines trailed by only one leading into redshirt freshman Sal Profaci’s match.

Profaci had a tough task ahead of him, wrestling second-ranked Kevin Jack from N.C. State, and he fell 19-5. The final match was very close for redshirt sophomore Zac Hall, and was

ultimately decided on riding time in favor of N.C. State. This put the final score at 23-15.

“They were a good team.

They had proven it over the season,” said Michigan coach Joe McFarland. “If maybe a few things hadn’t happened, a few things gone our way, we could’ve come away with it.

But in the end we competed hard, and that’s what matters as we shift into tournament mode.”

Michigan will be headed to the Big Ten Championships in three weeks, and soon after that to the NCAA championships.

But if the Wolverines want to be successful heading forward, they will need to make a few more things go their way.

“But in the end we competed hard, and that’s what matters”

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Freshman Stevan Micic kept things close for Michigan, but the Wolverines ultimately fell short against N.C. State.

8A — Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Sports

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Michigan set to rebound against Rutgers ‘M’ relying on seniors WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

KEVIN SANTO

Managing Sports Editor

If not for a collapse in overtime — which featured two turnovers, an 0-for-2 trip to the free throw line and just six total points — the Michigan men’s basketball team could have left Williams Arena on Sunday Michigan riding a four- at Rutgers game winning Matchup: streak.

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The Wolverines couldn’t ask for a much better team to face as they aim to get back in the win column. The Scarlet Knights (2-13 Big Ten, 13-15 overall) sit at dead last in the Big Ten, and it’s easy to see why.

Rutgers ranks last in the conference in four categories — scoring 66.1 points per game, shooting just 41.2 and 29.4 percent from the field and beyond the arc, respectively, and posting a lowly free throw percentage of 61.2. Still, Michigan coach John Beilein refuses to allow his team to take the Scarlet Knights at face value.

“This is going to be a difficult one going to Rutgers,” Beilein said. “I know you look at the record, but look at the scores instead of the record and you’ll see, watching this team, they are going to be the best rebounding team that we’ve played all year.

“We are obviously not a great rebounding team, and that’s a

tough matchup for us. … It is going to be a great win if we can get it.

I know that sounds like ‘coach speak’, (but) I’m telling you it’s going to be a great win if we can get it. We’re going to have to play better than we did against Minnesota.”

Rebounding is certainly Rutgers’ one saving grace, as it leads the Big Ten with 41.1 per game — 15 of which come on the offensive glass. And if there were ever an advantage that Michigan wouldn’t want its opponents to have, it would be on the boards.

Unlike Rutgers, the Wolverines (7-7, 17-10) sit last in the conference with 29.3 rebounds per game. Though sophomore forward Moritz Wagner has markedly improved — averaging 5.4 rebounds through the last five contests — his emergence still isn’t enough to offset one of the biggest problems that Michigan has faced all year.

While rebounding should realistically be the only issue

the Wolverines face Wednesday night, they are stepping onto the court against a team that is playing with house money. A loss to the Scarlet Knights could deal a serious blow to Michigan’s tournament resume, as the Wolverines have an invitation to the Big Dance to lose. Rutgers, on the other hand, has nothing to lose at all.

“We’ve been in that situation,” Beilein said. “We were in that two years ago, we were in that certainly my first year … of just trying to get a ‘W’ somewhere.

They’ve been on the road I think the last two games, at their place right now, in a storied environment there at Rutgers — they’ve had some great teams back in the day.

“And they’re trying to grow that. I think with a new coach, it’s all fresh, a lot of enthusiasm.

Every day there’s a small victory in that program right now, and a huge victory would be beating Michigan tomorrow.”

Regardless, there is no denying that, on paper, Michigan should win the matchup handily.

Though it stumbled against Minnesota, Michigan is still averaging 74.6 points over the last five games while allowing just 66.2.

What’s more, all five of the Wolverines’ starters scored in double digits against the Golden Gophers — an encouraging sign of consistent production that they have been searching for all season.

Michigan holds an unimpressive 1-7 road record, but given that Rutgers’ season has been a consistent progression from bad to worse, the Wolverines should be able to bump that total up to two.

“We’ve just got to realize how close we are to reaching our goals,” said senior forward Mark Donnal. “Take it one game at a time and just really be locked in going into Rutgers, and make sure that we play up to our potential and not let anything beat us.”

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Senior forward Mark Donnal will need to contribute on the glass Wednesday in a matchup against Rutgers.

MAGGIE KOLCON Daily Sports Writer

Two regular season games remain for the Michigan women’s basketball team. Winning only one would lock the Wolverines (10-4 Big Ten, 21-7 overall) into a top-four seed for the Big Ten Tournament.

If it can manage that, it will be No. 25 Michigan’s highest finish under fifth-year coach Kim Barnes Arico. This Monday marks the team’s third week spent in the top 25 — already the longest stretch in which the Wolverines have been ranked in Barnes Arico’s tenure.

“This is a spot we’ve never been in,” Barnes Arico said. “I think our kids are getting incredibly tight, and I think the teams that are playing against us are coming out like, ‘Hey, we’re beating a ranked opponent, now that’s on our resume in the NCAA Tournament.’

That’s something our team has never faced before.”

In the past few seasons, the Wolverines have consistently been the underdogs. They have never won more than 22 games in a season, and have never made it past the semifinal round of a Big Ten Tournament — ever.

With two regular season games left against unranked opponents Nebraska and Penn State, Michigan has an opportunity to make history by reaching the 23-win mark. And it has prepared for this moment all year.

“I think we have the ability to come out and play against top teams,” said sophomore center Hallie Thome on Inside Michigan Basketball on Monday night. “In the beginning of the season we were in the Virgin Islands playing against all the top teams, and we were able to hold our own. I think having that confidence under our belt really helped us coming into the Big Ten season.”

Yet, Michigan has lost its last two matchups, including its first home loss of the season against Michigan State on Saturday

afternoon. A record-breaking season is far from guaranteed, but the Wolverines have access to an unprecedented opportunity.

Michigan’s ranking, along with a streak of three 100-point games earlier this season, has already solidified the 2016-17 season as one of firsts for the program. But while the younger Wolverines relish this run, for the two co-captains, it is a bit bittersweet. Thursday night, senior guards Danielle Williams and Siera Thompson will play their final regular season home game at Crisler Center.

Thompson has started in every game this season and leads the team in assists with 140 — the only current Michigan player to break into triple digits in that category.

Thompson also ranks fourth in points and third in rebounding.

Williams has started 15 of 28 games, and while she has just 53 points, she is an effective defensive presence every time she steps on the court.

Both seniors are known as stable presences for the Wolverines, which will be an important factor in postseason play. With two of their top three leading scorers— junior guard Katelynn Flaherty and freshman guard Kysre Gondrezick — having shooting troubles recently, the seniors’ steadying focus will be necessary to get the team back on track.

Michigan’s postseason might even hinge on Williams and Thompson’s ability to lead the team during the next two games because winning will give the Wolverines a bye for the first round of the Big Ten Tournament.

“We are at our best when we have that time to prepare for our opponent,” Barnes Arico said on WTKA Radio. “So that would be a position we would be really excited about and I think it could definitely be a difference maker moving into the Big Ten Tournament.”

With a core group of five starters that average over 25 minutes a game, the rest afforded from a bye could be crucial.

For Talcott, it’s about relationships with teammates AVI SHOLKOFF

Daily Sports Writer

At 4:18 Monday afternoon, just a few players remained at Yost Ice Arena. Many of the members of the Michigan hockey team had departed. Their participation in practice had ended. The ones who remained did so because of their in-game absence in Madison this past weekend.

While some of these players could be recognized by certain fans of the Wolverines, such as senior forward Alex Kile — who was injured last weekend — or junior forward Niko Porikos, one player would likely leave spectators wondering.

Alex Talcott spent that Monday practice as one of the last athletes on the ice.

Unlike Kile, Porikos and his other peers, the junior forward has yet to appear in a game during this season. Michigan coach Red Berenson has penciled Talcott in

the lineup just eight times in his three years and just twice as a sophomore.

But despite Talcott’s lack of in-game experience, he still manages to impress Berenson with his work ethic.

“He’s a depth player,” Berenson said. “He knows that if we get a couple guys hurt, he’s gotta be ready. He hasn’t had a chance to show what he can do this year except in practice.”

While the active players dress and participate in pregame skates, Talcott and the other inactive players have different roles. They still eat the pregame meal with the team and practice in the early afternoon, but once the game begins they head to the weight room and prepare for the weekend’s second game.

It might be difficult to seemingly prepare for nothing, but Talcott has found his niche. He spends his time during practices and off the ice

developing relationships with his teammates. It’s an area that he has dedicated himself to improving over his three-year career.

“To be a good teammate is a really important part of what I do,” Talcott said. “(To be) someone that one of the other guys can come to and talk to about things, to show them support.

That way they’re confident when they’re playing.

“I try not to have any negative relationships. I don’t want to be in a situation where I’m dragging anybody down or dragging the team down as a whole. I try to be positive and upbeat, and if I’m not playing then I reinforce that behind the guys that are playing.”

For Berenson, it is likely rewarding to see Talcott

succeeding in this role.

He explained that Talcott encountered some difficulties during his first years in Ann Arbor and that “some guys would’ve maybe just quit.”

Berenson praised Talcott’s determination to thrive, something he sees daily at practice.

“Alex, he’s had a tough time here,” Berenson said. “... The good thing is we’ve stuck with him and the other part of the good thing is that he has stuck with it. He’s in a much tougher position than being (freshman forward) Will Lockwood or (senior defenseman) Nolan de Jong who are playing every night.

“He’s gotta say to himself ‘I’ve got to play better than these guys to be in the lineup. I’ve got to do

“Even if it’s in a small way, I’m still happy with that”

that every day in practice.’ So there’s a challenge (for him.)”

One of the challenges for Berenson is how best to motivate Talcott when he will rarely see the ice during games. It’s a dilemma he faces not only with Talcott but other players such as sophomore goaltender Chad Catt, who rarely crack the rotation. He urges them to focus on their academics and again emphasizes their time spent in practice. While other players have opportunities to impress the coaching staff in games, for Talcott, it is imperative that he strives for excellence every other day of the week.

But even then, it’s difficult to find opportunities. Because of his status on the depth chart, Berenson will place Talcott on defense if the Wolverines lack a blueliner at practice, another obstacle in his desires to make an impression on the coaches.

That’s why Talcott remained at practice that Monday afternoon

when most others moved on to homework or other activities. It was an opportunity for him to play some offense, showcase his shooting, passing and skating skills.

For the near future though, Talcott will continue giving assistance and motivating to his teammates. It might not be on the ice, or even during game time, but Talcott has carved out a role for himself.

“The relationships that I build with my teammates are built around respect and showing them that I really care about them and care about their success as if it was my success,” Talcott said.

“And then in return it kind of is contagious. (It leads to) a better relationship with everyone on the team and then it manifests itself from there.

“I feel like that’s something I can bring to the team to influence it. Even if it’s in a small way, I’m still happy with that.”

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Junior forward Alex Talcott has played just eight games in his career, but he still values the contribution he can make by developing a rapport with his teammates.

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Looking in the Mirror

The Push to Change History on Campus

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Golden State Worrier: Life Dehydrated

BY HARRY KRINSKY, DAILY ARTS WRITER

M

y friend Eli Chanoff once remarked that everyone in the world would benefit from drinking a tall glass of water right now. I think this is probably true. It is certainly true for me. Out of the set of emotional and physical states a person can be in — of which there are many, maybe infinite — dehydrated is the one I most commonly exist in.

I notice, most acutely, the symptoms of my dehydration when I’m in class. The corners of my eyes get a little blurry, as if someone put tiny drops of water in them. Sometimes I feel like I’m drifting away from my body. I’ll lean back into my chair and most of me will be caught by the back of the chair but part of me will keep tilting back, back and out of my body.

I’m equal parts familiar with the sensation and insanely freaked out by it. I panic until something snaps me back into my own body and I resolve to hydrate more the next day.

The problem is, I forget to remember.

I wake up the next morning and forget to drink water, I forget that yesterday I spent class swirling in my body instead of paying attention. I choose instead to recycle my saliva for 30 minutes until I down a $3 coffee. I tell myself

coffee is made from water so it’s hydrating me in some way.

I generally believe that the reason anybody is anything is extremely complicated.

I like to believe that I am dehydrated because of a set of small, seemingly unrelated factors that subtly pushed me toward dehydration and continue to push me away from hydration. What if I never got into the habit of carrying around a reusable water bottle because my mother liked the ease and aesthetic of red Solo cups? What if that has made me subconsciously undervalue backpacks with exterior water bottle pockets? What if, before all of that, Ralph Nader diluted some percentage of Gore’s votes in Florida and maybe, just maybe, if Gore had won he would have enacted some set of policies that inspired a young Harry Krinsky to stop drinking out of red Solo cups and start drinking out of Nalgenes, BPA or no BPA? Of course, owning a reusable water bottle does not guarantee perpetual hydration, but the point is most mornings I wake up with the implicit goal of hydrating myself, and almost every night, I go to bed with a dry mouth and yellow pee.

The alternative, of course, is that I am dehydrated because I choose not to drink enough water — I am to blame. I’m not sure where I stand on why I am

dehydrated. Something worth exploring, though, is where agency begins and ends in all of this, and getting to the bottom of how and where I actually control any individual habit in my life is a thought experiment worth doing.

As a middle schooler dealing with anxiety, I developed this ritual where I would imagine all of the bad thoughts swirling in my head as urine in my bladder, and when I peed, I’d imagine pumping the halfconceptualized anxieties out of my brain, into my bladder and out of my body. Water is tangentially related to dehydration, so bear with me.

This was a strange habit, and Freud would have had something to say about it, and my therapist certainly had something to say about it.

He told me it wasn’t a useful technique because repelling anxieties only make them more real. The analogy of choice is playing baseball with a ball that is attached to a long elastic rope that is also attached to your bat.

If you hit a home run, the ball will fly far, far away over the fence and into the toilet bowl.

It will, however — as most things attached to long elastic strings — eventually come back. It won’t just come back, it will shoot back, powered by whatever really basic physics concept explains what I’m

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talking about. The ball won’t just come back, it will be hurled back at you, smacking you in the back or the gut or the head. The solution: Bunt.

When translated to an 11-yearold with anxiety, this means keep your anxiety close to you because, after all, a baseball is a relatively small burden to carry to first base. (The analogy breaks down when we consider what running to first base with the ball in hand would look like.)

All that sounds simple enough, but bunting, just like hydrating, is equal parts easy

to understand and difficult to follow through on.

I try my best to bunt when I can, but often I forget to bunt or forget to remember to bunt or forget to drink water or forget to care about school or forget to watch “An Inconvenient Truth.”

I think about pee so much because I’m dehydrated and maybe I don’t think about education enough because I am educated. I think about habits because I had a therapist when I was 11 and I bunt when I can, but I sometimes forget to.

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How to: Respond to The Question

BY SYLVANNA GROSS, DAILY SPORTS EDITOR

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So, what are your plans for next year?”

Eight words that all seniors respond to with immediate sweaty palms and slight nausea. It’s an involuntary response that most of us experience because being asked to confront the biggest source of stress we have at this moment is awful.

Every. Single. Senior. Has heard this question — at minimum — 10,000,000,000,000 times this year alone.

And, in case you slept through the last moments of 2016 and Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve performance, it’s just two months into the new year.

The question itself is relatively harmless at face value. It’s a natural follow-up to the normal “How are you?” “I’m good, how are you?” type of conversation you have twice every hour on average. More often than not, though, the question is asked by someone carelessly inquiring about your future on the offchance that they’ll be interested. Or, their parents just taught them good manners and reminded them not to talk just about themselves during small talk.

Coming from peers, the question is inquisitive.

Coming from relatives, the question can be intrusive and coming from strangers the question can be invasive. But for whatever reason the question is asked, there’s still the obvious fact that you must now answer it.

And that’s why a lot of us want to spontaneously combust, because we just don’t know. And in a society where saving face is key and having your stuff together is attractive, admitting that we are clueless AF is unbearable.

No matter how you answer the question, you’re trapped.

If

you’re one of the chosen few and have already locked down a job or a graduate position or whatever, you feel guilty by bragging or feel disheartened when they don’t care or feel protective if nosy relatives give you their take on what you’re choosing to do.

Because clearly Aunt Helen knows more about working in a lab than you, even though you’re the one graduating with a degree in biomedical engineering.

If you respond with a joke, others might feel that you aren’t taking things seriously and you might become a bum. If you respond with a simple “I don’t know,” the pesky counterpart will probably follow up with a “Well, do you have any ideas?” type of question.

So how, as seniors, do we grapple with publicizing one of the scariest transitions in our lives while also not knowing what to publicize?

I’ve found that politely disassociating with the conversation works. That, and learning to just have quick hits such as “I’ve applied to some jobs” or “Some graduate schools are looking at my application now.”

Just enough information to quell the nosiest inquirer, but not enough to display how much you have no clue what’s going on.

In truth, there’s a part of me that loves the question.

I mean, it’s inviting me to talk about myself, which is

amazing. When I first started getting the question in September, I would jump at the chance to talk freely about all the possibilities I had in front of me. Quickly, when I saw my friends solidifying their post-graduation plans, my frankness turned to embarrassment because there was nothing definitive. And then it turned to humor. Over holiday break, my friend asked me what I will be doing my next year and I just laughed.

It’s not that I find not knowing what I’m going to be doing funny, it’s just that I find my reaction to the question now funny. Going into senior year, and hearing from former then-senior friends, I knew that people didn’t like being asked that question, which I had always found unfathomable. How do you not like talking about yourself? But I think I get the dislike now. The question just invites me to continuously face an unknown future, which scares me quite shitless.

So, I’m not suggesting that people don’t ask, because I understand the knee-jerk curiosity for someone else’s life. But, maybe, wait for them to post a Facebook status about their job offer or graduate school offer or whatever else they might be doing before subjecting them to the challenge of explaining their (probably) stressful decisions.

1. So, you’ve been asked about your plans.

2. First rule: No matter how much you want to claw their eyes out, consider that the last resort.

3.

asked.

Remember you probably really like whoever

4.

Seriously, remember that.

5. And if you don’t — well, your mom would want you to stay calm.

6. Now, open your mouth. 7. Say words.

8. You can lie; for all they know, it’s the truth.

9. Say more words.

10. OK, stop saying words. You’ve probably said enough to bore them to the next topic of conversation.

11.

Take a deep breath.

12. Because at the end of the day, you’ll figure something out.

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Looking in the Mirror

The Push to Change History on Campus b y J a c k i e C h a r n i g a , Daily Staff Reporter

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n an opening scene of “The Dangerous Experiment,” a play that premiered last month, James Burrill Angell, then-University of Michigan president, stands before the Board of Regents at a late 1870s meeting to fight for women’s right to admission to the University.

As a contribution to the ongoing bicentennial celebration, the play — written by LSA junior Emma McGlashen — depicts a time in University history when forward-thinking campus leaders faced resistance from the institutional norms of the day. Portrayed as a fatherly figure, Angell challenges his conservative opponents in favor of a woman’s right to enroll at the University.

“What struck me most strongly, doing research, was the humanity in the history,” the play’s program quotes McGlashen as saying. “Social movements of the time inspired some and threatened others. The students

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were barely adults, and the adults were just doing the best with the world they lived in, and that’s the most quintessentially human thing.”

However, there is more to Angell’s history than can be conveyed on a stage. Today, Angell is known as the namesake of Angell Hall and the oldest senior honor society at the University. The beloved Michigan Union was dedicated to him. Few, however, associate him with negotiating an exclusionary immigration policy viewed darkly in U.S. history.

Following his tenure as University president, Angell played a key role in drafting the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 while serving as U.S. minister to China. Renamed “The Angell Treaty,” it became the first comprehensive law limiting immigration to the United States.

The treaty led to a decade-long moratorium on Chinese laborers and restricted those who had already migrated in response to racial prejudice and anger over wage competition on the West Coast. Chinese immigration would be effectively banned until 1943. ***** Campuses across the nation have been roiled by the question of historical revisionism, or the desire to reconcile modern morality with the darker points of an academic institution’s history.

At Yale University, students staged a sit-in at Calhoun College in protest of the school’s namesake, alum John C. Calhoun the seventh vice president of the U.S., who championed slavery as a “positive good.”

Earlier this month, Yale administrators agreed to rename the college after Grace Hopper, a Yale alum, computer science pioneer and Navy admiral.

In late 2015, Princeton University students challenged the name of the university’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Though Burrill Angell PHOTO COURTESY OF BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY Wilson — who served as president of both Princeton and

later the United States — was a champion of national self-determination and democracy abroad, his administration pursued domestic segregationist policies far more aggressive than those of his predecessors. In spite of the president’s controversial policies, Princeton’s board of trustees declined to rename the school in April 2016.

Debates surrounding the renaming of University buildings raise an uneasy question: How can the dark episodes of American history be reconciled with the country’s current values?

Former LSA Dean Terrence McDonald, a professor of history and director of the Bentley Historical Library, currently serves as chairman of the President’s Advisory Committee on University History, which was commissioned by University President Mark Schlissel in the spring of 2016 to draft guidelines for renaming University buildings.

The committee released a memo in January outlining eight principles for consideration upon renaming a University building, including pedagogy, interpretation, historical and institutional context, contemporary effect and a proposed process for implementation. There are, however, no binding rules for future buildings, and any name change must receive approval from the board.

“Our document is not a policy on naming,” McDonald said. “If a historical question is raised about an existing name, that’s when we come into play. None of the principles will determine (what names are chosen), but taken together they will offer perspectives.”

McDonald said the timing of the memo is explained by the coming of age, not only of the University, but of academic institutions across the nation.

“It’s really incredible how much we’re starting to learn about the University,” McDonald said. “These issues of … naming buildings have been in the air at other campuses at well. Their own anniversaries have created this pushback to history. Georgetown was financially saved by the sale of slaves. How do you deal with it?” ***** Hindsight has not favored Clarence Cook Little, a biologist who was president of the University from 1925 to 1929. Born to an “old Boston family” that traces its lineage to Paul Revere, Little progressed to Harvard University, where he studied genetics and cancer.

After serving as an officer in World War I, Little jumped between various academic

positions, serving as president of the University of Maine from 1922 to 1925 before he was appointed president of the University.

Serving as University president from 1925 to 1929, Little’s name has been attached to the C.C. Little Science Building on Central Campus since 1968. In recent years, however, students have questioned whether his name contradicts the University’s values.

During his brief tenure, Little did relatively little. He banned alcohol in fraternity houses, tried to limit the use of automobiles in some areas of campus and expanded research resources available to faculty. Little resigned after four years — hurt by a recent divorce and facing opposition from segments of the faculty — and dedicated the remainder of his career to research, becoming managing director of the American Cancer Society in 1929.

However, Little was also a firm believer in eugenics, a now-discredited pseudo-science that sought to improve the human race through selective breeding, maintaining that certain genes were defective and should be kept from reproducing.

In Europe, Nazi leaders used eugenics to justify violent and discriminatory policies against Jews and other populations they deemed “inferior,” such as homosexuals, disabled people and Romani.

Little was a president of the American Eugenics Society, an organization that spearheaded the promotion of eugenics education nationwide. He also supported eugenic sterilization, maintaining that those who were deemed “unfit” for breeding should be sterilized. In accordance with the sterilization laws enacted by the state, the University’s hospital performed forced sterilizations until the mid20th century.

Little’s beliefs were not unique to the time, nor was he alone at the University. Eugenics was widely accepted across the medical profession and Victor Vaughan, the first dean of the University’s Medical School, held similar views. The Victor Vaughan building is also located on Central Campus, serving as a hospital administration building located on Catherine Street.

Because of his belief in eugenics, Little supported birth control — an unusual position at the time — as a means to prevent what he considered unworthy pregnancies.

Along with John Harvey Kellogg, popularly known as the cereal magnate and less popularly known for his questionable politics and support

for eugenics, Little helped organize the third Race Betterment Conference in 1928, at which people shared what would now be considered discriminatory, exclusionary and racist ideas.

“It’s the easiest thing in the world to judge people by our contemporary standards,” McDonald said. “What we know and stand for and what people in the time knew and stood for. And we need to understand that. And historians wrestle with that all the time, but that’s the complicated thing. How do we have sufficient knowledge, and empathy, and how can we stand back and judge what they did?”

A panel discussion, titled “The Power of Place-Naming: C.C. Little, Eugenics, and the University of Michigan,” will be held in April to debate the merits of the continued use of Little’s name on campus buildings. American Culture Prof. Alexandra Stern, author of “Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America” is organizing the panel.

Stern said her bicentennial event will explore the implications of the University’s history as it pertains to Little. She said while there were many connections between the eugenics movement in the early 20th century and the University, the same could be said for prominent universities across the country.

“But what is interesting and what prompts us to use the bicentennial as a period of ref lection,” Stern said. “He was only president for four years — he appears to have left due to some pressure because of his controversial ideas and some of his discriminatory belief.”

The panel discussion, which Stern hopes will consist of three to four faculty members, will create the forum for a conversation about the process of naming, and talk through it as

part of a deliberative process.

“I’m not coming to the event with my decision already made about what should happen to the building,” Stern said. “Should the building be renamed? Who was C.C. Little?

What does it mean that thousands of undergraduates everyday are going into this building named after a person with those beliefs?

Do we erase history if we take a name off the building, and if we do, do we sanitize the past to make it cleaner and neater for ourselves?”

Stern said that though it was planned before the memo’s release, her event coincides in the spirit of those guidelines.

Overall, Stern said, she believes the naming process at the University should not be lightly undertaken. In the context of history, she said, figures praised in their time, like C.C. Little, may not remain so pleasant when viewed through the lens of their contemporaries.

“I think the real question is: Does the C.C. Little name and does his history, does it rise to the level of needed to be renamed by the University?” Stern said. “The fact is it is getting close to that threshold, because it keeps coming up.” *** Further complicating the question of the naming of University buildings is the inf luence of donors. Contrary to what most believe, Jim Harbaugh’s job title isn’t the head coach of the Michigan football team. Instead, he is officially the J. Ira and Nicki Harris family head football coach. Because of a $10 million donation to the Athletics Department, all those who hold the position will also bear the Harris family name.

Those who donate to the University decide

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donor to face pushback for attempting to rename a building after himself. Last semester, Regent Mark Bernstein (D) donated $3 million to the reconstruction of the Trotter Multicultural Center on the condition it be renamed the Bernstein Multicultural Center. Amid criticism by students and members of the campus community that changing the name of the center would erase William Monroe Trotter’s legacy, Bernstein withdrew the funds.

Trotter was a civil rights activist and cofounder of the NAACP in 1909. The Trotter Center is the only building on campus named after an African American.

These episodes raise the question of whether the name of a historical figure can be replaced by a large donor in the future.

“When the University makes a commitment to a name, it’s a very serious commitment,” McDonald said. “We have to understand this is the commitment the University’s made.

There is a heavy burden of proof to change a name.”

Tappan Hall, named after Henry Philip Tappan, the first University president, houses the Fine Arts Library. The building was named after him in the 1890s, 40 years after his 11-year term.

“It would be hard to find a critic for President Tappan ... (even though he) was vehemently opposed to the admission of women,” McDonald said. “What do you do about this?

He was a visionary leader, except for one thing. Nobody’s perfect, no context is complete.”

As the University looks beyond the bicentennial, these naming debates will continue.

Though these are not questions with easy answers, context as well as understanding are crucial tools moving forward.

what happens to their funds, which has occasionally been a point of contention with the University community. When the renaming guidelines were released in January, members of the campus community rehashed some recent naming grievances, including the controversy surrounding the changing of Dennison Hall to Weiser Hall in 2014. The change was enacted when Ron Weiser — a sitting University regent — made a $50 million donation to the school.

McDonald highlighted pedagogy as the most essential of the guidelines for renaming buildings. For him, every naming opportunity can be a teaching opportunity, even in cases of financial endowments.

“Acknowledging a perfectly generous gift to the University, that’s an excellent thing to teach about,” McDonald said. “When someone makes a donation, it’s not inappropriate to put their names on it. We’re teaching about generosity, and giving back and commitment to this University. It can be a good example of

Clarence Cook Little pedagogy.”

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Personal Statement: Not an open book, but a sacred space

by Neel Swamy, Michigan in Color Senior Editor

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o this day, I remember the photos.

I was 12 years old when Robyn “Rihanna” Fenty, a 20-goingon-21-year-old pop artist from Barbados, suddenly canceled her performance for the 51st annual Grammy Awards. Despite the fact that I was hardly a Rihanna fan at the time, I found myself intrigued by the news.

I remained concerned as the story unfolded rapidly, bursting forth like a phoenix from a fire. But my curiosity quickly changed to disgust when from these sensationalized flames emerged a disturbing account of intimate partner violence.

Suddenly, photos of Rihanna — her face bruised and contorted at the hands of thenboyfriend Chris Brown — were blasted across newspapers, websites and television screens across the country in what I cannot help but see as a grotesque invasion of privacy.

Through it all, I could not help but wonder: How did a “verbal dispute” escalate to the point that bodies were battered? How could Brown, a rising musician from a small town

a man capable of such violence and even refer to him as an “artist.”

There is nothing artistic about domestic violence in the slightest, and nothing compensatory about a two-minute YouTube apology.

Eight years later, I continue to think about Rihanna’s story as a symbol of a more widespread issue.

At its core, domestic violence is based on skewed power dynamics, intimidation and coercion, and affects individuals of all gender identities, socioeconomic backgrounds, sexual orientations, age ranges and ability statuses.

Domestic violence remains one of the most misunderstood forces in our society.

Both in high school and at the University of Michigan, I have heard my peers argue against a survivor’s credibility ILLUSTRATION BY MICHELLE PHILLIPS based on “what she was wearing,” “how much she was drinking” and in Virginia with so much “potential” commit even her inability to “read cues.” These such a horrible act? What man is capable of statements contribute to a culture of blame procuring so much rage, fury and coldness that both silences survivors and overlooks that he can, with a flash of his fist, induce so the accountability of perpetrators. much suffering in a woman he is supposed to The National Domestic Violence Hotline “love?” estimates that one in four women and one I did not feel any sense of resolution or in seven men over the age of 18 have faced justice — and I certainly do not feel these severe physical violence from a partner at things when I think of the incident now — some point in their lives. However, domestic when Chris Brown was sentenced to five violence can also manifest itself in other ways years of probation, one year of domestic — including economic abuse, threatening violence counseling and 1,400 hours of relationships between a survivors and their “labor-oriented service.” My disappointment children, forcefully isolating a partner and stemmed from the realization that no amount using coercion to manipulate a partner’s of “restorative” measures could compensate emotions. Yet, I know from my own personal for the wounds Rihanna sustained. As both a experiences that these forms of violence are public figure and survivor, her entire personal rarely shown in media. life and social network was dissected by the During my first semester at the University, jaws of an entertainment-thirsty public, most I enrolled in a women’s health class of whom could only imagine the way the that challenged me to look beyond this incident affected her. dramaticized lens. I was touched by the But even then, she would be expected to words of Heidi Sproull, a clinical social maintain the trajectory of her career while worker whose experiences involved working Brown was allowed to retain his. I could not with survivors and perpetrators of sexual — still cannot — fathom how some can idolize violence. Through a narrative that was both

vulnerable and powerful, Sproull reminded us that the body is not an open book, but a sacred space that can be vandalized by forces of coercion and control.

To this day, I reflect on this course and the way that it further inspired me to learn more about domestic violence. Since then, I have pursued more coursework in gender and health and volunteered for our campus’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center. I have learned from fellow students and volunteers that domestic violence is hardly a “one-size-fits-all” crime; rather, one that is influenced by race, class, sexual orientation, tribal affiliation, citizenship and ability status. I have come to see that we cannot understand the gravity of domestic violence without considering the unique backgrounds and experiences of the survivor.

As students at the University, we must consider our campus’s culture surrounding domestic and sexual violence. While as many as 20 percent of female undergraduates have experienced some form of “unwanted kissing, groping, digital penetration, or oral, vaginal, or anal sex” according to the 2015 Campus Climate Survey, less than 4 percent of cases will be reported. We have to ask ourselves: What does it mean to truly be the Leaders and the Best? As our University approaches its 200th birthday, we still have a long way to go before our campus community is active in the fight against intimate partner violence and rape culture.

As someone who has neither experienced nor directly witnessed domestic violence, I write this piece from a place of immense privilege, and perhaps one of some distance.

But nonetheless, I am driven to write about this issue because I dream of living in a violence-free world. I aspire to live and participate in a community where domestic violence is regarded not as a “woman’s issue,” but as a human rights concern. I recognize that eradicating this issue — given President Donald Trump’s attitude toward the Violence Against Women Act — mandates that we question deeply rooted social doctrines regarding consent, masculinity, gender and sexuality.

But perhaps most importantly, I ask that we — as a campus community, rather than individuals — challenge our discomfort rather than abandoning it. When we recognize that domestic violence is anything but a “private” matter to be isolated behind closed doors, we can take a step forward in promoting a space that is safe for all.

I am steadfast in my belief that no college campus, city, state or nation can consider itself fully developed as long as domestic violence persists.

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Personal Statement: To the ER and Beyond

by Avi Sholkoff, Daily Sports Writer

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never expected to spend the morning of Jan. 24 in the emergency room. I didn’t think I’d be hooked up to an IV when I should have been sitting in my “Origins of Nazism” lecture at 11:30.

Somehow, on that Tuesday I found myself in a bed in the emergency room at the University Hospital, wearing a typical gown and enjoying some vanilla yogurt and apple juice. As soon as I regained consciousness, I could only think of one question: Who was she? *** I don’t really know how I passed out that morning.

I didn’t sleep the night before — only about five-anda-half hours because of my heavy homework load and conversations with my hallmates. I also neglected to eat breakfast. I walked through the snow to Chem 1800 and sat in the back for another Psych 112 lecture — a class that, even on a good day, I struggle to remain focused. At a certain point, I began to feel dehydrated and left to fill my water bottle.

The next thing I know, I’m lying on a hard tile f loor with a girl crouched next to me reassuring me and attempting to ease the bleeding. I couldn’t really see what was happening and thought I had a concussion.

I was frightened, tired and hungry. I didn’t know how hard I hit my head and if my fall caused damage. Would I need stitches? Did I have a concussion? Any permanent

damage? (For those wondering: yes, no and no thank God).

Through all of my shock and nervousness, she spoke to me while her friend assured the paramedics were en route from the hospital. That ride didn’t go so well either. I begged for water while the paramedics in the back of the ambulance told me no each time, increasing my stress from zero to one hundred. I really just wanted a cup of apple juice or a bowl of cereal. Eventually, I arrived at the hospital. The nurses and doctor did some preliminary tests and then allowed me to take a twohour siesta. Finally, I received my cup of apple juice and called my parents to tell them what happened.

After my nap, I (obviously) checked my phone. Still, I kept wondering who it was that helped me, something I slowly began to realize would be nearly impossible to figure out. There are 28,000 undergrads at the University of Michigan. How could I possibly find the one person who happened to be in the Chem Building at 9:30 and helped the guy who passed out?

You might be wondering why I was obsessed with finding the girl who helped me. I began the search because, without this person, I don’t know what would’ve happened. She knew immediately to grab a paper towel to stop the blood oozing from my head. So, yeah, it was a big deal to find out who may have just saved my life.

A few days went by, and even though I expressed some curiosity toward finding who saved me, it eventually became more speculative. What if I found this person — not really thinking it was possible.

I didn’t know what method to pursue and my “search” began to feel more and more like an unsolved mystery.

It took some prodding from my physician uncle to really seek out the girl. We spoke on the phone at length about the injury and he urged me to find who saved ILLUSTRATION BY RABAB JAFRI me. The next day,

I called the Division of Public Safety and Security, but, because I called after hours, the records department employees had already left for the weekend. My search would have to wait until Monday. *** After class on Monday, I called again and spoke to a woman from the records department. I told her about my “quest” to find who helped me and, to my surprise, she was interested in helping, which made me optimistic. At least I wasn’t too crazy, I thought.

I gave her my incident number and learned the details of the people present at the scene. Unfortunately, she only had Officer Kevin Rice’s name, not the name of the person who first spotted me (big shoutout to Officer Rice). It appeared I hit a dead end. But, I was undeterred.

And as I sat in the library a few hours later, I established my next step: I would post in the University of Michigan class of 2019 Facebook group. I’ll look like an idiot, but I thought that maybe I’ll gain some closure. I wrote in the group (YOLO, right?): Complete Longshot but I believe in miracles: Last Tuesday morning I passed out in the Chemistry building and two girls came over right away and helped me ease my injuries and called the ER. I’m really grateful and it’d be great to send you a thank you note/get you a Starbucks. From what I remember, one girl was named Allie (sp.?) and you were selling food for a student organization. If you know this person/are this person please let me know. Thank you.

Sure enough, about an hour later, I saw someone commented on my post, tagging her friend. Her friend then messaged me and I learned that, yes, she had indeed been the girl who saw me fall in the Chem Building.

As you could probably expect, I was in shock. My persistence paid off. A few weeks later, we met at Starbucks in the Union and rehashed. She told me it wasn’t the first time she’d helped someone who passed out, so she knew exactly what to do. I would no longer wonder, “What if,” about the incident. I learned all I needed to about my frightening morning. *** Nearly a month later, it’s still puzzling to think I spent a day in the emergency room. It’s just as incredible that a far-fetched, seemingly improbable request in a Facebook post — in a group of more than 17,000 people — somehow reached the right person. The experience taught me a great deal.

I’ve learned to be mindful of my surroundings, to always look to see if I can be of assistance. I’ve learned that sometimes, even the craziest ideas can work. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I’ve learned to eat breakfast and get a good night’s sleep.

I don’t want to end up in the ER again.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017 // The Statement

V I S UA L S TAT E M E N T: LUNAR GALA Photos by Kevin Zheng The Chinese Student Association and Hong Kong Student Association host a Lunar Gala to celebrate the Lunar New Year, the Lantern Festival and the Year of the Rooster on Saturday, February 11 at Palmer Commons.

Kopitonez performs at the Lunar Gala Saturday, February 11 in Palmer Commons.

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AARON/Daily DB3 Daekbak performs at the Lunar Gala Saturday, February 11 in Palmer

Edmon Tsoi performs at the Lunar Gala Saturday, February 11 in Palmer Commons.

K-Motion performs at the Lunar Gala Saturday, February 11 in Palmer Commons.

EVAN AARON/Daily K-Motion performs at the Lunar Gala Saturday, February 11 in Palmer Commons.

rXn Traditional performs at the Lunar Gala on Saturday, February 11 in Palmer Commons.

Kopitonez performs at the Lunar Gala Saturday, February 11 in Palmer Commons.