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50 years later: A look at July 1967 in the city of Detroit Detroiters, University faculty reflect on a pivotal point in history

By ALEXA ST. JOHN Managing News Editor

Erin McBrien remembers Detroit as quiet for most of the summer of 1967. Her father’s position as a police officer required the family

live within the city’s confines.

“We were not in the thick of things,” McBrien said. “We were on the outside edges.

Of course, we didn’t go down in that area …

We were kids. It was quiet in our neighborhood.”

But one week, while her father worked day-long shifts, the rest of the family would spend the hot July days in Grosse Pointe with friends at local parks. But they knew that the streets weren’t as quiet as they once had been.

“We would walk up to Mack and there

were National Guard with rifles up on the top of buildings right at the corner of Detroit and Grosse Pointe,” McBrien recalled.

McBrien said aside from her father, her family did not go near 12th and Clairmount streets during the week of July 23, and as a nine year old, she didn’t watch much news coverage either.

“We knew something was wrong,” McBrien said. “I don’t think we understood the severity of it.”

When her father came home for a break

from work, he slept downstairs, McBrien said, with his gun within an arm’s reach and the hose — in case of a fire nearby — just outside the door.

The beginning Meanwhile, July of 1967 in Ann Arbor, at the University of Michigan, was like any other — students took summer semester classes, enjoyed walks in the Diag in warm sunshine and socialized at coffee shops or popular establishments.

Less than 40 miles away — the distance See DETROIT, Page 3

A2 Dems host debate for City Council candidates Topics of housing, downtown development dominate conversation

By ANDREW HIYAMA Summer Daily News Editor

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Seven candidates and more than 30 Ann Arbor residents attended a forum of City Council candidates hosted by the Ann Arbor Democratic Party Monday night.

NEWS

Gameful learning Educators explore creative online approaches to teaching. >> SEE PAGE 2

All the candidates who were present will be competing in the Democratic primary on August 8.

The candidates present were Anne Bannister from Ward 1, Stephen Kunselman and incumbent Zachary Ackerman from Ward 3, Jaime Magiera and incumbent Jack Eaton in Ward 4 and David Silkworth and incumbent Chip Smith from Ward 5.

Jason Frenzel, the Ward 1 City Council member whose seat is being challenged

by Bannister, did not attend. Because Democrat Jared Hoffert from Ward 2 is

OPINION

The little things

“Appreciate the small moments, appreciate the little things...” >> SEE PAGE 4

contesting independent Councilmember Jane Lumm’s seat and has no Democratic opponent, he did not participate aside from providing opening remarks.

The topics of housing, development and climate action dominated the discussion, with much of the conversation focusing around the controversial sale of the “Library Lot” across from the downtown district library on Fifth Avenue to the Chicago-based development firm Core Spaces. A petition to put the sale of the lot on the ballot in November received 5,779

ARTS

‘Dunkirk’ Review Nolan delivers one of this year’s finest movies

>> SEE PAGE 7

signatures but fell a few hundred short of success. A city-wide survey in 2013 showed that 76.2 percent of respondents thought Ann Arbor would benefit from more downtown open spaces, and 41.5 percent of respondents chose the Library Lot as the best place to build such a space.

Additionally, the sale has raised legal questions regarding the tax-exempt status of the bonds used to fund construction of the surface and underground parking lots the Library Lot currently occupies. The issue has become so divisive that BanSee CITY COUNCIL, Page 3

SPORTS

Football: Bitter ending lingers Harbaugh hopes to use last season’s finish as motivation. >> SEE PAGE 11

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Gameful Learning Lab event showcases progression of new learning methods “Gameful” learning applies video games’ design to online teaching systems

By JENNIFER MEER Summer Managing News Editor

Day Two of the Gameful Course Design Summer Institute took place Tuesday. Hosted by Academic Innovation’s Gameful Learning Lab, the two-day event took place in the Michigan Union Kuenzel Room and saw approximately 40 attendees — primarily instructors and graduate student instructors from the University of Michigan, K through 12 teachers, instructional designers and higher education faculty from across the country. The event aimed to teach participants about gameful learning opportunities and how they can implement such practices in their classes.

The Gameful Learning Lab encourages educators to implement new learning environments in their courses. Gameful learning refers to a type of learning — a

pedagogy or approach to course design — that draws on the designs and techniques of video games and applies their attributes to online teaching systems.

In 2012, GradeCraft — a learning management system that encourages gameful learning, created by Barry Fishman, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Learning Technologies in the School of Information and School of Education and Rackham student Caitlin Holman — launched its first course at the University.

In fall 2015, GradeCraft merged with the Digital Innovation Greenhouse, a program also overseen by Academic Innovation, which aims to explore methods of digital learning. By the summer of 2016, over 5,100 students had taken a gameful course at one of five institutions nationally and the Gameful Learning Lab opened in fall 2016.

Rachel Niemer, the founding director of the Gameful Learning Lab, said the purpose of the lab is to explore gameful learning opportunities.

“Over time, we’ve built a larger community of instructors that have been experimenting both

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with gameful course design, but also other pedagogies that try to tap into students’ intrinsic motivations,” she said. “We’re really looking at how (you can) design learning experiences differently to be more engaging — not necessarily more fun … — but really focus on what draws people in to do the hard work of learning.”

Niemer said the purpose of the event is to spread the University’s work in gameful learning to the larger community.

Today, approximately 34 University instructors have used GradeCraft for their courses, according to Niemer, and several others have incorporated gameful principles in their teaching. Opportunities within gameful learning include multiple “pathways,” in which students can make their own decisions about what learning activities would be most beneficial for them, as well as students earning points from zero to get their desired grade, among several others.

“One of the ways I talk about (gameful learning) is that it’s a creative playspace for instructors to think differently about their teaching,” she said.

Niemer said, oftentimes, when people talk about educational technology, they use a lot of buzzwords, such as personalized learning, adaptive learning and teaching at scale; she said people are concerned with the practical implications of how technology can be used for teaching. On the flip side, she said, there’s a scholarly discipline focusing on critical digital pedagogies that study educational

technology from a more theoretical and intellectual perspective.

“What gameful (learning) is trying to do is actually connect the scholarly to the practical, and the practical back to the scholarly,” she said.

Niemer said the University is in a unique position to contemplate the scholarly-practical dichotomy because it has been doing so on campus in a sort of “distributed network” on campus. Niemer said she hopes that by bringing people from outside the University to campus to hear about the work the University has done so far in the field, the gameful phenomenon will spread.

Tuesday kicked off with a panel discussion moderated by Niemer and featured four University affiliates to discuss their experiences with gameful learning. Among the panelists was Mika LaVaqueManty, a Presidential Bicentennial professor, an Arthur F. Thurnau professor and an associate professor of political science, who also served as an investigator on a grant that has funded development on GradeCraft.

LaVaque-Manty taught his first gameful learning class in 2009: Political Science 101, which has 250 to 300 students. He said students came into the class thinking there would be discussion of healthcare and elections, when in fact — to their surprise — it examined thinkers like Thomas Hobbes and Machiavelli.

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Republican State Senator Patrick Colbeck holds launch for gubernatorial campaign As Republicans “stray” from platform, Colbeck runs on promise of “principled solutions”

By JENNIFER MEER Summer Managing News Editor

On Saturday afternoon, over 200 Michigan residents gathered outside the Yankee Air Museum in Belleville to support State Sen. Patrick Colbeck (R) at his official campaignlaunch for the 2018 gubernatorial race.

Colbeck graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Aerospace Engineering in 1987; he received his masters degree from the University in 1988. He graduated from the Life Sciences Department of the International Space University in France and worked on systems for the International Space Station. In 2010, Colbeck entered the Michigan Senate, representing the state’s 7th district. He filed the paperwork to run for governor on

CITY COUNCIL From Page 1 nister said it was the single issue that encouraged her to run.

“Running for council was not something that was on my radar until about three months ago, when City Council voted to sell the public Library Lot to Chicago developers to build the 17-story tall building and lease the majority of the parking places for 50 years,” she said. “I would not have supported this project, because I believe council must listen to the many voices of residents and local business who have actively been opposing this project.”

A primary motivation City Council members have cited for selling the lot has been the creation of affordable housing, though it is not yet certain how much of the Core Spaces development will be designated for that purpose. In an interview earlier this month, Frenzel defended his

May 31.

Over 50 volunteers helped organize and execute the event. Central to their agenda was an effort to get signatures; candidates need 15,000 signatures in order to get their name on the ballot for the 2018 election.

AnneMarie Schieber Dykstra, the communications director for Colbeck’s campaign, noted Colbeck’s pitch is to stick to a set of principles.

“Republicans have a set platform and there’s been a lot of criticism that they’ve strayed from that,” she said. “Once they get into office, they end up serving the interest of the powerful few and that’s not what he’s about.”

Running on a platform of “principled solutions,” Colbeck puts forth guiding principles to solve the problems facing the state.

Central to his platform are efforts to build better roads, provide cheaper health plans with better quality care and hold the state government accountable for its use of money.

Additionally, Dykstra said Colbeck wants “government to work for the people.” She said oftentimes politicians who enter office put

forth corporate welfare programs to create jobs, such as the Good Jobs For Michigan, which gave big companies an opportunity to capture income taxes from residents.

In his address, Colbeck highlighted his years prior to his work in politics. He said as an engineer, he never discussed politics.

“The first 44 years of my life, (my family and I) were sitting on the sidelines assuming that the people we elected to serve us, in

office, were serving our best interest, not their own self-interest,” he said. “While there are some very, very notable exceptions, I’m finding that all too often that that type of service is the exception, not the rule. That’s what we need to turn around in our state … This is time for some principled service.”

vote to sell the lot, saying that housing price pressures were driving people out of the city.

“The thing that’s lost in that conversation, though, that’s really important to me, is not only are we looking at changing the way the city looks, but we are also substantively changing the people that can live here,” he said.

“When housing costs go up, disproportionately certain groups of people can no longer afford to be in our town: young professionals, older people and many times people of color. Allowing those housing pressures to push people out of our community is completely inappropriate in my book.”

Kunselman rejected that notion, however, saying Ann Arbor’s status as a university town meant getting developers to create affordable housing was not a realistic goal.

“When it comes to Ann Arbor gentrification, we have to remember that we are a global city. There’s a number of stu-

dents that come from around the world that will pay top dollar to live in Ann Arbor while they go to the University (of Michigan),” he said. “We are a company town, and the idea that we’re going to be able to build our way out by just having more housing and bigger buildings is a mistake. It’s not going to happen that way.”

Responding to Kunselman, though, Ackerman pointed out that as a council member, there were actions he could take toward the end of affordable housing.

“Talking about trying to influence developers in a positive direction is not a scare tactic,” he said. “We actually have a fair amount of control, and it’s called zoning policy. We dictate what can be built where, what it’s gonna look like and how it can be used.”

Saying he would have voted against the sale of the Library Lot, Silkworth said he thought zoning decisions should be put on the ballot.

“I would like to see our downtown zoning be something our residents actually have a voice in deciding,” he said. “This is something that affects every single one of us. So I think we should put it on the ballot, so our residents are actually allowed to vote and decide what our zoning should be, what the long-term planning of our city will take. I don’t believe what we’re doing right now is what a lot of folks want.”

But his opponent, Chip Smith, said in the almost 20 years he’s worked as an urban planner, he has never seen a community that put their zoning out for public vote, as it would “make it impossible” to make changes and increase development.

On climate change, Magiera said he spent his life living out his values, minimizing his carbon emissions wherever possible.

FILE PHOTO/DAILY A supporter of Senator Patrick Colbeck (R-Canton) showcases his car outside the Yankee Air Museum on Saturday.

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DETROIT From Page 1 from State Street in Ann Arbor to 12th Street, now known as Rosa Parks Boulevard, in downtown Detroit — a riot was taking place: the culmination of years of racial tension and inequalities.

Under the rule of then-Mayor Jerome Cavanagh and a primarily white police force, the city was plagued with segregation catalyzed by tensions among different groups in the city.

These tensions came to a head that Sun. July 23, when looting and flames diffused throughout the 12th and Clairmount area — in less than a week, 43 people died, 1,189 were injured and more than 7,200 were arrested as fires ravaged over 2,000 buildings. Residents throughout the city felt fear.

This was a pivotal point in Detroit’s history — a city without which the University, established there 200 years ago, would not exist.

Background A police raid at an underground bar, known in that time as a blind pig, served as the catalyst for the riots, the spark that lit the fuse of civil unrest.

Looting spread out from the epicenter of the bar after officers arrested about 80 people there in the early morning hours — Black residents said to have been celebrating the return of Vietnam War veterans.

This quickly escalated throughout nearby streets, creating panic.

Tues. July 25, 1967 — halfway through the five-day period of contention — the Daily published photos under the headline “Detroit: In the Middle of an Inferno.”

Splashed across the page are images of police patting down residents as business owners assess the damage of the previous days of violence and fires blaze strongly behind troopers holding their weapons. The situation in Detroit was grim.

Relations between police and citizens strained. Controlling the mob that had aggregated over the preceding few days was impossible without reinforcements: supplementing the Detroit Police and Fire Departments were the Michigan State Police, the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department and the Michigan Army National Guard, along with the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions.

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Disabled and disavowed

N

athan Koski is a 23-yearold Michigan resident who works every morning as a porter at local Chrysler dealerships.

He fulfills his community service role by volunteering for Food Gatherers, an Ann Arbor-based organization dedicated to alleviating hunger in Washtenaw County. He has taken a community cooking class where he learned to read food labels and pay attention to nutrition facts.

Nathan also has a developmental disability. He is one of 56.7 million people with a disability currently living in the United States, and he’s just one of the many who suffer as a result of inadequate disability welfare programs in America.

Though he qualifies for Supplemental Security Income, Nathan doesn’t benefit much from it. SSI only grants him $735 a month — which is actually on the high side for this reimbursement plan — and he’s expected to live off of this. That comes out to about $8,800 per year, which is particularly insufficient for people with disabilities, who have different needs than able-bodied people. Nathan’s SSI check goes to more than just rent, utilities and transportation. Such miniscule compensations demonstrate federal ignorance: lawmakers must understand the costs of having a disability.

Moreover, SSI caps accumulated assets at $2,000, which means Nathan is prohibited from collecting more than a couple thousand dollars in savings. On the first of every month, the government checks his bank account, and if he is just one dollar over the limit, Nathan must forfeit whatever money he receives in SSI aid for that month.

This condemns people with disabilities to poverty, making it difficult to work

and allowing them less money to spend patronizing local businesses.

Unfortunately, other programs meant to alleviate this struggle aren’t much better. Social Security Disability Insurance offers more money, generally between $1,500 and $2,000 per month. But the problem with Disability Insurance is that many people who receive help are consequently barred from Medicaid assistance. This is because many states use the Federal Poverty Level as the cut-off in determining who qualifies for Medicaid, and it doesn’t take much for deserving people to be deemed ineligible.

On the topic of Medicaid: many Republican Party lawmakers are hellbent on slashing its budget. They cite concerns over inflating costs and a widening federal debt. But reducing the deficit doesn’t necessitate a restrictive restructuring of Medicaid; we should instead try to optimize existing welfare programs, Medicaid and beyond.

Republicans are correct that disability welfare urgently needs rethinking — SSI and SSDI fail to provide sufficient support for people with disabilities — but they’re moving in the wrong direction. Medicaid spending shouldn’t be left to the states, or worse, reduced. Instead, existing disability assistance programs should be revamped. Currently, SSI drives people with disabilities into poverty by capping assets. SSDI attempts to take them out of it, but in doing so it makes them ineligible for Medicaid. So those who receive SSI are out of luck, those who get SSDI lose Medicaid, and those who qualify for Medicaid are in danger of losing it at the hands of a GOPcontrolled Washington, D.C. Thus, the solution for lawmakers is twofold: (1) Restructure broken programs like SSI and SSDI, and (2)

prioritize Medicaid spending when repairing the Affordable Care Act. Beyond restructuring, new laws can be passed that make it easier for people with disabilities to save money, too. If lawmakers need an example of excellent health-care legislation, they can look to the ABLE Act, authorized

by Congress in 2014. ABLE accounts resemble 529 college plans in that they provide tax-free growth, while they also allow people with disabilities to contribute $100,000 in total. This is much more than is allowed by SSI. In addition, ABLE accounts are inexpensive to set up and facilitate independence, because the recipient can manage his or her own funds.

Laws like the ABLE Act should not be isolated instances in which policymakers actually demonstrate an understanding of the dire ways people with disabilities currently get by in the United States.

Nathan Koski relies on an aide so that he can make it to on time to work, where he contributes to economic growth. He spent part of his SSI check on a computer so that he could sign up for his foods and nutrition class. He needs health care.

He needs these programs to work to his benefit. Cutting Medicaid funding and maintaining flawed programs like SSI and SSDI would not help Americans with disabilities flourish. Such actions only push them into poverty, and the economy consequently suffers. Perhaps this is a cost of lowering health-care premiums and shrinking the deficit, as many lawmakers hope to do. If so, they need to ask themselves: is that cost really worth it?

— Billy Stampfl can be reached at bstampfl@umich.edu.

A

few weeks ago, in preparation for a meeting with a client at work, I started fishing around my computer for a list of some slang words used in various SpanishANNA speaking POLUMBOcountries.

I LEVY typed into my search window on my computer “slang,” thinking I’d find the document that way. But as my luck would have it, virtually everything containing the word “slang” in it came up, except for the document I was looking for, including text conversations I had no idea were archived.

Curious to see what would come up, and succumbing to my ever-shortening attention span (thanks, technology), I scrolled down to find an old portion of my application to the University of Washington. It was about slang. The prompt asked us to talk about a word we believe has lost its meaning. I chose to write about the word “awesome.”

I began like this: “Awesome is no longer reserved for what is aweinspiring or characterized by awe.

Awesome is the discount we get for buying a six-pack of gum. Awesome is the chocolate cake dished out at a birthday party. Awesome is the fact that your local market is open on New Year’s Eve day. None of those things are magnificent, awe-inspiring, sublime, or the least bit majestic. I believe they do not deserve the word ‘awesome.’ ” Though I still agree with my 17-yearold self t­ hat calling a discount on a pack of gum “awesome” maybe does water down the meaning of the word, it got me thinking about appreciation. It made me think about how technology, in some ways, has caused us to forget to appreciate the small things. Forget that everywhere we look we are surrounded by amazing feats of the time period these technologies were created in. In a society where we’re always looking for the next new great thing, and progress means a newer this, a “smarter” that, a faster this, a shinier that, we lose sight of the wonderful things that are in our everyday lives.

Louis C.K. appeared on Conan O’Brien’s late show in 2015. In part of his segment, he commented how “everything is amazing yet nobody is happy.” He asked us to think, for a moment, about how far we’ve come with changes in society, and how at this moment, we may be better off going back to “simpler” times, because maybe we’d be more appreciative of what we have.

Sometimes, I just sit around and stare at things and think about how awesome and amazing it all is. (I promise I haven’t lost it.) Someone had to come up with an idea for something that is now so common, it’s seen as everyday, normal. But if you think about it, some of these everyday things are some of the most genius inventions.

Ziploc bags? Think about it. Yeah, it’s plastic and gets thrown away. (I am not a fan of that, though.) But someone sat down one day and thought, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to carry things around in a bag that won’t spill? Someone had to invent the Ziploc of the Ziploc bag.

I realize now that I probably sound a little insane — who sits around thinking about how amazing Ziploc bags are? But I truly believe that it’s time get back to work appreciating the small things in life. We are in an age where technology is rapidly changing.

Where talk of self-driving cars, much to my dismay, are becoming a more regular topic of conversation.

And while I am certainly grateful for many technological advancements, new technology has become the focus of excitement. I would love to see the things we call were once hailed as phenomenal achievements, the so-called “little” things, everyday objects called “awesome.” As Louis C.K. said, we are often so quick to think that the “world owes us something,” because in an age where it only take seconds to send a text message, we have grown more impatient, more quick to complain when something takes much longer, or isn’t up “with the times.”

You don’t have to be naive or simplistic, to appreciate so-called “small” things. I am the last person to look through rose-colored glasses.

Unfortunately, I am sometimes very quick to think worst-casescenario.

When something happens I can often spiral, “catastrophize,” as my mother says. So, when I say that I believe there is merit in appreciating what may seem like the smallest thing, I don’t say it lightly.

When I appreciate the small moments, appreciate the little things, the little revelations about life I have, it undoubtedly has made me happier in harder times.

“Take time to stop and smell the roses” may be a relatively old and frequently-used saying, but right here and now, it’s as important to remember as ever.

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

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Always low prices

T

he small towns of northern Michigan that dot the coast of the Great Lakes offer some escape from MICHAEL the chaotic and MORDARSKI hyperconnected world we live in.

The majority of Michiganders who grew up in the more-populated southern part of the state understand the peaceful and nostalgic nature of what “up north” is. Every small, coastal community has its own personality; brief visits to towns like Petoskey, Traverse City, Alpena and Harbor Springs offer their own unique experiences.

And part of those experiences are the stores and markets that seem almost extinct to people from cities — such as small familyowned furniture stores, hardware outlets and supermarkets. Nearly a decade ago, this region of the state was almost completely free from the intrusions of the massive chain stores that are so much a part of suburban life. The local economy was dominated by these small businesses where employees worked in more enjoyable environments, specialists knew all about their products and uniqueness to every town and city was seen in the proud storefront windows of downtown shops.

But eventually, the secluded and small-town atmospheres grew to large enough sizes that a specific retailing corporation took notice of possible new markets.

Wal-Mart — the supercenter retailer touting the lowest prices (no matter the cost). The retailing giant that claims both titles of largest private employer in the world and largest company by revenue.

The arrival of a new Wal-Mart induced a transformation of these small towns of northern Michigan — and over the past decade, these transformations have served as examples of the so-called “WalMart effect” that has spread throughout the country. This term, established by journalist Julie Morris, was then expertly described in Charles Fishman’s book, “The Wal-Mart Effect.” He explains how the company drastically alters local economies with their stores.

Wages become depressed, other retailers are forced to close and the shopping experience for a consumer is radically changed on all levels.

The effect begins with the construction of the massive

warehouse that is often larger than 100,000 square feet. This monstrosity of a building is situated just a short drive from the heart of the city, being built remarkably fast and marketed to the local population the entire time. Upon completion, the draw of the entire institution that has led Wal-Mart to such incredible success begins siphoning consumers from other businesses — Wal-Mart’s “always low prices.”

Wal-Mart’s driving ideology since its founding by Sam Walton in 1962 has been to offer the lowest price to consumers. That ideology still holds today, and yet this simple, successful and almost innocent ideology has had serious consequences that are easily identifiable in the towns which these stores arrive.

For when a Wal-Mart arrives, it immediately begins driving local prices down, competing with other retailers. We as consumers are complicit in this act because WalMart offers to us an opportunity we cannot pass over — saving money, getting a deal, paying less.

Consumers are attracted to the remarkably low prices offered by Wal-Mart and cease to buy from other retailers. Why pay more for a piece of furniture from some local family store when Wal-Mart offers it for less? Why pay more for clothing or groceries or toys or nearly anything for that matter? Consumers cannot pass up the opportunity to pay less, and in the process local business slowly die off.

Pushing cost cutting measures to new heights, Wal-Mart’s profit margin has always existed as remarkably lower than other competitors, yet in the end, the company succeeds because it drives competition out of business.

In addition to the small local businesses, other department stores and retailers such as Sears, JCPenny and Kmart have been unable to compete with Wal-Mart’s almost ruthless corporate mission. “The lowest price” may seem like an innocent and simple ideology for a company — yet when that company makes $485 billion dollars a year in revenue, the effects are astounding.

As Charles Fishman writes in “The Wal-Mart Effect,” the company “is increasingly beyond the control of market forces that capitalism relies on to enforce fair play. WalMart isn’t subject to the market forces because it is creating them.”

Shaping the retail market around

it in its never-ending mission to cut costs, Wal-Mart also nearly dictates the business of its own suppliers.

The company is often the majority of sales for many of its manufacturers, grocers and other suppliers and therefore enforces its ideologies within the walls of businesses not their own. From pushing facilities and staff to altering products to make them cheaper and eventually forcing companies to move manufacturing to cheaper, less regulated overseas locations — WalMart operates outside of the natural market forces.

And what this all culminates in is a radically different economy. WalMart, truthfully, is not a pleasant

store to shop in. It is often crowded, a bit chaotic and sparse on both space and decoration. But again, it offers the lowest prices. Wal-Mart plays directly into our American consumer psychology, tempting us with the opportunity to save money.

We save money and, in the process, empty the vibrant and unique storefronts of downtowns interlaced with family-run restaurants and markets and instead build warehouse-sized shopping emporiums on acres of blacktop parking lots with tacky chain restaurants where the starved and bland masses can consume thousand-calorie meals.

We further destroy the

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manufacturing jobs of this country. We allow businesses to be outsourced overseas. We buy products with no care for source and urging — only price. And whether or not you personally even shop at Wal-Mart, this $485 billion-ayear company dominates the retail economy we are all a part of.

But Wal-Mart is not evil, it did not set out to destroy local economies or alter consumer buying habits. It has just capitalized on our obsession with money.

— Michael Mordarski can be reached at mmordars@umich.edu.

What’s up with Bernie Sanders?

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ast year, I voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Michigan primary. I was also one of the nearly 7 million small-dollar contributors that fueled the Bern.

However, his actions in recent months have had me asking: what’s up with Bernie Sanders?

I supported ALI SAFAWI Sanders because I liked that he ran without the backing of a billionaire-funded super PAC and his platform was rife with ideas and policies that I could get behind, like aggressively addressing climate change, making peace with Iran and Medicare for all.

I cast my vote for Sanders in the March primary and when he won Michigan (despite FiveThirtyEight putting the odds at around 99:1 for Clinton) I was justifiably excited.

However, as it became clear that Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee I accepted it, like any supporter of a losing candidate should and moved on to fully supporting her.

Then, after the Dems were utterly smashed in November 2016, in a time where the left needed unity and a coherent plan for the elections to come in 2018 and in 2020, Sen. Sanders began acting, well, strange.

First, Sanders repeatedly antagonized new DNC Chair Tom Perez — who bested Sanders pick in Rep. Keith Ellison for the role — during their joint “Come Together and Fight Back Tour” across several red and purple states. I can understand why he has not joined the Democratic Party, the leadership was not exactly fair to him in the primaries, but he should have at least honored the intentions of the tour instead of inflaming the troublesome divide among the left that he played a significant role in creating.

He has also endorsed and stumped for a string of candidates across the country, each of which has lost despite help from America’s most popular politician.

So all this has me scratching my head. If Bernie Sanders is going to try for the Democratic nomination and the presidency again then why is he not focused on helping Democrats win?

I concede that the 2018 midterms are 13 months away. However, Sen. Sanders has yet to indicate any interest in helping Democrats save the few that he finds ideologically pure.

That needs to change.

Looking at his major endorsements since Ellison, a pattern emerges: the candidates he has endorsed were either running in deep red constituencies, such as Montana at large and Kansas’ 4th Congressional District, or in areas where Clinton won handedly in the primaries, like Virginia and California.

It’s not hard to see what Sanders is trying to accomplish: He wants to prove that his brand of progressivism can win both in areas that went heavily for Trump and in traditional Democratic strongholds.

Meanwhile, there are critical, winnable elections that Sen. Sanders could actually make a significant impact in. Instead of going all in for Ben Jealous in Maryland (a reliably blue state that backed Clinton in the primaries), Sanders should turn his eye to Michigan, a state that he won in the primary but that Trump won (by a slim margin). Here he could play a pivotal role in retaining Democratic control of a Senate seat and take back a governorship from the Republican Party.

It does not stop in Michigan either.

Five other states voted the ways Michigan did in 2016 and will have Democrats up for reelection in the

Senate. The Republicans need to win eight seats in 2018 to gain a filibusterproof majority. Sanders could have a significant impact in six of those races.

The math does not get any simpler.

If Sanders wants to push for Medicare for all and a $15 federal minimum wage then he needs allies. While being an outsider is part of his brand, he is going to eventually have to make peace with the Democratic establishment.

Helping reelect Sen. Stabenow and putting a Democratic governor in Lansing would go a long way towards achieving that needed peace.

For any potential 2020 Democratic nominee, supporting Democrats, both incumbent and challengers, makes a lot of political sense. They get to put their name out across the country, collect key allies and be seen as a leader in the party. In fact, two of Sanders’ potential primary opponents, Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, are already fundraising for vulnerable incumbents.

So what’s up with Bernie Sanders?

He has both hinted at and refused to deny his plans on seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination to take on President Trump in 2020. However, he has done little to deserve it.

Sanders’ callous disregard for helping Democrats win in the midterms, even if it is over a year away, needs to change or the very future to believe in that he campaigned on risks death, especially if Republicans gain their Senate supermajority.

I hope to see Bernie Sanders come to states like mine and help Democrats in Michigan and elsewhere win critical elections. Otherwise, he can count me out in 2020.

Ali Safawi is a rising junior in the School of Public Health

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‘Dunkirk’ is Nolan’s best locations — the beach, the sea and the air — all focusing on different perspectives of Christopher Nolan the evacuation. What’s most (“Interstellar”) has wedged compelling, though, is Nolan’s himself between two starkly storytelling technique. Like different subgenres of film: “Memento” and “Inception,” cerebral, understated thrillers Nolan experiments with time, and large-scale blockbusters. but in this case, with much His earlier movies, like the more subtlety — “Dunkirk” still masterful “Memento,” forgo follows chronological order, but grandiose special effects in with a slight tweak. The movie’s favor of mind-bending plots, three parts show separate whereas his recent releases efforts of the evacuation favor mind-bending cinematic process occurring over different techniques rather than tightly amounts of time. This addition structured plots. Sometimes, it is just enough to make the feels like he writes messy plots story that much more dynamic, to appear complex and cerebral ultimately becoming a collage without actually having much of three heroic tales that are substance — Nolan fanboys dependant on one another. can leave the theater feeling, The story along the beach like, “totally mind blown, occurs over one week and bro” without understanding focuses on Tommy, a timid anything about the movie. But British soldier played by Fionn nonetheless, Nolan has a vision Whitehead in his first on-screen perfectly suited for the summer appearance. Here, the troops blockbuster; he deserves all of dodge frequent bombing runs the credit he gets, reshaping the while waiting for Naval rescue action movie genre as we know ships, many of which end up it. sinking anyway. On the water, “Dunkirk” is an amalgamation Mark Rylance (“Bridge of of his greatest talents jampacked Spies”) stars as Mr. Dawson, a into 106 minutes of some of mariner who agrees to take his the most inspired filmmaking private boat across the Channel in recent years. to Dunkirk Undoubtedly, this in an attempt is Nolan’s finest to assist the “Dunkirk” movie and the evacuation most compelling, effort. He is honest war film accompanied Rave Cinemas, Quality since 2009’s “The by his son 16 Hurt Locker.”

Peter (Tom The movie is GlynnWarner Bros. Pictures set during the Carney) and Battle of Dunkirk, George (Barry where hundreds of Keoghan, thousands of Allied “71”), another troops were forced to retreat to teenage helper. These events on the French port town’s beaches Dawson’s boat occur over one along the English Channel after day. The story in the air occurs suffering horrendous casualties only over one hour and revolves to the Germans. Its British around three RAF pilots as they perspective is a refreshing provide air support during the take on the war genre and an evacuation. By creating three obvious reminder that World perspectives, Nolan leaves us War II was being fought years anxiously awaiting to discover before American involvement. how each story connects with “Dunkirk” does not shy away the other. from the overarching sense of Along with Rylance, hopelessness and defeat Allied “Dunkirk” boasts some of forces felt in the earliest years today’s top actors. Tom Hardy of the War, and the entire movie (“Mad Max: Fury Road”) stars focuses on the effort to evacuate as Farrier, a heroic RAF pilot, the thousands of stranded and even though his dialogue British troopsx. is nearly indistinguishable “Dunkirk” is split into three over the noise of the plane, his WILL STEWART

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performance is still, somehow, compelling. And as much as it pains me to say, even Harry Styles’s performance as Alex, a British soldier, is solid. However, the characters are never the movie’s focal point: Nolan uses them simply as buffers to tell the story, characterizing them enough to still be interesting, though never diving too deep into their personal lives. We grow to care about the main characters, like Mr. Dawson and Tommy, but never get distracted from the underlying tension that builds throughout the movie.

Nolan’s screenplay sticks out as the movie’s strongest point, even considering the visceral practical effects and stunning cinematography. There isn’t one scene that feels superf luous: It’s Nolan’s tightest and most concise story to date. In many ways, “Dunkirk” could have no dialogue and still be equally gripping. We care about the characters, but what they have to say is of little importance.

Instead, we care about what happens to them, and this lends itself to some heartbreaking moments. Ultimately, the movie is a slowburner — tension continuously builds until it boils over — but it doesn’t have a dull second. Even from the opening scene, where Tommy avoids enemy fire, every bit of action enthralls.

From watching a massive boat sink into the ocean to a dogfight between two airplanes, “Dunkirk”’s action sequences are stunning yet haunting. It shows the horrors of war without needing to be excessively gory. Some of the most vivid imagery comes from scenes where no explosions are occurring, and Hans Zimmer’s score only adds more depth to the underlying tension.

Nolan pioneered the superhero subgenre with his “Batman” trilog y with no prior experience in this genre beforehand. And now, “Dunkirk” is as equally innovative for the modern war movie. Nolan is frequently talked about as a visionary genius, one of modern cinema’s most inf luential directors: I now completely agree with this assessment.

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Lana Del Rey and The Weeknd standing confidently

Lana finds ‘Lust’

exploration of genre and tone in addition to one of Del Rey’s psyche.

Online Arts Editor Lust for Life holds itself together across a varied production of Lana Del Rey — originally one of trap drums and folk strings by pop music’s most debated figures — blurring lyrical lines instead of has created a lane of her own after instrumentals, carrying phrases five studio releases in just as many and images across the album (She years. Following a rocky outset with rhymes “summer” and “bummer” nearly spiteful reviews of her debut in the opening lines of “White Born To Die, Del Rey has steadily Mustang,” endless references to released ever-evolving work: each beaches outside of “13 Beaches” and consecutive project adding to she even slides in “It’s more than just her catalogue like a new book in a video game” on “Beautiful People, a series, each one unmistakably Beautiful Problems”). written by the same author and Lana’s unshakeable selftold through the same protagonist’s awareness is the cornerstone of this eyes, swapping out plot points for record; it not only allows her to troll production techniques. the audience with meta-hipster Born To Die’s trip-hop, lyrics delivered with a wink and a Ultraviolence’s brooding rock smile, but it also allows her to shift and Honeymoon’s baroque jazz her perspective into the very real are singular in their productions, Trump-era, talk about her hope for but they approach life from the the future and confront both the same place: mourning the past, demons and the men she’s toyed sulking in the present or altogether with for the past four releases. dreaming up an alternate reality.

Lust for Life is full of firsts for One of Del Rey’s greatest strengths Del Rey. It’s the first time she’s as a storyteller and approached vocalist is her ability to unadulterated joy Lust for Life blur the line between and expressed Lana Del Rey biography and fantasy hope for the future so flawlessly that (“Love,” “Lust for Interscope Records listeners are forced to Life,” “Change”). take all or none.

It’s the first time Lust for Life is Del Rey’s longest, she has had features on her own most diverse album. Though it albums, perfectly representing incorporates production techniques the genres from which she pulls from all of her previous releases, inspiration (The Weeknd, Playboi Lust for Life seems like a direct Carti and A$AP Rocky) and the follow-up to Born to Die. Aside from iconography she has always called the obvious title dynamics, the on (Stevie Nicks and Sean Ono albums’ covers parallel one another Lennon). with Del Rey standing in the center, ”Who’s tougher than this bitch? / title above head, name below, with Who’s freer than me?” she breathes a pick-up truck behind her. One on “In My Feelings,” one of Lust For key difference: She smiles on Lust Life’s standout tracks. For the last for Life, a first for any of her album five years, Del Rey has pretty much covers. done what she wants when she As a whole, Lust for Life isn’t wants and that has yet to fail her — as striking as Ultraviolence or Lust for Life is a worthy addition to Honeymoon because it’s not an her stacked catalogue.

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Frank at FYF fest SALVATORE DIGIOIA Daily Arts Editor

Los Angeles, CA — As evening turned to night on Sat., July 22, a sense of awe set into the crowd at FYF Festival, with some attendees still seemingly in disbelief that Frank Ocean — who had cancelled on the same gig just two years prior, plus a few others earlier this summer — was going to perform at all. Though I had seen him live once before, this neither minimized the mystery nor lessened my excitement as I stood packed against thousands of sweaty strangers, calves and heels splintering from a full day of standing, awaiting Mr. Ocean’s starry-skied summer set. Despite his act’s fabled status and alreadyvisible staging (a long catwalk teased its expansion deep into the crowd), little else was known of what would come from the cultish crooner, who had not perfromed for a North American audience in nearly five years.

Frank Ocean is prone to silence and public exile. In 2012, just as his internet hype began flowering into real breakout stardom via the success of his studio debut, Channel Orange, he paused his career to go soul-searching in Shanghai, telling The New York Times of his plans to write “in remote locations” for about two years. This patient process would later inform his stunning sophomore LP blond with piercingly potent emotion, earning it wide acclaim and confirming Ocean’s status as the hyper-coveted — yet guarded, often distant — songwriter of the current decade. With FYF Festival offering the first chance to see his new material performed in America, the anticipation was nearly fervent.

At 11:00 PM, Ocean walked onstage with the poise of a seasoned pastor, complete with noisecancelling headphones and a Nike t-shirt — a vintage collaboration made with John Lennon and bearing the phrase: “INSTANT KARMA.” Surely there was some irony in his choice to come out to “Pretty Sweet,” a chaotic collage of strings and sound effects that almost intentionally misaligned with the serenity of the rest of the set. But a purer paradox came just moments later, when Ocean was joined by the roaring masses, right from the very first syllable, in the recitation of his chilling ode to independence, “Solo.”

“Hand me a towel, I’m dirty dancing!”

Ocean sang, standing plainly at the foot of his stage, rocking an almost indifferent calm. The stage featured a set of chairs (built in Tom Sach’s studio), which would later be occupied by an orchestral backing, an inanimate pile of boomboxes and some instruments, together leaving just enough room for Ocean to roam at the lip. In the background, closeups of his face and artistic portraits of the performance were displayed on stadium-sized screens, looking something like a concert film made live. Together, it all worked to create a feeling of being there, right in the studio with Frank.

“My guy pretty like a girl!”

“Chanel” was next on the setlist, the first of three singles recently released on Frank’s Blonded radio show, and the intensity with which the crowd — even its heterosexual males — screamed out the lyrics is a true testament to their captivation.

Afterward, Ocean thanked fans for their participation and promised, “We gon’ get to some other shit in a second.” Not quite yet, though: Before moving on, Ocean would perform “Lens” and “Biking (Solo),” two other newer singles, plus “In Here Somewhere / Comme Des Garcon,” a bouncy track off his slepton visual album, Endless.

When Ocean did finally arrive at blond though, what proceeded was a truly breathtaking exercise in patience and musical expertise.

Kneeling down to play a keyboard from the floor, he performed an extended rendition of “Good Guy” twice because he believed that he messed up the first one, hitting high notes that felt truly spiritual while simultaneously employing the song’s empty spaces, their silences proving contagious. Then, he dove into a similarly extended cut of “Self Control,” rapping over its heartwrenching guitar riff for nearly a minute (with lines like, “Bounce remixes of Aaliyah had the spinal chord crackin’ / Cups of ‘methazine had ‘em leaning like Michael Jackson”) before finally arriving at the song’s beloved intro (“Poolside convos, about your summer last night”), which naturally invited the crowd to chime in in full force.

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Columbia Records Tyler, the Creator awkwardly gazing

Tyler gets serious SHAYAN SHAFII Daily Arts Writer

What’s coming of age really about, anyway? Is it when you finally actualize that vision of “cool” you’ve had since you were 13? Is it supposed to happen right when you turn old enough to rent a car? Or maybe it’s when you realize that the only person thinking critically about your life is you.

It’s no secret that most of the conversations surrounding Tyler, the Creator’s latest effort, Flower Boy (unofficially Scum Fuck Flower Boy, which is obviously way cooler), have been around his apparent “coming out.” As in, he likes guys.

Despite Tyler’s long history of homophobia, he’s hinted (or even been quite explicit about) his orientation for a while now.

Over two years ago, Ernest Baker wrote a classic profile on Tyler for Rolling Stone magazine where he might have been the first to ask the question, but Tyler’s public demeanor is so hilariously blunt that it’s often hard to take him seriously.

Tyler wants us to take him seriously now. No more Hopsinesque album cuts that feel like deadpan parodies of (sigh) New Rap, or bullshit “I’m a rapper that doesn’t listen to rap music” music. Instead of hiding behind absurdist humor or his Cool New Friends (see: “Smuckers”), Tyler fleshes out a lot of his musical influences into something he can call uniquely his own, while also growing the courage to say “serious things,” well, seriously.

Flower Boy is also masterfully sequenced. Some of Tyler’s earlier projects were so scattered that it almost exaggerated runtime, where this album just seems to melt away,

like the car rides and afternoons that surely inspired it. “Where This Flower Blooms” sees Frank ghost in and out with a classically unbothered hook before you even know it. Tyler raps about various skin-care treatments and smelling like Chanel. He’s also found a way to integrate acoustic elements without sounding like some sort of Mac Demarco tribute.

On “Sometimes…,” a gorgeous interlude placed on the album solely to set the “Route 66” mise-en-scène, a “Golf Radio” broadcaster angrily asks for a song request; quite tellingly, “the song about me” comes from the voice of a boy. What follows is probably the song that Tyler has been gunning for his entire career.

Flower Boy Tyler, the Creator Columbia Records “See You Again” has the bounce of Neptunes-era Pharrell, mixed with arrangements from Late Registration-era ‘Ye, and finally, the same keyboard setting Tyler has been using since his bedroom production days on Bastard. Kali Uchis sounds like the vocalist Tyler has been searching for since “Treehome 95,” and really, she’s tailored for the flowery soundscapes of the album.

The song is also probably the first time we hear Tyler seriously flow behind the mic; I can think of one Harlem Pretty Boy who’s probably responsible for this. That “Glitter” twists and turns so uncontrollably, and yet Tyler matches it beat for beat, is definitely a sign that he’s been

working on his pen game.

Speaking of Rocky, the latter half of “Glitter” even has Tyler screwing his own voice down as if this were some sort of UGK record. It’s hard to listen without seeing him dance in specifically green high water pants and whatever shoe he’s been working on. It’s the perfect Tyler song.

Wolf and Cherry Bomb also had these spurts of brilliance, but were diluted by Tyler’s willingness to piss on his own albums. Flower Boy is the first time he really indulges in his natural talents and quits trying to recreate N.E.R.D’s In Search Of… intro. The only bad patch of the album is a track that Tyler actually thought would be a good lead single; “Who Dat Boy” is another song about Tyler not shopping at the mall, with wonky percussion that was probably played with his fists. It’s a waste of a Rocky feature, as I’m sure they had at least 10 tracks together that would have been a better fit.

“November” has a synth line that almost slithers from start to finish, etching an outline for Tyler to release his manic thoughts all at once. “What if Clancy fucked me over? / What if ‘Who Dat Boy’ is rhetorical and this shit is over? / What if I’m hustling backwards?

What if my accountant ain’t payin’ my taxes? / Fillin’ his pockets and IRS show up asking me questions.”

The track is a tribute to those times where every hour is the “magic hour” — those times you get nostalgic for when your favorite song from 8th grade pops up on shuffle.

“Take me back...” goes the bridge.

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Animal rights activists trot out deer to oppose cull

By CHETALI JAIN Summer Daily News Editor

In 2014, the city of Ann Arbor was inundated with complaints from residents who were concerned about the growing deer population.

Their grievances, which included

landscaping damage and deervehicle collisions, prompted the city to vote to handle the situation with four years of culling.

The Ann Arbor Non-Lethal Deer Management — an organization of residents who are concerned with the well-being of the deer population

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in the area — held a special event Sunday afternoon at the Creature Conservancy where attendees could learn of ways to protect the lives of the cervine wildlife from the culling and interact with live deer.

Lorraine Shapiro, president of the Ann Arbor Non-Lethal Deer

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Management, explained that the white-tailed deer are losing their habitats in the city and are being crowded out due to developments and urban sprawl. Shapiro believed that sterilization of the animals is a more ethical way to manage the deer without ending their lives.

“I feel it is inhumane to kill animals who are completely innocent,” Shapiro said. “They’re being punished for living basically. This past winter, we were able to have the city agree to a plan where they would do culling and deer sterilization.”

The non-lethal surgical sterilization method, a procedure in which the deer’s ovaries are removed, turned out to be quite successful as an addition to the 2017 deer management efforts: 54 deer were sterilized in a week, and all, with the exception of one deer who perished due to non-surgical related reasons, survived and returned to the wild.

Non-lethal methods of population management, such as sterilization, face many barriers, however.

Though the operation is almost 100 percent successful and relatively quick, lasting only about 20 minutes, the deer must be given painkillers and antibiotics, and they must be monitored before being released back into the wild, according to a PowerPoint presentation given at the event. Thus, the price to sterilize a deer is around $1,200. By comparison, it costs approximately $450 to shoot a deer.

The group acknowledged the financial burden posed by more humane efforts and emphasized that one of their goals is to minimize the role of culling by offsetting the cost of nonlethal routes. This past winter, they contributed over $12,000 to the city of Ann Arbor to help fund the ovariectomies.

Despite the financial assistance and support of many animal activists, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources permitted the surgeries to take place with a stipulation: the ovariectomies had to be done in the context of a research project.

According to the group’s treasurer, Sabra Sanzotta, this non-lethal method of deer management was not acceptable to the city unless there was another reason for doing so — in this case, scientific studies.

“What we hope to do is find ways to make those sterilizations more acceptable and more widely applicable, and they don’t always have to be done under research prefaces,” Sanzotta said. “(We hope) to promote

birth control methods, as well.”

One of the birth control methods Sanzotta referred to is PZP, a vaccine that, when administered to a female animal, causes antibodies to form that prevent fertilization from occurring in that creature.

Numerous roadblocks have prevented this non-lethal avenue from being explored in the Ann Arbor deer management efforts. The contraceptive was recently licensed by the Environmental Protection Agency to help control wildlife populations, but because it is still classified as a pesticide, many harbor opposition towards its usage. Shapiro expressed hope that its usage would become widespread and widely accepted in coming years.

Leaders from the Ann Arbor Non-Lethal Deer Management organization also outlined ways for volunteers to make a difference and aid efforts to protect the lives of the deer in Ann Arbor.

Beatrice Friedlander, president of the Board of Directors of Attorneys for Animals — a nonprofit organization of legal professionals who advocate for animal rights — attended the event to lend her support and meet the deer. Friedlander, a retired lawyer, said it is important to be practical in the realm of animal advocacy and to avoid dogmatism.

“Compromise (becomes) a bad word,” Friedlander said. “While it is important that we maintain our standards and ethics… it’s important to live in the real world and work with others. I’ve been involved in animal issues for 25 to 30 years…I had a dog (in law school) and I developed such a strong relationship with her; I think that made me realize how important animals were and how mistreated they were.”

Though residential complaints brought the matter to the city’s attention and sparked the culling practice back in 2015, there were many residents who morally opposed the killing and the trouble it posed. In 2016, many Ann Arbor parks were shut down to accommodate the culling efforts, to the dismay of residents who questioned the ethics of the cull and the inconvenience of closed parks. Sixty-three deer were euthanized that year.

“We decided to take a pragmatic approach,” Shapiro said. “We can save a bunch of deer through sterilization. Maybe we have to put up with culling at the moment.”

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Immigant Sangreet

By SAMIHA MATIN Michigan in Color Contributor

The taxi driver asks where I’m from I reply Bangladesh And he finds comfort in it somehow.

He doesn’t say my English is good Or why am I here? in a curious tone that fringes on people’s privacy. I am a little thankful.

He tells me he’s from Nigeria. He asks whether I like the Michigan cold.

I say, I do, I’ve gotten used to it. Like I’ve gotten used to feeling my accent twist and shift diving into a word-drenched river of cleansing and good fortune.

He tells me his brother lives in California, always hoping he’d come.

But he hates the blinding desert heat reminding of home, Abuja rooted in melancholic pulchritude – the motherlands we hate, escaped and love beyond compare.

We start to reminisce about the corruption and politicians our cataclysmic survivals in sailing humor And we feel proud and then tragic When we acknowledge The nostalgic lonely nobody expects us to be and he says things might have been better if he hadn’t uprooted then he shrugs no, it wouldn’t have been there’s an inkling of promise here and he’d be home in some years the pendulum always intrigued me. initially, it was nothing more than a small metal ball that we swung from one end to another. we measured the time it took to travel back to where it started, the pendulum reaching the highest height at the first push. equipped with so much force to defy gravity. it soared fearlessly against air drag, curving a trajectory to touch the sun. after the first travel, the pendulum never came back home. it could no longer reach its amplitude. it started to lose its voluntarism. its sense of pur pose and direction. its velocity was taken away. the pendulum stayed in a state of stasis in the equilibrium. weightless. stationary. forceless.

MiC Spotlight: Managing Editors

By JASON ROWLAND and ASHLEY TJHUNG Michigan in Color Managing Editors

In the MiC Spotlight series, our editors and contributors reflect on the reasons they joined MiC and their hopes for their work and the section.

The stories we tell are so important because they bridge people from completely different backgrounds and interests. In a few words, I joined Michigan in Color for the chance to mold a space for the stories of our campus’s most marginalized voices.

Hopefully, MiC will lead to more understanding on our campus, but the first step in fostering tolerance is simply having our stories be told.

As for me, I’m a second-year student majoring in organizational studies. For the past few years, I’ve been heavily active with nonprofits in the predominantly low-income, and majority-minority, city of Norristown, Penn. From these experiences, I’ve learned that minimum wage is more than just a point on a graph, prejudice and its effects exist outside of history books, and unequal

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access to opportunity can lock the most loving families in a vicious cycle of poverty. Additionally, I realize that these issues of debt, poverty and discrimination are not just local ones. These are problems that affect every corner of the world, and, as such, these are issues that are not going away anytime soon.

While as a student I can’t single-handedly fix the problems outlined above, I can do my part to relay the lessons I’ve learned from my experiences — as well as help craft a section for others to share their own. Hopefully, readers from similar backgrounds can relate to these stories, while people who are radically different can still use our testimonies to educate themselves about situations of institutional inequality. However, at the very least, I’m excited to give a voice to the people who have historically been silenced.

-Jason Rowland One year ago, when I first began my journey at MiC, I wrote about being excited to facilitate a space for people of color to share their experiences and to provide support for those brave enough to share their stories. While these are still major reasons why I returned to MiC as a co-managing editor, I can’t help but think about how much this section has grown,

and the huge potential still here. Thanks to the amazing dedication and hard work of previous editors before me, MiC has grown from a single column to a true section at the Daily while also continuing to be solely produced by people of color. For me, returning to MiC is to pay homage to Toni Wang, Demario Longmire, Alyssa Brandon, Sabrina Bilimoria and all the past editors who worked to create such a unique space for PoC on this campus.

As the University of Michigan celebrates its bicentennial, it is important to reflect on the history of racial relations here, the strides which have been made, and the work that still needs to be done. MiC is a testament to the strength of the PoC who fought for the right to attend this university, and those who continue to fight for the right to belong and be supported. MiC exists for many reasons, above all to provide support to oppressed voices, but as the section evolves it’s evident we have also become a check on those who wish to silence us. We, as a community of contributors, readers and editors, are a powerful force.

The University is turning 200, and we will not let them exclude us from the narrative.

MiC is loud and only getting louder.

-Ashley Tjhung

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Michigan announces hiring of Fetter as new pitching coach JACOB SHAMES

Summer Managing Sports Editor

The Michigan baseball team had the top pitching staff in the Big Ten during 2017, in terms of runs allowed, earned-run average, strikeouts and opponents’ batting average.

However, one of the people most responsible for that success — pitching coach Sean Kenny — left after the season to take the same position at Georgia.

Kenny’s replacement was announced Monday in Chris Fetter, a former Wolverine hurler who most recently was the minor league pitching coordinator for MLB’s Los Angeles Dodgers, a job he took last November.

Fetter played four seasons at Michigan as a right-handed pitcher from 2006-2009, during which the Wolverines won three Big Ten championships and made four NCAA Tournament appearances.

He was named an All-American his junior season after he went 10-2 with a 2.47 ERA, and won All-Big Ten Honors three times as well.

To this day, Fetter holds program records for most innings pitched with 332.1, and also ranks third in wins (28), fifth in strikeouts (281) and eighth in ERA (3.11, minimum 150 innings).

After the San Diego Padres selected Fetter in the ninth round of the 2009 MLB Draft, he spent four seasons in their minor league system, but never advanced farther than Single-A baseball.

Once his playing career was over, Fetter remained in professional baseball. He joined the coaching staff of the San Diego Missions, the Padres’ Double-A affiliate, for the 2013 season, and also spent three years as a scout for the Los Angeles Angels.

Fetter returned to the collegiate ranks in 2016 when he became the pitching coach at Ball State,

reuniting with his former head coach at Michigan, Rich Maloney, who currently coaches the Cardinals. Under Fetter’s guidance, Ball State went 33-26 in 2016 and recorded the second-best team ERA in the Mid-American conference.

“His professional background combined with his loyalty and love for Michigan made Chris an obvious target from the start,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich in a press release. “He had an incredible Wolverine career as an All-American, three-time Big Ten champion, made four straight regional appearances and played in one super regional. Chris returning to Michigan to be our pitching coach further solidifies an extremely bright future for our program as we build on the championship success he experienced as a player while developing top professional prospects.”

While the Wolverines’ pitching staff was mostly dominant

this season, Fetter will have a challenging task on his hands, as Michigan will have to replace 59 percent of its innings and 62 percent of its strikeouts from 2017. Three of the Wolverines’ top four starters — Oliver Jaskie, Ryan Nutof and Michael Hendrickson — are now in professional baseball after being selected in last month’s MLB Draft, and their top two relievers — Mac Lozer, who plays professionally, and Jackson Lamb, who retired — are gone as well.

However, Michigan still has the potential for a strong staff in 2018 behind right-hander Alec Rennard (6-2, 4.43 ERA, 65 strikeouts in 65 innings), left-hander William Tribucher (2.63 ERA, 43 strikeouts in 37 innings) and right-hander Jayce Vancena (3-1, 3.00 ERA, .220 opponents’ average). As freshmen, Tommy Henry, Karl Kauffman and Jack Weisenburger made an immediate impact out of the bullpen, combining for a 2.88 ERA

and 55 strikeouts in 50 innings, and all three could be in line for larger roles this season. The Wolverines also bring in two freshman pitchers — Jeff Criswell and Angelo Smith — who were selected in the MLB Draft.

The success that Michigan has had in developing pitchers under Kenny — the Wolverines have had nine pitchers go on to play professionally in the last five years — is something that Fetter will surely hope to continue.

“My wife, Jessica, and I couldn’t be more excited to return home to Michigan,” Fetter said in a statement. “This university holds a special place in my heart, and to be able to come back and join Coach Bakich’s staff is a dream come true.

The culture Erik has created and his vision for the future is beyond impressive, and I look forward to rejoining the Michigan baseball family and leading the pitching staff for years to come.”

Wagner, Germany finish seventh at FIBA U-20 World Championships JACOB SHAMES

Summer Managing Sports Editor

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Moritz Wagner led Germany in scoring and rebounding at the FIBA U-20 Championship.

Last year, Moritz Wagner passed on the opportunity to represent his native Germany in the 2016 FIBA U-20 European Championship.

Instead, he chose to spend the summer in Ann Arbor to continue to develop as a college basketball player, working with strength and conditioning coach Jon Sanderson to get bigger and stronger.

That decision paid dividends during his sophomore season with the Michigan men’s basketball team.

Wagner averaged 12.1 points and 4.2 rebounds per game and shot 39.5 percent from three-point range and 56 percent overall.

He garnered first-round NBA Draft consideration as a versatile 6-foot-11 forward with a smooth shooting stroke, but opted instead to return to school for his junior year.

This summer, a more polished and developed Wagner returned

to Germany to compete for his country at the U-20 European Championship, which took place in Greece from July 15-23.

He helped lead Germany to a seventh-place finish in the 16-team tournament, leading the team in scoring (16.1 per game) and rebounding (5.3 per game).

Amongst all players, Wagner tied for 11th in scoring and shooting percentage and fifth in free-throw shooting in just over 20 minutes per game.

Wagner’s tournament was highlighted by a dominant 32-point performance on 12-for19 shooting against Iceland in the tournament’s seventh-place game Sunday, which Germany won, 79-73. With 6:15 to play in the third quarter and Germany trailing, 48-41, Wagner took over the contest in the span of a minute and a half, scoring 10 straight points to give his team the lead for good.

The Berlin native had a shaky start to the tournament, averaging just eight points per game in the group stage. In a

loss to Sweden in the opening game, he scored just six points on 2-for-13 shooting. But Wagner rebounded to record five straight double-digit scoring outings in which he averaged 19.8 points.

In a Round of 16 win over Turkey, Wagner put up 23 points on 8-for-14 shooting. He scored seven points in the final period, including a key alley-oop dunk with 28 seconds to play to put Germany up by four points.

Wagner also scored 23 points in a semifinal loss to Lithuania.

Wagner will certainly hope to carry the momentum and experience from his strong performance in international play into his junior season with the Wolverines, as they attempt to reload after the departures of Derrick Walton Jr., Zak Irvin and DJ Wilson. Wagner showed at the U-20 Championship that he can be the focal point for his team, and as Michigan’s top returning scorer and rebounder from last season, he may be expected to fill that role next season.

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Peters, O’Korn pushing Speight Bitter ending to last year for starting quarterback job lingers for Wolverines FOOTBALL

ORION SANG

Senior Sports Editor

CHICAGO — To say the end of last season was bitter for Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan football team would be an understatement.

Through the first nine games, the Wolverines were undefeated and ranked second in the nation, poised to make an appearance in the playoffs in just Harbaugh’s second year. That, after all, was the expectation for a senior-laden team that ended the previous year with a 41-7 thrashing of Florida.

Everything, it seemed, was going according to plan. And then it all fell apart.

Michigan lost three of its last four games, most painful of which was against their biggest rival.

A playoff bid that had once been in plain sight quickly disappeared as the Wolverines coughed up a late lead on the road against Ohio State.

That final, devastating stretch has lingered throughout the offseason. A trip to Rome — which Harbaugh said was the best thing he’s ever done as part of a football team — didn’t mask the stink of last year’s finish, either.

“I hope (it’s driven this team) a lot,” Harbaugh said Tuesday at Big Ten Media Day. “I know it has a lot of us.

Myself included. Lost three out of the last four games. Okay, good. Maybe that will motivate us to put more into it. Coach better. Play better. Train harder.

Put more of our heart into each and every one of those ball games.”

Michigan breaks for camp next Monday with a drastically different team in place. Gone are

the All-Americans and award winners of yesteryear. Their replacements will be youthful and inexperienced.

Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither is a championshipwinning football team. But that’s the expectation and goal that Michigan has entering this year, and it doesn’t have to look far to find a team to emulate.

Ohio State began last season as the youngest team in all of college football.

Michigan will follow suit this fall, and if the Wolverines hope to have the same success the Buckeyes did last year, they’ll need their younger guys to step up. The talent is there, considering Michigan signed two consecutive top-five recruiting classes. It’ll be up to the staff to coax it out and avoid too many growing pains along the way.

“I feel good about the team,” Harbaugh said. “To start with, our second-newest guys, which is our freshmen that came at the mid-year, the ten that have really f lourished and did exceedingly good in spring practice, and which makes me think that the newest guys that arrived on campus, 19 true incoming freshmen, because the ten did so well I think these 19 are going to do just as well because they were the same type of good players in high school that the 10 were.”

But Harbaugh’s considerable excitement about his freshman class may even be trumped by his hopes for his sophomores, many of whom saw the field last year.

“And then the third newest, the freshmen that are going to be sophomores this year, I’m very excited for them,” Harbaugh said. “... All the youngsters in See FOOTBALL, Page 12

Everything was going according to plan. And then it fell apart.

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Wilton Speight will have to battle John O’Korn and Brandon Peters to be Michigan’s starting quarterback in 2017.

ORION SANG

Senior Sports Editor

CHICAGO — Wilton Speight began and ended last season as the starting quarterback of the Michigan football team. And, objectively speaking, it was a pretty damn good debut.

Speight, now a redshirt junior, threw for 2,538 yards and completed 62 percent of his passes, with 18 touchdowns and 7 interceptions. Jim Harbaugh said at Big Ten Media Days that he wants a quarterback who can move the ball down the field, score touchdowns and avoid turnovers — which Speight was able to do much of the time he was on the field.

None of that, however, guarantees that Speight will be this year’s starting quarterback, especially with a coach who constantly preaches the virtue of meritocracy.

“Yes, so Wilton’s in a good spot,” Harbaugh said Tuesday.

“He comes in really tied for first with John O’Korn and Brandon Peters, legitimately, through competition, throughout all the spring, went through 15 practices and was in a dead heat. But the good news is they all did some things that really -- Brandon really shot up. John O’Korn really played consistently good. And Wilton

really had some impressive moments as well.

“We’ll go through training camp starting on Monday, just throw the balls out there and let the fellows compete. There’s a lot a quarterback can do over the summer to get better at playing quarterback. It’s one of those positions, like a kicker. A quarterback can just go out there and throw balls on the net, can work on their drops. There’s a lot of ways that they don’t even need other players to be out there to improve some part of their skill game.”

While Speight is the incumbent and has an entire season as the starter to work off of, both Peters and O’Korn have f lashed their potential plenty of times. O’Korn is more experienced, having served as the starting quarterback for a high-powered Houston offense before transferring to Michigan in 2015. With an injured Speight on the sidelines, O’Korn started against Indiana, competing 7-of-16 passes for 59 yards and adding a crucial 30-yard run that helped the Wolverines pull away.

Peters, meanwhile, redshirted his freshman season before emerging in the competition in spring. He had the best performance among all quarterbacks in Michigan’s

spring game, completing 9-of17 passes for 160 yards with one touchdown and interception each. He displayed his mobility, as well, as he got out of the pocket at times and added a 12-yard rushing touchdown.

The biggest area for Peters to improve? His vocality, according to Harbaugh.

“He’s got a personality that’s very quiet. … He’s kind of real quiet,” Harbaugh said. “There’s one thing that’s easy to do as a quarterback, just take charge.

Be loud, and that doesn’t come natural to him. Just take charge, you know? Be loud. It’s really easy. Huhhhhhhhh! Be loud. Blue 80! Blue 80! That’s the easiest thing about being a quarterback to me. Just be louder, Brandon.

Please.

“But he’s coming out of it.

Those stadiums are very loud, and there’s a lot of people in them. But he elevated his game over the spring.”

Fall camp begins next Monday, and Harbaugh anticipates it’ll take one to two weeks to resolve the competition between Speight, Peters and O’Korn. “(It’ll) probably take about anywhere from eight to 15 practices to figure that out,” Harbaugh said. “Historically that’s what it usually takes. But we’re looking forward to it.

Mostly in a good spot.”

“Put more of our heart into every one of those games.”

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FOOTBALL From Page 11 that class, very excited about them because everything they’re doing now they’ve already done, they’re doing for a second time.

“And the amount of growth that you can have from doing something for the first time and then doing it the next time or the second time, can be the biggest leap they have their entire college year, going from freshman year to sophomore year. Excited for that class.”

The foundation of the team, though, will still be built on Harbaugh’s fourth and fifthyear players — players such as Chase Winovich, Maurice Hurst, Wilton Speight, Mike McCray, Bryan Mone and Mason Cole, all of whom experienced the many highs and lows of last

season.

And they, like Harbaugh, still have a bitter taste in their mouths from last year’s ending. “... Those g uys in particular that were in games last year, they were there when we won nine straight games and everybody is high-fiving in the locker room after the game,” Harbaugh said.

“And they were also there when we lost three out of our last four games, two by one point and another game by three points in overtime. They know what it feels like. And they like the feeling of the high-fiving better than the other.

“And I feel like, okay, good.

They’ve seen that. And maybe that’s going to motivate them even more this year, give them more reason to put all their talent and pour their whole heart into everything that they’re doing.”

Gary, Hurst look to handle the hype The pair of defensive linemen could be in line for breakthrough seasons as they lead a unit that graduated four senior starters

“They’ve seen that. And maybe that’s going to motivate them”

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Defensive end Rashan Gary (3) is expected to make a big impact on Michigan’s defensive line this season.

ORION SANG

Senior Sports Editor

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Jim Harbaugh hopes that last year’s finish will motivate the Michigan football team.

CHICAGO — The Michigan football team featured a fearsome defensive line last season that racked up 30 sacks and helped to anchor one of the nation’s top defenses.

Much of that production is gone to the NFL this year. Chris Wormley, Ryan Glasgow and Taco Charlton — three of the four starters — were drafted this past spring, while Matt Godin, who started 12 games at three-technique defensive tackle, graduated.

The Wolverines, though, bring back several contributors — chief among them sophomore end Rashan Gary and fifth-year senior tackle Maurice Hurst.

Gary, formerly the nation’s top recruit, is expected to step into Wormley’s ANCHOR spot and Hurst is assumed to be the starter at Godin’s position. Both saw significant playing time last season, with Gary tallying 23 tackles, five tackles-for-loss and 0.5 sacks as a backup. Hurst posted 33 tackles, 11.5 tackles-for-loss and five sacks while splitting time — oftentimes receiving the majority of snaps — with Godin.

Gary has much fewer counting stats compared to his counterpart.

Despite that, he was named one of college football’s top “freaks”

while also landing ahead of Hurst on Sports Illustrated’s list of the nation’s top-100 players, coming in at No. 22 — 49 spots ahead of Hurst.

The Gary hype train, it would appear, has been on the road for quite some time. His coach, though, thinks that the sophomore has done a good job of dealing with all of the attention.

“He’s had a lot of hype. He’s had a lot of adulation. And there’s some people that that’s what they live for. They live for approval of others and to be recognized as a hyped-up player,” Harbaugh said.

“And then there’s other people that they see that hype or that adulation and they go by it like it’s an orange cone on the side of the road. There’s some people that are just aspiring for greater things than just the adulation of somebody.

And I think Rashan is that type of guy. You’d really like him. He really doesn’t care too much about that.

“He’s gone by it like it’s a cone, orange cone on the side of the road.

And he just works and I really think competing is his favorite thing to do.

And he has the ability to be great. I

don’t know what more to say about that.”

Harbaugh fielded a similar question about Hurst, and according to him, the fifth-year senior has done just as well. Both, in Harbaugh’s eyes, have the potential to be great players — and in that process, may help Michigan forget who it lost along the defensive line from last year.

“I think Mo has handled it good. I think it’s been overdue. And maybe Mo feels that way. But I think he’s enjoying that,” Harbaugh said. “I think he’s enjoying that people are appreciating what he does as a football player and what he brings to the football team, even on our own team.

“Our appreciation for him is probably the first, and I think he likes that. And I think that drives him to be even better. I think he’s got a chance to be really good, again.

He’s got the license and the ability to be really great. And we appreciate the heck out of him. And I hope he does like that. I hope he keeps going, because he’s got a chance to be really good.”

“He’s got the license and ability to be really great.”