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Social Work masters students view unpaid field work as unfair

As a part of the Bicentennial celebration, the University of Michigan held the Campus of the Future competition finale at the Power Center on Thursday to celebrate the finalists in the Student Project Showcase competition, held earlier that day at the Duderstadt Center.

The third and final President’s Colloquium looked to the future of campus, turning to students to see what their imaginations saw for the University going into its third century. More than 100 students participated in the competition.

Thirty-four student projects were featured in the competition, with three judges choosing the winner. Kwame

Required field education programs lack paid positions, contribute to financial instability MATT HARMON Daily Staff Reporter

Despite being ranked first in its field for best graduate programs by the U.S. News & World Report earlier this year, a survey conducted last March by Fair Labor Organizing, a subcommittee of

the School of Social Work Student Union, reported 73 percent of 110 Social Work School respondents — more than 25 percent of Social Work students — said they work at least one more job on top of classes and field hours.

Masters of Social Work students say the discrepancy between being ranked as the best social work

program in the country and the large number of students who have to work outside their class schedule is a result of the program’s 912 field placement hours requirement — most of which are often completed through unpaid positions, such as mentorship programs with social workers and public outreach positions.

According to Lisa Raycraft, Social Work School communications and public relations manager, field education positions are a required part of the MSW program. Students complete on average 228 hours of field placement work per term and the School of Social Work’s Office of Field Instruction reports over 550 See SOCIAL WORK, Page 2A

Go Blue Guarantee aims to rebrand Enrollment data shows message of affordability for applicants

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increase in diversity Fall 2017 freshman class also saw a 2.9 percent increase in enrollment KAELA THEUT

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With the January deadline for the implementation of the Go Blue Guarantee free tuition pledge on the horizon, the University of Michigan posted a record number of applicants in figures released Thursday morning. The University also saw increased enrollment of underrepresented minority students and students receiving federal Pell Grants. Overall, campus enrollment increased 2.9 percent from last year to 46,002 students, with 29,821 undergraduates and 16,181 graduate and professional school students.

The University also increased the amount of financial aid provided to undergraduate students by 10.6 percent, totaling $176.7 million. This aid is available to students with family incomes of up to $180,000.

Announced in June, the new Go Blue Guarantee program functions as the administration’s commitment to free tuition for in-state students from families with incomes less than $65,000.

Approximately half of in-state families are expected to qualify.

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The University of Michigan — which, in January of this year, was ranked last in overall social mobility in a report from the Equality of Opportunity Project website — has been aggressively ramping up its efforts to recruit a greater socioeconomic range of students. In June, the University presented its Go Blue Guarantee, which allows any in-state student coming from a family with annual income below the state median of $65,000 to have their tuition completely covered by the University.

Kedra Ishop, vice provost for enrollment management, said even though the Go Blue Guarantee isn’t vastly different from what the University already offers in terms of total aid, one of its major intents was making the message clearer for students.

“One of the premises of the Go Blue Guarantee was to recast our message, in the sense that we have aid available for students at the University of Michigan and we wanted to make sure that the public understands we have that aid available for students at the University of Michigan,” she said.

And, at least in certain underserved communities, the guarantee has had that effect.

Rackham student Richard Nunn advises the student organization PILOT, which runs a project aiming to create meaningful

relationships with new students from underrepresented and marginalized communities.

Earlier this month, Nunn hosted an orientation of high school students from the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and he said the students seemed very responsive to the news of the guarantee.

“For a lot of these students and for (their mentors) as professionals, it really kind of made U of M seem more attractive in some ways, in terms of, ‘Now

we know we can afford to go there,’ “ he said.

Kerstine Bennington, a higher education specialist for and citizen of the tribe, agreed that for many of the students she works with, attending college — especially the University of Michigan — seems unattainable.

“Last semester, I had a lot of high school students who aren’t going to pursue college because they just think that they can’t afford it and they’ll have family members that couldn’t do that in

the past and then go off of their experience and it’s just really hard trying to get through to them,” she said. “You hear ‘university’ and you already think that you can’t afford it. This is coming from students that may not have even done the research, they just assumed — so being able to hear about the opportunity definitely changed their minds.”

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Overall Student Enrollment:

46,002 up 2.9% from last year

Entering freshman between 2013 and 2017 Underrepresented Minorities:

10.6% in 2013 13.8% in 2016 13.9% in 2017

Eligible for Pell Grants:

14.5% in 2013 17% in 2016 15.6% in 2017

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Anthony Appiah, professor of law and philosophy at New York University, Amazon Vice President Babak Parviz and Jenny Sabin, Design and Emerging Technologies assistant professor and director of graduate studies in architecture at Cornell University, selected winners by analyzing their projects on the “Six C’s of Academic Innovation”: Challenge, Creativity and Innovation, Conceptual Development, Coherence, Consistency and Changing Education. $30,000 in prize money was distributed among the top three groups.

University President Mark Schlissel gave the opening address, citing his optimism for the University’s third century and his relief at not having to See BICENTENNIAL, Page 3A

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Prominent journalist talks Trump and media Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold talked 2016 election campaign ALEXA ST JOHN

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Pulitzer-Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold used social media throughout the 2016 presidential election to expose inconsistencies in the claims of now-President Donald Trump.

Trump insisted throughout the campaign he donated money to veterans groups, but upon contacting dozens of organizations — and documenting his finds on Twitter — Fahrenthold revealed there was no evidence to suggest Trump did so.

Fahrenthold was also the first reporter to reveal the “Access Hollywood” video in which Trump was heard bragging about inappropriately grabbing women. For these reports and more, Fahrenthold received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in April.

Fahrenthold came to campus Thursday to discuss these experiences, fake news, social media and the importance of reporting processes in an event sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Wallace House See TRUMP, Page 3A

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FRIDAY’S BICENTENNIAL FEATURE: SPOOKY FESTIVITIES BREW TONIGHT HALLOWEEN SERVES TO FRIGHTEN AND EXCITE Every Friday, The Michigan Daily will be republishing an article from the Daily’s archives from a moment in University history.

October 31, 1990 ­— Ghastly ghouls and spooky sights are sure to attract scary souls tonight.

That is if you’re not too old for Halloween.

Unfortunately for horrificminded but responsible students, Halloween falls on a midweek evening amidst midterm anxiety. As a result, some of the fun has to wait until the weekend.

“Halloween comes at a bad time this year,” said LSA sophomore Jonathon Marx.

“I haven’t even thought of going out, especially since I have a midterm. Besides, most people either celebrated it last weekend or will this weekend.”

Last weekend did not lack activities. East Quad did the “Halloween Thang” and R.O.T.C. sponsored its annual Haunted House before hundreds of scary souls.

In spite of midterms, a multitude of parties have worked their way into students’ calendars this week. Among the Halloween personalities appearing this week are Phantom of the Opera, Medussa and the New Kids on the Block.

Fantasy Attic, a popular costumer in Ann Arbor, is not surprised by their excellent sales this season. Lindsay James, a sales assistant, said “Dick Tracy, Breathless Mahoney and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are the hot in demand this year. Pirates are always a favorite, too.”

Big kids aren’t holding a

monopoly on fun in Ann Arbor this week. Residence halls, such as Mary Markley, East Quad and Stockwell, are taking part in Trick-or-Treating activities for local children. Student residents who signed up are visited by area kids making the candy rounds.

First-year LSA student and East Quad resident Jun Pangilinan is taking part in the festivities. He said “I thought it’d be nice to watch the kids Trick-or-Treating since I’m no longer doing it myself.” His intentions are less than noble, however, as he added, “Besides, I get to keep the candy leftovers.”

Music enthusiasts eagerly await the School of Music’s annual Halloween Concert tonight. The fun is slated to begin at 9 p.m. as the University Philharmonic Orchestra

performs skits and ensembles before a sold-out audience at Hill Auditorium. Free tickets were distributed within two hours of availability weeks ago.

“It should be really fun,” said School of Music sophomore Jennifer Fari Ansel. “Everyone, including some of the audience, comes dressed in costumes.

Some of the sections are coming as a group. I’m excited to see the flutes in their ZZ Top skit.”

Yet, amidst the fun, the environmental concerns of the 1990’s are not forgotten.

LSA senior Elizabeth Steel said “the weirdest costume at East Quad’s Halloween Thang would have to be the guy who came dressed in non-recyclable plastic.”

It must have been a scary sight to behold. ­—LISA SANCHEZ

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Third Century Expo

HAILstorm!

WHAT: The finale of the bicentennial, pavillions and tents with interactive exhibits from all three UMich campuses will showcase the positive impact the University is making on society.

WHO: Bicentennial Office WHEN: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

WHERE: Diag & Ingalls Mall

WHAT: Celebrate the University’s bicentennial with a 3D projection mapping performance on the Rakcham Building, complete with an original music score. Shows will last approximately 15 minutes.

WHO: Bicentennial Office WHEN: 8 p.m., 9 p.m., 10 p.m. & 10:45 p.m.

WHERE: Ingalls Mall

Linguistics Bicentennial Colloquium

National Potato Day

WHAT: Prof. Anne Curzan questions those who promote standard “good” English at the expense of other varieties and examine strategies to overcome miscommunication.

WHO: Department of Linguistics WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Hutchins Hall, Room 250

WHAT: Join the Markley and South Quad Dining halls in celebrating National Potato Day. WHO: Michigan Dining WHEN: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. (South Quad); 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. (Markley) WHERE: South Quad & Mary Markley Hall

SOCIAL WORK From Page 1A field sites primarily in Southeast Michigan help MSW students apply their knowledge learned in the classroom to a real position in their field of interest.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Fair Labor Standards Act outlines six requirements an internship “in the ‘for-profit’ private sector” must meet for a position to be unpaid.

According to these standards, the requirements include: internship positions reflect an educational environment, no immediate employer advantages from said internship work and the internship does not displace employees in favor of unpaid internship labor.

Raycraft said the School of Social Work’s field education requirement meets these six points through the field education’s association with the University, structure around classroom learning, University oversight and credit allocation.

The program also requires agreements Sudoku Syndicationbetween the school, the company and the student to make sure the field education

program stays in line with the U.S. standards for unpaid internships.

Raycraft said this field education requirement is different from an internship in that the programs MSW students are placed in reflect their educational interests, not the workforce needs of the employer sponsoring the position.

“An MSW student has an academic agreement and they’re created for each student individually,” Raycraft said. “It’s giving them the opportunity to apply their knowledge that they’re learning in classes and to gain practical skills, so it’s an extension of the classroom. It’s associated with academic programs, not with the employer … that’s the biggest distinction.”

Both the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Social Work School’s requirements for field placement positions reflect Raycraft’s statement that no field education position should take the place of regular, salaried employees.

However, this is what Social Work student Erica Watson, School of Social Work Student Union vice president and Fair Labor Organizing is claiming often happens. Watson said though the

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Carillon Recital: The Tsar Bell Project

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WHAT: Prof. Tiffany Ng & the Charles Baird Carillon will play pieces on a digital recreation of the Tsar Bell, the largest bell ever cast that broke in 1732, in between HAILstorm! shows.

WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: 5 p.m., 5:45 p.m., 9:15 p.m. & 9:45 p.m.

WHERE: Burton Memorial Tower

WHAT: Kick off Halloweekend at the Union with a scavenger hunt, crafts, face painting, a screening of Sherlock Holmes and buffet.

WHO: Center for Campus Involvement WHEN: 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.

WHERE: Michigan Union

Amfecanerica, or American Mfecane, 1650-1850

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WHAT: Prof. Brandi Hughes will explore the commonalities between Southern African and Eastern North American colonialism and indigenous devlopments.

WHO: LS&A WHEN: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

WHERE: Tisch Hall, Room 1014

WHAT: Student instrumental soloists, dancers, actors and chamber ensembles will perform as part of the bicentennial festivites.

WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Hill Auditorium

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SOCIAL WORK From Page 2A graduate program in the country, paid stipends should be a higher priority.

“We know that, legally, (employers) do not have to pay us,” Watson said. “We think that that is a really low bar and that as the number one school of social work, we should be not just skirting the lowest bar by a hair but rather setting a standard for the field that we should be paying our interns because the work that they do produces value and is worth something other than our experiential learning.”

In July, FLO received over 550

DIVERSITY From Page 1A First-generation students also make up 12.4 percent of the freshman class. A First Generation Student Gateway, replete with a study lounge, meeting area and information hub, opened earlier this month to serve the needs of this student population.

The guarantee and demographic increases come after a report by the Equality of Opportunity Project, which ranked the University last behind other prestigious public colleges in the category of social mobility. One in 100

BICENTENNIAL From Page 1A personally choose the winner due to the high quantity of high quality student projects.

“The University of Michigan’s 200th year has given us this wonderful opportunity to look back on our history with purpose, to examine our impact on society and to consider how our university has continued to evolve,” Schlissel said.

Moderator Jeff Sorensen, director for social innovation and co-founder of optiMize, then announced the five finalists and gave each team leader the opportunity to receive criticism and answer questions from the judges. He also noted the advantages a University of Michigan education gives students.

“A U-M education is all about following your passions and finding your career path and taking an initiative to make a positive impact in society,” Sorensen said. “We have all of that here tonight.”

TRUMP From Page 1A — home of the Knight-Wallace journalism fellows — along with the Communication Studies and English Language and Literature departments and the Ford School of Public Policy.

In a one-on-one interview with The Daily prior to the event, Fahrenthold highlighted the importance of speaking on the University’s campus — a traditionally liberal-leaning campus that voted primarily for democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — about journalistic integrity and distinguishing between fake news and legitimate reporting.

TMD: I want to talk about this relevance to Ann Arbor and the idea of fake news and getting to the student base. We’re a traditionally liberal area and a majority of our students ended up voting for Hillary Clinton, so why is this issue so significant to this campus in particular?

Fahrenthold: I think it’s important for people to understand how do you cover news in the age of Trump. Just because people don’t like Trump doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re that informed about him. I’d rather have people — even people who like him and don’t like him — have them be informed about what he’s doing, what his administration is doing.

Both because it’s better if we’re all informed but also because if you

signatures from current MSW students, Social Work alumni and social workers currently in the field for a petition calling for fair compensation for their field experience requirement.

FLO is claiming the lack of paid positions for their field education work violates the National Association of Social Worker’s Code of Ethics, specifically the Code’s advocacy for basic living conditions and economic values found in Article 6 of the document.

The language differences between “internships” and “field education”, according to Raycraft, are crucial in understanding this division between students and administration. Since the field education positions count for credits in an MSW student’s

semester, these positions are supposed to be completed in the time that students would be in another class without the required field work. In this case, Raycraft said MSW students are not completing internships and therefore are under different requirements that take into account academic credits when designing schedules for the benefit of the student.

“There is a very clear distinction between an internship and field education and the Council on Social Work Education regularly works with the Department of Labor Regulation to make sure social work field education is legal and aligned,” Raycraft said. “It’s very different than an internship … (field education) is about an

academic experience for a student.

It’s not about an employer’s actual operations.”

Raycraft also provided data obtained from the School of Social Work, which found that more than 85 percent of current MSW students receive some form of financial aid. The Social Work School also reports more than 300 scholarships are available for MSW students.

Social Work student Kari Nilsen sees field education and internships in the same light and said even with financial aid, nonpaying positions that are required to graduate will leave students in very large debt crises after graduation.

“We are graduating with a lot of debt and then the available

students at the University are from the top 1 percent of income distribution.

The out-of-state portion of the student body increased by 1 percent. Out-of-state students make up 49.3 percent of the student body, while in-state students comprise 50.6 percent.

The University has shown increased enrollment over five years among underrepresented minorities, first-generation students and low-income students — but the total share of the student body only increased by 0.1 percent since last fall.

Underrepresented minorities constitute 12.8 percent of the undergraduate student body, in

comparison to 22.3 percent of the undergraduate student body at Michigan State University.

In a statement to the University Record, Kedra Ishop, vice provost for enrollment management, noted the gradual increase in minority student enrollment over the past five years. Out of 6,847 freshmen students arriving on campus this fall, 906 underrepresented minorities make up 13.9 percent of the class, an increase from 10.6 percent in 2013.

Broken down by demographics, Black student enrollment in the class of 2022 decreased marginally; Hispanic enrollment increased by close to 1 percent; the Native population doubled to 0.17 percent of the class; and Asian enrollment

dipped by 2.5 percent.

However, Ishop further emphasized the importance of continuing to work toward greater diversity on campus.

“We continue to be committed to, while challenged by, achieving greater racial and ethnic diversity in our student body in our restrictive admissions environment,” she said.

Furthermore, the fall 2017 freshmen class consists of 1,017 students receiving federal Pell Grants — about 15.6 percent of the freshmen class, up from 14.5 percent in the fall 2013 class.

Enrollment grew this fall with a 7.9 percent increase in applicants from the previous year and topping out at 59,886 received applications.

Sabin thanked the participants for their work and for teaching and impressing her with the visions of the future they demonstrated.

“Thank you for bringing these visions to the table,” Sabin said.

“I think that one of the things that I was most impressed by across all of the projects was the level of real collaboration across disciplinary boundaries. That’s not always easy to do.”

The five finalists were: an original massive open online course developed between Education professor Michaela Zint and students to be used as a student-led digital curriculum to analyze climate change, an imagined University campus on Mars, mobile learning labs, a crowd-sourced studying tool and a virtual reality campus.

Business junior Scarlett Ong felt optimistic about continuing her project, the crowd-sourced studying tool called Fathom, and encouraging students to take the leap when it comes to entrepreneurial projects.

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care about politics, you care about policy, just hating Donald Trump doesn’t really change anything and so you have to understand what’s going on within his administration to know where you might have an impact.

TMD: Coming from The Michigan Daily, we have a huge student journalist base here despite not having a journalism school, which is really interesting. What would some advice that you have for student journalists be regarding covering these types of things, especially in this pretty tumultuous climate?

Fahrenthold: I think that it’s important to get beyond … takes, this idea of analysis as journalism. There are some points when analysis is helpful, but I think in a lot of cases it’s easier than reporting and a lot of people fall back on it, especially when covering politics of any kind — campus politics, national politics — it’s easier to fall back on what you think is happening or when you’ve analyzed the situation rather than reporting what’s actually going on.

I think especially in the modern news environment, with so many news sources, what readers want — not only what readers need but what readers want — is news, facts, a better understanding of what’s actually happening.

TMD: Do you have any tips on how to cover events — such as the ones we’ve seen on campus in terms of racist flyering or other incidents like that — in a way that ensures accuracy, speed in terms of breaking news, but also fair representation?

Fahrenthold: The really valuable

GUARANTEE From Page 1A approximately 500 Michigan high schools the Office of Undergraduate Admissions conducts, the University has spent “a significant amount” on digital advertising, Ishop said. This has come in the form of targeting underrepresented communities in the state via Twitter, Facebook and email — and she says it’s been effective so far.

“We know that for emails we’ve sent to prospective in-state students, we’ve had a 43 percent open rate, 20 percent click rate on GBG content — those are good numbers,” she said. “43 and 20 percent, those are good numbers considering how often students open their email.”

And despite ranking last in social mobility earlier this year, the University appears to have made progress in terms of increasing socioeconomic and racial diversity.

The recently released summary of enrollment at the University shows an increase in the percentages of underrepresented minorities, firstgeneration college students and

service that newspapers provide in that situation is to explain more about — I think it’s hard for student journalists who live among other students, and because student journalists are so informed it’s hard to put yourself in the mindset of, what would my reader not know about this? What are the questions my reader would have?

For more of the exclusive interview with David Fahrenthold, watch our video interview.

Lynette Clemetson, director of the Knight-Wallace House, introduced Fahrenthold to a full Mendelssohn Theatre, noting the significance of informing the public of news.

“Even though we work with journalists directly, we also take — as central to our mission — engaging in the public in journalism, demystifying the work of journalism and making sure people understand the vital role that journalism plays in our democracy and the absolute necessity of press freedom,” Clemetson said. “It’s a very important time to get young people engaged in journalism.”

During his talk, Fahrenthold — who has been at the Post for 17 years — discussed the challenges he faced throughout his career in political journalism.

“One of the true handicaps I have as a journalist is I’m an optimist.

This is a huge handicap because it means things always sneak up on me,” Fahrenthold said. “In (the case of Trump), I was prepared for the answer.”

Fahrenthold discussed the lessons he learned while covering

Friday, October 27, 2017— 3A positions that we have are ranging from $30,000 a year maybe up to $45,000 if you find a good paying job, so that discrepancy in debt and salary coming out of a master’s program is really, really difficult,” Nilsen said.

In the district court case O’Connor v. Davis, Bridget O’Connor, a social work major at Marymount College in New York, was required to complete 200 hours of field work in her senior year. She was placed at Rockland, a mental hospital, for her field work position in 1994 and worked with Dr. James Davis under the supervision of Lisa Punzone, a supervisor at the hospital. O’Connor was continually sexually harassed by Davis, who called her “Miss Sexual Harassment” and constantly discussed sexual topics and made sexual jokes at O’Connor. O’Connor reported these actions to Punzone but Punzone did not tell her supervisor, James Wagner, about the sexual harassment allegations until January 1995, and Wagner also took no action.

O’Connor took her case to district court and accused Rockland and New York state of sexual harassment in violation of Title VII Employment Practices. The district court eventually sided with Rockland and New York state, claiming O’Connor was not within the boundaries of Title VII because she was not an employee, but rather completing a field work internship.

In 1997, the U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the district court and set precedent for interns not being considered employees of the firm they are working with.

Social Work student Shelby Andersen-Holt said this court case takes rights from interns, who

students eligible for Pell Grants from the incoming freshman class of 2013 to the incoming class of 2017. Since last year, however, the percentage of underrepresented minorities in the freshman class only increased 0.1 percent and the percentage of students eligible for Pell Grants decreased 1.4 percent.

Still, though, there are other factors hindering racial and socioeconomic diversity at the University left unaddressed by the guarantee. Even with tuition covered, the cost of living in Ann Arbor — which is high and getting higher — can be enough to deter students from coming.

Public Policy junior Drea Somers said she doesn’t fully understand the decision to not include housing costs in the guarantee.

“I think it would be wonderful if the Go Blue Guarantee at least included some kind of dorming or housing situation,” she said.

“Especially if you don’t even live in the metro Detroit area, if you can’t afford tuition, why would you be able to afford housing in Ann Arbor? I always look at them like, ‘Well, why exclude it?’ And I understand that there are financial barriers, but it’s also still a barrier to those students’ education.”

inconsistencies in Trump’s claims of philanthropy, including allowing the public to engage with open reporting, as he did via Twitter.

“Once you’ve taken your reporting as far as it can go under traditional methods as I had, the next step is open your reporting up,” Fahrenthold said. “Stretch your reporting as far as traditional reporting will let you.”

Throughout his experiences investigating the Donald J. Trump Foundation, Fahrenthold said he was able to learn how to create a thread for readers to follow — rather than making them responsible for knowing the context — particularly in changing expectations of news on social media. In a tumultuous time of reporting, Fahrenthold highlighted maintaining perspective.

“The one thing in all of this that I try to keep in mind is I try to adapt my reporting to the era of Trump,” Fahrenthold said. “The thing that I’ve tried to keep of all the time is the idea that we have to reject as journalists this image you get from Trump and Steve Bannon and other people, that we and the media and Donald Trump are at war with one another.”

He also described the significance of news media as speakers of truth and fact.

“The thing that gives us meaning and value is our credibility,” Fahrenthold said.

Following the talk, Fahrenthold took questions from the audience, which was comprised of students from the University and local high schools, faculty and community members. One question, submitted

Ishop pointed out that while the Go Blue Guarantee only concerns tuition, there’s still more financial aid potentially available to students struggling with living costs.

“We also put a great deal of resources, as you think about that zero to $65,000, that packaging, for many of those students is not only just for tuition, but a lot of those students would be receiving aid up to full cost of attendance or close to full cost of attendance,” she said. “Certainly we all understand that there are difficult choices that have to be made — they have to find housing and they’re living that life of having to adjust to somewhat of a wealthy community in Ann Arbor, but we’re certainly providing financial aid to be able to meet the demonstrated need at the cost of living for the University.”

But in addition to those additional financial barriers, being a new student and part of an underrepresented class at a large university can be intimidating.

Graduating from a high school class of 30, Bennington said she experienced that disruption coming to college too, which was why she wanted to arrange the

from Skyline High School students, asked about journalism as a career and journalism education. “(Being a journalist) is a license to follow your curiosity and follow your outrage,” Fahrenthold said.

“The most important education in journalism is to go out and do it.”

Others asked about Fahrenthold’s experience playing a role in the reveal of the Access Hollywood video. One of the challenges Fahrenthold faced was publishing the crude content heard in the video in a print publication. However, he said he didn’t write the story with malicious intent. The story has since become the Washington Post’s most read ever.

“I knew the story was going to be well-read and people were going to be interested in it,” Fahrenthold admitted. “I didn’t write it thinking, ‘I’m going to take out Donald Trump.’ ” Others questioned his methods regarding using Twitter to find sources.

“I have to verify it the way I would verify anything else,” Fahrenthold said. “You can’t give up the gatekeeper role.”

In terms of those who disregard news they don’t agree with as “fake,” Fahrenthold emphasized that evidence, finding underlying tactics to engage different types of viewers in the story and taking advantage of the skills a university can provide will prove valuable in ones career.

“It’s enormously damaging that we have a president and a party who is using the platform of the presidency to say that news he doesn’t like is fake,” Fahrenthold

she says are often completing the same tasks as an employee, without having to pay them. She sees the Social Work School requirement as an internship program and said the number of available positions is being prioritized over asking existing field education positions to pay students for their work, despite the surface description of these positions as a purely educational experience.

“The Field Office is under this huge amount of pressure to find placements for students and a lot of times, what we’ve found and what we’ve heard from other students … the Field Office will prioritize maintaining relationships with placements over the well-being of the individual student because if they lose any of these placements, they are at risk of not being able to make it possible to meet the requirement,” Andersen-Holt said.

Raycraft said the positions aren’t inherently paid because they directly benefit the student’s education and not the employer’s workforce goals. She said these positions take credits out of a student’s course load so they act as a class and an educational experience, something one would never be paid for normally.

“There are internships where you go do it at an accounting firm and you’re there to support that accounting firm’s goals and objectives and to meet some of their objectives where ours (are) academically based,” Raycraft said.

“It’s based on the student’s needs, not on the employer’s needs.”

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orientation for her students at the University.

“Going downstate to a university was culture shock, it was really scary,” she said. “And when we scheduled these kids for this tour, that’s what we were trying to get them acclimated to — the city life, and letting them get that exposure before just jumping into a semester as a freshman, where they’re more likely to drop out because they were just too overwhelmed.”

And it’s more than just culture shock, Nunn said — the University can often make underrepresented students feel invisible and unrecognized.

“The University of Michigan was founded on land given to it, in some ways, by the tribes of Michigan,” he said. “There’s no buildings named for native folks on campus — the C.C. Little debate about, ‘What do we rename C.C. Little?’ Well, we should probably recognize how we were founded in some ways. What does that say to native students, prospective native students about the University of Michigan? And I don’t think it says that we’re being inclusive — even if we’re trying to.”

said. “Our role as journalists is to recognize that people that think that news is fake — we may have one chance to impress them. … We have to think of them as consumers and you have to do things in your stories and your broadcasts to show people why what you do is better and more trustworthy.”

After the event, LSA junior Megan Graham said she felt inspired after hearing about the work Fahrenthold did during the campaign.

“It was really encouraging to hear him talk about his work and all the important events that he’s been able — things about Trump and his campaign — that he’s able to talk about and bring to light,” Graham said. “I would have liked to hear more specific stories about how — specific things that he’s covered — because I thought that was really interesting and it brings everything back to the ground and how this affects our lives and our country as a whole.”

LSA senior Jason Rumsey said hearing Fahrenthold speak was an interesting opportunity to apply what he had learned in his communications classes at the University.

“I’m in the investigative journalism class, the written reporting class, and so coming to an event like this where you actually had to try to use some of the things that we’ve talked about not only in that class but also in other comm classes at the University (and) how he used those to get to a story was a quite interesting thing for me to hear,” Rumsey said.

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Becoming a liberal

have very fond memories are some views that I just of sitting in the living cannot tolerate — including room with my family, white supremacist views, watching Bill homophobic or O’Reilly on the sexist rhetoric or television.

It any other type of was part of my hate speech — I try conservative, to keep an open libertarian and mind when it comes Republican family’s to Republican routine. I quickly or conservative became interested viewpoints.

My in the political experience as a issues Bill O’Reilly political minority EMILY talked about on his in my family has program and wanted HUHMAN helped me become to learn more, more perceptive to believing the information opposing viewpoints.

I’d find would affirm the Political ideologies are conservative viewpoints that often developed as a result surrounded me. of a combination of research The exact opposite and personal experience. My occurred. After researching identities and experiences various issues by reading have largely influenced my countless sources, I realized political views. This is also that my viewpoints aligned true for those whose identities with those of mainstream and experiences shaped their liberals rather than the conservative ideology. Their conservatives I had previously experiences are their own, thought were correct. and as a result, I cannot tell I soon became a liberal them what political views in a conservative family. they should hold. This is why In the inevitable political acceptance of a variety of conversations I had with my viewpoints is necessary. Each family, I had to defend the person has their own identities liberal views I eventually and experiences that influence developed. This was difficult. their ideology, and it is important At first, it was hard for me to to validate those factors. deal with some of the views Mutual respect was my family held. I felt that some a big factor in creating conservative viewpoints, like understanding between my the Republican Party’s pro-life family and myself. I knew that stance, were offensive to me as my family members did not a woman. At the same time, my hold their more conservative family found some of my liberal viewpoints for any sort of viewpoints, like increasing malicious reason; they did not social welfare programs, to be want to destroy the country fiscally irresponsible. or offend people. They simply However, my family and I believed that their ideology were quickly able to reconcile was the best route for the our political views with our United States. I had to explain love for each other. This was why I thought that liberal possible through conversation, policies were better for the which required me to evaluate nation. These conversations my viewpoints thoroughly. In created the mutual respect that fact, I’m grateful that I grew was key in generating healthy up the way I did, because it relationships. forced me to constantly defend My family and I have my values. Now, as a college realized that both of our student in a divisive political divergent ideologies have valid climate, I can defend my views points, which has increased more effectively. mutual respect. My family Here at the University of respected the effort I had put Michigan, I have been doing into researching different my best to have this same issues. This type of validation understanding with those I helped me respect the beliefs disagree with. While there my family held. After years

of not entirely understanding the views my family holds, I realize that their views are just as thought-out as mine. As a liberal who prides herself on being open-minded, I refuse to invalidate the thought my loved ones put into their political views, and I find it necessary to keep that lesson in mind when dealing with others who hold viewpoints that I may find problematic.

This is not to say I never make assumptions about a person based on their political views. I do. However, I try my best to get past these assumptions. I strongly believe that we should welcome a multitude of opinions.

Debating different aspects of an issue is the best way to solve a political problem.

Diversity of opinion is what makes the U.S. a great country.

I am blessed with a really loving family. I could not ask for anything better as my family supports me in my pursuits every day. I also know that my family loves me because of, not in spite of, my passion for my views.

Though I realize it is much easier to respect the views your own family holds, it is possible to embrace ideological differences and conversation is necessary. I truly believe that diversity of opinion is what makes the U.S. a great country.

The University should be a safe place for everyone who goes here. Doing our best to understand those we do not agree with is an important step in this pursuit.

Editor’s note: The writer’s last name is omitted to protect their identity. he drinking and the costume definitely made IT easier for them. But IT shouldn’t have even happened. I was not a target, I was the bullseye.

Unknowingly in the center of a malicious plan. My vision was clouded and my dexterity was diminished.

As my strength deteriorated, so did my judgment. I like to dance, but why did I venture so far that night? I trusted a stranger to bring me home safely on an unfamiliar campus.

Mistake. Mistake.

Like an idiot, there was no alarm going off in my head. The liquor had transformed me. No alarm, until I was pulled in a room by the arms of multiple men.

For days after the assault I laid in bed unmoving, other than the tears rolling down my cheeks.

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canter through your body? How self-blame is inevitable, and how self-worth shatters in your face?

Your former character is exiled from fear. Your previous being is dethroned. In the following months, there were two monsters that controlled my thoughts.

In the following months, there were two monsters that controlled my thoughts.

relentlessly unfailing. Agony: He would gawk at me.

The second was a sharp high, with that full-body absentee.

It forged enhanced sensations and hyperreality. My awareness was active, but my response was impaired. It operated as an induced insanity. Emotions free of gravity. Active when they wanted, and not when I needed.

Attendance in rhythmic motion with my most inconvenient moments. Panic: She would take over me.

They entered me without my permission.

All the perpetrators and prevailing emotions.

Physically and mentally. It dismantled me inside, then out.

Catherine N. is an LSA student.

The first was an ebony cave, with an absence of light. It induced hibernation and no appetite. My ambition became limited, yet my idleness ran rampant. It acted as an empty cavern for my anxiety to reside.

The walls were reverberators for the echo of its breath. Slow and unsteady, like the beating of my chest. Ready to cease, yet

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Not just a “woman’s problem”

remember being very young and so incredibly proud of the fact that I was a girl. I refused to watch movies with a male lead as I insisted that they were always boring, and I’m sure I had an army of T-shirts and stickers that said “girls rule and boys drool.”

Whenever any boy in my class teased anyone for being a girl, I was sure to stand up for them and state what my father had always insisted I remember: A girl can do anything a boy can do.

Though my conception of gender has changed since my preschool days, my femininity, my sensitivity and my inclination for cooperation and understanding are still the traits I value the most about myself.

Unfortunately, another part of me that hasn’t changed since preschool is a general fear and wariness of cisgender men.

When I was younger, this meant I would feel more comfortable with a female teacher, a female doctor and female friends.

Nowadays, this means I’m more likely to sit next to someone in class who I perceive to be female-presenting, and more likely to avoid someone I perceive to be male.

Emily Huhman can be reached at huhmanem@umich.edu.

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My gut instinct is to stick to female presenting folks.

This doesn’t mean that I don’t have any male or masculine friends whom I trust and appreciate, but this does mean that my gut instinct is to stick to femalepresenting folks. Many could perceive a general distrust of maleness as a form of misandry, a hatred of cis men for simply being cis men. But I truly don’t believe that this distrust was formed out of an attachment to feminist ideals, but instead as ingrained lessons I learned throughout my childhood.

The lessons to which I am referring are the times my dad would tell my sister and me

that “men are idiots” and “boys are only after one thing.” It became a joke in our family; my dad would turn to my sister or me and say, “What are boys?”

We would respond, “idiots,” and he would nod his head in satisfaction. The fact that the man who was most important to me during my childhood insisted I remember not to trust boys inherently affected my worldview.

I also am referring to the times my mom would tell me not to walk home late at night because, “You’re a pretty girl, we don’t want boys getting any ideas.” Lastly, I am referring to the many times my sister and I were told to lock the bathroom door and not walk around in our bathing suits if there were other men in the house. Women, on the other hand, were always completely trusted and a strange woman visiting my house heeded no warning to my sister and me. I began to understand that those who were female-presenting could be trusted, but that men and maleness, though to be respected, was also something I needed to remain wary of.

As I became older, I began to fall back on this feeling of distrust more and more often.

I became numb to catcalls, and at night, I would instinctively lower my head and avoid eye contact when walking by someone who appeared male.

Over and over I would hear my female-presenting friends talk about how they had been mistreated by random dudes at the bar or the club. I would feel the need to be more assertive and aggressive when taking classes that were majority male, or else my voice would be stomped out.

I received inappropriate messages from strange men on Facebook, Tinder and, most surprisingly, LinkedIn. I still get nervous when opening messages online.

When I reported a male educator for behavior I deemed inappropriate, it was because I didn’t trust him and felt my privacy violated. Thus was life, and distrust and cynicism was how I managed to get through it all.

Though I feel bad that I have an internalized distrust or wariness towards strange men, I am not yet willing to apologize

for it. This past month men and women, inspired by the women who came forward to denounce Harvey Weinstein, shared the hashtag #MeToo in order to display the breadth and magnitude of sexual misconduct in our society. As many articles have pointed out, Weinstein would not have gotten away with his crimes for as long as he had without the help of many others, as well as a workplace culture that minimized sexual harassment and shamed survivors.

I began to fall back on this feeling of distrust more and more.

So, though I do feel somewhat guilty for my inherent biases, I refuse to feel the need to apologize or feel guilty for them when so many cisgender men will rarely recognize or call out sexism or inappropriate behavior in everyday situations (for example, Quentin Tarantino).

If cisgender men truly want to see the system change, they need to begin to stand up against sexism in obvious and uncomfortable ways.

As a white woman, I understand how awkward it can be to call out friends and family for their inappropriate behavior, but I understand that if I don’t call out racism, then I am complicit in a system of white supremacy. Cisgender men need to realize that if they don’t start working to change this dialogue around sexual assault, then they are actively promoting their supremacy in a patriarchal system. If they want to see a world where they are not inherently distrusted by female-presenting people, then they need to realize that they play an integral role in creating it.

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

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King Krule sinks further A case for improving on into ‘The OOZ’ with style Hollywood’s income rep divorced man, but now at 23, the pool of experience Daily Arts Writer he draws from has grown even more burdensome. The London is a melting album is his best attempt pot, sure, but Peckham is at letting it out, or perhaps something else. There are letting us in, and while it’s not Nigerian fashion retailers exactly a “happy place,” the mixed with Jamaican chicken incessant “ooz” of day-to-day shacks; down the road there life presents a challenge you are cult-like gatherings where simply learn to get on with.

British youth reminisce On album-opener “Biscuit about the days Town,” he before CCTV rhymes The OOZ monitored the “Gianfranco top deck of Zola” with “I King Krule buses. It’s a think she thinks XL Recordings bizarre place, I’m bipolar”; and a fitting his thoughts home for Archy dart through Marshall — a scraggly white his South London upbringing kid with red hair, who cites J on inhale and move to Dilla and Fela Kuti with equal relationships on exhale. reverence.

At times it’s hard to tell if his Archy’s broad range intense ruminations are really of inf luences lends itself just melodramatic grouses. On naturally to his scattered “Vidual” he grumbles “I put musical identity. His most my trust in many things but acclaimed work is as King now I know that’s dumb / So Krule, the enigmatic guitarist I don’t trust anyone, only get we haven’t seen since 2013, but along with some / Saw that he’s also Edgar The Beatmaker girl again one time and now I (Soundcloud producer), DJ JD know it’s done”. It’s all just a Sports (Macbook rapper), Zoo bit passé for a 23 year old.

Kid (depressed high schooler) There are a lot of these soft and of course Archy Marshall murmurs on this album, but (so far, a lo-fi cloud rapper). for the first time, there’s some His latest effort as King absolute belting too, as we’d Krule, The OOZ, is largely seen earlier this year on Mount characterized by the radio Kimbie’s “Blue Train Lines.” At silence that preceded it. first pass it’s difficult to make Since we’ve last seen him, sense of him screaming “I wish he’s aged, fallen in and out of I was people!” on “Locomotive,” love, rapped with rappers and but honestly, when shit goes smoked in his ever-changing pear-shaped, wouldn’t you love native Peckham. On “A Slide to be “people,” too? Other brash (In New Drugs)” he quips instances, like his “Half man “The cityscape, bourgeoisie with a body of a shark” chant change to replicate / How can (16 times over), are slightly more I be feeling the same as you?” bewildering.

It’s been four years, but Archy front-loads most of the he’s by and large the same album’s flashpoints, like a guitar as he once was. Where on 6 solo on “Dum Surfer” that Feet Beneath The Moon Archy sounds like you’re hearing it for would yell at the sky, The OOZ the first time, every time. Later sees him kick rocks through in the song he conjures imagery a cloud of smoke. While the of him puking on the sidewalk years have certainly eroded before getting in a cab with a the more explosive musical Slovakian girl. tendencies of his youth, Though “Dum Surfer” is his the album features some of only “night out” on the album, his clearest and sharpest most of the songs take place on songwriting to date. nights where the darkness just At 17 he already had the swallows him whole. It’s less perspective of a twice- lad culture debauchery and SHAYAN SHAFII

more anxious rambling about relationships, family and selfdoubt.

“Logos” for example, would not have been so out of place on Frank Ocean’s Endless (it’s similar in that way to his fantastic EP, A New Place 2 Drown). “I call my mum / She stumbles home / Through open ground / Back to broken homes” sounds like it’s being recited while sinking into his couch.

Sonically, the song deviates from his traditional synth and guitar composition, adding elements of jazz he’s cited but never quite recreated until now.

That sinking feeling never leaves The OOZ, and the only thing that oscillates over the course of the album is his willingness to reach for others.

Much of the album is about finding out if what you need is time alone or more time with someone else.

The drunk keys of “Czech One” bring with them the centerpiece of the album — a woozy song of lust, isolation and directionless passing of time.

“She asked me why I’m here / But I come here every night / Do you need to tell her something? / No, I need a place to write”.

In one verse, he “drown[s] too quick,” “fade[s] out of sight” and yet, “he still search[es] for warmth.”

In the music video, for a moment, he actually levitates over the pavement of Bermondsey; in a way, that’s what he’s been doing for the past five years. He’s always been floating in the middle, somewhere in-between. He’s five aliases at once. He’s “half man half shark,” half where he wants to be and half crumbling, physically present but mentally disintegrating.

The OOZ makes you question if it’s even worth getting up.

It obscures what you think you know, because sometimes those downward spirals are just harsh realities you’d rather not believe. Sometimes it isn’t too bad to be true though — it’s just plain true. The OOZ is what lures you further into the couch. Sometimes that’s just where you need to be.

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more of the same.

I don’t blame Baumbach, a director I admire, for my intolerance for these movies –– it’s systemic. Hollywood constantly looks beyond stories about regular folk, especially in flyover country, in favor of ritzier, more glamorous stories with attractive people. How can two versions of “Squid and the Whale” be made and yet there are few movies about ordinary, unglamorous Midwesterners living in a blue-collar suburb?

“Logan Lucky,” a favorite from this year, was a feat for representing working-class Americans.

With knockout performances from Channing Tatum (“Magic Mike XXL”) and Adam Driver (“Paterson”), we grew to love the characters, and not in an ironic, mocking way. The movie showed a completely different world than California or New York City. Some criticized the movie for depicting the characters like some sort of freak show, or a circus for elites to gather around to point and laugh at the oh-so unsophisticated “hillbilly” class. But the Logan family isn’t so different: They have dreams and feel pain like everyone else, it’s just that their goals consist of robbing a NASCAR track.

Horror movies tend to represent regular people, but more as a tactic to cause lingering fright. If a typical suburban family is haunted by a ghost, the prospect of other families getting haunted grows, making the movie even scarier. If elites in Beverly Hills are haunted, it seems a lot less believable and more forgettable in the long run.

Horror movies are only relatable if the people in them are too. Thanks

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Bleak stories about rich White people with too much time on their hands can only do so much.

Personally, my tolerance for watching wealthy has-beens and artists lament about life — mind you, while sitting in a multi milliondollar brownstone — is shrinking every day. There’s a plethora of other stories waiting to be told, those that show a more realistic depiction of the everyday lives of Americans.

And yet, Noah Baumbach (“The Meyerowitz Stories”) chooses to rewrite the same movie about wealthy, dysfunctional, New York families led by an insufferable, arrogant patriarch who gets joy from dismissing “A Tale of Two Cities” as a “minor work” and brainwashing his kids into being clones. “The Squid and the Whale,” released 12 years ago, fulfills his prerequisites: A once-famous author struggles through a divorce as his teenage children suffer the consequences of family turmoil and his selfish behavior. The movie, with sharp dialogue and developed younger characters, is the director’s crowning achievement.

This year, Baumbach wrote and directed “The Meyerowitz Stories,” a replication of “The Squid and the Whale” except starring adults instead of teenagers as the damaged children of a has-been egotist.

Like its predecessor, it’s a terrific depiction of a shattered family and doesn’t veer into melodrama territory. But he has essentially told this story before, except better. And at this point, we really don’t need

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to this scheme, the walk from my car to my front door at night in my quaint Detroit suburb is usually a dead sprint filled with fears of ghouls and goblins ready to pounce from the trees. Probably unlikely, but definitely spooky nonetheless.

In a divided political climate, Hollywood is deepening the separation between classes. It sometimes feels more like an “us vs them” scenario than something all Americans can share together.

Television has a better track record, with ABC sitcoms leading the way at depicting a diverse array of families, but there are still shows like HBO’s recently concluded “Girls” that show trust fund babies in Brooklyn with ample free time and little relatability for most Americans.

And even my favorite, “Master of None,” one of today’s sincerest and funniest shows, falls into this trap: Dev, the main character (Aziz Ansari, “Parks and Recreation”), spends a lot of his time eating and drinking at the finest New York establishments, something a Texan or Iowan probably can’t relate to.

But once again, Lena Dunham (“Girls”) and Aziz Ansari aren’t to blame; their shows are well-written and portray contemporary New Yorkers with honesty. It’s that for every 10 movies or television shows like this, there’s only one “Logan Lucky.” Baumbach deserves to be able to retell the “Squid and the Whale” ’s story to his liking, but we need to see more movies about lowerincome families on the marquee, as well. Hollywood isn’t doing its part to counter the destructive, growing divide in America today; it’s time to show regular Americans and their struggles.

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Digging up ‘Strange Days,’ The great unifier — or a socially-aware neo-noir divider: Facebook in ‘17 JACOB RICH

Daily Arts Writer

The important form of documentary today never airs in theaters. We view it in grainy windows on social media, on shady video sites that don’t regulate their content. Sometimes, we see edited versions on the evening news, or sandwiched between paragraphs on our favorite news site.

The footage that has exposed the deadly use of police violence against Black men in the United States is a phenomenon of immeasurable sociopolitical import, and our culture has yet to correct itself even an inch in combatting the evils that this documentary has brought to forefront of discourse.

I have been drastically disappointed by recent attempts by mainstream art to capture the horror of these videos. Kathryn Bigelow’s controversial “Detroit” is the latest in this string of disappointments, a work of historical fiction that attempts to retroactively document a past injustice, one that happened before smartphones could have shone their light on it. It failed because it played the events as a traditional thriller.

“Detroit” ’s inoffensive but banal formal structure betrayed the gravity of the horrific racial murders that made up its subject. Real violence became pop movie violence.

I became even more disappointed by “Detroit” when I realized that decades earlier, Bigelow had already tackled this subject with a narrative film, and not only was this film astoundingly more successful in capturing

the horror of documented police violence, but it also made key predictions about the role of technology in uncovering injustice that were terrifyingly prescient. “Strange Days,” Kathryn Bigelow’s 1995 secret neo-noir cyberpunk masterpiece, not only does this, but offers a message of hope and change in the face of the crushing hegemony of neoliberal white supremacy.

Initially, “Strange Days” seems like a forgettable but good pastiche of noir genre elements in a cyberpunk future.

You’ve got your noir antihero: A disgraced, slimy former detective who hangs onto his principles by a thread (Ralph Fiennes, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”), his trusty, badass partner who grounds the film in morality (Angela Bassett, “American Horror Story”) a mysterious macguffin, a sex worker caught in a deadly bit of trouble, a femme fatale and of course, thugs who protect the interests of their evil employers with violence.

Where “Strange Days” becomes something more than “Chinatown but in the future, man” is when the secret our antihero stumbles on is a recording of an executionstyle murder of a Black activist by the LAPD. Bigelow made the film in the aftermath of Rodney King, the white-hot rage of racial injustice becomes imbued as the driving force of the plot.

Bigelow’s first stroke of genius was in recognizing and portraying the fundamental flaws in our society that lead to racial violence and injustice.

The world of “Strange Days” is a very near future that’s only slightly more grimy, alienated and violent than reality. Her extraordinary set designers

and artists painted the perfect geohell, a Verhoevian latecapitalist Los Angeles where desperate masses clash with a fascist police force as capitalowning aristocrats cavort in skyscrapers. The key here is that the inequality is only slightly exaggerated, unlike in films like “Elysium” when the class metaphor is so cartoonish and over-the-top that the connection to reality is lost. I suppose “Strange Days” shares some formal DNA with “Blade Runner,” another sci-fi neo-noir where themes of exploitation and slavery are central, but “Strange Days” fearlessly confronts the issue of racial social justice where the “Blade Runner” films pull punches. Where “Blade Runner” attempts to ground the audience’s pathos for injustice in applying the consequences of slavery and violence to exclusively White characters, “Strange Days” directly confronts the repressive violence against the Black working class.

Bigelow’s second stroke of genius was her casting of the two main characters.

Casting the brilliant Ralph Fiennes, whose star-making roles the previous two years in “Schindler’s List” (as a Nazi) and “Quiz Show” (as a charismatic, handsome Protestant groomed to replace an unphotogenic Jew on television) established him as a symbol of clean-cut WASPs in positions of immense power.

It is deliciously subversive for Bigelow to cast him as a self-serving white guy who changes when he discovers the horrific injustices perpetuated against minorities in America.

Angela Bassett’s casting, hot off of Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X,” was equally brilliant, as her character is not merely a strong and fierce badass, but a powerful, sympathetic moral voice that goes beyond acting as Fiennes’s sidekick and acts as the catalyst for enacting racial justice.

And finally, like all great sci-fi filmmakers, Bigelow uses ideas about future technology to make moral statements about society. The “wire,” a Google Glass-like device that allows a user to record their experiences or to experience the lives of others, is worryingly predictive of body cam footage and the ubiquity of smartphone cameras. Just as Spielberg made an argument for due process and against prior restraint with the crimepredicting technology in “Minority Report,” Bigelow treatises on the role of social technology in the future of both crime and justice.

While “Strange Days” remains an extremely dark dystopian film throughout its runtime, one of the things I liked best about the film is that it offers a glimmer of hope and justice at the end. The central fantasy of this movie is that the people at the height of power in our society saw the tapes of police brutality and acted to change it. If that fantasy is ever to become a reality, we need more fearless, experimental art like this.

CONNOR GRADY Daily Arts Writer

I was 13 when I first made my Facebook account. I was so young I had to say that I was 19 just so I could make an account.

But my little white lie quickly paid off. Scrolling through my sister’s and brother’s Facebooks, I was mesmerized by the social network’s vivid, true-blue aesthetic and the concept of a “wall” for my friends to use. I felt like I’d just discovered fire.

At the time, Facebook was largely reserved for highschoolers and college students, so you can understand my excitement in joining this exclusive club. Simply having a Facebook made me believe I was ten times cooler than I’d ever been. I immediately devoted the rest of that cloudless August afternoon to designing my profile. Surely, I thought, everyone would want to know about my love of the Boston Red Sox, or how skilled of a Halo 3 player I was. After all, wasn’t that what Facebook was for — to share your personal life online?

While Facebook continues to satisfy this overarching goal today, the social network has shifted its focus to become much more than a platform to present oneself. Facebook has become a marketplace.

Facebook has become a rolodex.

Facebook has become a news source. And it’s done it all right before our eyes.

One of Facebook’s latest and most interesting features is its marketplace. Introduced in October of 2016, the Facebook Marketplace allows the social network’s users to buy and sell items with other users in their immediate area, similar to popular apps like OfferUp and letgo. The introduction of this secondary market provides an outlet for users to sell or acquire items for which they otherwise wouldn’t receive any sort of compensation, and it’s one of the social network’s strongest new additions.

Beyond its official marketplace, Facebook has a number of unofficial marketplaces among its user groups. Every week, my Facebook feed is f looded with friends, or friends of friends, posting in the “University of Michigan Class of 2019” Facebook group to sell anything from concert tickets to coffee tables. At least among my friends, this is where the real business of buying and selling is done, since users on these informal marketplaces often have mutual friends with other members of the group. Not only does this make buying and selling safer, but it also makes it more personal because both users understand that they’re transacting with a real person that their friends likely know.

Personally, I’ve found these unofficial marketplaces to be excellent — only last week I sold one of my football tickets to a friend’s sorority sister in just a few hours and our conversation ended up as a debate over how much we

liked the Yeezy clothing line.

However, it’s also important to recognize that Facebook isn’t the most ideal site for users (see: 2016 presidential election), so the social network may ultimately have to modify its market features to avoid the fate of Craigslist, which has developed a seedy reputation due to “Craigslist Killer” Philip Markoff.

Along with assuming the role of a local market, Facebook has become an online rolodex. With more than 2 billion active users each month, it seems like everyone has a Facebook account. It’s rare today to search a person’s name on Facebook and come up empty — from children to great grandparents, every demographic is using Facebook. While other social networking sites like Twitter and Instagram boast similarly massive user bases, they don’t come close to matching the ubiquity of Facebook accounts.

To me, the fact that I can find nearly everyone I know on Facebook is incredible. It means that I can meet a person and immediately connect with them on the social network.

I can even message them, or anyone for that matter — a feature which, critically, Twitter and Instagram lack — on these sites only alreadyconnected users can directly communicate with each other. This is one of the leastdiscussed, yet most beneficial, aspects of Facebook. When my friend’s phone died and we became separated at a concert this past month, I relied on Facebook to message my friend’s friend to find them. Without Facebook, I would have had no means of communicating with either of them.

The other piece of Facebook’s rolodex involves all of the pictures, ideas and personal information it maintains for each user. While users may post some of their pictures, for example, on Instagram, they typically post all of them on Facebook, which has made the site into a repository for personal data. Although having to go to just one site to find all of a person’s digital life is convenient, I have serious misgivings about the misuse of this personal information.

As we saw during the nowinfamous 2016 presidential election, Facebook’s troves of data can be exploited by shady entities to further their nefarious goals. Using Facebook’s data, these firms develop marketing strategies that play up to users’ fears or desires and manipulate those sentiments.

Along with transforming into a digital rolodex, Facebook has become a news source for its users. Through its “Trending” section on each user’s news feed, Facebook presents relevant news headlines, complete with links to full stories on news platforms. Due to its prominent placement at the top right of each user’s news feed, it’s difficult for users to avoid reading Facebook-generated taglines for news stories. This

location is a clear attempt by Facebook to promote its brand of news among its users and convince them to drop more traditional news sites in favor of Facebook’s aggregated stories.

Frankly, this section of the social network is highly concerning to me. Having such a mysterious and omnipotent corporation such as Facebook controlling news headlines that are seen by billions of users is downright terrifying to me.

I hate returning to the same example, but, as we saw during the 2016 presidential election, the language and placement of news headlines can have a substantial impact on users’ interpretation of the news and their level of trust of the media. Considering Facebook has such low barriers to entry for its advertisers, who’s to say that that lack of a strong verification process doesn’t carry over to its news sources?

My fears appear especially apt given that Facebook has been “slow to cooperate” with ongoing Congressional investigations into Russian efforts to inf luence the 2016 election.

Similar to its marketplace, Facebook has a more unofficial version of its news section, which comes in the form of users’ news stories and articles. Using a “share” tool, users can post news stories to each of their friends’ individual news feeds. While the intent of this feature is obvious — to promote users’ stories to their friends — it is seldom used purely for this purpose.

Rather than simply inform, these “shared” stories, in my experience, usually create heated debates among users. As I’ve observed, users, especially recently, often promote biased or partisan news sources with headlines corresponding to their ideology. The result is news feeds clogged with controversial (even fake) news stories containing tense comment sections that can quickly become incredibly aggressive.

While not as troubling as Facebook’s aggregated news, these “shared” news stories remain somewhat distressing.

Users only “share” the stories that truly resonate with them, and this endorsement frequently divides users on critical issues. Personally, my news feed is often inundated with news stories “shared” by my friends about President Trump, which regularly leads to aggressive debates and, sometimes, even derogatory comments and hateful allegations. While this is partially a result of the hyperpolarized political climate prevailing lately, Facebook is enabling many of these tense arguments by allowing users to parade the news stories they support on other users’ digital spaces.

As concerning as Facebook’s news platform is, I don’t see the $500 billion corporation scaling back any of these new features anytime soon. That’s why it’s on us, now, to overcome these challenges, to preach civility over conflict and to not allow a social network to divide us as a nation, and as humans.

OCTOBER 28, 2017: RUTGERS

THE RECRUITING MENACE

2017 Schedule

The Michigan football team is hurting, coming off a 42-13 blowout against No. 2 Penn State in State College that all but dashed the Wolverines’ postseason aspirations. Now, Rutgers is traveling to Ann Arbor in search of its third consecutive conference win while Michigan is looking to right the ship and push its conference record above .500.

Betelhem Ashame, Ted Janes, Orion Sang, Kevin Santo

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TABLE OF CONTENTS The Daily talked with Ryan Dunleavy, a Rutgers beat reporter for NJ.com.

Rutgers has struggled to hold on to in-state talent since New Jersey became a recruiting hotbed.

The Daily breaks down how the Scarlet Knights stack up against the Wolverines.

Will Brandon Peters take a snap Saturday?

That and other aspects to watch for.

Florida (Sept. 2): ***Jaws theme song***

Penn State (Oct. 21): Michigan should get an assist for Barkley’s Heisman.

Cincinnati (Sept. 9): The Bearcats are the only team from Ohio that almost won last week.

Rutgers (Oct. 28): If you’re reading this from the hot tub in the student section at Rutgers, you should go to the doctor.

Air Force (Sept. 16): Air Force was my safety school. (But really thank you for your service.)

Minnesota (Nov. 5): PJ.. Fleck-Harbaugh is the next Mayweather-McGregor.

Purdue (Sept. 23): Jeff Brohm probably had better facilities at Western Kentucky.

Maryland (Nov. 11): You don’t live in D.C., stop saying that.

Michigan State (Oct. 7): The Michigan Daily has beaten the State News 13 years in a row.

Wisconsin (Nov. 18): I brought my tent to Camp Randall and was wildly disappointed.

Indiana (Oct. 14): Hoosier? I barely know her.

Ohio State (Nov. 25): We finally found someone who loves college more than Asher Roth: tenth-year senior J.T. Barrett.

STAFF PICKS The Daily football writers pick against the spread to predict scores around college football in the 2017 football season.

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Orion Sang

Ted Janes

Betelhem Ashame

Anna PolumboLevy,

Kevin Santo

Editorial Page Editor

No. 2 Penn State (+6.5) at No. 6 Ohio State

Penn State

Penn State

Ohio State

Penn State

Penn State

No. 3 Georgia (-14) at Florida

Georgia

Florida

Georgia

Georgia

Georgia

No.4 TCU (-6.5) at No. 25 Iowa State

TCU

TCU

TCU

TCU

TCU

No. 5 Wisconsin (-26.5) at Illinois

Wisconsin

Illinois

Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Georgia Tech (+14) at No. 7 Clemson

Clemson

Clemson

Georgia Tech

Clemson

Georgia Tech

No. 8 Miami (-20) at North Carolina

Miami

Miami

Miami

Miami

Miami

No. 14 NC State (+7.5) at No. 9 Notre Dame

Notre Dame

NC State

NC State

Notre Dame

NC State

Texas Tech (+20) at No. 10 Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Texas Tech

Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma

No. 11 Ok State (-7.5) at No. 22 West Virginia

West Virginia

West Virginia

West Virginia

West Virginia

Ok State

UCLA (+18) at No. 12 Washington

UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

Duke (+15.5) at No. 13 Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech

Duke

Duke

No. 15 Washington State (-3) at Arizona

Washington State

Arizona

Arizona

Washington State

Washington State

No. 16 Michigan State (-2.5) at Northwestern

Michigan State

Michigan State

Michigan State

Michigan State

Michigan State

Houston (+11) at No. 17 South Florida

South Florida

South Florida

South Florida

South Florida

South Florida

Austin Peay at No. 18 Central Florida

Central Florida

Central Florida

Central Florida

Central Florida

Central Florida

No. 20 Stanford (-21.5) at Oregon State

Stanford

Oregon State

Stanford

Stanford

Stanford

No. 21 USC (-3.5) at Arizona State

USC

USC

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USC

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Tulane (+11) at No. 24 Memphis

Memphis

Memphis

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Memphis

Memphis

Rutgers (+24) at Michigan

Michigan

Michigan

Michigan

Michigan

Michigan

Indiana (+4.5) at Maryland

Indiana

Maryland

Maryland

Indiana

Indiana

Minnesota (+7) at Iowa

Iowa

Minnesota

Iowa

Iowa

Iowa

Nebraska (+5.5) at Purdue

Purdue

Nebraska

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Purdue

Utah (-3) at Oregon

Oregon

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Utah

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Oregon

California (+3.5) at Colorado

Colorado

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Tennessee (+3.5) at Kentucky

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Texas (-8.5) at Baylor

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Behind Enemy Lines: Ryan Dunleavy The Daily spoke with a Rutgers beat writer for NJ.com ahead of Saturday’s matchup TED JANES

Daily Sports Writer

The Michigan football team (2-2 Big Ten, 5-2 overall) once had its eyes on the College Football Playoff.

Then it played Penn State.

Now, with their goals realigned and their focus on what’s ahead, the Wolverines meet the polar opposite of the Nittany Lions.

Rutgers (2-2, 3-4) comes to Ann Arbor for the fourth ever meeting between the two programs, in a meeting of two wailing offenses.

Thursday, the Michigan Daily spoke with Ryan Dunleavy, a Rutgers beat reporter for NJ.com, to talk about the Scarlet Knights’ season and what Michigan fans can expect to see this weekend.

The Michigan Daily: Now that Rutgers has back-to-back wins, what are your thoughts on the team, and what are you going to be watching for from Rutgers this weekend?

Ryan Dunleavy: I think they’re getting much better. They were a team last year that so much

of what they had to do was clean up off-field messes, and get the program image back in the right direction, get the recruiting back in the right direction. It was such a long-term rebuild that I think the onfield product almost had to take a back seat during year one (under coach Chris Ash).

In the last two weeks, you’re finally starting to see a little bit of progress on the field from the team getting some wins. It also shows you how bad the West division of the Big Ten is. It’s Wisconsin and a bunch of below average teams, which I’ve said all along. Rutgers, Maryland, Indiana all those teams would probably be bowl-teams in the West division, and Rutgers beating Purdue and Illinois only strengthens my case.

TMD: Rutgers switched quarterbacks two weeks ago and now plays Giovanni Rescigno.

How has he played?

RD: The best way to describe how he’s played is ‘tough’ and ‘smart.’ If you look at the stats, he’s certainly not going to win

you over. He’s completed 50 percent of his passes for about 170 yards and one touchdown but no interceptions. That’s in two games. He’s certainly not the reason they’re winning games, but he isn’t the reason they’re losing games, which might be the reason they’re winning games.

He’s played smart.

His teammates rally behind him. He’s a ‘gamer.’ He raises his game in practice, he improvises plays on the run. He bounces back up from tackles. He’ll take a big hit.

He’s one of those guys teammates love to get behind. He’s got those intangibles that can really lift a team’s spirit. He’s helped Rutgers in that way.

He’s helped Rutgers not so much as a passer, not so much as a runner, but just as a good leader.

TMD: Rutgers runs the ball on almost two-thirds of its plays.

If Michigan lines up with six or seven guys crashing the line, will that change Rutgers’ game plan at all?

RD: (Rutgers) will try to run it. It will change if they’re

not having success, but their preference would be to find a way to have success even if Michigan is crashing the box. Rutgers is going to want to run the ball.

They’re going to want to shorten the game. They’re going to want to have time of possession. That’s what they want to do.

They have no interest in getting into a high-scoring battle with a team that has superior talent.

TMD: Has there been any talk of revenge at Rutgers in regards to last year’s game?

RD: They’ve done a pretty good job of putting that out of their heads publicly. I think it’s on the back of everybody’s mind. That game was impossible to forget.

Rutgers-Michigan is interesting because they’ve played three times and two of them are very memorable. One, Rutgers beat Michigan, and it was like, ‘Oh my god, how did that happen?’ It was Rutgers’ first Big Ten win in 2014.

Last year, 78-nothing. You just don’t see that. You see 56-nothing all the time, but you don’t see 78 nothing. I think for Rutgers it’s in

FILE PHOTO/Daily

The Rutgers football team is coming off consecutive conference wins against Purdue and Illinois, and running back Raheem Blackshear is a big reason why.

the back of their mind, but no one has admitted that it’s an extra motivator.

TMD: Hypothetically, if Rutgers pulled off an upset, who would be the X-factor for the Scarlet Knights?

RD: It’d take more than one X-factor for Rutgers to beat Michigan. I know the teams have the same conference record but there is still a pretty big gap. I would start with Raheem Blackshear. He’s a true freshman running back who has scored touchdowns in each of the last two games. He’s just lightning-ina-bottle quick. He decommitted from Michigan State and ended up at Rutgers. A real difference maker, gets eight or 10 touches a game and makes the most of them.

Janarion Grant is a guy who had a big game on special teams the last time Rutgers was at the Big House. He was supposed to be their best receiver this season, but with his inconsistency he hasn’t really been much of a factor at all. If you told me Rutgers was going to win back-to-back games without Janarion Grant having much of an impact, I would not have believed that. He’s either due for a big game or destined for a bad year.

On defense, if Michigan is going to run the ball as much as I expect, Trevor Morris is Rutgers’ leading tackler — a linebacker who is just always around the ball. It seems like he has 10 tackles every Saturday. What he doesn’t have is forced fumbles and interceptions. If he can turn all those tackles into tackles for loss or turnovers, that would be something that could swing the game.

TMD: Finally, your prediction?

RD: I pick Michigan, 42-7. I think both teams are going to run the ball, run the ball and run the ball all day long. I expect Michigan’s offensive line will be able to do a little bit better job than Rutgers’. Michigan’s defense will be able to do a better job stopping Rutgers. Michigan has too much depth.

I know Michigan is off to what they would consider a tough start, but bottom line is they just have too much talent right now.

TheMichiganDaily, www.michigandaily.com

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‘M’ impedes Rutgers’ fight for Jersey New Jersey has plenty of talent. The problem is that the Scarlet Knights can’t seem to hold on to it.

KEVIN SANTO

Managing Sports Editor

It all started with Jabrill Peppers.

On May 26, 2013, the New Jersey native made an appearance on ESPN, where he performed a freestyle rap, pulled out a winged helmet and officially committed to play football at Michigan.

Just like that, the No. 1 recruit in the state was headed to Ann Arbor. The exodus had begun.

New Jersey wasn’t always a hotbed for college football recruits. Freshman safety and Jersey native Brad Hawkins remembers when his home was known only as “the basketball state.”

But eventually — perhaps while scouting stars like Peppers — teams saw what

they were missing. Michigan, along with a collection of the nation’s elite programs, began mining for talent and enticed recruits to play their college football outside of their home state.

Chris Ash aimed to halt that process when he accepted the head coaching job in Piscataway just under two years ago.

He helped coin the phrase “Fence the Garden” — a mantra meant to symbolize Rutgers’ focus on keeping the best high school football players in New Jersey to continue their college careers.

And with the phrase came an odd rivalry.

At the beginning of June in 2016, Jim Harbaugh organized one of his theninfamous satellite camps at

Paramus Catholic — Peppers’ old stomping grounds. On the same day, Ash brought in Urban Meyer to host a camp of his own just over six miles away at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Rutgers students had their own response, too.

The Order of the Bull’s Blood — a secret society at the university — claimed responsibility for acts of vandalism at Paramus Catholic that occurred in the days leading up to Michigan’s

camp.

All past drama aside, though, Ash’s “Fence the Garden” mantra, to this point, appears to be all it was.

Roughly a month after the inception of the phrase, Rashan Gary — then the topranked recruit in the nation — committed to Michigan.

Kareem Walker, the top-ranked running back in the state, joined him.

A year later, the trend continued. Drew Singleton, a Union City, N.J. native

Growing up in Jersey, we looked up to guys like Jabrill when I was kid

ranked as the fifth-best recruit in the state according to the ESPN 300, signed a letter of intent to play at Michigan.

They aren’t the only ones either. The list includes Gary, Walker, Singleton, Hawkins, Hunter Reynolds, Joe Beneducci, Michael Dwumfour, Jon Runyan, Juwann Bushell-Beatty, Cheyenn Robinson and Ron Johnson. All on Michigan’s roster. All hail from New Jersey.

Some came before Peppers.

Some came with him. But the majority came after him.

All it took was an appearance on national television.

“I think it definitely (opens the door), because growing up in Jersey, we looked up to guys like Jabrill when I

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Special teams coordinator Chris Partridge had experience in the New Jersey college football recruiting landscape, as he served as the head coach of Paramus Catholic for five years.

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was a kid,” Dwumfour said. “... When he made the move here, it definitely opened the eyes of guys like me in Jersey.” *** The logic is simple.

“Jersey guys, we like to win,” Dwumfour said of Michigan’s increased presence in his home state.

“So wherever fits us right and feels like home, that’s where we want to be.”

Unfortunately for Rutgers, it has failed to fit that criteria for a long time now.

Ray Rice was a sophomore the last time the Scarlet Knights had a 10-win season. That came in 2006, when Greg Schiano’s team punctuated an 11-2 season in the Big East with a victory over Kansas State in the Texas Bowl. Before that, you would need to go back to 1976 to find double digits in the win column.

The Scarlet Knights haven’t had a winning season in the Big Ten since their inaugural year when they finished 8-5 and beat North Carolina in the Quick Lane Bowl. And in the past two seasons, Rutgers has finished a combined 6-18.

It’s for those reasons that Hawkins and Bushell-Beatty remember growing up with little exposure to Rutgers football.

As a kid in New Jersey, Hawkins recalls watching “whoever gets the TV time pretty much.” The Scarlet Knights rarely received that big of a stage.

Someday they might, but to Nunzio Campanile — the head coach at Bergen Catholic in Oradell, N.J. — it’s a process that will inevitably take time.

“I think that success is relative,” Campanile said.

“I think that if they start getting to the point where they’re winning five, six, seven games, I think some of those higher-level players might be willing to take that

leap.

“I think that kids would love to play football at Rutgers, and I think there’s a lot of real genuine interest by the kids in our state. … I don’t think you’ve got to go 12-0, I think you’ve got to show that you can be competitive, and I think they’ve shown that already this year.”

To some extent, Rutgers has. It owns two conference wins over Illinois and Purdue, and another over Morgan State.

But losses to Washington, Eastern Michigan, Nebraska and Ohio State hurt. It won’t get any easier, either. The Scarlet Knights close out the year at Michigan, Penn State and Indiana, with two home games against Michigan State and Maryland.

And it’s against those powerhouses that Rutgers must compete against, not only on Saturdays, but also throughout the entire recruiting cycle.

“Yeah I guess you get that little type of pressure,” Gary said. “I remember because Rutgers was one of my first offers and for a minute I’m like, ‘Wow they’re the first team that showed me that they really cared about me.’

“So I was gonna go, but then as more offers start rolling in and rolling in, I started looking more and really trying to find the best school for me, so Rutgers just ended up slipping off the board. But there’s always that pressure to go home.” *** The statistics of the last

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Former Michigan standout Jabrill Peppers helped pave the way for other recruits from his home state of New Jersey to make the trip to Ann Arbor and play football for Michigan.

three years show progress.

According to 247Sports’ rankings of New Jersey recruits, Rutgers had six recruits committed to play in Piscataway in 2015, three of whom were in the top 30.

From there, the Scarlet Knights made strides. They secured nine recruits, with four in the top 30, in 2016 and 15 recruits — including the second- and third-best

prospects — in 2017.

This incoming class, however, appears to be a regression.

Though it’s still early, Rutgers has just five players committed, but only one is among the state’s top 30 players.

Where Rutgers goes from here remains to be seen.

One man that may have

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Sophomore defensive end Rashan Gary is the latest New Jersey standout to choose the Wolverines.

an idea is special teams coordinator Chris Partridge, who joined Michigan’s staff in January of 2015 after serving as the head coach at Paramus Catholic in New Jersey for five years.

With that experience, Partridge witnessed firsthand what yielded success.

“Forming relationships, speaking to the kids, knowing all the kids no matter what — even if it’s a guy who’s not maybe a Big Ten player, or Big East in those days, or whatever it might be,” Partridge said. “The Division I guys, understanding who they are and what they can do and just having a really good grasp of the whole state. They did a good job there, and (they’re) making the inroads. I know that Greg Schiano did a good job with the high school coaches and with knowing even down to the Pop Warner coaches and stuff.

“You’ve got to cultivate the whole state there, and I’m sure the staff is doing that.

Like I said, I wasn’t there at all with the new staff — they’re getting talented

kids on the team, they have talented kids, so I’m sure they’re doing a good job with that now.”

Campanile sees that Ash is making those same inroads, whether it be by trying to develop personal relationships with the coaches, making trips to in-state high schools when NCAA regulations permit or creating events that get coaches involved with the Rutgers staff and program.

Of course, Campanile says he’d love the opportunity to see his players close to home.

He would like to give their families the same opportunity.

Right now, though, that’s easier said than done.

“Let me preface this by

saying I think Coach Ash is doing a great job trying to recruit New Jersey,” Campanile said.

“But everyone that’s ever been the head coach at (Rutgers) has tried desperately to keep the best players in state.

And it’s not an easy task. He’s worked really hard at it.”

Perhaps that’s the most frustrating part for the Scarlet Knights.

No matter how hard their coach works, they need results in order to harvest the elite talent in New Jersey.

And in order to get those results, they need more talent. So f lows the cycle.

That’s not to say the cycle can’t be broken. But with other coaches like Harbaugh consistently besting Rutgers both in games and in recruiting, it won’t be easy.

Everyone that’s ever been the head coach at (Rutgers) has tried desperately to keep the best players in state

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TD 1 3 0 4

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Att 85 74 71 2 5 4

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Lg 59 53 49 44 12 8

TD 6 2 2 0 0 0

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TED JANES

Daily Sports Writer

When No. 2 Penn State thrashed Michigan last week, the Wolverines (2-2 Big Ten, 5-2 overall) were hit with a hard dose of reality.

They may not be the College Football Playoff contender that they wanted to be at the beginning of the season, but that shouldn’t stop them from beating one of the worst teams in the Big Ten. Rutgers (2-2, 3-4) comes off back-to-back wins, but what it might boast in confidence it simply lacks in talent.

Both the Scarlet Knights and the Wolverines have their weaknesses right now, but a quick breakdown reveals that Rutgers’ weaknesses may be too large to overcome.

Here’s the Daily’s breakdown of what you can expect this homecoming weekend: Michigan run offense vs.

Rutgers run defense The Wolverines’ most reliable offensive position group, the tailbacks, continues to be the source of scoring regardless of who they play.

Against Penn State, junior running back Karan Higdon led the team in rushing attempts for the third straight week, followed by fifth-year senior Ty Isaac and sophomore Chris Evans. Higdon and Isaac produced the team’s only touchdowns.

While that trio rotated starts in the first half of the season, Higdon began to separate himself against Michigan State. In that game, the team wasn’t passing well, but Higdon consistently ran for medium gains, and he broke out in his next appearance against Indiana for 200 yards and three scores.

The fourth addition to the group, redshirt freshman Kareem Walker, always has fans wondering when he’ll receive more consistent playing time. He bulldozed his way to an eight-yard rush against Indiana — his only attempt of the game — but Walker’s role on the team is still supplementary.

Rutgers has given up an average of 159 rushing yards per game, which presents a favorable matchup for the

Wolverines.

Edge: Michigan Rutgers run offense vs.

Michigan run defense The Scarlet Knights, much like the Wolverines, also prefer the run game. Rutgers has run the ball on 60 percent of its plays this season, and running back Gus Edwards leads the team so far with five rushing touchdowns.

Two other running backs — Robert Martin and Raheem Blackshear — also have multiple rushing touchdowns, but each of Rutgers’ backs are in for one of their toughest tests yet against Michigan’s run defense.

The Wolverines allow just 105 rushing yards per game on average. Despite giving up 224 yards on the ground against the Nittany Lions, Michigan should have a much easier time this weekend. After all, Rutgers’ running backs don’t pose the same threat as Penn State’s Saquon Barkley.

Edge: Michigan Michigan pass offense vs.

Rutgers pass defense Fifth-year senior quarterback John O’Korn

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Nonetheless, the Wolverines pass offense just hasn’t looked the same since it lost both its starting quarterback, redshirt junior Wilton Speight, and its previously leading receiver, freshman Tarik Black.

The Scarlet Knights’ pass defense, though, has given up 224 yards per game. If there is any game to let O’Korn air it out, it would be this one.

Saturday will actually be O’Korn’s third time playing Rutgers. Before transferring from Houston, O’Korn faced the Scarlet Knights back in 2013. He led the Cougars to a 49-14 win in one of the best games of his career, throwing for 364 yards, five touchdowns See BREAKDOWN, Page 7

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Junior running back Karan Higdon will have a favorable matchup against a Scarlet Knights squad that gives up an average of 159 rushing yards per game.

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Edge: Michigan Rutgers pass offense vs.

Michigan pass defense The Scarlet Knights reopened their quarterback competition after their original starter, Kyle Bolin, had a horrific game in Rutgers’ 56-0 loss against Ohio State, when he threw for under 60 yards. Giovanni Rescigno has held the starting job ever since.

Rescigno, a Michigan native, led his team to two straight wins, but he completed just 50 percent of his passes for a combined total of 176 yards.

He shouldn’t pose a big threat to the Wolverines’ fifthranked pass defense. Sophomore cornerback Lavert Hill is drawing comparisons to former Wolverine and All-American Jourdan Lewis, and he leads the secondary with seven pass break ups, two interceptions and one pick-six.

Penn State’s receivers got the better of the Wolverines last week, but expect Hill and the others to come into this weekend hungry for a win.

Edge: Michigan Special teams With only one special teams touchdown, the Wolverines’ punt and kick returners haven’t made as much of an impact as last year.

Two freshman handle Michigan’s returner duties: wide receiver Donovan Peoples-Jones takes the punts and defensive back Ambry Thomas returns kickoffs. Both have shown potential — PeoplesJones returned one punt for a touchdown against Air Force — but neither have made a significant impact.

Defensively though, the Wolverines haven’t allowed a single special teams touchdown.

Rutgers returns each punt an average of 10 yards and each kick an average of just 14, which should not threaten Michigan’s special teams defense unit much.

In the kicking game, the

Wolverines have the advantage as well. In close games at the start of the year, redshirt freshman kicker Quinn Nordin proved to be a difference maker.

With light wind and just a two percent chance of rain in the forecast, Nordin will be expected to hit every field goal he takes within 50 yards this weekend.

Edge: Michigan Intangibles Both teams have plenty of pride on the line. The Wolverines want to return to the AP Top 25, and Rutgers wants to wash out the foul taste of last year’s 78-0 whooping.

Having slipped out of national attention, Michigan hopes to improve after the team’s worst loss since Harbaugh arrived.

Junior receiver Grant Perry said that the Wolverines want to take out all their frustration on Rutgers. If they do that, the Scarlet Knights don’t have much of a shot.

Edge: Michigan Prediction: Michigan 31, Rutgers 0

What to Watch For vs. Rutgers BETELHEM ASHAME Managing Sports Editor

With two losses on the season, it might seem as if the Michigan football team (2-2 Big Ten, 5-2 overall) doesn’t have much left to play for.

But according to the Wolverines, that isn’t at all the case. Even with a lowly opponent like Rutgers — which suffered a notorious 78-0 loss to Michigan in its own stadium a season ago — coach Jim Harbaugh and his team spent the week stating that there would be no drop-off in their effort level.

While the Wolverines might be tempted to overlook them, this isn’t the same Scarlet

Knights team as in 2016. The new-and-improved Rutgers (2-2, 3-4) will likely pose a larger challenge than expected, and Michigan can’t afford any more slip ups this season.

Here’s what to watch for when the Wolverines face the Scarlet Knights on Saturday: 1. Will Brandon Peters see the f ield?

With each incomplete pass fifth-year senior quarterback John O’Korn threw against No. 2 Penn State, anticipation built for an appearance from the redshirt freshman signal caller.

Though Peters never ended up taking the field in State College, the Michigan faithful have made it clear that a change will be desired under center

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Fifth-year senior quarterback John O’Korn may not remain the starting signal caller for the Wolverines for much longer if his offensive struggles persist Saturday against the Scarlet Knights in Ann Arbor.

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‘M’ returns home for the first time since the loss to Michigan State if O’Korn’s struggles persist.

While the blame doesn’t fall solely on O’Korn’s shoulders, the Wolverines’ passing game has been practically nonexistent of late. And though the running game has stepped up to help close the gap, a onedimensional offense doesn’t equate to a winning formula.

Even if this season isn’t pronounced over yet, Michigan should start looking to its future, especially with the amount of talent it will be returning next season. Peters is a major part of that youth movement.

With Michigan still favored to win, it wouldn’t hurt to see what the Wolverines might have to look forward to at the quarterback position.

2. Will the defense be able to reclaim the top spot in the nation?

In a battle of heavyweights, the Nittany Lions’ offense knocked Michigan’s thentop-ranked defense out cold.

After giving up 42 points and 506 yards last Saturday, the Wolverines’ defense dropped to the fifth spot in the country.

Against Rutgers, Michigan will be eager to return to its prior form. Not only did the Wolverines post a shutout in Piscataway last season, but they have some experience with the type of offensive threat the Scarlet Knights pose. And it has nothing to do with Penn State running back Saquon Barkley.

Through the use of a runheavy approach on offense, Michigan has indirectly prepared its defense to take on Rutgers’ ground game. The Scarlet Knights are ranked 62nd nationally in rushing offense with an average of 167.7 yards per game and a total of 15 touchdowns. For perspective, the Wolverines’ three-back rotation ranks 55th with 173.3 yards per game and 11 scores.

If Michigan can take advantage of that edge, it may

be able to return to its desired position as the best unit in the nation.

3. Can the special teams unit break out big plays?

So far this year, the Wolverines’ special teams unit has teased big-play ability without many dividends — aside from a 79-yard punt return touchdown by freshman receiver Donovan PeoplesJones in the third game of the season.

With freshman defensive back Ambry Thomas now set as Michigan’s kickoff returner, the two Detroit natives have a chance to show off their speed and cutting ability on a consistent basis. While both have provided solid yards after the catch, special teams coordinator Chris Partridge emphasized that the Wolverines are pushing them to be more explosive.

As Partridge explained this week, that will also

take a concerted effort from the blockers. He has been encouraging the unit to step it up a level and make more plays, especially given how close many of the team’s games have been this season.

Chances are, Rutgers will be sending a lot of punts in the direction of Peoples-Jones, but even if things go awry and the Scarlet Knights kick off more than expected, Thomas will be there as well.

4. How will Michigan respond to being back in the Big House?

It has been awhile since the Wolverines played at Michigan Stadium, and it didn’t go very well the last time.

After two consecutive games on the road, the contest against Rutgers will mark three weeks since the Wolverines’ devastating loss to Michigan State. With a homecoming crowd awaiting its return, Michigan will look to rid itself

of those nightmares.

And after the reception they received in front of an all-timerecord crowd at Beaver Stadium, playing in front of their home fans again will be a welcome sight for the Wolverines.

Rutgers at Michigan Matchup: Rutgers 2-2 Big Ten, 3-4 overall; Michigan 2-2, 5-2 When: Saturday 12 P.M. Where: Michigan Stadium TV/Radio: BTN

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Junior receiver Grant Perry and the passing game have underperformed recently, and the offense has suffered as a result. The running game has done its part to cover for it, but the passing game needs to step up.

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