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SEPTEMBER 27: Hundreds of students gather in Bis etum il ius eliquam usaerum eium the Diag to protest over the planned debate on the velicti comnit dunt, tota que consequo is merits of the Black Lives Matter movement. After a essunture dolor molesti beriore, il ea ne debate sponsored by The Michigan Political Union, plab ipsae excero te volorep tation re about 400 students gathered outside the Michigan videndunt omnihil ipienda veliqui nobites League’s Vandenberg Room to demand inclusion et laboriame lantiossunt hil ius arumqui and highlight the importance of black voices.

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NOVEMBER 16: Nearly 1,000 students marched to everum fugitatur si quiae esto blaturem labo. the Diag to protest the presidential election of Donald Itatas mos venis arumnihilla ntentotatem Trump the night after he was elected. Schlissel spoke aut etum hil il mod quam es est as endaesc calling for unity.

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2017 2015 APRIL 29: Bicentennial Commencement

looks back on the University’s 200 years, alongside celebrating Class of 2017’s future.

The event included a series of musical performances, a multimedia presentation and alumni awards to pay tribute to the University’s rich history.

NOVEMBER 9: All University Greek life social activities are suspended. In the midts of hazing and sexual assault allegations, the National Interfraternity Council steps in.

2016 2018

JANUARY 26: LSA student Morgan McCaul discusses her involvement with the Larry Nassar trial after delivering her impact statement at the trial. Nassar is sentenced to 40 to 125 years for sexual abuse.

MARCH 18: Lecturers’ Employee Organization holds march after first open bargaining session with the University. LEO calls for improved job security and wages as 150 lecturers and allies - including students march from the Diag to Palmer Commons.

Community celebrates same-sex marriage ruling liberty, due process,” Stanyar so it’s good for us and for our LARA MOEHLMAN Summer Managing News Editor said. “It was for now, and it’s children.”

As news that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of samesex marriage swept across the U.S. Friday morning, supporters rallied in both downtown Ann Arbor and Washington D.C. in celebration of this historic decision.

The Jim Toy Community Center, an advocacy group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer residents of Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and the greater Washtenaw County area, hosted a “Day of Decision Rally” so supporters could gather in response to the Court’s decision.

After quieting the crowd, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse, one couple represented in the string of cases considered by the Court, offered remarks under rainbow colored streamers during the press conference portion of the event. DeBoer thanked her lawyers for their determination and hard work.

In January 2012, Michigan residents April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court, challenging Michigan’s ban on adoption by same-sex couples.

DeBoer and Rowse separately adopted one son and two daughters, respectively, but were unable to jointly adopt their children because Michigan law did not recognize same-sex marriages, and only granted joint parent adoption rights to married couples.

“It’s been a long, long, hard road,” Deboer said. “It’s been four and a half years in the making… We would not be here if it weren’t for many people, and first and foremost our attorneys: Dana Nessel and Ken Mogill, Bob Sedler and Carole Stanyar.

So I want to thank you guys as well. My last comment is to my beautiful children: We did this for you,” DeBoer said.

Carole Stanyar, one of the attorneys for DeBoer and Rowse, also spoke at the press conference, praising her team and clients for their hard work and resilience. She expressed pride in the accomplishments of her case.

“This was a definitive statement under equal protection, fundamental right,

for future generations. The bans are unconstitutional.

States cannot treat people this way. They cannot treat people unequally. Same-sex couples, their families, their children, have to be treated with dignity and respect,” Stanyar said.

In an interview with the press, Attorney General Bill Schuette said throughout litigations, his main argument challenged who would decide if same-sex marriage should be recognized in different states.

“We argued this case is a question of who decides: the voters across the United States of America, or the Justices of the Supreme Court,” he said.

“It was about voters and who decides, that was what the case was about.”

Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor also offered remarks during the celebration.

In an interview with the Daily, Taylor was enthusiastic about this progressive milestone in Michigan’s history.

“I could not be more excited for the people of Ann Arbor and for all Americans. This is a day when the Supreme Court has redeemed the American promise of equality before the law. It has ratified that gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual people are fully and finally embraced into the American family. It’s just — it’s wonderful,” Taylor said.

Beth Sherman, assistant professor of social work at the University and her wife, Karen Hawver, owner of Precision Accounting in Ann Arbor, attended the celebration and press conference at Braun Court with their two children.

Sherman and Hawver were one of the 300 couples married in Michigan in March 2014 after a U.S. federal judge struck down s the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. Both were excited that the Supreme Court’s decision would further legitimize their marriage.

“We’ve been together for 21 years and we have two kids, and now it just means eventually we’ll be able to both be their legal parents. We were able to marry the one day in Michigan, but now it just means our marriage will be recognized,

University alum Alanna Maguire, a project manager of the National Marriage Challenge, a non-profit committed to legalizing samesex marriage in the U.S., said she was proud of her team.

She also said she was proud of her fiancé Dana Nessel, also a University alum and an attorney for the April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse case. She said she was also excited that she and Nessel could now obtain a marriage license themselves.

“I can get married in my home state. Dana Nessel and I are both from Michigan. We’re both University of Michigan graduates. We love our state. We just wanted to make it better, and I’m so, so proud of Dana particularly today. She carried this case from start to finish,” said Maguire.

Brad O’Connor, president of the Jim Toy Community Center, expressed enthusiasm for his own marriage, which was officiated in Illinois, to be officially recognized in his home state of Michigan.

“It means that...my family, that was only recognized in twothirds of the country, is now recognized nationwide. I can go to Texas or I can go to Louisiana and Maine and California and have my marriage valid there,” said O’Connor.

However, although O’Connor reserved today for celebration, he added that the Supreme Court’s decision resolves only one aspect of the LGBTQ community’s current struggle for equality in the U.S. “This is just something that we check off the list. There’s so much more left to do with regards to bullying in high schools, transgender rights — that’s huge— making sure that we’re protected at work, because we could be fired, still, for being gay. The fight’s not over. It’s just the battle’s won. It’s a big battle, but this battle’s won, and now it’s time to move on and keep fighting,” O’Connor said.

Aside from granting samesex couples the right to marriage, the Supreme Court’s decision could have further legal stipulations on health and work benefits.

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Hundreds walk out to protest Spencer event COLIN BERESFORD Daily Staff Reporter Last week, the University of Michigan administration responded to Richard Spencer’s request to speak on campus, and moved forward to negotiate the event. Today, in protest of the administration refusing to deny the request, students hundreds of walked out of their classes and rallied in the Diag, then marched into other classrooms on campus.

A few hundred students and community members gathered in the University of Michigan Diag at about noon on Wednesday, and after a short rally, marched to the Chemistry Building, Mason Hall and the Fish Bowl in Angell Hall. The rally is part of the #StopSpencer week of action, which includes teach-ins and other forms of protest.

“On Wednesday, November 29 2017, Stop Spencer at the University of Michigan is organizing a student walk out at 11:45 AM in response to the failure of University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel and the Regents to deny white supremacist Richard Spencer’s request to speak on campus,” the Facebook event reads. “We cannot learn in an environment that is constantly disrupting our learning by threatening our safety and dehumanizing us.”

On Nov. 21, the University said it was going to proceed with Spencer’s request to speak on campus, given the administration can ensure the safety of students. In an emergency meeting of the

University’s Board of Regents, University President Mark Schlissel laid out “three components” to the decision: the safety of students, protecting free speech in a democratic society, and that denying the request would give more attention to Spencer and his cause. Schlissel repeatedly said safety must be guaranteed in order for the event to take plcae.

LSA senior and organizer Hoai An Pham said, however, in a speech to the protesters in the Diag the walk out wasn’t just in protest to the University’s response last week.

“This week is not just about protesting Spencer coming here, it’s about protesting white supremacy and it’s about protesting the administration’s lackluster response, inactive, bystander response to a literal white supremacist coming on this campus,” Pham said. “The thing is here too, on this campus every single day, on a regular basis we have hate crimes that are coming.”

Spencer’s representative first requested he speak on the University’s campus at the end of October. This request came after Spencer had requested to speak at several other universities, including Michigan State University and University of Florida. The University of Florida initially denied a request from Spencer, but after being threatened with a lawsuit, relented and allowed Spencer to speak in October.

On Aug. 17, a statement released from the Office of the President at Michigan State University declared MSU

would deny the National Policy Institute’s request to rent space on campus. The NPI is a white nationalist think tank led by Spencer. MSU now faces a lawsuit for not allowing Spencer to speak.

The lawyer representing Spencer threatened to sue the University earlier in November if it did not accommodate Spencer’s request, giving the administration a week deadline to make a decision.

This deadline has since been extended until Dec. 8.

Previously, University Regent Ron Weiser (R) said in an email Spencer was “a dangerous and disgusting man.”

University Regent Denise Illitch (D), however, was the only regent opposing the decision last week, stating while free speech is a concern of hers, the violence that accompanies Spencer must be considered.

“Unfortunately, I do not agree with the University of Michigan administration,” she said. “While I am a staunch proponent of the First Amendment, and stand firmly in support of our constitution, I remain very concerned that it is unsafe to allow him to speak at the University of Michigan.

Violence follows him wherever he goes.”

LSA senior Kim Truong, said free speech should not justify the administration potentially allowing space on campus for Spencer to speak.

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Game over: the historical Michigan Time eliminated MAYA GOLDMAN Daily News Editor LSA sophomore Lexi Michaels wasn’t expecting to be late to her Psychology 280 exam. In fact, she thought she was early.

But when she walked into the testing accommodations room a few minutes after 2:30 — she’d run there right from her last class — she realized the exam was not being administered on Michigan time, and everyone else had already started.

“My expectation was that it would (start on Michigan time), because that’s what most of my classes and exams start on, even if they’re in a testing accommodations room,” Michaels said. “And it didn’t. I walked in really flustered. I was like, ‘Are they going to let me take the exam?’”

After the initial scare, everything turned out fine for Michaels. She was still given a full two hours to take her exam, and no one was angry at her for

coming in late. However, start time confusion is common at the University of Michigan, and the administration has decided it’s time to take action.

Starting May 1, no University classes will run on Michigan time, the 10 minute late-start built into most undergraduate classes at the University.

Michigan time is a University tradition that dates back to the 1930s. Students and professors used to time their classes according to the chimes of the Burton Tower at the beginning of each hour, and Michigan time was officially adopted to allow students to get from class to class without being late.Now, to allow for students to get to backto-back classes, all classes will stop 10 minutes before the hour.

Though administrators have been talking about removing Michigan time for many years now — University Provost Martin Philbert said there have been conversations since he came to the University in 1995

— this is the first time anything conclusive has passed. The change will start in May for the Spring and Summer terms, so any unexpected kinks can be worked out before the Fall 2018 semester.

“The freshmen will come in not knowing a time we had it,” Philbert said.

According to Philbert, it was a “tradition born out of necessity.”

Now, however, some see the once-crucial tradition as a hindrance. Many newer University schools never adopted it, and Patricia Hurn, dean of the School of Nursing, told The Daily in an email Michigan time was never an option for the Nursing School.

“The major reason our classes have not used Michigan Time is because we are a clinical discipline,” Hurn wrote.

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1,000 students gather on Diag protesting Trump TIM COHN & NISA KHAN Daily Staff Reporters Nearly a thousand people gathered on the Diag and marched through University of Michigan buildings for a student walk-out protest against racism on campus following President-elect Donald Trump’s upset win Wednesday afternoon, briefly shutting down traffic.

The walkout, which was organized by the student organization Students4Justice, was also attended by civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson and was part of a national movement of walkouts across the country.

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

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

The demands include calls

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

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

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

Protesters also cited a number

of recent campus concerns during the walkout, including the two hate crimes in downtown Ann Arbor that have been reported to police since Trump’s presidential win last week. On Friday, a woman was threatened and forced to remove her hijab. On Saturday, a woman was pushed down a hill and verbally harassed.

Additionally, many speakers discussed anti-Black, antiLGBTQ and anti-Muslim posters, many of them promoting themes of white supremacy, that have been found posted on campus several times in the past few months.

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

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

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

yelled negative chants about CSG during the walkout.Following their initial assembly on the Diag at 3 p.m., with many students walking directly out of classes, the protesters marched throughout Central Campus, also entering buildings and encouraging others to join them.

As the march moved through campus, student organizers, as well as Jackson, led the crowd in a number of chants condemning racism, sexism, islamophobia and xenophobia.

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

“Thanks for stepping up and fighting back,” Jackson told the crowd. “Do not let any election oppress your dreams … Red, yellow, black and white, you are all precious in God’s sight. We must learn to live together. This land is a land of multiculturalism.”

Chanting with the crowd, he expressed solidarity with individuals who have felt marginalized in the past months, including Black, Muslim and Mexican-American students.

“We are all sanctuary,” he said.

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

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

After walking through several buildings, a brief moment of silence was held at Burton Memorial Tower, during which students told stories about their own personal struggles. At the end of the walkout, organizers asked for white supporters to block State Street so protesters could safely gather at Angell Hall for a speakout.

During the protest, white students were asked by organizers to peacefully block the roads and talk to the police to protect the lives of brown and Black people, who organizers said were more likely to be targeted at student gatherings. Rackham student Vikrant Garg, a walkout organizer, asked for a nonviolent protest and for all students involved to march peacefully.

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

violent acts you may commit will, in the end, hurt us the most.”

The walkout is one of the largest events to take place after the election on campus. On election night, an impromptu vigil consisting of roughly 30 students coalesced on the Diag at about 3 a.m., an hour after Trump was declared victorious. The next night, a vigil attended by about 1,000 students took place, during which University President Mark Schlissel and CSG President David Schafer, an LSA senior, called for campus unity and inclusivity. Multiple protests against the president-elect and in reaction to the hate crimes has since occurred.

At the walkout, LSA junior Victoria Johnson said she came to the event to help draw the administration’s attention about the problems facing minorities on campus.

“These problems have been boiling up for a long time — this isn’t anything new,” she said. “But I think the election, I think what happened, has been tipping the scale. Now these people who have always been against the rights for me and my rights and who I stand as a person, my identity. They feel empowered to speak out and act on these hateful feelings they have.

Student kneels on Diag against anti-black racism LARA MOEHLMAN Summer Managing News Editor Responding to recent racist events on campus and a national controversy brewing around NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem, Rackham student Dana Greene kneeled at the block ‘M’ in the Diag starting at 7 a.m. Monday morning. As of 9 p.m. on Monday afternoon, Greene remained on the Diag, with plans to complete a full 24-hours of kneeling.

“I’ve been on this campus for five years, I did my undergraduate here and each year the campus climate has gotten worse and worse,” Greene said. “The recent election, the man who holds the highest office the land, the president of the United States (Donald Trump), has made this issue even worse.”

Close to 100 students, faculty and staff knelt with Greene throughout the day, with many more standing around the block ‘M’ on the Diag in solidarity. By the afternoon, protesters had two tents pitched above their heads and dozens of cartons of water bottles at their feet.

University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel wrote in a statement that though he is offcampus on University business, he supports Greene’s protest and will meet with him “as soon as he is back on campus.” Schlissel and Greene spoke by phone early in the afternoon.

“I share with many the belief that our nation does not always live up to its highest ideals, including the equal rights we hold dear,” Schlissel wrote. “To me, the American Flag represents many things, including those very rights.

I support (Greene’s) right to engage in peaceful protest.”

Greene continued, adding Trump’s policies and responses have made it harder to be a Black person in the United States.

“He’s made it harder for people who look like me and don’t look like me to walk this campus, to feel comfortable in our own skin and I’m here to tell him, and our own campus president that what we are dealing with is not OK,” Greene said. “It’s not right. If I have to sit here until my knees bleed, then that’s what I’m going to do.”

In a letter addressed to Schlissel that circulated around the Diag, Greene traced his experiences with racism in his five years on campus.

“I have crossed the fountain in Ingalls Mall as an incoming freshman and as a graduate,” he wrote. “I have watched as antiMuslim, anti-Black, anti-Latinx, and anti-immigrant rhetoric has raced across our campus and across our country...I am no longer numb but instead I will use this moment in time to make a statement.”

E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, said she was proud of the students who were protesting that morning.

“I think that (I am proud of), not only the student who chose to take a knee, but also all the students — how they feel about equality in our country and also at our University. I am just glad to be here to be in support and make sure everything goes well. I couldn’t be more pleased, actually,” she said.

She also touched upon how the University is responding to student concerns.

“I feel like we’ve been responsive in terms of showing up and talking to students,” she said. “I think that what we do in the next two weeks is not really the answer, it’s what we do after, because this is long-term work, and it’s work we’re going to have to do as a community. There’s nothing you can do short-term about a long term problem, and racism is a long-term problem. We all just have to keep working on it.

So this gives me hope that we can

do that together.”

Last year, Colin Kaepernick, former quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, was the first professional athlete to take a knee during the national anthem to draw attention to anti-Black racism and police brutality in the United States. Trump blasted Kaepernick in a speech this weekend, telling owners to “get that son of a bitch off the field right now.”

“What Colin Kaepernick did last year, taking a knee, wasn’t to disrespect the troops. In fact, I think I’m honoring the troops right now because they gave me the right to do this. My father served in the military, and … this isn’t disrespecting the flag, this is honoring it,” Greene said. “If Black people can get killed in this country and not get any justice for their lives, for their murder, then that’s disrespecting the flag.”

Following the white nationalist

groups protesting the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general, in Charlottesville, Va., President Trump blamed “all sides” for the violence that occurred, which received a great deal of backlash.

“If the president of the United States can equate peaceful protesters with KKK members and the alt-right, that is disrespecting the flag,” Greene explained. “This is not disrespecting the flag, and I’m doing this for every student on this campus that has ever felt like they didn’t belong here, any person in this country who felt like they didn’t belong here.”

In the morning, Greene said he was surprised Schlissel could not come to the Diag. Throughout the afternoon, administrators including E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life; Provost Martin Philbert; Dean of Students

Laura Blake Jones; and Chief Diversity Officer Robert Sellers stood at the edge of the Diag.

“I’ve been out here since 7 o’clock, it’s damn near 90 degrees out here, the president of the campus ain’t even showed up. So how much is my life worth?” Greene said. “He can come out here, but that’s not going to send me home. That’s a start.”

Many ordered rounds of pizza to the protestors, and Counseling and Pyschological Services distributed yoga mats to those kneeling.

Central Student Government President Anushka Sarkar, LSA senior, tweeted solidarity with students protesting.

LSA sophomore Jamaal Stewart joined other students to kneel at the Diag.

“I’ve known Dana for just one day, but we’re all here together in solidarity for everything that’s going on in general in the country, and now on campus,” he said. “We’re all

standing together because we need to be respected. There’s too much injustice on campus as well as in America. I have class at like 5 (p.m.), but I don’t even know if I’m going to go. I might just stay out here.”

LSA junior Samaria Landers said she came because she was concerned with campus climate.

“We don’t feel safe in class, we don’t feel safe in the dorms, we don’t feel safe in our apartments.

We’re being targeted as a racial group,” she said. “(Greene) said his goals were to bring awareness to all minorities on campus, and it is really unified over there, really diverse, and I think he’s really highlighting that. I just want it to be an open, comfortable space where we can all learn. We’re supposed to be here to learn and we have to go to class and worry about racism.

If people have to be punished for what they’ve done, then that’s what I want.”

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JANUARY: The University of Michigan kicks off its Bicentennial year with a variety of events and celebrations across campus.

NOVEMBER 16: With the suspension of University Greek Life, after a slew of sexual assault accusations, students across campus questioned the social structure on campus and the role of the Interfraternity Council in its creation. The Daily called on the IFC to be more transparent and provide a concrete plan of action to combat the questionable behavior that has plauged the organization.

2018 JAN 25: The Michigan Daily’s Editorial Board stands in solidarity with those affected by the crimes of Larry Nassar.

APRIL 16: The Daily highlights the Stop the Straw initiative in Ann Arbor. Contributors discuss their work with Grizzly Peak Brewing Company and Frita Batidos, two staple Ann Arbor establishments, to eradicate the unassuming, yet dangerous, plastic straw.

The bullets that are Does our bicentennial all over Ann Arbor matter to you? It should BRETT GRAHAM Columnist 2015

News has been pouring out of Ann Arbor all summer. No matter how far away you were from hoMe, whether you were studying abroad in Barcelona, interning on Wall Street, waiting tables on Main Street or simply soaking up the sun on the shores of Lake Michigan, no Wolverine could bear four months without checking in on their beloved campus. Between the dawning of the Harbaugh Era, the opening of Mcity and the renovations on North Campus, the summer of 2015 was by no means uneventful. One Ann Arbor resident, Joshua Wade, has been particularly busy.

In June, Wade filed a lawsuit against the University (which by itself is not entirely rare). This case, however, has nothing to do with affirmative action or sexual misconduct. This case is about gun control.

Wade’s charge is simple: University policy states that no weapons can be carried on University campuses by anyone other than law enforcement or the military. To Wade, this policy violates the rights he finds in both the United States and Michigan constitutions. He carries weapons for the defense of himself and his loved ones and “just want(s) U-M to come into compliance with state law,” because “police unfortunately can’t be everywhere … they can’t protect everyone, as evidenced by the fact that crime happens.” University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald issued a statement shortly thereafter announcing that the administration will “vigorously defend” their policy as a matter of safety.

Most observers of this case will be able to see the merits of each side of the argument, the complex conflict of interest between Mr. Wade’s Second Amendment rights and the University’s desire to ensure the safety of its students. But in this case, there are not two sides. Contrary to popular opinion and the agenda perpetuated by thousands of gun advocates in America today, this case should be a no-contest, easy win for the University.

Because when it comes to his rights, Mr. Wade is absolutely and without a doubt dead wrong.

Let’s break down the argument in this case. The University cannot ban the possession of weapons on campus because the Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, right? Wrong, and for more than one reason.

If Joshua Wade read the exact phrasing of his legal argument, he would see that the amendment begins: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free

State…” To the founders, the right to bear arms was exercised at Lexington and Concord, not by Mr. Wade at the corner of Liberty and State Street.

Not until 2008 did the Supreme Court recognize the right to bear arms as one belonging to the individual. Not 1908, but 2008 — the year President Obama was elected and the No. 1 song on the charts was “Low” by Flo Rida. Up until then, in Washington D.C. and in school zones around the country, there were local bans on owning a firearm until cases like D.C. v. Heller and United States v. Lopez at the Supreme Court changed this (though dissent remains).

Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of conservatives on the issue of guns is the widespread oversimplification of what the Second Amendment says. Americans like Mr. Wade tend to adopt summarized views of the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment gives me the right to free speech, the Second Amendment says I can bear arms, etc. Reading opinions from the Supreme Court, however, this is hardly the case.

“The Gun Lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud … on the American People … that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies — the militia — would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires.”

And this wasn’t one of your run-of-themill liberal justices. This came from Warren Burger, stalwart conservative from the Midwest.

Even if the Second Amendment read as simply as most people imagine it does, they would still have a problem. As awesome as Americans see themselves, no right is absolute. Look no further than the conservative author of the opinion in the District of Columbia v. Heller decision, Justice Antonin Scalia. “Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited.

It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”

Misconceptions have made guns an integral part of our Constitution, and this delusion has gone too far for too long. Why Wade cannot see how a community that is often plagued by sexual assault, depression and inebriated college kids would have an interest in decreasing the number of guns on campus is beyond me. Read the amendment for yourself and know that gun control is not a liberal fantasy, but a modern imperative.

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LUCAS MAIMAN Columnist 2017

At first glance, the University (and only the University) causes the stress that defines many parts of our college lives. That stress has translated to action many times over; it seems that every other week, some coalition of students expresses its grievances toward University of Michigan President Schlissel.

This academic year has been no different. In September there began more of a push to rename the C.C. Little Science Building; in October, Charles Murray; and this month, perhaps as a chaser for the acrimonious start to the year, East Quad Residence Hall dining hours. At the University, when students detect so much as a drop of blood shed by the University, you can say goodbye to nuance.

Outrage and oppression take the wheel.

I myself am not entirely blameless of this mindset. I have been contemptuous of the University in the past; a few of my columns have even dealt with problems that I believe the University should address.

Nor do I believe students must always acquiesce to the University. We pay a premium to attend the University of Michigan. There is something to be said about ensuring we have the best experiences here.

But is our university really so broken that we must harp on its small shortcomings, rather than its years of triumph? Must the student body so frequently drive a wedge between itself and the University?

On both counts, I found myself answering in the negative. I arrived at this answer not out of disdain, but from my Twitter feed. It was on my Twitter feed where, proudly displayed on the University’s Twitter account, I saw an homage to Janaki Ammal, the first woman to earn a U.S. doctorate in botany.

In the backdrop of our own seemingly taxing lives at the University, consider Ammal’s life. Ammal, one of 19 children, was born and raised in India.

Although she was arranged to marry her first cousin, Ammal instead left for the United States after she earned a prestigious Barbour Scholarship from the University of Michigan. At the University, she first earned her master’s degree in 1925 and then her doctorate in botany in 1931.

She then returned to Coimbatore, India, where she used her expertise in cytogenetics to create a highyielding strain of sugarcane that thrived in Indian conditions. Shortly thereafter in 1935, Ammal was invited to be a research fellow at the Indian Academy of Sciences, but her status as a single woman of a low caste forced her to move to London to continue her research. Working in London during World War II, Ammal would describe to friends how she would dive under her bed during German night bombings and continue with her research the next day.

Stories of University alumni like Ammal put our own lives in perspective. Ammal used the University to explore and to innovate. For Ammal, the University was not an infringer, an impediment or an institution confining us to our daily routines. The University was instead a bridge, moving her from poverty in India to international acclaim in the sciences. For those of us

today who inevitably hail from more fortunate backgrounds, Ammal’s story still offers valuable lessons, like the need to step back and considers the University’s storied history before embarking on our own diatribes.

Lessons like these hold true in the stories of the other impressive alumni emblazoning the University’s Twitter feed. There were the familiar names, of course, like Desmond Howard, the University’s stud wide receiver who won the Heisman in 1991, and Larry Page, the co-founder of Google. But the University predominantly celebrated some of its less well-known, but equally impressive alumni like Ammal. There was William Mayo, who co-founded the Mayo Clinic in 1889; Frances E. Allen, the first woman to win the Turing Award for her highspeed computing innovations; and Robert Shiller, who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in economics.

For the unaware, the surge in alumni acknowledgments and folklore comes as the University celebrates its Bicentennial. The University has used the hashtag #umich200 to honor alumni like Ammal, Howard and Mayo.

For the cynics on campus, the Bicentennial is easy fodder. A cursory look at the Bicentennial celebration flatly reads as another distraction to dodge on the walk through the Diag. And, for that matter, is this even the University’s true Bicentennial?

A little research reveals that yes, it is in fact the University’s true Bicentennial, and, yes, the Bicentennial celebration is more than a Diag nuisance. If it were not for the University’s prolonged celebration of its Bicentennial, perhaps the stories of Janaki Ammal, William Mayo or Frances E. Allen would have remained sparsely told. If nothing else, the Bicentennial celebration has done a commendable job in acknowledging our University’s history.

Possessing a deeper understanding and knowledge of the University’s history helps us when we feel tempted to lash out at the University. For the students who feel bogged down by the stresses of University life and for those who feel the need to issue demands toward President Schlissel, the Bicentennial reminds us that our most notable alumni worked with the University rather than in opposition.

It does not invalidate our rights as students on campus.

We deserve the best here, and it is within our jurisdiction to hold the University to the best standards. But celebrations like the Bicentennial that honor people like Janaki Ammal should give us perspective on how lucky we are to be at this University. There is a wealth of potential for us to seize on campus.

And while protest is a right guaranteed to us all, something I touched upon in a previous column, we would do better to remember the great people and the storied history of our University. We are a part of the University, not a foil to it. Consider the role of the University in the life of alumni that the Bicentennial has illuminated. Appreciate that we go to a University that takes pride in alumni like Janaki Ammal — not all schools celebrate their history.

Ally with the University and who knows, maybe when the tricentennial comes along, you, too, will be mentioned in kind.

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Why we need the millennial vote TYLER SCOTT Columnist 2015

The last time a president was elected, millennials didn’t have the impact on the election they probably wished they had.

According to the Pew Research Center’s analysis of a 2013 U.S. Census Bureau report, America’s generation of adults born after 1980 accounted for 25.5 percent of eligible voters, and that portion should increase. As millennials grow older, the report states, their share of the electorate is expected to blossom to 36.5 percent by 2020.

As the political relevance of millennials grows, it will be interesting to see how they shape 2016 and future election cycles. The colleges and universities of America have a long-established tradition as hotbeds for political debate.

However, assuming their advisers had the foresight to glance at the voting data from the 2012 election, politicians today probably do not seek out university venues in the hopes of reaching out to young constituents.

Pew also reports that 41.2 percent of eligible voters aged 18 to 24 turned in a ballot in 2012 — more than a 7.3-percent decrease from 2008.

This pales in stark comparison to the 71.9 percent of Americans aged 65 and older who cast ballots in 2012, for example.

Look around Ann Arbor today.

Campaign signs are cropping up like weeds amid the flyers and sidewalk billboards that perennially bloom on campus.

It’s clearly evident that “Feel The Bern” and “Ready for Hillary” signage is more prevalent here than “Make America Great Again.” The one time I did see a Donald Trump T-shirt, it was coupled with a Hawaiian one, and I assumed it was worn ironically.

As the Republican Party continues to implode, someone has been canvassing the University with Democratic catchphrases. We know it isn’t the students, because if one applies Pew’s report to the University’s population, it seems like less than half of them care enough to vote.

Whoever the friendly neighborhood Democrat may be, he or she seems to be having an effect on the national stage. Friday, the New York Times announced that two and a half weeks before the first Democratic debate, Bernie Sanders has built a strong lead in the New Hampshire primary polls that will hold even if Vice President Joe Biden were to throw his hat in the ring.

The resiliency of Sanders’ campaign is impressive for a man who paints himself so vividly as a far-left socialist. In the Fox News era of journalism, where news outlets are more concerned with political ideology than the standards of ethical journalism, it’s remarkable that Sanders hasn’t been scorned as an enemy of the state or something similarly ridiculous.

No doubt that Sanders benefits from being a white man. If he

were a minority or a woman, his campaign and position on issues would be bombarded by attacks from conservatives like Donald Trump, who appear to chase doses of xenophobia with a swig of misogyny at breakfast time.

It’s tiring to explain again how Sanders is a socialist on a mission to take the money power out of politics and Wall Street. With so much time remaining before the primary election, it seems repetitive, but it’s important.

The early success of Sanders’ campaign is a political miracle that will only grow more impressive the longer his current uptick in popularity maintains. To paraphrase the activist Saul Alinsky: Money and people are the two sources of political power.

Sanders has alienated himself from big-money politics, more so than anyone on the conservative side of the aisle, more so than Hillary Clinton. And this is what may cost Sanders as the election grows nearer.

In a typical campaign, candidates spend months and millions convincing voters to believe in them. Sanders must spend his time convincing those who believe in him to vote at all. His status in the polls is impressive, but they’re generated by research groups seeking responses.

CNN might just come to your house, or at least call you up on the phone, to see which candidate you’re leaning toward at the moment, but voting is a totally voluntary task. If you don’t take the initiative to cast a ballot on Election Day, you won’t be getting a call from the county clerk.

Everyone but the government might ask you how you’ll vote next election season.

The worst-case scenario for Sanders is if the ones spreading his leaflets across the country and this campus are the college students — young people filled with ideals, but who can’t find their way to the voting booth. It’s interesting to consider exactly why a 74-year-old senator resonates so loudly with the youthful masses, but that’s another conversation all together.

Because Sanders’ name doesn’t have serious financial backing (by choice of his own), he relies solely on the support of real ballots. Point is, the hashtags are helpful for now, but they won’t get Sanders the Democratic nomination. Millennials are a growing percentage of potential voters, and the most likely to voice their support of a candidate online, but they still have disappointingly low voter turnout.

Separate from the politician, Sanders’ idea of the taking money out of politics serves the best interest of every individual who doesn’t own or operate a super PAC. What Sanders is preaching is that he won’t be bought or influenced by anyone.

Millennials eligible to vote should do the same. Cut through gross political spending by casting ballots — not for Sanders, necessarily, but for positive self-interest.

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Architecture and sound in the work of Kanye West SHAYAN SHAFII Daily Arts Writer

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‘Blonde’ is the thoughtful answer to Ocean’s silence ANAY KATYAL

Co-Managing Arts Editor 2017

Four years wrought with a fusion of anticipation, fear, excitement and anger defined Frank Ocean’s industry-deafening absence — and aptly so. Ocean’s debut album unmasked a previously little-known, alternative R&B artist as the genre’s saving grace. With his generation-defining sounds conveying elements of youthful, emotional malaise, Ocean’s knack for storytelling became an outlet for listeners’s modern-day qualms and quandaries — a form of therapy in a comfortable and meditative space. He crooned about sadness, love, anger and addiction, all the while garnering (musical) addicts of his own. For an artist who provided “the culture” with far more than it deserved, the culture responded by chomping at the bit for Frank to provide even more.

Ironically enough, Frank Ocean’s selfexiling at the hands of the public’s demands for more music resulted in an album rich in meaning, but far from convention or expectation.

Prolonged artistic respites are seen as worrisome, especially in a time when some artists literally litter their discographies with albums rather than risk losing relevancy.

After the responsibility of representing his race and sexuality was thrust upon him (largely on the volition of the public rather than his own), no one knew what to expect from his absence — that being the most worrisome aspect of it all.

As easily as he could match Channel Orange, Ocean could very well come back like Kid Cudi, delivering unlistenable music on the back of unreasonable expectations and fervent media hype. And when Ocean resurfaced from his artistic slumber with the release of Endless, a 45-minute video of Ocean constructing a spiral staircase set to a fragmented smorgasbord of neo-soul, what people heard was promising, but far from the cohesive experience they were expecting. When Ocean’s actual long-awaited studio album arrived less than 48 hours later, expectations weren’t exactly met either — what seemed like an amalgamation of wispy sounds and fragmented lyrics were all Ocean had to

show following his return.

Despite one’s personal leanings toward the album, Blonde is undoubtedly one of the more enigmatic albums to surface in the past few years. Signature sounds that characterized Ocean’s earlier discography are gone, exchanged for hazy and muted string-heavy ballads and spectral lyrics. Tucked in between these songs are sobering skits that reflect Ocean’s own sentiments concerning love and youth in the modern age, ranging from an impassioned voicemail from Ocean’s own mother lecturing him about drug use, to French DJ SebastiAn recounting a humorous anecdote about Facebook ruining one of his past relationships.

Themes and motifs of the album overlap with parts of Channel Orange, but in

tasked with outro vocals on “Pink + White,” and Kendrick Lamar quietly whispers along with Ocean on “Skyline To,” taking more stagehand-like roles while Ocean conducts a show of his own making.

The way Ocean paints Blonde shows that no voice is more important than his own when it comes to the stories he tells.

Blonde doesn’t lend itself as a platform for large, gestural political statements, a likely intentional move on Ocean’s part. Where Channel Orange takes on a musical journey outlining the modern millennial condition, Blonde functions as stark selfportraiture through music.

Ocean covers his race and sexuality on parts of the album, but also answers to lost friends and admired legends (“Pour up for A$AP [Yams] // RIP Pimp C”). On the graces of the platform Channel Orange provided him, Ocean crafts a project that singularly embodies himself beyond much else — rather than a vignette of stories defining the collective millennial psyche, he emotionally describes (and largely recants) his own life as a member of the same generation, wallowing over lost love and selfalienation. Ocean comes back to the forefront of music sounding as withered as he does comfortable in himself and his identity, especially compared to his Channel Orange days.

To appreciate Blonde means understanding the reason behind its unabashedly raw nature.

On Channel Orange, Ocean sings for love, but now he ruminates for years gone by. Nostalgia serves as one of the centers of this album — nostalgia for lost love, for drinking with friends, for “simpler days.”

Frank Ocean made Blonde for himself, and for his very real experiences and sentiments. Where Channel Orange plays to a room full of people, on Blonde Ocean sings to himself — and despite that, it’s the closest we get to empathizing with Ocean’s words, and it’s the most sobering image we can get of what it means to be a member of his generation.

Blonde chronicles the motions of a life like Ocean’s, laying bare his plucked heartstrings for all to see. Life isn’t clear, nor is it ever perfect. Frank Ocean manages to paint that with more candor and honesty than most artists have ever managed.

Nostalgia serves as one of the centers of this album — nostalgia for lost love, for drinking with friends, for simpler days. ways uncharacteristic of the more pronounced sounds of Ocean’s past projects.

Things concern Frank, and only Frank, on Blonde.

Deep introspection is bandied about on the album rather than the emotional anthems that encapsulated much of Channel Orange. A first impression of Blonde can paint it as worryingly subversive, almost akin to the unabashed creative liberties undertaken

by Radiohead in their production of Kid A, an album that shook the foundation of its own genre for good reason. Fluid, minimalist, lush and eerily emotional, both albums are almost one and the same in that respect. Waiting for a four-year silence to be broken is torture enough, but to be delivered a project as unexpected as Blonde can only compound that.

All that considered, allowing shock to set its tone would be unjust for the album that Blonde fleshes itself out to be. The album boasts prestigious collaborators, from the likes of Beyonce and James Blake to more outré personalities like Swedish rapper Yung Lean, many of them characterizing the sonically rich nature of the project, all while staying subtle enough to allow Ocean to dictate much of the foreground of the album. Beyonce is

For all of his efforts at building one of the greatest decadespanning runs in music history, there’s no doubt that the Kanye West Experience has always been about more than the music.

There is neither focal point nor distraction: Everything ranging from the brash interviews to the designer album covers contributes to a career-spanning performance art piece.

Even before the barrel of the media followed his every move, Kanye’s relentless personal development has always had architectural undertones. Before he was a Kardashian, he was a clumsy college dropout, packaging chipmunk-soul in Beaux-Arts frames. Late Registration shows his now-iconic bear mascot peeking out from the doors of a stone cathedral. It should have been no surprise when he performed select tracks from the album with a full

orchestra at Abbey Road Studios.

The Glow In The Dark Tour seemed to hyperextend Takashi Murakami’s vision of “Superflat” into a synesthetic cannon. A film he directed for Cruel Summer was projected on seven screens, superimposed on a pyramidshaped pavilion designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas.

Every Kanye West album is an extension of a school of thought that transcends the realm of music.

Where Kanye travels to and creates his music is, in my opinion, the greatest indication of the space he intends for it to occupy.

He took a sabbatical in Rome before creating My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, dabbled in Japan during the Graduation era and made The Life of Pablo in Calabasas. It shows.

Yeezus, on the other hand, was recorded in between a notoriously stark Manhattan loft, and an apartment in Paris’s 16th Arrondissement. Now imagine Rick Rubin, and his beard, in

either of those settings. Nice.

Like all Kanye albums, Yeezus is no exception in being a product of its environment. The relationship is sometimes hilariously direct.

In the same interview with Caramanica, West revealed that he recorded in the living room of his Paris loft — which had “the worst acoustics possible” — and thus the songs “had to be super simple, because if you turned up some complicated sound and a track with too much bass, it’s not going to work in that space.”

This is, by definition, engineering music for the space you intend for it to occupy.

The Le Corbusier citation for Yeezus is most interesting because it’s his most explicit architectural reference yet, and I find it to be worth considerable investigation in linking Yeezus to one of the most influential architectural movements and schools of all time: The Bauhaus.

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‘Phantom Thread’ calls the curtain for Day-Lewis SYDNEY COHEN Daily Arts Writer

Daniel Day-Lewis is regarded as one of Hollywood’s most versatile and skilled character actors. In the wake of his recent announcement that he is retiring from acting, the State Theater commemorated his legacy by screening a series of his most celebrated performances.

The series began with “My Left Foot” (1989) — the movie that earned Day-Lewis his first Oscar for his incredibly challenging role of Christy Brown, an artist with cerebral palsy. In an almost complete role reversal, the following film “The Last of the Mohicans” (1992) spotlights Day-Lewis as a hunky, tanned leading man, the adopted son of the Mohican tribe who fights in the French and Indian War, with a luxurious mass of hair and a deeply V-necked blouse. In the third film, “In the Name of the Father” (1993), Day-Lewis again proves his talent and intrigue as an actor, depicting the emotional turmoil of the wrongly convicted Gerry Conlon in the aftermath of the IRA terrorist attack in 1974.

These first three films are all solid and interesting performances by Day-Lewis, ones that put him on the map as a skilled and promising actor.

But it’s not until “Gangs of New York” (2002) that Day-Lewis embodies the performative streak that becomes his legacy.

In Scorsese’s chaotic and enduring portrayal of urban criminality and immigrant factionism, Day-Lewis plays the brutal but charismatic war chief of Old New York, hovering between flamboyant charm and deranged bloodlust. Next in the film series was the critically acclaimed Spielberg film “Lincoln” (2012), where DayLewis becomes unrecognizable as the titular 16th president, wholly embodying Lincoln’s voice, mannerisms and magnetic presence. The series rounded out with Paul Thomas Anderson’s “There Will Be Blood” (2007), where Day-Lewis plays a more subdued but power-hungry oil magnate in the black gold frenzy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Arguably his most compelling performance, Day-

Lewis’s seedy lust for wealth and his indifference to being soaked in oil is absolutely mesmerizing.

Day-Lewis’s acting career is a collection of unbelievably taxing and impressive roles, each demanding a deeply complex and fully imagined person. He is one of Hollywood’s greatest, proving time and time again his ability to completely embody his role, including his immersive method acting preparation (he hunted game to prep for “Mohicans” and shadowed a butcher for “Gangs of New York”). With heavy hearts,

the film community says goodbye to this master of the silver screen; Day-Lewis officially announced his retirement from acting, with his newest film “Phantom Thread” as his swan song.

In “Phantom Thread,” DayLewis undertakes the most challenging and most subdued role of his career. He plays Reynolds Woodcock, a polished, elegant designer of women’s couture.

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BBUM: A Forgotten History LORNA BROWN MiC Senior Editor

“It is hard adjusting here because there are so many people who do not look like me, and the first thing people do is judge me by my appearance, my skin color.”

When asked what was the hardest part of their first year at the University of Michigan, every Black student responded with this answer in one way or another.

Your melanin-enriched skin is a target you carry with you each day of your life. What separates you from the crowd of people you pass on the Diag, what makes you the only person in your chemistry class and what narrows you down to 5 percent on a campus of about 46,000. Your Blackness is something the world will never let you forget, especially on a campus where there are few spaces for your Blackness to be unapologetically itself.

However, life was not always like this…

The year is 1979 and the Black population is 8 percent at the University, near double today’s.

It was a group effort across campus: The Black Student Union, the Black Law Student Association, the Association of Black Social Work Students and Black students from the University medical and psychology schools. Each organization came together to create the Black Action Movement (BAM) to manifest change for students who faced marginalization for their skin color on a daily basis. They demanded the University increase the Black population to 10 percent, in order to reflect the state of Michigan’s Black resident population at the time, and to

overall increase the representation and awareness of Black students on campus.

Through strikes that often lasted up to a week and protests with students passionately holding signs and chanting, seven years of enraged passion at the University’s failure to create a campus for students of color were finally recognized.

Professors canceled classes until students’ demands were met and the faculty and staff worked to create changes that were insisted after years of failure to recognize their Black students. Lasting from 1970 to 1987, BAM I, BAM II and BAM III progressively worked to increase the Black population and bring attention to the concerns of harassment, racial tension and discrimination on campus.

Though the University never did reach 10 percent enrollment, programs like the multicultural lounges in each dorm and living/learning communities exclusively for Black students arose as a result of the BAM movements that took place in the early ’80s — places like the Ambatana Lounge in South Quad Residence Hall. Black students finally had spaces to escape from the everyday racism of campus — spaces just for us.

Spades, UNO and of course … the kid that flipped the Monopoly board over because he did not want to pay rent to the rest of his opponents. This was how my parents met.

Long nights in the Ambatana Lounge in South Quad. Spontaneous step-shows between rival Greek organizations in the middle of Angell Hall as students walked to class. Soul Train Lines that formed on Friday nights in the cafeteria of Mary Markley Residence Hall.

Basketball courts full of late night pickup games. These were unforgettable

memories for students like my parents.

They found camaraderie in the living communities that brought Black students together from different parts of the country. Through funded trips to attend movie premieres and snacks for their lounges provided by the council, the Black community grew closer.

Black history at the University of Michigan is complicated, affirmative action ended in 2006 and the Supreme Court upheld the ban after a momentous 6-2 vote. The Black population at the University dropped dramatically, and with that came the end of an era.

The Black living/learning communities that created friendships among Black students who lived just across the hall from each other disappeared. The lounges that were once centralized places for Black students to easily socialize with others of their own community until the early hours of the morning slowly grew empty. This is a result of the scattering of Black students across campus. With the loss of the living communities, connections that were formed by living next door to one another were broken. It was much harder to meet Black people who lived in different parts of campus, especially since the already miniscule number of students continues to falter.

A diminishing population could no longer sustain the elements that made it home for so many.

A look into the Past…

I interviewed a few alumni about their experiences at the University. This is what they said: ***The Athlete (1999-2003): “My experience at the University of Michigan was different because I was a public figure and so people were more willing to come up and talk to me

than what was the case for most of the Black community. I was approached and asked questions because I was the face for the University, for the basketball team. However, I knew at the end of the day that I would always have a community to come back to after long days of practice when I walked into South Quad. There was always someone flipping over a chair because they were losing at Spades, and I remember those days as being the best moments of my college career. ” ***The Sigma (1979-1984): “Being here from 1979 to 1984 was the peak for the Black community, we had the largest Phi Beta Sigma pledge line the University had ever seen and it was exhilarating being a part of something so special. Learning the steps and staying up late practicing with my Line Brothers, the parties, and competitions we used to perform in; those are the moments I will never forget. I made friends for life during my time here, and I wish everyone could have a piece of what I had during undergrad.” ***The Socialite (1979-198 “Although I was not a part of any clubs, I had the time of my life here. The lounge is where I met my best friends, beat people in Spades, and tried to learn Calc. Being at the University of Michigan gave me the confidence I needed to succeed in the real world. The programs in the dorms that created activities for the Black kids helped me to find people who experienced the world like I did.

Although, I wish that it was something that all minorities had because creating a space for people who are marginalized is so important in this world.”

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The lounges remain, but the historical context and the memories of those who once occupied these spaces do not. The multicultural lounges now serve as spaces where members of nonmarginalized communities can enter.

With the recent removal of a short orientation requirement for use of multicultural lounges like CAMEO in Couzens and the Ambatana Lounge in South Quad, the history and camaraderie that once centralized Black students and other minorities alike is now forgotten. Ambatana, the lounge named for the Swahili term “stick together,” has unfortunately lost its meaning when students began referring to it as the “Afro-American Lounge.” With the decreased use of these lounges by minority students and the fear of creating spaces that were “too exclusive,” the lounges had to accommodate students from the entire campus, including those who made us feel unwelcomed. A door closed on history is now silenced by the effort to create inclusiveness, but takes away from the meaning of what created these safe places, to begin with.

Ironically, the most notable difference is what remains invisible to us all: the immense number of kids who were denied the opportunity to attend this University because affirmative action was voted out. Considering that the state of Michigan currently has a population of 14.2 percent Black/ African American residents according to the 2017 census report, it does not make much sense as to why our University’s Black population is so small. Black students especially have lost the opportunity that they once had to attend one of the highest-ranked

universities in the country. For Black students like my parents, education paved a pathway to a lifestyle outside of the one that society fabricated for them. We will never know the accomplishments of students who were denied the opportunity to attend this University: a chilling reality we all need to face.

Efforts to create a community for the Black population by the Black Student Union, the National PanHellenic Council and many other Black organizations on campus should not be overlooked. For example, the screening of “Black Panther” put on by BSU united Black students from around the campus. NPHC events highlight the tradition and the importance of Black Greek life, and academic groups like the National Society of Black Engineers bring Black engineers together in a field that lacks Black representation.

Without the tireless ventures from these programs that help bond the Black students at the University of Michigan, we certainly would not feel as united.

Black History Month might be over, and soon the school year will conclude with melting snow and longer days.

Before we know it, our time as students will come to an end. The moments we share and relationships we build are a testament to our community. Simply because we know what it means to overcome the targets placed on our backs by society and the outside world as a whole. Simply because our journey to defy what has been fabricated to deter us will never be easy. Simply because having a supportive community that unifies us through every moment of our journey is imperative to our success in a world of homogeneity.

Do you see Me or my Hijab?

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Maybe the more when you see my hijab?

Do you only see my important question here is: When you greet me, do hijab?

Me? you only see my hijab?

What do you even see When you ask me When I walk into “What foreign country the classroom are you from?”

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the grocery store the mall the gym the airport Do you only see my hijab?

When I am angry sad silent happy

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Saturday, April 28, 2018 — 7A

Harbaugh & ‘M’ a perfect match ORION SANG

Daily Sports Editor 2016

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10 second fall from grace JAKE LOURIM

Managing Sports Editor 2015 Michigan lined up with five men on the line, three more eight yards behind them, one gunner split wide on each side and fifth-year senior punter Blake O’Neill 16 yards deep.

Michigan State was bringing the house.

The Wolverines faced 4th-and-2 from the Michigan State 47, leading 23-21. Just 10 seconds remained on the clock. Michigan was 10 seconds away from exorcising its demons against the Spartans, 10 seconds away from proving its legitimacy for another week, 10 seconds away from becoming a national championship contender.

That’s how quickly everything changed.

With just those 10 seconds on the clock, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh sent out the punt team to finish the job.

The Wolverines regained possession with 107 seconds to play and managed to drain 97 of them before facing fourth down. One snap and one punt into the end zone should have done it.

So many bad memories from the past would have been erased. The examples are plentiful.

Last September, Minnesota rolled into town and dominated Michigan.

With the Wolverines drained on their sideline at the end of the game, the Golden Gophers came over and took the Little Brown Jug to start celebrating. Any opponent came into

Michigan Stadium and did anything it pleased.

Ten more seconds Saturday, and Michigan could have done the same thing with Paul Bunyan.

Last year, in the same game, Michigan linebacker Joe Bolden put a stake in the ground at Spartan Stadium.

The Spartans felt disrespected, so they scored an extra touchdown at the end of the game to run up the score. They, too, did anything they pleased.

Ten more seconds Saturday, and Michigan could have proven that would no longer fly.

The Wolverines were about to become a top-10 team with a 6-1 record and a win over a rival that had embarrassed them each of the past two years. Instead, 10 seconds later, they were 5-2, where a lot of people thought they would be at this point before the season.

With nine seconds left, redshirt sophomore long snapper Scott Sypniewski sent a low snap toward O’Neill. With 10 players against five on the line, five Spartans shed their blocks almost immediately.

With eight seconds left, on the eighth punt attempt, everything went wrong. The snap came to O’Neill just below his knees, and he dropped it.

Now nine Michigan State players were headed for him.

O’Neill turned around with his back toward the line and was swarmed by Spartans. He picked up the ball, dropped it and tried to kick

it forward to get something, anything at all. A play that once looked like a cherry on top was now an emergency.

“After he bobbled it, he still thought he could get the ball kicked,” Harbaugh said. “It was a mistake. A mistake was made. Mistakes were made.”

As O’Neill dropped the ball to kick it, a Michigan State player hit him to change his momentum, sending the ball floating toward the Michigan sideline. The stadium went silent.

Seven seconds left.

The ball hung in the air before landing in the hands of Michigan State third-string safety Jalen WattsJackson, who eluded a block from Michigan redshirt junior offensive lineman Ben Braden. The stadium descended into chaos. Six seconds left.

Watts-Jackson immediately started toward the end zone. Now the Spartans were the ones blocking, and Michigan was suddenly chasing, in a game it had not trailed all day. Five seconds left.

Watts-Jackson was at the 30 now, with fifth-year senior defensive back Wayne Lyons at the 25 with the best chance to catch him. Braden came from the 30, junior tight end Jake Butt from the middle of the field. Four seconds left.

Watts-Jackson approached the 20, now with just one man to beat — Lyons. The graduate transfer shuffled his feet at the 20, trying to push Watts-Jackson toward the sideline.

Michigan State cornerback Jermaine Edmondson put one last block on him.

Three seconds left.

Lyons came within two arm’s lengths of Watts-Jackson, but Edmondson pushed him toward the sideline. Lyons got a hand on Watts-Jackson at the 12-yard line, but Edmondson kept going, and WattsJackson cut back toward the inside.

Two seconds left.

Now there was a clear path to the end zone. Butt was catching up to him as a result of the cut back toward the middle of the field, but four blockers guarded Watts-Jackson as he reached the 5-yard line. One second left.

Butt wrapped his arms around Watts-Jackson at the two-yard line, and Lyons made one last reach. It was too late. Watts-Jackson started to go down, but his momentum carried him across the goal line. He landed just under the block ‘M’ in the corner of the end zone, right in front of the student section. Butt brought him down, but three Michigan State players landed on top of them. As a reward for his hustle, Butt ended up at the bottom of the Spartans’ celebration.

The clock struck zero. Three other players raised their hands up, and the rest of the team joined them in the end zone, then in the south end zone near their fan section, then back on their sideline. They kept control of the Paul Bunyan Trophy.

Ten seconds can change everything.

The fans started showing up at 8:20 — in the morning.

They trickled in as the day went on, setting up lawn chairs and gobbling burritos from the Chipotle next door.

And as the sun set in Ann Arbor, the line only grew bigger as fans eagerly awaited The M Den’s release of brand new Michigan Nike products. At midnight, the school officially began its new contract with the apparel giant and severed ties with Adidas.

When the intersection at Liberty was blocked off, State street was flooded by hundreds of people — some there to buy the newest gear, the rest there simply to take it all in. But at what point could things have been considered to be over the top?

It could’ve been when a stage more apt to be seen at a music concert was set up across the store.

It could’ve been when members of the marching band, dance, basketball and football teams all arrived to entertain the crowd.

And it most certainly could’ve been when Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh arrived and transformed the once docile crowd into a writhing mass of outstretched hands, pleading for the head man to pay attention to them with cries of, “Jim! Jim!” Though Harbaugh would later climb upon the stage and tell the crowd that the rally was unlike anything he’d ever seen in his life, he seemed at home Sunday night.

If anything, he delighted in the attention, at one point walking straight through the crowd and slapping five with as many hands as he physically could.

And that’s the thing: For Michigan, the switch to Nike and Jordan Brand and all its surrounding hoopla is only representative of the change that Harbaugh has brought to the football team in the short time he has been here.

For a team that was once missing — for lack of a better term — swag, Harbaugh and his Wolverines have certainly gotten their swagger back now.

It was just two years ago when Michigan’sformerheadcoachBradyHoke publicly apologized after a humiliating 35-11 beatdown at the hands of rival

Michigan State for “poor sportsmanship” — former linebacker Joe Bolden had run out onto Spartan Stadium before the game and driven a tent stake through the middle of the field in a brazen act meant to inspire his team.

Now, could you imagine Harbaugh apologizing for anything at all?

In just a year and a half, he has drawn criticism from what feels like most of the college football world — for both his antics on the field and off of it.

He has led a march through the South in both offseasons, holding satellite camps in the backyards of his SEC counterparts and, when challenged by those same SEC coaches (and even the NCAA), he has taken shots at his criticizers on Twitter — something Nick Saban and ‘The Georgia Coach’ can tell you about.

His football team has only followed suit. Last season, Michigan bounced back from a total of five victories in Hoke’s final year to win 10 games, and the Wolverines ended the season with a 41-7 romp over a highly-rated SEC team. This year, with most contributors returning, they appeared poised to compete for a spot in the College Football Playoff.

And what better way for Michigan to show off its new demeanor than with Nike, the flashiest and most popular apparel brand?

If Adidas and its sometimes tacky, alternative jersey designs represented the Michigan of old, Nike and Jordan Brand represent Harbaugh’s Michigan.

In your face, with a bright variation of maize, dubbed ‘amarillo.’ Proud and unafraid to show it, with a large block M and the famous Jumpman logo printed everywhere and on everything.

Everyone knows the swoosh when they see it — just like how they’ll know Harbaugh and Michigan, whether through watching the coach mean mug his way through a music video or by watching the Wolverines fight their way through the Big Ten. Has it been mentioned yet that Michigan will be the first team to ever wear the Jordan Brand logo onto the gridiron? And that Michael Jordan himself will be there at Michigan Stadium as an honorary captain in the matchup against Hawaii on Sept. 3?

And if that seems over the top at all, at this point — after this night — it shouldn’t.

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2018

APRIL 1: The women’s basketball team triumphs over Georgia Tech in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament to hang their first banner in Crisler Center

JANUARY 13: Katelynn Flaherty becomes the Michigan basketball program’s all-time leading scorer passing NBA all-star Glen Rice

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MARCH 4: The men’s basketball team bests Purdue en route to its second straight Big Ten Touranment championship and second under Michigan coach John Beilein MARCH 18: Joe McFarland retires as coach of the Michigan wrestling team after 19 years

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Only Tears

MAX MARCOVITCH Daily Sports Editor 2018

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Michigan advances to Sweet 16 on Jordan Poole buzzer-beater prayer MAX MARCOVITCH Daily Sports Editor 2018

Somehow,someway.

His legs flailing each and every direction and a defender square in his face, Jordan Poole caught a pass on the right wing from Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman and hoisted aprayer.

And as the ball found sweet nylon, the prayer was granted — somehow, some way — in the wee hours of Sunday morning.

The freshman guard darted to the opposite side of the court, greeted by the rest of his jubialant team as they celebrated an astonishing64-63win.

It was a miracle on the Great Plains the likes of which will live in Michigan lore right alongside the Trey Burke shot and the Denard RobinsonpassatUnderthe Lights I. “I was thirsty,” Poole told a swath of reporters after the game. “Definitely thirsty.

Because I’ve been hitting shots like that in practice all year. I just felt like I always wanted to be in a situation like that at the end in the game, and my teammates constantly tell me thatI’vegoticeinmyveins.

“I definitely dreamed about this a long time. Actually, before I went out there on there, I thought, ‘What if I hit this shot right now as a freshman?’”

And that he did. On this stage. With these implications. Somehow, some way, the only player with the personality to match the grand moment found the ball with 0.8 seconds and a season teetering in the balance.

Now Michigan will head to Los Angeles next weekend to play its fourth Sweet

Sixteen game in six years on the back of a monstrous defense and one lucky St. Patrick’s Dayheave.

“I don’t have any words for that one,” said fifth-year senior Duncan Robinson. “It’s incredible.That’s all Igot.”

Somehow,some way.

For much of the game, though, there appeared tobe noway.

For the second consecutive game, Michigan’s offense fell victim to offensive lulls that threatened its survival in the NCAA Tournament. The Wolverines went to the first TV timeout once again without a made field goal, this time trailing 6-1, having missed their first seven shots including six threes.

Robinson broke the seal nearly six minutes in, nailing a deep three with a hand in his face. He did it again on the next possession, pumping up his bench on the gallop backdown the court.

That was the tone all night, on both sides — a tough, physical street fight. It’s a style Michigan has come torelish this season.

For all the talk about Cougars guard Rob Gray offensively — coming off a 39-point performance against San Diego State — it was the defense on both ends that controlled the game.

Gray, the alpha and omega of Houston’s offense, couldn’t find his rhythm in the first half, thanks to a swarming defensive effort from Michigan guards Zavier Simpson and Abdur-Rahkman.Grayfinishedwith23,but on 8-of-22 shooting.

“We just tried to limit his threes, make him score tough twos,” Abdur-Rahkman said. “He made a lot of them, but that’s all

you can really do, is try to force him into contested shots.”

On the flip side, a physical Houston man defense held the Wolverines in check, stifling Michigan’s pick-and-roll action with athleticism,holdingitsojust30percentfrom the field. By the end of the game, a dejected Wolverinesbenchthoughtthatwouldbethe culprit ofits dying season.

“They were down because we did some things that aren’t winning basketball today — just a few, but just enough,” said Michigan coach John Beilein. “But credit Houston.

They made us make some ofthose plays.”

At half, the game was tied at 28, those struggles leaving the game back where it started, just with a few more bumps and bruises.

And while the bumps and bruises didn’t subside, the lid onthe buckets slowly did.

Then, it was game on.

With 17 lead changes and 12 ties in total, neither team took firm control until Gray began to come to life midway through the half. He scored eight of his team’s 10 points at one point, nabbing a six point lead with 10:43 left onaninexplicably wide-openthree.

But the see-saw swung right back.

Michigan fought through recurring offensive demons, finishing the game with just 36 percent shooting.

And it has more than just one fortuitous bounce to thank for the escape.

Down 51-46 with just over five minutes left, Matthews shot a 3-pointer off the back of the rim. It careened high into the air and through the hoop just as a Houston forward waswhistledforafoul.Teskemadebothfree throws, and suddenly a 51-46 game became

51-51 inonly a single possession.

Theteamstradedblowsfromthere,with theCougarsgrabbingwhatseemedtobethe final lead with 44 seconds left on two freethrows fromforward Devin Davis.

But that wasn’t the last of Michigan’s season. It just couldn’t be. There was a little more than a strong breeze flowing through Intrust Bank Arena on Saturday night.

Sophomore center Jon Teske could just feel it.

“I actually told CJ (Baird), I didn’t think we were gonna go home,” Teske said. “I felt something special was going to happen and I’m just glad he knocked that down. … It’s something I will always remember.”

And in a wild back and forth affair, it all came down to a howling freshman, with the confidence to belt “Ham” — the team’s nickname for Abdur-Rahkman — with the seasonontheline.Thecallwas“Tennessee,” the same full-court inbound play run to beat Maryland early in the season as time expired. The senior caught the pass at midcourt and then put his season and career in the hands of Poole, who answered the faith with one of the most historic shots in program history.

“I knew they were not going to let me shoot the ball. So I was looking for JP,” Abdur-Rahkman said. “I knew he could knock it down.

“Literally, he makes it all the time in practice.”

And as the entire team piled on Poole under the hoop, cheers reigned down from the traveling Michigancrowdandband.

“It’s great to be a Michigan Wolverine.”

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Heartbreak knows nothing of circumstance.

There’s no sense in telling Zavier Simpson, sulked deep into his locker and speaking in a hushed-tone, that his team wildly outperformed any expectation this season. Not as the team with a trophy was 100 feet down the hallway.

Duncan Robinson doesn’t particularly care that the the upstart defensive scheme that came to prominence this year will pay major dividends down the road. That’s no solace for a senior who just lost by 17 in his last game.

Don’t expect Charles Matthews, draped in a towel over his head, to delve deep into the bright future ahead of this college basketball program. He didn’t sit out a year just to ignore the here and now.

With the clock winding down, a graceful end to a slow, painful bludegoning in the National Title Game, fifth-year senior guard Jaaron Simmons could only summon a word to describe his emotion.

“Damn.”

The scoreboard read 79-62, an anticlimactic ending to a season that has been anything but.

“At the start of the season there’s a probably handful of teams, 10 teams, that would say ‘We need to be in the National Title Game,” said assistant coach Luke Yaklich.

Michigan was decidedly not one of those teams. But? “We grew into that team.”

This was a team unranked in the preseason, picked tied for fifth in the Big Ten and labeled as a fringe bubble team.

It expected to start a transfer from Ohio at point guard and to be led by a Kentucky washout. This was supposed to be a rebuilding season, left to plug gaps from the departures of Derrick Walton Jr., Zak Irvin and D.J. Wilson and anxiously await next year’s heralded recruiting class.

Instead, it won a Big Ten Tournament, made the Final Four and came one game shy of taking the whole damn thing.

“Hell nah,” Simmons said, when asked if he’d thought about the contrast in preseason predictions relative to the team’s success. “Right now, you’re

thinking, ‘We just lost. It’s over.’ But we knew people didn’t expect us to get here.

That don’t mean we didn’t expect to get here and we didn’t expect to win.”

Don’t believe him?

“We talked about being national champs and Big Ten champs at our culture meeting in July,” said assistant coach Luke Yaklich. “We referenced that again tonight. It’s been on our mind. The word ‘champion’ has been on our mind at the start of every single meeting.

“Just 40 minutes short of just a perfect ending.”

Monday night, those dreams were shattered by Donte DiVincenzo, a particularly cruel way to bow out. The Villanova guard ended Michigan’s season with a 31-point outburst off the Wildcats’ bench. Instead of national player of the year Jalen Brunson or future firstround pick Mikal Bridges, the players in the locker room were left answering questions about how an Italian guard from Delaware sliced and diced one of the best defenses in the country.

There were self-inflicted wounds, too. It would be hard for any team to win after shooting an abysmal 3-for-23 from 3-point range and allowing 12 offensive rebounds. There was a time midway through the first half when it appeared junior center Moritz Wagner could carry them to glory on his lonesome, scoring nine of his team’s first 11 points, leading Michigan to a quick 11-6 advantage.

That hope, though, continued to dwindle by the minute, with each DiVincenzo heave and bruising team rebound. Villanova ran through the tournament, winning each of its games by double-digits. It was the Wildcats’ night, the Wildcats’ tournament and the Wildcats’ season.

The Wolverines can take some consolation that their season was ended by the clear, unquestionable best team in the country, a team that led the field beginning to end. But that does nothing to ease the harsh, momentary pain.

Michigan coach John Beilein sniffled as he left the locker room to head to the podium, eyes red. He shared the sentiment of an entire team, an entire university.

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Wolverines advance to first Frozen Four since 2011 JACOB SHAMES

Daily Sports Writer 2018 WORCESTER, Mass. — When Mel Pearson was introduced as the coach of the Michigan hockey team on April 24, 2017, he compared it to being given the keys to the prized family car.

“The car is in great shape,” Pearson said then. “It’s got a great engine, the body looks fantastic. We might have to make a couple of repairs here this

summer — minor, minor repairs. And then we’re going to get that car ready to go on the road.

“And come September, that car is headed in one direction. And that direction is St. Paul, Minnesota.”

Prior to the 2017-2018 season, St. Paul — the location of the 2018 Frozen Four — might as well have been the moon for the Wolverines. They had won just 13 games in Red Berenson’s final year and were going into the year

with the third-youngest roster in the nation. Their predicted finish of sixth, via the Big Ten Preseason Coaches’ Poll, was a product of those factors.

Boston University, on the other hand, received a No. 2 ranking in the USCHO preseason poll and possessed a deep, talent-loaded roster with 12 NHL draftees.

So you’d be hard-pressed to find anybody at that point who thought that these two teams would be meeting on

Sunday in Worcester, Mass., with a spot in the Frozen Four on the line.

And yet, with a 6-3 win over the Terriers (22-14-4 overall) at the DCU Center, Michigan clinched its 25th all-time appearance in the national semifinal, and first since 2011.

Much of the game was marked by alternating stretches of dominant and embarrassing play for Michigan (2214-3) — the Wolverines would play to the fullest of their potential before

committing just about every gaffe in the book.

“We got lucky, we got lucky,” Pearson said. “Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good, but we were good and lucky. We were fortunate, but we’ll take it.”

This theme began right after the initial face-off, which junior forward Cooper Marody won from Jordan Greenway. Marody’s “DMC” line with senior forwards Tony Calderone and

Dexter Dancs then controlled the puck in the Boston zone for the entirety of the game’s first minute.

Five minutes in, however, Michigan had yet to register a shot. Quinn Hughes would change that in a hurry. Taking possession in his defensive zone, he broke across center-ice and dashed through multiple Terriers before being stripped. The Wolverines regained the puck, however, and worked it back around to the freshman defenseman, who caught twine with a laser from the high slot area.

But Michigan let the Terriers right back into the game thanks to a turnover at the edge of its defensive zone, which Boston forward Brady Tkachuk grabbed. Tkachuk laid the puck off to Greenway, whose shot snuck just under the bar with 7:43 left in the period.

Three minutes later, the Wolverines took advantage of a Terrier interference penalty with a well-worked power play, which culminated in Calderone’s wide-open shot from the right slot beating Jake Oettinger. But just as soon after, Michigan nearly gave it right back.

Sophomore forward Jake Slaker took down a Terrier from behind with an arm tackle, but instead, it was Boston’s Logan Cockerill who went to the box for holding. Maybe the Wolverines felt guilty about taking advantage of an apparently obvious missed call, or maybe they felt it wasn’t quite time to pull away. Whatever it was, the Terriers dominated Michigan with their penalty kill, and nearly scored themselves when Greenway forced a neutral-zone turnover and forced Lavigne into making a save on the breakaway.

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