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Attendees celebrating at the Paani Cultural Event in Rackham Assembly Thursday evening.

Cultural orgs come together to highlight sanitation crisis Student group dedicated to improving living standards in Pakistan hosts event AMARA SHAIKH Daily News Editor

Just a few days after Julia Putnam and Tim Wise delivered a keynote address at the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Symposium, Paani partnered with eight other

cultural organizations at the University of Michigan for “Culture Night” to raise awareness about the sanitation issues facing their respective countries and to share their unique cultures.

Paaniisanorganizationthatfocuses on improving the living standards in Pakistan through bettering the

environment and implementing clean health technologies, especially through building wells, inputting clean energy sources and working with health clinics. Pakistan is currently undergoing the world’s third worst water crisis, with the prime minister predicting the country to have no more clean water by 2025.

More than 100 students filled the Rackham Assembly Hall as Paani and the Bangladeshi, Egyptian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, Pakistani, Persian and Yemeni student associations shared various aspects of their culture, including food, dance and traditional clothing.

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The current shutdown of the federal government has lasted 33 days so far, making it the longest shutdown in U.S. history. With no set end date, the shutdown has begun impacting finances, both at home and in the workplace.

These impacts have prompted a number of local responses from Michigan government representatives and from those on campus.

The federal shutdown began on Dec. 22, 2018 after Congress members failed to agree on a border security deal. President Donald Trump has shut down the government, saying he won’t reopen it until he receives a payment plan for the MexicoUnited States border wall.

Democrats in Congress refuse to accept his offer, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said the State of the Union Address would not be held until the president reopens the government.

In an interview with Michigan

News, Matthew Shapiro, professor of Economics at the University of Michigan, said this shutdown is far different than the one in 2013 because there is no end in sight. He explained those affected have delayed paying bills, including paying their mortgage, because doing so helped them financially during the 2013 government shutdown. However, through a study he conducted with fellow researchers, Shapiro determined delaying payments will do far more harm than good, as it will cause serious trauma to workers’ finances in the long run.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer teamed up with Govs.

Andrew Cuomo of New York and Jay Inslee of Washington to release a joint statement asking for individual states to grant unemployment benefits to federal workers who attend work without compensation. The Department of Labor has told workers they are not technically unemployed and therefore do not qualify for unemployment benefits.

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Katie Wolberg returned to campus after winter break filled with anticipation. As a secondsemester LSA freshman, she resolved to explore her developing interest in consulting, excited by

the prospect of what joining a firm offered her: a network, a group of friends and a community at the University of Michigan. Despite Katie’s interest in data analytics and consulting, her anticipation quickly turned into disappointment when she was met with rejection at some of the top consulting clubs on campus, cutting short her

opportunity to engage in this new atmosphere.

“I’m planning on transferring to the School of Information,” Wolberg said. “I’m interested in maybe consulting in the future, or doing something in the tech industry, and I thought [joining a club] would be a really good opportunity to meet new people

and expand my network … and then it fell through and now I’m like, ‘Do I need to rethink what I’m doing?’”

Campus clubs and organizations are an integral part of the college experience. With more than 1,600 clubs at the University, students are afforded the opportunity to engage in a myriad of activities.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Forman Jr., a law professor at Yale University, discussed mass incarceration, government intervention and systemic inequalities within the criminal justice system Thursday in Weiser Hall. About 150 students and faculty gathered for this event, organized by the Donia Human Rights Center Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture.

Forman spoke about his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America” and the historical context that details a past of African-American mass incarceration and intense law enforcement implemented by the government in response to issues within the African-American community.

After law school, Forman worked as a public defender in Washington D.C. He described a particular case in which he defended a 15-year-old who plead guilty to possession of a gun and a small amount of marijuana.

Construction projects and campus expansion pose concerns among student organizations about reaching the University of Michigan’s goal of a 25 percent reduction in carbon and greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.

LSA junior Julian Hansen is the founder of the U-M Climate Action Movement, a student organization dedicated to pushing for campus carbon neutrality.

According to Hansen, the power plant expansion poses concerns for reducing emissions.

“Since the initial announcement, there has not been much very vocal progress,” Hansen said.

“But one thing is the expansion of the Central Power Plant, which Schlissel says will take us halfway to our 2025 goal, but all in all we are a bit nervous about the expansion because it has been shown a lot once you really heavily invest we will be unlikely to divest in a time that will fulfill CAM’s goal.”

Engineering junior Logan Vear, Climate Action Movement member, further expanded on the concerns of the power plant expansion.

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“There were only about six students at this event, which I think made it even more powerful because they were all talking one-on-one about racist incidents in their communities and actions that have impacted them personally. It wasn’t so much like a panel discussion with a large group of people in an auditorium. There was definitely some space for disagreement.”

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When we remember Dr. King, of course we do it selectively, don’t we? We pick out only the pretty and the easy parts, the simple parts, the one line from one speech. You know the speech and you know the line, the one about judging people by the content of their character not the color of their skin. That is the easiest, least radical, least revolutionary thing Dr. King has ever said. That’s why we pull that one out. ”

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the expansion of our central power plant where we’re going to add a 50-megawatt turbine to increase natural gas, increase the capacity “We are a little skeptical of our natural gas plant, for us committing to a 25 and reduce the amount of percent reduction and saying electricity that we’re buying that we will get there by doing from DTE, so that is going to this central campus power get us about halfway towards plant expansion,” Vear said. our goal.”

“The reason for that is given In a Jan. 13 interview, that this would commit us to University President Mark using natural gas directly on Schlissel expanded on the our campus, and that could University’s utilization of potentially lock us in for more the Leadership in Energy years than we would hope, to and Environmental Design later inhibit us to potentially certification program, a getting to that carbon rating system that looks at the neutrality goal. The campus energy efficiency of building plant expansion is somewhat designs. The LEED system opposing to a commitment to attempts to create efficient, carbon neutrality.” cost-saving green buildings.

According to Andrew “We’ve established energy Berki, director of the Office efficiency standards for of Campus Sustainability, the our buildings and we’ve University has found success established a commitment to in reducing greenhouse gas use the LEED certification emissions despite significant program to shoot for a certain campus expansion. minimum level, if not exceed “From 2006 to 2018, we a certain level, of LEED really invested in energy certification, all of which conservation in our buildings are designed to diminish the on campus,” Berki said. energy needs of a building.”

“We’ve seen a reduction According to Vear, the of 50,000 metric tons over LEED program highlights a that time. Over that same weakness in the University’s time period, our campus has grown in infrastructure efforts to aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. over 20 percent, so if you “When it comes to our think about that, we’ve really Sudoku Syndication expansion on campus made tremendous strides in general and all the construction going on — a lot of that currently, our standard is only LEED silver for sustainability measures for any new EASY construction, and that has been demonstrated over the past few years to not be the most aggressive and the most beneficial measure to be taking in order to truly be sustainable and reduce emissions effectively,” Vear said.

According to Berki, Schlissel’s announced commission to create a timeline and distinct goals for the University to reach carbon neutrality is the next big step for the University’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

“I think that commission is being formed right now, so the membership scope and schedule use only.

FACILE puzzle by sudokusyndication.com © sudokusolver.com.ofFor personal that commission is being formed by the president, and we expect in energy conservation in existing buildings and new construction by mitigating carbon creep, even through tremendous campus growth.”

Berki said measures such as gathering energy and water conservation reports, as well as calling for energy audits, are considered when planning any campus building or expansion project.

“All construction projects mitigate greenhouse gas emissions through energy conservation measures and water conservation measures,” Berki said.

“We use a number of these different both statewide regulations and internal regulations and policies we’ve put in place to try and make sure our buildings are built as efficiently as possible.”

After the announcement of the Central Power Plant expansion in October, Berki said the project would push greenhouse gas reduction efforts to about halfway toward their 25 percent decrease goal.

“It takes time to develop strategies and to get those strategies approved, and I’m happy to say we have a couple strategies that we really think are going to get us to that goal actually ahead of schedule,” Berki said. “One of those is

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an announcement very soon, what that’s going to look like, and that’s really the next step,” Berki said. “So that commission is going to be tasked with developing strategies and plans to submit to him on how to put the University on a track towards carbon neutrality.”

Berki also said the commission would be a benefit not only to the University, but to the nationwide effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as a whole.

“The president has made it clear that this commission is not only going to look at our own campus footprint, but it’s going to be tasked with developing technologies that can be transferable beyond

At an academic institution, we’re in a great spot to solve the problem for us in a way that others can take what we’ve learned and use it for themselves.

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Schlissel said the University is in a perfect position to aid others with the findings of his new commission.

“At an academic institution, we’re in a great spot to solve the problem for us in a way that others can take what we’ve learned and come up with and tested and use it for themselves,” Schlissel said.

Despite construction and campus expansion, Berki said he still expects to achieve their goal of 25 percent reduced emissions by early 2025.

“We’re going to meet our goal ahead of schedule,” Berki said. “I would say early 2020s, and the next step is to figure out how to do more, how to get on the path towards neutrality, and the commission is going to be taken with doing so.”

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INEQUALITY From Page 1 After the boy was found guilty and sentenced by a Black judge, Forman recognized what he saw as an African-American jurisdiction incarcerating their own.

Forman stated that in D.C. at the time of this trial, 40 percent of judges in the Supreme Court were African-American, the City Council and police force were primarily Black, the mayor at the time was Black, as well as the chief prosecutor.

“Even with all that representation of local government, we were doing the same thing that everyone else was doing around the country,” Forman said.

“Passing the same laws, enacting the same policies, with the same results. I told you that one third of young Black men were under criminal justice supervision nationally, at the time in D.C., it was one in two.”

Forman spoke about his research reading constituent letters from African Americans to government representatives regarding drug and crime concerns in their neighborhoods during the 1960s and ’70s. Forman attained the letters from retired local politicians who saved these papers.

“The generation of people that are receiving these letters are the first generation of Black elected officials to be elected in any number in this country since Reconstruction,” Forman

COMPETITION From Page 1 But many pre-professional organizations require intensive application processes that make membership extremely exclusive.

Competitive admissions are especially prevalent in businessoriented, pre-professional organizations, including consulting groups, investment firms and business fraternities. Applications often require written supplements, interviews and multiple rounds of “cuts,” yielding an extensive process of new member selection.

A growing sentiment of frustration has developed among portions of the student body due to the highly selective nature of these clubs, which reject a majority of initial applicants before welcoming new members.

LSA junior Andrew Levey discussed how his own experience with rejection from a campus consulting firm led him to create Alliance Consulting Group, an organization dedicated to providing all students with an opportunity to learn about consulting.

“I tried to become interested in the consulting industry in the beginning of my sophomore year,” Levey said. “I applied to a lot of the Ross consulting clubs to see if I could learn about the industry and get some real-world experience doing so, and I found that these clubs are really, really hard to get into if you don’t know anything about what’s called a case interview.”

In a case interview, an applicant

said. “All of them remember the long history of underenforcement and underprotection of the law that’s been a hallmark of the Black experience in this country since slavery.”

Forman spoke about the rise in heroin addiction in the 1960s and how the government responded with increasing the presence of law enforcement. According to Forman, when David Clarke, one of two white members of the original city council, received concern about heroin addiction in public spaces, the problem was sent to the police department, where law enforcement response trumped a public health response.

Forman attributed Clarke’s response to the epidemic as a “constraint of imagination,” a constraint that Forman characterized as stigmas and stereotypes surrounding the Black community.

“Because, of course, if the problem is addicts in public space, you would send people whose only tools are handcuffs, and the only place they can take you is the local jail where there is no treatment,” Forman said.

“And David Clarke wasn’t a bad guy, but his imagination was constrained.”

Forman acknowledged a history of whitedominated governments which increasingly led to unfavorable decisions toward African Americans passed in the government.

“Institutionalized white supremacy in government and law and policy for over 85 percent of American history

and that has an impact that manifested itself in decisions up and down the government, decisions to systematically deprive Black communities and Black citizens of resources,” Forman said.

Forman mentioned the past decisions made in government which resulted in law enforcement’s dependency to respond to disparities present in the Black community.

“The communities that were asking for protection, that these newly elected officials were elected to represent, lacked the resources to protect themselves so they were unduly reliant on the state, they were unduly reliant on police and prosecutors for protection,” Forman said.

“It’s those tiny decisions that are individual bricks that collectively have built up the prison nation that we have become.”

Public Policy junior Lena Dreves said she found Forman’s analysis of the system as a whole particularly interesting.

“I think it’s really important how he really constructively criticized each actor and piece in a way where he’s not putting all the blame on one piece of the entire system,” Dreves said.

Forman went on to discuss the solutions he sees to the problem of mass incarceration in the United States, including action on a local level.

“It is tempting to look at speeches of presidents and acts of Congress, but it is just as crucial to look at acts at the local level,” Forman said.

“Even though what happens in Washington gets so much

attention, actually what happens in states and counties and cities is more important for pushing back against mass incarceration than anything that’s happening in Washington, D.C. And so we can’t let the media attention drive our activism and drive our analysis of the problem or of the solutions.”

The right to serve on a jury has been central to the civil rights struggle in the United States, and Forman suggested voting on a jury is crucial to making change.

“Understand the power you can have as a juror … Use the jury box as a site of politics,” Forman said.

Public Policy senior Drea Somers said individuals who work together can play a role to alter the structure of an institutionalized system.

“Movement building is super important,” Somers said. “It is a lot of hard work. … Mass incarceration is a daunting system, but with a few good people and intentional work, we can all chip away at the structure.”

Forman concluded the lecture with a quote from his father, an advocate during the civil rights movement, who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. “What you have to understand is that we were fighting knowing that the change may not take place in our lifetime. … We were fighting for 10,000 days from tomorrow,” Forman said.

“And we were fighting for freedom because fighting for freedom in an unjust system is what makes you human.”

is presented with a hypothetical business scenario that the interviewee must assess and propose a solution to. Consulting clubs often utilize this interview style to assess potential members.

Levey went on to discuss how Alliance Consulting combats a culture of exclusivity by focusing on new member education and developing skills for consulting, including how to complete a successful case interview.

“I thought it was unfair that people who don’t know about an industry are assessed on a learned skill they don’t know,” Levey said.

“I felt that there needed to be a club on campus for students who, even if they don’t know what consulting is, if they want to become interested in it, they can have the opportunity to do so.”

Business junior Thejas Suvarna, president of APEX Consulting Group, one of the most selective consulting groups, stated that in an effort to provide all students with an equal opportunity to succeed in the recruitment process, case interview workshops are held to explain what they are and provide applicants with examples of how to approach problems. APEX Consulting Group focuses on offering pro-bono consulting for local Ann Arbor businesses and is known to have selective membership.

“At the end of the day, we really emphasize that while there’s a formal name to this case interview, really it’s just a way to gauge your thought process and see how you break down a problem, and those are inherent traits people will have,”

Suvarna said.

“We do so much work with clients and we have to manage those relationships,” Suvarna said.

“Clients give us their personal information. We have to make sure that we’re respecting their privacy and serving them a purpose and doing a good job, and it’s not feasible for us to do that well with a club that’s too big for us to manage.”

Suvarna went on to discuss the firm’s applicant selection process is based on anonymity to ensure a more holistic process at large.

“Our application process is completely anonymous,” Suvarna said. “We go through and read the responses to our essays because, for us, what is most important is, ‘Did these people do their homework and learn about what APEX has to offer?

Is there a legitimate reason that they want to be in APEX, to contribute to the community rather than to just use it as a step to the next thing?’

That all comes first.”

Ed Huebner, assistant director of Counseling and Psychological Services, noted the positive aspects of selective clubs, as they instill a strong sense of community among members within a large campus.

“I think the idea goes back to connection and feeling a sense of belonging — and that could be belonging to a group, a club, an organization or a department,” Huebner said. “There’s a sense of identity that can come from feeling like, ‘This is my group, this is my connection, these are my people, and from that there’s a closeness that we feel.’”

Huebner discussed how the

feeling of belonging contributes to the mental health of students on campus, both positively and negatively.

“For a lot of our students that come in, this can be a very big place,” Huebner said. “So that idea of, ‘Who can I connect with and feel belonging with?’ on campus ends up being a really big factor when it comes to their mental health.”

Norm Bishara, the associate dean for undergraduate programs at the Ross School of Business, provided an email statement on behalf of the Business School discussing how success on a college campus goes beyond admission to any one organization.

“The clubs provide benefits to students by creating opportunities for leadership and real-world experiences, offering fellowship and a like-minded community, and creating positive impact,” Bishara wrote in the email. “… We recognize that the student leaders of some clubs have implemented competitive application processes. While clubs and student organizations are an important part of the Michigan Ross experience, student success is independent of participation in any single club or activity on campus.”

Business junior Jack Geiger, vice president of clubs for the Bachelor of Business Administration Council, said the competitive nature of business-oriented clubs is appropriate, given the rigorous work students participate in once admitted.

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The evening included a presentation, traditional dance performances from the Yemeni Students’ Association and the Iraqi Student Association among other events.

Business junior Sikander Khan, the director of strateg y and operations for Paani, explained how the event developed after the various organizations realized they all had common challenges with sanitation in their respective countries.

“We found a bunch of different cultural organizations that all struggle with the same common struggle, which was sanitation conditions,” Khan said. “So we reached out to these different orgs and they were very excited about working together to raise awareness about these humanitarian crises going on and just bringing people together to experience their culture.”

The event began with a presentation about Paani and how their original mission of building wells in Pakistan developed into a wider effort to make use of all University resources to tackle the issue.

One of these efforts was establishing a public health curriculum in Pakistan to teach children about sanitation. It also touched on the intersectionality of the sanitation issues and how it impacts countries and individuals all around the world — specifically Yemen, which has a total population of 28 million people, with 19 million of those people without access to water.

LSA freshman Shanmin Sultana, director of internal affairs for Paani, elaborated on the intersectionality of the sanitation issue and discussed how Paani’s mission expanded.

“Initially, we were very focused on Pakistan, but we noticed a lot of other countries, especially in the Middle East and in South Asia, were also suffering from water crises like us,” Sultana said. “We wanted to come together and highlight that this water crisis is not just central to Pakistan, it’s a universal crisis in many countries. We wanted to show that while we stand primarily in Pakistan, we stand in solidarity with all these countries that are suffering with sanitation related crises.”

After the presentation, the event began to showcase traditional dances performed by the Yemeni Students’ Association and the Iraqi

SHUTDOWN From Page 1 On Jan. 23, U.S. Reps. Debbie Dingell, D-Ann Arbor, and Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, introduced emergency legislation called the Pay Federal Workers Act allowing states to make unemployment benefits available for these unpaid federal workers during government shutdowns.

The federal shutdown also means several agencies in Washington, D.C., have been closed indefinitely.

This has caused a backup in workflow, especially as it pertains to the reception of proposals from lobbyists to legislators.

Cynthia Wilbanks, vice president of government relations at the University, spends her time working closely with lobbyists both locally and in Washington, D.C. She has found members of Congress are still present during this situation, but some agencies are closed.

“The members of Congress are still quite accessible,” Wilbanks said. “We have not experienced a delay or any particular issues with respect to members of Congress.

Their offices are open. … Some of the agencies, however, are not considered essential, so they are being impacted if they were not funded in the regular appropriation cycle.”

Wilbanks recalled one employee telling her how sometimes there is no one in certain departments to receive their project in grant proposals. She advised her to still

Student Association.

The event also included a “best dressed” competition, which allowed attendees to show off cultural clothing.

LSA sophomore Alana Phillips heard about the event through a friend. She said she appreciated the chance to learn more about different student groups and cultures.

“I think it’s a good way for people to learn about different cultures, different experiences that link together different parts of the world that can get overlooked sometimes,” Phillips said. “It brings out the good things.”

Khan also emphasized another important aspect of the event was showcasing the positive aspects of each country because many have been demonized by popular media. He hoped the event would offer others the chance to learn more about different cultures.

“By bringing all these different people together who kind have been pushed to the side culture wise and human wise, it just gives us a good opportunity to come together,” Khan said.

LSA junior Mehrin Ahmed, Bangladeshi Students Association marketing chair, echoed Khan’s sentiment and discussed how even though it is important to acknowledge the challenges their countries face, it is also important to celebrate their beauty.

“We don’t want to dismiss the issues,” Ahmed said. “We know they exist and we’re here to shed light and bring awareness, but also have the positive on the sidelines and show that despite these challenges, despite the struggles we face, we’re still here. Our vibrance — it’s outshining everything.”

Moving forward, Phillips hopes the University will support more events hosted by communities of color and encourage more students to attend them.

“They can bring the events to light,” Phillips said. “Also encouraging them (the events) to be in spaces where more kids are going to see them, where students are going to see them, because we get overlooked when they’re not in spaces you’re going to see other students here at the University.”

Ahmed also touched on the importance of representing different communities on campus and encouraged ongoing team work.

“We exist,” Ahmed said.

“Not just our struggles and not just the things we celebrate, but solely our existence does not get the traction we’d hope for on this campus. We’d hope that a community like this would bring people together in a comfortable manner.” observe deadlines in the hopes that when the government does reopen, they recieve responses to their work as close to on schedule as possible.

“I was advising one faculty member, she was working on a proposal that needed to be submitted, and her agency —the agency that she’s submitting it to — is technically not working,” Wilbanks said. “And I said, ‘Don’t miss the deadline,’ because the last thing you want is not submitting it on time.”

One of the main priorities in Wilbanks’ division is research.

The University is the largest public research university and has been impacted by the shutdown.

Wilbanks is helping her staff work around the shutdown, though the longer the uncertainty continues, the harder it is for her staff to continue their projects.

“The shutdown is certainly problematic — it leaves a lot of uncertainty,” Wilbanks said. “Most of our researchers and administration itself are considering how to bridge the current situation with(out) the support that keeps many of these programs and projects going, but by now, I’m pretty sure that just in any course of action that we might think about the course that says, ‘Well, we’ll be shut down for another 30 or 60 days’ will start to have ripple effects and impact a number of people at the University.

It’s just hard to know which ones.”

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Frustrated with Israel? America needs to look in the mirrror

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n January of this year, Jonathan Weisman of the New York Times published an interesting article detailing what he described as the “Great Schism” — a sharp ideological divide rapidly forming between American and Israeli Jews over Israel’s ideology. Now, schisms don’t just magically appear — they stem from intense polarization regarding an issue.

In this situation, American and Israeli Jews disagree over Israel’s foreign policy under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has taken a more aggressive stance against Palestinians, seemingly shifting from a diplomatic approach to a military one. Last year, Netanyahu said he did not think a Palestinian state should ever have control of its own security measures, a sentiment which was reflected in decreasing support for a twostate solution among Israeli citizens, which dropped from 47 percent in 2017 to 43 percent in 2018. Israel’s changing stance regarding Palestine brings up a simple question: Why? The parameters of the dispute itself haven’t changed in recent years, and the number of fatalities on both sides has actually been decreasing.

In reality, Israel’s increased antipathy stems from decisions the United States has made.

The U.S. has continuously supported Israel financially ever since its creation in 1948.

Originally, this was a necessary step for protecting a U.S. ally that needed aid. However, U.S. financial assistance toward Israel has since spiraled into unconditional, consequencefree support for the Middle Eastern nation, allowing it to do as it pleases with nearly no repercussions. Every year since 1978, the U.S. has given Israel at least a billion dollars in aid, and every year since 1983 it has been at least $2.4 billion. For the U.S., unconditional aid to this degree, especially military aid, is largely unique to Israel. The only two countries the U.S. gave more aid to last year were Afghanistan and Iraq, both countries where there are active troops.

Fundamentally, I believe in the idea of a Jewish state.

However, it is important to distinguish between believing something should exist and supporting it unconditionally with billions of dollars, especially if it might violate human rights. It is hardly surprising that Israel has taken a more militant stance towards Palestine recently considering the U.S. has given Israel the

green light to do what it pleases.

Since 2000, there have been a total of 7,065 Palestinians killed in the Israel-Palestine conf lict, compared to only 1,101 Israelis, meaning 88 percent of the deaths have been Palestinians.

Additionally, numerous reports have come out alleging Israel has used institutional torture against Palestinians.

While these abuses are overly aggressive and unacceptable, the U.S. continues to simply give Israel billions of dollars in military aid. Without so much as a verbal condemnation, let alone a financial threat, there is no incentive for Israel to change its ways. Those who encourage protests against Israel are often accused of holding Israel to a higher standard than other countries, but holding Israel to a higher standard is seemingly fair: The U.S. contributes far more money to Israel than to nearly any other country, so it is reasonable to have higher expectations for it.

Without any condemnation, there is no incentive for Israel to change its ways

This brings us to our final question: Why such staunch support for Israel?

The United States has never been particularly concerned with ethics or human rights when making foreign policy decisions in the past (see Iran, Nicaragua, Chile or many other countries), instead prioritizing things like cheaper access to resources like oil. With Israel, it would be logical to assume this support would come from Jews — Israel is a Jewish state, after all.

Surprisingly, however, this is far from the case.

Backing for Israel is not solely based on collegial support from Jews, but can also be partially attributed to Islamophobia from white, conservative Americans, particularly evangelical Christians, many of whom see support for Israel as a way of opposing Muslims and Muslim states. When asked to rate Muslims on a “feeling thermometer,” Jews (who skew heavily Democratic) rated them a 51 out of 100, slightly above the overall average of a 48 ranked by U.S. adults overall.

On the other hand, white evangelicals rated Muslims a 37, lower than any other surveyed group. The disdain for Muslims among conservative voters, in particular white evangelicals, subsequently leads to strong support from Americans. In the 2018 midterms, 75 percent of white evangelicals voted for Republican candidates in elections for the House of Representatives. Both the Republican Party as a whole and white evangelicals are strongly supportive of Israel, with 79 percent of Republicans saying they sympathized with Israel (versus only 27 percent of Democrats). Most tellingly, 46 percent of white evangelicals said the U.S. was not doing enough to help Israel, while only 31 percent of Jews and 25 percent of the general public felt the same.

Lastly, perhaps even more worrying than the evangelical right’s ideological support of Israel is how willing everyone else is to go along with it. Over the course of the past year, there has been support from members of both the Democratic and Republican parties for passing a bill to make it illegal for companies to boycott Israel, a blatant violation of the First Amendment. The bill, literally titled the “Israel AntiBoycott Act,” would allow the government to fine organizations up to $1 million for boycotting Israel and other nations the U.S. has not officially sanctioned a boycott against.

As a Jew myself, writing this piece was a difficult and upsetting endeavor. I support a Jewish state in theory, and I want to be able to fully support one in reality as well. I understand the political climate makes Israel a tough place to govern.

However, it still saddens me to see a Jewish state operating on many values I, as a fellow Jew, do not agree with. I want to see an Israel that is governed on hope and a willingness to compromise, not on entrenched views of xenophobia. Here in the United States, I want an Israel that is supported not because we fear or dislike Muslims, but rather because we are tolerant, loving and accepting. As it is said in Leviticus 19:34, “The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your nativeborn. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Eg ypt.”

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MILES STEPHENSON | COLUMN

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Razors, wristwatches and masculinity

n Jan. 13, Gillette, a titan in men’s razors that has toted the macho “The Best a Man Can Get” tagline for decades, uploaded an advertisement to YouTube titled, “We Believe: The Best Men Can Be.” The ad challenges men to be better in an age where people attribute bullying and harassment to “toxic masculinity” and the #MeToo movement saturates headlines. The backlash was instantaneous.

Gillette’s YouTube video faced almost double the number of dislikes as likes, and the comment section is filled with comments such as “I will not apologize for being a man,” “Never gonna buy Gillette ever again,” and “I am a woman, and I refuse to support a brand that insult(s) men so …”

It’s clear America isn’t united behind Gillette on this issue.

The central thesis of Gillette’s ad seems noble and well-intended; being a man at his best means upholding what is right and showing compassion for others. Who wouldn’t support that? Are men overreacting and missing the valid criticism of their behavioral constructs?

Or are political identitarians unfairly indicting an entire gender for the behavior of a subset of bad actors? And what is “masculinity” any way?

How much of it is innate and biological and how much is inculcated from society? This controversy sparked a dialog ue, and with it came an opportunity for others to define the issue.

Two days later, the company Egard Watches uploaded the ad, “What is a man? A response to Gillette.” The advertisement emphasized the good in men, showing vignettes of firefighters, soldiers and civilian heroes paired with statistics demonstrating that men account for 93 percent of workplace fatalities, over 97 percent of war fatalities, 71 percent of all homicide victims, 80 percent of all suicide victims and 75 percent of all homeless people (though numbers taken from SAMHSA suggest 51 percent of all homeless people

are single men, 24 percent are single women, and 23 percent are families, usually single mothers with children). The video was dedicated to “all those who sacrifice everything to make the world safer and better for all of us,” and projected a positive message about the nature of traditional masculinity.

Gillette’s vision was fair, but its portrayal of men missed the mark The founder of Egard Watches, Ilan Srulovicz, said Gillette’s ad unfairly painted men with a broad brush: “It’s the overwhelming majority of men who sacrifice, who want to be protectors, who want to be good.

And how do you effect positive change? … You show the best of us.” Is masculinity an archaic set of tools that have become outdated and problematic for our modern world, or is it a strength men can use to make the world better? While Gillette highlights toxic masculinity, Egard highlights virtuous masculinity, and judging from YouTube’s responses, the majority of viewers decidedly favor Egard’s message.

So perhaps Egard’s critique ref lects the issue here: Gillette’s delivery. While many agreed with the message Gillette espoused, the majority don’t believe it is the place of an often morally challenged multinational corporation to feed them their ethical peas and carrots. “Just the type of social commentary I look for in my shaving gel,” said one commenter, garnering over 11,000 likes. A similar sentiment was seen in the backlash to Nike’s Colin Kaepernick campaign.

Furthermore, many commented that Gillette’s representations of men were extreme, unrealistic

and outlandish, and perhaps a popular video with cartoonish vignettes is not the most sensitive instrument to deal with an important issue like this.

One vignette in the Gillette ad shows two boys beating each other at a barbecue to an audience of complacent men when Gillette’s ideal man swoops in to break them up.

“That’s not how we treat each other, okay?” he instructs with a paternal kindness.

Gillette’s implication here is the unenlightened men would merely stand by and watch these little boys tear violently at each other. Here, Gillette’s vision was fair, but its portrayal of men missed the mark.

Gillette believes some part of traditional masculinity is f lawed. This toxic masculinity — the violent, overly competitive, unemotional or sexually aggressive behavior in men — is a product of our historical attitudes towards men and women. Certainly, it is true that some male behavior considered “masculine” is undesirable.

Unfortunately, however, Gillette missed a great opportunity to better analyze this with morally reasonable and instructive scenes.

A viewer must recognize that both of these advertisements are merely business campaigns designed to appeal to consumers in a divided political atmosphere and rake in market share and sales for their shaving razors and wristwatches. There’s no such thing as bad publicity after all, and just as Nike’s sales increased 31 percent after their Colin Kaepernick controversy, Gillette’s trending status may follow suit. Yet both of these videos do offer us fascinating insights into a modern dialog ue of what it means to be a man. In the end, perhaps we should be careful about how we paint half the population of the planet, and ensure our well-intended messages inspire rather than alienate.

Miles Stephenson can be reached at mvsteph@umich.edu.

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‘Replicas’ is terrible, but it’s also pretty terrific JEREMIAH VANDERHELM

— produced by the not-at-all-fake-sounding Company Films resulting in silly directing choice af ter silly directing choice, — and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in like cheesy zooms before obvious trailer lines that resulted in September of 2017, where it was sold to the ver y-real-why-do- my f irst unintentional laughs of the movie.

They would not be the last. you-ask Entertainment Studios Motion From here, it’s hard to discuss While I wrote about “Slender Man” last year, I mentioned Pictures. The f irst trailer dropped Oct. what happens without delving into that tr ying to analyze a movie so completely devoid of qualit y of that same year, promising the sort of spoilers, and g iven that I think was similar to going into a dissociative movie that you’ll “Replicas” is a f ilm that has to be f ind on Reeves’s state. All of what I thought I knew about seen to be believed — and by that IMDb ten years movies suddenly meant nothing, because same token, should be seen with a from now and nothing meant any thing. Sure, shoot couple of friends and more than a ever y single scene of the movie without a say out loud, “He couple of beers — I wouldn’t want to was in that?” In light on. Completely abandon characters rob you of the impact of seeing some lieu of a release and plotlines. Kill Joey King with a tree. of this for the f irst time. So in the date, the trailer What the hell does it matter? I thought most general of terms, the horror just promised that would be my g reatest challenge as a st ylings g ive way to the cliché sci“Replicas” was reviewer: putting into words that “Slender f i thriller you’d expect from a movie “coming soon.”

Man” wasn’t just a bad movie, it was a with the tagline “Some humans are A year and nothing movie. Enter “Replicas.”

Ann Arbor 20 + IMAX, Goodrich unstoppable.” It’s bad, but more a half passed.

Keanu Reeves (“John Wick”) stars as Quality 16 than that, it’s simply boring.

William Foster, a brilliant scientist who To put it in Then ever y thing changes again. perspective, is this close — this close — to a worldEntertainment Studios Motion Where the f irst shif t was a slow Barack Obama chang ing breakthrough in transferring Pictures decline from trashy B-movie to the was still human consciousness from a biolog ical sort of snooze-fest Januaries are president when subject to a synthetic one if his family and made of, it’s possible to pinpoint “Replicas” his boss would just get out of his way with the exact moment that “Replicas” was shot, and their “ethical questions” and their “board seals its fate as one of the most candidacies for meetings.” Luckily for him, his family is memorably bad movies in recent the 2020 election quickly killed in a car crash, providing him memor y. From this moment on, there with not only a relief from those moralistic were being are more shots at canted angles than voices of reason but with new test subjects. announced when there are normal shots, as if the it was released.

Retreating to his home, he clones his cinematog rapher passed out half way It took a while. family and beg ins the work that will see through production and was cling ing Curiously, their consciousness transferred from their to the camera for support. There are “Replicas” didn’t undergo any old bodies to their new ones. What could possibly go wrong? multiple conspiracies, multiple heel reshoots that would necessitate such a Ever y thing. turns and multiple laugh-worthy long wait, and by all appearances, it’s Ever y thing could possibly go wrong.

In order to get at the heart of the journey “Replicas” takes the same movie that was screened at TIFF 2017. Expectations moments — all before the killer robot shows up, because of you on, you almost have to break it up into chunks. Tr ying to weren’t low for “Replicas,” because by the time it found its course there’s a killer robot. I’d say the effects used to bring digest the whole thing at once can only lead to pain. First, let’s way to theaters, ever yone had basically forgotten it existed. it to life look like something out of a video game, but frankly, go back to before the beg inning. The f ilm was shot in mid-2016 Another trailer dropped, and again as bef itting a Keanu I’ve been playing a lot of “Red Dead Redemption 2” lately Reeves movie that doesn’t and I think my go-to pan for bad effects would be insulting beg in with the words “John to video games if applied here. It looks like the effects artist Wick,” ever yone basically took their kids’ box of crayons and just drew a robot on the screen. By this point, “Replicas” barely resembles a real movie shrugged.

Now we can get to the movie. as much as it does a movie pitched by a f ictional character in That lack of expectations may a scene meant to satirize ever y thing wrong with Holly wood. have played a role in my initial If Keanu Reeves ever starred in a sequel to “Tropic Thunder,” reaction to the f ilm, or at least this is the fake trailer they’d show before the movie.

I don’t know what to say about “Replicas” besides what I its f irst act, which takes the form of a trashy Frankenstein already have. You have to see it to believe it. There’s no way homage that, while not exactly to properly quantif y it. Even describing in exact detail what high art, is entertaining happens on screen wouldn’t do it justice because there’s nonetheless for its willing ness no way to capture how quickly it moves bet ween different to commit to tropes usually sorts of bad — from affable trash to boring trash to a sort of found in horror movies. It transcendent trash that forced me to reconsider how I think plays like a SyFy orig inal about movies. If a movie has some highs, does that rectif y movie, but you know what? the fact that it also has some of the most abysmal lows I’ve There’s nothing wrong with a ever encountered? Or does its slow descent into madness taint little dumb f un ever y once in a ever y thing that came before it? Was I wrong to think there was any good in it to beg in with or was ever y thing I thought while.

Then ever y thing starts was remotely remarkable just the result of me believing these chang ing. Plotlines drop like things would pay off later or that the writer knew what a pay f lies; in the most eg reg ious off was? Are there any lessons to be learned here or is the example, the bodies of Reeves’s whole thing just a trial sent by God to test the faith of f ilm deceased family members fans?

I don’t know. I just don’t know. I feel like Luke Sky walker simply disappear bet ween scenes.

Director Jeffrey tr ying to decide if Darth Vader can still be redeemed even Nachmanoff (“Traitor”) starts though he blew up a planet. “Replicas” is good. “Replicas” is ENTERTAINMENT STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES listening to his worst instincts, bad. “Replicas” is all.

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To put it in perspective, Barack Obama was still president when “Replicas” was shot, and candidacies for the 2020 election were being announced when it was released.

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Folk Fest to be fully fantastic The latest tempting TV RYAN COX

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Ann Arbor’s music scene is one of tradition and variance.

Specifically, the venues in Ann Arbor play a crucial role in the city’s musical history. Hill Auditorium, in conjunction with the University Musical Society, is known for hosting some of the most legendary orchestras of all time — the New York and Berlin Philharmonics, to name a few.

The Blind Pig brings in a wide variety of punk, popular and local musicians to a historic venue that big names of the past have walked through.

But one of the most intimate venues that Ann Arbor owes a significant part of its history to over the last 50 years is The Ark. The Ark plays an integral role in bringing folk music to Ann Arbor, hosting over 300 different acts of varying styles throughout the year, from folk to jazz to bluegrass and everything in between.

Founded in 1965, The Ark began as a nonprofit organization, and has remained the same since, aside from a brief stint in the ’70s. Times had become tough, and the venue had to rely on ticket sales to keep af loat. The Ark was able to get back on track, able to return to their mission with the initiation of an idea in 1977. That idea was The Ann Arbor Folk Festival.

“Those first couple of Folk Festivals sort of came out of desperate measures and these artists coming together saying,

‘we’ll do this show and support this venue that’s important to us as performers as well as the community’,” Barb Chaffer Authier, the marketing director at The Ark, said in an interview with The Daily. Since then, the festival has remained an important aspect

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of The Ark’s legacy.

A few things have changed since 1977, when the festival was held on only one night in the Power Center. It wasn’t until the mid’80s when the festival switched over to Hill Auditorium, bringing

in headliner Bonnie Raitt. Back then, headliners consisted of local artists, as opposed to the huge names that are brought into town today.

In 2003, the festival added a second night. “Hill Auditorium went under renovation in 2003, which is the year we moved back to the Michigan Theater,” Authier explained.

“And because we now had a crowd of over 3000 that were attending the festival … that’s when we started doing two nights.” When the festival moved back to Hill Auditorium, The Ark decided to keep the festival two days long due to the success of the previous year.

Having more time for different acts, the festival decided to push the boundaries with some of the artists they brought in. “You hear Folk Festival and you might be thinking ‘Kumbaya’ or singersongwriter or something like that, but it really gave us the opportunity to put a bigger variety of music on the lineup,” Authier explained.

The Ann Arbor Folk Festival has not only allowed The Ark to remain nonprofit by becoming one of its biggest fundraisers, but it has also made Ann Arbor one of the most well-known spots in the country for folk music. The Ann Arbor Folk Festival takes place this Friday and Saturday, Jan. 25 and 26, at Hill Auditorium.

In addition to the festival, many of the artists on the lineup will be returning to The Ark this winter and spring. Tickets for those shows are on sale now.

ELI LUSTIG For the Daily

Like the entiret y of Vice News, “Temptation Island” nags at my inabilit y to resist trivial media. A reboot of the 2001 hit, the show centers on four couples who are questioning their relationships and places them on an island with a handful of hot singles whose sole purpose is to get the couples to cheat on each other.

If “Temptation Island” sounds like it was genetically modif ied in a lab to be as scandalous as possible, that’s because it def initely was. One moment I’m getting “Jersey Shore”st yle bickering, the next moment I have tension inspired by “The Bachelor” — all of this is only made better by the host Mark L. Walberg.

This man makes me think he would’ve hosted “Sur vivor” if only he didn’t get too “in his feels.” The show might as well include a disclaimer

warning the audience that the show is best viewed while scrolling through your Instag ram feed in one hand and t yping a half-f inished essay in the other.

Despite the low barrier of entr y, “Temptation Island” isn’t a bad show.

In fact, I was suff iciently

it doesn’t matter because it’s “Temptation Island,” and who cares.

Though “Temptation Island” exists solely to fulf ill our need for gossip, comparing the 2000’s version to this current rendition, an interesting conversation about how realit y television has changed before our eyes is provoked.

Today, it is expected that ever yone who appears on realit y television will be palatable enough to be deemed attractive by the average viewer.

However, if you compare the singles who appeared on the 2000’s version and the singles in the reboot, you can see plainly the drastic shift in our expectations for who can be on a show that is supposed to be present realit y. It’s almost as entertaining as the show itself to watch USA Net work dictate what the “ideal American” bachelor and bachelorette looks, dresses and acts like. And if that means cheating on your sig nif icant other, so be it.

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entertained while watching it. The vicarious nature of watching other couples potentially cheat on another gave me a g iddy, omniscient feeling.

Watching “Temptation Island” is akin to being the cool kid that ever yone tells their secrets to, yet not being expected to g ive any dirt in return.

This sometimes blurs the line bet ween genuine and scripted reactions but if you actually stop to think about it you realize

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To a g randiose effect, the writing of such stories infatuation, harassment and, their qualit y, yes, the politics of being a Roupenian decides to open maintains the work with something the structure falls f lat. The mother of a pre-teen. A nd it brash: the sexual psychosis endings jump away from the is remarkable.

A ny readers expecting and abuse of “Bad Boy.” central plot they maintained of “Cat Roupenian ref uses to hesitate for their f irst half, almost as reg urg itations in introducing her breadth though Roupenian ran out of Person” (or any New Yorker as a writer, boldly declaring ideas and scribbled in some stor y for that matter) are herself on the page in a take- gasp-worthy ending so that sure to be surprised in the it-or-leave-it cleanse. This is the middle stories matched best of ways by the brilliance and brashness Roupenian is commendable. “Bad Boy ” — the rest of the collection.

But bet ween “Cat able to accomplish. “ You if readers sur vive its horror — is a fantastic stor y. No Person” and the eight other Know You Want This,” steers matter how despicable the sensations in “ You Know You through venereal, disturbing scenario, Roupenian leaves Want This,” the collection is and absurdist worlds, daring questions unanswered and easily forg ivable for these readers to keep their eyes Roupenian settles tempts the reader onward, a lapses. “Cat Person” in itself open. choice that few will be able is so wonderf ully true to into her place as principal life, so fearlessly blunt and antagonist by way of her to turn down.

Following the initiation unforg iving, that it nearly narratives, as if challeng ing “Bad Boy ” provides, the absolves the collection all readers at ever y turn: If you collection wanders off mostly by itself. Works such as can stomach it, look.

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With Martin Luther King Jr. Day and dreams for an equal society in mind, the arrival of “If Beale Street Could Talk” to the big screen is undeniably timely. After awing audiences with the dazzling and poignant “Moonlight,” director Barry Jenkins proves once more that his talents know no bounds.

Jenkins’ latest piece, “If Beale Street Could Talk,” juxtaposes flickers of the beauty, innocence and warmth of young love with the rotten and bitter reality of racial injustice in the 1970s.

With breathtaking visuals and a memorable score, Jenkins revives James Baldwin’s beloved love story, honoring the late novelist and shedding light on the societal inequality that our nation has yet to overcome still today.

Alonzo “Fonny” (Stephan James, “Race”) and Tish (KiKi Layne, “Veracity”) have always belonged to each other. Neighbors in Harlem since childhood, the nature of their relationship evolved as they grew, but the love between them was always unquestioned, true and pure.

Fonny and Tish’s future marriage plans are tested when their worlds are turned upside-down with news

of both Fonny’s wrongful conviction of rape and Tish’s unplanned pregnancy. Led by Tish’s mother Sharon (Regina King “Ray”), Tish and Fonny’s families crusade to prove Fonny’s innocence and prepare for Tish’s baby, struggling against a system constructed to deny them justice.

Hands down, one of the most impressive aspects of the film is the

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brilliant cinematography. Jenkins stays true to the same style he established in “Moonlight,” filling the screen with rich colors and expertly interspersing close-up shots. The honey-golds, yellows, deep reds and warm brown tones that dominate the film’s color palate, paired with the incredibly personalized camera movement invite the viewer inside the emotional

worlds of the characters. In one especially impactful sequence, we watch a flashback of artisticallyminded Fonny crafting an unshaped sculpture out of wood. The camera pans around Fonny as he inspects his work, the smoke from a cigarette between his lips gracefully twirling into the air. The smoke moves about in the air as Fonny paces the floor, creating the stunning image of a dance between the smoke and Fonny in sync with the accompanying melodic score.

Also to Jenkin’s credit is his clever interplay of auditory and visual components. “If Beale Street Could Talk” balances the heavy and dark with the light and beautiful, simultaneously translating Baldwin’s words about the wonders of first love and the racist outside world’s threat to it to screen. The score reflects these contrasting themes, somehow managing to sound both deeply heartbreaking and hopeful. Though at times the steady-nature of the film can make some moments drag a bit long, it is not so much that the quality of Jenkin’s creation can be waved aside. All blended together, the strong use of color, emotional tangibility of the actors and wellcrafted score create a powerful effect that can only be described as symphonic.

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01/25/19

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I cannot fathom the number of bruises the 21 bodies comprising the Los Angeles Master Chorale will have as they continue to trudge through their world tour performance of “Lagrime di San Pietro.”

“Lagrime di San Pietro,” meaning “Tears of St. Peter,” is an Italian Renaissance choral piece composed by Franco-Flemish composer Orlando di Lasso in 1594.

The piece depicts the seven stages of grief experienced by St. Peter after he renounced his affiliation with Jesus Christ before his arrest and subsequent crucifixion. Upon Jesus’s arrest, many of his disciples and followers f led or were punished alongside him. St. Peter is a subject of particular focus upon the arrest of Jesus because of his denial of Christ. St. Peter can be seen as a fig ure of betrayal — both betrayal of a friend and betrayal of faith — and as such, Peter spent the rest of his life full of regret for his disloyalty. Peter is effectively stuck pondering on his sin, while the rest of the world marches on. As described by Doyle Amburst, violist for the Spektral Quartet, “The tragedy in this story is not the accident. It is the catastrophe of being left behind.”

“Lagrime” is an ancient piece, one that has been performed countless times

for countless audiences because of its beautiful harmonies and emotional storyline. The Los Angeles Master Chorale, g uided by Conductor Grant Gershon and Director Peter Sellars, embraces a novel element to “Lagrime”: kinesiolog y.

The Master Chorale enter the stage lacking shoes and garbed in loose gray clothing, depicting the drab mental state of Peter. And though this outfit is not entirely far off from the dress of the era, the clothes, more importantly, allow the singers to move about the stage freely. This introduces a new, kinetic art form to the traditionally choral piece, and the group uses it well.

Throughout the piece, dramatic movements are scored by strong Italian lyrics that may correspond with or contradict what is being sung. As Peter was being metaphorically shot with arrows, the singers toppled to the f loor in pain while maintaining proper intonation. After a moment of silence at the end of a piece, the singers slowly maneuvered to their feet, mimicking the malaise mornings of Peter’s as he was reminded of his regret.

Some of the group’s movements, especially those that are not easy on the body, were heavily repeated — I cannot count the number of times the singers fell to their knees, laid on the stage, jumped up quickly, clutched their chest or clutched

their fellow performers.

Upon ref lection, however, the repetitive oscillation of visible activity and letharg y elegantly mirrored the cycle of depression felt by Peter.

This ability to be actively moving and not miss a musical beat is a feat in and of itself.

To also incorporate meaning into those movements shows true mastery of the piece.

In addition to bodily representations of the music, lighting became a key part of the performance. As the singers described the cold felt

by Peter, the lights became a diffuse to a dim white.

Upon the revival of spring, the lights became warmer, as the snow melted. Not only did the lights brighten, but the singers moved more gracefully and the notes being sung were softer and warmer. In effect, the lighting created even more feeling and emotion. Changes in lighting can easily become distracting and conf lict with the piece. However, the lighting techniques used in “Lagrime” were expertly carried out.

The performance runs approximately 80 minutes with no intermission. The audience must sit through the whole grieving process of St. Peter: the anger, the depression and the contemplations of suicide.

There is no break from the grief, no opportunity to slip away. But to be encapsulated by this performance for 80 minutes was not something difficult to do.

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Michigan looks to break out of offensive funk at Indiana JACOB SHAMES Daily Sports Editor

On Tuesday night, Michigan hit 21 of 62 shots, including a feeble 3-for-22 from 3-point range, and scored just 0.92 points per possession.

Thanks to a buzzerbeater by redshirt junior wing Charles Matthews, the Wolverines escaped with a 59-57 win over Minnesota. But that highlight aside, anyone who bravely trekked through the freezing rain to Crisler Center would call it for what it was: an objectively ugly game of basketball.

How ugly?

Michigan’s effective field goal percentage of 36.3 was, per UMHoops. com, its worst shooting performance in a win since 2008, when John Beilein’s first Wolverine team beat Illinois, 49-43.

It’s a frequent saying, especially in a conference as strong as the Big Ten — a win is a win. That didn’t offset the ugliness or make this particular win any more enjoyable.

Speaking to reporters 20 minutes after the most memorable play of his college career, Matthews was subdued.

He candidly elaborated on Michigan’s latest struggles while seemingly trying to forget about the Wolverines’ last two games.

“Yeah, I’m happy,” Matthews said. “But I don’t feel like we played that well.”

He continued: “I told the team, (junior guard Zavier Simpson) told us as well, we kinda gotta loosen up. We’re playing kinda tense out there.

We understand we want to have a perfect season. We want to win, but we still gotta be out there playing with smiles on our faces, having fun and competing to win.”

In the overall season context, Matthews’

explanation for Michigan’s sluggishness makes at least some sense, because it’s a story we’ve seen before.

The Wolverines trudged through December’s slate of guarantee games and looked similarly uninspired against Big Ten bottom-dweller Penn State. After beating the Nittany Lions, a date with then-No. 21 Indiana loomed.

Despite an unbeaten record, the past month had set a mandate: Michigan would have to play more inspired, play more consistent, play better against better teams.

And did the Wolverines ever do that. Matthews was everywhere against the Hoosiers, racking up steals and fast-break dunks while locking future lottery pick Romeo Langford in a closet.

Highly-touted freshman Brandon Johns broke out to the tune of eight points and eight boards in 13 minutes.

Michigan led by 17 points less than 10 minutes in and finished with a 74-63 win that never seemed that close. To the extent that “flipping the switch” is a real phenomenon, this was it.

That contest was in line with a trend: The Wolverines have played their best basketball with the bright lights on. In highly anticipated games against Villanova, North Carolina, Purdue and Indiana, they were just about untouchable, and they seemed to know it. But they haven’t always looked that way against teams that shouldn’t be able to touch them.

Maybe Matthews is correct.

Maybe Michigan possesses the ability to flip the switch whenever it wants. Maybe all it needs is to have fun again.

All of this is to say: Friday night’s rematch at Indiana will put that theory’s viability to the test.

It’s a matchup that has

admittedly lost a bit of its luster. Starting with their loss in Ann Arbor, the Hoosiers are in a five-game tailspin. They come in shorthanded as well — center De’Ron Davis is out with an ankle injury, while starting guard Devonte Green was indefinitely suspended earlier in the week for undisclosed reasons.

But it is a road game in the Big Ten, and as cliché as it is, winning on the road in conference play is a challenge itself. If there’s any place that provides a real homecourt advantage, it’s Indiana’s Assembly Hall. And the Hoosiers still have Langford and forward Juwan Morgan — who scored 25 points against the Wolverines on Jan. 6.

Simply put? It’s a game that Michigan shouldn’t have to

struggle to get up for.

“When you’ve got 17,000 people cheering against you, it’s just the stuff you dream about growing up,” said sophomore guard Jordan Poole.

“You want to be in situations like this.”

Beilein spoke more quietly than usual Tuesday, flatly stating his disappointment in Michigan’s lack of growth from Saturday’s loss. Thursday, his tone was similar but tempered. He admitted that his expectations might have been too high; that his message after the loss to Wisconsin

needed more time to sink in.

“I was not as happy as I probably should have been,” he said. “I think, as a coach, you expect too much, you expect it to immediately kick in after the Wisconsin game. And when I saw some of the similar things that we had pointed out …

Sometimes you just gotta be ready to move on, realize I’m human, they’re human, and we should have enjoyed that win better.”

But if the lessons learned in Madison have yet to take effect, any concerns will keep growing in urgency.

I was not as happy as I probably should have been.

On the heels of two subpar performances, the difference between a two-point win, a 20-point win or a loss becomes that much greater.

If the Wolverines indeed have a switch, Friday night would be a good time for them to flip it.

“I feel like we were just trying to go out there and win a game, rather than being excited to make open shots and being excited to beat a good team. I feel like that’s something that decreased the last couple games,” Poole said.

“Being able to flip the switch and try to turn it on tomorrow and get after it in practice, just have fun. When you’re there, you have 16 people against 17,000. … Being in that situation is something I feel is exciting for us.”

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Junior center Jon Teske has emerged as a focal point of the offense, scoring in double figures in each of his last four games, including 15 points on Thursday.

Wolverines drop contest to Indiana, 70-60, pushing road record to 2-7 CONNOR BRENNAN Daily Sports Writer

In the midst of a backand-forth sequence, Indiana regained control.

First, having found space on the wing, Hoosier guard Jaelynn Penn knocked down a 3-pointer.

Moments later, following a turnover by Michigan’s freshman point guard Amy Dilk, it was Ali Patberg converting a baseline f loater on the other end for Indiana.

That 30-second sequence seemed to encapsulate the game as a whole. Despite making multiple runs to keep the game close, the Wolverines (12-8 overall, 3-5 Big Ten) just never took command, ultimately losing to the Hoosiers (16-4, 5-3) on the road, 70-60.

From the start, Indiana

dictated the tempo of the contest. It jumped out to a five-point lead and built on it as the quarter progressed.

Three-pointers from Penn and Brenna Wise pushed its lead to eight with 3:30 left in the first quarter.

To Michigan’s credit, it fought its way back thanks in large part to the play of sophomore forward Hailey Brown.

Down just six entering the second quarter, Brown scored five quick points — including a three from the top of the key.

From that point on, the game was played at lightning speed.

Penn’s second 3-pointer of the game was matched by senior guard Nicole Munger. The Wolverines’ sharpshooter — who was 1-16 from beyond the arc in Big Ten away games

From the start, Indiana dictated the tempo...

entering Thursday — found her target again later in the quarter to pull Michigan within two. Following the Hoosiers’ quick five-point burst, freshman forward Naz Hillmon converted two contested layups — foreshadowing things to come — to cut Indiana’s lead to just three at the half.

The Hoosiers however, came out of the break firing on all cylinders. Off of a defensive rebound, Penn raced down the f loor and finished at the rim. Another jumper from Patberg and an open 3-pointer from the corner gave Indiana even more breathing room.

In customary fashion though, the Wolverines closed the gap. From a double-team, senior center Hallie Thome skillfully found Dilk, crashing toward the basket for an easy layup.

Hillmon, then, went to work in the paint — gathering an offensive rebound and finishing down-low on multiple occasions.

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Freshman forward Naz Hillmon tied a team-high with 16 points and added nine rebounds Thursday, but it wasn’t enough.

And yet, every time Michigan seemed to regain its footing, the Hoosiers answered accordingly.

During one exchange at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Dilk received a pass in transition and had a clear path toward the rim. Out of nowhere Indiana’s Bendu Yeaney sprinted down the f loor and stripped the ball out of Dilk’s unsuspecting hands.

“Kinda seemed like they

were first to the loose-balls all night,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico.

“Even when we got a steal early on, we gave it right back to them. The ball was going through our hands early on.”

The dagger came with a minute left in the fourth quarter. Since Thome was dominating inside defensively — finishing with five blocks — the Hoosiers had to hit from the

Kinda seemed like they were first to loose balls all night.

outside. Penn did exactly that — finding space on the right wing and drilling the 20-footer to bring her final point total to 28.

The Wolverines fought valiantly, but their scoreless final three minutes and Indiana’s ability to make plays when they had to, in the end, resulted in another away defeat, pushing their road record to 2-7.

“We got really good looks,” Barnes Arico said. “That’s the thing — we ran stuff in our offense, we got looks in our offense and they just didn’t go in. And they made ten threes, so they shot the ball incredibly well all night.”

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The first two matchups between the Michigan hockey team and No. 15 Penn State resulted in a total of 23 goals scored.

In turn, Michigan coach Mel Pearson shifted his focus to defense — something he had emphasized all season. But for Thursday’s matchup especially, he made clear that he wanted to see the team protect the net better.

And after a scoreless first period, the game plan showed. From start to finish, the Wolverines made junior goaltender Hayden Lavigne’s night easier throughout the period — and the game, one that ended in a 5-1 win for Michigan.

Though the Nittany Lions had 32 shot attempts and 15 on target in the first period alone, few of them were high-quality looks.

Michigan blocked nine shots and held Penn State’s only power play of the period to zero shots.

It wasn’t until the dying minutes of the period that Penn State had a clean look on net, which was stopped by Lavigne after a barrage of shots.

Offensively, the Wolverines were held to a low-shot count — seven.

“I thought our first period was a little slow,” said junior forward Jake Slaker. “After a week off, it’s tough. I thought they were a little more ready for the start of the game, just looking at the shots, they had 15, we had seven.

Then the rest of the game, we took over.”

The second period saw the Wolverines’ offensive aggression pay off. Sophomore Dakota Raabe made a sprint to the offensive zone. The majority of both teams were still in Michigan’s defensive zone, but freshman forward Jimmy Lambert saw Raabe in the neutral zone and shot a push forward. The pass landed

perfectly at Raabe’s stick as he Boka scored a goal 14 seconds chances for both sides but no staked into the zone, with only after. Penn State made a bad pass goal. However, minutes after, in the defensive zone that led senior forward Brendan Warren one defender trailing him.

The one-on-one confrontation to freshman Nick Blankenberg hooked a players leg to prevent a was too much for the stealing the puck. He took the breakaway.

Right as the penalty ended, inexperienced Oskar Autio puck to the net but failed to — who was starting his first convert. Boka, however, was in Penn State scored a goal. A collegiate game. Raabe cut right, the right place to clean it up. He Nittany Lion skater centered a but smacked a backhanded shot curled around towards the right pass, but it deflected off of Boka’s into the net to break open the of the net, where the rebound skate and in between Lavigne’s had leaked, and hit a low shot legs that ended what would have scoring. been Lavigne’s second shut out “Usually for left-handers that went past Autio.

Thirty-eight seconds after of the year. coming down the left, it’s kind “Just in control. He just looks of a standard move a lot of guys that, Lockwood scored his ninth do –– forehand, backhand, five- goal of the season. He initially calm in the net, keeps things doesn’t overreact,” hole,” Raabe said. “So, that’s shot on net and a fight in traffic simple, said.

“But he’s ensued. The puck leaked out Pearson kind of what I was going for.”

And from there, the goals back to where Lockwood lied in competing. He’s really working started to rain in for the wake, and he converted on the hard to compete on every shot” Nick Pastujov committed a Wolverines. Scoring four goals distracted goalie.

The period was the breakout penalty that put Penn State on in a period against Penn State isn’t new. Michigan has done Michigan looked to have all the power place again. Down it twice in the previous two season, and the momentum three, the Nittany Lions opted until the ending to pull their goaltender for the meetings. But this time, there stayed seconds of the second period. A 6-on-4 advantage. However, was a defense to back it up.

“Our guys did the simple breakaway by the Nittany Lions freshman forward Garrett Van things. We got to the net,” forced senior defenseman Joseph Wyhe gained a rebound at the Pearson said. “We stopped in Cecconi to take a roughing blue line and took a long look at front of the net. Pucks and people penalty to stop the Penn State the net. With no one around him to contest the shot, he sealed the to the net and we competed skater from converting.

The penalty bled into the game with an empty netter. there. We haven’t done a lot “I think for us, we were of — first period, we didn’t do third period, but Michigan had any of that. If you look at the no problems with the penalty focused on defense more,” Slaker shot chart, everything’s off to kill, a consistent trait for the said. “And our defense led to our offense tonight. When we keep the side. There’s nothing from team all season.

The Wolverines drew a them to one goal that gives us a in front. You look at the second period, we’re getting to the net.” power play of their own, pretty good opportunity to win With the Nittany Lions’ after junior defenseman Luke a game every game. So if we can offense unable to start up, the Martin got slashed clearing do that night in and night out, as Wolverines’ offense took over. A the puck. The man-advantage long as we get two (goals), that’s little over halfway through the ended with a few high-quality a win.” period, they scored three goals in under a minute to create the separation they haven’t been able to all season.

Lambert battled against the boards and came up clean with the puck. He cut toward the net where he saw Slaker waiting at the opposite side of the net unguarded. The passing game and the goal followed.

“Jimmy made a great play to me,” Slaker said, “And I was just kind of sitting there, wide open, so I just had to do my job as soon as he got it to me.”

KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily Leaving little time for Junior forward Will Lockwood scored a goal in Michigan’s 5-1 win Thursday. celebration, senior Nicholas

Second period stretch propels Wolverines JORGE CAZARES Daily Sports Writer

All it took was 52 seconds.

At the end of that stretch, the game was effectively over. The Michigan hockey team drained any momentum Penn State had left, scoring three goals in under a minute to extend its lead to 4-0 with 5:47 remaining in the second period.

It started on the power play.

Freshman forward Jimmy Lambert was in a scrum for the puck along the left boards.

He escaped with possession, creating space for himself.

As he drifted towards the left faceoff circle, the freshman floated a backhanded pass across to junior forward Jake Slaker in the right slot.

Slaker fired a one-timer past goaltender Oskar Autio’s glove side to give the Wolverines a 2-0 lead.

“Big-time play on the Slaker

goal,” said Michigan coach Mel Pearson. “He does a good job on the wall, steps up, wins a battle, steps off and has the poise and presence and vision ... He’s got talent. He’s just connecting the dots, and he had a good game tonight.”

Just 14 seconds later, Michigan scored again.

Freshman forward Nick Blankenburg — in his debut as a forward — collected the puck on an errant pass intended for forward Alec Marsh in the Nittany Lions’ defensive zone.

Blankenburg deked past one defender, making him fall to the ice, and made a beeline for the net. Though the initial shot was blocked, senior defenseman Nicholas Boka

crashed the net and cleaned up the loose puck. He fired a shot past Autio, who was sprawled out in the crease after saving Blankenburg’s attempt.

Boka’s goal came as the crowd was still on its feet celebrating the goal from Slaker. And 38 seconds later, Michigan completed its second-period assault on Penn State.

After sophomore forward Michael Pastujov forced a turnover in the right faceoff circle in the Wolverines’ offensive zone, junior forward Will Lockwood secured the loose puck. He got a shot on net which was saved by Autio. Michigan had several shot attempts in the scrum that ensued in front of

Big-time play on the Slaker goal. ... He’s got talent.

the net, Lockwood finished what he started as circled back towards the net and flicked the puck into the back of the net, 4-0.

It was like an all-out blitz of sorts that seemed to catch the Nittany Lions off guard.

Michigan continued the pressure and kept Penn State on their heels for the entirety of those 52 seconds and emerged on the other end with a 4-0 lead.

“We would’ve been happy with three goals, probably, in the game, the way we were going,” Pearson said. “… (We) came through tonight. That’s good. It’s nice to see them rewarded by getting to the net.

We have to do more of that. We have to get those gritty goals.

We’re not gonna make a lot of great plays and fancy plays.

We have to simplify things. If we can do that, then we have enough guys who are hungry around the net.”

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Sophomore forward Dakota Raabe opened the scoring with a breakaway backhanded shot, giving Michigan the early lead in the second period.