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‘Bans off our bodies’: Activists rally at the Diag in support of Roe v. Wade TINA YU

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Students, community members, politicians and activists gathered at the University of Michigan Diag for the “Bans Off Our Bodies” rally Saturday afternoon to speak out against the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade. One of around 50 “Bans Off Our Bodies” rallies held Saturday, the protest was held in response to the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion on the pending Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case. The decision, if finalized, would reverse 50 years of national legal precedent protecting the right to abortion with minimal government interference and return the issue to individual states.

In the state of Michigan, the overruling of Roe v. Wade could mean the return to a 1931 law that banned all abortions unless to save the pregnant person’s life and made it a felony to perform one in other circumstances.

Last month, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer filed a lawsuit asking the state Supreme Court to strike down this law under the Michigan Constitution’s Due Process and Equal Protection clauses.

With signs reading “Protect safe, legal abortion,” “No forced birth” and “My uterus, my choice” in hand,

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attendees heard from various speakers on the importance of protecting abortion access in Michigan and nationwide. The chants “Bans off our bodies” and “We support Roe” echoed around the Diag throughout the afternoon.

Katie O’Connor, president of the Albion College chapter of Planned Parenthood Generation Action, expressed her disappointment regarding the potential overruling of Roe v. Wade, but told attendees she remains determined to fight to protect legal abortion. O’Connor emphasized that abortion remains legal in the state of Michigan since Roe v. Wade has not been officially overturned, and encouraged attendees to continue advocating for abortion access.

“I don’t have the words to describe the anger and hurt that I feel,” O’Connor said. “Abortion is still legal in Michigan, and it will not be attacked on our watch without a fight … This week confirms we’re facing the worst-case scenario, which would be disastrous for every person in our country. And that is why we are here today … people in every state across the country in their hometowns, right this minute, (are) rising up to say ‘Bans off our bodies.’”

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Advocates of Michigan, pointed out in her speech that a ban on legal abortion will disproportionately affect lowincome and minority groups.

“The impact of overturning Roe would be largely felt by Black, Latino, indigenous people, immigrants, people living with low incomes and in rural communities,” Stallworth said. “(These groups) have already long felt the impact of lack of access to abortion due to the social determinants of health and discrimination that already exists in our healthcare and criminal justice systems.”

Grey Stone, a board member of Planned Parenthood Generation Action at Eastern Michigan University, spoke to attendees on the importance of including transgender individuals in the conversation and using genderinclusive language.

“Using gender-inclusive language makes a great difference,” Stone said.

“It opens up discussions in safe spaces to more people who are in bodily autonomy jeopardy. Instead of saying woman, you can say people with uteruses or uterus-bearing individuals.

We might not all be women, but we all have government officials trying to tell us what we can and cannot do with our bodies.”

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Former University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel wrote a letter of apology to the Board of Regents after being removed from his term as University President in January 2022, according to a Detroit News report published on Thursday.

The letter of apology was one of the stipulations of the settlement agreement reached by the University and Schlissel.

The letter, obtained by the Detroit News through a public records request, was written on April 9 and

is addressed to the Board of Regents.

“I apologize to the Regents and the University for the poor judgment I exercised by engaging in a close personal relationship with a university employee,” Schlissel wrote in the letter. “I am also sorry for any disruption this has caused to the conduct of U-M’s important mission.”

Schlissel was fired after an internal investigation revealed Schlissel’s inappropriate behavior with a subordinate at the University, according to a Jan. 15 press release from the Board of Regents.

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COVID-19 level for Washtenaw County is high, according to CDC guidelines ANNA FIFELSKI Summer News Editor

The University of Michigan updated the Campus Blueprint COVID-19 Dashboard on Friday to reflect that Washtenaw County’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 community level is now considered “high.”

This increase comes a month after the University updated masking policies to no longer require masks in classrooms or on U-M transportation.

Masks continued to be required at Michigan Medicine and on-campus COVID-19 testing sites.

According to data from the Community Sampling and Tracking Program (CSTP) provided on the Campus Blueprint COVID-

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19 Dashboard, reported cases of COVID-19 have increased between April 30 and May 7 with 378 COVID19 cases reported by May 7. Weekly COVID-19 cases in Washtenaw County have consistently risen since early March. Washtenaw County reported 283 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and a weekly positivity rate of 14.6% as of May 12 at 11:00 a.m.

The CDC recommends masking indoors in communities with “high” COVID-19 levels, though the University has not reported any changes to its masking policy.

The University advises community members to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 by remaining home if sick, getting vaccinated — including boosters — according to University policy and getting tested.

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Wearable devices can track 54% of Michigan pharmacies disease progression, give Narcan unprescribed, COVID-19 UMich study finds UMich study finds JINGQI ZHU

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54% of pharmacies in Michigan offer naloxone without a prescription, according to a recent study by University of Michigan researchers. This study, published in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, surveyed pharmacies in eight counties across Michigan to study naloxone availability.

Naloxone, also known as Narcan, is a drug that can be used to reverse an opioid overdose. Common signs that an individual might be experiencing an overdose include small pupils, slow breathing, limp body and losing consciousness. In situations when it is unclear if someone is experiencing an overdose, naloxone can be administered as a nasal spray or an injectable without risk.

In 2016, the state of Michigan passed a standing order that allows any pharmacist to dispense naloxone without a prescription. This policy permits concerned family, friends or community members to obtain naloxone preventatively, but not all pharmacies participate.

Derek Frasure, Rackham student and policy director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, spoke with The Michigan Daily about the importance of increasing the number of pharmacies dispensing naloxone. As of 2017, approximately 34% of Michigan pharmacies are registered to dispense naloxone under the standing order.

“The idea is that we want as many people to have naloxone as possible so that whenever an overdose occurs, somebody is around in order to reverse it,” Frasure said.

Dr. Chin Hwa (Gina) Dahlem, a

clinical associate professor at the U-M School of Nursing and a family nurse practitioner at the Delonis Center, shared her ideas as to why the percentage of pharmacies in Michigan offering naloxone may be so low.

“One piece could be the lack of awareness, but also there is a cost for pharmacies to stock medications,” Dahlem said. “So if there is a financial cost for the pharmacy to stock the medication, but no one is accessing or requesting the medication, they are eating up the cost. That could be a possible financial barrier.”

Dahlem also said finances can be a barrier for patients to obtain naloxone.

“The way it works is that once you go to the pharmacy, they will bill your insurance to obtain naloxone, and whatever your copay is for that medication is what you pay for naloxone,” Dahlem said. “Depending on the insurance and their copays, there could still be a barrier, especially with the copay, which I have seen ranging from zero to $149. However, if you do have Medicaid, it is free.”

In addition to the low percentage of Michigan pharmacies offering naloxone, patients may face other non-financial barriers when trying to obtain the drug. Dr. Keith Kocher, an emergency physician at Michigan Medicine, said the stigma around naloxone can play a large role in limiting access.

“How we decide to care for these kinds of patients at risk of overdose is layered with a lot of stigma,” Kocher said.

“We make assumptions about them, oftentimes really terrible assumptions.

And that ends up deprioritizing the kinds of medical care and decisions that we should be offering for patients.”

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Consumer-grade wearable devices, such as smartwatches, can monitor COVID-19 progression remotely through an analysis of heart rate data, according to a new University of Michigan study published on April 19.

The study breaks down heart rate data into different physiological features, including basal heart rate — also referred to as resting heart rate — and heart rate response to physical activity. The study also examines the circadian rhythm in heart rate by analyzing a circadian amplitude parameter, or the heart rate variation over the day, and a circadian phase parameter, or the predicted time heart rate is at a minimum during the 24-hour

and a co-author of this study, said the research is unique in the way it breaks down the single heart rate into several physiological systems.

“A lot of other work looks at heart rate as one signal and one system,” Mayer said. “And we’re really able to break it down into these different physiological systems and see how those differentially change, and they change in different time periods with respect to symptom onset.”

The study’s analysis focuses on a “baseline” period, defined as anywhere from 8 to 35 days before COVID-19 symptom onset, and an “analysis” period, defined as anywhere from 7 days before symptom onset to 14 days after.

“All of this analysis happens on a personalized, individual level because we know different individuals respond differently,” Mayer said. “They have different

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circadian cycle. Another parameter is the autocorrelation parameter, which refers to the changes in heart rate due to mechanisms other than circadian variation, such as hormone release. These parameters change around COVID-19 symptom onset, which can help distinguish the infectious stage from healthy periods.

According to the study, basal heart rate increases at symptom onset and the day after, which researchers hypothesized could be due to fever or heightened stress and anxiety, and generally starts to decline a few days after. The study found that heart rate response to physical activity increases soon after the symptom onset, and it increases more in individuals who experience coughing.

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physiological systems. We wanted to break (it) down into a baseline period to get a sense of their normal balance of these parameters, and then an analysis period where we look more around symptoms when the disease starts affecting your physiology.”

The study analyzed participants from three separate studies that collected Fitbit and COVID-19 data: the Intern Health Study, which follows physicians in their first year of post-medical school training; a study by Tejaswini Mishra and colleagues, which collected smartwatch data from 32 individuals infected with COVID19; and the Roadmap college student (Roadmap-CS) study, which collects data from undergraduate and graduate students at the University.

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‘Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ just feels like one big step backwards ANNABEL CURRAN Daily Arts Writer

When I walked into my hometown movie theater for a late Friday night screening of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” I was already in a pretty bad mood. My friend and I were running about 10 minutes late. Our lateness was exacerbated by the ridiculously long line for overpriced movie theater snacks (that I was paying for), which of course gave me a terrible stomachache. So, as I sat and waited for the infamous Marvel opening credits to roll for “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” with stomach pains and a freshly burned hole in my wallet, I could only expect the worst. I was prepared to suffer through two hours and six minutes of confusing and headacheinducing special effects, not-that-funny jokes and references to other Marvel movies I had long forgotten.

I was prepared to write a less-than-gushing review, maybe fall asleep in the theater and, okay, maybe even stoop so low as to crack an MSU-related joke at director Sam Raimi’s expense. What I was not prepared for was a Marvel rollercoaster of emotions that took me from intrigued, to excited, to enthralled, only to ultimately leave me stranded and feeling disappointed.

For those of us who haven’t been keeping up with the Avengers since the beginning of time, or who maybe haven’t had the free hours (or weeks) to watch every Marvel movie in chronological order, here’s a little back story. Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch, “Sherlock”) is a powerful, magic-wielding sorcerer whose role in Marvel films has been building since

Cumberbatch’s Marvel debut in the first “Doctor Strange.” As one of the very few actual Avengersadjacent superheroes still around, his character has been integral to many recent Marvel films where he’s showcased his ability to completely rewrite reality — an ability that becomes extremely important as Marvel begins to explore the lore of multiple realities and interdimensional travel. So yes, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” is as complicated and insane as its title, and for better or worse, it is definitely a wild ride.

The plot of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” hinges, as always, on the fate of the universe as we know it — but this time, it’s thousands of different universes that rest in the hands of Strange and America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez, “The Baby-Sitters Club”), a teenage girl with the ability to travel to alternate universes. The film’s roots stretch all the way back to Cumberbatch’s Marvel debut in the first “Doctor Strange,” tying together key plotlines from recent Marvel projects such as “Avengers: Infinity War” and most notably “WandaVision,” the miniseries in which Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen, “Sorry for Your Loss”) loses her marbles and transforms into the villainous version of the Scarlet Witch who appears in “Multiverse of Madness.” Maximoff seeks to covet America’s powers for herself in order to find a universe where she can be reunited with the children she lost in “WandaVision,” and uses dark and disturbing forbidden magic to follow America and company across dimensions in a plot twist that we kind of all saw coming.

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‘Sea of Tranquility’ finds humanity in the fantastical EMILIA FERRANTE Senior Arts Editor

“Sea of Tranquility,” Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel, demanded that I read it all in one day. There are few things more exhilarating (to me, at least) than tearing through a book because it’s just that good. Nothing quite compares to getting to the end of a book and feeling compelled to read the “Acknowledgements” section and even the information about the typeface (Sabon, if anyone was wondering) just so the book isn’t over, not quite yet.

Luckily, this is not a book that ends when you read the last word on the last page, because it sticks with you and refuses to let you go.

“Sea of Tranquility” follows several characters whose lives intersect for a brief moment — a sort of “glitch” that brings a displaced Englishman, renowned author, videographer, violinist and time traveler together. The novel spans from the early 20th century to the late 25th century, jumping from our Englishman, Edwin, in 1912, to time traveler, Gaspery, in 2401. The worlds Mandel describes are alien in more ways than one: Edwin lives in a preWWI Vancouver Island while Olive, the 23rd-century author character, lives in an equally unfathomable future where moon colonies populate the lunar surface. Mandel dives straight

into a complex web of timelines that reveal themselves over the course of the book, and does it in a way that feels utterly natural. Any time-hopping disorientation reads as purposeful.

Time travel and the glitch it creates

the end: “If definitive proof emerges that we’re living in a simulation the correct response to that news will always be So what. A life lived in a simulation is still a life.” The characters in “Sea of Tranquility” live and die and

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in this novel provide possible evidence that life is a simulation, supporting the so-called “simulation hypothesis.” The trouble with exploring the possibility of living in a simulation is the ease with which you can fall into a kind of helpless nihilism — if the world isn’t real, then none of this matters. Mandel sums up the way her novel deals with this question fairly succinctly towards

love and mourn, they ponder and care, they think beautiful and mundane things. The 225 pages you, the reader, just read are also a simulation of sorts, a world Mandel created. So you are left to wonder: does that make the feelings you experienced while reading it any less real?

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Leon Bridges performs a moving set for a crowd of millennials who don’t know how to have a good time JOSHUA MEDINTZ Daily Arts Writer

When Leon Bridges approached the stage of the sold-out Michigan Theater on Saturday, May 7, he probably expected to see the faces of at least a few University of Michigan students. And that would have been a fair assumption: Ann Arbor is, after all, a college town, and Leon Bridges is, after all, a bit of a star, with six Grammy nominations, including one for each of his albums.

So why were my buddy and I some of the only U-M faces I recognized in the crowd?

Maybe students listen to some of Bridges’ songs, and generally like his music, but not enough to justify the $84.95 tickets. Maybe everyone and their moms were

down the block at Skeeps, downing pitchers of vodka-cran.

Maybe the button-downed, bearded, white millennials were positively bursting at any chance

to watch Bridges perform and bought up all the tickets before any students could. Maybe I should stop my wild theorizing.

The first bunch of songs

unified and profoundly groovy sound. He’s boosted all the more by the sweet songwriting and vocals that first earned Bridges acclaim all the way back in 2015 with his first album, Coming Home.

Throughout these first songs, my friend and I scouted out seats, bouncing closer and closer to the stage until we were touching it in the front row.

Finally securing what might have been the best seats in the house, we stood up to move and groove, bob and weave, sway and stir or whatever you want to call my attempt at dancing.

But when I looked behind me, I was overcome with an almost Photo by Joshua Medintz overwhelming wave of selfgenre-bending, genre-blending consciousness: We were the only repertoire. With elements of ones on our feet! soul, R&B, country, pop and singer-songwriter indie-rock, Read more at michigandaily.com Bridges and his band produce a Bridges played were pulled from his two latest albums, Good Thing (2018) and GoldDiggers Sound (2021), both of which exhibit Bridges’ amazing

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When the school year ends HALEY JOHNSON Statement Columnist

Every year, I tell myself that things will be different in May. In those golden weeks between the end of the school year and the start of summer internships, I’ll take care of all the things I’ve been filing away in the back of my mind. Out of an excess of time, an idealized, optimized version of myself will emerge.

I spent all of April planning for May. I needed to put money in my 401K, start training for a half marathon, finally trim my bangs, get back into crocheting, etc. But when finals ended and May rolled around, I found myself overwhelmed by a peculiar feeling.

The stress of the semester never really subsided and motivation turned to burnout. I would sit on my porch with my roommates, laughing and drinking margaritas, internally panicking about my never-ending to-do list. I’d walk through the spring blossoms, hand-in-hand with my boyfriend, silently overwhelmed by all the ways I could be productive or improve myself that day.

Year after year, I find myself in a post-semester panic. Rather than letting myself rest, I resolve to really push myself — to read more books, apply to more graduate programs, work more hours.

Given post-semester burnout, these goals are often at best overly ambitious and at worst completely unrealistic. I never actually complete my to-do list; meaning I haven’t allowed myself to relax, but I haven’t accomplished anything either.

This year has been particularly bad. I have a four-week stretch between classes and my internship — four weeks that are completely mine to fill. On top of the usual post-semester anxieties, I’m reminded that this summer before my senior year is likely the last “free summer” I’ll ever have, even if only a part of it belongs to me.

Instead of getting me to relax for the first time in my life, this knowledge has only made the end

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of the semester more distressing and disorienting. As I find myself yet again in this unhappy medium, I’m left wondering why the end of the school year is so reliably unsatisfying. Why do I always sabotage my precious few weeks of vacation? *** After the last exam and final term paper submission, days spent hunched over in the library turn into lazy mornings and leisurely afternoons. All the anxiety and inertia from constantly working

The weekend, of course, has a predetermined end. I know on Monday morning I’ll go back to my regularly scheduled programming of running between classes, extracurriculars and part-time jobs. There’s something different about summer break. Logically, I know it will end in August, but at the moment, it feels like it will extend indefinitely into the future.

French philosopher Giles Deleuze noted that in our society “one is never finished with anything.” Rather, Deleuze claims

come to a screeching halt. Often, it feels disorienting to go from intense concentration for eight hours to long, empty days. I’d wake up at noon in a cold sweat, convinced I’d slept through my alarm and would never find a seat in the Shapiro Undergraduate Library, only to realize classes were over. Then, a peculiar kind of anxiety would set in, the realization that my days were now my own.

I struggled with unstructured time during the school year, too.

My sophomore year, “Sunday scaries” subsided to what I dubbed the “Friday scaries” — a sense of acute existential dread brought on by the reminder that I had virtually no obligations on the weekends and that I had to figure out how to fill the next 48 hours. But on the weekends during the school year, at least I had a reason to feel anxious. It’s not easy balancing homework, housework, socializing and all the other responsibilities that get pushed to the weekend.

that we instead move seamlessly from one institution to another.

Education becomes an internship that becomes a job. These major life transitions are reduced to neat and inevitable changes while losing any distinct form.

School is intrusive. Its long tentacles have a way of reaching into all corners of life, taking over our weekends and mid-semester breaks. On the weekends, I was anxious because I had more control, but deadlines, assignments and extracurriculars were always there to make demands of me.

I was never really finishing the school week.

But while class had a way of feeding into everything else, the end of the school year couldn’t be more different. I looked at the four weeks before the start of my internship spread out before me at all. and felt apprehensive, uneasy and Every Friday, thousands of unsettled. people pass them, coming and going from the largest military Read more at michigandaily.com base on the U.S Pacific Coast.

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KATRINA STEBBINS Statement Correspondent

Content warning: Mentions of sexual assault and violence against women Every Friday morning, rain or shine, a group of 10 or so people arrive to stand outside one of the gates of Kadena Air Base on the island of Okinawa, Japan.

They’re usually older, dressed comfortably for the weather and equipped with large water bottles and folding chairs. No one comes to relieve them through their hours-long shifts, so they take turns going on snack runs to the FamilyMart down the road.

Come evening, they gather their empty bentos and bottles and chairs and leave, always with the unspoken promise that they’ll be back in seven days’ time.

It’s a quiet, almost rote affair.

If it weren’t for the signs they dutifully hold up throughout the day, which carry simple phrases like “NO BASE” and “NO R APE” in bright block letters, you’d never know why they were there

They’re a peaceful, unobtrusive but constant reminder of things that we didn’t talk about back when I was one of those thousands, just going to school or coming home: the anti-base movement — which calls for the reduction, if not the complete removal, of the outsized American military presence on the island of Okinawa — and the serial sexual assault of and violence against Okinawan women perpetrated by U.S. troops.

These protestors represent the remnants of the last major surge of demonstrations by Okinawans demanding the removal of American troops and facilities in Japan. In late May 2016, I was nearing the end of my junior year of high school when I started hearing whispers about something awful — the rape and murder of a 20-yearold Okinawan woman, Rina Shimabukuro, by an American military contractor. Within days, massive protests incited by the incident were taking place in Naha, Okinawa’s capital, and

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outside the gates of Kadena and Camp Foster, a Marine base down the road.

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Feliz Día de las Madres

IRVING PEÑA MiC Columnist

I love Mother’s Day. I love waking up Sunday morning to a plethora of Instagram posts from my friends dedicated to their moms and reading the beautiful tributes my mutuals write about their one and only. I love being left in awe when I come across pictures of my friends side by side with their moms and observing the stark resemblance between the two. Of course, this day is not only about celebrating biological mothers — for many, Mother’s Day is about celebrating the person who embodied a “mother” role or celebrating yourself because perhaps you didn’t have a motherly figure and had to take on that role to nurture yourself. Regardless of your relationship with the term “mother” this past Mother’s Day weekend, happy belated Mother’s Day. However, unlike the majority of Americans that celebrate on the second Sunday of May, my Mexican culture celebrates Mother’s Day on the 10th of May every year. When Mother’s Day first began in Mexico, May 10th was considered payday for most Mexican citizens. This gave families throughout Mexico the opportunity to lavish their esteemed mothers with a traditional Mexican celebratory act, such as renting a mariachi band to serenade the foundational being of their families.

Every May 10th, along with buying my mom flowers and going out to eat with her (assuming I am

back home from college), I post her on my Instagram story and thank her for doing a great job raising me.

However, the only apps my mom preaches she needs are WhatsApp and Youtube. As a result, for as long as I have posted her, my mom has never seen a single one of my posts dedicated to her. She does, however, read my Michigan in Color articles and has called me, oftentimes crying, to express how beautiful my pieces have been and how proud she is to call me her son. After I wrote my last piece thanking my dad for all of the sacrifices he has made for the sake of my family, my mother jokingly asked me when I would write something for her. Well, mama, I dedicate this piece of writing to you on your special day.

My mom is most fluent in Spanish.

With the sole intention of dedicating this piece to my mother, the rest of this article will be in Spanish.

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Feliz día de la madre, ma. Mientras escribo esto, estoy empacando mis cosas para viajar de regreso a Las Vegas. Por cierto, no estoy listo para ese viaje de más de treinta horas de regreso a casa. Pero vale la pena saber que, muy pronto, estaré de vuelta en casa contigo. Para cuando se publique este artículo, ya debería estar en casa. En lugar de solo agradecerte por la totalidad de este artículo, quiero recordarte y dejar que todos los que lean esto sepan algunos de los recuerdos que tengo de ti que se han quedado conmigo y permanecerán conmigo para siempre. Hay muchas más de las que podría hablar, pero estas específicas también me han convertido en la persona que soy hoy. ¿Recuerdas esos calurosos días en el verano cuando estaba en la primaria en los que rogaba ir a la biblioteca pero pa no estaba en casa para llevarme? Nunca aprendiste a manejar, pero nunca dejaste que eso te impidiera asegurarte de que Meztli, Oscar, Isis, Nadia y yo tuviéramos lo que queríamos.

Durante esos veranos, hubo un par de ocasiones en las que tú y yo literalmente caminábamos a la biblioteca. La biblioteca estaba al menos a 45 minutos a pie de nuestra casa. Como todos saben, los veranos en Las Vegas son increíblemente calurosos. Fácilmente podría haber esperado a que papá volviera a casa para llevarme él mismo, pero había algo en caminar solo contigo y hablar de cualquier cosa que me encantaba.

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Self-care can be a mindset, not an action MAYA KOGULAN MiC Columnist

I have always been put off by the notion of self-care.

I am not sure why. Maybe it is because the term has been co-opted by the beauty and wellness industry to sell skin products and gym memberships. Wellness, which centers around self-care, has morphed into a $1.5 trillion industry that caters to a predominantly white, wealthy, thin, able-bodied demographic.

Maybe I feel this way because white women use the guise of selfcare to cherry-pick practices from Eastern cultures and traditions. For instance, yoga, which is rooted in Hinduism and was once banned in India during British colonization,

has been adopted by Western society as an exotic form of exercise and self-care. Yoga studios don’t hesitate to lean into the spiritual aesthetic.

My hometown yoga studio, run by a white owner, is decorated with Hindu deities and Om symbols.

To use Hindu symbolism in order to curate a “calm and spiritual” aesthetic is not only disrespectful, but blatant cultural appropriation as it reduces Hindu deities to “pretty” decorations.

Due to the commercialization of the self-care and wellness industry, the idea of self-care seems like a luxury, coming in the form of elaborate seven-step skincare routines, mindfulness meditations and green smoothies. The media has created a version of self-care that is tied to indulgence, which requires extra money and time. Furthermore,

this curated idea of self-care excludes those who can’t afford it, making it feel out of reach for marginalized populations. I never felt like selfcare was for me because it was never marketed for me.

For many children of immigrants, self-care also seems like an afterthought.

First-generation kids often have to financially and emotionally support their families while handling the burden of their parents’ sacrifices to succeed. These high expectations, coupled with a multitude of other factors, increase the likelihood of psychological distress in children of immigrants. In fact, the prevalence of psychological distress in children of immigrants is nearly double compared to their parents.

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To Restitute

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SARAH AKAABOUNE MiC Senior Editor

Sometimes readers are not ready for what we write, either because our words are too close to inside parts of them they haven’t touched — some call these parts “memories” — or because these words implicate them somewhere ugly inside the circles that our narratives trace. Sometimes our words name a thing for them that they are certain, and they are right, that nobody will believe. Maybe our words leave them floating, trailing a bit behind the understanding that we’ve concretized with our story, their relating wounds now open, and with a realization that still there is not a safe place to land, that even putting language to trauma is not the end of it for any one of us, sometimes least of all for women of Color remembering girlhood. Sarah Akaaboune is someone whom I know now to be floating alongside the most talented of women doing this suturing of words to pain, of the present to the past, with poetic and painful visions trained on futurities that elude. I am honored that she sees me as a companion on this journey, that she’s taught me and our collaborators this semester who are excavating “narratives of girlhood” so many new, eviscerating and hopeful things by consistently dancing with our texts, practicing and modeling all the necessarily changing proximity and distance that they require for the possibility of their touching. She is a teacher in all these ways. I am grateful, and I am angry alongside her, but I am not sorry, and I know she understands why.

Ruby C. Tapia Ruby C. Tapia is Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of English Language

and Literature at the University of Michigan. She is the author of “What I Was Looking for Was Green” and regularly teaches the undergraduate course “Narratives of Girlhood.”

The first time I ever saw blood that did not belong to me was the day they removed a cancerous mass from my brother’s brain. There is something so different about blood that has been shed against its will — it pools into all the wrong corners, moves up instead of down, left instead of right, through things instead of around them. It is much brighter, much thicker, much louder than you’d ever expect blood to be, so much so that soon you can no longer discern between what is the floor and what is your feet, what is the wall and what is truly blood. It is stubborn, it moves with rage and defiance, it demands to be seen and heard and felt and returned to its rightful owner. And this time, it belonged to a 15-year-old boy in the room right across from my brother’s. He was dying. And I know he was dying because when we are about to die the world moves tenfold slower, as if to grant us the grace of enough time to say goodbye, and people behave in ways you’d never believe they could. They scream and shout and cry and beg and plead and yell and beg some more, move so fast they become the room and the windows and the doors, until as quickly as everything starts, it comes to a morbid stop, and instead, they’ll begin to wash and clean and scrub all the blood that has collected in places it never should have been. I watched him die, and I watched him die even when there was nothing I could have done, and I watched him die when everyone told me I should have looked the other way and watching him die became the first thing that ever broke my body.

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here is something comforting about the universality of soda. Any name-brand cola in the deep recesses of a gas station freezer in California will taste nearly identical to its counterpart at a diner soda fountain in Kentucky. The taste profile, meticulously crafted by chemists and flavor experts, has withstood the test of time.

In recent decades, the soda industry has seen a drop in consumption, largely due to health campaigns encouraging Americans to opt for low-sugar alternatives.

However, the carbonated beverage market remains a behemoth (currently valued at a whopping $407 billion), its popularity is only increasing in some parts of the country.

Carrying the weight of the soda industry is the American Mountain West, where soda shops are as ubiquitous as McDonald’s — and their popularity is spreading northward. Western soda shops, which sell colas mixed with various dairy creamers and syrups, are springing up along the “Mormon Corridor,” a region stretching from Utah towards Idaho with a highly concentrated Mormon population.

According to The Book of Mormon, consuming alcohol, tea and coffee are strictly prohibited.

Because of the various drink bans, members of the Mormon Church have turned to soda for their caffeine fix.

Until the advent of short-form video sharing on social media, the Mormon Corridor remained relatively low-profile. Aside from “Provo’s Most Eligible,” a lowproduction spinoff of “The Bachelor,” the daily lives of Americans in the Mormon Corridor had little to no media coverage and were rarely

documented online.

The Mormon Corridor’s anonymity, however, was broken when dirty soda — a mix of Diet Coke, half and half, coconut syrup and lime — took TikTok by storm. Residents of the Mormon Corridor began sharing their favorite soda variations, and the topic began trending. Dirty soda shops such as Thirst and Swig began heavily promoting the drink in conjunction with users’ at-home soda recipes, which garnered shock, revulsion and disgust from people around the world.

In the top video on Thirst’s official TikTok account, an employee shows viewers around the soda shop and douses a carbonated fruit punch in Coffee mate. The shop’s bright colors and cheery employees belie the slew of negative reactions in the comment section.

“Soda is already super sweet, i can’t imagine adding syrup,” reads one comment, whose sentiment is echoed by almost 2,000 likes. “‘It’s not gross’ yeah ok,” chimes another user.

Accompanying the thousands of negative comments flooding the #dirtysoda tag on TikTok are reports from mainstream media outlets criticizing the regional drink.

An article from popular food blog Food52 notes their surprise that dirty sodas went viral and pokes fun at Utah for its negative culinary reputation. At Vice News, a reporter visited a Swig location in Utah and described cringing at “the foamy, blazing Barbie-pink elixir.”

However, the flurry of angry TikTok comments and blog posts criticizing dirty sodas is more than just a response to breaking culinary norms. Rather, the internet backlash shines a spotlight on the insular Mormon Corridor, inciting a public debate about Mormon values and illustrating how Mormonism is becoming more visible. For those outside the Mormon community,

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dirty soda hatred has become a conduit for critiquing the Mormon Church.

The proliferation of Utah soda shops is accompanied by a spread of Mormon culture formerly contained within a thin strip of western land.

By altering the fundamental nature of something so universal as soda, Mormonism asserts itself beyond the narrow social and geographic boundary in which it has operated for centuries.

Dirty soda directly reflects Mormon values insofar as they act as an alternative to the status quo and represent Mormonism’s distinct scripture. A uniquely Mormon coffee and tea ban inspired the unique drink, which changes how soda is conventionally consumed, just as Mormonism itself acts as an alternative and reshaping of mainstream Christianity.

Internet users revile dirty soda for many of the same reasons they critique the tenets of Mormonism. A quick glance at the comment section on a soda-themed TikTok reveals that most users are criticizing the soda’s taste and appearance as a means of criticizing Mormon culture itself. Chiefly, comments accuse Mormons of being out-of-touch, unhealthy and guilty of perpetuating outdated values.

Non-Mormon commenters often highlight how dirty soda’s unique composition reflects how the Mormon Corridor is an insular echo chamber. A top comment on one of Swig’s soda videos states plainly, “Utah is a different planet.” A few comments below, another user adds, “convinced utah is not a real place & is just one big inside joke.” These commenters are responding directly to both the unusual nature of the regional drink and the isolation of Utah, where over half of the population identify as Mormon.

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alfway through my mascara application, one eye exaggerated with black goop, I stopped. Suddenly it all felt silly, ridiculous even. I was going to a job interview, not a date … so why was I spending time doing my makeup? My employer’s opinion about me should be formed based on my capabilities and skills as an employee, not on how attractive I am. It shouldn’t matter if my eyelashes are sky-high or if they aren’t even there at all. Why was I doing this?

I reflected on the times that I felt admired, heard and seen. When I was listened to, and when I was taken seriously. All of these things had one thing in common — I looked good. It was then that I realized an uncomfortable truth: People only respect me when I’m pretty. I finished with my mascara and left resenting it a little bit.

“Pretty privilege” is a term coined recently to describe the daily advantage that attractive people have. It’s why a nice smile can get you out of a ticket and why the most gorgeous girl you’ve ever seen in the Starbucks line gets her drink twice as fast. It’s the reason we wear makeup to an interview and why people might hold the door for you more when your hair is done.

The narrative that attractive people have an advantage is not a new idea and is actually well documented. You may have heard of the “Halo Effect,” where someone’s unrelated traits can cause a bias in how people perceive them.

The classic example of this is the “attractiveness stereotype,” where attractive people are thought of more highly. People tend to perceive attractive individuals as being in better health, more intelligent and even more moral.

These psychological connections reflect how important physical looks are in our society. People value appearance so much that it actually shapes how they view others entirely, even in unrelated aspects, like their personality or intelligence.

Human nature is to be drawn towards individuals we find attractive, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But how much is too much? Once appearance becomes about more than just how

someone looks, it begins to become a problem. Beauty is only skin deep and should only be viewed as such.

Advantages and judgments given based on appearances create untrue assumptions and unfair benefits, especially because attractiveness is subjective.

Think of what a pretty girl looks like to you. She’s probably athletically skinny and tall, with straight white teeth, thick shiny hair, a straight, tiny nose and killer sharp cheekbones. She meets the Western beauty standard. Pretty privilege and the halo effect function using social beauty norms.

In America, Eurocentric features dominate the beauty standards, so those with these features are going to have a real social advantage in life.

This is great if you fit into this standard, but creates a disadvantage if you don’t. People with nonEuropean features, often people of color, experience this disadvantage in a society that gives less value to the esthetic of other races and ethnic groups. White privilege is closely tied to this, as our society gives an advantage to white people, who are inherently more likely to fit the Eurocentric beauty norms.

This advantage can come in the form of more authority, better pay and better treatment. Furthermore, pressure to conform to these norms can create intense insecurities and motivate people to go to extreme measures to fit them. One study found that African American women are more likely to “engage in skin bleaching, excessive hair care and the willingness to endure financial debt related to beauty.”

It’s clear that a specific type of attractiveness is highly valued in our society. Individuals who are viewed as attractive might experience small daily advantages, things that would be nice but might not be obviously a pervasive problem. However, pretty privilege goes well beyond the “would be nice” level, and allows for unfair, unequal and sometimes racist behavior to persist.

By all means, it is normal and natural to want to feel pretty. It’s okay to wear mascara and do your hair. When we look good, we feel good. But we must remember that looks are just that — how we look, and nothing more.

Amy Edmunds is an Opinion Columnist and can be reached at amyedmun@umich.edu.

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Draw control woes end Michigan’s season against Northwestern

JOHN TONDORA Daily Sports Writer

When mounting a comeback, streamlining the game plan becomes paramount. As time dwindles down, and desperation grows, teams must claw their way back with the basics and leave the fancy stuff behind.

As basic as it can get, the first step of that comeback starts at the faceoff.

Then, after gaining possession, teams simply see where things go.

In the Michigan women’s lacrosse team’s 15-12 second-round NCAA Tournament loss, getting past the first step proved fatal. The Wolverines (11-7 overall, 2-5 Big Ten) dropped 23 out of 29 faceoffs against No. 4 Northwestern (15-4, 6-2) in a game that continuously saw Michigan’s momentum stunted by draw control losses.

“I think that was the issue today,” Michigan coach Hannah Nielsen said. “Credit to Northwestern, their effort on the draw was sensational. … (Jill) Girardi is great on the draw.

No question, that’s their bread and butter.”

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The first 13 seconds of the game told the tale of the tape. Catching a smooth draw control, Wildcat Attacker Lauren Gilbert raced into the offensive zone, darting past the Wolverines’ defense and netting Northwestern a 1-0 lead.

The Wildcats exploited Michigan’s inability to win draw controls all day, yet never found as much success as they did in the first quarter. Northwestern won the first five faceoff opportunities of the match and converted each and every time, ending the first frame with a daunting 5-0 lead. The Wolverines’ evident lapses in the middle left them scrambling to stop the bleeding.

Those scrambles would continually fall on Michigan’s defense — none more than graduate goaltender Arielle Weissman, who faced 34 shots during the bout. Pressed to make save after save, Weissman delivered. Yet that situation forced the Wolverines to operate their offense out of the transition game, pitting them up against the suffocating Wildcats’ ride.

Without winning draws, the Wolverines relied on their defense to

play more than perfect — a task too tall for any team.

“Credit to our defense as well,” Nielsen said. “They got us the ball back a lot and allowed us to score … But when you don’t get it from the middle, it makes it really, really difficult.”

After yet another draw control win by the Wildcats and a 7-1 lead in the second frame, Northwestern looked poised for a repeat of Friday’s blowout victory against Central Michigan.

Yet the Wolverines’ defense would not allow it.

During the final seven minutes of the first half, Michigan rallied to win two of its six draw controls of the day — both of which led to immediate goals on the offensive end.

However, the team’s comeback came on the heels of excellent defensive play, as it forced two turnovers and entered the second half on a 4-1 run — overcoming losing three draw controls in the process.

As the third quarter commenced, the Wolverines’ midfield control slipped further out of their grasp.

Michigan could not win a single faceoff in 15 minutes of play, and

they gave the Wildcats nine free possessions from that ineffectiveness.

Nevertheless, Michigan paradoxically continued to close the gap, as four Northwestern turnovers in the first eight minutes of the second half allowed the Wolverines to pull within one goal for a score of 9-8. In effect, the Michigan defense created its own faceoff wins through opposition turnovers and saved shots.

“Defense was doing just what they needed to in the moment,” Weissman said. “They were giving them a lot physically and that was all I needed today.”

Yet the Wolverines couldn’t draw closer. A three goal flurry by the Wildcats — complemented by three draw controls — cemented Northwestern’s position in the driver’s seat with a 12-8 lead.

And although the Wildcats never fully pulled away, Michigan did not capture another strong chance as Northwestern’s draw control wins and time of possession kept the ball out of the Wolverines’ hands until the end of the match.

And as with any potential comeback, the first step is getting the ball in your hands.

Despite its comeback, Michigan fell short against Northwestern.

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Michigan inches past Texas in Super Regional, will face Ohio State in Quarterfinals ABHIJAI SINGH Daily Sports Writer

Senior Andrew Fenty’s tossed racquet and open arms represented more than anyone could imagine.

It meant more than a celebration; it meant the Michigan men’s tennis team had turned a page on an underwhelming ending to its last season.

In the first round of last year’s NCAA Tournament, Fenty battled into a third set against Arizona’s Gustaf Strom. But, Strom took an early 3-1 lead and never looked back, clinching the match and knocking Michigan out of championship contention.

This year, the Wolverines nearly met that same fate, but Fenty made sure that didn’t happen. While playing next to junior Ondrej Styler, he rewrote last season’s narrative.

In response to a 4-1 third set deficit, Fenty used a combination of aces and perfectly placed returns to win five consecutive games and clinch Michigan’s victory over Texas.

Looking to make its first NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals appearance in 34 years, No. 5 seed Michigan (25-3 overall, 8-1 Big Ten) did exactly that, overcoming No. 12 Texas (18-11) in a tightly contested match.

“We thought Styler was going to win,” Fenty said. “And, the next thing you know, it’s completely flipped. … It doesn’t matter who won; we just kept going and going.”

In the truest sense, Fenty’s comeback displays what the Wolverines have built towards: the peak version of themselves.

“We’re heading into the part of the season where a lot of guys will peak with their (performances),” Michigan coach Ben Becker said on Apr. 15. “We want to be there in a few weeks.”

And, the Wolverines showed they have done just that, with each remaining match presenting itself to be the team’s season finale.

Beginning with doubles, senior Patrick Maloney and graduate student Nick Beaty were the first duo to earn breakpoint, and they didn’t

relent from there. Their 6-1 victory over Texas’s doubles pair of Cleeve Harper and Richard Ciamarra — who are ranked No. 4 by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association — seemed to give Michigan confidence in its success.

“Getting an early break is always a huge confidence booster for (me and Beaty),” Maloney said. “And, if we play a ranked duo, we always get a little fired up … , for the results and record we have, we take (being unranked) personally.”

The Wolverines’ confidence was

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amplified by the success from the other doubles courts.

Before sophomore Jacob Bickersteth delivered an ace to capture a 5-2 lead at No. 3 doubles, sophomore Nino Ehrenschneider remained unfazed as both of his No. 1 doubles opponents attacked the net, placing a return just within the back boundary to give him and Fenty a 4-1 lead.

But shortly after, Texas showed the abilities that got it to this point.

The Longhorns kickstarted their comebacks — which resulted in a 5-4 lead at No. 1 doubles and a 5-5 tie at No. 3 doubles — with an ace at No. 3 to deny Michigan its first doubles point clinching opportunity. But, with Beaty and Maloney’s victory to fall back on, Bickersteth and Styler won a tiebreaker 7-5 to halt Texas’s resurgence.

“I was really proud of the character these guys showed,” Michigan coach Adam Steinberg said. “We really blew some big leads, and, since we knew they had such a good team in singles, we knew we needed the doubles point.”

The Wolverines split their first sets in singles with Texas.

Ehrenschneider emerged victorious in the longest-lasting first set across all courts, winning a tiebreaker 7-5.

“I came out playing a bit too flat,” Ehrenschneider said. “I had to switch my mindset by … (preparing) my points a bit more than usual because his shots passed me well throughout the match.

Bickersteth on the other hand struggled to bounce back, giving the Longhorns their first point in a straight sets loss, 6-1 and 6-4.

Maloney quickly regained Michigan’s first lead though, serving an ace to win 6-3 and 6-3.

“Since (Bickersteth) was struggling a little bit and Beaty had a close match, I tried to give to them a little more to get them going,” Maloney said. “It’s always nice to have a match that’s going well.”

And, Ehrenschneider’s second set tiebreaker victory, 7-4, made way for Fenty’s rather consequential comeback.

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EAST LANSING — Exactly 50 days ago, the Michigan softball team got punched in the mouth.

In the first Big Ten series of the season, Nebraska came into Ann Arbor and swept the Wolverines in a doubleheader, putting them in an early hole in Big Ten play.

For the past 50 days, Michigan has grinded itself out of that hole.

The Wolverines have battled through injuries, built momentum, and ridden a recent hot streak to set up a rematch with the Cornhuskers in the Big Ten Tournament championship game.

But on Saturday, Michigan could not get over the hump.

The 23rd-ranked Wolverines (36-16 overall, 16-9 Big Ten) fell to Nebraska (40-15, 20-5) for the third time, 3-1 in extra innings, letting a Big Ten Tournament championship slip away. Senior right-hander Alex Storako held the Huskers mostly dormant, but two clutch hits by second baseman Cam Ybarra was all Nebraska needed to defeat a sluggish Michigan offense.

“We just came up short,” Michigan coach Carol Hutchins said. “Our kids were great, they’ve been playing great ball. … So we just need to stay with it.”

With Storako on the mound, the top of the first inning went quickly, taking just 10 pitches to retire the side.

But unfortunately for the Wolverines, Ybarra crushed one of those 10 balls over the right-field fence, giving the Huskers an early one-run lead.

Still, Storako remained composed.

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She cruised through the next four innings, limiting Nebraska to only one hit and punching out three.

Instead of trying to just blow it past opposing batters — as she typically does — Storako instead relied more heavily on her offspeed pitches to keep the ball in the park.

“I thought (Storako) kept us in the game the whole way,” Hutchins said.

Outside of the one solo shot, the early innings played out like a traditional pitcher’s duel. And despite having multiple opportunities, the Michigan bats could not capitalize.

In both the first and fourth innings, the Wolverines put a runner on third with less than two outs. But both times, they failed to bring the run home.

After the slow start, though, the bats broke through to get the run back in the bottom of the fifth inning.

With one out, freshman utility player Annabelle Widra took a pitch to the head, reaching first base. Righthander Olivia Ferrell induced a fly out for the second out, flipping the lineup card over for graduate outfielder Kristina Burkhardt — who already recorded two hits on the day. Ferrell elected to pitch around her, walking her and bringing junior outfielder Audrey LeClair up to the dish.

LeClair poked a ball over shortstop Billie Andrews’ head into left-center field for an RBI double. And though the Wolverine bats struggled to string anything else together, the game was knotted up at one.

But a controversial call halted Michigan’s hopes of a late-game rally.

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