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Rackham student Jae Beom Bae speaks with student entrepreneurs at the ICE Winter Blast innovation event at the Michigan Union Thursday.
Interdisciplinary ‘U’ event promotes entreprenuership Innovate Blue, CSG bring together students from different schools By LINDSEY SCULLEN Daily Staff Reporter
The ICE Winter Blast, an event for entrepreneurs, got a bit hot Wednesday.
Hosted by Innovate Blue, the University’s unifying body for innovation and entrepreneurship, and the Central Student Government’s Commission on Student Innovation, the event brought together several hundred innovators from multiple University schools, as well as the Ann Arbor community — before kicking them out briefly to the tune of a fire alarm and a faint smell of smoking popcorn. Held Wednesday evening
in the Michigan Union’s Rogel Ballroom, the blast was halted briefly but resumed after a quick, impromptu tour of the Union’s front steps and the event’s ice sculpture being carved on the front lawn. Kristen Kerecman, Innovate Blue communications manager, said the purpose of the event was to showcase campus-wide innovation and to bring more students into the University’s entrepreneurial “ecosystem.”
“This is the way to show students what’s happening, like some of the ventures that students are working on, and the resources to help them get there,” she said. But pulling in new students was not the event’s only purpose. “The Commission was created to connect and unify all of the various entrepreneurship entities on campus and to have this big celebration of what we See ICE, Page 3
Proposal to make two years of community college free could impact University By ANASTASSIOS ADAMOPOULOS Daily Staff Reporter
Last week, President Barack Obama outlined the specifics of his plan to provide two years of tuitionfree education to community college students — a program which could affect student enrollment at the University. The plan, expected to cost the an estimated $60 billion over 10 years, will be funded by closing tax loopholes and increased taxation for high-earning tax brackets. The federal government will pay for threequarters of the program and the states will pay the rest. Additionally, the proposal includes certain stipulations for eligible students, including having a GPA of 2.5 or higher and be enrolled at least half time. Community colleges must also fulfill several con-
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Organizers to present spirit song plan again Founder says he will personally speak at CSG meeting next week By TANAZ AHMED Daily Staff Reporter
The organizers behind a proposed Michigan spirit song have pulled a funding resolution proposed during Tuesday’s Central Student Government meeting. First introduced during the meeting Tuesday, “Hail and Unite” sparked debate over the future of the University’s fight song, “The Victors.” However, LSA senior Mike Weinberg, one of the project’s main founders, said the song would be a pump-up song and is not intended to replace the longstanding fight song. “During third down, instead of having that generic pop song that every other school has, we’re going to have our own song that we created, that we were a part of,” he said in an interview with The Michigan Daily on Wednesday evening. Project organizers officially launched the initiative’s website Thursday morning. Tuesday’s initial announcement generated criticism from alums and students, who saw the project as an attempt to replace “The Victors.” Weinberg said the project was not explained thoroughly at the CSG meeting. Because the project was mis-
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understood, Weinberg said the resolution has been pulled and he plans to personally present on the project at CSG’s meeting on Feb. 17. He also said the resolution will also likely be reintroduced. The organization initially asked CSG to appropriate $2,750 from its Legislative Discretionary Fund. The funds would support a promotional video campaign to raise additional donations for the project as well as provide accommodations to visiting contributors to the project. Several CSG representatives asked for a more detailed project budget and the proposal was later sent to the finance committee for review. Weinberg stressed the importance of student, alumni and fan involvement in creating the song. The group working on “Hail and Unite” is composed of 22 students from several University schools and colleges, including LSA, Art and Design, Business and Music, Theatre and Dance. Weinberg expressed interest in partnering with MUSIC Matters, the University group that organizes an annual benefit concert, as well as the marching band and local organizations based in Ann Arbor. “Everyone is coming together to create this amazing project that is going to revolutionize what it means to have music, sports and entertainment,” Weinberg said. MUSIC Matters President Darren Appel, a Business senior, said the “Hail and Unite” organizers pitched the initiative to See SONG, Page 3
ditions. Their academic programs must be eligible for transfer to local four-year institutions or they must have high graduation rates in career and technical programs. According to the White House, should the proposal be implemented in all states, around 9 million students would annually save approximately $3,800 each. Higher education officials have identified two potential impacts of the plan: a boost in the number of community college students and fluctuations in the transfer rate between four-year institutions and community colleges. Jason Morgan, director of government relations at Washtenaw Community College, said the plan could potentially increase the number of community college students, but noted that it is still just a proposal. “Our first impression is that the plan sounds extremely positive,” Morgan said. “As we learn more details we’ll hopefully learn how, exactly, it is going to impact community colleges.” Along with increasing the number of community college students See OBAMA, Page 3
University Fulbright recipients announced 28 students and six professors receive grants for global research projects ZACH MOORE/Daily
Author Jonah Goldberg speaks about his book on “Liberal Fascism” at Rackham Amphitheater Thursday.
Conservative author talks political climate at colleges Jonah Goldberg considers ties between liberalism, fascism By WILL GREENBERG Daily News Editor
It was with attention-grabbing language and crowd-pleasing wit that Jonah Goldberg discussed his views on American history and politics — offering a perspective rarely seen at the University. Goldberg, author of the 2008 bestseller “Liberal Fascism” and 2013’s “The Tyranny of Clichés,” talked misinterpretations of world history, debunking liberal heroism and political correctness in the Rackham Amphitheatre on Thursday. Goldberg is also a frequent columnist for National Review Online, and it appeared he had
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many in fans in the crowd. During the lecture, he discussed the arguments of his books — that fascist movements, contrary to popular belief, are left wing at their core, and how liberals profess to be pragmatic problem solvers when they, in fact, have an ideological agenda. Goldberg walked through his argument of liberal fascism by elaborating on the Nazi party in Germany. He asked: “Except for the murder, bigotry, genocide and war, what is it, exactly, about Nazism you don’t like?” He argued that the Nazi’s support of nationalism, condemnation of consumerism and denouncement of religion exemplified how “fascism” and “communism” were not opposites. Additionally, going deeper into “The Tyranny of Cliches,” he discussed how clichés tend to “do our thinking for us,” and cited a favorite of his: “Violence
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never solves anything.” “Violence is very useful is some specific situations — they’re called violent situations,” he said, adding how he feels the phrase is too often addressed at the respondent to violence and not the original aggressor. Goldberg also addressed political dialog and political correctness more generally. In an interview with The Michigan Daily before his speech, he said he took issue with the idea that liberal students see themselves as “sticking it to the man” when they are surrounded by mostly liberal professors and peers. He said it’s problematic how students assume college is a time to join protests and social movements when they have no knowledge of the conflict they’re involved in. On the topic of campus incluSee GOLDBERG, Page 3
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The University will continue to boast the highest number of Fulbright recipients of any public institution in the country. For the 2014-2015 academic year, 28 University students received Fulbright grants. Six faculty members were also awarded grants through the program. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program distributes fellowships for students to pursue studies, research, training or teaching abroad. The U.S. State Department announced the list Thursday morning, with only Harvard University, which earned 33 grants, receiving more than the University. Last year, 33 University students were named scholars. In a release, University President Mark Schlissel said the 28 scholars represent the University’s commitment to global affairs. “U-M is thrilled that our young scholars are once again so well-represented in the Fulbright Program,” Schlissel said. “These 28 students are a testament to our strong acaSee FULBRIGHT, Page 3
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Council to consider affordable housing funds, street closures Agenda includes health care plan renewals, possible dam gate contract By ANASTASSIOS ADAMOPOULOS Daily Staff Reporter
The Ann Arbor City Council is set to discuss a number of topics during Tuesday’s meeting. The body will address a number of potential street closings, the renewal of its health care provider contract, the signing of a new contract to replace a dam floodgate at the Geddes Dam and the relocation of sewage system resources to affordable housing. Street closings The council will discuss the approval of more than seven dif-
ferent street closings to accommodate a variety of events. The resolutions include three street closings in April for the Take Back the Night rally and march on April 2, the Fool Moon Festival on April 10 and the FestiFools Parade on April 12. Two street closings in May will also be considered. If passed, they will accommodate the Burns Park Run on May 3 and Ann Arbor Goddess 5K for the Michigan Ovarian Cancer Alliance on May 10. East Washington Street and West Washington Street will also be closed, pending approval, for the annual Oktoberfest celebration Sept. 11 through Sept. 13. Blue Cross Blue Shield Up for discussion is the approval of a contract renewal with Blue Cross Blue Shield, a Michigan-based health care provider.
Blue Cross Blue Shield provides health care coverage to city employees and retirees. Monthly costs of the plan are subject to changes in the number of employees and retirees as well as the number of submitted claims. The estimated annual insurance cost is $12,889,507. Geddes Dam The agenda also includes the proposal of awarding a contract to replace a tainter gate at Geddes Dam, which crosses the Huron River in southeast Ann Arbor. According to the proposal, Gerace Construction Company was one of three companies considered for the project. They offered the lowest bid of $299,990. The total cost of the projects amounts to $395,000, which provides for city staff inspection services and fees to hire a consulting firm. The contract proposal comes after the tainter gate suffered damage in January. The gate was damaged after the extreme cold caused the control responsible for operating the gate to malfunction. Officials decided to replace, rather than repair the gate. Sewage Funding allocations Council will also discuss allocating additional resources to affordable housing initiatives. Specifically, it will hear a resolution to decommit funding from the Sewage Disposal System Fund Balance of the Near North Apartments and use this money to set up a budget for sanitary sewer expenses of the North Maple Estates, a lowincome family housing development maintained by the Arbor Housing Commission. The funds total $153,611. The North Maple Estates will have 42 new affordable rental apartments and four more that will be renovated.
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Participants spent 45 minutes in the Michigan League Wednesday evening asking each other a series of 36 personal questions to see what kind of bond they could form.
‘U’ students launch series of events to answer 36 questions New York Times column inspires new way to meet people, fall in love By TANYA MADHANI Daily Staff Reporter
Wednesday night, while more than 70 people asked complete strangers personal questions hoping to fall in love or make a new friend, two University students sat together in a corner of the room, furiously coding a new website to set their movement in motion. Inspired by a column in The New York Times, these two students are hoping to launch a nationwide movement to help students form relationships. On Jan. 9, writer Mandy Len Catron posted a narrative called “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This,” for Modern Love, a rotating column in The New York Times. In the column, she describes how she fell in love with her current partner by mimicking a study conducted by psychologist Arthur Aron, who
teaches at Stony Brook University. In the study, Aron describes gathering two strangers in a lab setting to ask them 36 questions designed to accelerate intimacy. He reported he had successfully managed to make his subjects fall in love, and they married six months after the experiment was conducted. Engineering junior Randa Sakallah and Engineering senior Natasja Nielsen hosted a “36 Questions” session at the Michigan League on Wednesday night with more than 70 participants. After reading Catron’s Modern Love column, Sakallah’s first thought was to host an event at the University similar to Aron and Catron’s experiments. “Going into this semester I had just kind of been thinking about what kinds of social events I can do with my friends that are different from just a normal party,” she said. After posting an event on Facebook, they said it had completely sold out within three hours and more than 100 people had joined the waitlist. “It happened really organically,” Nielsen said. “We just
started inviting all of our friends and they started RSVP-ing and inviting their friends.” Participants were sent a three-part survey three days before the event. The first part asked for the participant’s name, gender, sexual orientation and age, and the second was a series of questions asking them to rank their interest in topics concerning organization, religion and theoretical physics. Nielsen and Sakallah said they enjoyed reading the third segment of the questionnaire most, which asked what the participants were looking to get out of the event. “We were worried that some people would be going in with an expectation like ‘I’m going to find a date for Valentine’s Day,’ ” Sakallah said. “But most people had similar responses of ‘I’m coming in with an open mind. I don’t have any expectations.’ It’s really cool to see that perspective from students because … it’s kind of a vulnerable position to put yourself in.” The depth of the event’s questions varied. Some were more benign such as how famous someone would like to be, and See 36 QUESTIONS, Page 3
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ICE From Page 1 do,” said Engineering junior Diego Calvo, chair of the Commission on Student Innovation. He added that the Commission’s goal is to combine all of the University’s entrepreneurial groups into “one powerhouse.” “We think that every student at the University of Michigan should have the opportunity to find a team of crazy people and work on some project that really gets them going — more than just in classes,” Calvo said. “We want to see engineers and LSA students and art and designers coming together and coming up with these amazing projects.” Representative of that mission, the ICE Winter Blast was packed with students from many of the University’s different academic units, including the School of Public Health’s Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship program, the School of Information and the School of Nursing. Various student organizations and ventures were also represented. “To make the best ideas and solutions come out of U of M, and to give students the best possible experience, you have to meet people who aren’t like you and you have to work with different people,” Calvo said. “And so the commission has brought all these
GOLDBERG From Page 1 siveness and productive dialogue, Goldberg said while people generally support social change, they are not given the chance to be included or else are condemned for not joining fully. He said liberals use “moral bullying” on conservatives to attack them politically rather than create discussion. “The same people who say we need an honest dialogue on race, we need to have an open and frank conversation on race — the second anybody takes that bait and says something even remotely ‘un-PC’ or offensive in any way — or not even offensive but that can be used to pretend that they were offended — they get beaten over the head with it,” he told the Daily. “In a culture, the majority owes tolerance and respect to the minority, but the minority owes tolerance and respect to the majority, too,” he said. “What is not constructive is when the minority responds by simply shouting, by this sort of moral bullying and guilt tripping that says ‘you are a bigot’ for absolutely well-inten-
OBAMA From Page 1 overall, many students currently choose to finish their degree at a four-year institution after spending several years at a community college, meaning the proposed reform could have implications for four-year institutions like the University. Michael Boulus, executive director of the President’s Council, State Universities of Michigan, said the plan could encourage potential students to enroll in community colleges rather than immediately enroll in four-year institutions. “I would assume it would,” he said. “Just the simple dynamics of having a guaranteed free first two years of educations, assuming that the 60 credits would transfer.” Education Prof. Peter Bahr noted that though there could be a trend of students choosing community colleges, the effect probably wouldn’t be significant for four-year institutions given the great imbalance in tuition costs that already exists between the two options, which
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groups together.” Calvo said the ICE Winter Blast served as a sort of finale event for the University’s Month of Entrepreneurship, which ran from Jan. 15 to Feb. 15 and included events like Startup Weekend, MHacks and Makeathon. He said this event, in particular, was organized with the hope that students would come and see that entrepreneurship was relevant to them, even if they thought their field of interest didn’t include an emphasis on innovation. LSA freshman Evan Garfinkel also led the event as part of the Commission on Student Innovation. “Mainly, the Commission on Student Innovation wanted to promote and expose innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship,” Garfinkel said. For that reason, they named the event “ICE.” “We sat down as a commission of the student government and we said it’s really important to expose more students to these ideas and for the students that want to participate in this type of stuff to be able to connect them with organizations and with startups that would really be meaningful to them,” Garfinkel said. “There’s just a growing entrepreneurial presence and interest on campus where a lot of students from a lot of different schools across campus — whether it be Ross, whether it be
Engineering or LSA.” Art and Design senior Nick Tilma ran the School of Art and Design’s booth at the event. On display in front of his table was a prototype of what he called “Study Buddy,” a multi-surface, swiveling desk he designed in a class last semester. The class’s prompt was to design furniture and accessories for college students. “We did the whole process of researching what people need, what people want and choosing and developing our projects into full-scale, working models,” Tilma said. With him was Art and Design senior Xiaoying He. She, too, displayed a prototype of her product, “Squishy,” a pillow holder for iPads, glasses and other odds and ends. Stationed at the A2Geeks table, a nonprofit entrepreneurial hub in Ann Arbor, was Roger Rayle, a venture catalyst at R2VIVE. One of A2Geeks’s notable events is the monthly A2NewTech event, an idea-pitching session where entrepreneurs can share ideas and network. “Half of the students here have already presented (at the event),” Rayle said. In line with the event’s mission to connect entrepreneurs, sets of partnered organizations — one from the University and one from the students — have also created
an events list on Innovation Blue’s website. By way of this “central hub” they hope to keep students of all different backgrounds connected to entrepreneurial opportunities on campus and in Ann Arbor, Garfinkel said. In addition to events like ICE, Jeni Olney, student affairs specialist at the Center for Entrepreneurship, said the University wants to extend entrepreneurial opportunities to all students by way of the Minor in Entrepreneurship. Motioning to the student-filled Rogel Ballroom floor, Olney said students are already passionate about entrepreneurship. “The minor offers that curricular stamp, saying that the University acknowledges and recognizes the efforts of these students at a curricular level,” Olney said. “We want to further equip them with the skills and the tools that will assist them in their endeavors outside of class.” Calvo said he believes the drive to involve students from all over campus in entrepreneurship is unique to the University because of its interdisciplinary nature. “We’re the only school that I know of where we’ve made entrepreneurship integrated into the most general, largest college at our school, to show people that hey, no matter what you are studying, there’s opportunities here for you,” Calvo said.
tioned language that was acceptable five minutes ago.” LSA freshman Grant Strobl, chairman and founder of the University’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, said he was happy to have Goldberg on campus to bring different ideas to the forefront on campus. Strobl mentioned Communications Prof. Susan Douglas’ December article in which she states, “I hate Republicans,” and describes conservatives as against change and social tolerance. The column resulted in backlash from Republicans across the state. Strobl said Douglas’ piece was an example of the one-sided nature among University faculty and students. “It kind of coerces people into a certain ideology and that’s kind of where ‘liberal thought police’ comes from,” he said. “It’s deciding what gets heard rather than allowing for a fair discussion between viewpoints.” Strobl also cited the Inclusive Language Campaign as an example of how the University professes to promote positive discussion, but excludes conservative students. Having gone through the program himself, Strobl said the ILC
doesn’t highlight terms attacking conservatives — like “right-winger” or “tea-bagger” — but it should. While he said he agrees with the end goal of promoting diversity and inclusion, he said he took issue with the idea of the program trying to manage the words students used, saying there are unintended consequences to that approach. “I feel like we should be embracing the diversity rather than trying to be too politically correct about it because I think that almost makes us more divisive,” he said. “I think it all comes through education and I think we’re all adults here and I think we can all approach each other in an adult-like manner and discuss the real issues.” ILC is part of the University’s larger “Expect Respect” campaign. Amanda McLittle, associate director of diversity and inclusion in University Housing, wrote in an e-mail interview with the Daily that ILC is not a political organization and does not focus on “conservative” or “liberal” terms. “Students chose the words that we are highlighting in this first year of ILC,” she wrote. “Multiple student focus groups were asked which words they would like to
see included this year. The list of words is not meant be exhaustive.” The ILC drew national attention this week after “The College Fix” reported the campaign cost $16,000 to implement, confirmed by University spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald. He said it’s difficult to put the cost of the program into perspective with other programs, but that the money went to brochures and other awareness measures, not staff. LSA senior Derek Draplin, the editor in chief of the student publication The Michigan Review, has been vocal about the ILC and attended the speech Thursday night. He said speakers like Goldberg are important to creating opening people’s minds on campus. “The frontlines of culture-wars, so to speak, is on college campuses,” Draplin said. “There is a lockstep belief in opinions on campus so that’s kind of why I came (to the Goldberg lecture) to challenge those establishment-type beliefs and comments and movements.” Strobl said YAF plans to bring more speakers by the end of the semester, though the schedule is not yet set.
determines college choice for many students. “I think we will see somewhat more students in the community colleges for the first two years, but I don’t think it will be an enormously greater number of students because community colleges are already substantially less expensive than public four-year institutions,” Bahr said. Boulus said he thought the number of transfer students from community colleges to four-year institutions would likely to increase. However, he noted that he would like to see the plan go even further than two years of free community college. “Frankly, it ought to be a free two years regardless of what post-secondary institution you attend, whether it be the two year or the four year,” he said. Bahr agreed the implementation of the proposal could potentially increase the number of transfer students. He said the proposal provided a good incentive for institutions to work on changing their student transfer policies and establish clear agreements
between four-year institutions and community colleges. “There is the aspect of which of the credits will even count as credits at the four-year institutions,” he said. “But then there is the more complex challenge of which course at the community college has a parallel at the four-year institution.” Morgan also acknowledged that transfer policies needed to be easier for students to understand, though he pointed out the Michigan Transfer Agreement, which ensures that universities accept certain number of credits from community colleges. He noted that many students who come to WCC already know they want to go to the University, which has a specialized transfer process for WCC students, and therefore the school can advise them on which courses to take so credits can transfer. “However the challenge, that there isn’t a solution for at this point, is that not every student comes into the community college knowing instantly that they want to transfer to a university afterwards,” Morgan said. University spokesman Rick
Fitzgerald said it was too soon to speculate the effect the proposal would have on the University. He noted that the University has programs that work with community colleges to facilitate transferring. Whether or not the White House’s plan will pass a GOPcontrolled House and Senate is also unclear. Boulus said under the current circumstances, there does not appear to be Congressional support and the proposal probably won’t be taken up for vote. However, Morgan, who met with various members of Congress and members of the Department of Education this week, said he came away with the impression that the goal wasn’t simply to get the proposal passed. “The reason … is to start a national dialogue and a conversation about how do we support community colleges and get students in the door of higher education,” he said. “The goal is not just to pass this. The goal is to throw out there something really big and see if we can get something small.
FULBRIGHT From Page 1 demic programs and commitment to global engagement that nurtures a passion for creating positive impacts across international borders.” At the University, students complete a multi-step process to apply for a Fulbright grant, guided by the International Institute. Perspective recipients meet with a faculty and staff fellowship team several times to discuss their application and prepare for further steps, such as an interview. Pauline Jones Luong, director of the International Institute, said there are several benefits both for the students and for the campus in devoting staff and faculty time toward preparing Fulbright applicants. “It’s incredibly valuable because it showcases both the quality of the students at the U of M, the international orientation of those students, the global interests those students have, as well as the commitment of the University to ensuring that its students have an international experience, international education,” she said. “It’s a win-win both for students and the University.” University alum Nathan VanderVeen, one of the Fulbright recipients, is currently stationed in Seropédica, Brazil. He is pursuing an English teaching assistantship at the Federal Rural University, as well as
SONG From Page 1 his organization, but no official collaboration has been proposed. He also noted that more information is needed before determining whether or not MUSIC Matters would play a role. “Hail and Unite” also has a philanthropic component. “One of the things that we want to do is when we’re raising this money is that we want to give a significant philanthropic contribution,” he said. Though musicians such as Eminem and David Banner, a rapper and music producer, were mentioned at the CSG meeting, Weinberg said those are two names out of a list of 15 to 20 potential celebrities participants. Organizers also hope to create a music video and a documentary showcasing
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other were pointed inquiries about topics like familial relationships and death. At the 36 Questions event hosted at the University, participants were split into groups and then, from the groups, further divided into pairs to answer the questions. LSA junior Nivedita Karki, who is a web editor at the Michigan Daily, and Engineering senior Madhav Achar, who both said they attended because its general premise looked interesting, had met two years ago at a South Asian Awareness Network conference before being coincidentally paired together. “It was just interesting to me that someone would think just knowing another person would be enough to fall in love with them,” Karki said. “It was kind of like being a part of a social experiment.” Achar said he didn’t mind answering some of the more personal questions included on the list. “I had more fun answering them than if I was to go on a date in general,” he said. “The first time you meet someone you might ask a couple of questions, ‘what’s your major? Blah, blah, blah.’ I’m glad to see that major wasn’t on here, because that’s not the most important thing about someone.” After answering all 36 questions on the list, the next step for participants is to stare into each other’s eyes for four minutes without looking away or speaking. When it came time for participants at the University’s 36 Questions to move on to this part of the event, the room was filled with sporadic giggles and whispers. “I have trouble making eye contact with someone when I’m talking to them,” Achar said.
using his science background to work on a water purification project in the Brazilian favelas. “The Fulbright Program in general does favor the humanities and people who are interested in intense literary research,” VanderVeen said in a Skype interview Thursday from Brazil. “But we’d be kidding ourselves if we thought the ambassadors of the world were all English majors or foreign language majors. Those people who are constantly liaising with other countries are also the scientists, physicians, engineers of the world.” VanderVeen first applied as a junior during his undergraduate studies and was rejected, but then reapplied for a 2015 grant. He said the University’s status as a public school makes it unique in its amount of Fulbright grantees. “Being a public institution, I think that’s just so admirable because it puts such an emphasis on embracing students from all walks of life and still helping them reach the highest level of academic and professional success,” VanderVeen said. He added that as a part of his experience, he hopes to draw on the diversity of people he will be exposed to abroad. “For me, it’s really important to connect with a diverse array of people from different backgrounds, people with different belief systems, so that I can become the best teacher that I can possibly be.”
the process of creating the song. “We’re trying to combine students with outside talent to create something that’s bigger than a song,” Weinberg said. “It’s creating a movement and something that’s from the ground organically, something that’s never been done in music, college or sports ever.” Cooper Charlton, president of the University’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee, said that though he can’t speak for student athletes as a whole, he sees the University as a place where new ideas should be welcomed and discussed. “I personally support innovation and creativity but I would need to hear more about this initiative before I gave a firm answer,” he said. Managing News Editor Sam Gringlas contributed reporting. “It’s just a habit. So just four minutes of eye contact without talking? That was kind of hard. But we had a good time, I think. We’re survivors.” Achar and Karki said they were both planning to stay in touch and meet up again this weekend. Sakallah, the co-organizer of the event, said it was important for her to host 36 Questions in a University setting because oftentimes college students have a difficult time being open with others, even with people they’ve known for years. “Especially at Michigan, people aren’t apt to be super vulnerable,” she said. “I was reading through these 36 questions and for some people I would think I know really well, I wouldn’t know the answers to these questions. I think that’s important for college students specifically to have those kinds of relationships especially at this time because we’re all at a formative stage of our lives.” Nielsen said she and Sakallah had discussed hosting 36 Questions as a way to offer an alternative to “hook-up culture.” “On the romantic side, for people who are looking for that, on a college campus, you’re not really getting into these deep relationships,” she said. “A lot of times everyone’s so caught up in their classes that you miss a lot of opportunities to really get to know people that you’re supposedly close to.” Moving forward, Sakallah and Nielsen said they plan to make 36 Questions a series of national pop-up events. Sakallah said she had a friend in San Francisco who had a similar idea and had held a successful event similar to 36 Questions last week. “We kind of decided that we were going to launch this whole thing and have a bunch of events all over the country,” Sakallah said. “Ann Arbor is just one out of a bunch.”
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n Feb. 8, Central Student Government President Bobby Dishell, a Public Policy senior, announced the creation of a task force to develop a student honor code for the University. This new code would serve as an addition to the University’s preexisting Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities with the goal of addressing academic integrity, individual behavior and student rights. While attempting to put the University community’s values in writing is a commendable effort, the creation of a new honor code is a misguided attempt to influence the behavior of students at the University. Released in 1996, the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities incorporates aspects of “civility, dignity, diversity, education, equality, freedom, honesty, and safety” into its objective. It informs students on acceptable behaviors that the University values and the actions taken if they are violated. The final chapter of the Statement also provides sanctions and intervention plans for violations of any of its standards In the press release, Dishell stated, “The aim of the task force, and eventually the honor code, will be to encourage and motivate students to hold ourselves to a higher standard.” He added, “Currently, there is not one place where students can turn to in order to know what our community stands for.” Since it is commonplace for large institutions to implement a wide-scale honor code, something the University is lacking, developing this code is worthwhile. However, it is naïve to believe a new honor code will achieve what Dishell hopes. A brief written statement on its own will simply not be successful in motivating positive behavior across campus. If CSG is serious about taking steps to improve campus behavior, it should focus on more tangible initiatives. CSG should begin by convening forums throughout the year for student organizations that
receive funding through CSG to facilitate open dialogue and discussion on positive behaviors. Participation in this forum should be mandatory, and in order to ensure members of the 1,000-plus organizations attend, yearly CSG funding totaling more than $300,000 should be withheld until they actively participate. By doing so, the student population that is involved in clubs will be directly engaging with the goals of the Statement and honor code. The generation of open dialogue within clubs will increase social pressure and incentivize students to abide by and respect the honor code and Statement. This plan of action will undoubtedly be more effective than having another document to read that will ultimately be tossed aside. And for those not involved in student organizations, the honor code should be heavily advertised and promoted around campus. CSG must also address which social factors hinder the current ideals of the Statement from being integrated into students’ conduct on and off campus. By bringing relevancy, value and respect to the honor code through open dialogue, peer-led discussions and group intermediaries, CSG can impact the social atmosphere from which these behaviors stem and generate positive relationships between students and the honor code proactively.
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Cuba’s hollow beauty
n Cuba, the walls of buildings are often only partially painted. There are swaths of yellows, pinks and blues before they taper off to reveal cold, blank chunks of stucco and stone. The unfinished aesthetic extends far beyond the paint jobs. It’s seen in the houses that haven’t changed since 1959 and the holes of the chalkboards that lie tilted on the walls of a University of Havana classroom. Driving along the ABBY Malecón, the oceanside TASKIER promenade that stretches along the coast for miles, one sees the silhouette of tall buildings — spread apart, dark and empty. There are no recognizable signs or shimmering lights along doorframes — just old, faded architecture on one side and the ocean eroding a stone barrier on the other. The vision, written out, sounds bleak. But it’s beautiful for what it is — its hollowness, its singularity, its antiquity. It’s free from becoming a string of shops that all look the same, sell the same things and discontinue a culture dedicated to the scarcity of materialism. My grandmother, originally from Romania, grew up in Mexico. Escaping the Nazis during World War II, she and her family moved from Bucharest to Paris to the south of France to Mexico City, where she lived until her studies brought her to the United States. Before she died, she wrote a collection of memoirs for her grandchildren — bound together in a spiral notebook consisting of 150 pages. When she writes about her adolescence spent in Mexico, she mentions the colors, the warmth, the dogs and cats and birds that nested themselves within her home. She writes about the city of fishermen, the beautiful, clear ocean from which they fished and the small group of cliff divers, known only by the locals. One would never guess that the city which she describes — idyllic and quaint — is in fact Acapulco, presently bustling with spring breakers, cheap hotels and A-line restaurants. In her memoir, my grandmother men-
tions that she returned to Mexico City with my grandfather 30 years after leaving the country, only to be greeted by air thickened by fumes, severe economic disparity and the disturbing implications of tourism and time. She vowed never to go back after that, and never did. When I returned home from Havana in May of 2014, after having studied there for four months, I had dreams about the embargo being lifted. I imagined that during the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton would win, would somehow make Congress lift the embargo and I’d go back to Cuba. I thought of how my Cuban friends and then-boyfriend, Alberto, would fare in a new Cuba — one that was no longer avoided by the free world. When I lived there, the majority of problems plaguing my friends were those associated with the economy — shortages, rations, the general lack of money — and ironically, the reason we were all probably friends in the first place. At the time, I hated the embargo, and I hated socialism even more, because in order to maintain a participatory workforce, it held those who I loved on the island captive. After a formative four months, I came back to America and time went by. I went back to throwing all of my waste in the trashcan as opposed to reusing it, going to the grocery store only to let my tomatoes go bad a week later, shopping for T-shirts I’d wear three times. Back in Cuba, Alberto had two shirts and one pair of pants that he washed with a bar of soap and a bucket of water every few days. When in Cuba, I resented the system that made dispensability impossible. But back in America, once the small and painful daily realities of Cuban life faded away from my consciousness, I began to reestablish my faith in the functionality of socialism. In the fall, I took a class on Latin American Revolutions, and when we studied the Cuban Revolution I thought, Damn. Che and Castro accomplished some serious shit. They made the country, previously rife with inequality, socialist within a matter of years. But my new opinions, formulated within an academic context, negated ones I’d formed while actually living amongst socialism — that humans are inherently too selfish, too individualistic, not to crave economic progress. That aside
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from an aesthetic standpoint — one that favors a highly primitive, untouched visage — business that brings money and people and new life is needed. Ironically, I found out that the United States would be restoring its relationship with Cuba during the final exam for my Latin American Revolutions course. During the last 10 minutes, my professor rose up out of her seat, smiling, and on the chalkboard wrote giddily — “Obama has just restored diplomatic relations with Cuba.” I read this, scribbled down a few concluding sentences to an essay question, shoved the exam onto her desk, left the room and cried. That night I called Alberto on the phone — in the moment it was worth the million dollars a minute it costs to speak overseas to Cuba. ¿Como te sientes sobre todo? “How do you feel about all this?” I asked. Bien. “Fine,” he answered. “Listen, my love. Can you send some money?” His apathy spoke mountains of truth — despite the exciting prospect of dismantling an oppressive
55-year-long blockade, Cubans aren’t going to see the positive implications for a while. The only people who’ll be benefitting now will be the travelers ooh-ing and ah-ing at 1950s-era cars. Until the embargo is, in fact, lifted, life for Cubans will remain the same — stagnant, poor, hopeless. Alberto will continue to ask me for money as he often does. What the opening up of Cuba will do, I fear, is the same thing that happens to all cities and countries that are overly accepting of the tourist’s dollar. Havana, I fear, will become to me what Mexico City and Acapulco became to my grandmother — unrecognizable. Scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed the other day, I saw pictures of a Cuba backdrop, clearly intended as a party theme, with a girl sitting in a beach chair, drinking out of a straw, captioned, “welcome to Cuba.” I shut my computer. As my friend would say, “the hipster reason” for my anxiety about Cuba’s future is in part due to the fact that everyone will soon be able
to travel to the place that made me, me. For a week, they’ll lounge on beach chairs, drink out of coconuts and spin on dance floors with Cuban swingers at a salsa club. But, as tourists, they won’t necessarily begin to understand the deep cultural, political and anti-imperialistic history that cloaks the small and beautiful nation. Then, when more people visit for a week, everything — down to the coconuts — will get more expensive. It will create greater disparity between Cuban citizens and tourists; it will convert it into the next Dominican Republic. I drift between different lines of thought. This is what Alberto would want, I think to myself. This is what they need. But this validates that perfect socialism isn’t attainable there — a concept I’m reluctant to admit but finally do. Still, I hope that the hollow beauty along the Malecón remains the same. But I know it won’t. — Abby Taskier can be reached at ataskier@umich.edu.
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“Your people”
A few weeks after 9/11, I remember walking down the playground with my best friends, Maureen and Kathleen, after a tiring day of firstgrade arithmetic and grammar. I was a timid, skinny six-year old with large brown eyes and silky black hair cut to my shoulders; my only thoughts must have been about what food will be served during lunch, the latest episode of Arthur and my newborn sister. As we walked, I remember sensing Maureen and Kathleen being standoffish. I remember them walking a few steps in front of me, whispering to each other and looking back at me. As the three of us convened in our usual hangout under the slide and behind the monkey bars, I quietly asked what was wrong. The two looked at each other, and then Maureen, her usually gentle blue eyes glaring at me behind her glasses, her usually pale cheeks and ears a soft pink in the September chill, spat, “Allana, it was your people that killed everyone in New York.” I don’t remember the exact events of what followed, but I do remember my vision going dark. I remember looking around the playground and not seeing colors, only seeing the trees and sky in different shades of gray. According to my father and faint memories, I cried throughout the rest of the day. Unable to articulate my shame and fear, and already over-sensitive, I took to quietly sobbing into my sleeve and sitting away from my peers, perhaps fearing retaliation from the rest of the class, perhaps scared I would hurt one of them, too. My teacher took me aside during class and asked me what was wrong. Repeatedly she asked, and I only responded with more furious crying. Exasperated, she sent me to the principal’s office and called my dad. When he arrived, I quickly recalled what had happened as the tears continued to fall down my face. He went to go tell my teacher, and they both agreed to devote the last 20 minutes of the day explaining to the group of first graders how not all Muslims are killers, how Islam is not synonymous with terror. Maureen apologized to me after class. *** Years had gone by. Almost routinely we would hear stories from relatives, friends of relatives, friends of friends on their various Islamophobic attacks. One evening, my father told the story of my teenage cousins being taunted and assaulted by their neighbors while playing basketball outside; another day, my mother recounted how our mosque had been vandalized and racial slurs painted on the walls; soon after, my grandmother called my parents anxiously revealing that my uncle had been detained while visiting Chicago. We were coming back from a family vacation in Mexico. I aged about three years, but remained shy and gangly. My sister was now a rambunctious toddler and my brother walked hand in hand with my mom. As my family and I slowly made our way through the painfully long
line in immigration, tired and hungry from being on a plane for six hours, we ached to go home. Finally our turn had come, and we made our way to the singular glass booth where a large white man, balding and barely squeezing into his babyblue TSA button down, meticulously watched us approach. He took our passports and began to analyze. We stood in front of the booth as three, four, five families behind us in line had been approved by other officers and went to retrieve their luggage. My mother’s arms grew tired carrying the weight of my sister. More agents arrived at our cubicle. They looked over my father’s passport, scrutinizing the profile of his tan skin and black mustache. Without giving reason, they took us aside and said we needed to stay here a little bit longer than usual. I’m sure they assumed our dark hair and complexion, my parents’ accented English, and our last name “Akhtar” were reason enough for suspicion. I then watched as my father, the top of all of his classes in high school and college, the first in our family to become a doctor, the owner of a thriving private practice devoted to treating patients with cancer and leukemia, lead away from us to be interrogated for suspected terrorism. I remember my mom trying to pacify my agitated siblings while waiting patiently to hear back from the TSA. We sat on the floor of the airport (they did not offer us chairs), under the imperious gaze of a selfproclaimed Homeland Security agent (didn’t he understand that this was my homeland, too?). An officer returned with our luggage. Immediately, he and his friend broke the locks and unpacked every item inside the bags. I watched a strange man pick apart the items in our luggage that my mother painstakingly organized for days; I watched his gloved hands touch her undergarments; I watched the others at the airport look over at us as they walked past, like we were a roadside accident or a circus act. I watched in rage as they laughed amongst themselves, ignorant to the ostracism and humiliation of my family. Their decision to racial profile was thoughtless and I’m sure they forgot about it soon after, yet they will never know the years and years of shame and embarrassment this inflicted on me. Eventually my father returned, his search proving null and our luggage of bathing suits and sunscreen verified as bomb-free. We returned home, my mother made us scrambled eggs, and we went to sleep. *** Now I am almost 20 years old, no longer as gangly yet still timid. As I watched stories unfold reporting the uptick in anti-Muslim hate crimes after the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris, the surge in online threats upon the release of Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” and, perhaps most haunting, the killing of three Muslim-Americans in North Carolina, these memories of mine resurface and I am forced to reconcile the profound and lasting effects my exposure to Islamophobia had on me.
Some of my most prized childhood memories have to do with my Pakistani-Muslim identity: putting henna on my palms with my cousin on the stairs of her condo for Eid, visiting my grandparents’ house in Pakistan and making roti with their housekeepers, and praying maghrib alongside my father every evening when he came back from work. However, after 9/11 and into my adolescence, I turned my back on these features of my life that I felt separated me from everybody else. I yearned to escape from the enduring shame after being told “my people” killed nearly 3,000 lives. I ached to forget the humiliation of having to sit on an airport floor for four hours because my dad’s skin was too brown. I detested my parents’ strict “no dating, no sleepovers, no alcohol” policy. I hid the fact I volunteered at my mosque every Sunday from my peers and soon stopped going when I no longer wanted to associate with religion. I cringed at my mother’s thick Pakistani accent when she would speak to my teachers, or the clothes she bought me that would cover up my legs and arms even in the summer. With these instances of rejecting my culture, I blamed Islam for my own sense of estrangement in school and society. I felt that by following the culture of my peers, these instances of discrimination would cease to exist and that I could finally feel accepted. I thought that if I could use makeup to lighten my skin, wear more revealing clothing and party more often, I would stop feeling like the only brown girl in the room and being seen as such. And now, with the onset of these larger attacks demonstrating the existing prejudice people harbor against my identity, I continue to struggle with trying to reconcile with my feelings of self-hate. How am I supposed to love my identity when people exist who vehemently express their rejection of it? How can I stop feeling like an “other,” like an outsider, when I’m constantly being viewed as one? The truth is I haven’t yet embraced my identity. I still feel the need to use an American accent when I pronounce my last name and disassociate myself from the larger Pakistani-Muslim community. However, I hope that maybe through expressing my feelings of estrangement, I will one day be able to come to terms with the skin and heritage I was born with. For me, the worst part about hearing of these racist attacks is knowing they will give rise to another generation of ashamed Muslim boys and girls, who too will cry years later at the humiliation of being stopped at an airport. I hope through sharing these memories I can reach out to other outsiders who suffer similarly from Islamophobia. In sharing these memories, I hope I can receive guidance from others on how to fight my persisting shame, or so that we may help each other learn to stop hating ourselves. Allana Akhter is an LSA sophomore and a Daily Staff Reporter.
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Infra Eco Logi spans disciplines Taubman installation explores renewable energy By KATHLEEN DAVIS Senior Arts Editor
Niched in downtown Ann Arbor, past the hustle and activity of Main Street, Infra lies the Eco Logi Taubman College Liberty Urbanism Research Annex, an Until Feb. 22 impressive Taubman work and College Liberty exhibition Research Annex space owned by the University. Free Infra Eco Logi Urbanism, the current installation in the space, is a multi-year research project-turned-publicationturned-traveling exhibit that highlights a proposal to unite the Great Lakes region in terms of infrastructure and energy resources. The project was created by research-based architecture studio RVTR, founded by Kathy Velikov, an assistant professor at the University, and Geoffrey Thün, an associate professor, who both work at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. RVTR has locations in both Ann Arbor and Toronto, but the team is currently working locally to accommodate with the exhibit space. Infra Eco Logi Urbanism’s research spans over multiple disciplines, including urbanism, ecology and policy. The project is an exploration of the future of megaregions, defined as networks of cities and the sprawl between them, interconnected by topography and environmental systems. The exhibit itself is composed of several suspended screens, each featuring a different facet of the design process. The color scheme of black, white and f luorescent yellow is simple yet striking, bringing attention to the research more thoroughly than one could interpret just from the research manuscript. Velikov notes that the Great Lakes region, one of the most diffuse megaregions identified as the sprawl between
Toronto, Chicago and Detroit, is rich in the promise of renewable energy, thanks to an abundance of water and wind provided by the lakes. Infra Eco Logi Urbanism explores how renewable resources could benefit the surrounding regions. The project focuses on the Great Lakes megaregion, and analyzes its potential based on a hypothetical United Nations-style agreement between the neighboring areas of Michigan and Canada. “Questions arise like, who is responsible for the algae in Toledo? Things like that change how we think about cooperation, politics and ecology regionally,” Velikov said. “Our research is, essentially, how can design approach this question?”
“The exhibition will open people up to these questions.” RVTR believes the creation of an area of suspended nationality between Canada and the United States would help solve these complicated issues of policy between the megaregion. Part of Infra Eco Logi Urbanism’s research was anticipating policy changes in a time of energy and technological changes. “A big moment for us was when we decided to incorporate the politics and policy, and how that would effect things. It’s still a question that we keep working out,” Velikov said. “What is the relationship between design and politics and policy, that’s a really important challenge for us. We can conceptualize the new technologies, that’s almost the easier part, but reconceptualizing political situations and how that materializes becomes one of the more challenging questions of design and design exploration.” What sets Infra Eco Logi Urbanism apart from many other urban planning designs
is the focus on the places outside the city that are still heavily impacted by the metropolitan, rather than the cities themselves. These areas, Velikov notes, are equally important to tackle when discussing the urban sprawl. The process of beginning the exhibit began with analyzing these regions, which involved looking at urban systems as networks. The project involves a host of mapping, a visual resource for visitors to envision what these megaregions look like and how they’re connected. One of the main issues of interconnectedness RVTR tackles is the issue of current highways, which Velikov and her team feel very strongly against. “The highway is a terrible waste of urban space, it leaves these ‘orphan lands’ and leaves all these vast territories empty and useless,” Velikov said. “If we were looking at it as a space where we could have more modes of mobility, more places where, say, electric vehicles could refuel, these spaces could become something more for the region as a site for new institutions and resources, and could do more for the populations that live out there.” Taking into consideration how transportation and energy will change in coming years, a bulk of Infra Eco Logi Urbanism is focused on retooling intraregional highways to accommodate ecologically friendly modes of transportation, for example a wind-powered high-speed rail proposed by the project. Though inching into the utopian, Infra Eco Logi Urbanism does a fantastic analysis into how renewable energy development will change the landscape of urban spaces, and has opened a fascinating discussion. “What we’ve hoped that the exhibition would do is to open people up to these questions,” Velikov said. “When you put forth a speculative proposal, the goal is to allow people to imagine something different and something that might be possible. For us, that’s a really important aspect of this kind of work. It’s not to say this position itself as a singular solution, but it’s meant to foster discourse and debate.”
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Cotillard cries
arion Cotillard cries. She bends over, she presses her hands on her knees, she tilts her head down and she patiently awaits the shudders, which come in quick spasms like an alcoholic’s post-Denny’s nausea. She AKSHAY vomits emoSETH tion. She wraps her arms around her shoulders to cradle each tremor. She teeters through every gulp of air. She weeps into a pillow. She gazes forlornly out of windows. She forlornly gazes the shit out of windows. She melts those goddamned windows. Then, a few scenes later, she cries some more. And we’re still transfixed. Watching Marion Cotillard cry — with all those little tourniqueted tics and red-faced convulsions and mascara-streaked paroxysms — is a mythical thing, kind of like witnessing Tom Brady connect on a 60-yarder while being thronged by three J.J.Wattsized tissue boxes. It’s the hammer she uses while nailing any attention span to any frame the second she steps through it, and
ultimately, one of the many reasons her name, over the last 10 years, has become synonymous with scene-stealing, bravura acting. Scene-stealing can’t be the right word. Can it? Most of the parts she’s taken since 2007 have had first or second billing, so in every sense of the term, she is the consummate leading lady; you’d expect her to be the one with her hands on the reins. She doesn’t steal scenes so much as overpower them, crushing whoever’s sharing screen time underneath the weight of a giant tear duct. They set her up, she spikes some snot right back in their blank face, probably whispering “watch what’s about to happen, bitch” in a soft French accent into their ears, right before the cameras start rolling. But when one takes a step back, when one distances oneself from the emotional water fountain that is Marion Cotillard, then one realizes that this woman is also, perhaps, the only screen presence — male or female — to so perfectly embody despair, in all its nuance, in over a decade. She’s made a career of it, to the point that watching her performances can be an interesting dissection project — one that gives us a glimpse at the anatomy behind effectively playing sadness on film. What lets great actors pull off weepy? What
makes their emotional heft resonate across the screen? And what, specifically, allows us to pin our own thoughts, as wide-ranging and ephemeral as they may be, to what’s often nothing more than just a brief closeup of another human being’s face? The first step to these answers lies in the role that earned Cotillard an Oscar, thrusting her into the Hollywood limelight from which she’s methodically slunk in and out of consideration ever since. In “La Vie en Rose,” Cotillard plays 20th century musical icon Edith Piaf, and for most of the film, that’s all she does — perfectly mimicking mannerisms, capturing the singer’s slight posture or her imposing voice. She’s the sponge sitting at movie’s center in the way so many other actors have sat the center of so many other biopics about so many other celebrated luminaries: what Daniel Day-Lewis was to “Lincoln” or David Oyelowo to “Selma,” Cotillard is to “La Vie en Rose.” She’s there in virtually every single frame, the gravity around which the scenes coalesce and the script revolves. Still, I’m sure some corny acting handbook somewhere expounds the reasons why “mimicry can never mimic great acting” — you need vulnerability for that — and it isn’t until the latter half of the film that we get a thorough first stab at those ques-
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MUSIC NOTEBOOK
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Best Original Song? By AMELIA ZAK Daily Music Editor
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is presented annually to songwriters who have written and composed an original piece for a film. This year’s awards ceremony contains an especially interesting array of talent. Ranging from a surprising Rita Ora ballad to Glen Campbell’s heart-wrenching “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” to Tegan and Sara’s adorably aggressive “Everything is AWESOME!!!” featuring the silly Lonely Island boys, the nominations are seemingly sporadic with a few possible winners. But who truly deserves the golden man? And who is the likely victor? Let’s break it down: “I’m Not Gonna Miss You,” written by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond The highly celebrated country singer and former television host Glen Campbell captured his final tour this past year in the documentary, “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me.” The nominated song describes Campbell’s last optimistic and conscious thoughts as he has begun to lose his mind to Alzheimer’s disease. “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” speaks to his wife, “the last person I will love,” and the unique last selfish act the disease provides him, because at least “I’m not gonna miss you.” As the relatively simple music protects the purity and importance of the song’s message, “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” is working to remove the negative, misunderstood stigma of the disease. While not the first pick of many for the Oscar, this song fully deserves the attention provided by the nomination. “Grateful,” performed by Rita Ora and written by Diane Warren For Diane Warren, victory is an impassable road. This famed songwriter, having penned hits for J-Lo, Bon Jovi, Whitney Houston and the like, has hit her seventh Academy Award nomination with her addition
tions I posed earlier. When Piaf, after years of attachment issues, learns of her husband’s death, she breaks down. It’s an obvious response to an obvious, time-tested development, yet how Cotillard embodies it is nothing short of brilliant. Basic logic suggests she could have gone one of two ways with it. A: balls to the wall wailing. B: catatonic sorrow. But Cotillard is smarter than that. She incorporates shades of the melodrama and confusion that have been coloring the film thus far, so what we see on screen is that much deeper, that much more poignant than an “obvious” choice. It may seem like plain sobbing, but what’s truly intriguing about the portrayal are her hands, though more so, her big, doe-like eyes. The hands shudder, vibrate with an intensity that evokes a woman in maudlin shock, or to some degree, rifling through some long-lost collection of memories. Her eyes accompany this point and move throughout the frame, searching for what they know is gone. The result is a potpourri of instinct that feeds on open nerve endings and rawness, melodrama and confusion. It’s the work of someone not just pulling off weepiness, but owning it without even an inkling of reservation. It’s as cathartic as acting can hope to be.
to the “Beyond the Lights” soundtrack, “Grateful.” It was surely Warren’s acclaimed name and noted songwriting talents that allowed such a relatively uncelebrated and unimpressive pop song slip into the nominations. Nothing about this song is new or groundbreaking enough to be recognized as the best of its kind for the year 2014. If possible, could someone even scratch out the song title, plead forgiveness from Ms. Warren and add Lorde’s “Yellow Flicker Beat” from “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay” soundtrack?
This year’s awards contain an interesting array of talent. “Everything is AWESOME!!!,” performed by Tegan and Sara featuring Lonely Island and written by Shawn Patterson Here’s another song that may not be a top pick to represent the music of the movies we enjoyed in the year 2014. Maybe it is for those who drank a Red Bull and chased it down with an entire box of Nerds, but otherwise the stimulation that this song provides is far too aggressive and, at times, frightening. Andy Samberg, the former Saturday Night Live stud and Lonely Island founder, spurts out random gibberish in between the recurring “Everything is AWESOME!!!” declaration of the chorus with comments like, “I feel like an awesome possum.” Comparing oneself to extraordinary mammals? I guess that’s relatable for the viewers of a cartoon film. Should it win? No. Could it win? Yes. Would it be incredibly amusing to see it take home the little golden man? Absolutely. “Lost Stars,” performed by Adam Levine and written by
Cotillard sheds the brashness of that performance five years later in “Rust and Bone,” a film in which she’s cast as an orca trainer who loses both her legs after an on-the-job accident. It’s the type of role you’d expect the actress to shine in. Impossible odds? Check. Top billing? Check. Room to experiment? Check. Crying? Check, check, check. What you don’t expect is silence, and that silence is exactly what Cotillard uses to bookend each of her scenes. In the hospital room, after she learns about the amputations, we see her sobbing, then lulled into a blissful, resigned sleep that carries over her demeanor across the movie. Sitting across from a friend, discussing what used to be her sex life, Cotillard takes pains to ensure that same silence is evident — a sort of stressed fortitude that feels almost dozy next to her work in “La Vie en Rose.” The scene works because Cotillard’s face feels blank. The half-open eyes, uncurved mouth and pupils that feel lost in reverie are anything but — they click in harmony to let the audience project onto them. When watching the exchange, it’s not so much as waiting for the specific, delineated response we’ve been trained to look for as it is letting our own thoughts wash
Danielle Brisebois and Gregg Alexander John Carney took his time in completing another musical drama. Following the 2007 hit and “Best Original Song” Academy Award win from his Irish film “Once,” high expectations were left for Carney’s most recent project. “Begin Again” was a subtle recreation of Carney’s well-conceived personal film landscape to create a movie where the storyline is fueled by the love or creation of music. “Lost Stars,” in its performance by pop star Adam Levine, exists as the musical and cinematic crescendo of this simple film. Yet its lyricism is at times awkward, i.e. “Yesterday I saw a lion kiss a deer / Turn the page, maybe we’ll find a brand new ending / where we’re dancing in our tears. ” This is concurrently too empty and too full. The songwriters, Gregg Alexander and Danielle Briesbois, are reflected in the growth of this four and a half minute song. Insertions like the climatic yelps of the Levine’s recognizably high-pitched vocals reflect the sonic inspiration two former members of The New Radicals can only provide. While the lyrics remain convoluted at parts, and though the popularity of the movie never mounted that of Carney’s previous work in “Once,” “Lost Stars” is another respectable option for the Academy this year. “Glory,” written and performed by John Legend and Common Legend and Common’s R&B and slow jam rap creation rings up as not only the strongest contender for the Academy’s award, but the most likely and predicted winner. Their song, “Glory,” maintains a collaboration of current social emphasis and talented musicianship that should act as the proud musical marker of the Academy for the year 2014. While the musical dexterity of “Glory” is relatively limited, the lyrics and vocal emphasis that the distinct voices of John Legend and Common provide convey a level of fervor that was surely present at the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches of 1965, and even more recently on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri.
over the screen. The key to depression, and by extension the key to despair, is numbness, a vacuum of personality that Cotillard can balance with virtuoso emoting seemingly at will. That tight-rope strings together the entirety of “Two Days, One Night,” in which her character struggles, heaves between two worlds, the first marked by tearful sobbing and the second by an acceptance withheld until the film’s final moments. The movie is a conduit of dualities. The frames are often obviously divided down the middle by a line to separate Cotillard and the person she is talking to. The dialogue itself is repetitive so audiences can easily chalk out the delineations between “saying” and “feeling” that the filmmakers intend for us to cling to. The central performance becomes a combination of the actress’s work in “La Vie en Rose” and “Rust” — we’re walking toward the silence, but through a minefield of instinct, a river of apathy. Our guide is Marion Cotillard, the woman who’s made a career out of this journey. The ambassador of despair. Seth is looking at videos of women crying. To send him yours, email akse@umich.edu.
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“Fifty Shades of Grey” a sensuous soundtrack By CHRISTIAN KENNEDY Daily Arts Writer
I spent an hour this weekend sitting in awe of my iTunes visualizer as per usual, but this time it was different. I was also sitting in B+ awe of the amazing diversity Fifty Shades and talent presof Grey ent on the slow, sultry and ulti- Soundtrack mately immerVarious Artists sive “Fifty Shades of Grey” Universal soundtrack. I Studios was in awe of the classic sounds of Annie Lennox, Frank Sinatra and The Rolling Stones as well as the freshness of Laura Welsh, Jessie Ware and Skylar Grey. A plethora of A-list musicians and up-andcomers came together to form the soundtrack seamlessly, with each song leading perfectly into the next, leaving listeners with a true sense of the story of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. The album opens with an Annie Lennox cover of “I Put A Spell On You,” which was originally released on her cover album, Nostalgia, this past fall. The opener does exactly as promised; its repetitive piano notes and Lennox’s smooth, soulful delivery reign listeners in immediately. Moving from the classic to the contemporary, newcomer Laura Welsh sails through a catchy up-tempo, “Undiscovered.” Its beat will immediately have listeners tapping everything: feet, fingers, truly anything that isn’t nailed down. Next comes the two lead singles, “Earned It” and “Love Me Like You Do,” which I have spoken highly of previously. Wedged between the two is “Meet Me In The Middle” by Jessie Ware, this track gets its merit from the production. Several instruments take turns and work together to lie perfectly beneath Ware’s vocals (which are fantastic). Beyoncé has two tracks, remix-
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es of “Haunted” and “Crazy in Love,” both of which have been teased in trailers. No amount of remixing or remastering can make “Haunted” better than the original. That being said, Michael Diamond did a nice job of turning the track into soundtrack material. It focuses on beats that slither above the original bass line, rather than resting solely on it. The new version of “Crazy in Love” is unexpected. Even the snippets in trailers did not really allude to what the full version would be. The “uh ohs” are much more jagged and explicitly murmured, transforming seduction into blatant sexuality. The orchestra is overpowered at times by a hard-to-identify clicking sound. Not what was expected, but not entirely bad either. The soundtrack’s largest disappointment by far was Sia’s contribution (or lack thereof). “Salted Wound” is completely forgettable. The power she is able to exhibit while maintaining such grace should have been an asset, but instead it was ignored. The lyrics are nearly unintelligible and lack any emotion within the crooning delivery. The remastered versions of “Beast of Burden” and “Witchcraft” by The Rolling Stones and Frank Sinatra, respectively, are simply fabulous. Neither song immediately shouts “Fifty Shades,” but in conjunction with their fellow tracks they flow seamlessly. “Beast of Burden” paints a picture of dinner inside Mr. Grey’s Seattle penthouse. With every listen, “Witchcraft” works its way deeper into the story. Lyrics like “I know it’s
strictly taboo / When you arouse the need in me / My heart says yes indeed in me / Proceed in what you’re leading me to” narrate the story beautifully, while Sinatra’s finesse adds polish. AWOLNATION’s “I’m On Fire” and The Weeknd’s encore “Where You Belong” fall amongst the more forgettable tracks. “Where You Belong” does not come close to the bar set by The Weeknd’s “Earned it” while the cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire” simply never delivers. AWOLNATION, best known for “Sail,” deserved a more climactic (pun intended) track. Finally, the two most recent iTunes-official tracks: “One Last Night” by Vaults and “I Know You” by Skylar Grey. “One Last Night” is reminiscent of a tiny sad piano on a person’s shoulder, but less sarcastic. It yearns for more and more, but never gets what it is asking for; however, it certainly gives listeners what they needed. Skylar Grey comes in strong on “I Know You”: She holds her own and leaves listeners wanting more. Now, in the spirit of full disclosure, the soundtrack does end with two beautifully crafted scores by the amazing Danny Elfman. It is hard to really understand these tracks without their visual counterparts, but they are indeed promising to say the least. A soundtrack aims to be indicative of a films story, and “Fifty Shades of Grey” does exactly that. It mesmerizes; it has a strong climax; it’s saturated with smooth seduction. If the actors in the film match the talent present on its soundtrack, it will surely blow viewers away.
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Movie theater merits By REBECCA LERNER Daily Arts Writer
“Do you want to go to the movies?” The phrase echoes through American culture, evoking images of awkward teenagers making date plans, friends organizing an outing and families having wholesome fun. For decades, a trip to the movies was a staple of the American experience. But lately, that staple has begun to come undone. Fewer Americans are seeing movies in theaters. While movie prices increase, the number of tickets sold has dropped nearly 11 percent between 2004 and 2013, according to a report from the Motion Picture Association of America. Speculated causes for the jettison of the movie theater range from online streaming to rising prices to overall laziness. There is certainly something to be said for unwinding with a movie in bed or on a couch without having to face weather or other people. After an exhausting day of dealing with the approximately 40,000 people on this campus, it can seem like a gift to fall into someone else’s world without even leaving your bed-
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ets and finally got into our seats, which the iPad had so kindly prepared for us. But then came the most important part– the unity of a theater. A bed or couch just can’t replicate the experience of a room full of excited strangers who quiet down when the lights dim or the joy of an entire theater cracking up at the same joke. When Seth Rogen’s newest movie, “The Interview,” was available for streaming, he described his ideal situation for it’s viewing with the tweet: “I need to say that a comedy is best viewed in a theater full of people, so if you can, I’d watch it like that. Or call some friends over.” The shared emotions of everyone in the theater contributes to the intensity of the highs and lows that film can achieve. While watching a movie in a familiar setting is nice enough, there is beauty in the anonymous cover of darkness of a theater where you can laugh, blush or cry if you need to. The coming years will decide if we stay in our cocoons, clutching at our laptops, or if we walk out blinking into the bright lights, marching to the beat of the songs playing in the credits.
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room. If I’ve learned anything from the enlightened reflections of my peers on the app Yik Yak, it’s that college students are more than happy to use sites like Netflix and Hulu as fodder for our procrastination. Theaters are hoping to prove there’s more to the experience they offer than meets the eye by making not the movie, but the actual theater, the center of attention. To distinguish themselves from the comfortable atmosphere of a home, many theaters are becoming increasingly high end with reserved seating and gourmet food. Over winter break, walking into the my childhood movie theater was a shock to my nostalgic system. It was transformed from my quaint, dirty and cheap theater to a bougie hell with waiters serving your choice of prosciutto and melon balls or puff pastry kisses. Upon arriving and being introduced to the iPads that would be seating us as opposed to an actual human being, my technologically impaired parents were ready to get out their flip phones and reject the experience altogether. We decided against popcorn that cost almost as much as the tick-
get in the “swing of things” if you’re the cheery type. More realistically, it’s slapping you in the face with exams and deadlines, and making you cry softly into your Ben & Jerry’s. On top of this, the weather — I’ll spare you more whining — can be described in three words: nasty black slush. It gets in your way, on your pants and into your notso-waterproof boots, making it impossible to wear anything remotely attractive (unless you’re secretly Blair Waldorf and have four layers of cashmere under your trench coat — in which case: way to shove it in February’s ugly face). If you’re me, it’s a slow trek to the gym in the mornings, sweatpants stuffed into saltstained boots and running shoes held aloft for balance. I make it my mission to hop on a treadmill closest to any TV showing Bravo, the lone drama network among a dozen ESPN screens. Without sound or even subtitles, it’s a stretch to call it watching TV — really I’m just making up the story while glammed-up housewives and sweaty chefs whirl about the set. My favorites are the shows where body language is crucial and words aren’t necessary to know what’s happening — specifically, dating shows. Or perhaps better known as the greatest romantic feat of the 21st century: a play-by-play of “real” people falling in “real” love, for the entertainment (and even inspiration) of viewers everywhere. Our culture is obsessed with the idea of love — falling in it, hating it, making it and falling in it all over again. With every sarcastic column on how to plan the perfect anti-Valentine’s Day “fuck love” party, there’s an equally popular Tumblr feed called “Relationship Goals,” displaying the kind of gooey couple pictures that would make Nicholas Sparks melt in his seat. Films like “The Notebook” teach us that our soulmates are out there somewhere, pining away and building the future of our dreams. “Hitch” dials back the romantic factor a bit, admitting that maybe our soulmates aren’t already in love with us — but if we play the game right, we
can win them over in just three dates. Then there’s the world of TV, where drama and reality clash, and the line between true romance and acting the part becomes a hot, complicated mess. On Bravo’s “Millionaire Matchmaker,” now in its eighth season, Patti Stanger is the reallife version of Will Smith’s character in “Hitch” — as CEO of the Los Angeles-based Millionaire’s Club, she offers her professional matchmaking services to the rich and single. Technically, Stanger doesn’t require her clients to be millionaires, but she charges $10,000 for an inperson lunch date. For the more money-conscious, a one-hour Skype chat is just $3,000. Once a client comes to the Millionaire’s Club, he or she is matched with various singles in the area that meet specified criteria (yes, “young and hot” are favorites among these love hounds), then the couples arrange to meet for several elaborate dates, testing the waters before one — hopefully — clicks. Stanger says, “We have an extremely high success rate; nearly four out of five clients get into a relationship with our service.” So really, everyone is happy — the lonely, too-busy-to-date millionaires land relationships, Stanger and her Club rake in clients and cash and viewers nationwide get to watch the whole process of love unfold before them. My question to the audience, then, is if they really believe it. Do people watch shows like “Matchmaker” and ABC’s “The Bachelor” earnestly, living vicariously through fairytale-esque dates, because they trust the pair’s onscreen confessions of love? Or are they the more cynical “anti-Valentine’s Day” types who watch for the trainwreck encounters, like sports fans who secretly cheer for NASCAR collisions? I’d like to think it’s some of both. Maybe our feelings about love are like our feelings about February snow — beautiful and pure at times, then dirty and inconvenient at others. And like it or not, we all have to live with it.
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Michigan opens with Amine cousins keep three games out West wrestling in the family WRESTLING
By ISAIAH ZEAVIN-MOSS Daily Sports Writer
For the Michigan baseball team, last season’s campaign focused on building Michigan strength and at Long cohesion. With a team Beach State composed Matchup: of mostly Michigan 0-0; underclassmen Long Beach under the State 0-0 tutelage of When: Fridaysecond-year Sunday coach Erik Bakich, the Where: Blair Field Wolverines struggled to find consistency, falling to Nebraska in the fourth round of the Big Ten Tournament. Ultimately, they were not granted a bid to the NCAA Tournament. As Michigan begins its season this weekend with a trip to Long Beach State for a three-game swing, hope abounds. And the Wolverines are excited about much more than the warm California sun. For senior captain infielder Eric Jacobson, this is the year the Wolverines take a step forward. “This is one of the more confident teams we’ve had in my time here,” Jacobson said. “We know the expectations of this program for this year, and we really want to fulfill those.” After a season of agonizing defeats — 17 losses came by two runs or fewer, including five in extra innings — Bakich is confident that those days are behind the Wolverines. “Being a year older has
huge value because of the repetition that we’ve had in those moments,” Bakich said. “We’re not going to feel the pressure, we’re going to apply the pressure.” Despite the confidence that permeates the clubhouse, Bakich stressed the importance of taking things as they come and not letting his players get too ahead of themselves. “This is the most important interview that I’ve ever given in my life because it’s happening right now,” Bakich said. “We have to have our players having that same intensity and focus, playing pitch to pitch.” The Wolverines will look for a strong start against a Long Beach State team that, despite making it to the fourth round of the NCAA Tournament last year, lost a great deal of the depth that got it there. The 49ers lost seven of their nine positional starters and come into the season fielding 19
newcomers. Their most highly touted player is sophomore shortstop Garrett Hampson, who was selected to Collegiate Baseball’s All-Freshman Team last season. “We know a lot about them, we’ve studied them,” Bakich said. “But really, the focus will be on our team doing what we need to do. It’s going to be more about us than about any scouting report or anything else.” The Wolverines will begin the season with six consecutive road trips, all in different parts of the country. Their first game at Wilpon Complex won’t come until March 24. Before then, they will have played 21 games. For any team, this is a daunting task. Well, any team besides Bakich’s, apparently. “We’ll go play anyone, anywhere, anytime, any place,” Bakich said. “Six consecutive road trips? So what? It is what it is.”
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Senior infielder Eric Jacobson will be one of Michigan’s captains this season.
By SYLVANNA GROSS Daily Sports Writer
Teams tend to become a family, but for the Amines, the family became the team. Mike Amine (1986-1989) was an NCAA finalist and four-year letterwinner at Michigan, and his brother Sam Amine (19881990) was an NCAA qualifier. Both were Olympic alternates in 1992, and both are considered to be among the top Wolverine wrestlers of all time. For their respective sons, redshirt freshman Malik Amine and redshirt sophomore Jordan Amine, the pressure and expectations have always been high because of their coaches and dads. But as they have matured, that pressure is coming more from within. “The pressure for me was an issue for a while, it kind of held me back,” Jordan Amine said. “I never perform well under pressure, but I’ve done some mental retraining and cleared my head. But I’m not really here for my dad or my uncle or to live up to their expectations or anything, I’m here to live up to my expectations. I’m here to wrestle because I want to wrestle.” And his dad agreed, reassuring him that “You’re here for you, not for me.” The younger generation of Amines went to different high schools and competed in different weight classes, meaning the only time they faced each other was in their basement wrestling rooms,
where their dads would coach them. Though Jordan and Malik had offers from other top schools, they always had a feeling that they were Wolverines. “For my senior grad party, my mom and I looked through my old journals, and I always wrote about coming here even when I was a little kid,” Jordan said. “Michigan has been a part of me for forever.” Jordan had a season-ending ankle injury at the start of his sophomore campaign, eliciting some frustration since he couldn’t start on the mat this year, and didn’t have the chance to watch his cousin on it either. “I planned on redshirting this year to get stronger,” Malik Amine said. “My technique is there, but my strength could be better.” Malik often turns to Jordan to help with the transition from high school to collegiate wrestling, and with the addition of a rigorous course load, they have agreed on one thing. “Academics first,” Jordan said. “Wrestling can only take you so far. It can teach you a lot of things and it gets you in a lot of doors, but it’s not like there’s a pro league. You have to focus on your career and what you’ll do after wrestling. I’m not here to waste my time.” Added Malik: “You have to get through school and be a great wrestler and use what you learn on the mats in life.” And a lot of what they have
“You’re here for you, not for me.”
learned is how important the family tie is. The two grew up together, wrestled together, came to college together and will be living together next year. “Our dads were like us — they butted heads but at the end of the day, they were cool,” Malik said. “Me and Jordan are like best friends.” Best friends who are cousins but act like brothers, the Amines enjoy the tight-knit wrestling community that they’ve found in Ann Arbor. Michigan coach Joe McFarland was a senior when Mike Amine was a freshman, and teammate Alec Pantaleo’s uncle, Joe Pantaleo, was there as well. The cousins still maintain their own identity despite their connections. Jordan and Malik joke that they are almost complete opposites. “He likes snow,” Malik said. “I like going to the beach.” The Amine legacy will continue next year with Malik’s brother Miles, who signed back in November. Neither Jordan nor Malik have any doubt that Jordan’s younger brother, eighthgrader Cameron, will become a Wolverine. “It’s a great opportunity that some people take for granted to train with family,” Malik said. “But I realize how lucky I am.” The Amine wrestling dynasty in Michigan will stay strong with a an emphasis on personal excellence, strength and technique, and a penchant for competition. Because at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter who you are, or what family you come from. It’s about beating the other person on the mat.
Tough pitchers await ‘M’ With tournament hopes in
balance, ‘M’ faces must-win By MINH DOAN Daily Sports Writer
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Senior catcher Lauren Sweet will be one of the players Michigan looks toward against elite pitching this weekend.
By TYLER SCOTT Daily Sports Writer
With the first weekend series in the books, the Michigan softball team has had time to reflect on its performance — ultimately deciding that there’s plenty of room for improvement. Unconquered “We didn’t Invitational hit our best (at the USF When: FridayClassic) as a Sunday team,” said Where: senior catcher Tallahassee, Florida Lauren Sweet. “We Teams: just need Michigan, to come out Florida State, ready to go, Western Kentucky, and act like Georgia Tech every game is a Regional, Super Regional or World Series game.” This week No. 7 Michigan (3-1) travels to Tallahassee, Florida to compete in the Unconquered Invitational at Florida State (4-1), where it will play two games each against the No. 5 Seminoles and Georgia Tech (0-5), and one matchup versus Western Kentucky (4-1). For Michigan coach Carol Hutchins, the lack of offensive production so far this season highlighted Michigan’s other
strengths. “Probably the biggest highlight of (last week’s) trip is that we really underachieved at the plate … and we were 3-1,” Hutchins said. “We were able to pull out games, and play defense and pitch well enough (to win) without the offense playing its part.” The Wolverines belted four home runs last week, and scored nine runs against Hampton, but also have seven players batting at .200 or below. The games against Florida State and Western Kentucky will undoubtedly provide a true early-season test for the Wolverines’ developing offense. The Seminoles return righthanded pitcher Lacey Waldrop, the 2014 USA Softball National Player of the Year. And the Hilltoppers have a pitching threat of their own. Left-handed pitcher Miranda Kramer was named the most recent ESPNW player of the week. She became just the 19th player in NCAA history to strike out 19 batters in seven innings for Western Kentucky during a game against Troy. “I’ve been scouting (Kramer) out and she’s really good,” Hutchins said. “We need to pitch well and play defense until our offense gets going.” In a young season, getting a chance to play meaningful
games is also just as much about smoothing out the offensive wrinkles as it is about the competition. “We have to get used to having each other out on the field, getting used to this new team,” Sweet said. “I think that having this first weekend is going to help us a lot, whether you’re on the bench or getting one at-bat a game, just embracing the role that you have.” It’s a concept echoed throughout the clubhouse. “We just have to focus on taking it one game at a time,” said junior utility player Kelsey Susalla. “Every team is going to get better from game one to game 50. We just have to focus on the next game ahead.” Given that Florida State eliminated Michigan from the NCAA softball Super Regionals in 2014, one would expect some edginess to the game, but Hutchins doesn’t find worth in dwelling on past experiences. Instead she sees an opportunity to play a high-caliber team that can contribute to the development of her team early in the season. “You play tough competition and hopefully it hardens you,” Hutchins said. “Every week we run into top five teams, and I’m hoping we get better from it.”
Michigan women’s basketball coach Kim Barnes Arico doesn’t label any game as “must-win.” With Tuesday’s heartbreaking 77-73 loss at Ohio State, the Wolverines’ game on NorthSaturday western at against Northwestern Michigan at Crisler Matchup: Center may Northwestern be as close 18-6; Michigan as it gets 14-10 to a “mustWhen: win” to keep Saturday 2 P.M. their NCAA Where: Crisler Tournament Center hopes alive. But Michigan (6-7 Big Ten, 14-10 overall) won’t be the only team on the court desperate for a win. With Northwestern (8-5, 18-6) in fifth place and the Wolverines in seventh, both teams sit on the NCAA Tournament bubble, and a win for either team would raise its profile for entry into the tournament. But for Michigan to pull out a win, it’s going to have to move past its late game meltdown at Ohio State. With less than 10 minutes left in the game, the Wolverines led by 12. However, foul trouble plagued Michigan as senior guard Shannon Smith and senior forwards Nicole Elmblad and Cyesha Goree played a majority of the second half with more than three fouls. And even when they were on the court, they had to soften up to avoid fouling out of the game. The first player to foul out of the game was Goree at the 5:12 mark. “(Goree’s) a completely different player when she’s in foul trouble, so that really affected our team,” Barnes Arico said Tuesday on WTKA. “That’s tough when you have arguably the best player in your program on the bench in foul trouble, so
that took a big toll on us.” But Barnes Arico chose to look at the foul situation from a positive standpoint. “It gave some of our younger kids some minutes,” Barnes Arico said. “Hopefully, that’ll help us down the stretch.” After a tough three-game stretch in five days, the Wolverines got a much-needed day off on Wednesday. “We had our first day off in a super long time,” Barnes Arico said. “It was the first time our kids got to be normal students, to study for exams, to regroup mentally, and I think we’re going to come back super excited, super energetic about the final stretch of our season.” On the other side of the court, Northwestern will come to Ann Arbor on a four-game winning streak, including a 73-65 overtime win at Purdue on Wednesday. “Northwestern is having a great season, “ Barnes Arico said. “I think one of the best seasons in
program history. They’re coming off an overtime win over Purdue, and they’ve won a bunch in a row coming into our game, so they will be fired up.” The Wildcats are led in scoring by forward Nia Coffey, who scores 15.3 points per game. Coffey, who was the first ever freshman in Northwestern history to earn All-Big Ten First Team honors last season, also leads the team in rebound with nine per game. But less than a month ago in Chicago, Coffey was held to just six points in Michigan’s 73-66 win at Northwestern. Stopping Coffey on Saturday will be key once again if the Wolverines want to walk away with a win. While Barnes Arico might not want to call Saturday’s game a “must-win,” a loss would drop Michigan to two games under .500 in the Big Ten. And that may be a hole too large to climb out of.
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‘M’ falters in OT
Inexperience dooms Michigan
By JAKE LOURIM Managing Sports Editor
CHAMPAIGN — The Big Ten championship trophy was inside the State Farm Center the last time the Michigan men’s basketball team played at Illinois. On MICHIGAN 52 March 64 ILLINOIS 4 last year, the Wolverines traveled to Champaign and left with the trophy and an 84-53 win. They scored 35 of the last 52 points of the first half, culminating with Nik Stauskas’ deep 3-pointer just before the halftime buzzer. Michigan was back inside the same building Thursday, but with no conference title trophy in sight, with assistant coach LaVall Jordan out sick at the team hotel and with injured guards Caris LeVert and Derrick Walton Jr. at home. The Wolverines were in for much more of a fight this time. Just as they were about to come away with a solid road win, Illinois battled back from a late secondhalf deficit to force overtime and eventually win, 64-52. The two teams also played in overtime Dec. 30 at Crisler Center, but the Wolverines (6-7 Big Ten, 13-12 overall) were victorious on their home court. They haven’t had much luck since then in three extra sessions in the past six games. “This is what, our third straight overtime loss?” said freshman guard Aubrey Dawkins. “It’s tough.” The Fighting Illini (7-5, 17-8) put together a nearly flawless overtime period, outscoring Michigan 14-2 and snapping an eight-game losing streak in the series. “I think there was a huge let-down that we didn’t win
that game,” Beilein said. “(Our kids) didn’t have that same zest that I think you need to go into overtime.” The run started with two free throws by guard Kendrick Nunn on the first possession, and Illinois kept its foot on the pedal for all five minutes. The Wolverines didn’t score until freshman guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman’s free throws with 13 seconds left. Very little of the rest of the setting carried over from last season, and the outcome was no exception. A sellout crowd at the State Farm Center on “OrangeOut Night” couldn’t will the Fighting Illini ahead until the final moments, as Michigan sustained momentum swings throughout the second half. “We thought we had it,” Dawkins said. “We’ve been in that situation a lot, so we thought we could figure it out enough to win the game, but obviously it didn’t happen.” But Illinois made one final push in the last two minutes. After forcing a five-second violation on the sideline, the Fighting Illini scored a quick bucket, and Nunn added a 3-pointer with 1:21 left to tie the game. The teams traded misses — with Illinois’ coming on a block by sophomore forward Zak Irvin — and Michigan held for the last shot. The Fighting Illini, which had three fouls to give, committed all three, then intercepted the inbounds pass but just missed a buzzer beater from half-court. The Wolverines rotated defenses throughout the second half to keep the Fighting
Illini from stringing together anything serious. Illinois shot just 39 percent from the floor. “We’re getting better at it,” Beilein said. “I think we’re getting better at understanding our coverages at what we have to do. It does open us up for some rebounding, which hurt us a little bit. We’re working at a lot of things. That’s why we have an issue right now — we’re trying to do anything we can to stay in the game. … We’re not great at anything right now, and that gets exposed sometimes in games.” Still, Illinois’ guard Malcolm Hill ignited the crowd with a 3-pointer at the 8:20 mark, but soon Michigan junior guard Spike Albrecht lobbed the ball up, caught it and flung it in while falling over on the baseline. When the Fighting Illini drew within four, Albrecht came back with a long triple with just over five minutes to play. “He’s playing with everything he’s got,” Beilein said. “He’s really upset right now.” The Wolverines played almost even on the glass starting with the first few minutes, when both teams went without a field goal for the first 4:50. An early Illinois run made it a 10-6 game, but senior forward Max Bielfeldt scored two quick buckets and Dawkins added a triple as Michigan swayed the advantage back in its favor. Moments later, Dawkins silenced the crowd with a monstrous dunk over Illinois center Nnanna Egwu. Dawkins finished with nine points, following his career-high 20 point showing on Dec. 30, the first time the two teams met this season.
“I think there was a huge letdown.”
By LEV FACHER Managing Editor
CHAMPAIGN — At risk of dropping its fifth Big Ten game in six chances, the Michigan men’s basketball team turned to its upperclassmen — all two of them — to stem the tide on Thursday night at Illinois. “All those young kids shouldn’t be in those situations,” said Michigan coach John Beilein, referring to the three true freshmen he started against the Fighting Illini. “They’re forced to be. We’ve got to get better at it.” Instead, it was senior forward Max Bielfeldt and junior guard Spike Albrecht who took the reigns for Michigan. Albrecht, whose health has been less than perfect throughout the season, gutted out 42 minutes in Michigan’s third overtime game in as many weeks, scoring 13 points and recording five assists in the process. Bielfeldt, making a final homecoming to the school that boasts his family’s name on its athletic administration building, was equally impressive, scoring 12 points and recording seven rebounds. But the upperclassmen’s combined effort wasn’t enough for Michigan, which continued a consistent trend of forcing overtime against teams with the on-paper advantage before collapsing during the added five minutes. On Jan. 24, the Wolverines were outscored 12-7 by Wisconsin after sophomore guard Derrick Walton Jr.’s 3-pointer tied the game in the final seconds of regulation. A week later, Michigan’s post-regulation result was much worse — Michigan State went on a 10-0 overtime run that the Wolverines never recovered from. Michigan was held
scoreless in the added period, and ultimately fell, 76-66. The final five minutes of Thursday’s game were a mirror image of the Feb. 1 rivalry clash. Having already stormed back from a 50-43 deficit in the final minutes, Illinois scored the first 14 points of overtime to take a commanding 64-50 lead. Freshman guard MuhammadAli Abdur-Rahkman’s pair of made free throws in the final minute was much too little, and far too late. “These late-game adjustments that we have to make … we haven’t been able to work at those as much because we’re still trying to dribble the ball, and catch the ball on two feet, and shoot the ball with good spin and the fundamentals of the game,” Beilein said. One of the fundamentals that was severely lacking was Michigan’s ability to inbound the basketball. Abdur-Rahkman failed three times at getting the ball past Illinois’ 6-foot-11 center Nnanna Egwu, seeing his first two attempts swatted away and committing a five-second violation on the third. With 4.5 seconds remaining in regulation, Michigan had another opportunity to inbound the ball and set up a gamewinning shot. Again, its youth posed a major roadblock. “I would love to have (freshman forward) Ricky Doyle throwing it in, but we do not have that type of passing from our big guys right now,” Beilein said. “Spike’s got to be the one.” Albrecht’s pass was deflected, ultimately ending up in the hands of Illinois guard Rayvonte Rice. The Fighting Illini couldn’t score on their final possession, sending the game to overtime. Had the inbounds play worked, Beilein had every intention of leaving an upperclassman with the final shot.
“We were gonna go with (Bielfeldt),” Beilein said. “He didn’t play a lot in the last game, but he’s a senior, this game means a lot to him, and we sort of had a hunch that we’d go with him. “If we’d had the fouls to give, he was taking last shot if we were allowed to run the offense, and might have had three of four seconds. I dialed up something for him.” Though Michigan’s best hope of closing out the victory — which would have been its first of the month — was vested in Albrecht and Bielfeldt, the sparks of the Wolverines’ talented youth were still there. Michigan’s coaching staff wasn’t shy about making sure its underclassmen understood their roles. At a particularly quiet moment, Michigan assistant coach Bacari Alexander’s instructions for Doyle rang through the State Farm Center. “Rick! Rick! You got one job, son. Rebound the basketball.” Doyle came up with a rebound on the ensuing possession. That wasn’t even the most promising sign of the Wolverines’ impending youth uprising — in the first half, Andrew Dakich found Aubrey Dawkins on a backdoor cut, allowing Dawkins to finish with a ferocious right-handed slam that stunned the record crowd of 17,087 at the State Farm Center. Though Michigan’s simple lack of depth, which forced Albrecht and sophomore forward Zak Irvin to play 42 minutes and Abdur-Rahkman to play 43, was an obvious factor, Dawkins wasn’t willing to chalk up the repeated overtime collapses to a lack of fresh legs. “It could be that,” Dawkins said. “I mean, I’m not going to use that as an excuse. We’ve still got to come out and find a way to win every night.”
Wolverines look to solidify place in PairWise Rankings By JASON RUBINSTEIN Daily Sports Editor
The last time the Michigan hockey team faced off against Minnesota, coach Red Berenson recorded his 800th career win. Though the milestone won’t be as monumental, if Michigan can steal two wins in Minneapolis, the 12th-ranked Wolverines will
propel themselves into a very steady position in the PairWise Rankings. But that won’t come easily. No. 14 Minnesota (5-2-3 Big Ten, 14-9-3 overall) will be especially hungry for two wins considering the Wolverines sweep of the Golden Gophers in a twogame series in January. And a win against Michigan would
significantly further their cause in the rankings. “I’d say this is the biggest series of my career so far,” said junior forward Andrew Copp. “We took care of them when they were here in Ann Arbor, but we know that they are tough to beat out there.” Added Berenson: “This will be the biggest test thus far going
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on the road to play Minnesota.” Berenson’s sentiment is partially rooted in the fact that the Wolverines haven’t won in Michigan at Minneapolis in seven years. Minnesota The drought can be partial- Matchup: Michigan ly attributed 16-8; Minto Michigan nesota 14-9-3 (8-2, 16-8) not playing the When: Friday 9 P.M.; SatGophers regu- urday 8 P.M. larly until last season, when Where: Mariucci Arena the Big Ten TV/Radio: conference Friday’s game was formed. is on BTN But perhaps the losing streak in Minnesota is rooted in the Wolverines’ inability to adapt to a bigger rink. The Golden Gophers skate on an Olympicsize ice sheet — 100 feet by 200 feet — whereas Yost Ice Arena is just 85 feet by 200 feet. And the extra space has caused the Wolverines some trouble in the past. This season, though, Michigan is undefeated while playing on larger ice sheets. Back in January, the Wolverines swept Wisconsin in
its Olympic-size rink, scoring 13 goals along the way. “This team is excited to be playing on the big ice,” said senior forward Zach Hyman. “You saw how we played against Wisconsin in the big rink and we were excited that weekend.” To simulate the game conditions this weekend, Michigan practiced at the Ann Arbor Ice Cube this week, which has an Olympic-size rink. The Wolverines did the same thing prior to the Wisconsin series. Heading into the weekend, Michigan still leads the nation in scoring, tallying 4.21 goals per game. The Wolverines are also accomplishing this feat without one of last season’s leading scorers filling the stat sheet in forward JT Compher. The sophomore has just four goals and 13 points this season. Berenson isn’t concerned. “I think JT is coming into the best part his season right now,” he said. Despite the offensive prowess, it’s likely that special teams will determine a large part of this series. Minnesota boasts the nation’s best power-play unit, converting just above 29
percent — 30 of 103 — powerplay opportunities. The last time the two teams met, the Gophers converted two power-play goals after Copp took a five-minute major penalty. “That game was interesting, I guess,” Copp said with a smirk. In recent games, the Wolverines penalty-killing unit, largely headed by Compher, has been solid. A big reason for that is that Michigan takes very few penalties — the Wolverines rank 36th in the country in penalty minutes. “Just not taking many penalties is the key,” said freshman forward Dylan Larkin. “The best penalty kill is staying out of the box. That’s our mentality. But if we do, we are going to have to sacrifice our bodies and block a lot of shots.” Larkin went on to say how important this series is for the Wolverines, especially considering the PairWise implications. More notably, getting two wins on the road at Minnesota would considerably boost this team’s already high morale. “It can push this year into a special year,” Larkin said, “and we are all looking for that.”
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Freshman forward Dylan Larkin will be a key player as Michigan looks for a successful weekend in Minneapolis.