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CSG exec. candidate was on ski trip in Jan. “The Team” VP nominee attended trip that caused $85,000 in damages By ALYSSA BRANDON Daily Staff Reporter
LSA sophomore Matt Fidel, The Team’s candidate for Central Student Government vice president, participated in a ski trip during which members of his fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu, as well as sorority Sigma Delta Tau, reportedly caused at least $85,000 in damages, campaign manager Jacob Abudaram, an LSA junior, confirmed to The Michigan Daily last week. Last month, over Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, several ski trips hosted by six University Greek life chapters caused over $100,000 in damage to two Michigan ski resorts and were suspended by their national chapters. The participants are also facing an investigation by the Michigan State Police, and the possibility of University sanctions. Last month, CSG collaborated with both the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association to release a public apology
on behalf of the Greek organizations involved in the incident. Abudaram, Fidel and running mate Will Royster, an LSA junior and CSG presidential candidate, agreed to an interview with the Daily on Wednesday night with the knowledge that it would include discussion of the incident. Prior to the interview, Abudaram and Fidel both told the Daily that there would be questions Fidel could not answer specifically about the involvement of his fraternity for legal reasons, but that he would discuss his own sentiments about the incident. Upon being told the Daily would still like to ask questions about Fidel’s involvement in the incident, with the understanding that Fidel and Royster could decline to comment whenever they deemed necessary, Abudaram told a reporter they would leave the interview if those questions were asked. Until the reporter agreed not to ask questions about Fidel’s individual involvement, Abudaram and Fidel would not continue the interview. Fidel, who also serves on the Social Responsibility Committee for SAM, did comment on the fallout of the trip overall. However, he said the ski trip incident was shameful, and not characteristic of See SKI TRIP, Page 3
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Black History Month event features variety of speakers “Take Back the X” draws students and alumni to Rackham By KATIE PENROD Daily Staff Reporter
When he started to speak Thursday inside Rackham Amphitheatre, Lester Spence
choked up and wiped tears from his eyes. As one of the speakers in “Taking Back the X, Bringing Back the Love,” Spence, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, helped wrap up the University’s series of Black History Month events. Spence said this experience was an emotional one, because he felt so personally connected to the University. The event took place on the third anniversary of Trayvon
Martin’s death, and the group acknowledged a moment of silence in his honor. Fifteen University groups collaborated to organize the event, which included storytelling and singing, and featured five alumni keynote speakers. In addition to Spence, speakers included Melba Joyce Boyd, distinguished professor of Africana Studies at Wayne State University; Gerloni Cotton, a law student at University of
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After a push led by a University professor, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized coverage guidelines this February for individuals at high risk for developing lung cancer, allowing them the ability to receive lung-screening CT scans with no co-pay. CMS is the federal agency that administers Medicaid and Medicare. Annual lung screenings will be available to patients ages of 55-77 and have an extensive smoking history. However, doctors will have the final say in deciding who are appropriate candidates to undergo the testing. If testing is considered appropriate, then patients must also undergo smoking cessation counseling. Radiology Prof. Ella Kazerooni, the director of Cardiothoracic Radiology, has been on the forefront of the race to get these screening approved by the CMS. “Lung cancer is the leadSee LUNGS, Page 3
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California, Los Angeles; Dominique Mathews, a Detroit-based poet; L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, associate professor at City College of New York; and Rackham student Austin McCoy. McCoy said the “Taking Back the X” event means something different to each individual, but for him, his focus was on the human rights leader Malcolm X and considering ways to rethink his legacy in the context of See BLACK HISTORY, Page 3
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LSA sophomore Tahany Alsabahi holds a sign that hung last year on the Central Student Government chamber’s door during the UM Divest protest at the opening of the new Edward Said multicultural lounge in North Quad Thursday.
New multicultural lounge celebrates Arab heritage North Quad residents vote to honor theorist Edward Said By IAN DILLINGHAM Daily Staff Reporter
Nearly one year ago, students from the UM Divest movement hung a sign on the door of Central Student Government chambers as part of a weeklong protest to occupy the room. The sign read “Edward
Said Lounge” — homage to the prominent PalestinianAmerican literary theorist and academic, Edward Said. As the protests ended, the sign was removed. Thursday night, at a dedication ceremony for the new Edward Said Lounge on the third floor of the North Quad Residence Hall, LSA junior Tala Dahbour, co-chair of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, held back tears as she unrolled the sign once again. “This sign was painted almost a year ago by Arab and Muslim students during a time
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when they felt very unsafe on this campus,” Dahbour said. “It’s a very proud moment to be here at a time when we don’t have to paint it on a piece of paper.” While many racial and ethnic groups on campus have multicultural and minoritycultural lounges — including Alice Lloyd’s Vicky Barner Lounge honoring Native American communities and Bursley’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Lounge honoring the iconic civil rights leader — the Edward Said Lounge is the first See LOUNGE, Page 3
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Earlier this month, a federal court stalled an expansion of an executive order that would have expanded the provisions for some undocumented immigrants to remain in the country — including some students. President Barack Obama announced his intention to issue an expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy in November. DACA, first introduced by the Obama administration in 2012, allowed undocumented immigrants brought to the United States before the age of 16, legally or illegally, to delay deportation. It also provided the opportunity to acquire work authorization. The expansion was set to take place on Feb. 18, but following a challenge filed by 26 states, including Michigan, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen issued a preliminary injunction against the executive order Feb. 16. The lawsuit charged that
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the proposed changes extended beyond constitutional executive power. In his injunction, Hanen pointed to procedural, rather than strictly constitutional issues. “(The Court) hereby finds that at least Texas has satisfied the necessary standing requirements that the defendants have clearly legislated a substantive rule without complying with the procedural requirements under the Administration Procedure Act,” he wrote. The proposed DACA expansion would have widened the age range eligible for DACA, which currently only applies to individuals who arrived in the United States before 2007, to individuals in the country since 2010. Additionally, it would have removed an eligibility cap of 30 years, and extended the deferred action period from two to three years. The executive order also allowed parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents to request deferred action, as well as employment authorization. Law Prof. Margo Schlanger, who used to lead the civil rights office for the Department of Homeland Security and had minor involvement in the origiSee IMMIGRATION, Page 3
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Fraternity raises $43,000 BY NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT
This past Saturday, the University chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity hosted its annual Winterfest event, raising $43,000 for Autism Alliance for Michigan. Winterfest is a broomball competition among fraternities and sororities.
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New program seeks to promote ‘U’ study finds similar addictive use of technology in classroom properties in junk food, drugs Digital Innovation Greenhouse will facilitate faculty, staff projects By COLLEEN HARRISON For the Daily
As digital education moves to the forefront of innovation initiatives on college campuses, the University has launched a new digitally minded program this semester. The Digital Innovation Greenhouse will push to facilitate growth in academic software on campus. In January, the University’s Third Century Initiative’s Transformation Grant awarded $1.4 million to the Digital Education and Innovation department to form DIG. The funding from the grant covers three years of work,
which will allow the greenhouse to work on initiatives such as opening up data about courses to students, improving online tutoring efforts like the E2Coach program, and helping academic advisers assist students through Student Explorer Advising. By using these programs, Rachel Neimer, assistant director for the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching and DIG’s Communities of Practice team lead, said she hopes teachers will better be able to assist students through new programs. “I think this is an exciting way to create new tools to help instructors with the most challenging part of their teaching,” Neimer said. Physics Prof. Timothy McKay, DIG principal investigator, said one of the main focuses of DIG is to focus on bringing digital innovation and data-driven programs to full-scale implementation, as opposed to scattered use across
the University. While the University staff and faculty members behind programs like E2Coach or Student Explorer would like to have them available to everyone, they don’t currently have the capacity to do so on their own. “They build something that works, they test it out in that class, they show that it’s effective, and then they start to talk about it,” McKay said. “When they talk about it, everyone else wants to use it. (The) problem is that (the) faculty member isn’t really here to make a tool like that available to everyone on campus.” Through DIG, McKay said he hopes the programs will grow from limited availability to having nearly unlimited ability. While DEI’s home sits on the eighth floor of Hatcher Graduate Library, DIG will have a lab on Washington St. McKay said he envisioned DIG as a step in between the initial creation of a project and its implementation. “The purpose of the Digital Innovation Greenhouse is to take things from innovators and grow them up to maturity, to provide the support that’s needed to do that, to have the right kind of interaction between developers and users to make sure that as they develop it, it gets better,” he said. James DeVaney, assistant vice provost for Digital Education and Innovation, said while the program currently focuses on the innovators and making it easier for teachers to help students, he wants to emphasize creating a community that incorporates student voices in a number of ways. “Will students be involved?” he said. “Yes, as developers, as interns, as personalization fellows to support the kinds of projects the greenhouse is focusing on initially.” Mike Daniel, DEI director of policy and operations, said the See GREENHOUSE, Page 3
Researchers hope to change marketing practices aimed at children By SANJAY REDDY For the Daily
Despite efforts to curtail fast food consumption in the United States, junk food remains in popular demand — and new University research released last week suggests this resilience is in part due to the nature of the foods themselves. In a recently published paper in the Public Library of Science, University researchers confirmed that highly processed foods, or foods with added fats or refined carbohydrates such as flour and sugar, have addictive effects. Researchers found these effects work similarly to those of common addictive drugs. Unprocessed foods, without added fats or refined carbohydrates, such as salmon and brown rice, were not associated with addictive properties in the study. This research suggests that
highly processed foods may have effects in the brain that are very similar to those brought about by drugs like alcohol and nicotine, said Assistant Psychology Prof. Ashley Gearhardt, a co-author of the study. “The reward system in the brain that is triggered by these drugs may be triggered in the same way by highly processed foods,” she said. This study has several farreaching implications, according to Rackham student Erica Schulte, a lead author of the study. From a public awareness standpoint, greater understanding of the addictive elements of highly processed foods could help bring about policy changes that discourage its consumption. Furthermore, Schulte said the results could help change the nature of marketing for highly processed foods, particularly with regarding children. “Currently we see marketing to children that is unique to these highly processed, addictive foods,” she said. “We think that this study could illustrate how harmful it is to get kids hooked on these foods at such an early age.” Gearhardt said the study
could also help change the negative stigma that often surrounds people who are struggling to eat healthy and lose weight. “Currently the narrative is that when people struggle to lose weight, they are not trying hard enough,” she said. “What is misunderstood is that there is an actual addictive process going on.” Business sophomore Stephanie Fotouhi, a member of PULSE, a health and wellness student organization sponsored by the University Health Service, said she thought the new findings will give both students and faculty a better sense of the challenges faced by those facing eating disorders. “If we can spread the word about this, then our classmates who are struggling with eating addiction can feel better about themselves and receive the right attention and treatment,” she said. Gearhardt and Schulte said future research will seek to investigate specific ingredients in highly processed foods that bring out certain genetic risk factors or vulnerabilities to trigger an addictive response.
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IMMIGRATION From Page 1 nal DACA legislation, said she thought the expansion was a necessary step from the president. “The Obama administration has been advocating for a legislative fix to immigration and the Congress has rejected that,” Schlanger said. “The administration would like to do by way of legislation, but has not been able to. They have instead been using available executive authority.” However, not all were in agreement with these new provisions. In a statement issued after the court’s decision, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette (R) said his disagreement with the bill stemmed primarily from concerns of presidential overreach. “America has always been a beacon of hope,” Schuette stated. “Our country needs an immigration policy that is hopeful, encouraging and lawful. A federal judge agrees that the president’s unilateral action is constitutionally flawed, and now the rule of law will get its day in court.” For Rackham student Carlos Robles, the original DACA was a saving grace. Robles came to the United States about 10 years after his family’s business in Mexico failed. They
BLACK HISTORY From Page 1 today’s society. “I think when it came to issues of racism in this country, he wasn’t the sort of optimism that MLK was and his way of dealing with racism, it meant on the one hand calling out white supremacy whenever he could, but then also making sure that Black people were organized,” McCoy said. In his talk, McCoy touched on the importance of the history of racial issues in the United States. He also said students need to think radically about activism and he encouraged them not to make compromises when addressing racial issues. Elizabeth James, a program associate from the Department of Afroamerican and African studies, said she likes that “Taking Back the X” is an event open for interpretation. She said the significance of the event’s title is rooted in the historical meaning of the letter X, particularly in relation to her ancestors’ obligation to sign their names with an X. “The fact that we were taking (the X) back was the sense that we were reclaiming our ancestors and really paying homage to the fact that there are those that come before us, and it’s important to recognize and to let them offer wisdom to our current students,” James said. Many of the speakers, including Cotton and Spence, emphasized the importance
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crossed the border legally with travel Visas, overextended their stay and became undocumented immigrants. Robles and his siblings attended public school in Palatine, Illinois for multiple years, staying undetected. However, one spring break, Robles and his brother decided to visit a friend in Boston. Near the Buffalo/Toronto border, border patrol agents randomly inspected the train they were travelling on. Robles and his brother could only provide their expired Visas, and were taken to a county jail, where they spent several days. After posting bail, Robles said U.S Sen. Dick Durbin (D–IL) took on their case and ultimately managed to get them approval to stay in the country through the original iteration of DACA. While DACA does not provide any path to legal residency or citizenship, it opened the doors for Robles and his brother to continue schooling, and gain work authorization in the United States. Robles said it’s possible the block on expansion could stop him and others from being able to renew his own authorization to stay in the country, though the court thus far has indicated that the litigation won’t affect individuals covered by the original 2012 order. He added that while he wasn’t
of Black community. Spence focused on solidarity and the need to build community at the University and elsewhere. “The political battles and the political trials that we have, they’re exciting and they can be tiring too, but they won’t sustain you,” Cotton said. “What will really sustain you is the people that you’re in that battle with.” In tandem with this idea, most of the speakers said there is a vibrant Black community at the University and acknowledged the importance of Black student groups, such as the Black Student Union and movements like #BBUM. LSA freshman Gloriela Iguina-Colón said as a Puerto Rican she felt a sense of community at the event as a minority, noting a lot of the stories told will stick with her for a long time. “I came mainly because I feel like the recent movements on campus have been really important,” Iguina-Colón said. James said engaging students and alumni on campus is key for building a community and increasing education on these issues. “We do a lot of talking about UM leaders and best, and if we’re forging these new voices to go out into the world, and if we’re going to be working to empower and invigorate and create a better world, we have to start here,” James said. “College campuses have bright young minds that are open to looking at things in a different way.”
step in aiding student teaching and learning, especially at a large-scale university. “One of the things we know about the science of learning is that personalized feedback really helps learning,” she said. “And it’s just really hard to do in a large class.”
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surprised by the challenge to the court case, it added on to the difficulty of being an undocumented immigrant. “It’s furthering the same sense of frustration that immigrants have been having,” Robles said. “This isn’t a surprise. I’m more surprised this didn’t happen earlier.” In an e-mail interview, Assistant Law Prof. Kate Andrias wrote she believes that the current litigation will not have a large effect on how the executive branch addresses immigration in the long term. However, in the short term, she wrote, many people’s fears of deportation are high. “Immigrants who would otherwise be entitled some relief are living with a great deal of uncertainty,” Andrias wrote. The next step for the contested expansion will be a federal court hearing, during which the court will be tasked with deciding whether or not it was within Obama’s power to expand DACA. Robles and Schlanger said they were both hopeful that future work to integrate undocumented immigrants wouldn’t be halted by the injunction. “I think that the goal of immigration reform is to take people who are here and are functionally Americans, and allow them access to the opportunities they need to flourish,” Schlanger said.
SKI TRIP From Page 1 University Greek life. “The ski trip incident was an embarrassing and shameful event that was not representative of Michigan Greek life, weren’t representative of the individual fraternities and sororities that we were apart and weren’t representative of who I am,” he said. Fidel also said he and his fraternity are doing their best to move forward from the incident through charity and other philanthropic work. “We’re doing our best to right our wrongs and rectify the situation,” he said. “After the incident, I led my fraternity in community service projects, coordinated with Habitat for Humanity to send 50 volunteers to volunteer.” Fidel also told the Daily that SAM has cooperated with the Detroit Partnership and will send 30 to 40 members of the fraternity to volunteer at a soup kitchen after Spring Break. Though he did not refer specifically to the incident, Royster said he is confident in Fidel both as a partner and a leader on campus. “Matt is just an incredible leader and an incredible guy,” Royster said. “The fact that he is really using CSG as a catalyst to drive social change on campus really shows that he does care.” Overall, Fidel said, he didn’t think the ski resort incident would impact the campaign. “Will and I have some great ideas for this campus,” he said. “As I said before, those actions don’t reflect on me and don’t reflect on our campaign. I think that as long as we strive to maintain our goals, that’s all we can do.”
LOUNGE From Page 1 dedicated to the Arab-American and Muslim communities on campus. The establishment of a dedicated space for these students has been an ongoing point of contention, but the topic was brought to the forefront of conversation during the UM Divest protest. A February 2014 CSG petition — launched the month prior to the protest — called for the establishment of such a lounge in North Quad and received almost 500 signatures. However, Engineering junior Flavio Fiszman, a diversity peer educator at North Quad, said the idea of an Arab-American themed lounge has been under consideration by the multicultural council for almost three years. Debate in the last year has focused on the name of the lounge. “There was already a proposal and the proposal had been accepted (in February 2014),” Fiszman said. “What’s happening at that time was mostly
LUNGS From Page 1 ing cause of cancer death in the United States, both for men and women,” Kazerooni said. “For the other common cancers, like breast, prostate and colon cancer, we have screening tests. So, there’s definitely a public health need to try and reduce mortality from lung cancer. Lung cancer screening with CT is aimed at doing that at the population health level.” Kazerooni was an investigator for the 2011 National Lung Screening Trial that showed lung cancer screenings reduced mortality and proved cost-effective. Despite the finding, lung cancer screenings were voted down when originally presented to the CMS in 2014. As the principal organizer of the coalition to advocate for CMS coverage, Kazerooni said a diverse group of medical professionals and advocacy groups was necessary to achieve their goal of screening coverage. “When you bring in the voice of the patients through patient advocacy, it really tells the story in a way that’s very impactful for people who are not necessarily in the medical field,” she said. Kazerooni also emphasized another important aspect of the lung cancer screening — smoking cessation. The requirement not only targets lung cancer, but also has secondary effects by reducing death from cardiovascular disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Kazerooni said. By including smoking cessation alongside these screenings, she said the system functions in a more costeffective way as well. Douglas Arenberg, associate professor of internal medicine and a member of the American Thoracic Society — a group involved with the coalition
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about the name.” The lounge’s namesake, Edward Said, is best known for his analyses of the representations of Arab and Muslim populations in literature and media. He wrote extensively on Arab and Muslim identities in the United States and the Middle East and was known for his academic perspective on politics, including advocating the “onestate solution” to the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Said was a faculty member at Columbia University and received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Michigan in 1998. He died in 2003. Engineering sophomore Grant Groshek, co-chair of the North Quad Multicultural Council, said the council held a town hall meeting earlier this year for North Quad residents to address any concerns regarding the lounge’s name. After presenting information about Edward Said and gathering input, they gave residents the opportunity to vote online. In the end, Groshek said more than a quarter of the dorm voted in favor of the name, allowing the council to move forward with the dedica-
tion ceremony. Fiszman said it was important to respect the desires of North Quad residents, especially those living on the third floor halls surrounding the lounge. “The lounge is for the ArabAmerican community, but we mainly want it representing North Quad residents,” Fiszman said. Fiszman added that access to the lounge will be restricted to North Quad residents who complete an educational program to learn about its history and cultural message. While Dahbour said the lounge is a positive step for the University, she elaborated that it does not address many of the remaining concerns for Arab-American and Muslim students. “There’s always a lot of work to be done around this issue,” she said. “We still live in a society that’s very much violent toward Arabs and Muslims.” “I know this means a lot to myself as a student here and a lot to the Muslim and Arab students here,” she added. “It’s one step for sure, and I just hope that the University continues to work on it.”
— also stressed the importance of smoking cessation. “It is absolutely imperative for people interested in setting up a lung cancer screening program to make the center of gravity of that program offering and encouraging tobacco cessation amongst current smokers,” he said. “It is a far more efficient, far safer and a far less expensive way to achieve the goal of a lung cancer screening program, which is fewer people dying from lung cancer.” Such cessation programs are part of what makes the new coverage not just a one-time test, but rather an ongoing process. For smoking cessation to work, Arenberg said, several additional steps — including integrated cessation counseling, pharmacotherapy and follow-up phone calls with nurses, physicians and medical assistants — need to be implemented, not all of which are fully included under the coverage. Arenberg said in a society consumed by instant gratification, quitting smoking can be a challenge. He said while it would be difficult to prove to individual former smokers that quitting saved their lives, smoking cessation programs have made a big difference for the population at large. Overall, Arenberg said CMS should provide even more funding toward these kinds of programs. “We, as a society, could invest in prevention by providing more robust reimbursement for tobacco cessation counseling,” he said. However, despite the benefits of lung cancer screening, Arenberg also mentioned several problematic components. Because a lung CT scan looks at the whole chest, as opposed to other cancer screenings that only look at certain tissues, he said issues in other areas can be discovered that seem medically significant, but really are not. “This is a very different test,”
he said. “And it has the potential for harm because a lot of these findings are just incidental and don’t represent significant disease, but in investigating them you sometimes have to put the patient at risk, including invasive procedures that have the potential for harm.” Because of these complexities, Arenberg said a major goal of his, as well as other advocates for the lung screening policy, is to inform people about both the benefits and the risks of these screenings. Moving forward, Kazerooni said one of the next steps is to spread public awareness. While many physician practices are currently in the process of educating patients about the importance of the scans, more work still needs to be done with local advocacy groups to educate those who could benefit from the screenings. Another condition of the CMS lung screening coverage is building a clinical practice quality registry into the screening. This registry compares the progress of the screenings in relation to benchmarks and quality metrics. Kazerooni also said there is interest in helping individuals at risk for lung cancer for reasons unrelated to smoking, such as radon exposure, asbestos exposure and a genetic history of lung cancer. Such efforts, she said, may be a future focus. With many moving parts to lung cancer screenings, Kazerooni said that the biggest challenge in organizing the coalition was keeping everybody focused on the ultimate goal of bringing lung cancer screenings to those who needed them. Despite those difficulties, she said she was happy with the overall result. “Bringing people together across disciplines for a common purpose was amazing to see as it started to fall into place,” she said.
Los Angeles teachers, union leaders rally amid stalled talks over class sizes, wages LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dressed in red and raising signs into the air, thousands of teachers filled a downtown Los Angeles park on Thursday in demand of higher wages and smaller class sizes amid stalled contract negotiations. “Everybody in this country is watching this struggle,” said Joshua Pechthalt, president of the California Federation of Teachers. “It’s a fight about the nature of public education. What is public education going to look like?” The rally was the largest action yet amid an escalating standoff between union and Los Angeles Unified district leaders: United Teachers Los Angeles is demanding an 8.5 percent salary increase, a demand interim Superintendent Ramon Cortines contends the district cannot meet without significant layoffs. The union declared an impasse in February and is set to meet with the district and mediators in March. If a resolution is still not reached, a fact finding panel will
convene. Though still several steps away, union officials say they are prepared to strike if needed. UTLA President Alex CaputoPearl and other union leaders have visited hundreds of schools in recent months, talking to teachers and handing out commitment cards. The cards ask teachers to pledge support for a variety of actions, from leafleting to a strike. About half have been returned so far. “The vast majority of our members have checked off, ‘Are you willing to strike?’ with a, ‘Yes I am willing to strike,’” CaputoPearl said to applause and cheers at the rally. The last major urban district to strike was Chicago Public Schools in 2012. That contract dispute centered largely on the role of student test scores in teacher evaluations. In contrast, the Los Angeles contract standoff has focused mostly on teacher salaries, class sizes and increasing the num-
ber of support staff members like nurses and counselors. The union notes that teachers have gone eight years without a salary increase or cost of living adjustment. Union leaders contend the negotiations highlight an ongoing post-Great Recession concern: That while economic conditions have improved, cuts made during the height of the crisis have been disparately restored. They point to new pockets of money that could be used to finance their demands, including the governor’s proposed budget, which would increase spending on K-12 education by at least 8 percent. Contines, meanwhile, is projecting a $160 million deficit for the next school year. He is asking every department to reduce expenses by 8 to 15 percent. In a letter to Caputo-Pearl Thursday, he also warned that $171 million is at risk if union leaders don’t agree to evaluation requirements necessary for the district to receive its No Child Left Behind waiver.
Congress is currently attempting to revamp the George W. Bush-era law. “We’re entering a tough phase because of the significant decline in enrollment, primarily,” said Tom Waldman, a spokesman for the district. There were 677,538 student enrolled in Los Angeles Unified in the 2009-10 school year. In the 2013-14 school year, that number had declined to 653,826. A recent survey by the Schools Superintendents Association found that about half of superintendents described their districts as stable, while nearly four in 10 believe their district’s economic situation has gotten worse; but the study concluded that over the last three years, conditions have mostly improved. Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the National Education Association, said what happens in Los Angeles will have national implications, as districts weigh what to prioritize as the economy improves.
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A dangerous precedent
Bills protecting religious freedom are safeguards for discrimination
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subset of bills recently introduced into the Michigan Legislature has prompted concern that attempts to protect religious liberty in the business and healthcare sectors will propagate discriminatory practices. Earlier this week, three bills permitting faith-based adoption agencies to cite religious beliefs as a reason to refuse service to either unmarried or samesex couples were proposed by a Michigan House committee. Under the legislation, their refusal to serve these populations of individuals would in no way decrease the state funding received by these institutions. The emergence of this legislation demonstrates a desperate need to modify the state’s anti-discrimination policies and to re-examine the role of religion in businesses and state-funded organizations. These bills, offering religious exemptions for adoption agencies, are merely an addition to an already large amount of legislation permitting discriminatory policies. A similar initiative was proposed in 2013, with the introduction of two bills that would enable adoption agencies to deny the placement of a child in a household based upon the couples’ sexual orientation or religious beliefs. Denying individuals services based solely upon a religious viewpoint is both an ethical violation and a contradiction of the standard of separation of church and state. Although some jurisprudence, such as Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, may merely blur the lines between professional and personal beliefs by dictating the extent of coverage for medical expenses, other legislation advocating religious liberty could lead to life-threatening scenarios. For example, advocating the right of an individual to refuse to provide services, ranging from wedding planning to emergency medical treatment, sets a dangerous and terrifying precedent. Both situations would be permitted under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was reintroduced for consideration in Michigan in last November.
Nationwide, roughly 19 states have adopted some version of RFRA. While protecting religious liberty is indeed necessary in government dealings, a division must be maintained between religion and federally funded matters. Furthermore, while the potential enactment of these bills seeks to protect one group, another is left susceptible to various forms of discrimination. For example, the infant of a lesbian couple in Michigan was denied treatment due to the fact the parents’ relationship conflicted with the pediatrician’s religious views. Scenarios such as this one could reoccur if stronger anti-discrimination laws are not enacted within the state. The state’s current antidiscrimination law, the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, does not include protections for members of the LGBTQ community, making discriminatory practices against these individuals perfectly legal within the state of Michigan. Passing these bills can only result in negative consequences. Therefore, allowing the enactment of these laws and failing to revise current discrimination protections would be a neglectful and disturbing move by the Michigan legislature.
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Expanding the experience
Need-based ticket program lowers prices for Pell Grant recipients
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his week, the Athletic Department announced a need-based ticketing system for students of lower socioeconomic status. In order to receive need-based pricing, students must qualify for Federal Pell Grants. Given how ingrained athletics are into the University’s identity, this is an effort worth commending, as it allows more students to expand their extracurricular experiences. Last fall, the Athletic Department revealed a roughly 38 percent decrease in student football season ticket prices from $280 last season to $175. Basketball season tickets will be $200 and hockey will be $150. For those who qualify for the need-based ticket prices, tickets will be reduced to $100, $120 and $90, respectively. According to Central Student Government President Bobby Dishell, a Public Policy senior who pitched the idea, this is the first need-based ticketing program in collegiate athletics. There is no denying the role of athletics in the University’s culture. As Dishell remarked, “Michigan athletics, it’s something you see so many people rally around.” Therefore, it should be the priority of the University administration and Athletic Department to reach as many students as possible. Implementing need-based ticketing is a praiseworthy first step. That said, the Athletic Department should turn its focus to improving more areas of the athletic experience for non-athletes. With the
lowering of overall ticket prices, combined with the new need-based ticketing system, football, basketball and hockey will likely see an influx of students into an alreadyfilled student section. It must be ensured that students will be able to fit reasonably without instituting controversial seating policies. Solutions include expanding the size of the student sections in both Michigan Stadium and the Crisler Center. Additionally, along with the included T-shirt in the ticket package, the Athletic Department should consider a student discount at M-Den locations to bolster school spirit. Taking the initiative and making more reasonably priced tickets available to students receiving Pell Grants is an innovative and much-needed program. It is another step to improving the relationship between students and athletics, one that became strained during the era of former Athletic Director Dave Brandon. The Athletic Department should keep working on programs to reinforce student support for the present and the future.
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My grandmother’s memoirs
ver the past semester break, I decided to read my grandmother’s memoirs — an unpublished spiral notebook consisting of 150 pages, documenting her upbringing in Romania, France and Mexico. I’m embarrassed to say that this was the first ABBY time I really read TASKIER her stories, aside from occasionally scanning them during moments when she was a hot topic of conversation among my family. Inscribed on the first page is a note to her granddaughters: “Although you have known me as your old grandma, I too was once young, full of life, and living through some incredible times, including World War II.” In her pages, she seamlessly details her life as a young Romanian girl, brought up under the wing of her nursemaid. Her father was a prominent Romanian physician who sought to find the cure to cancer, working long hours in a research lab and paying little attention to her in her young age. She then moved to France, where she lived in a Catholic girls’ boarding school in order to hide her Jewish identity. Eventually she and her family escaped and fled to Mexico, where she lived for a number of years until her studies brought her to the United States. I read her memoirs with fascination. Every moment of her young life was filled with fear — in reflection, something that sounds more like adventure. Her adolescence was filled with hunger. During the war, the only things her family could afford were broiled tomatoes. I remember she hated tomatoes because of that. However, the many things she saw and experienced were not unique to her — they were unique to that generation. My grandfather too, having come
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to the United States from Austria in the late 1930s, was then immediately drafted and sent to combat in the South Pacific. Of course, he survived, but he returned to the States as much an immigrant as he had been when he first arrived, and his life was spent living coin to coin, paycheck to paycheck, until many years later when he was finally grounded in American society. I fear that my grandparents’ generation is falling away slowly, becoming a memory, and that I am left only with this book of stories to remind me that life during World War II was not what it is now. I was only in my early teens when I saw the movie “Beginners.” It’s about a man, played by Ewan McGregor, whose father has just come out of the closet. It’s not funny, really; it’s more a movie about accepting your parents and the differences that separate you. But there’s a line in it that has always stuck with me: “Our good fortune allowed us to feel a sadness our parents never had time for.” Now, let’s substitute another word for “sadness,” perhaps, “aimlessness.” And let’s substitute the word “parents” for “grandparents.” Now it reads like this: Our good fortune allowed us to feel aimlessness our grandparents never had time for. That sounds about correct. The fact that I am writing this right now, contemplating my feelings about my family and its dynamics, shows that I am not a part of that generation. I am a product of Generation Y, the Millennials — kids who were born anywhere from 1980 to 2000. We get a lot of shit. We’re self-indulgent, lazy, techsavvy, tech-crazy, dependent and selfish. Americans of Generation Y can barely speak two languages — my grandmother spoke seven, and she wasn’t considered extraordinary for it. My sister was recently on vacation and saw a famous lifestyle blogger at her same hotel. She recognized a blogger as famous. Surely, there is something wrong with this picture. But here is the problem. To say
that our generation is made up of self-indulgent people because we aren’t escaping a war or because we aren’t living in more modest times assumes that anyone living in a period of modernization is incapable of feeling empathy and contributing anything more than a blog to civilization. As I was reading my grandmother’s memoirs, I was struck by one thing in particular — the fact that some of her social views were in my mind completely backwards. What we should give our generation — the self-indulgent, internetloving buffoons that we are — is credit for our level of acceptance. I’ve been proud to hear three of my male friends over dinner openly admitting to their bisexuality without shame. I’ve witnessed my peers lying on the ground at die-ins promoting racial equality. I’ve sat in rooms heavy with debate over the current state of the drug war. I watched a celebrity at the Oscars meditate on the fact that today more black males are incarcerated in the U.S. than were enslaved in 1850. These are small actions that have made me hopeful for our generation. The fight for racial and social equality wasn’t overtly present in my grandmother’s memoir. Perhaps that’s because she was busy surviving, but it’s also because they weren’t there yet, but here we are now. There are threads that tie all generations together, manifestations of the human condition that will never fade. My grandmother constantly referred to her self-image problems, issues that resonate with people in any age. Although we are the generation that wallows in self-pity, adorning the Internet with our problems, we’re also the ones that have begun to stand up for what we believe in. We have begun to accept people as they are and so maybe, maybe, I feel less envious of my grandmother’s robust yet difficult life. Her challenges made it hard to care. And my privileges make it easier to. —Abby Taskier can be reached at ataskier@umich.edu
Stories
’m sitting on the second floor of the UGLi at 10:30 p.m. on a Friday night. As predicted, it’s sparsely populated. My laptop has drained to somewhere around half battery because the outlet it’s plugged into is, unbeknownst to me, non-functional. I’m writ- DAVID ing equations HARRIS and algorithms in my notebook, methodically within the lines and with a dark enough stroke to be noticeable by the scanner when I eventually submit it online. This is, rather unsurprisingly, not exactly the way I envisioned my Friday night. On the list of “Places Where Things Happen at 10:30 p.m. on a Friday Night,” the second floor of the UGLi is somewhere at the bottom. For once, the scene is quiet. I speak in whispers to the friends I came with, who are sitting across the table for me, lest I disturb the next-closest person, sitting 45 feet away. Whether or not the desolation helped my productivity or not, I couldn’t tell. Because, amongst the uncomfortable silence and the numbers and equations I sketch are the words and sentences that float in my head, describing the distracting details around me and dancing around until they form some semblance of, well, something. Someone walks by, Starbucks coffee in hand, presumably something with a few shots of caffeine. He takes
a seat a few tables down, unpacks his backpack, sets his 15-inch MacBook Pro down, plugs it into the outlet and begins to type. Perhaps he’s typing a paper contrasting the Age of Enlightenment and the era of Romanticism. Perhaps an e-mail to a professor, or a job recruiter. Maybe a love letter to a far-off friend … who knows. It’s inconsequential, just the story of some lone wanderer sitting alone at a table with 20 other chairs, all neatly pushed in and evenly spaced out at this time of the night. Nothing more than that momentary interruption from the papers on my table and the keyboard in front of me during that occasional glance over the top of my screen. Just another student, who, like me, stumbled into some fate that led to the disappointing conclusion of being on the second floor of the UGLi at 10:30 p.m. on a Friday night. Maybe the story isn’t in this floor or this building, but behind the people in it. Perhaps this subject is a dual major in biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology with dreams of medical school. Or a student in the endless struggle to make ends meet, working 30-plus hours a week and balancing 17 credits. A computer science major in the midst of launching his startup. An athlete after a busy week of practice. Maybe a CIA secret agent masquerading as a student, taking up his residence in the library each night to maintain his undercover identity. Somewhere in the infinitely countable set of stories that could lead to the second floor of the UGLi at 10:30 p.m. on a Friday night is this new
friend, if you could call him that. So is the story of the friends I arrived with, cross-eyed Snapchatting as they sit across from me. The story of the janitor who clears the trash, and of the student who waits at the jammed printer hoping for the divine intervention of a visit from ITS. This is the crux of it all, that somewhere stories connect, personally or interpersonally, physically or metaphorically. Stories as silly as ones of cafeteria trays and squirrels, as serious as ones of childhood dreams and of loss. That somewhere in the inconsequential are words to piece together and form things of consequence even in the least relevant of places. So sometimes these words and stories in my head get written down. Sometimes they are printed. Whether materially captured or just emotionally experienced, these stories let us search for and find meaning within the plot they encapsulate. These stories form not only the escape from the world we live in, but they describe the way we experience it. I finish the problem set I was working on. Tear out the page from my notebook, write my name in the top left corner. Our new friend has succumbed to the temptation of sleep, head in his arms on the table taking a nap. I’m tempted to join him. The experience of the existential reality that is the second floor of the UGLi at 10:30 p.m. on a Friday night can be tiring. —David Harris can be reached at daharr@umich.edu
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The architect retires.
‘Parks and Rec’ has a fitting series finale After seven seasons, beloved comedy comes to an end By ALEX INTNER Daily Arts Writer
Tuesday night marked the end of an era at NBC. That evening, we said goodbye to the last of the network’s niche, quality com- A+ edies that have defined its pro- Parks and gramming for Recreation the past several years. “30 Rock,” Series Finale “Community” NBC and “Parenthood” survived for much longer than they normally would have due to NBC’s perpetually low ratings. Ending its run this week, the brilliant “Parks and Recreation” left us with a beautiful finale that gave us insight into the characters’s futures and allowed us to say goodbye to one of the all-time greatest comedies on television. The “Parks” finale followed the former members of the Pawnee Parks Department as they worked to complete “one last job” by fixing a broken swing. As they went through the process, Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler, “Saturday Night Live”) had a final moment with each core ensemble character, then flashed forward to detail each character’s definitive end. Donna (Retta, “Drunk His-
tory”) moved to Seattle with Joe (Keegan-Michael Key, “Key & Peele”) and started a nonprofit to help finance education. Craig (Billy Eichner, “Billy on the Street”) married Typhoon and grew old with him. Jerry (Jim O’Heir, “Strip Mall”) lives happily as mayor until age 100. April (Aubrey Plaza, “Safety Not Guaranteed”) has a child with Andy (Chris Pratt, “Guardians of the Galaxy”). Tom’s (Aziz Ansari, “Human Giant”) restaurant goes under and he writes a best-selling book about his failures. Ron (Nick Offerman, “Children’s Hospital”) becomes the superintendent of the Pawnee National Park — and our endearing Leslie becomes the governor of Indiana with Ben’s (Adam Scott, “Party Down”) support. She is finally one step closer to her presidential dream. This episode did exactly what all series finales should: It reminded viewers about why they followed — dedicated themselves — to the show for so long. The hour never lost track of the warm sentimentality that made the show great. The entire idea of the finale was built upon how much these characters truly love one another, and especially how much Leslie cares about each of them. It was simply another episode, without any gimmicks that made the show feel like it was something it wasn’t — just a piece fit for the final run. What really made this episode special were the little moments within the flash-forwards. One
of the best was the return of Ann (Rashida Jones, “The Office”) and Chris (Rob Lowe, “The West Wing”), allowing us to check in with characters we still care about, even after they left Pawnee (even if it did lead to Ron bashing the University of Michigan). What made the scene was Poehler’s delighted delivery of “Ann’s here!” before running up to hug her. Another favorite was Ron out on the lake in a beautifully composed sequence and location. There was also Jerry’s 100th birthday party, giving the often-bashed character one last chance to celebrate. “Parks” had several landmark moments over the course of its long run (like the Harvest Festival in the third season), but what really built the show were the commonplace interactions between these characters. The finale was able to honor that with small character notes of its own. It’s fitting that “Parks and Recreation” closes this particular chapter of NBC programming. The show survived for seven seasons mostly because NBC had other problems to fix. This little show ran its course naturally, creating episodes that were managed to be both hilarious and heartwarming. The finale served as a reminder of what made this show great and how much it will be missed. TV is a sadder place without new stories from Pawnee, but “Parks” undoubtedly leaves a legacy as one of the best TV comedies of all time.
MUSIC NOTEBOOK
The sonic evolution of Adam Levine By CLAIRE WOOD For The Daily
I never thought howling could be so sexy. Three minutes and six seconds into Maroon 5’s latest release “Animals,” however, teen heartthrob Adam Levine successfully proves me wrong, letting out a wolf-cry that makes girls squeal from Cali to Colorado. It’s hot, animalistic, carnal and — fortunately for the band — rakes in over 157 million hits on YouTube. But let’s backtrack. “Sunday morning / Rain is falling / Steal some covers / Share some skin.” It’s classic Maroon 5: Adam Levine’s velvet vocals over mellow piano. Their first album, 2002’s Songs About Jane, defines their character. “Harder to Breathe” and “This Love” overlap plugged guitar with strong vocals. Or consider my heart-melting favorite “She Will Be Loved.” Gentle percussion backing smooth voice, Levine has us all at the first line. “Beauty queen of only 18” — and, let’s be honest, we’re all wishing it was us. It’s this style — catchy, yet sophisticated — that we dig. It’s real music with real instruments, from the snazzy percussion of “The Sun” to the tame piano of “Sunday Morning.” This self-confident, genuine quality keeps the fans
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hooked. This authenticity defines the band. Then 2011 rolled around, and BOOM: “Moves Like Jagger” happens. Believe me when I say I didn’t see it coming either — Levine took us all by surprise with that one. It’s catchy, enticing, and … not Maroon 5. We’re taken aback. In “Moves Like Jagger,” the old jams of Songs About Jane erupt into pulsing percussion, pop verses and high-energy whistling.
People don’t want to listen to the same thing for forever. This, however, is just the start. As single after single is released, Levine sheds his old identity. “Daylight” boasts electronic instrumentals. “Payphone” features high vocals, incessant beats and Wiz Khalifa. With their most recent release, “Animals,” Adam Levine makes the transformation complete with a bestial howl at the work’s climax. Confession? I miss the old Adam. The real guitar, gentle
piano, jazzy beats — I found it all rather classy, which just made everything sexier in my eyes. But that’s just me talking, and — based on the popularity of their recent releases — it seems that new-and-improved Maroon 5 isn’t doing so bad. Can we blame them for the transformation? Not really. While the old-time hit “Sunday Morning” scored 54 million Youtube views, Maroon 5’s latest, pop-ified release “Animals” has raked in over double that. The brutal truth is that times change. People don’t want the same thing forever. Artists morph alongside shifting consumer tastes. Where would we be without a little change in music, anyway? Just think — if preferences didn’t change, we might still be stuck in the ‘70s (shudders in terror). Top 40 hits tailor to please the popular majority, i.e. the teenage population; thus, pop songs have to pop. They’re played at frat parties and bars. John Lennon’s “Imagine” is a real work of art, but it’s certainly not your first choice to get people pumped at the Saturdaymorning tailgate. “She Will Be Loved” is the same way: gorgeous, relaxing and just not what people are looking for. Teens want something that’s vibrant, hot, electrifying. And with the band’s transformation, Maroon 5 give them just that.
Appreciating eating alone
White rice steaming, almost done. Sweet green peas fried in onions. Shrimp braised in sesame oil and garlic. And my own loneliness. What more could I, a young man, want.” — “Eating GIANCARLO Alone,” BUONOMO Li-Young Lee. I’ve read and re-read this haunting last stanza of Li-Young Lee’s account of coping with the death of his father, and it always feels self-parodying. The abundance of food, its sensory pleasure, is meaningless without someone, other than his own consciousness, to share it with. Granted, the circumstances of this lonely meal are severe. But in America, we still assume that dining alone is due to alienation or heartbreak or, at the very least, convenience. Think of that scene from “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” where Jason Segel arrives at the restaurant and asks for a one-person table, only to have Jonah Hill press him on whether he has a wife or girlfriend or a magazine, before finally explaining, “I just would be so depressed.” Back in Ann Arbor, I eat alone quite often, but usually because I’m pressed for time or need to read something for class. I rarely go out to a restaurant by myself, and why would I? Dining solo would seem to be a dreary and boring experience, with only your ref lection in the water glass to keep you company. But since I’ve come to Rome, I’ve learned to appreciate the joys of dining solo. Per usual, there is a proverb in Italian for this — meglio solo che male accompagnato, or “better alone than in bad company.” I learned this slightly crotchety aphorism growing up, and I use it frequently when dining alone now, ostensibly to justify my aloneness, but really to gain a little credibility. To not only dine alone, but to proffer a proverb in defense of it, makes one look and sound, even feel, like a true Italian. However, there are pleasures
beyond performativity in eating alone, which are especially present in Rome, but applicable elsewhere. I’ll get the dickish one out of the way first. There are times when dining alone really is preferable to dining in bad company. Now, “bad” can mean annoying, rude and boorish, like someone who will drink the wine straight from the bottle or drone on about their glory days in Little League (really, I’ve seen all of this). But, it can also just signify a difference in tastes. I’m not likely to bring a vegetarian to Pommidoro in the San Lorenzo neighborhood, where the house specialty is pajata — veal intestines, still stuffed with partially digested milk, braided and grilled. But there are tangible reasons to dine alone, even when the most adventurous and fun of friends are available. Dining alone in Rome is educational. When I’m with friends, I’m usually engrossed in conversation. When I’m by myself, I observe other patrons. What do they wear to dinner? What do they talk about? What do they order, and how do they order it? How do they eat? These small, almost ritualistic details of dining are a gateway to understanding any culture, and you’re sure to pick up on them better by yourself. Speaking of details, dining alone forces you to focus on your food. The mechanical monotony of eating — the unending waltz of cut with knife, spear with fork, raise to mouth — already desensitizes you. When your only companion is the plate in front of you, you really do pay more attention. The look, the taste, the mouthfeel … these are things you can slowly, carefully muse over. I once spent a good 10 minutes taking small bites of my spaghetti cacio e pepe, chewing slowly, just trying to figure out why this version felt superior (cracked, rather than ground, peppercorns). But what I enjoy most about dining alone in Rome is that I never really am alone. In most Italian restaurants, both staff and patrons are friendly and talkative to a degree that many Americans might find overbearing. When I eat lunch alone at Lo Sgobone in the Flaminio neighborhood, the
owner shuff les over to my table after every course and asks me if I want something else. After he brings the new dish, he’ll occasionally sit down and allow me to practice my kindergarten Italian. And that’s comparatively formal — one time, he went to sit with another white-haired man, and they got into some sort of argument over the pasta, so he grabbed a spare fork and tasted it.
Like all adventures, eating alone has its mishaps. Now, things can go wrong. A bad meal, with no one to talk or even gripe to, can be interminable. I’ve only had one bad solo meal in Rome thus far, and by the end of it, I was staring at the man next to me so intently that he asked me if I needed something. Even if I spoke Italian better, I don’t know if I could have explained that I was just desperate for interaction of any type to distract me from the bland, styrofoam-like artichokes on my plate. But, like all adventures, eating alone has its mishaps. It’s an adventure I wouldn’t want to go on every night. I really do enjoy the act of sharing a meal, of tasting each other’s food and chatting and laughing in between and during courses. But sometimes, I like a meal like I had the other night at La Tavernaccia, in Trastevere. On one side of me sat a man and a woman whose first date had clearly ended with an awkward hug and an exchange of numbers. On the other side, a graying couple fed each other slices of prosciutto. A steaming plate of pasta was set before me, which I mixed and turned with my fork a few times before taking the first bite. What more could I, a young man, want? Buonomo is eating alone again. To send him your pity messages, email gbuonomo@umich.edu.
MUSIC NOTEBOOK
iTunes and Spotify By CARLY SNIDER Daily Arts Writer
Dear Spotify, I have to admit, I am jealous. It’s not easy realizing my peak may have passed. For years I basked in my dominance of the music world, acting as the go-to application for music downloads, storage and organization. I was riding high on Apple’s continuous success, benefitting from the variety of products – iPods, iPhones, Macs – that chose me to handle their musical needs. Then I was innovative, adaptive. CD and MP3 players were kicked to the curb. I could organize an entire library of content any way the user may want – by artist, genre, date added, playlists, etc. What more could anyone need? I was a free service (well, other than the hundreds to thousands of dollars one would spend on the device) that offered the top tier of electronic musical ingenuity. I even allowed illegally-downloaded content on my system – very chill of me, right? But then you came along. You changed everything, taking what I made commonplace and expanding upon it – showing me up. Now, when users go to open their music application of choice, their thumb travels to your round, green icon rather
than my classic music note. My crisp white background is replaced by your, admittedly, sleeker black backdrop and more streamlined design. You were somehow able to transcend the Apple-sphere and become available to all smart phones and computers – something I will never be able to accomplish.
Taylor Swift still loves iTunes. Your depth is undeniable; your appeal spans from Top 40 pop fans to self-proclaimed music elitists. There are a few artists who deny you their work, so I do have to brag about my access to Taylor Swift. But users can add almost any song imaginable to their personal library with the click of one small plus sign or the drag of a mouse, eliminating my purchasing and downloading “hassles.” While my programming is all-inclusive, yours is dynamic. It pains me to admit this, but you can provide them with genre groupings and mood
music in a way that I cannot. Not only do you make saving music easy, but you also make finding new artists or tracks so simple. How did you get so good at suggesting new artists? Or making track listings for pretty much any occasion? I used to run listening marathons of classic music for my user’s study sessions, now I am brushed aside in favor of your multiple “focus” playlists. When I found out that users need Wi-Fi to listen to your playlists on the go, I was sure that I had you. Who would choose to use up all their data on some app when they could use me without the extra charge? Music is meant to be mobile. But then I realized that you offered Premium privileges, including off-line mobile listening for a very reasonable monthly rate. You really seem to have everything figured out. But don’t let this praise go to your head. I am still the original; I still have loyal fans and a strong place in the music industry. When an artist has success with an album, they don’t say they reached the top of the Spotify charts. No, they say they reached #1 on my charts. You may be the new, hip kid on the block, but you have a long way to go. Cordially, iTunes
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‘Knope we can’: Leslie’s impact on me T
his column contains spoilers for the series finale of “Parks and Recreation.” For my column this week, I was going to write about the Oscars. I was planning an impassioned but rational deliberation on why NATALIE “Boyhood” deserved the GADBOIS Best Picture award more than “Birdman.” I had established an elaborate schema charting the casual misogyny and studied misrepresentation found in “Birdman.” I spent more time than what is healthy Googling Patricia Arquette, and I took copious notes on her much-publicized Best Actress acceptance speech. Then I watched the “Parks and Recreation” series finale three times in a row, and my priorities changed. This is not a review of the “Parks” finale or the final season. I can’t even begin to collect my feelings about what has quietly become the best show on television — funny in the familiar, giddy way of being drunk with your best friends and sharply political, but with a warmth running thick and sinewy through every scene and storyline. Reviewing “Parks” would be like sitting down and giving my mom a letter grade on her job as a parent. (Though if I had to do it, Mom, you would get an A- because of that time you told me I might be better off dating gay guys.) But Leslie Knope was one of the most empowering, endearing and timeless characters on television, and while saying goodbye is hard, her sendoff was pretty goddamn magical. Sometimes it’s easy to forget how revolutionary Leslie had
become over her seven seasons, because of the goofy awkwardness Poehler infused into the character, her dorky dancing and almost-sexual attraction to mac and cheese pizza, distracting from Leslie’s impressive real mission. She went from being a lowly, slightly sad government employee to a beacon of liberalism, a powerful public figure, a caring friend and balanced mother. We watched Leslie run for office; we watched her lose. We watched her face sexist coworkers (from Jamm to Councilman Milton to the sex-negative Langmans.) We watched her fight the uphill battle for approval in Pawnee, a place slyly representative of all of conservative America. We watched her find love in her equal Ben Wyatt, kindly (but firmly) reject some weirdos (including Louis C.K. in one of his most cringe-inducing roles yet), have children and make a giant career leap at the same time. Every shade of Leslie blared feminist, a label she didn’t deny (I have a magnet with her quote, “Hoes before bros, uteruses before duderuses, ovaries before brovaries” on my fridge), but that never was her most salient characteristic — her feminism was tightly connected with her pluck, tenacity and kindness. Leslie and her co-conspirators were some of the most fleshed-out characters on television, especially in comedy, but Poehler skillfully masked Leslie’s complexity in her outright hilarity. It was only after the joke that the depth behind Leslie’s ideology, and her character, coalesced. But don’t get confused: Leslie Knope is one of the strongest and most important characters on TV ever, because of these very shades. In the last few minutes of the “Parks and Recreation” finale, we get a glimpse into Leslie’s future: She is doing something
big, something important, something very public. Is she the next Hillary? Quite possible, given her hairstyle and Poehler’s uncanny past impressions of Clinton. But despite her power, Leslie is still Leslie – warm and supportive and overzealous. “Parks” did the incredible by making us fall in love with a character before her success or political awakening, when she was still a humble government official just trying to build a park. It makes Leslie’s path all the more rewarding, and the ending of the show that much more bittersweet. Last month, I had a really scary job interview in New York. My flight was leaving at 9 a.m. and the night before, the clock turned 1, and then 2, and still I was awake, mentally going over my resume yet again as I took excessive trips to the bathroom. Finally, I reached under my bed and pulled out my copy of “Yes Please,” Amy Poehler’s autobiography. While there are a lot of encouraging chapters I could have turned to — her triumphant time on Saturday Night Live, her words of advice to young girls or her experiences volunteering in Haiti — I went straight to the chapter on “Parks.” I needed comfort, and I needed strength, and I needed the knowledge that I could succeed. Amy, through Leslie, has given that to me for seven years, reminding me that other bumbling, waffle-loving Midwestern girls can find success and passion, and that it is OK for me to have high expectations for myself. Just like Leslie so brightly exclaimed in the final words of the episode, she’s ready for whatever happens next. And because of “Parks,” I’m ready too. Gadbois is nailing that job interview. To offer her words of encouragement, email natgadb@umich.edu.
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“Is that your nubbin?”
Bad jokes sink new comedy ‘Odd Couple’ Multi-camera sitcom wastes Matthew Perry’s talent By ALEX INTNER Daily Arts Writer
At this point, you can tell if you’re watching a CBS sitcom. While other networks have tried playing with multi-camera comedies, CBS is the only one Cto have recent success in the The Odd genre. Shows like Couple “The Big Bang Theory” and “2 Series Broke Girls” can Premiere be defined as a CBS “CBS comedy” Thursdays at based merely on 8:30 p.m. their appearance and structure. “The Odd Couple,” the latest sitcom from the network, fits right into this mold. The series will be able to find fans, but the generic jokes and unenthused actors aren’t really worth anyone’s time. “The Odd Couple,” based on
the Neil Simon play from the ’60s and the television series from the ’70s, tells the story of recently divorced neat freak Felix Unger (Thomas Lennon, “Reno 911”) moving in with the messy, sportsradio broadcaster Oscar Madison (Matthew Perry, “Go On”). The pilot features them on a double date with Perry’s neighbor Casey (Leslie Bibb, “GCB”) and her sister Emily (Lindsay Sloane, “Horrible Bosses”). In a multi-camera sitcom, the jokes must be funny or else the studio audience laughter will be awkward, and the attempts for laughs on the “Odd Couple” lack any keen sense of humor. They follow the traditional “linepunchline” structure that has defined multi-cam for years, but they lack any sense of invention or originality. When Felix comments on improving Oscar’s beauty, Oscar exclaims “I’m trying to be inside a beautiful person.” Perpetual jokes like that feel lazy, causing the comedy to be more boring than entertaining. It doesn’t help that most of the “Odd Couple” ’s cast appears to be sleep-walking through
On breakup albums By MICHAEL FLYNN Daily Arts Writer
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One of the jobs of a musician is to convey human emotion, and on a breakup album, the emotion comes in droves. Singers and songwriters have been pouring their hearts out over this sad subject for years, taking many different approaches to their grief. Some breakup albums were sad, some incredibly angry, some brimming with excitement for a new chapter of life. The best were all of these at once, which is most representative of how a breakup feels as time goes on. Like those that stem from a relationship, the emotions of a breakup are varied, contradictory and always intense. Many times, breakup albums have captivated audiences with their emotional honesty, sometimes even taking the artists to a new level of success. Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is one of the most famous examples, recorded when everyone in the band was breaking up ... with each other. The album became the group’s best-selling release, with over 20 million copies sold. Bob Dylan has vehemently denied that his spare mid-’70s masterpiece Blood on the Tracks was influenced by his divorce, but the songs, filled with crushing sadness and righteous fury, seem too deeply felt to be pure fiction. The album is now viewed as one of his best releases, and to this day, reviews of Dylan’s new material include the quote: “It’s his best album since Blood on the Tracks!” Occasionally, a breakup is enough to make an artist change his or her style considerably. On Beck’s 2002 album Sea Change, he eschewed his traditional hiphop influences in favor of a simple acoustic sound, and traded his clever wordplay for more sincere lyrics. Kanye West embraced Auto-Tune on 2008’s electronicainfluenced 808s and Heartbreak, using it as a melodic instrument and an emotional tool — the effect gives his voice a quavering
sound reminiscent of a person on the verge of tears. And Taylor Swift’s smash hit Red completed her transformation from country artist to pop sensation, featuring modern instrumentation and snappy, sometimes humorous lyrics — the opposite of Beck’s approach. The genre doesn’t seem to be going away, and in fact continues to become more popular as years go on. In the year 2014, Coldplay released Ghost Stories, The Black Keys released Turn Blue and Robin Thicke released Paula. They all had one thing in common: the theme was of a relationship breakup. Why are these albums so popular? In some ways, the breakup album can be seen as a window into the things we feel but can’t necessarily communicate. With the huge variety of emotions that come from such a troubling event, it can be hard to know how to handle oneself, or even what to feel. Listening to albums like this can help a heartbroken person realize that he or she isn’t alone, that there is someone out there who feels like he or she does. Picture a young man sitting in his room. He opens up his CD player, pops in Bruce Springsteen’s divorce opus Tunnel of Love and presses the play button. There is one track in particular that speaks to him: “Valentine’s Day,” the album’s final track. It’s a slow country dirge that features a man driving home as fast as he can, aching to be back with his lover. The young Springsteen fan is in the midst of a long, painful breakup. He knows the breakup is what he needs, but that doesn’t make it feel any better. So why is he drawn to “Valentine’s Day,” a song about missing a person, about wanting to be back with a person? Perhaps it’s because he remembers the way he used to feel, and the song is a reminder that someday, after the pain subsides, he will feel that way again.
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Durkin, Drevno not afraid Q&A with Terps’ to shake things up in spring Evan Smotrycz MEN’S BASKETBALL
By JAKE LOURIM
By DANIEL FELDMAN
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In his first season, Michigan defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin inherits eight starters from a unit that finished seventh in the nation in total defense last season. Yet none of them are assured their spots again in 2015. “What I want to do is make sure all these guys (know) — and I told them as soon as I met with them — that they have a clean slate to start from,” Durkin said. “I want these guys to know that maybe you’re a guy who hasn’t played much, you have a new opportunity to do that. Maybe you’re a guy that’s played a lot, but it’s not just going to be given to you. “You gotta go earn it. That way, the whole room understands they all have equal opportunity to go earn some snaps on the field.” With fifth-year senior linebacker Desmond Morgan and redshirt freshman defensive back Jabrill Peppers returning from injury in addition to the starters, there’s plenty of talent on the roster. Linebackers coach Greg Mattison, the only returning coach on staff, is also back after coaching many of the same players as defensive coordinator last season. Durkin said Thursday he would rotate Peppers between cornerback and safety as well as try different players at defensive line or linebacker, since the team will experiment with both the 4-3 and 3-4 schemes. “Scheme-wise and all that, we’re a little different from game to game, and that’s different based on our personnel from
The Michigan men’s basketball team will be in unchartered water when it travels to No. 14 Maryland on Saturday. Sure, the Wolverines last played the Terrapins in 2008, but you would have to go all the way back to 1937 to find the last time the two played in College Park. Something Michigan will find familiar Saturday, though, is fifth-year senior forward Evan Smotrycz. The former Wolverine transferred to Maryland after his sophomore year at Michigan in 2011, when he helped the Wolverines win a share of the Big Ten regularseason title. After sitting out a year, Smotrycz was back in action last season, averaging 11 points and six rebounds per game. While Smotrycz’s minutes have gone down this season, the Terrapins (11-4 Big Ten, 23-5 overall) have found success in their first season in the Big Ten. After defeating No. 5 Wisconsin on Tuesday, Maryland stands alone in second place in the conference. The Daily sat down with Smotrycz at Big Ten Media Day in October to discuss playing Michigan, air travel and sage advice he can give out regarding the tough Big Ten conference. The Michigan Daily: When did the idea of playing Michigan again come into your mind after
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year to year, too,” Durkin said. “We’re multiple in what we do schematically, but I just want a group of guys that are going to play hard, be blue-collar and always compete for everything they do.” After two days of spring practice, Durkin naturally had more questions than answers. Over the next five weeks, he’ll start sorting out personnel issues on the field, not based on past success or film. “It’s new. It’s a clean slate for everyone,” Durkin said. “If there’s a guy that was a starter and played a lot, he’s not guaranteed that spot. A guy that didn’t play, he has every right to go get that spot.” Offensive coordinator Tim Drevno, who came over from Southern California in the
offseason, will also take a fresh look at things, even for an offensive line which returns all of its starters. “Really, it’s just a clean slate,” Drevno said, nearly echoing Durkin. “I just turn on the film and see who’s doing it at a high level and doing it at the top of their craft. At USC last year, I started three true freshmen. I’m really just trying to find the best players out there, and that’s the best thing about it, guys go out there and compete to the best.” Drevno could perhaps tinker even more than Durkin, given that he has less experience returning on the offense. His quarterback competition should be wide open between junior Shane Morris, redshirt freshman Wilton Speight and
“It’s new. It’s a clean slate.”
freshman Alex Malzone, and he returns four running backs with college experience: redshirt junior Drake Johnson, juniors Derrick Green and De’Veon Smith and redshirt sophomore Ty Isaac. On the offensive line, he has some reserves waiting in the wings, though he did say he could tell in practice which players had experience. “Yeah, at times I can,” Drevno said. “Just because they’re a little bit more grooved into their technique.” On paper, it appears Drevno has more work cut out for him, but he looked forward to the task of getting his new team settled and toughened up on the field. “You demand it,” Drevno said. “You love ‘em up, you get ‘em to trust you, you invite them over to your house for a barbecue, you tell ‘em that you love ‘em and you get them to play for you. It’s pretty cool when it happens.”
transferring? Evan Smotrycz: I mean, right now, we’re just trying to get better. But when the schedule came out, I was interested in seeing how many times we play them and where. (Michigan’s) only coming to us. TMD: Is it upsetting you’re not playing at Michigan? Maybe the lobsters would have showed up again. ES: You know what, it would have been nice if we could have gone there and get a win. But you know it’s a tough place to play, so can’t say I’m mad about it. TMD: Do you think you’ll be able to give analysis on other Big Ten teams, or will your knowledge be limited to Michigan? ES: I’m pretty familiar with some of the stuff that other teams run. Unless they’ve switched it up, because a lot of the personnel has changed a lot. But I have familiarity with the venues and what it takes to win on the road in the Big Ten. So I think I’ll be of help. TMD: The Big Ten basketball Twitter account tweeted a photo out before of you talking to Beilein. What do you two talk about? ES: Oh, you know. Just exchanging pleasantries. I haven’t seen him since I left. I was talking to him and Tom Wywrot, the communications guy. TMD: Have you stayed in contact with anyone from Michigan? ES: From two years ago? Yeah, here and there I talk to some guys. The guys on the team now, the only guy I can think of is Max Bielfeldt.
Wolverines searching for One final tune-up for ‘M’ sweep against Wisconsin WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
By MINH DOAN Daily Sports Writer
By ERIN LENNON Daily Sports Editor
Good things happen at Yost Ice Arena. Sunday, after 43 days away from home ice, the Michigan hockey team Wisconsin snapped a at Michigan three-game Matchup: slide. With a Wisconsin 5-2 victory over 4-20-4; Ohio State, the Michigan 17-11 17th-ranked When: Friday Wolverines 7:35 P.M.; Sat(9-5 Big Ten, urday 4 P.M. 17-11 overall) Where: Yost reclaimed the Ice Arena Big Ten lead TV/Radio: and a spot in Friday: Fox the USCHO. Sports Detroit com poll after Plus; Saturday: falling out of BTN the top 20 one week ago. They will return to Yost this weekend against Wisconsin in near-desperate need of a sweep if they want to secure an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. If Michigan loses any more than one of its six remaining games, it will likely have to win the Big Ten Tournament to earn a spot. But for the third straight week, the Wolverines will have to prove themselves, this time against a Badger squad that’s peaking at the right time. “They’re a dangerous team,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “They’re probably playing pretty loose, and they’re hoping get off to a good start here.” Ranked among the worst in college hockey all season, Wisconsin has had nowhere to go but up since beginning the season 0-8. But with a roster full of freshmen, the Badgers have improved steadily in the second half. Wisconsin tied Minnesota on Jan. 31 before stealing road wins at Ohio State and Michigan State in February. Despite their recent success, though, a loss to the Badgers
would doom the Wolverines in the PairWise Rankings, as they saw after dropping seven spots following their Friday night loss to Ohio State last weekend. “Obviously we’ve had some games where we’ve slipped up and let some teams off the hook, to say the least,” said sophomore forward Tyler Motte. That’s not to say Michigan should lose either matchup to the Badgers. The Wolverines put up an impressive 13 goals against Wisconsin (2-10-2, 4-20-4) the first time they met, pairing a come-from-behind win with a shutout by sophomore goaltender Zach Nagelvoort to secure a sweep in January. “It’s amazing,” Berenson said. “When we’re really focusing on defense, the offense kicks in. That’s always the way it’s been here. … Whenever we’re paying attention to defense, we get the puck more — otherwise you’re chasing.” But with the offense significantly cooler these days — Michigan has scored just 10 times in its last four games — the Wolverines will need their goaltender to be as good as Wisconsin netminder Joel Rumpel has been this season. Though junior Steve Racine got both starts against the Buckeyes, expect Nagelvoort in net Friday. Racine played well through two periods Sunday, but allowed two sloppy goals with a
late lead. “We can definitely play well every night, but it’s just something we need to stay focused on,” said junior forward Boo Nieves. “It’s the little things, like winning faceoffs and possession. “We saw in Minnesota that when we didn’t have possession, the puck was going in our net.” Whichever goaltender starts will benefit from a reignited duo in freshman Dylan Larkin and senior Zach Hyman. The second-line forwards’ drought coincided with Michigan’s threegame losing streak, but the duo combined for eight points Sunday. Hyman — who became the first Michigan player to surpass 40 points in a season since current New York Rangers forward Carl Hagelin — notched six points against Wisconsin in Madison. The offense may also get a boost with the return of senior center Travis Lynch to the fourth line. Lynch has missed nearly two months after having wrist surgery in January. Since then, the Wolverines have skated three full lines, rotating the three centermen in with the fourth line. Michigan has just three home games remaining this season. Good things happen at Yost, but the Wolverines will need to be great if they want to make the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2012. “We have to win,” Motte said. “That’s our mindset right now.”
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Dylan Larkin recorded six points in last weekend’s series against Ohio State.
After an emphatic 81-50 win Tuesday over Purdue on Senior Night, the Michigan women’s basketball team celebrated the accomplishments of senior forwards Nicole Elmblad and Cyesha Goree and Michigan senior guard at Illinois Shannon Smith. Matchup: But then it Michigan 16-12; was straight Illinois 14-15 back to work. When: SaturAs students day 12 P.M. travel to their Where: State Spring Break Farm Center destinations, TV/Radio: the Wolverines BTN (8-9 Big Ten, 16-12 overall) will hit the road Saturday to travel to Champaign to take on Illinois in their final game of the regular season. The Fighting Illini (5-12, 14-15) aren’t just a team below them in the Big Ten standings, but also a team Michigan has already beaten this season. The Wolverines can’t get too complacent, though, because a loss to a team ranked No. 95 in the RPI standings will be deemed a “bad” loss to the NCAA Tournament committee and would most likely knock them out of at-large consideration for good. But if Michigan can replicate the dominance it showed a month ago in Ann Arbor, when it defeated the Fighting Illini, 70-57, the Wolverines won’t have to fret. Michigan dominated Illinois both in the paint and behind the arc as freshman guard Katelynn Flaherty went 5-for-9 from 3-point range, leading the team with 21 points, while Goree and Elmblad combined for 26 rebounds inside. Starting off the game on a 10-4 run, the Wolverines never looked back and extended their home winning streak to five. While the Fighting Illini shot just 21.1 percent from behind the arc and 38.5 percent overall, Michigan turned the ball over 25 times, keeping the game much closer than it seemed.
Since the victory, the Wolverines have struggled to string together victories and have gone 3-7, including three straight games in which the Wolverines lost late leads. Illinois has not fared much better since the Jan. 26 game either, going 4-6. The Fighting Illini picked up two wins, though, against Minnesota and Ohio State, two teams Michigan has lost to this season. Illinois, which starts three underclassmen and a first-year transfer, is led in scoring by guard Ivory Crawford, who leads the team averaging 15.3 points. Center Chatrice White leads Illinois on the boards with 7.1 rebounds per game. The Wolverines will also have to watch out for forward Jacqui Grant, who led the Fighting Illini with 17 points and 10 rebounds the last time the two teams met. After the game in Champaign,
Michigan will travel to the Chicago area to play in the Big Ten Tournament at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illinois starting March 5. Since Michigan has already locked up the No. 8 seed in the tournament, it wouldn’t appear the Wolverines have much to play for. But with an NCAA Tournament at-large bid still on the line, this last game can’t be treated as a consolation game. NOTE: It was announced Thursday that Elmblad was named to the Capital One Academic All-America third team. After receiving recognition on the second team last year, Elmblad becomes just the second player in Michigan history to earn two national academic honors. She has also garnered two Academic All-Big Ten awards as well as two Big Ten Distinguished Scholar awards in her career.
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The road to stardom has been difficult for Cyesha Goree By BRAD WHIPPLE Daily Sports Writer
When Cyesha Goree first stepped onto a basketball court, it wasn’t to compete with the girls. There were fewer opportunities for a girl to play basketball back then, and Goree’s best chance would be to sign up for the girls’ little league at her local YMCA. But Goree wanted more than that. Little league wasn’t enough. So she played with the boys. Still a few years away from playing on her middle school girls’ team, Goree joined the local boys’ league to satisfy her competitive drive, even if that meant playing tougher opponents. More than a decade later, the 6-foot-3 Goree is now the starting center for the Michigan women’s basketball team, but the journey has been far from easy — injuries and personal and physical growth always tested her patience and grit. When she started playing in elementary school, she didn’t have the luxury of the size advantages she now exploits for Michigan. Her head was bigger than her body, so her aunt nicknamed her “Byrd,” like Tweety Bird, to be exact, which was later adopted by her teammates. She was short and really just waiting to grow taller. Once she was on a girls’ team, Goree
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played point guard — the appropriate position for her size — and learned how to deal with enormous pressure when leading the ball up the court and creating space. She kept waiting. High school started and with it, Goree hit her growth spurt. By then, Goree had learned to love being physical and tough, easing the transition to play in the post and helping her eventually make the transition to the collegiate level. Goree had finally become “Big Byrd.” ***
Today, many Michigan fans wouldn’t recognize the Crisler Center before its 2012 renovations. For Goree, though, the two are indistinguishable. The outside walls were colorless, windows didn’t line the concourse, and the building seemed as if it had been out of commission for years. Inside, players’ benches were on the opposite side of the court, the jumbotron lacked today’s enormity, and the lower-level bleachers were colored maize. Despite its imperfections, it still served as home for Goree when she was a high-school freshman. “I kind of feel like I’ve been at Michigan for 10 years,” Goree
said. “I was here at those games when Crisler was the original.” Mesmerized, Goree watched the Wolverines closely, envisioning herself replicating every move and every basket in her own mind on the very same court. Nearing the start of high school, the Grand Rapids native started attending as many home games as she could. She idolized players like center Krista Phillips, forward Carly Benson and guard Veronica Hicks, and she witnessed the evolution of the team as it went from coach Cheryl Burnett to Kevin Borseth, who later recruited her. Goree remembered being shy around the players, who would always say hello, sign autographs or take a picture with her after each game. “I felt like I was a part of the team, even though I wasn’t,” Goree said. “It’s just something that I loved and wanted to be in their shoes one day and give back that same feeling I got with them.” She knew she belonged on the Crisler hardwood. She was just waiting for the opportunity. ***
*** The love never subsided, and at the start of her freshman year, Goree started signing up for any Michigan basketball camp she could make. She even spent a birthday playing inside Crisler. She always knew that there was only one uniform she wanted to wear. At the end of her sophomore year, though, that dream nearly vanished. In the first game of the National Youth Basketball Tournament at Kalamazoo Courthouse, Goree went for a block and tore her right anterior cruciate ligament. Fortunately, the injury came at the end of the season with several months to rehab her knee before the start of junior year — recruitment season. If there was any chance of making it to Ann Arbor, Goree needed to be in top form. She got a cadaver replacement in her right knee, endured a five-month recovery period and waited for the day she could return to full strength. When she did, there were two full years ahead of her to finish high school on a high note. Borseth showed great interest in Goree, who exhibited unequivocal talent on the court. In just a twoyear span at Wyoming Park High School — after spending her first two at Rogers High School — Goree set the school’s single-season block record at 73 while averaging 16.9 points (560 total) and 13.7 rebounds (455). Goree had also become even more acquainted with the Michigan team, and started attending tailgates with players and their families during football season. That was when she met Sam Arnold, a freshman forward at the time and one of Goree’s best friends to this day. “I think Byrd has such a magnetic personality,” Arnold said. “I think people love to be around her, and I think she lights up a room. … She was all about Michigan. From when she was little, she was waiting for that offer.” The waiting paid off when she received a phone call Borseth. “We want you,” he said. *** Though Goree was finally wearing maize and blue, she had to wait another two years to log her first meaningful minutes.
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“For her coming in, there was getting in shape and being able to play at the college level and college speed,” Arnold said. “Getting stronger, getting her conditioning level up.” Arnold, four other juniors and three seniors were ahead of Goree in experience, so she sat on the bench for almost all of her rookie season, playing just nine minutes in three games. As she waited, the dream she was living nearly fell apart once more in March 2012, before Michigan traveled to Oklahoma for the NCAA Tournament. During a practice, Goree cut the wrong way in a full-court, one-on-one offensive drill. It was a repeat of the events from three years before — the same ACL and right before the first game of a postseason tournament. “You never really know how important it is until it’s gone,” Goree said. “I just wanted to walk stairs, and couldn’t.” To rehab the injury, Goree had to be more disciplined and work even harder than she had years earlier. But with the tear occurring in the same leg, it meant playing time was, once again, far away.
In April 2012, Borseth left Michigan, and former St. John’s coach Kim Barnes Arico quickly filled his position. When she arrived, Goree always told Barnes Arico how much she loved basketball. But it didn’t mean she would play. “You’re rehabbing right now,” Barnes Arico told her. “You talk a lot, but I need you to show me how much you love basketball.” Goree accepted the challenge. Before her sophomore season, she stayed for spring and summer term to undergo a rigorous physical therapy schedule: class, rehab, class and back to rehab in the evening. For three to four hours a day, she and assistant coach Joy McCorvey worked to strengthen Goree’s mobility and basic motions. When the season approached, Goree didn’t participate much in practice, and instead spent her time on the sidelines doing rehab exercises. Goree wanted nothing more than to play, and tried convincing McCorvey she could. “It was hard for her to sit out and not be part of stuff on the court,” Arnold said. “Having people tell her ‘no, no’ was hard for her to hear, but something that had to be done.” Added Goree: “It was all mental for me. You can easily work hard to get back in shape, but if your mental game is not set and where it needs to be at that time, it can really hurt you.” Once again, Goree was spending her time at Crisler like she had in high school: waiting on the outside while looking in. *** As Goree continued to adjust to the college intensity, Barnes Arico still wasn’t convinced she loved basketball. Barnes Arico never gave Goree breaks or free compliments, afraid it would only make her slack. Barnes Arico didn’t want her making any excuses, either. “There’s always roadblocks, whether that’s in the course of a basketball game, getting a second foul, missing five shots in a row, not getting a rebound she wants,” Barnes Arico said. “Or whether it’s struggling in a class, or having to do an extra workout. I always would say to her, ‘you have to find a way to get it done.’ ” Twenty-five games into the season, she started winning more and more battles in practice against that year’s veterans — Arnold and Sheffer, plus fellow seniors Jenny Ryan, Nya Jordan and Kate Thompson. Barnes Arico couldn’t believe it. Goree’s progress earned her four minutes of playing time in the first game of the 2013 Big Ten Tournament against Indiana. In that time, she scored four points and collected two rebounds. That night, after the win, Barnes Arico’s husband, Larry, asked why Goree didn’t play more, saying she was a valuable asset and even predicting that she’d make All-Big Ten the next year. “Sure she will,” Barnes Arico replied lightheartedly, thinking there was no way he’d be right. *** Entering the second half of her career at Michigan, Goree got her chance to shine.
This was the new Cyesha Goree — the one who shed 20 pounds in the offseason and built the strength she needed to have in the post. She wasn’t the Goree who had spent years watching from the bleachers, or the one lingering in the shadows while battling a second ACL tear. Barnes Arico continued to test her while establishing a new, scrappy standard that Goree and the team needed adjust to. Michigan women’s basketball was evolving once again, but this time, Goree was at the center of it. Goree wasn’t alone in ushering the change, and she had help in the form of then-junior guard Shannon Smith, a transfer from North Carolina. Both Goree and Smith clicked right away, with Smith taking on the role of an instructor, even as a newcomer. “I haven’t really met someone like Shannon before,” Goree said. “I think Shannon brings out the best in me. I want to say other people on the team are scared to tell me when I do something wrong or when I need to fix something. Shannon’s not.” Added Smith: “You want what’s best for your friends. If you see something that’s not what you think (it) should be, you call them out on it. Even if you call them out, you let them know you care.” Go harder. Run faster. Catch the ball. They’re the critiques Smith wasn’t afraid to make, even if she was a newcomer, and they were the ones that helped Goree complete her transformation. For her help, Goree calls Smith her “ace.” Goree started all but one game last season en route to a team-best 13 doubledoubles and setting the single-season rebound record at 317. She also beat the Michigan NIT scoring record (24) by two and tied the rebounding record (11), both set four years earlier by one of her role models, Krista Phillips. More importantly, Goree was named to the All-Big Ten Second Team, just as Larry Arico had predicted. “I used to tease her all the time,” Barnes Arico said. “I used to challenge her all the time and say, ‘You’re never gonna get there,’ or ‘You don’t have the work ethic and the heart to really be the player that you’re saying that you’re going to be.’ “The greatest thing about Cyesha is she has proven me wrong.” *** Now in her senior year, Goree is the biggest target on every team’s scouting report. Even the coach of No. 5 Maryland, Brenda Frese, said Goree was a “major concern” before the Jan. 29 matchup. “Junior year, nobody knew about me, as a lot of people say, so I wasn’t first on their (scouting report),” Goree said. “Now, what am I gonna do when I’m the first thing on their (scouting report)? “That can’t stop me.” It hasn’t. Goree has averaged 14.5 points and 10.6 rebounds while recording 15 double-doubles this season. And her team can’t afford to have her stop anytime soon, with Michigan four days from the Big Ten Tournament and still looking to make the NCAA Tournament — a dream still alive thanks to Goree. “I never knew she would have that drive, that incredible motor and love for the game,” Barnes Arico said. “She had told me about it, but I’ve had millions of kids through the years tell me they have it. Not only did she tell me, she showed me. There have not been very many kids that have done that through my 20-year coaching career. “She’s a story of all stories.” Tuesday, Michigan earned a blowout win over Purdue with Goree collecting team-high 11 rebounds on her Senior Night. When the game was over, Goree stood at midcourt, waving to the crowd with classmates Smith and Nicole Elmblad by her side. This was what she had waited for: to be with her teammates, to play in Crisler and to inspire those around her. According to Barnes Arico, it felt like Goree brought “half of Grand Rapids.” She brought even more remnants from her childhood: the nickname “Big Byrd,” written on a sign held by one of the team’s male practice players. As Goree walked back into the tunnel one last time, leaving Crisler cheering behind her, she high-fived a few kids leaning over the railing. She could finally give back to a younger generation of women’s basketball players, the younger Cyesha Gorees. Big Byrd had waited her turn.