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Larry Rubin, a past member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and a Freedom Summer activist, talks about his experiences demonstrating for equal rights and how it resonates with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy on Monday.
1960s civil rights activists discuss current movements Open Hillel hosts panel on ties to Palestinian human rights issues By EMMA KINERY Daily Staff Reporter
A panel of three Jewish civil rights activists discussed their experiences combatting racism in
the segregated South with about 100 members of the University community in Weill Hall Monday evening. The speakers paralleled their activism 50 years ago to current activist work centered around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The event is part of a nationwide tour sponsored by Open Hillel, a national student group advocating for increased inclusivity of political viewpoints within the Hillel International organization. The event was sponsored
by Jews Allied for Social Justice, Jewish Voice for Peace, the Community Action and Social Change program, the Organizational Studies Program and Open Hillel. Rackham student Sam Shuman, one of the event’s organizers, said the purpose of the event was not to sway views as much as it was to open discussion. “The goal of this panel is not to agree with everything that is said, but to be open to hearing,” Shuman said.
The panelists included Larry Rubin, Dorothy Zellner and Ira Grupper, who were all members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. Rubin said his drive to work with the civil rights movement in the South stemmed from his belief that freedom cannot exist until it is experienced by everyone. He said he did not leave this belief behind when he left the South, he sees these injustices See 1960S, Page 3
Pollack declines to discuss specific OIE cases questioned by SACUA report By CARLY NOAH Daily Staff Reporter
After members of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs raised concerns earlier this month with the University’s Office of Institutional Equity, University Provost Martha Pollack addressed the issue at the body’s meeting Monday. A significant portion of the meeting focused on the status of a SACUA report released earlier this month that detailed what the committee saw as major flaws with OIE’s process. OIE is the University unit tasked with investigating and resolving incidents of discrimination and discriminatory harassment at the University.
The report expressed concerns with the adequacy of due process as employed in OIE procedures. The report specifically considered the application of OIE procedures in the cases of three faculty members who submitted complaints about the process to SACUA. “The evidence available to us, examined in the course of reviewing OIE’s practices, raises serious doubts about the validity of the OIE findings in these cases,” the report read. “SACUA does not take a position on the outcome of these cases. But our findings regarding lack of due process necessitate reconsideration of these cases.” Pollack noted she would not discuss the three individual cases mentioned in the report, but said the University must now move forward and think about how the process can be improved. During the meeting, she discussed the committee’s See SACUA, Page 3
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The Michigan Legislature’s House and Senate Sub-Appropriation Committees on Higher Education each met Thursday morning to discuss the budget for the 2015-2016 fiscal calendar year. Gov. Rick Snyder (R) delivered budget recommendations in midFebruary. While the Senate committee agreed with the proposed budget in full, the House made several changes. The budget is still in the committee phase and has yet to be presented to either full chamber. The recommendations of the two chamber’s appropriations committees must be brought before the full Senate and House. If the full chambers disagree on the details, the budget will go before a conference committee to work out the differences between the two versions of the budget. Dave Murray, Snyder’s deputy press secretary, said the final budget is far from finished and there remains room for compromise. “Now’s the period where each See BUDGET, Page 3
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Ann Arbor’s historic Old West Side maintains distinctive heritage, significant architecture By LARA MOEHLMAN Daily Staff Reporter
The Michigan Daily will be exploring Ann Arbor’s most quirky, lively, and student populated neighborhoods during the next month to see what makes this city tick. Read the first installment about the Old Fourth Ward and the second installment about the Ebel and Yost neighborhoods. Old West Side The Old West Side of Ann Arbor is a relatively quiet residential area on the edge of the city’s lively downtown restau-
rant, shopping and bar scene. The neighborhood is bounded by the South Main and Ann Arbor railroad tracks to the east; Crest, Soule and South Seventh streets to the west; West Washington Street to the north; and Pauline Boulevard to the south. Designated as a historical district in 1972, the Old West Side offers a collection of homes of different styles and ages. Characteristic of the neighborhood are one-family homes, many of which have front porches that sit along tree-lined streets. According to the National Parks Service, a district earns
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Side resemble those of American neighborhoods circa 1900. She also said the neighborhood is significant in part because it was one of the first neighborhoods settled in Ann Arbor around 1840. Those who lived there were predominantly German. All architectural styles popular in the United States from 1860 to 1914 are represented in the section’s mansions, located mainly on West Liberty and West Huron streets, according to the OWSA’s website. Home models in the neighborhood include Gothic cottages, Romanesque villas, Tudor and Colonial homes.
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The neighborhood today is composed of a mixture of older couples, young couples, graduate students and University faculty members. “We try to keep some cohesion in the neighborhood,” Murphy said, citing the Children’s Festival, Old West Side Garage Sale and a Lurie Terrace Concert to name a few neighborhood events. Lurie Terrace is a senior citizen’s home in the Old West Side. Murphy, who moved to the Old West Side neighborhood in 1964, recalled having several elderly German couples or widSee WEST SIDE, Page 3
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gather socially developed into this organization that does a lot more throughout the year. We have five different pillars to our org; our main focus is always community service and giving back. So our biggest event of the year is the Gandhi Day of Service during which we get about 250 volunteers to do different service projects in and around the Detroit Metro Area. We also have a huge culture show; it’s the largest studentrun production in North America. With that we’re able to involve about 300 people, which includes dancers and organizers and we have about 4,000 people that attend the show every year in Hill Auditorium.
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I came to the University of Michigan from California. I didn’t know anyone when I came here and I knew I wanted to get involved in an organization or activity that was somewhat related to my culture. I didn’t have a lot of that where I lived; it was a community that had a smaller proportion of Indians. So I joined mostly to make friends as well because I didn’t know anybody here, but the fact that I could also go out of my comfort zone with dancing and performing definitely seemed like a cool idea. —GEN HUMMER
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Income inequality increases in Washtenaw County ‘U’ researchers analyze fluxuation in wages and poverty, among other factors By GENEVIEVE HUMMER Daily Staff Reporter
The Huron Valley Central Labor Council released a report Monday detailing the state of economic inequality in Washtenaw County, titled “Growing Together or Drifting Apart.” Ian Robinson, president of the HVCLC, formed a team of six University scholars to investigate wage fluxuation, poverty and income inequality in Washtenaw County since Sudoku Syndication 2005. The group was also asked to predict where the trends might head in the future. The team also includes
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In addition, the committee found that nine out of 10 of the fastest-growing jobs pay too little to meet the ALICE report’s definition of basic needs. “I think what it says is that by itself the economic marketplace is not going to deliver broadly shared family supporting jobs,” Reynolds said. “Yes, the good news is there are jobs out there and they are going to continue to come, but it’s going to take concrete intervention and planning to make those jobs family-supporting.” DAIVD SONG/Daily Councilmember Jane Lumm listens to a presentation on the budget for the City of Ann Arbor at Larcom City Hall Monday. The report said the trends found in Washtenaw County are occurring in many other communities in the country, and have been growing since the mid-1970s. Ultimately, the report http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ recommends the creation of a task force composed of community organization leaders, organized labor, city’s General Fund and Street conserve and use less and I’m businessmen and women, Millage Fund, among others. ready for that, but the incentive is elected officials and social Crawford’s presentation being taken away when you raise science researchers. showed fiscal year 2017 revenues my prices,” Briere said. Reynolds said the task force of the city anticipated to total Hupy said the issue is not will investigate how other local $98,887,473, while the city’s just a local one but a concern for governments have combated By LARA MOEHLMAN expenditures are projected the national water and sewer similar issues and then propose Daily Staff Reporter to reach $98,959,735, leaving industry. initiatives to reverse the $72,262 in deficit. current trends. If the city continues existing Recycling costs “Leaders will really kind of operations through the 2017 Water Fund Another issue discussed investigate what have other fiscal year, Ann Arbor will Other topics of concern involved by council members was the localities done at the municipal experience a $72,262 budget the review and projections of the widening gap between cost and and county level that seems to deficit, according to a budget city’s Water Fund. revenue numbers concerning the have worked and is relevant to work session Monday night. Hupy said cities are using less city’s solid waste management, Washtenaw County and make Craig Hupy, the Ann Arbor water nationally, and noted Ann specifically recycling. some recommendations of what public services administrator, Arbor is no exception. The city currently levies a tax are some concrete things that presented a review of the city’s “That is a national trend,” to provide funds for solid waste we can do locally to kind of water, sewer, solid waste and Hupy said. “... As the message management. After recyclable build for this shared future,” storm water funds. about water conservation is sent goods are collected, certain items Reynolds said. Hupy also reviewed the out across the whole nation it’s can be sold for revenue. Hupy’s The task force, which has progress of the Residuals having an impact not only in the presentation examined how already been created, includes Handling Improvements Project, west … it’s also affecting those of the cost of the recycling service Paul Saginaw, co-founder and Facilities Renovations Project, us east of the Mississippi.” is increasing and exceeding co-owner of Zingerman’s, the tree removal and pruning As a result, water bills in Ann revenue generated by the process Chuck Warpehoski, a member project and fleet services. Arbor are increasing to make up as taxes and revenue remain of the Ann Arbor City Council for the loss in sales. stable. and State Rep. Jeff Irwin (D– Budget projections Councilmember Sabra Briere Councilmember Sumi Ann Arbor), among others. Tom Crawford, the city’s chief (D–Ward 1) expressed concern Kailasapathy (D–Ward 1) asked financial officer, presented a plan over this issue. Hupy why the cost of recycling for fiscal years 2016 and 2017, “Everything that I get from services is increasing. providing an overview of the the city encourages me to See COUNCIL, Page 3
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Man jailed on $3 million bond for killing grandfather A judge in Shiawassee County has ordered a 21-year-old man held on $3 million bond in the fatal shooting of his 81-year-old grandfather. The Flint Journal says Joshua Z. James of Ingham County’s Meridian Township was arraigned Monday in Shiawassee County District Court in Corunna on an open murder charge. It isn’t known if he has a lawyer. State police say that James shot Marlin Howard at Howard’s home in Woodhull Township. The department says Howard’s son found his body Friday.
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Van crashes into canal killing eight The congregants of a closeknit Haitian church gathered Monday around Nicolas Alexis, hoping to learn what happened to 18 friends and loved ones who had been expected to return that morning from a late Palm Sunday service. Alexis described how he frantically tried to check who was alive after their overloaded church van crashed in the darkness in rural southwest Florida. Three men who had been seated near the 57-year-old died. Alexis said he kicked out a window to escape. “I jst know there is a God,” said Alexis, sitting in a chair dragged outside the Independent Haitian Assembly of God to ease the pain in his bandaged leg and fractured ribs.
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Pentatagon chief endorses Arab military reforms Defense Secretary Ash Carter is endorsing the Arab League’s plan to form a joint military force. Details on how such a force would operate are thin. But the agreement announced Sunday is a telling sign of a new determination among Saudi Arabia, Egypt and their allies to intervene aggressively in regional hotspots. In remarks Monday during a visit to Fort Drum, New York, Carter called the planned joint force “a good thing.” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said the U.S. was waiting to see the exact structure and operational mandate of the joint force. Arab League officials said a full proposal is to be presented within four months.
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Saudi naval forces strike Yemen rebels Saudi-led naval forces imposed a blockade on Yemen’s ports as coalition airstrikes on Monday repelled an advance on the southern port city of Aden by Shiite rebels and forces loyal to a former president, in what appeared to be the most intense day of fighting since the air campaign began five days ago. The move to block ports appeared aimed at preventing the rebels, known as Houthis, from rearming, and comes after the coalition achieved full control of the skies and bombed a number of rebel-held airports. The rebels are supported by Iran, but both Iran and the Houthis deny Tehran has armed them. As night fell, intense explosions could be heard throughout the rebel-held capital Sanaa, where warplanes had carried out strikes since the early morning. Military officials from both sides of the conflict said that airstrikes were targeting areas east and south of the third largest city of Taiz, as well as its airport, while naval artillery and airstrikes hit coastal areas east of Aden. —Compiled from Daily wire reports
WEST SIDE From Page 1 ows as neighbors — remnants of the neighborhood’s heritage — most of which are now gone. However, Murphy says there is still a lingering German influence by way of names in the neighborhood, as seen in the name of the local Bach Elementary School, and the fact that several existing buildings in the Old West Side were once breweries. Jim Smith, co-owner of the Washtenaw Dairy, a working ice cream parlor and donut shop of the Old West Side since 1934, said the dairy once pasteurized, homogenized and bottled milk for residents to pick up on a daily basis. Washtenaw Dairy now delivers all different products including cheese, milk, ice cream and doughnuts. The dairy provides several Ann Arbor coffee shops with milk, including Espresso Royale, Sweetwaters and occasionally Starbucks. “This is a great family neighborhood,” Smith said. “People walk their dogs around here, and on a nice summer night they all come down to the dairy.” Jay Platt, owner of the West Side Book Shop, opened his store in 1975. The shop building was previously owned by a German family who ran a photography studio in the 19th century then converted the store to a children’s book-
COUNCIL From Page 1 Hupy why the cost of recycling services is increasing. “Why is the cost increasing dramatically whereas the revenue is staying put? ... What’s happening is the gap is getting bigger and bigger so we need to get a handle on that,”
News shop, selling German books. “It’s an old and established neighborhood,” Platt said. “There are a lot of businesses that have been here a long time.” Germantown German families once heavily populated Ann Arbor’s “Germantown” neighborhood as well. Today, its borders are defined by East William Street to the north, Main Street to the west, South Division Street to the east and East Madison Street to the south. In 2010, Germantown was voted as not qualifying for a Historic District status by Ann Arbor City Council, paving the way for developer Alex de Parry to tear down seven historic homes as part of his City Place apartment project on South Fifth Avenue. One remaining historic structure is the stone castle-like Bethlehem Church on South Fourth Avenue, which was named a historic site in 1982 by the state of Michigan. According to state records, the church was Ann Arbor’s first German congregation, originally serving German families who settled in the area in the 1820s and 30s. However, Murphy said the Germantown designation represents a historical moment, less than a currently designated community. “Nobody uses the term Germantown anymore and they haven’t in all the time I’ve lived here,” she said. “Germantown is a historical place.”
Kailasapathy said. Hupy said he could provide further analysis and a written formal response along with other formal answers to questions raised by councilmembers during the budget review. The Ann Arbor City Council will vote on the final version of the budget May 18, following two more meetings, including a public hearing May 4.
Indiana lawmakers try to quiet controversy INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mike Pence called off public appearances Monday and sports officials planned an “Indy Welcomes All” campaign ahead of this weekend’s NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis as lawmakers scrambled to quiet the firestorm over a new law that has much of the country portraying Indiana as a state of intolerance. Republican legislative leaders said they are working on adding language to the religious-objections law to make it clear that the measure does not allow discrimination against gays and lesbians. As signed by Pence last week, the measure prohibits state laws that “substantially burden” a person’s ability to follow his or her religious beliefs. The definition of “person” includes religious institutions, businesses and associations. “What we had hoped for with the bill was a message of inclusion, inclusion of all religious beliefs,” Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma said. “What instead has come out is a message of exclusion, and that was not the intent.” The efforts fell flat with Democrats, who called for a repeal, and even some Republicans. “They’re scrambling to put a good face on a bad issue. What puzzles me is how this effort came to the top of the legislative agenda when clearly the business community doesn’t support it,” said Bill Oesterle, an aide to Republican former Gov. Mitch Daniels and CEO of consumer reporting agency Angie’s List, which canceled expansion plans in Indianapolis because of the law.
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, a Republican, said the law threatens to undermine the city’s economic growth and reputation as a convention and tourism destination and called for lawmakers to add protections for sexual orientation and gender identity to Indiana civil-rights laws. “I call upon Governor Pence and the Indiana Legislature to fix this law. Either repeal it or pass a law that protects all who live, work and visit Indiana. And do so immediately. Indianapolis will not be defined by this,” Ballard said. After a two-hour private meeting of House Republicans, Bosma said Monday that repealing the law isn’t “a realistic goal at this point.” “I’m looking for a surgical solution, and I think the least intrusive surgery is to clarify that (the law) cannot be used to support the denial of goods, facilities or services to any member of the public,” he said. Pence, who defended the law during a television appearance Sunday, canceled scheduled appearances Monday night and Tuesday, in part because of planned protests. In an essay for The Wall Street Journal, Pence said “the law is not a ‘license to discriminate’” and reflects federal law. But the Affordable Care Act, he said, “renewed concerns about government infringement on deeply held religious beliefs.” “Faith and religion are important values to millions of Indiana residents,” he said. “With the passage of this legislation, Indiana will continue to be a place that respects the beliefs of every person in our state.”
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BUDGET From Page 1 of the sides come together and we look at what each side wants to do,” Murray said. “We look forward to thoughtful, good discussions with our partners within coming weeks to build a budget.” Murray said the budget process will hopefully conclude by June, which is one of the governor’s goals for this year. Under Snyder’s proposal approved by the Senate, the University’s funding increases would align with the rate of inflation and receive a 1.9 percent increase. However, the House passed just half of that proposed budget and under their version, the University would receive a 0.9 percent funding increase. Rep. Mike McCready (R– West Bloomfield), head of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education, said the 1 percent increase instead of a 2 percent increase was directed to the subcommittee by Rep. Al Pscholka (R–Benton Harbor),
1960S From Page 1 still occurring throughout the United States and abroad. “Jewish people will not be safe until all peoples are safe,” Rubin said. Each of the speakers spoke on the importance of coalitions and overcoming barriers. Many speakers said while it was important for people to overcome discrimination based on race to make progress in the 1960s, today it is important to overcome religious differences in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Grupper said he found that he had more in common with people of different upbringings and beliefs at times than those of his own when it came to viewpoints on civil rights. “Culture and religion are reflections of a historical moment: that there are those who accommodate, and those who resist,” Grupper said. “I went to a Holocaust commemoration at the Jewish community center in Louisville a few decades ago. The speaker said the lesson of the Holocaust was that Jews could only trust Jews. I was sitting next to a woman whose father, a non-
the chair of the appropriations committee. “We are assigned targets by the chairman of our appropriations committee,” McCready said. “Our appropriations chairman assigned us a target of 1 percent versus the 2 percent. I don’t know the reason that they have, but sometimes they’re negotiating all of the different budgets, and so they may reduce in one area temporarily to try and get changes in another area.” Pscholka was unavailable to comment on Monday. McCready said the appropriations committee has yet to present the proposal to the full House and the details are liable to change. “There’s still a probability that it’s going to be a 2 percent increase because the Senate and the executive are asking for a 2 percent increase,” McCready said. “We’re going to see how that plays out.” Complying with the governor’s recommendation, the Senate agreed to a 2.8 percent restraint on tuition fee increases, and the House recommended a higher tuition restraint
of 4 percent or an increase of $400 per student depending on which one was greater. “Originally I had asked to remove the tuition cap and let the market make the corrections,” McCready said. “We are negotiating on that cap, and my recommendation is to go with a 4 percent or $400 tuition cap restraint, whichever was higher, for schools to work with to give them a little bit of room.” In testimony before the legislature in February, University President Mark Schlissel said the University would appreciate a higher tuition cap. “We are all committed to try to keep tuition as modest as possible to promote accessibility to public higher education,” Schlissel said in an interview with The Detroit News. “And it’s a balancing (act) to maintain accessibility to quality higher education. We want to have the best faculty and the best facilities. ... Having the flexibility beyond what the governor proposed would be welcomed, but we’re not sure yet whether it’s essential to us.”
Jew, had landed in Normandy during the World War II the day the ship, the Susan B. Anthony was sunk by the German navy, and I knew I had more in common with this woman’s father, a gentile, than the Jew speaking.” Rubin said he was appalled by the economic inequality he witnessed during his visit to the West Bank last year. He paralleled the racial oppression in the South during the 1960s to what he saw as religious oppression in West Bank today. He said one of the most shocking scenes from his trip was when he visited Bethlehem and saw the 26-foothigh guarded wall that is topped with barbed wire and surrounds the city. Zellner said she sobbed for hours when she saw the daunting wall with the Israeli flag on it, and compared the wall around Bethlehem to the walls of concentration camps during the Holocaust. “If you say, like some students said to me the other day, ‘Oh, you’re evoking the Holocaust,’ that’s what one of them said to us, and whether it’s unfair or not, I am, because I am of that age,” Zellner said. “I do have that kind of context, and most Jewish people have that kind of context, and we should
have that kind of context; it did happen to us.” Zellner’s portion of the lecture emphasized how the Jewish community has a long standing history of social activism, which she believes is not talked about enough. Zellner said she left her civil rights work in the South with the lingering feeling that there was something else that she had not completed, but found it in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after hearing an Israeli-leftist talk. She visited the West Bank the following year. “As civil rights workers we have the nerve to talk about the people of Palestine,” Zellner said. “We learned it was important to stand up then, and, guess what, we think it’s important to stand up now.” Both Rubin and Zellner said they noticed in the last five years a resurgence in social activism compared to the lull that they noted in the previous 30 years. “The past five years, there has been a real explosion of collective action amongst students,” Rubin said. “I think the students today are more knowledgeable, strategic and more disciplined than we ever were.”
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Martha E. Pollack, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, addresses concerns of SACUA Committee members during a session in the Fleming Building Monday.
MICHIGAN From Page 1A recommendations individually and emphasized the importance of allowing for flexibility in the process. “While I think there are a lot of ways to improve due process, we can’t have a rigid, one-sizefits-all procedure,” she said. Pollack said she hopes to release material in May that
will clarify how the grievance hearing board will specifically address cases. She added that said she wishes to reconvene with SACUA on the issue by the end of the summer. However, the initial SACUA report recommended that the verdicts in the cases in question be reversed until they could be “reconsidered in a forum with appropriate due process protections.” Before concluding the
conversation, SACUA Chair Scott Masten, a professor of business economics and public policy, emphasized the importance of addressing the issue. “I know on the report we said we didn’t take a position, but my personal response is less balanced,” Masten said. “It still remains a huge disappointment. It bothers me immensely as an institution that we can’t find a way to redress these problems.”
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CARLY MANES | VIEWPOINT
A Jewish dissent on divestment
Political dissent is a fascinating concept. To me, the act of politically dissenting — from popular opinion, from one’s own communally associated belief or from previously held personal ideology — is a courageous act of defiance. Last March, Students Allied for Freedom and Equality brought forth a resolution to Central Student Government that requested the creation of a committee to investigate companies that the University invests in that violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and profit off of Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. I was a representative on the assembly at the time, as well as a candidate for student body president. Prior to the proposal of this resolution, I didn’t know much about the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and I had never formally engaged in any advocacy around Israel and Palestine. What I did know, though, was how I was supposed to feel in regards to the issue at hand. Just by nature of my identity as a Jew, I knew that I was supposed to oppose the resolution, oppose divestment and propose a narrative of peace and dialogue around Israel. I knew this because Hillel told me so through the many e-mails I received affirming their opposition to BDS, and because of the many Facebook posts about all of the Hillel-sponsored Israel solidarity efforts I could join. After reaching out to one of the resolution’s authors, examining my own values in the context of what was being asked of us as an assembly and hours of extensive research, it intuitively made sense that I would support a resolution of this nature. I sat with a strong sense of cognitive dissonance, weighing my moral and ethical values against my Jewish identity. Saying that I opposed the resolution felt morally inconsistent with my values, but saying that I supported it felt incredibly isolating. With a public and political face that said no to the resolution, but a heart and a mind that said yes, I felt a moral tension that even today still hasn’t gone away. The way that the Jewish community on campus received my ambiguity was what ultimately led me to finding my strength for the dissent. I have come to actualize my dissent in small ways since last March, from informing community members and friends of my personal support of eco-
nomic boycotts in Israel to exploring “Jewish Progressive Except for Palestine” identities in academic research. The way that fellow Jews on campus treated me and other Jewish students who did not fully conform to the status quo Israel political belief was disheartening. My unwillingness to strongly oppose the resolution, demonize its supporters and vocalize an unwavering dedication to the longevity of Israel as a divided state meant that I was no longer worthy of their love, their friendship and, sometimes, our shared Jewish identity. It took me a summer of research and reflection to understand why this PEP identity persists in the Jewish communities I have always identified with, and why it’s so hard to move past the cognitive dissonance created by a resolution such as the one presented to me a year ago and the one being presented Tuesday night. I have come to understand my experience with BDS and Israel politics on campus in a larger social context, where there’s a Jewish communal standard and expectation for many historical, social and political reasons, which Jewish community members are expected to adhere to simply by the nature of being Jewish. My exploration away from this status quo, of an Israel politic that is consistent with my values, is what led to the intra-communal silencing of political voice that I experienced on campus. I think political dissent is naturally coupled with feelings of fear. For me, it was fear of political loss, personal isolation and communal rejection. I decided to sit silent in consent, weighed down by others’ constructed realities, instead of adhering to my values, my truths, my Judaism. But, more important than my own fears, identities and intra-communal politics are the silenced narratives of Palestinian students on campus and our greater complacency in the human rights abuse that is Palestinian occupation. So while I didn’t dissent that day last March, I am dissenting now. I support SAFE’s resolution, I support economic sanctions on Israel and I support the validation of all narratives. Carly Manes is a Public Health senior.
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BRENDAN WU | VIEWPOINT
Childish popularity games You know when someone you hate throws a party so you try to get all your friends to not go? In my experience, it usually doesn’t work that well and you just end up looking like an ass. How does the United States feel now that all of its friends have ignored its stern warnings and joined the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank anyways? This is the most dramatic diplomatic isolation of the United States since that whole Operation Iraqi Freedom debacle, so hopefully a little like an ass. In 2014, China laid down $50 billion and its signature alongside 22 other Asian countries from Kuwait to Indonesia, creating the AIIB to finance infrastructure projects in the region. The United States tried cashing in on its diplomatic ties by coercing its global network of allies from joining the bank that has been formally endorsed by both the World Bank and IMF. Until this month, the tactic seemed to be working. But that was before the United Kingdom, which many Americans consider their closest ally, defected. Today, on the membership deadline, virtually every single major economy including U.S. allies such as Australia, South Korea and an entire concert of Western European pals, have joined. The only bitter holdouts are the United States, with Japan expecting to join. The State Department’s (and Japan’s, for that matter) formal statement against the AIIB questions its regulations on issues such as environmental protection and human rights — how will these be considered when making loans? Please spare us these airs and graces. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and various other NGOs have raised noise about the shady dealings of these Americanled institutions. John Perkins, a consultant who used to work with indebted developing countries, described how World Bank and IMF loans are almost publicity agreements to complement a sweeping privatization and deregulation of developing economies to fit nicely into the pocketbooks of American and European multinational corporations.
And despite their international scope and image, the World Bank and IMF are undoubtedly American-led institutions. This makes perfect sense — they were created in the 1940s when the U.S. was beginning to assume its role as the global hegemon, but that was 70 years ago. Nothing has changed. Despite being the world’s second largest economy, China only has only about 5 percent and 4 percent of total voting power in the World Bank and IMF, respectively, compared to 18 percent in both institutions by the United States. Just to put it in perspective, only a handful of countries have more than 1 percent of voting power in either institution, and the United States is the sole veto power in the World Bank. China’s creation of the AIIB was an attempt at an institution that would better reflect the changing power relations of the modern world. This does not exclude the United States. Last I checked, the United States is still the world’s only superpower, and North Korea was the only country whose application was rejected from the AIIB. The U.S. blunder has not only damaged its credibility with allies, but also signaled an appallingly myopic refusal to cooperate with Beijing. If the United States is truly concerned about those regulatory “best practices,” what better way to improve the AIIB than from within? Finally, let’s not forget that because the AIIB is a development bank, those who will pay the most for America’s inaction are not China, but developing countries who will receive aid from the AIIB. Investment from the wealthy United States would be translated into real improvements in the infrastructure developing countries. In the future, when AIIB loans start flowing across Asia, recipients will remember well that despite all the talk by President Obama about a pivot to the region, the United States was ultimately unwilling to do anything meaningful besides play childish popularity games. Brendan Wu is an LSA junior.
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I can sleep when I’m dead
hen I started college last year, I averaged about five hours of sleep a night. As the year progressed, my alarm clock chirped an hour earlier. Four hours of sleep definitely wasn’t something I enjoyed, but it was a routine necessity, just like KAREN everything else HUA on my to-do list. I enlisted it as another adjustment made toward “maturing.” College meant being career-driven with lofty ambitions for success among a competitive pool of peers — so naturally, sleep-deprived, right? Unfortunately, after a few months, the human body realizes it cannot physically operate with so little rest. No phone can go without a recharge. No road trip can happen without a pit stop, and inconveniently, the body will eventually demand sleep or otherwise shut down. This year, I remember setting an alarm for an 8 p.m. power nap, then awaking disoriented at 7 a.m. the next morning. My roommate and I consistently sleep through both our alarms, leaving us frantic and hurried in the mornings before class. The problem is, I’m certain I’m not the only one with these experiences. One peek into any library on any day indicates the sheer abundance of students working from the moment they wake up until the time they fall asleep on top of their books. Time has become most college students’ most valuable possession. Personally, I feel the need to take advantage of all the University offers while I’m already paying upwards of $50,000 each year. However, what started as getting the most “bang for my buck,” transpired into a personal desire, a competitive urge to do everything — to stay in good academic standing, to have a job, to learn money management, to maintain a social life, to lead extracurricular clubs and more and more. According to a recent Michigan Daily survey, 63 percent of students participate in clubs at least once a week. Instead of striving to balance our busy lives with good health, we have instead redefined “balance” to mean all-inclusive involvement. College has turned us into workaholics.
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Essentially, we forgo sleep completely or prioritize it at the bottom of our lists, viewing it as more of a hindrance to productivity rather than a human necessity. We tell ourselves to “suck it up” when we feel burnout approaching to suppress and endure onwards. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right? In class, our professors point out how we all look exhausted with droopy eyelids in the middle of the day, berating us to sleep at least eight hours a day. Unfortunately, we have heard this suggestion time and time again. Yet we’re never galvanized to change our lifestyle, even when we’ve experienced some of the malignant consequences. As a result, many students resort to caffeine-dependent lifestyles fueled by coffee, soda, energy drinks and even attention-enhancing drugs. Adderall and Ritalin are two of the most common drugs sold on the college “black market,” used most commonly for academic rather than recreational purposes. When I surveyed a psychology discussion, 90 percent of the class raised their hand, admitting they knew at least one person who bought those drugs without a prescription to more effectively complete their work. Last spring, the University’s Central Student Government introduced a pilot phase of napping stations at the Undergraduate Library because 96 percent of 500 survey respondents felt fatigue was disrupting their performance. In addition to this, there have been few initiatives to actively decrease or temporarily ameliorate sleep deprivation, and only a string of elusive online tips to improve sleep quality. Daily columnist Jenny Wang also wrote about a burn-out the week before spring break, where she humbly asked professors for reasonably manageable academic loads. However, the crux of the issue is not solely from schoolwork, like the CSG initiative and Wang’s article may suggest. Naps and lighter coursework cannot remedy the situation long-term. Rather, our sleep deprivation stems from our academic objectives paired with the work outside of class that we voluntarily take on (and persuade ourselves we need for a complete college experience). Deprioritizing sleep has been increasingly cultivated and perpetuated by our scholarly, success-hungry society so that the workaholic attitude is no longer simply a cultural
factor, but now inherent within ourselves. Sleep deprivation is more a product of our mentalities. We have already read the correlative studies and heard the statistics time and time again detailing the relationship between sleep, memory processing and academic performance. We also don’t need to know that 73 percent of college students have sleep issues; we already know that it’s some astoundingly high number, so the specifics that almost three-fourths of this campus feels exhausted during the day isn’t a shocker. Additionally, just 11 percent report good sleep — far too small a fraction especially since we know how closely sleep is related to academic performance. More specifically, according to Shelley Hershner and Ronald Chervin’s study relating college students to sleep, rising just one hour earlier decreases student GPAs by an average of 0.132 out of 4.0 points. You don’t need me to rattle off all the pernicious consequences, like your teachers and parents have done too many times before, but it’s clear that we are only shooting ourselves at our shoes. At our age, we have surpassed ignorance. Yet, we ironically continue to deprive ourselves of the necessity of sleep. Our motivation for consistently harming our bodies in this way can only be attributed to our rigid mentalities, programmed by the anxiety of ambition or the fear of inadequacy. Each year, countless scientific and psychological studies are conducted about sleep deprivation, only strengthening the same conclusions citing its degree of detriment. Regardless of the statistics from research, advice from University Health Services and pleas from professors to better “balance” our schedules and get more rest, our mentalities are not so simply altered. Old habits die hard, or not at all. From an evolutionary standpoint, will we, as humans, gradually require less sleep in the future? Will we drive ourselves to work all the time that we’ll physically require less rest to refuel? As we have seen, we turn a blind eye or a helpless shrug regardless of our education and awareness about the subject. So, as a collective, competitive culture and individually as insatiable students, what will it take to change our minds? — Karen Hua can be reached at khua@umich.edu.
To be Malcolm X
hen I was a kid, the only thing I ever wanted to be was a comic book artist. I spent hours alone in my room trying to copy the characters I adored, creating my own and building stories around them. Truth be told, what I really wanted was to be JAMES the superheroes I BRENNAN drew, but that was unlikely. My crime fighting abilities were capped off by a general lack of athleticism, and my green belt in taekwondo won’t be foiling many villains. But I could draw — so I sketched out characters and told my own stories, where I would invent new powers, build new teams of super people and flip the roles of villain and hero. Much to my father’s relief, as I got older my interests shifted from comic books and superheroes to politics, law and civil rights. I had my future law school pegged down at 17, around the same time I found a new standard for heroism in the writing and speeches of Malcolm X. Coming to college, I knew exactly where I was going: I’d find a life as a lawyer and a public servant, while — like Malcolm —I would become a leader on the vanguard of the fight for civil rights. Hell, I even ran for Central Student Government with the Defend Affirmative Action Party. Like the comic heroes I drew as a kid, the heroes of social movements — current and former — do not have an easy life. Everyone wants to be Superman when he’s vanquishing villains and basking in the glory of saving planet Earth, but the life of a hero requires constant sacrifice that often becomes a burden. Malcolm X is an icon today, but near the end of his life his home was firebombed, his friends turned against him and he was vilified by people Black and white, liberal and conservative. Activists commit their lives to a cause, and the most heroic activists fight the most challenging, polarizing
battles. Even for lawyers at well funded NGOs, the hours are long, the victories are few and the defeats are many. The people who do this kind of work often feel compelled, and they have a combination of fervor, talent and optimism. For a while, I thought that I was one of these people. I fell in and out of various causes, all of which fit vaguely into the same, elaborate daydreams where I command a massive crowd of protesters or argue in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. I’ve been to my fair share of protests while I’ve been in college, typically serving as half demonstrator, half spectator. As a junior, I traveled with other Daily writers to Washington, D.C. to cover a landmark case on affirmative action, an issue still close to my heart. Standing on the steps of the Supreme Court, Aarica Marsh — now my editor — and I looked out onto the slew of student protesters in red shirts chanting for justice. After taking a few photos, I reluctantly agreed it was time for some interviews and wandered nervously into the demonstration. Writing my column later that night, rather than a screed for racial justice, I tried to weigh my support for affirmative action with my disillusionment toward the radical group BAMN. Several months later, walking through a mostly empty campus, I heard chanting and came upon a vocal demonstration against the ongoing war in Gaza. The protesters demanded Palestinian liberation and a boycott of Israel. One sign stuck out, thanks in part to its neon color and liberal use of swastikas. To protest a Jewish country. I wanted to know why, and there was only one way to find out. My heart pounding, I wandered nervously into the center of the demonstration, found the man, and we spent a few minutes arguing. I wrote about it in my column, and despite my frustrations, I felt more knowledgeable because of it. On March 26, on my way to a lecture, I heard the familiar sounds of chanting and saw people on the Diag holding signs. Following my intuition, I wandered over to the demonstration,
nervous as ever. The rally was a warm up for an event on the 50th anniversary of the Teach-In Movement, this time the focus aimed firmly on climate change. I knew I had made the right decision when I saw a disheveled, unstable looking older man (this is an archetype of the protest genre) walking around with a sign labeled “Israel nuked NY City on 9/11.” I bit my knuckles trying to hold back my laughter, especially as he wandered from the crowd and directed his sign at a nearby campus tour group. I don’t know what this guy was thinking, or if he realized that the demonstration was about climate change, but if his sign was serious it really didn’t matter. I regained my composure to listen to the speaker in the middle of the crowd, University alum and former campus radical Tom Hayden. I had wanted to meet Hayden since I came to Michigan, as he was a legend in both student activism and the editorial pages of the Daily. After we made our way into the auditorium, I cornered Hayden and asked him for an interview, hoping my invocation of the Daily’s opinion section would help me along. After a short conversation, Hayden was told he had a place reserved in the front. I told him I was almost finished, but instead he invited me to continue the interview among the other VIPs. We talked for a while about his time on campus, then sat and watched an almost two-hour event featuring “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman. As the program ended, he gave some parting words about the line between activism and journalism, and then he was off. I walked home with my adrenaline pumping, shaking my head and laughing as I thought about what just occurred. Just like I’ll never get super powers, I will likely never be a Malcolm X or a Tom Hayden. But there are stories to be told, and I enjoy writing them. And deep down, I enjoy that feeling in the pit of my stomach, as I put one foot in front of the other and wander nervously into the unknown. — James Brennan can be reached at jmbthree@umich.edu.
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Auditor found dead in home Investigators discover suspicious note in man’s apartment JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Spence Jackson provided the official confirmation a month ago that his boss, Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich, was dead from what police described as a selfinflicted gunshot wound. On Monday, police confirmed that Jackson had shot himself in an apparent suicide — marking a second, stunning jolt to Missouri politics, though police declined to say whether the deaths were directly related. Jackson was found dead Sunday evening in his home in Jefferson City, police spokesman Capt. Doug Shoemaker said. He said investigators found a note in Jackson’s apartment, where the 44-year-old lived alone, but he declined to detail what it said. Schweich fatally shot himself at his home on Feb. 26, shortly after telling an Associated Press reporter he wanted to go public with allegations that the Missouri Republican Party chairman told people he was Jewish. Schweich, a Christian with Jewish ancestry, said he perceived the remarks to be part of an anti-Semitic whispering campaign against him ahead of his run for governor. Jackson, who was Schweich’s spokesman, was among the first to suggest that the GOP chairman, John Hancock, should resign. Hancock has denied making anti-Semitic remarks, but said he may have mistakenly told people last year that Schweich was Jewish. He remains chairman of the party, now roiled ahead of a
2016 election featuring races for U.S. Senate, governor and most of Missouri’s other statewide executive offices. “We’re very aware of the political issues surrounding Mr. Schweich’s death. And then within a month we have the death of his spokesperson,” Shoemaker said Monday. He said Jefferson City investigators have reached out to police in Clayton, the St. Louis suburb where Schweich lived, but that his department wouldn’t comment “or entertain questions that may link the deaths to a political issue, perceived or real.” Jackson had worked in Missouri political and state government jobs for 15 years, including for former Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt. Blunt issued a statement Monday saying he was saddened to learn of his friend’s death. “Spence was a gifted communicator who dedicated his talents in public affairs to public service,” Blunt said. “Spence was hardworking, well-liked and quickwitted.” Jackson began working for Blunt as he ran for secretary of state in 2000 and rose with him as Blunt later became governor. Jackson also served as a spokesman for the state Department of Economic Development and for Sarah Steelman’s unsuccessful 2008 gubernatorial bid. He joined Schweich’s staff at the auditor’s office in October 2011. The Missouri House paused for a moment of silence Monday afternoon to remember Jackson. State Auditor John Watson, who took over following Schweich’s death, said Jackson was a respected, long-time servant in state government.
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Airport firefighters work at the crash site of Air Canada AC624 that crashed early Sunday morning during a snowstorm, at Stanfield International Airport in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Monday, March 30.
Toronto officials investigate plane crash on Halifax runway Twenty-five taken to hospital following crash officials say
TORONTO (AP) — An Air Canada passenger plane landed so significantly short of the runway in Halifax that it hit a power line and knocked out power at the airport, the lead investigator said Monday. The Airbus 320 landed 1,100 feet (335 meters) short of the runway during an early Sunday morning snowstorm. It crashed into a bank of antennas and sheared off its main landing gear, nose cone and an engine before skidding on its belly. Twenty-five people were taken to the hospital
and all but one has been released. Mike Cunningham, regional manager for Canada’s Transportation Safety Board, said investigators are still trying to determine why Flight AC624 from Toronto landed prematurely. Cunningham said they interviewed the pilots Sunday night but that he is prohibited from commenting about what they said. The cockpit voice recorder and flight data are being downloaded Monday. The airport terminal building went black as the plane hit a power line outside several hundred feet outside the airport. “That’s pretty unique. The power line itself is well beyond the obstacle clearance criteria from that runway and that aircraft touched down significantly
short of the runway,” Cunningham said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. A power generator on the airfield kicked in so the lighting there was not affected but two generators failed in the terminal building. The power outage meant an emergency response center had to be moved to a nearby hotel. Nova Scotia Power later restored power, and police said a power line south of the runway outside airport property was damaged. Cunningham said he’s sure the power outage was a contributing factor in the delayed response in retrieving the 133 passengers and five crew members. Passengers complained they were left standing on the tarmac for up to 50 minutes as they were lashed by wind-whipped snow before
buses arrived. He said the length of time it took to respond will be a big part of their investigation. Halifax Stanfield International Airport spokesman Peter Spurway also said they are also conducting an investigation into their response. “We can do better than that,” Spurway said. “The question is how do we move 138 people safely off a runway in a snowstorm at quarter to one on a Sunday morning.” Spurway said they were lucky people weren’t seriously hurt. “We are hugely fortunate and they are hugely fortunate and we are very, very grateful for that,” he said. The airport, Canada’s seventh largest with 3.6 million passengers, reopened 5 ½ hours after the accident.
Gov. vetoes bill to Violence after mayor’s shield officer names race wanes in Chicago Personal information of Arizona policemen involved in shootings to remain public PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey vetoed legislation Monday requiring law enforcement agencies to keep the names of officers involved in shootings secret for two months, nixing a bill that was inspired by last year’s events Ferguson, Missouri, and similar incidents around the country. Ducey said in a lengthy veto letter that he sympathized with backers who sought to protect officers. But he said he listened most to police chiefs who told him that an arbitrary hold on releasing the names of officers would limit their ability to manage complex community-police relations. Legislatures around the nation are taking up various pieces of police shooting legislation, including proposals requiring police to wear body cameras or mandating that shooting investigations be done by outside agencies. But Arizona is apparently the only state considering new rules for releasing the names of officers, said Ezekiel Edwards, director of the Criminal Law Reform Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. Ducey, a Republican, faced pressure to veto the measure
from police chiefs, who worried they couldn’t manage community relations or stop unfounded rumors about an involved officer. Police unions, however, supported the bill, saying the required two-month delay will give time for investigations to play out. They call it a common-sense measure that will ensure officer safety. The death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, drew intense criticism and widespread protests last year. State Legislatures have been looking at police-transparency laws since Brown’s Aug. 8 shooting death by former police officer Darren Wilson, whose name was released a week later. Tucson Police Chief Roberto Villasenor wrote to Ducey last week in his role as president of the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police urging the veto. In an interview, he said it would be wrong to ignore “the elephant in the room” of poor police-community relations that has been the highlight of much law enforcement news coverage in the past year. “Enacting legislation that would hamper that trust by not allowing officers’ names to be released is not in my opinion the best way to improve or repair that level of trust,” Villasenor said. Republican lawmakers who backed the proposal said it was designed to protect officers. “The simple fact remains
that we live in a world where misinformation can put everybody in jeopardy, especially police officers,” state Sen. John Kavanagh said last week. “And until we get those facts straight, we need to shield those cops and their families from being assassinated by lunatics or political zealots.” Arizona public-records laws currently require the release of an officer’s name as soon as possible, unless the agency cites specific reasons for a temporary delay. In practice, agencies typically have released the name within several days but can hold off indefinitely if the officer’s safety is in jeopardy. Ducey pointed to the option of withholding an officer’s name when necessary as a determining factor in his decision. “There are many examples of our police departments exercising this authority in a manner that protects the officer’s identity while ultimately providing disclosure after the situation has cooled,” Ducey said in his veto letter. The police chiefs and lawyers for The Arizona Republic also pointed to provisions that might shield all police disciplinary records. Ducey said those provisions “seem to stretch outside the scope of protecting officers and their families from unjustified retaliation by creating new and expansive exceptions to the Public Records Act.”
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Homicide rate drops while city families remain frusterated CHICAGO (AP) — A few years ago, violence on Chicago streets thrust a recently elected mayor into the national spotlight as shootouts in some of the city’s most troubled neighborhoods fueled nearly constant bloodshed. Rahm Emanuel spent nearly $200 million over two years to flood those streets with police working overtime. His police department also collected a trove of information about individual gang members and set up meetings between gang members and the parents of homicide victims to illustrate the high human cost of gunfire. Since then, the city’s overall violence has declined, but the number of slayings in some minority neighborhoods actually jumped. And while police boast of historic drops in the homicide rate, many frustrated families in those areas say their communities have seen little to no improvement or have actually deteriorated. “It’s worse,” said Anthony Jackson, a 62-year-old retired maintenance man as he made his way to his home in the heart
of a neighborhood that last year saw a dramatic spike in homicides — to about half the number of the entire city of Washington, D.C. “We’re just out here on our own.” The stubborn violence contributes to the mayor’s overall challenge in his bid for a second term and puts him in the somewhat awkward position of simultaneously touting his success against crime while acknowledging that much more needs to be done. “The truth is that as much progress as we’ve made over the past four years, we simply have to do better,” Emanuel said in a speech. The total number of homicides in Chicago fell from more than 500 in 2012 to just over 400 last year, the lowest level in a half-century. But the number of shootings climbed 12 percent, from 1,866 to 2,084, during the same period. The discontent goes beyond the bullets. Despite Emanuel’s success in attracting companies to the thriving Loop district, the only businesses that seem to survive in many minority neighborhoods are dusty markets, fast-food restaurants and dollar stores. The result was that Emanuel did not receive enough votes last month to avoid an April runoff with Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia.
Much of the support the mayor had from black voters four years ago vanished in the primary. Though Emanuel was the clear winner in every majority-black ward, he received fewer than half the votes in them. Four years ago, he received more than half the votes in every single one. Jackson voted for Emanuel in 2011, but he doesn’t know who he will support in the April 7 election. In the Harrison police district, where Jackson lives, the number of homicides climbed from 35 in 2013 to 51 last year, and the number of shootings climbed at more than double the citywide rate. Police have not offered a definitive reason other than to point to what Superintendent Garry McCarthy calls “severe gang conflicts.” And Emanuel’s decision to close dozens of schools added more boarded-up buildings to streets already littered with them, with residents complaining that the schools became larger versions of the abandoned houses that are magnets for gangs and drug dealers. “What people see is these parts of the city have been abandoned, and the investment has gone elsewhere,” said Marshall Hatch, a prominent minister on the city’s West Side, standing near the shuttered Goldblatt Elementary School.
Arts
6 — Tuesday, March 31, 2015
FILM REVIEW
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ALBUM REVIEW
Death Cab returns with dreamy new LP By REGAN DETWILER For The Daily
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Unworthy ‘Home’ DreamWorks’s newest picture sends writer into existential crisis
buy toys and plush dolls that look cute and cuddly like the other popular characters from popular animated movies. The two people who recorded their voices for the main characters in the movie are Jim Parsons (“The Big Bang Theory”) By JACOB RICH and Rihanna (“Wreck-It Ralph”), Daily Film Editor because they are big stars and people know them and would be DreamWorks’s “Home” is an more inclined to watch a movie animated children’s movie about that has them in it, regardless of aliens that invade Earth. whether their talents translate to “Home” is a an ounce of onscreen chemistry or movie where you F any sort of skill that would apply laugh because to voicing an animated movie. a machine Home “Home” has animation that that an alien looks like the animation found in thought would Rave & Quality 16 other popular animated movies. work doesn’t, DreamWorks That’s good; it will provide good and it makes experience for the animators of Motion Pictures him look very “Home” to put on their resumes silly. You also to get hired at places that make laugh because the alien acciden- other popular animated movies. tally drinks urine and that is also I walked out of “Home” about funny. You also laugh when the an hour in, so I couldn’t tell you alien dances to music, because his how the story ends. I was not movements are silly and do not the first person to get up and resemble the way humans dance. leave this particular showing at “Home” is also about a girl try- the Ann Arbor Quality 16, nor ing to find her absent mother – do I surmise I was the last. because that is a relatable subject “Home” is one of those matter for many people and there movies that really makes you aren’t very many movies about think about your life: your that. You relate to the girl because place here on this earth, she understands what humans your consciousness and the are like and the alien does not. preciousness of every second. The aliens in “Home” are cute Someday, we will all die and and cuddly, because people like to regardless of your personal
beliefs about the nature of death and the potential of new life afterward, your time living as you do now is limited.
I walked out of ‘Home.’ Do not forget that you are a miracle of nature. Do not ever spend less time with the people you love than you mean to. Do not spend a single moment of your tragically short waking life watching “Home.” Do not spend another moment reading about “Home.” Do your absolute best to never, ever, think about “Home” again. Instead, hug your mother and father. Look at a flower and really, truly attempt to comprehend its complexities, its beauty. Dive headfirst into a wonderful book and don’t lift your head up for hours. Donate some money to a charity. Eat, drink, have sex and laugh at the sheer absurdity of everything. At the very least, watch an animated film that is worth your time, like “The Lego Movie,” “Big Hero 6” or “How to Train Your Dragon 2.” I hope you live a long, wonderful life.
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Death Cab for Cutie’s latest release and eighth studio album, Kintsugi, is quite simply a solid album. The band B returns to a sound more Kintsugi similar to that of Plans Death Cab and that of for Cutie their previous Atlantic experimental albums, keeping things exciting but thoroughly sticking to the musical style that has worked for them since the early 2000s. Take that, Zooey Deschanel. Whereas the band used lots sings of a tempting and toxic of ’80s alternative keyboard love. Needless to say, this for their last album, Codes one diverges from the band’s and Keys, Kintsugi shies usually lyrically emotive away from this, allowing lead sound. guitarist Chris Walla’s smooth However, the last of the first and dreamy playing style to four singles released, sounds return to the spotlight. This very thoroughly Death Cab. may be because Walla, an “Little Wanderer” is much original member recruited more melancholy in tone by lead singer Ben Gibbard, and ref lective in meaning, decided that this will be his where the singer’s lost love is last recording with Death somewhere abroad, leaving Cab. Though Walla played him asking, “Won’t you wander the keyboard for Codes and back to me?” Keys, he’s traditionally done guitar for the band, so a return to an indie-rock sound over alternative may be a tribute to this integral member’s last outing with the group. The album opens with four singles that have been released throughout the year, including “No Room In Frame” and “Ghosts of Beverly Drive,” both of which have a firmly staccato beat but manage to still feel mellow in Death Cab’s That sounds sappy, but this characteristic way. is Death Cab and that’s why Another of these first four we love their music. Keeping is “Black Sun,” which is a in the same tone are “You’ve little bit of an outlier. This Haunted Me All Your Life” one seems like it tries to go for and “Hold No Guns,” both very a certain mysteriously sexy mellow and relaxing. These sound that honestly reminds two are especially reminiscent me of something out of a James of Plans, with heavy emphasis Bond movie (not that we all on Gibbard’s vocals, the overdon’t love 007), as Gibbard elongated vowels and over-
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emphasized consonants which, when paired with echoing guitar and a subtle snare drum beat, somehow sound prophetic and allowing the music to speak to the most sappy and emotional realms of your music-listening faculties. The album picks up with the next two tracks, but concludes with “Binary Sea,” which is as dreamy and mellow as a Death Cab fan could ask for. Without such a heavy emphasis on guitar, this last track features echoing vocals, piano and soft techno elements. If the last song on the album had a color, it would be a soft, light blue-green. Serene, peaceful and ref lective, it’s a great conclusion for Walla. All things considered, this album isn’t anything that diverges dramatically from the band’s previously explored styles. It successfully incorporates some of the darker themes explored in Narrow Stairs, as well as some more 80s alternative keyboard sounds explored in Codes and Keys, while somehow coming off as closer to the sound that originally brought them to the spotlight with Transatlanticism. There’s nothing too crazy going on here; just some good music to see out a longtime band member.
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Chatter and bodies surround you. You clutch your cup, slouched between friends gabbing on about something unimportant to you. In another room, someone turns on the music. As you are just able to make out the rolling bass beats, the tune is unidentifiable. The volume increases – this is your song. The mood of the room shifts; inhibitions are lowered and glasses are raised. You feel your toes begin to tap, soon followed by a slight sway of the hips and shrugging of shoulders. The feeling builds. You are no longer disengaged, slouching; you are dancing. But what is it that makes us move? Are we even capable of pinpointing the universal factor that causes us to shimmy? Let’s start with the basics – there has to be a beat. Not just any beat, but a pulsating rhythm that makes it impossible to stop your already drumming fingers. The tempo is essential, but variable: meaty, slow, ticking, quick. You have to feel it. As always, Whitney Houston did it best with “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” The beat is the life force of a song; it drives the melody and drives your body. Next, weave in that melody. If the beat is the bones, the tune is the flesh that draws you in. The instrumentation should dance just as you do – rising and falling playfully. If you haven’t already, stop what you are doing and go listen to the pinnacle of melodic perfection, “Can’t Stop Dancin’ ” by Becky G. It should be fun and catchy, but not necessarily from
one certain instrument. You can rock out to electric guitar, jump around to electronic beats or get down to some funky synth. But most importantly, this melody must build. Its peak is a chorus that is impossible to get out of your head – something you catch yourself humming for days. (I’m pretty sure I had “Call Me Maybe” stuck in my head for all of 2012.) We have all had those moments of stumbling our way through the verses of songs, waiting for the chorus to really bust out. This is one of the only times that clichés are used for good and not evil. Lyrics of living while you’re young and drunken escapades with friends enhance the effect of the chorus – the more ridiculous, the better. If you can bring yourself to listen, Pitbull is a perfect example of this kind of nonsensical lyric (but proceed with caution). Ideally, the ultimate dance number will have an element of surprise: an unexpected drop, a standout lyric, a voice-over break a la “Oops!...I Did It Again,” etc. That “oh shit” moment is what takes a song and your dance moves, to the next level. Aside from the music itself, it is important to remember that there is no right or wrong way to dance. Each person has his or her own boogie – whether it be a casual sway, a flirty wiggle or what seems to be a random flailing of limbs. Dancing is a personal way to convey your individual connection to music. There may be some ambiguous dance-factor to music, but that does not change the fact that you can shake it whenever and whichever way you want. Do your thing, you dancing fool.
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‘Iphigenia at Aulis’ comes to Walgreen By COSMO PAPPAS Daily Arts Writer
“One of the great anti-war plays, ‘Iphigenia,’ exemplifies how the momentum of war can propel individuals and a Iphigenia nation toward the unspeak- at Aulis able.” This April 2-12 is how the website for Arthur Miller the School of Theater Music, Theater 7:30 p.m. and Dance bills its upcoming General performance of Admission: the last surviv- $28.00 ing play of the ancient Greek Students: $10.00 tragedian Euripides, written at the end of the fifth century B.C. “Iphigenia” examines the story of the ethical conflict over the sacrifice of Agamemnon’s daughter, Iphigenia, in the prelude to the Trojan War. Agamemnon, the commander of the Greek forces, faces this decision because Athena is barring their travel to Troy and decides that a sacrifice of a family member will appease her. But he has to grapple with doubt and hesitation over this decision, and deals with a back-and-forth game of persuasion with his brother, Menelaus. Euripides, writing against the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War, had war at the front of his mind. “Iphigenia at Aulis” was performed at the state-sanctioned annual dramatic festival, the Dionysia, where it took first prize a year after the author’s death and a year before the end
of the Peloponnesian War – the conflict that supplanted Athens as a major economic and political power, giving way to Spartan hegemony. Lysander, a Spartan commander, established the oligarchic rule of the Thirty Tyrants in 404 B.C., during which time Athenians faced land expropriations, state-legitimated murder and forced exile. “I think (war) is something I constantly react to, and I think our students do, too. I just think it’s important for art, and theater as one of the arts, to keep on reminding people that maybe we should be doing more to stop it,” said SMTD Professor Michael Tulip, director of the production. If literature is written in the confluence of historical, political and social forces, then “Iphigenia” is no exception. Just because it was written 2421 years ago does not mean that it was written in an indeterminate then-and-not-now. And it is significant that Euripides was writing amid – or against – the Peloponnesian War, since Thucydides’s canonical account of the military conflict is one that influences military strategy and historiography to this day. Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and military historian who introduced “The Landmark Thucydides” is also someone who praised President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq and advocated for strong responses to Iran. Tulip and students of SMTD set their production of “Iphigenia” in the 21st century, foregrounding the resonances between Euripides’s anti-war
play and the immediacy of antiwar politics to our geopolitical situation. “In terms of costumes, we are in 21st century Greece and the soldiers look like they could be in Desert Storm or Afghanistan, but without any emblems or anything to say that these are Americans or Greeks,” Tulip said. “We’re not doing any old robes or anything.” Tulip said that he and the cast have emphasized movement and physicality in their production as a means for enacting the internal ethical and affective conflict in and between each character. “For me, I would say that the way we’re looking at this work, it’s almost like a cross between a wrestler, a dancer and a human being who has got a lot at stake,” Tulip said. For Tulip and the SMTD cast, their production of Iphigenia always plays out at multiple levels. On the one hand, theirs is a theatrical project that emphasizes the duality between character and that character’s allegory in an ethical conflict in the context of war. On the other hand, there is the way that “Iphigenia” emphasized Euripides as an anti-war writer, and de-historicized and rehistoricized the piece all at once. It pulls Euripides’s play out of history to make comment on a time – ours – that is entirely not his. But reading his work as an anti-war play also puts Euripides into context as someone who was responding to his contemporaneous geopolitics. The Friday performances (April 3 and April 10) will be followed by a talk-back session with the director, dramaturge and cast.
TV REVIEW
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‘Big Time’ letdown By MATT BARNAUSKAS Daily Arts Writer
Two police officers stand over a suspect. Dark blues and greens contrast with the shining fluorescent light over their heads. BThe first officer (Lenny Big Time in Jacobson, “Nurse Jack- Hollywood, ie”) fails to get FL the criminal to talk. His Series Premiere partner (Alex Comedy Central Anfanger, Wednesdays at “Secret Life of Wal- 10:30 p.m. ter Mitty”) holds up his lit cigar and says in Spanish, “You like to smoke cigars?” “No,” the criminal glowers. “I like to smoke pigs.” The cop laughs before responding, “I like Cubans. I love the way they burn.” He jams the cigar into the Cuban’s eye. The man releases a tortured scream the wall behind him slowly rises, and bright light fills the room as the cops cry out, “Mom, we’re right in the middle of shooting!” The tough-as-nails cops introduced in the opening of “Big Time in Hollywood, FL” are revealed to be 30-something slacker brothers, Jack and Ben, played by Anfanger and Jacobson, respectively. The pair still live with their parents, the assertive Diana (Kathy Baker, “Medium”) and the submissive Alan (Stephen Tobolowsky, “Cali-
fornication”). The cinematic interrogation is reduced by the show to a poorly done home movie that the siblings are convinced will help them make it big, in spite of the shaky camera works, jumpy editing and bad acting. Jack and Ben live in a brightly lit world of ignorance. They have no skills, but their arrogant confidence in their “abilities” knows no bounds. So, it’s understandable that Diana and Alan ask the two to move out. When confronted with this, the brothers’ first solution is to suggest to their mother, “There’d be more space if you divorce Dad.” When this doesn’t work, the next obvious course of action is to fulfill the episode’s title “Severance” by pretending Ben has a drug problem. It would be easy for these two to fall into utterly despicable and unlikable territory, but series creators Anfanger and Dan Schimpf (“Next Time on Lonny”) imbue the characters with enough naiveté and arrested development that their schemes are more amusing than sinister. However, Jack is the more manipulative of the two, comfortably convincing Ben that he has to have the drug problem. Amusing is the best way to describe “Big Time” ’s humor. The situations that the brothers find themselves can be ridiculous and most of the characters have a goofy charm to them. Tobolowsky’s doormat of a father, Alan, stands out as he only gets through disciplining his sons through Diana’s prodding. The antics seen in “Severance” are mostly worth an eyebrow raise or slight chuckle, and keep the view-
er interested, but the show never breaks into absolute hilarity for the majority of its first episode, skating by on well established man-child humor. Only in the show’s final act, where it goes into unexpected territory, does the series begin to realize its full comedic potential. The pilot is boosted by the presence of guest star Ben Stiller (“Tropic Thunder”) as Jimmy Staats, a failed actor, that Jack and Ben enlist to play a drug dealer shaking Ben down for money. Staats’s own illusions of stardom trump even the central pair’s as he puts on his best C-grade version of Scarface – white suit, bad accent and all. Stiller owns the screen anytime he’s present in the episode, especially in the surprising and hilarious final moments when the brothers’ light reality of self-delusion slips into a dark world of violence with Staats as the idiotic, ultimate victim. The shift in lighting back to the color scheme in the opening fantasy helps trigger this change creating a contrast between the brothers’ fantasy and the real-world (albeit ridiculous) consequences they have to face in the upcoming episodes. “Big Time in Hollywood, FL” finds itself within the well-known territory of Comedy Central slacker comedies with the likes of “Broad City” and “Workaholics,” but it has yet to reach the comedic heights its predecessors have displayed over the years. However, the amusing atmosphere of the show prevents it from ever being boring, and the off-the-rails ending to its first episode displays promise for Jack and Ben.
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Redshirt junior right-hander Matt Ogden, who is 1-1 with a 4.91 ERA, will start for Michigan on Tuesday against Toledo.
Michigan to face two MAC foes this week Toledo, Central Michigan visit Wilpon Complex Tuesday, Wednesday By NATHANIEL CLARK Daily Sports Writer
Winning two out of three games against No. 20 Maryland was undoubtedly a major achievement for the Michigan baseball team. The Wolverines (14-12, 2-4 Big Ten) will not be able to bask in their glory for long, though. Two Mid-American Conference teams stand in their way this week: Toledo on Tuesday and Central Michigan on Wednesday. “I’m just focused on our next training session,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich. “Before we can even get to the next game, we have to focus on getting better.” On the surface, the Rockets (9-18, 3-3 MAC), don’t appear to be a credible threat. The Wolverines defeated Toledo, 19-5, back on March 7 at the Coastal Carolina Invitational, and the Rockets are coming off losing two out of three to Akron. Alex Wagner, who has posted a 1-2 record with a 6.88 earned-run average in seven appearances, will start for Toledo. The Wolverines will counter with redshirt junior right-handed pitcher Matt Ogden, who is 1-1 with a 4.91 ERA. But in order to prevent Michigan from coming down to Earth, Ogden will have to contend with the Rockets’ A.J. Montoya, who sports a .313 batting average with five home runs. Central Michigan (18-10, 5-1 MAC), on the other hand, will
likely be a more formidable foe. The Chippewas swept Miami (Ohio) last weekend, led by Logan Regnier, who is hitting .353 with 23 RBI. He went 4-for5 with three runs and four RBI in Central Michigan’s victory Friday. Not to be outdone, offense has been plentiful for the Wolverines thus far this season. Michigan leads the Big Ten with a .293 batting average and is second in the conference in hits (259), doubles (54) and on-base percentage (.374). Senior centerfielder Jackson Glines is leading the way for the Wolverines, hitting .425 with an on-base percentage of .519. He rests atop the Big Ten in both categories. “I think we have a lot of really good hitters on this team,” said senior infielder Kyle Jusick. “When we put a lot of good at-bats together, we put up a lot of big numbers.” But the hero of the series with the Terrapins was junior right-handed pitcher and third baseman Jacob Cronenworth. Normally Michigan’s closer, he started the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, throwing 64 pitches in five innings, giving up two runs on three hits while striking out nine. The Wolverines’ offense came up short, though, and lost the contest, 3-1. But it was Cronenworth’s bat that made the difference in Michigan’s 10-1 victory in Saturday’s second contest. He blasted a two-run home run in the second inning and belted a three-run triple in the fifth. Cronenworth’s success boosted his batting average to .305.
With Cronenworth expected to take on more starts going forward, expect to see freshman righty Bryan Pall take over the closer role. Pall boasts an 0.59 ERA with 14 strikeouts this season, and earned his first career save in the Wolverines’ 5-2 triumph Sunday. As for Michigan’s success against Maryland, it came despite some key contributors still sidelined with injuries. On the pitching staff, junior southpaw Evan Hill has yet to start this season, but should return soon. “We’ll work (Hill) back in slowly,” Bakich said. “We’re not going to just run him out there in his first outing and expect him to pitch a complete game. But we’re really looking forward to getting him back. He’s a great teammate.” At the plate, junior shortstop Travis Maezes — who hit .302 in 2014 — has not been able to play since March 7. “We thought we were going to have (Maezes) back this weekend (against Maryland),” Bakich said. “He’ll be ready any day now. He may not get to 100 percent, but he needs to get to a point where he can compete and help the team win.” So while it may be tempting for the Wolverines — with their ongoing goal of competing for a Big Ten championship — to look ahead to the upcoming threegame series with conference foe Indiana next weekend, Toledo and Central Michigan cannot be ignored if Michigan wants to vie for a spot in the NCAA Tournament.
“We’re really looking forward to getting (Hill) back.”
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Brooke Parker finds fit at Michigan By CINDY YU Daily Sports Writer
In just her second year on the Michigan women’s gymnastics team, Brooke Parker was voted captain by her teammates. “That, in and of itself, speaks volumes,” said Michigan coach Bev Plocki. Plocki emphasized the significance of the team voting for its captains, as they have the responsibility of leading the team. It is important for them to be respected, approachable and trustworthy. Parker epitomizes all of the above, and more. The senior from Lorton, Virginia transferred from Alabama after her sophomore year. She offers a unique angle to the sixth-ranked Wolverines (18-0 Big Ten, 21-2 overall), given that she started her career somewhere else. “She’s very quick to bring another perspective and remind people that they have it better than most,” Plocki said. “I think she’s just so grateful for everything about Michigan because of where she’s coming from.” At Alabama, Parker helped the Crimson Tide win the NCAA Championship her freshman year. She appeared in the floor lineup several times throughout her first two years of college gymnastics, but was unable to contribute as much as she would have liked to. In comparison to Michigan’s squad of 14 this year, six of whom are freshman, Alabama boasted 18 and 17 gymnasts on the team during Parker’s freshman and sophomore seasons, respectively. “Alabama has a lot of really talented gymnasts,” Parker said, “so it’s really competitive to be inside the lineup.” As a result, Parker decided to explore other options by visiting other universities during the summer of 2013.
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Senior Brooke Parker quickly became a captain for the Michigan women’s gymnastics team after two years and a national championship at Alabama.
When she visited Michigan, it was love at first sight for the 4-foot-11 gymnast. “The first thing that I realized was that (Michigan) helps you strive to be better inside and outside of the gym,” Parker said. “They really are the leaders and best.” Parker prioritized earning an education from a prestigious university. Throughout high school, she was a successful student, but gymnastics took precedence. To accommodate for morning practices, Parker was home-schooled up until 10th grade. She promised herself that when she attended college, she would invest more time in her studies. A two-time Scholastic AllAmerican according to the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches/Women, Parker made the SEC Honor
Roll and studied business when she attended Alabama. Had she continued her business education at Michigan, she would have had to stay an extra two years. Given that, she decided to pursue a general studies education with the intent of attending graduate school in Sport Management. Her athletic scholarship inspired her to seek a job in athletic development. “I really want to be a part of the event side so I can help coordinate events that give back to the donors for essentially everything they gave to Michigan,” Parker said. Parker’s transition from the
South to Midwest couldn’t have gone better. She has fit in better than her coaches could have hoped for. The approach her coaches have taken resonates with her tremendously. “They really do look at their athletes as people who are going to grow up and be a part of something way bigger than just a gymnastics team,” Parker said. “I think that outlook has really improved the way I walk into the gym, the atmosphere and everything about the program.” Having been the only elite gymnast preparing at Capital Gymnastics National Training
“It’s honestly one of the best things that could have happened.”
Center from the eighth grade until high school graduation, Parker has made several leaps. Her co-captain this year, senior Annette Miele, helped ease the transition. The two have known each other since their club gymnastics days. Both competed in Region 7 and in 2009, qualified for the Visa Championships, the highest level of elite gymnastics in the nation. Parker earned senior international elite status and had the opportunity to compete alongside Olympians Nastia Liukin and Alexandra Raisman. Parker was ecstatic about the news that she would be leading the team with Miele. “It’s honestly one of the best things I think that could have happened,” Parker said. “It’s just really great going through it with someone that I have known forever.”
The two exhibit different leadership styles. While Miele is more of the mother figure on the team, Parker is the energizer. Parker’s ability to not only uplift her teammates, but also make people laugh shows how comfortable she is at Michigan and makes her personality so contagious. One of Parker’s greatest improvements since joining the Wolverines has been her confidence. “When she first got here, she just really lacked in having confidence in herself,” Plocki said. “I could see from the beginning that the talent was absolutely there, but that she just needed to believe in herself more in order to allow herself to perform at the level that she’s capable of performing at.” Indeed, Parker has gained consistency and confidence in her gymnastics. While she competed sparingly on floor and vault her junior year, she has competed in both events every meet this year. She is also the first alternate for the balance beam and has been a major contributor on the uneven bars. A key factor to her bar routine was switching her dismount. Having experimented with a fullin and double layout, Parker was able to learn a new double-front dismount that she has been able to execute consistently. Parker earned second team AllBig Ten honors and led Michigan to a Big Ten Championships win last Saturday. While her leadership and performance is approaching an exceptional level, if Michigan hopes to compete for the NCAA title in April, both attributes will have to be present at an even higher level. Regardless of her tenure on the team, Parker’s ability on and off the floor is beyond justified. “My only regret,” Plocki said, “is (that) I wish I had her for another year or two.”
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It’s time for another banner
wenty-five banners hang in Crisler Center. Three Michigan teams compete in the 12,707seat gym. On that stage, countless hours have been dedicated to winning tournaments, KELLY Big Ten HALL titles and sometimes, on those glorious days that fans of the University crave to see once again, national championships. Both basketball squads and the women’s gymnastics team call Crisler home. The athletes of the winning teams enter the gym on the day of a competition and look up at the rafters, comforted by their history and compelled to keep that success alive. Out of 25 banners, however, not one belongs to the Michigan women’s basketball team. They aren’t comforted by the rafters. To them, it’s an empty space. It lacks history, with nothing to show for the toil of the past 41 years. But that doesn’t mean darkness isn’t compelling. Thursday, after the Wolverines’ dominant win over Missouri pushed Michigan into the quarterfinals of the WNIT, it appeared that a new era could be on the horizon. Athletic Director Jim Hackett stood up from his courtside seat and strode over to coach Kim Barnes Arico to congratulate her on the victory. Together, they walked over to men’s basketball coach John Beilein and his wife, Kathleen. Beilein couldn’t help but smile, realizing that despite his team’s struggles this season, a banner could still be raised next to his
program’s collection. But now it’s time for Barnes Arico to earn one of her own. All three seniors are fighting in every game to make sure it’s not their last. The most notable example is forward Nicole Elmblad, who is continually raising the bar when it counts. After averaging 7.4 points and 6.8 rebounds in the regular season, she’s now averaging 9.0 points and 8.5 rebounds in the WNIT. During Sunday’s quarterfinal game, she scored 14 points, just ahead of senior guard Shannon Smith, who tallied 11 points, and just behind senior forward Cyesha Goree, who scored 15. “Once we came back (from the Big Ten Tournament), we knew we had a lot of work to do,” Goree said after defeating Cleveland State in the WNIT opener. “Everybody really committed to being checked in, focused on being able to still do something that hasn’t been done yet. A WNIT championship (for Michigan) has not been done yet. “There’s no reason to hang your head right now, because you still can do something great for this program.” Wednesday, during the semifinals of the WNIT, they can do just that. They already know their names will be in the record books. Elmblad has played in 131 games, the most in program history. Goree has eclipsed 300 rebounds in two seasons, the only Michigan player ever to do so, and Smith is one of just seven Wolverines in school history to score at least 36 points in a single game. But it’s safe to assume they
want something more symbolic than a name and a year next to statistics. A WNIT title would represent what the team has done collectively, symbolizing something much larger than just individual feats. This is Barnes Arico’s third year, but she has already made an instant impact. In her first year, she led the team to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. In her second, Michigan made it to the third round of the WNIT. And now, the Wolverines are playing in April for the first time in program history. The future is bright for Michigan. Freshman guard Katelynn Flaherty leads the team in points, averaging 14.3 points per game. The younger players are getting a great deal of postseason practice, so it would come as no surprise if they made a run in the NCAA Tournament next year. The Wolverines have entered a new phase of Michigan basketball, one that’s past rebuilding. Before the first game of the 2015-16 season is even played, expect Barnes Arico and the Wolverines to watch a bannerraising ceremony of their own. Expect the athletic director to be there, and maybe even the Beileins. Most of all, expect the faces of Michigan women’s basketball to look up at the rafters to see that 26th banner, and watch them be compelled to put another alongside it.
“There’s no reason to hang your head right now.”
Kelly Hall can be reached by email at hallkl@umich.edu and on Twitter @KellyHall20.
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Sophomore Lindsay Montemarano has competed with freshman Taylor Swearingen for playing time at third base.
Montemarano, Swearingen battle for time at third base By KEVIN SANTO Daily Sports Writer
Roughly 20 minutes before the start of every Michigan softball game, coach Carol Hutchins submits her lineup card to the home-plate umpire. After 36 games, there are some positions so well established that a fan could bet on the names being scribbled on that card. At this point, it’s clear that junior Sierra Romero will anchor the infield at second base. Sophomore Kelly Christner will hold down her territory in left field. But third base isn’t a position fans should be putting their money on, as sophomore Lindsay Montemarano and freshman Taylor Swearingen have been vying for the starting position as of late. Montemarano has a .200 batting average and .360 on-base percentage, while Swearingen’s numbers are .245 and .457, respectively. This season, Montemarano has started twice as many games as Swearingen at third, but things can change quickly. In the first 23 games this season, Montemarano started 19 games compared to Swearingen’s
four. In the previous 13 games, the time spent at the hot corner has swayed in Swearingen’s favor. Swearingen has been positioned at third in eight of the 13 contests, claiming the majority of starts. But to say that Swearingen has officially taken over as the starting third baseman for Michigan wouldn’t be fair. There are more factors that play into this position battle than just who has inherited the bulk of the starts lately. Montemarano and Swearingen have similar skill sets on the defensive end, recording just four and two errors, respectively. There is no denying that Montemarano has played against stiffer competition than Swearingen. She started every game against No. 1 Florida, No. 5 Florida State and No. 6 Alabama. She also notched two starts against No. 10 Arizona State. Despite bearing the largest burden against ranked teams, Montemarano has not consistently produced. She has posted a batting average below .100 and recorded just two walks against ranked opponents. In contrast to the veteran, Swearingen has faced only two ranked opponents: then-No.
10 Arizona State and then-No. 9 Baylor. Though it’s a smaller sample size, she did not fare much better than Montemarano against her toughest adversaries, going 1-for-6 at the plate. But in the Big Ten opening series against Ohio State, Swearingen impressed. She went 2-for-5 with two home runs and three RBI. Her performance against the Buckeyes earned her significant time at third against Iowa. Both have struggled at the plate against elite pitching, but Swearingen boasts a higher season batting average and slugging percentage than Montemarano. For two defensive equals competing for a spot in a Wolverines lineup where one can often earn a starting spot with their bat, Swearingen appears to be the strongest candidate at the moment. Her frequent appearances in Big Ten play as of late suggest that Michigan may be closer to solidifying the freshman as the newest starter to the infield lineup. For now, though, the scales are tipping in Swearingen’s favor, nothing is certain when it comes to Hutchins’ game-time decisions at third base.