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One of the easiest ways to understand the potential impact of the University’s $4 billion Victors for Michigan fundraising campaign is by looking at the experiences of students who have been awarded financial aid scholarships like those that the campaign will offer. One such scholarship recipient, LSA senior Allison Epstein, exemplifies the kind of students the campaign hopes to support through financial aid. Epstein, along with 19 other University students, received the Sidney J. and Irene Shipman Scholarship the summer before the fall 2010 semester. Recipients of the scholarship receive $12,000 a year for four years of undergraduate study, as well as additional funds for room
SAPAC advocates always ready Core team of employees support survivors of sexual assault By CHARLOTTE JENKINS Daily Staff Reporter
For 168 consecutive hours at a time, a full week, Anne Huhman doesn’t let a 2005 black flip phone out of her sight. Huh-
man is the program manager for education and prevention at the University’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, and one of only five people who currently handle the crisis hotline. Huhman and three others serve as advocates in the SAPAC office, where survivors of trauma can receive support, counseling and resources for various issues. SAPAC staff also educate students about sexual assault to create a cam-
pus environment focused on prevention. The center was founded in 1986 after University students protested the lack of a rape crisis center on campus. Huhman became an advocate for survivors of sexual or domestic violence, which culminated in her employment at SAPAC. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 2002, Huhman took a job at Underground Railroad, Inc.,
a domestic violence shelter in Saginaw, Mich. There, she worked with schools and juvenile detention centers and gained experience educating youth about sexual assault and harassment, dating violence, stalking and healthy relationships, while working with survivors. In 2004, Huhman entered the University’s School of Social Work and began her work at SAPAC for her field placement. See SAPAC, Page 3A
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Solar car ‘Quantum’ to compete in U.S. race Older car will be used in wake of lastest car’s crash By SAM GRINGLAS Daily Staff Reporter
Though a crash left its car damaged in the Australian Outback last month, the University’s Solar Car Team is already mak-
ing plans for another race. On Monday, the team announced its intention to compete in the American Solar Challenge 2014, an eight-day, 1,700-mile race from Austin, Texas to St. Paul, Minn. But after the damage sustained at the World Solar Challenge in Australia, the team’s latest car, Generation, won’t make an appearance in the next race. The car
and board — approximately $8,000 a year — if the students choose to live in the residence halls. Epstein grew up in a middleclass suburb near Lansing. While she believes she could have attended the University without help from her scholarship, she would have needed to take out several student loans. “I would’ve had to borrow money from my parents and worry about what kind of housing I would have to choose for that,” Epstein said. “It would have been possible but it would have been a lot different than what I have now.” Epstein is currently an English, Creative Writing and French triple major, she’s editor of the Residential College literary magazine and she also runs a student writing workshop called The Writers’ Community. The extra funds from the scholarship have also enabled her to travel abroad for two summers, once to France and once to the United Kingdom. Another important contribution Epstein has made to the University See CAMPAIGN, Page 3A
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was pushed by a gust of wind while at a stop on the fourth day of the race, causing it to fall into a ditch. Instead, the team announced plans to race its previous model, Quantum, a three-wheeled vehicle that weighs about 300 pounds and can reach 105 mph. LSA junior Ian Sullivan, the team’s interim business director, said members, sponsors and See SOLAR, Page 3A
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Ben Fidler plows the Bending Sickle Community Farm in Stockbridge, Mich.. The farm is run on self-taught sustainable cultivating practices.
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CSG discusses absence at Circle K to organize 24 hours of service meetings, election demerits Nearly 50 CAMPUS LIFE
Reps can now be excused at speaker’s discretion By CAROLYN GEARIG Daily Staff Reporter
Eight days before the fall semester’s Central Student Government elections, the assembly met for their 10th meeting Tues-
day night. CSG discussed two resolutions and passed one. LSA senior Pratik Ghosh, a CSG representative, authored a resolution to modify CSG’s absence excusal procedure, eliminating the requirement for excusal of a two-thirds assembly vote. The resolution passed unanimously — the speaker of the assembly can now excuse absences because of illness, academic
obligations, family emergencies or religious holidays at his or her discretion. LSA senior Annika Conrad, co-chair of the Rules Committee, introduced a resolution to change the CSG elections demerit system to a violation and penalty system. Instead of the demerit system, in which those running for CSG who have committed offenses can continSee CSG, Page 3A
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Starting at 8 a.m on Saturday, University students and members of the Ann Arbor community will have the chance to volunteer for 24 consecutive hours.
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and businesses such as Michigan Abilities Center and Tantré Farm, an organic farm located in Chelsea, Mich. LSA senior Alex Novo, Circle K’s external vice president, said the broad range of volunteering opportunities is meant to appeal to a large group of people with varying interests. “The biggest differentiation, other than the fact that ours is a full 24 hours, between this service day and other ones like See SERVICE, Page 3A
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This year, the annual 24-hour Service Day hosted by the University’s chapter of Circle K — a student organization that promotes community service and leadership — will provide 108 service opportunities. Projects will take place in a variety of locations and range from random acts of kindness to planting trees in Detroit. Approximately 50 student organizations have signed up to participate so far and will be joined by local nonprofits
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more than 22,000 employees across the 10 University of California campuses, has stated that it will release details about the strike sometime next week. Yale student group campaigns against divestment As Yale University prepares for a Nov. 17 referendum regarding the university’s policy on fossil-fuel investment, a new student group is arguing against potential divestment measures, The Yale Daily News reported Tuesday. Despite the heavy support for divestment on campus, the Students for a Strong Endow-
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WHERE: Nichols Arboretum WHEN: Monday at about 9:45 a.m. WHAT: Arboretum staff reported three subjects camping in the Arb, University Police reported. When officers arrived, they were not able to locate the campers.
WHERE: Shapiro Undegraduate Library WHEN: Monday at about 12 a.m. WHAT: A subject was disturbing patrons in the library, University Police reported. Upon locating the subject, officers arrested him on an outstanding warrant from another agency.
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Panel on music Hagen quartet Though they last and evolution WHAT: stopped in Ann Arbor in WHAT: Discuss the intersections of biological evolution and music in a panel discussion. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. WHERE: Biomedical Science Research Building, Kahn Auditorium
Not your laptop Worse than WHERE: Hatcher Gradutooth decay ate Library WHEN: Monday at about 12:15 p.m. WHAT: A woman left her laptop unattended and returned to find a man using it, University Police reported. The man fled and is described as a 25-yearold black male with a heavy build and a pink sweatshirt.
February 2012, the Hagen quartet is back for a 30th anniversary performance. The group will perform its Beethoven cylce. WHO: University Musical Society WHEN: Today at 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Rackham Auditorium
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WHERE: School of Dentistry WHEN: Monday at about 9:45 a.m. WHAT: A subject was causing a disturbance while scheduling an appointment, University Police reported. Staff resolved the dispute.
WHAT: Geared toward students who already know the basics of resume building, this workship focuses on tailoring resumes for specific jobs or internships. WHO: The Career Center WHEN: Today from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Student Activities Building
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Panel deems One World Trade Israel halts plans to explore new Center tallest U.S. building settlements in the West Bank Needle elevates the skyscraper above Willis Tower
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foot Willis Tower, which “tense moments” than usual, is being dethroned as the given the skyscraper’s impornation’s tallest building. tance as a patriotic symbol. Measuring the height of a “I was here on 9/11. I saw the building would seem to be a buildings come down,” he said. simple thing, but in the case of Over the past few months, NEW YORK (AP) — They the new World Trade Center the council had hinted that it set out to build the tallest sky- tower it is complicated by the might be open to changing its scraper in the world — a giant 408-foot-tall needle atop the standards for measuring ultraJERUSALEM (AP) — Israthat would rise a symbolic 1,776 skyscraper’s roof. tall buildings, given a trend el’s prime minister on Tuesfeet from the ashes of ground The council’s verdict rested toward developers adding day abruptly halted a plan to zero. on a conclusion that the needle “vanity height” to towers with explore the potential construcThose aspirations of global should be counted as part of the huge, decorative spires. tion of thousands of new homes supremacy fell by the wayside building’s total height. Without But the council also has a in West Bank settlements, saylong ago, but New York won it, the tower would be just 1,368 history of disallowing antening it had created an “unnecesa consolation prize Tuesday feet tall, the same height as the nas in height calculations. The sary confrontation” with the when an international architec- original World Trade Center. Empire State Building’s landinternational community that tural panel said it would recog- That would make it smaller than mark 204-foot needle isn’t threatened to weaken his camnize One World Trade Center not only the Willis, but also a counted in its height measurepaign against Iran’s suspect as the tallest skyscraper in the 1,397-foot apartment building ment. Neither are the two TV nuclear program. United States. being built a short subway ride antennas atop the Willis Tower, The plan announced by IsraThe Council on Tall Buildings away near Central Park. which had been the country’s el’s Housing Ministry earlier and Urban Habitat, considered Speaking at his office in New tallest building since it was in the day had prompted a Pala world authority on super- York, council chairman Timo- completed — and named the estinian threat to walk out of sized skyscrapers, announced thy Johnson, an architect at the Sears Tower — in 1974. U.S.-brokered peace talks and its decision at simultaneous global design firm NBBJ, said But in the end, there was unadrew angry criticism from offiSudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ news conferences in New York the decision by the 25-member nimity on the committee that cials in Washington, who said and Chicago, home to the 1,451- height committee had more One World Trade Center’s reach they had been blindsided by the for 1,776 feet — a number that move. echoes the founding year of the In a statement, Prime MinUnited States — was an artistic ister Benjamin Netanyahu said architectural expression. he had asked his housing min“This was a quest to put ister, Uri Ariel, to “reconsider” HARD something meaningful and the plan. He noted that Ariel, symbolic on that site because a member of the pro-settleof the horrible history of what ment Jewish Home Party, had happened on that site,” said drawn up the plan “without any Antony Wood, the council’s advance coordination.” executive director. “This step does not contribTourists photographing the ute to settlement. On the conskyscraper Tuesday mostly trary, there is damage here for agreed that when it comes to settlement,” Netanyahu said. height measurements, this “This is a meaningless step — spire should count. legally and in practice — and an “For any other building, no. action that creates an unnecBut for this one, yes,” said Cary essary confrontation with the Bass, of Lake Mary, Fla., as he international community at a waited to enter the National time when we are making an Sept. 11 Memorial at the new effort to persuade elements in skyscraper’s feet. “Those peothe international community to ple deserve it,” he said, referreach a better deal with Iran.” ring to the attack victims. The statement said Ariel had “It’s a special building,” said accepted the request. Paul Schlagel, visiting from The issue of settlement conLongmont, Colo. struction has been at the heart When architect Daniel Libesof a standstill in peace efforts kind won a public design compein recent years. © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com MID-WEEK MADNESS. tition for the World Trade Center The Palestinians claim the master plan in 2003, his original West Bank, east Jerusalem and was for a twisting, angular the Gaza Strip, territories capGenerate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku and Godoku puzzles atvision sudokusyndication.com!
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tured by Israel in 1967, for an independent state. They say Israeli settlement construction on occupied lands is a sign of bad faith. More than 500,000 Israelis now live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. The ministry refused to say how many of these homes were in settlements. But the anti-settlement watchdog group Peace Now, which closely monitors construction activity, said the plans included nearly 20,000 apartments in the West Bank and 4,000 in east Jerusalem. In all, Peace Now says Netanyahu’s government has given final approval for nearly 3,500 new homes in Jewish settlements since taking office last March. In addition, it has promoted plans for nearly 9,000 additional homes. The international community rejects settlements as illegal or illegitimate, and the reaction to Israel’s plan was swift. The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said that at the instruction of his president, he had contacted the U.S., Russia, the European Union, the United Nations and the Arab League to voice objections. “I informed them that if Israel implements this decision, then this means the end of the negotiations and the end of the peace process,” Erekat said. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the White House had been caught off guard and demanded “further explanation” from Israel. “Our position on settlements is quite clear — we do not accept the legitimacy of continued settlement activity. We’ve called on both sides to take steps to create a positive atmosphere for the negotiations,” she added. Peace talks resumed in late July after a nearly five-year break. The sides have set an April target date for reaching an agreement.
Under heavy U.S. pressure, the Palestinians dropped a longstanding demand for a halt in settlement construction. To lure the Palestinians back to the table, Israel agreed to release 104 of the longestserving Palestinian prisoners, all convicted in violent attacks on Israelis, in four phases. The Palestinians also say they received assurances that settlement construction would be constrained. Both sides have said the negotiations have made no progress. The situation deteriorated further two weeks ago when Israel, responding to its release of a second batch of prisoners, announced plans to build thousands of new homes in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Those plans remain on track. In an interview broadcast on Israeli and Palestinian TV last week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said continued settlement construction raised questions about Israel’s seriousness about pursuing peace. Erekat, the Palestinian negotiator, said there have been no negotiations for the past week. Israeli officials had unsuccessfully tried to play down Tuesday’s announcement. They said the government was merely beginning a long-term feasibility study and no new construction had been approved. Any construction that does take place, they added, would be years away. The Housing Ministry said it had published bids seeking architectural firms to look into possible construction of some 600,000 homes nationwide to ease a chronic housing crunch. In recent days, Netanyahu has feuded with the U.S., his closest and most important ally, over the troubled Mideast peace efforts and attempts by the international community to curb Iran’s nuclear program.
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Selfridge Air Base cited for eight safety violations The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Selfridge Air National Guard Base for unsafe or unhealthy working conditions. Eight notices were issued to the military base northeast of Detroit, the U.S. Labor Department said Tuesday in a release. The base is located in Macomb County’s Harrison Township and is home to the Michigan Air National Guard. It employs 790 people, according to the press release. An inspection was conducted in accordance with the Federal Agency Local Emphasis Program.
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Heidelberg Project’s ‘House of Soul’ burns down Another house that makes up the internationally known Heidelberg Project outdoor art installation in Detroit has burned. WWJ-AM reports the building known as the “House of Soul” was destroyed Tuesday morning. It’s located about a block from Heidelberg Street. The cause of the fire at the house, which had been covered with old vinyl albums, is under investigation. Last month, a fire burned the Obstruction of Justice House at the Heidelberg Project on Detroit’s east side for a second time. Also known as the O.J. House, it dated back to 1995 as a piece of art. The house also had been damaged during a May fire. Tyree Guyton, creator of the Heidelberg Project, transformed his decaying, crime-ridden neighborhood into an interactive sculpture park.
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U.S. doctors urge wider use of cholesterol drugs The nation’s first new guidelines in a decade for preventing heart attacks and strokes call for twice as many Americans — one-third of all adults — to consider taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. The guidelines, issued Tuesday by the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology, are a big change. They offer doctors a new formula for estimating a patient’s risk that includes many factors besides a high cholesterol level, the main focus now. The formula includes age, gender, race and factors such as whether someone smokes. The guidelines for the first time take aim at strokes, not just heart attacks. Partly because of that, they set a lower threshold for using medicines to reduce risk.
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EU vows youth unemployment to ease within 2 years European youths still face rising joblessness at a rate far higher than their American counterparts — but European leaders insisted Tuesday that scenario is going to improve over the next two years. Leaders from 24 European nations as well as labor ministers and European Union officials met Tuesday in Paris to talk about youth unemployment. They announced no new programs but many expressed confidence that plans now in place will reverse the rising joblessness for the under-25 set over the next two years. With budgets still tight, Europe’s youth unemployment rate stands at 23.5 percent, up from 23.1 percent a year ago. In the U.S., the rate is about 16 percent. Europe has pledged 45 billion euros ($60 billion) between 2013 and 2015 to fight youth unemployment.
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CAMPAIGN From Page 1A community is her involvement in Appreciate + Reciprocate, a group of student scholarship recipients who give back to the community through service projects and fundraising for the LSA Emergency student aid fund. LSA junior Preeta Gupta, president of Appreciate + Reciprocate, also received part of the Shipman Scholarship before her freshman year. She believes her duty as a scholarship student is to give back to other in-need students.
SAPAC From Page 1A She stayed on at SAPAC postgraduation and has been in her current position for six years. Huhman said the crisis line is there to support a person, no matter what they need or when they need it. She said it’s very common for advocates to get phone calls at 3 a.m. while they’re on shift. “If the phone rings, we drop everything we are doing to ensure we give attention to whoever is on the line,” Huhman said. “It could be a survivor or a friend or a family member, or really anyone in the community.” Advocate Heather Colohan, SAPAC’s program manager for community outreach and systems advocacy, said advocacy work is especially relevant on college campuses. Colohan described a recent call from a student who was concerned for her friend, who had been drinking. The friend was in a room alone with a male student, and the caller was concerned that she would be asked to engage in sexual activity. If the friend was intoxicated, she may have been incapable of giving consent. Colohan talked the caller through the situation, instructing her to distract the perpetrator by asking one of his friends to call him from the room to do him a favor, so that the caller could remove her friend from the situation. “It felt really good to have my training and my education about prevention come to fruition,” Colohan said. “You know that what we’re trying to spread is not falling on deaf ears.” At the SAPAC office, there is always a member of the professional staff on call.
SERVICE From Page 1A DP Day is the wide range of projects,” Novo said. “There’s something for everyone here. We have projects with children, the elderly, health and wellness along with lots of other things.” Most of the approximately 300 volunteers already signed up for Service Day are University students. LSA senior Josh Kurtz, the president of Circle K, said he would like to see that eventually change. “It’s open to anyone in the community who wants to participate,” Kurtz said. “We actually would love to have more people from the community other than just students and make it more of
News “It felt like an investment,” Gupta said. “It motivated me to give back and take advantage of all the opportunities I have here.” Gupta and the other Appreciate + Reciprocate members see the Victors campaign as a needed resource for admitted students. “Our mission, raising money for scholarships, aligns really well with theirs,” Gupta said. Epstein also appreciates the need for a fundraising effort directed at student aid instead of “high profile” efforts like athletics or infrastructure. Stephen Ross, chair of the Victors for
Michigan campaign, has been criticized for splitting his record $200 million donation between the Athletic Department and the Business School, two programs that are in less need than other units on campus. Because tuition keeps rising, Epstein believes University priority should be helping deserving students pay their bills and receive a Michigan education. “The value of a Michigan education is really, really huge and it should be available to anybody who can do the work,” Epstein said. “It should be based on what you can do at school, not how much you can pay to get here.”
Typically one to two survivors come into the SAPAC office per week. There is a noticeable increase in visits when freshman come to campus in the fall. Huhman attributes this to the vulnerability of new students on campus, when first-year students are especially eager to make friends and may be taken advantage of more easily. For crisis-line calls, advocates are often sent to residence halls or University Hospital. SAPAC dispatches an advocate to the hospital if a survivor discloses in the emergency room that he or she has been sexually assaulted and is a student, faculty or staff member at the University. Following initial contact, the SAPAC advocate meets with the social worker assigned by the hospital and police investigators. Colohan said her role is to help the survivor make informed decisions and that it’s okay to not have an answer to every question that might be asked of them. After the initial meeting, whether that takes place in the SAPAC office, the hospital or a residence hall, SAPAC typically sends a follow up e-mail that informs survivors of other resources. The Peer-Led Support Group is one of those resources. On Wednesday nights, LSA senior Molly Blakowski and School of Public Health student Merrybelle Guo facilitate the support group, which is a support group structured around self-care and ways to reduce anxiety. Three people usually come to the meetings each week, but during the winter semester attendance is expected to rise to five or six. Blakowski emphasized that the forum is intended to support survivors, but not
replace therapy. “I’m a geochemist; I’m not a therapist,” Blakowski said. “I mostly want you to feel that you can manage your stress and that you have support.” Blakowski said being in a group with fellow students creates commonalities that distinguish the Peer-Led Support Group from the rest of the organization, which is often focus on support from professional staff. The professional staff may continue to have a relationship with survivors they have advocated for, and may continue to advocate if a survivor needs help. This sometimes takes the form of academic advocacy, where SAPAC can contact a professor if a survivor needs extra time for an assignment because they are recovering from trauma, or if a survivor needs to take an exam in a different room because the alleged perpetrator is in the class. LSA senior Meghana Kulkarni, co-coordinator of the Men’s Activism program for SAPAC, said the professional staff of SAPAC does one of the most important jobs on campus. “Even in Ann Arbor, which is a very liberal campus, our community is still very victim-blaming,” Kulkarni said. “Having as much support for survivors where people tell them, ‘This is not your fault, even though you were drinking, this should not have happened to you,’ these kinds of affirmations are really beneficial.” Though it’s her job, Colohan said advocacy work is a rewarding experience. “To be the first person to tell them that they did not deserve what happened to them is pretty amazing,” Colohan said. “You might be the only person in the survivor’s life who is providing
a community-wide event.” According to Kurtz, the purpose of Service Day is to give back to the community and spark an interest in community service. Circle K provides free food and transportation to encourage people to volunteer. “The idea is to show people how much good they can do in such a short amount of time,” Kurtz said. “We just want to give people the opportunity to get involved in service.” The event will close Sunday at 8 a.m with a special ceremony. LSA senior Zachery Gizicki has been growing out his 16-inchlong hair since middle school and will cut it to raise money for the Eliminate Project, the global campaign of Circle K’s parent organization, Kiwanis Inter-
national, which seeks to raise funds to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus by 2015. Along with raising money for The Eliminate Project, Gizicki will also be donating his hair to the non-profit Children With Hair Loss. “I do service because I’ve never really had money to donate but I always feel it’s better to donate my time,” Gizicki said. “The reason I started growing out my hair was because I knew I wanted to donate it in the end and I felt like this was the perfect opportunity to do it and go out with a bang.” Club members encourage anyone who is interested in volunteering with the organization to visit the website for registration.
China, Russia & Cuba elected UN human rights council Countries are among 14 new members to human rights abuses watchdog group UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Cuba and Algeria won seats Tuesday on the U.N. Human Rights Council, riling independent human rights groups who said their election undermined the rights watchdog’s credibility. The General Assembly elected 14 new members to the 47-seat Geneva-based council, which can shine a spotlight on rights abuses by adopting resolutions — when it chooses to do so. It also has dozens of special monitors watching prob-
lem countries and major issues ranging from executions to drone strikes. Britain, France, the Maldives, Macedonia, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia and South Africa were also elected to three-year terms. Human Rights Watch noted that five of the new council members — China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Algeria — have refused to let U.N. investigators visit to check alleged abuses. China, Russia and Algeria have 10 or more unfulfilled requests for visits by U.N. experts, some dating back to 2000, the group said. Saudi Arabia and Vietnam each have seven outstanding requests, they said. “Countries that haven’t allowed U.N. experts appointed by the council to visit have
a lot of explaining to do,” said Peggy Hicks, global advocacy director of the New York-based non-government group. “It’s like hiring someone, then not allowing them to enter the office.” Across the street from the main gate of U.N. headquarters, pro-Tibet activists hung a huge banner saying “China Fails Human Rights.” Seats, allotted by region, are sometimes contested and sometimes not. All 193 members of the General Assembly can vote by secret ballots, which were collected in wooden ballot boxes from delegates. Geneva-based UN Watch, a frequent critic of U.N. rights practices, denounced what it considered the worst new members.
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SOLAR From Page 1A alumni carefully evaluated both cars in the decision to enter the upcoming race. The team concluded Quantum could provide opportunities for younger engineers to cooperate with recently graduated alumni who had worked on Quantum during their time on the team. Though Generation was not totaled in the crash, it won’t arrive back in Ann Arbor until at least January. Sullivan said that timetable would not provide enough time to retrofit the vehicle and prepare it for the race. “It takes a while to get a car halfway around the world,” Sullivan said.
CSG From Page 1A ue in their positions though they are given demerits, a penalty system will give the University Elections Commission authority to revoke a percentage of votes received. Also in this resolution, the backup election director who works with the election director will no longer be a voting member of the UEC. The election director and backup election director are the only two who know election results before they are released. “It will help eliminate some biases,” Conrad said. “It helps them give a cleaner rule of the law. There will be no ulterior motive for any rulings.” This resolution has not yet been voted on and will be discussed further at upcoming meetings. During the community con-
Generation would also require additional redesigns regardless of its condition for an American Solar Challenge, which has different specifications for participating cars than the World Solar Challenge. Sullivan didn’t comment on specific factors composing the team’s evaluation of Generation and Quantum. “We decided Quantum would give us the best chance to win the race,” he said. Quantum won the American Solar Challenge in 2012, completing the race 10 hours earlier than the next-fastest competitor. Sullivan said the team has not ruled out the possibility of Generation returning to compete in future races. He said the car would be evaluated once it returns to Ann Arbor from Australia.
cerns section of the meeting, LSA senior Sonja Karnovsky, co-president of the Roosevelt Institute — an organization encouraging students to create and advocate for public policy — introduced LSA sophomore Trevor Dolan. Dolan explained his idea to donate instead of waste dining dollars left over at the end of every term. “We either want to allow people to donate dining dollars through swipes — they could tell the cashier ‘I would like to donate $10 to the purchase of non-perishable goods to a nearby homeless shelter,’ and then we ourselves could determine how that money is put to use,” Dolan said. He said the alternative option would be to have bins where students could donate non-perishable goods purchased with dining dollars. CSG Fall 2013 elections will occur next Thursday, Nov. 20 and Friday, Nov. 21.
Hawaii Senate passes gay marriage bill Governer anticipates signing bill, which was passed 19-4 HONOLULU (AP) — The state Senate passed a bill Tuesday legalizing gay marriage, putting Hawaii a signature away from becoming a same-sex wedding destination. Gov. Neil Abercrombie, who called lawmakers to a special session for the bill and has vocally supported gay marriage, said in a statement he will sign the measure. It will allow thousands of gay couples living in Hawaii and even more tourists to marry in the state starting Dec. 2. “I look forward to signing this significant piece of legislation, which provides marriage equity and fully recognizes and protects religious freedoms,” Abercrombie said. President Barack Obama praised the bill’s passage, saying the affirmation of freedom and equality makes the country stronger.
“I’ve always been proud to have been born in Hawaii, and today’s vote makes me even prouder,” Obama said. Senators passed the bill 19-4 with two lawmakers excused. Cheers erupted inside and outside the gallery when the vote was taken, with a smattering of boos. Senate President Donna Mercado Kim, who voted against the bill, banged her gavel and told members of the public to quiet down. More than half the chamber’s lawmakers spoke in support of the bill, with many urging the public to come together to heal divisions within the community. “This is nothing more than the expansion of aloha in Hawaii,” said Sen. J. Kalani English, a Democrat from Maui. Sen. Sam Slom, the chamber’s only Republican, said the government should stay out of legislating marriage. “People have differences, and you can’t legislate morality. You can try, but you can’t do it,” Slom said before voting against the bill.
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Taking a stand on trafficking State’s efforts to end the human rights violation warrant support
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n Nov. 6, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, alongside an appointed panel of state lawmakers, released the final report from the Michigan Commission on Human Trafficking. The 63-page report provides recommendations for programs that aim to target criminals engaged in the illegal enterprise of human trafficking, as well as assisting victims, which arise from the practice. Due to the increasing prevalence of the issue in Michigan, advocates against human trafficking have correctly focused their efforts on increasing cooperation within the state by calling for uniformity and awareness of the issue. In late September, members of the Michigan Senate introduced 18 new bills to address human trafficking. Due to concern across the state, the proposed legislation seeks to address the frailties of human trafficking laws. Primarily, the bills advocate for increased support and services for victims, but also urge for stronger prosecution against traffickers. The recommendations provided in the report specifically point to the necessity of targeting the earnings of criminals — including targeting their properties and assets. One issue in combating human trafficking for legislators and activists alike has been quantification. While Schuette has estimated the victims each year to range from “thousands, maybe a couple thousands,” programs around the state have reported fewer than 300 cases yearly. While advocates for human trafficking reform may seem to be overstating the vastness of incidents, the numbers behind the reports are more complicated. However, in many cases, the numbers for trafficking offenses are significantly reduced due to cases being misidentified as prostitution or other related crimes. In order to classify the cases appropriately, the Commission’s report has recommended the implementation of additional training and a uniform system to improve data collection — a necessary step to take further action. Perhaps to the surprise of many, the Com-
mission reports that the problem in Michigan “is serious and growing.” So while the need for training specific to human trafficking is evident, greater public awareness on the issue is crucial. An increased public awareness of trafficking will lead to a more comprehensive understanding of the crime and the victims associated with trafficking — which includes prostitution, as well as forced labor. In many cases, minors have been unjustly treated as criminals, adding further harm to their misfortunes. While many residents of Michigan are aware that human trafficking is an issue, it does not always resonate as proximate. With greater public understanding, these criminals won’t be able to operate as discreetly as they have in the past. The Commission’s report has begun a more concerted effort by the state to address human trafficking. While the report will certainly play a major role in illuminating human trafficking as an issue within Michigan, the implementation of the recommendations will ultimately decide its success. Through statewide coordination, it should be expected that law enforcement and associated service employees will actively pursue the proper treatment of victims of human trafficking. By separating the victims from the criminals, the issue at hand will become more tangible and efficiently combated.
MEGAN MCDONALD | VIEWPOINT
Living in racial limbo
Recently, there have been many pieces published reflecting the struggles of different minority groups on campus, and the response has been amazing. But, I’d like to argue that despite all this talk about race, we’ve forgotten one minority — my minority. Being biracial. I am White. I was born in the suburbs of Detroit and have spent my whole life there. English is my first language and I can attempt to speak Spanish only because I’m in my fourth semester requirement. I share the same cultural views about the world as many other Americans, and I do have German, Irish, and English heritage, which I’m very proud of. I am Asian — half Filipina, specifically — but I don’t share the same cultural views and experiences as my mom. While I love traditional Filipino foods and learning about my mom’s lifestyle in her village, I’ve never been to the Philippines. I talk to distant relatives in the Philippines who have known much more pain than I ever will. I can’t speak Tagalog, but I can tell you that “mahal kita” means I love you, and I know a couple of swear words as well. I am two races, two ethnicities — a combination of two different worlds. Those two worlds have conflicted on many occasions and forced me to pick and choose my beliefs, but ultimately made me who I am. I am proud of my heritage, just as any other American would boast about their heritage, whether that’s Irish, Chinese, Nigerian or Mexican. But when it comes to race, I’m stuck in racial limbo. I’m both, but neither at the same time. In conversations about race, bi-racial iden-
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tities are forgotten. We are the true minority. Only 2.4 percent of Americans are bi-racial. But we’re clumped into other minority identities, which doesn’t allow us to fully express the experiences we’ve had. Half white, half Black. Half White, half Asian. Half Asian, half Black. Whatever combination, we’re left as outcasts, never fully fitting within either group and only grouped by what others perceive us as. The bi-racial struggle is trying to fit in. We can label ourselves as Asian, Black, Latino, etc., but at the end of the day, those groups always recognize our White heritage. The same goes for trying to identify as White — it’s impossible because we can’t be fully accepted due to our minority background. But I can’t simply leave one to adopt the other. My dad had an impact on my life, as did my mom. Would I be doing an injustice to my upbringing by rejecting my White identity, or even worse, seem as if I didn’t value my dad? And as for my mom, with all her love and tenderness, would I inadvertently reject her and her culture by abandoning my Filipino background? I refuse to subscribe to just one race. Being bi-racial is a part of me and a part of my story. In a society where we’ve divided ourselves upon race, bi-racial people like me are the ones who know what it means to be a minority and feel rejection. However, we’re pioneers in the sense because we see both sides for all its beauty and its flaws, and create the bridge between the two. Megan McDonald is an LSA sophomore and assistant editorial page editor.
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The current social media speculation is without merit and 100-percent inaccurate ... I have sincerely apologized ... for the failures in our sound system and for the difficult situation this has caused her.” — Athletic Director Dave Brandon apologizing for sound system problems at Michigan Stadium on Saturday, when President Mary Sue Coleman gave a speech. Due to delayed vocals, speculation arose that Coleman was intoxicated.
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ntil recently, I never considered myself a romantic person. In fact, I was practically born jaded when it came to courtship. From a young age, I prided myself in being a guy’s gal, always proving that I was EMILY impervious to PITTINOS girlish fantasies and acts of mushy devotion. I rolled my eyes at rom-coms. I pretended to forget anniversaries so I wouldn’t have to celebrate them. Once, a stranger told me, “You’re beautiful; I want to paint you.” I laughed in his face. Even my first Internet presence was antiromantic — when I was a smartassed tween, the personal summary on my MySpace page simply read, “I enjoy long walks on the beach, candle-lit dinners … and SARCASM.” Of course, I was so opposed to “romance” because my definition was pretty lame. When I thought of the word, I pictured stupidly expensive dinners in poorly lit restaurants, girls quaking over boxes of coconut-filled chocolate and women draped honeymoon-style across the arms of men in suits. None of that sounded like me. For one thing, these images were all boring and very uncool. Tradition may be brimming with nostalgia and grandeur, but it’s predictable as hell. Romance also sounded sexist for all parties involved. My definition hinged on dudes doing all the legwork while ladies cooed helplessly from the sidelines — which could be demeaning for women and exhausting for men.
There also seemed to be a lot of unspoken agreements made in the classically romantic world. A man has bought my dinner in a date-like way only twice, and I felt squeamish both times the check arrived at our table. It just didn’t seem fair that he should have to pay for a meal I consumed. Plus, did purchasing my salmon sashimi mean I owed him something else in return—a mixed tape, a quick handie, full-on intercourse? These questions made our dinner seem like an under-the-table transaction, not an act of affection. I was so caught up in the rate of romantic exchange that I couldn’t enjoy my food or his company, which only reinforced my disdain for the whole system. “I can just buy my own damn salmon.” I thought, “It’s easier that way.” However, I’ve realized I don’t have to follow this gendered script if it’s not what gets me going. In other words, tradition says that romance should comprise big red hearts, white linen tablecloths and doing it on a bearskin rug. But like in sex itself, we’re actually free to decide what’s pleasing to us and then define romance on our own terms. So, if going topless to a monster truck rally is ideal for you, then that’s just swell — forget the flowers. Courtship can entail whatever you want. It doesn’t have to be about one gender catering to the other — in fact, like spooning and chivalry, romance is at its best when it’s reciprocal between partners and both genders — and it doesn’t have
to be lame, either. A few unplanned and tender moments I’ve experienced over the past year have also helped me understand that I haven’t been doing myself any favors by keeping courtship at an arm’s distance. I won’t go into the sappy details, but I will say that moonlight, running deer and an exchange of letters have been involved, and I did not puke. In fact, those experiences were invigorating. I felt admired and empowered. That’s one thing I’ve learned about romance: It can make you feel really good. The other thing I’ve learned is romance takes courage. Through all my years judging the pants off of hopeless romantics, I never gave them enough credit for their bravery. In order to court another person, you have to make it super clear that you’re interested in them and immediately risk rejection. Showing your kindness like that takes real guts. But that’s also what makes romantic attention so sexy. Everyone likes feeling special and it doesn’t take much. You don’t need to spend any money or sign unspoken sexual contracts. Just slip a note into someone’s book. Deliver a few earnest compliments. Willingness to make a fool out of yourself just to prove your attraction is a feat that should not go unrewarded. I only wish more people would take those small risks.
We’re free to decide what’s pleasing us and define romance in our own terms.
— Emily Pittinos can be reached at pittinos@umich.edu.
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When I tell the story of how my brother fought for his life — and ultimately, won — people don’t always understand that I’m haunted. To my friends who know the story, it should be something I can let go of — I mean, he’s healthy now, right? But the perspective I have on the world and the life I lead will forever be informed by the two months that my only sibling spent in the hospital. In a face-off with death, he won. He’s lucky. And that makes me lucky, because I still have my brother here. But what most people don’t realize is that this brush with death has left me with a forever-anxiety. Uncertainty breathes down my neck, and I worry about his health all the time. When my brother was a senior in high school, he contracted a staph infection that ultimately infected his heart. Standing at the watershed moment of childhood and adulthood, my 18-year-old brother required open-heart surgery. Before the infection, he was a very healthy young man, rarely missing a day of school. But there’s an aspect of randomness to illnesses that most people don’t realize until they become its victims. Nearly six years out from his surgery, my brother is now a graduate of the University and plans to become a lawyer. Though he will require medical attention and probably another heart surgery later on, he’s healthy. For nearly a year following
his release from the hospital, I watched my father file paperwork and negotiate with our health care provider. Though working through the bureaucracy of health insurance was aggravating and challenging, my brother would not be alive without it. For me, the debate surrounding the Affordable Care Act is personal. Before this legislation, medical insurance providers often avoided insuring people who had illnesses that likely required future treatment. Ironically, this meant that those who needed healthcare coverage the most were denied so that insurance companies could guarantee their own profits. If not for the passing of this act, my brother’s pre-existing condition would have made it virtually impossible for him to procure health insurance as an adult. Under the Affordable Care Act, my brother is insured on my parents’ plan for another three years, and he won’t be denied coverage because of his surgery. I believe that health care is a basic human right, and it has taken our country too long to get to the place we are today. My brother’s health hangs in the balance of this new legislation. His story may not be extraordinary, but were his circumstances different, it would have had another ending. If, for example, my parents worked for companies that didn’t have health insurance. Or if my brother, as a law school student, got sick again after he was no longer covered by my parents’
insurance and had chosen — like most young adults — not to buy health insurance. Without health insurance, my brother would have been left vulnerable to more than his own illness. He would have risked his own financial security. In fact, according to NerdWallet Health, nearly two million people will file for bankruptcy this year due to unpaid medical bills or unsatisfactory coverage. In this country, medical bills are the biggest cause of bankruptcies. Upon hearing of my brother’s recovery, one religious leader in my high school told me he had been lucky, and thank goodness so many people had been praying for his welfare, for surely God had played a heavy hand in the outcome of his illness. And yes, there was an aspect of luck — both good and bad — to my brother’s illness. But he also had a team of highly skilled, fast-acting doctors and the ability to pay for medical costs on his side. Unlike, as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau, the 6.6 million uninsured children in this country. The Affordable Care Act provides a new security for my brother. Sure, the passing of this legislation doesn’t solve all my brother’s health problems, or magically make my anxiety disappear. But it keeps uncertainty a few steps behind me, rather than breathing down my neck. Micah Nelson is an LSA sophomore.
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‘Barber of Seville’ No new EDM ‘Friends’ the original sitcom By ERIKA HARWOOD Daily Arts Writer
School of Music, Theatre & Dance puts on famed opera
characters. “Imagine that Jerry Seinfeld is a character like Figaro: He’s smart, he’s cunning, he’s got the brilliant ideas. Then, the Dr. Bartolo character is similar to George CostanBy REBECCA GODWYN za, often angry, often bizarre in his Daily Arts Writer own individual way,” Swedberg explained. “And then this RosiWhen given the choice between na character is pretty similar to watching an opera and a sitcom, Elaine, so we know these characmost people would choose the sit- ters from sitcoms.” com. But accordThe show has been translated ing to Associate The Barber into English for past performancProfessor and es, but this particular performance Opera Director of Seville will be performed in the original in the School of Thursday at Italian. “The reason we perform in Music, Theatre 7:30 p.m., Friday Italian is because that is the origi& Dance, Robnal language of the piece, and it’s and Saturday ert Swedberg, actually a more beautiful language at 8 p.m. and the upcoming to sing in,” Swedberg said. Sunday at 2 p.m. production of However, to make the show “The Barber of Power Center more accessible to a wider audiSeville” by Gioence, the English translations will From $22 acchino Rosbe projected over the stage so the sini and Cesare audience can follow along with the Sterbini, which Swedberg is show. Several other touches have directing, is quite similar to a pop- been added as well to make the ular TV comedy. show feel more modern. “The story itself is characters “You’ll see in the set design and that are based on the ‘commedia the costumes, there are some eledell’arte’ background from the ments that are more contempoItalian comedies,” Swedberg said. rary,” Swedberg said. “But you may relate to how they One example of an added conare used in sitcoms, kind of like temporary element that can be ‘Seindfeld.’ ” seen is the implementation of a The show details the story of QR code, the square symbol that Count Almaviva as he falls in love can be scanned by smartphones with Rosina, the pretty and young to bring you to a link, for Rossini ward of the elderly Dr. Bartolo. made into tiles around the edge of However, there is a hitch in the the set. Count’s plan when it is discovered Swedberg said fans of the opera the doctor intends to marry Rosi- will have the opportunity to watch na himself. The count enlists the the show performed with two help of Figaro and what follows is separate casts, which is common a hilarious story of deception and in the opera program because confusion. Despite the opera being the MT&D wants to give as many over 200 years old, Swedberg students as possible an opportuexplained how parallels could be nity to perform these roles. While drawn between the cast of charac- the idea of sharing a role may be ters and popular modern comedic strange to some, the actors are
strongly encouraged to come up with unique characterizations for their own individual part instead of working collaboratively. “Early in the rehearsal process, when we lay out the staging, both actors in a role get the same staging, but they’re encouraged to develop their own characterizations,” Swedberg explained. “And sometimes we’ll discover a bit that one cast will do, and we’ll share it with the other cast if it is something we want to incorporate into the production itself.” If opera doesn’t interest you much, perhaps the athleticism of the performers will draw you in. The full show is to be performed with an acoustic orchestra and none of the performers will have microphones, meaning they will use the power of their voices alone to fill the Power Center. “This is really hard stuff to sing. So you can be really impressed by the singing as an athletic event,” Swedberg said. It is well known that there is a strong stereotype about opera that claims it is only for the elite rather than the masses, but Swedberg hopes this doesn’t deter people from coming to the show. “I think that people often don’t understand that they’re going to have a good time at an opera,” Swedberg said. “There are so many stereotypes that are associated with opera, but the operatic experience can be the ultimate culmination of all the various art forms.” As for what Swedberg hopes people take from the show? He simply wants the audience “to be entertained and have a good evening in the theater.” And what could be better than watching a sitcom brought to life before your eyes?
FILM NOTEBOOK
‘Hocus Pocus’ has all brewings of a potentially great musical By GRACE PROSINEWSKI Daily Arts Writer
If you’re like me, you’ve already fully immersed yourself in the winter holiday spirit, and Halloween seems like a distant memory. But to Halloween we must return, if just for a moment, to discuss matters of grave importance. A few weeks ago, I was in Salem, Mass., visiting all the buildings used for exterior shots in the cult classic, “Hocus Pocus.” I was completely in my element, pointing out the familiar scenery and quoting my favorite lines. Then, without warning, my sister uttered the fateful line: “You know they’re thinking of making a ‘Hocus Pocus’ musical on Broadway.” This changes everything. For those of you who don’t know, “Hocus Pocus” is a 1993 film staring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as the Sanderson Sisters, three witches who try to remain young by stealing the souls of children. It initially received negative reviews upon its theatrical release by whom, I can only assume, to be humorless vampires wishing to suck the joy and wonder out of life. “Hocus Pocus” climbed its way to the top through strong VHS and eventually DVD sales, as well as record viewership on ABC Family’s “13 Nights of Halloween.” So here we are now, 20
years later, with “Hocus Pocus” largely regarded as both a cult classic and a Halloween staple. Truly, the only next logical step is a musical adaptation. I’m not an expert on how musicals get made (my sister is the one who watches “Smash”), but it looks to me that a “Hocus Pocus” musical would have all the necessary features to succeed on stage. First, the set list pretty much writes itself. Building off the original film’s spooky “Come Little Children” and of course the immensely enjoyable “I Put A Spell On You” would be a piece of cake. Max could sing, with angst, about missing his old life. Jay and Ice could have some sort of rap, à la Vanilla Ice. Dani could rhyme something with yabos and make everyone feel incredibly uncomfortable. Later, Max and Allison could share a romantic duet, and Emily could escort Thackery Binx to the afterlife in a Les Mis-esque finale.
This show will put a spell on you. And that’s not even counting all the awesome musical possibilities for the Sanderson
Sisters. Also, Billy Butcherson, the zombie, would need his own number, although I leave that up to the professionals to sort out, considering he has his mouth sewn shut for most of the story. Secondly, can you imagine the costumes and special effects, with brooms and vacuum cleaners flying through the air via stage wires? It would be like “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” except, you know, not terrible. It’s also interesting to note that Bette Midler, Kathy Nijimy and Sarah Jessica Parker already have experience on Broadway. While I think it’s doubtful that they would reprise their roles, it could help in the funding and pre-production stages. Plenty of films, especially those that flopped when first released, have found new life through different mediums. Take for example the not-so-great 1992 “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” movie rebooted as the widely popular and acclaimed television series of the same name a few years later. And the formula works even better with musical adaptions. Movies that got panned by critics, like “Newsies,” “Kinky Boots” and “Cry Baby,” all have been adapted into Tony Award-winning productions. The time is right for a “Hocus Pocus” musical. I leave you to consider just how many virgin jokes could be made in such a show.
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Enter We Are Friends Vol. 2, in which many artists contribute tracks that bleed into one another and Cany song under We Are six minutes is apparently Friends considered a Vol. 2 sin against the EDM gods. Deadmau5 This is a compilation album mau5trap from electro maven deadmau5, which features tracks from the artist’s favorite upand-coming musicians. Despite the backing of one of electronic music’s biggest forces, few of the artists stand out as individuals and even contributions by the mau5 himself fall flat. The album opens with “Suckfest9001,” a new track from deadmau5. The song’s feverish pulsation builds and builds before releasing into two minutes of a light, chilled-out rhythm, presumably the time when all the Mollyed up teens take a breather from their overactive flailing. The track lacks individuality or any trigger causing it to be associated with deadmau5. It adheres to all the EDM tropes but refuses to exceed them in any capacity. But maybe that’s the point. This isn’t a strictly deadmau5 album, comprised of new, game-changing material, but a record where he gives lesser known artists their time to shine. Unfortunately, few
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rise to the occasion. “Lekture,” a track contributed by mau5-christened newbie, Eekkoo, sounds straight out of the “Suckfest9001” mold. It begins with a heavy beat before stripping down to a simple, repetitive loop, before charging back up again. The never-changing sounds make the track morph into droning noise you forget is playing in the background. However, “Lekture” clocks in below the five-minute mark, which is admirable.
Beating to same electronic drum James Njie, an electro artist from London, contributes “In Transit,” a track which offers more variation but still doesn’t completely avoid falling victim to the simple methods plaguing the album. While Njie alternates between uptempo, pounding
beats and flowing whimsical breaks much smoother than others on the album, the song’s repetitiveness becomes mundane and exhausting well before it’s over after seven minutes and 22 seconds. Why are these songs so long? However, some manage to break free of the seemingly predetermined algorithm for the album. Pasadena-based Heat Maxwell’s “FreakShow” features samples and an aggressive beat that further embellish the track. As one of the few tracks that could be identified as its own, refusing to bleed into the song to follow, Heat Maxwell comes off as one of the artists with potential on the record — something that seems disappointingly rare for the album. For a release marked with the intentions of showing off new EDM talent, We Are Friends Vol. 2 instead gives a lackluster view of electronic music’s future, where all the beats sound the same and the songs never end. Seriously, why are these songs so damn long?
FILM AND TV NOTEBOOK
Lacking lesbian love stories By PAIGE PFLEGER Daily Arts Writer
The other day, I sat down to do my drawing homework and began scrolling through Netflix. Might as well multitask, drown out the sound of my boyfriend talking about chemistry and watch a movie. I opted for the quirky, witty feel-good section and stumbled upon “Kissing Jessica Stein,” a movie about a journalist (interested) in search of the perfect man (boring), but who instead finds herself the perfect woman (sold!). I settled in, ready for a rom-com, in which the two lesbians would find their happily-ever-after (because we all know they’ll never get it in a Disney movie) — however, by the end, it became blatantly apparent that wouldn’t be the case. Jessica, played by Jennifer Westfeldt, responds to a personal ad in women-seeking-women that quotes Rilke, which automatically interests the literarily inclined, heterosexual character. She decides going on a date with a girl could be exciting, adventurous and a definite change of pace from her painfully single, uptight lifestyle. She meets art house director Helen Cooper, played by Heather Juergensen, and the two become romantically involved. Jessica goes through a whole string of emotions about it — shocked, excited, hesitant, freaked out and finally settling on a serious case of denial. She tells her coworkers that she’s seeing a man and even neglects to invite her girlfriend to her brother’s wedding. Finally, after a touching “I’m-going-tosee-about-a-girl”-type scene, the two make up, U-Haul and begin to live a life of blissful domesticity where they retrieve each other’s dry-cleaning and wear pajama sets to bed. A cute, lesbian movie where lesbian love is legitimized and taken seriously, you think. You’re wrong. Three months later, the two are found mid-breakup. Helen argues that the two are simply roommates, not lovers, and Jessica cries without much refute that she has become attached to their co-dependent lifestyle. Helen leaves, but the movie continues, and Jessica ends up with her male boss whom she had dated in college. I closed my computer and thought for a moment, landing on the realization that the movie was actually kind of a cop-out. Jessica Stein was just one in a string of many women in movies
who abandoned the lesbian lifestyle to return back to the “societal norm” of heterosexuality after an exciting and confusing tryst with a female partner. This ideal is presented in multiple movies — even the popular play, “Rent.” Maureen leaves Mark for Joanne, then leaves Joanne to be with Benny. Even when a lesbian relationship is legitimized by marriage, like in “The Kids are Alright,” the drama is created by Jules — a lesbian, wife and mother running off and having an affair with the biological father and sperm donor of her children.
A male’s version of lesbianism To be honest, there are very few movies or shows that get lesbianism right, the best examples being “Imagine Me & You,” “The L Word” or even “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Rachel leaves her fiancé for Luce, Jenny Schecter leaves her fiancé for Marina and Willow stops being with Oz because of her relationship with Tara. None of them say, “Oh, well
that was exciting, but it’s back to the penis for me!” They find love in their self-discovery, not just an exciting sexual escapade that can be fetishized by heterosexual men who think it’s “hot.” This pattern leads to the question of “Why?” Why is it that in a world where the acceptance of gay love (which is, in fact, the same love as Macklemore so aptly pointed out) is growing, a woman who ventures into the realm of homosexuality abandons it to return to the undeniably easier and more heteronormative relation of a man and a woman? When it comes down to it, more than anything else, the situation is about the money. A film that clings to the safety blanket of heterosexuality will be more marketable to the majority of American viewers. A movie that shows a lesbian relationship as merely a sexual exploitation will be accepted because of its sex appeal, and as long as everyone ends up straight, the viewers will go home happy. It’s about time that the movies we watch reflect the actual society we live in, in which a woman can, in fact, love another woman — not because it’s hot or exciting or an adventure, but because it is completely and utterly normal.
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‘The best damn coach on this campus’ By Alejandro Zúñiga Daily Sports Editor
The arched roof of Jenison Fieldhouse in East Lansing once housed Earvin “Magic” Johnson. It hosted Mississippi State and Loyola Chicago in the 1963 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, which helped advance civil rights in one of the nation’s most tenuous times. But on a day in January 1976, the dusty court of the hallowed building was disturbed not by the cheers of thousands, but by the methodic pounding of a basketball as Carol Hutchins and the rest of the Michigan State women’s basketball team ran through drills. Partway through the practice, a prominent visiting men’s Division I squad walked into the building, familiarizing itself with the venue before a game against the Spartans later in the week. Then the visitors stepped onto the court, ignoring Hutchins and her teammates, and began to warm up. By then, the head coach of the visiting team was quite wellknown, and he would go on to enjoy a long career. But when he finally acknowledged Hutchins, his stinging words ultimately came as less of an insult than they were the utterance of a painfully obvious truth. “No one gives a damn about women’s basketball.” And then he kicked them out. *** Growing up in Lansing alongside five siblings, Hutchins, now entering her 30th year as the Michigan softball coach, would spend her afternoons and summers outdoors on the playground. She never quite understood why, but she always loved sports. But when her three brothers were old enough to join organized teams, Hutchins didn’t have the same options. They went on to Little League, and she had to sit on the bleachers. They played basketball, and she watched from a distance. For lack of a better option, Hutchins enlisted in her school’s cheerleading team in middle
school and high school, the only varsity sport available to her. It was far from ideal, but it was the only way she could get from the stands onto the field. “I went and cheered for my brothers, even though I was better than them,” Hutchins said. Girls who wanted to play any other sport had to rely on gym class and sometimes hastily arranged after-school activities — no schedules, no uniforms and no varsity letter. Despite the extent that the law would soon change Hutchins’s life, the day Title IX passed in 1972 didn’t seem out of the ordinary to the high-school student. Hutchins didn’t come home and tell her parents that she could soon play organized sports. The implications of Title IX on athletics weren’t fully realized until later; after all, it was part of the Educational Amendments of 1972 and had no explicit relation to sports. Instead, the 37 words of the law state that no organization that receives federal financial assistance can deny benefits to people on the basis of sex. In other words, if a school wanted money from the government, it couldn’t discriminate against women. In her senior year, Hutchins’s high school handed the girls’ basketball team uniforms and a full schedule and promised to make arrangements for away games — commodities it had never offered before. A giddy Hutchins bought her first pair of Adidas Superstar shoes. “I was in heaven,” she said. “It just gave us the same opportunity. I don’t deserve more opportunity. I just want the same opportunity.” At that point, Hutchins was content with enrolling at Michigan State, especially since the school demonstrated a progressive attitude toward women’s sports. Her softball team even won a national championship, though it’s only recognized by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, and not the NCAA. At first there were no scholarships, but no one complained about having to earn playing time as a walk-on. Hutchins didn’t
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Michigan coach Carol Hutchins has been one of the pioneers of Title IX since its inception in 1972.
mind that the men had first choice to all of the school’s facilities and that the women would be slotted in as an afterthought, if at all. But beyond the lack of available scholarships, there were still countless inequalities between men’s and women’s sports. The women played at Jenison Fieldhouse just once per year when the Athletic Department scheduled a doubleheader with the men. And in stark contrast to the men, Hutchins and her teammates wore a conglomeration of T-shirts and shorts instead of schoolissued practice uniforms. After watching her brothers from the sidelines as a child, Hutchins was happy just to play — until, in one moment at Jenison Fieldhouse, a men’s basketball coach changed her mind. “Whatever the guys had, we were like this,” Hutchins said, holding one hand high above the other. “We were always second. Back then, you had athletics and then you had women’s athletics.” In 1979, Hutchins sued Michigan State, alleging that the school provided better housing options on road trips and a higher per diem to male athletes. Two years later, a preliminary injunction
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barred the university from discriminating against the women’s basketball team. “Unless you filed suit, there was no reason for an Athletic Department to change,” she said. *** Former Athletic Director Don Canham hired Hutchins as Michigan’s assistant softball coach in 1982 and promoted her to the head role three years later. As she remembers with a wry laugh, her initial job description mandated she spend half the day performing clerical work for the Athletic Department. When she finished her office duties, Hutchins had to take care of Alumni Field on her own, borrowing the tractor from the baseball team and driving it herself. Once, she crashed it into the outfield fence. Getting the field watered was a daily struggle. One season, it went weeks without so much as a drop. When it eventually became nearly unplayable, the Athletic Department finally brought in a fire truck to douse the field. But even if it seemed like she was competing against the base-
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ball team, Hutchins stresses that Title IX was never about pitting men against women. “My biggest battles were not on the softball field,” Hutchins said. “They were getting the resources my team needed to be successful.” One spring, both the softball and baseball teams had road trips to Indiana on the same day. When they arrived, Hutchins walked over to the baseball diamond to pick up an extra set of lineup cards, because she had forgotten her own in Ann Arbor. There, she noticed that the baseball team had been given a chartered bus. Meanwhile, the Athletic Department had offered the softball players vans. “When I first came to Michigan, they just wanted to be great in the men’s sports,” Hutchins said. “It was a very reluctant atmosphere (for the women).” When Bo Schembechler became Athletic Director in 1988, he helped usher in reform for women’s athletics at Michigan, a shift that continued under Jack Weidenbach’s reign in the early 1990s. For instance, it was because of Schembechler that the softball team finally received enough practice uniforms to wear all week long. And little by little, the resources provided to women’s sports began to increase. “There were two things Bo loved: Michigan, and a well-run program,” explains historian John U. Bacon, who authored Bo’s Lasting Lessons, as well as several other books about college football. “Hutch was both.” Even when Hutchins had to tend to Alumni Field and spend half the day as a secretary, the Wolverines never endured a losing season with her in charge. They won their first Big Ten title in 1992 and proceeded to claim two of the next three. And with that came the respect of the rest of the University. In October 1996, Bacon and Schembechler drove back together to Ann Arbor from Grand Rapids, arriving on campus well after everyone had left the athletic campus. As they pulled into the parking lot by the old softball facilities, Schembechler saw Hutchins finally walking out of her office for the night. “Look at that!” Bacon remembers Schembechler saying. “Tenthirty at night, and she’s working her ass off. That is the best damn coach on this campus.” Then he paused, remembering then-football coach Lloyd Carr. “The best women’s coach.” *** In 2005, the Michigan softball team made history by becoming the first team east of the Mississippi River to win the Women’s College World Series. Down by a game in the best-of-three series, the Wolverines clawed back to take the second game. In the 10th inning of the decisive contest, freshman Samantha Findlay hit a three-run shot over the left-field wall to give her team the title. The Wolverines mobbed each other at home plate, and because the triumph was broadcast nationally, millions could watch their accomplishment. After the game, Hutchins cried. “Everyone’s all on board now,” she said. “Back in those days, it
seemed like we were always going to be the second class.” When the softball team returned to Ann Arbor that summer, Hutchins’s phone was flooded with congratulatory voicemails, and she turned on her computer to hundreds of unread emails. People recognized her when she walked through the city the following day, and Schembechler himself waited on a street corner to greet her. “Hutchins made a big convert out of an old-school guy,” Bacon said. Schembechler wasn’t the only figure on campus buying into Hutchins’s program. Hundreds of miles away in Parry Sound, Ont., hockey coach Red Berenson watched that final game on television. When it ended, he began to tear up, and at the first coaches’ meeting in the fall, he walked over to Hutchins and asked for a hug. “Why would I care about women’s softball?” he said. “This is Michigan women’s softball. This is Carol Hutchins.” *** In March, the Michigan softball team will open its home schedule against Bowling Green, unveiling the latest addition to Alumni Field: an AstroTurf surface that allows the Wolverines to practice outdoors, even in cold weather. This spring will also mark the completion of a brand-new softball center, a three-story building which will feature locker rooms, fitness centers and hydrotherapy pools. The 10,200-square-foot complex cost $5.3 million alone, while the University spent $2.5 million combined to retrofit the baseball and softball fields with AstroTurf. And Hutchins will be entering her 30th season as leader of that softball team. She’s the winningest coach in Michigan history and has twice been named NCAA Coach of the Year. Her teams have finished atop the Big Ten in 16 of the last 21 years, including the last six in a row. When the Wolverines beat Northwestern to clinch a firstplace finish in the conference last May, many of the 1,800 fans in attendance waited outside Alumni Field to applaud Hutchins as she walked back to the locker room. The relationship between men’s and women’s sports isn’t entirely equal. For example, according to a survey by Brooklyn College researchers, more than 97 percent of men’s collegiate programs in 2012 were coached by a man. But that same year, only 43 percent of women’s teams had female coaches — a 47-percent decrease from 1972, when Title IX was introduced. But it’s certainly a step up from being kicked off her home court by a visiting team in East Lansing those dozens of years ago. Despite the flaws, plenty of signs point to the amendment’s success. Never in the history of collegiate sports have there been more female athletes or more women’s programs per school than today. In many ways, Hutchins says, we’re closer to equal opportunity than ever before. And the public has responded. The Michigan softball team has been on national TV more than 40 times since 2005, including 14 times in the last two years. Every game of the 2013 Women’s College World Series was broadcast on ESPN, and several aired on ESPN International from Africa, to the Middle East, to Latin America. “Look how far we’ve come. Who would have ever thought that could happen?” Hutchins said. “What makes me smile is seeing where women have come today and the opportunities we all have. I don’t take it for granted.” When the current group of seniors on the Michigan softball team arrived on campus four years ago, they came to Ann Arbor with access to some of the best athletic facilities in the nation. They all grew up playing sports because the world wasn’t telling them they couldn’t. But when Hutchins mentioned Title IX, one of them asked, “what’s that?” So Hutchins sat them down and told them her story.
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Indiana first in conf. tournament By Minh doan Daily Sports Writer
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Defensive coordinator Greg Mattison held Nebraska to 17 points but wishes he had taken a timeout on a key fourth down.
Mattison laments play By Liz Vukelich Daily Sports Editor
Hindsight is always 20-20, as Michigan football coach Brady Hoke would remind the public when asked about what he would change about the team’s 17-13 loss to Nebraska on Saturday. Unlike Hoke, though, defensive coordinator Greg Mattison seems to be kicking himself after reviewing the game film. He can easily pinpoint the one thing he wished he could go back and change – it was a timeout, or rather, one he didn’t call. Watching the tape takes Mattison back to that moment, to the fourth quarter, when Michigan had a three-point lead over the Cornhuskers. Nebraska was in the middle of a 75-yard drive, but the Wolverines were solid enough that they had stopped the Cornhuskers on the Michigan 31-yard line, facing a fourth-and-2. But Nebraska surprised the Wolverines by deciding to go for it as opposed to attempting a field goal to tie the game. There were enough reasons for the Cornhuskers to want to go for it on the fourth down. In
his postgame press conference, Nebraska coach Bo Pelini said the wind was just strong enough that he didn’t think his kicker would be in a good position to succeed. Cornhusker quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr. said they had so much momentum on that drive, it didn’t even occur to him the coaches would try and do anything but go for it. The next play sealed the Wolverines’ fate — Nebraska converted the first down, not just by barreling two yards, but with a short pass that was run up about 20 yards to set up a first-and-goal that eventually led to a touchdown. Watching the film, Mattison now sees all the glaring signs indicating he should’ve called a timeout. “We were in man coverage, and we’ve got two young guys and they weren’t in as tight coverage as they should’ve been,” he said. “I’ll put that on me.” Mattison said reminding those two young guys — freshmen defensive backs Dymonte Thomas and Channing Stribling — to tighten up their coverage could’ve changed everything.
In fact, Mattison mentioned four times during his Tuesday press conference that he wished he’d called the timeout to remind the two to reposition, citing the Cornhuskers’ “fast offense” as one of the things that caught the Wolverines off guard. Now, Mattison says he’s left lamenting his lapse in judgment that could’ve changed the course of Michigan’s season. “You’re two plays away from sitting here 8-1,” he said. “Hopefully the next time that happens, you don’t see (the cornerbacks) do that. It was a shame it was a 4thand-two.” Stopping that play would’ve been a huge momentum changer, but Mattison is trying to downplay the importance of a misstep like that — with the Michigan defense having to take on an increased role as of late due to offensive miscues, he tries not to bring it up too much. “Throughout the years, our offense has bailed us out a number of times,” Mattison said. “Our message to our team before the game is you are accountable to every other guy in that defensive room.”
The last time the Michigan and Indiana men’s soccer teams met, the two programs were fighting for a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Two and a half weeks Indiana at later, nothing Michigan has changed. The Big Matchup: Indiana 6-11Ten foes meet 1; Michigan Wednesday in 8-6-3 a must-win for When: each team in Wednesday order to qualify 4:30 p.m. for the NCAA Where: Jesse Tournament. Owens Memo“Based on rial Stadium RPI, we’re in Columbus going to have to win our next TV/Radio: two games to mgoblue.com make it into the tournament,” said Michigan senior forward Malcolm Miller. The Wolverines take on the Hoosiers in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament in Columbus at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. The Wolverines will look to make it three straight wins against the reigning national champions and move on to face another competitive opponent in No. 16 Penn State in the semifinals. “It’s going to be an interesting Big Ten Tournament,” said Michigan coach Chaka Daley. “Any five or six teams could win the tournament on any given day. The league is competitive from top to bottom.” Michigan (3-3 Big Ten, 8-6-3 overall) goes into the tournament having lost to Michigan State last Saturday — a loss that cost it the No. 2 seed in the Big Ten and instead made it the No. 4 seed. The Wolverines dominated possession and shot totals in the first half but couldn’t put away a goal. A red card to sophomore defender Jack Brown in the second half turned the game around, and the Spartans walked
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Senior forward Malcolm Miller knows what is at stake on Wednesday.
away with the win and the Big Bear Trophy. “We have to have a short-term memory,” Miller said. “We analyze the last performance, and we move on.” The Hoosiers (2-4, 6-11-1) ended their disappointing season on a high note last Saturday with a 3-0 win against Northwestern. Indiana has won three of its last 11 games. The Hoosier offense is led by senior midfielders AJ Corrado, a 2012 third-team All-American, and Nikita Kotlov, who leads the team in both assists and goals. Indiana will look to pressure the ball and create quality chances at the Michigan goal. “(The Hoosiers) are a good team,” Daley said. “They’re probably the best 6-11 team in the history of college soccer.” The two teams last met in late October at the U-M Soccer Stadium, where the Wolverines walked away victorious in a 2-1 thriller for their first-ever win over Indiana in Ann Arbor. Michigan again dominated most
of the first half, but it was the Hoosiers who found the back of the net, giving them a 1-0 lead going into halftime. The second half was better for the Wolverines, as freshman forward Yamann Sahlool tied the score and junior midfielder TJ VanSlooten put away a rebound late in the half to allow Michigan to escape with the win. But this time around, the Wolverines will be missing two key stalwarts on their back line. Brown and freshman defender Lars Eckenrode, two mainstays on the Michigan defense, will have to miss the game. Brown is missing the game due to his red card in Saturday’s game against Michigan State. Eckenrode was given his fifth yellow card of the season, which results in a onegame suspension. The absences of these two players will test the Wolverines’ depth. “We have a deep team,” Miller said. “We have a lot of guys who can step up and are more than capable of doing the job. It’s not that big of a deal.”
Freshmen share long-standing history By Jeremy Summitt Daily Sports Editor
Evan Allen remembers his coach’s pregame speech before he and fellow Michigan freshman forward Tyler Motte’s Detroit Honeybaked squad lined up against Team Illinois a few years back. Their coach told them to watch out for a kid named JT Compher. “I remember coach saying they had a strong player, JT Compher,” Allen said. “He was the best player on the ice and really hard to play against.” Honeybaked and Team Illinois are two of the most respected youth programs in the nation, raking in regional and national championships on an annual basis. From being old youth hockey rivals to lacing up their skates against Division I competition, Allen, Compher and Motte’s paths have frequently converged on and off the ice. After many years as rivals, Allen, Motte and Compher joined forces as a part of the Michigan hockey team’s 2013 recruiting class. The trio has played on the same line for nearly a month, becoming the team’s second-most productive unit with 11 points in eight games.
Allen and Motte share a rich history as teammates during their emergence as top youth players in the Midwest Elite Hockey League. They met for the first time nearly seven years ago, and have both been playing against Compher for just as long. “Chicago and Detroit obviously have three to four teams each (in the MEHL),” Motte said. “It was always a big rivalry, so we would see each other in big tournaments. We would see each other a lot in semifinals, so it’s been a great rivalry for a while.” Just two years ago, the trio was selected to join the United States National Team Development Program with 20 other top players from around the country. It was there, through the program based in Ann Arbor, that the trio became a tight-knit group. “They’re together at one high school from seven in the morning all the way until six at night every single day, so the bond between teammates was extremely tight,” said former U.S. NTDP coach Don Granato. “It was more of a bestfriend type of relationship.” Playing under Granato, Motte and Compher were often paired on the same line, developing plenty of chemistry along the way. Both Motte and Compher
were highly regarded as superb two-way players with the ability to grind it out in the corners and shut down high-octane forwards. “They could perform well at a high-skill game from a defensive standpoint and a grind-it-out game from a scoring standpoint,” Granato said. Allen, on the other hand, has always possessed a different playing style than his two teammates. He’s had a knack for scoring ever since his days at Honeybaked, where he says he and Motte were typically the go-to guys. Granato recalls constantly searching for more ways to get Allen in spots where he could shoot the puck. Allen netted 23 goals last season with the NTDP, where stats are often deflated with a demanding schedule against top collegiate and international programs. Allen, Compher and Motte have hardly changed their ways since coming to Michigan, and that comes as no surprise to Granato and Michigan coach Red Berenson. Allen continues to put pucks in the net, and Compher continues to be a scrapper in front of the crease and in the defensive corners. Motte is making his case as one of the top defensive forwards
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Freshman forward JT Compher is on a line with two other rookies, but the unit has 11 points in eight games this season.
on the Wolverines’ roster and has sniped a couple goals early in the season. “Tyler is a good two-way player, smart with the puck,” Berenson said. “The puck seems to find him and follow him around. Well, that’s because he’s in the right place at the right time. He’s always had a history of scoring. Defensively, he’s earning our trust, and that’s important.” All three of Michigan’s standout freshmen agree they made the best decision by staying in Ann Arbor after their NTDP careers. Even before the trio teamed up on the national team, they discussed where their paths might cross
next. Roughly a year before joining the NTDP, Motte and Compher recall playing in a prospects tournament in Toronto where, at the time, they hardly knew each other and were paired on the same line. They scored a few points during the showcase event and decided to stay in touch afterwards. “We had really good chemistry when we played in that tournament together,” Compher said. “It was kind of like, why don’t we keep that going, and then we ended up making the national program.” Compher was the first to commit to Michigan, and then Allen
joined conversations with Motte about coming. There was no reason to dismantle what was working, and the chemistry between the three has been a critical base for the Wolverines’ early success this season. On the ice, they’re three of the most dynamic freshmen in the country. After practice and outside team meetings, the trio’s long-lasting friendship continues to prosper. When asked if the trio influenced each other’s decisions during the recruiting process, Motte said it certainly didn’t hurt. There’s no telling how long their roads will remain connected after their Michigan careers.
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Michigan dominates By SIMON KAUFMAN Daily Sports Writer
Exactly one year before Michigan’s game against South Carolina State on Tuesday night, the team beat IUPUI at Crisler Center. Sophomore guard Caris LeVert didn’t see the floor that night — he was a redshirt candidate and wouldn’t get 59 SC STATE his first MICHIGAN 93 taste of playing time until Dec. 1. One year later, as the Wolverines cruised past the Bulldogs, it was clear what a difference a year has made for LeVert. Michigan (2-0) looked sluggish in the first half of its first regularseason game on Friday, scoring just 23 points against UMass Lowell. But Tuesday, the team came out of the gate quicker and, with the help of sharp shooting from LeVert, rolled to a 93-59 win. “We just came out with more energy,” LeVert said. “We got some stops early that led to fastbreak buckets, and I think that was the difference.” On Michigan’s second possession of the game, freshman guard Derrick Walton Jr. drove to his right and finished a tough layup after being fouled. He got up and knocked down the free throw to complete the and-one play, setting the tone for Michigan in the first half. The team shot 20-for-30 from the field and knocked down 12 3-pointers in the first half. Early in the game, freshman guard Zak Irvin had two open looks from behind the arc but missed both times. On the possession following his second miss, Irvin had another open look for three but instead penetrated toward the basket and threw a crisp pass to LeVert in the corner. LeVert squared his shoulders, released the ball and drained the 3-pointer — the first of five he’d hit in as many minutes. Following the 3-pointer, Michigan’s game plan was simple: get
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Sophomore guard Caris LeVert had a career-high 24 points on just 11 shots, including six 3-pointers.
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Sophomore guard Nik Stauskas had a career-high 23 points in the win.
the ball to LeVert behind the arc and then hustle back on defense. Walton assisted on LeVert’s second 3-pointer and sophomore guard Nik Stauskas set up LeVert for his next two triples. On Stauskas’s second assist, he fed a pass to LeVert in the corner and turned to go back on defense before the ball fell through the net. It was that kind of night for the Pickerington, Ohio native. If the ball came out of LeVert’s hands, there was a good chance it was going into the basket — 64 percent. He finished the night 7-of-11 from the field for a career-high 24 points. He also added four assists and three rebounds. “He is a nightmare on a closeout,” said Michigan coach John Beilein. “Somebody has got to go get to him. He can shoot it or go by you, and his seeing the floor is huge for us.” When LeVert came out, Stauskas stepped up and took over the 3-point-shooting party with five of his own from behind the arc and finished the night with 23 points. The Wolverines finished the half with 12 3-pointers and headed to the locker room leading 59-23. Michigan didn’t slow down in
the second half despite the Bulldogs mixing up their defense, switching from a zone to trapping and pressing the Wolverine offense. Sophomore forward Glenn Robinson III threw down a dunk 14 seconds into the half, and Beilein didn’t show any signs of letting up until two minutes remained, when he sent in the freshmen to finish up the lopsided win. It’s early in the season, but so far it’s clear that LeVert is Michigan’s most improved player, and his ability to step up will play a big part in the Wolverines’ fate this year. “This is a great start for him,” Beilein said. “Who are you going to take out in that lineup right now so that somebody else can play? … We can tweak some things some more, but at the same time, LeVert has got to be out there on the floor.” NOTE: Robinson, redshirt junior Jon Horford and fifthyear senior Jordan Morgan were named captains. It’s the ninth time in program history the Wolverines have had three or more captains. Robinson is just the fourth sophomore to be named a captain.
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With 18:25 left in the first half of the Michigan men’s basketball team’s Tuesday night game against South Carolina State, Glenn Robinson III took a seat on the bench. After being named one of three team captains earlier in the day, the sophomore forward was taken out of the game after picking up an early foul. Freshman forward Zak Irvin, a player Michigan coach John Beilein has identified as a shooter that spreads the court with his 6-foot-6 frame, came off the bench. On the Wolverines’ first possession after the substitution, Irvin missed a three from the corner. On the next Michigan (2-0) possession, the same result occurred, a rimmed-out 3-point attempt. The way the ball was bouncing, it seemed like the game would be similar to the Wolverines’ opener against UMass Lowell, in which they shot 1-for-9 from three and let a newly minted Division I team stick around for much longer than it should have. Then an extra pass was made and all of a sudden Michigan couldn’t miss from beyond the arc, as its lead ballooned to 20 and then some in the team’s 93-59 win.
After a defensive rebound by sophomore guard Nik Stauskas, the ball found itself in the hands of Irvin once again. But with sophomore guard Caris LeVert standing in the left corner, Irvin made the extra pass. With his feet set and his body in perfect rotation, LeVert rose up and fired the ball toward the hoop. After hitting every nook and cranny of the structure, the ball dipped into the hoop to give Michigan an 8-5 lead. His teammates sensed something was going on with LeVert, and freshman guard Derrick Walton Jr. followed protocol, making the extra pass once again as LeVert made his second shot with a clean swish. “There was no question, when Caris got it going, they were looking,” Beilein said. “They love Caris LeVert, and I wasn’t taking him out until he missed one because he didn’t need a rest.” The key for the Wolverines in this sequence, and throughout the first half, was their ability to get the ball in transition and run plays with the Bulldogs (1-2) stuck in a zone defense. “Because of clean rebounds and fast breaks, we didn’t run a lot of plays today,” Beilein said. “We just ran the ball up (with) just the nature of the fast break. If you’re going to play zone, I
think this team can get open looks against a lot of zones. And we have enough skilled guys to do that.” With steady rebounds and quick bursts downcourt, LeVert continued to find himself open as the ball moved around the perimeter. In fact, he was so wide open in the first half that by the 11:42 mark, he already had 15 points on 5-for-5 shooting from beyond the arc. Though LeVert cooled off a bit in the second half, he still recorded a career-high 24 points on just 11 shots, including six attempts from deep. Not to be outdone, Stauskas knocked down five deep balls of his own to match LeVert going into the locker rooms. Stauskas scored a career-high 23 points. Though LeVert didn’t want to admit there was competition going on between the two, Stauskas couldn’t help but gush at the idea of catching up to LeVert’s early hot hand. At the same time, he noted it was getting the ball out front that enabled the Wolverines to record their secondmost 3-pointers in a game (15) in program history. “We had a lot of guys that were passing the ball well, driving the ball well,” Stauskas said. “And any time you can kick the ball out for open threes, you can’t complain.”
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I always start off the semester with good intentions: I’ll get eight hours of sleep every night and go to bed at 11 p.m. But, as my workload grows and my procrastination follows, sleep is the first thing I sacrifice. Sound familiar? For many students, myself included, pulling all-nighters or nearly all-nighters is a semester ritual. It’s getting to be that time in the semester we love to hate: the end, and with that, those luxurious hours we spend dosing in bed become the easiest thing to replace when we need more time for more studying. So we stay in the UGLi all night. Like food and water, sleep is one of the essentials, according to doctors, scientists, professors — anyone who wants you to survive. We’re told that without sleep, we’ll get sick or be slower or be more apt to make mistakes. But do we really need to sleep every night? Until recently there wasn’t a lot of understanding about sleep except that without it things went wrong. Some neuroscientists argue that most damage caused through sleep deprivation could be reversed with, well, sleeping. But, what the brain experiences during sleep that rejuvenates the body is difficult to decipher. More recently it was found that during sleep, memory consolidation occurs, which helps strengthen something learned or experienced through unconscious processing. It’s like giving your brain time to
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integrate learning into existing memories and better understand what it encountered. Even more interestingly, a study conducted by Northwestern University and published in Nature Neuroscience used that idea of memory consolidation and found that you can actually learn in your sleep if you’re listening to the material during your slumber, making a new argument for getting your eight hours every night. Remember those times when you wished you could just go to sleep, wake up and know the material for your exam? This study proved that may
now the research suggests that sleep can act as a reinforcing agent too. There’s a catch, though: In order for this to be effective, besides the material having already been experienced, another study also published in Nature Neuroscience showed that the re-activation of the memories (the listening of the material) needs to take place during slow-wave sleep. Thus if one wakes up during slowwave sleep, the process is interrupted and learning is actually harmed. Slow-wave sleep is nonREM sleep that occurs throughout the sleep cycle, but more often at the beginning of a night of sleep. Interestingly, elderly people have less slow-wave sleep, which could explain their memory loss. ILLUSTRATION BY MEGAN MULHOLLAND The studactually work. ies also show that the initial In the study, the researchers sleep needs to take place within taught participants two different 30 hours of the learning, and that musical melodies and then had each subsequent night of sleep them take naps. While napping, further reinforces the memories the researchers played one of the through the general memory melodies and found that once the consolidation process. Thus, participants were awake, they taking a night off from the UGLi could play the tune they had heard to hit the hay might be more while asleep with fewer mistakes helpful to your studies than you — they knew it better. However, think. Instead of staying up all it’s important to note that for the night to re-read notes and cram improvement to learning to be for an exam, you may be better actualized, the sleeper needs to off recording your notes, hitbe consolidating already learned ting repeat on your speakers and material. It’s like re-reading your sleeping for the night in a lecnotes over and over again, after ture-induced slumber. It might you read it the first time, each sound crazy, but any excuse to time after is a reinforcement. And sleep is OK in my book.
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“She, absolutely, had not been drinking alcohol. I want to underscore that point in the strongest possible way.”
– RICK FITZGERALD, University spokesman, about University President Mary Sue Coleman’s slurred speech in the Big House at this weekend’s football game.
“It’s accurate — the most unyielding depiction of the horrors of slavery we’ve seen released in this medium, and it doesn’t sympathize.”
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“Probably Lorch Hall. I’m an Econ major, and it kind of sucks. It’s dilapidated and they throw like 400 kids arm to arm in a lecture hall, and then you have Ross next to it.”
“Theater scholarships ... It can be hard to get donors for kids who need scholarships, and there’s a lot of talented kids out there and it’s even hard for me to be able to come to the University.”
“Printing pages for LSA students. I don’t have enough pages every semester, and I know the problem is they can’t afford the ink to give us more pages.”
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– AKSHAY SETH, Daily arts columnist, on the film “12 Years a Slave.”
“I mean, they’re gonna boo. We just gotta stick together as a team and just fight together.”
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– MICHAEL SCHOFIELD, fifth-year senior right tackle, on the crowd’s reaction after the first half of Saturday’s home football game.
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SELLING BLUE FOR GREEN It takes finesse, strategy and some luck to bring in the University’s biggest donors. And Jerry May knows just how to do it. By Peter Shahin
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erry May’s office is huddled in a corner of Wolverine Tower in south Ann Arbor, a diminutive location for the head of a multi-million dollar operation. May, the University’s vice president for development, is a smooth talker — but not slick. He has a sort of intensity and fluidity that comes with lots of practice. Quick to deflect praise, he is humble yet forceful in his words, confident but not brash. He dresses to the occasion — but usually with a little more flair than most. A black suit isn’t enough for his official portrait, sky blue will do. What makes him unique, perhaps, is that he’s at home in front of strangers. Working a room is second nature for him, building relationships with donors and others that will (hopefully) last well beyond the end of his career. All the while, he’s working toward something tangible, a gift, a pledge or a commitment to meet the University’s pressing needs. “He’s extremely strategic,” said University Provost Martha Pollack. “He has extraordinary people skills. Development officers connect. That’s what they do. If Jerry meets you once, he’ll remember your name, the name of your friends, your cats, your dogs — he has incredible people skills.” With more than 30 years under his belt in development, he’s been at the University longer than most top-level executive officers and administrators. Despite his rise to the
STUDENTS, ALUMNI, AND STAFF PARTICIPATE IN THE COMMUNITY FESTIVAL PORTION OF THE VICTORS FOR MICHIGAN KICK-OFF CELEBRATION ON FRIDAY. (RYAN REISS/DAILY)
top of the office, May has continued to work with many of the same donors that he began with more than a quarter-century ago. All that time, he’s been selling the same product: The University of Michigan. Whether that entails a building, scholarship or a $20 bill is up to the donor, with some gentle nudging from May or one of his accomplices. May now faces the greatest challenge of his career: the $4 billion Victors for Michigan campaign, one of the most ambitious fundraising efforts in the history of public higher education. The campaign will, in many ways, determine the course of the University’s next decade and beyond; whether or not it can find support for research, innovative teaching techniques and student aid will enable it to excel in the higher-education fundraising arms race or fall behind. By way of cocktail parties, receptions and lighthearted jokes with donors, it’s up to May to help make sure the University thrives.
The need, the need, the need In 1989, then-University President James Duderstadt published a report titled, “The Bleak Outlook for State Support of the University of Michigan.” At the time, the state’s support for the University had dropped from almost 80 percent of the state general fund in 1960 to about 45 percent in 1990.
And those were the good days. Today, state appropriations make up only 17 percent of the general budget — the money used to pay most instructors, cut the grass and keep the lights on. Over the course of the last decade, the state’s appropriation for the Ann Arbor campus has fallen from about $363 million in fiscal year 2002-2003 to $279,108,000 in fiscal 2013-2014 in nominal dollars. In real terms, if the 2002-2003 appropriation had grown only at the rate of the Consumer Price Index for Detroit, the University should be receiving about $450 million from the state for this year’s budget. One of the defining legacies that former University Provosts Paul Courant, Teresa Sullivan and Phil Hanlon left from their tenures as the University’s second-highest leader was the creation of a budget model capable of weathering the enormous decline in state appropriations and a national recession — some considerable tuition increases notwithstanding. However, with the budget increasingly squeezed to maintain only what already existed, the flexibility to invest in new projects and endeavors became increasingly difficult. Out of the crucible of year-over-year declines in state support, the need for external and voluntary support rapidly became more than a luxury — it was a necessity. Though a refocusing on development was underway well before the drastic cuts began in the 2000s, it gained a new sense of urgency.
The man who makes the money The man who leads the University’s development activities is no stranger to a challenge. May began his career in fundraising in 1979 — when the University’s fundraising staff was on half of the top floor of the Student Activities Building. Today, there are 550 people working in development at all three University campuses and across the nation. Nearly 175 of those people are full “development officers” — those that go out and engage with donors directly. May oversees all of them. May graduated with an English degree from Michigan’s Hope College before earning a master’s degree from the University of Vermont. In his mid 20s, he served as a dean of students for New England College before applying to the University for a doctorate in Higher Education Administration. While he was wrapping up his studies, a job in the University’s nascent development operation opened up. Since his wife was already working in student affairs, he decided to try something different. It worked. “It was absolutely the perfect fit,” May said. “I tend to remember names, I tend to remember people, I love meeting strangers, I love relationship building, and I’m not afraid to sell. I’m not embarrassed about asking people. The vast majority — most people are. Not everybody likes to ask people to give away money.”
May said when he began in the fall of 1979, the University’s endowment was less than $150 million and development raised between $15 to 30 million per year — a far cry from the hundreds of millions raised annually in the last decade. According to Judith Malcolm, senior director of the University’s executive communications, last year the University brought in $357 million in cash donations, and many millions more in pledges to be paid over coming years. Historically, private schools have a stronger tradition in development than public institutions, which usually benefitted from strong and growing state support. Faced with economic hardship and budget reprioritizations, many states have gradually reduced the amount they spend funding flagship state institutions, often reallocating funds to technical schools and community colleges. The University saw a major revamp in development practices in the early ‘80s under the stewardship of Jon Cosovich, a vice president for development recruited from Stanford University. At his first meeting with the staff, Cosovich laid out his plans for the University’s development: focus on transformational gifts, not incremental ones. At the time, that was $100,000 or above. “The room was silent, everybody went ‘$100,000?’ ” May said. “You know, at that point, it was scary to think that was all you
were going to work on instead of like $5,000.” Building a tradition of giving back is one of May’s long-term goals. Even though the University has the seventh largest endowment in the nation, which this year totaled $8.4 billion, the University’s Office of Public Affairs estimated that it ranked 101st on a per-student basis. As an example, in 2011-2012, Harvard’s $30 billion endowment amounted to about $1.43 million per student. In the same period, the University’s endowment was valued at about $7.6 billion — or $174,000 per student. “Endowment gifts have a benefit in perpetuity versus an expendable gift,” said Tim Slottow, the University’s chief financial officer. “Which is wonderful — and we desperately need expendable gifts for professorships and financial aid — but an endowment actually provides support in perpetuity, and he gets that.” The goals for the University’s next fundraising campaign, Victors for Michigan, are expansive. Finding support for research and progressive learning techniques are at the top of the list. A billion dollars for student aid, a billion dollars for the hospital system and $400 million for the Ross School of Business are among the more targeted goals. Looming behind it all is the endowment — a gift that keeps on giving. The Michigan Difference campaign raised between $925-940 million for the endowment. Victors for Michigan will be May’s fourth fundraising campaign, and with a $4 billion
goal, perhaps his greatest challenge.
Blue’s aura Working with potential donors is part strategy, part finesse. It’s no Machiavellian machination, but development officers will routinely meet and strategize about how to best present their case to would-be benefactors and what kinds of authorities can help their case. Picking the right tactic, though, is just part of the job. One of the most high-level duties of development officers is to generate a positive feeling about the University. The most obvious target is alumni — but unaffiliated “friends” of the University also make up a significant portion of annual donations. Sponsoring events across the country to spread the message about research, work and programs at the University is part of the trick. As an example, May said, a hypothetical event sponsored by the University’s Cardiovascular Center that attracts a variety of alumni probably won’t motivate graduates of the law school to give to the CVC, but it builds a glow or aura around the University as a whole. That can come in handy when the Law School is looking for donations down the road. For large donors, it’s often about creating connections with visionaries and evangelists who can convincingly make the case for a University program or research endeavor. Devel-
opment officers frequently arrange meetings between potential donors and deans, directors and faculty to give them a chance to talk about their work while building credibility with the would-be benefactor and illustrating just how a donation can make a difference. “You know we’re not selling used cars here, you’re talking about one of the best academic enterprises in the world, and we feel it’s a privilege to work here and take that responsibility really seriously,” May said. “We’re not just going to go in and interested in coming away with a quick $100,000. We’re interested in a lifetime relationship. Any good development officer will spend a year getting to know the people there and asking questions like, ‘There’s a campaign coming up, would you be interested in talking with us about something?’” If the answer is a “maybe,” May or one of the development officers will arrange a meeting with a person in the donor’s interest area — whether it’s a dean, researcher or museum curator. Intensifying and substantiating the conversations with donors, and showing them the value of the relationship is critical. Down the line, it also makes the “ask” easier. May said some faculty, like Deborah Ball, dean of the School of Education, and Internal Medicine Prof. Max Wicha, a noted cancer researcher, naturally have the panache to work with donors. Some need a little more coaching to get their message across. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6B
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“I put Max in front of donors, and within days, somebody says, ‘I want to support what that guy’s doing because he makes sense,’ ” May said. “He just has this wonderful style — what a gift, to be a great researcher and be able to talk with people. Those things aren’t always together, some people are just amazing researchers but they might have trouble explaining the complexity of that to a layman.” The hours can be long, especially in the fall. May said many development officers routinely work 70 to 80 hour weeks, including football Saturdays. Some Fridays, he’ll attend three dinners before the night is through. When May focused on planning the Victors for Michigan campaign, his job was about 70 percent internal, focused on planning the campaign’s rollout and coordinating with development officers around the country. In the run-up to the immediate launch of the campaign on Nov. 8, it was between 60 to 70 percent external development again, directly engaging with donors. He added that University President Mary Sue Coleman, widely lauded as one of the most successful fundraisers in higher education, will spend about 40 percent of her time around the campaign’s launch on development. “She loves meeting strangers, she loves building relationships,” May said. “From that perspective, she’s an ideal fundraising president.” May said the University’s deans will spend as little as 20 percent and as much as 40 percent of their time on development for their unit.
In the Wolverine’s den For donors at the highest level, a trip to Ann Arbor can be a whirlwind of advisory meetings, dinners with deans and faculty, or even an exclusive Friday night soiree with President Coleman, her husband, Ken Coleman, and May. Football weekends add another element to the mix. “All we do all night is just have a good time,” May said. “We talk about things, they get to do a Q&A with Mary Sue at the end of the evening, then the next morning, they may have a breakfast meeting with a dean, or if it’s an early game, they might go straight to the president’s tailgate … I might introduce them or other people might introduce them to other people who are in the same profession that they didn’t know. It’s a networking kind of thing.” May usually sees only ten plays in a football game. Being at Michigan Stadium usually means he’s on duty — engaging with alumni and donors, their families, and building relationships. “Usually those weekends are fun weekends — especially if they bring their family,” May said. “We want to know their spouses, particularly the spouses that didn’t go to Michigan, because we want them to adopt Michigan. We want them to have fun here, we want them to have a good experience.” One of the most powerful stories is that of students. Since student support is the Victors for Michigan campaign’s top priority,
giving donors a narrative that will inspire them is critical. Friday’s flagship kick-off event at Hill Auditorium was meant to do just that: flashy performances, professional motivational videos and well-scripted student speeches, all designed to impress the University’s biggest donors and motivate students for the campaign ahead.
Shifting focuses The Michigan Difference Campaign raised $545 million for scholarships and student support between 2004 and 2008. Phil Hanlon and Martha Pollack asked
money for scholarships,” Rogel said. “It was just not something people were that much interested in. As they’ve seen the cutbacks … scholarship support has become increasingly important focus of our alumni.” Since student testimonials and energy will be critical to the success of the overall campaign, the Office of Development has created an 18-member student campaign committee to help motivate students to get involved in the initiative. LSA junior Monique Becker, one of the members of the committee, said since one of the main goals of the campaign is student support, reaching out to students (and soonto-be graduates), is building the groundwork
ABOVE: UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT MARY SUE COLEMAN PRESENTS ALUMNI, STUDENTS, AND DONORS WITH THE GOALS OF THE VICTORS FOR MICHIGAN CAMPAIGN AT THE LAUNCH EVENT AT HILL AUDITORIUM FRIDAY. (RYAN REISS/DAILY)
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May to (nearly) double it. The goal for the Victors for Michigan campaign will be $1 billion for student support. “I just have to say, we swallowed hard,” May said. “We thought, well, we might be able to get to $800 million, with a lot of hard work and some really big gifts — like $25 or $50 million gifts for scholarships — but the provost made the case that we needed to work harder … They have said to the deans that, ‘We need everybody here to know that this is our number one priority.’ ” While May said raising money for “people” was something that donors have always been interested in, Richard Rogel, the Michigan Difference campaign vice chair, said garnering support for scholarships before that campaign was extremely difficult. “If you had asked me two campaigns ago, I would have said it was very difficult to raise
and giving and alumni support will increase.” Matching the needs of the University with the interest of donors is not always a perfect fit. Niche research needs are difficult to raise money for — as is endowment support for maintaining existing buildings and structures. “Sometimes a faculty member wakes up in the morning and says ‘I’d love to have a building that does X, or a program that does Y,’” Slottow said. “But the feasibility of that may be close to zero. There may be no donor in the world who is interested in giving to that thing.” Victors for Michigan will also focus on providing students with new engaged learning opportunities, both field excursions and non-traditional ways of interacting with professors, technology and peers on campus. The final goal is fundraising for “big ideas” that can confront global issues like sustainability through research. As federal funding for research declines due to the federal sequester, an across the board cut to federal agencies, including those that support research endeavors, the University will increasingly rely on donors to support and expand its research portfolio. “This is a pretty high pressure business,” May said. “I’ve made it out in a way that I see it — and that’s that it’s a lot of fun. But it’s a business. And it’s a high pressure business.” “We have to remind people that the donor is the most important person in the process.”
for a new generation of philanthropists. “The Michigan Difference was the campaign previously, but no (students) knew that was a campaign,” Becker said. “We really wanted to get students involved and know what’s going on and know that it has an impact on them.” The committee works closely with the Office of Development — which has made sure that the students on the committee have had plenty of face time with donors as well. Last semester, the Office of Development quietly held a planning event in Crisler Center with some of the University’s biggest donors, including Stephen Ross, Penny Stamps and Richard Rogel. “Recent alum support is pretty low for U-M, even compared to other institutions,” Becker said. “I hope that since this campaign is showing that U-M is going to help … future students, hopefully that will increase morale
As the University looks to the future, development will continue to play a key role even after the conclusion of the campaign. One of the benefits of a campaign is that after it concludes, annual giving stays up higher compared to its previous level. People get in the habit of giving more on an annual basis than before. May said there’s some discussion of locating development officers overseas — with East Asia as the first target. While it’s prohibitively expensive to do so now, he added that it may become worthwhile to permanently station University representatives abroad in the notto-distant future. “It’s very expensive to do international fundraising, it’s a longer time horizon because we’re dealing with different cultures, and some of those cultures don’t have the same philanthropic spirit that America has,” May said. The University’s bicentennial celebration — which will begin in 2017 — will also be a huge part of motivating donors and thinking ahead to the future. The yearlong celebration will have a time horizon spanning back two hundred years. Jerry May is already looking forward to the next two hundred. “Whatever the motivations are, there are people who then say, ‘Ok, we realize Michigan is in this for the long run, we know Michigan is going to be here hundreds of years from now, we can look in the long term in our investments, I guess I’ll give to one of those things.’ ”
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n my parent’s kitchen, a glossy Kodak print appeared on the counter sometime last year. In the photograph, my six-year old cheeks are chubby and rose-colored. Gleaming, my grandpas have made a semi-successful attempt to pull me onto their laps, leaving my corduroyclad legs dangling just above the ground. Now, more than a decade has passed since a yellow drugstore disposable camera first held this motion still. Both of my grandpas looked younger then. Outside the frames on a 35 mm reel, pasts don’t stand so static. *** In the popular imagination, grandfathers are often depicted as keepers of history. Seated in worn, leather armchairs, grandfathers recount the olden days before roaring fires as curious youngsters lean close, hanging on every word. My grandpas don’t fit that image. My paternal grandfather, Sol, stared up at the gates at Auschwitz when he was younger than me. His stories are veiled under sprinkles of Yiddish and an accent that at 90 still won’t let go.
And if you ever see Martin, my mom’s dad, he probably won’t hesitate to joke around a bit. That’s because Martin is by no means the stuffy armchair and cigar grandfather. He’s a boxer and spends a good portion of the day pacing his yard with a well-loved hedge trimmer. But if grandfathers are supposed to be the torchbearers of history, I was confused about what that history might say. Sol, whose Auschwitz number, B-4907, I had traced with my fingers for years, was forgetting fast. Of course, the images of bodies and smoke and fire cannot be un-etched. But from the time I interviewed him for an eighth grade project to last year, when I decided to record his history on tape, his memories have lost their vividness. At least in articulating them, his once clearer images are now jumbled and vague. In aging, stories were lost, misplaced somewhere in the five decades since Poland. And while Sol struggled to piece together the chronology, Martin’s past was becoming even more real. In 2006, Martin was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Dopamineproducing cells began to die off, leading
to shaking and difficulty performing certain motor skills. On a drug called Aricept, often prescribed to Parkinson’s patients, my Grandpa Martin’s memories became more vivid than they had ever been. He dreams every night now of his parents, his childhood in the Berkshires and being behind the counter at his father’s hardware store. Most of the memories are happy. But in the quiet moments, Martin’s past — his people, his childhood — are dug up and presented before him everyday. In the last few years, he’s gotten up a few times to write things down, afraid his life is an unwritten memoir that might disappear. He’s also taken to collecting clocks. Dozens of them crowd my grandma’s piano, at times ticking all at once. While Grandpa Sol forgot, Grandpa Martin couldn’t help but remember.
But as my life trucks ahead, I wonder how I will eventually confront my own history. I have loved the past since I first arranged museum exhibits in my room, forcing my sister to brave my tours of coins and stamps and broken shells. In my painted-blue room, I had the power to arrange the past just how I wanted. But now, as one grandpa forgets and the other remembers, I wonder how much agency we have in arranging our own histories. Is it impossible to remember what I want and to forgot what hurts the most? In observing my grandpas confront their pasts in vastly different ways, it’s become clear I might not have too much choice in the memories I choose to retain or discard. What I have found is a complicated picture about how memory works. I’m no expert on how neurons fire or how the temporal lobe decides what to *** keep or let slip away. But as a journalist and a student of history, I have learned As my grandpas age, I have started pasts are deeply complicated. to think about my own past. Of My grandpas have taught me the course, mine has been short thus far. I ways we process them are, too. certainly haven’t faced the destruction of the Holocaust or 70 years worth of Sam Gringlas is a Daily Staff Reporter living. and LSA sophomore.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013 // The Statement
V I S U A L S TAT E M E N T: Every Saturday, Ben Fidler and his partner Meghan sell highquality meat at the farmers market that they produce at Bending Sickle Community Farm. After starting only three years ago in Ann Arbor, the farm is run on self-taught sustainable cultivating practices in Stockbridge, Michigan. The ethos of the farm is to “focus on raising heritage breeds of livestock to preserve and honor the roots of traditional agriculture.” Bending Sickle Community Farm is part of a new generation of young farmers and a contribution to the local culture of the Ann Arbor community. — Text and photos by Virginia Lozano
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