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Munger Fellows Catherine Cheung and Marco Hidalgo, unveil the giant, commemorative MCard in honor of Charles Munger that was used to officially open the Munger Graduate Residencies on Wednesday.
Munger residents praise unique living environment Schlissel, students celebrate opening of new graduate student housing
ate Residences on Wednesday, a project largely funded by University alum Charles Munger, a real estate mogul. The residence hall, which houses more than 600 graduate students from 19 colleges and schools in shared, apartmentstyle units, aims to bring together students from diverse backgrounds. Business graduate student Marco Hidalgo, who is a Munger fellow, welcomed attendees by describing his experience since he moved into the residence hall.
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University officials and students highlighted the importance of community and diversity as they celebrated the opening of the Munger Gradu-
Fellows facilitate community building and serve as floor leaders. “I’m outside of my comfort zone in every conversation, and I’m really enjoying it,” he said. University President Mark Schlissel also spoke at the event, discussing the importance of creating a holistic learning experience out of the classroom. “As I’ve been here now for a year, I’ve come to realize that every moment here is a precious opportunity for students to learn, and of course that learn-
ing goes on in classrooms, but the students are only spending a fraction of their time in classrooms,” he said. Kinesiology graduate student Catherine Cheung said the residence hall fosters a unique sense of community. “We have absolutely everything we need,” she said. “So much so that the fellows have coined the phrase ‘let me Munger that for you,’ meaning let me search our Munger community for what you’re looking for.” See MUNGER, Page 3A
Schlissel has ramped up efforts to initiate culture change, curb drinking on campus By GENEVIEVE HUMMER Daily Staff Reporter
University President Mark Schlissel and his administration have spent the last academic year working to roll out new policy initiatives regarding several campus issues — most notably athletics, diversity, sexual assault, alcohol abuse and Greek life. This week, The Michigan Daily reviews the events that got the ball rolling. Today, we consider Schlissel’s approach to initiating culture changes in Greek life and alcohol use on campus. The overview: Upon arriving at the University, Schlissel said addressing risky drinking on campus would be a top priority for his first year on campus.
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Student loan program ends awaiting bill in U.S. Senate Federal Perkins Loan provided $12 million to ‘U’ students last year By SAMANTHA WINTNER Daily Staff Reporter
Legislation enacting the Federal Perkins Loan Program — which provides 500,000 lowincome students with needbased financial aid to pay for college — expired Wednesday. The Perkins legislation originally expired in September 2014, but included a one-year extension period so colleges and universities could continue to award loans after its expiration. Wednesday marked the end of that extension period. A bill aiming to reinstate the program for one more year passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday, but no
similar bill has made its way through the Senate thus far. Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D– Mich.) and Gary Peters (D– Mich.) sponsored a resolution on Sept. 24 expressing support for the continuation of the Federal Perkins Loan program, along with several other senators. In a press release Tuesday, Sen. Peters said Perkins loans give low-income students the chance to earn a degree. “The Perkins Loan Program has helped make higher education a possibility for millions of students by providing affordable, low-interest loans,” he said. “I strongly support continuing this program to ensure that students in Michigan are not priced out of the opportunity to get an education, and I will be working with my colleagues in the Senate to ensure that the Perkins Loan Program is extended.” However, until the Senate passes a version of the House See PERKINS, Page 3A
A 2015 study produced by the Office of Student Conflict resolution reported that alcohol and drug-related violations of the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities increased by 29 percent over 2014. The changes: Before this year’s Welcome Week, the University rolled out a package of initiatives designed to curb alcohol abuse on campus, including a policy to notify the parents of students with repeat alcohol offenses and a program to ramp up Division of Public Safety and Security engagement efforts in studentheavy neighborhoods. Schlissel also spoke candidly during an all-chapter Greek life meeting, in which he called on the organization to address its role in perpetuating campus drinking culture. The context: The first move to approach the issue in recent years began before Welcome Week in 2014. In an attempt to decrease risky drinking, the University opted to shorten Welcome Week. The period between dorm move in and the first day of classes, See SCHLISSEL, Page 3A
DKE kicked off campus after merger attempt Fraternity pledges to appeal decision after IFC votes to expel chapter
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Michael Botticelli, director of national drug control policy, overviews drug policy on treatment and recovery during the Recovery from Addication Conference in Rackham Amphitheatre on Wednesday.
White House ‘drug czar’ discusses substance abuse Office of National Drug Control Policy director talks recovery By NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT Daily Staff Reporter
The drug czar paid a visit to campus on Wednesday. Michael Botticelli, director
of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, discussed addiction during a lecture at Rackham Amphitheatre on Wednesday morning. Botticelli’s position is more commonly known as President Barack Obama’s “drug czar,” and he directs drug control policies in the United States. His talk, delivered to about 30 University students and faculty members, focused on substance abuse recovery and included
testimonials from doctors and recovery patients. Botticelli, himself a recovered alcoholic, discussed the challenges faced by substance abusers on their paths to recovery. “You don’t see hope on the other side,” Boticelli said. “We have to provide hope and have people see what recovery is all about.” A main focus of the presenSee CZAR, Page 3A
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At the weekly Interfraternity Council presidents’ meeting, fraternity chapter executives voted to officially remove the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity from the IFC. IFC President Alex Krupiak, an LSA senior, said the fraternity was removed for attempts to merge with Sig, a rogue fraternity. “They were forming a merger with an off-campus that was formerly known as Sig and they had a lot of different allocations and problems with them,” Krupiak said. “The IFC did not approve of that merger.” DKE President Evan Field, an Engineering junior, said in an e-mail statement that the fraternity is tremendously disappointed with the result of Wednesday’s IFC See DKE, Page 3A
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WHAT: Cathy Hong, an award-winning poet and writer, will be reading from her works and also sign copies of her books. WHO: Helen Zell Visiting Writers Series WHEN: Today at 5:30 p.m. WHERE: University of Michigan Museum of Art
WHAT: Learn about if sustainability is achievable in a capitalist system. The lecture will be given by Paul Robbins. WHO: Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop WHEN: Today from 4 p.m. WHERE: Room 1040, Dana Natural Resources Building
WHAT: Nimmi Rangaswamy will discuss her research on technologies in low-income Indian communities. WHO: Information Alliance for Community Development WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. WHERE: North Quad
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WHAT: Advisors from LSA and the Career Center will join LSA students to discuss developing skills for the business field. WHO: Career Center WHEN: Today from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Room 100, Hatcher Graduate Library
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WHAT: Learn about career opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Bender Consulting Services has placed individuals with disabilities in major organizations. WHO: Career Center WHEN: Today from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: Career Center Program Room, Student Activities Building
WHAT: The annual Banned Books Week event raises awareness about the issues of censorship. Attendees are encouraged to also bring a banned book to read at the event. WHO: University Library WHEN: Today from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Front steps of Hatcher Graduate library
WHAT: The second presentation of four, The Architectural Imagination roundtable discussions will be on Detroit’s architectural imagination and Mexicantown. WHO: College of Architecture WHEN: Today at 6 p.m. WHERE: Room 2104, Art and Architecture Building
WHAT: Richard Besser from ABC News will talk about his role as a medical journalist. The event will also have a panel moderated by Jonathan Cohn from The Huffington Post. WHO: U-M Health System WHEN: Today from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Assembly Hall, Rackham Graduate School
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Nixon Road development plan postponed for further debate Wetland protection, water runoff, traffic present concerns for nearby residents BY ISOBEL FUTTER Daily Staff Reporter
After the Ann Arbor City Council postponed discussion last week on a proposed housing development on Nixon Road, the conversation is now set to occur in November.The site plan for the proposed 282-unit Woodbury Club Apartments has been discussed at the last two council meetings, but at the Sept. 21 meeting, the conversation was postponed to the Nov. 16 meeting. The Council is requested more research and planning before the next hearing on the subject. Concerns with traffic, natural landscape, wetlands and stormwater runoff were among the reasons
for postponement. The plan also requires a zoning change to move forward. The apartment complex would be located on the corner of Nixon Road and M-14. They would be situated across the street from another proposed development on the site of the two Nixon Farm properties. Councilmember Sumi Kailasapathy (D–Ward 1) said she would have a resolution drafted by the next meeting, though it will not be discussed at that time. Several community and Council members were concerned that adding new housing in the area would increase existing traffic congestion. The area’s natural environment was another concern to the development plan — specifically, issues of stormwater runoff and flooding. According to Kailasapathy, the burden of stormwater runoffs on neighboring communities is increasing. “We know that significant rain
events are growing in intensity and volume, which causes significant expenses to the city and property owners,” she said. If the apartments are approved, the water runoff could be pushed to nearby apartment complexes. This could cause extensive flooding and water drainage issues, resulting in additional costs to the city and neighboring residents. William Quinn, president of the board of directors for Barclay Park Condominiums, located near the proposed development,said the board is against the project. “We are very concerned about the wetlands which border Barclay Park and which are within the park,” Quinn said. Collin Ross, president of the board of directors for the Arbor Hills Condominium Association also attended the meeting. Ross said the association has filed a petition of protest against the approval of the site plan. “I should point out that the system in Arbor Hills is a private system that is paid for and maintained by our association,” Ross said. “Therefore, any additional stormwater loads on the system could cause problems and result in significant expenses to our association.” The Woodbury Club Apartments site plan is split into two parcels, an eastern and a western side. Though apartments have been allocated for the western parcel, plans for the eastern parcel are still unclear. It is possible that the city may buy the approximately 25 acres for parkland. Some members of Council expressed their concern about this undetermined sector of the plan at the most recent Council meeting on Sept. 21. Councilmember Jack Eaton (D–Ward 4) said he would like to see those plans resolved before a vote to rezone the property and pave way for the development occurs. Read more online at michigandaily.com
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Judge Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008-2014 and co-founder of Equality Now, recalls her experiences with apartheid and its influence on her development as both a law student and a human at South Hall on Wednesday.
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In a lecture hall thousands of miles away from South Africa, Judge Navanethem Pillay, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, addressed the University community in a public lecture titled “From South Africa to Rwanda and Syria.” Though far from the sugar plantations her grandfather worked on as an indentured laborer in South Africa, Pillay spent the last few days on campus, engaging with several student groups for the University of Michigan Law School’s 2015 William W. Bishop Jr. Lecture in International Law. On Sept. 29, she spoke to undergraduates in the Human Rights Initiative as well as a number of law students in various organizations. Wednesday morning she met with the Law
School’s human trafficking clinic before delivering a speech in the afternoon. “I love the fact that students from other disciplines, like engineering and economics, also attend this, not just law students. That’s very good because human rights concerns everyone,” Pillay said. As a minority in both race and gender, Pillay said she faced many obstacles. However, her real journey began when her father, a bus driver, and her seven siblings struggled to satisfy their hunger — both for food and education. With schoolteachers walking door to door, the poor community in which Pillay grew up raised funds to send “the girl with potential” to a university. “We were all victims of discrimination and deprivation,” Pillay said. “So when I became a lawyer against all odds, it was not a singular achievement.” When she began practicing as an attorney, gender, race and economic class proved to be growing challenges for Pillay, especially in the climate of apartheid. According to Pil-
lay, after law school, law firms refused to hire her because white secretaries could not work for a black woman. These adversities led to Pillay starting her own law firm in 1967, the first woman to do so in South Africa’s Natal Province. She has also served as a judge on the International Criminal Court, judge president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and acting judge of the High Court in South Africa, appointed by Nelson Mandela. “It’s an honor to come hear her speak,” third-year Law student Daniela Tagtachian said. “It’s always good to hear the story of a woman who led such a distinguished life. It’s particularly inspiring hearing a woman speak about such great things.” In addition to protecting women’s rights and promoting the cause as a respected female role model and co-founder of Equality Now, an international women’s rights organization, Pillay also spoke of growing unrest in the world. Read more online at michigandaily.com.
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meeting. “It was, and still is, our belief that the right to choose our own members is a crucial part of self governance,” he wrote. “We will appeal this decision and believe that we have a strong case. The fact that the IFC came to this decision without a precipitating incident is extremely disheartening and calls into question the motives and values of the member chapters.” LSA senior Nick Swider, Delta Sigma Phi president, said IFC chapter presidents voted on the issue at last week’s meeting, but did not achieve a two-thirds majority to expel the fraternity. Swider emphasized that he was not speaking on behalf of his fraternity. “We’ve been alerted multiple times through the Office of Greek Life that we are not allowed to affiliate ourselves with these particular individuals, that they’re bad news, just stay away,” Swider said. Swider said a DKE national adviser attended the meeting in support of the merger. He said the executive board in attendance requested a lesser punishment, suggesting IFC keep a closer eye on them rather than expelling the chapter. After failing to abandon the merger before Wednesday’s meeting, the expulsion was brought to another vote, this time receiving the necessary majority. “We have bylaws for a reason, the bylaws that we do not affiliate with a rogue organization and if we do, we have consequences through the Greek Activities Review Panel or there’s consequences that the presidents can directly take against us which is what we saw tonight.” Swider said. Field spoke at the IFC meeting and justified their reasoning for recruiting the Sig members. “(Field) explained that over the summer months and beginning of the school year, he had [COPY: “been”?] working extensively with their national organization, their membership and apparently had even taken a vote from the membership back in April,” Swider said. “The membership by a simple majority agreed to take the kids in Sig into DKE and merge the chapters.”
bill, colleges can grant Perkins loans to students who applied before July 1 for the current school year, but will not grant new loans to new students. Institutions can continue awarding Perkins loans to students who had been offered those loans in the 2014-2015 school year. These students are eligible for ongoing Perkins loans until Sept. 30, 2020, or until they graduate if that date is sooner, so long as they remain in the degree programs in which they were enrolled when offered their most recent loan. Under the program, these 500,000 students are awarded a total of approximately $1 billion a year at about 1,500 colleges and universities nationwide. Program advocates argue that the funds, which are only a small portion of the $150 billion the federal government awards in student loans and grants each year, have made higher education possible for millions of students in the U.S. However, Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of the college financial planning website edvisors.com, argued the Perkins program has a less significant impact than other federal student loan programs, namely the Federal Stafford loan program, which he said accounts for about $100 billion in federal financial aid. Kantrowitz said the average Perkins loan is relatively small:
MUNGER From Page 1A The project was driven in large part by Munger, both in terms of providing a vision for the final product and funding most of the construction costs. The real estate tycoon had previously funded a similar model of graduate student housing at Stanford University, and his record-breaking $110 million donation to the University in September 2013 was given expressly to fund such a project in Ann Arbor. E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, said Munger brought a unique perspective to the project. “Charlie’s vision was unconventional,” she said. “It broke a lot of rules about what people thought was possible in graduate education, and it didn’t consult any of the people who thought they should be consulted.” This approach sometimes drew criticism from students, particularly those who criticized the price tag to live there, which is between $850 and $900 per month, but was originally slated to total about $1,000 monthly. Schlissel praised the forwardthinking ambition of Munger and credited him for the project’s success. “He approached the University with a different way of thinking about living and learning space,” Schlissel said. “A way that would purposefully foster the kind of interactions that lead to the connections across disciplines that will actually solve big problems.” Social Work student Arlene Chandra said living in Munger has been a positive experience so far. “As a social worker I’m going to be coming across so many different walks of life and I’m going to need to be able to connect with all my clients and what they’ve experienced,” she said. “By living with so many different people, I am able to learn about different topics and how to engage with other students.”
SCHLISSEL From Page 1A according to administrators, is generally marked by increased alcohol consumption. Last fall, DPSS said a shortened Welcome Week reduced oncampus alcohol-related activity during that time. The number of ambulance requests to University Housing facilities, calls to the DPSS Communications Center related to drinking, noise complaints, urinating in public and visits to University Emergency Departments all dropped considerably from 2013. However, events during the last year have shed a more intense light on the University’s party culture. In January, four University fraternities and sororities inflicted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property damage on two ski resorts in northern Michigan. The Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity and Sigma Delta Tau sorority, who stayed at the Treetops Resort in Gaylord, Mich. during the weekend of Jan. 16, were estimated to have caused $430,000 in damages, according to the resort’s general manager. That same weekend, fraternities Pi Kappa Alpha and Chi Psi and sororities Delta Gamma and Alpha Phi damaged rooms at Boyne Highlands, a ski resort in Harbor Springs, Mich. The damage reported at the two resorts included felled ceiling tiles, broken walls and dismantled furniture. Both Schlissel and E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, have insisted on the necessity of creating a social environment less influenced by alcohol. In a January interview with the Daily, Harper said the January ski trip incidents illustrated part of the problem at hand. “We can’t keep going this way,” she said. “Too much at risk. Too many safety issues. We can’t keep behaving like we have this system, and because there are so many good things about the system, that makes the things that are unhealthy and dangerous about the system OK. And that’s what we’ve been doing. I think
CZAR From Page 1A tation considered the stigma around recovering patients. He said this shame felt by drug users can actually prevent them from seeking the care they need. “One of the things we need to continue to work on is the role that language plays in perpetuating stigma,” Botticelli said. “People are afraid of what their neighbors think, what the police will think, so we know that stigma has an impact in delaying
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usually between $1,000 and $2,000. According to Margaret Rodriguez, senior associate director at the University’s Office of Financial Aid, the federal government subsidized the cost of Perkins loans when the program began. However, it has not allocated funds to the Perkins program since 2004. “When the program started, the federal government provided funds to the institutions to make loans,” she said. “And then the institutions had to match those funds with some of their own money.” Rodriguez said the lack of federal funds has not stopped colleges from awarding Perkins loans. The University, she said, has been using repayments from previously awarded loans to offer new loans to current students. She also noted eligibility for Perkins grants is based upon demonstrated need, which is determined by the information students provide on the FAFSA. “We have a certain amount of money available — and that depends on how much is collected in any particular year — and we use those funds to help needy students, both graduate and undergraduate, meet their costs of education,” she said. “So we look at our applicant pool every year and determine how much we can offer (to each student).” Rodriguez said 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students at the University receive Perkins loans, and that last year the
University had approximately $12 million available last year to award in Perkins loans alone. In total, according to the University’s Office of Budget and Planning, the University awarded more than $200 million in financial aid to its students in 2014. “The Perkins loan is part of what we call an aid package — put together with grants, scholarships, work study in some cases, and federal direct loans to offer a variety of sources of aid students can use to meet their need,” Rodriguez said. Kantrowitz said colleges are typically attracted to awarding Perkins loans to students because they are associated with greater flexibility. Perkins loans, he said, are a form of campus-based aid, and individual schools are able to choose which students receive them. “Colleges often use the Perkins loan money to fill in gaps in their financial aid packages,” he said. Students who receive these loans pay no interest while they are in school, and when they graduate, their loans will carry a 5-percent fixed rate. Additionally, if borrowers commit to certain public service jobs after graduation for between one and five years, they are eligible to have all or part of their Perkins loans forgiven. Kantrowitz said he, too, is not optimistic the Senate will act to continue the program. However, he argued this is a positive: it would be cost-effective to eliminate the program, and expand the
Federal Stafford Loan program instead. He said Perkins loans were created for those with the highest need, but in practice they are awarded to any student with financial assistance, regardless of their relative need. “There is a feeling in Congress that the Perkins loan program is redundant,” he said. “It overlaps with the existing loan programs, doesn’t add a lot of value.” Kantrowitz said if Congress decided to extend the program to new borrowers for one more year, it would incur avoidable costs. To account for those costs, he said, Congress would eliminate the portion of the program called “grandfathering” — which is what guarantees students who previously received Perkins loans will get more in the future. “The thinking of opponents of the Perkins program is that eliminating the grandfathering makes it a lot easier to kill off the program entirely,” he said. Kantrowitz also noted that some in the Senate are proponents of simplification and won’t see value in extending the program. “Especially considering that for a longer term extension, Congress would have to spend money, and Congress is in a budgetcutting mood, not an increasing spending mood,” he said. “And where would they get the money?” Colleges will fight for this program he said, because they’re
focusing on promulgating their existing policies and not considering what is best for financial aid policy in the future. “A much better approach would be to get rid of the Perkins Loan program and instead somehow expand the Stafford Loan program — maybe expanding the loan limits or adding some additional flexibility to the program, loan forgiveness, or something,” he said. Though colleges would lose some leeway in their financial aid budgeting processes, Kantrowitz said, the amount would be manageable. The expiration of the program, he said, would not be terribly significant and colleges could devise their own loan programs to replace the Perkins program if they wished. Though Rodriguez said she is unsure if the Senate will approve the House bill to reinstate the program, she is not hopeful. She also said the University remains committed to satisfying the financial needs of its students, despite the expiration of the Perkins loan program. “Of course losing an aid program that provides $12 million is significant, but the University is looking for ways that it can continue to meet the full need of Michigan residents and offer competitive aid packages to nonresidents,” she said. “We’ve been studying the issue for a while: we knew that there was always a possibility that the program would go away.”
that Up North was a wakeup call for us as an institution and as a community.” However, Schlissel has acknowledged that expecting students not to drink is an unrealistic goal, and he would focus the bulk of his efforts on efforts to reduce the harm. “I think it’s impractical to have as a goal that students won’t drink on campus,” he said in a November interview with the Daily. “Even though most of students are drinking illegally, I don’t think that’s an enforceable law, but looking at it from the safety perspective is what I want to do.” *** In the past month, the University has launched or floated ideas to introduce several initiatives designed to curb drinking on campus, as well as a party culture administrators have said Greek life plays a role in. In August, the University unveiled a plan to involve the parents of first-year students who violate school alcohol policies on a case-by-case basis. The University plans to notify parents if a first-year student under the age of 21 “commits a violation accompanied by other serious behavior such as needing medical attention, significant property damage or driving under the influence,” or if one of these students “has a second alcohol or drug infraction.” Harper said the policy will only be implemented in certain instances. “Part of what we have talked about is trying to leave some space,” Harper said. “Should, in the course of having a conversation with a student, there is a sense that actually calling would not be in their best interest, then we won’t.” Mary Jo Desprez, the director of Wolverine Wellness, said the policy is not meant as a punishment, but as a preventative measure. She pointed to the close relationship many students share with their parents. “Part of this also is, students tell us, when we ask them, ‘Who is the biggest influence on your decisions and your values?’ they always say parents or family,” Desprez said. “So part of this is us partnering with the people they have told us are the biggest
part of their support network.” In a September interview with the Daily, Harper said the University was considering delaying Greek rush. “Does it make sense to have students come, and in a week, by the whole pledging process, we have thrown them into a whole environment that we’re worried about?” Harper asked. “Should we stay on this path we have, where we’ve been so committed to self-governance, that we allow rush to happen sometimes less than a week after students get here? So we’re certainly going to take a look at that.” Members of the University’s Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs have also floated the idea of increasing the number of Friday classes to curb Thursday night drinking — a move University Provost Martha Pollack has said she would be open to. The administration has seemingly identified Greek life as helping drive a University culture marked by excessive drinking. In September, the University called a historic, all-chapter meeting of Greek life, in which administrators said change must occur, or the future of Greek life could be in peril. Schlissel told the crowd that the University’s reputation was at stake. “The value of their degrees are gonna go down because the reputation of the University of Michigan won’t be the excitement in the Big House or our teams doing well under our fantastic new coach,” he said. “It’s not gonna be the kids who receive the Rhodes Scholarships and the Fulbright Scholarships, and the famous professors who do the work that you’re going to get reflected on for, or the National Medal for the Arts that our faculty won this past week. It’s going to be the ‘Shmacked’ videos. So it’s really up to you what the value of your education is going to be, what the reputation of this institution’s going to be.” Moving forward: In response to negative attention directed at Greek life in the last year, LSA junior Sean Pitt, vice president of public relations for the University’s Interfraternity Council, said the IFC has begun to revise
its existing risk management policies. “This summer, the Interfraternity Council … has undertaken a major review of all of our risk management policies to determine how and where they can be strengthened in order to better protect and educate our members,” Pitt wrote in an e-mail. “In addition to this work, we have been rapidly developing and escalating our existing partnerships with SAPAC and UHS to bring peer led, Greek Life tailored, sexual assault prevention presentations to our chapters in order to ensure the retention of bystander intervention training information that our members are given upon entry into the Greek Community.” Pitt said the IFC worked to address sexual assault even before the University’s survey results on the topic were released over the summer. Among these efforts, he said Winter 2015 pledges signed a sexual misconduct prevention pledge “agreeing to voluntarily resign their membership if they do not uphold the ideals, standards, and values of the Interfraternity Council and Greek Community at the University of Michigan and commit an act of sexual misconduct.” Members of Greek life have had mixed reactions to the administration’s calls for reform. Many sorority and fraternity members expressed frustration with the administration for effectively linking the Greek community to the problem of excessive alcohol consumption. “That was the one big thing that people were against is that it was spoken as just the Greek community,” one fraternity member told the Daily after the September Greek life meeting with Schlissel. “If anything, a lot of the times when incidents happen it’s people from outside of the organization that come to our parties and cause trouble. So, it’s a message that really should have been transmitted to the entire University.” Many members who spoke with the Daily said Greek life actually does a better job than other organizations at ensuring parties are safe. Unlike students hosting house parties or ath-
letic teams hosting team parties, members say Greek life parties are heavily regulated. “We have sober monitors, attendance lists, strict alcohol rules and risk-management policies,” one member said. “Removing Greek life wouldn’t remove parties, it would remove safe parties.” Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones said enacting change in the Greek community will require more comprehensive support — from national organizations, the Office of Greek Life, alumni advisors and parents. “I’ve been talking with a lot of parents of Greek life students who, similarly, want to be involved in helping support, and so we’re taking a really comprehensive approach to how do we create a foundation for these organizations to work from that’s really going to help them to be able to live into their values and be all the positive things that we know Greek life can be in the community,” Blake Jones said. She added that any work to improve Greek culture will have to focus on a variety of issues. “We have five major areas of emphasis where we think we need to do work. The first one is education, the second one is leadership development, the third one is risk management, the fourth one is environmental management and the fifth is accountability measures,” Jones said. She acknowledged that having the entire Greek community, rather than just executive officers, care about enacting a culture shift will be key to making real progress. “There’s such a focus at times in some groups on the social scene, and then that eclipses the service, the academic focus, sisterhood, the brotherhood — the other common elements of the values,” she said. “And so if we could have our groups moderate their behavior and really be thoughtful about potential harm that could happen, and have not just the president and the social chair and the risk manager worry about those things, but everybody in the organization understand and be committed to wanting to ensure the safety of everyone, we would come a long, long way in achieving our goals.”
care.” According to the Office of Adolescent Health over one in five high school seniors reported “binge drinking” daily in the previous month. By senior year, half of adolescents have abused an illicit drug one or more times. On college campuses, the numbers are larger, and the most common drugs abused include marijuana, Adderall and ecstasy. Recently, a study by University researchers showed an increase in the use of all three of these drugs by college-aged students. Botticelli emphasized the
importance of young people supporting those close to them who are in recovery. He said young people are less likely to be embarrassed when talking about addiction, particularly because so many substance abusers are in their teens or early 20s. “What I find tremendously invigorating is the role of young people in recovery,” he said. “We have this explosion of young people in recovery who are not going to be silenced by shame and stigma.” At the event, Donald Vereen, director of the University’s Sub-
stance Abuse Research Center, presented on the biological aspects of substance abuse. His slides graphically depicted the harmful effects of regular use of drugs like cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine, including dangerously high dopamine levels and slowed brain activity. He also noted how difficult it is to treat these cases. “There are these expectations that when you have a disease and when you enter treatment, you will be cured,” Vereen said. “There are very few things we actually cure in medicine.”
Public Health student Lauren Boone attended the lecture because of her interest in drug education. “(It) was informative in helping me to understand what is going on federally and biologically and it helped me to identify areas that I can contribute to in my research specifically in terms of drug education,” she said. Botticelli said the White House’s agenda for substance abuse help includes promoting collegiate recovery programs and engaging in general outreach.
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4A — Thursday, October 1, 2015
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Take a walk in the park
n our years as University students, I’m sure all of us have crossed through a city park at least a couple of times. We pass beneath the trees on the streets of Ann Arbor every day, whether it’s on a morning run, on our way to get groceries or during the 10-minute walk across the Diag to our next class. Yet I find that even when I’m trying to be interested, it’s sometimes easier to look at a screen or worry SUSAN about my to-do list than LAMOREAUX it is to watch the leaves of the trees as they move against the sky. I want to be paying attention to the world around me, taking the moments of my walking as a time to unwind instead of fretting about upcoming commitments. And sometimes, taking a walk in the park is the best way to get that to happen. The parks of Ann Arbor are a distinguishing characteristic, creating pockets of cool air and shade that border the built-up downtown. Parks closer to campus are probably the ones used the most by students, but my favorite is West Park — because I live on the same block, I walk through it almost every day. To my knowledge, this is one of the larger parks in the city, featuring stands of old oak trees, scattered wildflowers and two picturesque ponds. There are grills and tables for picnics, open grassy areas for a quick game of Frisbee or soccer and a fenced-in baseball field where dogs are allowed to run off-leash. With a playground, basketball court and community garden as well, the park is a place where residents of the city can come to enjoy the outdoors in whatever way is most attractive to them. Time spent in the park is relaxing for me because it’s a part of my day when I’m walking and not working — and while I might have my to-do list in the back of my mind, I’m not actively trying to accomplish things from it in that moment. Sometimes walking in the shadows of the oak trees can lead to inspiration, but not always. When I don’t find insight in my morning strolls through the park, I’m still beginning to sort my priorities
for the day, the next couple of days, and the week — and maybe laughing at the antics of whatever dog happens to be running around the baseball field at the moment. There are more than 2,000 acres of parks in Ann Arbor, Mayor Christopher Taylor told me in an interview. The trees lining our streets extend the natural setting of the parks further into the city, creating a natural ambiance even among neighborhood buildings and roads. The trees lining the sides of the city’s streets are a poetic continuation of the greenness I find in morning walks through the park. This green overtone serves to make the entire city an attractive and pleasant place. If you’ve ever stopped to take in the view from a high window, you’ll see that trees dominate and the city itself recedes, turning into a mass of leaves and branches. That kind of greenness isn’t found in every city, but it can be found here in Ann Arbor, in part because the city’s administration and residents are committed to paying for it. Because the city’s urban forest is so vast, funding for its care sometimes comes out of other places as well, such as the budget for stormwater control. “I’m very devoted to the trees of the city,” Taylor said. “Funding them is something that I’m committed to making happen.” Those trees, along with city parks and other natural areas, such as the riverbanks of the Huron, make this a city with a changing face as the leaves turn brilliant colors and then fade with the seasons. Now is a great time of year to get away from our screens and schoolwork and take a moment to really notice the nature surrounding and infusing our city, and to think about the ways we interact with it. Such areas are what make this city unique, and also what make it beautiful. So the next time you’re feeling stressed, can’t get your head around what you need to do or just feel listless and de-energized, try taking a walk in one of the city’s parks. I’d say that West Park is ideal, but any one will do. All of them are full of lovely trees and promise a welcome break from the crowded heart of downtown. Ann Arbor’s parks are there to be used and enjoyed.
“I’m very devoted to the trees of the city,” Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor said.
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It’s fun until... TO THE DAILY: Thank you to Lev Facher and The Michigan Daily for the article, “In the Shadows: Campus Co-ingestion.” In July, 2014, as most people were enjoying the summer, I was burying my son, Josh Levine (Kinesiology ’14). His death was senseless, needless and completely preventable. When Adderall is combined with alcohol, it keeps a person from feeling as drunk as their blood alcohol content is registering. It also prevents one from passing out if too much is consumed. In Josh’s case, he kept drinking, feeling fine, until he collapsed, brain dead. Since then, I started the Josh E. Levine Foundation (www.joshelevinefoundation. org) to prevent more tragedies through
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— Susan LaMoreaux can be reached at susanpl@umich.edu.
awareness, education and action. I can talk as a grieving mother, but it is essential to incorporate students in the solution. Be informed, be an upstander, be more cautious when you drink. This movement is not about abstinence; it is about being safe. Our tag line is “it’s fun until …” The possibilities are endless: passing out, blacking out, MIP, DUI, poor grades, destruction of property, being a victim or perpetrator of sexual assault. You get the idea. Please join me and the University in our efforts to be a part of the culture shift on binge drinking and co-ingestion. It’s a small effort to prevent more casualties. It’s fun until … Julie Buckner President and director of the Josh E. Levine Foundation and 1983 alumnus.
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If I actually ate the cheese and crackers in the houses, I would never get in.”
— LSA senior Jessica* in an interview with The Michigan Daily on what she was told about some of the houses she would visit during Panhellenic Association recruitment. *Name has been changed to protect identity.
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once would have laughed at the thought of grocery stores being trendy. There are fashion trends, there are TV show trends and there are music trends, but lately, where you buy your food comes along with social stereotypes. Health food, in particular, is especially GRACE trendy. Every CAREY day there seems to be some new, non-fat, low-carb, chia, superfruit, probiotic blend marketed as the cure for everything. It is the prevalence of these products that can make grocery shopping in Ann Arbor legitimately excruciating. There have been times when I’m surviving on oatmeal and granola bars for days just because I don’t want to go spend my Whole Paycheck at Whole Foods. The summer after my freshman year, I worked in a research lab on campus. Without the added stress of classes and snow, it was much easier to settle into a healthy routine of running, yoga, lifting and proper nutrition. I even had time to watch the documentaries “Fed Up” and “Food Inc.” (both available on Netflix and both I highly recommend), which gave me a new perspective on processed foods, especially meat. At that point, I was subject to the trendiness of chia seeds and matcha powder, and I was under the impression that in order for food to be healthy, I had to buy from stores that market themselves as such. Since then, I have realized this to be false. For me, it came down to the research, and there is absolutely no evidence that the organic food one can buy at Whole Foods is better for you than the organic food purchased at a conventional grocery store. There are plenty of resources in Ann Arbor through which one can buy healthy foods without spending everything in your wallet. Farmers markets are one place
where it is easy to get fresh, local food without the price tag of an upscale grocery store. In Kerrytown, every Saturday and Wednesday between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m., there are local farmers, gardeners, bakers and others selling fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs, gelato, baked goods, pesto, pasta and anything else in season. Trader Joe’s is my first choice during the months when the entire state is buried in snow. For a while, people didn’t know about Trader Joe’s, and it was only when health food shopping became “trendy” that it became mainstream. Before that, people would just ask, “Why do your Oreos look so weird?” and when I responded that they were from Trader Joe’s they would say, “What’s that?” You could even say that Trader Joe’s got lucky; they’ve always been centered on organic and healthy food, but the popularity of eating well has just brought it to everyone’s attention and made it trendy. Even though it carries this reputation now, it is actually cheaper than places like Whole Foods. The trick with both of these stores, though, is not to get caught up in the “magic” foods that claim to change your life. Although not as “fashionable” as the stores mentioned above, Kroger and Meijer can also be resources for healthy options. Be aware that sifting through organic, non-organic, processed, refined, artificial and natural products can be a challenge if you don’t know what you’re looking for. First, know that non-organic products won’t poison you. If you are looking for organic, both of these stores have generically-labeled products. Also to this point, generic is okay. It is important to distinguish that “organic” and “healthy” are not synonymous. In fact, a 2012 systematic review revealed no significant difference between organic and inorganic foods in vitamin content and nutrient content (with the exception of phosphorus and phenols). Pesticide residues, however, were significantly more likely to be found in non-organic products than organic products. However, it is also cost-effective to keep in mind
that not all commercial and organic foods are equal. Soft fruits such as peaches, nectarines and berries; vegetables including peppers and carrots; starches such as potatoes; and beef are more important to buy organic than other products. Meats are particularly important to buy in the free-range, grass-fed variety. Unlike most produce, it is shown that nutrient content is vastly different between these and commercially produced meat products. First, the photos of concentrated animal feeding operations are some of the most disturbing images I’ve seen regarding the food industry. Second, and even more concerning, is the fact that the lives of the animals in these pens, in addition to the use of corn as feed for these animals causes the meat to be less nutritive, and can result in harmful, acid-resistant E. coli outbreaks with potentially disastrous consequences. The runoff from these farms also contributes to E. coli outbreaks in spinach and even apple juice (all the more reason to buy some of your foods organic). The most disturbing part? While it seems intuitive that with technology developments food would be getting safer, it is actually becoming easier for these harmful pathogens to spread. According to “Food Inc.,” there were once “thousands of slaughterhouses in the United States. Today we have 13 slaughterhouses that process the majority of beef that is sold in the United States. The hamburger of today, it has pieces of thousands of different cattle ground up in that one hamburger patty.” Ew. What it comes down to is the difference between being smart and being trendy. Choosing wisely where and on what to spend the few dollars I have can be overwhelming when trying pick healthy options. Pick and choose when to go organic and when to let it go. It’s about balancing your checkbook, your health and the ever-so-difficult transportation to any of these food destinations. — Grace Carey can be reached at gecarey@umich.edu.
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Playing house
bout two weeks ago, I had a fairly scary incident: I was in a Home Depot, a place I’d avoided at all costs for my entire life, when it suddenly dawned on me that I no longer hated wandering through the aisles of hardware or the overbearing SARAH scent of sawdust. LEESON Instead, I was having a horrifyingly good time hunting down the things on my roommate’s and my list. This revelation was naturally quite shocking for me and the ensuing identity crisis not only brought me to some startling realizations about my changing interests and status in life, but also made me reflect on my time in Home Depot and how bad I am at being an adult. Let me explain: I have recently moved into an apartment with a friend. In theory, this pseudo-home ownership is the lowest possible level of accountability I could have for my shelter as an adult, other than crashing on a series of increasingly unwilling friends’ couches (as I plan to do after graduation). Renting an apartment and being liable for the upkeep should be no issue, and yet things seem to go wrong all the time. Our first two mail keys didn’t work, there are no stove plates for our burners — we’ve learned to live with letting our pots of macaroni rest on 20-degree angles — and one night, a glass light
cover fell from the ceiling while we were nowhere near it and shattered, filling our carpet with fun, little glass shards. Hence the shopping trip. As a child, I had been dragged to Lowe’s and Home Depot nearly every other day (this is an exaggeration, but probably not by much) and I never enjoyed it. There was nothing to do there while my parents discussed types of concrete except to push all the different doorbell samples. And push them I did. Shopping for my own home was a much different experience than that of my childhood. Looking at different parts and pieces of equipment was exciting now that it was a decorating game. At the same time, though, I was revolted and confused with my pleasure in this. How had I become this person? How was I being such a boring adult, enjoying myself in a hardware store, while also being such a bad adult in general, using Febreeze instead of doing my laundry? I realize I’m not supposed to be good at being an adult or homeowner yet; that would be insane, since I’ve only had a few years of living on my own to have gotten the hang of this. However, this is allegedly easy mode; there is supposedly every possible safety net standing between me and homelessness/unemployment/plagues/ aimlessness during college, yet I am still very often faced with situations I feel completely unprepared for, such as figuring out how to get tiny glass shards out of carpeting, or shooing ghosts out of our walls. What I’m realizing, though, is that maybe that’s what it means to be an “adult.” Being a grown-up isn’t
about having answers, it’s about the flexibility and resourcefulness that comes from using a cleaned-out butter tub as a bowl when all the dishes are dirty, or the knowhow that comes from past experiences with buying lights to tell you that you really can’t light an entire apartment with jacko-lanterns, controlled bonfires and holiday string lights alone. However, using that kind of critical thinking is challenging stuff, and sometimes I don’t have the brainpower to handle it. Instead, what I’d like to propose is that we, as a society, restructure the “traditional” order of life and add a new step. After high school, I would like to see a new stage in which bored, elderly people are assigned a young adult and are asked to mentor them. And by mentor I mean parent. (What I’m really trying to say is that I’m terrible at this and if someone wants to come and run my life for me, that would be much appreciated and probably for the greater good. I haven’t taken out the trash in three weeks.) Seriously and honestly, I think the answer to all of this — the conflicting feelings about having adult responsibilities with only some of the adult mindset — is to remember that no one really knows what they’re doing, even if they claim they do and they’re a real “adult” in your eyes. Plus, there really is no set idea of what an adult is or does, even if there seems there might be. So, go ahead and enjoy your time in Home Depot, but also go ahead and push all the doorbell samples. You’ve earned it, you beautiful disaster. — Sarah Leeson can be reached sleeson@umich.edu.
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Sports
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Murillo returns as leader Senior captain steps in seamlessly on ‘M’ defense By BETELHEM ASHAME Daily Sports Writer
Good players are adept at catching up quickly to make up for lost time after injury or other circumstances, but great players possess the ability to take an extended period of time off without missing a beat. Michigan senior captain and defender Christina Murillo is in a category all her own after taking the entire 2014 season off to train with the Mexican National Team in preparation for the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. It didn’t take her long to return to her position as an integral part of the Michigan women’s soccer team. “It was an instant, perfect fit,” said Michigan coach Greg Ryan. “It’s like when you put on a shoe and it’s just right — that was Christina Murillo on our back line. From day one, she’s done a great job of not only fitting in but also leading the rest of the team. If this was her first year, it would have taken longer, but since she knew all of the girls and played with them, it was seamless and effortless.” Murillo credits the team’s response to her return and the experience she gained from national team training as key factors in her reintroduction to the rhythm of Michigan. “It’s been fairly easy because of how the team has welcomed me back with open arms,” Murillo said. “In terms of
school, it’s actually a lot easier to manage now because World Cup training is an environment where everything is about discipline and schedules. So I’ve been using the skills I’ve developed, where I incorporate a set time for everything, which allows me to be able to focus more at practice and be a better player at Michigan.” As the leader of a defense that has produced four shutouts this season — including two in which it allowed just 11 shots combined against Nebraska and Iowa last weekend — Murillo was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week. “Every time I’m playing, I’m doing whatever I can to help the team win that game,” Murillo said. “Our goal on defense is always to allow the least amount of shots, so I can really attribute our success as a defensive line to all four of us. It’s not just me, it’s the discipline of other starting players as well, so I’m just lucky to be in that defensive line. “I don’t know if I necessarily deserve (it), because we wouldn’t have gotten those shutouts if it wasn’t for the other three players on our back line.” Despite her modesty, Ryan fully recognizes the central role Murillo plays on the team. “She definitely makes it all work at the back,” Ryan said. “She knows how to coordinate everyone, so she’s definitely the leader and organizer back there. She’s
VOLLEYBALL
‘M’ drops rivalry game to Spartans By TYLER COADY For the Daily
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Christina Murillo is back after a year off training with Mexico’s national team.
essentially the coach on the field, giving direction to the attack.” In addition to her defensive prowess, Murillo is a key cog and frequent contributor on the offensive side of the ball, recording two assists in the opening weekend of Big Ten play. “In the modern game of soccer, the way most teams are playing, your centerbacks touch the ball
“It’s like when you put on a shoe and it’s just right.”
more than any other players,” Ryan said. “So when you have a centerback like Christina, who’s not only very comfortable with the ball in possession but who can also make those penetrating passes and create assists, you want her to have the ball as often as possible.” Whenever a team loses an important player, there’s always a ripple effect on the mood and character of the rest of the team. The same is true when an important player returns to the fold. With the way Murillo is playing right now, the Wolverines couldn’t be happier to have her back in maize and blue for her senior season.
Having sat on the periphery of the national rankings all season, Michigan State came into Wednesday 3 MICH. ST. night’s 0 MICHIGAN matchup against Michigan with a point to prove. After the Spartans’ victory over Michigan (1-2 Big Ten, 11-3 overall), they left Jenison Field House in East Lansing with little doubt they should be nationally ranked. Led by outside hitters Alyssa Garvelink and Brooke Kranda, Michigan State (2-1, 10-4) proved adept at controlling play around the net and began to flex its muscles in the second set. The duo combined to record 18 kills in the match. “We knew (Michigan State) is a good team, and there were no surprises going into this game,” said Michigan coach Mark Rosen. “We knew what they were going to do, but their execution was better in the latter stages of each set.” Both teams came out strong in the first set, as both eyed their second Big Ten win of the season. The Wolverines, playing in a hostile atmosphere, silenced the crowd early behind some dominant play by sophomore outside hitter Adeja Lambert, who recorded 10 kills in the match. With a 16-14 lead in the set, the Wolverines looked poised to hang on and take the set. But two Michigan State aces and a barrage of difficult serves allowed
the Spartans to build momentum and then eventually take a 1-0 lead in the match. As the second set progressed, Michigan State continued to pull away from Michigan, as the Spartans forced the Wolverines into numerous mistakes. Michigan, despite some strong play toward the end of the set, couldn’t muster enough offensive chances to threaten the Spartans. “We did a good job early on, and we were consistent in our execution,” Rosen said. “As the sets went on, our passing deteriorated, (Michigan State) kept improving, and we realized that we need to work better together.” In the third set, Michigan came out strong, looking to stay alive. Lambert notched another kill while senior middle blocker Krystalyn Goode racked up three of her own, helping the Wolverines to a quick 12-7 lead. But just as quickly as it took back the first set, Michigan State regained the form that saw it dominate the second set. Over the next several minutes, back-andforth play dominated the game. With the scoreboard reading 21-21, Michigan State put its foot on the throttle, closing out Michigan and winning the next four points to clinch the victory. With a rematch scheduled for Saturday in Ann Arbor, Rosen knows his team needs to improve. “We need to compete better,” Rosen said. ”When we are leading late in the game we need to be more consistent in all aspects of the game, offensively and defensively.”
ICE HOCKEY
Shields brings experience Classifieds as new goaltenders coach Former Wolverine played for six NHL teams, won 100plus games for ‘M’ By KEVIN SANTO Daily Sports Writer
While the rest of the Michigan hockey team was running through a power-play drill on Tuesday, the goaltenders were in their own corner of the rink working on distribution. Goaltending coach Steve Shields was putting them through fundamental drills of their own, using every minute he has while the coaches adhere to the two-hour weekly NCAA limitation, which lasts until Sunday. Such a practice hasn’t been common for goaltenders Steve Racine (a senior) and Zach Nagelvoort (a junior), given that former goaltender coach Josh Blackburn could only commit to being on the ice with them two days a week last season. Now, with the addition of Shields, the Wolverine netminders will be coached every day of the week, an opportunity that Michigan coach Red Berenson believes could drastically impact Racine and Nagelvoort’s performance. Shields, who joined the coaching staff in May, is a former Michigan goaltender who made four straight NCAA Tournament appearances from 1990 to 1994. He was a two-time All-American and the first at his position to reach 100 wins in NCAA history. After he hung up the maize and blue sweater for the last time, Shields went on to play for six NHL teams. And now that Shields’ playing days are over, his new goaltending apprentices are enthusiastic to learn from both his collegiate and NHL experience. “(Blackburn and Shields) know what they did, what worked and what didn’t work, so I can trust what they’re saying,” Nagelvoort said. “Now
having (Shields), he was really successful and had a great career. I just feel that much better having him on the ice. I have that much more faith in what he’s telling me, and I’m that much more comfortable with him.” Added Racine: “Anytime you can get a guy like that helping you out, you value everything he says. Going forward, it’s going to be amazing just having him there every day. No days off. No days where we can kind of hide between certain things. He’s always going be there to critique us and tell us what we’re doing right and wrong. That’s just a great thing to have.” Nagelvoort and Racine’s statistics were relatively similar last season as they split time in the net. Nagelvoort posted a 2.63 goals-against average, .906 save percentage and finished with an 11-9 record, while Racine recorded a 2.94 goalsagainst average with a .908 save percentage and an 11-6 record. But despite their respectable statistics, both goaltenders went through slumps and struggled with inconsistency — an aspect that Shields noted. He has set out to bring the best attributes out of Nagelvoort and Racine on a dayto-day basis by simplifying the goaltending process and forcing them to take a mathematical, rather than personal, approach to their mistakes. “What I’ve tried to do with them is to strip everything down and not personalize everything. I want them to be able to go back and look at video of themselves, and take it on as sort of a math problem,” Shields said. “They’re just solving a problem. There’s no emotion in it. There’s no second thoughts about ‘how I played this, we lost a game because I did this.’ If we can take the stuff that they’ve done and look at it honestly, and say, ‘Well
I can do this better and I can’t do that,’ then they’ll improve.” Shields has said that his biggest responsibility as the new goaltending coach is to hold his players accountable every day they go on the ice or in the weight room. But in order to do that, he feels he first has to build a unique relationship with each goalie. He’s inherited that philosophy from his own experience in the NHL, where he was first exposed to a goalie coach who was critical of him every day and was honest about his performances — but only after the two established a relationship. By creating that rapport, Shields is trying to provide the Wolverines’ netminders with a unique experience he only got at the professional level. In the simplest sense, each goalie has a metaphorical checklist, and Shields puts it on his own shoulders to make sure they check those boxes as the season progresses. Shields has taken the first steps in that direction by having conversations with Nagelvoort, Racine and freshman Chad Catt in the spring. He had ideas about where the goaltenders could each improve simply from watching Michigan the past two years, and he constructed a program specific to each goalie that focuses on improving their weaknesses. And while the Wolverine netminders hope to have breakout seasons under Shields’ instruction, he recognizes the progress won’t happen overnight. “They have to understand that if they go out and they don’t play the way that they expect to play in practice, that they have to come back tomorrow and refocus,” Shields said. “My goalie coach said to me when I was that age: ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’.”
“They’re just solving a problem. There’s no emotion in it.”
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Offensive line relishes improvement in 2015 By JAKE LOURIM Managing Sports Editor
In last week’s game against Brigham Young, the Michigan football team’s offensive line walked up to the line of scrimmage and saw something it had been waiting to see for a long time. The Wolverines looked across and saw the Cougars’ defense sweating and panting, with hands on hips from sheer exhaustion. Michigan’s offensive line has taken a bulk of the criticism for rough seasons in 2013 and 2014, and in that time, they were usually the ones in the position the Cougars found themselves in on Saturday. “We haven’t really had much of that in the recent past, but it’s an awesome feeling knowing that when you go up to the line of scrimmage, you’re looking into a guy’s eyes (and) you know
you have him beat already,” said redshirt junior guard Kyle Kalis on Monday. “That’s something that we haven’t had. We have it now in full effect, and it feels good.” Another benefit comes in the form of big plays, of which Michigan has had many in the run game. Junior running back De’Veon Smith’s 60-yard touchdown run Saturday provided one such highlight. Smith did most of the heavy lifting on that particular run, but Kalis sprung ahead and was the first lineman into the end zone to celebrate, quickly joined by four other players. “It’s nice,” Kalis said. “It’s the reason why we’re all here. It’s the reason why I came here, the reason why a lot of guys came here. When I saw him in the end zone and embraced him, that was a good moment for both of us. It just feels good. It’s the way it’s
supposed to be.” The Wolverines have begun to taste more of those rewards this year as they have shown improvement. They went threeand-out on their first possession Saturday but then went to work and scored on their next five (four touchdowns and a field goal) to take a commanding 31-0 lead. In those five drives, they gained 344 yards on 38 plays, spanning 18:23. For the game, they possessed the ball for 38:38, wearing out BYU’s defense to the point of submission. “If you go get a play and you pancake somebody, your adrenaline is going through the
roof, so that carries into the next play,” Kalis said. “The next play, if you do good, more adrenaline, and it keeps carrying on. That’s how you develop an identity, just having good plays over and over again.” After the past two years, Michigan’s line had to build its reputation little by little. After all, the Wolverines’ domination of BYU came three weeks after a 24-17 road loss to Utah in which they rushed for just 76 yards. Part of that progress can be attributed to Tim Drevno, the team’s offensive line coach and offensive coordinator, whom head coach Jim Harbaugh brought from Southern California in the
“It just feels good. It’s the way it’s supposed to be.”
offseason. Kalis said Monday that the current linemen — many of whom made up the line last year — had made good plays in the past, but not all together and not often enough. This year, they have come together as a unit. “I think as you go through game to game, you get used to everybody and how you communicate and how they handle adversity and you get to know one another,” Drevno said. “That’s part of the process of trusting one another. The quicker you can trust, the quicker you have success, so I think that’s been a real big part of where we are today. “It’s gradual. They get used to your coaching techniques and how you coach and how you prepare and what you demand from them. It’s just them getting to know you, you getting to know them — and the quicker you can do that, the quicker you have
success.” The line has come along smoothly for Michigan, without many issues along the way. The Wolverines have rushed for more than 200 yards in every game since Utah and allowed just three sacks on the season. Eight teams have allowed fewer in the same number of games. Drevno was hard on his unit after a lackluster performance against the Utes, but he and Harbaugh haven’t been shy about singing the offensive line’s praises as it has improved. They grade each player after every game and note the improvement. “That’s definitely an awesome feeling,” Kalis said of the encouragement. “That’s fun. That’s why you play. It’s to get the respect of your brothers, to get the respect of your coaches and look good playing out there. Just have fun. That’s why you play the game of football.”
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Jake Butt (#88) and A.J. Williams (#84) play critical roles for Michigan, which has made good use of its tight ends.
Chemistry key for tight ends By MAX COHEN Managing Sports Editor
If you ask tight end A.J. Williams, his position group is a cast of characters, all with different personalities and backgrounds. He mentions redshirt sophomore Henry Poggi, a recent convert to the position, with his “crazy flow,” and redshirt sophomore Khalid Hill, who just returned from anterior cruciate ligament surgery and until recently had a haircut that Williams described as a box. Add in junior Jake Butt, the star with the funny last name; redshirt freshman Ian Bunting, who tight ends coach Jay Harbaugh says “looks like a big tree”; and Williams, the senior who has been a blocking specialist for the last three years, and the Wolverines have quite a deep and diverse tight end group. And those are just the players who caught a pass in Michigan’s win against Brigham Young on Saturday. Playing tight end for Michigan feels different this year, Williams said Tuesday. He has been in offenses where tight ends have been overlooked, particularly in his primary role of blocking. But when Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh arrived last December, Williams and his position mates knew they were in for a treat.
During his tenure at Stanford, Harbaugh was known for his development of tight ends, most notably Zach Ertz and Coby Fleener, both significant contributors in the NFL. Michigan’s tight ends want to get there some day, Williams said, and they rely on one another to achieve their goals. Studying the playbook is nearly a constant — even on group trips to Chipotle. If any of the players ever feels as though Michigan’s playbook is too long or too in-depth to study, they are reminded that it will be even more so in the NFL. “We have a group text, which is constantly going, and we communicate,” Williams said. “I know certain people, we like to hang out, we’ll watch football together all the time, watch tight ends in the NFL who we want to advance our game to.” Williams thinks that Harbaugh’s age — he is just 26 years old — is a benefit to the unit, laughing at the notion that Harbaugh would have been a senior in high school when Williams was in seventh grade. But still, he has no problems listening to a coach who is less than five years his senior. “Coach Jay is wise beyond his years,” Williams said.
Harbaugh does not believe his age really helps him coach his unit. “I mean, certain references and all that I get that maybe are over other guys’ heads, but I just think that that’s kind of a little bit overrated,” Jay Harbaugh said. “But that’s just my opinion.” Where Harbaugh does agree with Williams, though, is that watching and learning from the NFL can be a key to Michigan’s success. Harbaugh had spent the last three seasons working with his uncle, John Harbaugh, as an offensive quality control coach for the Baltimore Ravens. Michigan’s style of offense, Harbaugh said, is more similar to those of NFL offenses than other college offenses. He studies film of NFL teams he believes use tight ends well to improve his own unit, including the Kansas City Chiefs, the Carolina Panthers and the New England Patriots. As it continues to develop over the course of the season, Harbaugh’s unit will have its opportunities. “I think we’ve thrown the ball eight times per game to my group, and I don’t think anyone else is that high in the country,” Harbaugh said. “I don’t think anyone else is even close.”
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THE MICHIGAN GOSPEL CHORALE
DRAW ME CLOSE TO YOU
BY MATTHEW BARNAUSKAS DAILY ARTS WRITER
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tion to their faith and each other is weekly Bible study. “Once our spirit is out of whack everything is out of whack. Our Around 7 p.m. in the Trotter songs don’t sound good, we arrive Multicultural Center, the first to things late, it’s kind of off. With few members of the Michigan the Bible studies it allows us to be Gospel Chorale (MGC) begin on one accord about the things to arrive. One student heads that we’re talking about,” Jackson directly to the piano and starts said. “We’re focusing on a certain to play. More members enter as theme or certain scripture and music fills the room, building through that we grow closer to one an energy that’s warm and open another ‘cause we’re all in tune to all who walk in. Excitement with God and that puts us all into it comes as each as a ministry. new perWithout the son arrives Bible studat practice, ies, without bringing the actual their own spiritual part unique voice we are just to the chorus. an organiza“It’s very tion.” informal, you The MGC come and isn’t just you’re welcomplacent comed into in sharing the group their refined automatiperformanccally, like es and belief people are within just really excited the group, but to meet new also take part people, to in an annual bring them mission tour into the comthat takes munity, and them across I knew that the country it would be a where they VIRGINIA LOZANO/Daily perform and big part of my time here,” Business junior Christopher McClendon directs The Michigan Gospel Chorale. volunteer. said Phillip “Tour is Hargrove, an Engineering grad- try,” she said. “They completely during Spring Break, so we are uate student and MGC assistant welcomed me and made me feel already taking that commitment to director. as though I had a purpose here not go party and go out. But to have In an interview with The and I can be here and sing and this not only spiritual experience Michigan Daily, Hargrove, do whatever it is I wanted to do but this experience with people along with LSA senior Lawrielle and so that’s what really made who love each other, we’re actuWest, MGC president, Nursing me want to stick with MGC.” ally friends and this is such a great junior Brianna Hawkins, MGC Uniting many participants in bonding experience. Once you go secretary and Shakia Jackson, MGC is their Christian faith, as on tour, you’ll have memories for a Rackham graduate student and practice begins and the piano lifetime,” West said. MGC adviser, emphasized the music dies down, the members “It’s amazing to go to like a importance for him to find such form a circle for prayer. Hold- church in Texas, where many of a group when he first came to ing hands, they thank God for us don’t know the people at the Michigan as a graduate student the opportunity to be together church but we can all sing the after completing his undergrad and use their gifts and share in same songs and the same worship at Stanford University. their faith, a core idea behind experience,” Hawkins added about “This was a big challenge for the organization. the tour that has had stops in states me, coming out to a region of “I think the mission is just like Ohio, Kentucky and Florida, the country where I don’t have to spread the Gospel of God among others. any family,” Hargrove said, “I but also just the love of Gospel In addition to the tour, members felt like I’d be out on my own so music, so you don’t even have of MGC finds themselves singing it was real important to connect to be religious or attached to at churches and campus functions to a community of other people a certain faith to enjoy Gospel including Maize Night Madness who love God and are excited music,” West said. and the Fireside Café on North about God and enjoy the same The interwoven nature Campus. The group also puts on kind of things I do in terms between faith and Gospel music performances at New Life Church, of that. That was how I got shows itself in nearly every including their spring concert, involved, just came in and it’s aspect of the group as they which last year saw the choir been a great part of my experi- warm up to the song, “Draw Me unexpectedly perform without ence.” Close to You/ Thy Will be Done” accompaniment when the musiThe chorale, which origi- by Pastor Marvin Winans. cians didn’t show up. nated in 1972 as the University “Thy will be done/ Lord in These local events form a of Michigan presence Black Goswithin the pel Choir, is community a nonprofit that allows organizaMGC to tion that serve anothencompasses er role. not just the “I think choir but it offers an also several outlet, a spirauxiliaries itual outlet,” including a Hawkins mime team, said. “I the dance feel people oriented come to our I.O.P (Imagconcerts es of Praise), and feel the sign lanlike they’re guage group able to go H.A.N.D.S to church (Hands if they Anointed ‘N don’t have Divine Signs) a church and the spohome here. VIRGINIA LOZANO/Daily ken word People come The Michigan Gospel Chorale rehearses at Trotter Multicultural Center, Tuesday. T.R.U.S.T to us and can (Taking Refask us for uge Utter Spoken Truth). The me/ In me/ Because I see you prayer and come to us and be like, diversity of performance types work in others and I want you to ‘Oh my goodness, it’s like I’m back gives students several opportu- work in me,” the group sings as at home.’ ” nities to express themselves. West takes on directing duties As practice ends, the mem“I feel that they cater to for the practice. bers gather around in prayer one everyone,” Hawkins said, ref“Something I really appreci- last time. Before they leave they erencing the role of the auxil- ated about MGC was how the each give another a hug goodbye. iaries, “Like at our concerts, so group is never afraid to tackle There’s a bond among the chorale, someone that’s deaf can’t hear any song,” Hargrove said in joined together by talent and faith. our songs but they’re able to see regards to his experience sing“That’s just the beginning of the sign language. Or someone ing for MGC. “I think I’m theo- something great, feeling like you’re who enjoys hearing singing but retically a better singer now welcome into a community, they when they see a dance, they’re than I was last year.” are not only OK with you being moved by the dancing. It caters As West guides the group there but they want you there, they to everyone and gives an overall through the popular Gospel need you there,” West said. experience at our concerts.” song, “Even Me,” she stops and With their first event this Sat“One of the great things about tells her fellow vocalists to sing urday at Pastor Winan’s Perfecting MGC is that we don’t require out, to share their voice with Church, the group looks forward auditions for any of our auxilia- God. West, who first came to to spreading their message, as ries or our choir,” Jackson said. the organization after receiving described by West. “So for people to become mem- a direct message from MGC’s “Gospel is based off faith and bers they just have to show up Twitter account inviting her to having a relationship with God, and sing, mime, sign language join, relates the words to faith, but also another part is being this or whatever they like to do. So emphasizing the passion behind inspiration movement — music to when I joined MGC, I joined each verse, and the chorale give you hope and faith to carry on. the day before a concert that we responds accordingly. Every song we sing has meaning had, our College Night Concert, “Lord, I hear of showers of with us because a lot of us, not all of which occurs every January. I blessings/ Thou art scattering full us, are Christians and so the songs joined the night before and then and free/ Showers of thirst souls we sing have meaning because it’s over the night I learned the refreshing/ Let some drops now about God pulling us through or songs and got up there and sang fall on me.” God’s going to pull us through or with the choir the next day.” Helping MGC find this connec- God has pulled us through.”
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Jackson, who has been with the chorale since her sophomore year as an undergraduate and calls herself the group mother, echoed Hargrove’s sentiment of belonging. “The choir members were so welcoming to me. I felt I had a family, some people who did care about me, and though I was a new member I didn’t feel as though I was an outsider or that I wasn’t able to contribute to the organization or the minis-
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HEALTH COLUMN
Vote to crush the crash diet By HAILEY MIDDLEBROOK Daily Health Columnist
This summer I interned with Running Times magazine, which is the smaller, quieter, more intense brother of Runner’s World, Men’s Health and Women’s Health magazines. The internship took place in Emmaus, Pa., where the Rodale publishing company headquarters are located — a tiny, organic-enthused, active town about an hour away from New York City and Philadelphia. Naturally, the place is packed with fitness nuts, granola geeks and muscle heads. It’s awesome. Employees (and interns) are encouraged to take bike rides or run at lunch, buy meals at the organic cafeteria, promo running shoes and yoga mats and attend free fitness classes at Rodale’s state- of-t he-a rt gym. The company motto, “Live your whole life,” is taken to heart by its employees — a wholesome, healthy lifestyle is truly what they practice and preach. So when I met my roommate for the summer, an intern for Runner’s World, I was taken by surprise. I walked into our shared dorm room in the middle of a workout video, my new roommate splayed on a yoga mat in the center of the floor, holding a slightly sagging plank pose. Nothing out of the ordinary. I skirted around her, plopped my bags on the nostalgic twin XL bed and pulled on my running shoes, bracing myself for the East coast humidity. I asked my roommate, now clearly in the cool - down phase of her tape, what workout she was doing. She promptly began to tell me about the “21 Day Fix.” Which, unfortunately, I would continue to hear about for the next 21 days. To save you the lengthy explanation — trust me, if there’s one thing people love to drone on about, it’s their latest diet — here’s the 21 Day Fix in a nutshell: three weeks of daily, half-hour workout tapes and seven color - coded food containers. The food containers are key. According to Beachbody, the mastermind behind the Fix, the reason diets go awry is because dieters don’t judge portion sizes correctly. To eliminate this problem, they’ve created containers of varying size that hold the “precise” amount of fruits, vegetables, protein, carbs, fats, seeds and dressing that you need in a day. The color of the container signifies what goes inside — the (relatively) hefty green container is
for vegetables, whereas the thimble- sized orange container is for dressing. Basically, you “fill them up as directed in the Eating Plan, and you will lose the weight!” At least that’s what Autumn Calabrese, the manic Fix coach, promises. But wait — there’s more. Think you can stuff a piece of bread in the yellow carb container? Think again. The containers give you the “freedom” to fill ‘em up as you wish, but if the food doesn’t fit ... it won’t make you fit. This means no bread, no snack bars and no beer — or really any drink, other than water and morning breakfast shakes. Certainly no eating out. And once your container quota is met for the day, don’t try to sneak anything more. (Once, when my roommate was groaning about hunger, I mistakenly suggested eating an apple; she angrily replied that she had no more red containers left.) As you can imagine, the 21 Day Fix makes it difficult to make plans. Sunday trips to the farmer’s market turned into exhausting rants from my roommate on how she couldn’t buy the fresh pies (because, have you heard, I’m on the Fix), triggering more than a few rolled eyes. I’d come home from my usual eight-mile run to cook dinner, only to have her leering over my shoulder, eying my chicken and veggie stir fry with contempt. Then she’d quit the room altogether, claiming that she’d eaten all of her containers for the day and might as well go to bed. I think I began counting down the days until the Fix’s finish more voraciously than she did. At its sweet, sweet end, my roommate did a final weigh- in: in 21 days, she’d lost eight pounds, but nary an inch from her waistline. I congratulated her on the loss, but waited warily for the weight to creep back — as it does, time and time again, for whom I call “quick fix” dieters. The “instant gratification” phenomenon has been beaten into our heads, but it applies to diets too. Our culture perpetuates it — how many magazine covers have screamed, “Get Your Bikini Bod Now!” or “Bombshell Butt Fast!?” Summer means beach season; winter means fitting into that party dress.There’s no shame in wanting to look good, stat. The shame is that too many people only aim for the “stat” factor — immediate results — and set themselves up for long- t erm frustration and
even serious bodily harm. Here’s the bottom line: the pounds you lose on a quick-f ix diet are primarily muscle and water weight. Yes, the number on the scale is lower, but that doesn’t mean you’re more fit — and it definitely doesn’t mean you’ll stay that weight for long, largely because of lost muscle. “Metabolism” is a buzzword that gets thrown around often in weight loss discussion (“I have a slow metabolism” is a popular explanation for stubborn excess weight), but it comes into play here. The Mayo Clinic defines metabolism as “the process by which your body converts what you eat and drink into energy”; that energy is then used for basic body functioning (breathing, blood circulation, cell repairs) and physical activity. When calories are drastically restricted, metabolism shuts down and becomes less efficient. Think of a car running on empty: you’re slow to react, have less power on the highway and run the risk of damaging your engine. Without the necessary proteins and nutrients to perform basic body functions, your body breaks down muscles for fuel. Muscle burns more calories than fat, so muscle loss is linked to a slower metabolism — which makes it even harder to keep the weight off than before the diet began. Of course, metabolism isn’t the only factor in determining weight loss. Across the board, experts agree that a combination of exercise and (proper) diet are crucial to maintaining a healthy body. Remember that energy is also used for physical activity — the more you exercise, the more calories you burn and the more muscle you build, which then promotes a faster metabolic rate. The real secret to a lasting beach body? Making healthy habits. Find an exercise you like — maybe it’s running, maybe it’s a workout video — and stick to it. Eat balanced meals, making sure to fill up on protein and vitamin-rich vegetables, like a spinach omelette with grilled chicken. Work to eliminate processed food from your diet, but do so gradually. Your health doesn’t need a 21 - day “fix,” but rather steady, positive improvement. And please, for everyone’s sake, eat an apple if you’re hungry. Middlebrook is eating a well-balanced diet. To let her know how well-balanced it is, email hailharp@umich.edu
SINGLE REVIEW Picture an inexplicably smoky, dimly lit basement of some good friend’s parents house in some B+ sector of Midwestern Kicker suburbia. The room Alex G is filled with angsty Domino high school seniors, making out on ragged couches, getting high, listening to your friend’s older brother’s band perform while someone discusses the details of their “next big move.” This incredibly archetypal setting is reminiscent of a John Hughes film, or the pages of the next box-office hit screenplay by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber. Yet here it can be used to reflect another art form entirely. Here, the imagery of this quintessentially high school moment reflects the sonic simplicity emerging from Alex G’s new single, “Kicker.” The classically minimalist musician allows his guitar to occupy the sonic space on “Kicker.” Despite the song’s
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bummed-out lyrics and monotonous tone, the versatile character of Alex G’s guitar engages the listener from start to finish. At “Kicker” ’s crescendo, where one sustained screech of G’s guitar carries the song into its five-second denouement, we’re transported to that smoky basement. Those post-puberty almost adults are occupying the space where Alex G is playing. They’re bobbing their heads along, understanding of the great
simplicity that his music holds. “Heaven, maybe freedom, what’s the word / Right, I forgot, quiet is the closest thing we got,” he sings, and the crowd’s slow head-bob feels almost tangible. The track ends too quickly, closing in on just under three minutes. Alex G’s performance reflects what he has perfected: expansive guitars and angsty lyrics to satisfy the smoky basements in the back of all of our minds. - AMELIA ZAK
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CULTURAL CURES COLUMN
Help! I’m hot for my GSI! By GILLIAN JAKAB Daily Cultural Cures Columnist
Dear Gillian, As a freshman this fall, I’m in a section led by a graduate student instructor who is (1) smart, (2) nice and (3) fine as hell. And she looks right at me a lot of the time. And she’s fine as hell. I know it’s, like, number two on the list of ways to eff-up as a freshman, but I can’t help crushing on this GSI, hard. I don’t want any trouble, but I don’t want to miss out either. I’ve been doing a good job keeping it my dreams, but in our last e-mail exchange, the answers to my questions were followed by an emoji. Not a hearts one, but a smile one with those slightly rosy cheeks that could be a blush. At this point, I got it bad. – Hot For Teacher *** Dear Hot For Teacher, The student-teacher forbidden love has been chronicled by authors and artists through the ages. It almost always ends badly. The consequences have ranged from grade deflation, to litigation, to castration, to murderization. Or worse, the denial of tenure. A thing with your GSI is not as taboo as a cross-generational flirtation with a full professor. The dynamic, however, is always going to be thornier than a tryst between peers. One story you can look to is that of Héloïse and Abélard. These two ruffled some feathers 12th century Paris. Héloïse d’Argenteuil was said to be the best-educated woman in France. She was brought up by her uncle Canon Flubert and became a renowned scholar and writer. The best was paired with the best, and it was decided she would study with the famous French philosopher and theologian Peter Abélard. Well, as we all know, private tutoring is the perfect opportunity for private seduction. The two shared a great intellectual, erotic and spiritual passion for one another, which was not the least bit kosher in the Middle Ages. It seems that when Flubert found out about the couple, he was livid. Pregnant and unwed, the two fled to Brittany and married (which Heloise was reluctant to do, viewing marriage as a burden to her freedom). News of the morning-after marriage began to tarnish their reputations and careers, and Abélard put Héloïse into the convent of Argenteuil to be a nun. To Flubert, Abélard’s secret seduction, marriage and warehousing of Héloïse were cowardly and he vowed revenge.
So he broke into Abélard’s room with some friends and castrated him. Carrying on, the erstwhile lovers corresponded through a celebrated series of seven letters in which they exchanged insults and blame, expressed their despair and longing, and pledged their cerebral and corporeal devotion. Now, Hot, you might be thinking castration is not a legit threat in the 21st century. But do you even know anything about Fine-As-Hell’s relationship (or ex-relationship) status? By the time you’re a GSI, you’ve probably accumulated a complicated love footprint, particularly if you’re fine as hell and using a blush emoji with a freshman in week three. There could be some venomous players woven into this web that you’re not even aware of. It doesn’t take Héloise and Abélard’s fiery affair that runs from wild love to forced celibacy to bring trouble to a student and teacher that find themselves in a sketchy tête-à-tête. David Mamet’s (yep, Zosia’s father) two-character play “Oleanna” suggests only an intention of intimacy between professor John and undergraduate Carol, yet they were up the creek pretty quickly. Carol goes to her professor’s office distraught, complaining the material was not well presented in his course, and asks for passing grade. John is distracted, on the verge of being granted tenure and closing on a new house, but eventually sympathizes with her criticism of the academic system and decides to help her if she meets with him privately to discuss the material. At an intense moment, he puts his hand on her shoulder to comfort her, and she shakes it off, visibly upset. Carol returns having filed complaints with the University (and the tenure committee) that John is sexist in class and sexually harassed her when she met with him. Freaked out by how this will affect his chance at being tenured, John grabs Carol when she tries to storm out of her second visit. Pretty soon, he’s denied tenure and suspended and Carol faced with feelings of violation. Things only get worse from there. Now, Hot, you’re probably thinking, “Whoa, whoa, it was only an emoji.” But you know what they say: emojis are gateway icons that just lead to harder keystrokes and pretty soon you’re sharing peeks on YikYak. We stereotypically think of older men in teaching positions seducing young, ambitious schoolgirls. But in Zoe Heller’s novel “Notes on a Scandal,” —
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which was made into a film with Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench — is closer to your situation, flipping the script to show us another casting of roles. Art teacher at a London comprehensive school, Sheba Hart, lusts after 15-year old student Steven Connolly, and it’s not long before they’re having sex in risky spots but managing to keep the affair hidden. One problem you can see here, H, besides the red light of being with a minor, is the conflicting concerns of two people at different stages of life. As the relationship progresses, Sheba becomes more and more attached to Steven as he inversely loses interest. As middleaged adult, with a dusty marriage and an insecurity of aging, life is moving at a slower pace than it is for a teenage boy, and Sheba clings to the relationship as she tries to cling to her own youth. Although the gap between you and FineAs-Hell is only around six years, consider that she’s worrying about getting kicked off her parents’ health insurance and you’re worrying about getting kicked off the line at Skeeps. In the story, Sheba’s nosey friend finds out about the affair and starts writing an account of the tryst. So clearly, nothing can be kept secret. Somehow people will always find out, especially when proof is as easy as a screenshot of a Snapchat of the two of you getting cozy at office hours. Sting, who had worked as an English teacher before becoming the bassist and lead singer of The Police, captured many of the pitfalls of student/teacher temptations in “Don’t Stand So Close to Me,” which I recommend you listen to. His advice is to put some spatial distance between yourselves and the rest will take care of itself. So, Hot for Teacher, if you’re not scared out of your mind by now and are still clicking through your GSIs public profile pictures, I’d say wait until next semester when you’re no longer in enrolled in the class, or better yet next year when you lose your frosh status. For now, just make an impression in class by spicing up your comments with some sources that flaunt outside research and genuine curiosity (I don’t know what class it is, but hopefully not Psych 494 “Adolescent Sexuality” or French 350 “Mistakes.”) Stand out and look sharp. Fine-As-Hell will remember you in 2016. Send an email to DearGillian@ michigandaily.com to submit your own questions for the Cultural Cures Column.
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By CARLY SNIDER Daily Arts Writer
“(Music) is definitely a lifetime commitment, for sure. It’s very rewarding and very risky. But I’m so glad that I took this career path, it’s been so amazing.” Fans around the world would agree that Annakalmia Traver made the right career choice. This commitment to music started at the University of Vermont, where the band Rubblebucket’s founders, Alex Toth and lead singer Traver, met. The pair was very involved with the arts on campus and, as music majors, Toth and Traver spread their musical net far and wide. “We just played tons of music together … Burlington, Vt. has an awesome music scene and we really grew up as musicians there,” Traver said during a phone interview with The Michigan Daily. After their time in Vermont, Toth and Traver took their talents to Boston, where they combined forces with future bandmates Adam Dotson and Ian Hersey. It is there that the group was able to put down its roots and grow, gathering inspiration and getting situated in the musical world. “Boston is where Rubblebucket really became a thing,”
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Rubblebucket brings dance pop to the Blind Pig on Oct. 3.
Traver said. The group spent much of their time in the Northeast touring — leaping at every opportunity to play anywhere and everywhere, to codify their soundscape. This extensive touring allowed the band to become accustomed to, and learn to love, the routine rhythm of the road as well as to make treasured human connections with fans and fellow musicians. “Between the core four of us, our taste is universal, almost,” Traver said. “I started out, when I was in middle school, with Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey, Toni Braxton — the pop of that era — which
has really come to stand up strong over time.” These pop influences show themselves in the group’s dancefriendly sound, as well in their resonant, stick-in-your-head-fordays choruses. Taking these pop basics and running with them, Rubblebucket manages to take the best elements of dance music and infuse them with a more quirky, indie sound — creating a vibe entirely their own. “One of my family members gave me a jazz tape, I think it was John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. And that was really transformative for me, and for the other guys
3B — Thursday, October 1, 2015
baked.buzzed.bored. in this series, three daily arts writers in varying states of mind visit the same place and write about their experiences.
this week’s destination:
Dark Side of the Rainbow? Well this has been a shit show and a half. The movie wouldn’t load. We fucked up the timing of pressing play, and I’ve sat on a plate of ketchup. Only good thing to come of this was the homemade chicken tenders I made and the fact I had an excuse to “do some weed,” as my dad would call it, at 6 p.m. on a school night. This is actually pretty cool. RIP JUDY GARLAND. I think Dorothy is stoned too, tbh. I really want to pet Toto. The drunk one does a dead on impression of Judy Garland singing. OK, this is creepy. The witch came riding on her broom and the music got perfectly terrifying. I forgot that I liked this movie, but still hella pissed at the whole “you had the power to go home all this time” shit. OK do you think Dorothy would like pumpkin spice lattes? (I do). Buzzed just gave me a history lesson on how this movie is an allegory for ’merica switching to the gold standard. But to me it’s more thematic of like a Beyoncé song. THE POWER IS ALL YOURS, do what you damn well want to. And don’t let any bitch with a point hat tell u shit. TORNADO I FEEL PARALYZED. Glinda was kind of a cunt. Like Dorothy probably has shit to do, send her and her little dog the hell home. Glinda is not cute, I thought she was the pretty one. Where’s the wicked witch of the south? They kinda just left that lead hanging. This album is actually fantastic. To be completely honest when I was a kid I totally wanted to be the wicked witch but gender roles are a real bitch during youth. Also I’m a piece of shit, because I’m drinking some wine now too. #crossfaded #ihatemyself. Drunk compared our extreme peanut butter eating habits to doing meth. Uh .... we got to the oddly sexual part of Dorothy lubing up the Tin Man, but then the YouTube recording stopped. So I guess I’m done here. —DAILY ARTS WRITER All I know is that my one of my fellow Daily Arts writers just sat on ketchup and I saw some underwear and then Pink Floyd started playing. So we were really excited when we got this to match up. Start playing the album at the lion’s third roar!!! It’s hard to type with this wine glass but I’m doing my best. This is eerily matching up right now. I’M SO CREEPED OUT WATCHING THIS A BUNCH OF BELLS STARTED CLANGING WHEN THE WOMAN THAT PLAYED THE WITCH SHOWED UP IN HER FRONTIER GARB. TOTO CAME BACK AND THE MUSIC GOT HAPPIER. Low key tho I’ve never listened to this album and I’m really digging it. I’m blathering to my fellow writers about how this movie is an allegory and the slippers are really gold because of money and fucking America. IT’S THE TWISTER RIGHT NOW BUT THE MUSIC IS CALM AF. Triply stuff. Right when Dork-thy laid down the music chilled out so that was strange and amazing and I feel that my life has changed for the better. MONEY IS PLAYING right as she walked into Oz!!!!!! GLINDA IS A GRENADE I remember her being so hot what is this witchcraft?? Was that a pun??? I really need to watch this while sober. We fell out of sync with it for a while and Nirvana started playing and THAT WAS AWESOME. The munchkins are talking now. MY FELLOW WRITER JUST SAID THAT MUNCHKINS ARE MENINISTS AND I COULDN’T AGREE MORE. I feel so relaxed. Everything is good. Pink Floyd is good. The Tin Man slowly getting lubed up is good. —DAILY ARTS WRITER To be honest, I’m kind of skeptical about this whole thing. Floyd never admitted to synching the album with the movie and, in all likelihood, a bunch of stoners made this whole thing up while tripping on some illicit substance. But we shall see. The lion is roaring, and I am pressing play, giving Buzzed a high five when we realize we lined everything up correctly. Baked just sat in a plate of ketchup. So far this shit is looking pretty legit … the music is changing … characters are reacting. I’m beginning to appreciate my Bored status. This is trippy enough without any inebriation. The twister is coming but the music is calm — what’s happening? “This is changing my life,” says Baked. “Money” came on right as she walked into the colorful munchkin land; this probably has some kind of significance, but my mind is not vast enough to analyze it. Between the three of us, we seem to know a lot of random facts about this movie, the implications of this are TBD. It just occurred to me that all of Dorothy’s helpers are men — where my ladies at?! Somehow we got onto the topic of meth, do you think Pink Floyd did meth? Theres some real victorious music going on while the Tin Man is getting greased up; I feel like I’m watching the end of a war movie or something. Alas, the janky YouTube clip we have relied on finally quit on it. It was interesting while it lasted, Floyd. —CARLY SNIDER
too. Jazz is an extremely huge foundation for the spirit of improvising,” Traver said. The implications of this jazz fixation on Rubblebucket’s music are obvious — the horns, the complex layering of different instruments, the soulful, honest intonation of Traver’s voice. This jazz-inspired element puts a syncopated swing in everything that the group does, something that many indie bands lack. “Through knowing the guys, my band mates, I got into more rock ‘n’ roll, which I really couldn’t have told you anything about when I was in high school. It has been a cool education.” Drawing on their mirage of taste, training in brass instruments and other inspiring artists, Rubblebucket crafted their distinct genre-bending sound. This rock influence comes into play in the form of the band’s swagger — their attitude. Their music is dancefriendly with a touch of punk, hip with an edgy essence. “We are definitely suited to the indie world, particularly the dance side of things,” Traver said. “There
is definitely an element of DIY, that sort of punk spirit, in everything that we do. ” Taking a turn off the beaten path, Rubblebucket incorporates horns into much of their work — a choice that many modern pop musicians shy away from. But this group erases the brass-instrument stigma. (Check out “Came Out of a Lady.”) The horns add a level of depth unattainable through any other musical means, helping to create the group’s dynamic sound. The brass pieces act as another voice of sorts, further expanding the range of human emotion conveyed through song.
Music is a lifetime commitment. “On a human level, there’s the voice and then there’s drums, the next level up, because you can express yourself on a drum with just one stroke. Then I really think
horns are the next in line in terms of an instrument that’s really close to humanity and the body. People respond to it so strongly, it’s very evocative of this primal thing.” This evocative primal nature seems to be resonating strongly with fans, as the group has graced the stage on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and has taken an extensive European tour — exposing them to an even broader range of listeners. Traver, who studied abroad in Paris during her college years, felt especially connected to the audiences there and felt that it was “profoundly special to be able to bring (her) art back to the city of Paris.” Rubblebucket is kicking off another U.S. tour in October, making a stop at Ann Arbor’s own Blind Pig on Saturday, Oct. 3. For Traver, the appeal of touring has always been about connecting with others — through making music, through sharing music, through self-expression. “It’s amazing to be in a world where you get to look at people every night and touch them and feel this net of humanity. It’s really exciting.”
the b-side
4B — Thursday, October 1, 2015
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
MUSIC VIDEO REVIEW Halsey is one of those girls. You know the ones: They can rock the mystical shoulder tattoos, the SmurfC+ blue hair, the elusive New ultra-pixie cut, the Americana oversized Halsey band T-shirts Astralwerks — and still look completely irresistible. The thing is, though, Halsey’s music is too intelligent, too edgy to be pigeonholed into that basic category of “hipster.”
Perhaps this stereotyping is what she and her clan are rebelling against in the post-apocalyptic “New Americana” video. It’s intense, and for the most part, convincingly so. As our leading lady is chilling with her heathens in an underground layer, doing push-ups and smoking and kissing people aggressively (typical), she’s captured by some fascist dude with a really big gun. He drags her through the rainforest, ties her to a tree and douses her in gasoline: apt preparations for hipster homicide. Alas, Halsey won’t settle for that — eccentricity will not be stifled
— and in comes La Resistance to save the fire-lit night.
Too intelligent and edgy to be a hipster.
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All of this is effective in eliciting true fear for the singer — one simply must watch until the end to find out what goes down. “New Americana” is the perfect backing song for
the cinematography, too, as both the video and music extract from each other equal amounts of raw, penetrating power. But as the good-looking group is sprinting to safety at the end, one can’t help but think of the typicality of it all. The video straight up looks like it’s from “The Hunger Games” if Urban Outfitters had been the executive producer. In a time where sexy sci-fi tales of young-adult upheaval are more than overdone, Halsey’s originality is best suited to a far less clichéd format. - MELINA GLUSAC