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Rackham student Emily Solomon sings with the Early Music Choir directed by Joseph Gascho at the Francis Thomas Jr. School of Public Health on Wednesday.

Medical School, health system to increase collaboration By KATIE PENROD Daily Staff Reporter

HEALTH

UMHS implements stricter employee flu shot policy Vaccinations now required for all health system volunteers, staff By TOM MCBRIEN Daily Staff Reporter

As part of ongoing efforts to prevent the spread of the seasonal influenza virus,

the University of Michigan Health System has instituted a new policy mandating that all employees must get a flu vaccination. The policy, which replaces the five-year-old policy that only required employees working in clinical settings to get a vaccine, stipulates that all employees must get their vaccination before Dec. 1 unless they are exempted for medical or religious purposes. Employees who do not comply

will face disciplinary action. “Progressive corrective action could include a verbal warning through termination,” said UMHS spokeswoman Mary Masson. An e-mail sent to all UMHS employees said the health system is not the first to implement this practice. “Health systems across the country have already adopted this best practice, which is proven to reduce the spread of

flu,” the e-mail read. The new system will considerably expand the number of employees required to get vaccinated. Though the old policy covered employees who had direct contact with patients, the new policy aims to ensure that the entire health system environment is free from the virus; even employees without patient contact, like volunteers, See FLU SHOT, Page 3A

A few days after the University’s Board of Regents approved a reorganization of the University of Michigan Health System and the University’s Medical School’s top leadership structure, the President’s Advisory Panel on the Biosciences released a final report detailing recommendations for change. Though the developments mark a new push to evaluate the University’s approach to medicine, health and the biosciences — which cover scientific disciplines that focus on the study of life and living organisms — several faculty members interviewed by The Michigan Daily are unsure exactly what these changes will mean in the near future. The first major change

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Dismissed ‘M’ football player charged with three felonies Former player accused of taking nude photos of a woman without permission By EMMA KERR Daily Staff Reporter

Former Michigan offensive lineman Logan Tuley-Tillman was charged with three felony counts on Wednesday, according to Washtenaw County court records. Tuley-Tillman is facing two counts of capturing and distributing an image of an unclothed person and one count of using a computer to commit a crime. He was dismissed from the team Sept. 10, but Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh did not specify a reason at the time, simply citing “conduct

unacceptable for a Michigan student athlete.” Tuley-Tillman’s arraignment date was Wednesday, Oct. 7, during which he neither plead guilty or innocent but instead stood mute for all three charges. The personal bond was set at $5,000. The third count related to using a computer to commit a crime carries four to 10 years in prison. The prosecutor for the case is Brian L. Mackie. If the felony is bound over, meaning a judge believes there is enough evidence for the case to move forward, the circuit court judge presiding over the case will be Justice David Swartz, according to court documents. Tuley-Tillman’s attorney is listed as Douglas Lewis, an attorney with Student Legal Services. Lewis could not be reached for comment Wednesday evening.

occurred last month, when University President Mark Schlissel recommended that Marschall Runge, the University’s executive vice president for medical affairs and the chief executive officer of UMHS, also serve as dean of the University’s Medical School. Runge will assume the deanship in January, in addition to his current roles. University President Mark Schlissel convened the President’s Advisory Panel on the Biosciences last fall to determine how best to capitalize on the University’s existing resources in the sciences. Chaired by University Provost Martha Pollack, the panel consisted of 17 faculty members from a variety of departments, including chemistry, biology, psychology, biomedical engineering and mathematics. The panel made four recommendations: foster leadership and hire deans and department chairs who lead by example, use measures of success that support innovative ideas, foster further collaboration between faculty members and See BIOSCIENCES, Page 3A

Robbery reported at South U. retail shop Wednesday

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James House, professor emeritus of public policy, outlines the disparities in health care between the United States and other top developed nations at Weill Hall on Wednesday.

Ford prof. talks alternative approaches to health care Dr. James House calls for social reforms to reduce need for care By BRIAN KUANG For the Daily

James House, professor emeritus of public policy, challenged conventional approaches to improving

health care during a panel discussion hosted by the Ford School of Public Policy on Wednesday. Discussing his new book, “Beyond Obamacare: Life, Death and Social Policy,” House addressed what he describes as the “growing paradoxical crisis” of U.S. health care: the United States spends about twice as much of its GDP on health care as similar developed countries, yet counterintuitively has a

lower level of health overall. He attributed the failure of reform attempts to a misperception that health care is the primary determinant of a population’s health, pointing to evidence that quality of health care only has a 10 percent correlation with the health of a population. House said the primary determinants of a population’s health are socioeconomic in nature, including educational See HEALTH CARE, Page 2A

DPSS crime alert says suspect brandished handgun at retail store near campus By TANAZ AHMED Daily Staff Reporter

The Department of Public Safety and Security issued a crime alert Wednesday at 11:58 a.m. after an armed robbery occurred on the 1200 block of South University near South Forest Avenue. Witnesses told the the Ann Arbor Police Department that two men robbed a retail store at approximately 2:55 a.m. on Wednesday. According to the witnesses, one of the robbers displayed a small handgun. The two men ran away on foot in the direction of the Church Street parking garage.

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MONDAY: This Week in History

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Coach Harbaugh and the football team ate out on Wednesday. “Thanks to the wonderful staff at the BWI @CrackerBarrel for feeding our team. A+ Meal & Hospitality. Good times!” —@CoachJim4UM

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Rackham Student Yaroslavl Khomutnyk tight rope walks in the trees near the Diag on Wednesday.

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Classical violin Student job performance workshop

WHAT: Hear New York Times-featured journalist discuss how Indonesian President Joko Widodo has yet to act on the human rights failures of his predecessor. WHEN: Today at 10 a.m. WHERE: Rave Theatre, 4100 Carpenter Rd.

WHAT: Prof. Danielle Belen will perform with a group of her students. WHEN: Today at 12:10 p.m. WHERE: University Hospitals, Main Lobby, Floor 1

WHAT: International students can learn how to find a job in the United States after graduation. WHEN: Today from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Rackham Amphitheathre

Coffee chat with Amazon

‘Fragility of ‘Hippolytus’ our Freedoms’ speech

‘Korla’ screening

WHAT: Meet one-onone with a representative to learn about the Brand Specialist position in the company’s retail department. WHO: Amazon WHEN: Today from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Espresso Royale, 1101 S. University Ave.

WHAT: Listen to University Profs. Natalie Zemon Davis and Joan Wallach Scott discuss academic and intellectual freedom. WHEN: Today from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Hutchins Hall, Honigman Auditorium

WHAT: Come see the film based on the godfather of exotica music, spiritual seeker, television pioneer and ‘90s cult figure Korla Pandit, followed by a Q&A with director John Turner. WHEN: Today from 5:30 p.m to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Palmer Commons, Forum Hall

HEALTH CARE From Page 1A attainment, income and gender and racial equality. House said the divergence between the quality of care in Western Europe and the United States began during the 1970s, when socioeconomic inequality increased in the United States. “We can’t just rely on rescuing people after they’ve gotten sick by living a lifetime in deprived conditions,” he said. According to House, this misconception has caused the United States to primarily pursue a “supply-side” health care policy since the 1980s, which focuses on increasing access to health care for the population rather than reducing their health care needs, the most recent example of which is the 2008 Affordable Care Act. Though he said the Affordable Care Act passed under President Barack Obama was a step in the right direction for extending health coverage to more of the population, House was skeptical of its ability to resolve the broader issues facing health care in the United States.

“Obamacare, like all prior health care reforms, is largely a supplyside policy focused on expanding and managing the supply of health services and the price of it, rather than altering the major driver of the demand for health services, which is the health of the population,” he said. House advocated for what he described as a “demand-side” approach to health care policy. This approach would reduce the demand for health care and rein in costs by promoting healthier behavior and mitigating the consequences of economic inequality. “All social policy is health policy,” he said. Though he was ultimately optimistic about the eventuality of this kind of health care reform, he addressed its political feasibility with hints of realism about the present political climate. “Our role in the policy field isn’t to say what is politically palpable at the given moment, but to say what is actually going to make a difference and hope that at some point things are going to come in that direction,” he said. “There are political disputes about things, but there are moments when we have been able to enact positive changes.”

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Andres Rosetta info Harsono lecture session

WHAT: Oberlin College Prof. Kirk Ormand will give a speech on Hippolytus’ belief that men should be able to purchase babies at temples. WHO: Department of Classical Studies WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. WHERE: Angell Hall, 2175 Classics Library

Actor and University alum Darren Criss is back in town for Homecoming weekend.

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

WHAT: Students can learn about Rosetta job opportunities in marketing, user experience, media, technology and business analysis. WHO: Rosetta WHEN: Today at 12 p.m. WHERE: School of Information Engagement Center, Room 200

Each week, “Twitter Talk” is a forum to print tweets that are fun, informative, breaking or newsworthy, with an angle on the University, Ann Arbor and the state. All tweets have been edited for accurate spelling and grammar.

THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY

After avoiding questions on the topic for months, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton formally announced her opposition against the Trans Pacific Partnership, a deal backed by President Obama, Wednesday, PBS reported.

Daily Film Editor writes about competitive web gaming event “Big House 5,” Aviva Kempner documents the lives of Jewish heroes, artist profile of local musician Hannah Elizabeth, Baked Buzzed Bored of RC theatre.

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended their search for the cargo ship that went missing during Hurricane Joaquin off the coast of the Bahamas last week. According to CNN, 33 people were on board the ship.

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TOP LEFT: LSA sophomore Hannah Lynn, LSA senior Kate Coppess, and LSA sophomore Cara Fleming play their flutes during the Michigan Pops Orchestra impromptu concert on the Diag on Wednesday. BOTTOM LEFT: Engineering freshman Ali Sikorski conducts the Pops Orchestra. People passing by the Diag were invited to conduct the Orchestra. RIGHT: LSA sophomore Kim Truong plays the cello during the “Conduct Us!” event.

Michigan Pops performs pop-up concert on the Diag Orchestra allows passersby to serve as guest conductors By TANAZ AHMED Daily Staff Reporter

Instead of the usual squirrels and students crossing the Diag on Wednesday afternoon, members of the Michigan Pops Orchestra put on a pop-up show. The student-run pops orchestra is the oldest collegiate orchestra in the country and is comprised of non-music major

students. Throughout the day the group offered anyone crossing through the Diag an opportunity to conduct the ensemble as a part of their Conduct Us! event. The orchestra performed several musical pieces such as “The Victors” for impromptu conductors to choose from. People with a variety of musical experiences were encouraged to participate. The organization held the same event during last fall and winter semester. The ensemble was inspired by a similar event hosted by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony where the

symphony took to the streets and allowed people passing by to conduct the orchestra. Michigan Pops Orchestra hopes to continue hosting the Conduct Us! event once every semester. “We only have one concert per semester so we wanted more opportunities to get out and play for the people and also get people more engaged with music,” Payne said. Scott Fladzinski, an LSA and Engineering senior and one of the volunteer conductors, was excited by the opportunity to lead the orchestra in the middle

of the Diag. “I’ve studied music for maybe six or seven years but I’ve never actually conducted an orchestra, let alone on the Michigan Diag, which was pretty cool,” Fladzinski said. “As long as it’s a beautiful day, this is awesome.” LSA freshman Meha Patel was one of the many onlookers on the Diag. “It’s awesome that the orchestra is out in this weather and letting people conduct them,” she said. “Conductors are one of the most integral parts of the orchestra since they have to make sure everyone is on the right beat.”

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BIOSCIENCES From Page 1A increase faculty productiveness and the efficacy of the institution. Mary O’Riordan, associate dean of graduate and postdoctoral studies, said Runge’s way forward will likely be guided by the panel’s suggestions. “This is likely to have significant impact on how Dr. Runge will shape the sciences and therefore our educational mission as well,” O’Riordan wrote in an e-mail to the Daily. “We are still waiting to see how this will impact graduate education.” The panel identified several strengths of the University’s current efforts in the biosciences included the size of the overall biosciences enterprise at the University, the breadth of disciplines outside of the biosciences, the scores top-notch scientists pursuing bioscience research at the University, the spirit of faculty collaboration, the highly ranked science facilities and the existence of a Universityowned hospital. The weaknesses listed in the panel’s report include leadership that does not incentivize risktaking, a lack of a common mission — especially between the Medical School and other entities — and insufficient support for graduate programs in research. “While there are many examples of productive collaborations across disciplines at UM, our highly decentralized structure and traditionally defined departments limit our ability to take full advantage of our large investment in faculty and infrastructure in this vital domain of scholarship,” a statement released by the panel read. When he originally appointed Marshall Runge as EVPMA in November 2014, Schlissel said he made the recommendation based on his accomplishments as a scientist, doctor and leader. In September, Schlissel said appointing Runge to the deanship is logical because of the emphasis he places on innovation and progress. This shift in leadership comes at a time when UMHS is looking to create a more collaborative environment to make way for greater achievements in the biosciences. Neuroscience Prof. Huda Akil, a panel member, said she believes the panel was a good first step in planning how to build on the advantages that the University already has. “Nobody can do this in a vacuum,” she said. “You could never duplicate all the strengths and weaknesses that already exist. You can just build around them and hope at the same time you can find new direction.” Panel member Tom Schmidt, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, said though the panel made recommendations about how to improve biosciences at the University, no decisions were made on the ultimate methods. “That’ll be the next phase —

FLU SHOT From Page 1A vendors, contract workers and temporary workers, will now have to get a vaccination. “This year we have improved the policy to better ensure that our patients remain safe while in our care,” Masson said. Employees who receive medical or religious exemptions will have to wear face masks before entering patient care areas throughout the flu season. Influenza causes millions of infections and thousands of deaths every year in the United States. The virus can survive on hard, non-porous surfaces for hours to days depending on environmental factors. It can be contagious a day before symptoms appear and remain contagious for five to seven days after symptoms emerge. UMHS employees can get their flu vaccinations at free clinics throughout October, several of which are offered through Occupational Health Services in the Med Inn Building. For all other members of the University community, the University Health Service provides appointments for flu shots. The University is currently participating in the College and University Flu Vaccination Challenge against schools across the state such as Michigan State University and Wayne State University.

how do we address some of these barriers that the panel identified?” Schmidt said. One way the University is addressing those challenges, Schmidt said, is by fostering a closer relationship between UMHS and the Medical School, as illustrated by Runge’s dual position. “We have tremendous strength in the biological sciences, and so how do we better coordinate that and take advantage of it?” Schmidt said. “Having the dean and the vice president for medical affairs be the same person, I think, will help with that.” Sally Camper, chair of the Department of Human Genetics, wrote in an e-mail interview that some faculty members worry UMHS may be inefficient while Runge adjusts to his additional role. For example, Camper’s term as chair is nearing an end, and she’s worried the search for a replacement could be stalled. “I think there is a fear that it will slow things down,” Camper wrote. “But his office has already contacted me about forming a search committee for my replacement, and he aims to fill it quickly.” Medical School student Brendan Heiden applauded the move to combine the positions. He said he thinks the changes would be positive, though perhaps slow to occur. He added that it would be beneficial for UMHS and Medical School to work together in the changing healthcare landscape. “I think medicine is changing rapidly right now,” Heiden said. “From a research funding perspective, from a health insurance perspective, the rising costs of patient care, all of that is changing tremendously. Being able to tie those two components of the health system together would be very beneficial for all those areas.” However, Heiden said he recognized the transition might be difficult. “I think that the one challenge here is that these are two very big positions for one person to have, so I think that the only tentativeness that one could take from this is how much one individual will have to oversee,” he said. Akil noted that with all of this change, it will still be a waiting game to see how the implications of the panel come to light. She said the panel left room for interpretation, and it is up to Schlissel and the administration to make decisions based on the recommendations. “The panel’s goal was to envision possibility,” Akil said. “To put that in front of the president, administration and the regents and to see which path they need to choose. We did not try to impose one single approach as the only way

News to do it.” LSA senior Alexandra Laps said she believes pre-medical undergraduate students are already attracted to both the University’s hospital and Medical School, so this restructuring can only further the University’s high standing with matriculating students. “In terms of converging the hospital and Medical School more together, I think that people will be able to get a lot more clinical experience early on in Med School,” she said. “This is something that, especially me, in going through the process am definitely attracted to and would consider when I’m looking at a Med School. I also think that it will probably open up more opportunities for undergrads to get involved in clinical experience while they’re at Michigan in order to better prepare them for Med School.” Though the panel will not meet again, Akil and Schmidt said they believe its goals were achieved. Akil said surveying the strengths and weaknesses of the University was their mission, and she believes they did just that. Schmidt said the various departments represented in the panel all contributed to the final recommendations. “We wanted a diversity of opinion and we wanted to have the strengths across campus recognized,” he said. “There were people there who were able to speak about the museums, the biological station, chemistry — how advances in chemistry are affecting the biological sciences. We wanted that diversity of expertise to weigh in on this because I think that’s Michigan’s strength and how we’ll achieve this goal is by building bridges that connect some of these people and areas of expertise.” Kristen Verhey, associate professor of cellular and developmental biology, said UMHS needs change, particularly in its culture. “What is clear is that the overall culture here needs to change,” Verhey said. “And I think just recognizing that and putting it in paper is the first step, and therefore I believe that it is going to be a good thing.” Scott Barolo, director of the University’s Program in Biomedical Sciences, said as of now, he does not know of any obvious changes that will occur to graduate education. He added that he is optimistic about the panel’s report, as it seems likely the University will increase support for the sciences. Verhey added that basic support for research and faculty was lacking under past leadership, and she hopes the restructuring will create a more encouraging environment.

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Fiorina the faux-feminist

t first glance, Carly Fiorina seems like a great role model for female leadership. She’s forceful and unapologetic, and her shining presence against the backdrop of male candidates hints at a future of equal gender representation in the government. She’s running the campaign I wish Hillary Clinton would run, exuding a “no-nonsense businesswoman” vibe while conveying passion and sincerity in ANNE her causes. And she’s quick, KATZ too — her concise but sharp response at the most recent Republican debate obliterated Trump’s misogynistic remark and left me cheering at my TV. Erin Gloria Ryan, managing editor of Jezebel, tweeted it best: “Carly Fiorina is an ice-cold shade queen debate princess and I’m in love with and terrified of her.” It’s during these fleeting moments that I find myself drawn to Fiorina. I picture her in the Oval Office with her feet up on a desk, a badass lady president kicking butt and taking names. However, all it takes is for her to begin discussing her platform, and the spell is broken. Fiorina’s policies unequivocally hurt women, especially those of lower socioeconomic status and women of color. She’s led the assault against Planned Parenthood and openly opposes the Affordable Care Act, increased regulation of an equal wage, federally mandated paid leave and the federal minimum wage — all issues that disproportionately impact women — yet repeatedly claims to have our best interests in mind. Though Fiorina’s encouragements for women to lean in and lead sound empowering on the surface, her failure to support concrete policies that enable women to do so ultimately make her feminist doctrine hollow. I don’t doubt that Fiorina meets the most basic definition of a feminist: someone who believes in equal rights for men and women. But, when digging deeper, I’ve found that Fiorina’s calls for equality and empowerment are unsubstantiated. Fiorina’s definition of feminism, one that she articulated in a piece published in June titled “Redefining Feminism: The State of Women in America,” is unconventional at best and detrimental to the cause at worst. Though Fiorina’s definition of a feminist — “a woman who lives the life she chooses” — may sound uplifting on the surface, it rests upon entirely misguided principles. Fiorina’s prop-

osition is narrow-minded because it fails to take into account the many obstacles American women face today. Some women aren’t in a position where they can make the best choices for themselves, and sometimes those choices are simply not easy to make. Through no fault of their own, some women are forced to make incredibly difficult decisions that are unique to their gender, and the government has the ability to help support women through these decisions. The Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act, for example, does exactly that, by ensuring women have some income during family or medical leave. Paid leave is instrumental in helping women balance work and family, and mothers who take paid leave are more likely to stay in the workforce after a pregnancy. This job security helps soften the blow of the classic career vs. family dilemma many women face, and allows mothers to stay on track for promotions and leadership positions even while pregnant. Simply put, guaranteed paid leave helps increase the number of women both in the workforce at large and in leadership positions — something that Fiorina herself says is a good thing in her column. Why then does Fiorina oppose a paid maternity leave requirement? When Fiorina calls for the gutting of Planned Parenthood’s federal funding, an organization that provides 2.7 million women and men affordable, reliable health care, she’s threatening many women’s ability to take care of themselves. When Fiorina claims that programs like SNAP (food stamps) “make it so difficult to strive for more,” when in reality, the program improves the long-term health outcomes of children, she’s threatening many women’s ability to care for their families. If Fiorina really thinks that feminism is all about women making their own choices, why do her policies rob us of the opportunity to do so? But even though Fiorina is a hypocrite, I still feel oddly drawn to her, constantly pivoting from fascination back to repulsion. Her clear articulation of her views is refreshing; it’s unfortunate that the views themselves fail to support women. Though she fits certain dimensions of what we envision as a feminist leader, until Fiorina commits to empowering and supporting all women through policy, she’s holding us back. It’s not that feminism is some elite club, or that the movement has become too “ideological,” like Fiorina claims. It’s that in order to be a feminist, you have to actively work to empower women. Fiorina’s policies do the opposite. — Anne Katz can be reached at amkatz@umich.edu.

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Unless … the students themselves moderate some of the risky behavior … they may naturally wither and people may want to stop joining (fraternities and sororities).”

— University President Mark Schlissel to reporters about the future of Greek life after speaking at the Detroit Economic Club on Tuesday afternoon.

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Indebted for freedom

n Sept. 30, Congress passed an emergency bill to keep the government running for another 10 weeks. If this bill had not passed, federal agencies would have run out of money within seven hours. Even more disturbingly, more than half of Congressional Repub- ASHLEY licans voted AUSTIN against this bill in an effort to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Contention over federal funding for Planned Parenthood and the deficit were among the possible factors that contributed to House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to step down from his position, which he announced on Sept. 25. He has expressed a strong sense of commitment to addressing our government’s budget deficiencies before he leaves Congress. Boehner said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sept. 27, “I don’t want to leave my successor a dirty barn. I want to clean the barn up a bit before the next person gets there.” This indicates that he will most likely push for a resolution to strengthen the standing of our nation’s finances. However, on Oct. 1, Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew wrote in a letter to Boehner that we may face a dire debt crisis by November 5 — in spite of the emergency resolution. Lew proclaimed in the letter: “Without sufficient cash, it would be impossible for the United States of America to meet all of its obligations for the first time in our history.” He went on to explain that reach-

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ing the legal debt ceiling of $18.1 trillion would result in the U.S. government having $30 billion in working capital. These factors suggest that Speaker Boehner’s efforts to clean out “the barn” are paramount to our country’s future. The government shutdown of 2013, launched by House Republicans in response to failed efforts to repeal or amend the Affordable Care Act, damaged our economy. According to Standard & Poor’s, the 2013 federal shutdown cost the government $24 billion and reduced fourth-quarter GDP growth by about 0.6 percent. Despite the fact the government shut down in 2013, and may do so again in the near future, recent congressional sessions have not brought about the results to ensure long-term fiscal stability. If voters do not demand change for the strategic diminishment of debt, our generation will fully experience the consequences. Indeed, as of Oct. 4, the U.S. national debt loomed above $18 trillion, the debt per citizen greater than $57,100 and the debt per taxpayer greater than $154,400. These numbers hint at a future of oppressive financial burdens — burdens that these politicians probably will not live to experience. But these are burdens that we will deal with when foreign creditors, including the Chinese and Japanese governments, demand payments. At the very least, this could mean diminished access to Social Security, Medicare and other federal government services that we will continue to pay for. In terms of national debt, China and Japan each hold more than $1 trillion of our national securities. China seeks to hold our treasuries to peg its currency, the yuan, to

our dollar. This helps the Chinese government lower the value of the yuan, making China’s exports more competitive in the foreign economy. The lower value of the yuan is a contributing factor in the decisions of many U.S.-based corporations to outsource manufacturing jobs to China, damaging the U.S. economy and workforce. Japan also buys U.S. treasuries to devalue their currency to enhance the attractiveness of their exports, such as cars, in American and other foreign marketplaces. These governments are being proactive in their support of production sectors of their economies, while our government unsustainably spends abroad and neglects economic development at home. Owing money to the Chinese government is concerning, considering that hackers sponsored by the Chinese government procured millions of records of U.S. federal government employees. Additionally, the National Security Agency revealed that there have been nearly 700 successful hacking attempts by the Chinese government in the last five years aimed at U.S. corporations and individuals. This encroachment upon the cyber security of Americans connected to the government and national financial engines is not a good sign. The Chinese government has established leverage for future financial interactions with the United States. Evidently, the current status quo of borrowing and spending cannot be maintained. The time has come for Congress to take farsighted action to avoid these debt crises and looming government shutdowns, thereby ensuring stability for our generation. — Ashley Austin can be reached at agracea@umich.edu.

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Avoidance and tales of adulthood

y pedometer is an optimist. It always says that I am running, when in reality I just walk very quickPAYTON ly. While I know LUOKKALA this should have no effect on my day, it hurts to have the application on my phone telling me another way in which I am a failure. To its movement-sensing technology, I appear to be the world’s slowest runner. The point is not the many ways in which I fail or my actual running speed, but to ask myself: Why am I always in such a hurry? While I have a schedule full of classes, work and meetings, so does every other student at the University. Yet, it is only some students who walk like someone trying to race a bicycle, outrun adulthood or perform some more difficult feat. I am almost always 15 minutes early to class. I don’t know why. I think I am worried that I will forget where I am going or I will forget my homework and have to give myself enough time to run back and retrieve it. Neither of these things has ever happened. I use the extra time to walk across the Diag and back or take a lap around the MLB. When I am at home with my family, we go on walks down the dirt road we live on. Since I can remember, I have found myself at least 20 strides ahead of the pack (a small pack, that is). During walks, my (hilarious) dad often shouts up to me to ask how the weather is. Sometimes, after turning around to stick out my tongue, I reassure myself that I like to stretch my legs with the fast pace. Other times, I reassure myself that I like the space between us to think.

And when I’m not doing that, as my (brilliant) twin sister hustles to stay beside me, I tell myself I just have to beat her at this one thing. But that (obviously insane) determination does not exist for me here. I do not have a person to irrationally compete against, nor is it that difficult to find a place to think (well, it is a little). And that excuse about short legs? I am 5-foot-4; my legs stretch easily, they have to stretch to reach the ground as I get out of bed in the morning. Then why am I in a hurry at home? Why would anyone be in a hurry in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? There is not much reason to rush; life there is slow and patient. I would say I am racing to leave, but that would be hurtful, slightly untrue and would not explain the issue here. I think the best way I could describe what I was trying to do was a joke I made earlier. Maybe I try to outrun adulthood, like maybe if I run more quickly then it cannot touch me. This is something I see students, as well as other members of the University community, try to do every day. Everyone has coping mechanisms. People oversleep or never sleep. They bury themselves in Netflix. They drink way too much. The other day, some friends of mine from high school drove the eight hours to Ann Arbor just to go to the Briarwood Mall, walk around the Diag and leave. On Monday, my friend Haley told me, eagerly yet firmly, that time does not exist. I

avoid adulthood by walking quickly, because if I am always moving, always between destinations, I am nowhere. You cannot be an adult if you are nowhere, Haley convinced herself. But now that I can identify the problem, I can admit a worse fate than the denial of adulthood: accepting it. The other day, one of my classmates asked my Spanish teacher how old he was, and my teacher sucked in his cheeks before bashfully admitting, 24 (but it was in Spanish, so make sure you read it “veinticuatro”). Then he said he felt old. I wanted to shake him, to tell him he was young, so close to my age that if we were dogs we would be the same. I wanted to tell him to slow his embrace of responsibility and he should stay and explore with us, but I am not that good at speaking Spanish and he already thinks I am odd. Something I have been realizing as I get older is that no one ever knows what they are doing. Yeah, think of that next time you get into a car with your parents or have surgery or ask your GSI a question. It is scary. But, it also puts us all on a similar level. Not to say you are smarter than your professors or Donald Trump (yes, in this case), but I want you to know that adulthood is not something you have to run away from or run toward. When you cross its path, acknowledge that it means very little and walk calmly beside it.

When you cross adulthood’s path, acknowledge that it means very little.

— Payton Luokkala can be reached at payluokk@umich.edu.

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Dawkins looks to build Michigan wins thriller upon freshman success By LEV FACHER Managing Editor

Ask Aubrey Dawkins if he expected to enter the 2015-16 season as a player who’d racked up substantial, meaningful minutes against top-tier Big Ten competition during his freshman year. The sophomore guard won’t hesitate. “No, I did not,” Dawkins said Friday before the Wolverines’ first practice of the season. “You could say it’s a blessing in disguise.” While Dawkins benefited immensely from being thrown into the fire, the circumstances that led to his opportunity were far from ideal for the Michigan men’s basketball team. Junior guard Derrick Walton Jr. and senior guard Caris LeVert both succumbed to mid-season injuries, forcing then-junior Spike Albrecht to take over the leadership role in the Wolverines’ backcourt. It also forced Dawkins and fellow freshman Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman off the bench and into the limelight. “Obviously, I always want the best for Caris,” Dawkins said. “I think he’s going to have a great season this year, and I can’t wait to see him back on the court. But yeah, it was a blessing in disguise. It happened, and I got better from it.” The improvement during last season’s final months and over the summer has been readily apparent, even to the point that Michigan coach John Beilein

singled out Dawkins this offseason as one of the Wolverines’ most improved players. The extra attention Dawkins is dealing with could have added some level of extra pressure. But not so, he claimed — Beilein’s comments were flattering, but nothing more. “It’s good to hear,” Dawkins said. “It’s good positive reinforcement.” Dawkins added inches to his vertical and improved his handle during his summer in Ann Arbor, which gave him the opportunity to work out in a calmer environment than the frenzied winter months on campus. “It was great,” Dawkins said. “Much more relaxed. Campus is a little more quiet. It was fun, (and) I got a lot better.” Despite the physical improvements, Dawkins cited a heightened basketball IQ as his most substantial gain of the offseason. “There’s no need to rush,” he said. “Coming in as a freshman, I was kind of deer in the headlights. You’re shocked — you want to play as fast as you can. But you don’t need to do that. In slowing down and just making smart plays is where I think I grew the most.” Between spending the summer on campus and working at Adidas Nations camp in early August, the sophomore said his father — Stanford head coach Johnny Dawkins — didn’t get the chance to see him play in a formal setting over the offseason.

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‘M’ ties Notre Dame on road Wolverines draw against top-10 foe for the second time this season By RILEY NELSON Daily Sports Writer

With two seconds left in double overtime, sophomore goalkeeper Evan Louro snatched the ball out of the air, saving the Michigan men’s soccer team from a last1 MICHIGAN minute 1 NOTRE DAME defeat. It was one of the career-high eight saves Louro made Wednesday, helping the Wolverines to a 1-1 draw at No. 7 Notre Dame. The draw marks Michigan’s second against a top-10 team this season, and the Wolverines remain unbeaten in their last five games. Expectations were high ahead of the matchup with the Fighting Irish, so Michigan was uncertain about how the game would play out. “They’re a good team,” said Michigan coach Chaka Daley. “We’re a good team (too), so our expectations were to go in and win the game. It was a good result. We got a point on the road at Notre Dame, who is ranked high up in the NCAA.” The Wolverines (2-0-2 Big Ten, 5-2-3 overall) had a quick start with many scoring chances in the opening minutes of the game, but it took until the 23rd minute for them to score their lone goal. Freshman midfielder Francis Atuahene slotted the ball into the right side of the net off a pass from fifth-year senior midfielder Colin McAtee, who was positioned just outside the box. Atuahene leads the team in scoring and has netted a goal in each of the last five matches.

With two minutes left in the first half, the Fighting Irish scored after a long ball beat the Michigan defense and wound up at the feet of forward Thomas Ueland, who finished off the play by putting the ball into the net. The rest of the game was dominated by tight defense and stellar goalkeeping from both sides. “I think defensively, (junior defender Lars Eckenrode, junior defender Andre Morris) and certainly (Louro) down the stretch did an outstanding job of keeping things solid,” Daley said. Louro had two noteworthy saves in the second half. One came in the 77th minute, when a Notre Dame player had a pointblank shot from the middle of the box, which Louro grabbed. “Every game, he’s kept it solid,” Daley said. “He had an opportunity to make some saves, and certainly he helped change the game.” With three and a half minutes left in regulation, the Fighting Irish were awarded a free kick after a controversial penalty. The shot was placed in the lower left corner, but Louro was there in time to save the Wolverines once again. “Obviously Notre Dame is a good team,” Louro said. “We have confidence in ourselves that we can go in and win games like that. We settled for a point, but if the opportunity came to win the game, we were going to take it. But we weren’t going to give up a point.” With an arduous suddendeath game now behind them, Michigan’s main priority these next few days is to get rest ahead of its game against Rutgers on Saturday. “The main thing now is to recover,” Louro said. “We’re playing for the same thing: three points.”

“Every game he’s kept it solid.”

Dawkins said not much has changed in terms of their dynamic, a hybrid of father-son and coach-player relationship, even though he now has a season of Division I competition under his belt. “Same old, same old,” Dawkins said. “(He’s) always giving me teaching points, telling me what I need to get better at. That’s how it’s always going to be.” The three-hour time difference makes staying up to date tougher for the elder Dawkins, but his son said the Cardinal’s eighth-year coach manages to record all of the Michigan games, nonetheless. As much as seeing Aubrey earn substantial minutes at shooting guard last season must have been a pleasant surprise for the entire Dawkins family, Michigan’s budding star is showing no signs of complacency. With the unexpected advantage of experience, a bolstered vertical jump, a higher basketball IQ and a less-frenetic on-court mindset, a breakout sophmore season for Dawkins wouldn’t come as a surprise. There’s only one problem: LeVert, Walton and a plethora of other capable guards are all expected to be fully healthy and ready to contribute for a Michigan squad that could have at least a dozen players earn substantial time on the floor. Nobody is immune to the battle for minutes, but Dawkins is as well-positioned as anybody else to earn his time.

Wolverines victorious despite trailing early in match By JESSE KLEIN Daily Sports Writer

After rallying for a tough 3-2 win over Michigan State last Wednesday, the Michigan volleyball team traveled to Iowa City hoping to dominate from the start rather than play from behind. But the Wolverines got a taste of déjà vu as they 3 MICHIGAN 2 once again IOWA rallied from a 2-0 deficit for another 3-2 victory. In the first set, Michigan (3-2 Big Ten, 13-3 overall) hit a slump due to changes in the starting rotation. Iowa (0-5, 10-8) held a narrow lead before Michigan redshirt junior outside hitter Ally Davis and Michigan sophomore middle blocker Claire Kieffer-Wright cut the lead with four kills each. But it wasn’t enough to fend off the Hawkeyes, who stayed ahead the entire set and won it, 25-23. The Wolverines held on for the first half of the second set by tying it up at seven before Iowa went on a 4-0 run. Michigan called a timeout in hopes of reigniting its offense as the Hawkeyes continued to stretch their lead. The timeout was ineffective, though, as Iowa scored six straight points to take

the second set, 25-13. “Tonight we had to change our lineup a lot because of some injuries, so it took us a while to find a combo that worked,” said Michigan coach Mark Rosen. “We kept changing all night.” One of those injuries included sophomore defensive specialist Caroline Knop, the only Wolverine who had played in every set of every match this season. “She was a real point of emotional and rotational stability for us,” Rosen said. “So tonight, everyone had to step up.” The third set started out to be more of the same with a 4-1 run by Iowa. However, Michigan’s next timeout was more successful, as the team regrouped before scoring five straight points. “No one was making eye contact (in the first two sets),” Kieffer-Wright said. “Our captain said that we should find someone to make eye contact with after every point, and then communication started to increase.” But Iowa battled back to gain a 21-20 advantage. Two straight kills from junior middle blocker Abby Cole while facing match point tied the score at 24 and kept Michigan from succumbing to defeat. The Wolverines refused to give up. A kill by Davis, a block by Cole with help from senior

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setter Carly Warner and an Iowa error forced the Hawkeyes to call a time out. Michigan then fought off four match points to win the third set, 28-26, and avoid a shutout. The combined efforts of Kieffer-Wright and Cole helped Michigan dominate the fourth set and take a 25-21 win. Davis and Cole totaled double-digit kills and Kieffer-Wright tallied a career high of 12. “It couldn’t have been a more competitive atmosphere to get a career high,” KiefferWright said. “Our setters put us in really good situations to get kills.” The Wolverines finally seemed to be in a groove as they tied the game with two sets apiece. In the decisive set, the lead continued to change back and forth between Michigan and the Hawkeyes, but neither was able to take control. Cole proved just as effective on defense, teaming up with Warner once again to fend off an aggressive Iowa attack. Though Iowa fought off two match points, the Wolverines had just enough stamina to outlast the Hawkeyes to win the match point, 15-13. The Wolverines once again won three straight sets to come out victorious. “We find a way to win,” Cole said. “If it’s ugly or it’s pretty, it doesn’t matter.”

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Michigan already searching for next Blake O’Neill By MAX BULTMAN Daily Sports Editor

Michigan football special teams coordinator John Baxter said Wednesday that he is well into his search for fifth-year senior punter Blake O’Neill’s NOTEBOOK replacement. O’Neill, who grew up playing Australian rules football, has been stellar for the Wolverines this season. Through five games, he is averaging 40.7 yards per punt and has stuck 11 punts inside opponents’ 20-yard lines. Naturally, replacing him won’t be easy. “Punter is the hardest position on your whole football team to find,” Baxter said. “There is no skill set anywhere, in any sport

that youth play in this country, that has you drop a rhomboid spheroid flat and try to hit it with your foot.” Baxter noted that kids in Australia grow up playing catch by punting, rather than throwing, and though he is still scouting punters in the United States, the Australian skill set makes it a fertile ground for recruiting. “What do you do when the current farm isn’t yielding the crops you need?” Baxter asked. “You expand your farming area.” Baxter also commented on O’Neill’s athleticism, which helps explain why O’Neill took a chance to run the ball — unsuccessfully — on 4th-and-16 in Michigan’s game against

BYU. Baxter said his punter has the freedom to take off on any play. The running threat adds an additional dimension to the Wolverines’ special-teams game, an aspect of the missed run Baxter seemed pleased about. “If people know he’s going to run, I think that’s good for us,” Baxter said. “Because he’s gonna run. He has that option every time.” OJEMUDIA’S REPLACEMENT: Michigan’s defense took a serious hit when senior linebacker Mario Ojemudia was ruled out for the season after injuring his achilles tendon against Maryland on Saturday. Ojemudia is second on the team with six tackles for loss,

trailing only redshirt junior defensive end Chris Wormley, who has seven. And while Ojemudia’s talents won’t be easily replaced, there are many candidates to fill his spot at the BUCK position. “(Senior linebacker Royce Jenkins-Stone) has played well with the snaps he’s had,” said defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin. “We’ll mix it around. We have some depth up front, so we have some guys that can do that, and we’ll play several guys there like we

always do.” Ojemudia and Jenkins-Stone have taken the bulk of the snaps at the BUCK position this season, with Jenkins-Stone making 12 tackles, one for a loss. Durkin was asked whether redshirt freshman defensive end Lawrence Marshall was in the fold for time at the BUCK position, but Durkin was noncommittal, merely noting that Marshall was a good player. TULEY-TILLMAN CHARGES: Wednesday, former

“If people know he’s going to run, I think that’s good for us.”

Michigan offensive lineman Logan Tuley-Tillman was charged with three felonies. Tuley-Tillman is facing two counts of capturing and distributing an image of an unclothed person and one count of using a computer to commit a crime, the Ann Arbor News first reported. He was dismissed from the team on Sept. 10, but Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh did not specify a reason at the time, simply citing “conduct unacceptable for a Michigan student athlete.” Tuley-Tillman joins Chris Fox (medical hardship), Kyle Bosch (transferred to West Virginia) and Dan Samuelson (transferring) as linemen in the 2013 recruiting class who have left the program.

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By Jacob Rich Daily Film Editor

I heard The Big House 5 before I saw it. It was a cold, blustery Friday night in Dearborn, and I was running late. The world’s second biggest “Super Smash Bros.” tournament of all time was happening less than an hour from my hometown, and I couldn’t miss it. I ducked past the Royal Dearborn Hotel’s lobby into the nearby hallway to grab my media pass. There was a low rumble in the hall as I sauntered past groups of guys with badges around their neck and GameCube controllers in their hands. The hall was alive with the sound of a crowd coming from the ballroom: cheers, chants and the occasional hoarse “let’s go” bounced off the walls and into my eardrums. The second I finally set foot in the ballroom, the place absolutely erupted. Underdog Massachusetts player MattDotZeb had just pulled off an insane kill on Westballz, one of the best Smash players in the world. It was the SoCal vs. Northeast crew battle, and the hype was off the charts. “The Big House” was immediately living up to its namesake. Indeed named after Michigan Stadium, The Big House is an annual Super Smash Bros. tournament organized by University alum Robin “Juggleguy” Harn. It’s “national,” [COPY: why put this in quotes?] which means that the best players from around the world are flying in to duke it out over trophies and cash prizes.

“Juggleguy is the best TO (tournament organizer) ever. He schedules everything on the dot. Every single Big House has run either on time or behind by a maximum of 30 minutes, which you cannot say about any other national, ever,” said University Engineering alum James “Duck” Ma. Duck is widely regarded as the best Smash player in Michigan and one of the top 50 players in the world. A friend of Juggleguy’s, Duck credits him with the The Big House’s reputation of high quality. “He graduated IOE (Industiral & Operations Engineering), actually, so this is pretty much what he does for work anyway. He’s the perfect combination of being likeable and being really anal, I guess. He’s not afraid to DQ people, which I think is huge, because it adds to sort of, like, the respect that people give him.” To call The Big House noteworthy in the Smash scene would be a huge understatement. The tournament managed to attract more than 2,000 attendees, [COPY: only fact i’m finding is that the hotel space can hold 2,000+ people; can we verify this?] including 1,317 entrants for “Melee” singles and 512 for “Smash 4” singles. This was also the first Big House event to be officially sponsored by the notoriously stingy Nintendo, the developer and publisher of the Super Smash Bros. games.

It’s not just the size and the sponsorships of The Big House that attracts so many players, though. The event has a distinct history of hype moments and rowdy crowds, immortalized in fan videos. Most of the attendees over the weekend were hobby competitors, guys and girls who just love to play Smash for fun and wanted in on the action. Some of these guys, though, were career Smashers professionals paid big bucks by huge e-Sports organizations to play the game full-time. I ended up tracking down one of these professionals, Kashan “Chillindude” Kahn, for a brief interview. A veteran competitive Melee player, Chillin can be seen in some of the earliest tournament videos from the game’s grassroots beginnings. He’s sponsored by Team Liquid and was flown to Michigan on their bill from his home state of Virginia. “I think it’s amazing because there are so many people that don’t get to do what they love for a living, and I’m literally living the dream right now of doing what I love to do, which happens to be playing games. It’s also nice just because I had a lot of people when I was younger telling me I was wasting my time. You know, stop playing those games, stop wasting your time, and I’m like, oh, well now I’m making money off of it, so that’s definitely a cool feeling.”

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BIG HOUSE 5 From Page 1A On our way to the slightly quieter back of the room to talk, Chillin was stopped several times for pictures, autographs and even a “Hey, do you remember me?” from various members of the crowd. It was made clear by the dozens of glances he got on our short walk to the back that almost everyone in the room knew who he was. An atmosphere of celebrity pervaded The Big House that weekend. If you’re one of the best at the game, within these walls you’re a rock star. “It’s actually crazy because a couple years ago, it was just like, one or two people might come up to you throughout a whole tournament to either say ‘Hi,’ take a picture, sign their stuff or whatever. Now it happens almost constantly. It’s just a sign of how much the community has blown up in the past couple years, how quick the growth has happened.” Indeed, the “Smash” competitive scene has skyrocketed in popularity over the past few years. The top 10 biggest “Super Smash Bros. Melee” tournaments of all time all took place since 2013, even though the game has been around since 2001. The Big House has increased in attendance so much each year that Juggleguy has had to relocate the event to a bigger venue every single year. So what is it that made “Melee” huge so recently? Chillin says that one of the big contributing factors was “The Smash Brothers,” a 2013 documentary series about the great players of the early scene. “It was crazy, because I never expected the documentary to actually get that big. I figured it might get maybe 10,000 hits on YouTube or something,” he said. “The Smash Brothers” series has accrued millions of views, overwhelmingly positive ratings and comments. Being a fan of the documentary already, I recognized the film’s director, Travis “Samox” Beauchamp, recording footage around the event floor. He’s working on a feature-length sequel to his series, and he frequently travels to the major competitive events to film them. “I really didn’t get into the ‘Smash’ community until I discovered how terrible I was at ‘Melee’ after my younger brother kicked my ass at it,” Beauchamp said. “And yeah, eventually he let me in on the big secret that there’s actually a game within the game. And that there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. After he showed me MOAST 3, this spectacular showdown between Ken and Isai, these two incredible players, I just got

hooked. I had to learn everything I possibly could about this game, these players, their stories.” I then brought up to him an anecdote or two about how his documentary had impacted “Smash” players I knew. I asked him how he felt about being able to make such an impact on peoples’ lives. “It’s amazing,” he said. “I actually get a lot of e-mails all the time from people saying that, essentially, the documentary helped them emotionally as well as get into the game just for fun. Just to have that kind of impact is a great feeling but that was never my intention. I just wanted to show the world that this great game was worth playing more and get more people back into it.” I spoke with multiple players over the weekend that said that they started playing “Melee” specifically because of Samox’s documentary series. One of them, recent Michigan State graduate Josh “FendrickLamar” Fendrick, had just made it out of pools. This meant that out of the 1,317 players who entered the tournament, he made the top 256. “I want to be the best. As cliché as that is, I want to come into a national and make waves. I want to get wins. I wanna do the best that I can,” Fendrick said. I tracked him down because I

The final game was a true clash of the titans. had previously seen him playing at Ann Arbor “Smash” events. A tall, boisterous guy, Fendrick currently works as a staff assistant for Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) in D.C. But when he’s not working, he’s Smashing. “While I’m sort of growing nationally in prominence through my commentary, I do consider myself a competitor first, so I really do want to be really, really good at this game,” Fendrick said. “So I’m putting in the time, going to as many tournaments as I possibly can, like, there was a stretch of time from The Big House 4, which was early October to March where I went to at least one tournament a week. I put in the work. I was like, ‘I want to get good at this game.’ ” Fendrick was certainly loud and clear with his intent to win, but he wasn’t the only one with this caliber of intense sportsmanship. Duck also made clear his own personal drive to succeed. “I want to be good. I want to be the best, that’s the goal,” Duck said.

I asked Duck about his history with “Smash” and about what keeps him coming back to the community. “The ‘Smash’ community is awesome because everybody feels like family,” he said. “Nothing about you matters except for how you play the game, how good are you, do you really like playing the game … You can walk up to anybody at this venue and talk to them about ‘Smash’ for hours. It’s just something really cool. It’s just like, I separate it into ‘Smash’ life and real life.” For him, this separation is key to his enjoyment of “Smash.” “For ‘Smash’ life at least, when you go to a national or you travel, you can basically just do whatever you want. You have this other persona that you can sort of just walk into. And you get to just play the game, you don’t really have to worry about anything else. Nobody’s going to judge you for you know, anything other than did you win? Did you lose? Did you know about the game? It’s just cool to hang out with a big group of people that share your interests,” Duck said. It became clear to me while watching Chillin, Duck, Fendrick and others compete throughout the weekend that the biggest moments of hype didn’t appear simply from gameplay. They came from moments of personality and celebrity. Just like in the best sports rivalries, at The Big House there were heroes, villains, underdogs and dynasties. The best moments were when these largerthan-life characters clashed and made noise. One of my favorite moments happened during the “Smash 4” Loser’s Semifinals, when New York player Anti came so damn close to ending the Chilean champion ZeRo’s (the undisputed best “Smash 4” player in the world) more than 50-tournament winning streak. The tension in the crowd was palpable as Anti took two games out of the five-game set, only faltering in the end as ZeRo squeezed by to take the win in the final round. A young, fanfavorite challenger almost took out the dynasty, and it was awesome. Another incredible moment was the entirety of the “Melee” grand finals Sunday night. At this point, the ballroom’s atmosphere changed from that of a gaming convention with people milling about, to that of a sports arena. Everyone at the event was crammed into the room, and all eyes were on the enormous screens at the front, making the two competitors literally larger than life. Sweden’s Adam “Armada” Lindgren was facing off against Florida’s Juan “Hungrybox” Debiedma. Armada hadn’t lost a single match the entire weekend. Hungrybox had only lost one match — to Armada, earlier that night. In that match, Armada had shown significant dominance, winning 3-0. Hungrybox wasn’t going to let that happen again. Through grit and determination, he went for broke and tied up the match, 2-2. The final game was a true clash of the titans. The crowd was on fire, reacting violently to every twist and turn happening onscreen. When Armada pulled out the stops and took the final victory, the place went wild again, like I had seen the moment I walked in, but amplified tenfold. A chant emanated through the hotel: “AR MAH DAH! AR MAH DAH! AR MAH DAH!” The Big House 5 was my favorite live gaming event that I have ever been to, and I’ve been to cultural gaming events and conventions across the country. Once you get past the initial “otherness” of a packed room of guys competing in a 14-year-old video game, competitive Smash becomes a maelstrom of competition and celebrity, delivering great moment after great moment of sports drama. It may not be athletic, but the competition is real. Next year, I won’t be covering The Big House 6. You’ll have to find someone else to write the story and do the interviews because I’m going to be on the ballroom floor, badge around my neck, GameCube controller in my hand. Armada, I’m coming for you. To learn more about the event’s champion, Adam “Armada” Lindgren, as well as tournament organizer Juggleguy and other competitors at The Big House 5, check out The Michigan Daily’s video coverage of the event, which will be out later this week.

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By CARLY SNIDER Daily Arts Writer

There is no denying that Ann Arbor, and the University that calls it home, is special and transformative. The unique energy of the city undoubtedly leaves a lasting impression on those students and residents lucky enough to tread these cultured streets. This is the feeling that University alum and up-andcoming musician Hannah Elizabeth has. “I am obsessed with (the University of) Michigan; it’s really where music started for me,” Elizabeth said in an interview with The Michigan Daily. Elizabeth grew up in West Bloomfield, Mich., a familiar town for many University students. Because of her suburban upbringing, Elizabeth felt it wasn’t until she was in college that she was truly free to express her art. “I was too afraid to perform until people at school found a video of me and they just blew it up and told me I needed to perform around Ann Arbor,” she said. “It gave me the confidence, courage and support team to actually go about doing it, whereas in West Bloomfield I really did not perform much.” Growing up, Elizabeth was shy about her interest in the music industry — so shy, in fact, that she wouldn’t even sing in front of her parents. Eventually, in middle school she began letting her parents in on her passion, asking them for guitar lessons and voice lessons. When she landed the lead in her school musical, Hannah’s parents realized their daughter’s talent and have been supportive ever since. Though making her musical talent did not come until later, Hannah’s love of music and drive to be a musician was present all her life. “I’ve known early on that this is what I want to do,” Elizabeth said. “I would always be singing, I would be very attentive to the music, my dad showed me a bunch at a young age.” Once Elizabeth was able to embrace her musicality, with the support of her friends and family, she began playing gigs all around town. Potbelly, the first place Elizabeth played in Ann Arbor, would often host open-mic nights. When the young singersongwriter asked a manager about performing, he set her up with her own private show. “I would do a Potbelly show every year. I did a huge set, it was so fun,” Elizabeth said. “That’s really when I found my love for performing live.” The songstress also performed at many of the University clubs and events, including Relay For Life, an annual event that raises money for cancer research and honors survivors. “Survivors and people who were affected by cancer would speak and I was able to sing at that. It was definitely the most special performance I have ever done,” Elizabeth said. “People would tell these stories about loved ones passing from cancer and then I had to get up and sing. I would be bawling and then go on stage and sing. It was intense but I loved it.” As a member of Greek life, she had access to a large network of students, other organizations and

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Hannah Elizabeth majored in English while studying at the University.

local charities, which she used to make her music known. During her time at school, she performed at Kappa Kappa Gamma’s Concert on the Lawn. “I would utilize the Greek Life system to kind of make my own concert,” she said. “We started this Kappa concert thing on the lawn and we would raise money for charities. I would do stuff with Kappa that really helped.” As far as Elizabeth’s musical tendencies, her music is poppy and radio-friendly, with a dark, emotive current running through it. The young artist doesn’t shy away from being associated with the mainstream, as she wants her art to be easily accessible to as many people possible. Even though she follows pop conventions, Elizabeth made it clear that her work is not a cookie-cutter copy of other popular icons. “I would say that my music is under the pop umbrella, but it definitely has a more alternative, darker side,” she said. “I define myself as pop because I do want my music to be mainstream – whereas that’s not something that a regular indie artist would say. I want it to reach as many people as possible and if its gonna be mainstream, its gonna be mainstream. Obviously I want it to have my own personal touch to it, I don’t want it to be like any other pop artist.” Elizabeth listens to any and all music, especially those female artists who share affinity for under the surface, brooding content. As a lyricist herself, she especially appreciates artists who share her passion for words and crafting lyrics. “I pull from all different artists, all different genres. A lot of the artists that I really appreciate happen to be songwriters as well – Ryan Tedder of One Republic, he’s amazing and just whips out hit songs for so many other artists, and Sia is another person who just writes for everyone,” Elizabeth said. “I love Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus (even though she’s insane). I think they’re very talented and it’s really inspiring to see people my age doing what I want to do.” Following her passions postgraduation, Elizabeth teamed up with the Artist Refinery, a start-up company based in Arizona. The goal of the Artist Refinery is to help blossoming artists define their sound, become better songwriters and to learn what it is like to be in the music industry – they help get up-and-coming musicians signed with a major record label. “Basically, I went through this boot camp (in Phoenix), day-in-

the-life of what it takes to be an artist,” Elizabeth said. “I woke up at 5 a.m. to workout then I had three hours of choreography, voice lessons, and interview coach and studio time. It’s very small, it’s a start-up. I work with a team of producers, writers, I write for myself, they have a full on team.” While working with the professionals at the Artist Refinery, Elizabeth pulled heavily from her background as an English major. Initially, Elizabeth did not see herself as a lyricist, but rather as someone with a literature focus. It was not until she was able to work with a song-writing team that she realized how beneficial her academic background would be in her art. “I read all the time,” she said. “I think that the way that I was able to write was by finding my voice through these creative writing classes at Michigan. Getting the English degree was the best decision, cause I could just take my stories, basically like journal entries, and I could take those and form them into lyrics.” In true English major fashion, Elizabeth draws inspiration from the words of others — poet Lang Leav, E.E. Cummings, Oscar Wilde, the list goes on. “She’s like the Taylor Swift of poets, it’s just so relatable,” Elizabeth said of Leav. The Refinery helped Elizabeth to flesh out the image of who she wants to be as an artist, all the while maintaining her personal voice. She feels strongly about the place that women hold in not only the music industry, but in society as a whole. “The campaign that Demi Lovato is doing is very personal to me,” she said. “I really think that the whole body image, and people struggling with depression or emotional issues — I want that to be a topic of discussion. And I love how Demi really reps it and lets people know that its normal. Today’s beauty standards are absurd and that would definitely be my message.” Going forward, Elizabeth looks forward to more live performances, the continued release of her music and, her main goal, getting signed to a major record label. Her latest single, “No Good,” was recently released and has a music video set to release on her YouTube page Oct. 8 for this latest track. “I love performing live, I definitely see touring as the future. I don’t want to be another hopeful, starving artist. I want to get signed. I want people to hear this song. I want people to hear my music. I’m very determined.”

MUSIC VIDEO REVIEW The most underrated party jam of the summer finally gets a video, as Dej Loaf and Big Sean take a trip to a Detroit roller B rink to dance and groove to Back Up “Back Up,” off Dej Loaf feat. Dej’s #AndSeeThatsTheT- Big Sean hing EP. Columbia The roller rink setting is actually a pretty good substitute for the clubs where you’re most likely to hear “Back Up.” The bright colorful lights that cut through the dark fog sync surprisingly well with the song’s murky bass and the production’s airy, synthesized hook. Dej — who keeps creeping closer and closer to mainstream success —

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still looks like no one else with her hair short, her sunglasses large and her camo No. 88 jersey a size too big so it qualifies as a dress. All throughout, she’s backed up by a talented posse that makes skating and dancing look easy. It’s cool to see Sean in a neon green hoodie and black vest rapping against a multi-colored neon background (his guest spot

separate from all the others, likely because of tour commitments), and it’s nice to see Dej having fun back in her hometown, but “Back Up” ’s video, on the whole, doesn’t sink or elevate the song. The dancing and the rollerskating tricks are fun, but it’s the audio, not the visuals, that make it all memorable. - ADAM THEISEN

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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:

An Evening of Scenes? Honestly, I don’t remember a fair amount of it. Time seems to have compounded into itself. Funny how it does things like that. “Evening of Scenes” is a collection of short comedy sketches written and directed by students in the Residential College. The first one was about a classroom of students who are emotionally manipulated by a girl named “Samantha Jones.” Do they know that’s the name of Carrie Bradshaw’s puny and sexually adventurous best friend on hit ’90s sitcom “Sex and the City?!?” They moved on to a skit personifying the characters from the board game Clue, showing the vapid monopoly characters as people with financial motives. As to be expected from the Residential College, the play contained unsubtle hints of sarcasm scoffing at a capitalist society. Things are NOT moving in real time right now. Readers, I have not been this high in QUITE some time. In Australia, where I am considering studying abroad, they would say I am “off my head!” I have been doing a fair amount of research on Australian slang. OK, third scene with the kindergarteners was on point and that’s not just something I would say because maybe I have some best friends in the scene. It really was very funny and capitalized on the absurdness of a power-hungry child, while interjecting the scene with short interactions of a father being excluded from a playgroup clique based on his gender. Commentary! We ended with a couponing show sketch that was positively overrun by gingers, not that there’s anything wrong with that. Red is a color of power so technically red hair should actually be more sexually appealing to us than other hair colors. While viewing the play, I was unaware of an actual couponing show, but apparently it exists. So while I believed during the show that it subverted reality to create a film of echoey obstruction, it actually REINFORCED the concepts of fatuous chaos that we have chosen to revel in as a society. —DAILY ARTS WRITER This theater is a lot smaller than expected. Someone’s perfume smells like old lady. This is how I perish. Why is theater so funny? Why can I not do that? Why did I not bring a drink for the road? Apparently monopoly is the only Ayn Rand endorsed board game. Cool. There’s this whole scene about killing Caesar and literally all I can think about is in mean girls when Gretchen Wieners (daughter of the inventor of toaster strudel) freaks out and is like “WHY DON’T WE JUST STAB CAESAR?!” I relate to this awkward, gawky suburban dad way more than I should. Oh my sweet Jesus they brought back the Harry Potter puppet song ... I am weak ... with joy. Seventy-five percent of the people in this sketch are red heads. I wonder if they’ll make a joke about it. (They did) All these people are so witty and talented. What if I started doing a standing ovation every time I got an article published. That would be too much. I’ll stick to what I know and let the real ac-tòrs do what they do. —DAILY ARTS WRITER

I had no clue where I was even going tonight before we got here. I need to stop blindly committing to things, but this one really paid off. We’re on the second act and they’ve covered my three favorite things: weird celebrity obsessions, Clue the board game and the phrase “yas kween.” Not too shabby for a sober Friday night. Maybe I should do this kind of stuff more often. Ahh now is the fourth act and one of our Daily Arts writers is on stage. #Represent. The delivery has been fantastic, a well-performed mix of slapstick and sharp humor. The range in topics and length of individual skits kept the evening moving along in a fashion that didn’t allow for dips in engagement. Even the intermissions were expertly played. Whoever chose to play “Harry Potter Puppet Pals” during the intermission deserves endless high-fives because I am dying. RC Players is something I will definitely be attending again (you should too), and this time all I can hope for is that if there’s another scene about killing Julius Caesar (most likely, there won’t be) and someone will make a Gretchen Weiners reference. —CHRISTIAN KENNEDY

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University alum Aviva Kempner’s latest document is about Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald.

By KARL WILLIAMS Online Arts Editor

The American Jewish experience has been most famously captured in great novels such as Saul Bellow’s “The Adventures of Augie March” and Philip Roth’s “American Pastoral.” However, Aviva Kempner — who attended the University and wrote for the Michigan Daily from 1965 to 1969 and earned a Master of Arts in 1971— took another artistic route. During her time at the University, she sold tickets at the Michigan Theater, where her co-workers said “maybe someday you’ll show your films there.” An Emmy nominee and Guggenheim Fellow, Kempner wanted to make “films that talk about Jewish heroes.” “I always grew up loving cinema, and I had a lot of friends that were doing human rights in law school who were documentary filmmakers, and I really respected the format,” she said. “I think the stories that can be told in documentaries can really make a difference.” Along with her filmmaking, Kempner is also the founder of the Washington Jewish Film Festival and the Ciesla Foundation. Kempner’s journey to documentary filmmaking wasn’t straightforward. After her time at the University, she attended law school, but failing the bar exam (“I don’t do well on multiple choice questions,” she says), she decided to return to her Jewish heritage: “I decided I had to make a film about Jews fighting Nazis.” She began work in 1979, and in 1986 she produced her first feature film “Partisans of Vilna,” the story of Jewish men and women who created the partisan movement during World War II in Vilna, Lithuania. Her films are not just about Jewish heroes, but “Jewish heroes fighting ‘isms.’ ” Similar to the fight against Fascism and anti-Semitism by the partisans in Europe, her Peabody Awardwinning second feature, “The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg” chronicles the life of Hank Greenberg who

SINGLE REVIEW Another heavy helping of nostalgia, lyrical madness and intricate musicality has been served up in the third single, “Paul B+ is Alive,” off the upcoming Paul Is collaborative effort by The Alive National’s frontman, Matt EL VY Berninger, and 4AD Ltd. Brent Knopf of Menomena and Ramona Falls. This artistically experimental group, titled EL VY, is set to explode at the end of October. From the song’s very first plucked notes and cleared throat, “Paul is Alive” buries the listener in waves of nostalgia. Berninger sings of a “sugar-coated childhood” lying far back in the past now, back there in a place where his mother’s favorite band, The Beatles, wasn’t broken up and half dead. Despite the gloomy narration of Berninger’s monoto-

nous vocals, a voice that sits us down in the favorite jockey club of his 16-year-old self where he first found The Cramps and The Smiths and cried into his 7-Up, EL VY quietly, and elegantly, juxtaposes this lyrical heaviness to the light and layered nature of the song’s instrumentations. As the song progresses, lyrically and sonically, the sedated pleasure that Berninger has for the past envelopes the song. The music ebbs and flows upward, building from the simple chord progressions from which it started as the lyrics concurrently grow in depth and inner conflict. Now that the older Berninger is aware of the unchanging velocity of the present, and the constant nostalgia for the past, he can remain aware (and numb) in his current reality. “Nobody stays above, out in the waves of love,” he sings. The only solace to be found was back in with his 16-year-old self, hair slicked back and teary-eyed

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with a 7-Up in hand, where “inside the jockey club, I’m even with heaven.” The depth of the lyrical storyline in EL VY’s new “Paul is Alive” is so haunting and moving, but as Berninger’s syrupy vocals glide from verse to verse, pouring on the nostalgia until

the listener is drowning, the uneducated or non-fan of The National may lose interest. But to them I say, build some taste and emotional depth. But to the highly talented men of EL VY, I say, you’re depressing me. - AMELIA ZAK

battled against American antiSemitism. Greenberg, one of the greatest Detroit Tigers and baseball players ever, was the first Jewish superstar athlete. His story was a predecessor for, and usurped by, that of Jackie Robinson. Unlike the majority of Major League Baseball players, Greenberg welcomed Robinson to the league, and he was one of the first to do so. Nicknamed “the Hebrew Hammer,” he was the idol of young Jewish boys across America. However, he faced heavy hostility from a predominantly white, workingclass audience, especially when he refused to play on Yom Kippur. After “The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg,” Kempner directed a documentary on the life of radio and television personality Gertrude Berg, “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg.” Berg, who created and starred in the radio and television serials “The Goldbergs,” faced her own ’isms: sexism and McCarthyism. Like a former ball boy who becomes a major league slugger, three of Kempner’s films have been shown at the Michigan Theater, including her latest “Rosenwald,” which was screened in September. After hearing famous civil rights activist Julian Bond — who features heavily in the film — speak about the intersection between Black and Jewish communities, Kempner thought, “My God! I have got to do this movie.” The film documents the life of millionaire businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, who was both a partial owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck and Company. He founded the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, and the Rosenwald Fund, which provided matching donations to African American communities to build more than 5,300 schools across the nation, though many were burned down. He also worked closely with famous educator Booker T. Washington. By funding the schools fully, he allowed the communities to work together to finish the funding.

Furthermore, the foundation gave out hundreds of grants to African-American intellectuals in various fields. Described by Bond as a “who’s who of Black America,” recipients of the grants include Ralph Ellison, Marian Anderson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gordon Parks, Dr. Charles Drew, Langston Hughes, Jacob Lawrence and Claude McKay. Unlike 19th century industrial giants Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, who have become American folklore, Julius Rosenwald has faded from history. It’s doubtful many outside of the Jewish community — or the generations after the fund dissolved in 1948 — are aware of the profound contributions and influence Rosenwald had on American society. As Kempner notes, he was a poor exemplar for the Gilded Age: “He was very modest and doing things without getting credit for it.” Rosenwald himself, who didn’t even finish high school, comically dispelled the mythos of the heroic entrepreneur. “Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.” Together with archival footage and clips from American movies — “I don’t just want talking heads” — Kempner interviewed the family members that have kept Rosenwald’s legacy alive. The documentary is a testament to the importance of keeping generational histories. “Go through oral histories. You never know when they’ll come in handy,” she advised. Despite the nearly 100 years that have passed since Rosenwald’s death, his story remains relevant for contemporary America. “There’s so many issues and after effects from the Jim Crow era, there’s a lot of lessons to be told in this film about what we need to do,” Kempner said. “Communities can work together. We can make a difference, and all of us have some J.R. in us. We’re all responsible for improving people’s lives.”

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