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LSA sophomore Austin Hatch, a two-time plane crash survivor and undergraduate student assistant to the Michigan men’s basketball team, speaks about facing challenges at the Talk it UP! event in the Hatcher Graduate Library on Wednesday.

Talk it UP! provides forum for ref lection on resilience Austin Hatch discusses hardship, overcoming obstacles By ISOBEL FUTTER Daily Staff Reporter

When LSA sophomore Austin Hatch was 8 years old, his life changed completely. His father was piloting a plane intended to return the family home from a

spring break trip when it stalled and crashed, killing his mother, younger brother and older sister. Then, in 2011, nine days after Hatch committed to play for the Michigan men’s basketball team, the unimaginable occurred: Hatch was the sole survivor of a second plane crash with his father as the pilot. The crash killed his father and stepmother. “I was told there was a one in 3.4 million chance in surviving a plane crash with at least one fatal-

ity,” he told a crowd in Hatcher Graduate Library on Wednesday. “That’s just one, so if you multiply that against each other, I had a one in 11 quadrillion 560 trillion chance to survive.” Hatch, along with several faculty members who faced their own challenging circumstances, shared his story of resilience Wednesday at Talk it UP! Sponsored by the Newnan Academic Advising Center, Talk it UP! provided a forum for mem-

bers of the University community to reflect on the meaning of failure, success and endurance. The event featured a handful of short talks throughout the day. Hatch told the audience he had to relearn to walk, talk, eat and live a normal life after the accident. “I had basketball in my future, and I knew I had committed to Michigan,” he said. “I had something to work towards. All of See RESILIENCE, Page 2A

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By KATIE PENROD Daily Staff Reporter

For years, scientists have been attempting to turn off Notch, a common cancer-causing gene, without much success. Now, University researchers may have discovered a solution. A new study focused on Notch was led by Mark Chiang, assistant professor of internal medicine in the Medical School. Notch is heavily involved in T-cell leukemia, a cancer commonly found in children, and is also involved in breast cancer, colon cancer, melanoma and other lymphomas. In the past, Chiang said, all drugs aimed to target Notch have been associated with serious and even life-threatening side effects. This motivated his team to find a safer way to target the gene. Chiang said targeting Notch has been particularly difficult

because the gene also has beneficial functions within the body. “It’s been very hard to target Notch because Notch not only has cancer causing-functions, but also important normal functions like keeping your intestines healthy or preventing you from getting cancers,” Chiang said. “If you simply block off Notch functions, yes you can kill some cancer cells, but then you have diarrhea — that can be life-threatening — and also second cancers.” Chiang said the team wanted to investigate exactly what activates Notch’s cancer-causing activities. The team discovered a protein called Zmiz1, which sticks to Notch and turns on the cancercausing functions. When the protein was separated from Notch in mice, Chiang said mice did not experience side effects typically associated with Notch-inhibiting drugs. “If we try to break the interaction between or unstick Zmiz1 from Notch, then we can actually cause tumor regression,” he said. “This may be a way to kill cancer cells but without the major toxicities of Notch inhibitors.” See CANCER, Page 3A

By ALLANA AKHTAR Daily Staff Reporter

Though violations related to alcohol, drugs and sexual misconduct increased in 2014 over the previous year, data from the University’s Change It Up! workshop indicates that students feel more prepared to intervene in potentially harmful situations after participating in the program. According to survey data provided to The Michigan Daily by the Office of Student Life, the number of students who “very strongly agree” that they are motivated to intervene in harmful situations rose by 24 percent after completing the Change It Up! program during the 20132014 school year.

The survey is based on evaluations of students’ propensity to intervene in harmful situations and responses to what they consider harmful behavior. Those markers were measured before and after participating in the Change It Up! training, which is mandatory for first-year students. Overall, the total percentage of students who said they agree it is their business to intervene in harmful situations rose by 93.89 percent following the workshop. The University began implementing Change It Up! programs last year for incoming freshman students. Will Sherry, director of the Spectrum Center, said the program is an introduction to helping students identify a variety of harmful situations.A number of other programs throughout the year, including Relationship Remix and AlcoholEdu, also aim to teach first-year students aspects of bystander intervenSee INTERVENTION, Page 2A

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Lecturer discusses post-Soviet corruption University alum talks desperation in central Asian republics By BRIAN KUANG

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Adolescent painkiller use may impact later drug abuse Study explores links between past drug experience, misuse down the road By ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter

Adolescents who reported receiving a prescription from a doctor for a pain reliever are

nearly 33 percent more likely to misuse pain relievers compared to those who never received a doctor-prescribed opioid, according to recent University study. The subjects of the study’s focus group, 12th grade students, were asked to report whether or not a doctor prescribed them a pain reliever and if they used it. Researchers then provided the same students with follow-up questions between the ages of 19

and 23 to see if the students who had been prescribed pain relievers were more likely to misuse them when they get older than those who never used an opioid. Conducted by the University’s Institute for Social Research, the study also determined whether a student’s previous experience with drugs — including drugs other than opioids, such as marijuana and alcohol — played a role in a student’s conSee PAINKILLERS, Page 3A

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In a lecture at the LSA International Institute on Wednesday, Kelly McMann, a University alum and political science professor at Case Western Reserve University, challenged traditional conceptions of corruption based on more than a decade studying post-Soviet Central Asian republics. Referencing her 2014 book, “Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia,” McMann argued that petty political corruption in developing postcommunist countries is not a result of bureaucratic overreach, poverty or a culture that disregards rule of law. Rather, it occurs when citizens have See CORRUPTION, Page 3A

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Ethics lecture Tea party WHAT: A seminar on the existence of defined surgical ethics. WHO: Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine WHEN: Today from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: North Campus Research Complex, Building 16, Room B001E

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INTERVENTION From Page 1A tion. Though Sherry said the training spends time teaching students to identify microaggressions, or subtle instances of harm, students also receive training on how to respond to situations involving intoxication and sexual misconduct. Sherry said the program expanded this fall with pilot programs offered to a handful of incoming graduate programs. “The Change It Up! program is an introduction to noticing problems and harm going on around you,” Sherry said. “We look to strengthen our connections to the other programs in the firstyear experience and that happen throughout the year.” In 2014, reports of alcohol and drug violations and sexual misconduct have risen over the previous year. In a report released by the Division of Public Safety and Security, on-campus liquor law arrests and citations totaled 254 reports, compared to 202 in 2013. The 155 drug law arrests represented an increase over the previ-

ous year’s 114 reports. Last year, the University’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center received 44 reports of sexual misconduct, compared to 35 reports filed in 2013. Though the higher number of violations could be a result of a growing freshman class size and high overall enrollment, the proportion of liquor law violations in residence halls per freshman class has increased from 2012-2014 — meaning reports are increasing regardless of class size. Erik Wessel, director of the Office of Student Conflict Resolution, said the rise in violations is due to a number of factors, but they do not imply bystander intervention training is unsuccessful. He pointed to national data released by the White House that showed bystander intervention education is a promising method to reduce harm, and programs like Change It Up! could encourage students to come forward and report instances of harm, like sexual assault. “As we increase awareness across campus through programs like Change It Up! and Relationship Remix, we are creating a

WHAT: This informational session will help students understand and implement the best practices for resume building using Microsoft Word. WHO: The Career Center WHEN: Today from 12 p.m to 1 p.m. WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library, Room 206

culture and community that understands sexual violence has no place here,” Wessel said in an e-mail. Sherry said Change It Up! is simply a foundation, and reducing violations and harm will take continued practice with bystander intervention throughout a student’s time at college. “The goal of the program is not for students to leave and feel like after 90 minutes we are going to see a decrease in all of those violations,” he said. “That is going to take programming that exists beyond Change It Up!” Sherry said part of Change It Up! training is teaching students that intervention in a situation is not simply a choice between doing something or doing nothing, but can entail identifying other ways to reduce harm. According to Wessel, a potential way to mitigate a harmful situation is to delegate the responsibility to someone else, like law enforcement. “Ultimately, it is important for students to hear from their peers that we have expectations for each other in this community and part of those expectations is to take action to reduce the potential for harm,” he said. “I believe that students here at Michigan are choosing to lean in to this call to action in increasing numbers.”

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RESILIENCE From Page 1A you will go through something, but hopefully nothing as severe and traumatic as I have. But life isn’t pretty all the time, things happen. Set a goal, and work towards it and don’t let anything get in the way.” Hatch played basketball for the University during his fresh-

man year, but left the team to focus on academics. Denise Kozikowski, an LSA academic adviser and organizer of the event, said it was modeled after a Stanford University program called “The Duck Stops Here.” “The Duck Syndrome is this idea that everyone on campus is walking around looking like this duck effortlessly gliding across the pond,” Kozikowski said. “Meanwhile, underneath the surface, the duck is paddling furiously and working so hard to stay afloat.” Kozikowski said organizers wanted to create a space where students could hear about failure and others’ triumphs over tough problems. “It’s an honest conversation, about it’s not always going to be easy and it’s not always going to be perfect, but it doesn’t mean that you’re not going to go where you want to go,” she said. LSA junior Lauren Gilbert said she found Hatch’s speech inspiring, particularly because he has been through so much at such a young age. She agreed with Hatch’s view that any hurdle can be overcome. “I think that any obstacle is just an obstacle and you can always get through it,” she said. English Prof. Anne Curzan, who delivered the event’s second talk, discussed the impor-

tance of taking risks. She said life will take students places they would have never imagined, and that’s OK. “I think that when you see adults into their careers, it can look like we knew we were going to get here,” Curzan said. “It can gloss over all the messiness, all the indecision, all the panic, all the fear when we didn’t know what we were going to do and how the puzzle pieces would fit together.” When Curzan was 22, she took a job teaching English in China. She told the audience how scary and hard the experience was for her. “It wasn’t just about teaching, it was about a new culture, a new language,” Curzan said. “I learned a ton about myself.” Other speakers included Engineering Prof. Herbert Winful, Statistics Prof. Brenda Gunderson, Public Health Prof. Vic Strecher and Esrold Nurse, assistant dean in the Office of Student Academic Affairs. Curzan advised students to take risks while they’re still young, gaining new experiences before settling down. “Take some risks, and have some adventures, before you own furniture,” Curzan said. “It sounds funny, but life gets much more complicated once you own furniture.”

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U-M economics professor awarded $2.1M grant for data project Martha J. Bailey, an associate professor of economics, received a $2.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to go toward the creation of the Longitudinal Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database. The project, referred to as LIFE-M, will compile millions of records from U.S. citizens to show how individuals and families have changed since the beginning of the 20th century. The database will include health, family, demographic and economic information from an individual’s entire life, and will span across at least four generations. The sample size of Bailey’s database will be unprecedented, as will her study of minorities, including immigrants and women. The project will receive funding from the NSF until August 2019.

Uber delivering kittens for Thursday event According to the Detroit Free Press, Uber will deliver kittens in more than 50 cities across North America, including Detroit, this Thursday. To participate in the event, customers just need to log in to their Uber app between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. and choose the “KITTENS” option. Once the delivery arrives, customers can play with the cats for a maximum of 15 minutes. The service costs $30. Local animal shelters are partnering with Uber, giving them access to the kittens for a portion of the company’s profitwwws in return. As a result of previous Uber Kittens events, the rideshare company helped find permanent homes for more than 30 kittens.

College applications in UK to remove applicant’s name U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron announced that names will be removed from all 2017 applications submitted through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, a charity that facilitates the application process for nearly all British universities. According to The Conversation, Cameron said the country’s main goal is to combat ethnic inequalities. His made the announcement after a report was published that showed British ethinc minorities are less likely to be accepted to selective universities than white applicants. While he said the reason behind this disparity is “complex,” Cameron noted that unconscious bias may play a role in lower minority acceptence rates. To determine if “name-blind” applications actually decrease ethnic inequalities, UCAS has agreed to share application data with applicant permission.

Nanotechnology could create new heart treatment University researchers developed a new nanoparticle that could be the key to a new therapy for people suffering from cardiac arrhythmia. The treatment uses nanotechnology to target and destroy cells within the heart that cause cardiac arrhythmia. In studies they conducted on sheep and rodents, the researchers found that the technology kills the cardiac arrhythmia-causing cells, but leaves the surrounding, nonharmful cells untouched. Today in the United States, cardiac arrhythmia affects 4 million Americans, killing 130,000 and hospitalizing more than 750,000 people every year. –LEA GIOTTO

PAINKILLERS From Page 1A tinued misuse of a prescription medication throughout their college years. Richard Miech, professor at the University’s Institute for Social Research and the study’s lead author, said some of the students participating in the study had a lot of experience with drugs, and reported they had used marijuana. Others reported by 12th grade, they had had no experience at all with drugs. “The surprising finding to come out of the study, is this effect that I found overall was concentrated among the drugnaïve adolescents, the ones that had very little experience with drugs,” he said. However, drug-naïve students are about three times more likely to misuse drugs than those who have experience with other drugs. According to Miech, there is no effect among adolescents who had already had experience with drugs by 12th grade. “What we speculate, is that the drug-naïve adolescents, when they’re taking a prescription opioid, it’s really something quite different than they’ve ever experienced before,” Miech said. “It’s a safe experience, because it’s under the doctor’s guidance … For those adolescents, the pain relievers are really quite powerful and pleasurable. Whereas the adolescents who get a doctor’s prescription for an opioid who already have other drug experience, the whole opioid experience, relatively speaking, will not produce a big thrill.” Miech said when a celebrity dies from prescription drug overdose, the media often claims those individuals turned to harder drugs after using prescription drugs legitimately prescribed by a doctor. “They make it sound like prescription drugs are a gateway to harder drugs like heroin,” he said. “What my findings show is that there are people that use prescription drugs and then go on to use heroin, but I don’t think their introduction to heroin was through prescription drugs. They were already using all kinds of other drugs … I don’t think that was the cause of harder drug use.” Though the study did not go into the developmental effects that accompany prescription pain medication abuse, Miech said at the ages of the students that were studied, the brain is still developing, making it more sensitive to these external drugs that enter the system. Kennon Heard, professor of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, also provided clinical interpretation of the data for the study. “We see many (Emergency Department) visits related to opioid abuse,” Heard wrote in an e-mail to The Michigan Daily. “The most common medications are oxycodone, hydrocodone and morphine. We also

CANCER From Page 1A LSA junior Emily Liu, who worked on the project with Chiang, said a challenge of the research was targeting the cancerous signals of Notch without harming its other functions. She added that discovering the Zmiz1 protein may be the key to ridding Notch of its cancer functions. “My project focused on attempting to inhibit the coactivator, Zmiz1, and to see the effects it has on physiology with mouse models,” she said. “We looked at the impact and toxicity there. What we found was there was no significant effect on the intestinal toxicity when we inhibited the coactivator, suggesting that it is selective for the cancer signals of Notch.” Chiang said making a drug applicable to humans is the most important next step. He plans to do so by creating a three-dimensional image that will show how Zmiz1 sticks to Notch. This way, Chiang can discover how to separate the protein from the gene in humans. “Once we have this threedimensional image we can figure out ways to design a drug

News often see heroin use by patients who started abusing prescription opioids and then moved to heroin because it is cheaper.” Heard said the most common effects of opioid use are sedation and respiratory depression. “There is research suggesting that early exposure to addictive drugs increases the risk of abuse as an adult,” he added. The research studied high school seniors until they reached age 23, which Heard said is an age where drug abuse tends to start. The rates of prescription drug abuse are higher in older adolescent age groups. However, he said the most extreme cases that result in needing medical attention in the emergency room are older than the age range considered in the study. Though opioids are such a common concern because of abuse that can occur as a result, Heard said the medical field does not have alternatives to these medications. “At this time opioids are the most effective pain medications we have,” Heard said. “Unfortunately there are not great alternatives with less addictive potential. Safe use requires thoughtful prescribing and continual reassessment for efficacy and safety.” LSA junior Erin Dunne, co-director of the Student for Sensible Drug Policy organization on campus, said the main goal of the organization is to promote harm reduction and inform the campus dialogue. She said members are ultimately interested in what is best for individuals, families and communities. Earlier this fall, SSPD hosted an event focused on opioids. The organization met with a Detroit emergency room physician who presented various concerns with opioid use in the United States. He also talked about methods to deal with opioid overdose, and ways people can become hooked on the drugs. Dunne pointed to a lack of specialized pain counseling in the United States, causing people to take painkillers when they do not necessarily need them and end up staying on them longer than they should. Dunne mentioned a drug called Naloxone — commonly referred to as Narcan — which counteracts the effect of opioid overdose by blocking receptors in the body that opioids bind to and instigate an overdose. The organization also supports proposals to extend medical amnesty policies to those suffering from prescription drug overdose. “There’s still a lot of stigma on drug use and there is still a lot of fear around going to authorities and having to deal with someone who is suffering from overdose, especially if the other people around were using drugs themselves,” Dunne said. “We as an organization find this to be incredibly alarming. We want people to be able to seek the help they need for themselves and for their friends without these barriers.”

that could slip in between the two proteins and break the binding apart,” Chiang said. “That’s one of the major things we’re trying to figure out — how to get a three-dimensional image to help us make drugs to actually break this interaction.” Though this research is primarily focused on Notchinvolved cancers, Chiang said it could have implications for treating other cancers as well and said he hopes to investigate whether or not Zmiz1 plays a role in cancers that aren’t impacted by the Notch gene. “We’ve been really focused on Notch-dependent tumors, but you also have a lot of Notchindependent cancers,” Chiang said. “We’re actually looking into that — to see whether or not our protein may be important for other non-Notch functions. That’s a good area of investigation right now.” Liu said she believes the research will have a significant impact on cancer treatment in the future. “There’s a lot of implications for therapy and using our protein or other proteins in that pathway as targets for drugs,” she said.

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Kelly McMann, a University alum and political science professor at Case Western Reserve University, speaks about corruption in the Central Asian market in the School of Social Work Building on Wednesday.

CORRUPTION From Page 1A exhausted all other means of acquiring necessary goods and services. “To reduce and understand corruption, we need to move away from this idea that state institutions and culture propel people — ordinary citizens — into corrupt exchanges, and instead consider their decisionmaking processes and the alternatives that are available to them,” she said. The central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan served as ideal case studies to support her thesis, McMann said. She conducted 266 interviews, numerous surveys and lived with nine households between 1994 and 2009 in the three republics. All three countries share a common history under Soviet rule, and engaged in varying levels of market reforms following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The collapse greatly reduced the role of the government in

their respective economies and accordingly saw an explosion in corruption. McMann said the increase in corruption was fueled by the drawdown of centrally allocated resources under the old socialist system did not smoothly allow for a healthy private sector to emerge and replace the statecentralized economy in these countries. Thus, these hollowedout governments would remain the biggest potential parties for citizens to receive credit or other resources. “When you have a situation of a legacy of significant state economic intervention, and you introduce market reform but don’t create effective marketbuilding institutions, you end up with a situation of resourcepoor non-state actors,” she said. McMann also emphasized that even though this corruption is generally viewed as “business as usual” in these societies, it is still considered unethical and therefore typically engaged in as a last resort. Based on her interviews and research, McMann described a

typical Kyrgyz farmer looking to expand their subsistence farm through credit. According to McMann, the farmer wouldn’t have enough collateral to secure a loan from a private bank, would find that their local religious institutions and extended family don’t have the resources to extend them informal credit and discover the local government credit program has a long waiting list. Only when there are no other options, McMann said, would that farmer then choose to bribe a local official to get ahead of the waiting list for a government-sponsored loan. McMann argued that her findings have important implications for anti-corruption efforts around the world, saying, “What my findings suggest is that it’s not sufficient just to tinker with state institutions; you can’t just increase government officials’ income, for example, or create more sanctions for bad behavior, you also need to ask whether there are alternatives so that citizens don’t have to engage in corruption to deal with economic challenges.”

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n any given night, The Michigan Daily newsroom is filled with a dedicated group of students who are running on too much coffee and too little sleep, painstakingly planning, writing and editing stories. Producing a daily newspaper requires the coordination and combined efforts of people working tirelessly to cover news and culture on and off campus. Many freshmen wander into the newsroom for mass meetings in the beginning of the year, eager to partake in something bigger than themselves. Some sections seem “cool” and “fun” and “actually produce content.” They lure in new staffers with the prospects of one day traveling all over the country to cover championship games, interview presidential candidates and attend exclusive music festivals. “Grammar is so fun,” we say. You read everything, and get to contemplate if there should be a hyphen in phrases like “health care education.” This never seems to elicit the same reaction. Copy editors tend to be a quieter breed. Though you won’t see our names displayed in the paper, we play a critical role in upholding the integrity of the Daily as a trustworthy news publication. Our editors scrutinize every comma and every fact, and we pride ourselves on polishing and verifying the stories that go through our editing process. No, we don’t cover cool stories or blast music quite as loudly as the news desk, but we are just as important to the

paper as any other section. And as we see it, the time has finally come for the copy desk to have a voice. First, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the editors and writers for putting up with the air of pretension that sometimes lingers in our copy notes. We know it’s hard to like someone whose sole purpose is to highlight every grammatical and factual mistake you make. We know you use the Oxford comma in all of your academic papers, e-mails, texts and basically every other part of your life. And you’re outraged by the fact that AP style dictates that we delete every. last. one. We get it. We sympathize. Second, we’d like to formally announce the start of our new column, Copy That. It’s a shame that all this grammarly knowledge and witty insight to the newsroom is confined to our 11-by-5-foot desk. If you want to learn some fun and flirty grammar tips, weird rules from our official style guide and hilarious grammar fails we uncover in our work, you’ve come to the right place. So, whether you’re looking to improve your grammar to boost the grade on your next paper or simply looking for a laugh, we promise to deliver educational, witty and grammatically correct content. Copy That. Laura Schinagle, Copy Chief and Emma Sutherland, Senior Copy Editor

Get rid of “guilty pleasure”

n the day this column is published, I will be en route to Detroit to spend the weekend indulging in my guiltiest of guilty pleasures: anime conventions. I love them. I love the medium, I love the costumes and, most of all, I love the environment of being with fellow fans. Not because of the community aspect of it — although that’s a way of looking at it — but rather because there’s SARAH no reason for me to pretend LEESON I don’t love Japanese cartoons like I normally do. On a day-to-day basis, anime isn’t something I bring up. When introducing myself to others, I’m more likely to bring up the fact that I regularly watch soap operas than my regular anime consumption, and that isn’t even a true statement about myself. Why the secrets, though? I’m invested enough in this hobby that I attend annual conventions, yet it’s something that I actively hide about myself. Maybe it’s from embarrassment over not wanting to associate myself with some rather stereotypical representations of what fans are imagined to be, or the idea that liking something outside of the mainstream is shameful. In a broader sense, though, I would say it comes from labeling anime as a guilty pleasure, and the idea that guilty pleasures exist at all. I won’t get into whether or not anime should be seen as something embarrassing or not here (though it’s totally not — if you think giant robots fighting isn’t cool, then you’re wrong), but rather the concept, and hopefully destruction, of the “guilty pleasure.” Everyone has interests that they don’t actively share with others — examples include ant photography, fire starting, interior design — and that’s fine. Maybe you just don’t want to bore your listener, which is fair because you’re probably a very “boring person,” so you don’t usually bring it up, but you’d be happy to talk about it if it does. Those aren’t guilty pleasures. I’m talking about interests that you actively hide from others. Something that you can talk about with a select group of friends or people online, but wouldn’t bring up to coworkers or classmates. In fact, you might even deny that you like this topic to these acquaintances. Assuming your guilty pleasure isn’t anything that hurts you or others, or some sort of dark secret like being a horse whisperer, then should it really be a source of shame? (Also, I just … what? What even is that? Whatever, sorry, I take that back. Please tell me about it sometime. Maybe it’s cooler than what I just pictured.) Odds are, there are millions of people out there who share your interest; you’ve probably even encountered some online in fan groups or forums. The crazy thing about online fans though, is that they also exist in real life.

Those are real people. (Mostly.) With the same interest. You might even be friends with some and not know it. Let’s use the boy band One Direction as an example. There’s a connotation with this group that in order to like them you must be a tween girl. And even if you are a preteen, it’s still not OK to like them because they’re a boy band and that spells manufactured pop and talentless singers. Despite this association with the group and its fans, though, you love it. You keep up on all the news about the boys and are one of the first to download their singles. You even would have gone to their concert, but, sadly, that’s crossing the line for the “guilty pleasure.” To have gone to the concert would have been an open expression of interest in the group and their music. People you know might have found out you like Harry best or that you know all the words to their songs. And you can’t have that, can you? You might get teased on the playground. So, now you’ve successfully guarded this guilty pleasure from public exposure, except you didn’t get a chance to discover that you have people in your life who also secretly share this interest. Plus you missed out on seeing your imaginary boyfriends live on stage. You protected your outward image, but at what cost? At what cost, indeed. My advice, on a personal level, would be to own it. If you can be brave enough to be open about liking something, negative popular opinions and all, then no one can make fun of you for it (and odds are no one would really try except a quick, teasing jab. In fact, you can turn it on someone who tries to mock it by appearing confused and slightly disdainful, saying, “You don’t like (insert non-mainstream interest such as beekeeping or ghost hunting)?” This will make the bully question not only their perception of popular sentiment regarding your interest, but even their experience of reality. Is what they know real? Am I real? While they melt into a puddle of existential dread, you just became 10 percent more honest with yourself. Congratulations. On a societal level, though, I’m formally requesting that we destroy the phrase “guilty pleasure.” It’s unnecessary. There’s no reason to have shame over what you love, even if it’s “nerdy” or “girly.” Actually, especially if it’s girly. Feminine things are great. Everyone loves pumpkin spice and Taylor Swift; there’s no need to pretend you don’t. So, after this weekend in Detroit, when I’m done with cosplay and openly engaging in conversations about anime tropes with “real people” in “real life,” I’m going to try to follow my own advice. I’ll be more open about my interests and personality. In fact, I’ll start now: that example about liking One Direction was about me. Harry’s hair is dreamy, and I have no shame in saying this.

There’s no reason to have shame over what you love, even if it’s “nerdy” or “girly.”

— Sarah Leeson can be reached at sleeson@umich.edu.

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Directed by Wes Craven

n Halloween, you won’t find me playing dress-up as a sexy (insert any animate or inanimate object here) and going out to a party with alcohol and peers parading around as “slutty rocks.” (I don’t get out much, but that’s probably a costume by now, MEGAN right?) No. You’ll MITCHELL find me curled up in a pair of sweatpants and armed with a bag of candy and my fluffiest blanket, completely prepared to marathon Wes Craven’s masterpieces. Craven, the master of horror and ultimate suspense, passed away this August. And while people tweeted 140 characters about how much his works would be missed in Hollywood, I grieved with a tub of Ben and Jerry’s and a marathon of “Scream.” But this year, though I will still be watching these films, I will be viewing them with a slightly different perspective. This past summer, as a part of my volunteer work at the Henry Ford Hospital, I visited patients in the behavioral health section of the emergency room. Suddenly, the monsters depicted in some of my favorite flicks seemed to be making fun of the patients I visited on a daily basis; the people I would get warm blankets for and chat with about things like the weather or if I had a boyfriend waiting for me back at school. My most recent viewing of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” in mid-summer gave me a new perspective on the horror genre. In an iconic scene, Norman Bates runs into the cellar after Marion Crane, knife-happy and screaming, “I’m Norma Bates!” dressed like his deceased mother. Suddenly, a scene I had once found entertaining, funny even, became sad. Norman Bates, the best-known serial killer in cinematic history,

was deeply, mentally disturbed, and I thought it was funny? It was the small pop-in visits during the day that slowly started to change my perception of how I was watching these movies. These monster creations of Craven and Hitchcock were loosely based off real, underlying mental disorders that often lead to so much suffering. Growing up in a cinematic melting pot that included a spanned from Disney movies to “The Addams Family” reruns, I didn’t have to be scared of ghosts and ghouls or the monster under my bed when Frankenstein was a blue-collar worker with a family, did I? I loved the black-and-white shows my parents let me watch. “The Munsters” reassured me, more than anything my parents told me, that monsters were the creation of entertainment. Monsters belonged to normal families just trying to fit in. I could understand that as a 10-year-old girl, which took a lot of fear away when I was young. But at 19, how could I ignore the reality of my monsters? Craven was my superhero. His films bathed in pure cinematic genius that always found a way to give me chills regardless of the number of times I watched them. I jump in fear, shake in anticipation and yell at the victims to “run out the freaking door into safety,” and “don’t hide in plain sight unless you want to die there!” His films made me genuinely scared, which is a feat most contemporary horror films don’t come close to achieving. And it is in this aspect that I still appreciate his work, especially the classic “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Scream” franchises. They create that rush,

that scare that only really good classic scary movies can. I still watch horror movies, but how I choose to interpret them has changed since last Halloween. And although I still consider “Scream” my favorite horror movie, I’ve found that the experience is much more enjoyable when you can separate the fiction from the reality. I’m not telling everyone to stop watching horror movies or that you can’t enjoy “Psycho” without feeling guilty. I’m just asking that you respect that there are people who are actually sick and behave in certain ways due to their illnesses, which is something that horror films exploit at times, even subconsciously, to create characters such as Freddy or Norman Bates. So, this coming Halloween night, consider staying in and watching “Scream” with some friends, honoring Wes Craven’s memory the right way — not as a slutty rock. I can’t promise you will have more fun — that part is up to you. But I can say that you’ll stay a lot warmer and make lifelong memories of “that one time you scared the pants off your jumpy friend” and ate those little candy pumpkins all cuddled up in an extra-large cozy blanket with your besties. And who knows? Maybe you’ll learn something new along the way and come to appreciate horror movies the same way I have. Overall, I guess I just have one thing left to say: Thank you. Thank you for the screams, Mr. Craven. In Memory of Wes Craven, master of horror (1939-2015).

I can’t promise you will have more fun — that part is up to you.

— Megan Mitchell can be reached at umeg@umich.edu.

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Growing up a girl

hroughout my childhood, my dad treated his three children exactly the same. We all played sports with him, ALISON we all watched New York Giants SCHALOP games with him and he bought all three of us Derek Jeter jerseys every year. My sister and I couldn’t be less interested in sports. My brother is an avid Yankees, Giants, Rangers and, even occasionally, Knicks fan. Why did this happen? Is it intrinsic in our genetic makeup? Or is it society? Many would argue that society taught me from a young age to like shopping and my brother, David, to like sports. Yet it hardly feels that way. I had all of the opportunities I wanted to become obsessed with the Yankees, and he had plenty of chances to become enthusiastic about Bloomingdale’s. Yet here we are. My sister and I both fit innumerable stereotypes of girls. We like nail polish, getting dressed up, gossiping, social sciences and occasional reality TV. While my brother admits to liking certain reality TV, he likes fantasy football, playing soccer and math much more. My sister and I both actually like math, so I shouldn’t withhold that information to force my argument. However, neither of us chose to major in anything STEM-related. What is it that scares girls off from math and science? Why is it that in seventh grade, more girls take algebra than boys, yet when phys-

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ics rolls around in 11th grade, more boys enroll than girls? This pattern continues in the world beyond high school where, according to the Department of Education, women make up less than 25 percent of professionals in STEM fields. I refuse to believe that women are innately lesser than men in STEM fields. I don’t remember the day I stopped thinking, I am completely smart and capable. However, I do remember the first time I felt nervous to raise my hand because I thought a boy in the room would know the better answer. I thought of myself as the smartest girl in the room, but not the smartest person. I was 12 years old. In ninth grade, I transferred to an allgirls high school. There I realized that I wasn’t even close to the smartest girl in the room. I was suddenly surrounded by geniuses. While an all-girls school is meant to give you the confidence to go out into the world and be the best, I think it did just the opposite. I was taught to be brave in front of other girls, but not other people. Everything changed when I came to the University. Suddenly I was thrust into a huge campus with thousands of intelligent youths, half of whom were men. I was back in my 12-year-old shoes. Would the boys think I’m stupid? Would they know the right

answer? Would they laugh at me? I really do sound like a middle schooler. Maybe an all-girls school slowed my development — who knows. What matters is that I felt the same fear I had once felt, despite being taught that I’m an intelligent woman who could amount to anything. Yet, I feel this firsthand in my classes here at the University. I have observed that when men have an idea that they’re not totally sure about, they say it anyway. When it comes to complex topics I often watch women sit back in their seats and observe. Of course, I’m only speaking from my own experience; I can’t speak for every woman in every classroom. But, what I know for sure is that I personally have felt intimidated to speak because of what the men in the classroom might think. I have to wonder where this stems from, because I know it isn’t in my genetics. Some things will never change. When my parents go on vacation, they usually bring my brother back a jersey and me a piece of jewelry. I don’t blame them, I would rather have jewelry, after all, and David would rather have a jersey. It certainly isn’t my parent’s fault; it’s society’s.

I remember the first time I felt nervous to raise my hand because I thought a boy in the room would know the better answer.

— Alison Schalop can be reached at aschalop@umich.edu.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

ICE HOCKEY

Time in Connecticut gym Thome finding her niche, forged Selman’s dedication playing time in Ann Arbor Working with NHL players showed assistant captain the way By MINH DOAN Daily Sports Editor

As an assistant captain for the Michigan hockey team, Justin Selman has a lot of responsibilities both on and off the ice. But the biggest quality the senior forward brings is his dedication and work ethic, which in turn has set an example for the rest of the team and earned him recognition this past summer, when he was named a 2014-15 Strength and Conditioning Athlete of the Year by the National Strength and Conditioning Association. The award is given to collegiate athletes who have dedicated themselves to strength training and conditioning, as chosen by strength coaches. “I know that the guys who won it with or before me were Derek DeBlois, Mac Bennett, Zach Hyman and Andrew Copp,” Selman said. “All of those guys were great leaders and hard workers. “I didn’t really know what was required to get the award, but anytime you get recognized for something you do, it’s nice to see that your hard work gets noticed, and it’s something to keep in the back of your mind when you’re working out.” But Selman’s journey to developing the work ethic he has today began four years ago, when he discovered the Prentiss Hockey Performance gym in Darien, Connecticut. The gym, which is about 1,000 square feet and is built inside an old gas station, is run by Ben Prentiss, and has become a place where National Hockey League players flock to during the offseason to work out.

As for Selman, it took him only one step into the building before he was hooked. “I knew a few guys who had mentioned it to me who had been there before — some college players,” Selman said. “So I checked it out one summer, and I loved it from the first day.” While the training is extensive and effective, the biggest lesson Selman took away from the gym wasn’t from the trainers, but from the NHL players who worked out there. In particular, Martin St. Louis, formerly of the Tampa Bay Lightning and the New York Rangers, was someone Selman looked up to. “He just worked out so hard everyday, and he has a family,” Selman said. “He showed me that there were no excuses. He would come in at 6 a.m. or 9 p.m., whenever he could find an hour or two to work out. He showed me that whether you’re tired or have a lot of stuff going on, you still have to make time for the stuff that’s important.” The gym not only helped him with his strength and conditioning, but also helped him revamp his diet, which gave him more energy and stamina. “Going in, I thought I ate pretty healthy, but (Prentiss) kind of flipped my diet upside down,” Selman said. “Everything he told me to do, within a month, I noticed I had a lot more energy. I really leaned out, but I was putting on weight at the same time. I felt a lot stronger, a lot more alert. “I cut out all the processed food, as much as I could. I might have wheat bread here and there if I have to. It’s hard on the road and in college, but in the summer, I’m really strict about it. I try to eat grass-fed meat if I can and a lot of stuff you find at Whole Foods. It’s a little more expensive, but it definitely pays off.” This past summer, Selman moved away from the Prentiss gym, deciding to work out in Ann Arbor with strength and conditioning coach Joe Maher.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Three quick goals doom Wolverines By ORION SANG For the Daily

It took just two and a half minutes for a scoreless tie to turn into a rout. In its final matchup before the Big Ten Tournament, the Michigan women’s soccer team lost to No. 10 Penn 1 MICHIGAN State, 3-1. PENN STATE 3 The Wolverines (6-3-3 Big Ten, 11-62 overall) struggled on offense for most of the night, and several critical breakdowns on defense allowed the Nittany Lions (8-2-1, 13-3-2) to score three goals in a two-and-a-half minute span near the end of the first half. “They were a better team tonight,” said Michigan senior midfielder Corinne Harris. “We can learn from their performance.” Michigan started off the game controlling possession. The Wolverines’ first scoring chance came when Harris was able to twist past a Penn State defender and quickly unleash a shot, but it was too high. Despite the early advantage in possession, Michigan was unable to generate many other scoring opportunities. The wet field may have also contributed to the offensive struggles, as players fell down multiple times and many passes were unsuccessful. “We played really well for the first part of the game and created some good goal-scoring chances in the first 20 minutes,” said Michigan coach Greg Ryan. As the first half progressed, the Nittany Lions began to take control on offense and almost scored 29 minutes into the game. Penn State forward Mallory Weber

took a header off a free kick, and sophomore goalkeeper Megan Hinz was not able to corral the ball. Luckily for Michigan, Hinz fell on the rebound and saved a goal. But Penn State scored just three minutes later. A Michigan defender turned the ball over, and the Nittany Lions took advantage. Forward Raquel Rodriguez received the ball from a teammate and scored off a shot from the left side. It was only the beginning of a scoring onslaught. A minute later, the Wolverines turned the ball over once again on their side of the field, and Penn State forward Megan Schafer slid the ball past Hinz, making Michigan pay for another mistake. Penn State wasn’t done, netting its third goal a minute later, when midfielder Nickolette Driesse scored from 30 yards out to beat Hinz. When the onslaught ended in the 35th minute, the Nittany Lions had three goals in two and a half minutes. “We’ve just got to defend better,” Ryan said. “We gave away three very unpressured goals.” Despite the large deficit, Michigan didn’t go out without a fight. In the 87th minute, the Wolverines got on the scoreboard when senior midfielder Cassie Collins hammered home a rebound opportunity. But it was only one goal, and the Wolverines know they will have to make adjustments heading into postseason play. “We have to get back to how we have been defending,” Ryan said. “We’re not going to win games with the way we played in the back today.”

While Selman said his time with Maher was the hardest summer workout he has ever done, staying in Michigan was equally about being back around his teammates. “In the summer, when we’re all here working out, some of the days get a little bit long,” Selman said. “As a leader, you have to be the one who guys look to that’s working the hardest. You have to be someone who can be looked up to that is working as hard as they can.” Added Maher: “He has a belief in the program here, and he has belief in our standards here. We want a culture where guys don’t want to leave and stay here and be together with their teammates as much as possible.” But just because Selman wasn’t working out at the Prentiss gym, it didn’t mean that he left behind the consistency he had learned from his summers in Darien. “It wasn’t always what (Selman) was doing in the weight room (this summer),” Maher said. “He understood there was a whole other picture in the 20 hours he wasn’t in the weight room that he committed himself to. That started off with nutrition and went into recovery.” And the results have shown. Selman has already scored two goals and tallied four assists, totaling six points through four games — a number he didn’t reach until midway through last season. “He’s got some more jump,” Maher said. “He’s gained some speed, and he’s gained a step. He’s gained some explosiveness, which is good. He also has that ability later in practices and games, so he doesn’t fizzle out.” Selman’s work over the past four summers has culminated into a final season at Michigan, when he looks to lead the Wolverines back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in three years. And if it happens, at least some of the credit has to go to that old gas station in Connecticut.

By BRAD WHIPPLE Daily Sports Writer

The Michigan women’s basketball team didn’t just lose critical leadership with the departures of Cyesha Goree, Nicole Elmblad and Shannon Smith — it also lost 59 percent of its rebounding, one of the strengths that boosted the Wolverines into the 2015 WNIT Semifinals. Michigan’s best returning rebounders are senior forward Kelsey Mitchell and sophomore forward Jillian Dunston, but they will need help in recreating Goree and Elmblad-like results. Mitchell is still recovering from two seasons worth of injuries, and Dunston is still finding her groove at the college level. That’s where Hallie Thome steps in. The freshman is now the Wolverines’ tallest player and the first 6-foot-5 center since Krista Phillips (2009-10), making her one of Michigan’s most valuable assets beneath the basket this year. On her way to becoming Ohio’s Gatorade High School Player of the Year, Thome averaged 19.5 points, 9.1 rebounds and 4.6 blocks during her senior year in Chagrin Falls. The impressive stat sheet would make any college basketball program chase the four-star recruit, but Thome’s eye had always been on Michigan, especially after she suffered a knee injury her junior year that sidelined her for all but six games. “I took it as whoever’s going to leave, I don’t want them,” Thome said. “It’s basketball at the college level — you’re going to get hurt. I wanted to make sure I had people who had my back, so Michigan was calling and texting every day and making sure I was good. It

just helped me realize even more that they’re always there for me, and I (was) part of the family even though I hadn’t committed yet.” With two weeks of practice under her belt, the results have been a “pleasant surprise” for Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico, who has never coached a player of Thome’s stature and skill. Even with the expectation for Thome to help take over the rebounding presence left behind by Goree and Elmblad, there is still a lot of work ahead for the freshman. She only just started seriously lifting this summer, something the upperclassmen have been doing for years. Thome is also dealing with the challenges brought by the bigger and more physical male practice squad that the team competes against, especially since the only boy she had ever played against previously was her brother. “She’s obviously still a work in progress,” Barnes Arico said. “She has never played against the size and the speed that she’s going to face with the Marylands of the world or the Rutgers of the world. With the teams in our league, she’s never experienced that. She’s shown in the last 10 practices the ability to hang in there and do a really good job. But with her, it’s going to be some days really good, and some days she’s going to get banged up.” Added Thome: “It’s challenging at times. … In high school, I wouldn’t say it was easy, but I mean, now I’m playing against people who are bigger and stronger. It’s definitely good to see the challenges and take them on each day.” But Thome has had a helping hand in adjusting to college life. After coming to campus, she immediately clicked with senior

“I wanted to make sure I had people who had my back.”

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guard Madison Ristovski — a familiar face from her past. In eighth grade, Thome started attending the basketball camps in Ann Arbor and caught the eye of then-head coach Kevin Borseth, who put her on the Wolverines’ recruiting radar early on. During practice games, Thome was placed on a team with Ristovski, then a senior in high school who had just committed to Michigan. “We always joke about it,” Thome said. “I couldn’t catch the ball when I was younger, and she is good at those sneak passes. (Now) she’s like, ‘Hallie, I just need you to catch a ball. Just be ready, because it’s gonna come to you.’ It’s great to see the progress from what it was back then to what it is now working together.” Added Ristovski: “She always says she couldn’t catch anything, and she couldn’t finish. We laugh about it now, because who would’ve thought four years later, here she is and here I am.” Over the summer, Ristovski partnered with Thome during weight training and has since been one of her teachers as Thome has gotten used to the faster pace and tougher atmosphere of college basketball. It’s only one example of how Ristovski has gladly taken on senior responsibilities as she helps foster the growth of the younger players. “On Twitter, I saw something about preseason freshman of the year. … It wasn’t Hallie. It was some girl from Nebraska,” Ristovski said. “I screenshotted it, sent the picture to her and I said, ‘This is motivation. Understand what you’re doing everyday. It’s going to make a difference when the season comes.’ ” Thome wasn’t the preseason freshman of the year, but in due time, she will have a few accolades of her own — maybe many. For her, there couldn’t be a better place to earn them than Michigan. For the last five years, it has felt like home. Now, it finally is. “I can’t ask for anything better,” Thome said. “I have to take it all in, relax and do my thing.”

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Michigan prepares for Minnesota, minus Jerry Kill Citing health reasons, Golden Gophers head coach announces his retirement By JAKE LOURIM Managing Sports Editor

The Michigan and Minnesota football teams are both coming off bye weeks heading into their clash in Minneapolis on Saturday night. They have had time in the past two weeks to recover from losses, and time to prepare for each other. But Wednesday, the contest became an entirely new matchup.

Minnesota announced around 7:30 a.m. that head coach Jerry Kill would step down effective immediately for health reasons. Kill, who was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2005, was in his fifth season with the Golden Gophers. He suffered game-day seizures in each of his first three seasons (2011 to 2013), taking a leave of absence in 2013 to focus on his health. Before his decision to retire Wednesday, he had not had a reported incident since 2013.

“I was shocked, really,” said Michigan secondary coach Greg Jackson. “Sorry for Minnesota, but we will play Saturday. One thing we’re focused on is winning the football game and playing great defense.” Tight ends coach Jay Harbaugh was also saddened by the news. “I figured it was something that had to be pretty serious,” Harbaugh said. “You never want to do anything like that. I know he had a background of certain health issues, so you just hope and pray that he gets healthy,

“Sorry for Minnesota, but we will play Saturday.”

and then his family deals with everything all right. It’s a serious thing.” Kill revealed in a press conference Wednesday that his health issues had escalated once again, and the stress of the job only compounded them. He said he hadn’t slept more than three hours in a night in the past three weeks. As the season moves into its second half, Kill’s struggles could serve as a cautionary tale for other coaches who are under similar stress. “I think a lot of it has to do with your work environment,” Harbaugh said. “A lot of the guys I work with, they’re serious about football, but they’re lighthearted guys. It’s fun, it’s loose and serious at the same

time, if that makes any sense.” The Wolverines now have three days to prepare to face a Minnesota team with a new face at the helm. If any team is prepared for this sort of event, though, it’s the Golden Gophers. Kill coached from the press box during games in 2011 and 2012, while defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys led from the sideline. Claeys also took over in Kill’s absence two seasons ago, winning four of seven games while in charge. And now, Claeys — who has been an assistant coach on Kill’s staff since they coached together at Saginaw Valley State in 1995 and was promoted to defensive coordinator in 1999 at Emporia State — takes over for the rest of

the season. Minnesota is 4-3 after a 48-25 loss to Nebraska on Oct. 17. Last season, the Golden Gophers routed Michigan in Ann Arbor, 30-14, on their way to an 8-5 finish. They have established themselves as a power-running team, and the Wolverines don’t expect to see anything different Saturday, even without Kill. “I think that’s very indicative of who he is, maybe the best credit to him,” Harbaugh said. “They would play like their hair’s on fire regardless. I think that says a lot about who he is and how he coaches. “You’re not going to show up and see a different team. I think that’s how he would want it, too, and that’s how those guys play.”

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D.J. Wilson redshirted last season after sustaining an injury in November.

Wilson, Wagner learning in post By LEV FACHER Managing Editor

Versatility is both a blessing and a curse for Michigan men’s basketball coach John Beilein, who’s spending much of the 201516 preseason teaching a crop of underclassman big men both the power forward and center positions. While sophomore Ricky Doyle seems a safe bet to earn the bulk of playing time in the low post this season, the list of players who might back him up or spend time at the ‘4’ spot is still in question. Among those center-forward hybrids are redshirt freshman D.J. Wilson and freshman Moritz Wagner, each of whom is listed at 6-foot-10. “It’s much easier for them just to be at one position,” Beilein said last week. “Fortunately, both Moe and D.J. are pretty good with picking different things up, and that’s really been good. Moe is exceptional.” Michigan’s ninth-year coach, however, has little choice but to hedge his bets. Sophomore Kameron Chatman and redshirt sophomore Mark Donnal were both inconsistent in 2014-15, and they, too, could see minutes at spots other than power forward — Donnal at center and Chatman at small forward. Wilson is the likeliest of the bunch to be relied upon heavily at both big-man spots. Since clocking in at 215 pounds prior to his freshman season, he says he has added 25 pounds of muscle. He showed flashes of potential early last season before suffering a knee injury in November, eventually spending the year redshirting. The prospect of alternating between spots doesn’t faze Wilson, however. “I don’t really have a preference,” he said. “It’s not really an issue for me. I’ve been playing multiple positions throughout my career.” The injury gave Wilson a rare opportunity to add size and condition during the season without substantially impacting the Wolverines’ full-season prognosis, which later took bigger hits following the losses of starters Caris LeVert and Derrick Walton Jr. “Me getting hurt last year and redshirting was a big benefit for

me and the team,” Wilson said. “I gained a lot of weight and became more athletic.” Wagner, however, hasn’t yet had the opportunity to add the size that Wilson will likely depend on down low this season. That hasn’t stopped Beilein from raving about his ability throughout the preseason, but he has consistently acknowledged that the 18-yearold German’s youth can lead to awkward on-court sequences during practice. Michigan’s coaching staff isn’t giving much away about Wagner in the early going, preserving his status as the Wolverines’ biggest wild card. Beilein wouldn’t hazard a guess as to which position Wagner might appear at in the early going, and while assistant coach Bacari Alexander offered a long-term assessment, he also hesitated to make a prediction for the season’s first weeks. “If you’re projecting out for Moe Wagner, he’s probably going to end up being a ‘4’-man,” Alexander said. “Reason being, his skill set, coming from the farm systems of Berlin, Germany, has called for him to be so multifaceted where he can make 3s; he can put the ball on the floor and make plays for others; he has the ability to post up smaller defenders.” The biggest deficiency in Wagner’s game, according to both Beilein and Alexander, is his rebounding ability. But he’ll have the opportunity to ease into college play against teams that will be heavy underdogs entering Ann Arbor. The Wolverines begin their schedule with an exhibition against Le Moyne on Nov. 6, followed by matchups with Northern Michigan and Elon. Those games, in which Michigan will likely hold substantial advantages in talent and size, could provide an early idea of which players will see minutes and where they slot in. The going gets tougher over Thanksgiving, as the Wolverines travel to the Bahamas to face a pool of competition that includes Connecticut, Syracuse, Gonzaga and Texas in the Battle 4 Atlantis. There, size will matter, and that tournament could provide the first real test in physicality for the Wolverines’ front line, however it shapes up.

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INTO THE WOODS: a trip to the Terrorfied Forest

by Emma Kinery and Hailey Middlebrook

Daily Arts Writers Lights On Fall had peaked on Saturday as we drove down the winding road speckled with autumnal hues and overarching amber trees. Nature’s festive display almost made me forget the reason Hailey and I were taking a half-hour trek out of Ann Arbor. Growing up on ghost stories and Halloween, haunted sites and lore have always intrigued me — at least, from a distance. I was eager to snag the opportunity to write about walking through a haunted forest, but it took until the day of our trip to the Terrorfied Forest for my rational mind to kick into action and my feet to turn cold. Memories of walking through haunted forests with my grandma reeled through my head: My grandma, born on Halloween and predestined to enjoy it, had laughed the whole way; while I, a middle schooler who had just overcome my fear of dogs, did not. Around 7 p.m., we followed an arrow sign into a field at the end of the road. The late-October dusk was just beginning to settle as we stepped out of Hailey’s Jeep, and we were greeted by a man dressed in black who spoke with a deep voice. After discovering we were reporters, not actors for the forest, he led us to meet one of the owners, Cindy Murphy-Broadbent, at her house not far from the parking lot. There, we were welcomed by a dozen ghouls gathered around a bonfire, applying their terrifying makeup. A woman with bloody barbed wire wrapped around her face pressed flesh wounds to a man’s face; another woman was smearing white paint over her cheekbones while a third monster airbrushed an actor’s face. Murphy-Broadbent came out of the house. She was an older woman, with cropped white hair and a lifelong passion for Halloween. As she approached, an actress mentioned that the house was decorated with spooky decor all year long. “I just always liked Halloween,” Murphy-Broadbent said. “You can dress up if you want, you don’t have to if you don’t want. You can give candy if you want, you don’t have to if you don’t want. You can have a lot of fun with it, or you don’t have to. So, it’s a great holiday.” The Terrorfied Forest was first created as a haunted hayride surprise birthday party. The party was such a hit that MurphyBroadbent and her husband, Dean, continued to host it for five years until friends convinced them to open it to the public. Now it’s a 30-minute walk for three-quarters of a mile through the woods. The forest opens for business the second weekend of September through Halloween night, as well as on the Friday the 13th in November. It was inching closer to 8 p.m. when the trail officially opened. Murphy-Broadbent offered to lead us back to the entrance so she could open the ticket booth. The man who we had seen being made-up with fake flesh had now transformed into a monster; he snuck up behind us as we lingered, growling and barking. Hailey shrieked. We eagerly left the ghouls. See HAUNTED FOREST, Page 2B

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HAUNTED FOREST From Page 1B By now it was dark out, the entrance sign illuminated by a string of lights. It had rained earlier that day and lone clouds still hung in front of the bright, nearly full moon; it was the kind of night you’d expect werewolves to transform — and that’s not an exaggeration. It was hard not to take the ominous hint and begin worrying again. It suddenly dawned on me that it may not have been the best idea to tell all of the actors we were reporters. The main area was a large field that resembled a movie set: a ticket booth, haunted house, a ghoulish tree for photos and a food trailer glowing yellow, all dispersed along the edges. With half an hour until the trail opened, we naturally headed to the snacks: cider for $1.50, cider and a doughnut for $2.50. The actors, all teenagers with painted faces, were gathered there, too. A freshman from Eastern Michigan University, dressed as Frankenstein, said he enjoyed working at the Terrorfied Forest; it was a good weekend job. He was able to spend the money he made from scaring willing individuals and save what he made from his day job. Frankenstein said he’s never scared when he’s in the forest waiting for passersby. I understood this more later when I walked through — as the trail is lit by red lights — but at the time, I was skeptical. Young girls with caked-on red cheeks and freckles said they worked in the Fun House, which people could pay extra to go through before the trail. They said that some people are scared, some flirt and many crack jokes. The nun said she had heard all the “nun puns” in the book. The most common: “I’ll have nun of that!” People of all ages began arriving. By the time we left that night, the parking lot would be full. The actors explained that the week before Halloween was peak week for the haunted trail: costume parties had only just begun, but people were in the spirit. Lights Off A single doorframe, propped up like the forgotten remains of a burned-down building, marked the entrance to the Terrorfied Forest. A costumed woman stood in the shadows as Emma and I approached, her smeared white makeup catching the glow of the orange lights overhead. In her hands was a hatchet. “Are you two with a group?” she asked. Maybe I imagined it, but she seemed to smirk at the question, her charcoal-rimmed eyes glinting. If the smokey-eye look was intimidating on a normal basis, this chick took it to a whole new level. “Um,” Emma said, stalling. Survival tip number one: Never go alone. We locked eyes with the couple next to us, high school kids on a Saturday night date, willing them to take two col-

lege students under their wing for the night. It was a low point, but fear makes people do crazy things, like sleep with the lights on for a month after watching a scary movie (this is why you should never watch “Silence of the Lambs”). Besides, we were being practical — it’s all about strength in numbers. No University of Michigan-educated person would venture into the creepy woods alone. “Do you mind if we come with you?” I blurted. The girl, bless her, nodded enthusiastically, agreeing with our group mentality or maybe just taking pity on us. Her boyfriend gamely agreed, possibly hating us for tagging along. (Boys, take note: A haunted forest is not a romantic date. Your girlfriend will be terrified, possibly crying, wanting to get out of there as soon as possible. If you want a fun fall activity, stick to scary movies and pumpkin carving.) At the entrance to a haunted forest — a forest that the ticket lady warned takes 30 to 40 minutes to travel through — manners were not our highest priority. So when the hostess told us to line up single file to enter, we pushed the boy to the front. The door thudded behind us, drowning out the woman’s cackle. “Don’t touch anything and it won’t touch you back!” she said. In nervous silence, we walked along a narrow trail, guided by hanging red bulbs on lowslung branches. Leaves whipped around our feet in tiny tornados, hiding roots, making us step carefully in the darkness and ignore our instinct to run. Though my awareness was piqued for any type of movement — a sinister shadow lurking behind a tree, the ominous snap of a twig — I couldn’t help but notice the beauty of the woods in the nighttime. The moon was nearly full, flooding the forest with light; it was almost peaceful, being outside and away from the bustle of campus. For a while, there was no movement. We kept walking, winding through the woods. We knew that there were about 80 terrifying employees waiting for us in the forest — but where were they? I started to enjoy myself, thinking of our tour as a midnight nature walk. This would go great with some hot apple cider. Survival tip number two: Never let your guard down. As I peered around the bend, a throaty snarl erupted from behind a tree. A wolf-creature sprung onto the path, half crawling and jumping toward our group. We screamed and stumbled, running up a ramp that led to a shed pulsing with strobe lights. The wolf-creature left us alone, but the shed — and the other makeshift shacks that would follow it on the trail — brought a new terror: the fear of being in a confined space of horror, with a lurking monster and nowhere to run. (In “Silence of the Lambs,” this is the situation that frightened

me the most; in the final scene of the movie, detective Clarice is unknowingly trapped in the basement with Buffalo Bill, a cannibalistic serial killer, with the lights off.) At this point, the four of us abandoned all formality, clutching each other’s shirts as we entered the shed. “This is the last thing I need right now,” Emma said, groaning. The room was filled with swinging black tubes, like punching bags, their movements warped and disorienting from the blinding strobe lights overhead. Everything was pulsing. We wove through the tubes, gripping each other tightly, our vision blurred and jaunty — was that movement a person? Or was it just us in here? — when a stranger’s voice shrieked from the corner of the room. He staggered toward us, moving fast and in slow motion at the same time, his manic clown grin flashing between the tubes. We bolted through the door at last, the lights blinking behind us. The trail became our friend. It held its own horrors: redneck zombies jumped out from behind a battered car, setting our eardrums ringing with blows of their shovels on metal; a deranged girl wailed and chased us, her hands grabbing at our ankles; a man with only half a body was suspended in a tree, screaming for help. Still, we preferred to be scared in the open woods, where escape was easy and the moon offered solace, rather than be trapped in dark haunted houses. Survival tip number three: Always bring a flashlight. From its exterior, the final stop in the Terrorfied Forest looked no different from the other shacks we had walked through. We entered the house cautiously, tugging on each other’s shirts. The room became a narrow hallway, a twisting maze, growing steadily darker and darker. Soon it was pitch black; the only light came from the ceiling, a tiny sliver of moonlight, shrouded by leaves. An eerie silence took over as we walked in the blackness. With one hand I gripped the shirt of the high school girl, with the other I skimmed the wall, feeling for passages and corners. “This must be what it feels like to be blind,” Emma said, behind me. Suddenly, a loud smack from in front: we’d hit a dead end. The high school boy chuckled, brushing past to backtrack. I tried to control my breathing. If Harry Potter could make it through the Triwizard Maze as a 14 year old, we could get our adult selves out of this trippy house. Finally, after what seemed like hours of dead ends, we found the back door. We spilled out into the moonlight, laughing about the maze and the trail, walking easily to the distant glow of the ticket booth and huddles of friendly faces. Before leaving, Emma and I posed for a picture with one of the characters, holding signs that read, “I wet my pants at the Terrorfied Forest.” (Whether this was true or not can’t be disclosed.) We waved as we walked back to the car, thanking the staff, wishing ticket holders good luck. Somewhere in the woods, a low snarl replied.

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Dear Gillian: Cross-cultural love Dear Gillian, I met two great girls. One of them is from a different cultural background; the other one shares mine. On one hand, I like spending time with the girl who’s from my own culture, because it’s just familiar and natural. On the other hand, I’m GILLIAN crazy about JAKAB this other girl. I fear that my approach to win her affection might be unsuitable to her cultural beliefs, and I really don’t want to make mistakes to ruin all the good feelings she may have for me right now. I don’t know how to proceed from this point. Idefinitely do not want to be a jerk who’s intentionally developing relationships with multiple girls, but I also can’t seem to make up my mind. Thanks Gillian! — Force Awaken *** Dear Force, Without knowing the colorful details of your culture differences, which could be as slight as East Coast meets Midwest or as momentous as East Jerusalem meets West Bank settler, it’s hard to know how to guide you. Do you need advice on wine selection (never California with an East Coast sweetie) or with how best to fry falafel? Fortunately, the liberal arts are overflowing with wisdom on your situation. Egyptian-American playwright Yussef El Guindi’s “Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World” resembles your dilemma. The play, which premiered in 2011, tells the story of Musa an Egyptian immigrant working as a taxi driver in New York. Musa finds himself choosing between Gamila, his put-together and proper Muslim, EgyptianAmerican fiancé, and Sheri, an American late-shift diner waitress whose conversation lacks not only a filter but an off button. The play takes place in Musa’s bedroom after a cab ride transitions into a drink at his apartment. In Musa’s personal pilgrimage of identity, Gamila represents the sensible and comfortable choice and Sheri the exciting and unfamiliar. Sages have dispensed the advice to “explore the unknown” since time immemorial; it is said to expand your horizons, broaden your perspective and alter the rest of your geometric assumptions. Beware, however, of confusing genuine affection with the excitement of novelty. You don’t want to exoticize the girl’s cultural identity and have it become the locus of your attraction, which is where Musa may have gone wrong. Another pitfall to avoid is chasing the forbidden for its own sake. From Neanderthal-Homo Sapien hook-ups to our globalized world of 2015, love across ethnic, racial, religious or even genetic

backgrounds has flourished despite being forbidden (à la Romeo and Juliet) or outlawed (e.g., the anti-miscegenation laws and constitutional bans on interracial marriage of the several states). But just as a book ban might briefly increase sales without improving the work, a love ban might manufacture temporary attraction without regard to its endurance. Make sure you don’t just want it because you can’t have it. Another worry of cross-cultural cuddlers is that they might be judged by the less enlightened (As any bat mitzvah’d girl can attest, the first question out of grandma’s mouth when you mention your lab partner Jake, is: “is he Jewish?” often with a follow up about the charms of the medical profession). Tevye, the patriarch in “Fiddler on the Roof” — a book, musical and film set in 1904 Czarist Russia — like you Force, weighs his two options on the one hand. And on the other hand, when his third daughter, Chava, announces she is going to marry her MarxistAtheist (and in any event nonJewish) lover Fyedka, Tevye struggles between acceptance and tradition (one making for much a better refrain in musical theater). “On the other hand, our old ways were once new, weren’t they? On the other hand, they decided without parents. Without a matchmaker!” Eventually, Tevye runs out of hands and, despite tacit sympathy for her inner strength, cannot bring himself to accept his daughter’s cultural rebellion. The Judeo-Christian God seemed more tolerant of marrying a gentile back in the good OldTestament days. Moses’s older sister Miriam questioned his marriage to a “Cushite woman,” which is translated as “Ethiopian” in the King James Bible. The woman interpreted to be his wife, Zipporah, is described elsewhere in the same way. In Numbers 12 the scripture reads “And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.” God then punishes Miriam with a temporary bout of leprosy for criticizing Moses’s decision to marry outside of the tribe. Take that, haters. It is surely noble to be the one to step up and tear down anachronistic boundaries — Moses, Chava, Romeo/Juliet (OK, maybe not the Neanderthal …) not only are true to their romantic selves, but also advance the world’s progress toward tolerance and cross-cultural understanding. Likewise with the New York City Ballet’s Arthur Mitchell and Diana Adams, Black and white dancers, respectively, in the pre-civil rights era who kicked up a powerful stir entangling limbs in their intimate duet in Balanchine’s Agon. So if your Force is Awakening for the right reasons, you can take your place among the great taboo busters of history and the arts. But keep in mind, Romeo and Juliet

killed themselves, Chava went to Siberia and Moses was barred from the Promised Land. And the Neanderthal is extinct. In Zadie Smith’s novel, “NW,” the characters blend and layer an array of ethnic, racial, socioeconomic and national identities in an outer corner of London. A central character, Leah Hanwell, grew up poor in the North West neighborhood with one English and one Irish parent. Her husband, Michel, is a French man of West African descent who works as a hairdresser. In the detached stream of consciousness style of the book, Leah muses about her marriage in the objective third person as she lay with Michel in their bedroom. She compares their physical beauties (“The man is more beautiful than the woman”), touches upon the history of how they came together and what they’ve learned since: “They were married before they noticed many small differences in background, aspiration, education, ambition. There is a difference between the ambitions of the poor of the city and the poor of the country, for examples.” Here it was not the obvious differences in upbringing or heritage that differentiated Leah and Michel, but qualities and values that came out after knowing and loving each other for a while. So, my good Force, I’d advise you first to read “NW,” because it’s a great book. Next I’d say seek to understand the differences between you and the girl who shares your culture and, conversely, look for the commonalities between you and your more seemingly foreign love interest. As Zadie shows us, connection is complicated. Don’t let initial familiarity or its opposite be the deciding factor, but get to know each on a deeper level. As for worrying about messing up the way you go about courtship, FA, just be a keen observer and ask questions to learn how she interprets different gestures or messages. Guard well against pretending to understand her culture when you don’t have a superficial clue. Have you seen in “I Love Lucy,” the groundbreaking 1950s sitcom, when Lucy conflates the traditions of Mexico, Spain and even Brazil in her hilarious attempt to recreate Ricky’s happy boyhood surroundings in his native Cuba? Differences and misinterpretations make for great comedy, but if you end up with some ‘splainin’ to do, don’t worry: The updated emojis finally have faces along the full spectrum of skin color and iconic cultural references. Send an email to DearGillian@ michigandaily.com describing a quandary about love, relationships, existence or their opposites. Gillian will attempt to summon the wisdom of the arts to soothe your troubled soul. We may publish your letter in the biweekly column with your first name (or penname).

EPISODE REVIEW When Gina Rodriguez cries, I cry. Never has this been truer than the second B+ season, which Jane the is as Virgin absurdly fast-paced Season 2, Ep. 3 as ever. In Mondays at 9 p.m. “Chapter TwentyThe CW Five” alone, Jane Villanueva (Gina Rodriguez, “Filly Brown”) prepares for her son’s baptism, deals with Petra (Yael Grobglas, “Reign”) getting pregnant from her ex-husband Rafael’s (Justin Baldoni, “Everwood”) stolen sperm and balances motherhood with her desire to go to grad school, all while still juggling two love interests who are impatiently waiting for her to choose between

them. Frankly, the episode is overstuffed. Still, all the convoluted plot mechanics melt away in the final scenes, when Jane reads a speech written by her grandmother Alba (Ivonne Coll, “Glee”). By flashing back to show Alba and Xo (Andrea Navedo, “One Life to Live”) each reading the speech at their own daughter’s baptisms, the show emphasizes the bond that Jane shares with her mother and grandmother. It’s almost impossible not to tear up as Rodriguez cries delivering it. Elsewhere, the show remains refreshingly committing to upending drama stereotypes, like keeping secrets hidden. When Xo pushes Rogelio (Jaime Camil, “The Poor, Rich Family”) away because she’s jealous of his chemistry with his ex-wife, Alba immediately slaps some sense into her

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and forces her not to let petty insecurities get in the way. When Rafael finds out about Petra’s turkey baster insemination, he tells Jane almost immediately, and they find a way forward. For all of the self-awareness

and narrative efficiency that “Jane the Virgin” has, though, its real strength lies in that final baptism scene. Playing it straight and taking characters’ feelings seriously has rarely felt so honest. - BEN ROSENSTOCK

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Top costumes for ARTIST Halloween 2015

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By CHRISTIAN KENNEDY Daily Arts Writer

By CARLY COLONNESE and JULIA DOYLE Daily Arts Writers

It’s finally Halloween, what some would call the favorite holiday among college students, especially here at the University. Halloween is a long affair filled with various festivities, coupled with an excuse to dress up as something clever or scary. But for many others, it is an excuse to dress down with an extremely revealing costume — but we hold no judgments. After all, it’s all a part of the creativity, the humor and the life-long regrets that come with the territory of Halloween. Halloween has a way of bringing out a vibrant energy around the University’s campus each year unlike that of gamedays or other noteable campus events. For most of the world, Halloween lasts for one night. But for others, the bravest students on campus (some would argue), Halloween quickly escalates from one night of celebration to a full-fledged “Halloweek.” People on campus always amaze us with their unfailing ability to brave the cold weather to go out each night with some new and undoubtedly inspired costume. With the costume of the current night always outdoing the previous, the University’s campus during Halloween is quite the show for students and Ann Arbor residents alike. Each year there are always various costume trends among University students. Inspired by the likes of pop culture, music, classic films and so on, there are those who go all-in and conjure up an entirely new and unique ensemble individually or with a group (how many Kardashian sisters do you think we will see on campus this year?). The other group of students, what we call the much less adventuresome individuals, tend to stick with what they have in their closet and simply accessorize. Nothing to be ashamed of there, with being responsible for up to a week’s worth of costumes, it’s undoubtedly the economical choice. Regardless of how exciting and different a person’s costume is, there always tend to be those few select repeat costumes each year. Let’s take a look. “The cat” … what some would call a college Halloween staple. People are attracted — and often default — to this look simply because it requires minimal effort in most cases. You can wear an entire jumpsuit with a cat-themed pattern on it (leopard and cheetah included, let your inner Cookie Lyon roar, people) and actually somewhat resemble a cat in almost all cases. Others take a slightly different approach. Some people use this as the excuse to strip down to the bare minimum of clothing (with Michigan weather, you folks deserve an award), slap some cat ears on their head and call it a costume. Regardless of which way a person goes with this, I guarantee we will see more than a few. We rate this here at Daily Style as a more than acceptable costume — just don’t expect the likes of Heidi Klum to gush over it anytime soon. “Britney” … another college/ life/teenage girl classic. Each year we are left in awe not just at how many people go for the Britney Spears look, but also how people differentiate each one of Britney’s many stages of life. Some people will go with a group of girlfriends, with each girl mimicking one of Britney’s wide-ranging looks. From the jean on jean, to the Catholic school uniform, to the inevitable bald caps, there really is no way to go wrong. Oh baby, baby, we aren’t sure whether Britney’s PR team deserves an award or a stiff drink, because this pop star seems to be providing more than enough content to keep girls and boys alike set in the costume department for days. “Football Player” … being the football school that we are (Yes, MSU, we still are aMazing), this is yet another look that students cannot stay away from. Yet again, the simplicity of the outfit is why we believe its popularity has never faltered. All one has to do is find a jersey, find tight pants (or no pants in many cases), and put some eye black on. It’s easy, quick and will

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Kinesiology junior Mitchell Tuttle looks for a costume at Ragstock on Wednesday.

always be universally and University relevant. This year, we expect to see many of the same looks. While we love to see uniqueness, we have stopped getting our hopes up. But then again, bald Britney is always a crowd pleaser. The truth is, with the wide variety of costumes actually on the market, students have no excuse to be wearing the same costume as anyone else. Ragstock, a vintage and used clothing store that opened in October of 2010, has become downtown Ann Arbor’s center for Halloween costume shopping, with the biggest appeal to students. With hundreds of costume options, accessories and individual pieces needed for the perfect Halloween costume, it would be hard to leave emptyhanded this time of year. Ragstock offers the inventory giving every student, lazy or inspired, a chance to find a unique and Insta-worthy look. Students flock to the store in troves whenever the holidays come around, whether they’re in need for Halloween costumes or ugly Christmas sweaters. We can rest easy knowing that Ragstock will never fail to provide whatever bizarre, outfit-completing piece a person may need. “Here Halloween is like our Christmas; it’s our busiest day of the year,” said Ragstock employee Elaine, an Eastern Michigan University student. Due to the prevalence of Halloween culture on the University’s campus, Elaine discussed how the store gets overwhelmingly busy during the Halloween season. Students, ridden with midterms and the like during these weeks, will often come in last minute, leaving the store flooded with students, especially during the week of Halloween. People will come in groups for their friends’ input or to focus alone, each looking for that perfect outfit. Elaine said that the store starts prepping for Halloween in the last weeks of September because there are still those ever-prepared people who are ready to get the ball rolling for Halloween just a little bit earlier than the rest of us. Given that some people choose to accessorize rather than buy a full costume, Ragstock is prepared for both. Although both are popular, Elaine believes the majority of people come in looking for accessorizing pieces, rather than the whole look. “They buy both. More popular are accessories because we have so many unique things. They come in with something really specific for a unique costume that they’re doing.” For those Halloween enthusiasts who find themselves bombarded with exams with just a bit of light gleaming at the end of the tunnel in the form of Halloween festivities, we have got you covered. If the popular costumes among students bore you, or if you are looking to the bigger picture of relevance and Halloween legendary-ness, then look no further. Lucky for you, 2015 has had plenty of Halloween-costume-worthy events. 1. Donald Trump This reality star-turnedGOP presidential candidate has gained serious attention in the media, good and bad, making him a perfect Halloween cos-

tume. Just imagine the blonde wig you can buy for this. 2. Caitlyn Jenner Jenner’s iconic Vanity Fair cover has already gathered an abundance of media attention. While this extremely controversial costume can be construed as being offensive toward the transgender community, Jenner has publicly said that she doesn’t have an issue with the costume. Let’s be honest though, how many people can look as good as she did on that cover? 3. “Love Wins” In light of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on June 26, legalizing same sex marriage in all 50 states, this can be a positive, fun costume on the historical ruling. Bright colors and rainbows everywhere, people. 4. Miley Cyrus After “Wrecking Ball” took Halloween by storm in 2013, Cyrus is the artist that keeps on giving great ideas and moments for Halloweens for years to come. The 2015 Miley Cyrus thoroughly enjoyed showing plenty of skin and, frankly, bizarre outfit choices. Seek inspiration from one of her 10 outfits from the VMAs. 5. Kylie Jenner This freshly legal “famous” person is always at the forefront of entertainment news. Break out your shot glass and do the Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge, add some black or blue lipstick and your costume is complete. 6. Stephen Curry and daughter Riley Curry The Internet went crazy after videos of Riley surfaced being, well, a boss-child, at a press conference. You come up with the rest. 7. “Fifty Shades of Grey” The excitement that came with this book wasn’t enough to mask the pure horror that came from watching the movie. However, this can be your opportunity for an exceptionally punny costume, as all one needs to wear is a multitude of gray colored clothing and maybe some leather … 8. Left Shark It’s weird to look way back on the Super Bowl because it feels like forever ago at this point, but hey, it’s still 2015. Left Shark took the world by storm after botching his dance moves in “Teenage Dream.” Memes galore and GIFs followed suit. Be creative, be you, become the Left Shark. 9. Chanel from “Scream Queens” Emma Roberts plays a fashionably bitchy (scary similar to her character in “American Horror Story Coven”) sorority president named Chanel in ABC’s “Scream Queens.” She’s known for wearing immaculate outfits that are always accessorized with fur. This can be especially fun as she has minions, Chanel #1, Chanel #2 (dead), Chanel #3, Chanel #4 (dead), Chanel #5 and Chanel #6. Sorry for the spoilers, but just think of the #squadgoals outfits that can come as a result of this?! 10. “American Horror Story” It is Halloween after all; “AHS Freak Show” and “Hotel” have scary and interesting characters alike. With more than 10 million viewers of the FX series, these haunting, gory costumes would surely be a hit. We never thought we would say this, but we give you all full permission to channel your inner Gaga.

The last time I met Phoebe Ryan I was wearing overalls, a Miley Cyrus shirt and a straw hat. Thanks to that outfit, almost immediately after describing my festival get-up from Bonnaroo last June, Ryan remembered me, grabbing my wrists in excitement. Today, she’s sporting a captain’s hat over her black-togreen ombre hair and toting a ukulele as we walk downstairs before her sound check. “I always have a little stringed instrument,” she said. “When I’m writing, I noodle around on this to figure out what melodies I want to use. So that’s important. And this captain’s hat. I wear it in the van, even when I’m not driving. I just love the look.” Before creating her own music, Ryan wrote on tracks for pop artist Bea Miller and rapper Skizzy Mars. Her solo career began when she rocked the Internet by releasing a mashup of R. Kelly’s “Ignition” and Miguel’s “Do You ...” on her Soundcloud in January. “(The mashup) kind of happened organically,” Ryan said. “I was experimenting with my producer, listening to what music I had listened to lately and we were like, ‘Why don’t we try this over this with this track and see what happens.’ It was really random.” It was a random track that went on to garner hundreds of thousands of plays. Later that month she released her first original song, “Mine,” followed by her debut EP of the same name in June. Since then, she’s been touring consistently: opening for Smallpools currently, Say Lou Lou last month and sets at Bonnaroo and Firefly over the summer. After Smallpools’s American Love tour concludes in December, she will be headed back to Los Angeles to work on her full-length album. “There’s already enough songs for a record. We have amazing songs done, but now we are trying to beat everything. We keep writing and writing to get the most songs to pick from and have them be the best of the best,” Ryan said. “It’s going to be a spring album, definitely. It’s a really fun record.” Even on tour, Ryan is constantly writing for the new record. “I have to write every single day, even if it’s just on a notepad, not a full song,” she said as she strummed on her ukulele. “I’ve got to keep my muscle memory going. I consider that part of the process because you have a creative muscle, and you’ve got to exercise it every day.” Her songs are personal, often drawing from the relationships in life: with people, herself and the world. “Mine” has been

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Ryan broke through with a mashup of “Ignition” and “Do You” by Miguel.

featured on MTV, topped the Radio Disney charts and came second on Taylor Swift’s “New Songs That Will Make Your Life More Awesome” list that she posted on Instagram three weeks ago. While she doesn’t have a TV, she watches online when she knows one of her songs will be playing. “It’s so weird seeing your songs on TV and knowing other people are watching. It feels so different. When it’s on the radio it’s just a song people are listening to, but when it’s worked into a script it changes it somehow, in a good way,” Ryan said. And as far as her shout out from arguably pop music’s most visible artist, Ryan discovered it at the same time as millions of other fans. “That was a complete surprise to me,” she said noticeably excited. “It was like Christmas. I was so honored.” Before living in L.A., Ryan grew up in New Jersey by the shore with her parents and older brother, to whom she accredits some of her musical career. As a child she took piano lessons while her brother learned to play the guitar. Ryan would borrow her brother’s guitar and teach herself how to play whenever he wasn’t home. “(Growing up) I was like, ‘I wanna play guitar. Why am I at the stupid piano? I want to play a freakin’ rock ‘n’ roll instrument,’ ” she said. “Just being jealous of him made me get into music.” But her musical education didn’t stop at stealing her brother’s guitar. She went on to study production and engineering at New York University’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts (other alumni include Lady Gaga, Woody Allen and Angelina Jolie). Ryan graduated two years ago, and left college eager to take on the music industry. “(My time at NYU) was awesome — it was really rad. It was hard because I saw all my friends with careers happening and granted they were a few years older than me, but I was

just like, ‘I need to be where they are right now.’ I was very impatient, but I ended up sticking it out and I think it was word it,” she said. “My parents are happy,” she added with a chuckle. Ryan’s American Love tour made a stop at Webster Hall in Manhattan’s east side this month. Growing up in the city, Ryan was just around the corner from Webster Hall, making the show one of Ryan’s favorites. “The first year I was there I lived right next door. I used to go there for shows all the time and I (knew) someday, I’m going to be on that stage and there’s going to be a really big audience and it’s gonna rule and it happened and I was in shock the whole time. It was insane,” she said. But that doesn’t mean she’s done taking on the city yet. Ryan has a few venues in her mind that she hasn’t gotten to quite yet. None by name, but she offered her praise to fellow up-andcomer Halsey, who recently announced a show at Madison Square Garden. Natural and confident on stage, it’s clear that Phoebe Ryan will soon be in the arena game. Her live show is as polished as her studio sound and she’s only got more to come. Seeing her about four months after Bonnaroo, her performance is more cohesive with her band and backup vocals, leaving her set with an enviable smoothness and she has deftly balanced performing and crowd interaction early in her career. Songwriting wise, she has songs already placed with artists, her favorites yet to come and her upcoming LP is sure to make a splash in pop music’s 2016 Spring season. “I’ve been waking up for the past five years saying, ‘This is gonna happen, be an artist and kill it.’ Or at least I’m gonna try. I’ve been in that mindset for a really long time and I think that’s what makes me crazy enough to even attempt it,” Ryan said. “I’m so proud all the time, and truly the best is yet to come.”

MUSIC VIDEO REVIEW I stand by my accurate, private and irrelevant theory that a college student in her final year of studies can draw an A immediate comparison of Sorry her collected Justin Bieber experiences and growth to that of the rambunctious Justin Bieber. I’m speaking to you especially, Class of 2016, who has aged with the beloved Mr. Biebs. Remember when you were lying on the bathroom floor of Markley at 3 a.m., just moments after vomiting? Bieber was, concurrently, performing some comparably dumb scenario, like pissing publicly in some backstage mop bucket. From there, the size and breadth of the mistakes and successes made by both parties only grew. You failed however many tests (hopefully not that many) and Bieber collected ticket after ticket on that lovely yellow Lamborghini. Together the Class of 2016 and Bieber have drank too much and, subsequently, made some fairly wretched decisions. They were never life altering, but for both parties, they came pretty close. We’ve been with him through it all: from the pre-

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pubescent, floppy haired, Ludacris-laced days of “Baby” to the excessively popular “Deport Bieber” petitions to the matured post-Selena Bieber. Modern Bieber, still undeniably sexy and vaguely feminine, positioned himself as a pop star with enough taste and humility to place two New Zealand dance crews, ReQuest and Royal Family Mega Crew, in the dance video for his most recent single, “Sorry.” Clothed in fluorescents reminiscent of some deliciously trippy ’80s explosion, New Zealand’s finest dancers present sets of mesmerizing choreography that lets no

bodacious body go unnoticed. Perfectly on par to every single one of the song’s heavy bass beats, the dancers keep all eyes glued to the screen. Polka-dotted, spectacled, red-lipped and monochromatically dressed, each of the dancers is uniquely dressed in what will surely become someone’s last minute Halloween costume. Bieber’s decision to remove his physical self from the “Sorry” dance video is some sort of calculated brilliance. Not only does he appear less eager to the public, but his music now assumes a versatility that transcends his previous work. - AMELIA ZAK

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Passionate, precise Tenebrae choir in A2 By COSMO PAPPAS Daily Arts Writer

During Holy Week before Easter Sunday, Tenebrae is a ceremony in Catholic and several Protestant liturgies in which cer- Tenebrae emonial candles St. Francis of are gradually Assisi Church extinguished on Friday Oct. Good Friday to 30 at 8 p.m. symbolize the death of Christ. $30 GA For Nigel Short, $40 Reserved English choir singer and

director, the memories of church ritual and music as a young choir boy inspire a singing career that has spanned decades. Short retired from singing in 2001 to found the world-renowned choir, Tenebrae, who will appear at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Ann Arbor through University Musical Society. “I started the choir in 2001, mainly because I have adored choral singing and choral music since the age of seven,” Short said in a phone interview with The Michigan Daily. “I started singing in my local church choir. I was completely mesmerized by

everything about it. I just turned up at the medieval church, and I heard these boys singing and it went into my soul.” Tenebrae is a virtuoso choir of about 20 singers whose repertoire spans five centuries. From the 16th to the 21st century, from sacred music to secular, Tenebrae’s mission is to bring music of universally beautiful and accessible music to audiences under the watchwords: “Passion & Precision.” Joining their musical rigor with movement and light, Tenebrae thoughtfully elaborates on their music with a kind of theatri-

cality that alerts audience members to the concert space and its acoustics, and discourages a static divide between performance and audience. This decision provides audiences with a “fresh perspective” on liturgical music and early music. “As a choir boy, my favorite services were the ones where we would sing by candlelight and we would move around,” Short said. But where movement or light could detract from the group’s precision, Short opts against it. “It has to be pretty sensitive and very effective,” he said. Short explained his inspiration to incorporate light and movement comes from his appreciation of those elements in his choir activity as a young person in a “medieval church.” In Tenebrae, you have an evocation of a likely old, monastic practice of integrating movement and light that disrupts conventions and expectations. Through their secularized appeal to Christian ritual,

The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Tenebrae’s “fresh perspective” crafts an image of monastic rigor and intimacy for audiences who might not necessarily have any religious experience.

Tenebrae’s music spans the sacred and the secular. For Short, the “passion” is inseparable from the “precision” even at the level of program curation. While some programs will be organized around a theme, Short mainly arranges them according to the degree of focus necessary, with concerts culminating in the most virtuosic pieces. “We kind of try to get our-

selves into a zone, if you like, in terms of concentration and focus. And we try to take the audience with us,” Short said. “Within that sequence, there can be anything. There can be secular music, it can be very fast, energetic or it can just be beautifully soft, smooth, serene, ethereal, heavenly sounds that people can just lose themselves in and be transported by. The themes can vary hugely.” Tenebrae is a group that believes wholly in music as a transformative force. Presenting their selections with enthusiasm and technical perfection, Tenebrae celebrates music as a universal communion which Ann Arbor audiences will have the opportunity to see later this week. “I don’t think that the aspect of making music accessible to an audience or choosing music that is accessible, or what can be described as accessible,” Short said, “has ever really appeared on my horizon.”