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Ann Arbor resident Cheryl Ervin, center, leads a song as marchers arrive at the Second Baptist Church after walking from the Washtenaw County Courthouse on Sunday. The unity march was part of the church’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day program.
Annual march honors MLK, addresses civil rights issues Community unifies in solidarity to discuss current racial climate By DESIREE CHEW Daily Staff Reporter
About 50 people participated in the Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Unity March on Sunday to honor King’s legacy and bring to light current issues of racial inequality.
The event was jointly organized by the Second Baptist Church of Ann Arbor and First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor. The group, consisting mostly of churchgoers, marched from the Washtenaw County Courthouse to the Second Baptist Church. They waved commemorative banners and sang songs like the “Ballad of Martin Luther King” and “We Shall Overcome.” The event’s organizer Ronald Woods, who serves in the Social Concerns Ministry of the Second Baptist Church, explained that
the march is a yearly tradition held on the second Sunday of January. Its purpose is to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, as well as advocate for issues related to racial inequality and social justice. “This is the 34th MLK Unity March Program,” he said. “It was started in 1983, three years before the holiday was federally approved. The march this year is special because it’s 2016 and it is significant to keep forward motion going on issues of justice and race.” Rev. Desmond Martin, an
associate minister at the Second Baptist Church, emphasized the significance of the issues that were on the agenda of the Civil Rights Movement should continue to be advocated for today. “Unfortunately many of the issues that were relevant when the march first started 34 years ago are still very, very relevant today,” he said. “The battle that was being fought was for the soul of America and that is still very resonant today.” Other Black participants at the See MARCH, Page 3A
Understaffing drives move to increase pay from $9 to $11 By BECCA SOLBERG Daily Staff Reporter
In the entrances of all of the University dining halls, signs read: “$11 per hour. Dining Hall jobs. They’re money.” Starting this semester, the wages for dining hall staff increased from $9 to $11 in order to combat the decrease in student applicants and allow the workers to have more flexible schedules, according to Michigan Dining Director Steve Mangan. The 22 percent wage increase comes after a significant decline in student dining hall employees and applicants. Mangan suggested possible factors contributing to this decline including “changing
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CSG’s Detroit Congress aims to connect city and University Sub-commission aims to increase student awareness of opportunities By EMILY MILLER Daily Staff Reporter
A sub-commission of Central Student Government met on Sunday with representatives from student organizations involved in Detroit to foster discussion about the University’s role in the city. CSG and the sub-commission form the Detroit Congress and aim to prompt connections and conversations between student organizations to raise awareness on campus of opportunities for students in Detroit. The CSG Commission on Detroit Engagement has eight members from CSG who have had experiences with Detroit and are passionate about student involvement within the city,
which could be anything from music to entrepreneurship. LSA sophomore Dylan Bennett, co-chair of the CSG Commission on Detroit Engagement, emphasized the importance of student involvement in fostering a strong connection with Detroit. “We can’t have a true relationship with Detroit if we can’t get our students there,” he said. The meeting opened with a discussion of the individual groups, their involvement with Detroit and their goals as organizations. The student organizations that attended included Detroit Partnership, Detroit Revitalization and Business Initiative, JDs in the D and Seven Mile Music. A discussion followed about the needs and opportunities each organization provides to the others. LSA senior Alyssa Setting is a representative from Detroit Partnership, a studentrun organization that encourages See DETROIT, Page 3A
demographics, higher incomes for many of our students and more jobs available in town and campus” as explanations for the drop in employment and consistent dining hall understaffing. According to the Office of Budget and Planning the number of first-year, in-state students with parents’ incomes above $150,000 has decreased from 54 percent to 49 percent, however for out-of-state freshman the number increased from 68 percent to 76 percent. In an interview with the Daily in 2014, E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, said the University’s difficulty finding students to fill campus jobs could be associated with higher-than-average family incomes. School of Education junior Andrew Campbell, a Markley dining employee, said understaffing has been a problem in his experience working at the dining hall prior See WAGES, Page 3A
Protesters file lawsuit in district court against A2 deer cull Plaintiffs argue the current program is public safety risk for residents
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Senior Brent Petway celebrates as the buzzer sounds in Michigan’s tense win over Indiana.
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Michigan legislature lags in sexual assault policy
Across the nation, sharp uptick in bills aimed at curbing the issue By CAITLIN REEDY Daily Staff Reporter
According to a new study done by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the number
of states that considered legislation addressing sexual assault on campus in 2015 rose significantly compared in past years. 26 states considered legislation that addresses sexual assaults on campus in 2015, compared to six states the previous year. Occurrences of sexual assault on college campuses are far from rare: in a Sept. 2015survey conducted by the Association of American Universities,
23.1 percent of female college students reported they had experienced unwanted sexual contact during their college years, whether it be kissing, touching or unwanted penetrative sex. AAU, an association made up of leading public and private universities, is primarily focused on higher education and the research agenda. But two years ago in response to the growing conversation See POLICY, Page 3A
By BRIAN KUANG Daily Staff Reporter
Ann Arbor’s deer cull, which aims to manage the city’s growing deer population by killing a portion of it, may be stopped in its tracks by new legal action against the city. On Friday, plaintiffs of the Sanzotta v. The City of Ann Arbor court case filed a temporary restraining order application against the City of Ann Arbor in the United States District Court in Detroit. The motion attempts to cease all action toward the deer cull, which could begin as early as Jan. 1. The court will hear See CULL, Page 2A
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Kinesiology senior Capri-Nada Kendall speaks during the talent portion of the competition of the Miss Phi Beta Sigma Scholarship Pageantin the Union Ballroom Friday. She tells the story of her grandmother’s battle with domestic abuse.
Lawyers from both Eastern Michigan University and Central Michigan University said they would consider joining the University in a union lawsuit claiming the Hutchinson Act in its then-newly amended form violated Michigan’s state constitution. The Hutchinson Act was amended in 1965 and would have allowed public employees, including public university faculty, to be represented by a collective bargaining unit. The amendment would have allowed the state legislature to involve itself in what were considered internally resolved University issues.
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Yoga club registration
Resume workshop
WHAT: Michigan Yoga Club will open its registration today with food and networking opportunities. WHO: Michigan Yoga Club WHEN: 5:10 p.m. to 6:40 p.m. WHERE: Aum Yoga, 1220 S. University Ave.
WHAT: The Career Center will conduct a workshop on how to write an outstanding resume. WHO: The Career Center WHEN: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Student Activities Building, The Career Center, Program Room 3003
Ross networking event
WHAT: Apex Consulting Group will hold an info session about consulting and entrepreneurship. WHO: Apex Consulting Group WHEN: 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Ross School of Business
Data mining lecture
WHAT: Professor Matthew Jones from Columbia University will give a public lecture on Knowledge Discovery in Databases. WHO: Science, Technology and Society WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: 1014 Tisch Hall
Work-life Royal Philharmonic balance workshop Orchestra WHAT: Dr. Jacqueline WHAT: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra concert will feature Pinchas Zukerman, principal guest conductor and soloist. WHO: University Musical Society WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. WHERE: Hill Auditorium
Bowman, an expert in tertiary education, will teach participants how to achieve their educational goals. WHO: Center for the Education of Women WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Center for the Eduation of Women, large conference room
The University claimed the state legislature had neither the right to have general supervision of the University nor the ability to control its funds, EMU and CMU,sought the same autonomy the University did. Then-University President Harlan Hatcher offered no comment, but upper-level staff members and officials said they welcomed both EMU and CMU as co-litigants. The Board of Regents chose to defer any official recognition of any union representing EMU employees until the constitutional status of the bill had been deter-
Migration exhibit
WHAT: Jason De Leon’s Undocumented Migration project will feature as a pop-up exhibition of original photographs taken by Michael Wells. WHO: Institute for the Humanities WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: 202 S. Thayer, Osetrman Common Room
Bonderman fellowship info session
WHAT: CGIS will conduct an info session for the Bonderman Fellowship, a travel fellowhip for graduating LSA seniors. WHO: Center for Global and Intercultural Study WHEN: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union, Pond Room
mined. While EMU Attorney James Tracy said he would move to join EMU’s suit with the University’s, CMU officials had been in contact with University attorneys were preparing pleadings to join their suit as well. Two Washtenaw County unions also petitioned the court to allow their lawyers to intervene in the hearing in defense of Public Act 379. By the time of these events, the University had already filed its independent lawsuit against the amended form of the Hutchinson Act, asking it be declared unconstitutional. — BRANDON SUMMERS-MILLER
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The United States flew a B-52 bomber over South Korea, NBC News reported. This was a few days after North Korea claimed to have conducted a hydrogen bomb test. This flight was cited as a symbol of solidarity with South Korea.
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The Michigan women’s basketball team won its second consecutive game, beating Minnesota, 93-86, on Sunday to move to 2-2 in Big Ten play. >>SEE SPORTS MONDAY ON 1B
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Five rape suspects are still on the loose in New York, New York Daily News reported. An 18-year-old woman was raped by the group of five men in a playground in Brooklyn. The suspects reportedly took out a gun before raping her.
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A 2 City Council unanimously passes Ackerman’s resolution Councilmember’s first proposal aims to collect funding for fire protection By MARLEE BREAKSTONE Daily Staff Reporter
For the first time in seven years, Ann Arbor’s mayor and City Council are slated to get a raise. The increase, proposed by the city’s Local Officers’ Compensation Commission, amounts to about a 1 percent bump in each official’s respective salaries — a monthly increase of $35 for Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor and a $13 monthly increase for all 10 City Council members. The LOCC, a seven-member body appointed by the mayor and council, suggested the increase in a memo before Monday’s City
Council meeting. The change will automatically take effect 30 days after LOCC’s memo, unless two-thirds of city council members vote in objection. The memo proposed that annual pay for Mayor Christopher Taylor be raised to $42,860. Additionally, it recommended that the annual pay for council members be adjusted to $16,073. Currently, Taylor makes $42,436 and City Council members make $15,913.50 annually. Though the city’s charter states that members of Council — with the exception of the mayor — should serve without compensation, state law allows cities to establish an LOCC, which can then supersede salary provisions in city charters. Under the state law, these changes do not require voter approval, unlike changes to the city charter. If the raise goes into effect, the mayor and councilmembers’ salaries will collectively total
$203,587 for each of the next two years, a $2,000 overall increase compared to previous years. City Council members gave no indication that they objected the proposed change in compensation at Monday’s meeting. “This pay raise is just one more cup of coffee at one more meeting,” said City Councilmember Sabra Briere (D-Ward 1). “It’s not a big deal.” Taylor, who nominated a majority of LOCC’s current appointees, said he was willing to accept whatever determination the commission made, whether that was an increase or decrease in pay. In an interview Wednesday, Briere said the LOCC did not disclose to City Council members the criteria used to determine the 1 percent pay raise. She added that the body had asked councilmembers to report how much time they spent doing their jobs prior to meeting in December. The LOCC meets every two years to discuss pay changes. Briere said that this was the first time she had ever been asked to explain how much time she spent working for the community, and that she had
CULL From Page 1A arguments from legal representatives of the plaintiffs, city and U.S. Department of Agriculture — the department’s Wildlife Services is conducting the cull —Monday. Should the court rule in favor of the plaintiffs and grant a preliminary injunction — a legally binding court order granted before the resolution of a lawsuit — the City of Ann Arbor would be forced to halt the cull until the lawsuit is resolved, even if the suit goes to trial. To achieve this, the plaintiffs will have to prove to the presiding judge they are likely to
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City Councilmember Zachary Ackerman (D-Ward 4) listens to a public speaker at an Ann Arbor City Council on December 7, 2015.
reported working about 30 hours weekly and about 90 to 110 hours monthly. “Honestly, I didn’t feel I was being underpaid,” Briere said. “I’m not in this for the money. The money is convenient, especially at this point in my life, but I didn’t run for office expecting to make money. I ran for office expecting to work.” City Councilmember Zachary Ackerman (D-Ward 4) echoed Briere’s sentiment about the
increases. “I don’t think any of us are in it for the money,” Ackerman said. “We’re all in it to serve the community. I know I certainly am.” Pay increases for the mayor were more common in past years, which saw the mayor’s salary rise from $18,300 for thenmayor John Hieftje in 2000 to its current level of $42,436 in 2009. Yearly pay for councilmembers saw a similar trend, rising from $9,200 in 1997 to its cur-
rently level of $15,913.50 in 2009. The rest of the city’s employees have also seen increases, ranging from between 1-3 percent in the past four years. Before that, from 2009 to 2012, most city employees saw little to no pay increases as the city experienced budget challenges. Some voluntarily accepted decreases in pay in order to help close budget gaps, such as the Ann Arbor firefighters, who experienced a 3 percent pay decrease in 2010.
win if the case goes forward. The lawsuit claims the deer cull will create a public safety hazard and sidesteps state laws that prohibit hunters from carrying silenced weapons, which the USDA shooters hired to carry out the cull will be carrying. The Ann Arbor City Government website outlines the deer management program and asserts measures have been taken to manage safety concerns. “The deer cull will be performed by highly experienced USDA sharpshooters who are specially trained to conduct culls in urban settings with precision, accuracy and safety as top priorities,” the city website states. “(The cull) will not
include allowing the discharge of firearms by hunters, residents or visitors at any time within city limits.” Barry Powers, the attorney representing the plaintiffs in the case, said in an interview he was confident the Ann Arbor administration lacks legal grounds to conduct the cull and that he would be able to achieve a favorable ruling on Monday. “If the city had a position that would have been formidable, they would’ve brought it out by now,” said Powers. “We don’t believe the city has a good precedent to support what it hopes to do.” Powers said the lack of a preliminary injunction against the cull would be more damaging
than if one were to be granted because the consequences of the former would be irreversible. “The government doesn’t stand to lose too much (if the preliminary injunction is granted),” Powers said, “whereas if the status quo isn’t frozen, then the plaintiffs will be severely injured because they will have lost peace and lost the right to not have wildlife killed in their backyard.” Stephen Postema, Ann Arbor City Attorney, was unavailable for comment Sunday. In an interview with the Ann Arbor News on Saturday, Postema maintained his belief of the the cull was legal and said the city will mount legal arguments in court on Monday.
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Teacher “sickout” threatens to close one-third of Detroit public schools Detroit Public Schools teachers plan to stragically close at least 35 schools with a “sickout” today. The sickout was coordinated by a group of teachers calling themselves “Detroit Strikes to Win.” The group spent more than 90 minutes discussing potential strikes last Saunday before settling on the sickout. Former teacher union president Steve Conn leads the group and other members of the group are upset with what they believe is the devastation of the Detroit Public Schools system. Detroit Public Schools teachers are dissatisfied with their compensation and the school district’s poor finances, and today’s planned sickout is only one of several. Just last week, Cass Tech High School closed because of a strategic sickout, also planned by Conn. Gov. Snyder wishes to pay off the school system’s debt and spin off a new district, but currently lacks the support to do so. According to Conn, it is believed that at least 35 schools in the district will be succsessfully closed because of the strategic, collective sick day. Approximately one-third of DPS’s schools would be closed should the 35 targeted schools fail to open today.
$1.3 billion Powerball jackpot causes frenzy As the Powerball jackpot continues to approach world record status, a growing number of people are purchasing tickets for a chance at the current largest prize in the world. Estimates expect the prize to grow to $1.3 billion by Wednesday night’s drawing. According to Executive Director of the Texas Lottery, Gary Grief, on Saturday night more than $1.2 million worth of Powerball tickets were being purchased each minute. The current expected prize is twice as large as the previous national lottery record — $656 million in 2012’s Mega Millions jackpot. Last October, Powerball officials adjusted the lottery’s matrix, making it more difficult to win the grand prize. While the previous chance of winning the big payout was one in 175 million, it is now one in 292 million. However, the chances of winning anything at all rose from one in 32 to one in 25. The recent chaos signals a turnaround for the lotto industry after recent declines in sales due to competition from casinos and scratch-off games.
Award-winning Polish Jews museum curator to speak at UMMA Barbara KirshenblattGimblett, chief curator of the core exhibition at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will speak this Wednesday at 5:30 at the U-M Museum of Art’s Stern Auditorium. Traveling from the museum in Warsaw, Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will be offering a free lecture on the history of Polish Jews and what was once the largest Jewish community in the world. Kirschenblatt-Gimblett is a leading expert in her field, having authored several books, including a photographic history of Jewish life in Poland from the mid 19th century up until Nazi Germany’s invasion in 1939. Her lecture is sposored by the University’s Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and the Copernicus Program in Polish Studies. The POLIN museum sits on the former Warsaw Jewish ghetto, and has attracted over one million visitors since its opening in 2013. KirshenblattGimblett was recently honored with a medal from the president of Poland for her role in the creation of POLIN.
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LSA junior Joanna Leung, president of Seven Mile Music, speaks about the funding issues her organization faces at a Detroit Congress meeting in the Union on Sunday. The congress brought together student organizations that focus on Detroit and was hosted by CSG’s Detroit Commission.
DETROIT From Page 1A community service in Detroit communities. She encouraged organizations to participate in their DP Day, an annual service program in Detroit. MBA student Steve Worthy said the main opportunity his group, Detroit Revitalization and Business Initiative, offers is the connections with the people with whom his group has interacted. The group works with entrepreneurs in the Detroit area in order to foster long-term relationships. “The biggest thing my group can offer is those connections to the city both professional and personal,” he said. Transportation between Detroit and Ann Arbor was one of the major issues discussed.
POLICY From Page 1A surrounding sexual assault on college campuses, they decided to gather hard data on the subject. Mollie Benz-Flounlacker, AAU’s associate vice president for federal relations, said the climate survey was an important first step. “It put a lot of pressure on schools to do more and to do it better and faster. Because if you don’t have hard facts there isn’t much you can do.,” BenzFlounlacker said. “We feel very good about this first step and giving our campuses some real data on this issue.” The state of Michigan and the University are no exception to these significant numbers — about 30 percent of undergraduate women at the University reportedexperiencing nonconsensual penetration or sexual touching by force or incapacitation during their time at the University. However, while the issue of sexual assault on college campuses has captured the attention of both federal and many state governments, who have taken action to combat sexual assaults on campus, in the state of Michigan, the formation of sexual assault policy is left up to individual universities. Nationally, legislation requiring affirmative consent by both parties was considered by 13 states and ultimately passed in two. Six states discussed noting incidences of sexual assault on the perpetrators transcript and three states created legislation to have it noted under certain circumstances. Additionally, seven states enacted legislation to ensure victims have access to medical assistance — such as to Sexual Assault Forensic Examination kits — free to them on college campuses. Other legislation included mandatory Memorandum of Understanding which explain the roles of municipal governments and university administrations in the case of a sexual assault, requiring confidential advisors for students on campuses, mandatory periodic campus climate surveys, discussion of “Good Samaritan” provisions offering drug and alcohol amnesty to witnesses who report a sexual assault, and
LSA junior Joanna Leung of Seven Mile Music expressed concern over funding for the vans that transport students to Detroit communities twice a week to provide musical instruction to young students. “We need a lot of funding on a consistent basis,” she said. “It’s hard to put on paper, especially when the application is asking for a one-time event.” CSG discussed the Detroit Connector as a possible solution for financial issues associated with travel. The Detroit Connector is a bus providing transportation between Ann Arbor and Detroit. They plan to make students more aware of the Detroit Connector and to work with the provost’s office to make the bus schedule and stops more convenient and efficient for individual students and student organizations.
consideration of mandatory minimum punishments for perpetrators. Michigan did not present any state laws regarding the above topics in recent years, and policies at individual universities vary. However, a $500,000 appropriation was approved by the state legislature last year for projects addressing the issue. The appropriation, which universities across the state applied to in a competitive process, aimed to encourage students and school officials to work together to prevent sexual assault on their campuses through new initiatives. At the University itself, the current policy on sexual misconduct has been in place since August 2013, though discussions about revisions to it are ongoing. The policy aims to explain how the University will handle student sexual misconduct, maintain their institutional values and meet legal obligations that fall under Title IX. Title IX is part of the Education Amendments adopted in 1972. It states that “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance…” which includes sexual misconduct as a form of sexual discrimination. The University is among 124 higher education institutions currently under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for mishandling sexual assault cases, prompted by two Title IX complaints, one of which involved a 2009 sexual misconduct case against former Michigan football kicker Brendan Gibbons. LSA senior Nico Espinosa, a peer educator at the University’s Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Center, which is helping lead the revision process, said the organization is currently in the process of altering various parts of the policy. In particular, he said changes being made include changing some definitions and adding in more language to the policy, such as the definition of consent. The University currently defines consent as an agreement expressed in either words or actions to engage in a particular activity.
The meeting ended with a discussion of a question concerning Detroit, a format Rohin Patel, chair of the Commission on Detroit Engagement, wishes to continue in order to continue [COPY: use different word since “continue” is used twice in a row] conversation about the city. During this meeting he asked why students may be disinclined to travel to Detroit. Setting offered an answer regarding this inquiry by addressing what she thinks are untrue assumptions about Detroit. “One of the biggest things that’s either straining the relationship with Detroit or limiting it is a lack of factual knowledge,” she said. “People, especially from out of state, hear a lot of things about Detroit that aren’t necessarily true.”
“The previous policy didn’t enforce the verbal component as much as we did at SAPAC and we would like to include it because it came up in certain cases,” Espinosa said. Overall, with the influx of data on campus sexual assaults, including AAU’s survey, BenzFlounlacker said — as signalled by the rise in legislatures tackling the issue — policy changes are likely on the horizon. “There is already a lot of national discussion about this issue. There needs to be more attention to this issue because this is a major problem on campuses,” Benz-Flounlacker said.
march, who came out despite the cold and fresh snow, shared similar sentiments. Cheryl Ervin, a retired teacher and union leader, has not missed a march since she moved here. “This is a good way to show that you strongly believe in what you do and you get out on days like this and march for it,” she said. Ervin said her involvement in the civil rights movement began in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. “I knew what it meant to be segregated and not to have,” she said. “So I always want to make sure everybody has. Everybody gets a share of the things that are out here, not just a few. It’s just like that saying, ‘a rising tide lifts all boats.’ ” The need to engage youth in advocacy and social justice was reinforced by Dr. Steven J. Daniels Sr., the new pastor of the Second Baptist Church. Having arrived here from Virginia just nine months earlier, Daniels attended the march for the first time and brought his family along. “When I tell my 9-yearold son about MLK’s fight for equality, it is kind of hard — looking at the Ann Arbor we live in now, when you see classrooms filled with African American, Caucasian, Asian, Latino brothers and sisters — for him to see them in class and
realize that there was a time where he had to be with his own race and own culture,” he said. He additionally stressed the need to preserve the history of struggle in the younger generations. “The diversity that we experience especially in the public school system has been incredible,” he added. “But it is important for my son to realize that this comes on the backs of others. This is not a birthright, but this is something that was earned and we’ve got to appreciate it.” Stephon Smith, a 17-year-old who serves as the drummer on the church worship team, readily assumed responsibility to carry on the work that Martin Luther King Jr. started. “He inspires me to stand up for what’s right and stand firm for my beliefs, no matter who thinks they are stupid or don’t care,” Smith said. The march was not exclusively attended by the Black community. Other members of the congregation turned up to walk in solidarity with the cause. Cindy O’Connor, a first-time attendee of the march, said she was compelled to come by recent events. “Because of Black Lives Matter, the issue of race inequality has been so prevalent,” she said. “It has become unconscionable and I can’t take it anymore. So I wanted to make a physical statement.”
Do you know who Adam Zemke is? Can you name what position Chris Taylor holds? Join the Michigan Daily’s news section. Come to 420 Maynard at 7pm Jan. 13, 19 or 21 WAGE From Page 1A to the announcement of the wage increase. Campbell said especially in a such a populated building like Markley, when the dining hall got busy and they were short staffed, they had to close sections of food and “not serve certain dishes, or make just pizza because we just didn’t have enough people.” Students have already responded to the long-needed wage increase — last week alone, University dining had
already hired close to 200 new students. LSA freshman Julia Bublitz, also a Markley dining employee, described a similar experience working in what she believed was an understaffed dining hall. Campbell said fellow employees were very happy with the University’s decision to increase wages. “People are thrilled,” he said. “It’s really nice to go to from $9 to $11. I think we are all really grateful and really appreciate it.”
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Balancing passion and sanity
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ince I was a naive middle-schooler, eager to obtain any sliver of information that would aid me in the competitive college admissions process, I have KAELA been told finding a passion THEUT is the key to standing out — in both life and through an application. I was also told it especially helps when one is particularly good at whatever passion he or she pursues — whether it be mastering the piano, becoming fluent in Portuguese or receiving a scholarship to play collegiate-level basketball. At first, as most awkward and self-conscious eighth graders are, I felt lost and like I had nothing I particularly cared about or was talented at. I loved to write, but after having fallen in with the “popular and sporty” crowd (mind you, this was self-designated), I felt like I could no longer explore that aspect of myself. I mentally packed up my well-worn notebooks and remnants of poems and shoved them far into the back realms of my mind to make room for “new passions,” or rather, pursuits that I deemed more exciting and cool. Throughout middle school I had run cross country for social reasons, but as I entered high school, I realized I had some natural talent, and decided I wanted to take my training to the next level. After I started winning races and setting personal records every other week, I quickly, along with my family and friends, began to identify myself as “the runner.” I was the one who ate extremely healthily, always left parties early so I could get a good amount of sleep and could be seen running through town at all hours of the day. Though on the outside it looked like I was achieving all of my goals, I was actually spiraling deeper and deeper into unhealthy behaviors. As I progressed through high school, my eating habits became borderline disordered, I would lash out or become extremely irritated if an event occurred that disrupted my workout schedule and I began to stray from any interesting activities that disrupted my running. After my debate team won the state championship, I went as far as to skip the celebration afterward so that I could get a second run in that day. Running consumed my life to the point that there was room for absolutely nothing else. Sadly, life has a funny way of working itself out, and at the height of my obsession, I developed a stress reaction in my femur and was forced to stop the very “passion” that fueled my daily routine. Injuries are saddening to anyone, but because I had chosen to so closely tie my entire identity to being a runner, I no longer knew who I was anymore. I cried for days, withdrew from my friends, and lashed out at all of my family members. Eventually my bones healed, but it took me yet another injury — during my last season of cross coun-
try — to realize I needed to change the way I was living my life. Though injuries took a lot away from my high school running experience, I’ve been so lucky to have the opportunity to run cross country and track for the University of Michigan. However, instead of continuing down my previous path of single-minded obsession, I have been much more comfortable with attempting the so sought-after concept of finding “balance”. I’ve finally realized that academics are, indeed, much more important than athletics, and I am not afraid to run a workout on a few hours of sleep in order to complete an assignment or feel confident walking into a test the next morning. There are so many interesting clubs I want to join and people I want to meet. Luckily, I am only a freshman and still have an entire collegiate career ahead of me. Yes, I am a runner, but I have realized that is only a small aspect of my complete persona. I am so much happier and healthier, and actually running faster than ever before. Obviously, running is the example that is most pertinent to me, but this pitfall of pigeonholing oneself into one particular role can happen to anyone. I have friends who see themselves as “the artist,” “the musician” or “the partier” — and not much else. Passions are important and a major part of what makes life so unique, yet your singular passion (or what you do to look good on an application) does not define you. Human beings have a multitude of interests that should be explored, redefined and uncovered as they grow and change. In recent years, we seem to have settled into the dangerous thought pattern that it is important to be “really, really good” at one thing, rather than talented in a wide variety of areas. But when that one thing does not work out, we are left feeling like we are nothing at all. College is the perfect time to explore all of these interests, especially in a community as large and diverse as the University of Michigan. The new year is the perfect time to take a step back, slow down and explore some of the interests and opportunities you thought you didn’t have time for while you were too busy being an athlete, business major or member of Greek life. Continue to grow and succeed and fail and experience all of the infinitesimal, wonderful and tragic moments that combine to make one’s college experience. We have the freedom to follow an infinite number of paths, and not get bogged down by others’ (or even our own) expectations of us. This was a concept that took me two broken bones to realize. In the words of writer Thomas Merton, “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
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We need affirmative action
f you’re white and you’re against affirmative action because you think it’s “racist,” I have news for you: This is ALI perpetuating SCHALOP a system that privileges white people. And white privilege is a product of racism. Have you ever thought, “This is unfair! Why should minority students have an advantage over me in the college process?” Guess what, you have an advantage over them in almost any other area of life. Harvard sociology professor Devah Pager conducted a 2007 study that observed how race and incarceration affect the economy on a large scale for her book titled “Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration.” She found that a white man who just left prison is equally as likely to get hired as a Black man with no criminal record. Do you think that seems fair? At the University, I have sat in many a classroom marked by homogeneity with a white majority. According the University’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion site, University President Mark Schlissel has a plan to combat this issue. This plan involves teachins, talks and guest speakers. To be honest, I am skeptical this will promote any true progress. The reality is, to achieve true inclusion, we must start by increasing the diversity of our student body’s racial and cultural makeup. The University needs affirmative action. Last April, the Supreme Court upheld a Michigan law that made considering race in the admissions process illegal for public universities. This decision focused on the constitutionality of the issue. The associate justices wrote more than 100 pages of opinion on this difficult decision. This is a sensitive issue, and the justices displayed a wide variety of opinions. Justice Sonia Sotomayor famously wrote that she believes affirmative action got her to Princeton and to where
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she is today. Her emotional piece explains the experience of many minority students who are given the opportunity to succeed at a prestigious university. Affirmative action remains illegal in Florida and California as well. Though many want to believe we live in a postracial society in which everyone is seen equally, we do not. So rather than pretending we’ve made such progress, we need to start working toward better inclusion. People of my generation are extremely committed to promoting inclusion and diversity. We have seen this at Mizzou, Yale and many other universities and institutions over the past several months. Many college students feel strongly that it is time for a change and are willing to fight for it. I have seen this initiative for change get brushed over at the University. There were a few student demonstrations, many articles writ-
“If the University wants to achieve a truly diverse student body, we must begin with the admissions process.” ten and a public statement from Schlissel, who talks a lot about improving diversity issues without a lot of progress. The desire is there, but not the action. I stand by and watch as the University desperately reaches for some kind of change, but can’t seem to find it. The problem lies within the makeup of the student body. The Office of the Registrar states that less than 5 percent of the entire student body is Black, and less than 5 percent is Hispanic. Meanwhile, according to the 2014 census, the state of Michigan is 19 percent Black and Latino, and the United States is about 30 percent Black and Latino. Without accurate representation of these minority groups, we will never create the change we so
desperately need. In order for all University students to have an academic experience that involves multiple perspectives and ideas, there should be greater diversity. Let me now address some of your concerns. You might be under the impression that affirmative action makes the college process unfair, as it gives people an advantage just because of their race, something they have no control over. Is it fair that some students get a full scholarship based on their athletic ability? What about having an expensive ACT tutor or going to a private school with smaller and more engaging classes? In-state versus out-of-state? Is any of this fair? Some students may have spent high school focusing on saving up for their tuition rather than focusing on their GPA. Nothing about this process is fair. Some students come from families wealthy enough that the admissions office sees only a dollar sign when they read their application. Why stop at affirmative action? Why stop where an advantage in the process will allow all students to grow by improving the diversity of the student body? None of this is to say that I think that students of color do not have the academic ability or drive to get into prestigious universities on their own. Rather, many are disadvantaged by their life experiences, and deserve a leg up to compensate for earlier obstacles. Students of color often come from families less likely to afford tutors and expensive testing to receive much-needed extra time, among many other disadvantages. Our country has a history of hundreds of years of enslavement, torture and other horrors white Europeans inflicted upon people of color. We cannot even the playing field by pretending it never happened. We must work toward a system of equality and change. If the University of Michigan wants to achieve a truly diverse student body, we must begin with the admissions process. — Ali Schalop can be reached at aschalop@umich.edu.
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The diversity that we experience especially in the public school system has been incredible ... But it is important for my son to realize that this comes on the backs of others. This is not a birthright, but this is something that was earned and we’ve got to appreciate it.” — Dr. Steven J. Daniels Sr., pastor of the Second Baptist Church, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Unity March on Sunday.
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The other gap
et’s talk about the “gap.” No, not the wage gap that has had everyone in a fuss lately — I’m talking about the orgasm gap. Hooking OLIVIA up has become PUENTE increasingly popular among people in our generation, but there’s a major disparity in what each gender is getting out of the deal. Casual sex can be great as long as there is consent; however, when the main goal is the Big O and only one side is experiencing it, we have a problem. Every day, women fight myriad gender biases related to sex: The media portrays them as shrewd — simply tolerant of dicks rather than having real agency — and women who speak openly about enjoying sex are labeled as crude or vulgar, perpetuating the double standard of sluts versus players. Women are casually hooking up, but losing the game. There’s no such thing as being sexually powerful and independent if you don’t demand to finish. When women are hooking up but not climaxing, the double standard is perpetuated. Women become playthings instead of mutual partners in an agreement
for pleasure. How many times have you had your head shoved “down there” or just laid there thinking about that project that’s due Friday? If it seems like women don’t want casual sex, maybe it’s because the kind we’re used to having isn’t cutting it. Why waste time having sex when we can get more pleasure out of a glass of wine and Netflix? “But I’m a sex god and make every girl I’m with scream” … Yeah, ok. Let me just point you to one of my favorite movies. Watch “When Harry Met Sally.” Actually, you don’t even have to watch the whole film — one pivotal
“Women are casually hooking up, but losing the game.”
diner scene gets the point across. Women are good at faking it. Plain and simple. We do it to avoid hurting egos, we do it to end a boring session, we do it all the time and
we’re damn good at it. But this is not anything new — women reading this column know that. The question is: Why don’t men care enough to change the way they act toward us in bed? Men complain and joke about us being prudes and not ever being “in the mood.” Well, the answer to the problem is clear. To all the women out there, why don’t we all just pull a Carrie Bradshaw and start having sex like men — making sure we get what we want then leaving them high and dry? Amy Schumer did it in her movie “Trainwreck.” She made a bro move and just pushed his head down there and fell asleep. But the fact of the matter is if women start hooking up like men, it’s just going to begin a vicious cycle of taking without giving. Nobody is ever going to win this battle for the ultimate prize, so why don’t we all just agree that there is a problem and make moves to fix it. The orgasm gap is a fun one to fill and it doesn’t take much effort. So men, think about that next time you casually hop into bed with someone. And ladies, climaxing is not too much to ask for if you’re going to get naked with someone. — Olivia Puente can be reached at opuente@umich.edu.
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TV REVIEW
FOX tackles racism By SAM ROSENBERG Daily Arts Writer
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Pusha T returns dopely on ‘Dawn’ By SHAYAN SHAFII Daily Arts Writer
Pusha T has been quiet for a very, very long time. In the fall of 2013 he released what was shockingly his first solo Aalbum, My Name Is My Darkest Name, and has given us Before nothing more Dawn: The than a handful of features Prelude since. Where Pusha T seasoned G.O.O.D. Music hip-hop heads were more than familiar with his earlier work with Clipse (dating back to 2002), newer uninformed fans aggregated quickly once he signed to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music imprint in 2010.
He’s old enough to philosophize Black America As Pusha T has grown older since parting ways with Malice, he’s become more noticeably distant from the cokeboy lifestyle that once fueled his raps (“I was really in that Travelodge!!!”). He now does interviews with CNN, rocks Balmain, and quietly enjoys his influential grip on the rap game. Darkest Before Dawn, though not even his proper sophomore LP, is a rare opportunity to hear from the man himself, and he evidently has a lot to say. Darkest Before Dawn plays out a lot like “Scarface,” except without the scene where the police raid his home. He just wins, but it’s not enough. The new King Push seeks justice; he doesn’t want his younger brethren to go through what he went through. For the first time, we hear him rap not from the perspective of a Miami Vice cocaine cowboy, but from that of a 38-year-old label president who’s seen it all. One of the album’s highlights is the album-closer, “Sunshine”. I expected the title to be a simile for the way his SL 500 gleams
in the light or something, but instead we got the most socially conscious and racially-charged song of his career. The beat drops in layers, à la Lil Wayne’s “Let The Beat Build,” except with more subtle releases. There’s the sound of a scream right as Push snarls “These ain’t new problems / They just old ways / I seen one time turn sunshine into Freddie Gray!” By the time synths and drums chime in, he’s already thrown shots at Don Lemon and saluted Chief Keef. The song, overall, is an unexpected turn to close out a Pusha T album, but it shows his age. While a former Clipse manager is still in prison for involvement in a national cocaine ring, Pusha T has grown old enough to philosophize the condition of Black America regarding police brutality and the war on drugs. Even the songs that seem most hedonistic have serious undertones; who would’ve thought that a track titled “M.P.A (Money Pussy Alcohol)” would be less about celebration and more about the potential pitfalls of vices? “M.P.A” stirred a lot of excitement when the tracklist revealed features from A$AP Rocky and Kanye West, but Push’s first line deaded any hopes of a banger: “The three leading killers of you n****s, is the shit that’s most appealing to you n****s.” The Kanye-produced piano loop gives the song a mournful air not too dissimilar to “Blame Game.”
He’s in a totally unique position. But the album isn’t all serious. Tracks like “Crutches, Crosses, Caskets” see Push get back to his ever-so-poetic shit talking. He tiptoes on the beat, throwing shade at everyone in an aggressive whisper. It’s less about making threats and more about addressing the current state of rap from the perspective of a veteran with nothing left to prove: “All I see is victims!” Pusha T is in a totally unique position in the rap game where he has gone from one half of a duo adored exclusively by rap nerds, to a unanimously well-
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respected MC with hardly any solo material. He has one of the finest discographies in rap behind him with Clipse, but only caught the nation’s attention when he was the “dude in the salmon suit” during Kanye’s 2010 VMA performance. He doesn’t really have anything to prove, but he kinda does. In the same vein as much of the best rap music released in 2015, Darkest Before Dawn is delivered with a certain air of charity about it. It’s just something to hold us over until he delivers what will inevitably be another fantastic record: King Push.
Among the few television shows currently on air that talk about race in America, FOX’s new animated series “Bordertown” is one that takes the issue head on. C+ Originally slated to appear Bordertown on FOX’s ani- Pilot mated lineup in 2013, “Border- FOX town” ’s setup Sundays at 9:30 involves two racially diverse families and tackles the “clash between cultures” concept commonly seen in TV comedies with promising but mixed results. From the minds of “Family Guy”’s Mark Hentemann and controversial animator Seth McFarlane, “Bordertown” takes place in the fictitious Mexifornia, which sits on the U.S.-Mexico border. There, we meet the bigoted border patrol officer Bud Buckwald (Hank Azaria, “The Simpsons”), who lives next door to the amiable Ernesto Gonzalez (Nicholas Gonzalez, “Resurrection Blvd”). As established in the show’s manic opening credits, there is a subtle shift in class status, with the Buckwalds residing in a shabby, dull-colored house and the Gonzalezes living in a pleasant, brightly-colored home. In addition to Bud and Ernesto’s supportive wives and dysfunctional families, Bud’s shrill daughter Janice (Alex Borstein, “Family Guy”) and Ernesto’s stuffy, college-educated nephew J.C. (also Gonzalez) are involved in a romantic relationship and
eventually become engaged, causing racial and cultural tensions to ensue between the two families. “Bordertown” is definitely timely, using blunt, dark humor to underscore stinging sociopolitical commentary in the likes of “Family Guy,” “American Dad” and “South Park.” But while the show highlights burgeoning progressive ideals in our society — interracial relationships, immigration laws, cultural assimilation — it tries so hard to replicate the insight found in the aforementioned animated sitcoms that it often misses more than it hits. Because “Bordertown” both embraces and satirizes PC culture, as well as other issues regarding modern America, it has trouble balancing between insensitive jokes and engaging social consciousness. The plot in the show’s pilot episode, “The Engagement,” starts off with potential, but quickly dissolves into a mediocre retread of raunchy animated sitcoms. A new anti-immigration law is introduced and eventually passed, which delights Bud but leads to J.C.’s accidental deportation, despite him being a legal American citizen. With J.C. and Janice’s engagement threatened, Bud and Ernesto seek to retrieve J.C., yet their teamwork doesn’t really incite a friendship between the two. Some bits in the pilot elicit a laugwh or chuckle, though most go for the offensive and tasteless. But for all “Bordertown”’s tiresome aspects, the least developed are the characters, most of whom are (literally) drawn as caricatures of their respective stereotypes. Bud represents a familiarly flawed TV patriarch,
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MUSIC COLUMN
An argument for the greatest song ever “What is this remix of ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun?’ ” I know. The first time I heard it play, I was an idiot. Bright synths and drum machines were blasting ADAM over THEISEN speakers in the Michigan League at a school-sanctioned East Quad social event, and when I tried to figure out this unfamiliar song, my friend gave me this glare she delights in giving me, one that makes me question how I’m even smart enough to dress myself in the morning, before she decided to enlighten my world. “This is Whitney Houston.” I don’t know how I went so far in my life without hearing “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),” but in the year since I’ve heard it, I’ve been converted. I’m ready to say that it’s at least Top 5, if not the greatest song of all time. It may not seem so obvious at first. In fact, you might think this whole column is a joke. I don’t blame you — Whitney Houston’s big hit sounds a little bit derivative, not just of her own work (“How Will I Know”) , but of other iconic ’80s artists like Cyndi Lauper or even Madonna. Its sound, with its funky artificial bassline and perky keyboard fanfares, is the kind of music that defined the whole era, and it’s not your fault if you think of it as just one of many old ’80s hits.
Every time she goes back to the chorus it gets more powerful. But the genius of “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” is how perfectly it combines the best of both ballads and pop hits. Pretty much all of your standard “greatest song of all time” picks have an enormous crescendo — something like “Stairway to Heaven,” “All My Friends” or “Hey Jude.” “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” has that huge build-up, but it
sees no need to start slow. It’s a fiery, irresistible pop song from start to finish. It starts with a mere 10 seconds of warm-up. Someone turns on the drum machines, the bass enters and Houston tests out her voice with a few breathy yeahs. Then, already satisfied, Houston opens the door of our old farmhouse world and reveals her own personal Oz, colored attractively with the best production that money can buy. While every other artist is shooting off Roman candles, “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” is a big city fireworks display. Like the work of idolized queens like Beyoncé or Rihanna today, Houston is entirely unattainable on this song. We can’t sing like her; we can’t get our hands on her producers or songwriters. We have no access whatsoever to the talent she’s working with, but she deigns to let us in by singing about what we’re all feeling.
She sees the truth in her mind and knows it. Then Houston takes us down, just for a moment, in the first verse. Not enough that anybody stops dancing, but she pulls it back just for a little bit. Importantly, there’s never a dull moment in this song, but it still needs an ounce of ebb and flow, lest its listeners burn to a crisp right on the dancefloor. But she quickly lights it up again, giving voice to all our passions as she sings the chorus, overwhelming our bodies and our brains with her search for someone special — “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” And every time she goes back to the chorus it just gets more and more powerful, like Houston finds renewed energy and focus whenever she reminds herself of her goal — “Somebody Who Loves Me.” The key, though, is right after the bridge — that moment of confusion and uncertainty when the roller coaster slows to a crawl as it tips over its highest point. The final chorus hits and it’s one of the most ecstatic highs in the history of pop music. Her voice gets even higher, more frantic,
like Houston’s going to break herself down and collapse on this dance floor as she pushes herself to the finale or else she’s not going to finish the song at all. The music starts to wind down, but the singer’s not done yet. You hear Houston’s gospel roots as she hysterically shouts “Don’t you wanna dance!? Say you wanna dance! Don’t you wanna dance!?” because she sees the truth in her mind and knows it to be undeniably true: all that matters as she performs on this night is finding someone to connect with, someone who truly understands her. “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” is a universal epic that somehow runs under five minutes. It’s a world-shaking, breathtaking display of force, both vocally and emotionally. This song is the greatest because it gives everybody everything that we need, focusing on nothing more than human connections and the love we find through music. If the biggest songs ever peak at a 10 out of 10, “I Wanna Dance” starts at 11 and somehow finds a way to turn it up to 99. Look, I know that from “How Will I Know” to “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” to “Vogue” to “Drunk in Love,” you can draw all sorts of comparisons to this song. It’s not groundbreaking. It doesn’t have the mind-expanding poetry of Dylan or the constant striving for something greater that you hear in Springsteen or the political awareness of Kendrick Lamar, but nine nights out of 10 Whitney Houston still reigns supreme with this single. I’m not trying to diss any of those other artists — they’ve all made complex, world-changing music and frankly, their work as a whole is much more impressive than Houston’s. But “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” so simply cuts to the core of everything that we need as music fans. It’s not the social commentary of political protest, but Houston can see into the hearts of all its listeners, and she uses her voice to immortalize our collective burning passion — we all wanna dance with someone who loves us. Theisen just realized “Ice Ice Baby” and “Under Pressure” are two different songs. To confirm this, email ajtheis@umich.edu.
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The legacy of an icon By DAYTON HARE Daily Arts Writer
Pierre Boulez died last week. I wrote this. Last Tuesday, the French composer and conductor, Pierre Boulez, passed away at the age of 90. In the days since, I have been struggling to figure out what to say about the man — what could I possibly contribute to the conversation among the outpouring of emotion and collective grief expressed by the musical community? What could I, a young and inexperienced composer, have to say about one of the greatest musical minds of the 20th century? Over the past few days obituaries have been printed in most major news outlets across the globe, YouTube comment sections have been filled with sympathetic R.I.P.s and the world’s leading orchestras have resolved to dedicate concerts to Boulez’s memory. Compared to what has already been said by those who knew and loved him, I fear that whatever I can contribute about Boulez will be inadequate — and yet I also feel that I must do my best to express what Boulez meant for me and my respect for the memory of such a legendary figure. I did not grow up listening to
Boulez — not even close — but I distinctly recall the first I heard of him. It was during the summer of 2013, and I was reading a book called “The Rest is Noise” (a title delightfully derived from Prince Hamlet’s dying words) by Alex Ross, The New Yorker’s music critic. The book was recommended to me by my first composition teacher, and I devoured it with an eager enthusiasm that continued to grow the further I read. Ross’s book was a history of 20th century classical music which was both entertaining and filled with well constructed prose — and about three fifths of the way through, in a chapter aptly entitled “Brave New World,” a young and dashing Boulez burst onto the scene. I can’t say that my first impression of Boulez was altogether favorable. I found the take-no-prisoners attitude of the young radical who showed up at Olivier Messiaen’s door in 1944 to be somewhat disconcerting, his extreme aesthetic pronouncements and condemnations of all music he deemed regressive to be off-putting. Given infamous statements such as “[A]ny musician who has not experienced — I do not say understood, but truly experienced — the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS,” I came to con-
sider Boulez to be a bully (a view aided by the misconception that his name was properly pronounced “Bou-lay”), and his sonic creations seemed to me to be abrasive and cacophonous. And yet, I could not help but admire his passion, his single-mindedness of purpose and the purity of his artistic motives. Boulez was an extremely purposeful person, rushing forward into the no-man’s-land of unexplored sonic possibilities and daring others to follow him. And they did — Boulez soon became the leader of the avant-garde, his confidence in the veracity of his aesthetic ideas a comforting beacon of light in the post-war age of anxiety that was born in the looming shadow of the atomic bomb. Boulez’s complex compositions and pointed polemics served him well in his youth, but as he grew as a musician, the tone of his philippics began to soften, and he began to contribute in different ways to the musical discourse. Gradually he began to conduct, becoming known as a director of great skill, notable for his eschewing the use of a baton. Before too long he was in demand as a conductor on both sides of the Atlantic, eventually equally as famous for his conducting as for his compositions. In the 70s he served as music director
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20TH CENTURY FOX
Pew pew pew!
‘Force Awakens’ is a new hope for fans By NOAH COHEN Daily Arts Writer
J. J. Abrams, Disney whispering in his ear, calls Star Wars back from the brink of irrelevance. “The Force Awakens” is respectful to the point B+ of pandering. This fran- Star Wars: chise took a The Force lesson from failure, read Awakens the manual, 20th and followed Century Fox it to a T. We’re not frustrated Quality 16 with the lack of novelty. Rather, we’re all breathing a sigh of relief. Abrams takes us back to the rakish golden era in terms of plot and mood. The Force is with this reboot, if tentatively. The Empire has been struck a grave blow, but threatens revival in the form of The First Order, knockoff Nazis with a bigger, badder Death Star. The Resistance can’t fight back without the last Jedi, but Luke Skywalker is nowhere to be found. Our only clue to finding him is a piece of a map secreted away in another adorably booping droid who’s been abandoned on a remote desert planet to be discovered by a plucky, disenfranchised youth burdened with glorious destiny. The coming years will be a trial of our loyalty, but less frightening than the Christenson-era, given we have such a personable roster of named players. Starting with our fresh faces: Daisy Ridley (“Scrawl”), as Rey, unites the casual, barely-an-actress vibe of Jennifer Lawrence with the selfpossessed screen dominance of Anna Kendrick. She’s Luke, except with verve. Playing off her straightman poise is the comedically out of place John Boyega (“Half of a Yellow Sun”), playing our traitor-
of the New York Philharmonic, an appointment which musical progressives hoped might drag the conservative orchestra into 20th century repertoire. Furthermore, Boulez founded numerous institutions of musical education and research, the most famous of which was the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/ Musique, founded to study the science of music and sound, as well as to facilitate the composition of electroacoustic music. In the intervening time between my reading of “The Rest is Noise” and now, my view of Boulez has gradually become far less harsh. While I still feel that many of his criticisms of other composers and particular aesthetics were unnecessarily scathing, I have come to value his unique contribution to the great debate of ideas in a way that I did not in the past. And while I am still not as well acquainted with his music as I think I should be, I have begun to listen to it much more — what I once found strident and strange I now hear as beautiful, nuanced and interesting (a shift in aesthetic preference which is mirrored by a gradual modernist encroachment into my own music). Part of the reason that my view of Boulez has shifted so much is because I have observed his fingerprints everywhere. I recently became interested in the composer Kaija Saariaho; as a young woman she studied at IRCAM. Two months ago, for this publication, I interviewed the composer Tod Macho-
stormtrooper and beloved knucklehead, Finn. The cherry on top is Oscar Isaac (“Ex Machina”), as Poe, whose brash charisma lays down the framework for Finn and Rey’s friendship, if not the optimistic emotional undercurrent of the entire flick. We ship Poe with everyone. Ridley is the Disney princess of popular demand. Relentlessly competent, Rey rides obstinacy and coincidence to the apex of her galaxy’s needs, sheathed in resplendent plot armor and that ambiguous weather-hardened late youth that screams “violent backstory.” Her plasticity in the uptempo plot is so extraordinary that her character arc feels superficial at times, as though her life were taking the backseat to her heroism. But isn’t it always that way, with heroes? And if you think Star Wars owed you novelty or introspection, you’re barking up the wrong Wookiee. Ridley has space to grow in the next films. “The Force Awakens” only sets the pace, and that pace is meant to keep us out of breath. We come hurtling out of the gate with a plot whose velocity defends us from our own overthinking. There are so many potential throwbacks in Star Wars, it would be garish to dwell; Abrams, Lord of the Pastiche, picks the right ones. Especially satisfying Easter eggs include the titillating wobble of a lightsaber being summoned, Rey’s cry “Stop taking my hand!” (for those of us who remember how dopey Han looked running with Leia in “Empire Strikes Back”), Maz’s (Lupita Nyong’o, “Non-Stop”) iconic cantina, ripped from “A New Hope”, a dramatic confrontation on a narrow bridge (here there be spoilers), and our favorite, Han Solo telling us to respect the Force and the Jedi while standing in the exact same spot on the Millennium Falcon that he was standing when
he told Luke that “hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.” Han Solo (Harrison Ford, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”) and General Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher, “Maps to the Stars”) are the wind in this movie’s sails. There’s a note of selfaware absurdity in all sci-fi stories, and the best ones have a voice capable of lampshading on the right frequency to keep the world in check without breaking character. That has always been Han Solo for Star Wars, with that shrugging smile that dresses down an entire universe. Ford is old guard, and his history shines though his one-liners (“Escape now. Hug later!”); his wily leadership recalls Indiana Jones and reminds us just how much baggage this movie inherits. When Ford asks Fisher, “Wasn’t all bad, was it?” he’s more than just Han, he’s the mouthpiece for the audience, a living elegy for late 20th century geek childhoods, unpretentious and organic, shepherding the new cast into the fold of cultural staples. But the joy of “The Force Awakens” is majority elegiac. It feels like celebrating something that was, rather than something that is. We thrill in our seats when we see General Leia, not because it’s Leia, but because we’re excited to see Fisher reprising Leia, grateful that, so many years later, she’s still there for us and nothing has been forgotten. The promise of “The Force Awakens”is strong, but the script is often weak. You leave the theater lighter than air, but with nothing substantial to savor. This trial of loyalty isn’t over, but “The Force Awakens” is so thick with the energy that made us fall in love with IV, V and VI, a twentysomething geek can’t help but have a little faith. And mercifully, there’s no fucking Jar Jar Binks this time.
ver about his “Symphony in D”; Machover served as the first director of musical research at IRCAM, and thus worked intimately with Boulez. The two were close enough that Machover published an obituary for Boulez in The Washington Post. I have heard from some of my instrumentalist friends that on Tuesday Kenneth Kiesler, the conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra, briefly stopped rehearsal, saying “I’m sorry, today has been a hard day for me — my teacher died.” This past summer, I studied composition at the Tanglewood Institute in Massachusetts. Three of my fellow student composers there idolized Boulez with a reverence that stopped just short of constructing an altar, a fact which was easily recognizable in their music. All of us hoped that we might one day have the opportunity to meet the master. But we realized this would have to happen quickly, telling each other — only half in jest — that “he is likely to die any day now.” This expectation didn’t do much to stifle the surprise, however, when the prophecy was fulfilled. It was an odd feeling to know that a figure like Boulez was a part of the same world which I inhabit — however distant from me that he was — and that then he wasn’t. A few weeks ago I was reading about Boulez in “A Concise History of Modern Music” by Paul Griffiths — and then a few mornings past I was reading Paul Griffiths’s Boulez
obituary in The New York Times. Scrolling through the list of other articles of his — which bear titles like “Karlheinz Stockhausen, Influential Composer, Dies at 79” and “Gyorgy Ligeti, Central-European Composer of Bleakness and Humor, Dies at 83” — I think I have discovered what is most affecting about Boulez’s death for me. Boulez was a remnant of an age of stunning musical innovation, a member of a rapidly diminishing group of 20th century greats who still walk the Earth. To Griffiths’s list of deceased composers I could add Gunther Schuller, Robert Ward, Elliott Carter, Lukas Foss, Luciano Berio, Lou Harrison and William Albright — all of whom died within my lifetime — and such giants as Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Olivier Messiaen and John Cage just a few years before I was born. I have no doubt that this age too will produce its share of greats, but my reverence for the accomplishments of past is such that I feel melancholy when the living links to them begin to wear away. When figures from the past begin their eternal residency in the past, succumbing to the inexorable march of time and age, I can’t help but reflect upon the transitory nature of all that we are and do, that our acts that will live on only in the memories of others — and so with reverence we consign Boulez, like so many others, to memory and to the all encompassing arms of history.
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Wolverines pound Michigan State on Friday, then finish off series sweep on Saturday By KEVIN SANTO Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan hockey team hasn’t been able to sing “The Victors” at Yost Ice Arena since October. For Michigan coach Red Berenson, that practice
is a privilege that can only be earned after a series sweep. Those sweeps have been hard to come by, though, as Michigan has made a habit of trouncing opponents on Fridays before faltering in the second game on Saturday. But this Saturday, the Wolverines finally earned that privilege again. Behind a four-goal outburst in the second period, the eighth-ranked Wolverines (4-1-1-1 Big Ten, 13-3-3 overall) cruised to a 6-3 victory against Michigan State (1-5-0-0 Big Ten, 5-15-2 overall).
“When you come off a good game, like a 7-0 game against Dartmouth and then end up tying the game the next night, that’s not good enough,” Berenson said. “When you beat Minnesota 8-3, and then you come out and you don’t play as well, and you know they’re going to bounce back. That little bit of history, I challenged our team last night: Do we know how to finish off a weekend?” For the first 18 minutes, though, the Spartans looked like they may have given Michigan its answer to Berenson’s question. Michigan State appeared to have cracked the code to stopping the
SWEET FIFTEEN BACK ON TRACK
n The Michigan hockey team had little trouble racking up goals in a weekend sweep. SportsMonday Column, Page 2B
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Michigan’s offense — the same offense that had relentlessly poured on nine goals against them only a night before in East Lansing. But after sophomore forward Dexter Dancs found twine 18:37 into the first period, the floodgates had finally been opened. Dancs notched his second goal in two games after junior center Max Shuart won the puck behind net and fed it to him in front for an easy finish. The goal tied the game at one and awoke the sleeping giant See HOCKEY, Page 2B
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efore the Michigan hockey team scored six goals against Michigan State on Saturday to bring its weekend total to 15, before the Wolverines erased their onegoal deficit, before they JAKE even made LOURIM their first line change, they set the tone for how the game was going to go. In the first shift, Michigan State’s Mason Appleton had Michigan junior forward Tyler Motte lying on the ice in the corner of the Wolverines’ zone. Junior defenseman Nolan De Jong tried to pry Appleton off, but Appleton took his time getting up. When Motte finally got back on his feet, he and Appleton were still tangled up — and Motte flipped Appleton over on his backside. Sixty minutes, 12 penalties and nine goals later, that moment felt insignificant. But it embodied the rest of the game: tight, physical and intense. By the final buzzer, Michigan had done what it hasn’t been able to do all season. It dominated not one but both games of the series, asserting superiority over its in-state rival. The Wolverines emerged from the scrum the same way Motte did — skating away, with the opponent lying there on the ice. “I like the fact that our team can play from behind and continue to play our game,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “And when the puck starts going in, we can take a team right out of the game.” Was Michigan the better team? Absolutely. Should the Wolverines have expected to dominate a less
HOCKEY From Page 1B that was Michigan’s offense. Michigan State notched its first goal 4:27 into the first frame off the stick of defenseman Dylan Pavelek. The Wolverines were caught in the middle of a line change, and Pavelek came away with a breakaway goal to show for it. Despite the single lapse, Michigan’s defense was sharp throughout the first frame — ensuring Pavelek’s goal would be the only one the Spartans could muster before the Wolverines’ offense broke through. Yet Michigan struggled to create scoring chances, as the Wolverines tallied just one shot on goal in the opening ten minutes. Michigan managed to weather the storm while its offense sputtered, eventually getting the spark they needed from Dancs. Dancs’ goal appeared to give Michigan new life, as its offensive production exploded
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The Michigan hockey team did a lot of celebrating in a convincing sweep of Michigan State this weekend, its first series sweep since October against Mercyhurst.
talented Michigan State team? Probably. Would a hard-fought performance against a top-tier opponent have been better for Michigan’s NCAA Tournament resume? Sure. But this week, Michigan State was on the schedule, so all the Wolverines could do was keep rolling at their rival’s expense. The last time Michigan played the Spartans in a two-game series was last March. The Wolverines were the better team, just like this season. They went up to East Lansing on a Friday and took care of business, 5-3. Then, they returned to Ann Arbor needing a Saturday win to share the Big Ten title with Minnesota and earn a first-round bye in the Big Ten
to open the second period. Two minutes into the frame sophomore defenseman Zach Werenski drove a shot at net. Michigan State goaltender Jake Hildebrand made a good effort to deflect the puck, but freshman forward Cooper Marody jumped on it and lit the lamp to give Michigan its first lead of the game. From that point, the Spartans trailed for the rest of the game. Just 46 seconds later, junior defenseman Michael Downing converted a long wrist shot to give the Wolverines a 3-1 lead. Werenski added a goal to his stat sheet as well — which prompted a violin-playing celebration that earned the fans’ cheers of approval — before junior forward Tyler Motte rounded out the scoring
Tournament. Instead, Michigan State goaltender Jake Hildebrand stopped 37 shots, and the Spartans escaped with a 2-1 upset. The Wolverines had to win three games in three days the following weekend to make the NCAA Tournament, and they fell short. Perhaps with a sweep of Michigan State and a bye in the tournament, things would have been different. The sluggish Saturday performances recurred in the first half of this season. Going
into this weekend, in six twogame series, Michigan had dominated its opponents by a combined score of 34-17 in the series openers but had been outscored 18-16 in the finales. Saturday’s game began to show similar signs. The Wolverines gave up the first goal after just 4:27 and remained behind for most of the first period. But they tied the game toward the end of the first, took control in the second and coasted in the third. In the
“When the puck starts going in, we can take a team out of the game.”
for Michigan. But after jumping out to a 5-1 lead and appearing to take control, unnecessary penalties doomed the Wolverines, as the Spartans closed the frame with two unanswered goals. For a moment, it appeared Michigan was going to suffer through the same fate that has befallen them in Saturday matchups since October. Michigan State was charging into the third period, and it was looking as if this would be another split series for the Wolverines. But the two finishes would be the Spartans’ last of the night, as Michigan made a stout defensive stand for the entirety of the third period. Goaltender Steve Racine stood tall, facing seven shots in the third period and finishing with 24 total saves. The netminder was impressive all night, tallying a number of impressive glove saves and limiting dangerous secondchance opportunities. “I thought we had a great third period,” Racine said. “We knew they were going to come out hard. I think they had a couple of chances early. But we stuck with it. They had a couple power plays and we did a really good job on the kill. After that third goal we knew we had to bear down and we did a really good job in the third.” Besides freshman forward Kyle Connor’s empty-net goal with 2:22 left to play, the Wolverines were held at bay once again in the third frame, as they tallied 14 shots but came away with only one goal to show for them. With its six goals against the Spartans, Michigan finished the weekend with 15 goals in two games. But more importantly, the Wolverines got over their biggest hurdle. They closed out a series. They were allowed to sing “The Victors.”
end, the better team won. And given how Michigan has played against lesser opponents this season — dropping a Saturday game against Robert Morris, 4-0, and tying another against Dartmouth a month later — that’s no small feat. “Our best players are our best players,” Berenson said. “They’re showing up every night.” After his team bludgeoned Michigan State on Friday, 9-2, Berenson challenged his players to respond with another good performance the next night. While they didn’t put together their prettiest game, they passed Berenson’s test. And they had fun doing it. For Michigan’s first goal Friday, junior forward JT Compher
picked up a turnover, skated in from the corner and hammered a shot over Hildebrand’s shoulder. Saturday, sophomore forward Dexter Dancs took a pass from behind the net and slid it through Hildebrand’s legs. And finally, with the game starting to get out of hand, sophomore defenseman Zach Werenski joined in on the action. The Columbus Dispatch reported last week that Werenski was unhappy at Michigan and thinking of turning pro. Werenski saw the rumor on Twitter while in Finland at the World Junior Championships. He refuted it after the game Friday and again during the game Saturday. Midway through the second period, he skated toward Hildebrand and flicked in a wrist shot from the slot, then turned back toward the Children of Yost and played the violin on his arm with his stick. He certainly appeared to be having fun. So did everyone else at Yost Ice Arena. The Wolverines led, 4-1. That’s all the weekend seemed to be about. Michigan did little to bolster its postseason resume, save for avoiding a crushing loss. It had a large margin for error, so any small mistakes played little role in the final outcome. It wasn’t a turning point, and it wasn’t a highlight game. It wasn’t Penn State, and it wasn’t Minnesota. But it was Michigan State, and it was fun. So while the win shouldn’t be overstated, it shouldn’t be understated, either. Not every weekend can be a statement win. Sometimes you just cruise onto the next one, leaving your in-state rival lying on the ice. Lourim can be reached at jlourim@umich.edu and on Twitter @jakelourim.
“That little bit of history, I challenged our team last night.”
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Sophomore defenseman Zach Werenski returned this weekend and denied the rumor that he is unhappy at Michigan.
Zach Werenski staying at Michigan despite reports Sophomore D-man denies rumors that he is unhappy playing at Michigan By JASON RUBINSTEIN Daily Sports Writer
Zach Werenski said he was having the best time of his life at the World Junior Championships in Helsinki, Finland. After all, the junior defenseman was the United States’ captain. Life was good for Werenski, free of distractions, and he wouldn’t have preferred to be in any other situation. Werenski tallied two goals and seven assists — the highest point total of a defenseman in the tournament — en route to being named the tournament’s best defenseman. However, on New Year’s Day, a Columbus Dispatch article
irked Werenski. The report said Werenski, the eighth pick in the 2015 NHL Draft, was “unhappy in college and thinking of turning pro.” That report is completely false, and Werenski called it a “terrible rumor.” “It’s not something you want to see while scrolling through Twitter,” Werenski said. “But that’s why it’s a rumor and you push it off. “I was kind of like, ‘What is this?’ when I read it and put it behind me. At that point, I stopped looking at Twitter the rest of the tournament.” Werenski, who has five goals and eight assists this season, said he does not even know what he’s planning to do at the end of the season.
“I haven’t even thought about what I’m going to do at the end of this year,” Werenski said. “I want to win at Michigan. That’s my goal, and I came back to win a national championship, and I think we have the team to do that.” A rumor like this could have boded poorly for Werenski, as it never looks good when a player wants to abandon his teammates. To solve that problem, he immediately sent a text in the team’s group chat. “He put in our group chat that he is coming back happy as ever and we had no doubts about it,” said junior forward JT Compher. Thus, all rumors about Werenski bolting Michigan should be put to rest. You heard it from him.
“I was kind of like, ‘What is this?’ when I read it.”
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Individuals shine in Wolverine win By AVI SHOLKOFF Daily Sports Writer
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Freshman Olivia Karas fell on both the beam and the uneven bars, but she scored a meet-high 9.950 on the floor exercise in the Wolverines win over No. 7 Georgia.
‘M’ tops Georgia, stays undefeated By LANEY BYLER Daily Sports Writer
With only a 0.150-point difference headed into the last event Saturday, the No. 7 Michigan women’s gymnastics team knew it had to pull a strong performance on the floor to secure a win at its home opener against No. 9 Georgia. To do that, the Wolverines had to set aside miscues from earlier in the meet — and they did just that. Four Wolverines scored a 9.900 or above on the floor exercise, propelling Michigan to its final score of 196.925, trumping the Bulldogs’ 195.200. Among these gymnasts were senior Briley Casanova and freshman Olivia Karas, both of whom achieved career-high scores on the floor, a 9.900 and 9.950, respectively. Karas started strong on the vault, earning the highest score of
a 9.900, and took first in the event. After making mistakes on the bars and beam, she made a tremendous comeback on the floor event to tie for first with a score of 9.95 with junior Nicole Artz. “That’s what happened tonight, we had mistakes,” said Michigan coach Bev Plocki. “But the other five were able to come through and do what we needed to do for the team. That’s part of learning the college way. I think this was a great learning experience for her.” Artz’s contributions in all areas of the meet propelled Michigan to the win as she matched her previous career high on the floor with a 9.950, tying with Karas. Artz also walked away with three more achievements, including being the all-around champion with a score of 39.450, and tied junior Talia Chiarelli for first in the balance beam exercise with a score of 9.875. Artz also tied for
first with Georgia’s Sydney Snead on the uneven bars with a score of 9.900. “Nicole is a kid on our team who works hard every day,” Plocki said. “She never takes shortcuts, and she works just as hard in the classroom. She’s a tremendous student and a tremendous athlete. She leads by example. She works hard, but she doesn’t take herself too seriously. I think that’s what endears her to everybody and makes them want to follow her as a leader.” Chiarelli also spent some time on the podium, earning a thirdplace finish on the floor with a 9.925 and a second place finish on the vault with a 9.875. Her consistency and strong performances helped Michigan maintain its lead over Georgia and keep a hold on its undefeated season. “I don’t really think about personal too much,” Chiarelli said. “As a team, we just wanted
to have another great meet. We came off of a great meet in Cancun (Mexico) last week, so we just wanted to stay consistent and keep the energy up and fix a few of the smaller things.” Despite initially trailing Georgia after the first event, the Wolverines made a solid return while on rotations for the bars and beam, establishing a small lead they would maintain for the rest of the meet. Despite the win, Michigan had small mistakes and bobbles, particularly on beam, that need attention — not a single Wolverine scored a 9.900 or higher during that event. “This was a great result with a win against a tremendous program, but we also came away with a lot of things we need to work on,” Plocki said. “I think they know that, they understand that, and we’re ready to go back in the gym Monday and get to work.”
In a meet against the No. 9 team in the country, the Michigan women’s gymnastics team needed to be especially sharp at Crisler Center on Saturday to earn an impressive win. Led by five athletes who either tied or set new career highs in the meet, the fifth-ranked Wolverines narrowly defeated No. 9 Georgia, 196.925-195.200. After missing all of last season due to injury, sophomore Lauren Marinez surpassed her personal record on the beam with a 9.775, beating her score of 9.750, which she set just last weekend. Senior Briley Casanova scored a 9.900 on the floor event, her highest since her freshman year, which came as a surprise even to her. Michigan practiced few special dance moves, though Casanova explained the importance of a drill she and her teammates call “shoot ’em downs.” “(It’s a drill in which) we just try make eye contact with everyone on our team on the floor whenever we do a dance through,” Casanova said. “We really emphasized that.” Freshman Emma McLean also tied a career high. She received a 9.850 in the floor event, living up to the promise she’s showed as a newcomer. Last weekend at the meet in Cancun, Mexico, she scored a 9.775. Sophomore Nichelle Christopherson, who performed in just four routines last season, significantly improved from her showing on the uneven bars in the previous meet. There, she scored a 9.100 after being added to the rotation at the last minute. Saturday, she scored a 9.825, tying her best score ever, which she set last January.
Junior Talia Chiarelli, who finished in the top three for each event in which she competed, explained what individual successes can mean for the team. “It’s awesome,” Chiarelli said. “It’s even more awesome to do that in one of the first meets of the season.” Another freshman who has excited both her teammates and coaches is Olivia Karas. Karas set a new best in the floor event in her young career, scoring a meet-high 9.950. However, she also struggled at times during the meet, falling on both the beam and the uneven bars. “(Karas) is absolutely capable of making a name for herself in college gymnastics,” said Michigan coach Bev Plocki. “When she learns how to control her nerves and emotions and go out there and really perform, that’s when she’s going to be at her best.” Karas scored a meet-low 8.850 on the uneven bars due to falling in the middle of her routine. Luckily for her, her teammates stepped up, with junior Nicole Artz and sophomore Brianna Brown scoring in the top three. Plocki attributed the players’ individual successes to the facility at Crisler and to the coaching staff. “That’s what we want to do, to develop these young ladies,” Plocki said. “It’s nice from a coaching perspective to see the fruits of your labor come out and show season best scores.” Despite many players setting or tying career-high scores, Plocki stressed the importance of the entire team’s success in addition to that of the individual athletes. “If we had a lot of people who had a lot of great individual accolades, but the team lost, it would be a disappointing night no matter what any individual did,” Plocki said. “The team result is the reason we do this.”
Michigan uses non-scoring meet as early-season gauge By TOR THORNE For the Daily
The Michigan men’s track and field team returned to action for the first time this year at the Hillsdale Winter Opener on Saturday in Hillsdale, Mich. With just 11 Wolverines competing in the day’s events, the unscored meet provided little information about the team as a whole. But Michigan coach Jerry Clayton said the meet still held value. “This weekend was basically about the individuals who wanted to try to see where they’re at at this point,” Clayton said. The Wolverines found the majority of their success Saturday in field events, taking first place in shot put and the top three spots in the weight throw. For senior shot putter Derek Sievers, whose 18.42 meter throw earned him first place in the event and an early season personal best, this meet will serve as an important stepping stone to improve upon for the remainder
of the season. “It’s always easier to compete in practice the next week when you’ve had a good performance,” Sievers said. “Because you just keep the momentum going.” Michigan redshirt freshman Joseph Ellis took first place in the weight throw with a throw of 18.96 meters, earning his first event title as a member of the Wolverines. Redshirt sophomore Grant Cartwright and fifth-year senior Brad Bolton added second- and third-place finishes with throws of 18.52 meters and 17.00 meters, respectively. Clayton was also pleased with the performance of the pole vault group, which had two members finish in the top five. Junior Michael Hovater took fourth place, trailed directly by redshirt freshman Kevin Haughn in fifth. True freshman Nicholas Burkhalter finished in 11th place with a height of 4.35 meters. Sophomore Charlie DeJonge was the only athlete to represent
the Wolverines in multiple events Saturday, finishing the 60-meter hurdles in 8.73 seconds to take fourth place. DeJonge also competed in the shot put, finishing 13th, but setting a new personal best of 11.45 meters. In high jump, senior Stephen Sykes cleared 1.90 meters and finished third overall. Meanwhile, redshirt sophomore Kevin Stephens Jr. finished fourth in the long jump with a distance of 6.53 meters. While Saturday’s meet was an important test for its competitors, Clayton emphasized the even greater importance that each athlete’s performance would have on his coaching moving forward. “(The race) gives me ideas of what I need to do training-wise to make adjustments so that we can get through this month of January and come out really ready to roll in February when we get to the championship phase,” Clayton said. “The bigger test will be when we have 90 percent of the team open up next weekend.”
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Junior Erin Finn (front) won the 3,000-meter run by more than 30 seconds at the Hillsdale Winter Opener on Saturday.
Wolverines shake off rust at Hillsdale Winter meet By MATTHEW KENNEDY For the Daily
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Senior Derek Sievers took first place in the shot put at the Hillsdale Winter Open with a throw of 18.42 meters.
Balance — that’s what Michigan women’s track and field coach James Henry is trying to achieve this season. With 16 top-three finishes in 11 different events, the 14th-ranked Wolverines appear to be on their way to achieving Henry’s goal. “It’s hard for me to talk about one or two athletes and say, ‘She’s the person that just did it,’ ’’ Henry said. “I’m pleased to know that we don’t have such a program where one athlete ‘just does it.’ ” Michigan opened its season Saturday at the Hillsdale Winter Opener, a non-scoring meet featuring a variety of Division II teams. Setting official times for the first time this season, the Wolverines created a benchmark to improve upon for the rest of the season. Michigan wasn’t focusing on beating any times going into
the meet, though. Rather, the Wolverines’ focus was beating the competition and shaking off the early-season rust that many of the student-athletes had. In doing so, Michigan was able to take home first place in eight different events. Though some of the track and field team members have already competed this year as part of the cross country team, most of the Michigan runners have been waiting since September to finally race. As balanced as Michigan’s roster was, there were a few standout performances for the Wolverines. Sophomore Claire Kieffer-Wright, who also is a member of the Michigan volleyball team, won the high jump with a final cleared height of 1.74 meters, while junior All-American Erin Finn won the 3,000-meter run by more than 30 seconds with a final time of 9:13.41. In addition, redshirt senior
All-American Shannon Osika turned in a strong performance in the 1600-meter, winning the event with a time of 4:42.10. Osika was also part of an experienced Michigan 4x400 relay team, which also included redshirt senior Laura Addison, redshirt junior Gina McNamara, and redshirt senior Danielle Pfeifer. The group narrowly edged out Hillsdale for another Wolverine victory. The most important result of the meet, though, was something that didn’t happen. “The kids came out unscathed,” Henry said. “We got solid marks and we’re all healthy.” Now that Michigan knows its starting point, the team is aware of where it can finish. “Being in a position to win a championship and finishing in the top three,” Henry said. “That’s our team goal, and if things go to our favor, we’re hoping to be in the position to improve upon those two goals.”
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‘M’ seeks scoring answer Michigan opens series with rout in East Lansing
Wolverines struggle to score against Purdue’s tough inside-outside ‘D’
Wolverines knock out Hildebrand in second period after seven goals
By LEV FACHER Daily Sports Writer
Purdue coach Matt Painter waited eight minutes before sending Michigan’s nightmare onto the court: two men who, stacked one atop the other, would weigh 532 pounds and stand an inch shy of 14 feet tall. Caleb Swanigan, at 6-foot9 and 250 pounds, was more physically imposing than anybody on Michigan’s roster. Isaac Haas, at 7-foot-2 and 282 pounds, was just there as a redundancy measure. With Michigan junior forward Zak Irvin, 35 pounds lighter and three inches shorter than Swanigan, and junior forward Mark Donnal, 42 pounds lighter and five inches shorter than Haas, attempting to guard them, respectively, the result was a predictable dismantling. The Wolverines (2-1 Big Ten, 12-4 overall) were eaten alive Thursday in their 87-70 loss, the fourth time this season they have crumbled in the face of larger opposition. “Post defense is something that you try and work at,” said Michigan coach John Beilein. “But when you play the best in the country at post offense, it’s an eye-opener. That didn’t help us.” Irvin’s defensive play against Swanigan, as it turned out, was one of Michigan’s best individual efforts of the evening. However, the image of Irvin, known principally as a shooter and undersized as a power forward, that remained was him getting physical in the post with a 250pound freshman. Swanigan and Haas combined for 10 points and 14
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Junior forward Mark Donnal had his hands full with Purdue’s massive front line in Thursday’s 87-70 road loss.
rebounds, and the Boilermakers outperformed Michigan on the defensive glass, 30-19. Purdue’s other 7-footer, A.J. Hammons, did even more damage, scoring 17 points and recording four thunderous blocks. “You can run some cute stuff and get right to the rim, and somebody’s sending you back,” Beilein said. “It really deflates you.” Outgunned inside, Michigan’s only option was to win from behind the 3-point arc, a task made considerably more difficult by the absence of senior guard Caris LeVert, who missed his second consecutive game with a leg injury. Redshirt sophomore guard Duncan Robinson, who ranks fifth nationally in 3-point shooting percentage, was healthy. But with the defensive blanketing he received from Purdue’s Rapheal Davis, he might as well have been on the bench as well. Davis, one of the country’s elite defenders, stuck to Robinson like ice on an unshoveled Ann Arbor sidewalk, holding him to five attempts from beyond the arc, two of which were desperation heaves
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Wolverines win second straight Michigan holds off late Minnesota rally for win By TED JANES Daily Sports Writer
The Minnesota women’s basketball team nearly created déjà vu for Michigan on Sunday afternoon. MICHIGAN 93 At one MINNESOTA 86 point in the first quarter, Michigan led by 17 — the same deficit it overcame Thursday in a comeback against Iowa. Minnesota chipped away at the Wolverines’ early lead, but it could not catch up late. Sophomore guard Katelynn Flaherty iced the game from the free-throw line, and Michigan (2-2 Big Ten, 10-5 overall) came out on top, 93-86. The Gophers (2-2, 10-5) faceguarded Flaherty, even away from the ball, but Michigan’s leading scorer shot 9-for-14 to earn 33 points. Flaherty, who averaged 21.2 points before Sunday, passed that mark midway through the third quarter. The Wolverines’ win moves them to .500 in conference play after they opened the Big Ten season with devastating back-toback losses to Purdue and Indiana. What they couldn’t do against either of those opponents, though, was jump ahead early, but Sunday they had no trouble lighting up the field from the opening tip. Michigan scored 35 points in the first quarter, leaving its coach amazed. “I didn’t know we could score 35 points,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico in an interview with MGoBlue after the game. “To do that in one quarter, that’s pretty incredible.” Michigan embarrassed the Gophers’ defense in the first quarter. During the first
10 minutes, the Wolverines built up a 17-point lead and outrebounded Minnesota, 14-5. Seven of those 14 rebounds were offensive rebounds. “(Minnesota) has only been outrebounded one time this year, and really that was our numberone goal today — to outrebound them,” Barnes Arico said. “We did a terrific job. They had a lot of long shots down the stretch, and we had to battle, and we had to fight, and we missed a couple long ones in the end, but we did a great job on the boards.” Sophomore guard Jillian Dunston led the team with 15 rebounds, an impressive showing in just 22 minutes off the bench. She averaged 5.7 rebounds before the contest. Dunston was also one bucket away from a doubledouble, scoring eight points. Aided by Dunston’s ferocity on the boards, Michigan won the rebounding battle, 46-33. Dunston was not alone in the race for the double-double, though, as junior guard Siera Thompson (18 points, eight assists), senior forward Kelsey Mitchell (13 points, nine rebounds) and freshman center Hallie Thome (16 points, eight rebounds) were all knocking on the door of the feat. Three Gophers scored 20-plus points to help Minnesota creep back into the game, but the Wolverines’ consistency from the free-throw line kept stretching the lead. Michigan is now 9-0 this season when scoring at least 80 points. Consecutive wins after consecutive losses brought out the Wolverines’ strengths and weaknesses. Two games saw Michigan fail to convert free throws and struggle to score in the paint. Two others featured the Wolverines lighting up opponents from beyond the arc and dominating on the glass. Sunday, Michigan was the latter, and Minnesota’s time ran out.
with the shot clock winding down. Robinson did what he could, impressively nailing a transition 3 with a shooting motion that began before he landed in his preferred spot on the right wing. But his 10 points weren’t enough, especially with Irvin shooting a frigid 2-for-10 from the field. “(Davis) is a really good defender,” Robinson said, offering little else by way of explanation. “That poses a challenge for us.” With Michigan’s shooters either injured, locked down or unable to find twine, the outside game turned to two of the Wolverines’ own big men: Donnal and redshirt freshman D.J. Wilson, who combined to shoot 3-for-7 from 3-point range. That was in line with the game plan, Beilein said. If the Wolverines could make onethird of their 3-point attempts, the strategy would prove a bargain against Purdue’s defensive efficiency rating of 83.6 points per 100 possessions, which leads the nation. The hope was for Michigan’s bigs
to attempt between five and 10 shots from that range. Wilson had attempted just 13 3-pointers this season before Thursday, the majority of which came in garbage time against markedly inferior nonconference opponents. He attempted five from beyond the arc Thursday, making only one. Donnal fared better, draining both of his attempts. “Those guys, they can make ’em in practice,” Beilein said. “They’ve got to make them, obviously, at Mackey Arena, in front of a crowd.” The formula could be one Michigan turns to more often, especially if size continues to limit the Wolverines’ inside presence and if a single perimeter defender like Davis can wreak havoc on their traditional, guard-based outside game. Even against Purdue’s impressive perimeter defense, Wilson and Donnal were reliably open from straightaway after early-possession ball screens. Whether that pair can consistently shoot 3-for-7 is a different discussion.
WRESTLING
‘M’ beats Buckeyes Michigan rallies again with 12 unanswered points By NATHANIEL CLARK Daily Sports Writer
Even though the No. 13 Michigan wrestling team defeated No. 6 Ohio State, 21-11 on Saturday, there was a time when things MICHIGAN 21 OHIO STATE 11 appeared to be trending the Buckeyes’ way. In the 165-pound class, Wolverine sophomore Garrett Sutton was dominated by the Buckeyes’ second-ranked Bo Jordan, 19-4. Jordan won by 15 points, earning the Buckeyes five team points and giving them an 11-9 lead with No. 19 redshirt freshman Davonte Mahomes of Michigan scheduled to take on No. 15 Myles Martin. Mahomes turned the tide. Trailing 1-0 with 1:30 to go in the third period, Mahomes nabbed an escape point to send the bout into overtime. The sudden-death extra frame didn’t last long. Mahomes was awarded a takedown 13 seconds into the period to earn a 3-1 victory, which put the Wolverines ahead, 12-11. “Mahomes is really tough,” said Michigan coach Joe McFarland. “It was a great win for us and for him, and it put the momentum on our side.” It was all Michigan from there. After a scoreless first period, No. 10 junior Domenic Abounader took total control of the 184-pound match to top No. 12 Kenny Courts, 5-0. Abounader accumulated 3:16 of riding time in the process. It was fifth-year senior Max Huntley, though, who clinched the meet for the Wolverines.
He defeated Mark Martin, 8-3, in the 197-pound class, giving Michigan an insurmountable 18-11 edge and a signature road victory. Junior heavyweight Adam Coon put the icing on the cake as he scored a win over Nick Tavanello, 4-1. “It was a great team effort,” McFarland said. “We got our offense going, and I think that is important.” Added Mahomes: “I feel like the team performed at a very high level. We were all fired up and ready to go. It was really awesome to get to experience a dual meet of this caliber with so much heat and tension against each other.” Yet, what was arguably the Wolverines’ most impressive individual victory came in the 133-pound class. In a match that many picked to end in favor of Ohio State, No. 16 senior Rossi Bruno notched two escape points and 2:09 of riding time to upset No. 8 Johnni DiJulius, 4-1. Bruno’s win knotted up the score at three, as it came on the heels of a close loss by No. 19 redshirt junior Conor Youtsey at the hands of No. 1 Nathan Tomasello, 4-2, in the 125pound match. “Even though he didn’t win, I thought (Youtsey) controlled most of his match,” Bruno said. “That really helped me out with my match in terms of getting momentum.” While Michigan is riding high following its triumph over the defending national champion, the Wolverines will not have much time to celebrate. They will have to face No. 11 Illinois at Cliff Keen Arena on Jan. 15. “We have to keep an aggressive mindset,” McFarland said. “If we go out there, concentrate and focus on our execution, the wins will take care of themselves.”
EAST LANSING — If it wasn’t already clear this season, the Michigan MICHIGAN 9 hockey MICH. STATE 2 team can score goals. Friday, the Wolverine offense exploded once again in a win over Michigan State (1-4-0 Big Ten, 5-14-2 overall) by a score of 9-2 at Munn Ice Arena. “It’s obviously nice when you beat State,” said junior forward JT Compher. “The offense was going today, which it has been most of the year.” It didn’t start out well for the Wolverines (3-1-1, 12-3-3), though. The Spartans put the first point on the scoreboard 9:26 into the first period. Michigan State defenseman John Draeger found forward Mason Appleton alone inside the left faceoff circle and made the cross-ice pass. Appleton took the onetimer off the shot, which ricocheted off a skate past senior goaltender Steve Racine for the freshman’s fourth tally of the season. But as Michigan has done many times already this season, the Wolverines came right back, pouncing on a Spartan mistake less than three minutes later. Compher collected the puck off a Michigan State miscue and put the puck upstairs past Spartan goaltender Jake Hildebrand. “(Junior forward Tyler Motte) did a great job keeping the puck in,” Compher said. “I was able to have a two-on-one with (freshman forward Kyle Connor), and saw (Hildebrand) creeping a little bit and put it over his shoulder.” The Wolverines weren’t done, though — not by a long shot. Fifty-seven seconds after Compher’s goal, with Michigan State forward Ryan Keller in the box less than 10 seconds, Michigan scored again. A tic-tac-toe play saw senior forwards Boo Nieves and Justin Selman pass the puck before sophomore forward Tony Calderone finished off the play, one-timing the puck past Hildebrand. And just 18 seconds later, junior forward Alex Kile found
himself alone just outside the left faceoff circle and hit twine. After Michigan State came back with a power-play goal of its own, Michigan cruised. Freshman forward Kyle Connor tallied his team-leading 13th goal of the season, and sophomore forward Dexter Dancs added his own to close out the scoring in the first period. While the second featured much less scoring, Michigan tallied each goal. On the power play, junior forward Alex Kile found a trailing sophomore defenseman Zach Werenski, who had returned two days prior from captaining the U.S Junior Team at the World Championships, wide open in the slot. Werenski gathered the puck and buried it past Hildebrand. Another Michigan goal from Connor was all Michigan State coach Tom Anastos needed to see to pull Hildebrand, the 2015 Big Ten Player and Goaltender of the Year. “You know you have to move (Hildebrand) side to side,” Compher said. “You have to try to beat him up top. You got to try get people to the net.” Compher and Motte scored in the third period to round out the game’s scoring. Their line, which also includes Connor, finished the game with five goals and 13 points. “JT and Tyler have played solid all year,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “And with this kid (Connor) on the left wing, he just adds another dimension. “It’s been good. They’ve been moving the puck, they’re working hard and they’re leaders. They’re a big part of our team.” In net, Racine continued his run of good play since coming back from injury, stopping 24 shots for his third straight win. “(Racine’s) goals against are two a night,” Berenson said. “He’s made some good saves. Now, he’s only played three games in a row so I can’t tell you this is a trend, but good for him.” It’s no surprise that Michigan can score goals. What the Wolverines have lacked, though, is consistency. After scoring seven and eight goals on Dartmouth and Minnesota, respectively, Michigan could muster just one and two goals the following nights. So the real question for the Wolverines is: Can they come back and score nine goals tomorrow night?
“The offense was going today, which it has been most of the year.”
“We were all fired up and ready to go.”
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Michael Downing and Michigan routed Michigan State in East Lansing on Friday.