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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) speaks in the Crisler Center in Ann Arbor on Monday.
At Crisler Center, Sanders touts tuition-free college Presidential hopeful draws crowd of 5,700 day before primary By EMMA KINERY Daily News Editor
Supporters of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) filled Crisler Center Monday for the candidate’s
first visit to Ann Arbor: a “Get Out To Vote” rally the day before the Michigan primary. The crowd began by chanting, “Feel the Bern, Bernie will make it easy to learn; Feel the Bern, Bernie will make it free to learn.” Sanders’ first visit to Michigan was in February, when he held a rally at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. “Words cannot describe how excited I am,” said LSA sophomore Nicholas Kolenda, president of
Students for Sanders, before the rally. “We’ve been wanting him to come here for months, and for him to come here on Monday — right before Michigan’s primary tomorrow — we’re ecstatic. We’re all ecstatic, so excited.” The student organization helped distribute posters and get the crowd excited for the rally. Choosing the University of Michigan to host the rally in particular may have been less about politics as much as it was about
logistics: though the University’s Spring Break was last week but most colleges in the state including Michigan State, Grand Valley State University and Central Michigan University, among others, do not have class this week. The Sanders campaign has relied on youth voters throughout the primaries thus far, and the Michigan primary falling on many colleges’ Spring Breaks could hurt the campaign on Tuesday. See SANDERS, Page 3
Candidate addresses Flint, Detroit Public Schools in final bid for state’s votes By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit was packed with 400 people on Monday for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s last rally before the March 8 Michigan primary. Michigan’s primary allocates 130 delegates, a significant amount at this stage in the primary cycle. Challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders (D– Vt.) held a rally the same evening in the University of Michigan’s Crisler Center. Clinton is anticipated to win the Michigan primary by a 20-point margin according toRealClearPolitics. During Monday’s rally, Clinton avoided mention of her primary rival and instead focused a series of
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Vote Clinton, Kasich in Mich. From T HE M ICHIGAN DAILY The Michigan primary elections bring four Republican candidates and two Democratic candidates to the ballot box. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and Hillary Clinton have had a strong presence in Michigan this week. On Sunday night, both debated in Flint, and Monday, Bernie rallied students in the Crisler Center while Hillary assembled faithful supporters in Detroit. Despite Sanders’ inspiring policy agendas and Obama-esque hope, it is with confidence that The Michigan Daily Editorial Board endorses Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nominee. Clinton is an experienced, qualified and diplomatic leader. She has served as a U.S. senator from New York, the secretary of state and as the first lady. As secretary of state, she worked on global policy including sanctions to Iran and a ceasefire in Israel and supported Obama in bringing Osama bin Laden to justice. She may have proved her preparedness for the job as president Sunday evening in her opening statement. Sanders stated that Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder should resign and Clinton followed, saying Snyder should resign or be recalled, but added discussion about how Flint can get help now. Clinton has the experience and the expertise to implement the changes cities like Flint need. Furthermore, having a woman as president has the
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potential to fundamentally change how our country views women. This is certainly not the only reason she should get the female vote, but like Obama, her position in the White House will be condusive to social progress. Clinton as president could serve as a symbol for how far women can go, setting the stage for more female leaders in the future. As with every election, none of these candidates are perfect. But we are at an important stage in our country’s history and it is crucial to vote accordingly. Sanders has created a rhetoric surrounding college tuition that is undeniably inspiring, calling for free tuition at all public universities. However, Clinton has sturdy policies that address student debt and hold colleges and universities accountable for making changes toward affordability — policies that are much more likely to gain bipartisan support. Sanders also speaks passionately about big money in elections and essential campaign finance reform. Though change in this area is a noble goal, it’s far from the most important thing voters should consider in casting their vote during primaries. Yes, Clinton’s top donors are huge companies that represent big business interests — interests that do not align with ours. But the fact still remains that Clinton has the social stances and support from industries to make a real change. See CLINTON, Page 4
attacks on Republican frontrunner Donald Trump — whose mention resulted in a strong negative reaction from the crowd. Clinton encouraged her supporters to vote for her Tuesday so that she could secure the nomination soon, allowing her to focus on the eventual Republican nominee instead of Sanders. “We will not a let a person like that become president of the United States,” she said. “The sooner I could become your nominee, the more I can turn attention to the Republicans.” Prior to Clinton’s appearance, the crowd heard from elected officials who have previously endorsed her, including Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D–Dearborn) and Detroit City Council president Brenda Jones. Just before Clinton walked onstage, overhead speakers also played a message emphasizing Hillary’s support for Flint, and Clinton began her speech by further acknowledging the crisis and repeating her promise to stand See RALLY, Page 3
Legislation proposes lesser consequences for first-time offenders By ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter
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SACUA finalizes plans for faculty governance forum Conference will incorporate open dialogue on recaps of panels, workshops By ISOBEL FUTTER Daily Staff Reporter
At its Monday meeting, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs discussed the Faculty Governance Conference occurring next Monday and Tuesday at the Michigan League. The conference will host faculty governances from universities around the country, including Big Ten schools, the University
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of Virginia, the University of North Carolina, the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley. The conference, featuring speakers, panels and discussions about faculty governance around the country, includes keynote speaker Laura Kipnis, a communications professor at Northwestern University. Last year, Kipnis published an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education about student-faculty relationships that drew attention from Northwestern administrators. The article critiqued Northwestern’s policies regarding studentfaculty relationships
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and sexual misconduct, citing a lawsuit between a Northwestern philosophy professor and two students who accused him of assault. After a Title IX retaliation complaint was filed against Kipnis, alleging her piece misstated facts and created a hostile environment, the university subsequently opened a formal investigation into the incident. In May 2015, Kipnis was cleared in the investigation, according to The Washington Post. SACUA chair SilkeMaria Weineck, a professor of comparative literature, said she hopes a nationwide consortium results from the conference. See SACUA, Page 2
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A Michigan Senate bill aiming to reduce the severity of consequences for minor in possession of alcohol charges passed the state Senate Mar. 3, moving to the state House. The bill, introduced by state Sen. Rick Jones (R — Grand Ledge) last May, aims to address the issue of underage drinking by changing first-offense MIPs from a misdemeanor to a civil infraction. If passed, only after the first offense will a minor in possession charge become a misdemeanor, decreasing consequences for minors found in possession of alcohol. Opposition to the bill thus far has been limited — it was passed with opposition from just two senators. In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Jones said he initiated the bill because he was contacted by numerous parents who were upset about their children receiving misdemeanor charges. Jones said the charges typically resulted from minors being found in possession of one beer, but in many cases students also had been confronted by a University of Michigan police officer who asked them to take a breathalyzer. Regardless of the level of alcohol present, police would then issue students a ticket and charge them See MIP, Page 3
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ON THE DAILY Ted Cruz, a professor at the University of California, San Diego — not to be confused with Sen. Ted Cruz (R– Tex.), one of the current candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination — will discuss the San DiegoTijuana border at the University of Michigan on Mar. 11. Prof. Cruz and Fonna Forman, also a professor at the University of California, San Diego, will deliver the lecture, focusing on the the political and urban architecture of the border. Though they share a name, Prof. Cruz’s perspectives on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border sharply contrast the senator’s immigration
platform. Prof. Cruz’s website says he sees these neighborhoods as “sites of cultural production, from which to rethink urban policy, affordable housing and civic infrastructure.” Sen. Cruz has called for tightened border security and penalization of illegal immigrants, including ending amnesty protections and utilizing surveillance and biometric tracking. Cruz and Forman, professors of architecture and political science respectively, will discuss researchbased political and architecture practices in San Diego, while also tying in the policy and infrastructure of Latin
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American cities near the border. While Forman’s work is centered on human rights and equitable urbanization, Cruz’s research is focused on the San DiegoTijuana border and the benefits of advancing border immigrant neighborhoods. Forman and Cruz are the keynote lecturers for the Michigan Mellon Project on Egalitarianism and the Metropolis, an initiative between Detroit, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro. The project aims to combine design theory and practice with questions surrounding equality and social justice in communities. —TANYA MADHANI
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Student-led company aims to offer grocery delivery service Startup website will incorporate bundle offers, recipe feature By JENNIFER MEER Daily Staff Reporter
Last spring, LSA junior Danny Mak saw an open niche in the University of Michigan’s market for a grocery delivery service. Since then, he and Kinesiology junior Thomas Marcus have worked to create the Big House Market, a service that will deliver groceries to University students. Set to launch by March 21, Big House Market, which will be accessible through its website, targets University students who are unable to travel to grocery stores off campus. In an interview, Marcus said
the pair thought a service like Big House Market is essential for the student body, and could thrive in comparison to other grocery delivery services in the area. Several other food delivery startups also exist on campus — EnvoyNow, a studentrun service that launched this fall, delivers food to students from local restaurants, while Delivice, a grocery delivery company in Ann Arbor, was founded in February 2014. “We just saw that there was an opportunity for it, and that it’s a relatively small startup, and that we think that we can do it better, just with more features to offer and a more integrative web platform that is easier to use and has more incentives for continuing to use it,” Marcus said. “We realized how many people we know for a fact we can reach right away upon starting, and we realized this is a great idea worth going
with.” The duo pointed to what they believe is a market need for same-day and next-day deliveries of food, especially for college students who don’t have cars and have busy schedules. LSA junior Emma Planet said she thought the service would be helpful, and meet needs she has as a student. “I think it would make things much more efficient,” she said. “It would save a lot of time and energy for someone who has a huge assignment coming up and they are frantic that they need to go get food. Also, I think that it would be convenient for people who don’t live on central or someplace where you can’t get food so easily. I would use it.” Marcus said receiving the Evans Scholarship, which awarded both him and Mak a full-ride scholarship to attend the University, motivated them to pursue the project. “The scholarship has kind of brought us toward pushing toward doing stuff that you’re not 100 percent comfortable with,” he said. “This is kind of the first step in our lives that we feel is pushing for big goals, trying to get big things done, and we think that it’s a great idea that’s going to penetrate Ann Arbor pretty well. The scholarship has given us those values.” As for what makes their company unique to competitors, Marcus described the advantages
SACUA From Page 1 “We’ve asked the guests to speak about the experiences at their schools, what has come up there, what are the challenges and what are the solutions,” Weineck said. “Each place has so much variance.” Alongside Kipnis, SACUA
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of bundles — pre-designed collections of groceries — and recipes. Each “bundle” aims to target a different kind of customer and to optimize efficiency and timeliness for the customer. “For example, some of the bundles will be a healthy bundle, a cooking bundle, a munchies or snack bundle,” he said. “ In addition to that, we think we’re going to have pre-made recipes, where we go online and we find ingredients for an easy-to-make recipe for a college student, and then sell that as a whole pack. So if it’s pasta, we’ll sell the pasta, the sauce, the butter and whatever
members will be directing two-hour sessions with other schools. Session topics include academic freedom, due process protections, the role of faculty members and Title IX, which prevents federally-funded educational programs from discriminating on the basis of sex. At Monday’s meeting, SACUA decided to allot time
else is needed — something like that, something simple. That’s not offered on any of the other websites. So that’s a big differentiator.” Mak added that another perk of their service is same-day delivery, which many of their competitors do not offer. He said the team is now looking to finalize the project and hire employees by next year. “I really think, it’s just about getting used to the process, getting used to the whole business, the ins and outs of the business and then having employees,” Mak said. “That’s really the main goal by next year.”
Marcus said he hopes the company sees expansions in the future, including adding categories to the inventory of products and launching a mobile application. “Once we have more customers, more people relying on us, more drivers, we were considering adding to the inventory as we go along,” Marcus said. “We’re probably going to have a couple thousand options to start. However, there are still categories — not food categories — but stuff that Kroger would sell that people could find useful, that we’re not going to have. Like toiletries, for example.”
at the end of the conference for suggestions and concluding thoughts from the audience. “Faculty governance is in trouble in so many places, so banding together and moving forward with some kind of shared principles and recommendations would be great,” Weineck said. Pharmaceutical Sciences Prof. David Smith said a
breakout session could allow guests to synthesize all the information they’d discussed together. “While it’s still fresh in our head, it’d be nice to ask what are the major things we attempted to do, anything we learned and how do we want to move forward with suggestions?” he said.
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Faculty selected as Alfred Sloan research fellows Along with 126 scientists and scholars nationwide, three University professors were selected as the 2016 Alfred P. Sloan research fellows. The University professors selected are Paul Zimmerman, assistant professir of chemistry, Michael Cafarella and Honglak Lee, both assistant professors of electrical engineering and computer science, according to a University press release. The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 and aimed to support and give recognition to scientists who otherwise do not receive outside funding. Though awards were originally given only in physics, chemistry and mathematics, other fields such as neuroscience, economics and ocean sciences were later added due to their scientific significance. According to the foundation website, candidates for the fellowship must hold a tenure track at an institution in the United States or Canada, must hold a Ph.D. in a science-related field and must exhibit evidence of independent research accomplishments. Each awardee received $55,000 for any aspect of their research.
Online platform created to encourage public research input The University launched WellSpringboard this week, a platform University medical researchers will use for accepting suggestions from the public about what they should study next, according to release from the University Health System. The crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platform is focused specifically on children’s heart disease and cancer, sleeping problems, adult diabetes and inflammatory bowel diseases, but the site welcomes any idea for their research. Once medical researchers decide to take up a research project, donations can be made online and people can volunteer to participate or aid in the research as well. WellSpringboard highlights nine steps for those who are interested in being involved. These steps include submitting an idea along with a brief video about why the research is important, gathering votes for the idea and seeking out University researchers who might be interested in studying the topic.
Search process begins for new CEW director, ‘U’ committee selected The search process for the next director of the Center for the Education of Women is now underway, with an advisory committee selected for the search, according to a University press release. Current CEW Director Gloria Thomas will step down from the position this June following seven years of tenure. Lynn Wooten, ssociate dean for undergraduate programs at the Ross School of Business, will chair the committee, which is in charge of conducting a national search for candidates eligible for the position. Once a list of candidates has been compiled, the committee will report to Vice Provost Sara Blair. Other members of the search committee besides Wooten include professors from the Medical School, School of Social Work and the School of Nursing. —ALEXA ST. JOHN
AMANDA ALLEN/Dailly Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally in Detroit Monday before Michigan’s primary on March 8.
RALLY From Page 1 by the people of Flint. During Sunday’s Democratic debate in Flint, Clinton was asked if her support for the city was a political maneuver. On Monday, she reiterated that her intention is to continuously support Flint, drawing attention to the crisis and supporting the residents. “I’m going to keep shining a bright spotlight on Flint,” she said. “We have made a commitment to help Flint recover and give them
SANDERS From Page 1 After Sunday’s Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton is currently leading Sanders nationally by 9.6 percent according to a RealClearPolitics polling average. In Michigan, Clinton leads Sanders by 20.4 percent, according to a polling average byRealClearPolitics. Aiming to inspire voters, Sanders said Monday night that the campaign is seen as revolutionary not only in its radical policies, but in their high voter turnouts. “We believe ultimately that when millions of people come together and get involved in the political process, there is nothing that we cannot do,” Sanders said. Before the senator took the stage, Detroit-based band JR JR performed, followed by Nate Ruess of the band FUN. Actress Shailene Woodley, Sen. Nina Turner (D– Ohio) and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D– Hawaii) also all spoke favorably of the candidate. Sanders’ speech covered all of the major points of his platform, from social issues like the wage gap and high incarceration rates to trade, revamping the higher education and health care systems to addressing climate change and the Flint water crisis. The senator said his focus has been on listening to women, children and African Americans, along with other marginalized groups. “What this campaign is about
MIP From Page 1 with a misdemeanor, as state law mandates. According to the University’s 2013-2014 Office of Student Conflicts and Resolutionsreport, there were 515 instances of illegally possessing or using alcohol on campus that year, including first and second-offense and three or more offence incidences grouped into three tiers. All three tiers of alcohol-related offense saw increases from the 2012-2013 OSCR report. “(Current MIP laws are) actually driving students to use drugs,” Jones said. “Several parents told me that college students had decided it was better to smoke marijuana than drink a beer because the breathalyzer would not detect the marijuana in their system. I think this is a horrendous message we’re sending to young people — to use marijuana, that will keep you out of trouble.” Currently, Michigan law mandates that for any alcoholrelated violations for individuals under 21, a misdemeanor charge is automatic. For the first violation, consequences of the charge include no more than a $100 fine. For a second violation, consequences include a fine of no more than $200, possibly accompanied by
the opportunity to be even better after they do so.” Clinton also discussed her plans to decrease the student debt burden through her $350 billion plan to help students pay for college and reduce interest rates. Her platform on student debt has the support of both Dingell and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D–Mich.), who have both introduced student loan refinancing acts and are large proponents for reducing student debt and increasing college affordability. University alum Neil Shah, who attended the event, said one
of the many reasons he supports Clinton is her pledge to reduce student debt. As a recent graduate, he noted, his student loans have a continuing impact on his life. “She has plans to provide student loan forgiveness for people like me,” he said. “People who have jobs but are not making enough to save for my future. I’m more focused on paying off my loans than savings for my future and she helps change that.” Clinton also spent time discussing the state of Detroit Public School’s deteriorating infrastructure. The district’s
approximately $3.5 billion debt has led to a severe lack of infrastructure repairs, causing issues like mold and rodent infestations. She called upon Gov. Rick Snyder to remove the emergency manager that he instituted to manage Detroit Public Schools as a fix to the problems. “Let’s make sure that every child in every zip code gets a good education,” she said. “In the Detroit Public Schools, under an emergency manager, we’ve got children in classrooms filled with mold and rodents. I think that the governor should turn back the
control of the schools to the people of Detroit.” Robyn McCoy, an attorney with the Michigan Children’s Law Center in attendance, said she thought the choice to hold the rally in Detroit and her attention to local issues demonstrates Clinton’s appeal. “I think that this was a key location,” she said. “It shows the strengths of Hillary as a candidate that she is so well versed in local issues like Detroit Public Schools. It shows that she is multifaceted. She can help us on a local level and a national level.”
is raising issues that many other people prefer not to talk about at all,” Sanders said. LSA freshman Jonathan George, who attended the rally, said he would be voting for Sanders in Tuesday’s primary because of his stance on listening to marginalized groups. “I’ve been a longtime Sanders fan and I finally wanted to get the opportunity to see him in person, so I was very excited to be here,” George said. “I really like how Bernie, like he said, he focuses on policies that not many people talk about. He focuses on income inequality, gender issues, racial inequality — things that aren’t usually brought up in the normal election cycle. To find somebody who connects to their audience like that to the middle class so well and has the best interests of the middle class at heart the best, that he should be our president.” LSA freshman Victoria Thach said she was inspired to support Sanders because of his inclusive campaign. “I am a supporter of Senator Bernie, just because I am a firstgeneration student,” Thach said. “I don’t come from a very high class, and being here at the University of Michigan, it’s a bit hard being surrounded by so many people of higher income, it makes me feel a little small sometimes, and I enjoy that he’s giving us smaller people a voice.” In front of an audience of largely college students, Sanders discussed in depth his intentions to fix the higher education system.
The senator said a college degree has become what a high school diploma was 50 years ago, and the inaccessibility of a diploma based on the rising cost of college has led him to view tuition-free education as the only option. “When we think outside of the box, we choose to conclude that we need to make public colleges and universities tuition free,” Sanders said. “We need to substantially reduce student debt by allowing those with debt to refinance their loans at the lowest possible interest rates as they can.” Kohlenda said it was this mindset about college that sparked engagement in the Student for Sanders chapter on campus. “(Students like him) especially for his proposals that go much farther than any other candidate to deal with college debt, and to basically make sure that college is universal,” he said. Countering claims that his plan wasn’t feasible, Sanders explained he intended to fund a free-tuition program with a tax on corporate speculation. “When people say: ‘How can we afford free tuition at colleges and universities? How can we pay to reduce student debt? It’s an expensive proposition.’ It is,” Sanders said. “You know what we’re going to do? We’re going to propose a tax on Wall Street speculation.” He also tied investment in the education system to another piece of his platform — fixing the issue of mass incarceration. “If anybody here thinks that
there is not a connection between that very high rate of youth unemployment and the number of people we have in jail — you would be mistaken,” Sanders said. “Ready for a radical idea? We are going to invest for our young people in education and jobs, not jails and incarceration.” In addition to investing in jobs, Sanders touched on resolving the wage gap between men and women, which he said is maintained based on “old fashioned sexism.” The loudest audience responses of the night, however, occurred when the senator discussed the issue of women’s health. “(The movement is) telling Republicans who talk about family values that we know what they talk about, and what they’re talking about is telling every woman in this arena, in this state, in this country, that she cannot control her own body. I disagree,” Sanders said. That enthusiasm was also clear when Sanders repeated a call for Gov. Rick Snyder’s (R) resignation in wake of the Flint water crisis. “What I saw in Flint, Michigan, was one of the most unsettling and disturbing things that I have ever seen in my whole life,” Sanders said. “I do believe that the governor of this state should resign.” Sanders began his speech focusing on differentiating himself in the Democratic race, attacking Clinton’s views on trade and countering a claim she made in Sunday’s Democratic debate that he did not support the auto industry bailout. Sanders voted against funds for
the bailout included in the larger Troubled Assets Relief Program, which also included mechanisms to bail out several large banks. He voted in favor of a different, smaller package of funds for automakers. “That is absolutely false, there was one vote in the United States Senate, that would be on December 11, 2008, and of course I voted to defend the auto bailout,” Sanders said. “What I did not vote for was a middle class bailout of the crooks on Wall Street” He ended his speech in a similar manner, discussing his confidence as the Democratic nominee in defeating Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. “We will win because the American people do not want a president who insults Mexicans and Muslims,” Sanders said. “The American people do not want a president who insults women. The American people do not want a president who insults African Americans … We will together defeat Trump because the American people understand that we need our people together — Trump’s divisiveness is dividing us up. The American people will defeat Trump because they understand that community — helping each other, standing with each other in our times of need trumps selfishness.” After the speech, Sanders joined JR JR and Nate Ruess on stage to sing “This Land is Your Land,” one of several songs the candidate recorded in a 1987 folk album while serving as the mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
imprisonment of less than 30 days if a previous probation order was violated. A third violation results in a fine of no more than $500 along with potential imprisonment of less than 60 days if a previous probation order was violated. Substance abuse prevention services can be mandated at any step in the process as well. “People believe that we should not criminalize young people for one offense of possession of alcohol because the consequences are not just a misdemeanor,” Jones said. “It affects their ability to get some college scholarships, it affects their ability to get jobs when they get out of college and, in fact, there’s some state jobs, if you have an MIP on your record, you can’t get a state job.” MIP laws have been modified several times by the state in past years, generally with a focus on medical amnesty. In June 2012, House Bill 4393 took effect, exempting minors from legal prosecution if the minor in question or a minor who accompanied the minor in question specifically requested medical attention related to a legitimate health care concern after consuming alcohol, according to the legislature. This and other medical amnesty laws, some of which have been extended to drug use, aimed to get immediate attention for a medical issue if necessary, without the
concern of legal prosecution. Some cities, including Ann Arbor, also utilize the First Offender MIP Deferred Sentence Program, which makes first-time MIP offenders eligible to avoid misdemeanor charges, according to University Student Legal Services. This program, offered by the 15th District Court, mandates a student to attend the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students class. After six months of complying with probation requirements, no conviction would be entered to the student’s criminal record. Jones said he thought it was important to go beyond current policy and ensure that consequences were reduced for all first-time MIP offenders. “It’s really quite onerous for one misstep,” he said. For University students, the bill could impact some — but not all — of the consequences of underage drinking. On campus, beyond state law, there are also consequences levied by the University in regard to alcohol use. The University Alcohol and Other Drug Policy specifically states that illegally possessing, using, distributing, manufacturing or selling alcohol at the University violates expectations outlined under the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities. If caught exhibiting these behaviors, students could face sanctions
from the University as stated in theStatement of Student Rights and Responsibilities, including disciplinary probation, restriction from University employment, mandatory workshop attendance or transfer or removal from University housing. LSA junior Erin Dunne, co-director of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, said the student group thinks the legislation is a step forward in Michigan’s current framework of addressing underage drinking, but doesn’t acknowledge all of its concerns. “The position of the Students for Sensible Drug Policy organization is that the drinking age should be lowered and it should be up to the states to decide,” Dunne said. “Overall, this legislation is definitely in the right direction, but it doesn’t include provisions that we would ultimately like to see. We don’t have a position on the best drinking age, but we think that states should be allowed to decide.” Due to the fact that Senate Bill 332 is pending legislation, the University declined to comment on this issue. However, several efforts have been launched in past months to combat underage drinking on campus, including piloting a program in which the University would alert parents of freshman students who incurred a second related violation. The Family Education Rights and Privacy
Act allows, but does not require, universities to notify parents when an underage student incurs an alcohol or drug related violation. The University also initiated programs to engage with offcampus students about drinking, along with updates to the “Stay in the Blue” cell phone application, which aims to help students monitor their blood alcohol content. In 2014, the University also shortened freshman move-in times in an attempt to reduce opportunities for underage students to engage in alcohol consumption. Jones said for him, legislation felt warranted because of continuing alcohol abuse on campus despite efforts by colleges to limit it. “I certainly don’t support alcohol abuse, but I do feel (the consequences) should be fair,” he said. Dunne echoed Jones’ sentiments, saying she thought current laws don’t succeed in restricting underage drinking and do considerable damage to an individual’s future. “Students who do engage in responsible drinking and still are faced with a civil infraction or a minor in possession misdemeanor charge and haven’t had a problem with drinking actually experience more harm from the law than from the alcohol they’re drinking because there’s a misdemeanor that ends up on their record,” she said.
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CLINTON From Page 1 Clinton has changed a tremendous amount throughout her political career, with extreme flip-flopping on social issues and a lack of transparency on this flip-flopping, until recently. This warrants hesitation in trusting Clinton to stay strong to her policies. However, we choose to believe her ability to grow and learn from her changes shows a productive, nuanced and detail-oriented approach to changes in policy that naturally reflect changes in our nation’s culture. We watched Obama win the presidential election with a campaign promoting hope and optimism to the masses. And we have now watched eight years in which Obama worked tirelessly, and many times futility, to pass legislation on many of these hopes he had for our country. Though Sanders’ platform has this same hope and it is admirable, it is not realistic. Presidents have a day job beyond promoting a political-revolution rhetoric and Clinton has the policy agendas, experience and resources to be president. *** In the Republican primary race, we find an atmosphere characterized by aggressive rhetoric that is racist, sexist, bigoted and lacking in any substantive stances on policies. Out of this mess, Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) has emerged as the most sensible option for Republican voters. With ample experience as a member of the House Budget Committee and governor of Ohio, Kasich has a track record of not just addressing policy issues, but working in tandem with Democrats to pass legislation.
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Kasich has demonstrated his pragmatism in policies such as accepting the Medicaid expansion of Obamacare — something many Republican governors refused to do. He accepts the realities of manmade climate change, whereas other Republican candidates have refused to accept even the existence of global warming. He was influential in balancing federal budgets by collaborating with a Democratic president, Bill Clinton. As governor of a state with substantial ideological diversity, Kasich has been keen on approaching issues with practicality in mind. Unfortunately for the governor, his relatively moderate views have gained him less than desirable polling results. The Republican voting bloc has contributed to candidates’ gradual shift alarmingly far to the right, to the point where the frontrunner is a self-avowed bigot. The two other candidates with the most delegates are darlings of the ultra-conservative Tea Party Movement. Kasich is proving to be the best out of several bad options. Kasich is certainly not without his faults. In Ohio he is currently pushing for legislation that would defund Planned Parenthood — a critical provider of women’s health services beyond just abortion. He has also advocated the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, a policy that would effectively strip the health coverage of millions. However, compared to the rest of the Republican slate, there is a stark difference between Kasich’s approach and those of his competitors. For Republican voters looking for someone who has not succumbed to the unfortunate state of affairs in the Republican presidential race, John Kasich is the only viable option.
Two cultures clashing
he Two Cultures theory is an idea born from scientist C. P. Snow that criticizes the British educational system. His theory explains the clash between two opposing cultures — in his case, the arts and the sciences — and how their relationship was critical to adequate preparation for managing the modern world. Snow was outraged ZACH that learning Greek or Latin overshadowed BROWN learning about the engineering and scientific advances that were so critical to winning World War II in the classroom. He argued that countries like the United States and Germany, which emphasized educating its students in both the sciences and arts, gained competitive advantages. Since the coining of the theory, this idea has taken on a life of its own. Some would argue that the theory creates a forced dichotomy that in reality does not exist. I disagree. I have experienced this distinct binary within the music industry. Personally, I have heard animosity from record label executives about the differing perspectives of running a music company. On one hand, label veterans understand how to locate and develop talent. On the other hand, an outsider with a business degree may think differently about how to operate an efficient business model. The argument as to which perspective is better — music veterans or business savvy outsiders — is really the discussion of which “culture” should carry more weight. In a speech in 2010, Steve Jobs explained that part of his philosophical view for Apple was that “technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.” Jobs would argue, as would I, that both perspectives must exist in tandem. For a long time, a sophisticated scientific culture did not exist prominently in the music industry, if at all. However, a growing curiosity toward applying the sciences — or at least data — has begun to emerge. The recent success of analytic companies like
Next Big Sound will help to define a second culture in music. More advanced technology and analysis should be embraced, rather than rejected, as streaming services have been previously. Streaming services have been attacked for their low royalty payouts and that still is a concern, but it shouldn’t dominate the perception of tech companies in music. They are doing a lot of good, too, by bringing data-oriented minds into the music world. Taylor Swift boycotting the streaming services makes for flashy headlines. Yet, Will Page, Spotify’s director of economics, is doing important work assessing the impact of music festivals on local economies. And that should not go overlooked. South by Southwest, a music festival held in Austin, Texas, which has an artist lineup as diverse as its events, is a great example of how to intertwine these two cultures. The festival brings together hundreds of thousands of visitors for a weekend of music performances as well as technology and business conferences. At the most recent South by Southwest festival, economist Paul Krugman sat alongside other panelist discussing his notion of a new celebrity economy for artists — the idea that artists no longer make money from selling music, but from capitalizing on their celebrity branding through licensing, tours, etc. It’s an interesting point that creates a compelling picture for the future of music. But this crossroads in Austin must ripple throughout the industry. Labels and their artists should be keenly aware of economists like Krugman and invested in the discussions occurring at conferences across the country. For the sake of the long-term vitality of the music industry, the musicians and those promoting their work should be encouraged to think about innovations in big data and appreciate their worth. And to their credit, some labels have been quite proactive in doing so. 300 Entertainment developing talented artists while building partnerships with tech companies paves the way for the rest of the music industry, and hopefully other industries, to follow suit.
Musicians and those promoting their work should be encouraged to think about innovations in big data and appreciate their worth.
— Zach Brown can be reached at zmbrown@umich.edu.
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bjectivity is in many ways a myth — but this isn’t a novel thought. I think we all accept that no one can be truly objective in how they view a situation. But our lack of objectivity goes even deeper since worldview is VICTORIA continually NOBLE influenced by environment. Monday night, I went to the Bernie Sanders Rally at Crisler Center. It was one of the most fun events I’ve attended recently — and I’m a Republican. The audience’s excitement was palpable and contagious. The vibe was simultaneously relaxed and passionate; the music bounced back and forth between chill instrumentals and hardcore rock songs about freedom. I’ve been to several rallies as a volunteer and interned on several campaigns, but this was by far the youngest and most energetic crowd I’ve seen at a campaign rally. The two girls sitting next to me screamed like they were at a One Direction concert, and shouted, “let’s go!” and “primaries, baby!” at various points throughout the rally. The couple sitting in front of me showed their support while holding a pair of giant sound-blocking headphones over their baby’s ears. While I don’t agree with his policies or self-proclaimed socialist ideology, the excitement Sanders has managed to generate makes perfect sense. Sanders’ platform is filled with policies that promise a radical deviation from the status quo of American politics. Opening speakers cited his promises to provide free college education and prevent manufacturing jobs from moving overseas by blocking free-trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. As countries in the global south liberalized their economies — in part due to pressure from the
United States — millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs have moved overseas to countries where the market price for labor is considerably lower. As high-paying manufacturing jobs that don’t require a college education become scarce, affording an education becomes both more difficult and more important. It also doesn’t help that the cost of college is rising for other reasons, and the Europeans get it for free. On both the left and right, U.S. voters are responding with excitement to policies designed to remedy the perceived decline in American exceptionalism. Both Donald Trump and Sanders have invoked the idea that the U.S. is losing from free-trade agreements. On the right, rhetoric has been xenophobic and accusatory, blaming migrant workers and Chinese currency manipulation for the anemic growth of the U.S. econo-
Capitalism is a logical target for Americans’ frustrations.
my. On the left, it has blamed capitalism and international trade for the same issue. Capitalism is a logical target for Americans’ frustrations. After all, free trade really has allowed great jobs to move overseas, and this really has exacerbated income inequality. The only reason this is possible is because other countries transitioned to open-market economies. But what the Sanders campaign fails to recognize is that global capitalism has lifted more than a billion people out of extreme poverty in the last 20 years alone. Sanders runs an egalitarian campaign. But if promoting anti-trade policies that help U.S. union workers at the expense of
the world’s poorest people isn’t American privilege, I don’t know what is. If the left is willing to sit back and throw stones at Trump’s racist rhetoric, then they should certainly be more critical of their own candidate’s policies that can only address domestic inequality at the expense of millions of people around the world. But I’ve gotten ahead of myself a bit, because Sanders’ policies aren’t really ready for that sort of serious analysis. The sort of changes Sanders promotes are far beyond the scope of anything a U.S. president can reasonably hope to accomplish unilaterally — or constitutionally. Given the recent Congressional gridlock and the fact that several U.S. entitlement programs are already systemically underfunded — I’m looking at you, social security — it seems unlikely that Congress would approve a plan to provide free college tuition. That’s simply not something that could happen via executive order. I know that some of you reading this are probably feeling the Bern. Maybe you were even one of the enthusiastic voters screaming at the rally. And I can see why you would. Sanders promises change, and change is exciting. Obama excited voters by promising change, too. But it’s hard to point to any thrilling shifts in U.S. policies from the past eight years. There’s an important lesson in that fact — American policymaking is much more gradual and far less earth shattering than election and campaign promises. An adequate response to increasing competition from abroad and inequality at home cannot be derived by unrealistic campaign promises — no matter how exciting. We don’t need a socialist in the White House. We need a president who knows how to make global capitalism work more efficiently and equitably for Americans. Sanders is not that candidate. — Victoria Noble can be reached at vjnoble@umich.edu.
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en. Bernie Sanders wants to cure society’s cancer. While he may have an uncanny ability to speak poetically about realigning the economic playing field to better enfranchise people of all classes, colors and creeds, he fails to recogDANNY nize that cancer SACK is “a collection of related diseases” driven by a diverse array of often confounding caustic variables — not a singular, static disease with one cause and one treatment. Though he certainly acknowledges the associations of racism, sexism and xenophobia, among others, with society’s cancer, his steadfast insistence that just fixing our rigged economy will cure us is a gross oversimplification. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, takes a more dynamic and multifaceted view. Though she does not elicit the same excitement as Sanders when addressing large crowds, her ability to examine and analyze problems through a variety of lenses is simultaneously remarkable and inspiring. She understands that society’s cancers have metastasized to a degree where one generalized solution will simply not cut it. Clinton’s life story is one of resilience in the face of (sometimes selfinflicted) attacks on her integrity. She has stood up to a sexist status quo and continues to break down
the barriers separating the assumptions about and expectations of people of all genders. Her resilience has the potential to resonate with millions of Americans who have overcome struggles with a steeled resolve to leave their children and grandchildren better off than themselves. I do not mean to take anything away from Sanders, who has brought an important issue to the forefront of public conversation, and is an excellent candidate to address the inequities pervasive in our current economic system. He has also successfully mobilized new and previously disenfranchised voters crucial for winning the White House in November. Given the stakes of their campaigns, it is not unreasonable to question both candidates’ qualifications, explore past accomplishments and demand transparency about any inconsistencies. While Sanders certainly says the right things, he is often unable to back up his statements with the concrete steps he would take as president to make change. He is not a single-issue candidate because he only talks about one issue; he is a single-issue candidate because he advocates the same solution to every problem. Clinton, too, is not without her drawbacks. Though she could certainly be more transparent about her past missteps, her reluctance to do so represents the very humanity that she is often denied by her detractors. To expect someone who has spent her whole career being unfairly dismissed — often
with arguments that fall outside the realm of logic and reason — to openly admit past mistakes, while a fair expectation in a presidential campaign, is also one that I expect to come to fruition as the campaign moves forwards. I recognize the potential hypocrisy in my argument. I am cynical about the possibility of Sanders’ promises materializing, yet I am optimistic that Clinton will be more open to discussing the discrepancies that cloud her past. This is in part because she has already started to do so. Furthermore, I am more worried about the failure of Sanders’ planned political revolution — which I concede would be rather brilliant — than I am the effects of Clinton’s past on her ability to not only win the general election, but also to effectively govern the day she gets into office. We have made real progress exposing and strategically dismantling the multitude of malignancies that inhabit various regions of our society over the past eight years. We need a president who can navigate through our complicated political landscape, starting not after a few years on the job, but on day one. Hillary Clinton’s breadth of knowledge, her experience challenging a rigged status quo and her ability to think about and address issues through more than one lens make her the best candidate for president in 2016. — Danny Sack can be reached at sackd@umich.edu.
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Problematic ‘Caine Prize aesthetic’ “
No, I don’t think there is a ‘Caine Prize Aesthetic,’” NoViolet Bulawayo responded during a recent Q&A in the University of Michigan’s Hopwood Room. This isn’t surprising to hear. In 2011, Bulawayo won the Caine Prize for African Writing, an REBECCA annual literary award LERNER for African original stories, for her story “Hitting Budapest.” The story is the first chapter of her novel, “We Need New Names.” Along with the award and 10,000 pounds, the winner also often accepts the stigma of the “Caine Prize aesthetic” — the idea that the authors are conforming to pre-existing notions that the Western world, and the Western judges, have about Africa. In the Q&A, Bulawayo, who moved to America from Zimbabwe as a young adult, went on to describe the ways in which winning the Caine Prize bolstered her confidence in her ability to write and sell a full-length novel. But can we take her word as a winner and beneficiary of the prize that an aesthetic does not exist?
The Caine Prize homogenizes western ideas of Africa. I don’t think we can. This is nothing against Bulawayo — she’s an engaging intellectual, and “We Need New Names” is a fantastic book. But both her story and its form in her novel comply with stereotypical ideas of poverty and brutality in Zimbabwe. This is where I get lost contemplating the Caine Prize. Bulawayo’s novel is both
incredibly well-written and an opportunity for a voice that would normally be silenced to be heard, a chance we cannot take for granted. But her themes of incest, starvation and child neglect play into our ideas of a place we’ve never seen. Our construction of Africa is pieced together from sensationalist journalism and a lack of the consideration for the ethnic and geographic diversity of the continent. The Caine Prize, dubbed the “African Man Booker,” has increasingly come under fire for catering to the Western world at the expense of the literary independence of the authors. In 2015, Zambian writer Namwali Serpell won the prize for her story “The Sack,” a nuanced and enigmatic narrative of the relationship between two men who love the same woman. (If you want to read the story, set aside an hour or two of your time. It’s not long, but the confusing nature of the structure lends itself to rewarding new discoveries every time you reread it.) Serpell’s triumph in winning the prize struck the literary world as unusual for two reasons. One: an author from Zambia had never won the prize before. In the fifteen years of the Caine Prize, the winners have been overwhelmingly from Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa, with some exceptions of Sudan, Uganda and Sierra Leone. The recent influx of winners from countries with less established ties to Western literature reflects the growing diversity of the prize between nations. The second reason might change the course of the prize forever. Serpell accepted the prize and immediately announced that she would be sharing the 10,000 pound prize with her fellow shortlisted writers. Serpell later described this to BBC Newsday as “an act of mutiny …” It’s awkward to be placed into this position of competition with other writers that you respect immensely and get put into a sort of “American Idol” or racehorse situation when actually you all just want to support each other.” Binyavanga Wainaina, win-
ner of the Caine Prize in 2002 and LGBT activist in his home country of Kenya, has also spoken out against the burden of the prize. Wainaina took to Twitter, directly calling out the prize, saying, “Caine Prize! 10,000 dollars and never ask questions, coz literary intellectuals shld never be uncertain about who Rules African literature.” Perhaps due to the democratizing nature of the Internet, writers are feeling more at ease coming out with their dissatisfaction about the nature of the prize. I recently had the opportunity to listen to Shadreck Chikoti, a Malawian writer who came to the University as part of the Zell Visiting Writers series. Chikoti, who writes in both English and Chichewa, was selected to attend the Caine Prize African Writers’ Workshop in Cameroon in 2011, and his story “Child of a Hyena” was published in the Caine Prize 2011 anthology. And yet, when asked about his time working in conjunction with the prize, Chikoti said that in some ways the prize went against “how much I believe in the liberty of an author … in people writing whatever they want.” He expressed the pressure he felt from officials to write a story about stereotypes and traditions of Malawi, rather than letting ideas naturally come. But Chikoti recently broke from the social construction of what African writers can and cannot write, in his publication of the science fiction novel “Azotus the Kingdom.” Namwali Serpell, after winning the prize, spoke similarly of these pressures and of people asking questions like “Are you an African writer? What is Africa and its life?” The problems we have with the Caine Prize go deeper than problems within literature. These issues reflect our need to homogenize Africa and the way we ask one writer a year to write the single story the Western world has assigned it. Lerner’s confusing nature lends itself to rewarding new discoveries. Take the time to e-mail her at rebler@umich.edu.
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FILM REVIEW
SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT
“Okay Spartans, let’s get in formation.”
‘Gods of Egypt’ is the good kind of terrible By JACOB RICH Senior Arts Editor
Hey, you. Yeah, you. The person in the back who’s always bitching about how Hollywood movies aren’t original anymore. Oh, B“everything’s a reboot or a sequel” this, Gods of “corporate Egypt cash-grab” that. It’s time Rave & for you to put Quality 16 your money where your Summit mouth is Entertainment and pony up for “Gods of Egypt,” the most original film of the year. And guess what? This commercial and critical failure is almost worth watching for a number of reasons. Bear with me. For nearly every second of this movie, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing happen onscreen. Not because the effects are convincing or the action awe-inspiring — certainly, neither is the case — but because I was repeatedly shocked at the amount of CGI-drenched lunacy that is packed into each frame of the picture. I’m supposed to summarize the plot for you, but where do I even begin? This is a movie about shredded 10-foot-tall God-bros (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, “Game of Thrones,” and Gerard Butler, “300”) with gold blood that turn into giant robot eagles and fight with laser beams. They hang out with scantily-clad babes and have
shiny crystal organs that they can take out like Lego pieces. But it’s also a buddy movie? And a road movie? And there’s a 15-minute break in the middle to show a scene where Ra (Geoffrey Rush, “Pirates of the Caribbean”) drags the sun, held by giant chain, around the FLAT, DISC-SHAPED EARTH (I’m sure Tila Tequila and B.o.B. will love this movie), and then fights a giant shadowleviathan thing to make sure it doesn’t eat reality? Oh, what a mess. What a strange, fascinating mess. One of my favorite gaming websites gives out a “Hottest Mess” award at the end of every year — if we did that at The Michigan Daily, “Gods of Egypt” would be a shoo-in. Every shot in “Gods of Egypt” feels like it had its own director and cinematographer, coordinating their craftsmanship over a laggy Skype call. I’ve seen bad CGI before, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen CGI this egregiously bad. But I can’t look away, and I don’t want to. Some of this stuff — a few “Raiders of the Lost Ark” rip-off scenes, some Power Rangers-style fight scenes — is a whole lot of fun. I’ve been trying to figure out a good film comparison to ground this review in something familiar, but “Gods of Egypt” honestly feels like no other film I’ve seen. Perhaps the closest thing to it is the “Clash of the Titans” franchise, but “Gods of Egypt” is much more visually interesting, imaginative and all over the place. Plus, it lacks Sam Worthington, which is always a plus.
Really, “Gods of Egypt” is much more like a video game. It reminds me most of “Bayonetta” and “God of War,” violent character action games in which oversexualized deities slice and dice mythological creatures within a vaguely religious conflict. I truly appreciate the creativity that went into “Gods of Egypt.” It’s evident writer/director Alex Proyas (“I, Robot”) had extraordinarily ambitious ideas and was assisted in establishing a solid vision by a really terrific team of concept artists. But there’s a tinge of disinterested incompetence that drags “Gods of Egypt” through the dirt before it shows up to the prom. With terrible accents and lackadaisical delivery, Gerard Butler and Chadwick Boseman (“Get On Up”) clearly don’t give a shit about their performance any time they’re onscreen. The trying-too-hard jokes fail to get laughs much more often than they succeed. Several of the main Egyptian characters are embarrassingly cast mayonnaise-white. And as I said, the CGI is dated and messy, seemingly worked on by a multitude of uncoordinated effects houses. Despite these cringe-inducing elements, I can almost see “Gods of Egypt” becoming a cult film over the next few years. Perhaps it’s saying something about Hollywood’s tendency to reuse and recycle that I found such an incompetently structured (and way too long, by the way) film so enjoyable. It’s frustrating how nearly recommendable this film is.
TV REVIEW
FILM REVIEW
‘Mustang’ gallops ‘Mavis!’ explores the with gentle realism influential chanteuse By SOPHIA KAUFMAN By MADELEINE GAUDIN Daily Arts Writer
Last Sunday, “Mustang” — the first film from TurkishFrench director Deniz Gamze Ergüven — narrowly lost A the Oscar for best foreign Mustang film to Hungarian Holo- Ad Vitam caust drama “Son of Saul.” If that was the first you’ve heard of “Mustang,” it won’t be the last. Though heralded as the Turkish “Virgin Suicides,” “Mustang” shares only its structure, not its substance, with Coppola’s cult classic. The film follows five orphaned sisters growing up in a coastal Turkish town who, after a neighbor sees them playing with male classmates on the beach, are imprisoned in their grandmother’s home to preserve their marriageability. However, as the title might suggest, “Mustang” is full of a wildness and passion that allows it to both lament the girls’ captivity and commend their resilience. The girls function as a sort of collective unit, each one more or less representative of the whole — with the exception of Lale (Günes Sensoy), the youngest sister and the film’s narra-
tor. It is her rebelliousness and energy that seems to set much of the film in motion. Her love of soccer sends the girls on their largest rebellion: a secret outing to an all-female soccer game. She is the audience surrogate — through her eyes we see the movie and feel her anxiety and restlessness. Ergüven crafts her film with a gentleness that allows the space the girls inhabit to be both beautiful and oppressive. Shots full of lush greenery and golden sunlight stand in brilliant contrast to the coldness and severity with which the girls’ lives are handled.
This won’t be the last time you hear of it. Similarly, despite its negative portrayals of marriage, “Mustang” is full of love. The girls love each other with an unrivaled fierceness. Beacons of hope outside the family, like Yasin and Lale’s teacher, love the girls and help them find a world full of hope. That isn’t to say that “Mustang” is a beautiful, rose-col-
ored cry for help. The girls are not manic angels awaiting rescue. They are not passive or quiet. They are fierce and independent. The walls close in on them because they push out against them. Likewise, Ergüven does not hold back on the social commentary. The oppression of women, especially young women, and the unfaltering fascination with their purity is at the forefront. Their sin was not playing on the beach with boys, but rather their sin was being born girls. Their most important feature is their marriageability. Their sin of femininity can only be absolved once they are tied forever to a man. And while it might be easy to dismiss this world as being completely Turkish (as a way to say it is completely not American), Ergüven crafts it in a way that makes it universal. The girls, as much as they function as individual forces, also function as representatives of all girls, all young women who are held back by walls literal or figurative. This is how “Mustang” transcends its labels as a “Turkish ‘Virgin Suicides’” or a “modern ‘Pride & Prejudice.’” It becomes something wholly its own, belonging as much to its cast and crew as it does to every girl who has ever yearned for freedom.
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“I’ll stop singing when I have nothing left to say … and you know, that ain’t gonna happen.” This is one of the first lines in the B+ new HBO Mavis! Documentary Films produc- Film First tion, and it sets the tone for HBO the rest of the Documentary film. “Mavis!”, Films which premiered Feb. 29 on HBO, is a semi-biographical look at the career and influence of Mavis Staples, a soul and gospel singer and civil rights activist whose 60-year career shaped the music and mood of the 1960s and beyond. A typical documentary in form and length, “Mavis!” relies on the spark of its subject to propel it along. Mavis began performing in earnest once her father heard her sing and realized they could make a family career out of it. Her recounting of her childhood is heartwarming; when people heard her for the first time, they didn’t believe it was a little girl. “ ‘That’s got to be a man or a big fat woman,’ ” she laughs, quoting them. “ ‘That’s not a little girl.’ ” The first time she ever got an encore, she
didn’t know what that word meant — and because she had only prepared one song, she repeated it twice. She became the lead singer of the Staple Singers when she was just a teenager; she and her father, “Pops” Staples, were the only constant performers through the history of the band. Their style was a blend unlike anything else being produced at the time; it fit into the pattern of popular gospel music, but it drew from the kind of music played in the 1920s. The strongest material of the documentary is found in the footage of Mavis’s performances, both from her past in the Staple Singers and as a solo artist later on. By the time someone remarks in the documentary that Staples’s career has lasted as long as the Rolling Stones’ — and had as much influence — it isn’t hard to believe, though she isn’t as well-known in popular culture as other gospel singers. At one point, Staples casually mentions how Bob Dylan wasn’t just a fan of the Staple Singers, but wanted to marry her. It’s throwaway statements like this that remind us how rich a career Staples has had, adding a layer of touching depth to the documentary. “Mavis!” takes some time getting to the civil rights portion of her story, but once it gets there, the documentary picks
up steam. Staples talks about how she started performing “freedom songs” after experiencing the influence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. One of the most mesmerizing segments is her account of watching little children attempt to board a bus during the integration of public schools in Little Rock; that experience is reflected in her music. “Any freedom song that we wrote was because of the movement,” Staples says. The warm, rich footage of her provocative music is compelling, both artistically and in the messages that, as she points out, are still relatable. “Mavis!” feels longer than it is; it’s a relatively quiet film for such a powerful subject. It’s not a hypnotizing piece of work, but it does justice to its subject, and Mavis herself is delightful to listen to. The confidence she displays in her powerhouse vocal performances is mirrored in the longer interview segments; you can’t help but believe what she says. Toward the end of the documentary, she reiterates the sentiments with which she opened. “I’ll sing until I can’t sing anymore,” she says, laughing. “ ... and if ya’ll don’t see me here singin’, look for me in heaven. Somewhere, I’ll be walkin’ those streets of gold, singin’ round God’s throne.”
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‘Triple 9’ doesn’t bring the thrills New action film is just an exercise in hyper-masculinity. By DANIEL HENSEL Daily Arts Writer
What is the purpose of a thriller? Is it to attain some perverse sense of entertainment — cinematic schadenfreude? What- C ever the reason we have tra- Triple 9 ditionally valRave & Quality 16 ued the crime thriller genre, Open Road Films “Triple 9” tests our dedication to it. The film, directed by John Hillcoat (“Lawless”), offers viewers two hours of visual torture. It’s a film so brutal and visceral that by the end, one feels as if watching a Tarantino movie would lighten the mood. “Triple 9” follows a group of criminals and corrupt cops who decide to kill a new police officer so they can carry out a large heist on behalf of a Russian mafia boss, led by Irina Vlaslov (played by a steely Kate Winslet, “Steve Jobs”). The film boasts some pretty good acting performances. Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years a Slave”) and Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad”) both deliver reliably good performances as two dark, slight-
ly maniacal criminals, and Anthony Mackie (“The Hurt Locker”), playing a two-timing cop, makes the best of a limited script. Casey Affleck (“Ocean’s Eleven”) and Woody Harrelson (“True Detective”) deliver performances that play to their strengths, or perhaps their career stereotypes. Thrillers generally fall into two camps: they either use mystery to build tension and suspense until a climactic action sequence, or they surprise their audience by constructing a peaceful scene that quickly becomes mired in violence. “Triple 9” awkwardly straddles the two. The score by Atticus Ross (“The Social Network”) feels almost repetitive, as if he created only two or three tracks for the entire movie. The editing by Dylan Tichenor (“There Will Be Blood”), who is usually at the top of his game, never lets us linger on a face for too long, keeping us on edge yet never quite achieving the tension that elevates a good film to a great one. But more than anything else, it’s the writing that hampers the film. Situated somewhere between a crime thriller, family drama and body horror, the film just doesn’t know where it wants to go. It has little to no point or purpose, other than to provide entertainment. That alone is not a problem. In fact, it’s quite the opposite; too often, films
try to have a point when they really shouldn’t. But “Triple 9” is so brutal and violent that it couldn’t just stand by itself as a piece of entertainment. It’s a thriller that just doesn’t thrill as much as it should. “Triple 9” also suffers from confusing what information it should and should not reveal. A critical storyline gets lost in the action sequences, yet the identities of the two-timing police officers are revealed in the first scene. The final moments of the film suggest that Hillcoat and writer Matt Cook were more interested simply in the concept of a Triple 9, the police code for a death of a police officer, than a good story that involved one. And, admittedly, the code does have a nice ring to it, but that’s no excuse to spend money and two hours of one’s time. Further, the film seems to be more of an exercise in hypermasculinity than an attempt to tell. Like a cinematic dickmeasuring contest, each scene seems like an attempt to be more masculine than the scene before. Pointless drug use? Check. Pointless nudity, including a scene in more-graphically-depicted-than-normal strip club? Check. Profanity flies as frequently as the bullets. And of course, this is not always a problem; if the world of the film calls for these sorts of characters, it’s appropriate. But for “Triple 9,” it’s utterly pointless.
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ALBUM REVIEW
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The 1975 ages like a fine wine on ‘Sleep’ By SHIMA SADAGHIYANI Daily Arts Writer
Variety is the spice of life, and The 1975, with its funky electronic rhythms and lead singer Matt Healy’s even funkier hair, know all about Aspicing things up. With 17 I Like It tracks, their When You new album, I Like It When Sleep... You Sleep, for The 1975 You Are So Polydor Records Beautiful Yet So Unaware of
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It, is as long-winded as its title and could have easily fallen prey to repetition and flat, consistent songs. Instead, The 1975 push the bright and bold LED aesthetic it is known for; every song in this album bursts with uniqueness, zealousness and vitality. It’s a mess, but it’s an endearing mess, with The 1975 unashamedly unconcerned with its strange conglomeration of songs. Of course, The 1975 isn’t one to shy away from ambition, considering its first formidable 16-track self-titled album. It was on this album that The 1975 created its offbeat yet sensational pop-punk sound through songs like “The City,” “Chocolate” and “Girls.” A mixture of Healy’s endearingly unguarded vocals and a (slightly off-tempo) blunt and eclectic beat established the band as having a sound that was distinctively its own. With its first album, The 1975 not only lit a space for itself in the music industry with blinding, neon lights but also made a promise to come back in a way that both kept its idiosyncratic music alive and pushed the label of its creativity. I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It carries out that promise and more. The album is an assorted mix of homages to the past and salutes to the exploration of the future. The surfacelevel electronica dance hits clash with the bone-deep, heavy beats of mournful ballads to conjure an album that is some parts old, some parts new and all parts incredible. The new album begins with the self-titled “The 1975,” a complete parallel to their first album’s opening track, also selftitled “The 1975.” Both songs in the two different albums sound so similar they might as well be the same song. Hearing the soft, dulcet chorus over a rising melody repeat itself in this new album is comforting and creates a connection between past and present. The album then transitions into “Love Me,” a light-hearted celebration of former renowned songs such as “Chocolate” and “Girls.” “Love Me” (just like its predecessors in The 1975) is jaunting and weird. The unpredictable beat in the background almost has as much animation as Matt Healy’s voice, as he sings “and love me / if that’s what you want to do.” However, instead of being unsettling, the song’s surreal sound mimics the sound of The 1975’s entire first album. Much like this album’s first track,
“Love Me” is captivating not in its strangeness, but in its familiarity. Slowly, through songs like “Love Me,” and later on, “UGH!” and “She’s American,” The 1975 guides its listeners through an album that starts off recognizable but slowly veers into experimental. This beginning familiarity helps prevent the album from becoming distant as a result of an overwhelming number of songs that push the boundaries of The 1975’s usual sound. Instead, through subtle R&B influences, songs like “If I Believe You” and “Loving Someone” help add depth and appeal. Smooth and slow, “If I Believe You” oozes sex appeal; through “and if I believe you, would that make it stop / if I told you I need you, is that what you want?” Healy’s voice conjures up images of soft sunset beaches and dimly lit rooms as it crawls out of the speakers. “Loving Someone” is somewhat similar, with the ambient “yeah, you should be loving someone / oh, oh, loving someone” of the chorus contradicting the quick and direct vocals of the verses. Both these songs are enthralling in their novelty and keep the album itself from becoming flat. However, the best moments on I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It are on songs that are quietly simple. With a band whose music has such an intense presence, songs like the title track, “Nana” and “She Lays Down” shine in their unobtrusiveness. The title track is entirely instrumental, with a tranquil driving beat that makes the entire song twinkle like fairy lights. Both “Nana” and “She Lays Down” finish the album off with softly acoustic guitar strums. The minimal background noise of these two songs helps bring the vocals front and center. Healy’s melodious singing voice signs the album off with a gentle flourish. Overall, I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It reads like an older sibling of The 1975’s first album. It is similar in many aspects and holds much of the same winning qualities, but it’s inherently more mature. The 1975 felt comfortable in experimenting with music that might be hard to jive with, but they hold their own, standing dauntlessly with the album. This album proves that, right alongside wine and cheese, The 1975 can be added to the list of things that age with grace.
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he floodlight shone down from the rafters onto Nick Schilkey, christening the Buckeyes’ overtime hero who had just handed the Michigan hockey team its second loss of the KEVIN weekend SANTO against Ohio State. Schilkey’s goal came on a broken play, after Michigan senior goaltender Steve Racine made two saves that seemingly kept the Wolverines’ hope of a victory alive. But after the second rebound, Racine left the net in a footrace with Schilkey to clear the puck. The Ohio State junior beat Racine to the spot and buried the puck into the net past a pair of sprawling Michigan players. As the Buckeyes celebrated on the ice, the Wolverines laid in the same spot Schilkey had left them — hanging their heads, collapsed on their knees, helplessly watching Ohio State celebrate a weekend it had no business winning. The fact is, this wasn’t a fluke. Ohio State outplayed Michigan this weekend — not in every facet of the game, but the sixth-ranked Wolverines were outplayed nonetheless. But losing isn’t the real issue. You can’t expect a team to be perfect. After all, every team that sits above Michigan (10-5-3-2 Big Ten, 20-7-5 overall) in the PairWise Rankings — with the exception of Quinnipiac — has five or more losses. And losing to opponents you should beat on paper isn’t the real issue either. No. 5 Boston College lost to both New Brunswick (in
an exhibition) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute early in the season. No. 1 North Dakota dropped a game against Wisconsin in November and No. 3 St. Cloud State lost to Colorado College in January. I can’t curse here, so let me put it this way: In college hockey, fecal matter happens. The real issue is that the Wolverines have yet to establish an identity. The sweep at the hands of the Buckeyes has made that issue even more pressing. Michigan is now tasked with getting up off its knees and finding its identity. But there isn’t much time, with only one series against Penn State separating the team from the Big Ten and NCAA Tournaments. The most concerning part of this predicament is that there have been stretches when the Wolverines seemed to establish their calling card, when the pieces come within centimeters of completing the puzzle. But at those junctures, when fans yearn for a “ta-da!” moment, there always seems to be a weekend that pulls those pieces farther apart. Just look at the winning stretch Michigan put together in February, when the Wolverines seemed to put any concerns about an identity crisis out of question. They barreled through their opponents and went on a five-game undefeated tear from Feb. 6 through Feb. 25. Racine was playing the best hockey of his life, and the defense was finally up to speed with an offense that has been producing historic numbers. The Wolverines capped off the run with a commanding win against Minnesota that put them in the driver’s seat for the Big Ten regular season title. But only a day after taking
the wheel, Michigan let it go, swallowing a 3-2 overtime loss against the Golden Gophers. That’s when you started to wonder if the Wolverines’ identity was being turned on its head. Then the two recent defeats against the Buckeyes provided a stronger case that it had. Those losses were ugly. Friday, Michigan squandered an early two-goal lead at home and allowed Ohio State to score six unanswered goals. Sunday didn’t get much better, as the Buckeyes scored three consecutive goals in the first and led 5-1 for most of the second period. And in both games, there were stretches when the Wolverines looked lost, searching for something to grasp onto that could pull them back into contention. That’s the most troubling part. Yes, the teams above Michigan in the PairWise Rankings have SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily losses, and bad ones at that, The Michigan hockey team was upset twice by Ohio State over the weekend, including a 6-5 loss in overtime on Sunday. but they also have a blueprint to follow when the cards seem Michigan coach Red Berenson in the defensive zone that looks The concerning questions, stacked against them. put it after Sunday’s loss, “We’re like the Wolverines are trying to though, are this: What happens When the Wolverines get to saying one thing and doing fit a square peg in a round hole. if Michigan needs something the NCAA Tournament, they will another on the ice.” That’s not who they are, and they to lean on in a tight game early see that first hand. The Wolverines can say they shouldn’t pretend it is. in the postseason? What if Boston College’s defense is need to improve the defense, But when they embrace this the Wolverines can’t replicate fourth in the nation. St. Cloud which they do, but the stark historic offense and use their the performances from their State has the second-best power reality is that given the season’s defensemen to compliment it by winning stretches, but instead play in college hockey. No. sample size, they simply won’t keeping them tight at the blue have one of their off games in a 2 Quinnipiac and No. 7 Yale shut out opponents. Their line and involved in the offensive win-or-go-home situation? both sit atop the country in the defense isn’t at that level, and play, it’s a sight to behold. The weekend against Ohio penalty kill, and North Dakota they don’t have the time to get The players aren’t in denial. State brought a serious concern does it all, ranking in the top 10 there either. They know this team doesn’t to the forefront. The Wolverines in both team defense and team Finding what they have been have an identity yet. Sophomore don’t have a reliable identity yet, offense. looking for all season may be defenseman Zach Werenski and finding it in the middle of And if Michigan doesn’t have as simple as not ignoring the acknowledged that Sunday. a postseason run might not be it all figured out when those obvious. Michigan leads the “An identity is built over a full good enough. matchups come its way in March, nation with 4.72 goals per game. year,” he said. “When we get to There are 17 days until the it could quickly get bullied out of No team has scored at that rate playoffs, I think we’re going to NCAA Tournament. The clock is contention. since the 1999-2000 season. find it. I’m not too worried about ticking. The Wolverines’ search for What’s so wrong with it. It wasn’t a great weekend for an identity like those of its embracing that? When Michigan us, but when it comes time for Santo can be reached at powerhouse counterparts has tries to “play better defense,” it playoffs, I think we’ll be dialed in kmsanto@umich.edu and on been an inconsistent process. As adopts a conservative approach and ready to go.” Twitter @Kevin_Santo_8.
Wolverines cruise to Michigan splits in Texas another 3-1 weekend By LELAND MITCHINSON Daily Sports Writer
By JAKE LOURIM Managing Sports Editor
The Michigan water polo team again played a four-game tournament after rising in the national poll and again proved to coach Marcelo Leonardi that his vision for the program is paying off in his second season. “Honestly, I think we’re overachieving,” Leonardi said. “Going from year one to year two, we’ve definitely overachieved. There were some games that I thought we would be close to winning, but in order to say that we would be this good right now, it’s definitely humbling.” This weekend, the Wolverines hosted four games at Canham Natatorium, knocking off No. 21 Long Beach State, 15-8, and No. 15 Loyola Marymount, 12-11, on Saturday. That set up a Sunday rematch with No. 2 UCLA, which defeated Michigan for the third time this season, 9-5. But the Wolverines recovered and trounced George Washington, 19-2, continuing their roll and securing a third straight 3-1 weekend. After ranking No. 12 in the preseason poll — tied with conference foe Indiana — Michigan (16-5) came in at No. 5 last week and should remain there this week. Leonardi arrived last season and led his team to a 19-13 finish, but the Wolverines couldn’t manage to earn their first NCAA Tournament bid since 2010. This year, that goal is more within reach. Leonardi fashioned a difficult schedule for Michigan, with the first 20 games coming against ranked teams. That competition has put the Wolverines in a position for an at-large bid — that is, if they don’t win the California Water Polo Association championship and snag the automatic bid. Leonardi believes that at this point, his team is in good position for one
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Marcelo Leonardi has Michigan ranked No. 5 nationally in his second season.
or the other, provided it takes care of business in conference play starting April 2. After two important weekends on the road in California, Michigan returned home, where it is now 7-1 this season. Leonardi credited the typical aspects of home — such as players sleeping in their own beds, seeing their family and having friends come to the games — for the success. Against Long Beach State, the Wolverines pulled away with seven straight goals in the first half that provided the final margin of victory. Loyola Marymount proved tougher in a game that featured seven ties and five lead changes, but Michigan prevailed despite giving up a goal with five seconds left that trimmed the deficit back to one. “The word ‘resiliency’ definitely comes up, but I also gotta say composure,” Leonardi said. “In the most critical times, we have great leadership in the
water, and I feel like the game slows down for them.” Even with two wins under their belts, though, the Wolverines couldn’t upset the high-powered Bruins. While Michigan has made progress over the past year, Leonardi thinks his team is just short in terms of personnel — UCLA goes 12 players deep, while the Wolverines only have nine or 10 at that level. “I feel we’re one piece away,” Leonardi said. “Talent-wise, they’re just a little bit further ahead, and that has a lot to do with the fact that they’ve been a juggernaut for so many years.” Michigan is off for two of the next three weekends, with a four-game tournament at Arizona State in between. Three of those games will be against ranked teams, but the Wolverines are currently the highest-rated of all of them. Their standing is a reward for the success, and with each weekend, it keeps building.
The Michigan women’s tennis team wasn’t firing on all cylinders over Spring Break as it split its series in Texas last week. Despite the less than ideal performance, the Wolverines are happy with where they are as the beginning of Big Ten play draws nearer. “I think we are in good shape,” said Michigan coach Ronni Bernstein after Saturday’s match. “You know this one today, even Baylor, I don’t know that we played our best, (we were) a little passive at times at some spots. As a whole, I don’t know if we’ve had all six kids playing their best at the same time, and that’s what it’s going to take every time we go out on the court.” Michigan defeated Baylor on Thursday in a close match, 4-2, but the team was unable to complete a comeback against Texas on Saturday, ultimately falling 4-3. Against the Longhorns, the Wolverines found themselves behind the eight ball early after losing the doubles point. The No. 1 pairing of freshman Kate Fahey
and senior Ronit Yurovsky and a the No. 3 team of freshman Teona Velehorschi and junior Sara Remynse lost to Texas, 6-3 and 7-6, respectively. In singles play, the Wolverines made a push to turn the match around with wins from Fahey, Velehorschi and sophomore Alex Najarian. However, the marquee match of the day came at the No. 1 position, where Michigan’s top player — No. 17 Yurovsky — fell to No. 9 Breaunna Addison in straight sets, 6-2, 6-3. Texas finally clinched the match at the No. 3 slot, where Dani Wagland defeated sophomore Mira Ruder-Hook in three sets. Thursday at Baylor, Michigan started the match off strong, taking the doubles point behind wins by the pairings of Najarian and Ruder-Hook, and Remynse and Velehorschi, 7-5 and 6-3, respectively. The No. 2 through No. 4 singles positions produced wins for the Wolverines en route to an overall victory, and Najarian clinched the match for Michigan with a three-set victory over Kiah Generette. After starting the season cold, Najarian has turned up her play for the Wolverines lately. Her
two singles wins over Spring Break give her three straight victories, and Michigan will be looking for her good form to continue. “I think it’s just she’s getting more matches under her belt,” Bernstein said. “She didn’t play in the fall, (she’s) just getting her confidence back. The thing about (Najarian) is she’s going to compete really hard. It’s what she does. She cares about our team. She won both matches today and was upset after the match. You can tell that she really cared.” Freshman Brienne Minor, who has totaled 21 wins this season, missed both matches for the Wolverines with a minor injury. According to Bernstein, there was a possibility for Minor to take part in the match against the Longhorns, but they decided to err on the side of caution, though she will be ready for Michigan’s next match against Virginia on Saturday. “We’ll be fine,” Bernstein said. “It’s disappointing, and sometimes these losses you learn from and I hope they do. (These losses) should hurt. Virginia is not going to get any easier, that’s for sure.”
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Sophomore Alex Najarian has now won three straight matches, including two against Texas and Baylor.
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Beilein makes tournament case for reeling Wolverines By LEV FACHER Daily Sports Writer
In each of the last five seasons, every team to finish with a winning record in Big Ten play has received an invitation to the NCAA Tournament. This year, the Michigan men’s basketball team is 10-8 in conference games. The long-running precedent, however, seems unlikely to save the Wolverines, who have dropped four of their last five games and appear ready to break the trend. After a 71-61 loss to Iowa on Saturday, the expert consensus holds that Michigan would need an improbable run in the Big Ten Tournament — first, a win over Northwestern, then another against top-seeded Indiana — for its résumé to qualify for the Big Dance once again. “We did get 10 wins,” said Michigan coach John Beilein on Saturday. “I think (if) you do research on how many times you get 10 wins in this league...” Beilein trailed off, knowing he had made his point. By the numbers, the Wolverines have done just enough to put themselves in the conversation. A winning mark in the Big Ten, three wins over opponents in the RPI top 50 and no inexplicable losses make for a reasonably compelling track record, one that gets teams into the field of 68 more often than not. The eyeball test tells the opposite story. The Wolverines are 3-6 in their last nine games. They let Indiana score 25 unanswered points at Crisler Center on Feb. 2. They left Michigan State’s Bryn Forbes open for eight 3-pointers and 29 points in an equally humbling loss five days later. They had to fight tooth and nail in February to put away a Minnesota
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The Michigan men’s basketball team lost four of its last five games to close out the regular season.
team that at the time had yet to record a Big Ten win. If the numbers aren’t a factor, Michigan isn’t an NCAA Tournament team by any measure. A more analytical approach, Beilein seemed to say, leaves the matter open to interpretation. “It has a lot to do with what the other teams are doing,” Beilein said. “Who was the competition? We do have 10 wins in a very good league. We do have some wins over top-25 teams, and we’ve played a lot of top-25 teams. I’m sure other people have similar arguments.” Michigan’s ninth-year coach didn’t sugarcoat the situation, however. The Wolverines had five days off before taking on the Hawkeyes — five days to discuss
that they needed a win if they wanted to keep their NCAA Tournament hopes alive. The game’s opening minutes didn’t reflect Michigan’s predicament. It came out flat, quickly falling into a double-digit hole. It finished with 11 turnovers and a stunning 8-for-34 mark from 3-point range — all bad signs for a team that needed a break before the Big Ten Tournament. “I’m not going to hide it from them and say, ‘Hey, maybe,’ ” Beilein said. “I’ve always felt we had to get more work done during this time. That way, any questions about us will be answered. Who knows what’s gonna happen from here?” The fall since Michigan’s win over then-No. 18 Purdue on Feb.
13 has been remarkable. Then, it seemed the Wolverines’ problems were behind them. They had just recorded an all-important third win against an RPI top50 opponent, seen by many as a litmus test for deserving an NCAA Tournament bid. They sat at 9-4 in the Big Ten, 19-7 overall and seemed like NCAA Tournament shoo-ins. All Michigan had to do was avoid a disastrous 1-4 or 0-5 finish in its final five conference games. The disastrous finish — once a hypothetical — is now reality, and it has left Michigan with one path to the NCAA Tournament, one that redshirt sophomore guard Duncan Robinson needed only one word to outline on Saturday. “Win.”
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Sophomore right-hander Ryan Nutof and the Michigan baseball team dropped a pair of contests against Cal Poly and Santa Clara over Spring Break.
Michigan tested against adversity Victory over California stops two-game losing skid By NATE CLARK Daily Sports Writer
After the Michigan baseball team started the season 4-0, Michigan coach Erik Bakich wondered how the 19th-ranked Wolverines (7-3) would respond to inevitable adversity. Bakich got his answer during Michigan’s Spring Break trip. After the Wolverines defeated St. Joseph’s, 5-1, on Feb. 26, they faltered in their next two contests, losing to Cal Poly, 5-1, and Santa Clara, 5-3. Michigan left nine men on base in each of its defeats. “In each of our setbacks this Spring Break trip, you could point at something that contributed to
the loss,” Bakich said. “We gave away too many bases against Cal Poly, and we didn’t execute with runners in scoring position against Santa Clara. Sometimes the growth comes from learning from your mistakes.” But in the marquee matchup of the week — against then-No. 10 California — the Wolverines responded strongly. Buoyed by sophomore left-hander Oliver Jaskie’s 5.1 scoreless innings, Michigan scored three runs in the third inning, en route to its 5-0 victory. “Seeing them get knocked down and pick themselves up after that, there was definitely some lessons learned there,” Bakich said. “You’re not always gonna have your A game. You’re not always going to be 100 percent, so I think our guys have done a good job of responding to small amounts of adversity we’ve experienced.” Relief pitching was another bright spot for the Wolverines
against the Golden Bears. Freshman left-hander William Tribucher, junior right-hander Mac Lozer and junior left-hander Carmen Benedetti combined to pitch 3.2 scoreless frames, surrender two hits and strike out five batters. “We’ve had a lot of time to bond and really collaborate together and create a mindset as a staff,” said sophomore righthander Ryan Nutof. “We played very athletic teams with a lot of speed (in California).” Michigan carried its newfound confidence into its contest with San Jose State. With the score tied at five in the top of the sixth, sophomore shortstop Jake Bivens came up with a double to drive in a run and give the Wolverines their final 6-5 edge. But then more problems arose as Michigan dropped its series opener against UC Davis, 4-3. A failed pick-off attempt by the Wolverines in the bottom of the fourth and a fielding error in the
sixth both proved costly, as they each resulted in one unearned run for the Aggies. “All the teams were extremely competitive in California,” Bakich said. “We competed well against Cal, San Jose State and UC Davis. I thought the effort was good (in those games).” Before the Wolverines once again had the chance to bounce back from a loss, Mother Nature threw a wrench into things. Heavy rain cancelled their next two games against UC Davis, forcing Michigan to wait until March 10 for the chance at a fresh start at Hawaii. “It’s disappointing to not play,” Nutof said. “This team is always hungry to play and always wants to compete.” The Wolverines passed their adversity test against the Golden Bears, but that’s just one game in a long season. When Michigan travels to Honolulu, Bakich will have a clearer picture of what kind of team he has.
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‘M’ doesn’t deserve the postseason this year W hen I was younger — younger than 22, that is — and played recreational basketball, at the end of every season, I got a trophy. That’s right — undefeated or winless — if I showed up for Tuesday night practices and for games on Sunday mornings, I walked SIMON away with KAUFMAN hardware at the end of the season. And get this — I made the playoffs, too, because, well, every team did, records be damned. I liked the idea of being rewarded regardless of my effort or my team’s result. Show up. Run around. Thank Nathan’s mom for bringing the postgame snack (Gushers and Capri Sun!). Clinch a guaranteed spot in the postseason. Get a trophy. Now, nearly the same height but a few years wiser, I get that’s not how things work and not how they should have back in my young hoops days. Trophies are reserved for winners. The postseason is earned. Showing up isn’t enough. Talking about winning isn’t enough. Perform at a high level, and you get rewarded with the opportunity — the privilege — to continue playing. The Michigan men’s basketball team doesn’t deserve a postseason. Not after it had a spot in the NCAA Tournament wrapped up and sitting on its doorstep, but squandered opportunities to finish out the season. But what about the National Invitational Tournament — the NCAA Tournament’s little brother that brings 32 teams who weren’t good enough to sit at the big kids’ table together for a second-rate postseason? That seems like a likely landing spot for the Wolverines (10-8 Big Ten, 20-11 overall) after they dropped games to Wisconsin on the road and then to Iowa to close out their regular season. Michigan coach John Beilein said on Sunday that his team would embrace any opportunity for postseason play. But the NIT feels like a massive second prize when a spot in the NCAA Tournament was its for the taking. A win against either the Badgers or the Hawkeyes would have given Michigan 11 conference wins, a number with which no Big Ten team has ever missed the NCAA Tournament. But instead, last Sunday in Madison, the Wolverines squandered an opportunity to steal a rare game on the road. A one-point lead in the second half was erased by a 13-3 Wisconsin run. Six days later, with a whole week to regroup, the Wolverines fell flat against Iowa, which was riding a fourgame losing streak into Crisler. Instead, Michigan made the Hawkeyes look like their old selves, the ones who kicked off Big Ten play with seven straight wins, including upsets over then-No. 1 Michigan State and then-No. 14 Purdue. After its own win against Purdue three weeks ago, Michigan looked poised for a spot in the tournament. In a gritty battle against a bigger Boilermakers team, the Wolverines fought for rebounds and outscored Purdue in the paint to clinch their ninth conference win.
The rest looked easy. Michigan had games against Ohio State, Maryland, Northwestern, Wisconsin and Iowa to close out the season. Win any two, and it would almost be guaranteed to hear its name on Selection Sunday. It would have earned it, by any measure. But against Ohio State, Michigan looked as bad in person as it did on television from ESPN’s sideline angle. At Maryland, the Wolverines were unable to close out after clawing back in the second half. Michigan edged Northwestern by single digits after letting it hang around late into the second, locking up win No. 10, but it couldn’t get No. 11 in its final two contests. When Michigan pushed, opponents pushed back harder. When Michigan had margin-closing scoring streaks, opponents had game-ending runs. And when Michigan needed to buckle down late in games, it couldn’t. Its two seniors sat injured on the bench for all but two conference games, and no one else appeared to provide the needed mental toughness on the court. Saturday’s matchup with Iowa was a perfect showcase. It was a must-win game, but Michigan played it like a sortof-maybe, sure-would-be-niceto-win game. Eleven turnovers — including one late in the second half by junior guard Zak Irvin when the Wolverines were threatening a comeback — were too much to overcome. Shooting just 24 percent from 3-point range didn’t help either. When the final buzzer sounded Saturday night, Michigan looked far from a team deserving of a postseason. Beilein has long said he doesn’t lobby the NCAA Tournament selection committee on behalf of his team. After losing to Iowa, though, he made the case that Michigan might still deserve a shot. “We do have 10 wins in a very good league,” Beilein said. “We do have some wins over top-25 teams. We’ve played a lot of top-25 teams. And I’m sure (other teams) have similar arguments. “I really trust the people in that (selection committee) room. They’re really talented at what they do. They don’t get too many of these things wrong.” If Beilein’s right, and the selection committee doesn’t make mistakes, his team shouldn’t get a shot at the big kids’ tournament. It doesn’t deserve it. Save for two wins in the Big Ten Tournament, the Wolverines don’t have business being there. To win three, they would need to beat a topseeded Indiana in their second game — a team that pummeled Michigan at home earlier in the season. History isn’t on the Wolverines’ side either. Michigan has won more than one game in the conference tournament only once under Beilein. The way this team has been playing, it doesn’t look like that will change this year. What will happen instead is that Michigan will accept an offer to play in the NIT with the have-nots — a prize more befitting a team of the Wolverines’ stature, but still a prize, nonetheless. One Michigan doesn’t deserve. Kaufman can be reached at sjkauf@umich.edu and on Twitter @sjkauf.