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Conference stresses mental health on college campuses Panels talk depression as it connects to relationships By WILL FEUER Daily Staff Reporter
The Depression on College Campuses conference — a twoday event hosted by the University of Michigan’s Depression Center
— began Wednesday afternoon in Rackham Auditorium. The conference aims to discuss causes and treatments of depression on campuses throughout the United States, with a focus on relationships. It has been held at the University for the past 14 years, with 150 people attending this year, a handful of which were undergraduates. Becca Lindsay, project manager in Health Management and Policy, said she thought that despite the low undergraduate turnout,
the conference was extremely relevant on campus. “This conference is really great for students on campus because it gets you thinking more about issues that really impact you and your peers,” she said. Wednesday’s portion of the conference consisted of a keynote speech delivered by Bernice Pescosolido, director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research at the University of Indiana. Pescosolido discussed how different
generations respond to and treat depression in different ways. “A confluence of forces have shifted the place of mental health at U.S. universities and colleges,” she said. “This provides a unique opportunity to rethink the way we construct learning environments, engage in institutional social change, and create a less stigmatizing society regarding mental health and illness.” Following the keynote speech, attendees broke up into See DEPRESSION, Page 3A
Campus voters, independents aid in upset victory over Hillary Clinton By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter
U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders won a heavily unexpected upset victory in Michigan’s Democratic primary Tuesday — and that victory was marked by a historic voter turnout for the state, especially among young voters. Multiple polling places ran out of ballots as a record 2.5 million voters went to the polls or voted absentee — soundly beating a previous 1972 record of 1.9 million votes cast. In previous primaries and caucuses, much of Sanders’ support has come largely from young, white, middle class voters, while Clinton has fared better with Black voters. In Michigan, Sanders held onto his usual demographic, earning 57 percent of the white
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$3M awarded for research on Black families National Institutes of Health provides grant for Fathers and Sons Project By ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter
The Father and Sons Project, a Flint-based organization that works with male AfricanAmerican youth living apart from their fathers, will expand their preventative project to the Chicago area through a $3 million grant awarded to the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health. The program, which works to conduct preventative research on early substance abuse, early sexual initiation and youth violence among African Americans, was funded through the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health. According to a study by
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, African Americans represent 26 percent of all juvenile arrests and 12 percent of the total drug-using population in the United States. The NAACP also found that 35 percent of African-American children in seventh to 12th grades have been suspended or expelled at some point in their education. For Cleopatra Caldwell, principal investigator in the Fathers and Sons Project and director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health at the University’s School of Public Health, the NAACP’s recent statistics demonstrate the need for programs like the University’s. Caldwell said looking at the effects of nonresidential fathers, or fathers that live separately from their biological children, has often been disregarded in research. However, she said understanding the ramifications of displaced See GRANT, Page 3A
vote and 67 percent of voters under 45 with numbers closer to 80 percent for millennials, according to CNN exit polls. Charles Shipan, University of Michigan political science and public policy professor, said large turnout numbers were one of the main factors contributing to Sanders’ victory in Michigan. “A huge turnout happened,” he said. “And that’s the biggest predictor of how Sanders is going to do in an election. If he can get a high youth turnout ,then he does better.” Locally, Sanders did extremely well in Washtenaw County, where he won by an 11.7 percent margin. Voter turnout in Washtenaw was slightly higher than the state average: 39.85 percent of the voting age population in Washtenaw cast ballots, compared to 31.6 percent statewide. Turnout was also elevated in Clinton County, home of Michigan State University, at 38.31 percent. LSA sophomore Nicholas Kolenda, president of Students for Sanders, said he thought student See PRIMARY, Page 3A
‘U’ mouse model may help cancer treatments New tool could aid children with aggresive brain tumors
Snyder’s budget proposal restores higher ed funding Some, but not all institutions to see return to pre-2011 appropriations By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter
This year’s budget recommendations from Gov. Rick Snyder (R) for the 2017-2018 fiscal year included recommendations for increases in a number
of areas, including higher education spending. The increase is larger than what’s been seen in the last several years, after an initial slash to funding of 15 percent when Snyder entered office in 2011. Following the cut, funding has been increased steadily — this year’s increase of 4.3 percent brings the total state funding back to pre-2011 levels. However, at individual institutions, the proposed 2017 numbers could still be lower than pre-2011 — including at the University.
In 2011, the across the board cut resulted in a 21.6 percent decrease of funding for the University. Because of how money is distributed, the University still receives 7.8 percent less funding that it did prior to 2011, though institutions like Grand Valley State University and Ferris State University have seen increases in funding over their 2011 levels of 5.25 percent and 3.6 percent, respectively. For many, the cut resulted in changes to operations — See BUDGET, Page 3A
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Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a new tool to test potential treatments for pediatric brain cancer. A team led by Maria Castro and Pedro Lowenstein, professors of neurosurgery and cell and developmental biology, has created a mouse model which harbors all the genetic alterations found in pediatric brain tumors. Using the new model, the researchers have replicated pediatric brain tumors in mice that will allow the mice to serve as test beds for new pharmaceuticals and immunotherapies designed to shrink children’s brain tumors — specifically high-grade glioma, which is an aggressive and malignant type of brain tumor. See RESEARCH, Page 2A
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ON THE DAILY The University of Michigan’s own Daniel Passino’s audition for NBC’s The Voice has generated organized student support of their classmate. Passino is a senior studying opera in the school of Music, Theatre and Dance. In his audition, Passino sang the Charlie Puth and Meghan Trainor song “Marvin Gaye.” Blake Shelton and Christina Aguilera both turned around in their seats indicating that they wanted to mentor Passino, and he ultimately opted to join Team Christina for the upcoming season of the Voice.
“You have been one of my biggest idols and inspirations,” Passino told Aguilera as he accepted a spot on her team. Passino tweeted last night, thanking all those who support him on his musical journey In addition to those who viewed it live on television, a video of the audition posted on The Voice’s Youtube channel had gathered over 147,680 views in only 24 hours, and this number continues to grow. Passino’s friends and peers at the University are excited to support their classmate.
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RESEARCH From Page 1A Unlike adult with brain tumors, children cannot receive radiation therapy because children’s brains have a highly impermeable bloodbrain barrier, meaning most chemotherapeutic agents are not responsive. Carl Koschmann, a cancer specialist at the UM Mott’s Children’s Hospital and the first author of the study, explained children with high-grade glioma are even more challenging to treat. “Pediatric high-grade glioma remains very difficult to treat effectively, and most children will not survive beyond two years of receiving this diagnosis,” Koschmann said. “The difference is that some of the tools that work for other cancers, including surgery and radiation, are difficult to use on a child’s brain. Chemotherapy works for some brain tumors, but high-grade glioma is resistant to almost all chemotherapy.” The inability to use
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chemotherapy has led to the exploration of several alternative methods of treatment, including DNA damaging drugs. DNA-damaging drugs have existed for many years and are used for various purposes in adult patients, but University researchers have found that, when used on the new model mice, they shrank the size of their brain tumors. One-third of children with brain tumors have a mutation in the ATRX protein that already helps repair damage to the cells — Castro said by furthering that damage to the cells with the drugs, they were able to kill it all together. “If you have bad mutations, your DNA is unstable, so you treat it with a drug that induces further damage, and the cell dies more readily, that means you are going to be able to treat these children in a better way,” he said. Third-year medical student Flor Mendez worked on the research project, and said she thought the progress they have made will help future treatment. “Our work on the role of
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ATRX mutations, prevalent in pediatric GBM, uncovered that ATRX deficient tumors have a defect in a mechanism of DNA repair which makes them more sensitive to therapies that induce DNA damage to destroy tumor cells,” she said. “This knowledge will help guide the development of improved therapies for patients with ATRX mutations.” Other University researchers within the same lab have also been working to develop new treatment techniques through immunotherapy, which the mouse model can also be used for. That form of treatment trains the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells, which Castro said is incredibly difficult due to the complex nature of cancer cells. “Tumors have mechanisms by which they can hijack the immune system, they trick the immune system and they become kind of invisible so what you need to do is unmask it,” Castro said. “And you need to be able to allow the immune system to be able to see the tumor as an invader in a way as they would see a bacteria or a virus.” The new mouse model allows for developments in immunotherapy because the model has a fully functioning immune system Castro said. Most models currently used for research take tumors from human patients to prepare cells for testing, but these cells are not compatible with animal models. Therefore, researchers cannot test immunotherapeutic strategies. Lowenstein said he finds immunotherapy appealing as a scientific avenue for treatments for a variety of reasons. “The ability to harness the power of the immune system to treat cancer is a very attractive treatment modality for these devastating childhood brain cancers, as it could provide an effective, safe and non-invasive treatment strategy,” Lowenstein said.
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Pure Barre opens second Ann Arbor location on Liberty St. Exercise studio seeks to attract millennials with new venue By EMILY DAVIES Daily Staff Reporter
Exercise studio Pure Barre is adding to its hundreds of stores nationwide with the addition of a downtown studio in Ann Arbor, opening on East Liberty Street, in an aim to increase the demographics it attracts. The store is the second in Ann Arbor, with another on Oak Valley Drive. Two years ago, Pure Barre moved to its Oak Valley Drive location after a studio on Felch Street, closer to the University of Michigan, failed to meet the company’s needs. Anna Locke, an owner of the Oak Street studio and of the new studio on
East Liberty, said the location didn’t provide the right amount of space. “Our current studio started downtown on Felch Street and then we moved locations a few years ago just because of parking and our studio at the time could not fit nearly as many people as our current studio can,” Locke said. “We just outgrew that location.” With their earlier move, however, came a loss of younger customers. “After we moved to this current location, we lost a certain demographic,” Locke said. “We lost a lot of college students and young working professionals from downtown, so our goal going back downtown and moving into Liberty is that we are going to target that demographic and bring Pure Barre back to those people.” Pure Barre is a barre studio
that uses the ballet barre, body weights and small space movements to build lean muscle mass. The workouts are popular among some University students, such as LSA freshman Lexi Dubreuil. “I like that it’s lower impact stuff,” Dubreuil said. “I have a lot of shin problems from running track in high school, and it gives me a way to stay toned and in shape without doing a lot of high-impact stuff.” LSA freshman Sarah Guss, who said she plans to join Pure Barre’s studio on East Liberty, echoed Dubreuil’s sentiments. “I love how challenging it is and how you are told the parts of your body that you are working out in the class. I also feel like you’re getting a great workout and it burns but you don’t break much of a sweat.” The studio is expected to open in June.
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BUDGET From Page 1A though it followed a downward trend of funding, it was much more significant than previous years. Michigan State University, which saw a 23.7 percent decrease as a result of the cut and is still 7.9 percent below 2010 levels, has shifted funding resources, aiming to raise more of its operating budget through sources like increased tuition and donations. At the University, the 2011 cuts resulted in a series of changes, including the closing of the Center for Ethics in Public Life and offering several smaller classes, along with a 6.7 percent tuition increase. It was also accompanied by a similar push in fundraising. In November 2013, the University launched the Victors for Michigan campaign — the largest fundraising campaign for any university at the time — with an overall goal of $4 billion, $1 billion of which is specifically set aside for student financial support. In an interview on Feb. 15, Cynthia Wilbanks, vice president of government relations for the University, noted that despite remaining below 2011 funding, the amount the University receives is still high by comparison, as it’s allocated 21 percent of the total higher education funding in Snyder’s budget proposal. “It’s important to keep in mind that of the $61 million that has been recommended by the governor, the University of Michigan will receive 21 percent,” she said. “The percentages mask the resources that actually are being provided
DEPRESSION From Page 1A workshops and panels. These smaller groups talked about bystander intervention, evidencebased treatment for depression, relationships and ways to support students with autism. About 50 attendees made up each group, most of whom were professionals, faculty or graduate students in the field of psychology. However, even though there were low numbers of undergraduate attendees, many of the speakers were undergraduate students. A discussion on relationships, called Relationship Remix, was among the least formal of the panels. The gender breakdown of the audience was notably skewed toward women, with only about four men in attendance out of the fifty total attendees. Anne Huhman, program manager at the University’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, said though the number of men in this group was low, it was important to continue to include as many identities as possible in these discussions. “One thing that we’re trying to do by gathering feedback from our colleagues is get that range of identities in the room, including men,” she said. Among the topics discussed were consent, safe sex and how to
PRIMARY From Page 1A turnout strongly aided Sanders’ victory in Michigan. “I would definitely say that students helped Sanders’ cause in Michigan,” he said. “In most states we’ve seen Sanders perform well in, students have been taking to the polls to make their opinion heard.” Shipan said youth turnout is historically lower because many young people are not registered to vote. However, when they are registered in equal numbers to other age groups, turnout is approximately the same, he said. Since the beginning of the year, several student organizations have launched large efforts to encourage registration, including the University’s chapter of College Democrats and Central Student Government, with voter registration booths across campus. On election day, the groups — both of which don’t endorse specific candidates in the primary — also distributed information on polling locations and encouraged students to go vote. Shipan said this sort of activity
to the University, so from my perspective 21 percent of $61 million is a good outcome.” State Rep. Jeff Irwin (D–Ann Arbor) said he does not believe the state’s largest institution should still have funding below 2010 levels, but added that he is glad to see overall progress in increasing funding. “Our flagship institution is going to be below where they were when the governor took over,” he said. “I’m happy about the increase — it is moving in the right direction. I was happy when I found out it was going to be back from the cuts in 2011, but I found out that wasn’t true. There are certain institutions that are not being treated as well as the others.” Speaking to previous year’s increases, Zemke said he thought they were too low to compensate for inflation, also noting that higher education funding rates could have bigger impacts on the economy because of student debt burdens. “The increase last year was very small, I don’t even think it amounted to the rate of inflation,” he said. “I don’t think we are putting enough money in higher ed. Student debt is stymieing our economy — everybody acknowledges this.” Along with the changing levels of funding, over the past several years, state increases in funding have also come with new performance-based stipulations, based on a number of categories such as graduation rate as well as a requirement that institutions cap tuition increases for the year at a certain percentage point. This year’s funding increase communicate in a healthy way. When going over healthy options for engaging in safe relationships, LSA senior Madison McCullough, a Relationship Remix leader, said UHS offers many options for students “Many University of Michigan students are not having sex,” she said. “You can choose to have sex less often, or with less partners, or get the HPV vaccine, which UHS offers.” After the panel, LSA junior Emily Liu, a SAPAC member, echoed Huhman’s sentiments, saying the conversation may have been different with more undergraduates in the room. “It’s funny to think about how this (discussion) might differ with students,” Liu said. Many of the speakers stressed that mental health is an issue that needs to be addressed on not only on the University’s campus, but also campuses across the country. Laura McAndrew, sexual health educator at Wolverine Wellness, said mental health is an ongoing issue for young people that requires further discussion and focus. “Mental health for college students is a huge factor in their wellness, in their academic success and in their well-being during their time in school.” McAndrew said. “So it’s a really complex issue that requires a really complex set of solutions to try to improve mental health for students.”
would largely benefit Sanders, given the portion of the youth vote he typically earns. “There’s no doubt that it helps,” he said. “Given that Sanders draws a lot of support from young voters, any effort in general to increase student awareness of how to vote and how to register is going to help him disproportionately.” Another component to Sanders’ victory was his overwhelming support among independents — CNN exit polls showed him winning 71 percent of independent voters. Michigan has an open primary system, meaning individuals can vote in a party’s primary without needing to be registered with that party. Shipan said that system likely benefitted Sanders, noting that many Democrats who would have supported Clinton may have felt confident that she would win based on the polling numbers and instead voted in the Republican primary in opposition to frontrunner Donald Trump. In polls leading up to Tuesday’s vote, Clinton was projected to take the state by over 20 points. “I suspect that the extent that
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was paired with a 4.8 percent tuition increase cap for every institution. In the past, the University has not supported any sort of tuition caps correlating with funding increases, saying they believed decisions about how to fund the University should
be made internally. However, it has kept within them, unlike several other institutions. The University’s most recent increase last year of 2.7 percent was under the 3.2 percent state increase cap and correlated with a 5.9 percent funding increase for the University.
GRANT From Page 1A father figures could benefit African-American youth and protect them from compromising health behaviors. “African-American male youth are at risk for a number of poor health outcomes,” Caldwell said. “The approach that we are taking to address this problem involves not only the child, but also his father who doesn’t live with him … Although the father does not live in the household with the child, he is there to provide support for the child, and the intervention that we do with the fathers helps him in terms of improving his parenting behaviors.” The Fathers and Sons project currently uses a community based participatory research process, meaning its organizers work with community partners including community organizations in Flint, the Genesee County Health Department and the University’s School of Public Health. Cassandra Brooks, project manager for Fathers and Sons, said the project serves many different purposes crucial to the enhancement of
there were Democrats who crossed over to vote in the Republican primary as an anti-Trump vote, Clinton lost more people than Sanders did,” he said. “The open primary aspect benefitted him.” Sanders also did well among Black voters in Michigan compared to previous primaries, competing roughly at a 2:1 margin with Clinton in Michigan and decreasing leads in counties she was expected to win handily, such as Wayne County. The breakdown of voters was a significant contrast to Clinton’s win in Mississippi the same night, where she captured 89 percent of the Black vote according to exit polling. Shipan said Sanders’ improved performance among Black voters was one factor in why the polls were wrong, with voters who were predicted to go for Clinton sticking with the senator instead. “He didn’t do great, but he did far better than anywhere in the South,” he said. “That has previously provided (Clinton) with a huge margin of victory in states with a large Black population, but not to the same extent.” Kolenda said he thought Sanders’ record on trade policies
Wilbanks said it was too soon to project how this year’s funding increase would interact with the University’s financial model, such as tuition. The budget won’t be finalized until it’s voted on by the state House and Senate, a process that typically doesn’t
African-American father-son relationship development. “One (purpose) is to reduce negative health behaviors, and particularly in the son, such as early sexual initiation, introduction to violence, substance use, things like that,” Brooks said. “Also, to promote positive health outcomes, better communication skills, better identity with their culture (and) better dialogue between fathers and sons.” E. Hill De Leony, director of the Flint Odyssey House Health Awareness Center, said she thought Fathers and Sons was an important program for the community because of the United States’ history of African-American enslavement. Because of this, many African Americans had not received an education, had no real work experience and often could not read. De Leony said despite equality efforts made from the Emancipation Proclamation to the Civil Rights Act, AfricanAmerican males had, and still have, difficulty getting jobs to support their families, resulting in negative effects on African-American families as a unit. She added that she believes society has made it seem as though a family has to have
like the North American Free Trade Agreement, instituted under President Bill Clinton, were a major player in his success. Sanders has repeatedly come out against various free-trade policies, arguing that they negatively impact blue-collar workers, a demographic prevalent in the state of Michigan. Clinton has responded to Sanders’ claims by citing her decision to vote against a trade pact while serving as senator, the only trade agreement to be put to a vote during her term. Kolenda said these types of workers are largely impacted by Sanders’ strong stance on this issue, noting that they may have helped combat a predicted drop in young voter turnout from many college campuses being on Spring Break Tuesday. “Blue collar workers of Michigan have not forgotten that,” he said. “This factor may also have contributed to high millennial turnout despite the fact that many campuses are on vacation this week.” Echoing this idea, Shipan said Sanders’ message resonates with blue-collar workers in Michigan who feel that they have been
both a father and a mother in the home, furthering the negative perception about having fathers not in the home. “Society also said that if they’re nonresidential, they didn’t care about their families because they’re glad to be away,” De Leony said. “Our research proves that’s not true. They want to be with their families, and they are committed … there’s some obstacles that kept them away that we address in our research project, so we reduce or eliminate those problems.” Along with the program’s components of performing community service and engaging in small group discussion, Caldwell said she thought African-American history is also an imperative topic to focus on in intervention efforts. “Within this intervention, we also have tailored it specifically for AfricanAmerican families, because we take a cultural approach in terms of the activities that we do, some of the issues that we discuss, some of the ways that fathers are focused on parenting their sons, for example, with regard to race socialization,” Caldwell said. “This intervention can eventually be adapted to other
slighted. “Sanders’ message resonates more in Michigan than in some of the earlier states due to the fact that Michigan workers have the perception that they have been hurt more by trade deals in the past,” he said. As the election cycle continues, with four more states headed to the polls or to caucus in the next week alone, the question remains whether Sanders’ performance in Michigan should be seen as a onetime occurrence, or an indication for how he will do in the remainder of the race. Communications Studies Prof. Josh Pasek said since the Sanders campaign has a large base of small donors and remains well-funded, the senator will likely remain in the race until the convention in July. However, Pasek said despite his ability to stay in the race and recent successes, he is likely too far behind Clinton in the delegate count to win the nomination. Currently, Sanders has 574 delegates. Clinton has 1,222 delegates, though 461 of those are superdelegates, who pledge support independent of voter outcomes and can switch candidates at any times.
occur until the summer and during which numbers can often change. “I would say that it is too early to make any kind of projection as to what the University is going to do in regard to a tuition increase,” Wilbanks said.
ethnic groups as well.” In Chicago, the project is slated to follow a similar approach as the program in Flint, with several additions — the group also plans to use the grant to collect long-term data through pretests and posttests, as well as six-month, 12-month and 18-month followup evaluation data collection to examine the long-term effects of the intervention. “Our goal is to release this project so that it becomes a model for the nation once we are able to scientifically demonstrate the components of the intervention that are effective,” Caldwell said. Brooks said she thought Fathers and Sons is different from other intervention and prevention programs because it includes family members, such as mothers and legal guardians, to aid productive communication between the father and son. “It’s an important project because it’s bringing families together,” Brooks said. “Oftentimes, when a father does not live in the same home with their son they are considered to be absentee fathers, and a nonresidential father and an absentee father are not the same thing.”
2,383 delegates are required to secure the Democratic nomination. “The problem for Bernie is if he fares just as well as he did in Michigan for the remainder of the race, he will lose by a considerable margin,” he said. “It appears — based on Michigan — that he is improving his performance, but it is not clear if that improvement is enough that he can actually win the nomination at this point.” Students for Hillary outreach director Anushka Sarkar, an LSA sophomore, said the group is proud of Clinton’s performance overall in Tuesday’sprimaries as she ended the night with more delegates. Students for Hillary will continue campaigning for Clinton moving forward in the election by holding phone banks including one tomorrow aimed at Ohio voters given the state’s upcoming primary. “We are very proud of the secretary’s performance because she came out ahead in the net delegate total,” she said. “In Michigan she had a very close competition, and we congratulate Sanders on winning the state. We are looking forward to winning in Ohio and will keep chucking forward.”
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ov. Rick Snyder cut 15 percent of higher-education funding at the beginning of his first term as governor of Michigan in 2011, heavily affecting 15 public universities and colleges, including the University of Michigan. Snyder has since incrementally increased state funding for higher education, and the increase proposed for the 2017 budget will allow funding levels to return to those of 2011. Funding allocated to higher education will increase by $61.2 million, with a cap on public university tuition hikes at 4.8 percent as a condition for receiving some of the funds. This is uncharacteristically generous compared to last year’s $28 million in funding and a 3.2-percent cap on tuition increases. However, it is important to note that not all schools benefit equally from this increase in funding. Instead, schools are evaluated and deemed deserving of different levels of funding based on criteria that deceivingly slights some schools. While it is encouraging to Michigan residents that stronger efforts are being made to support the state’s higher education system, measurement of each university’s performance should correspond to each university’s specific goals and demographic composition. Schools receive funding for two different purposes: costs of everyday operation and performance-based spending. Operational funding is tied to university activities and helps run schools, while performance funding is incentivized by a standardized performance evaluation — and performance funding is the type Snyder is increasing with his new budget proposal. This type of funding takes three categories into consideration for each school: undergraduate degree completions in critical skills areas, research and development expenses and national rankings to Carnegie peers. National rankings depend upon six-year graduation rates, total degree completions, institutional support and number of Pell Grant recipients from each school. The highest-performing schools in all categories subsequently receive the highest percentage increase in funding, but this trend punishes schools that perform poorly by denying them the appropriate funds to succeed in the future. Students at such schools are suffering as well. Schools such as Wayne State University and Grand Valley State University, which tend to perform the worst on the standardized criteria for funding evaluation — including graduation and retention rates — are the same schools dedicated to admitting students from urban areas. The goal of increased funding is to better support universities and colleges, but the current system ultimately benefits those already doing well and harms those who need more assistance. Wayne State University is expecting this year to be the fifth consecutive year yielding the statewide lowest percentage of funding increase. Wayne State follows a
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mission statement rooted in helping at-risk students, and therefore cannot compete with the schools receiving the most funding. It is slated to receive a 3.5-percent increase. This is contrary to the schools receiving the most funding, such as Grand Valley State University, which is planned to receive 6.8-percent increase. These schools are intentionally designed to do well on evaluations such as the performance funding model. In addition to hurting schools who have fewer resources but also have goals to aid students of lower socioeconomic status, the current evaluation system rewards schools that have previously disregarded the tuition cap set by the state. Oakland University, for example, is scheduled for a 6.1-percent increase in funding, despite raising tuition last year above the maximum 3.2-percent increase. The current system used to evaluate schools’ performances is too standardized. It does not account for the unique needs of certain institutions that cater to students who simply cannot compete with students from other institutions. Ultimately, the current metrics funding model does not adequately meet the needs of all students. Rather, it gives the biggest benefit through a large sum of money to students who already attend colleges capable of offering superb education. It is refreshing to see Snyder acting to benefit Michigan residents, but the execution of this funding plan prevents those in most dire need of funding from getting the appropriate and fair amount. Though the idea of doling out funds based on meritocracy does not need to change, the value of such funds given to schools cannot be determined by a standardized test that cannot possibly take the school’s personal goals and situation into consideration. The manner in which schools are evaluated for increased funding should instead be more individualized. A new evaluation system should be adopted to allow schools to be judged based on how well they are meeting their own goals given their individual circumstances, rather than how well they fit into the current mold.
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ou consider your family: 1. Upper class 2. Middle class 3. Lower class Every time I encounter a question like the one above, I’m stupified. The distinction between classes is so ambiguous and my experiences so AARICA unquantifiable MARSH that I never quite know how to answer. Like 47 percent of the U.S. population, I considered my family solidly “middle class” for most of my adolescent life — I hadn’t realized there are actually four distinct middle classes. I grew up in a small farm town that my dad had never left and that my mom had moved to from the outskirts of Jackson County. For the first 12 years of my life, my dad owned and operated a sheet metal fabrication business on the edge of the village limits. After marrying my dad, my mom worked as the shop secretary. It was the 1990s and the manufacturing industry was booming. In 1992, my parents bought a one-bathroom, two-bedroom, three-story house on Main Street in Parma, MI for around $30,000. By 1996, my parents had four kids, a house double its original size and a successful industry-centered business. During my early elementary years, my family had a weekly housekeeper, two lots we rented at a campground an hour away, a large-sized boat (paid for in cash) and three gas-guzzling vehicles. Presents littered our backroom Christmas morning and our birthdays were lavishly celebrated. Though I’ve never asked my parents about their annual income during the first years of my life, I know they made more than the people we acquainted ourselves with. My sister, brothers and I reminisce on this period of our lives as the glory days: In my naive, childish perception, we were Parma’s version of “upper class.” But really, it was the beginning of the end. Less than 10 years later,
a combination of mental illnesses, addiction, financial irresponsibility, ignorance and systematic influences led to a drastic change in our lives. By 2006, my parents struggled to put food on our table. My dad lost his fabrication shop and was consumed by debt. Both my dad and my youngest brother, separately, spent a week in the hospital, resulting in astronomical medical bills. The campground we had once vacationed at nearly every weekend held our camper as collateral for the money my parents owed. Child Protective Services visited our house claiming our toilets didn’t work and that my parents had no food to feed us. My mother dragged my brothers and I along as she picked up random custodial jobs in the area: the Vietnam veteran’s residence in the trailer park down the street; the giant Methodist church in the town north of ours; the furcovered, nearly-condemned trailer of the angry old man with shingles. Meanwhile, our own house looked like an animal shelter littered with remnants of junk food. The bank sent several foreclosure notices. My dad borrowed money to keep our home. However, in the second half of 2008, our economic status shifted once again — this time for the better. My mom secured a stable job (that she still has to this day) and my dad controlled his drinking enough to hold a credible reputation with his employer. My parents were constantly fighting, but our family was able to retain some normalcy. Things seemed OK for the time being. When I first applied to FAFSA during my senior year of high school in 2011, according to the numbers, my family was probably considered upper-middle class. Though physically separated, my parents were not legally separated, and so their combined income was about $100,000 — well above Michigan’s current median household income of $49,847. During my first semester of college, my family was expected to contribute over $4,000 to my education, an amount that’s easily attainable for most higherincome families. Yet, two days before moving into my dormitory, my dad was permanently “laid off” from his job of five years. My 21-year-old sister
and her newly-wedded husband were struggling to support their two children. My youngest brother was constantly in legal trouble. I was the only one in my family who wanted to go to college; putting aside money for my education when we lived day-by-day was a joke. Since then, my family’s economic struggles have been an uphill battle. In the 10 semesters I have been enrolled at the University, I have yet to pay the remaining balance on my account — my expected family contribution — on time. Each semester, I become more and more anxious, constantly calling my mom as the end of the semester approaches. In the second semester of my sophomore year, my mom couldn’t afford the $2,000 we still owed. I took out a personal loan through our local credit union and made monthly payments for two years until it was paid off. Today, I don’t know what to call myself. My dad works as a welder at a car-parts factory. My stepmom is a third-shift stocker at Meijer. Their combined income is part of the “working middle-class.” My mom still works at the company she applied to in 2008. Her salary has only increased as the years have passed. Last year, she married my now-stepdad, who works in a top managerial position in his industry. Combined, they make more than 90 percent of what most U.S. households earn: definitely upper-class. For the past three years — before my stepmom started working again and before ever meeting my stepdad — I have worked 30+ hours a week to support myself. I pay for everything except my vehicle (the aforementioned loan was meant for a car, so after the semester was paid for, my mom bought me one). I’m incredibly lucky to have parents who are willing to try to help me when I need it. I know what it’s like to be rich, but I didn’t grow up wealthy. I know what it’s like to be poor, but I didn’t grow up in poverty. I don’t know what socioeconomic class I’m supposed to consider myself anymore, but there is one thing I do know: there are nuances in the numbers. Aarica Marsh can be reached at aaricama@umich.edu.
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he winter of my freshman year, I met a boy in class who I liked. Let’s call him Greg. We got along well, held similar family values and both ran Instagram accounts for our pet dogs. It was a perfect match, right? Despite the fact that Greg and I spent endless time together in social settings ALISON and in the UGLi, SCHALOP our relationship never seemed to progress. Almost a full year later, deep into a serious relationship with a different boy, I decided to ask Greg why he had never seemed to reciprocate my obvious affection. “I liked hanging out with you, but I really didn’t want to commit to anything,” he casually wrote me over text. All this time I’d been thinking Greg never liked me when, in reality, Greg was scared I might hoodwink him into being my boyfriend. In my experience, one of my generation’s favorite activities is complaining about hookup culture. Recently, however, I have noticed a common misconception about hookup culture: a gap between the genders. Women have come to believe that all men want is an easy lay and then to ignore them on the Diag. Meanwhile,
men have come to believe that all a woman wants is an emotional connection and a bouquet of roses on Valentine’s Day. Love is a complicated game and the dating scene at Michigan is extremely hard to navigate, but this strong set of beliefs often doesn’t hold true. I have heard stories: “Every time he takes someone to a date party, he takes them out to dinner beforehand — isn’t that weird?” That’s right ladies, there is a boy out there who wants to take you out on a date. Girls have grown accustomed to feelings of confusion and surprise when a boy shows genuine interest and even — gasp! — desire to get a meal with them. My personal favorite line used on a female friend recently: “Maybe we could do something sober together next week.” Meanwhile, in “girl world” as they call it in Tina Fey’s “Mean Girls,” the complete opposite development is happening. Newsflash for the gentlemen: Not all women are trying to tie you down for life! College-aged “dudes” are afraid their friends might tease them for being “whipped,” meaning they’ll do anything for their girl, or “wifedup,” meaning they and their partners act like a married couple. I have watched countless boys lose their opportunities with great girls because they fear they are walking into a relationship. Just as much as guys sometimes want an “easy lay,” so do girls. I’d even argue a
double standard exists. Boys are constantly judged for using girls for sex, but girls manage to avoid judgment when they do the same. We have to stop making assumptions about someone of the opposite sex’s agenda because it might be completely different from what one may expect. I’ve been in situations where a boy is trying to tie me down and I am trying to be free, and vice versa. It is difficult not to make assumptions when getting to know someone, but these assumptions hurt our ability to progress. These assumptions cause us harm, as we lose opportunities on both sides. We are losing opportunities to form good, strong relationships, and opportunities to have expectations-free sex from someone we are attracted to, but not necessarily interested in for a relationship. So men, I urge you to be openminded toward women’s affection, and to not assume she wants a relationship, because she may not. And women, I urge you to be openminded toward men’s affection. Don’t assume he wants sex and nothing else. People will surprise you. Until you talk through it, or not talk about it at all and instead focus on the physical, you can’t make decisions to start or end a relationship without the other person involved in those very decisions. Alison Schalop can be reached at aschalop@umich.edu.
Sports ‘M’ heads to Hawaii
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Wolverines play four games in Honolulu for first time ever By SYLVANNA GROSS Daily Sports Writer
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Redshirt junior Mike McCray should play a much larger role at linebacker this fall.
New linebacking corps ready for a challenge in 2016 With Morgan, Ross and Bolden gone, young group takes over in new season By JACOB GASE Daily Sports Editor
When looking for statistics to explain the Michigan football team’s success in 2015, a few jump out right away: Three straight shutouts. Fourthfewest total yards allowed in the nation. Only one touchdown conceded in a 41-7 Citrus Bowl victory over Florida. There’s no question the Wolverines’ biggest strength was their defense, led by thendefensive coordinator D.J. Durkin, who has since parlayed that success into a head coaching job at Maryland. To replace him this year, all Michigan did was hire former Boston College defensive coordinator Don Brown, whose 2015 defense was the best in the nation. Under Brown’s leadership, the Wolverines believe they have a chance to be just as good — or better — in 2016. Nearly the entire defensive line will return, as will most of the secondary. Even the departure of hard-hitting defensive tackle Willie Henry, who forwent his final season of eligibility to enter the NFL Draft, could be offset by the arrival of No. 1 recruit Rashan Gary, who plays the same position. However, one looming challenge remains for the defense. With the graduation of linebackers Joe Bolden, Desmond Morgan and James Ross, Michigan’s most experienced position group suddenly becomes its least. In order to maintain the level of performance it enjoyed last season, the defense will have to find a way to replace a trio that accounted for 758 career tackles — 189 last year alone. To do so, the Wolverines will need to rely on a combination of returning talent and fresh blood. It will also have to do so under new leadership, as Chris Partridge replaces Durkin as linebackers coach. Five practices into Michigan’s spring season, Partridge is well aware of the challenge, but he doesn’t seem worried at all. In fact, he’s enjoying the experience.
“It’s awesome,” Partridge said. “And then Coach Brown is there with me, with the backers, and he’s a seasoned, veteran coach that understands how to get guys ready to go. So, it’s been pretty smooth. They’re working hard.” Even the Wolverines’ most veteran backers — senior Ben Gedeon and redshirt junior Mike McCray — have very little starting experience this late in their careers. Though Gedeon has made 42 appearances and registered 70 tackles over the last three years, he has started only one game. McCray, on the other hand, has appeared in just 11 games and recorded two tackles. He didn’t see the field at all last season because of a shoulder injury. Despite their meager career statistics, though, both players turned heads last week with their play during Michigan’s practices at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. “Ben Gedeon has stepped in and been an incredible leader right off the bat,” Partridge said. “(McCray) has been incredible the first five practices. He’s a pleasant surprise. You kinda knew he had it in him, and his first five practices have been phenomenal.” If Gedeon and McCray are as good as advertised, the remaining challenge will be to get some of the younger players acclimated. Partridge said that all freshman recruits will have the opportunity to compete for a job, citing linebacker Devin Bush — a 6-foot, 200-pound freshman from Pemberton Pines, Fla. — as a player who has adjusted well to the college environment so far and will be “looked highly upon” to contribute this season. And if that doesn’t work out, the Wolverines even seem willing to play their ever-present wild card: do-it-all safety Jabrill Peppers, who played multiple reps at linebacker in Bradenton last week. Replacing last year’s linebackers is no easy task, but it’s one Michigan is already willing to tackle head-on, even if it has to get creative to do so. “It’s what I live for,” Partridge said. “I love it. When I came in here, it was a challenge. I’m a competitor — I wouldn’t want it any other way. We’ll get those guys going, we’ll take on the challenge and we’ll make it work.”
“I love it. When I came in here, it was a challenge.”
The Michigan baseball team will be flying over, and to, uncharted waters this weekend. The 19th-ranked Wolverines will travel to Honolulu to face the Michigan University of at Hawaii Hawaii for the Matchup: first time since Michigan 7-3; 2008 — and Hawaii 6-7 just the second When: time ever. Thursday 11:30 The last time P.M., Friday Michigan and 11:30 P.M., the Rainbow Saturday 6 P.M./9 P.M. Warriors met was at Where: Les the Arizona Murakami State Coca- Stadium Cola Classic tournament, where the then18th ranked Wolverines stole the game, 11-5. Since then, however, a new face has taken over the program from former Michigan coach Rich Maloney. “I’ve never coached or played a game (in Hawaii),” said fourth-year Michigan coach Erik Bakich. “I spent a lot of times calling coaches who have coached there multiple times asking about how to best prepare for the time change. “Another thing I heard quite often from other coaches and
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Michigan coach Erik Bakich had his team practice at night this week in preparation for its trip to Hawaii this weekend.
players is that when you’re coming from the Eastern or Central time zones, you need to build in some down time, some rest time, some nap time. I think that’s important for conserving their energy and making sure that they have everything they got for game time.” To adjust to the time zones, the team shifted its training hours this past week so that practice was at night and academic work was in the afternoon. It seems like a minor adjustment — typically the schedule is reversed — but the first game is at 6:30 p.m. Hawaii time, which is 11:30 p.m. Eastern time. The new training schedule is helping the players adjust to competing later in the night. According to the advisory
coaches, it’s important to get the players some beach time, but they warned that it’s imperative the players get out of the sun before the heat kicks in mid-day. But the goal isn’t just to get a tan. It’s still about baseball. “We’re just looking to make more positive strides, that’s what we talked to the team about,” Bakich said. “To continue to advance the program, (and) to continue to get better.” The team is looking to improve on execution and getting the pitchers to continuously attack the zone. Even more importantly, Bakich is looking to improve defensively. This year, Michigan is heading into the series with a 7-3 overall record — a promising start considering its opponents’ 6-7 start to its season. As of
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Wildcats up first in Indy Michigan takes on Northwestern in second round of Big Ten Tournament
Michigan working on preventing fouls By CHRIS CROWDER Daily Sports Writer
By LEV FACHER Daily Sports Writer
It’s March — the magical month when every team entering a conference tournament has at least one conceptual Northwestern path to the NCAA vs. Michigan Tournament, Matchup: even a national Northwestern championship, 20-11; Michigan if it can just 20-11 keep winning. When: If the Thursday 12 P.M. Michigan Where: Bankers men’s Life Fieldhouse basketball TV/Radio: team is going BTN to reach the NCAA Tournament, however, it needs to create some madness of its own. When the Wolverines tip off their Big Ten Tournament slate against Northwestern in Indianapolis on Thursday, they’ll know a single win likely won’t be enough for a ticket to the Big Dance. To secure an at-large bid, Michigan would also need to win the next day against top-seeded Indiana, creating an instant catch-22. To beat Northwestern, the Wolverines might need their starters to give everything left in the tank. To beat the Hoosiers, Michigan likely needs its starters to have fresh legs, especially since Indiana will have been off since Sunday. “You can’t balance it,” said junior guard Derrick Walton Jr. “You give it your all every time. No matter who’s off and who’s having to play, guys are tired at this point, either way it goes. To
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Junior forward Mark Donnal will be tasked with stopping Northwestern 7-footer Alex Olah on Thursday in Indianapolis.
make that excuse would just be a cop-out.” The circumstances are different this time, but Michigan has won two or more Big Ten Tournament games only once in coach John Beilein’s eight attempts. To even try for two, though, the Wolverines first need to quiet the Wildcats. Northwestern presents a sizable obstacle in its own right, especially center Alex Olah, who has developed a reputation as a Wolverine killer over the course of his career. In his last three games against Michigan dating back to the 2014-15 season, Olah is averaging 22 points and eight rebounds. Much of the scoring has come from mid-range jump shots that most Big Ten centers wouldn’t even attempt, and has proved particularly tough to defend for
the Wolverines in particular. “The way we hedge ball screens — he’s been doing a good job taking advantage of that,” said junior forward Mark Donnal. “Most of his shots are coming from jump shots. There’s little coming from inside the paint his last few games. I think we need to adjust (our) help defensively so we can slow him down a little bit.” Olah scored 19 points in Michigan’s 72-63 win on Feb. 24, in which the Wolverines struggled to recover from an 11-0 deficit early on after missing their first eight field goals. A pair of second-half threes from sophomore guard Aubrey Dawkins, who combined with sophomore guard MuhammadAli Abdur-Rahkman to score 30 points, put the Wildcats away. Michigan’s mentality entering
“You can’t balance it. You give it your all every time.”
this weekend is substantially different from that in its last two trips to the Big Ten Tournament. In 2013-14, the Wolverines finished the regular season and secured in their NCAA Tournament bid, and had relatively little to gain through their conference tournament performance. Last season, Michigan entered knowing it needed to win the tournament with four victories in four days. This year, the Wolverines’ must-do list is more realistic, though still unlikely. Needing just a pair of wins has Michigan playing with a sense of desperation it hasn’t needed at a Big Ten Tournament for years. “We hope so,” Beilein said of the no-holds-barred mentality. “We’re trying to just go down there and win it all. If your team’s not very good and you’re down in the bottom half of the league, the chances are that you’re not making it to Saturday night. If your team is really good, they’re probably already in the NCAA Tournament. The real crown has been done.”
In the Michigan women’s basketball team’s Big Ten Tournament matchup against Iowa, the Hawkeyes used a steady diet of hard cuts off of passes to draw fouls in the first quarter. Iowa kept doing it — rinse, lather, repeat — until junior guard Siera Thompson fell victim early, picking up her first foul and checking out of the game soon thereafter. Fouls have plagued Michigan all season long, and in coach Kim Barnes Arico’s interview with Inside Michigan Basketball on Monday, that’s exactly what the discussion focused on — mainly keeping players from picking up fouls and when to take them out of games. In the matchup against the Hawkeyes, it was especially unusual for Thompson to pick up a healthy dose of fouls. She averages just two per game and is touted as the Wolverines’ best defender, counted on to shut down her opponent without fouling. But as soon as she put her hands up to defend, the whistle blew. After the point guard and team captain headed to the bench, Michigan’s dynamic was never the same. Sometimes, when players pick up fouls, they’ll tell their coach to keep them in and to trust them, wanting to continue playing for their team. Ultimately for Barnes Arico, it’s her decision, based on a player’s experience and prowess for evading foul trouble. “I think it depends on the person,” Barnes Arico said. “With (freshman center) Hallie Thome, when she picks up her first foul, we take her right out of the way because we know they’re attacking her right away. She’s young, she’s a freshman.
“When we have (Thompson) who plays that many minutes for us, we’re a totally different team without her. She’s a junior, she’s averaged 36 minutes in her career since she stepped onto campus running the team for us. So when she’s not in the game, we’re a really different team.” Barnes Arico was hoping Thompson would be able to avoid Iowa’s goal of drawing fouls on her and that her point guard would stay out of foul trouble like she has all season. Thompson’s defense has been invaluable all season, shutting down or slowing the progress of stars like Minnesota guard Rachel Banham, who set a Big Ten record with 60 points in another game this season. But Thompson, and therefore the rest of the team, did not recover Thursday. “It’s really important that you know your team,” Barnes Arico said. “With Siera, I thought she was going to be OK. We switched her matchup, we took her off their best player, and they were experienced and went at her and that really hurt us.” The outing was a fluke for Thompson. It’s usually the Michigan bigs like Thome and senior forward Kelsey Mitchell who find themselves in foul trouble, coming out of the game when their presence is needed the most. With the WNIT on the horizon, the Wolverines have been working on defense and breakdown drills to play more aggressively without the ball and without fouling. For Michigan to make a deep run in the WNIT, it’ll need to be mentally tough to avoid picking up fouls that can be prevented. Michigan is determined to work on it, because even if it’s not where it would like to be at this point in the season, there is still more basketball to play.
Sobczak answers the call Third line reunited, SOFTBALL
By AVI SHOLKOFF Daily Sports Writer
Heading into the season, the No. 2 Michigan softball team had few question marks on its roster. It knew which pitchers would be throwing fastballs from the circle. It knew who would be catching the ground balls and making double plays in the infield. And it knew the players in charge of manning the outfield grass. It was not certain, however, who would replace the Wolverines’ departed starting catcher of the previous four years: Lauren Sweet. Through 20 games, freshman catcher Alex Sobczak looks to have filled the void in Michigan’s veteran-heavy lineup. In 37 at-bats, Sobczak has hit .270 with two home runs and 13 RBI with just four strikeouts. Before the season began, Sobczak expressed concern about her potential impact, but she soon realized that high school softball and college softball are similar in many ways. “I was worried coming in because (we face) All-American pitchers and there’s going to be such a difference — and such a change — but it’s actually just the same,” Sobczak said on Wednesday. “The pitchers throw a little bit harder and the movement is a little bit greater, but (our team) has gotten so much better as hitters — just focusing on the ball — that I don’t really notice too big of a difference.” Where there is a clear difference, though, is in the personalities of the bubbly Sweet compared to the quiet Sobczak. While Sweet was often vocal in the dugout, junior right-hander Megan Betsa points out that Sobczak leads in other ways. “Alex isn’t the verbal catcher that Lauren Sweet was,” Betsa said. “She’s more of a lead-byexample type of catcher, and I think that’s good because we have a lot of vocal leaders on the field, (and it gives us) a good balance.” Sobczak has experience behind the plate for every Michigan starter this season and
thus understands the importance of forging connections with the pitchers, each of whom have different needs, strengths and weaknesses. “I think that’s been the coolest thing so far,” Sobczak said. “Being a freshman, they don’t know you coming in, and getting to have a different relationship with Tera (Blanco), Leah (Crockett), Sara (Driesenga) and Meg (Betsa). It’s weird catching pitchers for the first time, because you (personally) have to make that relationship.” While some players may shy away from comparisons to an esteemed player like Sweet, Sobczak embraces it. In the fall, she had the opportunity to speak with Sweet, whom she called her “role model.” “Lauren Sweet is awesome,” Sobczak said. “I talked to her about controlling and leading the team because that’s what you do behind the plate. You’re in charge of everything, and that’s a very hard position to walk into as a freshman. You have to know every play and every person. “She pretty much told me to relax, to own my position and embrace it … that it’s OK not to know everything at the start, just do what you know how to do.” Another core aspect of Sobczak’s development involves visits to the circle. These conversations can be used to motivate, assist or calm down a struggling pitcher. Sometimes, though, the pitchers themselves utilize the trips to the circle to mentor their young catcher. While the talks usually initiate with the catcher coming to the mound on her own conviction, Michigan’s pitchers sometimes call the conference themselves. Betsa and Driesenga, now veterans compared to their catcher, call time and allow Sobczak to gather herself. Sobczak now plays the catcher position regularly, which is a major difference from her experience in travel ball, where she also played third base. That was not the only
adjustment for the freshman, though. She also needed to get acquainted to more than just the speed and pace of the college game. “You’re in front of a lot more people, and the pressure is definitely a lot more (because) you’re fighting for a national championship,” Sobczak said. “In high school and travel, you’re not playing for nearly as much.” According to Michigan coach Carol Hutchins, Sobczak has the potential to impact the team, but she simply needs to continue to improve and grow. While the current Wolverines are reminded of the outgoing and confident Sweet in the dugout, Hutchins remembers a drastically different Sweet as a freshman. “None of the kids on this team knew Sweet as a freshman,” Hutchins said. “Lauren didn’t have nearly the presence that she had by the time she was a junior and a senior, and that comes from confidence and trusting your game. And right now it’s really typical, freshmen are just trying to keep their head above water.” Hutchins also explained that, compared to other positions, catcher proves to be the most challenging to grasp for freshmen in particular. “(Catcher is) the biggest learning curve on the field,” Hutchins said. “There’s a lot going on, the pace of our team is extremely fast, and that information can really get into kids’ heads. (Sobczak is) going through a lot of the things that (Sweet) went through as a freshman. She’s got to be able to see the play and do the play and not let her mind get in the way. She’ll be all right.” After all, as a recently named Co-Big Ten Freshman of the Week, Sobczak remains confident in herself. “I wouldn’t be here unless I wanted to compete,” Sobczak said. “I committed here knowing I wanted to compete for a position, and I think more than anything, the pressure is why we play. If it was easy, no one would want to play.”
finally healthy again By MINH DOAN Daily Sports Editor
With a minute gone in the third period Friday night, Michigan hockey team coach Red Berenson threw his third line out at Yost Ice Arena. But this third line was different than the one that started the game. After trotting out a third line of senior Justin Selman and freshmen Cooper Marody and Brendan Warren, Selman was replaced by sophomore Tony Calderone, reuniting the third line that started off the season. After leading the team in scoring through November with 14 goals, the line of Marody, Calderone and Warren has tailed off since then, scoring just five goals in the subsequent months. And in mid-January, when Marody came down with mononucleosis, the line that was so prolific early in the season was split up. With Marody out, Selman was brought in to center the line. A month later, just as Marody was healthy again, Calderone came down with a lower-body injury, which, once again, pushed back the date for the trio’s return to the ice. But Friday, the third line that started the season was brought back together and rekindled its scoring spark. On their first shift back together, Calderone retrieved the puck in the corner of the offensive zone and dished it off to Marody, who got tied up and lost it. Calderone gathered the loose puck, spun around and fired at the goal, beating Ohio State goaltender Christian Frey to cut the Wolverines’ deficit to three. Later in the period, Marody found Calderone open inside the left circle and Calderone ripped the puck past Frey to cut the Buckeyes’ lead to two. “(Berenson) just kind of put us out there, and our first shift (on the ice), we scored, and we stuck after that,” Calderone said. “We
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Cooper Marody was out with mononucleosis, but is back on a strong third line.
kind of just connected after that.” Sunday, the line got on the board late in the second period on the power play. Once again, Marody found Calderone in the slot, and Calderone backhanded the puck past Buckeye goaltender Matt Tomkins. Marody also scored the game-tying tally to push the game into overtime. With the first line of junior forwards Tyler Motte and JT Compher and freshman forward Kyle Connor leading the way offensively for Michigan, the three other lines are often forgotten. But with so much attention given to the first CompherConnor-Motte line, it creates opportunities for the other lines, especially the third. “We’re the depth guys,” Calderone said. “Everyone looks at the CCM line and saying, ‘We need to shut them down.’ But our line can produce
every night, too, and it gives (the team) more depth on any given night. The opponent has to watch all of our lines.” On the line, each of the three players has a role on the team, a trait similar to the CCM line: Warren is the grinder, Marody is the passer and Calderone is the shooter. “Warren’s good in the corner,” Calderone said. “He’s a real good working guy. He wins all his battles, which is big. Cooper’s an unbelievable passer. He sees the ice very well. He’s got great hands. And then both of those guys try to give me the puck to shoot. I’m more of the shooter on that line. We really complement each other very well.” With the third line back together and rolling, evident in its four-goal weekend against Ohio State, the depth might be exactly what Michigan needs to win the Big Ten Tournament next week.
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ART ON THE DIAG: REDEFINING CREATIVITY ON CAMPUS
By Ben Rosenstock Senior Arts Editor
“I just wanna give people weird-ass things that are super fun.” DELANEY RYAN/Daily
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DIAG From Page 1B It’s a crisp afternoon in October, and I am sitting on a bench near the center of campus. I watch a small group of students huddled in the center, gesturing to different areas on the ground below them. Every few feet across the Diag, there are long, wide strips of plastic bubble wrap. Groups of students slow down and step deliberately on the bubbles, laughing ecstatically with every loud pop. When somebody shoots by on a longboard or a bike, the explosion of plastic sounds like machine gunfire. What sticks out the most to me, though, are the solitary students, the random guys stepping gingerly on the plastic and smiling a little. The simple, small reactions. This is “Bubbled,” the first installation of Art on the Diag, or D/ART, a new club on campus. Like the Do Random Acts of Kindness club filtered through an artistic lens, the group plans elaborate pieces of art using interactive materials. So far, the group has only planned one piece each semester due to the scale and ambition of the projects. The president of D/ART is Daniel Sharp (a junior in the Ford School of Public Policy) with a minor in Art History. Sharp first conceived of the club as a sophomore, wanting an outlet to explore contemporary art in visible areas. Transferring to the School of Art & Design was one option, but most of the Stamps artwork is displayed in their own building rather than on Central Campus, where most students live and work. Working at the University of Michigan Museum of Art would enable him to facilitate or sell artwork, but not actually create any. None of the arts student groups on campus were focused on creating large-scale works in public spaces, so Sharp and a few other friends decided to make their own. “It would hopefully create an outlet for any student, in any major, to directly practice and hone their skills in large-scale art creation and facilitation,” Sharp said. There are between 10 and 15 dedicated members of the group, most of whom joined the group at Festifall. Several others joined after the October installation. “Bubbled” was originally Sharp’s idea, but it was workshopped for over two months between Sharp, D/
ART Vice President Sarah Rusinowski, Treasurer Holly Sterling and Central Student Government. After changing the installation’s specifications so it complied with fire codes and handicap protections, the group spent some time applying for grants. Once the materials were purchased, though, it was just a matter of waiting for 6,000 square feet of bubble wrap to arrive at the door. “Naturally, it arrived when I was in class,” Sharp said. “My roommate was a bit surprised when a Uline bus began depositing rolls and rolls and rolls of bubble wrap on our front lawn.” Now, D/ART ideas go through a very collaborative process before they come to life. “Anyone in D/ART can submit an artwork idea,” Sharp said. “Then, for one entire day, we discuss the possible works for next semester, tweak or change some designs, materials and conceptual concepts, and arrive at some amazing ideas.” Rusinowski, a LSA junior, emphasized the low stress of the club, partly due to its low time commitment. “We meet semi-regularly to discuss upcoming projects, but involvement usually depends on the installation,” Rusinowski said. “In general, D/ART is a super low-stress organization because it’s so reliant on collaboration. We all participate because it’s fun.” Creating large-scale public installations doesn’t come without its challenges. According to Rusinowski, D/ART has been able to count on grants from Arts at Michigan, a program within the Office of New Student Programs, and CSG. In addition to planning and holding most D/ ART meetings and organizing the building and maintenance of the installations, Sharp finalizes grant applications and deals with the purchases and reimbursements of art materials. “We actually collaborated with the Rackham Student Government to apply to the Michigan Bicentennial Student Grant Initiative for next year,” Sharp said, explaining his hopes for the future of the club. “If we win the grant, D/ART’s funding will be secured and expanded for next year. So expect quite the hubbub and excitement next year, if this comes to fruition.” The installations themselves involve the whole team’s collaboration on the day they go up. “We always have D/ART members present,” Rusinowski
said. “We have to take care of setup and tear-down because our installations typically only stay up for one day.” “The day of the installation went by in an instant,” Sharp said. “Everyone was absolutely excited, running on adrenaline and amazed at how many people — at least eight for me — came up and told us how much popping bubble wrap turned their day around. It was absolutely rewarding in the end to see how a specific, niche organization could still impact a wide range of people.” D/ART has also had to deal with the absence of Sharp this semester, as he studies abroad in Berlin, meaning the group is only doing one instead of two installations this semester. However, the “D/ARTboard” has a number of members who have stepped up to the plate in Sharp’s absence, and Rusinowski and LSA freshman Anne Tsaloff have played a major roles in putting together D/ART’s second big installation, “Mirror Mimesis,” which will come to fruition on March 17. For the installation, D/ART will put 50 reflective cubes on the Diag open for anyone to tear down into different shapes and sizes. Passersby can build the cubes into structures or deconstruct them in creative ways. “We want to start a conversation about what constitutes art,” Rusinowski said. “Just because we put bubble wrap on the ground and call it art, does that make it valid, or is it just garbage? Art is always constructed, and for so long I didn’t get that. There is no real explanation for valuing a prestigious symphony performance that costs $50 to attend over a talented street performer. I think starting that conversation has been one of my favorite things about being involved with D/ART.” As the team started to clean up the bubble wrap at the end of the first installation, Sharp looked out at the Diag and beamed. “I just wanna give people art,” Sharp said. “I just wanna give people weird-ass things that are super fun.” As I sat and looked at the joyful reactions of random passersby, the wild bursts of laughter and the tentative grins, I knew that D/ART was accomplishing just that. To get involved with D/ART, e-mail sjrusino@umich.edu or request membership on Maize Pages. Additional reporting by Sam Rosenberg.
FASHION RECAP
Chic comfort key at Chloé runway show By HANNAH SPARKS Daily Arts Writer
“Chic” and “comfort” are two words that describe Chloé’s latest collection perfectly. The first look to grace the runway was a huge poncho. I’m not quite sure how anyone under 5’8” would look in this. For someone of my short stature, it may appear like I’m drowning, but you know what? I don’t care because the poncho is flawless. Not everything was made with comfort and flattery in mind. Within the first minute, a full-on leather zipup jumpsuit came down the runway. This was slightly unflattering on the stick figure model, so I try not to picture myself in this garment. The idea of this piece is great, super chic with an edge. Oversized ponchos and capes seemed to be a big theme throughout the show, if you haven’t caught on already. Whether they were worn on top of a beautiful chiffon dress or paired with cropped leather pants, they were certainly a dominating factor. These capes and ponchos were truly inspiring, bringing the oversized look into high fashion this season. I’m not exaggerating when I say this: immediately following the show, I went to my dad’s
closet looking for oversized sweatshirts. Maybe, just maybe, they could somehow resemble this look to a fraction of a degree. I can try, can’t I? Many of the fashion-obsessed, such as myself, would truly try anything to look Chloé-esque. Almost every piece, aside from the classic leather ensembles were oversized and feminine. So if you are a couple of pounds over your “summertime goal weight,” it won’t matter in these freeflowing Chloé pieces. Another theme of the show was the scarf tied tightly around the model’s neck. If you can picture the Pink Ladies from “Grease” and the scarves they wore on their necks, that’s what these Chloé scarves resembled. It’s no wonder the fashion world has been favoring scarves as of late. Think about it: you can literally wear a scarf like this with anything, and your outfit will be effectively 10 times cooler (don’t believe me? Try it). Almost everything in this collection was constructed from soft colors and loose edges, which lent a sense of boho-chic. Carefree and cool vibes radiated off of each garment, perfectly curated for this collection. Surprisingly, no handbags came down the runway with any of the models. This was disappointing; the world has
never seen a Chloé bag that it wasn’t immediately impressed with. Most of the shoes in the show were boots; most boots had a high shaft, above the ankle but still below the knee for more wearability. They came in different colors, such as black, brown and tan. However, the coolest piece of all came out nine minutes into the show. It was a multicolored, oversized coat that stopped at the knee. Made of a thick wool-like material, the coat was completely and unapologetically fringed. This jacket was by far the biggest statement piece of the show this season. To sum it up, I basically want everything that came down the runway. The oversized and free-forming designs bring about a pure form of femininity, which is something I can get behind. These high-end fashion garments are something that you can wear out to a gala, or wear inside when you’re alone in the apartment eating your leftover Chinese food. Now, that’s versatility at its finest. This collection receives an A from me. The designer really had every kind of woman in mind while creating these pieces, and I know I am among the many women who hope to be lucky enough to wear them one day.
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ARTIST By ARIANA ASSAF Daily Arts Writer
“We had playdates. It was tight,” Aseem Mangaokar said in an interview with The Michigan Daily of his early days with childhood friend turned musical collaborator Chris Gavino. Now producing together as DJ duo Hotel Garuda, you could say their playdate activities have progressed beyond swing sets and sandboxes to a playground of nightclub stages and music festivals. Though living on opposite coasts — in L.A. and D.C., respectively — Mangaokar and Gavino began working together in January 2014. Since then, they’ve made a name for themselves putting out a variety of remixes — of Lana Del Rey’s “Summertime Sadness,” Chromeo’s “Jealous” and Galantis’ “Gold Dust” to name a few — and already have a set at EDC Vegas under their belts (real talk, I didn’t know that until after our interview, which is probably good considering EDC is practically Mecca and I don’t know how to process having talked to someone who’s reached it). Hotel Garuda’s relatively rapid rise has most recently landed them on their first-ever tour with Amtrac, who released his Lost in Motion EP about a month ago. A six-week engagement, the Lost in Motion tour made a stop at Populux last Friday, drawing crowds from the local Detroit area and as far as East Lansing — plus Ann Arbor …*waves*. Last summer, Gavino temporarily left D.C. to work on music with Mangaokar in L.A., and together
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they’ve set off on a journey away from remixes and into the world of their own original music. Hotel Garuda’s first single began to take shape in September, after Gavino was already back at school in D.C. Working remotely, they completed the track by January, but as of now it’s still tantalizingly mysterious to most of the world. “There’s a method to the madness,” Mangaokar said of his agency’s marketing strategy behind new releases. “Now that we’re involved with a label, there’s a lot more that goes into it than us just making a song and putting it up.” Luckily, that means tons of support and industry resources for their work which — combined with undeniable talent, seems to be a recipe for success. The single is set to be officially released on a as of yet undisclosed date in the near future, and I can only imagine it will benefit from the hype coming off the tour. Of course, it will also benefit from the fact that it’s a total jam. That’s right, the Populux crowd was treated to an early listen of the very first Hotel Garuda original, and I must say my ears felt honored. Imagine an echo-y, liquid tune that quickly opens up to Emily Warrenesque vocals held together by an overall dance vibe that perfectly leaves listeners wanting more, and you’ll have a sense of the song that will (hopefully) hold you over until it you can listen for yourself. Before Hotel Garuda, local duo Golf Clap warmed up the room with their deep house stylings. Apparently I’m totally out of the loop because they play at Can-
tina with some regularity and I’m embarrassed to say I’ve never been. They’ve got plenty of upcoming shows scheduled around here—I’m particularly excited for the Hash Bash Official Afterparty at The Blind Pig (who wouldn’t be?). Anyway, the room continued to fill as Hotel Garuda took the stage, and I can only imagine that from an artist’s point of view watching people flock to your music is as promising as watching the sun rise. The set that followed was as refreshing as a Sunday morning, and as energetic as a Friday night in your twenties should be. Characterized by quick transitions and plenty of opportunities to sing along, Hotel Garuda established a steady flow of house beats mixed with fun samples (not the kind from pop songs that the radio beats to death), creating an environment that buzzed like a great college house party, but with better music and LED lights. Amtrac finished off the night, working the crowd into a frenzy by letting his build-ups simmer until they were good and ready to explode; it really did have something of a detonative quality, like a glitter bomb of music raining down over a happy crowd. Perhaps one of the most wonderful things that comes from talking to an artist about their work is the chance to get a sense of their passion behind it. Sure, watching a DJ rock out in the booth is great, but listening to them geek out over their own music and that of their friends is pretty cool, too. Though still in the early stages of his career, Mangaokar seems committed to keep the good times coming.
COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW
‘Dead’ performance By DAYTON HARE Daily Arts Writer
The early and middle 20th century was a period of profound darkness. The spasms of war wracked the whole of the spinning globe, washing A the world in blood as vioRosencrantz lence spread like a conand tagion. The Guildenstern carnage of the Second are Dead World War March 10 7:30 shattered p.m., March nations 11-12 8 p.m., — humanMarch 13 2 p.m. ity heard “Rolling Arthur Miller Thunder” in Theatre the distance and saw Students $11, an “Iron Adults $17-22 Curtain” descending. And of course, after a fateful August morning on Honshu Island, the world came to live with the omnipresent menace of Oppenheimer’s monster. While this temperament is present in visual arts, dance, music, poetry, literature and other areas, it is perhaps most noticeable in theatre. Starting around World War II, existentialism and absurdism began to surface in dramatic art. In France, Sartre’s “Huis Clos” explored a personalized existentialist Hell of people and Albert Camus’s “Le Malentendu” probed the depths of the absurd. The Irishman Samuel Beckett incorporated both Sartre’s existentialism and Camus’s absurdist outlook into his masterpiece “Waiting for Godot.” But in English language arts, the culmination of absurdist theatre is possibly Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” a tragicomedy first staged in 1966 in Edinburgh that is coming to the Arthur Miller stage in Ann Arbor this weekend. “Because it’s absurdist theatre at its heart it doesn’t have the arc to it that people often expect from theatre. And the characters by the end aren’t necessarily changed by it — Rosencrantz and Guildenstern never escape their fate,” said David Widmayer, the director of Ann Arbor Civic Theatre’s production of the play, in an interview with the Michigan Daily. Widmayer started acting in eighth grade, and continued throughout high school. As a stu-
dent at the University of Michigan — though not a theatre major — he joined the improv group Witt’s End in its inaugural year. Following his time at the University, Widmayer auditioned for a role in “The Tempest” at the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre, where he has been working ever since. “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern” will mark Widmayer’s directorial debut at the Civic Theatre. “I’ve always loved it. I first saw scenes from it in high school,” Widmayer said of his decision to stage Stoppard’s work. “It’s very much about sort of discovering the play.” The title of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” is taken from a line in the final scene of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy “Hamlet,” and the action of Stoppard’s play mostly occurs on the sidelines of Shakespeare’s, with the title characters largely isolated from the events of the elder tragedy. Woven throughout the play, however, are scenes and lines from “Hamlet,” interspersed between the philosophical contemplations of the two title characters. “[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] move inexorably from the start of the play to the end where they die, constantly sort of futilely fighting against the idea that they can’t do anything about their fate,” Widmayer said. “It shares a lot in common with ‘Waiting for Godot’ … because it’s not about the plot, it’s about what the characters are going through and their internal struggle and the way that Stoppard uses that to make us think about death or destiny or predetermination.” Widmayer and his colleagues have approached much of the set design for the play with a minimalist, abstract perspective which lends itself to the somewhat intangible nature of the play’s setting. “We brought in a minimal amount of set pieces,” Widmayer said. “Mostly what will occupy the thrust stage are very simple rehearsal style blocks, which can represent tables or chairs, and sort of fit the character of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern being in a location of no particular character.” The Civic Theatre’s production will also use updated costuming, eschewing traditional Shakespearean garb for 20th century fashion. “I’ve got a really great costumer, Anni Fox, who has sort of taken us in a little bit of a modern direction,” Widmayer said. “We were originally thinking we would go with a more Elizabethan feel for
it … but as she started to develop it she pitched to me a little more modern feel, with some designs inspired by current designers making fashion for runways, high fashion stuff with deconstructed suits and things like that.” A large portion of the play features a group of tragedians — ostensibly the same who feature in Act III of “Hamlet” — and this presented an opportunity for a great deal of original music and musicians in the cast. “We wrote all original songs for it as a group … singers would go off and look at Stoppard’s text and also the text from “Hamlet and pick out phrases that they liked for the lyrics, and the instrumentalists would work together on laying out a basic instrumental part,” Widmayer said. “Then we’d bring everyone back together and jam it out until we [had our songs] … it has sort a modern American folk music feel to it, but each song has its own character.” Widmayer and the cast also use the music to provide commentary on the play, exploring many of the questions raised within the script. “[Listening to the lyrics, one will] notice that they either have just heard some of the things that they’re singing or they’ll find that just afterwards the lyrics appear in the text … so the songs either seem to be echoing something that’s just happened or predicting something that’s about to happen.,” Widmayer said. “That’s a feel I really enjoy with it, because it plays up some of the metatheatrical issues that we’re dealing with in the show where there’s a lot of playing with place and playing with time and playing with the idea of ‘has all this happened before?’” By the end of the play, concepts ranging from the differences between art and reality to the extent of an individual’s significance are explored, leaving audience members with plenty of material to ponder. “There isn’t necessarily an answer to the questions raised by it — or at least we don’t have one answer in mind that we want them to come away with,” Widmayer said. “What we want them to come away with is having asked interesting questions, having made them think about things in a different way, particularly about what the value of knowledge is — if you had perfect knowledge about how everything was going to turn out, would that make you happier or not?”
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Thursday, March 10, 2016 — 3B
baked.buzzed.bored.
TV NOTEBOOK
in this series, three daily arts writers in varying states of mind do the same activity and write about their experiences. this week’s event:
DISNEY CHANNEL
Now he’s Phil of the Past.
Disney sci-fi genius Shows of our youth more substantial than you think By BEN ROSENSTOCK Senior Arts Editor
The years of 2003 to 2007 were great for science fiction on TV. No, I’m not talking about the premiere of “Lost” or “Battlestar Galactica.” I’m not referring to the relaunch of “Doctor Who,” or the one-season wonder “Invasion.” No. I’m talking about “Phil of the Future” and “That’s So Raven,” two of the best TV shows Disney Channel ever created. Okay, yeah, maybe we all like to romanticize the shows we were irrationally obsessed with when we were kids. But I recently went back and re-watched a couple episodes of “Phil of the Future,” and they hold up! Aside from the ridiculous overabundance of sound effects that characterized Disney shows of the time, the show is fun, thoughtful, funny and surprisingly emotional. People tend to dismiss stories targeted at children once they get older. When I bring up “Phil of the Future” in casual conversation, people laugh, because they remember it as a show they kind of liked back in elementary school, but not one that still holds any significance to them. I get the same reaction when I tell people that last year, I read the entirety of the “Animorphs” series, most known now for its iconic covers of tweens morphing into animals. Just because something is written for kids, though, doesn’t mean the writers don’t put real thought and care into it. I mean, sure, there are some kids’ shows that only do the bare minimum to keep kids watching with simplistic morality lessons and ugly, uninventive animation. But for every shitty show like “Caillou,” there’s something thoughtful out there. After all, it’s not like these shows are being written by kids. They’re written by adults with kids in mind, and many of them have a lot to offer to adults, too. I mean, have you seen “Adventure Time?” It’s imaginative, funny and dark when you least expect it. Last year, I touted “Inside Out” as the best science fiction film of 2015, because it uses its fantastical concepts to establish essential truths about human nature while
providing a rich world of cool scifi details to take in. “Phil of the Future” does the same thing. When you sit down and take it seriously instead of seeing it as some juvenile program from back when our brains weren’t developed enough to know when TV was good or bad, you can see that many of these Disney Channel shows pull off science fiction better than most of the sci-fi shows that make it to air now. There’s a tendency now for science fiction to get bogged down in a mass of undecipherable mythology, even in the best shows. “Lost” became notoriously convoluted because of the number of questions it raised, and “The X-Files” did the same, even this year during its return. “Orphan Black” is almost always better when it backs off the complicated conspiracy theories and luxuriates in the inherent coolness of its premise: a bunch of clones played by the same (amazing) actor. “Phil of the Future” is never convoluted, and sure, maybe that’s because it’s made for kids, but so what? Maybe if the writers of “Lost” had kept a possible adolescent audience in mind, its reputation wouldn’t have taken a nosedive in the eyes of half its fan base. The first episode of “Phil of the Future” I re-watched was “Unification Day,” in which Phil Diffy (Ricky Ullman, who briefly returned to acting for a cameo in “Broad City” last season) and his family celebrate the day when the Earth will, in the future, achieve world peace. Phil and his dad (Craig Anton, “MADtv”) have a tradition of playing a game of “laser squash” each Unification Day, but this year Phil blows him off to go to a party with his friends, including Keely Teslow (Aly Michalka, “Easy A”). Eventually, Phil inevitably decides to ditch the party and play some laser squash with his dad, and I swear, guys, I almost teared up seeing Lloyd Diffy smile with pride and relief at his son coming back home. Watching your kids grow up is hard, even in the future. In any normal sitcom, this would be a Christmas episode, or a Thanksgiving episode. “Phil of the Future,” though, manages to hit the traditional emotional beats of a holiday episode while filtering it through a sci-fi lens. There’s something fun and unusual about seeing a kid and his dad playing
laser squash where a regular sitcom would just use basketball. And there are these little giddy moments of world-building that sci-fi fans crave, like the future sport of laser squash, or the spray cans of meatloaf that Pim (Amy Bruckner, “Rebound”) uses, or the strange finger-wiggling gesture Phil and his family casually make to somehow indicate their appreciation of Unification Day. But for the most part, “Phil of the Future” is content to use these scifi elements as little cool touches to enhance the fun of an episode that’s otherwise concerned with the same reliable themes of growing up and parenthood that other family sitcoms use. You can also find this with “Wizards of Waverly Place,” or “So Weird,” or any other Disney Channel show with paranormal or fantastical elements. Every episode of “That’s So Raven” involves Raven (Raven-Symoné, “The View”) getting a glimpse into the future and using that information to solve some human crisis — urging her best friend to break up with the boyfriend Raven sees cheating on her, for example, or trying to save her dad’s job after a vision of him getting fired. And the writers are still able to imbue these human stories with cool world-building flourishes. One of the most memorable episodes, for example, is “Clothes Minded,” which involves Raven getting a vision of the school bullies putting a wheel of smelly cheese in the hot air vent. Raven approaches the group and says, “Uh, you guys weren’t planning on putting the cheese in the vent, were you?” They reply, “Well, we weren’t … until you just said that.” It doubles as a great joke and a classic example of the self-fulfilling prophecy concept that crops up in practically every time travel plot. Look, I’m not saying people should drop whatever they’re watching and regress to the TV they loved when they were toddlers. We should read widely and watch widely. But part of that means making a space for stories traditionally designated “for kids.” If you’re an artist, what you consume when you’re little can be enormously influential in what you create as an adult, but you don’t have to be a child to form those connections. Just because you watched it as a kid doesn’t mean it can’t offer you anything as an adult.
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ 100th Episode I. love. this. fucking show. I have given my metaphorical blood sweat and tears to every season of this show (except 1 and 3, sorry bout it), and i am 110% excited for season 8. you all have no idea what this show means to me. II. Here is my ranking of the best entraces: Naomi Smalls kicking off, mmm girl, serving fish to the maxxx. Dax exclamation point: sickening. Acid Betty in and out of drag, absolutely terrifying. Robbie Turner giving me a mix of Violet Chachki and Jinx Monsoon and I don’t hate it. Kim Chi: 1000% fab. Bob the Drag Queen, I know i will love you this season already. Laila mcqueen: You’re actually pretty hot out of drag. Not Pearl hot mind you, but there’s something for this straight gal. Derick, are you fucking Courtenay Act??? I had to make sure it wasn’t the same person. Honestly, RuPaul comes into the workroom and I am l i v i n g. But mostly because I can’t figure out what the fuck is going on with this outfit. circus pimp realness perhaps. So the first challenge starts and it’s a photoshoot with all the previous winners! Yay! But what happened to Sharon Needles?? And where is Bianca??? My fave queen is nowhere to be found :(. so the main challenge begins and its a shit show. nobody knows what they’re doing per usual, we figure out which queens cannot sew (if you’ve been watching this show and want to be on it, you know that you won’t last 5 episodes if you can’t sew). One of them gets the dog challenge where they dress like a poodle then walk said poodle down the runway with you. This challenge sounds amazing, but i would be disqualified for not making my look and just petting the dog. The results are in: Kim Chi wins! Yay! Layla something loses. Sad. But to be honest she was the most boring one in my opinion, and now that she’s gone everyone is exciting and I can keep them apart in my head. that was fun. time to sleep -Daily Arts Writer Neon sign that says werk!!! Need in my home bc lauren conraad wrote a blog post once about how crucial neon signs are to decorate your home with bless her paper crown for kohl’s heart tbh. Four scorn and two weeks ago I procrastinated my Shakespeare essay and had the revelation that he literally invented the drag queen, so thanks be to you RuPaul for honoring that guy who probably doesn’t need any more praise. I’ve never watched this show, and here I am watching the 100th episode. Drag “race”? What’s the race? Where are they going? What’s the prize? Oh my god someone just said, “Go back to party city where you belong” … that is an iconic insult that I will definitely use tomorrow on an innocent victim. Drag names are iconic. I want a drag name. Oh my god this first contestant got his drag name from Naomi Campbell. When will I get mine? When will you get yours? You won’t, because you belong at Party City and I belong with kate middletons parents and their party goodie bag company. OK this first guy is so objectively attractive as both a man and a woman good for him because I cant even master my #lewk. He’s obsessed with ‘90s supermodels! So am i! Everyone loves Naomi ugh no one walks like Naomi ugh. HAHA Dax ExclamationPoint rn: “what’s up nerds!!!” Dax also wants brunch. Dax I will brunch with you. And this entire cast for that matter. OMF Acid Betty just made an entrance af. Robbie Turner is literally wearing the robe you would wear to answer the door when the authorities come to deliver you the news of your oil empire husband dying under mysterious circumstances. -Daily Arts Writer
What a time to be alive. - Caroline Filips, Senior Arts Editor
EPISODE REVIEW Due to its 30-minute runtime and its 10-episode seasons, “Girls” is a show that frequently struggles to give each of its many main characters their own complete B+ story arcs. The first Girls two episodes Season 5 of this seaEpisode 3 son were so strong Sundays at because they 10 p.m. had a sense HBO of focus and efficiency; while the premiere confined all the characters to one convenient location, the second episode dropped Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet, “Mad Men”) and Marnie (Allison Williams, “Peter Pan Live!”) entirely to focus on the other characters. This week’s episode, “Japan,” might’ve worked better if it had focused on
Shosh for the entirety of the episode. The change of setting works great for “Girls,” and it’s fascinating to see Shosh flourishing in an entirely new environment, making friends with a pair of Japanese girls and crushing on her boss, Yoshi (Hiro Mizushima, “Black Butler”). Even more pleasantly surprising, Shosh makes the choice to stay in Japan, going against “Girls” ’s tendency to reset the status quo every time there’s a change of scenery (see: Hannah’s brief stay in Iowa last season). If we’re lucky this time, we’re in for some more episodes set in Japan. Instead of confining the whole episode to Japan, there are two subplots crammed in. Adam (Adam Driver, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) and Jessa (Jemima Kirke, “Tiny Furniture”) are developing some really nice chemistry, so the lack of progress in
their budding romance is forgivable. The subplot involving Hannah (Lena Dunham, “Happy Christmas”) discovering naked pictures of Fran’s (Jake Lacy, “Carol”) exes is less substantial, though it still leads to some great moments of comedy as Hannah makes Ray (Alex Karpovsky, “Inside Llewyn Davis”) and Elijah (Andrew Rannells, “The New Normal”) take nude pictures of her. There’s also the Skype call between Hannah and Marnie, whose pronunciation of ‘Ecuador’ is such a brilliant and hilarious encapsulation of her character. Despite lacking the focus of the first two episodes, “Japan” tells an unusually effective Shoshanna story and provides plenty of comedy to go along with it. And, if nothing else, you can replay the clip of Marnie saying “Ecuador” a hundred times like I did. - BEN ROSENSTOCK
SINGLE REVIEW Tyler, the Creator and A$AP Rocky bring the public much needed material after having spent what felt like weeks in the Astudio together. With “What What The Fuck Right the Fuck Now,” they bring a musical Right chaos and Now frenzy that fans of Tyler have Tyler the been missing Creator for some time Odd Future now (with the accompanied video of Tyler and A$AP wilding out in the studio being icing on the cake).
The track’s title and beat are both borrowed from Kanye West’s “Freestyle 4” — fitting considering the release comes on the heels of Tyler’s various creative collaborations with West. While the track itself was a nice addition to The Life of Pablo, providing listeners a candid illustration of Kanye’s menacingly confident psyche, it also felt a bit bare relative to an otherwise frenetic collection of songs. In typical Tyler fashion, he reworks the beat with surreal and raucous lyrics — “I hope you dressin’ yourself and not followin’ niggas opinions on fashion, I hope them cars you drivin’ ain’t rented just to get
some comments on ‘Gram.” Elsewhere, you can find A$AP’s ever present bombastic persona, serving as a hypeman for Tyler and the track. A$AP Rocky and Tyler’s newfound relationship definitely seems to have rubbed off on Tyler in a positive way. After recently publicly announcing his ambivalence toward hip-hop and his rap career, his release of “What The Fuck Right Now” denotes a positive musical direction for the artist. Hopefully this rejuvenation carries enough momentum for Tyler to create even more material worth of his potential. - ANAY KAYTAL
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FASHION RECAP
HEALTH COLUMN
Happiness in Florida MaxMara brings a It was Friday afternoon, the last day of spring break. Naturally, it was the best weather we’d had all week in Destin, FL, with the wind brought down to a whisper and the sun scorching our pasty skin. Maybe not HAILEY MIDDLEBROOK scorching — it was only about 60 degrees, still cold enough for cover-ups over swimsuits — but it felt like summer compared to Ann Arbor. I came to Florida with the University Triathlon Club, tagging along on their annual spring break training trip. Though the majority of our days were filled with biking and running, some swimming was inevitable in the three-leg sport, with the help of full-body wetsuits. The swimmers in our crew zipped up as the rest of us sat on the beach. We watched as they ran into the flat ocean, stroking in sync, their bodies perfectly parallel to the shore. Near the water’s edge, a burly man with leathery skin and a bucket hat was staking fishing poles into the sand. He lumbered over to our towels and introduced himself, asked about our vacation; he grinned like a guy who spends his days with a tackle box and a cooler of beer. “I want that life,” said someone beside me. The fisherman had wandered back down shore and was chatting with his fishing buddies, tan men with wrinkly smiles. We unanimously agreed: we wanted what that guy had. Turns out the happy beach dweller we met isn’t an anomaly in Florida. Last month, both Naples, FL, and the community of North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL, were respectively ranked the first and third happiest cities in the U.S., according to the GallupHealthways Well-Being Index. To compile the list, researchers collected self-reported data from members of 190 U.S. communities, asking participants to evaluate their health, social relationships, community strength, financial security and sense of purpose. The happiest communities reported were those with less reported stress, little depression,
healthier diets and more frequent exercise. They also had more fun. “Many (residents of Naples, FL) like their daily activities and enjoy an intellectually lively culture, telling interviewers they learn or do something interesting every day,” TODAY reported. Tucked in the Everglades on the state’s southwestern coast, Naples offers something for everybody, from world-class hotels to swamp tours, sprawling mansions to fish shacks. And when tourists leave, two mainstays linger: retirees and the rich. On the surface, happiness seems to have an obvious correlation with wealth and leisure time. The two aren’t exclusively related, however. For example, take a CEO in Bellingham, WA, the city with the highest levels of stress in the list, with 53 percent of adults reporting overwhelming daily stress. The CEO may have a large paycheck to spend on fun activities (which would significantly decrease her stress), but she has no time to take a vacation from work. Similarly, an unemployed man from Charleston, WV, which ranked dead last on the WellBeing Index, may have free time in his day, but he is crippled with fear of not having food on the table (about a quarter of the population reported they couldn’t afford groceries or medical expenses, TODAY said). It makes sense, then, that the affluent, predominantly retired community of Naples is the happiest: they have plenty of money to spend, and endless time to do it. But something’s missing here. On the beach, we didn’t necessarily envy the Floridian’s yacht or wish our days could be spent fishing like his. What struck me the most about him — why I wanted that life — had nothing to do with money, leisure time, or even the beach itself, but everything to do with the wrinkly friends the man was laughing with. In the rankings, Naples wasn’t the richest, healthiest or most purposeful city, but it scored first in perhaps the most important (and often overlooked) category: community well-being. People weren’t happier just because they could shop or spend their days fishing; they were happiest because they had others to share their experiences with. Being an active part of a community —
whether it’s a weekend golf crew, book club or church congregation — seems to boost our health and happiness more than anything else. When we’re not connected, our happiness — and health in general — can spiral downward quickly. As an article in the Guardian about the secrets of happy cities said, “As much as we complain about other people, there is nothing worse for mental health than a social desert. The more connected we are to family and community, the less likely we are to experience heart attacks, strokes, cancer and depression. Connected people sleep better at night. They live longer. They consistently report being happier.” Stanford University’s wellness report also addressed community influence, saying “The problem: we often do not recognize the importance of social connection. Our culture values hard work, success, and wealth, so it’s no surprise some of us do not set aside enough time for social ties when we think security lies in material things rather than other people.” For college students, these findings are incredibly important. As we dip our toes into adulthood, we start to realize how big the world is — how many cities we can live in, careers we can pursue, degrees we can accept, fitness goals we can achieve — and it’s easy to lose our social lives in the thick of it. We’ll get back to our friends and family, we think, after the MCAT exam. And the marathon. And graduation. Because when the “important” things are accomplished, we’re convinced we’ll be happier. And we’re wrong. We didn’t want to leave Florida on Saturday morning. Not because of the sun or the sand, the sports bra runs and 100-mile bike rides on snow-free roads, or even the poolside pina coladas. We’d miss them all in Ann Arbor, no doubt, but what we’d miss most is our connection with each other: 22 people in a house, crowded and cramped, happily sharing every experience. Let’s do that more often.
Middlebrook is adjusting back to Michigan weather. To warm her up, email hailharp@umich.edu.
modern twist to past By JORDAN STERN Daily Arts Writer
If MaxMara is known for one thing, it’s his signature camel coat. As anticipated, the designer’s timeless item once again graced the Milan runways; this time, however, it came adorned and paired with unprecedented gilded upgrades. A change so dramatic, the revamped camel coat signaled the arrival — as put by W Magazine — of a “new MaxMara woman.” The notion of new permeated the entire collection. The brand dubbed the collection “a wave of modern and progressive energy,” boasting a fabulous array of vibrant fabrics, contrasting colors and reinvented silhouettes. Mara dressed the ‘working woman’ as a bold go-getter, unapologetically decked out in lime green and turquoise. But what makes this season’s collection most fascinating, and what brings the oddly colored clothes to life, was the story behind the collection. Mara was not merely playing with color blocking, but rather curating a decadent fusion of history and fashion; modern energy fueled, ironically, by the past. The notion of a new MaxMara woman is a nod to the designer’s unlikely muse for this season’s collection: the New Woman of Weimar Germany. Mara’s
pieces embodied the freespirited feminism that defined the Weimar Republic, while also incorporating fixtures inspired by the era’s art movements. Set amongst a reimagined Berlin cabaret, MaxMara’s Fall 2016 ready-to-wear collection revived the Weimar period’s cultural achievements in an ode to both Europe’s past and today’s present (leaving me wondering if the designer is secretly a student in my History class). A time period whose cultural significance is easily overshadowed by its stereotype as a dismal age for the defeated country, the Weimar Era was much more than debt and inflation and anger; it was an age of both political and culture revolution. Weimar Germany birthed a variety of cultural changes, from the sexual revolution to the Dada movement, the Bauhaus to the New Woman. A symbol of Weimar modernity, the New Woman represented feminism and individuality during the time period. The New Woman was fabulous, and feared not when it came to exploring who she was and asserting her individuality. Mara encouraged his customers to do the same. The designer recreated the traditional pantsuit Weimar woman typically sported with girlish touches and feminine necklines. Vogue UK describes the collection as “clothes for the
confident modern woman.” Mara’s collection was also heavily influenced by Dadaism, a satirical, existentialist art form that came to fruition during the Weimar era. Dada declared art was dead and rejected the typical social order in an effort to create a new set of values. Mara’s collection reflected the basic principles of Dadaism in that he reinvented traditional silhouettes to forge a new order for fashion. Each individual look evoked the spirit of Dada; reimagined coats and pantsuits, dress and sequined rompers. Mara attempted to shatter the image of a typical work suit, delivering the traditional ensemble in lime green, bright yellow and soft pink. The designer brings versatility and color to a season so often tainted by nature’s darker colors. Elegant blue leather gloves are matched with ruby red shoes and a punchy orange coat; aquamarine gloves accompany a baby pink pantsuit, decorated with a random array of black and white stripes. Mara’s use of color and reworked silhouettes evoked the Weimar spirit to defy fashion norms and create a new way of dressing, a new order which, in the words of the brand itself, “breaks all the rules.” It was a solid effort, but the designer could have used more than mere colors and shapes to make his point.
MUSIC VIDEO REVIEW The video for Halsey’s newest single “Colors” is devoid of just that. A C+ platinum blonde Colors Halsey is painted in Halsey a whitewashed, upper-middle class suburbia — she’s dating the son (Tyler Posey, “Teen Wolf”) of the man her mother is dating. Her wig is only halfway convincing; everyone is oddly great at tennis; and there are loads of polaroids — you get the picture. The video is almost
entirely candid as the song just plays over videos of the characters. The mom seems a tad desperate, Halsey is aloof toward her boy-hunk and Dad’s mustache screams that he’s up to no good. The first chorus ogles Tyler Posey in a way that’s not unenjoyable: he jogs, smiles, changes in a steamy locker room (with his dad?). You know, typical pretty-boy shit. Meanwhile, Halsey is snapping pics through door cracks and rolling around some white sheets between flirty glances. Finally, the third-act twist comes when she drops a handful of polaroids in front
of her boyfriend, only for him to see they’re all of his father. The twisted would’ve had more success had the video played up the mysterious romance more, instead it only lead in with the odd, healthy suspicion uber rich white families most of us have. The seemingly out-ofcontext video is supported by a fantastic song, without a doubt. And while the aesthetics are pleasing enough to warrant an additional view or two, the story-line never hits the intended mark. - CHRISTIAN KENNEDY