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VictorThon raises $475K in annual capstone event Students stand, dance for 24 hours in charity fundraiser over weekend
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For 24 straight hours this weekend, University of Michigan students stood in solidarity with disabled children as they raised money to support both C.S. Mott Children’s and Women’s Hospital
and Beaumont Children’s Hospital during the 19th annual Dance Marathon. The event ended Sunday afternoon with an announcement of the final tally of a semester-long fundraising effort: $475, 807. Last year, Dance Marathon fundraising totals reached about $460,000. As an organization, Dance Marathon hosts several events throughout the year including mini marathons at local high schools and creative events such as pumpkin carving, where participants can interact with the children benefitting from the fundraisers. This year,
event organizers rebranded the capstone dance event from “Dance Marathon” to “VictorThon” to better incorporate and connect to the University community. Alyssa Allen, Dance Marathon’s public relations chair and recent University graduate, said the organization rebranded the marathon to build a stronger brand. Choosing to incorporate the University with the event led to several new initiatives, such as naming designated stations after campus landmarks and setting the event’s fundraising goal at $109,901 — one dollar for every seat in the Big House — she
added. “I think that it just makes for more cohesive programming and ‘VictorThon’ gets a lot more people excited because we’re all so spirited about this University,” Allen said. During VictorThon, dancers remained on their feet for 24 hours to show their support for children with mental and physical ailments. To raise money before the event, dancers register in teams that fundraise throughout the year through campaigns such as bake sales, asking for donations on street corners and hosting See VICTORTHON, Page 2A
Student governments aim to increase communication over city’s water By LARA MOEHLMAN Daily Staff Reporter
As months of public outcry surrounding Flint’s ongoing water crisis have unfolded, the University of Michigan-Flint’s Student Government and other student leaders have launched initiatives on their campus to provide resources to both students struggling with the water crisis and their community at large. Cameron Haskins, a UM-Flint junior in Senior Molecular Biology and a senator on UM-Flint’s Student Government, said student leaders on UM-Flint’s campus are in the process of planning several long-term projects that focus on reaching out to community members who don’t have access to safe drinking water.
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Friday night’s Central Student Government debate, hosted by The Michigan Daily, was highlighted with emotion and tension, with many candidates using personal experiences at the University of Michigan to illustrate their policy platform. Issues of diversity, inclusivity, student mental health and platform feasibility took center stage as the president and vice president candidates from Your Michigan, newMICH and the Defend Affirmative Action Party answered questions from moderators and Twitter users over the course of the hour and a half long debate. All six candidates from the three parties offered several solutions to change the current social climate in CSG, saying it is not currently
not an inclusive student space that encourages open and honest dialogue. LSA junior David Schafer said if elected as CSG president, his party, newMICH, would aim to create a space which encourages the progressive communication each party wishes to see by hosting Q&A periods with not only students, but also administrators, faculty, staff and the Division of Public Safety and Security. Schafer is running with LSA junior Micah Griggs, newMICH’s vice-presidential candidate. “The diversity, equity and inclusion efforts were a fantastic step, but they didn’t go far enough,” Schafer said. “I think holding these open Q&As, which is something we called for, would provide the impetus to hold administration, faculty and staff accountable for improving diversity on campus inside and outside of CSG.” Ford junior Thomas Hislop, Your Michigan’s presidential candidate, highlighted inclusivity and diversity as important areas of Your Michigan’s platform as well. To best do that, he said, CSG needs to recruit from new areas of campus See CSG, Page 3A
One such project is a rally to be held toward the end of this month with members of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor’s Central Student Government. Students plan on marching in East Lansing to advocate for the state to repeal the emergency manager laws many have cited that were largely at the root of the water crisis. Haskins said he is grateful for CSG’s support and increased communication with the UM-Flint campus. He added before the crisis, he had not seen much collaboration between CSG and UM-Flint’s Student Government. However, since then, there has been a significant amount of communication, including a Tri-Campus Summit promoting community organizational building and activism on each of the University’s three campuses. “Together we have more resources, more minds, more manpower,” Haskins said. Cooper Charlton, LSA senior and CSG president, attended a tricampus summit involving students See FLINT, Page 2A
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Brian Baker, DPSS liaison to student life, discusses campus safety and student-police relationships in regards to students of color at the Michigan Union on Saturday.
Community, police discuss race relations in Ann Arbor AAPD and DPSS address brutality concerns with students By RIYAH BASHA Daily Staff Reporter
The Black Student Union partnered with Students of Color of Rackham to host a daylong forum on local policing Saturday. Security officers and administrators from a variety
of University of Michigan departments took part as well, representing the University’s Division of Public Security and Safety and the Ann Arbor Police Department. About 50 students and police officers participated in workshops discussing students’ rights, the relationship between race and safety and the national conversations surrounding police brutality sparked by incidents such as the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. Student organizers didn’t
shy away from acknowledging tension between students of color and law enforcement. Rackham student Pete Haviland-Eduah, SCOR Vice President, opened the forum by noting the need for students to know law enforcement on a personal level. “There is a deep rift of mistrust between the Black community and the law enforcement that serves them,” he said. “But these are the conversations that must be had ... we have to employ humility in order to listen to one See POLICE, Page 2A
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A proposed project to build a North Campus transit center was halted Saturday due to concerns from Ann Arbor residents. The University of Michigan’s Board of Regentsapproved initial schematic designs and bids for construction contracts for the center, slated to include a fullservice bus depot and maintenance site, called the Transportation Operations and Maintenance Facility, during a 2014 meeting. In January of this year, the University initiated the process for obtaining a State of Michigan Department of Environmental Quality permit for the project. The proposed $38.5 million facility was planned to be located near several residential neighborhoods. However, in a letter to residents dated Saturday, University See TRANSIT, Page 3A
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Hackett to be leader of new mobility services company Jim Hackett, the outgoing University of Michigan interim athletic director, will lead Ford Motor Company’s new mobility services company, according to Crain’s Detroit Business. The company, Ford Smart Mobility LLC, will be a formal subsidiary of Ford. Hackett, a Ford board member since 2013, stepped down from the board on March 10 to assume his position as chairman of the subsidiary. The subsidiary aims to create commercially ready mobility services and collaborate with startups as well as established tech companies, Ford said. The Smart Mobility initiative was first announced by Mark Fields, Ford CEO and president, in early 2015 as the signature piece of his plans as CEO, Crain’s reported. Since then, Ford has
conducted experiments and pilot programs such as a carsharing program, an Uber-like shuttle service for employees and an on-demand public bus service. Hackett previously served as the CEO of furniture maker Steelcase for 20 years, retiring in 2014 to run Michigan’s athletic department. Ford’s statement credited Hackett for having transformed Steelcase “from a traditional office furniture manufacturer to a company that would change the way people work.” Fields also spoke highly of Hackett and his suitability for the job in the statement. “Our plan is to quickly become part of the growing transportation services market, which already accounts for $5.4 trillion in annual revenue,” the statement said. “Jim Hackett
is the right visionary leader — with extensive experience in business development and design — to take us into the mobility services business in the future.” Hackett said in a statement he looks forward to leading Ford Smart Mobility LLC into the frontiers of the transportation sector. “I am absolutely thrilled to lead Ford’s mobility business into the future,” Hackett said in the statement. “Transportation in the world today is on the cusp of a major revolution, and Ford plans to lead the way by changing the way the world moves through Ford Smart Mobility.” Warde Manuel, Hackett’s permanent replacement as UM athletic director, began the position on March 14. -DESIREE CHEW
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VICTORTHON From Page 1A special bar nights around Ann Arbor. To help keep dancers motivated, Dance Marathon incorporated random line dances throughout the night, taught from the main stage by event organizers. With each announcement of a line dance, instructors would add three more songs to the lineup; what started as a minute-long line dance in the beginning quickly piled into a 10-minute performance set to clips of more than 20 songs. Also new this year was a designated area called the FTK Lounge. FTK is an acronym
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commonly used and chanted during the marathon that stands for “For The Kids” — reminding dancers throughout the 24-hour stretch of the children they are helping by staying on their feet. The lounge was outfitted with lounge chairs that marathon participants could sit in for a dollar per minute. “We really want to push in-event fundraising this year because we do so much fundraising throughout the year, but in-event there’s so much more opportunity to fundraise,” Allen said. Dance Marathon founder Inder Singh spoke during the opening ceremony about how far the program has come since the first marathon in 1998, noting the difficulties in initiating the now annual program.
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“I remember one week before the very first marathon, the Athletic Department called us and said, ‘you guys can’t do this,’ ” Singh said. “ ‘You guys don’t have the insurance, we don’t know if your EMTs are certified — you can’t do this.’ We were panic-stricken.” Singh said the inaugural marathon went ahead as scheduled only after the marathon’s first team of event organizers and founders dropped all their commitments and called notable community members including former football coaches Bo Schembechler and Lloyd Carr. “It wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the efforts of hundreds and hundreds of people,” Singh said. LSA freshman Harrison Angoff said he participated in VictorThon because he felt it was his duty to aid those who have difficulties performing everyday tasks. “As college students I think we’re really privileged to be able to attend the University and to live our daily lives unhindered,” Angoff said. “I think it’s really important to fundraise for assistance and therapy to allow these children to live as normal a life as possible.” Angoff said he thought the greatest challenge during the marathon is for students to remember why they’re choosing to undergo the physically trying event. “We complained about our legs hurting or being tired, but really all it comes down to is who you’re helping and why you’re helping them,” he said. “Once you think about that the little issues that you come across go away immediately.” During VictorThon, teams were paired up with children undergoing therapies, which benefit from the organization’s fundraiser and aims to personalize the experience. Conor Waterman, one of the children who benefits from the marathon’s fundraising, said he greatly appreciates what the Dance Marathon organization has done for his treatments, and added he enjoys meeting new people every year and having a fun time. “My experience at Dance Marathon has always been just being around awesome people,” Waterman said. “This is just a great organization you guys have formed, and you’re just making money for great, great things.”
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FLINT From Page 1A from the University’s Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses, last month. He said the event brought to light issues on the Flint campus he previously was unaware of. “We haven’t really collaborated in the past, so I think this is one event that goes to show that we really do want to be more interactive — campus to campus — and unfortunately we felt really isolated in the past,” Charlton said during the summit. “I think just the gesture that we are collaborating is super special.” In addition to the rally, UM-Flint’s Student Government is working on planning a benefit concert to raise money in support of initiatives to provide needed resources to the city. “There’s a lot of higher, recognizable artists who are donating money or water bottles to the city. If you’re willing to donate that much money, you’re willing to come play a few songs,” Haskins said. Though UM-Flint’s administration has assured students that all water on campus is filtered and safe for drinking, Haskins said he notices a decent amount of hesitation from his peers. “I think they have a right to be
POLICE From Page 1A another.” Music, theatre & dance sophomore Diego Zimmerman, the BSU’s Political Action Chair, built on HavilandEduah’s comments, presenting a survey conducted by the BSU which found that 34 percent of respondents — the majority of whom were African-American — are uncomfortable approaching police officers in uniform. “We are here, though, to alleviate that fear,” he said. DPSS Police Chief Robert Neumann acknowledged discussions involving race and policing might be sensitive ones, but highlighted their utility as well. “We’ll leave here today with the information you need to be
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skeptical, whether they’re filtered or not,” Haskins said. For him, he said, in recent months he’s felt comfortable drinking the water on campus until he recently left a metal water bottle over break and returned to find it had been discolored and stained from the water inside it. “Now I’m definitely kind of wary of the water,” he said. Haskins also noted that with students’ uncertainty over the safety of the water has come an additional influx of disposable plastic bottles, which he said he finds littered around campus and which, as a result, has increased awareness and push for recycling. “It’s not water that the city needs. It’s a new infrastructure. It’s a new governor for the state. It’s things that aren’t fixed with writing a check and it’s things that are going to take years if not decades to solve,” he said. Haskins said UM-Flint’s Student Government has identified a need within the Flint community to support undocumented citizens. Many water, filter and testing kit distribution sites require those receiving donations to present an ID. As a result, many undocumented citizens avoid these sites and continue to drink poisonous water. UM-Flint’s Student Government is working on setting
up a water giveaway specifically designated for undocumented citizens. In addition, they plan to provide undocumented citizens with foods that research shows to help absorb lead in the body. UM-Flint senior Abud Jondy, psychology major and director of foreign outreach on UM-Flint’s Student Government, said he is currently working with the Student Association of Michigan, an organization made up of student representatives from nearly every public college in the state of Michigan, to plan a statewide water distribution day. Jondy said he sees this collaboration as an important signal to the people of Flint that students across the state are working to help them. On campus, Jondy said an optional class for students offered every couple of weeks focuses on keeping students up-to-date on local news surrounding the water crisis as well as providing them with important safety information. Jondy said though the Flint community has been under significant stress in this regard for the past two years, it is nonetheless hopeful they will see improvements. “People haven’t given up on life. People are still moving forward … they won’t stop fighting until they see something happen,” Jondy said.
educated customers,” he said. “For law enforcement, to be better capable of providing the best experience we can.” The workshops and presentations took three months for the various organizations to coordinate, but SCOR liaison and Rackham student Courtney McCluney said she appreciated the planning process and officers making themselves available to students. “And our student leaders stepping up and being able to put aside potential common perceptions that they have about each other, I think we were all just really courageous in putting this together,” she said. McCluney also noted the dialogue’s importance in providing a space for proactive conversation over continued mistrust between the police department and the community.
“We have to be able to work together with all moving parts, including staff and students,” she said. “As student leaders on this campus, we wanted to be able to facilitate conversations about this rift, and be able to hopefully come up with some solutions that are viable to not just students, but also to law enforcement as well, so we can make everyone’s job better.” DPSS spokeswoman Diane Brown agreed and said University police rely heavily on students’ comments to learn how to police more effectively. “This kind of dialogue helps forge partnerships and will help inform our future policies and practices,” she wrote in an e-mail after the event. “We also hear from community members that they appreciate getting to know us in an environment not related to an investigation or emergency.”
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CSG From Page 1A life. Hislop is running alongside LSA junior Cam Dotson, Your Michigan’s vice-presidential candidate. “That starts with going to different orientation groups, going to the summer Bridge Program and really starting to recruit from those very first steps on campus,” Hislop said. “Let’s get these students excited about making a difference on this campus.” In response to a question from moderators, DAAP noted several unique goals in their platform, such as removing standardized testing from the admissions process and ensuring undocumented students are safe on campus. Both of the party’s candidates said they would encourage the University to adopt the Texas 10 percent plan to increase minority enrollment — in Texas, the plan guarantees admission to the top 10 percent of graduates from public school in the state to a University of Texas campus. DAAP’s platform also states they aim to make the University’s campus a “sanctuary campus,” meaning immigration officials wouldn’t be allowed to deport undocumented
students, and in a direct question from moderators they were asked why their platform states making the University’s campus a sanctuary campus should be a priority for CSG. “I believe everyone has the right to a public education, the right to be able to afford school and come on the campus and feel safe,” said LSA sophomore Chalse Okorom, DAAP vice presidential candidate. LSA senior Keysha Wall, DAAP’s presidential candidate, added that CSG needs to be an organization that makes all oppressed people safe. “Not just in words, but in action,” Wall said. “You cannot live and feel safe knowing you could be deported at any time.” Mental health was also a recurring topic, with both Your Michigan and newMICH using statistical evidence to make their point that there should be more mental health resources on campus. NewMICH candidates stated that the ratio of students to counselors on campus is 1:1,300, and that for the University to meet the gold standard 11 more counselors need to be hired. They cited a frequently emphasized campaign goal — putting a student on the Board of Regents as a voting member — to increase funding for CAPS. “Ohio State put a student on the
News Board of Regents, and the Board of Regents got the funding to increase CAPS — double the budget — and get eighteen more counselors,” Griggs said. Dotson said upcoming renovations to the Michigan Union could be a way through which the stigma of getting help for mental health on campus can be positively altered. “Giving CAPS its own space is crucial,” Dotson said. “In doing so we make it a more inviting and productive space where student feel comfortable receiving help.” DAAP responded to the need for improved outreach and accessibility of mental health resources on campus by drawing on personal experiences, with Wall sharing her experience with depression and attempted suicide. “It’s hard to get help,” Wall said. “It’s hard when campus is signaling that they don’t care about you. When you have to wait a few weeks for a CAPS appointment. We need more action to change the climate on campus.” During the debate, several candidates also engaged with each other on several heated points, with newMICH and Your Michigan disagreeing over the tangibility of each other’s goals, experience on the
assembly and budgeting plans. As part of a response to a question from moderators, Griggs argued that Your Michigan lacked a platform, with Schafer then mentioning a few of newMICH’s goals he said were more feasible in comparison. “We often talk a lot about cross student government collaboration,” Schafer said. “We talk about the creation of an academic scholarship and leadership scholarship and stipend fund. We view these two scholarships would be greatly benefitted if they were jointly pooled financially from not only CSG, but also LS&A student government, Engineering Student Government, among some of the other school and college student governments on campus.” In response, Hislop said he thought his party’s platform was more beneficial to campus than newMICH’s because of its budgeting. “Not only do we have a platform, but you can find it online,” he said. “You’ll find that it is the only platform that is is financially feasible. It’s the only one that keeps in mind that CSG has a budget. To run a platform that makes so many costly demands is not a platform, but a list of demands.”
Monday, March 14, 2016 — 3A Throughout the debate, various candidates urged the audience to realise that while each party had similar broad goals for campus - such as improving diversity and mental health - the difference lay in how they approached them, and their specific policy objectives within them. Hislop said in his closing remarks that he felt disconnected from student life when he entered the University as a freshman after his mother passed away. “I want every single freshman that comes to this university to feel comfortable, every senior who leaves to feel like they’ve found their calling,” he said. “I want every student in the University who has ever felt alone to know that when Wolverines feel weak, they lean on other Wolverines. I want them to know this because this is the experience that every University student should have.” CSG’s presidential elections will be held on March 23 and 24.
TRANSIT From Page 1A President Mark Schlissel said the University would pause the project and suspend the permit application to evaluate community input and study how the transit center would impact residents. “In the coming weeks we intend to reach out to representatives of the adjacent neighborhoods to better understand their concerns and how they might be addressed,” Schlissel wrote. The proposed transit center spurred significant outcry from the Ann Arbor community during a neighborhood meeting on Feb. 25. Issues brought up by residents included the University’s lack of transparency with the community.
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very day, we are greeted by someone who asks how we are. Most of us give a one-word response like “good” and ask the other person the question almost reflexively. We don’t get much out of simple interactions like this, but I believe these interactions are more important than they may seem. They’re an opportunity to connect when people actually need to be asked how CHRIS they are. Sometimes peoCROWDER ple genuinely care how we feel — they take the extra step to ask, “No, really, how are you?” Recently, I’ve been saying, “I’m OK” when people ask me how I am. It’s the truth, but saying those two words is a way of opting out. It lets me avoid conversations about what keeps me awake at night because initially, I am hesitant to share and fearful of what others will think. “OK” can be a watered-down version of “I’m having a horrible day,” or “I’m struggling.” In my case, it’s more of the latter. What’s bothering me is multiple difficult days, filled with anxieties and obstacles to climb. In some instances, I silently pray that I won’t be asked to go more into detail. The majority of people don’t want to hear about your problems because they’re expecting this part of the conversation to be short — “Good, how are you?” It can be embarrassing to bare your soul to someone, the discomfort raging on in your head. But I have seen how being vulnerable and open can also be a worthwhile risk to take. Solely because I have had deeper conversations extending beyond “I’m OK,” I have been able to see how I am blessed. After getting things off of my chest, I can get out of bed every morning, remembering how fortunate I am regardless of my pain. My dad told me the truth that this part of my life will not be the hardest stretch of time I will experience. There is a mix of comfort and disappointment in knowing the worst is yet to come. I’m 20 years old and still having good days amid the difficult ones. Dude, you’ve got a long way to go in life, I tell myself. So keep going. I realize that I am fortunate through difficult times. I really am OK. What lies ahead will be more than fine. Though my emotions can be out of whack at times, I’m learning how to be complete in my faith and resilient, while also being able to unpack my emotional state through more in-depth conversations. Even though I can be a baby and mope sometimes, I can’t complain because I’m not facing an unbearable bat-
tle. What’s more, I have support from my family, friends and God. I wouldn’t have been able to have this mindset without the people who have pushed me beyond saying just “I’m OK.” Without people like this, we suffer more from battles that remain internal — battles that are haunted by past mistakes —by worrying about an uncertain future, sending us tumbling into self-deprecation. Situations may seem much worse than they actually are, and listening to your own thoughts alone can be a recipe for unhealthy thinking. Other people are there to help lead you to truth. By having people in their lives to ask more than surface-level questions, people who are struggling can better flesh out their inner thoughts and come to new revelations. These questions help those struggling to realize what their specific “OK” really means. For me, saying, “I’m OK” means I can’t share all of my thoughts on my own. I need a push. And through being gently asked more questions, I can find that even as I face obstacles, I am not angry. I have hope, which a friend defined to me recently as a joyful anticipation for good. Even so, there are still times I try to solve my problems by myself, times when I’m too stubborn to ask for help, times when I forget the help I’ve received before, times when it’s two o’clock in the morning and I can’t fall asleep. It’s hard to remember then that I have people who would still answer the phone if I called them. I used to think I needed to keep all my real thoughts and anxieties to myself because I didn’t want to burden people I love with more problems. I didn’t want them to worry about me or to feel pressured to help me. I believed voicing my pain would be a sign of weakness, impacting how people viewed me as a man. But really, asking for help, facing all your pain and fighting through it takes a lot of streng th. It’s badass. People who say they’re OK may be strong, but we can’t face everything alone. We need people to guide and encourage us along the way; a lot more words can be unpacked from the standard two-word response. There need to be more conversations that start like this: “Hey, how are you?” “I’m OK.” “No, tell me how you really feel.” “I don’t know if you want to hear about all that.” “No, I would. I care about you.” “It’s a long story. Well …”
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U.S. must stop creating refugees
hen we talk about immigration policy in the United States, do we consider how the United States helped to create these immigrants in the first place? The spectrum of acceptable opinions this election cycle ZAK includes the extreme right WITUS with Donald Trump and his proposed wall along the U.S./Mexico border and deportation of Muslim citizens to the left with Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton apparently both agreeing to end Obama’s campaign of detaining and deporting Central American refugees. But these two poles of opinion exclude what I believe to be a vital consideration in formulating immigration policy: the history of U.S. military intervention and subversion in Central America. For people like me on the Marxist side of being Democrat, liberals are often more frustrating than conservatives. Take the New York Times, for instance: In an editorial earlier this year, the Times denounced the Obama administration’s “shameful roundup of refugees,” referring to the hundreds of immigrants that the Obama administration has detained and/or deported as they arrived in the United States fleeing gang violence in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Though the Times wrote that solving this problem, which it framed as one of illegal immigration, “requires addressing the root causes of the bloody violence in the region,” the editorial unfortunately didn’t mention what those root causes may be, and thus didn’t propose any solutions addressing them. Instead, the Times suggested “fixing the chaotic, underfunded legal system at the border” and “building routes of escape for families in danger.” What does this amount to? The Times refuses to even acknowledge the shameful history of the United States that has amounted to undermining democracy, supporting murderous military regimes and perpetuating military coups in Central America. By doing so, the publication fails to meaningfully challenge U.S. power and hegemony. Its proposed palliative solutions aim to help our Central American victims cope with U.S. power, but they don’t really aim to repair the harm we caused, and neither do they aim to prevent the United States from further harming them in the future. The most simple and basic measure the United States could take to help Central America, and in the process mitigate our own immigration problem, is knowing our intertwined histories, because only after that can
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we address the problem’s root causes. In 1954, years before he alerted us all to the dangers of the militaryindustrial complex, President Dwight Eisenhower toppled the first-ever democratic government in Guatemala. Ten years earlier, a revolution led by young officers and middle-class university people had ousted the U.S.-aligned dictator Jorge Ubico. In the name of establishing a genuine capitalist society, Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman pushed an agrarian reform bill that expropriated uncultivated land from large plantations and redistributed to the landless peasants. This measure, accepted by the Guatemalan legislature, seized lands from Arbenz himself as well as the United Fruit Company, an American corporation that traded fruit grown on Central and South American plantations. In the name of defending Central America from communism, and in the interests of the United Fruit Company, Eisenhower ended Guatemala’s brief experiment with democracy and installed Colonel Rodolfo Castillo Armas as the country’s new dictator. Various authoritarian regimes ruled Guatemala with extreme violence and terror in the following decades, most with strong U.S. backing. Though he is sometimes reputed as one of the most peaceful presidents, Jimmy Carter supported the murderous military junta that overthrew El Salvador’s government in 1979. By the end of May 1980, church sources had reported 1,844 civilian deaths; by year’s end, there were 10,000, almost all of them at the hands of the coup regime. Among the thousands of uninvestigated and unresolved murders in El Salvador was the brutal rape and murder of four U.S. nuns by Salvadoran National Guardsmen. Though the New York Times and other U.S. media outlets followed the U.S.-Salvadoran propaganda line that the guardsmen acted alone, there was strong evidence of high-level government/military involvement. After a Kafkaesque show trial, the Reagan administration unfroze Salvadoran assets and continued the flow of aid and weapons. Archbishop Oscar Romero, the highest Catholic Church official in El Salvador, was an outspoken critic of the junta government. He was assassinated by the military junta, probably on orders directly from a Salvadoran general. When Romero had sent a letter to President Carter opposing the sending of aid as destructive to Salvadoran people’s interest, Carter responded by lobbying the pope to rein Romero in. Carter continued the flow of aid throughout his administration, with brief interludes when it wasn’t strategically necessary, and Reagan followed suit after him, perhaps a little more willing to turn the blind eye.
Lastly, let’s acknowledge that 200 years of U.S. domination of the hemisphere didn’t end with the Obama administration. On June 28, 2009, a military coup ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, yet another democratically elected Central American president who stepped out of line with U.S. interests. Zelaya had supported radical social movements at home and signed cooperation agreements with the official U.S. enemy Venezuela. The United Nations, European Union and the Organization of American States all condemned the coup, but the U.S. government never did. To condemn the coup would’ve been to acknowledge it, and if the U.S. government acknowledged the Honduran coup as such, we would’ve been forced under our own law to stop sending the country aid with the exception of democracy assistance. Instead, despite reports of killings and human rights abuses by increasingly militarized Honduran security forces, and despite the rest of the world’s opposition, the U.S. government has increased military assistance to Honduras. In August of 2009, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to justify the lack of condemnation by claiming it was unclear whether a coup had actually taken place, promising to investigate further and then reevaluate. But later, a leaked government cable sent to top U.S. officials, including Clinton, revealed she knew very well that there had been a coup and had in fact lied about there being any ambiguity. The subject of the cable was “Open and Shut: The Case of the Honduran Coup,” and it thoroughly documented the claim that “there is no doubt” that the events of June 28, 2009, “constituted an illegal and unconstitutional coup.” U.S. military intervention and subversion in Central America is the principal root cause of the present violence in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. The New York Times is right to denounce the Obama administration’s shameful response to the surge in refugees. The Department of Homeland Security has no excuse for indefinitely detaining families it finds to be bona fide asylum seekers. Deporting refugees back to the countries from which they fled is immoral, and bless the New York Times for saying so. But the real underlying problem, even within the frame of illegal immigration, is the United States continually supporting violence and unrest. If we really want to lessen the flow of refugees to the United States, we should stop creating them. If we really want to promote peace and democracy, we should stop undermining it at every turn. That’s my immigration policy. Zak Witus can be reached at zakwitus@umich.edu..
Diversify student government
government should represent those whom it governs and fight for what those people want. Though representatives each bring their own unique set of issues to government and work hard to represent their constituents, they cannot experience the CONNOR day-to-day lives of many of their KIPPE constituents or meet with all the hundreds of students we work to serve. That is why all student governments here on campus must work harder to have a more diverse representative body. I won’t tiptoe around my connection to this problem; I serve in two student governments as an elected representative of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts Student Government, and as an appointed member of Wolverine Consulting Group, a commission within Central Student Government. I also will not ignore who I am or what my background is. I am white. I am male. I am cisgender. I come from a middle class background. While I bring an important perspective to student government, I recognize I cannot and should not speak on behalf of many students with whom I don’t share the same story. CSG elected a Black woman as president of Central Student Government in 1992, a Japanese international student in 2000 and a gay president in 2010. But for the eighth year in a row,
the University of Michigan’s student body will likely elect a man to the CSG presidency. The status quo must change. The fact that only data about diversity in CSG and not other student governments has been studied in the past makes it clear we need to investigate the extent to which this lack of diversity affects other student governments. And regardless of the degree to which this lack of diversity exists in other student governments, these bodies can still take similar approaches to seek a more diverse representative body that reflects diverse backgrounds in terms of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender orientation, socioeconomic status and more. Though a lack of diversity shows itself in student governments, this deficiency begins with University policies concerning minority enrollment and incorporation of minority students into campus life. These policies must change so that minority representatives in student governments do not feel ostracized as Others, forced to speak for all people who share their background. In light of the ruling on affirmative action in Michigan by the Supreme Court, other options are being and must continue to be weighed by the administration. While the University reviews its policies, student governments on campus must step up to implement policies to help better recruit candidates that reflect the constituency of the University as it is. The first way for this to be done would be for each student government, acting through an election director unbiased by student politics, to recruit candidates. Using money apportioned from
dues paid by those in student government, this election director would employ student recruiters and pay for the printing of recruiting materials such as flyers or advertising space inside University buildings and other places around campus. Distribution of recruiting materials must be spread across campus to all different demographics and to students in different locations, both off campus and on North Campus. Next, students in student government should work with University administrators to secure funding for a scholarship for students of low socioeconomic status to participate in student government. Finally, student governments must work to make the atmospheres of their organizations welcoming, where members will feel respected and supported in pursuing projects that will help underprivileged students. People should have the ability to represent themselves in student government so they can work toward projects that help them better their own and other people’s situations. In the absence of programs to seek out a wider variety of representatives, the status quo will continue. Diverse bodies of people, through much research, have been shown to produce this increased creativity and performance across a range of different activities. Diversity within our representative bodies will help them come up with resolutions and projects within the University that affect the most people in unique and creative ways. Connor Kippe can be reached at conkip@umich.edu.
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Weird ‘Mermaid’ By DANIEL HENSEL Daily Arts Writer
For those who watch movies as a form of escapism, there’s perhaps no better mechanism Bthan the Chinese blockThe buster “The Mermaid Mermaid.” It’s a ridicuState Theater lous slapstick fantasy/sciBeijing Enlight fi romanPictures tic comedy, featuring a mermaid (newcomer Lin Yun) who falls in love with an environmentally destructive real estate developer (Deng Chao, “Devil and Angel”) she’s been sent by her fellow merpeople to seduce and kill. Ridiculous? Yes. Entertaining? You betcha. Director Stephen Chow, whose 2004 martial arts comedy “Kung Fu Hustle” is nothing short of a masterpiece, here attempts to reconstruct his signature liveaction Looney Tunes style with mild success. “Hustle” lived up to its name, cracking unbelievably funny jokes and visual gags seemingly every second. “The Mermaid” is equally fast-paced and, at a brisk 94 minutes, never slows
down from its start. Chow has a knack for the visuals. From the film’s opening incongruous scene, set at a clearly fake museum for ocean life, Chow’s camera slowly reveals the absurd. As more and more details of the museum are shown, the laughs build and build toward one great punchline at the end. This is often how the film flows. Each scene purports to tell one major joke, and it deliberately lets its audience in on a small detail and widens the scope until we’re able to get the whole joke. It’s a tactic that works very well, but it limits Chow. A master of slapstick, Chow should start to expand beyond his strengths. Let’s start with the bad. The effects are laughable, quite literally. In fact, it’s as easy to laugh at the effects as the jokes. With a budget of over $61 million, one has to wonder where much of the money went. And yet, to the dismay of visual effects engineers everywhere, the CGI adds to the charm. It takes real comedy skill to sell horrible effects as a positive attribute, but if there’s any movie that could do it, it’s probably this one. The jokes are pretty funny, but often they don’t work with each other, failing to coalesce into one great sequence. Instead, we’re left with fits and starts.
And yet, the jokes that do land excel wonderfully. Whether it’s the business executive, Liu Xuan, trying to describe to inept police officers what the mermaid looks like, or our hero, Shan, spectacularly failing to kill the business executive, ludicrous comedy gold abounds. That latter scene, set to a rather apt track about invincibility, is a call back to the best scene of “Kung Fu Hustle,” an irreverent take on accidental injury (a gag that Chow has developed as a sort of trademark). And the acting, which is over-the-top and hyperbolic, is just simply entertaining, like watching a face contortion contest. And somehow, the film actually has a message. A parable about the environment, the film’s story features merpeople taking revenge on a capitalist entrepreneur threatening their ecosystem. One truly heart-wrenching scene, despite its tinge of absurdity, depicts human violence toward animals that can’t help but serve as a warning against whaling practices. It’s not the most effective movie to that end — antiwhaling advocacy is far from its primary goal — but it’s hard to shake the environmental baggage from the viewing experience. And at the end, ultimately, it’s impossible to leave without a smile.
TV REVIEW
‘Flaked’ half-baked By SAM ROSENBERG Daily Arts Writer
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, “flake” can be defined as “coming or falling away from a surface in thin pieces.” It can also be used in Cthe phrase “flaked out” Flaked to mean Series Premiere “to fall asleep” or Netflix “drop from exhaustion.” While Netflix’s newest dramedy, “Flaked,” attempts to thematically capture the former definition, it unfortunately makes the mistake of embodying the latter one. Filled with one-dimensional characters, clunky dialogue and half-baked ideas, “Flaked” suffers the most from one of the biggest fatal flaws in television: it’s a snooze-fest. Centered around a self-help guru named Chip (Will Arnett, “Arrested Development”) and his struggle to overcome his demons, “Flaked” searches for meaning, but comes up empty-handed. For a dramedy, “Flaked” is more dour than funny. In the opening scene of the first episode “Westminster,” we hear Arnett’s signature gruff baritone, describing his character’s lowest point to an Alcoholics Anonymous group. “I came to Venice by accident,” says Chip. “Let me reframe that — I came to Venice because of an accident.” While that line, coupled with Arnett’s dry execution, sets an engaging tone for “Flaked,” the episode stalls the series’ development, wandering and drifting indefinitely. The comically adept Arnett, known for playing memorable, wacky characters like Gob on “Arrested Development” and Devon Banks on “30 Rock,” has trouble finding an edge when playing Chip. Though Arnett’s morose portrayal of Chip is admirable and seems fitting in balancing the show’s combination of comedy and drama, his charisma and energetic presence, two of the actor’s greatest qualities, are missing. He plays a womanizing yet self-destructive recovering alcoholic, an archetype TV has seen one too many times. The character sounds similar to Arnett’s other current role as the titular anthropomorphic horse in “BoJack Horseman,” but Chip is definitely not as nuanced as BoJack. Chip just seems like an ordinary guy with no distinguishable qualities other than his sunglasses, fiveo’clock shadow and old-dude malaise.
Chip’s best friend Dennis (David Sullivan, “Primer”) is an unlikable and insecure runof-the-mill douchebag — in one scene, he’s actually wearing a popped-up collared shirt while riding a longboard. Dennis is immediately smitten with an attractive waitress named London (Ruth Kearney, “The Following”), but London falls for Chip instead, causing a rift between the two friends. While Dennis’s jealousy of Chip is understandable, his mean-spirited attitude makes it hard to sympathize with him. Regardless, neither actor can muster up any form of chemistry with Kearney, so there’s no
real winner in this fight. “Flaked” feels like it’s trying to focus on something, perhaps Chip’s existential crisis, but fails to delve deeper into the many layers of that concept. The series’ official tagline, “One step forward. Twelve steps back,” references the 12-step program of sobriety, yet the only direct mention of Chip’s alcoholism so far is in the show’s opening monologue. There’s a (somewhat forced) love triangle that develops between Chip, Dennis and London, but there’s nothing intriguing nor tantalizing about it. Read the rest of the review at michigandaily.com.
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Sing like no one is listening
love to sing, but I’m absolutely terrified of anyone actually hearing me try to sing. One of the random things I really look forward to whenever I go back home from Ann Arbor for ADAM a little bit THEISEN is being able to drive. And it’s not the driving itself — I’m kind of an anxious driver — but the fact that I can queue up on my iPod all the songs I’ve heard and fallen in love with since the last time I came home. I can hear them with a full speaker system instead of just cheap headphones or laptop speakers, which is cool, but most importantly, I can try to sing along with them for the first time, testing my lowpitched monotone voice over the recordings to see if I can deal with how it sounds. It wasn’t long after I got my driver’s license that I started doing this. When I would drive home at night, I’d put on Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” and crank the volume up as loud as it could go, screaming along to the lyrics with my scratchy, overjoyed voice, making an extra turn or two if the song was still going as I approached my street. “Like a Rolling Stone” isn’t a fun or happy song, but driving around my hometown on empty roads illuminated by streetlights, there would just be this ampedup feeling of freedom in my body that I could only try to satisfy by attempting to merge with Dylan’s music, inserting myself into his song while it overwhelmed everything around me. I don’t think I ever even tried to sing at all until I was like 16.
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whose spitting British fury I can do a decent impression of under the right circumstances, but my favorite is Craig Finn of The Hold Steady. Their record Separation Sunday was a huge breakthrough for my musical taste, and it’s still my number one in-the-car CD. Finn screams himself hoarse over the course of the album, ignoring tune and melody in favor of just yelling these hyper-literate stories of kids in Minneapolis. The dude doesn’t even seem in control of his own voice, as it cracks and takes these odd turns throughout. He’s like an English major at a party trying to get your thoughts on Nabokov, bringing his voice up as loud as it can go just to make himself barely heard. I’m sure it’s ridiculous and off-putting to some people, but I absolutely love it. Finn’s voice is all about passion and intensity — anyone with a fiery belief in what he has to say can go up to a mic and sing, regardless of talent. Music is really the closest you can get to inserting yourself into someone else’s artistic beauty. You can’t act unless someone casts you, and you can’t be a basketball player unless you make a team, but I can try and do exactly what Taylor Swift does whenever I put on 1989. The illusion doesn’t quite work, since I can only dream of hitting most of her notes, but if no one else can even hear me, who cares? Really, the ability to sing along is just one more magical thing about music. Whether it’s Lou Reed or Madonna or even Young Thug if you’re feeling super adventurous, under the right circumstances you can put on their songs, lose your identity for a few minutes and slip into someone else’s amazing creation.
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I was in something resembling a band that was really just three guys in a basement playing music and never actually doing any gigs, and I was mainly behind the drum kit. But we revered punk and underground bands from the ’70s and ’80s. Those singers always sounded like amateurs — a rejection of rock star hero worship — so I actually wasn’t much worse than them, technically speaking. Singers like Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols or Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening had these imperfect voices that encouraged me to imitate them. I’d turn the guitar amps way up and the microphone way down, because I wasn’t comfortable hearing my voice as anything more than a kind of barely intelligible noise mixed in with the other instruments. But the total no-holds-barred cathartic rush you get when you have a mic and can make all the sounds you want was immediately intoxicating. So it’s actually not very cool to scream in public, or even in a house when other people are around, but there’s a weird sort of privacy when you’re driving by yourself. You’re surrounded by strangers and your identity is shrouded by rolled-up windows. It’s like being in a dream — this transitory zone where, as long as you’re a good driver, nothing you do and nothing you think affects anyone but yourself. It’s incredible, and now I sing almost every single time I have to drive solo. Occasionally I worry about the person in front of me seeing my performance in their rearview, but at night or on an empty road, it’s absolute bliss. I have a special place in my heart for vocalists who really aren’t that gifted at singing. I already mentioned Calvin Johnson, whose ridiculously low and unmelodic monotone lines up perfectly with my vocal chords, and Johnny Rotten,
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Michigan sneaks into the Big Dance vs. Tulsa in First Four By JACOB GASE Daily Sports Editor
Just two days after he hit the biggest shot of his college career, Kameron Chatman was pacing up and down the floor of the Weiser Crisler Center Club. The sophomore forward knew he might have saved the Michigan men’s basketball team’s season with his game-winning 3-pointer to topple Big Ten champion Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament, but the Wolverines remained on the NCAA Tournament bubble heading into Selection Sunday. According to his teammate, junior guard Derrick Walton Jr., Chatman wouldn’t eat or drink as the team collectively awaited its fate. But at 6:37 p.m. Sunday night, Michigan’s name flashed up on the board on CBS’s selection show — the Wolverines were a No. 11 seed, headed to Dayton, Ohio, to play fellow No. 11 seed Tulsa as part of the First Four. The winner faces No. 6 seed Notre Dame on Friday in Brooklyn, N.Y. For the second time in three days, many of Michigan’s players mobbed Chatman in celebration. “Everybody almost tackled him,” Walton said. “His shot still means something for the season.” The announcement was a relief to the Wolverines (10-8 Big Ten, 22-12 overall), who battled through the loss of injured senior guards and co-captains Caris LeVert and Spike Albrecht to still finish with 10 wins in the conference and four in the RPI top 50. For some Michigan players, that relief came a little bit earlier
than expected, though, as the bracket leaked online a half-hour before the Wolverines officially popped up on the board. Walton thinks it was junior guard Andrew Dakich who first saw the leaked bracket — which had already correctly predicted half of the field at the time it was discovered — and some members of the team began to feel more confident. Walton, though, wasn’t convinced yet. “I didn’t believe it,” Walton said. “I don’t believe stuff like that until I actually see it. I’m a visual guy. I need visual proof.” Nobody dared to tell Michigan coach John Beilein, who shared Walton’s skepticism when he found out about it a few minutes later. LeVert, meanwhile, started checking off names on the leaked bracket as they were announced in real time. Assistant coach LaVall Jordan tweeted a video of the team’s reaction to its selection, which conveniently started right at the point where the leaked bracket had Michigan listed. Meanwhile, Beilein may not have bought into the leaked bracket, but he was feeling hopeful on Selection Sunday for an entirely different reason. Before the team left Indianapolis on Sunday morning, Beilein went to 8 a.m. Mass at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church. The priest, who was from
Minnesota and came to the Big Ten Tournament, told Beilein after the service that he thought Michigan was in, claiming he knew a guy better than ESPN’s Joe Lunardi at picking the NCAA Tournament field. Astonished, Beilein pointed to the sky and asked, “Are we talking about this guy?” before the priest laughed and dismissed the thought. Whether it was divine bracketology or leaked news on Twitter, the team had plenty of sources of optimism before its name was called. But even though most of the Wolverines were starting to feel good about their chances, they didn’t need to fake the ensuing celebration. Only seven members of Michigan’s current roster have experienced an NCAA Tournament run, making it the first taste of the Division I postseason for Chatman and seven other underclassmen. A year after the Wolverines stumbled to a 16-16 record and thrust multiple freshmen into action due to injury, those same young players have seen their contributions result in a tournament berth. “That’s what made it a lot more sweet,” Walton said. “There’s no experience like it. You want everybody to experience that. ... (It will) give those guys times to experience the excitement when it really gets to its peak.”
“I don’t believe stuff like that until I see it.”
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Purdue ousts ‘M’ after Wolverines’ big upset Friday By SIMON KAUFMAN Daily Sports Editor
INDIANAPOLIS — After Purdue used an 8-0 run to kick off its Big Ten Tournament semifinal matchup with the Michigan men’s basketball team Saturday, the Wolverines did something they’ve struggled to do this season — they answered back. Sophomore guard Muhammad-Ali AbdurRahkman got Michigan’s first points with a layup as the Wolverines (10-8 Big Ten, 22-12 overall) chipped away to keep things close in the first half. But after Purdue (12-6, 26-7 overall) started the second half with another run, an AbdurRahkman layup rimmed out, denying Michigan its first
points of the frame. Instead, the Boilermakers used a 9-0 spurt to widen the gap on their way to a 76-59 win. “Definitely for this tournament we wanted to come out and have a good start to both halves,” said junior guard Zak Irvin. “We really weren’t able to do that today which really put us in a lull, especially in the second half, going down as much as 16. It’s really tough to come back from that.” All afternoon, Purdue’s big men used their size to bully Michigan’s big men in the paint. Junior Mark Donnal and sophomore Ricky Doyle were tasked with defending 7-foot center A.J. Hammons for most of the game, but neither could counter his overpowering size down low. Hammons picked up 15 firsthalf points, almost all courtesy of bodying a Michigan big near the basket, turning and shooting from point-blank range. He finished with a game-high 27 points and 11 rebounds.
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“Hammons is a really good player,” Doyle said. “He can finish with either hand. He was hitting some really tough shots today. The challenge is he’s is a big-body guy, so you knew you had to put that constant pressure on him.” Due to the quick turnaround after Michigan’s Friday win over Indiana and no practice time, Michigan coach John Beilein elected to cover Hammons 1-on1 instead of implementing a double-coverage defense. After the game, Donnal admitted double coverage might have made the difference, “Looking back on it, I think we probably would’ve doubled to probably start the game if we knew he was going to be hitting tough shots like he did today,” Donnal said. In an effort to combat Hammons and 6-foot-9 forward Caleb Swanigan, Beilein made use of all four of his big men, rotating in freshman forward Moritz Wagner and sophomore See PURDUE, Page 4B
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Forward Boo Nieves is one of three seniors who, in his final season, has helped lead Michigan to the NCAA Tournament.
Michigan’s seniors who broke two streaks J acob Trouba turned pro after one season, Andrew Copp after three. Jared Rutledge played in 10 games before returning to the United States Hockey League after one season. Daniel Milne JAKE played in just LOURIM seven before moving back to Canada mid-season. Boo Nieves stayed. Justin Selman stayed. Steve Racine stayed. Of the seven players who entered the Michigan hockey program as the recruiting class of 2012, just those three lasted until the end. They suffered disappointment, paid their dues and battled when it wasn’t always easy. They were praised, then humbled, then praised again. They began their careers on a team that ended the streak no one wanted to end, and they’ll go out ending the dubious streak that followed. And on Saturday, they savored the reward they earned, a victory lap around Yost Ice Arena after their final home game. None of the other four — Rutledge, Milne, Trouba or Copp — experienced it. “It’s too bad, because this is what they’re missing,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson after the Wolverines trounced Penn State, 6-1, on Senior Night to lock up an NCAA Tournament bid once and for all. Only Nieves, Selman and Racine watched as tributes to their careers played on the video screen at Yost Ice Arena. Only they hugged their teammates and coaches, one by one, before skating off the ice. Only they will enjoy what comes next — a long-awaited NCAA Tournament berth. Only they really know what that means. When they changed, stretched and came to their postgame press conference, a reporter asked them what Saturday’s win against Penn State meant going forward. “We’re back in the tournament now, right?” Selman asked. “Locked in?” Yes, Selman was assured. For the first time in the seniors’ careers, Michigan has clinched an NCAA Tournament berth. One projection, from College Hockey News, gave the Wolverines a 99-percent chance entering Friday and a 99.9-percent chance going into Saturday. When you’ve made the NCAA Tournament 22 years straight, maybe you can just round up.
When you’ve missed it three straight, as these seniors have, that assumption is a little harder to make. But Michigan secured the postseason berth the same way it has all season — with a resounding, indisputable demolition. Nieves, Selman and Racine suffered as the first-year Penn State program ended their NCAA Tournament hopes two years ago. This season, they enjoyed retribution as they dominated the Nittany Lions in four meetings, including 7-1 and 6-1 blowouts at Yost Ice Arena on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Each senior stuck around long enough to find redemption. Selman scored just 13 points combined in his first two seasons. He raised his careerhigh season total to 29 with two goals and an assist Friday and two more assists Saturday. Berenson said Friday that the team would avoid making the whole week about the seniors playing their last home game. Not even the seniors themselves did. It didn’t strike Selman until after the game, when the publicaddress announcer called his name to honor his career. “You hear about what’s gone on in the four years and what you’ve been a part of,” Selman said. “It’s just so much bigger than yourself.” Selman’s linemate, Nieves, suffered similar growing pains earlier in his career. Berenson admitted Saturday he expected too much out of Nieves early in the forward’s career. But Nieves has improved constantly, and he had the all-around performances to prove it this weekend. He finished with three goals, played on the penalty kill for a short-handed goal Friday and won 12 out of 15 faceoffs Saturday. He tied his career high with 29 points in a season, and if all goes well, he’ll have plenty of chances to add to it in the coming weeks. “Some seniors can’t get out of their own way on Senior Night — they try so hard. But Boo Nieves could,” Berenson said. “He got out of everybody’s way, and he was one of the best players in the game from start to finish.” And then there’s Racine, who burst onto the stage in 2013 when he led the Wolverines to the CCHA title game, where they almost prevented the 22-year streak from breaking in the first place. Michigan entered the conference tournament needing to win it all as the No. 7 seed, and it very nearly did. It swept Northern Michigan in the first round, upset Western Michigan in the second and stunned No. 1 seed Miami (Ohio) in the semifinals before falling to Notre Dame in the title game,
“We’re going to be practicing here. It’s not like we’re going away.”
all with Racine between the pipes. But Racine has struggled to keep hold of the spotlight since. His goals-against average rose to 2.91 the year after, then 2.94 the year after that. He began to split time with newcomer Zach Nagelvoort, who eventually became an NHL Draft pick and appeared at times ready to take over the starting job. But Racine won out in the end, now taking the team back to the NCAA Tournament. Saturday, Racine turned in his second strong performance in as many nights, and with 11:51 to go in the game and Michigan ahead 6-1, Berenson pulled him so that he could get a standing ovation from the crowd one last time. But the fans weren’t done. Almost all of them stayed to see the senior class honored, right until the very end — just like the seniors themselves did. “It’s like our fans are all parents of our players,” Berenson said. “They care about the players. They care about the seniors. They care about the team. I just think it’s a great tribute to our fans, how respectful they are and how aware they are of what’s going on.” Before Michigan honored its three seniors individually, the PA announcer ran through their overall accomplishments from the past four years. Admittedly, they weren’t eye-popping. The Wolverines went 22-8-1 against Michigan State and Ohio State, with a few disappointing losses to underperforming rivals. They never made the NCAA Tournament, and they never won a conference tournament — each time falling one win short of securing an NCAA bid. But their three seniors stayed, and now they have more to play for after they leave Yost for the final time. Well, not exactly the final time, as Berenson pointed out. “We’re going to be practicing here,” he said. “It’s not like we’re going away.” By now, it’s clear going away just isn’t in their nature. Lourim can be reached at jlourim@umich.edu and on Twitter @jakelourim.
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Connor deserves the Hobey R
ed Berenson said Kyle Connor lacked confidence when he first donned the Michigan sweater. That was back in October when Connor was skating on the second line and didn’t JASON even have the RUBINSTEIN most points among his freshmen teammates. But a move to the first line in early December changed the narrative, and Connor’s confidence is now at an alltime high. Friday, before Connor could even answer a question on whether that’s the case, senior forward Justin Selman interrupted and agreed, pointing to Connor’s new European-style haircut as the only evidence you need. With the regular season now over, Connor’s 61 points lead the nation, as do his 30 goals. And with another four tallies to cap this weekend, Connor has nearly perfectly positioned himself to win the Hobey Baker award — a feat only Michigan greats Kevin Porter (2008) and Brendan Morrison (1997) have accomplished. There’s no question his numbers are astounding — his 1.79 points-per-game average is the highest for a freshman since superhuman Jack Eichel registered 1.83 a game last season. Eichel won the Hobey Baker Award. And Connor should, too. Sure, it’s easy to chalk up Connor’s success to his linemates, juniors JT Compher and Tyler Motte, who boast 52 and 50 points, respectively. And to some extent, that may be true. Compher leads the nation with 39 assists. But Connor leads that
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Kyle Connor’s 61 points and 30 goals have put him up for the Hobey Baker Award.
three-headed monster, coined the CCM line. Connor commands the attention, allowing room for his linemates and when all the defensive attention comes his way, he has no problem feeding Compher and Motte. “He’s such a dangerous player with the puck,” Berenson said. “You don’t know for sure what he’s going to do, what he’s going to pull off. One thing is sure: If he gets a scoring chance, it’s going in the net. And when is the last time we had a 30-goal scorer? Let alone as a freshman.” Porter was the last player to notch 30 goals in a season; he scored 33 times in 43 games. He was a senior and won the Hobey. Whereas Connor, just a freshman, has scored 30 goals while playing in nine fewer games.
Connor is guaranteed at least two more contests, and it’s not unreasonable that he matches Porter’s total in those games — in fact, most fans would assume he does just that. Critics may say Boston College netminder Thatcher Demko, who has posted an incredible 10 shutouts and a .939 save percentage, deserves the award. But he also benefits from one of the nation’s best defenses that has allowed 1.89 goals per game. And while those stats do warrant consideration, the committee isn’t keen on handing the award to netminders — mind you, Connor Hellebuyck registered a mind-blowing .952 save percentage for UMass-Lowell back in 2012-13. He didn’t win the Hobey Baker Award.
New Hampshire’s Andrew Poturalski kept pace with Connor for much of the season. In 37 games, the sophomore notched 52 points. But much of that total stems from playing a weak schedule. And just this last week, Poturalski opted to ditch the final games of the season, and the last two years of his college career, signing a NHL contract with the Carolina Hurricanes. Unfortunately for Poturalski, whose stats had him very much in the race for the award, the decision committee also takes a player’s character into account — and bolting early certainly shows how much regard Poturalski holds for college hockey. Sure, he was realizing his dream, but he could have waited a couple more weeks, and I’m confident Carolina would have too. By all means, it must be frustrating for the committee to hand the award to a freshman, let alone having to do it two years in a row. Before Eichel won last season, Paul Kariya was the lone freshman to accomplish the feat after he had 100 points playing for Maine in 1992-93. Connor’s stats mirror Eichel’s. Connor’s impact on his team is similar to that of Eichel’s. And he dazzles everyone who watches him play, just like Eichel. “He’s one of those players,” said senior forward Boo Nieves, “when he gets the puck, you hold your breath.” And when it comes time to announce the 2016 Hobey Baker Award Winner, Michigan fans shouldn’t have to hold their breath. Because Kyle Connor is far and away the most deserving player to win the award. Rubinstein can be reached at jasonbr@umich.edu and on Twitter at @jrubinstein4.
Michigan scores in two events By SYLVANNA GROSS Daily Sports Writer
Even after his team finished the 2016 NCAA Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Ala., tied for 58th place, scoring just two points, Michigan men’s track and field coach Jerry Clayton found a way to stay positive. “It’s twice as much as last year!” Clayton joked. The nation’s top 16 athletes and top 12 relay teams were invited to compete at the meet. Senior Steven Bastien — who competes in the heptathlon — and the distance medley relay team were Michigan’s only athletes to qualify. The relay team comprised of junior Connor Mora in the 1,200-meter leg, freshman Taylor McLaughlin in the 400-meter, sophomore Brennan Munley in the 800-meter, and fifth-year senior Mason Ferlic in the 1,600meter anchor. Any individual or relay that placed eighth or above automatically earned first team All-American honors. Clayton set a goal for the team that for every athlete would come back as an All-American. And the team met that bar, as both Bastien and the distance medley relay team placed eighth. Bastien, who transferred to Michigan as a junior, has set and re-broken the Wolverine heptathlon program record three times. He did it again this weekend, earning his secondconsecutive All-American honor and finishing with a total of 5,810 points. That total bested his previous record at the Big Ten Championships last month. “I was super happy and felt really blessed to have it all work out,” Bastien said. “There’s so many opportunities for something to go wrong. I felt really fortunate to have this work out this was especially there with all my family and friends watching and to be able to to do it two years in a row.” According to Clayton, this is the deepest and most competitive the heptathlon event — which occurs over both days of competition — has been since its
start 12 years ago. “People look at (the heptathlon) as seven individual events, but it’s not,” Clayton said. “You have to think of it as one. (Bastien) has a good temperament and mentality about the event. He understands that you can’t be too high from the high or too low from the low. You have to move on. You want to use that energy and move on and refocus. The good (athletes) have a really good ability regardless of how the last event went to move on.” Two potential factors could have contributed to Bastien’s success. The first is that Bastien is a transfer student from Samford University, just down the road from the Birmingham Crossplex. His familiarity with the facility definitely did not hurt him, nor did it against the distance medley relay team — the indoor track and field facility in Ann Arbor is modeled after the Birmingham facility. Second, his dad was ranked, for the heptathlon, at one point in the top 25 internationally and competed at the 1984 U.S. Olympic trials. Both he and Bastien’s mom — natives of Saline, Mich. — made the trek to support their son in Alabama, a daunting road trip to say the least. In addition to Bastien’s parents, the Michigan fanbase was extensive. “We had a really good turnout of Michigan fans,” Clayton said. “It was real exciting to have them there cheering for the athletes. Before I came to Michigan, (the turnout was) something I had observed. It’s not typical of most programs.” Historically, the turnout makes sense. It was the University of Michigan Athletic Director Donald B. Canham who founded and served as director for the first NCAA Indoor
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Steven Bastien placed eighth in the heptathlon at the NCAA Championships.
Championships. The distance medley relay team paralleled Bastien’s success despite an early fall in the first leg. The team finished in 9:37.45, 10 seconds slower than the program record it had set earlier this year. The major obstacle: Mora’s fall. An athlete ahead of the Wolverine pack stumbled and took Mora and three other teams with him. But out of the four teams that went down, Michigan was the only one to get competitive again. “It would have been easy to think that their dream of winning or finishing top three were gone, and it would have been easy for them to mail it in,” said Michigan assistant coach Kevin Sullivan. “It’s a testament to those guys that they didn’t.” To make up for the tumble,
“There’s so many opportunities for something to go wrong.”
McLaughlin had the fastest 400 split time of the field. And, predictably, Ferlic pulled through in the end. “I’m so incredibly proud of these guys,” Ferlic said. “In this sport, and in sports in general, there are uncontrollable circumstances and it’s all about how you respond and get back into it. “Coming in, we had expectations to finish higher and I honestly believe we could have mixed it up with the best of them today, but to finish AllAmerican today … leaves me feeling very proud.” Going forward, Clayton and the Wolverines have their eyes set on having more athletes compete and increasing their chance to place higher overall. Clayton is in his third year at the helm of the program, and he emphasizes that he has placed in the top 10 with school he’s coached. He thinks Michigan can do that, too, as it starts to emphasize the team rather than the individual awards. But for now, the All-American honors will have to suffice.
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Michigan cruises on Senior Night By KEVIN SANTO Daily Sports Writer
As the number of games remaining on the Michigan hockey schedule has dwindled, a shroud of PENN STATE 1 uncertainty MICHIGAN 6 has gradually begun to descend upon the Wolverines. Unlike in recent years, it hasn’t been one about their NCAA Tournament fate. They will be among the 16-team field — that much is certain. Rather, there have been questions about whether Saturday night’s regular-season finale against Penn State would be Michigan coach Red Berenson’s last time behind the bench at Yost Ice Arena — the place he has called home while building an illustrious 32-year career as the program’s patriarch. But regardless of the rumors, the Wolverines made one thing certain: If this was their coach’s last game on home ice, he was going out in a fashion emblematic of his entire career. Behind a dominant secondperiod effort and a lethal power-play performance, No. 9 Michigan cruised to a 6-1 victory against the 14th-ranked Nittany Lions (10-9-1-1 Big Ten, 20-12-4 overall). The sweep was a muchneeded result for Michigan, which was in the middle of a debilitating three-game skid entering the weekend. “It’s important,” Berenson said. “We’ve been in different situations in different years. Sometimes it’s hard to manufacture momentum if you really haven’t earned it, and I think this team has earned it. We can talk about last week, and how we took a big step backwards. I thought this week we took a big step forward.” Kyle Connor opened the scoring for the Wolverines (12-53-2, 22-7-5) in both the first and second period. The two finishes put the freshman forward at the 30-goal mark, and Connor is the first player in the nation to reach the milestone this year. His second-period goal came in a way that has become all too familiar to opposing teams. Six minutes into the frame,
Michigan rotated the puck around its offensive zone on the power play until it landed on the stick of sophomore defenseman Zach Werenski. The blueliner dished a cross-ice pass to Connor, who fired a onetimer past Penn State goaltender Eamon McAdam. The finish gave the Wolverines a 4-1 lead, and they didn’t take their foot off the pedal for the rest of the contest. Just a minute and a half later, with Michigan still on the power play, junior forward JT Compher lit the lamp for his team once more. After two shots by Werenski and junior forward Tyler Motte, the puck laid in the crease, inches away from the goal line. Compher cleaned up the garbage easily, and chased McAdam with the goal, as the Nittany Lions replaced him with Matthew Skoff. Though the first frame featured three goals from Connor, junior forward Max Shuart and senior forward Boo Nieves, the Wolverines outdid their opening performance by every other measure in the second. The Wolverines closed out their job from there, notching one more goal off the stick of Nieves in the third period and holding the Nittany Lions scoreless. The horn sounded, and the stands began to ring out in unison, “Thank you, Red!” “Well, they’re thanking me,” Berenson said. “But they don’t know and neither do I.” That’s the last he mentioned of his possible retirement. But after the Senior Night presentations, Berenson exited the ice. He started his walk toward the locker room at Yost Ice Arena for what may be the final time, with a scoreboard looming overhead, reading 6-1 in favor of his team. With every step he took, it was hard not to remember his lasting creation — a program with two national titles, 11 Frozen Four appearances, 11 conference championships and 22 NCAA Tournament berths. There’s no telling if the coming weeks will be his last push for postseason hardware. But if tonight was Red Berenson’s goodbye, it sure was a sweet one.
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Ofili, Finn lead sixth-place finish Michigan earns best place at NCAA Championships since 2008 By MATTHEW KENNEDY Daily Sports Writer
Last year, senior Cindy Ofili fell during the preliminaries of the 60-meter hurdles, destroying her NCAA title ambitions in the process. This year, a similar stumble nearly shattered her dream once again. But instead, she came home with a national championship. “It happened so quickly, so I couldn’t think,” Ofili said. “I stumbled, and I went straight to my form.” In the preliminaries of the 60-meter hurdles at the NCAA Indoor Championships, Ofili tripped off the block. Unlike last year, though, she was able to regain her composure and finish the race. It was no certainty that Ofili’s run would be fast enough to qualify her for the final race. Rather, she had to anxiously wait for the remainder of the preliminary races to finish. Fortunately for Ofili, she reset her form after faltering early, and her qualifying time gave her the eighth — and final — spot in the championship race. “Going into the race, I knew once I got past the preliminary round, it was anybody’s game from there,” Ofili said. “I went into it with confidence, knowing that I’ve been in the national stage multiple times, and nothing is different. It’s just another race.” This time around, Ofili didn’t have a problem off the block. She ran the 10th-fastest time in NCAA history — finishing in 7.89 seconds — and came home with the national championship. With the win, Ofili garnered
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John Beilein’s team earned one of the final spots in the NCAA Tournament.
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Senior Cindy Ofili won the national title in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 7.89, 10th-fastest in NCAA history.
10 of Michigan’s 31 points, helping the Wolverines earn a sixth-place finish overall, their best since 2008. Ofili, though, wasn’t even Michigan’s top contributor on the day. In two distance events, junior Erin Finn was running near the front, with a shot at a national championship in each. Finn wasn’t able to muster quite enough at the end of the races, though, and finished second behind Notre Dame’s Molly Seidel in both the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter runs. Still, the races were not a disappointment. In the 5,000meter, Finn bested her indoor personal best by 14 seconds
and set a new school record in the process. The two runnerup finishes made Finn an AllAmerican in both events, and contributed a team-high 16 points to Michigan’s NCAA Championship cause. “Individually, I’m very happy,” Finn said. “But I would be lying if I said I didn’t want to win. It definitely opened up my eyes a little bit more to show that I belong not just fighting for an All-American spot, but fighting for the national championship spot.” Also earning points for the Wolverines was the distance medley relay team, which finished in fourth place with a time of 10:59.05 — earning
“I went into it with confidence ... It’s just another race.”
Michigan five more points. The race was competitive until the end, but the relay team fell two seconds short of a national title. “As a team it was so, so cool to get sixth place,” Finn said. “That’s as high as we were ever ranked all season, and that’s higher than we came in ranked, so that was very exciting. To be a top-10 national team, when there are so many schools that have track teams, is very, very cool.” Despite the sixth-place finish, the season is only halfway over. This championship was just for the indoor portion of the season, and the outdoor portion still lasts another three months. For the Wolverines, resting and regrouping is their priority. After all, they certainly earned it. “We’re going to take it down for a bit now,” Finn said. “There’s a progression of the training and we’re going to start all over. We have a good base from indoors, and we’re going to build on this come outdoor (season).”
forward D.J. Wilson. But the Boilermakers size was too much for Michigan to contain. Unable to compete in the paint with Purdue, Michigan relied on its shooting to stay in the game. A jumper from junior guard Zak Irvin tied the game at 21 midway through the first half, and a 3-pointer from junior guard Derrick Walton Jr. cut Purdue’s lead to single digits midway through the second. But each time, the Boilermakers responded by overpowering Michigan in the paint. After Irvin’s jumper, Swanigan fed 7-foot-2 center Isaac Haas down low, and Haas put in an easy bucket over Donnal. Following Walton’s second-half 3, Hammons pushed his way into the paint on the other end and drew a foul from Donnal — Donnal’s third of the game. Swanigan hit both of his free throws to push the Boilermakers’ lead back to double digits. In the second half, Michigan’s shots stopped falling, and Purdue turned Wolverine
misses into makes on the other end. After shooting 43 percent in the first half, Michigan struggled in the second, going 11-for-33 from the field in the final 20 minutes and finishing 6-for-25 from 3-point range. Abdur-Rahkman — who scored a team-high 15 points on 7-for-11 shooting from the field — was Michigan’s best option, but he got little help from teammates as the Wolverines missed seven of their final eight shots to close the game. “We’ve been very up and down the last month with our shooting,” Beilein said. “Guys that are really good shooters haven’t been able to make shots. Now Purdue does have the best defense, you look at their stats, 3-point defense, I don’t care what defense it is, they’re the best at it, so let’s credit them instead. At the same time we did have some open looks that just didn’t go in.” Ultimately, though, it was Michigan’s inability to compete with Purdue’s overpowering big men that was the difference in the game. The Boilermakers outscored the Wolverines 44-28 in the paint and collected 15 more rebounds than them.