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Alana Hoey-Moore, Semester in Detroit program coordinator, Ford senior Blair Sucher and Ford junior Thomas Hislop discuss Detroit Week on the Diag Monday.
Week of Detroit-centered events kicks off on the Diag Series aims to raise awareness about history, culture within the city By LUCAS MAIMAN For the Daily
Detroit Week, a week dedicated to showcasing the culture and energy of Detroit,
kicked off Monday afternoon in the Diag, with students from The Detroit Partnership promoting events happening throughout the week. According to Public Policy senior Blair Sucher, the celebratory week aims to gravitate away from the volunteering-based relationship the University of Michigan currently has with Detroit and instead foster a relationship in which Detroit is
viewed in a more positive light. “When the University interacts with Detroit, it is often on the basis of service learning,” she said. “It is important for people to broaden their views and to recognize that to create a meaningful, sustainable partnership with the city of Detroit you need to see it in other lights.” According to Detroit Week’s website, The Detroit partinership is hosting events
and workshops every day from March 13 to March 18 in an effort to promote the rich history and life of the city. Events include a “Know Your Rights” discussion facilitated by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at Weill Hall, a workshop for student organizations who are interested in becoming involved in Detroit and a trip See DETROIT, Page 3
Northwestern prof. who wrote contested student-faculty relations essay speaks By ISOBEL FUTTER Daily Staff Reporter
Stupid sex, according to Northwestern Communications Prof. Laura Kipnis, is becoming more and more regulated on college campuses these days. Kipnis posed her ideas about sexual assault, studentfaculty relationships and sexual repression to faculty governances from around the country on Monday afternoon. Kipnis received national attention after she published an essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The essay questioned the taboo around student-faculty relationships and sexual assault. Two graduate students filed a Title IX retaliation complaint against Kipnis following the article and
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Study finds rise in health advice given to minors ‘U’ research shows progress in how courts communicate abortion law info By ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter
A recent recreation of a University study has showed that court systems in Michigan are now providing more accurate information to minors regarding Michigan’s reproductive health laws for young women seeking to have an abortion without parental consent, according to a study by The study, originally done by Anna Kirkland, associate director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and recreated by the Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health, revealed that since 2010, nearly all 83 of Michigan’s counties improved on the ways in which information about the Parental Rights Restoration Act of 1990. The original study found almost all of the courts were providing inacccurate information. The law requires young women seeking an abortion to give their own consent and the consent of at least one parent or guardian to receive the procedure. However, if the minor opts not to involve their parent or guardian, she has the right to a judicial bypass hearing in which she has to prove to a judge she is mature
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and educated on the topic enough to have an abortion without additional consent. According to Kirkland, in the original study her students made phone calls to each county’s court using a standardized script, asking how someone under the age of 18 could get a judge’s permission to have an abortion without informing their parents. Kirkland’s students found many counties were unprepared to provide the proper information for minors seeking bypass hearings, and, oftentimes, factors such as regional difference, demographics and county size would affect the performance of the county. “It’s a right that every girl has to be able to seek this judicial bypass procedure,” Kirkland said. “We shouldn’t have court employees lying about the law or claiming that a law doesn’t exist when it does.” According to a paper summarizing the results of the study, the students often found they were inappropriately referred to other unhelpful employees, and were ridiculed or verbally abused while asking for information. Kirkland said employees seemed uncooperative and uninformed, indicating that not only were court employees unable to provide accurate information, but they were also allowing their personal political and religious beliefs to influence their responses. “We had large numbers of See HEALTH, Page 3
argued that, in it, she misstated facts and created a hostile environment following protests against the article. “One of the charges they leveled against me was that I created a hostile environment on campus, or perhaps it was a chilling effect,” Kipnis said. “I wasn’t entirely sure which because I never actually got the charges in writing. This led me to become interested in questions I never thought much about previously.” In May 2015, after an extensive investigation, Kipnis was cleared of all charges. Since the investigation, Kipnis has become a figurehead for the argument against the high ambiguity and lack of due process often associated with Title IX investigations. Title IX is a set of rules that protects students from having a comprised education due to any form of discrimination. In 2011, Title IX was updated to include discrimination due to sexual assault. See KIPNIS, Page 3
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General George W. Casey Jr. speaks at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy about his military experience and his views on current military issues Monday.
Former Army chief of staff talks military mental health General George Casey Jr. says increase in veteran support is necessary By CALEB CHADWELL Daily Staff Reporter
At a talk at the Ford School Monday, General George Casey Jr., former U.S. Army chief of staff, said some of the most dangerous threats in the world today are posed by non-state actors such as al-Qaeda and ISIS, focusing on the persistent existence of world conflict with these actors and the subsequent mental health impacts war has
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on soldiers and veterans. Casey began his Army service in 1970, as the senior commander of the interantional collation created to confract forces in Iraq from 2004 to 2007. He was promoted to chief of staff by President George W. Bush in 2007 and served in that position under President Obama until 2011. “What I want to do is give you a soldier’s view of the international security environment,” Casey said. Rather than countries waging war against one another as was the case with World War II or the Vietnam War, Casey said some non-state actors such as al-Qaeda and ISIS have become more dangerous, citing
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a number of recent events. Looking back to 9/11, Casey pointed to how a non-state actor, al-Qaeda, was able to inflict catastrophic damage on the United States. “Nineteen terrorists, in an hour and 17 minutes, murdered 2,977 people, inflicted about $40 billion of economic damage on New York, and when the stock market reopened it lost $1.4 trillion in value,” he said. “That’s a challenge that we need to be prepared to deal with.” Comparing the current ideological struggle against Islamic extremism to the struggle against communism during the Cold War, Casey talked about how conflict is See CASEY, Page 3
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Though the Michigan women’s basketball team will miss the Big Dance for the third year in a row, the Wolverines won’t end their season without a chance to hang their first banner. Monday night, Michigan earned a spot in the 64-team field of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament for the third year in a row. The Wolverines will host Wright State on Wednesday night at Crisler Center. With a win, Michigan (9-9 Big Ten, 17-13 overall) would move onto the second round this weekend to face the winner of Bucknell and Akron, which will be decided Thursday. The 2016 WNIT bid marks the Wolverines’ seventh straight berth into the postseason, a program record. Michigan ended the regular season by winning five of seven games with its two losses coming at then-No. 6 Maryland and at Rutgers. The Wolverines’ best chance at making the NCAA Tournament came down See BASKETBALL, Page 3
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TENTS AND TABLES Business fraternity Phi Chi Theta sold puppy chow as part of their money-raising efforts on Monday to benefit their capstone projects for the semester. LSA freshman Sydney Watson, a member of the organization, said the goal was to finish the semester with $400. Yesterday was their first day fundraising, she said, and they had already collected $50. “Since it’s our first day, we’ve just made the puppy chow yesterday and raised that money after being out here for an hour,” she said. “It’s pretty good I think.” LSA freshman Juhi Katti said it was the winter 2016 semester pledge class is responsible for raising the whole $400, and last fall semester’s pledge class used the puppy chow fundraiser as well. Watson said she thinks the fundraiser will be successful by the end of the semester, but also
snoted they might try developing other fundraising tactics. “We might have to do something else, just looking around to see what other people are doing and what’s working for them to help us come up with different ideas of what we should do, but I think it’s pretty feasible,” she said. Another student organization tabling at the intersection of Mason, Angell, Tisch and Haven halls, MEconomics, was also fundraising Monday. To spread the word about their economics conference, “Economics in Motion,” the orginzation used Taco Bell tacos as a fundraiser rather than baked goods. LSA freshman Adam Giacomelli, who came up with the idea to use tacos, said it was incorporated into their fundraising to stand out from
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other organizations. “I come through here all the time, and I’m really mad that Taco Bell isn’t in the League anymore,” he said. “It just seemed like a unique thing that not many people do. I always see doughnuts or puppy-chow, but I’ve never seen Taco Bell.” Rather than fundraising using Mexican cuisine or a baked goods, student organization Timmy Global Health, which fundraises for medical supplies and sustainable health projects in the Dominican Republic, advertised their first annual benefit dinner at their table Monday. LSA senior Naveen Menon, member of Timmy Global Health, said this year they decided to incorporate local restaurants into the benefit dinnear, which differs from how the event was organized in the past. —TANYA MADHANI
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CSG, renovations to Bursley to be discussed at Regents meeting Board to vote on proposal for $4.35 million dining hall improvement plan By CAMY METWALLY Daily Staff Reporter
At their meeting Thursday, which will be held at University of Michigan-Dearborn’s campus, the University’s Board of Regents will discuss a wide range of topics, including Bursley Dining Hall renovations, as well as hear updates from Central Student Government updates and faculty governance requests. Bursley Improvements At the meeting, members will vote to approve the Joseph Sudoku Syndicationand Aldrich Marguerite Knowlton Bursley Hall Dining Improvements project.
Housing resources will fund the estimated $4,350,000 renovation costs, and the construction is expected to be completed in fall 2016. With approximately 1,270 students living in Bursley, it contains the only residential dining hall on North Campus. However, the current model for the hall differs from other residential dining halls on campus. The project aims to renovate approximately 4,700 gross square feet of the facility to redesign the serving area, allowing for five serving stations with different options to mirror other spaces on campus. The last dining hall renovation project on campus was in South Quadrangle, which re-opened its doors in fall 2014 after being closed one year for construction. The facility was the main focus of a $60 million project to renovate South Quad
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— it is now the largest dining hall on Central Campus. An estimated 15 on-site construction jobs will be created by the Bursley Improvements project, and Stantec Architecture Inc. will design the reconfiguration. Central Student Government Update In its March report to the regents, CSG will request additional staff members for the University’s Counseling and Psychological Services program. CSG’s report, released ahead of the meeting, points to other universities’ recent initiatives to increase CAPS CLAIRE ABDO/Daily funding, such as Ohio State Detroit resident Piper Carter talks about Foundation, a group supporting women in hip hop, Monday in East Quadrangle University, which has doubled its budget. The national standard for counselor to student ratio is 1:1,000, according to the CSG http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ report, and the report cites that an additional 11 staff members would have to be hired to reach the workshop by sharing her “What the hip-hop space was this level. Acknowledging experiences as a female hip- created for was to harness the the unattainability of such a hop artist growing up in New strength of the community,” goal in the immediate future, York and Detroit. When Carter Carter said. “Children began CSG instead is calling for the moved back to Detroit as an gathering in these spaces so University to create a fiveadult, she said she felt there was they can express themselves year plan to work toward this a lack of safe spaces for female and come together.” benchmark. hip-hop artists. Michael Reyes, a spoken word The report also expresses By SOPHIE SHERRY “I moved here from New artist from southwest Detroit, concern over increasing Daily Staff Reporter York City, where I am a part of echoed Carter’s sentiment in enrollment numbers, citing a lot of women in hip-hop — it remarks during the workshop. a potential increase of 500 Monday evening, a small is just normal, there is a huge “For me, hip-hop is a tool students in the 2016 incoming group of students gathered in woman in hip-hop movement that I use in engaging in critical class. CSG will suggest that East Quadrangle for a workshop there,” Carter said. “And when thought around issues of social such a rise in enrollment focused on the intersection I came to Detroit, when I met justice, so it is one tool in my numbers may overwhelm of hip-hop and social justice. most of the women that really tool box,” he said. “Another the current student life The event, titled “Hip-Hop love hip-hop, they had so much tool may be door-knocking, programs, including SAPAC, as Activism Workshop,” internalized misogyny and another tool is organizing in my CAPS, residence halls and included presentations on oppression.” community.” dining facilities. hip-hop culture as well as Her group, which began as Reyes mentors young rappers To balance the increase spoken word and breakdancing an annual event, now works and artists in both Detroit and in students, CSG will also performances. to achieve its goal of shifting Chicago, where he worked emphasize the importance The workshop was one of the gender paradigms by creating with artists such as Chance of expanding student-life first events featured as a part of spaces that both welcomed and the Rapper and Childish resources as well. Detroit Week, sponsored by the demanded respect of women. Gambino. He said he thinks the Faculty Governance Semester in Detroit program, “We wanted a space where current state of hip-hop is more Update which is dedicated to learning everybody could come and join accessible than when he was and celebrating Detroit culture in and feel free,” Carter said. growing up in the ‘90s, amid a Silke-Maria Weineck, chair of the Senate Advisory at the University of Michigan. She noted that spaces which battle between underground Committee on University Piper Carter, founder of The draw on community have and commercial music. Foundation — a nonprofit that always existed in hip hop, saying “It’s really interesting for Affairs, sent a letter on February 12 to the regents aims to shift the gender balance it was born in the 1970s due to me to see where music is now See REGENTS, Page 3 in the hip-hop field— began community collaboration. See HIP HOP, Page 3
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Laura Kipnis, professor at Northwestern University, delivers a lecture on present day sex culture in higher education environments as a part of the Faculty Governance Conference in the UMMA Auditorium Monday.
KIPNIS From Page 1 “Sex has always been messy, which is what is both appealing and stressing about it,” Kipnis said. “But compounding the messiness on campus now is the dismal fact that there’s a long list of things you’re not supposed to say about this mess. It’s far more impossible to have an intellectually honest discussion about sex on campus on the American campus than off these days.” Comparative Literature Prof. Silke-Maria Weineck, chair of Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, said these issues have recently been prevalent at the University. “We have spent a lot of time debating questions of both sexual assault and due process at the University over the last two years,” Weineck said. “I thought (Kipnis’ speech) brought together so many themes that we’ve been discussing on campus and at
DETROIT From Page 1 to Bert’s Jazz Club in Detroit. On Friday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., Addell Austin Anderson and Feodies Shipp of the University’s Detroit Center will hold a workshop that shares the best practices and resources for engagement with Detroit’s citizens and organizations. Nursing junior Matt Bozzo, an alum of the Semester in Detroit program, echoed Sucher’s statements, and said his experiences participating in a longer-term program past a day of volunteering helped him look at the city life
HEALTH From Page 1 counties that we called where (the information) was completely wrong, or they denied that the law existed,” Kirkland said. The study found 43 percent of all Michigan counties were providing litter, incorrect or no information about the law in 2010, demonstrating a surplus of unqualified court personnel in answering questions regarding the bypass procedure. In an e-mail interview, Taryn Gal, outreach coordinator for MOASH, wrote the new study found court clerks and clerical workers were especially unhelpful to teenagers. “We found that the entire process was not youthfriendly, especially in terms of privacy, accessibility and court personnel comfort and confidence with information they were providing,” she wrote. “Because of the work done in the original 2010 study, we were able to then go further and identify additional barriers that minors would likely face when looking for information.” MOASH decided to replicate the initial study to begin their Michigan Youth Rights project, or MY Rights, funded by the National Institute for Reproductive Health, Gal said. The project focuses on the rights of pregnant minors. While the 2010 study only had 46 percent of counties considered “in the green,”
the University as a whole.” Kipnis argued that the recent influx in regulation on sex is shifting the connotation of sex from fun to dangerous. “Shifting the stress from pleasure to danger not only changes the prevailing narrative, but changing the narrative changes the way sex is experienced,” Kipnis said. “We’re social creatures after all, and narrative is how we make sense of the world.” She also joked about university administrators who try to criminalize sexual activity after alcohol consumption. “Among the new regulations administrators have foisted on campus is criminalizing sex when either party has been drinking, so all sex in other words,” she said. Kipnis said she believes there are a fair share of cases that deserve legal attention, particularly when it comes to sexual assault between faculty and students. However, she pointed out that many cases are blown out of proportion.
“No doubt a fair number of such professors deserve to be picked off and some accusations are justified,” Kipnis said. “Yes, there are people who should lose their jobs. But too many of these accusations are overblown, hysterical, self-dramatized or self-exonerating.” Colin Campbell, Pharmacology professor at the University of Minnesota, said he attended the event after reading her article in the Chronicle. “I was looking forward to meeting her, she’s very refreshing,” Campbell said. He said though students shouldn’t be blamed for the recent crackdown on sexual regulation, they will experience dissonance such as this in their college careers and beyond. “You came to college to get exposed to things that you wouldn’t necessarily get exposed to,” Campbell said. “You don’t know what it’s going to be and you’re not going to like all of it.”
The event, which was part of the Faculty Governance Conference hosted by the Faculty Senate at the University, hosted faculty governances from Big Ten schools: the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina, the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley. The conference features a series of speakers, panels and discussions, and will be concluding Tuesday afternoon. The event is the first of its kind at the University of Michigan, and Weineck said the conference has been fascinating. “It’s so interesting to see how different the faculty government structures are at other universities,” Weineck said. “I think what’s becoming increasingly clear to Michigan faculty here is that Michigan has one of the weakest faculty governance systems in the country, and that is something we would actually like to change.”
through a new lens. “My semester in Detroit was eye-opening,” he said. “I learned a lot about myself and the city and its historical context. It was very fun, experiential learning.” The University’s Semester in Detroit program is one of the many entities sponsoring Detroit Week. Alana Hoey Moore, a staff member of Semester in Detroit, stressed the importance of recognizing Detroit as more than a struggling city. “We on the campus really buy into this narrative of Detroit that it’s devastated and blighted, and while the city certainly struggles, there is so much life happening in
Detroit,” she said. “(Detroit Week) gives students who might not normally make a whole trip down to Detroit an opportunity to engage in the city and get a view of some things happening there.” Detroit Week will also feature “The SOUP,” which aims to capture a sense of Detroit without actually making a trip to the city. According to their website, the SOUP’s crowd-funding intiative aims to promote Detroit-based funding, creativity and collaboration. The SOUP will hold a $5 soup fundraising dinner held in the Trotter Multicultural Center on Wednesday night during which attendees will listen and
vote on several presentations about Detroit-based projects led by individuals affiliated with the University. According to their website, the event aims to create longlasting relationships between Detroit and the University. The winning project will receive all the money contributed from donors at the event. Hoey Moore said she thought many positive things that happen in Detroit, such as the projects that will be featured and Wednesday’s “The SOUP” event, don’t get the recognition they deserve. “There’s so much happening in Detroit that’s been happening for a long time that we largely ignore,” she said.
the MOASH replication study held 74 percent of counties in the green, nearly a 30-percent increase in improvement. The study found court personnel were able to provide better information in 2015 in response to the same questions asked in 2010. “However, once we delved further, we learned that many would not provide information unless the specific question was asked,” Gal wrote. “Therefore, a minor not knowing what to ask would not be provided with necessary information and that, beyond those specific answers, oftentimes read from an info sheet, most could not provide additional information or support.” Both Gal and Kirkland attributed much of the improvements in availability of information regarding reproductive health laws to the study conducted in 2010. “Some court supervisors were really angry that their employees had been so unprofessional and unprepared, and they were very embarrassed,” Kirkland said. “It uncovered some embarrassing problems that they went on to fix.” First-year law student Laura Cohen, co-president of the Michigan chapter of Law Students for Reproductive Justice, said though she was not surprised to learn that court systems are giving inaccurate information to minors, the lack of information and lack of education is a legal issue.
“Putting yourself in the shoes of someone who is a teenager in a very difficult situation who is scared, who doesn’t know what to do, who doesn’t think they can go to their parents, has no way to get around this,” Cohen said, “and then you call the court and they tell you inaccurately that there’s nothing to be done, you can see how that can lead to some unfortunate results.” Despite statewide improvement in the recent study, Washtenaw County’s score decreased in the 2015 study with the lowest rating, contradicting the high rating in 2010. With 21.4 percent of the population under the age of 18, this indicates Washtenaw is still among the less-prepared counties when it comes to the judicial bypass procedure, and demonstrates a need for court personnel to be more educated and objective on the topic, Cohen said. Gal echoed Cohen’s statement, and said she hopes courts studied in the research will use her findings to make improvements on how they disseminate information regarding reproductive health laws to minors. “There is still a need for further education and awareness raising in order for minors to be able to fully exercise their rights,” Gal wrote. “If minors are not given complete and accurate information, they do not have full access to the judicial bypass process. Less subjectivity and inconsistency is needed.”
likely to persist for decades to come. He noted that ideological conflict tends to last longer, pointing to how the Cold War lasted about 45 years and noting it has been 15 years since the United States began fighting Islamic extremism after 9/11. “However, this is not a struggle like the Cold War that we can win by ourselves, it’s a struggle that can only be won within Islam,” Casey said. “You see that struggle taking place between moderate and extremist Islam, but by virtue of that fact that it is an ideological struggle, it’s going to take a long time to resolve.” Casey also discussed his experiences and the challenges of his time Iraq. He said while the United States needs to stay engaged in the ideological conflict that is taking place in the Middle East, it also needs to better understand its military power and unite diverse groups to lead collaboratively. “We are the indispensable catalyst, we bring unmatched economic, military and moral power,” Casey said. “We can create coalitions to deal with a lot of these challenges.” Casey also discussed the treatment of veterans and improving soldiers and veterans’ mental health. “We cannot and should not expect the government to do everything themselves,” Casey said. “I worked for the government for 41 years, it is a huge inefficient bureaucracy, and it will never be able to deal with the individual challenges facing our veterans and their families as well as private efforts can.” The more than 400,000 organizations around the United States that support veterans are the ones making a real difference, Casey said. “They send a signal to the men
HIP HOP From Page 2 with young people because now all you need is a computer and a microphone and you can create a really awesome album,” Reyes said. Benito Vasquez, a breakdancer, dance instructor and community leader in southwest Detroit also known as Mav-One, said the work that he and the other speakers are doing is based on the principle “each one teach one.” “We have such a small culture as far as actual beat boys and beat girls go, anytime you’re out there you should be teaching, you should be engaging, you should be talking to people,” he said. LSA freshman Jason Young, who is participating in Semester
BASKETBALL From Page 1 to them winning the Big Ten Tournament, but those hopes disappeared when Iowa handed Michigan a first-round loss in Indianapolis — the second year in a row that the Wolverines were sent packing on day one. Michigan is now in the postseason with another opportunity to win a championship. Last season, the Wolverines made a run into the WNIT semifinals with then-freshman guard Katelynn Flaherty leading the team in points and former forwards Cyesha Goree and Nicole Elmblad and former guard Shannon Smith collecting 59 percent of the team’s boards. Michigan hosted UCLA at Crisler Center last spring and
REGENTS From Page 2 with the aim of strengthening shared governance. The Regents’ Bylaws allow for the Senate Assembly to establish standing committees that serve to advise the vice presidents of the University with nominations from SACUA. Weineck’s letter points out, however, that some vice presidents fail to consult
and women involved in the armed forces that America cares,” Casey said. “That is hugely important.” Speaking on the health of current soldiers, Casey said when he was preparing to assume his position as chief of staff in 2007, he reviewed an Army personnel survey that found 90 percent of soldiers would not seek treatment for a behavioral health issue because they thought that it would affect their career. “We began working to reduce the stigma of getting behavioral health care,” he said. “After banging away at it for my four years, we had reduced the number who would not get help from 90 percent to 50 percent.” According to Casey, that number has now decreased to approximately 35 percent since he left his position as chief of staff, but he reiterated that efforts need to continue to reduce that further. Brian Garcia, a Business and Public Policy graduate student who served as a field artillery captain in the Army in Afghanistan in 2011 and 2012, said it was an honor to hear and have the opportunity to interact with Casey. “Hearing him speak was awesome,” Garcia said. “I think that he and I view a lot of the same issues that soldiers face and that the U.S. faces on foreign policy pretty similarly. He’s an incredibly well-spoken and wellthought-out individual, and I hope that his influence is still felt in national foreign policy.” Garcia added that he thought the talk helped attendees be more informed about military issues. “Overall I think it was a very enlightening conversation that we had, and I think that a lot of people are going to walk away from this with a greater understanding of the nuances that the military and U.S. faces on foreign policy issues,” Garcia said.
in Detroit in the fall, said he thought Monday evening’s event better prepared him to explore the city firsthand in September. “I am just really excited to, one, be in Detroit in a few months,” he said. “I am then going to be able to get a better look at these things and hopefully check out the actual culture, that is hopefully still there.” Alana Hoey Moore, program coordinator for Semester in Detroit, said she was very pleased with how the event turned out. “I am just really glad we can have an engaging conversation,” she said. “I don’t really care how many people are present as long as those who are there are making real connections with one another and having transformative experiences, so I think it was a great kickoff to the week.”
nearly pulled off a win to play in the championship, but the team made a few critical errors down the stretch to lose by just four points. This year, though, the Wolverines may be in an even better position to win the WNIT. Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico, the only coach in program history to be in the postseason in each of her first four seasons, is more than equipped to take her team all the way to the finish. Barnes Arico helped Team USA win the gold medal at the FIBA U19 Championship in Russia this summer, and worked with some of the top talent in the country. When she got back to the United States, she was still working with top talent in Flaherty, who is averaging 22.6 points a game, and freshman center Hallie Thome, who is dominating under the basket.
Success from the dynamic duo of Flaherty and Thome will be key for the Wolverines to make a run as deep, or deeper, as they did last season in the WNIT. As for the fate of Michigan’s Big Ten opponents, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern and Rutgers made the WNIT. Eastern Michigan also earned a spot in the field, which brings the Wolverines’ record against WNIT teams they’ve faced this season to 4-5. The women’s NCAA Tournament bracket was also released Monday night, and six of Michigan’s previous opponents got in: No. 2 seed Maryland, No. 3 seed Ohio Sate, No. 4 seed Michigan State, No. 9 seed Indiana, No. 11 seed Purdue and No. 11 seed Princeton. Against those teams, the Wolverines went 1-7 in the regular season.
with SACUA, resulting in variability, inefficiency and “duplication of effort.” She is proposing a plan to streamline and centralize the process, envisioning the SACUA chair asking the University vice presidents for advisory committee nominations each April. About half the committee would be comprised of these individuals, and SACUA will nominate the remaining members. She also suggested
positioning certain committees under specific offices that are currently not under the leadership of a particular vice president, with the goal of enhancing shared governance and increasing collaboration between administrators and faculty members. One of the letter’s recommendations includes assigning the Senate’s Committee for an Inclusive University to advise the vice provost for Equity, Inclusion and Academic Affairs.
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Pregnant on campus
A few weeks ago, a bright blue board on the Diag sponsored by Students for Life stood next to the Shapiro Undergraduate Library advertising for an initiative called Pregnant on Campus. This project’s goal is to provide pregnant or parenting students with the support, resources and information they need to continue their education even while they are dealing with the added pressures of pregnancy or raising children. Our group holds office hours where students can come talk to their peers in a safe, non-judgmental environment, and we gather resources, references and information so that pregnant or parenting students can find what they need without spending hours searching the Internet. This year, we have even established a Pregnant on Campus scholarship. But our efforts are tainted by the misconceptions and controversies that are attached to our prolife label. We see this all the time, and our Diag board was no exception — if you looked closely, you could see someone’s black Sharpie addition: “Abortions are OK too.” The vandalism in and of itself was not particularly upsetting to me, despite the hours of our time and the investment of our club’s money that went into the advertisement. Even the message itself was understandable, because abortion does remain a legal and viable choice for a pregnant student. What bothered me the most was that the graffiti artist’s work implied that Pregnant on Campus is an effort by Students for Life to manipulate and shame women into not choosing abortion. This is an assumption that underlies many conversations that I have had with pro-choice and even some prolife people, and I think it is important to clarify our true intentions. My question is this: If a woman wants to carry her child to term, and the biggest barrier is her fear that she will not be able to finish her education and pursue her goals because of societal pressures and factors out of her control, is abortion a “good enough” solution for her? Is it acceptable to encourage her to make that choice, instead of demanding that change be made on a societal level to ensure that she will still be supported and empowered throughout her pregnancy and beyond? This is not to say this is the only situation in which a woman would consider abortion, and I do not by any means wish to imply that a woman makes the decision to abort lightly. But the issue of finishing her education is something every pregnant college student will think about, and it is not fair to her that she might feel forced into abortion because of a lack of support and resources. To me, empowering a woman’s right to choose does not mean pushing
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her toward abortion solely because society has failed to provide for her and her child. It means that if she is even considering making the brave and sometimes terrifying decision to parent or to give her child to an adoptive family, she knows she will be supported and encouraged every step of the way. One of the long-term goals of Pregnant on Campus is to make the University of Michigan a place that both acknowledges and respects the rights that pregnant women are granted by Title IX, which forbids universities from discriminating on the basis of sex. Since pregnancy is something only a woman can ever experience, any structures of society that punish her for being pregnant are inherently sexist, and Title IX recognizes that to create equal opportunities for women, pregnant students need to be given special support to stay in school. For example, one of the biggest impacts of Title IX is that professors cannot penalize a student’s grade in any way because of a doctorapproved, pregnancy-related absence and must give the student a reasonable amount of time to make up work regardless of the attendance policy for any other students. Policies such as these increase a woman’s agency to choose by allowing her to consider decisions that might otherwise seem impossible to make. As a pro-life group, we are not afraid to say this increase in support for pregnant students has the potential to reduce the number of abortions sought by college-age women. And we would celebrate this outcome, because it would mean that young women are being given what they need to truly make their own decisions, free from restrictions imposed by a lack of resources. At the most basic level, Students for Life is built on a respect for all human life, not just the life of the unborn. That means we are dedicated to caring about women, too, and protecting their rights and their freedoms. So the next time you see Pregnant on Campus’ name on the Diag, try to look past your preconceived notions of what it means to be pro-life. Try to understand that what Pregnant on Campus strives for is something that I believe pro-choice groups also seek passionately — the support and empowerment of women in our society. A woman should never have to choose between her child and her education, and it is up to us to make our University a place where she feels strong and supported enough to have both. If you are pregnant or parenting and looking for support, please do not hesitate to contact Pregnant on Campus at pregnantinfo@umich.edu.
Social media politics
hen I first joined Facebook in 2008, my posts would typically read something like, “Elliott Rains is going to school … again!!” Nobody ever commented on, liked or probably even read these updates. Nearly a decade later, I sit at my computer with two of my Facebook posts collectively approaching 200 comments. The times have certainly changed. ELLIOTT Each of these posts were prompts asking my FaceRAINS book friends to openly discuss two of the most polarizing figures in recent American political history: Donald Trump, who has openly supported torture, and Bernie Sanders, a selfdescribed democratic socialist. Given the generally hostile nature of this year’s presidential primaries, one might assume the contents of those 200 comments were equally hostile, agitated and not all that constructive. Having grown up in a small, rural and mostly conservative village and now attending a public university in one of the most liberal cities in the country, I have collected a diverse group of Facebook friends over the years. Many people might question why I did such a silly thing in the first place. Nick Bilton, a New York Times writer, called social media arguments “Can’t-Win Propositions.” When interviewing fellow journalists, Bilton was even told, “The rule about engaging is that you should never engage.” Some respondents noted the format and immediacy of social networks cause misunderstandings. According to Bilton and his interviewees, the nature of social media, along with the way in which people have grown to use them, has created this mentality where it is better to say nothing at all than to possibly engage in a controversial dialogue. In other words, the most civil and safe social media are not social at all. However, a recent study by the University of Delaware suggests that social media com-
ments and discussions might influence voters’ perceptions of candidates. Though the findings are limited and relatively new, the idea of political discussions among friends and family that shift narratives and shape opinions is not all that radical. Knowing a Facebook comment might help determine who will be written about in history books centuries from now should be enough to dismiss the idea of “can’t-win” posts. However, there is still much apprehension when it comes to commenting on somebody’s meme about Bernie Sanders taking kids’ lunch money. After reading and responding to all 200 comments, you might be surprised how civil and productive the discussions were. As a whole, I believe a lot was won in the proposition of engaging. Many of my ultra-conservative friends from high school conversed with many of my ultra-liberal friends from college in a civilized and constructive manner. Though I can’t attest to anybody’s personal opinions being changed, it was visibly apparent that many involved in the discussion got something out of the experience. A Sanders supporter talked with a Republican about progressive tax brackets; a vocal Trump supporter and a Sanders activist discussed their mutual distaste for Hillary Clinton’s political history. None of these constructive conversations would have taken place if my friends, family and I had embraced the mentality that social medias are not suitable environments for political discussion. Had we accepted the criticisms that the technologies underlying social networks like Facebook and Twitter breed conflict and hatred, we would have lost out on educational and enjoyable social interaction. If we willingly accept the narrative that the only types of discussions we can have as a society on social media are superficial or silent, we might squander one of the most revolutionary social developments in human history. Never before has a technological platform enabled 200-plus interactions between so many complete strangers, allowing them to engage with one another on a globally impact-
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ast fall, University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel gathered the Greek community and excoriated them for devaluing the University’s academic reputation. This is part of a larger pattern on our campus of beginning to hold Greek life ROLAND accountable. DAVIDSON Greek life has been the focus of changes that address the drinking culture and campus sexual assault that has gone unchecked for too long. Schlissel’s changes that target these issues are a welcome change of pace. It’s high time that the University no longer turns a blind eye, and these organizations bear the costs of their actions. However, in an effort to curb these serious problems with Greek life, the administration has swung the pendulum too far in an authoritative direction. While it is important to address these issues, the University must reevaluate disciplinary actions and focus on creating a dialogue. This past year, the University threatened sanctions on members of Greek life who attended the Mud Bowl, a charity fundraising event. As Daily columnist Brett Graham points out, the Mud Bowl exemplifies the best aspects of Greek life. The University’s response stepped over the line and will likely have long-term negative consequences. By simply treating anything Greekrelated with sanctions, the administration is developing an adversarial relationship with some members of the Greek community. This isn’t a good course to chart. Personally, I have many issues with Greek life, and I would love to see fraternities and sororities play a diminished role on campus. But that’s not a realistic possibility. Much of the University’s funding comes from wealthy donors who were members of Greek life during their undergraduate careers, and the University won’t likely agree to changes that risk losing that money.
Furthermore, Greek life is a cultural institution at the University, with more than 20 percent of undergraduate students affiliated. What message does the administration send to a significant portion of our student body when it intervenes in such a paternalistic way? The University’s response mirrors a tendency within parts of the social activist community on campus to demonize Greek life; to view it as a toxic mess that doesn’t want to improve itself. However, it’s important to note that there’s will within Greek life to end these abuses. I spoke to Henry Adams,
“Students who are in co-ops and are part of the University’s social justice community should reach out to the Greek community.” president of the Interfraternity Council, about these issues, and from his perspective, there’s a growing self-awareness within the IFC of binge drinking and sexual assault’s sheer extent. He also stressed that he doesn’t view the community meeting as a break of the IFC’s working relationship with the administration and that they want to continue improving Greek life at the University. Furthermore, Schlissel’s community meeting was co-organized by the IFC, and each of the fraternities’ presidents spoke at the event about the meeting’s importance. These issues are endemic: members of Greek life are 2.5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than nonmembers and more likely to binge drink than the average student. There’s an element within the Greek community which earnestly wants to curb these issues. These efforts have
begun to take shape: Fraternities serve beer rather than hard liquor at open parties and new members are given an orientation that aims to prevent the aforementioned behaviors. Other communities at the University have made similar attempts to prevent sexual assault and overdrinking. My co-op asks our guests to define consent before entering a party and all of our house officers are given bystander intervention training by the Inter-Cooperative Council. I’ve seen other co-ops hang the definition of consent around the house. These policies show our guests that we have a zero-tolerance policy on sexual assault. They also make the definition of consent salient to partygoers and help prevent potentially disastrous encounters. We put in a tremendous amount of work to prevent sexual assault, but why should this be outside the norm? After Schlissel’s community meeting, Tom Allen, fellow Fordie and former president of Alpha Sigma Phi, said that “(Greek life) is definitely going to be open to what was said yesterday and in the future work really close with the University to make things safer.” According to Allen, eight fraternities within the IFC have already invited SAPAC for bystander intervention training and we should applaud that. But what about the rest? Students who are in co-ops and are part of the University’s social justice community should reach out to the Greek community. I envision a broad partnership between Greek life, cooperatives, the administration, CSG, SAPAC and other groups on campus dedicated to creating a safer campus. This won’t be a cure-all — some aspects of toxic masculinity are so deeply entrenched that we’ll need to see a nationwide cultural shift before we can eradicate them. My co-op has a deep history of activism, but only began aggressively fighting against sexual assault in 2014. Let’s accelerate that process and instead of working in silos, combine our efforts to make the University safer. — Roland Davidson can be reached at mhenryda@umich.edu.
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End cat-calling
s I ran in a pack with my best friends and track teammates on a bright and sunny Florida morning, I tried desperKAELA ately to focus on THEUT the cadence of my footfalls and the overwhelming sense of calmness that usually washes over me as soon as I step out the door. However, I quickly found it impossible to enjoy the humorous conversation happening around me, or even the sound of the waves gently lapping the shoreline, due to the disturbing number of middle-aged men who deemed it their civic duty to comment on everything — ranging from our activity of choice (running) to our bodies. That first run in Florida lasted only 30 minutes, but my friends and I were cat-called 14 times. Standing on a street corner, waiting for the traffic whizzing by to come to a halt so that we could cross the road, a man leaned out of his beaten-up truck and had the audacity to snap a picture of us. In one swift motion, he crossed all personal boundaries and took with him the image of our bodies — not knowing anything about who we were. I shudder thinking about where the picture is now or what it was used for. Essentially, standing there in a T-shirt and spandex, completely normal running attire for a warm climate, I realized that I had never felt more exposed and objectified in my life. Here we were, athletes on a training run so that we could become better at our sport, and we were being reduced to mere sexual objects. Would it be appropriate to stand on the sidelines of a college football training camp and yell slurs at the boys as they sprinted back and forth
across the field? Or even more simply, at the countless shirtless male runners we saw along our route? No, of course not, because at no time in our lives have we been taught that these activities are sexual or that we have the right to invade other people’s comfort zones with our words. So why is it that, because of an inherently patriarchal society, we are expected to deal with men ignoring our athletic abilities to instead comment on the size of our chests or the curvature of our bodies? The couple of times one of us tried to counter the remarks with a certain obscene hand gesture, the men either yelled more loudly or gave us the same motion right back. In their minds, our bodies were on display for their gratification — and they had every right to express their pleasure. How dare we take away their right to selfexpression, or put in a more saccharine manner, their right to give “compliments.” For the record, compliments are defined in the dictionary as remarks of “esteem, respect, and affection.” There is no way that these strangers have any semblance of respect for me when all they see is a sum of body parts. They don’t know I could like the same kind of music as their daughters or that I am a student attending a prestigious university. Furthermore, affection implies intimacy. Compliments from close friends make me feel warm and confident, while these so-called “compliments” from strangers make me feel like I have done something wrong. They have not only made me feel uncomfortable, but have also genuinely terrified me. Once, as I was running on the shoulder of a fairly busy road, a car swerved much too close
to me, and a teenager leaned out and screamed something about an explicit sexual act. I flinched in surprise and sprinted onto the sidewalk, almost in tears due to my anger and frustration. I was only a freshman in high school. A man who genuinely thinks that he is complimenting random girls by shouting at them about their assets is disillusioned and stuck in a far bygone era. What’s even more terrifying, however, is that I have heard girls say they do not mind the jeers because they prove that they are “hot” or that they find the attention amusing. These girls are missing out on the imperative difference between a compliment and a derogatory remark. With each “hey, baby,” “how you doin’ girl” or the incredibly uncreative “damn,” the cat-caller is obtaining gratification while the act of cat-calling becomes even more socially accepted in today’s culture. I have been the recipient of this kind of harassment in Florida, in my hometown of Grand Rapids and even in Europe. Cat-calling can seem benign, but it is just the tip of an insidious iceberg. Young girls will grow up confusing these invasive and honestly just plain creepy remarks as signs of genuine love and affection. They will think that they must use their bodies to garner male attention. They will think that what they were wearing warranted the harassment, and eventually begin to blame themselves. This is the problem with catcalling. If a grown man can’t contain himself while driving past a group of barely-of-age girls in sports bras, our society obviously still has a lot of growing up to do.
ful process — much less on a random Wednesday night in March. By collectively shifting the narrative to one of mutual respect, understanding and civic engagement, the participants in the 200-plus interactions were given the motivation to participate harmoniously. The affordances of social media were used not as enablers to “can’t-win” hostility but to possible democratically influential
connection. In both 2008 and this past week, it was clear to me that we as citizens — be it students, factory workers or CEOs — shape the future of social media. Though its affordances present us with new opportunities and experiences, we ultimately dictate how those affordances will be put to use. I am all in favor of dog memes,
sports highlights and birthday wishes taking up a portion of our news feeds. But, I can’t help but think it would be a shame if we didn’t take advantage of the opportunity to change human history with a political Facebook post every now and then.
— Kaela Theut can be reached at ktheut@umich.edu.
— Elliott Rains can be reached at erains@umich.edu.
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‘Thread of Lies’ takes Royal Oak hosts on a taboo discussion NETFLIX
“You get a fur! You get a jet!”
two great comics Shlesinger and Johnson combine for a hilarious weekend By CHRISTIAN KENNEDY Online Arts Editor
Friday: Iliza Shlesinger at Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle About a month before Iliza Shlesinger was set to record her third hour-long TV special, she took the Comedy Castle’s stage in ill-fitting jeans (which were appropriately incorporated into jokes throughout the set) and a yellow t-shirt with an orange outline of Michigan. Opening with a lively and personal set about the mitten state, Shlesinger set the tone for her animated, aggressive and always witty live show: comparing a class of children raising their mittens to show where they’re from to Hitler’s salute and making it clear to the crowd that no one besides Michiganders know about the Upper Peninsula. “I thought this was a cloud,” she said pointing the the U.P. on her shirt. The #PartyGoblin segment from “Freezing Hot” returned in her new material with a killer expansion into the hangover stage, waking up with cushion scars and how party gob-
lins strike when they hear, “I’m only have one drink.” The “Last Comic Standing” winner also found continued strength in her male / female dynamic commentary. She took the crowd through a recent break-up, as well as mulling over the absurdity of women being able to give birth with just “grit,” yet on any other day she can’t do 20 push-ups. Of the show’s highlights, Shlesinger’s uncanny ability to convey what she refers to as “white girl crazy” was in full effect as she narrated the time she dumped out an entire purse on a dancefloor looking for a lip liner, ignoring the fact that she wasn’t currently wearing any, and eventually terrifying the bouncer out of her face. Shlesinger was loud, she was brash, she was honest; and as per usual, her comedic timing and ability to deliver a punchline were as strong as ever. Saturday: Anjelah Johnson @ The Royal Oak Music Theater Anjelah Johnson gave fans the show they wanted — she did her staple nail salon joke, kept “Not Fancy” ’s “I would be a bad police officer” bit, offered up some Bon Qui Qui “ghetto fabulousness” and brought in plenty of fresh material. The show started with Bon Qui Qui coming over the speaker system to let everyone know all
the rules. Then, after an opening set from Rahn Hortman, Johnson took the stage to raucous cheers from the the theater. Similar to Shlesinger, Johnson also opened the show with a Michigan-centric bit. Starting with some obligatory weather commentary, the show really got started as she detailed her time thus far in Detroit / Royal Oak. The expectation of crossing from Detroit to Royal Oak and seeing a stark change in scenery is far from reality, she said. “Yeah, you classy, Royal Oak,” she teased as she told the crowd about a man she saw walking down the street with a pair of socks in his mouth by a local BBQ restaurant. Newer material included an hilarious bit on impulse-buying a first home with her husband. Between her not-so-handy husband, her mom-less, landlord-less reality and a possible intruder, Johnson finds some of her strongest material in her new set. Acknowledging that she’s getting older, yet is still a “full-grown child,” Johnson stuck to some of her earliest material and comedically piled her newest, boldest material on top. Saturday’s performance showcased Johnson’s talent, past, present and future, all of which is extremely bright — and more importantly, hilarious.
By VANESSA WONG Daily Arts Writer
Cheong-ji (Kim Hyang-gi, “A Werewolf Boy”) was every parent’s dream — top of her middle school class, kind to her financially A struggling single mother and helpful Thread around the of Lies house. But one day, her family Ubu Film returned home to find that she had committed suicide — with no explanation left behind. In the aftermath of the tragedy, the Korean film “Thread of Lies” follows Cheong-ji’s older sister Manji (Ko Ah-Sung, “Snowpiercer”) in unraveling the interactions with classmates and family that lead Cheong-ji into unnoticed depression, and ultimately convinced her to end her life. At first glance, the film’s portrayal of girlhood seems intoxicatingly sweet. Airy, light-filled cinematography and shrill giggles relay a quintessential image of youth’s charms, but pressure to live up to that image forces girls into devastating social warfare. The flashback-heavy narrative framework allows for an econom-
ical use of screen time, a multicharacter reconciliation of guilt and loss and an expose into teen girls’ labyrinthine social nexus all at once. Given Cheong-ji’s reserved nature, her friendship with Hwayeon, a pretty and popular classmate, seems out of place. Man-ji finds that their “friendship” was a subtly manipulative power dynamic in which Hwa-yeon demanded gifts and favors from Cheong-ji and actively set up situations to mock her in front of other girls. Those other girls, who felt they were kinder, still were complicit in ignoring Cheong-ji and trapping her in a situation where Hwa-yeon was the only friend she had. Even her family failed to notice times that Cheong-ji tried to reach out to them. Early teenage years are characterized by a pervasive need for group acceptance, creating a predicament where to ensure self-survival means putting another down. With naivety and no appropriate emotional outlet confounding the problem, each girl’s personal insecurities quietly fracture CheongJi’s emotional health, wearing her down over time. As more realizations unfold, it’s clear that what originally seemed like a blame game turns
out to be a complex web of guilty behavior, some parties actively bullying Cheong-ji into emotional isolation and some unconsciously furthering her depression by not recognizing it. So often bullying is portrayed as simply explicit taunting or physical violence, making it difficult to understand it when it happens. The success of this film comes from probing into deeply fleshed out character motives, with every act of cruelty guided by realistic, common insecurities. Subtle yet emotive performances from all cast members reveal how personal fear of blame and social isolation made it difficult for the classmates and family members to come to terms with their involvement. South Korea has the highest suicide rate among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development-defined developed countries, and “Thread of Lies” is a nuanced exploration that penetrates the social pressures that devastate teenage girls and opens up a conversation about how symptoms of depression can easily go unrecognized. “Thread of Lies” was screened as part of the Korean Cinema Now series at the Michigan Theater, presented by the Nam Center for Korean Studies.
TV NOTEBOOK
When comedy fails: Silverman as Hitler Citizen eases nerves with blood and punk CONCERT REVIEW
By SHIR AVINADAV Daily Arts Writer
By SELENA AGUILERA Daily Arts Writer
“I just bit my tongue open,” was something I heard come out of the mouth of a girl with blood stained all over her shirt. She ran out of the crowd during Citizen’s set to her friends that were admiring the band from afar. She drank a lot of water, stepped outside for a few seconds and deliberately immersed herself back into the crowd. Any bystander would have been worried, but I didn’t find anything too unsettling about this situation. This isn’t the first time something like that has happened at a show I’ve attended. In fact, it’s one out of tens of situations. And I think it has everything to do with the type of people who attend shows, who love live music more than most things in this world — the people who are willing to sacrifice their comforts just to see their favorite band play in the flesh. And I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed so many sacrificial music lovers in one place. Personally, I am a bundle of anxiety, and through my experience, I have come to find that a lot of avid concert attendees are bundles themselves. Walking into a venue filled with hundreds of people standing shoulder to shoulder makes my heart beat out of my chest, my breath starts to shorten and I regress to my nail biting addiction that I thought I kicked in tenth grade. I play it cool by babbling about irrelevant things with friends, but my eyes scan the room to find other peo-
ple fidgeting in place spewing word vomit too. So, why would I pay to be this anxious? Because once that first strum of the guitar hits your ears the anxiety disappears. I was standing among strangers biting my nails as punk rock, grunge band, Milk Teeth took the stage. Coming from the UK with a badass front woman, Milk Teeth rocked so hard my hand was too busy tapping my leg to be subject to nail biting. However, openers are always a rough spot because people are still awkwardly standing in place. After an anxiety-filled set change Sorority Noise took the stage. During the set front man Cameron Boucher expressed his diagnosis of manic depression and created a peace of mind in the crowd by acknowledging the reality of mental illnesses. The Connecticut-based band opened with “Art School Wannabe” and the anxious skin shed off the crowd as they went from awkwardly standing to jumping, pushing and screaming “Maybe I’m my own greatest fear/ Maybe I’m too scared to admit that.” And when the band played their last song the crowd was chanting “Encore!” displaying the evidence that Sorority Noise was an absolute crowd pleaser. The air began filling up with word vomit again until Virginia-based Turnover started to play. Turnover created a sensual experience with their indie, emo kind of vibe and the music commanded everyone to sway left and right. During their set full of songs from their dreamy new
album, Peripheral Vision, strangers became friends after singing emotional ballads to each other. Vulnerability and comfort replaced the anxiety because something about live music eliminates the fear of judgment. By the time Citizen came on stage, the level of discomfort in the venue was almost completely stripped from the crowd. Opening with “The Summer” off of its debut album, Youth, Citizen’s live presence wiped every ounce of awkward anxiety out of the Crofoot. With no exaggeration, almost everyone in the venue, besides about three rows of outside bystanders, were pushing and shoving each other enjoying the live music experience at its finest. The crowd was a collective wave of movement and not only did people voluntarily experience their mental discomforts to see Citizen, they experienced their physical discomforts as well. Neck veins from strenuous singing have never been so visible. The frontman, Mat Kerekes handed the microphone to crowd surfers creating a personal show while the rest of the band slammed on their instruments. I’ve never seen a more engaged and alive crowd experiencing their discomforts for the love of music. So, why do anxiety-ridden people sacrifice their mental and physical comforts for something? Why am I totally OK with that guy’s sweat dripping on my shoulder? Because being able to see a favorite band play live gives me a high that makes me feel normal, even if it’s just for a little while.
Sarah Silverman went on “Conan” as Hitler last Thursday, and it wasn’t cool. The long-standing question of what is or isn’t OK to represent comically is constantly being put to the test. We often take for granted the ways in which comedy serves as a vehicle for the truth — mainly because we’re too busy laughing to notice. But it’s important to consider the implications of this power. With comedy, we can say what we normally wouldn’t about things we typically wouldn’t address. Sarah Silverman’s appearance on “Conan,” dressed as Hitler, is an example of the failure to adequately consider the repercussions of humorously addressing a tyrant and murderer. Though I personally enjoy Sarah Silverman’s comedy and admire her ability to brazenly say what’s on her mind, her portrayal of Hitler in response to the increasing likening of the former ruler to GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump was an instance of poor judgment in taste. Trump is known for his controversial policy ideas about minorities, and more recently, for increasingly spitting out hateful comments directed at minorities in the U.S. Regardless of whether he truly believes the things he says or if his bigotry is just a ploy to stay in the limelight, his statements are no laughing matter. And neither is the comparison of him to Hitler. On Thursday night, Sarah Silverman went on “Conan” to address this comparison as none other than Hitler himself. Aside from the jarring experience of seeing a man responsible for the genocide of millions reincarnated in a cartoonish costume on live television, Silverman’s humanization of
Hitler has just as little place in the media as do Trump’s discriminatory statements. You might think to yourself, “It’s only a joke,” or, “It’s OK because she’s Jewish.” Well, it’s not just a joke. As Charles Churchill wrote, “A joke is a very serious thing.” Jokes give us the power to criticize our society, because they knock our guard down and expose us to truths we don’t want to face before we can put our guards back up again. Silverman, dressed as Hitler, exposes “Conan” ’s audience to a truth that is both unintended and unfounded — that manipulating Hitler’s ideology to make light of both his and Trump’s beliefs is OK. Though pretending that even Hitler would denounce Donald Trump drives home the point that he has some problematic views (to say the least), it has a very powerful, unintended side effect: it paints Hitler in a light that ignores the nature of his beliefs and actions. In essence, Silverman is making the case that Trump is someone who’s worse than Adolf Hitler — whose Nazi regime oversaw the brutal persecution and ultimate extermination of six million Jews, as well as millions of other victims. Silverman walks on stage greeting the audience with a casual “Heil,” then proceeds to speak in her own voice as Hitler, saying, “I agree with a lot of what he says — a lot. Like 90 percent of what he says, I’m like, this guy gets it.” Silverman acts like herself, reciting Nazi ideology in a manner more in line with her own than Hitler’s, making her statements all the more unsettling. Silverman (AKA Hitler) then proceeds to take issue with Trumps “crass” way of speaking. Yeah, because Trump’s delivery of the hateful garbage is the problem. Her intention, of course, is not to promote Trump’s or Hit-
ler’s ideas, nor is it to offend the generations of people actually victimized by the man she portrays. But her casual delivery of the racist attitude that effectively led to the deaths of millions trivializes the image of Hitler and events that took place under his rule. Since the beginning of the difficult healing process following these events, much debate has surrounded their appropriate representation in the media. Though many years have passed, no amount of time can buffer the difficult sentiments associated with evoking images of the Holocaust. And it will especially never, ever be funny — no matter what the intentions are in satirizing it. Comedy isn’t only great, it’s also an essential part of discourse in our society. But as with most things, it has a place and time. And making Hitler, the most hated man in our world’s history, funny, has neither a place nor a time — especially not on Conan O’Brien’s couch and not during his show. Silverman’s performance, though intended as a wake-up call to the kind of person that’s in the running for leading our country, simply makes fun of something that isn’t and shouldn’t be funny. When you have a voice as powerful and established as Silverman’s, it becomes necessary that it be used judiciously. I’m not trying to attack Sarah Silverman or chide people for what they think is or isn’t funny. But this instance of misguided humor serves to remind us of the delicate balance between making fun of something and trivializing it. While it is important to remember the consequences of what Hitler did, his image and memory should stay in the past, where they belong. And it is our duty to remember that when it comes to humor, there are some things that are out of bounds.
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FILM REVIEW
Powerful ‘Beast’ Japanese film may challenge your stereotypes of anime By ANA LUCENA Daily Arts Writer
Even with its kid-friendly anime conventions,“The Boy and the Beast” has fantastic characters that make the fantastical worlds they live B+ in feel real. The The Boy film might surprise some with and the preconcieved Beast notions about anime. Case in State Theatre point: when I told my mom Toho I was going to watch an anime movie, she expressed shock that a theater would show two hours’ worth of “that weird Japanese cartoon thing you watch on YouTube.” But there is anime that rises above the skepticism, and “The Boy and the Beast” is a good example of why. The Beast Kingdom is inhabited by anthropomorphized animals, as the name suggests. In it, the difficult and lazy beast Kumatetsu (Koji Yakusho, “Shall We Dance?”) is competing against the orderly Iôzen (Kazuhiro Yamaji, “One-Punch Man”) to succeed the kingdom’s retiring Lord. On the advice of the Lord, Kumatetsu looks for a pupil to teach so he can get inspired to train harder. The Kumatetsu and teacher Iôzen are devoted to practicing kendo, which harkens back to a sim-
pler time in Asia when martial arts masters lived through more drama than “Dance Moms.” Meanwhile, in the human world, young Kyuta (Shota Sometani, “Bakuman”) is devastated by the sudden death of his divorced mother in a car accident. Since his father is absent, he must be taken in by new legal guardians. But he won’t stand for it. The driving force of the movie is presented right away through the dialogue, making the plot easy to follow. Instead of staying, Kyuta runs away in the bustling streets of Tokyo full of rage. The anger at his mother’s random passing is taken seriously, refreshingly validating the strong emotions of a child protagonist. Kyuta encounters Kumatetsu and follows him to the Beast Kingdom, where he becomes the beast’s student. The leap of faith makes sense after seeing the tragedy Kyuta is trying to escape. Eventually, he is drawn back to the human world and is torn as he looks for what his place is in both. The close relationship that Kyuta and Kumatetsu develop make the emotional conflict palpable. The clear exposition of the characters’ lives at the beginning of the movie brought their respective worlds to life. After knowing Kyuta’s situation, his reactions to the Beast Kingdom felt natural in spite of its fictional complexity. Their friendship was successfully constructed by showing how similar their personalities are, while still maintaining their uniqueness as individuals. The animation is stunning. The landscapes at times looked like actual photographs of Tokyo. The background characters’
movements were so vivid that at first glance, I thought I was watching video footage of the city. The swooping zoom-ins of both worlds were disorienting because I’ve never seen such human movement from such wild angles. Just like in real life, the characters are fleshed out with both virtues and flaws. There are no stereotypical good guys or bad guys vying for the viewer’s sympathy (or disdain). This let the plot organically grow from its characters, which kept the plot from feeling predictable. The film does have a few childish points that detracted from its authenticity. The fighting sequences between Kumatetsu and Iôzen felt a little like TV anime - unnaturally slow, with little action. These scenes focused on how determined the two are on beating each other while avoiding the need to actually show them beating each other. The kingdom’s Lord, a cute, mustachioed bunny with a silly sing-songy voice, was used as a fairly cloying comic relief. But, taking into consideration that “The Boy and the Beast” was made for a family audience, I think these shortcomings are excusable. This movie follows in the footsteps of Studio Ghibli in making the universal adventure of a young lead character relatable to a wide audience. I got excited seeing Kyuta come into his own in the magical Beast Kingdom, remembering the sense of adventure and hope I felt as a little girl reading fantasy stories. Age is not a factor in enjoying a fun adventure if the story is told well.
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Listening to Swedish indiepop trio Miike Snow is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re gonna B get. In 2009, the band iii released a fun, albeit imper- Miike Snow fect, first Atlantic record, filled with indie gems like “Animal” and dance-oriented
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jams like “Silvia.” Their experimental sound as a whole came from various pop influences, such as synthpop (The Postal Service), EDM (Swedish House Mafia) and electronica (The Chemical Brothers). In the years following their self-titled debut, the group relished in unexpected popularity, garnering recognition from both indie and mainstream listeners and playing at big festivals like Coachella. However, after a lukewarm reception of their 2012 sophomore record Happy to You, Miike Snow’s spontaneous 15 minutes of fame quietly subsided. This year, however, the group has returned to the music scene with their appropriately titled third record iii. Though they’ve been gone for a few years now, Snow’s iii marks their resurgence into pop music in 2016, even if it doesn’t break any new ground in their discography.
Miike Snow’s style takes precedence over the substance. When you have a group of producers at the helm of a music project like Miike Snow, the style frequently takes precedence over the substance. Take, for example, the album’s opener, “My Trigger,” a jovial, peppy number that struggles to make any sense lyrically (it contains the line, “I saw you licking a dollar bill / I’m in the graveyard if looks could kill”). The next track “The Heart of Me” is in touch with modern pop, imbuing some Passion Pit and Mylo Xyloto-era Coldplay flair to its bubbly rhythm. Yet like most of Miike Snow’s work,
it lacks a compelling story and lyrical coherence. Additionally, iii’s two lead singles, “Genghis Khan” and “Heart is Full,” are the album’s most divisive tracks. The former has a groovy, finger-snapping beat, but its questionable chorus (“I get a little bit Genghis Khan / Don’t want you to get it on with nobody else but me”) and the fact that the song is named after an infamous Mongolian emperor doesn’t bode well with its catchiness. The latter boasts a hip-hop heavy instrumental, but its superior remix with rap duo Run the Jewels, listed as a bonus track on iii, makes for a much better listen than the sluggish original. This is not to say, however, that Snow doesn’t excel at bringing forth infectious jingles. The Charli XCX-assisted “For U” is an exercise in glittery, hyperactive electro-pop, with Snow producers Bloodshy & Avant transforming the densely filtered song into a jittery banger. The dark “I Feel the Weight” contains some of Snow’s most mature material to date; lead singer Andrew Wyatt lends a vulnerable vocoded warble to complement the song’s theme of self-loathing and detachment from a relationship. The opening piano notes of “Back of the Car” mimic a Regina Spektor melody, but the song gradually grows with Wyatt’s fluttery falsetto, some funky 808s and even a violin and electric guitar breakdown; it’s easily the strongest and most listenable track on the album. However, the problem with iii is that even though Miike Snow offers their own distinctive technique, the record can’t help but feel as though it’s derivative of other pop records. Snow doesn’t really need to really write great songs — they are primarily producers, after all. But considering that iii sticks comfortably with Snow’s unconventional flourishes, there’s still room for growth.
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Sports
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 — 7
‘M’ pitches two shutouts By TYLER COADY Daily Sports Writer
The No. 2 Michigan softball team scored one run against Illinois State on Saturday. Considering that the team averages in excess of eight runs per game, it was a paltry amount for the free-scoring Wolverines. Michigan (20-2) tallied seven hits, but left 10 runners on base. Senior centerfielder Sierra Lawrence registered another multi-hit game, but no other Wolverine matched her. While the offensive performance was lacking, Megan Betsa chalked up another story in the circle as she recorded her finest performance of the season to ensure a 1-0 Wolverine win over Illinois State (8-17) as she gave up only three hits. “Leaving runners on base is a concern,” said Michigan coach Carol Hutchins. “But there are days when our pitching staff picks up our hitting staff.” Last week, Betsa spoke about her frustrations with her recent lack of command over the zone, as she was struggling to get out of innings. “I was throwing too many walks and I was getting behind in the count,” Betsa said. “I focused in practice on being able to get ahead of the hitters.” Betsa refocused and honed her command against the Redbirds, as she did not give up a single run while racking up 11 strikeouts. “It really started in practice this week as we set up a (strike zone net) so I could focus on hitting the zone and going through my process,” Betsa said. While Betsa reasserted her spot as Michigan’s go-to pitcher, the Wolverine hitters put up their second-lowest output of the season. Lawrence kept up her torrid pace at the leadoff spot, but the rest of the Michigan
BASEBALL
Starting pitching propels Michigan By NATHANIEL CLARK Daily Sports Writer
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Junior right-hander Megan Betsa pitched a three-hit shutout against Illinois State on Saturday in Louisville, Ky.
lineup failed to follow suit. Sophomore first baseman Tera Blanco and junior left fielder Kelly Christner were both held hitless, the first time that has happened in a game this season. Senior second baseman Sierra Romero had an unusually quiet day, recording only one hit. Despite the struggles, senior right fielder Kelsey Susalla provided the timely hitting that Michigan needed. Lawrence singled to start the third inning and made her way to third base quickly, courtesy of Romero reaching first on an error. Then, Susalla hit a sacrifice fly to center field, giving the Wolverines the only run they needed on Betsa’s big day. Next for Michigan was a matchup with Dayton (7-10). The offensive problems of Saturday morning quickly subsided as the trio of Lawrence, junior shortstop Abby Ramirez and Romero put the Wolverines on
the board in the first inning. In the second inning, Christner reached base with a bunt, Sobczak roped a single up the middle and senior pinch runner Olivia Richvalsky and Christner scored. With a 3-0 lead after two innings, Michigan added to it in the fourth as the bottom of the lineup found its swing. After going hitless against Illinois State, both sophomore first baseman Aidan Falk and freshman infielder Faith Canfield notched hits and scored, increasing the Wolverine lead to five. Good pitching was not confined to just Betsa, however, as Blanco also put up her most dominant performance of the season. Struggling early in the season after transitioning back to a pitching role from predominantly playing first base last season, Blanco seemed to put it all together against the Flyers. Like Betsa, Blanco did not give
up a single walk and went the full seven innings. Blanco, who is hitting a staggering .426, added to the lead in the seventh inning as she ripped a single into right field that made it 6-0. “It is not that difficult doing both hitting and pitching,” Blanco said of pulling double duty. “At times, I do not get all the cuts everyone else gets as I have to rush around but it really is not too hard.” With a home game against Eastern Michigan on Wednesday, Michigan is ready to take the field for the first time in Ann Arbor this season. It has been a long 22-game stretch on the road, but indeed a fruitful one that has seen the Wolverines cement their place at No. 2 in the rankings. “This season is a long journey and it evolves,” Hutchins said. “I feel that our team has really come together, but (they) need to just enjoy themselves.”
Coming into its series against Hawaii, the Michigan baseball team had a cumulative earnedrun average of 1.44 — the fourthlowest in the country. The 18th-ranked Wolverines continued their dominance on the mound against the Rainbow Warriors this weekend. The starters pitched especially well for Michigan, surrendering a combined four earned runs during Michigan’s four-game sweep. The Wolverines’ team ERA now stands firm at 1.83 — holding their spot of fourth in the nation. “The thing that continues to impress me and the thing that I’m excited about the most with this group, and that’s the character, the makeup, the intangible skill set that this team has,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich. Junior left-hander Brett Adcock earned Big Ten Pitcher of the Week honors with his performance in Michigan’s 6-5 victory Friday. He threw seven innings, gave up two hits and one run, walked two and struck out 12 — a career high for him. In spite of Adcock’s dominant outing, he was not awarded the win as the Rainbow Warriors scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to send the game into an extra frame. But junior designated hitter Harrison Wenson came through in the top of the 10th with a single to drive in the winning run for the Wolverines. “Brett Adcock was commanding his fastball down in the zone on both sides of the plate,” Bakich said. “When you command your fastball down in the zone and you can manipulate
the ball on both sides of the plate and the velocity is 92, 93, 94, it doesn’t matter who your are as a hitter. That’s tough.” Adcock agreed with Bakich’s assessment. “I tried to attack the zone, let the defense work and let the guys behind me make plays,” Adcock said. “You have to trust your defense and let them work.” Not to be outdone, sophomore left-hander Oliver Jaskie turned in a gem in Michigan’s 6-0 win Thursday. He pitched 5.1 shutout innings, allowed three hits, walked three and struck out three. “Everyone who goes out (to the mound) seems to do a very good job of attacking the strike zone with multiple pitches,” Bakich said. The Wolverines’ defense — which struggled at times during its Spring Break trip to California — was not perfect, but performed better against Hawaii. Though Michigan committed three errors in the first contest of Saturday’s doubleheader, it was a different story in Friday’s game. In the bottom of the ninth, following a wild pitch by righthander Bryan Pall, sophomore catcher Drew Lugbauer made a strong throw to Pall to tag a runner out and prevent Hawaii from winning the game. “The errors we made were aggressive,” Bakich said. “I was very pleased with our defense, I thought we played outstanding defense. We had an error on a pickoff throw, I don’t feel like those errors affected the outcome of the game. I feel good about our defense. I feel like we’ve got a very good defensive team, even though the fielding percentage may not accurately reflect how good the defense is.”
make the difference Wolverines start Freshmen Schalet, Tishman, Tekavec take slow at Virginia advantage of rare WOMEN’S TENNIS
Despite wins in top two singles matches, Michigan falls to Cavaliers By MIKE PERSAK Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan women’s tennis team was unable to overcome a slow start to its match with No. 10 2 Virginia on MICHIGAN 4 VIRGINIA Saturday, losing 4-2. The sixth-ranked Wolverines’ loss was their third of the season and their second straight after dropping their previous match to unranked Texas. The Wolverines (7-4 overall) lost the doubles point as well as the No. 3 singles point to fall into a 2-0 hole. However, their No. 1 and No. 2 singles competitors, freshman Brienne Minor and senior Ronit Yurovsky, were able to even the match at two. That was all of the momentum that Michigan would be able to attain, though. Virginia took the next two matches in the No. 5 and No. 6 singles positions in a pair of three set matches, pulling away for a 4-2 win. “I think we got a really slow start from doubles,” said Michigan coach Ronni Bernstein. “But I’m kind of proud of the way we hung in there and tried to turn that match around. We had chances there at the end.” Michigan’s lineup was also different than usual. Yurovsky, who normally competes in the No.
1 singles position, was switched with Minor, who normally competes at No. 2, in order to create a more favorable matchup. “I kinda liked (the matchups). I know how those (Virginia) kids play.” Bernstein said. “I just thought that switching it up would work out, and they made me look good.” The Wolverines were also without freshman Kate Fahey, who suffered an injury on Friday, the day before the Virginia match. Fahey, who is ranked 118th nationally in singles competition, brings some stability to the Michigan lineup — something the team needed desperately on Saturday. “If we’re healthy, I think that we’re pretty tough to beat.” Bernstein said. “(I’m) really proud of the way we competed (Saturday) with Kate out.” The Wolverines will look to get healthy and back on their feet this week. They begin conference play in East Lansing against Michigan State on Saturday in hopes of defending their Big Ten Championship from last year. But as they head into the tail end of their season, their mindset won’t change at all. “We just need to keep getting better,” Bernstein said. “Nothing’s really going to change. We’re just going to compete and try to figure it out and work hard this week, and try to get a win on Saturday.” If Michigan is able to retain its full lineup, with everybody healthy, perhaps the slow starts that have plagued it can be cured. If that’s the case, the Wolverines may be able to return to their winning ways.
“If we’re healthy, I think that we’re pretty tough to beat.”
opportunity for ‘M’ By MAGGIE KOLCON For the Daily
The Michigan men’s tennis team’s Saturday doubleheader against Columbia and Toledo opened up opportunities for its younger players, and they took full advantage of them. Freshmen Myles Schalet, Gabe Tishman and Maks Tekavec proved themselves with singles wins for the Wolverines in the 5-2 victory against the Rockets. Tekavec, who hails from Slovenia, won his first singles match in a Michigan jersey. “Maks’ first win, it’s always awesome to see,” said Michigan head coach Adam Steinberg. “You know, he’s had it tough. He had surgery in December, and he’s been trying to get back. He’s had some setbacks, so I was just happy he was playing.” Tekavec earned his 6-3, 6-3 win in the No. 5 singles match. “We just put them in how we felt they should be,” Steinberg said. “We tried to push Maks a little bit and say, ‘Hey, you’re going to play a little bit higher.’ ” Schalet won 6-2, 6-1, in the No. 4 singles match against Toledo, adding to his earlier 6-2, 7-5 win in the No. 6 singles match against the Lions. His wins were crucial in meets where Michigan’s top players faltered. Redshirt sophomore Alex Knight, who holds the Wolverines’ highest singles win percentage this year, lost both of his No. 1 singles matches, while sophomore Carter Lin had to retire against Toledo in the No. 2 match due to an apparent injury. “Tennis-wise, I still want to work on my serve,” Schalet said. “I mean, every shot, I can still improve. But the most important thing is that we’ve done a great job and we’re getting better.”
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Freshman Myles Schalet earned singles and doubles wins against both Toledo and Columbia on Saturday.
Tishman rounded out the Toledo match with a 6-2, 6-2 win, making his mark on the match as well. In the morning meet, Schalet and Tishman teamed up to win their doubles match together against Columbia. Later in the day, they held a commanding lead against the Rockets, but the match went unfinished after their teammates on the first and third courts won just before they wrapped up. Even though this is their first year at Michigan, Schalet and Tishman have a history of dominating the court together. “Before we came to college, we played for about three years together in juniors,” Tishman said. “Every national open we
played, we got some pretty good results. I think we got up to No. 2 in the country at one point. So we’ve been playing for a while.” Coming from playing junior tennis, freshmen have to make the switch from focusing on their own individual rankings to playing as a team. Frequently in college tennis, one matchup will go unfinished in every meet because the team has already won, so the final singles or doubles match doesn’t matter. “College is much more intense,” Schalet said. “Because you’re playing for your team, and it’s a different atmosphere.” That atmosphere is very team-centric. After almost every point, players would look over to their teammates on a
“We just put them in how we felt they should be.”
different court and shout words of encouragement. But, to the Wolverines, there is still room for improvement. “I think we just need to work on our team dynamics, really,” Tishman said. “Our coach really enforces this sort of team play, supporting everyone, and that’s just a big transition from juniors, where we’re playing for ourselves. We did a great job of that today and this morning, so we just have to keep that going.” Added Schalet: “Everyone needs to still improve at playing for each other and connecting (with their teammates). It’s really tough against really good teams, and that’s where we’re going to make a big jump in the next couple weeks.” While the freshmen admit that there are definitely things to improve upon, they proved they can rise to the occasion when their upperclassmen falter. And on their path to development, that was still certainly a step in the right direction.
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Robinson ready for D-I tourney By SIMON KAUFMAN Daily Sports Editor
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John Beilein’s team punched its tournament ticket with a series of big shots.
Breaking down the dramatic shots that powered Michigan By LEV FACHER Daily Sports Writer
It’s easy to attribute Michigan’s NCAA Tournament bid to a single shot: sophomore guard Kam Chatman’s already legendary 3-pointer against top-seeded Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals on Friday. Chatman, deservedly, walked away from the weekend an unlikely star. He had made just seven 3-pointers on the season before a case of mistaken identity left him with the ball in his hands and time ticking down, and his game-winner left fans around the country with an early taste of the madness March is known for. But two other shots were equally instrumental in shoehorning the Wolverines into the 68-team NCAA Tournament field. One shot came Thursday against Northwestern on a play that Michigan coach John Beilein calls “Magic,” a set for redshirt sophomore guard Duncan Robinson to find space around the perimeter. Many might have expected Beilein to call Robinson’s number, but the audacity of the play call stood out. Michigan perfectly executed the sneaky set, in which Robinson inbounded the ball from the sideline, gave it to junior forward Zak Irvin curling along the baseline and then took the outside route on a screen from sophomore forward Ricky Doyle to give himself enough space for a shot after Irvin gave the ball back. Without Robinson’s trey and Beilein’s play call, Chatman would never have been in a position to play hero the next day. “I think Stan Van Gundy was probably the coach of Orlando at the time, and I was just there watching an NBA game one time,” Beilein said on “Inside Michigan Basketball,” his weekly radio show, on Monday. “The Magic needed a 3, and Orlando ran this play for J.J. Redick. So I looked at it, and I said, ‘We’ve got to run that play.’ To this day, we’ve called it Magic.” Beilein said he first installed the play three or four seasons ago for Tim Hardaway Jr., now with the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks. But the Wolverines hadn’t used the play before Friday, when Beilein drew it up for Robinson during a frantic, late-game timeout. “It’s not even out there on a scouting report the last three
or four years,” Beilein said. “We drew it up, we practice it once a week, at least — it seems like Duncan makes it every time. But when (Northwestern center Alex) Olah came out on him, Olah was huge. And Duncan, when we looked at the shot, the ball went a good three or four feet above the backboard, and Duncan’s shot usually arcs out below the backboard. So he had to put extra on it, and he just buried it.” It was a lot of faith to put in Robinson, a transfer from Division III Williams College. The moment wasn’t too big for him — nor was his shot the next day against Indiana, which tied the game at 69 to set up Chatman for the game-winner moments later. That Robinson 3, while equally instrumental, came on a more orthodox play call. Beilein discussed yet another non-Chatman shot that the Wolverines simply couldn’t have done without on Monday: Irvin’s overtime jumper with time winding down against Northwestern, which came just minutes after the unexpected Robinson 3. “He loves that moment,” Beilein said of his decision to give Irvin the ball for the overtime period’s final play. “I had dialed him up two or three plays before in the Northwestern game, and he missed the shot, and he wasn’t having a great night. And I said to myself, ‘Why do I keep dialing him up? I’ve got to do something else.’ ” Luckily for Michigan, Beilein’s idea to stay away from Irvin in the final moments didn’t stick around for long. “When we wanted to run that last play, (Northwestern) knew what we were running,” Beilein said. “It’s a play we run once or twice, at least, a game. I said, ‘Who do I trust out there right now to make this shot or make the right decision?’ Because (Doyle) was open rolling to the basket as well. He was wide open. I said, ‘It’s Zak.’ So I went to him, and it certainly paid off.” Michigan is hoping no such late-game drama is necessary Wednesday in Dayton, Ohio, as it takes on fellow 11-seed Tulsa in a First Four play-in game. The Wolverines’ bus embarked on the three-hour drive Monday night — a trip that could end Wednesday night with a loss or last through Sunday if Michigan can get through Tulsa and then No. 6-seed Notre Dame on Friday in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Two years ago, on the first Sunday of March, Duncan Robinson crammed into his coaches’ offices with his Williams College teammates as they awaited their fate in the Division III NCAA Tournament. There was no fancy primetime two-hour Selection Sunday show, no texts pouring in from family afterward and no media waiting to talk with the team afterward. Robinson — then a freshman at the small Williamstown, Mass., liberal arts college — watched on an online stream as his team’s name was called. Williams was going to the Big Dance, except it wasn’t that big of a deal — it was only Division III, after all. Fast forward two years, and Robinson — now a redshirt sophomore guard for the Michigan men’s basketball team after transferring from Williams — will get a taste of
the big Big Dance: the Division I NCAA Tournament. The NCAA Tournament Selection Committee announced Sunday that the Wolverines would play Tulsa in Dayton, Ohio, as part of the tournament’s First Four. A win Wednesday would give them a No. 11 seed and a Friday night matchup against No. 6 seed Notre Dame in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 2014, Robinson helped lead the Ephs to the championship game and a runner-up finish. But even so, playing at that level meant their Selection Sunday prior to the tournament had a different feel to it. “We had a little viewing party — I guess you could call it, in our coaches’ offices, but nothing
to this scale,” Robinson said. “There was no media afterwards, I can tell you that.” On Sunday, Robinson got a different experience. The Wolverines watched this year’s Selection Sunday show from the Weiser Crisler Center Club — a club level-esque area of the arena, and afterward, about two dozen members of the media waited to hear from players and Michigan coach John Beilein. “The scale is a lot different, hard to compare,” Robinson said. “When we got into the tournament at Williams, I might have gotten one text from my mom. This time, I got a few more, I guess you could say.” More recognition, be it texts
“That moment when you hear your name called is pretty surreal.”
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Redshirt sophomore guard Duncan Robinson will play in the Division I NCAA Tournament for the first time Wednesday.
from friends or shoutouts from noted college basketball analysts, has been a theme for Robinson since arriving in Ann Arbor. After sitting out the 2014-15 season due to NCAA transfer rules, Robinson has made a name for himself at the Division I level. The New Castle, N.H., native broke into Michigan’s starting lineup in its 10th game and has been a staple since. He has paced 11.2 points per game to go along with 3.3 rebounds and has been the Wolverines’ best look from 3-point range, shooting at a 45-percent clip from deep. Despite his success, Robinson’s numbers dropped off midway through the season as he struggled to find his stroke. After starting the season shooting better than 50 percent through 21 games from beyond the arc, Robinson shot worse than 30 percent from the perimeter in Michigan’s final 10 regularseason games. But in the Big Ten Tournament, Robinson regained a bit of his rhythm, going off for 21 points against Northwestern and hitting a clutch 3 against Indiana that set Michigan up for a buzzer-beating victory. “This has been such a great learning experience for him,” Beilein said. “For right now, it just gives him another opportunity to validate that his performance in the Big Ten, both hitting clutch shots and just playing a lot of minutes in the Big Ten — rebounding and having assists in the tournament — validated why he’s here.” Robinson validated himself as a Division I player during the regular season. Now he has the opportunity to do it in the postseason. “This is why I came here,” Robinson said. “(The) opportunity to play in the NCAA Tournament. … You build it up in your head, but that moment when you hear your name called is pretty surreal.”
Connor (POY), Wolverines nearly sweep Big Ten awards Compher, Motte, Connor all earn first-team honors; Berenson COY By JUSTIN MEYER Daily Sports Writer
Michigan took home six Big Ten hockey awards Monday afternoon, led by star freshman forward Kyle Connor as Player of the Year. “It’s a great accomplishment and I’m really honored,” Connor said. “It’s pretty cool.” The nod is an indication that the quiet left-winger has separated himself among Michigan’s stars in the Hobey Baker race. After posting 61 points in 34 games, he is considered by many voters to be the frontrunner. Boston College’s Jack Eichel won the Hobey in his first season with near-identical points per game numbers last year, but freshmen have only won the award twice and never in back-to-back seasons. The accolades didn’t stop there. In a perhaps more impressive honor, the CCM line — composed of Connor and junior forwards Tyler Motte and JT Compher — swept the firstteam All-Big Ten awards. Michigan coach Red Berenson said it was the first time he could remember that happening. “We’ve had some great lines — and maybe some that could’ve or should’ve (swept the first team selections) — but this one did,” Berenson said. The CCM line has been the most dominant in college hockey this season. Connor, Compher and Motte rank first, third and fifth in the NCAA for points, respectively. The line began to jell after Christmas and never slowed down. Connor is in the midst of a 23-game point streak and Tyler Motte set a modern-
day Michigan record with a 12-game goal streak. “I think we’ve just become more vocal with each other as linemates,” Compher said. “It’s easier said than done to be all equal when you’re older or younger, freshman, junior, senior or whatever it is, but I think we’ve actually done a really good job of being open to suggestions.” Sophomore defender Zach Werenski was named Defensive Player of the Year and added to the All-Big Ten First Team. The 18-year-old recorded 51 blocked shots and 28 points. Werenski emboldened his case with six points in the last three games, bringing him from 15th to tied for fifth among all defenseman.
Berenson was also named Big Ten Coach of the Year — his third such honor in 32 years of coaching. Berenson previously won two coaching awards in the CCHA. “As far as the coach award, that usually goes to the team that overachieves and does better than people expect,” Berenson said. “If we did, that’s a tribute to our players and our whole coaching staff — it’s no longer a one-man coaching job.” Berenson is in the final year of his contract and undecided on his coaching future. Under his watch this season, the Wolverines are a lock to make the NCAA Tournament for the first time in four years. “I don’t get too carried away
“I think we’ve just become more vocal with each other.”
with these coaching awards,” Berenson said. “We’ve had years where I think we’ve done a great job coaching the team we had into overachieving, but we weren’t the Coach of the Year. “Nowadays, I think its more a sign of respect and age.” Senior forward Boo Nieves rounded out the awards, receiving the Big Ten sportsmanship honor. In a down year for the Big Ten, Michigan shined this season. The Wolverines enter the Big Ten Tournament with a sure spot in the NCAA Tournament, the highest-scoring team offense in more than a decade and three viable Hobey Baker candidates. The true rewards — a Big Ten or NCAA Tournament title — are still to be had, but the announcements Monday afternoon gave an opportunity to reflect on the remarkable regularseason run Michigan strung together, and the individual heroics that made it possible.
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Freshman forward Kyle Connor’s standout freshman season earned him Big Ten Player of the Year honors Monday.