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LSA sophomore Olivia Furano, LSA senior Becca Langsam and LSA freshman Carly Marten demonstrate about how difficult it is to look at one’s own vagina at ‘The Vagina Monologues’ performance Saturday night at Rackham Auditorium.

‘The Vagina Monologues’ explores female sexuality Fourth annual performance discusses sexual assault, asexuality

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“The Vagina Monologues”— a performance featuring a series of comical, inspiring and powerful

acts that aim to deliver women’s stories of sexuality and courage to the public — was held at Rackham Auditorium Friday and Saturday night. Students, faculty and community members gathered for the Students for Choice’s fourth annual student-run program, held by Students for Choice and directed by LSA junior Angelle Antoun. Many of the performers presented monologues from Eve Ensler’s 1996 play of the same

name, which served as inspiration for the event, but two others prese nted their own stories. Among the speeches throughout the night, a myriad of perspectives were explored, from the old and young, to heterosexual, homosexual and transgender, among others. “My Vagina was My Village,” from Ensler’s play, was presented by Art & Design senior Manami Maxted. It tells the story of a woman living in a war zone

who was systematically raped by soldiers. “There is something between my legs. I do not know where it is, what it is,” Maxted recited. “Not since they put their dirty sperm inside me. Not since a piece of my vagina came off in my hand. They butchered it and burned it down.” The first act Popcorn, a monologue written by LSA sophomore Clare Fairbanks and performed by LSA senior See VAGINA, Page 3A

Researchers find social media can predict how much public aid is requested By DESIREE CHEW Daily Staff Reporter

A group of researchers, including one from the University of Michigan, have found that social media could help the public and emergency responders gauge how much damage was inflicted following a natural disaster, and subsequently predict the amount of relief funds given to the community following a natural disaster. The study found a moderate positive correlation between Twitter activity in an area and the level of damage inflicted by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Engineering Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck initiated the project as part of his optimization research on how better predic-

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Fred’s on South U. aims to offer healthy choices New restuarant focuses on sustainable, local ingredients By BECCA SOLBERG Daily Staff Reporter

Inspired by small health food cafes in California and New York, local resident Fred Lelcaj is bringing a new healthy flavor to South University Avenue with a new restaurant, Fred’s, which officially opened its doors Thursday. The menu includes smoothies, acai bowls and juices, bagels, avocado toast and sandwiches. In an interview Lelcaj said he has been in the restaurant business his whole life and has gained valuable experience in the operations side of the industry through working with his sister, Sava Lelcaj, at her restaurant Sava’s on State Street. He said his passion for organic and wholesome food, paired with the necessity of a cafe catering to the market of college students

in Ann Arbor, motivated him to found Fred’s. “The lack of a concept like this has really encouraged me to want to open here,” he said. “I saw a demographic imperative for something like this, especially in this neighborhood. We get a lot of people from California or New Jersey or New York in these bigger cities that are geared up for places like this.” Lelcaj said Fred’s strives to give their customers a completely satisfying experience every time they enter their store: from the food, to the interactions with the employees, to the aesthetics of the building. “I want everything to make you feel good,” Lelcaj said. “I want everything to bring you this calming sense, and the feeling that you have made the right choice and come to the right place.” All of the food’s ingredients are carefully sourced and organic, Lelcaj said, adding his belief in sustainability is a big driver behind the restaurant. They are very meticulous about all of their ingredients to ensure See FRED’S, Page 3A

tive models can be used to study complex infrastructure, natural phenomena and human behavior. Van Hentenryck said the idea for the research came as he was looking for alternatives to existing mechanisms currently used to assess and predict damage to power networks and electric generators caused by natural disasters. “One of the issues that I was dealing with at that point was the assessment and repair of the power system,” Van Hentenryck said. “How can we use social media to refine the prediction of damage of the network? Maybe it can give a better estimation of what is down and what is not down.” This curiosity about forming predictive methods for damage to electricity networks created the starting hypothesis for the research study. “We wanted to find out if there is some correlation between Twitter activity and the damage inside a power network. The See STUDY, Page 3A

John B. King discussed debt in interview with student journalists By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter

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Rackham student Kimberly Brink presents the robot she has worked with for research, Nao, at the Living Lab Symposium at East Hall Saturday.

Research on children focus of Living Lab symposium Professors, students highlight progress in field in first annual event By JENNIFER MEER Daily Staff Reporter

In East Hall Saturday, researchers, graduate students, undergraduate students and community members examined research findings in

child development during the University of Michigan’s first annual Living Lab Symposium. First established at the Boston Museum of Science in 2004 by museum professionals and child development researchers, the Living Lab studies behavioral and cognitive development in children. Housed in the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, the University’s Museum of Natural History and the downtown branch of the Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor’s ver-

sion of the Living Lab invites families with children to participate in short studies and experiments, which examine children’s behavior and contribute to larger research projects. Living Lab Director Craig Smith brought the project to the University in 2012. He said the lab’s research is crucial to better understanding children. “We can impact the way that we interact with children and the way that we try to improve See LAB, Page 3A

U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. hosted a conference call with college journalists Friday afternoon to discuss the Obama administration’s efforts to support students. The call included statements from King and Ajita Talwalker Menon, senior policy adviser for higher education in the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, as well as a Q&A session with reporters. It was part of a series of seven events in the department’s College Opportunity Across America Tour, in which King will meet with students and faculty members from higher education institutions across the country to discuss ways to increase college affordability for all students. During his initial remarks, King highlighted two repayment See EDUCATION, Page 3A

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ON THE DAILY University of Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh took on a new role this weekend — actor. During the musical Big Fish, put on by MUSKET!, the University’s studentrun musical theatre organization, Harbaugh sat in the audience for most of the show, but then took to the stage when the cast needed a little extra help. Harbaugh didn’t have any lines, but his role included handing a football helmet to the main character, Edward Bloom. Though his time

on the stage was only about 5 minutes, when he took and left the stage, the audience gave a vocal and loud applause. Big Fish is a musical adapted from a book and movie, following the journey of a father and son as they grapple with the father’s ailing health and the son’s search for the truth about his father’s life as he sifts through stories his father has told. Harbaugh took to Twitter prior to the show to express his excitement about it, noting that his son, LSA freshman James

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Michigan ranked sixth-most enthusiastic about marijuana Ann Arbor suggested as one explanation for drug-friendly survey results By TIM COHN Daily Staff Reporter

Michigan ranked sixth highest in the nation and the highest in the upper Midwest for enthusiasm

about marijuana, according to a survey published by online blog Estately last Monday. The rankings are based on five criteria including the number of reported marijuana users per state, affordability of high-quality marijuana, number of marijuanarelated Google searches per capita and state marijuana laws, as well as the number of subscriptions to marijuana-related Facebook groups. The information was compiled

from a broad range of sources. To determine the number of marijuana users in each state, Estately used data compiled by theSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The cost of marijuana in each state came from the user-submitted website, priceofweed.com. Data from Facebook, and Google Trends was used to determine statewide interest in marijuana. The survey also drew from the New York City-based nonprofit organization, Drug Policy Alliance, for information about individual state’s drug laws. Michigan legislators are considering legalizing the drug, but use of marijuana in Michigan is currently illegal. Medical marijuana however, is legalized in the state. All of the states who ranked in the top slots are notable for their recent legalizations of marijuana for recreational use. Colorado was ranked #1, followed by Washington and Oregon. Alaska, the most recent state to legalize recreational marijuana, was the only state with similar policies to be ranked outside the top 10 at 12th. Ryan Nickum, the author of the Estately article, pointed out most states that rank highly tend to border states that also display an enthusiasm for marijuana. Michigan and Wisconsin, Nickum noted, were outliers from this trend. In his state-by-state analysis of the 10 highest ranking states, Nickum made a specific reference to the University of Michigan. “You have to go all the way back to 2011 to find a year when Michigan was ranked this much higher than Ohio, but that was in football, not weed (University of Michigan ranked 12th, Ohio State University was unranked). Michigan tops Ohio (20th) in these rankings because medical marijuana is legal, as opposed to just decriminalized like in Ohio.” Nickum wrote in the report. An LSA freshman and See MARIJUANA, Page 3A

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The Turkish brunch at Café Zola.

Restaurant Café Zola offers a unique take on brunch foods Downtown location known fo its breakfast options By IRENE PARK Daily Staff Reporter

Walking into Café Zola, the atmosphere is unlike other brunch spots in Ann Arbor — and that’s just what they’re going for. Though many University of Michigan students may not be as familiar with the eatery as spots closer to campus — the cafe is near the intersection of West Washington Street and Main Street — Café Zola, part of the downtown Ann Arbor scene since March 1996, was busy with hungry customers on a recent Friday afternoon. In an interview, manager Lucia Lagoy said the loyal, returning customers were the reason for the restaurant’s continued success. She estimated that 50 to 60 percent of all customers are returning customers, a feat achieved mainly through word of mouth rather than the restaurant’s active

advertisements. “Most of advertising really comes from word of mouth,” Lagoy said. “We don’t do a lot of print (or online) advertising. Once you come to eat here, you can’t help but talk about it and come back.” Lagoy said the establishment only recently became part of OpenTable, an online restaurant reservation site. The restaurant is also now on Yelp, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to attract new customers. But the old customers keep coming back, Lagoy believes, for the restaurant’s unique menu. While Café Zola now calls itself as an “eclectic” restaurant, it began as a more traditional café, serving primarily coffee drinks and French pastry dishes such as crepes. The name “Café Zola” was inspired by French writer Emile Zola as the original breakfast and lunch menus were largely based on French cuisine and culture. “The eclectic mix of food we offer sets us apart from other places,” Lagoy said. Soon after the grand opening, co-founders and co-owners of the restaurant, Hediye Batu, from Turkey, and Alan Zakalik, from Poland, consulted with several

local restaurant owners in Ann Arbor to include more dishes in their menu. The restaurant’s current menu is influenced by a variety of cultures in addition to French, including Mediterranean, Italian and Turkish. Some of the most popular breakfast dishes are Turkish Eggs, Crab Cake Benedict, the vegetarian Artichoke Omelette, Belgian-style waffles and their crepes. The restaurant also offers a variety of coffee drinks, alcoholic drinks and fresh smoothies. Lagoy said because of the diverse nature of the menu, customers could enjoy a good range of meals. “You can come in and have any range of meal here,” Lagoy said. “It’s a great place to come with friends and pick out a few items for everyone to share.” Lagoy said having a large menu for a restaurant is a double-edged sword, but for Café Zola, it hasn’t been an issue. The restaurant has won the title of Best Brunch in Washtenaw County in 2014 and was a runner-up for Best Breakfast in Ann Arbor in 2014 and 2015. “What makes our brunch menu See ZOLA, Page 3A

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they are bringing their customers the best product, he said. The open layout of the store is also formatted to reflect the wholesome ingredients, and increase transparency to the customers, he added with the ingredients in plain view to the customers on the counter where the food is made. “Transparency is very important to me,” Lelcaj said. “All of our packages are in plain view — you can see what we’re using. You can see every increment of every single ingredient as we are adding it to your food.” Business sophomore Sarah Wood, a student representative for the business, said she is a huge fan of the new cafe because of its transparency and nutrition. She said she believes the new cafe will have an impact on the food culture of South University Avenue allowing a new kind of option. “My personal opinion of the food and their unique offering is that it’s going to fragment the South U food offering,” she said. “I think it’s going to incite change because they are so dedicated to healthy options, so dedicated to whole-foods-like quality. It has the main street high class feel but they are bringing it to South U.” Engineering senior Jake Fratkin, president of the Food Industry Student Association, said he thought this style of food will fit well into the culture of Ann Arbor. “It definitely is going along with the health food craze that is going on,” he said. “It is on the further end of that spectrum of being allin with sourcing and applying sustainable and nutritious food that also tastes good.” Lelcaj said along with food he also wants to emphasize positive interactions between his team of employees and the customers. “I’m not hiring workers,” Lelcaj said. “I’m building a team. I’m building a team of individuals who are really passionate and excited about this. It’s really important to me that people are familiar with everything we are working with and actually taking interest. A lot of things that are not everyday household items — the staff putting it into real terms is really important.” Wood noted that the environment of the store is something she appreciates. “From the moment you walk in where it is so light, airy, white and peaceful, to interacting with Fred and (other cafe staff), you feel good about every interaction. That is something that is so amazing about the experience of Fred’s,” she said.

really great is that it’s huge,” Lagoy said. “Sometimes that could be a bad thing because it’s hard to get everything right. We do it really well because there is a commitment to making sure that the ingredients and recipes are high quality.” Lagoy also cited the high quality of the ingredients as key to the restaurant’s success. She said Café Zola uses local, organic produce not only for their dishes but also their coffee, tea and wine. Lagoy said using good, fresh ingredients really makes a difference in the final prepared dish, citing eggs that come from a local Amish farm in Dexter. “The owners feel very strong about staying true to the quality of the ingredients,” Lagoy said. “We are providing the best for our customers. (The food) nourishes their bodies without feeling ‘ugh.’ Our egg dishes taste so good because it’s the egg itself that tastes good.” Lagoy also noted the design of the restaurant creates a “rustic” ambience that makes the customers feel like they are not just having a meal with their party, but with the rest of the restaurant, creating a community of diners. For that reason, Lagoy said though the restaurant is doing well, she does not want to expand the restaurant so much that it loses the rustic, cordial ambience. “We always want to build our customer base, but we don’t want it to become so big that we lose what we’re able to offer right now and become too mainstream,” Lagoy said. “It’s a destination place for the food and the ambience.” Medical and Rackham student Anjan Saha, who’s eaten at the cafe for brunch, said he appreciated the excellent food and service despite how busy the restaurant was. “Brunch time on Sunday is extremely busy as one would expect for a place that is held in high regard amongst many in AA,” said Saha. “(I) waited at most ten minutes for my food, which was excellent. Personnel were extremely nice, warm, and accommodating. Place is perfect for group outings, brunch dates, or enjoying a nice meal alone.” In spite of the positive things about his brunch experience, however, Saha did note that the price might be too high for students. “The only knock I have against (the restaurant) is the price, since students don’t necessarily earn the largest sum of money,” Saha said.

options for student loans offered by the federal government: income driven repayment, which allows graduates to cap their student loan payments at 10 percent of their income, and public service loan forgiveness, a program which allows graduates entering public service careers to qualify to have their debt forgiven. King asked journalists on the call to inform their fellow students of potential loan scams, in which companies attempt to charge for services the government provides at no cost. “The bad news is I’ve got a warning for you too,” King said. “There are people out there who are looking to take advantage of Americans’ anxiety about student loan debt and try to charge you for services that are completely free.” Addressing a question about ensuring college affordability for middle-income families, King said one of the most important aspects is encouraging states to provide adequate funding for institutions. In the state of Michigan, higher education took a hit in 2011 when Gov. Rick Snyder cut funding by 15 percent under his first budget. Since then, funding has slowly increased. Under Snyder’s most recent budget proposal, funding for higher education has aggregately returned to pre-2011

STUDY From Page 1A hypothesis was social media can be predictive, somewhat, of the damage done,” Van Hentenryck said. Launched in 2012, the team consisted of a variety of scientists, researchers and graduate students from five universities. Prior to coming to the University, Van Hentenryck led a research group at National Information Communications Technology Australia. It was there that he engaged long-time friend Manuel Cebrian as co-author for the research project. Currently based in Melbourne, Cebrian works as research team leader at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. Cebrian said using real-time data from social media to evaluate complex events that have far-reaching and long-term consequences is significant because these events are difficult to measure quickly. “We wonder if we could actually do something that would mix two very different time scales — one that is very slow and take a long time to assess, the other one would be social media, which will be very fast,” Cebrian explained. “Natural disasters produce massive damage; it’s estimated that damage takes months to assess. When you estimate damage in one community, usually what you do is send experts, experts conduct assessment with technology, verify that damage was caused by the disaster and it takes sometimes about a year to do this. So

we asked: can we infer some of this from the way people tweet during the disaster?” For the purpose of this study, “damage” was quantified by the amount of disaster relief funds issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The team analyzed 52 million geographically pinpointed tweets posted before, during and after the hurricane. In order to ensure that tweets were filtered for relevance, they searched for keywords such as “FEMA” and “hurricane.” “We very carefully gathered tweets about the hurricane in the east coast, and obtained data from both FEMA and private as well as state-level insurance claims,” Cebrian said. “We put everything together and then started to measure the specific correlations between them.” Given the large amount of data, Cebrian said the team was careful to ascertain that statistical results could be reproducible on the city, county and national levels. “The third phase of our project looked at the question: are the signals robust? We needed to make sure that what we found was meaningful and reliable. It took almost a year to write up the results and make sure that they are presented in an intelligible fashion,” Cebrian said. The research found that areas that tweeted more post-disaster filed the most insurance claims and received the most individual assistance from FEMA grants. Similar studies on 10 to 15 other disasters revealed the same correlation. “There is a positive correlation between the level of twitter activ-

VAGINA From Page 1A Irene Syriac, told the story of coming to terms with asexuality by comparing her vagina to the popcorn button on a microwave. “My vagina is my body’s equivalent to the microwave’s popcorn button,” Syriac said. “I never used it and I do not have plans to.” Syriac explained the stigma associated with asexuality and the lack of awareness surrounding the subject during the monologue, and related it to the personal experience of coming out. “Coming out to my parents wasn’t all that different from telling them that I had a mysterious disease,”Syriac said. “Telling them I was dysfunctional seemed easier than telling them I was asexual. My conservative upbringing had led me to think that it was something I should not have been experiencing yet.” Students for Choice President Connie Gao, an LSA senior, said she hopes that audience members will be inspired and continue the discussion afterward.

ity and the damage in a particular area,” Van Hentenryck said. “The interesting thing is that it’s not when the hurricane is passing through the region, it’s a couple of days after. At the peak of the event, almost every location will have a lot of tweets, even if they aren’t directly on the path of the hurricane.” The researchers said their findings are significant because the uncovered correlation between the volume of tweets and local damages is actually stronger than those employed by fragility simulations currently used in federal emergency response efforts. Nonetheless, Cebrian stressed the research findings should be used as a complement to, rather than replacement of existing forecasting and predictive models. “We wanted to be very cautious about this,” Cebrian said. “Correlation is positive, but moderate, can predict some of the damage that is going to happen, but not all of it. This could be due to the fact that maybe we don’t have enough data, or maybe Twitter doesn’t capture 100 percent of the damage.” Van Hentenryck said he hopes federal emergency services will leverage on the predictive potential of social media, now that this peer-reviewed study has been published. “I think emergency services would like to tap into that potential — they don’t really know how to do it, they don’t really know the reliability,” he said. “For me, this is exciting because it gives them positive indication that social media is another tool that they can use.”

levels, though the budget has yet to be approved by the state legislature and is subject to change. Despite this increase, Young Invincibles — a youth advocacy organization, which publishes an annual report measuring state support for higher education — gave Michigan an F ranking in their 2016 report. Additionally, Michigan also ranked among the highest in family share of the cost burden, with families paying 70 percent of total college cost at public institutions. King said decreased investment from states has led to tuition increases, prompting the federal government to encourage renewed state funding for higher education. “We’ve been urging states to pay careful attention to their level of investment in public higher education,” he said. “One of the things that has driven higher costs for students and families has been disinvestment by states over the past decade, so we are pushing for states to make a better investment.” In the 2016 presidential election, Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D–Vt.) have touted two different higher education reform initiatives. Clinton has supported debt-free college, which would allow increased investments in higher education to help students graduate without needing to take out loans. Sanders has proposed tuition free college, which would cause all public institutions to be

“I hope people think about the Vagina Monologues after they leave.” Gao said. “I hope that they put in that conscious thought.” All of the proceeds from ticket sales were donated to Operation SafeHouse, an organization which provides emergency shelter, intervention and outreach services to youth in crisis. Students for Choice treasurer Kelsey Almony, an LSA junior, said she wanted to be a part of Vagina Monologues initial because of its connections to SafeHouse. “I got involved because of the donations to SafeHouse,” Almony said. “I have some personal connections there. It is something really close to my heart, which is why I am passionate about the event.” LSA junior Sydney McConnell, a member of Students for Choice, said the purpose of the event was to add the perspective of women to the conversation. “Women are sexual,” McConnell said. “They have sexual organs and should be

Monday, March 21, 2016 — 3A entirely without cost for all individuals regardless of financial background. Republicans have not released formal plans for higher education reform. King denied to comment on the Obama administration’s opinion of either of the two plans, but did note President Barack Obama’s efforts toward free twoyear community college. “The president has a proposal called America’s College Promise that would make tuition for community college for hardworking students free,” he said. “For many folks community college can be a path to a four year program or gaining skills for employment.” LSA junior Taiwo Dosunmu, communications director for College Democrats, said he feels the president has fought to increase college affordability, and the two Democratic candidates — Sanders and Clinton — both plan to continue his work and further their own plans. “The Obama Administration has made the affordability of higher education a priority since early on in the president’s first term,” he said. “Both Democratic candidates for president have announced excellent plans to continue Obama’s work and to help students deal with the challenges of rising tuition and the burden of student debt. The Democratic Party is the party that is fighting on behalf of students.” College Republicans could not be reached for comment on the issue.

LAB From Page 1A their lives only when we actually go beyond our intuition about kids and test ideas,” he said. Smith said the purpose of the symposium was to share the program’s findings with the greater community, specifically those who have participated in studies. “The thing I think is most important about this is trying to give back a little bit,” he said. “As development researchers, we rely heavily on the willingness of families to have their kids come and chat with us and take part in our activities. One of the of things that’s true about a lot of the academic world is that what we end up finding never makes it back to those people that helped us out.”

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MARIJUANA From Page 1A marijuana user who has requested to remain anonymous — said the lack of social stigma, and sense of relaxation are factors that contribute to marijuana’s popularity on campus. “People are likely to smoke because they genuinely like the feeling they get from doing so; also, from my experience there really isn’t a stigma that comes from doing it at all,” he said. “Basically everyone I knew growing up did it, so there was no sense of, ‘Oh, what I’m doing is wrong.’ But the main thing is people like how they feel when they’re on (marijuana).” The article also notes the high popularity of marijuana on the West Coast as well as the Northeast. By comparison, the plains states, as well as the Southeastern states displayed relatively low enthusiasm for marijuana use. LSA senior Erin Dunne, director of the University Students for Sensible Drug Policy, said the marijuana legalization policies in other states could be an influence on the growing enthusiasm for the drug statewide. “I think that enthusiasm is currently growing in part because the national discourse on marijuana is becoming more favorable,” Dunne said. “Voters are looking to states like Washington and Colorado and seeing that there is a reality of legal and taxable marijuana that is beneficial to the state and hoping to bring the revenue and industry to Michigan.” Dunne, who is an advocate for statewide removal of criminal penalties for cultivation, possession and distribution of marijuana except in the case of sale to unauthorized minors, also noted Ann Arbor’s relatively loose policies on the drug. “In the city of Ann Arbor, marijuana has been decriminalized, meaning that offenses result in a fine and a civil infraction rather than a criminal charge,” Dunne said. “This policy has probably benefited Michigan students in the sense that those who choose to use marijuana offcampus will not be sucked into the court system and have a criminal record when applying to jobs.”

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overnments can create free markets. This sounds counterintuitive, but there was a time when the Republican Party enacted legislation and produced regulation to protect free markets from themselves. When was this mythic time when parties weren’t ruled by dogma? The Progressive Era during the 1900s featured a coalescence of parties wherein President ROLAND Roosevelt crafted laws that prevented corporations DAVIDSON from acting in predatory ways. These then-new statutes enhanced and protected free markets rather than undermining them. Government intervention is not necessarily the opposite of free markets; rather, it can save free markets from their auto-cannibalistic tendencies. Contemporary political discourse has forgotten this lesson to ill effect; it would serve us well to dismantle this false binary between government intervention and free markets. *** A Davidson Parable: Last Thanksgiving, my brother and I gorged ourselves on guacamole out of a Jeb! bowl (which was in vogue at the time*). Our prodigious (or horrifying) guac consumption eventually attracted the attention of our cousin, Tim, who came over and told us that we needed a free market intervention so that he could enjoy some. But is that what really needed to happen? Or had my brother and I created a monopoly that shackled the rest of the world with its sheer force? If this was the case, then antitrust laws would be appropriate. To speak in platitudes, it’s a matter of perspective. My cousin saw the issue as one of sprawling, unchecked state control, while from our vantage point, the problem lay in our private consolidation of power. One more platitude: Any system can become oppressive when it expands beyond control. *** One common claim within socialist and anti-capitalist discourse is that capitalism only cares about profit. This is part of a larger attempt of these parties to claim a monopoly on morality. The connotation of the word “profit” is crucial here; it is a pecuniary, material word. When socialists discuss their belief system, they highlight abstract,

normative values such as equality rather than anchor it to material good. However, capitalism does have normative values — growth, for instance. Promoting growth and redistribution are equally moral goals. Capitalists would do well by themselves to remember that and use growth as a lens when making policy decisions or within more everyday political discussions. There is a second narrative that claims capitalism is antithetical to social welfare. Capitalism has a focus on growth rather than equality, which, at first glance, doesn’t seem to align with the collective good. However, the primary driver of this growth is competition between businesses. Can this competition create social good? The United States’ private sector has been a leader in medical advances for much of modern history. Unlike other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development nations that have socialized medicine, we have given individual businesses the higher position. These companies have competed for greater profit, which has continually advanced our medical knowledge and saved lives. This is not a blanket defense of our medical system. The incentive structure of medical research businesses has changed and now there is a much greater focus on paying out to shareholders than there is on groundbreaking research. The fact that the United States has more citizens uninsured than any other OECD country is unacceptable. Martin Shkreli’s — and by extension the pharmaceutical industry’s — ability to raise the price of a lifesaving HIV drug 5,000 percent overnight should not be tolerated. All things considered, the broader business model of acquiring copyrights and patents but not developing them in a meaningful way is one of our system’s most egregious failings. By not essentializing the government’s role in a capitalist country as either regulating and curtailing free markets or deregulating and encouraging free markets, we can have a more meaningful conversation about how to restore competition and equality of opportunity in America. *Disclaimer: My family is neither bougie enough nor ironic enough to own a $75 Jeb! guacamole Bowl.

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More than a broken arm representative, has progressed and become a passion, I am becoming more comfortable telling my story, asking others theirs, facilitating small group discussions, and talking about internal pain. But sadly, I am in the minority. Far too many students experience isolation as part of and as a result of their internal pain, having nobody who will run over to offer a helping hand. If we can create a campus community that fosters acceptance and understanding of all forms of illness and encourages students to discuss issues that cover all aspects of the mental health spectrum, then maybe — just maybe — one fewer college student will become a statistic. I believe that we need to have open discussion and dialogue about mental health through this aforementioned mutual understanding. Thanks to the Internet and social media outlets, our generation, unlike any other before us, has access to the world. We have the platform and an audience at our fingertips to speak with about issues that formerly were not openly talked about. Because of this advantage, we should make it our mission to take the endless resources available to us and work to shatter this stigma. It is our duty to be the change, to take a stand and to continue to write the stories of those who are affected by mental health disorders, because failure to do so could be putting people’s lives on the line. Let’s start treating mental health like we treat a bright orange cast on the arm of a 12-year-old. If not now, when? If not us, who? —Sierra Stone is a Wolverine Support Network director and Central Student Government representative.

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ometimes, in nameless dark spaces, I like to think about life after death. I do this because it strips events and goals of their messy impermanence and helps to place them in a broader perspective which, by and large, is a worthwhile BHARAT exercise. Of course, forNAIR mally speaking, there isn’t much for the dead after death. But every single time I conduct this arguably morbid exercise, I get this strong sentiment — a hazy, extrinsic desire that, once my days were written and closed, I be remembered. This seems odd. I had long felt I understood the futility of finding self-worth or value in external elements — the pointlessness of material goods, status, excess riches. Logically, my mind understood that there is nothing postdeath. All that matters is what’s happening now, as it always has and always will, and I knew this. We aren’t the ones who preserve our post-mortem legacy. So why bother worrying about it? But I just couldn’t shake this desire, I could not shake this near-primal want to be remembered. How could I achieve this less-often valued sort of legacy? How could I be remembered? My father loved telling me about my grandfather. My appupa — ­ grandfather in my Malayalam tongue ­— was still a small boy when his father passed, but old enough to remember it. His character exuded diligence in both thought and action, and he eventually served as a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Army, where he ended up working for decades. He worked tirelessly to give those close to him a good life, both inside

and outside the home. He worked with the will of a man wanting to give his sons a life better than he ever had. I know this because of the countless stories my father proudly told me. I remember my appupa as a tall man with grayed hair, who always stood as if he was aware yet humble of his own deeds. It may have been many years since he passed, but I still remember him. While I might have only heard about my appupa’s life, I witnessed much of my father’s. I saw him wake up early every day; I saw him work and pray and cry and shout and smile. I was there for all his anger and honesty, all his pain

“How could I achieve this lessoften valued sort of legacy? How could I be remembered?”

and his love. I was there for all the stories, adventures, sacrifices and everyday happenings. My father made many sacrifices, most of which I will never hear about or understand because of the age gap between us. When I was a child, most of what my father did went unappreciated, but not unnoticed. I would come to realize that he, like his father before him, worked tirelessly for something larger than himself. I didn’t only hear tales through the ages; I was there. I saw my father living his life, trying to be a good man. Legacy, as it turns out, is not ordained by fame or fortune. It is purely about remembrance — at any scale. I know that in a few generations, my name will most likely

be forgotten. There’s nothing to be done but to accept that fact. I can, however, take heed of my forefathers. They were men like any other: anxious, burdened, sad, afraid. But what matters is that they worked past that, they went beyond their own mortal aches and did whatever they could to ensure something better for those around them. They will not be forgotten for that. We will be remembered within our families and through our children. We will be remembered through the tales we tell one another before bedtime. We will be remembered through tender, comforting memories, in times both dim and merry. True, this isn’t a grandiose legacy. There won’t be parades or speeches or poems in our honor. But even if it is just for a little while, we will live on. Sometimes I dream of the day I would get to hold my baby son tightly to my chest. I would pray that I never have to let him go. I’d well up and smile and look at a face too pure to live in this horrible, cruel world. I’d hold a hand so tiny that it could barely wrap around my finger, a hand I’d hold and keep safe for as long as I possibly could. And as I sit there with him, it would dawn on me that my life was no longer solely mine. The reins have been handed over to this little child whom I would gladly protect and provide for. Truth be told, I cannot wait to be with my child, standing with him through all the good times and bad, making sure he is doing fine and telling him that everything will eventually be all right. I cannot wait to tell my son about my appupa, the resolute army man who always stood tall. Most of all, I cannot wait to tell him about my father, and how he was not only a good man, but a great one. —Bharat Nair can be reached at bnair@umich.edu.

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was 12 years old the first time I broke my arm. The next school day, I walked into class and all of my friends ran over to sign my bright orange cast, ask how I was doing and reassure me that they were there should I need anything. I was 13 years old when I was officially diagnosed with an extreme case of anxiety disorder. Nobody ran over to ask how was I doing or to reassure me they were there should I need anything. It was not something people openly talked about. I was 18 years old and in the middle of my freshman year of college the second time I broke my arm. I walked into my sociology discussion the next day and several students ran over to ask how I was doing and reassure me they were there should I need anything. Around that same time, my anxiety was growing day by day and I couldn’t have been more unhappy. I felt isolated, alone and sad. Nobody was asking me how I was doing or reassuring me they were there should I need anything. It was not something people openly talked about. I was comfortable talking about any visible pain I was feeling on the outside. I was not comfortable talking about the invisible pain I was feeling on the inside. I felt ashamed, embarrassed and disgraced. This stigma, the stigma toward mental health, plays a negative role in my life and in the lives of far too many college students and others — even from a young age. Only recently has the discussion of mental health and wellness become something we talk about openly. As I have continued through college and my work with mental health advocacy, as an incoming Wolverine Support Network director and Central Student Government

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his past week, I was reminded of a powerful concept. It is rooted in this quote from the film “V for Vendetta”: “We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed SAM and forgotten, COREY but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I’ve witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. I’ve seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them.” In other words, the powerful concept is the gravity of an idea. Ideas have the capacity to create and destroy, to bridge reality with the imaginary, and will outlive any one individual. In political terms, our state can simply be viewed as just that: an idea. And, since it is an idea, the state can morph into whatever form we construct. In the United States, the idea of our state largely rests on a Dream. You’ve heard it before. It goes something like this: Get educated, work hard, buy a home and a car and live in harmony. I recently met two people who had fully adopted this mentality. The first was a Mexican-born American. He drove a city bus in San Diego at night and worked a second job during the day. When we spoke, he derided many people who took his bus. In his mind, they did not seem to work hard or work at all. They were given much and took it all for granted. They “stunk of weed” and mostly remained vessels of untapped potential. The second man had worked as an IT manager. He complained about paying for Obamacare,

which he saw as something that made him sacrifice his health care for others’ (even after explaining that he didn’t actually pay more because his wife benefited from the new health care plan). Still, he did not want to pay for something that he thought in no way benefited him. He did not want to pay for other people’s health. Neither of these individuals believed that they owed anything to the state because the state had given them nothing. The state stayed out of their way and, in return, they were able to succeed as they saw fit. Within this ideological framework, it would be an injustice for them to pay for others — paying for something that didn’t directly benefit them was unfair. This is the American Dream. Take nothing. Earn everything. Do it yourself. Our Dream never quite made sense to me. In truth, it has appeared to be more like a myth. Oftentimes, the term myth is preferred to describe the United States’ belief system since it masks or excuses what would otherwise be considered corruption, abuse or institutional injustice. From what I’ve learned, I know a state to be “an imagined community” of people with a specific boundary and a united goal. I’d like to emphasize one word in particular in this working definition: united. This word implies we all are invested in one another’s future. On a large scale, it means the actions of one person are not trivial or inconsequential to the actions you make. We are all connected. Though the idea of statehood is tied to a definition, it is still an idea. In this vein, we can ascertain that a state can morph into anything (or need not even exist), as the physical laws of the universe do not bind it. That is, there’s nothing that necessitates a United States, Pacific Ocean or

South America. In fact, there has been a choice (often by force and most frequently by white males) to divide the land and sea. Within these divided boundaries, there have been more choices to allocate resources and opportunities within these boundaries to differing groups of individuals. There is nothing biologically — inherently, based on nature — different about these groups of people. But even now, specific groups have become stratified, so much so that some groups of individuals are exceedingly better off, on average, in each country around the world. The American Dream has masked this story in the United States. Optimistically, however, our state could change tomorrow — if enough citizens so desired. With an altered mindset, the amount of stratification, inequality or otherwise difference between these socially constructed groups could be closer to zero. Economically, politically and socially speaking, every individual could live more equal lives depending on how our constructed state allocates its resources. But this can only be true if we are to live in a place where citizens believe themselves to be part of a united, integrated cause. Unfortunately, I did not discuss the American Myth with the two men I had recently met. Personally, I did not have the energy to expend, explaining how we are united by systems that should progress every ones way of life. I could have accomplished something, though, if I’d only asked two questions: What is your idea of a state? And, how (and to whom) should it distribute its resources? ­—Sam Corey can be reached at samcorey@umich.edu.

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There’s a moment in the season four premiere of “The Americans” which subtly shows exactly what the show is about. The A camera shows a classroom The saying the Americans Pledge of Allegiance. It Season Four moves back Premiere into the hall, Wednesdays where it finds at 10 p.m. Paige Jennings (new- FX comer Holly Taylor). She’s waiting for the pledge to finish with a sad look on her face, torn between the identity of her Russian parents and the country she grew up in. Scenes like this are what make “The Americans” one of the best damn dramas on TV right now. For three seasons now, the show has built its story out of bits like this one. It took its time to lay the groundwork and to build up its characters. Now, as it moves into the series’ fourth season, it’s taking everything it built and running with it. The premiere raises the stakes for the characters and lands some gut punches, all while operating with brilliant and careful visuals.

The show took its time to lay the groundwork. Season four of “The Americans” picks up where season three left off, showing the ramifications of Paige telling her pastor about her parents being Russian spies, as well as her mom, Elizabeth (Keri Russell, “Felicity”), taking her to East Germany to see her grandmother against orders from the Centre. As a consequence for their actions, their handler (played with gravitas by Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon”) forces them onto their most dangerous mission yet: handling a chemical which the Soviets are intending to weaponize. At the heart of the premiere, though, is Philip (Matthew Rhys, “Brothers & Sisters”). In the premiere, he flashes back to a moment in his childhood where he beat a bully to death with his bare hands, and later struggles with it during the Erhard Seminars Training session he attends. Rhys deserves so much of the credit for making this work. He continues to find ways to

layer Philip’s pain as he tries to cover it up in front of his family. When Philip does open up at the seminar, Rhys brings so many emotions to the table that it’s impossible not to feel for him. Martha (Alison Wright, “Blue Bloods”) has her struggles while dealing with her husband (Philip under another name) killing one of her co-workers in the FBI. Martha has been one of the most tragic figures of the series, having been manipulated and lied to by Philip without any knowledge of what’s happening. Last season, the consequences of her husband’s actions started to catch up to her, and that continued in the premiere. Wright has made her mark as an actress building out this character, and showing her struggles with her husband’s identity. Everything in the show is deliberately shot by the brilliant television director Thomas Schlamme (“The West Wing”). At this point, the series’ visual aesthetic is so ingrained in its DNA, and the premiere con-

tinues this trend. Whether it’s tiny scenes like Paige in the hall or Philip looking up at a possibly broken vial of a poisonous chemical, everything Schlamme does adds so much to a scene that blunt dialogue isn’t necessary.

The premiere lands brilliant, careful gut punches. Few other shows could make a moment like Paige standing outside the classroom land this well. There’s no dialogue, but it still says everything about her character’s arc and how she’s feeling. The drama has put together so many tiny pieces that now it can just play with them, making for some of the best television you’re not watching.

Sarah Silverman went on “Conan” as Hitler last Thursday, and it was only kind of funny. Daily Arts Writer Shir Avinadav, in her well-argued piece “When funny fails: Sarah Silverman as Hitler,” made the point that what Silverman did, dressing up as Hitler and bemoaning the Donald Trump comparisons between the two, was out of the bounds of acceptable comedy. While I agree that the skit was misguided at times (the exchange at the beginning when Conan tells “Hitler,” “You’re the worst,” and Silverman replies “I know, I know” felt forced and, yes, trivializing) I have to disagree that the skit in its entirety was out of bounds. It was certainly jarring to see the man responsible for mass genocide appear on late-night television — particularly because he was greeted with resounding applause. Silverman often tends to concern herself with breaking the boundary of what we can and “cannot” talk about, and the Conan skit is a clear example of her edgy jokes. For the countless families who suffered from the Holocaust (at this point it seems necessary to mention my own, which in some twisted way adds credibility to these sort of dissenting articles), there will never be a point when the Holocaust is “OK.” And there never should be. That doesn’t mean, though, that we shouldn’t address it, or even humor it. It’s paramount that we refuse to allow Hitler’s memory to remain in the past, lest we risk such a tragedy again. As Avinadav’s article aptly points out, “A joke is a very serious thing.” Even with the guise of casualness that she brings to all her jokes, there is an acute awareness of this in Sarah Silverman’s satire. When she, acting as Hitler, compliments Trump by saying “this guy gets it,” she makes light of the comparisons, sure. But she also, on a deeper level, encourages us, whether we like it or not, to at

least take a look at the similarities between the two. Some have been offended by the very comparison itself, arguing that it is demeaning to Hitler’s victims. I’m not so sure. It’s no doubt hyperbolic rhetoric, and I don’t think that Donald Trump is anywhere near the level of Hitler, who was far more intelligent and crazed. But the tide of support that he has received for suggesting a ban against Muslims and demonizing Mexican-Americans is nevertheless frightening. I can’t begin to imagine what it feels like for those groups to see this rhetoric unfold in the 21st century, especially in a country like the United States, which spouts freedom and liberty as its very foundation. Raising the red flag and pointing out the history strikes me as preventative, not offensive. When we say that using Hitler in comedic situations is off-limits, since he must be a special case, we run into the dangerous territory of trying to parse through who and what are special cases, what makes them so and when, if ever, they stop being so special. Take Bill Cosby, for example, who was joked about frequently in the last two years following the reveal of the breadth of his sexual assault claims. Some were aghast that comics would even approach such a subject — rape can’t be funny, can it? Well, it depends. Just as it does when approaching the Holocaust, 9/11 and everything else. Treated with the right amount of irreverence, the right lens and offered with the right irony and self-awareness, these dark and somber subjects can be enlightening and even amusing. Hannibal Buress did a great job showcasing this in his fierce monologue about Bill Cosby. “Bill Cosby has the fucking smuggest old Black man public persona that I hate,” Buress said. “He gets on TV, ‘Pull your pants up, Black people, I was on TV in the ’80s. I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom.’ Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a

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couple notches.” Not only did it elicit a powerful response — and laugh — from his audience, but also a powerful response from the media, and soon Bill Cosby’s horrifying actions were again brought to the attention of the public, this time for good. Such is an example of when irreverent comedy and shocking elements work together successfully and actually evoke change. Are we to berate Hannibal Buress for this? This isn’t to say that Bill Cosby and Hitler are similar at all, but rather to point out that too often when we attempt to make these determinations we end up with our backs against the wall, trying to figure out which groups suffered more than others, who is evil enough to chide, when it’s “too soon,” etc. These are questions that, like the term “acceptable,” have little place in comedy. Rather, we should be determining what is funny and what isn’t, not what’s OK and what isn’t. Still, humor is subjective, and while there’s not, in my opinion, so much a limit on what is “acceptable,” there’s at least a minimal level of nuance that good comics need to approach controversial topics in a way that will get the laughs they crave. Take Larry the Cable Guy as an example of when poor taste ruins humor. His jokes are crass and often incorporate some level of subtle sexism or racism (“I dated this retarded woman once, but we broke up. We couldn’t agree on anything. I’d say ‘tomato,’ she’d say ‘bowling shoes!’”). They aren’t funny to the majority of the public today because they feel antiquated, rooted in a society that we no longer ascribe ourselves to. Now that the public is more cognizant of those issues, it isn’t funny to hear an old white dude pretend they don’t exist. And you could argue that Sarah Silverman’s impression of Hitler simply wasn’t funny. That’s totally subjective and OK. For some, like the author of “When funny fails,” Hitler will never be funny. But he’s still fair game.

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TV COLUMN

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omewhere in a closet in suburban Chicago, there’s a hole-punched dossier containing 13 years of my private history. Growing up, at the beginning of every school year I had the privilege of filling out the “about me” book my mom so presciently CHLOE put together for my future GILKE perusal. The book documented what sports I pretended to like that year, what milestones I reached — what kind of little person I was becoming. If you were to flip through the book, you’d see 13 sets of the same questions scribbled on the record: Who are your best friends? What music do you like? Who do you want to be when you grow up? The last one, especially, had some embarrassing answers. In fourth grade, I thought “ice cream taste tester” would be a hilarious thing to put down. At age nine I wanted to be a “popstar,” a job that I think I’d excel at to this day. In kindergarten, I wrote that I wanted to be the first female President. I knew who Hillary Clinton was at that point, because it was 1999 and she was all over the news. She was the news. Five-year-old Chloe knew that Hillary was the President’s wife, which was really cool, because she got to live in the White House and visit schools and wear pretty dresses. Hillary was also beginning a political career of her own, which I was vaguely aware of and found even more impressive than the dollhouse life she was leading in the wake of her husband’s fame. Hillary was the coolest person I’d heard of aside from my mom and Britney Spears, and I wanted to be just like her. Somewhere, unwritten in the pages of my “about me” book, Hillary became uncool. As an ambitious woman, I’d always admired her career and sympathized with her stances, but as we both got older I gravitated toward supporting other political figures. In 2008 and 2012 I appreciated the inspiration Barack Obama brought to every TV debate, my state senator galvanizing the masses with unabashed calls for reform. A year or so ago I decided Bernie Sanders’s focus on environmental issues was imperative enough to get me to ignore other voices. Clinton spoke with solidity and experience, but I was secretly all about the flash and coolness factor Bernie always brought. What can I say? I was a weirdo millennial

girl, and I liked my presidents how I like my popstars: punching with panache, the coolest people I’ve heard of aside from my mom and Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Today, I pride myself on pragmatism and informed decisions. I may have flip-flopped on my preferences since last year, but my own political beliefs aren’t the point. I am a TV columnist, and I’m not here to convince you to support one Democratic candidate over another. This column is usually a space for me to show my readers what’s cool on TV and point them toward interesting discussions. Do you know who was really cool on TV last week, to my surprise and delight? Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s public persona is built on steadiness and solidity. She is a Serious Candidate, the one many Republican voters are afraid of, all power suits and codified plans. But she’s also a little too solid and steady, according to her detractors, some of whom hold a candidate’s coolness in highest esteem. Can you picture Clinton smoking a joint, letting her hair get frizzy in the summer heat or letting out a cathartic yas kween? Is she passionate, does she yell at the podium and throw her hands around like she owns the air in the debate room? No. She stands tall, speaks her mind, delivers her message without adornment or coolness. When she does attempt youthful flair, as she did with her timely “may the force be with you” closing statement in the Dec. 19 debate, she is mocked for trying too hard to be down with the young people. Trying too hard isn’t cool. When I first heard that Hillary Clinton would be guest starring on “Broad City,” I figured this move might be a genius fix to her perceived dearth of coolness. In 2014, “Broad City” debuted on Comedy Central to the highest ratings the network had ever seen with viewers aged 18-34. The show is still among the most relevant and beloved series on the air among people my age; nearly all my friends are fans of the show. Prior to the Clinton episode of “Broad City” airing, star and co-creator Abbi Jacobson said at SXSW that the politician’s appearance was “not trying to make a statement.” “Broad City” is a TV sitcom, and it’s not here to convince you to support one Democratic candidate over another. But even if the statement the show is making isn’t overtly political, there’s still a statement to be made. Hillary Clinton is cool. Clinton’s name doesn’t make an appearance in that “Broad City” episode until the last

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eight minutes of the episode, but as soon as her name is uttered, the episode shoots off into total nutso territory. When Ilana finds out she’s not just delivering a package to an office building, but Hillary Clinton’s campaign offices and that she could work here, Ilana loses her shit. The conveniently placed eagle poster behind her soars, a heavenly chorus sings and Ilana salutes the desk receptionist as her hair blows back. Hillary Clinton is momentous, the very picture of American patriotism. She wins the admiration of Ilana, another ambitious child of the ’90s who grew up hearing Hillary’s name and thinking of female American badassery and honor. The camera cuts away from the close-up, the music cuts out and it turns out some interns are just moving the poster past Ilana’s head — but the statement has already been made. Ilana freaks out to the secretary with her signature weird diction: “Ilana Wexler and Hillary Clinton? Two powerful whemen wherking as whon?!” Even if this whole episode has a surreal, dreamlike feel and there’s no possibility of Ilana and Hillary ruling the world together, the show draws a parallel between our favorite weed kween and the dignified woman campaigning to lead our country. Two powerful, cool women working as one. In a later scene, Ilana and her new campaign co-workers list off all the demographics Clinton appeals to and her policies would benefit: a vote for Hillary is “a vote for the working class,” and she is the candidate who best represents people of color and LGBTQ voters. So obvious in its political stance, there’s no way this scene isn’t meant to be another moment of serendipitous surrealism. After all, this is the same episode where Abbi farts during a chiropractor visit and he kisses her on the forehead like a kind grandpa. Hillary is cool with being the butt of a joke or two, especially in her brief cameo scene at the end of the episode. When Clinton finally appears, she walks out in slow motion, staring at the camera like a boss lady who doesn’t give a fuck about a male gaze. Abbi and Ilana shake their heads with mouths agape. Stop what you’re doing, it’s Hillary Clinton! Clinton winks, and there’s a ripple across the screen and some sparks go off behind her ear. Ilana can’t do anything aside from yell “YASSS.” Of course, Clinton’s main TV experience is standing on a stage with cameras trained on her, keeping a rehearsed smile and planning everything she is going to say — it’s not surprising that her comedic performance is a little awkward. But “Broad City” downplays that by grounding her appearance in the kind of weirdness that viewers have come to expect from “Broad City,” the cool surrealism that draws young viewers like myself and my friends to this show like moths to a flame. Hillary Clinton is no stranger to using celebrity to spotlight her campaign. There are countless photos, most of them heavily documented on my Twitter account, featuring Clinton standing with TV actresses like Anna Gunn and Padma Lakshmi and popstars like Britney Spears. But perhaps the coolest move of all is guest starring on a show that would put her face on every young person’s laptop screen and remind them that she’s not just a powerful whoman and a role model — Clinton can have fun and be weird. Gilke is currently employed as an ice cream taste tester. To apply for an internship with her, e-mail chloeliz@umich.edu.

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LÉON is the electrosoul singer you need By CATHERINE BAKER Daily Arts Writer

As Spring Break depressingly came to a close, I realized that my cheerful and upbeat playlists just weren’t doing it for me anymore. With the return to school and the unhealthy number of essays I had looming over my head, I went on the hunt for a more appropriate sound. This long and winding road led me straight to LÉON. Self-proclaimed as “indie-pop/ soul/whatever,” LÉON was born and raised in Stockholm. Born into an extremely musical family, her mother is a symphony cellist and her father is a conductor/composer. While music has always been a large part of LÉON’s life, her debut EP, Treasure, wasn’t released until recently, on Dec. 3, 2015. The most popular song, “Tired of Talking,” received widespread success and currently sits with just under 16 million streams on Spotify. The opening track, aptly named “Treasure,” starts us off with a dense drumbeat and sensual, heavy breathing before introducing LÉON’s vocals. It combines electronica elements like sound-

boards and artificial background vocals with LÉON’s original, unedited voice. With unusual sounds of chains and clicks, she speaks of lost love and defeat, singing, “All of the times that you fucked my head / Go and do it with another instead.” It’s a strong start to the EP and begins a story that LÉON continues throughout the piece. “Tired of Talking” begins slowly, showcasing LÉON’s vocals with background snaps and electric guitar riffs. One of my favorite musical elements of the EP comes right after the chorus, when the sweet whistling moves to the forefront. It’s simple and used sparingly, but adds just the right amount of sentiment to an otherwise quick-witted song. LÉON sings, “I’ve been nothing but good to you / Your howling into the night won’t do,” focusing on moving on from a past love and rebuilding again. Bringing in a more electronic vibe, “Nobody Cares” deals with mistakes and running away. In the most cynical song on the EP, LÉON brings her narrative of being wronged full circle when she sings, “Nobody cares about us / Guess you can know that I still

do.” With more echoes and fewer traditional instruments, the bridge sounds subdued and muted, like the listener is getting into LÉON’s mind. “LÉON’s Lullaby,” my personal favorite track, slows things down and shows off LÉON’s vocal range. It’s simple and mature, with just her electric guitar and soothing vocals. She sings, “My friend / Take me to a place I know that I have never been before / My love / You take me to the place I’ve only heard of.” The song is a longing, powerful and deeply personal account of asking someone to stay. While the chorus is bluesy and soulful, laced with desperation, the bridge plays with distorted and darker instruments to create an ethereal piano and circus-like sound. It’s a poignant and elusive way to end the EP, leaving the listener with the feeling that something is not quite right and not quite finished. LÉON may be most well-known for “Tired of Talking,” but Treasure has some hidden gems just waiting to be discovered. With a consistent storyline and experimental techniques, LÉON’s EP is just the beginning of her journey.

FILM REVIEW

Righteous anger, loss fills ‘No Más Bebés’ By HAILEY MIDDLEBROOK Daily Arts Writer

Imagine you’re in a hospital, about to deliver a baby. You’re in labor — the pain is excruciating. You’ve been told that you A need a cesarean section, so No Más you’re pushed into the sterile Bebés hallway on a Directed by Renee gurney, a team Tajima-Peña of masked medical residents Ann Arbor rushing around Film Festival you. One of them holds a piece of paper in one hand, a syringe in the other. He offers you the shot: it’ll take away the pain. Before he injects the numbing medicine, however, he pushes his paper under your shaking hand, demanding that you sign the consent form first. You can’t read the paper; it’s written in a foreign language and your eyes are blurred from labor anyway. You sign on the line; the pain lessens. Then you’re wheeled into the room where you’ll unknowingly deliver your final child. Such was the harrowing experience of hundreds of poor, predominantly Mexican-American mothers at the Los Angeles County Hospital in the 1970s. “No Más Bebés” (or “No More Babies”), a documentary released last June and shown at the 2016 Ann Arbor Film Festival this month, tells the story of 10 women whose fallopian tubes were cut without their consent after giving birth in L.A. The film follows the 1975 lawsuit, Madrigal v. Quilligan, in which the women sued L.A. doctors for forced sterilization — a landmark case in reproductive rights for all

women, regardless of race or ethnicity. “No Más Bebés” begins where, for too many women, their story ended: in the maternity ward of the now-abandoned L.A. hospital. Maria Hurtado, one of the original plaintiffs, surveys the room quietly and says, “I’m not one to show a lot of sweetness or tenderness. Or pain … but inside I feel pain, remembering.” Remembering what happened in the ’70s — and accepting it — was one of the most difficult challenges for the women in “No Más Bebés.” When Oscar-nominated director Renee Tajima-Peña (“Who Killed Vincent Chin?”) started what would become a six-year project, she had only a handful of aged court documents to locate the women — and even if she found them, many didn’t want to revisit such painful memories in an interview. Some women, including Hurtado and four fellow plaintiffs in the case, did tell what happened in the hospital, the courtroom and amid the aftermath of the court ruling. Each shared a similar story: they were poor, young (in their early 20s and 30s), married Latinas who had dreams of raising large families. In their culture, they explained, a woman’s role was to be a mother; if she couldn’t reproduce and raise children, she was “no longer a woman.” As one woman heartbreakingly said after her sterilization, “Now, my song is finished.” Sadly, many women didn’t know they’d been sterilized until Antonia Hernandez, their lawyer, showed them confidential hospital records of the sterilizations, which she gathered from a brave medical resident who had carefully documented the acts.

Realizing their condition, many of the women bore the knowledge of their sterility alone, fearing their husbands would leave them or they’d be shamed by their communities. A question undercuts the film: why did it happen? Racism, elitism and sexism all played a role in the horrific acts. In the ’70s, fear of overpopulation was rampant in the U.S. — Paul Ehrlich’s “The Population Bomb,” which forecasted the end of humanity due to overcrowding, was a 1968 bestseller — and the government began funding hospitals to control population growth. America’s prime targets for population control? Poor, non-native or illiterate mothers. Women who couldn’t read or understand what they were agreeing to: one woman, hearing the word “sterilize,” thought the doctors were simply cleaning her reproductive system. Women who had babies already, who were told, “Don’t cry, it’s best for you not to have any more children.” Tajima-Peña told the Los Angeles Times that she only makes films when something makes her mad. “I thought that these mothers had a right to be heard,” she said in her interview. “No Más Bebés” represents the mothers beautifully, giving their voices center stage; there’s no narrating voiceover. Rather than clever recreations, the story is shot in present time, in the mothers’ kitchens and living rooms. Each scene echoes with something lost — an empty space where a child should be, a sad smile — but it reverberates with something else: the sheer strength of the women who won’t be silenced, not in the 1970s and not today.

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Notre Dame 70, Michigan 63

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‘M’ loses on late collapse vs. Irish By LEV FACHER Daily Sports Writer

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Michigan rocketed toward its own ceiling Friday with the force of a team finally aware it could be special, only to hit its peak at halftime and crash forcefully back earthward. The end result was a seasonending thud: a 70-63 loss to Notre Dame in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Just as painful as being sent home by a loss was the stark difference between the first and second half, which might as well have featured two different sets of Wolverines. “We were playing great defense, we were able to get stops and we ended with a basket,” junior guard Zak Irvin said of the opening frame. “We were happy with

how we were playing. We knew we didn’t want to have another sluggish start like we did against Tulsa. We were trying to avoid that.” Michigan scored the game’s first five points and built a 13-point advantage, riding an intensity it seemed to have saved for the bright lights of the Barclays Center. The biggest generators? Junior guard Derrick Walton Jr., whose four first-half steals left the Fighting Irish spinning, and freshman forward Moritz Wagner, who could do no wrong with the ball in his hands. Twice, Wagner checked into the game, each time scoring within seconds. He capped the half with a steal and a finish on the other end that rolled around the cylinder twice before finally deciding to

drop through. Wagner spun and led the Wolverines’ charge into the locker room, where, leading 41-29, they might have been tempted to contemplate the prospect of an improbable Sunday matchup with 14-seed Stephen F. Austin for a berth in the Sweet 16. The Wolverines couldn’t handle the pressure — mental or defensive — and everything they did right in the first half went disastrously wrong in the second. “I think we’ve got to feel like

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some of our Big Ten partners today,” Beilein said. “You have everything, but you know, one game, if you have a bad game or you have a bad half, it’s over. It should sit in there, and it should upset you, and it should really motivate you as well.” The bad that ended everything came from all angles. Sophomore guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman went 1-for-6 from the field in the second half after a 12-point outburst in the first frame, and

“It should sit in there, and it should upset you, and it should motivate you.”

Walton went scoreless. Junior forward Zak Irvin couldn’t help, either, finishing 4-for-16 from the field and a disastrous 1-for-9 from 3-point range. Most significantly, a controversial late-game charge call on what could have been an and-1 shifted the momentum forever in Notre Dame’s favor, as it marked Wagner’s fourth personal foul and forced him to ride the bench for 17 of the final 20 minutes. “It’s really not my call,” Wagner said of the whistle, which many thought should have been called a block. “I don’t need to judge that. I didn’t see it. I just thought to go up there. The shot clock was (winding down).” In the locker room postgame, See NOTRE DAME, Page 2B

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ROOKLYN, N.Y. — Before taking the court on Friday night, the Michigan men’s basketball team huddled inside a tunnel, tucked away from the fans at the Barclays Center. They SIMON jumped around. Loose. KAUFMAN Yelling in response as Zak Irvin shouted in the middle. “It’s that time again,” Irvin barked. “Ahhh,” they hollered back.

Irvin and the team went back and forth, him shouting, them answering. I said it’s that time again. Ahhh. We on a big stage. Ahhh. Under the bright lights. Ahhh. Guess what we about to do? Ahhh. We about to put on a show. And then, they ran from the tunnel, took the court, and for 20 minutes, they did just that. They put on a show. And it was a big stage. In the matter of a week, the Wolverines willed themselves into the NCAA Tournament’s

First Four in Dayton, Ohio and then gutted their way into a trip to Brooklyn and a meeting with No. 6 seed Notre Dame. And you want bright lights? Try a 10:12 p.m. tip off on CBS with 17,502 packed in the crowd. And for a half, none of it fazed them. They shot the ball like a John Beilein-coached team is supposed to. Michigan went 16-for-31 from the field and knocked down seven 3’s in the half. They shared the ball like a cold in a kindergarten classroom. Their 12 first-half assists are the most they’ve had in a first frame since their last non-conference game against

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Bryant on Dec. 23. And they defended the ball with an aggressiveness that’s been missing. The Wolverines produced 10 turnovers and seven steals to help secure a 12-point halftime lead. But then the stage got bigger and the lights got brighter, and in the second half, Michigan didn’t put on a show. It was shown up. Notre Dame came out of the gate with an 8-2 run and then, just like that, less than eight minutes into the second half, the Wolverines’ lead was gone. The Fighting Irish used sharp shooting and stingy defense to See KAUFMAN, Page 2B

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When looking at the season in retrospect, it’s easy to see how the year was made for the Michigan basketball team’s growth. After battling departures from senior captains Caris LeVert and Spike Albrecht, it was difficult to expect the same preseason top-25 expectations as the Wolverines learned to play without their two leaders. But though LeVert was lost to injury, sophomore guard Muhammad-Ali AbdurRahkman proved to be a steady replacement, clocking in 15 points per game this postseason. Freshman forward Moritz Wagner figured out how to help his team again, emerging in the Big Ten Tournament as the spark the Wolverines needed. Junior forward Zak Irvin hit two game-winning shots, one to put Michigan past Northwestern in the Big Ten Tournament and another to get past Tulsa during the First Four. Friday night’s first round loss to Notre Dame hurt, but for Michigan, the hurt will continue in the offseason and remind the Wolverines what the Big Dance means. All of the active members of the roster will be returning next season — barring a player’s departure — and being through the tournament once before will pay dividends. “One hundred percent, regardless of on the bench or the court, I’ve learned so much this year,” Wagner said. “Just the coaches, the players — a lot of the players — just to compete in practice is just an unbelievable push, unbelievable opportunity to improve every day.” Added junior forward Mark Donnal: “We’re really close to being a special team. Unfortunately, we came short of our expectations this year, but I think this serves as motivation for

KAUFMAN From Page 1B storm back and tie the game. The two teams traded blows down the stretch with the lead changing five times. And when the lights were brightest, with less than four minutes and the game knotted, Notre Dame forward V.J. Beachem hit a 3-pointer. Irvin missed his try from deep on the other end. The Irish closed out in the home stretch. Michigan went home. As Notre Dame hit free throws late to ice the game, Irvin stood at midcourt, hands on hips. Stunned. In the locker room after the game, Derrick Walton Jr. wiped away tears from a usually stonecold face. Duncan Robinson sat with his arm over Moritz Wagner. Wagner sat doubled over, his jersey hiding his face. Andrew Dakich was perched back in his locker, away from it all. They were trying to figure out how they blew a 12-point lead. What went wrong in the second half, why they would head back to Ann Arbor on Saturday instead of prep for a second-round game. But they also wondered what they could’ve been if that team that showed up in the first half — the one that put on a show — had showed itself earlier in the season. “We’ll never know how special this group could have been,” Walton said. “In my mind it could have been one of the best.” One of the best? Yeah, for 20 minutes it looked the part of a team that could gut out wins and make a run in March. Wagner was throwing down dunks and beating his chest like a kid who’s played in the tournament before — not one who watched from his couch in Berlin last year. Walton showed flashes of looking like

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John Beilein’s team returns every major contributor after making a dramatic run to sneak into the NCAA Tournament.

next year to work even harder.” Jon Sanderson, Michigan’s strength and conditioning coach, is known for transforming players over the summer. Donnal thinks that most of the Wolverines plan on spending the summer in the weight room, providing ample time to improve. Redshirt sophomore Duncan Robinson agrees with that sentiment. “I’m far from satisfied in that regard — I’m far from a finished product,” Robinson said. “I look forward to putting a lot of work in this offseason and getting a lot better.” Wagner is unsure of where he’ll spend his summer, but when asked if he’ll be returning to Michigan for his sophomore season, he answered right away: “One hundred percent, yeah. No doubt.” It’s difficult to make the argument that a player’s physical ability is less important than the relationships between the athletes off the court, but

another guard Michigan had a few years ago. MuhammadAli Abdur-Rahkman showed flashes of looking like Walton — capable of scoring, capable of leading. It didn’t look like that Michigan team that couldn’t hit shots from any range against Connecticut in the Bahamas. Or the team that came out dead flat against Michigan State earlier this season and got walloped in front of its home fans. Or the one that couldn’t close on the road late against Maryland. It looked like the team people thought it would be with Caris LeVert heading things up — even as LeVert watched from the bench. Walton and Irvin provided the leadership on the court, and, for the first time in a long time, for a whole half everything clicked. “We were loose and confident,” Dakich said. “We played with that no-fear mentality. It was fun to be a part of, and fun to watch on the bench and fun to play with.” Perhaps it was a fitting end for a team that struggled to have everything click on the same night during the regular season. It showed what they were capable of. What they could have been. “You know you can always have those ‘what ifs,’ especially at the end of your season,” Irvin said. “But I just think that shows the strides we were able to make from the beginning of the season.” Walton thought those 20 minutes validated their year. “We can play with the best of them and showed it,” Walton said. For 20 minutes they showed it. On the big stage, under the bright lights, they put on a show. But now, the lights are out, and the show is over.

“We’ll never know how special this group could have been.”

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many Wolverines noted the considerable improvement in rapport due to the tumultuous final weeks of the season. On the subject of developments made over the course of the season, a similar response echoed from multiple players. “I definitely think (the last two weeks) brought us together,” said redshirt sophomore Duncan Robinson. “It showed that we’re capable of winning tough games against good teams, we just gotta be better defensively, we definitely learned that, and we will be next year.” Junior guard Andrew Dakich, who initially planned on redshirting this season but jumped in when Albrecht announced his retirement, is known for his leadership and intensity during practice. One of his big takeaways from the season is that the team grew both physically and mentally. “Just kinda building off this year in a sense of, not necessarily on-the-court, but off-the-court

relationships, have grown tremendously,” Dakich said. “I think that’s the kind of bond, to have that, and progressing on the court as well, (next season) could be something special.” The 2015-16 Michigan basketball season has come to a close, but the Wolverines are far from done ruminating about its bittersweet ending. “It’s awesome,” Wagner said of the NCAA Tournament. “At the end of the day, it’s just basketball, but it is just a stage thing. It’s a huge stage. You kinda feel that around you, the environment is impressive, but at the end of the day, it’s playing basketball.” Added Dakich: “Just to see how close we can be to something special kinda speaks for itself, in a sense.” Fifty-one weeks from now, the Wolverines will still be thinking about the 2016 tournament while awaiting their 2017 fate. Every starter will know how it feels to lose, and that experience will only help them.

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‘M’ holds off MSU By PAIGE VOEFFRAY Daily Sports Writer

EAST LANSING — The Michigan women’s tennis team (1-0 Big Ten, 8-4 overall) had more to MICHIGAN 5 compete MICH. STATE 2 with Saturday than just rival Michigan State¬¬ — it also had to battle a hostile road crowd that even cheered at the Wolverines’ errors. Michigan ended up fighting off both in a 5-2 win. “We’re on the road — we don’t expect them to be cheering for us,” said Michigan coach Ronni Berstein. “The crowd was tough on us, and I think we showed some toughness to get through here today.” Bernstein’s task of putting out a lineup was made tougher with freshman Kate Fahey still sidelined by a minor injury. Bernstein thought she found the answer in senior Ronit Yurovsky and freshman Brienne Minor, who led the lineup as the No. 1 doubles team, but their connection seemed to be lacking as the Spartans dominated the matchup. Michigan State controlled the match, and both Yurovsky and Minor showed frustration. The duo eventually lost, 6-3. Sophomores Alex Najarian and Mira Ruder-Hook, the No. 2 doubles team, were able to level the playing field by defeating Michigan State, 6-3. Both sides began the match trading games,

NOTRE DAME From Page 1B streaks of optimism punctuated the gloomy and sometimes teary vibe. Some said the 41-point first half may have just been a preview of next year’s team, which will return every active player from the 2015-16 squad. Senior guards Spike Albrecht and Caris LeVert effectively ended their seasons in December, leaving Big Ten season to the next generation a few months earlier

but quick hands at the net and high intensity made the difference for Najarian and Ruder-Hook. The winner of the No. 3 doubles match would clinch the doubles point and give either team an advantage going into singles play. Freshman Teona Velehorschi and junior Sara Remynse were more than ready for the challenge. Michigan was up, 5-4, and serving for the match. Velehorschi produced a big serve that allowed Remynse to poach at the net and end the match, 6-4. In singles play, if Yurovsky and Minor were affected by their doubles loss, they definitely didn’t show it. Yurovsky came out firing on all cylinders, jumping out to a 5-0 lead in the first set. Her power from the baseline couldn’t be matched by Spartan Erin Faulkner, allowing Yurovsky to finish her match first with a score of 6-1, 6-1. “You have to come into singles with a totally different mindset,” Bernstein said, “you’ve got to let that doubles go whether it’s good or bad.” Though Minor had to work a little harder for her win than Yurovsky, she stayed dominant for the duration of her match. After taking the first set, 6-3, Minor jumped out to a quick lead in the second and rolled to a win. The Wolverines look forward to continuing conference play in front of their own rowdy home crowd in the following weeks with the next matchup against Indiana.

than anticipated. Without its two leaders, the team’s expectations were adjusted, perhaps lessening the force of a blow still too fresh for the Wolverines to fully process. “We had to go through a lot of adversity, losing our two seniors, our two captains,” Irvin said. “People didn’t even think we were going to make the NCAA Tournament, so for us to be able to do that, (the season) definitely ended pretty strong. It’s just tough to swallow this loss.”

ake a look, for a moment, at the composition of the starting lineups of the first eight teams to advance to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 on Saturday: Miami — three MAX seniors and COHEN two juniors; Indiana — two seniors, two juniors and one freshman; Gonzaga — three seniors, one sophomore and one freshman; Iowa State — three seniors and two juniors; North Carolina — two seniors, one junior and two sophomores; Virginia — two seniors, one junior and two sophomores; Kansas — one senior, three juniors and one sophomore; and Duke — one senior, one junior, one sophomore and two freshmen. Notice a trend? Each of those starting lineups, with the exception of Duke’s, is composed primarily of upperclassmen. Sometimes it’s easy to forget the impact that seniors and juniors have on college basketball. Programs like Duke and Kentucky, frequently fraught with star one-and-done freshmen, steal the headlines and seem to make deep runs year after year after year. Elite young talent can sway the balance of the NCAA Tournament and take teams deep into March Madness. But the most reliable way to survive the opening rounds of the NCAA Tournament typically requires a blend of experience and talent that is almost impossible for most programs to accumulate in just a year or two. Michigan, for two years, had one of those rare runs in which young players carried the team deep into the tournament. In 2013, the Wolverines started three freshmen, one sophomore and one junior in the national championship game against Louisville. One year later, Michigan started one freshman, three sophomores and one senior against Kentucky in the Elite Eight. But Trey Burke, Nik Stauskas, Mitch McGary, Glenn Robinson and Tim Hardaway Jr. were exceptional talents who left Michigan early to play in the NBA. Senior guard Caris LeVert, a key player on the Elite Eight team, will join them in the professional ranks next season. Some Michigan fans have derided John Beilein for his apparent inability to replace those guys with equally talented players who could keep the run going. But at the end of this season, one thing became clear: His perceived failure will leave the Wolverines with a bevy of savvy veterans next season. Take Derrick Walton Jr. He came to Ann Arbor as a highly touted recruit before the 2013-14 season, but one who didn’t have to be a focal point right away because of the talent Michigan

had during his freshman season. Slowly but surely, his per-game averages in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals have increased in each of the junior guard’s first three seasons. He’s not a bona fide star, but going into his senior year he has experienced nearly every type of season possible. He started during a deep NCAA Tournament run during his freshman year, suffered through a disastrous season during his sophomore year and helped lead this year’s season-saving run to reach NCAA Tournament. He had six (!) steals in Michigan’s loss to Notre Dame on Friday, and there’s little doubt that the varied experiences of his career will help him lead this team next year during his senior season. Zak Irvin has experienced a similar career arc. He has weathered more personal up-and-downs on the court than Walton, but he has been through the same range of experiences in terms of the Wolverines’ team success. At times, Irvin’s shot selection is frustrating. But as he demonstrated time and time again during the final weeks of the season, he isn’t afraid of taking the big shot, even when he’s been way off the rest of the game. That kind of resiliency is why teams with older players thrive in March, and it’s part of the reason next season looks bright for Michigan. If Beilein starts the same players next year that he started against the Fighting Irish, he will have two seniors in Walton and Irvin, a redshirt junior in Duncan Robinson, a junior in Muhammad-Ali AbdurRahkman and either a redshirt junior or a senior in Mark Donnal — depending on whether Beilein decides to give him his fifth year back — in his starting lineup. Even if Moritz Wagner, who will be a sophomore next season, replaces Donnal as a starter, the makeup of the potential starting lineup looks awfully similar to that of the first eight teams to make the Sweet 16 this season. It’s no guarantee, as evidenced by the injury woes of the past two years, that the Wolverines will be a great team next season or that they will be able to replicate the NCAA Tournament runs of 2013 and 2014, but the last two weeks showed that this year’s iteration of the Michigan men’s basketball team could compete at a high level in do-or-die situations. The players who made the key shots against Northwestern, Indiana and Tulsa will all return, barring unexpected changes, and if the Wolverines return to the NCAA Tournament next season, their lineup will be chock-full of veterans. And if the early portion of this year’s tournament is any indication, that will only help their cause. Cohen can be reached at maxac@umich.edu and on Twitter @MaxACohen.

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Derrick Walton Jr. could be one of three senior starters for Michigan next year.

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March 21, 2016 — 3B

Wolverines advance in WNIT Michigan 10th at NCAA meet WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING

By CHRIS CROWDER Daily Sports Writer

It is generally safe to assume Katelynn Flaherty will be the leading scorer for the Michigan women’s 72 BUCKNELL basketball MICHIGAN 95 team in any given game. When the ball releases from her right hand, most of the crowd and everyone on the floor believes it’s going in. But in the second round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament, Flaherty struggled to find the bottom of the net. On Saturday, though, Michigan didn’t need her to. The rest of the Wolverines picked up the load en route to a 95-72 win over Bucknell to advance further in the WNIT. “I’m just trying to keep this season going as long as I can,” said senior guard Madison Ristovski. Freshman center Hallie Thome was the focus of Michigan’s offense early on. Thome scored seven points within the first five minutes of the game as the two Bucknell players who were defending her combined to earn three fouls. Junior guard Danielle Williams drew two and-1s on circus-shot baskets during Thome’s run, helping the Wolverines maintain their early lead. Along with two 3-pointers by junior guard Siera Thompson, Michigan led at the end of the first quarter, 29-24. The second quarter continued as a back and forth affair, as the Wolverines were unable to build upon their lead. Both teams were shooting 57 percent from the floor with four minutes left in the quarter. With Michigan (19-13) leading by only one, coach Kim Barnes Arico called a timeout, and the Wolverines came out firing as Thompson drilled another attempt from behind the arc. The Bison (25-8) went on a run to earn a lead, but it lasted for less than one minute, as the Wolverines

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Freshman forward Hallie Thome opened up the floor for the Wolverines, as they knocked off Bucknell, 95-72, Saturday.

took charge again, taking a 44-42 lead into halftime. “I thought that eventually, with our depth, we could wear them down and really try to push in transition and try to score,” Barnes Arico said. “They did a really great job scoring with us early on, and I think as the game continued, we were able to wear them down.” Sophomore guard Katelynn Flaherty became the first player in program history to score more than 700 points in a season with her first basket of the game, but her first basket was her only made attempt of the half. Flaherty shot 1-for-5 in the first 20 minutes, well off pace of her 22.5 point per game average. Flaherty’s first shot attempt in the third quarter rimmed out as well, but her next attempt went through the nylon, giving Michigan an eight point lead.

Shortly after, Thome went on another hot streak, tallying six straight points to put the Wolverines ahead by nine. “When (Thome) got back in and we made our run in the fourth quarter, we were able to get her touches on the ball,” Barnes Arico said. “When she was able to get touches, things started to open up for everyone else. When she wasn’t in the game, people could really key on Katelynn.” At one point in the game, Flaherty missed four straight shots, including an airballed three, but she finally scored on her fifth attempt to bring her to 3-of-12 shooting. Ristovski picked up the load in the third quarter, and her six points came at crucial times with the shot clock winding down. With Ristovski’s help, Michigan was up, 62-58, going into the fourth quarter. Flaherty started the fourth

quarter off with a 3-pointer, possibly lifting her and the rest of her team’s confidence to increase its slim lead. Flaherty’s next behind-the-arc dagger pushed the Wolverine lead to double digits with just over six minutes left in regulation. Michigan didn’t let up from there, not allowing the Bison to come back in the game any closer. The Wolverines left the floor with the crowd on its feet, riding high on confidence to advance to the next round knowing that if even Flaherty has an off day, the rest of the team is more than capable of scoring in her absence. “Today, we really executed down the stretch, we got the ball in the right people’s hands to take the right shots down the stretch,” Barnes Arico said. “Then we got key stops when we needed to get stops. We took steps in the right direction today.”

Since Michigan men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach Mike Bottom took over the women’s coaching duties in 2013, the team has been progressing — slowly but surely. This year, the team made its biggest jump yet. Competing at the NCAA Championships in Atlanta this past weekend, the Wolverines finished 10th overall — their best finish since 2008. Last season, the team finished 22nd in the nation. “I am very pleased,” Bottom said. “Moving up 12 places is pretty impressive. I don’t think there is any other school that moved up as much as we did. Twelve places was quite a jump for a young team.” The 12-spot jump follows a trend under Bottom of steady improvement. In 2014, Michigan finished 30th in the nation, and in 2013 — when the men’s team won a national championship with Bottom at the helm — the women’s team finished 36th. Senior Ali DeLoof had a standout meet, setting a new Big Ten record in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 47.54. She finished fifth in the event and received All-American honors in both that event and the 50-yard freestyle. DeLoof also finished in the top 10 in the 400-yard freestyle relay. The relay — consisting of DeLoof, her sister sophomore Gabby DeLoof, freshman Siobhán Haughey and freshman Becca Postoll — placed ninth with a time of 3:12.98, which also set a school record. In order for the team to

finish in the top 10, the relay had to finish at least fifth in the second heat. Not only did the relay finish fifth in the heat, but it ended up winning it. Though the relay didn’t qualify for the finals, its performance was good enough to cement a top-10 finish for Wolverines. “It was really an impressive relay,” Bottom said. Arguably the best event on the day for Michigan was the 1,650-yard freestyle. Freshman Yirong Bi set a school record with a time of 15:45.26 — a third-place finish — while sophomore Gillian Ryan came in ninth with a time of 16:01.45. The meet comes four weeks after the Wolverines won their first Big Ten Championship in 12 years — another sign of the Mike Bottom resurgence. “That was an emotional meet,” Bottom said. “Coming off of that and then coming here, it was a second boil for us. I think that the women really handled it well. In almost every case, they swam faster than they did at Big Tens. It was pretty exciting to watch the team respond to that.” Even more impressive is that while preparing the women’s team for the NCAA Championships, Bottom was also coaching the men’s team to a sixth consecutive Big Ten Championship. “I have such a great staff,” Bottom said. “Rick Bishop is the associate head coach on the women’s side and does an incredible job of planning and scheduling. These coaches really are an amazing staff, the best staff in the country. It’s a team performance all-around, whether for the coaching staff or for swimming and diving.”

‘M’ splits weekend Michigan rallies for top-10 finish WOMEN’S LACROSSE

By MIKE PERSAK

By ROBERT HEFTER For the Daily

The Michigan women’s lacrosse team faced off against Duquesne on Sunday in an attempt to avenge its 15-5 loss to No. 20 Massachusetts on Friday. Due to the Wolverines’ first-half offensive drought Friday, the Minutewomen were able to take a commanding lead with some first-half heroics. The loss was in stark contrast to Sunday’s game, when the Wolverines sparked their offense in the second half, resulting in a 9-4 win against the Dukes. In their first outdoor home game of the season, the Wolverines fell victim to sluggish play, and UMass capitalized. In the first five minutes of the match, the Minutewomen scored two goals to give them an early 2-0 lead. However, Michigan bounced back with a goal just two minutes later. Fierce play and strong defense led to a 13-minute period without goals, until UMass buried three goals to increase its lead to 6-1. A late score by the Wolverines would send them to halftime with a four-goal deficit. After two early scores by the Minutewomen in the second half, Michigan pulled within five with three straight goals. However, as the Wolverines began to crack late in the second half, UMass scored five more times in a span of six minutes. Michigan coach Jennifer Ulehla stressed the need to respond in its following game against Duquesne. “We seriously needed to regroup,” Ulehla said. “We had a lot of fundamental issues.” The Wolverines did just that, as they came out against Duquesne firing on all cylinders at the first whistle. Michigan maintained most of the possession at the onset, and two minutes in, junior attacker Tess Korten drove the ball toward the crease to put in an unassisted goal. Less than 40 seconds later, junior attacker Angerman delivered a pristine pass to junior attack/midfielder Lauren

Oberlander, who slipped the ball past the Dukes’ goalie with ease. Junior attacker Kelly Schlansker would put in another goal a mere minute later. “I think we were a little inconsistent,” Angerman said. “There were definitely some fiveminute spurts when we played really well, and then some times when we were a little sloppy.” Korten credits the offensive dominance to the defense for creating crucial turnovers, which would allow for easier transitions to goals for the Wolverines. “In the second half, we really were communicating, and we have so many offensive threats that we don’t have to rely only on specific people,” said Angerman. Due to two Michigan penalties committed in the midfield, Duquesne was able to find the net with 25 minutes remaining, which launched the Dukes on a 4-0 run that gave them a 4-3 lead going into halftime. “We came out and played incredibly well in the beginning and then there was a plateau,” Ulehla said. “We wanted a highpressure ride, and that was successful as well as possessing the ball offensively.” Michigan immediately followed up on that high pressure, as Angerman dangled the Duquesne goalie to find the back of the net 49 seconds into the half. Goals by Korten, Oberlander, junior midfielder Anna Schueler and junior attacker Allie Breitfeller would follow to give Michigan an 8-4 lead. A total of seven attackers scored on the day, giving new life to the Wolverine offense days after being shut down by UMass. “We went into the locker room knowing we would have to come out more competitive and aggressive,” Korten said. “We really turned the game around to our control.” Michigan looks to bring this strong defense and high-octane offense to Colorado in a week. “It’s nice having a full week going into our Colorado match,” Angerman said. “It’s always a pretty big game for us.”

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The Michigan wrestling team was in need of a late-tournament rally to finish in the top 10 at the NCAA Championships this weekend. The Wolverines weren’t led by the usual workhorses at the higher weight classes. Instead, junior 125-pounder Conor Youtsey and sophomore 149-pounder Alec Pantaleo fueled the team’s rally along with junior heavyweight Adam Coon. Youtsey, in particular, had to scramble to earn his fifthplace finish. He lost in the quarterfinals early on Friday, and was relegated to the wrestleback portion of the tournament. The unseeded junior went on to take down No. 8 Barlow McGhee from Missouri, 5-3, on a single-leg takedown with one second remaining in the match. The win placed Youtsey in the “blood round,” a consolation round where the winner is named All-American and the loser is eliminated. The “blood round” match finished in a 3-3 tie, but Youtsey was given the victory because of his sixsecond advantage in riding time. For the second year in a row, Youtsey came into the tournament unseeded and left an All-American. “It was fun to watch (Youtsey) compete,” said Michigan coach Joe McFarland. “His intensity, desire and focus was where it needed to be. It was very impressive.” Coon’s road to his thirdplace finish was more straightforward. The reliable junior won all of his matches before losing in the semifinals. The fifth-ranked Coon then defeated No. 8 Amarveer Dhesi from Oregon State in just 47 seconds, earning another victory via pinfall in the thirdplace match. Though the NCAA Championships are the team’s final event of the season, Coon still has the Olympic Trials to

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Junior Conor Youtsey earned All-American honors for the second consecutive season over the weekend.

look forward to. “I’ve got a pretty quick turnaround,” Coon said. “I’ll take a couple days off to let my body recover. Maybe after the trials, I’ll take a little more time to review on how the season went, but I’ve got to put this season behind me pretty (quickly).” Pantaleo earned a spot on the podium for himself by pinning his opponent in the consolation round, but fell in the fifth-place match via pinfall to finish sixth in the 149-pound division. Though the season is over for the team, McFarland and his staff won’t be taking a break any time soon. Preparations and training for next season have already begun. “We’re starting to have some conversations amongst the coaching staff on things in regards to next year,” McFarland said. “But we’ll probably get going this weekend on a number of things, and just continue to move forward.” Though some of the

members of the team aren’t finished wrestling, once again the Wolverines’ season ends without them meeting their high expectations. After spending much of the year highly ranked in the polls, Michigan was unable to overcome some of the top-tier teams in their conference and beyond. And when the Wolverines needed some of their most consistent competitiors to step up the most, they were unable to score to help the team. The lone seniors that competed at the NCAA Championships, 197-pounder Max Huntley and 133-pounder Rossi Bruno, both earned All-American status last year, but were unable to repeat this year. “I feel bad for those guys,” McFarland said. “It was tough for Max. Max has really struggled with a bad back. It was bothering him since the Big Ten Championships. It was so bad, that he was really struggling with it throughout

the tournament. It really locked up on him. But I was really proud of the way he went out there and competed. He’s been a great leader in our program, and he’s done a tremendous job this year as one of our captains.” Even though the seniors’ careers ended unceremoniously this weekend, their contributions over their careers have been felt by those who will remain in the program after this year. “They’re just top-notch guys,” said Coon. “They just welcomed us in to the team (as freshmen), and now they’re the leaders of the team. It just goes to show how quickly the season goes, and how quickly your whole college career goes.” And now, with a roster that is returning almost all of its members and a coaching staff firmly focused on the future, Michigan will look to take advantage of the lessons from its seniors and ultimately improve on the results from this season.

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BACK TO THE TOURNAMENT Michigan rallies past Minnesota to win first Big Ten Tournament title By KEVIN SANTO Daily Sports Writer

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Three hundred sixty-one days ago, the Michigan hockey team found itself in a MINNESOTA 3 situation MICHIGAN 5 eerily similar to that of Saturday night — taking the ice for the Big Ten Championship against Minnesota. At the time, as the Wolverines entered the championship game at Joe Louis Arena, they were on the wrong side of the NCAA Tournament bubble, in dire need of an upset against the Golden Gophers to keep their season alive. But when the final horn sounded, Michigan was left with a scoreboard reading 4-2 in Minnesota’s favor to cement its campaign. In the 361 days that followed, though, that dynamic had changed drastically. This time, the Wolverines had the cards in their hands entering the championship game — having already solidified a NCAA Tournament berth with only retribution to truly play for. And now, Minnesota was the team in need of a seasonpreserving victory. And Michigan was able to change the most important part of the former narrative, capturing the Big Ten Championship with a 5-3 victory against the Golden Gophers at Xcel Energy Center. “Up until tonight there’s been five banners hung and we have four of them,” said Minnesota coach Don Lucia. “We were trying to get a fifth, and Michigan didn’t have one — and that’s a proud program. … That can

sometimes be the driving force.” After three unanswered Minnesota goals left Michigan in a 3-2 hole entering the third period, freshman forward Kyle Connor and sophomore defenseman Zach Werenski rose to the occasion during crunch time. A few short minutes into the final frame, the freshman brought the Wolverines back to life with an equalizer. Connor received a cross-ice pass from junior forward JT Compher, and was alone against Schierhorn. He hesitated and baited Schierhorn to come out of the net before faking one shot and deking right to leave both the Gophers’ goaltender on his back and the puck in the net. Twelve minutes later, with Michigan on the power play, Werenski gave his team the Big Ten Championship. The Wolverines rotated the puck around the offensive zone, tallying a number of shots, before it ended up at the point on Werenski’s stick. The blueliner let one loose, and the goal horn lit up. Michigan 4, Minnesota 3. “In between the second and third, (last year is) something we talked about, is ‘We owe them,’ ” Werenski said. “They ended our season last year, so we came out with some fire.” Michigan closed out the game with a stout defensive effort, led by senior goaltender Steve Racine — who slammed the door shut against Minnesota’s last-ditch efforts — before notching an open-net goal to seal the victory. Neither side could break the stalemate during the opening 10 minutes of the rematch, partly because No. 20 Minnesota (14-7 Big Ten, 20-17 overall) opened the game with a conservative approach — sending its defensemen back to the red line every time Michigan started a breakout. Eventually, though, the seventh-ranked Wolverines (13-

5-3-2 Big Ten, 24-7-5 overall) found a breakthrough on the first power play of the game. Just over 10 minutes into the frame, Werenski was quarterbacking the power play from the point. He sent a pass to Connor in the right circle, who patiently cradled the puck with a Minnesota defenseman in front of him, searching for a chink in the defense’s armor. Then he found it. Connor served junior forward Tyler Motte in front, leaving him with only Minnesota goaltender Eric Schierhorn to beat. Motte was up to the task, as he lifted the puck in the air to beat Schierhorn glove side. The finish gave Michigan a 1-0 lead, marked Motte’s 30th goal of the season and continued Connor’s 25-game point streak. When the Wolverines added another goal, it appeared that they were on their way to a storybook ending. But the first few chapters were torn out quickly as they had been written. In the span of four minutes, Minnesota responded with two goals of its own to even the score. The equalizer sucked the life out of the Wolverines, instantly turning them on the defensive. Michigan managed to weather that storm for a little over six minutes, but eventually conceded a power play that proved to be the breaking point. “We started playing slower,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “I thought we started playing cuter. We weren’t as physical. … We were on the wrong side of the puck, and sure enough they got back in the game.” Behind Connor and Werenski’s goals, in addition to Motte’s opennet finish in the closing minute, none of that mattered. Michigan changed the most important part of the former narrative. It has a banner to hang at Yost Ice Arena. And more than anything, it exorcised its demons that have been following them all season.

Wolverines will open Midwest Regional play vs. Notre Dame By JASON RUBINSTEIN Daily Sports Writer

The Michigan hockey team is back where it was for 22 straight seasons prior to the 2012-13 season: the NCAA Tournament. Friday night, the Wolverines, a No. 2 seed in the Midwest Regional, will take on No. 3 seed Notre Dame, while No. 1 seed North Dakota and No. 4 seed Northeastern round out the regional in Cincinnati. The selection comes a day after Michigan captured the Big Ten Tournament title, defeating Minnesota, 5-3, in St. Paul, Minn. “Coach said Cincinnati has been good to Michigan,” said junior forward Tyler Motte, “so we have to be good to Cincinnati.” Just the three seniors on the current roster have ever played against the Fighting Irish. Senior goaltender Steve Racine recalled a conversation from just after the selection show, when he talked with fellow senior Justin Selman about how the Wolverines haven’t defeated Notre Dame during their careers. Michigan will enter the tournament with the nation’s best offense, tallying 4.89 goals per game, with the next closest team putting up 4.28 goals a game. The Wolverines also boast the nation’s most prolific forward line — the CCM line — consisting of freshman Kyle Connor and juniors JT Compher and Motte. The trio ranks first, second and third in the nation in points, respectively. Connor leads the country in points with 69, while Compher and Motte hold 60 and 54, respectively. But Berenson doesn’t think Notre Dame will be fazed. “(Notre Dame coach Jeff Jackson) is an experienced coach,” Berenson said. “He has played against Michigan teams before, and Michigan teams that have had offensive histories and they’ll figure it out. They’re a team that will come at you and play their game.” Notre Dame, meanwhile, is led by goaltender Cal Petersen, who

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The Michigan hockey team celebrated its first Big Ten title on Saturday and earned the conference’s automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.

boasts a .928 save percentage and 2.19 goals-against average. Michigan and Notre Dame haven’t played since the formation of the Big Ten Hockey Conference in 2013-14. “Notre Dame is one of our old, I wouldn’t say rivals, but borderline rival,” Berenson said. “(Notre Dame coach) Jeff Jackson is as good of a coach there is in college hockey and his teams show that every year. They’re disciplined, hard-working, well-coached and I think you’ll see a close hockey game.” When they last met, though, the stakes were high. The old-time rivals were pitted in the CCHA Tournament Championship. If Michigan had won, it would have moved onto the NCAA Tournament. Instead, Notre Dame took the title and ended the Wolverines’ season. Michigan’s goaltender in that game was then-freshman Steve Racine, who wasn’t the team’s starter the majority of that season.

He hasn’t forgotten that moment. “I just remember that they were really strong and physical and we had problems with that, and they kind of took it to us a little bit,” Racine said. “But we haven’t seen them in a couple of years, so I couldn’t tell you much about them yet. But we’ll be ready. “Just like Minnesota beat us last year in the Big Ten Championship, Notre Dame, my freshman year, ended the streak. Getting back at them would be nice.” Racine added that Notre Dame, like Penn State and Minnesota who have ended the Wolverines’ seasons that past two seasons, respectively, is another team that Michigan “owes” — all because of that CCHA Tournament Championship. So 1,096 days after that crushing defeat, Racine and Michigan will have a chance at revenge. And this time it’ll be in the tournament that matters most.

“We’ll be ready. ... Getting back at them would be nice.”