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Neil deGrasse Tyson, head of the Hayden Planetarium, discusses the cosmic perspective — the viewpoint that existing as part of the universe should make one feel significant instead of insignificant — at the Hill Auditorium Wednesday.

Neil deGrasse Tyson talks human role in the universe Astrophysicist urges audience to explore the sciences By IRENE PARK Daily Staff Reporter

Neil deGrasse Tyson, an award-winning astrophysicist, author and television host, visited Ann Arbor Wednesday night for

a stop at Hill Auditorium as part of his “An Evening with Neil deGrasse Tyson” tour. The tour began in January in Los Angeles and ends Thursday in Detroit. The theme of Tyson’s Wednesday night talk was “cosmic perspective,” which Tyson defined as a view bigger than an individual’s own perspective that offers a humbling but enlightening outlook of one’s place in time and space.

In his lecture, Tyson stressed that because humans are made of the most abundant elements — such as hydrogen, carbon and oxygen — they are not different or separated from the rest of the universe. “We are literally stardust — if that doesn’t make you feel large, I don’t know what will,” Tyson said. “We are not only in the universe, but the universe is in us.”

Tyson also addressed the importance of investing in science, technological, engineering and math research, as well as being comfortable seeing math and science in popular culture. He even suggested featuring STEM researchers on currency, as is done in Germany. “(It’s) a culture that is not afraid to display the (STEM) brilliance of their citizens,” Tyson See TYSON, Page 3A

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In a call with reporters Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. and Roberto Rodriguez, deputy assistant to the president for education, stressed the importance of colleges playing a role in increasing access to higher education. “A college degree is the surest path to the middle class for many students, especially for students from low-income families,” King said. “But there are far too many barriers preventing low-income students from enrolling and graduating from college.” King said higher education institutions have a responsibility to expand opportunity and target support to lower-income students, particularly Federal

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‘U’ researchers create coating resistant to ice Spray repellant could impact auto, refrigeration industry By ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter

The hassle of scraping ice off your car windshield in belowfreezing temperatures and snowy weather might soon be a thing of the past. University of Michigan researchers recently developed ice-repellent coatings that have the ability to make ice slide off materials such as car windshields, ships and airplanes. Made from rubber, the spray-on technology could have a major impact on multiple industries affected by ice and cold climates. The product was developed by Kevin Golovin, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering, and Anish Tuteja,

associate prof. of materials science and engineering. The ice-repellent coating technology is being funded through several federal offices and departments including the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization, a program that provides resources to the College of Engineering and the University’s Transportation Research Institute, is also sponsoring the project. “Living in Michigan, we see the issue of ice everywhere, so the need for a surface like this was quite obvious,” Tuteja said. The new spray-on coating works through chemical alterations and blending of rubbers, Golovin said, ultimately creating a product that has never been made or prototyped before. “When you have two hard objects stuck together, they have to rigidly snap apart, but if See RESEARCH, Page 3A

Pell Grant recipients. Federal Pell Grants are need-based grants for students given in a maximum amount of $5,815 yearly. “These institutions must ensure the degrees students receive prepare them for the 21st century economy and success after college,” he said. Currently, King said only 10 percent of schools in the country are enrolling their fair share of Pell recipients and also graduating more than half of them on time. He said the United States must do better. While noting that department officials realize the rising cost of college makes it hard or impossible for some students to attend college, King said under the Obama Administration the maximum Pell Grant amount has increased and will now be indexed to inf lation. Pell Grant recipients now encompass 40 percent of all college students. King also touched on Obama’s 2015 pitch to make community college free as a key to making higher education accessible for See EDUCATION, Page 2A

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LSA senior Nikki Baron makes slushies for students during Israel Day on the Diag Tuesday. The event celebrated Israel and its various cultural aspects.

Students talk 2016 candidates as nomination process proceeds With five choices remaining, student support varies after Michigan primary By LYDIA MURRAY and CAITLIN REEDY Daily Staff Reporters

The presidential race began with 23 candidates. Now, only five remain — two Democrats and

three Republicans. On campus, students appear to lean toward Sanders, but that is certainly not the only view present. The Michigan primary was just one example of how student voters have significantly impacted the election cycle. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D–Vt.) scored a surprise win over Hillary Clinton with 50.1 percent of the vote, despite having a 20-point deficit in the polls leading up to the election. High voter turnout and support among young people — particularly

students — in part drove Sanders to victory in the state. On the Republican side, Donald Trump’s victory was expected by pollsters. Gov. John Kasich’s (R–Ohio) had hoped to achieve a second place finish to bolster his position moving forward. Though Cruz came in second, Kasich found particularly strong support in the areas surrounding the University of Michigan, earning 34 percent of the overall Republican vote in Washtenaw See ELECTIONS, Page 3A

By BRIAN KUANG Daily Staff Reporter

Ann Arbor Charter Township is exploring the possibility of petitioning the Environmental Protection Agency to designate a local dioxane plume contaminating groundwater beneath the township as a superfund site. Doing so would grant the EPA, rather than the state, authority to clean the toxic matter, a move that’s desirable for many township leaders due to their lack of confidence in the state’s ability to resolve the problem. However, Ann Arbor officials say they are unsure if they will support a move by the township to do so. Improper wastewater disposal by Gelman Sciences, an Ann Arbor life sciences firm, between 1966 to 1986 created a large, slow-moving See WATER, Page 3A

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Medical and Business schools partner to help Sri Lanka Group strives to provide better care to underdeveloped areas of country

Dancik, a Business and Public Health graduate student, became involved in the GCC project through a Business School MBA class this semester called International Business Immersion: Healthcare Delivery in Emerging Markets. Twentyfive students from the class are participating in five projects around the world. Camalo said the Sri Lanka project will also include students from the Ford School of Public Policy and the School of Public Health. “We focused on looking for a financial model for diabetes and hypertension in a remote area of Sri Lanka, in Trincomalee,” he said. “We wanted to understand the current landscape of diabetes care and then understand what a financially viable way was to deliver improved care to a broader patient population.” Dancik said she and the team spent time meeting with Dr. Naresh Gunaratnam, the

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The Medical School and the School of Business have teamed up with the goal of increasing access to health care and education in Sri Lanka. For the project, the two schools are partnering with the Grace Care Center, a shelter for orphan girls and the elderly located in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. The shelter provides food, housing and schooling for dozens of girls and destitute elderly individuals, many of whom fled war or were impacted Sudoku bySyndication a 2004 tsunami. Business graduate student Patrick Camalo and Erica

shelter’s founder, before crafting team is to eventually bring a Trincomalee residents are key the program. long-term health care system goals Camalo and Dancik’s “We then traveled to to Trincomalee through two team are considering. Though Trincomalee for one week so phases, the first focused on primary health care in Sri Lanka that we could see, first-hand, telemedicine and the second on is free, there is a lack of doctors what the health landscape self-sufficiency and expansion. and efficiency is a problem, looks like and so that we could Telemedicine is when doctors which leads to long waits and interview and interact with use Skype or other technology to often discourages locals from some of the project’s key players provide care from afar. visiting clinics. and stakeholders,” she said. As part of the collaboration, “It is a very inefficient system, Gunaratnam, a Anjan Saha, a medical scientist so there is an emerging private gastroenterologist at the training program fellow at the sector market where people have University of Michigan Medical University, traveled to GCC to pay for care,” Camalo said. Center who was born in Sri last December to help facilitate “However, people do not have a Lanka, founded the GCC in a camp that provided blood lot of money to pay for that, so it 2002. He fled the country with pressure and blood glucose is usually targeting the wealthy his family after the country tests to patients. Saha said population.” became embattled in civil war in the telemedicine aspect of the Camalo said the team is the 1980s. program has been very successful exploring a few ideas for creating “My father was a physician, in providing information to the a sustainable financing source and he loved teaching at doctors in Sri Lanka. for the blood-testing program. the hospital in the capital,” “Reception for all of our He said one potential method Gunaratnam said. “He took his projects has been good and we could be a monthly subscription family out of the country that have continued to be invited plan to encourage visits or a he loved because he thought it back,” Saha said. cross-subsidized program that would give my brother and I a Currently, GCC — which also would take payments from http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ brighter future.” aims to safeguard the health and those who were more capable Gunaratnam’s father, safety of the local population of affording the care to support who passed away when — is focusing their new health the payments for lower income Gunarantam was a teenager, care initiative on hypertension individuals. served as an inspiration for and diabetes treatment and “We are trying to incentivize the establishment of the prevention. The blood tests Saha different behaviors from the orphanage and elder care assisted with in December were patients,” Camalo said. “If they center in Trincomalee. free of charge to patients and come more frequently, we will HARD “When I had established funded by the Global Reach fund give them a discount. People myself as a physician and of the UM Medical School. tend to come in only when their had the opportunity to help A total of 35 patients received diabetes is out of control due to children like myself who had testing, demonstrating the lack of education.” lost a parent, I jumped at the potential for the effectiveness Outside of the partnership, chance,” Gunaratnam said. of the health care delivery students on campus are “I empathized with their loss program, Saha said. providing other forms of aid and knew the impact a few While the camp was deemed to GCC. Student organization caring souls could have on successful, Camalo said there GracedU was founded in 2015 their lives.” is more work to be done. by LSA sophomore Sahr Yazdani The primary goal of the Affordability of care and building and LSA junior Rasika Patil to Business School’s project trust and interest among the provide educational resources

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give hard-working students as much time as possible to search for the college that’s right for them and receive the aid they need. “We will continue to work with more communities to strengthen education access, affordability and success for their students,” he said. Ted Mitchell, U.S. under secretary of education, also joined the call, mentioning

and support to girls at the GCC through video tutoring and other forms of outreach. Yazdani has been working for GCC for five years and worked with the medical school to develop “Elder Care Night,” during which GCC medical assistants considered ways to improve the health care of senior citizens. Yazdani said her visit to the shelter in the summer of 2015 was a life-changing experience. She made the trip through VeAhavta, the nonprofit organization based in Ann Arbor that helps run Grace Care Center. “From the moment I stepped off the bus, the little girls clung to my hands and legs, proudly showing off their home and their family,” Yazdani said. “The girls from Grace taught me the power of resilience — many of them have been through the toughest of life’s situations, but never once did they reflect negatively on their experiences. They demonstrate what it means to have courage in the face of adversity.” Patil said she created the club after being inspired by the girls of GCC. “I recognized a motivation within myself and my colleagues to help foster the Grace girls’ enthusiasm for learning,” Patil said. “Their dedication to the pursuit of knowledge is incredibly inspiring, and, in turn, we are dedicated to providing them with the peer support and educational resources they need to develop that passion.”

how federal aid can only do so much, and states need to reinvest in higher education to keep the cost of college tuition down. “It’s important to recognize the major driver of the increase in costs and the increase in tuition prices is a result of widespread state disinvestment in higher education since the Great Recession,” Mitchell said.

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LSA sophomore Lindsay Randolph, president of Students for Kasich, discusses her thoughts on the 2016 presidential election on the Diag Monday.

ELECTIONS From Page 1A County. In a series of interviews with The Michigan Daily, students shared their political views, why they support different candidates and what they hope for the future following the election. Quotes were chosen from each interview to reflect the students’ beliefs. Brendan Schroder LSA junior, supports Sanders. “My father left when my mother was pregnant with me, so I had a single mother growing up,” he said. “It was very interesting to see from her point of view also as a teacher who hasn’t made that much. When you go through the education system a lot of teachers are very liberal, so that came across through my mother, but she also taught me to be loving and compassionate.” “Surprisingly, I was very religious between sixth and 12th grade. That actually is what formed me to what I am today. What all of the pastors taught me is that you should love one another; you should help one another. Right now those same people are voting for Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, so I don’t know where the disconnect happened that I ended up leaning towards Bernie Sanders and they ended up leaning towards that, but I feel like the messages they taught me, I interpreted as to believe in Bernie’s policies where we have to help people.” “The college campus has changed a lot for me. Coming out of high school, I was kind of uneducated on a lot of issues. Being around a diverse group of people has helped me understand people better and probably made me more liberal leaning.” Madeline Jursek School of Information senior, supports Kasich. Chair of the University chapter of the College Republicans “My parents are both very strong, right-wing conservatives, and that obviously has a very strong say in what I believe now,” she said. “I have changed a lot since I came to college. Before I came to college, I was really just aligned with my parents’ views, but when I came here I definitely became more moderate. A big part

RESEARCH From Page 1A you make one of those objects soft like rubber, then when you try to push off the hard object, it makes the rubber deform,” Golovin said. “That deformation creates a stress concentrator between the hard object, which in this case is the ice, and the rubber. That actually causes it to detach with a lot lower force than you would normally need.” This phenomenon, called interfacial cavitation, is what explains the science behind this technology. Though putting additives such as oils or silicone into the rubber makes it more slippery and helps to ease off ice, Golovin said the main goal of their project is to make the rubber softer by changing its properties. “The reason rubber is hard or soft is something known as how many chemical crosslinks are in the rubber,” Golovin said. “That’s sort of a covalent bond inside and … the more there are, the harder the rubber is. You can tune the

of that was in high school I was part of a very small community, but coming here I got to meet all of these wonderful people and that changed my viewpoints a lot.” “For me it’s mainly the fiscal issues. Social issues for me are not as important. I’m really a fan of how he turned around Ohio in terms of the big budget surplus and doing tax cuts. I also like the fact he is a little bit more moderate on the social issues.” “I like the fact that his temper is pretty mild. I think as a president you need to be kind of calm at all times and level headed, so I like that Kasich seems to be very not quiet, but easy going with an even heeled temper.” Anushka Sarkar LSA sophomore, supports Hillary Clinton Outreach director and event coordinator for Students for Hillary “The trait that really draws me to Clinton is that she is a fighter,” she said. “There is a lot of sexism in the media, there is a lot of criticisms of Clinton even though she’s done some truly incredible things for people. Day in and day out she comes back and continues to fight for the people who criticize her — that’s the kind of selflessness that I would like in a leader — someone who has insults hurled at them in a rally and still goes out to fight for legislation that defends those people.” “There are three policies that I am most passionate about: mental health, sexual assault on college campuses and college affordability. The sexual assault on college campuses is particularly important to me because Hillary is the only presidential candidate to have a platform about this. It’s an issue that, as a female college student, I’m afraid of every single day. It’s very validating to know that the person I support for president cares about my safety on campus.” “People tend to view a woman who is commanding or authoritative or assertive in any way as bossy. If you have a man who speaks commandingly or has years of experience, that person wouldn’t be seen as a liar or someone who is untrustworthy, they would be seen as a commander in chief. Another reason people see her as a liar is that she has evolved

on issues, which is something every candidate has done, and is necessary. You can’t hold onto your views from the ‘70s to 2016 because while your views are important, what is most important is that you represent the people who elected you or who support you.” Molly Grant LSA sophomore, supports Trump. Member of the College Republicans “His tax and immigration policy are most appealing to me,” she said. “When you think of Trump, you do not think of taxes. I’ve been encouraging people to look at his tax policy. It’s a four bracket system — the highest is 25 percent on income. That is something I really like about him and I encourage others to look at it. Also, I really support him in immigration. We aren’t a country if we don’t have borders. I’m very pro-immigration, but it has to be legal. With him, I am confident that he will do something about immigration.” “No matter what side you are on, the youth enthusiasm for voting in this election is crazy. Trump and Sanders are drawing huge crowds of college voters in, and that’s awesome. In terms of being at Michigan, I’m a very proud Trump supporter. I know I am in the really small minority, but I have found that with the Sanders supporters I have had great discussions with some of them. Talking about policies, not getting into arguments, but seeing where each other stands on these issues and gathering an understanding of why the other person thinks that way.” “Do I agree with everything Trump says? No. But I think people are quick to judge on what they hear without sitting down and looking at his policies — things that aren’t brought up in the news such as his tax policy.” Erin Kokoszka LSA sophomore, supports Sanders. Member of Students for Sanders. “I first heard about him last summer, maybe a couple of months before he entered the race,” she said. “I didn’t get that much of a realistic impression of him. I had heard of him as this outsider, socialist Democrat who

didn’t really have a chance but had some really cool ideas. But then in the fall I joined up with Students for Sanders.” “I think he is a really genuine candidate. He doesn’t have any super PACs. He doesn’t take any money from corporations or wealthy individual donors. You can tell who’s funding him, and in that sense he is more credible. He does seem very trustworthy. He’s consistent; he has a record. You can look up what he’s been doing and the values that he’s held for the past few decades.” “I’d like to see a revitalizing our democracy. That’s what his campaign is really about, just taking the people’s voice and letting it be heard again. Having people actually represented in Washington by people who will actually protect their interests.” Lindsay Randolph LSA sophomore, supports Kasich President of Students for Kasich “He’s such a nice guy,” she said. “You look at Ted Cruz or Donald Trump. There are people getting beat up at his rallies. Whereas with Kasich — at least at the town halls I’ve been to — people are crying, he’s hugging them. It’s just a complete opposite of what you are seeing from the other Republican candidates. He shows compassion and genuine interest in the wellbeing of Americans.” “I would like to see a presidency that brings Americans together. At the end of the day, we can work together for a common purpose and not be so divided. Kasich speaks a lot about knowing your neighbor and having a community, and I think once we unite and work together to solve our problems and focus on our neighbors and our community then America can begin to thrive.” “I grew up in a somewhat working-class home. College is where I started becoming interested in politics. I became much more informed and more interested in social issues. You can practically solve issues that the Republicans are not focused on, and I think you get that with Kasich. He wants to focus on the environment, he wants to not be so divided on gay rights.” The Daily was unable to contact any supporters for Sen. Ted Cruz (R–Texas) on campus.

chemistry to make it softer just by lowering how many crosslinks there are.” The spray-on coating could prove to be important for multiple industries, Golovin said, including those that produce airplanes, boats, food packaging and refrigerator linings. He added it may be difficult to put the product into use on airplanes because there are such stringent requirements for equipment used in aircrafts, but it would be possible for the product to be commercialized for boats that go through shipping lanes in the Arctic, as well as for food-based products. “For different applications, we might have different requirements,” Tuteja said. “For example, if I was working with a food application with making packaging for frozen foods, then we can only work with materials that are approved by the FDA. That’s a limited number of rubbers that are approved.” Golovin said there are multiple advantages to the spray-on coating, including its versatility and durability. “One of the main motivations

for this work was to make (coatings) that you wouldn’t need to constantly repaint on, so they effectively last as long as you need them to last,” Golovin said. “There’s no reason they should degrade over time.” The coating itself, researchers also noted, is not just a single formula; formulas were developed to accommodate multiple materials. “What we’ve done here is made well over 100 different coatings, and they’re all made of different rubbers and different oils, all different chemistries and compositions,” Tuteja said. “The reason was really to show that we understood these two new mechanisms that can show how ice detaches from rubbers and by being able to work with a wide range of different materials, we showed the principles that are applicable for a number of different materials.” Researchers noted that one potential challenge for the coating is whether it will still work under extremely harsh and cold conditions. Golovin said rubbers have a property called

glass transition temperature, at which the rubber becomes too cold and begins to act more like a glass than a rubber. “How the coating works, you need the rubber to still be soft, so for certain rubbers, the temperature at which they stop being soft is the temperature at which they would stop working,” Golovin said. “Much like how you can choose the material to work with whatever underlying substrate, you can also choose rubber that have different glass transition temperatures so that you can make sure it still works at whatever temperature you’re expecting to see.” Tuteja said the goal is to commercialize the coating in partnership with companies in multiple disciplines and industries, as well as create a spray that can be sold for use directly in households. He was co-founded a startup company, which is now licensing the technology and partnering with different companies for use in different fields. The technology is expected to be put into use within a year.

plume of the toxin 1,4-dioxane underneath Washtenaw County. The plume has contaminated groundwater and is expected by local officials to reach the Huron River in the coming decades. Though the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has maintained a network of monitoring wells to track the plume since 1992, city leaders have long been critical of the state’s response, and the Flint water crisis has re-energized public scrutiny on this issue. In a February meeting of county leaders, Ann Arbor Township Supervisor Michael Moran told Michigan DEQ representatives he had “lost his confidence” in the state’s ability to control the contamination. Moran also said his township was exploring the option of turning the plume into a superfund site. Monday night, the Board of Trustees for Ann Arbor Charter Township — which is a separate municipality from the city of Ann Arbor — unanimously authorized Moran to petition the EPA for superfund status. In an interview, Moran said Michigan’s regulatory environment has failed to meaningfully manage the contaminated water, and the state’s recent promises to increase funding on monitoring and introduce more stringent cleanup standards for 1,4-dioxane are insufficient. “Michigan statutes are not aimed at getting a cleanup of pollution, but rather managing the risk of pollution, and those are wildly different concepts,” Moran said, adding the EPA doesn’t operate under these constraints. However, other local leaders say they are still unsure if the township’s decision was the best choice. Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor (D) said in an interview with the Daily that while the EPA would likely lead a more comprehensive cleanup of the contaminated water, the

TSYON From Page 1A said. Tyson said integrating the sciences into popular culture will help citizens become more scientifically literate, noting that the United States has both a low global ranking for math literacy in standardized assessments and a low percentage of people who believe in evolution. In particular, Tyson is known for using Twitter to share his passion for science to a broader audience. During an interview prior to his lecture on Wednesday with the Fox affiliate in Grand Rapids, Tyson said he uses social media to help people understand the sciences. “I offer people a way to see the world that maybe they have never been taught,” Tyson said in the interview. “You don’t have to be fluent in math or fluent in physics, but you should at least be open to what’s going on around you.” Tyson ended his talk with a quote from “Pale Blue Dot,” a book written by Carl Sagan, a late

stigma of superfund status could damage property values in the city. “The EPA is obviously very well-respected and tremendously valuable; however, the declaration of a superfund site has other consequences,” Taylor said. “If a portion of Ann Arbor is declared a superfund site, one expects that will reduce property values, even though the toxicity is of no immediate concerns to the immediately proximate residents.” Taylor did not completely rule out supporting the petition and said the city will need to study the issue further before making a decision. He added the city’s current plan is to work the Michigan DEQ and Michigan Attorney General’s office to push the original polluter to perform a more comprehensive cleanup. In interviews, City Councilmembers Chip Smith (D–Ward 5) and Graydon Krapohl (D–Ward 4) echoed Taylor’s points. Moran said he does not intend to move forward with a superfund petition without consensus from the city of Ann Arbor and the rest of Washtenaw County. He noted a consultant working for a consortium of county officials had reported superfund status would not significantly hurt local property values, based on previous studies. “It’s an issue that needs consideration from all local governments,” Moran said. However, he also noted the township could still move forward without the approval of all the county’s municipalities. Moran said the Michigan DEQ has failed, and other options to control the pollution need to be explored. “After 20 years, the pollution plume is getting bigger and bigger, and there’s an inadequate response,” Moran said. “How long are you willing to keep playing with the same people?” When reached for comment on Tuesday, Robert Wagner, Michigan DEQ remediation chief, said he respects Ann Arbor Charter Township’s decisions and is willing to work with the EPA if necessary.

astronomy professor at Cornell University. The quote emphasizes how small and alone Earth is in the universe and how “there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” LSA senior Trevor Picard said the quote was the perfect way to end the talk. “That quote is my favorite,” Picard said. “(I) definitely liked the part where seeing the pale blue dot underscores our responsibility to deal kindly with one another.” Samantha Musil, an event adviser with Campus Involvement, said Tyson almost did not speak at the University of Michigan, as his promoter originally considered just doing two shows in Detroit. “(Tyson’s promoter) thought it was possible to do two shows in Detroit because the market was big enough to support multiple events,” Musil said. “We were able to find a date for them for a show in Ann Arbor that coincided with a date in Detroit, which doesn’t always happen. So we’re very glad and fortunate that we were able to host Dr. Tyson in Ann Arbor.”

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Why I voted Your Michigan

entral Student Government elections are currently underway. Save for the spammy Facebook messages you’re likely receiving from your friends — or “friends,” broadly construed — asking you to vote for them, you may not have paid much attention to the elections at all. Students on this campus certainly don’t face a shortage of challenges — but many of VICTORIA them don’t necessarily see NOBLE CSG as the body destined to solve them. That needs to change. Over the past two years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with and get to know David Schafer and Thomas Hislop, two of the candidates for CSG president. Last fall, Schafer and I served together on the College Republicans Executive Board. Hislop and I are both in the Ford School of Public Policy, and have taken three classes together. I’ve seen firsthand how both candidates approach problems, develop solutions and implementation strategies. Both candidates are great people, and I have no doubt that they would both engage with their work as president at a high level. That said, I had absolutely no reservations when I voted Your Michigan for CSG president and vice president. If you’d like to see a CSG that’s more effective, efficient and equitable, I’d highly encourage you to vote Your Michigan as well. Hislop is pragmatic and results-oriented. Your Michigan’s platform — which includes tangible, realistic plans to expand and improve mental health care on campus, combat sexual assault through peer-to-peer education and increase funding for student efforts to recruit potential Wolverines from underrepresented backgrounds — reflects that. I sat down with Hislop and his running mate, Cam Dotson, to discuss their priorities for their presidency and vice presidency if elected. After three years of watching CSG administrations spend undue amounts of time engaging non-actionable issues — like whether or not to advise the University of Michigan to divest from all firms doing substantive business in Israel — I wanted to know whether the duo had a realistic idea of what CSG could accomplish. I asked them what they thought, fundamentally, they believed to be the role of CSG on campus. “CSG is here to improve the day-to-day life of the Michigan student,” Hislop said. “That is their primary role — to support them, to make them feel safe, to make sure they feel comfortable here and to make sure that the resources they have are there for them and are the best that they can be.” Your Michigan’s policies start with this fundamental understanding. They prioritize issues that matter most to students and have solid implementation strategies that target the biggest challenge to resource creation and program support — funding. To name just one example, Hislop and Dotson plan to relocate funding from low- to highimpact projects by analyzing uptake rates of seemingly underused resources, like bus services at odd times. But perhaps the best example of the duo’s

superior issue prioritization is a policy that they don’t support, not one they do. The Daily’s editorial board endorsed newMICH candidates Schafer and Griggs largely due to their plans to work toward creating a non-voting, ex-officio position for a student representative on the Board of Regents. The representative would essentially serve as a student liaison to the board to advocate for, well, students. They argue that this would be better than the status quo, where the CSG president attends and speaks at every formal regents meeting. Having spent a considerable amount of time studying the legal organization of the University, I can tell you that attempting to create this position would essentially be a waste of time and energy. Further, it might not be possible without changing the state constitution. The University is what’s called a constitutional corporation. Basically, that means that, though created and funded by the state of Michigan, the state has absolutely nothing to do with its operations, in the exact same way it has nothing to do with the operations of, say, Taco Bell. But, while Taco Bell and its private sector peers are established through documents called their charters or articles of incorporation, the University was established through the state constitution. Just as all corporations are bound by their charters or articles of incorporation, the University is bound by the constitutional provisions that establish it. These provisions specify the number of regents and how they will be selected. The state constitution specifically creates an ex-officio, non-voting position on the board for the student council president. There’s little question that whatever position can be created on the board for a new student representative wouldn’t be a voting one. At the very least, it would be another ex-officio position. But even creating another ex-officio position for the new student representative would be “undoubtedly questionable” as the Daily itself admits in its newMICH endorsement. More than that, it’s a question of constitutional law. If this student role is possible at all, it would require the Regents to amend their bylaws to create the position. If they refuse, Shafer and Griggs have little recourse out of court. Given that the CSG president already has a powerful voice with the Board of Regents, the next CSG executive team would be far better served by using that voice to advocate for increased resources for students — which is exactly what Hislop and Dotson plan to do. Your Michigan’s candidates understand University governance, and they know that pushing for a student on the Board of Regents won’t be an effective way to secure change that improves students’ lives. Instead, they prioritize tangible results and realistic plans for action. If you want your CSG to make real changes on campus, vote for the candidates who know how to enact it. Vote Hislop and Dotson for CSG president and vice president.

Your Michigan prioritizes tangible results and realistic plans for action.

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Deer culls aren’t so evil

n slow news days last semester, The Michigan Daily opinion staff would sit around the conference room table, scouring the Internet for anything interesting to talk about. Derek (my then co-editorial page editor) would enthusiastically AARICA break the MARSH silence: “Let’s talk about the deer cull!” “Absolutely not,” I mechanically commanded every time somebody broached the subject. “We are not talking about the stupid deer cull. Keep looking.” In August 2015, the Ann Arbor City Council voted 8-1 in support of contracting professional sharpshooters to decrease the number of deer in the city over the next four years. Two successive resolutions clarifying plans for the cull passed 10-1. In all of the resolutions regarding the deer cull, Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor (D) was the only voter to dissent, believing there was not enough community consensus to warrant the cull. “I fully emphasize and appreciate the concerns with the deer-human interaction.” Taylor said after the initial City Council vote last August. “At the same time, there are many members of the community whose sense of place in their city will be substantially affected by shooting deer within our borders,” To an extent, I agree with Taylor: The city government should not ostracize its citizens or diminish residents’ opinions through its resolutions. Hundreds of residents feel very strongly about the deer population in their hometown. They want the city to seek alternative solutions, and the city owes its residents a proper and thorough investigation into all issues of concern. But the most vocal opposition to the cull comes from the Humane Society of Huron Valley, headed by Tanya Hilgendorf, and local animal rights groups such as “Save the Deer.” Their main argument against the deer cull is based on ideas of nonviolence, innovation and the ethical treatment of all living things. “I was always in awe of this cultural and intellectual mecca,” one resident said in reference to the Ann Arbor community during a November City Council discussion of the deer cull. “What happened to seeking creative, non-violent solutions? Where are the best and brightest now?” I understand the resistance against the deer cull — I really do. Personally, I am awed by our Earth. All living things are important and contribute to the lives humans lead; we should be respectful and considerate of all life; we should be innovative and find solutions that result in minimal harm. But the belief that physically reducing the deer population

perpetuates the most harm is a privileged (and slightly naive) perception. *** Before human settlement, the wetlands, bogs and semi-forested areas of lower Michigan offered deer herds protection from predators and an abundance of vegetation to eat. However, by 1870, deforestation and unregulated hunting led to the extermination of deer in the southern part of Michigan. Meanwhile, deforestation in northern Michigan created an environment for deer populations to flourish. Near the end of the 19th century, the state government began implementing methods to control

Humans have irrevocably interfered with the natural trajectory and populations of animals. deer populations. In 1915, William Oates, game commissioner at the Department of Natural Resources, estimated that there were only 45,000 deer left in Michigan. Soon after, Oates proposed the “buck law” to the state legislature: A proposal that suggested hunters should only be allowed to take down one buck per hunting season. With the implementation of strict hunting laws, coinciding with yet another change in deer habitat, Michigan’s deer population rebounded. In the 1930s, field investigators reported a shortage of deer food and shelter in the cedar-swamps they had examined. In 1937, Ilo Bartlett, Michigan’s

To protect the lives of 100 deer that are increasingly visible in urban and suburban lives is hypocritical.

first deer biologist, claimed there was a combined 1.125 million deer in the upper and lower peninsulas. Despite action to reverse the dramatic increase in deer, the population reached a peak at 1.5 million in 1949. Twenty-three years later, Michigan’s deer population fell by 1 million. However, the major factor in the reduction of deer wasn’t the more lenient hunting laws, but rather an increased loss of and damage to deer habitats. To remedy these losses, Wildlife Division Chief Merrill “Pete” Petoskey and staff biologist John Byelich developed the Deer Range Improvement Program. In 1971, part of the funds garnered from selling hunting licenses was earmarked for commercial forestry. Through the creation of 70,000 acres of forest openings, conservationists worked to

improve the lives of Michigan deer. In 1989, the DNR’s efforts — with the effect of several mild winters and the public’s feeding of deer — helped the Michigan deer herd reach a new high: an estimated 2 million deer. Deer-vehicle accidents and signs of distress among deer populations increased once again. *** Today, the DNR and other deer conservationist groups aim to maintain a balanced doe-to-buck ratio. Deer management is its area of expertise; it has been trying to support ecological balance by monitoring wildlife. While plenty of mistakes have been made during the century that Michigan has been grappling with its deer population, the DNR and other conservationists holistically understand the lives of deer and their effects on the environment. According to the DNR’s website, “State government has a legal mandate and moral responsibility to act, even if contrary to public will, where the integrity of the resource is threatened. Thus, the real challenge of the future of deer management will be to carefully sort out the social from biological, to respond to the will of the public for the former, and to take leadership, even if unpopular, for the latter.” Humans have irrevocably interfered with the natural trajectory and populations of animals. To say otherwise is to ignore history and the effects it has on life today. To protect the lives of 100 deer because they are cute, fluffy mammals that are increasingly visible in urban and suburban lives is hypocritical. Fences may keep deer out of our yards, but what about the rest of the ecosystem? What about the marbled salamander, Hungerford’s crawling water beetle, the barn owl, the smoky shrew or the dozens of other species currently on Michigan’s list of Species of Greatest Conservation Need? Why are deer — who often have negative effects on some threatened species — more important than other living things? Why are we questioning conservationists’ sense of ecological balance when they have been managing deer for decades? In retrospect, I shouldn’t have shut down all conversation about the deer cull last semester. Editorial boards are inherently supposed to be democratic and my complete refusal to approach the subject was slightly dictatorial. However, despite all of my research and reading, my stance on the cull has yet to change. Maybe it’s because I’m from a rural area where people rely on hunting to survive. Maybe it’s because all of the deer meat has been used to provide for hungry families. Maybe it’s because I care more about the wildflowers than the deer. Or maybe it’s because I listened to the deer experts who have come to a consensus: Far worse ecological disasters can happen without deer control. —Aarica Marsh can be reached at aaricama@umich.edu.

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Watch out for Moe Wagner T

hough the story is one you’ll want to hear again, it’s not the story itself that matters. It’s the way Moritz Wagner tells it — with a smile on his face, fighting through laughter, LEV capturing the attention of FACHER the five or six teammates within a 10-foot radius of his chair in Michigan’s locker room. “I crossed over Chamberlain,” the 18-year-old German says proudly. Chamberlain? Redshirt freshman forward D.J. Wilson leans over to clarify: “He’s talking about Wilt Chamberlain.” Wagner nods. “Jerry West, too.” It makes sense that it’s Wagner who has changed Michigan’s team dynamic down the stretch. This type of unbridled enthusiasm and energy is Wagner’s specialty. The difference between November and now? Wagner has learned to bring that energy from the locker room to the court, and on the court, it’s shaking things up in a big way. Wagner’s triumph over two of the greatest players of all time, of course, happened months ago. More importantly, it happened in NBA 2K16, the video game — a fantasy matchup pitting an old-school squad starring The Logo and Wilt the Stilt against

Wagner’s old German club, Alba Berlin. The youngest player on Michigan’s roster this season, Wagner is also the only player to have a digital likeness. He brings it up sometimes, but his teammates aren’t impressed. “He’s terrible,” Wilson said of Wagner’s 2K character, even citing his player rating. “He’s like a 56 (out of 100).” But this is March 10, in the wake of Michigan’s Big Ten Tournament win over Northwestern, and Wagner is playing spot minutes. He’s still a week away from causing painful decibel levels in a packed NBA arena, energizing a team and a fanbase as he leaves hints of Mitch McGary’s 2013 Big Dance explosiveness right and left. But back to 2K. Wagner takes issues with Wilson’s assessment of his character, leading to more stories of video-game triumphs, then a debate: Who’s the Wolverines’ top gun in 2K? Wagner’s says it’s him, but sophomore forward Kam Chatman, entirely unaware of the instant fame he’ll experience the next day against Indiana, is having none of it. Neither are other teammates — “I beat him eight straight times,” Wilson says — and Wagner folds quickly. “I’m bad,” Wagner says sheepishly, about 10 seconds after claiming he’s the best on the team. Fast-forward a week, and Wagner still isn’t experiencing a crisis of confidence. He’s gobbling up the basketball and delivering an enormous put-

ICE HOCKEY

Motte, Compher, Connor replicate 1994 ‘Hobey’ feat By KEVIN SANTO Daily Sports Writer

The Michigan hockey team’s first line has been making headlines for a while now. And on March 16, it made another. Last Wednesday, the top 10 finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award were announced — and it’s no surprise that Kyle Connor, JT Compher and Tyler Motte were among them. The trio has set the Big Ten ablaze this season, with Connor leading the nation in goals and points, and Compher first nationally in assists. Motte has been exceptional himself, trailing Connor’s scoring total by just four goals. The announcement marked just the third time since the award’s inception in 1981 that three players from the same team broke the top 10, fitting for a line that has been so dominant. The last year it happened was 1994, when Michigan assistant coaches Brian Wiseman and Steve Shields donned the maize and blue sweater with fellow nominee David Oliver. Though Connor, Compher and Motte have largely pushed the award to the backs of their minds, having their names written below their coaches’ in the history book is still something they can appreciate. “(Being grouped with) the three guys, it’s just an honor,” Compher said. “It’s not the goal of our team, and that’s to win NCAA games and make the Frozen Four. (But) we thought about it for a couple minutes, congratulated each other. We had practice that day and it was back to normal.” The original Michigan trio was nothing short of phenomenal in 1994 on the way to the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals. Wiseman led the Wolverines in scoring with 69 points, Oliver scored 28 goals with 40 assists and Shields held

a 2.66 goals-against average. On top of the individual achievement, they were freshmen when Michigan’s streak of 22 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances began. Now, the current top line has a chance to jumpstart to a new streak, and one of them may have the opportunity to take home one trophy that Wiseman, Shields and Oliver couldn’t. But to do so may be even more difficult than usual with all three in contention. Back in 1994, none of the Wolverines won the Hobey Baker. In retrospect, Shields and Wiseman agreed that the three of them making the top 10 might have hurt Oliver’s chances. “He was Player of the Year in the CCHA that year,” Wiseman said. “He was a dominant player, a dominant goal scorer. If David Oliver was the only one, I think the outcome might be different.” Added Shields: “(My nomination) was probably based on my career, but David Oliver had the best year of any college player. I don’t know how the voting gets split or whatever, but the guy who won — and no disrespect to him — but David Oliver was the best player in the country. It was too bad for David, but Wiseman was the other best player in the country, and I was ( just) happy to be on the list.” Their experience in 1994 raises the question if history will repeat itself. After being put together in early December, the trio, now dubbed the “CCM line,” has wrought havoc on the Big Ten. Entering the NCAA Tournament, Connor, Compher and Motte are first, second, and fourth in points nationally, respectively. Even with numbers that could make the award committee do double takes, 1994 may be evidence: two is company, three’s a crowd.

back dunk in Dayton to send the Wolverines past Tulsa in a First Four game. He’s making two first-half appearances against Notre Dame and scoring within seconds of checking in both times, bringing thousands of Michigan fans at the Barclays Center to their feet. He’s dribbling the ball between his legs and taking the ball to the rack with the shot clock winding down, only to be whistled for a questionable and game-changing charge call that has the referee warning Michigan’s bench, nearly hitting Spike Albrecht with a technical foul. Charge or no, technical or no, one thing is clear: Wagner is the energy generator the Wolverines lacked all season long. Michigan assistant coach Bacari Alexander describes it as a “youthful exuberance,” but lately, it seems to be more than just that. Accompanying the exuberance, the happiness and the happy-golucky locker-room mentality is an underlying intensity that didn’t show until the season’s final weeks. It’s there now, for the whole basketball world to see. Wagner is still raw, still developing, still growing into a 6-foot-11 frame that will be a sight to behold once he fills it out. Wagner arrived in Ann Arbor at 211 pounds, but quickly jumped to 228 after just a few months of weight training and American food. With a full summer ahead of him and a love for Chipotle long since revealed, it’s easy to imagine Wagner undergoing a massive physical transformation

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Freshman forward Moritz Wagner showed flashes of impressive play during Michigan’s postseason run.

this summer. Wilson, Wagner and sophomore forward Ricky Doyle all emerged from Michigan strength coach Jon Sanderson’s famed boot camp with doubledigit weight gains, and Wagner’s frame is still the one with the most space for added weight and muscle. Regardless of size, Wagner is a player who’s capable of changing games in a moment. “He came (to Ann Arbor) in July,” said Michigan coach John Beilein after the Tulsa game. “He’s from Germany. He’s still only 18 years old today. So he’s

been away from home a long time, and he’s done well. He brings me energy every day. He’s a terrific kid.” Wagner’s nature has never been in question. He’s a favorite of teammates, fans and the media alike, and when he steps on the court, he’s impossible to miss. Beilein’s early-season warning rang true — there will be times when Wagner appears lost on the court and there will be times when Wagner drops jaws, like he did with a thunderous step-across dunk at North Carolina State in December or a

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The Michigan men’s lacrosse team couldn’t hold off a late Marist rally Wednesday night at Michigan Stadium.

Wolverines fall to Marist Red Foxes mount late comeback, knock off Michigan at the Big House By MIKE PERSAK Daily Sports Writer

It has been a tough stretch for the Michigan 7 MARIST 6 MICHIGAN men’s lacrosse team over the past two weeks. It suffered a blowout loss to then-No. 5 Brown on March 12, and it failed to complete a comeback against Dartmouth

on March 19. Wednesday, the Wolverines had an opportunity to right the ship against Marist with nine minutes left in the fourth quarter. Holding a 6-3 lead, they looked primed to do just that. But then, the Red Foxes mounted a comeback of their own, scoring three goals in just over six minutes to tie the score at six and force overtime. With its back against the wall at a potential turning

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point in the season, Michigan needed some leadership from somewhere, anywhere, to score a goal and put the team on the right track. There was only one problem: The Wolverines’ two leading scorers, junior attacker Ian King and senior attacker Kyle Jackson, were watching from the sidelines with injuries. The highscoring tandem was replaced by a group of inexperienced freshmen and sophomores. Freshmen attackers Rocco Sutherland and Brent Noseworthy, along with freshman midfielder Decker Curran, compiled a combined three goals and two assists, but fell short of completely filling the hole that King and Jackson left behind. Marist ultimately topped Michigan, 7-6. “I thought (Sutherland, Noseworthy and Curran) looked like freshmen at times,” said Michigan coach John Paul. “I think they’re capable … it’s the first time (they) have had this kind of weight on their shoulders. I thought they did some good things and made some good plays, but they also looked like it was the first time with this kind of weight on their shoulders.” Despite the lack of offensive firepower for the Wolverines, they held up tough on the defensive end for most of the game. Junior goalie Gerald Logan faced 36 shots while allowing seven goals, and he stood toe to toe for most of the night with Marist goalie Brian Corrigan, who boasts the thirdbest save percentage in the country. Additionally, like in Saturday’s game against Dartmouth, Michigan actually had the advantage in many statistical categories. Senior faceoff man Brad Lott won the faceoff battle again, and the team had the advantage in ground balls as well. “I liked our energy today,” Paul said. “I thought it was a lot better than it was this weekend. That was something we focused on.” Though the Wolverines now have a week and a half to right their wrongs and get healthier before their next game, their schedule doesn’t get any easier. The team prepares to welcome Maryland to Michigan Stadium on April 2. “They’re certainly one of the best teams we’re going to face all year,” Paul said. “So we’ve got to get this past us, and we’ll see how tough we are on Monday.” It is currently unknown when Jackson and King will be able to return, but while Jackson is sporting a walking boot and King is in a sling, Michigan will need to look to someone else to head in the right direction.

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Seven Mile Music Brings Harmony to Detroit by Dayton Hare Daily Arts Writer ALLISON FARRAND/Daily

People have been noticing the salubrious effects of music for a long time. Both in regard to individuals and the public at large, its health benefits have been trumpeted by musicians, scientists and perhaps overly enthused devotees the world over. Studies of varying veracity have linked listening to and participating in music with everything from improved immune systems to heightened computational ability, in some cases leading to cultural waves which gathered cult-like followings (for instance, the “Mozart Effect” movement, born out of a particular widely misunderstood study). In recent years the fields of music therapy and the cognitive neuroscience of music have flourished, borne aloft by public goodwill and interest driven by both the intriguing nature of contemporary discoveries and pop-science proselytizers (see: Oliver Sacks “Musicophilia”). But in addition to music’s effects on the individual, there’s also great interest in its health effects — in the less literal, non-anatomically inclined sense — on society. Music has been shown to be an excellent tool for building communities, strengthening bonds between

groups of people and providing a collective sense of purpose, particularly when children are involved. This isn’t either a new idea or a secret — even as early as 1837, when Lowell Mason’s dream of public music education became a reality in Boston, a report submitted in support of his proposal cited many of these same concepts (along with a few other reasons that sound a bit ridiculous today, such as “It appears self-evident that exercises in vocal Music, when not carried to an un-reasonable excess, must expand the chest, and thereby strengthen the lungs and vital organs,” which laughably argued that singing could cure/prevent tuberculosis). Most notably in recent years, however, a Venezuelan program colloquially known as El Sistema has achieved massive international renown for its successes. Founded in 1975 by the musician and activist José Antonio Abreu, El Sistema started with a mere 11 students rehearsing music in an underground parking garage and the goal of lifting economically disadvantaged children out of poverty. Of El Sistema’s mission, Abreu has remarked, “Music has to be

recognized as an agent of social development … it has the ability to unite an entire community, and to express sublime feelings.” By others, El Sistema has been described as a remarkably successful public health project. In the intervening decades since its founding, El Sistema has expanded to include over 500,000 students and inspired similar programs in other nations (including the United States), where the concept has been warmly received. Laudation has been in plentiful supply; in 2009, Abreu and El Sistema were awarded the TED Prize (as in TED Talks), and in 2007 one of El Sistema’s star students, Gustavo Dudamel (perhaps best known outside of the music community as the crazy hair conductor meme), was named to follow the highly respected Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, a post which he still holds and likely will hold for several years to come. But after all of that, it is important to remember that 40 years ago, El Sistema began as a small program made up of just a few students and leaders with a vision — a description that could apply equally well to Detroit’s

Seven Mile Music. “It’s certainly the same concept,” Sam Saunders, founder and president of Seven Mile Music, said of his program’s similarities to the Venezuelan program in an interview with The Michigan Daily. “I think (Seven Mile Music) is in line with El Sistema … in that its focus is to allow access to everyone, not just those with the means previously.” Saunders — who is a senior studying music composition and piano performance at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance — started Seven Mile Music in the fall of 2013, with the aim of providing free music lessons to Detroit’s inner-city youths, taught by University students. Beginning with the neighborhood of Brightmoor, Saunders hoped to fill what he saw as a distressing void in the opportunities available to children from the city. “I just found that (for) children in some of the roughest areas, there were just no resources coming to them. In many ways, but particularly in music, I saw almost none of it,” Saunders said. “I read that Detroit was cutting all funding to arts and music in the schools,

and that sort of affected me personally because I knew how important music was to get me out of a sort of rough situation … I knew how important music would be for certain children to rise above their circumstance. So I thought particularly in a city like Detroit, it was just a crime to do away with music education.” Saunders began Seven Mile with very little in terms of a support network, and the road to its founding was challenging. Without knowing anyone in the area, Saunders started by driving down Seven Mile Road, in the heart of Detroit, stopping at every church and community center to propose his idea — where he was met with reactions ranging from suspicion to welcome. Eventually, Saunders found the perfect environment for the program. “I came upon Brightmoor, which is just known as one of the worse-off areas of the city, and I went to the community center, and I met the leader of the community center, a man named Dennis Talbert,” Saunders said. “And he was so supportive of the music program, he just couldn’t contain his excitement about it.” There were many things about Brightmoor that made Saunders

feel that his idea could work well within the community, not the least of which were the people he met. “I started meeting more people around here, and I saw that Brightmoor really has a grassroots community of leaders from within who are really working to make it a better place,” Saunders said. “I saw the combination of a neighborhood that lacked many resources but also had a lot of positive energy, and it just seemed like a perfect fit.” In the years since, Seven Mile has expanded in scale and attracted some attention. In 2015, Brightmoor and Seven Mile Music were the subject of a documentary short called “The Key of B,” previously reported on in the Daily. Much has been written and said about the economic plight of Detroit, the generalities of which are universally known enough that reprinting them here would be unnecessary. Let it suffice to say that when I accompanied Saunders and other members of Seven Mile into Brightmoor that the dilapidated state of many of the houses we passed confirmed a great deal of what is said about See SEVEN MILE, Page 2B

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SEVEN MILE From Page 1B the city but my observations at our destination also lead me to lend credence to Saunders’s statements regarding the positive energy of the community. The trip in which I took part was actually one of Seven Mile’s newer offshoot programs, dedicated to a combination of visual art and creative writing. The art program goes to the neighborhood on a weekly basis. There are also two weekly music trips, a large trip with about 20 teachers on Fridays and a smaller trip with about six on Wednesdays. We arrived at the building of Mission: City — one of Seven Mile’s community center partners — around 7 p.m., finding a handful of students finishing some tutoring sessions. The common room of Mission: City had the smell of an elementary school classroom and complimentarily themed decor (an example: a poster of check-boxes, reading “Bullies are: Not Cool, Not Friendly, Not Popular, Not Respected, Not Welcome, All of the Above,” the last option of which bore a big red checkmark). To our right a boy was constructing a Eiffel Tower-like structure using gumdrops and toothpicks. On the back wall of the community center there were several rows of uniquely patterned tiles, each apparently hand-crafted and bearing the name of a person or group to which it was presumably dedicated. While I conducted an interview with Saunders, students worked with Seven Mile’s art teachers on a Van Gogh-themed project. At the beginning of the activity, students wrote haikus about sunflowers, and then proceeded to draw their own sunflower images, using Van Gogh’s famous painting as a model. In a side room of the building, a couple of boys could be heard drumming on a table with markers, prompting Cece Simonsen, a teacher with Seven Mile, to say to Saunders, “Go talk to them; they should join the drum corps” — another of Seven Mile’s more recent programs. During the course of the trip, Saunders showed me a closet full of the instruments Seven Mile uses, a collection of various keyboards, violins, cellos and guitars, most of which were purchased using money collected via a GoFundMe page. Like many nonprofit organizations, Seven Mile is frequently low on monetary resources, and relies upon public donations given through either their GoFundMe page or website. Currently, the

organization is in the middle of an instrument drive, the goal of which is to collect both instruments and funds with which to buy more. “We’re doing an instrument drive with Spring Fest, with Music Matters … that’s the thing we’ve been (flyering) around campus about,” said LSA junior Mike Payne, Seven Mile Music’s board chair. “For the students who aren’t able — because of time commitments or for other reasons — who aren’t actually able to help us out by being a teacher, by being a volunteer, they still can do something,” Payne continued. “If you haven’t played an instrument in a while, and you’ve put it down for a while, and you’re sort of at that point where you think you’ve moved on from it — that instrument still has a lot of value, especially to the students that we work with that wouldn’t otherwise get the opportunity to play. It could sit at home or it could be in the hands of a child.” In addition to the programs Seven Mile offers during the academic year, they also operate a summer camp in Brightmoor called Brightmoor Arts Camp, which has very similar aims to the main program, with slight additions.

“This really could change the whole trajectory.” “It’s an eight-week program … the goal was to bring in some of the teachers we already had, but also bring in teachers and musicians from the community to make sure that the music and culture of the area was still being cultivated,” Payne said. “It really was something that was sourced from Detroit.” During the course of the previous summer camp, Saunders lived in Brightmoor in order to better get to know the community. Following his graduation from the University this semester, Saunders plans to move back to the neighborhood to continue growing the program as much as he can during a planned gap year before attending graduate school. “I’ve always dreamed big for this,” Saunders said. “I see this at first spreading to the (rest of the) city of Detroit … and then spreading around Michigan — Flint, Saginaw, Benton Harbor — some of the more underprivileged areas of Michigan.”

In addition to the state of Michigan, Saunders has long-term goals for Seven Mile, which include dramatic expansion. “I definitely want it to go national,” Saunders said. “I think there is a need for this all over. I see a model where we provide start-ups at other universities — like Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, we would provide an umbrella funding, curriculum, everything needed for a motivated student at Johns Hopkins to start a subsidiary program. I really want it to expand nationally, and I see that happening through the collegiate system.” Part of the reason why Saunders is so passionate about bringing music to disadvantaged children is his own early experiences with it, and the transformative effect it had on his life. “I started playing piano when I was about 10, and it really got me on a better track in life,” Saunders said. “I was just not doing well in school, I was not doing well socially, I just wasn’t doing well all around. And I discovered a love of music, I discovered I had a talent for it and I just discovered an outlet for myself.” Saunders also cited the positive social health effects of music, particularly emphasizing the impact it could have on children from underprivileged backgrounds. “Just on the most basic level, I think it is the purest form of emotional expression, so particularly a child in a troubled circumstance, with a lot of emotions welling up inside of them, it gives them an outlet for those emotions,” Saunders said. “It’s not like these emotions disappear — either there’s an outlet or they fester and grow into something worse, like depression or violence. A lot of children in a neighborhood like Brightmoor have very few extracurricular activities … so they have very little to do with their time. Combine nothing to do with a very troubled situation and you often have a child getting into a bad circumstance.” While expressing a wish to not overstate what he believed Seven Mile could accomplish — mentioning that the program would likely simply be a bright spot in the week for many of its students — Saunders did display optimism about the sort of existence-altering effects Seven Mile could possibly create. “I think it does have the potential to be transformative,” Saunders said. “If we find a couple children that really have the aptitude and passion for it, then this really could change the whole trajectory of their lives.”

MUSIC VIDEO REVIEW A broken record sputters and repeats, much like the opening of Little Scream’s “Love As a Weapon” music video. Zooming out of an ornate frame, the shot B reveals singer Laurel SprenLove as a gelmeyer Weapon lounging in a wooden chair, Little Scream surrounded by wood-paneled walls. The scene changes only slightly with each repetition, not unlike a game of spot the difference. The rest of the video follows in an equally quizzical fashion: metallic hands dancing in American Sign Language, tube lighting illuminating a man voguing and Sprengelmeyer dancing in a brightly lit entryway wearing a sequined windbreaker as he sings, “Remember your greatest gift is to dance.” The majority of the video is surreal, making it impossible

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Since 1928, the Michigan Theater has existed as a bastion of community culture. It was originally designed as a “movie palace” — an institution characteristic of the era — for silent films and stage productions. In these early years, it was common to preface films with a 30-minute stage show complete with an orchestra and pipe organ, which has persisted as an essential fixture of the theater. It’s nothing short of extraordinary for the Michigan Theater to boast two of these musical rarities, considering only 7,000 were assembled during the limited heyday of theater organ production, spanning from 1912 until 1932. These theater organs are a special type of pipe organ designed specifically for silent film accompaniments. Their ranks, or sets, of pipes, imitate the instruments of the bygone orchestras as much as possible — not just the percussive instruments of chimes and bells. Since 1971, these giant instruments have dwelled beside each stage of the Michigan Theater. They’re loud, and occasionally fear-inducing. They accompany theatergoers throughout the emotional journey of a silent film, or provide a soothing overture to preface the daily matinee. Today the Barton pipe organ of the main theater and the electric organ in the screening room are played by five organists — Henry Aldridge, Andrew Rogers, Stephen Warner, Lance Luce and David Hufford — and heard each day. “We are truly blessed to have the full support of the Michigan Theater staff,” Aldridge wrote in an e-mail interview with The Michigan Daily. “The Barton is an integral part of the theater’s activities. Patrons come early to the movies just to hear it.” For 40 years, Aldridge served as a professor of electronic media and film studies in the Department of Communication, Media & Theatre arts at Eastern Michigan University, with the organ serving as more of a hobby. Much like his other organist peers, he was always interested in music — the church pipe organs instantly intrigued him as a child. “Our church, St. Paul’s, had an outstanding music program, and I was very familiar with church pipe organs,” Aldridge wrote. During his undergraduate years at the University of North Carolina, he began playing a small theater organ at the Center Theater in Durham. After coming to Ann Arbor in l970, Aldridge led a team of volunteers in working on the Michigan’s instrument in l971, beginning to play it in public in l972. He subsequently took theater organ lessons from Father Jim Miller of Fenton, Mich., through whom he met future fellow Michigan Theater organist Rogers. In an interview, Rogers

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The vintage organ helps give the Michigan Theater its charm.

referred to Father Jim as the best instructor in the area. “Music was always something that I tried to do in between the cracks of everything else,” Rogers said. What originally served as a hobby while Rogers worked at a plastics factory and then a travel agency became his primary source of income. Though Rogers now typically plays two to five times during the week, he’s always willing to substitute for fellow organists. “You like it that much?” the Daily asked. “That and it is my job,” Rogers said in response, laughing. “We’re really lucky to be here. It’s really a gift. To have an original organ in its original home is rare.” The instrument’s rarity surely makes it a local treasure, but it poses challenges for the primary musicians. Theater organs are considered a thing of the past, and music for them is no longer composed. “They can’t be taken on the road, and there aren’t too many places to play,” Rogers said. “It’s really a double-edged sword.” With minimal music for organists today, especially theater organists, the musicians must take on the role of composers and create original arrangements. For the organists of the Michigan Theater, this typically means creating their own film scores for upcoming silent films the theater will screen. The process is lengthy, often spanning two to three weeks, during which the organists watch the films over and over, collecting moments and emotions to reflect in the form of a compelling composition. “You’re taking this musical material, the basis, the melody, the harmony and just reorganizing it kind of in real time,” Warner, another of the organists, said. “You want to make what you do a part of the movie.” Usually, the organists start from scratch and watch the silent films without the provided score. According to Rogers, creating a successful score often means making sure the music doesn’t draw attention to itself. Still, the music does have the ability to control the audience’s expectations. Rogers referred to Hitchcock’s silent film “The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog,” which features a woman unwittingly falling for a Jack the Ripper-type serial killer, as an example.

“Musically, I have to decide when to let you know she’s safe in his presence,” Rogers said. “(By using music), you actually control part of the plot.” “Try to capture the essence of what the filmmaker was trying to do,” Warner said. “Carry the emotion — intensify it, maybe, nuance it, but don’t change it.” Some film scores require more work than others. Warner said he often creates a theme and assigns variations to different characters. This requires practice playing pieces in different styles. The standard running time for these feature-length films is 70 minutes, but there are some more ambitious projects. For long films like the often fourhour-long epics of D.W. Griffith, the scores require broader brushstrokes; the music doesn’t change every 15 seconds. “I haven’t done (any of those) yet,” Warner said. “I don’t know if I have the guts to do it.” The Michigan Theater in particular offers the ability to expand the musical palates of its audiences, and it continually offers new opportunities for the organists themselves. “Being in a venue like this, you can be experimental,” Warner said. “I know I have an adventurous audience here.” To these organists, the relative obscurity of available organ music and the antiquated nature of the instrument doesn’t mean it has nothing to offer in the modern world. After all, the theater organ has always faced scrutiny. “Even in its heyday, there was certainly a tension between the theater organ and the classical organ,” Warner said. Warner also believes that the theater organ still has a place in modern music education. “This is something we should actually learn about,” he said. “(After all), my personal music interests are far before my time. I’d love to start bringing back some of my pop music.” Even if organ music never does make a significant resurgence, it still holds real value to the Michigan Theater organists. “The instrument has a huge, colorful palate, and it has a huge, expressive capacity,” Warner said. “In the end, that’s kind of the reason I play it. You can have some really magical musical moments, singing for your audience through this big mechanical beast.”

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for viewers to place the house in which the actions take place at a certain point in time or space — decades and genres are spanned. There doesn’t seem to be any connecting force between the barrage of scenes, colors and movements other than their randomness. It’s not until the shot again moves to the picture frame that opened the video that the pieces begin to fall into place. Continuing

out through the frame hanging upon the wall, Sprengelmeyer is shown walking down a snowy lane alone, repeating “gonna work it out, gonna work it out.” As this sentiment echoes, we see Sprengelmeyer strutting through the snow, puzzling the same conundrum as the audience — how to make sense of the home within her head. - CARLY SNIDER

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Late night, romantic ruminations over what could’ve been, what has been, and what may be; OVO Sound’s roster B+ has a sizeable collection Come and of artists See me who foster this sound, feat. Drake Drake most PARTYNEXTnotoriously DOOR being the maestro of this aesthetic among them. Taking on the mantle from the Champagne Papi himelf, PARTYNEXTDOOR’s first single off his much awaited project, P3, is the latest example of the histrionic gunslinging of emotions that the two artists have become well known for. While “Come And See Me” isn’t anything particularly groundbreaking or new in its content or aesthetic, it’s

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tryna play the part / Just cause he got a heart don’t mean he got heart.” PND is working with his bread and butter in “Come And See Me.” That might garner some critics, and it may leave something to be desired for some listeners. But all in all, the soulful arrangement of “Come And See Me” is a great move if he wants to safely drum up hype before P3’s release. - ANAY KATYAL

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I really don’t want to start another piece talking about being cooped up in Espresso Royale and contemplating life. It’s been done before, and if there’s anything a burgeoning writer strives to avoid, it’s clichés. But I’m here — the walls are the kind of red that looks like home, the paintings are abstract enough to distract me — and I’m starting to think. Funny how that works. Espresso is a fine establishment that arguably fuels the entire city of Ann Arbor, serving up fresh brown nectar that nourishes the busy bees of town every day. They sashay these streets with their burgundy cups in hand, headphones on ears, life restored. Buzzing, buzzing, buzzing. But since I’ve been on a mini caffeine-hiatus lately, I need something more. I don’t have a burgundy cup in my hand. The background conversations aren’t cutting it today; my eavesdropping abilities are kind of rusty. Nay, I need a great song to fill the void. After all, what else can? Love, some say? But what the hell is that? I’d be lying if I said Espresso’s playlists aren’t confusing. At this very table, I’ve written an English essay to The Bends by Radiohead, read “Twelfth Night” to something that literally sounded like Gyorgy Ligeti’s “Lux Aeterna” and heard some good ol’ Marcy Playground while sending out about 200 e-mails in a row. These jams have done the job at their respective, distracted playtimes, but right now music is paramount. I need the real good stuff in my ears, the ooeygooey fusion of voice and instrumentation that will command my full attention and sweep me off Earth and help me forget. “So what’s your favorite song?” I ask Natasha, Megan and Maddie. *** Natasha says, “La vie en rose” by Edith Piaf. The track is creaky, smoky, almost as if it was recorded that way on purpose. Cooing brass and strings lead the listener in, but somehow it doesn’t sound hokey — and this bit goes on just long enough, mimicking Edith’s iconic cadence. Dahhhh, dah dah, dah dah, dah dah. The original queen enters: “Des yeux qui font baisser les miens / Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche.” Come again? “Eyes that

gaze into mine / A smile that is lost on his lips.” Ah, okay. Now we’re talking. She’s in that kind of love. Piaf straddles the fine line between desperate longing and the simultaneous thrill of a mundane conversation — as long as it’s those eyes, those lips, all of it is ecstasy. La vie en rose. Her verses are a casual tête-à-tête in a Parisian café, but her chorus is an amphitheater of bended French syllables and deep dives into the diaphragm that yields the world’s most romantic growl. It’s no wonder the song is universally beloved. Somehow, Louis Armstrong’s version pales in comparison — all covers seem weak, inappropriately meek. Piaf gave us courage and attitude, and she showed us that it was perfectly okay to be yourself when you fall in love. None of that feigned sugary bollocks. Just sweet sass. And then Megan says, “There is a Light that Never Goes Out” by The Smiths, which is one of my favorite Smiths songs (and songs in general). Megan is right on with this one. Unfortunately, I can’t help but think of Zooey Deschanel when I hear it because of the elevator scene in “(500) Days of Summer,” which aroused every jeans-rolledup hipster man in the nation. But if you can push the bangs and the Manic Pixie Dream Girl “quirk” to the way back, “There is a Light” shines through. Morrissey is melancholy but trying his best not to be: “Take me out tonight / Where there’s music and there’s people / Who are young and alive / Driving in your car / I never never want to go home.” As he’s on the cusp of asking this auspicious girl out, he finds he can’t, but he’s still so content driving with her. He sounds almost childish, clingingly puerile when he pleads, “I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care.” Whether that’s the agony of life or the agony of love beating at his glorious British chest is uncertain, but it’s intoxicating nonetheless. Like a car driving down a highway at night, the song’s drums are the engine. The guitar chords are forward-thinking; the strings are filled with enough whimsy and wonder and fleeting phrasing to make you think everything is going to be okay. “To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die,” Morrissey weep-croons. It’s happy. It’s sad. It’s us. And then Maddie says, “Some-

body to Love” by Queen. Ah yes, the ultimate ballad of horniness. Does it get better than this? Freddie Mercury is better than Morrissey, debatably better than Piaf. His voice is obliterating everything I just listened to, and I’m sitting here smiling like an idiot. How did someone combine opera and rock so well? Where did that voice come from? How is it so masculine yet so pretty, and how does it overflow with passion while still hitting some of the most delicate, crystalline notes in rock ‘n’ roll history? I don’t know. I could go on and on and try to dissect it, like I did with the first two, but that’s not helping me. I can sit here and ponder and ponder, wondering why I don’t have a favorite song and why my three friends were able to rattle off theirs so quickly, and I can try to unravel the enigma of Mr. Mercury. But that won’t give me a favorite song. That won’t tell me why sometimes I get irrationally freaked out, nor will it explain how I can feel incandescently glad a few minutes later. And we can’t even bring love into this, not again. Music, then, is what we’re left with. What I’m left with — always. I’m here, in Espresso, with Freddie and Edith and Morrissey and now Rivers Cuomo of Weezer, and they’re talking about everything. Songs are a kind of eavesdropping, a two or three-minute long glance into the lives and loves of certain lucky, creative individuals, and we’re fortunate enough to have headphones to facilitate our nosiness. I’m trying to hear it all; I need something to invigorate me like the coffee I’m smelling, the people I’m seeing. Smiling, smiling, smiling. Just as Cuomo is about to finish, I pause my music in a daze. Playing in Espresso, I notice, is some ethereal troubadour singing a real depressing number, probably lamenting the loss of his Birkenstocks — bizarre, as usual. I smile. And I’m given a choice: I can look at the walls again, notice the paintings. I can start to think, and wonder if I’ll ever find a favorite song, if this one is the one, if Freddie actually found somebody to love. Will I? A big breath. My pulse starts to decelerate. My finger hovers above the keyboard. I press play. Or I can just listen.

COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW

Internet fame: The ‘Damn Daniel’ effect By SAM ROSENBERG Daily Arts Writer

What exactly does it mean to be a celebrity in 2016? Or, better yet, what does it mean to be famous in 2016? Apparently nowadays, if you’re part of a viral video or some other Internet phenomenon, you’ve already reached celebrity status. Time Magazine recently put out a list of “The 30 Most Influential People on the Internet,” yet some don’t seem very influential. One particular case is that of Josh Holz and Daniel Lara, the teenagers behind one of 2016’s most popular memes, “Damn Daniel.” The two garnered Internet fame after posting a collection of funny Snapchat clips on Twitter, in which Holz recorded Lara walking around while screaming “Damn Daniel!” and “Back at it again with the white Vans” in a strangely cartoonish voice. Thus, the “Damn Daniel” meme was born, and America ate it up. After the videos garnered extreme popularity (approximately 200 million+ retweets and 300 million+ likes), Holz and Lara made an appearance on “Ellen,” cameoed in Weezer’s “California Kids” music video, walked the red carpet at the “Allegiant” movie premiere and Lara earned a lifetime supply of white Vans. In addition to all that, Internet users have posted “Damn Daniel” trap remixes, created “Damn Daniel” tattoos and so forth. While the titular star of “Damn Daniel” did use his stardom wisely (he donated the lifetime supply of Vans to

a children’s hospital), it’s kind of funny to think that someone can become famous simply by having a pair of shoes, a camera phone and a Twitter account. That being said, the past few years have shown that viral videos and social media have been the major catalysts for transforming ordinary people into online superstars. Last year, for instance, “Alex from Target” took the Internet by storm when a picture of an attractive Target cashier went viral. As I mentioned in one of my first articles for The Michigan Daily, the video-sharing app Vine is a perfect example of this. With its six-second limit, Vine allows users to capture hilarious, spontaneous moments and creative, improvisational clips. Though Vine can be beneficial in showcasing the talent of aspiring young actors and highlighting other realms of pop culture, it’s also a way in which companies can capitalize on the fame of popular Viners and make them into corporate sellouts. Numerous “Vine famous” stars also take advantage of their online celebrity by coming together in highly populated areas for “Vine meetups” to sign autographs and take pictures with fans. The reason why this troubles and intrigues me so much is that fame, especially Internet fame, is a tricky double-edged sword. While it can be a great platform for helping raise awareness on a social cause or giving back to the community, it can also lead to media scrutiny, TMZ paparazzi and second-rate imitators. The way in which people yearn to

be as close to the limelight as possible is perhaps an even bigger reason as to why people on social media become “famous.” I witnessed this type of obsession with instant celebrity in high school. In the spring of 2013, I watched a senior from my high school, Jake Davidson, become an overnight sensation when he starred in a viral video titled “Kate Upton, Will You Go to Prom with Me?” I can recall spending half of my first period biology class huddled around a computer with other students to intently watch a KTLA profile interview on Jake. He was also featured on CNN, Yahoo and Ryan Seacrest’s radio show. Other students at my high school would jokingly take pictures with Jake and share it on social media to show off to their friends that they “met” the “Kate Upton guy.” During that time, I remember thinking how amazing and insane it was that someone from my high school could become that famous instantly. But like most Internet “celebrities,” fame comes and goes. Months from now, “Damn Daniel” will be a fading memory, relived only for nostalgic purposes. Yet, most of all, there seems to be one big change when it comes to achieving American fame: fame used to be perceived as this ideal way of living that was only within the reach of actors, musicians, athletes and entrepreneurs. Now, in an era of virality and expanding media outlets, it seems as though becoming a celebrity can be as simple as a click of a button or the tap of a touchscreen.

By DAYTON HARE Daily Arts Writer

Most instruments within the realm of Western classical music have a long and elaborate history, their origins veiled in a certain amount of mystery. Violins, flutes, cellos, oboes — all have long Prism lines of ancestry and plumed Saxophone pedigrees, all Quartet have pedagogues and Sat., 8 p.m. pedagogies. As Northside a result of this Community long history Church and the deeply ingrained $22 GA, $17 traditionalstudents ism inherent in classical music culture, new instruments often have difficulty establishing themselves within the repertoire, forced to overcome the prejudices and obstinate attitudes of the elder instruments. This is certainly the case with the saxophone, whose origin — in sharp contrast to earlier instruments — is a clear and specific part of the historical record. Invented by Adolphe Sax in 1840, the saxophone has since become most famous for its prominence in jazz music, played virtuosi such as John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. But in addition to the saxophone’s well-known affiliation with jazz, the last several decades have seen the rise of saxophone in the classical music sphere. Soloists and chamber groups of enormous ability dazzle audiences with newly composed music for their instrument — and perhaps there is no more famous classical saxophone ensemble active today than the Prism Quartet, who will be performing in Ann Arbor Saturday. “The Prism Quartet formed in 1984,” said Timothy McAllister, soprano saxophonist for the quartet and associate professor of Saxophone in an interview with The Michigan Daily. “At the time, they were all graduate students at the University of Michigan here, all under our great mentor, the professor emeritus of Saxophone Donald Sinta.” While the quartet originally formed as a group of students seeking to advance their education through competition, it soon grew into something with a greater sense of purpose. “They formed to perform locally and also to compete in local and national chamber music competitions — they ended up doing really well, and won a few major competitions, which led to a more serious

plan and mission for the group,” McAllister said. “Very quickly the group started to get involved with commissioning new music — contemporary music by living composers, namely those associated with the University of Michigan here, faculty (and) recent graduates.” In the years following its founding, Prism was a major force in the promotion of the saxophone as a serious chamber music ensemble rivaling the traditional string quartet, a heterodoxy which soon distinguished them from the crowd. “The idea of the saxophone quartet being something out there that would rival the traditional chamber music models — I think that was much more a pioneering effort on behalf of Prism,” McAllister said. “(Because ensembles like the string quartet) have so much more history, (Prism) worked very quickly to make up that ground, just by getting today’s most important composers to write for the saxophone quartet.” Since its founding, Prism has had several member changes. McAllister himself was hired in 2000, the third soprano saxophonist to be a member of the ensemble. Today, the quartet is comprised of McAllister, Taimur Sullivan on baritone, Zachary Shemon on alto and Matthew Levy — the only remaining founding member — on tenor. “We’ve always hired from ‘Michigan aesthetic,’ which is quite singular, both born out of the playing styles of Donald Sinta himself and his teacher Larry Teal, who was the first professor of saxophone anywhere in the United States,” McAllister said. “The first professorship in that field started here at Michigan. We’re very proud of that.” Prism has long been associated with the University, and in the past few decades has served as a model to saxophone students in the School of Music, Theater & Dance. “I did four degrees here at the University of Michigan, in the music school, and I knew for myself I grew up knowing about the Prism quartet, I came to college here knowing its history and its trailblazing status,” McAllister said. “That was an inspiration for all of us who were in the (saxophone) studio at the time.” For the concert on Saturday, Prism will be working with several creative collaborators. Renowned jazz saxophonists Diego Rivera and Andrew Bishop will be joining the ensemble for performances of “Improvisations” by Chris Potter, “Found” by Matthew Levy

and John Coltrane’s ballad “Dear Lord,” arranged by Dave Liebman. “We wanted to really collaborate with some really fantastic local jazz musicians, because the program called for that,” McAllister said. “The goal has been to show this merging of the classical tradition with the more academic jazz tradition, and basically to show the middle ground, to create a collaboration that demonstrates both sides of the instrument as a single organism.” The program’s primary featured piece is “Improvisations” by Chris Potter — a legendary jazz saxophonist — which was composed for the quartet, the concept being that the composer/performer would join the quartet to play in their own piece. When the piece was premiered it was played by Prism, Potter and Ravi Coltrane, the son of John Coltrane. On this week’s program the piece will be performed with Rivera and Bishop. “The whole concert is quite a collage of a lot of our activity. It showcases some of our more serious classical pieces, it showcases some heavy concert jazz music and it has some transcriptions,” McAllister said. “So it’s kind of a nice survey of our legacy, of the kind of activity that we’ve embarked upon for the whole history of the group but also in the more recent history of the group.” In the upcoming concert, Prism will also be premiering a new piece by William Bolcom, a Pulitzer prize winning composer and professor emeritus in Composition at the University. Bolcom’s work, “Schumann Bouquet,” is a transcription of piano music by the Romantic era composer Robert Schumann. “We wish for no major composer living composer to leave this Earth without at least considering writing for saxophone quartet,” McAllister said of the quartet’s mission. “And if we can have a place in getting those people to write for our medium, great; if we can be at the forefront of getting their attention, great … but we really actively seek out the leading figures of our time.” Those who attend Prism’s Saturday concert will witness a broad collection of musical styles, as it is a program designed to break the oftfound stylistic unanimity common in classical music concerts. “There can be such a chameleon-like quality to the instrument so much that from piece to piece, style to style, genre to genre, you will feel that each of those is genuine, and almost complete identifiable with the saxophone,” McAllister said. “And yet each piece will sound different.”

FILM REVIEW

Jem Cohen at AAFF By VANESSA WONG Daily Arts Writer

The narrator in Jem Cohen’s film “Lost Book Found” says, “as I became invisible, I began to see things that had once been invisible to me.” Films by Filming city Jem Cohen streets unobGravity trusively with a single camera Hill Films and plucking his Ann Arbor narratives from months or years Film Festival worth of documentary footage, Jem Cohen’s films do just that. His work hones in on small details, layering snippets of individual stories to build a distinctive portrait of city life. A hybrid of documentary and narrative, Cohen’s films look to the landscape of cities — the streets, objects and debris tossed to the wayside — to understand their inhabitants. Other times, he separates individual people from the bustling crowd on the streets and focuses on someone walking, talking on the phone or simply standing, a poetic perspective on seemingly mundane daily life. “Night Scene New York” roams Chinatown’s night streets. Pedes-

trians dash for cover from the rain in “Helianthus Corner Blues,” a poetic second look at an ordinary nuisance. Crossing the pond to London, “On Essex Road” is a watchful observation of everyday engagements with historic cultural markers. The “Gravity Hill Newreels” chronicle the Occupy Wall Street protests in the fall of 2011. Unlike news media, Cohen’s films do not focus exclusively on the implications of the protest, but rather take the time to understand the protestors themselves. Organizers lead groups in reciting a protest manifesto, people crowd around tables lined with literature. We read various protest signs, see a nod of solidarity between strangers in the encampments, watch volunteers pass out coffee and pack supplies. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s “The Passage Clock,” the films overlay imagery of Parisian architecture with a narrator reading through the various dictionary definitions of “passage” for a haunting exploration of motion and travel, evolution and loss, communication and archive. “Lost Book Found” reminisces about a notebook wherein its author meticulously groups and chronicles spaces all over the city. It’s a history of New York City

slinking through forgotten alleys and discount stores, using the relics of commerce to explain what the past was like and the direction it took. Cohen’s shots are constantly in motion, restless with the taut energy that drives the people in them. A roving camera settles its eye on a subject as a smattering of pedestrians will dash across the foreground, temporarily obstructing the view. Hints of someone’s arm gesturing mid-conversation peek out from the edges of a frame. While Cohen pinpoints the beauty in individuals, it’s the public intersection where all their stories converge that is truly mesmerizing, and Cohen captures the atmosphere masterfully. Yet in spite of the relentless movement, Cohen manages to pluck out the exact details needed to make time slow down. As viewers, we’re immersed into the lives of his subjects. We stream across busy sidewalks, overwhelmed with our own thoughts and the external stimuli bombarding us, but then we look up and catch the eye of someone passing us. Cohen’s work captures that split second of understanding that this is us and this is you, and we see each other, before we both whizz off into the next chapter of our individual lives.

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CULTURAL CURES COLUMN

How do I talk to sexy strangers at bars? Dear Gillian, This past Friday I went to a bar with some friends. When we finally escaped the line outside and entered this underground space, I immediately headed to the bar for a drink. It was there that I saw him. Brown silky hair and green eyes. I was GILLIAN JAKAB instantly mesmerized by this complete stranger. I spent the entire night trying to come up with a line or something to say to him, but at the end of the night I went home without even speaking to this man. This is why I am writing to you. I have never been good at approaching people at bars. The idea of rejection terrifies me; maybe he already has a partner, maybe he has no intention of speaking to strangers at a public bar or maybe he too wanted to speak to me, but was just as nervous. As I headed home, I thought that if I was perhaps in a class with this man or if he was attending a house party that I was at, I would have approached him. Something about being at a bar and talking to stranger has always intimidated me. How can I overcome this fear of rejection? – Lust at First Sight Dear Lust, From the tabernae along the Appian Way to Beowulf’s Mead Hall to the Mos Eisley Cantina of Star Wars, bars have always served as places of edgy, vaguely dangerous adventure. Whether they lead to anything or not, there’s an excitement to encounters with the unintroduced. Though not everyone you approach will be available or interested, neither will anyone judge you for testing the waters and sussing out your stranger. Unlike your counterexamples from class or a house party, encounters at a bar are based on having very little in common besides what’s assumed by venue choice. The crowd at Aut Bar is way different from that at Skeeps, and both are different from that at Rush Street. Then again, we’ve been to them all; the smaller the city, the less niche-y its spots can afford to be. At a house party, you have the hosts in common, or at least run into the same groups of friends; in class, you share an intellectual interest or at least a desire to pass. Bar patrons can be anyone from anywhere, and connections tend toward the lowest common denominator. (The fact that those might be too low for your

instincts, Lust, is not a bad thing.) For these reasons, bars as pick-up spots tend to conjure images of uncertainty, romantic emptiness or even sleaze. So why do you keep regarding bars as places of romantic potential? Jay McInerney sums up the paradox in his novel “Bright Lights, Big City”: “The problem is, for some reason you think you are going to meet the kind of girl who is not the kind of girl who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning.” Depending on the vibe of your spot, though, it may be a really nice place for some flirtatious chat. Then comes your next problem: a dearth of information. Is he interested in your gender? Is he interested in you? Is he single? Does he remember last week when you made eye contact at the other end of the bar? Look at Archibald Motley Jr.’s painting “Nightlife.” Documenting the Black social life of Bronzeville, Chicago’s South Side community, the background of the painting is injected with the exuberance and rhythm of the jazz age. In the foreground Motley captures the disjointed and thorny drama of the scene: a man at the bar can summon only enough courage to get his upper body to beckon, his hips and feet still unmoved facing the bar. This hesitancy results in an ambiguous gesture that leaves the three women confused about who he wants — one who’s taken, one who wants him and one who hasn’t even noticed. Now, Lust, in case you want some, the liberal arts offer some clever pick-up lines and here are several examples: Sylvia Plath: “Kiss me and you’ll see how important I am.” Patti Smith: “Will you pretend you’re my boyfriend?” Pablo Neruda: “I’d like to do with you what Spring does with the cherry tree.” Gary Shteyngart: “I’m the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! … Isn’t this how people used to fall in love? F. Scott Fitzgerald: “I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties, there’s no privacy.” That reminds me: I’ve been meaning to warn you against adopting Gatsby’s game. Don’t rent out The Last Word, publicize it robustly and arrange the invite of your green-eyed hottie. Things go terribly wrong if you try to deploy contrivance after contrivance to draw your Daisy close. So even if you’ve taken a trip to the bathroom for a quick Facebook stalk after catching a glimpse of his signature as he closed out his tab, resist the urge to name-drop

that mutual friend of yours or ask how he enjoyed last semester in Copenhagen. You write of the moment when you were instantly mesmerized, Lust. There’s nothing that takes you out of the mundane like the non-verbal communication of a stranger’s gaze. For Baudelaire, this was at the heart of the experience of the modern city. You might give a read to his poem, “To a Passerby,” a meditation on the anonymous figure who walks into your life and right on by. While it’s great fodder for poetry, I’d suggest avoiding the fixation of a voyeuristic flâneur; it’ll be creepy. Let that moment stir you, but stop staring. I’m assuming you’re not at this bar alone. Friends (his, yours) can help reduce the fear of rejection. It’s best, though, to avoid any overt competition or goofiness like the sailors on shore leave in Jerome Robbins’s ballet “Fancy Free.” The sailors don’t know what to do with their sea legs in the big city filled with beautiful broads. They fumble over each other (with exquisite choreography) for the poor gals’ attention. If after all this you still want to get better at approaching guys in bars, you might watch Diane Keaton in the 1977 film “Looking For Mr. Goodbar,” based on the Judith Rossner novel of the same name. Her character seems to have no problem night after night. But it ends horribly. I don’t know if this is the advice you want, Lust, but I believe your intimidation about approaching strangers at bars is healthy and noble. No matter how fine these strangers may be, hitting on them in that milieu is not naturally your thing, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I’d keep my ears alert and listen for an invitation to join the conversation, head to the dance floor or make come-hither eye contact. If nothing of the sort presents itself, all is not lost. When you get out of the bar, you can drop your intimidation like a bad Econ course and not rest until you find a way to meet this young man in a context that suits your style.

Send an email to deargillian@ michigandaily.com or anonymously here describing a quandary about love, relationships, existence or their opposites. Gillian will attempt to summon the wisdom of the arts (literary, visual, performing) to soothe your troubled soul. We may publish your letter in the biweekly column with your first name (or penname). Submissions should be 250 words or fewer and may be edited prior to publication.

EPISODE REVIEW Since the beginning of CW’s excellent first season of the musical comedy “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” we have watched protagonist Rebecca A Bunch (Rachel Crazy Bloom, Ex-Girlfriend “Robot Chicken”) Season 1 develop Episode 15 from a delusional, depressed New York lawyer into a sunny, self-aware California woman. In this week’s episode “Josh Has No Idea Where I Am!,” the show focuses on the interplay between Rebecca and her friends, where Rebecca’s doubts about her ability to maintain loving relationships are literally manifested in a hysterical yet poignant dream sequence. After last week’s cliffhanger — Rebecca leaves on a plane and is seated next to her therapist Dr. Akopian (Michael Hyatt, “Nightcrawler”) — it’s quickly revealed that Rebecca is in fact not on her way to Hawaii to be with Josh, but back to New York City in hopes of getting her job and old life back. Disillusioned by Josh’s rejection of her, Rebecca has lost all hope in justifying why

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she moved to West Covina in the first place. But after falling asleep from ingesting a huge amount of sleeping pills and a Bloody Mary, Rebecca finds some insight from her subconscious, portrayed by Dr. Akopian. Together, the two women look through Rebecca’s memories of her childhood and college years to examine her relationship with her estranged father and a fling with a pretentious theatre major. By contrasting the memories with her current life, Dr. Akopian shows Rebecca that she in fact has people in her life who care about her well-being. Gradually, Rebecca realizes those people are her best work friend Paula (Donna Lynne Champlin, “The Good Wife”), her boss Darryl (Pete Gardner, “The Brink”), her cynical on-and-off again love interest Greg (Santino Fon-

tana, “Frozen”) and her summer camp crush Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III, “Hostages”). Like many of “Crazy ExGirlfriend” ’s episodes, “Josh Has No Idea Where I Am!” works on all levels, from Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna’s incredible writing to Steven Tsuchida’s sensitive direction to the typically fantastic acting of the ensemble cast. The episode’s only musical number, “Dream Ghost,” is a riveting treat as well, with Hyatt singing alongside welcome guest stars Amber Riley (“Glee”) and Nicki Lake (“Hairspray”). Its deft balance between sincere drama and witty comedy only furthers the story’s progression and the show’s status as one of the best and most underrated TV programs in the 2015-16 season. - SAM ROSENBERG

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MUSIC NOTEBOOK

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Don’t you hate it when your homeroom teacher is wack?

Bummer Yung Lean By JOEY SCHUMAN For the Daily

Yung Lean is wack to the fullest extent. Wack enough, apparently, to have his tour bus shot at, which happened Mar. 18 after a Pittsburgh show. Scary, yes, but more than anything this shooting seemed to signal to the music world that the 19-year-old was somehow still relevant after two studio album releases that ranged from shaky (Unknown Memory) to flat out questionable (Warlord). Much has been written about the enigmatic 19-year old Swede; Lean (real name: Jonatan Aron Leandoer Håstad) initially unearthed a hotbed of rap fandom through his use of early to mid-2000s cultural references and proved sneakily introspective while spitting out lines that scream in the language of phony — on “Kyoto,” off of Lavender EP (2013), he claims, “I got an empire of emotional squad / see me cruisin,’ cruisin,’ in my go kart / I’m War ho, I’m Warhol / I’m Wario when I’m in Mario Kart.” The first time I heard Yung Lean was, appropriately, during my December 2013 trip to Israel. My first thought was that it

was kind of funny. My second thought was questioning why I was listening to a 17-year-old rap about getting his balls licked by a Zooey Deschanel lookalike. My final thought was questioning why I was listening to this adolescent rap about getting his balls licked by a Zooey Deschanel lookalike while I was in a car ride from Masada to Jerusalem. My scenery consisted of beautiful, pure landscapes en route to arguably the world’s holiest city, and nothing about life at that moment felt kosher. Listening to “Ginseng Strip 2002” felt so wrong, yet so right, and I loved it. It was then that I understood the true essence of Yung Lean; he was the best type of joke. What initially cultivated his brand was his expert tiptoeing of the line between innovation and idiocy. He started a bucket hat-wearing, probably not lean-consuming cult by taking what other rappers didn’t take seriously and making it his own. There wasn’t much substance in his raps, but his absurdity, heavily complemented by fairly unpredictable production from buds Yung Gud and Yung Sherman, presented a different, totally welcome total rap package.

Everything since then has been, for lack of a better word, confusing. He’s started taking himself more seriously, which is probably a good thing for his natural human development, but definitely a bad thing for his career prospects. When he put out Warlord in February, I finished listening to it in a state of disarray. On “Hoover” he quipped, “Wake up with some liquor in me / wake up, and the world is empty / wake up, bet my bag is empty / wake up, take a trip to Paris.” What came out of this album was just dread — I wasn’t expecting a Justin Bieber-esque character shift for the worse, I didn’t want such dark, trappy production and I definitely wasn’t comfortable with a seemingly alcoholic Yung Lean. If the young rapper wants to maintain his unique spot in hip hop, the most sensible move would be to halt such a transition. Yung Lean is fun, but he’s most fun when he’s making the type of “meme rap” that people don’t really need to take seriously. The current climate of the genre allows room for something like this, and hopefully he provides it. There’ll continue to be quite a few “sadboys” alongside me if not.

COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW

‘Wall-to-Wall’ fest By KELLY MARTINEK Daily Arts Writer

On Saturday and Sunday at 7 p.m., the Walgreen Drama Center on North Campus will transform into a diverse performance space. Walking Wallroom to room, to-Wall audiences will Theatre move between the worlds of Festival Shakespeare Sat. & Sun., and Greek 7 p.m. tragedy, experiencing Walgreen dance Drama Center performance, Free musical theatre and the original works of University of Michigan students. The Wall-to-Wall Theatre Festival is three years old and producer, director and LSA graduate Clare Brennan has been involved since its inception. According to her, the festival serves as an opportunity for students to see a variety of different genres of theatre in one night. “We have nine pieces, all being performed in different spaces in the Walgreen Drama Center,” Brennan said. “They’ll be in the lobby, they’ll be in classrooms, some pieces will be in hallways or in small practice rooms. Audiences show up at 7 p.m. and they can go to any of these nine pieces, and then see another show after the piece is done. So you can see five or six shows over the course of the night.” Brennan’s piece is an original work, an amalgamation of 10 of Shakespeare’s sonnets. She and her cast wove the sonnets together and created a storyline that links them, a romance that falls apart. Film work and other media are incorporated into the live performance as well. Producer and School of Music, Theatre & Dance senior Allyssa Powell has also been involved in the festival since its beginning. Powell said the idea for the festival originally came from School of Music, Theatre & Dance graduate

Neal Kelley. “It started as kind of a passion project, and we involved people who had something they’ve been dying to perform,” she said. “It’s a very unique experience, and it’s one of a kind on this campus. It’s really cool to walk in the door and not know what to expect.” Something that makes Wall-toWall unique among on-campus theatre productions is the concept of “roaming theatre.” The nine, 25-minute acts perform in different parts of the Walgreen Center and audiences roam the building, moving from act to act. School of Music, Theatre & Dance junior Leia Squillace, whose piece will be formed on the grand staircase in the lobby of the Walgreen Center, called the festival “site-specific,” emphasizing the importance of the diversity of performance spaces to this event. “Wall-to-Wall really breathes this air of experimentation,” she said. “You’re forced to be experimental because you’re not in a conventional space. You have to figure out how to use that space to your advantage, and I think the shows that are the most successful are the ones that embrace that space for what it is, as opposed to trying to navigate around it.” Squillace is involved in Wallto-Wall for the first time this year. She is directing a 25-minute condensed version of “Trojan Women,” a Greek tragedy originally written by Euripides and translated into modern English by Ellen McLaughlin. This translation was created in collaboration with a group of female refugees from the Bosnian War, and Squillace said the themes of community and how communities support each other through tragedy are important to her piece. School of Music, Theatre & Dance junior Larissa Marten also emphasized the opportunity for experimentation afforded by Wall-to-Wall. Marten will be performing a 25-minute excerpt from an original one-woman show called “I Killed the Cow,” which she has been working on for six months.

“Each night you get to do your show four or five times, so you get really great feedback on what sections work, what part of your writing lands, what part of your writing doesn’t land,” she said. “So it’s great from my perspective as a workshop learning experience because you get to do your show so many times after another. And because the sections are so short, I feel like, especially for students, it’s a really great opportunity to create work, because it’s not that big pressure of ‘Oh, I have to create a full length show,’ and that’s why I think students really flourish.” Marten said her piece will involve a large amount of audience participation. She aims to get her audience to think and talk about their memories of sex and to “take sex out of the dark.” “The piece I’m performing is called ‘Lost, Shared, Taken,’ ” Marten said. “It’s centered around the idea that, today, sex is not talked about enough for people to really feel comfortable. It’s the idea of how we become the sexual beings that we are.” Other performances include “Good Intentions,” a satirical work directed by School of Music, Theatre & Dance sophomore Sam Hamashima and “By Candlelight,” a performance by student dance group Sitelines, directed by School of Music, Theatre & Dance junior Ellen Wallace. This diversity of performances, Squillace said, allows the festival to make theatre accessible to everyone. “For people who don’t like theatre or aren’t typically exposed, I just think it’s the most genius idea,” she said. “One, it’s free, so no consequences. Two, you can stay as long or as short as you want.” Powell agreed that Wall-toWall has a unique ability to share new pieces and kinds of theatre, even to theatre junkies. “It’s another way of arts education and instilling the arts in people’s lives, because that is often not the case,” she said. “It’s exposure to art forms you’ve never heard of, but also stretching the idea of what theatre can be.”