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Detroit cafe to open new storefront in Ann Arbor Avalon International Breads will replace Mezzevino on Liberty Street
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University President Mark Schlissel speaks at a Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs meeting in the Fleming Building Monday.
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Schlissel discusses response to anti-Black posters with faculty At SACUA meeting, members also expresses concerns about DEI plan ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter
University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel discussed anti-Black and antiIslam posters hung around campus recently at the Senate
Advisory Committee on University Affairs meeting Tuesday, praising faculty response. Faculty members also expressed concerns about the recently launched University Diversity, Equity and Inclusion plan, with some characterizing it
as a quota system for increasing diversity. In response to the poster incidents, Schlissel said he felt reassured by the number of faculty — including members of SACUA — he saw take action, calling the posters “overtly racist and pretty disgusting.”
He encouraged an open dialogue among committee members on how he can increase campus engagement between faculty and students. “I don’t think we’ve seen the last of racism on the Michigan campus, or anti-Semitism or See SACUA, Page 3
Detroit-based bakery Avalon International Breads is expanding outside the city by opening a brand new cafe in downtown Ann Arbor. The bakery closed a deal last Monday to secure the location of the former Mezzevino Mediterranean Kitchen and Bar on 129 E. Liberty St. The retail bakery will be named Avalon Hearth and Soul Café and is on track to be open by the end of this year. University of Michigan alum Jackie Victor, co-founder and CEO of Avalon International Breads, said 60 percent of her
wholesale market — including Arbor Farms Market, People’s Food Co-op, Plum Market and Whole Foods — comes from Ann Arbor, and her roots here that were an influence for opening a cafe. “When I was a student at the University of Michigan, it was where I originally got the idea for a bakery, because I used to volunteer — periodically, not on a regular basis — at a co-op bakery called Wildflour Bakery,” Victor said. “Working at Wildflour was a really powerful way to see how a small space like that could really create a lot of warmth in a community, plus provide something that was healthy See BAKERY, Page 3
As Election Day nears, Democratic ‘U’ police Discussion called over groups have high presence on campus on Detroit
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Students for Hillary held a “Why #ImWithHer” event on the Diag at the University of Michigan on Monday — just one of the events held in support of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in anticipation of Election Day. The group set up a table and asked students passing by to take photos with a cutout of Clinton and state why they were supporting her in the upcoming presidential election. With the election just one week away, club members said they want to both spread word about the election and encourage students to vote for Clinton, as well as show support for the nominee on social media. LSA freshman Suraj Sorab, a member of the Students for Hillary leadership team, said the club is increasing its efforts in the final week leading up to the election. “The election is coming up next week and we wanted to make sure that in terms of ‘get out the vote’ that we are coming upon making sure that people are voting for Clinton,” Sorab said. “We chose the Diag because it is very public and we want to make sure that we can get Hillary Clinton into office.”
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For the second time in two days, University of Michigan Department of Public Safety and Security officers were called to the Diag Monday night to respond to student concerns about a man seen carrying an Islamic State flag and dressed in a thwab, a traditional Arab garment. The man was first seen and approached by the police Sunday night. The man, an Ann Arbor resident who only gave his first name, Carlos, said he was wearing the clothing as a costume. He noted he did not have any identifiers saying he was a Muslim on his clothing so passersby should not assume he is of the faith, adding that he considers himself a theocrat — a person who governs as a representative of a religious deity. “This is my Halloween costume; I thought it was provocative,” Carlos said. “I decided to wear it because I thought it would be provocative and I was hoping that it would start an honest discussion about ideas.” He added that he hoped to See ISIS, Page 3
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In addition to today’s Diag event, the University’s chapter of College Democrats canvassed with Clinton’s campaign in East Lansing during the Saturday football game between Michigan and Michigan State as part of a competition between the two schools to recruit the most volunteers. Along with a final campaign push prior to the
election, many groups were active in voter registration prior to the Oct. 11 deadline. Now, organizations at the University continue to raise awareness through demonstrations on the Diag and watch parties during presidential debates. Sorab said after the registration deadline passed the focus switched to keeping voters aware of the upcoming
election date. “While voter registration was still open we were out trying to get people to register to vote so we can mobilize as many voters as possible for Clinton — even though we registered anyone regardless of who they supported,” Sorab said. “Now that the registration is over, our focus is in sending out emails and See HILLARY, Page 3
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LSA freshman Evan Swinehart from Students for Hillary passes out stickers and encourages students to support presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign at the Diag Monday.
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Student comment on ‘U’ role in city sparks discussion MATT HARMON Daily Staff Reporter
As Detroit city official Carol O’Cleireacain was wrapping up a lecture Monday on the fiscal future of the city, a University of Michigan student and Detroit resident said during a Q and A he felt the official’s description of Detroit was offensive and inacurate — pointing to her comment calling Detroit a “rich public policy laboratory” for students in Ann Arbor. O’Cleireacain, Detroit’s deputy mayor for economic policy, planning and strategy, was speaking at the Ford School of Public Policy on Detroit’s financial crisis. Her presentation centered on Detroit’s past, present and future financial situation. “A laboratory is not necessarily an experiment,” O’Cleireacain said in response to Public Policy junior Stephen Wallace. The lecture was sponsored by the Ford School of Public Policy’s Center for Local, State and Urban Policy, and approximately 100 University See DETROIT, Page 3
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ON THE DAILY: CAMPUS EVENTS AHEAD OF ELECTION DAY With Election Day one week away and many University of Michigan students voting in what is most likely their first presidential race, many campus organizations are holding events for students to engage with their fellow classmates in conversation about their beliefs and what they think the most important issues will be in the next four years. Events slated to occur in the next eight days include Issues & Ale: Election Night Viewing Party, a screening of the documentary “Bring it to the Table” and a election night results watch party hosted by the Ginsberg Center. Before the big day, the documentary “Bring It to the Table” by filmmaker Julie Winokur will be screened Thursday at the Ford School of Public Policy Auditorium from
6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The film captures dialogues from citizens in diverse neighborhoods across the country who speak about politics and how it affects them. Issues & Ale — hosted by the Ford School of Public Policy and Michigan Radio — is an election night viewing party at Fraser’s Pub. Attendees will be able to engage in political trivia and analyze the election results with the help of Michigan Radio Stateside podcast host Cynthia Canty and a panel of experts. Additionally, several campus groups will host another election night watch party in the Rogel Ballroom at the Michigan Union Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. This event’s website encourages students to “get a healthy dose of democratic engagement” by joining fellow students in non-partisan debate
and results watch parties, which All University dining halls are co-hosted by the Center for will also be making a special Campus Involvement and the Election Day breakfast on Edward Ginsberg Center for Tuesday. Community Service Learning.
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Detroitography WHAT: An exhibition featuring maps of Detroit will be held by an organization that’s democratizing map-making and refocusing data. WHO: Institute for the Humanities WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Institute for the Humanities, Osterman Common Room
WHAT: Panelists Alex Halderman, professor of Computer Science, and Walter Mebane, professor of Political Science, will discuss how technology is influencing elections. WHO: Information and Technology Services WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Michigan League, Ballroom
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WHAT: An open-mic storytelling competition will be open to anyone with a fiveminute story to share on the theme “persuasion.” WHO: Michigan Radio WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Circus Bar and Billiards
WHAT: Come visit the Vedge Cafe on their grand opening day, where they will have their full menu, with rotating items, carry-out and even surprises. WHO: Vedge Cafe WHEN: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Vedge Cafe, 205 N. Main St.
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WHAT: Michael Cohen will talk about the 1968 election, political division, the rise of conservative populism, the decline of political liberalism and the rise of antigovernment attitudes. WHO: Ford Presidential Library WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Gerald Ford Library
WHAT: Voted Guitarist of the Decade by Guitarist Magazine and Best Accoustic Fingerstylist four years running by readers of Guitar Player, Guitarist Adrian Legg will be performing a concert. WHO: MUTO WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: The Ark
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WHAT: Michigan Visiting Nurses Home Care Services will give flu shots to students with accepted insurances for free, otherwise the cost is $25. WHO: School of Dentistry WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: School of Dentistry, Sindecuse Atrium
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After resigning as county commissioner amid concerns of a conflict of interest, then abruptly re-entering a election race for the seat, Conan Smith (D–District 9) is facing widespread disaffection from segments of his constituency. However, even some of his critics admit it will be unlikely for him to lose re-election because of the amount of straight-ticket Democratic voting expected on Election Day. Smith originally resigned as commissioner in August followed Mary Morgan, former publisher of the Ann Arbor Chronicle and executive director of the CivCity Initiative, a nonprofit based in Ann Arbor dedicated to
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out of consideration for the OCED position on Oct. 13 and stated his intention to pursue re-election as commissioner of his district instead. He faces a write-in challenge from public relations professional Jen Eyer (D–District 9) — who was appointed to serve as interim commissioner following Smith’s departure — as well as several other candidates. Only Smith’s name will be on next Tuesday’s ballot. In an interview, Smith pointed out that he did not violate any state guidelines, saying he sought the OCED job to better the living conditions of county residents. He compared his pursuit of an administrative position in a body he represents as an elected official to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s choice to accept a nomination to be Secretary of State while a U.S. senator. “I took an extraordinary step in resigning my seat in order to make sure there was no even potential conflict of interest. I was doing extra work to ensure that the ethical standards that our community holds were adhered to,” Smith said. “It happens all through government, you see people leaving their elected positions to take on jobs inside county government, city government, township government.” Speaking to his current campaign for the seat, Smith said he intends to use his position as commissioner to make county resources more accessible to residents and fight economic inequality. He cited his previous efforts in regionwide coordination of services and shaping the Regional Transit Authority ballot proposal. Local resident Jeff Hayner, one of the write-in candidates See COMMISSIONER, Page 3
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County official stepped down in August following percieved unethical behavior increasing civic engagement in the community, sent a letter to the Board of Commissioners alerting them that Smith’s pursuit of a job as director of the county’s Office of Community and Economic Development represented a conflict of interest. Commissioners have the potential to influence the hiring decisions of the county’s full-time staff. Because Smith’s resignation came after the July deadline to withdraw from the ballot and followed his victory in his uncontested Democratic primary election, it was too late for others to file for independent or Republican campaigns against him on the November ballot, though several individuals have chosen to run as write-in candidates. Citing the controversy surrounding his pursuit of the county job, Smith took himself
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DETROIT From Page 1 students, faculty and alumni were in attendance. Wallace, who grew up in East English Village on Detroit’s east side, said in an interview after the event that he believed O’Cleireacain painted lowerincome citizens of Detroit as projects for research, something he found particularly demoralizing as a resident. “I found that referring to Detroit as a laboratory for public policy experiments (was) very offensive because you’re dealing with people’s real lives,” Wallace said. “I am very fortunate to come out of my neighborhood and go to one of the best schools in the world, but I had a lot of opportunities that some people don’t have and to refer to their lives and their futures as experiments … is a very slippery slope. It causes you to view the city and the people in it as something less than human.” When asked about Wallace’s question after the lecture, O’Cleireacain declined to comment. O’Cleireacain devoted most of the lecture to the city of Detroit’s financial strategy. Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy in July 2013, making Detroit the largest municipality to file for said chapter of bankruptcy in U.S. history, slashing approximately
SACUA From Page 1 homophobia,” Schlissel said. “I think that faculty have a big role to play in helping our students.” Schlissel also noted that throughout his interactions with various groups on campus about the incident, students have expressed disappointment that many professors did not bring up the incidents in their classrooms to discuss. “It was on the forefront of the minds of a lot of our students, almost in a way that distracted from learning,” Schlissel said. In the discussion that ensued, Schlissel and many committee
ISIS From Page 1 spark discussion of the greater political discourse, particularly amid the upcoming presidential election. “I feel that liberals have failed standing for liberal ideas,” Carlos said. “They have failed to be as critical of communities of faith that have attached to them communities like ISIS or people that are radicalized — who have ideas — that are not compatible with liberal values.” A student who wished to remain anonymous said he called the police upon seeing the man for the second time since Sunday night. “He was walking past the Math building through the Diag,” the student said. “He was walking with the flag … There’s a problem with, I think, in particular, the fake firearm, because that’s not legal.” Police came to the scene, spoke to Carlos and patted him down. Carlos said police asked him to leave both Sunday and Monday night. “Apparently this guy is just against how liberal
HILLARY From Page 1 text messages, and these public displays as well.” In addition to local efforts, Clinton’s campaign has nationally been working to appeal to the youth vote in addition to encouraging people to participate on Election Day. Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea Clinton, hosted a conference call with students around the country in September reminding them of the importance of millennial participation in the election. Young people historically have low voter turnouts and the current millennial generation is no exception. While there has been a gradual increase
$18 billion in debt. In October 2014, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan confirmed New Yorker O’Cleireacain as the deputy mayor for economic policy, planning and strategy. At the lecture, O’Cleireacain assured audience members that Detroit’s economic operations will not be returning to the state of the city was in before the bankruptcy.
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“There are strict recording, budgeting and oversight standards that have been written both into state law and into the bankruptcies … that are governing Detroit’s fiscal reality and behavior for the next 40 years and very strictly until 2024,” she said. “Virtually nothing about Detroit’s financing and budgeting will be the same as before and, folks, that’s a really good outcome.” Along with these guidelines, O’Cleireacain discussed what Detroit offers to University students. Describing the city as a “hollowed field,” she said
students at the University will have the chance to implement new public policy technology in a city without common infrastructural systems, such as a stable school system. “LED street lighting, mobile health units, smartphone-based on-street parking meters, and Internet bus arrival times have been implemented in the last two years and that’s just the tip of the iceberg,” O’Cleireacain said. During the Q and A, Wallace said the litany of infrastructural reforms O’Cleireacain listed in her speech are not reflected in his experiences in Detroit. “My street had one light on it,” Wallace said. “There’s abandoned buildings everywhere, there’s tall grass everywhere. Streets are filled with litter. This cleanup isn’t happening … You don’t see the improvement in the neighborhoods and with the people.” O’Cleireacain emphasized that economic recovery will not occur without the inclusion of all Detroit citizens in the process. “While Downtown and Midtown are well on their way to recovery, the recovery has to include the Detroiters who live in neighborhoods largely left untouched by Downtown and Midtown,” O’Cleireacain said. Wallace was approached by several students and faculty members after the event,
members talked about increasing faculty interaction with the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, a center dedicated to improving teaching responses to events that impact campus climate, by having the center facilitate trainings on having difficult discussions in classrooms and phasing in training for faculty new to campus. SACUA member Robert Ortega, a professor of mechanical engineering and naval architecture and engineering, suggested extensive resources should be made available to faculty. “I think some of the students have difficulty with the kind
of language to engage in these conversations; some don’t even have the words,” Ortega said. “Our approach really has been one of humility and that is, even the instructors don’t have the answers — we certainly can aim the discussion, but it has to be done with great care.” Though Schlissel acknowledged that making the use of CRLT resources mandatory for faculty members might receive an adverse response, he said he hoped faculty would want to use resources the community had deemed important. “Mandatory scares people, but if it’s something that really touches our values as
“It causes you to view the city and the people in it as less than human.”
media portrays such an open environment and something about how they neglect the more oppressive culture of Muslims,” Carlos said. DPSS spokeswoman Diane Brown told The Michigan Daily Monday night that the man is not committing any determinable crime due to his right to free speech. Following his encounter with the police, which he filmed on his iPhone, Carlos spoke to a number of students gathered around him to explain his ideology. Among the students was one militaryaffiliated male who felt especially offended and a female student who said she didn’t know how she felt about it. LSA senior Nicole Khamis, who witnessed the event, said as a Palestinian she felt offended by the man’s actions, adding that it perpetuated a dominant rhetoric around Islam being violent. “He’s perpetrating this by, first off, he’s dressing up as Muslim or somebody who believes in Islam, continuing furthering that stereotype that Islam is a violent religion,” Khamis said. “When if you look at ISIS and you look at the text they use, it’s very specific and it’s cherry-picking and
anybody who’s actually Muslim and believes in the Quran you can see that they disagree vehemently with ISIS and their use and contextualization of this.” Carlos said he found much of what students told the Daily in response to the Sunday incident untrue, though he did not mention any specific claims. Students said they felt offended by Carlos’ actions. “I want to get rid of political correctness that keeps us afraid of having a real honest debate about this, and that’s why I did this,” Carlos said. “I knew that it would be offensive and I guess I feel that there’s costs and benefits. The cost being that it is offensive, but the benefit is that we get attention, we get a conversation going here about what’s going on.” He added that he expected a backlash from students; however, he said he doesn’t oppose that if the people are doing it in opposition to radical Islam. “I’m not here to make people mad,” Carlos said. “I want to have a clear critique of ideas, and I want there to be space in our public discourse for that critique of all systems of belief … I’m not saying that what I’m doing is ‘working’ — it doesn’t have to ‘work.’ ”
over the years, the numbers of young voters still remains low. Less than 20 percent of people under 30 voted in the 2014 midterm elections — the lowest
Sanders’s strong presence on the University’s campus, he returned to campaign for Clinton for the general election in attempt to persuade college students to vote for Clinton. Despite students’ support of Sanders in the primary, LSA junior Jay Dutcher, campus outreach chair of Students for Hillary at the University, said he believes Clinton is the best candidate not just for the nation, but also for college students. “Hillary believes in the American Dream and believes that America is already great and believes in the future for kids our age and human rights,” Dutcher said. “She thinks all kids should have equal opportunity with their education and future.”
“Hillary believes in the American Dream.” youth turnout rate in recorded federal election history. During the primaries, Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I–Vt.) support from college students helped him up-set Clinton and win the state of Michigan. Following
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Carol O’Cleireacain, deputy mayor for economic policy, planning & strategy for the city of Detroit speaks at an event on Detroit’s fiscal issues at Weill Hall on Monday.
thanking him for his question and comments and asking to speak with him in the future about public policy projects in Detroit. Among those who sought out Wallace was Tom Ivacko, administrator and program director of CLOSUP, who said he believed some of O’Cleireacain’s remarks may
have been misinterpreted. However, he said Wallace was correct in questioning how policies impact people. “(In regard to her public policy laboratory comment), I interpreted Dr. O’Cleireacain’s statement in light of the famous phrase by Louis Brandeis: The states are ‘laboratories of
democracy,’ ” Ivacko said. “It’s easy to think about policies on a theoretical level but they impact people’s lives directly and so there’s numerous roles for the University to be engaged at the policy level in neighborhoods dealing with people and dealing with organizations. Being engaged is the key.”
a community, I don’t think mandatory should be threatening ... but something that we as a community agree is important enough to make mandatory ourselves,” Schlissel said. In response to the concerns of member of SACUA regarding the DEI plan, Schlissel stressed that a quota system is not part of the University’s strategies. “There is no quota system,” Schlissel said. “There are no quantitative targets as part of the plan.” Specific racial quotas are illegal in college admission policies, after the Supreme Court ruled setting aside specific seats for minorities went too far in diversifying schools in 1978. The
Supreme Court has since upheld a Michigan proposal banning race-based affirmative action of any kind in 2014. The University stopped using affirmative action in 2006, when voters approved the statewide ban, and Black enrollment slipped from around 10 percent at the time to under 5 percent today. In addition to discussing the posters and the DEI plan, Schlissel and members of the committee also discussed improvements in financial aid, an issue heavily emphasized in the upcoming University Board of Regents’ elections, especially as tuition prices continue to increase each year.
“We’ve increased our shared investment and financial aid has gone up over 10 percent per year,” Schlissel said. “The quality and the depth and the size of our pool is fantastic. What we really have to do is work hard on socioeconomic diversity and all the other points of diversity.” Ortega echoed Schlissel’s remarks and stressed outreach as a crucial factor in changing the way financial aid is allocated. “When we talk about the Michigan difference, that’s part of the difference,” Ortega said. “The other one is what they get while they’re here as part of the difference and what happens after.”
“I don’t know at what point he made decisions or what the timeline was. I feel like it’s not my place to second-guess those decisions. I will say the net result was a confusing situation for everybody involved but I can only focus on my campaign and what my standards and conduct will be.” She acknowledged the difficulty write-in candidates face in being elected due to greater straight-ticket voting in presidential election years. However, she emphasized that she is running a “robust campaign,” and has raised $1,500 for her campaign as of Oct. 24, according to state financial disclosure forms. Ann Arbor resident Judy Foy, who said she has largely agreed with Smith’s agenda as commissioner, noted that his
handling of the OCED issue disappointed her. Foy also expressed disappointment about a lack of awareness on the issue. “I understand even when you have great intentions but are still not aware how the process should move, you can lose a great deal of credibility,” Foy said. “It’s kind of sad how many people don’t know about this situation, he’ll just be the name on the ballot.” Vivienne Armentrout — a local blogger and former county commissioner who defeated Smith in the 2002 Democratic primary — declined to discuss whether she believed Smith’s behavior has been ethical. However, she was more optimistic that Smith’s write-in opponents could win, saying she planned to write in Eyer on the ballot.
Maggie Long, who founded the Jolly Pumpkin’s Detroit location and will make their menu. Victor noted in particular that Long works closely with local farmers, which she said is in line with Avalon’s social mission of using locally grown products. “She’s an amazing chef and has a wonderful relationship
of sweets and dessert goods — such as the vegan blueberry muffin, scones, brioche, granola bars and breakfast sandwiches. The cafe will also serve beer and wine, including some from Jolly Pumpkin on Main Street. Victor said the cafe will have an easy and simple breakfast menu during the weekdays, but a more extensive brunch menu on the weekends. “Our cafe will be featuring more meals, some highlighting our breads and others highlighting the ingredients we will be using from local farms and other vendors,” Victor said. “The cafe will be what I call an ingredient-driven menu, so it’s going to be driven by what’s seasonal, local, fresh and delicious.” Given this new location is the first outside of Detroit, Victor said it will be a learning process for the bakery, relying mostly on customer feedback. “I think how we’ve always evolved as a company is in response to our customers,” Victor said. “That’s what we’ll be doing in Ann Arbor as well.”
COMMISSIONER From Page 2 opposing Smith, said Smith’s conduct had been disingenuous, though he noted his opponent was likely to win. “He had the luxury of turning his back on the people he’s supposed to represent for a couple months, forcing the rest of the board to appoint an interim successor, knowing that he’ll get re-elected in November because of straight-ticket voting,” Hayner said. In an interview, Eyer was hesitant to discuss her opponent’s conduct, focusing on her platform to improve access to public services and combat inequality in the county. “I can’t pretend what was in Conan’s head,” Eyer said.
BAKERY From Page 1 and brought people together.” Victor said once she realized she was passionate about in political activism and the diversity and welfare of Detroit, she decided to open a bakery in 1997 in the Cass Corridor of Detroit, using a lot of the same equipment from Wildflour after they decided to shut down. “It was a cool handoff,” she said. “We even use some of their recipes, like their date bars. So in some ways my roots are from Ann Arbor.” Noting a relatively new bakehouse her company owns downtown, Victor said Avalon has increased their production over the last few years, enabling them to be able to open up shop so close to campus. “So we decided to just go for it,” Victor said. “There’s always been a demand for our product in Ann Arbor. Space became available — that’s a great location.” Helping to make the Ann Arbor space a reality is Chef
“We even use some of their recipes, like their date bars.”
with local farmers,” Victor said. In addition to the breakfast, lunch and dinner menus, the cafe will sell coffee, baked goods and all of Avalon’s breads. Almost everything, except some baked goods, will be shipped directly from the Detroit warehouse. Additionally, will sell a full line
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Ilitch, Deitch for Regents
ext week, the residents of the state of Michigan, including any student registered to vote in the state, will be voting on two open positions on the University of Michigan Board of Regents. According to Michigan’s State Constitution, the Board of Regents maintains a “general supervision” of the University and directs the funds and expenditures for each year. For their focus on an increasingly inclusive campus climate and on sensible finances for the University, which we believe best exemplifies the responsibility the Constitution requires of regents, we endorse the two incumbents, Denise Ilitch (D–Bingham Farms) and Laurence Deitch (D–Bloomfield Hills) for the two positions on the University’s Board of Regents up for election on Nov. 8. Ilitch stands out for voting against tuition increases six times during her past eight years as regent. She has called both on the state of Michigan to increase education funding and for the creation of a campus commission to explore alternative sources of revenue for the University aside from state funding. Her extensive background in business also adds important fiscal experience to the board. She wants to “get a lid on tuition” as the best way to address issues of campus diversity. In addition to her passionate advocacy for an affordable college education, Ilitch has worked throughout her career to address critical social issues that affect students on campus. She has been on the Board of Directors of the NAACP’s Detroit Branch and serves as an advisory board member for the American Civil Liberties Union. As a regent, she has been an advocate for increasing awareness about campus sexual assault and was supportive of University initiatives strengthening the University’s sexual misconduct policy. This is especially important in context of the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights 2014 investigation into the University violating Title IX. Furthermore, she has expressed an interest in growing regent-student contact, which is critical for regents to make informed decisions about what is best for the University community. Many of the benefits of having Ilitch remain on the Board of Regents are echoed in the career history and past policy initiatives of co-incumbent, Laurence Deitch. Deitch is currently the longestserving regent, and though we understand why there may be the assumption that he is out of touch with student life — as he has now served longer than many students have been alive — we believe he remains aware of the campus environment and issues that are important for students. Like Ilitch, Deitch has students’ financial interests in mind, having focused on increasing financial aid for students and
looking for alternative funding options for the University. During his tenure, tuition increases of 3.9 percent for in-state students and 4.4 percent for out-ofstate students were matched with a 10.8-percent increase in undergraduate financial aid, in part because of Deitch’s advocacy. Even though increases in financial aid do not completely counteract tuition increases, Deitch has continuously searched for alternative solutions, such as boosting summer- and springterm enrollment, to keep tuition as low as possible. Because of his past efforts, we have faith that he will continue work like this in the future. In addition to being financially minded, Deitch prioritizes social issues on campus. A selfclaimed advocate for students’ right to free speech, Deitch has also consistently advocated for diversity within the University, first through his co-leadership of the 1993 effort to add sexual orientation to the University’s antidiscrimination policy, and most recently through his support for the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Strategic Plan, with reference to the postings of fliers targeting minority students on campus as evidence for the need to call the campus together. Ilitch and Deitch face eight challengers this year. The two Republican challengers, Ron Weiser and Carl Meyers, might have been the only viable other options among the eight because of their finance-mindedness and their emphasis on increased interaction between regents and students. However, both candidates’ stances on improving the campus climate for students with marginalized identities — critical for a member of the governing board for the University — leave something to be desired. Weiser, a generous donor to the University, has run on a platform of lowering tuition, increasing transparency of the Board of Regents, creating regent office hours and investing more in the Dearborn and Flint campuses. He has also voiced support for the creation of a student regent position and was
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critical of President Schlissel’s recent pay raise. While these efforts are commendable, past comments and parts of his platform are causes for concern. In 2012, Weiser faced criticism for using racist stereotypes degrading Detroit voters, which reflects negatively on his ability to represent the student body. In addition, he says in his platform he wants to run the University “like a business,” which reflects a mentality that contradicts the role of the University as a public educational institution. Meyers has also focused his platform on exercising fiscal discipline, transparency and student involvement, as well as advocating increasing accessibility for students of all socioeconomic backgrounds — all of which are admirable efforts. In his platform, Meyers even promises to propose freezing tuition for in-state students and seeks to limit enrollment of out-of-state and international students. While increasing accessibility to higher education for Michigan residents of low socioeconomic status is vitally important, much of the rhetoric in Meyers’ platform is exclusionary to out-of-state and international students whose tuition and pursuits at the University play a crucial role in keeping the University financially afloat. With both finance and community in mind, the Daily’s Editorial Board confidently endorses incumbent Regents Denise Ilitch and Laurence Deitch for re-election to the University of Michigan Board of Regents. Both candidates are aware of University and student needs, and have fought for affordability while regularly showing an active involvement in social issues pertinent to creating an inclusive campus climate. Their Republican challengers are formidable, but neither Weiser nor Meyers accurately represent the values present on our campus. Ilitch and Deitch should be re-elected to continue their dedication to the University as regents for the next eight years.
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Desexualizing sex
e: *Reading off a you-might-be-in-a-relationship30-page script in high- with’s traits. You then place these pitched, infantilizing traits in their respective boxes: voice even though I’m only one necessary, bonus, deal breaker, year older than you* OK. The goal of this I think is “Hey everyone, welcome to twofold: for the activity to be Relationship Remix! applicable to people I’m your Sexperteam who don’t experience facilitator, Clarissa!” sexual or romantic *10 minutes and attraction, and to one obviously forced make people who are and uncomfortable ice uncomfortable talking breaker later* explicitly about sex feel “OK! Now let’s more comfortable. talk about our values Realizing that people and how we act in come from different accordance with those CLARISSA places and different values. Can anyone of comfort is DONELLY- levels give me an example?” totally legitimate and DEROVEN necessary for this kind Student 1: “Well I value timeliness, so I of work, but the extent make sure I’m on time to stuff.” to which Remix doesn’t talk about Student 2: “And I value family, sex during a workshop about sex is so I make sure to call my family weird. While many people may feel once a week.” awkward talking about sex or may Me: “Wow, great! Thanks not want to talk about sex at all, a lot so much for sharing, everyone! of people really do want to talk about Has anyone ever not acted in sex and the workshop is literally here accordance with their values? so we can talk about sex. What about when drugs or alcohol Given the current state of are involved?” both sex-negative culture and And so on. the policies governing sex ed in As you might’ve guessed, I K-12 schools, a lot of people have was a facilitator for Relationship never been given space to talk Remix. This year, though, I openly about sex. Many students quit. When I started facilitating are disappointed by Remix when Remix three years ago I thought they realize the extent of the sex I’d be having really honest and discussion is learning the 879 exciting conversations about steps to putting a condom on a sexual health with incoming wooden penis and how to use freshpeople. Instead, I ended up a dental dam (a what?). People babying 18 and 19 year olds — I’m have questions about sex. People only 21 — forcing them to chat want to learn about sex. Let’s with me, another facilitator and encourage this conversation; let’s 40 others about their “values” give people information. Let’s and “choices” for 90 minutes. talk about pleasure and orgasms The goal of Remix is sexual rather than timeliness. health education and sexual The sex part of Remix has violence prevention, which I approximately three parts: agree with a bajillion percent. talking about consent, a condom What I disagree with is the demonstration and a monologue way Remix is framed. Remix about sexual violence. A simplifies sexual and romantic conversation about consent is relationships to be about needed, given the dismal amount identifying your values and of sexual violence in the world acting in accordance with and on college campuses, but we those values. It individualizes do ourselves a disservice when the sexual roles we’ve been we frame consent as merely socialized into and it takes the saying and receiving a “yes” or sexuality out of sex. “no.” The consent conversation Remix is an hour-and-a-half that happens in Remix discusses program, and during the entire interpersonal coercion and first hour you don’t talk about sex. manipulation — both of which are There’s one part where you think necessary to acknowledge — but about potential relationships what this conversation neglects (both romantic and not) and is our social existence during sex. consider these potential-peopleSimply saying “yes” or “no” to
sex can only be the qualification for consensual sex within a hyper-individualist context; it does nothing to acknowledge the sexual roles we often find ourselves trapped within during sexual experiences. Lots of people say yes to sex even when they don’t mean it, even when there’s no obvious interpersonal coercion or manipulation, and even when there are no alcohol or other drugs involved. This reality is something we have to acknowledge and think critically about if we want to eliminate it. The way Remix tries to acknowledge this saying-yes-tosex-even-when-you-don’t-meanit issue is through a role-playing exercise. The facilitators tell the participants to role play with the person sitting next to them and give them a couple situations to act out. I’ll give you two: Situation 1: “Someone you want to hook up with asks you to go up to their room. Practice having this conversation.” Person 1: “Do you want to go hook up in my room?” Person 2: “Sure, let’s go.” Situation 2: “Someone you don’t want to hook up with asks you to go up to their room. Practice having this conversation.” Person 1: “Do you want to go hook up in my room?” Person 2: “No.” No, the participants I’ve constructed for my example aren’t particularly enthusiastic or engaged, but I think this is the reality for a lot of participants in Remix. I remember when I was a participant these were my answers to the “role play” scenarios. These role play “experiences” fail for a number of reasons, the first of which is they’re painfully fake, and the second of which deals with the dynamic in the room. Remix workshops are made up of dorm halls and Remix takes place in the fall. What this means is that for Remix, people are in rooms of 40 strangers with whom they’re asked to pretend to have conversations about hooking up.
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Personal vs. political mistakes
f you have been watching the reasons. It’s true: The past actions news, scrolling through your of presidential nominees do hold Twitter feed, sifting through a great amount of relevance when your Facebook voters go to the polls timeline or simply in November. We are not living under a voting for the leader of rock over the past our country, the face few weeks, you know of our country and the that Republican person who is going to presidential nominee change our country. A Donald Trump has nominee’s past speaks dug himself an even to their character: What deeper hole this they have done speaks election, and I’m not to what they will do, so ANU ROYsure he’ll be able to it’s rational and right to CHAUDHURY give sure weight to the climb out. The leaked video of Trump past of both Donald Trump and degrading women a few weeks Hillary Clinton. back proved the sexist nature of the However, the histories of Republican nominee and created Clinton and Trump have become a vacuum of anti-Trump rhetoric too relevant in the way we are from both sides of the political discussing them. They have spectrum. In fact, GOP members become points of entertaining began to denounce Donald Trump news cycles and political debate. as the face of the party in this The U.S. public is caught up in election, scorning the nominee’s the intriguing “he said, she said” very unpresidential actions. To stories, weighing these tabloidthat, all I can say to Republicans worthy, scandal-clad events on par who backed Trump in the first with proposed policy. Both sides of place is: Are you really surprised? the political spectrum scrutinize This election has seen the opposing candidate’s past — Donald Trump insult numerous a back-and-forth that has been demographics numerous times. going on for the past two months. The leaked video was tangible and Regardless, we cannot weigh the vivid evidence of an already sound past of Hillary Clinton against that fact: Donald Trump is a sexist. of Donald Trump, especially now Yet, even with this disgusting with the Access Hollywood video video circulating on the internet as the icing on the cake of Donald and being talked about on every Trump’s failed crusade to winning news media outlet, the question of the presidency. Democratic presidential nominee Every politician makes Hillary Clinton’s email controversy mistakes. If you look back through still is being talked about as an history, no president has gotten equivalent offense to Trump’s through his term perfectly actions. The danger in this is unscathed. However, these same that one concerns the faults of a presidents have owned up to their politician, and the other concerns mistakes, to their political faults the faults of a human being. and to their missteps in judgment. As many of us know, this has They have done the right thing been a media-driven, policy- by admitting they did the wrong lacking election. Events in the thing. Hillary Clinton’s political candidates’ pasts have been talked past is tainted with both scandal about in debates more than pivotal and mistakes. This is true, but that policy issues. It has become an doesn’t mean she is somehow even entertaining and provocative with Donald Trump, an argument election, but for the wrong we seem to be making by applying
“choosing the lesser of two evils” to this election. Talk from the Conservative right uses Clinton’s political mistakes to lessen the damage of Trump’s recent and past human failings. The email controversy still being talked about now, while a mistake on Clinton’s part, does not match the degree of Trump’s long and historic slew of insults and disregard for human beings. Trump’s grotesque and sexist remarks are ones that target human beings and human rights. A woman’s right to be respected by the men in her life, and the men in the world, is a human right — a right Trump so blatantly ignored. Any woman — of any party, race, religion, background, level of education — has been insulted by that video. The clear difference between the two is the fact that only one has taken true responsibility for her mistakes while the other has defensively protested them, even in the face of clear evidence. In fact, last week, Donald Trump threatened to sue all women who have accused him of sexual assault. This defensive act and pure disregard for what his own words truly meant is the difference between the human being Donald Trump is and the human being Hillary Clinton is. Clinton has admitted to the mistakes of her past. She hasn’t gone on the defensive and argued that the media, the Liberals and the world are against her. No, she has taken responsibility for her wrongdoings, admitting to her own flaws. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are two flawed candidates, possibly the most flawed candidates a U.S. election has seen, but measuring their flaws against each other isn’t fair. Those political mistakes of Clinton are no match for the human faults of Trump. Anu Roy-Chaudhury can be reached at anuroy@umich.edu.
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FILM REVIEW
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SOCIAL ACTION MEDIA
“Agents of Change” screens at Haven Hall Thursday at 4 p.m.
‘Agents of Change’ is an apt portrait of activism Documentary focuses on ’60s civil rights protests at Cornell and SFSU so proud of their efforts, and it is inspiring to see. Daily Arts Writer The San Francisco State UniAll it takes is one photo to versity and Cornell protests initiate social change; that and were among the most potent of years of defiant work to produce the civil rights movement of the this moment. A ’60s. Black stuwell composed dents spoke out photo can encapagainst unequal sulate the pain and opportunity in struggles of thouhigher education “Agents of Change” sands and tell their and a Eurocenstory in one frame. tric curriculum Social Action Although it seems that neglected Media like it, these photos minority groups. Playing at Haven aren’t anomalies or Unfortunately, Hall instances of being equal representaat the right place tion in many colNov. 3 at 4 p.m. at the right time. leges, including On April 19, 1969, The University of a photo of several Michigan, is still a black Cornell stucritical issue today. dents holding guns and wearing “Agents of Change” informs bandoleers on the steps of Wil- and inspires to replicate such trelard Straight Hall surfaced the mendous efforts as those seen at cover of Newsweek and other SFSU and Cornell. The connecpublications. The picture marks tion with these movements and a moment in which persecuted those today, however, is unclear. black students armed them- It doesn’t ever reference changes selves and stayed in the hall in that could be made today, so it fear for their lives after a series is up to the viewer to make this of threatening and damaging connection between the past events that night. Regardless of and present. As clear as it is that its initial misunderstanding, the these issues still exist today, some story behind this picture exposed viewers might lack the intuition racism in higher education and to make a connection. It is not remains a crucial moment in the necessarily a mistake, but not late ’60s civil rights movement. bluntly stating a connection to “Agents of Change” retells today’s social climate prevents the events leading up to this pic- the documentary from explorture at both Cornell University ing the issues more deeply. The and San Francisco State Univer- goals of “Agents of Change” are sity (SFSU). It includes current unclear; is it simply informative, interviews with the actual pro- or a reminder of what change can testers ¾ who all appear to look be done today? far younger than they likely are The documentary is extreme¾ that retell the events how ly focused to the extent that, they actually happened. Danny essentially, all of the content is Glover (“Lethal Weapon”) is the about the SFSU and Cornell proonly celebrity included, and his tests during the ’60s. Its narrow screen time is balanced with oth- focus is its best and worst qualers less famous though equally ity. Viewers will learn a lot about regarded in their respective field. these protests while sacrificing Each interviewee is poised and other knowledge about its variWILL STEWART
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ous contemporary protests. By doing so, it tackles almost every aspect of the two protests; it is impossible to get a more detailed summation than what is provided in “Agents of Change.” Sadly, viewers looking for entertainment along with education may get a little distracted at times. The documentary doesn’t reflect the zeitgeist of the late ’60s. Rather, it tells a story of human will and the power to create change rather than recap the overall feeling of the time period. Those looking for a more holistic retelling should seek out a less focused documentary. “Agents of Change” is stylistically subtle. It tells its narrative through interviews and not flashy graphics or pseudo-artistic montages. Its soundtrack is diverse and rich, including tracks like Jimi Hendrix’s version of “All Along the Watchtower” and Michael Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us.” In the early ’70s, efforts to increase black student enrollment at the University of Michigan were made in order to reflect the population of African Americans in the state (10%). Today, the University fails to even graze such numbers. With only a 4% black student population at the school, it is far from reflecting the 14% population in the state. Certainly, the repeal of affirmative action and intransigent policymakers stand in the way. The efforts seen within “Agents of Change” should act as a reminder that progress is always, not only a possibility, but a probability when passionate, motivated people come together for a movement greater than oneself. “Agents of Change” is being screened by the Department for Afroamerican and African Studies from 4-6 at Haven Hall on November 3rd.
ALBUM REVIEW
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Maybe you could conjure up some more Tim Burton movies.
The foundation of horror and the tradition of Halloween flicks on TV from lineup are not necessarily scarier than a film like “Hocus Pocus,” we seem to miss them the most out of the set this year. In fact, one could say Freeform’s decision not to include the Burton movies as a crime against Halloween itself, with the creepy and terrifying nature of the flicks as the perfect ambiance for a Halloween marathon. Even for networks that don’t typically run a Halloween program like Syfy and Freeform, the creepy vibe was in the air. While FOX aired their rendition of the 1975 fan favorite “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” MTV put on a Halloween special as promotional material for their reimagining of the “Scream” franchise. With all of these options to choose from, the lust for horror was palpable, only growing stronger as the date itself approached. And while those looking for a Halloween throwback often find themselves on the Freeform end of the spectrum, viewers craving spookier and generally scarier flicks found themselves on channels like Syfy and AMC this Halloween. Yet, for those who fall on the scarier side of the spectrum, their choices will generally lack that “feel good” quality, opting instead for edge of the seat suspense and scare tactics to freak viewers out. This is a common aspect of the Burton films, which are in no way kid-friendly, despite its achievement in animation. So, if movies such as these cause us to jump in our seats and clutch those blankets just a little bit tighter, why do we like them, and even prefer them to the softcore horror films such as “Halloweentown”? Psychology and evolution has taught us that fear is essential — lifesaving, even. The sympathetic nervous system initiates our “fight or flight” response as a result of environmental trig-
gers. Everything from a pop quiz to a bear attack induces a fear response, which writers and directors in the horror genre utilize to their advantage in an incredibly formulaic production. As is often the case in this genre, suspenseful music and camera angles push our fear response closer and closer to the edge. This is often utilized through the technique of ‘jump scares,’ which originated in 1976’s “Carrie” and became a building block for the horror genre. However, despite these fear tactics built to give audiences a mini heart attack, audiences keep coming back for more. But why? The answer is that there really is no concrete reason for why we like scary or gory movies. However, that hasn’t stopped multiple theories from emerging either in favor or against horror — while Aristotle stood by the idea of catharsis, film scholar Noël Carroll believes horror movies are the product of curiosity and fascination, the latter of which is a common and agreeable theory. Take the “Saw” franchise for instance, which works up your sympathetic nervous system as the brutal game of survival plays out on your screen. During those films your subconscious may be playing its own game of survival, testing your brain in a secret “what would I do in this situation” and playing it all out, silently, in your mind. Only your body registers these physical changes by the hammering of your heart and the quickening of your breath while, all this time, your brain has been learning and absorbing information along the way. So, if these scarier, jumpscare, movies are inducing a sort of learning, take it as a free pass to binge all of your favorite horror flicks during Halloween season. You might pick up a thing or two along the way.
intensely creepy, this song reveals brief and mysterious, with murky to all that Tove Lo is not messing rhythms swimming out through around. Armed with a fluid, shift- the gloom. But while “Chaping cacophony of strange synths ter I” was fervent and dynamic, and beats, ‘Fairy Dust — Chapter this song is subdued and vulI” is a primer for the first half of nerable; crisp edges are blurred the album, creating an passion- while “where are you…? I’m lost” ate and unrestrained base for the echoes over a foggy background. songs of Lady Wood to layer onto. “Fire Fade — Chapter II” marks Songs like “Lady Wood,” a shift: if the first half of Lady “True Disaster” and “Cool Girl” Wood was Tove Lo building are splattered onto the composed impermeable walls up, then the foundation to add more details second half of Lady Wood is Tove to the masterpiece Lo breaking those Tove Lo is conwalls down. structing. “Lady This openness Wood” is sparking appears in songs Lady Wood with catchy melolike “Imaginary dies and buzzing Friend,” “Flashes” Tove Lo with deeply primiand “WTF Love Island Records tive rhythms, Is.” While these while “True Disassongs are still electer” is more invigorating, with trifying and showcase Tove Lo’s pulsing beats that create a driv- iconic electronic-pop sound, the ing undercurrent. “Cool Girl” is background harmonies are more swirling with cutting vocals and muted, allowing the spotlight sharply shifting tempos. All these to focus on Tove Lo’s impactsongs serve to further develop ing vocals, rich in sincerity and the plot that was set up in “Fairy depth. Lines like “reminding me Dust—Chapter I.” Ardent and that there’s nothing to fear in the demanding, they create an image things I’m afraid of” from “Imagthat is ice cold, faultless and inary Friend” or “people come, I unblemished; the beginning half push them away” from “Flashes” of this album is untouchable. allow these songs to be forthcomHowever, the cracks in Tove ing in describing secretive fears Lo’s perfect persona become and weaknesses. The second part evident in the second half of of Lady Wood feels like the hidLady Wood, which is introduced den uncertainties whispered in through the song “Fire Fade — the dead of night, pieces of you Chapter II.” Much like “Chapter that are too fragile for the light of I,” “Fire Fade — Chapter II” is day to see.
Lady Wood is expertly divided into two parts: the first part is dedicated to building a seamless “cool girl” façade while the second part is dedicated to revealing the humane cracks and faults in what appeared to be so unattainable. Tove Lo’s intricate narration is what makes the album so compelling and what saves the album from falling into repetitiveness. While individual songs are an elaborate assortment of detailed synchronizations and tempos, many of them fit a template that Tove Lo has perfected: muted stanzas building up to explosive choruses against a fluid, almost psychedelic backdrop. While Tove Lo can fall into a habit of overusing this template, what stops the overall album from straying into monotonous territory is the constant narrative aspect. Tove Lo is a storyteller in Lady Wood and the tale she tells is personable because of the way it divulges previously hidden flaws. Its power comes from the idea it proposes: inner imperfections don’t make you incomplete but rather do the opposite. They are something of which to be proud. Besides, “cool girl” is still a normal girl, and, as Tove Lo demonstrates through Lady Wood, one that hides that same uncertainties and shortcomings as everybody else.
MEGAN MITCHELL Daily Arts Writer
’Tis the season of Halloween, and besides putting on a pair of mouse ears or paraphernalia associated with Ken Bone, Halloween is also the time of year that horror movies make their grand reappearance on network television. Although the majority of these movies are available year-round, there’s always something special about the tradition of Halloween horror flicks. Perhaps it’s the ambiance of the season that causes our brains to crave the jump-scare; maybe it’s the gloomy weather that confines our entertainment to indoor activities. Although both of these options are cause enough to justify kicking back for a horror flick with some pals, neither one accomplishes more than scratching the surface of why we prefer Halloween with a side of horror. In preparation for October 31st, Freeform and Syfy provided viewers with channel lineups of popular horror movie flicks under the brands “13 Nights of Halloween” and “31 Days of Halloween,” respectively. Where Freeform (traditionally ABC Family’s “13 Days of Halloween”) tends to err on the side of the family-friendly scares, Syfy’s rendition of the Halloween marathon series played fan favorites like “The Conjuring” and network originals such as “The Night Before Halloween.” However, devoted fans of ABC Family’s original lineup were disappointed to learn that many of Tim Burton’s films would be left out of the lineup this year, along with the “Halloweentown” series, which only aired on the graveyard shift for those of us still awake and craving that essential piece of our childhoods. While the films in the Free-
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Her real name is Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson. I wonder why the stage name.
Ultimate cool girl Tove Lo belts out her best on two-part ‘Lady Wood’ The rising star tells stories and bares her soul on her second album SHIMA SADAGHIYANI Daily Arts Writer
You know that girl you see walking around sometimes? She struts like the entire world is her red carpet, accessorizing a knowing glint in her eye with a smirk. You either love her or hate her, but no one can deny that she is capital-C cool.
Tove Lo’s newest album, Lady Wood, is that girl. Through synthetic background rhythms and electric vocals, Lady Wood presents a contradiction. The glossy persona that Tove Lo shaped through computerized harmonies is repeatedly shattered by moments of honesty and Tove Lo puts her entire cool girl self in her vocals, which adds a extra
dimension to the very untouchable electronic-pop songs. Lady Wood builds a story that reveals both the perfect and the imperfect aspects of Tove Lo, tying it all together with a steady base and stimulating beat. This narrative commences with “Fairy Dust— Chapter I,” which indeed sets up the album’s stage. Short, devoid of vocals and
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Van Herpen finds her inspiration in modern architecture.
As told by Iris van Herpen Life lessons we learned from the designer at her Penny Stamps event TESS GARCIA For the Daily
Fashion designer Iris van Herpen is known for pushing the envelope. A guest member of the Fédération Française de la Couture, she is notorious for creating experimental materials and seamlessly weaving them into her collection, and is even responsible for introducing 3D printing to the forefront of fashion. This past Thursday, viewers had the privilege of hearing the Dutch innovator speak alongside architect Philip Beesley and museum curator Sarah Schleuning as a part of the University’s Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. Without further ado, here are my favorite van Herpen-approved nuggets of wisdom. Become inspired by other fields. The designer repeatedly declared her affinity for architectural work, noting that she has actually collaborated with Beesley on several of her collections. “When I saw [Beesley’s] work, I saw the possibility of working with an architect. I started seeing that architecture can be very much related to fashion. It really opened me up to seeing material differently, to seeing a different future for fashion,” van Herpen said. Don’t get caught up in the deadlines. If a woman who works around
the fashion calendar can do that, so can we. She acknowledged the industry’s obstacles openly, explaining, “On one hand, I am working within fashion, so I usually have three months to complete a collection, which does take certain possibilities out. But on the other, I try to forget about time when I research material and structure. I don’t see [research] as a part of a collection directly, I see it as an ongoing process within my work.” Success requires patience. All of van Herpen’s collaborations have been remarkably gradual processes. “In the beginning, the conversations are much more about getting to know each other,” she said. “After so many years, all that is known, and it’s possible to go deeper and deeper into a conversation, into the way we both work.” We are not robots, and that’s OK. In fact, the designer owns her human touch. When describing a particular jacket, she noted “There is difference in detail — every piece is made by hand. They are all a little bit different in length, in size, in structure, and I think, together with the movement of the body, we can create a magical element.” Although we are all human, each of us operates differently. Some of us are bound to stray from the status quo, as van Her-
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pen demonstrates beautifully. “The way I design is not by sketching something,” she said. “The mannequins in my atelier are my sketchbook. I drape the material directly onto the mannequins, and that’s how the pieces develop. That way of designing, the draping of the material, has become very important in the structures we develop now, and I really feel it has moved us forward a lot.” Limitations will always exist. It’s up to us to make the best of them. “A lot of the material that I create comes slightly also from a frustration toward all the materials I cannot work with,” van Herpen said. “That inspires me to look at an existing material that can be worked with in a different way. It’s often very much sort of magnifying the movement of the body.” However, these setbacks should not keep us from dreaming big. When asked what material she does want to work with but cannot, van Herpen responded immediately: “Fire is one of them. There are so many, basically anything I can’t work with that triggers my mind to think of different options and possibilities towards the body.” Van Herpen’s philosophies are mindful approaches that can be applied to a variety of disciplines, and something she hopes is earnest fuel for University students’ own creative pursuits.
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The blood’s always redder on the other side of the fence.
There’s no ‘Carrie’ quite like the original bloody Halloween classic Sissy Spacek’s iconic role still holds up and is impossible to replicate MADELEINE GAUDIN Daily Arts Writer
October is the best month of the year. That is a fact. Leaves change, temperatures drop and things start to get kind of spooky. Similarly, Halloween is my favorite holiday — it’s better than Christmas or Hanukkah, even better than Christmakkuah (sorry, Seth). In preparation for the holiest (and most haunted) of days, I rewatched some of my old holiday favorites. I started my binge with “Carrie” (the 1976 Sissy Spacek version, of course). The film is a perfect specimen of absurdity — blood-soaked, burn-downthe-high-school-gym absurdity. The miracle of “Carrie,” or rather what should have been the film’s downfall, is that nothing happens until the very end. Really nothing. Carrie flips an ashtray and makes some light bulbs burst with her mind control powers. (What are Carrie’s actual powers? No one seems to know; she’s sort of a malicious Matilda.) It’s not until the bucket of pigs’ blood come tumbling down that shit starts to get real. And it gets so real so fast. It almost feels like “Carrie” is going to break free of horror movies’ rigid rules of sex
and death. And it does and it doesn’t. Because Carrie is both the final girl — the token virgin who gets to live to the final credits — and the primary “villain.” She’s the protagonist and the source of horror. That’s not to say she isn’t weirdly sexualized. The film opens with her in the shower (in classic horror movie fashion). The camera pans over her body at a length of zoom that does not allow her to be anything more than a body. Then, she starts bleeding. Carrie doesn’t know it, but the source of her blood is menstrual. And even that is filmed in a sexual fashion.
The miracle of “Carrie” is that nothing happens until the very end. So, the movie gets points for showing natural feminine body processes, but loses them for having to sexualize it. And the kids who do die (the notso-final girls, if you will) are separated from Carrie by their
sexuality. They give John Travolta (yeah, John Travolta is in this) blowjobs in the front seat of his car. They die. There was an attempt at a remake in 2013 starring Chloe Grace Moretz, who sadly was not a very good Carrie. Even though she is a really nice person, which I know because music writer, Dom Polsinelli made me wait in line with him for half an hour to meet her when she came to Ann Arbor to campaign for Hillary. Thanks, Dom. The remake failed not only because remakes almost always fail, but because it is impossible to try to make anyone other than Sissy Spacek into Carrie. She’s just too perfect. With her bug-eyed stare and subtle Texas twang, she’s the perfect religious-girl-who-loses-it. And when she does lose it, she does so with one of the best depictions of paralyzing rage I’ve ever seen. So a second — or third or thirtieth — time around, “Carrie” holds up. It’s an underrated gem of my favorite decade of horror. It’s absurd enough to not be terrifying and bloody enough to be entertaining. Knives fly, gyms burn down and Carrie remains one of the baddest bitches/ witches/girls who were bullied in high school of all time.
ALBUM REVIEW
Vulfpeck’s formidable funk misses a beat but still delivers on ‘Game’ The Ann Arbor band makes a valuable addition to their resume of the most lyrically involved songs on the album, with vocalist Stratton predicting the After meeting and collabo- future relationship of two indirating during their time at the viduals who have yet to meet. University of Michigan’s School “This is a true love story song of Music, The/ A triumph and a atre and Dance, glory song / With Jack Stratton, only one small Theo Katzman, caveat / This one The Beautiful Game Woody Gross hasn’t happened Vulfpeck and Joe Dart yet,” Stratton sings. formed Vulf“They’ve got 16 Vulf Records peck as more or mutual friends.” less a love letter Approximately to the funk leghalf of the album ends of western civilization’s is comprised of instrumenpast. One of the band’s focuses tal tracks, which can at times has always been ensuring that struggle to hold attention. their studio cuts are recorded “Dean Town” and “El Chepe” like live tracks, using actual are both interesting explorainstruments when possible and tions, but seem out of place. avoiding recording multiple They would make more sense in takes. the space between songs during This may seem like semantics, a live set than on a true album, but the results of their approach and it’s not difficult to imagine are readily audible through them as entirely improvisationtheir discography. Although it is al pieces. a half-step away from this ideNot all of the instrumental ology, Vulfpeck’s latest album, portions of the album fall into The Beautiful Game, remains this same category, however. true to the band’s original funk Grounded by a driving bass inspirations while incorporat- line, the bombastic pairing of ing a sleeker sound. saxophone and percussion (and Although the album opens later, piano) on “Daddy, He Got with the instrumental “Sweet a Tesla” captures attention with Science,” the jubilant “Animal ease and demonstrates how Spirits” seems a more suitable easily Vulfpeck can dominate a introduction. The former is a room, even while instruments slinky, mournful clarinet solo, share the spotlight. while the latter utilizes piano, a While this is a band that synthesizer, and a classic hand- rightfully prides themselves on clap sample, doing more justice their genuine nature, there are to the band’s overall sound. also moments on The Beautiful “Animal Spirits” is also one Game that border on kitschiSEAN LANG
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ness. Perhaps it is an intended effect, but “1 for 1, DiMaggio” feels far too much like a singalong from a children’s television show. The instrumental craftsmanship is undeniable, but the lyrical content ranges from uncomfortable at best to patronizing at worst. Similarly, the opening moments of “Conscious Club” feel notably contrived — partially because they are. Both songs utilize scripted spoken dialogue, but it is little more than a novelty. While these two tracks seem to fall especially flat, the album closes out confidently. “Aunt Leslie” is the most emotional centerpiece of the album, on which Stratton and regular Vulfpeck guest Antwaun Stanley flex their vocal abilities. This is immediately followed by the jammy “Cory Wong,” which evolves into what sounds like a live recording — the crowd begins cheering at about the two-minute mark and is closed out by applause and Stratton bidding the audience farewell. As a funk outfit in the modern day, Vulfpeck have a valuable addition to their resume with The Beautiful Game, but it can at times feel haphazardly pieced together, with little cohesion beyond the wide domain of “funk.” Regardless, Vulfpeck’s technical capabilities and sheer devotion to their craft overshadow any awkward moments that may result from this lack of cohesion.
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Points/Game First Downs/Game Rush Yards/Game Yards/Rush Rushing TDs Passing Yards/Game Completion % Yards/Pass Passing TDs Interceptions Offensive Plays/Game Total Offense 3rd-down Conversions 4th-down Conversions Sacks/Game Kick return average Punt return average Punting average Field Goals-Attempts Fumbles/Lost Penalty Yards/Game Time of Poss
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OPP 11.6 12.1 111.1 3.3 3 120.1 41.7% 5.0 8 8 58.1 231.2 15.5% 35.3% 1.4 20.7 8.8 38.1 3-7 12/5 46.0 26:13
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PASSING Player Speight O’Korn Morris TOTALS
Cmp Att Yds 130 207 1691 11 15 89 4 5 45 145 227 1825
TD 13 1 0 14
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Att Yds 90 450 53 424 53 403 66 348 12 138 15 131 9 47 19 33 4 29 3 19 2 17 3 15 6 12 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 -1 1 -2 1 -11 10 -15 19 -49 371 1992
Avg 5.0 8.0 7.6 5.3 11.5 8.7 5.2 1.7 7.2 6.3 8.5 5.0 2.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 -0.5 -2.0 -11.0 -1.5 -2.6 5.4
Lg 42 57 45 34 33 63 17 4 13 14 10 11 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 63
TD 5 3 6 4 0 3 1 8 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31
No. Yds 38 664 29 345 20 304 6 114 10 75 4 53 5 33 4 28 2 27 2 24 1 23 10 21 1 21 2 18 1 18 1 15 1 12 2 10 1 7 2 6 1 4 2 3 145 1825
Avg 17.5 11.9 15.2 19.0 7.5 13.3 6.6 7.0 13.5 12.0 23.0 2.1 21.0 9.0 18.0 15.0 12.0 5.0 7.0 3.0 4.0 1.5 12.6
Lg 46 26 35 54 15 33 15 14 21 22 23 9 21 15 18 15 12 5 7 4 4 5 54
TD 5 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14
RUSHING Player Smith, D. Evans Higdon Isaac McDoom Peppers Chesson Hill Henderson Morris Davis Crawford O’Korn Hirsch Wilson Beneducci Hewlett Gedeon Allen TEAM Speight TOTALS RECEIVING Player Darboh Butt Chesson Perry Hill McDoom Poggi Evans Wheatley Ways Henderson Smith, D. Isaac Asiasi Crawford Hirsch Jocz McKeon Harris Bunting Johnson, N. Peppers TOTALS
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For Poggi, Maryland game serves as a reunion MAX BULTMAN
Managing Sports Editor
While most of the Michigan football team will be anticipating a meeting with its former defensive coordinator, redshirt junior fullback Henry Poggi will be looking forward to the Wolverines’ matchup with Maryland on Saturday for a much more personal reason. Poggi attended the Gilman School in Baltimore, Md., where his father, Biff, was the head coach. Both Poggis are now in Ann Arbor after Biff took a job as the Wolverines’ “associate head coach/special advisor” this offseason. And this weekend, there will be a third member of the household in town, though he’s not technically a blood relative. Melvin Keihn is a redshirt sophomore defensive end for the Terrapins who left Liberia when he was 8. His Maryland bio says his hometown is Towson, Md., but it does not detail his actual living situation there. “I just call him my little brother, because he lives at our house,” Poggi said of Keihn. “Whenever we get breaks from college, he’ll be back there. He’s a really good kid.” Poggi says the arrangement stemmed from simple utility. Keihn’s father’s job would have made it difficult for his son to attend Gilman, so he moved in with the Poggis. In that time, he became like another sibling to Henry, who said Keihn “goes on all our family vacations.” In a 2014 profile in The Baltimore Sun, Katherine Dunn explained Keihn’s story in even greater depth. The article detailed how, at 8 years old, Keihn’s mother put him on a plane from Monrovia to “take him away from a life of labor on the rice farm where they both worked amid the threat that he
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Redshirt junior fullback Henry Poggi (19) will be back in touch with a number of familiar faces from his past on Saturday when Michigan hosts Maryland.
could be forced at any time to become a child soldier in the West African nation emerging from a second civil war.” And he has indeed lived a very different life in the United States. Keihn originally signed to play for Virginia Tech before transferring to Maryland and sitting out last season. Through eight games this year, Keihn has yet to start, but has played in seven games and recorded two tackles for loss. Speaking to reporters Monday, Poggi didn’t go into great depth about his relationship with Keihn, or what it was like to have him living with his family. But on a weekend that will also pit the fullback against his former high school quarterback, Shane
Cockerille (now a linebacker at Maryland), as well as Terrapins head coach D.J. Durkin against his former defense, it’s one of the many reunions fans can look forward to Saturday. Durkin helped turn the Wolverines into one of the nation’s top defenses last season, a mantle upon which they have only improved under new coordinator Don Brown. Routinely, players and coaches praised Durkin’s intensity, and his future as a head coach was apparent early on in
his tenure at Michigan. That came to fruition early last December, when he accepted a job to become the head coach of the Terrapins, and he has made quick work of justifying the hire. After finishing 3-9 last season, Maryland is sitting at 5-3 this year under Durkin, just one win away from bowl eligibility. “He’s done a fabulous job,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. “Just always respected D.J. as a tremendous competitor at the highest level. Smile thinking
“It’ll be nice to smack those guys. For sure.”
about his competitiveness. And also always happy for a friend’s success. I think he’s doing a fabulous job (with) his entire staff and team. You can see the energy. You can see the strength. You can see the competitiveness and execution on the field, etc. The flip side of that is we know that this’ll be a big game, this will be a championship game. This will be a real test for our club.” But even while the sentiments of reunion are in the air, Poggi said he has no trouble getting psyched up for the game. When he sees Cockerille and Keihn on the field, he’s excited to do more than just say hello. “It’ll be nice to smack those guys,” Poggi said. “For sure.”
PUNT RETURNS Player Peppers Jocz Evans Perry TOTALS
No. 15 1 1 0 17
Yds Avg. Long 257 17.1 54 27 27.0 0 15 15.0 15 6 -6 305 17.9 54
TD 1 0 0 1 2
After stressful decision, Higdon finds place at Michigan JACOB GASE
Daily Sports Editor
INTERCEPTION RETURNS Player Stribling Hill, D. McCray Thomas Lewis TOTALS
No. 3 1 1 1 2 8
Yds Avg. Long 60 20.0 51 27 27.0 27 22 22.0 22 4 4.0 4 0 0.0 0 113 14.1 51
TD 1 1 0 0 0 2
Yds 9 9
Avg. Long 9.0 9 9.0 9
TD 0 0
Yds Avg. Long 168 28.0 55 34 11.3 18 28 14.0 15 6 6.0 6 5 2.5 5 241 17.2 55
TD 0 0 0 0 0 0
FUMBLE RETURNS Player Hill, L. TOTALS
No. 1 1
KICKOFF RETURNS Player Peppers Lewis Henderson Hudson Hill, K. TOTALS
No. 6 3 2 1 2 14
KICKOFFS Player Allen Foug Tice TOTALS
No. 53 8 3 64
Yds 3392 460 189 4041
Avg. 64.0 57.5 63.0 63.1
TB 28 2 0 30
No. 27 27
Yds 1138 1138
Avg. 42.1 42.1
Lg 56 56
PUNTING Player Allen TOTALS FIELD GOALS Player Allen Tice
FG Pct. 9-13 69.2% 0-1 0.0%
1-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50+ Lg 0-0 5-5 3-5 1-3 0-0 45 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0
LEADING TACKLERS Player Gedeon Peppers McCray Thomas Hill, D. Winovich Glasgow, R. Wormley Gary Hurst Godin Charlton Lewis Stribling Kinnel Clark Watson Metellus Glasgow, J. Hudson Bush Pearson TOTALS
Solo 22 31 18 18 20 6 5 9 7 9 7 7 11 7 6 6 6 6 5 3 3 2 232
Ast 39 17 25 16 10 20 21 13 15 11 13 12 5 8 4 4 4 2 3 5 5 4 280
Tot 61 48 43 34 30 26 26 22 22 20 20 19 16 15 10 10 10 8 8 8 8 6 512
TFL 8.5 12.5 8.0 2.0 5.5 4.0 5.5 5.0 6.5 2.0 4.5 2.5 1.0 1.0 0.5 0.5 71
SK PBU 3.0 2 3.5 3.5 4 4 2 2.0 1.0 1 4.0 1.0 3.0 1.0 4.0 3 7 3 1.0 1 27 28
2016 SCHEDULE
On Feb. 4, 2015 — National Signing Day — Karan Higdon felt sick to his stomach. The running back from Sarasota, Fla., wasn’t even sure he wanted to go to his signing ceremony at Riverview High School that day, and he had still not made up his mind when he sat down at a table with two offer letters. One was from Iowa, where he had already verbally committed the previous October, and the other was from Michigan, a contender that had just offered him the week before. Neither Higdon nor his family knew what would happen when he sat down at the table, but he said he ultimately went with his instincts and chose to sign with the Wolverines. And those instincts, surprisingly, had nothing to do with football. “It was really me just looking at life after football,” Higdon said Monday. “Football is not a promising game — you never know when your last snap or play is gonna be, so you’ve gotta think about the things that’s gonna build you as a person versus building you as a football player.” Because of his lifelong desire to help people, Higdon has wanted to be in the medical field since he was 7. He saw an opportunity to get a quality medical education at Michigan, where he is currently studying to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA). On the football side of things, though, the three-star recruit coming to Ann Arbor surprised many fans. When Higdon committed, the Wolverines already had three experienced backs on the roster and appeared to be in the mix for four-star
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Sophomore running back Karan Higdon originally committed to Iowa, but he ended up at Michigan after a last-second decision on National Signing Day in 2015.
Mike Weber, who ultimately signed with Ohio State. Almost two years later, though, Higdon has found his place on the field as well as in the classroom. As a surprise member of a fourman running back rotation, the sophomore has racked up 403 yards on 53 carries for an eyepopping 7.6 yards per touch. His six rushing touchdowns are the most of any running back on the roster and more than anyone else except the team’s goalline specialist, redshirt junior fullback Khalid Hill. Higdon became Michigan’s go-to back in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s win over Michigan State, as the Wolverines tried to pick up first downs and run out
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the clock. He came up short on his last few attempts — in part due to what Higdon deemed a questionable spot on third down — but the coaching staff’s willingness to use him proved their trust in him. “Karan does a good job, maybe the best job of hitting the hole,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. “He hits it downhill very fast. We felt like we needed that in that part of the ballgame.” The running-back-bycommittee approach wasn’t necessarily what the Wolverines had planned to start the season, but the emergence of Higdon and freshman Chris Evans has almost forced running backs coach Tyrone Wheatley’s hand.
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Higdon played sparingly as a true freshman, managing just 19 yards on 11 carries, but he burst onto the scene in fall camp this season. Part of Higdon’s success has come from his physical talents — he aims to be a balanced back like Adrian Peterson, who can be “quick and explosive” but also “lower (his) shoulder” on power runs — but the rest has come from increasing his patience. “I can be very quick at times, and sometimes I can outrun my linemen,” Higdon said. “Knowing that I have that ability, me as a runner, I have to slow down and let things open up versus trying to make those things open up, and I think I’ve definitely gotten better at that.”
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That newfound comfort has Higdon feeling like he’s in a good place, both athletically and academically. And in just two weeks, he will travel with Michigan to Iowa City to face the Hawkeyes, personifying the battle that went on in his head 21 months ago. Though he remembers his visits to Iowa fondly and thinks the trip will be “like a homecoming,” Higdon’s recent success has him feeling like that dilemma is far behind him. “I’m a firm believer that I live with no regrets,” he said. “If I make a decision, I’m gonna make it and live with it. ... I’m extremely happy to be here and to be a part of the Go Blue Nation.”
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‘M’ slumps to fifth at Big Ten meet Coming off conference title, Wolverines finish below expectations in Minneapolis SYLVANNA GROSS Daily Sports Writer
Before the Michigan men’s cross country team even left Minnesota this weekend, it was already planning on how to outperform itself at its next event, the Great Lakes Regionals. At this meet, though, the Wolverines fell short of expectations. Hoping to win a second straight Big Ten title, Michigan instead fell to fifth place. “The season’s not over yet — we’ve got more things that we can, and plan, on accomplishing,” said Michigan coach Kevin Sullivan. “Honestly, I didn’t have to say a whole lot (of positive encouragement to the team after the race). We had to recognize what happened. We had to come to the realization pretty quickly we have more opportunities to right the ship. We couldn’t, and can’t, wallow and feel the self-pity, because we have to get back to work.” The team traveled to the Les Bolstand Golf Course in Minneapolis for the second time this year for the Big Ten Championships. The Wolverines navigated an 8,000-meter course against 11 other Big Ten programs. Prior to 2015, the last time Michigan won a conference championship was in 1998. The 14th-ranked Wolverines, however, failed to achieve the title and instead finished with 123 points, a large margin behind first-place Wisconsin. Adding to an already rough defeat, only one Wolverine managed to finish in the top10 athletes — redshirt junior Aaron Baumgarten who crossed the finish line at 24:49.0 for sixth place, only one second from breaking into the top-5 runners. “(Baumgarten) is a great example of what hard work and fierce determination to be
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Aaron Baumgarten (right) was Michigan’s only top-10 finisher at the Big Ten Championships, placing sixth in 24:49.0.
an elite athlete can really do,” Sullivan said. “He goes into these races with a chip on his shoulder because he wasn’t a highly recruited athlete coming out of high school. “For a lot of his early part of his career he’s looked at himself as an underdog. So he’s always wanted to prove people wrong, and he has. But he carries that feeling with him in every race situation.” Baumgarten’s race strategy, much like the team’s, according to Sullivan, was to go on the defensive rather than the offensive. But opponents managed to start out strong and stay there, and Michigan was unable to work its way through the masses of runners like it typically does. “Something that we’ve prided on and learned is that we do really well with moving up through the field and beating
guys in the latter half of the race,” Baumgarten said. “One thing we saw in this race in the results is that our places were stagnant and that we didn’t do what we usually have. We were sitting in the same spot instead of moving up through that.” Many factors could have played into the Wolverines’ less-than-stellar performance. Sullivan mentioned that the Big Ten Championships were always a toss-up between Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin. It just so happened that this weekend the Wolverines wound up on the bottom of the pile. Michigan also boasted a relatively inexperienced roster for the event. The lineup that Sullivan brought to the race consisted of nine athletes with only Baumgarten, redshirt junior Micah Beller and senior
Connor Mora previously competing for the Big Ten title. The other six runners were redshirt freshman Jordy Hewitt, redshirt sophomore Kyle Kroon, redshirt juniors Austin Benoit, Billy Bund and graduate students Connor Herr and Ned Willig. Other top-25 performances included Mora in 19th (25:10.6) and Bund in 22nd (25.14.5). Despite everything, including the initial negative morale, the team is planning on overcoming its fall from graces. “Our team wasn’t pleased, but it’s not indicative of the talent on our team,” Baumgarten said. “I think this team is going to have an exceptional end to the season. We’re going to turn some heads and come back with some fire in our stomachs at the nationals course. “Don’t count us out.”
With hands on their heads and faces frozen in utter disbelief, the Michigan men’s soccer team’s body language told the whole story. Its 2-0 lead had slipped away, as No. 1 Maryland scored three unanswered goals and handed the Wolverines a 3-2 loss in double overtime. Michigan was on the brink of one of college soccer’s biggest upsets of 2016, but had its opportunity firmly taken away. The Wolverines’ state of shock is all too familiar. It was reminiscent of their recent 1-0 defeat to Ohio State in another double-overtime thriller, and several other contests in which they squandered leads. “I don’t know if anyone in the country has played more heartbreaking games than we have,” said Michigan coach Chaka Daley. Though the game meant virtually nothing for the Big Ten standings, Michigan (1-61 Big Ten, 3-10-4 overall) can take away many positives after its intense battle against the Terrapins (7-0-1, 15-0-2). Its offensive attack — spearheaded by sophomore forward Francis Atuahene, sophomore midfielder Robbie Mertz and freshman forward Jack Hallahan — has finally found sparks. The Wolverines’ major scoring drought has subsided with seven of their 18 goals scored over the past two contests. Hallahan and Mertz both tallied one goal each against Maryland and Atuahene added two assists to complement his team-leading six goals. Evan Louro put forth a valiant effort as well. The junior goaltender logged 11 saves — just one short of the program record
— while facing 14 shots on goal. Louro believes the Wolverines showed a large TV audience on the Big Ten Network their tournament potential. Sunday’s matchup showcased Michigan’s many pieces slowly coming together, its ability to play competitively against the Maryland powerhouse and a possible spoiler role with something to prove in next week’s Big Ten Tournament that starts Saturday in a play-in game against Rutgers. “I think a lot people saw what we can do against the number one team in the country,” Louro said. “And the Big Ten Tournament is a whole new season. Records don’t matter at that point, so I think we gained a little respect from everybody. Maybe things didn’t go our way, whether it was in our control or whether it was out of our control, but I think we got a lot of confidence from this and we can move on.” Added redshirt junior midfielder Tyler Anderson: “(The game) shows that even given our record that we can play with the best. Hopefully right off the bat, we can get a win against Rutgers and go back against Maryland and show them that we can beat them. I think that’s going to be best for the team moving forward.” Even with players lying on the turf, heads tucked into their jerseys, Daley says the Wolverines should possess a different mindset coming away from the heartbreaker. “To have that type of spirit, fight and character in the last game of the season, when it’s not gone your way, against the best team in the country, is absolutely fantastic and absolutely superb,” Daley said. “I could not ask anything more from that locker room. They should not hang their heads.”
Goaltenders can’t save Michigan Freshmen Lavigne, LaFontaine each start one game, give up three goals in defeat during rough East Coast weekend AVI SHOLKOFF
Daily Sports Writer
It took 22 seconds for Vermont to score its game-winning goal against the Michigan hockey team Friday night. Freshman goaltender Hayden Lavigne, already used to early deficits, resorted to his calming exercises in an effort to maintain composure. The freshman netminder remained relaxed and saved Vermont’s next seven shot attempts until Catamount forward Matt Alvaro scored at the 10:22 mark. The rest of the Michigan hockey team, though, failed to muster any offense to support Lavigne’s effort in the crease — notching just eight shots on goal in the first, seven in the second and six in the final frame. It proved to be the trend of the weekend, as the Wolverines’ goaltenders notched 71 saves on 77 shots, but still fell 3-0 to Vermont and 3-2 to Dartmouth. “We just gotta be able to come out and play from the get-go,” said senior defenseman Nolan De Jong Friday night. “One thing I said after the game is that we gotta come in there with a little bit of pride. You don’t come to Michigan to be average, and (Friday night) was far below average for our standards.” In the second period Friday night, sophomore forward Brendan Warren hit the post but it was to no avail. Michigan had five powerplay opportunities, but managed just five shots with this oneman advantage and couldn’t find paydirt on any of them. Though Lavigne turned away 39 of 42 shots he faced, his offense attempted just 21 shots on goal. Saturday night, when facing Dartmouth, it was more of the same. The Wolverines’ attack fared better, scoring two powerplay goals. Winborg scored his
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Goaltender Hayden Lavigne’s 39 saves weren’t enough for a win against Vermont.
first career goal in the game’s third minute. Forward Alex Kile tied up the score in the third, on his second goal of the season. Yet these bits of offense were not enough, as a late opportunity by Big Green forward Troy Cema broke the stalemate with 49 seconds left. Once again, another impressive effort by a Michigan goaltender went to waste. This time, it was freshman Jack LaFontaine who stopped 32 shots on 35 attempts. After the departure of many players from Michigan top-ranked scoring offense last season, early growing pains were to be expected. Excellent goaltending, though, has kept the Wolverines in games. But Michigan’s goaltenders
“We just gotta be able to come out and play from the get-go.”
can’t save every shot, and with a struggling offense, the early goals have proved costly. In the two matchups over the weekend, Michigan allowed only one power play goal on 21 shot attempts. The Wolverines’ goaltenders continue to thrive while their offense has generated just 18 goals in seven games. The three players — Lavigne, LaFontaine and senior Zach Nagelvoort — rank sixth nationally in save percentage with a .934 clip. The offense though, continues to struggle. It sits second to last in the nation with a 39.5 percent Corsi average, which measures the percentage of shots taken compared to an opponent. In a season filled with close calls and heart-breakers, there has been one constant for Michigan: the success of its goaltenders. And this weekend was no different. Michigan once again fell just short.