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LGBTQ activist Tiq Milan speaks at the Transgender Awareness Week kickoff event at the Michigan Union Monday.

Transgender Awareness Week keynote emphasizes resistance

Tiq Milan discusses recent campus, national climate following presidential election EMILY MIILLER Daily Staff Reporter

At the University’s Transgender Awareness Week’s kickoff event Monday, keynote speaker Tiq Milan shared his story and encouraged resistance in the face of hate on campus and nationally.

The gathering, sponsored by the Spectrum Center, drew 60 students, faculty and community members filled the Kuenzel Room in the Michigan Union. Milan, an LGBTQ advocate and writer, described his experiences as a Black transgender man, how his family reacted to his transition and how current events such as

the rules aiming to control use of bathrooms by transgender people and the election of Donald Trump as president impact transgender people. Milan said his advocacy work is possible because he is comfortable with his identity and through this work he hopes to educate others about the variety within the trans experience.

“I’ll stand up here, talk about my surgeries and hormones and my mother and all these things so that other guys don’t have to, so other guys can just have the space to live their life,” he said. Speaking specifically to recent instances of hate on campus, including ethnic intimidation and See AWARENESS, Page 3

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Martha Pollack, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, has been appointed Cornell University’s 14th president, according to a Cornell press release published Monday afternoon. Pollack has served as the University’s provost since 2013, acting as the chief budgetary and academic officer overseeing all teaching and research in each of the University’s 19 schools and colleges. Her term at Cornell is slated to begin on April

17, 2017, though her current contract, approved by the Board of Regents in December 2014, extends through the summer of 2018. “I am humbled and honored to have been elected to lead this great university,” Pollack said in the Cornell press release. “As a private university with a public mission, Cornell is the embodiment of my own deeply held belief in the ability of knowledge to improve the human condition.” University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel congratulated Pollack in an email sent to faculty Monday afternoon, and applauded her See POLLACK, Page 3

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About 300 students and faculty gathered Monday night in the Diag for a group Isha prayers, or the fifth and final daily Islamic prayer, held by the University of Michigan Muslim Students’ Association following threats against Muslim women on campus this week. On Friday night, a female student wearing a hijab was approached by a man who threatened to light her on fire if she did not remove her head covering. Another female student was approached by two men who referenced her religion, yelled at her for being in the United States and pushed her down a hill on Saturday night. Both crimes have been classified as intimidation crimes, with the latter classified as ethnic intimidation. Also on Friday, a student found a swastika and hateful message written on the door of his apartment. MSA President Farhan Ali, an LSA junior, said he was surprised by the large number of people who attended. He noted that to show solidarity with the female Muslim students on campus, male Muslims have been wearing the kufi, a traditional hat for Muslim men. “People have these myths about Islam, and that’s how Islamophobia occurs,” Ali said. “We’re trying to figure out ways we can see to make this campus

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More than 100 students, faculty members and Ann Arbor residents discussed tensions in the campus climate at the University of Michigan and elsewhere in the country following President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial victory at an LSA event Monday evening. Since the election last Tuesday, students have held a number of protests and vigils on the University of Michigan’s campus to address fear and feelings of isolation from Trump’s rhetoric, which protestors have characterized as racially divisive and discriminatory. In the last three days, two hate crimes have occurred on campus according to crime alerts sent by the University of Michigan Division of Public Safety. The event was hosted and moderated by LSA Dean Andrew Martin and several other LSA faculty members. Martin, who noted that the discussion was organized a month ago, said he believes much of the recent outrages can be attributed to See AFTERMATH, Page 3

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safer and we’re trying to talk to DPSS.” University President Mark Schlissel and other administrators sent out an email Sunday night condemning incidents of intimidation and calling for unity on campus across political ideologies. “We hope all members of our community can agree that we must not stand silent while facing expressions of bigotry,

discrimination or hate that have become part of our national political discourse,” Schlissel wrote in the email. The incidents follow the election of Donald Trump to the presidency on Nov. 8, who proposed a ban on all Muslim immigration during the campaign. Organizers said Monday night’s gathering — which was open to Muslims and non-

Muslim allies of the organization — aimed to give voice to those in fear following the election, as well as to initiate unity among all students on campus. Public Policy junior Stephen Wallace said he attended the event with other Black students to show solidarity with Muslims. Wallace said he would like to see further action from the University administration on See PRAYER, Page 3

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Students hold Isha prayers at the University of Michigan Diag Monday.

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Saturday night between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., a student was approached near South University Avenue and Washtenaw Avenue by two men who yelled at her for being in America. They then referenced her religion and pushed her down a hill, according to the University of Michigan Division of Public Safety and Security. A University crime alert sent out to students and faculty in an email Monday classified the incident as ethnic intimidation and urged students to look assertive and be aware of their surroundings. When contacted Monday, University Police Department spokesperson Diane Brown had no additional information to provide and said the incident was being investigated by Ann Arbor Police Department. No additional information from AAPD was immediately available. This is the third reported incident of this nature on campus in the wake of last week’s presidential election. Friday, a female student was forced to remove her hijab and threatened she would be set on fire See CRIME, Page 3

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ON THE DAILY: TWITTER PARODIES JABRILL PEPPERS Dynamic on and off the field and now online, linebacker Jabrill Peppers is in the spotlight of a popular parody Twitter account made by LSA sophomore Bennet Sakelaris. The account was created in September this year, and has followed developments of the football team’s players throughout the season. Sakelaris wrote in an email interview that the idea for the account began after a friend of his bought a pet fish and named it Jagill Peppers. After finding this amusing, Sakelaris started to play around with other puns related to Peppers, photoshop different memes and photos of Peppers and later on, add other University of Michigan football players into the mix as well. “Not too long ago I was walking down the spices aisle in Meijer and saw a jar of Turmeric

and thought to myself ‘Oh Turmeric Magnuson might be a good one for Erik Magnuson,’ and surely it was,” Sakelaris wrote. “Sometimes people give me suggestions like just last week someone suggested Gerbil Peppers, which I was quite frankly shocked to have not thought of myself.” The account has also followed the progression of player injuries, with puns to recognize when players get injured and return to play. After starting three games at cornerback, Jeremy Clark suffered a season-ending ACL tear that the account dubbed as the end of the “Lewis and Clark Expedition,” referring to Clark as well as Clark’s fellow cornerback Jourdan Lewis. The account has gained recognition from at least one football player — Lewis. On National Taco Day, Sakelaris tweeted a video of lineman Taco Charlton,

photoshopped with an actual taco, tackling opponents. On Election Day, the account endorsed “Franklin Delano Hill” for president. Most recently, there was a tweet citing the loss at Iowa last

weekend as a tough “Khalid Pill” to swallow, in reference to fullback Khalid Hill. Sakelaris said he will continue to update the account daily, but will likely write less during the offseason.

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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Flu Shot Clinic WHAT: It’s that time of year again! Don’t let the flu get you down. Come get a flu shot for $25 without insurance, or free with accepted insurance companies. WHO: Health Sciences Scholars Program WHEN: 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Couzens Hall, Multipurpose Room

University Symphony Orchestra and University Philharmonia Orchestra WHAT: A concert called “Parisians in America,” featuring revolutionary symphonies and solo pieces with the Paris Symphony opening the show. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Hill Auditorium

Drop-In Campus Mind Works Wellness Group WHAT: A presentation on a topic which impacts student mental health, to be followed by a support group session to discuss how to deal with depression and anxiety. WHO: Depression Center WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Mason Hall, Room 1359

Gabrieli WHAT: Come see the awardwinning group Gabrieli in their first Ann Arbor appearance in more than 10 years as they perform a reconstruction of a 16th century coronation mass. WHO: University Musical Society WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: St. Francis of Assisi, 2250 East Stadium Boulevard

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WHAT: If you have a five minute story to tell on the theme “Rise and Shine,” come tell it at an open-mic storytelling competition. The event is also open to the public and listeners are encouraged to attend. WHO: Michigan Radio WHEN: 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Circus Bar and Billiards

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The University of Michigan community and the Red Cross are collaborating to collect blood donations on campus as part of the 35th annual Blood Battle against Ohio State University. For the annual Blood Battle, which began in 1982, the two rival schools — Michigan and OSU — aims to collect 2,500 units of blood. This is roughly equivalent to 2,500 pints. The institution with higher units of donated blood wins the battle. In the last two Blood Battles, the University lost to OSU. Last year, the final score was 2,241 pints for the University and 2,529 pints for OSU. Currently, the University

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Organizers aim to collect 2,500 units through competition make a difference in anybody’s life. And taking just a few minutes out of my day can save somebody, it means the world.” Robisch added that she began to donate blood when she was 16 years old, which is the minimum age for blood donation, following in the footsteps of her mother. LSA senior Laurel Fricker noted that since blood is made of three different parts — red blood cells, platelet and plasma — one unit of donated blood can potentially save three people. Fricker is the president of Blood Drives United, a student group that focuses on organizing blood drives on campus and educating the community about the benefits of blood donation. Erin Burns, account manager at Ann Arbor’s Red Cross, said how well the University does at the Blood Battle in a particular year might be related to how the football team does in the same year, given the University and OSU’s long history of football rivalry. “I think football dictates a lot of the excitement that revolves around (the Blood Battle),” Burns said. “The rivalry between the two schools does stem from football. Three years ago, when we did win, the football team was doing well, so people still thought there was chance of winning.” Both Fricker and Burns were hopeful that since the University football team is having a successful season so far compared to previous years, it would be ref lected in the number of blood units collected for this year’s Blood Battle. “The last two years we didn’t exactly have (the

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Red Cross, University collaborate in Blood Battle against Ohio State has collected 1,466 blood units, 60 percent of the 2,500unit goal. The battle ends on Nov. 23. According to the American Red Cross, someone in the United States needs blood every two seconds, adding up to approximately 36,000 units of red blood cells needed every day. 38 percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood, though just 5 percent of the eligible donors donate on a yearly basis. LSA freshman Lauren Robisch, who was donating blood at a donation station today in the League, said her primary reason for donating blood is to help those in need. “People don’t really realize the impact (donating blood) can make,” Robisch said. “I’m O negative, so I’m the universal blood type — I can

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AWARENESS From Page 1 threatening behavior, as well as the present political climate in the United States, he encouraged students to resist. “I don’t have the answers and it’s killing me,” Milan said. “I don’t know what to say. All I can tell you to do is to resist. Resistance looks a lot of different ways. Sometimes resistance looks like organizing your people and fighting … Sometimes resistance is taking a step back and saying I don’t have to fight, I don’t have to do this.” Spectrum Center Director Will Sherry said Trans Awareness week has existed for at least the nine years he has worked at center noting it was well established at the time he joined. Though he has noticed changes throughout the existence of Trans Awareness Week, Sherry said overall he appreciates the consistency of support the week offers to students who often feel marginalized. “It’s an opportunity for people who share non-binary and trans identities, to come together and be in a community that can often feel small and come together in spaces where you don’t feel so small,” he said. “That’s something I really appreciate personally and professionally about the week.” LSA senior Felix Boratyn, co-chair of the student organization TransForm, which conducts activist and support work for transgender students on campus and helped organize the week, said Milan’s perspective on resistance resonated with him. He

POLLACK From Page 1 accomplishments as provost. “Our loss is most certainly Cornell’s gain,” he wrote. In a University statement, Schlissel also said he will appoint an interim provost before the end of Fall semester, and organize a nationwide search for a permanent replacement by January. University spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald said while the announcement came as a surprise to many University officials, he believes her appointment was a good decision for Cornell. “She’s been a strong leader for academics and for the budget.” Fitzgerald said. “The provost at the University of Michigan has a somewhat unique role where the chief academic officer is also the chief budget officer. She balances her commitment to academics with being a good steward of the budget well, while keeping a college education affordable and blazing pathways with new academic initiatives. That’s quite a sweetspot.” Cornell’s board of trustees unanimously

added that the election has made this week even more meaningful. “This week has definitely become more important to me,” Boratyn said. “A lot of people are mourning right now the results of the election and knowing what those results are going to mean for a lot of people. Part of trans week is celebration but part of trans week is mourning trans women who have died and violence towards trans people, a combination of everything.” LSA senior Ini Ubong, co-chair of TransForm, said they appreciated Milan’s discussion of how he defines his masculinity, and think it is a message of hope for other transgender students. “It’s uplifting to hear he did it, he got here, to a point where he can come and be a speaker at our school so there’s still kind of hope, I guess,” they said. “It brings a message of hope and a feeling that I’m not alone in the way that I feel.” Ubong said Trans Awareness Week aims to both support transgender students and educate non-transgender students, especially in light of the high number of murders of transgender women in 2016. To date, 20 transgender indviduals have been murdered in the United States according to the Human Rights Campaign. “My hope is that it brings the trans community together and also it provides education for other people,” Ubong said. “My hope for Trans Awareness Week is that we focus on the transgender people that are most marginalized, I think that’s transgender Black women.”

approved Pollack’s selection Monday afternoon on a recommendation from the school’s presidential search committee, formed in April following the death of former Cornell president Elizabeth Garrett. Before Pollack’s appointment as provost at the University, she served as the associate chair for computer science and engineering in the University’s department

“The job of the president is to serve everyone.” of electrical engineering and computer science, as well as the dean of the School of Information. In an interview with the Cornell Daily Sun, Pollack who will be Cornell’s second female president in its 184 years of existence, noted that the importance of her new job will transcend gender lines. “The job of the president is to serve everyone. Not to be

CRIME From Page 1 if she did not comply. In a second incident over the weekend, a student left his apartment to go to class and came home to a swastika drawn on his apartment door. The Rock was also discovered painted with “Fuck America” and “Kill them All” over drawings of the Republican and Democratic Party logos last week. Ethnic intimidation, which is a felony offense and often refered to as a hate crime, is defined by Michigan law as “specific intent to intimidate or harass another person because of that person’s race, color, religion, gender or national origin, and does any of the following: causes physical contact with another person; or damages, destroys or defaces any real or personal property of another person.” Multiple administrators across campus, as well as students, condemned the first incident on Friday through messages and

BLOOD From Page 2 excitement),” Burns said. “This year I think we are seeing a little bit more of the renewed excitement.” Fricker added that a tweet from Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh about the Blood Battle had helped the advertising for donations. BDU has also tried many different advertising methods,

the female president, but the president.” Pollack said. During her tenure at the University, Pollack has been an advocate for technological innovation and the use of data in the classroom. In a press release from the University in September 2015, Pollack emphasized the importance of a $100 million University investment in data science, calling it the future of academia. Among other impacts, the investment created the Michigan Institute for Data Science. “Data science has become a fourth approach to scientific discovery, in addition to experimentation, modeling and computation,” Pollack said. “To spur innovation while providing focus, the DSI will launch challenge initiatives in four critical interdisciplinary areas that build on our existing strengths in transportation research, health sciences, learning analytics and social science research.” Also during her tenure, Pollack helped to spearhead the University’s Third Century Initiative, a plan to invest $50 million dollars over five years in an effort to improve student learning. The initiative, which awards grant funding to

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events over the weekend and urged students to support one another. Students gathered Saturday to protest the incident and express solidarity with students who have experienced anything similar. On Sunday, President Mark Schlissel wrote an email to the student body condemning hate crimes and hate speech. He also outlined resources for students who have experienced incidents such as these. University spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald said the investigation is ongoing, and refered back to the email Schlissel sent out Sunday. “Emotions are high all across the political spectrum. We hope all members of our community can agree that we must not stand silent while facing expressions of bigotry, discrimination or hate that have become part of our national political discourse,” the email read. “Only by speaking out against personal attacks, hate and threats can we move on to have the discussions that will be necessary for our campus and our nation to reach its full potential.”

such as chalking, banners, quarter cards and tabling. E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, also raised awareness about the event in an email to the University community. In addition, BDU is also rewarding the donors to encourage the community to donate blood. This year, all donors will get a Red Cross T-shirt and restaurant coupons like a buy-one-get-one free Chipotle coupon, as well as entering to win raff le prizes.

University faculty, has helped to foster University-developed programs, such as School of Information professor Barry Fishman’s grading platform, Gradecraft. Fitzgerald noted these initiatives will remain intact following her departure. “At this point, the things that Provost Pollack has introduced have become significant University commitments.”

“They are moving forward, and I don’t see there being an interruption.” Fitzgerald said. “They are moving forward, and I don’t see there being an interruption with an interim leader, or a leadership change.” Pollack’s departure follows a pattern similar to her predecessor, Phil Hanlon, who also left his post at the University to assume the presidency of Dartmouth College.

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AFTERMATH From Page 1 surprise at Trump’s victory. “At the time, nearly everyone thought Secretary Clinton would win the election,” he said during the discussion. “Just about every political pundit on the left and right agreed. Many members of our community had a difficult time getting back to the classroom and back to work after the loss. Many members of our community continue to feel unsafe on our own campus.” Martin also emphasized that the dialogue was designed to welcome all people who have expressed feelings of marginalization in recent days, not just those who supported Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. On Monday, a petition started by LSA sophomore Amanda Delekta circulated and garnered over 300 signatures. The petition condemned the administration and students’ responses to President-elect Donald Trump’s election. “A lot of you as Trump supporters feel that you have been ignored at best, or swarmed at worst,” Martin said. “Some of you have been verbally assaulted or attacked, and I know that some of you feel the institution has not lived up to the ideals of open debate, and felt that you do not have a home on this campus either.” After Martin’s remarks, members of Counseling and Psychological Services

PRAYER From Page 1 alt-right posters which have been posted around campus intermittently since earlier this fall, targeting Muslim, Black, LGBTQ and female students. Posters promoting white supremacy and calling for students to report undocumented immigrants were found on campus early Monday morning, alongside phrases such as “Make America Great Again.” “We’re here for (Muslims) as a fellow minority, another marginalized group of people,” Wallace said. “I hope that President Schlissel does address the hateful flyers that have been posted up. I think that more needs to be done to investigate who is posting these flyers, because people have been posting these going back to September … and it seems like nothing is being done to stop them.” Over the past week, many in the University community have responded to the election by hosting and attending vigils and protests. A unity march with hundreds of Ann Arbor families also occurred Sunday afternoon, aiming to promote peace and support for all communities. LSA sophomore Rami Ebrahim, social justice and activism chair

highlighted their office’s increased accessibility in response to the contentious election results. Speaking to the crowd, CAPS Director Todd Sevig promoted a variety of approaches to achieving calm and comfort. In the leadup to the election season, CAPS organized an exhibit reminding students to care for themselves amid the stress of classes and the election. “It’s important to note that the election has taken a toll psychologically,” Sevig said. “We are not here to say that if you are feeling strong emotions, then you need therapy. We are here to say that things that could be therapeutic and healing is important. There is no one way of coping or making sense of this is going to work for all of us.” Following the remarks by Martin and CAPS personnel, the room was divided into smaller groups for discussion. At each table, an LSA faculty member moderated the discourse, asking questions and maintaining a calm tone. Participants were reminded to criticize ideas, not people. After nearly 10 minutes of discussion, the large room reconvened to shared publicly what had been discussed in smaller groups. A microphone was passed around the room for the next hour, during which personal reactions and general commentary were shared in response to the election results last week.

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for MSA who helped organize the prayer gathering, said he hopes to see further action from the administration aside from crime reports and emails, such as specific safety initiatives. “There’s a tense climate on campus, especially for Muslim students, and especially for more identifiable Muslim students — especially the women,” Ebrahim said. “We wanted to show that … some of the things happening on campus are not representative of the student body or are representative of all of the country in general.” LSA junior Yara Gayar, another attendee at the event, took a slightly different position, saying she was happy with the diverse turnout of students and members of the community at Monday’s event, and with administrative response following the election. “I like that professors are addressing the students’ safety and respect of differences,” Gayar said. Much like Ali, LSA junior Hina Jaffer stressed the significance of the event in building new alliances. “The silver lining to this whole thing is that, all of these marginalized communities have come together and built all these alliances that otherwise weren’t really strong, weren’t really there,” Jaffer said.

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round this time a year ago, the Daily, as well as many other publications throughout the country, covered the University of Michigan Central Student Government’s first-ever Ethics Committee investigation. It was a probe to determine if I, an elected member of CSG at the time, was guilty of committing an unprecedented ethical violation because of my public and civil condemnation of an anti-Israel apartheid wall erected on campus. Eventually, I was vindicated of any wrongdoing after a long, stressful process that included numerous threats and harassments by classmates and online trolls that went on for weeks after the investigation ended. Because of this horrifically negative experience and the unwanted attention paid to me in both the CSG weekly agenda and in The Michigan Daily, I have refrained from writing about my experience or matters pertinent to this subject. Today, I no longer feel I can remain silent. On the night of Tuesday, Nov. 15, CSG will vote on a measure dealing with the proposed imposition of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel, and Israel alone. This legislation is being brought forth by the same student organization that led the failed effort demanding my removal from the assembly, Students Allied for Freedom and Equality. This political organization has brought forth what I believe to be immoral legislation. The resolution is not an accurate representation of the University student population’s views on human rights violations, but is merely packaged and presented as such. In reality, it is a position offering only one narrative in the incredibly complex ArabIsraeli conflict, chock-full of regressive solutions that will only impede dialogue and aggravate tensions. It has been a difficult few weeks and months leading up to the proposition of this

boycott declaration. Following the 2016 election cycle, there has been a deplorable uptick in Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and other hateful rhetoric that brings toxicity to this campus and across our nation. However, the University’s student government is attempting to place all the blame for a continuing Israeli presence in the West Bank on Israel, without any acknowledgement of Palestinian leadership’s rejection of Israeli peace proposals. Had they been considered, these proposals would have brought an end to the alleged occupation on at least three separate occasions (1967, 2001 and 2007). For CSG to impose a boycott on the nation state of the Jewish people at this juncture in history, without any suggestion of boycotting those who have rejected peace time and again, is immoral and a targeted attack on the Jewish people. Israel holds a special place in my heart as the ancestral homeland of my long-displaced, nomadic people. All Jews share this historical connection to the land of Israel. But even if we set history and the well-documented, unbroken 3,000-year-old Jewish presence in the land of Israel aside, Israel today is a beacon of liberalism, freedom and democracy. Arab citizens in Israel, both men and women, have rights unparalleled to most places in the world. They serve in the national legislature, the Supreme Court, in academia, business, medicine, law and in virtually every other professional sphere. Israel’s record on rights for women and LGBTQ people is among the most progressive in the world. The nation’s ability to keep civilian casualties low throughout its history, despite wars with enemies who hide their soldiers behind their citizenry, is also unprecedented. And most critically, any Arab or other citizen of Israel is free to take up any grievance he or she has with his or her government

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or larger society in the courts or in the international media, because the right to access the courts and speech are unabridged in Israel. These are liberties that not as widely held in the rest of the Middle East and across much of the world at large. When a boycott movement is targeted exclusively at the world’s sole Jewish nation, a nation with an incomparable commitment to the protection of human rights, one must consider the prospect of bigotry at play. Equally important, a boycott of Israel would irrevocably damage the lives of Palestinian workers who rely on Israeli firms for economic sustenance (in the West Bank and in Israel proper). It would damage the lives of all citizens across the globe who enjoy the benefits of Israeli technological and medical innovation. And it would damage the lives of Muslims, Christians and Jews who rely on the state of Israel for protection from radical terrorist groups seeking as much bloodshed as possible. Now is not the time to focus our attention away from what is happening on our campus, in our country and in other corners of the world where real injustice, bigotry and even genocide is occurring. Now is not the time to overemphasize flaws and promulgate lies about the world’s sole Jewish nation. Now is not the time to propel a BDS movement endorsed by terrorist sympathizers, Holocaust deniers and noted bigots like David Duke, former Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard, according to The Algemeiner and Israel National News, respectively. Now is not the time for capitulation to clear double standards. Now is not the time for further division within our deeply fractured nation and campus. Now is not the time for BDS.

Jesse Arm is in an LSA junior.

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We are not defeated

arly last Tuesday cried for the immigrants who morning, I woke up at the helped build this country who crack of dawn, walked don’t know whether to pack their the five minutes from my house bags now or hope they won’t be to Angell Elementary School deported. I cried for the LGBTQ and eagerly hopped in line to community who must now vote in my very first presidential endure a vice president-elect election. I was giddy at the who has advocated for increased prospect of finally getting the funding to “institutions which chance to not only provide assistance perform my civic duty, to those seeking to but also to cast my vote change their sexual for the first female behavior,” otherwise presidential nominee known as conversion in our nation’s history. therapy, to cure their Afterward, I displayed supposed moral my “I Voted” sticker wrongs. I cried for on my shirt with a the women in this sense of immense country — myself pride. I spent the rest MELISSA included — who have of the day a bundle been told that even if STRAUSS you rise to the highest of nervous energy, but unequivocally hopeful and ranks of your profession, you will excited for my country’s future. still be beaten out by a man with Later in the evening, as I fewer (or no) credentials for the watched the numbers roll in job. And I cried for the half of this on CNN’s numerous screened country that is so unhappy with walls, my elation from earlier in our system of government that the day began to wane. As Wolf they felt the need to overhaul it Blitzer frantically flitted across completely by voting for the new the room reporting Florida, Ohio, president-elect. Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, And yet, I realize my empathy Pennsylvania and even New is not enough. Writing this article Hampshire as too close to call, I and speaking with my other grew wary. As I saw the polling privileged friends is not enough. data from The New York Times Posting messages of solidarity and FiveThirtyEight slowly take on Facebook and Twitter and her chance of winning from Instagram is not enough. around 70 percent down to less While it is true that we must than 30 percent, I was overcome come to terms with a presidentwith dread. And then they elect many of us so vehemently called Florida. And Ohio. And opposed, we do not have to Pennsylvania. And Wisconsin. accept the bigotry, violence and And most likely, Michigan. All hatred that has erupted in the in his favor. I felt a combination wake of his victory. Things such of soul-crushing devastation and as “daily lynching calendars” at paralyzing fear I never imagined the University of Pennsylvania, I would experience in my lifetime. swastika graffiti on numerous When my dad called me late storefronts nationwide and also Tuesday night, I couldn’t hold the Muslim student forced to back my grief. I cried real, gut- remove her hijab at the threat wrenching tears I didn’t know of being set aflame on this I could muster in response to a very campus are completely, political election. He comforted incontrovertibly unacceptable. me, telling me again and again We — especially those of us who that I would be fine, my family are privileged enough not to face would be fine. But I wasn’t crying prejudice and intolerance on a just for myself. Despite the fact daily basis — must not fall silent. that I am a woman, I am a white, We must join in the protests, educated, middle-class person stand up as allies and hold each whose life will most likely not other accountable for our actions. significantly change in the next Failing to act is an act in and of four years. itself. Complacency is acceptance. But so many millions of people Looking around campus on in this country may not be fine. Wednesday and speaking with I cried for the Muslims in this a number of students, I realize country — built on freedom of many people share my pain. religion — who are terrified they This has been a difficult pill to will be banned for their faith. I swallow for so many of us at

this university. Ninety percent of votes from student-heavy precincts in Ann Arbor were against the winning candidate. But despite all of this, if we also lose our faith in humanity, we let them win all over again. The messages chalked on Wednesday throughout the Diag of “You Belong Here,” “You Are Loved,” “You Matter” and more reminded me that there is still so much good in this country. We must work together to fix the major social, economic and political problems that led half of our country to vote against the system. We must work together to guarantee the safety and freedoms of all Americans — white, Black, immigrant, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, gay, straight, trans, young, old and every single person far and in between — because these people are the very foundation upon which our nation stands. It may seem like there is nothing we can do now, but I assure you this is far from the truth. Action starts today. Tell someone you love them. Take a look around and find the beauty in this world because there is still so much of it. Stand up for all of those facing growing marginalization and suffering from despicable acts of hatred we have seen increase in the past few days. Participate in protests and sign petitions. Write letters to your representatives. Regardless of their side of the aisle, remind them of your values, your priorities and that they represent you. Take action for social change, whether that be by donating to an organization, joining a campaign, participating in a movement or anything else that drives a cause you care about. Think critically about blindly following party lines. Though they seem a lifetime away now, midterm elections take place in two years. Think about your personal values and how to pick candidates — on either side — that actually represent these values. And finally, find your passion and pursue it vigorously. We all have so much to offer, and together we can work for a better tomorrow. Today we are afraid. Today we are hurt. But today and every day, we are not defeated. Melissa Strauss can be reached at melstrau@umich.edu.

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Human rights: not just an issue abroad

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ook at the person sitting next to you. Who are they? You question yourself: Are they different from you because of some physicality, some accent, or maybe they are just like you ­ — human. That person might not be treated with the same respect and freedom as you. The year of 2016 has seen its fair share of human mistreatment — not just physically, but even verbally, considering our new president, Donald Trump, set his campaign platform on the misrepresentation of various minority groups. I can also say this as a student at the University of Michigan since I have seen the racist statements made about the Black and Muslim communities on campus. On Oct. 11, Kathryn Sikkink, the Ryan family professor of human rights policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, spoke at the University, discussing the human rights retrogression in which certain areas of human rights violations are suffering more than others. Disappointingly, Ms. Sikkink focused more on developing countries such as Syria and Rwanda, whose governments commit human rights violations than on developed countries that commit such violations as well — including the United States and its lack of human sensitivity or empathy, which I attribute to post-9/11 paranoia. There is not enough focus on developed nations committing human rights violations even though their governments blatantly carry them out. The United States is not the angelic nation of equal human rights that it is made out to be. If that were true, Amnesty International would not have urged President Obama to close Guantanamo Bay or even stop the arms supply to countries

committing the human rights violations. One prisoner was held at Gitmo for 14 years without coviction. Further, some claim these prisoners have never been convicted because Congress has prohibited the White House from financing the trials of these prisoners. While Obama issued an executive order back in 2009 directing that the prison be shut down within one year, the question of when it will actually close remains open. Though some or many of these prisoners could hold vital information about terrorism, the torture they endure can never be justified as humane. In the initial chapters of “Human Rights in World History,” Peter Stearns discusses the U.S. intervention in the Middle East after 9/11 and questions whether the interrogation tactic and prisoner treatment of suspects violates the Geneva Code. This is one human physically and emotionally attacking another human to receive information. Such coercion leads to torture and therefore should never be justified. No matter what the suspected human being has done, how can you sit back in your chair and not even question their innocence? While the United States continues to keep these prisoners indefinitely — some of whom might be innocent — in what is considered the gutter of all prisons, the U.S. government continues to supply weapons to the Egyptian, Israeli, Saudi Arabian and other Middle Eastern governments. In another Time article, Jared Malsin writes about how the Saudi Arabian military coalition has killed an estimated 10,000 Yemenis since the start of their intervention in Yemen in March 2015 using the $20 billion arms deal they signed

with the United States the same year. However, while the United States is monetarily backing countries with little regard for human rights, the White House administration continues to state that they have had “serious concerns about the conflict in Yemen and how it has been waged.” This shows that the United States has also waged this war simply by supplying the weapons. The focus of the American government and military cannot solely rely on extracting information to make the world a safer place. The government cannot strategize how to achieve its stated goals without considering how they treat the human beings. As individuals seek to educate themselves on current events, they must not look at a problem as solely happening in “another” part of the world. People must remember that the United States is a problem in foreign relations and the preservation of human rights, as exemplified in our country’s actions surrounding Gitmo. People living in this country must acknowledge its flaws. So look back at that person next to you. Have they been denied basic human rights as a direct or indirect result of the United States’ actions? With Donald Trump holding executive decision, the person next to you and many others like him or her could possibly lose a chance to use and vocalize their basic rights when necessary. Hold this country accountable for selectively choosing who joins the melting pot of the United States and selectively choosing who should receive what rights and when. Every human right should be a fixed one, not a conditional one. Adithi Reddi is in an LSA junior.

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LITERATURE COLUMN

A fall from grace Appreciating empathy in fiction during anxious political times

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n the midst of an anxious and turbulent election, on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, I fell asleep at 10:30 P.M. I attribute my ability to doze off in this time of intense pressure to both my selfdiagnosed “stressinduced narcolepsy” REBECCA and the melatonin LERNER gummies I took from my roommate. Either way, I woke up at four in the morning on Wednesday, November 9 to discover that President-elect Donald Trump won the over 270 Electoral College votes necessary to secure the presidency. I got up, turned on my light and took out my copy of “Swamplandia,” by Karen Russell. “Swamplandia” is not strictly apocalyptic in a traditional sense, since it doesn’t detail a societal collapse with zombies or a plague. But at its core, it shares a common theme with all apocalyptic literature: survival. The story centers on the Bigtrees, a family that runs an alligator theme park in Florida. Within the first few pages, the matriarch of the family dies of breast cancer and her death catalyzes their financial and emotional collapse. Flipping to page eight, I read the lines that I was specifically looking for, the ones that could so perfectly capture how I was feeling. I strained my eyes to read the words, their poignancy echoing in my silent house. “The Beginning of the End can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it ... If you’re short on time, that would be the two word version of our story — we fell.” This fall takes place at the start of “Swamplandia,” and

it’s a subdued descent that hits you all at once. The kind where in a single page, any semblance of safety or magic evaporates. That page might be in the weathered copy of “Swamplandia” on my bookshelf, or it might be a web page on a phone with its blue light broadcasting the glaring red of an electoral map. There’s a downward momentum and uncertainty to this election that makes people who diverge from the white, straight, male norm lie awake at night. Of course, people who voted for Trump are entitled to their vote and free speech. They are not all racists or sexists, but to have voted for him, they needed to look past some damning evidence of sexual assault and countless examples of prejudice and ignorance. We’re hearing the same hateful rhetoric that has been simmering under the societal surface for years, at a much higher pitch. This rhetoric can be alarming and frustrating, especially on this campus, where students of marginalized identities are constantly forced to speak as experts on diversity while simultaneously combatting intolerance and hate. Conservative news is attributing the drastic reaction of students to the way we see ourselves as special snowflakes who can’t stand to have people disagree with us. In reality, what we can’t stand is violence and hatred directed towards women, minorities and queer and trans people. This feels like the part of this piece where I should say that we need empathy, that in apocalyptic literature there’s always a societal divide and that polarization is normal, even encouraged in political races. That empathy could save the day, start a dialogue and create space for understanding

both sides. I could even bring it back to literature and say that reading fiction increases the human capacity for empathy. (It does. By reading we slip into the lives of people who are so unlike us that we learn what it’s like to be someone else, improving our social skills and compassion.) Trump and his supporters are asking America to trust him, and empathy seems to be a first step to trust and unity. But trust must be earned. Trump’s speech throughout his campaign was fueled by racism, xenophobia, homophobia and sexism. It’s not my place to tell anyone whether they should move past that or not in the name of uniting the country. There have been hundreds of hate crimes across the country since last Tuesday’s election. People have a right to be scared and angry. This has been a confusing and disjointed year — in 2016, Beyonce’s Lemonade was released, Donald Trump was elected to be the leader of the free world and the terrifying force of Harambe memes were unleashed upon the internet. We live in troubling times. It’s hard to take seriously a plea for unity coming from the same people who allowed or perpetrated rallying cries of division. It’s hard not to see the transition of power from President Obama to President-elect Trump as symbolic of something bigger and more sinister coming our way. But this is not the end. Obama told us that now is not the time to get cynical, that the sun would come up no matter who was elected. Thus far, he’s been right. So this isn’t the apocalypse. But it could be the start of a fall. Lerner is chowing down on melatonin gummies. To wake her up, email rebler@umich.edu.

COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW

Taubman opens architecture exhibit to honor founding principal Sargent Inspiring “Triptychs” displays original sketches and proposed projects ERIKA SHEVCHEK Daily Arts Writer

On the morning of Nov. 12, the Taubman College of Architecture, alongside architecture firm Lord Aeck Sargent, opened its new exhibit “Triptychs.” The exhibit honors LAS’s founding principal and Taubman alum, Terry Sargent, who passed away in 2014. “Triptychs” displays Sargent’s original sketches and shows how they have been brought to life. Since the ’90s, Lord Aeck Sargent has had a deep concentration in sustainability. With four different office locations, University of Michigan alumni and buildings all over college campuses, LAS has made a name for itself as a top, modern day architecture firm. Joe Greco, president of LAS, and Jim Nicolow, director and architect of LAS Ann Arbor office, both discussed their company and the work of Mr. Sargent in an interview last Saturday, before the opening of this long-awaited exhibit. Their current goal is to create buildings that produce more energy than the energy that is used. “The work of sustainability comes from a grass roots level … It’s not about high tech engineering. It’s about smart choices and how the systems are all integrated in a cohesive way that are high performing,” Greco said. “It’s all part of the design process.” “We always look at the local climate (when thinking about design) and what are the opportunities and challenges posed by those climates,” Nicolow added. Many of LAS’s buildings are at universities like Baylor University’s College of Medicine,

Georgia State University, Georgia Tech University, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan’s Dearborn and Ann Arbor campuses. “David Orr said that ‘architecture is crystallized pedagogy’,” Nicolow said. “(The company tries to) have the building not only be sustainable and sensitive to the environment, but to also do it in a way that is understandable and provides teaching moments.” These teaching moments also shine through in the showcase. “Triptychs” shows three-piece panels of the evolution of an architecture design: beginning with Sargent’s sketches, moving to Barbara Ratner’s watercolors and finishing with Jonathon Hillyer’s photography of the building itself. Greco and Nicolow noted some of the final products don’t look exactly like the sketch, but there is always some piece of Sargent’s creative work that is embedded in the building. “(Sargent) was never egotistical,” Greco said. “He taught us that the firm revolves around serious collaboration. That was his legacy and his approach.” When asked what three words best describe “Triptychs” and Mr. Sargent’s work, the two said: “Integrated, Innovative and Poetic.” With those three words in mind, we headed over to the exhibit after the interview. The gallery is located at the Taubman College Liberty Gallery at 305 W. Liberty Street. For anyone who has ever been there before knows that that studio warehouse itself is a piece of art. With high ceilings, lots of natural light and an abundance of architecture projects and models, it feels like the perfect place

to present Sargent’s architectural designs. The gallery shows numerous projects that Sargent proposed along with the water color renderings and the final photographs. To see the transformation of sketch lines on paper to full-fledged, sustainable, functional buildings was immensely impressive to view. As someone who highly appreciates architecture, I could not find a more inspiring exhibit to attend. Those three words Greco and Nicolow used can be seen in the integration of three different art forms — sketching, painting and photography. They all capture that same concept, but in diverse mediums. These buildings are innovative not only to modern day architecture, but also to all people and the environment. These designs demand to be noticed — they are complex and simple together in a style that can only be defined as poetic. Sargent’s work at Taubman and LAS is what can only be described as highly credible. Along with the fine work of Barbara Ratner and Jonathon Hillyer, these talented artists form the building blocks to the evolutionary effect of triptychs. One can clearly see the importance of Sargent’s work to LAS, to Taubman and to the overarching field of architecture when visiting this exhibit. In addition to the gallery, there were multiple testimonials about working with Sargent and the kind of man and architect he was — one whose footprint has been made on his buildings, in his firm, and right here at the University. “Triptychs” will be displayed until Dec. 18.

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VIDEO GAME REVIEW

Bethesda remasters a true classic with ‘Elder Scrolls V’ special edition The game is beloved not just by gamers, but mainstream roommates, too easily play for free. Matt represents one of the many million mainstream purchasers of “Skyrim” is a video game of “Skyrim” — the guy who doesn’t profound influence. It’s one of read the trade sites, or listen to those names, like “Mario” or any gaming podcasts. He’s just “Zelda,” that an average guy who everybody fell in love with seems to know. “Skyrim.” My non-gamer “It had to be durgirlfriend says, ing junior or sopho“The Elder Scrolls when people more year of high V: Skyrim Special ask, that she school,” he said. Edition” “doesn’t play, “Back when everybut played ‘Skyone else started Bethesda rim’ for a little playing it. Everyone PS4 (Reviewed), PC bit once.” To say was talking about it’s broken into it at school, but I and Xbox One the mainstream didn’t get it until a would be a masyear after that.” sive understatement — it’s one Matt said his friend Jamie of the top 20 best-selling games Brandon was the first to turn of all time, at over 20 million him on to it. units sold. “One of my friends from high And it’s not just a commercial school just had the game on,” success. At an unheard-of 96 on Matt said. “It was like, ‘here, Metacritic, it’s one of the most you need to see this, ‘cause it’s acclaimed video games ever. so good.’ And she pretty much Last week, the game’s publisher just forced me to start a profile re-released the game on cur- and start playing. She played rent-gen consoles with a graphi- a lot more games, but I never cal update, and bundled the played really anything at all. base game with all of its DLC. We had like, PlayStation 1 and I was going to review “Sky- all that for my brothers growing rim Special Edition” just like up, but I never played any of the any other release. But what’s the games. They just never seemed point of me regurgitating praise interesting.” for a game that’s already been I sat on the couch perpenlavished by every major gaming dicular to him as he booted up and non-gaming publication on the game from the PS4 menu the planet? You heard the opin- and buttoned through the start ions of the games press back in screen. I noticed that for what2011, and I agree with them. It’s ever reason, everything was in an extraordinarily ambitious French. open-world role-playing game. “Actually, it’s really helped The overarching story is com- me in practicing French. I’m petent, but the sense of explo- trying to learn it, and this is ration and world building are perfect because it’s as if I’m masterful. The music is heart- going to France,” Matt said. meltingly beautiful. The graph- “Everybody’s speaking French ics were unreal at the time. to me, I’m going to towns and There’s a truly absurd amount French vendors and guards and of content to engage with. By people are talking to me. And any measure, “Skyrim” is a mas- you respond with questions and terpiece. stuff. It’s good ‘cause you read But you know that already. and listen and hear and talk.” My critical opinion of the game The North American version doesn’t matter at this point. of “Skyrim” includes language Instead, I want you to consider options for English, French, the opinion of my roommate, Spanish, Italian and German. LSA Senior Matt Kotrba. “Just look at this — it’s beauI’ve known Matt for four tiful!” Matt said, as his characyears and lived with him for ter peered over a ledge at the three, and I can safely say that rising in-game sun. “I mean… “Skyrim” is the only video game it’s different from other games, I’ve ever seen him play more I guess, like you don’t go into than once. In fact, he plays it all it thinking ‘okay, I’m gonna do the time — and he’s been devour- these things to beat this part of ing the remaster since Bethesda this game.’ You can just enter it sent me a copy. He would never thinking ‘okay, cool, I’m gonna self-label as a gamer, and he see some cool shit, do some cool never seems interested in the stuff, and we’ll see if we can run many games I buy that he could into people and learn about stoJACOB RICH

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rylines.’ It’s like a folk tale or something.” Matt said he’s beaten the game a couple times. “I just keep going back as different characters,” he said. Over the years, I’ve attempted to get Matt into games that are similar in genre to Skyrim, maybe so I could have another gamer around the house. I made Matt sit down and try “Far Cry 4,” “The Witcher 3” and even Bethesda’s follow-up to “Skyrim,” “Fallout 4.” The attempts were unsuccessful. “I guess those games … I don’t know. (They) just seem like a lot more intense. (“Skyrim”) just feels a lot more original, and it’s not specifically a story, it’s just a world to explore. Exploration, I guess, is the biggest difference. Other games, it’s just a lot of taking over enemy territory.” Matt also never played “Skyrim” ’s predecessor, 2006’s “The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion,” but watched his brother play it. Checking that the conversation recording was still going, I watched Matt kill a rabid wolf, called a “loup” in the French translation. Matt then expressed his disdain for always having to kill stuff while exploring “Skyrim” ’s overworld. He felt it interrupted the pace of exploration. “The combat is the worst part,” he said. “That’s why I usually play as a guy with a bow and arrow or magic. It’s just like, being a cool sniper. Then, I can just keep looking around.” To conclude our conversation, I asked Matt how he felt about the upgrades included with the new version of the game. “I think it’s awesome,” he said. “I feel like the visual aesthetic is a big part of what makes this a game. And the improvements are awesome. Yeah, I definitely noticed them. It just makes the world seem more real. The light effects, the cool sounds and stuff.” I pointed out the deep red sky in the background of Matt’s mountain voyage. I didn’t recognize the way the sky looked from the original version of the game. “That’s a big thing in this one. The sky is always different.” Matt said that if he were in my position, he would give “Skyrim Special Edition” an A+. “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition” was reviewed using a post-launch digital copy provided by Bethesda.

CONCERT REVIEW

Alex G brings welcome absurdity, crowd participation to Blind Pig SEAN LANG

Daily Arts Writer

Alex G shows don’t work quite like other shows. Normally, the kind of audience member who shouts out song titles, demanding that the band play them, is looked down on. It takes a certain level of either ignorance or arrogance (or both) to believe that you should be the one telling the artist what to do. At The Blind Pig on Saturday, however, during the final show of Alex G’s tour with openers LVL UP and Brandon Can’t Dance, these more vocal showgoers were rewarded. Alex G only really ever prepares half of their setlist, and leaves the rest up to the audience, so when the audience started chanting “Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!” the band responded by playing “Sarah” — though not before Alex himself pretended to be angry with the audience for shouting their request. What happens between songs, though, is one of the most rewarding aspects of an Alex G show. Alex readily riffs back and forth with the audience, often riffing on inane little bits that would fall flat were it not for his delivery. After the first few songs, he asked the audience, “Hey, you guys ever seen ‘Lord of the Rings’? Yeah, I

was an extra in that movie … They flew me out to New Zealand.” There’s nothing innately funny about this statement, but the confidence with which it was said and his feigned expectation that the audience would be impressed made it resonate. Even better was when he asked, one song later, whether the audience was familiar with “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” — “I was in that movie too.” About five minutes later he also let the audience know that he was in “The Matrix: Reloaded.” So as not to tire the bit, he stopped there. About 15 minutes into the set, Alex let the crowd know that the band was about to play their last song — the show ended about an hour and several songs later. A lot of people find his behavior on stage cocky and off-putting, but it truly is a part of the art of putting on a show (or it is for Alex G, at least). Multi-faceted performance at its finest, with not just music live, but an offbeat comedy show interspersed with occasional cultural commentary. It’s refreshing to see a performer who is also a person, and it’s easy to see that Alex G — the person and the band — really just aim to have fun onstage. At one point during the show,

someone in the front row requested “All Star” by Smash Mouth. Keeping with their tradition of letting the audience decide their show, Alex asked if anyone in the crowd knew all of the lyrics, and invited the young man who volunteered himself up on to the stage. What followed was comedy and art in an absurd conglomeration. After the first verse-chorus cycle of “All Star,” Alex G’s lead guitarist started singing “Closing Time” by Semisonic on top of the already bizarre cover. Later, after a spontaneous discussion of the virtues of Tom Cruise, the band announced that they would be playing two more songs, one that the audience could choose, then an encore. After playing “Animals” per request, Alex told the crowd the show was over. About 30 seconds later, the band started their last song. Starting as a rolling, jazzy piece, Alex changed the keyboard he was playing to the DJ Sampler setting, and absurdity once again became the driving force of the show. The next three minutes were loaded with “woo”s and “yeah”s and artificial vinyl scratches, and you’d be hard-pressed to find someone in the audience who didn’t crack a smile.

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Some scientist. She can’t even find the spaceship.

‘Arrival’ a sci-fi must-see Channeling Spielberg, Villeneuve creates a love letter to language JEREMIAH VANDERHELM

seemingly otherworldly transition her character undergoes. 2016 hasn’t been the easiest The cinematography by Bradyear on the sci-fi genre. There ford Young (“Selma”) is flat-out have been some bright spots, to gorgeous. Whether it’s the alien be sure, with “Star craft dwarfing Trek Beyond” and the mountainside “Midnight Speit hovers above, cial” both garnerthe mind-bending “Arrival” ing considerable shifts in gravity Rave & Quality 16 and well-earned inside the thing or praise. Those the simple intiParamount Pictures films have been macy of the scenes contrasted, howbetween Adams ever, with “Indeand Renner, Young pendence Day: Resurgence,” makes every frame a work of which combined all the mistakes art. The French-Canadian Vilof its predecessor with none of leneuve proves yet again why the charm, and “The Divergent he’s one of the most exciting Series: Allegiant” and “The 5th directors working in Hollywood Wave,” which both made compel- today, as his assuredness in both ling cases for putting a kibosh on his slow pacing and nonlinear the modern YA genre. That’s why storytelling serve both to sepaDennis Villeneuve’s (“Prisoners”) rate the film from others of its “Arrival” is such a breath of fresh genre and to aid it in exploring air. Because it’s not just a good sci- its themes. fi movie; it’s the best kind of sci-fi It’s in those themes that movie. In fact, it’s the best kind of “Arrival” truly becomes somemovie in general. thing special. It’s not a film conIt nails the basics, first of all. tent to throw an action scene in Amy Adams (“Man of Steel”) every half hour on the mark to gives the performance of her keep viewers in their seats. It isn’t career as Dr. Louise Banks, a the kind of movie where the evil linguist called in to establish aliens are outwitted at the last communications between the possible second by a GoldblumAmerican government and a duo led crew of plucky humans. It’s of aliens who landed in Montana. a movie defined by what it says Jeremy Renner (“The Hurt Lock- rather than what it does. er”) and Forest Whittaker (“PlaFor one, it’s a love letter to lantoon”) do great work as well, but guage. Louise Banks waxes philthere is never a scene that isn’t osophical about how language is absolutely dominated by Adams, “the cornerstone of civilization” who perfectly conveys the awe, and can change the way people confusion and devastation at the think about and comprehend Daily Arts Writer

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even simple subjects. Renner narrates to explain how the word “heptapod” was decided upon for the aliens. The heptapod language itself is incredibly inventive and fits both visually and thematically into the world of the story. A love of language, in big ways and small, somehow permeates every scene of the movie. More than that, “Arrival” is a film about humanity. This isn’t new to the sci-fi genre, as even the lesser films listed earlier managed to boil down to “People working together is good, so work together, people.” Villeneuve and screenwriter Eric Heisserer (“Lights Out”) dig a layer deeper, though. “Arrival,” at its core, is about how humanity deals with grief — both the existential grief that comes with realizing the universe isn’t as empty as we thought or the far more relatable grief of loss. Ultimately, it also uses its wildly unique structuring to demonstrate that moving beyond that grief is often the only way to live a life worth living. It’s difficult to describe just how special “Arrival” is without delving too deeply into what could be considered “spoiler territory,” so it must be left at just that. It’s the third in Denis Villeneuve’s hat trick of modern masterpieces (with “Prisoners” and “Sicario” rounding out the list), a high-concept sci-fi film that’s an absolute must-see for fans of the genre.

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After 18 years of silence, A Tribe Called Quest is still vital and fresh The late five-foot freak makes his presence felt on first album in 18 years music, and it’s awesome to see their awareness of it 18 years after the fact. On “Dis GeneraAthletes retire; artists die. On tion” Q-Tip jibes “Talk to Joey, March 22, Malik “Phife Dawg” Kendrick and Cole / gatekeepers Taylor – the funky diabetic – of flow / They are extensions of finally lost his instinctual soul.” career-spanning The entire song is a fight with diabeproverbial passing tes at the age of of the Zulu torch. 45. What started The same incluWe Got it from as a strain on sive approach to Here... Thank You 4 his relationship collaboration that Your Service with the Tribe birthed the Native A Tribe Called (most infamously, Tongues has yieldQ-Tip), doubled ed an album rosQuest as a beautifully ter with friends Epic fitting jolt of old and new alike: mortality to bring Kanye West, André everyone togeth3000, Jack White, er for a parting piece. Consequence, Kendrick Lamar, After 18 years of silence, Talib Kweli, Anderson .Paak and A Tribe Called Quest’s latest of course the ever-present Busta album features all four of the Rhymes. founding members, including The range of guests can make Jarobi White, who left the group Thank You 4 Your Service almost before the release of The Low feel like a high-school-reunionEnd Theory in ’91. Though Pfife turned-going-away-party. Some couldn’t make it to the album’s friends come and go, some stick release or the stunning SNL per- around longer. Kendrick Lamar formances, his voice haunts the stops by for only 20 seconds on project and the minds of hip-hop “Conrad Tokyo,” but squeezes purists for generations to come. every bit of life from within him The title alone lends itself to to conjure a verse that could some sort of cryptic sendoff: We make you believe that maybe, Got It from Here... Thank You 4 just maybe, it’ll bring Phife back. Your Service. Legend has it that Phife himself chose the title, without explanation. But would he really thank himself for his services? Released suspiciously close to the presidential election, perhaps the title doubles as an ode to another Black American. Perhaps he foresaw a nation built on slave labor replacing its first African-American president with a man who campaigned on hate speech. Why else does the album close with The most damning thing “The Donald”? about the record is that maybe Rap music – the music of this isn’t a world that Phife America’s cracked pavement would even want to re-enter, and sidewalks – provides dis- anyways; Lamar, 29, and Phife, tillations of our political cli- 45, are generations apart but mate unlike any other medium. participants in the same Black I wasn’t around in ’93. I can’t American experience: “Trump speak on how Midnight Maraud- and SNL hilarity / Troublesome ers shed light on the issues of its times kid, no time for comedy time, yet it’s clear as day how A / … / Bullshit you spewing / As Tribe Called Quest has chan- if this country isn’t already neled the pulse of its People for ruined.” over 30 years. We Got It from Old friends bring with them Here is not a case of old dogs per- the warmth of tradition and forming new tricks. familiarity. Busta Rhymes’ finThough elements of songs gerprints are predictably all over from over 25 years ago are still the album, illuminating tracks present throughout the album, like “Mobius” and “The DonQ-Tip’s forward-thinking cre- ald” with the energy of reunited ative direction has proven to be homies. You can practically hear timeless. The bassline funk of how giddy he is to share a studio “Sucka N****” lives on within with Phife, switching directions “Whateva Will Be,” but is retro- mid-verse in his classic scatterfitted this time with glitchy soul brained delivery: “Ayo wait wait chops and syllables. Considering wait, I gotta go again!” He never how a song like “Excursions” does go again, opting instead to was such an outrageous devia- drop hilarious pieces of street tion from the N.W.A. and Public wisdom: “Keep it moving / Keep Enemy of its time, history shows the convo short / Bring a case that we shouldn’t be surprised at of Henny.” Bussa Buss’ promihow gracefully Tribe has aged. nence on We Got It from Here They’re not some band of is a reminder of the grassroots washed up, out-of-touch con- spirit Tribe has carried since servative hip-hop heads. They Instinctive Travels; always have are permanently embedded fun with it, and it shows in the into the canon of American rap music. SHAYAN SHAFII Daily Arts Writer

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Tribe has channeled the pulse of the people for over 30 years.

Album-opener “The Space Program” is similarly vintage Tribe, with Jarobi speaking on the prison-industrial complex in the absolute zaniest fashion possible: “Rather see we in a three-by-three structure with many bars / Leave us where so many are, so they can play with the stars / They takin’ off to Mars, got the space vessels overflowing / What, you think they want us there? All us n***** not going.” Tip chimes in more bluntly: “There ain’t no space program for n******.” Tribe’s transformation hasn’t been limited only to their sonic palette. Most interestingly, their range of political concerns have expanded as well. In a year that has already seen Young Thug don a (very nice) dress on the cover of Jeffery, “We The People” is one of the most tastefully in-your-face pieces of social commentary this year. The heaviest synth in the entire Tribe discography twists and growls under a hook that’s jarring out of sheer simplicity: “All you Black folks, you must go / All you Mexicans, you must go / And all you poor folks, you must go / Muslims and gays, boy we hate your ways.” Even Phife hits his native Patois accent from beyond the grave. It’s the energy of Run The Jewels but without the corny bullshit. If the uncredited features help shroud the project in mystery, the back-and-forth verses and left-field beat switches make the album excitingly unpredictable for a genre based on repetitive loops. One of the most pleasant surprises is the Kanye West feature on “The Killing Season”; with only three words, not only does his voice take the song by storm, but the soundscape beneath him practically falls through a trap door. What starts as an archetypal Afro-funk beat makes way for a series of crooning melodies that Tribe has never even experimented with. Consequence picks up where ‘Ye leaves off, and the beat never returns to its original state. In the arc of the proverbial going away party, it feels like the part of the night where friends are drunk enough to squash their beef; maybe the departure of a friend reminds them both of what’s really important: “Take a bow / This might be your last performance.” While We Got It from Here is largely a celebratory end to one of the greatest stories ever told, an undertone of the album is this certain anxiety about death. The going away party ends, your friend leaves, and what’s next for you? What’s next for your friends? What did you learn from the life of someone you liked enough to be around? Thank You 4 Your Service doesn’t pose any solutions, nor does it try to be something it isn’t. The simple “thank you” is in the title. Thank you, and Rest In Beats, Dawg.

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S T A T S MICH 44.5 23.6 236.3 5.3 37 231.5 63.2% 8.3 17 4 72.5 467.8 46.5% 61.5% 3.3 17.8 18.0 41.9 12-17 10/4 45.7 32:59

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 11.0 13.3 113.1 3.1 3 131.6 43.9% 5.5 9 11 59.9 244.7 19.7% 34.8% 1.4 21.0 8.1 39.0 6-12 12/5 43.8 27:01

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PASSING Player Speight O’Korn Morris TOTALS

Cmp Att Yds 160 257 2156 13 18 114 4 5 45 177 280 2315

TD 15 2 0 17

INT 4 0 0 4

Att Yds Avg 121 592 4.9 65 508 7.8 61 415 6.8 69 411 6.0 21 161 7.7 15 154 10.3 9 47 5.2 5 37 7.4 22 36 1.6 3 19 6.3 2 17 8.5 3 15 5.0 6 12 2.0 1 2 2.0 1 1 1.0 1 1 1.0 2 -1 -0.5 1 -2 -2.0 1 -11 -11.0 10 -15 -1.5 26 -36 -1.4 445 2363 5.3

Lg 42 57 45 53 63 33 17 13 4 14 10 11 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 10 63

TD 8 3 6 5 3 0 1 1 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 37

No. Yds 43 746 38 460 27 446 7 124 12 93 6 87 5 59 6 45 3 43 11 38 2 27 2 24 1 23 1 21 2 18 1 15 1 12 2 11 2 10 2 6 1 4 2 3 177 2315

Lg 46 37 40 54 15 56 33 15 18 17 21 22 23 21 15 15 12 7 5 4 4 5 56

TD 6 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17

RUSHING Player Smith, D. Evans Higdon Isaac Peppers McDoom Chesson Henderson Hill, K. Morris Davis Crawford O’Korn Hirsch Wilson Beneducci Hewlett Gedeon Allen TEAM Speight TOTALS RECEIVING Player Darboh Butt Chesson Perry Hill Evans McDoom Poggi Crawford Smith, D. Wheatley Ways Henderson Isaac Asiasi Hirsch Jocz Harris McKeon Bunting Johnson, N. Peppers TOTALS

Avg 17.3 12.1 16.5 17.7 7.8 14.5 11.8 7.5 14.3 3.5 13.5 12.0 23.0 21.0 9.0 15.0 12.0 5.5 5.0 3.0 4.0 1.5 13.1

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Injury puts Speight’s status in question JAKE LOURIM

Managing Sports Editor

The Michigan football team may have lost more than just the game on Saturday, as redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight suffered a shoulder injury late in the 14-13 loss at Iowa and now could miss this week’s home finale against Indiana. Reports from MGoBlog and The Detroit Free Press each cited a source who said Speight broke his collarbone and would miss the rest of the regular season. Speight said Saturday night that his shoulder was bothering him during the game. On the last pass he threw, Iowa defensive end Parker Hesse came in unblocked and hit Speight in the left shoulder. Speight came up holding his arm and grimacing. During his weekly press conference Monday — before the reports of a broken collarbone — Harbaugh gave no specifics on Speight’s injury regarding severity, possible structural damage or prognosis. “When we’ll know is based on what the doctors say and how Wilton’s feeling, what he’s able to do in terms of practice, et cetera,” Harbaugh said. He added that the decision on Speight’s status could be made as late as game time Saturday. A broken collarbone, though, would mean that Speight would certainly miss at least this week’s game and next week’s showdown at Ohio State, and perhaps whichever bowl game Michigan lands in around New Year’s Day. The injury usually takes at least six weeks to heal, which would put Speight back at practice around the time of the bowl game. If Speight can’t play Saturday, the starting job would likely

go to Houston transfer John O’Korn, who has played several snaps as a backup in blowouts this season. He is 13-for-18 for 114 yards and two touchdowns in seven games, though he has not started. Still, Speight’s absence would be a blow to Michigan’s offense next week against the fifth-ranked Buckeyes, if not this week against the Hoosiers. His struggles Saturday notwithstanding — Speight completed just 11 of 26 passes for 103 yards and a late interception at Iowa — he has been one of the offense’s most productive players. “That would be tough — Wilton’s done a great job, he’s been a great leader for us and he’s stepped up for us in countless situations throughout the whole entire season,” said senior tight end Jake Butt on Monday. “But John’s a great leader, too. John will get ready to go, and he’s one of those guys that leads by example with his work ethic. So as an offense, we’ll all stand behind whoever’s in that huddle.” O’Korn, who transferred to Michigan in 2015 after Harbaugh was hired, sat out last season per NCAA transfer rules and spent the year on the scout team. He and redshirt junior Shane Morris battled Speight for the starting job for the duration of spring and fall camps before Speight ultimately won out. But some lopsided scores in the Wolverines’ victories have inserted O’Korn plenty of times. On Oct. 8, when Michigan trampled Rutgers, 78-0, O’Korn played the entire second half. “If John’s number is called, we’re fully confident in him,” Butt said. “We’ve seen what he can do since he got here. He’s been a hard worker, great note-taker, great leader. He’s got everything

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Redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight suffered a shoulder injury in Michigan’s 14-13 loss to Iowa.

you need to do to get the job done. So if his number is called, if it turns out that Wilton can’t go, he’ll be ready to go, and we’re fully confident in him.” Speight’s first encounter with the Michigan quarterback job came just over a year ago, also because of an injury. The Wolverines’ starter, Iowa transfer Jake Rudock, suffered an injury on a hit at Minnesota on Oct. 31. Speight came in and threw a game-winning touchdown pass to fifth-year senior wide receiver Jehu Chesson to lead Michigan to a 27-23 victory. Rudock returned the next week against Rutgers and won four of his last five starts, alleviating

any concern. This year, the Wolverines find themselves in another predicament, though this one may be more serious. “Wilton stood back there — we’ve seen him take some hard shots all season,” Butt said. “Kind of similar to how Rudock did last year. Just kept bouncing back and putting the team first. He understood he was in pain. I think he knew he wasn’t the only guy. We’re all sacrificing for the greater good of the team right here.” That put him on track to become the starter, a job he has kept all season. The redshirt junior transfer played for a year and a half at Houston, making

his last start in a loss to Central Florida on Oct. 2, 2014. He is smaller than Speight and a less consistent passer, but he does add more of a running dimension. Despite losing the competition this summer, O’Korn has earned nothing but praise since he started on the practice field. “John’s been great — he’s been amazing,” redshirt junior defensive tackle Maurice Hurst said. “They were competing until basically the start of the season for the starting spot. They’re both really great players, and I definitely have full confidence in John, have full confidence in Wilton.”

PUNT RETURNS Player Peppers Jocz Evans Perry TOTALS

No. 16 1 1 0 18

Yds Avg. Long 276 17.2 54 27 27.0 0 15 15.0 15 6 -6 324 18.0 54

TD 1 0 0 1 2

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INTERCEPTION RETURNS Player Stribling Hill, D. McCray Thomas Lewis TOTALS

No. 4 3 1 1 2 11

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Yds 60 36 22 4 0 122

Avg. Long 15.0 51 12.0 27 22.0 22 4.0 4 0.0 0 11.1 51

TD 1 1 0 0 0 2

Yds 9 9

Avg. Long 9.0 9 9.0 9

TD 0 0

Yds 198 34 28 28 26 6 320

Avg. Long 24.8 55 11.3 18 9.3 13 14.0 15 26.0 26 6.0 6 17.8 55

TD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

FUMBLE RETURNS Player Hill, L. TOTALS

No. 1 1

KICKOFF RETURNS Player Peppers Lewis Hill, K. Henderson Evans Hudson TOTALS

No. 8 3 3 2 1 1 18

KICKOFFS Player Allen Foug Tice TOTALS

No. 68 8 3 79

Yds 4356 460 189 5005

Avg. 64.1 57.5 63.0 63.4

TB 36 2 0 38

No. 33 27

Yds 1382 1138

Avg. 41.9 42.1

Lg 56 56

PUNTING Player Allen TOTALS FIELD GOALS Player Allen Tice

FG Pct. 1-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50+ Lg 0-0 7-7 3-5 1-3 1-1 51 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0

12-16 75.0% 0-1 0.0%

LEADING TACKLERS Player Gedeon Peppers McCray Thomas Hill, D. Winovich Wormley Glasgow Hurst Gary Charlton Godin Lewis Stribling Kinnel Watson Bush Clark Glasgow, J. Metellus Hudson Furbush Pearson TOTALS

Solo 31 38 27 29 29 9 14 8 16 10 10 9 13 10 10 6 6 6 7 6 3 3 2 325

Ast 53 21 29 21 11 23 16 22 12 15 14 14 5 8 4 5 5 4 4 2 5 5 5 328

Harbaugh credits seniors for stopping ‘freight train’

Tot 84 59 56 50 40 32 30 30 28 25 24 23 18 18 14 11 11 10 11 8 8 8 7 653

TFL 13.0 14.0 9.5 3.5 7.5 7.5 5.0 8.5 5.0 5.5 2.0 2.5 1.0 1.0 0.5 1.0 0.5 1.0 90

SK PBU 3.5 2 4.0 3.5 4 6 3 4.0 5.0 2.0 1 3.0 1.0 5.0 1.0 7 9 3 1.0 1 33 37

2016 SCHEDULE

For a month at the end of 2014, the Michigan football team was a group with no coach and no sign that things were heading in a positive direction. The Wolverines were coming off a 5-7 season and had fired coach Brady Hoke. The roster was composed of talented recruits, but they couldn’t even muster wins against Maryland or Rutgers to secure bowl eligibility. Jim Hackett, then Michigan’s interim Athletic Director, gave those players a chance to decide what they needed to get back on track. Over the course of several meetings, Hackett asked the players what qualities they were looking for in a new head coach — ideally, one who could bring out all that untapped potential. Luckily for the Wolverines, Hackett found a coach who met all the players’ criteria: Jim Harbaugh. The turnaround has been welldocumented and well-publicized — a 10-3 record last season and a 9-0 start this year before Michigan was upset by Iowa on Saturday night. But with Senior Day at Michigan Stadium coming up this week, the man who kickstarted the Wolverines’ renaissance directed the attention to the players who stuck around through it all. “This class has meant so much to me personally, to Michigan football, to all of us,” Harbaugh said. “You look at these guys — the direction of the program was going a certain way, almost like a locomotive. These upperclassmen, these seniors, guys last year who played as well, it meant a lot to get it stopped, to get that momentum stopped. Like stopping a freight train.

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Senior tight end Jake Butt is one of the senior members of the Michigan football team playing his final game at Michigan Stadium on Saturday.

“I credit them for not only getting it stopped, but even harder, getting it turned on the tracks and headed the other direction.” Senior tight end Jake Butt is just one of many Wolverines who have been through the wringer over the last few years, hoping their work would eventually pay off. The players never doubted they had the talent to be successful — they just needed a push in the right direction. “We always knew we had talent,” Butt said. “It was just about putting all the pieces

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together. Coach Harbaugh, he’s like a wizard, man. He brought in unbelievable coaches, and it took a lot of time, a lot of hours, a lot of hard work and a lot of sacrifice by everyone on this team and around the program, but it was all for the right reasons. And now, here we are with a chance to do something great.” Butt said before the season that one of the biggest mental shifts under Harbaugh was an increased urgency to not let one loss turn into two. That mindset has paid off so far — Michigan has yet to lose back-to-back games under Harbaugh — and now it

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will be tested again this week, as it tries to rebound from a lastsecond upset by the Hawkeyes. The Wolverines have claimed to be treating every game the same way so far this season, and Harbaugh has been a picture of that. Butt said Harbaugh tells his players to go 100 percent all the time — never 110 percent. That steadiness has created an increased urgency to leave nothing up to chance, especially after losses. Of course, it helps to have a senior class that refuses to “hit the panic button.” According to Butt, they’ve been around

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long enough to know that one loss doesn’t necessarily warrant drastic changes. If they’ve learned anything from their roller-coaster ride at Michigan, it’s how to lose and come back stronger. “We’ve got a ton of seniors on both sides of the ball and special teams,” Butt said. “We’ve got experienced coaches that have experienced big wins, heartbreaking losses at different levels and as players. We all kind of understand a little bit how this goes, and having said that, we’ll be able to handle this situation pretty well.”

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SWIMMING & DIVING

Big Ten falls, but Wolverines shine at USA Challenge Haughey sets Big Ten record in 200yard freestyle, Swenson wins 400 IM GRACE BOYLES For the Daily

For once, Big Ten swimmers weren’t competing against each other. This weekend, swimmers from the conference formed a collective team and faced select members of Team USA in the USA College Challenge. Representing Michigan on the Big Ten team were five swimmers from the men’s swimming and diving team, along with four members from the women’s team. Michigan coach Mike Bottom attended the dual-meet in Indianapolis, overseeing the women’s Big Ten team. “It wasn’t really about our teams. It was about us coming together as a conference,” Bottom said. “We’re all competing, but yet the competition is making everyone better and we have learned to appreciate our competitors as well as the competition.” In spite of the united effort, the Big Ten fell short of a win, losing to Team USA, 349-247. Though the Big Ten lost, the weekend was still a success for the conference as several collegiate records were broken by swimmers from all schools. Michigan sophomore Siobhàn Haughey beat her previous Big Ten and Michigan record in the 200-yard freestyle — the same event she competed in during the semifinals of the 2016 Rio Olympics — by 0.42 seconds with a time of 1:42.93. Haughey’s time was the fastest recorded time nationally in the 200-yard freestyle this season. Another Wolverine with a standout performance this weekend was freshman Charlie Swanson. One of only three Big Ten winners on Saturday, Swanson finished first in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 3:46.09. Also on Saturday, both fifthyear senior Luke Papendick and junior PJ Ransford placed third in the 200-yard backstroke (1:43.71) and in the 100-yard butterfly (47.06), respectively. Junior Evan White, recently coming off of an injury, flirted with his personal best of 46.56 in the 100-yard butterfly (47.06), taking sixth in the event this weekend. Coming in seventh for the Big Ten in the 100-yard freestyle (44.15) was junior Paul Powers.

Powers had the highest finish for Michigan’s men’s swimming on Sunday with a second-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle (19.79), his best time in this event so far this season. Ransford took third in the 1,000-yard freestyle (8:55.40) while Swanson placed seventh (9:22.93). Michigan had another top-three finish with White taking third in the 200yard individual medley (1:46.63). In the 100-yard backstroke, Papendick finished fifth with a time of 47.41. And the Wolverine women had exceptional performances too. Junior Gabby DeLoof competed against her sister and former Michigan teammate Ali DeLoof in the 400-yard freestyle relay. Team USA won the event with a time of 3:11.64, with Ali DeLoof swimming as the leadoff. Finishing second, Haughey and Gabby DeLoof contributed to the Big Ten’s relay team as the third and fourth legs. Sophomore Yirong Bi helped the Big Ten with a third-place finish in the 1,000-yard freestyle. Competing in the 100-yard medley backstroke was junior Clara Smiddy. Smiddy finished sixth behind Ali DeLoof, who beat the 51-second barrier with a time of 50.99 in the event. “When you go down the line in almost every individual (event), we swam well,” Bottom said. “As a whole, the Big Ten swam and competed very well with a lot of best times.” Though the Big Ten ultimately lost, multiple Big Ten relay teams set top collegiate times, demonstrating the potential strength of a future national team when some of these collegiate swimmers unite. Top times were recorded in the men’s 800-yard freestyle relay (6:19.08), the 400yard medley relay (3:07.93) and the 400-yard freestyle relay (2:50.81). For the women, top times were recorded in the 400-yard medley relay (3:29.65), the 800-yard freestyle relay (7:00.40) and the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:13.29). “The big lesson learned was that if you come together for a common goal, you can unite people,” Bottom said. “We stand in a world that’s really divided right now and it’s fun to see what happened at the meet, where Big Ten teams that are competitive came together in a way that really was exemplary and what we’re trying to do as a country.”

“It was about us coming together as a conference.”

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Dancs looks to build on weekend improvement MIKE PERSAK

Daily Sports Writer

With just under 10 minutes left in the first period of Friday’s game against Boston University, the Michigan hockey team was on its second power play. Freshman forward Will Lockwood had just scored to put the Wolverines up, 1-0, and the team was looking to earn some cushion against the fourthranked Terriers. Junior forward Dexter Dancs received a pass from freshman defenseman Luke Martin at the blue line, and skated it up the right boards. Dancs drew Boston University’s Bobo Carpenter toward him, but right before Carpenter reached him, Dancs dished a backhanded pass to junior forward Tony Calderone, who ripped a one-timer through a crowd and into the back of the net. It was just what Michigan needed. The Terriers represented the Wolverines’ biggest game of the year, but there was one problem entering the matchup — Michigan was down a few seniors. Forwards Alex Kile and Max Shuart, defenseman Nolan De Jong and goaltender Zach Nagelvoort were suspended for “breaking team rules,” and as a result, Michigan coach Red Berenson and his staff had to reshuffle their lines. Dancs was one beneficiary of the change. He was one of the returners from last season that was expected to make a leap in productivity this year. But because of a slow start — Dancs had only one point through eight games — the junior has spent much of the season being moved from line to line in an effort to spark the offensive side of his game. Friday, Dancs was placed on the first line with Lockwood and freshman forward Jake Slaker, who have been some of the most consistent producers for the Wolverines. As it turns out, their performances may

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Junior forward Dexter Dancs tallied a goal and an assist in Michigan’s two-game series against Boston University.

have been contagious. Dancs put together the best weekend of his season, assisting Calderone on Friday before tallying a goal for himself on Saturday. After notching two points on the weekend, Dancs attributed his performance to both past success before college and his practice regiment this season. “Scoring goals is what I used to do before I got here,” Dancs said. “The past two years, there’s been some players ahead of me that are very good. And I’ve gotten to watch them and learn from them. And I’ve been doing a lot of stuff with (assistant coach Brian) Wiseman. He scored a lot of goals when he was here, so he’s been helping me.”

While the offensive side of Dancs’ game is important, it wasn’t the only aspect in which he was better this weekend. Dancs also played a more physical brand of hockey. He was involved in multiple big hits, and was often chasing and battling for the puck in the corners. But whether it’s with physicality or finesse on the offensive side of the puck, perhaps the most important thing for Dancs is to know his role on the team. “I think he’s figuring it out,” Berenson said. “He’s starting to realize how he has to play to help our team. Sometimes a player comes out and they do what they want to do. And if they’re not doing what we need them to

“Scoring goals is what I used to do before I got here.”

do, then they can be out of sync. And I think Dexter was out of sync. And now he’s playing more physical, he’s playing harder and he’s playing better.” Though the improvement came to fruition this weekend, there is still work to be done. “If he plays his best, I think he can be a top-six forward on this team, but last year he ended up playing mostly on the bottom six,” Berenson said. “He’s just now starting to show what he was doing last year. And if he develops — if he continues to improve — he’ll have a better role. He can help our power play if he plays well, and he can help our top six forwards.” Added Dancs: “Coming into this year, my goal was to contribute more offensively. Throughout the first few games, it hasn’t gone that way for me. But I know if I trust the process and keep working hard, that’ll come.”

Five things we learned: Howard & IUPUI MINH DOAN

Daily Sports Editor

The Michigan men’s basketball team kicked off its season this past weekend with two double-digit victories over Howard and IUPUI in the Ann Arbor regional of the 2K Classic. Against Howard on Friday, the Wolverines struggled to deal with a matchup zone defense, a defense Michigan coach John Beilein said he had never seen in all his years of coaching. The Wolverines overpowered the Bisons, though, who ranked No. 328 in RPI last season and were missing James Daniel — the NCAA’s leading scorer last season — to an injury. Sunday against IUPUI, Michigan strung together a 13-0 run to end the first half and went on to beat the Jaguars, 77-65. The Wolverines will now travel to New York City to play in the 2K Classic Championship Round. Michigan will play Marquette on

Thursday and either Southern Methodist or Pittsburgh on Friday. But until then, here are five things we learned from Michigan’s season-opening weekend. 1. DJ Wilson is legit During Michigan’s media day back on Oct. 3, Beilein likened the redshirt sophomore forward’s potential to that of former Indiana forward Troy Williams, who now plies his craft in the NBA with the Memphis Grizzlies. No one, however, was expecting to see a return on that statement so early in the season. Friday against Howard, Wilson was a force inside, grabbing eight rebounds and scoring nine points in 20 minutes of action. Wilson continued his solid play Sunday, notching career highs in rebounds and blocks with 14 and five, respectively. “His mindset is to get in there and get rebounds, loose basketballs, everything,” Beilein said. “... If he says to himself, ‘I am a rebounder and defender,’ he’ll get baskets.” 2. The battle between Donnal and Wagner is far from over Going into the game against Howard, Beilein stated that sophomore forward Moritz Wagner would get the start. But by the end of the game, it was redshirt junior Mark Donnal who got the advantage in minutes, playing eight more than Wagner. Sunday, Wagner started again, but Donnal was given ample playing time and both players were on the court for 19 minutes. “I think both offensively and defensively, I just held my own and tried to be an energy guy of the bench,” Donnal said after Friday’s game. Beilein now has a conundrum on his hands. While Wagner gives him a better offensive presence, he also also shows flashes of immaturity on defense. Against Howard, Wagner started the second half, but was taken out just seconds later for not picking up his guard on a ball screen. Moving forward, Beilein may be forced to switch back and forth

between his two big men at the ‘5’. 3. Michigan is playing more aggressively on defense Assistant coach Billy Donlon came to the team as a defensiveminded coach, and that was evident during both games, when Donlon would get up from his seat to bark orders when Michigan was on the defensive end of the court. This weekend, the Wolverines forced a total of 27 turnovers for an average of 13.5 per game, a far cry from the 7.5 turnovers Michigan forced per game last season. Granted, it is still early and this year’s average comes from a small sample size, but there were visible differences in the Wolverine defense from last season. While Michigan was far more aggressive on the defensive end, it resorted to fouling at times. Fortunately for the Wolverines, Howard shot just 48 percent from the line. 4. The Wolverines are still relying heavily on the 3-point shot Over the past several seasons, Michigan has put a heavy emphasis on its ability to shoot 3-pointers. This weekend, the

Wolverines shot 35 percent from behind the arc. More interesting, though, was how often Michigan shot the 3-ball. Forty percent of the Wolverines’ shots were from deep, which is in line with their performance last year, when 43 percent of their shots were 3-pointers. 5. Bold prediction: DJ Wilson starts over Duncan Robinson against Marquette With how well Wilson has played in the first two games of the season, Beilein may be forced to start Wilson at the ‘4’. Against IUPUI, Wilson played 80 percent of the minutes in the second half, with redshirt junior Duncan Robinson to the bench for much of the stanza. “(Duncan’s) role will be varied,” Beilein said. “Does he start? Does he come off the bench? I love having a gunner come off the bench.” Wilson still has plenty to work on, including being more aggressive on the offensive front. But with his length and size, Michigan has a better defensive option, and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see Wilson in the starting five on Thursday night in Madison Square Garden.

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Mark Donnal is battling with Moritz Wagner for playing time at center.