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University President Mark Schlissel oversees the Board of Regents meeting in the Michigan Union Thursday.

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Body also approves 6.2 million in renovations for Law Quadrangle RIYAH BASHA & KATHERINE CURRAN Daily Staff Reporters

In their last meeting of the calendar year, the University of Michigan Board of Regents discussed issues including construction, honorary degrees

and campus climate in front of more than 50 attendees in the Michigan Union Thursday afternoon. Renovations and construction projects The Board of Regents unanimously approved multiple infrastructure projects at the meeting, including an $150

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Design expo showcases engineering initiatives Multidisciplinary program hosts biannual event featuring student work JENNIFER MEER Daily Staff Reporter

Students, faculty, staff and the general public were invited to the University of Michigan College of Engineering Design Expo to hear students discuss their multidisciplinary design projects Thursday. Through these projects, students aim to develop solutions to real-life problems using collaborative, integrative approaches. Organized by the Multidisciplinary Design Program, the biannual event, which spreads throughout several buildings on North Campus, includes a series of hands-on student presentation. The MDP, which operates out of the College of Engineering, offers team-based projects to students University-wide. Several of the projects were part of the senior design project courses, and a handful were nonprofit or industry sponsored. Payal Agarwal, MDP administrative assistant and expo organizer, said the event offers students an opportunity to present in front of an audience See ENGINEERING, Page 3

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million overhaul of the Ruthven Museums Building. As part of the renovations, the University’s central administration officials will move from their current offices in the Fleming Administration Building to the Ruthven Building. The Fleming Building — first opened in the 1960s to popular student rumors

about its “riot-proof” design — will eventually be demolished. Kevin Hegarty, chief financial officer and executive vice president of the University, announced the changes. “The project presents an exciting opportunity to preserve and reuse a landmark campus See REGENTS, Page 3

Individuals who have received MIPs say officers were overly aggressive ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter

On a Thursday night in September, a LSA freshman named Hannah — who asked that only her first name be used because she is discussing underage drinking — had a few mixed drinks with her friends in her dorm room before going out. It was an 18+ night at BTB Cantina — a bar located on South University Avenue. At the time, Hannah was just old enough to get through the door. She was careful not drink at the bar — the bouncers had drawn X’s on her hands in Sharpie, indicating she was a minor and would not be served. Hannah left BTB Cantina at

SAPAC holds panel about racism and safety on the University’s campus Panelists highlight concerns with DEI plan, current political climate REBECCA LERNER Daily Staff Reporter

The Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center’s Bystander Intervention and Community Engagement program, which hosts workshops to equip bystanders with the necessary skills to intervene, held a panel discussion about racism and safety at the University of Michigan Thursday night. The event aimed to serve as an open space to discuss the experience of students with marginalized identities following the divisive results of the 2016 election on campus. The panel, which was open to all faculty, students and staff, as well as those not affiliated with the University, was attended by roughly 50 students. SAPAC volunteers and LSA seniors Nick Suarez and Jasmine Rubio, who organized the event, said they wanted to address the political issues unfolding on campus and educate students on possible constructive roles they can take moving forward. “I’m hoping we get some solid ideas of how to be a proactive bystander and how to be a good ally,” Rubio said. Suarez agreed, adding, “I hope more than anything that this an educational experience.”

The organizers pointed to a divided climate both on campus and across the nation as a catalyst for the event. “It came because tensions have been so much higher, not necessarily because of a political outcome but because of a recent climate,” Suarez said. “We’ve been demanding a conversation and demanding people listen to our voices, but we haven’t had a place for

students to speak unfiltered.” The panel’s time was divided into a discussion about the experiences of minority students and their feelings toward the current campus climate, a conversation about the changes minority students would like to see and a segment allowing audience members to pose questions to the panel. Six panelists, including

undergraduates, graduate students and a recent graduate from different marginalized identities, spoke at the event. Panelists were first asked whether or not they feel safe on campus because of their respective identities. “There’s different types of safety,” said LSA senior Alyssa Brandon, who is also a Michigan in Color editor See PANEL, Page 3

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about midnight but came back for her friend so she could walk her home. When she arrived back at the bar, her friend was speaking to a man in a T-shirt who appeared to be in his late 20s. Another man wearing a jersey approached her as well. It took several minutes for Hannah to realize they were cops. “(He) was like, ‘Have you been drinking?’ ” Hannah said in an interview last week. “And I had no idea who this guy was — I was extremely caught off guard; he didn’t have a badge or anything. I had no idea he was an undercover cop.” She admitted to the man that she had been drinking, but only a little. See DRINKING, Page 2

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First new ‘U’ school in decades to open in July New environment and sustainability college will replace SNRE RIYAH BASHA & KATHERINE CURRAN Daily Staff Reporters

The University of Michigan Board of Regents unanimously approved a new School of Environment and Sustainability, which will take the place of the current School of Natural Resources and Environment, at their December meeting Thursday afternoon. The new school is set to open on July 1, 2017, and will be the first new school at the University in two decades. In September, a research committee to examine the strengths and weaknesses of sustainability programs at the University recommended creating a new school to address pressing global challenges to the environment in their report. The committee consisted of 14 different University faculty from 10 different units and looked at the possibilities for growth within the SNRE, Graham Sustainability Institute and the Program in the Environment. Feedback was also gathered through meetings, town halls, See SCHOOL, Page 3

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DRINKING From Page 1 “Right then and there, he was like, ‘All right, blow,’ pulled out his badge, pulled out his Breathalyzer,” she said. “They just handled it so poorly. First of all, they didn’t ask me to blow, they told me to, which I found out is illegal — apparently I can refuse to blow.” Hannah is right. Anyone can refuse a Breathalyzer, though refusal results in a fine. The officer then took a picture of both girls on his cell phone, and once both were given a ticket for Minor in Possession, they were told to walk home, according to Hannah. Over the past semester, multiple students have reported similar experiences to Hannah’s, with a range of concerns. According to Derrick Jackson, Washtenaw County director of community engagement, undercover cops have been a part of the county’s efforts to reduce underage drinking as part of the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Department Office of Highway Safety Patrol. A list of dates of targeted

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enforcement provided by Jackson include game days and holidays such as Halloween. All three of the students interviewed for this article said they received an MIP during one of the dates on Jackson’s list. Jackson did not respond to further requests for comment about officer behavior at the time of publication. Despite the stated intention of the OHSP to ensure minors are not illegally drinking alcohol, many students interviewed by The Michigan Daily said they feel the actions of these officers have been inappropriate and have led them to be wary and untrusting of law enforcement surrounding the University of Michigan campus. “They were very disrespectful — it was clear that safety was not their first priority,” Hannah said. “They just wanted to hand out tickets.” Because of this incident, Hannah said that was her first and last time at BTB Cantina. The next day, Hannah contacted Student Legal Services, where she was told her she could either fight the charges against her or enter into the First Offender Program, a process specific to the 15th District Court in Ann Arbor that allows for

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prevention of a criminal record in the cases of first-offense MIPs if she complied with the rest of the program. LSA freshman Quinn, who also asked to be identified by first name only, had similar experiences to Hannah. She has received two MIPs this school year. The first football game day of the season, following a long morning of tailgating at fraternities, Quinn stumbled in the stadium and was approached by officers of DPSS. She was asked to blow into a Breathalyzer and was sent in an ambulance to the hospital, where she slept for a few hours. Quinn also sought help from Student Legal Services, paid the $405 fine and attended BASICS — the mandatory Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students alcohol awareness program that is part of the First Offender Program. She also had to meet with the Office of Student Conflict Resolution, as is mandated for alcohol-related incidents on campus, and was placed on six months of non-reporting probation, which does not require in-person follow-ups with probation officers. Until one night, at the end of October when she left Study Hall Lounge — a bar on South University Avenue — and three people pulled her and her friends aside. “They were like, ‘Yeah, we were going to give an MIP to the next people that walked by here, so I guess you’re the unlucky ones,’ ” Quinn said. “(But they said) ‘If you blow below a 0.1 (on the Breathalyzer), we’re just going to let you go.’ ” One of Quinn’s friends had a blood alcohol content of 0.09, and was allowed to leave. Quinn and her friend had blood alcohol contents of 0.12 and 0.14, respectively, and both were given MIPs. “I shouldn’t have blown, but they know how to coerce you into it,” Quinn said, expressing concern about how the undercover officers “aggressively” handled the situation. “They took our phones out of our hands and took our fake IDs out of the back.” Quinn said she found DPSS acted much more professionally in her first incident.

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REGENTS From Page 1 building,” he said. “The condition of the Fleming building is one of the worst on this campus … the building continues to deteriorate and now requires an annual inspection to ensure its safety.” Faculty and staff currently working in the Ruthven Building will move to the planned Biological Sciences Building, which is slated to be completed in the summer of 2018. The Ruthven project will also add 100,000 square feet for learning classrooms. During discussion about the renovation, Regent Mark Bernstein (D) voiced concerns about preserving the legacy of the Fleming Building’s namesake, former University president Robben Fleming. University President Mark Schlissel affirmed that Fleming’s contributions would not be forgotten. “We are committed to continuing to honor President Fleming, one of my personal heroes at Michigan,” he said. “We will figure this out in the months and years to come.” The regents also approved a schematic design for the new Trotter Multicultural Center location on Central Campus. After multiple forums, town halls and surveys of students, faculty and staff, the $10 million construction project is scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2018. Many residents of nearby Helen Newberry and Betsy Barbour Residence Halls have expressed hesitation about the new center’s location on the buildings’ lawns. During the meeting, Jane Wright, president of the Hanbury design firm, presented the design and she said took “everyone’s needs” into account. “The plans were greatly informed by student voice,” she said. “Collectively those voices brought together what mattered most.” The design features multipurpose rooms and rooms configured for active learning that will fit around 100 students. Regent Larry Deitch (D) hailed the project’s progress, but also suggested changing Trotter’s unique status as the only building on campus named after a person of color. “I would suggest in the next year or two, try to figure out how to remedy that,” he said. “Even if that means the quaint notion of naming something after somebody who was high-achieving, and who didn’t just write a big check.” Renovations to the the Law Quad exterior, scheduled for next summer, were also approved. The project includes $6.2 million in improvements to sidewalks, lighting and underground utilities. Additionally, the regents approved additional funds for a large-scale renovation of the North Campus Recreation Building. The original proposal passed by the regents last March had a budget of $13 million, but the

newest iteration boosts funding to $17.4 million. The new building’s features include improved athletic facilities and gender-inclusive and accessible locker rooms complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Justice Sonia Sotomayor University President Mark Schlissel announced U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor will receive an honorary degree from the University during her appearance at a campus bicentennial colloquium next January. Sotomayor will participate in a moderated discussion with Justice Susanne Baer of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany on the “Future University Community.” Justice Baer received a law degree from the University in 1993. Four other honorary degrees are being given at Winter Commencement on Dec. 18. CSG and undocumented students During his monthly speech to the board, David Schafer, president of Central Student Government and an LSA senior, addressed the recent ethnic intimidation incidents on campus. “There is no denying that the last month has been a difficult one for our students,” Schafer said. “Some have expressed to me that they are afraid to walk home at night.” He encouraged administration and faculty to not ignore these feelings of students and stand in solidarity, also encouraging the community at large to practice diversity, equity and inclusion. “This is not a partisan issue, this is a University of Michigan issue.” Schafer said. “Because when anyone is targeted or made to feel unsafe of unwelcome on our campus, that must matter to all of us.” Schafer thanked President Schlissel for releasing a statement in support of the continuation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act, which allows undocumented immigrants who arrived as children to qualify for deferred deportations and work permits Schlissel also joined more than 500 other colleges and universities in co-signing a letter last month urging the federal government to continue DACA protections. Schafer also noted that CSG had recently passed a resolution supporting the executive order. “At our most recent CSG meeting on Tuesday we passed a resolution that will join you in supporting the continuation of DACA and reaffirms support for undocumented students,” Schaefer said. “We look forward to working with you and the rest of our University in ensuring the protection of these most invaluable and cherished students.” After Schafer’s remarks, Schlissel echoed his sentiments about the importance of undocumented students at the University. “Their presence enriches this University community,” Schlissel said.

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n one of my classes this semester, we were told to repurpose a paper we had written in a previous course. The one I selected was a short research paper about the unique divisiveness of climate change in the United States. As someone with no background in science, I felt that I couldn’t reconstruct an entirely new paper about that topic and looked elsewhere for something still pertinent to the framing of climate change. It doesn’t take much research to know that there is an array of different outlets that Americans turn to for their news, and many of those outlets maintain a distinct narrative. I couldn’t help but wonder: Has the media always looked this way? Given the fiasco of this election cycle and the role news broadcasters play in prioritizing which issues the public is concerned with, I found myself delving into the history of the U.S. media, and one particular aspect of this evolution caught my eye: the rapid polarization of our country’s media. In 1949, the Federal Communications Commission identified what it perceived as a major flaw in the media landscape of the time: Three networks — ABC, NBC and CBS — held near full control over nationwide broadcasting. In order to prevent bias, which many viewed as an eventual inevitability, the Fairness Doctrine was enacted. It stated that for any contemporary issues of public importance, these networks (and any other licensed broadcasters) must present a balanced perspective to their viewers, addressing both sides of contentious topics. For the better part of four decades, this policy was crucial in preventing unfettered, uncontested criticism or support of people and ideas in the news and kept the most powerful sources of news in the United States from falling into the problematic biased coverage tendency. Its repeal in 1987 was driven by the rising notion that such a mandate was a violation of free speech and a government infringement on the expression of ideas. The heart of the debate surrounding the Fairness Doctrine, both up to and since its repeal, has been whether the regulation of licensed broadcasters would “enhance” or “reduce” the public discourse — a struggle

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’ve been a columnist for three the streets. But he and many other semesters, expounding upon leaders and freedom fighters around nearly every substantive him never lost hope and kept going, opinion I’ve had over that time and always persisting in order to make a putting it to words. It has made change that would impact the world me challenge every thought and in an astounding way. better articulate why I believe in the Whatever the situation is, we causes that I support, and cannot be silent sometimes, want to fight in fighting for our for. I’m sure many others beliefs. We must have felt the same way make a choice to keep — having to voice their fighting amid fatigue. opinions in the face of Too many others opposition and having across the world have to keep pushing until lost their lives or been the change what they’re hurt while protesting looking for is enacted. for their inalienable But at the same time, rights. We’re lucky CHRIS writing and talking and CROWDER to live in a country thinking about things where change is over and over can be exhausting. possible even if ordinary citizens I’ve been asked to talk more are leading the charge. extensively about my opinions In one of my classes, we watched with little impetus to do so. videos of the protests of the Arab Nevertheless, both words Spring in Egypt, seeing thousands and actions supporting various of people congregate in Tahrir convictions have proven to be Square. The unity of the people monumental in history. Take the there was a spectacle of beauty. The protesters against the Dakota president they opposed resigned as Access Pipeline, for example. a result of the protests, but many of Many people — including those those protesters either ended up potentially affected and others missing or were martyrs for their coming from outside the tribe cause. These people didn’t have — rallied to make a difference in time to be tired because their lives order to reroute the pipeline. They were on the line. Their time was recently achieved their goal, but only the present. I’m sure that the protestors felt Situations can be less dire in the dejected, hopeless and just plain United States. But crises such as tired. It takes a tireless effort to the Flint water crisis are scenarios do great things in this world, and in which people must keep fighting determination similar to this to receive what we would think is must be adopted by those who are a basic need: water. Sadly, many passionate about a cause. areas in my hometown still don’t Situations can be as dire as the have clean water. Babies continue DAPL situation or as simple as to scream, and mothers have to standing up for a friend. I’m still remind the world that help is inspired by the nonviolent protests still needed. Many news stations of Martin Luther King Jr. in the have come and gone, tired of civil rights movement. King could reporting on the same coverage. have given up or felt like he was I’ve written many papers on this fighting a losing battle when he was topic, donated time, read countless in jail, in the hospital or marching in articles, given money to this cause

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and become increasingly fatigued from the constant coverage. I only felt that way because my home wasn’t directly affected; I can’t imagine how hard I would fight if it was. While people lose sleep over making their voices heard and going through their now-altered routines, the lead-ridden pipes stop running a block from my house. Whatever the topic may be, we must attempt to adopt complete empathy for those who are directly affected by any injustice. If we want something to change, we must act as if something wrong is happening to us or to someone we love. It is worth it to fight through feeling exhuasted and conversations about important issues that sound like broken records. Love alone is worth the fight. It’s completely OK to be tired of talking about President-elect Donald Trump and related issues, for example, but that shouldn’t lead to an end to discussion. Perhaps the fact that conversations about certain topics become exhaustive is good because it allows for breaks, giving people the opportunity to pause and think. This way, ideas can be more nuanced and developed, setting the groundwork for substantive conversation later on. Breaks from debate and thinking are needed as well, because we wouldn’t be able to function properly if we spent all our time focusing on a single issue. Nonetheless, we must come back quickly in dire situations because there are people out there such as the DAPL protesters who have to spend all their time fighting — it’s their well-being on the line. So whatever it is that you are passionate about, fight for it with as much energy as you can give out. Chris Crowder can be reached at ccrowd@umich.edu

A modern rise in populism

’m not sure if any word has knack for appealing to working class been used as frequently as people who, like the farmers of the “populism” in regard to politics 1800s, see neglect in the status quo. this year. Politicians, experts, media You probably learned and quickly outlets and everyone in between hasve forgot about William Jennings Bryan been using “populism” to describe and the Populist movement in your the recent and frequently U.S. history class. Yet, unnerving political just as history is bound to volatility around the repeat itself, if you take a world. I know the Oxford look at political systems Dictionary has already around the world, you’ll chosen “post-truth” as see a modern brand of its word of the year, but populism on the rise. I think “populism” is a These recent worthy runner-up. movements address The United States economic reforms but, ANU just recently had a taste unlike their 19th-century of its own populism. ROY-CHAUDHURY counterparts, encompass You have most likely reactions to cultural seen the word thrown around in the changes. Populism is both a left- and news as many have been quick to label right-wing phenomenon with some Presidential-elect Donald Trump’s sects promoting xenophobic and triumph as a continuation of the populist nationalistic policies and others taking wave that has stormed through other on a more progressive approach. The Western democracies, but what does New York Times created a telling it actually mean? infographic that highlights the many “Populism” comes from the Latin platform overlaps in the growing word for “people” and at its core populist movements, all of which is a political ideology promoting a begin with “anti-:” anti-austerity, government for and by ordinary anti-globalization, anti-eurozone, antipeople as opposed to elitists. Populism immigration and so on. However, this began in the late 1800s as a revolt by isn’t to say that all populist groups are farmers in Middle America. It was an inherently xenophobic or ethnocentric, effort to call out the blatant neglect by but they all are working to upend the both the Democratic and Republican political status quo, thus the “anti.” Parties of the time and rally against Just this week, Italy’s prime minister, the establishment government. Since Matteo Renzi, announced his plans then, populism has seen its rise and to resign. After 60 percent of Italians fall throughout political history in voted to reject constitutional reforms, both the United States and the world Renzi admitted defeat and resigned. as a whole. As The Economist notes, This marks another European shift to populism takes on different forms but populism and an opportunity for Renzi’s is always “united in pitting the people opponents, led by the populist Five Star against the powerful.” Movement, to take advantage of the Populist movements are often vacancy. The resignation by no means driven by charismatic leaders with a ensures the establishment of a populist

government in Italy, but it is a victory for the movement nonetheless. As Five Star member Manlio Di Stefano told the Washington Post, “This is something that is going on all over Europe, if you look at the momentum … Every term is the same, every government is the same, so people are reacting.” Donald Trump’s shocking victory was a result of similar populist sentiments felt by Americans. You have probably heard all the rationales and explanations for his victory, many of which emphasize his play on the populist ideals of many Americans. With the rapid globalization of this century resulting in diverse populations — new industries and a more connected and open international community — populism represents a movement to close some of those doors and push countries to look inward. Yet, Donald Trump’s victory shouldn’t have been as surprising as it was. While Americans had never experienced a Trump-esque victory, other countries have seen many like it. All over the world and eerily popular in the West, anti-establishment movements and political outsiders have been brought to the forefront. The Brexit vote of last summer, the rise of Germany’s Alternative Party, Podemos in Spain and National Front in France were all sure warning signs that the status quo is changing. In fact, after Trump’s victory, many populist leaders praised the president-elect. Populism is also not attributed to one group of people. Instead, it appeals to varying demographics. Trump’s support was drawn from all different American realms, and he was strategic in playing on populist sentiments, especially the dissatisfaction of Americans with their

government. But similar sentiments had already been on the rise in Europe. It’s not so often that political systems around the world have commonalities. Demographics and sheer experience create strikingly different political environments between countries. Yet, it seems like many countries are making a shift toward populism. Citizens are pushing for politics to focus internally as their countries have been looking outward for the past decade. So, what does this all mean? For liberal-minded folk, populism, especially in a xenophobic form, doesn’t sit well. In the United States, liberals and moderates have been trying to analyze Trump supporters and understand the “why” behind their votes. However, the international rise of a modern populism is a visible sign of dissatisfaction and uncertainty. People are tired of our current political norms and are pushing for an altered status quo. Populism may just be a fad — an aberration to the norm of politics. As shocking as it is, it also follows a trend in human history. No country, no matter how much liberals hope and pray, stays on the progressive track for too long. The United States has been good at taking two steps forward and one step back, moving forward nonetheless, but not continuously. Change is scary; it is threatening. The changes of the 21st century in both economic and cultural contexts have been felt around the world, and populism is a human reaction to it. So even if populist movements never make it to their nation’s highest office, they have been seen and they have been heard. Anu Roy-Chaudhury can be reached at anuroy@umich.edu

between enforced objectivity being in the public interest or a violation of First Amendment rights. The question then remains: Has the degree to which broadcasters inform the U.S. public increased or decreased since the elimination of this doctrine? The most recent efforts to revive the Fairness Doctrine have — as shown by the individuals who’ve resurfaced it — undoubtedly been a response to the emergence of conservative talk radio in the past two decades. Despite the conspicuousness of this fact, one shouldn’t discard these efforts as partisan squabbling. The Fairness Doctrine was, in its conception and subsequent defenses, a bipartisan effort to prevent licensed broadcasters from propagating and capitalizing on the very narratives that have now reached extensive audiences. Regardless of where one stands on the Fairness Doctrine, it is undeniable that nowprominent broadcasters have upheld a distinct perspective of the country we live in. Through both observation and research, I’ve become convinced that the direction in which a substantial segment of the modern U.S. media has evolved is detrimental to our civil discourse and, consequently, to the public interest. A once-marginal narrative wherein our country is constantly jeopardized or under attack by a violent religion, criminal migrants, the parasitic poor, delusional environmentalists and a duplicitous left-wing media has become normalized and helped to galvanize an electorate that was justifiably disillusioned (albeit due to different actualities). The response by the powerful broadcasting conglomerates has not been to defend their legitimacy and denounce views unsupported by fact. They have instead exhibited such stances as a legitimate counterpart to the modern conservative and liberal platforms. At the same time, these multimedia powers have paired an inability to provide much-needed clarity with a dilution of content. Given the option between a steady flow of curated opinions or pure entertainment, it’s no surprise that many people have chosen the latter. Those who do choose to pursue informative content are now faced with outlets that only

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seek to further entrench them in whatever partisan leaning they’re already predisposed to. The alignment of once-reliable media sources with political factions and more lucrative entertainment platforms has devastated investigative journalism and helped to halt constructive discourse. The result has been nuanced issues becoming distinctly two-sided struggles. On one end, the urgency of climate change is simply a part of the “alarmist” narrative. Legislation to keep highcapacity guns out of the hands of unvetted or potentially dangerous individuals is a liberal infringement upon all of our rights. Police brutality and the larger inequities it points to can be unilaterally disproved by the folly of Colin Kaepernick. At the same time, those aligned with an opposing narrative might be convinced that anyone involved in the natural gas industry is evil, anyone who owns a gun is crazy and cops are predominantly malicious. Both perspectives are destructive to the dialogue in this country, yet each has been augmented by media and political frameworks that too often benefit from keeping the truth (which usually falls somewhere in the middle) opaque. By fortifying two distinct, simplified sides of complex issues, we have become almost willfully ignorant. In a country that has progressed for centuries through discourse and compromise, the solutions to our problems will continue to elude us until a willingness for ideological coexistence and cooperation returns. Reinvigorating a truly informative media is, in my eyes, the best place to start. Whether such change should be rooted in a revival of investigative journalism, media-ownership caps, more conspicuous public broadcasting, network neutrality or “fairness” legislation of some kind is a discussion for experts to have. But to a novice like myself, one thing couldn’t be clearer: Until those charged with informing us return to valuing objectivity over the narrative they want to convey, we will never mend the ever-widening divide that has gradually suppressed our great country.

David Donnatuono is an LSA junior.

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Who face-swapped with Billie Joe?

A reevaluation of Green Day’s biggest hit LAUREN THEISEN Daily Music Columnist

At the end of my penultimate semester at the University of Michigan, and in the final days of my editing career at The Daily, I’ve found myself turning to songs that I used to hate — the kind of tearjerking, stereotypical goodbye songs that always seem tailormade for these moments in life so that anybody who even mildly connects with the sentiment can feel understood. I’m not proud. The tune I’m particularly focused on is one of the most cliché songs I can think of, an outof-character two-minute ballad from America’s most famous punk band that has probably soundtracked a million graduation slideshows. “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life),” if you don’t have an immediate visceral reaction to its iconic opening guitar notes, is actually a pretty great composition. “Good Riddance” is an extraordinary simple yet brilliantly efficient megahit, a no-frills punk song that just happens to be played on acoustic instead of electric guitar, with a quickly recorded string section thrown in for radio. Billie Joe Armstrong’s lyrics are intended to be sarcastic, as the narrator basically tells his ex to hit the road, because it’s over and you have to move on — his “I hope you had the time of your life” chorus is supposed to be a biting riff on the famous song from “Dirty Dancing.” “Good Riddance” soon became the song that defined Green Day. It played over a scene in “Seinfeld” ’s final season, which probably more than anything is what catapulted it into the public consciousness. After it was seen by millions on TV, the song became a hit at proms and graduations, understandably

losing its edge as kids and adults alike took Billie Joe’s words at face value and interpreted the song as a nostalgic, sort of “Auld Lang Syne”esque jam (in the public’s defense, Billie Joe doesn’t actually sound especially sarcastic as he sings — “For what it’s worth, it was worth all the while” is a decently sweet thing to sing). This exposure turned “Good Riddance” into the worst thing a song could be in the eyes of the public: sentimental. Quote-unquote “real” Green Day fans didn’t like the people who only knew the band’s biggest, least representative song, and even among the general public, the song hit that saturation point where any use of it anywhere felt totally unoriginal, greeted by eye-rolls and sighs. It turned into “Over the Rainbow” or “What a Wonderful World” or, more recently, “Hallelujah.” But, in a moment of maybe weakness or nostalgia or just a desire to connect with music on an emotional level, I looked up “Good Riddance,” listened and really enjoyed it. Admittedly, I’m a bigger fan of the alternate, demo version that ended up as the B-side to “Brain Stew,” with its faster, strummed guitar, stringless arrangement and lack of that selfconscious false start intro. But either version showcases Armstrong’s strength as a songwriter, emphasizing his ability to make a point in the most efficient and catchiest way possible. If it were played at the volume of, say, “Basket Case,” “Good Riddance” would likely be an uncontroversial top tier Green Day hit among its fanbase, with its harder sound keeping it out of TV and high schools’ reach. I think it helps the song’s reputation, too, that Green Day is no longer “the band that sings

‘Time of Your Life.’ ” They’ve been lucky and talented enough to have an incredible second wind as artists, and now they’ve gained a wider audience and deeper catalog of good songs than they ever did in the ’90s. “Good Riddance” is no longer the song that misrepresents Green Day, but rather one composition in a deep arsenal of punk and arena rock. They can pull it out for the encore sing-along if they want, but at this point, with all the band’s other hits, they’re not even obligated to play it. I get that “Good Riddance” is an easy song to get sick of, and if you heard it constantly from the late ’90s into the 2000s I completely understand why you’d never want to hear it again. It’s repetitive, simple and seems to have a cloyingly lame message (“the past was good!”). I’m totally fine with the moratorium we seemed to be placed on the song in pop culture, but if it makes some kind of “Don’t Stop Believin’ ”-type resurgence after being used ironically in a prestige TV show (or even just something zeitgeisty and young), I think that would be a welldeserved fate. Maybe I get too caught up in the idea of canons, of songs being good or bad not based on the actual recordings, but on whether they’re over- or underrated by the general public. Not all music has to be cool or accepted as great or undiscovered by licensing agencies. Sometimes, the most obvious, true statement of feeling is the best option. If some people listen to “Good Riddance” and think, “Yeah, I did have the time of my life,” that’s still pretty cool. Theisen is watching “Dirty Dancing.” To re-enact that iconic scene, email ajtheis@umich.edu.

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There’s something about traveling while listening to music that always affects me. It’s hard to say what it is, whether it’s the scenery around me, the people I’m with or the activity I’m doing, but I am always in a certain state when I’m listening to music and moving. And it changes all the time. As someone who takes 10-hour car rides home from college, doesn’t leave her apartment without headphones, drives multiple hours to swim meets, etc., I seem to find this emotional state happening often. As most people do, I put on my favorite playlists and albums to pass the time. But what I’ve noticed about “music in motion” is that there seems to be some sort of exterior impact. Example: the movies where there is a girl riding the bus while she stares out the window and some sappy The Fray song comes on. Even though in real life, nothing would be heard, there’s music playing in the moment, and thus the entire scene makes the viewer feel a little teary-eyed. Setting and melody combines into a state of thinking, of listening and of feeling, and I often get into that state of mind when I travel. I’m the type of person to listen to music when walking around campus and when working at my job. Yes, there is a sense of seclusion when I do this, but it also affects the way I see the community around me. I observe the actions of people hustling through the Diag;

them with all my might to dematerialize. I do not own the style; I was not the first to adopt the style; I know I don’t have the right to plunge a flag into the shoe, and claim it as mine, and mine alone. But if I could, I would. My predicament worsened. My beloved sneakers faced character assassination via meme. Basic Bitch Starter Packs everywhere featured the shoe. Call an item basic, and I’ll embody the “X” armed emoji girl and scramble away from it with the same franticness and urgency as if it were a venomous spider. And yet, I could not bring myself to chuck my pair. I continued to wear the shoe, but became increasingly paranoid. Was everyone noticing my choice of footwear? Did they care? Did they think less of my outfit, or me, because of it? I can’t stop wearing them; they’re perfect. My closet is cluttered with stunning shoes, but time and time again I go with my Superstars. My heels hinder my ability to make it across campus in the University of Michigan time window. And my flats give me blisters. I need a sneaker. The neutrality of Superstars enables them to dissolve into any outfit, and their orthopedic support keeps my feet from crying mutiny. So label me as basic, if you must, but I won’t be retiring them anytime soon.

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I’m great at sharing food. Want a piece of gum, a bite of pizza, a sip of my drink? I’m your girl. Sharing trends, however? Eh, not so much. Who wants to look the same as everyone else? What’s the fun in that? Nothing drops an anvil on your mood like discovering the world has latched onto what used to be your personal favorite. But the gut-punch of seeing three other students wearing your favorite shirt is doubly as awful as, say, spotting what you thought was a cool indie find on Billboard’s Top 100. Fashion is an expression of self, be it conscious or not. The clothes you choose communicate facets of your personality to everyone who throws you a wayward glance. When you purchase a piece of clothing, you are adding to your external narrative. When the masses adopt the same trend, it fundamentally changes the message. So just don’t wear it — it’s an easy solution, no? Except you fell in love with that piece. You saw it worn by that it-girl whose life you secretly covet and wondered, while scrolling through pages upon pages of online shopping, whether you could pull it off. Finally, after a week of leaving it sitting hopefully in your cart, anxiously checking it regularly

to ensure that your size hasn’t sold out, you pulled the trigger and lessened your already dwindling bank account a little more. You sunk your heart and about 30 coffees’ worth into that purchase. Leaving it in a heap in the back of your closet never to be worn again isn’t a feasible option. But then again, can you put a price on sartorial pride? I struggle internally whenever I wear Adidas Superstars. Buying them was another story. As I rode the escalator up to the third floor of the Adidas flagship store, as Mary J. Blige’s “Family Affair” loudly echoed throughout the premise, I was buzzed on egoism. I was surrounded by the hip, the sporty, the cool, and I felt like the shit. Did I flip my hair and pop my hip? Possibly; that’s what M.J. Blige and copious shoes do to a girl. I beelined to the men’s section — Ooo, I’m buying from the menswear section, how cool — where the triple-striped sneaker was proudly displayed. They called to me like harmonious cherubs, as if they were haloed in soft, golden light. I slid my foot into the rubber-soled slipper, and I was sold. I wore them with pride, often. But then, so did everyone else. To my horror, I found myself in elevators where every girl was wearing a pair. I stared down at their white sneakers, imploring

I pay closer attention to the trees and how they change. I notice the architecture, and I’m more aware of the thoughts that are being applied when I view this kind of environment. Music gives me a lens that I couldn’t assume if I wasn’t listening to it. There’s walking, though, and then there’s driving. I distinctly remember my first road trip with my current college roommate. We were going to Cedar Point for fall break, and we decided to play some of our favorite songs. Whether that be alternative, rap or even country, my friendship with Perie was built upon music. In the car, she would play a song, explain how it reminded her of a past boyfriend and then we would stare off into the Ohio sunset. Then it would be my turn, and I’d put on a song, explaining how it reminded me of a friend that passed away, all while we were going 75 mph. There was a feeling of content and closeness that I had with Perie on that five-hour adventure. However, the confines of the car made no impact on our vocal and auditory freedom. And it’s not just our sad-girl songs that make us feel emotional — it’s belting “Shot at the Night” by the Killers and feeling like rock stars, or harmonizing to “Roses” by the Chainsmokers and feeling like we’re at tailgates again. It’s the moments when we introduce songs to one another as if they have been a longtime friend of ours; we have such a connection to the song, and with that, we have a connection to each other. To this day, I listen to the songs

that Perie introduced to me on that road trip. No matter where I am or what I’m doing, I always know that those specific songs were first listened to in my Jeep with someone who is now my best friend at college — that construct itself holds such a strong sentiment. Nowadays, this emotional state varies. With two more roommates from the East Coast, we all drive home together, make a collaborative playlist and listen to everybody’s unique music tastes. It ranges from Perie’s Kanye to Lauren’s Frank Ocean to Emily’s Stevie Wonder and to my Fleetwood Mac. One minute, Bon Iver puts us to sleep, and the next minute Lauren and I are freestyle rapping. Then I’ll look ahead at each white dash of the highway as it disappears under the car. We remind ourselves that we have been driving this entire time during our makeshift concert. It’s these kinds of communal experiences that enrich the bonds I have with my roommates, and it goes beyond the moments in the Jeep. We go to a cappella concerts together, share our party playlists before going out or even look up holiday trap music to get hype for winter break. Traveling with music creates a state of ecstasy for me, one where I can be overjoyed or nostalgic or pumped up. It’s a secure feeling even though I am not grounded. Memories can be made when I’m in that car with my roommates or when I’m flying by myself or simply when walking to class. The way one’s surroundings can change, but the tune in her ears does not, is a moment I find to be truly ineffable.

far enough away to allow for the necessary advances to make said Daily Arts Writer future possible. Self-driving cars The year is 2074, but rather and “Iron Man”-esque technology than robots or artificial are only a few of the amenities that intelligence ruling over society, this future has to offer. “Incorporated” entertains the So while 2074 might be a little possibility of big early for these business takeovers natural disasters to in the aftermath actually occur, the of a climate crisis technology seems that divided the to fit; it’s neither “Incorporated” world into two overwhelmingly Series Premiere parts — the haves advanced and the havenor primitive Syfi nots. While the compared to the haves contribute devices available Wednesdays at 10 to the new order on today’s market. p.m. society in return The believable for luxurious living plot coupled with inside the “Green the convincing Zone,” the have-nots live in the setting is ultimately what squalor of a decimated outer city, makes “Incorporated” not only colloquially known as the “Red watchable, but relevant and Zone.” relatable. However, the chaos that ensues “Incorporated” opens on Ben in a world overtaken by Big (Sean Teale, “Survivor”), an Brother is the least concerning executive for the company Spiga, aspect in Syfy’s newest original which controls the order between series, which paints a picture of a the white collar “Green Zone” and future too probable for comfort. the squalor of the “Red Zone,” A common characteristic of which is on the brink of an uprising. the science fiction genre is the Although life in the “Green Zone” mirroring of fragments of reality appears comfortable and carefree, onto a grander scale. After all, for the big brother capabilities of the what other purpose does the genre business world put a psychological serve but to highlight our deepest strain on a society where even fears regarding the unknown? dreams are no longer safe from the Where series such as “The 100” public eye. and “Firefly” focus entirely on It’s from this prison that Ben the distant future with little ties has emerged as a true protagonist to reality, “Incorporated” shares — an undercover agent for an similarities with “Revolution,” undisclosed cause. He’s hacked which imagined a possible his way into the company elite scenario in the not-too-distant to gain access to top secret future. files and exclusive company What makes these series information. The purpose is yet to realistic is often the science behind be discovered, but Ben’s ambition the fiction. The settings are close to single handedly take down enough to put viewers on edge, but the new government standard is MEGAN MITCHELL

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ambitious in itself. This is a role that Teale portrays well, with quiet ties between the revolutionaries of the “Red Zone” and notable treason against the corporate hires he fights off in his mission to the top. To further his cause, his wife Laura (Allison Miller, “There’s Always Woodstock”) is conveniently the daughter of Spiga CEO Elizabeth (Julia Ormond, “Witches of East End”), the former of whom suffers from PTSD regarding an abduction incident into the “Red Zone,” which we will later learn more about as the season progresses. However, Ben’s relationship with Laura, though ruled almost entirely by work and less so by feelings, only serves to highlight Teale’s flaw in his seamless switch between home life and spy work inside Spiga. The strain of his twisted lies only really shines through in the most thrilling moments of the episode, and his switch between the two should even out in later episodes if “Incorporated” intends to keep the audience hooked on Ben’s deception. The stunning similarities between today’s advancements in science and technology and the technology in the show are the basis on which “Incorporated” thrives. The show melds present and future with stunning quality and on point accuracy. However, if it wishes to keep up its satire — a wall being built around the city, for example, has clear ties to the impending Donald Trump presidency — it needs to work on smoothing out its characters before humanity can begin worrying about the not-toodistant future.

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‘To live for you! To die for you!’ When a great composer passes away, where does the music go? COMEDY CENTRAL

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‘Drunk’ Hamilton a hit translate to the stage. “Drunk History” provides audiences with Daily Arts Writer what they can’t get from other He’s a man! He’s a musical! sources. He’s an episode of Drunk History! An excellent example of these Alexander Hamilton (1757 – 1804) minute details comes early in the died over 200 years episode, when ago, but his legacy Miranda describes lives on. Today, Hamilton’s “Hamilton” is a journey from the sensation that’s West Indies to “Drunk History” sweeping the Colonial America. nation, just like the A horrible “Hamilton” revolution its titular hurricane “f**ked character helped Season 4, Episode 9 up the Caribbean” lead 240 years and sent the Comedy Central prior. It seems like young, orphaned everyone has caught Hamilton packing Tuesdays at 10:30 the “Hamilton” bug, his bags for more p.m. including Comedy prosperous shores. Central’s “Drunk On his way – and History.” this is where it gets The episode begins with Lin- interesting – the ship caught fire. Manuel Miranda (“Hamilton”) As in, he rode a flaming vessel to walking the streets of the Upper the land of opportunity. This is West Side with host Derek Waters “the kind of shit you can’t do in before quickly transitioning to the the play,” Miranda says, further apartment where he (Miranda) coloring the rich history of currently lives. It’s a fitting opening, Hamilton’s life. given that the story of Hamilton is Both the hurricane and the centered around where he came flaming ship emphasize the poetic from and where he ended up. In irony of Hamilton’s death. At a the first few minutes, as viewers young age, he survived disease, settle in for a 22-minute romp natural disaster and freak flames. through history with Broadway’s Once older, he lived through a war. best, Miranda prepares for an It was a single bullet, borne out of afternoon of drinking his way rash decisions and high-school through Hamilton’s life. level feuding, that killed him. Waters sets the episode up The musical does a great job perfectly when he asks Miranda, of emphasizing the tragedy of “Do you want to get drunk?” Hamilton’s death. Interestingly, It’s a treat to watch Miranda so does “Drunk History,” yet — a Pulitzer Prize winner and in a completely different way. MacArthur Genius — share the Miranda’s drunk musings about intimate details of Hamilton’s the lives of both Hamilton and life while inebriated. The musical his killer, Vice President Aaron “Hamilton” is incredible and Burr, somehow resound with deep, moving on its own, but there are heartbreaking emotions. parts of history that simply can’t The sporadic and blatantly EMILY BICE

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honest storytelling in “Drunk History” points out a central truth about Hamilton: From the start of his life to the end, he was a wildly gifted, incredibly troubled genius who cared so much about his legacy and his name that he let it end relationships and eventually, his life. Miranda shares another important fact that isn’t mentioned in the musical. Prior to his fateful duel with Burr, Hamilton wrote and sent a series of letters claiming that he had no intention of shooting Burr, and that if Burr shot him, then it was Burr who was the bad guy. His final act forever sealed the fate of Burr – writing his place in history as a villain and Hamilton’s as a martyr. Over bites of Dominos pasta, Miranda observes that, “whether Hamilton lived or died, he won the duel.” The Hamilton special of “Drunk History” is a pleasure to watch and a gift for viewers, fans of Miranda especially. Watching him narrate the story is the closest most audience members will ever get to hanging out with (not to mention getting drunk with) a truly remarkable artist. Like the musical, it’s a fresh take on a story that is centuries old. Other highlights of the episode include a stellar cast re-enacting the history, a rendition of Semisonic’s “Closing Time” from Miranda and a surprise FaceTime break with both Questlove and Christopher Jackson (“Hamilton” ’s original George Washington). The 22-minute episode doesn’t feel nearly long enough. For the sake of concise storytelling and Miranda’s liver, however, it’s just right.

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hen he died at age 50 in 1911, the Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler left us all of his symphonies, except one. After nine titanic works in the genre, unrivaled by any of DAYTON his contemHARE poraries, Mahler left a tenth unfinished, carrying to the grave all the unfulfilled potential of a master’s last work. He wasn’t alone in this. Many composers throughout history — Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner and Dvorák come to mind — have suffered from the so-called “curse of the ninth,” in which Mahler himself was a believer. He feared that if he were to try composing a tenth symphony he would somehow stumble into death, like those before him. He even went so far as to call a piece of music which was by all rights a symphony — “Das Lied von der Erde” — something that avoided numbering it as such. But by 1910, he did start working on another symphony, and in the end, he was right. It killed him. The period in which he was composing the 10th can only be described as Mahler’s dark night of the soul. It’s not that his life up to that point hadn’t been difficult. It had. He was, after all, a Jewish man from a humble family trying to build his career in the same Vienna where a young man named Adolf Hitler was coming of age. Before that, Mahler’s early years had been filled with personal tragedy, first when a younger brother, Ernst, died of illness, and again when another younger brother, Otto, shot himself. Both of these events made lasting impressions on him. But it wasn’t until his last years that Mahler faced his greatest emotional trials. In 1907, his daughter Maria Ann succumbed to sickness, dying at only four years of age. Immediately on the heels of this loss, the grieving composer was diagnosed with a defective heart (a literal broken heart, as it were). A few years later, he discovered his wife Alma was having an affair, and sought the help of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud to cope with his depression. It was against this emotionally tumultuous background that Mahler began composing his last, incomplete symphony. Of the five planned movements, only the first is finished, the latter four existing only as piano sketches. If you don’t already know it, I urge you to listen to at least the first movement. Really, go listen. It will tear your heart out in the most beautiful way possible,

strange as that sounds. The music is Mahler’s most harmonically anxious, the elastic tonality stretched almost to the sort of breaking point that few, like his friend Schoenberg, dared to traverse. Aching, yearning melodies soar and strain over the orchestra, violent 10-note chords stand like Kubrickian monoliths and in the middle of it all, there on the manuscript, Mahler’s marginalia betrays his mental anguish. In looping cursive hand, at the moment of supreme torment, the words “für dich leben! für dich sterben!” — “To live for you! To die for you!” I assume that the message is addressed to Alma, but in a way it is also addressed to us. It’s somewhat paradoxical that, as the vessel for his most personal emotional expression, Mahler chooses to write for such a large and public group of people as an orchestra. But that was what he knew, having written orchestral music for decades, and being one of the greatest conductors of his day. And the verbal message was written down right there, where no one would hear it but anyone who engaged with the music — with Mahler’s emotional expression, so to speak — would be able to find it. It’s there on the manuscript, as part of the composer’s thoughts. It’s in the score.

Many believe the score and music are synonymous, but I don’t. Many people casually believe that the score — that is, the paper and the notes themselves — and the music are synonymous, but I don’t think this is correct. Others would say that music is organized sound, frequency and duration mapped on to space and time. Perhaps in the past, this definition would have sufficed. But writing today, in a time after composers like John Cage, who eschewed control and organization, I can’t even feel secure in a seemingly innocuous descriptions such as that. At the last, then, some would fall back to the sound itself (organized or otherwise), the longitudinal and transverse waves, the timbre and amplitude. They would point at it and say, “see, there is the answer — that, surely, is the music.” Maybe so. But to me music is something more, an intangible existing half on the exterior and half within, residing somewhere just over the horizon of understanding, in the place triangulated between the Heart, the Mind and the Will. If it were simply vibrations in the air, why bother?

The point is, for some reason or another, we believe that music expresses something. We don’t know why, whether it’s some physiological or psychological reaction, some inherited cultural framework or learned social behavior, but when most of us listen to music, we feel. And so in Mahler, the music isn’t what we have on the page. Even if we had the symphony in its entirety, I would still believe that when Mahler died, the music died with him, because the music — the true music — was something unutterable carried inside his grief. It was an emotional state which, through his craft, he tried to replicate on the page and in our ears, to create a roadmap to his torment. The idea of music (and art generally) as a personal means of expression has increased and diminished throughout history. In a Classical music context, after the longstanding traditions of religious expression began to decline, the concept of the composer-asprotagonist in a work of music began to take shape around Beethoven, whose music was associated with Sturm und Drang — storm and stress. Perhaps one day this mentality will again abate, but 200 years after the death of Beethoven, it still remains. And I’m not surprised in the least. After all, it’s a very compelling model, in all areas of art. Just a few days ago, I finished reading Book 1 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-part autobiographical novel “My Struggle.” It’s a book constructed out of ordinary life, out of — if not commonplace — at least nonextraordinary events, with the drama coming solely from the pain of the creator. And it was beautiful. So I imagine the idea of personal expression will endure, in music and other arts. Even composers like Cage, who encouraged us to abandon this sort of solipsism, still expressed at least something. Even writing out of silence and chance, he had a message. In his words, “I have nothing to say / and I am saying it / and that is poetry / as I need it.” At close of day, each of us feels that there is an importance, an urgency, to our own experience. The travails and hardships, the happinesses and exultations, all are deemed momentous. For artists like Mahler, it is the same, and when they sit down to create they will pour it all out onto the page. Flowing down, mingled together, the salted griefs and blinding ecstasies will ignite the artistic flame, and at the moment of creation will be born an art that is fundamentally, irrepressibly and unequivocally human. Hare is buying Adidas Superstars. To teach him how to tie them, email haredayt@umich.edu.

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‘M’ to host Badgers in weekend series Season Review: AVI SHOLKOFF

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Monday afternoon, the Michigan hockey team held a meeting to discuss its performance in its most recent series against No. 3 Penn State, where the Wolverines were swept by a combined score of 11-2. Heading into the upcoming weekend with another high-scoring team on the schedule in Wisconsin, Michigan coach Red Berenson urged his team to move forward. “At some point we’ve gotta put it behind us,” Berenson said. “After Monday, it was more about this week than last week. You can’t drag yourself through the mud for a whole week.” Added sophomore defenseman Nicholas Boka: “We need to be better. That (performance) is not acceptable here at Michigan. We know it and our coaches know it. (The coaches) just said what we put in this week in practice is gonna show during the games this weekend, so they said, ‘let’s just start preparing now.’ ” Like the Nittany Lions, the Badgers rank in the top 20 nationally in scoring, averaging 3.36 goals per game, nearly a whole goal more than the Wolverines. Forward Luke Kunin anchors Wisconsin’s offensive attack, leading the Badgers with 17 points. Two years ago, Boka and Kunin played with each other as members of the USNTDP. As the team’s captain, Kunin scored 27 times, which was fourth best on the team. In their second season apart, the two former teammates-turnedrivals have maintained their close relationship. And Boka says he uses his knowledge of Kunin’s playing style to his advantage. “He’s my best friend,” Boka said. “It’s been different, playing against each other. You’re friends off the ice, but when it comes time to play against each other, you

don’t think twice on the ice. I know his tendencies and what he likes to do and whether that’s on the power play or just simple things. But I think when it comes down to it, we gotta be worried about the whole team, not just one player.” Boka and Kunin aren’t the only players from the Wolverines and the Badgers who have played together on the USNTDP. Last season, five Michigan players along with Wisconsin defenseman James Greenway and center Trent Frederic all were teammates on the USNTDP as well. For Boka though, the game also represents a chance to faceoff against his former coach on the USNTDP, Don Granato, who serves as assistant coach under his brother Tony in Madison. Like with Kunin, Boka still remains in touch with Don despite their intraconference rivalry. “He’s a great guy to have if I have any questions or ways I can improve my game,” Boka said. “He’s definitely been a big help to my career.” In their first season at Wisconsin, the Granato brothers have turned a team that won just eight games all last year into a group that could make a run for the conference title. In their nonconference schedule, the Badgers faced four ranked teams and beat two, nearly equalling last season’s total of three. The upcoming matchup will have a different vibe for the Wolverines, too. In their four games against Wisconsin last year, Michigan scored 20 goals and swept the Badgers in both series. In fact, Wisconsin hasn’t defeated the Wolverines in Ann Arbor since November 26, 2005. This year’s matchup could be a bit different, though. Michigan isn’t the high-scoring team it used to be, and Wisconsin ranks fourth in percentage of shots taken vs. opponent, with a 57.9

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Sophomore defenseman Nick Boka will face his former coach this weekend.

rate. The Wolverines’ blue-line wants to avoid a repeat of last weekend, when Michigan allowed a combined 106 shots in the two games. “We definitely have to help out our goalies,” Boka said. “Friday night against Penn State, I think we gave up over 40 shots, and that’s just not the way to win games, and that can’t happen moving forward. I think as a whole D corps, we gotta step it up and start playing for those guys and give them the best chance to win games for us. “We definitely want to focus on limiting Grade A opportunities, the chances they get close to our net. You can’t give up 55 shots and expect our goalie to make a save on every single one.” Berenson recognizes the

Badgers’ marked improvement from last season, as well as the challenges his Wolverines face, but he is eager for the series. “They’ve got a new coaching staff, and they’re as good as it gets,” Berenson said. “They’ve inherited a pretty darn talented team, and some really good young players. Their power play is a good example. They have one of the best power plays in the country, and right now, they’re getting it done. I’m sure they want to improve, but they’re off to a pretty good start. They’ve played good teams, and they’ve done well. “We’ve got a lot of respect for what they’ve done and where they’ve coached. I think it’ll be a good matchup this weekend, they’ll be excited and we’ll be excited.”

Wolverines to wrap road swing SYLVANNA GROSS Daily Sports Writer

After spending 14 of its last 20 days on the road, the end of an exhausting seven-game road swing is almost in sight for the Michigan women’s basketball team. The only thing standing in the way of the Wolverines and Crisler Center are games at San Diego State on Friday and No. 9 UCLA on Sunday. The Wolverines (7-2) are coming off a 61-58 loss in a defensive battle with Xavier, and Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico is pointing to the team’s hectic schedule as contributing to its fall. “That was a tough one,” Barnes Arico said in an interview with WTKA. “A couple days later, and we’re still feeling that … Our confidence got shook a little because we were asking people who don’t normally shoot the ball for us to score. “They were an undefeated team who hasn’t played away from their home court yet. So they were well rested. (Thompson) said to me after the game, ‘My legs haven’t felt like that in four years.’ So, I think the travel is kind of getting to us a little bit. But we keep really preaching to our team that this is going to prepare us for the Big Ten Tournament and the NCAA Tournament.” Michigan’s trip to California will be its first since the 2013 NCAA Tournament. The team will be jostling for a victory against the Aztecs (2-5) and attempting to secure its second top-25 win against the Bruins (6-1). Notably, it will be the first time senior guard Siera Thompson will play in her home state. “This is something we really wanted to do, ever since Siera committed to us,” Barnes Arico said. “To get her back home

With the Michigan football team’s 2016 regular season in the books, the Daily looks back at the performance of each unit this year and looks ahead to the future in 2017. In this edition: offensive line. It was the same story in 2016 as in 2015 for the Michigan football team’s offensive line, and that was good news for the Wolverines. For the offensive line, the days of being the most maligned unit on the team in the woeful 2013 and 2014 seasons are still in memory. Three of the five starters on the line were regulars on those teams. But the back half of their careers brought major improvements in the line play, and those continued this season. For most of the fall, the ground game looked like the Michigan rushing attacks of old, led by Chris Perry and then Mike Hart in the early 2000s, though without as much of a workhorse at running back. Though the defense was still the dominant unit, the Wolverines controlled games up front and used that edge to salt away the clock in their victories. Statistically, Michigan went from 102nd in rushing in 2013 to 62nd in 2014 to 83rd in 2015 to finally 15th this year. The pass blocking improved, too. The Wolverines gave up more than two sacks per game in 2013 and 2014 before ranking in the top 30 in that category in each of the past two seasons. Michigan’s offense owes much of its success to those trends. The ability to run the ball has opened up the playbook, and the better pass blocking has made life easier on quarterbacks Jake Rudock and Wilton Speight. And the improvement has been in the making for a long time. The three mainstays on the line — fifth-year seniors Ben Braden, Kyle Kalis and Erik Magnuson — took their lumps as young players and have spoken all season about how much better it made them. They were more experienced than just about every opposing front they faced this season after being on the other end of that clash earlier in their careers. Long-term stability is a factor as well. Michigan replaced the only starter it lost, center Graham Glasgow, by sliding junior Mason Cole from left tackle to center. He along with Braden, Kalis, Magnuson and true freshman remained the go-to group for the last five games of the regular season, and Michigan didn’t go away from them often, adding to their consistency. Only at the end of the year, when the Wolverines played their toughest games of the season, did the offensive line let up in the run game. In late road games at Iowa and Ohio State, Michigan rushed for fewer than 100 yards for the first two times all season. Six times, however, they eclipsed the 200-yard mark. HIGH POINT: One easy choice is the Oct. 8 drubbing of Rutgers, in which Michigan ran for 478 yards and nine touchdowns, but the more impressive overall performance came two weeks

earlier against Penn State. That day, Michigan rushed for 326 yards and six touchdowns — both second-most of the season — and did not allow a sack. Starting Newsome, Braden, Cole, Kalis and Magnuson for the third straight week, the offensive line jelled and dominated Penn State. After that game, Speight said that at one point, the Wolverines ran the same rushing play over and over without being stopped. Sure enough, one of Michigan’s drives ended with seven straight run plays for 43 yards and a touchdown. The feat is even more impressive in hindsight: Penn State has not lost since that day and beat Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship on Saturday night. The Nittany Lions ended up finishing a modest 48th and giving up just 153.5 rushing yards per game. LOW POINT: Despite the late struggles against Iowa and Ohio State, the offensive line’s worst moment wasn’t a poor performance — it was one of the few sour memories Michigan will carry from this season. On Oct. 1 against Wisconsin, Newsome went down in the second quarter with a serious knee injury, one that seemed to dampen the morale of the entire team. Newsome had several surgeries on his knee in the weeks following his injury, and he ended up spending more than a month in the hospital. On Dec. 1, he tweeted a video of him taking his first steps since the injury. A devastating blow to one of the more well-liked players on the team was tough for Michigan to handle. “What I do know is, as far as character, human being character, football character, nobody’s ever come through here, this football team or this university, that I know of, with more of it than Grant Newsome,” coach Jim Harbaugh said two days after the injury. “Leon and Kim Newsome, they should write a book on raising kids. Grant is the finest, and just praying for him right now. It’s not a good feeling today at all. But just being with him at the hospital, everybody he’s come in contact with, nurses and doctors, it’s ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ It’s amazing. He is an amazing, amazing young man.” THE FUTURE: As in many areas, Michigan’s decorated senior class will leave some holes on the offensive line. Braden, Kalis and Magnuson have exhausted their eligibility, and Cole said he is undecided between returning for a senior season and entering the NFL Draft. If he returns and Bredeson stays at left guard, that leaves openings at left tackle, right guard and right tackle. Redshirt sophomore Juwann BushellBeatty — who started at left tackle Oct. 8 at Rutgers — is one option to take over that spot if Cole and Bredeson stay at their positions. On the right side, the competition will be wide-open, but one name to watch is promising freshman guard Michael Onwenu. Whoever takes over the workload, though, will have a lot of experience to replace.

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Senior guard Siera Thompson (right) will play in her home state of California for the first time as a Wolverine on Sunday.

in front of her friends and her family. She’s really excited, as well as Danielle Williams. Her sister plays at UCLA. “UCLA is a top program in the country, year in and year out, with some really good players. We’ve played them the last couple years and had some great games. It’s going to be challenging, but our kids are very excited for the opportunity to get out there.” The last time Michigan and San Diego State met was in 2014 in Puerto Rico, with the Wolverines winning the bout,

“UCLA is a top program in the country, year in and year out.”

70-50. The game featured career-high scoring from both junior guard Katelynn Flaherty and Thompson, who had 23 and 25 points, respectively. The Aztecs just fell to UC Davis, 75-55, with only one player, guard McKynzie Fort, scoring in double digits. San Diego State is allowing and average of 70.6 points per game while scoring just 60.4 points per game on average. Contrastingly, the Bruins have won five straight games and are celebrating a 72-49 victory over Hawaii. The Wolverines will have to matchup against forward Monique Billings and guards Jordin Canada and Kennedy Burke, who are all averaging in the double digits points per game.

Even outside of Michigan’s double-digit scorers — freshman guard Kysre Gondrezick, sophomore center Hallie Thome, Thompson and Flaherty — the Wolverines’ depth has been evident. That will be key as the Wolverines must grapple with staying healthy in these final two games of the stretch. “It’s been a tough balance,” Barnes Arico said. “Some players really need those rests, and they really need practice, to get their confidence back… But I think what has really helped our program, and this is something we continue to stress, is we can go deep into our bench and give people a break. “I think that’s what separates good teams from great teams.”

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The Michigan offensive line turned in another strong season in 2016.

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Wolverines head west to visit high-scoring UCLA BRANDON CARNEY Daily Sports Writer

The Michigan men’s basketball team’s defense had to dig deep to come away with a win against Texas on Tuesday because the offense scored just 53 points. While the Wolverines struggled to find anything consistent on offense, the Longhorns were just as poor attacking, and Michigan was able to fall back on its defense to find a way in the end. The Wolverines (7-2) won’t want to stick to that same strategy when they travel to Pauley Pavilion on Saturday to take on No. 2 UCLA (9-0). The Bruins have the nation’s second-highest scoring offense, averaging 97 points per game.

They run one of the most hightempo offenses as well, ranking in the top 10 in possessions per 40 minutes. Michigan has already played teams that like to score in transition such as Virginia Tech and the Longhorns, and the Wolverines handled both teams well. Michigan ranks 10th in the country in scoring defense. “I thought we handled the tempo pretty well,” said Michigan coach John Beilein on the Virginia Tech game. “The tempo was at a pace that got us a few times, but not as many times as they’ve been getting other people. (UCLA) is a team that will really run. Some of the teams they’ve played have gotten in that running game with them. We’re still only going to run when we can, but at the same

time we have to make sure we take good shots and we make them take hard shots.” But no opponent the Wolverines have faced to date had as many offensive weapons as the Bruins. All five of UCLA’s starters are putting up doubledigit scoring averages, and each can score in a variety of different ways. UCLA’s offense stems from the point and its star freshman guard Lonzo Ball. The 6-foot-6 guard poses the threat of posting a triple-double every game he takes the floor. Against then-No. 1 Kentucky, Ball put up a stat line of 14 points, six rebounds and seven assists. But Ball is still prone to making freshman mistakes. He committed five turnovers while shooting 1-for-5 in the first half of the Kentucky game. Even while making those errors, he was

showing off the most impressive facet of his game. The freshman currently leads the nation in assists per game (9.3) to go with his 15 point scoring average. Complimenting Ball at the post is freshman TJ Leaf, who is also almost averaging a doubledouble with 17 points and nine rebounds per game. At 6-foot11, Leaf isn’t just a threat in the paint, he’s an outside shooting threat as well. The freshman, who Beilein once recruited, is currently shooting 67 percent from the field and 50 percent from three. His versatility will be a handful for any Michigan defender tasked with guarding him, likely redshirt sophomore forward DJ Wilson. “(Leaf ) really is not just a 6-(foot)-10 forward,” Beilein said. “He shoots, he passes. Look at his stats right now. For a freshman with a 225-pound

body, the way he’s rebounding right now is really impressive in the game.” Besides Ball and Leaf, UCLA has three other players shooting over 40 percent from behind the arc in guards Bryce Alford, Isaac Hamilton and Aaron Holiday. The Bruins can score from just about anywhere on the offensive end, and Beilein realizes no other team will be a better test to see if Michigan’s top-10 scoring defense can hold up. “(This game is) the ultimate gauge of who we are against a high-level team,” Beilein said. “We got some incredible talent. I think what’s really compelling right now is what Ball and Leaf have done to that team. That was a team that was sub-.500 last year and only lost one player. But those two are just exceptional. “ UCLA’s fast pace will also challenge the Wolverines’

offense. Michigan hasn’t been efficient scoring points on fast breaks or in transition, choosing too often to hold the ball up and go into half-court sets. While running a half-court offense could slow the Bruins’ attack down, the Wolverines will still need to find a fair share of points on breaks to have a shot at the upset. “We’re playing too much halfcourt basketball,” Beilein said. “We have to get up the court. Whether it’s who’s pushing it, right now (senior guard Derrick Walton) has been the only push guy, and he’s even got to do more there. “ Saturday will be Michigan’s last opportunity to measure up against marquee competition before Big Ten play opens, especially defensively. And it will be the best opportunity yet for the Wolverines to make a statement.

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Senior guard Derrick Walton Jr. will be counted on to help the Michigan men’s basketball team counter UCLA’s bristling pace when the teams meet Saturday.