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Michigan ACLU Deputy Director Rana Elmir discusses the Executive Order on immigrants and refugees and its potential impact on UM Students at Angell Hall on Thursday.
Executive order teach-in explores visa, green card holders’ rights
Deputy director of Michigan ACLU and Muslim American Studies Dept. host event COLIN BERESFORD Daily Staff Reporter
Recent executive actions by President Donald Trump’s administration prompted an “Executive Order Teach-In” event featuring Rana Elmir, the deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan. At the talk Elmir discussed the rights of citizens, green-card holders and visa holders in light of an executive order signed last Friday.
The University of Michigan Muslim Graduate Student Association and Arab and Muslim American Studies Department hosted the event, which filled a classroom in Angell Hall and two overf low rooms. Elmir examined the executive order signed on Jan. 27, titled “Protesting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” which most notably blocks entry of immigrants and nonimmigrants from Iraq,
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Governor candidate talks with students Gretchen Whitmer met with College Democrats to talk voter engagement CALEB CHADWELL Daily Staff Reporter
Gretchen Whitmer, former Democratic minority leader in the Michigan state Senate and lecturer at the Ford School of Public Policy, addressed the University of Michigan’s chapter of College Democrats Thursday night about her candidacy for Michigan governor in 2018. Whitmer officially filed paperwork for the upcoming gubernatorial race in January, becoming the first candidate to officially enter. Previously, Whitmer served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006, the Michigan Senate from 2006 to 2014 and most recently served as the Ingham County prosecutor until her term expired on Dec. 31, 2016. Whitmer cited the Flint Water Crisis as one of the chief reasons why she decided to run for governor in 2018, saying if elected, she will strive to ensure that a government failure of that proportion will never happen again. “The Flint Water Crisis is maybe what put me over the See WHITMER, Page 3
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Iran, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia for 90 days — with the possibility of renewal — and Syria indefinitely. The executive order also suspends the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, which works to find and resettle immigrants in the United States, for 120 days. Elmir said she believes this executive order is specifically a Muslim ban, which is demonstrated by the specifics of the executive order. “Anti-Muslim discrimination
has been a part of American history for as long as Muslims have been in this country,” Elmir said. “And you move forward and put in policies and practices that show that you devalue this community. Well that’s what you have now, with this Muslim ban.” LSA senior Tamanna Ahad, a Muslim affected personally by the executive order, hopes the event can help nurture conversation and knowledge regarding immigration. See GREEN CARD, Page 3
Office hours were held in the hallways of Haven Hall on Thursday as the Graduate Employees’ Organization — the labor union representing graduate student instructors and graduate student staff assistants employed by the University of Michigan — held a “grade-in” to promote awareness of the contract-bargaining process they have been undertaking with the University since November and to increase visibility of graduate student labor. About 100 GSIs and GSSAs crowded the ledges and the floor along the hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the grade-in, in an effort to make the work graduate students do for undergraduate students and the University visible. Some of the GEO’s proposals, intended to improve diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility for graduate student employees, were declined or not satisfactorily met by the University’s most
Professors discuss the impact of Pres. Trump on DACA future
Series of speakers talk immigration in light of current political context NIKOLA JAKSIC For the Daily
A Haven Hall classroom was overflowed with University of Michigan students listening to a series of speakers who discussed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which may come under threat because of executive actions by President Donald Trump. DACA, an executive action — signed in 2012 by former President Barack Obama in response to a gridlock on immigration policy on the part of Congress — protects undocumented students from deportation and allows them to obtain work permits. However, it does not provide a path to citizenship. Trump has repeatedly advocated stricter immigration laws, deporting undocumented workers and building a wall along the southern border with Mexico. On Saturday, University President Mark Schlissel reaffirmed the University’s commitment to international students by reiterating its policy against releasing the immigration status of students. The announcement followed Trump’s signing of an executive action barring immigration from several majority-Muslim countries. The first speaker, Karma Chavez, a professor at the University of Texas-Austin, said she believes immigration
is currently one of the most prominent issues today. “I am very excited to be here for this occasion,” she said. “I don’t think there is anything more crucial we can be talking about in this moment. And I have shifted what I have planned to focus on a bit because the last two weeks have been rather intense.” Citing the political turbulence of the last three
weeks, she focused on sanctuary cities, which have become a rallying point for many amid anti-immigrant rhetoric and actions from the White House. In recent months, the Central Student Government has been working toward making the University a sanctuary campus. Chavez argues institutional sanctuary is more of a fallacy than anything else, and while universities and cities can help
facilitate grassroots movements in favor of undocumented people, their connections to institutions will keep them inherently suspicious in their eyes. She also noted that, while schools are obviously protected spaces, actions like the outlawing of gun bans on campuses in Texas, to the fact that schools do not have the See DACA, Page 3
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LSA professor Silvia Pedraza discusses the impact of child immigration policy at Haven Hall on Thursday.
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recent offer. “We hope that this (grade-in) indicates to the University that we’re paying attention and that we expect more,” said Rackham student Denise Bailey, a member of the GEO. “The University, in our opinion, can afford to support us more than they do,” Bailey added, citing that 23 percent of undergraduate contact with faculty is with GSIs, but 1 percent of the University’s budget is reserved for graduate student staff, a statistic included in the GEO’s press releases. When reached for comment, University spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen wrote in an email, “Negotiations are underway, so it would be premature to get into specifics. We believe we will reach a successful resolution.” Among the proposals that GEO representatives say have not been met by the University is the creation of paid staff positions for graduate students working on diversity programs as part of the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion plan launched by University See GEO, Page 3
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Panel talks Sotomayor, Baer visit, diversity The professors discussed the lack of diversity on the University’s campus MATT HARMON Daily Staff Reporter
Following Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s and German Justice Susanne Baer’s bicentennial colloquium discussion on Monday, three University of Michigan faculty members hosted a panel discussing the justices’ remarks and the issues of diversity and representation on campus in the Michigan League Ballroom on Thursday afternoon. About 75 students, faculty and Ann Arbor residents attended the event. Presidential Bicentennial Prof. Martha Jones gave the opening remarks at Monday’s colloquium. The colloquium largely focused the University’s lack of diversity. On Monday, Sotomayor referenced the low number of African-American students at the University. As of October 2016, less than 5 percent of students at the University are African American. “We are making large improvements towards a kind of equality but we are still far from it,” Sotomayor said. “When you look at the number of African See SOTOMAYOR, Page 3
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ON THE DAILY: ANN ARBOR IS FOR LOVERS With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, Cupid has shot his arrow into the heart of Ann Arbor. According to a recent Amazon list, Ann Arbor was ranked the 10th most-romantic city in the United States. Topping the list are San Antonio, Texas, Miami, Fla. and Alexandria, Va. According to the press release by Amazon, the rankings were determined by compiling “sales data from cities with more than 100,000 residents on a per capita basis and includes purchases of romance novels and relationship books (both Kindle and print); romantic comedy movies (DVDs and digital).” Other factors that were considered were music purchases from artists like Adele and John Legend, as well as “the sales of sexual wellness
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WHAT: University Career Center staff will share more with PhD students about how to effectively use Handshake to meet career goals. WHO: University Career Center WHEN: Noon to 1 p.m. WHERE: Rackham Graduate School, Assembly Hall
WHAT: A panel of doctoral students will discuss the disseration-writing process and host a Q&A session. WHO: Sweetland Center for Writing WHEN: Noon p.m. to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Rackham Graduate School, East Conference Room
The Travels of Slaves in the Era of Revolutions WHAT: This panel discussion will investigate the middle passage and other Atlantic slave voyages through history. WHO: Institute for the Humanities WHEN: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: 202 S. Thayer, Osterman Common Room
Japan’s Economic and Security Policy in the Trump Era WHAT: Experts will discuss Japan’s current and future policies in light of recent developments, including the U.S. election. WHO: Center for Japanese Studies WHEN: 9:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Weill Hall, Room 1110
Michigan’s Got Talent WHAT: Individuals and student organizations will perform in a talent show with the hopes of being deemed Michigan’s most talented. WHO: Center for Campus Involvement WHEN: 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. WHERE: Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
WHAT: This conference will inspire women in data science by teaching them about research and offering connections with others in the field. Registration required. WHO: Michigan Institute for Data Science WHEN: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Michigan League,
Coping With Chronic Pain in Thailand
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WHAT: Scott Stonington, assistant professor of anthropology, will discuss various coping mechanisms for chronic pain. WHO: Center for Southeast Asian Studies WHEN: Noon to 1 p.m. WHERE: School of Social Work Building, Room 1636
WHAT: Graduate students from different backgrounds will explain how they came together to create “Boundaries and Belonging at the University of Michigan.” WHO: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies WHEN: Noon to 2 p.m. WHERE: Tisch Hall, Room 1014
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“Pantry dropping good” boasts the motto of Dozen’s Cookies, a gourmet cookie company founded by University of Michigan alumni Ethan and Jared Forman, who attended the Ross School of Business and are twin brothers. The duo is committed to selling highquality cookies at an affordable price for students. According to Jared Forman, the brothers had enough credits to finish their degrees last fall, so they decided to operate for profit on campus. The brothers bake and deliver orders from their home in Ann Arbor, focusing on e-commerce sales until they graduate and move back home to Los Angeles, where they wish to
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Forman improve e-commerce operations ahead of eventual move to Los Angeles University of Michigan in my freshman year.” After an order is placed online, Jared Forman said they normally have the cookies baked and delivered locally in less than one hour. The cookies have a shelf life of one to two weeks when kept in their cellophane wrapping. “Essentially we are working on distributing a high-quality product and a very affordable price,” he said. “The greatest thing about baked products, in terms of margins, (is that) there can be a mutually beneficial relationship for both parties. We feel more comfortable distributing for a cheaper price.” Business senior Allison Diener has ordered from the service twice and said the responsiveness and price point were favorable, especially compared to local competition. “The cookies are very gourmet and extremely affordable, especially compared to Insomnia (Cookies)” Diener said. “They will come deliver them to you or meet you wherever you want.” Jared Forman said he is trying to make his company as personable as possible. As head of marketing, he wishes to create a platform that customers find both easy and fun to use. Jared said he takes pride in his company and making deliveries to his customers. “The attitude I’m hoping to personify through our cookie account is something that’s very fun and something very playful,” Jared Forman said. “Maybe get a laugh in their day or a smile. We truly are building a brand from scratch. I
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Business school brothers expand cookie delivery operations in A2 open a brick-and-mortar shop. “Now, having a large amount of time, we can professionally operate our business and ultimately create a sense of reliability that our customers need,” Jared Forman said. “It’s just been a good opportunity. We now have the ability to fully dedicate our time to opening a brick-and-mortar shop back in Los Angeles, but at the same time to start to grow and build a brand specifically through e-commerce.” After creating the idea in high school, the business developed as a charitable club named Cookies 4 Care at the University in 2013. “We were able to manifest that business in the form of a club,” Jared Forman said. “And that club became Cookies 4 Care, which was one of the largest active clubs at the
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WHITMER From Page 1 top,” Whitmer said. “To see such a spectacular failure of government hurt so many people and still not be fixed … it’s been 1,000 days since the people in one of our cities have been able to turn on their taps with any assurance (of clean water).” Whitmer also stressed the need for the future leadership of the Democratic Party to understand people who voted for President Donald Trump and to work to pull voters back into the party. “We cannot demonize Trump voters, and that’s a hard thing to tell people who are passionate Democrats,” Whitmer said. “But we can’t win if we don’t start pulling people back into the party that really is focused on helping people throughout our state.” Additionally, Whitmer emphasized Democrats should not assume large voter turnout and traditionally blue voters, such as union members, will always persist. “You can’t take anything for granted,” she said. “You can’t assume that (the) Democratic Party is a machine that will naturally turn out 45 percent of the vote,” Whitmer said. “We can’t assume that everyone in the city of Detroit is going to vote Democrat, we can’t assume that if you have the (United Auto Workers’) endorsement it means every one of their members is going to vote for you.” Whitmer said she is embarking on a 21-month campaign and emphasized she will focus on visiting college campuses in the state to address the concerns of the younger generation. “I’m going to make sure that at the campuses — all the campuses — I’m stopping and engaging students at that level,” Whitmer said. “If we had left the election up to the millennial generation, it would have been a totally different result, so I think there’s a lot we can learn about young minds.” Whitmer also fielded policy
DACA From Page 1 same protections as, for example, churches. Chavez finished the speech by noting the connections between the queer movement of the early 2000s and the protests of the undocumented population now, and the need for fundamental grassroots protests going forward. Following Chavez, Silvia Pedraza, a professor of sociology and American culture at the University, discussed the origins of DACA and why it has become such a point of contention for people on all sides of the immigration debate. According to Pedraza, there seems to be a paradox between accepting the system is broken and a lack of activity on the part of
SOTOMAYOR From Page 1 Americans at the University of Michigan, there’s a real problem there.” Jones said the differences between admitting students based on merit, excellence or diversity must be examined when discussing a diverse campus. “Merit has been largely challenged and discredited as the way forward,” she said. “Excellence is alive and well here and I think there’s a tension between excellence and diversity that I think we can talk a lot about … To recognize, in the third century, the ways in which our commitment and our definitions of excellence hamper how we construct our objectives and our purpose of diversity.” In his opening statements, Terrence McDonald, history professor and chair of the President’s Advisory Committee on University History, thought back on the history of the University and its past forms of discrimination toward minorities, including forced segregation and the many years before women and minorities could attend the University. He also addressed the University’s
questions and spoke about the future of health care in Michigan, saying she hopes the Healthy Michigan Medicaid Plan, which receives funding from former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, will continue to provide care for Michigan residents. However, she is unsure about its future, given the current focus of the U.S. Congress on repealing “Obamacare.” She also claimed she was influential in Gov. Rick Snyder’s support of the plan in 2014. “It’s my hope that the Healthy Michigan Plan is intact by the time this election comes around,” Whitmer said. “I worked very hard to expand Medicaid through ‘Obamacare.’ I have been a chief critic of Governor Snyder, but there were a couple of things we worked on together that he could’ve accomplished without me and my caucus — and that’s one of them.” Snyder also said he anticipates forthcoming changes to health care in his State of the State address last month and would like to see Healthy Michigan serve as a modelpolicy for the rest of the country. “There’s going to be changes in health care,” he said. “The important thing is we need to let them know that Healthy Michigan is a model that can work for the rest of the country. We look forward to reimagining health care for all Michiganders and our entire country with Michigan being a leader in that dialogue.” LSA junior Collin Kelly, chair of College Democrats, said he believes Whitmer is a strong candidate with experience and was honored she chose the University’s College Democrats chapter as the first college campus visit in her campaign. “It’s nice to see a vision for Michigan that is hopeful, that things can look up in the future,” Kelly said. “This will give her almost two years to make sure people in the state have a voice through her — that’s awesome. We’re excited and happy she made the time to come out here.”
GREEN CARD From Page 1 “I come from a community that’s a large immigrant population with a large Yemeni population,” Ahad said. “It’s really important to get to know more about this and get a dialogue about the things that are happening.” Elmir discussed the vagueness of the executive order and how it was clarified in the following days by the Trump administration and several lawsuits. It was unclear how green-card holders, visa holders and legal and permanent residents would be affected. “As of yesterday, they put out a memo clarifying the legal, permanent resident issue,” Elmir said. “And what it says here is that the executive order does not apply to legal, permanent residents, does not apply to green card holders.” Elmir spoke to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the government agency responsible for carrying out Trump’s executive order, about how it exercises its role in airports. CBP often takes travelers to secondary inspection for further examination to determine their eligibility to enter the country. “Their job is to determine whether non-U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents have the authority, the right, to enter the country,” Elmir said. “CBP does not have the authority to take you to the secondary inspection based on your religion, your race, your national origin, your gender, ethnicity or political beliefs.” The speakers also offered advice to people directly affected by the executive order, and with what legal status someone should or shouldn’t travel. Elmir highlighted a person’s rights while in secondary
inspection, focusing on their rights when CBP asks to inspect their computers and cell phones. “Whether you have the right to decline your technology to a CBP officer after they’ve asked for it … it’s a contested legal issue,” Elmir said. “Some courts have said they have this right, some courts have said they don’t have this right.” Public Health student Sami Shalabi is both directly and indirectly affected by the ban. “I think it’s important for us to know our rights, see how we can help each other
I think it’s important for us to know our rights, see how we can help each other out,” Shalabi said. “See when we’re at the airport or when someone’s in crisis, what are different options that we have.” Elmir concluded by answering questions and addressing concerns from the audience, including discussing specific cases of what somebody with a student visa should do and what actions people should take. “Our work should be to dismantle this ban, not to add more countries,” Elmir said. “Criminalizing Saudi people by suggesting that they should be on this travel ban is incredibly counterproductive and counterintuitive to our movement to dismantle the ban as a whole.”
Congress. In this vacuum, Obama signed the DACA executive action, aimed at providing legal protection from deportation to students currently residing in the United States. “I think that had we ever managed to couple the DREAM Act — which as I have said has had lots of support — with a sort of ‘get tough’ provision, it would have increased the chances of the DREAM Act passing, because it always failed by just a few votes,” Pedraza said. Despite the benefits of the order, Pedraza also emphasized how it lacked what she considered to be the two fundamental aspects that all good immigration reform have: a humanitarian aspect, which helps those currently undocumented, and a “get tough” component, which helps close an existing loophole or problem with immigration. She concluded by remarking that, despite the current political climate, the increase in participation and
organization among the Latino community boded well for the long-term future of undocumented workers. “I think that what we have been seeing is that the protests have grown larger than ever, and that participation within them has widened so that now there is not just Latinos participating in these protests,” she said. “And I think that, ironically, given the rejection that Latinos have been the brunt of in recent years, more than ever Latinos have come to understand the political process in this country, and in so doing have become American.” Engineering senior Dulce Rios spoke on her first-hand experience as an undocumented student, and what the recent changes at the University meant to her. In high school, she said, her undocumented status prevented her from receiving a scholarship, despite being among the top
students in her class, and prevented her from receiving financial aid, which left her unable to pay for classes at community college. Even with all these difficulties, she said she has had a series of lucky breaks that have helped her achieve, including a friend who generously worked to help her pay for her first term as a full-time student and a connection to a fellowship at the University, which eventually led to her being able to attend the University. She talked about how appreciative she was of the University for giving her a platform to speak on these issues. To her, the sometimes-slow response of the administration is an indication of the University wanting to help students like her, but dealing with the blowback of opponents. “Right now, helping people is a little more important,” she said.
ban on race- and gender-based affirmative action in college admissions and how we respond to this history in terms of diversity. “We have two legacies from the past of the University,” he said. “One is the revolutionary commitment to equal access and equality. The other is a practical history of obstacles … Our history is both one of privilege and pain and one of understanding and, on that basis, change can happen. We can move forward.” Addressing Sotomayor’s denouncement of the low number of African Americans on campus, Associate English Prof. Ruby Tapia said 5 percent is too low compared to the 14.2 percent of Michigan residents who are African American. However, she noted the University has programs in place that are working to increase this statistic. “The University administration has been clear about its commitment to remedy the significant challenges in regards to diversity, equity and inclusion,” she said. “Our participation in the American Count Initiative, … the HAIL Scholarship, Wolverine Pathways and the rigorously researched Poverty Solutions program are all testimonies to an important institutional commitment to
equity and inclusion.” Tapia went on to denounce President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders and appointments, including the travel ban from multiple predominately Muslim countries, the order to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline and the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Both Tapia and Jones diverged from their syllabi this week in response to the president’s recent orders and actions. “All of these things, and many, many more, are producing concern, demoralization and fear of our nation,” Tapia said. “They are clearly producing consequential resistance as well.” She went on to cite the many protests on campus and across the nation in response to the president’s executive orders. After the statements from the panelists, LSA junior Stephen Mitchell asked the professors about their opinions on the student riots on the University of CaliforniaBerkeley campus Wednesday night. The protests broke out when rightwing writer Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak on campus. Students started fires and threw objects at university buildings as an act of protesting the speech. Trump tweeted a threat of rescinding federal funding to UC Berkeley on the grounds that not
allowing Yiannopoulos to speak because of his opposing views was a violation of free speech. Jones said the words from the justices on Monday can shed some light on how we interpret the law in terms of the difference between hate speech and exercising your guaranteed freedom of speech. “I heard two things on Monday,” she said. “On one hand, yes, law has an answer to the speech that was proposed at Berkeley. I heard something else on Monday from Justice Baer which was her imploring us to understand that the Constitution is our Constitution and not … a fixed text. It is a text to be interpreted, to be struggled over and to be transformed.” After the panel, Mitchell said the discussion helped the students contemplate both the colloquium and who is part of the University community. “I think one thing that was nice to see was we’re talking about diversity and getting to hear and unpacking of the experience of Monday’s talk with Justices Sotomayor and Baer and getting to hear these different perspectives,” he said. “(The panelists) are all members of our community too and I think that’s something, as students, that we forget.”
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COOKIES From Page 1 enjoy delivering the cookies personally.” Though Ethan Forman began as head baker for the business, the brothers now split their time baking and delivering. Ethan also works on website development and customer relation management, helping to drive every order that gets processed. Jared said being brothers has only been beneficial to business. “The great thing about working with your twin brother is that you pretty much know each other for the past 22 years,” Jared Forman said. “So in terms of controversy or conf lict, that’s limited.” The biggest challenge they face is capturing the support of the brand with unfamiliar customers, said Jared Forman. “Our retention rate for customers has been extremely positive,” Jared Forman said. “But much like starting a new business, the largest feat can literally be getting them into your door or, in our case, placing an order.” Jared Forman said Dozen’s is open to taking cookie f lavor requests from students, and their most popular cookies have been the red velvet, white chocolate chip and chocolate chip. “We specifically focus on cookies,” Jared Forman said. “Whatever you think, we can bake. We do have a variety of recipes. We’re ultimately there for our customers. We want our customers to give us their opinion. In the five years that we’ve been baking and perfecting this recipe, it truly is like a science. In
GEO From Page 1 President Mark Schlissel in October of last year. The plan established programs across several departments, which include research, event planning and designing course materials. There is currently no paid staffing attached to these programs. “Usually the people who are doing diversity work are people of color,” said Rackham student Sara Chadwick, co-chair of communications for the GEO. “So the purpose of asking the University to create some paid positions for that kind of diversity labor is to ensure that that labor doesn’t unfairly fall onto the shoulders of people of color, who are not getting paid for it.” Rackham student Rachel Miller added not having these positions means the burden of implementing the University’s initiative is disproportionately falling on the people it is meant to serve. Many graduate student staff were also concerned about protections for international students. According to GEO President John Ware, a Rackham student, more than 30 percent of GSIs are international. “Most of those people have visas that prohibit them from working more than 20 hours a week, but under our current contract, their supervisors can require them to work more than 20 hours a week,” Ware said. “We proposed a change to the work hours rules that would protect people from being required to violate their visas.” Ware argued the University has offered insufficient solutions or outright declined to take on the problems that the GEO’s proposals aim to solve. In the case of international students, Ware said the University declined to change the work hours rules and proposed a change in the language of offer letters instead. Rackham student Drew Johnson emphasized the importance of this proposal. “One thing that’s really important to me, especially at this political moment, is that we look out for graduate employees who are international students,” Johnson said. “And that we
terms of how we got this recipe, it was just through years of trial and error from customer feedback.” Engineering senior Aaron Berro said he has been eating the cookies for three years. In addition to the fast service, Berro said the price plays a big role in his consistent business. “They literally sell a dozen cookies for six dollars,” Berro said. “Also, every time I’ve ordered the cookies are ready pretty much instantly.” Business senior Adam Weiss said, though not many people know about Dozen’s yet, he likes that they make their cookies from scratch and offer a lot of variety. “As someone with a sweet tooth, it is usually not too hard to please me,” Weiss said. “But with that being said, it’s been hard to find a fresh, local cookie that isn’t some premade mix.” Jared Forman said Dozen’s sells cookies at Scorekeepers Bar and Grille on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and will also have pop-up shops on campus during the semester, donating all their proceeds to the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. “It’s always great to see Dozen’s Cookies being sold at Skeeps,” Berro added. Once back in California, the brothers hope to open a traditional brick-and-mortar shop in Los Angeles. Until then, though, Jared Forman said they are excited to keep serving students this semester. “The best part is actually doing it,” Jared Forman said. “I think one of the most fulfilling things for both of us is just constantly having that support and having the time and the resources to do something with 100 percent integrity to the best of your capabilities and to see those results.”
make sure that they’re receiving whatever protections we can put in place for them.” Improved protections for international students have been demanded of the University at large following executive orders made by President Donald Trump, and committees and initiatives have been formed to work to that end. Other important issues for graduate students impacted by the bargaining process are affordability and accessibility. “We really need (a pay increase) that would bring us up to a living wage in Ann Arbor, which we really need if graduate education is going to be accessible to people without family wealth to rely on, people who may have debt from undergrad,” Ware said, adding the University’s offer of pay increases over the next three years was not sufficient. Contracts are renegotiated every three years. The cost of living in Ann Arbor is higher than in the majority of other cities in Michigan, and the housing market for students is highly competitive. “A lot of the time (the work GSIs do) becomes kind of invisible for undergrads and for the day to day life at the University,” Johnson said. “We want to make sure people can see the work that GSIs do and how committed we are to making Michigan a great place to be a graduate student and a great place to be a student, period.” Rackham student Mary Hennessy also advocated for the grade-in to spread awareness about the work of the GEO. “We’re a democratically run organization, and this is a way for us to show our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and democracy on a local level — where we work and learn,” Hennessy said during the event. She added this was especially important given the environment created by the Trump administration, which seems to be undermining these principles. This statement elicited nods and snaps from the circle of graduate students seated on the floor with her, laptops and books surrounding them.
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t’s 2017 and, according to not the ones that the majority White House counselor of 9/11 terrorists came from. Kellyanne Conway, it’s Those countries have the finally the dawn of desirable feature a new day. Wanna of being home to know why? several Trump The American Organization reality is finally properties) from getting a facelift. You entering the United may not think there’s States. The ban anything wrong even excluded with, oh, you know, translators and actual reality, but others who risked VICTORIA their lives to assist that’s only because the mainstream the Department NOBLE media indoctrinated of Defense. you into liking it. And Apparently, “Support trust me, this current reality Our Troops” actually means really pales in comparison “Support Our Troops*.” with Chief Strategist Steven (*But don’t expect the United Bannon’s — er, I mean President States to compensate you for Donald Trump’s — new your service, because they may American reality. Believe me, renege on their promises if and it’s gonna be “yuge.” when it becomes politically Imagine a world where expedient to do so.) pigs fly, border walls are costThe executive order even free and hair plug comb- had implications for students overs are deeply attractive. at the University of Michigan. Thanks to alternative facts, One student on campus, LSA the new administration’s senior Tina Al-khersan, told of recent innovation in political her sister’s detainment at the communication, you don’t have Canadian border while U.S. to imagine anymore! officials struggled to interpret And really, if you think and implement the notoriously about it, we as college students vague executive order. Her are well-poised to capitalize sister is a citizen of the United on this new impressive States, New Zealand and Iraq. innovation. Say goodbye to You could follow the days spent poring over library news surrounding this books, LexisNexis search injustice, angering yourself results and statistical analysis in the process. But this might software. With alternative tempt you to exercise your facts, these little annoyances First Amendment right to can become things of the past #resist and join one of the … well, at least in the social and many protests set to become natural sciences. permanent features of Trump’s Disclaimer: Unfortunately, presidency or otherwise engineers aren’t quite off the behave in ways Tomi Lahren hook. We still need them to might deride as liberal crybaby use actual knowledge to design whining. Now, some people things for American workers might say you’d be doing your to manufacture. In Trump’s civic duty to engage in the America, that is very important. democratic process by making (Unless they want to design your voice heard and holding parts for folks in the growing the president accountable. clean energy industries to If all that sounds like it may manufacture. That’s a waste of pose too big a risk of worry time, because climate change lines, grey hair or peptic ulcers, isn’t real.) then boy, are you going to Now I know a lot of you have appreciate alternative facts. been pretty stressed lately by one Alternative facts will ensure or more of the many executive that you, the voter, will have orders Trump has signed absolutely nothing to worry since his inauguration. (Hey, about under President Trump remember when Republicans (that you know of ). frowned on the extensive use of With alternative facts, executive orders?) Trump’s highly unjust, Granted, reality in Trump’s un-American ban on some of America hasn’t been all that great. the people most in need of a new One of Trump’s first start to life in the United States executive orders banned becomes a humane, necessary individuals from seven Muslim- and wholly Constitutional way majority countries (notably of keeping Americans safe and
putting Americans first. It’s the only way to protect good, hardworking American families from malicious terrorists who wish to do them harm. This is supported by the alternative fact that 99.8 percent of all acts of terrorism and crime are perpetrated by Syrian terrorists disguised as refugee children. Obviously, this article has been more or less satirical so far. But let’s get real for a second. The right to free speech —which includes the rights of journalists to report information on our political leaders and their actions and disseminate to the public — is one of the most fundamental American rights, and it’s a crucial feature of our democracy. But for the first time in my memory, the president and the officials within his administration have publicly lambasted honest, hardworking reporters for simply doing their jobs and reporting on his actions as president-elect and president. On Wednesday, Trump even used a Black History Month event as a platform to condemn CNN as “fake news” and praise conservative-leaning network Fox News. The president has also publically agreed with Bannon’s statement characterizing the media as the “opposition party.” It doesn’t matter who is in the White House, Republican or Democrat. Transparency and democratic oversight require ardent free speech protection and journalists who can do their job of relaying important, if inconvenient, facts to the public without the White House trying to delegitimize entire networks perceived as unfriendly. My real suggestion? Support journalists who do the difficult — and increasingly dangerous — work of holding our leaders accountable. If you can, subscribe to reputable news sources and follow their content in your free time. If nothing else, do your own research before buying into Trump & Company’s fiery claims that reputable news networks are “fake news” whenever they publish an unf lattering story. But hey, if none of that sounds appealing, you could always believe the information that the administration wants you to have: its alternative facts. Victoria Noble can be reached at vjnoble@umich.edu.
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think we can all agree that off work to visit Morocco. My the world is currently in travel partner and I had set the midst of a great deal up a tour of the palm groves of upheaval. There on the outskirts of are few times when the city as a day it does not seem trip. Unfortunately, as if the world we had some mixed is changing, of messages with the course (we can tour guide and ended maybe assume up in the wrong place there wasn’t too with no quick way to much societal shift contact him. I was in the pre-multileft to frantically cellular organism Google his contact SARAH stage of the Earth information while LEESON for instance). taxi drivers came by Still, the intensity of societal repeatedly to ask us where we change that took place while were going and if we needed a humanity figured out crop ride. This did not do wonders rotation agricultural systems for my anxiety. compared with the amount of I was ready to give up or societal change in the last ten have a small panic attack on years (or ten days even) is not the street (both equally likely) even close. when another man approached It can be challenging during this us to ask about giving us a time of transition and uncertainty taxi ride somewhere. I started to feel safe, think clearly or keep waving him off, already telling up with political changes. To him that we were just waiting help, I sometimes try to rely on on our ride when he asked for the things that don’t change, the more details. things that make me feel safer: I was immediately humanity’s penchant for helping. distrustful, but when I gave There’s a quote from Mr. a quick explanation of our Rogers I’ve seen quite a bit situation, he waved over the recently that’s fairly in line other taxi drivers. He relayed with this thinking. It states, the information about our issue, “When I was a boy and I would and they immediately started see scary things in the news, my collaborating with me about mother would say to me, ‘Look how to figure this out together. for the helpers. You will always I was ridiculously touched find people who are helping.’” and grateful. These men To illustrate this, while definitely had better things working and traveling abroad to do than help — including this summer, there were a making a living — yet they were handful of times when I didn’t seriously involved in helping feel completely comfortable. us, and we all celebrated when That just comes with the I got in touch with our guide. territory when your language In this instance, the stakes skills are spotty and you for not receiving help were constantly look like you’re relatively low. We would wearing a hat that reads, have missed our tour and I, “I’m very American and very incidentally, would not have gullible! Please confuse or rob experienced being thrown off a me!” However, even when I camel later that day. (Actually, was feeling nervous, I often maybe it would have been found help from random better if we didn’t receive help people willing to step in. after all.) It would have been One specific instance I can disappointing, but not harmful point to is when I used a week in a long-term or serious way.
I really can’t say the same for immigrants and other at-risk populations in the United States right now though. There are serious, long-term repercussions on a personal and a societal level when families and individuals are being threatened with deportation, being barred from entry into the country or losing health care. Families are being indiscriminately kept from their homes and being denied access to doctors, which many would consider a human right. With the scale of these issues, making a positive difference, even on an individual level, can seem too complicated to even attempt. To deal with these heightened challenges, people need legal help and financial security — things that many of us can’t offer. With this in mind, it can be challenging to know how to be the helpers here. We have to work within our means, and sometimes when we can’t throw money at a problem to make them go away, donating time and attention might not feel like enough — it can be hard to see the payoff when it seems that nothing changes, especially when you’re challenging something on the institutional and societal level, like sexism or racism. It may not feel immediately rewarding, but that doesn’t make it any less valuable. The payoff of these small actions is cumulative and can have a massive impact on the whole. Showing up to protest, finding contacts and resources to get involved with and reaching out to those who might need your help are all worthwhile, every time, even if you feel you have little to offer. Every bit counts, even if it’s as small as taking a break from your work to translate some contact information for some confused foreigners. Sarah Leeson can be reached at sleeson@umich.edu.
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ast Friday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order inappropriately titled, “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.” Ostensibly, the goal was to limit immigration from countries that the Trump administration deemed highrisk for terrorism in the United States. We, along with millions of other Americans and concerned people around the world, denounce the move as inhumane, devoid of empathy and simply un-American. By closing our doors to people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — a group of nations that tens of millions of people call home — Trump is signing into law a message that is as misguided as it is powerful: The United States’ fear of terrorism is stronger than its commitment to humanity. In addition, by suspending the Refugee Admission Program, the Trump administration’s executive order is openly and brashly neglecting the humanitarian ideals that we as a nation should be striving toward. It is our unwavering stance that the United States should utilize its international privilege and inf luence by accepting the world’s most vulnerable citizens. By condoning the creation of physical and psychological borders, we are only distancing ourselves from the benefits that come with
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‘The Conformist’ and the merits of character study 1970s film’s pertinent subject matter tackles diverse topics from homosexuality to fascism, fashioning itself a timeless feature affair, in order to finish the job. Pre-Vichy Paris, not yet Daily Arts Wrtier stained by collaboration, is the site of most of the action, and rather than a historical Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The representation of the city, Conformist” seems to sneer Bertolucci evokes a city at everything it celebrates. inscribed with posterity’s It mocks the imagination. excesses of the Captured in “The Conformist” interbellum rich, distorted bourgeoisie yet chiaroscuros 20th Century Fox revels in the of red and blue, beauty of 1930s Bertolucci’s Paris. It’s one of Paris is a the most beautiful films ever dream and gives the film the made that takes one of the expressionistic f lare which darkest times in history as has earned praise from many its subject: Europe’s descent critics. into fascism and World War In Paris the object of II. It evokes this world with Marcello’s desires appears to splendor, and, for the work have been found. He walks of a Marxist, seems less down the Champs-Elysees, concerned with details and while his wife window-shops conditions of history than its with Quadri’s wife, Anna, lost beauty. Its aesthetic and with whom Marcello has an political ambitions wrestle. affair. The quartet goes to Ambiguity abounds. dinner, and later dancing. An adaptation of Alberto But no matter what he does, Moravia’s novel, the film Marcello is not a normal man. follows Marcello Clerici. With a syphilitic father in a He’s a middle-aged, upper- madhouse and a morphineclass Italian man, a bit of addicted mother, to be an intellectual and an agent normal seems a reasonable of the OVR A, the Italian desire. Moreover, when he version of the Gestapo. He’s was a school-boy, he was on assignment by the Fascist picked up by a chauffeur, secret police to travel to Paris Lino, who, promising to show and assassinate his former him a pistol, takes Marcello professor, Luca Quadri, an to his apartment and makes anti-fascist dissident who sexual advances toward emigrated away from Benito him, which are not initially Mussolini’s regime. rejected. Marcello grabs the Marcello craves normalcy pistol, shoots wildly and — whatever that is — and f lees what he believes to be a hopes to find security and murder scene. Tally up these stability in the banality of aberrations from regular life middle-class life. Indeed, and normalcy becomes an to be normal seems the only increasingly attractive home. desire he has — or at least the The film seems to offer only one he’ll admit. So he Marcello’s repression of marries the dullest bourgeois his homosexual desires as girl he can find and drags her a neat explanation for his off to Paris where he can kill collaboration with the fascist two birds — his honeymoon state. Or, at the very least, and Quadri. fascism gives some form of A series of memories, absolution for whatever their it’s told as Marcello and sins — if not for the believers, Manganiello follow the car then for those who abide by it. of Quadri and his wife, Anna, In an early scene, where this with whom Marcello has an adolescent episode is first KARL WILLIAMS
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shown, Marcello reveals his attempted murder to a Roman priest during confession. But he finds little resolution in the clemency of the church. It’s the state, rather, that becomes a home for him, and it legitimizes him and overwhelms his moral reservations. As he spends time with the Quadris, it becomes increasingly evident that Marcello might not be capable of killing them. Manganiello attempts to slap a little courage into him, but it’s ineffective. When they finally catch up to the couple, there’s an accident — a car runs into the Quadris. A group of fascist agents emerges from the other car, stabs and kills Quadri, while Anna runs to the car waiting a few meters away. As Marcello watches Anna scream for her life through his window, he refuses to look at her. The distance between the killers and Marcello slims. The lesson is clear: After fascism takes hold, there is no normal, and complicity doesn’t absolve. But even then, when it seems resolved into a firm political position, the film retains its strangeness. The film hardly means whatever it claims — it’s too complex to merely equate sexual repression and political violence. If the film cannot reconcile the competition between art and politics, it does not needlessly sew them together. In the final scenes of the film after Mussolini’s fall from power, Marcello sees Lino for the second time, now seducing another young man. He denounces him publicly as a homosexual and a fascist. After then publicly denouncing his friend Italo, a blind man and former Fascist broadcaster, Marcello gazes at the body of Lino’s wouldbe partner. Ideolog y cannot corrupt everything.
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We all agreed that it was Hate” (a perdition to which J.P. probably the least interesting Sousa is forever damned), and a concert we had ever attended. bit disappointed in myself that Utterly lacking in variety and it took so long. generally monochromatic, the Starting in the ‘60s, Glass cyclical nature of the music — along with composers like failed to capture our attention, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and La the repetitive patterns seemed Monte Young — was among the to lack even a f licker of the first to develop a musical style creative f lame and there were which has come to be known more than a few as “minimalism,” moments which I music characterized personally found by simple, slowto be soporific changing and in a literal sense. repetitive patterns. The best part was One of the only probably when we major movements snapped a photo of American origin with that guy within the classical who looked like music tradition, it (but wasn’t) the appropriately draws Grateful Dead’s from a variety of nonDAYTON Bob Weir. classical inf luences: HARE This took place Senior Arts Editor from contemporary around two years American pop music ago now, and it took its simple, the event in question was a consonant chord progressions, performance by the composer from Ravi Shankar and Indian Philip Glass and a violinist classical music it took its whose name I don’t remember. concept of time, from west They played a handful of music Africa it took some of its by the first of the pair, as a sort rhythmic inspiration. of preview for an upcoming Glass himself has undeniably opera of Glass’s that was being had a profound musical staged at the same venue, UNC inf luence, especially in Greensboro. I and two of my America. Perhaps more than close friends — a composer anyone else he embodied the and a jazz guitarist/composer trends of postmodern music — attended on a whim, driving in the ‘70s and ‘80s, and he from where we studied half- crossed over into the public an-hour away in order to awareness like nobody else in see a man who is perhaps his generation. He became a the best-known composer of household name in the way that contemporary classical music Stravinsky did a few generations in America. None of us really earlier and no one has since. loved Glass’s music — at the Many of the composers active time we were more enamored today — both of younger of people like Gesualdo, and and older generations — might have also been prone to openly acknowledge their worship at the altar of Webern indebtedness to him (such — but none of us expected to be as Nico Muhly, whom I as tremendously dissatisfied as interviewed in 2015 for we were. this publication, or John In between pieces Glass Adams, with whom I spoke spoke about his music into a in September). I suppose microphone, mumbling almost even my own music has been indiscernibly. I distinctly touched by his hand — I wrote recall something about him my first vaguely “minimalist” writing a piece “about 10 composition while in Paris last years ago now, in 1990.” After summer (studying as part of a the concert there was a table program modelled after one of selling Glass’s recent memoir, Glass’s own teachers, the great “Words Without Music.” We Nadia Boulanger), though its walked past it. stylistic differences from Glass All of which sounds rather are significant. harsh. And I suppose it is, But Glass’s reach isn’t limited but that’s how I felt at the to the classical music world. time. In the years since, my Over the last week popular tone has softened on Glass, figures from Paul Simon to but he remains a composer Laurie Anderson, both of whom about whom I am supremely have collaborated with Glass, ambivalent. Over the past few have been lauding him in the days I’ve been thinking more press. And in this I think can deeply about him and his legacy be seen one of Glass’s greatest — prompted in no small part by strengths; he doesn’t confine the pageantry surrounding his himself to just his little corner 80th birthday this week — and of art. Throughout his career it has had a clarifying effect. In Glass has consistently engaged short, I may not be enthused with other artists to create new about his work, but I’m very works together. And this is true comfortable with his removal in areas outside of music — he from my “List of Composers I has collaborated with the poet
Allen Ginsberg on opera, with film director Martin Scorsese for his beautiful “Kundun,” with director Godfrey Reggio on “Koyaanisqatsi” and with countless others on any number of projects. And, at least to me, it’s when Glass is working in these dramatic media that he is at his strongest as a creator. Some of his instrumental music might make me feel like peeling my epidermis, but throw in a libretto and some choreography and the music is transformed into an engaging and meditative experience like no other (see: the opera “Einstein on the Beach”). Part of Glass’s appeal can certainly be traced to these collaborations, but it also comes from the fact that his music proved to be a democratization of sorts. When he first came to prominence — and broad public popularity — he and the minimalist movement were seen as an alternative to the abstract and elitist approach of modernist composers like Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt, who were generally locked away in offices on ivy-covered campuses with impressive names, inaccessible. But Glass — and Reich, and Riley — were easy to grasp on to, unpretentious and hip. And like much of the American avant-garde — musical, literary or otherwise — they dabbled in Buddhist and Zen philosophy, making them appealing to the New Age crowd which was rapidly forming. My own first encounter with Glass’s music came sometime in middle school. I was spending my summer in the mountains of Colorado with my family, attending my first live concerts at the Breckenridge Music Festival and generally savoring existence. At a garage sale, my mother found a CD of his third symphony and “The Civil Wars Suite,” and immediately suggested we buy it. In a past life, Mom was herself one of these New Age types, and had come to love Glass when she lived in the Ginsberg-betrodden hippie town of Boulder, my birthplace. For her 26th birthday she had even made the trip out to San Francisco to see his opera “Satyagraha,” a work in Sanskrit (who does that?) about the life of Gandhi. On our drive down from the mountains, we listened to the CD we had found, the evocative music perfectly accompanying the winding road and rugged landscape. I hated it. Sorry, Mom. I hated it. But check back with me in a few years — the way this is going, by then I’ll probably have canonized the man.
MUSIC REVIEW
Kehlani’s debut a success tattooed to Kehlani’s left arm on the album cover. And those Daily Arts Wrtier are just a few. SSS would as a whole benefit Kehlani’s debut album from some cutting, but there SweetSexySavage contains are more than enough moments exactly what the title might hint of pop, R&B and hip-hop glory at, but it’s more to forgive the SweetSexySavage than that. With occasional skip. 17-tracks and no The spoken Kehlani features, it’s a introduction — Atlantic Records sprawling record, one of the album’s one that can highlights — easily hypnotize opens with “My with luscious R&B rhythms condolences to those who have and the singer’s effortless cool, lost me” (Savage? Check.) and leaving a listener lost among ends with “For still searching the pink clouds floating behind for someone to understand Kehlani. But be warned, it’s an me better.” And just as the inferior experience to move final echo of the intro hits the through SSS delicately. You eardrum, the irresistible bass won’t fully appreciate her line of “Keep On” grooves in. perspective — she’s a young SweetSexySavage is woman who knows what she undeniably front-loaded. The wants, what she doesn’t and first verse on “Distraction” that both of those things are boasts Yonce-levels of swag — constantly changing. the nation should be begging Sonically, SweetSexySavage to be Kehlani’s distraction. stands on its own with Kehlani’s “Undercover” interpolates singular style; moments across lyrics from Akon’s “Don’t the record, however, recall a Matter” with an ease that long list of artists who came should crown Kehlani the new before her: Beyonce, Rihanna, age queen of R&B, and if that Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill, doesn’t, the line “I’ma tweet who’s prominently seen our inside jokes to the outside CHRISTIAN KENNEDY
world” might. And lead single “CRZY” embodies all of SSS’s strongest qualities: exquisite cross-genre production, cutting, confident lyrics and soaring choruses that are easy to catch on to without bordering on dull. The album’s latter half would benefit from a few cuts, but nonetheless still holds some of the album’s most striking material. The cool distance of “Do U Dirty” ’s verses sets up the emotive delivery of, “Swear you see the good in me” to abruptly shift gears only to shift back again. The instrumentation of “Get Like” and flow of “In My Feelings” rank among the album’s most velvety moments and the breakdown on “Too Much” is too much. The sexiness and savagery are finished by the time the final track, “Thank You” rolls in. With a backing chorus, Kehlani thanks everyone who has helped her along the way, but let me just say, “No, Kehlani. Thank you.” SweetSexySavage is a powerhouse of a debut. Sonically cohesive and lyrically on-brand from start to finish, Kehlani has staked her claim.
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COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW
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Migos’ sound defines 2017 Wright to visit Royal Oak announcement that “Culture album coming soon,” on the Daily Arts Writer intro of the Culture album while playing the Culture Culture, in singular. Anti- album. They will no doubt go establishment skaters, dads on to be preserved in the great from the Bronx, fraternity pantheon of artists who have stoners and shared a studio mall-shoppers with DJ Khaled, Culture who just really which will Migos like memes. dubiously exclude From the overly the likes of The 300 Entertainment active TwitterBeatles, etc. users in Vans The album Sk8 Lows, to that Dale from doesn’t really kick into life until Accounting who is actually a after the formalities; “T-Shirt,” huge Public Enemy fan — we’re like all Migos songs, is an all The Culture. exercise in timing and humor, Every now and then there is but brings with it an unusually an event that grabs all of “our” pensive edge. Finishing each attention: a cultural singularity other’s sentences and often of sorts that matters to anyone entire verses, they deviate who matters. A few months ago from their triplet staple in it felt like we were all listening favor of a more staccato and in one room when Frank Ocean stop-start f low. Takeoff plays finally released Blonde; before as the undercover MVP with that, Kanye West had us all legitimately considering the merits of a Tidal account. Regardless of our personal denominations and sects, we, The Culture, collectively tune in to select artifacts that will be debated in the barber shops of our time. Hate it or love it, you’ll at least listen. Migos, the familial Atlanta trio comprised of Quavo, Takeoff and Offset, have had their thumbprints all over the sphere of popular culture worldwide. Though they’ve only managed f leeting moments of crossover success between YRN and now, it remains undisputed that they’re largely responsible for popularizing the sound of “now.” As Coke has become synonymous with all off-brand, inferior sodas, Migos now-iconic triplet f low has become the automatic association of your favorite struggling rapper. Constantly teetering between the perils of Troy Ave an absolutely showstopping and the consistent hit-making verse, ghosting out screaming of Future, Migos seems to have “country grammar, n*****, ascended to greater cultural straight out Nawf Atlanta !!!!” significance without ever “Call Casting” feels like really changing what they’ve a more traditional return to been doing for the past four their Southern roots, with years. They’ve survived the Zaxby’s references and an fatal Drake remix, witnessed organ so crisp you can almost blatant f low-thievery, and hear the Pyrex boiling in probably couldn’t care less. the kitchen. The production With the eyes of the world (and is particularly interesting more importantly, Twitter) because most of their Southern watching, Migos’ latest effort, musical references have been Culture, is their most polished explicitly rapped, whereas and accessible project to date. here they shoutout the likes of At 13 tracks and 59 minutes in Andy Milonakis on a beat that length, every last detail feels wouldn’t be out of place on a deliberate. UGK project. Like a red carpet event, the The momentum builds to an album inevitably kicks off inevitable peak in the form of with the obligatory DJ Khaled “Bad and Boujee.” This has got feature. Though his mere to be the best four-track stretch presence “Culture” is the of their entire discography audio equivalent of hearing so far, stemming back to that “Attention Walmart shoppers” run on YRN from “Versace” in the club, it legitimizes to “Hanna Montanna.” The the fact that Migos have album seems to have taken note embedded themselves into from the Cheef Keef model, a position of longevity. The kicking the door in with a feature typically reserved for relentless barrage of heaters blockbuster events is more of — the difference here being a trophy than anything else. that quality control has limited It’s the victory lap before the them from overf lowing with race has even started; it’s an another 22-track tape. SHAYAN SHAFII
in the Boston paper after I’d been doing comedy for about two years,” Daily Arts Wrtier Wright said about his well-known comic style. “That’s the first time I For most regular, moderately saw the word ‘monotone.’ No one funny folk — depending on where ever said that to me personally in you situate yourself on the spectrum my whole life, then I read that, and — everyday things are either tucked it has just followed me my whole away as memories or simply seen career.” and forgotten (perhaps for the more Being a comedian was something conscientious bunch Wright had long out there, they are aspired to be and recorded in a diary). continued to pursue Steven Wright But for some, like as an undergraduate Royal Oak Theatre clever-minded liberal arts student. (18+ event) comedian Steven “It was my Wright, the day’s dream, it was my Saturday, February monotony presents goal and my life to 4th @ 8 P.M. a different kind of be a comedian,” opportunity. he said. “So, a year Tickets available “Whenever after I graduated at online anyone wakes up college in Boston, a in the morning club opened up, and until they go to as soon as I knew sleep at night, thousands of pieces it was there, I started going to the of information go past them, and open mic nights.” some of those pieces can be moved After three years performing around into jokes,” Wright said. “I at Ding Ho’s Comedy Club and just get jokes from noticing things.” Chinese Restaurant in Cambridge, Wright, who has been cracking Wright was booked for his first people up on stage for over three “Tonight Show” appearance. decades, is most known for his Producing such a roar from the signature deadpan, monotone audience, he was invited back the delivery, which almost seems following week. to border on indifference. The “It was surreal. Of all the things unexpectedness of a tightly packed I’ve done in my career, that’s still punch line — in the midst of a blank my favorite,” Wright said of his face and lethargic demeanor with debut, “going on that show that the added flair of a Boston accent — first time.” has kept the crowd on the edge of In addition to standup, Wright their seats through the years. went on to star in multiple films “I didn’t really think about it until and TV shows. He earned himself someone wrote an article about me a Grammy nomination in 1985 for GRACE HAMILTON
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his debut album, I Have a Pony. The sequel, I Still Have a Pony, was also nominated in 2007. Since 2014, Wright has been a producer, director and guest star of the FX series, Louie, whom Wright describes as “brilliant.” Despite his many detours from the stage, including doing the animated voice for the upcoming animated film, “Emoji,” standup remains Wright’s passion and forte. “To be in a scene is good, but it doesn’t have that edge of danger,” Wright said. “You can do it again and again there’s no one really looking at you. But on stage, all that energy you get from the crowd makes it dangerous and exciting.” Despite drifting askew from the spotlight of stardom, which Wright once occupied, he continues to act as a legacy and hall-of-famer for comedians and the public alike, making frequent appearances on the stage. For Wright’s performance this weekend, audiences can expect “eighty minutes of surrealism — a weird hour.” Wright didn’t hesitate to impart some of his own career wisdom: “You never know what’s gonna happen — don’t be afraid and don’t stop yourself from at least attempting whatever thing comes into your head,” Wright shared. “If it works it works, if it doesn’t it doesn’t. At least you tried.” Wright will bring this fearless attitude with his comedy to the stage this Saturday.
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Every now and then there is an event that grabs all of “our” attention: a cultural singularity of sorts that matters to anyone who matters
Earlier this month at the Golden Globes, Donald Glover took the stage to accept his award for Best TV Comedy, somehow finding a way to thank the Migos for making this song along the way. The memes alone have cemented it in the history books, and even that damn Lil Uzi verse already sounds iconic. We get it, “Fight Night” and “Versace” were big, but this is massive. This is bigger than basement parties and blunt cruises; this song bangs in Nigeria. The last time we saw a single propel a rap album to such ridiculous heights was probably Lil Wayne’s “A Milli” in 2008. Gucci Mane provides the only blessing that matters in Atlanta with a feature on “Slippery”, weaving in and out of the beat without even having to try to mimic the Migos. It’s not a classic Gucci appearance by any means, but he brings with him an air of authority — a stamp of approval that only he can offer. The album closes with “Out Yo Way,” which is a fittingly uncharacteristic Migos outro for an album unlike anything else they’ve ever released. It borrows twinges of tropical synths from “Pick Up The Phone,” which featured Quavo and fellow album appearancemaker Travis Scott. They alternate between sing-song rapping about cocaine and appreciating women within the same verse, reminiscing on days when they was “trappin, cappin’ all through the hallway.” Though Culture is unique in its brevity and newfound position in the limelight, it remains as absurd as anything Migos have ever released. The main takeaway from Culture is that Migos have added an edge to their creative process, transcending what once prevented uncompromising mixtapetalents like DMX and Lil B from crossing over — a transition we’ve seen in the past few years with fellow Atlanta-native Young Thug, who recently released similarly polished projects in Slime Season 3 and Jeffery. It’s not so much that the Atlanta music scene is being gentrified for the palette of a larger (and whiter) audience, but rather that the most senior figures on the scene are maturing and further refining their releases. This is a city which still claims Lil Yachty and Rich The Kid. Atlanta is still Atlanta — Migos have simply claimed the biggest house on the hill. In the words of DJ Khaled, Culture is the soundtrack to “repping the culture from the streets,” but it’s novelty lies in the fact that “Nawfside” Atlanta actually is what Western youth culture looks and sounds like in 2017. If you’re not with it, then congratulations, you played yourself.
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Knight seals dominant victory for Wolverines KEVIN SANTO
Managing Sports Editor
The dual-match had long been decided, but you would have thought Alex Knight didn’t know it. With the second set tied at four games apiece, Princeton’s Luke Gamble had just notched a point to cut Knight’s lead to 30-15. One of Gamble’s teammates cheered obnoxiously from the stands, perhaps a little too loudly for Knight’s liking. After all, even if Gamble were to win the match, the Tigers (0-1) were about to leave the Varsity Tennis Center with a 5-2 defeat. And so Knight retaliated, letting the arena quiet down before exclaiming, “Let’s go Blue, 5-1, come on!” It was a friendly reminder of the dominant day Michigan men’s tennis team was having, and perhaps if you bottled up the
Wolverines’ constant intensity into one moment, Knight’s response would be it. But realistically, it’s no surprise that was Knight’s reaction prior to clinching the final set for the 18th-ranked Wolverines to close out the final set of the day and give Michigan (3-1) a dominant 6-1 victory. “It’s February 2, so those matches — for him and for our team — have big implications for us,” said Michigan coach Adam Steinberg. “I know that the guys feel a lot better winning 6-1 than 5-2. For (Knight), it’s a confidence thing. “That really helps him individually going into the next match. I was happy the way he finished there. I told him he played really aggressive, and he did things he really is not used to doing.” The Wolverines put themselves on track for victory
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Two weeks ago, the Michigan hockey team played Michigan State in a home-and-home series that kicked off at Yost Ice Arena on a Friday, and the Wolverines fell to the Spartans, 3-0. The Friday before, Michigan lost to Minnesota, 5-2. And in the Wolverines’ series against Wisconsin, the Wolverines lost the Friday opener to the Badgers. Friday wins haven’t come easily for Michigan (1-6-1 Big Ten, 8-12-2 overall.) The last time the Wolverines opened a weekend series with a win was back on Nov. 11, when they topped then-No. 4 Boston in a 4-0 shutout. This weekend, Michigan can’t expect it to be any easier. No. 11 Ohio State (3-4-1-1, 12-66) is traveling to Ann Arbor for a weekend series at Yost, and
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from the get-go, clinching the doubles point in dramatic fashion. Sophomore Gabe Tishman and freshman Connor Johnston won three straight games to open up the No. 3 doubles match, but then lost the ensuing four games.
By that time, the other doubles teams had split matches, and all eyes were on the young Michigan duo. Tishman and Johnston recovered, closing out the match by winning the next three games. “It puts extra pressure on any team,” Steinberg said. “Everyone
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it’s looking for redemption after falling to Wisconsin twice last weekend. For the Wolverines, starting off the series with a win on Friday could make all the difference. “It means everything,” said Michigan assistant head coach Billy Powers. “We can’t look back, but the Fridays — in particular in the past month, month and a half — have not been good. You’re really regrouping Friday night, having a chaotic Saturday of whatever we have to do to get through this weekend and survive and get points out of it. It’s not a good approach to it. “You really hope that you have a game Friday night that
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Junior Alex Knight clinched the final set for the Wolverines in their convincing 6-1 victory over Princeton on Thursday night in the Varsity Tennis Center.
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gives you a chance to have a great weekend instead of salvaging a weekend.” The Buckeyes feature a prolific scoring offense, sitting second in the NCAA. Seventeen members of Ohio State’s roster have at least one goal and, on average, the Buckeyes generate four goals per game — Michigan is averaging just two and a half. Forward Mason Jobst has brought recent success to his team, recording 19 points in his last nine games. Forward Nick Schilkey, a captain, is sitting on 114 career points, 25 of which have come this season. In addition to those two, all 23 skaters on the Buckeyes’ roster
“We can’t look back, but the Fridays ... have not been good”
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Freshman forward Will Lockwood leads the offense into a series against the high-scoring Buckeyes this weekend.
have at least a point and an assist. “I think the biggest challenge we’ll face is shutting down their offense,” said freshman forward Will Lockwood. “They’re a team with a lot of weapons on their offense, and we’re definitely a team that needs to take pride in our (defensive zone).” For the Wolverines, Lockwood is currently second in points scored with seven goals and six assists. He falls behind the only freshman forward Jake Slaker, who is boasting a team-high 14 points with four goals and 10 assists. But with a team as offensively-sound as Ohio State, it will fall on Michigan’s defense to really step up. Three of the Wolverines’ goaltenders — freshmen Hayden Lavigne and Jack LaFontaine and senior Zach Nagelvoort — have evenly split appearances in front of the net with eight each. Lavigne leads in save percentage with .932, while Nagelvoort and LaFontaine are trailing him with .917 apiece. In blocked shots, the Wolverines lead all Division I teams with 18.23 per game. Freshman defenseman Luke Martin has recorded a teamhigh 52 blocked shots so far this season, with sophomore defenseman Nicholas Boka following closely behind with 50. Still, Ohio State will be far from an easy win. With such an aggressive offense, it will be difficult for the Wolverines to pull a win out of the series despite their ability to block shots — regardless of whether or not it’s on a Friday. “We know they’re a really good team this year,” said senior defenseman Nolan De Jong. “They’re fast and pretty explosive, and they’ve had some ridiculously high-scoring games in my four years here, so hopefully that won’t happen this year. We’re trying to keep the score down and play our game.”
knows that depth is our strength. So when we win the doubles point I think other teams feel it, because they’re like, ‘Wow Michigan’s really good one through six.’ So we need that.” With the doubles point in Michigan’s back pocket, the Wolverines took to the courts for singles play. The Tigers managed to tie the dual match at one, if only for a moment, when Tom Colautti defeated Michigan’s Carter Lin handily — 6-2, 6-1 — in the No. 5 singles match. But senior Jathan Malik quickly put the Wolverines back on top, upsetting Alex Day in the top singles match. The pair traded games throughout the first set, but with the set locked at 5-4, Malik finally closed the door on Day. Malik only improved from there, capturing the second set, 6-3, and setting the tone for the rest of the night. “For us, me and Myles in the middle today, we’ve just got to try to create the energy for the courts next to us,” Malik said. “And I think we generally did a good job. It’s obviously always a little bit easier when we all won the first set on pretty much every court.” Just a few minutes after
Malik’s victory, junior Davis Crocker gave Michigan a 3-1 cushion, as he notched a convincing 6-4, 6-4 win against Davey Roberts at the No. 6 singles to remain undefeated in singles play this season. By that point, with the way the dual match against the Tigers was shaping up, the only real competition was between Leo Hua and Myles Shalet to see who could clinch the victory for the Wolverines. In the end, Hua won that intra-squad battle, eking out a 7-5 victory in the second set against Kial Kaiser after dominating, 6-2, in the first. Shalet needed a 10-8 secondset tiebreaker to win his own match — also maintaining an undefeated singles record — before Michigan went on to watch Knight’s match. By then, it was 5-1 in favor of the Wolverines. And Knight filled the silence of the stadium, making sure everybody knew it. “He’s always got that energy,” Malik said. “I think all of us are thinking right now that this is sort of a pivotal time for us, even though it’s the start of the season. The matches, even when they’re dead rubbers, we want to try and go out and win them.”
WRESTLING
‘M’ loses tight match to Central Michigan PAIGE VOEFFRAY Daily Sports Writer
Everyone knew it was going to be a close matchup between the No. 10 Michigan (3-4 Big Ten, 7-5 MICHIGAN 18 overall) 19 CMU wrestling team and No. 17 Central Michigan (3-2 Mid-American Conference, 6-2 overall). Falling in line with those predictions, the Chippewas narrowly edged out the Wolverines, 19-18. Each team took turns holding the lead, and eventually, the meet had to be decided by the heavyweight bout. Michigan elected to put redshirt junior Ayoola Olapo in for the usual starter, freshman Dan Perry. Olapo is usually a part of the 197-weight class, but due to the Wolverines lack of success in the heavyweight class, they opted to try something new. “We thought he had the best chance of getting a win for us,” said Michigan coach Joe McFarland. “He’s a little bit small for a heavyweight, so he’s a little susceptible for that, but it was a great match. It just didn’t work out for us.” Central Michigan’s Newton Smerchek was able to use his weight advantage against Olapo, whose attempts to use his quickness faltered. Olapo dropped the final match of the evening, 1-0, to hand the Chippewas their first win over the Wolverines in three years. The entire dual meet wasn’t a letdown, though. Many of Michigan’s wrestlers earned wins over ranked opponents that could later factor into their NCAA Championship hopes. Ranked 10th in the latest InterMat poll, senior Brian Murphy was able to notch an overtime victory over No. 7 Collin Heffernan in the 157-pound weight class. After a scoreless first period, Heffernan was the first on
the board with a two-point reversal. But Murphy managed to battle back and tie the match, sending it into overtime. It took him only 20 seconds to secure a takedown on the edge of the mat and earn a 4-2 decision. “I like to be more on the offense in the overtime,” Murphy said. “I don’t like to go into the second or third overtime because I feel like guys can sneak a win out, so I like to really push for a takedown in the first overtime.” Second-ranked redshirt freshman Logan Massa made sure to keep the momentum going in the 165-pound weight class. Massa stuck to his usual style of wrestling—taking down his opponents and then releasing them just to take them down again. With five takedowns in the first period and four back points in the second, Massa cruised to a 21-6 technical fall victory with 1:32 left in the third period. The Wolverines won their fair share of impressive matches, especially from redshirt freshman Jackson Striggow in the 197-pound weight class and Stevan Micic in the 133-pound weight class. But Michigan wasn’t able to capitalize when they had the chance to pull off the win. The Wolverines could have made up the lost point anywhere. It was the difference between a decision and a major decision victory or a pin and a technical fall. But they simply weren’t able to finish on the right side of a close matchup. “I’m looking at the whole team and we just didn’t get the job done,” McFarland said. “We had opportunities, but we had some weight classes where we could have got extra points or maybe not given up points. In the end, it was those little things that came back and bit us.”
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Wolverines look to rebound against Buckeyes; Behind Enemy Lines: Ohio State Jae’Sean Tate KEVIN SANTO
Managing Sports Editor
MINH DOAN
Daily Sports Editor
After thrashing Indiana by 30 at home, the Michigan men’s basketball team followed the impressive performance with the polar opposite in East Lansing, losing to Michigan State, 70-62. Michigan stuck around for most of the game, but poor shooting against a stout defense did the Wolverines in, and they missed out on a chance to take sole possession of fourth place in the Big Ten. Now, the Wolverines will have to right the ship against a struggling Ohio State team in Crisler Center to keep their NCAA Tournament hopes alive. After a strong non-conference showing, which saw the Buckeyes start 7-1 with a narrow twopoint loss to No. 9 Virginia, Ohio State stumbled out of the gate in conference play, starting 0-4 with losses to Illinois, Purdue, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Buckeyes recovered and won their next two games against Michigan State and Nebraska, but they have gone just 1-3 since, most recently losing to Maryland at home. Much like the Wolverines, Ohio State coach Thad Matta’s team has been plagued by its defense. Once a stout unit in non-conference play, the Buckeyes’ defense has wilted, and their offense has struggled to make up for its deficiencies. Ohio State is led on offense by forward Jae’Sean Tate, who leads the team in scoring with 14.3 points per game. Tate put up a stat line of 20 points, four assists, and four rebounds against Maryland. With Tate at the ‘3’, the Buckeyes have forwards Marc Loving and Trevor Thompson at the ‘4’ and ‘5’, respectively. Thompson leads the
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Ohio State forward Jae’Sean Tate will go up against a Michigan team hungry to retun to its winning ways after suffering a loss to Michigan State on Sunday.
team with 9.2 rebounds per game, while Loving averages 5.1 boards. Thompson and his 7-foot frame, especially, will be a challenge inside for Michigan sophomore forward Moritz Wagner. The Daily sat down with Tate at Big Ten Media Day in October to talk about the 2015-16 season in which Ohio State went 21-14, the Buckeyes’ expectations this season and his relationship with Michigan freshman forward Ibi Watson who, like Tate and former
Wolverine guard Caris LeVert, attended Pickerington High School Central. The Michigan Daily: Reflecting on last season, a little bit up and down, what did you take away from a year when the team was young and you still managed to string together some success? Jae’Sean Tate: Last year, it was definitely a humbling one and I learned a lot from it. We learned how important the summer is. We learned how important out
“Just to know that we can’t make the same mistakes”
of conference play is. We learned how important buying into what Coach Matta said is. So all those things right there are the reasons why we weren’t successful, why we went to the NIT. We were what, a game or two away from making the (NCAA) Tournament? Not being ready, not preparing the right way, not being ready to play in the out of conference games, that’s the reason why. TMD: Do you think that came
from youth, from a little bit lack of experience? What was it in your mind? JT: I felt it was just preparation, not respecting your opponents, not finishing our games. There were some times when we’d be up at halftime or 10 minutes going in, and we’d just lose it. But also, I feel like (it was) a little bit of being young. We made some of the wrong decisions, but I feel like that year — two years under our belt — will help us. Also bringing in Coach
“It shows, if you do what you’re supposed to off the court”
Jent, and Coach Matta taking a different approach in coaching and helping us learn on and off the court, I feel like this year should be a good one. TMD: Where do you guys set the bar for this year, given that you’re still a young roster but you’re young with experience? JT: Just to know that we can’t make the same mistakes that we did last year. Like I said, the preseason work and the out of conference play matters. Finishing out games matters. The expectation is that we go into every game ready. There were some times during the season where we weren’t ready to play and we’d go down 10. Now we’re in the hole (down by) 10 and we’re fighting for our life. TMD: You mentioned a difference in how you approached the summer. Is it in terms of attitude at those (summer) workouts or number of workouts? JT: Not even that, it’s just doing what you’re supposed to do. Whether that’s not missing a rep, being on time, doing work, being on time to class — just being an all-around good person you know what I mean? Because it shows, if you do what you’re supposed to off the court, it helps you on the court. TMD: I know you played with Caris, but did you also play with Ibi? JT: Ibi played with my brother. When I graduated he came to Pick Central, but I’m still really good friends with Ibi. TMD: Off the top of your head, is there anything you got to see in him that impressed you? JT: His shooting. He’s a great shooter, he’s athletic and I feel like he can have a great impact for Michigan. There’s been countless times I’ve went back to Pick Central and played against him, and he’s one of the better guys that I’ve played against in his class.
‘M’ returns home eager to defend undefeated streak SYLVANNA GROSS Daily Sports Editor
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Junior guard Jillian Dunston and the Wolverines will look to maintain home-court advantage Sunday against Iowa.
At Crisler Center, the Michigan women’s basketball team is known for its thirdquarter dominance. They typically outscore opponents in Iowa at the first ten Michigan minutes after Matchup: Iowa the half. 5-4 Big Ten, Yet, the 14-8 overall; Wolverines Michigan recently took 7-2, 18-5 their prowess When: Sunday on the road 2 P.M. to UrbanaWhere: Crisler Champaign, Center scoring 26 out of their 86 total points in the third. Michigan (7-2 Big Ten, 18-5 overall) will now have an opportunity to keep its momentum going in Sunday’s game against Iowa (5-4, 14-8). The Wolverines have yet to lose a game in their own arena, and they will be looking to maintain their home-court advantage. The last time the two team’s met was in last year’s Big Ten Tournament, where the Hawkeyes managed to steal the game, 97-85. “(Last year’s game) was a great game in the Big Ten Tournament,” Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico said after the Illinois game. “(Senior guard Siera Thompson) got in foul trouble in that game and I thought that really hurt us. “Iowa’s a great team. We were up big early against on them, and that hurt us.” The Hawkeyes rank second in the Big Ten, and 10th nationally, in assists per game, averaging 18.3. Similarly,
Iowa is in third-place in the conference for total assists with 384. Michigan doesn’t quite match up to the Hawkeyes in this respect, averaging 17.0 per game in conference play. Thompson leads the charge with 124 total for the season. Thompson is also just 28 points away from breaking into Michigan’s all-time scorers list. Freshman guard Kysre Gondrezick has the most after Thompson’s assists efforts, but she still has a total of just 70. Gondrezick has had a successful week, earning both Big Ten Player and Freshman of the Week honors after helping Michigan dominate Northwestern, 80-54, on Jan. 24. She tied her career highs in both points with 22 and rebounds with seven and sunk a career-high six 3-pointers. It was the first time she earned the Player of the Week award, but the fourth time for the freshman award. The performance snagged Gondrezick the US Basketball Writers Association Freshman of the Week award, too. Gondrezick’s offensive efforts — she averages 13.7 points per game — are matched by sophomore center Hallie Thome and junior guard Katelynn Flaherty. Thome averages 15 points per game, and Flaherty a whopping 20. Flaherty will have to measure up to Hawkeye guard Ally Disterhoft, who ranks
“I think it’s going to be a great basketball game”
third on Iowa’s all-time career scoring list. She has amassed 1,876 career points and is on the hunt for first. Thome, Flaherty, Gondrezick Thompson and junior guard Jillian Dunston have consistently started in the past eight games this season. Senior guard Danielle Williams is the only player outside of the starting five to play in every game — she has a total of 409 minutes this season. Williams and sophomore guard Nicole Munger — who has played in 21 games for 261 total minutes — have a 50-percent shooting average on threes. The Wolverines game against the Hawkeyes will be the culmination of Michigan’s Alumni weekend. “I think it’s going to be a great basketball game because we’re very similar in a lot of ways,” Barnes Arico said. “But we’re at home, so I think that’s worth (something).” Michigan sits firmly in third place in the conference, whereas Iowa just managed to claim fifth. The Hawkeyes had their most recent win against Rutgers on Thursday after falling to No. 3 Maryland on Jan. 29 with a final score of 100-81. If the Wolverines continue dominating the third quarter and match the offense led by Iowa’s Disterhoft, they could be in for a comfortable win. “(The Hawkeyes) are a good team,” Barnes Arico said. “We just seem to be playing with really good confidence at home. We love our home crowd, we love the fans we’ve been able to get and our kids really enjoy the atmosphere and really enjoy playing there.”
“We love our home crowd, and we love the fans”