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Alum begins historic run for House in 11th District Newcomer Saad, a Democrat, would be first Muslim woman elected to Congress CARLY RYAN
Daily Staff Reporter
Fayrouz Saad, who is currently running for Congress in Michigan’s 11th District, says her political story started right in her dorm, freshman year at the University of Michigan. As a Muslim and Arab 18-yearold after the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Saad’s parents took her home from campus, wary of the discriminatory backlash against their identities. But to Saad’s relief, waiting at her dorm was a collection of her roommates and friends, welcoming her home and ensuring her they would help combat hate. From that moment on, Saad knew she wanted to dedicate herself to protecting those values. “It was just this really fine moment of humanism that was so very much what our country’s about and really profound experience that impacted me for the rest of my life,” Saad said. “That is America and that is what America should represent.” Even today, Saad keeps up
with events on the University of Michigan campus, and the racially charged incidents that have happened recently have only reiterated what she wants to fight against. “It broke my heart when I heard about the racially charged hate crimes on campus because I don’t remember hearing about any of that even after 9/11. I remember quite the opposite,” Saad said. “That got me thinking about why I want to get in public service. I really want to protect ... our values. I want to fight for those values that I know we all believe in.” Rep. Dave Trott, R-Birmingham, decided not to run in the 2018 congressional race, leaving no incumbent to run against, and making what used to be a clearly Republican leaning district more of a toss-up between new Republican and Democratic runners. College Republicans did not respond to requests for comment. Still, Saad said she has a long road ahead of her. If elected, she will be the first Muslim woman in Congress, setting a precedent See ALUM, Page 3
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Debate ensues over appropriate gestures of kneeling, solidarity
Councilmembers facing backlash for kneeling at last week’s meeting, defend their decisions SOPHIE SHERRY Daily News Editor
Aug. 26, 2016, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick remained seated during the national anthem of a National Football League preseason game to protest the oppression of people of color and ongoing issues of police brutality in those communities. Over a year later and thousands of miles away from Levi’s Stadium, Councilmember Chuck Warpehoski, D-Ward 5, tweeted he would take a kneeduring the evening’s City Council meeting “out of respect for the aspiration that we be a nation ‘with liberty and justice for all.’” Four of the 11 City Council members decided to follow in suit of Kaepernick — Jason Frenzel, Sumi Kailasapathy, Chip Smith and Warpehoski. During the council’s meeting, Kailasapathy explained her decision to kneel, wanting others to judge her patriotism “by her actions.” In an interview with CNN later in the week, she touched on about inclusion — citing her experiences as a refugee — and brought up police brutality with The New York Times on Thursday. Smith had not planned to kneel before the evening, but upon entering the City Council chambers, Kailasapathy approached him and asked him to join her in protest. “She is the only member of Council who’s a person of color, she’s a woman, she’s a refugee, she’s a naturalized citizen,” Smith said. “If she asks me to kneel in solidarity
with her — for this absolutely, I didn’t give it a second thought.” He later released a statement, stating he knelt to stand in solidarity with those who experience racism, sexism, classism and homophobia every day. Councilmember Graydon Krapohl, D-Ward 4, was one of the council members who chose to remain standing, citing disrespect to military service members. Kaepernick, however,
switched from sitting to kneeling over a year ago after consulting with veterans on an appropriate action. “Personally I didn’t think it was appropriate, that’s not something I would do; I would like people not to do it,” Krapohl said. “But I understand and respect the folks
that do do it, that they feel that they have a message, something they want to say, and it’s their right to do it. From my perspective I’ve served 30 years in the military and I think it’s disrespectful.” Following the evening’s meeting, council members who knelt received criticism, echoing Krapohl’s sentiment that the gesture was disrespectful to the U.S. military. Others condemned the council’s “empty gesture,” noting a lack of political action in regard to issues of police brutality in the Ann Arbor community. Austin McCoy, a postdoctoral fellow at the University, took to Twitter to call on City Council to do more to address racial inequality than kneel during the Pledge of Allegiance. In an email interview with The Daily, McCoy explained his condemnation of the council’s actions centered largely around their failure to mention the fatal shooting of Aura Rosser in their reasoning for kneeling. Rosser, a Black woman, was shot by an Ann Arbor police officer in her home on Nov. 9, 2014 — her death sparked dozens of local protests and calls for police reform. “The original intent
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of Colin Kaepernick’s protest was not just to highlight structural racism, but to call attention to police killings of African Americans,”
McCoy wrote. “Failing to link that intent explicitly with Rosser’s death demonstrates a denial of local law enforcement’s role in contributing to the national trend of the police killings of African Americans. It also continues the troubling trend of rendering black women like Rosser invisible in conversations about racism and policing.” More recently, the Ann Arbor Police Department came under fire for a violent arrest of local Black teen Ciaeem Slaton September at the Blake Transit Center. AAPD Police Chief Jim Baird wrote an email to the council that a personnel complaint is under review. Council members have not brought the arrest up at meetings in the last month. McCoy noted City Council members have the ability to actually influence policy and if they care about racial inequality in policing, they should use their position to change local law. “I think it is important for elected officials, and those in power, generally, to be more specific about how they plan on going about addressing the relationship between policing, structural racism and sexism, and poverty here in Ann Arbor,” McCoy said. Last month Rackham student Dana Greene knelt on the block ‘M’ for 21 hours. While he appreciates the thought behind City Council members’ kneeling, he too believed as public officials, they can do more. “The reason I protest and many other people protest is we feel like we don’t really have the ability to make progressive change outside of our ability to protest and so that’s why we decide to do it,” Greene See KNEELING, Page 3
Students push for new amendment to Jeff Irwin Patron fee, launches Statement of Rights & Responsibilities rides added
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state senate campaign Seat currently held by State Sen. Rebekah Warren, who is term limited in 2018 COLIN BERESFORD Daily Staff Reporter
Former Michigan House Rep. Jeff Irwin is launching his campaign for Michigan Senate, running in the 18th District. State Sen. Rebekah Warren, D-Ann Arbor, currently holds the seat, but is term limited and is unable to run again in 2018. Irwin served in the House from 2011 to 2016 in the 53rd District, which comprises the southern part of Ann Arbor and most of the University of Michigan’s campus. State Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor, succeeded Irwin earlier this year. Irwin, known for his strong advocacy for public education, plans to continue to push for increased funding for public education, as well as addressing the criminal justice system, environmental concerns and the issues in Flint, among other issues. “I want to fight for tangible improvements to the quality of life for the people in Michigan,” Irwin said.
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Recent incidents expose gaps in reporting and OSCR, lacking language on bias RIYAH BASHA & KEVIN BIGLIN Daily News Editor & Daily Staff Reporter
Students blared various demands for accountability and administrative action after weeks of racist provocations on campus earlier this semester, but one question echoed throughout all the protests. “What happens to racist students who get caught?” LSA senior Arlyn Reed asked at a de-stress event held by the Black Student Union last month to rounds of applause from the audience. “(A University of Michigan) investigation just means it is going to be swept under the rug, and I actually want punishment for these people, because I want to feel safe on campus,” LSA freshman Madison Peterson echoed at a protest the next day. Reed, a former Central Student Government representative, went on to propose a student sanctioning process — similar to one mandated by the sexual misconduct policy — in the face of an uptick in bias-related incidents. The Dean of Student’s Bias Response Team has logged 52 bias incidents since this July, but students are correct to point out neither University Division of Public Safety and Security officers nor administrators have publicly released apprehensions of any perpetrators.
The role of OSCR and a changing statement The catch to Reed’s proposal is that the institutional process, in large part, already exists. The Office of Student Conflict Resolution is tasked with enforcing the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities and litigates cases spanning from alcohol abuse to falsifying University documents. OSCR uses a spectrum of tools to address formal violations of the statement, including conflict
resolution, restorative justice or adjudication. Informal workshops include the option for unconscious bias training. OSCR director Erik Wessel said the unit has handled more than one case of bias this year. E. Royster Harper, the University’s vice president for student life, however, said in a September interview she was not aware of one bias investigation to her knowledge addressed through OSCR. The statement’s language is ambiguous, and does not have a
clause expressly sanctioning bias or discrimination. While the statement gives students the right “to be treated fairly and with dignity regardless of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, height, weight, or veteran status,” the document does not task students with the reciprocal responsibility. The only clause broaching bias See OSCR, Page 3
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A 2 - Detroit bus service will open to the public and run 7 days a week CARLY RYAN
Daily Staff Reporter
The Detroit Connector, a bus service connecting Ann Arbor to Detroit, will now provide service seven days a week, instead of four, and open full-time service to the public Oct. 30. The bus service, which used to serve only University of Michigan staff, faculty and students, will include stops at the Central Campus Transit Center, the University of Michigan Detroit Center and, newly, at the University of Michigan at Dearborn campus. Service hours are also being expanded, with new hours on Fridays and Saturdays beginning at 7 a.m. and ending at 1 a.m. The bus was piloted in 2013 after student demand was assessed via survey. The initial results of the survey indicated over 75 percent of possible riders were ‘very likely’ to use the service if it were provided. The bus was a free service with a suggested $5 donation, and Mcard holders were able to bring four guests on the trip per day. There was also a rudimentary reservation system for the bus rides in 2014. See BUS, Page 3
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ON THE DAILY: FLOTUS AND DEVOS VISIT LOCAL SCHOOL First lady Melania Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy Devos visited Orchard Lake Middle School in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., to kick off the “Week of Inclusion,” a part of National Bullying Prevention Month. The first lady urged the students she spoke with to make new friends through sitting with people they didn’t know and promoting an inclusive environment. “I encourage you to find a new friend and eat lunch with the new friend — you know a friend — ask them what they like, what their problems are — so nobody becomes sad,” said the first lady, according to CBS Detroit. In a statement released by the White House, the visit was part of the first lady’s anti-
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bullying initiative, “No One Eats Alone.” “As part of my ongoing commitment to the overall well-being of children, I am looking forward to today’s visit,” the first lady said. “By our own example, we must teach children to be good stewards of the world they will inherit. We need to remember that they are always watching and listening. It is our responsibility to take the lead in teaching children the values of empathy and communication that are at the core of kindness, mindfulness, integrity and leadership.” The first lady’s anti-bullying initiative has not been very popular in light of her husband’s use of Twitter to often belittle others.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Sleep Deprivation: Habits, Solutions, and Strategies WHAT: This online teach-out is an opportunity to learn about sleep and the dangers of not getting enough of it. WHO: Office of Academic Innovation WHEN: Noon to 5 p.m. WHERE: Coursera.org
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Maize, Blue and Lavender: Revisiting U-M’s LGBTQ Past
WHAT: This monthly performance will feature outstanding Music, Theatre & Dance students who were selected by faculty to perform. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: 3 p.m. WHERE: Britton Recital Hall
WHAT: Prof. Tim Retzloff, a U-M alum, will examine the history of LGBTQ students and faculty at the University. WHO: LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester WHEN: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Angell Hall, Room 3222
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WHAT: The Language Resource Center will host students for German games and chocolate eating. WHO: Germanic Languages & Literatures WHEN: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: North Quad, Language Resource Center
WHAT: A class on managing depression and anxiety will be offered to all U-M students. WHO: Depression Center WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Chrylser Center, Room 265 and Mason Hall, Room 3314
‘All the Difference’ Film Screening WHAT: This film, which was filmed over five years, follows the life of two young Black men who overcame the odds of their highrisk Chicago upbringing. WHO: Department of Psychology WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: East Hall, Room 4448
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Intersex Bodies in Tosefta Bikkurim WHAT: The work of Tosefta Bikkurim will be analyzed to see if it offers a new perspective on gender, or still confines us to a gender binary. WHO: Judaic Studies WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: 202 S. Thayer St.
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Citing modern and historical human rights crises, Sheri Fink, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and University alum, challenged an audience of over 100 students and community members gathered Monday evening in the University of Michigan Museum of Art to consider how they would aid the most vulnerable members of society in an emergency. Fink spent the majority of her lecture delineating how government agencies and response teams handled various emergencies, ranging from the Balkan Wars to Hurricane Irma, and subsequent effects on the critically injured and sick. She noted emergencies function as a sort of test for the level of human rights in a
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questioned the rationale used in the division of the supplies, and said Americans usually received a much higher level of care. “Who gets access to the higher standard of care?” she asked. “Can you really set up an advanced treatment unit on Liberian soil for Americans when the Liberians are losing their lives?” She stated hospitals have a difficult time procuring the highest attainable standard of health care during times of relative tranquility, so these disparities become especially pronounced in emergency due to the scarcity of medicine and intense need for health care. Fink concluded by asking students to consider what they would do if faced with such a situation — once again noting the importance of thinking critically and responding rapidly in an emergency where hundreds of lives are at stake. “That ability to retain flexibility, to think clearly about what your goals are, whether it’s maintaining health care or promoting human rights or the best possible medical ethics, in situations of great stress and emergency — that these are possible,” she said. LSA sophomore Jordan Brady said she attended the event as an addendum to her political science class, as well as its relevance to recent natural disasters and what she wants to study. “Just discussing how we go about choosing who lives through these situations, and it really stuck out to me how hospitals and big organizations don’t really have a great plan until the last minute hits and then they’re panicking trying to help people and save people,” she said.
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WHAT: The weaponsization of water will be examined through controveries like the Dakota Acces Pipeline and the Israeli diversion of water. WHO: Middle East and Arab Network WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Michigan League, Room D (3rd Floor)
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Sheri Fink talks reporting on treatment decisions during Hurricane Katrina society. The way individuals and organizations work together under extreme pressure, she argued, has the potential to have a major effect on the outcome of the crisis at hand. “How much power do we have when our infrastructure is not what it should be? When we’re in situations that we can’t control that have problems,” she said. “Even in these situations of extreme emergency, that individual decisions and the way organizations are setup to run, all of that can have a really big impact, a life and death impact.” Fink, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2010 for her reporting on doctors’ decisions during Hurricane Katrina and in 2015 for her work during the 2014 Ebola crisis, described the immense rationing of medical and comfort supplies that occurred inside the volunteer tents. She
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OSCR From Page 1 incidents prohibits students from “harassing or bullying another person−physically, verbally, or through other means,” but proving such a violation in a clear and persuasive manner can be a high standard to clear. The lack of language also means OSCR does not automatically collect data on cases of bias the office receives. “We don’t have many metrics around that, no,” Harper said. With the statement up for revisions next fall, some students are trying to change that. CSG Rep. Andrew Watkins, a Public Policy senior, is leading a team of students working with OSCR, the Office of General Counsel and the Dean of Students to explore an amendment to the statement that explicitly bans bias incidents. Proposed amendments are community-based and go through rounds of review from CSG, Senate Assembly and executive officers. “Bias incidents against an identity group on campus don’t classify as a violation under the current statement,” Watkins said. “The legal definition of harassment is much too strict — like if somebody does something offensive to a student, that doesn’t (always) qualify as harassment unfortunately, so they can’t be disciplined under that section.” LSA junior Ayah Issa, a former CSG representative and a member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Student Advisory Board, echoed Watkins. “It’s almost unrealistic to assume things that affect students daily or what’s been happening this past month fit within that realm of harassment — and that’s wrong,” Issa said. “We are looking for a realistic turnover. We don’t know whether that’s amending the students’ rights and responsibilities statement or adding a new academic honor
ALUM From Page 1 that could mean a lot for younger generations looking to get involved with politics. “I think what I’m trying to do is change the face of leadership and that starts at the most grassroot level –– college campuses,” Saad said. “Just get involved. Get engaged on campus.” Public Policy senior Nadine Jawad, Central Student Government vice president, said seeing a Muslim woman continue to break the glass ceiling and strive for positions of power was inspirational. “I believe she is doing the work that lays the foundation for girls and women, including myself, to keep shattering the glass ceiling,” Jawad said. Jawad said Muslim women are particularly underrepresented in all levels of government. She added while there is diversity within the Muslim world itself, Fayrouz is a great step in the right direction for the community. “Fayrouz is challenging the
code.” Harper, Wessel and Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones are amenable to the proposed amendment. Wessel maintained, however, no matter the language in the statement, it’s up to the community to change. “Do I think that mere change to language in a policy is going to change ideology? No.” he said. “Do I think that a double-down on our University’s commitment to values and the pathways that we have available to us … when harm is created in our community. … Do I think that’s always a good approach? Absolutely.” Bureaucracy and challenges All students and administrators cited inherent tension, though, in weighing campus climate with students’ constitutional rights to free speech. Issa said CSG is working alongside Student Legal Services to avoid infringing upon students’ rights and instead help protect them. “How do you mention (bias) without being too broad?” she said. “Too vague leads to too much power.” OSCR’s complaint-driven structure itself raises barriers to victims of bias incidents; administrators cannot officially respond to incidents that are not reported. Harper said in her experience, students might be wary of retaliation, or more often are simply unaware of the processes available to them. The Bias Response Team — which focuses more on documentation and support — does not always refer reporters to OSCR as a potential channel, often because perpetrators’ identities remain unknown. “Students of color aren’t involved in crafting the process,” she said. “There are gaps between the Bias Response Team and OSCR, and we need to make sure students know how to use the codes. But sometimes they just don’t want to report.” On a more surface level, many are unaware of the statement’s
existence. Engineering senior Nick Morris, for example, said he remembers agreeing to the statement, but could not recall what it specifically outlined. He said it seemed to be a generic document of rules and regulations. “I remember signing that, but I don’t remember exactly what was in it,” Morris said. “Is it just that we have the right to receive equal and fair treatment, and that as a student, we must abide by University rules and respect other students and faculty? I remember it seeming like a generic rules, regulations and respect kind of document.” Issa and Watkins emphasized boosting the statement’s visibility and publicizing bias-specific language. Students, they argue, will be more aware of what they are opting into. “The first problem with the current statement, is that nobody knows it,” Watkins said. “Everyone did sign it. … There’s no exposure to it and students don’t know about it. What we are hoping with a separate document would be, maybe during the admissions process … that you explicitly agree to these terms.” “People won’t do things if they know they will get punished or if we have a policy in place,” Issa said. “If there’s no accountability, then what do you hold a person up to?” Precedent ––or a lack thereof Though a bias-minded amendment would be the first of its kind at the University, several other schools already have these kinds of policies in effect. The University of Virginia includes a section called “Freedom from Discrimination” on its policy for Students Rights and Responsibilities. The University of Michigan’s Nondiscrimination Policy, on the other hand, is more concerned with employment and institutional inequity.
normalization of this exclusion and setting an example to empower others to run for office,” Jawad said. “Muslims aren’t a monolith and within our identity we have a lot of diversity, but I believe it is important to have Muslim voices in all levels of governments, as so often decisions are made about us without us.” Prior to this campaign, Saad worked on John Kerry’s 2004 campaign, in the Obama Administration’s Department of Homeland Security department and was the director of immigrant and international affairs for Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. Students on campus seem to be enthusiastic about Saad’s campaign. LSA junior Meaghan Wheat said Saad has a lot of merit and would be a step in the right direction regardless of her identity. “I’m interested in following her campaign, and definitely support the need for a different representative in District 11,” Wheat said. “She seems to have good experience in government.” Public Policy junior Zoha Qureshi agreed with Jawad in that diversity in government is necessary to involve all perspectives in the process. Qureshi, a CSG
representative, said Saad’s story is particularly inspiring to her political aspirations. “Especially in today’s political climate, it’s super important to increase diversity in our government at all levels,” Qureshi said. “With diversity comes more representation, more perspectives, and a stronger understanding of each other and how we can collectively and positively impact our communities. As a woman and a minority interested in public office myself, I love that Fayrouz Saad is running.” Saad said her focus for her Congressional race will be on health care, as she wants to work toward universal health care. She also cited economic growth as a goal, and wants to incentivize automation within the economy. Saad said she hopes that in implementing these goals she inspires younger generations to set lofty political goals. “U of M is probably one of the most dynamic campuses. It’s right for activism and student engagement in so many ways,” Saad said. “Find an issue or cause you believe in and become a leader on campus.”
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KNEELING From Page 1 said. “City Council members on the other hand have the ability to do so. I can appreciate them kneeling in solidarity but I also want to see action followed up by that.” Policing in Ann Arbor On July 13, 2016, the Ann Arbor Human Rights Commission published a statement calling on city officials to expedite the formation of a civilian police oversight board. The oversight board was originally suggested following the shooting of Aura Rosser, but Jim Baird, Ann Arbor Police Chief, strongly urged no action be taken until the city completed a third-party audit of the police department. Seven months later, Feb. 21, 2017, City Council approved a $200,000 contract with Chicagobased security consulting firm Hillard Heintze to assess community relations between police and AAPD, and offer suggestions in implementing a civilian police oversight board. In March, the council moved forward with phase one of the review. Many Ann Arbor residents were upset with the council’s decision to ignore the Human Rights Commission’s recommendation and postpone the potential implementation of a oversight board. “Instead of throwing full support behind the Human Rights Commission’s report calling for citizen oversight, the city spent another $200,000 on an external review conducted by a private consulting firm founded by police officials,” McCoy wrote. “The snail-like movement of this process makes me wonder whether or not city government wants citizen oversight. It is clear that the police do not want it because (Baird) has already said so. However, I do not care what the chief says, every police department in this country needs citizen oversight, including Ann Arbor’s.” Frenzel explained the process halted in an effort to ensure it expands to be more inclusive. “Certain council members, myself included and certain community members pushed to have more voices included in the collection of information and that postponed the output of the report from them,” Frenzel said. “We were suppose to get that
BUS From Page 1 The service has faced a tenuous future in recent years; in July of 2015, University officials were planning to cancel funding for the service by the end of 2016. However, Central Student Government passed a resolution to encourage the University to extend it back in April of 2016. Riders can now make reservations online and one-way trips range between $6 and $10. Students who have Pell Grants will be able to use the Connector for free. University students and faculty who participate in community service and class activities in Detroit will have reduced fares. Chief diversity officer Robert Sellers, vice provost for equity and inclusion, spoke on the bus service in a press release. “The University of Michigan is deeply committed to creating a more diverse, equitable and inclusive campus environment,” Sellers said. “The Detroit Connector helps us break down existing barriers and better
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 — 3 report in August and now we’re getting it in November because they had to take a step back and collect more information. It’s still debatable how inclusive that report is or is not, but that work has from some vantage points attempted to be more thorough.” According to Krapohl, a comprehensive review of the police department takes time. “I don’t think we have many of the problems a lot of communities do across the country,” Krapohl said. “There are always ways we can get better and unfortunately many of these things take time. There has to be a deliberate process of review to ensure fairness for everyone involved.” Phase one of the study consisted of collecting data on community members and law enforcements perspectives through surveys and forums. This took place over the summer meaning student voices were largely excluded. City Council will discuss the Hillard Heintze phase one study in a work session Nov. 16. Smith anticipates it will suggest comprehensive reform. “I fully expect it to challenge some of the standard ways we have always done things in Ann Arbor, I expect it to recommend a citizen oversight committee, I expect it to recommend changes to some of the departmental operating procedures; it might even go so far as to say real reorganization of the department,” Smith said. “For reasons beyond my understanding, the Hillard Heintze study — the data collection component — the community conversation happened during the summer predominately when obviously students aren’t around, that predispositioned the data collection to a certain scenario,” Frenzel also noted. Minority communities on campus have frequently expressed issues with over police. A Daily article published last Friday found at least six citations were issued to houses associated with Kappa Alpha Psi, a historically Black fraternity, and Latino fraternity Lambda Theta Phi during the Oct. 7 football game against Michigan State. Of the 10 predominantly white fraternities surveyed by The Daily, none received citations. Many of these lie within in Smith’s ward. Smith said he acknowledged changes must be made.
“I see the communication issues and gaps our police department has with, in particular, the African-American community here and I think we have to address that. To address it means we need to take a pretty self-critical look,” Smith said. “And taking a knee in solidarity with Councilmember Kailasapathy is my way of saying, ‘Hey, I’m going to look hard in the mirror and see if their are better ways to do this.” There is still concern that acknowledging a problem simply is not enough. “There have been several instances of police brutality and I haven’t seen action being taken behind those incidents and so kneeling in solidarity is a nice gesture, but city council members are in a position to make greater change than that,” Greene said. “I would be ecstatic if I saw policy being developed to actually address these issues of police brutality and white supremacy but I am not sure if I am necessarily seeing that.” Co-opting versus allyship In late September 2017, President Donald Trump tweeted a call on NFL players to stop kneeling during the national anthem and “disrespecting our Flag & Country.” The tweet brought the debate back into the national spotlight. A growing number of professional athletes, high school athletes and fans subsequently began to kneel during the national anthem. On Sep. 27, 16 members of New York City’s city council knelt during the Pledge of Allegiance and a dozen members of San Diego’s city council did the same on Oct. 10. Some argue the popularization of this gesture detracts from Kaepernick’s original goal: to comment on oppression and police brutality in the Black community. “While councilwoman Sumi Kailasapathy acknowledged that policing issue was on her mind, neither her nor Chuck Warpehoski mentions Aura Rosser by name, again, rendering her invisible in all of this,” McCoy said. “They haven’t said anything about Ciaeem Slaton’s violent arrest last month.” Greene suggested protesters should expand on why they kneel, but as long as they recognize its original intent.
connect the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Detroit communities. By expanding service and opening it to the public, the Detroit Connector can improve access to the region’s numerous research, academic and cultural opportunities.” The Detroit Connector has operated from donations, grants and some funding from the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Detroit Center since 2013. The buses are wheelchair accessible and include Wi-Fi, restrooms, electrical outlets and bike storage on board. Craig Regester, associate director of the Semester in Detroit program, is one of the two central originators of the proposal for the Detroit Connector with the U-M Detroit Center. He said he hopes the expansions will build ridership that will be mutually beneficial to all. “The original vision of the Detroit Connector always sought the building of mutuallybeneficial connections and access for residents in both Ann Arbor and Detroit, not just an easy way for UM students to get to the big city,” Regester said. “Now that the service is open to the general
public, and provided daily, we believe this vision can be fully realized. Of course, now, we all need to help build ridership and to spread the word to our friends, colleagues and neighbors to ‘Get on the Bus!’” Feedback from students, like LSA junior Jenny Ghose, has been positive. “I used the Detroit Connector a ton during my freshman year when I was really homesick and went home once a month. For the past couple years, I have used it when I go home for the weekend, about twice a semester,” Ghose wrote in an email. “I have been hoping for extended hours since I first learned about the connector during my freshman year. The original hours were better than nothing, but extending the hours really expands the realm of possibilities for students like myself who rely on the connector to go home or for students who use the connector to go backand-forth to events in Detroit. It really provides a great service for students from the Metro Detroit area and connects our campus to all of the great things going on in Detroit these days.”
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COREY DULIN | COLUMN
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Mugging at the gym
can’t just get up and go to comfortable and confident every the gym — it’s a process. time they walk into a building and I need to get there see weights, treadmills and other physically and mentally. The exercise equipment. Intramural Sports Those Planet Fitness Building is an easy commercials get it — enough walk, but “gymtimidation” is there is a ton of real and most people mental preparation suffer from some form that takes place of it. I can’t help but before anyone constantly worry at swipes my Mcard. the gym. I wonder if Anytime I go to the I’m doing the exercise IM building, I put I found on YouTube myself in a mood. I correctly. I wonder COREY replay Cardi B and if this exercise looks DULIN DMX in my head to stupid or weird. I get to a place where wonder if I can lift this I feel slightly less awkward and weight without a spotter and if I misplaced entering the gym. couldn’t, I wonder how loud and I, like many other people, how embarrassing it would be if it have a mug when I go to the fell. Most of all, I wonder if anyone gym. I try to make myself look caught on to the game of pretend I tough, to look like someone you play and who will be the first to call don’t want to mess with. me out. My gym mug is completely different from any other facial expressions I make. People have a hard time believing that I can drive, so I’m used to trying to make myself seem less like a wide-eyed kid and more like an actual adult. I walk around campus with a straight face and tunnel vision, but when I go to the gym I take the look a bit farther. Picture me, a 5-foot-4-inch skinny teenager, deadpan with a slight furrow in my brows. This creates a look If I’m going to get called meant to intimidate, but at its out anywhere, it’s going to core is my sad attempt to look happen in the weight room. threatening, a way to show I There I’m an easy target: I know what I’m doing, even stick out because the space is though I don’t. Anytime I dominated by g uys and I look step into a gym I mainly focus like I have no business there. on making sure I don’t do I didn’t come with a weight something worth putting in a belt and I’m not a muscular gym fail compilation. person. The weight rooms I think that most people do are my least favorite area of some version of this when they go the g ym and the whole place to a gym; I believe only a minority makes me uncomfortable. of society feels completely They have so many mirrors;
I shouldn’t feel a need to justify my presence by making a face; I shouldn’t pretend like I belong.
they force you to confront yourself. You can’t stare blindly ahead like you would on a stationary bike or a treadmill, you have to squat and stare at your ref lection. I don’t want to stare at myself but I also don’t want to be forced to look at other people. That’s why going to the gym after 4 p.m. is one of my nightmares; I can’t function during peak time. After 4 p.m., using a machine becomes a challenge because there are so many people. Also, as more people lay claim to machines, grunt and pace around, the more insecure I get. I know that this whole idea of mugging at the g ym and the awkwardness and insecurity that comes with it is silly — I shouldn’t feel a need to justif y my presence by making a face; I shouldn’t pretend like I belong. However, I do, and I don’t just do it when I go to the g ym. We all act a certain way to try to look a certain way to fit situations in life. Mostly, because we want acceptance or maybe because of imposter syndrome. But regardless, we shouldn’t ever have these concerns. I should walk into places and situations without so much concern about how I fit in and whether I stick out. I need to get more comfortable taking up space and get over deciding if I belong somewhere. My scrawny arms can use the bench press, I can use the squat rack — I don’t need to explain myself. Just like I don’t need to explain myself or justify my presence in any other situation I find myself in. Corey Dulin can be reached at cydulin@umich.edu.
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Speech and counterspeech
harles Murray — controversial social scientist — delivered a speech on campus Oct. 11, despite somewhat significant protest. This, once again, raises two questions we seem incapable of escaping for the foreseeable political future: What are the limits of free speech, especially on college campuses? And who and what deserves to be protested? To immediately undermine myself, I don’t think free versus censored speech in a traditional sense is actually the interesting question. Murray is allowed to speak on this public university campus, whether or not the University of Michigan’s chapter of College Republicans invite or sponsor him. What we as students, and many of us as activists, seem to be concerned with, though, is whether one should try to silence someone who, at best, walks the line between academic science and racism. There is a distinction — and a majority of college students agree with me — between intentionally offensive rhetoric (such as racial slurs) and legitimate academic discourse, even over contentious topics. My resistance to protests designed to silence one’s opposition applies only to this sort of dialogue, where our primary question can safely be “What best checks speech we disagree with?” In this case, I think the answer is often counterspeech, not protest. One of the forces keeping Murray’s ideas alive well past their expiration date is the allure of dangerous or forbidden ideas. I presume we’ve all met at least one person convinced that feminism is a grand conspiracy against men or that trans rights are just the result of wild liberal overreach. The same principle
applies here: Some faction of people will believe individuals protest Murray’s ideas because they undermine the liberal lie, not because they’re relics from a worse part of our history. A response designed to produce converts, then, meets the ideas of Murray and others like him directly. There is a definite place for general protest and I want to reiterate that this is not a condemnation of those who prefer that method; I only want to argue that when people frame themselves as trying to bring up opposing arguments in a world of political correctness, meeting one idea with another will be more effective than trying to drown them out.
Our primary question should be “What best checks the speech we disagree with?” Physical protections of the University and University security aside, there are few places as well structured for counterspeech as a university. There were several professors among those protesting Murray; would none of them have been willing to make a counterpresentation, debunking Murray’s claim or defending an alternative philosophy? What about our student activists, who have proven themselves in the past to be quite persuasive? A parallel speech would offer interested parties the critical opportunity to show up for, rather than against, something. It’s impossible to guarantee complete safety. One group
divided, though, seems obviously more apt to dissolve into ugliness than two groups looking to be swayed. Each speech’s audience, thus, would be united in their demand from the speaker: Persuade me that you’re right, whether it’s for the first time or the fortieth time. Protest asks whether certain ideas are “permitted”; counterspeech asks what ideas are more persuasive. The ability to mobilize is important, but — and I think this is fairly universal — the end goal is persuasion. Our highly monitored — especially in public spaces — environment here, along with the ideal of academic freedom, creates a safe space for dangerous ideas. What do we have to gain from forfeiting a chance to convert rather than contain? Anger in response to people like Charles Murray is justified, and there are times when containment is the only rational course of action. Enabled here as we are to act politically, however, that anger might more effectively be directed toward winning the conflict of ideas. I don’t think Murray’s claims are hard to succeed against, but one cannot win a debate without first having one. If we are right, what ideological threat does a debate pose? The effectiveness of otherwise feebly constructed arguments comes from their framing. As long as one gives their opposition grounds to claim that they are being silenced for speaking the uncomfortable truth, not for espousing bankrupt ideology, they cede their strongest tool for argument. In the context of a university, winning debates will be more effective than preventing them.
Hank Minor can be reached at hminor@umich.edu.
LUKE JACOBS | COLUMN
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Unjust disruption
ou, sir, are killing us!” event titled “Students and the shouted one of the First Amendment” when the students, as fellow ACLU announced its defense of protesters flashed signs accusing the right for “alt-right” speakers Charles Murray of being a white to march in Charlottesville, Va. supremacist and a Perhaps if the fascist. One went even anger and labels were further, pointing at reserved for neoMurray and accusing Nazis like Richard him of “denying her Spencer, the public existence” since would sympathize she is a woman of more with the color in science. The goal of ridding protesters had been these ideas from driven to disrupt our communities. Murray in large Unfortunately, the LUKE part because of current state of his book “The Bell activism leaves many JACOBS Curve,” which drew Americans to fear correlations between race and that campuses have become IQ and has rightly inspired a lot completely intolerant of opposing of suspicion among academics. ideas. After an Intelligence Yet, to suggest Murray, who Squared debate at Yale University, supports same-sex marriage and 66 percent of the audience agreed is an openly anti-Trump member with the view that free speech is of the Republican Party, is part being threatened on campus, a 17 and parcel of the white nativist percent increase from the tally at movement is beyond a stretch — it the start of the debate. is a lie. According to a Pew Research The disruption of Murray’s poll, four in 10 millennials believe speech at the University the government should be able of Michigan represented a to prevent people from making worrying national trend — statements that are offensive to activists erroneously labeling minority groups, so I shudder the speech of a controversial at the thought of my generation speaker as hateful to prevent a becoming future legislators free exchange of ideas. These who take cues from the activist mischaracterizations harm the movement. They would be very causes activists seek to working on a slippery slope — how bring attention to, by driving can you truly define offensive away legions of supporters from speech if every individual’s moderate students like myself. tolerance level to verbal abuse If they must disrupt speech, differs? While I can understand they would be wiser to target their sympathy for those hurt the outspokenly racist, sexist or by racist speech, I am more “alt-right” ideologues who visit skeptical of the nebulously defined college campuses. microaggression that could nudge Murray is but one example its way into such legislation; of a mislabeled speaker — radio policing this type of language host Ben Shapiro, psychologist would be virtually impossible due Jordan Peterson or even Claire to the limitless ways one can claim Gastañaga, executive director they were targeted. of the American Civil Liberties It is important to understand Union of Virginia, have been the divide in reasoning that some grouped together with the activists seem to have compared genuinely incendiary like Milo to the general public, which Yiannopoulos, or worse, self- widely condemns restrictions proclaimed white nationalists on hate speech. Some who seek like Richard Spencer. All have to restrict speech apparently had their speeches canceled justify their belief with the notion or disrupted despite their only that once words are perceived shared belief being their support to be racist, they are justified for absolute freedom of speech. in restricting it because these Claire Gastañaga was even words can amount to mental prevented from speaking at an and physical violence; in other
words, it seems that those who defend free speech are condoning violence toward others. Since the police and administration aren’t preventing these attacks, it appears that some activists see it as their duty to disrupt supporters of free speech, sometimes resorting to tangible physical violence. This reasoning is flawed. Most students who listen to “controversial” speakers are interested in an intellectual exchange of ideas or a chance to sit in and attempt to understand the ideas of the other side. Yet, at some universities, these curious listeners have had to dodge the fists of radical protesters who equate dialogue or interest in the other side with the same vigor as a line of marching Nazis. Their other equally unjustifiable tactics: blocking entrances, seizing microphones and mocking listeners leads to an atmosphere of fear on campus — but not to their intended targets. Ordinary students are the ones who feel the heat — at Yale University, 42 percent of students and 71 percent of conservative students report that they feel uncomfortable giving their opinion on politics. This fear makes it harder for students to grasp onto their own unique set of political values, for they worry about straying too far from the party line on campus. At the University of Michigan, conservatives have felt this tension in their discussions, firstyear seminars and clubs. After President Donald Trump’s election, hundreds of community members on campus signed a petition in response to an open letter by a student at the University, affirming that they, too, felt unwelcome on campus. We should ensure our campus remains welcoming of these students, and stand up to unwarranted claims that associates them or the speakers they show up to listen to with the same anger directed toward fringe racist elements in our society. Luke Jacobs can be reached at lejacobs@umich.edu.
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FESTIVAL REVIEW
The Alpha Female - Part I
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Diaries from the Chicago Int’l Film Festival: Day 4 DANIEL HENSEL Daily Film Editor
My fourth day of the Chicago International Film Festival featured perhaps both the best and worst of what I’ll see here. At 3:45 p.m. was a press and industry screening of “The Confession,” the followup to Georgian director Zaza Urushadze’s Oscar-nominated “Tangerines” from a few years back. “The Confession” follows a preacher, Giorgi (Dimitri Tatishvili, “Scary Mother”) and his assistant, Valiko (firsttimer Joseph Khvedelidze) as they fill in at a church in a town after the local preacher dies. They bring with them American DVDs and a projector to show in the church, believing that if the townspeople come for the movies, they’ll come to church. The film series begins with “Some Like It Hot,” the 1959 Billy Wilder classic with Marilyn Monroe, leading a number of the villagers to note that one of the women in the village, a music teacher named Lili (Sophia Sebiskveradze, “My Dad’s Girlfriend”), looks an awful lot like the blonde bombshell herself. And sure enough, though she is far from identical, Lili’s styled platinum blonde hair makes a compelling case. Lili and Father Giorgi become friendly, with the preacher encouraging her to come to a confession, where she notes not her sins but rather her place in the village: since her husband’s death, many men lust after her, but she’s not interested in loveless sex. At about 89 minutes, the film moves fairly quickly, aided by an occasionally arresting shot. One of note happens a few times: Father Giorgi, out for an evening walk, finds a solitary Lili, illuminated and alluring, sitting aside a building in a large-scale shot. And there are some occasional laughs, too: One woman, concerned that her dead husband will know she cheated, asks Father Giorgi if spirits know everything. When
he replies yes, she asks, “In detail?” But when the film tries to actually say something, or make an argument, as Urushadze did with success in his previous film, “The Confession” sputters. The dichotomy between modern culture and religious traditions is present, but not dissected in any meaningful way. Father Giorgi went to film school, explaining his love of the medium, and dropped out to become a clergyman. So what? Father Giorgi feels torn between his lust and love for Lili and his promise to remain celibate. So what? The cardinal sin, though, is the film’s finale. It would be unfair to ruin the “surprise,” but it should suffice that the film’s inclusion of a (false) female accusation of sexual assault is not only eerily repulsive given the recent scandal out of Hollywood involving producer Harvey Weinstein, but it also feeds a meninist nightmare to the point of propagandizing a vile hatred of women. I’m not one to dislike a movie for the ideas it depicts or proselytizes — hell, I’m a Jew who admires the craft of “The Triumph of the Will” — but Urushadze’s inclusion of the plot point, whether it was to articulate an idea or simply a method of moving the story forward, feels rather putrid. “Lady Bird,” the solo directing debut of writer and actor Greta Gerwig (“20th Century Women”), is a fictionalized autiobiography. In other words, little to nothing that happens to high school senior Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (an excellent Saoirse Ronan, “Brooklyn”) actually happened to Gerwig, but the film captures a spirit. Lady Bird, who gave herself the name, is an academically floundering and rebellious senior at a Catholic girls’ school in Sacramento. She dreams of going to college at an elite school on the east coast, but her family can hardly afford it (and her grades barely merit it). Roughly spanning the school year, we witness Lady Bird’s
first loves, her experience in theater, parties, prom. Gerwig’s screenplay brilliantly swings between the heights of comedic achievement and the emotional caverns of anxiety, stress, growing up and everything else. Films about adolescence often live or die by their casts. Fortunately, the actors behind “Lady Bird” are some of the most accomplished of their generation. Chicago theater legends Tracy Letts (“WienerDog”) and Laurie Metcalf, who just won a Tony for her performance in “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” are pitch-perfect as the parents of the household, navigating the struggles of raising a rebellious, sometimes insolent, daughter and grappling with their financial woes, and their Steppenwolf partner, Lois Smith (“The Nice Guys”), is authoritative and superbly funny as Lady Bird’s Catholic School’s mother superior. Lucas Hedges (“Manchester by the Sea”) and Timothée Chalamet (“Interstellar”), who play two of Lady Bird’s love interests, nail the sexual anxiety and performative coolness of youthful rebellion, respectively, better than any of their contemporaries. Beanie Feldstein (“Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising”) is so funny as Lady Bird’s friend Julie that I actually snorted in the theater. Gerwig, who has been the creative force behind a number of great films that explore the lives of rambunctious young women, has arrived as a director. She can keep her distance, letting characters live in the scene without a forceful intrusion of the camera. But she can also be tender, nailing dramatic moments with just as much force and ease as the comedy. Granted, a film that takes place in and is something of an ode to the writer-director’s hometown (in this case, Sacramento, Calif.) can often be good precisely because the filmmaker has spent so much time thinking about how to shoot the city. But “Lady Bird” is no standard debut and audiences should already anticipate what she has to offer next.
I’m writing this from the Law Library, where every seat at my table is filled by a girl. Different races, ages and majors, various laptop stickers and textbooks — all of these girls are intensely studying and focused. I’m empowered by this sight. Never at my time here at the University have I sat at only a table of women, with no words shared, but just studied and learned independently. They look tough and determined, and they make me want to be the same. As an advocate for female empowerment and feminism, I’ve dabbled with the idea and definition of “the alpha female.” Seemingly, based off context clues, the girls around me sure look like they would be in this category. Those type of women exist, because the alpha male exists as well, so I could not help but soak up the divine feminine power around me and do some research. From Dictionary.com, the definitions for alpha male and alpha female remarkably different. The alpha male is defined as both “a male animal having the highest rank in a dominance hierarchy” and “the leader of the pack, being the most dominant, powerful, or assertive person in a particular group.” Despite the word in terms of the animal kingdom, I found this definition to be appropriate for the human alpha male, with a nice use of characteristics like “highest rank,” “leader,” “dominant,” “powerful” and “assertive.” I had no suspicion in this definition, but it wasn’t until I searched my sex’s definition when things got
I’m writing this from the Law Library, where every seat at my table is filled by a girl. Different races, ages and majors, various laptop stickers and textbooks
frustrating. The website gives two definitions and terms for what I was searching: alpha female and alpha girl. Alpha
female is defined as “the dominant female animal in a pack,” meanwhile alpha girl is defined as “the dominant or primary girl within a group, esp. one who bullies.” This boils my blood. What is it about an alpha female that can’t be defined, like the alpha male, as “highest rank,” “leader,” “powerful” or “assertive”? We get two adjectives (dominant and primary) and a noun ( bully), and they’re all crap. In silence, I watch the women surrounding me, punching away at their keyboards, vigorously highlighting and memorizing, that are powerful and contain glimpses of qualities of alpha females. It’s these actions that demonstrate hard woman at work in a space that once
ERIKA SHEVCHEK did not allow women at all. Collectively, we paint a glorious image of taking back what is ours: the right to an education and the right to sit where we please. It’s important to notice, also, the energ y difference between a table of all woman and a table with all men and one woman. That one female is still strong in her own, being the representative for all of us in her scenario. But in most cases, that position can feel lonely or uncomfortable. Yet the idea of these women and I sitting here, together, is evidently compelling –– we are dominant because we are together. I am comfortable, I am focused, I am invigorated by the idea that we’ve all sat here enriching our education and working our asses off for about four hours. There was an unspoken supportive energ y that was shared among us. It’s the same feeling I got when I used to practice with my women’s swim team, the same feeling I got when I walked through the Diag for the Women’s March and the same feeling I get every day when I come home to my house with six other female roommates. I believe women, especially those that are alpha females, emit an energ y that is best received by other women. It’s those women that bring all of us together, reminding us of our place and our value.
If a boy sat down next to me, it wouldn’t make me or any of these women less of alpha females. We wouldn’t glare at him with hatred or disgust. We’d embrace it, recognizing that he belongs here equally as much as we do and vice versa. No, maybe not all of these girls at the table are alpha females. They might not all lead their groups or are socially adept or rule with an iron fist. But who am I to say who is an alpha female and who is not? Clearly, there isn’t even a valid definition to prove any of this (thanks, Dictionary.com). I know one important thing, however: every female and every individual identifying as a female is strong in her own way. We sit here, individually in our own worlds and our own focus, but this table alone represents the future of supportive and successful females. Author Vanessa Van Edwards gives her own definition of an alpha female: “Female alpha-hood is not like pregnancy (you are or you aren’t). It is more of a spectrum. Some women have a high tendency to be alpha. They enjoy social conducting, being the leader and/or the center of attention. Some
We sit here, individually in our own worlds and our own focus, but this table alone represents the future of supportive and successful females
women only like being female alpha’s in their home, but not in the business environment. Some women are only social alphas around certain groups of friends.” One of my fellow female students at the table gets up to leave, when quickly, another girl replaces her spot. Hopefully, regardless of her alpha female-ness, she’s feeding into and receiving this same powerhouse energ y that I feel. She replaced the seat of those before her, and she represents the future of strong women to come.
STUDENT PERFORMANCE REVIEW
‘One Hit Wonder’ brought breathtaking charm to AA TRINA PAL
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The minute I sat down in my seat I was captivated. I didn’t know what I expected: a production that described itself as a “pop / rock jukeboxmusical about music, love and second chances” was bound to be full of energy, nostalgic hits and blinding color. But the School of Music, Theatre and Dance’s “One Hit Wonder” was so much more. “One Hit Wonder” is a story of high-school sweethearts Rick (played by Senior Musical Theatre major Noah Kieserman) and Ashley (played by Junior Musical Theatre major Leanne Antonio) who had a f leeting taste of fame in their teen years after winning Battle of the Bands at their
high school. The song they composed, “One Hit Wonder,” is predictably at the heart of the entire musical plot. Their song is just that: the night after performing, Rick and Ashley break up and the band fizzles out. After leading separate lives for almost two decades, a video of Rick and Ashley singing their hit song goes viral, and both decide to take advantage of the second chance. Thus begins the whirlwind story of pride, heartbreak and rekindled love. The musical is one of the newest creations of Jeremy Desmon, an award-winning musical theatre bookwriter whose previous works include “Good News” and “Pump Up The Volume,” both of which received rave reviews from the New York Times. “One Hit Wonder” was produced in collaboration with The Arca Group, an esteemed Broadway
production company, and was directed by Hunter Foster, a graduate of the University’s SMTD and a Tony awardnominated Broadway actor. “One Hit Wonder” adds a cutesy twist to its plot –– each song performed was once a real one-hit wonder. The opening act thrust its energy onto the stage so suddenly that the audience gasped. Rick, wearing the iconic Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon shirt, black jeans and an unbuttoned plaid shirt ran onto the stage, followed by his fans from the dive bar where he plays every night. His fans circled around the bottom of the stage while Rick, sweat already dripping down his face, belted out a high tempo rendition of “Closing Time,” originally performed by the American-rock band Semisonic in the late ’90s. Strobe lights
f lashed around the theatre, and Rick’s bassist Gunner (played by Musical Theatre major Elliott Styles) jammed with all
The musical is one of the newest creations of Jeremy Desmon, an award-winning musical theatre bookwriter
the charisma of a rock star. By the time the number ended, I
had been transported from the Lydia Mendelssohn theatre to a rock concert. It was hard to tell who was cheering more –– the actors playing Rick’s fans or the audience. And this level of passion and exuberance never died down. The performance continued with a beautiful rendition of the famous “Walking on Sunshine,” originally performed by Katrina & The Waves, in which Ashley celebrated her new position as a partner of the Dunham, Parker & Lutz accounting firm. Her powerful voice stunned the audience; whoops and hollers sounded from the balcony above me. Ashley responded, dazzling the audience with her liveliness. Right before the intermission, a slowed down and somber rendition of “Rescue Me,” originally performed by Fontella Bass, provided a perfect break from
the exhilarating first half. The real genius of “One Hit Wonder” lies in the humor. Actors performed the classic “What is Love?” by Haddaway after the intermission with a clever spin. Stewart, Ashley’s ex-boyfriend (played by Musical Theatre major Simon Longnight) lamented the loss of his girlfriend. Ashley, dressed in sweats and clasping a beer bottle, fumed about Rick’s hook-up with pop singer Mercy Faith, played by Musical Theatre major Grace Bydalek. Rick, shirtless and handcuffed to a bed frame by Mercy, belted out in a panic, “Baby don’t hurt me / Don’t hurt me / No more.” The interplay of these three scenarios, all occuring at the same time but meaning very different things, had the audience roaring with laughter. It’s rare to find a musical that excels like “One Hit Wonder.”
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St. Vincent straddles the What ‘Broad City’ gets coasts in her latest record right about depression Time Square with her friend in “Happy Birthday, Johnny,” the Daily Music Editor loss she feels in the tear of that St. Vincent is a fabrication. friendship is inexorably tied to It’s a creation slowly built those buildings. She sings him and carved by Annie Clark, a happy New Year and the ball project that came to resemble drops for them both, far apart a human but wasn’t entirely as they may be. meant to be. The name itself When she’s on the other suggests the unreal, like the coast, she’s singing about abstraction taken from an icon, longing too, but it’s more a wistful sense lustful there, and of the holy that bit cheeky. On MASSEDUCTION a“Los never was and Ageless,” isn’t still. That she’s grinning at ST. Vincent it’s Annie’s face the superficial Loma Vista which graces desires of that the cover of over city. It’s a story half St. Vincent’s of wants in studio albums is beside the Hollywood, this dying yearn for point: They share the same face, youthful perfection that will but St. Vincent is the image, forever remain unattainable: Annie the person. Clark likes “How can anybody have you? to play with that line between / How can anybody have you the persona and the person, and lose you?” That song and but no matter how sweetly that city are a degree separated she has danced between the from reality. Los Ageless two, she still makes it known isn’t a place, and whoever or that it’s a performance. That whatever you take the “you” creation has been her appeal as, it’s gone regardless. Like to universality, and her Chloes that illusion, the song itself and Johnnys, her “You”s and is overly concocted, complete “I”s are all characters in this with the ’80s drum pattern world building. and synths signature of pop On MASSEDUCTION, producer Jack Antonoff, who her fifth album, the tension co-produced this album. This between Annie and St. formula appears all throughout Vincent dominates. It means MASSEDUCTION, and it can everything and still it’s more be relentless in its forced smile. unclear than ever before. Of course that’s the point, but That’s St. Vincent on stage it can make for a less than bemoaning the seduction of gratifying listen. “Los Ageless” the masses. There’s the created never really goes anywhere. It image fearing the future. And hardly wavers from the straight yet, when we move beyond the line laid out by its chorus. plastic surgery she both mocks We can read the tension coyly and wears herself, there’s between St. Vincent and Annie an unflagging clarity that feels Clark through the tension new. between the two coasts, Never has she made a and this album rides these song like “New York.” Never two modes: She alternates has she felt so naked; never between the plastic of San has her songwriting been Bernardino and the wrought so simply beautiful, so free confessional of the concrete of alien metaphor, straight- jungle. Loneliness and loss talking yet poetic all the same. move between these coasts, Here, she sings to a friend certainly, but the separation about definitions, about what between the cities defines how a city means when those she processes these feelings. In who made it everything are New York she looks inwards; in gone. Loss is consuming on Los Angeles she looks outwards MASSEDUCTION. (and isn’t too impressed). “New York” is the heart of MASSEDUCTION is very much this album, and so is the city. about flying between them. This is an album of love within The stretch from “Pills” a disease — within powerful to “Los Ageless” is that West addictions and temptations coast concern for the outward. that rip people apart. And when The seductions she tackles she’s talking about love, she’s are broader and more of the talking about New York. Her masses, as the album title relationships mold that city, suggests. There aren’t the and when she walks through hyper-specific moments we get MATT GALLATIN
on the tracks about New York, like that hotel room where Johnny lights up his Bic lighter in “Happy Birthday, Johnny.” Instead we have abstractions; in the title track she sings of “A punk rock romantic” and “Nuns in stress position.” On “Pills,” she dances to a chipper club beat while describing a pill-induced haze that could be anyone’s. She sounds almost celebratory, and she gets away with it because she’s right there in it too, seduced by the drugs and technology herself. She avoids what easily could have been a gratingly haughty tone. This slew of songs is the most upbeat on the album, and St. Vincent hardly lets up the guise. They’re interesting thought experiments, but they can grow a bit tiresome as they push farther in the album, almost monotonous. When that sound reappears as late as “Fear the Future,” it’s nearly exhausting. It’s what makes those New York tracks so stunning, such breaths of fresh air among all the sickness. For a while we’re not sure whether the two sides of this album will ever truly meet: drug- and sex- fueled nights lead into confessionals without a clear sense of narrative. It’s not until the end that we see MASSEDUCTION as a single story, on the closing track, “Smoking Section.” The song is an absolute triumph. It brings the unresolved ends to light, and the apparent contradictions are explained. St. Vincent draws a sketch of someone on the edge, someone who sees how easily it could all burst into flames and kind of likes it, maybe wants it to happen. “Let it happen,” she sings. And yet she doesn’t. By the end she decides, “It’s not the end,” though it very well could have been. The track moves slowly, explodes, recoils and does it all over, like the turns this album makes track by track. It’s a glam rock ballad about pop suicide, which she contemplates like a dark game on her stage, waiting for someone to light her up. But she doesn’t want to step over that edge. She stays behind it, toying with her own destruction, reveling in the seduction all the same.
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“Broad City” has been back for its fourth season for a little over a month, and the season might be its best yet. Creators and stars Abbi Jacobson (“Portlandia”) and Ilana Glazer (“Rough Night”) know their show’s past well, often winking to moments in previous seasons, but they don’t let their characters remain stagnant. Abbi was working as an assistant to an ad executive (hilariously played by Wanda Sykes (“Bad Moms”)) before getting fired in a shrooms-related incident. Ilana gets a job in an upscale sushi restaurant, managed by Marcel (Ru Paul, “Ru Paul’s Drag Race”), where she is making the most money she’s ever had. Each character also loses some baggage from previous seasons: Ilana reached closure with Lincoln in a bathroom after shitting herself; Abbi left things on a positive note with Trey after training Shania Twain (yet another amazing guest star) and breaking his penis. And even though the show isn’t saying Trump’s name audibly, this season — the first to take place in winter, and under Trump’s administration — doesn’t shy away from the current state of affairs. In one episode, the pair escorts women in and out of a Planned Parenthood, eventually blowing a vape cloud into the face of an angry protester, thus changing his view on the
topic (obviously). In another, Ilana complains about the decreasing quality of cell reception and subway service since “becoming a fascist state.” None of this is especially new for the show as it has leaned into the woke, white-girl stoner sitcom we know it as today, but “Broad City” took its approach to new levels last week, devoting almost an entire episode to Ilana’s struggle with depression. Titled “Abbi’s Mom,” the episode opens with Abbi preparing for a visit from her mother while Ilana struggles to overcome her mounting depression, made worse by Seasonal Affective Disorder. Ilana is struggling to give Abbi her attention, sitting quiet and distant before turning on her SAD lamp and popping back into her signature boisterous style. She has been steadily lowering her dosage of antidepressants (a goal she set in the second season’s finale) and is relying on the SAD lamp to make it through the winter. The remainder of the episode plays out while Abbi and her mom (Peri Gilpin, “Fraiser”) dine at Sushi Mambeaux, where Marcel has cancelled the evening’s tips pool and promises to fire the server who earns the least and give all the tips to the server who earns the most. Emphasizing how depression doesn’t care about or stop for life, even when your job is on the line, Ilana spends half of her shift in a storage closet hugging her SAD lamp and the other half struggling to make it through customer
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interactions. The show’s approach conveys the experience of crippling depression so well by taking the internal symptoms and placing them in plain view. Through special effects, scenes where Ilana is struggling to do her duties play out the overwhelming feeling of a depressive episode — that feeling of being slightly removed from your present — shown by slight slow-mo and the echoing of her customer’s requests. My therapist uses the metaphor of walking through peanut butter to visualize the struggle of everyday life with depression, but this episode acknowledges that sometimes you aren’t only walking through peanut butter, but sometimes you’re swimming through it, using all of your mental will power to move, breathe and exist. As her shift progresses, Ilana has to up the intensity of her SAD lamp, lining the closet with tin foil, bringing in the kitchen’s meat lamp and finally switching to a higher wattage bulb. When Abbi swaps the bulb, Ilana slowly rises out of a fetal position, relishing in the lamp’s sweet relief. But as is with most ineffective coping mechanisms, all the time and energy put into it is a waste, as they blow one of the restaurant’s fuses. Band-Aid fixes to depression — or any mental health problem — feel good in the moment but won’t change your situation, as exemplified by Ilana’s lamp.
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Hua bests teammate Knight to capture singles title at ITA Midwest Regionals JUSTIN FANNON For the Daily
This weekend, the Michigan men’s tennis team hosted this year’s edition of the ITA Midwest Regionals with a bid to the 2017 ITA Fall Championships at stake. In the quarterfinals, Michigan senior Alex Knight, ranked 51st nationally, faced off against Ohio State freshman John McNally with a chance at a spot in the semifinals. McNally was the No. 1 recruit in the nation coming out of high school and played in three of four junior Grand Slams before entering the Buckeyes’ freshman class, making it as far as the Round of 16 at Wimbledon and the doubles quarterfinals at the French Open. Knight, a former blue-chip recruit ranked as high as No. 5 nationally, fought well in the most high-profile match in the tournament. With the majority of the men’s team out in early rounds, Knight struggled at first against the talented Ohio State freshman, with all attempts to break serve thwarted. He faced a break of his serve in the first set’s game four but managed to stave off McNally. Knight regained momentum and broke McNally in the eighth game, eventually taking the set, 6-4. Knight’s second set was remarkably easy, as he stomped to a 6-1 set victory to take the match. Knight’s teammates, senior Runhao Hua and freshman Mattias Siimar, also faced tough competition in the quarterfinals. Hua was pitted against No. 104 Alex Lebedev, who had previously made the doubles semifinals in the tournament. Hua jumped out to a first set lead, winning 6-4, but struggled early in the second set against Lebedev. He fell behind 1-3, before ultimately dropping the
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Senior Runhao Hua competed against his doubles partner for the singles title and came away with the tournament win.
set 3-6. But in the third set, Hua broke his opponent early and took a commanding 3-0 lead, ultimately resulting in a dominant set and match, which ended 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Siimar came up against an eventual semifinalist in Ohio State’s Martin Joyce. He took the first set 7-6, despite some controversy with calls overturned by the court umpire. Siimar had a chance to break and take the second set at 6-5, but he was unable to muster the points. The second set went to a relatively uncompetitive tiebreaker, with Joyce dominating 6-7 (3) and taking the set. After two grueling sets, Siimar managed to get an early break on Joyce, but nothing materialized out of the positive momentum, and the third set ultimately resulted in a 2-6 thrashing with the match point sealed on an
unfortunate net foul. “I’m thrilled, but we obviously wanted three (in the semifinals),” said Michigan coach Adam Steinberg. “Alex had a great win against (McNally), one of the best of his career.” Both Alex Knight and teammate Runhao Hua progressed to the semifinals, and ultimately faced each other in the singles final. Hua took the final and the title, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4). Both Knight and Hua also competed together in doubles and managed to progress to the final against Wisconsin’s duo of Chema Carranza and Josef Dodridge. Together, Hua and Knight had played in about a dozen matches previously, and the physical toll showed on the court against the Badgers. The Wolverines jumped out to a strong 7-5 first set victory, but they could not put away their challengers. They were
broken early in the second set and the Badgers duo served out the second set comfortably, winning 3-6. In the final frame of the doubles final, the tension increased and each duo broke serve points and dropped served points, but the Badgers managed to pull out a 10-12 victory and the doubles title for Wisconsin. Steinberg said Monday that it was a great performance for the team and that it was especially good to gain experience against both national and international players who compete in major tournaments on a global stage. “Our guys need to experience that as much as possible,” he said. The Wolverines managed to secure one title, and they will take away a wealth of experience against conference rivals and other nationallyranked competitors that will only further prepare them for conference play in January.
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‘M’ keeps season alive ARIA GERSON For the Daily
Just after they were honored for Senior Night on Saturday, seven Wolverine seniors took the field knowing it could be the last home game of their collegiate careers. Coming off a three-game losing streak, the Michigan women’s soccer team knew one loss would eliminate it from a Big Ten Tournament spot. The game got off to an inconspicuous start for both teams. Both teams had scoring chances, but neither managed to find the back of the net. And with eight minutes to go in the first half, frustrations boiled over, as fifth-year senior midfielder Ani Sarkisian got into a fight with an Illinois player. The incident didn’t seem to have a tangible effect at first. Both players were issued yellow cards and play resumed. But it seemed to give Michigan a spark, as soon afterward, it caught fire. While the two teams were tied at halftime in shots and fouls, in the second half, the Wolverines (2-4-3 Big Ten, 5-5-6 overall) looked dominant, holding Illinois (2-7-0, 5-12-0) to just three shots the rest of the game en route to a 3-0 victory. “We regrouped in the locker room and realized … if we wanted to win this game we had to give 100 percent,” Sarkisian said. “We went out there and got the job done.” Michigan’s aggressiveness in the second half paid off. In the game’s 69th minute, junior midfielder Abby Kastroll took the ball downfield into the penalty area on a breakaway. Junior forward Reilly Martin did the rest, knocking one past the Illinois goalkeeper from 12 yards out. In that moment, senior goalkeeper Sarah Jackson put her hands up in celebration from the other end of the field as the ball sailed into the opposing net. Jackson’s gesture was both a celebration and a signal to her team to not let up. “Next five minutes, don’t let
down. If you let down, you give the other team a chance to get right back in,” Jackson said. “We’ve been waiting for that breakthrough.” “Our main goal was to try and attack as much as we could,” said Michigan coach Greg Ryan. “We knew a tie wouldn’t do us any good, so our focus was just to go after them. As the game went along, we really caught our stride. Tonight was the first night where I thought … there was just a consistent level of understanding connection and attacking.” Not long after, Michigan was awarded a penalty kick after an Illinois handball infraction. Sarkisian took the kick — and promptly scored to give her team crucial breathing room with a twogoal lead. And with just 30 seconds remaining in the game, Kastroll again snuck through on a breakaway with no defenders in sight and scored another goal, putting the finishing touches on an incredibly important win for the Wolverines. The Fighting Illini countered with an opportunity of their own, but Jackson fell on it just as time expired, securing the shutout for her team. One would have to go back to September to find the last time the Wolverines got a shutout, in a 0-0 draw with Wake Forest. “Getting (the shutout),” Jackson said, “was really special.” For Jackson and fellow senior goalkeeper Megan Hinz, combining for the shutout on Senior Night made the night feel even more special. “Sarah and I have been training together for four years and you couldn’t ask for a better … teammate,” Hinz said. “To be able to share this with her is just unreal.” With a win against Rutgers next week needed for the chance at a spot in the Big Ten Tournament, Hinz feels the team is finally clicking at the right time. “We’re meshing really well,” she said. “We’re having fun but working so hard, and I think we’re in a good place to give it our all.”
No. 4 Michigan takes Series takeaways: Underclassmen rise to down No. 7 Louisville occasion, power play struggles continue FIELD HOCKEY
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After clinching the regular season Big Ten championship, the No. 4 Michigan field hockey team continued its season-long string of success against elite competition by beating No. 7 Louisville, 6-2. The Wolverines, who haven’t lost since Sept. 8, wasted no time showing the fans at the Marshall Center which of the two postseason-bound squads was the superior one. Two minutes into the game, the Cardinals’ goalkeeper Ayeisha McFerran deflected senior midfielder Katie Trombetta’s corner shot, but freshman defender Halle O’Neill recovered the rebound and shot the ball into the bottom of the goal. Two of the Wolverines’ three goals in the first half resulted from penalty corners in which Michigan took advantage of the chaos in the Louisville defense to score. “Both of my assists were off two corners,” Trombetta said. “I think that they were both great corner calls from the coaches, and on the first one, Halle did a great job of just staying low and getting to the ball no matter what.” The Wolverines scored three times on goalkeeper-deflected balls, including a goal by Emma Way in the 10th minute. The junior forward danced her way through a crowd of Cardinals defenders in the box and waltzed right past Louisville’s goalkeeper for an easy finish. Louisville wasn’t able to find much success against the Michigan back line. Although the Wolverines allowed two goals — above their season average of 0.81 allowed per
game — one came after three consecutive penalty corners. “They just played with a lot of heart and they defended really well,” said Michigan coach Marcia Pankratz. “Their transition from attack to defense and vice versa was excellent. They lead hard, double team hard for each other and did all those little things that matter.” Arguably the best of the six goals of the game occurred in the 40th minute. Trombetta streaked down the field and fired a pass toward the stick of fifth-year senior forward Carly Bennett. But rather than picking her stick up, the forward laid her stick down, angled it slightly upwards and didn’t move. The result — much like many of Michigan’s shots Sunday — was a score. “That’s actually a play that the corner offense has been practicing for a while,” Bennett said. “We kind of established that that would be an open play in this game. We’ve been practicing it a lot, and Katie’s shooting has been really on for us lately. She scored the winning goal at Northwestern, so all of us as a corner unit were saying ‘Do this exactly how we practiced.’ Katie set me up with the perfect pass, and it worked.” While the game did not have any regular season implications for the Wolverines, Michigan faced a Louisville foe akin to many of the elite teams it may see in the postseason. “It’s always great to play a good team like Louisville,” Pankratz said. “There are still things we want to improve on before the tournament starts next weekend. They’re also an in-region team, so beating another team in our region certainly helps us for the NCAA Tournament.”
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Following an opening weekend split, the Michigan hockey team (3-1) came back from a short break with newfound energy, going on to sweep Vermont (2-3) this weekend with 4-1 and 3-2 victories on Friday and Saturday night, respectively. The Daily highlights four key takeaways from the series, including the areas the Wolverines excelled and the areas the team needs to improve before Michigan travels to Penn State for its first Big Ten series of the season. Underclassmen steadily rising to the occasion In Friday night’s home opener, freshman forward Josh Norris scored two goals to put the game out of reach. Fewer than 24 hours later, sophomore forward Jake Slaker converted two of his own to complete a comeback victory over the Catamounts and the Wolverines’ first weekend sweep of the season. Michigan’s average age of 20 years and 324 days is the third youngest in Division I. But that doesn’t stop the underclassmen from stepping up, and it doesn’t stop coach Mel Pearson from depending on them in big moments. “We’re relying on sophomores and freshmen and a few seniors to lead us,” Pearson said following Saturday’s matchup. Through solid and consistent play from the likes of Slaker, Norris, sophomore forward Will Lockwood and freshman defenseman Quinn Hughes, the youngsters look to be guiding the team — a silver-lining to the obvious issue of certain upperclassmen underperforming thus far in the season. Power play struggles continue Though the Wolverines eked out two wins this weekend, their inability to capitalize on the power play persists. After going 2-for-5
with a man advantage in its first regular season game against St. Lawrence, Michigan has gone a collective 0-for-17 on the power play in its last three contests. For a team that finished 17th nationally on the power play just last year, the Wolverines went 0-for-9 this weekend and surrendered a shorthanded goal to Vermont in Friday’s slate. While Pearson has stressed special teams early in the season, the coach admitted that continuing to emphasize power plays in practice will be crucial to the team’s success moving forward. “We need to simplify things,” Pearson said. “We get a little too cute and don’t get many shots. … We need to move the puck quicker and get in sync a little bit. We were a little out of sync, but that’s up to me and that’s my responsibility and we’ve got enough good players and skill players, so we should be converting. But we’ll get there.” Strong goaltending keeps Wolverines in contests With three goals allowed this
weekend, sophomores Hayden Lavigne and Jack LaFontaine proved that Michigan has a sturdy backbone. Most notably, Lavigne notched his first win for the Wolverines in a 28-save performance Saturday. The two goaltenders, who are splitting time for the first eight games of the season, boasted a total 43 saves with a .936 average save percentage over the weekend. “Two good goalies in both Hayden and Jack,” said sophomore forward Adam Winborg. “… As long as we do our job in front of them, they’re there, so they’ll always give us a chance to win the games.” While the Wolverines’ defense allowed just 16 and 30 shots Friday and Saturday, respectively, the duo still wasn’t fazed, making both routine and clever saves in the crease to ensure Michigan victories. Early roadblocks appear late in games During Friday night’s matchup, the Wolverines let 16 shots fly in the first period, none of them
finding the back of the net. They came back with another 16 in the second period, this time with two goals to show for it — albeit late in the period. On Saturday, Michigan took 15 shots in the first and second periods combined, with only one goal to show for it. What seemed like such highoctane starts to both games still didn’t give the Wolverines a dominant grip on the match. However, the four combined goals in the third periods of both matchups proved that Michigan offense’s relentless pursuit of the net takes time, but is ultimately lethal. “I’m happy for them,” Pearson said. “It’s good they get rewarded for staying with the game plan and hanging in there. And our third periods have been pretty good this year so far.” Going up against stronger opponents, though, the Wolverines will have to net these shots early if they want momentum on its side when it matters most.
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TED JANES
Daily Sports Writer
Two Saturdays ago, redshirt junior offensive lineman Juwann Bushell-Beatty came off the bench against Michigan State. The Wolverines were trailing 14-3, and nothing was going right for Michigan’s offensive line. Redshirt sophomore Nolan Ulizio started at right tackle, and he continued to get beat. The Spartans’ larger, more physical defensive front kept pounding at Ulizio, and Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh saw that it was necessary to bring on a substitute. Enter Bushell-Beatty. Sure enough, Michigan State got another sack just a few drives later. Michigan’s offensive line couldn’t hold off the Spartans’ pressure, and over the course of that game, fifth-year senior quarterback John O’Korn was sacked four times. Saturday night at No. 2 Penn State, the problem persisted: O’Korn was sacked seven times. The offensive line has been penetrable against ranked opponents this season, but there is one area in which it has grown. It finally found its fifth man. The right tackle position had gone back and forth all season. Sometimes Ulizio played, sometimes BushellBeatty came in, and other times redshirt junior Jon Runyan entered the fray. But since coming off the bench against Michigan State, BushellBeatty has started in every game. Still, the switch hasn’t kept O’Korn upright. “He’s in there playing, being available, being durable,” Harbaugh said. “(Bushell-Beatty’s) play has improved, and striving to be even better.” Harbaugh said that he wouldn’t use the word “well” to describe the offensive line’s performance against Penn State — after all, the team lost. But there were components of the line’s play he thought were good nonetheless. “After watching the tape, the line played very physical,” Harbaugh said. “Their performance had
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Redshirt junior right tackle Juwann Bushell-Beatty has earned a starting spot.
some really good things and some things we’d like to have done better. Juwann, being part of that line, I really thought he matched up physically and really fought hard.” Bushell-Beatty’s consistency is one of those “good things” that Harbaugh talked about. One advantage Bushell-Beatty has over many of his teammates is experience. It’s his fourth season with the team. He redshirted the year that Michigan went 5-7 in 2014. Though he wasn’t playing that year, he learned how valuable it is to face and overcome adversity. Now that Michigan has suffered its second loss of the season, Bushell-Beatty hopes his teammates can embrace the same mindset that he did a few years ago. “Although we may not want to learn through (a loss), it can teach us a lot,” Bushell-Beatty said. “It helps you shape yourself as a player. Winning every game doesn’t really teach you anything. “It may be nice, but when you learn from losing games and trying to come back from upsets
and disappointing events in your season, it teaches you to refocus and re-compartmentalize what you have in mind.” Bushell-Beatty found that all out early in his career, and now he’s seeing it all again. A Big Ten championship and a spot in the College Football Playoff — Michigan’s goals at the start of the year — won’t come without outside help. “Things aren’t necessarily in our hands anymore,” BushellBeatty said. But the Wolverines need to play as if their fate still is in their hands. Bushell-Beatty took on that mentality individually four years ago, and the dividends are just starting to show. He’s getting more playing time than ever and improving each week. He relishes the fact that the outcome may not always turn out the way he wants. “I want it to be a challenge,” Bushell-Beatty said. “I don’t want everything to be handed to me that easily.”
The plan was for Brandon Peters to get the ball in garbage time. With just over three minutes remaining in the blowout Saturday night, Penn State took over possession. Backup quarterback Tommy Stevens kept the ball for an 11-yard rush on the first play of the series. The ball came free, and Michigan seemingly recovered the fumble. Upon further review, though, Stevens was ruled down, and the Nittany Lions killed the clock from there. On Monday afternoon, Jim Harbaugh said that if the call had not been overturned, Michigan’s redshirt freshman quarterback would have led the Wolverines’ final offensive series. That doesn’t mean much, if anything at all. Harbaugh said nothing Monday that would suggest fifth-year senior John O’Korn is no longer the Wolverines’ starter. “I won’t go into everything, but he managed the game very well, got everything communicated, ran the offense very well,” Harbaugh said of O’Korn’s performance at Penn State. “There was some duress and some plays that we could have made, et cetera. (We’ll) go back and look at it. That’s what we’re in the process of doing. (There was) some good, kind of a theme for our offense. There were some (missed opportunities) out there as well.” The outside clamor for Peters has escalated throughout the year, and the 42-13 loss to the Nittany Lions — a game in which
O’Korn averaged six yards per attempt with a fumble — has pushed that din to excess. Harbaugh did say Peters has been improving since he began taking backup snaps in the wake of redshirt junior quarterback Wilton Speight’s injury. But based on Harbaugh’s comments, the clamor is just that. While the progress is there, the starting job — as the situation currently stands — is not. For Peters to see time on the field this year, it appears that Michigan will need to establish comfortable leads or find itself in insurmountable deficits. And with an offense that ranks 98th in pass offense, that first hypothetical does not fall in the redshirt freshman’s favor. As for the players’ own outlook, there is no discrepancy. “Kind of a little tidbit from Coach Harbaugh, I don’t like to compare people because someone gets demoted in the comparison,” said junior wide receiver Grant Perry. “But they’re both great guys; they’re both great leaders. But Brandon is learning from John and John is learning from Brandon, and that’s just kind of the scheme of things — people learning from each other.” Added fifth-year senior fullback Henry Poggi: “Brandon’s been developing really well. I remember when he came in for spring ball his freshman year. He’s just really grown from
there. He’s going to be a really good player for us.” The quarterback controversy, of course, is not new. Speight faced his fair share of criticism prior to sustaining a hit against Purdue on Sept. 23 that left him with three cracked vertebrae. Harbaugh never confirmed that the injury would rule Speight out for the season, but did address Speight’s status Monday afternoon, drawing from his own experience in 1984 when he missed an entire season after breaking his arm against Michigan State. “First and foremost, get healthy,” Harbaugh said. “That’s where you concentrate most of your efforts. That’s where most of his efforts are being concentrated. Every single minute of the day he’s getting treatment they tell me, the doctors and trainers. He’s at practice; I know he’s chomping at the bit. The bones healing back together, that takes time.” Added fifth-year senior running back Ty Isaac: “I talk to (Wilton) all the time. (He’s) just dealing with an injury like anybody else would. You’ve gotta rehab and work to get back, and I know how bad he wants to keep playing right now, so I don’t think his spirits are diminished at all. He’s got a task at hand right now, even though it’s not playing for us, it’s getting healthy so he can get back on the field.” Whether Speight does get back on the field this season remains to be seen. And until then, the outside noise will continue to surround the man under center for the Wolverines. But taking Harbaugh’s comments into consideration, it’s just noise.
They’re both great guys; they’re both great leaders
I won’t go into everything, but he managed the game very well
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Fifth-year senior quarterback John O’Korn’s job is not in question after the blowout according to coach Jim Harbaugh.
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