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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks as part of her book tour at Hill Auditorium Tuesday.
On book tour, Hillary Clinton talks fake news, Russia and 2016 election Hill Auditorium full to hear former presidential candidate reflect on campaign challenges ALEXA ST. JOHN
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On Nov. 8, 2016, Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election. With opponent — and now-president — Donald Trump receiving 304 electoral votes, and a year’s worth of work on her campaign
now shattered, Clinton was left wondering, what happened? This is what Clinton discussed at her book tour stop Tuesday in Ann Arbor. With Hill Auditorium full of students, faculty and community members attending her talk, Clinton highlighted her experiences writing her book, “What Happened,” not long after the election. The Ann
Arbor stop was one of several in the tour spanning across the nation and Canada. Prior to her visit, students were divided on their feelings about Clinton’s book tour, as lateSeptember pre-sale ticket prices for the event ranged from about $82 to $170 and many students questioned the purpose of the book.
In September, LSA junior Jim Stehlin said he sees politicians’ book tours as problematic for the country’s interests; instead of focusing on policy, he thinks the “hero-worship” of politicians forces citizens to consider how politicians function as celebrities rather than public servants. See CLINTON, Page 3A
The Treatment, Innovation and Dissemination Lab, a multidisciplinary lab at the University of Michigan, recently launched its new website. Also known as TIDL, the lab is focused on developing technology and initiatives to help those with mental health disorders, especially in underserved areas. TIDL began in 2011 and consists of 24 members from multiple disciplines, including both students and faculty. Joe Himle, co-director of TIDL and associate dean for research at the School of Social Work, described TIDL as a multidisciplinary group of postops, faculty members, graduate students and community
members that is focused on two main areas of mental health research. “So many people with mental health troubles do not have access to appropriate treatment for their problems, so we’re trying to close that treatment access gap by doing research that brings treatment to people who wouldn’t normally get it,” Himle said. “We’re focused on both people in underserved urban and rural areas.” Himle said TIDL is also working to improve employment outcomes for people with mental health problems, which Himle described as a two-sided issue. “People with mental health problems often avoid job interviews — they sometimes don’t have a very extensive peer network to call on for job leads,” Himle said. “So there is the See LAB, Page 3A
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Central Student Government convened on Tuesday evening to discuss the renaming of the C.C. Little Building, eventually passing the resolution to support the name change. After efforts from student governments on campus, stemming from LSA Student Government, steps have been taken to discuss the name change of the academic building. The C.C. Little Building has a controversial past, due to its attribution to former University of Michigan President Clarence Cook Little and his role in the eugenics movement in the United States. LSA SG Vice President Ryan Gillcrist, an LSA senior and co-author of the initial resolution, opened the discussion with a statement regarding the necessity to change the C.C. Little Building, both in an act to condemn the ideology of his work in eugenics as well as to stand in solidarity with students who feel underrepresented on campus. “It’s incredibly important for us to preserve and to remember the past, and that’s exactly why we See CSG, Page 3A
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Tim Retzloff, professor of history at Michigan State University and University of Michigan alum, connected LGBTQ history at the University of Michigan to the University’s bicentennial year in his lecture Tuesday, “Maize, Blue, and Lavender: Revisiting U-M’s LGBTQ Past.” As an undergraduate, Retzloff was asked by a political science professor to write a history appendix of LGBTQ history in Michigan. Implementing The Daily’s records, as well as bits and pieces from other Michigan newspapers, he wrote an appendix titled “Outcast, Miscast, Recast: A documentary history of lesbians and gay men at the University of Michigan.” Retzloff, a guest of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, graduated from the University of Michigan in 2006 before getting his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 2014. He has been featured on Stateside of Michigan Radio and The Craig Fahle Show on WDET. The event was also sponsored by several departments in the University, including the LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester program, and was attended by 30 students. Gayle Rubin, an associate professor of anthropology and women’s studies, introduced Retzloff, noting the importance
of the event’s inclusion in the Bicentennial, since knowledge of LGBTQ history at the University is very limited. Throughout the discussion, Retzloff presented different pictures to pinpoint three main eras central to LGBTQ history: the modern era (1991 to present), the ’70s and ’80s, and the preStonewall era. Retzloff focused on periods in which the University adapted to accept, or at least tolerate, LGBTQ individuals. He also discussed points when
LGBTQ people faced extreme isolation. “The outcast portion (of the append) … reflected the official hostility of the University toward homosexual people and reflected how people that we now see as LGBTQ were outcasts,” Retzloff said. Retzloff discussed in detail the effects of the 1959 and 1960 crackdowns at the University on homosexual activity that occurred in various campus restrooms. Reminiscent of the Communist
era, people staked down men engaging in sexual behavior in the bathroom and then arrested them for gross indecency. According to Retzloff, they were sentenced to five years of probation and had to pay a $275 fine. This was a particularly harsh punishment, he noted, as others charged with gross indecency in Detroit at this time had to pay much less. Further troubles arose in 2003, Retzloff said, as the records of the crackdowns and other See MAIZE, Page 3A
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The Center for the Education of Women will be welcoming award-winning actress Laverne Cox to the University of Michigan as the final event for the 2017 CEW Spectrum of Advocacy and Activism Symposium. Cox is a transgender, African American actress and equal rights advocate who will be sharing her experiences through her talk “Ain’t I a Woman? My Journey to Womanhood” on Nov. 15. “Laverne projects a combination of strength and vulnerability in her presentations while delivering an animated reflection on the transgender experience,” the invitation reads. “Her recollections of growing up in Mobile, Ala., moving to New York City, and finding the courage to step into womanhood illustrate the unique challenges faced by the transgender community.” Many students on campus quickly made sure they had tickets for this upcoming presentation. However, members See TICKETS, Page 3A
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MAIZE From Page 1A controversial occurrences on campus had vanished. LSA sophomore Kevin Keegan, one of the students who attended the event, was intrigued by this notion. “There’s still limited stories that are accessible about LGBTQ people and definitely as thinking about the erasure of stories as a form of discrimination and how that can allow discrimination to continue by erasing the hardships of the past,” Keegan said. While much of what Retzloff described was negative, as time progressed there were certain landmarks that made the University notable in terms of being one of the first to recognize and accept LGBTQ people. In 1984, University President Harold Shapiro instituted a policy statement that the University could not discriminate based on sexuality. “The experience of queer people at Flint and Dearborn in the 1980s were worlds away from
what was available here in Ann Arbor,” Retzloff said. There were many people who were active in contributing to LGBTQ history, Retzloff said, including Nancy Wechsler, the first openly LGBTQ City Councilmember in Ann Arbor. Retzloff included a picture of himself with a friend making a poster for the first gay and lesbian awareness day at the University in 1988. He noted this was a pivotal moment as a gay man and it was then that he was empowered through documenting the history. He also spoke on the creation of the then-named Human Sexuality Office in the ’60s. He explained the students had to petition the University for an office space like other student organizations. The University did not want to have a name that specifically dealt with “gay” or “lesbian” students when they agreed upon the establishment of the office. The Midwest, and Michigan in particular, offers a different narrative of LGBTQ history, which Retzloff studies. While cities like New York and San Francisco have a well-
CLINTON From Page 1A “I find myself consistently disappointed by the hero-worship within the Democratic Party because it distracts from the policy issues that actually affect people’s lives,” Stehlin said. “Former presidents often do release books, (but) Hillary was not a former president. She was a presidential nominee who failed to win the election.” Prior to the event, Engineering freshman Simrun Buttar said while she was a bit swayed by the price of attending, Clinton has been one of her role models since long before the 2016 election. “I think especially with this past election, so many events were skewed in ways that the general public wasn’t really made aware of, like the way things actually happened,” Buttar said. “I think, especially in Michigan itself, it was such a pivotal state in the last election that in being a swing state, she can maybe help things for the future.” Similarly, LSA freshman Brett Zaslavsky said he had been looking
LAB From Page 1A patient side, where the mental health problem makes it difficult to go out there and try to do the things you need to do to find employment.” “But then there’s also the employer’s side, and on the employer’s side people with mental health problems are sometimes discriminated against in employment situations, because employers worry about people with a history of mental illness. Our job is to try and help people with mental health problems be more active in trying to find work, and also be more successful in sustaining work over time,” he added. TIDL has numerous projects they are working on to help achieve their goal of a world where mental health issues do not prevent people from finding and keeping employment, as well as bettering the treatment these people receive. For example, Himle is the principal investigator of a project called Reaching Independence through Successful
documented history, social change within the LGBTQ movement also comes from areas like the Midwest and often get overlooked. Retzloff is currently writing a book on Detroit as a “gay city.” When asked about how he felt impacted by this work, David Hutchinson, a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, said it is vital to learn about the University’s relationship with activism. “I think it’s important to learn about how queer students in the past navigated the very halls that we walked through today to understand how it is we are able to make up our lives that we live now,” he said. Jennifer Jones, LSA collegiate postdoctoral fellow in the History Department, also enjoyed hearing about the Midwest’s role in LGBTQ history. “I love the way in which the talk says yes there was violence, yes there was discrimination, but there was also opportunity to forge connections and build community and create lives,” Jones concluded.
forward to the event due to the fact Clinton would be spending time in a state she lost in the election. “It’s not every day that a former presidential candidate comes onto campus, particularly not one with the historical significance that Hillary Clinton has,” Zaslavsky said. “It was an election with tremendous consequences whatever side you’re on, and to be able to hear such a firsthand and unique perspective I think is a special opportunity.” Nevertheless, the audience applauded for Clinton when she took the stage. Clinton first addressed some of the main points of her book, including the doubleedged sword of being a woman in politics. “The only way we will get sexism out of politics is to get more women in them,” Clinton said, but she also noted one caveat: “Women are seen favorably when we advocate for others but unfavorably when we advocate for ourselves.” A substantial part of Clinton’s talk was focused on addressing Russian interference. Clinton noted a necessity to demand evidence among media filled with “alternative facts,” especially with regard to critically considering the
Employment, which is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. RISE, which has locations in Detroit and Los Angeles, focuses on helping people with anxietyrelated barriers to finding and keeping work. They have placed the intervention program in a vocational service center, and are working on training vocational service professionals at the center to deliver mental health interventions focused on work in their employment agency. “Most mental health treatments are developed in university towns, or areas where people are highly educated, or large cities, often with mostly white, educated participants helping to evaluate and design the new mental health treatment,” Himle said. “But in our case, we often do the design and development as well as the initial testing of new mental health interventions in underserved communities, for later use by the broader population.” He added hosting the sessions in Detroit allows the researchers to form better relationships with the group. “If we develop a treatment in Detroit, it will always have a sort
have libraries and museums and the department of history,” he said. “But it’s equally as important to learn from the past. Right now, we have a building that’s named after someone who, if he were here today, would have believed that thousands of people who have walked these grounds are unfit to be members of society.” CSG members discussed the distinction between controversial science and ideology which, presently, is no longer appropriate to preserve. Members affirmed the ideology of C.C. Little’s work is against what the University stands for as an institution, and the act of changing the name would demonstrate
TICKETS From Page 1A from communities that could benefit most from listening to Cox — Black women and Black transgender women — may not have the opportunity to attend the event because of a limited amount of tickets. The tickets for the live event at Rackham Auditorium, which can fit about 1,000 people, are sold out, and the live-streaming locations are also at full capacity. As a way to ensure that Black women and Black trans women can listen to Cox’s presentation, some students are giving away their tickets. One of these students is Public Health student Vikrant Garg, whose Facebook post offered tickets to members of those communities who were interested in attending the event. LSA junior Mayah Wheeler is one of the students who was not able to receive tickets to the live
issues with cyber interference. Clinton received applause when she called Russian interference in the election “more than alarming.” “The administration is doing virtually nothing to prevent future attacks. … If you are an American, this should alarm you. It is shameful,” Clinton said. “The president swore an oath to faithfully execute the law and defend our constitution, and he should start doing his job, and the rest of us have to keep up the pressure.” While the election was nearly a year ago, Clinton listed several next steps for the American public, particularly with regard to cyber safety and demanding transparency from those in office. “I know when it comes to Russia, we’ve got to get serious about cybersecurity,” Clinton said. “Beyond that, we must insist on truth and accuracy, and hold elected leaders and the press accountable. … We must summon the courage to stand up for human rights and democracy.” In the Q&A portion of the evening, moderator and English professor Anne Curzan took questions from the audience,
of home-field advantage — it will have a foundation that fits well with that group. It doesn’t mean that a person in Ann Arbor might not find that intervention useful, but the idea is to develop that intervention in an underserved urban and rural areas. Treatments often fit best with the people they’re initially developed with, and we would like turn that typical pattern around.” Addie Weaver, another co-director of TIDL, is the principal investigator of another project, Raising Our Spirits Together. Weaver, who grew up in a rural area of Pennsylvania, feels a personal connection to the work TIDL does. “I had first-hand experiences where I saw friends and family members in need of mental or physical health care that had a lot of difficulty,” Weaver said. “There just really weren’t treatment options available, so it required substantial travel and substantial resources in terms of having the right type of insurance, having a job that allowed you to take time off to address your needs, or being able to arrange childcare support. And really the underlying issue is that there just aren’t a lot of mental
Wednesday, October 25, 2017— 3A solidarity with the beliefs of the current administration. “One of the big things that I find extremely troubling about this situation is how normalized the name is within the campus community, so a lot of the times, students don’t even realize that buildings are named after vice presidents, let alone the history there,” said CSG Vice President Nadine Jawad, a Public Policy senior. Engineering sophomore Zeke Majeske claimed since the building’s name does not hold significance to the vast majority of the student population, this action would ultimately be ineffective. He also pointed out the connection between C.C. Little and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who were both part of the eugenics movement
but are not both condemned by University students today. He attempted to amend the language of a section of the resolution that connected C.C. Little to the rhetoric which inspired Nazism, arguing Little’s actions historically preceded and thus were not linked to the rise of Hitler. He said C.C. Little was speaking in a scientific context and Nazism appropriated that thinking. However, the other members did not join Majeske in his amendment and it failed. The original resolution eventually passed, with 25 in favor and four against renaming the C.C. Little Building. Majeske later said in an interview with The Daily he had concerns with the lack of historical context in the resolution.
event. Wheeler explained the lack of availability was unfortunate because there are not many Black transgender women who are prominent social figures, and she felt it would be valuable to hear what Cox had to say. “It’s important to see people who look like you creating social change because a lot of the time, especially for Black women and Black trans women, there aren’t many figures,” Wheeler said. “The way that Black women are represented in the media is ultimately a negative image, so if we have activists who are working to change that image it should be accessible.” Wheeler was pleasantly surprised to hear about Garg’s actions and talked about how, as a Black woman on campus, sometimes it’s hard to remember she has the support of other communities. “I think that giving the tickets away is really nice and really thoughtful,” Wheeler said. “It’s a horrible thing that you don’t expect people to support you, but being
Black on this campus, you don’t expect it because of the way that a lot people act and what a lot of people do — you just don’t expect people to care.” Garg also pointed out the multiple obstacles that made it difficult to get tickets to the event, such as limited seating capacity and institutional inaccessibility. “It really depended on who was able to get there and reserve at the right time. When you talk about institutional access, there are people who don’t have access to the University as a whole,” Garg said. “For instance, Black student involvement is less than 4 percent, so if you’re looking at institutional access, U of M is highly inaccessible to Black people as a whole, let alone people with multiple marginalized identities.” In the future, Wheeler hopes the University can offer Black students a chance to access events like these slightly ahead of time.
many of which primarily focused on Clinton’s personal experience writing the book and her advice for the future. When discussing her decision to write the book, Clinton said after the election she was “devastated and shocked.” However, touting again the negative impact Russian interference held in the election, Clinton noted the novel experience of having to circumvent this contemporary issue. “It’s so unprecedented,” Clinton said. “It’s hard if you have never lived in the midst of a propaganda campaign.” Clinton noted technology companies were slow to accept responsibility for the breach of cyber security, to applause from the audience. She then emphasized that the acceptance of this information by the public was accompanied by denial and a question of the legitimacy of the reports. However, Clinton’s tone turned hopeful when addressing different types of leadership in position of power. “If we get more people who
health providers in rural settings.” ROST, which is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health via a Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award Weaver received, and has an intervention site located in Hillsdale, is focused on providing more accessible depression treatment to those in rural areas. “What kept coming up was that many times when someone is feeling down or depressed, they are very likely to seek support from their clergy. So we started to talk about creating and developing an intervention for depression that could be delivered in the church setting in rural communities,” Weaver said. Weaver and her team have found there is large community interest in this initiative, both among the clergy and those afflicted by mental health problems, as well as the general community as a whole. She will be using her grant to engage in community-based participatory research to adapt and test behavioral therapy for depression in the church setting.
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put country before party, I think … some positive changes could actually come about,” Clinton said. “The cooperation between the parties has really deteriorated to the great harm of our nation and getting things done.” Noting a need for women in leadership roles, Clinton said women should be prepared for character attacks, criticism and questions. However, she cited the importance of encouraging girls from a young age to succeed and gave advice for young women looking to lead. “Don’t become so closed off, so bitter, so cynical that you can’t remain open to the people you need, the people you’re trying to represent,” Clinton said. Eastern Michigan University alum Asia David said she looked to Clinton for ways to improve the future. “I supported Hillary in the primary and the general election,” David said. “We need to understand what happened in that election and … also maybe get tools for what we can do next time.” After the event, Public Policy graduate student Ammara Ansari, who was previously an organizer
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for the Clinton campaign, said she admired the honesty Clinton demonstrated throughout the evening. “After almost a year of the election, it’s good to know that she’s still around,” Ansari said; however, Ansari did not think Clinton was completely comprehensive in her talk. Ansari said, having worked on Clinton’s campaign, she wanted to know more of the former Secretary of State’s personal experiences in this aspect of her presidential run. “I wanted to know what she thought of her (campaign) staff.” Wayne State University sophomore Robert Swetlic said he appreciated Clinton’s tasteful and humorous demeanor, particularly with regard to “alternative facts.” “I especially liked her comments about fake news. As someone who considers himself very active politically and in the realms of communication in journalism, I think it’s really important that we don’t let the conversation about fake news and propaganda die, and I like that she was really hitting on that, as well as telling us a more personal view of the election,” Swetlic said.
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ISAIAH ZEAVIN-MOSS | COLUMN
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A modern manical Leviathan
n my Modern Political just taken over, which led to Thought class, we’re the execution of Charles I and reading, among other things, the exile of his son — who, in a Thomas Hobbes’s “Leviathan.” shocking turn of history, is named Themes in the Charles II. book reminded Hobbes’s text me of thoughts responds to the ongoing and feelings I’ve debate between these experienced two factions. The under Trump’s Royalists, since being administration, deposed, decried the so I decided new government as to write this illegitimate. But for column. Hobbes, these calls Hobbes suggests were hapless and held ISAIAH that the people will ZEAVIN-MOSS no ground, since the sacrifice their own Parliamentarians were “natural right” — that is, their the ones in legitimate control. right to preserve their own life They were the Sovereign. — for the sake of the Sovereign, a We can use Hobbes’s work as figure who has absolute power to a foundation for understanding do as he wishes. Donald Trump’s emergence, and One thing to note: Hobbes uses that of the far right in general. the male pronoun to describe the Donald Trump, I think, Sovereign, illuminating a central understands himself in similar fact of Hobbes’s philosophy, terms to those of Hobbes’s namely that the only people who Sovereign. According to Trump, were “free” were landowning he can do whatever he wants to white patriarchs. I often think because of the power he holds. about how normalized this kind This has always been true. It’s of patent exclusion and prejudice what’s allowed him to sexually was, and how that fundamentally assault women, deny housing changes how legitimate any of to Blacks, publicly shame every these philosophies are in the first demographic that is not his own, place. Essentially, these people run a campaign based on his were living in a fantasy that persistent disobeying of customs affirmed their own superiority in the electoral process and get as landowning white men away with it all. themselves. More on this later. And now he is our president. According to Hobbes, the Every time he shatters another Sovereign literally cannot act custom, defies what we expect of unjustly, since the Sovereign him with some gaffe that no longer creates the state and all its can be described that way because institutions, laws and customs. of how frequently it occurs, I think Hobbes defines an unjust act as Trump tries to fundamentally one that breaks the law; since change how much power we give the Sovereign is creating the him, our collective understanding very environment in which the of our nation’s customs, what is law is decreed and enforced, the normal, the boundaries of the Sovereign cannot break the law. American discourse and how We give this power to the much we sacrifice for the sake of Sovereign in order to be protected his regime. from, as Hobbes puts it, the By aligning with the Ku natural condition of war between Klux Klan, for example, Trump people. As everyone tries to has brought white nationalists preserve their own life, conflicts into the mainstream political inevitably arise, and icky human discourse. Richard Spencer passions and desires take over. and Charles Murray are being To avoid this, we succumb and invited to college campuses in submit to the Sovereign, who will the name of discourse, when, in protect its citizens. fact, these are men promoting Hobbes wrote within the specifically racist, hateful context of the English Civil agendas. The blurring of this War, which happened between line — between hate speech and the years of 1642 and 1651. free speech — has been one of the On one side, there were the most sweeping consequences of Parliamentarians (also known as Trump’s presidency thus far. the “Roundheads”), led by Oliver He is trying to reset the terms Cromwell — a name I had always by which he can legitimately rule, oddly revered but only now the threats he can make to our learned about. And on the other, very way of life — with respect the Royalists (or “Cavaliers”). to the environment, to North Cromwell and his cronies had Korea and to his conspicuous
respect for white nationalist hate groups — while still remaining in office. And this is how he ran his campaign; by the time of the actual election, he had thoroughly reduced the individual impact of each new headline detailing some new disgusting act. We can see instances of Hobbes’s notion that the Sovereign is always legitimate in contemporary discourse as well. In Ann Arbor, for example, in the days after Trump’s election, I heard some of his supporters dismissing the outraged, crying students — mostly students of color — with the logic that these people should “get over it,” that Trump won fair and square and that there was nothing to do but “move on.” But today, so many of those people who voted for him are discovering the hollowness and deception of Trump’s messages. They’ve been blindsided by the fact they themselves surrendered their own sovereignty — just as Hobbes describes — for the sake of this new leader, a leader who would reclaim the United States as they knew it, or as they wanted to know it. Because unlike Hobbes’s Sovereign, Trump is not trying to protect his constituents, to preserve their lives and livelihoods. Instead, Trump uses his power for his own nefarious goals: to push an agenda of derision, violence and hatred. He is, in fact, openly combative when marginalized communities express dissent and anger. For example, he blamed Puerto Ricans themselves for the level of destruction they faced in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Like his supporters before him, this is Trump saying, “I have won. I am the legitimate power-holder. Get over it. Fend for yourself.” Hobbes wrote in a time when dissenters were routinely hanged or drawn and quartered. A time when, as I mentioned earlier, everyone besides landowning patriarchs was, as custom, regarded as sub-human or subservient. The possibility of this comparison, between Hobbes’s imagined leader, one who has absolute sovereign power, and our actual one, who we, as a nation, elected in 2016, ought to make us confront our contemporary social society in a new, skeptical light. Isaiah Zeavin-Moss can be reached at izeavinm@umich.edu.
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Climate action now
his month, two remarkable events occurred that passed mostly under the radar here on campus. First, to start off the month, the University of Michigan celebrated its bicentennial with an entire week of climate change-themed activities, called MC2: Michigan & The Climate Crisis. This event was organized to explore the existential threat of climate change and to reflect on the University’s role in confronting this crisis as we move into our next 100 years. Second, only a few days after these activities wrapped up, Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced the organization’s commitment to abandon all responsibility to uphold the United States’s pledge to the Paris agreement of 2015, which was devised to lower carbon emissions to a level that will keep the world’s temperature below catastrophic warming. The EPA has now officially repealed the Clean Power Plan, which was our country’s framework to meet the goals of the Paris agreement. Meanwhile, the impacts of climate change have become all too apparent, in the almost-routine natural disasters that are occurring worldwide. While these events are not entirely caused by climate change, their severity and frequency most likely are. Indeed, the record floods, droughts, fires and major hurricanes are exactly what climate models and scientists have been predicting. The estimated cost of these disasters in the United States, this year alone, is over $300 billion (not to mention the loss of human life), which dwarfs the $33 billion Scott Pruitt claims the Clean Power Plan would have cost to implement. In the face of this global crisis, the federal government’s failure has created an opportunity and an imperative for other institutions to lead. Across the country, churches, business, universities, and local and regional governments are signing on in support of the Paris climate accord. Many are doubling down on their efforts to advance renewable energy and reduce their carbon footprints. Colleges and universities, including our peers in the Big Ten, have laid out substantive plans to tackle the climate crisis on campus.
Our biggest rival, Ohio State great generational challenges of our University, is far ahead of the current and future students. We University of Michigan in its remain steadfast in our commitment climate commitment; it has the to tackle that threat head-on at the capacity to generate 21 percent of University of Michigan,” President the main campus’s energy needs Mark Schlissel declined divestment from renewables. The University in 2015. I hope he will reconsider of Maryland, another Big Ten rival, this inaction, by taking the clear has fully divested its endowment first step in committing our from fossil fuels. Other prestigious University to the Paris agreement universities, including Yale goals — a proposal that was drafted University, Stanford University and by the Climate Blue student group the University of California, have and jointly supported by the MC2 partially divested, while Harvard committee. Thereafter, so that our University has at least frozen some commitment does not ring hollow, fossil fuel investments. I hope the University will begin Considering that, it’s implementing plans to transform disappointing that a report our campus energy production to published by Bloomberg News renewables and will stop investing this summer revealed that the in the very activity the Paris University of Michigan has not agreement is attempting to curb. only failed to address fossil fuel Furthermore, because we, divestment, but that we have the students, faculty, staff and actually increased our estimated alumni of the University, are its $1 billion worth of investments in essence, it is our responsibility to these climate-altering companies urge President Schlissel and our by nearly 40 percent since 2015. University administration to act on As MC2 speaker Stephen Mulkey climate change. We can sign the said, “It is ethically indefensible Paris petition ourselves to show the that an institution dedicated to University leadership our support. the proposition of the renewal of We can ask them to compete with civilization would simultaneously our rivals at Ohio State, to drop the invest in its destruction.” excuses and find a way to get solar Though some from the panels on top of every building on University’s administration may campus. We can demand that the rebut that those new investments University join other universities are going into natural gas, which and divest our endowment from is supposedly more sustainable, fossil fuels. recent scientific assessments have We can ask the University to revealed that because of methane lead by offering scholarships to leaks during the fracking process, students dedicated to fighting natural gas use may actually be one climate change. We can insist that of the most carbon-intensive fossil they commit to a 100 percent fuels around — potentially worse renewable energy campus. We, than coal. The bottom line is, if ourselves, can directly engage at we want to solve the climate crisis the University by participating in and avert catastrophe for human a climate action summit on Friday, civilization, we cannot continue to Oct. 27, for the inauguration of burn fossil fuels. the new School for Environment The urgency to act is paramount. and Sustainability. As a new University of Michigan Finally, we can call on the study suggests, the window for University to live up to its creed action may be closing — the longer to be “Leaders and Best” by we wait, the worse climate change actually taking the lead on climate will become and the harder it will change. Otherwise, what will be to stop. That means action by future generations say when they nonfederal U.S. institutions is look back on the University of essential, because this country Michigan’s third century? contributes a huge proportion of the world’s carbon emissions, Jonathan R. Morris is part of the planning committee for the and we cannot afford to wait for another presidential election to MC2: Michigan & the Climate Crisis change that. Bicentennial event and is a research Despite saying that “the threat associate in the School for Environment of climate change is one of the and Sustainability.
JOSIE TOLIN | COLUMN
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Antisocial media elitism
t’s Monday night and I’m That is to say, why shouldn’t overwasting homework time by aggressive proponents of “more way of my usual outlet for unplugged” lifestyles face the laziness — the internet. When I same societal scrutiny as internet find myself wondering over-sharers? This about the recent life double standard events of a friend I haven’t seems to stem spoken to in years, I’m from the skeptical able — thanks to Facebook eyes of older — to search her name in generations and seconds. A slight wave of the association of envy sweeps over me as less technological my search results come up involvement with empty; the realization that a purer human she’s left this corner of the experience. JOSIE virtual world is somehow There are TOLIN a little jealousy-inducing. countless reasons While millennials are often for the deletion of social media criticized for their overuse of accounts, and all are valid. social media platforms, these Constantly engaging with such internet outlets have become platforms can be psychologically favorites of older and younger depleting and mind-numbing. generations alike. Since the Some users are more prone to emergence of social media has social media addiction than been labeled a primarily millennial others, so a decisive detachment phenomenon by the public and from these online spaces mainstream media, an antithesis would especially benefit this to fragmenting life into curated demographic. Whatever the snapshots has also surfaced in reason, users-turned-non-users this generation. The movement to frequently claim their removal permanently delete social media from internet profiles has allowed accounts has itself fostered a new them a heightened sense of subcategory of elitism, foiling to a happiness and productivity in more easily visible phenomenon of their day-to-day lives. internet snobbery. For especially affected nonThis is by no means a jab at users, unplugging is more of the friend I attempted to softcore a necessary individual choice Facebook stalk that night — I look than a trend. This may be the pretty foolish here because if I’d case for all non-users — but in truly wanted to know what she the openly boastful subcategory, was up to, I could’ve picked up the attitudes toward users can quite phone and called her. In no way do easily become condescending I wish to claim that anyone who and demonstrate the fine line decides to rid themselves of social between lifestyle choice and media accounts should be placed indulgence in the stereotypically in the same category as those who negative portrayals of millennial openly flaunt their less-connected engagement with social media. lifestyles, wearing their conscious As with all generalizations, withdrawal from the internet like an exaggerated demonization an unnecessary patch on a high of social media masks most school letterman jacket. of its positive attributes. For If an obvious downfall of social example — though riddled media seems often attributed to with clickbait news titles and its publicity of otherwise private advertising ploys — social media or unnecessary information on is often an incentivized source a widely accessible platform, of social and political awareness why shouldn’t the same logic be for those who aren’t looking to applied in the opposite direction? seek these updates elsewhere.
Though users often remain on social media for the benefits of interconnectivity among friends and family members, people also love to assess what others are doing and evaluate themselves accordingly. This mechanism of easy comparison is perhaps even more “human” than its less-connected antithesis, a counterargument for those who claim that technology disjoints the human state. It makes sense, then, that the successful denial of this innate urge should elicit a feeling of hard-earned pride. However, with the inherent benefits that exist in a highly connected world, this pride is not totally warranted. Many argue that social media enhances necessary competencies of 21st century living, from the encouragement of discourse and information sharing to digital citizenship and critical assessment of subjective agendas. This is not to suggest, however, that a life without social media platforms is always socially irresponsible. Over half of social media users assess news articles at mere face value: reading headlines, a couple introductory sentences and perhaps nothing else. To state the obvious, social medi a platforms themselves don’t seem to foster such careful user attention to current events. It’s not the possibility of social irresponsibility, then, that seems most bothersome from the more boastful demographic of non-users. Perhaps the most troubling part is the denial of the double standard created by this disconnected image, the elitist rhetoric it condones and the failure to consider the beneficial effects of social media on other individuals — be it professionally, politically or otherwise. It’s important to recognize, in the age of humantechnology integration, there’s no one-size-fits-all formula for healthy social engagement. Josie Tolin can be reached at jostolin@umich.edu.
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FILM REVIEW
Wednesday, October 25, 2017 — 5A
TV REVIEW
NETFLIX People smoke pipes in ‘1922’
SYFY It’s a bad show
‘1922’ has potential but ‘Superstition’ is laughable fails to land a decent blow Series combines bad acting and bad visuals to make a bad show Stephen King’s ‘1922’ gets the Netflix treatment to mixed results
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heightened because the viewer can only see within the parameters of what is lit in the dim lights. This leaves the viewer left to wonder what extends into the darkness. Overall, the direction was not the film’s issue, and it was even at times artful, where Hilditch plays with blurring and focus of natural elements on the ranch to tightly control the masking of characters from camera. Like the title of the film, the year is 1922 in Des Moine, where women were recently granted universal suffrage. But in this rural setting, ranchers’ wives were expected to keep a tidy home for their
At the risk of sounding overly cynical, I hope I’m not the only one who has ever watched a series and immediately thought, “Wow, this absolutely sucks.” It’s only happened a few times (see: “Taken”), but it’s almost comical when it does. To have such a glaringly and obviously terrible show is hilarious to me — it always leads me to try and imagine simply how and why the series was greenlit in the first place. I mention all of this, of course, because this was my exact reaction upon screening the pilot of Syfy’s “Superstition.” At the time I watched “Superstition” ’s excuse of a premiere, I was in a sort-of shitty mood from our loss to Penn State Saturday evening. I was exhausted, down and, to top it off, my buddies at Penn State were flooding my phone with texts about their blowout victory. I needed a reprieve from my grief and, oddly enough, I found that much-needed shot of optimism through “Superstition.” As I settled in and began taking notes during my viewing, I had to force myself to stop ripping every element of the show because it was getting exhausting. Instead, I took a more entertaining approach and started focusing on how hilariously bad this episode is, but even that wasn’t enough to redeem this masterpiece in garbage television. For “Superstition,” its issues are rooted in its downright awful writing. The series is centered around the occult experiences of the Hastings family, who operate a funeral home in a quaint
SOPHIA WHITE For the Daily
The last line, “In the end we all get caught,” of Netflix’s new horror film “1922,” sums up the film’s takeaway in one sentence. The movie, based on the Stephen King novel, the line, spoken by Wilfred James, the protagonist, (Thomas Jane, “The Mist”), embodies a central theme: You can’t get away with murder. Despite Wilfred James’s evasion of the law, he is ultimately unable to avoid his guilt and delusions, putting himself in a sort of mental prison. Wilfred eventually comes to represent the paranoia that manifests from the guilt after a crime, in his case, the gruesome murder of his wife while she’s in a blurred drunken state. The film opens up without hesitation to begin the exposition of Wilfred’s obsessive plot to murder of his wife to save his money and land. He even convinces his 15-year-old son, Henry (Dylan Schmid, “Once Upon a Time”) to co-conspire with him. The plotting is coupled with the film’s initial slow, ominous pace, as the maniacal father son duo walk through towering green cornfields where the husks mask their faces in an oddly ethereal fashion. Director and screenwriter, Zak Hilditch (“These Final Hours”) uses very few artificial lighting techniques and employs the use of available lighting, which in 1922, truly only came in the form of daylight, burning lamps and candles. When Wilfred and Henry hover over warmly-lit lamps on their dark porch in the middle of Idaho, the eeriness and tension is
“1922” Streaming on Netflix husbands, with no room for greater personal aspirations, a societal hierarchy which Wilfred James supports. When his wife, Arlette (Molly Parker, “Deadwood”), a gifted seamstress before she was murdered, began talking dreams of selling their land and moving to the city to open up a dress shop, Wilfrid began to get nervous. For Wilfred, and like other men at this period, this threatened his role as the family’s decision maker, his land and his masculinity. Wilfred, with the assistance of his only son, Henry, brutally murder Arlette and throw her into the abyss of a dark well without thinking of consequences. Not shortly after, rats begin to eat at her body and emerge from her orifices, which ultimately serve as a metaphor for Wilfred’s festering paranoia of
the rats bursting out of crevices, constantly reminding him of the great deed he did. The murder occurs within 30 minutes of the film, allowing for no true narrative build up. With the rising action of the film completed at the beginning, it leaves over an hour remaining of watching Wilfred increasingly rot from his turmoil and paranoia. This narrative pace and structure can be successful, but the slowburning, building mystery for which Hilditch presumably strived was sort of like extinguishing the candle altogether. The direction was dull at moments, but the true problem was rather more the story itself. The premise is not new, which isn’t to say that every film has to include a revolutionary plot or theme. But for such a common genre of small-town horror, it necessitates something unique that differentiates it from the rest, which this film lacks. There are plenty of acclaimed rural horror movies, and adding this to the collection doesn’t make a compelling push for it audiences to watch. It is barely terrifying or mysterious, and the only jarring element was how foul it was to witness rat infestations and see their revolting tails scurry across the screen about every ten minutes. Lastly, Hilditch could’ve used this film as an opportunity to explore the larger picture of female liberation and breaking out of gender roles during this period, which would have added an extra narrative layer to augment its staleness. But sadly, “1922” goes into a large pile of attempts but fails at true, nail-biting, hair-on-thearm standing horror.
ALBUM REVIEW
RCA P!nk returns with ‘Beautiful Trauma’
New ‘Beautiful Trauma’ is P!nk with her perfect pop Angry, bright, dark and poppy — P!nk’s back and better than ever MIKE WATKINS For the Daily
On her seventh studio album, P!nk nears 21st century pop perfection. The lovably spunky singer’s latest release, Beautiful Trauma, delivers to fans all of P!nk’s characteristic
contradictions; it’s joyful and it’s angry, it’s bright and it’s dark, it’s beautiful and it’s traumatic. Some music connoisseurs may be skeptical of the singer’s raw pop, as some tracks lack substance and are plagued by love song cliches, but even the snobbiest of music snobs won’t be able to resist stomping their feet to Beautiful Trauma’s energetic anthems and indulging
in the album’s moving ballads. From the get-go, the Beautiful Trauma’s titular track sets the tone of the record with an irresistible pop anthem. The song has everything a pop track needs: a strong chord progression, an empowering beat and a melody dynamic enough to be musically engaging while anthemic enough to be a sing-along. When the
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chorus hits, it’s pop — it’s slightly corny, but it’s good. P!nk also took a page out of the 21st Century female pop star playbook by featuring a traditionally rough-around-theedges rapper to give the album’s second track some grit (e.g. Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood,” with Kendrick Lamar). In this case, that rapper is Eminem. The track “Revenge” features an infallible “My Name Is”-esque hip hop beat blended with modern synths to develop an overall bright sound, one that contradicts the song’s lyrics that depict a messy and unhealthy relationship, an interesting and slightly comical technique that both P!nk and Eminem have deployed in the past. The song is a head-bouncer, and Eminem’s verse approaches The Marshall Mathers LP-level crudeness with the final line, “You’re a whore. You’re a whore. This is war.” P!nk did not miss on Revenge by bringing on the king of brutally honest tracks about relationship struggles. Another interesting characteristic of Beautiful Trauma is its current relevance. P!nk manages to extrapolate turbulence within a relationship to turbulence within the United States in 2017. “What About Us” is both a meditation on a struggling couple and an analysis of modern political and social turmoil. In the second verse, P!nk sings, “We are problems that want to be solved / We are children that need to be loved / We were willin’, we came when you called / But man, you
Georgian town. Aside from the overdone Southern gothic trope, this basic idea isn’t awful in and of itself, but its already weak storyline is hardly propped up by its dialogue, which is stiff and awkwardly phrased. In one especially horrific scene, the town sheriff, Officer Westbrook (Demetria McKinney, “House of Payne”), speaks at a murder scene to a local Satanist, who claims to Westbrook: “We brought this upon ourselves, Chief Westbrook.” The line was so forced and cringe-worthy that
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I had to restrain myself from doubling over with laughter. In what world does a regular person, let alone a Satanist, call a police officer “Chief”? Maybe I’m harping on one word, but the entire line reeks of being one of the most boring and awkward-sounding things I’ve heard on television in a while. And that’s saying something considering that I saw the trailer for “Geostorm” this morning. Next on the laundry list of problems inherent in “Superstition” is, like most bad television, its “acting.” In fact, the only actual acting happening in the series is its cast pretending that they’re actors — yes, it’s that terrible. Playing the Hastings family patriarch, Mario Van Peebles (“New Jack City”) is entirely unconvincing in his
fooled us, enough is enough.” In the context of a pop song, a listener could take these lines as a description of broken promises and disappointment within a relationship, but P!nk’s use of the words “we” and “children” hints at a deeper meaning, one that relates to a nation of people looking for answers. As Billboard writer Patrick Crowley notes, P!nk has not shied away from political commentary in the past, as she actively shared her objection to the white supremacist rallies in Virginia and was vocal about her
Beautiful Trauma P!nk RCA support for Hillary Clinton. “[I]t’s not far-fetched to think that the double meaning was intentional,” Crowley wrote, and in a time of racial struggle and frustration over political inaction, P!nk deserves some credit for making music bigger than herself. Now, do not be mistaken — Beautiful Trauma certainly has its cliche moments, but what pop album doesn’t? In the track “Whatever You Want,” the line, “I feel like a ship’s going down tonight, but it’s always darkest before the light,” will have many listeners groaning and rolling their eyes, and unfortunately there is no shortage of these cheesy lines
plethora of clichéd wisdom and obvious desire to be a cop in another life. As the prodigal son returning home, Brad James (“For Better or Worse”) isn’t able to arouse any sort of emotion or sympathy for his character from the audience. Rounding out its utterly disastrous cast is McKinney, whose tone-deaf performance begs us to ask why Hollywood assigns police officer roles indiscriminately. As awful as its acting remains, “Superstition” ’s visuals are somehow nearly just as bad. Armed with a camera that I would guess is from the 18th century, the series offers zero sense of visual appeal. With hardly any exterior shots, “Superstition” seems perfectly content to stay indoors, despite its bland set design. Exemplified by the Hastings house, the sets of each scene are hastily and generically generated, causing me to believe that the only research the writers did for this show was to read “To Kill a Mockingbird” and hope that Southern stereotypes of grandfather clocks and creaky mansions were still in-vogue. Witnessing such blatant indolence in Hollywood astounds even me, but it also makes me glad that sites like Rotten Tomatoes exist to give each new movie or show a single, simple review score so as to punish these lazy artists and push viewers and their dollars away. If Hollywood hasn’t learned its lesson about lazy stereotypes yet, I’m (unfortunately) not sure it ever will, but at least audiences can steer clear of “Superstition” and let Hollywood’s latest smallscreen blunder fall flat on its Satanic face.
throughout the album. P!nk can get away with these eye-roll-inducing lines, though, because her brand is essentially relatable heartbreak, and there is little one can do to avoid sounding corny or mushy when meditating on love and its consequences. As a listener, just remember that pop with a universal appeal has its base consequences, and take P!nk’s shallow lyricism with a grain of salt. Beautiful Trauma has another cliche characteristic, but this one is less likely to make listeners cringe. P!nk sprinkles her album with classic, heart-string-pulling ballads that reveal the singer’s status as more than just a pop star, and exhibit her expertise as a vocalist. These slower, piano-driven songs may be basic and slightly hackneyed, but they speak on the ever-relatable topic of the struggle for love by including some of the shallow but accessible lyrics aforementioned, and P!nk’s impressive vocal range and emotional vulnerability make these songs even more powerful. The love-ballad is alive and well on Beautiful Trauma. From top to bottom, P!nk’s latest release is a well strung together pop project. The pleasantly abrasive pop star successfully delivers to her listeners a unique blend of grit, love and political commentary, a breath of fresh air in today’s pop music world. With relatable content, invigorating beats, exciting features and P!nk’s undeniable talent, Beautiful Trauma is worth the listen for both pop-lovers and pop-skeptics.
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FILM REVIEW
How far would we go to achieve fame? Columnist Bailey Kadian contemplates the price of fame
WARNER BROS It’s a bad movie
‘Geostorm’ is disastrous (but still kind of funny)
New disaster movie stays true to its genre in its poor quality IAN HARRIS
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“Geostorm” will probably be heralded as one of the worst movies of the year. Filled with bad CGI, insipidly stupid characters and a plot so confusing that hours of trying to dissect it afterwards will still lead one to failure, there’s no doubt “Geostorm” is a bad movie. It is a very, very bad movie. But it’s not the worst movie ever made. For all of its faults, against all odds, with absolutely nothing going for it and not a single character that is likable in even the loosest sense of the word, the third act of “Geostorm” is actually a really good time. Dean Devlin directed and wrote “Geostorm” as his directorial debut, and it seems more likely he simply went with the first idea he had every single step of the way and never bothered to think through any moment of the film for longer than three seconds. The plot, which stems from the seemingly simple idea of weathercontrolling satellites going haywire, quickly becomes mired in confusing government allegiances, unclear character motivations and an evil plan so nonsensical that it renders almost every single action taken by a character in the film to be meaningless.
The villain’s goal appears to be to use the weather satellites to unleash extreme weather upon countries and peoples he doesn’t like, but then he later initiates the self-destruct mechanism of the satellite control station, which if successful would render all the satellites worthless, returning the earth to a state of global warminginduced chaos. Why the villain would be okay dying with everyone else on earth when the satellites
“Geostorm” Warner Bros. Pictures Quality 16, Rave Cinemas go down is not explained in the movie. How or why the villain is doing anything that he does is not explained in the movie. There’s an attempt to explain why the space station even has a self-destruct feature, but the explanation falls flat on its face and only serves to call out the idiotic story that is being told to the audience. Gerard Butler (“London Has Fallen”), Jim Sturgess (“Kidnapping Freddy Heineken”) and Abbie Cornish (“6 Days”) all fall completely flat as the main characters of this film. Only Andy García (“Passengers”), as the U.S.
President Andrew Palma, shows any signs of life, and it is the third act in which he begins to throw in one-liners that the movie finally becomes watchable. After an hour and a half of what essentially amounts to different people sitting in rooms, staring at computer screens and exclaiming, “Ahhhh — so that’s what’s going on!” the movie finally arrives at the actual storms, and a semblance of what could’ve been an entertaining movie begins to assert itself. Make no mistake: the final act of “Geostorm” is still completely asinine. Butler, at one point, survives a giant spaceship explosion by wearing nothing more then a spacesuit. But unlike the rest of the movie, the last half hour is at least fun to watch. It’s dumb fun, rather than dumb drivel. It’s what the trailers and advertisements for “Geostorm” actually promised. At last, the movie finally acts like the garbage disaster flick that it is. At last we get to watch Andy García utter lines like, “I’m the goddamn President of the United States.” This is what we came for. Not for the hackneyed plot. Not for the terrible special effects. Not for the actors and not for the first-time director. For dumb punch lines and famous people running from falling buildings. “Geostorm” isn’t enough of a disaster to be worth the effort.
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Ron Livingston thrives as lead in ‘Loudermilk’
Loudermilk to join the ranks of Bojack and Frank Gallagher SOFIA LYNCH For the Daily
In a world of Frank Gallaghers and BoJack Horsemans, the trope of the alcoholic male lead has found sufficient footholds in recent years. On Oct. 17, the Audience Network, accessible only to DirecTV, AT&T U-verse and DirecTV Now customers, premiered the pilot of its new show “Loudermilk,” from co-creators Peter Farrelly (“Dumb and Dumber”) and Bobby Mort (“The Colbert Report”), ushering in another abrasive drunk protagonist to add to the list. “Loudermilk” stars Ron Livingston (“Office Space”) as Sam Loudermilk, a caustic recovering alcoholic and substance abuse counselor. In the first few scenes, Sam tells one of his AA attendees that “life’s about fucking things up — and then unfucking the things you fucked up,” and the theme of this pilot episode seems to be Sam doing just that. Due to his acerbic attitude and behavior, the priest (Eric Keenleyside, “Godzilla”) of the church where Sam holds meetings informs him that his meeting space will be revoked if he does not help one of the church member’s in rehabilitating her stubborn, drugabusing daughter Claire (Anja Savcic, “Extraterrestrial”). While the boozehound character is not a new one, not often do we find him as the focal point of a TV show — probably due in part to the fact that the attributes
of someone truly suffering from alcoholism don’t lend themselves well to making a loveable lead. “Loudermilk,” however, creates a compelling twist on the role of the classic drunk. It may not seem fair to categorize Sam in this trope, considering he is four years sober and leading sobriety meetings, but he has the biting, me-againstthe-world attitude of someone just getting “off the sauce.” The most defining points of Sam’s character build are dichotomous to the point of verging on unbelieveable. Sam is
“Loudermilk” Season Premiere Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. Audience depicted as an extremely dedicated counselor — denoted more by his actions than his usually apathetic comments — but he also goes on to display an utter callousness toward his fellow man, exemplified by him pushing past an elderly man going up the stairs. I believe it is this same disconcerting, polarized quality about him that makes him a suitable lead — he’s constantly pushing you away and pulling you back in. For many of the doubts I did have, the writers would close the gaps with the occasionally selfaware comment from Sam. He tells his budding love interest Allison
(Laura Mennell, “Watchmen”) that he’s learned to be blunt and harsh to cut through the lies and excuses of the addicts he works with, which bleeds over into his personal life. While so many of Sam’s traits are abrasive to the point of discomfort, I saw a lot of my darker, hidden qualities in him, which helped me relate much better to the show and feel justified in my own grating characteristics. When Sam’s roommate and “only friend” Ben (Will Sasso, “MADtv”) asks why he pushed past an old man on the stairs, Sam replies, “Maybe I just wanted to get nowhere faster,” and I’ll be damned if those words didn’t come out of my own mouth. These humanizing moments in the face of otherwise atrocious actions are what endears Sam to the few in his life strong enough to withstand his rough edges — and the same can be said for the viewers. Where the show does falter, however, is in the strength of the dialogue. Often times it feels as though the writing is more of a vehicle for delivering social commentary and setting up overthought jokes than it is for carrying the plot along, or communicating relationships between characters. Don’t get me wrong, the show is definitely comedic in nature, but the humor wavers when it tries too hard. While the show does have its flaws and lulls, the pilot episode and the show’s namesake present a compelling case for viewers to tune in again next week.
In one of the greatest works of Old English literature, “Beowulf,” there is a scene in which Beowulf heroically defeats the monster Grendel and is told, “You have won renown: you are known to all men far and near, now and forever.” This is an extraordinary sort of fame, one that will live beyond Beowulf’s lifetime. From ancient texts to beloved stories to our modern realities, our desire for fame appears. Beowulf is the archetypal hero — and his never-ending fame serves as the reward for his act of defeat. To be remembered is our inherent desire. We hope our identity will stretch far beyond our short-lived existence. It’s intriguing how enthralled we are by the idea of doing something to be remembered. It’s complicated in that much of what we do for our earned recognition is fundamentally good. Why we do it is harder to understand. Some claim their fame came as a surprise, for their efforts towards their campaign, their organization, their business or their movement were totally directed towards a specific purpose. It wasn’t for personal recognition — their fame just came as a byproduct. Others were passionate about the potential of earning fame and therefore used some other platform to go about attaining it. In leading a movement of some sort, does the glory rest in the original intent? Or perhaps if we traced the root of the movement, would we find a desire for esteem at its core? If the overarching goal is fame, the initial motive or passion loses its significance. Let’s consider a singer writing her own music. Music starts as a passion, in hopes to reach audiences that can relate to her lyrics and experiences. Maybe after enough years
in the spotlight, the artist is encouraged to shift her priorities. Now that she has overwhelming fame, everything suddenly feels different. What once was a genuine interest has now become one strand of a larger image; an image revolving around the person, not the passion. If I lead a movement to provide clean water for people in impoverished countries who cannot access it, and I gain publicity for my efforts, I imagine much of the lasting impact would be about myself, and not entirely about the act that earned the recognition. The
BAILEY KADIAN idea we once pursued, a generous act of public service, becomes the thing we must pursue for us. For the fame. For being known. And of course, for that fame to surpass our lifetime. There is a plaque hanging up on the wall at my high school. My sister’s name is on it. She won some award during her senior year. I can’t remember what the award was called, or even why she specifically won it, other than the fact that she was one of the most talented people who ever joined our school’s drama department, and the award recognized that accomplishment. I remember noting the significance of the plaque, and how it would last for years beyond her time there. Why is that worth more? There was something distinctly
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valuable about her name being planted on the wall. It was a name that would be known and seen by those passing through the hallways for years following her time there. We often assume that acquiring fame will make our circumstances better. Or maybe it just reminds us that we have indeed “made it,” in life, because our efforts have been noted by many people, thus making them worth something. What does this desire for fame say about our intentions? In an age where you can be “exposed” on social media, or publically hated, there is more risk to acquiring fame. In becoming a “known name,” there is great potential for immense criticism, almost to an inhumane degree. If you make one wrong move, it can stain your name. It is permanent — marked with the stamp of impossible removal, for that one mistake is just a Google search away, locked in the histories of our devices that never forget. Our eternal glory may last, but it rests in the hands of all of us, with our widespread ability to make whatever we want known to the world. Our use of technology has bridged the gap between those in the public spotlight and those who simply observe the figures illuminated by the light. Now, more than ever, we have the ability to be remembered. But it does not promise a favorable result. If anything, there is more risk, more publicity and more knowledge about oneself that can circulate all over this universe. Your name may very well be known, possibly resulting in a lasting legacy, or likely, leaving the remnants of its antithesis — a tainted identity “known to all men far and near, now and forever.”
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‘M’ goaltending competition still open Wolverines close out FIELD HOCKEY
ANNA MARCUS Daily Sports Writer
Now, four games and an exhibition into its season, the Michigan hockey team has split goaltending time evenly between sophomores Jack LaFontaine and Hayden Lavigne. Mel Pearson has set the deadline for selecting a starting netminder at the eight-game mark. This deadline will come around in approximately two weeks after the Wolverines open conference play this weekend against Penn State and face Ferris State at home the following weekend. “It’s not unlike quarterbacks here at Michigan,” Pearson said at the onset of the season. “You’ve got three, four, five quarterbacks who are all pretty good, but usually one emerges and then takes the job.” LaFontaine and Lavigne
have already put up half of the showings that will dictate who will get to be the primary goaltender for the remainder of the season. With this important cut off looming in the near future, here is a closer look at the efforts of each goaltender so far in the season. Jack LaFontaine: LaFontaine boasts a perfect 2-0-0 record on the ice, an elite .950 save percentage and a minuscule 1.01 goals-against average. The goaltender’s performance has already transcended that of his freshman season where he recorded one win while in net. He has started the Friday nightcap against St. Lawrence and Vermont.
LaFontaine picked up his first win of the season against the Saints, which came in the Wolverines’ first game of the season. He registered 24 saves, and allowed only one goal throughout regulation. “LaFontaine was excellent in net (against St. Lawrence),” Pearson said. “You need goaltending, and I thought Jack was a huge difference for us in this game.” In the homeopener against Vermont on Friday night, LaFontaine again put on a stellar performance and recorded his second completegame win of the season. The sophomore netminder made five saves in each period, and let the puck slide by him only once. Notably, when the
It’s not unlike quarterbacks here at Michigan.
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Sophomore goaltender Hayden Lavigne has gone 1-1 over two starting outings this year, posting a .898 save percentage.
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‘M’ finishes fifth in last fall match AKUL VIJAYVARGIYA For the Daily
For a day, the Michigan men’s golf team looked like it could hang with the nation’s cream of the crop. Well actually, a half a day. After the first round, Michigan was just six shots behind No. 8 Baylor — the eventual-champion — with Carlson and Mueller shooting a 67 (-4) and 69 (-2), respectively. From there, the Wolverines didn’t fare as well. In their last match of the fall season, Michigan finished fifth out of 13 schools at the Royal Oaks course, a familiar location for experienced seniors Kyle Mueller and Ian Kim, as well as junior Nick Carlson, and it clearly showed in the tournament. “This tournament was really unusual because all five of the players played in one group together,” said Michigan coach Chris Whitten. “We’ve never done that since I’ve been head coach here. That team dynamic this week of seeing your teammates do well and having the momentum [spread] through the group was a big deal.” Indeed, it was a big deal. No one shot green numbers in the first round, as freshman Charlie Pilon and Kim both produced an even 71 for the first round. Michigan’s top-three standing in the tournament was short-lived, though. On the second round of day one, birdies were hard to come by and more bogeys creeped their way onto the scoreboard. Baylor, No. 15 Kent State and No. 17 Arkansas began to show their true colors as well, with all three schools shooting tremendous secondround scores. “In the second round, it’s not that we did anything a lot worse,” Whitten said. “We just didn’t make as many birdies. Sometimes, that’s just the
difference of (getting) a few feet closer on your approach shots and then just getting a couple more putts to go.” Heavy wind — a golfer’s worst enemy — dominated the course on the second day, and it showed especially in round 3 scores. “It was funny because (in) some other tournaments, our worst round a lot of times was our first round,” Whitten said. “Today, I would say the course played totally different. I mean, it was so windy that you almost had to play the wind on a fivefoot putt or a four-foot putt.” Contrary from the usual, the Wolverines played the par-3 holes as good as anyone but finished dead last in average scores for par-5 holes. Individually, Michigan’s top tandem of Carlson and Mueller continued their success, finishing third and 12th, respectively. But the Wolverines still couldn’t make up for the loss of freshman Henry Spring, who is currently back in his home country playing for a potential spot in the Masters and the Open Championship. “This is kind of a cool story actually,” Whitten said. “He’s qualified for the Asia Pacific Amateur, which is a really big tournament in New Zealand, his home country. So he’s in New Zealand right now about to play that and the winner of that tournament gets an exemption in the British Open and the Masters.” For the rest of the team, however, there is a long threemonth break before their next tournament in February, which kicks off the spring season. During this break, the Wolverines will have five days of strength and conditioning on top of swing practice, continuing their hunt to break into the nation’s top-25 come February. As Whitten said: “We’ll be ready. For sure.”
Catamounts held a 5-on-3 advantage during the second period, LaFontaine remained unfazed, notching four saves en route to Michigan escaping the dangerous penalty kill unscathed. Hayden Lavigne: Lavigne has gone 1-1-0 over his two outings this season, holding a quality .898 save percentage and a 2.50 goalsagainst average. In his season debut, the sophomore goaltender had to settle for a 3-0 loss to Clarkson. However, he still put up a solid effort, making 16 saves on the night and was instrumental in the Wolverines’ 5-for-6 mark on penalty kills. Lavigne notched his standout performance in the second game of the Vermont series. Saturday night he earned his first win in the net, and was fundamental to the Wolverines’ clutch weekend sweep. Lavigne registered 28 saves, shutting down many of the Catamounts’ most viable scoring opportunities. “I thought they had a few very good scoring opportunities,” Pearson said. “And (Lavigne) came up big.” After the first weekend of play, LaFontaine may appear to have a slight edge over Lavigne in the battle for the starting position. Yet, subsequent to the Vermont series, each goaltender has displayed at least one standout night and both hold impressive stats this year. These factors ensure that Pearson’s impending decision will be anything but easy. “Two good goalies in both Hayden and Jack,” said sophomore forward Adam Winborg following the Vermont series. “… 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.”
season with shutout DYLAN CHUNG Daily Sports Writer
It has been a regular season characterized by near-perfect execution for the No. 4 Michigan field hockey team — a sonorous symphony conducted with perfection by coach Marcia Pankratz and passionately played by a bevy of seniors. Tuesday night, that symphony concluded with a satisfying crescendo. The Wolverines easily dispatched Central Michigan, 4-0, in Mount Pleasant. The victory resulted, in part, from relentless offensive pressure and excellent passing by the Wolverines. “(The offense) does really well with basic skills – fundamentals,” Pankratz said. “Trapping and passing is the cornerstone of the game. We’ve been able to do it well and that’s allowed us to sustain our success.” From the outset of the match, the Wolverines (8-0 Big Ten, 16-2 overall) thoroughly dominated the Chippewas (0-5 Mid-American Conference, 0-16 overall). Michigan kept possession and generated several scoring chances early in the first half, but Central Michigan desperately fended off each of these chances. Then, Michigan junior defender Leah Cardarelli deftly beat goalie Lily Amadio, spinning with Bachian grace and chopping the ball at the seemingly wide-open net. Suddenly, Chippewa defender Ali Huddleson came out of nowhere and stretched her stick out, barely stopping the ball from rolling over the line. Mere inches separated Cardarelli from her second goal of the season. Yet again, Central Michigan had fended off an excellent Wolverine attack.
But the Chippewas defense would not hold forever. With about 20 minutes left in the half, sophomore midfielder Meg Dowthwaite received the ball on the right side of the field and fired a cross to the front of the net. Junior forward Emma Way redirected it to junior midfielder Katie Walker, who pounded it into the back of the net to give Michigan a 1-0 lead. A mere 35 seconds later, Dowthwaite pounced on a ball in the middle of the shooting circle and flung it past several Chippewa defenders and a sprawling Amadio with the sheer force of Mozart’s symphony No. 25. The Wolverines suddenly had a 2-0 lead — a lead that they would never look back from. In the second half, senior back Katie Trombetta and graduate forward Carly Bennet each tacked on another goal to Michigan’s lead. Due to suffocating defense, the Wolverines didn’t concede a single shot attempt, let alone a goal, to the Chippewas — the 10th shutout of their 13-game winning streak. “They just communicate really well and organize the defense,” Pankratz said. “Of course, (senior goalkeeper Sam Swenson) does a great job in goal as well. And we’ve got some speed back there on the side back position. Put that all together and that’s a very solid foundation (for our defense).” As the final notes of a truly stellar regular season begin to fade into silence, the Wolverines know that they are capable of ending the postseason with a national title — but Pankratz doesn’t want her team to focus on that. Even-keeled as always, Pankratz said, “the next game is the most important one.”
Wolverines aim to put blowout in the past BETELHEM ASHAME Managing Sports Editor
These are uncertain times for the Michigan football team. Saturday night, the nowunranked Wolverines suffered their worst loss since 2015 — another 42-13 blowout at the hands of thenNo. 2 Ohio State — and they have faced a storm of backlash as a result. Though they faced a wave of criticism after their first loss to Michigan State, this is the wave that could threaten to bring their sails crashing down. In the high-stakes atmosphere of college football, one loss has the potential to poke holes in a resume. Two losses has the potential to sink a season. But Monday, Michigan argued that its ship is still intact. “With any team and fanbase, there’s going to be negative talk about it. That’s just the way it is,” said fifth-year senior fullback Henry Poggi. “Everyone wants perfection, and when that doesn’t happen, people start falling off the ship.
“We know that no one on our team can fall off the ship.” Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has taken it upon himself to steer the Wolverines in the right direction. After Saturday’s game, he told them about those fans who would hop off the bandwagon and express negative opinions about the state of the team. He didn’t have to tell them. In the often-critical landscape of social media, Twitter and Instagram give those types of fans a platform to voice their complaints either directly or indirectly. College athletes, whose social media presence is typically monitored by the communications departments of their respective programs, have to learn how to deal with the hits without hitting back. Junior wide receiver Grant Perry said he just keeps scrolling to bypass the negativity. Poggi said he just doesn’t follow people who engage in that kind of activity. For a Michigan team dominated by underclassmen, it can be easy for the outside noise to seep through.
The Wolverines’ veterans see it as their responsibility to turn down the dial. “It’s a pretty bad loss,” Poggi said. “But the best thing about football during the season is that you have another game coming up to correct your wrongs. … The best way to put something in the young guys is just to lead by example. Show them that we’re still practicing hard. Practice harder to correct what happened.” Added redshirt junior right tackle Juwann Bushell-Beatty: “I think emotions are high. Going forward, I think we’re just going to continue to do what we do and try to improve our game and continue to learn from our mistakes. I think, most importantly, going forward as a team we just need to learn confidence and trust in ourselves.” Michigan doesn’t have to look very far back to find an example of how one loss can turn into a string of them if the Wolverines aren’t careful about how they respond to it. In 2016, Michigan’s first loss, to Iowa in November, was also
unexpected. And while the Wolverines were able to respond with a win over Indiana — as they also did this year — they lost the final two games of their season to then-No. 2 Ohio State and then-No. 10 Florida State. Though Michigan’s losses have come much earlier this season, Harbaugh said Monday that the lesson he intends to teach is the same. “The team that goes through this understands — can have a great opportunity of understanding — where there needs to be a response,” he said. “The response that comes as coaches and players (is) gotta keep coaching and players gotta find out what they’re made of from a competitive standpoint. “The going gets tough, the tough get going. It’s a cliché, but clichés are usually clichés because they’re true.” Harbaugh was then asked if he thought the Wolverines had it in them. “I believe we do,” he said. “(I) believe that this team will respond.”
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Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh emphasized that a loss to the second-ranked Nittany Lions will allow the Wolverines to learn something about themselves.
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After winding path to Michigan, Hawkins settling in on defense ORION SANG
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Brad Hawkins committed to Michigan over two years ago on July 3, 2015. Then ranked as a four-star athlete from New Jersey, Hawkins expected to sign with the Wolverines in February of 2016 and arrive on campus that summer. As it turned out, his path to Ann Arbor would be longer than expected. While his grades were fine and he was a qualifier, an NCAA Clearinghouse issue popped up: Hawkins had attended two high schools in Camden, and the first school had not submitted his transcript to the NCAA. Because of the miscommunication, Hawkins wouldn’t find out his status until mid-summer of 2016 at the earliest — too late for him to participate in Michigan’s summer program. Faced with the decision of waiting for an answer from the NCAA — that he couldn’t even be sure would clear him — or taking a prep year, Hawkins chose the latter. His coaches at Camden High School helped him look for a new school that he could attend before arriving at Michigan as a member of the 2017 class. Suffield Academy, led by head coach Drew Gamere, quickly stood out as an option. “I’d been in contact with one of the coaches and I think they felt like Brad could benefit from an extra year anyway,” Gamere told The Daily in July. “We had Brad on campus, and he just struck me right away as a great kid. Very humble and eager to learn and develop his skills — football being one of them, but then everything else that comes with it. The study skills in the classroom, all that stuff.”
In initial conversations, Gamere sensed Hawkins was disappointed he wouldn’t be able to enroll at Michigan as planned. But that emotion, according to Gamere, quickly turned to excitement once Hawkins visited Suffield’s campus and met his future teammates and coaching staff. Gamere himself, of course, was excited for the opportunity to coach a player of Hawkins’ caliber — and personality. “He was a pleasure to work with and very coachable, and I think that for us, it was the most important thing,” Gamere said, “because you don’t always get that with the guys that are the most talented.” Gamere witnessed Hawkins continue to develop on the field as he recorded 51 receptions for 868 yards and 11 touchdowns. But the coach also saw personal growth from his new star — something that Jim Harbaugh quickly became aware of, as well. “When Coach Harbaugh visited here, he said to us that he couldn’t believe how much Brad had grown,” Gamere said. “He had gone from this kid that didn’t really say much and was shy and didn’t talk much, to a guy that was giving Coach Harbaugh a tour and was as popular as anybody on campus.” Things never wavered between Michigan and Hawkins, and he finally made his way to Ann Arbor this past summer. He’s appeared in several games thus far, mostly on special teams as a kick returner. When asked whether his prep year gave him an advantage over other freshmen, Hawkins was noncommittal. That’s not to say it didn’t change him, though. “It just gave me a better year academically, basically,”
Hawkins said Tuesday night. “I got a lot stronger, I got more mature, so that helped.” One of the biggest questions facing Hawkins was which position he would play in college. In high school, he did most of his damage on offense while moonlighting as a safety. He’s still practicing at multiple spots. But right now, it appears Hawkins is closer to figuring things out. “Right now, I’m playing VIPER,” he said. “VIPER and safety.” Hawkins had already moved to the secondary entering the season. But he didn’t start repping at Michigan’s hybrid linebacker-safety position until around when the Wolverines played Air Force. Hawkins recalled that it wasn’t his decision. One day, the coaches simply told him he’d be moving to VIPER. For someone who already went through one position change, it would have been understandable had Hawkins faced his next move with trepidation. After all, another switch means more time learning the system, more time studying the playbook — and less of a chance to hit the field. Hawkins, though, has made the move with enthusiasm. “I think that’s where I can make my money at in the future,” Hawkins said. “We made the move, and everything feels comfortable right now.” Hawkins admitted that he still has to get used to his new position. He says he was used to “hanging out in the middle of the field” as a safety and needs to improve his blitzing. But, according to him, things are still going smoothly. “Everything’s falling in place right now,” Hawkins said. “I’m just being patient and just waiting my turn.”
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avier Legrand’s film “Custody,” which I watched this past weekend at the Chicago International Film Festival, centers around a custody battle in which two children, a boy who looks to be about 9 or 10 years old and a girl nearing her 18th birthday with one foot already out the door, feel threatened by their father. Their protestations fail to persuade a judge to avoid granting some degree of custody to the father. We learn the father is a menace. He’s easily frustrated and feels insecure about his distance from his children. He takes his anger out on his children and essentially stalks his ex-wife. In the film’s conclusion, the boy is broken inside. But in the film’s opening scene, the hearing to determine custody, there’s a degree of uncertainty about the parents’ respective parenting abilities. We get both parents’ perspectives (albeit mostly through their lawyers’ words) and we’re not sure whether the complaints about the father are valid. Not to mention, it seems rather unfair that a father would be all but barred from seeing his children. But, of course, by the end, one can’t help but feel regret for even feeling a modicum of sympathy for the monster. I wasn’t terribly surprised when my parents, in a nondescript Ann Arbor hotel room in the fall of 2015, announced their divorce, but I was still shaken. The informal discussion that followed clarified that I could spend my time with which parent I wanted to, that there would be no judgment. I’ll give my parents all due credit: I’ve never really felt outward pressure from them to spend all my time with either in particular. Not to mention, since they divorced after I turned 18, I was not subject to the often-terrible proceedings of a custody battle. And I in no way mean to classify either my mother or father as in a similar camp as the father in “Custody.”
But intra-marital disputes have a peculiar effect on children, and splitting the home into two separate circles of people exacerbates that tension, especially for children, regardless of intent. It was easy at first. The realities of the suburban housing market trapped us in our house for about two years, but even then, it was easy to feel that my allegiance was being tested. Mom would work during the day and Dad would work
in the city of Chicago either, but at least there’s a view and parks right outside. When Mom and Dad lived together, even post-divorce, there was an appearance of responsibility for me to play an equal role in both of my parents’ lives. Now, I know Dad’s rental of a single apartment is mostly out of convenience and financial concerns — how am I supposed to not read some value, or lack thereof, into that decision? This, I learned, is the cost of divorce: It’s not that your parents are not together, it’s that they’re separated. It’s that every interaction with either one of them is a reminder that you have to repeat the same information to the other, too, and pretend as if they were the one you called first. Any bit of news they get from you about their former significant other is potentially an armament that serves to justify their decision, and you become complicit in their war. This is all a bit exaggerated; I doubt my ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY KOFFSKYparents consciously use me to air out their grievances in the evenings, so when I returned home from against each other or to serve as a conduit to breaks, one half of each day would be dedicated each other, so they don’t have to talk to each to either parent. An invitation to join Mom or other, but it’s impossible to escape these feelings Dad to an event or to go to a museum or go out when you have to drive the pants that one parent to dinner seemed like a ploy to monopolize my mistakenly took from the house but waited to time, to breed loyalty. return them until you arrived so you wouldn’t When the house was sold and Dad moved to have to see your ex. the city while Mom stayed in the suburbs, my The worst part — OK, not the worst, but ability to split my time between the two became perhaps the visibly irksome — is the assortment more complicated. This was partly beneficial of old rugs and furniture that dots each parent’s since Mom’s apartment had more room, and new home. Our living room is in Mom’s. Our thus a room for me, staying in the suburbs made family room is in Dad’s. Visible reminders of a more logistical sense. But I hate the suburbs. house that once was and a family that has been Aside from the library’s large music collection since split apart, ripped into pieces but sewn and this one pizza place I eat at quite frequently, together to keep up the appearance that things I find myself so restless in Northbrook. My are just as they were. friends have different breaks than me, and I’m It’s not that I want the furniture to go away. I often alone. Not that I know that many people want it all back together.
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eople have been going on pilgrimages for eons. Whether it’s to gaze upon the Shroud of Turin, visit the tomb of St. James or stand inside the vaulted nave of some distant cathedral, humans as a species have shown a remarkable capacity for uprooting themselves and their lives just for the chance to seek out meaning in some distant destination. In the Middle Ages, members of the faithful might travel for weeks on end to reach a holy site — some never arrived, and many never returned. My trip took three days, more or less, a sort of hypercondensed there and back again. Automobility is a lovely thing, really, if you discount its contribution to the ongoing ecological catastrophe that is industrial capitalism. Not that I actually drove myself, though — somehow, over the course of the past half-decade or so, I’ve managed to avoid getting a driver’s license. I even took a driver’s education course once, but never followed up on the actual license acquisition part. Honestly, this fact probably isn’t a positive, but I’ve come to view it as a kind of eccentric point of pride. Regardless, when it came time to make the journey, I was reliant on two friends to make my way there. Oh yeah, we went to see the eclipse. That’s there. Does anyone really want to read about people going on a road trip of self-discovery anymore? We’ve had Kerouac, Nabokov and all the rest of them, so why bother with another? But whether we’ve had enough, somehow I can’t settle on any other story of my own to share, at least not one that I’d be comfortable presenting in a public setting. So this is what you get to read about, something that maybe has something meaningful
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last summer (I took classes spring and summer terms), and turned in relatively early to compensate for the hour at which we had to rise the next morning. When we got up, we hopped in the car and rode an hour or so north, traveling by back roads to avoid traffic. Not surprisingly, when we entered the path of totality there were absurd numbers of people. The eclipse was certainly the largest secular
In front of us on our way up was a shirtless, hippie-ish man burning incense and playing a wooden recorder. I really wonder what his story is. At the apex of the mountain a crowd had gathered, far too many people to really settle in comfortably, so we looked around for alternative viewing options. After a consultation with a park ranger, we decided to hike back down the mountain (via a different route)
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the first day we stopped at a diner for breakfast, whereat I was called a quitter by our server for turning down a 14th cup of coffee. Once we made it to Kentucky, the scenery was beautiful, and once we were on the winding mountain roads of the Appalachians, one of my friends took the wheel and led us on a high-speed ride that was simultaneously thrilling and terrifying. When we arrived at my family’s home in Georgia, we were exhausted and happy to have a rest. We spend the night socializing with my parents, who were happy to actually see me at all
pilgrimage I can think of, and it showed. Conservative estimates suggest that 20 million people went out of their way to watch it, less conservative (ironically from the University of Michigan) estimates give 215 million as the number. A CNN poll beforehand indicated that a full half of the U.S. population at least considered watching it. Somehow we found a place to park, and along with innumerable others, set about climbing a mountain in a state park to get the best view. By this point in the day, the wet, Southern August heat felt oppressive, and though it was an easy trek, the walk felt long.
in search of a lake that was allegedly there. Thankfully, it was, and after a few miles we arrived at the lakeside about an hour and a half before totality. So, we waited. I’m not certain what to say about the eclipse itself. The sky went dark and the temperature dropped. Shadows shifted in uncanny ways and colors changed to subtly strange hues. Crickets began to chirp and birds flew in confused circles. A few bright stars appeared in the sky. For a few minutes, it felt as if the world had stopped turning on its axis — the whole thing was eerily biblical, really. When it passed, a moment had to be taken just to reorient.
Months later, the event (aside from being a memory that is just generally “cool”) left me with a few muddled up thoughts. Sitting there, watching as one gargantuan object passed in front of another astronomically — literally astronomically — larger one, I just couldn’t shake the feelings associated with being incredibly small compared to the sheer scale of the forces involved with what I was seeing. I’ve always had a sort of cursory fascination with the cosmos, in a kind of gee-isn’tthis-really-cool-but-terrifying sort of way, and every so often — usually at night, always when alone — I experience this almost physical sensation of my person collapsing down into somewhere in my viscera while the whole incomprehensible expanse of the cosmos opens above me. Watching the eclipse was like that, but in slow motion. I’ve always wondered about the expression “one in a million.” Most often it’s used to convey this idea of uniqueness, a kind of “you are special” utterance. But to my ears it can take on a far less comforting tone. When I hear “one in a million,” it reminds me of the mind-boggling immensity of it all, and of my own relative smallness. One out of a million is a very insignificant piece. But in journeying to see this astronomical event, I was one in millions, not a million. And the star that I watched be blotted out, our own lifegiving incandescent orb, isn’t even one in millions, but one in septillions. The hugeness of the universe is literally inconceivable to me. And that’s why, in the scheme of it all, I’m not sure what exactly my eclipse pilgrimage means, if anything at all. Maybe the lesson is simply that you’re not always the main character in the story you thought of as your own.
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Forty kilograms,” the ballet instructor announces. Silent agreement among faculty and other students is palpable in the studio, albeit the obvious tension. It’s an easy 4 kilograms below the number where the scale’s needle hovers — a sigh escapes, relief fills my chest. I step off and watch the needle bobble back to zero, a number I will never be. This was my seventh grade. It was routine for me. After four hours of ballet every day, we weighed in and heard our “ideal” weights announced to the class, a public service announcement to spark incentive. A scale was kept under the piano, right by the accompanist’s feet. We were praised when we were under, condemned for every half-pound we were over. No amount of sweat — enough to wring from our leotards — was ever good enough. It was a balance between satisfaction with the ref lection in the mirror and having enough fuel in your body to get through the night. It was nothing short of destructive. I kept this mentality with me, through
boarding school and part of college afterward — the pressure to conform, the ever-present desire to be liked by a choreographer, a teacher, a coach lingered in the back of my mind. In high school, I listened to my friends purging in the bathrooms, taking laxatives like candy and throwing away food without giving it a second thought. The phases came in and out of my life, as they did for many of my friends in dance. It’s difficult to denounce a lifestyle that has been etched into your brain, diet and outlook on food. It’s consuming — present at every store, social event, relationship. You never realize how pervasive food is — the way it brings people together, maintains friendships and creates new ones. It wasn’t until college and a pre-med curriculum that I found some peace with my body. Or made efforts to do so. The facts became harder and harder to neglect: anemia, brain defects, infertility, multiorgan failure. It quickly became apparent that the effects were long-lasting and severe. For the first time, it was
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real. Over the past few decades, eating disorders have been a topic of conversation on college campuses. Universities across the country have dedicated services specifically for eating disorder treatment. The University of Michigan offers help to students battling eating disorders through programs at University Health Services and Counseling and Psychological Services, along with other smaller organizations and student-run groups like Wolverine Wellness and MBody. Michigan Medicine has a Comprehensive Eating Disorders Program, providing individualized care for patients between 8 and 24 years old. Dr. Terrill Bravender, David S. Rosen Collegiate Professor of Adolescent Medicine, is a program physician and section chief of the University’s Comprehensive Eating Disorders program. When I interviewed him, Bravender spoke of the college campus as a stimulant of eating disorders. “If you think about it, if you’re at risk for developing eating disorders, college culture is perfect,” he said. “You’ve got rec centers that are open 24 hours a day, you have high emphasis on appearance, you have an opportunity for 24-hour-aday eating and all of a sudden as a college freshmen, you are responsible for creating your own structure in your life. All of these distractors can make people’s lives feel like they’re spinning out of control.” Despite the prevalence and severity of eating disorders, there are few nationwide studies on the disease within college students. Although surveys on individual campuses and wellness centers have been conducted, there has been a lack of nationwide data on the younger 18-to-24 year-old population in general. It wasn’t until recently that two University public health researchers took matters in their own hands. University professors Kendrin Sonneville and Sarah Lipson, assistant professors in nutritional sciences and health management and policy respectively, conducted a nationwide study on university students with eating disorders. Published in 2017, the 9,713-person study aimed to determine risk profiles for eating disorders in a diverse population. The study measured the risks of students from various backgrounds to develop an eating disorder or disordered eating hab-
its with the long-term goal of taking preventive measures and improving current treatment. Although eating disorders and disordered eating often result in physical symptoms, the disorder is a mental illness, characterized by an obsessive, unhealthy relationship with food. With the highest mortality rate among mental illness, eating disorders remain an insidious part of American culture. According to DSM-5, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association, there are five categories of eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating disorder, feeling or eating disorders not elsewhere classified (FED-NEC), and other eating disorders including body dysmorphic disorder (intrusive, imagined or inaccurate perceptions of one’s body image) and orthorexia (the fixation on overly righteous eating habits). Researchers are studying people who do not fit into the strict criteria of the DSM-5, but nonetheless have unhealthy relationships with food. Although these people do not have full-f ledged eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia, they are characterized as having subclinical eating pathology, or “disordered eating,” which can develop into a clinical disorder. Disordered eating affects a much larger population in college communities and is now being targeted for earlier preventative measures. “If you think about eating disorders like other conditions, it would be like saying, ‘We’re not going to treat you until you have stage 5 cancer.’” Sonneville said. “When you think about it that way, it doesn’t make any sense. There are early symptoms that if not addressed will progress to worse symptoms, and so Sarah and I took a public health approach. We looked at high levels of disordered eating behaviors that are themselves problematic, but may actually progress if unaddressed.” The study sought to observe other potentially inf luential characteristics like age, degree-level, gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, and citizenship. After extensive analysis, the two researchers concluded undergraduate student status, non-straight men, and overweight or obese students were at the highest risk for developing an eating disorder.
“There’s been appreciation in my field of public health and descriptive epidemiology about what is the face of eating disorders,” Sonneville said. “There’s this long-standing myth that eating disorders affect skinny, white, aff luent girls. … We are seeing it across socioeconomic spectrum and across racial, ethnic groups. What we’re realizing is that the face of eating disorders — the stereotypical notion of what eating disorders look like — is not true.” Sonneville and Lipson reported a startling 49 percent of female students engaging in binge-eating behaviors and 30 percent in men engaged in these behaviors. Female students were also more likely to engage in compensatory behaviors like food restriction and dieting compared to men — 31 percent to 29 percent. “We wanted to get a sense of who is actually struggling and suffering on campus, because unless you understand who is suffering, it’s really hard to understand how you target early intervention, how you target prevention efforts,” Sonneville said. Based on these findings, the two researchers urge universities to take preventative actions by conducting earlier and more regular eating disorder screenings. “What we found is that eating disorder pathology is really common on college campuses. We saw even smaller sex differences than others find — with compensatory behaviors like self-induced vomiting and compulsive exercising to be almost the same among males and females in our sample,” Sonneville said. The ever-rising, incessant presence of social media in college culture often perpetuates the existing problem. The risks of exposure to idealized body types through social media is an emerging field of research. Bravender spoke about unrealistic body images being projected through media like Instagram. “When we saw photoshopped or digitally altered images 10 years ago, it was because a beauty company or fashion company or diet company was trying to sell us a product. Now, if we see a digitally altered image, it might be our friends on social media using filters or other things,” Sonneville said. “It used to be for-profit industries that were trying to propagate this ideal, and now, we’re all trying to do it. That is a totally new phenomena in eating disorder risk factors.” Former U-M rower Traci Carson is now a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Public Health. Having personally experience with disordered eating, Carson spoke about the role of social media in her college and graduate school life. “Being somebody that is constantly comparing myself to other people, I have seen how social media can be damaging for my own thoughts about food and thoughts about my body,” Carson said. “In the last few months, I’ve made a con-
scious effort to make sure that the people I’m seeing on social media are not people who are feeding into my disorder. I will delete or unfollow people as soon as I see anything that triggers me to want to restrict or go exercise more or feel shame about the way that I look.” Shannon Nulf, a School of Music, Theatre & Dance freshman studying dance, echoed Carson’s sentiments. “When there’s a medium that’s usually edited, polished and filtered, I definitely think that plays into a mental self-loathing. When you see all of this perfection in social media, that can mess with your head,” Nulf said. She also spoke about the dangers of certain social media. Some contain blogs or accounts acting as instruction manuals for someone at risk or in the midst of an eating disorder. Nulf spoke about finding information on specific social media sites that encouraged unhealthy habits and eating disorders. “When I was in the throes of anorexia, I was trying to find other people like me and see what I was doing,” Nulf said. She spoke about using social media sites like Tumblr to see how other people with anorexia were restricting their food intake and cutting weight—She often compared their methods to her own or looked for ideas on how to continue losing weight. “There are Tumblrs on how to have an eating disorder. … It was all there for me, it was a resource that I wish I hadn’t had.” Perhaps our next steps may involve using this pervasive medium to reach large groups of people and encourage more constructive ways of thinking about food. Bravender spoke about the dangers of teenagers and young adults viewing social media’s idealized body types as direct messages to them. “If you’re looking at these Instagram feeds of perfection and you believe that that’s speaking to you and telling you how you should be, then it significantly raises your risk for developing an eating disorder,” Bravender said. “If you’re able to push that off to the side and be a savvy media consumer and realize that these perfect images aren’t possible and realize they’re just images and just a brand someone is trying to sell you, then that doesn’t confer risk of an eating disorder.” However, social media doesn’t seem to be entirely negative. Nulf and Carson raised similar ideas of filtering content by unfollowing or selectively choosing accounts. Kinesiology freshman Maddie Ross has proactively incorporated social media into her path to recovery, posting on an Instagram account the food she makes. “I started this food Instagram account at the beginning of my recovery because I found other people who were in recovery on Instagram,” Ross said. “There are nutrition blogs that focus on intuitive eating and health at every size. You have to find the positive pockets in social
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media, because there is so much negative. You have to realize where the negative is and put your blinders on when you see it or get away from it. It’s much easier said than done.” Despite the abundance of these “communication” channels for photos and videos, many illness narratives and experiences are left untold. Ross spoke about the onset of her anorexia when she was in middle school and high school. “I felt like I had no control over my friendships or anything, but eating was the one place I could control. I thought that I was being healthy,” she said. Nulf’s story followed a similar pattern of downward spiral and loss of control. “It was all rooted in a big, body dysmorphic view I had of myself. Then, it just spiraled and spiraled,” she said. “My hair started falling out and I just wanted to sleep. I started to fight with my friends and parents. I couldn’t sleep. I lost my period — a lot of medical effects.” Students, myself included, are often unaware of exactly how ubiquitous the issue is. For how widespread and lethal the consequences are, the lack of dia-
logue on campus is striking. “Eating disorders in general are diseases of denial and secrecy,” Sonneville said. “There is shame, there is fear, there are a lot of underlying emotional things for someone who is actively struggling.” Eating disorders, like other mental illnesses, generally lack dialogue on campus, there is a smaller subpopulation within the community that is often overlooked: athletes. According to Bravender, there are three types of athletic endeavors that put students at particular susceptibility for developing eating disorders or disordered eating. The first group are athletes who may experience an initial improvement in performance from weight loss. These often include cross-country or long-distance runners. “In people who are at risk, there’s a little click that happens, and thinks, ‘Well if I lose five pounds and I improved a little bit, maybe if I lose 10 pounds I’ll improve more,’ and they try that,” Bravender said. “Of course, there’s a point of diminishing return, and as you lose more weight, your running See BODY IMAGE, Page 6B
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BODY IMAGE From Page 5B worsens. And in those who are at particular risk, they’ll think, ‘Well, I need to lose more weight,” and it becomes a self-perpetuating spiral downwards of worsening physical condition.” The second group of athletes are those engaging in aesthetic sports where performance is judged subjectively. Dancers, gymnasts and figure skaters are common for this category of susceptibility. “There’s no free-throw percentage or soccer goal being scored. You are performing for a judge, and because it’s a performance where all eyes are on you, it increases the self-consciousness of appearance and raises your risk of developing an eating disorder,” Bravender explained. The third group includes sports that divide its competitors into weight classes like wrestling, judo and rowing. According to Bravender, this is a massive issue, in which athletes feel pressured to reduce to their lowest weight for competitive advantage. It wasn’t until multiple tragic deaths of collegiate wrestlers that the National Collegiate Athletic Association made regulations in 2012 and has since, not observed any deaths from unhealthy weight cutting practices. However, the tensions around body image and weight remain high among college athletes. The shielded nature of the topic makes it particularly hard to speak about in competitive settings. “I think it came from the Type A nature that is Michigan, that is Michigan sports, that is a Michigan studentathlete. I definitely did not see it across my whole team, and I can only speak from my own experience that it started much earlier for me than rowing,” Carson said. Carson’s sports career started with soccer and then cross-country, until she began rowing at the University. “You can usually pick out a rower because they
are significantly taller than other athletes and have strong, beautiful shoulders. I wouldn’t say that it was my sport involvement that lead to my desire to fit my desired body image that was smaller than what I was,” she said. “I think for me, it started much earlier. I had already had that mentality and the disordered frame of thinking.” Nulf’s story shared similar elements of disorder and conformity. She traced the beginnings of her abnormal relationship with food to her earlier figure-skating career. “I definitely had skating coaches who made comments and put pressure on kids in our skating clubs to look a certain way and be a certain way,” she said. At the beginning of high school, she began crosscountry and then dance. With the stress of college auditions for dance programs, the anorexia morphed into something else. “That stress made me snap and I really started binge-eating, but to compensate for that, I began binging and purging. It was a one-time thing, then it was a two-time thing, and then a once-a-week thing, until it progressed and progressed to a multiple-times-daily thing,” Nulf said. When thinking about the heightened risk for eating disorders and disordered eating among athletes, I question my own habits. Maybe it’s something in the regimented training that permits this sort of bodymind detachment to occur. I remember thinking my decisions around food were promoting my artistic career and therefore saw no negative consequence in straining my body — in fact, I was proud of my achievements in weight loss. However, the balance between performance and body image is a constant, underlying current of tension. “It’s a huge regret that I have,” Carson said. “In college, what my body looked like became more important than what my performance looked like. … I wanted to be the best athlete I could, but at that time, the disordered thoughts were stronger than
my rational thoughts.” Carson spoke about being clouded by her disordered thoughts that she had convinced herself she was aiding her performance. “I kept losing weight through my years, and my physical performance went down with my weight,” she said. “It’s hard for to look back at that time because I was putting my body through so much physical and emotional stress, all for what I now know was wanting to look a certain way.” As a dancer of 19 years, this performance-versusbody sacrifice is something that resonates deeply. Sonneville explained this tug of war as a common pressure among young athletes. “There is a real trade-off, in order to maintain a particular body type for some people is going to require disordered eating,” she said. “People who have a skill and ability in a sport will face a moment in their career that says, in order to maintain this body type, this is a real sacrifice I have to make — I cannot have both things.” Sonneville emphasized the difficulty in this decision, especially when athletes are surrounded by people who praise them for their sport, have parents who have invested time and energy, or even a coach that reinforces unhealthy messages of eating. She urges coaches to cultivate a team culture that is a safe space. “A place where people disclose, a place where people are allowed to suffer and struggle,” she said. “I think you have to model vulnerability if you are in a position of authority. Be particularly mindful of who your athletes are, who your students are and what they’re at risk of.” As a former U-M athlete, Carson reiterates the necessity for fostering the right environment for students. “Seeing help-seeking as a strength and not a weakness — I think that’s something sports struggle with is viewing mental health as a weakness and it’s not,” Carson said. “At the end of the day, your mental health is more important than your physical performance. But
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when you’re in the culture of athletics, it doesn’t feel that way. Even when I was in that place, it didn’t feel that way: the team, the team, the team.” However, there is extensive work being done to better treat and prevent eating-related disorders among athletes. The NCAA has implemented various eating disorder research and prevention programs like The Female Athlete Body Project — an interactive series of verbal, written and behavioral exercises to promote a healthier lifestyle and mindset. Carson stresses the importance of mental health and pushes for annual screenings earlier on in athletes’ careers. “I really think the athletic department could better serve its athletes by allocating some more funding to this area,” Carson said. “I think that mental health, which includes eating disorders, should be a bigger priority. Because without mental health, you can’t be a great student, a great athlete, a great friend, a great teammate.” The urgency for better prevention and intervention is apparent. Eating disorders are a physical and mental problem in need of attention and appropriate care. It isn’t a diet pill or exercise plan you can unsubscribe to. It’s much more complex.
Sometimes I wonder what my body would be like without the scale under the piano and the traumatizing embarrassment of a target weight too far below the actual. I wonder if I wouldn’t have stopped growing and could’ve been taller like my brother. Sometimes I wonder if sacrificing my health for my craft was worth it — and I still don’t have a clear answer. So where do we being? How do we tackle this illness, this stigma, this fine balance between sacrifice and well-being? “I’m hoping we are going towards a more holistic approach to prevention,” Sonneville said. “Right now, there’s a lot of money and research dedicated to obesity prevention and there’s this idea that this has to be different from eating disorder prevention. … We are working towards the same goal, but we get stuck in these silos with this messaging that is off-putting to the other field. If we are addressing obesity with the expense of increasing weight stigma, body dissatisfaction and disordered eating, that’s a real problem.” As a researcher, former athlete and subject of disordered eating, Carson hopes to see greater efforts into redefining the face of eating disorders. “Eating disorders are not
about the size of your body, they’re about your thoughts. I think it’s really good for people to be aware of that — you may have friends and family members who may not look like what you see on a TV show, but it’s really not about your size or your BMI,” Carson said. “It’s about this obsessive thought process around food. I always thought I couldn’t have an eating disorder — I’m not small enough, I’m not thin enough. It’s not about that.” Bravender pushes for eating disorders to be recognized as the medical conditions they are. “You can look at that as having a glass of wine with dinner is normal, but if the emphasis becomes so much on the drinking that you become an alcoholic, we treat that as an illness,” he said. “We don’t treat that as just an annoying behavior, there is something wrong that needs specific treatment.” Like addiction, like any mental illness, eating disorders and disordered eating should be treated the same way. “The right thing to do is to get treated, just as if you had diabetes or cancer or a broken leg, you’d seek treatment,” he said. “And there’s no stigma attached to those other medical issues, why should there be for eating disorders?”
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Personal Statement: Capturing the small sports by Zoey Holmstrom, Senior Photo Editor
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e’re all taught at a very young age that great results come from hard work and perseverance. Athleticism has always fascinated me, and it’s safe to say that most of America feels this way, too. We spend hours of our Saturdays glued to the TV watching football games. We stay up late if our teams are playing in different time zones. Sports culture is enormous in the United States, and this rings especially true at the University of Michigan. As a senior at the University, I’ve done an obscene amount of self ref lection these past few weeks. More specifically, ref lecting on my time at The Daily and memories of some of the biggest trips I’ve taken to cover athletics: to Joe Louis Arena for the last “Duel at the D” in history, to Kansas City (which isn’t actually in Kansas) to see Oregon defeat Michigan in the Sweet Sixteen by one point, to Iowa to see the Hawkeyes defeat the Wolverines by one point. These were all exciting and monumental moments in my photography career, but I find myself ref lecting on small, less popular sports as some of the pinnacle moments in crafting my images. I believe it will always be the less popular sports like women’s basketball, lacrosse or tennis, that I can accredit to my success. There are certain photos you have to capture at major sports like football, basketball or hockey. There’s immense pressure to get these photos because capturing the biggest moments of action are critical. If you fail, it’s obvious; your publication doesn’t feature the shots. While I am always grateful to be able to cover football or men’s basketball, it oftentimes feels as though the creative, storytelling aspect isn’t as important as getting these game-specific shots. If you miss a touchdown or scored point, your work doesn’t seem to hold as much credibility compared to someone who captured every pivotal moment in a game. While this pressure creates incredible opportunities for growth in the field of sports photography, I sometimes feel as though my creative voice is lost in the demand for specific photographs. Though photographing the big sports provides a unique wave of energy, I often prefer the intimacy of smaller ones. I can still remember my first time walking into the Crisler Center to photograph women’s basketball — it was my first time photographing a Michigan Athletics event. I’m sure I looked like I had no idea what I was doing (two different event staff asked if I knew where I was going), but I was determined. Even though this was an
important game against Michigan’s bitter rival Ohio State, hardly any photographers were present. The atmosphere in Crisler felt relaxed, but I still felt the need to purely capture action shots. During my second basketball game a few weeks later, I walked into Crisler and noticed a sea of pink: pink jerseys, pink shoes, pink headbands, pink pompoms. I quickly learned it was the team’s annual Pink Game, an afternoon spent paying tribute to those fighting or who have already fought against breast cancer. This was my second time taking photographs of a Michigan game. I snapped a few photos of the pink elements but figured they wouldn’t have much use because they weren’t action-related. During halftime, a Daily reporter found me on the court and said he was writing about the impact and importance of the Pink Game. He asked if I could try to capture as many pink-related photos as I could because they would add to the story. It seemed like a simple gesture at the time, but this moment had a profound impact on my view of sports pho-
tography. I still hold onto this moment today — it has taught me time and time again to capture stories beyond just the game itself. Though peak action shots are important to any given game, it’s equally as important to tell a story with my photography — especially one that isn’t often told. The smaller sports at Michigan often don’t receive much publicity. As a photographer, I believe it’s part of my responsibility to give these teams the same attention I would the football, hockey and basketball teams. With this in mind, I cover as many Michigan Athletics events as my schedule allows. My favorite is covering women’s gymnastics. While popular sports like football present the challenge of capturing the perfect image of peak action, gymnastics has its own set of challenges: finding a unique angle that fully captures the event. Women’s gymnastics never fails to present me with this wonderful challenge of finding unique angles. Meets are
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always fast-paced, not taking any time for lengthy breaks in between events. With a challenge to create unique visual imagery with each different meet I photograph, this sport gives me tools to succeed in any other sport I’m shooting. If I feel myself getting too comfortable in a position on the hardwood floor, I force myself to move elsewhere to find a new angle. Though I’m not actually performing the difficult routines that gymnasts do, I perform to capture their grace and elegance in their athleticism. That is the challenge of storytelling. I’ve received photo credentials on behalf of The Daily to access places like Joe Louis Arena, the Sprint and Kohl Centers, and the Kinnick and Beaver Stadiums. Though I proudly display the fancy photo credentials that hang on my wall, every other credential I’ve ever received from photographing Michigan Athletics events hangs right next to them, reminding me of all the smaller, intimate sports moments that have led me to where I am today.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017 // The Statement
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DETROIT AFTER DARK Photos by Alexis Rankin
Last Saturday I went to Detroit to practice night photogrphy from the top of the Z Parking Garage in Detroit. The Z Garage is a popular location for photographers to shoot from, as the tenth level provides 360 degree views of the city. This was my first time using a tripod and shooting the bright lights of the city at night, so I wasn’t confident that they would turn out well. However, I ended up happy with the result, and shooting Detroit after dark is something I definitely want to do again.
A 30 second aperture allowed me to capture the blur of the cars as they drove down the street.
The Renaissance Center was lit up pink in honor of breast cancer awareness month.
Two building murals visible from the tenth floor of the Z Garage.
Woodward Avenue was busy with Saturday night traffic as people visited the many resturants and shops located along the street.
The Fox Theater sign shines bright above the other builds along Woodward Avenue.
The David Whitney Building stood out among the other buildings with its old architecture and bright red sign.