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Washtenaw Community College student Anwar Mawli is from Syria, but he lived as a refugee in Lebanon after the Syrian conflict proved too unsafe for him and his family to stay in

the country. He arrived in the United States in June 2017. “We don’t need money. We don’t need food. We need solutions,” Mawli said when asked how Americans can help Syrian refugees. Mawli’s story served as part of a four-person panel at the

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This fall, the Ross School of Business will offer its third semester of the Living Business Leadership Experience, a class that immerses undergraduate and graduate students in reallife business projects. The class is part of the Business School’s Real Experience in ActionBased Learning initiative, a new curriculum philosophy that emphasizes problem-solving surrounded by the complexities and ambiguities of the business world. Mike Barger, executive director for the Business School’s Office of Strategy and Academic Innovation was the vice president of fleet operations for JetBlue Airways’ former vice when he was approached ten years ago by Business School Dean Scott DeRue. The Business school was looking to utilize a team of University of Michigan Business students to help develop some of JetBlue’s projects.

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Participants in Ann Arbor’s 47th annual Hash Bash found themselves under the influence of more than just cannabis Saturday afternoon, as thousands gathered at the University of Michigan’s Diag: several politicians also found their way to the city’s popular weed festival, all hoping to convince voters they were biggest supporters of legalizing it. Many participants and organizers came hoping this year’s Hash Bash will be the last before marijuana is legalized in the state of Michigan. Many believe state Congress will approve ballot proposal in November to legalize the use of recreational marijuana for those 21 and older. Speakers at this year’s event included many notable marijuana legalization activists and professional athletes, such as Detroit Lions running back Mike James, former Detroit Red Wings hockey player Darren McCarty and former NFL player Eugene Monroe. Local political figures addressed the crowd, including Ann Arbor City Councilmember Jack Eaton, D-Ward 4; Councilmember Anne Bannister, D-Ward 1; and state Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor. State politicians such as gubernatorial candidates Abdul El-Sayed and Gretchen Whitmeralso made appearances. El-Sayed spoke on his support to legalize marijuana, stating the current law unjustly incarcerates youth. “I’m here as a doctor and I’m here as a young servant,

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Content warning: This article contains themes of physical, emotional abuse Dear Mom, Since I last saw you three years ago, I have thought of you every day. I have remembered the warm moments when I felt you loved me and you knew I felt the same. For the past two years since I last spoke to you, I have tried to memorize your voice from memory alone, have tried to learn by heart the screech of your voice when you are angry and the soft whimper when you are sad. I am too afraid to listen to your voicemails. Each day, though I try to move on and want to forget you, I cannot. I cannot forget what I have done to you or what I have done to alter our lives forever. I do not know what to say other than that I am sorry. It will never be enough, I know. You must believe me when I write that I would give up almost anything that you asked to make you happy. I know how you have suffered for most of your adult life, for I have been a witness, and it brings me great pain to also know I have added to that grief. But I could not surrender my freedom for your happiness and, to be honest, I am not sure that my compliance would have made you happier either. It may still be difficult for you to understand why I could not follow through with the arranged marriage. You promised that he was a good Hindu man with a high income

who would help me build my own career. I know you intended to secure a future for me that would be free of the financial insecurity that you endured with my father. But Mom — I was only 17. You did not ask if I wanted this. Instead, you hurt me, you blackmailed me, you hit me with a tree whip, you let my father threaten to kill me. You did all of this to force me to agree to his proposal over the phone. You made me fear for my life in our home. So I could not stay. I know it broke your heart when I came home from work that day, grabbed a backpack, ran away without looking back, but I could not stay. Yet, it is difficult to blame a perpetrator who is themselves a victim. I do not know what you have endured in life, but I have witnessed part of your struggle. I have watched my father harm you and threaten your life as he did mine. I have heard you softly cry, begging to God to kill you, when you believed my sisters and I were asleep. I have tasted the meals you made as you spoke with your sister living in our homeland about how difficult it is to live in this place, alone, without her or your brother or your parents. I know you have lost much and lose more still as the days pass you by. You have hurt me, but you yourself have been hurting since I was born. I am especially sorry that I could not protect you from my father. I was a coward and was always as afraid of him as you were. As I write, I know this is a

letter that I can never send. You would not understand half of the words on this page because of the English barrier, and the cultural barrier may be an even more difficult hurdle to overcome. What is freedom to you, and what is freedom to me, after all? For you, perhaps it involves money, the moment when our family can move to a suburb in Warren and does not worry about rationing the food in the fridge. But for me, who grew up reading about and seeing white American children’s freedom, it is to wear shorts in July, to spend time with friends without needing a reason, to marry someone I love at the time I choose, not someone you chose for me when I was still in high school. I wish I could say that I would give up the world to see you again, smiling and welcoming me home, but we both know that is a lie. If I was ready to give up the world for your happiness, I would have given you my world, agreed to your arranged marriage, not gone to college — lived a life that I could not be happy with. But I cannot bear to give you every piece of me. Our worlds are not on the same plane. I wonder if you have realized that too. I love you dearly, and though I do not deserve nor expect your forgiveness, I hope someday that you will remember me fondly. I hope someday that you will give me a call. I miss your voice. Sincerely, Your Eldest Daughter

Fair representation on American Idol KAREEM SHUNNAR MiC Assistant Editor

With “American Idol” coming back, I think it’s time we start calling out singing competitions for their insensitivity to different communities and cultures. Now, I love “American Idol.” The show, which spawned superstars like Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, will always have a special place in my heart because it inspires people from all walks of life to follow their dreams of being superstars. However, not even David Archuleta’s voice or Simon Cowell’s accent can obscure the underlying problems with the show. “American Idol” uses primarily scripted judges comments in order to shape the opinions of the American public. With this, we learn our “idols” are often white men with guitars. Then again, the fact that the show has many white male winners could just be a coincidence. What can’t be talked up as coincidence is how ethnic minorities have been treated on “American Idol” and other singing competitions. With this in mind, I have to wonder: Will this season of Idol contribute to the abuse of minorities as other network talent competitions? First, there is “The Voice,” which once again seems like a fairly great concept. However, the singing competition is still not completely neutral. One specific instance of this is the dreaded “montage treatment.” Pretty much, “The Voice” is not able to show every single contestants audition, so they occasionally pick a few unlucky subjects to only have a couple seconds of their audition shown. For the rest of the show, this is a huge disadvantage because the audition is where

viewers truly begin to connect with the artist. No person who was montaged in auditions has ever made the finals or even come particularly close. However, it has been seen throughout the years that “The Voice” often montages Asian contestants. With this treatment, it seems like many Asian contestants are not able to advance far into the competition because they never really got the chance to shine. Meanwhile, “The X Factor UK” has also had some race issues such as white contestant Saara Aalto singing “Sound of the Underground.” In one part of the performance, Aalto — who would go on to place second in the competition —wore a kimono and danced foolishly around the stage. Even judge Simon Cowell said he was a little uncomfortable with the outfit. The artist received backlash but was still seen as the sweetheart of the season. Though she faced backlash, the artist received no repercussions because the performance inherently had to have been approved by the crew of the television show. Then there is “American Idol,” and more specifically, Randy Jackson. Aside from Jackson’s occasionally offensive comments, such as that time he told an Asian male prior to his audition, “You look like you’re going to do my taxes,” the show has also supported insensitive ideals. In one episode, there was a singer named Gurpreet Singh Sarin, who was more commonly called “The Turbanator” for the turban he wore. The nickname was given by Sarin to himself for his colorful turban. However, within his audition, talk of his turban almost covered up his phenomenal voice. Throughout the rest of the show, Sarin

was treated as a goof ball until eventually being eliminated. However, the main issue is that “American Idol” chose to highlight Sarin’s turban instead of the artist. With this lack of attention, Sarin never got to be the true idol of his own story. Instead, he was viewed as a piece of his turban, which would be used as a gag. Another moment, which was not just frustrating, but outright offensive, was when Shubha Vedula auditioned for “American Idol”. Before Shubha even performed, Randy was confused by her name and began pronouncing her name wrong. Soon after he would make her name a song as a joke. Now, I don’t believe there is anything wrong with mispronouncing names — even I have been subject to mispronouncing names because everyone makes mistakes. However, the editors of this show decided to make Shubha’s name a direct comical joke. It was once again not about the artist but more about the fact that Shubha had anything to do with being ethnic. There is a deep irony in this idea of neglecting minority voices, especially in “American Idol”. The white guy with the guitar will always be the “American Idol,” while the South-Asian minority can be a side character for comic relief. Instead of acknowledging we are all “American,” the show rather chose to focus on who should be our idol. Currently, the reboot of the show so far has not had many mishaps, besides Katy Perry kissing that boy who had never been kissed, and hopefully it stays that way. With that, here’s to a competition where we can all be the idols to our own stories.

Monday, April 9, 2018 — 3A

Awkward introductions, sunshine, smiles, excitement, energy, move-in day. Depression, anxiety, stress, confusion, final exams. College. Dear Hannah, and other incoming freshmen, Congratulations on getting into the University of Michigan! You’ll be entering a new chapter of your life and there’s much to be excited about. These next four years will hold a lot in store for you, and at a place like the University, there’s much to be experienced with so many opportunities and resources. Though I won’t be able to be there at every step of the way with you, I wanted to share my own journey navigating these past four years. Lesson 1: Context “Best four years of my life.” “Work hard, play hard.” “Freedom from parents.” “Now you can have a relationship.” Welcome to college. Suppose an extraterrestrial being were to come to Earth. How would you explain college? From an outsider’s perspective, college could look weird: a microcosm where young adolescents with developing prefrontal cortexes are virtually locked together within a few square miles. Placed in a situation, being told important decisions that could alter the course of their life are to be made, all while dealing with the normal pressures of life and more. This is the Pollockian masterpiece society has created to lead the education of our future generations. While college may have been pitched as the key stepping stone to a future, it is not without its problems. As a new student, you will be entering with a body of students from all over the country and world. Many of those students will come from wealthy families. The average family income of a University of Michigan student was $154,000 in 2017. A majority will be white. These are just a few of the identities your peers will be bringing with them. Chances are there will be moments where you feel out of place. Embrace your difference. On a related note, diversity has become a buzzword for higher education institutions. Having a lack of it reflects poorly on the prestige of an institution. College pamphlets are filled with pictures of multicultural students sitting in a lawn on a sunny day laughing together. That is unfortunately mostly a marketing scheme. Though you may be in classes with students who look different from you, the true interactions are seldom and few. Another issue I ran into was the lack of access to healthy food options. With a lack of easily accessible supermarkets, students have to put aside the time and effort to take the bus if they lack access to an automobile. Who knew that even being able to eat food would be a struggle? These are just a few of the many imperfections that exist. This is all for me to say chances are there will be times you encounter systemic barriers. Identify the issue. Fight to make it better for those you come after you. USE your VOICE. Lesson 2: Culture As a premed student who minored in a social science, I’d like to say I studied the human being, from the microscopic atoms that make up the biochemical pathways which fuels us to the way organisms think and interact with others

on a macro level. One of the most important things I’ve learned about is culture — the amorphous, abstract force that shapes all of our human decisions and interactions. Culture is the ocean that surrounds all of us, carrying us to-and-fro with waves. To change it means fighting against the current. The University itself has a culture. Leaders and the Best. That go-get-it, never settle mindset. That success-at-allcosts mindset. The University also has a binge drinking culture and politically progressive culture. Not all of these forces are bad, but be cognizant of them. Be motivated but don’t be consumed. While it may appear as though everyone around you has their life together, look past it. Remember you are human, prone to mistakes and errors. Behind every résumé an equal amount of failure. Lesson 3: Community At a big school such as the University, it is easy to just feel like one in a million. Friends and communities can make it feel like a much smaller place; however, don’t settle for them. Find the people at this school who will be there for you,

“There may be... moments so lonely that you want to cry. Times that you will feel like no one could be going through somethingworsethan you at the moment. It is all normal”

because they are out there. Find the ones who will grow with you, who will keep late nights with you, who will be able to celebrate your achievements as much as their own. Find the people who will also be able to take it easy and laugh with you. The fondest memories I have are those when I was fully in the moment and lost track of the time. This not only pertains to your peers. Find the professors, graduate student instructors and advisers who will also be your support system. Fully utilize all the resources this place has to offer for you to become successful in your endeavors. When you do find someone with which you really connect, hold on and don’t let go. Make an effort to develop that relationship and be mentored by them. Your professors are all human beings too. Above all else, know when to ask for help. Usually the earlier, the better. Lesson 4: Compassion Freshman year, I had a chance to work for the dining hall. You learn a lot about human behavior working in the service industry, perhaps more than any class could ever teach. Some people are warm. Their faces light up no matter the time or day. Their smile makes you smile, and you know you have their full attention. Others leave their plates on the table for someone else to pick up and text while you try to serve them.

Two rough categories of people: the dish-leavers and the smilebringers. Say thank you more and show compassion to others. The most rewarding experiences I’ve had in college were being in servitude to others. While culture may push you toward being selfcentered, help out those in need. It would not be possible for you to get this education with the countless hours put in by your family and those around you. I’ve never regretted writing a thankyou note. Be kind and courteous to all those at the University who make your experience possible: bus drivers, police officers, resident advisers, etc. Also, show compassion to yourself. Don’t take things too seriously. I promise your life will move on with the right amount of time. If you are skipping meals to study and losing sleep and weight, you are probably involved in too many things. Know your limits and be able to say no. Take care of your mental health as well as physical health. Part of being compassionate to yourself requires you being real to yourself. Confront the highs and lows and be vulnerable. I felt real change happen in the moments I let down my own pride and ego. You won’t feel happy all the time. Feeling blue is completely normal and sometimes even beyond your control. Imposter syndrome, self-doubt and loneliness are a short list of things with which you could very likely deal. Lesson 5: Consider Finally, move beyond the binary. Be able to see the grays, blacks and whites of issues. Explore yourself. Challenge yourself and step outside your comfort zone. As an example, I had no idea how much my intergroup relations minor would mean to me before I started college. My eyes were opened to a hard truth but also invaluable skills and lessons. It became one of the transformative experiences of my college career. In addition, stick to who you are as a person. Where you find wholeness and completeness will most likely not be where others also reside. I didn’t know what to expect when I started college, but one thing I knew for sure was I would explore everything socially and academically to grow myself. Now, four years older, beaten and joyful, I am leaving a place filled with years of memories for me. I wanted to pass my lessons onto you in some tangible form. Even now, I admit I don’t have everything figured out regardless of what society expects at my age. I wish you the very best in your undergraduate years as you struggle and succeed. There may be moments when you are so riddled with anxiety and stress that you can’t see clearly. Moments so lonely that you want to cry. Times that you will feel like no one could be going through something worse than you are at the moment. It is all normal. If you were expecting a smooth ride, I’m here to burst your bubble. I’ll leave you with a quote from one of my role models. “The ultimate measure of a (hu)man is not where (they) stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where (they) stand at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. The rest is up to you to make on your own and figure out along the way. With much love, Your brother, Young

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We cannot be apathetic about Facebook

ore than two weeks after Facebook’s massive data leak of user information to voting analytics firm Cambridge Analytica was first exposed, new revelations on the extent of the tech titan’s privacy violations continue to surface. Facebook’s most recent confession, which inflates the number of Facebook users whose profiles were wrongly harvested to a staggering 87 million, serves as a chilling reminder of the malicious implications of modern technology. The sheer scale of Facebook’s data breach has inspired a renewed and thorough reflection of our society’s perception of privacy. But while this activism is indicative of a well-meaning and timely shift in public attitude toward the practice of data collection, it fails to address the problems beyond Facebook. A greater awareness of efforts to exploit our private information must also include calls for greater oversight of technology companies themselves. It goes without saying that Cambridge Analytica’s collection of private data from tens of millions of Facebook users for “psychographic modeling ” in recent American elections was an egregious violation of privacy. Only about 270,000 Facebook users participated in an original personality survey and consented to having data collected. Their information was then turned over, along with the profiles of another 87 million users unaware of the academic study, to Cambridge Analytica. However, for today’s children, adolescents and college students — all of whom were raised in or born into a post-9/11 surveillance state — personal privacy has always been accompanied by an asterisk, and control over personal information has always been understood as a compromise. This has resulted in a sort of normalized apathy, an immunizing agent to the magnitude of such privacy violations as Facebook’s. As technolog y continues to play a larger role in our everyday life, we, The Michigan Daily Editorial Board, call on college students in particular to better realize how personal data collection impacts large-scale inequalities and democratic processes throughout society. The current case constitutes an example of such. As a firm largely owned by conservative mega-donor Robert Mercer and partially run by board member Steve Bannon, the Breitbart mog ul and a former adviser to President Donald Trump, Cambridge Analytica used its data and election-inf luencing experience in its work for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Remaining apathetic about the use of collected data for purely commercial purposes is one thing, but the construction of politically inf luential data collection systems is another entirely. In failing to adequately protect user privacy, which comes on the

heels of its acknowledged role in spreading Russian propaganda leading up to the 2016 presidential election, Facebook is complicit in Cambridge Analytica’s extralegal attempt to inf luence democratic processes. This scandal now joins other numerous instances of malfeasance by big data systems, which have been shown to adopt and reinforce societal biases and perpetuate existing inequalities.

For today’s college students privacy has always been accompanied by an asterisk. As much as the Facebook case demonstrates the widespread and significant consequences of privacy violations, it also reveals the extent to which activities like this are largely left unaddressed. Limitations on data collection for the sake of online privacy have, as of now, failed to materialize in Congress. However, we must keep in mind that alternative paths are simply not viable. Despite possible drawbacks to targeted advertising, its centrality to the modern technolog y industry ensures it will remain monetarily incentivized as long as profits outnumber any user discomfort it causes. Additionally, the recent calls to #DeleteFacebook demonstrate a severe underestimation of the platform’s utter ubiquity. For instance, many business owners depend on Facebook to communicate effectively, damaging the credibility of any mass deletion campaign. Indeed, direct government reg ulation and constraint of companies that harness and sell users’ personal information is the only sensible path. For a company

that just revealed additional, severe vulnerabilities in most users’ profiles, Facebook (and tech mega-firms like it) have so far enjoyed relatively little oversight. We no longer have to ponder the hypothetical consequences of such an arrangement: Cambridge Analytica’s unscrupulous handling of Facebook user data dismantles the notion that any company built on selling consumer data can — or rather, will — prioritize user privacy and enforce such provisions, so long as their service remains monetarily free. Moreover, the foundation is already in place for government to take action: A majority of Internet users find targeted ads distasteful, pointing to a need for legislation similar to the European Union’s soon-to-be enacted General Data Protection Reg ulation. As current alternatives for maintaining privacy remain laborious and esoteric, we must keep in mind that progressive governance has routinely shifted the onus of protection from the consumer to the producer (think: the FDA, EPA, etc.). Therefore, we at the Editorial Board call on Americans to push their elected representatives to pass meaningful legislation limiting technolog y companies. Treating online advertisements like TV advertisements, where sponsors must be openly disclosed, is a good start to increased transparency, as are requirements that consumer information not be collected beyond what is necessary for the service provided. Angry Facebook users would be wise to channel their dissatisfaction toward their local and state representatives and, in so doing, make online privacy rights a fundamental platform issue. Through this kind of democratic activism, we as Internet users and citizens can take back ground in the fight for online privacy and put a halt to mass manipulation of our personal data.

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pril is Testicular Cancer Awareness Month. I assume this is new information for most individuals reading this column. In fact, I only became aware of this information because, a little over a month ago, I was diagnosed with Stage I testicular cancer. Now, not that there’s ever a “good” type of cancer, but as far as these situations go, this was pretty positive news. It meant the cancer had not spread and I would be able to have surgery the next day to completely remove the tumor. The surgery was successful and, according to the doctors, my brief fight with cancer was likely over. I was incredibly lucky to have caught the tumor so early on; I was in the hospital for an unrelated injury (falling on hard ice during a broomball tournament) when they found the cancerous mass during an ultrasound. I was lucky I lived only five minutes away from the University of Michigan hospital, an excellent medical facility filled with even more excellent medical professionals. I was lucky the doctors and nurses asked the right questions, performed the right tests and decided to perform more in-depth examinations than they needed. I was lucky they found the tumor before it had spread, and that I didn’t need to go through chemotherapy or radiation. I am writing this article because I am fully aware of how incredibly lucky I was; most people don’t just stumble upon a tumor, especially before their condition becomes more serious. In the weeks following this ordeal, I’ve learned a ton about testicular cancer, including information that would provide other young men the ability to identify if they are at risk for the disease and should go see a doctor without needing to rely on luck (or an accidental trip to the hospital). Of the many interesting facts I learned about testicular cancer, the most striking to me was that it is the most common form of cancer among young men, with most individuals diagnosed between the ages of 15-35. I can only speak

for myself, but cancer was certainly not on my radar a month ago, or really any other life-threatening diseases for that matter. I was a healthy, 21-year-old student, and there wasn’t much in my life that a few ibuprofen and some duct tape couldn’t fix. In talking with my male friends after this experience, I’ve found nearly all of them share a similar mindset. Testicular cancer is not something they actively think about or are routinely checking for. Though the self-check process that leads to early identification of a tumor is relatively quick and simple, almost none had ever examined themselves. In fact, many did not even know how to perform the procedure in the first place (full disclosure, neither did I until recently). So what can we do about this? How can we make sure men are able to identify this disease early on and seek proper treatment, rather than leaving it up to chance like I had? Well first off, if you’re a young man, do yourself a favor and learn how to perform a self-check. This can lead to early detections and an increased likelihood that if you do happen to discover a tumor, immediate action can be taken before more intensive care is needed and risks become higher. Have the conversation with your peers and help destigmatize what is admittedly an uncomfortable topic. Yes, I still chuckle at the word “testicle” (because it’s funny, even at 21 years old), but there is nothing unnatural or unmasculine about discussing your health and helping to create awareness regarding a topic that affects more of your peers than you might think. Talking with friends and family over the past few weeks, I have found out several men in my life have successfully fought testicular cancer, and yet there is still something taboo whenever the topic is brought up. Perhaps the most important lesson I’ve learned is to listen to your body and err on the side of caution when deciding whether to see a medical professional. I believe this lesson applies to many issues beyond testicular cancer, whether it be that

nagging cough that won’t go away or a weird bump that wasn’t there previously. While our days may often feel so busy and hectic that we can barely find time to eat lunch, let alone go to the doctor, it is important to make time for your health. Even if you do go to the emergency room, wait two hours to get admitted and spend another hour getting checked out only to receive a healthy verdict, please don’t feel as if you wasted your time. You just received confirmation that you are in fact healthy, and can sleep well at night knowing this. On the off-chance there is in fact something wrong, you can go ahead and get treatment before your situation escalates. While ignorance may be bliss in some instances, not being aware of a health issue doesn’t guarantee its nonexistence. I never thought I’d be having this conversation, let alone writing a column about my experience with testicular cancer. A month ago, I was lying in a bed in the hallway of the U-M hospital, listening to a doctor say a stream of words I can barely recall, feeling a combination of scared, confused and, perhaps most of all, powerless. Fortunately, I get to tell the story of an extremely blessed case of early detection and treatment. While I hope no one reading my column experiences this illness, I hope that if you do, you are able to find out early and on your own terms. That you can have the conversation with friends and share your story, knowing you are not alone in dealing with this. By talking about testicular cancer, or any health issues for that matter, we can better share information about detection, providing more individuals the opportunity to feel in control of their futures. For more information and resources about the disease, I highly recommend checking out the Movember Foundation, a men’s health non-profit that is doing amazing work to raise funds and share resources about this disease, as well as other men’s health issues. Matthew Friend can be reached at mjfri@umich.edu.

HANK MINOR | COLUMN

Empathy without action

he unpaid — or barely paid — internship remains instrumental in accelerating the career trajectories of a lot of U.S. college students, especially for careers in government, journalism and law. In a piece for the New York Times, Darren Walker writes, “Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not.” I think this gets at the root of our problem: There are thousands of talented students who can’t compete on the same level as their peers for purely financial reasons. Sure, there have been attempts to remedy this — using social media to shame companies into paying their interns, grants from wellfunded universities, programs that mitigate impossible costs — but many times, these endeavors only paint a sense of fairness over a system that remains thoroughly unfair. This is reinforced by g uilty, empathetic op-eds in campus newspapers — I won’t link anyone, in particular, to be polite — that stress how much it hurts for advantaged students to enjoy their internships knowing that the pool of competitors has been reduced by financial factors. It’s not enough just to feel bad, as anyone who’s been involved with minority group activism likely knows; people with structural power need to use their positions to level the field behind them. A pre-law student expressing his or her regret about the typical road to a law career will soon enough be a law yer, and — given the University of Michigan’s placement rates — maybe even one with extraordinary resources. Will

this undergraduate’s g uilt translate into postgraduate action? The goal isn’t, of course, to tear down current advantages so that everyone faces the same difficult route forward; it’s to correct former inequalities such that talent as a factor increases as much as possible. I don’t want to condemn people for taking fair opportunities that are distributed unfairly, but I do want to make sure that we don’t reinforce the status quo because it’s easier to resolve one’s guilt than to resolve the problem.

It’s easier to resolve one’s guilt than to resolve the problem. There are certain careers worked unequally by various groups in American society. The factors that cause these variations are complex. The proportion of women in finance, for example, probably isn’t because of disparate household resources, but likely economic accessibility to the career path. It’s (apparently) easy enough to find talent that can afford to advertise itself and has the resources for an unpaid internship in an expensive city or enough money for a summer spent on volunteer work instead of wage labor. What this means, though, is that we effectively limit access to certain career

ladders, so to speak, by a child’s or young adult’s access to financial resources. Our goal in minimizing this effect should be increasing competition, regardless of someone’s financial ability. When we define elite industries, it should be by the rigor of competition required to obtain those positions and the talent required to keep them, not the social and economic class of a typical worker. Maybe some hesit a nc y a rou nd t h is comes f rom ou r complicated relat ion sh ip w it h t he concept of “deser v i ng.” What comes w it h t h is, t houg h , shou ld be a recog n it ion t hat a ll st udent s deser ve an ot her w ise prov ided oppor t u n it y to compete on t he sa me level. If t he end resu lt of t h is is t hat some ca ndidates — who wou ld have prev iously got ten t h roug h on st r uc t u ra l adva nt ages — a re eli m i nated f rom content ion for prest ig ious jobs, so be it . The impressive fact about U-M graduates is that many will rise to positions of financial, legal, journalistic and political power. If you’re among them, remember to pay your interns, when you have them. Consider housing costs when you recruit students who are compensated with only with the prestige of your organization. Remind yourself how important luck is in everyone’s success, and of the breaks that you’ve personally received. Remember how much you empathized, when you actually get the chance to turn your emotion into action.

Hank Minor can be reached at hminor@umich.edu.

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WORLD MUSIC COLUMN

Kali Uchis offers sublime ‘Gentleman’ by Fela Kuti world on debut ‘Isolation’ SAYAN GHOSH

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ROBERT MANSUETTI Daily Arts Writer

“Life is like sex. Sometimes you have to change your position.” These words appear in Kali Uchis’s handwriting on an art poster inserted in every physical copy of her debut album Isolation. On the poster, Uchis is sprawled across a sea of sapphire satin, strikingly contrasted by her revealing ruby attire. This scene is pictured from a more intimidating angle on the album cover, but still remains a visual vignette of the music contained within, a flaring heat and eclectic heartbeat subdued by the essentially blue themes espoused right from the title. Uchis has always operated from the sidelines. To the public, her name was only noticed when it was preceded by a more renowned one, like Tyler, the Creator on his two latest records, 2015’s Cherry Bomb and last year’s Flower Boy, or Daniel Caesar on his Grammynominated single “Get You.” However, while not discounting her stellar collaborative work, Uchis’s solo output has far outclassed her features yet received a fraction of the love. Deciding to release a debut album on a weekend dominated by Cardi B’s own Invasion of Privacy and another charttopping Drake single may seem a poor bet, but the premiere of Kali Uchis in her entirety is a statement. With Isolation, the magically subtle new-age pop star seduces attention under a kaleidoscope limelight. The album’s colorfully filtered mood lighting is set right from the opening track, where Uchis croons, “I’m sick and tired of talking, told you everything you need to know / The rest is in the body language,” over a bossa

nova-inspired Thundercat bassline. That selfsame body is consistently profound in its language over the next 45 minutes, melodically narrating the story of a woman long manipulated, slighted and tossed aside. Uchis is insistent on leaving a regretful lover

Isolation Kali Uchis Interscope Records behind on “Dead to Me,” the harsh realities of cheating are almost happily recounted on the Amy Winehouse-esque “Feel Like A Fool,” and she juxtaposes her tiresome life making ends meet with the destructively glamorous image of “Miami.” The latter track is actually one of the few moments on the album where Uchis is in control of her body, above the infidelity of heartbreakers and detractors, reiterating her fierce attitude towards fame with one of the best self-assured lines in recent memory: “Why could I be Kim? I could be Kanye.” By portraying this tested and tempestuous version of herself, Uchis speaks to “the people who feel trapped in their position” in hopes “the music will enable (them) to change it,” like the poster cursively declares. Her music is capable of change, wonderfully inviting and artfully hypnotic. The silky, mellifluous blanket that Uchis dons with poise is interwoven with threads of soul, funk, hip hop and Latin grooves, as Isolation has enlisted a veritable team of wide-ranging musicians to soundtrack its spirit. Steve Lacy’s uniquely youthful bass is layered over a beat produced by Romil Hemnani (of BROCKHAMPTON fame)

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on “Just A Stranger.” Damon Albarn chimes in not only vocally but with Gorillaz’s bleeps and bloops on “In My Dreams” and Kevin Parker galvanizes “Tomorrow” with his signature psychedelic flair. British R&B phenom Jorja Smith and Colombian reggaeton leader Reykon round out the impressive and international list of features. While it would be easy for Uchis’s voice to be drowned in such an ocean of talent, Isolation remains distinctly hers. Even on the album’s most star-studded single “After the Storm,” where Tyler, the Creator, Bootsy Collins and BadBadNotGood all pour in, Uchis harnesses those contributions to intensify her essence. The track manages to furtively bear the central weight of the album while staying sonically warm as sunshine. In the music video, Uchis appears to be longing for love (which she finds by literally and humorously growing Tyler from a packet of seeds), but her nuanced movements and unflinching eyes tell another story. The person who Uchis addresses throughout the song is the listener, not some sweetheart of her dreams. This person is anyone who has ever experienced the isolation she has, left to face their demons alone. The title of the album does not refer to absolute solitude — instead, it embodies loneliness in the face of others, masked by self-deception and empty sentiment. Uchis is too familiar with the endless days of struggle yet still she knows “times are rough but winners don’t quit / So don’t you give up, the sun’ll come out.” Even though Isolation is rooted in empathy, it is aware it doesn’t quite have all the answers. After all, “everybody’s gotta go on, don’t they?”

To be quite honest, this particular column is not so much about an album as it is about a song. A song that’s one of those rare tracks that transcends being an ultimately forgettable cut on an album. It’s one of those songs that requires your undivided attention for its entirety and leaves you in a whirlwind state of slipping in and out of lucidity as you lose yourself to its downright infectious groove. And when it ends, you have no choice but to put down your headphones and recuperate since you know that music in general just won’t live up to your expectations for the near future. But first, some background. Fela Kuti, the legendary Nigerian “Afrobeat” musician (a term which he himself coined), wasn’t originally planning on being one. He arrived in London in the late 1950s to study medicine, but instead decided to end up studying music, enamored with the burgeoning jazz scene in the city. He soon traveled back to Nigeria to fully devote himself to music and (to abridge things quite a bit) developed a long, legendary career making music just as daring and inventive politically and socially as it

was musically. From Zombie to Best of The Black President, his music was revered throughout Africa and eventually the world, combining upbeat, jazzy instrumentals with scathing social commentary. Gentleman is, in comparison, not one of his most canonized albums, but

Throughout its 14-minute span, “Gentleman”never ceases to be wildly entertaining

its titular track is Fela Kuti at his bold, catchy and doesn’tgive-a-fuck best. The first 30 seconds set the track’s groove, with an electric piano that solos shortly but eventually acts as an announcement of Kuti’s tenor saxophone. As the percussion drops out, Kuti performs the first of several solos until introducing the track’s main melodic theme around two minutes in. Soon,

the percussion reappears with a funky electric guitar backing as Kuti spends the next six minutes launching into a meandering, delightful solo. Kuti himself arrives at around the eight-minute mark singing, “I no be gentleman at all” in his uniquely powerful, soaring voice. He punctuates his repetitions of this line with energetic vocalizations that make him seem like he’s running out of breath before he launches into an even more powerful chant. He confidently asserts: “I be Africa man, original.” In typical Fela Kuti style, he sings in a distinct pidgin dialect as he criticizes the hypocrisy of those of his countrymen who he feels have been too Anglicized. He sings, “Africa hot, I like am so / I know what to wear, but my friends don’t know” as he then describes the impractical uniform some of his countrymen dress in as an indirect form of acquiescence to their colonial masters while forgetting their own roots. Throughout its 14-minute span, “Gentleman” never ceases to be wildly entertaining. Like a lot of Fela Kuti’s music, it is imbued with a sense of utter freedom, individuality and relentless energy. Although the two other tracks on the short album are worthy cuts themselves, the title track is a Fela Kuti magnum opus and a

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‘Legion’ basks in trippy state of second season with David waking up from his yearlong comatose state inside Division 3, a hidden organization which recruits good mutants to search for In its first season, FX’s “Legion” the missing Shadow King. Though was revolutionary in the way it David believes that he was only gone abandoned the predictable limits for a single day, all of his comrades of superhero TV. Taking a more have quickly adjusted to the new cinematic approach towards telling normal of working alongside the an intimate and introspective story, old enemy without him. Just as “Legion” focused David questions, we less on its Marvel all too are wondering origins and more what happened to Season 2 on the complexity Summerlandandwhy of the mental there are women with FX illness consumed mustaches singing. Tues. @ 10 p.m. protagonist, But being “Legion” David Haller means it’s highly (Dan Stevens, “Downton Abbey”). unlikely that we’ll get any direct Shooting every scene with the look answers right off the bat (or ever). and feel of a movie, the combination While the premiere does provide of the series’s hypnotizing special some recapping and follow-up on effects and Jeff Russo’s (“Fargo”) the cliffhanger of the last season’s stimulating score made “Legion” finale (you know, when David was one of the most ambitious television captured by a glowing orb and thrills of 2017. suspiciously floated away), it’s clear Last season revealed that David that this time around, “Legion” — whose delusions and ravaging would still rather take us through thoughts were believed to be caused a maze than provide us with direct by schizophrenia — was, in truth, resolution. one of the most powerful human Yet, it’s exactly that mystery and mutants to ever exist. It turns out frustrating lack of clarity that makes that much of his mental instability “Legion” so addicting. By traversing was really the result of being through the inner workings of infected by an evil parasite called David’s mind, we are constantly left theShadowKing,akaAmahlFarouk questioning what we see. Do the (QuintonBoisclair,“ChannelZero”), random dance-fight sequences have since childhood. If season one was a greater meaning? Are the trippy a dynamic look into David’s insanity intermediating narrations from Jon in a “normal” world, then season two Hamm(“MadMen”)foreshadowing will be more about the ways David is of what’s to come, or just pauses to actually “the sane man in an insane provoke self-reflection? Important world,” as intended by creator Noah information within “Legion” is Hawley (“Fargo”). conveyed through moments of This season’s premiere begins intense detail and overwhelming MORGAN RUBINO Daily Arts Writer

“Legion”

action alike, which leaves us to piece together our own interpretations. Once again, Dan Stevens is exceptional as David in every way. Portraying moments of hopeless confusion to heart-wrenching compassion, Stevens manifests the unforeseeablefutureofhischaracter with sublime ease. With a cast of other greats who will hopefully get more screen-time as we go on — including Aubrey Plaza (“Parks and Recreation”) as Lenny, David’s confidant who is currently held captive by the Shadow King, and RachelKeller(“Fargo”)asSyd,David’s recurring love interest — “Legion” has all the necessary flair to excel in season two. Additionally, with the familiar but just as awe-inspiring cinematography of the premiere alone, it’s evident that “Legion” will remainasartisticallyinventiveaslast year.Though“Legion”hasnodistinct time setting, the opening scene depictingLennyandOliver(Jemaine Clement, “Moana”) laying on a pool raft under the sun is colored and shot impeccably, aesthetically reflecting the retro vibe of the ’70s. It’s those mind-bending camera angles and distortingeffectsthatflipthevisuals of your typical superhero shows on theirheads,andprovethatskillfulTV can feel like a film. Though the season two premiere may be unsatisfying in giving us any sort of explanation, it is extremely satisfyinginstyleandpotential.With the anticipation of a larger focus on David’s character evolution and the substance of his delusions, season two is shaping up to elevate and impress.

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FILM REVIEW

Monday, April 9, 2018 — 6A

COMMUNITY CULTURE REVIEW

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COURTESY OF KYLE PRUE

Anderson wins best in ‘Angels in America’ is a show with ‘Isle of Dogs’ haunting look at society where the majority of the film is set, is disgusting. Infested Daily Arts Writer with rats and barely vegetated, the film’s color palette consists Few modern directors have predominantly of reds, greys a cinematic style as unique, and blacks. The world of “Isle idiosyncratic and identifiable of Dogs” is one overrun with as that of Wes Anderson (“The mankind’s greed, corruption Grand Budapest Hotel”). It’s for and apathy. It should serve, this reason that the director’s then, as the ultimate proof name is so frequently used as of Anderson’s ability that he an adjective, with each new film still manages to make this film hailed as the most beautiful. “Wes Anderson” That very Wes Anderson film juxtaposition yet, and inspecting of beauty and his filmography, sadness is part of State Theater it’s not hard to what makes all of see why. In each Anderson’s films Fox Searchlight of his films, the so enthralling. Pictures audience explores Where “Isle of a wide array of Dogs” sets itself gorgeously crafted, apart, however, is meticulously the scope. Many detailed settings, of Anderson’s almost always carrying with characters have dealt with them a distinctly vintage immense personal pains, such feel. From the purposefully as the grieving brothers from baroque “The Grand Budapest “The Darjeeling Limited,” but Hotel” to the wistful “Moonrise rarely are these struggles Kingdom,” all of Anderson’s extrapolated into the context films seem to carry with them of larger social systems. “Isle echoes of the past, like a story of Dogs” features its share of about some long-gone relative touching personal struggles, passed down by one’s parents. but at its core is a film that Anderson has seemed, to many, laments mankind’s cruelty while to be unwaveringly true to a simultaneously celebrating its singular artistic vision. capacity for good. It examines However, with the addition of the personal struggles of people his latest release, “Isle of Dogs,” (and dogs) caught up in large, it seems that old dogs truly can amoral systems. It’s poignant learn new tricks. Set in the near commentary, and one can’t help future, the film tells the story but see vestiges of Megasaki of Atari (Koyu Rankin, “Juken”), realized in our own society, one a young boy separated from increasingly plagued by greed, his dog Spots (Liev Schreiber, pollution and xenophobia. “Ray Donovan”) when Mayor Captured via stop-motion Kobayashi (Kunichi Nomura, animation — Anderson’s second “The Grand Budapest Hotel”) of full venture in the medium Megasaki City decrees that all following 2009’s “Fantastic dogs must be banished to Trash Mr. Fox” — with a splash of Island, a desolate, rat-infested traditional 2D animation, the pile of garbage off the coast of film is an absolute labor of love mainland Japan. Leaving the from the first frame to the end city behind, Atari comes to Trash credits. It’s such an impressive Island hoping to reunite with testament to Anderson’s his furry companion. The film’s ongoing desire to grow as a futuristic landscape, infused filmmaker, and is evident in with homages to Japanese the pure ingenuity that goes culture, is a complete departure into every scene. He never from anything Anderson has cuts corners, often introducing done before. Gone are the breathtakingly intricate picturesque hotels in the Alps backgrounds and settings only and the quaint New-England to use them for a single scene, summer camps. Trash Island, sometimes as brief as a few MAX MICHALSKY

“Isle of Dogs”

seconds. It’s not all set pieces either; the film’s characters are all animated in such immense detail. The way Anderson has animated watering, tearful eyes in the film is particularly impressive and is sure to evoke some sniff les from the audience. Anderson begins the film with a disclaimer informing the audience that all characters will speak in their native languages, and that “All barks have been rendered into English.” That is to say, the film’s Japanese characters will go unsubtitled. It’s a curious decision to make, and one that’s stirred some controversy, with Anderson’s harshest critics calling it a way to silence Japanese people in a film that borrows so heavily from their culture. Supporters of Anderson, meanwhile, call it nothing more than a unique design choice for the film, and cite the expansive list of notable Japanese talents involved in the film, including voice cameos from Ken Watanabe (“Rage”), Yojiro Noda (lead singer of the popular Japanese band Radwimps) and Yoko Ono. The film feels almost like a sort of cultural mishmash, blending a plethora of artistic and cultural inf luences and perspectives. Audiences will have to decide for themselves if this blending more closely resembles crosspollination or bastardization. A technical marvel and a clear labor of love, “Isle of Dogs” is a worthy installment in the evergrowing Wes Anderson canon. The film challenges our notions of mainstream animated feature films, which have been hardpressed to gain recognition as anything more than children’s movies. Significantly darker than “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” which was marketed as a family movie, “Isle of Dogs” has a lot to show its audience, and never feels simplified or euphemistic. You wouldn’t expect it from an outlandish film about animated dogs, but “Isle of Dogs” may be one of Anderson’s most impressive and poignant offerings to date. The director continues to cement himself as a prolific auteur who, after 20 years, still hasn’t peaked.

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Few works of art can sustain an audience’s focus for three and a half hours. It’s hard to ask people to walk into the theater at 7:30 p.m. on a Thursday and leave at 11:00 p.m. Yet, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s recent production of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America Part I: Millennium Approaches” managed to do this and more. It was a captivating story of gay life in the ’80s in Manhattan, and while many of the cultural references were dated, the meaning and significance of the work remain relevant in the current cultural and political climate. The play focuses on three groups of characters and the interactions between them. First is Louis Ironson and his AIDS-stricken lover Prior Walter. As Prior’s sickness progresses, Louis struggles to cope. Next is Mormon law clerk Joe Pitt and

his anxious, pill-addicted wife Harper Pitt. The Pitts’ struggle to understand Joe’s closeted gay identity, especially in regard to their strict religious beliefs. Lastly, the story follows closeted lawyer Roy Cohn as he faces threats of disbarment from the New York Bar, a character who is loosely based on the historical figure. Cohn also faces a sudden diagnosis with AIDS and a perpetual denial of the disease that he faces. Though the subject matter is incredibly serious, the play contains many brief moments of humor. They form a bulwark against the dark subject matter as a whole, allowing the audience to laugh at moments when tears might be more appropriate. At one point during Prior’s hospitalization scene, I found myself laughing as a defense mechanism against the terrible anguish that I knew the characters on stage must have been facing. Despite my great attempts, it also became hard to separate the current political overtones surrounding the play from the play itself. Cohn, after all, was an early mentor for Donald Trump.

Trump learned his strategy of aggressive litigation from Cohn during his legal spat with the Justice Department over alleged fair housing violations in his New York properties. It was easy to see echoes of Trump

As a relic of the ’80s, the play serves as a reminder of the negative side of the Reagan years in Cohn and Cohn in Trump. At one point, Cohn is visited by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg; the aggressive, heartless nature of legal legacy was exposed to the audience in his recollections of successfully prosecuting the ghost.

As a relic of the ’80s, the play serves as a reminder of the negative side of the

This was theater stripped of all glitter and glamour; it was theater at its simplest, and theater at its best

Reagan years. The closeted nature of gay life in the ’80s, for example, is hard to fully contemplate in relation to our increasingly accepting society. The fears of the AIDS epidemic and the allegedly indifferent government response to it also feature prominently into the

play’s overall plot. At its core, however, the play is about the morally and ethically bankrupt makeup of American society. As Louis proclaims in act three, “There are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there’s only the political.” America, Kushner argues, is an ever-changing power struggle between various groups and individuals. It lacks a central theme or overarching purpose. The play ends with Prior being visited by an angel. As Prior recoils in awe and terror, the angel proclaims that Prior is a prophet and that the “Great Work begins.” While the staging throughout the production had been minimal and bare, it was this image of a suspended angel f lapping two f loor-toceiling wings over the bed of the terrified Prior that stuck with me as I left the theater. It was stunningly beautiful, and despite the three hours that I had already spent in the theater, I felt myself wishing for more.

The minimal staging matched the small cast; the play featured only eight actors and one offstage percussionist. Every member of the cast performed brilliantly, many adopting multiple roles. One actress, for example, played Joe’s mother, the Rabbi, Henry and Ethel Rosenberg. Another played The Angel, Emily, Sister Ella Chapter and A Homeless Woman. This was a reminder of the power of theater in its simplest form. This was theater stripped of all glitter and glamour; it was theater at its simplest, and theater at its best. It was long, meandering and yet frighteningly powerful. It was a chilling statement on the very makeup of American society, a complex, thought-provoking and haunting depiction of the failures of contemporary American society. Ultimately, the work’s central tenet is that there is no central tenet of contemporary society. Kushner suggests the human condition to be an endless power struggle in a moral vacuum, a harsh fight between progressive and reactionary forces in absence of any guiding beliefs.

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elp, let’s just say it hasn’t been an easy week to be a Michigan fan. If you remember what I’m talking about, I’m sorry for bringing it up again. I know that your professors did enough BETELHEM of that all ASHAME week. I’ve never heard so many annoyed groans in my life. If you don’t remember the past week that well, I can honestly relate. Whether it’s the fact that April showers this year have consisted of both snow and rain or that I turned 21 a week ago and took on the Ann Arbor bar scene, my sense of time has been pretty off lately. In any case, we need to talk about it. Not about the National Championship and Frozen Four themselves, because I know some people who have been covering the teams all year and did a better job of that than I could. But what I do want to talk about is the different types of sports fans I saw on the day of the National Championship game. Classes were still in session last Monday, but you wouldn’t know it based on the turnout I witnessed throughout the day. To be fair, I missed my first class as well. But mind you, it was the night after my aforementioned 21st. I woke up at 10 a.m. in a grogg y fog and thought the day’s festivities had just begun, only to find out that I was already late to the party. The lines at popular gameday locations such as Good Time Charley’s and Buffalo Wild Wings had started forming as

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early as 8 a.m., according to my Snapchat. Tip off wasn’t until after 9 p.m. As I headed to my 11:30 a.m. work shift in the MLB, I expected the usual hustle and bustle of students rushing between classes. Instead, Ann Arbor looked like a ghost town. At work, I overheard a conversation at the copy machine between some of the international lecturers in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department. They were asking each other about the unusual number of absences that morning. They

didn’t seem to know what the big deal was. The first class I attended was up on North Campus at 1:30 p.m. Any of the buses that go there tend to be pretty crowded, to the point where people are essentially standing on top of each other. But I had no trouble finding a seat that day. My acting class is pretty small as is, with just 18 students. Even though we were rehearsing our final scenes to be filmed the next week, we just barely hit doubledigit attendees. Fortunately, none of the absentees were scheduled to go that day.

They didn’t seem to know what the big deal was.

We have to turn off our cell phones in that class because they interfere with the equipment, which was a relief because I had already spent too much time watching my friends’ Snapchat stories and trying to convince myself that I could take the whole day off. My next class was at 4 p.m, by which point even Scorekeepers’ Bar and Grille and Rick’s American Cafe — the popular nighttime destinations — had opened early so people could start their watch parties. If they had already pregamed through the afternoon, those

I’m graduating in three weeks, let me have this.

‘M’ finishes second at Big Ten Championships BAILEY JOHNSON Daily Sports Writer

As Jacob Moore prepared for his final tumbling pass, the crowd at Crisler Center cheered for him to stick the landing of the triple twist. He landed with his feet glued to the floor, just as he’s done multiple times this season. The judges rewarded the freshman’s clean floor routine with a score of 14.700 — the highest score of the night on the event — in the team competition of the men’s gymnastics Big Ten Championships, where No. 5 Michigan finished in second place with a score of 408.600, just over five points behind No. 8 Illinois’ score of 413.900. The Wolverines opened the competition on floor, with Moore, redshirt junior Marty Strech and junior Emyre Cole executing their routines well to earn scores in the 14s. All three qualified for Saturday’s event final, and the scores for the team competition allowed Michigan to get out to a strong start.

“Strong scores, pretty good landings for almost everybody,” said Michigan coach Kurt Golder of the first event. “A good start to the meet, good event for us to start on.” Moore led off on pommel horse with a low-scoring routine, requiring his teammates to step up and hit clean routines to get the team back in the hunt for a Big Ten title. Sophomore Mack Lasker answered the bell with a score of 14.000, tied for his second-best mark of the season. The Wolverines built on the pommel horse momentum and earned a competitionhigh 68.700 on rings, with each gymnast scoring into the 13s and freshman Cameron Bock scoring 14.050, just .05 below his best mark of the season. Senior Dmitri Belanovski was up first on rings and capped a well-executed routine with a stuck dismount to score 13.850. Three of his four teammates also stuck their dismounts, earning Belanovski, Bock and junior Ryan Dunning spots in the individual event final.

“A good start to the meet, good event to start on.”

“We had our highest stick percentage on rings since I’ve been at Michigan tonight,” Golder said. “You eliminate some deductions, you get some bonus points. It’s just steady, keep plugging away, and usually you get better.” Vault has been a strong event for Michigan all season, and that trend continued Friday. Freshman Nick Guy and Moore both stuck their vaults, and Cole took just a small step on his own vault landing. Junior Anthony McCallum returned to the vault lineup for the first time since suffering an injury in January and landed his Tsukahara double pike on his feet for the first time all season to earn the second-highest score of the day on the event. “It was nerve-wracking, it actually was a little bit more nerve-wracking than I wanted it to be,” McCallum said. “Last night I was like, ‘Okay, it doesn’t matter if I fall,’ just to give myself a little bit of margin for error, but once I got up there I was like, ‘Wow, I really wanna land this because I wanna help the team.’

… Once I landed it, I was just excited to have that over with.” The Wolverines headed into the fifth event, parallel bars, with the best score among teams that had already taken their bye. Belanovski led off with a clean routine, but trouble ensued when junior Uche Eke stepped up to the bars. Eke struggled early in his routine before falling on his dismount, notching a score of only 11.300. Cole, McCallum and Bock all hit clean routines with McCallum securing a spot in the event final, but the scores left Michigan in need of a season-best performance on high bar to secure the win. A week after earning their best score of the season, inconsistency crept in for the Wolverines. Redshirt junior Alec Krystek stuck his dismount and earned a score of 13.250 in the leadoff spot, followed by another clean routine from Strech. Belanovski started well, but he slipped going to a handstand and nearly fell, which caused him to receive a large deduction and score 12.550. Then Eke missed the bar on his difficult Kovacs release and fell, effectively ending Michigan’s chance at a win. “We’ve already changed the routines,” Golder said. “I think maybe in (Belanovski’s) case he was trying to be too perfect, he put it right in the handstand and it went the wrong way. Uche just happened to miss the release, the rest of it was okay, and when you do that skill, you know, it’s a D because it’s high risk. D-value, you run a little higher risk, and sometimes you miss it.” Inconsistency on parallel bars and high bar has been an issue for the Wolverines all season, and Friday night, it cost them a Big Ten title. In two weeks, it could cost them a chance at a national title.

“We had our highest stick percentage on rings.”

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The Michigan men’s gymnastics team struggled down the stretch to finish in second place at Big Ten Championships.

people might not make it to tipoff. When my class ended at 5:30 p.m., I thought about heading to one of the bars myself to join in on the action and atmosphere. But I didn’t. The tables would have been long gone by that point, and I had no intention of standing up for the duration of the game. The ridiculously long lines would have been gone too, but I had no desire to watch the game surrounded by drunk people who didn’t know the difference between a point guard and a 3-pointer. In all honesty, I watched

the game alone in my apartment, and I’m not embarrassed to admit it. Before you start laughing, let me explain. I didn’t take the day off or go out to a bar because I knew the temptation would be too strong. If Michigan won it all, I wanted to remember it. I’m probably not supposed to say that, but as a second-semester senior who could have had a national championship as a birthday present, objectivity is hard to come by. I’m graduating in three weeks, let me have this. If you did go out all day because you wanted to absorb the moment with your friends and follow along closely with your fellow Wolverines, then you would have been doing it for the love of the game. And you’re in the right. But if you did it because you wanted to drink for the hell of it and have an excuse to party on a Monday, then you would have been doing it for all the wrong reasons. And you’re really missing out. The people in the latter category would have been the ones I heard yelling angrily in the streets — I live a block away from Skeeps — or stumbling out of bars on South U sobbing — as my friends later told me — after the game. The people in the former category would have surely been disappointed but to a lesser degree, because they would have known that Villanova was always the better team. Call me a purist or pretentious, there is probably truth to both. But the point is that championship games only come around so often. When they do, you should really be a part of the former. Ashame can be reached at ashabete@umich.edu or on Twitter @betelhem_ashame.

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Michigan falls short at NCAA Regionals ARIA GERSON

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It was a moment of triumph amid heartbreak. Brianna Brown was up on the uneven bars. It was the Michigan women’s gymnastics team’s last routine of the night — and of its season. But for the senior, it wasn’t over yet. Her lines were crisp and clean, her releases high, her handstands straight. And she stuck her double layout dismount with precision. She scored a 9.95, enough to put her on the podium as the uneven bars champion. But for the rest of the team, it was too little, too late. Entering Saturday’s NCAA Regional, the seventh-ranked Wolverines were heavily favored to earn one of the two available NCAA Championships berths. But heavily favored doesn’t mean a thing if you can’t capitalize, and uncharacteristic errors from Michigan left it with a score of 196.350 to finish in fourth — behind No. 6 Alabama, No. 18 Georgia and No. 23 Illinois. “It’s extremely upsetting,” Brown said. “ … We wanted nothing more than to be out there with our team in prelims and Super Six. It’s not something you really expect to happen.” Right off the bat, there were signs of trouble. On the balance beam — generally the Wolverines’ strongest event — all six gymnasts hit their routines. But there was a bobble on a flight series here and a messy dismount there. It would become a theme. On the floor exercise, senior Lauren Marinez over-rotated her double pike and sat it down. It wasn’t a fatal mistake in isolation — teams, after all, can drop one score. But it eliminated Michigan’s margin for error. A short landing here and a stumble back there, and the Wolverines found themselves counting a 9.625. Even junior Emma McLean — the team’s most dynamic floor worker — didn’t have her best routine, garnering a 9.85. By the time the vault rolled around, it was clear that Michigan would need to put up big scores on its

final two events to pull off a top-two finish. But the Wolverines’ lineup was depleted by the absence of junior Olivia Karas due to a torn Achilles, and a bruised heel forced McLean to water down her difficulty. When freshman Syd Townsend — the only remaining gymnast to vault a difficult Yurchenko 1.5 — couldn’t hold onto her landing, it was clear that it wasn’t Michigan’s night. Bent legs here and a piked-down landing there, and all of a sudden, the Wolverines needed to average a 9.9 — an almost impossible proposition — to even finish in second. Before the uneven bars, Michigan had a bye. It was a chance for the Wolverines to clear their heads. They had to perform knowing their chances of making the NCAA Championships were all but over. “We basically just said, ‘We know what we have to do,’” Brown said. “‘We just have to go out there and do what we practiced. And if we do that, we’ll be fine.’” Before going up, Brown cleared her head. She thought about her weekend plans. She thought about her sister’s volleyball tournament. She thought about everything but her bar routine, and she went out there and hit. It was one high note in a meet full of sour ones. Brown’s performance was enough for a third-place finish in the all-around in addition to the bars title. That placement qualified her for NCAA Championships as an individual. But without the rest of her team, the victory felt hollow. “We came in here thinking we were the team to beat, and yes, we probably were the team to beat,” Brown said. “But that’s just not how it worked out.” It wasn’t a dramatic collapse. Rather, it was a bobble here and a misstep there. It was little things that added up to become big things. It was a bad night at the worst possible time. “I’m incredibly heartbroken for these young women,” said Michigan coach Bev Plocki in a statement. “... They deserved more and we didn’t get it done today. It hurts, but I am very proud of these women for all they have accomplished.”

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Wolverines sweep Nittany Lions ‘M’ extends winning streak to 15 RIAN RATNAVALE Daily Sports Writer

Even in a three-game sweep of a struggling opponent like Penn State, it took a considerable amount of toughness on the part of the No. 17 Michigan softball team to make sure that everything went to plan. Locked in a scoreless tie at the top of the seventh inning of the second game of the series, freshman outfielder Lou Allan knew it was time to stop catching up and start making something happen. Up to that point, the Wolverines (31-7) had been shutout by a Nittany Lions team (6-27) they beat 14-2 the day before. After being one of the highest recruits in the country last year, Allan has spent much of the year injured, and has slowly improved since. But against Penn State, she hit her first career home run in the opening game. Instead of celebrating though, Allan and the rest of the team faced the prospect of a momentum-halting, disappointing loss the next day.

Just like the loss earlier this season against Iowa, when the Wolverines’ rally in the seventh inning was too little too-late, the Nittany Lions seemed almost insurmountable at the plate. Allan, though, made sure history didn’t repeat itself. She swung through a changeup and crushed a two-run homer, piercing right through the hearts of the Penn State players, eliminating much of their hope for an upset. “I was just trying to do whatever I could in order to score the runs, and then we were all fighting so hard to get some runs on the board in that game,” Allan said. “It was a little bit of a struggle, but I think the biggest thing was, we just needed to make adjustments.” Although the other two games in the series were both run-rule blowouts, it would be a mistake to assume that the Wolverines didn’t bring the same level of toughness to them. “It doesn’t feel any different, it’s still, we’re still just playing the game, but honestly, we go

out and our mentality is that we wanna get in, play five innings, and then get out,” Allan said. “And score as many runs as possible, because we know we’re able to do that and we’re good enough to go up there and just stay on a hitting streak and score the runs that we need to.” Freshman left-hander Meghan Beaubien reeled off three consecutive wins, including a combined threehitter with senior right-hander Tera Blanco on Saturday. Beaubien currently boasts the most wins of any pitcher in the country, and the duo anchored a Wolverine defense that allowed just three runs all weekend. “The defense starts on the mound,” said Michigan coach Carol Hutchins. “The pitcher has to be having good game management, and although (Blanco) did get into a few full count situations, although a few more than I probably would like. She really, she was just on her game as far as being mentally tough and her defense supported her. “We made all the plays we needed to make.”

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Senior right-hander Tera Blanco combined with freshman Megan Beaubien to throw a three-hitter Saturday.

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With an inning left in Sunday’s series finale, the Michigan baseball team was locked in a 3-3 tie with Northwestern. Four batters later, the Wolverines extended their win streak to 15 with a 7-3 victory. As it has been throughout the streak, Michigan’s pitching was the difference over the weekend in Evanston. After a postponement Friday, it opened the series with back-to-back shutouts of the Wildcats (1-8 Big Ten, 8-17 overall), 6-0 and 3-0, in Saturday’s double header — the first consecutive shutouts in Big Ten play since 2006 for the Wolverines (6-0, 19-11). Sophomore left-hander Tommy Henry kicked off the weekend with six, two-hit innings Saturday afternoon, striking out nine in the process. An hour later, freshman left-hander Ben Dragani took the mound for game two and proceeded to one-up his teammate, allowing just one hit over his seven innings — a single to lead off the second inning. “They did a great job of executing the game plan,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich. “They both pounded the strike zone. Very aggressive, very consistent with all their pitches. It was just fun to watch those guys in action.” After starting the season as a reliever, Bakich moved Dragani into the rotation three weeks ago against Bowling Green. Since then, he has worked 26.2 innings with 19 strikeouts and just a single earned run against him. “It became very clear through the first couple of weeks that we would need to expand his role,” Bakich said. “And he’s earned a starting role in the rotation. “It’s one thing to have

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Sophomore left-hander Tommy Henry threw six, two-hit innings Saturday.

multiple pitches you can throw for strikes, what makes him very good is the competitiveness that he pitches with and the poise that he has on the mound.” While the Michigan rotation was the story of the weekend, its bullpen and defense both played major roles in the sweep. The bullpen, which struggled early in the season, has not given up a run since April 28 against Central Michigan — a 15.2-inning streak. “Everybody’s feeding off of each other,” Bakich said. “The guys go in and see what the previous guy did before him … and the confidence is extremely high right now. “Everyone in the bullpen has the confidence of the entire team that he’s going to get the job done.” The defense meanwhile — one of the points of pride for Bakich’s program — has returned to being a staple after a rough start to the season. They committed 26 errors in their 4-11 start, but the Wolverines have just 17 during their win streak — only further emphasized by an error-free

weekend. “Guys are starting to settle into their roles,” Bakich said, “so that breeds confidence and they can start to express themselves more freely and play more loosely.” Offensively, Michigan relied on a balanced approach with at least seven players recording a hit in each game. Freshman first baseman Jesse Franklin hit the only home run of the series in the opener but he and five other Wolverines combined for seven doubles in the sweep. “(It was) good execution (on) offense,” Bakich said. “Guys had a lot of timely hits, we had two-out RBIs in every game, we were good at getting guys home from third base, good at taking extra 90 (feet).” Next weekend, Michigan will face Maryland (3-2, 15-6), its toughest challenge in weeks. The Wolverines, though, are thinking about neither the Terrapins, nor the win streak. “We’re really more focused on the training that we’re going to have this week before we even get to Maryland,” Bakich said. “. . . We don’t talk about the streak.”

“The confidence is extremely high right now.”

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Seniors leave renewed Michigan hockey legacy The Wolverines bid goodbye to a senior class that changed the trajectory of the program in one season BENJAMIN KATZ Daily Sports Writer

ST. PAUL, Minn. — For the final time as Michigan hockey players, senior forwards Dexter Dancs and Tony Calderone stood up to leave the postgame press conference. After mounting a 14-41 record in their last 19 games heading into the Frozen Four on Thursday night, the Wolverines lost, 4-3, to Notre Dame in heartbreaking fashion, allowing the shocking game-winning goal with just 5.2 seconds left in reg ulation. As the puck left Fighting Irish forward Jake Evans’ stick and slipped through sophomore goaltender Hayden Lavigne’s blocker pads, so did Michigan’s chance at a 10th national championship. A puff yeyed Dancs and subdued Calderone — a Michigan hat shading his face from reporters — began to walk off the stage, and the college hockey scene. It was the last time the best friends represented the maize and blue, and maybe the last time playing hockey together, with Calderone signing a contract with the Dallas Stars Sunday night. Before the seniors could leave, Michigan coach Mel Pearson, seated next to the players, rose to his feet and blocked the steps down from the stage. First, he grabbed Dancs and pulled him in for a hug. Three slow pats to the back of the head, one to the back and a smack on the shoulder. Then came his captain, Calderone. One hand on his back, the other on his head and then two taps on the back. And then they left. Pearson sat back down, let out a deep exhale and puffed out his cheeks. Then he began answering questions from the media. First, Pearson congratulated Notre Dame and coach Jeff Jackson. Then, he spoke about his seniors. “I’m extremely proud of our team, especially our seniors,” Pearson said. “I thought as the game wore on there, we were starting to play. … Unfortunately, it was just a bad bounce there at the end. “My only regret is I don’t have more time with the seniors. The seniors have been outstanding for us this year. And I wish I had them back for another few years.” *** The impressive senior

Cooper Marody led the way for a struggling Wolverine offense. At that point, the “DMC” line accounted for almost 40 percent of Michigan’s total points on the season. If the trio was

and play the young g uys and get things going. But Coach Pearson was so good to us seniors and … we really appreciated it, for everything ( he’s) done for us.” For their swan songs, Calderone and

Dancs both posted career-highs in goals, assists and points. An AllBig Ten secondteam honoree, Calderone ended as the top

connecting on all cylinders, the

Wolverines won games. If they were off their game, the team faltered. Halfway through the season, Michigan was 8-10-2, but Pearson continued to trust his veterans to pave the way to win and inspire their teammates. “I think there’s always a little bit of a worry when you get a

conference scorer with 25 goals, to go with 19 assists and 44 points. Dancs added 11 tallies and 15 helpers for 26 points. Both contributed two goals and three assists in the NCA A Tournament, including the first two scores against Notre Dame, which helped open a 2-0 lead early in the second

period. Then there was senior defenseman Sam Piazza. The two-year alternate captain became the first Michigan player to new earn Senior CLASS AllAmerican honors since the award’s inception in 2006, recognizing coach,” an athlete who uses his campaigns Dancs said “platform in athletics to began during the first half late Thursday make a positive impact of the year. Calderone, night. “It’s easy for as leaders in their Dancs and junior forward new coaches to come in communities.” Piazza also

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provided a solid blueline presence, notching nine goals and 27 assists in 96 career games. Defenseman Cutler Martin and forwards Niko Porikos and Alex Roos rounded out the sixperson graduating class. This was a group handed the daunting task of playing

a leader from emerging in net. In the meantime, Calderone and the other seniors took control. They led by example. Though Calderone knew how to score, Pearson told him last April that he needed to improve his all-around commitment to the game of hockey. He needed skating, speed

under a new coach and steering a team of 17 underclassmen. They labored through matchups against Big Ten powerhouses and faced adversity during what was supposed to be a rebuilding season. “They’ve been tremendous to our young players in that locker room,” Pearson said. “They’ve given us everything they have. And that’s all we ask of our players, just give us everything you have. Nothing more, nothing less. “The seniors are not only good hockey players, they’re tremendous people, good students. They represent Michigan in the right way. And I’m very proud of those g uys.” *** Following Thursday night’s loss, in the hallowed underbelly of the Xcel Energ y Center, the Wolverine dressing room was filled with slumped shoulders and bowed heads. Suddenly, an emotional freshman stood and began to speak, according to Pearson. He thanked the seniors for taking him and many other rookies under their wings. He thanked them for accepting him as a part of the team, for welcoming him to the Michigan hockey family. Calderone, Dancs and the rest of the upperclassmen began the season carrying the Wolverines. As if that wasn’t enough, it was what they did away from the ice — especially for the youngsters — that made a significant difference down the stretch. Earlier in the season, the coaching staff

and conditioning if he truly wanted to play at the next level. Calderone worked day in, day out to improve, and did. The effort was contagious. As the back half of the season began, the underclassmen began to up their games. Raabe became a bright spot on the penalty kill, reg ularly the first skater down the ice to challenge an opponent’s power play unit. Hughes, a probable top-five pick in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, racked up four goals and nine assists in his last 12 games. Many others came to life during nail-biting games against formidable enemies. Then there was Lavigne who won the starting job and became the Wolverines’ defensive backbone. After Thursday’s game, Calderone called him the team’s best player the second half of the year and a bedrock for Michigan’s program looking forward. By the end of the season, the torch had been passed, the drive and determination trickled down to underclassmen. Just as Red Berenson had laid the foundation for Pearson to take over, so had Calderone and the seniors for the players who followed. “Honestly, I think it might have been my favorite year of hockey in my life,” Calderone said. “I think being announced captain, just being a senior and getting to see some of these younger g uys was truly special. “Like Dexter said, we had so much fun this year on and off the ice, (it was) never a dull day coming to the rink. I want to thank Coach Pearson for that and the g uys in that room. I think, we’re lifelong friends and we’ll have each other forever.” The friendships will last forever. And they may not have won the national championship, but Calderone, Dancs and all the skaters who laced up for the last time in Michigan colors have their fingerprints all over the team, their legacy ready to live on for years to come. *** From the

emptied forward Dakota Raabe’s locker to send a message to the freshman about working harder on and off the ice. Highly-touted freshman defenseman Quinn Hughes had amassed a stretch of 24 scoreless games, his lone tally before Feb. 9 coming in Michigan’s season opener against St. Lawrence. The seemingly never-ending battle for the starting goaltender position kept

season’s start, it wasn’t a secret the Wolverines weren’t the best group of players in the country, and they accepted that. “It wasn’t the most talented team I’ve had here in four years,” Dancs said, “but it was the best

team and we just loved being around each other The talent may not have always been there, but new leaders have since emerged. The third-youngest team in college hockey is now full of relative youth ready to take the next step in re-energizing the Michigan hockey culture and re-solidif ying itself as one of the most storied programs in the nation. With 5:25 left in the third period against Notre Dame, the line of freshmen forwards Jack Becker and Michael Pastujov and sophomore forward Nick Pastujov applied 45 seconds of pressure in the Fighting Irish zone. It was Michael Pastujov who hacked and whacked at the puck until it found its way into the back of the net to knot the game, 3-3. It wasn’t Calderone or Dancs or another veteran. It was a freshman — and one who hadn’t seen consistent playing time until January. The moment personified the expectations for years to come — young players gaining experience in big moments and leading the team in the right direction. “I think a lot of people, when they talk about us, (they) talk about how we lacked that depth,” Calderone said. “But the goal coming from Mike Pastujov like that, just shows that (we have depth). They’ve done it multiple times this year in the second half of the year we had all four lines going. And that’s what got us going.” From 1991 to 2012, Michigan made 22 consecutive tournaments, an NCA A record that still stands. In that time, the Wolverines advanced to 11 Frozen Fours and captured two national championships, in 1996 and 1998. But in Berenson’s last five seasons, Michigan failed to qualif y for the tournament four times. After going 13-19-3 last season, the chances to return to the playoffs anytime soon, let alone in the first year of the Pearson Era, looked bleak. This season’s late push and the unexpected tournament run positions the Wolverines in a positive light. With seniors and underclassmen forging the way for Michigan, the team isn’t the underdog anymore, but now a viable contender for next year’s title. As Pearson sat with Dancs and Calderone, a choked-up, yet confident coach began the press conference with neither grief nor disappointment, instead beaming with pride for his players and a

promising future. “It’s good to be back here,” he said of the Frozen Four appearance. “Michigan will be back here again.”