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University carbon neutrality effort features allies with cloudy records Two members in the new commission are executives at DTE and Consumers Energy

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The Washtenaw Youth Initiative held the event, invited U.S. and State reps MARIA SOBRINO Daily Staff Reporter

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By its own admission with data from 2017, the University of Michigan consumes a “substantial” amount of energy, making a net-zero carbon footprint a tall order, especially given the University’s relatively late arrival to tackling climate change. After announcing plans to pursue

a path to carbon neutrality in October, University President Mark Schlissel launched a commission on Feb. 4 to develop recommendations for achieving sustainability. Campus climate activists welcomed the commission, which is composed of faculty, students and administrators, as well as local officials and environmentalists. Engineering junior Logan Vear, president of the Climate Action Movement, supported the creation

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Online MBA program to launch in fall of 2019 ‘U’ to be first top 10 business school with virtual degree LIAT WEINSTEIN Daily Staff Reporter

Beginning in fall 2019, the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business will launch a part-time, online MBA program, making the school the first top-10 business school in the country to offer an online degree alternative. The Business School currently runs weekend and evening MBA programs for professionals who are unable to commit to the fulltime MBA track. These part-time programs allow students to both work full-time and earn their degrees but require students to be in close proximity to the Ann Arbor campus. Wallace Hopp, the director of part-time programs at the Business School, said the increased accessibility will enable the program to reach a wider and more diverse cohort of students. The program is currently only offered to students in the U.S. but can accommodate travel or study abroad plans more easily than the weekend or evening MBA tracks, which demand more face-to-face contact between professors and students. “We’re not backing away from (the weekend MBA program) at all,” Hopp said. “We’re not replacing that program. (The online program) is for the people who don’t have a family situation or a career situation where they can get to Ann Arbor every other weekend. They might be traveling, they might be doing their study from South America or wherever — it doesn’t matter,

because they’re able to access this.” According to Hopp, the business school faculty officially voted to approve the creation of the online MBA program in February 2018. Hopp said prior to the vote, the business school administration had been lobbying to create the program for nearly two years. “To get to that point, of course, we had done a lot of work to have a concrete proposal for the faculty to evaluate,” Hopp said. Although the online MBA program will not require students to convene in Ann Arbor every other week for class, Anne Schoen, the associate admissions director for parttime MBA programs, said the admissions committee will hold applicants to the same standards as all of the Business School programs. Schoen said the ideal student would have between five and seven years of working experience in the business field, an average undergraduate GPA of 3.4 and a GRE score between 158 and 160 out of 170 possible points for both the quantitative and verbal sections. “From an admissions standpoint, application is the same, requirements are the same and standards are the same,” Schoen said. “So there’s nothing different that we’re looking for from this population of students that we wouldn’t normally look for in a traditional student.”

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of the commission, but worried about conflicts of interest presented by the involvement of certain members of the newly selected group. Vear, who was named to one of the commission’s two student spots, expressed concern about the inclusion of Brandon Hofmeister, senior vice president of governmental, regulatory and public affairs at CMS Energy and Consumers Energy, as well as Camilo Serna, vice president of corporate

strategy at DTE Energy. “(It was) highly disappointing that DTE and Consumers Energy were given spots on the commission itself instead of potentially in an advisory panel, given their history of fighting against climate policy, their advocating for natural gas expansion and particularly their direct conflict of interest being financially dependent upon U of M,” Vear said. See COMMISSION, Page 2A

On Saturday afternoon, more than 50 high school students, residents and local politicians gathered in Liberty Plaza in downtown Ann Arbor to demand legislative action against gun violence. The Washtenaw Youth Initiative, a local group led by and composed of high school students, organized the rally. They invited U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., and state Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor, to speak at the event, as well as activists from the gun violence advocacy groups Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Physicians for the Prevention of Gun Violence. The Washtenaw Youth Initiative is composed of students from 12 different high schools in

Washtenaw County according to the website. The group meets weekly in the Neutral Zone, a teen center in downtown Ann Arbor, and has approximately 50 members. Claire Robinson, a junior at Pioneer High School and an active WYI member, said the rally was primarily aimed at bringing together high school students. “No one else has honestly been bringing about change,” Robinson said. “But we’ve been working really hard and still have high schoolers across the country (organizing), like March For Our Lives and Parkland, and I think that that’s starting to bring about change.”

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Romance and the hidden paradox of second-generation dating ARCHANA PRABHAKAR MiC Columnist

I come from an Indian family with lovingly obsessive parents who will continue to baby me even when I’m living on my own. One day over Thanksgiving Break, my mom drove me to my ophthalmologist’s office for an annual check-up. She sat with me before the doctor walked in, and interestingly enough, found that it was the perfect time for my daily career counseling session. We sat there having a tenminute tête-à-tête. She constantly prodded me about how I would be spending my summer, and I constantly deflected her questions with half-baked placations. Our doctor walked into the room soon after, saving me from the interrogation. Dr. Bhatia is a second generation Punjabi – he went to college

in New Orleans, medical school in Toledo, and now lives in Dallas with his wife and two kids. In pretty much every respect, he was just as Americanized as the generation of Indian Americans I grew up with. In his slightly rolling accent, he asked me to give him updates on my life. I knew the ultimate question was coming, and it eventually did after a few minutes of small talk. “So… any special guy?” My laugh was instinctual and lasted slightly longer than it should have. “Nope, you’ll be the first one to know if I ever do,” I joked. I heard a small sound escape my mother’s mouth, but I didn’t expect her voice any of her concerns. Luckily, my parents have always understood my career-focused future. Dr. Bhatia, on the other hand, seemed more concerned about what he called my “biological reality.” I was

shocked when I heard these words come from a man who has spent his entire life in the States. I almost expected him to align with my culturally progressive mentality, but he approached the topic from what he described as a purely scientific perspective, though he was obviously tinged cultural bias. He proceeded to discuss how Indian women face a specific disadvantage because they don’t typically seek arranged marriages; men usually approach women first, and on the basis of their own timelines. While he accepted the generalization that men usually mature and want to settle down later than in life that women do, he claimed that men who seek relationships and focus on marriage prospects much later than women interfere with women’s biological timelines, making it difficult to have healthy children at a “reasonable age.” Secondly,

he felt that if women waited until they were ready to get married (usually, once they have settled in their careers), there would realize that there was a dearth of eligible, available men. My response to these claims: why should we women worry about conforming to the timelines of men? Dr. Bhatia’s assertion came with the expectation that we are constantly stressing about adhering to stereotypical age ranges to fulfill certain life goals, and that some goals are always prioritized over others. How are Indian women supposed to carry the onuses of studying well, finding lucrative jobs, while simultaneously finding a life companion, having children, and securing their futures as well? Why do our overbearing parents teach to focus on our studies and avoid boys like the plague, but then expect us to effortlessly navigate our

relationships when we reach the age for marriage? South Asian elders seem to instill in us a fear of disappointment that causes us to act like our lives are in pristine order; in reality, however, we are faced with this paradox that hinders our ability to live life on our own terms. As an Indian American woman – I told Dr. Bhatia –I shouldn’t have to obligated to take on societal commitments I am not prepared for, and I shouldn’t have to shoulder the burden of measuring up to such demanding biological realities. I realized for the first time, a little dejectedly, that concepts of love, dating, and marriage don’t necessarily progress through generations. Traditional family-based values are perpetuated regardless of whether we are first or second-generation individuals. While I grew up learning the importance

of unity and family, I never expected that the idea of getting married and having kids within a certain timeframe would be imposed upon me by other secondgeneration adults. Hearing Dr. Bhatia tell me “Don’t lose sleep over it, but just keep in in the back of your mind because your responsibilities will creep up on you” made me question the extent to which we pride ourselves on progress. His comments made me see the stark disparity in the way South Asian communities treat females in comparison males – it is a disparity that has crossed continental borders and embedded itself into the roots of our society. Its ability to permeate diverse cultures is not restricted by the soil we are on, and that should be something we consider in our feminist efforts!

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Title X revision will limit adequate health care

n late February, President Donald Trump’s administration announced its final rule on a revision of the Title X family planning program that could potentially divert millions of dollars from Planned Parenthood to faith-based health care organizations. Under the revision, health care providers hoping to receive Title X funding will no longer be able to “refer for abortion as a method of family planning, or to perform, promote, or support abortion as a method of family planning.” The change is part of a larger effort by the Trump administration to push more conservative reg ulations surrounding abortion, and many pro-choice advocates have denounced it as a gag rule that prevents doctors from being candid with patients about their options. Overall, the Michigan Daily Editorial Board finds the rule inhibits doctors from doing their jobs, prevents patients from receiving the full-range of family planning services available and indicates the Trump administration prioritizes the evangelical agenda over the health and economic outcomes of its citizens. The Title X revision, first and foremost, poses an ethical problem for medical professionals. Dr. Leana Wen, the president of Planned Parenthood, expressed in an interview with NPR that “it’s unconscionable and unethical for politicians to restrict doctors like me from speaking honestly to our patients.” The doctor-patient relationship is supposed to be built on trust and communication, but how can this be achieved if doctors feel compelled to withhold their honest advice? Women seeking advice about their options in the event of an unwanted pregnancy deserve to know about all available courses of action. Though the gag rule specifically targets abortion referrals, it impacts more than just abortion services. The policy defunds every kind of health care these centers provide, including STI testing, cancer screenings and forms of contraception. For the women who rely on these other services, the loss of federal funds can be

devastating. This new rule penalizes all who use this care, regardless of if they actually went for an abortion. As this policy strips federal funding from medical facilities like Planned Parenthood, it would help finance faith-based women’s health centers. Associated with the church and often referred to as crisis pregnancy centers, these clinics provide inadequate health care by misleading women into making poor health decisions. While Planned Parenthood typically informs its patients of every option available, including abortions, CPCs do not mention the possibility of a pregnancy termination. When it comes to future family planning, normal clinics will provide various forms of contraception, while CPCs preach abstinence. Furthermore, these CPCs are often modeled to look like actual health centers, which confuses women into thinking they are in a medical clinic, rather than a religious facility. The policy’s endorsement of these faithbased health centers is a step back in women’s reproductive health and medical care. The Trump administration’s support of these abstinence-only centers over organizations like Planned Parenthood also ignores extensive empirical research on the improved socioeconomic outcomes associated with increased access to family planning. In 2013, the Guttmacher Institute conducted a review of 66 studies exploring the social and economic benefits of women’s access to contraception. The review found in states where women were given early, legal access to contraception, they

were more likely to achieve post-secondary education and higher employment rates. Women also earned higher salaries, had greater purchasing power and narrowed the gender pay gap when they had more control over their reproductive health. In the realm of mental health, a growing number of studies point to a link between unplanned childbirth and depression. As problematic as this new policy may be, there are ways for both health clinics and patients to work around it. First, institutions like Planned Parenthood can set up specific locations where they would perform abortions. However, those individual facilities would not be eligible for federal funds, nor would reg ular health clinics be able to refer patients to those other sites. On the other hand, patients can still ask about abortions and doctors would be able to answer their questions. This means women who are educated about their options will still have their questions answered, but women who are not as aware of their options can no longer rely on doctors to be transparent with them. The overarching impact of this gag rule is detrimental toward any woman or man who relies on these centers’ services, not just those who need abortions. We hope for the sake of these citizens this initiative will be blocked in court. In the event it is not, one such way to mitigate these detrimental effects will be to promote education of women’s health and the clinics that actually and effectively promote women’s health.

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Threats to the rule of law

ussian author Leo Tolstoy once said, “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.” This wisdom has obviously been lost on a growing number of counties across the U.S., where localities are declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries and thereby exempting themselves from obeying certain state-level gun control laws. The trend started nearly a month ago in Quay County, New Mexico, where Sheriff Russell Shafer submitted a resolution to affirm his right “to not enforce any unconstitutional firearms law against any citizen.” The Quay County Commission voted unanimously in favor of the resolution . In a week, six more New Mexican counties had adopted similar measures, and by last week most of New Mexico’s counties were on board. The growing body of Second Amendment sanctuary counties joins the coalition of sheriffs in Washington state who, in early February, made a similar commitment to not enforce new state-level gun controls. Moreover, the trend has emboldened sheriffs in Colorado, Nevada and Oregon to defy recently passed gun control laws in their respective states as well. This trend marks a disturbing departure from the Washington sheriffs’ disobedience, which I previously reflected on, in that it demonstrates a widespread appeal for illegitimately seditious conduct before now implausible. In upending the respect for the law crucial to robust governance — what James Madison referred to as the ability of “the government to control the governed” — Second Amendment sanctuary counties invoke a false analogy for legal justification. In doing so, they also exemplify the tendency of extremist Second Amendment ideology to ignore norms critical to the rule of law. The resolutions’ nomenclature is a tongue-in-cheek jab at the sanctuary city (and state) measures adopted by numerous localities and states in recent years, aimed at protecting illegal immigrants from the specter of federal immigration authorities. To the sheriffs and counties defying state gun control measures, their “opting out” of statewide gun policy is legally and morally akin to the cities and states that “opted out” of the Trump administration’s nationwide enforcement of federal immigration

law. Policy aside, the subtext of partisan divide is readily apparent. This argument, however, is flawed at its core. There is little equivalency between disobeying state gun control laws and allowing for sanctuary cities. For one, there is no “opting out” of statewide policy for local law enforcement. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee stated in regard to his state’s disobedient sheriffs, “No one has the ability to pick and choose which laws to follow.” Sanctuary city laws, on the other hand, command state or local law enforcement officers to not comply with requests by federal immigration officers to go above and beyond normal police duties in pursuing detained immigrants. In the former case, subordinates are ignoring direct commands from superiors to enforce laws on the books. In the latter, authorities are made not to assist agents who enforce a completely separate set of laws. To reiterate: State legislatures and the laws they pass displace local authorities and their prerogatives. By way of example, last month, the largely pro-gun Montana House passed bills prohibiting certain gun controls from being enacted by local governments. Should these bills become law, would pro-gun control sheriffs in Montana be justified in labeling their counties as gun control sanctuaries, where new gun control laws would be allowed in violation of higher, state law? The answer, for anyone who recognizes the prerogative of any state over its constituent counties, would be no. Furthermore, the growing acceptance of Second Amendment sanctuary counties demonstrates a worrying dismissal of the rule of law in America. America’s system of governance is revered because judgments are dictated by laws, as opposed to the whimsical biases or selfish preferences of those at the top. And the only thing that makes these laws durable is the respect the people have for them. Women’s suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton recognized that a republic should find it “very important the people … respect the laws.” Likewise, laws must be universally applicable to engender respect. Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter remarked, “If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can.” Viewing state laws as somehow subservient to authoritative decree

or county-level vote rejects both these fundamental tenets. This is not to say that civil disobedience is under no circumstances justified. Martin Luther King, Jr. himself spoke of disobeying unconscionable laws as “expressing the highest respect for law.” But the justifications for defiance put forth by sheriffs in Second Amendment sanctuary counties offer nothing compatible with this exception. In Quay County, where the movement started, the sheriff intended to resist “unconstitutional” gun control laws. Yet, he provided no explanation for how New Mexico’s new mandatory background check laws, legal in many other states, were unconstitutional. In Washington as well, no measures included in the opposed gun control law violated the standing Supreme Court interpretations of the Second Amendment, rendering invalid the argument for disobedience of the law. Klickitat County Sheriff Bob Songer’s demand that the Supreme Court first declare the statewide gun control measure constitutional before he enforces it was equally ludicrous, contradicting concepts as fundamental and entrenched in American governance as preemption and judicial review. The sheriffs’ respect for the rule of law clearly does not match their bravado. What can we as Americans take away from the rise of so-called Second Amendment sanctuary counties? At first glance, the sanctuary county trend demonstrates a misplaced faith in the power of superficial analogy. By implying via namesake a justification for disobedience, sheriffs in four states communicate their inability to understand the nuanced difference between failing to follow a direct order and choosing to assist authorities of separate jurisdiction. But there are more troubling problems illustrated by the trend than mere ignorance. The sheriffs and counties in question have trampled on laws, passed by legitimately elected officials, by non-judicial means and without moral justification. Their dereliction of duty demonstrates a greater disregard for the rule of law than was previously imagined in America.

Ethan Kessler can be reached at ethankes@umich.edu.

NOAH ENTE | COLUMN

The real emergency for conservatives

n season two of Netflix’s original series “House of Cards,” the show’s main character, fictitious U.S. President Frank Underwood, tells the audience, “The road to power is paved with hypocrisy, and casualties. Never regret.” In the past few weeks, President Donald Trump has shown he is taking a similar approach in his quest to fund his most sought-after agenda item: a wall on the southern border. On Feb. 15, Trump declared a national state of emergency for the current situation on the United States border with Mexico. Amid his fears of increasing illegal immigration, the president has continuously proposed the construction of a wall on the border in an attempt to dissuade unlawful crossing of the U.S. border. After weeks of partisan deadlock in Congress and the ensuing government shutdown, Trump announced he intends to use this national emergency to direct federal funds toward building the border wall he has championed throughout his presidency. The move drew expected criticism from those who have been opposed to the construction of the wall, with many of those critics being outside of the president’s core base. Critics like newly-elected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, most of whom come from liberal opposition and conservative skeptics, have long cited both their moral concerns and questions about the effectiveness of the wall as justification for their stance. However, aside from any humanitarian concerns, questions about both the character of the U.S. as a country and doubts about how effective a wall would be in stopping illegal immigration, Trump’s decision to use an executive order to declare a national emergency is cause for a different type of opposition. Some conservatives see

Trump’s use of an executive order to achieve his political goals as a harmful precedent. Some are especially concerned for a future when a liberal executive occupies the Oval Office and wishes to implement his or her policies without going through the constitutional procedure. In a Feb. 4 conversation with CNN, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, noted, “The whole idea that presidents — whether it’s President Trump, President Warren or President Sanders — can declare an emergency and somehow usurp the separation of powers and get into the business of appropriating money for specific projects without Congress being involved, is a serious constitutional question.” For a president to simply push a desired political accomplishment into action via executive order to influence the outcome in the constitutional process, is a vast and sweeping use of executive power. And to disregard the power of Congress, one of whose main functions is to decide the budget of the country, is equally as alarming. Political motions such as the appropriation of government funds are intended to pass through both houses. The potential use of this case in justifying authoritarian measures is certainly concerning to many conservatives. Even Democratic leaders have openly addressed such a possibility in their criticism of the president’s decision. Furthermore, the use of this precedent by a leader of any party is at the very least a constitutional question — if not a nightmare — for conservatives like me who are wary of the powers of government. Trump’s national emergency serves as an example of a gross misuse of federal power and an especially grand overreach by the executive branch. This implementation of an executive order, especially for the rapid redirection of funds that can occur under a national state of emergency, is troubling. It bears

resemblance to the monarchical orders and decrees our founding fathers sought to abolish in order to create a free country with free citizens. A national state of emergency, and the executive power that comes with it, should be used in the event there is truly a pressing problem Congress does not or will not have the time to address. Former President George W. Bush’s declaration of a state of emergency following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, is a proper example that meets such qualifications. In this case, though Trump may not be happy with the settlement that was reached, Congress has taken steps to at least temporarily address the issue at the border. As Jonah Goldberg, author of “Suicide of the West” and a writer for National Review, wrote, “the lack of a political triumph for a president isn’t a national emergency,” and it is inappropriate for Trump to use this last-resort measure to force “his desired policy through the political system.” What is also concerning is the president’s willingness to employ this order to direct military personnel and funding towards the construction of the controversial barrier. Trump has publicly discussed the idea of not only utilizing military supplies and funding, but deploying active military as construction workers to build the border wall. These measures would take funds intended for military relief in places with natural disasters and other true emergencies such as California and wwPuerto Rico, as well as projects designed to improve the infrastructure of our national defense, like Navy SEAL training.

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MUSIC REVIEW

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Hozier’s sophomore album proves he’s here to stay LAURA DZUBAY Daily Arts Wrtier

Remember Hozier? It’s hard not to. For the past five years, his has been one of the names most often brought up in conversations along the lines of, When on Earth is that artist’s next album going to be here? Five years isn’t the most extreme gap in the grand scheme of things, but the eponymous debut album of the Irish singer-songwriter, formally known as Andrew Hozier-Byrne, shook the world in a way that few debut albums are privileged to do. Hozier’s unique, seamless, heart-driven blend of folk, soul, rock and blues has left an indelible mark on the musical world, sparking many imitators but few who have risen to meet his level of talent and vision. A follow-up, naturally, was and has always been a tall order. Luckily, Wasteland, Baby! delivers on every front and then some. It’s a comprehensive dive (album-cover-pun intended) into some of the depths of Hozier’s personality and values left unexplored on Hozier. Hozier gave us tender affection, sardonic accusation, campy friendship and druggy poetry. The new sophomore record builds on these strengths with its offerings of well-considered lyricism, thoughtful tribute, immersive rock and thoughtful, referential appreciation of music itself. One of the traits that makes Wasteland, Baby! shine is the fact that Hozier knows how to compartmentalize. He’s aware that he’s borrowing from the libraries of many different genres, and although he doesn’t let this awareness guide him too strongly or box him in, he does use it to concentrate his genre f luencies

in the areas where they’ll serve him the most effectively. His penchant for roiling rock surfaces on “No Plan” and “Dinner & Diatribes,” while other tracks like “Shrike,” “Almost (Sweet Music)” and “Wasteland, Baby!” recall his folksy sensibilities. A thread of natural expertise runs beneath everything, reaffirming Hozier’s position as a virtual chameleon among the adjacent and overlapping worlds of the genres he’s choosing to explore. In many ways, the album as a whole adds up to a love letter to music. It opens, of course, with “Nina Cried Power,” the

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title track and lead single off of last September’s EP, the official mark of Hozier’s first release since 2014. An earthshaking collaboration with Mavis Staples, “Nina Cried Power” is a tribute to the anthemic and, yes, powerful protest work of musicians like Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, B.B. King, Bob Dylan and more. A thank you note turned up several notches, the opener shouts out Staples while benefiting from her inimitable vocals, and it places Hozier in a distinct and personable position: His music has never been anywhere near meek, but it can still be modest and grounded in a way that helps it locate its place amid a much vaster expanse of inf luence, history and musical mastery. “Almost (Sweet Music)” is

an apt follow-up, thanking musical masters like Duke Ellington and Chet Baker while providing a suitable segue into Hozier’s later explorations of his personal relationships and the ways in which they intersect with music in general. This is perhaps one of the most consistent veins characterizing the rest of the album. In addition to explicitly illustrating his artistic appreciations in songs like the celebratory, yet moderately low-key, “To Noise Making (Sing),” he demonstrates their existence in tandem with his own more personal preoccupations. His fusion of various alternative genres with odes to the past and present, and lyrics so good you could read them without the music and still fall in love, is by turns seductive, introspective, modern and wholly mythological. The more personal elements of Hozier’s characteristics as an artist that made his debut so successful — his unapologetic anger, his ready weirdness and affinity for careful, unique lyrics that veer between the sensitive and the violent — are all still there on this new album, just engineered along different paths, which is the main crux of what makes Wasteland, Baby! so fitting and interesting. These 14 tracks are the proof we may have been waiting for, whether consciously or unconsciously, that Hozier hasn’t gone anywhere. He’s been here all along, thinking and listening and working and writing, and waiting, like the shrike, for the perfect time to pounce. True to the album cover indeed, Hozier is ready to submerge us, to tug us along the depths of a place fully understood by no one and illuminate something for us amid a shipwreck. We should be so lucky.

BRAVO

‘Mexican Dynasties’ is poorly crafted trash TV MAXWELL SCHWARZ Daily Arts Wrtier

There’s an art to trash television. The idiosyncrasies, the poorly veiled intervention by producers and the staged emotional outbursts are a delicate formula. Its raw and repugnant power comes with great responsibility that only few can weild. “Mexican Dynasties” appears to have all the makings of the new best-worst show on television — come on, it’s produced by Bravo. Somehow, though, this show no one wanted falls triumphantly flat of being anything noteworthy. “Mexican Dynasties” follows three families of self-proclaimed Mexican royalty living it up to the fullest in Mexico City. The three families are the Allendes, the Bessudos and the Madrazos. They each made their fortunes in different ways: luxury cars, soft drinks and just being handsome, respectively. While they’re each different, I really couldn’t tell you which is which. The plot is simple: Rich people are weird. The Allendes have zero boundaries. Their son Adán is 27, still lives with them and spends each morning in their bed for “cuddles.” He had a beloved parrot who died, so they stuck it in the freezer for two weeks

until the rest of the family got back from vacation in Istanbul. Again, rich people being weird. Occasionally, a well-placed crack about Trump’s tweets or the wall sneaks its way into their conversation, which is fun. One of the best parts of the show is the help. Maids, cooks and the like are featured in the “interview” segments of the show to dish on the strangeness of the families. When I say “best,” it’s really telling because the

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servants don’t really dish all that much. Their comments amount mostly to saying the families are weird. Which we knew and could see. There are lots of really great bad television shows. “Little Women: LA” is not only bad, but hilarious and borderline fetishized. It at least presents a moral quandary to ponder and forget about when the women start fighting. Likewise, “90

Day Fiancé” is a smorgasbord of awkwardness and cringe in the most wonderful and alarming ways. “Dance Moms” is a travesty of pure genius. The cutthroat “Lord of the Files” atmosphere that surrounds these moms, as their kids flail about to terrible music is simply a thing of beauty. But that is not “Mexican Dynasties.” This is a show whose only aim seems to present the strangeness or general ordinariness of rich Mexicans. It’s not really exciting or fun. It’s not so strange that it makes its viewers uncomfortable, with the flair and stumbling of “Married at First Sight.” No, “Mexican Dynasties” simply is. It just exists. Not a whole lot happens in this show, which is fine. As the families announce in the opening of the show, “Americans don’t know shit about Mexico.” Which is fair. I certainly don’t. I also don’t know who this show is meant for. Are we supposed to see rich Mexicans just existing or being odd? Because if that was the aim, they’ve done it. I see these rich Mexicans. They are pretty normal, with idiosyncrasies here and there. It plays out more like “The Truman Show” than a reality show. It doesn’t make good television, but it does make a point. Mexicans and rich people are pretty normal. Nothing to see here.

COMMUNITY CULTURE REVIEW

‘The Beach’ installation unveiled over in Detroit DYLAN YONO

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Snow still blows over Michigan in March, but Detroiters can now enjoy a day at “The Beach,” an art installation designed as a ball pit beach. “The Beach” is indoors but thematically emulates a real beach, with sloping shorelines, umbrella-shaded lounge chairs, a lifeguard and blowup beach balls. But instead of water, “The Beach” is filled with 400,000 plastic balls. Located in the heart of downtown, one can go for a swim at “The Beach” right after ice skating across the street at Campus Martius. It’s free and open to the public, accepting both walk-ins and online reservations. The exhibit quietly debuted

on Friday, Mar. 1 with pictures of Detroiters enjoying “The Beach” hitting Instagram. By Saturday, reservations for a swim were booked for the next two weeks. When I went Sunday afternoon, the line for walk-ins wrapped all around the lobby. Surprisingly, it wasn’t just

too, Snapchatting their entire experience. The artists behind “The Beach,” Alex Mustonen, Daniel Arsham and Ben Porto, are partners at the New York design studio Snarkitecture. The firm is best known for designing unique brick and mortar stores for KITH, a high-end footwear and clothing retailer. Many of their art installations and architecture projects are collaborative, immersive designs, often built within existing spaces or architecture. “The Beach” debuted in Washington D.C. in 2015 and has since been installed in cities all across the world, including Paris, Sydney and Bangkok. Detroit’s installment was produced in collaboration with Library Street Collective, a Detroit art

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gallery. The local contemporary art gallery is behind many art installations in Detroit, including the Rainbow City Roller Rink that previously occupied “The Beach”’s space at 1001 Woodward. A ball pit may conjure up memories of a colorful Chuck E. Cheese nightmare, but “The Beach” is sleek, cool and inviting. A wide open space with mirrors along all the walls make it feel even bigger. It’s lively, but by no means crowded. The plastic balls are recyclable and antimicrobial, so it’s both environmentally friendly and

sanitary (as sanitary as a ball pit can be, anyway). Like many of Snarkitecture’s projects, “The Beach” is all-white, including the “shore” and the sea of balls. The only pops of color come from blow-up toys such as a pink f lamingo or a striped inner-tube. Two piers reach out into the pit where swimmers can jump into the pit, and there’s an island in the middle that visitors can swim to. Moving around in the pit is surprisingly difficult. It’s very relaxing to lay immersed in the balls — perhaps even more so than being in the water

at a real beach. My 45-minute swim session was mostly spent lounging in the ball pit. Partly because it was so comfortable, partly because I ran out of breath every time I tried to get off my back. Both visually cool and physically soothing, “The Beach” is a unique, fun exhibition. For modern art appreciators that enjoy an immersive and interactive experience, “The Beach” Detroit will remain open Wednesday to Sunday each week through Apr. 14th — so get your swim in while you can.

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Another dive into grime: ‘Original Pirate Material’ SAYAN GHOSH

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While I have written previously about music from the Anglosphere for this column, I try to reserve my attention towards foreignlanguage music. Exceptions occur when even something from the Anglosphere is distinctly inseparable from a time and place outside of the United States. Grime, for example. Mike Skinner’s (going by the name The Streets) 2002 album Original Pirate Material, an album that has gripped me and intrigued me from my very first listen, is one of those. An album more readers will likely be familiar with that closely resembles the anecdotal, slice-of-life stories of nights out and spurned romance is The Arctic Monkeys’s 2006 debut Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. Though the album lacks Alex Turner’s unmatched wit and the creativity of American hip-hop’s greatest storytellers, Skinner, a Birmingham native, managed to make a thoroughly engaging, unique album that inf luenced music in the U.K. for years to come. I personally wouldn’t characterize what Skinner does on this album as “rapping” per se, at least not in the sense that we’re used to. Sure, there’s rhyming and wordplay, but frankly, Skinner’s lines are awkwardly wordy at several points and purely clumsy at others. He sounds more like an overzealous beat poet than a rapper. And it fits. The instrumentals are metallic and precise — think the opposite of the unquantized drums J Dilla made a specialty. There’s definitely more two-step and garage inf luence rather than jazz and soul, which makes complete sense, as those were the genres that ruled the dancef loors of the U.K. at the time. Skinner tells stories of the mundane and the mind-

numbingly boring and somehow makes them seem grand all at once. “Cause this is our zone, videos, televisions, 64s, playstations, weigh up Henry with precision, few herbs and a bit of Benson,” he raps on one of the album’s standouts, “Has It Come To This?” He later mentions, “My underground trains run from Mile End to Ealing, From Brixton to Boundsgreen” and “Deep seated urban decay, deep seated urban decay, Rip down posters I like from last week’s big garage night.” Skinner describes and

Original Pirate Material is an album about being young and bored. However, youth is not admired; age is not feared.

references areas of the young and working class, far from the glamorous locales Americans often associate with the U.K. These garage nights serve as the respite from the urban blight caused by the repressive austerity policies of politicians past and present. “Weak Become Heroes” is Skinner’s personal ref lection

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on raving culture, but serves as a surprisingly poignant ref lection on youth in general, easily divorceable from the context of the album and just as prescient today. Describing a drug-fueled night out, he raps, “Same piano loops over, arms wave, eyes roll back, And jaws fall open, see in soft focus… Yo, they could settle wars with this.” He later ref lects, “Then the girl in the café taps me on the shoulder, I realize five years went by and I’m older/ Memories smolder, winter’s colder/ But that same piano loops over and over,” himself rapping over a looped piano. It’s an ode to those magical moments of eternal youth, freedom from the drudgeries and pain and stresses modern capitalism inf licts. It’s an ode to feeling, truly feeling. Ironically, I myself shudder at the prospect of realizing five years went by and memories smoldering, but Skinner’s assertion that the same looped piano remains somewhat comforting. Despite being heavily inf luenced by the American art form of hip-hop, Original Pirate Material is unapologetically English. Skinner’s regional accent shines through, and he makes a point to mention he’s talking about “geezers” and “birds.” The inf luence it has to this day is remarkable. A short while later, Dizzee Rascal released arguably the Illmatic of the young genre of grime, Boy in da Corner. Nobody could deny how much it, and all the music that followed, owed to Mike Skinner’s masterpiece. Original Pirate Material is an album about being young and bored. However, youth is not admired; age is not feared. Skinner just describes being alive, being stupid, being aware that the present-day routine will one day become nostalgia fodder. At the beginning, his words, and the album in general, actually kind of depressed me. But now, having listened to it more times than I can count, I understand the comfort underlining it all.

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‘Capernaum’ indicts the institutions that fail kids JULIANNA MORANO Daily Arts Writer

If “Capernaum” had a thesis, it would be the reason 12-year-old protagonist Zain El Hajj (Zain al Rafeea, debut) gives for taking his parents to civil court: “Because I was born.” Out of context, Zain’s request may register as absurd. How could giving life to someone ever be seen as a crime? Why would a child criminalize his own existence? And what court of law would hear such a claim? But in the context of Nadine Labaki’s (“Where Do We Go Now?”) unabashed film depicting life on the bottom socioeconomic tier in Lebanon, she unveils the traumatic blows Zain has sustained from every angle by age 12, so that by the end, it is hardly Zain’s testament that seems absurd. Instead, it is the life his family and his society have left him with, as well as the so-called justice system intended to protect the wounded like him, that we are called to interrogate. Labaki skillfully navigates these commentaries with the episodic construction of “Capernaum.” She punctuates the chaos of her protagonist’s life with scenes from the court case in which Zain sues his parents, making almost loyal returns from Zain’s turbulent existence to that space of alleged law and order. This juxtaposition creates a tension in the middle of which Zain suffers immensely but shines resiliently. In the episodes of the chaos, we encounter a triad of parental figures: Zain’s impoverished, downtrodden parents who

neglect their many children; Rahil (Yordanos Shiferaw), an undocumented migrant worker from Ethiopia and single mother of infant Yonas (Boluwatife Treasure Bankole); and, although he is only 12 years old, Zain. This trio is structured around the parental neglect and absence — the kind that stems from adverse social conditions and selfishness — from putting one’s own survival in front of that of your children. In moments of self-sacrifice, these parental figures move to the apex of the trio; Labaki represents selflessness as the cornerstone of love rather than the antithesis of survival. But when we ask that sacrifice of a child, when we ask someone who needs nurturing of their

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own to be a self-reliant nurturer, we see how a boy begins to see lifegiving as a crime. Zain is unguarded. He has an extensive repertoire of obscenities. He knows what could happen to a young girl like his sister once she starts menstruating and is seen as a woman. Zain knows what could happen to a child like Yonas if he is not fiercely cared for. He shouldn’t, but he does, and he uses that knowledge to care for the vulnerable when no one else will. In the commission of this tall order of care and protection, Zain breaks the law. We learn that the

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courtroom scene is not Zain’s first appearance in court, that he is serving a five-year sentence for stabbing his sister’s husband, roughly triple her age. The same way Labaki complexifies Zain’s explanation for the suing his parents, she does the same with Zain’s carceral status. It sounds acceptable, if not prudent, that Zain do time for his violence. Taken with the episodes of trauma, however, it is the legal system that begins to seem absurd. The prospect of removing crime from its circumstances and deciding what individual gets to atone for societal ills and of looking at a child offender with the same removed contempt as one would look at an adult offender are absurdities in Labaki’s book. Children like Zain stand and flinch in their crosshairs. Zain is the heart and the heartbreak of “Capernaum.” Through the mature, foulmouthed, brave, selfless, strong character of twelve-yearold Zain, Labaki unabashedly shows us how what we expect from children measures up to what we give. At the same time, we entrust children with the cross-generational hope for change, we expect them to fend for that without laying the groundwork for that change. We repeat our parents’ mistakes, we resign to flawed institutions, and yet somehow still expect change. That is why we need to see Labaki’s Zain. We learn from his stories and his crimes, his unlikely triumphs and his naïve failures. We need the painful reckoning of “Capernaum.”

BOOK REVIEW

Domestic mystery ‘My Lovely Wife’ is shocking SARAH SALMAN Daily Arts Writer

Everyone has a routine. For me, it’s listening to an episode of “The Daily” podcast while I eat a slice of banana bread and drink my Ceylon black tea every morning. For the narrator of Samantha Downing’s “My Lovely Wife,” it’s stopping at the the EZ-Go gas station two miles from his home to get a cup of coffee. It’s having a movie night with his family every week. It’s cheering at the sidelines for each one of his daughter’s soccer game. The narrator sounds pretty much like your everyday man. A loving father. A doting husband. He’s the kind of guy that would have a nice word for everyone. He also kills with his wife. Their routine is like this: He would meet his women at bars, acting as a non-threatening deaf man. They’d chat. They might share some more drinks. By the end of the hour, he’s invited to spend the night. The next day, he lets his wife know if the woman is “right.” If she is, the events progress rapidly. His wife would capture the aforementioned woman, then

murder her. It’s a delicious, sexy secret between them. Who would suspect a duo? But when one of the victims is discovered, something doesn’t add up. She was supposed to be dead for over a year. Instead, the autopsy reports that she’s been dead for only a few weeks. The narrator realizes that his wife has been keeping secrets from him. Gradually, the picturesque suburban life

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that this couple has built up is starting to crumble. Written in first-person, “My Lovely Wife” makes it difficult not to get attached to the narrator. Despite his role as an accomplice, it’s tempting to absolve him. Some men buy chocolate and roses to please their partner. He kills for her. You almost want to cheer him on and you certainly don’t want him to get caught. Think of the

children! Due to the limitations of first person, the tensions are higher. The wife who had once seemed like an alluring woman shifts into the role of a cold-hearted psychopath. It’s hard to pinpoint if the reason is due to Downing’s masterful revelations as the novel switches from past to present, uncovering more and more details that had seemed benign at first glance, or if the reason is more sinister. Has the unreliable narrator clouded our perception? Has he weaved a persona of a wife that doesn’t exist? The readers can only rely on the husband to get each answer. By the last quarter of the book, the mound of questions start getting answered. Somehow each reveal is more shocking than the last. With mounting, almost morbid horror, the novel is impossible to put down. “My Lovely Wife” is marketed as your “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” meets “Gone Girl,” but it’s more than that. It’s a twisty, psychological thriller that has your blood pumping, your sympathy awry and an ending so satisfying that I’m already looking forward to Samantha Downing’s next book.

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n observance of Women’s History Month, The Daily’s sports section kicks off its second annual series aimed at telling the stories of female athletes, coaches and teams at the University from the perspective of the female sports LANEY writers on BYLER staff. Former managing sports editor Laney Byler starts the series with this column. I called Nicole Auerbach on Friday morning, ready to talk about the numbers behind women in sports journalism. I wanted to talk about her experiences, her role covering national college football for The Athletic and how much importance she placed in women setting up other women for success in a field dominated by men. At some point, the conversation landed on an internship she did the summer after her freshman year of college. It was 2008, and Auerbach got an internship with The Trentonian in New Jersey. She’d spend the summer covering the Yankees’ AA team, the Trenton Thunder, and jump into her career as a sportswriter. When she was younger, she’d read Sports Illustrated cover-to-cover. She loved writing, and she loved sports, but she didn’t know where to start — until she found The Daily. She ended up covering sports ranging from club ultimate frisbee to wom-

en’s gymnastics. For someone who thought that reporting sports would be an ideal job, that internship with The Trentonian had potential to really assist her in becoming a sports journalist. Then she found out she was barred from entering the Thunder’s locker room. In 2008. Games ended around 10 p.m., and she’d have to wait outside the locker room for players that she asked for (or sometimes, she wouldn’t get the opportunity to speak with players at all). She realized she was missing out on the raw answers players gave immediately after their games. Then she had to race against deadline after her interviews, hoping to get her story in on time despite not having the same access as other people. As far as obstacles go, not being allowed to enter the locker room was a pretty big one. “I brought it up to my editor — one thing I’ve always been very fortunate to have is editors that have really had my back on this stuff — so my editor made it happen,” she told me on Friday. “He called them, and they tried to tell him that the rule was because I was an intern and not a fulltime employee at a newspaper — not because I was a woman. And he said ‘That’s ridiculous. She’s on deadline, she has a job to do, and you need to let her in.’” And then? “And then they did.” For women in sports journalism, barriers to entry can range from being barred from

He said, “That’s ridiculous. She’s on deadline, she has a job to do.”

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Daily writers Anna Marcus, Laney Byler and Bailey Johnson are among the female sports writers who have covered Michigan hockey for The Daily.

a locker room to facing a lack of female role models in higher positions. In a sphere historically dominated by men, Auerbach’s story shows just how far some women have to reach to level the playing field. Of course, that playing field was leveled with a push from her and her editor. The next summer, when a baseball coach asked her, “Did you understand everything I said?” she received the same amount of support from her editors, who gave her the choice to cover that team or move on to a different one. Having allies in the room —

male allies, specifically — was one way to crunch that barrier. “I think that every woman in this field has stories like that, where you have to figure out how you’re going to navigate something and whether or not you’re going to tell your bosses,” Auerbach said. “Because you don’t want them to think that you’re not capable of handling yourself in the field and in these situations, but you also want them to know so they have your back, in exactly the way my editors did in both of those situations. Because they 100 percent went to bat for

I think every woman in this field has stories like that.

me.” Now Auerbach covers national college football for The Athletic, along with Chantel Jennings — both of whom are alumni of The Daily’s sports staff. For them, support networks of women in the industry have been vital to handling their role as sports journalists. But these examples preach the importance of having allies for women in a world dominated by barriers. While having networks for female support are necessary, having support from both men and women would close the gap even further.

“Everyone deserves a spot at the table,” Jennings said on Saturday, “and if it’s only women who are bringing women to the table, or if it’s only people of color who are bring people of color to the table, we’re not going to have an accurate representation. Or, it’s just going to be really, really slow. “It needs to be everyone. Everyone has to look out for everyone.”

You also want them to know so they have your back.

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Minnesota Massacre Michigan’s season ends at hands of Golden Gophers with Big Ten Tournament sweep punctuated by 4-1 Saturday blowout RIAN RATNAVALE Daily Sports Writer

MINNEAPOLIS — It was over before it even started. Rem Pitlick made sure of it. With a goal to his name already and up 3-0 with three minutes left in the second period, Minnesota’s star center gathered a pass from Tyler Sheehy in the right circle and without hesitation knifed the puck into the top of Michigan’s net, ending whatever small pulse the Wolverines’ season clung to. “They came out to play and we didn’t,” said junior forward Jake Slaker. “It showed on the scoreboard.” At times this season, the Michigan hockey team looked like the lethal, fast-skating team that most pegged it to be coming into the season. Others moments weren’t as rosy. The Wolverines would often come out and win a Friday game, and outshoot their opponent on a Saturday, only to be outdone by costly turnovers in games they largely had a chance to win. Saturday’s 4-1 loss to Minnesota was neither. Call it a season-ending loss or call it a decisive nail in the coffin to a season once rife with hope. But either way, by the time the buzzer sounded, Michigan was nothing but a shadow of its once-lofty potential. “They jumped us,” said Michigan coach Mel Pearson. “We weren’t ready to play. That’s been an issue from time to time this year. Other games we’ve been able to claw ourselves out of it. The last time we were in here, we were down three-zip and we had to claw our way out of it. At this time of year, when teams are desperate, you can’t do that.”

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Junior forward Jake Slaker said that the Michigan hockey team didn’t come to play in Saturday’s season-ending loss.

Pearson always mentioned the Wolverines’ fourth line as a group that he was comfortable matching up with any line in the country. But just five minutes into the game, the Golden Gophers’ Tommy Novak burned freshman forward Nolan Moyle past the boards, letting the 127-game veteran waltz into Michigan’s crease unguarded and flip in Minnesota’s first goal behind freshman goaltender Strauss Mann. Junior forward Will Lockwood responded by shaking Minnesota goaltender Mat Robson out of his net but missed a golden opportunity to tie the game by sending the puck wide of the left post. And after cutting down on defensive zone turnovers, senior defenseman Joseph Cecconi mishandled a centering pass into the hands of Scott Reedy. Seven minutes after Minnesota notched its first goal, Reedy danced around every Wolverine on the ice and doubled the

They came to play and we didn’t. It showed.

Golden Gophers’ lead. Michigan’s power play remained inconsistent, if not dormant, as it had been for the series and most of the season — the Wolverines didn’t convert either of their two tries in the first two periods and leave Minneapolis 0-6 with a man advantage. With an early exit after last year’s run, Michigan has more questions than answers on its plate. Will Quinn Hughes leave? If he does, how will the Wolverines replace him and senior defenseman Joseph Cecconi’s 53 points? What about Josh Norris and his injury? Can this year’s underclassmen step up and provide more consistent offense? Will next year’s recruiting class get to campus and contribute? “(We need) good recruiting,” Pearson said. “We gotta hit the recruiting hard. We’ve got some good pieces, but we’re a ways away from being the team we need to be.” “I think there’s a lot of things that can change,” Slaker added. “It’s just one of those things where we get back to work and work on ... just about everything.”

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MINNEAPOLIS — Seven minutes into practice on Thursday afternoon, Michigan coach Mel Pearson gathered his team at center ice. The Wolverines, a day away from the first game of a bestof-three Big Ten Tournament series at Minnesota, lacked the focus and attention to detail Pearson wanted to see. After a quick reminder, the effort level improved, and Michigan carried momentum into Friday night’s game. “They’ll show up and compete tomorrow,” Pearson said on Thursday. “But it’s — as a coach, you’ve watched the tapes. You’ve seen the team, as our staff has. We understand how good Minnesota is. Players just want to play. They don’t watch all that. They don’t understand, how — maybe at times how good (a team is). You can tell them that, but — we just wanted to get their attention today.” Though the Wolverines eventually lost in overtime, Michigan entered the first period with energy and focus and lit the lamp first on Friday

night. Pearson got his team’s attention. But on Saturday, in a season-ending 4-1 loss, the Wolverines started the game about how they started practice on Thursday. And this time, Michigan wouldn’t be saved by the fact that how it started didn’t truly matter. “I’m a firm believer (in) you play as you practice, for the most part,” Pearson said. “For the most part. You just want to make sure that you’re — we don’t play tonight. Thank goodness we didn’t play tonight, we’d be down 5-0, first period. It just — we’re sloppy.” Saturday’s game mattered more than any other game had all season. The Wolverines were 60 minutes away from the end of their season, but they didn’t start the game like a team that was so close to elimination. While it wasn’t quite the 5-0 deficit Pearson mentioned Thursday, Michigan was in a deep hole and trailed, 3-0, after the first period. The Wolverines played better in the ensuing 40 minutes, particularly in the second stanza. But by that point, the hole was too deep. “They came out ready to play in the first and we were on our heels,” said junior forward Jake Slaker. “It’s tough to go down three in the first period and chase. I think we did it last time we were here and we had a little better comeback than we did tonight but, like I said, they came ready and we didn’t. And at that point, it was too late.” Just as Pearson had warned his team before the series started, a slow start led to a deep deficit. Michigan started better in the second period, outshooting the Golden Gophers 10-6 in the frame. The majority of

Minnesota’s shots came on the power play late in the period after the Wolverines had spent the majority of the stanza putting pressure on goaltender Mat Robson. “We were embarrassed,” Pearson said. “We played with a little bit more pride in the second period. We worked hard.” Despite Michigan’s efforts in its best period of the game, none of the shots were close enough. None of the Wolverines’ scoring chances were truly ‘Grade-A’ chances. And when you’re down 3-0 in a game that could end your season, close isn’t good enough. “We’ve had trouble scoring goals,” Pearson said on Saturday. “We really have all year, and that’s why we’ve been in so many tight overtime games and come out on the wrong end of those. But that wasn’t the case tonight. They were the better team.” A late goal by junior forward Adam Winborg did little more than prevent Robson from getting a shutout. It was too late, way too late. Michigan knew it. The Wolverines couldn’t clear the mental hurdle that comes along with getting in such a deep hole in an elimination game. Not starting on time put Michigan in a spot it couldn’t come back from, and it ended the Wolverines’ season. “Mentally, it’s hard,” Pearson said. “It’s hard when you’re one game down and all of a sudden you’re down 1-0, 2-0. The mind is a powerful thing and I just don’t know if we were in the right frame of mind or believed we could come in and win this game tonight. “If you’re in that spot, it’s a bad spot to be in.”

We’ve had trouble scoring goals. We really have all year.

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EAST LANSING — With 13 seconds left in the game, Cassius Winston traveled. Normally, it would be a quick play stoppage — a few substitutions and then an inbound. But this was no normal timeout. Rather, it was more of an extended flex. The PA announced the seniors, wing Matt McQuaid and forward Kenny Goins. Both got down on the floor and kissed the Spartans’ logo as they pumped up the crowd. No. 7 Michigan (26-5 overall, 15-5 Big Ten) could only sit and watch as No. 9 Michigan State (25-6, 16-4) milked every last moment of its 75-63 win on the way to a Big Ten title. For 30 minutes, it seemed like the Wolverines could do what seemed unthinkable two weeks ago. After losing to Michigan State at Crisler Center two weeks agoo, Michigan’s Big Ten hopes were on life support. But when the Spartans lost to Indiana the next weekend and Purdue lost to Minnesota, the door was once again wide open. Win at the Breslin Center, win the Big Ten. But when the clock ran out, it was Michigan State cutting down the nets. “We weren’t poised when we needed to,” said Michigan coach John Beilein. “We needed to be poised at the time and we weren’t. We didn’t show.” It started out well for the Wolverines. Junior guard Zavier Simpson grabbed steals on back-to-back possessions to open the game, which led to five quick points. Michigan didn’t trail the rest of the half. But freshman forward Ignas Brazdeikis and sophomore forward Isaiah Livers each picked up two fouls, sitting on the bench for much of the period and thrusting the bench into action. All of them played well for patches, but the Breslin Center is not a conducive environment for freshmen with scarce playing time. The Spartans closed the half on a 6-0 run that coincided with a 3:12 scoring drought for the Wolverines. The crowd rose to its feet multiple times as Michigan seemed more and more flustered. Though the Wolverines led by six at halftime, there was a sense it might not last.

We needed to be poised at the time and we weren’t. After a few minutes of trading baskets with Michigan, Michigan State found a little bit of separation. With 11:39 left in the second half, Goins got the ball on a fast break and was left wide open for three, hitting it to cut the lead to two. “(We had) a couple possessions of miscommunications,” Livers said. “ … Just getting them easy shots, easy buckets. Just, they didn’t have the pressure that we were supposed to give them.” After taking the lead on a Winston 3-pointer, the Spartans systematically suffocated the Wolverines. Michigan missed eight consecutive shots as Michigan State hit 10 in a row, starting with Goins’ triple. When the Wolverines finally took a timeout with 7:45 left, the Spartans were up seven and had a lead they wouldn’t relent. Winston, meanwhile, bullied Michigan into submission. He drew several fouls and got what he wanted at the rim, finishing with 23 points and seven assists. Everything the Wolverines tried came up empty. Everything the Spartans tried found the net. Michigan’s scoring drought ballooned to 4:15 and Michigan State’s run to 20-2. Brazdeikis, who scored 20 points in just 22 minutes, fouled out with just over five minutes left. “It started from the defensive end,” said freshman guard David DeJulius. “Because the first half, a lot of our defensive end translated to offense and we were able to get down a lot and then the second half we just couldn’t get no stops.” The rest was a mere formality. For 30 minutes, the title was within the Wolverines’ grasp. But for the last 10, the Spartans played like conference champions, and Michigan played like a team that had already lost.

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Michigan coach John Beilein said the Wolverines “imploded a little bit,” losing poise late in Saturday’s 75-63 loss at Michigan State.

‘M’ blows title chance Spartans will their way to 75-63 comeback win

AST LANSING — Jordan Poole stood in a back hallway that snakes around the Breslin Center talking to a scrum of reporters that went three deep. You could barely hear him over the sound of Queen’s We Are the Champions. “They were just able to get runs and make shots in the second half,” he said. “And we didn’t answer.” Fifteen minutes ETHAN later, the WolverSEARS ines left the building. The Spartans had yet to leave the court. As one team boarded its bus lamenting what could — what should — have been, the other climbed ladders and cut down nets, milling around to take in the scene, wanting to stay and take it in. Well over an hour after the final buzzer, they stayed — family members and players and coaches and people who had some type of indiscernible tie to Michigan State basketball — because the Spartans beat Michigan, 75-63, taking a championship trophy straight from the Wolverines’ hands. This was supposed to be Michigan’s celebration and Michigan’s trophy. If things went the way they were supposed to, this game wouldn’t have been played for anything but pride. Fourteen months ago in the same building, Poole walked down the tunnel jawing at the Izzone after

a win. On Sunday, he chewed on a towel with a sullen look on his face, walking to the losing locker room as the celebration started behind him, a reminder of an opportunity lost. Michigan played the first half with two of its stars in foul trouble and a third, Charles Matthews, sitting on the bench with an injury. It took a six-point lead into the break anyway. That was supposed to be the disaster it averted on the way to a title. In the second half, though, with Ignas Brazdeikis and Jon Teske back on the floor, the Wolverines fell apart. Up 50-45 with 12 minutes to go, they let up a 20-2 run, looking shell-shocked and lost as Breslin’s pressure-cooker burst. “I think we imploded a little bit on a couple of occasions,” said Michigan coach John Beilein. “They blocked a couple shots during that time, and that was huge. And then we missed some shots. We even had a couple airballs. That’s really tough for us. “Now, they’re out and they didn’t miss on their end. We lost some coverages in transition. They put you in great rotations. We tried to stay on that more than we did last time. They got to the foulline like crazy.” That implosion cost the Wolverines a regular-season championship. But really, it shouldn’t have come down to Saturday in the first place. Seventeen games into the season, Michigan was 17-0. Had it won the 18th, the Wolverines would have likely ascended to the top ranking in the country. And 10 games into Big Ten play, Michigan was 9-1, firmly in the

I think we imploded a little bit on a couple occasions.

driver’s seat. The lack of a banner commemorating it has less to do with Saturday than Jon Teske getting into foul trouble in Iowa, the entire team coming out flat at Penn State and a blown lead against the Spartans the first time around. “It’s a missed opportunity,” said assistant coach DeAndre Haynes. “But the better team won.” He was talking about Saturday’s game. He might as well have been talking about the last six weeks. Right now, this isn’t the same team that went to Villanova and ran the national champions off their home floor, and it isn’t the same team that made Roy Williams stand at a podium in November and rant that his Tar Heels “sucked.” Michigan started this season by messing with every opponent’s psyche, winning with style. As Saturday’s game wound down, the Wolverines needing buckets in the biggest moment of their season, they had nobody to go to, no consistent answer. Across the floor, the Spartans’ bench whooped and hollered as Cassius Winston played just that role, scoring 16 points with four assists in the last 20 minutes, putting the whole building on a string. There are flashes that Michigan can be the same team again. Just look to the first 28 or so minutes of both games against Michigan State. The potential for a deep NCAA Tournament remains. “We’re pretty good at winning,” Beilein said Saturday, and even after a crushing loss, he has a point. But as good as the Wolverines started — this game and this season — it’s the finish that counts.

Sears can be reached at searseth@umich.edu or on Twitter @ethan_sears.

Lack of composure haunts Michigan on road ARIA GERSON

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EAST LANSING — Isaiah Livers paused. Then he shook his head. A reporter had just asked how it felt to get so close to winning the Big Ten regular-season title. The sophomore forward was understandably at a loss. But the Michigan men’s basketball team wasn’t just close in the sense that, in the last game of the season, it was competing for a conference championship. With three minutes left in the first half, the Wolverines were up 12, the title firmly within their grasp. And then, methodically, their championship hopes collapsed as Michigan State took over. What began with two steals by junior guard Zavier Simpson and an ice-cold 3-pointer from freshman forward Ignas Brazdeikis ended with chants of “Little Sister,” a postgame playing of “One Shining Moment” and a litany of Spartans still on the floor an hour after the buzzer, little pieces of the net tied in their “Big Ten Champions” hats. Michigan State officially took the lead with 10:47 left in the second half. But the problems began before then. “What won the game for us was only being down six at halftime,” said Michigan State coach Tom Izzo. “Because it could’ve been 16, and that was a big difference in the game.” At times, Michigan seemed on the verge of running away with the game, but it never quite broke through. The first

crack was foul trouble. Livers, Brazdeikis and junior center Jon Teske all picked up fouls in the first eight minutes. Teske was sent to the bench. Livers and Brazdeikis stayed in, but two minutes more and they forced Michigan coach John Beilein’s hand by picking up a second. The rest of the half, a mishmash of freshmen and seldom-used bench players rounded out the rotation. All held their own, but their inexperience prevented the Wolverines from building their lead — and by the end of the half, when the Spartans had whittled the deficit to six, it seemed the lid was about to blow off the pressure cooker. And when the starters came back in after the half, they were no longer in the same perfect sync. “You get in foul trouble, it messes up your rhythm,” Livers said. “You finally get back in the game, so when you sit out a long time in the first half, there’s no excuse but we get out there, it’s just, you’re not in the same rhythm as when you left.” Michigan never got back in its groove. The Wolverines scored 13 points in the first eight minutes, then went seven minutes and 20 seconds without another field goal. It was eerily similar to Feb. 24 in Ann Arbor, when a five-minute field goal drought let a Michigan lead slip away. In each game, sophomore guard Jordan Poole sunk a few shots to keep things slightly interesting — but both times, it was too little, too late. With five minutes left on Saturday,

Michigan State was up 10. Brazdeikis, the Wolverines’ only reliable scorer, had fouled out just seconds before. “We haven’t scored (a field goal) in seven minutes,” Livers said. “So I kinda just, it was kinda bad and I feel like at that point, a couple guys started cracking and that’s, can’t do that … against your rival.” As Michigan struggled to find the basket, Spartan guard Cassius Winston went off, dribbling through defenders and dazzling at the rim en route to 23 points. Forward Xavier Tillman blocked five shots, wreaking havoc when the Wolverines’ smaller guards tried to get to the rim. Michigan’s early energy had fully transferred to Michigan State. The Wolverines aren’t a team that frequently loses their composure. As Beilein was quick to point out, they’ve won in tough road environments before — Villanova’s Finneran Pavilion, Minnesota’s Williams Arena and Maryland’s Xfinity Center, to name a few. But none of those had the stakes, or the sensory overload, of Saturday’s game at Breslin. And none of those teams were the caliber of the Spartans, who showed in the last matchup just how quickly they can suck the life out of you. “We did not lose our poise in all seven of our road wins,” Beilein said. “We lost some poise today.” Michigan was that close, leading the game it needed to win with just over 10 minutes to go. But as the Wolverines’ poise crumbled in the Breslin Center whiteout, what remained of their title hopes slipped through their fingers.

EAST LANSING — Zavier Simpson sat on the bench with a blank stare. 33.9 seconds remained in Saturday’s game and Cassius Winston stood at midcourt, egging on the crowd as Aaron Henry walked to the free throw line to put the final touches on a championship season. When the buzzer sounded, Michigan State beating Michigan 75-63 and winning a share of the Big Ten regular-season title, Winston found Spartan guard Foster Loyer and jumped straight into him. Simpson stood in the handshake line stoically, watching the scene unfold. Two weeks ago in Ann Arbor, Winston got the best of Simpson, playing all 40 minutes, scoring 27 points and putting up eight assists, leading Michigan State to an upset win on the road. On Saturday, Winston threw a pass out of bounds as the Wolverines held a four-point lead with 15:30 to go and his face locked up like a kid getting bullied on the playground. That was Winston’s third turnover, after a first half in which he scored just seven points, shot 1-of-5 from the field and sat eight minutes after getting into foul trouble. The seesaw in this one-onone rivalry, it seemed, had tilted towards Simpson. Five minutes later, it tilted right back. With the game tied and the Breslin Center reaching a fever pitch, Winston pulled up for three. It banked in. That was Michigan State’s first lead of the game — a lead it would never squander, as Winston held the rest of the game in the palm of his hand. “I believe it was a confidence thing,” said freshman guard David DeJulius. “First half, we kinda got under his skin a little bit. Big runs. And then second half, he kinda got a little groove going. When you let good players get a groove, sometimes it can be difficult to stop.” Winston was all but impossible to stop. He found passing lanes through traps and impossible angles, hit floaters over the 7-foot Jon Teske and meandered his way into the lane at will, wreaking havoc. The Wolverines tried committing every defender they had to bumping Winston 30 feet from the basket, fully in desperation mode down by 10 with a minute to go. He kept the ball on a string, refusing to turn it over, then, from an impossible angle, hit a wide-open Matt McQuaid under the basket for a dunk.

(Winston) was just a problem to deal with tonight. By that point, Simpson had left the game for good. Winston didn’t want to sit, calling for the ball to dribble out the clock and, when Tom Izzo called timeout with 13 seconds left to honor the Spartans’ seniors, Winston stayed on the floor with the walkons and reserves. He wanted to savor this win — one in his building, for his team, over his rival, for a championship he earned. Winston scored 16 points with four assists in the second half, playing all 20 minutes as the deciding force, capping a season that will likely culminate in a Big Ten Player of the Year award. “Boy, like the reason he is, to me, the most valuable player in this league, is because when it was winning time, he made some winning plays,” said Michigan State coach Tom Izzo. “That’s what great players do. He did it, and I’m really proud of him.” In the Michigan locker room, Simpson stood up and took the blame. “I gotta do better guys,” DeJulius recalled him saying. “It’s my fault.” Simpson has been the Wolverines’ ethos, and the personal rivalry with Winston one of the linchpins by which his character has been constructed, for the last two seasons. He doesn’t get beat on defense, and certainly not by Winston. And yet, twice in two weeks, that’s exactly what’s happened. Otherwise, it might be Michigan celebrating a Big Ten title right now. “We didn’t do a good job of stopping (Winston) from turning the corner,” said assistant coach DeAndre Haynes. “Even Zavier being the defensive guy that he is, we couldn’t stop him from turning the corner. He turned the corner at will, anytime he wanted to on our bigs or our point guards. “He was just a problem to deal with tonight. Best player on the floor.”

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