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LSA junior Jacob Barshaw and Alcides Postma participate in Pi Kappa Phi’s wheelchair basketball event at the Sports Coliseum on Wednesday.

Fraternity sponsors game of wheelchair basketball Pi Kappa Phi charity event benefits local organization By BRANDON SUMMERS-MILLER For the Daily

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took to wheelchairs and faced off against the Michigan Rollin’ Pistons — a youth wheelchair basketball team — Wednesday night to raise funds as part of the fraternity’s philanthropic activities. The event in the University’s Sports Coliseum featured two games: one pitting the fraternity against the Pistons, and the other mixing members of each organization together to form new teams. The Rollin’ Pistons are mem-

bers of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association and travel and compete throughout the Midwest. The team is made up of kids with physical disabilities ages six to 18 from across the state. John McSween, a sophomore at Father Gabriel Richard Catholic High School in Ann Arbor, said he enjoyed the event because it was a way for him to display his athleticism despite his disability. “I couldn’t really play any school sports,” he said. “This was a

way to show my competitiveness.” A portion of the event’s proceeds will go to the Rollin’ Pistons to cover travel costs and help the team buy new jerseys. The wheelchair basketball game is part of a series of fundraising events put on by the fraternity this week, called “War of the Roses.” LSA junior Zachary Robinson, Pi Kappa Phi philanthropy chair, said it was important that his fraternity host the basketball game See GAME, Page 3A

The Team, Make Michigan, DAAP parties talk campus issues By LEA GIOTTO Daily Staff Reporter

Though the questions asked at Wednesday night’s Central Student Government presidential and vice presidential debates covered a wide range of areas, the candidates’ answers tended to return to a central theme: diversity. Executive candidates from The Team, Make Michigan and the Defend Affirmative Action Party were given one hour to respond to 10 questions, as were the vice presidential candidates from each party. Aaron Kall, director of debate for the University, moderated the responses. For each round of debates, the candidates provided two-minute opening

Elbel and Yost neighborhoods: Lower cost housing near athletic centers and eateries By JING JING MA Daily Staff Reporter

Wolverines take early lead, rout Cleveland State at Crisler Center

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It had been nearly a month since the Michigan women’s basketball team had tasted victory. Separated by a loss to Illinois and a Big Ten Tournament letdown, the Wolverines’ season was salvaged for at least one more game. Wednesday night at Crisler Center, Michigan (8-10 Big Ten, 17-14 overall) finally got back on track in the first round of the WNIT. Behind an impeccable 2-3 zone defense and a well balanced offense, the Wolverines breezed past Cleveland State with a 72-50 rout in the teams’ first meeting since 1986. See WNIT, Page 3A

statements. The topic of diversity appeared in conversation about the University’s low Black enrollment, and considered how CSG could play a role in approaching this issue. Currently, the University’s Black student enrollment sits at 4.63 percent. Engineering junior Will Royster, The Team’s presidential candidate, said he hopes to increase Black representation at the University to 10 percent — a demand that has also been raised by the University’s Black Student Union. Further, he believes the University’s efforts to broaden the admission process to attract more minority students has not been enough. “The next step moving forward is empowering students on campus,” Royster said. LSA junior Keysha Wall, DAAP’s presidential candidate, opened the debate by expressing that she is “disgusted with See DEBATE, Page 3A

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The Michigan Daily will be exploring Ann Arbor’s most quirky, lively, and student populated neighborhoods during the next month to see what makes this city tick. Read the first installment about the Old Fourth Ward here. Walk southwest of Central Campus and you’ll find yourself in the neighborhoods of Elbel Field and Yost Ice Arena, homes to student-athletes, the marching band and cost-conscious undergraduates, alike. These student-populated enclaves represent two of Ann Arbor’s 11 distinct neighborhoods. Elbel Situated around Elbel Field and within walking distance of both Central and South Campus, the Elbel neighborhood is a convenient, affordable location for students, with undergraduates making up the majority of the neighborhood. Elbel Field is named after Michigan alum Louis Elbel, composer of “The Victors.” Appropriately, the Michigan Marching Band holds its practices at the eponymously field at the heart of the neighborhood. For this reason, many of the marching band’s members choose to live in the neighborhood. See ELBEL, Page 3A

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WHAT: Four University faculty members will host a panel where they will discuss how to ensure a flipped classroom is productive. WHO: CRLT-Engin WHEN: Today from 11:30 a.m to 1:00 p.m. WHERE: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr, Johnson Room

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Jazz standards WHAT: The winner of five Detroit Music Awards, Ann Arbor local Paul VornHagen, will perform a program of choice jazz standards. He will be playing alongside his trio. WHO: Gifts of Art WHEN: Today from 12:10 p.m to 1 p.m WHERE: University Hospitals

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as a catrographic historian. A discussion of Paris maps and atlases will also take place. Boutier will use selected maps from the Clark Library collections during his presentation. WHO: University Library WHEN: Today from 4 p.m to 7 p.m. WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery

WHAT: Participants in this event are encouraged to ask key questions and partake in debate centered around Black feminism. WHO: Department for Afroamerican and African Studies WHEN: Today from 5:30 p.m to 7 p.m. WHERE: Michigan League, Hussey Room

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In this year’s budget proposal, Gov. Rick Snyder (R) included a one-time appropriation of $500,000 for improving efforts to prevent sexual assault on college campuses in Michigan. The proposal for exactly how the funds will be used has not totally been made clear. The plan for the funds reads: “The sexual assault prevention and education initiative will provide a systemwide approach to develop comprehensive prevention best practices, assessment strategies, and effective response efforts.”

So far, the only action that has been discussed is a potential forum between the Snyder administration and officials from Michigan universities. Cynthia Wilbanks, vice president of government relations at the University, said the University has been contacted about the forum. “We don’t have a lot of details on the specific uses for the $500,000, but I can tell you that the governor’s wife has reached out to universities to help think about a forum that would be focused on sexual assault and prevention, and in this early discussion, I think the focus will be really around education and awareness,” she said. Dave Murray, deputy press secretary for the Snyder administration, confirmed such a forum is currently up for discussion, but said it is just in the planning stages. “Right now there are just no

details,” Murray said. “They have not begun to put together the plan for those events.” Mike Boulus, executive director for the President’s Council of the State Universities of Michigan, spoke on behalf of the university presidents of Michigan, saying they were all willing to work with Snyder on his proposed initiative. “Governor Snyder’s commitment to this issue is to be commended,” Boulus wrote in an e-mail. “He mentioned that it was a priority during a recent meeting with presidents — and they all agree.” University President Mark Schlissel has also said he wants to better address sexual assault on campus. In January, Schlissel announced plans to release a survey to gauge campus climate around sexual misconduct. State Rep. Adam Zemke (D– Ann Arbor) said he did not have enough information to comment on the proposal at this time. Murray said the forum and other brainstorming sessions will likely initiate ideas for new programs and policies. He said there hasn’t been a lot planning to date because the governor’s proposal still needs to achieve passage in the legislature, he said. “Right now we’re in the appropriations part, and the legislature could accept that, or they could change it, or they could eliminate it,” he said. “We’re working with them on the budget now, it’s a process that won’t be determined fully until likely the end of June, that’s the goal. So there’s a lot of things that could happen between now and then.” Murray said the Snyder administration is hopeful the legislature would choose to appropriate the $500,000 when deciding what to pass in the budget plan.

Religious women support employer contraceptive coverage, study finds By COLLEEN HARRISON Daily Staff Reporter

Religion may play less of a role in predicting a woman’s positions on reproductive health policy than previously thought. A new study led by Elizabeth Patton, clinical lecturer of obstetrics and gynecology, randomly selected 2,520 English-speaking women ages 18 to 55 on their views around several policies related to reproductive health. Of those, 1,028 women responded to the survey. The study found more than 60 percent of women strongly affiliated with Protestant and Catholic religious groups supported employee health insurance plans that cover birth control. Religious affiliation was determined by the women’s selfidentification and the frequency of “religious attendance.” Patton said the study’s authors were motivated in part by the recent controversy around contraception coverage and religious discourse. They noted the recent debate was largely fueled by the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Hobby Lobby v. Burwell , which challenged an Affordable Care Act provision requiring employer health insurance plans cover contraception. The ruling gave employers the right to deny contraceptive

health care coverage to employees if they deemed it against their religious beliefs. “Common narratives, which have often featured a limited number of voices from within religious groups, have generalized opposition to the ACA’s provisions on reproductive health care across religious affiliations,” the paper stated. Patton said she hoped to debunk the notion that religious affiliation can be used as a reason for opposing certain types of coverage. She said religion impacts women’s views in complex ways, and it’s important to include the full spectrum of women’s voices on the matter. “To effectively develop reproductive health policies in this country that serve all women, we need to understand women’s — including religious women’s — perspectives on reproductive health care,” Patton said. The study reported that those who self-identified as either Protestant or Catholic tended to believe employer health plans should be required to cover contraception. Additionally, 66 percent of Protestant women and 63 percent of Catholic women surveyed supported the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s coverage of reproductive health care in general. “We found that women had overwhelmingly positive attitudes towards employer coverage of contraception, regardless of religious affiliation,” she said. According to Benjamin Hawley, priest at St. Mary’s

Student Parish in Ann Arbor, the Catholic tradition opposes birth control because it blocks the possibility of new life. Even so, he said he said the issue should rest in the hands of the courts. “Whether religiouslyaffiliated organizations in this country may deny birth control options for employees and their families is a legal matter,” Hawley wrote in an e-mail. “Whether birth control could be called a legal right, restricted or open to all, or part of health insurance packages is similarly a matter for our political and legal processes. “ Abagael Adair, a master’s student in the School of Social Work, is the core organizer of Feminist Tables, a campus group that meets regularly to discuss relevant social issues through a feminist lens. Adair said she sees denying birth control and birth control coverage to women is discriminatory. “All women should have equal access to birth control coverage regardless of others’ religions,” Adair wrote in an e-mail. Of those surveyed, less than a quarter of women believed that religiously affiliated employers should be exempt from ACA provisions based on their religious beliefs. Adair said exemptions deny women, especially those of lower socioeconomic status, access to basic health care services. “It is solely the choice of each woman whether she wants to utilize birth control or not,” Adair said. “By denying her coverage, the U.S. government is allowing women to subsidize their employer’s practice of religion.”

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ELBEL From Page 1A Elbel Field is also a popular location for intramural sports, as it includes a 100-yard turf football field, two sand volleyball courts, two softball fields, a picnic area and a field area. The University renovated the field in 2011 as part of an effort to improve its recreational sports facilities. A lively, student-populated neighborhood, Elbel is a five minute walk from the Big House and the Intramural Sports Building. Due to its proximity to athletic facilities, the neighborhood is popular for student-athletes. Business junior Matt Kaufman, a member of the club water polo team, moved into the neighborhood because of its proximity to the athletic training facilities. Elbel is also five minutes from the Business School, so he has an easy commute to his business classes. “Location was a big factor in choosing where I live,” Kaufman said. “I could not live much closer than where I do right now. I am less than five minutes away from class and it’s also really close to where my team practices.” While the location is convenient for students like Kaufman, Elbel is more than a 10-minute walk from the Diag and other Central Campus buildings. For students looking for a faster trip to campus, the Commuter South bus makes stops down Hoover Street. Some students are willing to sacrifice location for the relatively cheap rent and proximity for the variety of eateries, cafes and other local attractions on State Street and Main Street. Rent in the Elbel neighborhood is generally in the range of $600 to $700 per month, and can be as low as $550 per person, according to data compiled by The Michigan Daily in 2012. Lower-priced homes tend to be farther from campus. In homes closest to Central Campus, rent can rise to upwards of $800 per month per person. Popular places to eat near the Elbel neighborhood include fast food options such as Quickie Burger, Grilled Cheezerie, Mr. Spots and BTB Burrito, all located on South State Street. Students f lock to these places to rejuvenate on Football Saturdays and for late nights snacks. Kaufman said while the State Street eateries are convenient, there is a notable lack of food options for the health-conscious. “Unlike on South University, where you find Revive … or the variety of places around Main Street and North State Street, there aren’t that many places to get healthy food,” he said. Even so, those looking to

GAME From Page 1A to raise awareness for people with disabilities. “They’re people, too, and they can do almost everything that an able-bodied person can,” he said. The fraternity also organized a “penny war” Monday and its annual “Pie a Pi Kapp” event Tuesday, where participants could pay to throw a pie in the face of a fraternity member. Robinson said the weeklong events had been successful so far, adding that the fraternity had raised over $600 from its penny war and Pie a Pi Kapp events. The three events will culminate with the fraternity’s annual Empathy Dinner this Friday. Robinson said the annual Empathy Dinner is a meal where, for the first few minutes, guests are encouraged to show solidarity for people with disabilities by attempting to eat as though they are affected by various diseases, such as blindness or muscular dystrophy. The War of the Roses is an event put on by Pi Kappa Phi chapters across the country; this week marks the University chapter’s first time doing so. An integral part of the War of the Roses is sororities’ participation. Alpha Epsilon Phi, Delta Phi Epsilon, Zeta Tau Alpha and Gamma Phi Beta all partnered with Pi Kappa Phi this week. Ultimately, one sorority will be

work off the 3 a.m. burger and fries can take advantage of the activities available at Elbel Field, the IM Building and Yost Arena. Yost The Yost neighborhood is adjacent to the Elbel neighborhood and east of South State Street. Like Elbel, the Yost neighborhood attracts student-athletes and costconscious undergraduates because of its proximity to the University’s athletic facilities and affordability. The neighborhood is south of Packard Street and borders the eastern edge of South Campus. The area is a short walk to the Yost Ice Arena, home to the Michigan hockey team. The arena often holds public skate nights for a $3 admissions charge. Also like Elbel, the ice arena is named after a prominent Wolverine — former football coach Fielding H. Yost, who led the Wolverines to their first national championship in 1901. Another reason why the neighborhood is brimming with undergraduate students is because of its affordable rent prices and lively social scene. Renters can expect prices as low as $550 per month per person. At night, Yost’s social scene mainly consists of house parties hosted by undergraduates. Greenwood Avenue and Mary Court are streets known for their block parties. Like Elbel, the Yost neighborhood is located near the same popular State Street food spots, but is sometimes considered problematically distant from Central Campus. For students like LSA junior Kelsey Monkiewicz who don’t need to be close to the athletic facilities, the location is a drawback. Monkiewicz said the two main factors she considered when looking for off-campus housing were proximity to Central Campus and affordability. While her living experience has met the latter requirement, she said getting to class can be a pain, particularly in the cold winter months. “I live with athletes so the location is great for them, but my walk to class is at least 15 minutes,” she said. “The buses don’t really run that frequently, which is especially inconvenient when it gets really cold out.” Despite her issues with the distance, Monkiewicz said she does not mind other aspects of Yost, such as the frequent parties. She also said she considers Yost a safe area to live in. “Sometimes you can hear music from other houses, but I don’t really mind,” she said.

crowned the winner of the War of the Roses based on multiple factors, including how many pennies they collected for the penny war, the number of pies they sold for students to peg Pi Kappa Phi members with and attendance points for watching the wheelchair basketball game. After accepting their invitations to participate in the week’s festivities, each sorority nominated a member to represent them should they win the War of the Roses. The winner will be crowned and given a sash on behalf of their chapter, as well as a portion of the money raised throughout the week. The Ability Experience, Pi Kappa Phi’s exclusive national outreach project that donates to people with disabilities, will receive 75 percent of the week’s proceeds. The remaining will be given to the winning sorority’s philanthropy committee. LSA sophomore Justin Stern, a Pi Kappa Phi member, said he helped Robinson to coordinate the War of the Roses in an effort to expand the chapter’s philanthropy efforts. “While philanthropy was good last year, we thought we could improve it,” Stern said. “I didn’t expect it to be this successful in the first year, but I’m really happy that it has been,” Robinson added. “I think that if we start with a base like this, that next year and years beyond it’ll only get better.”

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WNIT From Page 1A “It was great to be able to play again after the Big Ten Tournament,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “I thought we came out of the gates and played exceptionally well — a lot of positives to take from tonight, but definitely happy to play again.” The only true surprise came before the game, when junior guard Madison Ristovski and freshman forward Emoni Jackson started the game in place of sophomore guard Siera Thompson and senior guard Shannon Smith. Together, the duo scored 12 of the Wolverines’ first 16 points to help kick-start an offense that quickly built a double-digit lead early in the first half and never looked back. From then on, the offense was powered by senior forward Cyesha Goree, who matched up with Cleveland State’s Alexis Eckles on the inside. With Eckles outsized by three inches, Goree played significantly better than she had at the Big Ten

Tournament. Despite her height advantage, Goree ran into trouble nearing the end of the first half as their defense keyed on her, making it hard to score when she felt open, being forced to kick the ball out to the guards. “At halftime, Coach told the team ‘fake it and kick it,’ ” Goree said, “because now, everybody is drawing attention to me, so let’s get other players involved.” One of those others included senior Nicole Elmblad, who moved to the guard position for the first time since last season. Regardless of the switch, she grabbed a gamehigh 11 rebounds and eclipsed 700 career rebounds with 708, becoming the 10th player in program history to do so. Jackson, who had an energized first career start, also put in meaningful minutes by tacking on eight points. Ristovski took the bulk of the 3-point scoring en route to 15 points, replacing the production of Smith and freshman guard Katelynn Flaherty. “(Ristovski’s) playing with a lot of confidence,” Barnes Arico said. “She’s playing very comfortable,

Thursday, March 19, 2015 — 3A and she’s playing really hard and making shots for us, which our other guards are really struggling with right now.” Added Ristovski: “I was really excited. I think we all are, just because we’re in the postseason, and not that many basketball teams out there are still playing.” As for Cleveland State’s offense, it never seemed to make it to Ann Arbor. The Vikings took a while to start up their engine, succumbing to a 20-3 Michigan run in the opening four minutes. The Wolverines scored seven points off 11 turnovers, and the 2-3 zone prevented Cleveland State’s best scorers from making an impact. Guard Cori Coleman and forward Imani Gordon came in averaging 16.1 and 16.3 points, respectively, but the Michigan defense held them to a combined 26 points. At the start of the game, Gordon took nearly seven minutes to make a basket, while Coleman took 18. “We knew they were going to be undersized,” Goree said. “It was kind of a mismatch for me, but at the same time you still have to guard them. So we decided to go zone and it was

really effective.” Cleveland State, which shot 32.7 percent, had gone scoreless for eight minutes during the first half before making five of its last seven shots heading into halftime, including a four-point play from Coleman. But even the rejuvenated effort was futile, as the Wolverines prevented the Vikings from clawing their way out of a deficit. “On the defensive end, (the starters) were focused on the game plan and did a great job,” Barnes Arico said. “Cleveland State made some adjustments later in the first half and kind of started to penetrate the zone a little bit, but we came out of the gates really focused on both ends.” In the closing seconds before halftime, Flaherty added the finishing touch by stealing the ball for a coast-to-coast layup at the buzzer, making fans stand on their feet as the sound of applause overtook Crisler. Though it had been a while, Michigan could finally enter the locker room at halftime with things in its favor. And they stayed that way.

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Central Student Government presidential candidates Engineering junior William Royster, LSA junior Keysha Wall and LSA junior Cooper Charlston discuss a number of University issues at the CSG debates at South Hall on Wednesday.

DEBATE From Page 1A the hypocrisy of this University” and its diversity policies. “I think if we manage to increase minority enrollment, we would have less of this problem because classes would be more integrated and you would be having more of these discussions (about racial issues and prejudice),” she said. Wall’s running mate and LSA sophomore Katie Kennedy said despite living as a person of mixed race in Ann Arbor her whole life, she only felt the consequence of her race when she became a student at the University. “I had never felt so isolated when it came to social life, Greek life, academic settings, communities and the entire culture of the University,” she said. LSA junior Cooper Charlton, Make Michigan’s presidential candidate, said despite being a “white individual,” he felt he understood minority populations’ struggles “through empathy.” “I can feel your passion,” he said. “I can understand what you’re trying to say and I can help you.” Charlton added that the University’s problem lies not in admitting minorities, but not providing minority and underprivileged candidates “the things they need to say ‘yes,’ ” like offering students financial aid immediately alongside their letter of admission. LSA sophomore Steven Halperin, Charlton’s running mate, shared with the audience the last words his father spoke to him before dying suddenly of a heart attack: “Move big rocks.” He said this phrase is what would drive him to make progress as a CSG executive. “These words define me,” he said, adapting his life motto to fit the Make Michigan campaign.

“Help us move big rocks so we can make the change.” Royster later questioned Make Michigan’s commitment to race and ethnicity issues. He is currently the academic concerns chair for the BSU, which launched the #BBUM campaign last year — he said neither Charlton nor Make Michigan has reached out to the organization. On this note, LSA sophomore Matt Fidel, The Team’s vice presidential candidate, said The Team in both its name and platform is most intent on driving inclusion on campus. “Inclusion is the message of The Team,” he said. “That is what we were created to inspire.” Fidel cited the inclusive initiatives he has implemented as LSA representative on the CSG Assembly, including planning the police brutality speakout and launching a program to donate students’ leftover Blue Bucks and Dining Dollars to charity at the end of the semester. Wall said increased minority enrollment is integral to inclusion and would be best bolstered if the University offered on-site admissions in Detroit schools and implemented its own version of the Texas “Top 10 Percent Rule.” The policy guarantees admission to Texas universities for in-state students who graduated at the top 10 percent of their classes. Administrators at the University have said that plan would not be feasible in Ann Arbor. She added that lack of diversity on college campuses is what leads to incidents like the one at the University of Oklahoma, where the school’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon was disbanded for leading racist chants. In the vice presidential debate, Halperin referenced this point to promote future CSG development of diversity education programs for students. “I think we need to teach more about bystander intervention,” he said.

Charlton contended that the creation of the CSG Honor Code, which current CSG President Bobby Dishell, a Public Policy senior, pitched earlier this semester, could help mitigate future racial tensions on campus and encourage students to intervene in certain situations. Royster, however, said a culture shift is the only possible prevention method. When asked what they thought about the destruction caused by the members of University’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu to Treetops Resort last month, all of the candidates said they condemned the acts that took place. However, all three parties said they supported Greek life as a whole. Halperin is a member of the University’s chapter of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity; Royster is a member of the University’s chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity; and Fidel was a member of the University’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu before it was disbanded by the fraternity’s international board Tuesday. “I think it is very, very important to note the good things Greek life has done,” Charlton said. “We all support Greek life. However, the fact that particular individuals can tarnish and influence the reputation of many is something that is unacceptable.” Fidel, who attended the Sigma Alpha Mu ski trip, was asked about his involvement in the destruction. “I condemn the ski trip wholeheartedly,” he said. “I was not a part of the destruction whatsoever. I am not my fraternity; I am my own person.” The candidates were also in agreement that more needs to be done to prevent and promote awareness of sexual misconduct on campus. While Charlton said the pending honor code will help to prevent sexual assault by providing

a firm definition of what is right and wrong, Royster disagreed. He emphasized that other methods are necessary to induce culture shift, not just one document. “We know what is right and wrong,” Royster said. “There is no gray area when it comes to sexual assault. There’s just not. What we need is a culture shift.” Kennedy built on this point, citing a statistic that 62 percent of women on the University’s campus have reported being victims of sexual assault. She added that the real figure may be worse because most cases go unreported. “We need to hold students accountable,” she said. “Rapists need to be expelled and charged, as well.” In closing statements, all three presidential candidates reiterated their commitment to their individual parties and to diversity. “Diversity is more than skin deep,” Charlton said, adding that diversity of thoughts and perspectives is also important. “The University of Michigan is where great minds come. With Make Michigan, we are going to be able to make the difference.” Royster drew attention to The Team’s diverse slate of candidates, and said this was representative of their ability to make represent a wide variety of demographics on campus. “We compromised our slate of members from all across the campus. We have the most diverse slate that we could make,” Royster said. “We did that intentionally.” Wall reaffirmed that she is running because she refuses to believe that no one can do anything more to end the racism, sexism and LGBTQ issues on campus. “To think that we can just keep our heads down until something changes is to support the demoralizing process,” she said.

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The more perfect union When we sing the national anthem, we sing its closing lines with enthusiasm and bravura, as though to declare their truth, “O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!” But, the line is actually written in the form of a question: “O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?” And that slight change in inflection alters the essence of that phrase. These are not words to be mindlessly recited from memory, but something upon which to reflect, to constantly ask ourselves: Is this the land of the free and the home of the brave? As I read the news and as I live life on this college campus, I don’t know how deserving we are of that title, for we have distorted its meaning. I see freedom to damage reputations, to denounce those who don’t conform. I see bravery only in the masses, when the sheer numbers can drown out the voices of the minority. We cling to our ideologies so tightly because we are unbending in our resolves and our opinions, unwilling to discuss and to share and to understand. We are free when we want to harm, we are brave when it is convenient. Last month, Tom Schweich, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Missouri, committed suicide in the midst of a nasty campaign, filled with cruelty and bigotry. A radio ad, spoken in a menacing Frank Underwood-style voice, announced how the opposition would “squash him like the little bug that he is …” And there are reports of a whisper campaign started to suggest that Schweich, a devout Episcopalian, was Jewish. Schweich was a loving husband, father of two and a smart and a capable statesman. In 2014, Schweich ran unopposed in his reelection bid for Missouri state auditor because Democrats were so impressed with his work in office. Why would his religion be of any importance? Would it prevent him from carrying out his duties? Is a Jew less moral or capable than a Christian? Is it not enough to judge a person by his merits, his successes, his failures and his character? The same week Schweich took his life, a Jewish student running for a student government position at the University of California, Los Angeles, was asked by a student government representative if her religion would prevent her from being an impartial representative of the school. The University of California, Berkeley student government just passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism because the AEPi house at the University of California, Davis, was vandalized with swastikas last month. And these are just the anti-Semitic incidents. Would you rather talk about Ferguson? Or perhaps the shooting of Muslim students at the University of North Carolina? This country, this land of the free and home of the brave, is filled with bigots, racists, sexists, anti-Semites, homophobes — cowards. And we honor and protect the right to be a bigot, a racist, a sexist, an anti-Semite, a homophobe, a coward. I just never would have thought so many could indulge in such primitive behavior. This kind of behavior isn’t tolerated in the world of screenwriter Aaron Sorkin. Every so often, I watch a clip from his film “The American President” to remind myself of what America really is, or rather should be: “America isn’t easy,” states President Andrew Shepherd. “America is advanced citizenship, you’ve got to want it bad.” I imagine a world according to Sorkin, where people carry themselves with class, ready to retort with a sharp wit; where harsh realities are faced directly; where presidents can stand in front of a camera and say what needs to be said, unfazed by approval ratings; where the news moves past sensationalizing and into delivering grounded, important information to its viewers. Because in that world, when someone

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states that homosexuality is an abomination, you recite Exodus 21:7, “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male servants do,” followed by Exodus 35:2, “… Whoever does any work on (the Sabbath) shall be put to death,” and then you kindly ask that bigot to at least be consistent with his doctrines. In that world, when you learn that a female coworker is being harassed, you storm into the harasser’s office, question him about integrity and fire him. In that world, when someone asks, “Why is America the greatest country in the world?” you don’t answer with “freedom and democracy,” but with a rejection of such a simple notion and instead look at the reality of the state of the nation, and then you ask what you can do to make it better. In that world, there are men and women who stand up for character, for values, not because it’s to their benefit, but because someone has to, because it’s right. And yes, Sorkin’s world is often flawed; it can drag at times, it can moralize too much, its characters, oftentimes women, can be ditzy and poorly written. But eventually, when that world finds its footing, it can deliver something inspiring, something honorable — an idea of how things could be. We are so far away from that world. Because in our world, we stigmatize those who believe something different from us — we respond with rumors, with vandalism, with hatred. We stick our hands into the filth, wrap them in tape colored red, white and blue and throw boxing gloves over them. We ask our fellow man to step into the ring and take the next beating because he who is not with me is against me. We choose to look away from the brutality of it all. We elect officials who perpetuate secrecy or ignorance or sheer stupidity because it’s what we know. The cycle continues, and we wonder why things aren’t getting better. In the film, Andrew Shepherd continues, “You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.” Aaron Sorkin knows that. I believe Tom Schweich knew that. For so long, we have sung of the land of the free and the home of the brave; now we need to live by those words, even when it hurts, even when the blood boils so hot with rage. Then, we will become what Sorkin, through Josiah Bartlett in “The West Wing,” envisions: “But every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we’re reminded that that capacity may well be limitless. This is a time for American heroes. We will do what is hard. We will achieve what is great. This is a time for American heroes and we reach for the stars.” I lament that there are no President Shepherds or Bartlets, there are no Will McAvoys or CJ Craigs. Maybe the world is too complicated for men and women like them. Maybe the very idea that I have spent over 1,200 words comparing life to a TV show is childish and naïve. But sometimes we need an ideal to strive toward, to march boldly with our eyes open and our heads high. Because if we can achieve that, Tom Schweich will not have died in vain, Ferguson will not have erupted for nothing, hatred will cease to needlessly perpetuate. This is a call not for change, but for introspection. We need to embrace what we already know to be true, that which is sewn into the very fabric of the American flag: that we are free and we are brave, and we can accomplish so much more. Jamie Bricoll is an LSA junior and a Daily arts editor.

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Recognizing homophobia

have encountered many people recently who believe the gay (or more accurately, queer) rights movement is nearing its close. The U.S. Supreme Court is ruling on marriage equality, and America is statistically moving closer toward queer MICHAEL acceptance. While this SCHRAMM certainly signals progress, we cannot forget that gay marriage and a trend toward acceptance doesn’t signal victory in the movement. We still see examples of blatant homophobia. Recently, Lil Wayne and Birdman, owner of Cash Money Records, have feuded regarding Lil Wayne’s release of “Tha Carter V.” The rapper has cited feeling like a prisoner to his recording company, implying the delays are restricting his creative freedom. Regardless of whether Lil Wayne really is a prisoner, what’s more noteworthy and problematic is Birdman’s reaction to this criticism. In response, Birdman has publicly announced that Lil Wayne is “a homosexual,” that all music detailing Lil Wayne’s sexual encounters with women is a façade to maintain his reputation, and that Lil Wayne has expressed sexual and romantic interest in Birdman, Rick Ross and, in particular, Drake. Whether or not these accusations are true, they point to the perpetuation of same-sex attraction as an undesirable trait that can elicit shame and embarrassment. If Birdman’s statement is true, it shows his disrespect and disregard for the difficulties and oppression that come from a queer identity, especially when considering the homophobia in the hip-hop community. While I cannot understand the experience of being queer and a hip-hop artist, rappers can provide depictions that

certainly provide me perspective and empathy. For example, Angel Haze, a queer, female hip-hop artist who remixed “Same Love,” has gone on record saying that being gay in hip-hop is still stigmatized. Additionally, T-Pain, a straightidentifying hip-hop artist, has spoken out about the realities of homophobia. He also identified that it’s harder for queer-identifying artists to feature on songs, saying that gay-identifying artist Frank Ocean isn’t welcome in certain scenarios. “I know (artists) that will not do a song with Frank Ocean just because he is gay, but they need him on the fucking song.” Given these insights into the community, I can’t imagine the difficulties of Lil Wayne navigating a queer identity. Beside the disadvantage of losing work, he would have to continuously perpetuate a persona to maintain credibility. It’s a mask that he would have to wear proudly, regardless of how much this defies his internal desires and passions. And the heartache of developing unrequited love for your peers who never reciprocate must also be excruciating. Developing romantic feelings for your fellow artists and peers, only for them to continuously and disgustedly reject you, must strike a chord in the most painful manner. It is, without a doubt, not Birdman’s place to publicize this pain. His ability to frivolously out an artist demonstrates homophobic undertones at the least, and full-blown prejudice against queers at worst. However, there’s also the possibility that Lil Wayne doesn’t have a queer identity, and Birdman falsified this statement in an attempt to hurt his label’s artist. If it is a lie, it’s still a portal into intense homophobia. Out of every lie Birdman could use, he landed on same-sex attraction. This indicates that he views gay-identifying people with a heightened level of disdain — perhaps even as a personification of evil. It’s not just an insult he could make up to hurt his fellow recorder, it’s the insult. The one with the most

poisonous bite, the most painful sting. That’s unacceptable. Birdman’s homophobia doesn’t exist within a vacuum in the hiphop community. As I’ve previously discussed, it’s an example of the systematic homophobia present in today’s culture. We see examples everywhere. Rapper and actor Lord Jamar used the negative connotation of the term “queer” to reference Kanye West wearing a skirt to a benefit concert. Even Tyler, The Creator, who openly advocates for LBGTQ rights, undermines queeridentifying people by using the term “faggot” in some of his music. Homophobia isn’t just a problem in the hip-hop community. Many subcultures contain an anti-queer bias. LGBTQ students in rural areas report less safety associated with revealing their identities. Religious communities frequently utilize their religious texts as a means to equate queer with sin. Many queer people of color also experience increased homophobia within and outside their ethnic communities. These community biases come together to show that the queer movement is far from finished. We’re seemingly moving in the right direction, but there’s so much progress left to make besides legalizing gay marriage. Though it could be the final homophobic barrier for those living in accepting subcultures, many still exist in communities that are fighting for equal levels of respect. If Lil Wayne truly is gay, his sexuality is the root of a huge scandal and internal strife. If he’s not, other closeted and non-closeted artists are. And many others, particularly those in homophobic rural, religious and/ or ethnic communities are also suffering. What about their lived experiences? What about the oppression they face? We must continue recognizing prejudice so we can continue crushing it. — Michael Schramm can be reached at mschramm@umich.edu.

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Pushing past history

Since the introduction of the new AP U.S. History curriculum in 2012, there has been a fierce wave of opposition to it. In August 2014, the Republican National Committee adopted a resolution stating that the new APUSH curriculum is a “radically revisionist view of (American) history that emphasizes negative aspects of our nation’s history while omitting or minimizing positive aspects.” Many conservative activists and lawmakers have expressed their concern about the course, saying that it focuses too much on the negative aspects of American history and that it is “rife with antiAmerican biases.” On February 16, 2015, the Oklahoma House Common Education Committee passed an amendment to House Bill 1380 in an 11-to-4 vote that would defund the College Board’s AP US History course in its revised form. The author of the amendment, Rep. Dan Fisher (R–Okla.), said that “redesign of this new framework trades an emphasis on America’s founding principles of constitutional government in favor of robust analysis of gender, racial oppression, class and ethnicity in the lives of marginalized people.” Fisher also said the AP course’s “emphasis of instruction is on America as a nation of oppressors and exploiters.” In the amendment, Fisher lists specific people and documents — such as Martin Luther King Jr. and the Bill of Rights — that he believes should be integral parts of the AP curriculum. Fisher argues that great people and important documents are being put to the side and substituted with historical events that highlight America’s shortcomings. He’s saying we need to portray America in a more positive light. Despite the fact that Fisher withdrew the amendment to rewrite House Bill 1380 shortly after it passed, due to national criticism, the conversation is far from over. The bill had originally passed over-

whelmingly in the aforementioned Oklahoma House Common Education Committee, which speaks to a widespread belief in the bill’s principles. In fact, legislators in states such as Colorado, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Texas think the AP course focuses too much on America’s “blemishes” and are considering moves to ban or alter the course. Similarly, in Kansas, legislators are moving to ban any course not created in-state, which would include APUSH. In this way, legislators and members of other political bodies are attempting to assert more control over the curriculum and force schools to teach what they want to be taught. While it’s important to highlight the positive aspects of American history, I disagree that the new APUSH curriculum is highlighting negative aspects of history over more positive aspects. In fact, I believe we are still struggling to accept the dark moments in our past that continue to affect our future. Too often, we attempt to silence parts of history we aren’t proud of, and when we speak of them, they’re not discussed as systemic, long-term issues, but rather “blemishes.” I grew up in a very progressive part of California — the Bay Area — and went to very liberal schools in Oakland and San Francisco my entire life. It was only in my senior year of high school that I had learned anything of substance about the widespread eugenic practices in America — and especially California — that weren’t formally outlawed until 1979. I agree that we must highlight important figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., and we must recognize the contributions of the Founding Fathers. However, we must equally highlight aspects of our history such as Japanese internment and the brutal enslavement of and discrimination against African Americans. History isn’t

just listing important figures and documents; it’s about analyzing our past with a critical eye. We cannot talk about MLK’s famous speech, which Fisher wanted to add to the AP curriculum, without addressing the fact that racial oppression and marginalization were the reasons for it. We cannot discuss the contributions of the Founding Fathers without pointing out the ways in which their policies favored white men of European ancestry. We cannot replace the darker parts of history or we risk misinterpreting history entirely and becoming ignorant to the harsh realities of America’s past. The reason APUSH emphasizes “gender, racial oppression, class and ethnicity in the lives of marginalized people,” is that they are integral parts of American history we cannot forget. In fact, the settlement of America, and the creation of America by Europeans was largely a product of oppression and marginalization of various racial groups. Today, less than three percent of Fortune 500 companies are headed by women, African American’s are nearly six times more likely to be incarcerated than whites and poverty rates among African Americans and Latinos are two to three times higher than among whites. Ignoring these issues will only exacerbate the tensions between different ethnic and racial groups in society, and further marginalize the plights of the many minorities that make up America. My intention is not be antiAmerican. But by having these hard discussions, and recognizing the problems of our past that carry over to today, we can improve society moving forward. By pointing out the mistakes in a country’s history, we are molding our nation for a better future. No country has a perfect history, and it is crucial that we acknowledge it. Anna Polumbo-Levy is an LSA freshman and Edit Board member.

Weekend Roundup

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While St. Patrick’s Day has already officially occurred, here are some fun facts about the holiday to get you pumped up for the celebrations this weekend.

There are 33.3 million Irish-Americans living in the United States.

The first recorded St. Patrick’s Day parade took place in Boston on in 1737. Ireland did not have a St. Patrick’s Day parade until 1931 in Dublin.

Saint Patrick was not actually Irish; he was born in Roman Britain. He is celebrated for bringing Christianity to Ireland.

About 13 million pints of Guiness beer are consumed worldwide on St. Patrick’s Day.

The Chicago River is dyed green every year to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

The adopted color of the Order of Saint Patrick is actually blue, not green.

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Friday, March 20 The Blind Pig will host a performance of Feather Pillow, “The Office of Feather Pillow: A Business Meeting.” The performance will include musical acts Feather Pillow & Associates, JLA, Tristan Cappel Trio, and DJ Theodore Carl. Doors open at 9 p.m.

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Saturday, March 21 The third annual Run for the Red 5K on the North Campus Diag will be held by the Washtenaw County chapter of the American Red Cross. With it’s mission to encourage the community of Ann Arbor to support the mission of the Red Cross, the run also will promote the philanthropic efforts of individuals on campus.

Sunday, March 22 Southeast Michigan band of brothers, Gemini, will perform at The Ark for their fourth generation of fans— children and families. The two brothers are expert musicians and will perform a wide variety of funny and sweet songs for their audience. Playing music since 1973, Gemini will not disappoint audience members of any age. The show begins at 1 p.m.

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Michigan opens Big Ten tourney under pressure Wolverines need three wins, starting with Wisconsin on Thursday By JEREMY SUMMITT Daily Sports Editor

The Michigan hockey team is in an all-too familiar position heading into this weekend’s Big Ten Tournament. Holding the third seed, the Wolverines (12-8 Big Ten, 20-14 overall) will be pitted against No. 6 seed Wisconsin (2-15-3-2, 4-255) in Thursday’s opening-round matchup. Michigan holds the 4-0 season series lead over the Badgers, but it would be a mistake to tread lightly against a team that hasn’t enjoyed much, if any, success during the regular season. That’s because the postseason gives everyone a clean slate. Seeds don’t matter, stats don’t matter and records don’t matter. “They’re dangerous,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “They’ll be as dangerous as any team in the tournament.” One year ago, the Wolverines entered the Big Ten Tournament as the No. 3 seed, playing No. 6 seed Penn State. They lost a heartbreaker, 2-1, in double overtime. Their season ended that same day, as their NCAA Tournament hopes were dashed in the most gut-wrenching fashion. Two years ago, after a lousy regular season, Michigan needed to win the CCHA Tournament in order to earn an NCAA Tournament berth. It marched all the way to the finals, but fell just short, losing to Notre Dame

by a score of 3-1. And now the Wolverines enter their conference tournament with much work to do for a third straight year. They cannot afford to falter in Thursday’s opening round, and they cannot afford to lose in the championship game if they do advance that far. It’s a three-game weekend, and Michigan has to win them all if it hopes to snap a two-year absence from the NCAA Tournament. “I think this weekend can make or break your season,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. Wisconsin doesn’t do anything particularly well, but neither did the Nittany Lions a season ago. The Badgers rank among the nation’s 10 worst programs in team offense, team defense, penalty killing and power-play percentage. “You look at them where they ended up in the standings, and I’m sure they’re not too happy with themselves,” Motte said. “But that can be turned around real quick. It’s a short season now.” Michigan, meanwhile, boasts the nation’s top-ranked offense, a unit scoring an average of 3.88 goals per game this season. It also holds the third-ranked powerplay unit, converting 24.79 percent of the time with the man advantage. This week in practice, the Wolverines have focused on defense, just as they have all season. The losses Michigan has suffered this season are often a result of its porous defensive play and slow, uninspired starts. The teams that have the best chance at beating the Wolverines play a slow, grinding style of play that can bring their high-octane offense to a screeching halt.

And even though Michigan has beaten the Badgers four times this season, Wisconsin stands as a team that has the ability to pull off an upset. “We kind of know what to expect out of them — hardworking team, disciplined, they’ll stay in shooting lanes, they’ll block shots, they’ll put it on the line every night,” said sophomore forward Tyler Motte. Beating a team three times in the same season is challenging, and beating a team four times is extremely impressive, but beating a team for a fifth time is almost unheard of. The Wolverines’ NCAA Tournament hopes are hanging on the hope that they can do it, though. They’ll need to put together a three-game winning streak over the weekend — something they haven’t done since the end of February. Disposing of the Badgers early and never letting off the gas are keys to success that Berenson will be relaying to his team during Wednesday’s team meeting in Detroit. “We’ve got to be really ready, lights out, in the first period,” he said. “That’s going to be our message, and I think they’ll follow up with that with good team talk in the locker room. Now, you got to go out and do it.” The coaching staff was more stoic than usual after Wednesday’s practice at Yost Ice Arena. They and the players know about high stakes. They know they’re entering a new season where a loss means more than it did a week ago. It means their season might be over, and they know they can’t stomach another season that ends too soon.

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Senior left-hander Haylie Wagner turned in five strong innings, allowing only one run on a third-inning home run.

‘M’ downs Bowling Green By TYLER SCOTT Daily Sports Writer

The Falcons of Bowling Green were served as a midweek appetizer for the Michigan softball 1 BGSU team on 8 MICHIGAN Wednesday at Alumni Field, just a few days before the beginning of Big Ten competition. The Wolverines (25-4) batted through the lineup in the first inning, garnering five hits and a three-run lead. Freshman first baseman Tera Blanco delivered a single that scored junior centerfielder Sierra Lawrence. A groundout by freshman designated player Amanda Vargas allowed junior second baseman Sierra Romero to come home from third and firmly established an upper hand for Michigan. The Wolverines, who won by a score of 8-1, were one run short of winning via run-rule in the bottom of the fifth inning before Michigan coach Carol Hutchins began a series of substitutions in order to get more players meaningful in-game experience.

“We got a chance to get a lot of kids some playing time, and that’s a good day,” Hutchins said. “You never know when they’re going to be somebody you have to count on. If you get a lead, you want to give them a chance to play because they want their opportunity. I thought they did a great job.” With an 8-1 lead in the bottom of the fifth inning, junior outfielders Mary Sbonek and Olivia Richvalsky pinch-hit for the big bats of junior left fielder Kelli Christner and Romero, the beginning of several position changes on both sides of the ball that gave the fans at Alumni Field a look at some of the Wolverines’ less-familiar faces. Before the substitutions began en masse, Christner and Romero hit back-to back home runs to right-center field in the bottom of the fourth inning. Christner’s homer scored Lawrence and was Christner’s sixth longball of the year. Romero’s solo shot extended Michigan’s run total to eight and gave the slugger 11 dingers so far. “I was telling (Christner) how

last weekend, after she hit that home run against Kent State, that I wanted to hit a home run against Kent State and I popped up,” Romero said. “I was like, ‘See I can’t do that, I can’t try to hit it out.’” Against the Falcons, Michigan seemed to have resolved many of the issues that had been nagging during the Kent State series, where the Wolverines suffered a rare loss. Wednesday, Michigan recorded 12 hits and zero errors in addition to the eight runs. In five innings of work, senior left-hander Haylie Wagner was just short of superb, picking up the win in her first start since Saturday’s loss. A first-inning triple and a deep home run blast to the top of the center-field bleachers in the top of the third inning were the only hits and runs allowed by Wagner. “I wasn’t trying to rush anything, just stay relaxed,” Wagner said. “I have been a lot tighter when I go out there, so that’s what I’ve been working on. My confidence and our confidence is going to be great, and we’re excited for the Big Ten.”

New lineup equals fresh start By JACOB GASE Daily Sports Writer

All season long, the Michigan women’s basketball team’s starting lineup has featured four permanent starters and one revolving door in the fifth spot. But after a 3-6 finish to the regular season and a loss to Michigan State in the Big Ten Tournament that knocked the Wolverines off the NCAA Tournament bubble, Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico blew the lineup wide open to begin the WNIT. In the Wolverines’ tournament opener against Cleveland State, a 72-50 victory at Crisler Center, three guards who are typically fixtures in the starting lineup — senior Shannon Smith, sophomore Siera Thompson and freshman Katelynn Flaherty — began the game on the bench in favor of sophomore guard Danielle Williams, junior guard Madison Ristovski and freshman forward Emoni Jackson. It was the first start of Jackson’s career, and the first time all season that Smith and Thompson have been absent from the starting five. “I think that sometimes, as coaches, you kind of get a little nervous to change things, and you kind of get comfortable in a set way,” Barnes Arico said. “Shannon and Siera and even Katelynn a little bit are kind of still stuck. They didn’t play exceptionally well our last two regular-season games, and they need to get back out of it. “If we want to win this championship, we need those three — our three starting guards — to play at the same level everybody else is playing at right now.” Still, it may have initially seemed counterproductive for Michigan to keep its first-, thirdand fourth-leading scorers on the bench. But their replacements quickly proved that maybe a little bit of change was just what the Wolverines needed. Picking up where she left off with her last two games of the regular season, Ristovski provided a boost for a Michigan offense that shot 44.3 percent

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Danielle Williams earned a spot in a new-look starting lineup on Wednesday.

from the floor but turned the ball over 13 times. Ristovski finished as the game’s second leading scorer, tallying 15 points on the strength of three 3-pointers. Jackson added eight points of her own and exhibited her ability to play off the glass — she successfully converted multiple contested bank shots and grabbed four rebounds. Williams isn’t a scorer by trade — she averages only one point and scored just two on Wednesday — but she made her presence felt as part of a 2-3 zone defense that completely neutralized Cleveland State. The Vikings barely made a quarter of their shots in the first half and didn’t reach a doubledigit point total until 17 minutes into the game. “I was really excited to be out there myself,” Ristovski said, “but for Emoni and Danielle and for all of us to get the opportunity to start the game — we were just so excited to just talk to each other and come out and set the tone really early.” The change of pace didn’t just affect the players moving in and out of the starting lineup — it was a desperately needed fresh start after the Wolverines’ debilitating conference tournament loss to

the Spartans two weeks ago. “It took a while (to get over the loss),” said senior forward Cyesha Goree. “But once we came back, we knew we had a lot of work to do. Everybody really committed to being checked in, focused on being able to still do something that hasn’t been done yet. A WNIT championship (for Michigan) has not been done yet. There’s no reason to hang your head right now, because you still can do something great for this program.” No one embodied that mentality more than the team’s new starters. Ristovski, Williams and Jackson rarely share the floor together during games, but they injected some new life into a team that had been struggling with inconsistency for over a month. “Change, I feel like, always makes a difference,” Ristovski said. “It kind of shakes everyone up, and it forces certain players to excel at their game and play better because they want more minutes. It gives opportunities to other kids to get them really excited to be out there. “Sometimes change just makes you play better because you know you have the opportunity to continue to play.”

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A New Road for Detroit:

Redevelopment prompts tough questions By Adam Theisen, Senior Arts Editor Film Fest: Âť INSIDE

The Ann Arbor Film Fest returns to Michigan Theater for itâ€™s 53rd year

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DETROIT From Page 1B When I was growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, I and other young kids in schools learned a very clear, simple narrative about the city. Henry Ford and the Model T created a thriving metropolis with architecture that garnered it the moniker “The Paris of the West,” whose factory workers earned a good wage and supplied the U.S. with the tanks, jeeps and planes it needed to win World War II. However, growing racial tensions led to “The Riots” of 1967 and an outpouring of white people from the city into the growing suburbs. After that, we learned, Detroit descended into economic chaos and physical ruin. VIRGINIA LOZANO/Daily As much as people might try Work on the M1 Rail Streetcar Line began in July 2014. to explain Detroit, the diversity of narratives within the sprawl- fy the voices of longtime Detroit “If you’re a person who just got ing city make it truly impossible residents and people who are here and suddenly you find access to tell one unified story about its involved in the community, those to all this grant funding and all rise, fall or potential recovery. whose stories are often passed these other people that are doing The 143 square miles that make up over and go unheard in favor of things and getting notoriety for it the city contain some of the most young recent arrivals to the city. and getting funding for it, if you dynamic and complex space in the just got here and you see that, country, and to try to fit the hisyou’re like, ‘Well, why haven’t tory of Michigan’s most populous these people that’ve been here city under any kind of universal been doing this all this time?’ ” umbrella narrative will inevitably Hood said. distort the truth. Henry Ford was “If I had just got here and I went scarily anti-Semitic, racist vioto a certain kind of school and lence disrupted the war effort and spoke a certain way and looked a made factories dangerous places certain way, I could have access to for Black residents to work and the a lot of funding for projects,” she “white flight” narrative typically continued. “But if I’ve been here forgets the fact that there were in the trenches doing the same and are many strong, solidly midkind of work for years and years dle-class neighborhoods within Aaron Foley, a Detroit-based and years, I’m not as likely to have Detroit’s borders. writer and journalist, noticed that access to or be awarded funding.” Lately, the narrative we’ve all the influx of young people and the When decision-making groups been hearing about Detroit has changing population of the city lack diversity, they can’t fully been a comeback story. Billionaire can create some tricky situations. understand their area; the money Dan Gilbert and other investors His upcoming book, “How to Live they spend can end up disproporare buying up and renovating doz- in Detroit Without Being a Jack- tionately benefiting small groups ens of properties downtown, the ass,” is meant to show newcomers of privileged people. The M1 Rail Detroit Red Wings are getting a how to avoid hurting or offending Line, a streetcar system funded by new arena and a weekend night out longtime residents. private investors that’s currently in the city will put you in the com“Detroit is definitely open for under construction on Woodward pany of hundreds of young people new residents, new businesses, hot Avenue, will only serve a small having fun at the wealth of new new locations and whatnot,” Foley percentage of Detroit’s residents. nightlife options. said. “But because there’s so much While a city and its businesses’ However, many problems still history — you got race and class investments should certainly tarlinger in The Motor City, espe- and social and economic status — a get visitors in addition to residents, cially for those who live outside lot of people trip over these things, some Detroiters are skeptical the revitalized Downtown and and it can be awkward for people.” that the M1 Rail is the best use of Midtown areas. It was less than Hood said the audience for money for their city. two years ago that Detroit filed for Deep Dive Detroit’s events is often “I definitely wish that more of bankruptcy, and only one year ago these new arrivals: young people that money could have been used that the city shut off water for resi- curious about social justice. towards the bus system,” Foley dents who couldn’t pay their bills. “(The people who come) are said. “It’s not that I’m against the Additionally — and perhaps kind of conscious and aware. M1 Rail … (but) you have that quesmost troublingly for the long-term They’re not really sure how they tion mark of how far it’s going to future — groups and programs want to get involved in helping go … Why couldn’t we have spread that work to revitalize Detroit move the needle towards equity, that money out?” have a significantly white make- but they know that they should,” “Maybe it’s the backbone of a up, according to researcher Alex Hood said. “I know a lot of people larger system that will grow out of Hill, despite the city overall being would come into the room and be it hopefully, but I don’t know, the 82.7-percent Black or African- like, ‘Ha, look at all these young current plans don’t excite me that American at the time of the 2010 hipsters,’ but at least these hipsters much,” Hood said. census. “In Detroit problems are are in a room where they’re going And while city officials point seen as being caused by black to learn something that could to progress since the bankruptcy people, but the solutions are being actually help move the needle a in areas such as police response powered by white people, neither little bit, ’cause there are others times, these changes may only be of which are true,” Hill stated in who don’t even think they need to affecting areas like Midtown and his report. hear these stories, or don’t want to Downtown. Many longtime Black The unequal racial demograph- be involved and don’t care, ’cause middle-class residents — a major ics that make up Detroit’s elite they don’t have to be to be success- tax base for city — are leaving for decision makers is what origi- ful here.” the suburbs due to a lack of safety nally inspired Detroit community in their neighborhoods (including developer Lauren Hood to engage Hood’s parents). herself more in social justice in “Response times are better if Detroit. you’re in Midtown and Corktown. “People that look like me weren’t If you are on the East Side, they involved in all of the revitalization still won’t come to your house,” efforts,” Hood said. “At the comHood said. “When my parents munity level, yes, there were tons got held up, Channel 4 News of long-term residents and tons of was there before the police were people of color at those meetings, there.” but when you get to the decisionThere’s also a sense that making meetings with power Detroiters don’t necessarily players, people that have money, need all the help that outsiders developers, there were never any, The main area where these are offering. or very few, native Detroiters and two disparate groups — longtime “People treat Detroit now like black people in that picture.” Detroiters, often people of color; a place you go for Peace Corps,” Hood’s organization, Deep Dive and typically white young people Hood said. “Like you’re just Detroit, spearheads discussion who have just moved to the city — going to go there, create some sessions and other events where don’t see eye to eye, according to project that will help a few peonative Detroiters of all different Hood, is in access to opportunity. ple, and then you leave and go to backgrounds can talk about race, Longtime minority residents can the next thing.” inequality and other social justice- get passed over for jobs and grants So what does need improverelated topics. These events ampli- in favor of white outsiders. ment? One answer that is regularly mentioned is community benefits agreements. These agreements would require developers and businesses using public money to agree with the community on certain conditions, such as hiring a majority of local workers. While these agreements have faced opposition in the Michigan Legislature, they have support in the community. “As long as that gets people working, so we can all get back on our feet here, that’s definitely a benefit,” Foley said. George Galster, professor of urban affairs at Wayne State University, proposes another solution. While he thinks a type of community benefits agreement is appropriate for developers who use substanVIRGINIA LOZANO/Daily tial public money, he cautioned Drivers on Woodward Avenue have to contend with construction. against “killing the goose that

“People treat Detroit now like a place you go for Peace Corps.”

“We don’t want to turn into Brooklyn, or Oakland or D. C.”

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baked.buzzed.bored. in this series, three daily arts writers in varying states of mind visit the same place and write about their experiences. this week’s destination:

St. Paddy’s Day Brunch? Omg the line was so long. Some chicks asked to hand us free bagels? I really want a bagel, but I want this breakfast more. Wow I almost just turned right into the guy in front of us. The bartender shouts “let the drinking began” LMFAO my fellow daily arts writer beat you too it. Is this a buffet? Or do we have a server? I don’t wanna sit here not eating and look like a moron, but I don’t wanna be presumptuous and go searching for a buffet. I was not prepared for this. Idek why I like St. Paddy’s (Patty’s???) day. I NEED TO EAT. Mel is shouting something about h2o, idk what. BREAKFAST BURRITO. And we got free shirts (!!!!) all of us just look like we are on our phones. We look like assholes.. Holy balls this burrito is amazing. It’s like every good McDonald’s breakfast item combined in a tortilla ... mmmmm. I got a beer and Jell-O shot too. Why isn’t this beer green? Wtf we asked for greenified beer. I hate both of those things. Who am I? This burrito is balls to the wall and if I’m still high in French class it’s not going to be a pretty sight. —DAILY ARTS WRITER Honestly, we are a joke. I could use some food though, this morning has been quite #strenuous. Jell-O shots are $3 honestly what a time to be alive. I would’ve spelled jello wrong if it weren’t for autocorrect. Some #employee just said “let the drinking begin!!!!!!?!” way too overzealously but like homie it already did. Oh. Fucking. Sick. My snap story is already out of control and the clock has just rolled to 7 a.m. wake up in the morning. Is there. Buffet even? My patience wears thin when it comes to #breakfast. HONESTLY I JUST ORDERED A GREEN GUINNESS BUT HE SAID IT WAS TOO DARK FOR GREEN SO I ASKED FOR THE EXTRA GREENEST ONE AND ITS FULL CIRCLE KOLSXH LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE HAS COME FULL CIRCLE, SIR, MY LIFE THATS WHAT !¡ #greenery #shrubbery # landscape. TO BE QUITE HONEST breakfast is just a sadder version of lunch when it doesn’t include mimosas and alas they are not featured on this extensive menu that seems to only include beer tho and this burrito I have yet to taste. Am I T9 wording this shit? Asked my #buzzed friend. Why yes buzz I am ! This JellO shot is rather dense — is that a good food review Giancarlo? Oh here I go food beat my time to shine tbh this incredible mix of hashbrown to egg to cheese ratio makes me feel feelings of emotional attachment. There are few joys in life like my Jell-O shot thank you based god and thank you autocorrect. Dreams 10/10 crushed I thought this was a buffet but all I got was this burrito. Can saint Patrick’s day be regarded on the same caliber at xmas or like T-giving because this might be the best day ever and I’ve experienced 1.25 hours of it. —DAILY ARTS WRITER The drive over here was great wow. It smelled like the MGMT concert in my coworker’s car. (I’ll take “sentences I never thought I’d write” for 500, Alex.) But we aired it out, so that’s good. The sad part of all this is I look like I’m high and drunk right now, but not a drop of illegal goodness has entered my body — sorry sir, that’s just my face in the morning!!! You’re gonna have to deal with it!!! And I’m SO fricking hungry. And I have a discussion section in a few hours LOL so dead. These two beauties next to me are really living the life right now. Wow omg here comes the Irish music wow life of a music writer I can’t ignore the abomination happening on the loud speakers. What a town to be alive in. I just ordered water at a bar on St. Patrick’s Day. I think I deserve a Nobel Peace Prize or something. Just kidding, I’ll never be as amazing as Malala. My fellow writers just ordered green beer IT’S FINE. We can’t stop laughing oh my god. WHERE IS THE FOOOD WHERE THEY AT THO?? Oh my god the writer to the right of me just started singing Rebecca Black. I’m starting to think about my childhood wow nostalgia. Is my other comrade even high anymore? We’ve been waiting for 50 years. The breakfast burritos have arrived and my dignity is at a solid 72 percent. I love the Daily. I love myself. Shrek is love, Shrek is life. (Shrek is green so that works, relax everyone.) It’s too early for this shit. —MELINA GLUSAC

lays the golden eggs” by attaching too many strings to developments. “It’s very tricky, because the climate in Detroit is still very tenuous,” Galster said. “There are not a lot of deals that can be done for developers that are all that attractive, so I think the city has to be very careful in how much it tries to extract from developers.” Hood disagrees that businesses wouldn’t come if restrictions were too tight. “That’s bullshit,” she said. “We’re hot right now. Have you read all the articles? We don’t need the people that wouldn’t come here. Keep them. I think enough people would still come here with one.” Galster says the key thing Michigan needs to do is institute an urban growth boundary, which would contain new construction within high-density areas to “stop sprawl in its tracks” and force developers to use vacant land or older structures in Detroit. This boundary would create a more compact city, one with a reduced carbon footprint that can be more easily served by

public transportation. One thing for sure: Detroiters think the necessity for action has become much greater than it was even just a few years ago. “In 2012, in talking to people, there wasn’t the sense of urgency there is now,” Hood said. “People are like, ‘Oh my God we have to do something now,’ whereas maybe a couple of years ago people were like, ‘You know, we’re going to have some issues in the future — prices are going to go up, new people are going to be coming in, there’s going to be some displacement,’ but now there’s this sense of urgency about it.” Detroiters also want to be sure that what they love about their city stays the same. “We have a lot of power in this moment,” Hood said. “We just have to harness it and move it in a different direction. We don’t want to turn into Brooklyn, or Oakland or D.C.” And despite the remaining problems and uncertainty about the city’s prospects, Detroiters are proud of their city and mostly upbeat about potential solutions. Galster, a fifth-generation Detroi-

ter, said he has “the best job in the United States,” and still lives in the city. “I think it’s important to vote with your feet, if you will, to try to be part of the solution that you’re talking about in your classes and in your studies,” he said. “I feel very, very fortunate at this opportunity to do what I like doing best in the place that I care about the most.” In his essay “We love Detroit, Even If You Don’t,” Foley described his feelings for the city as “a twisted love that runs the gamut of emotions: Joy, disappointment, hurt, anger, fear, elation, delight, apprehension, courage, resentment, cynicism, stubbornness, optimism and confusion.” And though he has thought about moving in the past, Foley said that desire has lessened lately, and he’s optimistic for the future. “Now you can sort of see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I want to be there to see the light,” he said. “I can see the future. I can see things are finally coming along, and I want to be a part of it.”

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LITERARY COLUMN

Literary Spring Break in Boston

ow was your Spring Break? Did you jet set off to some exotic locale? Is your mind still full of memories of sunshine, white sand beneath your toes and crystal blue waters? Well, dear readers, the water I was surrounded by was GRACE mostly of PROSNIEWSKI the frozen variety as I decided to visit that illustrious spring break capital known as Boston. Yes, the Boston that is still recovering from the record-setting 104 inches of snow it’s gotten this winter. It goes without saying that I sometimes make interesting life decisions. But fear not, because though there were a few times I thought I might have been in the early stages of frostbite while waiting for the T, I still managed to have a highly enjoyable and informative trip thanks in large part to Boston’s expansive literary heritage. In October of last year, Boston created the country’s first Literary Cultural District, which according to the Massachusetts Cultural Council is “a compact, walkable area of a community with a concentration of cultural facilities, activities, and assets,” in this case, pertaining to literature. In addition to notable places, the Literary Cultural District also promotes literary events like book festivals and poetry slams. Literary districts are the latest development in a phenomenon known as literary tourism, when we bibliophiles visit places associated with our favorite writers or mentioned in fictional texts. It’s a rapidly growing industry in cities across the globe, from “Sherlock Holmes” tours in London to following the footsteps of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” in Stockholm.

To be honest, there’s probably no better place in the U.S. to start a literary district than Boston. The entire city is pretty much your high school American Lit class come to life. Of course, the first stop I made was to the recently installed Edgar Allan Poe statue. Poe and Boston have a somewhat fraught history, although that may be an understatement. Poe once said, “Bostonians have no soul.” While he was born in the city, Poe often criticized some of its most popular writers, especially those associated with the transcendentalist movement. Though his birthplace has long since been demolished, there has been a recent effort by the city to reclaim the Poe legacy from Baltimore. As I have heard many Bostonians say of Baltimore, and I quote, “All he did was die there.” (In all fairness though, Richmond and New York could also stake claims to Poe.) In any case, the battle royale has resulted in one really cool statue, complete with raven and tell-tale heart. (This particular statue may have also inspired a number of selfies in which Poe was captioned as “bae.” Interesting life decisions abound.) The Literary Trail also includes the residences of a number of famous authors, including Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Frost, Henry James, Henry David Thoreau and John Updike. If none of those names interest you, why are you even reading this column? There’s also an apartment building that poet Sylvia Plath may have lived in at one time, and if not, I apologize profusely to any tenants I may have creeped out while staring at it from across the street. Then there’s the luxurious hotel Taj Boston, where Tennessee Williams revised his pièce de résistance, “A Streetcar Named Desire.” And the Tremont Temple, which hosted a variety of speakers

including Charles Dickens for his first public reading of “A Christmas Carol.” You can visit the Old South Meeting House, the church of Benjamin Franklin (who was baptized there) and Phillis Wheatley, the first published African American poet whose works garnered her great fame in England and helped gain her freedom. And of course, don’t forget to visit the Old Corner Bookstore, internationally known in the nineteenth century for revolutionizing book publishing and releasing works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Longfellow, just to name a few. The Old Corner Bookstore, which happens to be built on land once belonging to Puritan troublemaker Anne Hutchinson, is a stop on the Freedom Trail, Literary Trail and Women’s Heritage Trail, so obviously, it now houses a Chipotle. I can personally testify to the unique feeling of being surrounded by period architecture and literary history while asking for more corn salsa. You might be wondering, “Is this chick being paid by the Boston Department of Tourism?” The answer, sadly, is no. Though if packages of cream pies and clam chowder showed up on my doorstep after the publication of this column, well, let’s just say I wouldn’t ask too many questions. As someone who avidly loves to read and travel, literary tourism just seems like a match made in heaven. If Boston’s Literary District proves successful, the idea will hopefully catch on in other cities with rich literary heritages like New York, New Orleans and Minneapolis/St. Paul. Heck, with a little research, maybe even here in Ann Arbor. Prosniewski is pahking the cah in Hahvahd Yahd. Send her some chowder at gpros@umich.edu.

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We know Vic Mensa By WILL GREENBERG Daily Arts Writer

You may have read Yardain Amron’s piece in The Michigan Daily on Wednesday titled “Who’s Vic Mensa? You’ll know soon”. In it, Amron reviews a secret show of Mensa’s he caught in Chicago and also declares that Mensa’s work in recent months has finally brought the artist onto the hip-hop scene. Well, I have to respectfully disagree. A brief disclaimer: Vic Mensa went to Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago. So did I. Vic Mensa performed with his first band “Kids These Days” at various locations across Chicago. I was there — not at all of them, but a couple of them. I am incredibly jealous that I was not at that show with Amron, since I am undeniably a fan. Still, while Vic Mensa is not a new name for me, there’s plenty of evidence to indicate he was on the scene even before the “Kanye effect.” Before focusing on his solo career Mensa was in the band Kids These Days, an eight member group with Mensa’s fellow Whitney Young students and other high schoolers across the city. It was a rap-jazz-rock blend of sound that was exciting and inventive. Songs like “Darling”, “Bud Biliken” and “Don’t Harsh My Mellow” show the band’s impressive ability to combine the clever rapping of Mensa, the solid lead guitar and singing of Liam Cunningham and the hauntingly beautiful vocals of Macie Stewart. Also in the band was trumpet player Nico Segal, now Donnie Trumpet, who has since gone on to tour with Chance the Rapper’s band The Social Experiment and is taking the lead on their upcoming Surf album. KTD formed in 2009 and quickly caught the local spotlight. However, it was their 2011 perfor-

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mance at Chicago’s Lollapalooza music festival that earned them national acknowledgement. From there, the group landed a spot on “Conan” as a musical guest in 2012. All the while, Mensa’s name and face was slowly penetrating the music world. Kids These Days split up in 2013, after finding it difficult to financially support such a large group. From there, Mensa would go on to drop his first solo album, Innanet Tape, a superb debut featuring infectious beats like “Orange Soda” and “Hollywood LA”. While the album allowed Mensa to flex his muscles a bit more as a rapper — and earned him recognition as one of XXL magazine’s “Freshmen of the Year 2014”— it was largely overshadowed by fellow FOY and “Save Money” companion Chance and his “Acid Rap” mixtape. Things started to change with Mensa’s hit single, “Down On My Luck”. The song jumped to the top of the iTunes song charts, beating out Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” and Drake’s “0 To 100/Catch Up.” The song was a driving-beat party tune, a diversion from the

more prototypical rap Mensa had done previously, but was clearly a hit. And then, of course, his most widely known accomplishment to date: featuring on a Kanye West single “Wolves” and performing with him on national television. It also can’t be forgotten that Mensa isn’t a stranger to Ann Arbor either, having performed at Hill Auditorium just last year. So, even coming from a longtime fan, it’s clear that Mensa had plenty of notoriety and at least some name recognition before this collaboration. Mensa was already on the stage before his performance with West, but “Wolves” pushed him directly into the spotlight. As part of the wave of younger, inventive and fearless hip-hop artists, Mensa is indicative of an exciting couple of years to come for the genre. Mensa’s dabbling in an array of musical styles is evidence of his philosophy that music should be fun and this creative openness is something to be celebrated. In fact, it’s probably the reason West thought he’d be a good fit for whatever unknown sorcery he’s putting into his next album.

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The Ann Arbor Film Festival is held each March at the Michigan Theater.

53rd Ann Arbor Film Fest keeps its charm By KATHLEEN DAVIS Senior Arts Editor

Every year for the past 53 years, mid-March brings a change in the air for the city of Ann Arbor. It’s not due to the first breaks of spring that melt the snow, or the mix of dread and excitement that comes with the end of the scholastic year. This March, like the 52 before it, film aficionados flood to the city to celebrate the oldest experimental film festival in the United States, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, housed downtown at the Michigan Theater. Established in 1963 by George Manupelli, a former University professor, the festival has a long and impressive history of artists and filmmakers brought to Ann Arbor. Ahead of its time, the festival showcased early work by big names like George Lucas, Yoko Ono and Gus Van Sant, and can boast an appearance by Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground and Nico in 1966. Manupelli, who passed away in September 2014, will be honored at this year’s festival with an exposition of his early art as well as with a showing of one of his early films, accompanied by a live musical performance. Executive Director Leslie Raymond and Program Director David Dinnell have both been involved with the festival for quite a while. Raymond has been executive director for a year and a half, but has been involved with the festival since 1991, when she began as an intern. Dinnell has been programming for the festival for the past seven years, and both are very familiar with the process of establishing a firm lineup each year. The screening process for the festival begins with an open call to artists, available to anyone who has made an experimental film in the past two years. This preliminary process goes from July to November the year before the festival, which are then viewed by 20 volunteer screeners and reviewed multiple times in a narrowing process. The films come from about 30

countries, with the United States sending the most, but with many pieces coming from Europe and, increasingly, South America and Asia. “I think the festival has really grown internationally and we’re seeing more and more works coming from abroad, which has been really interesting,” Dinnel said. Submissions have increased from 300 to 3,000 since the acceptance of digital film mediums starting at the 42nd AAFF. The festival also features artist retrospectives, a revisiting of early works by experimental filmmakers who have made a lasting impression on the field. This year’s festival will include the first ever North American retrospective of Polish filmmaker Wojciech Bakowski, as well as Tacita Dean. “We take into consideration that the festival is a week-long event, so we include some historic work but most is contemporary,” Dinnel said. “The historic works that we do feature allow someone to deepen their appreciation for historical precedent.” The festival is very integrated into the Ann Arbor community, relying heavily on local volunteers to keep it together each year. There is also a current and historical connection between the University and the festival, beginning with its creation by Manupelli. “It’s very much a community organization,” Dinnel said. “That has helped the festival not only survive, but foster over the past decades due to a lot of community support. People who live in town really value the organization so they’re willing to help us out every year in various years.” “The festival has relationships throughout the University, with the Stamps school, the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures is a natural fit and we’ve had a very longstanding relationship with them,” Raymond added. In the past five decades, there has been much room for change, yet the festival has maintained a sense of familiarity in its dedica-

tion to showcasing the top experimental films of the time. Arguably the biggest change in its history was the expansion of accepting films other than 16mm, which was the only accepted platform until the 42nd festival. “(16mm) was a medium readily available to artists, and the 1960s were really a heyday of artistmade, avant-garde film because of it,” Raymond said. “It started to become apparent in around the late ’80s that maybe it was time to open up to video. It allowed the festival to remain contemporary, to look at work being made in a contemporary medium by contemporary artists.” The current prevalence of digital media has changed, for many, what constitutes a film viewing experience. The festival is a reminder of the beauty of viewing a film in the way it began, in a theater. “With the advent of digital tools, the Internet has allowed artists to readily share their work on YouTube or other platforms,” Dinnell said. “We find ourselves really thinking about what it means to go with a couple friends on a Thursday or Friday night and sit in the Michigan Theater with hundreds and hundreds of other people and give your attention fully over to what’s on the screen.” “We appreciate that that’s a completely different experience than just watching a 10-minute film that somebody shares that you click on a link to watch. It’s a fundamentally different experience even if that work is the same work,” Dinnel added. “It’s almost like listening to something on your iPod and then listening to it live in a concert hall. There’s a real energy that happens when you’re watching film, giving it your full attention and sitting with hundreds of other people, and the image is 20 feet tall with an amazing sound system.” “The scale and the social context still remain essential and important,” Raymond said.

SINGLE REVIEW Start with a beat – sure and steady. Then layer in lyrics, the first of which being “Everything I’ve ever B+ known is wrong,” Entropy mask them with the Grimes and Bleachers driving beat and an angelic tone RCA Records of voice. The result is a juxtaposition of sound – the kind of thing listeners absentmindedly sing along to before taking a closer look at the meaning – in the form of “Entropy,” a collaboration of Grimes and Bleachers. The unusual duo teamed for a feature on HBO’s “Girls,” and the track has now been released in full. Reaching a stable middle ground, the track does not play too heavily on Grimes’s electronic background nor on Bleachers’ indie-rock sound. Instead, Jack Antonoff, previously of fun., uses

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choppy guitar strokes and sporadic bursts of drumming to replace what could have been entirely synthesized beats. Grimes provides the vocals, transcending the seemingly twodimensional space of music by weaving in and out of the instrumentation with her signature, echoing tone.

The track blossoms into something equally quirky and catchy as it plays on, drawing listeners in with a pop-like structure and lyrics of ill-fated relationships. But just as quickly as it began, the layers begin to dissolve and listeners are left only with the beat once again. -CARLY SNIDER

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Mary Thiefels is an Ann Arbor-based muralist.

By RACHEL KERR Daily Arts Writer

I walk down East Washington Street toward a brick building with blocks of bright colors painted around its doorway. I ring the bell and quickly come face to face with a woman wearing an easy smile. I reach out my hand to greet her, but I’m instead embraced by an enthusiastic German Shepherd (whose name I later learn is Miss Lilian Moosecow, or just “Moose”). No formalities here, it seems. The woman is Mary Thiefels, founder of Tree Town Murals, “a mural art company in public art, corporate murals and private spaces,” she explained. She’s worn many other hats,

though: student at both Pioneer and Community High School, waitress at Jerusalem Garden, bartender at Café Zola and, currently, Visual Arts Coordinator at local nonprofit the Neutral Zone, whose offices I happen to be comfortably seated in. When she speaks, it’s with an obvious affection for her art – specifically, murals – and an intimate knowledge of her hometown – Ann Arbor. “For years, when I was in high school, there was just a bunch of miscellaneous tag art. There was even profanities,” she explained. “But otherwise, there was nothing really inspiring happening.” But, of course, Thiefels changed all that. After graduating high school, she

began taking advanced studio art classes, studying color theory and life drawing with renowned community artists such as Fred Horowitz and John Lockard. At the age of 19, she created her first mural on Felch Street within a local railroad underpass, a “bridge between neighborhood and city center,” she said. 19 was also the age Thiefels and her friends were arrested for malicious destruction of property. “We all tried to run, and then we’re like, ‘Wait this is stupid. We’re really not doing anything wrong.’ Like, we really felt like what we were doing was morally correct,” Thiefels said. And apparently, so did the city – the charges were dropped after overwhelming support

MUSIC VIDEO REVIEW Ah, 1950s suburbia. Green grass, pink flamingos, perfect pastel houses with perfect pastel husbands and really cool A shrubbery. Those were Dear the days — a Future simpler time of domes- Husband tic bliss and Meghan brushedTrainor under-thespotlessEpic Records kitchen-table misogyny. Add a little bit of leather and some surprisingly feminist undertones to the traditional ’50s aesthetic and, hey, you’ve got yourself a hot new music video from Megan Trainor, queen of bass. Bubblegum doo-wop accompanies an explosion of colors when you hit play on “Dear Future Husband” — it’s exciting, visually enticing and just really freaking cute. Trainor “tests out” a variety of studly fellas throughout the three and a half minutes. “Hey

from the community and even the Ann Arbor Railroad, who later asked her to continue creating murals for their underpasses. She was given commissions by the Ann Arbor City Council and approached by private businesses including the Arena Sports Bar and Grill, which still bears an early Thiefels mural. “It’s not on my website; it’s sort of embarrassing,” she said. But it was that positive community response that inspired her to take the next step. “I was like, ‘I’m doing this. This is way too much fun.’ I’m painting. I’m designing. I’m outside. People love it. Like, what is not cool about this?” she added. “So that’s when I decided, Tree Town Murals, that’s my company.” After its birth in 2007, Tree Towns quickly began to reach other areas of Michigan such as Hillsdale, Whitmore Lake and Chelsea. Thiefels designed murals centering around city pride and town history, honing her artistic skill and learning how to better run her business through collaboration with historians and community members on the projects. “Any artist will get really good at taking the ideas and concepts from the people they’re working with and collaborating with but then also putting their own unique twist on it,” Thiefels said about her experience. “You can kind of read a community, whether they’re ready for something really contemporary or if they really need something that’s still a little dated and more about the history.” And, at its core, that’s what Tree Town Murals is all about: community involvement. Whether it’s an open dialogue about the piece or hands-on involvement, Thiefels makes sure

everyone can contribute. To do so, she, along with her business partner and artistic collaborator, Daniel Matanic, created a concept called “paint-bynumber.” With a paint brush in hand and some instruction from Tree Town volunteers, members of the community with no artistic experience have the opportunity to be a part of something larger than themselves, to create something for their city by filling in designated parts of the mural. “The community paint days or participatory aspects have resonance tenfold,” Thiefels said. “Even spending ten minutes on the wall, like filling in a little area, that person takes pride in the whole painting ... even if they can’t see their brushstroke perfectly,” she said.

“I’m painting. I’m designing. I’m outside. People love it.” Of the participants involved, many are adolescents, an age group Thiefels has a lot of experience with. In the past, she’s taught summer programs at the Ann Arbor Art Center and adopted teenage apprentices to assist with her projects, many of whom she now calls good friends with amazing art careers. In 2013, she began working at the Neutral Zone, where student artwork decorates the classroom we’re seated in. Moose lays quietly in his dog bed, a Verner Panton heart-cone chair sits near us. “We found it on the street, but we don’t know if it’s an exact original,” she said. The place oozes with warmth

and welcoming, as it should. The nonprofit prides itself on being a youth-driven space, one that fosters creativity and growth and offers a unique partnership between adults and those youths. In fact, 50 percent of the Neutral Zone’s Board of Directors are youths. “We run visual arts programming, music programming, literary arts programming. We have leadership and education, which are more of our youth empowerment and activism groups. They’re kind of after school activities,” Thiefels said. “A lot of our teens that have gone through two to four years of Neutral Zone activities are now equipped with these ‘21st century skills’ of collaborating and knowing how to represent themselves and their ideas.” A cohesiveness between the two organizations naturally appeared soon after Thiefels took the job. From then on, she successfully integrated Tree Towns’s public mural aspect into the Neutral Zone’s youth-oriented programs, giving adolescents the opportunity to use mural art as an expressive outlet — something Thiefels views as essential to daily life. “(Public pieces) inspire people to look at the world differently and think about themselves differently. To promote and sponsor the arts is a viable way for healing our city centers, our economies, and ourselves,” Thiefels said. “I want to be a part of that trend, where public murals are a form of activism or a form of changing minds, a form of changing lives.” One day, Thiefels hopes to impact cities beyond Michigan, to illustrate the voices and imaginations of communities outside the United States, to add color to the lives of unique individuals all over the world. “This,” she said, “is just the beginning.”

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future husband,” she inquires in her day dress, can you cook a meal that covers more than an inch of the plate? The first suitor fails miserably, bringing her a bleak, lone scallop and one green bean. That doesn’t contribute to the wellbeing of bass. Out with him. She won’t settle, and in that light, the video’s kitschy, retro persona becomes sugarcoated satire. Gender roles are challenged — ideas of ’50s “womanhood,” lusciously lampooned. Outfit changes

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(Trainor and her cat-eyed eyeliner look better than ever) and blue skies continue as she sings, “You got that 9 to 5, but, baby, so do I, so don’t be thinking I’ll be home and baking apple pies.” Cue: an apple pie engulfed in Hades’s flames. Got that, future husband? Respect and equality is all it takes. Oh, and a box of pizza — the gent carrying a greasy Italian pie wins out in the end. It’s not delivery; it’s feminism. -MELINA GLUSAC

The latest trailer for “Insurgent,” the upcoming sequel to last year’s “Divergent,” doesn’t show much to D+ get the viewInsurgent er excited for the movie. Summit Practically every line Entertainment of dialogue uttered sounds like something you’ve heard a million times already, including lines as unmemorable as “We have to stop her … together,” “This is the only chance to rescue what little civilization we have left” and “Dark times call for extreme measures.” Even the title of the trailer is generic: “Stand Together.” Themes of teamwork or sacrifice could theoretically make the movie more than another by-the-numbers dystopian trope-fest, but nothing in the trailer suggests anything thoughtful or new. The trailer does promise action for the movie, though even that is uninventive and tedious. In a convenient mon-

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tage that doesn’t pause long enough for you to realize how uninteresting each individual shot is, Tris (Shailene Woodley, “The Fault in Our Stars”) leaps through a glass wall, a CGI building explodes, Four’s (Theo James, “Bedlam”) face disintegrates into little silver bubbles, a blue laser beam ripples down a street and Tris jumps off a building, soaring through the air to catch the end of a cable. None of this looks real, and in many of them, it’s clear that even in the

context of the movie, they’re supposed to be simulations. An action movie built on attractive action simulations could be fun and cool-looking — after all, any action movie is technically unreal — but there’s no exciting choreography, little genuine emotion and worst of all, no apparent stakes. Unless you count Ansel Elgort saying, “You are living proof that the Divergent problem has grown beyond all control” as a signifier of legitimate conflict. -BENJAMIN ROSENSTOCK

THE D’ART BOARD Each week we take shots at the biggest developments in the entertainment world. Here’s what hit (and missed) this week.

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Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon Lena Dunham to wed Jack Antonoff.

The Plebeian Tenenbaums Gwyneth Paltrow says she is very close to the “common woman.”

Foxxy Lady Jamie Foxx and Katie Holmes hold hands, maybe gave each other cookies.

“On second thought ... no cream.” Starbucks encourages baristas to talk with customers about race.

Sounds like a job for Paul Blart: Mall Mountie Motorcyclist leads police on chase through Calgary, Canada mall.