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VOL. 8 ISSUE 2
NEWS PAGE 2 How Michigan’s Gubernatorial Election could impact Ann Arbor
FEATURE PAGE 6 Facts about the birth order stereotype
The Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) of athletes is profitable, creating many new possibilities for athletes. PHOTO AND PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SANDRA FU
The new extension to sports: Name, Image, Likeness OPINION PAGE 8+9 Today in Sports
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ny student-athlete can make money through Name, Image, Likeness, from the stars to walk-ons, and there is no limit as to how much athletes can make under NIL. “It gave me opportunities to do deals with different companies, which could help me later in life after my athletic career ends,” senior and kicker for Huron’s football team, Adam Samaha said. Samaha is a five
star student athlete committed to University of Michigan, where he will attend school in the fall of 2023. “I found out about NIL when I was getting recruited by colleges,” Samaha said. “They told me that I could be earning money based on my performance.” Nowadays, the profession of “athlete” — even just at the college level — extends far beyond the act of the sport itself. It encompasses the athlete’s image and how they perpetuate that presence on social media. In fact, being on cam-
ETHICS BOWL GIVES UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES TO ITS MEMBERS Every year in February, an epic gathering of schools across Ann Arbor forms to debate the different perspectives of various puzzling ethical and philosophical dilemmas. This Ethics Bowl is the reward of several months of hard work by Huron’s Ethics Club. “We look at certain cases, ethical dilemmas basically,” junior Teyin Kim said. “We consider what all the aspects of them are,
An example is former Michigan State University linebacker, Darien Harris, who works with the football program in Servant Leadership for recurrent student-athletes and Director of Player Relations and Program Advancement. Harris guides student-athletes in the football program through the NIL programs. This includes social media branding, reaching out, talking to businesses and podcasting. He wants to make student-athletes’ lives better than he experienced, and NIL provides a new addition
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era before, during, and after games is not an odd appearance for today’s athletes. Through Instagram reels, photoshoots, hype videos and more, athletes now have the ability to make a name for themselves. It’s as easy as a post. As of July 1, 2021, college athletes have the opportunity to make money off of their name, image and likeness (NIL). With many new athletes beginning to build their brands and this lucrative sector of sports rapidly expanding, there are increasingly more people to help them along the way.
how ethical each option is.” The group studies a wide range of ethics and philosophy spanning thousands of years of teachings, from the greatest philosophers of old, up until the ideas of the present day. There are plenty of reasons the club is alluring to its members. “The idea of, you know, it’s not a debate club, but at the same time, there’s a debate element to it,” Kim said. “Public speaking too, I wanted to improve at.” The classwork examines famous ethical dilemmas
Huron Players take on Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” RIDHIMA KODALI ANNABELLE YE PRINT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & DESIGN EDITOR Ethics Bowl members, junior Anita Gaenko and senior Sarah Kim, present to and persuade prospective members to join the club. PHOTO BY RIDHIMA KODALI
and theories, different philosophical modes of thought, and prepares the team for the Bowl. Last year’s Bowl has made expectations high for this year’s, and the group is excited to participate. “The bowl itself is super fun,” Kim said. “All the studying with the cases leading up to it, you get to know everybody.”
On Oct. 27, the Huron Players (HP) gathered their brightly colored dresses and wheeled out their hand-crafted pianoforte in Huron’s Ingram theater for their fall show’s opening night. Jane Austen’s typical narrative of ‘falling victim to love’ was challenged by the players in their fall show: “Sense and Sensibility.” “It’s put a bit of a feminist spin on it in that we’re empowering the female characters to make some decisions and choices for them-
selves,” Huron Players Director Claire Federhofer said. “As the title suggests, sometimes we need to be more sensible and other times we need to be a little less cautious and have some fun.” The two month process began with auditions
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