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UM-Flint Student GovernmentPresident passes away

BY LAURA CLARKNEWS EDITOR

University of Michigan-Flint students and the restof the University of Michi-gan community were sad-dened last week to hear ofthe passing of a student,Felipe Andrez, age 24.Born in Suzano, Brazil, An-drez was a senior under-graduate student majoringin Business Administrationand an active member ofUM-Flint student life, in-cluding serving as presi-dent of the InternationalStudent Organization. An-drez also served as a mem-ber of Student Governmentin 2009 until his election asUM-Flint’s student bodypresident in the Fall of2011. In 2008, Andrezjoined the InternationalCenter staff, and in 2009,he traveled abroad to Chinathrough the Global Inter-cultural Experience for Un-dergraduates program.Andrez also worked as alifeguard for several semes-ters in the university’srecreation center.

UM-Flint ChancellorRuth J. Person and Interna-

tional Center Diector DanAdams said on UM-Flint’sFacebook page, “Felipewas more than just a com-passionate and generousperson-he was a very loyalson, brother, friend and col-league. His positive atti-

tude, rambunctious laugh,and unwavering optimismabout people and life willbe fondly remembered byhis numerous friendsaround the world. He willbe greatly missed.”

Felipe Andrez was an active part of the UM-Flint community.

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Architechture of Murder: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Blueprints exhibition is currently located in Mardigian library.

Michigan Remembers:6 million perished, but not forgotten

BY JASON SINGERSTAFF WRITER

Seventy years ago, 6 mil-lion people were wiped offthe face of the planet. In thequest to make sure the worlddoes not forget, the Uni-veristy of Michigan-Dearbornis playing its part.

Located on the secondfloor of the Mardigan Libraryis an exhibition dedicated tothe Holocaust. Students willsee graphic photos, detailedhistories, and personal storiesof those who witnessed andsurvived or those that werelost in this horrific human ca-tastrophe.

The exhibit discussesAuschwitz, a network of con-centration camps consistingof labor and exterminationareas. It is impossible to de-termine the exact death tollthat took place at Auschwitz,but estimates range anywherebetween 2 to 4 million peo-

Holocaust Exhibition opens at Mardigian Library

ple.Life at the camps are diffi-

cult to imagine. Those in thelabor camps were workeduntil they could no longerstand; given barely enoughfood to fight of hunger fromclaiming their lives.Prisoners were nearly piled ontop of each other, havingsometimes to sleep with noteven enough room to stretchout their legs.Horrific experiments were

also performed on the prison-ers of Auschwitz. Femaleswere dosed with largeamounts of X-Ray radiationto cause sterilization. OneNazi in particular, Josef Men-gele, would perform experi-ments on twins in utero byinducing diseases into onewhile killing the other.One particular highlight of

the exhibition is the poemDeath Fugue, written by PaulCelan a survivor of an intern-

ment camp, paints the tragicexperience of what prisonerswent through.

Black milk of morning wedrink you at night

Death is a gang-boss fromGermany his eye is blue

He shoots you with leadenbullets his aim is true

Celan’s references “blackmilk”; milk is symbolic ofchildhood and innocence.With his reference to blackmilk, however, Celan sug-gests that the innocence of theworld has beencorrupted by death. 6 millionpeople’s blood was spilt, butthe stain will never be liftedfrom the ground. Check outthe exhibition at the Mardi-gan, it has a way of puttinglife into perspective for thoseof you having a bad day.

Exhibit on Detroit housingdiscrimination visits UM-DearbornBY DAN LOYDSTAFF WRITER

Universi ty of Michi-gan-Dearborn s tudentshad the oppor tuni ty toexplore the his tory ofdiscrimination in Detroithousing with a one daytraveling exhibit that ap-peared in Kochoff Hal llast week. The exhibit ,sponsored by the Michi-gan Roundtable for Di-versi ty and Inclusion, ist i t led We Don’t WantThem: Race and housingin metropol i tan Detroi t ,1900-1968.

The display consistedof free standing banners,video, music, and an in-teract ive computer s ta-t ion that walkedunivers i ty s tudentsthrough the early just if i-ca t ion for racia l segre-gation that waswri t ten into federal law– all the way through the1968 r iots that devas-tated black communit iesin Detroi t .

Rozenia Johnson, ex-hibi t cura tor, expla inedin a s ta tement that thegoal of the project is togive his tor ica l contextto the problems that faceDetroi ters today.

“A communi ty hasnever been simply an

area in which we l ive .Whether we realize i t ornot , i t has a history, andhow we came to be apar t of our communi tyte l l s the of ten unknownstory of why it exists atall . Investigating this in-format ion helps us tobet ter unders tand ourcurrentcircumstances, and givesus clar i ty in to how wegot there,” she said.

Hawraa Lshimry, afreshman or iginal lyfrom Iraq, sa id herAmerican his tory pro-fessor offered extracredi t for vis i t ing theexhibit .

“This is my first his-tory class [a t U of M]learning about blacksand what they sufferedthen,” she said.

The exhibit draws at-tention to the early poli-c ies of the Federa lHousing Adminis t ra t ionthat effec t ively deniedmany minor i t ies theabi l i ty to receive homeloans.

Jassmine Parks , ajunior from Detroit , saidlearning about the fed-era l pol icy was surpr is-ing.

“I knew that i t wasracia l ly segregated, butI didn’t know it was

wri t ten into the law,”said Parks.

Although much of theexhibi t focuses on no-table blacks of the t ime,such as Ossian Sweetwho famously defendedhis home agains t anangry mob in a whi teneighborhood, thecontent a lso brought tolight the struggles of themany diverse minor i tygroups present in thecity.

One such st rugglehighl ighted in the ex-hibi t is the case of Vin-cent Chin , a ChineseAmerican who was bru-tal ly assaul ted and mur-dered in an apparenthate cr ime dur ing the1980s.

Parks added that theexhibi t provides an im-por tant his tor ica l per-spect ive that issometimes overlooked inmodern society.

“I th ink i t ’s impor-tant not to forget . Not toforget the injus t ice , notto forget the inequali t iesand to compare cer ta inthings to what’s goingon in the present to thepast…also to see i tcould be worse, but alsoi t could be bet ter,” saidParks.

CorrectionsThe CourseFeeds article last week stated that

CourseFeeds has partnered with the Ann Arbor campus.As of yet, no such partnership has been made.

Dearborn McDonald’s makes settlementin non-Halal chicken sandwich lawsuit

BYANDREW HILLEBRANDSTAFF WRITER

McDonald’s and one ofits franchises agreed to a$700,000 settlement in alawsuit claiming that itfalsely advertised some ofits food as halal.Ahmed Ahmed, a Muslim

man from DearbornHeights, alleged that thechicken sandwich he or-dered from the McDonald’son Ford Road in Dearbornin September 2011 did notmeet Islamic dietary stan-dards, despite the fran-chise’s advertisements thatit sells Halal chicken.McDonald’s and Finley’s

Management Co, whichowns the franchise, agreedon January 18 to pay the$700,000, which will besplit between Ahmed, hislawyers, a health clinic in

Detroit and the Arab Ameri-can National Museum inDearborn. McDonald’s andFinley’s deny any liability,but say the settlement is intheir best interest.

Ahmed’s attorney,Kassem Daklallah, allegesthat after the restaurant ranout of Halal chicken, it soldnon-Halal chicken.

Ahmed and Daklallahcarried out an investigationafter Ahmed’s early suspi-cion, and say they foundthat the restaurant had soldnon-Halal food masquerad-ing as Halal food “on manyoccasions.” The two filed aclass action lawsuit inWayne County CircuitCourt in November 2011.Daklallah and Ahmed be-

lieve McDonald’s was neg-ligent, but not necessarilythat it was attempting to de-ceive its customers.

"McDonald's from the

very beginning stepped upand took this case very seri-ously," Daklallah said."They made it clear theywanted to resolve this. Theygot ahead of the problem."

Finley’s said it has astrict procedure for prepar-ing and serving Halal food,with “Halal-only areas” inits restaurant.

This is only a prelimi-nary deal, and the details,such as how to split up themoney, will be worked outat the final hearing onMarch 1.The class action suit is on

behalf of any customerswho bought products adver-tised as Halal from Septem-ber 2005 to January 18,2013. The two sides agreedto give the money to com-munity-based organizationsand charities that will bene-fit that group of people.

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Rodney Lockwood’s idea would change Belle Isle into its own independent city-state.

Belle Isle commonwealth proposal receives mixed reviews

Bingham Farm devel-oper and author of the booktitled, “Belle Isle, Detroit’sGame Changer”, RodneyLockwood has an idea thatwould monumentallychange Detroit’s landscape– make Belle Isle a com-monwealth. Simply put,Belle Isle will be a semi-in-dependent city-state, simi-lar to Puerto Rico orMonaco that will be self-re-liant on its residents and in-vestors who will “buy in” at$300K to inhabit the free-market isle with its ownlaws, currency, monorailsystem and air strip on theDetroit Shore to access thenew enclave (Detroit FreePress). Lockwood’s bookfeatures his fictional-futur-

istic idea as an innovativereality that could “fix” theCity of Detroit at a price tagof $1-Billion, along withsuggestions of increased in-vestment and jobs for thecity.

Lockwood pitched hisbrainstorm along with hispartners, retired formerPresident of Chrysler HalSperlich and Larry Mongo,owner of d’Mongo’sSpeakEasy in Detroit to agroup of CEO Representa-tives from various industrysectors including DetroitCornerstone Schools, Wal-bridge, Detroit City Counciland Detroit EconomicGrowth at the Detroit Ath-letic Club last week.

The virtually tax-free en-clave idea was receivedwith mixed reviews by

many of the attendees as thequestion loomed of howthis venture would gen-uinely help Detroit’s cur-rent financial woes andincrease its viability to re-turn as a major metropolis.According to Sandy Ba-raugh, President and CEOofDetroit’s Regional Cham-ber, the idea wasn’t over-whelmingly convincingwithout hearing how De-troitwould benefit from the newcommonwealth’s geograph-ical approximation only.

“Having rich neighborsdoesn’t make you rich,” re-ferring to the example ofGrosse Pointe next to De-troit, still known as one ofthe poorest cities in the na-tion (Detroit Free Press).

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Lockwood’s idea, which isless detailed and lends itsapproximation greatly toAyn Rand’s premises on afree-market, was initiallymet with some reservations.

However, there weresome who believe in the vi-

sion of seceding Belle Islefrom the state of Michiganas an answer to near bank-rupt Detroit’s cash flow.Considering Belle Isle hasbeen a part of Detroit his-torically from its inception,the idea of the isle no

longer being connected tothe city and its residentswill definitely generate atopic of discussion amongDetroiters and future BelleIslanders that proves to beas controversial as the ideaitself.

UM-Dearborn Writing Center encourages Winter semester attendance

BY LAURA CLARKNEWS EDITOR

Looking for a place toget help with english pa-pers, business papers, sci-ence papers, or any othertype of papers this semes-ter? Have you been to thewriting center on campus?If not, you may want toconsider it.

“The writing center isnot only for people whoneed help with basic writ-ing skills, it’s for advancedwriters too,” said TijaSpitsberg, composition, lit-erature, journalism andwriting professor and Di-rector of the Writing Cen-ter. “We have a great staffand I think we have some-

one here from almost everyschool on campus.”

And with midterm pa-pers approaching, the stu-dent consultants in thewriting center are ready tohelp students who need anextra hand.

“We are students helpingstudents. We all share thesame experiences and weall help each other andlearn from one another,”said Jerrice Donelson, aconsultant majoring inEnglish and Secondary Ed-ucation.

“I’ve enjoyed my expe-rience here. I’ve encoun-tered students who arereally receptive to learn-ing,” said Michel Turcas,another consultant major-

ing in English.“I think it [the writing

center] is a positive envi-ronment to work and learnin,” said Imani Byrd, along time consultant andPsychology and Englishmajor.

The writing center is lo-cated in 3035 CASL Build-ing, and also has satellitelocations in 1120 SocialSciences Building, 138Fairlane Center North, andon the first floor of Mardi-gian Library, just past theLibrary Research Center.

For more information orto make an appointmentonline, go towww.casl.umd.umich.edu/writ_center.

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With the recent lift of the ban on women in combat, Maryanne Rafka hopes that the idea that women are weak,fragile dolls will finally go away. Photo courtest Culture Schlock.

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BY ELIZABETH BASTIANMANAGING EDITOR

life at this age is – ridiculous.Think of how hard people ourage work for a Bachelor’s de-gree…and then what? Gradu-ate school? A “real” job?Travel? Or will we just endup running away from our-selves, unsure of what we re-ally want and too stubborn toadmit it.

“Girls” has shown me thatit is okay to not have your lifefigured out. It is okay to be 24and working at the cornercoffee store making mini-mum wage. It is okay to beawkward and wear question-able clothing (Shorteralls? Anorange sleeping bag?) andquit your job. It’s okay to nothave a back-up plan.

So thank you, Lena, forcapturing few people havemanaged to see. Thank youfor finally understanding thetrials of getting a liberal artseducation, and trying to fig-ure out what the hell you’redoing with your life.

ain’t got no money for thatHBO nonsense).

For those who don’t know,“Girls” is a weekly ½ hour-long show about 4 friends liv-ing in their young 20’s livingin New York City. Lena Dun-ham’s depiction of life post-undergrad, of that time that issupposed to be “the best timeof your life,” is funny and un-expected. It’s quirky, but notin a self-conscious, ZooeyDeschanel, way. It’s addict-ing. And, most of all, it’s hon-est. It’s like the real version ofSex and the City, where thefemale leads are students, orworking low-wage jobs, orliving off of their parents in-stead of living in a glitzyManhattan apartment andbanging the hottest and rich-est men available.

Some of what goes on inthe show is shocking, leavingme unsure of whether tolaugh because it is just soridiculous. But that is what

I started watching “Girls”because I liked Lena Dun-ham’s tattoos, and becauseshe beat Amy Poehler andTina Fey (two of my favoritepeople ever) at the GoldenGlobes.

Within five days, I had fin-ished watching the entire firstseason and the season twopremiere online. Now, Ispend my week anxiouslyawaiting Sunday nights, whensome internet god will uploadthe latest episode on a free t.v.website (let’s be honest, I

Holla at cho “Girls”

Your feet and meBY ANONYMOUS into a gas station barefoot

and think, “If it is goodenough for Britney, it is goodenough for me”?

You are not BritneySpears, foot washers, andeven if you were I would stillsuggest you use the footbath.I do not know what it is aboutthis school and feet, but theyare everywhere. Bare feetpropped up on library chairsin the summer. People walk-ing around in socks duringcolder months. And now, feetin the bathroom. I really justcannot take it anymore.

I do not have podophobia(fear of feet). It is just thatfeet are arguably the grossestbody part on a human. Morethan that, you need to respectpeople’s space. And you needto start doing it immediately,before you fall or catch somenasty virus from walkingaround the bathroom bare-foot.

have been because I waswearing jeans at the time, butthat is another issue).

I felt very unbalanced, andI quickly saw how someonecould easily fall. I wonder,has there ever been a lawsuitagainst the University from astudent who fell trying towash their feet in the sink?Perhaps that is why there aresigns posted on the bathroommirrors politely asking peo-ple to use the footbath. It is adisclaimer of sorts.

But still, it does not work.People see the sign and re-main undeterred. And if theyare not lifting their feet upinto the sink (which I haveseen, and shuddered at), theyare standing barefoot with athin piece of paper towel pro-tecting them from the germsof the tiled floor.

I don’t know where peoplecame up with this idea. Didthey see Britney Spears go

I do not know why peopleinsist on washing their feet inthe sink when there is a verynice footbath just a few feetdown the hall. It was con-structed purposely so peoplepreparing for prayer couldhave a comfortable place towash their feet in private. Ihave been in it, and it is actu-ally pretty nice - there is aplace to sit, there are severalsettings on the little shower-head, and the foot dryer inthere is pretty effective.Overall, I think it is a greatalternative to washing yourfeet in the sink.

Just as I tried out theschool’s footbath, I tried thealternative method of wash-ing my feet in the sink. Ifound it really hard to actu-ally get my foot up over theedge of the counter and intothe sink (although this might

Shaming yourself to thin

BY KRISTEN GOLEMBIEWSKIOPINIONS EDITOR

Last week, I stumbled uponan article on the TODAYHealth blog that discussed onebioethicist’s plan to eradicateobesity. Apparently, the bestway to do so is to just shamethe hell out of obese peopleuntil they can’t take it any-more and they decide to getthin.

Dr. Daniel Callahan, a sen-ior research scholar and pres-ident emeritus of TheHastings Center, is recom-mending that in addition to in-creasing education and cuttingdown on the marketing of un-healthy foods, we must in-crease the societal pressure oneveryone who doesn’t havethe correct BMI.

He suggests public postersthat read “If you are over-weight or obese, are youpleased with the way that youlook?” and explains that hequit smoking when societalpressure skyrocketed andshamed him out of the nastybehavior.

Dr. Deb Burgard, a psy-chologist specializing in eat-ing disorders, said it perfectly:“Deciding whether to smokeor not is a behavior,” she said.“The weight your body is isnot a behavior.”

But if he’s going to suggestthat fat-shaming increase, Ihave to ask – has this manever seen television?

There is no greater instru-ment of shame than the televi-sion, on which almosteveryone has a perfect bodyand attention is regularlycalled to those who don’t. Weeven have shows designed tohumiliate fat people and makethe thin count their blessings.If shaming people to thinnessworked, The Biggest Loserwould have only lasted oneseason and Jillian Michaelswould be totally irrelevant.

If shaming people to thin-ness worked, we wouldn’thave TLC (which, ironicallyenough, stands for The Learn-ing Channel, but now onlyfeatures shows like HereComes Honey Boo Boo).Why are Americans so ob-sessed with the overweightand obese? We thrive onTLC’s myriad of fat-peopleprogramming like My 600Pound Life, Obese and Ex-pecting, 600-Pound Mom:Race Against Time, Half-TonKiller – and that was only thefirst page of Google search re-sults for “TLC, obese”.

I’ve never seen any of theseshows, but I can tell you thatthey’re made for us to gawkat, mouth agape, as we won-der how someone could get sofat they can’t fit through thedoor. No one in these showsever looks good or happywhen they’re overweight.They’re portrayed as nasty,unclean, and undeserving oflife. I just don’t think that peo-ple’s bodies should be judgedin that way for our entertain-

ment. We don’t watch thoseshows because we’re rootingfor those people. No, wewatch them so we can feelbetter about ourselves.

And whenever peoplechampion the cause of obesity,they’re just doing it to makethemselves feel better. Dothese people really think thatoverweight individuals don’tknow that fruits and vegeta-bles are healthier thanprocessed foods? Have these“activists” ever thought thatmaybe overweight peopledon’t necessarily have the re-sources to go out and purchasehealthy foods and prepare ameal from them? Maybe theyshould focus a little less on re-stricting the size of Big Gulpsand try and make healthy foodmore accessible.

Or maybe, just maybe, theyshould consider the possibilitythat overweight people canlive happy, fulfilling lives.Perhaps, despite weighingmore than twice the averageperson, there are those whohave done what so few of usthin people are capable of –they’ve just decided to startloving themselves, rolls andall. Really, their situationdoesn’t matter – I don’t care ifthey’re overweight because ofgenetics, food, or their ownpersonal choice. It’s betweenthem and their doctor, and Ireally don’t see why othersfeel the need to be involved.

Because as any teenagegirl, battered by images ofsuper-thin women on the dailywill tell you, shaming peopleis not how you cure obesity.

That’s how you cause aneating disorder.

Forget Barbie“I’d like to see a femalesoldier doll in combat.”

US military and as combat-ants.

So yes, this is a lovely stepforward. But it didn’t comeabout naturally. It came aboutbecause a group of womenwho had fought in combat inthe US military filed a lawsuitagainst the Department of De-fense because they weren’trecognized along with theirmale counterparts. And I thinkthis says a lot. It says that oursociety as a whole will notmove forward with progresstoward equality between thesexes on its own; it has to bepushed. This means that noone will give out equality toanyone; it has to be pried andpulled out of the hands of thepeople trying to maintain thestatus quo. It also says that thegovernment is far behind thetimes – men don’t have prob-lems fighting side by side withwomen in the military, so whyshould the government outlawit? Or is this just another wayof individuals forcing equalityout of the hands of the govern-ment?

For anyone who believesthis isn’t a good idea: why? Isit because you think womenare physically weaker thanmen and incapable of fightingon the front lines? They havebeen fighting side by side withmen. For years. During boththe Iraq and Afghanistan

Earlier in the week, thePentagon made a landmarkdecision to lift the ban onwomen fighting in combat inthe US military. This ban hasbeen in place legally since1994, although prior womendid not fight on the front lines.In the last two wars we’vegotten involved in – Iraq andAfghanistan – around 20,000have fought in combat, withover 100 dying and hundredsothers finding themselveswounded. Now, the US mili-tary will allow women tolegally fight on the front lines.

What does this mean? Thismeans that the US govern-ment and Defense Departmenthave been way behind in thegame. For years, in both wars,women have fought in combatand risked their lives alongwith their brothers. This alsomeans that institutional sex-ism in the US military interms of fighting and combatis coming to an end. This isn’tto say that sexism in the USmilitary will cease to exist; itjust means that this form ofsexism will not be institution-alized anymore. This indicatesthat women can legally dowhat they’ve always beendoing, and the Department ofDefense won’t put restrictionson their movements as US sol-diers. This allows the Depart-ment of Defense to seesoldiers, not male and femalesoldiers. This also means thatwomen can now be recog-nized for their sacrifices in the

BY MARYANNE RAFKASTAFF COLUMNIST

Wars. They have fought andsacrificed just like men. Andnot even in wars, but in pro-fessions, in manual labor,women have been able to doanything men have been ableto do. Also, there’s that wholething about a woman pushingyou out of her F******BODY. That isn’t something aweak person can do. So…whyare there people who don’t be-lieve it was a good decision bythe Department of Defense tolift the ban on women fightingin combat? In fact, bigger,broader question: why is sex-ism still even a thing? Womenare weaker? WRONG.Women aren’t as smart.WRONG. Women are betterat certain things and bad atother things. WRONG.Women just “don’t have thequalities.” What qualities? Ed-ucation, physical strength,concentration, mental abili-ties…women don’t havethose? WRONG. There isnothing fit for a man that isn’tfit for a woman. And if youask me, anyone willing to jointhe military, get the training,and risk their life for me andyou – regardless of whetherthey’re a man or a woman –deserves all the praise andrecognition we have to offer.Yes, she may be a woman. Butshe’s a US soldier and she cankick your ass.

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BY ALEXANDRA WEESTAFF COLUMNIST

A Wee BitHungry

The power of the potato

Even through wool hatsand mittens, double socks,and jackets zipped chin-high,Michigan’s frosty winds cannip bitterly from nose to toes.And with the infectious win-ter bug that’s been roamingaround, staying immune is asmuch of a feat as is stayingwarm.

Behold the solution—sweet potatoes.

The potato family, thoughfew give its members propercredit as nutrient-packedstarches and adventurouslyversatile vegetables, is a pow-erful one. Aside from theiroften forgotten health bene-fits, potatoes can be sliced,diced, baked and fried,boiled, steamed, mashed orwhipped into a pie however

fancied. The best thing aboutthe sweet potato, however, isnot its bursting beta-carotene,anti-inflammatory agents orantioxidants, but its simplesweetness. Plus, to garnishthings off, the sweet potatohas even been named one ofthe top immune-boostingfoods, amongst garlic, tea andMom’s chicken noodle soup.And you thought you’d neverlove your vegetables.

Thanks to the SmittenKitchen food blog—that Iwill forever drool over andbow down to—here is an easyway to get your sweet potatofill, kick up your body’sdefense against the sniffles,and turn up the heat.

Roasted Spiced SweetPotatoes

1 teaspoon coriander seeds

1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds1/2 teaspoon dried oregano1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon dried

hot red pepper flakes (totaste)

1 teaspoon kosher salt2 pounds medium sweet

potatoes3 tablespoons vegetable oil

Preheat oven to 425°F.Coarsely grind coriander, fen-nel, oregano, and red pepperflakes with a mortar and pes-tle. Stir together spices andsalt.

Cut potatoes lengthwiseinto 1-inch wedges. Tosswedges with oil and spices ina large roasting pan and roastin middle of oven 20 minutes.

Turn wedges over with aspatula and roast until tenderand slightly golden, 15 to 20minutes more.

Django is Dynamite BY VALERIE MERCIERGUEST WRITER

Taking place just two yearsbefore the Civil War, the filmstarts off with a bountyhunter, Dr. King Schultz(Christoph Waltz), lookingfor the Brittle brothers, andDjango (Jamie Foxx) wasseparated from his wife(Kerry Washington) becauseof them. Bringing Djangoalong with him to identify theBrittle brothers,

Dr. Schultz teaches him abit about his profession as abounty hunter. After takingcare of the Brittle brothers,Dr. Schultz asks Django ifhe’d like to partner up, butDjango is determined to findhis wife Broom Hilda.

Schultz, feeling obligatedto help Django, agrees to helphim find his wife on theCandie land plantation ownedby the notorious, and creepy,Calvin Candie played byLeonardo DiCaprio.

If you don’t like blood,what else were you reallyexpecting from a Tarantinomovie? Tarantino again hitsjust the right amount ofcheesy, funny, serious, andextremely bloody. And fol-lowing the three hour trend,it’s a little over two and a halfhours.

But again, I have no idea

what I’d want them to cut,because it’s all fantastic. Youhonestly don’t realize thatyou’re sitting there for thatlong until you look at the timeas you’re leaving the theater.It can get serious, but it canalso get seriously funny. Ofcourse I have the twistedsense of humor that Tarantinocaters to.

Everyone is spectacular inthis movie, it’s hard to pickone person that’s at the top oftheir game; but Jamie Foxxhasn’t been this spectacularsince Ray, and it’s annoyingthat he wasn’t nominated foranything this time around.

That’s the award shows foryou. Samuel L. Jackson alsoshould have been nominatedfor best supporting male actoras the annoyingly loyal“Uncle Tom” character. KerryWashington got the shaft on

her portrayal of Broom Hilda,because although seeming tobe the damsel in distress, sheplays it with strength.

Christoph Waltz doesdeserve his Oscar nod,because he’s a spectacularactor, but so far I’ve neverseen him in anything wherethe audience is rooting forhim.

One person that will winfor sure, is Tarantino. Writinga spectacular script for theseactors to flesh out, and con-tinue being incredible. Hewent back to his roots in thismovie, after the kind of artsyturn that Inglorious Bastardstook, with more blood and thebest action movie you’ll seeall year.

Script writers somehowfind it hard to give actionmovies a soul, but Django hasit all.

“Script writerssomehow find it

hard to give actionmovies a soul, butDjango has it all”

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Motor City on the MoveDeroit Media Partnership

BY CHRIS ZADOROZNYSPORTS EDITOR@ZADS07

Just last week, it wasannounced that the DetroitFree Press and Detroit Newswill be moving to a new loca-tion, yet to be determined, inDowntown Detroit sometimein the next 12-18 months.

It was a shock to many asthe Detroit News buildinghas been a beacon of journal-ism for the past 96 years.Originally designed byAlbert Kahn, architect ofmany famous Detroit build-ings, it was opened in 1917and has housed the FreePress since 1998.

Before coming into theNews building, the FreePress was housed just a cou-ple of blocks away in theirAlbert Kahn designed DetroitFree Press Building. It stillsits abandoned to this daydespite recent rumors of apossible sale.

The Detroit MediaPartnership (DMP), whichoperates as an umbrellaorganization overseeing allbusiness operations for boththe News and Free Press. Theplan is to move out within thenext year and even if theydon’t have a buyer for thebuilding, along with the adja-cent parking structure andlots.

According to their pressrelease, they plan on stayingin Detroit, preferablyDowntown Detroit orMidtown, but other areas arebeing looked at.

The DMP employs over

1,500 people, 600 of whichwork downtown. This newscame as a shock to many. Thereasoning for the move ismeant to downsize and find amore formidable space forboth papers with the digitalage now being very impor-tant to journalism.

Many of the rooms thatreporters work in today areconverted from old news-rooms and printing pressareas. All of the printing isdone at the Sterling HeightsPrinting Plant.

So now the speculationbegins on to where the DMPwill move. In the past year,Dan Gilbert, chairman andfounder of Quicken Loans,

has brought up numerousproperties in DowntownDetroit.

He owns nearly everythingsurrounding Campus MartiusPark, and buildings and park-ing structures in every direc-tion from CMP.

So what exactly doesGilbert own at this point?Well, along with his head-quarters in the CompuwareBuilding, he also owns theQube (formerly known as theChase Building), FirstNational Building, ChryslerHouse (formerly known asthe Dime Building), and OneWoodward Ave., just to namea few of the buildings heowns.

He’s currently working ondeal to buy 1001 WoodwardAve., known as GalaxieSolutions Building that fea-tures the “Outscore toDetroit” sign.

At this point, it’s safe tosay Downtown Detroit couldbe a magical place to be inthe next 10 years or so.Detroit is going to have alight rail (trolley) line fromthe river all the way upWoodward to New Center,privately funded by Gilbertand many other executives.

But where will the DMPend up? That will be up forspeculation for the next yearor so as they begin to look forplaces to move to or heck,

even build, although that willprobably be out of the ques-tion. The best bet is that theDMP will end up somewherearound Campus Martius Parkin a Gilbert owned building.Don’t be surprised to see1001 Woodward the newhome for DMP. It’s a modernskyscraper built in the 1960sthat is 25-stories tall and has290,000 square feet of space.

If they don’t end up there,expect something still mod-ern, ground-floor, or a cou-ple of floors near or aroundCampus Martius Park if theydecide to stay in DowntownDetroit. It’s an unfortunateturn of events for the AlbertKahn News Building, but it’sgood for the future of jour-nalism in the city of Detroit.

Photo Courtesy of wikipedia.orgThe Detroit Free Press moved into the News building from their former headquarters in 1998.

Photo Courtesy of Chris Zadorozny/MJA prospective site for the Detroit Media Partnership

Let The Record SpinYo La Tengo

BY YARA BEYDOUNSTAFF COLUMNIST

Yo La Tengo is anAmerican indie rock band,which originally comprisedof the married couple IraKaplan and Georgia Hubleywho later on joined forceswith James McNew. Besidesindie rock, the band has beenlabeled as having variousrock styles such as experi-mental rock, noise pop,alternative rock and dreampop. On their 13th LP, Fade,the group takes a much soft-er route as the sounds aresweet, serene and sometimesa bit psychedelic.

This LP, about staying thecourse despite the hardship,opens with the vibrant track“Ohm.” With diffusion inthe background, lots ofstrings are played (as inmost of this LP) whileGeorgia plays on her drums.The trio harmonize (prettyfitting for the track nameeh?) as they sing,“Sometimes the bad guyscome out on top/ Sometimesthe good guys lose/ We trynot to lose our hearts.”

Ira sings very softlythroughout the rest of theLP; he almost whispers. It’squite soothing however can,at times, become quite rest-less for the listener.

In the track “Cornelia andJane,” Georgia takes leadvocals—and executes beau-tifully. The song is aboutwatching a loved one in

pain, yet not being able tohelp, “I hear them whisper-ing, they analyze/ But noone knows what’s lost inyour eyes.” This song ismost likely about howGeorgia felt during a recenthealth scare that landed Irain the hospital.

Overall, Fade is quitebeautiful. Yo La Tengoproves to be at the head ofthe pack in consistentlyreleasing great LPs as theychange and manipulate theirsound to stay fresh. Fanswho are familiar with theirharder sounds will bepleased to hear a softer side.

Key tracks: “Ohm,” “IsThat Enough,” “Well YouBetter,” “Cornelia andJane.” “Before We Run.”

After nearly a decade,legend David Bowiereleased a new single off ofhis latest album, The NextDay, which is said to bereleased in March. Thetrack, “Where Are WeNow?” is a somber tune setin Berlin. In the middle ofthe city, Bowie reflects onthe past as he refers to him-self as “a man lost in time.”But as the piano gets louder,Bowie sings of hope as hebasks in the sun. Bowie fansmust approach this tune withan understanding that Bowieis simply maturing in hissound. The man who con-nected with the outcasts isstill there, but is only a bitolder.

THQ Assets AuctionedOff

Following a 22-hour auc-tion, several THQ proper-ties have been picked up byrival companies, includingSaints Row developerVolition, THQ Montreal,and Relic Studios.

After years of financialtroubles, THQ (one of thefour major U.S. game com-panies) announced onDecember 19th of last yearthat it had filed for Chapter11 bankruptcy. Originally,THQ had intended to keepthe company whole byentering into an AssetPurchase Agreement withClearlake Capital Group,who essentially wouldacquire all of THQs assets.However, a formal objec-tion to the sale filed bycreditors and trustees wasbrought before the U.S.bankruptcy court, which"granted a motion to

approve a sale of the major-ity of THQ’s assets to mul-tiple buyers."

The auction ended onTuesday last week and allasset purchases are stillpending court approval, butresults are as follows:

Koch Media (owner ofDead Island publisher DeepSilver) purchased SaintsRow and its developerVolition, as well as publish-ing rights to sci-fi franchiseMetro, for $28.1 million.

Turtle Rock Studios in-development project, code-named Evolve, was pickedup for $11 million by TakeTwo (parent company ofGrand Theft Auto developerRockstar).

Crytek (developers ofCrysis) purchased theHomefront franchise for$500,000. Crytek is alsocurrently in development ofHomefront 2.

Relic Studios, developerof Company of Heroes 2

and Warhammer 40,000:Dawn of War, was pur-chased by SEGA for $26.6million.

THQ Montreal studiosand the publishing rights forSouth Park: The Stick ofTruth were picked up byUbisoft for $5.7 million.

Though these franchiseshave a new home, fans willnotice that a number ofTHQ favorites are absentfrom this list, includingDarksiders, Destroy AllHumans!, and Red Faction.However, in a recent inter-view with Game Informer,former THQ presidentJames Rubin confirmed thefate of these and all otherunsold properties. “Therewill be a separate process tosell off the back catalog andIP,” Rubin said. “Thatprocess will take place inthe coming weeks.” No stu-dio has officially announcedtheir interest in the leftoverproperties yet, but a recenttweet suggests that VigilGames and the Darksidersfranchise may soon have anew home. According toKotaku, Platinum Gameshead Atsushi Inaba took totwitter following the auc-tion and said: "In THQ stu-dio and IP selling off auc-tion, Darksiders is unsold?[We] wanna buy it...on thecheap...". While this is farfrom an official offer, it’sstill a ray of hope for theTexas-based studio. As forthe back catalog process, anofficial date has yet to beset, but additional informa-tion is expected to beannounced soon.

For additional informa-tion and further details intothe THQ auction, visitign.com.

BY AARON YNCLANGUEST WRITER

Photo Courtesy of wikipedia.orgThe Detroit News Building has been home to journalism for 96 years.

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Opportunity Scholarship Interviews8 a.m. - 4 p.m.Kochoff Hall UC

The Michigan Journal/7

Tuesday - January 29

MALS Speaker Series: Careers in theHumanites and Social Sciences6:10 p.m. - 8 p.m.1072 CASL

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Saturday - February 2

Friday - February 1‘Hidden Voices’ bringsawareness to LGBT Muslims

This pas t Thursday,the Off ice of S tudentEngagement hos ted anevent tha t could be eyeopening for many s tu-dents on our campus .Spec ia l gues t speakerFaisa l Alam vis i ted ourcampus to br ing to l ighta s i len t and o therwiseinvisible community andthe s t ruggles they share.

Fa isa l Alam is an ac-t ivis t , wri ter, and organ-izer that has faced manydi ff icu l t ies as a gayMusl im and having tohide h is sexual ident i tyfor years in fear of ta r-n ish ing h is re l ig iousident i ty.

When he was jus t 19years o ld , Alam s ta r tedan emai l d i scuss iongroup for LGBT Mus-l ims where they coulddiscuss i ssues tha t theya l l had in common in asafe environment. I t wasthe f i r s t in te rne t baseddiscuss ion group andwas a great s tep towardthe br inging th i s com-muni ty in to the l igh tand le t t ing o thers knowthat they are not a lone.

“ I thought I was the

only gay musl im when Igrowing up,” Alam men-t ions in h is presenta-t ion.

This discussion groupled to the Fi rs t In terna-t iona l Ret rea t for Gay,Lesbian , Bisexual andTransgender Musl imswhere the theme of there t rea t was Al-Fa t ihawhich means “The Be-ginning” or “The Open-ing” . The theme caughton and became the nameof the organiza t ion tha tsupports Musl im LGBT.The miss ion of the or-ganiza t ion as s ta ted byAlam is to “provide sup-por t and to empowerLGBT Musl ims who aretrying to reconci le theirsexual or ien ta t ion orgender ident i ty wi ththeir rel igion.” As a vol-unteer d i rec tor of theorganizat ion himself ,

Alam has t raveled notonly across the count rybut around the world top laces such as NewDelhi , London, andBangkok.

In h is presenta t ion ,Alam uses h is own l i feexperiences to i l lustratethe s t ruggles sexual andgender minori t ies withinthe Musl im wor ld face

and how re l ig ion andsexual i ty cont inue to be“cont rovers ia l” or“ taboo” subjec ts . Thepresenta t ion “HiddenVoices : The Lives ofLGBT Musl ims” hasbeen fea tured a t morethan 100 univers i t iesand co l leges and a tmany o ther events

across the country.This presenta t ion

br ings a d i ffe ren t per-spective on an otherwises i len t communi ty. Formore information on hispresenta t ion , or to f indout where he wi l l bespeaking next you canvis i t www.hidden-voices . info

BY LESLIE WENDLOWSKYSTAFF WRITER

I have loved the De-troi t Red Wings as longas I can remember. Iwatch near ly every s in-gle game, and i f I ’m nota t home screaming a tthe TV wi th my dad ,then I’m l is tening to theradio or ca tch ing Twi t -ter updates .

I f I ’m lucky I mayeven go to the Joe LouisArena to watch my boysplay l ive . This pas tweekend, my dad wasgrea t enough to buy ust icke ts las t minute tothe game aga ins t theWild.

In fac t , every Wingsgame I ’ve ever been tohas been wi th my dad .From my f i r s t game a tthe young age of s ix toth is pas t weekend, ahockey game i sn’t ahockey game unless I ’mwatching i t wi th him.

Las t Fr iday, we madethe fami l ia r walk in toJoe Louis . The c rowdwas pre t ty b ig , and aswe were passing throughsecur i ty, my dad and Igot separa ted . He wentthrough secur i ty as Iwas s tuck a t the doorwi th a worker and afau l ty t icke t scanner. Is tood in the doorwayand couldn’t he lp butth ink , “ IS THIS REALLIFE?”

I impat ien t ly s toodwhi le the man repea t -ed ly t r ied to scan myt icke t , and I ye l led formy dad to wai t , bu t ofcourse he couldn’t hearme through the crowd.

I could see him frant i -cal ly looking around forme. He was sp inning incircles , dodging throughthe throng of fans tof ind me. I ’m not sureI ’ve ever fe l t so lovedin my l i fe because hewas c lear ly panickedtha t he’d los t h i s l i t t l egir l (who is actual ly a l -most 21) .

Af te r the longes tminute and a half of myl i fe , the worker f ina l lygot my t icke t to scan ,and I ran towards my fa-ther who s t i l l hadn’tspot ted me. Once Ipopped up next to h im,he grabbed me and bab-b led on and on abouthow he thought I ’d beenkidnapped.

We made our way toour seats as I explainedthe s tupid t icke t scan-ner, and how I had seenhim f ran t ica l ly search-ing the crowd for me.

“Well , i t feels good tobe loved , doesn’t i tk id?” my dad had sa id .And obvious ly, i t does ,but I was jus t happy tobe at a Wings game withhim.

In the row in front ofus , a l i t t le gir l who was

probably s ix years o ldwas there wi th her dad .I couldn’t help but smilebecause i t reminded meof my f i r s t game. Shewas qui te l i t e ra l ly s i t -t ing on the edge of hersea t and bouncingaround.

During the second pe-r iod in te rmiss ion , thel i t t le gir l ’s father got upf rom his sea t and le f this daughter behind.

The man was gone theent i re twenty minute in-te rmiss ion . I could seetears wel l ing in thechi ld’s eyes because shewas obviously scared.

She kept tu rn ingaround in her sea t andmaking smal l t a lk wi thme. Yes , a s ix year o ldwas making smal l t a lk .She even to ld me shel iked my headband andasked me i f I thoughtZet te rberg was a goodcaptain or a “fathead.”

I kept ta lk ing to herto keep her f rom feel ingso abandoned. I hon-es t ly couldn’t imaginebeing le f t a lone a t agame at my age now, le ta lone s ix years old.

My dad was obviouslyjus t as concerned wi ththe chi ld’s wel l being asI was; especial ly s ince arow of th i r ty year o lddrunks behind us werescreaming obsceni t iesloud enough for her toplainly hear.

When there was thir tyseconds lef t in the inter-miss ion , the dad ap-peared with a beer in hishand (h is th i rd of thenight , by the way) .

Honest ly, i t d isgustedme that this dude had noproblem leaving h is s ixyear o ld a lone fortwenty minutes to grab abrewski . Parent ing, youare doing i t WRONG,sir.

I don’t have chi ldren,but I do have pre t tygreat parents . I ’ve beena nanny for near ly threeyears , so obvious ly Iknow how chi ldrenshould be t reated.

Cons ider ing thetragedy at Newtown, i f Ihad a ch i ld , I wouldn’tdare leave them alone inan unknown envi ron-ment for twenty secondsle t a lone twenty min-utes .

I know this is going tosound l ike a no brainer,bu t i f you have k ids ,take care of them. I fyou’re jus t a k id your-se l f , be thankfu l i f yousee your parents f ren-z ied ly looking for youin a crowd.

Take care of the peo-p le you care about be-cause not every s t rangerwould kindly keep a six-year-o ld company unt i lyou wal tz back from thebeer l ine.

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Faisal Alam visited UM-Dearborn last Thursday to discuss being gay in theMuslim community.

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‘Vagina! An In/Equality Event’ discusses woman empowerment

Vagina . I t ’s a ra therloaded word . Chancesare that if you have beenaround campus this pastweek , you have seensevera l pos ters hung upwi th the word promi-nently featured on them.Which begs the quest ion– why?

As a precursor to theevent known as theVagina Monologues ,“VAGINA! An In/Equal-i ty Event” wi l l be he ldf rom 2:30-5 :00 p .m. inKochoff Hal l A & B, as

wel l as the Univers i tyCenter s tage.

“The event i s meantto be an interact ive andcreat ive presentat ion bya campus organiza t ionabout a soc ia l i s sue in-volving equal i ty or lackthereof ,” says Jess icaMul l , the event organ-izer.

Accord ing to Mul l ,about a dozen organiza-t ions wi l l se t up tab lesand par t ic ipa te a t theevent . Among them areWomen in Learning andLeadersh ip , Voice forChoice , the PsychologyClub, The Vagina Mono-logues Cas t , PRIDE,

Del ta Phi Eps i lon , andVis ta Mar ia . She a l soment ioned tha t in addi -t ion to the i r par t ic ipa-t ion , a sc reening of thedocumentary “Hal f theSky” wi l l t ake p lace ,which i s “a very com-pel l ing f i lm aboutwomen throughout thewor ld and i ssues theyface.”

The Vagina Mono-logues & Our State

The Vagina Mono-logues, an episodic playabout women’s empow-erment , has recent lytaken l ight in our s ta te ,as cont rovers ia l s ta te

AMA travels to Chicagofor agency tours

The American Marketing Association at the University of Michigan-Dear-born visited Chicago on January 18-20 to tour various companies.

According to Alex Murray, AMA president, the group toured various coma-panies in the advertising industry including Leo Burnett and AMA NationalHeadquarters.

“Going to Chicago was an excellent opportunity to show members the vastcareer possibilities a marketing degree gives you and gave us a chance to com-mend ourselves on the hard work we've put into events, fundraising, develop-ment of members, and so on thus far,” Murray said.

Murray added that the trip allowed students to witness professionals at workalong with getting tips from employees.

leg is la t ion regard ingwomen’s r ights has wentthrough our s ta te Con-gress . Accord ing toWXYZ, Michigan Sta teRepresenta t ive LisaBrown was banned frompublicly speaking in theHouse back in June2012 because she usedthe term “vagina.”

Representat ive Browntold WXYZ, “Theybanned me f rom speak-ing because I dared sayvagina , the cor rec t ,medica l name of a par tof a woman’s ana tomythese lawmakers are t ry-ing to regulate.” So, EveEnsler, the Tony Award-winning playwright whoconceived the p lay, de-c ided to br ing a specia lperformance of the playstraight to the MichiganCapi to l . Ens le r wantedto br ing the banning ofBrown to l igh t , andshow Michigan leg is la -tures and cons t i tuents

that the use of the word“vagina” is necessary toconvey one’s message .In this case, conveying amessage about women’sr ights in the a t tempt topass a controversial bi l lregarding abort ion.

The p lay, in addi t ionto be ing a fundra is ingtool for char i t ies , i sused to educa te peopleregarding the several is-sues women must faceregard ing the i r sexual -i ty, r igh ts , oppor tuni-t ies , and wor th .Rela tab le and com-pel l ing s tor ies aboutwomen are g iven as ex-amples to the audiencein hopes tha t they areable to convey the mes-sage of how impor tan tgender equali ty is and tomake one consider whati t means to them.

Bringing The IssueTo Light at UM-D

VAGINA! is meant to

expand and promote thetype of educat ion that isconveyed in the VaginaMonologues. The goal isfor people to cons ideri ssues tha t they a re e i -ther unaware of ormaybe someth ing theymay not th ink of as anissue.

Mull s t ressed, “I t wasimportant to me that wehave an event on cam-pus tha t promoted th i stype of thought in alarge, varied, interestingway.”

Af ter the event , the2013 ed i t ion of theVagina Monologues wil ltake p lace in 1500 SSB(Socia l Sc ience Bui ld-ing) a t 6:30 p.m.

So, take a walkthrough the event andsee what ins ights thedi ffe ren t UM-D organi-za t ions have to offe r.Open minds a re mostcer ta inly welcome!

The Union presents‘Midnight Madness!’

The Union is present-ing Midnight Madnessth is Thursday, January31, f rom 6-12 pm insideThe Union cons t ruc t ions i te . S tudents can walkaround and see the pro-gress ion of the dorms.Park ing wi l l be in theres idency park ing lo touts ide The Union .There wil l be a DJ, f reefood, games, and prizes!So come on by!

“The Union i s a verybig deal for the Univer-s i ty of Michigan-Dear-born because i t i s anopportuni ty to make l i feeas ie r for s tudents oncampus,” says Steve Os-t ipow, General Managerof The Union.

Grea t dea ls and leasespecials wil l be offered.S tudents a t tending canrece ive ha l f o ff o f thereserva t ion fee i f theysign a lease before or a tthe event . There wi l la l so be informat ionabout paying co-pays in-s tead of ren t in the be-

g inning months of thelease unt i l s tudents re -ceive f inancial aid pack-age.

Like wi th every greatevent , there wil l be f reefood a t Midnight Mad-ness . Local res taurantswil l be there passing outsamples . Buffa lo WildWings wi l l be having awings cha l lenge wherestudents wil l t ry and eata l l e igh t f lavors of ho tsauces . The winner wi l lge t a Buffa lo WildWings gif t cer t i f icate .

The event wi l l havemany g iveaways! S tu-dents can par t ic ipa te inthe promo “Fi l l yoFridge” i f they get fourpeople to s ign a lease inthe days lead ing up tothe event . The s tudentswi l l then rece ive afr idge ful l of food whenthey move in to the i rdorm in the fal l .

Many games wi l l betak ing p lace as wel l .S tudents can p layMinute to Win I t gamesthroughout the night andwin t icke ts tha t can beplaced in to pr ize ja rs .Raff les wi l l be tak ing

place throughout thenight for i t ems f romhome goods to DVDs.The grand pr ize wi l l bea 32 inch TV that is onlyavai lab le for VIP s tu-dents who s ign up for alease before the day ofthe event . Other pr izesinc lude a Blu Rayplayer, an espresso ma-chine , Michigan gear,and a mini f r idge.

S tudents wi l l be ab leto have more p laces tohang out and more foodopt ions a t The Union .With more s tudents oncampus longer, s tudentl i fe wi l l explode . Morepeople wil l s t ick aroundcampus a f te r c lass in -s tead of dr ive home.

“With more peoplel iv ing in Dearborn , thelocal bus iness wi l l ben-ef i t as wel l , ” Os t ipowsays . Hopefu l ly Dear-born wil l t ransform intomore of a col lege town.“I t ’s cool to be a par t ofa project that impacts somany people ,” he says .The Union wil l be a wayto draw in more studentsto UM-D and br ing inmore businesses .

“The Union is a very big deal for the University of Michigan-Dearborn

because it is an opportunity to makelife easier for students on campus.”

- Steve Ostipow

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BY CHRIS ZADOROZNY

SPORTS EDITOR@ZADS07

UM-D and HFCC form partnership with wrestling programWrestling program expecting success from move

BY RICKY LINDSAYSTAFF REPORTER@RLINDZ35

The University ofMich igan -Dea r-born’s wrestling

program will attempt to reacha new level of success in thefall of 2013 with the additionof a club team at Henry FordCommunity College. Bothclubs will be coached by cur-rent UM-D head coach, GrantMacKenzie.

“We’ve received 100online recruiting forms frominterested student-athletes

since UM-D added wrestlingas a club sport in 2010,” saidMacKenzie. “One of the prob-lems we’ve had are the strictadmissions requirements UM-D adheres to.

Coach MacKenziehas encouraged interested stu-dents to attend HFCC first,then opting to transfer to UM-D after completing 24 credits.Now, interested students willhave the opportunity to wres-tle at either college while par-ticipating in the bridgeprogram.

“Wrestlers no longerhave to leave the local area if

wrestling is important tothem”, said MacKenzie.

Although both clubswill practice, travel together,and be coached by MacKen-

zie, they will participate sepa-rately in the meets. Both clubsmust wear their unique schoolcolor, as well as keep separatepoints during the meets.

Photo Credit: Grant Mackenzie/Head CoachThe Wolves and Hawks will practice together, but compete separately.

Support youth sports, they are the future

Over the past few weeks,I’ve attended a few highschool hockey games. Watch-ing the games made me thinkabout my life before collegeand how I participated insports.

I’ve only had theprivilege of going to thesehigh school hockey games be-cause the former Editor-in-Chief of The MichiganJournal, Sam Elliott, is now asports writer for The News-Herald, the local paper for theDownriver communities.

I’ve watched a few ofthese games and they have allbeen very competitive and en-tertaining. The games got methinking about my life as ahockey player when I wasyounger.

So many parents andfriends and families are mak-ing youth sports possible, andhaving children play sports isvital to not only their future,

but to society too.As a journalist, a

sports journalist specifically,there are so many leagues outthere that can’t be covered.Having the privilege to coversmaller leagues brings youcloser to that sport. I’m sure acouple of the beat writers onstaff would be able to tell youthat. Not everyone is going tobe able to cover professionalsports, but it doesn’t hurt tohave that dream.

My dream one day isto be covering the NHL as areporter or an analyst or evena scout for a team. What I’velearned so far is that you haveto work your way up from thebottom. It’s not always likethat, but from my history,that’s how it’s been.

Youth sports and thecoverage of them aren’t asprominent as you may think.It’s very unfortunate becauseit’s where a journalist startsout their young career. It’show we are able to get ournames out there.

The best thing aboutit is getting to know the peo-ple in the youth sports andlearning about the sport itself.It’s great too because whilelearning about the sport, youget to watch young kids hopeto one day make it profession-ally.

Most won’t, butthere’s nothing wrong withhelping them try and reachtheir dream of one day playing

in front of thousands of fansscreaming their names.

I loved playing infront of friends and familywhen I was younger. I lovedthat I felt like I could be a staron the ice and really look tomy teammates to make mebetter.

Looking back oneverything, what was evenbetter was my family support-ing me every year, buyingnew gear and coming togames. Heck, if it wasn’t formy grandpa, I probablywouldn’t love hockey the wayI do now.

So when you thinkabout the professional sportsthat we have today and all thestars that you idolize, thinkabout where they came from.Once upon a time, they werekids, same as you and I, tryingto learn a game that theyloved.

Go out and watch ahigh school hockey game,watch a game where you don’tknow all the players names oreven a league you have neverheard of. You never knowwhat you might see.

That player on the icecould be the next Wayne Gret-zky, or he could be another kidjust loving the game that heplays. Support youth sports,because you never know howfar that kindness will go inthat kids future.

Photo Credit: Sam Elliott/MJLast season, the Delt Sigs won it all.Who will win this year? The season

starts tonight!

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Intramural Broomball PreviewWinter 2013 season kicks off this week

BY ANDREW BARSONSTAFF REPORTER

Broomball season is backin action. After Delta SigmaPhi (ΔΣΦ) won it all in De-cember for the Fall 2012 sea-son, the Winter 2013 season isready to go.

Games will still be held onTuesday nights, but gameshave been switched fromThursday’s to Wednesday’sthis semester. Game timeshave also been changed tostart ten minutes earlier (10:20pm and 11:10 pm).

Looking back at lastregular season, HostileTakeover was the dominantforce with a 5-0 record as ofOctober 16, 2012. They barelybeat the Sports Heroes inovertime during their last reg-ular game, leaving them at 4-1.

Both teams were followedclosely by the Delt Sigs, TauKappa Epsilon (TKE), andBlue Barracudas with recordsof 3-2, 2-2-1, and 2-2-1, re-spectively.

As dominant as HostileTakeover was, the Delt Sigswere able to take them downin the first round of playoffs,proving that when in post sea-son, one’s accomplishments inthe regular season doesn’tmean a whole lot.

The remaining threeteams in the league are PhiSigma Phi (ΦΣΦ; 1-3-1), Dis-trict 5 (1-3-1), and Theta Tau(ΘΤ; 0-5).

Looking at their gameagainst District 5, Theta Taulooks like they could be amore formidable opponent toDistrict 5 and the Phi Sigs.Rumors of a ninth teamstarted circulating when the

winter semester started, but itappears that those rumorsturned out to be just that.

Now it comes downto who could be playing in thechampionship. In the Winter2013 semester, the champi-onship game could featureHostile Takeover againstDelta Sigma Phi as they moveto defend their title.

M a c K e n z i ehopes the partnershipwill increase UM-D’ssuccess as a program.

“UM-D hashad individual successwith wrestling, but the

ultimate goal is to have a suc-cessful team.”

Both clubs will holdpractices at Detroit Jiu Jitsu inDearborn, Michigan. The firstpractice will be held Tuesday,October 1, 2013 from 3:00p.m to 5:00 p.m.

For more informationon the wrestling program,look for the “Hawks andWolves Wrestling Club” onFacebook, or email coachMacKenzie atgrantmac@umd.umich.edu.Previous experience with thesport is not required to partic-ipate in the club.

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Men’s Basketball: Wolves sufferworst loss of season, trounced 62-12Lourdes delivers UM-D lowest point total in eight years

BY DAN JENKINSMEN’S BASKETBALLBEAT REPORTER@DJMICHJOURNAL

The Wolves Men’s basket-ball team fell in a roadmatchup on Saturday after-noon to the Lourdes GrayWolves, 62-21, the team’slowest score in over eight sea-sons.

UM-D (6-17, 4-11)fell flat on its face from thestart as Lourdes took a 30-9lead going into halftime. Theteam just couldn’t find an of-fensive rhythm and it resultedin a historically bad perform-ance.

Senior Julius Porterscored a team-high five pointsin the game on 2-14 shootingfrom the field. The 14.3%field goal percentage was byfar Porter’s lowest output ofthe season.

At one point, theWolves would go over 16minutes without converting ona basket. The team wasoutscored by 31 in hustlepoints (points off of turnoversand second-chance points).

The loss moves theWolves further away from thegoal of reaching the WHACTournament, now sitting fourgames outside of the eighthseed. The team has two more

games remaining against theteams immediately ahead ofthem, Northwestern Ohio(Jan. 31) and Siena Heights(Feb. 16).

The Wolves will lookto rebound at home on Tues-day night against MarygroveUniversity (Detroit). Tuesdaywill be Alumni Night; Anyformer basketball player whofills out an online profile forthe Wolves will be admittedfree of charge, and have achance to relive the glory dayswith old teammates prior tothe game at a short alumnievent. Photo Credit: Dan Jenkins/MJ

The Wolves suffered their worst loss of the season, and lowest point total in eight years. They will look to reboundtonight against Marygrove and hope to make the WHAC Tournament in February.

Men’s Basketball: WHAC Tournamentbegins February 21

Nationally ranked teams set to battle for conference crownBY DAN JENKINSMEN’S BASKETBALLBEAT REPORTER@DJMICHJOURNAL

It’s the time of year againwhere postseason basketball isalmost upon us. Before weknow it, March will be herewith hefty expectations forMichigan’s two premiere col-lege teams, the Wolverinesand Spartans.

Those fans that are lookingfor more of a home-grownbasketball experience can seesome local teams play somehigh quality basketball cometournament season. TheWolverine-Hoosier AthleticConference (WHAC) Tourna-ment starts on Feb. 21 andruns through the champi-onship game on Feb. 26.

The top eight seeds fromthe 12-team conference willqualify for the tournament;

this includes five teams fromMichigan. The #1 overall seedas of now is Davenport Uni-versity from Grand Rapids.Davenport is ranked #10 na-tionally in the NAIA Div. IIand won the WHAC tourna-ment last season.

This season’s biggest sur-prise has been Madonna Uni-versity from Livonia which iscurrently challenging Daven-port for first place in the con-ference. Earlier in the season,Madonna rattled off 10 winsin 11 games, including victo-ries against #6 Davenport and#12 Cornerstone (GrandRapids).

Madonna currently sits justone game behind Davenportfor first place. The top seedwill receive home-court ad-vantage throughout the con-ference tournament.

This season, Madonna hasbeen led by Rapid City, MI

native Travis Schuba, whoscored the 1,000th point of hiscollege career this season.Schuba became the secondMadonna player to score1,000 points, joining fellowguard Bobby Naubert.

Cornerstone, which haswon the last three WHAC reg-ular season titles, it having anuncommon down year, sittingin sixth place in the confer-ence with a 8-7 WHACrecord. Currently, three teamsare tied for sixth place withrecords of 8-7 (Cornerstone,Northwestern Ohio, andAquinas).

The final seven games ofthe season will have a largeimpact on which teams willget home-court advantage.Just two games separates thetop four teams.

Teams on the outside look-ing in include the Universityof Michigan-Dearborn, Mary-

Photo Credit: Wikipedia.orgThe WHAC Tournament will begin on February 21 and the winner will get a bid to the Division II Tournament.

grove College (Detroit) andLawrence Tech (Southfield).No teams are mathematicallyeliminated just yet, but theclock is ticking on teams thatare trying to keep their playoffhopes alive.

The regular season WHACchampion and the tournamentchampion will both receivebids to the NAIA Div. II Bas-ketball Tournament at PointLookout, Missouri at theKeeter Gymnasium. The

championship will concludeon Mar. 12.

The last WHAC team towin the Div. II championshipwas Cornerstone in 2011.

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What color Gatoradewill be dumped onthe winning coach?

Yellow Orange Red Orange Light Blue Green Orange Yellow Orange

How many times willit be referred to theHarbaugh Bowl?

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How long with thePostgame

Handshake last?

They opt for chestbumps instead

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1 minute 10 seconds 6.5 seconds 7.3 seconds

How many times willRay Lewis referenceGod after the game?

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ThisWeek’sSports

ScheduleTuesday,

January 28-Sunday,

February 3

Tuesday, January 28

Wednesday,January 29

Thursday,January 30

Friday, January 31

Saturday, February 1

Sunday, February 2

Monday, February 3

Women’s Basketball vs.

Marygrove College7:30pm

UM-D Fieldhouse

Men’sBasketball vs.

Marygrove College7:30pm

UM-D Fieldhouse

Women’s Basketball @University of

Northwest Ohio5:30pm

Men’sBasketball @University of

Northwest Ohio7:30pm

Hockey vs.Davenport University7:30pm

UM-D Fieldhouse

Women’s Basketball@ Cornerstone

1:00pmMen’s Basketball @Cornerstone 3:00pm

Hockey @ Daven-port 7:30pm

Wrestling @ LakerOpen

Hockey vs.Oakland University

7:30pm@ Allen Park Civic Arena