Thursday, June 12, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, June 12, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 15 Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com CENTRAL CAMPUS, FURNISHED rooms for students, shared kitch., ldry., bath., internet, summer from $400, fall from $575. Call 734-276-0886. STUDIO'S ONLY $1,195.00! *ONLY a Few Left* www.universitytowers-mi.com 536 S. Forest Ave. 734-761-2680 THESIS EDITING. LANGUAGE, organization, format. All Disciplines. 734/996-0566 or writeon@iserv.net REL-AoS vAT-- .nursay","une 1,'' Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis ACROSS DOWN 45 Summercamp 52 First National 1F*Plae to cuddle 1 Like acold stare ight, and a hint Leaguer to 5 Gash 2 Comes clean to what each hit 500 9 As well 3 Clothier's concem contiguous pair homers 13 Minnestaplayer 4 Med sch. class otanswemto 53 Game show 14 Dominoessanit 5 Disco device starred cloes tamn 15 False god 6 Benched player? graphically 55 "Star Wars" 16 Dcut symhols 7 Suhurban tree represent villain 18 Like some 81973 thrler 49 Mexican state or 57-esprit: wit audiobooks featuring Yul its capital 61 Stop, as an 19 Porter's "_ Girls" Brynner as an 51 "Ma is not free emargo 20 Scooby-Doo, e.. android gunman gnleas 63 Bedazzle 21 9sop 5Roughlp govemnment it 5 itS.MWaddres 23-esion 15 Knight of note limited" speaker 66 Phillies' div. attendee 11 Picnic ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE: r .25 "Memoirs o ste iesecompetton a 2'Gs 12T sme B I R D T A LK S S T L O Geishasash 1Lanremea I D T L S O L 26*Tendtothe 16Landmap ALAN AGENT OVEN garden 17 Gunk t OCABURGER DANE 27 Versatileblood 22Sympathetic A S K T O I S L E A N T S donor connection 29lImpede legally 24 Malicious REBSEBN T L E A F T 31 Areagwith 28eoretically S R I F W O E G G 1Aease t s 30 Picked-up item B E E T U C L A A P N E A adcss 32 Mars' meaim 33 n Arhor 340 Mrswandereri. OUR W E B U S E R N A P 35One maybe al148NatKing T R O T H M I T T D A R E rolledup Cole hit H O T A 1 R D I D S O 36 Tuberculivated 37 Bunny's mom I N P U T S I N G L E in the Andes 3itAus, as one's T I C K S 0 F A S T I L L 37 Memorized, welcome3ACAbI T Rn'sFCIACA F A T perhaps 39 Ussr-edited 41 Folicerecord referenceenty T O R N L O T T E R O M E 43 Egg: Pref. 40 Tyke n ANT I ESSAY Y E A R 44 Simple step 42 Leaderless? xwordeditor@aol.com 06/1214 - 46Word on a de oranilabel 1 2 3 4 5 5 7 7 9 10 11 12 47 Surprised cry ro a3 15 4Accommodae 50Contractdeais ivnre 54*Actor Phoenix 56 Gist 19 20 21 22 58 Fhlosophical 59 *Consolation for 23 24 25 2 one who doesn't stoke 27 2 29 s 31 32 60 macesite, 4 5 prhap 62 "Arabian Nights" r s 39 4 41 42 name 63 Just slightly a3s44 45 46 64 Foll of nonsnse talk 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 57 Undeitake 65 Germn wheels 54 5 m 56 57 58 69 *London rental 5 70 Rubbemeck 71 "Anger, fear, 64 aggression; the dark sideof the s68 69 Force are they" speaker on 17 72 *Lan peity rental By Don Gagliardo and C.C.Burnikel 00214 (c)2014Tribune Content Agency,LLC "PRIME" PARKING FOR SALE 2014-15 Great Locations: 721 S. Forest $1500 1320 S. University $1500 326 E. Madison-1 Pass $960 515 E. Lawrence $720 511 Hoover $720 508 S. Division $600 Parking for less than the rest! Call 734-761-8000 SUMMER PARKING BEHIND 420 Maynard St. $100/Mo. Call 734-418-4115 ext.1246 ORANGE From Page 6 direction, and if you have a semi- observant eye or just watch a lot of TV, you'll be able to map out the trajectory of a lot of subplots as soon as they appear. Case in point: as soon as we see a frazzled Polly walking topless around Larry and bemoaning her absent husband, it's inevitable that they're going to get together. In other plot arcs, this over-transparency is negated by a strong cast that picks up the predictable narrative structure's slack, but since Larry and Polly (especially together) offer no redeemable characterization, it was superfluous. Especially since these scenes take us out of the Lichtfield microcosm: Season Two integrates some ambitious commentary on institutional corruption(especially prescient with the recent news on the atrocious conditions at Riverhead correctional facility, where OINTB is shot) that felt absent last season. In one of the most poignant character arcs, and one that was constructed with surprising subtlety and restraint, Jimmy (Pat Squire) renders a wholly moving portrait of the dire mental health and geratric care afforded to inmates. That plotline feels more successful than Figueroa's (Alysia Reiner) money-laundering one, which falls into the heavy-handed problem, though it is reassuring to see the writers are equal opportunists about doling out cliches. However, the theme of external bureaucratic shuffling provides a smart foil to the building racial tensions that dominated Season Two, and the adjoining prison politics. In Season One, the prison milieu was too vast at times, and it evaded any interesting inter-group conflict (or just contact). The looming prison war that Season Two steadily builds up to addresses that problem. On the entertainment side, the show's comedic writing is sharper than ever. Not only in the acerbic prison one-liners (Piper's memorable line, "He's a hitman? I thought he was a rapist. I'm so relieved!"), but also the acerbic and far-reaching references peppered throughout (The Fault in the Stars, Louis Althusser, Big Pharma all get funny mentions) make the show undeniably watchable. But that was never OINTB's weak point. !NORTH CAMPUS 1-2 Bdrm. ! ! Riverfront/Heat/Water/Parking. ! ! www.HRPAA.com ! !NORTH CAMPUS 1-2 Bdrm. ! ! Riverfront/Heat/Water/Parking. ! ! www.HRPAA.com ! !!LG. RMS., Hill St. off State. Prkg. For Male. $525/mo. 845-399-9904 *LIMITED APARTMENTS LEFT* Don't miss out, get $810 in FREE RENT. Hurry in! This special can end anytime... University Towers www.universitytowers-mi.com 536 S. Forest Ave. 734-761-2680 *on select units* 8 MONTH LEASE for a Limited Time Rent a two bedroom remodeled apart- ment for 8 months. Callor email us today before they're all gone. 734-761-2680 www.universitytowers-mi.com ARBOR PROPERTIES Award-Winning Rentals in Kerrytown, Central Campus, Old West Side, Burns Park. Now Renting for 2014. 734-994-3157. www.arborprops.com he more data points, the better - ask any gradu- ate student. This is espe- cially true for statistical studies that draw infer- ences about a diverse popu- lation from a smaller subset of N individu- M als, where N YEE is referred to as the sample size. All else being equal, larger values of N lead to concomitant increases in the ability to detect the presence of an effect in a particular experi- ment. Intuitively, one might say that having more information available to the observer reduces uncertainty, and allows for more confidence in a conclusion well- supported by the evidence. It should come as no surprise then that just as we glorify stud- ies where N is large, so too do we demonize those with small N. As the sample size decreases, the faith we have in the experiment as a whole diminishes rapidly. Concerns mount about whether the group in question is represen- tative of the target population, as well as whether the results could have been due to chance alone. And what of the case srudy, the special situation where N=1? Scientists look askance at any attempt to generalize from a single data point. When N=1, what one has isn't an experiment at all, but an anecdote, an observa- tion which could just as easily be a fluke, an aberration, a coinci- dence. Perhaps this inherent distrust of low N is part of what makes issues surrounding the abuse of graduate students so hard to tack- le. Sequestered for days on end in lab, studio or office, away from friends, family and loved ones, the life of a graduate student can be intensely isolating. Randomly distributed across campus, blind- ed to the conditions under which their peers toil, graduate students are constantly running parallel experiments on themselves, with N=1, attempting to gauge whether the problems they must deal with on a daily basis are a result of extrinsic or intrinsic factors. The graduate student has a unique relationship with his or her advisor. As one's principal research investigator and some- times sole source of funding, the advisor is the hand that feeds, the eyes that read and the way to succeed, all at once. "Publish or perish," the saying goes; without clear delineation between work and non-work, between the end of one project and the beginning of the next, there can be substantial pressure on the graduate student to spend more and more time and effort in pursuit of an ever-mov- ing and possibly illusory goal. Where is the boundary between keeping one's trainees on task and overworking those entrusted to one's supervision? It's murky enough territory for the faculty advisor, but for the graduate student, that division can be quite indistinct. Though gathered en masse students often degenerate into complaints and commiseration, seldom do they air those concerns which truly trouble them, perhaps out of a fear of revealing a deeply-rooted intellectual or character flaw; enough graduate students grapple with "impostor syndrome" even outside times of stress. Are the difficulties that one encounters a reflection of the research or the researcher? For the individual, with N=1, it can be downright impossible to tell. Graduate students may be even more reluctant to speak up if they perceive there's a chance of retaliation, or if there is little expectation that definitive action will come of the complaint. What is known for certain is that abuse has far-reaching effects, contrib- uting to the increasingly recog- nized problem of depression on college campuses as well as the attrition and burnout that causes many students to switch advisors or leave their programs entirely. Though we have made great strides in combating exploitation, ridicule and neglect, much work remains to be done. For now, stu- dents remain vulnerable to mis- treatment, and small sample sizes make it difficult to gauge whether or not one's travails are "normal." For now, ambiguity aids the abu- sive and vagueness validates the vindictive. For now, the N justi- fies the mean. - Mike Yee can be reached at mayee@engin.umich.edu. couple bikes past my window,tlollipops jangling in their mouths. It's summer-gray > in Michigan, . and the W wind carries tiny puffs of dandelion past fluorescent CARLINA lights, past DUAN baskets of cherries, past the blue recycle bins hunkered on East Washington Street. I feel as if it's going to rain. The air is tight, and the wind - tighter, brushing my lip dry. Cars flip past. Dogs shout. A man holds another man's hand. I press my wrist to the glass, willing everything to stay. Recently, everything has been reminding me of departure. I'm graduating in one year, and as each day pumps by, I want to get out of this city, with its plastic packages of tea and women in thick wedge heels. I lift my face and clouds roll, mosquitoes spark. Friends I love graduate, go away for the summers, don't come back. Friends I love get sick. My family sleeps in their green-shuttered house. My mother plants gardenias on the back porch, and their petals light up in the heat - shy, white muscles lifting their frills to meet grass. I get restless, caught up in a sleeve of undergraduate worry and panic. I eat grapefruit and spend my money on cheap comics and sticks of mint gum. I feel like an imminent flunk. Recently, at work, I was asked why I chose to study English in college. "What do you want to do with that?" a co-worker asked politely, biting the square of her lip. It's a question most of us have been asked repeatedly, regardless of our field. Yet despite three years of intensive study in literature and language, I still have n want to do handstands to make postcards. I, touch diamonds of ched the overpriced supe down my street; I wan other people's massiv bite the basil plant, w lipstick. I want, so badl to graduate from this U in one year and believ degree in English is enou I will feel confident and enough to plug the worl body, that I'll have the s service and experience to carve out space for m But perhaps the trut matter is: The classroom prepare you for anythi than a few intellectual spurts. You read books.' your hand shyly in class wet in the rain. When I started University three yea school was about stretc brain to its brightest I've always felt that as a it's my own responsibility to actively k seek out thrill, I kr curiosity, discomfort yeas - whether l in punching numbers into a database, or in piling my tray wit hall cookies. But durin I've also found that it' increasingly important to understand and come face with moments of sb rage. To slam sparks th brain. To make eye co craft assignments for m times, the syllabus is no If anything, I've fo my classes in Engli raised me to questi is - and isn't - wi textbook. As an i senior, I'm hyper-awar I'm unsettled by wi classroom: what gets or talked around, or When N=1 The syllabus isn't enough o idea. I over. As students, it becomes . I want increasingly important to want to not shy away. We need to dar from take initiative for ourselves ermarket and unearth the classroom t to hold vocabulary. This doesn't mean e hands, that what we learn in our wear red classrooms is unimportant. y, for me On the contrary, the syllabus niversity becomes even more important e that a in the context that we're igh. That building upon and beyond it, d capable seeking more. As students of d into my the classroom and of the planet, kills and we have to raise the stakes. needed As an English major, I want yself. to read about Chaucer, but also h of the about sassy Chinese women. I n doesn't want to read about daughters ng other of immigrants. I want to talk 1 growth about shame, and inheritance, You raise and the black hairs on my legs. , you get I haven't necessarily found that I've been able to read or discuss at this these issues in my classes. So irs ago, I read outside of school. So I hing the write poems. So I build. When shapes. I graduate in a year, it won't student, necessarily be about all the papers I've written, or the medieval tow that in one English I've r read. It'll be r I want to still about pushing be digging. out beyond the curriculum - which takes courage, th dining muscle. Going beyond the g college, syllabus means that we do s become not become stuck within it. It t for me means we challenge ourselves, e face-to- continuously, to lift and look hiny fear, and ask. rough the I still have no idea what I want ntact. To to "do" with my English degree. uyself. At But I know in one year, I want t enough. to still be digging. I don't want und that to constantly nod my head. I sh have want to ask questions. I want to on what remain restless. I want my brain thin the to whir at high speeds. I want to incoming learn, I want to celebrate. I want e of what to create. thin the left out, - Carlina Duan can be reached pushed at linaduan@umich.edu. ARE YOU FUELED WITH UNFILTERED RAGE WHEN SOMEBODY USES AN OXFORD COMMA? DO YOU SPEND YOUR NIGHTS DREAMING OF WAYS TO USE ALLITERATION IN TITLES? Join the University's student newspaper, The Michigan Daily, where students have happily experienced editorial freedom for 124.5 years. (Basically, we can do whatever we want). Email todaily@umich.edu for more information.