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All Disciplines. 734/996-0566 or writeon@iserv.net By MA"J0Im HM Amn Daily TV/New Media Editor NEW YORK - Less full of itself than Coachella, more down to earth than Ultra and a little more clean-cut than Bonnaroo, The Governors Ball is New York City's biggest summer music festival - but it feels just like an afternoon in the park with your friends. This little sibling to the big-name fes- tivals held its own this year with a solid lineup, a well-organized layout and super friendly staff There wasn't a Native American headdress or pair of golden span- dex shorts to be found. (And I only counted maybe five daisy crowns total. An immense triumph!) For a college student and/or hip twen- tysomething with music taste that is mainstream-adjacent, Gov Ball is the perfect chance to catch a bunch of iconic "alternative" acts and even make some new music discoveries. Friday: The warm-up Friday's line-up included a bunch of strong acts, but no one huge enough to eclipse the head- liner, OutKast. I started my Gov- ernors Ball journey the best way any fun-loving nineteen-year-old could: with a happy, upbeat set from the British boy band/legion of heartthrobs, The 1975. Front- man Matt Healy periodically took swigs out of a bottle of wine and puffs of a cigarette throughout the early afternoon concert, show- ing off that classic "don't-give-a- fuck" 'tude that makes all the gals, (including this reporter) totally swoon. "This is a song about smok- ing weed and stuff," he mumbled before launching into their hit song "Chocolate". My friends and I had had enough British dudes in tight pants for one day, but the festival's strategic lay- out sent us by Bastille's set on our way to the (amazing) food stands. The early-Friday-afternoon crowd was sparse enough to allow a solid view of the show without being too small to feel energetic. We paused for a moment to hear "Pompeii" and carried on toward the food and the Gotham Stage, where Washed Out was just getting ready to per- form. We loungedon agrassyhill over- looking the stage, resting our legs and saving up energy for the night to come. As we munched on French fries and looked out over the New York skyline across the East River, sounds of "All I Know" and other other tunes from Paracosm lulled us into a happy daze. The rest was a necessity for the next set on our agenda, Grimes. With her lavender hair, killer light- ing and intense backup dancers, she proved that she knows how to put on an awesome show. While the audience members swayed awkwardly to her synth-pop beat, she bopped around stage like a gothic purple nymph and giggled at the sheer excitement of the show itself. When the set ended without her hit song, "Genesis," festival- goers shuffled away, visibly a little disappointed at the anticlimax. Then she ran back on stage in a tizzy. "Oops! I forgot to do 'Gen- Up-and-coming NYC festival. esis.' We can do that if you want!" The crowd swarmed back toward the stage while Grimes blushed bashfully about the silly mistake. We closed out the night with OutKast, which was a huge event, in only for the novelty of a limited- run reunion tour. Everyone in my group wanted to hear "Hey Ya," of course, but even aside from the res- urrection of classic hits, Outkast put on a solid show, drawing what might've been the biggest crowd of the weekend on the festival's open- ing night. Saturday: The main event We went into Saturday prepared for a battle. This was supposed to be our longest and fullest day, and would require intelligent planning and informed decision-making. Chance the Rapper, Childish Gam- bino, Disclosure, Sleigh Bells, Bro- ken Bells and The Strokes were all on the schedule, sometimes con- flicting with each other.. Want to know how the rest of the weekend played out? For more coverage ofthe Governors Ball, check out michigandaily.com/arts love big cities. As an extremely extroverted person, I love the hustle and bustle, the noises and smells (although some smells I could go without). The energy I get from being around IHARLEEN other people is KAUR unparalleled. Seeing so many individuals in one place reminds me of the wonderful differences and similarities between us all. But in moving to D.C. for the summer, I was reminded of the one aspect I absolutely cannot stand: catcalls. The first incident happened not even 24 hours after arriving in D.C. As I walked down H Street in D.C.'s Chinatown, a man sitting on the street corner yelled, "Hey sexy, salaam alaikum!" I was baffled. Not only did this manthink he could get my attention by using religion, he ironically used the wrong religion. For a second, my Sikh advocacy training kicked in and I wanted to turn around and educate the man on who a Sikh I hear similar complaints from other friends around the world. There is something to be said about the loss of intimacy in a bigger city that allows mento feel that they have the ability, or that it's even appropriate, to comment on a woman's appearance without any backlash. Projects have been started recently, most notably one in New York, that challenge the notion that a woman's appearance is up for commentary. Yet, it's still troublesome that when I say goodnight to my friends, I make sure they text me once they get home safely, and actually start to worry as the minutes tick by before I get a text. What about how after living here for only one week, I already knew that I had to walk a longer route home to avoid a group of men that always sits at the corner near my apartment? Or that, once the sun goes down, it's essentially a given that I will either not leave my apartment or someone will have to go with me? Our culture has taught women to be almost paranoid about the extent to which their safety is threatened. However, it's is and what we more important look like. But to target the then I thought We should teach actual culture, that I didn't equality, juStiCe rather than want to engage putting Band- the man that had value and self-worth. Aids on the just objectified situation. me in the middle For example, of a busy street shortening in D.C. with zero complaints from Welcome Week at Michigan anyone around. isn't an appropriate solution to The second incident, albeit not a the high sexual assault rates catcall, reminded me of the limited on campus, just like telling all freedom that I may have compared women to walk a different route to my male counterparts. After home or just stay at home at night visitingsome friends and colleagues will not end the objectification that were in town one night, I and harassment that many of us started to get up for my walk home. face on the streets of big cities, They were at a hotel not even half a and even at home in Ann Arbor. mile from my apartment, so when Rather than raising daughters one of them asked me if I was really to be fearful or cautious of about to walk home, I answered,"Of what men can or will do to her, course." However, after minutes why don't we ask sons to treat of discussion and urging, I got in their sisters with more respect? a cab and paid a few bucks to get Rather than continuing to play home safely, because they were not the blame game, we should sure if that would have happened teach equality and justice, value otherwise. I knew thatif ithadbeen and self-worth. Teaching love a man that they were sending home over fear has always been more instead, the conversation would not powerful, and it will get us much have occurred. farther, too. I know this isn't unique to D.C. because I experienced it - Harleen Kaur can be reached in Manhattan last summer and at harleen@umich.edu. Last week, college students identifying as Republicans, conservatives, libertarians and right-leaning independents flooded Twitter with tweets that bashed their liberal campuses, lamenting the bias against them on their campuses and telling stories of offensive professors and students. Perhaps evidencing a slightly different, but related, bias, the media brushed off the trend as mechanism "to vend, find kindred spirits," as the Detroit News put it in a recent article. While I disagree that political bias is a problem, it is something that we need to be talking about. It's obvious that bias does and will continue to exist, on several dimensions and across most disciplines, forever. Everyone has an opinion. The problem only occurs when people are discouraged from sharing theirs, while others feel free. The bias isn't an inherit problem, but too often becomes one when discussion is inhibited by a refusal to understand and work together. When I was looking at colleges, I echoed many of the concerns expressed in the #MyLiberalCampus tweets. I saw the University ranked on some Internet list as one of the most liberal schools. I ran the gamut of melodramatic concerns: What if my professors don't like me? Can I do well if I disagree? Will I even like it if there aren't people who think like me? None of these things were ever a problem. 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That y to teach doesn't mean faculty shouldn't Students take care to ensure that it views of remains that way, or to evaluate professors seriously claims of students rse views who had negative experiences in class. More than being a need to liberal campus, the University classroom is a political campus. It fosters hey may healthy debate, interest and to learn civic engagement. It helps and ew ideas. prompts students to care about epublican, the world that they live in. Here, ependent, student pursue solutions to some nservative of the most difficult problems, Just like utilizing skills from every ople view discipline and borrowing views ometimes from all areas of the political they are. spectrum, unwitting of which re better party traditionally champions the racial, them. Here, policy comes before d sexual platform and debate before Political lecture. To me, that's the greatest that list. feature of #myliberalcampus, write off The University of Michigan. ted or a sly are the - Victoria Noble can be ut inhibit reached at vjnoble@umich.edu. Interested in becoming a columnist, blogger or editor next semester? Contact the infamous Fall 2014 editorial page editors, Dan Wang and Megan McDonald, at danielleewang@umich.edu and mmcdon@umich.edu.