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Elbel Field is also a popular
location for intramural sports,
as it includes a 100-yard turf
football field, two sand volley-
ball courts, two softball fields, a
picnic area and a field area. The
University renovated the field
in 2011 as part of an effort to
improve its recreational sports
facilities.
A lively, student-populated
neighborhood, Elbel is a five
minute walk from the Big House
and the Intramural Sports Build-
ing. Due to its proximity to ath-
letic facilities, the neighborhood
is popular for student-athletes.
Business
junior
Matt
Kaufman, a member of the club
water polo team, moved into
the neighborhood because of its
proximity to the athletic training
facilities. Elbel is also five min-
utes from the Business School,
so he has an easy commute to his
business classes.
“Location was a big factor in
choosing where I live,” Kaufman
said. “I could not live much closer
than where I do right now. I am
less than five minutes away from
class and it’s also really close to
where my team practices.”
While the location is conve-
nient for students like Kaufman,
Elbel is more than a 10-minute
walk from the Diag and other
Central Campus buildings. For
students looking for a faster trip
to campus, the Commuter South
bus makes stops down Hoover
Street.
Some students are willing to
sacrifice location for the rela-
tively cheap rent and proximity
for the variety of eateries, cafes
and other local attractions on
State Street and Main Street.
Rent in the Elbel neighbor-
hood is generally in the range
of $600 to $700 per month, and
can be as low as $550 per per-
son, according to data compiled
by The Michigan Daily in 2012.
Lower-priced
homes
tend
to be farther from campus. In
homes closest to Central Cam-
pus, rent can rise to upwards of
$800 per month per person.
Popular places to eat near
the Elbel neighborhood include
fast food options such as Quick-
ie Burger, Grilled Cheezerie,
Mr. Spots and BTB Burrito, all
located on South State Street.
Students flock to these places
to rejuvenate on Football Satur-
days and for late nights snacks.
Kaufman said while the State
Street eateries are convenient,
there is a notable lack of food
options for the health-conscious.
“Unlike on South University,
where you find Revive … or the
variety of places around Main
Street and North State Street,
there aren’t that many places to
get healthy food,” he said.
Even so, those looking to
work off the 3 a.m. burger and
fries can take advantage of the
activities available at Elbel
Field, the IM Building and Yost
Arena.
Yost
The
Yost
neighborhood
is
adjacent
to
the
Elbel
neighborhood and east of South
State Street. Like Elbel, the
Yost
neighborhood
attracts
student-athletes
and
cost-
conscious
undergraduates
because of its proximity to
the
University’s
athletic
facilities
and
affordability.
The neighborhood is south of
Packard Street and borders the
eastern edge of South Campus.
The area is a short walk to
the Yost Ice Arena, home to
the Michigan hockey team.
The arena often holds public
skate nights for a $3 admissions
charge.
Also like Elbel, the ice arena
is named after a prominent
Wolverine — former football
coach Fielding H. Yost, who led
the Wolverines to their first
national championship in 1901.
Another
reason
why
the
neighborhood
is
brimming
with undergraduate students
is because of its affordable rent
prices and lively social scene.
Renters can expect prices as
low as $550 per month per per-
son.
At night, Yost’s social scene
mainly consists of house parties
hosted
by
undergraduates.
Greenwood Avenue and Mary
Court are streets known for
their block parties.
Like
Elbel,
the
Yost
neighborhood is located near
the same popular State Street
food spots, but is sometimes
considered
problematically
distant from Central Campus.
For students like LSA junior
Kelsey
Monkiewicz
who
don’t need to be close to the
athletic facilities, the location
is a drawback. Monkiewicz
said the two main factors
she considered when looking
for off-campus housing were
proximity to Central Campus
and affordability. While her
living experience has met the
latter requirement, she said
getting to class can be a pain,
particularly in the cold winter
months.
“I live with athletes so the
location is great for them, but
my walk to class is at least
15 minutes,” she said. “The
buses don’t really run that
frequently, which is especially
inconvenient when it gets really
cold out.”
Despite her issues with the
distance, Monkiewicz said she
does not mind other aspects of
Yost, such as the frequent par-
ties. She also said she considers
Yost a safe area to live in.
“Sometimes you can hear
music from other houses, but
I don’t really mind,” she said.
“It was great to be able to
play again after the Big Ten
Tournament,”
said
Michigan
coach Kim Barnes Arico. “I
thought we came out of the gates
and played exceptionally well
— a lot of positives to take from
tonight, but definitely happy to
play again.”
The only true surprise came
before the game, when junior
guard Madison Ristovski and
freshman
forward
Emoni
Jackson started the game in
place of sophomore guard Siera
Thompson and senior guard
Shannon
Smith.
Together,
the duo scored 12 of the
Wolverines’ first 16 points to
help kick-start an offense that
quickly built a double-digit
lead early in the first half and
never looked back.
From then on, the offense
was powered by senior forward
Cyesha Goree, who matched up
with Cleveland State’s Alexis
Eckles on the inside. With
Eckles outsized by three inches,
Goree played significantly better
than she had at the Big Ten
Tournament.
Despite her height advantage,
Goree ran into trouble nearing
the end of the first half as their
defense keyed on her, making it
hard to score when she felt open,
being forced to kick the ball out
to the guards.
“At halftime, Coach told the
team ‘fake it and kick it,’ ” Goree
said, “because now, everybody is
drawing attention to me, so let’s
get other players involved.”
One of those others included
senior Nicole Elmblad, who
moved to the guard position
for the first time since last
season.
Regardless
of
the
switch, she grabbed a game-
high 11 rebounds and eclipsed
700 career rebounds with 708,
becoming the 10th player in
program history to do so.
Jackson,
who
had
an
energized first career start,
also put in meaningful minutes
by tacking on eight points.
Ristovski took the bulk of the
3-point scoring en route to 15
points, replacing the production
of Smith and freshman guard
Katelynn Flaherty.
“(Ristovski’s) playing with a lot
of confidence,” Barnes Arico said.
“She’s playing very comfortable,
and she’s playing really hard and
making shots for us, which our
other guards are really struggling
with right now.”
Added Ristovski: “I was really
excited. I think we all are, just
because we’re in the postseason,
and not that many basketball
teams out there are still playing.”
As
for
Cleveland
State’s
offense, it never seemed to make
it to Ann Arbor. The Vikings took
a while to start up their engine,
succumbing to a 20-3 Michigan
run in the opening four minutes.
The Wolverines scored seven
points off 11 turnovers, and the
2-3 zone prevented Cleveland
State’s best scorers from making
an impact.
Guard Cori Coleman and
forward Imani Gordon came in
averaging 16.1 and 16.3 points,
respectively, but the Michigan
defense held them to a combined
26 points. At the start of the
game, Gordon took nearly seven
minutes to make a basket, while
Coleman took 18.
“We knew they were going
to be undersized,” Goree said.
“It was kind of a mismatch for
me, but at the same time you
still have to guard them. So we
decided to go zone and it was
really effective.”
Cleveland State, which shot
32.7 percent, had gone scoreless
for eight minutes during the
first half before making five of
its last seven shots heading into
halftime, including a four-point
play from Coleman. But even the
rejuvenated effort was futile, as
the Wolverines prevented the
Vikings from clawing their way
out of a deficit.
“On the defensive end, (the
starters) were focused on the
game plan and did a great job,”
Barnes Arico said. “Cleveland
State made some adjustments
later in the first half and kind
of started to penetrate the zone
a little bit, but we came out of
the gates really focused on both
ends.”
In the closing seconds before
halftime, Flaherty added the
finishing touch by stealing the
ball for a coast-to-coast layup at
the buzzer, making fans stand
on their feet as the sound of
applause overtook Crisler.
Though it had been a while,
Michigan could finally enter the
locker room at halftime with
things in its favor. And they
stayed that way.
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to raise awareness for people with
disabilities.
“They’re people, too, and they
can do almost everything that an
able-bodied person can,” he said.
The fraternity also organized
a “penny war” Monday and its
annual “Pie a Pi Kapp” event
Tuesday,
where
participants
could pay to throw a pie in the
face of a fraternity member.
Robinson said the weeklong
events had been successful so far,
adding that the fraternity had
raised over $600 from its penny
war and Pie a Pi Kapp events.
The
three
events
will
culminate with the fraternity’s
annual Empathy Dinner this
Friday. Robinson said the annual
Empathy Dinner is a meal where,
for the first few minutes, guests
are encouraged to show solidarity
for people with disabilities by
attempting to eat as though they
are affected by various diseases,
such as blindness or muscular
dystrophy.
The War of the Roses is an
event put on by Pi Kappa Phi
chapters across the country; this
week marks the University chap-
ter’s first time doing so.
An integral part of the War of
the Roses is sororities’ partici-
pation. Alpha Epsilon Phi, Delta
Phi Epsilon, Zeta Tau Alpha and
Gamma Phi Beta all partnered
with Pi Kappa Phi this week.
Ultimately, one sorority will be
crowned the winner of the War
of the Roses based on multiple
factors, including how many pen-
nies they collected for the penny
war, the number of pies they sold
for students to peg Pi Kappa Phi
members with and attendance
points for watching the wheel-
chair basketball game.
After
accepting
their
invitations to participate in the
week’s festivities, each sorority
nominated a member to represent
them should they win the War
of the Roses. The winner will
be crowned and given a sash on
behalf of their chapter, as well
as a portion of the money raised
throughout the week.
The Ability Experience, Pi
Kappa Phi’s exclusive national
outreach project that donates
to people with disabilities, will
receive 75 percent of the week’s
proceeds. The remaining will be
given to the winning sorority’s
philanthropy committee.
LSA sophomore Justin Stern,
a Pi Kappa Phi member, said he
helped Robinson to coordinate
the War of the Roses in an effort
to expand the chapter’s philan-
thropy efforts.
“While philanthropy was good
last year, we thought we could
improve it,” Stern said.
“I didn’t expect it to be this
successful in the first year, but
I’m really happy that it has been,”
Robinson added. “I think that if
we start with a base like this, that
next year and years beyond it’ll
only get better.”
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the hypocrisy of this University”
and its diversity policies.
“I think if we manage to
increase minority enrollment,
we would have less of this prob-
lem because classes would be
more integrated and you would
be having more of these discus-
sions (about racial issues and
prejudice),” she said.
Wall’s
running
mate
and
LSA sophomore Katie Kennedy
said despite living as a person
of mixed race in Ann Arbor her
whole life, she only felt the con-
sequence of her race when she
became a student at the Univer-
sity.
“I had never felt so isolated
when it came to social life, Greek
life, academic settings, commu-
nities and the entire culture of
the University,” she said.
LSA junior Cooper Charlton,
Make Michigan’s presidential
candidate, said despite being a
“white individual,” he felt he
understood minority popula-
tions’ struggles “through empa-
thy.”
“I can feel your passion,” he
said. “I can understand what
you’re trying to say and I can
help you.”
Charlton added that the Uni-
versity’s problem lies not in
admitting minorities, but not
providing minority and under-
privileged
candidates
“the
things they need to say ‘yes,’ ”
like offering students financial
aid immediately alongside their
letter of admission.
LSA sophomore Steven Hal-
perin, Charlton’s running mate,
shared with the audience the last
words his father spoke to him
before dying suddenly of a heart
attack: “Move big rocks.” He said
this phrase is what would drive
him to make progress as a CSG
executive.
“These words define me,” he
said, adapting his life motto to fit
the Make Michigan campaign.
“Help us move big rocks so we
can make the change.”
Royster
later
questioned
Make Michigan’s commitment
to race and ethnicity issues. He
is currently the academic con-
cerns chair for the BSU, which
launched the #BBUM campaign
last year — he said neither Charl-
ton nor Make Michigan has
reached out to the organization.
On this note, LSA sophomore
Matt Fidel, The Team’s vice
presidential candidate, said The
Team in both its name and plat-
form is most intent on driving
inclusion on campus.
“Inclusion is the message of
The Team,” he said. “That is
what we were created to inspire.”
Fidel cited the inclusive ini-
tiatives he has implemented as
LSA representative on the CSG
Assembly, including planning
the police brutality speakout and
launching a program to donate
students’ leftover Blue Bucks
and Dining Dollars to charity at
the end of the semester.
Wall said increased minority
enrollment is integral to inclu-
sion and would be best bolstered
if the University offered on-site
admissions in Detroit schools
and implemented its own ver-
sion of the Texas “Top 10 Percent
Rule.” The policy guarantees
admission to Texas universities
for in-state students who gradu-
ated at the top 10 percent of their
classes. Administrators at the
University have said that plan
would not be feasible in Ann
Arbor.
She added that lack of diver-
sity on college campuses is what
leads to incidents like the one
at the University of Oklahoma,
where the school’s chapter of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon was dis-
banded for leading racist chants.
In the vice presidential debate,
Halperin referenced this point
to promote future CSG develop-
ment of diversity education pro-
grams for students.
“I think we need to teach
more about bystander interven-
tion,” he said.
Charlton contended that the
creation of the CSG Honor Code,
which current CSG President
Bobby Dishell, a Public Poli-
cy senior, pitched earlier this
semester, could help mitigate
future racial tensions on campus
and encourage students to inter-
vene in certain situations.
Royster, however, said a cul-
ture shift is the only possible
prevention method.
When
asked
what
they
thought about the destruction
caused by the members of Uni-
versity’s chapter of Sigma Alpha
Mu to Treetops Resort last
month, all of the candidates said
they condemned the acts that
took place. However, all three
parties said they supported
Greek life as a whole.
Halperin is a member of the
University’s chapter of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity; Royster
is a member of the Univer-
sity’s chapter of the Alpha Phi
Alpha fraternity; and Fidel was
a member of the University’s
chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu
before it was disbanded by the
fraternity’s international board
Tuesday.
“I think it is very, very impor-
tant to note the good things
Greek life has done,” Charlton
said. “We all support Greek life.
However, the fact that particu-
lar individuals can tarnish and
influence the reputation of many
is something that is unaccept-
able.”
Fidel, who attended the Sigma
Alpha Mu ski trip, was asked
about his involvement in the
destruction.
“I condemn the ski trip whole-
heartedly,” he said. “I was not a
part of the destruction whatso-
ever. I am not my fraternity; I am
my own person.”
The candidates were also in
agreement that more needs to
be done to prevent and promote
awareness of sexual misconduct
on campus.
While Charlton said the pend-
ing honor code will help to pre-
vent sexual assault by providing
a firm definition of what is right
and wrong, Royster disagreed.
He emphasized that other meth-
ods are necessary to induce cul-
ture shift, not just one document.
“We know what is right and
wrong,” Royster said. “There is
no gray area when it comes to
sexual assault. There’s just not.
What we need is a culture shift.”
Kennedy built on this point,
citing a statistic that 62 percent
of women on the University’s
campus have reported being vic-
tims of sexual assault. She added
that the real figure may be worse
because most cases go unreport-
ed.
“We need to hold students
accountable,” she said. “Rapists
need to be expelled and charged,
as well.”
In closing statements, all
three presidential candidates
reiterated their commitment to
their individual parties and to
diversity.
“Diversity is more than skin
deep,” Charlton said, adding
that diversity of thoughts and
perspectives is also important.
“The University of Michigan is
where great minds come. With
Make Michigan, we are going
to be able to make the differ-
ence.”
Royster drew attention to
The Team’s diverse slate of can-
didates, and said this was rep-
resentative of their ability to
make represent a wide variety of
demographics on campus.
“We compromised our slate
of members from all across
the campus. We have the most
diverse slate that we could
make,” Royster said. “We did
that intentionally.”
Wall reaffirmed that she is
running because she refuses to
believe that no one can do any-
thing more to end the racism,
sexism and LGBTQ issues on
campus.
“To think that we can just
keep our heads down until
something changes is to sup-
port the demoralizing process,”
she said.
PAUL SHERMAN/Daily
Central Student Government presidential candidates Engineering junior William Royster, LSA junior Keysha Wall and LSA junior Cooper Charlston discuss a
number of University issues at the CSG debates at South Hall on Wednesday.
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