term performance continues to 
rank in the top quartile compared 
to the performance of other 
large university endowments,” 
Kevin Hegarty, executive vice 
president and chief financial 
officer, said Thursday.

Erik 
Lundberg, 
University 

chief investment officer, said 
the investment return is down 
due to lower energy prices — 
the University allocates a large 
number of its investments to 
natural resources — and the 
appreciation of the U.S. dollar, 
which 
resulted 
in 
lowered 

foreign 
investments. 
The 

endowment also suffered losses 
due to high initial estimated 
values for equity and fixed 
income investments that did not 
end up performing as well as 
expected.

However, in a press release, 

Lundberg 
said 
long-term 

performance 
“is 
more 
than 

sufficient to sustain and grow 
the endowment in real terms net 
of spending.”

The University’s endowment 

received 
a 
slightly 
lower 

ranking this year compared to 
other university endowments. 
National experts ranked the 
fiscal year 2015 endowment as 
the ninth largest in the nation, 
down from the seventh largest in 
2014, according to U.S. News and 
World Report. It also went from 
being the top endowment of any 
public institution to being third.

When compared per student 

the 
University’s 
endowment 

rank actually increased this 
year. The funds per student are 
ranked at 88th in the nation, 
compared to 94th in fiscal year 
2014.

Despite 
the 
large 
pool 

of 
money 
the 
endowment 

represents, 
the 
University 

is limited by how how the 
endowment can be spent. Some 
endowment funds are only used 
for specific purposes — such 
as 
scholarships, 
educational 

programs or professorships — 
and thus is not the University’s 
only source of funding.

Twenty-one percent of the 

total endowment distribution 
is also restricted for use by 
the University Health System, 
while another $2 billion goes 
toward student scholarships and 
fellowships.

University spokesman Rick 

Fitzgerald 
said 
Thursday 

because of those limitations, the 
University still needs financial 
support from other areas to 
fund other operations, citing 
increases in tuition as one way to 
make up those costs.

The University’s Office of 

Public Affairs states on its 
website 
that 
funding 
from 

external and internal sources is 
critical for University functions:

“The endowment provides 

a margin of excellence for 
the University, but it does not 
replace the unrestricted funds 
coming from state support and 
student tuition dollars.”

LSA 
senior 
Jonathan 

Friedman, chair of Hillel’s Israel 
Cohort, wrote in an e-mail 
interview 
to 
The 
Michigan 

Daily that he wanted to plan the 
event as a way to help the Jewish 
community on campus respond 
to the violence.

“More than just an outlet, (the 

vigil) is an opportunity to be 
aware of the tragedies and take 
a step towards positive change, 
however small it may be,” he 
wrote.

Seven Israelis have died in 

the last month in attacks carried 
out by Palestinians, according to 
The New York Times. Twenty-
eight Palestinians have also died 
during the past two weeks in 
clashes with Israeli forces, The 
Washington Post reported.

A dozen of the Palestinians 

killed were identified by Israeli 
authorities as perpetrators in the 
acts of terror, the Post reported.

As 
recently 
as 
Tuesday, 

attackers have used firearms, 
vehicles, stones and knives to 
carry out the assaults.

LSA 
sophomore 
Elana 

Rosenthal, who also helped 
plan the event, said she wanted 
to emphasize Jewish solidarity 
with Israel in light of the attacks.

“I felt that it was necessary 

to create an event like this in 
order to unite all Jews, and all 
people, of moral conscience to 
declare ‘enough,’ ” she said in an 
e-mail interview. “Our brothers 
and sisters in Israel are facing 
incessant terror attacks. We 
cannot remain silent. We must 
declare that Israel is not alone- 
we stand with you!”

At the vigil, students sang 

Israeli 
songs 
such 
as 
the 

country’s 
national 
anthem 

“Hatikvah,” which means “the 
hope” in Hebrew.

Engineering 
sophomore 

Kevin Wolf also recited a prayer 
in honor of those who have been 
affected by the terror in Israel.

Wolf said he thought having 

the vigil was important because 
many of the Jewish students at 
the University know someone 
personally or distantly who has 
been affected.

“As I was taking the bus here, 

I was just thinking how lucky I 
am that, in this moment, I don’t 
have to be worried about being 
stabbed,” Wolf said. “For my 
sister who lives there, I just want 
her to know that I care and that 
we all care.”

The names of the Israeli 

victims of and those wounded 
by the terror attacks were also 
read on the Diag. The list of 
names, which was updated as of 

Wednesday, included 7 people 
who have died from the attacks 
and 21 people who have been 
wounded.

LSA junior Inbar Lev read 

part of the eulogy for Naama 
Henkin, 
an 
Israeli 
woman 

who was killed along with her 
husband Eitam Henkin. Lev also 
read a statement from Joshua 
Lankin, whose uncle, Richard 
Lankin, is currently in critical 
condition after being wounded 
in one of the assaults.

When asked why she chose 

to read the eulogy aloud to the 
group, Lev said the acts of terror 
have had a big impact on her 
personally.

“I’m Israeli, so it hits very 

close to home,” she said. “I feel 
as though we just want to show 
that we respect the lives that 
have been lost because of this.”

LSA sophomore Josh Blum 

said the vigil was a way for those 
affected on campus to pay their 
respects to the victims of the 
attacks.

“A lot of Israeli lives have 

unfortunately ended very early 
and I think we need to pay our 
respects for those who have 
died because of terror attacks,” 
he said. “This is not a way to 
get peace. You get peace by 
diplomacy. You do not get peace 
by killing one another.”

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The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
News & Arts
Friday, October 16, 2015 — 3A

Oscar winner stars 
in ‘Antigone’ at UMS

By COSMO PAPPAS

Daily Arts Writer

Few plays in the history of the-

ater have attracted so much atten-
tion for their political resonances 
as much as 
ancient 
Greek 

play-
wright 
and 

statesman 
Sophocles’s 
“Antigone.” 
From its role 
as a parable 
of anti-fascist 
resistance in 
Jean Anoihl and Bertolt Brecht’s 
1940s re-stagings to its reception 
as a feminist call-to-arms against 
state power, the questions that 
this 441 BCE work poses will find 
new life yet again this week at the 
Power Center for Performing Arts 
in Ann Arbor with a star-studded 
cast of collaborators.

French Academy Award-win-

ning actress, dancer and artist 
Juliette Binoche will star in this 
production directed by Ivo van 
Hove, former director of Het 
Zuidelijk Toneel in Eindhoven 
and Toneelgroep Amsterdam and 
winner of various international 
theatrical awards. This perfor-
mance features a new transla-
tion by poet, translator, essayist 
and former UM professor Anne 
Carson, who has also previously 
translated “Antigone,” the second 
of Sophocles’s Theban trilogy, 
in an idiosyncratic, thoughtful 
and poignant rendering entitled 
“Antigonick.” However, at van 

Hove’s request, Carson-the-poet 
took a backseat to Carson-the-
classicist, with the script for this 
production a more literal, word-
for-word translation.

“I think this is an analogy for 

the difference between them (the 
two translations),” Carson said at 
a Penny Stamps Lecture on Oct. 
13. “In Antigonick, I tried to take a 
photograph of an apple tree from 
an angle that would capture the 
essence of that apple tree at a cer-
tain moment that I thought beau-
tiful. And in the second version, 
it’s more like I’m taking hold of 
the tree and trying to shake every 
apple down, get every apple off it.”

These performances, as well 

as the dialogue between Binoche, 
Carson and Montreal-based nov-
elist Will Aitken that took place 
at the Penny Stamps lecture are 
a high watermark in Ann Arbor 
arts. This week, local audiences 
have the opportunity to experi-
ence genuinely world-class talent 
bearing upon questions of transla-
tion, performance and interpreta-
tion of this centerpiece of ancient 
Greek theater.

Briefly 
summarized, 
“Anti-

gone” 
presents 
the 
conflict 

between Antigone, daughter of 
the incestuous marriage between 
Oedipus and Jocasta and thus 
princess of Thebes, and Creon, 
king of Thebes. In the course of 
a civil war, Antigone’s two broth-
ers, Eteocles and Polyneices kill 
each other over claims to the 
throne. However, Creon declares 
Eteocles a hero and a Polyneices 
a traitor, forbidding that the lat-

ter be buried. Antigone, whose 
love for her brother borders on 
incestuous (“yet how sweet to lie 
upon my brother’s / body, thigh to 
thigh,” Carson renders in “Anti-
gonick”), refuses his decree and 
buries her brother. Eventually, 
Antigone and Haemon (Creon’s 
son and Antigone’s fiancée) com-
mit suicide before Creon is able to 
deliver the news that he will bury 
Polyneices and will spare Anti-
gone because of the gods’ anger 
over his decree since the burial of 
the dead is sacred.

Van Hove is sensitive to the 

political implications of burial 
and to the nuances of this play as 
a political work overall. He says 
in the University Musical Society 
program booklet that “ ‘Antigone’ 
develops from a play about a bru-
tal war into a play about politics 
and public policies and ends as 
a play about the helplessness of 
humans, lost in the cosmos.”

Philosopher and gender theo-

rist Judith Butler’s 2000 book 
“Antigone’s Claim” is significant 
for its engagement with the play’s 
political, 
potentially 
feminist, 

meanings that every performer 
brings their own perspective to 
bear on.

“There’s something in the play 

that is very reachable, accessible, 
you understand immediately in 
your life and our society, because 
we need to heal something about 
our family, about our society, 
about our world,” Binoche said 
in an interview with UMS. “Anti-
gone is a healer somehow, even if 
she chooses to sacrifice herself.”

“Antigone” 
by Sophocles

Oct. 14-17

Power Center

$12 (students) -$90

INVESTMENT
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VIGIL
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that students have already taken 
advantage of more than during 
past reviews. Rider-Milkovich 
said while only 70 students 
responded to an online feedback 
form during the last update 
to the policy, this year more 
than 225 people have already 
responded in the three weeks it 
has been online. The form will 
remain open until Nov. 6.

During Thursday’s discussion, 

attendees raised concerns about 
several definitions in the policy 
relating to ability to give consent.

The current proposed draft 

does not set to change the 
definition of consent, but it 
does 
propose 
changing 
the 

definition of coercion, force 
and incapacitation, the former 
of which was a main focus of 
discussion.

The proposed definition for 

incapacitation reads, “A person 
who is Incapacitated cannot 
Consent 
to 
sexual 
activity. 

A person is Incapacitated if 
they are asleep, unconscious, 
intermittently 
conscious, 

unaware that sexual contact is 
occurring, or lack the physical 
and/or mental ability to make 
informed, rational judgements. 
Incapacitation 
may 
result 

from 
the 
consumption 
of 

alcohol or other drugs. Where 
alcohol or drug use is involved, 
Incapacitation is a state beyond 
intoxication, 
inebriation, 

impairment in judgement or 
‘drunkenness.’ ”

Attendees said they believed 

the current draft definition does 
not specify clearly enough the 
amount of drinks it takes to be 
incapacitated and thus unable to 
provide consent.

Patty 
Petrowski, 
associate 

vice 
president 
and 
deputy 

general 
counsel 
for 
the 

University, offered a second 
potential definition in response 
to the concerns.

“A 
person 
who 
is 

incapacitated 
is 
unable 
to 

temporarily 
or 
permanently 

give consent because of mental 
or physical helplessness, sleep, 
unconsciousness 
or 
lack 
of 

awareness that sexual activity 
is taking place,” she said. “A 
person may be incapacitated as 
a result of the consumption of 
alcohol or other drugs, or due 
to a temporary or permanent 
physical or mental health issue.”

Several 
attendees 
were 

more responsive to the second 
definition. LSA senior Anna 
Forringer-Beal, 
volunteer 
at 

SAPAC and Relationship Remix 
facilitator, said a question often 
brought up is how much alcohol 
is too much alcohol.

“We 
always 
get 
people 

questioning, ‘Well what if one 
person had, like, a drink and 
they’re totally fine. Does that 
mean they can’t give consent?’” 
Forringer-Beal said. “I think the 
distinction on that sliding scale 
is so important, and I think that 
it’s really great that you’re taking 
into account what’s going on 
in terms of how alcohol affects 
people differently.”

Rider-Milkovich said it was a 

difficult issue to put into words. 
In particular, she said the hardest 
cases 
to 
handle 
regarding 

incapacitation are ones in which 
the victim appears lucid but is in 
fact very intoxicated.

“That’s one of the most 

difficult 
situations,” 
Rider-

Milkovich said. “When someone 
is in total blackout but operating 
normally, and especially when 
we’re looking at the test of did 
the respondent know? Or should 
the respondent reasonably have 
known?”

When the topic was revisited 

at the end of the discussion, 
LSA senior Laura Meyer made 

a suggestion to help clarify the 
definition of drunk.

“You know how the Inuit have 

like 200 words for snow? I feel 
like college students have 200 
words for when they’re drunk,” 
Meyer said. “Maybe using other 
words like tipsy or buzzed, and 
beyond buzzed or beyond tipsy.”

Several other draft changes to 

the policy, including improving 
interim measures to protect 
parties 
in 
an 
investigation, 

increasing 
academic 
support 

for survivors, deciding who 
should choose the student who 
would be on the advisory board 
and whether or not to identify 
witnesses in cases were also 
discussed Thursday.

LSA senior Fabiana Diaz said 

she would like to see the creation 
of a position to deal specifically 
with student needs while a case 
is still being processed and 
sanctions haven’t been decided.

For example, Diaz said, under 

the current situation, students 
living in the same dorm as an 
alleged assailant have to inform 
University Housing if they want 
to change their living situation, 
who then contacts someone 
else and so on, drawing out the 
process.

“It’s not just like you contact 

somebody and I think that’s 
frustrating for the survivor — 
it’s like we’re going in circles 
to make sure these things are 
actually enforced,” Diaz said.

Rider-Milkovich agreed with 

Diaz and suggested following 
a model other campuses use of 
assigning one person to work 
with the survivor of a sexual 
assault throughout the entire 
process instead of having to go to 
several different contact offices 
to address different issues.

The suggestion found favor 

with the room, with several 
people verbally responding yes 
and others clapping in result.

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DELANEY RYAN/Daily

University President Mark Schlissel runs the University Regents meeting that is hosted annually by the Flint 
campus at the Riverside Banquet Center on Thursday.

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