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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
In
2015,
minority
enrollment
for
the
freshman
class
increased 2.8 percent. The
Daily’s
Editorial
Board
discusses ways in which the
administration can implement
strategies to further this drive.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Transcription
of tones
WHAT: San Duanmu
discusses his project
to develop a system to
automatically transcribe
phonetic tones.
WHO: Department of
Linguistics
WHEN: 1 p.m.
WHERE: 473 Lorch
Hall
Laughter and
its Interdiction
WHAT: Prof. Peter Janz
will analyze scenarios of
laughter in Heine’s “The Rabbi
of Bacherach” and in Kafka’s
“A Report to an Academy.”
WHO: Comparative Literature
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: 3308 Modern
Language Buidling
The
Federal
Communications
commission
voted
on
Thursday to cap costs of
prison phone calls, The
Huffington Post reported.
Experts anticipate leading
phone providers will fight
against the new legislation.
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Applied
economics
WHAT: Yale University
Prof. Nicholas Ryan
will analyze gaps
in energy efficiency
using experimental
evidence from Indian
manufacturing plants
WHO: Department of
Economics
WHEN: 2:30 p.m. to 4
p.m.
WHERE: 1028 Dana
Building
Volkswagen announced
it
will
investigate
whether older models of
the car were affected by
emission-cheating software,
The New York Times report.
According to the car company,
at least 11 million cars were
affected by the rogue device.
3
Returning to
School
WHAT: Jacqueline
Bowman will discuss the
skill sets to possess in order
to achieve educational goals.
WHO: Center for the
Education of Women
WHEN: 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
WHERE: 330 E. Liberty
Street
Ecology
lecture
WHAT: Stanford University
Prof. Kevin Boyce will
discuss the fossil record
of plant physiology and its
impact on the evolution
of terrestrial ecology and
environments.
WHO: Earth and
Environmental Sciences
WHEN: 3:30 p.m. to 4:30
p.m.
WHERE: 1528 Clarence
Cook Little Building
Conflict
management
WHAT: Jacqueline
Doneghy will discuss
conflict management
skills and techniques.
WHO: Learning and
Professional Development
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
WHERE: Administrative
Services Building
ICPS
Workshop
WHAT: The Intercultural
Communication Program
Suite workshop will focus
on how an individual’s
culture and family history
make them who they are
today.
WHO: Office of Academic
Multicultural Initiatives
WHEN: 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: 3009 Student
Activities Building
Guest piano
masterclass
WHAT: Italian concert
pianist Giacomo Scinardo,
who has appeared as a
soloist internationally, will
lead a masterclass Friday
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: 7 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V. Moore
Building, Britton Recital Hall
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TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
LEFT: Michigan State tight end Paul
Lang celebrates his team’s victory
by raising the Paul Bunyan trophy at
Michigan Stadium on Saturday. (RUBY
WALLAU/Daily)
RIGHT: Western Michigan graduate
student S. Marie LaFata-Clay reads
her
poem
“Superwoman
versus
Wonderwoman” at the Skazat! Poetry
Series, a monthly open mic and poetry
reading event, at Sweetwaters Cafe on
Tuesday. (EMILIE FARRUGIA/Daily)
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UMMA embraces ‘Throwback
Thursday’ with ’90s programming
“Late Night”
exhibit showcases
art from 1990s
BY ANNA HARITOS
Daily Staff Reporter
The 1990s came back to life in
an exhibit featured at the Uni-
versity of Michigan Museum
of Art’s seventh annual “Late
Night” event Thursday, hosted
by the UMMA Student Program-
ming and Advisory Council.
This year’s iteration of Late
Night — where the art museum
stays open until 11 p.m. instead
of its usual 5 p.m. closing time
— asked that students in atten-
dance don traditionally ’90s garb
as part of the night’s activities.
Throughout
the
evening,
students ventured throughout
the art museum, where they
partook in a scavenger hunt,
photo booths, stamp making
and ’90s-themed trivia games.
WCBN 88.3 FM, the University’s
student-run radio station, piped
in ’90s tunes for the duration of
the event.
LSA senior Jean Rafaelian,
one of the event coordinators,
said one of the benefits of Late
Night is that it works to “draw in
people that might not normally
come into this space.”
“Sometimes
artwork
feels
elitist to people, and that it’s not
easy for them to understand it,
which I get because I’ve had to
take classes to understand a lot
of things,” Rafaelian said. “But
that doesn’t mean that it’s not a
cool place to come do homework,
enjoy free programming, grab a
coffee and soak up the art.”
Upstairs in the A. Alfred Taub-
man Gallery, an exhibit called
“Come As You Are: Art of the
1990s” was the main attraction
of the evening. According to the
UMMA website, the collection
is considered to be the museum’s
first to examine art of the 1990s
in its historical context.
“The exhibition ... focuses on
three principal themes — debates
over ‘identity politics,’ the digi-
tal revolution and globalization
— and explores a range of geo-
political milestones and social
issues through the perspective
of artists working at that time,” a
description on the website reads.
The exhibit contains more
than 64 pieces by 46 artists, and
draws its name from the 1992
Nirvana song of the same title.
Some say “Come As You Are”
was the anthem of the ’90s. The
featured artwork includes every-
thing from classic oil paintings to
glass jars with preserved crabs.
Art & Design freshman Kara
Calvert said she was impressed
by some of the pieces’ symbolism
and the materials to create them.
“One of my favorite things
about a new exhibit is that you’ll
never know what you’re going
to see,” Calvert said. “I really
like ‘Lick and Lather’ pieces, by
Janine Antoni. They’re really
cool; this artist created two casts
of her face — one of them was out
of chocolate and the other out of
soap, and to finish the piece she
licked the chocolate and took a
bath with the other one.”
The event also featured pieces
by famous photographers from
the 1990s. LSA senior Robyn
Green said some of the photos
had appeared in courses she has
taken, which made both the art
and her classwork more relevant.
“Two of these were featured
in my two separate courses,”
Green said. “That gives me a
broader context of the art and
what it means to have the art fea-
tured in a space — which, in an
odd way, gives it more agency to
me.”
Green also said she appreci-
ates UMMA’s efforts to offer late
night programming.
“I think what they’re doing is
great because I wouldn’t neces-
sarily have time in my day to see
this exhibit,” she said.
MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily
LSA freshmen Dingan Chen and Renee Li play the game Twister for the first time at the fourth annual UMMA Student
Late Night on Thursday night.
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Celebrating the eighth birthday
of Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’
Remembering
Radiohead’s
seminal seventh
studio album
BY RACHEL KERR
Daily Arts Writer
Last week, Radiohead’s In Rain-
bows celebrated its eighth birth-
day, and while most of you were
getting drunk at a tailgate, I sat
serenely in my room playing the
album on repeat.
Just kidding, I was drunk, too,
but I did listen to it later that night
while nursing my hangover. And
while eight years may seem like an
insignificant milestone, this album
changed things — how artists
released music, how listeners pur-
chased music, and how affected I
could be by music.
So, I’m about to tell you some-
thing really embarrassing. And
let me preface it by saying I used
to be a huge asshole. Like, I’m
still an asshole, but I’m no longer
an Explosions in the Sky is better
than Godspeed You! Black Emper-
or asshole. So, when I was that
ripe age of 16, I went to Coachella
for the first time. It was the year
a naked woman danced on me at
an A$AP Rocky show, and it was
the year I saw someone smoke
crack for the first time — at a Mod-
est Mouse set, no less. It was the
year of Snoop D. O. Double G and
Dr. Dre, but more importantly, of
Radiohead.
However, it was not the year
I saw Radiohead perform. You
wanna know why? Because I
sat through Noah Gallagher, the
Shins and Bon Iver only to get
into an argument with someone in
the crowd as Thom Yorke started
singing. After proclaiming, “Fuck
Radiohead fans!” I weaseled my
way out of the sea of people and
bought pepperoni pizza instead.
Who the fuck did I think I was?
I have since come to my senses
and, after extensive listening, can
confidently conclude that I prefer
OK Computer to Kid A – because it
really does say a lot about a person
– and yet still can’t articulate what
exactly made In Rainbows the most
affecting Radiohead album to date.
Maybe because it was, for the
first time, equally as innovative
as it was accessible to the listener.
With their previous projects, I
quite literally felt like I was trans-
lating code from a computer (see
Kid A). But with In Rainbows, I
didn’t have to think. I could just
listen. The experience became
purely visceral, a product of the
haunting melodies and calming
lyrics. It may not have been their
most cohesive project, but that’s
because every song stands strong-
ly on its own.
Maybe because Radiohead’s
“pay-what-you-want” purchasing
method completely changed the
artist’s relationship with the label
and the listener, as well as the digi-
tal downloading world forever. In
October 2007, the band announced
the release of the album without
backing from a record label. Ten
days later, it’s up on their website
to download, for whatever price
you wanted to pay. Remember,
this was 2007. YouTube had just
turned two, and the iTunes we
knew and loved was just a shadow
of itself. Streaming services didn’t
exist yet. And here you have one
of the most iconic rock bands of
the 21st century giving away their
music for free. In turn, the mon-
ster that is the modern day listener
was created; the one who insists
free music is not a privelege, but a
right, and lives off of leaked album
downloads. And this demand pro-
duced the methods for which we
now listen to music: Spotify, Apple
Music, Tidal, etc.
Or maybe just because that
“Nude”-“Weird Fishes / Arpeggi”-
“All I Need” segment of the album
is some of the most beautiful music
I’ve ever heard.
Whatever the reason, I thank
you Radiohead. And happy belat-
ed, In Rainbows.
MUSIC