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Sally Peterson (D-Ward 2), an Ann Arbor City Council member, speaks to the College Democrats about voting at their Get Out the Vote City Council Elections
meeting in the Michigan Union on Thursday.
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LSA Dean Andrew D. Martin answers students’ questions in a casual Q&A session at the Union on Thursday.
College Dems host
forum to encourage
participation in
Tuesday’s election
By ALYSSA BRANDON
Daily Staff Reporter
In a push to increase student
voter turnout before city-wide
elections Tuesday, Ann Arbor
City Council members part-
nered with the University’s
Chapter of College Democrats to
host an event emphasizing the
importance of civic participa-
tion Thursday.
Held in the Michigan Union,
the event coincided with Col-
lege Democrats’ Get Out The
Vote campaign, an initiative that
seeks to increase votership in
the final days leading up to elec-
tions.
Council members and mem-
bers of the College Democrats
sought to inform students about
candidates in advance of the
upcoming elections as well as
provide a platform for some
council members to introduce
potential plans for University
and the city of Ann Arbor.
Public Policy senior Erin
Bozek-Jarvis told attendees that
when more people vote overall,
it’s generally positive for Demo-
crats.
“The reason why (Get Out
The Vote) is so important, espe-
cially for Democrats, is because
it’s our time to shine,” she said.
“When voter turnout is high,
Democrats win. That’s a proven
fact. The good thing about being
a Democrat is we have grass-
roots people power and (get out
the vote) is where that shows the
best.”
Echoing Jarvis’s comments,
Washtenaw County Commis-
sioner Yousef Rabhi, who also
Lighting Lead for
classic animated
films discusses
career at Angell
By JACOB RICH
Daily Film Editor
Pixar. Need I say more? You
know their movies, and you love
them. It seems current college
students in particular have a deep
affinity for these films, being the
first generation to have grown up
with their now-classics such as
“Toy Story,” “Finding Nemo” and
“The Incredibles.”
But how does Pixar create
their art? Who are the men and
women that make the visual
beauty of these computer-ani-
mated films possible?
Last week, I crammed myself
into a packed Angell Hall audi-
torium along with dozens of
other University students to
meet a Pixar wizard in the flesh:
Jonathan Pytko. His presenta-
tion gave insight into his career
in digital lighting, as well as a
look at Pixar’s production pro-
cess. He also gave us a preview
of “The Good Dinosaur,” their
latest project.
A veteran Lighting Lead,
Pytko joined the Emeryville,
CA-based company to work
on 2004’s “The Incredibles” (a
hushed wave of excitement and
“oh my god I love that movie so
much” whispers rushed over the
crowd when he listed that bul-
let point on his resume) and has
since lit films like “Ratatouille,”
“Up” and “Brave.”
“I really like to make things
with my hands. I like to build
models and paint and draw, play
with Legos, and all that stuff,”
he said in a post-presentation
interview with The Michigan
Daily. “All that stuff is great, but
you never have that piece, the
piece that you’re missing, or you
don’t have the color for the paint-
ing you’re trying to do. When I
was in high school, I got my first
computer and I started playing
around with (computer anima-
tion). And you have all the colors,
and whatever’s in your head. If
you can get it in there, you can get
it out on the computer, so it’s kind
of this limitless opportunity.”
Pytko began his presentation
by showing us a few proof-of-
concept shots that his team
worked on in pre-production of
“The Good Dinosaur.” They were
drop-dead
gorgeous
moving
images of natural scenes: a leafy
twig with beaded water droplets
and a river flowing through a
mountainous landscape.
Martin also fields
questions on R&E
requirement,
dual-degrees
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
Over ice cream sundaes,
LSA Dean Andrew Martin held
an open forum as part of a con-
tinuing series of #withDean-
Martin talks.
Approximately
20
stu-
dents gathered in the Michi-
gan Union’s Pond Room on
Thursday night to ask Martin
questions about various top-
ics, including the University’s
forthcoming diversity plan and
course evaluations.
During the talk, Martin
emphasized his support for
University
President
Mark
Schlissel’s new diversity plan
that is moving forward this
year. Schlissel is currently
soliciting input from the Uni-
versity’s various units and
departments to inform a larg-
er strategic plan to improve
diversity and inclusion at the
University.
“It’s an incredibly important
process for the University, and
I think it’s going to provide
us a really nice plan for what
we are going to be doing as an
institution
going
forward,”
Martin said. “It’s really some-
thing that this campus holds as
a core value.”
Martin
said
different
departments within LSA are
working on specific initiatives
that could eventually coordi-
nate into a campus-wide stra-
tegic plan down the road.
“All the schools and colleges
are going through a coordinat-
ed strategic planning process
this academic year, and at the
very end this is all going to roll
Wolverines, Golden
Gophers set for
emotional matchup
in Minneapolis
By MAX BULTMAN
Daily Sports Editor
After two long weeks spent
trying to process a shocking loss
to Michigan State on Oct. 17,
the Michigan football team will
finally return to the playing field
Saturday.
The Wolverines travel to Min-
nesota to take on the Golden
Gophers in a game that will be
influenced in large part by emo-
tion.
For Minnesota, Saturday will
be an opportunity to win for Jerry
Kill, the former Golden Gophers
coach who retired Wednesday
due to health concerns. Kill suf-
fered two seizures on Tuesday,
leaving him little choice but to
address his epilepsy head-on and
step away from coaching.
A year after Kill’s squad
brought home the Little Brown
Jug, his team will have to defend
the trophy without its leader. But
as far as Minnesota’s game plan
goes, Michigan isn’t expecting
anything different from interim
Discussion
considers culturally
appropriative dress
on Halloween
By GRIFFIN ST. ONGE
For the Daily
Two days before Halloween,
students gathered to discuss the
complex,
intersectional
issue
of Halloween costume cultural
appropriation and the different
scenarios in which it can occur.
The open dialogue, titled “It’s
Just a Costume, Right?” was
scheduled to be timely and infor-
mative, and aimed to give people
the tools they need to discuss
the issue. The event was hosted
by CommonGround and the IGR
Student Engagement Team.
LSA senior Elena Ross, a mem-
ber of the Student Engagement
Team, was one of the students
responsible for organizing the
night’s discussion and originally
suggested its main topic.
“It’s an issue I see come up
every year and that people don’t
really know how to handle,” Ross
said in an interview after the
event. “We also tried to highlight
bystander intervention in this
dialogue for that reason.”
“We came away with some
actual, tangible tools to use when
… we’re seeing people dressed up
in costumes that we find offen-
sive,” she added.
Generally,
the
participants
discussed ways to mitigate and
intervene in situations where
Halloween costumes target and
present microaggressions toward
specific cultural identities, span-
ning the gamut from ethnically
charged to gender-based outfits.
One guideline in this process
was for students to “expect and
accept a lack of closure” on the
issue in general.
“I came here today because
I feel strongly about my Indian
cultural heritage, and so I iden-
tify with people whose cultures
are portrayed in Halloween cos-
tumes,” said LSA senior Sana
Isaac. “So I think it’s an impor-
tant topic and one I’d like to hear
other perspectives on.”
The dialogue began with a list
of discussion guidelines and a
presentation of different defini-
tions of cultural appropriation.
One of the first exercises
involved participants walking
to one of three different colored
pieces of tape — green, yellow
and red — on the ground for any
given scenario presented. The
green piece represented indi-
CAMPUS LIFE
FILM INTERVIEW
FOOTBALL
See ELECTION, Page 3
See COSTUMES, Page 3
See MINNESOTA, Page 7
See DEAN, Page 3
See PIXAR, Page 5
IGR hosts
dialogue on
costumes,
intervention
Candidates for City Council
emphasize impact of voting
Pixar veteran
Pytko talks ‘The
Good Dinosaur’
LSA dean discusses course
evaluations, diversity plan
‘M’ tries to
regain Little
Brown Jug
on Saturday
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