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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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