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COSTUME PREPARATIONS. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com
Though most students at
the University of Michigan are
long past their trick-or-treating
days, the Halloween spirit still
lives on — Halloween and its
festivities now come begin a
week before the actual holiday,
with various events on campus
getting students in the holiday
mood.
This week at the University,
there are several events slated
to celebrate the holiday, such as
the North Campus Haunted Bell
Tower, a Spookappella concert,
Halloween at the Ann Arbor
Farmers Market and a haunted
house hosted by Triangle
Fraternity and Phi Sigma Rho
sorority.
Triangle and Phi Sigma Rho
will host their haunted house
Tuesday to Thursday, from 8:30
p.m. to midnight. The Triangle
haunted house will cost $5 at
the door, but tickets are on
pre-sale for $3, with donations
going to Habitat for Humanity
and STEMpowered Detroit.
Closer to Halloween, (g)
imble and Maize Mirchi
will host what they call the
spookiest A Cappella event
of the year. The event will be
Friday night at the Modern
Languages Building. The
groups will don their
favorite costumes, sing
festive Halloween tunes
and introduce each group’s
new members. Attendees
are encouraged to wear
costumes.
Then, on Saturday, the
Ann Arbor Farmers Market
will host “Halloween at the
Market.” Guests can dress
up in costumes, go trick-or-
treating and play themed
games. At the event, Beyond
the Diag will be offering
free donuts and cider from 9
a.m. to 10 a.m.
To cap off a weekend
full of Halloween festivities,
the Haunted Bell Tower on
North Campus, which will be
decorated for Halloween, will
take place from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
on Monday, Oct. 31 and students
will be able to enter the Bell
Tower at no cost.
Whether you attend all
these events, wear a costume
all week long or just eat
some candy, there’s plenty of
Halloween spirit to go around
this week.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Foy Vance with Trevor
Sensor
WHAT: Northern Irish artist
Foy Vance, with guest Trevor
Sensor, will perform a concert
on a tour as a support act to Ed
Sheeran.
WHO: Blind Pig and Ann
Arbor’s 107one
WHEN: 9 p.m.
WHERE: Blind Pig
Take a Chance with
Rebecca Loebe
WHAT: Ranked ninth in Alternate
Root magazine’s annual best 30
female singers in America chart,
Austin-based artist Rebecca Loebe
will perform songs at a free show.
WHO: The Ark
WHEN: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark
Jazz Lab Ensemble
WHAT: The Jazz Lab Ensemble
and Jazz Trombone Ensemble
will perform a free concert.
WHO: School of Music, Theatre
& Dance
WHEN: 8 p.m.
WHERE: Walgreen Drama
Center Stamps Auditorium
MHealthy’s “In the
Kitchen with Chef -
Vegetarian Style”
WHAT: Learn how to make tasty
vegetarian meals, for you and
your friends, from an MDining
chef and dietician.
WHO: MHealthy
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union
Fast Food for Thought
WHAT: The third annual talk
will present 10 talks from 10
faculty members about our food
and agriculture systems.
WHO: Sustainable Food
Systems Initiative
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Dana Building,
Room 1040
Succeeding as
a Student &
Entrepreneur
WHAT: Tips and tricks from
students on how to succeed as
a student with entrepreneurial
interests.
WHO: Career Center
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Shapiro Library,
Innovation Space
Astrophotography 101
WHAT: A workshop session
with guest speaker Dr. Brian D.
Ottum, overviewing how to do
astrophotography with a step-by-
step path for beginners.
WHO: Michigan Photography
Club
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Mason Hall, Room
1437
Health Care Disparities
WHAT: Michelle Meader,
Rehabilitation Psychologist,
talks about identifying
modifiable factors of health
disparities.
WHO: Council for Disability
Concerns
WHEN: 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.
WHERE: Taubman Library,
Room 2901
ON THE DAILY: CAMPUS GEARS UP FOR HALLOWEEN FUN
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Authors Graham MacIndoe and Susan Stellin speak about their book “Chan-
cers: Addiction, Prison, Recovery, Love” in East Quad on Monday.
FE ATURE FOTO
crime control programs and
initiatives by providing grants for
training officers and improving
incarceration conditions.
Thompson said her work points
to the origin of the war on crime
stemming from not only racism
based in the southern United
States, but also a mentality many
white northerners held during
the Civil Rights Movement.
“To many white Detroiters, the
mere presence of so many more
African Americans in the wake of
the Second Great Migration, who
were vocal about their need for
an equal share of civil resources,
was
threatening,
dangerous
and even criminal,” Thompson
said. “White southerners, both
ordinary citizens and elected
officials, had long equated Civil
Rights unrest with criminality,
and when African Americans
began fighting for greater equality
in the North as much as in the
South, this is how northern whites
began to interpret their actions as
well.”
While
many
researchers
argue that the war on crime was
instituted in reaction to increasing
homicide and violent crime rates,
Thompson said she thinks this is
misleading, if not blatantly untrue.
“The murder rate had been
far higher in the 1930s — as high
as 9.7 per 100,000,” she said.
“Indeed, if one looks at the entire
20th century, it is remarkable
how much safer the 1960s were
compared to previous decades.”
Thompson argued that because
federal funding is allocated by
need, Detroit had an incentive to
boost crime figures, resulting in
a much more aggressive form of
policing than Detroit had seen
prior to the War on Crime.
“Thanks to the intensified
criminalization of urban space
in the 1970s and 1980s, today,
Michigan’s
prison
population
has increased by (53.8) percent,”
Thompson said.
This increase in the prison
population has had a significant
social impact on Detroit, including
the orphaning of many of Detroit’s
children, Thompson said.
“According
to
the
Pew
Foundation and the Osborne
Society, by 2010, more than 2.7
million children in the United
States had a parent in prison and
approximately 10 million had a
parent who had been incarcerated
at some point in their childhood,”
Thompson said.
“This
experience
fell
disproportionately on children of
color, with one in nine African-
American kids experiencing this
trauma compared to one in 57
white kids (with parents who have
been in prison),” she added.
Increased
incarceration
rates have had deep economic
consequences as well, making it
almost impossible for a formerly
convicted person to find a steady
source of legal income, according
to Thompson.
“Not
only
did
employers
routinely require them to reveal
whether they had a criminal
record, but employers also made
clear that they were unlikely
to hire anyone who had been
convicted of a crime,” Thompson
said.
Ultimately, Thompson said,
the
profitability
of
private
prisons in Michigan is one of
the greater causes of Detroit’s
economic
collapse
and
has
played a tremendous role in the
deindustrialization in the former
manufacturing city.
However, she added that not
only does the private sector
have culpability fror the prison
industry, but the government does
as well.
“Detroiters lost jobs not just
because companies moved their
work
and
consumers
moved
their purchasing dollars into
Michigan’s
prisons,
but
also
because the state was investing
more money in building prisons
than in building or incentivizing
factories in the free world that
would, in turn, employ free-world
workers,” she said.
While Detroit’s recent history
is
complex,
Thompson
said
continuing to conduct research
like hers will help the state and
the
country
understand
the
broader needs of the city and the
roots of the unjust practices that
have taken place.
“Ultimately, Detroit suffered
much economic fallout from a
now
almost
five-decades-long
War on Crime, and if we really
are to understand the dire fate of
this city, we must understand the
hidden as well as visible costs of
the dramatic punitive turn we
took as a nation in the wake of the
Civil Rights ‘60s,” Thompson said.
RESEARCH
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