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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

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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.

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