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ACROSS
1 Took a powder
5 Wake-up call
alternative
10 Real estate ad
abbr. after 2 or 3,
commonly
14 Golfer Aoki
15 Blender button
16 “Wonderfilled”
cookie
17 One of a daily
three at the table
19 __ colada:
cocktail
20 Heart rate
21 Tempo
22 Tar Heel State
university
23 Hunting dog
25 Israeli currency
27 __ out a living
29 Fiber-__ cable
32 Temperate
35 Jinx
39 Tokyo, long ago
40 Drink cooler
41 Ten-spot
42 Ga. neighbor
43 Voting mo.
44 Ditching class,
say
45 Visa rival, for
short
46 Mournful toll
48 Former OTC
market regulator
50 Trendy, with “the”
54 NFL team that
moved from St.
Louis in 2016
58 Perfume that
sounds
forbidden
60 Foes of us
62 “The Bourne
Identity” star Matt
63 Universal donor’s
blood type, briefly
64 Reality show
hosted by rapper
M.C.
66 “Golly!”
67 Suggest
68 Salinger title girl
69 Aardvark fare
70 Affectionate
nickname
71 __-Pei: wrinkly
dog

DOWN
1 Talks like
Sylvester
2 Suffix with arab
3 San Andreas __
4 Like much
breakfast bread
5 Jungle chest-
beater
6 Sugar cube
7 Real estate
calculations
8 Gunslinger’s
“Hands up!”
9 Brawl
10 Girl with a
missing flock
11 Military marching
unit
12 Gambling town
northeast of
Sacramento
13 Sound of pain
18 Smell bad
24 Halfway house
activity
26 Oddball
28 Spreads, as
seeds
30 Sitting around
doing nothing
31 Win over gently
32 Luxurious fur
33 Twitter’s bird, e.g.

34 Utmost effort
36 Brit. honor
37 Brooks’ country
music partner
38 In base eight
41 Fries sprinkling
45 Costs for
sponsors
47 Guffaws or
giggles
49 Iraq’s __ City
51 Code of conduct
52 SeaWorld orca

53 Entice
55 Horse-and-
buggy-driving
sect
56 Mother’s
nickname
57 Lip-curling look
58 Frat party robe
59 Very shortly, to
Shakespeare
61 Mid-21st century
date
65 Cornea’s place

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“

Black and Third World 
people are expected to 
educate 
white 
people 

as to our humanity. Women 
are expected to educate men. 
Lesbians 
and 
gay 

men 
are 
expected 

to 
educate 
the 

heterosexual world. 
The 
oppressors 

maintain 
their 

position and evade 
responsibility 
for 

their own actions. 
There is a constant 
drain 
of 
energy 

which 
might 
be 

better 
used 
in 

redefining ourselves 
and devising realistic scenarios 
for altering the present and 
constructing the future.”

— 
Audre 
Lorde, 
“Sister 

Outsider: Essays and Speeches”

***

If there is anything that the 

past few weeks have given me, 
it is renewed respect for my 
professors. Maybe it’s because 
I’m taking humanities courses 
— English, history and drama — 
but every professor I have has 
talked about the impossibility of 
separating our identities from 
our existence in classrooms, 
and 
course 
material 
from 

current 
contextualization. 

Every 
professor 
has 

acknowledged the past few 
weeks and the current climate 
range from disheartening to 
dangerous for different people. 
Many have offered information 
about University of Michigan 
resources (which some feel are 
inadequate) as well as their 
own personal support.

In one of my English classes, 

my professor talked about the 
evolution of our understanding 
of “truth” as a concept. Truth 
used to be seen as objective; 
we now know that truth is 
relative. But she argued that 
truth is more than relative — 
it is positional, meaning that 
sometimes 
the 
only 
thing 

separating 
two 
people 
on 

opposite sides of an issue is the 
fact that they are on opposite 
sides.

Hearing that flipped a switch 

in my brain. Over the past 
two weeks, my Facebook and 
Twitter feeds — not to mention 
classroom discussions — have 
been nothing but reactions 
to the election. Most people 
who 
supported 
Democratic 

presidential nominee Hillary 
Clinton, even if only because 
she was better than the other 
options, seem to fall into two 
groups. One group advocates 
empathy, saying that dismissing 
all Trump supporters is not 
going to help solve anything. 
The other group maintains 
that they owe supporters of 
President-elect Donald Trump 
as much respect as they feel 
those supporters gave them 
in giving their votes to a 
misogynistic, xenophobic man 
with a dangerously homophobic 
vice president.

Some 
defend 
Trump 

supporters by saying that not 
all of them are racist and sexist. 
A common rejoinder to this is 
that even if they aren’t racist or 
sexist, they are still supporting 

misogynistic 
and 

xenophobic rhetoric 
and actions. I think 
this is where the 
idea that truth is 
positional comes into 
play. Racism, sexism, 
homophobia — all of 
these are societally 
ingrained in us. But 
not everyone has the 
toolkit that allows 
us to recognize the 
internalization 
of 

these 
constructions. 
This 

toolkit comes from several 
factors: living in a place with 
a 
diverse 
and 
integrated 

population, a good education 
from educators of a variety 
of backgrounds, exposure to 
different perspectives through 
a variety of mediums and a 
support system that will listen 
to you and help you educate 
yourself.

Thinking about this toolkit 

is especially relevant for this 
next week. I’ve seen a lot of my 
peers — especially the people 
who maintain that the rhetoric 
surrounding 
extending 

empathy to Trump supporters 
is unfair and misdirected — on 
Facebook and Twitter talking 
about how they don’t want to 
spend time with conservative 
family members over the next 
few days during the break. This 
is where truth being positional 
is important. The discussion 
surrounding empathy is an 
important one, but it shouldn’t 
be the first. The question that 
all white allies, or male allies, 
or straight allies (hegemonic 
bonus if you’re all three) etc. 
need to ask themselves first 
is what separates them from 
their 
conservative 
family 

members? What separates a 
straight white male ally from a 
Trump supporter in that same 
demographic?

I think that knowledge of 

the toolkit is one of the main 
separations. The kind of Trump 
supporters that most people are 
talking about — although the 
whole narrative that Trump’s 
main demographic was the 
rural white working class is a 
myth, he was overwhelmingly 
voted into office by people 
with higher incomes, but that’s 
another column entirely — don’t 
have access to several tools in 
the kit I’m talking about. One 
of my history professors said 
that what struck her more 
than anything else about this 
election was the rural/urban 
divide, and that’s telling. Living 
in an urban area will almost 
always force you into contact 
with more different kinds of 
people and ideas. There has 
been abundant discourse on 
the resentment of the white 
working 
class 
for 
feeling 

ignored by wealthy coastal 
liberals; some argue that coastal 

intellectual elites need to have 
more empathy for them. After 
all, there’s no rhetoric around 
“allyhood” when we talk about 
the lower or working class. 
There has also been discourse 
that argues white working class 
people in rural areas aren’t as 
exposed to different people and 
perspectives in the way those 
who live in urban areas are. 
Both things are true.

It is not my place as a white 

person to tell people of color 
to have empathy for Trump 
supporters.

At the same time, it is not 

my place as a white person to 
refuse to talk to conservative 
white people who might have 
voted for Trump.

This is true for the same 

reason that it shouldn’t always 
have to be women raising their 
hands in history classes, when 
people are discussing whether 
or not Trump’s policies will 
be “that bad” for women, to 
explain 
that 
regardless 
of 

whether his policies will match 
his rhetoric, his rhetoric itself 
— both public and private — 
reflects a fundamental lack 
of respect for women. It’s 
the same way that members 
of the LGBTQIA community 
shouldn’t have to take a deep 
breath and explain why Mike 
Pence’s moral and monetary 
support of conversion therapy 
for 
gay 
teens 
represents 

emotional torture and a suicide 
risk for teens. Muslim women 
shouldn’t have to be the only 
ones talking about why this can 
make every day feel unsafe.

The whole point of being an 

ally is leveraging the privilege 
you have in one identity (male, 
straight, white) to help amplify 
the voices and the concerns 
of marginalized communities 
you don’t belong to. It is not 
to co-opt the pain of a group 
of people, which it sometimes 
devolves into when I hear 
white allies saying they don’t 
want to talk about issues with 
conservative family members. 
It is not to give yourself a 
voice in an arena in which you 
otherwise wouldn’t have one. 
It is not to receive a stamp of 
approval from the community 
you are trying to support. It is 
to use your voice when it’s safer 
for you to do so than it would 
be for people who inhabit the 
identities with which you are 
standing in solidarity.

One of my English professors 

told us a few days after the 
election that it might sound 
cheesy, but we all have to take 
care of each other out there. I 
think that this — keeping in 
mind what it really means to be 
an ally, and trying to spread the 
tools in that toolkit as far and 
wide as we can — is the one of 
the only ways we’re going to be 
able to do it.

Kaufman is looking for the 

next cause to get involved 

in. To give her suggestions, 

email sophkauf@umich.edu

What comes next?

In the wake of the presidential election, questions arise about comfort 

GENDER & MEDIA COLUMN

SOPHIA

KAUFMAN

ALBUM REVIEW

It has been five years since 

Tyler, 
the 
Creator 
famously 

threatened to “stab Bruno Mars 
in his god damn esophagus,” 
catapulting 
himself 
toward 

celebrity 
status 

and labeling the 
starry-eyed singer 
as an enemy of 
the 
internet’s 

subcultural 
angst. Mars was 
an 
ideal 
target 

for Tyler’s anti-
establishment 
rhetoric back then: 
a clean-cut songwriter and music 
industry insider who walked into 
the spotlight with a catchy hook 
and a string of radio hits. He sang 
tongue-in-cheek love songs to 
win mothers’ hearts everywhere 
— eventually claiming enough of 
them to headline the Super Bowl 
— but his lyrics felt more like parts 
of a grand, romantic shtick than 
genuine 
emotional 
offerings. 

Bruno Mars was another one of 
those pop acts that “hip” people 
loved to hate. Talented? Yes. 
Successful? Absolutely. But it 
seemed impossible for him to be 
cool.

Fortunately, 
Bruno 
Mars’ 

latest album, 24K Magic, which 
released on Friday, Nov. 18th, is 
unrecognizable in almost every 
way from his hearty, Radio-
Disney-aimed debut, “Doo Wops 
& Hooligans.” On “Doo Wops,” 
he used soulful affirmations like, 
“You’re amazing just the way 
you are” and “I think I want to 
marry you” to frame his pop 
persona as caring, considerate 
and, above all else, approvable, 
but 24K Magic is more fit to 
score a cocaine bender than 
an innocent first date. Bruno 
bursts out into shouts over thick, 
feverish strumming and hard-
hitting 
percussion, 
strutting 

across groovy synthesizers for 

sport and boasting like a true 
Atlantic City gangster to further 
construct his 1980s-nightclub 
persona.

At just nine tracks long, 

24K Magic almost never stops 
bouncing, its excited vibrations 
seeping 
through 
headphones 

and blaring out of speakers as a 

personal 
assault 

on 
all 
those 

standing 
still. 

On the first song, 
which is also the 
title-track, Bruno 
declares,”Pop! 
Pop! 
It’s 

showtime!” as if 
to warn old fans 
that 
something 

different is underway. Then, 
on “Chunky,” he walks across 
one of the thickest, funkiest 
bass lines in recent memory, 
announcing on the hook: “If you 
ain’t here to party, take your ass 
back home. “Perm” is defined 
by frantic strumming, blaring 
brass 
and 
James-Brown-like 

energy, 
while 
“Finesse,” 
a 

second-half standout, is a coolly 
executed experiment within the 
‘90s boy-band soundscape.

Perhaps Bruno’s transition 

from 
swooning 
lovebird 
to 

hyper-masculine 
fun 
fiend 

was 
somewhat 
predictable: 

his 
second 
album, 
2013’s 

Unorthodox Jukebox, indulged 
in a diverse set of styles while 
last 
year’s 
enormous 
hit 

“Uptown Funk” — produced 
by Mark Ronson — teased his 
tapping into boogey-down eras. 
Still, aggressive demands like, 
“If I ring don’t let it ring too 
long,” which appears on the 
purring, slow song, “Calling All 
My Lovelies,” seem strikingly 
out of character for a man 
who once promised to “catch 
a grenade” for his loved one. 
This attitude change is a good 
thing though, as it adds a layer 
of 
spice 
without 
intruding 

on Bruno Mars’s seemingly 
trademarked soft side. “That’s 

White I Like” achieves perfect 
synergy with his two tones, but 
album-closer “Too Good To Say 
Goodbye” lets the lovebird take 
the microphone.

It’s 
impossible 
not 
to 

compare 24K Magic to Michael 
Jackson’s 
classically 
groovy 

album Off The Wall, especially 
when considering that MJ’s 
longtime musical director, Greg 
Phillinganes, delivered a synth 
solo for the new album’s most 
intimate offering, “Versace on 
the Floor.” Bruno Mars was 
so obviously inspired by Off 
The Wall’s exuberance and 
structure, its clean, brief length 
and unswerving focus on quick-
footed fun, its ability to squeeze 
bubblegum teen-pleasers like 
“Girlfriend” and “It’s the Falling 
in Love” into an otherwise disc-
jockey-ready track-list. There’s 
influence from every swag-
having, heterosexual pop star 
in history stamped somewhere 
on 24K Magic, but Bruno Mars 
seems most intent on chasing 
Jackson’s 
legacy, 
probably 

because it is one of the few lanes 
diverse enough to host all of his 
shapes. It will be fun to watch 
what he evolves into next.

In the meantime, though, 24K 

Magic is sure to shock the world 
with its rhythmic precision 
and timeless sounds. Bruno 
Mars has created a project that 
should prove capable of moving 
parents, 
twenty-somethings 

and teenagers alike, one of 
those ultra rare pop records 
that is painfully fun to listen to, 
one that is both masculine and 
caring, indulgent and emotional, 
but not too much of either. 
Remember “Get Lucky” Or 
“SexyBack?” There is no greater 
phenomenon than pop music 
being good — not carefully-
constructed or well-marketed, 
but actually fun, creative and 
exciting. Bruno Mars is trying 
to usher us into a new golden era 
of pop. I’m sure as hell rooting 
for him to pull it off. 

‘24K Magic’ mixes classic 
grooves with modernity

SALVATORE DIGIOIA

Daily Arts Writer

Bruno Mars may be the next Michael Jackson on sexier album

A-

“24K Magic”

Bruno Mars

Atlantic Records

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