Beginning as a collection 

of anecdotal interviews with 
more than 200 women in 
1996, The Vagina Monologues 
has since evolved over time 
to 
include 
more 
diverse 

storylines, 
actors 
and 

sexualities in order to be 
representative 
of 
the 
full 

spectrum 
of 
the 
female 

experience.

More than 100 students 

gathered Friday and Saturday 
night 
inside 
Rackham 

Auditorium 
to 
watch 
the 

University’s 
fifth-annual 

production 
of 
the 
play 

directed by LSA junior Clare 
Fairbanks, 
also 
a 
Daily 

copy editor, and produced 
by 
Business 
senior 
Edith 

Zhang. The show was held by 
Students for Choice, a leading 
abortion-rights 
group 
on 

campus. 

Originally 
written 
by 

playwright Eve Ensler, The 
Vagina Monologues consists 
of a series of monologues 
read by various women — 
each dealing with a different 
subject, such as masturbation 
and the female orgasm as 
well as heavier topics such as 
female genital mutilation and 
sexual assault.

In 
the 
“Producer’s 

Note,” Zhang wrote on the 
importance of understanding 
the show to be more than just 
talking about vaginas, as it 

also provides an opportunity 
to listen to people’s personal 
stories and empathize with 
their experiences — though 
possibly different than the 
viewer’s own.

“It’s 
scary, 
but 
these 

actresses push through the 
fear,” she wrote. “Because we 
need to hear these experiences 
that have long been hidden. 
To me, that’s what the The 
Vagina Monologues is about. 

Not about vaginas or periods 
or assault or sex or love or 
moaning or rape or race or 
masturbating or even just 
being a woman. Though each 
topic is covered in a monologue 
and each monologue is a real 
experience, the show overall 
is more than its lady parts. 
It’s a chance to speak up. It’s a 
chance to learn about people. 
It’s a chance to listen. So 
please, listen.”

For the second year, a 

pre-show consisting of eight 
University-student-written 
monologues was performed 
before the commencement of 
the Eve Ensler show. Because 
of the personal nature of the 
monologues, 
content 
was 

not recorded, though themes 
included 
being 
fetishized 

because of one’s race, poor sex 
education in schools and the 

This article is the third part 

of an ongoing series of articles 
outlining specific initiatives of 
Central Student Government on 
campus.

The Bystander Intervention 

and Community Engagement 
program is designed to engage 
students by informing them 
about sexual misconduct and 
providing them with tools and 
strategies to address the issue.

LSA sophomore Samantha 

Kennedy, co-coordinator at the 
Sexual Assault Prevention and 
Awareness Center, stressed the 
importance of this program in 
highlighting the prevalence 
of sexual assault on campus, 
as well as providing students 
with tools to address these 
situations.

“Bystander Intervention is 

a form of preventative work 
that 
focuses 
on 
secondary 

prevention — that means we 
are acknowledging that sexual 
misconduct 
unfortunately 

still exists on campus and 
still occurs in the majority of 
spaces,” she said. “We want to 

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President Donald Trump’s 

preliminary budget proposal 
— released on Thursday — 
could sever the $300 million 
dollars per year Great Lakes 
Restoration Initiative effort 
to clean the Great Lakes basin, 
according to The Detroit News. 
It would cut the Environmental 
Protection Agency’s budget by 
almost one-third overall.

The GLRI began in 2010 to 

protect and restore the Great 
Lakes. In addition to the 
clean-up effort, the initiative 
also aims to control invasive 
species, 
reduce 
nutrient 

runoff and restore habitats 
in the region. It operates 
as 
a 
collaboration 
among 

states, tribes, municipalities, 
universities 
and 
other 

organizations, according to its 
website.

In a statement, U.S. Rep. 

Debbie 
Dingell 
(D–Mich.) 

expressed concern that the 
Trump administration’s new 
budget distorts national values.

“The budget is a statement 

of our values as a nation, and 

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Legislators 
oppose cuts 
to federal 
spending 

GOVERNMENT

Proposed budget aims to 
reduce funding for Great 
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MARCH ON

KEVIN SANTO

Managing Sports Editor

INDIANAPOLIS — John Beilein 

was grinning, peeking around the 
corner of the door.

Then he jumped into the locker 

room, Super Soaker in tow, and the 
water started flying.

Michigan was going to the Sweet 

16 in Kansas City, Mo. The only thing 
that could have made it sweeter was 
if it was legal to use champagne.

“Coach told us that he bought 

a Super Soaker last night,” said 
redshirt sophomore forward DJ 
Wilson. “Because he knew that we 
were going to come out with a win.”

And right he was, as the 

Wolverines 
defeated 
Louisville, 

73-69, to solidify a place in the Sweet 
16 and simultaneously give Beilein a 
second victory against Rick Pitino 
that had eluded him since 2005.

“I went into this game with a lot of 

confidence that I was gonna be using 
it at the end of that game,” Beilein 
said. “At the end of the first half, I 
wasn’t so sure the Super Soaker — it 
was ever gonna be known I had it. 
But we withstood everything they 
had and won the game.”

More than anyone else, Beilein 

has Moritz Wagner to thank for 
that.

Michigan’s sophomore big man 

scored a game-high 26 points on 
11-for-14 
shooting, 
willing 
the 

Wolverines forward in a game that 
— for the majority of the contest — 
looked like it was Louisville’s for the 
taking.

Michigan (10-8 Big Ten, 26-11 

overall) entered the matchup as the 
No. 4 team in the nation in adjusted 
offensive efficiency according to 
Ken Pomeroy. The Cardinals (12-6 
ACC, 25-9 overall), on the other 
hand, took the floor as seventh-

ranked team in adjusted defensive 
efficiency.

In a battle of offensive juggernaut 

and 
defensive 
powerhouse, 

something had to give. In the first 
half, it was Michigan’s offense that 
lost out.

Senior guard Derrick Walton Jr. 

— the man who has been carrying 
Michigan through March— didn’t 
score until the 4:56 mark, when 
he knocked down a pair from the 
charity stripe. Until his 3-pointer 
with 2:33 remaining, Walton was 
0-for-6 from the field. Still, even at 
that point, the Wolverines trailed by 
just three.

In reality, Michigan was lucky 

that was so.

The Wolverines shot 37 percent 

from the floor and were 3-for-11 from 
behind the arc. Louisville didn’t fair 
much better — shooting 42 percent 
from the floor — but dominated 
Michigan on the boards, grabbing 
24 rebounds to the Wolverines’ 16. 
Ten of those came on the offensive 
glass, and the Cardinals made 
Michigan pay, scoring 11 second-
chance points in the first half.

The 
Wolverines’ 
offensive 

struggles culminated in a five-
minute scoring drought that was 
only broken at the 7:57 mark by 
a Wagner layup. Michigan was 
fortunate that Louisville went on a 
scoring drought of its own — failing 
to hit from the field for nearly four 
minutes.

But forward Deng Adel ended 

that 
drought 
with 
authority, 

coasting down the floor on a fast 
break before putting Wilson on a 
poster to give Louisville a five-point 
lead.

Shortly thereafter, it looked like 

Michigan’s luck had finally run out, 
that the story of the team that went 
through a plane crash and made a 
tournament run was coming to a 
close.

It looked like — once again — Rick 

Pitino was going to get the better of 
John Beilein.

There was just over a minute left 

in the frame when Louisville guard 
Donovan Mitchell hit the triple — 
marking just his third field goal of 
the frame.

Adel followed Mitchell’s lead, 

converting from beyond the arc 
on the Cardinals’ next offensive 
possession. And then he nailed a 
pair from the free-throw line.

One minute and 10 seconds, 

an eight-point swing, and the 
Wolverines went from tied at 28 to 
trailing by eight at the half.

But Wagner came out firing.
He scored eight of Michigan’s 

first 10 points in the second half, 
starting what would eventually 
become a 17-point second-half total 
for the sophomore. The Cardinals 
still proved too much, opening 
4-for-6 from the floor to counteract 
Wagner’s individual effort.

Eventually, though, senior wing 

Zak Irvin joined the party — scoring 
six straight points with 13:25 
remaining to cut Michigan’s deficit 
to three. Just over four minutes 
later, junior guard Muhammad-
Ali Abdur-Rahkman finally put 
the Wolverines within striking 
distance, knocking down two free 
throws to tie the game at 53.

From there, it became a slugfest, 

with each team vying back and forth 
for the lead that could send them to 
the Sweet 16.

Wagner 
finally 
gave 

