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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Americans and the
Spanish Civil War
WHAT: This keynote lecture
will focus on American
opposition to the Franco
government, focusing on student
action at the University.
WHO: LSA Bicentennial Theme
Semester
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:20 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan League
Ann Arbor Film Festival
WHAT: The Ann Arbor Film
Festival will be screening
“Broken — The Women’s Prison at
Hooheneck.” Tickets are available
at aafilmfest.org; use discount code
AAFF55_PCAP.
WHO: Prison Creative Arts Project
WHEN: 9:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Theater, Main
Auditorium
Out of the Ordinary
WHAT: Clements Library is
displaying some of the most
extraordinary objects in its
collection, which it has been
building since 1923.
WHO: William L. Clements
Library
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: William Clements
Library, Avenir Foundation Room
Social Justice in Hip-
Hop Panel
WHAT: Prof. Derrick Darby will
moderate a panel with Detroit
artists William Copeland,
Mahogany Jones and Khary
Frazier.
WHO: Artists of Color in Ann
Arbor
WHEN: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
WHERE: C.C. Little Building,
Room 1528
Lebanese Cooking Class
WHAT: The Lebanese Student
Association will host its
annual cooking lesson, where
participants can learn how to
make hummus and manaeesh.
WHO: Lebanese Student
Association
WHEN: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Trotter Multicultural
Center
Ross Application
Workshop
WHAT: Bring your applications,
including job and internship
materials, to be reviewed by
current Business students.
WHO: Association of Latino
Professionals For America
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Ross School of
Business, Blau Hall
Tech Talk: Getting
Started with Fitbit
WHAT: ITS will give a
presentation about the different
kinds of Fitbit trackers and the
individual advantages of each.
WHO: Information and
Technology Services
WHEN: 11 a.m. to Noon
WHERE: Michigan Union, Room
G312
Graduate Conference on
South Asia
WHAT: This interdisciplinary
conference will showcase the
work of graduate students
studying South Asia. Dartmouth
Prof. Douglas Haynes will be the
keynote speaker.
WHO: Center for South Asian
Studies
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social Work,
Room 1636
420 Maynard St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327
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The road to the Final
Four is made in Michigan,
as both the men’s and
women’s playing surfaces
have been built in the
small town of Amasa,
Mich. since 2005.
A company named
Connor Sports, which has
been in business since
1872, manufactures the
playing surfaces, with
all the wood coming
from Michigan’s Upper
Peninsula, MLive
reported.
After the courts are
used in the championship,
the playing surface is
usually purchased by
the winning school to
be installed or used to
fundraise, according to
MLive.
The company
produces 12 courts every
year for the tournament,
including the Final Four
playing surface, Gary
Gray, Connor Sports
portable sales manager,
said.
“We’re a proud
partner of the NCAA
and proud to be the
official court for March
Madness,” Gray said. “We
get to see our labor of love
out on television sets all
across the nation.”
In any case,
Michiganders can take
pride that, even if the
Wolverines don’t make
it, the state will still be
represented in this year’s
final.
- CALEB CHADWELL
ON THE DAILY: MICHIGAN KNOCKS ON WOOD
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LSA freshman Che ‘Rai Laster colors at the De-Stress Through Play event in Angell Hall on Thursday.
COLOR PL AY
“Hush,”
the
10th
Annual
Spring
Monologue
Show
presented by Yoni Ki Baat was
a
performance,
directed
by
LSA senior Irene Syriac, aimed
to challenge stereotypes and
address cultural taboos faced by
South Asian women and other
women of color held.
“Yoni Ki Baat” means “talks
of the vagina” in Sanskrit. In
2003, the South Asian Sisters
organization in San Francisco,
inspired
by
the
Vagina
Monologues, put together the
first Yoni Ki Baat performance
as a space for women of color to
share their stories. Thursday,
it was put on in Rackham
Auditiorium.
Many monologues contained
stories of queer women of color
and the often-silent battles they
face, often bringing the audience
to their feet. Syriac commented
on the importance of the event.
“I’m hoping people in the
audience leave today thinking ‘I
never thought that way before’ or
learned something new,” Syriac
said. “I think that as humans we
are constantly learning and we
are constantly having these new
experiences — it’s good to hear
someone else’s perspective on it.”
Over
a
dozen
performers
took
the
stage
to
address
numerous topics, including their
frustrations with social norms,
understanding love and sexuality
and coming of age. Most of the
monologues were written by
their performers, and took the
form of rhythmic prose, music,
poetry and monologues.
The Michigan Daily was asked
not to record the event.
Music,
Theatre
&
Dance
freshman
Maxwell
Lipari
commented on the effect the
show had on him.
“The most important thing
is hear other people’s stories,”
Lipari said. “To get another
perspective, especially for me
as a white male. I don’t have
these experiences, and hearing
these stories can help me try
to understand other people’s
problems and try to be able
to understand where they are
coming from. That way, I can also
help others try to understand
what’s
going
on,
and
also
recognize my own privilege.”
The program of the event
contained a glossary, which
Syriac said she felt was a
necessary supplement to the
performance.
“The
thing
about
social
justice is that there are a lot of
terms that not everybody not
really understands well,” Syriac
said. “If anyone is here to maybe
learn something or are not super
into social justice and they don’t
know a term, they might learn
something
while
they’re
here.”
Public
Policy
junior
Chandani Wiersba, president
the University of Michigan’s
chapter of Yoni Ki Baat and
event participant, expressed
how she felt storytelling is
critical in changing hearts
and minds, and mentioned the
weight it can carry.
“I hear over and over
from all sorts of people that
narratives
are
the
most
powerful way to connect and to
have empathy,” Wiersba said.
“I think because there is not a
space on campus for women of
color otherwise, we create that
space to empower them and to
have their voices heard.”
All proceeds of the event
were donated to Mai Family
Services, a community-based
non-profit organization that
focuses on addressing the needs
of the South Asian community
in Southeast Michigan. The
organization
specializes
in
domestic violence and mental
health issues.
10th annual monologue show for
women of color talks racial issues
Crowd of nearly 100 gathers at Rackham, discuss LGBTQ and sexual norms
ANNA HARITOS
Daily Staff Reporter