also spoke about the merits of 
petitioning the government.

“We’re the ones with the 

petition for the legalization of 
recreational marijuana here in 
the state of Michigan,” Spencer 
said.

An couple from Novi, Mich., 

who 
requested 
to 
remain 

anonymous because they were 
talking about drug use, outlined 
the routine for their celebration. 

“We smoked before, in the 

mosh pit, walking out of the 
mosh pit,” they said.

One of the two, a prospective 

student, talked about how Hash 
Bash makes her feel about the 
University.

“I 
was 
going 
to 
apply 

anyways, but this is just an 
added bonus, I guess,” she said. 
“The atmosphere was pretty 
cool because everybody was 
doing the same thing.”

Chris Zane of Washington, 

Mich. said he hopes Michigan 
will 
legalize 
weed 
for 

recreational use, and added that 
Hash Bash offered him a chance 
to spend time “just chilling with 
my buddies, smoking.”

Patrons 
of 
Hash 
Bash 

included 
people 
who 
were 

involved with the cause to 

various 
degrees. 
Another 

woman, 
who 
requested 
to 

remain anonymous, was in Ann 
Arbor for her first Hash Bash.

“We’ve been growing for the 

last three years and we kind of 
wanted to see what it was about 
and, honestly, it’s not what I 
thought it was,” she said.

She attested to the broad 

scope of patrons in attendance.

“I mean it’s actually super 

controlled 
and 
I’m 
really 

surprised there’s actually a 
plethora of people here,” the 
woman said. “Honestly, I was 
surprised to see some older 
people here and it’s kind of nice 
to see a variety of people down 
here, to be honest.”

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inspires 
you 
to 
continue 

participating 
in 
discussion 

surrounding 
gender-based 

violence,” Dunbeck said.

More than 30 works were 

displayed, including drawings, 
poems and film. Participants 
and 
attendees 
agreed 
that 

regardless of the art form, the 
entire display was extremely 
impactful.

LSA junior Yaya Sun said the 

event was more empowering 
than she expected, especially as 
it was her first year attending. 

“I really think it is a great 

way for survivors to get their 
message out,” she said. “It’s an 
opportunity to have a safe space 
that they can explore their 
message through art. Art is a 
really good way of expressing 
your emotions that you can’t 
normally say. I think my favorite 
piece was Sam Kennedy’s ... it 
was very relatable.”

The work Sun referred to is 

“Boys Talk About Me,” which 
Kennedy, an LSA sophomore, 
described as “a collage of stupid 
things boys have said to or about 
me.” The collection includes 
tweets, texts and other posts 
of degrading statements about 
Kennedy, many of them sexist 
and, at times, explicitly violent.

Many other similar pieces 

expressed sometimes shocking 
stories and occurrences, or 
hopes for a better understanding 
of sexuality- and gender-related 
sexual matters.

In a multi-paneled layout 

titled “When You Get It,” LSA 
junior Maeve Pascoe placed a 
drawing of a girl alongside the 
words “just going through an 
endometrial shift.”

“As I sat in the laundry room 

of East Quad making this piece, 
a male student looked over as 
he was loading his laundry and 
remarked that he was impressed 
by my art,” Pascoe wrote. “He 
asked what the words meant. I 
explained, and he became silent. 
… It’s not something most people 

are proud of. In fact, most women 
view it as a burden to bear. But 
why would it be a burden? Should 
our lives be a burden? It’s a natural 
part of life. Embrace it or not, it 
happens, and it’s something I’ve 
come to peace with. After all, it’s 
just a shift.”

A film played behind the art 

displays, which was an original 
creation by LSA freshman Shreya 
Patel for a class project.

“My first attempt at tackling 

this 
concept 
took 
a 
subtle 

approach using poetry as the 
audio component and abstract 
cultural patterns for visuals,” 
Patel said. “I decided to try and 
make a video that attempts at a 
resolution to the biggest area of 
neglect within my life.”

Many 
SAPAC 
volunteers 

expressed that they wanted 
the event to be focused on 
empowerment for individuals 
affected by sexual and gender 
violence, sexism and other 
related issues.

“I wanted to tackle my fear of 

coming out about sexual abuse,” 
Patel finished.

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the federal government out of 
the 
important 
technological 

and economic benefits that we 
would realize from accelerating 
renewable energy as well as our 
participation in global markets,” 
Rood said. “Countries like China 
and Germany and other large 
economies will keep going on 
with technological innovation in 
addressing climate change, so it 
isolates us in that way.”

Conversely, 
LSA 
junior 

Enrique Zalamea, the chair of the 
University’s chapter of College 
Republicans chair, said he favors 
Trump’s executive orders, and 
believes less regulation is key to the 
United States’s competitiveness in 
the global market.

“Global climate change is a 

universal issue; shouldering the 
burden of restrictive climate 
change regulations should not fall 
on countries like the U.S., while 
free-rider countries like India 
and China continue to increase 

their (carbon dioxide) emissions, 
and with it their GDP,” Zalamea 
said. “We need to become more 
competitive in the global market, 
and one way to get there is 
through less regulations from the 
EPA.”

In the long-term, Zalamea 

said, he wants to see the move 
to more efficient alternative 
energy sources and currently 
favors a plan proposed by 
conservatives that would roll 
back EPA regulations while also 
instituting a carbon dioxide 
emissions tax to slowly shift to 
cleaner energy.

“I do hope that one day we can 

transition into more affordable 
and efficient alternate energy 
sources such as solar power or 
nuclear energy,” Zalamea said. 
“One of the ways we can make this 
big transition is through the zero-
sum carbon tax plan, proposed 
just a few months ago by a group 
of Republican congressmen.”

Contrary to Zalamea, LSA 

junior Rowan Conybeare, the 
chair of the University’s chapter 
of College Democrats, said she 
believes 
Trump’s 
executive 

order is “backwards” and will 
have a negative impact on the 
climate and air quality.

“Trump’s executive action 

to roll back climate regulations 
is 
incredibly 
dangerous; 
it 

will negatively impact the air 
quality in every state, including 
Michigan,” 
Conybeare 
said. 

“We, as a state, have some of the 
most precious natural resources 
in the world — our state, and 
the livelihood of millions of 
people, are in danger because of 
Trump’s actions on climate.”

Conybeare also said she 

believes Trump’s order will not 
succeed in creating jobs since 
it does not focus on long-term 
renewable energy.

“Fortune 
reported 
earlier 

this year that renewable energy 
is creating jobs 12 times faster 
than the rest of the economy,” 
Conybeare 
said. 
“Trump’s 

executive order isn’t about 
boosting the economy — it’s 
about 
denying 
the 
impact 

and 
existence 
of 
climate 

change in favor of appeasing 
large 
corporations 
and 

manufacturers.”

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made audible.

He stated languages seem very 

complex, and this view was held 
by professional linguists just 60 
years ago. However, a new program 
called the Biolinguistic Program has 
shown how languages, in reality, are 
consistent from one to another. He 
briefly discussed the importance 
of biology in his work by hinting at 
some of his most familiar discoveries 
— language acquisition devices.

“At peak periods of language 

acquisition, children are acquiring 
about a word an hour, that is, often on 
one presentation,” Chomsky said. “It 
must be, then, that the rich meaning 
of even the most elementary words 

is substantially innate.”

He 
continued 
by 
saying 

linguistics, 
in 
particular, 
faces 

difficulty with Galileo’s objective 
because it must account for evolution. 
He asserted the language faculty 
emerged with modern humans, but 
not too much information is known 
about the evolution of modern 
humans. This, in Chomsky’s mind, 
complicates the primary goal of the 
Galilean Challenge — to determine 
the genetic structures that allow for 
language.

Chomsky, also a renowned social 

critic and political activist, was 
asked by an audience member what 
could be done to turn the United 
States around from its current 
state. He urged listeners to do 
anything to speak out, asserting the 
United States is still a free society 

with many opportunities to have 
individual voices heard. He also 
concluded that there is popular 
base of people capable of enacting 
serious changes to the current 
governmental practices. One of 
the necessary changes, Chomsky 
argued, is campaign finance.

“For 
well 
over 
a 
century, 

elections in the United States have 
been essentially bought,” he said. 
“You can pretty well predict the 
electability simply on the basis of 
campaign funding.”

LSA senior Anthony Quail shared 

Chomsky’s hopes for uniting and 
mobilizing the public.

“In the present climate, it’s easy 

to forget that change starts with 
individual actions,” he said. “We 
cannot allow ourselves to feel 
powerless.”

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“It was a long battle through 

the year, but at the end we’re 
on top and that’s what’s good,” 
Thompson said, who currently 
holds three program records 
for games played (41), minutes 
played (4,776) and total assists 
(545). She played for the 
entirety of the game. 

The game started as tense 

and hectic as the ending. 
Within 34 seconds, Thome 
committed her first personal 
foul, ensuring the first two 
points on the board were from 
Georgia Tech’s forward Zaire 
O’Neil in a pair of free throws.

It was fitting that the 

Wolverines’ two seniors made 
the team’s first five points 
of the game, with Williams’ 
classmate, Thompson joining 
her on the statsheet with 
a field goal after Williams 
converted from beyond the 
arc.

It was sophomore guard 

Nicole Munger who pushed 
the Wolverines ahead of the 
Yellow Jackets for the first 
time with a 3-pointer that 
made the game 15-14 with 
just over a minute left of 
play in the first — a scoreline 
that 
remained 
unchanged 

going into the second period. 
Michigan was winning despite 
shooting just 27 percent from 
the floor.

In a media timeout with 

4:44 left to go in the second 
quarter, each team totaled 
four fouls and Michigan was 
down by four. Notably, up to 
this point, Flaherty had only 
posted a pair of free throws.

In true Flaherty fashion, 

though, 
this 
slump 
didn’t 

last for long. After going 
0-for-7 in field goals and 0-4 
in 3-pointers, Flaherty hit 
a layup and a 3-pointer to 
push the score in favor of the 
Wolverines. After taking a hit 
in the face during a frenzy dive 
for the basketball — something 
the referees didn’t make a call 
on — Flaherty got called for 
her own foul downcourt on the 
same player, Georgia Tech’s 
O’Neil. 

The 
game 
got 
uglier, 

another foul got called on 
Georgia Tech and Thome 
converted in the bonus to 
leave the score at 28-25. Going 
into 
halftime, 
the 
Yellow 

Jackets had made a pair of 
free throws, making it a one-
point game. 

The first major advantage 

of the game — a lead over 
four points — went to the 
Wolverines after a field goal 
from 
junior 
guard 
Jillian 

Dunston. Another two-point 
field goal from Thome had 
Michigan in a 38-33 position 
in the third quarter. 

The 
Wolverines 
lost 

that 
edge, 
though, 
with 

around a minute left to go 
in the third period when the 
Yellow Jackets tied it at 40. 
With a defensive rebound, 
Georgia Tech was able to 
bring it down court for a 
layup with no Wolverine to 
defend them. Another foul on 
Georgia Tech’s O’Neil gave 
Flaherty a chance to make 
three 
free 
throws. 
Going 

3-for-3, Flaherty brought her 
teammates into the fourth 
period leading, 43-42. 

The game wound down in 

a back and forth affair, and 
with roughly five minutes to 
go in the game, Barnes Arico 
called a time out with her 
team trailing by four. The 
Wolverines were in a hole, but 
a shallow one. The crowd’s 
roar overtook the stadium, 
deafening 
the 
arena. 
The 

championship 
victory 
was 

still possible. 

From there, the Wolverines 

managed to push the game to 
three overtimes.

“We wore the other team 

down,” Barnes Arico said. 

 And the rest — as Michigan’s 

future banner will tell — is 
Crisler Center history. 

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workforce,” Andrasko said. “Lean 
In is all about creating an open 
dialogue and trying to talk about 
issues that are sort of brushed under 
the rug, so we wanted to bring in 
influential speakers to talk about 
intersectionality and diversity.”

In her speech, Congresswoman 

Dingell 
emphasized 
how 

important it is for women to 
support one another, saying her 

network of women was an integral 
contributor to her own political 
successes politically. 

“Trust me when I tell you 

the 
importance 
of 
building 

relationships with your female 
peers,” Dingell said. “I’ve been 
where you are, I’ve been in your 
shoes. As women, we are all on the 
same team. We need to lift each 
other up, we need to celebrate one 
another’s successes.”

She 
also 
brought 
up 
the 

difficulties of balancing different 
aspects of her life, as childcare 

and personal relationships are still 
more of an issue for women in the 
workplace than they are for men. 
Dingell said while it was difficult 
having to respond to sexism, she 
did not allow it to discourage her 
and instead focused on proving 
those who doubted her wrong.

“You have a lot of the same 

problems that I did, which is how to 
get the door open,” Dingell said. 

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