6B — Thursday, October 3, 2019
Arts
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‘Clementine’
Halsey
Capitol Records
SINGLE REVIEW: ‘CLEMENTINE’
Halsey
has
established
herself as a powerful force in
the music industry, taking her
career beyond music and diving
into the metaphors and artistry
to make her sound come to life.
The music video for her single,
“Clementine,” which is
the second release from
her
upcoming
album
Manic, is a testament to
her profound emotions
and artistic style. Halsey
dropped the video on her
birthday — Sept. 29 —
and its artistic approach
closely
resembles
her
live performance for the
Billboard Music Awards
back in May.
The video takes place in the
viewing area of an aquarium
and features Halsey and her
brother,
Servian,
dancing
among the tanks of aquatic
animals.
Like
her
BBMA
performance, the two siblings
perform in-sync movements
and interact with each other
in a manner that symbolically
gives off the feel of the push and
pull of conflicting personalities.
As someone who has bipolar
disorder, Halsey likes to play
with the symbolism in dual
identities, and “Clementine,”
along
with
her
previously
released “Graveyard” give a
glimpse into what that looks
and feels like to her.
The video follows the sibling
duo through the aquarium
where they exude a passionate
energy up until the end when
they
reach
a
tunnel
and
suddenly start to slow down.
Halsey
walks
away
from
her brother in a hazy
manner, staring at the fish
surrounding her before
slumping to the ground,
seemingly
exhausted.
The video ends on the
most repeated line of the
song “I don’t need anyone
/ I just need everyone
and then some.” Both
the song and the video
feel symbolic in many
ways, and the title of her new
album suggests the theme of
internalized struggles will be
prominent in the remaining
songs of her collection.
— Kaitlyn Fox, Daily Arts
Writer
CAPITOL RECORDS
“At the game, you have all the radical students, the hippies, the
long hair, people with smoke coming out of their nostrils all week,
sitting side by side with the teachers, the professors, the alumni, the
establishment, and they were all yelling and screaming together to kill
Ohio State,” Papanek said.
All the excitement in the air transferred to the sports world at the
University, making it a very fun section to write for.
Papanek recalls a particularly humorous story that was written by
Bill Alterman, a Sports writer at the time, where Frank Lauterbur,
then coach of the Iowa football team, was so distraught by his loss to
the University football team that he delivered an aggressive string of
profanities when asked about how felt about the game, which no one
but the Daily published. To avoid another argument over publishing
a string of profanity right now, I will link the article here for you all
to see.
Ironically, Papanek used his experience in a paper journalism to
help Sports Illustrated and ESPN transfer from paper to the digital
landscape, far ahead of most publications. He prophesied the changing
digital landscape as outcompeting print media in the future.
“Magazines on paper and newspapers on paper are a very
endangered species, and they’re disappearing fast,” Papanek
explained. This significant transition comes with implications.
Papanek believes that there is still a value to print journalism — a
value that is lost when you switch to digital platforms.
“Without even reading a word of what you’ve written, someone
could pick this up and say there’s quality here. There’s good work that’s
been done here,” Papanek said. The challenge presented to young
journalists and The Daily today is now that anyone can publish their
thoughts on the web, how are we to establish ourselves as credible and
truthful, when there is so much propaganda being published?
“I hope and pray that Michigan Daily continues to stand for
editorial freedoms, accuracy, truth and fearlessness,” Papanek stated.
Tony Schwartz — Class of 1974, Former New York Times
reporter and staff writer for New York Magazine and Esquire
Tony Schwartz joined the News section as a freshman eager to
write about shoplifting, of all things. When his work appeared on
the front page of the paper below The Daily logo, he was hooked on
writing.
“Here I was, 18 years old and walking around the campus, and
everywhere I walk there was my piece with my name on it. That was
intoxicating to me … And so I continued to write,” Schwartz said in an
interview with The Daily.
Schwartz also pitched and successfully launched the Sunday
Magazine, a magazine that ran inside The Daily. The Sunday
Magazine would be published for years after he left, and it went on to
win awards as the best college magazine.
“To the people who were out there reporting news stories every
day ... The Daily was their life and academics were purely secondary,”
Schwartz explained. The Daily was in the midst of Watergate,
challenging the journalists in the newsroom. And it showed. The
Daily produced incredible journalists of high caliber, such as Pulitzer
Prize-winner Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post.
The Daily was a launching pad for Schwartz’s own journalism
career. He got the opportunity to interview many high-profile people
such as Arthur Miller (“The Crucible”) and Joseph Heller (“Catch
22”). Heller happened to have a friend who was a managing editor at
the New York Times, who vouched for Schwartz to get an interview.
This worked, and Schwartz ended up getting a job at The New York
Times. Many of the skills he used during his time as an esteemed
journalist and novelist he learned at The Daily.
“I learned how to be a reporter there. The standard to which we
were all held was very high, and the respect that the paper got in the
University community was high,” Schwartz said.
The Daily is more than just a breeding ground for trained journalists.
It is valuable to Schwartz to continue the tradition of highly respected
journalism, writers who are accountable for their work and writers
who hold the administration accountable for their actions. But could
the changing landscape from paper to digital journalism change this
accountability factor?
To Schwartz, the mere physicality of a newspaper changes the way
he consumes news.
“It’s this sort of joy of discovery that when I read the whole paper,
you’re leafing through the pages, and you’re seeing stories in every
section. Now it’s curated for me in a way that leads me to read what’s
visible from scrolling down a certain distance,” Schwartz explained.
The implication of this? Shrinking perspectives and worldviews. And
this switch, although more convenient and efficient, can be dangerous
to those on the back end.
“I left journalism, partly because it was dying. In my mind, because
I had made my living for a number of years writing books,” Schwartz
said. As it gets more and more difficult for young journalists to join the
workforce, Schwartz hopes that publications like The Daily can keep
the world of top-quality journalism alive.
David Blomquist — Class of 1976, Editor and publisher at the
New Jersey Journal
Before becoming editor and publisher at the New Jersey Journal,
David Blomquist was a writer and editor for the Arts section of The
Daily.
“For as lively an art scene that Ann Arbor had in the 1970s, the Daily
Arts desk was not as hot. Perhaps because the news of the era was
just so consuming,” Blomquist said in an interview with The Daily. A
smaller Arts section, however, bought him the opportunity to quickly
ascend the ranks at The Daily.
During his time writing for Arts, Blomquist got the opportunity
to interview classical pianist Vladimir
Horowitz. At the time, the University
Musical Society was wary of student
journalists. The director at the time
warned Blomquist that when he met
Horowitz, he was not to touch his
sacred hands, not even to shake them.
“Horowitz walks in the room,
grabs my hand, squeezes the bejesus out of it and just says,‘Horowitz.’
One word of introduction. The director (of UMS) looks at me like the
world has just coupled. But we had a lovely conversation,” Blomquist
said.
Blomquist eventually found himself at the newsdesk of The Daily
during a particularly exciting morning. He was one of the first to
catch wind of former President Richard Nixon’s resignation after the
Watergate Scandal broke.
“I was sitting alone as the morning news editor. The phone rings,
and it was a guy who was one of our regular news editors, who was on
a summer internship at the News Bureau in Washington who called
us and said, ‘It’s all over. (Nixon)’s going to give a speech tonight,’”
Blomquist recounted.
“We were determined to produce a great product. There were
certainly University scars. Universities, then as now, were grappling
with creating fair opportunities for women, and fair opportunities for
people of color. Some of the first struggles over that happened in the
’70s,” Blomquist said. The fast pace of the newsroom was endearing
to Blomquist.
“I today fall back on the experiences I got at 420 Maynard Street,”
Blomquist said.
One particular person who had an influence over Blomquist in
the newsroom (or rather underneath it) was Lucius Doyle, for whom
the bench in the entrance of the Student Publications Building is
dedicated to.
“Lucius and his colleagues taught us things about the gravity of the
printed word, about the necessity as a manager to get things right to
communicate clearly and to respect the needs of others. 40 years later,
Lucius is in this office with me every day, reminding me what it takes
to do the job right … of all the people I was exposed to on the staff at
Michigan, no one had a greater influence on me,” Blomquist said.
Gary Kicinski — Class of 1979, spent 33 years with Gannett
newspapers, 22 at USA Today, now managing editor for
Transport Topics
Gary Kicinski joined The Daily writing for the Sports section,
covering minor sports and eventually making his way up the ranks to
editorial work.
“Everything that I learned at The Daily turned out to be much more
valuable for my career than anything I learned in the classroom,”
Kicinski said in an interview with The Daily. The Sports section had a
special set-up to train their journalists.
“We had this really good process in Sports of posting a daily
critique of that morning’s paper … It would be an examination of the
page layout for sports and the writing that everyone produced for that
paper. It was often written in a very entertaining fashion …. everyone
would stroll in between classes to read it,” explained Kicinski.
A profile on the past 129 years of The Daily, continued
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Daily Community Culture Editor
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