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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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’70s