A How-To Guide and What-To-Know About NIL Payments for Student Athletes

This thesis is an evaluation of a variety of aspects of the new Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) legislation (also known as the Right to Publicity); a how-to guide and what-to-know with insight from people involved. Inside, there is interviews from student athletes and those that work closely around them and information everyone affected by this new legislation should know

Local Traditions, Global Influences, National Belonging: Conditional Acceptance of Cross-Gender Dance in Central Java, Indonesia

Indonesia has a long and rich history of cross-gender performance in which males embody femininity onstage. Until recently, these diverse, locally-specific traditions were a widely accepted cultural practice. However, modern negative associations with the LGBTQ+ community and, by extension, the West, threaten the survival of traditional Indonesian cross-gender dance. By investigating feminine male gender performance in Java, I will uncover how Indonesians draw from localized cultural traditions, as well as globalized practices like Western-style drag, to destabilize restrictive national constructions of gender. I posit that traditional cross-gender dance serves as a culturally- sanctioned outlet for male expressions of femininity that exist outside of both the stigmatized Indonesian category of waria (transgender woman) and Western queerness. However, modern-day acceptance of traditional cross-gender dance is tenuous at best, hinging on the incorporation of humor and an emphasis on local tradition which distances Indonesian cross-gender dance from its Western counterpart, drag

Comparative assessment of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) spawning habitat on the upper Black River and Sturgeon River

Biology and Ecology of FishesLake Sturgeon are key members of freshwater lake system as well as culturally significant. In the northern part of Michigan's lower peninsula efforts to encourage the growth of the sturgeon population in Burt lake have been initiated through increased environmental awareness and limited fishing quotas. This study analyzed habitat parameters vital to lake sturgeon development including substrate composition and embeddedness of particles, substrate and average velocity, and similarity of benthic macroinvertebrates at known sturgeon spawning habitats in the Black River compared to sites on the Sturgeon River. Results showed that based on habitat parameter ranges defined by past research and data collected on the Black River, spawning of lake sturgeon on the Sturgeon River is likely viable and could potentially be improved though the addition on cobble to the substrate. Further study of spawning habitats during spring spawning season are essential to determining the practicality of implementing habitat management methods.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147916/1/Beers_2018_1.pd

Impacts of hydrocarbon solution on frewshwater plankton and the implications for lake system communities

General EcologyZooplankton and phytoplankton are key members on which aquatic systems are supported. Cultivation of phytoplankton and zooplankton in motor oil contaminated tanks that simulate synthetic crude oil impacts the survival of the zooplankton Cladocera through consumption of hydrocarbons and potentially limits photosynthesis in algal communities. This was tested through subjecting water samples from Douglas Lake and Lake Huron with highly concentrated amounts of plankton to different oil concentrations (500ppm and lOOOppm). Counts of living Cladocera were taken for 4 days, and each tank was sampled and analyzed for hydrocarbon and chlorophyll content within plankton. Results revealed amounts of hydrocarbon consumed in experimental tanks and suggested lower levels of chlorophyll consumption in the same tanks, implying reduced ability of phytoplankton to photosynthesis and increased zooplankton death as a result of starvation.https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147917/1/Beers_2018_2.pd

Human Rights Abuses Along the Dominican-Haitian Border

A 122 mile-long border separates the Dominican Republic and Haiti on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Of the two countries, Haiti’s human rights abuses are much more somber than the emerging developments of the Dominican Republic. Haiti’s stagnant economic situation has contributed to perennial political instability and lack of infrastructure, having a particularly confounding affect on the rights and labor conditions of Haitian citizens. There are a myriad of reasons why Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Two of the most prominent include its violent political history and the gradual deterioration of its economy. In the context of human rights and labor conditions, Haitians have taken on the burden of their country’s collapse. Labor conditions in Haiti are almost non-existent with the majority of citizens resorting to slash and burn farming or emigration to the Dominican Republic. Furthermore, overcrowding is an issue in Haiti which is one of the most overpopulated countries in the world occupying only one-third of the island of Hispaniola but containing nearly two-thirds of the population