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U.S Supreme Court justice talks gender, prominent cases By SHOHAM GEVA and TAYLOR WIZNER Daily News Editor and Daily Staff Reporter
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke about her life and opinions on Supreme Court cases at Hill
Auditorium Friday morning as part of the annual Tanner Lecture. Speaking to a full auditorium of over 3,000 students, faculty and community members, Ginsburg discussed the issues that have defined her career, such as gender and voting equality. Ginsburg, who was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton in 1993, has seen several landmark civil rights cases during her time on the Court. These include United
States v. Virginia, which discussed whether state-funded educational institutions could refuse to admit women, and Shelby v. Holder, which considered portions of the Voting Rights Act. During her time as a lawyer, she litigated multiple major cases concerning several aspects of gender discrimination. Law Prof. Scott Hershovitz and Assistant Law Prof. Kate Andrias, who were both former clerks for Ginsburg, moderated the Q&A discussion-style event,
using their own questions and some supplied by the audience prior to the event. Andrias began the Q&A, asking why Ginsburg went into law when so few women were in the field. Ginsburg said she was inspired by the atmosphere around civil rights, citing in particular the Red Scare during the 1950s, which led to many individuals being arrested on suspicion of Communist ideology. “The idea was that lawyer is
the profession, but it’s also something that arms you with the skill to make things a little better for other people,” she said. She added that her choice lay between business and law school, and her graduate school of choice, Harvard, had not yet opened its business school up to women. At a time when there was very little mention of women’s status in the law, Ginsburg said she subsequently began her legal focus on gender equality in the 1960s,
while she was teaching at Rutgers University and serving as a volunteer lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union. Rather than being self-initiated, she said both a student push for a class on gender equality law and a growing number of complaints to the ACLU concerning gender equality drew her attention to the subject. Her first foray into the area came when the legal director from the New Jersey ACLU affilSee RBG, Page 3A
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200 students build consumer products at second annual Makeathon By JING JING MA Daily Staff Reporter
The Art and Architecture Building buzzed with energy Saturday afternoon as students sketched designs, drilled wood and wired hardware. More than 200 students tried their hands at building physical products ranging from collapsible skis to stressrelieving stones. Makeathon, held Friday and Saturday, is an annual competition where students team up to brainstorm and create innovative products. Participants competed in one of three categories: Health & Wellness, Environment & Energy and Entertainment & Toys. MPowered, a student organization that promotes student entrepreneurship, launched the
competition in 2013. MPowered is also responsible for similarly focused events, including MHacks, 1000 Pitches and Startup High School. Last year, the University of Michigan-Dearborn hosted Makeathon, with about 100 participants. This year, the event doubled in size and was held on North Campus. Art & Design sophomore Arwin Wang, Makeathon director, said the event’s change in size yielded a minor change in focus as well. To give the event a more defined purpose, Makeathan featured three themes: Health & Wellness, Environment & Energy and Entertainment & Toys. “Last year the event was very open-ended and people could create whatever they wanted,” she said. “We want people to come up with innovative ideas and creative ways to create a product that solves a real problem.” Students streamed into the auditorium of the Art and Architecture Building for the event’s closing ceremony Sunday afterSee MAKEATHON, Page 3A
University hosts discussion with alumni, state economic adviser By IRENE PARK
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LSA sophomore Tahany Alsabahi and LSA freshman Noor Abughoush eat at the Muslim Student Association’s annual banquet Friday at the North Campus Research Complex.
At banquet, Muslim group celebrates past semester Muslim Student Association dinner features traditional cultural elements By EMMA KILBANE For the Daily
Celebrating achievement and faith, the Muslim Student Association hosted their annual ban-
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quet Friday night with a menu of traditional Arab cuisine and a lineup of speakers and performances. The event, held in the North Campus Research Complex, drew about 200 alumni, students and other guests who gathered to celebrate MSA accomplishments during the past semester. Many guests wore traditional clothing in nearly every color of the spectrum, and crystals often
adorned the hijabs, or headscarves attendees wore. The MSA, comprised of approximately 250 active members, works toward building a Muslim community on campus through community service, social connections, religious enrichment, social justice and interfaith relations. The banquet also featured keynote speaker Amjad Tarsin, a University alum who is curSee BANQUET, PAGE 2A
In recent years, colleges across the nation, including the University, have started offering degrees, certificates and classes geared toward entrepreneurship and innovation. Friday afternoon’s #UMichChat Twitter event featured four panelists who discussed entrepreneurship in Michigan. The Twitter talk is the University’s fourth; previous events featured E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, and a discussion on social media and journalism. Kelly LaPierre, managing director of Desai Accelerator; Engineering Prof. Thomas Zurbuchen, the University’s senior counselor for entrepreneurship; University alum Jeffrey Sorensen, co-founder of See TWITTER, Page 2A
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TWITTER From Page 1A optiMize; University alum David Merritt, founder of Merit Goodness; and Michael Finney, senior economic adviser to Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, all participated. The University is home to several programs focused on entrepreneuship, including the Center for Entrepreneurship, the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies and Medical Innovation Center. The panelists agreed that innovation and entrepreneurship have become increasingly important over the last few years due
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innovation, Zurbuchen wrote that thinking like an entrepreneur is still necessary. “(Entrepreneurship) (is) also more than just starting a business,” Zurbuchen wrote. “It’s a necessary state of mind that views opportunity in a challenge.” Similarly, Zurbuchen said students do not necessarily need to be part of a startup business to get involved. “Not everybody needs to be a startup founder!” Zurbuchen wrote. “It’s about seeing and growing innovation, even in big companies.” Merritt, a former Michigan basketball player who started his own business, recommended researching the market and connecting with the community to create a solid group of customers and followers. “Find people that believe what you believe,” Merritt wrote. “People buy ‘why’ maybe even more than ‘what.’ ” While the panelists also noted that the process often involves failure, LaPierre wrote that failure does not always result in negative consequences. “Failure isn’t inherently bad,” LaPierre wrote. “Fail fast, move on and learn from your mistakes. And share your learnings with others.” Merritt added a slightly different take — he said he defined failure not as failing to reach a goal, but as not making the attempt in the first place. “Success is giving it all you have,” Merritt wrote. “It’s not a destination, it’s appreciating the process. The failure is in not trying.” In a ddition to the social innovation opportunities on campus, Zurbuchen said there are over 10 University projects focused on Detroit and other regions in Michigan. Speaking to the state as a whole, Finney, Snyder’s senior economic adviser, wrote that Michigan is growing various technology industries, such as information technology, biotechnology and agriculture. He also wrote that Michigan is a great location for technology industries due to the concen-
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to the interdisciplinary nature of problems facing the world today. “Today’s world demands graduates prepared to be highly collaborative problem solvers ready to tackle big challenges,” Zurbuchen wrote. Sorensen, who co-founded the entrepreneurship-focused student organization optiMize while he was a student on campus, encouraged students to get involved in the world around them and pursue their ideas. “Students need to ask ‘why not me?’ and innovate to solve (the problems)!” Sorensen wrote. Even for students who major in a subject seemingly unconnected to entrepreneurship and
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BANQUET From Page 1A rently the chaplain and executive director of the Muslim Chaplaincy at the University of Toledo. During his speech, Tarsin discussed spiritual empowerment and concepts of unity and diversity. “I think that one of the beautiful things about places like the University of Michigan, and just kind of the commitment to diversity as a whole, is that people can agree on really broad primary principles and values,” he said. “For example, helping those in need, not harming one another, live and let live and working together on areas of overlap and agreement.” Tarsin also noted Islam’s emphasis on personal freedom. “I believe, as a Muslim, as an educator within Islam, is that everyone is free to choose their belief, their walk of life and I really believe that believing in that freedom of expression, that freedom of choice, is a thing that is a part of our religion,” he said. At the event, Zain Shamoon, a
tration of research efforts and talent. “Michigan has 70% of auto R&D and the largest number of (mechanical engineers) in the U.S.,” Finney wrote. “Makes a great location of tech.” According to Finney, the
Michigan State University student, delivered a spoken word performance. Shamoon discussed the right to choose one’s own path and the connections that bind all people, as well as an interactive song referencing cultural staples from the 1990s. MSA President Saher Rathur, an LSA senior, said the organization provided her a Muslim community on campus. “When I was in high school I wasn’t really part of any Muslim community and I didn’t really have Muslim friends growing up,” Rathur said. “When I came here I had heard about this MSA and about how it’s very active and the people are great. So I was like, ‘Okay, might as well try it out,’ and I did, and I just never stopped going to their events.” MSA also collaborates with MSA organizations at other schools. This past semester, they held a joint dinner with MSU as well as a weekend retreat with Ohio State University. LSA junior Farah Alam, MSA sisterhood social chair, said the organization aims to be inclusive. “Something you can really con-
nect on is our faith,” Alam said. “For the most part this is a priority, so finding other people that share the same belief system, and coming together, is just a good way to get a better college experience.” Alam added that this year’s event differs from previous years. “Many years ago, back when our holy month of fasting, Ramadan, was in the summer (it moves up two weeks every year), it used to be a big dinner to commemorate and break our fast with family and friends,” Alam said. “Now it’s become a social dinner that everyone looks forward to every year.” LSA junior Dana Mosa-Basha is not a member of MSA, but said she attended the event to support her friends who are members. Like most guests, Mosa-Basha wore a traditional ensemble to the event. “I’m involved because I go to school here and I’ve met a lot of people along the way,” Mosa-Basha said. “They have a bunch of events throughout the year so I really like to go. They have 18 board members and each one has different tasks and things to do, so it’s a really wide array of events, so I like to go to everything they have.”
state-run Michigan Economic Development Corporation also provides various resources to support entrepreneurs, such as capital, technology transfer resources and incubators. However, despite the growth in technology as a state, Zurbu-
chen said he wouldn’t refer to Michigan as the “new Silicon Valley.” “I think we should not become a copy of something else, even not of (Silicon) Valley,” Zurbuchen wrote. “We should become the best hub we can be.”
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Right now, you were supposed to be reading a review of his new album I Love You, Honeybear, set to release this Tuesday. I was going to rave about his past efforts, how I’m still humming “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” from his 2012 album Fear Fun. Then, probably go into great detail about his growth as an artist, and maybe even touch on a few of his weird antics like that one time he went to a shaman and started hallucinating about baguettes and berets. It was going to be awesome. It’s a shame then, that Misty likes fucking with us. Painter, drummer, singer, songwriter, shroom-taker – Josh Tillman found and lost God while growing up in an Evangelical community. Under the name J.Tillman, he attempted to create a musical career with some solo projects, though the music took itself too seriously and was mostly unsuccessful. In 2007, he got his big break, of sorts, when he joined the band Fleet Foxes as the drummer. With 2012 approaching, and after leaving Fleet Foxes, he adopted the moniker Father John Misty, and the rest, as they say, is history. He became a swaggering, indie sex symbol by jumping and jiving on stage, a large deviation from his former projects. And now, here we are, anxiously awaiting his sophomore effort. Most albums leak to the Internet before their actual release dates. If you know which sketchy sites to scrounge, you can find almost anything before it’s supposed to drop. A lot of artists even
RBG From Page 1A iate asked her to review three cases brought by women about gender discrimination at work and in school, part of the first wave of court cases involving that issue. “Women who until then just accepted the way things were, and then because the women’s movement was reviving all over the world, decided they shouldn’t simply submit to the way things were — they should decide the way things should be,” Ginsburg said. Ginsburg said the turning point for gender equality in the Supreme Court came after the unanimous decision on the 1971 case Reed v. Reed, in which the Court amended the social security law to ensure equality for women as estate holders. Ginsberg discussed how the court perfected the law to say sole surviving parent, whether male or female. “If a law is imperfect, sometimes the appropriate cure is not to strike it down, but to extend it to the let down people,” Ginsberg said. Ginsburg also spoke about some of her recent dissents on the court, in particular the Court’s 2014 decision to overturn a portion of the Voting Rights Act and 2010 decision to modify campaign contributions. Addressing the Voting Rights Act, she said she viewed the case primarily as a determination of who is more suited to decide electoral issues. “The legislature had overwhelmingly said the Voting Rights Act should be extended,” she said. “Should nine unelected judges trump that decision of the legislature? And my attitude was no, that the members of the political branch probably knew more about voting and elections then the unelected Supreme Court Justices do.” Asked what decision she would overrule if she could, Ginsburg pointed to Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. She said whenever she
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stream their stuff in its entirety beforehand. And, it appeared Misty had done the same. In fact, he seemed to have gone above and beyond, creating his own streaming site, SAP. Sounds too good to be true? That’s because it is. Turns out, SAP exclusively streams only I Love You, Honeybear. But, take a quick exploration of the site and you’ll realize that it’s Misty’s way of poking fun at the current state of superficial music sharing on the Internet. He’s commenting on the misguided belief that musicians are selfish for wanting to make money off their work. “Did you know that music can also be expensive to make? Some artists have discovered that sharing their music for free can be tough financially,” the site reads. “Is there a way to prevent anyone from spending money ever?” After scrolling for a while, the site explicitly reveals its true intentions. Misty calls SAP a “process by which popular albums are ‘sapped’ of their performances, original vocals, atmosphere and
goes abroad she is faced with questions about why the United States allows unlimited campaign contributions, which many say allows officeholders to be influenced by campaign financiers. “There will be a time where people are disgusted with this and the pendulum will swing the other way,” Ginsburg said. When asked about her approach to reading the Constitution overall, Ginsburg said she relied primarily on the first three words of it — “We the people” — though she noted that her interpretation of their meaning is fluid. “I think the genius of our country is that now over two centuries, this notion of who counts in ‘we the people’ has grown,” she said. Ginsburg may have surprised the audience by expressing criticism of the Roe v. Wade decision, and said the ruling created more of an uphill battle than if state legislatures had approved abortion rights on their own. “If the court had been more modest, than the change would continue to move in the direction it was already moving,” she said. “Instead, there was one target for those who opposed a woman’s free choice, and that one target was Roe v. Wade.” Ginsburg also touched briefly on the Equal Rights Amendment — language first proposed in 1923 that specifies that states may not deny “rights under the law” on the basis of sex — when asked what amendment she’d most like added to the Constitution. “I would like to take my Constitution out and show it to my three granddaughters and say ‘This is a value of our society, just like free speech — the equality of men and women,’ ” Ginsburg said. Toward the end of the discussion, Hershovitz asked if Ginsburg had any advice for young people in the audience. “If you think of yourself of a professional, well you’re not just going to get a job so you can turn over a buck,” Ginsburg said. “If you do that you’re like a plumber. You’ve got a skill and you can
other distracting affections so the consumer can decide quickly and efficiently whether they like a musical composition, based strictly on its formal attributes, enough to spend money on it.” Continue downward and you find a seemingly regular track player that streams echoes of actual songs. Instead of vocals, we hear auto-tuned keyboard lines. It reminds me of the tracks you find in karaoke bars. The songs sound absolutely terrible. And that’s the point. I guess we’ll just have to wait until Tuesday to hear I Love You, Honeybear in full. Until then, you can satisfy yourself with the album’s released singles, “Bored In The USA” and “Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins).” At the bottom of the page, there’s a “Contact SAP” option. I was tempted to write something like, “Come on, dude, we just want to hear your music.” But Misty poses an interesting question: why are artists the bad guys because they want to make money?
earn a living from it. But if you think of yourself as a true professional armed with a skill, you could help someone who is less fortunate.” Ginsburg did not touch on a Michigan case that is slated to go before the U.S. Supreme Court in April, DeBoer v. Snyder, which concerns the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. However, in an interview after the event, Law Prof. Margo Schlanger, also a former Ginsburg clerk from 1993 to 1995, said she was confident Ginsburg would vote to strike down the ban. “I have no doubt in the world that she will think that equality demands nondiscrimination in marriage,” Schlanger said. “I don’t know what the court will do, but I don’t have a minute’s doubt about what her vote will be.” Law student Lauren Dansey said she was excited to hear Ginsburg’s speak as she has long been a fan of the justice, having read many of her opinions. “Right now she is my modern day heroine,” Dansey said. “After reading her opinions, she is not only a beautiful writer and articulate theorist, but she’s also inspirational.” Dansey added that she appreciated her comments about the Voting Rights Act. “Relative to what she voted for, I would not have thought that was not something she was passionate about,” she said. LSA senior Victoria Bell, who noted she dressed up for Halloween as the persona associated with Ginsburg’s popular nickname, the Notorious RBG, said she found hearing the justice speak in person inspirational. During the session, Ginsburg also said she finds the nickname amusing. “I dressed as notorious RBG for Halloween, and I think it was really inspirational to be here, hearing her speak,” Bell said. “My favorite part was probably hearing about what she had to say on the UVI case and all the arguments she did before she appointed a justice, because that was some really powerful work that she did.”
As “The Girl on the Train” sits atop the U.S. bestseller list for the second week in a row, people are clamoring to figure out how it got there. The book’s title and jacket offer no clues; the blockish, white font and blurred foliage on the cover are appealingly generic, but don’t offer any hints at the breathless ride contained within the pages. First-time author Paula Hawkins doesn’t have as recognizable a name as the other tenants of the week’s bestseller list, including tenured thriller writers like James Patterson and David Baldacci. But the secret to the book’s success can be found in the plot summary on the inside cover: told from the point of view of multiple unreliable narrators — a seemingly-perfect wife gone inexplicably missing — the inscrutable husband is not who he appears to be — “The Girl on the Train” is shamelessly riding the coattails of “Gone Girl” ’s success. But “The Girl on the Train” transcends its apparent “Gone Girl” copycat status. Hawkins borrows plot and tone from film noir and classic British thrillers; her prose is more Hitchcockian than Flynn-ian. The book centers around Rachel Watson, an unemployed alcoholic who rides the train to “work” every morning, using the train’s stops as an opportunity to spy on the perfect, miniature lives she can see from the tracks. She’s created a fictional life in her mind for “Jason” and “Jess,” a handsome couple whose home is just a few doors down from where Rachel and her husband used to
MAKEATHON From Page 1A noon. The winners of each of the three categories received $1,000 in prize money. Apollo 257, a toy light that allows the user to direct colors, won the Entertainment & Toy category. MyBot, a wheelchair controlled by a Myo armband, won in Health & Wellness. Green Energizer, a solarpowered backpack that allows the wearer to charge electrical devices, carried the Environment & Energy category. Engineering junior Nick Naruns, the creator of Green Energizer, said he got the idea from being outside for long periods of time and realizing he had no way to charge his phone when it ran out of battery. Naruns said he would like to add more features to the backpack and integrate the solar panel into other wearable accessories. Eventually, he plans to sell a finished version of the product. “I think there’s still some work that needs to be sorted out but I definitely think it’s a marketable product,” he said. Wang said she wanted Makeathon to be a place where anyone could come, test their ideas and collaborate with others regardless of their academic field or previous experience. Students could either enter the competition with their own teams or receive a team upon arriving Friday evening. Some came with specific projects in mind while others attended to network and receive hands-on experience with hardware. “One of our goals is to bring people from all disciplines together to collaborate,” Wang said. “It’s interesting because Friday we were
live. As she looks out her window, Rachel can forget that she’s a sad, unemployed drunk and play the anonymous spectator, soaking up the afterglow of other people’s happiness to get her through the hours between gin and tonics on the train. In an interesting twist on classic Hitchcock voyeurism, the woman has the power to look, and readers see everything from her point of view. Rachel is flawed, and seeing through her eyes is all the more interesting because of her foggy vision. Yes, foggy vision. Since Rachel is an alcoholic, she’s prone to getting blackout drunk at the worst possible moments, like at the scene of major crimes and when she’s hanging out with the suspects of those crimes. Of course, Rachel can’t remember what happened when she left the train and stumbled around Witney the night “Jess” disappeared. And more generally, her way of dealing with the complication and confusion of leaving her voyeuristic seat on the train for the action beyond the tracks is to drink herself into oblivion. When Rachel loses track of those intoxicated hours, so do we. Hawkins drops clues and hints, but obscures them in so much mud that readers can’t do the detective work themselves. The only way to pick up more hints is mediated through Rachel’s knowledge. Her poor decisions are infuriating, but the impenetrability of the mystery makes the book impossible to put down. While Rachel’s sections of the book are vivid and exciting, the passages dedicated to Megan (the Witney woman who disappeared)
and Anna (Rachel’s ex-husband’s new wife) falter. The sections detailing Megan’s life before the disappearance hold a fair number of clues and false starts, but Megan is a disappointing wisp of a character — artistic, pixie-like and not much else. Anna is even worse. Her entire personality is based on her dislike of Rachel, and Anna’s passages don’t contain anything interesting, as she spends most of her days whining to her husband and complaining about Rachel. In theory, she’s an effective foil for Rachel because she’s prim and put-together and maternal, everything Rachel wishes she could be. But we don’t gain much from reading Anna’s point of view, aside from the dullness of her passages making Rachel’s feel even more vibrant. However, the plot and narration aren’t what really make a good thriller a great thriller. The mystery is the beating heart of any excellent crime drama, and “The Girl on the Train” succeeds in this regard. I won’t dare spoil any of the breathlessly twisty plot, but the switch from darkness and impossibility to finally finding out what happened with Megan makes for one of the most visceral, fun reading experiences I’ve had in a long time (since “Gone Girl,” probably). But whether or not the novel’s success is due to its comparison with another smash female-driven mystery, “The Girl on the Train” deserves all the buzz it’s garnering. It’s a thrilling, intoxicating ride from its familiar start to its triumphant finish at the top of the bestseller list.
scared that people who didn’t have a team would go home and not come back. But people have really bonded and formed new teams just like that.” President Barack Obama’s administration has promoted a “Maker Movement” on a national scale to encourage people to make and sell tangible items. Wang said a White House liaison for the Maker Movement has been in contact with the Makeathon planning team. Engineering freshman Pascal Sturmfels, a computer science major, said he was excited to gain experience with new hardware and to “meet people interested in computer science and hardware and have that connection, if anyone wants to work on a project with me in the future.” Engineering senior Gabriella Willis planned to use the event to build a prototype system aimed at providing food for low-income families. She employed aquaponics — a food production strategy that is fertilized by the excrement of aquatic creatures, like snails or prawns. “The aquaponics idea is something I’ve had in mind, but I’ve never tried to build,” Willis said. “I think this is the perfect opportunity to get my hands dirty and see what happens.” Makeathon featured a variety of “building stations,” including accessibility to a woodshop, metal shop and laser cutters. These were available for use during the day, but closed at 10 p.m. every night due to safety concerns about sleep-deprived students operating potentially dangerous machines. Because the deadline for project submissions was early Sunday morning, students began to feel the time crunch Saturday night as 10 p.m. approached. Some teams
who started out with ambitious ideas found that they had to scale down or scrap their plans as the event neared its end. Other groups focused on completing smaller-scale projects. One such project was an adjustable grab bar whose height could be easily adjusted with one hand. Representatives from General Electric praised the project for being well designed, functional and easily operated. At the event’s expo Sunday morning, students showed off their product prototypes. Some were complete and functioning while other projects were still works-inprogress. Teams were enthusiastic about continuing to develop their products. Qi Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, said his team created a small computer encased in a wooden box designed for integration into living room furniture. The computer could be used to operate a variety of home technologies. “As a business, we want to take the internal components of your Xbox or your PS3 and put them into a minimalistic (compartment) and design furniture that will house them… and remove clutter in the room,” Zhang said. He and his team hope to eventually bring their product to the market. Wang said she ultimately hopes that large-scale recognition of maker culture — at the University, as well as local and national levels —will help the event grow in the future. “People need to know that entrepreneurship and startups aren’t just about apps. There’s value in physical products,” she said. “Making is intuitive to humans. We need to be able to touch things to use them.”
Opinion
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Growing up without TV
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Increasing student influence
Committee should be created to involve campus in city politics
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t has been long suspected that the division of Ann Arbor’s wards has lessened student influence in city politics. According to a recent report by The Michigan Daily, the large concentration of students who live on Central Campus and the immediate surrounding area has been divided since 1967 into five pie-shaped city wards, or representative districts, that converge at the center of campus and span outwards. Seeing that no ward’s population is comprised of over 29.4 percent University students, leaving no ward with a student majority, the impact of the student vote in city elections appears to be diminished. That said, the creation of a student-majority city ward is not the right step to increase student influence in Ann Arbor City Council decisions. Rather, a system that encourages students to get involved in the city is a better-suited solution moving forward. Redrawing boundaries to create a studentdominated ward would not be unprecedented. The University of California, Berkeley student population passed a measure last November that created a student-majority district in Berkeley. Burlington, VT, home of the University of Vermont, recently announced a new student ward, Ward 8, in which students will make up 70 percent of the population. A student-majority ward would bring benefits to the student population and the city, but is not a realistic solution for increasing the student population’s political involvement for local initiatives. The student population of the University is just recently becoming politically active in the local realm and experiences constant population change with students graduating each year. Of the 34,000 students eligible to vote, only 7,000 are registered to do so. In addition, out of those 7,000, only 1,900 voted in the past election. Therefore, if students do not vote in a ward specifically devoted to them, elections will remain an inaccurate representation of the student population’s concerns, meaning the issue remains unsolved. Creating a student-majority ward should not be a priority. Instead, the student population needs to participate in city government at an increased rate. Recently, tension between students and the city has revolved around issues of affordable housing, transportation and taxes. If students carried more political
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sway, some of these problems are more likely to be solved. While the University is large and may dissuade students from taking action in order to solve important issues, if students were more aware of the impact they could make on city issues, it would bridge the gap between the city and the University, one that has grown and continues to do so. To increase student involvement without the creation of a student-majority ward, a student committee should be formed within the Office of Student Life. This committee would help facilitate student gatherings where City Council issues could be discussed. These student leaders will run the meetings, regulate debate and collect student opinions to act as liaisons between students and City Council members. City Council members should make an effort to come to some of these “town hall-esque” meetings and meet with committee members on a regular basis to hear student concerns and consider them when making their decisions. This type of forum would allow students to have the opportunity to take leadership roles in the city, become more involved with members of the community beyond campus and become real stakeholders in government decisions. The opinions and solutions generated from these forums will lead to informed City Council decisions and a more accurate representation of the student population.
Statutory Grape
t recently came to my attention that bars across the University campus have drink menus that do not align with my personal morals or the morals of many friends and mentors. Drinks such as the Blowjob and Dirty Girl Scout, among others, play off of humor that is in no way family friendly but may be excusable for certain eyes. Titles such as these may make a res- DANI taurant only accessible to VIGNOS adult eyes, but do not necessarily cross a morally impenetrable line in my view. Reading further down the menu at Blue Leprechaun on South University, I stumbled across a drink called Statutory Grape. At the time, I thought this drink was particular to this bar, but soon discovered that many menus on the University campus and in other cities featured such an appalling item. This wave of disappointment hit me around late September last year and only escalated this past weekend when my father was in town and had a harsh reaction to such a feature as well. As I have never been a victim of any sort of sexual crime, I do not have the authority to say what a drink name like this would spark in me had I experienced such a traumatic event. But I do know that to trivialize what can be such a severe experience into a drink name is beyond outdated and beyond disrespectful. After speaking with peers, mentors and even the wait staff and general manager of Blue Lep, I found that everyone was in a relatively unanimous agreement: the drink name should be removed. Some “inappropriate” drinks I can let skate by, but others have crossed a line that should never be crossed. I met with Mike Gradillas, the general manager of the Blue Leprechaun, expecting a curmudgeon of a man who would not be receptive to the idea at all. Instead, I found the exact opposite in his character. We carefully looked at each menu item, and discussed the implications of each item and what it could mean, who it could hurt, if the wait staff could “handle” it and if they could,
“should” anyone be able to handle something unpleasant that could potentially be a trigger? It is impossible to imagine what everyone has gone through, what bizarre or mundane words could propel someone into reliving a terrible experience. But there is a certain point where we, as upstanding members of society, can speculate that the drink “statutory grape” could be linked to an unfortunate memory. Dan Caldwell, a waiter at the Blue Lep, made many poignant remarks on this subject. He specifically stated, “You never know what the people walking through your bar have gone through.” Specifically with the drink Statutory Grape, there is no reason why the item must persist. In suggesting renaming the drink, Gradillas said, “I don’t even need a memory of it. It’s just not worth it.” So not only is the name being eliminated, but also the drink itself is being told off. Gradillas said, “I do care about the image of the restaurant, but on a more personal level, I am responsible.” Gradillas claims that he had often questioned these off-putting titles, but had never been approached by someone, so he never made the move for change. Obviously, the responsibility cannot solely lie in anyone’s lap, but it does show how times can change and the often times negative residue of the past can stick. “We are dealing with college, where there is often times a fine line between having an experience where someone may unfortunately question whether or not an encounter was rape,” Gradillas said. Any restaurant, especially one so close to a university, should not be making light of an issue that is so prevalent on a college campus. Gradillas similarly took it upon himself to change The Red Headed Slut to The Red Head without any efforts on my part. He also reminded me that if a woman or man ever feels disrespected by a client at the restaurant, they have bouncers who are well equipped to remove any individual. Although most people with whom I have spoken to agree at the obscenity of the title, those playing devil’s advocate, bring up the line that differentiates rape and statutory
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HAT?!” That’s usually the first reaction people
instead of plopping down in front of the TV. We saw it as an occasional privilege, rather than some amenity give me when they that was always at our disposal for find out I grew up our entertainment. without cable teleBut now that beneficial detachvision. The conment is gone. It seems that those versation would born in the early ‘90s can still appreinclude some, ciate a time when not everything was “What did you do plugged in. We were not surrounded then?” and the by technology in every realm, be it occasional, “Do school, home or relaxation. We were you even know SARA not as dependent upon our devices, what ‘SpongeBob’ SHAMASKIN but rather we were left to our own. is?” The list goes on We grew up with cassette tapes, VHS between disbelief, movies, Walkmans and the beginshock and interning of cell phones. Slow and bulky, rogating me to see how I lived my those technologies were easy to put unplugged life. It was as if they felt away. If you wanted to call someone, sorry for me for missing references you actually had to know where they and having a childhood that lacked were, none of this “Dude, where are me sitting in front of a screen. I may you?” If you wanted to check the have had a lapse in cartoon knowl- time, you looked at your watch. And edge, and even today I still do, but we definitely did not do the “pocket I like to think I turned out normal. dance” (front pocket, front pocket, I was not really addicted to televi- back pocket, back pocket, “found it!”) sion. Yes, I loved my basic shows like to find our phones before we left the “Arthur” and “The Simpsons,” but I house. Those born in the later ‘90s, did not have Nickelodeon, Comedy however, seemed to be “on” all of Central or Disney Channel. It made the time. me feel like some type of alien, a Elementary-school kids have minority that was not up to date on the latest iPhones, video games the cool new shows with the pletho- and computers. There was never a ra of channels at my whim. “No Cell Phone” policy in my 5thThose that grew up without grade classroom, but now there TV can relate. Many of my friends is. Younger kids always need to found it to be a blessing. We seemed be on something, whether they to spend more time outside, having are playing a game, finding some play dates with friends and reading new information or watching good books. In my family, we would some goofy video on YouTube. If play softball in the backyard or bas- the devices are taken away, their ketball in the driveway after dinner boredom increases and their atten-
tion span decreases. Short videos, grabbing technology, flashy images and modes of information are how these children grew up learning to read, write, listen and comprehend. Those of the early ‘90s grew up differently, and now there is a disjunction within our generation. We are extremely social beings. Anthropologically speaking, the reason we have such large brains could be due to the Social Brain hypothesis. This states that ancient human ancestors that began to live in larger groups with patterns of social structures showed greater brain growth of the neocortex. Humans need to be social. It is literally in our DNA. But trying a detox every once in a while can help us relax and disconnect from the rest of the world and the websites and devices connecting us all. Can you appreciate the silence? Have you spent time without your computer, cell phone or TV for more than a day? When was the last time you wrote a paper or did an assignment by hand? It is wonderful never feeling like you have to report to someone, check in on the latest e-mails or texts. You even have the chance to perfect your penmanship! It takes a little time to get used to, but that freedom — that chance to focus on only what is in front of you and not what is in your pocket connecting you to someone else — is wonderful.
— Sara Shamaskin can be reached at scsham@umich.edu.
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Housing the homeless
he Robert J. Delonis Center for the homeless moved to its current location on West Huron Street 11 years ago. Thanks to $5.5 million in private donations, along with an additional $3 million in county and city allocated funds, the Delonis Center AUSTIN became a progres- DAVIS sive and unique hybrid center of general residency and warming shelter. It practices a “housing first” initiative, which, according to Ellen Schulmeister, the Delonis Center’s Executive Director, is a philosophy that views the acquisition of permanent housing as “the big answer” to ending the often perpetual cycle of homelessness. Permanent supported housing is a different style of care for homeless populations than the traditional, mission-style shelter, or shelters that merely provide food and shortterm, temporary housing for the homeless. According to John Schippers, Delonis’ Director of Programs, this model leaves little opportunity for societal ascension. Schippers, an incredibly passionate psychologist, describes this method as a “come in, get fed, repeat as necessary,” cookie-cutter tactic to combating homelessness which “the literature pretty clearly shows … perpetuates homelessness.” Conversely, a “housing first” initiative seeks to empower the homeless by providing them with an individually formatted plan, outlining the necessary steps needed to achieve permanent residence. At the Delonis Center, this key program is called Income, Savings and Housing. The program is centered on the individual, who first meets with one of the Delonis Center’s 12 case managers. Each case manager is an educated social worker; there is a base level requirement of a bachelor’s degree in social work, though many have their Masters in Social Work. The case workers act as triage specialists, measuring new patients’ needs on a vulnerability scale, a combination of assessments based on the person’s ability status and age, among other factors. In doing so,
case workers seek to evaluate the steps needed to navigate existing bureaucratic structures in order to establish some sort of income for the person in question, and to establish a savings plan for whatever income they’re eligible to receive. To this effect, the Delonis Center’s case managers are fixers; whatever obstacles an individual has, they’ll try to tackle them head-on. “There are many barriers to ending their homelessness and we have to help them overcome those,” Schippers said. “Everyone’s got their own individual stories, so everyone’s housing plan is unique.” And sometimes that “unique housing plan” can mean that an individual must stay in the Delonis Center general residential unit for longer than the 90 days subsidized by the government while they’re saving for a security deposit on an apartment. Though the Delonis Center must rely on generous private donors to pay for the differential in time, Schippers said, “If you’re exiting people in 90 days, all you’re doing is sabotaging them, in my opinion. If they’re working on a housing plan, they get to stay.” The construction of a shelter which operates in this fashion was a challenge for facilitators like Schulmeister and Schippers, who had to work at convincing the public of the specific, systemic issues facing the Ann Arbor area that perpetuate homelessness in the community. When Schulmeister joined the Center 17 years ago, she tried to make this clear. “I kept saying ‘the shelter is not going to solve the problem. The shelter is going to help the problem, but we need to have affordable housing.’ That was 17 years ago. And we have not made a lot of progress in affordable housing in 17 years.” According to one report, the monthly cost for a one-bedroom apartment in Ann Arbor ranges from $850-$1,200; for someone with an entry level job, attempting to gain footing after having been homeless for a stretch of time, the chance of finding a fiscally sustainable apartment in the area is bleak. “There’s all these barriers to getting housing. Not only is it not affordable, but it’s also not accessible,” Schulmeister lamented.
“We’re supposed to eliminate the shelter stay… and just put people into housing. Well you can’t do that if you don’t have housing. So where are we?” Where are we? It seems the answer is that we’re stuck within yet another paradoxical circle, unbreakable due to a system that ostracizes homeless individuals by not providing them with the sweeping changes in advancement programs needed to catalyze upward mobility. Schulmeister sees it as a combination of factors, many of which stem from the public, which she considers to be “completely oblivious” to the struggles that the homeless face in this community. “(Homelessness) just doesn’t touch their life enough that they choose to think about it or do anything,” she told me. “Everything about the public’s perception exacerbates the problem. But I don’t know how you ever have everybody on the same page about what to do. That seems like an impossibility to me.” Asking the public to make sense of a population whose plights are ever changing, whose challenges are innumerable, is difficult. “There’s an ebb and flow,” Schulmeister said. “There’s always a new twist. There’s always something different.” But in a society where value and worth are placed on the positions that people hold and how successful they are in those positions, it becomes castrating for those with limited ability to reintegrate into society. Especially into a society which views them as lesser. This is obvious, especially when considering the ways that the homeless are ostracized and downtrodden. They are affected by the way that public opinion and housing systems have created a palpable mental barrier between society at large, and those subjugated by it. Delonis’ ISH program works diligently towards empowering individuals, affirming their self-worth through the tactical use of local employment and housing resources. In order to house the homeless, however, perhaps larger factors are in need of reevaluation.
rape. The legal dictionary defines statutory rape as being, “… committed when an adult sexually penetrates a person who, under the law, is incapable of consenting to sex. Minors and physically and mentally incapacitated persons are deemed incapable of consenting to sex under rape statutes in all states.” There is the case where a young couple could be technically committing this crime even while hav-
ing consensual sex, however, this is not always the case. As the legal dictionary addresses, this offense is serious and should in no way be taken lightly. This is not just an issue of feminism; these experiences can happen to anyone. It is our duty as students to call attention to these issues and spread awareness. Often times it just takes one voice to sway a cause. Although I have
only spoken with the Blue Leprechaun, I imagine these drink items will be evaporating quickly off of university campuses. Although students do not carry the solitary responsibility to spark change, we do have the youth and passion to speak out about causes of any scale.
— Austin Davis can be reached at austchan@umich.edu.
— Dani Vignos can be reached at dvignos@umich.edu.
Arts
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TV REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
‘Street Art’ doesn’t make for good TV By SOPHIA KAUFMAN Daily Arts Writer
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This is what it looks like to limn the yonic curse.
Lena Dunham is ‘Not That Girl’ ‘Girls’ creator explores the female experience in memoir By ANDREW MCCLURE Daily Arts Writer
Better late than never, Lena Dunham’s first novel works no less because of its September release. She brings us a memoir that doesn’t require the new millennium to render a relevant, timeless in its timeliness, book we sort of need. Dunham is neither that kind of girl nor any type of girl that we, an educated people, have seen enough throughout culture or history to file them into a “type” to begin with. She’s also not the voice of a generation, as much as her onscreen persona Hannah (HBO’s “Girls”) would like to contend. She’s just a girl, but a girl unafraid to say the things 20-somethings of her, well, circumstances (read: gender, shape, affluence) won’t. She’s also unafraid to ironically choose pink title letters for the hardcover of her first book, “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s ‘Learned,’” and to unironically hang quotations marks around the subtitled word “learned,” confessing the very ephemera of her gleanings. By now, we’ve heard it all — the minimal praise, the diatribes, the diatribes, the diatribes. But Dunham has imported something much more important than vapid troll fodder in her memoir-essays, “Not That Kind of Girl,” a principle so essential as we, the majority, go forward trying on various masks to better fit in: her supreme vulnerability. I take issue when critics — people supposedly good at expressing passion with dutiful dispassion — mistake Dunham’s vulnerability for pejoratives like “oversharing” or “selfimportant.” Newsflash: vulnerability can, and often will, offend. Once her candor showers over you, albeit lukewarm at first, her riffs on family and experience are not so blinkered, but rather expansive. The prose is divided into five not-mutually exclusive segments, from “Love & Sex” and “Body” to “Friendship” and “Work” to “Big Picture.” These cabinets are less for organization and more for Dunham to, with probable irony, “cover all the bases” that a good-girl memoir should.
She opens her introduction, “I am twenty-years old and I hate myself,” pegging at the same time her darkest and least relevant line, as the couple hundred pages that follow limn her ultimately upbeat and toughminded anecdotes and musings. She may have wept during bits of the production process but, now, finished, she seems poised to share some of her dreck bereft of smelly crowdpleasing, with some chapters markedly weaker than others, notwithstanding. Her bite-size reflections and sprinkled Nickelodeon-like cartoons not only establish a girlish, journaling aesthetic, but her lexicon is so tempered that, really, a little girl could read it. Not unlike a future Olympic sprinter taking it easy in P.E., Dunham packs punches like, “Jared was friendlier than cool guys are supposed to be,” wholly cognizant of her diction before concerning herself with sounding smart. It seems a tough pill to swallow for a writer so capable of morphing that sentence into A Sentence, in all its erudition. And her poetics, her unique voice — this is her most invaluable asset. This is also what makes “Not That Kind of Girl” a good read, a read that with cogency connects young women to young men to, maybe if they’re with the times, older people. She intuits much like, selfishly, I did and do: Describing her heated phone conversation with Mom over how she needs her mom “in a different way than before,” Dunham writes, “‘That’s fucking bullshit.’ I can tell she’s in a store.” That hardly recognizable pause between her mother’s words, the light background chatter Dunham discerns, is unexceptional, but opting to include this afterthought, little yet nuclear, plays to Dunham’s advantage all book long. She’s funny, too, but seldom in a sidesplitting way. Sidesplitting is for punchlines, but her book is by and large without them. She toys with secrets that are strange enough to credibly be hers, like the list of things she’s afraid of at age 8: leprosy, unclean meat, milk, homeless people, foods my mother hasn’t tasted first so that if we die we die together, et al. Whereas Fey and Poehler, and their respective memoirs, are driven by improv-laden, Harvard Lampoon true comedy writing, Dunham is not a trained comic,
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and her book doesn’t read like one, for the better. Dunham makes you laugh in a to-yourself manner, half-pondering her semi-repressed intellect and half-envying her honest wit, so honest that it’s almost not wit at all. In her final, appropriately mawkish chapter, called “Guide to Running Away,” Dunham gets the closest to her book’s beating heart. Of her mother, of all of our mothers, I presume, she writes, at age 9, “You are mad at your mother because sometimes she doesn’t pay attention and she says yes to a question that needs a different kind of answer.” Then, in the same vein, but at age 27: “You’re the one who’s distracted while your mother tries to talk. you’re the one who thinks fathers just need to get through their father problems.” Her growth, in mind and body, has manifested but she, as a smart person should, stays skeptical in really knowing anything for certain. She has come this far — with the wounds to prove it — not to create that girl or the girl or even a girl, but rather her girl, heading toward womanhood with all of her idiosyncrasies in tote, including the prickly ones.
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maze to find a good spot to paint a portrait of someone who has inspired them. The judges again walk around asking questions about each artist’s technique and inspiration, accompanied this time by a guest judge, street art legend Mear One. At the end of the throwdown, Bua and Wagner chose two competitors who excelled, two who needed to step it up and one who had to go home. As of yet, there are no specific personal rivalries or cattiness as is so often characteristic of these types of programs. The competitor who struggled during the throwdown challenge received some free, cheerfully given lessons from another competitor on how to use spray cans, and when she eventually was chosen to go home, she also received hugs from everyone. While the artists revealed various degrees of nervousness or confidence through their interviews and interactions with the judges, the judges themselves showed no emotion whatsoever. Bua in particular gave the competitors only a cursory, vaguely dismissive “interesting” on more than one occasion. “Street Art Throwdown” has the potential to focus on something different that, even though
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Getting hooked on Yung Lean’s enigma By CARLY SNIDER Daily Arts Writer
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‘SpongeBob’ only works for kids Latest iteration of SpongeBob franchise runs on fart jokes By CONRAD FOREMAN Daily Arts Writer
A note from the writer: I must preface this review by making it known that I was never a SpongeBob fan and I have only a basic famil- C+ iarity with the show. While ‘The I was not the SpongeBob only audience member in my Movie: age group, I was Sponge Out the only person of Water’ seeing SpongeBob alone on a Rave and Friday night. Quality 16 In all fairness, I Paramount actually (sadly) didn’t have anything better to do. “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” marks the second foray into film for the Bikini Bottom crew, and the first in 10 years. For this adventure, the stakes are set as high as they can be when a botched scheme by Plankton results in the loss of the recipe for Krabby Patties. The ensuing
uproar forces SpongeBob and Plankton to team up and find the recipe before Bikini Bottom’s descent into chaos becomes irreversible. While the driving force of the story (finding the recipe) is simple enough, the plot is an exercise in over-the-top ridiculousness. This is best exemplified by the introduction of an extraterrestrial dolphin that apparently oversees the galaxy. Of course, no one sees “Sponge Out of Water” expecting succinct, thoughtful storytelling. They see it for the jokes. Much of the film’s comedy is fart/poop based. This perhaps doesn’t appeal to the college demographic, but it is a kids’ movie after all. There are moments where the comedy reaches higher points, such as when Plankton’s computer wife, Karen, escapes from capture and she’s shown to have carved in the walls of her prison “CTL + ALT + DEL,” and other phrases one might expect from a robot going insane from imprisonment. The rest of the humor surely comes from a connection to the old characters — Patrick is dumb, Squidward is a stick in the mud and Mr. Krabs is cheap. Though the title of the film and the promotion surround-
ing it implied there would be extensive scenes with the main cast stranded on land, that doesn’t come to fruition until the climax of the film. During the sequence, SpongeBob (Tom Kenny), Patrick (Bill Fagerbakke), Mr. Krabs (Clancy Brown), Squidward (Rodger Bumpass) and Sandy (Carolyn Lawrence) receive some assistance from a deus ex machina that transforms each of them into their superhero equivalent. The crew relinquishes their powers for the sake of returning things to normality, but Squidward finally catches a break and gets to keep the washboard abs of his superhero-self. The live action antagonist pirate, Burger Beard (Antonio Banderas, “Once Upon a Time in Mexico”), doesn’t add much to the film comically, but the conclusion of his story ties up the universe nicely, revealing Burger Beard to be the portraited pirate that famously calls kids to the ready before each “SpongeBob” episode. In the end, “Sponge Out of Water” isn’t great, nor does it aspire to be. It’s purposefully targeted to young children, bringing them the joy of laughter and teaching them an ageold, ever-salient lesson about the value of teamwork.
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A violent response to ‘A Most Violent Year’ By ANDREW MCCLURE Daily Arts Writer
I can’t even say, let alone think anything, about the title of “A Most Violent Year” without using a Queens English enunciation, each syllable sharing equal parts attention and glottal contraction. That we, the audience expecting a gritty, violent gangster-like picture, are left with our leading man Abel (Oscar Isaac, “Inside Llewyn Davis”) borrowing overloaded rhetoric from J.C. Chandor’s sinewy script leaves something — everything — to be desired: like for Abel to talk with, at least, minor imperfection as if he actually has something to lose, something human. The movie never compels us to lend a hand to Abel, someone so multifaceted yet one-dimensional that we can’t care about his cause because we never really understand why, or are even convinced that he actually wants to corner the heating-oil market. This is not a diatribe. It’s not because I’m about to, with economy in mind, say some good things. Bradford Young (“Selma”), the film’s director of photography, lenses with meticulous care, culminating in a bridge chase scene where his cam snakes between standstill traffic followed by a tracking shot backpedaling just fast enough to keep our sprinting subject framed finely. Pictorially, his daylight scenes bleed a soft blue and his night shots play with moody contrast, almost to question the so-called moral compass of our Abel, whose grayish-black pompadour often fades into the unlit back.
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Isaac’s Abel, I think, does what he can given the weakness of a script that burps lines like, “When it feels scary to jump, that is exactly when you jump, otherwise you end up in the same place,” a blurb better engineered to tell your kid growing up than in a movie that wishes it had the same spine as that aphorism. Isaac’s delivery, his acting, with these ambition-wet lines feels, if anything, actorly. His knee-kissing sandy overcoat and bespoke suits create the illusion of an oil baron better than his actual words, which are heavy like lead and preachy like a preacher. But worst of all, all of this overacting and fatless writing could be rendered negligible had our Abel showed us, proved to us, that this expansion he “dreams” of was, in fact, a dream of his. Instead, it falls limp as an empty drive to, um, build a bigger manse? Prove to the other dickhead NYC barons that he reigns supreme? The latter could’ve worked, but the movie only pokes at these ostensibly more interesting characters.
The internet contends this movie is about “making it,” “America” and “making it in America.” But how can a movie so adamant on walking in dumb circles, from sidesplitting plot-point predictability to Jessica Chastain’s onthen-off bad Brooklyn accent, ever “make it” if the only glimmer of progress is a piece of land, one that signifies thicker profits but no palpable emotional utility gained for the purchaser? “Shucks!” goes the moviegoer when Abel’s immigrant employee, Julien, reappears in the final minutes of the film, after having been discarded by the script, to wave a gun around like a whack-job. We wince because Julien, eyes jaundiced and poor English tremulous, hints at what this movie could have been: A story about a real American Dream and how it, well, gets warped out of shape. It’s a slovenly denouement, but it would have been nice to see Abel show just half the vim, the quasi-psychosis, in his vocation that Julien did in being a lowly teamster.
“Where the hell did you find this?” a confused friend asks while watching and listening to Yung Lean’s “Hurt” music video for the first time. The video features a random compilation of images and clips — Japanese writing, neon colors everywhere, Lean “cooking” with Arizona Iced Tea, computer screens from the early ’00s. I think of a response to explain that the Swedish rapper’s style and overall aesthetic is meant to be ironic and that its perplexing nature is purposeful. Even then I am faced with more questions. Yes, he knows that it’s not actually 2002. No, he is not always a “sad boy.” I don’t know if he actually has a Louis duffle bag filled with heroin. No, this isn’t a joke — well, not really. Despite my efforts, I could not find the words to communicate the appeal of Lean’s backward sound. This encounter took place well over a year ago, and I am still unable to fully encapsulate the enigma that is Yung Lean. I think he is something you “get” immediately or will never really appreciate. Lean’s flow is fairly relaxed, rapping his lyrics with a slack style. With contrast to the mainstream rappers of today, with artists like Wacka Flocka and Joey Bada$$, there is no urgency in his delivery. Rather, his style is more closely linked to other less-thanconventional rappers like Lil B. Mumbling his way through lyrics that don’t make sense most of the time, Lean somehow manages to create something infectious. For the most part, he sticks
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to the general rap lyric agenda — bragging about various states of inebriation and his ability to “get with” women — while somehow maintaining his “emotional boy” persona. Though entirely unprecedented, after a few listens, you can’t deny Lean’s swagger. Even more striking than the lyrics are the beats supporting Lean’s voice. Most tracks include some combination of classic hip-hop snare drums and electronic-based melodies. The instrumentation is so intricate that, even without Lean’s vocals, it could stand on its own as a chill electro beat. There are hints of synth, echoing background vocals and round, rolling tones to create a sound that is undeniably Lean’s. Traditionally, one would think that such low-key background music and slack style wouldn’t allow for an ignorant rap feel, yet Lean manages to defy these
conventions. Tracks like “Ghosttown” and “Ginsberg Strip 2002” are hype in their own sense of the word, they do not need to be in your face to get their point across. What may be the most intriguing aspect of Lean’s identity is the way in which he presents himself and his music. Typifying his character are the bucket hats, the references to himself and his crew as “sad boys,” filling his music videos with psychedelic colors and making frequent references to years 2001-2003. The way in which he markets himself is truly a product of the Internet. It makes no cohesive sense, but it’s cool and it works. Maybe Yung Lean’s strength is that he is undefinable — he can be compared to others while still running a league all his own. I don’t think I will ever know how or why Yung Lean does what he does, all I know is that I’m hooked.
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ASSEMBLY FALL Michigan 67 Indiana 70 Abdur-Rahkman’s 3 falls short at buzzer, Michigan loses upset bid at Indiana By MAX BULTMAN Daily Sports Editor
BLOOMINGTON — Before the season started, Michigan basketball coach John Beilein gave his team a poem. Titled, “It Was One Possession” by Jeff Smith, the poem describes a series of small mistakes that seem mild at the time, but ultimately add up to a loss. The poem ends, “In post game I sit at my locker, Pondering what more I could do. I realize the value of each possession, what a shame that we lost by two.” And on Sunday, months after he read the poem but only moments after his team lost its third final-possession game in the last two weeks, junior guard Spike Albrecht started looking back on the smallest things that could’ve gone differently. Freshman guard Muhammad-Ali AbdurRahkman’s game-tying corner 3-point attempt bounced off the rim, inches shy of sending Michigan into overtime, resulting in a 70-67 win for Indiana on Sunday at Assembly Hall. But that wasn’t one of the possessions he wanted back most. “Yeah, I mean, it came down to the last
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possession and things like that, but there were silly mistakes we made throughout the game,” Albrecht said. “I turned the ball over on the inbounds play, and it was within three, that could have been the difference. There was probably 10 different plays that if you take one or two those back, we might be celebrating right now in the locker room.” But while Albrecht’s retrospective sentiments are the perfect embodiment of the poem, they leave out just how tough the Wolverines (6-6 Big Ten, 13-11 overall) made it on Indiana. While Indiana (7-4, 17-7) led nearly the entire game and ultimately won a thriller, Michigan kept itself alive for much of the game using spurts of scoring it hadn’t shown since losing junior guard Caris LeVert to a broken foot in January. Sophomore forward Zak Irvin had 23 points, one shy of his career high, and freshman center Ricky Doyle added 15 points and six rebounds. “(Irvin is) doing much better at just picking his spots,” Beilein said. “He’s learning those things that give him a lot of latitude to explore these different options. He’s so much more than a shooter. He showed some of those things today, and he made some really tough outside shots that we needed at big times.” For all of the well-deserved praise Irvin and the Wolverines earned after the game, the Hoosiers nearly buried Michigan early. When Indiana guard Yogi Ferrell wasn’t hitting big jump shots, forward Troy Williams was throwing down monstrous dunks and freshman guard James Blackmon Jr. was carving up the middle of the Michigan defense. The Wolverines, however, weren’t going away. See MICHIGAN, Page 2B
n Michigan continues to compete, but that might not matter in March, writes Greg Garno. SportsMonday Column, Page 2B
Irvin, former Mr. Basketball, scores team-high 23 in return to home state By DANIEL FELDMAN Daily Sports Editor
BLOOMINGTON — Emotions were undoubtedly high for Zak Irvin. The 2013 Indiana Mr. Basketball was back in his home state and “jacked up” to help the Michigan men’s basketball team defeat Indiana. Being the ringleader of a team dominated by Indiana natives — five in total — Irvin was going to have to step up if Michigan (6-6 Big Ten, 13-11 overall) stood a chance against the Hoosiers. But the sophomore forward needed to do more than just score on the court to help his team win — he also had to be in the game mentally and manage his emotions. And in the first half, Irvin didn’t think he did that. In the middle of an up-and-down season that started with Irvin being seen as the heir apparent to junior guard Caris LeVert’s role last year as the second in command on offense, Irvin has struggled adjusting his game to be more than just a shooter. With 80 more attempts coming into Sunday’s game compared to last year’s season total, Irvin’s had to adjust to carrying a bigger load, impacting his shooting percentage, currently five percent lower than last year’s. Having stayed in Ann Arbor for Camp
Sanderson over the summer to add on strength and weight, Irvin was expected to be more of a stretch-four this year, rather than a small forward who would come in off the bench just to shoot when open. But as Michigan lost and the pressure grew for Irvin to produce, the stress got to him. “He’s had some emotion earlier in the year that was not good,” said Michigan coach John Beilein. “He would get down on himself. And now he can handle it much more.” Sunday, though, Irvin showed progress both physically and mentally, finishing with a teamleading 23 points. “He’s got his head on right, and he knows that everybody has parts of their game they need to work on,” Beilein said. “And he realizes what some of those are, and he’s working on them. So, it showed today. Taking the ball to the basket and selecting those times to take it to the basket.” Despite the shaky start, Irvin displayed confidence in the second half. He was calm playing the last 20 minutes, getting others involved, being aggressive and encouraging others. Playing on such a young team, an added responsibility for Irvin has been to be more vocal. And by playing in an arena so dear to him, that presence was needed more than ever. “He was passionate about winning the game today and talking to the team,” Beilein said of Irvin. “That’s an issue with a young team — we are very silent. It’s hard for some guys to come out of that, and even as a sophomore, and say, ‘Hey, we’ve got to talk.’ ” See IRVIN, Page 2B
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The moral victory Michigan doesn’t need
ere they were again. In a game they weren’t supposed to stick around in, with a roster that lacked the depth to do so. On this path through the season, the one GREG that was disappointing, GARNO heartbreaking and yet still within reach, each shot and every break brought the Michigan men’s basketball team closer and closer to that same place. For the third time in as many weeks, this time on the road in Bloomington, the Wolverines took a Big Ten team down to the final seconds. They led only once the entire game and trailed by as many as 11 — twice. And yet there they were in the final seconds with a chance to send the game to overtime, again. Even as Indiana made shot after shot from deep and awoke the crowd with a dunk, Michigan was still in the game. Junior guard Spike Albrecht and sophomore forward Zak Irvin came down to the end, shooting and driving while everyone else watched. Albrecht made a pair of free throws with 43 seconds left. Irvin, who had struggled to shoot, sank a 3-pointer from two feet beyond the arc with 18 seconds remaining. And the Wolverines trailed one of the Big Ten’s best teams by just three on its opponent’s home court. The week prior they had
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forced Michigan State into overtime. Before then, another overtime game against No. 4 Wisconsin. Each one ended in a loss. Each one called a chance to grow. Each one labeled a “moral victory” by many. “That’s our story,” said Michigan coach John Beilein. “We’re actually getting a little bit tired of it, but it beats the alternative of giving in, so we’re making progress.” If Michigan could win, it could spark a run to the tournament. It could prove critics wrong who said without a healthy Caris
LeVert or a healthy Derrick Walton, the Wolverines couldn’t make the tournament again. If they could win, they would be able to show they had learned and worked past those difficult defeats. But when Michigan had its chance to show its growth, to show how far Albrecht has come as
a scorer and how far freshman guard Muhammad-Ali AbdurRahkman’s confidence level has risen. To change the trend and walk away with an actual victory, it fell short with AbdurRahkman’s 3-pointer at the last second. Another “moral victory” in a season of painful losses. No one walked off the court
“We don’t like growing in defeat, but I believe we are.”
looking satisfied, of course, because it’s still a loss. A moral victory, no matter how good it may feel, isn’t worth any bonus points or an asterisk in the standings. It’s just painful. And it’s not worth anything more to the NCAA Tournament committee, either. Moral victories, in college basketball, are so commonplace that they happen every week. But this one, on this team, feels different. It’s a team that shouldn’t be in close games because it doesn’t have the pieces to. It’s a coach who, even
MICHIGAN From Page 1B They made a pair of runs at the end of the first half, only to be pushed back by big 3-pointers from Ferrell and Blackmon. They made strides at the start of the second, too, but Hoosier forward Collin Hartman had an answer. It seemed like Indiana would have Michigan worn down and be able pull away at the end. And yet, with 3:30 to play, Albrecht hit a three to cut the Hoosier lead to 64-58, and Michigan started one more comeback effort. With Doyle stepping up the interior defense, Michigan played tight inside and forced a couple turnovers. On the other end, Albrecht hit an And-1 layup to cut the deficit to three with one minute left. Hartman and Albrecht, who scored eight of his 12 points in the final 3:30, traded pairs of free throws on their next possessions, wearing down the clock but not creating separation. Then Williams unleashed a
when he faces the toughest stretch of his schedule, still figures out a way to put his team into game-winning positions. Given Michigan’s history as of late, something more than a moral victory is expected. Five years ago, they would be encouraging. It shows just how far this team has come, because a trend like this doesn’t feel good. It feels awkward. This moral victory, at the hands of Indiana, only compounds that pain, because now, as the season approaches its end, the future is less and less promising. “We say (we’re) growing either in victory or defeat,” Beilein said. “We don’t like growing in defeat, but I believe we are.” In college basketball, confidence and experience matter, but they don’t mean much unless they count as a win. There’s little time to reflect and grow from these victories. “Right now, everyone keeps saying moral victories, but there are no moral victories,” Albrecht said. “So it was a disappointing loss and I was proud of the way we battled, but we’ve got to start finishing these close games.” They don’t make the season a failure, but the moral victories don’t make a difference unless they turn into wins. As March approaches, there’s not much time to show how they pay off. Because there are no moral victories when you’re not in the NCAA Tournament. Greg Garno can be reached via email at ggarno@umich.edu and on Twitter @G_Garno.
vicious dunk with 30 seconds left in the game, seemingly the knockout punch from the ever-answering Hoosiers. But 12 seconds later, Irvin coolly answered with a 3-pointer, pulling Michigan within two with 18 seconds remaining. Hartman was intentionally fouled on his next possession and missed one of the two free throws, giving Michigan a chance to tie at the buzzer. The Wolverines tried to get Irvin free, but he couldn’t find an open shot. He worked it around the perimeter, and the ball eventually ended up with Abdur-Rahkman wide open in the corner with a chance to tie. But the freshman’s triple was a few inches short, clanging off the rim and sealing a Hoosier win. “It’s a very similar story to our Wisconsin and Michigan State games, where we’re proud of our kids’ play and how hard we worked,” Beilein said. “I’d love to have some possessions back and I know that we’ll learn from them.” It is a similar story, but Beilein, Albrecht and the Wolverines are still treating it like the poem, and pondering what more they could do.
“He’s so much more than a shooter.”
IRVIN From Page 1B Playing with his back against the wall, Irvin had to step up to overcome the Hoosiers (7-4, 17-7). Taking 13 of Michigan’s shots in the second half, Irvin knocked down seven, including three 3-pointers to keep the iron hot for the Wolverines. While Michigan couldn’t leave Assembly Hall with a win, it would not have even come down to a final possession if not for Irvin’s triple with 18 seconds left to make it a one-possession game. With the game clock winding down, he had a chance to tie the game and bring it into overtime, but instead of forcing up a wildly contested 3-pointer, he started the passing around the arc, with the ball ultimately finding freshman guard MuhammadAli Abdur-Rahkman. His lastsecond attempt fell short. Though it’s coming to the point in Michigan’s season where actual wins are needed over moral ones, the play of Irvin is a promising sign for
a team with fleeting NCAA Tournament chances. “That’s the Zak Irvin we need the rest of the year,” said junior guard Spike Albrecht. “This was a very big game for him. There was a lot of pride on the line being an Indiana guy. He really stepped up today.”
BY THE NUMBERS Michigan Men’s Basketball
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Attendance Sunday at Assembly Hall for Michigan vs. Indiana
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Points for sophomore forward Zak Irvin, tying a season high set Nov. 17
50.0
Michigan field-goal percentage, its highest since Jan. 6 at Penn State
13-11
Michigan’s record through Sunday, including 6-6 in the Big Ten
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Wolverine upset bid falls short By KELLY HALL Daily Sports Writer
With 4:19 to go, Shannon Smith tumbled into a photographer after making a fast-break layup, pulling the Michigan women’s basketball team 57 RUTGERS within MICHIGAN 50 two points of No. 21 Rutgers. The senior guard scored six consecutive points for the Wolverines in the final minutes, changing the pace of the game and breathing life into what had been largely a clumsy game. But it wasn’t enough, as the Scarlet Knights held on, 57-50, at Crisler Center. Though Smith had 19 points and eight rebounds, it wasn’t enough without senior forward Cyesha Goree. With 14:13 to go in the second half, Goree — the Wolverines’ leading scorer — committed her fourth foul. Because Goree was in danger of fouling out, Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico had to take her out in the most decisive minutes of the game. And with three starters taller than six feet, the Scarlet Knights had a clear size advantage without the 6-foot-3 Goree on the court, allowing Rutgers to pull down 29 defensive boards. “It made our team much smaller, so from an offensive rebounding standpoint, they got a couple on the weakside boards that if Cyesha was in there, I don’t think they would have got,” Barnes Arico said. “We were almost playing with five guards, and we lost our inside presence that Cyesha tried to establish early.” The entire first half, Rutgers and Michigan played a backand-forth game with neither team emerging as a clear leader. But that quickly changed in the second half. The Scarlet Knights went on a 6-0 run
halfway through the second frame, and Michigan (6-6 Big Ten, 14-9 overall) missed nine consecutive field-goal attempts. This run ultimately decided the game, allowing Rutgers to jump out to a 39-27 lead. But for a team that shot just 26 percent on the night, its defense was what truly allowed for any chance of late-game heroics. When the Wolverines played the Scarlet Knights in early January, they racked up 81 points. Sunday, Michigan utilized a zone defense that held Rutgers to just 57. The strong defensive play should have given the Wolverines an early leg up, but Michigan’s poor shooting left it with a 24-21 deficit at the break. “We had some great open looks down the stretch but just couldn’t get them to fall,” Barnes Arico said. “I don’t know if it’s the accumulation of the amount of games we’ve had in a short turnaround, or if it’s due to a little bit of Rutgers’ pressure —
probably a combination of both of those things.” In Rutgers’ first victory over Michigan, the only thing that kept the Wolverines in the game was Barnes Arico’s halftime decision to play zone defense. Michigan played zone once again on Sunday, hoping for a better outcome. “I think we did a really good job of executing our defensive game plan,” said senior forward Nicole Elmblad. “We knew they were a team that wasn’t looking to take outside shots, so we kind of forced them to do that.” For the first five minutes, Michigan seemed primed to pull off the upset. Goree ran circles around Rutgers in the first half and grabbed seven rebounds. Before she was put on the bench in the second to prevent her from fouling out, she was a major force on the glass, both offensively and defensively. Without Goree on the court, the Wolverines needed
someone to pick up the slack, but that relief didn’t come from freshman guard Katelynn Flaherty. She was held to just four points when she played at Rutgers earlier this season, and the trend continued Sunday, with Flaherty shooting just 1-for-11. “Rutgers has a player named Syessence Davis, who’s arguably and probably will be (the Big Ten) Defensive Player of the Year,” Barnes Arico said. “She’s probably one of the best guard defenders in the country. … I’m sure the matchup there is extremely difficult. Katelynn’s just trying to figure it all out as a freshman and is being guarded by one of the best players in the country.” In a game that was close until the end, Michigan squandered too many open shots to win. “Sometimes the ball doesn’t go in the basket,” Elmblad said. “There’s really nothing you can do except get back in the gym and keep working on it.”
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Senior guard Shannon Smith scored 19 points and recorded eight rebounds in Michigan’s loss to Rutgers on Sunday.
February 9, 2015 — 3B
MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING
Wolverines leave their mark in finale Michigan routs MSU behind six pool records By TED JANES Daily Sports Writer
Breaking records is contagious — Just ask the Michigan men’s swimming and diving team. Saturday, the Wolverines broke six pool records, two of which had lasted for over a decade. No. 5 Michigan (6-0 Big Ten, 10-0 overall) made the trip up I-96 to face off with Michigan State (0-4 Big Ten, 4-6 overall) in East Lansing this weekend. The Wolverines won 15 of the 16 events, dominating their in-state rival in both the lap pool and the diving well by a score of 178-106. Junior Dylan Bosch led the way, winning the 200-yard butterfly, while setting a pool record. The record, which was set by former Michigan swimmer and Olympic gold medalist Tom Malchow, had been in place since 1997. “To break someone’s record who is an Olympic gold medalist and world record holder, it’s kind of a humbling experience,” Bosch said. “And it’s an honor at the same time.” Added Michigan coach Mike Bottom: “To the swimming world, Malchow is an icon, and I know it was a record that (Bosch) felt very honored to break. Breaking records is always something that we feel strongly about, because we feel that Michigan itself belongs on the walls of Michigan State. “Those records are something we want to leave behind not only for individuals, but for Michigan.” Another highlight of the meet came in the diving well, where Michigan has struggled
throughout the season. In the last regular season meet of his career, fifth-year senior Thomas Jahnke took first in both of his events, the 1-meter and 3-meter springboards. In most meets, the diving competition and the swim races occur simultaneously. This weekend’s meet was structured differently, placing the diving events during the swimmers’ breaks, allowing everyone to come watch what was going on at the other end of McCaffree Pool. “It put pressure on us to perform a little bit better, but it’s nice to see them all there and to show them that you’re pulling the weight too,” Jahnke said. “Everyone is contributing for the team. It was cool to see them there and to dive a little bit better with more sense of urgency. “This year has been pretty up and down. In the last two meets, with the ways those went, it didn’t feel like we had a lot of momentum, even though we are going into the championship season. It felt great to have a good meet.” Jahnke’s recent success came at the perfect time, since the next event for Michigan is the Big Ten Championships. Despite the pressure, Jahnke knows he has some positive momentum leading into the meet. While Jahnke completed his job in the diving end, Michigan set records in four of the relays: the 800-yard freestyle, the 200-yard medley, the 400-yard freestyle and the 400-yard medley. Though the season-ending meet did not pose much of a challenge for the Wolverines, the meet gave them a chance to perfect details looking ahead to the Big Ten Championships. The team knows well that the bigger challenge lies ahead.
SOFTBALL
Michigan kicks off season with 3-1 record in Florida Wolverines lose to top-ranked Gators, win next three By TYLER SCOTT Daily Sports Writer
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Sophomore guard Siera Thompson shot 2-for-13 from 3-point range, and Michigan was 3-for-25 as a team.
‘M’ struggles behind the arc By JACOB GASE Daily Sports Writer
Two minutes into the Michigan women’s basketball team’s matchup with No. 21 Rutgers, the offense was already working hard. In one possession, sophomore guard Siera Thompson missed two 3-pointers, senior forward Cyesha Goree grabbed two offensive rebounds but missed a put-back shot and senior guard Shannon Smith had to swoop in for a quick board and layup to prevent a complete disaster. The early troubles were just a sign of things to come for a struggling Wolverine offense — despite grabbing 19 offensive rebounds, Michigan shot just 26 percent from the floor, including an abysmal 12 percent (3-for-25) from beyond the arc. “It was really a different kind of night for us,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “I don’t know if it was their pressure that affected us so early that got us to miss late, but we had opportunities.” Goree, the Wolverines’ leading scorer and most commanding post presence, spent most of the second half on the bench with four fouls, forcing Michigan to
turn to its outside game to find an edge. Unfortunately for the Wolverines, their shooters just couldn’t deliver. Michigan shot 0-for-10 from beyond the arc in the first half and missed five more 3s to start the second before Smith finally knocked one down with 10:44 remaining in the game. Both of the Wolverines’ talented long-range shooters had uncharacteristically poor days. Thompson missed her first nine triples and finished 2-for-13 from behind the arc and 4-for20 from the floor. Freshman guard Katelynn Flaherty fared even worse coming off the bench, missing all seven of her 3-point attempts and shooting just 1-for-11 in total — her worst performance since a 1-for-11 showing against Notre Dame on Dec. 13. “I think that in the first half, we took quick shots, and we took shots where we felt a lot of pressure. With that, I wasn’t surprised that we shot poorly,” Barnes Arico said. “In the second half, I thought we had open looks that we missed, uncontested shots. We still weren’t able to relax. “I rebound for Siera every gameday, and I rebounded for her
today, and she pretty much makes nine out of 10. For her to go and shoot (like that) is a shock to me, and I think it’s uncharacteristic for her.” But despite the offensive cold streak, Michigan remained within striking distance of the Scarlet Knights throughout the game. The Wolverines used a zone scheme to hold Rutgers to 38 percent shooting in the first half, and Smith used a late offensive surge to cut the deficit to 49-47 with four minutes remaining. But yet again, the offense failed to bail Michigan out. Thompson and junior guard Madison Ristovski missed two consecutive open 3-pointers, and Thompson and Flaherty failed to connect on two more attempts within the final minute to seal the Wolverines’ fate. “When we (hit those shots) against Ohio State, we won the game,” Barnes Arico said. “I think it’s probably really crucial, especially to the mindset of the Rutgers kids, and probably ours as well. We had two good looks and missed two more shots. But we were right there, and next time we’ve got to make plays, and that’s kind of what we talked about.”
A 62-game season means that in college softball, losses can’t be dwelt upon. The No. 8 Michigan softball team looked past the game it dropped against No. 1 Florida and compiled three consecutive wins to end its first regular-season series of 2015. The Wolverines lost 2-1 to the Gators on Saturday in the USF Classic in Tampa, Florida, and then beat host South Florida in the nightcap. On Sunday, the Wolverines were more dominant, beating Hampton and Illinois State with ease. Saturday’s loss to the Gators came in uncharacteristic fashion against the defending national champions. Florida’s winning run came as the result of a wild pitch from Michigan senior lefthander Haylie Wagner. Wagner, who surrendered just two hits in 6 2/3 innings of work, put together a strong outing that was simply marred by an untimely mistake. “I was just sticking to the same game plan,” Wagner said. “After (the wild pitch) I knew I would sulk on it for five minutes, then I had to be ready for the next situation I’m in.” The only previous instance when the Gators scored came in the form of a single run in the fourth inning. Michigan was scoreless until sophomore outfielder Kelly Christner batted in the tying run by lacing a double to right-center field. With the game tied, Wagner issued back-to-back walks to start the bottom of the seventh inning. A subsequent sacrifice bunt and ground out put the winning run at third with only one out. Florida then hit a three-run home run, which was
negated by a illegal substitution, giving the Wolverines another chance. “(The Gators) didn’t re-enter a kid on offense, and one of our coaching staff noticed it,” said Michigan coach Carol Hutchins. “She hit the home run, then we brought it up to the umpire who confirmed that (Florida’s coach) didn’t re-enter her, so it was an illegal substitution.” But the third and final out was never recorded. Wagner’s next pitch was too high for the catcher, and allowed Florida’s runner to score from third, dashing any hopes for extra innings or a Michigan comeback in the marquee matchup of the weekend. “Turns out it didn’t matter, because the next pitch was wild and they won the game,” said Hutchins. Saturday marked the second consecutive year Florida defeated the Wolverines at the same USF tournament. Last February, the Gators were able execute a comeback performance in extra-innings. Minus the wild pitch, Wagner was every bit as effective as Florida freshman pitcher Aleshia Ocasio, who limited Michigan to just one run and two hits through a full seven innings of work. Aside from Christner, freshmen firstbaseman Tera Blanco recorded the only other Michigan hit. After being stymied by Florida, Michigan beat each of its next three opponents in USF, Hampton and Illinois State by scores of 4-3, 9-2 and 4-1, respectively. Senior right-hander Sara Driesenga was consistent with her superb work in the circle over the weekend. She notched wins against both South Florida
and Illinois State, allowing just one earned run in the process. “You just have to stay confident,” Driesenga said. “I go out there and keep pitching how I know I can pitch.” Sophomore right-hander Megan Betsa pitched the win Sunday morning against Hampton, allowing one earned run on a hit and five walks. Against USF, the Wolverines finally found some offense in long-ball fashion. Junior outfielder Kelsey Susalla and Christner hit back-to-back solo home runs. Junior shortstop Sierra Romero also recorded her first home-run of the year in the game against Hampton, where she was 3-4 at the plate and had four RBI. Since her All-American season last year, Romero has had to adjust with the willingness of opposing teams to walk her in order to keep her bat cool. “It’s not frustrating (to be walked),” Romero said. “Yeah I want to hit, but I know that taking my walk is as good as a single.” Despite picking up three wins on the weekend, Hutchins was not entirely satisfied with how her team looked on the field. “I thought we played tentative,” Hutchins said. “I don’t think we came out attacking.” According to Hutchins, there’s plenty of room for improvement that picking up wins early on has the tendency to hide. “The biggest problem is when you win, it doesn’t sting as much,” Hutchins said. “We have to make improvements, otherwise we’re going to lose some games.”
“I don’t think we came out attacking.”
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4B — February 9, 2015
ICE HOCKEY
Conditions threaten to cancel Soldier Field game By ZACH SHAW Daily Sports Writer
CHICAGO — Window by window, the skyscrapers north of Soldier Field grew darker as the game went on, blending into the night sky as Saturday night turned into Sunday morning. On the ice, the puck could be seen bouncing over sticks and along the boards while players slipped and slid all over the rink. Saturday’s game between No. 14 Michigan and rival Michigan State began hours later than planned, and never fully was a clean game. But as Drew Russell — the Vice President of Properties at InterSport in charge of operations at the Hockey City Classic — looked on at the play below, he knew that simply getting a game in meant mission accomplished. At the tail end of one of Chicago’s more erratic weather weeks, Russell and his team came dangerously close to having to cancel the event. “Everybody wanted to get the game in tonight,” Russell said. “Officials, coaches, players, fans, no one wanted to extend this process or put a contingency plan in place.” With snow, negative temperatures and a sudden heat wave all coming just days apart, InterSport — the company in charge of running the event — had its work cut out for the event Saturday morning. When a compressor below the ice became faulty, the possibility of a game occurring was quite literally on thin ice. “There was in my mind,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson on the possibility of a cancellation. “When we got a call that the game was being pushed back, we weren’t sure what was going to happen.” Amazingly, the warm ice was
the least of mother nature’s evils. The mild temperatures had melted the ice, giving Russell’s team an opportunity to reset a rink that had already been ravaged by the elements. “Sometimes it’s too cold or there’s too much for the ice, so it gets brittle and hard to maintain,” Russell said Saturday. “The warm weather actually helped us get into good position for today. We brought the ice temperatures back up, we got it to where it was good, but we had to work with it and had to get everything back into a stable position and that just took a little longer than we anticipated.” Added Michigan State coach Tom Anastos: “I will tell you, after last night, I didn’t think there was much chance or hope we would have this today. They really did a good job getting the ice into the condition that they were so we could play, it came a long way from last night.” Before the ice regained strength, though, things looked rather bleak for the event. With teams cancelling morning skates and the beating sun continuing to melt the ice, Russell began looking into alternative options. With Disney on Ice and Monster Jam occupying nearby ice arenas, the United Center and Allstate Arena, respectively, Russell had one indoor locale identified: the 1,500-seat McFetridge Sports Center run by the Chicago Park District. “In our business, we try to prepare for the worst and react when the worst occurs,” Russell said. “There were external forces we were up against here like the weather and the curfew we have here in Chicago, so that went into our thinking. The biggest thing was the ice, and fortunately, the ice kept getting better as the day wore on, and I think everybody’s going to go away pleased.”
MEN’S LACROSSE
With the hours ticking and an entire game to be played before the Spartans and Wolverines hit the ice, the two teams waited in limbo to see if they would play Saturday. With both teams playing under the same elements, the edge was going to have to come from elsewhere. “We talked about it all week that when you go into this circumstance, you don’t know what to expect,” Anastos said. “It’s more than physical with just one game, it about being mentally ready to play for whatever comes; rain, snow, wind, cold, delays, cancellations, whatever.” By around 4:30 p.m., a setting sun and reactivated compressor brought hope of a game back to both teams. But by the time the puck was dropped at 8:41 p.m., it was clear the conditions were far from perfect. “Not great,” said Michigan sophomore goaltender Zach Nagelvoort Saturday of the day’s conditions. “Today was a ton better compared to yesterday. Obviously looking at the ice, it’s the same ice for both teams, so say what you want about it, but everyone is going to have to play on it.” As the rest of the city went to bed, the two rivals battled it out on the ice. Michigan used a flurry of short passes and longrange shots from defensemen to pull out the 4-1 win, but the mere occurrence of the event was enough to make everyone happy. “Constant communication with the facilities here, constant communication with the ice crew, the official and the teams, we all knew we were going to do everything in our power to get it in,” said Russell, whose team has now executed three outdoor hockey events. “We feel that our product on the ice was really great, and everyone went home pleased.”
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‘M’ tops MSU outdoors Defense carries Wolverines to win at Soldier Field By JEREMY SUMMITT Daily Sports Editor
CHICAGO — As the team with the nation’s top offense, Michigan’s defensive corps seldom steals the spotlight. But that was the 1 MSU 4 case in the MICHIGAN Coyote Logistics Hockey City Classic at Soldier Field on Saturday, as goals from sophomore defenseman Michael Downing and freshman defenseman Cutler Martin paced the Wolverines to a 4-1 victory over Michigan State. Sophomore goaltender Zach Nagelvoort made 31 saves in the win, which helped keep Michigan atop the Big Ten standings. “I thought our forecheck was better, our ‘D’ zone was better, our neutral zone was better and I thought our second effort was better,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “We had more second effort, more physicality and we were more invested in the game than we were last week.” Despite unfavorable ice conditions that resulted in nearly a two-hour delay, the Wolverines (8-2 Big Ten, 16-8 overall) came out of the gates with a sense of urgency. Downing netted his fifth goal of the season just 1:43 into the game off a feed from freshman forward Tyler Calderone. “It was really important for us to not let them get into their trap, their neutral zone which is really good defensively,” said junior forward Andrew Copp. “Scoring the first goal was important to us.” Michigan would go on to score three unanswered goals by the end of the second period.
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Zach Nagelvoort made 31 saves in Michigan’s win over Michigan State.
Martin, an East Lansing native who opted for a hockey career in Ann Arbor, added a tally of his own with 6:44 left in the second period. A failed clearance ended up in Martin’s glove before he dropped the puck to his stick and fired a shot from the high slot that beat goaltender Jake Hildebrand on his blocker side. Michigan’s defensemen have netted 12 total goals this season, a mark that has already doubled last year’s total. Even on nights when the Wolverines’ plethora of scoring threats up front don’t find twine, reinforcements are typically looming on the blue line. Even more impressive was the stout defensive play for a team that ranks in the lower half of the nation in team defense. Michigan concedes an average of 2.96 goals per game and continues to rely on its offensive aptitude to make up for its inconsistencies on the defensive end. Saturday marked a break from a season-long tradition, but it stands as a break that Michigan will gladly accept. “I think we kept the game a lot simpler than we did last game,” Martin said. “We really tried to play more defense tonight and focused on that, even though a couple of us had a few goals here and there, but I think that was a result of playing good defense.” The Spartans (4-4-2, 10-12-2) did begin to mount a comeback after the second intermission,
but not before Copp was able to extend the lead to three by jamming one home late in the second period. Michigan State would finally strike twine five minutes into the final period when Spartan forward Matt Deblouw found the puck in the middle of a scrum and slipped one past Nagelvoort. Still, Nagelvoort’s successes outweighed his lone error. “I thought (Nagelvoort) was smart with the puck, outside of the one rebound which they scored, on a loose puck,” Berenson said. “He covered up everything around the net. It was hard because the puck was bouncing.” Though Berenson has needed to sift through a season-long goaltending competition, Nagelvoort has started the last three games and has conceded just three goals. He says Nagelvoort is “in a good place” right now. It was a successful stay in the Windy City for the guys in front of him, too. Junior forward Justin Selman’s empty-net goal with 1:12 left in the game put the seal on another chapter of one of college hockey’s most historic rivalries. And in 302 meetings, the bitterness between the schools hasn’t faded. “We could go fishing and it would be the same,” said Michigan State coach Tom Anastos.
WRESTLING
Transition offense Wolverines win two weekend duals lifts ‘M’ to first win By NATHANIEL CLARK Daily Sports Writer
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Trailing Bellarmine 7-5 at the half, Michigan men’s lacrosse coach John Paul had one message BELLARMINE 9 for his MICHIGAN 16 team: stick with the script. The Wolverines were able to do just that, outscoring Bellarmine 7-1 in the third quarter en route to a 16-9 victory in their season opener. The offensive barrage included a 5-0 run with all five goals scored within four minutes of each other. “We want to play a lot faster this year, but we just weren’t converting on our opportunities in the first half,” Paul said. “In the second half, we didn’t need to make adjustments, we just capitalized on our chances.” Michigan (1-0) was paced by senior attacker David McCormack, who tallied a career-high four goals. Sophomore midfielder Mikie Schlosser also added four tallies, while junior midfielder Kyle Jackson chipped in with a pair of goals and an assist. Both teams came out firing in the first quarter, with Schlosser scoring twice to give Michigan the early 2-1 lead. The Knights (0-1) responded with a 7-3 run, sending them into the half with a two-goal advantage. “There’s always a little pregame jitters, especially coming into the first game of the season,” Schlosser said. “We started a little slow, we didn’t defend well in transition.” Michigan responded quickly in the third for its sixth goal, with senior midfielder Thomas Orr and sophomore attacker Ian King combining with a give-andgo off a transition opportunity, ending with Orr burying a goal past Bellarmine goalie Drew Goethals. McCormack tied the game just two minutes later with another transition goal, taking a
feed from sophomore midfielder Peter Khoury and notching his first of the afternoon. “We’ve preached it all year long, playing the game fast,” Schlosser said. “In the third, we played the way we need to all season.” Michigan continued the onslaught with three goals in under a minute. Redshirt junior David Joseph beat a pair of Bellarmine defenders and put one past Goethal’s to put the Wolverines ahead. On the ensuing faceoff, junior faceoff man Brad Lott found fellow junior midfielder Dan Kinek, who ripped another into the net, extending the lead to 9-7. Lott won the next faceoff as well, and Schlosser got his hat trick with 8:46 left in the third, cushioning the Wolverines’ advantage. Bellarmine got a goal back with 2:43 left in the quarter, but McCormack responded quickly to restore the threegoal lead. Then, Jackson put the Wolverines up four with just two seconds remaining in the third, spinning around a Knight defender and beating the clock to give Michigan a 12-8 advantage heading into the final stanza. “We saw their heads dropping after we went on that run,” McCormack said. “We knew that was the time to pounce on them and close it out.” McCormack did just that at the start of the fourth, scoring a spectacular goal to put the game out of reach. After beating a Bellarmine defender behind the net, McCormack wrapped around and netted a diving goal past Goethals to give the Wolverines a five-goal lead. Redshirt sophomore goalie Gerald Logan, playing in his first game in two years, got the win for Michigan with 12 saves. Michigan will temper its expectations after just one win, but with the offensive outburst, a breakout season may lie ahead with the Wolverines’ new attack style.
To paraphrase Charles Dickens, “It was best of weekends. It was the worst of weekends,” for the No. 16 Michigan wrestling team. Friday, the Wolverines (4-4 Big Ten, 6-5 overall) faced a formidable opponent in No. 10 Nebraska (8-1, 11-1), which was riding a five-meet winning streak. The Cornhuskers lived up to their billing as they bested Michigan, 23-10, at Cliff Keen Arena. “(Nebraska) is a scrappy team,” said Michigan coach Joe McFarland. “We got out hustled a couple of times.” But the Wolverines had no time to feel sorry for themselves as they were set to travel to No. 22 Purdue (1-6, 8-8) on Sunday. Michigan left the bad taste from Friday night back in Ann Arbor and defeated the Boilermakers, 26-9. “I told the guys we have to take out our frustrations on (Purdue),” McFarland said. “That is what championship teams do.” Friday’s meet got off to a promising start for the Wolverines as redshirt sophomore Conor Youtsey shut out Nebraska’s Tim Lambert, 4-0, avenging a defeat from earlier this season. The result was a formidable victory as Lambert is the No. 10 wrestler
in the nation in the 125-pound weight class. “It’s good to get revenge,” Youtsey said. “I just knew that I had to keep scoring and keep attacking.” But the Cornhuskers began to take control in the 133pound class. With redshirt sophomore Rossi Bruno out with an injury, fifth-year senior Zebulon Hilyard was summoned to compete against Nebraska’s Eric Montoya. Hilyard had started only once in a dual meet before Friday and Montoya took advantage of Hilyard’s inexperience, dominating the match, 11-3. After another defeat in the 141-pound class, No. 13 freshman Alec Pantaleo provided Michigan with a ray of hope in the 149-pound class. Pantaleo scored five takedowns, three of them in the first period, en route to a convincing win, 11-1. The resulting major decision evened the score at 7-7. “My coaches kept telling me, ‘Don’t worry about anything else. Just keep scoring points.’ ” Pantaleo said. “They’re the most mentally tough people I’ve ever met.” But it was all Cornhuskers after that. No. 11 sophomore Brian Murphy participated in a hard-fought match with No. 4 James Green in the 157-pound weight class. The contest was
tight throughout, but Green built up a one-minute riding time advantage. That and a late takedown propelled Green to a 4-2 victory and gave Nebraska the lead for good. Murphy’s match was the first of five in a row that Michigan dropped. “The match really changed when (Green) got exactly one minute of riding time,” McFarland said. “That meant (Murphy) had to chase him down the rest of the match.” A late lineup change in the 165-pound class put freshman Garrett Sutton in his first collegiate dual bout, replacing injured redshirt sophomore Taylor Massa. While he showed some fight, Nebraska’s Austin Wilson proved too much as Sutton lost, 8-3. No. 8 fifth-year senior Max Huntley suffered the most agonizing loss in the 197-pound weight class as he squandered a lead to send his bout with Aaron Studebaker into overtime. Studebaker then scored a takedown in the overtime period to take the match, 6-4. “(Huntley) had a lot of opportunities to win that match,” McFarland said. “It came down to a lot of technical things. You can’t afford to let that happen.” Sunday’s meet against Purdue got off to a similar start to Friday’s contest as the
Wolverines went 2-2 in the first four bouts. But that is where the parallels between the two meets end. In the 157-pound class, Murphy provided a huge momentum swing for Michigan by pinning No. 10 Doug Welch 4:56 into the match. It was Murphy’s first collegiate pin, and it put the Wolverines on top of the Boilermakers, 13-6, at halftime. “I just needed to relax and wrestle loose,” Murphy said. A 3-2 loss by Sutton in the 165-pound weight class was Michigan’s only blemish the rest of the way. The Wolverines came out on top in the final four bouts, which included shoutout victories by sophomore Domenic Abounader (4-0) and Huntley (8-0 major decision) in the 184 and 197-pound weight classes, respectively. The Wolverines will continue to rely on their replacements as the injury list continues to grow. In addition to Massa and Bruno being sidelined, freshman Davonte Mahomes is out for the remainder of the 2014-15 season with an anterior cruciate ligament tear and fifth-year senior Steve Dutton left the team because of concussions. But just like this weekend, the Wolverines will not spend time feeling sorry for themselves with three more duals and Big Ten Championships looming.