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Medical school to modify admissions requirements 2017 application will make space for unique experiences in place of courses
students entering in 2017, the Medical School has altered the admissions requirements for its applicants. Requirements previously included a list of eight courses in subjects such as organic chemistry and biochemistry. They now consist of qualities and experiences the Medical School looks for in its students. Most of the new prerequisites are framed more broadly: rigorous experience in the humani-
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The University’s Medical School is changing it up. Beginning with prospective
ties, academic strength and rigor in the fields of biology, chemistry and statistical methods and analysis; demonstrable knowledge of basic physical principles; and “a clear and distinct experience in intellectual inquiry and active participation in the independent discovery of new knowledge.” Though these prerequisites may seem less specific than a list of classes, Rajesh Mangrulkar, associate dean for medical stu-
dent education, expressed the opposite sentiment. He said the new requirements allow the admissions office to be more specific, telling the students the exact information the Medical School needs them to know prior to matriculation. He said listing a class title does not convey that information as effectively. “When you look at a course name, do you know what you’re able to do because of having See ADMISSIONS, Page 3A
Distinction encourages faculty to push academic boundaries By MICHAEL SUGERMAN Daily News Editor
ten • ure (noun): having or denoting a permanent post, especially as a teacher or professor *** Tenure is an honor — a mark of recognition and a reward for distinguished contributions to scholarship both in terms of research and teaching. Subsequently, it is a coveted title. For students, however, it is quite possible that tenure is a complete mystery. How important is it, and how do faculty earn it? In the realm of academia, holding tenure is “being able to hold controversial, unpopular or provocative views without the fear of losing one’s job,” according to Sara Blair, vice provost for
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Near the end: CSG reflects on initiatives
Reps. work on new honor code, mental health support network By LEA GIOTTO Daily Staff Reporter
With elections for the Central Student Government’s 2015-2016 leadership less than a month away, current members of the assembly discussed goals they have accomplished this semester, initiatives they wish they could have achieved and issues they hope to address in the future. CSG President Bobby Dishell, a Public Policy senior, said his benchmark for success has been the realization of last year’s Make Michigan party platform. “I think this semester is going really well, to be honest,” Dishell said. “We accomplished pretty much our entire platform so far. So now we’re able to take on additional projects like the honor code.” The honor code aims to complement the existing Statement
academic and faculty affairs. “Tenure enables faculty to press research questions, teaching, scholarship into areas that may be new, that may be uncomfortable, with confidence that the institution will protect the freedom of their inquiry,” Blair said. It is important to clarify that freedom of speech is afforded to all faculty: “The principle of freedom of expression and protection for the integrity of scholarship is of paramount importance to officers of the University,” Blair said. “Everyone has freedom of speech,” said Lori Pierce, vice provost for academic and faculty affairs. “But it’s the freedom to pursue ideas that perhaps are more risky.” Pierce said the timeline for promotion varies among the University’s assorted schools and colleges. The University’s maximum “tenure probationary period” is 10 years — a deadline set by the University’s Medical School. See TENURE, Page 3A
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of Student Rights and Responsibilities, which outlines University responses to student behavior deemed inappropriate. The proposed code asks students to pledge to support honor, integrity, inclusivity and respect. Dishell mentioned a recent resolution that, if passed, will ask University administration to release data from course evaluations, so students could see accurate “ratings” of their professors and graduate student instructors. Additionally, Make Michigan’s original platform called for expanding the Night Owl Bus route, revamping the Michigan smartphone application, improving off-campus lighting and introducing a academic minor in entrepreneurship. Though CSG announced plans in December to discontinue the bus route due to lack of funding, University Parking Transportation Services ultimately offered enough funds to keep the current version of the program running at least through the end of the semester. But perhaps most notably, See CSG, Page 3A
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Audrey Williams, a Women of Color Task Force member, dances at a workshop during the 2015 WCTF Annual Career Conference at the Michigan League Friday.
Women of Color Task Force conference talks confidence 33rd annual meeting seeks to promote career development By SAMIHA MATIN Daily Staff Reporter
With a focus on confidence and respect, The University’s Women of Color Task Force convened their 33rd annual conference Friday. The annual event aims to
empower women of color in their workplaces and promote career and educational development. Open to any University employee, the task force promotes professional development, particularly for women of color. Eilisha Dermont, communications manager at the University’s Center for the Education of Women and a member of the WCTF executive team, said the conference is the largest professional development event hosted at the University. Dermont said the task force
offers mentoring programs and training seminars to help women develop leadership and workplace skills. This year’s theme, “Tools for the Journey: Self-Awareness, Confidence & Respect,” focused on encouraging women of color to excel in leadership and career development as well as promoting financial education and work-life balance. Alfred Squire, a former workforce development manager for the Greenville Health System and current director of See CONFERENCE, Page 3A
By EMMA KINERY Daily Staff Reporter
The Big House could meet the White House again in 2016. Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon and graduate of the University’s Medical School, is considering a run for president in 2016. Last week, Carson announced the formation of an exploratory committee that will weigh the potential of a campaign for the Republican Party’s nomination. A neurosurgeon with no previous experience in elected office, for most of his career Carson was better known for his contributions to medicine than his politics. He only appeared on the national political stage in 2013 after delivering a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast that received praise from many conservatives. See CARSON, Page 3A
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63 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (MARCH 13, 1952)
tering to vote in 1952. 32 years ago today (March 9, 1983) Second-year law student James Picozzi suffered second-degree burns and a broken back when he jumped out of the window of his dorm on the third floor of the Law Quad to escape a fire. At the time, the Ann Arbor police said the fire might have been lit intentionally. Ann Arbor Fire Marshall Wesley Prater said he believed gasoline was used to ignite the fire. Picozzi was unable to escape the flames because they blocked
the entrance to his dorm. Instead, he sat on the ledge of a window until it became too hot and he was forced to jump. While fellow law students were surprised by what happened and did not think that anyone would want to murder Picozzi, it was well known that his classmates disliked him. Motives presented at the time were that he did not get along well with his classmates, and they resented that he was given extra time on tests because he was missing the ends of two fingers.
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Damage caused by two University Greek life chapters at a Northern Michigan ski resort is now estimated to total $430,000, the resort’s general manager said.
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WHAT YOU MISSED OVER SPRING BREAK: PRETTY BROWN GIRLS EVENT AND SKI TRIP SANCTIONS Conference seeks to empower women of color, discuss shared experiences BY SAMIHA MATIN Daily Staff Reporter
The University’s chapter of the Pretty Brown Girls Club hosted their first conference Saturday with the aim of empowering women and children with darker skin tones. The program was designed to provide a platform for club mentors and guest lecturers to share stories about the types of struggles faced by girls of color. Inspired by the original Pretty Girls Movement and its founder, Sheri Crawley, Azia Sudoku Syndication Harris Martin, a junior at College of Engineering, founded Pretty Brown Girls Club #52 at
the University in 2013. “Sheri recognized the need to address the harmful messages about skin tone and beauty in media,” Martin said. “She was very concerned about the effect on girls who rarely see images of their own likeliness depicted in a positive manner. She created a product line for young ladies that carried the message ‘Pretty Brown Girls.’ ” Nationally, the organization holds workshops, various events and clubs for girls and young women. In Ann Arbor, Pretty Brown Girls Club #52 offers mentorship, healthy dialogues and social activities to young girls. “Through Pretty Brown Girls Club #52 here, we want to fulfill this mission and encourage girls to be happy in their beautiful brown skin,” Martin said. LSA Student Government and the Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach spon-
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After vandalism, University will no longer recognize Sigma Alpha Mu
sored the event, which was held on North Campus. The event’s theme, “Dream Big, ” centered around encouraging young girls to sustain passion and determination throughout their lives and careers. A discussion panel allowed college students, high school BY ALLANA AKHTAR seniors and professionals to Daily Staff Reporter share stories about facing and overcoming difficulties and The University will no longer insecurities stemming from recognize the fraternity Sigma Alpha Mu as a campus student the color of their skin. organization after members Izetta Bright, a judge for Michigan’s 36th District caused thousands of dollars in Court, told the group about damages at a Northern Michigan ski resort, the University said in a her life-long dream to become a lawyer and represent African statement Friday. American women, such as herSAM, along with sorority self. Sigma Delta Tau, participated in “The road had many bumps a ski trip during the weekend and bruises,” she said. “I came of Jan. 16, during which attendfrom the civil rights era and ees inflicted more than $85,000 during that time, and even in damages to resort rooms and now, law has always been a common spaces at the Treetops http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ white male dominated area Resort in Gaylord, Mich. and you couldn’t even imagAccording to the University’s ine a Black woman in such a release, the outcome was the most position. However, as Martin severe sanction the University Luther King has shown, we can levy on a student organizacan all be who we want to be if tion. we dream big.” The University asked the Adrian Roberson, a high national office of SAM to revoke school senior who has a pasthe chapter and took further sion for softball, openly talked sanctions, including requiring about the sometimes hostile the chapter to pay the damage to treatment she received at Treetops in full and participate school. in “restorative measures” in the “In my school where there Gaylord community. The period were only five Black students, of separation is specified as four I faced many challenges,” she years. said. “There were teachers The University has also asked who didn’t know how to talk SAM to implement provisions to Black students or help me. It to help prevent excessive alcowas worse in my softball team hol and drug abuse and sexual since I was the only Black girl assault. Members of SAM are to there and some team members be in frequent communication with the Dean of Students Office shunned me and tried to get against me because of my culthroughout their sanction. ture and skin. But I worked SAM nationals were not ready to provide a statement when hard, overcame the problems and showed my tremenreached Friday afternoon. dous dedication. I managed Sigma Delta Tau has been placed on disciplinary suspension to become the captain of the team.” for two years. “Members of the Sigma Delta Tau sorority stood by at Treetops Read the rest online at Resort and allowed others to vanmichigandaily.com dalize the facility,” the Univer-
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sity’s statement read. “This lack of action is unacceptable.” Upon conclusion of the Greek Activities Review Panel’s judiciary process, the body initially recommended the University suspend SAM from IFC until the Winter 2016 semester. The GARP justices found SAM to be in violation of the Standards of Conduct for Recognized Student Organizations. The violations included engaging in illegal activities such as excessive alcohol and marijuana use, violating the Student Organization Constitution and risking the health of safety of others through their destruction, which included throwing a chair through a window that landed in a children’s play area. The suspension would have banned participation in Greek Week and other Greek life activities, prevented members from holding positions with the Interfraternity Council, denied voting rights at IFC meetings and prevented participation in IM sports. Additionally, the chapter would not be allowed to recruit during the period of separation. However, Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones, who approved the final disciplinary actions based on GARP’s recommendation, went further to disband SAM as a campus organization. “While the sanctions GARP outlined may have been sufficient and appropriate in a situation where the individuals involved were taking responsibility, or where chapter officers were providing information about individual accountability to the University, this is not true in this instance,” Jones wrote in a statement of the University’s decision. In a letter, Jones thanked GARP for thoughtful and wellwritten sanctions, but said that the behavior was “reprehensible” and caused “extensive harm” to the Gaylord, the University and Greek life communities. “Equally reprehensible, is the failure of Sigma Alpha Mu bystanders to officially report or
stop the vandalism,” she wrote. The chapter, which will be deemed permanently separated from the University, cannot apply to return to campus for four years. To do so, they must have followed the conditions outlined by GARP’s recommended reprimands, including completing restitution and carrying out chapter and individual disciplinary efforts. Along with educational programs on bystander intervention and excessive alcohol use, SAM is to complete a service project to help mend the relationship between the chapter and the resort. For SDT, GARP recommended sanctions including educational sessions, community service, an internal membership review completed by their national organization, the issuance of a formal apology, an indefinite ban on overnight trips with fraternities and social probation through April 21, which includes off campus events and formals. However, the University again went beyond those recommendations to issue a two-year disciplinary suspension, citing the same explanation for the expanded sanctions against SAM. The suspension limits the SDT’s recruitment and social activities and removes the chapter from active membership in the Panhellenic Association for two years. Debbie Snyder, executive director of Sigma Delta Tau’s national headquarters, said she did not believe the punishment for the SDT members was just. “While the Sigma Delta Tau National Organization supports the majority of GARP’s recommendations, we strongly believe that the university’s additional sanctions are unreasonable due to the lack of specific evidence linking our chapter members to the allegations,” Snyder said in a statement. “It is Sigma Delta Tau’s opinion that our women did not play a part in the destruction and vandalism on site.” Read more at michigandaily.com
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ADMISSIONS From Page 1A taken that course?” Mangrulkar asked. Steven Gay, assistant dean for admissions, also discussed the logic behind requiring proficiency in topics rather than class credit. He said the old requirements did not take into account that students may learn necessary material outside of the conventional classroom. “We see a number of students right now … with advanced degrees, or who have spent extensive time in labs,” Gay said. “I think we should give students the opportunity if they are learning in those innovative and different ways not to have to repeat things unnecessarily.” Mangrulkar said the new application process is meant to create a dialogue in which students can reflect on how they have earned the knowledge they need, whether it be from a class or from another experience. “The student will be able to say, ‘alright, these are the expectations, let me reflect on what I’ve done and show how these all meet those different criteria,’” Mangrulkar said. “That’s a better way to have a conversation than what we’ve had in the past, which is basically a student saying ‘I took this class, is this okay?’” Gay said that, though students have the freedom to gain knowledge in unique ways under the new requirements, taking classes is still the easiest way to fulfill the prerequisites. Listed with the new prerequisites is a group of Core Competencies. The four competencies are
TENURE From Page 1A “What’s different about the Medical School?” Pierce asked. “Many of the faculty are like myself. We teach medical students, we work with residents, we treat patients, which is a very big part of our time. We are also doing research, we are also getting grants, we are also publishing papers.” *** Typically, the journey to tenure commences at the beginning of a professor’s career, when he or she is an assistant professor. Using LSA as an example, LSA Dean Andrew Martin said assistant professors are often evaluated for promotion at the end of their fifth academic year at the University. At this time, action begins at the departmental level, where the faculty member in question starts by giving his or her respective department a teaching statement, research statement, statement of service, curriculum vitae and a portfolio of published works. Martin said the teaching statement “describes their pedagogy (and) describes their teaching experience.” Once these items have been submitted, the department then solicits letters of evaluation from leading scholars in the faculty member’s field of study — typically amassing 10 to 12 letters total. All of this happens between the end of one school year and the beginning of the next. By October, all items have been provided to the department, and by November, the department decides whether or not it will recommend the faculty member to be considered for tenure by administrative bodies in LSA. At this level, Martin said, there are three main criteria for examining a professor’s overall quality: Whether or not the professor is an “outstanding scholar” who has completed original research; whether or not the professor is a distinguished and committed teacher, something that is quantitatively and qualitatively decided by student course evaluations and observations by already-tenured faculty; and whether or not the professor has done “service” to the institution through advising roles and committee work, and to his or her profession overall through work with professional associations, for example. Martin added that the third criterion regarding service is less important in regards to the transition from assistant professor to associate professor with tenure, and more important at a higherlevel promotion, like full profes-
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analytical thought and problemsolving skills, written and verbal communication, mathematical/ statistical analysis and application of hypothesis-driven methods of research. Mangrulkar said these competencies began as expectations for residents, but have now trickled down to the pre-medical level. “It started triggering a discussion in our realm saying, ‘What are our competencies and how do they line up with the fact that 98 to 99 percent of medical students go on to do a residency?’ ” he said. “Shouldn’t there be some alignment?” Mangrulkar added that the University’s changed requirements are part of an overall shift in pre-medical education in the United States. He said the changes stem, in part, from collaboration with the Association of American Medical Colleges, a national organization that is strongly allied with many medical school admissions teams. “There were sessions and conferences asking what are the issues with pre-medical requirements,” Mangrulkar said. “I think the fundamental premise is that all of medical education is moving towards much more specificity on what we, as a profession, expect physicians to be able to do.” Implicit in the new pre-med requirements is a push for wellrounded pre-med students who have knowledge and experience beyond what one gains in the classroom. Mangrulkar said the medical profession has been searching for this type of student for some time. “I think for the longest time the profession has wanted students who are not only academi-
cally excellent,” Mangrulkar said. “If students think that by getting the A in biochemistry and getting an outstanding MCAT score, that that is a ticket to medical school, that has not been the case for a long time, it really hasn’t.” Mangrulkar added that, ultimately, what the Medical School looks for in its students are the same qualities that a patient would seek in his or her doctor. “If we’re not aligned, our education program, with what our patients want in their doctor, then there’s a disconnect there,” he said. Gay also spoke to the qualities that make a good applicant. “Great applicants have experiences that not every applicant for medical school has,” Gay said. “They may do Teach for America, they may do the Peace Corps, they may work in the lab, they may work on Wall Street, they may build programs and do things as undergraduates that give them the opportunity to learn in great depth a lot of the topics that we look at.” Students in the Class of 2016 will have the option of completing either the new or the old requirements. Mangrulkar said the 2016 cycle is meant to serve as a transition period. Though the difference between the old and the new requirements may seem drastic, Mangrulkar said it really isn’t. “The movement in the premed requirements, I wouldn’t see as being that big a deal,” he said. “It just allows us to be more specific, and actually to be more inclusive, giving credit for the stuff that our pre-med students already do.”
sor. If the transition from assistant to associate represents recognition of scholarship, Martin said, then the transition from associate to full or higher denotes an expanding breadth of study. However, the benefits of tenure remain the same, whether a member of the faculty is an associate or full professor. “In addition to supporting academic freedom, tenure also provides security,” Martin said. “And we would expect our best faculty members, once they’re tenured, to begin to focus a little bit beyond the core things that they’re invested in.” “The way I view it is, when we tenure someone, we’re making a huge investment in them, and our expectation is that they’re going to continue to make a big investment in the University not just through research and teaching, but in other ways as well,” he added. The first administrative body to examine the departmental portfolio is the Divisional Executive Committee. LSA is split into three divisions: Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences. Two representatives from each of the three divisions and four other elected faculty representatives from within LSA comprise the DEC — which doesn’t vote on the faculty member’s pending tenure, but instead aims to “discuss and characterize the scholarship,” Martin noted. This discussion is then submitted in the form of a report with the departmental portfolio to the College Executive Committee. This body votes to recommend a faculty member for tenure to the Office of the Provost. The CEC is smaller than the DEC, and is comprised of two members from each of the three LSA divisions. Martin sits on the committee as an ex officio, and only votes if there is a tie. This entire process is meant to evaluate a faculty member solely upon his or her academic excellence, and not upon other intangible qualities. “One thing that this college has done with some really great leadership over the last few decades is to think very carefully about our promotion and tenure process to remove sources of bias,” Martin said. This yields “a real rigid following of our process … to remove those intangibles.” For example, talking about race, gender, religion, age or any part of a person’s background is completely off the table, Martin said. Once the CEC recommends a faculty member for tenure to the Office of the Provost, the vice provosts and University Provost Martha Pollack conduct a final
review of the faculty member’s portfolio by mid-February. Pollack reads each casebook and evaluates the CEC’s recommendation, re-reading the faculty member’s portfolio and looking for context. For example, Pollack said, in examining teaching excellence, she looks to see whether or not a faculty member innovated in his or her teaching methods, or if that person mentored students outside of the classroom. “I think what has evolved for me is a broad appreciation of how these fundamental questions play out differently in different disciplines,” Pollack said. “I mean, I have this bird’s eye view … and what it means to have impact when you’re a medical researcher is very different from what it means to have impact when you’re an English professor. But in both cases, that’s what we’re looking at.” Ultimately, if the Office of the Provost approves the faculty member for tenure, Pollack submits a report to the Board of Regents, which has the final say. *** Blair and Pierce said it’s not entirely uncommon for faculty members who are being recruited by other institutions to perhaps try and fast track their tenure process. However, as Martin noted, the process is rigid in its search for excellence. “Never once have I seen a shoddy casebook,” Pollack said. “The process is always very careful, because it’s so important.” “It’s not exactly a marketplace,” Blair said. “As an institution, we take tenure very seriously. The process for granting tenure is absolutely the same whether it’s a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who is coming to us from outside, or someone on our faculty is being recruited (elsewhere), or a young assistant professor who came up through the ranks here. We stand behind the process.” And according to Pollack, that process is not just important, but essential to the growth of academia. Pollack is a tenured professor in the School of Information. “Tenure is a right to express your opinion without fear of losing your job, but it’s also a responsibility in my view,” she said. “It’s a responsibility to seek the truth and to speak the truth, and speak up when you think that views that are being expressed are inaccurate. And I think that’s a very powerful mechanism for getting people to make sure that they grapple with difficult issues.”
CONFERENCE From Page 1A the MedEx Academy, presented the conference’s keynote speech. The conference also included 22 workshop sessions around campus, which focused leadership and workplace development pertaining to this year’s theme. Inspired by the WCTF’s programs, GHS created their own professional development opportunities for women of color. The initiative ultimately resulted in an alliance between the University and GHS to further increase development opportunities for people at both institutions. As a director of operations, training and human resources, Squire promotes diversity and leadership development at different institutions by mentoring staff. He helps organizations and individuals achieve success by
CARSON From Page 1A Carson, who was born in Detroit, enrolled at the University after completing his undergraduate education at Yale University. He graduated from the University in 1977 and spent his career practicing pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University. Carson became the first surgeon to separate twins conjoined at the head. He went on to perform the surgery several times and develop a method to remove deeply embedded brain tumors, before retiring from medicine in 2013. After Carson’s 2013 speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, prominent Republican John Philip Sousa IV created the National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee dedicated to helping Carson gain a nomination for the 2016 presidential election. The committee’s catchphrase is “Run, Ben, Run.” A month later, Carson returned to the University to give a lecture hosted by the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society and the Department of Neuroscience. In the lecture, Carson encouraged future physicians to branch out into the political sphere, emphasizing that doctors are the best people to talk about health care policies, as they deal with these programs and regu-
CSG From Page 1A CSG launched an initiative not specifically featured in Make Michigan’s 2014-2015 platform. The Wolverine Support Network, which launched in September, aims to address mental health issues on campus through peer support groups and community events. CSG Vice President Emily Lustig, an LSA senior, said she is most proud of the assembly’s work developing the Wolverine Support Network. “I think everyone has, if it’s not themselves or a family member, some connection to mental health or mental wellness,” Lustig said. “Enacting a program with the ability to change people’s lives and addressing mental health, and trying to break the mental health stigma is something that is so important.” Though some feel there has been progress in certain areas of policy, LSA senior Emily Sexton, a CSG representative, said the assembly’s actions thus far have been somewhat insignificant. “This year, I’ve felt like
Monday, March 9, 2015 — 3A promoting mutual respect and investing in “human capital.” Squire discussed GHS’s slow evolution to a diverse community throughout the years and his involvement as a director there. “My personal mission is to educate, enable and empower individuals and teams to achieve excellence,” Squire said. During his speech, Squire focused on how “color groups” can be used to represent work performance. He discussed how people could be broken into red, yellow and green groups to indicate differences in work motivation, skills and performances among the workforce. “Colors reflect our lives because we all have them,” Squire said. “We bring them to our work. They bring up the question — what color are you? Are you the manager who never provides follow up to your instructions? Are you the person in the team who always
complains and tries to bring the team down? Or are you a different color because you are always sincere in work and take risks to achieve your goals?” Using this concept of colors — where green is considered the best of the workforce — Squire also discussed implementing changes to increase the staff’s efficiency and satisfaction and to understand problems stemming from a lack of communication, initiative and awareness of consequences. “The most important responsibilities of leadership are to recognize, respond and reward,” Squire said. “Then you can have your work done the way you want it done every day.” Squire concluded his speech by emphasizing the importance of a diverse workforce. “We are the most creative when we are not homogenous,” Squire said. “Working with various groups of people can create the most effective leadership skills.”
lations every day. During a speech at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference in February, Carson outlined several broad platform ideas, including welfare reform and the replacement of the Affordable Care Act with a health saving accounts system. With health saving accounts, individuals can contribute a specific amount of money per year towards healthcare expenses that is not subject to federal income tax. Individuals, not the government or a corporation, own the accounts. They are currently only available to those who have health care plans with high deductibles. “It is not affordable,” Carson said of the ACA. “And it is absolutely about redistribution and control. If we really wanted to use our intellect, we would come up with something that works for everybody.” Last week, Carson attracted widespread media attention for comments during a CNN interview in which he said homosexuality is a choice, citing that people “go into prison straight, and when they come out, they‘re gay.” He later apologized for the remarks, but said he would not address gay rights issues for the duration of his presidential campaign. Contact information for a Carson spokesperson was not immediately available. Aaron Kall, director of the
University’s debate team and an expert in election politics, said Carson probably did not get involved in politics while at the University because he came for graduate school. “I think that his time at Michigan, just being a medical student, and all of the rigorous amount of time and everything, I don’t know how much time he had to dabble into politics while in graduate school,” Kall said. In the two years that have passed since he spoke at the University, Carson has advanced from a name thrown around when talking about the 2016 presidential election to a serious contender. “(Carson is) not a frontrunner in the GOP, but certainly a candidate, a legitimate candidate,” Kall said. This year’s CPAC straw poll placed Carson fourth among likely Republican candidates, pulling 11.4 percent of the vote. He placed behind Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, but ahead of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Even so, Kall said he has doubts about Carson’s ability to gain the nomination. “He got about just over 10 percent of the vote, showing that he’s a legitimate candidate in 2016,” Kall said. “But I don’t think that he would be considered one of the very top most formidable favorites.”
we haven’t done anything or brought any really great resolutions,” she said. “We haven’t taken any risks. It just feels like CSG isn’t important.” She said CSG’s executive leadership have accomplished their individual goals, but haven’t expanded much beyond those efforts. “I just think that the assembly is kind of there to aid (Dishell and Lustig) to get the things done that they want to get done,” Sexton added. LSA junior Jacob Ruby, a CSG representative and chair of the assembly’s finance committee, said two resolutions in particular have been markers of success during his term. “I, for one, sponsored a resolution that’s going to add 60 charging stations in the UGLi,” he said. “There’s (also) an upcoming resolution that should help with some of the safety and cleanliness concerns in the CCRB and IM (Building). Just a lot of really good things coming up.” However, he added that addressing issues of diversity on campus has not been a strong point for the assembly. “One of the main concerns I’ve seen here on CSG is minority enrollment,” he said “There
have been a lot of resolutions that have been passed and committees formed, and there just hasn’t been that much actual results.” Increasing minority enrollment through on-site admissions at schools in the Detroit area was a point on Make Michigan’s original platform. In December, CSG passed a resolution to support such programs, creating a task force to work with the Office of Admissions. The group would have until March to report back with strategies for implementing an on-site admissions program or reasons why the initiative would be unfeasible for the University. In this vein, one element of Dishell’s presidential platform that did not come to fruition was partnering with the University’s Alumni Association to fund more LEAD scholarships. LEAD scholarships are merit-based monies for minority applicants. Though the assembly approved funds for the project, they were barred from providing funding under state law since University funds cannot be used for scholarships to specifically promote diversity, and CSG’s budget comes from student fees.
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he air and ocean were warm as I lay on a beach chair, headphones in. That beach was private and rarely crowded, and I wore a blue and purple twopiece swimsuit, gathered at the chest and hips with beaded strings. I was unconcerned that the relatively few people lying near me would see me in it. When I got dressed that morning, I didn’t consider that my bikini and I might VICTORIA become the focus of iPhone NOBLE cameras belonging to whomever would be sitting next to me. When I saw the phones pointed at me, I was alarmed and thoroughly creeped out. I didn’t really want these strangers owning the copyrights — and distribution rights — of pictures or videos of me on the beach in a swimsuit. In all fairness, those men could have been doing any number of things with their camera phones. But in my experience, there’s little reason to follow the movements of another person with your phone unless you’re watching them on the screen, trying to keep them in the frame. If they were recording or photographing me at that beach, it would have been illegal, but only because the beach was privately owned. On public property, consent isn’t usually needed to photograph a stranger — bikini or no bikini. *** One summer, I, along with the other students in my sports photography class, went to a public skate park to practice taking action shots. I watched their tricks through my lens, and tried to capture them on my memory card. I don’t remember if I even thought twice about whether the wheeled acrobats appreciated their presence in my portfolio. For a part of the session, I positioned myself near one of the chain-link fences. As I attempted to photograph the skaters, a little boy came up to me and asked through the fence if he could take a picture of me for his grandpa. I was taken aback, but he held the phone’s camera up to the iron as I agreed, probably in a questioning tone. He took the picture, walked over to a car, got in the passenger seat, and drove off. I wasn’t thrilled with that particular progression of events. But no matter how weird I thought the whole thing was, it was still perfectly legal. Just as I could photograph the athletes, that little boy had a right to take my picture and give it to whomever he wanted — with or without my approval.
— Victoria Noble can be reached at vjnoble@umich.edu.
MICHAEL O’DONNELL | VIEWPOINT
Why does Michigan empower smokers to harm the people we love the most? I love the University of Michigan. I am proud to be a graduate and a faculty member. I respect the school’s leadership and admire the integrity it brings to decision-making. But I do not understand why Michigan has a smoking policy that empowers smokers to assault the people I love. The statistics are compelling; each year, secondhand smoke kills nearly three times the number killed by violent crime in the United States. I need your help changing the University’s policy. Michigan’s smoking policy is well intentioned. It was developed through an inclusive and thoughtful process that involved input from students, faculty and staff, representing many of the schools across campus. The concept of an almost smoke-free campus was bold and pioneering when the policy was developed. However, today, smokefree campuses are common, with 1,514 as of Jan. 1, according to the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation; many of them have more comprehensive policies than Michigan. Michigan’s policy has one fatal (literally) flaw. It allows smoking on the miles of sidewalks adjacent to the streets that snake through and frame our campus, the sidewalks we all use to enter and roam the campus, arguably the most densely populated parts of campus. On a typical walk from my office on East Huron to any place on campus, I have to walk through four groups of smokers. When possible, I suspend breathing and accelerate my pace, allowing me to dash through the smoke and avoid being forced to draw the toxins into my lungs. I resent being imposed upon in this way, but I can live with it (I hope). However, I worry about people who cannot — people who cannot suspend breathing or accelerate their pace. I worry about people in wheelchairs, people with asthma, emphysema
On average, every 25 smokers kill one innocent person over a lifetime. For every person who dies, 10 more get sick, some of them with debilitating conditions. The Surgeon General concluded there is no safe level of secondhand smoke, so if you smell smoke, you are being assaulted. In fact, emerging research at the University of Oklahoma is finding that the extract from just one puff of secondhand smoke can cause DNA damage. College students who smoke are the unknowing victims of nicotine. They start smoking with
or heart disease, conditions that can provoke an immediate severe reaction to a tiny amount of secondhand smoke. I worry about infants in their mothers’ arms because their delicate lungs can be harmed by this exposure. Smokers are not bad people. Harming others is the last thing they would ever want to do. Most do realize their secondhand smoke is disgusting, but they figure it just goes up in the air. So what’s the big deal? When smokers spew their secondhand smoke into the air, it is the only circumstance in which people are unwillingly exposed to a known Group A carcinogen and the perpetrators are not committing a federal crime punishable by severe penalties. Breath per breath, secondhand smoke may actually be more dangerous than direct smoke because it’s generated at lower temperatures, is produced in an oxygen-deficient environment and is rapidly diluted and cooled after leaving the burning tobacco. These conditions favor formation of smaller particulates in secondhand smoke (ranging from 0.01 to 0.1 µm in diameter) than in mainstream smoke (ranging from 0.1 to 1 µm), and small particles have greater killing power because they can penetrate directly into the blood through the lungs. Secondhand smoke also typically contains higher concentrations of ammonia (40- to 170-fold), nitrogen oxides (4- to 10-fold) and chemical carcinogens (e.g., benzene, 10-fold; N-nitrosamines, 6- to 100-fold; and aniline, 30-fold) than mainstream smoke. The impact is powerful and immediate. For the period 1965–2009, secondhand smoke killed an estimated 1.8 million people in the United States, and it still kills an estimated 41,280 every year (down from more than 81,000 in 1965 when more people smoked and fewer smoke-free policies were in place).
their smoker friends, still think of themselves as non-smokers, fully intending to quit when they graduate, only to discover they are indeed addicted and cannot quit. A smoke-free campus helps them quit because it is harder to find a place to feed their addiction. National studies show three out of four smokers want to quit, and half try every year, but only four to seven percent are successful. What can we do about this? Change the policy. We can protect the people we love, people who are the most vulnerable, and we can
eliminate this assault on each of us through a simple change in policy. If you know someone who has heart disease, respiratory problems, is in a wheelchair, or is vulnerable to secondhand smoke for any reason, please let me know and I will work with them to change this policy even faster. Their support will make the difference. M ichael P. O’Donnell is a clinical professor at the School of Kinesiology and the director of the Health Management Research Center. He can be reached at modonnell@umich.edu
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*** In 1890, attorney Samuel Warren and Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis published “The Right to Privacy” in the Harvard Law Review. In it, they argued that individuals have a right to keep information about themselves to themselves. For several reasons, including resurgent newspaper readership and innovations in photographic equipment, laws of the day were failing to protect personal privacy. They argued for more arduous personal privacy protection in what became the most cited law review article of all time — at least according to my Philosophy GSI. And it’s easy to see why this idea took so quickly. For one thing, Americans have a long list of personal “rights” that they are accustomed to the government protecting on their behalf, and the right to privacy seems at least as important as our generous exemption from quartering troops. Just as it had when the article was written, the technology available to violate others’ personal privacy rights has again changed. Today, our flimsy laws attempt to provide some level of personal privacy. You can’t record a private conversation — or interview — without the acknowledged consent of each participant. It’s illegal to take photos of another person without permission — unless they’re taken on public property. Yet, a massive percentage of people regularly carry phones and cameras that can easily — and covertly — do both of these things. And when content can be quickly uploaded from any computer, photos and videos can go viral before their subjects even know they were illicitly taken. Meanwhile, web companies, and allegedly, the government, collect vast quantities of data about individuals’ computer use. Consumers, especially millennials, have grown accustomed to the waning privacy of the digital age. We sign away privacy rights in exchange for Facebook accounts, Google services and a plethora of other websites and apps each time we blindly agree to one of those online contracts. The way I see it, we’re at a crossroads. As we grow more reliant on digital technology, we open more avenues to share information — about ourselves and others — that might’ve otherwise been private. Consequently, our laws grow increasingly difficult to enforce, obsolete in their methods and antiquated in terms of the content they protect. Certainly, there are upsides to diminished privacy — transparency being one of them. But, if personal privacy is something we continue to value, it needs further protection.
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espite some progress made during the student protests of the 1960s, our society frequently ignores the opinions of us students along with anyone outside the narrow class of people it deems “experts.” Who are the “experts”? They are high-ranking ZAK public officials, WITUS certain Ph.D.s, owners of jumbo jets and people with the last name Bush or Kennedy. But you don’t need to be an expert in order to understand the elementary phenomena within a certain subject. Or, as the singer/songwriter Bob Dylan once wrote, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist and renowned dissident Noam Chomsky takes up the issue of our society’s “culture of the expert,” along with other concerns about the need for ordinary people to critically analyze the actions of states and governments, in his essay, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals.” Though of course he has near-encyclopedic knowledge in a wide variety of subjects, Chomsky vehemently opposes the alienation of ordinary people from political discourse. He wrote, “There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism. To the extent that ‘expert knowledge’ is applied to world affairs, it is surely appropriate — for a person of any integrity, quite necessary — to question its quality and the goals it serves.” What’s more, the extensive body of information available to laypeople today has enhanced their capacity to criticize policy and to question “expert knowledge.” It is the responsibility of intellectuals, then, to use this body of information and theory to question and sometimes to challenge the claims made by political establishment. Since last week he addressed a joint session of Congress arguing against the nuclear compromise being negotiated by world powers (including the U.S.) and Iran, let’s take, for example, the “expert knowledge” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The week before his address to Congress, Al Jazeera released leaked spy cables between the South African government and the Mossad, the Israeli equivalent of the CIA, incidentally answering some of our questions regarding Netanyahu’s “expert knowledge,” specifically questions about its “quality and the goals it serves.” In a speech before the United Nations in 2012, Netanyahu sounded similar alarms to those he sounded last week, regarding the imminence of Iran’s nuclear threat, saying that Iran would obtain its first nuclear bomb by that coming spring or, at the latest, that summer. But, in their report sent to South Africa just weeks later, the Mossad contradicted Netanyahu’s testimony. The leaked report said: “Bottom line: though Iran at this stage is not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons, it is working to
close gaps in areas that appear legitimate …” The leaked document not only refutes Netanyahu’s claims, it also suggests that Netanyahu knowingly lied to the UN. So much for his “expert knowledge.” This is but one illustration of the dangers of having absolute faith in our leaders. This instance is also proof of the importance of everyone, but especially those who call themselves intellectuals, to question “expert knowledge” and challenge their respective authority. Nonetheless, such blatant lies often go unnoticed and unquestioned. (If it weren’t for the leaked spy cables, we may have never noticed the contradiction between Netanyahu’s claims and the reality according to his government’s own intelligence agency — though the evidence that refuted his claims was within our grasp.) Chomsky emphasizes in his essay that what’s condemnable isn’t merely politicians lying to us, but rather the entire political establishment, especially intellectuals allowing politicians to lie and get away with it. “It is of no particular interest,” Chomsky wrote, “that one man is quite happy to lie in behalf of a cause which he knows to be unjust; but it is significant that such events provoke so little response in the intellectual community.” It is the responsibility of intellectuals, then, not to allow themselves to merely acquiesce on the claims made by the powerful, but rather to analyze the claims and actions of the powerful according to their causes, motives and often hidden intentions. We should further consider the burden of proof our intellectual community sets before world leaders. One reason Netanyahu can lie with such ease in the realm of foreign policy is because no one seems to care about the difference between actually being threatened and merely feeling threatened. Hence the supposed evidence of the threat isn’t sufficiently scrutinized because it is not the threat itself but the feeling of being threatened that people seem to care about. In his essay, Chomsky speaks to this point in the context of the (then) current U.S. policy toward Communist China; however, the faulty intellectual principle he identifies endures to this day. “To prove that we are menaced is of course unnecessary, and the matter receives no attention; it is enough that we feel menaced.” In her essay, “Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy,” Andrea Smith offers one explanation for why and how this mere “feeling menaced” works so effectively in our political discourse. “The logic of orientalism marks certain peoples or nations as inferior and deems them to be a constant threat to the wellbeing of empire. These peoples are still seen as ‘civilisations’ — they are not property or the ‘disappeared.’ However, they are imagined as permanent foreign threats to empire … Consequently, orientalism serves as the anchor of war, because it allows the United States to justify being in a constant state of war to protect itself from its enemies.” (Here, Smith uses Edward Said’s term “orientalism,” or “the process of the West’s defining itself as a superior civilization by constructing itself in opposition to an ‘exotic’
but inferior ‘Orient’,” to signify more than what has been historically named the “Orient” or “Asia” (e.g., the Middle East)). Under the influence of orientalism, we feel threatened by the mere fact of certain peoples or nations existence. For example, under orientalism we’re supposed to believe that a congregation of Muslims chanting “Death to America! Death to Israel!” (as seen regularly on Fox News) constitutes a threat. The point is not that these people definitively do not constitute a threat — some fundamentalist groups, such as ISIS, surely constitute at least some threat. Rather, the point is that it’s not even a question whether they do or not actually menace or threaten us. What also isn’t a question, to return to the issue of Iran’s nuclear program, is what threat Iran would pose if they actually acquired a nuclear weapon. Anyone who thinks about this question for a few seconds realizes, “Oh, yeah: If Iran used a nuclear weapon on Israel, the U.S. or its allies would wipe Iran off the map.” The real threat of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon would be a threat to Israel’s absolute power in the region; that is, an Iranian nuclear weapon would likely act at most as a deterrent to, say, the continued settlement of the West Bank (internationally recognized as illegal) as well as future episodes of what the Israeli Defense Forces calls “mowing the lawn” in Gaza (i.e., the routine slaughtering of Gazans). Our society’s orientalist ideological assumption deems these kinds of questions and lines of inquiry unnecessary. Thus, when world leaders like Netanyahu make (false) allegations regarding, say, our enemy’s nuclear development, we’re supposed to immediately declare: “Of course you should attack those savages! If they exist, we should kill them; if they (might) exist with nuclear weapons, we should kill them even more!” The efficacy of this logic depends on us ordinary citizens and intellectuals not distinguishing between feeling menaced and actually being menaced, and not questioning whether or not we actually are menaced. It is the responsibility of intellectuals then to criticize “expert knowledge” in order to defend against such faulty logic and its hidden ideological assumptions and biases. Unfortunately, we don’t all have the time or energy to do the necessary research. Thankfully, as Chomsky points out, “For a privileged minority (the intellectuals), Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.” It is the responsibility of intellectuals then to speak truth, expose lies and challenge authority on behalf of those without the leisure, the facilities and the training prerequisite to do so. It is the responsibility of intellectuals to offer people an alternative to the propaganda perpetuated by our politicians and the pious portion of the intellectual community. In short, it is the responsibility of intellectuals to dissent. — Zak Witus can be reached at zakwitus@umich.edu.
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‘Crime’ is arresting Awkward Hozier is still breathtaking Graphic new ABC series features narrative urgency and taut storytelling
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By DREW MARON “Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians” – Henry Rollins At the Royal Oak Music Theatre this past Saturday, Irish singer/songwriter Andrew Hozier-Byrne, performing under the name Hozier, fought to keep Rollins’s haunting words true. Self-described as a “gangly introvert,” it isn’t surprising that Hozier doesn’t find himself most comfortable in front of sold-out crowds who, ebullient with praise and appreciation, want nothing more than to know everything about him. Andrew quietly wandered onstage last Saturday night in Royal Oak, and with little hesitation began to strum out the first chords of “Angel of Small Death & The Codeine Scene.” And so the night began, following a completely organic, un-calculated formula from beginning to end: the immense musical and lyrical talents that introduced “Take Me to Church” to popular culture. His overt awkwardness contrasted with the cookie-cutter star ‘role’ he is supposed to play as a highly-sought singer in the pop-culture circuit, the figure of Andrew Hozier-Byrne is an unintentional juxtaposition. His lanky six-foot-five-inch frame and booming voice compensate for Hozier’s otherwise amateurish stage presence. But the move from song to song was delicate and fluid, moving from his opener to his second single off Hozier, “From Eden.” “Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me I should know/I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door” sings all the present lips, as if minions to this gigantic creature towering before us all, mimicking each guttural emphasis or passionate emphasis the beautiful Irishman sings. Lined with depth, variety, sensuality and a casual
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There’s no shortage of crime series out there that show members of law enforcement following evidence, A+ questioning suspects and American chasing down Crime bad guys before ending the Series episode at the Premiere bar, discussing ABC what they learned Thursdays that week. at 10 p.m. “American Crime” critiques these shows through its very existence, exploring the idea that crime is more than a fantasy —it’s a reality faced by actual people on a day-to-day basis. Creator John Ridley (“12 Years a Slave”) doesn’t flinch from showing the harsh emotional reality endured as a result of violence and crime. The show follows the aftermath of a home invasion which leaves war-veteran Matt Skokie (Grant Merritt, “Revolution”) dead and his wife Gwen in a critical condition. The episode begins with Matt’s father, Russ (played by Academy Award Winner Timothy Hutton, “Leverage”), waking in the middle of the night to a phone call every parent dreads: asking him to fly to Modesto, Calif. to identify the body of his son. Russ’s reaction to seeing Matt in the morgue is a scene shown in all the promos, but only when watching the episode live is the pain truly raw and more real. The camera stays focused on Russ in a tightly framed close-up of him in front of a window with blinds drawn – a male voiceover
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narrating, “Someone inside the room is gonna pull the blind back. You’re gonna see a table with a body on it. I need you to tell me if the body you see is your son. Let me know when you’re ready.” As Russ remains fixated on the blind yet to be pulled, the camera does not move, but stays focused on Hutton’s character as he gazes absentmindedly at the covered glass. The man behind him commands, “Go ahead,” and then two latex covered hands appear on the other side and pull back the blind to illuminate Hutton’s face. We do not see Matt’s dead body – only the impact it has on Russ. Like “Breaking Bad,” “American Crime” is not for the faint of heart. It is a drama in the truest sense of the word, attacking the nerves — not just through graphic images of violence but with emotional ferocity. In style and tone, the show feels reminiscent of Steven Soderbergh’s “Traffic” and HBO’s “The Wire” as we branch off from Russ’s story into the other lives drawn into Ridley’s web. There’s Felicity Huffman (“Desperate Housewives”), who plays Matt’s mother and Russ’s ex-wife Barb, in a role that is sure
to put Huffman at the front of the Emmy race for Best Supporting Actress. There’s also Benito Martinez (“The Shield” and “Sons of Anarchy”) as Alonzo, an overlyprotective father whose son Tony — played masterfully by newcomer Johnny Ortiz — is accidentally implicated in the murder and then arrested. Another newcomer is Elvis Nolasco (“Oldboy”), a drug addict in a relationship with the equally messed-up Aubrey, played by Caitlin Gerard (“The Social Network”). Richard Cabral (“The Counselor”) rounds out the cast as a criminal who may or may not have been responsible for Skokie’s murder. Overall, the real star is John Ridley. Between comedies, comic books and the Academy Award-winning screenplay for “12 Years a Slave,” Ridley can now add showrunner to his already impressive résumé. With “American Crime,” he has built an epic tapestry woven with emotional performances, taut storytelling and a focus as urgent as this morning’s newspapers. “American Crime” is one of the most engrossing and impressive television pilots to be seen in quite a long time.
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Unfunny ‘Business’ By VANESSA WONG Daily Music Editor
Following a showdown against his more professional, wellgroomed boss, Daniel Trunkman (Vince Vaughn, “The Intern- C+ ship“) jumps ship and launches his Unfinished own competing Business firm, called Apex Rave & International. He, joined by a Quality 16 clueless, inexperiRegency enced interviewee Enterprises (that’s right, not even a legitimate hire) (Dave Franco, “Now You See Me“) and a recently laid-off, sex-crazed old man (Tom Wilkinson, “Selma”), operates out of a Dunkin’ Donuts, and after a full year of dawdling, finally manages to snare a deal. But until they seal it with the ever-important handshake, the fate of their firm hangs in limbo. They embark on a business trip to settle what they assume is just a formality, but find, to their dismay, the manager of their old firm cozying up to their potential business partner. Every sign points in her favor, threatening the legitimacy of Apex International. The ragtag group embarks on a bumbling wild goose chase to regain their edge, and of course, hijinks ensue. But in conjunction with the requisite crazy parties and sex is a story arc that no one would ever think to associate with this breed of comedy: responsibility. Daniel contends with the challenges of parenthood; always too busy with work to adequately comfort his bullied teenage son and misbehaving young daughter. In fact, his daughter’s homework assignment for him, asking him to answer the question “who’s your daddy?” acts as the film’s main narrative mechanism. Throughout, Daniel agonizes over how to define who he is as a person and as a father. Furthermore, as the deal falls increasingly out of Apex’s grasp, Daniel feels the pressure to succeed for
his team, which, no matter how grossly incompetent, has always remained true to him. Though it offers a welcome interlude from normal slapstick, “Unfinished Business” does so at the expense of the dumb jokes that characterized and popularized the genre. Its promotional poster promises two hours of depravity with its color-tinted party shots of each Apex employee and the tagline “Best Business Trip Ever.” But even with licentious nudity, the finished product seems to vacillate between hedonism and sentimentality, ultimately returning to the latter. In fact, the driving force behind the main plotline grounds it in realistic adult concerns. After a disturbingly graphic gay fetish scene that finds Daniel witness to their business partner’s exhibitionist side and the film’s subsequent, and only, rave montage, the two men commiserate over their midlife crises. Are Vince Vaughn movies finally growing up?
We’re better off saving the histrionics. It might be a nice balance if the funny parts were actually funny. Only Franco’s character, in all his blind optimism and shocking stupidity, stands out. Even then, the running joke surrounding his name – Mike Pancake – warrants no more than a smirk at best and gets dragged out far longer than it should. The rest of the gags are staid and lack the incendiary spark to actually succeed. If this is to be a continuing trend in comedy, then there’s still more work to be done to meld seriousness and silliness together. Otherwise, we’re better off saving the histrionics for another fight.
biblical reference, the lyrics provide a story that is universally accessible without losing its immediacy.
Leaving the show, it’s unclear if his stardom will stay. The music continued without a word from Hozier himself. Throwing an electric guitar over his shoulder, Andrew and his equally talented surrounding band descended into one of the album’s best, “Jackie and Wilson,” singing of a Bonnieand-Clyde-sort-of-girl who builds up a man’s dreams only to disappear upon finishing her cigarette. And everyone once again is singing along and feeling the almost tangible emotion laced through the song and it becomes inexplicably clear that this man need not talk nor describe his talents – he’s just here to play. None of that Hollywood, cookie-cutter pop-star nonsense here: the music is playing this musician. But to avoid an influx of negative assumptions regarding Andrew’s shyness, he does converse with audience by endlessly praising their presence and support. In a thick Irish accent he provides context for his next couplet of songs, like the experience of “love at its most vacuous” that inspired his most recent single, “Someone New.” Bouncing from a bluesy and folk sound as he vacillates between an acoustic, electric and steel guitar, Mr. Hozier-Byrne establishes himself and his literary lyrics as the constant and the music to be the ever-changing, ever exciting, but always excellent variable.
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Hozier’s choice in cover songs for his Royal Oak performance were incredibly indicative, once again, of the immense attention he pays on music over all else in his occupation. His first cover of Skip James’s “Illinois Blues” was beautifully jaunting and then perfectly juxtaposed by an encore presentation of Amerie’s “1 Thing.” From country blues to ’90s pop, Hozier clearly adores this music and effectively beckons his audience to feel the same, breaking the two very different songs down for his audience so that they can enjoy it too. The night ended magically as his set’s last song began with the staged introduction of a couple as a Robert asked for the hand in marriage of his now fiancé Carey. And with her confirmation, and Andrew’s congratulations, the night ended ever so sweetly with the deep whisper, “In the low lamp light I was free/Heaven and Hell were words to me.” Leaving the concert, it was unclear whether Hozier’s stardom is sustainable. His currently massive pool of fans wouldn’t dissipate for lack of talent, but rather perhaps for the critical differences Hozier places upon himself. Hozier did incredibly well, holding combinations of sensuality with pleads of social change like those present in his largest hit, “Take Me to Church.” But awkwardness, although at times endearing, doesn’t always appeal to the masses. Hozier’s propensity for sustained success is held in the balance by his next album. And maybe this wheat and chaff separation is necessary; perhaps it will act as the opportunity to separate the “Take Me to Church” fans from the enamored or obsessed. Nevertheless and despite the unknown nature of his future, it was invigorating to witness Rollins’s prolific words embodied modernly.
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TV REVIEW
‘Sea’ more than plot ‘Carter’ ends first season on heroic note What it lacks in storytelling, “Song of the Sea” makes up for emotion
By DREW MARON Daily Arts Writer
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“Song of the Sea” may suffer in storytelling, but it certainly prospers at crafting an emotional tale. While other Oscar-nominated animated features of B 2014 delighted in superhero Song of comedy (“Big the Sea Hero 6”) and Michigan dragon-hunting action (“How Theater to Train Your Studio Canal Dragon 2”), and still others explored new ways of animating (“The Tale of Princess Kaguya”), “Song of the Sea” is a simple tale about loss and closure. Like director Tomm Moore’s first animated feature, the Oscarnominated “The Secret of Kells,” “Song of the Sea” delves into Irish mythology. Newcomer Lucy O’Connell plays Saoirse, a six-year-old girl who has never spoken a word in her life. Saoirse’s older brother, Ben (David Rawle, “Moone Boy”) and her widowed father, Conor (Brendan Gleeson, “Edge of Tomorrow”) don’t realize that like her late mother, Saoirse is a selkie — a human who turns into a seal when it enters the water. The film opens with an elegant first act portraying the profound effect the death of Bronagh (Lisa Hannigan, known for her career as a singer-songwriter) has had on her family. Conor spends nights depressed at the pub while Ben bullies Saoirse, clearly blaming her for Bronagh’s death. One night, Ben and Saoirse’s babysitter granny (Fionnula Flanagan, “Yes Man”) finds Saoirse asleep on the beach. Declaring their island
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home unsafe, Granny takes the children with her to her house on the mainland, leaving Conor to grieve alone with their sheepdog, Cú. Despite the film’s emotional core, “Song of the Sea” struggles at crafting an original story. Behind the creative mythological touches, much of the film’s story relies on another MacGuffin: a “selkie coat” that Saoirse must find to save a race of fairies from an evil owl witch named Macha. The second act of the film includes some playful, amusing new characters, but it’s not as interesting as the genuine emotion of the beginning. Saoirse wants to go home to find the coat, and Ben just wants to see Cú, but neither of these motivations are strong enough to power the story. Ultimately, the plot just feels formulaic. It doesn’t help that the animation is hardly spectacular in the middle section of the film. The opening and closing acts are full of rich hand-painted backgrounds, from the swirling blues of the sea to the muted grays and greens of the sky, but the second act puts an emphasis on the characters’ faces, which are flat and simplistic. This traditional style fits the film,
but it doesn’t allow for additional excitement in the middle parts. The film also mostly stays away from humor, aside from some light touches, like Ben going to the pain of vaulting a fence when the gate is already unlocked. Still, the film never reaches slog status, and it’s all worth it for what it builds to. Macha, also voiced by Flanagan, is a surprisingly tragic character, an antagonist who takes away all emotions in an effort to eliminate suffering from the world. Her wide owl eyes suggest painful scars from her past, and the film meditates on whether happy moments are worth it with all the sad moments that come with them. The film finally comes together with a beautiful, awe-inspiring ending that makes excellent use of composer Bruno Coulais and Irish band Kíla’s passionate score. Ben is forced to confront his misplaced resentment for his sister, and Conor must move past his anguish to be the father Ben and Saoirse need. The film may be a bit of a slow burn when it comes to plot, but when the payoff is this affecting, something as trivial as plot is insignificant.
God bless Marvel and all the beautiful people who made “Agent Carter” possible. In eight episodes, “Agent Carter” A told a tight, fun and highly Agent engrossing spy Carter story that tied cleverly into Season 1 Finale the Marvel ABC Cinematic Universe without pandering to its audience. If anything, “Agent Carter” ’s first season finale, “Valediction,” is about moving beyond the memory of Captain America (Chris Evans, “Snowpiercer”) and the reductive version of the World War II era he represents. No scene embodies this more than when Peggy (Hayley Atwell, “Black Mirror”) prevents a hypnotized Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper, “Captain America: The First Avenger”) from releasing the deadly insanity gas, Midnight Oil, onto Time Square. As Stark believes he’s flying a plane into Antarctica to save Cap, Carter must convince him that Rogers is dead and he’s never coming back. Atwell really sells the devastation and loss felt not only by her character, but all of the characters. It also reminds the viewer that, although we know Cap is just taking an icy nap, Peggy and company need to believe wholeheartedly that he is dead and that they must move on with their own lives. It is also nice seeing “One
Tree Hill” star Chad Michael Murray as Agent Thompson, still a sleazebag at the end of the episode. Even if the male Agents came off as clichéd misogynists in the pilot, the actors and writers delivered increasingly poignant moments which made us care about them despite their flaws — especially in the previous episode where Shea Whigham (“Boardwalk Empire”) delivered an outstanding final performance as Chief Dooley, a character who developed from one-dimensional to tragic hero. We begin with the Agent recovering from his sacrifice and the gruesome attack at the theater. Viewers might have been a little unsure about how daring a show like “Agent Carter” could be on network television, but while it’s far away from “Hannibal,” it still provides much of the grit necessary to tell the story of the MCU’s forgotten past.
The hard work of the cast and crew should not go unnoticed. But, in classic Marvel tradition, “Agent Carter” magically balances its tone between dark and hysterical. Howard Stark is particularly amusing during the pressconference with Agent Thompson. Let’s hope Cooper becomes a series regular moving
forward. Edwin Jarvis (James D’Arcy, “Jupiter Ascending”) continues to prove a most loyal and charming companion for Carter, though it’s unclear how often his surprisingly eventful past will pop up in convenient ways, such as it does when he flies a plane at the end. There are a few loose ends that might disappoint fans who expect this to be the final episode of the series. To wit, we still don’t know everything about Leviathan, the supposed main threat of the series. Its members, Fennhoff and Dottie (Bridget Regan, “Jane the Virgin”), prove to be interesting enough characters. Yet, their motivation is still quite cloudy. Their final confrontation with Carter and company come off too much like a Bond villain’s — and not in a positive way, as Dottie’s escape is too predictable. That being said, she is excellent when she interrogates Howard, whom she forced to recollect names she gave him in the past. The appearance of Toby Jones (“Captain America: The Winter Soldier”) at the end, reprising his role as Dr. Arnim Zola, will also please fans of “The Winter Soldier.” However, Fennhoff — wearing an awesome Hannibal Lecteresque mask in the final scene — proves to be far more than just a one-note super-villain. We just really hope he doesn’t become HYDRA henchman number 37. Nevertheless, all of these minor gripes don’t get in the way of “Agent Carter” pulling off a great season finale to an engrossing series. Here’s hoping the hard work of “Agent Carter” ’s cast and crew does not go unnoticed.
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KNIGHTED? Michigan 79, Rutgers 69
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Series of career highs leads Michigan to victory over Rutgers By DANIEL FELDMAN Daily Sports Editor
Perhaps it was the magic of Senior Day. Perhaps it was the release of pent-up frustration after losing a double-overtime heartbreaker to Northwestern earlier in the week. Or, perhaps it was because the Michigan men’s basketball team was playing Rutgers, loser of 13 straight games. Maybe it was combination of all three, as the Wolverines (8-10 Big Ten, 15-15 overall) dominated the Scarlet Knights on Saturday at Crisler Center, winning 79-69. “I saw our older guys, (senior forward Max Bielfeldt and sophomore forward Zak Irvin), they were really disappointed and showed it,” said Michigan coach John Beilein about the Northwestern loss during the week. “And the coaches, we all felt it, but we didn’t show it. We thought it was a really important time in our program that our young guys not get down after what was as difficult a loss as any Michigan team has had.” And so, in Bielfeldt’s final home contest in a Michigan uniform, the Wolverines went to the senior right away, giving the ball to him down
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low before he scored on a right-handed hook shot to open up the day’s scoring. And while Rutgers (2-16, 10-21) answered, making five of its first seven shots, Michigan’s offense was too much the rest of the first half and the rest of the way. First it was freshman forward Aubrey Dawkins, who scored eight of Michigan’s first 11 points. Dawkins made four first-half triples to lead the Wolverines with 14 points. He had plenty more, though. He finished with a career-high 31 points along with eight triples, tying Glen Rice for second-most in a Michigan game. “My shot was feeling good at warm-up and every game I’m told to shoot the ball if I’m open, so I let it go,” Dawkins said. “Once I made the first one, I’ve got to shoot the second one. (And if I make the second one,) I keep going with it.” Dawkins wasn’t the only hot hand, though. Off the bench, freshman forward Kameron Chatman contributed 11 points, including three 3-pointers in the first half — the final coming in the final seconds of the stanza to give Michigan a 47-28 lead. He would ultimately finish with a new career high of 13 points. Caught in the middle of the two freshmen was Bielfeldt. After scoring the first basket of the contest, he was a force near the basket, making five first-half field goals to tally 10 points to go along with six rebounds and three assists, which broke his previous career high of two. Bielfeldt would end the day See MICHIGAN, Page 3B
Bielfeldt basks in Senior Day spotlight, posts first career double-double By LEV FACHER Managing Editor
Max Bielfeldt’s tenure in Ann Arbor has spanned one of the Michigan men’s basketball team’s most successful four-year stretches ever, however minimal or understated his role in that success has been. The Wolverines reached the National Championship Game in his sophomore season and returned to the Elite Eight his junior year, the year Michigan won its first outright regular-season Big Ten championship since 1986. Five of Bielfeldt’s Michigan teammates have been selected in the NBA Draft, with more on their way. But while the senior forward certainly had his in-game moments, many of his contributions to the Wolverines’ success took place behind the scenes — on the practice court or in the locker room, as a member of the scout team or as a leader. He was one of Michigan’s only upperclassmen in his final two seasons. “He’s been such a good scout team player, but he’s had guys named McGary, Horford and Morgan playing in front of him all this time,” said Michigan coach John See BIELFELDT, Page 3B
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A fitting gesture to close an unusual year
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fter Saturday’s game against Rutgers, Jon Rubenstein stood near the glass doors of the Crisler Center media room, surrounded by friends and family. The freshman guard didn’t stand out from the pack — at 5-foot-8, he ALEJANDRO rarely does — ZÚÑIGA save for the game-worn uniform and a smile that wouldn’t leave his face. A reporter approached him, and a family member pulled out a camera to document the occurrence. Rubenstein rarely gets interviewed, much less recognized, for his contributions to the Michigan men’s basketball team. But on this afternoon, a handful of journalists stopped talking to Aubrey Dawkins and Max Bielfeldt — who tallied 31 points and a double-double, respectively — to speak with him instead. On the way out, Rubenstein’s family searched the room for extra stat packets, scanning the first page and then smiling. Before Rubenstein was escorted out of the room, he was stopped by a fan. “You did something I never did — got on the court for a college game,” the stranger said. “Congratulations!” ***
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healthy Walton. It’s shaping up to be quite the return to prominence for the program, which will have experience across the board — and a formidable amount of depth at guard if LeVert returns. It’ll also mean Rubenstein and Kapustka will return to their duties as team managers. No more uniform, no more warmup drills, no more possibilities of playing time. But their stat lines will be permanently archived in Michigan’s record books. ***
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Freshman Ryan Kapustka, a manager-turned-practice player for Michigan, dressed and played one minute Saturday, as did freshman Jon Rubenstein.
were team managers for the Wolverines, handling equipment, setting up drills and ensuring practices ran as smoothly as possible. For Rubenstein, who had received minimal collegiate interest for his basketball abilities, the job was a way to “stay in touch with the game I love.” He and Kapustka played pickup games with the other team managers, and the two former high-school varsity athletes stood out among their peers. But until Caris LeVert, Derrick Walton Jr. and D.J. Wilson all went down with injuries, that was only good for bragging rights. When the Wolverines needed more players
to fill in on the scout team, Michigan coach John Beilein turned to the two freshmen who already had an in with the program. “I like to think that I can hold my own out there,” Rubenstein said. “They put us in a couple scrimmages, and I don’t necessarily put up big numbers in those, but I’m out there.” In late February, Beilein told Rubenstein and Kapustka he wanted them to dress for the regular-season finale against Rutgers. That meant both got to warm up in a game uniform adorned with their name and sit on the bench. “They didn’t have to do that at all,” Rubenstein said.
He called his parents, his high-school coach and his best friend James. Then he began to dream of playing. ***
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MSU ends ‘M’ tourney hopes By JACOB GASE Daily Sports Writer
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — In each of its two previous matchups with Michigan State this season, the Michigan women’s basketball 69 MSU team MICHIGAN 49 pulled off convincing victories on the strength of stellar defense and efficient shooting. But in their Big Ten Tournament opener against the Spartans on Thursday, the Wolverines struggled early in both areas. After neutralizing every Michigan State threat except forward Aerial Powers in the first two games, Michigan’s defense allowed four Spartans to reach double figures in scoring. The Wolverines’ offense missed its first 10 3-pointers and finished the game with a 16.7 shooting percentage beyond the arc. Sparked by an early eight points from forward Becca Mills, Michigan State opened the game on a 19-4 run, and Michigan was unable to fight its way out of the early hole. Led by Powers’ double-double (16 points, 15 rebounds), the Spartans pulled away with a 69-49 victory, eliminating the Wolverines from the Big Ten Tournament for the third straight year. “Michigan State was fired up about losing the first two contests because that’s something that they’re not really accustomed to doing,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “I’m sure they were ready to go. They really played well tonight. They shot the basketball extremely well. We didn’t.” Michigan State completely dominated the paint, holding senior forward and secondteam All-Big Ten selection Cyesha Goree to five points on 2-for-13 shooting. The Spartans’ defense left Goree looking visibly frustrated throughout the contest — she
only made one of her six free throw attempts and looked incredulous after she was blocked on a fast-break attempt to end the first half. “She missed uncontested shots, contested shots, free throws ... I mean, she seemed to miss every opportunity that she was getting,” Barnes Arico said. “And it’s kind of a bummer for her to have that as a senior against Michigan State tonight. But she’s had such a tremendous season for us this year, I don’t want this to take away from the year that she’s had for our team.” To compensate for its struggles in the post, Michigan turned its attention beyond the arc and found no success there, either. Even when their guards found open looks, nothing seemed to fall for the Wolverines.
No Michigan player connected from long range until junior guard Madison Ristovski hit a triple with 1:54 remaining in the first half. Sophomore guard Siera Thompson made only one of her eight 3-point attempts, and freshman guard Katelynn Flaherty finished just 2-for-8. The Wolverines’ shooters quickly became frustrated, and they let it show even when they didn’t have possession of the ball. “When we put our scorers in, they were giving up points on the defensive end, and they weren’t making shots tonight,” Barnes Arico said. “So that’s what kind of dug us a little bit more of a hole. I think Katelynn — she does get super frustrated and she believes that if she’s not making shots, she’s not contributing.”
The Spartans, on the other hand, used a solid shooting performance to maintain a 20-point lead for most of the game. Guard Lexi Gussert made her first five shots, including four 3-pointers, before she finally missed for the first time midway through the second half. Barnes Arico made a few adjustments to try to remedy the team’s struggles — she frequently rotated her shooters and even subbed in junior forward Kelsey Mitchell for some extra defensive help — but nothing Michigan tried could slow Michigan State’s momentum. The loss quelled any chance of an at-large NCAA Tournament bid for the Wolverines, and it denied Michigan a chance to complete a three-game sweep of their in-state rival for the first time in history.
seconds. “It’s surreal, it’s fun, it’s crazy, it’s emotional, it’s nervewracking,” he said. “It’s all those words. It was a dream come true, absolutely. “It’s a dream come true to put this uniform on, to hear the announcer and the fans. It’s everything you dream as a little kid.” While this season hasn’t lived up to expectations, it has provided Rubenstein and Kapustka a day they never thought possible. You may already be looking ahead to 2015-16, when Michigan returns the conference’s hottest shooter (Dawkins), its most improbably good player (Albrecht) and a
fter Rubenstein and Kapustka had left the media room, Beilein stepped to the podium for his postgame press conference. “This was a very unique year,” the coach said, “and a unique way to finish it.” It was, wasn’t it? Few expected guard Muhammad-Ali AbdurRahkman to star as a freshman, and virtually no one thought Andrew Dakich and Sean Lonergan would earn meaningful minutes in Big Ten games. That’s about as strange as you can get — but it got even more bizarre Saturday, as a pair of former team managers closed out a conference win. After such a tumultuous regular season, it was one last positive surprise. “I said to Jon as he was going to the locker room after the warmup, before the game: ‘What was it like down there?’ And he said, ‘That was amazing,’ ” Beilein recalled. “And that sort of just took me, and I said, ‘Boy, that was the right thing to do.’ ” Zuniga can be reached at azs@umich.edu and on Twitter @ByAZuniga.
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Michigan continues success in California By MITCH BECKMAN Daily Sports Writer
It’s pretty obvious that California has been good to the Wolverines. Last season, three of the Michigan women’s lacrosse team’s four wins came against California opponents — UC Davis, California and Fresno State. MICHIGAN 22 Friday, 8 ST. MARY’S they followed up another victory against California with a 22-8 win over St. Mary’s. The win is the team’s third in a row, and it puts the program above .500 for the first time in its young history. Just three days after their 16-14 win over California, the Wolverines showed no signs of fatigue. Sophomore attackers Jess Angerman and Tess Korten each recorded hat tricks in the first half alone, giving Michigan a 12-6 lead at halftime. Angerman ended the game with three goals and two assists, and Korten finished with four goals and an assist. The offense spread the wealth in the second half and ran away on the scoreboard. Freshman attacker Mae Tarr added four goals in the second stanza after scoring one in the first half, leading all Wolverines on the score sheet with six points on seven shots. Nine different players found the back of the net, and six of the nine players registered multiple points in the program’s largest scoring total to date. “It was a product of the whole team,” Tarr said. “We moved the ball well and really played as a team. I think the whole team contributed to the 22 goals.”
For the third consecutive game, the Wolverines won the possession battle. Going 17-for-18 on clears bolstered the offense, while dominance in the faceoff dot, where Michigan won 21 of 32, kept the Gaels’ offense from mounting a comeback and kept the attack coming on the offensive end. The Wolverines also won the ground-ball battle, beating the Gaels, 23-15. “It all started with draw control,” Tarr said. “From there, we just executed on offense. And the defense got a lot of turnovers and (moved the) ball up field as well, and that really let us succeed.” Along with controlling the faceoff dot, Michigan’s strong defensive performance gave the offense ample opportunities, most of which they converted. Sophomore goalie Allison Silber made six saves, and the defense in front of her turned out one of their strongest performances of the season, constantly pestering the St. Mary’s offense. The Gaels attempted just 16 shots while the Wolverines attempted 35. “I don’t think we were aggressive enough in the first half,” said Michigan coach Jennifer Ulehla. “In the second half we came out and were much more aggressive on the ball, and I liked the adjustment we made.” While the on-the-field performance was certainly impressive, its context makes it even more so. The wins come during Spring Break, a time notoriously difficult for anyone to focus. Last season, the team had two tough losses in Florida. This year, the extra year of experience showed and the Wolverines left California victorious.
“In the second half we came out and were much more aggressive.”
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Brown attack too much for Wolverines at Oosterbaan By SHAWN HEROOR Daily Sports Writer
It was a game of runs for the Michigan men’s lacrosse team Sunday afternoon, and none of them went in the Wolverines’ favor. Buoyed by three 5-0 runs through the game, Brown (4-0) hammered the Wolverines, 22-12, at Oosterbaan Fieldhouse. The Bears’ high-powered attack, scoring more than 17 goals per game coming into Sunday, was on full display. It was led by sophomore attacker Dylan Molloy, who notched eight goals on the afternoon. Molloy, who currently leads the country with 6.5 goals per game, added five assists. Without leading scorer Ian King, Michigan (3-3) was led by his replacement, junior attacker Peter Kraus. Kraus had three goals and two assists in his first start of the season. Brown started its scoring onslaught quickly, jumping out to a 5-0 lead in the first quarter. Michigan was able to cut the deficit to 5-2 going into the first break on goals from Kraus and junior midfielder Kyle Jackson. The Wolverines were outshot 17-10 in the first stanza. “I didn’t like the way we came out and competed,” said Michigan coach John Paul. “We weren’t really competing, and that killed us during the first half.” The Wolverines opened the second quarter with another goal from Jackson, who took a perfect feed from senior attacker David McCormack and buried a shot past the Brown goalie. However, the Bears went on another 5-0 run to jump out to a 10-3 lead. The run included three goals scored directly off of faceoffs. The Wolverines were just 15-for-38 on faceoffs on the day, with regular faceoff man Brad
BIELFELDT From Page 1B Beilein. “So it’s been difficult for him to get out there.” It was fitting, then, that in the Wolverines’ 79-69 victory over Rutgers on Saturday, Bielfeldt finally had the chance to enjoy the spotlight for a few moments, crossing off many bucket-list career items in the process. He made his first career start in place of freshman forward Ricky Doyle, who was sidelined by an intestinal virus. Even if Doyle had been healthy, Beilein said Friday that Bielfeldt would have gotten the start. After a brief, understated pregame ceremony in which Bielfeldt and his parents were honored at midcourt next to a framed No. 44 maize jersey, the man known to his teammates as “Moose” started out hot. Bielfeldt began the game by pulling down a rebound on Michigan’s first defensive possession, and he scored the first points of the game on the ensuing sequence with a smooth right-handed hook shot. “Once that first basket went
Lott going just 5-for-14. Lott was replaced by freshman Michael McDonnell midway through the second. “We’re just not getting ground balls, it’s not just Brad and Mike,” Paul said. “It was a big factor in the first half, not having possession because we weren’t getting ground balls.” Michigan was able to cut the deficit to five with goals from sophomore midfielder Mikie Schlosser and senior attacker Mike Francia, but goals from Molloy and Henry Blynn gave the Bears a 12-5 lead at halftime. Kraus opened the scoring in the third quarter with a quick goal before redshirt junior midfielder David Joseph beat Brown goalie Jack Kelly to a ground ball and fired a shot into the empty net to put the deficit at 12-7. Redshirt sophomore defender Charlie Keady made the game
12-8 after catching Kelly napping on defense, firing a shot from behind the center circle. It was Michigan’s first goal from a defenseman this season. The Bears and Wolverines exchanged four goals each in the rest of the third quarter, before Brown attacker Tim Jacob netted one with just eight seconds left in the third, giving the Bears a 16-11 advantage heading into the final stanza. “The second half, we finished a couple plays, but more than anything, we won a couple faceoffs and we picked up a few ground balls,” Paul said. “If (Jacob) doesn’t get that goal at the end, we’re right back in the game.” Brown’s final run to start the fourth put the game away. Molloy scored three goals in two minutes, as the Bears jumped out to a 20-11 lead. Kraus added his
third goal with 9:33 remaining in the match, before Molloy scored the final two to give Brown the 22-12 win. “Brown’s a great team. They’re great in transition, give them a lot of credit,” said Michigan senior defenseman Mack Gembis. “We didn’t limit their posessions, and a team like that is gonna get a lot of good looks.” After the game, Gembis emphasized that the Wolverines have to have a short memory, especially with the conference season rapidly approaching. “Our (conference) season is in front of us, we’re 0-0,” Gembis said. “We’ve got to get better from our mistakes.” The Wolverines may have a clean slate heading into the conference season, but if they can’t fix their defensive woes, then the Big Ten season may lead to more of the same.
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Michigan senior defenseman Mack Gembis and the rest of the team’s defense struggled with Brown’s up-tempo play.
down, all the pressure is kind of off my shoulders,” Bielfeldt said. “I’m glad that first one went down, so I could do some other things with my game.” Bielfeldt never let his foot off the gas pedal, and finished with his first career double-double in his 67th game played, recording 14 points and 11 rebounds. Beilein didn’t seem surprised by Bielfeldt’s performance, recalling that in light of Michigan’s heartbreaking, double-overtime loss to Northwestern on Tuesday, he saw exceptional enthusiasm in practice from Michigan’s veterans — particularly Bielfeldt, junior guard Spike Albrecht and sophomore guard Zak Irvin. “If you do the right things, and you have high character, and you just keep working and working and working, getting through all these injuries, good
things can happen to good people,” Beilein said. “That showed today.” The milestone could have snuck up on Bielfeldt, he said, if it weren’t for some interjections from the bench. “My teammates were very adamant about telling me,” Bielfeldt said. “I’d look over to the bench to look for a play, and you’d have (junior guard Caris LeVert) and the bench telling me, “Two more!’ ” The fans in attendance at Crisler Center were just as aware as the bench, if not more so. Though no announcement was made and no graphics were shown on the scoreboard, Bielfeldt’s ninth rebound generated a buzz throughout Crisler, a buzz that turned to a roar once he secured his 10th. “It’s awesome,” said freshman guard Aubrey Dawkins. “I’m happy for him. The team’s happy for him. The fans are happy for him. It shows. He has so much appreciation for the program, and you’ve got to love him.”
“It’s awesome. I’m happy for him. The team’s happy for him.”
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Senior forward Max Bielfeldt starred in his last career home game Saturday.
MICHIGAN From Page 1B with his first career double-double, putting up 14 points and a careerhigh 11 rebounds. “You’ve got to have a little extra pep in your step when they’ve got your framed jersey, everyone’s clapping for you, everyone’s concentrating on what you’re doing,” Bielfeldt said. “It’s a little extra energy.” While the trio contributed most of the Wolverines’ scoring in the first half, it was truly a team effort as Michigan dished out 13 assists against only one turnover in the
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MEN’S LACROSSE
‘M’ struggling with transition defense By BRANDON CARNEY
When Michigan coach John Paul decided to install a new offense at the beginning of the season for the men’s lacrosse team, he knew he was taking a risk. While the Wolverines’ new scheme may be paying dividends for Michigan’s attack – the team scores 12 goals per game – a more aggressive midfield leaves the Wolverines’ defense vulnerable to opponents’ transition attacks. Paul knew an up-tempo attack could cause problems for the Wolverines. So when Brown (4-0), the No. 2 scoring offense in the nation, paid a visit to Oosterbaan Fieldhouse on Sunday, Michigan’s defense couldn’t keep up with the speedy Bears in a 22-12 defeat. “There’s no one in lacrosse playing at the speed (Brown’s) playing at right now,” Paul said. Brown’s unique offense was problematic for the Wolverines from the start. The Bears’ “runand-gun” style caught Michigan (3-3) by surprise as the Wolverines wanted to slow the game down, but after his team gave up the first five goals, Paul knew his strategy needed to change. Michigan’s faceoff man and midfield lines were both changed over the course of the first half, but that couldn’t stop Brown’s constant waves of attack. “Our initial game plan was to slow everything down, and we didn’t do a good job of that,” Paul said. “Once we got behind it didn’t make sense to do that. After halftime, we just told the boys to go.” Paul continued to tinker, and he wanted to see his team pick up the pace. The Wolverines outscored Brown in the third quarter, 6-4, as halftime adjustments
were beneficial to Michigan as it nearly dug itself out of a sevengoal deficit. “We were going to come out (in the second half) hard and fast and try to narrow the score a little bit,” said redshirt junior midfielder David Joseph. “We got in our motion offense, and moved the ball well and finished, too.” The Wolverines quickened the pace, picked up more ground balls and made plays that built confidence and momentum in the young team. But before Michigan made adjustments in the midfield, which included increased playing time for quick players such as freshman Chase Young and junior Riley Kennedy, the glaring problem of a midfield that struggled to move the ball and stop the Bears from pushing the tempo remained. The main factor missing from Michigan’s game was urgency, especially in forcing turnovers and keeping possession. Picking up groundballs was especially problematic for the Wolverines in the first half, as Brown outgained them 28-19. “We were throwing the ball away unforced,” Paul said. “A lot of the turnovers they caused were in the middle of the field because whenever we picked a groundball up they’d check it right back out.” Michigan took chances across the field Sunday and got punished for playing into its opponents’ hands. A conservative approach to transition defense, an issue the Wolverines knew they were going to have, doomed the team from the start. “We’re close,” Joseph said. “We did make some good plays today, hustled and never gave up. We’ll practice hard, learn from the mistakes today and make up for it in future games.”
first 20 minutes. Though the victory doesn’t match the feeling of last year’s Senior Day, when Michigan defeated Indiana before holding an on-court netcutting and celebration to mark the team’s Big Ten regularseason title, it could still be important. The Wolverines will enter the Big Ten Tournament as the No.
9 seed. To have any chance of a NCAA Tournament bid, they will have to win the tournament to clinch an automatic berth. After the team’s performance against Rutgers, Beilein believes Michigan has “a chance against everybody.” And if his team plays like it did Saturday, it will have an even better chance.
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“If I made the first one, I’ve got to shoot the second one.”
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Penalty kill struggles in sweep at Penn State By ERIN LENNON Daily Sports Editor
STATE COLLEGE — No more than one second after a Penn State power play ended Saturday, forward Erik Autio’s shot from the point snuck through Steve Racine’s pads. Just when the No. 16 Michigan hockey team appeared to have found an answer to the Nittany Lions’ potent power play, the junior goaltender was forced to dig another puck out of the net. Though the Wolverines’ own power play has consistently been ranked among the top 10 in the nation, their penalty kill found a way to lose them games over the weekend. The unit surrendered three power-play goals in Friday’s 6-4 loss. “Our PK was terrible yesterday,” said sophomore forward JT Compher after the game Saturday. “That was unacceptable. It kind of lost us the game. … We knew that was going to be a big thing, and the improvement showed.” Saturday, for the second straight game, the Wolverines had their early momentum undermined by matching delayof-game penalties and an ensuing Penn State goal. Michigan’s luck briefly improved when Compher turned a breakaway pass from junior forward Andrew Copp into the Wolverines’ third shorthanded goal of the season. But while they were able to convert on two key powerplay opportunities to keep themselves in the game Friday, they struggled to find twine on the man-advantage Saturday. Michigan had an opportunity to jump out to an emphatic lead thanks to two consecutive Penn State penalties. The Wolverines and Nittany Lions accumulated 11 combined penalties in the first two periods.
“I thought we were better,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “I thought our power play moved the puck well. I thought the PK was good. You’d like your power play to score on that 5-on-3. That’s where you really need to score. I think we’re working hard on doing the right things.” Friday, the teams took a combined 19 penalties — including two sets of matching penalties — playing on special teams for 38 minutes. For Michigan, the disparity between the power play and the penalty kill was on display through the first two periods. After surrendering two late power-play goals in the first period, the Wolverines capitalized on two straight manadvantages — the first from Copp, followed by junior forward Justin Selman’s tally — to cut the Penn State lead to two. The difference was that while Michigan’s 2-for-7 night on the power play kept it in the game, its penalty kill surrendered three goals in four Nittany Lion attempts. Penn State also fired 11 shots to the Wolverines’ 14 despite having three fewer chances. “Yeah, I think (penalties) disrupted our flow,” Copp said Friday. “We had some good cycles going 5-on-5. We had some flow to our game, some momentum.” For a portion of this season — namely when the Wolverines’ nation-leading offense was averaging more than seven goals per game in Big Ten play — Michigan’s offensive firepower was enough to negate extra penalties. But Berenson and his team know as well as anyone that an offense like that isn’t sustainable for 30 games. Michigan can no longer afford to lose Dylan Larkin for 10 minutes on a game misconduct. “You can never outscore your mistakes for an entire year,” Compher said.
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Michigan’s NCAA Tournament hopes take a hit in State College By ERIN LENNON Daily Sports Editor
STATE COLLEGE — With six minutes remaining in the second period Saturday, a pileup in the Penn State crease ended in a skateinduced PENN STATE 4 3 MICHIGAN hole, forcing Pegula Ice Arena staff to switch out the nets. It was a game of pileups and penalties, but after three frustrating periods of hockey, the No. 16 Michigan hockey team failed to finish its chances for a second straight game. The Wolverines suffered their third loss of the season to the Nittany Lions, 4-3. With just four seconds remaining in regulation, yet another pileup resulted in what looked like the Wolverines’ game-tying goal. But after a referee waved his arms and the tally was reviewed, the goal came off the board. Following its fifth straight road loss, Michigan will need to win the Big Ten Tournament to secure an automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament. It also puts the Wolverines’ hopes of a first-round bye in the conference tournament at risk, meaning even one loss to Michigan State in the final regular-season series could be detrimental. “There’s always pressure, but we want to make the tournament,” said sophomore forward JT Compher. “Everyone in the room wants to make the tournament. But we can’t think about it.” Unable to get much of anything going through the first half of the final frame, the Wolverines were forced to play the remaining minutes without freshman forward Dylan Larkin, who received a 10-minute misconduct
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Sophomore forward JT Compher scored all of Michigan’s goals Saturday for his second hat trick of the season.
at the midway point. After that, Michigan was simply unlucky. With 5:15 remaining in regulation, sophomore forward Tyler Motte set up junior Boo Nieves, whose shot deflected high above the net. At the 4:56 mark, sophomore forward Alex Kile’s shot clanged off the goalpost. The struggle forced Michigan coach Red Berenson to call a timeout, pull goaltender Steve Racine and put Michigan on the 6-on-5 advantage for the remaining 3:26. And though the move allowed the Wolverines to pull within one goal on JT Compher’s hat trick-earning goal, it was too little, too late. “I’ve been playing some of my better hockey,” Compher said. “Unfortunately, the team hasn’t been. These two losses hurt a lot.” Despite allowing six goals in his fifth straight start Friday, Racine got the nod again Saturday over sophomore Zach Nagelvoort. The junior finished the weekend having surrendered 10 goals in two complete games
while accumulating 69 saves. “He’s been a good back-toback goalie,” Berenson said. “I think he’s rebounded from his not-so-good games Friday and been a lot better Saturday.” At even strength for most of the second period, both teams went end to end with little in the way of scoring chances on either side. Michigan’s best chance came early in the frame, when a too-many-men penalty and subsequent hooking extended the power play more than a minute, but the Wolverines were unable to capitalize. Michigan was held scoreless despite outshooting the Nittany Lions 16-8 in the frame. And the missed opportunities would come back to haunt them. On the power play for the first time in the period, Penn State broke the tie at the 13:32 mark with one second remaining on the man advantage. Forward Erik Autio teed up from the point, firing a shot through Racine’s legs. Then, on his senior night,
Penn State forward Tommy Olczyk tallied the Nittany Lions’ fourth goal, sending his team into intermission up 4-2. The Nittany Lions never trailed, though after a dismal first period Friday at Pegula, Michigan could have used a strong start. At the 5:50 mark, when Compher netted the Wolverines’ first goal to tie the game at one, it looked like Michigan accomplished that. Instead, Penn State forward Scott Conway beat Steve Racine a second time in the frame. Then, when a delay-of-game penalty called in the waning minutes of the frame looked as if it would doom Michigan before the first intermission, Compher raced in front of Copp, who fed him for the shorthanded goal. It was the Wolverines third shorthanded goal of the season. “(Penn State) has done well against us,” Berenson said. “They have a good record against Michigan, so we’re keeping them in the league, I guess.”
Hectic schedule takes toll ‘M’ dominant in Carolina in losses to ASU, Florida BASEBALL
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Of the 25 games the Michigan softball team has played this year, none have been at Alumni Field in Ann Arbor. Ten of its games have been against ranked opponents. And yet, the third-ranked Wolverines still found themselves with only one loss heading into the Judy Garman Classic in Fullerton, California. Thursday, Michigan lost its opener against No. 22 Arizona State, 2-0, and it dropped its afternoon matchup to undefeated No. 1 Florida, 7-4 in its two first games of the tournament. After losing the first two games, the Wolverines wrapped up the rest of play with three runrule wins against San Jose State, No. 9 Baylor and San Diego State by scores of 9-1, 11-1 and 10-2, respectively. The Saturday win against San Diego State completed the fifth road trip of the year for Michigan, and it capped off a Spring Break in which the Wolverines played 11 games in nine days. “We are as fatigued as I’ve ever seen us,” said Michigan coach Carol Hutchins. “We really had to gut through this last half of the trip. I thought we had to show a little grit there to get through it.” If exhaustion was a factor in the Wolverines’ losses to Arizona State and Florida, it wasn’t necessarily evident. Sophomore right-hander Megan Betsa allowed just seven hits and one earned run, and she pitched seven scoreless innings of work before giving up a game-ending two-run home run in the eighth inning against Arizona State. Despite the effort from Betsa, Michigan was unable to score any runs. “I don’t want to say that we struggled (at the plate),” said junior outfielder Sierra Lawrence after the loss to Arizona State. “We just didn’t have timely hits, and we didn’t get them when we should have.” The Wolverines’ consistently productive offense is batting
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Megan Betsa pitched in four of Michigan’s five games over the weekend.
.346 as a unit, but it only put up five hits against a talented Sun Devil pitching staff that has come to know the Michigan lineup well in recent weeks. But the contest a few hours later against top-ranked Florida unfolded differently. After Lawrence reached first from her leadoff spot in the first frame against the Gators, junior infielder Sierra Romero built Michigan an early lead with a two-run blast to center field. A two-RBI double to right field off the bat of senior lefthander Haylie Wagner, who also pitched the majority of the game against Florida, padded Michigan’s 4-0 lead in the top of the third. However, Florida responded in the bottom of the same inning with three runs of its own after the Wolverines hit three batters. Michigan maintained the onerun lead until the fifth, when a Gator double plated a walked batter to even up the score. Betsa replaced Wagner in the sixth, but
Florida was able to score three more times, enough to do in the Wolverines. All in all, three runs off of two hits and a walk left Betsa with both losses on the day. Wagner allowed six hits and a walk in her efforts against the Gators. “Really, we gave (the game up),” Hutchins said. “We gave way too many free bases. It’s an area of the game that’s a sore spot for us and an area that needs to improve. “The pitchers just need to do a better job of locking in every pitch and not letting the pressure of the moment get to them.” Currently, the Wolverines boast a 1.69 team earned-run average, good for second in the Big Ten. “It was especially difficult against Arizona State, because this is the third time we’ve played them in a week,” Betsa said. “Same thing for Florida, this was the second time we’ve faced them. They’re definitely better teams, which makes the games more intense.”
Coming into the Coastal Carolina Invitational riding a five-game win streak, the Michigan baseball team was already playing its best baseball of this young season. Then the team outscored its four opponents by a combined score of 37-12 on the weekend. The Wolverines (9-6) took business against MarylandBaltimore County, Toledo and Coastal Carolina, before falling to Akron in the finale. In its Friday afternoon matchup, Michigan didn’t break its momentum against UMBC (1-4), taking the game 8-1. After allowing a run to cross the plate in the top of the first inning, freshman right-hander Ryan Nutof settled into a nice rhythm for the rest of his start. Through his seven innings, Nutof allowed just five hits. The Wolverines tied the game in the bottom of the second with a sacrifice fly from senior catcher Kendall Patrick and dominated the rest of the way. Offensively, the team peaked in the bottom of the fourth inning, when Michigan slapped a five-spot onto the scoreboard. Following a two-run single from senior second baseman Eric Jacobson, Michigan sent first baseman Jacob Cronenworth to the plate as the top of the order rolled around to try and cause more two-out damage. The junior sent a towering ball over the right-center field wall for a three-run home run, giving the Wolverines a 6-1 advantage. Michigan tacked on runs in the fifth and seventh innings, leaving the final score at 8-1. Moving to Saturday’s mid-day matchup against Toledo (3-9), the Wolverines hoped to continue to better their average of 5.3 runs per game. Behind one of the best offensive performances of Michigan coach Erik Bakich’s time at Michigan, the team put up a whopping 19 runs on the Rockets, defeating them 19-5.
“Our guys are tough,” Bakich said. “We’ve got good hitters when guys are executing the approach and having quality at-bats. In years past, (opponents) circled a few guys and focused on not letting them beat you. We not only have those guys again, but we have a bunch more.” The Wolverines’ scoring was evenly spread against Toledo, both on the scoreboard and box score. Eight Michigan players knocked runs in, and the team scored in six of the eight innings it went to the plate. The Wolverines set the tone in their first at-bats, putting up five runs in one inning for the second time in as many games. Senior left fielder Kevin White sent a moonshot to straightaway center field with two runners on to give Michigan a 5-0 lead right away. “You’ve got to give Toledo credit,” Bakich said. “We put up five runs on them in the first inning, and they didn’t back down. They kept fighting, and it was a three-run difference there in the middle of the game. Our guys just stuck with the process of being tough in the box.” Righties Jayce Vancena and Jackson Lamb both threw four solid innings from the mound for Michigan. Vancena, a freshman, allowed two earned runs and four hits, while Lamb shut Toledo down in the later innings. On the tail end of Saturday’s doubleheader, the Wolverines overcame some early trouble and took down what was projected to be their toughest opponent of the weekend, Coastal Carolina (9-5), by the score of 10-4. Michigan jumped out to a 4-0 lead through three innings, but Coastal Carolina battled back with one run in the fourth and two in the fifth, sending the ballgame to the sixth inning with the Wolverines leading by only one.
Led by the bats of Benedetti and junior third baseman Travis Maezes, Michigan earned some breathing room in the seventh inning, plating four runs. That 8-3 lead would prove to be enough to secure the win for the Wolverines, as right-hander Brett Adcock kept the Coastal Carolina bats at bay through 5.2 innings of work. The sophomore allowed three runs — none earned — while striking out seven. Benedetti finished the day 6-for-9 with 10 RBI and is a serious contender for Big Ten Player of the Week honors. That win sent the Wolverines into the Sunday finale against Akron (7-5) on a wave of momentum, but the Zips’ pitching staff found a way to hold the Michigan bats quiet. Riding the arm of lefthander Pat Dyer, Akron shut out the Wolverines, coming away with a 2-0 victory. The senior allowed just five hits over eight innings. The game was tied heading into the bottom of the eighth inning when Michigan moved Cronenworth from first base to take care of business on the mound. What happened was far from what the team was looking for. The closer faced eight batters in his one inning of work. He walked three, threw two wild pitches and allowed two runs to break the late-inning tie. “(Cronenworth) is one of the most electric closers in the country,” Bakich said. “Part of being an electric or dominant closer is that some days you just happen to give up a run or two.” Although it wasn’t the end to the Spring Break trip the team was hoping for, raising its record well above .500 and showing some confidence at the plate are things Michigan intends to carry with it all season.
“(Cronenworth) is one of the most electric closers in the country.”