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Redshirt freshman quarterback Wilton Speight entered Saturday’s game when fifth-year senior starting quaterback Jake Rudock was injured. Michigan trailed at the time, but Speight eventually led the Wolverines to victory on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
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Jeffrey Dennis, a player on the Navy team, reaches for the ball in the 10th annual Army vs. Navy Wheelchair Basketball Game in the Crisler Center on Sunday.
Wheelchair ball raises disability awareness Crisler Center hosts 10th annual Army vs. Navy matchup to kick off Veteran’s Week By EMILY ROBERTS For the Daily
The Crisler Center played host to a different kind of basketball game on Sunday. Instead of the Michigan men’s basketball team, wheelchairs glided up and down the court during the 10th annual Army v. Navy Wheelchair Basketball Game. The teams are co-ed and made up of experienced wheelchair basketball players, as well as University student veterans, ROTC students, and occasionally, local law enforcement. Sunday’s game ended with a 45-40 Army victory. Gerald Hoff, the event’s founder and an insurance representative at the University Health System, said the game aims to raise awareness about living with a disability. “The Wheelchair Basketball game is the only University-sponsored disability related sporting event,” he said. “This event showcases the skills of people with disabilities; it showcases the ability within disability.” Run entirely by volunteers, the event also featured performances by several student groups along with the game, including the Men’s Glee Club, the Michigan Dance team and the Michigan Cheer Team.
The game is also part of Veterans Week at the University, which includes several panels covering the experiences of veteran as well as appreciation events. Jerry Sarasin, a long-time wheelchair basketball player and instructor who played for the Army team, said the win had been a long time coming for his team, which had lost in the past few years. Sarasin added that many characteristics of the game, like pacing, are very similar to a game played by able-bodied teams. He noted that part of the value of hosting this event is also demonstrating that similarity to the University community. “If more people came out to the games, wheelchair basketball would really grow as a sport, we know this because the sport is huge in places such as Europe,” he said. “There are other colleges that have wheelchair teams, and it’s sad that athletes have to go out of state to play at the collegiate level.” Kinesiology senior Jon Mendicelli, president of the University’s Student Veterans Association, said he always enjoys playing in the games. “The real wheelchair basketball players do a great job of getting all of us to play as a team, and making us look good on the court,” he said. Mendicelli, a Marine Corps veteran, played for the Navy team. He said the game was important for student veterans, especially those with disabilities. “Disabilities often come with a stigma, but at this game we can See WHEELCHAIR, Page 3A
Michigan stops Minnesota at halfyard line on final play to win, 29-26 By MAX BULTMAN Daily Sports Editor
MINNEAPOLIS — It came down to one play, a few inches and a lesson Jim Harbaugh
hopes his players carry with them for the rest of their lives. After a goal-line stand on the game’s final play, the No. 15 Michigan football team escaped TCF Bank Stadium with a win over Minnesota, 29-26. “It feels tremendous for the way the players played, and a phenomenal learning experience for our men to be able to win a tough one,” Harbaugh said. “It’s a great learning experience because it reinforces
everything you tell them about never giving up and fighting ‘til the end.” With 19 seconds remaining, Golden Gophers’ quarterback Mitch Leidner connected with Drew Wolitarsky for 22 yards and what looked like a go-ahead touchdown. But a booth review showed that Wolitarsky’s knee touched at the half-yard line, forcing Minnesota to hurry back to the line and try to punch it in. The clock began running
as the Golden Gophers made a formation shift, splitting a receiver out wide to pass after initially lining up in a running formation. Leidner’s throw was incomplete, though, and by the time the ball hit the ground, 17 seconds had run off the clock. Just two remained. Trailing by three, conventional wisdom would have told Minnesota to kick a field goal. But in an emotional contest See MICHIGAN, Page 3B
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Ballet Folklorico de los Renacidos, a Mexican folkloric dance group based in Detroit, performs at the fourth Annual Dia de los Muertos Ball sponsored by the Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority at the Alumni Center on Friday.
LatinX month concludes with ‘Dia de los Muertos’ Fourth annual ‘Day of the Dead’ ball celebrates tradition, culture By JACKIE CHARNIGA Daily Staff Reporter
The University’s chapter of the Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. concluded
annual celebrations for LatinX Heritage month Friday night with its fourth annual Dia de los Muertos Ball. In partnership with the office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs and the Michigan Latin@ Assembly, the Founders Room of the Alumni Center hosted face-painting, traditional food and a performance by the Detroit-based ballet troupe Folklorico de los Renacidos.
The aim of the ball is to educate students about the history and cultural traditions of Dia de los Muertos and celebrate the work of the LatinX Heritage planning committee. Dia de los Muertos, which translates in English as “Day of the Dead,” is a Latin holiday celebrated every Nov. 1 to honor the dead with food and festivities. Traditional ceremonies commonly honor the See LATINX, Page 3A
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Hundreds of people streamed in and out of the Michigan Stadium on Sunday as part of the fifth annual “Be a Hero at the Big House” blood drive, an event that kicked off the 34th annual Wolverine vs. Buckeye Challenge for Life. The blood drive competition will run until Thanksgiving and encourages people to donate blood and register as organ donors in competition with Ohio State University. Last year, the University beat OSU in registered organ donors by 43,857 people, but collected only 2,298 pints of blood to Ohio State’s 2,414. Sunday’s event was co-sponSee BLOOD, Page 3A
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Director of University Libraries Frederick Wagman announced that the Shapiro Undergraduate Library would extend its hours, remaining open to students until 2 a.m. each night for a trial period later that year. The library was previously only open until midnight during the week. Wagman estimated that it would cost an additional $20,000 per year to keep the library open for those extra two hours. Before a date for this trial period could be set, Wagman said the University would have to find both additional funds and employees to work the added two hours. He also
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WHAT: Clare Croft will discuss her book about the role of dancers throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. WHO: Institute for Research on Women and Gender WHEN: Today from 3:10 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Lane Hall, 2239
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WHAT: President of Institute for Systems Biology will lecture. WHO: Depression Center WHEN: Today from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Palmer Commons, Forum Hall
FBI career opportunities WHAT: The Director’s Resource Planning Office for the FBI will come talk to students about opportunities working for the agency. WHO: The Career Center WHEN: Today from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Greek tragedy Student voice demonstration recital WHAT: Two undergraduate students will perform excerpts from a Greek play. WHEN: Today from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Michigan League
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Sixteen years ago this week (Nov. 2, 1999) Members of the University’s solar car team returned home from Australia after finishing ninth out of 40 teams in the World Solar Challenge in Australia. Solar car teams from around the world competed in the 1,864 mile race through the Australian outback. The race tested the endurance of each team’s solar car and lasted for a total of five days. “Being in the top 10 of the world is a pretty good place to be in,” team leader Jed Christiansen said at the time. —CALEB CHADWELL
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Cotton candy mishap leads to new way to model scar tissue ‘U’ team uses sugar mold in testing how the body responds to internal scarring By DESIREE CHEW For the Daily
Just before Halloween, the University announced that an unsuccessful attempt at making cotton candy inspired the discovery of a new bioengineering technique. A University team, led by Biomedical Engineering Prof. Shuichi Takayama, announced in a press release last week they discovered a new method to model extra-soft silicone for cell research. The team’s project studied scar tissue formation in soft-celled organs like the lung and liver, as the body recuperates from internal scarring caused by diseases
such as diabetes and cancer. “In general, our research group is concerned with using small tools to understand what happens in the body, by doing the experiments outside the body,” said Engineering graduate student Joseph Labuz, a member of the team. “This project works on measuring the forces exerted by cells, as well as the mechanical properties of tissue.’’ Their original plan was to position cells around tiny pillars of soft silicone that acted as scar tissue, then apply different treatments to the cells and measure the deformation of silicone as the cells expand and contract. But to do so, the team first needed to figure out how to mold the soft silicone, a material known as Sylgard 527, into the desired shape — which is where the cotton candy came in. The team’s initial instrument of choice, hard epoxy molds, proved unviable because silicone pillars were so soft they disintegrated
upon removal from the mold. However, a chance encounter in the kitchen for a member of the team, Christopher Moraes, assistant professor of chemical engineering at McGill University, led to a new idea. Moraes worked on the team as a postdoctoral researcher at the University. In the process of making an unsuccessful batch of cotton candy, Moraes noticed that the hard slab of candy he was left with captured every detail of the pan in which it was molded. This fueled an idea to make a mold out of sugar, cast the Sylgard 527 in the candy mold and finally, immerse the mold water so it will dissolve, leaving only the silicon pillars. “I actually wouldn’t describe it as a ‘Eureka’ moment, as much as a ‘hmm … that’s odd’ moment, before I threw away the candy disaster in disgust and went to bed,” he said. “I woke up the next morning with the idea of what that might mean in the lab. This accidental process happens quite frequently, but perhaps 99 percent of the ideas that I have end up failing.” The team had by then spent nine months trying to find the right materials for their project through repeated trial and error — leaving them open to the new idea. After testing Moraes’ conjecture with stunt glass, a common feature of Hollywood action films and an essentially sugarbased material, the team formulated the recipe for the perfect mold: a simple, sweet-smelling concoction made largely of sugar and corn syrup. “For me, this project is unusual in that it really emphasizes the fun and surprise of doing science and engineering research, an aspect that is often overlooked when scientists reflect on their work,” he said. “I mean — who would have thought that candymakers would have figured out the secrets needed to micro-fabricate tissues?” See CANDY, Page 3A
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Nobel Prize winner Martin Karplus, professor emeritus of chemistry at Harvard University, discusses the motion of cellular molecules at the annual Biophysics Oncley Lecture on Friday.
Nobel prize-winner discusses study of molecules, motion Harvard professor talks complex simulations in chemistry By IRENE PARK Daily Staff Reporter
Nobel Prize-winner Martin Karplus, professor emeritus of chemistry at Harvard University, delivered the Oncley Lecture in Biophysics at the Rackham Amphitheater on Friday. Karplus received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013 with Stanford Biology Prof. Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel, a chemistry professor at the University of Southern California, for their work on computational simulations. In a talk titled “Motion: The Hallmark of Life. From Marsupials to Molecules,” Karplus explained how the motion of molecules makes the motion of entire animals possible. He began by quoting physicist Richard Feynman’s “Lectures
on Physics,” which emphasized the importance of understanding the motion of atoms and molecules in understanding the motion of living organisms: “Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jiggling and wiggling of atoms.” He pointed out several different applications of understanding how molecules move — applications made possible in part by the computation simulations for which he and his colleagues received the Nobel Prize. The simulations, which Karplus, Levitt and Warshel began in the 1970s, developed an easier method to replicate chemical reactions using computers. Prior to their work, chemists had to use advanced calculations based on quantum physics to simulate reactions. Because the calculations were so complex, the simulations required enormous computing power, meaning chemists could only simulate the reactions of small, simple molecules.
To address this issue, Karplus said he and his colleagues combined quantum physics with the simpler, less computationally demanding Newtonian physics to simulate chemical reactions for more complex molecules. They discovered that while quantum physics is required for simulating chemical reactions at the specific site on the molecules where the reaction occurs, the simpler Newtonian physics could be used for simulating the impact of the reaction on the rest of the molecule. Quantum mechanics studies the activity going on inside an atom. The computational simulations discovered by Karplus and his colleagues are now frequently used in multiple spheres of chemistry research, such as simulating how synthetic drugs interact with proteins in a person’s body and how defective proteins behave differently from normal proteins.
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Kim Roman, volunteer with Team Michigan of the Transplant Games of America, plays Bubba Blocks at the Blood Battle kickoff event at Michigan Stadium on Sunday.
BLOOD From Page 1A sored by Wolverines for Life, the American Red Cross, Be The Match/National Marrow Donor Program, Gift of Life Michigan and Eversight Michigan. This year, Sunday’s “Be a Hero” event collected more than 400 units of blood, breaking last year’s all-time record of 340 units. All donated blood will be included in the University’s Blood Battle total. Throughout the next three weeks, Blood Drives United, the student-run organization that co-sponsors the Blood Battle competition, will host about 46 blood drives at various locations around campus. Ward and Lydia Kimball, residents of West Branch, Mich., attended the event to promote organ donor registration. Their
LATINX From Page 1A dead with altars decorated with pictures, candles and marigold flowers. LSA senior Thalia Maya, Lambda Theta Alpha sorority president, said the ball was an opportunity for the sorority to educate other students about Dia de los Muertos and Latin heritage. “It’s more than just being able to eat good food and be able to come together as people in the Latin community,” Maya said. “It’s being able to remember those who have passed away, the loved ones and friends who were really important to us.” Rackham student Orquidea Morales, the event’s keynote speaker, said Dia de los Muertos is her favorite holiday. Pursuing a doctorate in American Culture, Morales said she was recommended by her professor to speak based on her research on death at the border between Mexico and the United States. Morales transferred from the University of Texas-Pan American, which has a significantly higher Latin population than
WHEELCHAIR From Page 1A focus on the players’ skills instead,” he said. Engineering sophomore Roy Berg, vice president of the SVA, echoed Mendicelli’s sentiments.
CANDY From Page 1A Labuz echoed his sentiments, and said their project proves out-of-the-box thinking can often be useful for research. “A lot of times, both people who work on research, and also people who don’t, imagine that research has to be done a certain way, and ideas can only come from big complicated textbooks and long equations and things like that,” he said. “But a lot of times the best ideas are the simplest or the most obvious ones.” Takayama said the discovery will allow new avenues for cell-based research in model-
18-year-old son, Evan, died in a car accident last month, and his organs were donated to five different recipients. They have since started working to educate and raise awareness about organ donation with Gift of Life Michigan, an organization that works to maximize organ and tissue donation by registering donors and raising awareness. “I promised him that his name would never ever be forgotten, and I think with his gifts and the spurring of the donor registry, that’s how we do that,” Kimball said. Marge Del Greco, a two-time liver donation recipient, also works with Gift of Life Michigan and helped people register as donors at the event. “This is my way of giving back,” Del Greco said. “I promote wherever I can, however I can, to get the word out, and to get people to register.”
She said when she received her first liver transplant in 2004, people did not understand the necessity of organ donation. When she first began to volunteer she struggled to register donors. However, she said events like Blood Battle have helped raise awareness and encourage people to donate. “Our numbers have tripled,” she said. “We’re up to 52 percent of Michigan are registered organ donors, and that’s huge from where we started. We were below the national average, below 30 percent of the state.” LSA junior Laurel Fricker, a member of Blood Drives United, emphasized the importance of donating blood and said events like the Blood Battle make donating more fun. “Each donor can save potentially three lives with their donation,” she said.
the University of Michigan, which has an undergraduate Latin population of 4.93 percent. “It does feel weird walking around being one of the few Latino students, and knowing there’s a really high attrition rate when it comes to undergraduate students of color,” she said. Morales said she wanted to do something culturally specific this year that would bring visibility to the Latin community. Rackham student Fantasy Posada is an alum of Lambda Theta Alpha, which was the first Latina sorority in the country. She painted her face in solidarity with her University sisters and to honor the event. “I’m really proud of the chapter and the programming that they do, because it is very much about empowerment,” Posada said. “Empowerment of all women, but of course empowerment of Latino women.” Roberto Perez, the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs program manager, said he had a positive experience working with the sorority and the Michigan Latin@ Assembly to construct the event. “Reaching out to the (Michigan Latin@ Assembly) orga-
nization, and really getting a sense of unity and partnership with them has been really well received,” Perez said. “Both organizations have worked really well together.” Perez said LatinX is a term used this year to be more inclusive of those whose gender expressions are more fluid, acting as an alternative to binary words within the Spanish language referring to gender identity. “(It’s) a term used to be more inclusive for those who don’t identify within the male/ female binary,” Perez said. “So that includes those who might identify as queer, transgender or cisgender, or anything else within the spectrum that isn’t very simply identified as male/ female.” LatinX celebrated the month with more than 20 events, including a lecture on the cultural and historical tradition of the quinceañera, a girl’s 15th birthday signifying her transition into adulthood, and a panel discussion where Latina faculty members shared their experiences as people of color at the University.
Berg, who is also a Marine Corps veteran and played for the Navy team, said the event illustrates the University’s commitment to celebrating diversity. Overall, Hoff said, the event is growing every year and he hopes continuing it will inspire the University and other schools
within the Big Ten to start their own wheelchair athletic leagues. “We’re bringing together veterans, we’re bringing together people with disabilities, we’re bringing together our student population,” he said.
ing delicate processes. “It is important technologically because it enables practical measurements of forces otherwise very difficult to perform,” he said. For this reason, the team has decided not to patent the fabrication technique, first published earlier this year. “That’s not to say that patents or being the first to publish or being recognized for being the first to discover something isn’t important,” Labuz said. “But at least the way our lab operates is, once we have an idea or technique down or validated, we are happy to share it with other people.” Moraes said he hoped that the technique can also be lever-
aged beyond the field of science, suggesting that it could be used to make “smart” or “dynamic” candy that was customized to specific flavor profiles. Moving forward, he still faced a personal challenge: figuring out how to make cotton candy successfully. “My last attempt wasn’t nearly as horrible as my first, but still nowhere near the expert handpulled cotton candy product,” he said. “I might switch over to trying hand-pulled noodles first, which uses a similar pulling technique but seems to be a little more forgiving than candy.”
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Happily over-scheduled
was blessed with the chance to live the typical overscheduled suburban kid lifestyle. I say “blessed” because having the means to keep busy by over-scheduling my life was an absolute privilege. Every year, I begged my mother to sign me up for a new after-school activity, never quitting the previous one. By sixth grade, I committed each week to nine hours of gymnastics practices, four hours of ANNIE music lessons, two hours HUMPHREY of all-city choir and at least an hour of drama practice. I regularly ate dinner in a thermos, as someone’s parent in an elaborate three-way carpool shuttled me to my next activity. I often fell asleep doing homework and woke up early to practice violin. I remember collapsing onto a mat one night at gymnastics practice and asking my teammates if it was Friday yet. It was Monday. I was 12. In a recent New York Times piece, Bruce Feiler explored where the true costs of busy, overscheduled childhoods lie. According to Feiler’s research, structure can be good for children. It helps them perfect new skills and keeps them out of trouble. The costs occur when children feel pressured to succeed at these activities. Luckily for me, my parents never pressured me to aim higher with my activities. If anything, in high school they frequently asked me if I would like to quit certain obligations so that I could get more than four hours of sleep per night. The pressure I felt came from my peers rather than my parents. Seeing everyone around me overbook themselves and do well in everything influenced me to keep going, even though I was starting to lose enjoyment and burn out doing my favorite activities. As I entered college, I felt pressured to be busy doing less of what I loved and more of what I thought might look impressive on future applications. Initially I signed up for uninteresting academic clubs and tedious classes, hoping their prestige might set me apart from the crowd. Since I cared so little for these obligations, I quickly became overwhelmed and had no sense of fulfillment to push me through the toughest days. Being busy became more manageable when I started pursuing things I actually enjoyed. This year I’m the busiest I have ever been in college, but I’m also the happiest. No matter how little sleep I get, each morning I jump out of bed because there are so many exciting things to do
throughout my day. I get to write, sing, teach, work, study and interact with amazing people along the way. Because I practiced being busy as a child, I finally know how to manage my time and prioritize my most important responsibilities. Friends tell me that I exude a sense of joy and optimism that I never did before. On the rare occasions when I still feel stressed out and overwhelmed, I try my best not to complain about how busy I am. For one thing, I would choose being busy over idleness any day. Last year, I had the rare experience of accidentally under-scheduling my life. A research opportunity fell through and classes turned out to be easier than expected, so I had several extra hours of empty time in my week that I hadn’t anticipated. Rather than using this time to study more or find a new hobby, I spent most of it sleeping and watching TV. While those who oppose a busy lifestyle might applaud me for indulging in some valuable “me time,” I felt completely empty. Perhaps my structured childhood influenced me to unhealthily crave it, but I truly felt that by sitting around doing nothing I was wasting my chance to explore all of the opportunities that the University offers. Another reason I avoid complaining about being busy is because I don’t want to promote a sense of competition among my peers. As Tim Kreider wrote in a New York Times opinion piece, proclaiming our busyness is often a “boast disguised as a complaint” because it lets others know that we’re going above and beyond to achieve our goals. Kreider then goes on to speak about larger themes surrounding the importance of idleness. Though some University students are busy working full-time jobs out of financial necessity, others choose being busy as a way to set themselves apart from the crowd. By discussing how busy our impressive-sounding responsibilities leave us, we inadvertently make others feel inadequate or guilty for choosing a more relaxed schedule. I’m glad I grew up in a time when being busy was encouraged. This culture has allowed me to push myself past the limits of what I thought was possible to achieve in a single day, and it has given me the chance to learn a multitude of new skills. Even though our society can sometimes have an unhealthy, competitive obsession regarding busyness, I know that as long as my desire to fill my time is internally motivated I will always have the drive to explore new opportunities and carry out each of my responsibilities with diligence and enthusiasm.
Being busy became more manageable when I started pursuing things I actually enjoyed.
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TO THE DAILY: China just announced that it’s ending its onechild policy. This is a monumental moment for me and many others who were directly affected by the one-child policy. When I was 6 months old, I was adopted from China and brought to the United States. For many years, I resented this policy. I blamed it for the lack of knowledge of my origins and the people I had come from. But today, I see the policy was a blessing in
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— Annie Humphrey can be reached at annieah@umich.edu.
disguise. For without it, I would not be able to call the wonderful woman and man who raised me Mom and Dad. I would not have my beautiful little sister, who also was adopted from China. The one-child policy gave me a wonderful life, full of loving people and great opportunities. But with its end, I am looking forward to seeing China’s families grow and prosper. Sophie Sproul Engineering Sophomore
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Resisting the fads
he Internet has become littered with marketing gimmicks. It’s bad enough that sidebar banners clutter the periphery of websites; just when you’ve trained yourself to ignore them, native advertising ensures that you’ll find a few promotions FARID embedded in ALSABEH your news article as well that often match the format of other articles. But there’s a certain type of junk that’s more common than the rest — diet and weight-loss ads. These ads pervade magazine shelves and commercials, too, and there’s no surprise why: it’s an extremely rewarding market. About one in seven Americans have used a non-prescription weightloss supplement at some point in their lives. This statistic is less surprising when you consider that 38 percent of individuals who make New Years resolutions make losing weight their first priority. Besides that, anyone who has had as much as a passing thought about fitness has probably wondered what simple trick could be “making nutritionists furious.” And for people who are serious about getting fit (through whatever means), this passing curiosity can quickly become an intense obsession. My fixation on being fit came to me during my senior year of high school. Having been out of shape for a majority of my life, I decided to finally make whatever changes were necessary. With college just around the corner, I was determined to reach my goals as quickly and efficiently as possible.
I can’t count how many nights I spent browsing not-so-reputable sources online trying to turn my fitness dreams into reality. Worse yet, I would usually pick up a diet or exercise routine for a few weeks, only to replace it with another one I thought to be more convincing. I spent Halloween on the Atkins diet; by Thanksgiving, I was no-carb. I alternated between lifting and jogging as my ideas about which one would allow me to get fit more quickly shifted. All this was motivated by my self-imposed time constraint. I wanted to look as good as possible going into college. And eventually, stumbling through a host of diet and exercise regimens actually paid off. But at what cost? I had paid hundreds of dollars for supplements I thought would hasten my progress. Countless hours were wasted “researching” (read: obsessing) over what routine was best. Worst of all, I didn’t really learn anything. Which type of diet was most effective? What exercise is most important for losing weight? The answers to these questions were lost in my mess of a year. Looking back, it seems the efficacy of those fads stemmed from the fact that they’re advertised to be uniquely fast. Rarely do you see a diet ad that doesn’t promise results in a matter of weeks. As consumers, we’re naturally inclined to desire the product immediately. So how can we make ourselves immune to this damning temptation?
I think we need to change how we view diets and nutrition at a fundamental level. There’s a misleading conception that the answer to “how do I lose weight” is something to be discovered, on the Internet or otherwise. But the third word of that question is I, and your experiences might differ dramatically from someone else’s. In truth, the “secret to losing weight” is a knowledge that comes from self-experimentation. We are nothing more than complicated, walking biochemical processes. Try changing one variable at a time and see how your body responds. Does eating carbs before hitting the gym help you lift more? Try it for a few weeks and find out. Would 30 minutes of walking be sufficient to burn off that dessert you ate? Do it and see whether the effect on your weight appears or not, keeping everything else constant. When it comes to our own bodies, these personal experiments (when done correctly) can be more valuable than even scientific literature on the subject. If I had been so structured with my progress, I may have delayed my goals by about a year. But the knowledge I’d gain would have been well worth the wait. Next time you come across a fitness ad, see if its appeal comes from your own eagerness or impatience. Then exit out and know that the alternate course will be far more rewarding.
In truth, the “secret to losing weight” is a knowledge that comes from selfexperimentation.
— Farid Alsabeh can be reached at falsabeh@umich.edu.
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Supporting a sanctuary campus For the University to be the diverse, inclusive, representative and great campus it claims to be, it must stand with immigrant communities by opening access to education for immigrant students, defending sanctuary cities and declaring itself a sanctuary campus. The state of Michigan is a historic place of refuge for immigrants from all over the world, including the world’s second-largest Arab and Muslim population outside of the Middle East (after Paris) and a growing Latino community. Refugee children from Central America and more recently from war-torn countries like Syria are already residing in cities like Detroit, Grand Rapids and Dearborn with more on their way. Immigration is the question of the day everywhere in the world. The globalized economy, free trade measures, global warming and the foreign policies of stronger powers exploiting poorer nations: these factors have combined to create one of the most massive relocations of humanity across national borders in all of world history. The United Nations reported in June that currently, one in every 122 people are refugees displaced by war, violence and persecution, the highest number of refugees since World War II. In 2015, 700,000 immigrants are estimated to have arrived in Europe by sea, and 3,138 refugees are reported to have died this year in the Mediterranean. Last year, at least 68,541 unaccompanied children crossed the southern border into the United States from various Central American countries — El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras — seeking to escape the gang violence, death squads and poverty. This worldwide mass migration is ongoing, and is profoundly transforming many nations. Yet as we become a majorityminority nation, there hasn’t been a corresponding increase in the rights of racial and ethnic minori-
ties. However, there has been a corresponding struggle and polarization over immigrant rights. Under some of the most vicious attacks against immigrants in the United States, including a record high of more than two million deportations, the immigrant rights movement — led by undocumented youth with actions in the streets, college campuses, detention centers and Congress chambers — has won important victories. These include in-state tuition in more than 16 states, state-sponsored financial aid like the California Dream Act, work permits for some undocumented youth with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and a work permit for immigrant parents with Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, which has been stalled by a right-wing legal challenge. The immigrant rights movement increases in strength with each victory, over and against each attack. The student movement at the University has won recently important victories for immigrant students — in-state tuition and a small scholarship pilot program that allotted $450,000 for undocumented undergraduate students for the 2014-2015 year. But the conditions for undocumented immigrant and international students are still far from equal. The University must increase the number of undocumented students. The University of California, Berkeley has taken important steps to open access and support for undocumented students by creating an undocumented student center to provide financial aid, free legal aid and cover the legal filing fees to apply for DACA. Since the creation of the program, the numbers of undocumented students at UC Berkeley has doubled. The University should follow Berkeley’s example. The scholarship for undocumented students must be increased, expanded to include graduate students, and publi-
cized to prospective students. Overall, the University must guarantee the continuation of the program. Both educational access and the safety of immigrant students must be a priority for the University. This means the University must publicly declare itself a sanctuary campus for immigrants. Currently, Ann Arbor and Detroit are sanctuary cities, meaning that local authorities aren’t supposed to turn over undocumented immigrants to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A recent proposal in the Michigan Legislature is threatening these sanctuary cities, forcing city officials to publicly defend the importance of these sanctuaries against a dangerous precedent of open anti-immigrant bigotry from government officials, institutions and racists, most clearly expressed in the xenophobic rhetoric of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign. The scapegoating of immigrants in Europe and the United States for the economic and environmental crisis on the part of politicians and national leaders is already creating a dangerous situation similar to that of the 1930s, which led to World War II and the Holocaust. These recent attacks necessitate the leadership of public figures and institutions like the University to defend the rights of immigrants in this country and prevent the antiimmigrant bigotry on campus from becoming a real physical threat to immigrant students and community members. Central Student Government will be considering a resolution to support making the University a sanctuary campus this Tuesday. We encourage immigrant rights supporters to join us in support of the resolution. Jose Alvarenga is an organizer with By Any Means Necessary. Lamin Manneh is a Rackham student and a Rackham representative on CSG.
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Halloween fashion Undercooked ‘Burnt’ By Daily Style Writers
Halloween 2015 went out with a bang. Here are some of The Michigan Daily style team shares the most notable looks from at hoMe and Hollywood. Celebrity Costumes Kim Kardashian West Another year, another Halloween, another Kim Kardashian Halloween costume. In the past Kim has taken full advantage of the holiday to dress up as the likes of superheroes, Disney princesses and various types of feline creatures. However, this year, she did something totally unexpected, something no one could have predicted. Ladies and gentleman, Kim Kardashian dressed up as Kim Kardashian for Halloween 2015. Channeling her hideous-couch floral printed gown from the 2013 Met Ball, Kardashian paid homage to her former pregnant self. Lazy or genius? Call it whatever you want, but we can’t help but wonder if Yeezus himself inspired this act of pure narcissism. Bottom line is, the outfit didn’t work in 2013, and it still isn’t working now, Kim, this is a worst dressed for sure.
— Mariam Sheikh Gigi Hadid Gigi Hadid slayed Halloween as “Grease” ’s Sandra Dee. Not only does she already look like Sandra with her blond hair, Hadid wore a half mesh off-theshoulder black crop top, black Lycra high-waisted leggings and a leather jacket with lacing details. She completes her Sandra Dee look with tight blond curls, bright red heels, nails and lipstick — and of course a fake cigarette. Best dressed. — Carly Colonnese Heidi Klum Klum is known for going all-out every Halloween in the costume department for her annual spook-tacular bash. While for most Halloween costumes are simply accessories or clothing, for Klum, nothing is off limits. From prosthetics and latex to a whole lot of fur, her mission is to truly transform each year. Needless to say, she has set high expectations for her fans, and this year she disappointed. Klum dressed as an even tackier version of Jessica Rabbit — the outfit was all glitz and no glam, all fire without the flare. She gets my vote for most effort given
without the reward. Maybe next year, Heidi. — Mariam Sheikh Campus Costumes Cutie Scooby Always on the lookout for a great Scooby Doo rendition, this particular canine costume caught my eye. Dressed in a midi brown bodycon dress and headband fitted with a goofy Scooby face, this Halloweener gets major props for being straightforward and stylish. Her high neck paired perfectly with the handmade felt collar (creativity, people!), which could have easily been mistaken for a chic choker. Someone deserves a Scooby Snack. — Mara Maclean Loofah Nothing like a costume that’s hilarious without sacrificing cuteness. Thursday night I ran into a pair of loofahs, pulled together with shower caps, rope handles and lots of colorful tulle. Sure the costumes are a little on the voluminous side (loofahs are round, after all), but once you get past hip-length it’s all about the legs. Color coordinating in baby blue and hot pink, this was a pair to remember. — Kathleen Davis
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“This spoon tastes so good! I love the taste of spoon!”
I saw Hilary Duff live By CATHERINE BAKER Daily Arts Writer
This week, Daily Music Writers are looking back on the first albums they ever loved. Today, Catherine Baker remembers Hilary Duff’s Metamorphosis. My name is Catherine Baker. It is 2004. I am eight years old. This is a story about Hilary Duff. Looking back at my childhood (or at least the parts of it I haven’t blocked out of my memory), the moments I’m most nostalgic for are those spent in front of my small karaoke machine in the playroom of one of my old houses. I am usually alone, which is an unfortunate side effect of moving four times in four years, and I am often wearing a pink feather boa that once belonged to my cousin. (This is an unfortunate side effect of not having a strong fashion icon in my life. Mom, I’m looking at you.) I would like to preface this by emphasizing the fact that I was an extremely angsty pre-teen. For a child with a low tolerance for conflict and eye contact, I sure had a lot of pent up anxiety. Clearly, this manifested itself in my affinity for Disney Channel stars and movies about dogs. In this room with floor to ceiling windows, I arrange my Webkinz in a semi-circle at my feet, boot up my old karaoke machine and belt out “Sweet Sixteen” by Hilary Duff. In that moment, I’m not awkward, eightyear-old Catherine with too many thoughts and not enough athletic ability. Right then, I am a much older, much more confident version of myself, dreaming about “driving down to the club where we go to dance.” Fast-forward to 2006, three weeks before my 10th birthday. I’ve moved again, this time to Michigan, and my mother has driven me back to Ohio for one last hurrah before I begin the adventure that is fourth grade. Five of my closest friends have gathered to see — you guessed it — Hilary Duff in concert.
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I’m going to get these out of the way fast. “Burnt” is a carefully constructed but undercooked drama of a C+ film, crafted out of heavily Burnt seasoned Rave and empty calories Quality that leave The Weinstein the viewer Company partially satisfied, but hungry for something more substantial. The characters, especially Bradley Cooper’s genius but erratic hothead, are overtalked and half-baked, paired with mouthwatering food porn montages that whip around in an effort to impress but ultimately prove more flash than flavor. Alright, fun over. More seriously, “Burnt” is a film with a lot of potential. Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper, “Silver Linings Playbook”) is a fallen mastermind of a chef, whose tumultuous life of drugs, alcohol and women in Paris has dragged him to ruin. After getting clean, he moves to London looking for culinary redemption in the form of a coveted three star Michelin rating. But, to reestablish himself in the high-stakes, high-class world of culinary virtuosity, he must reconnect with lost friends and competitors to put together an expert kitchen staff and regain the respect of his community An engrossing story and wellbalanced cast, however, are not all that make a movie, something that director John Wells (“The Company Men”) seems both overly aware of and not sure of at all. Cooper’s manic, Gordon Ramsey-esque Adam Jones is a rock star whose passion borders on caricature. His screaming, crying, throwing and walking really, really dramatically in a leather jacket and shades adds up to almost nothing in the end: a predictably intense character with a tortured mind we can just barely begin to understand.
As this is my first concert experience, I am dressed in my best jean skirt and sweater combo with no idea what to expect. Her sister Haylie is the opening act, and while I know relatively little about the rest of the Duff family, it does not stop me from screaming at the top of my tiny little lungs. RELEASE DATE– Monday, November 2, 2015 After a few sugary sweet pop songs, Haylie exits, and the entire stadium erupts with cheers Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis calling for Hilary. When she ACROSS 68 Made inquiries 33 Food, shelter, 53 Go like finally enters in the wake of neon 69 Like plow horses 1 Bit of talk show etc. hotcakes strobe lights, I am silent in awe self-promotion 36 Cowboy’s lady 54 Ballerina’s bend DOWN of her sparkly outfit and opening 5 Judean king 39 Nearly excellent 56 Wheel1 Sandwiches with 10 “Hurry up!” grade connecting rod dance number. Jif, briefly 14 Real snoozefest
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Cooper’s significant moments, cooking for another chef’s daughter or staying up late to look for the perfect cut of fish, are snuck in between these melodramatic episodes, almost mistakenly carrying the film in their subtlety. In this same vein, the script twirls small moments of authenticity out of the kitchen staff’s behindthe-scenes camaraderie or talk of the now-established chefs’ rough beginnings in more famous restaurants. However, it is rare that these moments are not followed by an explicit and overwrought branch of explanatory dialogue, stopping much of this emotional success in its tracks. The film seems unsure of the strength of these restrained but successful overlaps of writing and cast, filling possible breathing room with needless intensity.
‘Burnt’ wastes its potential on banal intensity. In this intensity, though, “Burnt” is not a standalone story. From “Hell’s Kitchen” to “Chef,” cooking TV shows and movies are turning away from the idea of the kitchen as a warm, feminine space to characterizing chefs as
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This is a story about Hilary Duff. My pink feather boa has been lost in the move, but for a moment I wish it was wrapped around my neck one last time. I know every word to the Metamorphosis album, and I fall asleep before the end of the concert, but it is the happiest moment of my short life thus far. I look around at the thousands of strangers singing the exact same words, at the parents that have been dragged along to this 17-year-old’s show and at my friends whose names I’ve now forgotten. Even at nine years old, I’ve been around long enough to know that I won’t see these girls again. This is their lasting memory of me—Catherine, in her fuzzy purple sweater that sheds on your clothes when you hug her, screaming the words to “Come Clean” with just a little too much aggression. While Metamorphosis may not be the coolest first favorite album, it certainly made an impact on an impressionable young Catherine. From singing alone in my room to dancing with thousands, Hilary helped me grow up even when I didn’t know how.
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masculine artists who will do anything to get to the top. Chefs are no longer the Julia Childlike providers but unpredictable, tortured rock stars. The blue flame of a burner, the clean swipe of a knife through meat, a kaleidoscopic array of freshly chopped fruit and the final precise dip of spoon to plate are all captured in “Burnt” with an artistic reverence, flicked through with the rhythmic intensity of any music video. Although Sienna Miller’s (“American Sniper”) Helene, a chef working under Adam Jones, steps up with a formidable toughness apart from the typical idea of cooking as a feminine means of provision. But she is shown multiple times making breakfast for her daughter in the mornings and acts almost as a bridge between these opposite interpretations of kitchen space. This doesn’t mean she’s his equal, though, and like the scores of women before her, falls under the spell of Adam Jones’s womanizing sway. Playing into the culinary rock star genre, “Burnt” does little to expand on the masculinization of the kitchen other than add another screaming, heated voice to the chorus. Although the cast and general plot have potential, the film flounders in its moments of self-doubt, overshadowing its most powerful moments with heavy-handed intensity.
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The future is up to Chance
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hance the Rapper’s new single is the first song that has ever made me yearn to be from another part of the country. Chance debuted the song “Angels” on Stephen Colbert’s show last week, and his performance is the most Chicago thing I’ve ever seen. Chance and Saba (who ADAM does the hook) are THEISEN both wearing Chicago radio station hoodies, dancing to footwork beats with gospel synths and horns courtesy of Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment. In the lyrics, Chance contemplates touring with Chief Keef, champions his independence from major labels and honors his Windy City loved ones who have passed away (the “angels” that he’s got all around him). It’s the quintessential lead single — it’s exciting because it’s undeniably the familiar Chance we all love, but it’s also catching us up on everything that’s new in his life (namely, fatherhood). As universal as so many of Chance’s sentiments are, I’m still a little jealous that he’s not from my hometown. Not only is he pushing himself so hard to be better and better with every single new project, but he’s doing it while staying truer to himself and his city than anyone else, helping contribute to the intensely communal, unconditionally loyal scene that is current Chicago hip hop and R&B. The combined creative force of SAVEMONEY, the entire Social Experiment collective and everyone one else working together to create beautiful music in Chicago has to be the greatest regional music trend of its generation. Though it’s far from the beginning of Chicago hip hop, the release of Kanye West’s The College Dropout might be the starting point for this community, with Kanye’s
brilliant refusal to compromise himself or twist himself into old rap tropes likely hitting so many of these artists right when they were becoming really passionate about music. Since these artists were in high school, they’ve been creating nationally relevant music. Kids These Days was an early band that featured Vic Mensa and Donnie Trumpet, among others, making genrebending jazzy rock hip hop when they were teenagers. Chief Keef’s “I Don’t Like” went viral when Keef was just 17, and Chance’s origin story finds him making his 10 Day mixtape when he was suspended from school. Any passionate young artist has ambition and the intense desire to do something uniquely amazing, but somehow, these young Chicago artists have actually been able to do that, finding success in all different styles and paths. Vic Mensa is getting ready for his major-label debut, making Kanye-approved, rough, dark, experimental hip hop. Jeremiah, too, has spent the past few years reinventing his R&B singing to be more Miguel and less Chris Brown, and now he’s riding the huge hit “Planes” and should be coming out with Late Nights any day now. (He also just released another great single, “Oui,” this past week.) And there’s also artists like Towkio and Noname Gypsy, who made not have a signature hit yet but are always compelling when they’re collaborating with bigger names and find the spotlight shining on them. But it’s Chance who’s already king of Chicago, playing to overflowing festival crowds to fans who scream every lyric back to him. I’ve been lucky enough to see him live four times, and especially recently, now that he’s gotten the hang of performing, he’s one of the best at connecting with the crowd, at talking to them and letting people know how much he cares and how much it means to him that his fans are so wild for him. (It helps, too, to have a live band as hot as The Social Experiment, making
your live tracks dynamic and incredibly fun.) But any great artist can have a lot of fans. What makes Chance special is his approach to the business side of music. I’ve never paid for a Chance the Rapper song, and I’ve never stolen one either — he gives away all of his stuff for free. If you’ve taken even just one Econ class, you probably think that’s a terrible idea, but walk through Chicago and you’ll see at least a few kids in Social Experiment merch, or better yet, go to his concerts and see how a guy who has never been on the radio, who hasn’t even released a proper album, can play multiple shows a year in Michigan and attract thousands of fans every time. Chance and co. has given themselves to everyone, trusting the public and being rewarded when everyone gives back. “Staying grounded” might be a bit of an overrated trait for an artist to have (greats like Kanye have been able to become legends precisely because of their otherworldly confidence), but even if Chance buys into his hype, it’s impossible to imagine him ever abandoning Chicago. I really, really hate to put this very weighty label on any artist, with all its seriousness and high, sometimes narrowminded expectations, but if I was to call anyone “the voice of this generation,” it would be Chance the Rapper. I was so starved for new Chance that these past few days I’ve been listening to “Angels” practically non-stop, sometimes on repeat for literally a dozen times in a row. It’s beautiful in its love and care for his city and his friends and family and powerful in its fiery production, and it’s not an anomaly. Chance is the dude who on Acid Rap put “Paranoia,” a dark, meditative track on violence in Chicago, right between huge bangers “Pusha Man” and “Cocoa Butter Kisses.” He’s the guy who can sing about love, who can look people right in the eye at shows and say “I love you” or make a whole song about going to church with his grandma and have it sound pure and gorgeous and not cheesy. He combines a brilliant sense for what people want to hear musically with lyrics that feature his own natural thoughts and emotions, giving us all that rare kind of dance music that’s also filled with raw hope, love, sadness and family. Chance isn’t a superstar groomed from childhood to sing pop songs to arenas — he’s a guy whose massive success grew organically out of his own community. He’s universally welcoming to everyone, but everyone from outside Chicago knows exactly what his first and most important love and loyalty is. It’s easy to doubt someone who just wants to keep making music with his friends while the major players in music want him to move away and join them, but if Chance and the rest of Chicago’s young artists have proven anything, it’s that maybe it’s the powerful musicians that should be trying to move to Chicago. Theisen wishes he was from Chicago. To commiserate on youe in-state tuition, e-mail ajtheis@umich.edu.
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EL VY is really fake By AMELIA ZAK Daily Music Editor
Indie music is dead, or at least, whatever we once vaguely referred to as “indie music” doesn’t really exist B+ anymore. Modern Return to musicians that could the Moon once be EL VY associated with this 4AD Ltd. now-obsolete breed have to turn into themselves, hiding away from the fake genuineness of the industry that the Millennials seem to enjoy so much and thriving on the genuine fakeness that they have to adopt. The genuine fakeness sells the records, builds the image of the (again, obsolete) indie rock king or queen and revitalizes that last tiny shred of what was was once interesting in the “indie” sense. The National is one of those last bands of this dying music genus. Their highly layered, intensely thoughtful instrumentation and production matches with Berninger’s solemn musings about some sad story of the past. Or he’s drowning the listener in nostalgia. Or he’s mumbling in his monotone speech about his spiked lemonade. Eccentricity is relatable, and it’s interesting. In that small differentiator, The National collected its vehement fan base. Annie Clark (also known by her stage name, St. Vincent) has likewise weaved herself strangely into this disintegrating musical fabric. Clark holds similar lyrical and musical themes: extreme musical talent and disparaging experiences beat against an obsession with the sonically unexpected and abstract. The collaboration of Brett Knopf, formerly of Menomena and current surveyor of Ramona Falls, and Matt Berninger of The National and their longtime artistic project, EL VY, successfully followed suit in this strange categorization. They’re fighting off the chains that bind and engaging in a display of fake genuinity to sell their art. They’re harnessing their mutually mild amounts of fame to broker just a bit of artistic expression and understanding in the duo’s brainchild, Return to the Moon. In what Berninger confidently calls a “rock opera,” the album holds only a few constants: a girl named DiDi, nostalgia, enigma, doubt and an oddly relatable struggle with masculinity.
These two old friends, Berninger and Knopf, clearly demonstrate how unintimidated they are by the constructs that are supposed to bind them: Knopf, a lesser known artist, holds fewer expectations than Berninger, a man aptly associated with solemnity and strangeness. A master of vocal monotony and skillful wordsmith, the man is an enigma who adds his aura of sadness to the usually crescendoing hymns of The National. Knopf saves Berninger from returning to this prescribed identity by replacing the detailed musicality of The National with simpler sounds of a greater variety. Ranging from weird upbeat pop songs to bassladen rock ‘n’ roll tracks, Knopf created a landscape on which the strange imagination of Mr. Berninger paints. The album opens with the notably joyful track, “Return to the Moon (Political Song for Didi Bloome to Sing, with Crescendo).” With quirky beats and random ascensions in musical tone and spirit, Berninger uses the song as an opportunity to make fun of himself. Lacing some of his most intensely strange lyrics, “bought a saltwater fish from a color-blind witch ’cause she said she loved it,” Berninger gives the judging listener an opposite version what they would classically expect from him: crescendos and enigmas.
EL VY resurrects the dying indie rock genre. Juxtaposing the pretty beginning banger is the sexiest track on the album, “I’m the Man to Be.” A grungy, pinched electric guitar sounds fill in the sonic background as Berninger’s monologue reveals the struggles of masculinity for a rockstar of his popularity. He’s confused, because on stage — where his “dick’s in sunlight, held up by kites” — but back in the hotel room he’s “crying to room service, drinkin’ Malin and Goetz under the bed.” It’s all very depressing, of course, and yet haunting. There we are, standing with Berninger in a hotel lobby, donning a “comeand-fuck-me shirt, the green one.” Building themes of the very strange and specific, the rock opera continues. Nostalgia descends with
“Paul is Alive,” the third single released by EL VY. Soft and slower crescendos and tangy guitar solos bounce off Berninger’s love song for the Cincinnati rock scene that, from this retrospective point of view, reveals the paradoxical relationship that can one can develop with their childhood: how lovely it was, but if given the chance we might go back and do it all again. Hymnals of wasted, faltering love follow, with the sarcastic “Need a Friend” and spooky “Silent Ivy Hotel.” Completed by visceral guitar sounds and painstaking oneliners, these sibling songs round off the rock-inspired portion of the opera before an air of quiet sadness descends. The rest of the opera reveals itself as cartoonishly solemn. The descension into anxieties and sadness begins with the sonically hopeful, piano heavy “No Time to Crank the Sun.” This track, and the next two to follow, ropes the listener into the sadder, simpler and slightly boring portion of the opera. While random musical experimentations and oddities keep the album’s second half interesting, it all flounders in comparison to the opera’s first movement. “It’s a Game” and “Careless,” both lyrically dedicated to the story of Didi Bloome, aren’t as immersive or engaging as the album’s first half. Only small bits and pieces — an echoing choir or another enigmatic Berninger insight (“I don’t want to drag you into everything I ain’t no Leonard Cohen”) — make the listener stick around. The depressive listeners will always stay, for Berninger’s highly intelligent and self-deprecating musings are their religious text. An unattached listener, or the nondepressive type, has little left for them in the second half of EL VY’s opera. By practicing in fake genuineness, artists are recognizing that the media and music industry engineers a personality, lifestyle and sound that a popular but unplaceable artist should assume. Artists involved in fake genuineness will find refuge for their art within these constructs, as Annie Clark and The National have. They bind together, foster one another’s originality and unique tastes. They’ll write about what they actually know rather than what they are supposed to know. The EL VY project is about this kind of art: a collection of odd expressions and interpretations that rest in genuine feeling or experience. Originality saves the music industry, and EL VY, from where it falters.
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KOZM in Kerrytown By DANIEL SAFFRON Daily Arts Writer
Here at the University, it is far too easy to feel swallowed. Quite salient is the idea that we are at school, at this school, on this maize and blue campus, still trapped under the same fluorescent floods in the same claustrophobic Hatcher cubicle that looks out upon expanses still coddled in the arms of the University. Sometimes when trapped in an isolated study box the last human contact you’ve had is the little prurient note on the outlet, or maybe it’s that warming feeling you get when your fingers match the claw marks on the wall and you begin to wonder if some other poor soulmate out there matches your girthsome fingers or if it’s just the same claw marks you left last week before your EECS midterm. Sometimes when this happens you decide on a last ditch effort for humanity or human connection, so you don your warmest wear, wield an umbrella and walk toward Kerrytown in a night with a comfortable chill. There is an ominous intimacy about Kerrytown Concert House. Being such a small venue,
the art-clad walls support the venue’s ambiance very well. Last Wednesday, the stage played host to KOZM – a duo consisting of Javier Orman (violin) and Tom Farrell (guitar). Their smiles wide, their energy infectious, it was obvious that, even if no one else was going to have fun that night, Orman and Farrell were going to. After a brief introduction a Latinflamenco-folk-fiddle cacophony washed over the unsuspecting audience. KOZM took over and immediately took control. The sound the duo manages to create is impressive. Each instrument plays an integral role in creating a bed of sound, and some extended technique is used to create an occasional percussive presence. Both of these men can play their instruments like the best of them. Orman’s lickety-split fingers bolted across the neck, and Farrell’s guitar playing can only be described as athletic — their performance was a virtuosic display of stamina. Despite the high-energy playing and fluttering dissonance, the group’s songs are elegant, delicate, crossgenre amalgamations. At times the violin’s lines were Latin
inspired, at others they were folk-derived and, in some songs, they sounded like a hair metal guitar solo. Nevertheless, KOZM wonderfully managed to put all these jagged puzzle pieces in the correct spot to create something unique and interesting. The music was excellent, but the charisma of the performers set the night over the top. The two were unafraid to engage the audience, talking to them, asking questions and sharing anecdotes between songs. After the show was over, KOZM left the stage directly into the audience, introducing themselves personally to each member. Orman explained that the show was the group’s first in Ann Arbor and that it was his first time back in this city since receiving his Master’s here in 2009. In early October, the group released the live album Panic That Way and back in 2013 released hello Kaleidoscope, a full length album. Halloweek is over — we’re all tired of hearing overplayed pop songs and “Hotline Bling” for the 12th time. Add something spicy to your mix, and go give KOZM a listen.
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THE JUG IS BACK
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n Michigan and Minnesota both had to respond quickly to adversity on Saturday. SportsMonday Column, Page 2B
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SOUR ENDING
n The Wolverines won Friday but lost Saturday, 4-0, to split a series with Robert Morris. Page 4B
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Saturday beckons, ready or not
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hey didn’t prepare for this. They couldn’t have. Since the spring, Michigan and Minnesota have prepared for the game they played Saturday night in Minneapolis. They organized personnel, and they installed JAKE schemes. LOURIM But the game didn’t warn either team of what happened in the two weeks leading up to Saturday. By now, you know the stories: The Wolverines had a win in their grasp against rival Michigan State before the Spartans picked up a fumbled snap on a punt and returned it for a touchdown with no time left. The Golden Gophers lost to Nebraska on the same day, 48-25, but that paled in comparison to what they lost Wednesday. That morning, head coach Jerry Kill announced his retirement amid health concerns. In three days, Minnesota would have to play without Kill. Defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys took over and tried to get his team ready. “It’s our obligation to be ready to go on Saturday,” Claeys said. “That’s one thing this game teaches you — it’s for tough people. I believe that. Tough people get through tough times.” And the game didn’t warn either team of the final play, either. Fifty-nine minutes and 58 seconds of football had boiled down to this: Wolverines 29, Golden Gophers 26, Minnesota ball at the Michigan half-yard line. Best push wins. The crowd of 50,709 at TCF Bank Stadium watched in agony.
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Michigan responded to a devastating loss to Michigan State and won a battle on the final play to beat Minnesota, whose coach resigned three days before the game.
Maybe the teams were ready. Maybe they had recovered from the adversity of the past two weeks. Maybe they hadn’t. It didn’t matter. The play was coming anyway, ready or not. Minnesota called its last timeout to draw up the play. The play clock wound down, and time seemed to crawl by. There was no escaping. The collision would transpire at the line of scrimmage. One team would win, grab the Little Brown Jug and start celebrating. The other would lose, go home and try to recover from more heartbreak. The former was Michigan. The Wolverines stood firm, jumped the snap and stopped Minnesota quarterback Mitch Leidner shy of the goal line. They played a second straight game decided on the final play but redeemed themselves this time. They were
heading home at 6-2 with the Little Brown Jug. The latter was Minnesota. The Golden Gophers went for it all, trying to punch in the gamewinning touchdown rather than kick a field goal and play for overtime. They said all week they would try to win for Kill, and they put it all on the line, only to come up short. The chants came from the crowd all night: “JER-RY! JERRY! JER-RY!” The first came when Claeys was introduced before the game. Another began after a video tribute to Kill played on the big screen during the first stoppage of play. The last chant occurred when Minnesota faced 1st-and-goal from the half-yard line, trying to secure the win. The Golden Gophers had played without Kill before — he missed seven games in 2013 due to
his health — but he always came back. Until this week, he had no reported incidents since that leave of absence, and Claeys said last week he had stopped worrying about it until Kill stepped down Wednesday. That left Claeys, his longtime assistant, to pick up the pieces. “Is it a challenge? Sure, it’s a challenge,” Claeys said Wednesday. “But hey, life’s a challenge. Every day is, and you get up in the morning, it’s a new day and we’ll go attack it.” Kill informed the team of his decision early Wednesday morning, and the Golden Gophers had to move on and adjust. The players made it to class that day, returned to practice that afternoon and turned in a gutsy effort Saturday. They put up 26 points against what was the nation’s top scoring
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A moment of waiting and an answered prayer
INNEAPOLIS — Taco Charlton held his hands in front of his
chest, his palms clasped together. He looked toward the sky. The publicaddress announcer MAX had just said COHEN the ruling on the field was that Mitch Leidner was down before he reached the end zone. No time remained on the game clock, giving Michigan a 29-26 win. Next to Charlton, Mo Hurst pointed to the ground where Leidner fell. He didn’t know what happened on the game’s final play, but he was hoping with all of his heart that Leidner was down. Willie Henry pounded his chest repeatedly. They waited, and there was nothing else they could do. They had half an inch to work with, half an inch to avoid a devastating defeat for the second game in a row. They had swarmed Leidner, bringing the quarterback to the ground in a heap, a group tackle so strong it was nearly impossible to pick out who exactly was most responsible. Defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin knew it was coming, Harbaugh said after the game. He called his shot, and the defense was ready. But after the tackle, there still was that chance, a very real chance, that the play could be overturned. Michigan did not have to look back further than its loss to Michigan State to realize that crazier things have happened. The air was still, and the sanity of an entire team — an entire fanbase, really — hinged on one voice, that of the PA
announcer, confirming that Leidner was down. All Charlton could do was pray. Pray that for the second game in a row, the hopes and dreams of the Michigan football team would not crumble on a lastsecond play. Pray that Wilton Speight, the spunky redshirt freshman quarterback, had not led a comeback in vain. Before Saturday, Speight had been an unknown commodity, a 6-foot-6 quarterback who came to Michigan by way of Virginia as a sought-after recruit but not a surefire prospect. He was accustomed to adversity. Speight missed his junior season of high school with a broken collarbone, suffered during his team’s first game of the season. Schools backed off recruiting him, but Michigan came on strong after he returned. During his time on campus, he had stayed behind the scenes. Speight appeared in mop-up duty four times before Saturday, attempting four passes but completing none. Most assumed the playing time was solely to preserve Shane Morris’ redshirt. But Saturday, when the time came and Jake Rudock lay on the ground in pain, it was Speight who entered the game, Speight whose arm Michigan’s prayers rested upon. He looked shaky at first, airing out passes that never had a shot. Harbaugh noticed, too. The coach started “pounding on” his quarterback on the sidelines, hitting his shoulder pads to simulate the sensation of getting hit. So when Speight took the field with 8:36 remaining in the game and his team trailing by five, he was ready. He completed one pass to Jake Butt, and then another to Khalid Hill after De’Veon Smith ran for a first down. He was rolling. Michigan drove toward Minnesota’s rambunctious
student section, where they chanted “Jerry! Jerry!” in honor of former coach Jerry Kill all night long. On 3rd-and-10, he faked a handoff to Drake Johnson and then pulled the ball back in. He delivered a dart to Jehu Chesson in the back of the end zone, and the Wolverines once again held the lead. After Speight stepped up in the pocket and flicked the ball to Amara Darboh for the twopoint conversion, Michigan led by three. And that’s where the score remained on the Golden Gophers’ following drive. The crowd yelled “Jerry! Jerry!” once again as music blared and Minnesota’s offense moved the ball down the field. The Golden Gophers got all the way to the half-yard line, when the nice man on the intercom relayed the Wolverines good news for the first time on the last drive. Drew Wolitarsky had not scored a touchdown with 19 seconds remaining. He had been down at the half-yard line. But then, as the clock ticked down and down and down some more, just two seconds remained after Leidner threw an incomplete pass. Minnesota went for the score, and Michigan’s defense swarmed. And then it waited. The seconds bled together. Charlton prayed and prayed. But then the booming voice graced the Wolverines with its presence. Leidner was ruled down. Harbaugh threw his hands into the air. Durkin high-fived everyone in sight. Michigan’s players, an entire mass of them, rushed Minnesota’s sideline. They didn’t know where the Little Brown Jug was, but they wanted it in their hands. It had spent the year in Minneapolis, the place where they did not believe it belonged. It didn’t take too long for them to find it. Jabrill Peppers emerged from the scrum,
holding the trophy up in his arms while his teammates touched it. Jon Falk, the former equipment manager and keeper of the jug, smiled as he watched the celebration unfold. The players ran around with the trophy, back and forth. They remembered last year’s game, when they lost the trophy for the first time since 2005. “We got the f---ing trophy back,” one player yelled. They brought it into the tunnel, where some of Michigan’s key players lingered for a moment longer, taking everything in. Captain Joe Bolden hugged everyone in sight, including Rudock, the starting quarterback’s jersey caked brown with turf stains. Desmond Morgan, a fifth-year senior, embraced the younger Speight, pulling him in tight. Speight had done what once seemed hopeless, when his first few passes fell to the ground. He played it cool in his postgame press conference, saying he did nothing more than be ready like Harbaugh always tells him to be. After all, Speight said, you’re probably a fool if you don’t listen to Jim Harbaugh. Harbaugh hoped Saturday’s game provided a lesson for his team, one that will stick with his players for the rest of their lives, until they’re 80 or 90 years old. “You don’t give up,” Harbaugh said. “You keep fighting, keep playing.” And then, when you’ve fought for every last half-yard, when you’ve been through heartbreak and hell and back again, when you’ve lost your starting quarterback and have inserted enough steel in your spine to build a skyscraper, maybe, just maybe, all of your prayers will be answered. Cohen can be reached at maxac@umich.edu and on Twitter @MaxACohen.
defense. Leidner was their leader, with 354 total yards and two touchdowns. He opened his night by running around frantically in front of the student section, carrying a maroon flag that read “JERRYSOTA” to fire up the crowd. “Coach Kill is so important to the state of Minnesota,” Leidner told reporters after the game. “The entire student section loves him. He’s done so much for this team, this program. I was honored to be able to do that tonight. “They asked me earlier in the week if I wanted to do it, and I said, ‘Hell yeah, I want to do that. I want to do that so badly.’ To get the opportunity to do that tonight for Coach Kill is something I’ll never forget.” He almost ended his night on a similar high. His pass to Drew
Wolitarsky with 19 seconds left was initially ruled a 22-yard, go-ahead touchdown pass. The crowd erupted into frenzy, until the video review overturned the touchdown, Michigan stopped Minnesota just short and the stadium went silent. That was the position the Wolverines were in just two weeks ago. They, too, had to regroup. Coach Jim Harbaugh vowed the Wolverines would put steel in their spines to recover. The players insisted they moved on and were preparing for another game. Fifthyear senior punter Blake O’Neill and senior linebacker Joe Bolden, who took the biggest blows from the loss, rose back up, dusted themselves off and readied for another Saturday. But there was no way of preparing for that kind of situation, no way of knowing what would happen next. Saturdays are like that sometimes. They twist and turn throughout the day, spinning emotions and shifting momentum back and forth until finally, four hours later, it all comes down to one play. There’s no preparing for that either. You do everything you can, work as hard as you can and show up. There’s no play call for when a coach has two seizures on the Tuesday of game week and has to step down. There’s no defensive scheme for letting a huge win slip away on a fumbled punt return as time expires. There was none of that. They lined up, and Michigan emerged victorious. That was it. The game chose a winner and a loser. Now they both go forward from that. Five days from now, another Saturday will beckon, ready or not. Lourim can be reached at jlourim@umich.edu or on Twitter @jakelourim.
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The good, bad and the ugly: ‘M’ vs. Minnesota By ZACH SHAW Daily Sports Editor
If nothing else, the No. 16 Michigan football team is entertaining. After losing their previous game to Michigan State on a devastating final play, the Wolverines got to experience the other side of the coin Saturday, making a goal-line stand to beat Minnesota, 29-26. As with any close game, there’s plenty to take away from Michigan’s win. The Daily breaks down the good, the bad and the ugly from Saturday night. The good The good news is that Michigan didn’t lose in the final seconds of the game. Jokes aside, the Wolverines’ performance didn’t look “good” on paper, but the ability to win close games is a critical skill for Michigan to develop. In games decided by 10 points or fewer since 2012, the Wolverines had gone just 8-12, including an 0-2 mark this season. And while a strong argument could be made that Minnesota blew the game more than Michigan won it, a win is a win nonetheless. So is bowl eligibility, as Michigan guaranteed itself a postseason game for the 40th time in 45 seasons. Beyond team success, redshirt freshman safety Jabrill Peppers was as good as he has been in his career at Michigan. Seeing his role on offense expanded considerably, Peppers played more than 90 snaps Saturday night, earning a rushing touchdown, two pass breakups, 100 all-purpose yards and plenty of near-highlight plays. The bad As explosive as Peppers was, Saturday’s game — and Michigan’s season — almost blew up in a bad way for the Wolverines. Prior to Saturday, Michigan had been relatively fortunate in the injury
department, keeping the offense intact and only losing sophomore defensive tackle Bryan Mone and senior defensive end Mario Ojemudia to severe injuries. But midway through the third quarter, the wheels began to fall off when fifth-year senior quarterback Jake Rudock left the game with an injury. On ensuing drives, junior running back De’Veon Smith and junior tight end Jake Butt, who led the team in rushing and receiving, respectively before the game, were taken out as well. Both Butt and Smith returned later, and redshirt freshman Wilton Speight performed honorably in Rudock’s absence, but the drop-off in production was clear. The ugly The game’s finish will be what fans remember, but the most surprising note from Saturday’s game may well have been the sudden collapse of the Michigan defense. Entering the game first in the nation in points and yards allowed per game, the Wolverines were expected to shut down, if not shut out, the Golden Gophers. Instead, Minnesota, entering the night as the Big Ten’s lowestscoring and worst total offense, gashed Michigan for a seasonhigh 461 yards to go with 26 points. Quarterback Mitch Leidner threw for a career-high 317 passing yards, and the Golden Gophers had four plays of 30 yards of more. The Wolverines had only allowed five such plays in their first seven games this season. “We’ve got to go back and self-check ourselves and watch this film intently to clean that stuff up,” said senior linebacker Desmond Morgan. “It feels better watching this film with a win than a loss.” Michigan survived the scare and won, but the ugly truth is that based on its performance and costly mistakes, it probably shouldn’t have.
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MEN’S SOCCER
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Wolverines keep Big Bear Trophy By AVI SHOLKOFF Daily Sports Writer
The context was perfect for a sports movie: An injured player returns to MICH. STATE 0 his team 1 MICHIGAN and scores the winning goal in front of his parents. In the Michigan men’s soccer team’s 1-0 victory on Saturday over Michigan State, that’s exactly what happened. Senior forward James Murphy returned to the pitch for just the second time since Sept. 11 and led his team to victory. In the 24th minute, he headed a beautiful cross by junior midfielder Rylee Woods into the net for the Wolverines’ (3-2-2, Big Ten, 8-4-4 overall) only goal to defeat the Spartans (2-3-2, 8-7-2) in the Battle for Big Bear at U-M Soccer Stadium. “(It) was a storybook ending for him to score the goal,” said Michigan coach Chaka Daley. Murphy, a native of Oxford, England, had the chance to play in front of his family for the first time in his collegiate career. After playing for just 30 minutes in Tuesday’s match against Western Michigan, Murphy kept himself fit and active throughout the week in preparation for the Battle for Big Bear, playing 61 minutes in the victory. Since he is from a different country, Murphy adds a different perspective to the rivalry. “I think that’s what makes it so cool,” Murphy said. “I don’t think there’s another game in college soccer like it.” The Wolverines controlled possession and shots throughout the first half, outshooting Michigan State, 5-0. “In the first half, I thought we passed the ball well, attacked well and defended really well,” Daley
said. “We didn’t give them a sniff and got the goal we needed, and just battened down the hatches in the second half.” In the second half, the Wolverines maintained the lead with smart play and a controversial call in their favor. In the 78th minute, Woods appeared to have used his hands in the penalty box, but the referees did not blow the whistle, much to the disappointment of Michigan State’s players and coaching staff. Michigan was missing its leading scorer, freshman forward Francis Atuahene, because he received a red card in Michigan’s scoreless draw Tuesday. Freshman defender Marcello Borges, who tore his quadricep minutes before game time, did not take the field either. In their places, senior midfielder William MellorsBlair and junior midfielder Tyler Anderson stepped up to lead the Wolverines. Anderson led the team in shots with five. MellorsBlair crossed in a shot from Anderson but was blocked on a great save from Michigan State goalkeeper Zach Bennett in the 29th minute. For both Murphy and Daley, the game had significant meaning, as Murphy was Daley’s first recruit as the Wolverines’ head coach. “James Murphy has scored every big goal for this program since I’ve been here,” Daley said. Murphy understands the significance of not only this last season but also of this rivalry game. He won the game in his freshman year, junior year and now in his senior year. When he scored the goal, it added more icing to the cake. “I think I just blanked out,” Murphy said. “I ran over to my family, gave them a little wave and I just kinda blanked out.”
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Junior forward Nicky Waldeck scored the only goal in Michigan’s win over Northwestern in the Big Ten Tournament.
‘M’ onto semifinals By PAIGE VOEFFRAY For the Daily
A battle occurred Sunday afternoon between OHIO STATE 1 3 MICHIGAN the Michigan women’s soccer team and Northwestern as the two teams faced off in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament. Possession was back and forth, as neither team was able to establish a rhythm at the beginning of the match. But Michigan was able to break through in the second half and advance in the Big Ten Tournament with a 1-0 victory. The Wildcats (7-4-1 Big Ten, 13-5-2 overall) put up impressive defensive efforts in the first half to almost entirely shut down the Wolverine offense, allowing the Michigan unit just four shots and making it difficult for the Wolverines to create good opportunities. “Northwestern threw a different system at us than we expected,” said Michigan coach Greg Ryan. Northwestern’s first shot came 20 minutes into the first half. Both the Wolverines and the Wildcats traded shots, but
ended the first half unable to find the back of the net. The first half concluded with four shots for the Wolverines and three for the Wildcats. Despite being shut down on offense, Ryan still believed the Wolverines (7-3-2, 12-6-2) would come out victorious after halftime, and he commended his players’ “tactical ability” in counteracting the Wildcats’ defensive efforts. Both teams struggled to find fluidity in their pace due to physical play from both sides, resulting in fouls and free kicks. Free kicks created unsettled balls, not made any easier for the defense by the artificial turf, which caused the ball to bounce more and roll quicker. Michigan knew the field was going to pose a problem, and it came prepared as the Wolverines practiced indoors on turf all week. Michigan did not waste any time once the second half began. In a matter of three minutes, redshirt sophomore Ani Sarkisian took a shot, but it was junior forward Nicky Waldeck who put the Wolverines up, 1-0. Waldeck received a cross from senior forward Corinne Harris and was able to kick it to the lower corner, just out of the
Wildcat goalkeeper’s reach. Play only became more physical as Northwestern desperately tried to earn an equalizer. Five yellow cards were issued, one each to Harris, senior midfielder Christina Murillo, senior defender Christina Ordonez and Northwestern midfielder Nandi Mehta. Michigan even picked up a yellow card as a team, proving the referees were desperate to keep the game under control. Desperate to tie the match, the Wildcats continued to push more and more players up. However, the Wolverines settled themselves in a defensive stance and looked to maintain their 1-0 lead. In the end, Northwestern’s efforts were not enough for the strong Michigan defense, and sophomore goalkeeper Megan Hinz earned herself a shutout. “Postseason soccer is definitely more intense,” Waldeck said. “We knew that coming into the game. Our season was on the line tonight, and that was our main focus going into the game, and we just want to keep playing game by game.” With Sunday’s win, the Wolverines secured a spot in the semifinal match against Penn State on Friday.
‘M’ disappointed by Wolverines win second-place finish conference title WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
By CHRIS CROWDER
By SYLVANNA GROSS
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The Michigan women’s cross country team has been surprising teams as of late, soaring to No. 2 in the rankings after beginning the season outside of the top 15. In the NCAA Pre-Nationals, the Wolverines outraced four top-10 teams in then-No. 2 Colorado, No. 4 Oregon, No. 7 Georgetown and No. 9 Stanford. But this week at the Big Ten Championships in Chicago, it was Michigan that was surprised. No. 15 Penn State squeaked past the Wolverines to claim the title, halting Michigan’s win streak. The Wolverines finished in second place with 58 points, five behind the Nittany Lions. The two were well ahead of the rest of the competition, as the other 12 teams in the field, including No. 21 Michigan State and No. 22 Minnesota, had at least 104 points. The course at Sydney R. Marovitz Golf Course was challenging and presented racers with hilly terrain and muddy conditions. But junior Erin Finn didn’t think the difficulty of the course had much to do with her team’s outcome. “I think we have performed better on more difficult courses because we’re a very strong team,” Finn said. “We can run hills, and we can run through mud. I think more than anything, it just wasn’t our day.” Finn once again led the pack for Michigan, finishing first to capture her second Big Ten individual title. She became the second athlete in program history to do so — joining decorated alum Katie McGregor, who won the race in 1997 and 1998. Finn’s time of 19:44 was a personal best, 15 seconds faster than her previous for a 6,000-meter race. “Whenever your name is next to someone like Katie McGregor, it’s definitely very special,” Finn said. “She is an incredible athlete
Confidence is the ability to stand on the starting line knowing your team could win. It’s the ability for nine Michigan men to race, ready to give it their all. It’s the feeling of winning the Big Ten title. “We started the season with this goal in mind — we were focused,” said fifth-year senior Mason Ferlic. “I saw everyone training with a purpose and everybody showing up to practice with a purpose. These nine guys did something special. Other teams can talk all they want, but it’s the team that gets it done that wins. That feels good.” This weekend, the No. 5 men’s cross country team traveled to Chicago for the Big Ten Championships. They came back as champions for just the 10th time in program history and the first time since 1998. “My job is to give my athletes the tools to line up and compete at championships,” said Michigan coach Kevin Sullivan. “When the gun goes off, the race is on them. It’s up to my runners to decide how they want to place. This is about them doing something for themselves and Michigan.” To date, Ferlic has led the Wolverines in 17 consecutive races and seven postseason competitions. He is the highest-scoring Michigan individual since 2001 and was made an All-Big Ten First Team honoree. At 1,000 meters after the start of the race, Ferlic watched as a Wisconsin athlete ran ahead of the pack. At 4,000 meters, Ferlic knew the moment was coming up to make his move and close the gap between him and the leading athlete. At 5,000 meters, the course became a three-man race between Ferlic
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Junior Erin Finn won her second individual Big Ten title on Sunday.
and did incredible things in college and after, so it definitely bodes well for the future. So I’m really excited to kind of follow the path that she followed.” Redshirt sophomores Jamie Phelan and Gina Sereno rounded out the Wolverine finishers in the top 10, placing eighth and 10th, respectively. Redshirt sophomore Sophie Linn crossed the finish line in 18th place with a time of 20:34. Senior Shannon Osika was the final scoring runner, running a 20:46 clip, good for 21st place. Linn’s performance was the second personal best, along with Finn, out of the scoring five. The remaining Wolverines in the race — fifth-year senior Anna Pasternak, redshirt sophomore Jamie Morrissey, redshirt sophomore Courtney Munley and senior Taylor Manett placed 23rd, 26th, 29th and 43rd, respectively. Pasternak, Morrissey, and Munley all set personal bests.
Though the team’s result was disappointing, Michigan isn’t letting the setback get the best of it. McGuire said his team entered the race together as a unit and will leave as one as well. He noted there is still a lot of the season left, giving his team time to improve and perform well once the NCAA Championships come around. The Wolverines are in a better position this time of the year than they were last season, when two of their top runners were unable to race due to injury. It’s just a matter of having the best race possible from now until the end of the season. “We just have to trust in our training and trust in our process,” Finn said. “We have to just believe in what we do, and you can’t have a bad day every time out. We’re not going to change much. We’re going to move forward, what’s done is done. We’re disappointed, but not devastated.”
and runners from Purdue and Illinois. And at the finish line, 8,000 meters from the start, Ferlic placed second with a personal best of 23:19.6. “I’m proud that (Ferlic) put it all on the line,” Sullivan said. “That’s exactly what I ask the guys to do. I’ve been in this position (as a former Michigan athlete), so it was exciting to see the program get back to where we wanted to be for the last 15 years. It was surreal and exciting and interesting to be where we stood today.” Second of the Michigan scorers was junior co-captain Ben Flanagan, who placed eighth with a time of 23:42.6. Exactly one second later, senior Tony Smoragiewicz finished the course. Both of their times qualified them as second-team honorees. Rounding out the other Michigan scorers were junior Connor Mora in 19th and redshirt junior Nick Renberg in 25th. It was Renberg’s first time competing in the Big Ten Championships. The remaining competing athletes included redshirt sophomore Micah Beller, his classmate Aaron Baumgarten, fifth-year senior Nick Posada and his classmate August Pappas. Smoragiewicz, Mora, Renberg, Beller and Baumgarten all ran personal bests. “I do my very best in my leadership role,” Flanagan said. “But even though I know I’m considered a co-captain, at the end of the day, I see nine captains on this team.” It was a weekend of big numbers. All five Michigan scorers made it into the top 25. Three all-conference runners competed. Ferlic earned second. But the number that counts the most is one. For the first time since 1998 Michigan is the Big Ten Champions. And that confidence will last forever.
three days after head coach Jerry Kill retired due to health concerns, interim coach Tracy Claeys went for the win. Leidner ran a quarterback sneak with two seconds left, but he was stuffed short, and Michigan reclaimed the Little Brown Jug. “We like to call that giving us a place to stand,” said redshirt freshman safety Jabrill Peppers. “We got it down at the half-inchyard line, I don’t know how much closer you can get. “I thought they were gonna try to do one of their trick plays, but we felt good thinking that they were gonna go sneak, and they went sneak, and the big guys up front blew up the line of scrimmage and we came out of here with a victory.” The Wolverines (3-1 Big Ten, 6-2 overall) have been able to rely on their defense all season to escape tricky situations. Saturday night was about as tricky as it gets. Even outside of Minnesota’s final drive, the game was filled with theatrics, highlighted by an unsung hero, redshirt freshman quarterback Wilton Speight, who threw his first career touchdown to put the Wolverines ahead late. With 4:27 left in the third quarter, Golden Gophers defensive end Andrew Stelter laid a fierce hit on fifth-year senior quarterback Jake Rudock as Rudock began sliding to the ground after a scramble. Rudock left the game and did not return, throwing Speight into the fire. Coming into the game, Speight had not completed a pass all season. Fittingly, he struggled at first, failing to earn a first down his first three series. “The first couple drives, I was not really comfortable,” Speight said. “I was probably flushing myself out of the pocket when I did not need to. “I talked to (passing game coordinator Jedd) Fisch on the phone before that last drive and he said, ‘Look, just relax and have fun and smile because we know you can do it, and the team believes in you, so just go out and do what you can.’ ” Starting on the Minnesota 40-yard line with eight and a half minutes left, after the Michigan defense forced a crucial threeand-out, Speight completed an eight-yard pass to junior tight end Jake Butt on first down. It was his first completion of the season, and it set the tone for the entire drive. Speight found redshirt sophomore tight end Khalid Hill to get to the red zone, and four plays later, at the 12-yard line, Speight made the biggest play of his young career. With 4:57 remaining, he found redshirt junior receiver Jehu Chesson in the back of the end zone over the middle, putting Michigan up by one. Speight then connected with redshirt junior receiver Amara Darboh for the two-point conversion on the next play. “What an invaluable learning experience for Wilton Speight,” Harbaugh said. “To get his first action and do it with a fourthquarter comeback, and then kind of dramatic style. That’ll be really good for his confidence as well.” Before Rudock’s injury, and far before the final drive, the Wolverines looked to be in trouble, especially after they let a 14-3 lead slip away at the half. Minnesota (1-3, 4-4) opened the scoring with a field goal 4:47 into the game, but Peppers turned two returns into great field position for the Wolverines. Michigan capitalized on both, as Rudock found Chesson for one touchdown, and Peppers ran in another out of the wildcat formation, putting Michigan up by 11 early in the second quarter. Peppers was indispensable for the Wolverines, turning in 100 all-purpose yards and his first career touchdown. “I tried to do what I am coached to do and get us in the best position possible,” Peppers said. “That definitely worked well tonight.” But Leidner brought Minnesota back, throwing a 52-yard touchdown to Rashad Still and leading two field goal drives to give the Golden Gophers a 16-14 lead at the half. Leidner finished with 317 yards passing, but even that wasn’t enough to earn the win. If he had thrown for 318, it may have been.
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ICE HOCKEY
Robert Morris blanks Michigan at Yost, 4-0 Wolverines come out flat, split weekend series after shutout By JASON RUBINSTEIN Daily Sports Editor
It has been the same old story for the Michigan hockey team. Not the one where 4 RMU 0 MICHIGAN it scores five goals a game, but the one where it has multiple defensive breakdowns. And unlike previous games, the offense couldn’t bail out its sloppy defensive play. Saturday, in their series finale against Robert Morris, the 10th-ranked Wolverines fell to Robert Morris, 4-0. Most of the Colonials’ chances stemmed from defensive breakdowns that led to multiple odd-man rushes and grade-A scoring chances. “You have to be just as hungry coming into this game as we were the game last night, or you’re going to get this kind of result,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “You got to come out hungry and desperate every night, and anything short of that isn’t good enough. The game is all defense and goalkeeping, and if you’re solid there, it’s going to be a close game.” Three minutes into the game, Michigan failed to clear the puck from the zone, which led to an odd-man rush for the Colonials (3-1-2). Robert Morris forward Brandon Denham corralled a rebound from junior netminder Zach Nagelvoort, who made the initial save, and beat the goalie via the five hole. And just like the Colonials’ first goal, an odd-man rush led to
another glorious opportunity, and forward Daniel Leavens took full advantage. Leavens received the puck in the slot and sniped one over Nagelvoort’s glove. Robert Morris maintained all the momentum throughout the first period. With 57 seconds left, the Colonials won a faceoff in Michigan’s zone, distributed the puck well and defenseman Tyson Wilson skated through the slot and backhanded one past Nagelvoort. The Wolverines had multiple opportunities to clear the puck. “You have to say the game was decided in the first period,” Berenson said. “I told my team this morning that there would be one team that would come out hungrier than the other. In these afternoon games, that’s how it works. We thought we’d be that team, but we weren’t.” The three first-period goals were all Berenson needed to see before making a goalie change. Berenson opted for senior Steve Racine to finish the game. So for now, the revolving door that is the Wolverines’ goaltending situation will remain spinning. Racine looked better Saturday, stopping 24 shots and allowing only one goal. It’s a vast improvement for the senior who allowed nine total goals in his first two starts. “We put Nagelvoort in after he came off of his best game,” Berenson said. “We all thought he would just continue that. He’s in a groove, had confidence, was into it and then you saw tonight. “The goalies all look at the goals and say, ‘Is that something
I should save?’ And I think he would tell you honestly, ‘that’s on me.’ When you give them a goal that you can save 95 percent of the time, that just kills your team. This is Division I hockey; this isn’t Bantam hockey.” Robert Morris’ fourth goal came on yet another defensive mistake. The Wolverines failed to clear the puck from the crease multiple times, which led to forward Zac Lynch putting one past Racine. Michigan (4-1-1) had multiple grade-A chances in the first period, including one by sophomore defenseman Zach Werenski, whose hard shot from the blue line found its way through to the net and rolled through the crease before it was cleared. Werenski nearly scored again in the third period when, on a power play, he fired one at Robert Morris netminder Dalton Izyk, who made a sprawling pad save. Izyk had a blemish-free afternoon, stopping all 34 shots he faced. It was the first time Michigan had been shut out since Feb. 14 when it played at Minnesota. A win over the Colonials on Saturday would’ve given the Wolverines their best start since the 2000-01 season. Instead, the Wolverines were left with their first loss of the season from a game that Berenson said had “no positives.” So for now, Michigan will have to worry about fixing their sloppy defensive play or outcomes like Saturdays could become a commonality.
“You have to say the game was decided in the first period.”
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Senior forward Justin Selman thinks Michigan needs to come up with more bounce in its step than it did Saturday.
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A minor identity crisis at Yost
he Michigan hockey team split a pair of home games this weekend against an unheralded, but very competitive, Robert Morris squad. No, it’s not the end of the Wolverines’ NCAA tournament hopes or an indication that Michigan doesn’t deserve its JUSTIN lofty top-10 MEYER ranking. But the loss does pose an unsettling question — when the Wolverines aren’t ‘The Comeback Kids,’ who are they? Michigan is 4-1-1 this season and has scored as many goals in the third period as the first and second combined. It makes for fun hockey, but relying on late goals to win is not a recipe for sustained success. Saturday’s 4-0 drubbing at the hands of the Colonials seemed to sober the giddy excitement of a previously undefeated team. It is fair to say that the matchup was not ideal for the Wolverines. Robert Morris is a big, physical hockey team loaded with seniors. Colonials goaltender Dalton Izyk was unflappable in net, shutting out Michigan at Yost Ice Arena for the first time since 2009 on 34 saves. Still, the home team looked altogether lost on Saturday. The Wolverines had trouble breaking out of the defensive zone cleanly, and particularly struggled getting to the net on offense. Michigan coach Red Berenson attributed the loss to
a complete lack of preparation, saying that he didn’t see any positive takeaways from the game. He complained of underwhelming goaltending from senior netminder Zach Nagelvoort, who started, and a lack of effort from the forwards. “I didn’t think that we were as hungry or as desperate or ready to pay the price in front of their net,” Berenson said. “We were one-and-done, and we weren’t stopping on loose pucks. We were escaping. Sometimes you get away with that and the puck goes in, but it wasn’t going in.” The Wolverines are a versatile group of players full of NHL draft picks and other top talent, but a team’s identity is a game plan that it can turn to when nothing else is working. Michigan’s problem is pinpointing that identity. “We just need to play fast,” said junior forward Justin Selman. “We’re a fast team. We’re a skilled team. We need to possess the puck down low, just be a little bit crisper. Once everyone has that jump in their stride, once everyone is moving the puck with a little bit of zip, we’re a much better team. I think we were chasing the puck a little too much tonight.” Playing fast does help, but it seems unlikely to be a cureall. The Wolverines looked lethargic at times Saturday, but more concerning was the lack of team play. As the game wore on and frustration mounted, Michigan players stopped looking to pass, instead carrying the puck into multiple defenders.
Robert Morris, content to let the poor quality attacks continue, turned away most of the rushes easily. This type of individual play is the hallmark of a team that is uncomfortable playing together. But then again, why should the Wolverines be comfortable playing together just yet? This is a team reliant on young talent at both ends of the ice, just a few weeks into the season. There may be cause for concern, but certainly not alarm. Freshman forwards Cooper Marody and Kyle Connor are tied for the team lead in points (7) and goals (3). On defense, three of the top six contributors are not yet 19 years old. There were some bright spots in the game for Michigan as well. Selman, Marody and senior forward JT Compher all continued to crash the net on offense, a kind of hard-nosed hockey perfect for scoring goals in tight games. To find a way to win consistently this season, though, the Wolverines need more. The team must play to its strengths — not just in the third period, but all game. Michigan is a fast team with deep talent. Puck movement and a willingness to sell out the body for a goal is what can separate the Wolverines from the pack of teams trying to wrench away their NCAA Tournament hopes. Saturday’s loss should be warning enough.
“We just need to play fast.”
Meyer can be reached at jfmeye@umich.edu or on Twitter @Justinfmeyer.