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Utah football players celebrate as they enter the tunnel during the rain delay at Michigan Stadium, which ultimately lasted 144 minutes. The game resumed after the lightning left the area and Utah went on to win 26-10.
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UMHS reverses parking policy after safety concern
Michigan Nurses Association protested controversial plan By AMABEL KAROUB Daily Staff Reporter
In response to outcry from staff, the University of Michigan Health System has reversed a
controversial new parking plan — one which the Michigan Nurses Association claimed would put nurses and other hospital staff members in danger. Last month, the University enacted a parking plan that required night-shift staff members without an appropriate parking permit to park at the Wall Street structure instead of the secure structure adjacent to
the hospital — which was previously the standard practice. In response to intense outrage from the nurses, the University has reversed course on the new plan. In a Sept. 16 press release, the MNA wrote nurses feared for their safety parking in the Wall St. structure at night. Though UMHS provides a shuttle service that can take nurses from Wall St. to the hospital, the shuttles don’t
run from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., forcing some nurses on the night shift to walk the half-mile from the structure to the University Hospital entrance on East Medical Center Drive. In the release, several staff members expressed concern with the plan, including that the unreliable shuttle service caused them to be late for their shift, See UMHS, Page 3A
Extreme weather postponed the game, displaced fans By MAX RADWIN Daily Staff Reporter
Though the game didn’t end in Michigan’s favor this Saturday, the evacuation to clear all 103,890 fans from the Big House due to a weather emergency went exactly as planned. After lightning struck near the stadium, the University’s Division of Public Safety and Security and game officials postponed the game and proceeded to evacuate fans from the stadium. According to NCAA regulations, if there is lightning detected within eight miles of a collegiate stadium, the game must be paused. It can only be resumed 30 minutes after the most recent lightning strike within six miles. Athletic directors for both teams must decide whether the game will be postponed, resumed the same day or called a no contest. Saturday, play was stopped at 6:35 p.m. and resumed
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Play to raise awareness of sexual assault
Performance to work with campaign to prevent assault on college campuses By EMILIE PLESSET Daily Staff Reporter
In light of an increased nationwide focus on preventing sexual assault on college campuses, the University’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance will premiere Naomi Iizuka’s new play, “Good Kids.” The production will be in conjunction with the University’s broader Expect Respect: Flip the Script sexual assault prevention campaign — which itself is a part of the Big Ten Theatre Consortium’s New Play Initiative. The performance will play during the first two weekends of October at the North Campus Arthur Miller Theatre. The Big Ten Theatre
Consortium will put on the play at all Big Ten schools in an effort to address the issue of most plays being predominantly male centric. According to Assistant Theatre Prof. Gillian Eaton, the show’s director, the Music, Theatre & Dance School in its history have only performed nine plays written by women. “There just aren’t that many plays by women, for women, with big parts for women and about women’s issues,” Eaton said. “That’s why this consortium was put together.” The Expect Respect: Flip the Script initiative will address sexual assault prevention on campus. In addition to the play, the initiative will include a widespread social media campaign to get the message out. All students and faculty involved in the play will receive sexual assault bystander intervention and sexual assault prevention training through the University’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center. See ASSAULT, Page 3A
at 8:30 p.m. Players were also allowed 15 minutes to warm up before play recommenced. Joe Piersante, chief operations officer for DPSS and detail commander during football Saturdays, is in charge of the many public safety agencies tasked with keeping the Big House safe: Huron Valley Ambulance, emergency medicine, the county chapter of the American Red Cross, the Ann Arbor Fire Department, Hazardous Materials and federal agencies who partner with University Police. “We preplanned for such events,” Piersante said of Saturday’s weather evacuation. “And we have that in our game day operation plan and emergency management plan because we worked closely with athletics and knew there was a possibility for hazardous weather.” DPSS and other agencies plan for all kinds of evacuation scenarios, he said, including those caused by fire, the presence of hazardous materials, explosions, active shooters and dangerous weather. See EVACUATION, Page 3A
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Frank DeMauro, Vice President of the Orbital Sciences Corporation, speaks at an event to commemorate the 100th annivesary of Aerospace Engineering at Michigan at the League Friday.
Aerospace Engineering celebrates 100th year Event features series of lectures, panel discussions By MAYA SHANKAR For the Daily
The University’s aerospace engineering department might not always get the most atten-
tion on campus, but it was hard to miss them this weekend when 15 aircraft dazzled fans at Michigan Stadium prior to the Wolverines’ matchup against Utah. The department celebrated its 100th anniversary with a three-day Centennial Celebration held Sept. 18-20, which drew academics, students and visitors from all over the coun-
try. The events celebrated the department’s diverse accomplishments over the past 100 years. During this time, alumni from the department have gone on to become pilots, astronauts and researchers — contributing to advancements in many fields of aerospace research and development. See AEROSPACE, Page 3A
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After a successful first trial year, the University’s Detroit Connector bus has established itself as a viable option for students traveling to Detroit. Now, the goal is to generate more interest to keep the program alive and growing. The bus, now in its second year of operation after being renewed as a part of the University’s Detroit Center budget, made its first journey of this year Sept. 18 running on grant money. The service is free, and the Connector staff plans to keep it that way for as long as possible, though a $5 donation per ride is suggested. The first Detroit Center Connector launched back in October 2013 See CONNECTOR, Page 3A
Pouring it on Third weather delay in Michigan Stadium history ends with Brady Hoke’s worst home loss. » INSIDE WEATHER TOMORROW
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A panel of seven University Law students released an 86-page report analyzing the 1967 Detroit Race Riot in which police raided an unlicensed bar and sparked violence with patrons and other locals. The debacle got so out of hand that Michigan Governor George Romney enlisted the help of the National Guard to restore order. These forces were ultimately bolstered by paratroopers, per the orders of President Lyndon B. Johnson. The panel’s conclusion was that the subsequent legal action in Detroit Criminal Court fol-
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Victorious BY BRANDON HANDELSMAN
The Michigan men’s cross country team traveled to Iowa City, Iowa on Saturday to the Big Ten Preview. The Wolverines didn’t disappoint, coming as three Michigan runners finished in the top four with standout junior Mason Ferlic taking the crown with a time of 24:32.
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lowing the riot were “assembly line procedures” which arraigned defendants in groups “without consideration for the circumstances of individual cases.” Twenty-eight years ago today (September 22, 1986) The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs released a statement banning consensual sexual relationships between faculty and students. The preexisting precedent for the statement was a University policy that condemned faculty harassment of students. Nursing Prof. Cheryl E. Easley said the statement was necessary to cement moral norms.
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Honors lecture discusses spirit of sport at the ‘U’ Football games emphasized as key factor of Michigan experience By MICHAEL SUGERMAN Daily Staff Reporter
Football Saturdays were the topic of conversation Friday. University lecturer John U. Bacon detailed Ann Arbor’s history, its relationship with college football and the importance of education for a Parents’ Weekend talk organized by the LSA Honors College Friday night. Bacon teaches several courses at the University under the Fall 2014’s theme semester Sport and the University. Outside of his role on campus, Bacon is a prominent sports journalist and bestselling author. Bacon is best known for his book Three and Out, a behind the scenes look at the politics of
former Michigan football coach Rich Rodriguez’s tumultuous tenure at the University. His most recent book, Fourth and Long: The Fight for the Soul of College Football examines why people love the sport and what is at stake with in the industry. Bacon, who is a University and Honors College alum, said his interest in pursuing journalism was sparked while writing his honors thesis. “I cannot tell you the internal pride I felt,” he said. “Just seeing, just feeling that slab of paper … knowing that I had done the whole thing from start to finish … that truly changed my life.” During his lecture, Bacon discussed how the explosion of football’s popularity in Ann Arbor in the late 1870s garnered a great deal of enthusiasm not just from students and faculty, but also locals and the press. This sentiment, Bacon said, still exists today.
“Some of the biggest fans did not go to Michigan,” he said. “Some of the biggest donors didn’t go to Michigan. It’s an amazing expression of our values.” He argued football is one of the University’s most important common threads between all students, adding that game day is perhaps one of the most complete reflections of student life. “When you take a seat (in Michigan Stadium), we don’t care about your race, ethnicity, nationality, your age, gender, economics,” Bacon said. “All we care about is, when the band gets to ‘Hail,’ you’re going to jam your fist in the air. Do that at the right time, you are one of us.” Bacon stressed that both in and outside of the University Athletic Department, the main goal to strive for in the University setting is moral steadiness. He said an icon like former Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, who led the program between 1969 and 1989, embodied this goal — and that students who weren’t even born when Schembechler retired still knew his name and remembered him as a leader, not necessarily as a football coach. “That, to me, is the Michigan Difference,” Bacon said. “We want to win, we expect to win, but the truth matters to us. If you have a chance to pursue the truth and you fail to do so, you have not only lost your personal integrity, you have not only lost your personal self respect, dare I say it, you’ve lost your soul. This entire University is based on one principle, and that’s the truth.” On that note, Bacon also addressed the issue of continuing monetization of college football. He said everywhere athletic directors and coaches are getting paid more than university presidents, which he sees as a problem. Michigan football coach Brady Hoke was paid $4.154 million for the 2013 season. University President Mark Schlissel’s base salary is $750,000 per year with an See HONORS, Page 3A
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Following a study abroad in northwestern India, LSA senior Kim Deering participates in Langar on the Diag Friday.
Students host event inspired by study abroad experience Sikh Student Association says langar tradition poorly represented By TANYA MADHANI For the Daily
Amid the rushing of students, voter registration representatives and the odd firebrand preacher, 13 students stood on the Diag Friday with baskets of food to bring a piece of their study abroad in India back to Ann Arbor — but not without a bit of controversy. Over the summer, these students worked on a GIEU program in Amritsar, India, where they participated in langar events at the Golden Temple — a historic Sikh religious site and one of India’s most noted landmarks. Traditionally, a langar is a meal served at the end of a worship ceremony and emphasizes equality between participants regardless of their social class, status or religious beliefs, LSA junior Andrew Vu, one of the event participants, said. While abroad, the students learned how organizers at the Golden Temple feed around
60,000 people per day in the complex’s langar halls — a daunting economic and logistical task, to say the least. Back in Ann Arbor, the participants settled on a more modest goal. “We’re trying to recreate that on a much smaller scale,” LSA senior Jenny Chuang said. “So now we have a 100,000 people but I think we made up to 3,000 wraps.” The students, all undergraduates, were involved in every aspect of the preparation: buying produce, cutting the food, cooking it, serving it and eating it. Chuang said she hoped the event encouraged people to look beyond just the free food and instead think about how they could work to help others. “We treat people differently depending on where we see them, but we really shouldn’t,” Chuang said. “It takes seeing an example to really cement that in instead of theoretically thinking that. For the average person that walks through the Diag I hope they ask ‘Why are you guys here? What’s been going on?’ and kind of learn what we were able to learn from the Golden Temple.” The wraps served on the Diag Friday were completely vegetarian, with ingredients such as chickpeas, cabbage and mint
chutney. Langar food in the Golden Temple and other Sikh temples is generally vegetarian. “A lot of people think being vegetarian is extremely limiting,” Vu said. “It’s not true. ... Once they know that it’s vegetarian and that it’s filling and it’s nutritional, maybe they’ll have a different perspective on things.” The trip was chaperoned by Engineering Prof. Jasprit Singh and his wife from June 4 to July 4. Singh said a langar meal is prepared to break down barriers, which he hoped would do the same at the University. “The challenge we face globally is not that people don’t have food, it’s that we have barriers,” Singh said. “That people don’t have opportunities to expand their horizon, so many barriers are in the way. This event is a way to gently work on bringing people together so they realize that people who are different from each other are still the same. So food is the ideal way. The event is to build a community and food is a medium to do that.” The wraps were made with help from more than 15 volunteers at the kitchen of the Plymouth Gurdwara Sahib, a Sikh temple about 20 miles from Ann Arbor. Vu said the week of preparation See EXPERIENCE, Page 3A
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CONNECTOR From Page 1A after assessing student demand via survey. The results of the initial survey from February 2013 indicated that over 75 percent of possible riders — students, faculty, staff and community members — were ‘very likely’ to use the service if it were provided. In its trial year, the Connector fulfilled that demand: approximately 150 people travelled from Ann Arbor on the Connector per week in the fall and winter, and 100 per week in the spring and summer months. Since its launch in October 2013, there have been approximately 6,000 rider trips out of Ann Arbor. Rackham student Carolyn Lusch was hired on as the Transportation Coordinator for the Detroit Center Connector and helped shape the Connector into its current form. “We set up a very rudimentary system for making reservations at first,” Lusch said. “It was literally just a Google doc that I checked every day so that we would know who was riding.” The reservation system is now a little more involved — a website through the University where students can visit to see all the available dates and times that the connector is running, reserve a seat and check out events that are taking place downtown. The service is primarily for Mcard holders but students and faculty are allowed four guests per day. The reservation serves two purpo ses: to ensure that riders have a spot on the bus and to collect data about why riders are
AEROSPACE From Page 1A The events also discussed the future of the industry. The series included panels on the future of aerospace academics, the future of aircrafts and the future of space travel, among others. During the “Panel on the Future of Space Exploration and Use” Friday, speakers from select aerospace engineering companies and organizations — Blue Origin, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, SpaceX and Orbitals Science Corporation — spoke about the future of commercial space travel. Rob Meyerson, president and program manager of Blue Origin, which discussed the company’s goal to increase the number of people that can fly to space while simultaneously lowering the cost of commercial spaceflight and
UMHS From Page 1A that the walking route was poorly lit and that drunk men accosted them when they were walking late at night. The MNA claimed one staff member was forced to walk the uphill route from Wall St. to the hospital while she was eight months pregnant. Throughout the week, the MNA reported the University was less than responsive to the nurse’s concerns. Friday, the University agreed to the MNA’s terms, said Dawn Kettinger, communications director for the MNA, meaning nurses could return to parking in the nearby structure and that there would work with nurses to increase safety at the Wall St. structure.
going to Detroit. “Last year, our largest segment was people going to visit family,” Lusch said. “Then after that was people doing cultural events down here. The main purpose of this is to enrich the cultural and educational connection. We do see people visiting their family as still a way to enrich their education because it’s helping them stay connected to their support network while they’re pursuing an education in Ann Arbor.” LSA freshman Tayler Thurman, a Detroit native, took the Detroit Connector Friday for the first time to go visit her family for her birthday. “I think this is really cool, especially since it’s free,” Thurman said. “It’s really convenient.” Rackham student Joshua Shipper takes the Detroit Connector to commute to class from his residence in Detroit. A New York native, Shipper lived in Ann Arbor for a while but found he missed living in an urban environment. “To be near such a major city and to not partake in it felt weird, in some way,” Shipper said. “To claim that I was close to Detroit but to not actually be a part of it felt weird. I just feel more at home in a city.” Because this is its first year being funded by the University, the Detroit Connector team’s main goal is to keep growing ridership. They are targeting University groups and classes that may want to take cultural field trips to the city. Since the Connector began its service, approximately 60 student groups have used the Connector. “There isn’t a quota that we need to maintain, per se,” Lusch
said, “but we have been told by the University that they are monitoring it. So anyone who has ever considered riding it, ride it.” If demand becomes great enough, they would consider adding more stops to the route in Ann Arbor and in Detroit. Currently, the bus runs Thursday through Sunday at various times throughout the day. It begins its route at the University of Michigan Detroit Center on Woodward Avenue, makes another stop behind the Detroit Institute of Arts, then heads to Ann Arbor, stopping at C.C. Little. On the way to Detroit, students drive through the heart of downtown, stopping at the Renaissance Center before heading back to the Detroit Center to begin the route again. Though Detroit is mostly a driving city, the stops available provide access to key areas of cultural interest. Cafés, bars, restaurants and other attractions are within walking distance of the three stops. Employees at the Detroit Center have information regarding bike rentals and the Detroit public bus system to explore less central destinations. In an effort to make the Connector less intimidating to students who aren’t used to public transit, Lusch launched Transit Tuesdays, a weekly meeting in Ann Arbor in the Michigan League. Lusch goes and sits at a table marked with the Detroit Center sign, and is available for questions and comments regarding the service. “The future of this project depends on the riders,” Lusch said, “And our showing that the service is being used a lot.”
improving safety. Lauri Hansen addressed the emphasis on human spaceflight and their latest project, the Asteroid Redirect Mission, which aims to artificially redirect an asteroid into the moon’s orbit in order to study its properties. The mission gained attention in the aerospace community, as they are hoping it will be a stepping-stone to more involved human missions into deep space. The panels not only provided information on the work being done in the industry currently, but they also stressed the importance of student involvement and the role of our generation in aerospace. Frank DeMauro, vice president at Orbital Sciences Corporation, which focuses on development and launch of satellites and rockets, spoke about giving commercial access to space and their new
spacecraft, Cygnus, which could provide new opportunities for travel into deep space. “I’m very excited about the caliber of students that come from our colleges,” DeMauro said when asked about the education students are receiving at universities. Students attending the panel were able to see how all the different parts of the industry, from engineering to marketing, worked together to achieve a common goal. Engineering senior Jose Gomez, after attending the panel on space travel, said he realized “The common consensus (among the panelists) is that it is the students today that are going to really make the difference and really push our species beyond Earthorbit and into space. “I feel a little bit more empowered now,” he said.
“They’ve agreed to reverse the policy and also to work with the Union to monitor safety at the Wall St. structure in case employees do want to continue parking there,” Kettinger said. Although Kettinger was glad the University showed concern for the nurses’ safety, she said the plan should never have been enacted in the first place. She claimed UMHS did not consult with any nurses in creating the plan and said the change seemed unnecessary since the closer parking lot usually has plenty of parking at night. “This plan was just thrown at everybody with no notice and no inclusion, and no discussion with nurses and other employees who would be affected by it,” Kettinger said. “This really shouldn’t have happened.” Nurses had the option of pay-
ing $531 more for a Blue parking pass, which would allow them to park in a closer lot. Previously, the cheaper Yellow pass would allow staff to park in the closer lot. Thursday, WXYZ Detroit reported 300 nurses had paid for the upgraded passes, but that they would have the option of changing back to a Yellow pass with this newest policy reversal. This is not the first time the Wall Street structure, which opened July 7, has been the topic of controversy. Originally proposed by UMHS during their 2005 expansion, it has faced criticism from local residents and Ann Arbor City Councilmembers. UMHS lead public relations representative Kara Gavin could not be reached for comment at the time of publication. Daily News Editor Ian Dillingham contributed to this report.
annual increase determined by the University’s Board of Regents. In a brief question and answer session following his presentation, he expanded upon this point. “To me, the biggest scandal in college football is greed … greed is going to kill college sports as we know them,” he said. “This is a nonprofit, state university. Nobody here gets market value. Nobody here gets to return an investment. You don’t come to a big university to cash in.” LSA sophomore Steven Oberlander said he liked the presentation particularly as an out-of-state student without as much background on Ann Arbor’s early years. “I thought it was amazing,” Oberlander said. “He’s definitely
passionate. It was just interesting to hear a lot about the history … also, his perspective on campus life and how this really is, in his mind, the greatest place in the world.” Katherine Britton — the mother of LSA freshman Matthew Britton, a new Honors student — and her husband Ed attended the event with their son. Mrs. Britton said the lecture attuned her to the fascinating, intellectual avenues to pursue within the Honors Program. “The mix of academics and football is, in fact, one of the hallmarks of Michigan, and it’s sort of fascinating that that’s the topic that was chosen for the parents,” she said. “In some ways, it’s interesting in the Big Ten how football is kind of this unifying factor in a way that it isn’t in many of the other conferences, and he certainly brought that out, which is part of the Michigan ethos.”
conducted. “Most of all, we are disappointed in the manner in which GIEU chose to … advertise the event simply as a ‘free lunch,’ ” Shokar said. “Langar is a holy concept ingrained in the faith of Sikhs, yet Sikhism was not mentioned on the Facebook event or on the flyers for the event. At the very least, it would have been very beneficial to give out educational materials to those who picked up the meal.” Langar on the Diag did not
have people sitting together and, Shokar said she did not know what the event was actually about. “The purpose of Langar is to have members of a diverse community come together and eat, side-by-side, regardless of their backgrounds or own religious beliefs,” Shokar wrote. “The word ‘langar’ is special to Sikhs all across the globe, and to accurately portray its meaning on a campus where there is already little awareness of Sikhism is absolutely vital.”
ly-recognized expert on violence prevention and gender, will be one of the speakers. “We want to set the bar high,” Eaton said. “That’s why we came up with this outreach initiative regarding the rape and respect culture. We wanted the play to have a larger impact and have a piece of creative work be the impetus to start a change of heart and a change of mind about the subject.” The play is intended to launch a campus-wide conversation about community responsibilities and individual choices in regards to preventing sexual assault and harm to others. SAPAC Director Holly RiderMilkovich said that in light of the
White House’s new campaign, It’s On Us, which asks colleges and individuals to take on the issue of ending sexual assault, the initiative is an opportune way to spread the play’s message on campus. “Sexual violence prevention is something we need to work on constantly,” Rider-Milkovich said. “We want to support student activism and encourage and help guide student voices on this issue to the extent that students continue to really find value and meaning and vigor in this project. We will continue to support it and we will also support new ideas and new projects because certainly there is a lot of work to be done.”
advance of the storm on the scoreboard. Once a lightning strike was detected, fans were asked to evacuate. Piersante said he thought the process went smoothly and that it was not chaotic. “There was no panic at all that I observed,” he said. “Perhaps because we did put the warning out, I think a lot of people were prepared.” Kinesiology sophomore Casey Aman said that people were more frantic than usual because it was raining heavily and there was lightning, but that most
people had left by the time the storm began because the team was losing badly. LSA sophomore Joe Shea said he observed some disturbances in the crowd, including some students who were worried about lightning striking the metal seating. “I think it was a little chaotic just because if you look at how the Big House is set up, there really is only that one entrance,” he said. “You enter the stadium, and you go to your seats — you start at row 70 and you walk all the way down. It doesn’t feel extremely conducive for evacuations.”
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EXPERIENCE From Page 2A was a serious time commitment. However, many students expressed concern with how the event was promoted and organized. LSA junior Meagan Shokar, public relations chair for the Sikh Students Association, said in an e-mail interview the SSA was disappointed by how the event was
ASSAULT From Page 1A The play, “Good Kids,” addresses the themes of rape and hookup culture among young adults. The play is based on the 2012 Steubenville High School rape case, where the sexual assault of a teenage girl by two members of the high school football team was heavily publicized through pictures and videos posted on social media. After each performance, speakers will answer questions from the audience and address various aspects of the topic. Dr. Christopher Kilmartin, a standup comedian and international-
EVACUATION From Page 1A There are three weathermapping systems that track dangerous weather systems, Piersante said. One is in the emergency operations center on game day, another is located in the separate DPSS operations center and the last is monitored by the athletic department. Piersante said he knew there would be a high chance of bad weather during the game and noted that information was communicated to fans in
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CATHERINE BERGIN | VIEWPOINT
Does Greek Life uphold its values? “So, how has your Greek Life chapter been helping out the greater community lately?” I overheard a fraternity member asking my sorority sister at a mixer. Just kidding, nobody asked that. Truth be told, I didn’t join a sorority to help my GPA, play with rescue dogs or to wash cars in the name of disease research. I joined because I knew it would be fun. I would meet friends. I would have things to do on the weekends and have parties to go to whenever I wanted. I’ll admit, the “Michigan Greek Life Strategic Plan” is a little dramatic. While I agree that it “enhances the undergraduate experience for its members,” I would disagree that Greek Life is “the best possible reflection of the University” or that its members “truly live the values upon which our historic organizations were founded” (I’m pretty sure head-butting walls until they have significant holes in them is not one of these values). If Greek Life members were polled on what these actual “values” are, I’m sure many would reply with blank stares, “What?” or “No idea.” This is not to say that fraternity and sorority members are disinterested, dumb or clueless, but perhaps that these individual organizations and chapters are not doing their part to uphold the principles on which they were founded or instilling these values into their members. I’m taking a closer look at a few of Michigan’s “Greek Life Strategic Goals and Objectives” to see how closely our community is (or is not) honoring them. 1. “Promote congruence and alignment of actions with our organizations’ values.” It’s no wonder that “each year thousands of young women and men seek membership in sororities and fraternities on college campuses throughout the United States and Canada.” These organizations are famous for their “legendary commitments to friendship, sisterhood, brotherhood and loyalty,” all aspects that I have undeniably experienced — the “brotherhood” aspect still pending. I have become incredibly close with my sorority as a whole, and feel almost like family with many. What I feel more distant from, however, is the “expectation to uphold the ritual, values, mission and aims of the respective organization.” In fact, I really have no idea what my sorority’s mission is. I just know that I am part of a sorority that has many girls that are outgoing, fun, kind and outspoken. Michigan Greek Life’s “shared values within our community include service, leadership, scholarship, friendship, respect, human dignity and a lifelong commitment to the organization.” Service is certainly stressed throughout my chapter and Greek Life as a whole on Michigan’s campus. Most sorority events can only be attended by members who have fulfilled the mandatory community service hours, usually six a semester. We receive weekly e-mails from our community service chair listing upcoming service opportunities, as well as other ways to get involved with the larger community as a whole. Sororities and fraternities on campus often support each other’s initiatives by attending respective events in the name of fundraising, such as a dinner held at a sorority house or a carwash at a fraternity — how clean the cars actually get, I don’t know. The “friendship,” “sisterhood” and “lifelong commitment” that Greek Life helps facilitate was accurately encapsulated when a senior member of my sorority foresaw that, because of her membership, she will have “way too many bridesmaids.” It is required “that members whose actions are not aligned with the organization’s expectations are held accountable to change or face dismissal,” and I, as well as many of my sisters, can attest to this first hand. Whether it is overconsumption of alcohol, acting out of line in anyway or irresponsible behavior, the punishment is always the same: the basement. Once there, a council goes over the situation you are being held for and works to find the cause of it, as well as a punishment based on its severity. Whether it is issuing an apology, writing a reflection paper, or increasing service hours, the system usually reaches its goal, to not have repeat offenders. I, for one, would not like to go to the basement again. Ever. 2. “Encourage chapters to develop and maintain a healthy status and healthy relationships.”
In terms of being a “healthy chapter,” one that is “well rounded, vibrant, active and contributes to the community and the fraternity and sorority experience at Michigan,” mine is in fighting shape. In my pledge class alone, nine girls are in the Business school, and as a chapter, we have 20 girls in the nursing school. We have neuroscience majors, communication majors, girls in the school of dentistry, premed and pre-law students and everything in between. We have girls on the dance team, girls on the rowing team, girls who write for The Michigan Daily as well members of the Panhellenic Association. We aren’t alone, however. Sororities and fraternities across the board have pledge classes just as diverse and ambitious as mine. We are also active (and not just because I come downstairs every morning to see girls doing ab exercises after they come back from running together, ugh). Our chapter won Greek Week last year, a competition among chapters to show their spirit (ugh, again, I know). Though I only directly participated in the limbo competition (seriously), I, as well as nearly all of our members, were there to cheer on the dance team and singing group as they performed for the Greek community (something tells me that Mitch McGary and Shane Morris judging the competition had something to do with the high attendance rate). In terms of ensuring “that each chapter is supported and has access to the advising and resources it needs to be successful and grow,” Michigan Greek Life is upholding its end of the deal. Throughout our recruitment process, we had the help of a national member of our sorority who specializes in recruitment and assisting chapters in finding the right procedure for them. Having her in our house made it a much more professional, organized and overall improved experience. As evidence for how vocal of a sorority I belong to, my chapter promotes “ideals of responsibility and citizenship,” with members who “feel empowered to intervene and create change in the best interest of individuals and the chapter as a whole.” This was exemplified when, just last night, a member stood up in a chapter meeting when she didn’t feel comfortable with the language being using when referring to a certain group of people. And guess what? The people who used that language immediately apologized, and the words in question weren’t used again. If you were wondering, I came in second place in the limbo competition. Looking to place first this year. 4. “Empower our community to be the ‘Leaders and Best’ through clearly defined standards and community expectations.” In terms of “establishing our community as a safe and welcoming space for all students where actions demonstrate respect for all,” Greek Life has its work cut out for it. Take the “I’m Shmacked: University of Michigan — Welcome Week” video for example. In her response piece “We’re All Schmucked,” former Daily columnist Melanie Kruvelis asserts “everyone has lost faith in humanity. They are horrified, they are embarrassed and nobody can stop watching.” What and who were they watching? Mainly Michigan Greek Life. Some may argue that Greek life looks especially out of control when appearing in a 3:57 video that is designed to make it look exactly that, or that it was “just edited that way,” but anybody who has been in Ann Arbor on a football Saturday knows that it’s the reality. Perhaps this doesn’t paint the most pleasant “image of their community” and tailgating students probably aren’t pondering how “their actions and methods of governance impact Greek Life and the University of Michigan,” but undoubtedly, they do. This, and similar depictions of Greek Life don’t necessarily demonstrate a community that “functions at the highest possible level of integrity and accountability,” and can serve as a convincing argument against Greek Life’s “self-governance.” Though Greek Life is not a consistent role model for those looking to “conduct themselves with integrity and in accordance with sound values,” no organization is. Take capitalism, for example. I’ll spare you, but you get the idea. Catherine Bergin is an LSA sophomore.
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few weeks back, as I was contemplating how to supplement my income by means other than waiting tables, a potentially lucrative option dawned on me: plasma donation. I couldn’t believe I hadn’t AUSTIN considered it DAVIS earlier. Plenty of my friends had already shared anecdotes of their pilgrimages to the Octapharma Plasma Donation Center directly off of I-94 in Ypsilanti, a company whose name elicits body-harvesting scenes from “The Matrix.” Plasma donation was plugged as a good cause that resulted in easy cash flow without any strings or taxes attached, and I was sold on the idea. It became screamingly obvious upon entering the center on a Saturday afternoon that I wasn’t the only person in the greater Ann Arbor area with these considerations about plasma donation. The line was formidable and slow moving, stacked full with people who had decided that moonlighting at Octapharma would be more profitable than an average shift at their day job. It also became obvious upon prolonged observation that most of the people with whom I was sharing my afternoon very clearly did not share my lifestyle. Most faces were weathered from hardship, leathered from extended sun exposure or cracked from days of prolonged worry. More than a few had yellowed fingers and eyes from years of nicotine use; more than a few twitched and had scars from trying to itch away withdrawal. Considering that the Red Cross is about 40,000 units of blood behind daily quotas, it became apparent that all veins were being tapped, regardless of what had previously been flowing through them. I was right in assuming that my lifestyle was different from all other
would-be donors. Despite all other indicators of health, one aspect of my lifestyle earned me something theirs didn’t: a lifetime ban from donating. Apparently, having fag running through your veins is where they draw the line. Admittedly, the FDA’s 1983 implementation of the ban barring men who have sex with men (MSM) from donating blood was at the time a logical, albeit harsh step in attempting to control the spread of the HIV virus. Screening practices at the time were inefficient and inaccurate due to the dormant nature of the virus, and gay and bisexual men are infected in overwhelmingly disproportionate numbers in comparison to other high-risk groups, such as intravenous drug users. Even today, after decades of campaigns promoting contraception and other safe-sex practices in the community, MSM account for an estimated 63 percent of all new HIV infections in the United States, a number that increased by 12 percent amongst gay and bisexual men between 2008 and 2010. If infected blood were to be transfused into an uninfected host, the results could be physically and psychologically devastating. Fear of this worst-case scenario drove the FDA to do what they believed was necessary to protect the majority, which effectually type-casted an already subjugated and discriminated minority as already infected. Amidst new technological advances in HIV and other STI and infectious disease screenings, however, the reasoning behind the ban on MSM who have engaged in sexual activity since 1977 has become moot. All donated blood, regardless of the status of its donor, is mandatorily tested for any bloodborne pathogens. Some current testing methods can detect antibodies in response to
the HIV virus from nine to 11 days after infection, and the chances that HIV-infected blood is inadvertently used in a viable transfusion is one in 6.5 million. The Red Cross openly disdains the ban, saying that although it will continue to implement the FDA’s policies, they will “support the use of rational, scientifically-based deferral periods that are applied fairly and consistently among donors who engage in similar risk activities.” If administrators of the ban imply that the current practices against MSM are unfair and inconsistent, why then is this discriminatory and scientifically debunked policy still being implemented? The only logical reason I can think of is fear. Not that a healthy host will become infected, but rather the FDA — now presented with current statistics — is smarter than that. I believe it’s a public fear of gays themselves that’s influencing the FDA’s policy. I can’t really blame people for this; some darkroom aspects of gay culture frighten me as well. Generalizing a result of unsafe gay promiscuity to the whole community, however, would be similar to me claiming that all members of a fraternity are date-rapists, or that all Republicans are Christian zealots. Stereotyping a group based on a fear of its darkest and most disagreeable qualities only serves to promote ignorance and a further fission of ideologies, consequently leading to discriminatory practices. In the case of MSM blood donation, until the public eliminates the filter with which they view gay society — and learns to judge the gay community as an assembly of individuals sharing a common, overarching trait — we’ll continue to be banned.
I believe it’s a public fear of gays themselves that’s influencing the FDA’s policy.
Austin Davis can be reached at austchan@umich.edu.
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Sleep and beauty
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he Detroit Free Press featured an article in May titled “Snooze or Lose,” by Patricia Montemurri. After reading a few lines, I quickly discovered that the article focused primarily on the importance of sleep in the lives SIERRA of women. If the article focused BROWN solely on sleep’s ability to reduce health issues I would have no complaints. Instead, the author used more than a third of the article to discuss how sleep was “better for beauty.” The article discussed studies that have shown that women apparently need more sleep than men do. Women, however, are not the only ones who wake up irritable in the morning. I rarely do. However, if we do, we are not compelled to stay mad 24/7. Are we to assume that men always wake up happy and full of life? I think not. Everyone has bad mornings. Montemurri’s article stated that without “restful” sleep women risk waking up mad or hostile, and even have an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. “Why We Need to Pay More Attention to Women’s Sleep” is an article featured in The Huffington Post, which argues that women sleep differently than men. Similar to claims made in Montemurri’s article, the article says that women tend to be more sleep-deprived than men, and are at an increased risk for insomnia. There are biological and physiological reasons that explain why women sleep differently: “the sex chromosomes and gonadal hormones primarily contribute to the biological and physiological differences, and these are called sex differences.” In addition, environmental, social and cultural influences on biological factors contribute to gender differences. Montemurri’s article featured sections on sleep aids for mothers, women with insomnia and sleep apnea’s effect on women going
through menopause. Sleep apnea is a serious sleeping disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep. In Montemurri’s article, Neurology Prof. Dr. Ronald Chervin, director of the University of Michigan Sleep Disorders Center and the Michael S. Aldrich Sleep Disorders Laboratory, conducted a study showing that patients who were treated for sleep apnea experienced improvements in their facial skin. After viewing photos of these patients’ after-treatment images, women described the images as “more attractive, youthful and alert.” Are patients only interested in the treatment for its physical results? I assumed the most important part of the treatment was actually treating sleep apnea, which is associated with heart disease and diabetes. Are women only concerned with how beautiful and youthful the treatments will make them appear? Well, why shouldn’t they be? “Now we’re starting to use the argument — you’ll look younger, more attractive and more alert to people who see you,” Chervin said. Doctors and society tell women that looking beautiful and youthful is important. Amy Alkon wrote an article for Psychology Today, “The Truth About Beauty,” which insinuates that more attention is given to the physical appearance of women than men. Alkon claims that there are certain realities that most of us accept, and among those is the ugly truth that most men will not look at an unattractive woman. But what makes a woman unattractive? A great deal of evidence shows that men prefer women with the following features: “youth, clear skin, a symmetrical face and body, feminine facial features, an hourglass figure … full lips, smaller chins, and large eyes.” Women do not place as much emphasis on men’s looks, and are more interested in
finding male partners with high status and power. At some point in life, most of us have been told that looks don’t matter. Did society miss this memo? Alkon’s article disclosed, “The more attractive the woman is, the wider her pool of romantic partners and range of opportunities in her work and dayto-day life.” This is among one of the ugly truths she mentioned, creating “[women’s] desperation to look like they were born yesterday.” Why does society not pick on men for not looking aesthetically pleasing? I am not willing to believe that people genuinely do not care about men’s appearance. There is nothing wrong with drawing attention to women’s health, but when beauty is included the topic loses a bit of its importance. I would have preferred to read an article that focused on informing both men and women that more sleep is important to their health. As a woman I am proud to say that I am not consumed with men’s and society’s unrealistic standards of beauty. I accept the fact that my face and body are not perfect, but neither is anyone else’s. I believe that good sleep and a healthy body are 10 times more important than physical beauty. I prefer to worry about receiving an adequate amount of sleep and maintaining decent health rather than worrying about ridding myself of all the spots and blemishes that decorate my face. Without sleep I become useless because my body has zero energy. As college students, sleep is something we yearn for and can never seem to get enough of. Ladies, let’s attain restful sleep because we need it to be productive and excel here at the University, not because we are obsessed with looking beautiful and youthful.
At some point in life, most of us have been told that looks don’t matter. Did society miss this memo?
Sierra Brown can be reached at snbrown@umich.edu.
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There is a certain mindset that one has when he or she goes into a movie about B a man who gets turned Tusk into a walrus. At Rave and You’re not Quality 16 going to walk Demarest and into “Tusk,” no matter Smodcast what reviews you’ve read about it, expecting “Citizen Kane.” This is one of those movies that you can tell from the trailer alone whether you should see it or not. Go watch it, and if you made it through that ridiculousness with your sense of humor intact, “Tusk” will be worth your time. The film is clearly a passion project for director Kevin Smith (“Zack and Miri Make a Porno”), who has finally crossed the fame threshold to the point where he can make wide-release horror films about surgically morphing a man into a walrus and no one can tell him he can’t. The much-discussed, ridiculous plot of “Tusk” originated on the Smodcast, Smith’s
weekly podcast he co-hosts with his longtime editor Scott Mosier. The film follows Wallace Bryton (Justin Long, “Accepted”), an obnoxious, unlikable, but highly successful podcaster. Sound familiar? Smith fans will notice familiar trends in Bryton’s speech patterns; the character is highly autobiographical. Bryton, after a chance encounter in a Canadian bar restroom, decides to interview a reclusive naval veteran (Michael Parks, “Django Unchained”) for his popular podcast (yeah, it’s called “The Not-See Party”). Soon, however, Bryton finds himself drugged, cut up and mutilated, discovering that the insane man desires to … well, you probably get it by now. Considering how silly the plot is, “Tusk” has a particularly clever script. This is light-years funnier and more intelligent than comparable spoof-horror movies like the “Scary Movie” franchise. The essence of the film’s humor is its understated self-awareness. Breaking the fourth wall is such an overused trope in spoof movies and “Tusk” thankfully avoids it completely, instead relying on legitimately clever dialogue and ironic visual flourishes in the vein of the jumpy, cheesy editing of the “Evil Dead” franchise. When “Tusk” isn’t funny, it’s actually kind of terrifying. You
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see Justin Long get torn apart over the course of the movie, with an appropriate amount of disturbing screaming and intense gore. It’s tolerable, because Long’s character is so unlikable, but squeamish viewers may find themselves frequently looking away. Perhaps the film’s strangest feature is its almost secret inclusion of Johnny Depp (“Pirates of the Caribbean”) as alcoholic French-Canadian investigator Guy Lapointe. You know and love Depp for his offbeat performances, but until you’ve seen “Tusk,” you have yet to see Depp at his weirdest. His performance is not even particularly funny, it’s simply one of the most bizarre appearances in any film. “Tusk” is the definition of a solid “B” movie. Both the overall concept and the dialogue are legitimately clever, and the film is self-aware enough to make its low-budget aesthetic negligible. Best of all, besides “Boyhood,” no other film this year is as wholly original. If you can put yourself in the “yes, I am going to enjoy this really dumb thing for the next 90 minutes” mindset, you will have a great time with “Tusk.”
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The atmospheric city of Bruno Heller’s “Gotham” is familiar; suspended in perpetual smog and held together by a spider-web of back alleys, B+ it practically oozes cheap Gotham neon. This is Mondays the glum dys- at 8 p.m topian scape of “Blade Run- FOX ner” and “Sin City.” It’s a formula, in a sense, but there’s never been a more dazzling shithole on the small screen than in FOX’s new series “Gotham.” I’m a noir-lover, so there’s a special place in my heart for its aesthetic trappings: the impeccable blonde who doesn’t seem to have commitments beyond gliding through her apartment in slinky silk, the cynical detective with a chip on his shoulder and a flask in his pocket, the ubiquitous shots of Chinatown street markets in the murky depths of Lower Manhattan — it’s all there in the anachronistic, rain-slicked Gotham. As a prequel to the canonical Batman story, Bruce Wayne won’t fly to rescue for a couple decades, and now it’s crumbling under corruption. “Gotham” starts out with a minx-y Catwoman (newcomer Camren Bicondova) lurk-
ing in the shadows of an alley as Bruce Wayne becomes an orphan. That scene encapsulates the extent of my comic book knowledge, and “Gotham” asks for little more. This isn’t a show catered to fandom, yet knowledgeable viewers will catch the handful of unobtrusive winks and nods. It’s also good for the show to immediately get the iconic scene out of the way; Bruce Wayne’s development isn’t the center of the show and the adjoining investigation guides us through a string of characters that populate Gotham. Stepping into the aforementioned central narrative gap is young Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie, “The O.C.”), a fledgling detective new to inter-department politics and corruption, who gets the Wayne case. His hardened partner, Harvey Bullock, (Donal Logue, “Sons of Anarchy”) has been in the system long enough to not want the high-profile investigation on his hands. However, they meet young Bruce who has some mature heft penciled in by brooding David Mazouz (“Touch”). Sean Pertwee’s Alfred Pennyworth gives a refreshing iteration of the trusty guardian; he doesn’t have Michael Caine’s precise courteousness, a hair more thuggish than gracious. Gordon playing the naïve guy un-warped by the crooked bureaucracy isn’t the most con-
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vincing; he’s a little too accepting of the alliance between organized crime and uniformed enforcement that’s revealed in the pilot. However, the peripheral villains who encroach on law and order are well-acted and able to pick up the slack. In particular, Fish Mooney (Jada Pinkett Smith, “Madagascar”) is a welcome female addition to the ranks of mob-boss overlords who populated various Gothams over the years. Smith has a darkly liquid presence, equal parts menacing and sexy. Her duplicitous minion, pre-Penguin Oswald Cobblepot (Robin Lord Taylor, “The Walking Dead”) is desperate and creepy, sure to develop throughout the season. “Gotham” will be an unusual brand of procedural occupied by larger than life characters, which is an intriguing enough premise to continue watching. More than that, sans the large names the movie franchises have, “Gotham” still captures the cinematic gloss that’s made superhero movies so watchable for non-fans. For its family-friendly 8 p.m. timeslot, it’s a grim hour full of gloom and gore and rumblings of the city’s imminent disintegration. The “Batman” franchise has always blurred the edges between the two institutions, law enforcement and the villains, and the show carries on this skeptical tradition.
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Alt-J transcends alt genre in new album ‘This Is All Yours’ shows band’s eclectic style By YARDAIN AMRON Daily Arts Writer
Remember that epic spaceship scene in Alien (1979), when Kane (John Hurt) is slurping A chow-mein one second and This Is All chest-bursting Yours a bloody alien the next? Lead Alt-J vocalist of Alt- Infectious Records J, Joe Newman, does. He even wrote a song about it — called it “The Gospel of John Hurt” — and it’s as weird as it sounds, maybe even emblematic of Alt-J itself: The band’s outsider essence on its sophomore album, This is All Yours, refuses to conform to any label. The song begins with Tetris. The narrator likening himself to the life of an “L-shaped” tile with “no space … to fit in” — like an “Alien.” Dehumanization at its finest and a smooth segueway into the chorus, the climax, where the narrator’s “chest bursts like John Hurt.” There’s no happy ending here. Hurt is more than hurt, he’s dead, and his gory guts are splayed across the ship. Newman’s narrator, invoking the prophet Jeremiah and chanting “E-X-T-I-N-C-T,” seems headed for a similar grizzly end. Other songs are also creepy and complex. “Arrival in Nara” describes a girl drowning (“Rope constricts / Rips her towards the ocean”) who accepts her fate, and dies in a fit of synesthesia (“I can hear her smile as she sings”). “Bloodflood Pt. II” is about — you guessed it — blood, and Newman is vivid like usual in showing us the “slash slash” of “Razor blades on a melted toothbrush.” “Hunger of the Pine,” is not about eating pine trees as I thought …
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but ‘pining’, which is that feeling when (basically) love turns to shit and your heart is shattered and sickens your mind and body — all through a well-talked-about Miley Cyrus sample. But there’s something also funny here that I’m missing, some playful quality to the album that was nonexistent on An Awesome Wave, the band’s MercuryPrize-winning first album. You hear in the instrumentation on “Garden of England,” a Shireesque interlude filled with birds and cheerful wood flutes (played by Hobbits?) that on any other album, would feel completely out of place. You hear it on “Left Hand Free,” where Newman has filtered his voice to mimic a trucker-dude on the radio, so we can imagine him wacking it with his free left as he speeds down I-90. And you hear it with silly lines like: “Turn you inside out to lick you like a crisp packet” or “Love is a pharaoh and he’s boning me.”
Call it prog-rock, indieelectronica, experimental-folk, whatever soothes our craving to label and define. But This Is All Yours just doesn’t fit all neat and tidy in any one box. “Warm Foothills” is too ethereal to be rock, “Arrival in Nara” too acoustic to be electronica, “Leaving Nara” too synthesized to be folk. I don’t mean to dismiss genre as superficial or claim Alt-J has transcended its wide grasp. Genre is important, and helps us categorize a piece of art so we can gain a deeper understanding of both it and its relationship to others. At least in theory. But I feel like we think of genre too squarely, use it too flippantly. This Is All Yours is great because it challenges us to examine the borders of genre, and maybe, refuse its grasp. If you don’t believe me, find me another band that can sample Miley Cyrus successfully. Come on, that’s radical.
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There are few things better than a good scary movie … for me, at least. I count “The Shining ” as one of my favorite films. I saw “The Omen” remake on 6/6/06. I haven’t missed an opening weekend of any of ALEC STERN the “Saw” installments. (There were seven of them … seven.) But television horror is an entirely different beast, if not solely because it’s so much harder to pull off. Whereas horror movies are almost always characterized by their quickly developing narratives and one, simple mission — get in, get scared, get out — that mentality doesn’t work on the small screen. When 90 minutes becomes a potentially years-long saga, there needs to be something more. One of the newest offerings in the horror TV landscape is FX’s “The Strain” from writer-director Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”). The series premiered on July 13 and was met with a warm critical and commercial response. But as the season comes to a close, I find myself questioning the series’ viability in the long-run. In other words, I’m beginning to think this show kind of sucks. Don’t get me wrong; “The Strain” is scary, and it’s featured some of the most genuinely terrif ying sequences I’ve ever seen on television. But this isn’t the big screen, and after many hours of commitment to the series — much longer than any horror movie — it’s clear that “The Strain” uses horror in more ways than one. In reality, “The Strain” hides behind its genre, akin to a costumed kid on Halloween. The appearance might do the job, but ultimately, it’s all just a ruse. Because really, “The Strain” isn’t a good show — a fact that becomes clearer with each passing week. It’s full of stock characters, cheesy dialog ue and illogical developments, chief among them that bureaucratic red tape holding Ephraim back from fighting the bloodthirsty monsters
terrorizing New York City. Or that every infected character, as their eyes bleed and their hair falls out, continues to insist that it’s “just the f lu.” Even the best of Hollywood’s recent major horror movie releases — “The Conjuring ” and “Insidious,” both from James Wan — weren’t narratively exceptional. The former was a run-of-the-mill exorcism drama, while the latter stretched for a hokey mytholog y. But at slim running times, none of that really mattered. Ultimately, each was not only thrilling, but inventive in their thrills, catapulting them among the most successful horror movies. The best of Hollywood’s recent TV horror additions, however, are far more spectacular than “The
‘Hannibal’ a stunning example of horror on TV. Strain,” or even “The Conjuring ” and “Insidious.” Tucked away on NBC ( yes, NBC), the second season of “Hannibal” outshined everything else on television so far this year; that includes “True Detective,” the fourth season of “Game of Thrones” and the first part of “Mad Men” ’s final season. It’s undoubtedly the greatest horror series on television, not because it’s frightening, but because it can be defined by so much more than fear (though a late season Michael Pitt episode will most certainly give you nightmares). “Hannibal” is exceptionally well written, fantastically acted and stunningly crafted. And on top of it all, its visual splendor provides so much depth and nuance that it’s almost impossible to classif y the series at all. “Hannibal” isn’t just one thing, and all of its moving parts come together in such a delicate and profound way that you’ll forget all about Anthony Hopkins or any of the source material that inspired it. On a different FX series,
the creators have also mastered the horror genre as it pertains to television. Despite the fact that it’s in the name, “American Horror Story” doesn’t put horror first. Because when you’re telling a story that’s 13 hours long, and takes its audience months to experience, being scary isn’t enough. On all three of the series’ iterations, the horror is supplemented by complex characters, believable story arcs, dark humor and frequent, if not always impactful, social commentary. The other day, my brother asked me what “The Strain” was even about. “Vampires,” I said. “But not like, sexy vampires. They’re scary.” He was unimpressed, but there wasn’t really much else I could say to try and impress him. Conversely, what is “American Horror Story” about? Take the first season — “Murder House.” Its logline: A family moves into a house that is also home to all the ghosts of the people who have died there. But that’s just a starting point to navigate the real nuances and dimensions of its characters — “Horror Story” ’s Trojan horse. Holistically, the first season is about marriage, young love, death and deceit. It explored infidelity and grief in the face of trauma. It gave us Jessica Lange’s fascinating portrayal of Constance Langdon. It was serious enough to tackle school shootings and weird enough to have an unclothed Dylan McDermott fight a masked man in a rubber suit. And on top of it all, it was frightening. From its chilling opening sequence to its home invasion-themed episode to its “Rosemary’s Baby”inspired ending, “Murder House” was still plenty scary. But first and foremost, it was good. That isn’t the case with “The Strain” — because even after ten hours, it’s still just about vampires. And if I could potentially be watching this show when I’m 26 or 27, just about vampires isn’t going to cut it.
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Saturday’s good, bad and (mostly) ugly By ALEXA DETTELBACH Daily Sports Editor
The Daily football beat picks out the good, the bad and the ugly from this week’s loss to Utah. The good The defensive line did its job at a very high level. Sophomore defensive tackle Willie Henry scored the team’s lone touchdown in a second-quarter interception, where he tipped the ball to himself and ran it in for a seven-yard score. The defensive line made stops all afternoon and held Utah to 286 total yards, the Utes’ lowest output of the season. It was the third straight game the unit held its opponent to fewer than 100 yards on the ground. Despite Michigan’s meager
2-2 record, the Wolverines’ defense is ranked first in the Big Ten in total defense and has the line to thank for it. While the unit produced only one turnover, Michigan sacked Utah’s quarterbacks three times — a season high. The Wolverines have forced just two turnovers through four games and are currently minus-10 in the turnover battle, which is last in the conference. The bad Utah’s big plays are the bad this week, because they’re what got the ball rolling for the visiting team on Saturday. The first one came toward the end of the first quarter. Michigan had forced the Utes to punt on their first possession, and it looked to be doing the same on the second. But on third and five,
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quarterback Travis Wilson threw a screen pass that turned into a 67-yard gain and set up Utah for a field goal. On the second play of the second quarter, the Utes’ struck again when Kaelin Clay returned a punt 66 yards to the house. Upon further review, it appeared the Wolverines had 10 players on the field during the return. The next big play came in the second half, when Wilson found Dres Anderson for a 28-yard touchdown that put Utah up 20-10. At this point, Michigan’s defense looked tired as it chased the Utes’ fast-paced offense. While there were many things that went wrong for the Wolverines, the big plays they allowed made it too hard for the struggling offense See MOSTLY UGLY, Page 3B
Utah game proves it’s time for a change T here stood Brady Hoke, his arms folded and nearly 10 yards away from defensive coordinator Greg Mattison. They both looked away as if they were high school students who wanted nothing to do with GREG each other. GARNO The Michigan head coach had pulled Mattison back before he yelled, “get off the f-----g field” and the pair argued with each other. He called it a “discussion,” but that’s probably not what having dinner looks like. Frank Clark had thrown Utah quarterback Kendal Thompson to the ground
for a loss of 13 yards and Michigan had been flagged for sideline interference. Mattison had run onto the field to get the attention of his defense, and other players leaked out. So Utah had a closer chance at a field goal, and it had more time to run a play, and Michigan’s shortcomings in the first half were magnified more than they had been before. Some fans booed, others left the stadium. Even more called for Hoke’s head online. They evacuated from the stands when a rain delay came, the one that had mercifully stopped the game, and fewer than 1,000 returned for the final eight minutes to watch more of the same. Those fans exited quickly. One wondered aloud, “I thought he could pull it off,
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but I don’t know what they were thinking there in the end.” The rest remained silent. They had used up all their words. Michigan walked off the field, dejection on their faces and a not even a handful of its fans to console them. Utah fans came back with a larger crowd staying to the end to sway with their band. The fight song played as if it were a home game. Hoke lost his composure on the sideline Saturday. And he’s losing support fast, if he hasn’t lost it already. The players are imploding, too. Devin Gardner underthrew receivers. When he didn’t underthrow them, he threw to the wrong team. It’s been much of the same. Shane Morris wasn’t the answer — he threw an See CHANGE, Page 2B
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he stadium was never really full in the first place, but by the end, the hundreds of fans who remained had their pick of seats in Michigan’s massive venue to watch the final seven minutes unfold. Those who stayed waited until the end. The rest, the vast ALEJANDRO majority of ZÚÑIGA the 103,890, left well before then, streaming out of the gates when it began raining in the third quarter, and when Devin Gardner threw his second interception shortly afterward, and when backup Shane Morris threw one of his own shortly after that. The 144-minute lightning delay nearly cleared out the rest. And who could blame them for leaving? Those who stay are champions. That’s the mantra. But Saturday, almost everyone left, because Michigan gave them no reason to stay. The wind and downpour formed puddles, even under the roof in the club level concourse, where those who stayed took pictures, chatted or just sat quietly to observe the empty colossus. They watched as the rain cascaded down the concrete steps until it pooled inches deep in the first row then waterfalled onto the artificial turf. The drainage system was no match, and soon the water encroached onto the end zones and sidelines. One family stayed because they had driven 15 hours from South Dakota. A father stayed because it was parents weekend and his daughter was in the marching band. Some stayed out
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interception and completed just four passes. The line couldn’t consistently protect them. It couldn’t open enough holes on the inside to make room for Derrick Green. The Wolverines allowed a punt return for a touchdown, barely getting a hand on the returner. And all of this came against Utah. It came against a team that finished with just five wins last season. A team whose strength was quick passes and a fast tempo on offense because it doesn’t have the talent to run it up the middle or throw the ball more than 20 yards. The boos fell down, the rain came down harder and everything about a nightmare in South Bend returned. Everything about last season returned. Including the coach. After four years of recruits who haven’t materialized, and a bunch of sayings about winning the Big Ten and respecting tradition, and calling out fans who don’t stick by the program, Brady Hoke is 2-2 before the Big Ten season begins. Wins against Michigan State and Ohio State seem less probable with every second that ticks off the game clock. The Big Ten Championship is theoretically in reach, but realistically, it couldn’t feel farther away. “If (the booing) is all for me, then good,” Hoke said in his postgame press conference. “I don’t have a problem with that at all.” Dave Brandon stood in the back of the room, his lips
pursed and his arms folded. His focus undeterred from his head coach taking the blame. “It starts with me as the head football coach,” Hoke said, as he always has. “We’ve got to do a better job for these kids.” By now his words are hollow. It has come to this: either Brady Hoke has to change, or Michigan has to make a change. His team’s best play Saturday, after all, came from a cornerback who stopped a would-be touchdown short for a mere 67-yard gain. This team needs a head coach who can be more than a figure and help an offense make it to the red zone or reliable special teams. But he hasn’t proven enough he’s that figure. Because how can his goal of a Big Ten title really be intact when this is the reality with which the Wolverines are faced? Who else can be brought in on the staff to make a difference? What recruit can be hyped up enough to slowly develop into a top talent? What else is left? Maybe it’s not now. Maybe it’s not until the season is finished. Or maybe he does something to turn it around. But whenever, and whatever it is, something has to change.
“If (the booing) is all for me, then good. I don’t have a problem with that.”
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A couple hundred Michigan fans waited through the delay to watch the final seven minutes of the Wolverines’ loss.
of pure inertia — it was raining, their car was far away, and wouldn’t it just be worth it to wait it out? But most stayed in case Michigan pulled off the spectacular, so that some day their kids and grandkids might all hear the story of the greatest comeback in program history. Even though the Wolverines hadn’t scored an offensive touchdown and the coaches had been screaming at each other on the sidelines and the fans had been booing, they had hope. So they waited in the concourse and under overhangs until the lightning had passed and the field stopped resembling a natatorium. When the bands came back out, so did they, running to snag the bleachers closest to Michigan’s flooded bench. The Wolverines re-took the field, though there was no “M Club” banner. The cheerleaders pom-pommed and twirled to empty seats. But those who stayed began chanting “Go Blue” and singing “The Victors.” For Michigan’s fans, there has almost always been some
reward for those who stayed. Those who stayed have seen Anthony Carter elude an entire secondary for a game-winning touchdown. They’ve seen Braylon Edwards pick the ball from the night sky not once, not twice, but three times against Michigan State. They’ve seen Jeremy Gallon run unmarked on a wheel route, 115,000 screaming voices propelling the receiver down the field. Saturday, after the storm passed, the defense made a stop and the Utes missed a field goal that clattered off the left upright in an explosion of water. And for a moment, just a moment, there was hope. Then Morris fumbled and Michigan didn’t get the ball back until there was just 1:10 left, and even then, the Wolverines were at their own three-yard line. But the magic that once possessed Carter, Edwards and Gallon just wasn’t there Saturday. Because the last-gasp chance at a miracle played out like this: Morris faced pressure on first down, so he fled the pocket into the very back of the end zone,
tiptoeing to stay inbounds. He saw Dennis Norfleet streaking downfield near the 50-yard line, so he heaved a prayer as he was leveled to the turf. The pass fell incomplete. Norfleet stayed down, injured. And then those who stayed got angry. As the Wolverines waited in their near-empty stadium for Norfleet to hobble off the field, a man began to berate them. “Have some goddamn pride!” he yelled. “Play with some pride, some Michigan pride! “We’re going to the Rutgers game because we’re idiots!” To which a Utah fan muttered back, “have some loyalty, dude. It’s your team, for better or worse.” Morris threw incomplete three more times, the Utes took a knee to run out the clock and then the few who stayed finally left. And they might be back. But games like Saturday’s make the decision more difficult every time. Zúñiga can be reached at azs@umich.edu and on Twitter @ByAZuniga.
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‘M’ flashes big personality By ZACH SHAW Daily Sports Writer
Michigan volleyball coach Mark Rosen thinks something clicked for his team after a straight-set sweep of Eastern Michigan on Saturday night. If he’s right, that could have big implications for the Wolverines and their opponents in the Big Ten. In the final non-conference game before the daunting conference season, Michigan (5-5) showed improved ball control and aggressiveness. But most importantly, the Wolverines showed personality and energy in arguably their best match of the season, just 24 hours after playing their worst. “Tonight was the first time I felt like I really saw the personality of this team and the style we’re going to play,” Rosen said. “At times, I feel like we’ve been throwing darts and trying to figure out how things are going to fit together. Tonight it really flowed.” After taking the first set from Kansas State (13-1) Friday night, Michigan fell flat on offense and defense, dropping the next three sets by increasing scores, which accumulated to 32 errors in the match. “(Kansas State) was a tough match,” Rosen said. “None of us really felt good about it in any way, and that’s hard to come back from when you only have 24 hours to refocus and turn the page.” Following the loss, the Wolverines had a long meeting to identify what had to change. For much of the season, youth and development have been common storylines for Michigan, and growing pains were expected in September. With setter Lexi Dannemiller — the lone senior on the team — on the bench with mononucleosis, the growing pains were all too
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Smith’s late tally continues streak By CHLOE AUBUCHON Daily Sports Writer
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Michigan volleyball coach Mark Rosen hopes his team’s panache amounts to more positive results on the hardwood.
evident. As disappointed fans trickled out of Cliff Keen Friday night, it was clear that the team needed something more. “One of the things we talked about last night, was what can we count on?” Rosen said. “What are we going to do well every night, even when we’re not playing as great as we want to. “(During the meeting) we came up with ball control and passing. That’s something we really do well, and let’s use that as our foundation and today that was the best they’ve passed all year,
so clearly they were up to the challenge.” In Saturday‘s recovery match against the Eagles (8-5), the Wolverines showed exceptional ball control all night, cutting their error total in half to 16, including zero in the first set. It showed in gameplay too, as even the most enthusiastic Michigan players could be seen highfiving, pumping fists and even smiling a little brighter as the team cruised from start to the positive finish. With seven teams in the top
“It’s an athlete’s responsibility to bring their game every night.”
25, the Big Ten will test the improved play of the Wolverines early and often. The first test from the nation’s toughest conference will come Friday in West Lafayette, when Michigan takes on No. 11 Purdue. “(Maintaining success) is a challenge for them,” Rosen said. “As coaches, we don’t have as much control as we like to think we do, they’ve got to be able to come out with that inspiration, that fight. We’ll keep working at it in practice, but the bottom line is that it’s an athlete’s responsibility to bring their game every night. “Every good team has a style of play that they know they can count on every night.” For the Wolverines, finding that style couldn’t have come a moment sooner.
The Michigan field hockey team kept its win streak alive Sunday in Kent, Ohio., defeating Kent State, 3-2. The 18th-ranked Wolverines (1-0 Big Ten, 6-2 overall) had the advantage KENT STATE 2 in every 3 MICHIGAN statistical category but often struggled to capitalize. Michigan converted on just 3 of 37 attempts, while Kent State (2-5) scored on 2 of 6 shots. So, while Michigan outshot and outcornered the Golden Flashes, it still found itself in need of some late-game heroics to seal the win. The winner came from fifthyear senior defender Leslie Smith. A dependable veteran and the Wolverines’ leading scorer, Smith converted on the team’s 10th corner opportunity when she one-timed a pass from fifth-year senior midfielder Sammy Gray past Kent State’s goalkeeper and into the lower right corner of the cage. “I don’t think that was our best game,” Smith said. “But we came out with a win, and that’s what’s most important. They’re a very physical team, but I think we stayed toe-to-toe with them.” Sophomore attacker Courtney Enge netted the first goal for the Wolverines midway through the first half on an unassisted effort after stealing the ball from a Golden Flashes defender and firing it into the net. Michigan dominated play in the half, outshooting Kent State, 18-2, but went into the locker room up just 1-0. “Their goalkeeper was outstanding,” said Michigan coach Marcia Pankratz. “Their
defense and their tackling skills were very strong. We were putting the ball on goal and we had an awful lot of shots, but that’s just the way the hockey game goes sometimes.” Just 13 seconds into the second half, the Wolverines doubled their lead with a goal by senior attacker Emy Guttman, who redirected a pass from sophomore midfielder Eliza Stein. However, the Golden Flashes didn’t go down easily, evening the score with two goals in the next 13 minutes. After Kent State got on the board, Michigan upped the tempo, drawing three corners and tallying seven shots before Smith’s game-winner. That tally sealed the Wolverines’ sixth consecutive victory. For Pankratz, her team’s drive and will to win overshadowed any technical shortcomings it may have shown. “It was a hard-fought game today, and I was really proud of how poised we stayed,” Pankratz said. “We didn’t get rattled, stuck to the game plan and worked hard to finish. We finished strong down the stretch and put the final goal in that we needed. That was a big game for us.” The win capped off an important weekend for Michigan, which opened Big Ten play on Friday with an overtime win at Penn State. Now that the team has proven it can win on the road as well as at home, Michigan is focusing on playing the game its own way and continuing its success. “We really try to take it game by game,” Smith said. “We’re being Michigan. “We’re playing Michigan field hockey, and I think we’re doing a great job of it.”
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Wolverines nearly perfect Michigan claims seven spots among event’s top 10 By SAM LEMMEN For the Daily
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The Michigan women’s soccer team lost to Rutgers by one, but it could have been worse if not for fortunate bounces.
Michigan held goalless By SHAWN HEROOR Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan women’s soccer team’s grueling schedule finally caught up with the “gassed” Wolverines 0 MICHIGAN on Sunday, 1 RUTGERS as they fell to Rutgers, 1-0 in Piscataway. The loss snapped a fivegame winning streak for the Wolverines (3-1 Big Ten, 7-3 overall). The Scarlet Knights outshot Michigan, 14-7, with the Wolverines failing to put a single shot on net. “We were just gassed,” said Michigan coach Greg Ryan. “(Rutgers was) rested and fresher than us from the first whistle. They were just better today.” A scoreless deadlock was finally broken in the 64th minute, when the Michigan back line couldn’t deal with a low cross, leaving substitute Jessica Puchalski with a simple tap-in. It was just the third goal conceded by the Wolverines during the past six games, but they were lucky not to have conceded more. The Scarlet Knights were
on the attack from the outset, nearly opening the scoring in the seventh minute. An errant cross from Rutgers forward Amanda DeVolk looped over Michigan keeper Megan Hinz, hitting the inside of the post before being cleared away by the defense. The Wolverines’ best chance of the first half fell to sophomore left back Bailey Haydock, who shot just over the bar from 10 yards out. “We couldn’t create much,” Ryan said. “We didn’t attack with any intensity at their goal. Our forwards just didn’t have any jump in their step.” The second half started much like the first, with Rutgers peppering the Michigan goal with attempts. In the 47th minute, the woodwork saved the Wolverines again, when Scarlet Knight forward Amy Pietrangelo’s drive from distance went off the crossbar. Rutgers then found the back of the net through Brianne Reed, but the goal was called back due to a foul. Puchalski finally punished the
Wolverines in the 64th minute, netting her second goal of the season. “Through the day, we were very organized defensively,” said senior midfielder Jen Pace. “I think it was one mental slip-up, that’s what lost us the game.” The Wolverines’ best opportunity to equalize came in the 78th minute. Sophomore Madisson Lewis received the ball in the box, but the winger’s shot was deflected before it could test the keeper. The Wolverines will need to recover quickly this week, as archrival Michigan State visits Ann Arbor on Saturday. “We’re already focused on recovering and getting ready for the Michigan State game,” Pace said. “With the way we played, and how intense the games with the Spartans are, we know we have to be ready to go.” It all starts with getting shots on goal, and Ryan and the Wolverines know they need to do a better job than Sunday.
“We were just gassed.”
The No. 1 Michigan women’s cross country team certainly justified its position in the polls on Saturday at the Big Ten Preview. The Wolverines kept the field behind them as seven runners finished in the top 10, four in the top five. “We just missed a perfect score,” McGuire said. Sophomore Erin Finn placed first overall, registering a time of 20:36.41 for the 6K race, 40 seconds ahead of the secondplace finisher. Finn missed the course record by just three seconds, not surprising for the Big Ten Athlete of the Year and individual Big Ten Conference Final champion last year. “Erin skews it a little bit because she’s good,” McGuire said. “I felt we had group improvement.”
MOSTLY UGLY From Page 1B to catch up. The ugly The easy answer here is the offense as a whole, considering it never made it into the red zone. But instead, we’re looking at the quarterback position. Fifth-year senior Devin Gardner struggled all afternoon. He threw two interceptions,
McGuire has said he wants his team’s top five finishers within 50 seconds of each other. In Saturday’s 6K, that almost happened when the Wolverines finished within 56 seconds of each other. The top three finishers for Michigan were Finn, junior Shannon Osika and senior Brook Handler. But McGuire also noted the improved performances of senior Taylor Pogue, freshman Megan Weschler and junior Taylor Manett, who finished fourth, sixth and eighth, respectively. The Ashton course in Iowa City, Iowa, was the Wolverines’ first time competing against other schools this season. “We were excited to see different-color shirts,” said Michigan coach Mike McGuire. “And then to get on the Big Ten course.” The Wolverines appeared to
have no trouble with the course, and the team gained insight on where it will be running at the Big Ten Championship. In just six weeks, the Wolverines will be returning to Iowa City in hopes of claiming a Big Ten title. “We definitely came out with some post-race observations that the athletes didn’t have going in,” McGuire said. “And obviously it will be a different scenario weeks down the road.” The Big Ten Preview featured four conference teams, including No. 16 Wisconsin, who finished second in the event, more than 50 points behind the Wolverines. “There are definitely some things about the course that might (make people) think it’s easier than it is,” McGuire said. “Sometimes things that might look subtle when you’re warming up on the course aren’t so subtle when you’re actually racing.”
and when he didn’t turn the ball over, he was overthrowing or underthrowing the receivers. From the first snap of the game, Gardner looked uncomfortable behind center. While the offensive line struggled, the unit sporadically gave Gardner some time to get rid of the ball. But the quarterback was unable to escape and either took the sack or ran for little or no gain. The most popular player on a struggling football team is
usually the backup quarterback, but that may no longer be the case at Michigan. Sophomore Shane Morris relieved Gardner of his duties in the fourth quarter, one series before the rain delay. And while Morris grabbed a couple of first downs with his legs, he has yet to throw a touchdown and ended his first series with an interception. Following the rain delay, Morris fumbled the football and upped the quarterback turnovers total to four.
“We were excited to see different-color shirts.”
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Five things we learned: Utah 26, Michigan 10 By GREG GARNO
another went right down the middle to Utah linebacker Gionni Paul. Gardner’s day — 14-for-26 with two interceptions — was a disaster, and it wasn’t the first time it’s happened this season. It was enough to bring in sophomore backup quarterback Shane Morris in his place, leaving Gardner on the sideline for much of the fourth quarter. Saturday, he reaffirmed his three-interception game against Notre Dame and his limited role in the air against the RedHawks as a trend.
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Everything seemed to fall apart in the Michigan football team’s 26-10 loss to Utah on Saturday. And the two-anda-half-hour rain delay almost seemed to be a welcome respite. The Wolverines were exposed against the Utes, struggling in nearly all areas of the contest. Here are the five things we learned after a wild, wet affair. 1. The defense will carry this team: This much is clear: Michigan’s defense is the reason it had a chance to win on Saturday. Utah entered Saturday with the No. 3 offense in the country, averaging 557.5 yards and 57.5 points. But the Wolverines held them to 286 total yards. Utes’ quarterback Travis Wilson and the potent passing attack finished with 205 yards. Just three passes went for more than 20 yards, including a short seven-yard pass that turned into 67 yards. The rush defense eliminated the ground game, the pass rush finally got to the backfield to record three sacks and they grabbed an interception. Michigan’s defense even provided the offense by way of redshirt sophomore defensive tackle Willie Henry’s touchdown return. And they did it all without starting senior linebacker Desmond Morgan, starting senior cornerback Raymon Taylor and starting junior safety Jarrod Wilson. If the Wolverines are going to win games, especially against offenses from Michigan State and Ohio State, they’re going to need a defense to compensate for an offense that can’t get into the red zone. 2. If you stop Devin Funchess, you stop Michigan’s passing attack:
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Junior receiver Devin Funchess and the Michigan offense were held without a touchdown Saturday afternoon. The Wolverines failed to reach Utah’s red zone.
Michigan couldn’t find the red zone because its game plan was abundantly clear. Every time fifth-year senior quarterback Devin Gardner threw the ball on Saturday, his first choice was junior wide receiver Devin Funchess. He was targeted 10 times on Saturday, more than any other receiver. But Michigan’s leading receiver hauled in just four passes as Utah often threw double or triple coverage his way. It didn’t stop Gardner from throwing to Funchess. Gardner’s other target, redshirt sophomore wide receiver Jehu Chesson couldn’t
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haul down passes that were overthrown or underthrown his way. Sophomore tight end Jake Butt and redshirt sophomore wide receiver Amara Darboh couldn’t get open fast enough to be targeted. Dennis Norfleet and Freddy Canteen are fast, but when Gardner needs to go downfield, they’re ineffective. So when Gardner steps back to pass, Funchess will be his target, even if three defenders are covering him.
“We’ll assess and compete and challenge all week.”
3. The running game, featuring Derrick Green:
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Stats can be misleading, but here’s one that’s not: Derrick Green rushed the ball 14 times and De’Veon Smith rushed the ball four times. The sophomore running backs were supposed to split carries, Michigan coach Brady Hoke said. But after Saturday, the competition is, in essence, over. It’s Green’s job now. Green was already coming off a game against Miami (Ohio), in which he rushed for more than 120 yards and two touchdowns. His 65 yards weren’t astounding, but it was more production than Smith’s five yards. That’s because Green realized that he couldn’t run in between the tackles. He had to rush to the outside and use his speed to pick up yards. Smith, meanwhile, was a victim of the line’s inability to get a push against Utah’s front
seven. Both are big and physical, but Green figured out a way to make something out of nothing. And he’s being rewarded for that. 4. Devin Gardner is indecisive and inaccurate: Gardner’s first two passes were completions. His next three fell incomplete. And in between, he couldn’t decide whether he should pass as the line collapsed or run. When he passed to Jehu Chesson in the first quarter, he underthrew him. His next pass was thrown into the middle of four defenders and knocked away from Funchess. The Wolverines were kept out of the red zone on the drive and held to a field goal. His throws went too far in front of receivers. One ball was tipped for an interception, and
5. Bold prediction: Shane Morris will be the starter before the Wolverines face Michigan State The conversation regarding a potential quarterback competition has changed in less than a month. In the middle of August, Hoke said Gardner would be the starter, as Morris watched and learned. But now, he’s reevaluating his signal callers. “We’ll have a quarterback for the Minnesota game and we’ll assess and compete and challenge all week,” Hoke said after the game. “We’ll see what happens.” That doesn’t mean Morris will impress by then, but Michigan will likely need a change of pace at quarterback and Gardner could always move to wide receiver if needed. And after Gardner travels to Rutgers or plays Penn State under the lights, something will give for Morris to step in. The sophomore out of Warren, Mich., didn’t have great stats in his limited time, but he showed flashes that he could still step in admirably. His 60-yard heave down the field, or his run to move the chains on third down was promising. Gardner is still learning offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier’s new system, and Hoke and company may very well think they’re ready to save time and start Morris.
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No. 22 Clemson vs. No. 1 Florida State (-10.5)
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Eastern Michigan vs. No. 11 Michigan State (-45)
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Troy vs. No. 13 Georgia (-42)
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THE MICHIGAN DAILY TOP-10 POLL Each week, Daily sports staffers fill out ballots, with first place votes receiving 10 points, second-place votes receiving nine, and so on.
1. FLORIDA STATE: In the end, Florida State f(lattened) Clemson quarterbacks right in the p(ocket).
2. ALABAMA: BBQ sauce from Alabama is made with mayonnaise. Mayonnaise!
3.OREGON: The Ducks beat Washington State by seven. Rutgers only beat Washington State by three. #B1G 4. OKLAHOMA: What do West Virginia and Oklahoma have in common? Lack of infrastructure and incest.
5. AUBURN: After a tough test at KSU, the Tigers have eight weeks to prepare until what figures to be the game of the century against Samford.
6. BAYLOR: The Bears didn’t play this weekend as they mourned the death of RGIII’s NFL career.
7. TEXAS A&M: Johnny Manziel almost caught a touchdown pass on a trick play this weekend. He plays for the Aggies, right?
8. MICHIGAN STATE: The Spartans beat Eastern Michigan by 49, and that’s not even the worst team in Washtenaw County!
9. OLE MISS: Mississippi didn’t play, and the exchange rate between Confederate and U.S. dollars stayed the same. Great weekend in Oxford!
10. SOUTH CAROLINA: It was wet and slippery in Nashville this weekend, and the Cocks’ linemen had a hard time penetrating their Vanderbilt counterparts, barely slipping by in the end.