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On Call: A glimpse of the ‘U’s Survival Flight program In Livingston, team plays vital role for UMHS’s criticallyill patients By IAN DILLINGHAM Daily News Editor
HOWELL, Mich. — Forty minutes from the bustling streets of Ann Arbor — two miles north of I-96 — the Livingston County Airport is encased with stillness, soothed with the faint hum of propellers.
Among fields and scattered houses, the airport primarily attracts small, privately-owned aircraft. Late on a Friday afternoon, ultra-light sport planes alternate landings with singleengine Cessnas under the command of pilots-in-training. The airport also plays a critical role for the University of Michigan Health System. At a remote corner of the facility lies the Livingston County Emergency Medical Services building, where a maize and blue helicopter can be seen on the tarmac. Livingston is home to one of the University’s three leased
Eurocopter EC-155 helicopters operating as part of the Survival Flight program, providing medical transport of critically ill patients around Michigan and neighboring states — many of the patients ending their journey at the University Hospital where they are able to receive specialty care not generally available in other health care facilities. At the Survival Flight headquarters, there is a self-described “firehouse mentality.” The only difference is that this “firehouse” is responsible for more than 200,000 square miles of populated areas.
Internships in Detroit attract many students By THERESE BREUCH For the Daily
As students begin filling out applications for summer internships, or attending one of the University’s career fairs, one Detroit-based company presents a range of options for them. Over the past three summers, Quicken Loans, the nation’s second largest mortgage lender, headquartered in Detroit, has taken approximately 17 percent of their interns from the University, making it one of the highest represented colleges in last summer’s internship program. Quicken College Recruiter Alisha Roberts interned for the company in the summer of 2011. When she started, the program was comprised of 200 students; it has now grown to over 1,000 interns each summer, with 173 of them coming
from the University Interns have been placed in wide variety of settings within the company, including accounting, information technology and mortgage operations. Quicken Loans and its chairman and founder, Dan Gilbert, have gained attention as harbinger of Detroit’s revitalization efforts. In August 2010, the company moved its headquarters and 12,000 employees from a Detroit suburb to downtown, accounting for a major portion of the 85,000 people working in the central business district. Costing about $1.3 billion, Gilbert has updated more than 60 properties in the city. “The goal here is to make downtown Detroit nothing less than an attraction and destination for both residents and visitors alike,” wrote Dan Gilbert in a March 2013 e-mail, Detroit Free Press reported. “I think the coolest thing is being apart of the comeback story,” Roberts said. When Roberts first moved to Detroit, she said there weren’t See QUICKEN, Page 2A
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He’s back. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, a University alum and speaker at the 2013 Spring Commencement, spoke Friday at the Ross School of Business in an event sponsored by Business fraternity Phi Chi Theta. In Blau Auditorium, Business senior Max Yoas, the vice president of Phi Chi Theta, and Costolo sat across from each other in armchairs on stage, creating an interview-esque setting. Yoas asked questions for the first half hour, followed by a question and answer session with the audience. Costolo discussed the grow-
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Down the hall from the main hanger, Kim Pacsai, a Survival Flight helicopter pilot, monitors weather patterns across most of the state. At 5:30 on a Friday afternoon, he is 10.5 hours into his 12-hour shift — the second day of his 7-day rotation. Looking at his computer, Pacsai points to a series of green indicators overlaid on a map of the state. Each one represents an airport or hospital helipad — green means the weather is favorable to fly. Except for a couple isolated spots in the northwest corner of the lower peninsula, the weather See FLIGHT, Page 3A
After speaking at ‘13 commencement, Costolo offers advice to students
ing potential of e-commerce and ad units, his management style and his previous career in improvisation comedy and run-ins with actor Steve Carell. Although scattered, each topic drew from ideas related to risktaking and pursuing passions. After graduating from the University in 1985 with a degree in Computer Science and Communications, Costolo said he moved to Chicago to pursue a career in improvisational comedy. Looking back at his days spent in the classroom, he recalled being the “last person in my computer science classes to become CEO one day.” Costolo, originally from Royal Oak, Mich., said he used to worry that people would judge him for not entering a traditional career following graduation. “If you live your life trying to do what is expected of you you’ll be frozen on the stage of your own life,” Costolo said. “If See TWITTER, Page 2A
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National, state economic outlook topic of conference Potential job growth, GDP surge debated By LEA GIOTTO Daily Staff Reporter
The University hosted its 62nd Annual Economic Outlook Conference in Rackham Amphitheater Thursday and
Friday. Sponsored by the University’s Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, the event featured 13 presentations focusing on the U.S. economy on the first day and Michigan’s economy on the second. Daniil Manaenkov, RSQE assistant research scientist, and Rackham student Matthew G. Hall, RSQE forecast-
ing team member, gave the conference’s first speech, which covered the country’s economic outlook for 2015 and 2016. “We expect that 2015 will be the year when U.S. economic growth will finally accelerate meaningfully,” Manaenkov said. He said he expects the overall economic growth, See CONFERENCE, Page 3A
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Engineering graduate student David Moore was named a 2015 Rhodes Scholar, the Rhodes Scholar program announced Saturday. He was nominated in September by University Provost Martha Pollack. Out of 877 American nominees by universities and colleges nationwide, 32 were chosen to be scholars, according to the program’s website. Moore’s efforts in improving the lives of people with disabilities and advancing medical research were spotlighted by the program, which funds studies for scholars at Oxford University in England across a variety of disciplines. As a part of his coursework, See RHODES SCHOLAR, Page 3A
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political ad. When he was first told that the Pope had entered the Twitter community, he believed it was a joke. Costolo highlighted that one shouldn’t set out to change the world, but should rather do what they are most passionate about. Business sophomore Nikhil Dungarani, who also saw Costolo speak at the 2013 Commencement speech, said this message of following one’s passion stuck out most to him. “If there’s one thing I took away from today it’s that you should follow your dreams and do what you really want to do with your life,” Dungarani said. Aside from life lessons, Costolo also discussed Twitter’s business model. When an audience member inquired whether Twitter’s signature 140-character tweet limit would ever change, Costolo declined to give a yes-or-
no answer. As business grows, he said, people involved become fearful of changing the popular product and hurting its success. But Costolo said he wants to avoid stasis. “We’re much more free-thinking about not having a religion about the constraints,” Costolo said. “People start to put barriers in their own way to being creative and having new ideas.” Costolo also addressed the growth in using social media to sell products. As opposed to displaying ads in a sidebar, Twitter displays ads as tweets, similar to how Facebook displays ads as posts on the newsfeed. If ads travel alongside the tweets, people are more likely to follow links. The conversation also touched on Twitter’s stock shares, which had jumped in value that morning.
“We have to start to realize that going forward, the external narrative is going to be based on what’s happening on the stock price,” Costolo said. “You just have to build this mindset of mental toughness and we decided we’re going to do this despite the noise.” Yoas said PCT decided to bring Costolo to the University both because he is an alum and because of “connections within the fraternity that know him pretty well.” “I really hope that people understood the impact and the power that social media has, both in everyday life and in businesses,” Yoas said. “I think it’s a really useful tool for businesses.” Yoas and other PCT administrators of the event declined to comment on the specific subject matter of the talk with Costolo,
because the fraternity decided to label the public event as “off the record.” Business Adjunct Lecturer Kai Petainen, a writer for Forbes, challenged that decision in a Nov. 22 and Nov. 23 article. Although Costolo did not determine the “off the record” status of the event, he took no action to challenge PCT’s decision, according to Petainen. Though PCT advertised the event as open to the public, the business fraternity asked journalists not take notes or snap photographs. A member of PCT asked the journalist from The Michigan Daily to see her notes. Members of PCT tweeted updates and photos of the event. Most problematic, Petainen wrote, was that PCT wanted to withhold potentially vital information about Twitter from shareholders.
“The greatest error in this event was in how the CEO’s comments were to be kept secret,” Petainen wrote in Forbes. “Twitter was a public stock, this was a public event, this was held at a public university and this was in front of a packed auditorium with hundreds of students.”
in line long for a sandwich,” she said. This past summer, however, when she went to Campus Martius, the park in the center of downtown Detroit, every table was filled.
“I think a big part of it is our internship program, and the fact that we bring 1,000 college students into the city, the urban core, every summer,” she said. Quicken Loans’ objective is to bring young people into the city and send them back to their campuses with a better understanding of Detroit. Business junior Sarah Waxman interned with Quicken Loans’ Accounting Department last summer and lived in Wayne State University’s dorms, where Quicken Loans housed their interns.
“My favorite part was probably living at Wayne State and just being able to explore Detroit and do a lot of fun things on the weekends,” she said. In their free time, the interns went to dinner, saw movies, visited the Eastern Market, and even took a trip to Belle Isle, an island in the Detroit River. Although Waxman cannot picture herself living in Detroit, she thinks there is potential for the city. “Right now there is like a hipster, underground sort of move-
ment going on, a lot of different cool, weird places and restaurants to go to,” she said. This past summer, Quicken Loans had over 17,000 applicants, nearly doubling the 8,000 applicants in 2012. “The interest is there in our company and our family of companies and that’s the really exciting part,” Roberts said. “My hope for any college student would be that they would want to be apart of something that’s bigger than themselves,” Roberts added. “I think that’s something that we
are uniquely offering college students” Genevieve Harclerode, the director of Experiential Learning and Employer Development at the University’s Career Center, said the high number of Michigan students Quicken Loans hires for internships makes it an organization the career center is excited to work with. “It’s also exciting for us to work with a company that really is deeply invested in the growth and revitalization of Detroit,” she said.
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tually going to help someone with their daily needs.” Moore also developed a new way to do needle biopsies as part of a project with the University’s Mechanical Engineering and Wu Manufacturing Research Center. “For me, I had no prior experience in the medical field, so it was really cool to follow around doctors and find out about devices they need,” he said. “The needle biopsy was really the first project I was given a lot of freedom on, proving a concept that a Ph.D. student had developed, and now I check in every once and a while and it’s still moving along…it’s exciting to see that I was able to contribute to a product that can
hopefully make life a lot more comfortable and easy for the patient and the doctor.” Moore, who is also a captain of the University’s varsity swim team, said finding time to balance both his sport and academics has been difficult but possible because of support from the Athletic Department and the swim team. “I can’t thank both those groups enough for providing me the support and opportunities that I needed to really further my education,” Moore said. “Because that’s what we’re really here for — a great education — so we can go out into the world and make a difference.” With the Rhodes scholarship,
Moore said he plans to pursue a one-year MBA program at Oxford after he finishes up the engineering and computer science masters program he is pursuing at the University. After that, he said he will explore options in technology and sustainability. “I’m really hoping to learn about different business models and how the tech industry with sustainable products can be marketed, and maybe even start my own company,” he said. ”But who knows what will happen in another two years — I could never have seen myself being a Rhodes Scholar two years ago — so things can definitely can change.”
Moore and a team built a mechanism which made it easier for individuals in wheelchairs to carry backpacks. In an interview with The Michigan Daily following his designation as a Rhodes Scholar, Moore said he enjoyed being able to work on team-based projects throughout his time as an undergraduate, especially those like the backpack carrier. “Being able to produce something that was one step closer to a device that could actually be used was cool, and it was practical,” Moore said. “We knew it was even-
Editor’s Note: While the event organizers asked that this event be held “off the record,” because the discussion was held in a University of Michigan building, advertised as open to the general public, and members of the fraternity tweeted live updates and photographs from the event, the Daily has decided that it is in the public interest to publish this story in line with our normal reporting procedures. PCT was not given the opportunity to review this story or change its content before publication.
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TOP ROW: Survival Flight helicopter pilot Kim Pacsai inspect one of the team’s three helicopters. BOTTOM LEFT: Pacsai logs flight miles at the Livingston Emergency Medical Services headquarters. The Survival Flight team is responsible for servicing over 200,000 square miles of populated areas. BOTTOM RIGHT: Pacsai wears a helmet and radio set equipped with night vision goggles during flights.
FLIGHT From Page 1A is good around the state today. “I’m here for 12 hours, and sometimes we fly, sometimes we don’t,” Pacsai said. Pacsai, a lifelong Michigan resident and graduate of Michigan Technological University, has been flying helicopters for over 30 years — eight years in the Marine Corps and 18 in the Coast Guard before spending the last five with Survival Flight. His job has taken him around the world. During his career, he’s been stationed in Michigan, California, South Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Alaska and Japan, performing transport flights, search and rescue and — in his current position — medical transport. Despite a relatively low number of transfers — Survival Flight typically runs about three calls per day — the program is involved in some of the most critical cases coming into the University. Most of the cases accepted by the program are transfers to one of the University’s intensive care units, where patients with potentially life-threatening injuries can receive around-the-clock care from a team of specialists, depending on the case. While these units are found at health
CONFERENCE From Page 1A measured by real gross domestic product output, to rise — from the current 2.2 percent to 3.1 percent in 2015 and 3.3 percent in 2016. Manaenkov and Hall also foresee 2.7 million jobs being generated in 2015 and another 2.6 million in 2016, for a total of 5.3 million across the country over the next two years. Michigan Research Prof. George A. Fulton, director of RSQE, discussed the job market forecast for Michigan in his presentation on Friday. He said the state will have created about 463,000 jobs between the summer of 2009 and 2016, with the largest growth being in the professional and business sector where 33,000 jobs are expected to be added. The economists predict that the unemployment rate for both the U.S. and Michigan should continue to fall over the next two years. Manaenkov and Hall predicted the national rate to lie at 5.4 percent at the end of 2015 and then drop to 5 percent by the end of 2016. Michigan’s unemployment rate is currently at 7.2 percent, but Fulton expects it to be at 6.7 after
systems around the state, certain types of specialty care can best be handled by experts at the University, requiring such patients be transported to University facilities, sometimes from hundreds or even thousands of miles away. To receive a Survival Flight transfer, a patient’s doctor must first contact a physician at the University and have them agree to take the case. From there, they can make a request for the patient to be transferred via traditional ground ambulance or by one of the handful of air transport programs currently operating in Michigan. Pacsai inspect one of the three Eurocopter EC-155 helicopters used to transport patients outside of the University Hospital. (Ruby Wallau/Daily) The key to a successful transfer, Pacsai said, is limiting the time out of the hospital. For critically-ill patients, even a couple of hours outside of the hospital can be detrimental to the recovery process. While ground ambulances can in most cases transport patients effectively, they are limited by certain factors, such as road conditions and distance between hospitals. The Survival Flight helicopters, on the other hand, can travel 300 miles at about 165 miles per hour, transporting patients from Grand Rapids to the University
in about 45 minutes, compared to a ground ambulance, which can easily take 2 hours under perfect conditions in no traffic. In general, Pacsai said ground ambulances also tend to be uncomfortable for the patient. “The helicopter can be rough, but in general our effort is to make it smooth and it can be a much smoother ride than some ambulances given the road conditions,” Pacsai said. In addition to the speed of transports, Survival Flight provides a higher level of care than standard ambulance services. The two flight medics that travel onboard the helicopter — responsible for providing care to a patient during transport — are registered nurses and paramedics. Based on this training, they are able to provide a similar level of care to what a patient might receive in any hospital intensive care unit. While ICU-to-ICU transfers make up about 80 to 85 percent of calls, the program also performs emergency scene calls as needed throughout the region. Pacsai said he has been called to land in some pretty unique locations, such as the M14-I75 interchange. In these situations, first-responders are responsible for assessing whether the helicopter is needed based on a combination of safety considerations, speed of transport and accessibility of the landing zone.
“My biggest reward for being (at Survival Flight) is the fact that we fly people who really need a ride,” Pacsai said.
serve, there’s always a backup plan.
Pacsai said his most important role in the program is to ensure the safety of himself and the crew. This emphasis on safety draws on first-hand knowledge of its inherent dangers. In June 2007, six members of the Survival Flight program died when their fixedwing aircraft crashed into Lake Michigan. “Our hearts are broken by this devastating and irreplaceable loss for the University of Michigan community,” said University President Emerita Mary Sue Coleman at a press conference the day after the event. In an interview with The Michigan Daily in March 2014, Coleman, reflecting on her time in office, said the weeks and months following that crash were some of the most difficult of her entire tenure, as she personally attended funerals for the deceased members of the University community. John Bullen, a flight nurse who has been with the program for more than 20 years, knew most of the people on the flight. The crash struck him and other members of the program hard, but in the years since they have rededicated themselves to improving safety. Still, he said they take pause every
June to remember the events and look for ways to improve. “If you think the work you do is important, one needs to carry on,” Bullen said. “That was what we did … It’s not ever going to be risk free, but we do everything we can do to minimize that risk.” Pacsai said the medical transport industry as a whole has made a similar commitment. His mentality has changed since his time in the service, an inevitable result of the change in responsibilities. He recalled a flight he took over Green Bay during his time in the Coast Guard in an effort to rescue someone who had fallen in the frigid water. The crew was “dodging rain squalls and thunderstorms” to get to the individual, flying close to the water in low visibility. Pacsai described the situation as “pretty dicey.” “The bottom line: if you put yourself in a situation where you feel uncomfortable, you’ve made decisions before that got you there,” he said. “You make the decision when you’re comfortable, so you don’t have to do the crazy stuff when you’re uncomfortable.” Unlike the Coast Guard and Marines, Pacsai said he feels no pressure to fly when conditions are poor at Survival Flight. He takes comfort in knowing that, within the health system they
2015 and a low 6.3 percent going into 2017. “In all, the Michigan economy has certainly come a long way in the past five years, and that progress should be celebrated,” Fulton said. Nigel Gault, Co-Chief Economist at The Parthenon Group, a consulting firm, disagreed with Manaenkov’s prediction for U.S. GDP growth. “We need to be realistic about long term growth in the coming years,” he said. “We should expect 2 percent (growth) rather than 3 percent.” Along with GDP and job growth, the housing market is projected to continue to recover slowly after home sales plummeted following the 2009 recession. “Job gains is the key determinant,” said David W. Berson, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company’s senior vice president and chief economist while presenting on home sales. “The good news is that job growth has been picking up, and the monthly gains (in home sales) in 2014 are by far the strongest in this expansion.” When asked which elements of his presentation of the conference as a whole he believed to be most relevant to college students, Manaenkov reiterated his predictions for the job market. “There’s research that suggests
that the state of the labor market when one gets their first job out of college has a permanent effect on lifetime income,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Because of that, current students who will graduate into a better market will probably be better off than those that did graduate recently.” Trends in vehicle sales, vehicle safety and gas prices were also a topic of discussion on both days of the conference. Nationwide, light vehicle sales are expected to increase. Manaenkov and Hall predicted 16.6 million units sold in 2015 and 17 million in 2016, with truck sales dominating the market as demand for SUVs and CUVs, crossover utility vehicles, increases. Richard Wallace, director of Transportation Systems Analysis at the Center for Automotive Research, discussed the vehicular innovations we should expect to see in the upcoming years, particularly in vehicle connectivity and communication. CAR is researching a topic called connected vehicles, which would allow close together cars on the road to communicate with each other and roadside infrastructure. Wallace hopes this communication would increase vehicle and roadway safety and mobility and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“You don’t need to know about vehicles that are miles away from you, but you do need to know about ones that are in your prox-
imity,” Wallace said. Manaenkov and Hall project gas prices to maintain their current levels, as oil prices should
remain stable at approximately $79 to $80 per barrel through 2016.
In Livingston, skies are blue and the winds are calm as Pacsai and the flight team approach the end of their 12-hour shift. Several members of the flight crew sit in the command center watching television, and one member from the following shift starts to unpack their gear for the night shift. A call comes in over a yellow handheld radio sitting next to one of the desktop computers — patient transfer, sepsis. The team plots a flight route toward Monroe. Once they pick up their patient, it will be a quick 20-minute flight to Ann Arbor. The patient is stable in the ICU, so Bullen and the other flight nurse take a couple minutes to call the hospital and get a more detailed patient history. If possible, they aim to show up at the hospital with all the necessary equipment already onboard. Five minutes later, the rotor blades are spinning. Pacsai sits at the controls running his pre-flight checklist. He checks left and right down the runway — gaining his awareness of traffic in the area — then slowly builds power, lifting the wheels off the ground and turning his aircraft toward the southeast corner of the field. “We give people a chance, that’s what they get.”
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Drinking in the open
A more accepting approach is needed to combat alcohol abuse. n an effort to curb drinking on campus, this year the University shortened Welcome Week. The University’s Division of Public Safety and Security’s improving statistics show promise but also raise concerns about the way the institution handles drinking. This year’s condensed Welcome Week saw a decrease in alcohol-related ambulance requests to University Housing and alcohol-related visits to University Emergency Departments, suggesting an improvement over last year. However, there was a sizable uptick of emergency calls from student housing off-campus. This inverse relationship suggests that while the University has curbed on-campus drinking, off-campus drinking has only worsened or faced increased enforcement. Thus in order to have a safer drinking culture on and off campus, the University must look to other options for controlling drinking rather than on-campus enforcement.
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The efforts to tone down Welcome Week brought about an increase of minor in possession tickets, which usually carry with them hundreds of dollars in fines and a probation period. The University’s response to the drinking culture on campus has mostly been granting additional funds to bolster enforcement and attempting to educate new students. The shift of drinking incidents from University facilities to lesscontrolled off-campus housing indicates that the University’s efforts might not actually be benefitting students, but driving them into even more unsafe drinking environments. The risk of relying on punishment to curtail the University’s drinking culture is that this might push the culture “underground;” it’s unlikely that college students will simply stop drinking just because the University strengthens its enforcement. It’s more likely that they will drink in environments that cannot be as easily monitored, as was seen this Welcome Week, thus putting them at greater risk. This approach also puts the futures of many capable students in jeopardy by pushing them into the criminal justice system. Grant money could be better spent finding ways to keep students safe without additional adverse effects. Other schools have succeeded in taking responsibility for the drinking culture at their school rather than throwing money at it. One of the most successful models is the National College Health Improvement Program, which has been gaining traction across the country. This program was developed at Dartmouth and focuses not on preaching the dangers of alcohol but rather use one-on-one motivational interventions that attempt to improve students’ lives by identifying and reducing the negative effects of alcohol’s.
Thirty-two institutions have participated in the program thus far, including several with higher enrollment than the University. A similar practice is having students that are heavy drinkers talk privately with a medical professional about their drinking habits. These educational approaches shift the conversation from normative right and wrong to realizing the actual effects of the drinking and could remove the glamour of partying. Stanford combines an “open-door” policy that keeps drinking safe and manageable for resident advisors and other staff, a party registration system that allows campus security to look out for student safety and a three-hour online alcohol education course to ensure that students do not hide drinking by doing it in unsafe environments. Rather than allowing their fraternities to host gameday tailgates at off-campus houses, Indiana University has them reserve designated lots in a field near their stadium. Limits on the size of the lots allow authorities to keep parties from getting out of hand and provide easy assistance in case of an emergency. Encouraging openness reduces the chances that students end up in situations where they can’t get the help they need, which is ultimately every university’s goal. The University’s legacy for academic and athletic excellence has garnered international recognition. University President Mark Schlissel’s aim to protect our reputation and our peers comes at a crucial time in determining the institution’s legacy, but students must be given the right incentives for this to happen. An approach of openness and comprehensive education offers the University the opportunity to shape the futures of Wolverines for years to come.
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e was a rising star when it happened the first time. When it happened again, his fame and power had only grown. The more he did it, it seemed, the more he was propelled into the stratosphere. Maybe it was an addiction. Maybe he thought it made JAMES him successful. BRENNAN Maybe he was a rich, successful man who thought the world owed him everything. We’ve known about this for a long time. It’s been the butt of jokes and discussed in depth on news shows. But it disappeared. We forgot, and we did so willfully. “The court case was settled!” we shouted, as if that gives us justification to consider him innocent. His lawyers and his money took the accusations of rape out of court, but it was us who took them out of our minds and conversations. In the court of public opinion, we threw in the towel. But why? We care about women. We care about rape and sexual assault. We care about justice that is both equal and blind. His power shouldn’t matter. Our adoration of what he has given us shouldn’t matter. But these things did matter. The journalists wanted to keep their jobs and avoid being shut out, so they took a back seat to power. His fans couldn’t imagine him being so perverse, so they labeled accusers opportunists.
And we all played along. He’s a powerful man, but more importantly, he’s our powerful man. An indictment of him means an indictment of ourselves. It was us who held him in reverence, who propelled him to his fame and influence. He sold us an idea that we all bought into, and he did it over and over again. All the while, he was ruining the lives of young women. He was putting his wife through hell. He was a god to us, and a demon to them. Maybe we let it all go because he left the limelight. He focused on his family. Wrote books and gave speeches. Did philanthropy and mentored entire communities. But he couldn’t stay away from the fame. He couldn’t leave the bright lights and the cameras, and we were happy to welcome him back. Our icon. Our hero. He’s old school, but his words and his work cut across all ages, all races, all demographics. He unites people. There were grumblings about his dark, degenerate past. But we adore him so much. He’s given us so much. How can we take these accusations seriously? We can’t, and we didn’t. We could forgive his shortcomings, even admitted marital infidelity. “No one is perfect!” “We all make mistakes!” “He came clean in the end, after all!” His wife forgave him, and we welcomed him with open arms. He made some bad decisions, he hurt people around him. But who among us hasn’t? After all that we’ve shared with him, well — he’s pretty much
family. We can forgive and we can forget. But rape — that is something we cannot forgive. His victims — they are people who cannot forget. Sexual violence penetrates deep into a person’s psyche, and seeing their assaulter may forever trigger pain. Their assaulter is on TV constantly. People applaud for him. They hold him up as a man to be admired. He’s beloved. How can they live like that? How can he live like that? How have we let them go on? Well, maybe we’re about to finally do something. Times have changed, and this cannot be kept quiet any longer. Women are taking back their agency, but survivors have tried before. This isn’t just about them. This isn’t about a takedown of someone famous. This is about all of us, and the guilt we all carry by way of silence. We refused to speak up. We refused to hold this man accountable. We refused to hold ourselves accountable for falling under his spell. We can’t abdicate our responsibility again, and neither can he. Maybe he will quit this façade of perfection that enchants his followers. Maybe he will succumb to the strict standard society has refused to enforce. Maybe as he has watched Bill Cosby collapse and refuse to answer allegations, he will do the opposite and hold himself responsible. Or maybe we’ll have to slaughter sacred cattle ourselves. — James Brennan can be reached at jmbthree@umich.edu.
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An open letter from SAPAC Trigger warning: this open letter addresses issues of sexual violence. Should you feel triggered by the content of this letter, or the circumstances surrounding its publication, please do not hesitate to reach out to an advocate at the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, or to utilize SAPAC’s 24-hour crisis line at (734) 963-3333. This letter is addressed to survivors of sexual violence on this campus — to those of you who chose to share the most vulnerable parts of yourselves at last week’s Speak Out, and to those of you whose process may not have brought you there yet, but who did the incredible work of bearing witness to each other’s stories. Before we address our reasons for writing this letter, let us first take a moment to acknowledge your incredible strength. You perform an extraordinarily powerful act of rebellion every second you survive on this earth and on this campus. We say this not to patronize you, or to minimize your struggle or your hurt, but because we genuinely believe that survivors are among some of the strongest, most resilient people — while the wind is constantly against you, you continue to stand tall. As student staff and volunteers at SAPAC, we are in continuous awe of your fortitude. Nov. 11 marked SAPAC’s 28th annual survivor Speak Out, an event that was meant to serve as a safe, confidential space for sharing, healing and growth. On a campus that so often drowns out the voices and wishes of survivors of sexual violence — your voices — with academic jargon and incomprehensible discourse that can distract the community from the core problems of sexual violence, Speak Out aims to create a space that is meant solely for you. Speak Out is clearly defined as a space where the confidentiality of your stories and identities are respected, and where your narrative and experiential knowledge are trusted absolutely. Speak Out should be a space where you are listened to, believed, validated, supported, and above all, respected. Unfortunately, some of the attendees of this year’s Speak Out chose to violate your safety and confidentiality in the moment and in days following. During the Speak Out, organizers affiliated with the group BAMN: By Any Means Necessary, a self-defined civil rights group on campus, violated your safety by co-opting the space for their own and using what was intended to be a survivor forum to instead advertise for an upcoming demonstration and otherwise promote their own organization. In the last few days, it has also come to our attention that members of BAMN have been speaking in classes and, while similarly promoting an upcoming demonstration, have been retelling stories
shared at Speak Out without the consent or knowledge of survivors. Not only is this an inappropriate violation of the terms of confidentiality agreed upon at the Speak Out, but it is also a gross transgression against those of you who shared your stories with the belief that your experience would be held confidential. Stealing these stories from you, robbing you of the ownership of your own experience, is reprehensible and once again takes power to make decisions about your experience out of your hands. As SAPAC volunteers, we stand firmly against these deplorable actions, and are absolutely devastated that a space we worked so hard to make a safe one was abused in this way. Please know that we have taken action to stop the spread of stories, and are continuing to work to ensure your safety and confidentiality. As members of an organization advocating for justice on structural, institutional, individual and interpersonal levels, we unequivocally support all movement toward civil progress, toward a safer and less hostile campus community for students of marginalized race, gender, class, sexuality, ability status or other identity. What we cannot and will not allow is for an organization to exploit your stories, your experiences or your shared vulnerability in the process. By treating you and your stories as no more than a means to a political end, BAMN has demonstrated, flat out, that it does not respect you or your experiences. At SAPAC, we believe that as a survivor you have the right to tell your story when, where, and to whom you want as a measure of regaining power and control in what can often feel like an uncontrollable situation. We want you to be able to share your stories in any and every space in which you feel comfortable, and we strive in our work as SAPAC volunteers to create and maintain as many such spaces as possible. To that end, we invoke the absolutely imperative adherence to confidentiality not to further silence you, but to preserve your right to share your story on your own terms. We do not, by any means, claim that creating these spaces is enough, or that our work ends there. There is so much more work to be done around the issues of sexual violence in regards to policy, education, prevention and survivor support. However, this was not the goal or focus of the Speak Out, and survivors who attended the event were not necessarily attending with the knowledge or intention that your stories would be used in a context of political action. As a survivor, you should not be expected to bear the burden of doing that work. You deserve spaces in which you can simply exist, as your whole self, with the full truth of your experience. We recognize and affirm that all survivors may not be at a place in their recovery where it is physically
and/or emotionally safe, comfortable or possible for you to do changemaking work. This is what we at SAPAC envision to be our role in this movement — to advocate for and with survivors, so that the heavy burden of change does not always rest solely on your shoulders, when you are already carrying so much weight. Overall, we want to apologize to you from the sincerest place in our hearts for this abhorrent violation of your trust and privacy. However, despite the sadness and frustration we feel over what has transpired, we want to once again thank each and every one of you who attended the Speak Out and shared your stories with us, as well as those of you who could not or did not share, but contributed your energy and your presence to the space. We hope that you still view Speak Out as a place where you can come to share your story and to find support from a community that can often feeling alienating. While we cannot undo the hurt that has been caused by BAMN’s actions, we are — both as individuals and as an organization — committed to creating and sustaining spaces that allow you to process, heal and grow in your own time and on your own terms. We want to continue to affirm and support you, your existence, your process and your individual experience as you traverse this issue — and we want you to know that you do not have to do it alone. We will be here, if and when you need us, every step of the way. In Solidarity, SAPAC Student staff and Volunteers The University Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center offers a variety of support and resources for survivors of sexual violence on campus, including personal and academic advocacy, connection to resources, help in navigating institutional policy and more. The SAPAC office is located at 2450 North Quad, and office hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday - Friday. SAPAC hosts a peer-led support group, which meets every Wednesday night 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. in the SAPAC office. Our 24-hour crisis line (734-963-3333) is available at all times for those in need of immediate assistance. For more information visit sapac.umich.edu, or do not hesitate to contact our office at (734) 764-7771. If you should feel the need to report an incident, please contact our Title IX Coordinator, Anthony Walesby; he can be reached at walesby@umich.edu. You can also contact his office, the Office for Institutional Equity, at (734) 763-0235, or at hr.umich.edu/oie/office.html. You can also contact the University’s Police Department by calling (734) 763-1131 or texting 377911. In an emergency, call 911. This viewpoint was written by Student Staff and Volunteers of SAPAC.
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“Do people like me yet?”
Stale ‘Affairs’ falls flat By CATHERINE SULPIZIO Daily Arts Writer NINTENDO
Just ate a bag of shrooms. Get it?
Wii U’s ‘Super’ a smashing success New installment of “Super Smash Bros.” delivers on hype By JACOB RICH Daily Arts Writer
To call “Super Smash Bros.” a great video game series would be an understatement. In the last several Ayears, the popular Super Smash fighting game has Bros. for certainly Wii U attained Sora Ltd. and cultural Bandai Namco phenomGames enon status, Nintendo with the Ann Arbor area becoming one of the many epicenters of its massive competitive scene. Its newest, biggest release, “Super Smash Bros. for Wii U,” is an enormous, painstakingly crafted multiplayer video game, one that deserves a hallowed spot in any collegiate gamer’s library. It has yet to reach perfection in its singleplayer offerings, but there exists no better option for local multiplayer fun this console generation. “Smash Wii U” is a unique entry in the series because its hardcore audience is already more than familiar with its characters and gameplay, thanks to the popularity of its portable sister “Super Smash Bros. for 3DS,” which was released in October. The game is inherently similar to its 3DS equivalent, but a few distinct features along with its incredible presentation make it worth purchasing in tandem. The game’s most distinctive new feature is its expansion from four player to eight-player support, effectively elevating the series from “the best dorm room game ever” to “the best dorm hall game ever.” Based on trailers and promotional materials alone, the idea of eight-player Smash may appear to be confusing and daunting. In practice, it works shockingly well. The five, six, seven and eight player matches I played with my friends were certainly more frantic than their smaller counterparts, but just as fun as each of the fourplayer binge-sessions I’ve had with the Smash bros. series for the last 15 years. The game also looks absolutely fabulous in HD, run-
ning at a very consistent 60 frames per second. The intricate designs of each character are more consistent with each other than ever, and their simpler color schemes work swimmingly with the increased resolution. The animation of each movement of each character is nearing Pixar levels of excellent, sensible onscreen motion. Like the 3DS game, “Smash Wii U” ’s fighting mechanics certainly won’t replace “Melee” (the most popular game in the series) in the hearts of competitive players. However, it is overwhelmingly evident that both casual and hardcore players will be able to find hundreds of hours of fun here. The combat is much faster and significantly more nuanced than its polarizing predecessor “Brawl,” thanks in part to its wider variety of characters, tweaked ledgegrabbing mechanics and increased speed in many of the fighters. “Brawl” does have one advantage over this new entry, however: its superior singleplayer modes. Those holding out hope that another singleplayer campaign to match the scope of “Brawl” ’s “Subspace Emissary” mode will be disappointed, as “Smash Wii U” lacks any kind of adventure mode. In its stead is an overlysimplistic board game mode called “Smash Tour,” in which up to four players compete to collect fighters and increase their stats on a minimalized version of a “Mario Party” game board. Like the 3DS’s “Smash Run” mode, it feels quite half-hearted and likely won’t entertain for more than a few playthroughs. It simply doesn’t have the style nor substance of “Subspace Emissary.” That mode felt like the best fan service a Nintendo fan could ask for, this feels like the only lazy part of an otherwise intricately and intentionally crafted game. Luckily, “Smash Wii U” sees the return of series staple “Event Match” mode, which was unfortunately absent from the 3DS game. Similar to previous games in the series, “Event Match” is a set of challenges and scenarios often inspired by the events and characteristics of each of the classic games represented in “Smash Wii U” ’s roster. This time, though, each of the many expertly designed events comes with an additional “For
Reward” challenge, many of which are among the most difficult and engaging challenges the game has to offer. And, like “Brawl,” “Smash Wii U” sports an entirely different set of “Events” to be completed in two-player co-op. “Smash Wii U” supports a staggering number of control options. Essentially every Nintendo controller released this millennium works with this game, in any conceivable combination. The GameCube controller is the best, most familiar way to play this game. That is, if you can track down the currently sold-out GameCube Adaptor, which, in a brilliant move, Nintendo released simultaneously with “Smash Wii U” specifically to cater to its hardcore audience. It would be criminal to review this game without mentioning its absolutely enormous soundtrack: the game sports perhaps the largest soundtrack in video game history. I have over 350 unique songs unlocked, and judging from various articles online, it would seem that I still have a lot more to find. It must have been a licensing nightmare to pull so many different songs from so many different series under so many different publishers. The My Music feature also returns from “Brawl,” presenting an easy way to navigate the soundtrack and toggle on and off your preferred songs. It remains to be seen whether the game’s online features are viable or not. I experienced some significant lag in online matches in the days following launch, but it’s impossible to judge from these few sessions whether the mode will be viable in the long run. Consider monitoring online smash forums for the next few weeks if your purchase hinges on the viability of online play. But Smash has never really been about online play, nor single-player for that matter. The inclusion of expanded online features feels unimportant; it’s a concession to modern gaming conventions that didn’t necessarily need to happen. Smash is about having an excellent time with the friends that are physically in the room with you. Does “Super Smash Bros. for Wii U” deliver in that regard? Without a doubt. “Super Smash Bros. for Wii U” was reviewed using an advance retail copy provided by Nintendo.
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“State of Affairs,” NBC’s glossy new entry into the “Homeland”/ espionage market, is a show we’ve seen before. For all C+ the critic talk of unoriginalState of ity, it seems Affairs tantamount to national Series treason for a Premiere show to lin- Mondays at 10 p.m. ger in forged NBC territory. Yes, Katherine Heigl’s (“Grey’s Anatomy”) troubled Charleston Tucker is a saner facsimile of Carrie Mathison, with selfmedicating habits that miraculously don’t put a dent in the whip-smart, unflappable and hyper-competent demeanor we associate with all cogs in the government machine (oh, if only). And sure, Tucker has the supple leather jacket collection of a Florentine slaughterhouse, or maybe just Kalinda Sharma, but despite its recycled tropes which TV fans will quickly spot, Alex Hawley’s “State of Affairs” is a half-decent show. Heigl stars as a CIA analyst responsible for assembling the President’s Daily Briefing, a top 10 list (the listicle trend has obviously even infiltrated the White House) of the day’s most serious
crises. As revealed in a cringeinducing flashback, Tucker’s fiancé Aaron Payton (Mark Tallman, “Grand Theft Auto V”) was killed in a terrorist attack three years ago in Afghanistan. Of course, it’s more muddled than that, with an anonymous texter threatening to reveal what really happened. Unlike the standard procedural format, the larger conspiracy backstory immediately intermingles with the dayto-day operations, with Tucker juggling the conflicting agency interests of saving a kidnapped doctor (Gavin-Keith Umeh, “One for the Money”) in Kenya and a tracking team’s potential ability to kill Omar Abdul Fatah, the terrorist who killed her fiancé. However, Tucker’s decision-making impartiality is held suspect by the Chicago doctor’s uncanny resemblance to her dead fiancé, and her subsequent choice to leave the Fatah development out the Presidential Daily Briefing leaves Tucker vulnerable to an office politics coup. “State of Affairs” is tasked with introducing fast-paced action into the quieter corridors of power, where combat is more of the Machiavellian than machine-gun variety. The pilot episode paces itself well, lithely moving between its White House, CIA and Kenya locales just enough to keep the show from feeling claustropho-
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bic. After all, it is smart enough to recognize that its audience power isn’t drawn from a dense cerebral atmosphere like “Damages,” but from flashier bells and whistles. “State of Affairs” needs the formalistic support of sinister texts projected on the screen in neon font, suspenseful music and flashbacks that wouldn’t look out of place in a singleshooter video game, because its star, while capable, is not captivating. It doesn’t help that the supporting cast is sidelined for the marquee name. For example, a very compelling Alfre Woodard (“Desperate Housewives”) plays President Constance Petyon with alternating maternal compassion and calculating decisiveness, but there simply isn’t enough of the talented actress. The briefing team Tucker heads is also well cast enough to have a natural chemistry that the show doesn’t tap into, especially Maureen James (Sheila Vand, “Argo”), Tucker’s slightly misanthropic best friend who Vand levies with a dynamic acerbity that Heigl’s performance lacks. Regardless, if viewers need an hour of familiar entertainment, “State of Affairs” is equipped to fill the void. But if art is to do anything more than competently splice together a handful of tropes and topical references, “State of Affairs” fails.
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‘Theory of Everything’ star talks dedication By NATALIE GADBOIS Senior Arts Editor COURTESY OF RICK ROSS
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Rick Ross release lacks originality Ross raps about cocaine, not much else By KEN SELANDER Daily Arts Writer
Looking back on it, I don’t know why I didn’t think to bump Rick Ross’s Hood Billionaire in one of Bmy friend’s cars with Hood subs in the Billionaire trunk on Rick Ross my first run Maybach through. Music Group This shit bangs. In fact, pretty much everything he puts his name on has a similar, selling formula, and this record is no different. The content on the album isn’t anything revolutionary — there’s the expected overdose of cocaine-related wordplay and a handful of the features are a little disappointing — but it’s got bass. Just checking out the track list, I was impressed with some of the guest artist’s on the album — Snoop Dogg, Jay Z, Big K.R.I.T, Lil Boosie and Yo Gotti. Hell, even R. Kelly’s on it. Meek Mill’s absence might come as a bit of a surprise, but he’s behind bars right now, which could be a probable explanation — like we really need another Rick Ross/Meek Mill collab anyway. “Hood Billionare” opens up the album with a hypedup intro, with a fast-paced piano riff that’s added to by thumping bass and French horn. It’s a reasonable opener, talking about fucking bitches, getting money, the brands he wears, you know — nothing to get too excited about. “Coke Like the 80’s” is just a lazy concept. Hallowing piano notes open the track to give it a serious tone, but the whole thing is a little overdone. The chorus is primarily Rick Ross rapping “Coke Like the 80’s,”
which is relatively void of creativity. Infrequent creative lines hold up the song, “We live in the jungle / Fish tanks in the house.” In fact, I don’t think Ross had a single song without a reference to selling coke. The album is wholly in Ross’s comfort zone — sticking to the same formula he’s been using since day one. Hood Billionaire is the typical high intensity music that brought him his success in hit singles like “Hustlin’.” While this album might sell just fine, I’d like to see Ross push the envelope more. I’d love to feel a deeper connection with his music occasionally, instead all hardcore gangsta all the time. The album also has some confusing moments for me, too. In “Neighborhood Drug Dealer,” the line “Michael Jordan, white, bitch, 23,” was the first time I paused and rewound a song and thought, “what?” Maybe it’s my own naiveté to the coke game, but this line doesn’t do much for me. Is it about how much weight he’s selling? He’s a talented drug dealer? Girls? In keeping with the trend for rappers to compare themselves to celebrities or athletes, my second “what?” moment took place when Rick Ross calls himself the Black Ronald Reagan in “Trap Luv.” What? Ross probably should’ve done a quick Wikipedia of the actor-turned-president prior to making the claim. Reagan was infamous for his massive war on drugs, which led to a substantial increase in drugrelated incarcerations. Oh, the irony. Aside from this slip up, “Trap Luv” has a great f low, with Gotti and Ross meshing well on the track and a change of pace with a less bass heavy beat. It’s definitely one of the better songs, along with “Heavyweight” and “Brimstone.” It’s hard to deny that Ricky Rozay has a nice f low. My biggest issue with Hood
Billionaire isn’t as much a fault of Ricky Rizzle’s, but the disappointment I had in the features of the album’s two biggest guests stars – Jay Z and Snoop Dogg. Jay Z doesn’t even have a verse in “Movin’ Bass,” he just sings a chorus which is far from anything special. I was really looking forward to some fresh material from Hov. “Quintessential” isn’t nearly as disheartening as “Movin’ Bass,” but the mechanics of the track bother me. With a slow, synthy, stoner instrumental Ross’s verse f loats by in anticipation of Snoop. Snoop’s voice needs to be turned up a notch with the beat turned down. The pertinent snare and synth crowd the song, leaving a small space for Snoop’s soft spoken verse. Snoop kills it, but I can’t hear him very well. Maybe I’m being unnecessarily picky, or maybe they didn’t think to turn the mic levels up after Ross’s booming voice on the opening verse (assuming the verses were recorded during the same session and all which yes, is unlikely), or maybe they just didn’t adjust his amplitude in the mixdown of the instrumental and Snoops verse. While Ross’s content has changed greatly, it appears he’s changed things up a little bit by selling more drugs. “Elvis Presley Blvd.” featuring Project Pat continues a relatively new development in Ross’s claimed dealing empire, talking about not only crack and coke, but heroin too when referencing “quinine” – and yes, I had to look up what that means. And with that, I’d give Hood Billionare an A+ in the “tracks I’d blare at a party to wake up the neighbors and blowout the speakers” category, but a B- when taking into account the content, creativity, guest artists and mechanics. The album would be a bit of a yawn if the bass didn’t keep me awake.
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It’s an understatement to say that renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has had a few challenges to overcome. Diagnosed at age 21 with ALS, a debilitating motor neuron disease that limits nearly all physical function, his muscles quickly weakened and atrophied, and his speech grew nearly unintelligible. When he was just beginning graduate school — on track for a brilliant career in the sciences — he was told he had two years to live. The film “The Theory of Everything,” which came out in limited release on Nov. 7, portrays a young Hawking (Eddie Redmayne, “Les Misérables”) as he first learns of his diagnosis and then struggles through the repercussions with the support of his girlfriend and (later on) wife Jane, played by Felicity Jones (“The Amazing Spiderman.”) Though given his diagnosis over 50 years ago, Hawking is still alive today and continues to revolutionize the fields of cosmology and theoretical physics. Though Redmayne readily admits that his life has had a fraction of the challenges that Hawking has faced, he advocated and fought for his role within this film with a tenacity reminiscent of Hawking’s own. In a conference call with The Michigan Daily, he said with a wry laugh, “I chased the film pretty hard. Because I had been at university at Cambridge, and I had seen Stephen and heard his voice and caught glimpses of him, I thought it would be the most amazing privilege to be able to play him.” Similarly, screenwriter and producer Anthony McCarten (“Show of Hands”) was propelled to develop this project; his inspiration first sparked when he read Hawking’s best-selling book
A Brief History of Time in 1991, and he spent nearly eight years trying to convince Hawking’s ex-wife (and subject of the film) Jane to option the rights to her own story. “(Jane) was cautious,” McCarten said, “I think she viewed me with the correct level of circumspection that you should have with anybody showing up at your door saying they want to make a movie about your life … And when I sat in her living room and I pitched this movie to her in 2004 — I had just read her memoir — just one of those moments in my creative life where I thought ‘This project just won’t come to me, I’ll have to go and get it.’” And get it he did. Nearly 10 years after that initial proposal, and many drafts later, McCarten describes the James Marshdirected film as a coalescence of three thematic threads: Hawking’s ALS, his scientific accomplishments, and most significantly, his clarifying relationship with Jane. “I also didn’t want to overdo the physics because I wanted to serve the ALS story, his incredible battle with that disease, his and Jane’s refusal to let the disease silence him.” Similarly, Redmayne says that while the physical demands of the role most immediately arrest the audience — in the film he embodies Hawking’s rapid deterioration from healthy youth to near immobility with deft precision — what he found most complex about the role was expressing the psychological grace with which Hawking and Jane handled their immense burdens. “(Stephen) was given two years to live when he was 21 years old, and he describes every moment of each day beyond that as a gift to him,” Redmayne said. “He pulled himself out of a melancholia and has managed to live every second of every minute of his life as fully and as passionately as possible.
He’s been a great inspiration to me. I feel like I certainly get caught up in the day to day banalities and worries and anxieties of life, and you can forget that we only get one shot of this.” This investment in the script and the roles is paying off with critics and audiences alike. Redmayne is already receiving Oscar buzz. (Though this may in part be because he portrays a disabled historical figure in a period piece, catnip for the Academy.) Despite this praise, Redmayne sidesteps any questions about his Oscar potential, saying that his real motivation was winning the praise of the Hawkings and their children, all of whom were involved in the creation of the film. “When both Felicity and I were cast in the film, there was kind of an amazing millisecond of euphoria that you should be lucky enough to get to play this part. But it was also followed by a deep-set responsibility,” he said. “Because ultimately we knew that Jane and Stephen and the children were going to see the film, and that it’s their life so they would be the ultimate reviewers … When finally Jane saw it and Stephen saw it, and were generous about the movie, that was a pretty wonderful reward, and our shoulders could sink and relax a bit.” McCarten echoes these sentiments, saying that ultimately this story was for the Hawkings and that their perceptions mattered most. “When we finished making the film Stephen Hawking came to see it, and when the film finished he had tears coming down his cheeks,” he said. “I was sitting very close to him and I watched the nurse wipe tears from his cheeks.” It’s a powerful emotion to illicit in someone who probably is the film’s worst critic, and a testament to the work done to accurately depict this legend’s life.
MUSIC NOTEBOOK
Beyoncé’s just like us By CHRISTIAN KENNEDY Daily Arts Writer
Beyoncé is set to release the ‘Platinum Edition’ of her self-titled album, which dropped last December. The repackage, a four-disc set, includes ten live performance videos from The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour, four remixes and two unreleased tracks, “Ring Off” and “7/11”. Early last week, snippets of both tracks leaked online, leading to underwhelming responses from music fans, particularly towards “7/11,” a beat and auto tune-heavy dance track. At first glance, I too, was disappointed by the snippet; but on Friday night, Bey released a fulllength video for the track, and with no fear of hyperbole, it is revolutionary. The track itself is nothing new in pop music productionwise. Though for Beyoncé it’s out of left field. Her discography includes nothing even remotely choppy, even her previous club bangers (i.e “Freakum Dress”). “7/11” is choppy and in large part does not make much sense, but who cares? Normally, I am completely against re-releasing previous
albums because too often they are cheap grabs for profit and press and don’t offer any material that deviates from the original (*cough cough* Iggy Azalea). “7/11” would not have been cohesive with Beyoncé’s original self-titled LP, and odds are it will not fit in well with her next album. An album repack, in this case, is the perfect opportunity to release new material that did not mesh with the original record.
Pop goddess to release deluxe album in Dec. More radical than its sound, is the video. Bey parties with a crew of friends and tour family in a hotel suite rendering it her most real video she has ever released. She isn’t acting; this is her. She wears fuzzy socks, a crew neck, leopard underwear and drinks from a solo-cup. That’s basically a dream Friday night, right? Her drunk eyes are on point. I have always wanted to know
what Queen B looks like after a couple STRAW-BER-ITAs, or whatever the near-billionaire equivalent is. She answers prayers. Beyoncé is showing she is just like her fans. We booty pop and throw up gang signs listening to her music, and so does she. The entire performance looks like it could go down at my parents’ house while they’re out of town for the weekend (messy bedroom included). Beyoncé videos encompass a fantasyland of perfection, and for this video she must’ve said, “Fuck it, hand me that go pro.” Is this a sign of a shift in the entire Beyoncé brand? Don’t count on it. In a semester at BeyU, this is that one weekend when shit got real, but as any dependable student (or ruler of the world, in her case) knows, it is time to get back to work. The soon-to-come “Ring Off” is a mid-tempo break up song, if the 30-second clip is any indicator. “7/11” will be called a musical mess by many. That is OK because the BeyHive is in on the joke. If a beat was assigned to the racing hearts of Beyonce lovers as they jump around their messy bedrooms in their underwear, it would be “7/11.”
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Devin Gardner’s final Loss proves (again) that enough is enough Big House moments Y By MAX COHEN Daily Sports Editor
Devin Gardner stood alone on Michigan’s sideline for much of Maryland’s final drive Saturday. It was his last game at Michigan Stadium, the place where he’s experienced success and failure, the place where he’s been knocked down time and time again and stood back up every single time. Yet when the Terrapins possessed the ball for the final 4:16 of the game, all Gardner could do was watch. With the final moments of his last home game passing by before
his eyes, Gardner stood in front of Michigan’s bench a few feet away from the sidelines. He spoke with no one. When the clock reached its resting place at 0:00, it was as if a sense of finality had set in. Gardner stared toward the other sideline where players celebrated, motionless. Then, redshirt junior offensive lineman Jack Miller walked over and leaned into Gardner’s ear. The teammates stood there for a few seconds, Miller whispering some final words of encouragement to his quarterback. “I said I was proud of him,” Miller said. “I said he’s done a lot
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for a lot of guys on this team and for this program, and I thought he played really well today. Sure, he had a couple things he wishes he could have back, but I told him I was proud of him.” Miller walked away from Gardner, but redshirt freshman offensive lineman David Dawson and freshman wide receiver Moe Ways came to console him. They patted Gardner on the back. Maryland players sought out Gardner, too. They interrupted his final walk to the tunnel opposite Michigan’s sideline with brief hugs. For one final time, Gardner See GARDNER, Page 2B
ou sat at the podium in the Crisler Center media room Saturday and said you wouldn’t evaluate the football team until the season ended. You, Jim Hackett, ALEJANDRO the interim ZÚÑIGA Athletic Director, explained the program isn’t where it needs to be, but expressed hope head coach Brady Hoke’s squad would
continue to show improvement. Mr. Hackett, here is your evaluation: With everything on the line Saturday against Maryland, the Wolverines delivered a dud at home, 23-16. And though a week remains before the season ends, you should already have prepared the message you’ll send. Michigan is 5-6 and fourth in the Big Ten East. It has found rock bottom repeatedly this year: with a shutout loss to Notre Dame, a blowout home loss to Minnesota, a road loss to Rutgers, an embarrassing loss to Michigan State, and now this. There will be no bowl game.
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Rather, the Wolverines will win two fewer games than they did in 2013, which was one fewer game than they did in 2012, which was three fewer games than they did in 2011. Enough. Michigan has all the right pieces. It has Devin Gardner, once the No. 1 quarterback recruit in the nation, leading the team as a fifth-year senior. It has Devin Funchess, a 6-foot5 athletic beast who was once tabbed a first-round NFL draft pick. It has Jake Ryan, a fifthyear senior middle linebacker who has been named a finalist See ENOUGH, Page 2B
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The saddest part of Michigan’s season
Apologies for ruining everyone’s day, but the Michigan football team is playing this weekend at Ohio State. This week, you’ll hear about how the rivalry is still going to be exciting and that the Wolverines won’t quit. You might read GREG about how GARNO Michigan, after losing on Saturday to fall to 5-6, can still pull off the upset. And if you’re reading anything else about “The Game” this weekend, you should understand this is the bigger point that matters: This year’s game doesn’t mean anything. Isn’t it sad this weekend doesn’t have the meaning it’s supposed to have? The rivalry is entertaining, long-standing and full of great moments between traditionally successful teams. It’s about Woody vs. Bo, David Boston vs. Charles Woodson and No. 1 vs. No. 2. It’s about both teams having a chance to elevate their seasons regardless of their records. But a win can’t salvage the Wolverines’ season, one filled with one embarrassment on top of another. It can’t salvage Brady Hoke’s job — even if the current athletic director says he’ll evaluate the position at the end of the season. It can’t even salvage the meaning in the rivalry itself, which isn’t much of one given that the Buckeyes have won 10 of the last 12. Just last year, down to the very last second, Michigan nearly pulled off the upset.
GARDNER From Page 1B passed the block ‘M’ at the center of the field that he will no longer play on, strolling along in a group but seemingly acknowledging nobody else. It was a cold ending for Gardner, one his teammates felt none of the seniors deserved. “You feel bad when guys can stay four or five years at any program of this caliber, but Michigan in particular,” Miller said. “You’re a tough guy, you deserve a lot. You feel bad when it goes out that way.” Gardner’s final play at
ENOUGH From Page 1B for the Butkus Award. It has a fearsome defensive line. Yet that loaded offense couldn’t score more than one touchdown against Maryland, and the toughened defense couldn’t stop the Terrapins when it mattered most. Enough. The Wolverines made most of the right plays Saturday. In the second half, they returned a punt for a touchdown, and they later stuffed Maryland in the red zone. But both times, the success was ruined by mistakes — a block in the back and a roughing-the-
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The Michigan football team has struggled so much this year that even a win over Ohio State wouldn’t salvage the season. And even a close game is very unlikely.
There are plenty of instances in this rivalry where the underdog has played the role of spoiler. But isn’t it sad that’s what’s left to hope for? The last time the Wolverines did win this rivalry game, it was against a squad with a freshman quarterback and an interim head coach. It was also three years ago. “It’s a football game, and it’s played just like every other football game,” said junior
linebacker Joe Bolden. “At the end of the day, you’re going to see who is better.” You already know who the better team is, though. You won’t be further disappointed when you’re proven right. That’s not even the saddest part of the state of this rivalry. The Game was built up by referring to Ohio State as “Ohio,” or omitting the M in Michigan, but even that’s wearing off. The Buckeyes’
Michigan Stadium was on Michigan’s own 49-yard line. It was fourth down with three yards to go. The Wolverines were down by seven points, and Gardner had one final chance to make his final moments the stadium ones to remember. But it was not to be. Gardner dropped back to pass and threw a ball that hit junior wide receiver Devin Funchess in the hands. Some fans wanted a pass interference call. The defender may have made contact with Funchess, but that was irrelevant. The ball dropped to the ground; a yellow flag did not. After the game, Michigan coach Brady Hoke said it was the first time his quarterback was
fully healthy in about five weeks. Gardner scrambled for 82 yards — his highest total of the season — on 14 attempts. He completed 13 of his 24 pass attempts for 106 yards. Gardner battled drops by his wide receivers, inaccurate throws and bad luck. Sometimes, it was a combination of all three. Gardner’s 14th interception of the season — his only one Saturday — was thrown a bit wide of redshirt sophomore wide receiver Bo Dever. It bounced off his hands and into those of Maryland cornerback William Likely. Then too, all Gardner could do was watch. In the locker room after the game, Hoke expressed his
disappointment for his seniors and how proud he was of his team. Like Hoke says every week, they’ve each dealt with adversity. Gardner’s dealt with more than most. He’s been benched and promoted again, been injured and played through it, heard criticism from fans and faced it. But when he walked through the Michigan Stadium tunnel one last time, it was all over. And he still couldn’t do anything about it.
kicker penalty, respectively. That resulted in Michigan, down by seven with only one timeout remaining, needing a touchdown to force overtime. Instead, Funchess failed to catch a pair of would-be first downs, and the Wolverines turned the ball over. They never got it back. Enough. The Wolverines pay Brady Hoke and Co. plenty to lead the program. Hoke is earning $2.3 million this year. Offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier has a three-year, $2.57 million deal. Yet on first-and-goal in the second quarter, with Funchess one-on-one to the outside, Michigan ran it up the gut twice — once with Gardner, who was
swarmed by four defenders — and then gave up a sack on thirdand-long. And then the Wolverines burned two timeouts in the third quarter, limiting their chances at a comeback as they fought for one in the fourth. Enough. Saturday marked a third defeat in five tries against Power 5 opponents at home. It marked another example of rival programs headed in different directions: Ohio State 42, Indiana 27; Michigan State 45, Rutgers 3; Maryland 23, Michigan 16. It marked Ezekiel Elliott, a Buckeyes running back, saying they’re “about to grind really hard this week so we can come
out and kick their ass,” while Drake Johnson, a Michigan running back, said, “I wouldn’t say it’s the biggest game of the year. Maybe it is.” Enough. Saturday marked the decommitment of Mike Weber, once a Michigan lock. It marked the seventh top-150 prospect from the 2015 class to rescind his verbal to the Wolverines. Enough is enough. There’s one game left, and then, Mr. Hackett, it’s your job to evaluate the football program. You know what to do.
“It’s played just like every other football game.”
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biggest game this season came against Michigan State three weeks ago. It’s not much of a rivalry when it’s skewed so far in favor of one team. Ohio State is a 20-point favorite this weekend, and that might be out of generosity for Michigan. Both teams are relevant, but one more for the wrong reasons. “They are playing for a lot, and we’re not — that’s no secret,” said redshirt junior center Jack Miller.
Even if they win, the Wolverines will continue a season with a head coach that needs to be fired, and it doesn’t change the fact that they’ll only prolong the coaching search that much longer. Interim Athletic Director Jim Hackett, out of compassion, won’t evaluate the status of Hoke until the season is over, he said. And isn’t it sad that’s what you’re waiting for? If it does pull off the improbable and does defeat
“They are playing for a lot, and we’re not.”
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an Ohio State team loaded with future NFL talent and featuring a Heisman trophy candidate, it only extends its season for the Quicken Loans Bowl. Regardless of what happens, this season will still be as dreadful as it has been all 11 times Michigan has walked off the field. Ohio State has handled much of its schedule with ease, and it could win by the largest margin all season against the Wolverines. And isn’t it sad that wouldn’t feel any worse than any other blowout? Many of you stayed out in the rain, the cold and the wind to watch Michigan fall apart against Maryland. Do you really want to spend your weekend suffering through the same experience? Do you really want to spend your holiday break suffering through an unimportant bowl game at the likelihood of further embarrassment? There’s no doubt you’ll still watch and hope Michigan wins, but losing Saturday allows the Wolverines to begin the rebuilding process. Losing ends the season and expedites the coaching search. It saves recruits from leaving and donors from closing checkbooks. Losing The Game would allow Michigan, and you, to move on. And isn’t that sad? Garno can be reached at ggarno@umich.edu and on Twitter @G_Garno.
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WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
‘M’ finishes 18th at NCAA Champ. By CHRIS CROWDER Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan women’s cross country team opened the season ranked No. 1 and held that spot until Oct. 18 at the NCAA PreNationals. An 18th-place finish in the NCAA Championship wasn’t expected after its preseason and midseason projections. But championships aren’t won on day one. What happened between then and now was out of the team’s control. Michigan went into the National Championship without its top-two runners, sophomore Erin Finn and junior Shannon Osika, who were instrumental in the Wolverines’ early-season success. Saturday’s race was another instance of the Wolverines competing amidst adversity. “(Our season) is not what we thought we were capable of at the beginning of the season,” said Michigan coach Mike McGuire. “We had situations with injuries and a couple of other things that we didn’t foresee that put some challenges into the equation.” Senior captain Megan Weschler added that the injuries and obstacles took away from some of the team’s fire. “I think that the seven that were out there showed a lot of resiliency,” McGuire said. “We could’ve folded our cards and finished 25th or 26th.” Without the whole team, Michigan could only help but feel indifferent about its 18th-place finish. Overall, McGuire was proud of his team, noting that some were a bit too aggressive, but refusing to fault their effort or finishes. Senior
Brook Handler was one of these runners, vying for a spot in the top 40 but falling short, finishing 89th. Last year, the Wolverines finished fourth at the National Championship. Three months ago, the team saw themselves performing better than fourth. But they could not, of course, foresee injuries. This year’s National Championship teetered toward disappointment. “We wanted to send the seniors off on a higher note, and I’m disappointed that we weren’t able to do that,” McGuire said. Weschler said that it was hard to explain her feelings about her last race as a Wolverine. But she ends her career without any regrets. “Overcoming obstacles is more important (than race results), and that shows the heart and strength on our team as a whole,” Weschler said. McGuire’s disappointment was based upon the circumstances under which his team was competing. Without the recent postseason obstacles, the Wolverines could have finished the season much better than they did. “I wish I had a couple more healthy athletes,” McGuire said with a laugh. While the Wolverines will lose senior leadership and talent, the top-two runners, Osika and Finn, will be back next year. And with McGuire at the helm, it’s tough to be doubtful about the team’s future success. But as Michigan learned Saturday, a set of high expectations won’t get it, or prepare it, for November.
“I wish I had a couple more healthy athletes.”
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Postseason hopes blocked By EVAN ROSEN For the Daily
The Michigan volleyball team got clobbered in Cornhusker country Saturday night, falling to No. 11 Nebraska in three sets, 25-23, 25-20, 25-21. Though any loss in the Big Ten is significant, this one was more so, as it definitively eliminated Michigan from the NCAA Tournament. The Wolverines (7-11 Big Ten, 12-16 overall) initially surprised the Cornhuskers, coming out strong in the first set and taking a commanding 20-15 lead. But Michigan couldn’t hold on, as Nebraska clawed its way back and tied the set at 23 before reeling off consecutive points for the set. “I think we came out really aggressive,” said Michigan coach Mark Rosen. “I was really pleased in how we came out and how we were keeping steady and going after them.” The Cornhuskers (14-4, 20-7) controlled the entire second set after jumping out to a 9-5 advantage and took the third set after building a 9-4 lead, not allowing the Wolverines to cut the lead to fewer than four points. “(Nebraska) did a good job of raising their level, especially defensively,” Rosen said. “Their serving got much more aggressive. But, I thought we did get a little tentative at the end of the first set, and that changes the momentum big time when they were able to push through us a little bit.” Sophomore middle blocker Abby Cole led the Wolverines with 12 kills, followed closely by freshman defensive specialist Caroline Knop’s 11. Freshman outside hitter Adeja Lambert, while working hard to adjust in the first two sets, caught fire in the third set, hitting .800. Though the individual numbers
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Rebounds guide Michigan to win By MINH DOAN Daily Sports Writer
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The Michigan volleyball team started hot, but a loss to Nebraska mathematically ended its lingering postseason hopes.
were impressive for Michigan, the team hitting percentage for the whole match was only .174. And to win the match, it was a team-oriented effort they were counting on. “(Abby Cole and Caroline Knop) both did a great job,” Rosen said. “But a lot of the errors we had were with them, and it wasn’t because they were making the errors, but because (Nebraska’s) block was very good at affecting them. One of our goals was to be balanced offensively, and that was the hard part for us. When you get off that (balance), that’s when you have trouble.”
The Wolverines were unable to stay balanced offensively, due in part to Nebraska capitalizing off of their one-dimensional tendencies, and it resulted in a great game for the Huskers’ block. They totaled 15 blocks for the match, compared to Michigan’s two, both coming from freshman middle blocker Claire KiefferWright. Nebraska’s Cecilia Hall set the Big Ten mark for most blocks in a single game this season, with 13. Teams must have a record of at least .500 to qualify for the NCAA Tournament, and
“We did get a little tentative ... and that changes the momentum.”
with only Indiana and Illinois left to play, it’s impossible for the young Wolverine squad to earn an invite. Even with this disappointing situation, Rosen is confident his team will continue to play like they have something to gain. “I don’t think I’ll need to (motivate them),” Rosen said. “This is a very competitive group, and Indiana and Illinois are two big matches. My gut is that they’re going to want to play just for the sake of playing, and they’re going to play to win. They are very excited to have those two (final) matches and in a sense, that’s our post-season.” Two more wins could have a big effect on this youthful Wolverine squad and set them up for a promising next season. With NCAA Tournament hopes no longer in sight, Michigan is now playing for its own pride.
With 11 minutes left in the second half of the Michigan women’s basketball team’s game against Western Michigan, senior guard Shannon Smith took a shot from the right wing. The ball didn’t go in, but senior forward Cyesha Goree was right under the basket, fighting off a Western Michigan player for position inside. Goree jumped to grab the ball, then kicked it out to Katelynn Flaherty. The freshman guard took two dribbles before unleashing a shot from outside the arc. Again, the ball hit the rim, bouncing out. But Goree didn’t give up on the play. She fought for positioning inside and grabbed another board before dishing it to sophomore guard Siera Thompson, who put up another shot. Once again, it missed. But this time, Goree couldn’t fend off the Bronco defender, and the ball went to Western Michigan. The Wolverines didn’t score on that possession, but despite early-season questions about rebounding, they’ve proved they can grab boards despite their small size. And they proved it again Sunday, when they collected 48 boards to the Broncos’ 21 en route to a 74-47 victory. Goree led the Wolverines with 14 rebounds and added 14 points for her fourth straight doubledouble. Not only was the forward a force on the defensive glass, but she also pulled in six offensive rebounds. “(Rebounding) is one of the things that we kind of strive for,” Goree said. “I always pride myself on rebounding, and it kind of went well tonight. “We were really focused
on boxing out. Since day one, coach has been emphasizing rebounding is key, especially since we’re undersized, so I try to contribute as much rebounding to the team.” The success is unexpected, because before the season began, one of the biggest concerns Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico had was rebounding. The Wolverines are one of the smallest teams in the Big Ten, featuring just five players taller than six feet. Michigan was also going through position changes down low with Goree moving to the ‘5’ position after the loss of Val Driscoll and senior guard Nicole Elmblad moving to the ‘4.’ But the transition seems to have gone smoothly for both players, and the two, along with freshman forward Jillian Dunston, have become a rebounding force inside. The Wolverines have handily outrebounded their opponent in three of their first four games. But it’s not just the bigs inside either. Senior guard Shannon Smith pulled down nine boards Sunday, and Barnes Arico may have found another rebounder in freshman guard Maria Backman, who had five rebounds in her first significant action of the season. “I thought (Backman) did everything well,” Barnes Arico said. “She has tremendous length, she’s a (6-foot-1) wing, so she has something our littles don’t have. She rebounded like heck for us.” At the end of the day, rebounding comes down not only to good positioning and boxing out, but also to the intangibles — whether or not players are able to sacrifice their bodies. And after four games, it appears the answer to that question is a resounding yes.
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Five things we learned: Maryland By MAX COHEN Daily Sports Editor
After three weeks without a loss, you had to see this coming given the way this season has progressed for the Michigan football team. The Wolverines fell to Maryland, 23-16, Saturday afternoon at the Big House. Here are five things we learned in the Wolverines’ loss. 1. The fans got it right. Throughout the season, there has been a great deal of discussion about whether Michigan’s fans are behind the team. At times, the divide between the program and its fans has seemed significant, with both sides pointing fingers. But when the team’s 12 seniors were honored on the field prior to Saturday’s game for Senior Day, each received a loud ovation for his service to the program. Because fans have been discontent throughout much of the season, the reaction the seniors would get on Senior Day was unclear before the game. But the fans who arrived early gave the players the recognition they deserved with loud applause. 2. A higher power doesn’t want Michigan fans to have fun. In a season full of strife, moments of fun — even brief ones — have been hard to come by. That’s why all of Michigan Stadium roared in the third quarter when junior wide receiver Dennis Norfleet picked up a bouncing punt and gashed through Maryland’s coverage into the end zone. It seemed like a questionable decision at first. Cover men on the Terrapins had converged upon the ball when it had hit the ground. If Norfleet hadn’t fielded the punt cleanly, it likely would’ve been a turnover. But when Norfleet picked up the ball and found a seam in the coverage, the crowd rose while he raced toward what would
The Michigan men’s basketball team will find out Monday if it can learn from its mistakes. The Wolverines (3-0) head to New York to face Oregon in the 2014 Progressive Legends Classic hoping to find some consistency in their shooting. But if Michigan’s showing against Detroit — which plays an upbeat style similar to Oregon — is any indication, the Ducks could be a tough test for a Wolverines team still trying to orient its freshmen. Like Michigan, the Ducks (3-0) lost a pair of key contributors from last year’s squad in Mike Moser and Jason Calliste, who averaged 13.2 and 12.7 points per game, respectively. Moser also was the team’s leading rebounder, grabbing more than seven boards per contest. But senior guard Joseph Young, who was the team’s key scorer a season ago, returns this year to lead the Oregon offense. The second-team AllPac-12 selection from 2013-14 is averaging 26 points per game through the Ducks’ first three games. And if Michigan stuck around the BMO Harris Bradley Center in Milwaukee after its NCAA Tournament victory over Texas last season, it saw Young go off for 29 points against Wisconsin. The Wolverines will try to counter Young with strong guard play of their own. Junior Caris LeVert is coming off a 21-point showing Thursday against the Titans, in which he scored 17 points in the second half alone. Sophomore Derrick Walton Jr. has taken a larger share of the offensive load as well, averaging 17.7 points and six boards per game. But freshman forward Kameron Chatman, a highly touted recruit, hasn’t found the same type of success. Chatman
Most positives overshadowed The bad:
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With the season on the line, the Michigan football team came up short in a 23-16 home loss to Maryland. The loss all but ended the Wolverines’ hope for a bowl bid with a game at No. 7 Ohio State, the last chance for Michigan to reach six wins. The Daily picks out the good, the bad and the ugly from Saturday’s Senior Day loss. The good:
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Senior quarterback Devin Gardner would have benefitted from a better performance by wide receiver Devin Funchess.
have been the first touchdown of his career. When Norfleet’s touchdown was erased from the scoreboard because of a penalty, so was the fun in Saturday’s game. 3. This offense needs more from Funchess. Junior wide receiver Devin Funchess has been a tantalizing player all season. He’s teeming with ability, the kind he displayed in his three-touchdown performance in the season opener against Appalachian State. But in recent weeks, he has disappeared. Against Maryland, Funchess caught five passes for 30 yards, statistics that hardly resemble those of a team’s best wide receiver. Funchess has clearly been missing something the past few weeks. He has struggled to catch passes, something that had previously not been a huge issue.
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On 4th-and-3 with 4:21 remaining Saturday, Gardner tried to find Funchess for a drive-extending first down, but Funchess couldn’t come up with a ball that hit his hands. Though it might’ve been a missed defensive pass interference call, a catch in a critical situation could’ve ended Funchess’ slump. The play ended up being the team’s final offensive play of the game. Instead, Michigan’s offense will go into Columbus with a sour taste in its mouth. 4. Ojemudia is a capable replacement for Frank Clark. After senior defensive end Frank Clark was kicked off the team last week for an alleged incident involving domestic violence, Hoke pointed to junior defensive end Mario Ojemudia as his likely replacement. Though Ojemudia wasn’t as dominant as Clark had been in
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is shooting 3-for-16 from the floor in his first three college games, somewhat concerning considering the competition will only strengthen from here on out. Michigan coach John Beilein, though, said he’s sticking with Chatman despite the freshman’s early struggles. “(We will) continue to give him more opportunities to grow at that position,” Beilein said in a teleconference Saturday. “Usually it’s more defense than offense for freshmen. But he’s really played well in practices. He has a great attitude. Just, in games, the shot hasn’t fallen.” The shots especially weren’t falling in the first half of Thursday’s game against Detroit, when the Wolverines went 3-of-12 from 3-point range in the opening frame. And in an offense largely dependent on shooting beyond the arc, 25 percent won’t cut it. Sophomore forward Zak Irvin said the Titans’ defense presented a problem for the Wolverines, forcing them to shoot early in the shot clock. “We got sped up a little bit with the way they were playing defensively,” he said. Oregon plays a similar tempo to Detroit, which could mean more of the same offensive options for Michigan. College basketball statistician Ken Pomeroy has the Ducks’ competition-adjusted tempo rating listed at 70.3, nearly identical to the Titans’ 69.9. Michigan, meanwhile, plays at a 64.8 tempo. Pomeroy’s ratings are based on how many possessions a team would have in a game against an average Division I team, and the disparity between the Wolverines and the Ducks aligns with Irvin’s assessment of the Detroit game. Against Oregon, which is even more athletic than Detroit, the Wolverines won’t be able to afford similar lapses.
recent weeks, his impact on the game was felt. Ojemudia recorded five tackles, including 0.5 tackles for a loss. He was also able to bat down one of quarterback C.J. Brown’s pass attempts in the backfield on a hurry. The extra snaps in the final two games of the season because of Clark’s absence will likely benefit Ojemudia next year when he likely would’ve taken Clark’s place anyway. 5. Bold prediction: Michigan will stay close with Ohio State next weekend... ... For the first 10 minutes of the game. Ultimately, the Wolverines won’t have the offensive firepower to keep up with the Buckeyes for a full 60 minutes, or maybe even a quarter. But enjoy the early portion of the game, when you’ll believe an upset is possible.
After a loss like Saturday’s, it’s hard to look at the good, but there were some standouts. Michigan’s running game, which Michigan coach Brady Hoke pointed to as the team’s bright spot, had its most successful game of the season against a Power 5 team. The Wolverines ran for 292 yards with redshirt sophomore running back Drake Johnson’s 94 yards leading the way. Fifth-year senior quarterback Devin Gardner wasn’t far behind Johnson’s production, rushing for 82 yards and a touchdown in addition to his lackluster performance in the passing game — he threw for 106 yards on 13-of-24 passing. Hoke also said Gardner was healthy for the first time in five weeks, and he looked it. Gardner flashed the burst on the ground he has shown Michigan fans from time to time, and it helped keep the Terrapins’ defense on its toes. Redshirt junior fullback Joe Kerridge also got in on the fun when he ran for 52 yards on a fake punt during Michigan’s first possession of the game. Despite the strong ground game, it wasn’t enough offense to give the Wolverines the win they needed.
After starting strong — Kerridge’s run and three field goals — in the first half, Michigan’s special-teams unit made two huge mistakes that arguably cost it the game. The first came early in the third quarter when junior Dennis Norfleet took a punt to the house, but the play was called back on an illegal block in the back almost 20 yards away from the action. The second special-teams mistake came just as the Terrapins’ kicker put the ball through the uprights, when Michigan was flagged for roughing the kicker and Maryland was given a fresh set of downs. The Terrapins ultimately punched the ball into the end zone to break the tie and put them up for good. The ugly: The Michigan football team. Should it really be anything else? The Wolverines have had a long, long, long season. And every time you thought it couldn’t get any worse for Michigan, it managed to surprise you. So when the Wolverines had the opportunity to end their disappointing home season with a win that would propel them into bowl season, they came up short. To add to the mess, Michigan’s 100,000-plus attendance streak is barely intact. When the stadium announced the attendance against Maryland to be 101,717, the crowd booed because the numbers looked like a stretch and were still the lowest of the season. In the end, Michigan’s season is a week from ending and, honestly, it couldn’t end faster.
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t long last, the Michigan hockey team had its breakthrough. At long last, the team with enough talent to garner a top-10 national ranking looked the part. Consider this a warning. In the first 10 ZACH games, the SHAW Wolverines had been unable to put the pieces together. Whether it was nightmarish defensive miscues, a stymied offense or sloppy goaltending, something seemed to prevent Michigan from clicking for an entire game, resulting in the team’s worst start in 28 years. But that all changed in Saturday night’s 8-1 win over Penn State. The team with great expectations finally met them on the ice, dominating in all areas in its breakthrough win. At long last, Boo Nieves looks like the star he was supposed to be all along. Finding new life on the second line, the junior forward maneuvered his way around a defender before firing a backhand shot over Penn State goaltender Eamon McAdam’s left shoulder, breaking the scoreless tie early in the second period. The tally was the second in three games for Nieves, already matching last season’s total for the former second-round NHL draft pick. At long last, scoring came easy. Through the first four periods of the weekend series, McAdams had stopped 51 of 53 shots, bringing back haunting memories of teammate Matthew Skoff’s dominant performance that denied Michigan a postseason berth last season. But following Nieves’ goal, things were different. The Wolverines scored two more times in the period, then tacked
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The Michigan hockey team finally lived up to its potential Saturday in an 8-1 thrashing of Penn State at Yost Ice Arena.
on five more in the third on just 12 shots. With swift passing, strong shifts and timely shots, the Wolverines — once dead last in the Big Ten in scoring — are now No. 4 nationally with 3.64 goals per game. At long last, JT Compher is on the board. With a spoon-fed pass from junior Max Shuart, Compher didn’t think twice about the opportunity. All season, the competitive sophomore forward had grown frustrated at his inability to score. Officials, reviews, posts, position changes, hot goalies — everything seemed to come between Compher and the back of the net. But with eight-and-a-half minutes remaining in the game, Compher would not be denied. Michigan’s second-leading scorer last season rifled a onetimer past McAdams on a shot so
pure, Compher celebrated before the puck officially made it in. The reawakened forward wasn’t done. Less than four minutes later, Compher struck again, sounding the horn and sending a message to the rest of college hockey that he is willing and able to make up for lost time. At long last, Zach Nagelvoort doesn’t just hold the starting goaltender job; he owns it. For many teams, position battles are a good problem that promote depth and competition, but when neither Nagelvoort nor junior Steve Racine appeared up to the task, the goalie battle became a distraction capable of swallowing Michigan alive. Despite less-than-stellar performances, Michigan coach Red Berenson stuck with Nagelvoort, mercifully bringing consistency to the team. The sophomore reinforced
The team with great expectations finally met them
his coach’s faith and finally looked like a worthy starter Saturday, stopping 40 shots and scrambling all around to keep Michigan alive when the game was close, and agonizing the Nittany Lions when it wasn’t. For the first time all season, there was no doubt in Yost Ice Arena that Nagelvoort was right where he belonged. At long last, the Wolverines look like themselves. Dominant on offense, defense and in goal — this was the game Michigan fans had been waiting for all season. A game the Wolverines needed if they want to return to the postseason. Immediately following the goal that started it all, Nieves dragged his hand across the Yost ice longer than usual before pumping his fist to the screaming crowd — feeling the moment, soaking up the success and having fun. At long last, his team is now ready to do the same. You’ve been warned. Shaw can be reached at zachshaw@umich.edu and on Twitter at @_zachshaw.