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University hosts summit on concussion research Researchers focus on evaluating longterm impacts for student-athletes By NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT Daily Staff Reporter
At a conference hosted by the University’s Injury Center on Thursday, speakers discussed how sports-related concussions,
an issue that has attracted attention in recent years from highprofile incidents in the NFL and college athletics, impacts student-athletes. The Injury Center hosted the Sport Concussion Summit at the Junge Family Champions Center, attached to Crisler Arena. During the day-long event, speakers from various fields related to sports injuries touched on topics such as concussion science, team policies, the influence of media and legal implications.
Steven Broglio, the associate professor of athletic training who was the event’s director and moderator, said the summit provided a chance to explain the latest research on the topic. “(The summit) is an opportunity to educate the public, and not only athletes, but researchers, scientists, clinicians that are interested in this,” he said. “We’re really trying to show what the science is behind the injury as opposed to what is often portrayed in the media.”
Common thread in search for ‘culture shift’ is heightening students’ role By ALLANA AKHTAR and MICHAEL SUGERMAN Daily Staff Reporter and Daily News Editor
Last fall, the topic generated significant attention when thensophomore quarterback Shane Morris was allowed back on the field after suffering a “probable, mild” concussion during a Sept. 27, 2014 game against Minnesota. Lloyd Carr, former head coach of the Michigan football team, gave the opening remarks. The keynote address was given by Brian Hainline, chief medical officer for the NCAA. See BRAIN, Page 3A
Days after the release of new sexual assault data from a survey conducted by the Association of American Universities, University administrators stressed in an exclusive interview with The Michigan Daily on Thursday that they remain committed to preventing sexual misconduct — while also acknowledging that some of their efforts are not reaching students as effectively as they’d hope. Twenty-eight schools participated in the AAU survey, including the University. Compared to other schools, many of the
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House, Senate committees hear testimony on tuition caps Oakland, Eastern Michigan University presidents explain choice to exceed limit By SAMANTHA WINTNER Daily Staff Reporter
Representatives from Eastern Michigan University and Oakland University testified Thursday before a joint meeting of the Michigan House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees on higher education to explain their tuition hikes for the current year, which, unlike the University’s, exceeded state limits. Though University officials were not involved in Thursday’s hearing, conversation about tuition caps and the incentives that drive them do have an impact on the University’s process for setting tuition rates. EMU raised tuition by 7.8
percent and Oakland University raised tuition by 8.48 percent, above the 3.2-percent limit set by the state as a condition of receiving part of a 2-percent increase in state funding. The University raised tuition this year by 2.7 percent for in-state students, consistent with the cap. It has not exceeded it in past years either. Performance-based funding for all universities, tied to both caps on tuition and six other aspects of performance — including six-year graduation rates, degree completion in critical areas and administrative costs — have been in place since 2012. Because their tuition rates exceeds state limits, EMU and Oakland are forfeiting $1 million and $1.2 million, respectively, in state incentive funding. However, the hikes will earn EMU $10 million this year in additional tuition revenue. Oakland will make an extra $12 million in tuition. Several members of the comSee TUITION, Page 3A
University’s results showed both higher instances of sexual assault and higher disillusion with the process of adjudicating it. Nationwide, 11.7 percent of surveyed college students experienced nonconsensual sexual contact as a result of force or incapacitation since entering college, according to the survey. The figure was 14.6 percent at the University. Whereas 63.3 percent of all students surveyed felt campus officials would take a report of sexual misconduct seriously, only 40.2 percent of University students surveyed believed this to be true. Research Prof. William Axinn, a survey research expert, explained that though the differences in these numbers appear meaningful, they lack statistical significance. For example, he said, after several students at the University voiced concerns about potentially triggering language in the AAU survey, that language See ADMINS, Page 3A
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Suzanne Lee, a London-based biological fashion designer, speaks on creating materials and garments from microorganisms at the Michigan Theater Thursday.
Designer takes scientific approach toward fashion Suzanne Lee discusses work growing clothes from microbes By TOM MCBRIEN Daily Staff Reporter
Suzanne Lee’s fashion design studio is different than most. It’s not filled with sketches and silks, but instead occupied by vats of microbes
bubbling away while they feast on sugars to produce her latest clothing line. In the first of this year’s Penny Stamps Speaker Series, Lee spoke to a packed Michigan Theater about the intersection of synthetic biology and design. She discussed her involvement in the multidisciplinary field, from growing clothes in microbial vats to growing cow skin to produce leather in a way that doesn’t involve slaughtering. Lee described her job as creative director at the biodesign
firm Biocouture, where she has been making garments derived from microbial cellulose, saying she was influenced by her fascination with the future and concerns about sustainability in fashion. “Rather than think about growing a plant like cotton in a field to obtain fiber, where you’re throwing away 99 percent of that plant just to get these fibers that need to be spun and woven into a fabric, you can think about taking a See FASHION, Page 3A
Young Americans for Freedom host House Budget chairman By BRIAN KUANG For the Daily
U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R–Ga.), a University alum, visited campus Thursday evening to address the Young Americans for Freedom on topics including healthcare reform and Donald Trump. A recurring theme throughout Price’s discussion to a crowd of around 40 in the Michigan Union was his goal to limit federal regulation and involvement in business and other realms. Price, also the chairman of the House Budget Committee, pointed to the issues of ballooning college tuition and what he says are entitlement costs from programs such as Medicare and Social Security. He argued that the delegation of more authority to individual states would signifiSee PRICE, Page 2A
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Pope Francis addressed Congress, discussing immigration, climate and the death penalty, CNN reported. He urged Americans to not be “fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners.”
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said he wouldn’t be surpised if the Court deemed the death penalty unconstitutional in a speech at Rhode’s College Tuesday night, Buzzfeed reported.
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Society of Women Engineers hosts summer camp in Liberia Students aim to foster inter-cultural connections BY IRENE PARK Daily Staff Reporter
The University’s Society of Women Engineers has expanded — to Liberia. Members of the society traveled to Liberia to host a twoweek engineering leadership camp for female Liberian engineering university students. The camp, Setting Up Collegiate for Careers in Engineering through Social Support Camp, was held at the Peace Corps Training Facility at Kakata, Liberia. A total of 40 students — five University Ph.D. candidates, five University undergraduate students and 30 Liberian undergraduate students from three different Liberian universities — participated in the summer camp. Sara Rimer, an environmental engineering graduate student and one of the students who initially launched the student partnership between the University and the Liberian university, said the summer camp had several goals. First, the camp aimed to help bridge the gap between the two groups of students, with the hope of fostering peer support for students from both countries working toward careers in engineering.
“We wanted a peer-to-peer network to develop that was cross-cultural,” Rimer said. “We noticed that international experiences are huge for (University) undergraduates, but a lot of them don’t necessarily have the peer aspect, where they go to another country and develop relationships with peers in that country.” The cross-cultural networks also exposed participants to cultural similarities and differences between the United States and Liberia. Engineering senior Breoshshala Martin said since she is African American, it was interesting to see how she and the Liberian students were similar but also different. “The cultural differences weren’t something that I was used to, but there were some things that are similar to my culture back home,” Martin said. “There were things (the Liberian students) did that happened in my family and things they said that I say to my friends often.” In addition, the camp provided hands-on engineering activities, which are not typically integrated into the curriculum at Liberian universities. The University members also worked with the Liberian students in developing a SWE chapter at their school. Though Liberia-SWE was founded in 2013, events such as last year’s Ebola outbreak caused setbacks at the universities. Since 2013, the Liberian students have only had two semesters of five weeks
each. “Since 2013, their whole lives have been on a hiatus,” Rimer said. “Peers from the U.S. have a lot of experience and have successfully ran the organization, so they can provide perspective, ideas and advice as input.” Overall, the camp focused on helping Liberian students acquire life skills that are not taught in their classroom, such as professional development, Rimer said. Edith Tarplah, a University of Liberia junior and L-SWE president, wrote in the University’s graduate SWE blog that the leadership camp has been like a “miracle” for her and other female Liberian engineering students, especially because it is difficult being a female engineering student in Liberia. “It is difficult to be a female student in Liberia, yet alone say an engineering female student,” Tarplah wrote. “Having other female engineering students giving up their time to come to Liberia to encourage and promote networking amongst engineering student and professionals, giving students the opportunity of having a oneon-one conversation about their field of studies and how things actually work in the real world is a miracle.” Rimer said SWE plans to continue to foster the relationship with the Liberian students with hopes that this relationship will serve as a model for other crosscultural connections.
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U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R—Ga.), a University alum, spoke to members of the University’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom at the Michigan Union on Thursday, discussing topics like healthcare reform and Donald Trump.
PRICE From Page 1A cantly lower costs by allowing states and individuals to undertake more efficient solutions. He emphasized that college tuition increases could be reduced by allowing students to take low-interest loans directly from private banks, stating that direct federal subsidies to higher education are responsible for the rapid inflation of college costs. “Do you know why the (federal student loan interest rate) is 6.8 percent?” he said. “Because the government says it’s got to be 6.8 percent regardless of what the market says … you could go out and get a loan from a bank for 3- to 4-percent interest if we allowed the banks to do what they’re supposed to do.” In response to audience questions, Price didn’t specify a preference among the Republican primary field for the 2016 presidential election, expressing admiration for a variety of candidates. “I think this is probably a Rubio-Kasich-Bush race,” he said, referring to Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. He also expressed surprise at the success of the outsider candidates Donald Trump, Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson, noting concern with the leadership style of Donald Trump. “What concerns me about Trump is not necessarily his
policy positions, but we know what it feels like to have a president that oversteps their bounds on regulations and rules,” Price said, referring to President Barack Obama. “And when I hear Trump saying things like ‘I’ll just do XYZ’ without seemingly any regard for the legislative branch, it gives me some thought.” Price also heavily criticized the Affordable Care Act, drawing from his experience as a practicing physician and long-time opponent to government-mandated healthcare coverage. Though conceding that the extension of healthcare coverage to a larger portion of the population is a positive development, he said the bill undermines the direct doctor-patient relationship. “(The ACA) works for the government and insurance companies, but not for patients,” he said. Price argued that the ideal healthcare system should be accessible, affordable and of high quality, while also possessing the capacity for responsiveness, innovation and patient choice. “(The ACA) violates the principles that everyone holds dear, whether you’re on the left side of the spectrum or the right side of the spectrum,” he said. He also touched on a healthcare reform bill introduced by his Republican colleagues in the House in 2013, the Empowering Patients First Act, which sought to provide universal coverage without mandates as a replacement for the Affordable Care Act.
Price is also scheduled to speak at the Medical School tomorrow as part of a series of talks with alumni. In a viewpoint submitted to The Michigan Daily, a group of Medical School students cited several parts of Price’s record they said didn’t align with their values as future doctors, including his vote earlier this week to defund Planned Parenthood and votes against legislation to prevent LGBTQ discrimination, as well as the Violence Against Women Act. Apart from politics, Thursday night’s discussion also had more lighthearted moments, such as Price reflecting fondly on his time at the University, where he enrolled as an undergraduate in 1972. “One of the big activities that we had in ’73 and ’74 were the Watergate hearings, and we would gather in the East Quad common area with a television, huddled around watching the Watergate hearings and not attending class,” he said to laughter from the audience. LSA sophomore Grant Strobl, YAF chair, said the group wanted to bring Price to campus because he is an alum who encompasses many of their views about size of government and business. “At the University, it’s important to think critically and discuss the big issues,” he said. “And I think that having a group like ours that advances these beliefs is a mutual benefit in that we create that dialogue on campus that wouldn’t otherwise exist.”
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University releases report on fracking practices University researchers released findings from a threeyear study on hydraulic fracking. Fracking, which injects mixtures of water, chemicals and sand deep underground to open cracks in sediment, thereby releasing oil or natural gas, has sparked a national debate. Though the report takes no stance on the use of fracking, it includes suggestions for how the public can become more involved in shaping fracking policies.
Founders of Nutshell to create local tech hub Guy Suter, Lindsay Snider and Ian Berry, the founders of Nutshell, a customer relationship management software, purchased three properties in downtown Ann Arbor. The purchasers plan to open a portion of the 24,000 square feet to other Ann Arbor tech startups. According to city records, the three properties were purchased for approximately $6 million.
Mud Bowl event to continue after roadblocks Former members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity will now host the annual Mud Bowl as an independent organization, unaffiliated with SAE or any other other organization. Because the SAE house is owned by alumni, not by the fraternity’s national organization, they say they can host the event without affiliation. The former SAE chapter house at 1408 Washtenaw Ave. will still serve as the event’s venue. Former SAE President Brett Mizzi, a Business senior, said the organization has developed a risk management plan, hired security and purchased insurance for the event. Mizzi said as University students, the event’s organizers have the right to assemble on private property. The University’s Office of Greek Life had attempted to apply a policy that prevents current Greek life members from participating in events held by a chapter that had been expelled from campus. SAE was expelled from the Interfraternity Council in 2011.
BRAIN From Page 1A Steven Pachman, an attorney at Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP who specializes in sports-related cases, discussed the legal and clinical challenges that schools, coaches and trainers encounter when faced with a sports injury. Many of these cases, he noted, end in settlements totaling millions of dollars. “The problem is that experts still have vastly competing views on what constitutes proper standard care,” he said. “A big issue is also lack of documentation — if it’s not documented, it didn’t happen.” Pachman also noted that pictures of injured students create compelling narratives for juries, causing difficulties for athletic programs facing litigation. “At the end of the day the health and safety of the athlete always comes first,” he said. “But athletic programs do need to make sure they’re up to date with documentation and management protocols for legal issues.” Broglio’s studies have looked into issues related to when athletes return to play after a concussion, concussion epidemiology and the history of concussions. Currently, every student-athlete on campus has the option to enroll in an ongoing study on the longterm symptoms of concussions. They receive baseline evaluations and re-evaluations every year. “We’re really trying to demonstrate how often the injury occurs, what the long-term effects are, things that confound,” Broglio said. “We want to just put some facts out there and dispel some of the rumors floating around.”
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LEFT: Concussion lawyer Steven Pachman speaks to attendees of the University of Michigan Injury Center Sport Concussion Summit at Junge Family Campions Center on Thursday. RIGHT: Joanne Gerstner, professor of journalism at Michigan State University, speaks about media coverage of concussion cases to attendees at the conference.
ADMINS From Page 1A was changed in the survey during the process of distributing it at other schools. “AAU changed the way they did that at other campuses after we gave them that feedback,” Axinn said. “We were among the very first to go, and it was a mistake, so we helped them fix it further. When you say, ‘Oh, the statistics are different coming out of different schools,’ it turns out they sort of did a different survey everywhere. It’s ‘the same,’ but not really the same. It means two percentage points is not very big.” Furthermore, he said, it’s important to remember that the AAU survey still featured a relatively small sample; 28 schools are not necessarily representative of a national landscape. Regardless of comparisons to peer institutions, University President Mark Schlissel said these results represent a disconnect between the University’s intentions and the end result when treating cases of sexual misconduct. “We take every report of potential assault or misconduct of any kind very seriously,” Schlissel said. “So the obvious problem is that we are not getting that message across in a way that the students either hear or believe.” E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, echoed this sentiment, and added that it is the University administration’s responsibility to prove wrong
TUITION From Page 1A mittees asked EMU President Kim Schatzel and Oakland University President George Hynd for their opinions regarding the performancebased standards and the tuition cap. The members asked whether the presidents saw the cap as positive reinforcement or punishment and what they thought the subcommittee could do to prevent such substantial tuition hikes from becoming a recurring trend. Hynd said the performance metrics are good ones, but he thinks the tuition cap is restrictive. “They are the ones (college presidents) might be able to have an impact on, so I think that makes sense,” he said. “The tuition restraint can be viewed as either a carrot or a stick, and I think that’s probably worthy of some discussion.” Schatzel said EMU has not increased its tuition rate in years because her school is committed to keeping college affordable and that the tuition remains comparatively low. “In 2005, our tuition was roughly equal to that of our peer institutions,” she said. “Ten years later, our tuition is 5 to 13 percent lower than our peers. With the recent tuition increase, Eastern remains
those who doubt the University’s intentions. “Certainly people’s perception is the reality that they’ve experienced,” she said. “Whatever the reason is, we know that is not the work we’re doing or the intent of the work that we’re doing or the commitment of the institution. So we just have to work harder to make sure that that assertion simply is not true.” As for application of the numbers — both from the AAU survey and the University’s internal survey — Holly Rider-Milkovich, director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, said student input will be essential moving forward. “What the institution is doing this semester, specifically, is really working hard on engaging with our students in many different ways — along with our faculty and staff — to take a hard, critical look at our current sexual misconduct policy and really ask for our students to engage with us on some suggestive revisions that are coming down the pike,” Milkovich said. Harper said she plans to send out an all-student e-mail next week further elaborating upon the plans to involve students in the process of evaluating the University’s Student Sexual Misconduct Policy. Broadly, Milkovich said student organizations, units of Student Life and Central Student Government are partnering to host forums during the revision process. During the events, students will have the opportunity to evaluate revision drafts, ask questions and provide feedback. Milkovich also mentioned
13 out of 15 in tuition costs among Michigan’s public universities.” Schatzel said this shows EMU’s financial well-being and has kept expenses low so that it has not had to increase tuition substantially every year. “At Eastern we clearly understand that approximately 80 percent of every dollar we spend comes from the pockets of our students, and the remaining 20 percent comes from the taxpayers of the state of Michigan,” she said. She also noted that freshman enrollment has risen rapidly at EMU, and that the school is dedicated to providing students with the best resources. However, she said, it is difficult to do that at a university that has lower financial reserves than many other public institutions in the state without increasing tuition. Schatzel said the majority of students — 87 percent — at EMU are Michigan residents, which, she said could explain why the school may have fewer financial resources than other schools. She used the University of Michigan as an example to prove this point, noting 45 percent of its student body is from out of state and thus pays significantly higher tuition than the majority of students at EMU.
that, beyond pre-existing programming such as Change it Up or Relationship Remix, SAPAC has been working with Recreational Sports to create a poster campaign to appear in facilities across campus. These posters will “reinforce the fundamentals of respect,” including consent. “We want to be reinforcing that healthy relationships are a part of an overall wellness,” Milkovich said. “So those kinds of messaging, specific to the ways that students engage in sports on our campus ... is an example of those targeted kinds of education efforts that need to complement the big-scale work that we’re doing. And all of that has to happen on many different levels.” As in previous interviews, the administrators present emphasized that sexual misconduct has become a community problem — one that will require a cultural shift on the part of the students and not only through new policies. “Anything that involves 20 or 30 percent of a population, that’s not a rare event — this is everyday life, this is culture,” Schlissel said. “And that highlights for me that the University isn’t going to be able to solve this problem without the students stepping up and working with us to solve the problem, because it’s the student culture that is supporting or allowing this milieu to exist. We’ll only be successful if we find ways for University leaders to work with students and students leaders and also the broader student community on solutions.” “I’ve made much less of a
Hynd echoed Schatzel’s sentiment and said Oakland wants to meet students’ priorities and invest in their educations, but doing so on a limited operating budget is a challenge. “Neither the university nor the state has generated sufficient resources to meet the needs of our students,” he said. “Oakland’s all-in tuition rates have long priced below the comparable rates of our state peers. Although we are grateful and encouraged to see the state of Michigan has begun to reinvest in higher education through increased appropriations, the fact is that historically, Oakland has been underfunded.” He said Oakland spends less per student than do most public universities in the state because the school receives less state funding than the statewide average. “Oakland has done its best to keep tuition increases as manageable as possible for students and certainly their families,” he said. “These efforts have kept us within the bottom half of Michigan public universities when it comes to the all-in cost of education.” State Rep. Mike McCready (R–Birmingham), co-chair of the House Appropriations subcommittee on higher education, said the two subcommittees would meet again to further discuss these issues.
big deal about the difference between Michigan’s numbers and the average of this larger group simply because the average of the larger group is unacceptable,” he added. “Regardless of what the number is, it requires our maximum attention, because it’s unreasonable.” Schlissel also noted that despite high rates of sexual misconduct, the rate of people who who reported feeling unsafe on campus is relatively low — a seeming contradiction that Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones said the University is struggling to mitigate. “I know that at the University of Michigan, we are a national leader in prevention work and that we’re not just doing the minimum of what’s expected of us,” Black Jones said. “All of our students have very high … numbers of participating in multiple experiences of prevention, and yet our numbers are the way they are. For me, that’s the emotional piece … our model is what so many campuses are working to replicate and do right now, and we’ve been doing that and sustaining that and our numbers are still as bad as they are.” Milkovich noted that data from programs such as Relationship Remix show that positive teachings about consent and healthy behavior begin to “wear off” after about a year. “More efforts to our students across the course of their student life span is a frontier that we need to figure out how we will reach,” she said. The hope, Blake Jones said, is to reach a point where students
FASHION From Page 1A microorganism like a bacteria and getting that to spin the fiber,” Lee said. Microbial cellulose is related to cellulose derived from cotton, which makes up a large percentage of commercial clothing. Lee outlined three main benefits of microbial cellulose: it is more ecologically sustainable to grow, it is much purer and it absorbs dyes, which are usually toxic in their liquid form, much more effectively. The process of growing microbial cellulose, which takes about three weeks in total, involves creating a bath of nutrients, a carbon source and microbes. Lee accomplishes this with green tea, refined sugar and a complex community of yeasts and bacteria. This community, called a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast — or SCOBY — is identical to that which makes the drink kombucha. As the microbes feed and multiply, they produce cellulose in a thick mat that can be later washed, dried and cut into fabric. Art & Design junior Harsha Devaraj said he thought this process was particularly interesting. “The final product that she came out with, the jackets, were really cool. But I really enjoyed the process. Seeing the time-lapse of the bacteria synthesizing the material was easily the coolest part of the whole thing,” he said. Lee also talked about her involvement in growing cow skin
start leading the conversation as opposed to having administrators start it. The Office of Student Life has been providing training for “high-impact” groups on campus — including ROTC, Greek life, the Michigan Marching Band, studentathletes and club-sport athletes — with the hope that their collective visibility and influence will allow them to lead the rest of the student community in promoting each other’s wellbeing and preventing, among other behaviors, sexual misconduct. Blake Jones said the University is alone among other Division 1 institutions in requiring every member of every team — including athletes, coaches and assistant coaches — to take sexual misconduct training. “The takeaway ending messages to students in the training is that if the campus climate is really going to change … it’s going to be the actions of not the dean of students sitting in the Michigan Union, or SAPAC ardently doing their work, but the people who have been inside these programs living and practicing the skills and interrupting situations of potential harm before they escalate,” Blake Jones said. Shifting the responsibility to students, it seems, may play a big role moving forward — especially, as Axinn noted, when “these data are as far from perfect as data can be.” “You are all adults,” Schlissel said. “This is the way your community is treating one another, so think about that. We have to think about that together and try to solve this issue together.”
for leather. She spoke about an epiphany moment she had while discussing lab-grown tissue with a synthetic biologist. “If it was possible to grow human tissue in the lab, why not animal tissue? And in fact, why still require killing an animal just to obtain certain parts of it if it’s possible for us to grow the correct cells and just use those tissues?” she said. LSA senior Léa Ono said the sustainability focus resonated with her. “It always troubled me how wasteful the material process is,” she said. “In order to dye any fabric, we have to wear gloves and a mask and a full body coat because the dyes were so toxic. So I was thinking about the beet dyes and vegetable dyes and how amazing it would be if we could do leather with mammalian cells.” Lee said the process of “biofabrication” through microbial cellulose was difficult to produce in large quantities and may have a limited impact on the fashion industry as a whole. However, citing examples of mushroom-derived furniture, bacterially constructed bricks and biofuels, Lee said intersections between design and fashion will be influential in decades to come. “I fundamentally believe today that the future of creativity and design in working materials is really going to intersect and depend on what’s happening in biology,” she said.
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ever before had a pope entered the House chamber, much less been given the freedom to address those who run the most powerful nation. But there, perhaps, has never been a pope in our lifetime as enthralling as Pope Francis. More than 20 years after U.S. Rep. John Boehner (R–Ohio) tried to invite Pope John Paul II to the chamber and DAVID was declined by both him HARRIS and later Benedict XVI, Francis, the first pope in history from the Americas, finally accepted Boehner’s invitation. As with anything congressional, politics ruled everything about the pope’s visit, even before he arrived in the nation. Though he is the pope Boehner brought, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders claimed to be his ideological equal, and Rep. Paul Gosar (R–Ariz.) boycotted. Few figures are equally applauded and criticized by both sides of the aisle as Francis is. His approval rating was as high as 76 percent during 2014, with high approval from conservatives and liberals alike. Both sides could, in theory, pick and choose issues on which they claim to be in line with the views of the Vatican, but 2015 has seen approval ratings in all groups decline. Approval among conservatives is down to 45 percent, no doubt in part due to the fallout from Francis’ encyclical, or letter of Catholic doctrine, Laudato si’, on climate change. Approval among liberals has also fallen 14 percent, perhaps because time has shown Francis to not always be the progressive media darling he was often portrayed as early in his papacy. That said, playing the polls and partisan politics of both the pope and his address instead of recognizing the overarching themes he continued to stress would miss all of the papal purposes. Pope Francis is not playing the side of Republican or Democrat. It’s impossible to categorize the issues into the polarized bipartisan system of Duverger’s law. Never mind that the pope’s comments prior to his speech are global and not American in nature, or that this was the second speech he had ever given in English. It was a speech that was neither liberal nor conservative, but Catholic. In many ways, the lead-up and response to the speech was similar to the release of the Laudato si’. For months, media speculated about how the Vatican, notably opposed to certain circles of conservative Christianity in both its acceptance and encouragement of understanding modern science principles such as evolution and climatology, would blast climate-change deniers. And while the encyclical certainly did align itself with
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scientists and environmentalists calling for action to prevent further climate change, the point was again missed, as Francis once noted that the encyclical was not really even primarily about environmentalism. In it, he wrote, “The Church does not presume to settle scientific questions or to replace politics,” knowing that the two would take the main stage in discussion, but behind all of it were major themes of responsibility to protect the marginalized and care for the poor, as well as a call to end the indifference toward a throwaway culture that extends far beyond environmental concerns. Far more than Francis pushed political solutions, he urged Congress to continue to strive for the “common good.” The common good, as outlined in the church’s 1965 document Gaudium et spes, is “the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.” This concept is intrinsically tied to those responsible for guiding nations, with whom much responsibility rests. As Francis noted, “politics is … an expression of our compelling need to live as one, in order to build as one, the greatest common good.” As more and more citizens feel like Congress is out of touch and a servant to special interests, the belief that politicians continue to promote the “general welfare” in order to build a more perfect union, as noted in the preamble of the Constitution, has waned with it. Francis opened his speech comparing the legislators to the figure of Moses and the tales of him leading the Israelites, telling his audience, “You are asked to protect, by means of the law, the image and likeness fashioned by God on every human face.” The number of citizens who would agree that Congress is fulfilling this duty, especially in serving the faces of the marginalized instead of the faces of the powerful, dwindles each day. There’s no greater picture than that of Francis eating lunch with the homeless instead of with his hosts from Congress after his speech. He’s not interested in the rhetoric; he’s interested in the parable. Instead of only looking down and out at the world from the halls of Congress and the political elite, he put himself among those who come last, for the last will be first. Francis did nothing more than ask for dialogue on the issues that keep us from moving toward this common good — a dialogue that remembers those outside of the House chamber who need help the most. In an address the day before to many American bishops, Francis told the leaders of the Church in America to “be pastors close to people, pastors who are neighbors and servants.” Perhaps that’s a fitting message for the leaders in the capitol as well. — David Harris can be reached at daharr@umich.edu.
I don’t need to have kids
t all started with population growth. During my first semester of freshman year, I took a class called Global Change. It was, in short, a lengthy and depressing list of all the ways humans are severely fucking up the planet. It was also life changing, and it became the reason why I chose to study environmental science. One of the points I took away from this class RACHAEL was that the world’s popuLACEY lation is getting so large, so quickly, that many of the sustainable changes that we, as humans from all over the world, have implemented are simply overridden by the negative effects of adding so many people to the planet every year. So in that class, as an 18-year-old freshman, I made the decision that I would not contribute to this problem. I would not have kids. Instead, I could adopt one. Or two or three, even. It was a win-win situation for everyone, and I’d save the world, etc., etc. Then, about a year ago, my life suddenly changed forever. I’m still not sure how, but somehow I came to the shocking revelation that I, in fact, am not required to have children. Let me reiterate: It took me 20 years to realize I didn’t have to have kids. That might seem like a very obvious thing to you, especially if you are not a woman, but as ridiculous as it seems, I’m actually not surprised it took me that long. You see, we’re so trained as women to see our lives played out as follows: get a degree, get a job, get married, work for a while, have some babies, either do or don’t give up work and
be a loving mom for the rest of your life. I’ve lived my entire life planning on including the mom part — I’ve even spent time brainstorming my future children’s names (which I won’t tell you, because if they ever exist, their names will be way more unique than “Rachael,” dammit). But now when I think about that storyline — the one with babies — it seems like someone else’s story. The more I thought about this crazy revelation, the more it made sense. I was excited. I was liberated from something I’d never actually faced. But that didn’t matter; I didn’t realize how trapped I had felt until I let myself out of the cage. I’ve never been good with kids. Children seriously freak me out. They make me nervous, and I don’t know how on Earth you’re supposed to actually make them listen to you without bribing them with chocolate, cake or Legos (all very effective tactics on me). And babies? Any time I hold one, all I feel is terror that I’m going to somehow drop it, and all I want is for someone to take it back as soon as possible. I used to think that I wanted kids so I could get right all the things my parents got wrong. I even had a kind of mental list of things I would do differently than them. For example, if I had a daughter, she would be allowed to yell at me when she was angry. Great idea, 12-year-old Rachael. I thought I had this parenting thing figured out. But even if I did get right everything my parents got wrong, there’s a pretty good chance I’d also get wrong all the things they got right. There’s not really a practice test you can take for this stuff. Whenever I tell people that I don’t want kids, without fail the response is, “That’s what you say now.” It’s so completely foreign
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Creating my own space
ednesday evening, when I grabbed my tallit and walked down Hill street toward Hillel for Yom Kippur services, nobody asked if I was Jewish. I fit right in — I knew when to bow during the Shema (a prayer calling ANNE out to God) and KATZ the inflections of the v’ahavta (a prayer reminding us of certain Jewish practices). I knew how to be humble when asking God for forgiveness and the strength to be a better person, a better Jew. The vulnerability that crept into my chest as I acknowledged my flaws and screw-ups throughout the past year was heart wrenching, but familiar. This Yom Kippur, nobody doubted my faith. Although I don’t go to Hillel nearly as often as I should, I identify as a Jewish American. I grew up very much in the faith — my sisters and I kept kosher, went to services regularly, became B’not Mitzvah — and I’m increasingly embracing my Jewishness. I love belonging to a minority with a success story — one that overcame prejudice and persecution to settle as respected middle- and upper-class citizens. I’m proud of our historical narrative and how we used our position as societal “others” to advocate for the oppressed, especially during the Civil Rights Movement. We remember that we were once slaves in the land of Egypt. This is the element of Judaism that I most identify with. The Jewish notion of tikkun olam, or healing the world, comprises my core. It shapes my passions and pursuits and is part of the reason I love public
policy so much. Maybe it’s idealistic, but I see policy as a tool to repair poverty and inequality to make our country more just. The summer after my sophomore year, I interned at a Jewish social justice nonprofit, advocating for Voting Rights Act reform to ensure people of color throughout the South could exercise their right to vote. I found the work so fulfilling because it was connected to the abstract ideal of justice that I embody in my Jewish being. And yet, since I first started living in Ann Arbor three years ago, my Jewish identity has come under dual scrutiny from both Jews and non-Jews. I’ve found that some gentiles have a hard time reconciling my faith with my appearance. When kids found out I was Jewish my freshman year, I was often greeted with raised eyebrows. “Wait, really?” they would say, utterly shocked. “But you don’t look it at all!” Of course, this reaction is more innocent ignorance than malicious prejudice, but it still stings. Yes, I’ll admit that I don’t possess many of the traits some people expect Jews to have — my hair is light brown and I have my mother’s slim nose and green eyes. I’m from Maryland, not Westchester, Long Island or Los Angeles. But the fact that some people don’t realize that it’s offensive to openly act surprised when a member of an ethnicity breaks away from an offensive stereotype is beyond me. What was even more offensive was when one girl, after discovering I was Jewish, cocked her head to the side and said, “Yeah, I guess I see it.” But these superficial encounters aren’t the ones that fundamentally upset me. In fact, they feel more like dirt in an open wound. The real gut-punching is when people of my own community and faith don’t recognize me as one of them. It’s when a hand shoots up behind me
two weeks ago during the first day of a Judaic studies class and tells me directly that to be Jewish, my mother must be Jewish, too, openly contradicting me and my faith in front of the entire class. Plain and simple, he says. It’s from the Torah. My mother is Catholic, which, according to certain Jewish doctrine, invalidates my Jewish identity. This doctrine, however, is not actually from the Torah and instead is merely a practice passed down from ancient Roman times. Even though my sisters and I had mikva’ot (conversion ceremonies) when we were babies, the ceremony wasn’t Orthodox. As a result, neither the state of Israel nor the kid behind me recognizes me as Jew. And it hurts. This doubt stings more than the ignorant stereotypes because, coming from within my own group, it’s harder to dismiss. The matrilineal teaching is not some fringe, ultraOrthodox belief. Though not present in the Torah, the teaching is widely accepted, and part of being Jewish is feeling connected to the patchwork of practices and traditions that form our dogma. This tradition, however, makes me feel alienated, like an outsider in my own faith. I find it perplexing to encounter Jews who feel like they can and should reject me for not corresponding with an arcane definition, especially during a time of shrinking numbers and dwindling faith. The fact that I don’t fit neatly into my community is something I’m learning to digest. For now, I’ll continue to embrace the elements of Judaism that speak to me: the emphasis on progress, social justice and the duty to make the world a better place. And in doing so, I vow to push the community’s stubborn boundaries by creating my own space. —Anne Katz can be reached at amkatz@umich.edu.
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and don’t worry, all you child-loving people out there, I’m not a complete monster. At one point I did want kids. Yes, I still might change my mind, and no, that statement is not simply to comfort you or to assuage your fears; it is just me recognizing my freedom. And no, my “freedom” is not just laziness, apprehension or “You’re just an ignorant young person who has no idea what’s good for
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her.” It’s my body and it’s my life, and surprisingly enough, it’s my choice. It’s not that I’ve made up my mind 100 percent to never have children. It’s that I know that I don’t have to. And wow, that is liberating. Instead, I can travel. I can babysit other people’s kids and then promptly return them. I can give my friends and family all that extra love inside of me. Or I can give it to
cats. I can save money — a whole lot of money. I don’t have to have the ridiculously huge responsibility of literally creating a person. Now my only issue is finding a husband who also doesn’t want kids. Oh, wait. I don’t need to have one of those, either. —Rachael Lacey can be reached at rachaelk@umich.edu.
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Oh, Fetty Wap, won’t you come my way?
TV REVIEW
By MELINA GLUSAC Daily Arts Writer
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“Just pretend we’re ‘Game of Thrones’.”
‘Executioner’ not so well executed New FX series pushes the boundaries By MATT BARNAUSKAS Daily Arts WRiter
This article contains spoilers for the finale of “Sons of Anarchy.” Kurt Sutter, for better or worse, has become A a go-to guy for FX. Ever The Bastard since his Executioner involvement as a writer Series Premiere and eventual Tuesdays at producer for 10 p.m. Shawn Ryan’s “The Shield,” FX Sutter has risen in prominence among the network with “Sons of Anarchy,” which became one of FX’s most popular series at the time of its finale in 2014. Now, in 2015, Sutter continues to call FX home with his newest series, “The Bastard Executioner,” a show that continues the usual themes that dominate his earlier work while displaying some of the showrunner’s biggest flaws. At the core of Sutter’s creations is violence. His worlds are nasty and brutal, forming a cycle of suffering and despair that few can escape. In “Sons of Anarchy,” Jax Teller fought for seven seasons to end the savagery around SAMCRO, only to be sucked into its black hole of barbarity, with death being the only salvation for the troubled biker. This idea echoes within “The Bastard Executioner” through the story of medieval warrior Wilkin Brattle (Lee Jones, “Home and
Away”). Opening with a flashback, Brattle lies wounded on the battlefield when a vision of a child tells him to “Lay down the sword” and “Live the life of a different man.” Brattle, still haunted by visions of his tormented past, takes the words to heart and settles in Wales with his wife Petra (Elen Rhys, “World War Z”). Living in a time of political upheaval and rebellion against the power of England, Brattle finds his promise hard to keep as, armed with a club instead of a sword, he assists the local rebels in their guerilla resistance. One of the biggest issues “Sons of Anarchy” experienced during its extended run was the general expansion of its storyline and subplots into an unruly and bloated beast. This issue carries over to “The Bastard Executioner” as the weight of the narrative nearly crushes the premiere. Clocking in at just over 90 minutes, the premiere takes a long time introducing its huge cast of main and supporting characters, with several killed off within the same episode. It’s unfortunate because the ensemble is impressive, but there’s not really enough time for most of them to forge an initial connection to the audience. Not until 40 minutes into the pilot, when villains Baron Ventris (Brían F. O’Byrne, “Aquarius”) and Milus Corbett (Stephen Moyer, “True Blood”) order the massacre of Brattle’s village, does the narrative truly pick up. The village massacre is just one of many sequences of extended violence, but it is definitely the most disturbing as mostly women and children, including the pregnant Petra, are slaughtered in the dark, and orange flames shed
light on the atrocity. Sutter never shies away from viciousness, but it sometimes seems a little much, as if he wants to show how many different ways a person can be stabbed in one episode. Under the direction of Paris Barclay, director of 15 “Sons of Anarchy” episodes, most of these scenes work on a basic level. Brattle’s vengeful ambush of Ventris in a hayfield is a highlight of the pilot, if only for the appearance of “The Americans” ’s Matthew Rhys as a Welsh rebel leader. However, there are missteps. The choice of an electric guitar to orchestrate the village massacre feels tonally unwelcome, and the opening flashback displays some color over-saturation that makes the scene feel somewhat cheap. It’s funny that the show is called, “The Bastard Executioner,” but Brattle, under the urgings of the mysterious and manipulative healer, Annora (“Sons of Anarchy” alum Katey Sagal), doesn’t truly assume the title position until more than an hour has passed, when he takes the identity of the deceased executioner, Maddox (Felix Scott, “The Interceptor”) In that fact lies “The Bastard Executioner” ’s biggest issue — inside this swollen premiere are decent foundations for a series. Brattle’s first execution is a welldone moment of choice, merging the show’s past and present through the man’s visions. Unfortunately, the show is so extraneously dense that it takes far too long to get to this point. Sutter needs to cast aside this unnecessary baggage present in the pilot and cut to the heart of the new series if he hopes to bring continued success to FX.
The year is 1738. Many people are plagued with smallpox or other legitimate, more pressing problems (FOMO on the birth of King George III?) — but me, myself? I’m stricken with Fetty Wap fever. Before we get down to it, there’s one thing you should know: hip hop is not my preferred genre. This just in — white girl from cushy Michigan suburb not the world’s biggest fan of rap music. More at 11. It’s no secret, and it’s no surprise. David Bowie gets me going, as do Sarah Vaughan, Elliott Smith and The Kinks. Of course, as a music writer, I pride myself on listening to a myriad — by the truest sense of the word — of genres. Jazz, R&B, neo-soul, pop-y pop, folk, etc. (Admittedly, Johnny Cash is about as far as I’ll go into country. Maybe Shania Twain if I’m feeling frisky.) But dabbling in hip hop is not exactly the most relaxing listening adventure for me. I love it; I appreciate it. I could rap “The Real Slim Shady” to you right now, in its entirety, and have a damn good time doing it. But it’s just not the butter to my bread. Given the choice, I’d pick Marvin Gaye over Kan-yeezy almost every time. Lately, though, I’ve been walking around campus sans any typical tunes beating through my head. “679” by Fetty Wap and Remy Boyz has taken over. Stepping out of my dorm (“… and I got this sewed up”), riding down the elevator (“Remy Boyz, they know us”), eating a bagel (“all fast money, no slow bucks”), walking to class (“no one can control us”) and sitting down in lecture (“ay, yeeEEEAaah baby”). It won’t leave me, no matter how hard I try. Mr. Wap, born Willie Maxwell in 1991, is a fascinating creature. He catapulted into the spotlight this summer with the melodically minimalistic smash “Trap Queen,” a strange song upon closer examination. There are about five notes sung throughout the whole thing (same three in the verses, same two in the chorus, excluding the rap), and pixie-like, staccato synths run rampant. It’s appealing from the get-go but ultimately lacks variety —not
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exactly what you’d call “chart bait” in a day and age where constant shock-factor is needed to hold a listener’s attention. To boot, it introduced the world to that signature Wap vibrato we now love/hate: “… getting fly with my baby, yeEEEAaah.” Never has a goat in heat yodeling about his boo thang sounded so hot. Since then, my beloved “679” and “My Way,” which features a perfect verse from Drake, have secured Wap’s place in pop music’s vocabulary. Plus his debut album is set to come out on Sept. 25. Most importantly, though, people listen to Fetty Wap. Whether it’s ironic or not, “I’m like hey, what’s up, hello” has worked its way into Instagram captions worldwide. Speaking of irony: this could be debated, but quite a few listeners dig Wap because they think he’s hilarious. Almost everyone with whom I’ve discussed mentions his one eye and bursts out laughing (glaucoma stole the other from us, may it rest), and my friend often tries to mimic his weirdly strained singing. Also, his music isn’t really respected in the way, say, Kendrick Lamar’s is. As of late, hip hop has become a platform for artists like Lamar to convey heavier subject matter, i.e. their dissatisfaction with police brutality, the implications of and stereotypes involved with being a famous African
American man, etc. Fetty Wap raps about squadding up and chillin’ with his girl. Even newcomer and surprising tickler-of-my-fancy Vince Staples talks about his girl on “Lemme Know,” but since he’s less mainstream — and perhaps a bit more lyrically deft — the music seems less trivial. OK. That’s all peachy. But I still can’t sweat out my Fetty Wap fever. Even though he’s “trivial” and Cyclop-tic and repetitive and odd, I still enjoy listening to Fetty Wap. The key word there is “enjoy.” Just because an artist isn’t as intellectual, as critically adored as one of his contemporaries doesn’t mean he isn’t successful at his job. Wap resonates with the masses arguably better than any other pop and hip-hop artist out there right now — and he does so in a deeply enjoyable way. And though the word is grossly overused, his music is fun, above all else. He makes me dance like an inebriated aunt at a wedding, sing along obnoxiously and laugh at the absurdity of it all. I can’t say that for many other current musicians. In my fevered past week, I’ve loved nothing more than putting the fun back into my life and my playlists amid swirls of homework and new classes. This is college, after all. Sometimes I don’t want to think. I just want to party like it’s 1738.
TV REVIEW
New ‘Who’ revives old doctor’s panache By DREW MARON Daily Arts Writer
The Doctor is in the building and he brought horrible puns and an electric guitar. Were you expecting someone A else? It’s quite Dr. Who a hard thing to review Season 9 Premiere “Doctor Saturdays Who” because no at 9 p.m. matter what you think of BBC America it, someone, somewhere will disagree with everything you have ever stood for. Some folks stopped watching after William Hartnell’s First Doctor (like, you know, your grandparents), while others have only ever seen Matt Smith’s Eleven. The current era has been met with controversy (to say the least), namely directed at show-runner Steven Moffat (“Sherlock”) and his inability to bring more diversity to the Who Universe. I personally agree with this sentiment, yet
I still respect the ineluctable contribution Moffat has made to taking The Doctor out of your parent’s basement and into the hearts of the entire world. I also have to say that I love Peter Capaldi’s Doctor. Believe it or not, Moffat is way more attuned to the original vision of the Doctor than most fans wish to admit. In his first adventures, the Doctor was shrewd, rude and a little impatient with his human companions. He was, in short, a grumpy old man who had just about had it up to here with the universe, and he didn’t care who he forced to listen. Clearly, this is the iteration of the Doctor Moffat feels the most connected to, and it’s one I prefer to Matt Smith’s quirky, bouncy ball of fun. Moffat, someone who gets a bad rep for making “Doctor Who” a tad too serious, still knows how to fill his odd-ball time-lord with lovable idiosyncrasies, this time an electric guitar and sunglasses in 1198 A.D. England. Like many of Moffat’s adventures into the Who Universe, the season nine premiere, “The Magician’s
Apprentice,” treats the canon and mythology of the Doctor like a giant sandbox filled with previously unanswered (and sometimes unanswerable) questions. “The Magician’s Apprentice” continues in the vein of “Into the Dalek” (a personal favorite of mine) by exploring the creation, psychology and circumstances behind a species of absolute evil, the Daleks. Moffat’s ideas are often so insane, yet obvious, you feel yourself always asking why no one has ever thought of doing it before.
The season 9 premier treats the canon like a giant sandbox. In this case, we explore the exact relationship the Doctor has with Davros, the inventor of the Daleks. There’s more
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than a little “Harry Potter” vibe to this episode, as Davros’s serpentine servants abduct the Doctor, Clara (Jenna Louise Coleman, “Captain America: The First Avenger”) and the Master (Michelle Gomez, “The Brink”). The trio are brought to Davros’s homeworld of Skaro so that the Doctor may speak with the inventor before he dies … or so it seems. The episode ends on a “To Be Continued” card which will undoubtedly anger those who have dismissed the more
serialized format “Doctor Who” has taken on at the helm of Moffat. The format feels more like serialized prose or stories, like that of Dickens and other authors of Victorian serials. The one thing I’m uncertain about the new season is the direction of the Master as a possible anti-hero. Moffat makes it clear with the Master’s murder of the agents that this is still the Master and should not be trusted, but I still don’t believe that the entire millennia of conflict between
the Master and the Doctor was just “flirting.” That being said, the show does do a great deal in contextualizing the Doctor’s hatred of the Master with his hatred of Davros. The Master is still a Time Lord / Lady, and there’s definitely a familiarity there, even if the show presents it as more intimate than some fans might be comfortable with. With Davros, the biggest thing the Doctor can relate to is the fact that they have both done horrible things which they self-justify.
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Ode on an Undergrad Romper T
hey say you’re likely to meet “the one” in college. And by “they” I mean my overzealous relatives, the ones who spew not-so-sage advice at family gatherings after throwing back one-toomany glasses of wine. However, in my case, they were absolutely corCAROLINE rect. Though FILIPS I’m confident my kin’s definitions of “the one” differs from the clothing companion I’ve grown to adore, I’m happy and in love. In short, the undergraduate college experience is a wondrous four-year experiment. You’re able to truly test your limits, push some boundaries and, above all, step outside of your sartorial comfort zone. For me, a distant dream once reserved to the truest of trendsetters became a reality and a staple of my wardrobe. The year was 2014, and the romper and I endured an extraordinary love affair and never looked back. What truly captured my heart about the romper was its ease; similarly to the powerful effects of a good coat, I could instantly transform from a rundown, sloppily dressed college student into a somewhat-polished pseudo-adult. Though the romper is subject to endlessly endearing qualities, what truly stole my heart was the uncanny semblance it bears to my pajamas of choice, the infant staple, the one-piece-wonder that is the onesie. Rompers changed the game by being a sort of socially acceptable pajama-esque garment for all occasions other than sleep. It was genius. It was everything I didn’t know I needed. The hybrid of a top and cropped trouser had a seductive simplicity. You literally just slide it on and you’re dressed in a full ensemble. That right there easily saves you seven minutes of dreaded morning out-
fit indecisiveness. While I’m aware the romper reemerged around spring 2011 after its metallic triteness and extended legs of the ’70s, along with countless identity crises (i.e. often resurfacing during festival season as its somewhat washed up cousin, overalls), I was initially a skeptic. As with most bourgeoning trends, I assumed it would eventually fizzle out, and my inherent aversion drew me to avoidance. I was naïve, uneasy with the concept of abandoning my beloved closet of endless separates that structured sufficient portmanteaus. As bloggers and trend-forecasters badgered us hopeless wannabe style-icon/ internet-trolls with the news, I resisted. In my defense, I was a long, lanky, clueless high-school freshman when the romper reemerged — too under-confident to rock anything other than my trusty, extra-long (thanks be to Lulu’s special order) yoga pants.
The romper and I endured an extraordinary love affair. Yet, the romper persisted with a strong social media presence, immaculate appearances on the runway and rave reviews of esteemed fashion critics; but I regrettably fell victim to the spell only as of late. Forgive me, romper, for not realizing your true potential until I fully trusted you. But now, here we are, two kindred spirits who just needed to mature apart before we could grow together. As with any great love, the search wasn’t easy. It was a painstaking pursuit. For starters, rompers are sized stranger than any garment I have ever come across. You’d think
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they’d be cut similar to the standard dress size — bust, hips, waist, boom — the whole awful, humiliating, as-if-I-needed-to-be-reducedto-yet-another-number shebang. But no, it’s absolutely nonsensical and against all cloth-cutting logic. Yet, these offsetting qualities seemed a necessary roadblock in the attainment of a quasi-nirvana level of satisfaction. I knew “the one” would never be wholly, onehundred-percent perfect. I had to assess my options, not merely settle for what was there. I knew true love was all about the chase and the challenge.
Against all clothcutting logic. My first rendezvous with the romper was flawed, awkward and uncomfortable. Essentially, it didn’t fit. It didn’t compliment my body, it didn’t play off my prominent features and again, it was a downright bore. Like a tragically awful first date, it was all wrong. What’s worse was that I tried to like it. I searched endlessly for its redeeming qualities, and by the time I counted seven offsetting attributes, I knew the end wasn’t near, it was there. Though I don’t doubt the first romper prompted me to test my limits, it was suffocating in ways I knew would hurt us in the long term. But eventually, one day when the sun shines overhead, or in my case the April showers quickly escalate into a torrential downpour; sometimes, when you least expect it, you’re seeking shelter in a department store. You glance to your left and there, on a mannequin, waiting to be ripped off, is the one. Filips’s arm is stuck in te neck hole of her romper. To offer your assistance, email carofil@umich.edu.
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Ryan Adams covers Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ By CHLOE GILKE Managing Arts Editor
Ryan Adams really takes Taylor Swift seriously. Swift’s infectious, critically beloved 1989 is a pop triumph, B so Adams’s choice to cover 1989 PAX the album in its AM entirety seems a little baffling Ryan Adams at first. But then again, this is PAX AM Ryan Adams. He has recorded 15 albums in as many years, not including many unreleased ones (a track-by-track cover of The Strokes’s Is This It among them). This is Ryan Adams, recently divorced and newly heartbroken, who wants to shed some teardrops on his guitar and reach out to Taylor Swift for inspiration as so many of us do. 1989, then, is a logical choice for Adams’s cathartic breakup album. It’s Swift’s most cheerful album by a long shot, but even in her “Shake It Off” bubblegum, Swift shows echoes of the heartache and regret that led her to the dancefloor in the first place. In retreading her emotional steps and appropriating her words to fit his own voice, Adams is recording the ultimate love letter to Swift and the power of her lyricism. If only Adams had done more with the material. I’m not sure anyone would point to the lyrics on 1989 as a pillar of Great American Songwriting (“His hands are in my
hair / His clothes are in my room”), but Swift covers a great deal of emotional bases with a diverse collection of retro-inspired pop beats. Adams keeps his covers simple, often using only acoustic guitars to accompany his driving voice. Sometimes, as in the standout “Out of the Woods,” the plainness of his arrangements scrubs the music of any pretense and allows the listener to bathe in his begging, crying timbre. Much of the time, though, Adams drowns in his own sadness and self-pity, losing sight of the emotion that makes his other tracks so strong. “This Love” is a drag of a song, lasting nearly five minutes with nothing to offer except a few repeating piano notes and vocals that sound like Adams is doing his best impression of a sleepy Bono. The bad and boring far outweigh the album’s innovative material, which is a shame, because Adams attempts some radical style on this record. While 1989’s simplicity is its downfall, the more experimental tracks are where Adams truly shines. “Style” is a messy clusterfuck of a song, but upon a second listen, his sonic influences become more clear. The jabbing energy of the guitars is reminiscent of ’80s-era Sonic Youth (Adams also makes a lyrical shout-out to that “Daydream Nation look in your eye”). Before he released the album, Adams noted that he was attempting to cover 1989 in the style of Bruce Springsteen and The Smiths. When he really leans into his inspiration, as on the album’s opener, “Welcome to New York,”
Adams’s experimentation pays off with some interesting sounds he hasn’t utilized in his discography to date. Despite the tributes galore, Adams imbues most every song with his signature alt-country sensibility. Even the sparse and depressive “Blank Space” is immediately recognizable as a Ryan Adams song; I wouldn’t be surprised if, at this very moment, one of Adams’s many cool-dad fans is queuing up this album for a drive upstate, and doesn’t realize until “Bad Blood” that the lyrics are actually Taylor Swift. Adams puts a lot of faith in those lyrics he’s borrowing from Swift — the cover album operates on the meaning and merit of those words on their own, the fact that he can change the arrangement and strip down the beats to a few guitars and the essential Taylor Swift feelings will still be there to drive the album to its hopeful close. Adams’s faith in the timelessness of these songs is sometimes bizarre. He attempts to pass “Shake It Off” as an ode to latenight desperation and white boy sadness, which is absolutely ridiculous considering that the lyrics are all about dancing and having fun. But some of these songs legitimately work in a weird, raw and compelling way. He’s serious, completely committing to feeling the way he does, accepting the imperfections of how it all turns out on playback. Through its highs and lows, 1989 sifts through Adams’s broken-up psyche, one acoustic guitar and Taylor lyric at a time.
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‘Rosewood’ brings standard cop tropes By SOPHIA KAUFMAN Daily Arts Writer
Fox’s new “Rosewood” feels like a compilation of plot devices and characters and dialogue from every other cop or crime show B on television right now (or, Rosewood really, ever) and leaves you Series Pilot unsure even Wednesdays after forty min- at 8 p.m. utes whether they’re going FOX for light comedy or drama with some depth. It’s not even a combination of the two — it’s just ambiguous. And though the show is funny at times, overall it doesn’t really work. Dr. Rosewood ( Morris Chestnut, “Nurse Jackie”) is confident to the point of being cocky, but he hasearned the right, as the best pathologist in Miami. The pilot begins with him running — literally — into what looks like a grisly murder case. Very “CSI Miami,” except Rosewood cracks the case within two minutes instead of 45, irritating the guy who is supposed to be solving the crime. We then learn he runs his own pathology lab with his sister and his sister’s fiance, and they do private consultations on cases. The plot begins to pick up when his mother (Lorraine Toussaint (“Orange is the New Black”)
comes to ask him for a personal favor in the form of a second opinion on the case of her former student. It had been deemed as an accidental death, but she feels it was something more sinister. Unfortunately, the writers buy into the idea that we wouldn’t possibly keep watching their show unless there’s a possibility of a sex scene sometime in the not so distant future. Rosewood checks into it, discovering that the case is in fact more than it looked at first glance, and learning that the new homicide detective from New York, Annalise Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz, “The After”) isn’t as impressed by him as he is. In order to solve the case — and obviously, catch the bad guy — the two have to work together, which is more than fine by Rosewood. It doesn’t take too long for Villa to warm up to him enough to keep him clued in, but he still irritates her the majority of their time together. “It’s undeniable — we make a great team,” he smirks, after setting some guy’s nose that Villa just broke. The sexual tension between Rosewood and Villa is stale. It’s too obvious and overdone. “Rosewood” brings the same kind of humor to a mystery crime that USA’s “Psych” did, which makes sense as it is the brainchild of Todd Harthan, who also worked on “Psych.” But Rosewood goes a little deeper than “Pysch” ever did. It feels like the
writers are trying to show more respect for dead people than the usual procedurals that use glimpses of mangled bodies in the first or last five minutes of a show as a plot driver — especially with a couple almost teary lines delivered seriously by Toussaint, who doesn’t get as much screentime as she should. This may also be because both Rosewood and Villa have complicated relationships with the concept and consequences of death — especially the kind that you can’t see coming, and can’t solve. For a show that’s supposed to feel like easy viewing, this dichotomy between trying to be thoughtful about life and having every other line be a cute little quip doesn’t work. It makes you laugh, but only because the humor in it is so familiar. Like “Minority Report,” another new show on Fox, “Rosewood”’s main characters are people of color, and one of them has a lesbian fiance (which is worth pointing out as there is still a lack of shows featuring main characters who are anything other than heterosexual). So at least there, Fox is making some great decisions. Though I do wish these shows would stop having even their women characters insult male criminals by calling them “scared little bitches” — but I guess Fox thinks we really can’t have it all.
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Friday, September 25, 2015 — 7A
LONDON FASHION WEEK RECAP BURBERRY
TOPSHOP AND VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
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Burberry was the final show of this year’s London Fashion Week, and they did that role justice. Stakes were high for many reasons: the star studded front row, the national Snapchat story and just the simple fact of it being Burberry in the heart of London. The label could not have done a better job of encompassing every aspect of what a true fashion show is. Burberry CEO Christopher Bailey, in an interview during the show, said explicitly that above all else, it was a show. This was done in many ways. First, there was the unbelievable music. A 32-piece orchestra sat in the center of the arena playing music for Alison Moyet while these models walked down the runway wearing the latest Burberry looks. Next there were stars — everywhere. Cara Delevingne sat in the front row
along with Kate Moss and actor Benedict Cumberbatch. But the show wasn’t complete until world-renowned fashion queen Anna Wintour walked in to support the show. The looks modeled on Monday were all impeccable. They had different vibes, but all of them carried on the traditional Burberry feel. Whether it was a soft white lace dress or a dark black leather jacket, all of the pieces were finished delicately and simply allowing for the typical Burberry class to shine through. This show was absolutely fantastic. From the music to the people in attendance to the clothes, Burberry yet again proved themselves as an absolute powerhouse brand.
Sunday, Sept. 20 was a busy day for LFW between Topshop and Vivienne Westwood. With Topshop’s Unique show bringing back looks from the ’80s with sophisticated twists, combined with Westwood’s societal messages, it was a fun-filled occasion in London. Topshop Unique brought back quintessential ’80s looks this Sunday. From bright colors to faux stolls to big patterns, it felt as though they were on the set of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” The designers took this show to the next level though, and they did so by adding a twist to what could have been any ordinary ’80s apparel. Sexy. Whether that meant an extremely high slit on a dress, or a plunging neckline on a blouse, every look had a sexy and revealing aspect to it. This allowed for the whole show to be eye-catching from start to finish. The show closed out with a series of lace gowns, continuing on the combination of ’80s and sexy. Each gown was either embellished with pops of bright color or finished off with a discreet yet extremely high slit on the leg. These gowns were my favorite looks of the show, as they pulled off being discreetly sultry with a girly feel. I give Topshop an A+ for the execution of the show. It was trendy and memorable, combining old looks with wearable twists. It fit my expectations for Topshop, of always being a brand that is ahead of the time but
doing so in a way that allows people to wear looks straight from the runway. Vivienne Westwood’s show could not have been more different from Topshop’s if it tried. The show itself didn’t blow me away. Every look seemed tired, outdated and frankly bland. I saw it as a try-hard attempt to push the bar … but a failed one. The looks seemed simply all over the place. The single most memorable part of the show itself was the makeup. The makeup was the only part that seemed to work in conjunction with the clothes well. It had a dark, ominous, look. It complimented the tired clothes in a way that allowed for the designers to somewhat reach what I believe they were going for. But obviously this is a fashion show, not a makeup show, so it’s safe to say that I was disappointed.
Of course this wouldn’t be a true Vivienne Westwood show if it wasn’t topped off with some sort of activist message. Vivienne led a group of protestors marching together to end climate change. Westwood was at the front, speaking on how even activists downplay the severity of climate change too much. I respect Vivienne Westwood for her attempt to make a change in the world. But all I have to say is that there is a time and a place for everything. If she was going to do this, she should have made sure her clothes were incredible, because now all anyone remembers from this show was her protest. Though I am not entirely sure that forgetting her looks is a bad idea … -JULIA DOYLE
- JULIA DOYLE
ISSA Issa’s Creative Director Jamie O’Hare proved that the whole “no wearing white after Labor Day” myth is in fact just a myth as the opening looks for ISSA’s SS16 collection were paraded through LFW in troves of elegant and refreshing whites. Issa is known to be a brand that is somewhat more accessible in design, as well as more readily available for the everyday person to work with. Sleek and bold designs from white jumpsuits to textured dresses, the theme of this show was a mix of knitwear-inspired looks and layered ensembles. Paired with bold shoes and accessories, the clothes still managed to stand on their own. O’Hare took a risk with this collection and
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experimented with both crocheted patterns and different textures. What could’ve undoubtedly been seen as a catastrophe of a design manages to look both posh and tea party ready — and by that of course I am referring to his series of layered dresses, tiered like a perfect wedding cake. The collection isn’t all elegance and grace, however. Issa can have a bit of grunge and edge to it as well — with stand-out designs with plunging necklines — so be prepared to show off some serious summer skin. Versatile and accessible, Issa’s SS16 LFW has something in it for everyone this season. -MARIAM SHEIKH
Pringle of Scotland remains an anonymous brand to most of us here in the States, which comes as such a pity considering it has the flare, boldness and eccentricity to comete with any fashion risk taker. Some of the key looks were emblazoned with structured patterns that use both shadows and tricks of the eye to create a living piece of wearable art. The colors were very true to the season — many creams, golds and whites gave off an ethereal feel as models strutted down the runway with a summer glow. Who said knitwear and crocheted patterns were for the winter? Proving to be a huge trend in the spring and summer collections this year, Pringle of Scotland was not one to
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hold back with the knitted vibes. Showcasing skirts, dresses and a tunic or two with the bold pattern — there’s nothing wrong with bringing
a bit of warmth with you during your summer holidays. -MARIAM SHEIKH
TV REVIEW
‘Mindy Project’ new season pleasantly odd By HAILEY MIDDLEBROOK Daily Arts Writer
There are two types of people in the world: those who love Mindy Kaling and everyone who’s not hanging out Awith her. For her Mindy fans, “The Project Mindy Project” star, who Season 4 first stepped Premiere onto the TV scene in “The Hulu Office,” is a sort of magical hybrid between Amy Schumer (“Inside Amy Schumer”) and Tina Fey (“30 Rock”) — an honest, oversexed pop culture queen and witty genius. But for her haters, Kaling is a bit whiny and self-absorbed — and judging from her memoirs, “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?” and “Why Not Me?” — or her character’s insistence in season four that a “Southpark” pinball machine deserves floor space over a grand piano, they have a fair argument. But despite her mixed reception among the public, critics adore her. Kaling was named in Time Magazine’s “Top 100 Most Influential People” in 2012, as well as one of Glamour’s “Women of the Year” for 2014. In 2012, Kaling wrote, produced and starred in “The
Mindy Project” on FOX, about an OB/GYN’s personal and professional struggles at Shulman & Associates, a New York City medical clinic. The show was an immediate success, winning the Critic’s Choice Award for Most Exciting New Series.
Despite her mixed reception among the public, critics adore her. It came as a shock when FOX cancelled the show after its third season last May. Despite critical acclaim and Kaling’s cult-like following, viewership was too low — probably because Millennials comprise the show’s core audience, many of whom prefer not to pay for cable TV. What 20-somethings do watch, however, are their computer screens. So, Hulu’s adoption of “Mindy Project” season four, switching the show from screen to stream, might be the best thing that’s happened to Mindy yet. So far, Hulu doesn’t disappoint. Season four begins dramatically: Mindy Lahiri (Kaling) and her cowork-
er-boyfriend, Danny (Chris Messina, “Vicky Christina Barcelona”), are expecting a child, but Danny has fled their shared NYC apartment for India to confront Mindy’s parents about his negative feelings toward marriage. Meanwhile, frustrated by her boyfriend’s stubbornness and abandonment, Mindy slams down his picture on their nightstand and falls asleep alone. But when she wakes, she finds herself in a “13 Going On 30”-like dream — cuddled beside her rich “Real Housewives” producer-husband (“My favorite franchise of shows!”), played by none other than Joseph GordonLevitt (“Don Jon”).
Like her or not, it’s about time to start hanging out with Mindy. It gets weirder (or, for Mindy, more fantastic). After her initial shock — “Oh no, did I break into Mariah Carey’s penthouse and fall asleep again?” — she’s swept up by her new life, where her pinball machine is prominently on display and her rela-
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tionship with Danny is back to their frenemy-ship of the past. Though the real Danny has a less-than-perfect scenario; Mindy’s Red Sox-obsessed parents have decided that an arranged marriage is fit for their daughter, so they enlist Danny to pick a prospective husband for Mindy. Both Mindy’s and Danny’s situations soon spiral downwards, as Mindy realizes that she doesn’t want an open (fantasy) relationship and Danny comes clean about his relationship with Mindy, sans-
marriage. Still dreaming, Mindy barges into Danny’s date with “Slumdog Millionaire” actress Freida Pinto — to whom she blurts, “You know, people tell me that we look so much alike. You must hear that, too, right?” — hoping to win him back. She jolts awake, then the real Danny materializes beside her, fresh from India with a surprise. Where “Mindy Project” shines is with its whip-smart lines, cutting into the core of pop culture and tradition. Talk of arranged marriages intermingles with Red
Sox fandom, and Mindy’s guilt for cheating on her fantasy husband is quickly brushed off, as GordonLevitt advocates open relationships and encourages Mindy’s lingerie line, “slutty girdles for the sexually active obese.” The quick banter floats the show, allowing us to forgive its flaws, like cliché plot points (i.e., is Mindy really kissing Danny in the pouring rain?) and the characters’ overinflated quirks. But really. Whether you like her or not, it’s about time to start hanging out with Mindy.
8A — Friday, September 25, 2015
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September 26, 2015: BYU
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Michigan’s legendary running back has wanted to be a coach since high school. Now at Western Michigan, he’s growing in ways he never could have imagined.
By Max Bultman Daily Sports Editor
2015 Schedule
Michigan’s days of easy wins at Michigan Stadium are over, for now. No. 23 Brigham Young visits Ann Arbor this weekend in search of a third win on a grueling early schedule. The Wolverines stand in the way, looking to keep their running game rolling and round out their non-conference slate with a third straight victory.
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Does BYU have one more miracle left? The Cougars try their luck at Michigan Stadium on Saturday. Remember Mike Hart? Michigan’s last great running back is making his mark at Western Michigan. The Daily breaks down what should be a closely contested matchup Saturday.
Utah (Sept. 3): Well, at least the mountains were cool?
Michigan State (Oct. 17): These teams play a week earlier than last year, which Mark Dantonio will take as a sign of blatant disrespect.
Oregon State (Sept. 12): Imagine how Jim Harbaugh would have freaked out if Michigan lost.
Minnesota (Oct. 31): Plot twist: Michigan plays Minnesota for the Little Orange Pumpkin.
UNLV (Sept. 19): More like Loss Vegas.
Rutgers (Nov. 7): Will Michigan fans storm the field if the Wolverines avenge last year’s loss in Piscataway? We hope not.
BYU (Sept. 26): We don’t know who will score more points, but we do know who will leave the game with more wives.
Indiana (Nov. 14): Boring state. Hopefully not a boring game.
Maryland (Oct. 3): Rumor has it, if you stare at Maryland’s state flag for too long, you become absorbed into the pattern.
Penn State (Nov. 21): Christian Hackenberg could be a first-round pi — aaand, he just got sacked again.
Northwestern (Oct. 10): Are you ready for M00N pt. 2: N00M?
Ohio State (Nov. 28): We wanted to make a joke, but the only one we could think of was, “Haha, your backup QB might win the Heisman.”
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STAFF PICKS The Daily football writers pick against the spread to predict scores for the top 25 and Big Ten in the 2015 football season.
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Western Michigan (+31.5) at No. 1 Ohio State
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Central Mich. (+26.5) at No. 2 Michigan State
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Ball State (+20.5) at No. 17 Northwestern
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No. 25 Missouri (+2.5) at Kentucky
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Missouri
Missouri
Missouri
Missouri
Kansas (+14) at Rutgers
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Southern Mississippi (+21.5) at Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska
Bowling Green (-2.5) at Purdue
Bowling Green
Bowling Green
Bowling Green
Bowling Green
Bowling Green
Indiana (-3.5) at Wake Forest
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Indiana
Maryland (+17) at West Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
West Virginia
Maryland
West Virginia
North Texas (+24.5) at Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Iowa
Ohio (+10.5) at Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota
San Diego State (+15) at Penn State
Penn State
San Diego State
Penn State
Penn State
Penn State
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24-31-2
29-26-2
23-32-2
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BYU’s miracles resemble 1994 Michigan Stadium Hail Mary Cougars come in at 2-1 after two lastminute victories By ZACH SHAW Daily Sports Editor
Like a bad dream, Michigan fans toss and turn, wishing the Hail Mary would go away. Since the “Miracle at Michigan” that gave No. 7 Colorado a BYU at stunning lastsecond victory Michigan over the then- Matchup: BYU 2-1; fourth-ranked Michigan 2-1 Wolverines on Sept. 24, When: 1994, any Hail Saturday Mary brings 12 P.M. back memories Where: of Buffaloes’ Michigan Stadium quarterback Kordell TV/Radio: Stewart’s ABC heavenly heave. Twenty-one years and two days later, the 2015 Michigan football team will do anything it can to avoid replicating that dreaded day. It will be no small task, though, as the Wolverines (2-1) take on a No. 22 BYU team that has already beaten Nebraska and Boise State on last-second Hail Mary plays, and very nearly did it again against No. 9 UCLA. “It’s tough to watch, especially as a secondary coach, to see those kind of throws from the quarterback,” said Michigan secondary coach Mike Zordich. “But it just adds to our challenge. … You play hard the whole game and you’re winning by one, two, three, maybe five points, whatever it is, you’d certainly hate for that last play to put the stamp on (the game).” Hail Mary threat aside, slowing down the Cougars’ receivers, four of them 6-foot-4 or taller, is literally no small task. “A big, big challenge,” Zordich said. “They’ve got four or five really good receivers that they’re rolling in every down, so they’re going to be fresh. We’ve got a big challenge ahead of us.
“Just physically, when you line Jourdan Lewis up against a 6-foot6 guy, as scrappy as Jourdan is, that’s a tough matchup. But that’s how we’re going to play it. They’ve got to fight.” Even before the final plays, the Cougars have some bite to them. The most notable weapon is true freshman quarterback Tanner Mangum. Though years removed from his last competitive football days and fresh off a two-year missionary trip in Chile, Mangum has filled in admirably for the injured Taysom Hill. Mangum doesn’t possess Hill’s mobility, but has kept BYU’s goals alive with a 62.3 completion percentage, 664 yards passing and four touchdowns. They aren’t award-winning numbers, but the big-play potential is there. “He’s a playmaker,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. “He went in there with no shyness whatsoever. Already being in big situations and prevailed. Sometimes it takes years before something like that happens, but he’s already been through it, so he’s already been battle-tested and won in those situations.” Though Mangum and his big receivers pose a threat, Michigan’s secondary looks poised to rise to the occasion. In the Wolverines’ 28-7 win over UNLV last week, junior cornerback Channing Stribling and redshirt-junior cornerback Jeremy Clark each grabbed interceptions, while junior cornerback Jourdan Lewis tallied a career-high four pass break-ups. “They’re ascending,” Harbaugh said of the secondary. “Getting their hands on the ball, breaking up passes, intercepting passes and defending the deep ball. I think they’re doing a better job at that.” On defense, BYU doesn’t have as much to boast about, and with starting nose tackle Travis Tuiloma out of the game with an injury, Michigan will have a chance to continue developing a run game that has piled on 479 total rushing yards in its last two games. The Wolverines’ coaching staff stated that junior running back De’Veon Smith would get the bulk
of the carries. But with junior Ty Isaac gaining 114 yards last week and redshirt junior Drake Johnson continuing to progress, Michigan can count on options. “We’ll see power about 5,000 times. Well, that’s an exaggeration,” quipped BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall in his weekly teleconference Tuesday. Added Cougar defensive lineman Graham Rowley on Wednesday: “You just dig into the dirt and power back. I’m excited for that.” Across the board, Michigan matches up well with BYU. Both are still developing with firstyear quarterbacks and looking for consistency that can keep them performing at a high level. Which presents the question: Do the Miracle Mormons have another Hail Mary ending in the making? If they do, Zordich has a plan. “Personally, I just think guys relax,” he said. “Guys think, ‘It’s not going to come my way,’ and they don’t do what they’re supposed to do. If you watch the Nebraska game, and I’m not picking on anybody because it certainly can happen to anybody, but one guy’s just watching. He’s watching the game, you know, and you just can’t do that.”
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Junior cornerbacks Channing Stribling (top) and Jourdan Lewis (bottom) will match up with BYU’s big receivers at Michigan Stadium on Saturday.
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Michigan’s all-time leading rusher is honing his coaching skills in Kalamazoo By MAX BULTMAN Daily Sports Editor
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Michigan’s last great running back wears a brown shirt now. It’s August, and Mike Hart, now 29 years old, is standing under a pocket in the clouds wearing sunglasses and a visor, waiting for Western Michigan’s football practice to start. The scoreboards in both end zones are counting down the 17 days until Michigan State comes to Kalamazoo. The Broncos will need every minute of preparation to have a chance. When he was at Michigan, the Spartans were a calendar opponent for Hart because they meant rivalry. But he’s a Bronco, for now, and Michigan State is only meaningful because his new team is looking for the upset. Practice starts, and after about 20 minutes, Broncos coach P.J. Fleck,
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the youngest head coach in the nation at 34 years old, blows his whistle. “BOX!” he shouts, and the players and coaches stop what they’re doing and sprint to the center. The players form a circle — maybe it’s supposed to be a box — around two players. One is in brown and one in gold, and they lock up with pride on the line. It’s offense versus defense. One-onone. First knee to touch the turf loses. Sports Illustrated called Fleck’s tenure at Western Michigan “college football’s most fascinating sociology experiment,” and it’s easy to see why. The players in the middle of the circle go through four rounds of these battles, finally ending when Fleck — the third-year coach known for his enthusiasm and unorthodox methods — challenges the defense to defend its title in an all-or-nothing final match. The defense loses, and Hart and the offensive players celebrate by running down the field, jumping up and down. This process takes about 15 minutes of the two-hour practice. They’re taking a substantial amount of time for an activity that, frankly, seems kind of silly. Two hours to the east, in Ann Arbor, the Michigan football team is in its figurative submarine, shielded from all publicity. There, the outside world is told, they run as a reward after a four-hour practice. It’s hard to say how similar it is because few are allowed to see inside. But in Kalamazoo, this part of practice is open to the media. The local CBS affiliate has a camera rolling. Things seem different here. For Hart, that’s not necessarily so bad. *** For much of his football career, Hart has done things the Michigan way. He played for Lloyd Carr at Michigan from 2004 to 2008, and after a three-year stint in the NFL, he coached under former Wolverines defensive coordinator Ron English at Eastern Michigan. He’s proud of that. He says he loves Carr “to death” and speaks fondly of English, who gave him his first coaching job. But at a certain point, he had to learn to do things differently. So after three years coaching at Eastern Michigan — the first in charge of offensive quality control, the next two as running backs coach — Hart accepted the same job working for Fleck at Western Michigan before the 2014 season. At the time, some wondered whether it was a lateral move. But for Hart, who coached the Eagles’ Bronson Hill to a 1,100-yard season in 2013, Western Michigan offered something new.
“All I knew was, kind of, Michigan,” Hart said. “With Coach English, Lloyd — that’s the only way that we did things. And not bad things. But I needed to open my horizons.” For Fleck, hiring Hart wasn’t a tough choice. Being Michigan’s alltime leading rusher bought him instant credibility with recruits, and Fleck had already been hearing rave reviews about Hart from prospects. “(They said), ‘Mike Hart, I love Mike Hart.’ That’s what I continued to hear on the recruiting trail,” Fleck said. Hart was also familiar with Fleck and decided the fit was right. He and his wife Monique packed up their two children and moved to Kalamazoo, where Hart inherited a stable of mostly very young running backs. Among them was Jarvion Franklin, a gifted freshman from Tinley Park, Ill. It became clear that Franklin was going to carry the load, which left Hart with the difficult task of building an 18-year old into a workhorse tailback. “It’s a good and a bad thing, because whatever they learn, you’re teaching them,” Fleck said of coaching true freshmen. “But the bad thing is, whatever you teach them, they’re learning. So you’ve gotta make sure it’s all the right things you’re teaching them, ‘cause they’re like a sponge year one. There’s nothing like year one.” Fortunately for Fleck and Franklin, Hart had some firsthand knowledge. When Hart was a freshman, Michigan’s senior starter, David Underwood, was injured in the second game of the season, against Notre Dame. After that game, the Chicago Tribune published a column titled “Michigan is out of the running,” detailing the Wolverines’ ground-game woes. Hart wasn’t even mentioned as a possible solution. The next week, Hart burst onto the scene with 121 yards and never looked back. He and his quarterback, fellow freshman Chad Henne, led the team all the way back to the Rose Bowl, where Michigan lost to Texas. So naturally, when Hart was tasked with preparing another running back to shock the country, he had credibility. “I was leaning on him a lot,” Franklin said. “He was really our rock.” All Franklin did last year was rush for 1,551 yards and 24 touchdowns, fourth most in the nation. *** On the practice field at Waldo Stadium, Hart is now engrained in the Broncos’ culture, which is defined
by Fleck’s many handy philosophies. “Row the Boat” is meant to remind everyone to do their part and stay in unison with the team. “Change your best” is a reminder to constantly improve, and “Elite” has turned into a constant description of all things relating to the team. Fleck’s mantras are now part of Hart’s routine vernacular. He uses the word “elite” five times in a 13-minute interview, the ideal descriptor of Fleck’s system. On one play during warmups, freshman running back LeVante Bellamy runs the wrong route. Hart, walking over to him, rhetorically shouts, “What’s the play?” As Bellamy looks on at him, Hart does a paddling motion, shorthand for “Row the Boat.” He does these things not because “Bronconese” is the only language he speaks anymore, but because in order to add them to his coaching repertoire, he has to master them first. These philosophies are what Hart will eventually take from his time in Kalamazoo, his foray into unchartered coaching waters. “He’s really an elite example of what it means to be a Bronco,” Fleck says after practice. “But it stems from his time at Michigan as well.” Fleck knows a lot about building a program. Someday, Hart wants to emulate his methods, if he ever gets the chance to be a head coach. He’d like that, but not anytime soon. He’s still learning, after all, and the more logical next step for him would be to become an offensive coordinator. “When he got here, my job is to take him to the next step,” Fleck said. “Develop him to (what) he wants to become, and then wherever he goes from here, or whatever he does after me, he’s gonna take a piece of me too and carry that on. You’re just gaining experience. He doesn’t know everything yet, but you never will.” That kind of experience is what drew Hart to the Broncos in the first place. Fleck has an infectious personality, and learning how to generate enthusiasm will be one of the most important things Hart can learn from Fleck. In fact, many of the things he has picked up aren’t so unlike what he’s taken from his Michigan mentors. The lesson he says he’ll take from Fleck is to “change your best.” He likes its simple meaning that yesterday’s effort isn’t good enough today. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that the phrase he most remembers from Carr is similar: “You either get better or worse every day.” “I’ll make my own in 10 years,” Hart said. “But there’s something
I’ve learned from every (coach), something I’ve loved from every one of them.” In that way, Hart’s experience isn’t entirely unique. On some level, he’s still aspiring to be the same kind of coach, with the same core values he learned at Michigan. He’s just learning to do it in different ways. “I’m blessed to be here,” Hart said. “I’m a 10-times better coach than I was. I didn’t realize it at that time — I knew this would be a great place to come because I knew they were going to have success, but I didn’t know how much of a better coach they were going to make me.” But behind Hart as he says all this is that countdown clock on the scoreboard — a stark reminder that Hart’s next step is not another job switch, but another season. *** Sept. 4 came and went, and the Spartans showed up to play. Western Michigan held things closer than expected, but there was no upset in store. Michigan State 37, Western Michigan 24. The Spartans held Franklin to 23 yards, and Georgia Southern limited him to 58 in the next game. Adjustments were in store for the Broncos. Fortunately for them, Hart is a film rat. Always has been, probably always will be. When Hart made the varsity team as a freshman at Onondaga Central High School in Syracuse, New York, coach Bill Spicer didn’t quite know what he was getting. He knew Hart’s talent, but he was still surprised at his knowledge and at his work ethic. “Every lunch period, he would come down, and him and I would watch film,” Spicer said. “That was from freshman year on. … He would be in my office during lunch period every single day. During the season and offseason, he would probably be in there three or four times a week. “There were times when I would be breaking the film, like a Saturday afternoon or something, and the guys would come down to lift and then they left. And he would stick around, and we would break down film. And there were times when I would go onto another play and he would be like, ‘Wait a minute coach, go back to that one, I want to check something out.’ ” Hart has known he wanted to be a coach since at least high school, maybe even a little before it. And as Spicer recalls, it was unusual having a player who was that plugged in at such a young age. “As a coach, you’ve gotta let your barriers down a little bit when you’ve got a kid like that,” Spicer said. “He’d come off on the sideline and say, ‘Hey
coach, if we run this play I think it’s gonna be wide open.’ … You’ve gotta swallow your pride a little bit. You run the play and the kid’s running for a touchdown because two reasons: No. 1, he would see it. No. 2, because he said it to me, he’s gonna make sure it works.” Those are habits Hart carries to this day — habits he learned in high school, then honed at Michigan. More importantly, these are habits that will make or break his ability to continue to climb coaching ladders. When Hart arrived at Michigan, David Underwood — then a senior — remembers being surprised at how well Hart could understand what was happening on film. “A lot of freshmen come in, (and) they’re watching film, but they don’t know what they’re looking at,” Underwood said. “It’s like glancing at a TV. Yeah, you’re watching TV, but are you actually soaking that information up? Do you know what you’re looking at? He was able to understand and really watch.” Now, he’s trying to transfer those abilities to his own group of young backs. Franklin said that when the Bronco running backs go in for a film session, they often find Hart already in the room with film rolling. “He teaches us a lot of life lessons,” Franklin said. “There’s a quote he always says: ‘To be forewarned is to be forearmed.’ I’m always trying to watch film and forewarn myself.” Perhaps that helps explain why after two below-average performances, Franklin rebounded for 161 yards against Murray State, in the Broncos’ first win of the year last Saturday. It’s hard not to wonder what the Broncos have in store for their next matchup, another team with which Hart has a past: Ohio State. He doesn’t talk much about Michigan’s rivalries now that he’s at Western Michigan, but the fact remains that he never beat the Buckeyes. He was part of the first class to go four years without beating Ohio State since 1960-1963. The Buckeyes may not be a rivalry game for Hart’s Broncos, but they do present an opportunity to accomplish one of the few things he never did at Michigan. *** Hart laughs when asked whether going to Western Michigan was a lateral move, giving a diplomatic answer about how blessed he is to be there, and how it was good to get out of his comfort zone. Hart made lateral moves as a player all the time. Many of them eventually turned into touchdowns. His former coach, Spicer, knows well that Hart didn’t make the move
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without good reason. “I think you have many, many moves in coaching,” Spicer said. “You make so many moves that it looks like it might be lateral to the naked eye, but it’s really not. There’s always a rhyme or a reason.” For Hart, some of those reasons are clear now — learning from Fleck, leaving the nest of the Michigan network — but others may not show up for years. To understand Hart and where he is on his path, all you have to do is go back to that practice in August, when the offense pulled off a final-round victory over the defense in the box drill. As the players ran down the field celebrating, Hart was among them, toward the back, pumping his fist in
victory. Fleck stayed behind. Hart is still somewhere between his two careers — the star player and the polished coach. He will learn a little from every stop, and eventually, he’ll have a unique coaching style all his own. At that point, he’ll be the one halting practice, offering allor-nothing deals to his offense and defense. But for now, just four years removed from playing, he still has a lot to learn about coaching, and plenty still to accomplish. This Saturday, he’ll travel to Columbus, where he’ll be in a familiar place in different colors. The odds will be long, far longer than they ever were when Hart was at Michigan. It’s different at Western Michigan. That’s why he went there.
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Breakdown: Michigan vs. BYU Wolverines face tough test Saturday By JAKE LOURIM Managing Sports Editor
In two home games this year, the Michigan football team has faced less than one quarter of adversity. Since the Wolverines forced a fumble early in the first quarter against Oregon State and then scored 35 unanswered points, they have rolled. But Saturday could be an entirely different test. This week, Michigan (2-1) faces No. 23 Brigham Young (2-1) at Michigan Stadium in its nonconference finale. The Cougars won their first two games in dramatic fashion, shocking Nebraska in their opener on a game-ending Hail Mary, then topping Boise State on a 35-yard touchdown pass with 45 seconds left. The Wolverines are in for a tough battle Saturday. Here’s how things break down: Michigan pass offense vs. Utah pass defense Fifth-year senior quarterback Jake Rudock has been under the microscope for throwing five interceptions in his first three games. The three he threw against Utah were costly, but the last two were not. If he can have his first turnover-free game of the season Saturday, he will give the Wolverines a chance to win. He has also established a wider arsenal of targets, though not many have been consistent. Thirteen players have caught passes, but just two have more than five — Amara Darboh has 16, and Jake Butt has 14. Michigan will look to establish more threats in the passing game as well as some deep throws downfield. The Cougars’ passing defense struggled in the first two games, allowing 308 yards per game, but it locked down UCLA’s Josh Rosen last week, giving up just 106 yards and picking off three passes. BYU is tied for first in the nation with seven interceptions — including four by defensive back Kai Nacua — so keeping the football will be a challenge for Rudock. Edge: BYU
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Michigan rush offense vs. BYU rush defense The Wolverines have had more success running the ball this season, and now they might have a host of players to carry it. Junior running back De’Veon Smith leads the team with 53 carries — almost half of the team’s 116 — for 206 yards. But junior Ty Isaac had a breakout game last week with 114 yards and a touchdown, and redshirt junior Drake Johnson continues to work his way back into the fold after he suffered the second torn anterior cruciate ligament of his career last November. Much of their success comes from an improved offensive line, led by fifth-year senior center Graham Glasgow. That line will face a BYU front headed by 6-foot-8, 280-pound defensive end Bronson Kaufusi. As with pass defense, the Cougars’ rush defense is in the bottom half in the country. They did, however, slow down Nebraska and Boise State before giving up 296 yards to UCLA last week. Michigan has not yet faced a straight 3-4 defense (Oregon State played with a hybrid defensive end-linebacker similar to Michigan’s buck position). Edge: Michigan BYU pass offense vs. Michigan pass defense BYU’s offense has had the most success on the last plays of games, but it has moved the ball well the rest of the game, too. The Cougars recovered nicely from the loss of starting quarterback Taysom Hill to a season-ending foot injury. Hill totaled 340 yards and three touchdowns in the opener before going down and being replaced by Tanner Mangum. Mangum, 22, is still a true freshman following a two-year Mormon mission before college. He has played more like his age than his year in school, leading BYU on fourth-quarter comebacks against Nebraska and Boise State before the magic ran out at UCLA. At 136, his quarterback rating is 17.5 points higher than Rudock’s. He has the ability to throw from outside the pocket and has a host of big, talented receivers at his
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Redshirt junior Jeremy Clark has intercepted a team-leading two passes this season, including one last week against UNLV.
disposal. The leader is 6-foot-6 Mitch Mathews, who jumped up and caught the Hail Mary in the season opener. Though Michigan has touted BYU’s receivers all week, the Wolverines also have a capable secondary to defend them. Junior defensive backs Channing Stribling and Jeremy Clark intercepted passes last week, and Michigan has forced the opposing team to change quarterbacks in two straight games. But Mangum is a different animal.
Wolverines early in the season. Redshirt junior defensive tackle Chris Wormley has seven tackles for loss, junior defensive end Taco Charlton has forced a fumble and senior linebacker Joe Bolden leads the team in tackles with 26. The best-case scenario for Michigan is to play tough defense against the run, force BYU into passing situations and then bring the pressure against Mangum to try to rattle him. If the Wolverines can feed off the Michigan Stadium crowd, it would help.
Edge: BYU Edge: Michigan BYU rush offense vs. Michigan rush defense
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The Cougars have been a passfirst team, largely by necessity — because they’ve faced deficits late in games and because running back Jamaal Williams withdrew from school just before fall camp. BYU ranks 111th in the nation in rush offense, but running back Adam Hine has managed 279 yards and two touchdowns in three games. Michigan’s stout defensive front will match up against a young BYU offensive line featuring only one senior. Several players have emerged on defense for the
Michigan has made a sizable jump in this area since a mediocre 2014. Senior kicker Kenny Allen is 3-for-4 in limited field-goal opportunities, and fifth-year senior Blake O’Neill is averaging 40.9 yards per punt with a 59-yard bomb last week. Then there’s the big-play threat: redshirt freshman defensive back Jabrill Peppers, who ran back a punt 24 yards last week and has the ability to score if he finds some space. BYU is in a similar situation. Punter Jonny Linehan has been
solid (42.6 yards per punt), and the Cougars have had limited opportunities in the return game. The difference maker could be kicker Trevor Samson, who is a perfect 5-for-5 on the season, including 3-for-3 from beyond 40 yards. Edge: BYU Intangibles After two easy wins at Michigan Stadium, the Wolverines are back to being doubted, to some extent. They went to Utah as sixpoint underdogs and face a tough test with the tall receivers of BYU. Knowing how competitive Saturday’s game will be, Michigan should play with a little extra edge. The Cougars, meanwhile, were flying high last week after two straight thrilling victories landed them in the top 25. Then they traveled to UCLA and fell just short of a monumental upset of the Bruins. Has the high worn off? The answer will be apparent early on Saturday. Edge: Michigan Prediction: BYU 28, Michigan 25
What to Watch For: Rudock seeks INT-free performance Wolverines face tall receivers, potent passing attack against Cougars By MAX COHEN Managing Sports Editor
The last two weekends have not provided much of a test for the Michigan football team, as the Wolverines easily pushed aside Oregon State and UNLV in their first two home games of the season. Things will likely be different this weekend when No. 23 Brigham Young comes to town. Last week, the Cougars stayed close with then-No. 10 UCLA, losing by one point. The Bruins scored late in the fourth quarter to take the lead for good, and BYU failed to respond. Here’s what to watch for as Michigan looks to make one last statement in non-conference play. 1. Is this the week Jake Rudock turns things around? The fifth-year senior quarterback has thrown five interceptions in the season’s first three games, the same number he threw all of last season with Iowa. Despite the rough statistics, nobody in Michigan’s program seems to be concerned about Rudock, at least publicly. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said Monday that Rudock is the team’s best quarterback, “and not by a small margin,” quelling any doubt that he was second-guessing his decision to make Rudock the team’s starter. Instead, Harbaugh, Rudock and some of Michigan’s receivers have said that some of the struggles will fade over time as Rudock and the receivers continue to get on the same page. Saturday’s game might leave no room for the turnovers that the Wolverines could afford in their previous two games. Michigan may also have to convert on some of the deep balls that have eluded
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Fifth-year senior quarterback Jake Rudock has thrown five interceptions in three games this season, but he will look to break his skid Saturday against BYU.
receivers’ grasps so far. 2. How can Michigan’s secondary match up with big wide receivers? The Wolverines have not faced a pass-happy offense like BYU’s so far this season. So far, Michigan’s secondary has limited big plays through the air, but that will be put to the test this weekend. The Cougars attempted 47 passes against UCLA last week. What will make the challenge more difficult is that BYU has some size out wide. Mitch Mathews, the team’s secondleading receiver, is 6-foot-6. Nick Kurtz, the Cougars’ fourthleading receiver, is 6-foot-5. Michigan junior cornerback Jourdan Lewis, who had four pass breakups last week, is just 5-foot-10. He has insisted that
facing taller wide receivers will not be an issue, that he can make up for the height with technique. Harbaugh has said the same. Look to see if their words ring true Saturday or if height really does matter. 3. Can the defense create turnovers? The Wolverines’ defense has been preaching the importance of takeaways all week. Michigan had two interceptions last week against UNLV, but it still does not appear to be satisfied. The approach of the defensive coaching staff is that the team’s defenders should be trying to get the ball back for the offense on every single possession, and that has not yet come to fruition. The Wolverines could have an opportunity to create turnovers
against BYU. The Cougars start a true freshman at quarterback in Tanner Mangum. Though he has displayed a great deal of poise early in his career, road games always provide a test for young players. If Mangum airs it out 47 times like he did last week, Michigan’s secondary will no doubt be looking for turnovers. Whether the Wolverines take advantage is another matter entirely. It will be another opportunity for them to create their desired reputation as ball hawks. 4. Will the Wolverines be able to run the ball successfully for a third straight game? Michigan has enjoyed great success running the ball the past two weeks, scampering for more than 200 yards in back-
to-back games. Junior running back De’Veon Smith led the way against Oregon State, and junior running back Ty Isaac did the same against UNLV. How exactly carries will be distributed this weekend remains to be seen. But if the offensive line can create holes the way it has the past two weeks, it could bode well for the team in Big Ten play. BYU’s rush defense is far from daunting. It ranks 74th among all Football Bowl Subdivision schools, but after the struggles the Wolverines have had the last few years running the ball, another successful week would enhance the confidence of the offensive line even further.
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Wolverines replace questions with exclamation points in rushing game Smith still No. 1 back, but gap closing as all four running backs emerge By ZACH SHAW Daily Sports Editor
Before the 2015 season began, one of the biggest question marks surrounding the Michigan football team was in the backfield. It wasn’t a matter of whether they could perform — redshirt junior Drake Johnson and juniors Ty Isaac, De’Veon Smith and Derrick Green had all shown flashes of being a lead back in previous seasons — but rather a question of how many of the backs would see the field, and if a multiple-back system could work. After two dominant wins over Oregon State and UNLV in which the Wolverines totaled 479 rushing yards and seven rushing touchdowns, the question marks surrounding Michigan’s run game have been replaced with exclamation points. “We’re progressing in the right direction,” said Michigan running backs coach Tyrone Wheatley. “We’re going the right direction. Each guy’s going the right direction. Each game we’re improving. Each game we’re picking up little things we’re getting better at.” From a statistical perspective, the carries have primarily gone to Smith, but all four have performed when they needed to: Smith: 53 carries, 206 yards, 3.9 yards per carry, 3 touchdowns Isaac: 18 carries, 161 yards, 8.9 YPC, 1 touchdown Green: 13 carries, 46 yards, 3.5 YPC, 1 touchdown Johnson: 6 carries, 31 yards, 5.2 YPC, 0 touchdowns The numbers are a little deceptive, as different backs come in at different situations. That said, every back is making forward progress, as the Wolverines are sixth in the nation with just eight tackles for loss allowed. With Johnson’s role increasing by the day after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament for the
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second time last November, the backfield might look a little hectic at times, but the Wolverines see a method to the madness. “I wouldn’t look at it as throwing guys in there,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. “We’ve got football players that are hungry, that want to be in there, that are improving and making contributions to the team, and there’s something about not just throwing a guy in but strategically putting a player in to be successful.” Isaac was the most successful last week. In a game that was over almost as soon as it began, Isaac broke free for a 76-yard touchdown run to pave the way for his game-high 114 yards. In the second half, Green and Johnson took most of the snaps. Green — whom Wheatley
assured wasn’t in the doghouse despite lackluster numbers — was the fourth back to be used, as Johnson continues to build to a heavier load. “I’m not a doctor and I’m not in Drake’s knee, so I don’t know,” Wheatley said. “Right now, he looks good. He’s doing well. Of all the things we’ve asked him to do to this point, he’s passed with flying colors, so up until now I would say he looks good.” As for the matchup against No. 23 BYU, the Cougars gave up 296 rushing yards against No. 9 UCLA
last week, suggesting Michigan will once again rely on its run game to carry the offensive load. Wheatley isn’t quite sure how he’ll split up the carries, but he knows the game plan will be the same for all the backs. “Each week is pretty much the same thing for us in the backfield,” he said. “A) reduce — pretty much reduce, have no negative yards rushing. B) Try not to leave any yards out there, meaning let’s hit the right tracks, hit the right marks, right cuts. Let’s not leave any yards out there. And C) I would just
“We’ve got football players that are hungry.”
say pass protection. Protect the quarterback.” Of course, there’s one more matter of importance to the run game. The Wolverines have rushed the ball 116 times, and have yet to fumble the ball once. After coughing up the ball eight times last season, the decrease is a welcome change for Michigan. Wheatley — who felt compelled to knock on wood after hearing the stat — feels the negative consequences afforded by the position’s depth have led to the improved effort. “There’s two ways to really get put on the bench: A) get the quarterback hit, B) put the ball on the ground,” Wheatley said. “All the guys want to play, so you’ve just got to put one stigma in their mind about sitting on the bench, and then it kind of hits home.”
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Junior running back De’Veon Smith has received by far the most carries for Michigan, but fellow junior Ty Isaac had a breakout game of his own last weekend.
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