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Mary Stewart, former event services coordinator for the Michigan Union, presents the first scholarship of her namesake fund to Kinesiology freshman Jordan Atkins at the Michigan Union on Friday. Stewart was dedicated to creating inclusive spaces for students from minority backgrounds. The merit scholarship will be presented to Black students through the Alumni Assocation’s LEAD Scholars program, which seeks to diversify the University’s student body.
Mary Stewart Scholarship fund to increase diversity Money raised to benefit Alumni Association’s LEAD Scholars By SAMIHA MATIN Daily Staff Reporter
Over a 42-year career at the University, Mary Stewart, the former event services coordinator for the Michigan
Union, mentored hundreds of students before her retirement in April. Now, a scholarship named in her honor will help University students for years to come. On Friday, students and alumni gathered in the Michigan Union to officially launch the scholarship, which aims to help Black students attend the University. During more than four decades at the University, Stewart became an unofficial mentor to students
across campus, particularly students from minority backgrounds. The scholarship fund is part of the Alumni Association’s LEAD Scholars Program, which was designed to increase the diversity of the student body. LEAD offers four-year merit scholarships to admitted students who embody four values: leadership, excellence, achievement and diversity. Over the past eight years, LEAD has successfully recruited
more than 130 Black students to the University. Steve Graf ton, president a nd CEO of t he Universit y ’s A lumni A ssociation, sa id t he a ssociation wa nts to impact ca mpus climate by ma king t he Universit y more accessible to underrepresented st udents. “We’ve been trying to open doors for all kinds of students,” Grafton said at the event Friday. “We really need to increase the See SCHOLARSHIP, Page 3A
Jane Lumm, Sally Hart Peterson address pedestrian safety, deer cull By ANNA HARITOS For the Daily
With Election Day less than a month away, City Councilmember Jane Lumm (I– Ward 2) and former Democratic councilmember Sally Hart Petersen took to the podium Sunday to pitch their candidacies for City Council. The Ward 2 race is the only City Council seat that will be decided in November’s general election. Races for the other open seats were largely determined during the August Democratic primary, though those nominees will still appear on the ballot next month. Sunday’s event was held at the Traverwood Branch Library. After a brief opening statement from each candidate, both fielded questions from the audience. One topic of discussion was
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Michigan earns third straight shutout against Northwestern The Wolverines improve to 5-1 with the victory By MAX COHEN Managing Sports Editor
The chant began in the final minute of No. 18 Michigan’s win against No. 13 Northwestern on Saturday. The two syllables boomed throughout the Big House, echoing around the stadium long after Jehu Chesson’s game-opening touchdown, long after the outcome had been decided. Wolverine fans had watched their team dominate the Wildcats for the better part of three hours and seven minutes, and they decided to leave Michigan’s defense with a parting gift. “DE-FENSE!” they yelled.
The team, in turn, showed its appreciation by motioning for the fans to be louder. The defense was unrelenting in Michigan’s 38-0 undressing of Northwestern, just as it has been for much of this season. The Wolverines posted their third consecutive shutout, marking the first time a Michigan defense had accomplished that feat since 1980. The Wolverines sacked Wildcat quarterbacks four times in the victory and allowed just 168 total yards. Junior cornerback Jourdan Lewis returned an interception for a touchdown in the second quarter, ripping the ball from the clutches of Northwestern wide receiver Mike McHugh, and the Wildcats never sniffed the red zone. The string of nearly unprecedented success does not faze or surprise Michigan’s See NORTHWESTERN, Page 3A
potential expansion of the rails that pass along the Huron River and through Ann Arbor’s forests. Petersen pointed out how the expansion would bring in revenue, as well as provide convenient service for students and other travelers. Lumm said there might be an issue with locals and students if public parkland was repurposed. “The $64 million question would be if the trade-off of the public parkland and the traintrack expansion would pay off economically,” Lumm said. From there, the candidates moved onto the topic of the deer cull — the killing of deer in Ann Arbor by hired sharpshooters to curb the deer population — that is set to take place in January. Lumm said she approves of the council’s vote to hold the cull. Petersen disagreed, saying when the council voted for the cull, public concerns were not fully taken into account. She also pointed out how the cull would not be very effective due to the park’s proximity to the Nichols Arboretum. “The University of Michigan See COUNCIL, Page 3A
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University Alum Katie Banks interviews actors Pamela and Nicholas Guest on the red carpet for Big Bash Weekend at the Walgreen Drama Center on Friday.
Students past and present celebrate SMTD’s 100th Reception features red carpet, reunion performances By BRANDON SUMMERS-MILLER Daily Staff Reporter
The School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s 100-year anniversary celebration
proved to be quite the production. The weekend-long event, called “The Big Bash,” included alumni receptions and reunion productions, providing an opportunity for current School of Music, Theatre & Dance students to connect with established alumni. Nearly 150 graduates were scheduled to participate, with
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notable alumni in attendance, including “Glee” star Darren Criss and Jack O’Brien, a noted director and producer. Event organizer Jennifer Knapp, department administrator for the Department of Theatre & Drama, said The Big Bash took nearly two years for a nationwide alumni committee to plan. See ANNIVERSARY, Page 3A
University alum Martha Minow, dean of the Harvard Law School, will deliver the 2015 Winter Commencement address, pending approval this week from the University’s Board of Regents. Minow is one of four individuals who may receive honorary degrees, pending the regents’ approval. Others include Graham Beal, director emeritus of the Detroit Institute of Arts; Pedro Cuatrecasas, professor of pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego; and George Shirley, a professor emeritus at See COMMENCEMENT, Page 3A
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Shapiro kicks off fundraising Then-University President Harold Shapiro, the namesake for the Shapiro Undergraduate Library, launched a $160 million fundraising drive in his State of the University address at Rackham Auditorium. This initiative was part of a plan he announced to reduce the size of the University, yet retain its quality. “We are focused on two primary — and complementary — goals: to increase our endowment for faculty support and student financial aid, and to fund select new construction projects,” Shapiro said.
Some of the money raised in the campaign was used to erect a new chemistry building and make improvements at the Business School. Study finds fraternity and sorority members experience discrimination (56 years ago: Oct. 14, 1959) According to responses to questionnaires sent to students at universities with more than nine fraternities or sororities, students at more than 75 percent of campuses surveyed observed either written or unwritten discriminatory
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The Michigan men’s soccer team fell to Rutgers 1-0 in overtime Saturday. Michigan Coach Chaka Daley noted that the team’s recent string of overtime matches may have led to fatigue later in Saturday’s game, adding that Rutgers “did what they had to do. They got the goal and we didn’t.”
practices. Sixty-three universities responded to the study, of which 50 admitted at least one of their fraternities or sororities pursues discriminatory membership policies. At 25 of those 50 colleges, the fraternities or sororities were forced to pursue such policies by their national organizations. In many cases, members of groups often subject to discrimination either did not apply or were not accepted to fraternities or sororities, avoiding the problem entirely. —SAMANTHA WINTNER
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NY Philharmonic plays with Marching Band at halftime Performance marks beginning of orchestra’s five-year residency at the ‘U’ By KATIE PENROD Daily Staff Reporter
Michigan football’s shutout against Northwestern wasn’t the only memorable event to take place on the field at the Big House on Saturday. The New York Philharmonic Orchestra took the field alongside the Michigan Marching Band and the School of Music, Theatre & Dance brass studios to perform a variety of songs. And for this collaboration, it’s only the beginning: the famous symphony orchestra will now begin a five-year long residency in Ann Arbor. John Pasquale, associate director of bands at the Uni-
versity, wrote in an e-mail that the halftime show marks the start of a multi-year partnership between the New York Philharmonic and the University. The symphony orchestra’s residency in Ann Arbor will include masterclasses, lectures and performances. The residency will include lectures, performances and other educational opportunities for students. The University Musical Society will also bring three different orchestras to the University each year in addition to the New York Philharmonic. LSA senior Emily Jablonski, a member of the marching band, said the group practiced Friday night with the New York Philharmonic and the brass studio, and said she enjoyed learning from the New York Philharmonic’s director, who conducted several pieces during the performance. “It’s hard to describe,” she said. “It was, in my experience,
the most exciting show that I’ve ever participated in. During the last piece that we were playing I was smiling so big it was almost hard to play my instrument. To hear all of us playing at the same time almost made me emotional. The sound of all of us playing together — it worked out so well and the New York Phil are such prolific players and it was amazing.” LSA senior Matt Cloutier, the band’s drum major, said Friday’s rehearsal was especially spirited because it was the first time the band experienced playing with the New York Philharmonic. “We’d been practicing the show for the week, however, we didn’t practice with the New York Phil until Friday night.” he said. “We did a dress rehearsal before that was actually an open rehearsal so some people got to come in and watch. They were super excited to be there and we were super excited to have them there, so it was definitely high energy. They were absolutely incredible and their director, Alan Gilbert, he was fantastic.” Though the halftime show consisted of a variety of songs, both Jablonski and Cloutier said the finale stood out most for them. Pasquale wrote that watching the students perform not only with the New York Philharmonic, but with the alumni band, the brass studios and chorale was an experience he won’t forget. “The students’ reaction is why we teach — seeing their faces as they were playing is a highlight of my career thus far,” he wrote. “The (Michigan Marching Band’s) performance was fantastic and we are so proud of them. What they accomplished is testament that Michigan has the best and brightest students in the world. It was a great day for the School of Music, Theatre & Dance and Michigan Athletics. It was a great day for the legacy, tradition and spirit of Michigan.”
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LSA sophomore Nick Zoppi helps LSA senior Luke Tobeler hose off after their team, the Flying Eagles, won the 82nd annual Mud Bowl outside the former Sigma Alpha Epsilon house on Saturday. The Mud Bowl has raised over $100,000 for Mott Childrens Hospital over the last five years.
82nd annual Mud Bowl yields $8,000 for C.S. Mott hospital SAE tradition continues despite University efforts to cancel event By RIYAH BASHA For the Daily
Shin-deep in mud, former members of the now-disbanded Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity hosted their 82nd annual Mud Bowl game on Saturday morning, despite University efforts to cancel the event. Two teams of about 20 people played a game of two-hand touch football in an expansive mud pit constructed in front of the former SAE house at South University and Washtenaw avenues. Though the final tally hasn’t been calculated, the charity touch-football game raised over $8,000 for C.S. Mott’s Children’s Hospital. Public Policy junior Zach Dubin, a former SAE member who helped organize the
event, said about 2,000 T-shirts were sold for the event and almost $7,000 was raised on the Mud Bowl’s GoFundMe page. Though planning for this year’s game was complicated by SAE’s status as a rogue fraternity, hundreds of students and alumni surrounded the muddy field to cheer. Dubin estimated the number could have been more than a thousand, with people covering the lawn and spilling onto the sidewalk. Earlier this year, fraternity and sorority members were warned by the Interfraternity Council not to participate in the event, since SAE is no longer recognized by the University or its national chapter. The IFC expelled the fraternity in 2011 due to reports of hazing. Because Greek life members were told not to participate in the event, players took the field identifying not as Greek life members, but as individual students. Durbin said the University’s decision to enforce these restrictions may have actually benefited
the Mud Bowl in terms of boosting attendance and interest. However, he said donations were lost once fraternity organizations were barred from participating in the event. “As for next year, I doubt the University will back offtheir stance, but I really hope they reconsider to let all students, regardless of Greek or non-Greek affiliation, participate in what should be an event for everyone in the Michigan community to enjoy,” he said. The team composed of former SAE members, nicknamed the Flying Eagles, defeated their opponents — a team made up of participants from a variety of groups — 24-10. “It felt pretty amazing,” said LSA sophomore Jake Harris, despite hailing from the losing team. “Physically, I feel actually great, and even though we lost, it was just about going out there and having fun with the tradition.” Read more online at michigandaily.com
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‘U’ alum talks urban policy in New Orleans Taubman College lecture explores relationship between planners, community By CAMY METWALLY For the Daily
University alum Kristina Ford returned to the University on Friday to present Taubman College’s 2015 Distinguished Alumna Lecture. Titled “Implementing Public Policy: The Heart of the Matter,” her lecture examined challenges that often stem from a lack of communication between urban planners and policy makers. During the lecture, she touched on her experiences as director of city planning in New Orleans and as chief of staff for New Orleans’ deputy mayor in charge of public facilities, infrastructure and community development. According to Ford, the gap in policy plans and implementation stems from an inconsistency between the needs of communities and the focus of policy and government leaders. To bridge this chasm, she said an open discussion between both parties must occur to foster a better level of understanding. “Planners know how to write
COUNCIL From Page 1A has voted to not hold a cull,” Petersen said. “The arboretum is right next to Gallup, and if the cull happens in Gallup and the deer run into the arb, they are then off limits, so how effective would the
SCHOLARSHIP From Page 1A diversity so that it can help the entire University.” Grafton also thanked Stewart for dedicating her long career to helping minority students. “Mary is such a caring and compassionate person,” Grafton said. “It’s all about building relationships, which is why so many students and alums have made such a commitment tonight.” University alum Mike Muse,
NORTHWESTERN From Page 1A defenders. They had been bullied and brushed aside at times in the past, before Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin came to town, but those days are no more. The unusual has become routine. Michigan became the first Football Bowl Subdivision team to record three consecutive shutouts since 1995, according to STATS. “It’s expected,” said redshirt freshman safety Jabrill Peppers. “We have to be great. That’s the standard around here.” Standards aside, the degree to which the Wolverines (2-0 Big Ten, 5-1 overall) dismantled their foe was unexpected. Northwestern (1-1, 5-1) entered the game as an undefeated opponent with the country’s stingiest scoring defense, surrendering seven points per game. But it was clear almost immediately that those statistics were irrelevant. Chesson, a redshirt junior wide receiver, returned the game’s opening kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown. Michigan’s sideline erupted. Earlier this week, Northwestern’s coaches indicated they did not plan to kick to Peppers, who lined up to receive the kick opposite of Chesson. Sending the ball to Chesson, of course, did not yield
good plans, but what we don’t pay much attention to, and never have, is figuring out how to get them implemented,” Ford said. “We ask much better questions of citizens once we get them in the room. What we have not been very good at is getting new people into the room. What we need is new life.” She said elected officials frequently identify opportunities for improvement. However, she emphasized it is voters who drive change by choosing their representatives and bringing attention to areas of concern. Rather than waiting for a catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina to strike and demand society’s attention, Ford presented an alternative scenario where people and government proactively work together to steer policy change. “The person who’s in charge of trying to oversee rebuilding or even working with the plan has got to find a way to keep citizens interested enough that elected leaders stay interested,” Ford said. “Otherwise, their impulse is to wash their hands of it and go on to the next thing.” The combination of vocal citizens, capable planners and receptive leaders plays a role in effective policy changes. In 2006, the Bring New Orleans Back strategic plan was rejected almost immediately. Ford said this was an example of
the leadership’s failure to pay attention to the public. The plan included newly designated areas for park land and paths to connect these features. However, after widespread devastation, citizens were most concerned with being displaced and feared relocation. Instead of working through concerns, as officials claimed would happen, the plan was simply discarded. “What will we have to do? If the Bring New Orleans Back plan had asked and answered this question, New Orleans might now be the sustainable city it once was,” Ford said. “Instead, what New Orleans ultimately decided to do was build the city as it had been before Hurricane Katrina. Implementation seemed easy.” Richard Norton, chair of the University’s urban and regional planning program, said people tend to consider urban planning and design when change is needed after a disaster, such as in New Orleans after Katrina. “When everything’s working, nobody pays attention to it, and they take it for granted,” Norton said in an interview after the event. “Urban design and planning are more quiet professions. They happen in the background, but they profoundly influence the way people live their lives and how the landscape gets built around them.”
cull be if the arboretum is where the deer really live?” The candidates addressed bike and pedestrian safety in Ann Arbor. Specifically, they discussed a 2010 ordinance that states Ann Arbor drivers must yield to pedestrians in areas where there are no traffic signals in place.
Both candidates said the ordinance is not being enforced. To improve the situation, Lumm proposed increasing the number of police officers monitoring traffic. She pointed out that only three permanent police officers assigned to traffic and pedestrian safety. Election Day is Nov. 3.
who helped organize the scholarship, said Stewart helped many minority students become leaders all around campus, particularly when the University did not do so. “The student leaders didn’t always get support from such a big university who wasn’t committed to increasing diversity,” he said. “But we had her.” University alum Dhani Jones, who graduated in 2000 and played for the Michigan football team, thanked Stewart for the help and guidance she offered him throughout his time at the
University. “I’ve learned the importance of giving to others,” Jones said. “Mary Stewart embodies the true elements of selflessness, and I would like to thank her on behalf of everyone who has been part of the University and stepped into your office.” LSA and Engineering senior Will Royster said Stewart helped him believe in himself, particularly during difficult times. “You have changed people’s lives for 42 years, and we couldn’t be more thankful for that,” Royster said.
better results. “Big mistake,” Peppers said with a laugh. Michigan seized the momentum and maintained it. The Wolverines scored again with 10:20 remaining in the first quarter, the offense gliding down the field on a seven-play, 59-yard drive. Redshirt junior running back Drake Johnson capped it with a one-yard touchdown. Michigan did not allow the Wildcats to put up much of a fight. “The fellas really came out balling from the start,” Harbaugh said. The balling never really stopped for the Wolverines. Michigan tacked on another score with 2:35 remaining in the first quarter, when fifth-year senior quarterback Jake Rudock scrambled for a two-yard run into the end zone. The Wolverines’ defense even got involved in the scoring. Lewis picked off Northwestern quarterback Clayton Thorson with 3:20 remaining in the half and returned it 37 yards for a touchdown. After the play, Durkin chest bumped the nearest person on the sideline. By the end of the game, his unit extended its scoreless streak to 12 quarters. The Wolverines’ offensive players were familiar with what the Wildcats were going through. “Going against them every day in practice is kind of stressful sometimes,” said junior running
back De’Veon Smith. Any stress for Michigan during Saturday’s game was limited. The Wolverines did not turn the ball over, and mistakes were few and far between. One of the few causes for concern came in the third quarter, when senior linebacker James Ross III was ejected from the game for targeting after he led with his helmet. He will miss the first half of next week’s game against No. 4 Michigan State. Harbaugh, though, wasn’t too worried about the looming matchup against the Spartans. He noted that it will be a tough game but said preparation will be no different than it is any other week. His team will be hardpressed to match Saturday’s performance. Michigan did not relent even in the game’s waning moments, scoring its fifth and final touchdown with 2:14 remaining. Michigan has outscored its opponents, 160-14, in its last five games. Wolverine fans have not yet witnessed Harbaugh lose a game at home as the Wolverines’ coach. The coach was pleased with how physical his team was, particularly without getting injured. “It’s a good sign, that you’re building a good callus,” Harbaugh said. “Play physical and not get beat up yourself. That’s a good gauge, probably the best gauge that the team is, the callus is hardening. Like a callus on a foot, it’s not soft and pus-y.”
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COMMENCEMENT From Page 1A the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Martha Minow, who graduated from the University in 1975 with an honors concentration in history, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws. In addition to serving as the dean of Harvard Law School, Minow is currently the vice chair of the Legal Services Corporation, which, according to its website, is “the single largest funder of civil legal aid for low-income Americans in the nation.” She was appointed by President Barack Obama to the LSC board in 2009. She has also worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, among other organizations. “Martha Minow’s career exemplifies all the University of Michigan should hope for in a Michigan graduate,” the action request reads. “Therefore, it will be appropriate to publicly
ANNIVERSARY From Page 1A “We have regional committee members,” she said. “So we have members in New York, Chicago and LA, and then we also have a local committee alumni group.” The first prime time of the weekend, a reception, was held in the Power Center for the Performing Arts. At the conclusion of the reception, StarKid, a production company formed by Michigan students through the student organization Basement Arts, performed its most popular numbers from several of their past shows, including routines from “A Very Potter Musical” and “Me and My Dick.” Criss, starring as Harry Potter, opened the show and was later joined by additional cast members to perform their number, “Goin’ Back to Hogwarts.” Theatre Prof. Nancy Uffner,
Monday, October 12, 2015 — 3A recognize her with an honorary degree.” Graham Beal, who retired from his post at the DIA in June after 16 years as its director, is widely known for protecting city-owned art pieces during Detroit’s bankruptcy proceedings, among other financial successes at the museum under his oversight. He would earn a Doctor of Humane Letters degree if approved by the regents. “Awarding Graham W.J. Beal an honorary degree would acknowledge his leadership in expanding museum audiences, revitalizing and preserving the DIA … and his significant contributions to Southeast Michigan and the University, especially the Museum Studies Program,” the action request reads. Pedro Cuatrecasas is known for inventing affinity chromatography — a process of separating biochemical mixtures, often to purify specific solutions. Doing so earned him the Wolf Prize of Medicine in 1987. According to the action
request, “He was involved in the discovery, development and marketing registration of more than forty medicines,” including the cholesterollowering Lipitor and AZT, an antiretroviral drug which fights HIV/AIDS. If approved by the regents, Cuatrecasas would receive an honorary Doctor of Science. George Shirley, if approved by the regents, would receive an honorary Doctor of Music. In early September, the professor emeritus earned the National Medal of Arts at a White House ceremony. Shirley also won a Grammy Award in 1968 for his rendition of Ferrando in Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte.” He was the first Black male to play a leading role in the Metropolitan Opera, and was the first Black high school music teacher in Detroit Public Schools. Professor emeritus William Bolcom said in the action request that he “can’t imagine a more deserving person” to receive an honorary degree. Winter Commencement is Sunday, Dec. 20.
a production stage manager for University Productions, said she was excited to see her students interact with alumni. “I think it’s important for the current students to see the alumni and to see all the different choices they can make with their theatre degree,” she said. Uffner, who received a master’s degree from the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, said she was also looking forward to reconnecting with her former classmates from the school’s now-defunct graduate program, and seeing how they thought the school had changed since their time there. Since the school has shifted entirely to undergraduate studies, Uffner said there are more opportunities for undergraduates than there would be otherwise. “All the principal roles are played by undergraduates, undergraduate students get to design scenery, lights, costumes,” she said. “These kids walk out of here with a
portfolio. That’s a big deal.” Friday night’s event was a red carpet reception hosted in the Walgreen Drama Center on North Campus, followed by a performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “All My Sons,” written by University alum Arthur Miller. During the reception, alumni walked across the red carpet, where they were filmed and interviewed by faculty members of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance to remember the occasion. School of Music, Theatre & Dance freshman Liam Loomis, who attended events over the weekend, said Friday he was looking forward to learning from former students and garnering inspired by where their degrees have taken them. “I’m looking forward to making a connection,” he said. “It would be very helpful and reassuring for me to hear all the fantastic things people have done, hoping I can follow in their footsteps.
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The value of an education
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t’s all but impossible to calculate the finite value of an education. At my middle-class high school in Michigan, one of the biggest pitches that teachers and administrators made to try and convince more of my peers to attend college relied purely on economics. “College grads make more,” they said. While that may typically be true, the fluctuating economy and subsequent TYLER job market doesn’t make SCOTT attending a four-year university a sure bet. Laying thousands of dollars on the table just to get a job can even seem paradoxical. Borrow money to pay for school, get a job, profit. Then pay the money back. But universities shouldn’t be seen as manufacturers of employees. Students shouldn’t look back after graduation and weigh the cost of a college against the job prospects they were able to line up by their first month as an alum. Education benefits society as a whole. No one’s chances of finding a job would improve if everyone in America held a bachelor’s degree, but the way our country would operate culturally and politically would transform and for the better. For example, Pamela Brandwein, a political science professor here at the University, wrote a book on reinterpreting Reconstruction-era politics and history after the Civil War. Some of her work has been especially relevant this year. After the Charleston church shooting in June, the nation entered a discussion about the Confederate flag. South Carolina lawmakers, and the nation, debated the flag’s meaning; one side claiming it as a symbol of Southern heritage, while others passionately bemoaned against the state’s use of a flag that stood for a nation founded upon acute racism and slavery. In a resoundingly American fashion, we couldn’t even agree on what the ol’ stars and bars represent. The Civil War has been over for nearly one and a half centuries, but we haven’t been able to reach a consensus on what it was about. I remember being taught (shout out public school) that the Civil War was about slavery. I also remember being taught that this was too simple of a summation, that slavery was the big issue, but really state’s rights were what was on the line for the Confederacy. And then I entered Brandwein’s class, and I re-learned two things. First, yes the Civil War was indeed fought over slavery, period. The prevailing sentiment in the South was that slavery was an institution of the utmost importance because the unlimited source of free labor was supposed to be the cornerstone upon which a Southern utopia (for white folks) was built. Secondly, political forces have the power to reshape history and affect our cultural understanding of it for decades and generations to come. After the Civil War, the loudest and most boisterous pro-slavery guys recognized a sinking ship when they were standing on it and began the line of rhetoric about states’
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rights as the cause for the war. Unfortunately, they were successful, and this incorrect interpretation of history still exists around high school classrooms and water coolers today. Thanks, professor, for clearing that up. Brandwein isn’t the first scholar, historian or journalist to pin down the truth about slavery and the Civil War. But in the public, we still see its significance as something that’s up for debate. To drive a point home, anyone who believes the Civil War wasn’t a war about slavery is wrong. But the truth, though made relatively accessible to undergraduates here and at other universities, isn’t as easy to come across in the real world. Society has entered full-force into the information age, and everyone is surrounded by accessible data. While there’s a lot of good that comes from this, there are now more channels than ever to launch a marketing campaign to sway public opinion. The ability of self-interested actors to control what story gets told in the newspapers and on TV has made it incredibly difficult to find out what is really going on. Pick an issue: Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, Detroit’s bankruptcy — it doesn’t matter. Each person and each news outlet frames things differently. And there have been countless cases where powerful people have lied to the public with their own motives in mind. “I am not a crook,” said Richard Nixon. Even with the brightest minds examining an event, like with the Civil War example, lies and political spin can slip past American common sense and become, for better or, more often, worse, part of what we accept as fact. We then carry on with an incorrect understanding of what is true and what happened. Knowing this, the high volume of lies and political pandering should cause anyone from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Ore., to think more critically about the information they consume. In an educated society, we would all have the skills to at least do this. Making more people college graduates benefits the greater good. A college education exposes each person to perspectives, ideas and concepts they otherwise may not have stumbled upon. Students absorb all of this information and take it with them to parties, coffee shops and, eventually, society in some form or another. In a time where privilege is defined by access to opportunity, being educated turns over a blank page for new ideas and ways of thinking. If more people had access to education, it could aid in turning the echo chamber of social media unoriginality, bias and uninformed public opinion into something more symphonic. And more importantly, it undercuts the ability of politicians and billionaires to sell their own versions of history and manipulate the masses into acting or believing certain ways. Above all else, receiving an education may not get you a job, but it can provide some direction amid all the chaos and half the production of lemmings (the video game people, not the animals). Because as the late, great Yogi Berra said, “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll wind up someplace else.” — Tyler Scott can be reached at tylscott@umich.edu.
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Why do we love?
umans are essentially animals. About 2 million years ago, the original Homo moved about the Earth in search of food, water and sex as well as protection from predators and environmental disasters in order to survive. One can picture SAM the proverbial COREY “caveman” with a wooden club, making utterances in some indecipherable language, roaming for necessities and warring for survival. Of course, Homo exhibited traits outside of primal functioning, too — making fire, doing cave art, wearing “jewelry” and creating more complex tools. These abilities distinguished humans as sociable learners who used symbols to help explain their relation to others and their own existence. But from this cognitive development, where did love evolve? Did the ability to love stem from our neurological complexity or from a selfish desire to survive through sexual reproduction? To provide a framework for this question, we need to consider why we have sex. This isn’t such a straightforward answer — many organisms reproduce asexually. If we were to asexually reproduce, we’d pass on 100 percent of our genes. As every biology and anthropology student and one Richard Dawkins knows, propagating genes is an organism’s No. 1 goal in life. So why do we only pass on 50 percent of our precious genetic material? Turns out, combining our genes with others creates more variability in the gene pool, thereby increasing an organism’s chances for survival. Much of this understanding rests on the “Red Queen Effect,” stating that sexually reproducing organisms constantly adapt to evade co-evolving microbes, parasites and environmental changes. This is why you have to get the flu shot each year — there’s always a new evolving strain that we have yet to develop immunity to. Still, explaining why and how we pass on genetic material doesn’t
explain the passion, intimacy and longing we feel in romantic love. What’s going on cognitively, emotionally and physiologically to induce love? Why do we reach the most extreme version of care, devotion and intimacy? And why does our world shatter when we lose it? To begin, I must admit that love is complex; it initiates a swath of chemical reactions in several places of the brain. Nonetheless, there are regions that are activated more than others, particularly when it affects one’s motivation, attachment and holistic lifestyle. According to anthropologist Helen Fisher, during intense periods of romantic love, activity in your ventral tegmental area and caudate nucleus illuminate. This part of your brain is associated with routine tasks (like muscle memory) but also one’s reward (or limbic) system. When romanticism exists, dopamine is triggered in this area, sparking prolonged desires, focused attention and exhilaration. But the caudate nucleus is associated with learning and memory, which means that this dopamine reaction permeates all aspects of life. This idea is corroborated in David Brooks’ book, “The Social Animal.” In it, Brooks discusses psychologist Arthur Aron’s idea of love, unlike happiness or sadness, as a motivational state, leading to euphoria or misery. That is, depending on whether you’ve just had a first kiss or are mending a broken heart, your performance in a wide range of activities will be affected. Additionally, that motivational state can often become an obsession. Psychologists like to call this feeling “limerence,” or the state of being involuntary infatuated with another person, hoping for a reciprocal response. Neurologically, this phenomenon also rests in one’s reward system. Cocaine is said to trigger the same responses as love. But why do we maintain love with just one person? Fisher discusses three chemicals — serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine — that become associated with one person in order to stir romantic passions. In comparison with lust, one’s sexual desire can be satiated from a broader inclusion of people. In short, loving one person creates an emotional
pull unlike any other. Furthermore, one personal connection becomes more salient in terms of attachment. An attachment is driven by hormones like oxytocin, which creates feelings of peace, serenity and calmness. After months of a relationship, two people become enmeshed with one another, thereby developing deep attachments. Dr. Fisher states that after you “feel deep attachment to an individual … you feel intense energy, intense focus, intense motivation and the willingness to risk it all to win life’s greatest prize.” Love induces addictive, withdrawal and relapse qualities. In other words, it’s a drug. Of course, as many drugs do, love maintains terrible lows that often accompany its highs — like in a breakup. It would be easy if you could forget and remove the feelings once held for the person you loved, but you can’t erase your memories. The limbic system doesn’t forget. Instead, after being dumped, the reward system for wanting, craving, motivation and focus become more active when you can’t get what you want most. Personally, as someone who’s fallen in love, dumped someone and been dumped, I’ve experienced love’s euphoria and misery. And, like many others, I’ve found myself in each situation all at once. Yet, for the emotional intensity that is a first date, breakup or intimate conversation, I believe we’re made better by our capacity to love. It’s deeply imbued with the passion that we personify as people, animating every aspect of our lives, whether we want it to or not. It also provides an incredible opportunity for learning. What better way to learn more about yourself, your partner or other people around you than through deep vulnerability and effusive intimacy? Still, I can’t say for sure why love has evolved in humans. Maybe it’s helped us propagate our genes, deter war, share resources or just break the mundane routine. Regardless, it’s arguably one of the most distinguishing qualities of our species. — Sam Corey can be reached at samcorey@umich.edu.
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A missed opportunity We want to begin by thanking University President Mark Schlissel for taking faculty concerns around transparency and fairness seriously enough to commission a review of executive pay on campus. The University hired Sibson, a private consulting company, to carry out that review and its report was released last week. The main finding of the report is that the University’s top administrators receive pay and other compensation that’s at the very top among peer public institutions and at the median of top private universities. This contrasts sharply (something the report does not point out) with the salary and compensation for faculty and staff, which mirrors those prevailing at our public research university peers, such as the University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles; and the University of Virginia. Moreover, unlike most of our public-university peers, but like most private universities, the University does not disclose the extent of the supplemental pay employees receive. We would like to provide some historical context for this trend toward a widening gulf between compensation for the top layers of the administration and ordinary faculty and staff. In April 2014, a group of faculty published an open letter questioning the runaway growth of both base and supplemental executive pay (bonuses) at the University.
This letter documented not only the discrepancy between executive pay and the salaries of ordinary faculty and staff, but also the disproportionate growth in executive pay vis-à-vis staff pay over the previous decade. Between 2005 and 2013, base executive pay (that is, without factoring in bonuses) grew at almost twice the rate of that of faculty and staff. That disparity resulted in base compensations for top executives that by 2013 were between 30 percent and 40 percent higher than at top public research universities such as UCLA, Berkeley, UVA, and the University of Texas at Austin. Meanwhile, faculty salaries at the University were almost perfectly aligned with those institutions. Compounding the already high level of administrative pay was (and is) a culture of bonuses common among the highest layers of the administration. The letter focused on four main categories of supplemental pay and found that those categories had more than quadrupled between 2004 and 2013. These bonuses were not reserved for top executives, but they were granted much more generously in some offices than in others. The conclusion of that letter was not to request an increase in faculty compensation, but rather to call for greater transparency and more sensible management of the executive pay scale in times of escalating tuition costs and shrinking state support. It is thus with great regret that
we have learned that Schlissel had decided to accept Sibson’s recommendation to preserve the status quo. We acknowledge that the University remains at the same crossroads as many other top public institutions, which are also facing pressures toward the adoption of corporate practices in the name of competition. Nonetheless, we hoped that our school would claim its place as a leader in forming a new future in public higher education. In that spirit, we continue to ask that the University to disclose the full extent of executive pay as a gesture of good faith. By the report’s own reckoning, 50 percent of the public universities with which Sibson Consulting compared the Univeristy disclose both base pay and bonuses. Another 15 percent disclose the total pay, not differentiating between base and supplemental compensation. The University is therefore with the remaining 35 percent of peer public institutions that do neither and disclose only the base pay. We should be leading in the process of the renewal of public higher education. Increasing pay transparency is a small gesture, but small gestures can send powerful signals. John Carson, Associate Professor, Department of History. Dario Gaggio, P rofessor, Department of History. Anthony Mora, Associate Professor, Department of American Culture and History.
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‘You’re the Worst’ and New doc explores the my quarter-life crisis history of Lampoon
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feel old. I realize that’s a ridiculous thing to say — objectively, I’m a very young person. I’m 21, my skin is smooth (and still as oily as a teenager’s); I know what Yik Yak is; I can guiltlessly indulge in late-night pizzas without worrying about my CHLOE jeans fitGILKE ting the next day. I watch young-person TV comedies that my dad would never really understand, like “Broad City” and “You’re the Worst.” But I won’t be 21 for much longer. On the morning of Oct. 12, the day this column will be published, the clock will strike 10:38 and I’ll become a 22-yearold crone. I’ll officially be older than the majority of my friends (many of them can’t get into bars yet), and I’ll officially be older than my father was when he got married. Twenty-two is a magical age, when many people get their first real job and move to a real city and meet real-adult-friends who drink real cocktails instead of cheap vodka with vanilla coke. I won’t reach any of these milestones in my 22nd year — I’m planning on going to graduate school, so I’m looking forward to another six years in a college town, waiting to have sufficient degrees for my life to actually start. In the midst of my quarterlife crisis, I’ve gotten really into FXX’s “You’re the Worst.” I was a fan when it first aired in 2014, but something always kept me from connecting emotionally with the show. Objectively, I was not “the worst.” I was a 20-year-old Midwestern girl who had never done drugs or thrown herself into a crazy, toxic relationship. None of this has changed a year later, but “You’re the Worst” has, an almost imperceptible bit. The show has the same biting wit and fearlessness and flawed characters that it always has, but with every week and every new episode, “You’re the Worst” pushes its characters further out of their immature idiot bubbles and into the real, grown-up world.
Gretchen is stuck in the twilight zone. In the second episode of the season, “Crevasses,” Gretchen decides she’s sick of picking her outfits out of a black plastic garbage bag in Jimmy’s apartment; she would like a drawer in Jimmy’s dresser and for him to acknowledge the fact that they are actually living together and sharing that space. She boldly states that she’s going to “Towels & Things” to buy some stuff that she didn’t steal or scam her way into possessing. She is going to be a real human who buys towels at a store, goddamn it. Except she can’t do it. When Gretchen arrives at the store, she freezes a few feet from the door. She makes several attempts to walk inside, but immediately reroutes to the same spot she stood in a few minutes ago — it’s like she’s on
the high dive at the town swimming pool, and she suddenly remembered that some kid named Andrew did a belly flop off the high dive once, and he said it really hurt. Gretchen’s eyes show the familiar terror of a little kid who is realizing that this thing that is supposedly fun is actually scary as hell. She has to decide whether it’s worth it to just jump off and get it over with or to descend the ladder, rung by awkward rung. I’ve never had trouble buying things at a home goods store, but this scene was painfully relatable to me. Every time I open up the website for a master’s program application or the Word document for my thesis proposal, I snap my computer shut and leave it in my room for a few hours. Maybe if I ignore the problem and just leave things undone, I’ll never have to step up and actually do them. Being an adult is scary, because you have to make that conscious effort to start, and then somehow find the motivation and fearlessness to complete the task. Gretchen wasn’t ready yet, and I’m not quite there either.
TV has a point of connection for nearly everybody. In another episode, Gretchen decides to throw a house party at Jimmy’s, and invites the crew of girlfriends she knows are always down for a crazy night. But when they arrive at the parties with babies and AA chips in tow, she realizes how much has changed in the three years since she’d last hung out with them. They’re real adults with responsibilities and real lives to go home to; their days of wild nights and cocaine are behind them. Meanwhile, Gretchen is stuck in the twilight zone of her early 20s. While she desperately searches for an age peer who still has the same priorities she does, she realizes that Jimmy, her live-in boyfriend, might be the only one who’s still there with her. And that’s fucking terrifying. The past few installments of “You’re the Worst” have ended with Gretchen sneaking out of Jimmy’s house in the middle of night, carrying only her jacket and a burner phone. I can’t guess what Gretchen is up to, but I know her behavior has something to do with the way she feels trapped by where she is in life. Sometimes, I want to do the same. My friends who are already 22 have jobs and plans; I feel like there’s some threshold to adulthood that people cross on their 22nd birthday, and as I get closer and closer to it, I realize there’s no way I’ll make it over in time. I don’t write my own checks. I never learned how to drive. I still haven’t learned any marketable skills aside from being good at turning essays in on time. But when I watch “You’re the Worst,” I feel a little better about my situation, because I can see that other people are right here with me. There’s something valuable about having company in your
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misery, even if that company is fictional. My dad, a fellow TV fanatic, has been recommending “Married” and “Togetherness” to me for the better part of a year. For him, these are comedies imbued with pathos and a real sense of truth, a humor born out of middle-aged malaise that hits him in just the right place. They are also “the funniest shows on TV,” according to someone who has never seen “Broad City.” I tried watching “Togetherness” because I trust my dad’s good taste, but I just couldn’t relate in the same way. It was funny, but it relied on an emotional connection I just couldn’t make, because I haven’t been 40 years old yet. I haven’t felt the same kind of nostalgic ache for youth or mourned the decades I’ve already spent, and I’ve never suffered a nagging spouse. And that’s OK. One of the best things about living in this time of “peak TV” and having hundreds of quality shows to pick from is that there’s always somebody on a parallel track to you, someone you can follow and laugh at and think about after the show ends. There’s a point of connection for nearly everybody; TV offers points of view from a broader variety of races, cultures, sexualities and socioeconomic statuses all over the spectrum. The show I’m connecting with at the moment is called “You’re the Worst.” Should I be concerned about what this says about my personality? Probably. But a Hulu subscription is cheaper than therapy, and I’m really enjoying this season. This show is made for lazy old babies like me, so shut up and let me have this. Gilke is on her third cheap vodka with vanilla coke. To encourage her, e-mail chloeliz@umich.edu.
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“So we all know why we came here,” John Belushi starts to say at the first meeting of The Lemmings in the 1970s, “A million of B+ us. We came here to off Drunk ourselves.” Stoned One of the first hugely Brilliant popular — Dead and majorly 4th Row Films controversial — National State Theater Lampoonsponsored gags was a show called “The Lemmings.” John Belushi stood in front of a live audience and essentially talked about all the reasons why it makes sense for certain people in certain situations to kill themselves. The character was “manically agreeable,” noted one of the Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead interviewees, and in many ways he’s right: As we all sit and watch this absurd, slightly overweight, comic numbskull make fun of our collective tendency to overreact to things, we can’t help but laugh a little bit. “The Lemmings” show featured many Lampoon writers and other guest stars, one of which was Chevy Chase. In part of his interview for the documentary, Chase recalls a bit between him and Belushi where they pretended to be two teenage friends standing at a urinal talking. Chase remembers some confusion he had about the audience’s incessant laughter at Belushi, and about a week into the routine, he realized what they were laughing at. As Chase pretended to hold his junk with his thumb and index finger, Belushi was using his whole hand. This scene, among others, captures the National Lampoon
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magazine in its essence: It was the Internet before the Internet. Irreverent penis jokes were somehow thrown into a mix of self-deprecation, social commentary, theatricality, and it all seemed wonderfully strange and familiar, funny and appalling. Think about any YouTube comment section, 4chan forum or Reddit thread — what do you see? A bunch of twisted goof ball weirdos making overly insightful remarks about things of no consequence. The people behind National Lampoon did it first. In fact, they did a lot of things first, and they did a lot of things really, really well. In the mid1970s, some of the early Lampoon writers like Belushi, Chase and Bill Murray entered conversations with a young man named Lorne Michaels about creating a live TV show that would offer new sketches every Saturday. That show was “Saturday Night Live.” That same group of writers decided also to make a movie about the silliness and awkwardness of teenage romance and sex, a germ of an idea that ballooned into one of the most beloved comedy films of all time: “Animal House.” They also turned out a series of “Vacation” movies that still run constantly during the holidays. Other writers like Al Jean
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and Mike Reiss knew they had screenwriting talent and wanted to try scripting for television. They found a job working for a quirky cartoonist named Matt Groening, who’d been running his cartoon about a dysfunctional family on the “Tracy Ullman Show” for several months. Reiss and Jean would become members of the original writing team that created “The Simpsons.” Director Douglas Tirola does a good job of making these enormously important National Lampoon spin-offs subservient to the magazine that bore them. Tirola takes us in front of such varied talent as Kevin Bacon, Billy Bob Thornton and Meat Loaf to give us a sense of how National Lampoon’s humor infiltrated nearly every part of the entertainment industry. Comedy heavyweight and so-called genius Judd Apatow said it best: the people behind National Lampoon magazine became all of modern comedy. Is “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead” a well-done, articulate and endearing documentary about one of the greatest magazines ever? Yes it is. Can a documentary ever do such a magazine and its people justice? Of course not. But it’s enough for this film to exist and satisfy viewers. Go and be entertained.
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Sui recounts her life Edward Sharpe live By CAROLINE FILIPS Daily Arts Writer
The world of Anna Sui is everevolving, consistently arresting and above all, unlike any other. For the past 34 years, the Detroit-born fashion designer has absorbed the intricacies of countless cultures and rendered them wearable, an approach best epitomized by her official Instagram bio. “I invite my friends around the world to share a peak into my mind,” it reads. Last Thursday, a near-packed Michigan Theater caught a glimpse of Sui’s wordly psyche as she shared her story of breaking into the fashion industry, creating an enduring international brand and staying true to herself. As part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series collaboration with The Institute for the Humanities and Detroit Creative Corridors Center (dc3), Sui spoke in a conversation format with Detroit-based fashion stylist Paulina Petkoski. “We’re always happy when we can find people from the area who have gone on to find success,” said Chrisstina Hamilton, director of the speaker series. “She’s been so successful internationally and across markets.” Hamilton prefaced the discussion with a synopsis of the recent New York Times article by Guy Treaty, “When Fashion Shows Were Fun” — a wistful recount of the industry’s incipient years of playful spectacle, a far cry from today’s over-commercialization. And yet, Treaty applauds Sui’s everlasting contingency on exuberance and lauds her as the high point of New York Fashion Week. “Today, the most fun is always to be had at an Anna Sui show,” Hamilton said. “Her collections take you on a journey that’s unparalleled in the fashion industry.” Sui’s initial fashion fascination is a familiar tale — a childhood marked by lusting over the glossy pages of fashion magazines, adorning bedroom walls with captivating snippets and industry profiles. She recalled her formative years
as a time of obsession for all things rock ‘n’ roll, television and of course, fashion — inspirations that continue to manifest into her collections. “I think growing up in the suburbs, I was just purely a product of pop culture,” Sui said. “As a kid you just think you have to find the magic key and I think, from that point on, I was really living my dream.” Along with collaging her dream world, Sui diligently researched design schools and ultimately decided on Parsons School of Design in New York City, where she mingled with noted fashion photographer Steven Meisel, who remains a dear friend. Parsons also allowed her to break into the industry by way of eavesdropping. “I overheard two seniors at Parsons talking about a job opportunity when I was still a junior,” she recalled. “It was with my favorite designer Erika Elias’s line for Charlie’s Girls … so I took my portfolio over to see her and I got hired.” Under Elias’s strict direction, Sui learned everything from sewing techniques to drape work. To this day, Elias’s mantra resonates — “if you’re talking, you’re not working.” “She would say, ‘just inspire me, do what you want,’ ” Sui said. “She was a really tough boss, but I learned so much from her.” Sui then went on to cultivate the decade-long foundation of her first collection. She took on various freelance jobs and spent seven years working on men’s collections in Italy, alongside bourgeoning designer Marc Jacobs. “He was just a young kid obsessed with fashion, the way I was obsessed with fashion,” she said. After an experiential education within the industry, Sui debuted her inaugural collection. Soon after, she took her first trip to Paris to observe Paris Fashion Week in action alongside Meisel and a remaining slew of stylish companions. During their adventures, Sui and Meisel attended a Jean Paul Gaultier show with Madonna — an experience that lent her the confidence to keep pursuing her craft.
“We got to the show and she leaned over and said ‘Anna, I have a surprise for you’,” Sui said. “She opened up her coat and said ‘I’m wearing your dress!’ That was one of the big things that gave me confidence.” By 1992, Sui established her flagship boutique in SoHo, the first of 50 eponymous edifices. The decorum of red floors, purple walls, black lacquered furniture, paper maché dolls and all things art nouveau became longstanding Anna Sui motifs. Though Sui’s work ethic speaks volumes to her success, she insists that a majority of her business ‘just happened’. Though it wasn’t always a straightforward path. “Practically every penny I made went right back into the business,” she said. “As the business grows, you need more capital. It’s a hardship worrying about money all the time.” She also refers to 2008’s financial crisis as a reality check for the fashion world, but believes it prompted an era of analyzing and strategy planning in the everchanging industry. Perils aside, Sui believes she has the best job in the world. Her knack for translating any facet of the current zeitgeist, whether it be modern phenomena or her recent travels, is positively uncanny. She absorbs the essence of everything from Victorian cowboys to her recent Tahitian travels and stunningly refracts it. “I think the thing I love most is the research, it’s kind of like my continuing education,” she said. To those aspiring a fashion-centric career, Sui stressed the importance of travelling and the willingness to relocate, two markers of her own career. Her idiosyncratic aesthetic has also helped her elevate her business. “You can never tell if it’s for a good girl or a bad girl,” she said. “I think that’s part of the appeal.” For those who were unable to attend the lecture or Sui’s tropical SS16 show in New York, a sample of her distinctive clothing is on display at the Detroit Historical Museum as part of the Booth-Wilkinson Gallery exhibit, Fashion D.Fined.
By REGAN DETWILER Daily Arts Writer
In my head, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros aren’t just a band, but actually a nomadic tribe that travels from fantastical A+ forest clearing to fantastical Live in No forest clearing. Particular This is where they make their Order: music circles, 2009and I picture a lot of handmade 2014 percussion Edward instruments Sharpe & the floating in the Magnetic air around them and that Zeros they’re mystically glowing Community orbs of light. No Music Group one has showered in months, so everyone smells like a mixture of body, river water (that they bathe in) and wildflowers (that they sleep in), and this is exactly how it should be — the inevitable outcome of this life that can be chaotic and hectic and also undeniably beautiful, as long as we stay in it together. In fact, they aren’t just a band; they’re a music collective made up of two core musicians, founder Alex Ebert and Jade Castrinos, and up to 12 other members. Whether this qualifies them as a tribe or not, it seems to go without saying that their music is basically made to be played live, which is why their latest release, Live In No Particular Order: 2009-2014, is absolutely a dream. It takes songs from all three of the band’s albums, played from 2009, when their first album came out, to 2014, after their third and most recent album came out. My first particularly memorable encounter with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros was in 2010; I’d just started freshman year of high school and the group’s debut album Up From Below, featuring the uni-
versally beloved “Home,” had come out a year earlier. Knowing this song had gained the confidence of a junior I idolized — she was alternative, cool, but unbelievably open, and seemed to always be in touch with the real magic of life: love and community. She seemed to emanate the Ed Sharpe mindset, taking a gap year between high school and college to live in a sustainable farm community. I found it no surprise that her Spotify profile showed her listening to Live in No Particular Order at the same time I was, the day it was released. The album opens with “Better Days,” a track from their most recent album, unexpectedly titled Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. This song is a nod to hope and should be everyone’s go-to on a bad day. It speaks of how we all go through bad times, but what the hell: “down with history, up with your head,” because “we might still know sorrow, but we got better days.” For me those words mean we got better days in the sense that we got days actually better than the ones we’re living now, but also that we got this song, “Better Days.” In this sense, even if the future doesn’t look up right away we have this song, music itself and the ability to feel with others. Up next is the only recording from 2009, an NPR Tiny Desk recording of “40 Day Dream,” which is the first track on their first album — a little celebration of beginnings and a drop of honey for longtime fans who can appreciate the context. Then there’s the famed “Home,” which has over 100 million plays on Spotify and which the group manages to perform four years after its release with just as much zealous love and enthusiasm as if they were singing it live for the first time. They do this despite the fact that the relationship between Jade and Alex eventually ended; now, instead of being romantic partners, the two are simply great friends and artistic partners. This time, during the part of the song where Jade and Alex usu-
ally tell the story of Jade falling out of Alex’s window and he was falling “deep, deeply in love,” the pair had members of the audience come up to the stage and tell their own stories of being home whenever they’re with one another, whether the love is romantic, platonic or familial. The last actual song on the live album is “All Wash Out,” which is the closing song of their 2012 album Here. It’s a solid minute-anda-half longer, the time filled with added harmonies and hums from both Jade and other members of the band, and also with a final clap session from the crowd to go along with the gentle beat of the song. Dreamy instrumentals are made up of gentle strums on both the acoustic and electric guitar, trumpet, piano and a variety of drums, snaps and whistles. The added vocals and the already multilayered instrumentals (all played live) contribute to the communal feel of the song and the entire album thus far. Though much of the group’s work focuses on maintaining hope and lightheartedness through the chaos of life, a lot of onerous and intense emotion has obviously gone into creating all of this music, showing that the musicians may not only be reminding listeners to stay uplifted, but reminding themselves as well. It only seems appropriate that this last song tells us to “let it all wash out ... in the rain.” It’s as if the musicians are telling themselves to let themselves be cleansed of the emotion in all of those live performances, but also telling their audience to do the same. This sense of togetherness is perfectly encapsulated in the last track, which isn’t a song but simply a recording of a collection of noises, voices, accidental strums and nudges on the drums that were filling the air, presumably before or after a show. It’s called “All Together – Live,” and is the only track without a time or place in its title. Instead it’s simply about being together at a live performance: the band, the audience, all together.
FILM REVIEW
TV REVIEW
‘AHS’ still not boring ‘Malala’ nothing new By DREW MARON Daily Arts Writer
Say what you will about “American Horror Story,” but it’s never been boring. With “Hotel,” the horror anthol- B ogy once more stages an all- AHS: Hotel out assault Season 5 of every con- Premiere ceivable vice, repression and Wednesdays dirty thought, at 10 p.m. even if the final product isn’t FX perfect.
Though the show has yet to achieve the poetic transcendence of the grotesque that elevated “Hannibal” into a masterpiece, it nonetheless creates a fascinating universe. Like all of “AHS,” “Hotel” is undoubtedly heightened, painting its world with distorted lenses and a dark, velveteen-hued palette. “Hotel,” like its predecessors, relishes in the perverse. The look and feel of the Hotel Cortez — the true main character of the show — can best be described as a fetish club, operating in an alternate dimension and run by the staff of the Overlook Hotel from “The Shining.” If “Hanni-
bal” was about making the gruesome seem beautiful, “Hotel” defiles the sacred, daring the viewer with sadistic glee to keep watching. “AHS” is not pleasant, and many viewers will likely be turned off by the show’s utter lack of compassion. It’s also a little hard not to be distracted by Lady Gaga, who never really disappears into her character to the extent of someone like Denis O’ Hare (“True Blood”). Though viewers will come for Gaga, but it’s character actors like O’Hare who give the show its sense of identity. The “AHS” regular plays a cross-dressing front desk worker named Liz Taylor, who leaves as equal an impression silently reading a copy of “Ulysses” as Gaga does in entire scenes of dialogue. The rest of the cast seems to be retreads of characters from previous seasons, but the amount of fun Kathy Bates (“Misery”), Lily Rabe (“The Whispers”) and Sarah Paulson (“12 Years a Slave”) have onscreen is infectious. The majority of the story is beyond insanity, and it’s this commitment to the absurd that saves the show. Falchuk and Murphy’s style is like “Twin Peaks” and “Rocky Horror Picture Show” had a baby that was adopted by horror directors Dario Argento and James Wan. The whole thing’s so pulpy and melodramatic, yet so otherworldly, you forgive it for its transgressions, at least for now. The problem with “AHS” always ends up being its progress as the season goes on. Season one is often praised for being tied, even if by a thread, to the reality of the present. However, despite some of the hate thrown at it, season two (“Asylum”) remains the most memorable. It was this season that threw out the preoccupation with the real world and delivered something that felt more like music, with characters being played like power chords rather than human beings.
By MADELEINE GAUDIN For The Daily
“This is Malala Yousafzai, she is the naughtiest girl in the world.” The teenage activist’s B brother says this to tease He Named her, but for some in her Me Malala home country Fox Searchof Pakistan, the sentiment light holds true Michigan Theater — she was FOX SEARCHLIGHT “naughty” We can’t say anything mean! Malala is too good! enough to be targeted by the Taliban. Malala opening animated scene, named same world, but for Malala they became a household name in 2012 his daughter after a woman who do. What is the toll of her type of when she was shot on her way to used her voice to inspire her activism? We know Malala suffers school, following a decision by country to fight for what they physically for her beliefs, but is Taliban leaders outlawing the thought was right. He was a vocal she suffering emotionally as well? education of girls. Since then, she activist for education equality The film hints at these questions, has become a leading advocate in Pakistan, making it on the but unfortunately decides not to for human rights and equal Taliban’s list before his daughter. answer. education for women. In 2014, she The question looming over their Guggenheim isn’t one to shy became the youngest recipient of relationship is: How much did away from controversy in his the Nobel Peace Prize. Through her father influence, or even push, films. His 2010 film “Waiting numerous television appearances, her into this type of activism? It’s for Superman” criticized the speeches, and her autobiography a question hinted at and skirted American Public School system “I Am Malala,” the generalities around throughout the film. by asking tough questions of her story have become well The pursuit of its answer would and seeking answers. “An known in the Western world. provide “He Named Me Malala” Inconvenient Truth” sought Davis Guggenheim’s (“An with the depth it so desperately to find the, well, inconvenient Inconvenient Truth”) latest needs. truth about global warming and documentary, “He Named Me greenhouse gases. Both films Malala,” tries to break past the prompted debate and discussion public image of “Malala” to in a way “He Named Me Malala” the teenage girl underneath. does not. Perhaps that is because However, the film comes across Guggenheim’s latest film is as an hour and a half episode targeted at a different, younger of “60 Minutes,” scratching a audience. He seems to spend a surface that has already been good amount of time telling the scratched. Malala is powerful, audience, “Hey, look, Malala is and the work she is doing for girls just like you!” She fights with around the world is inspiring, her brothers, she teaches her dad that seems to be all we get from how to tweet and she even fails the film. the occasional biology test. In Malala’s relationship with her What Guggenheim does capture that way, “He Named Me Malala” father is central to the film and is the stark contrast between works as a YA documentary, provides the possibility for some Malala’s age and her role in the aimed at an audience too young more depth and provocation. world. In one scene, she is shown to already know her story. The film’s title alludes to the laughing at clips from “Despicable “He Named Me Malala” formative role her father, Me” on YouTube, but is interrupted provides a wonderful role model Ziauddin Yousafzai, plays in her by a phone interview in which she for young audiences, but doesn’t activism. In Pakistan, Yousafzai is asked about death threats from give many answers for viewers in was a school owner and education the Taliban. Minions and murder search of the human behind the activist, who, as we learn in the aren’t supposed to exist in the media phenomenon.
“Malala Yousafzai is the naughtiest girl in the world.”
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round 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jim Harbaugh sat at a
table inside Crisler Center and spoke about the identity of his Michigan football team at his postgame JAKE press LOURIM conference. “It’s a good sign, that you’re building a good callus,” Harbaugh said. “Play physical and not get beat up yourself. That’s a good gauge, probably the best gauge.” Some 600 miles away, in Piscataway, Michigan State was nearing its 8 p.m. kickoff against Rutgers. After the Spartans won, coach Mark Dantonio said in his postgame press conference: “I can’t ever fault the effort of our players and how hard they play or their toughness.” Sound familiar? Over time, all great programs in college football establish an identity that opponents have in their minds when they take the field. Alabama has been a well-oiled machine in every phase of the game, lining up and dominating teams from the outset. Oregon and Baylor seek to push the tempo, pile up points and run opponents off the field. Harbaugh’s old team, Stanford, has kept its identity since he left: a hard-nosed, physical, bluecollar football team. And yes, Michigan State has an identity, too. Dantonio has spent years building a powerhouse in East Lansing, one that works harder, acts tougher and plays more physically than its opponent. He has constructed an elite defense that powers the team’s success. Sound familiar? If it does, it’s because that’s
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A little more than one the identity Harbaugh is working toward at Michigan. He wants a tough-minded, physical team that will win the battle at the line of scrimmage, using that to control both sides of the ball. In the last five weeks, the Wolverines have done that. They have done enough on offense, kept their opponents from doing anything on defense and in the end won all five by a combined score of 160-14. Each week, Harbaugh has taken major steps toward to build the identity he wants his team to have. Saturday, we find out how far that process has come. The Wolverines face a team that, in each of the past two years, has done to them exactly what they have done to Oregon State, UNLV, Brigham Young, Maryland and Northwestern — dominate on both sides of the ball. In those two games against Michigan State, Michigan averaged 12.5 first downs, 201 total yards, 420 total yards allowed, 7.5 tackles for loss allowed and a 49.1 completion percentage. Average scoring margin: minus-23.5. Its opponents, in the past five games this season: 11 first downs, 150.2 total yards, 397.6 total yards allowed, 7.6 tackles for loss allowed and a 48.2 completion percentage. Average scoring margin: minus-29.2. Put simply, 2015 Michigan looks similar to 2013 Michigan State at times. We’ll find out how similar they are on Saturday. You hate to put such high stakes on one game — especially
in October — but this one feels bigger. If Michigan knocks off Michigan State in the Big House on Saturday, Harbaugh’s rebuilding process is much further along than anyone could have expected, and as a bonus, the Wolverines are in the driver’s seat in the Big Ten race. If Saturday goes like the past two years, well, then that’s two steps forward and one step back. In 2008, after Dantonio beat Michigan for the first time, he said, “this one counts a little more than one.” The coaches will deny that this week, but the game this year feels that way, too. Before the season, no one could have predicted the Wolverines would have an opportunity like this. Not only are they rolling into the rivalry game next weekend, but the Spartans are reeling. They scored a late touchdown against woeful Rutgers on Saturday, slipping by only when the Scarlet Knights spiked the ball on fourth down in the final seconds. Their defense, which has been one of the nation’s best in recent years, ranks 34th against the run, 88th against the pass and 55th in points allowed. They haven’t been this vulnerable in years. And, for the first time in three years, the game is at Michigan Stadium. The Wolverines literally have their in-state rivals right where they want them. Harbaugh has been reluctant to give the Spartans any bulletin-board material ahead of Saturday. In May, more than three months before he coached his first game at Michigan, Harbaugh praised
“It’s going to demand that we’re at our very best.”
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Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s team will receive a test of how far it has come Saturday against Michigan State.
the job Dantonio has done at Michigan State. “We know we’re not the biggest guy on the block — Michigan State’s the biggest guy,” he told a group of high school coaches in Detroit. “They have done a tremendous job. We respect the job they’ve done, but we want to be that.” In six weeks, Harbaugh has done some of what Dantonio did in his first three years at Michigan State. As much as each school tries to gain an edge on the other, and as different as the two coaches’ backgrounds are (Harbaugh a former Michigan and NFL quarterback, Dantonio a former South Carolina defensive back), they have almost the exact
WOMEN’S GOLF
Michigan takes third at Yale Intercollegiate White shooots 70-71-70 to lead Wolverines By BILLY STAMPFL For the Daily
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Michigan was celebrating again after a 38-0 win over Northwestern on Saturday.
Of all the words Michigan women’s golf coach Jan Dowling could have used to describe sophomore Emily White’s performance at the Yale Women’s Intercollegiate, where Michigan claimed third overall out of 16 teams and White captured the individual championship, “imagination” was the first that popped into her head. “This course requires a lot of imagination around the greens,” Dowling said. “And (White) really used her imagination to hit some great shots and execute them really well.” White, a top performer from the Wolverines’ successful weekend, remained consistent throughout all three rounds of the tournament, shooting a 70, 71 and 70. The sophomore, frustrated early with her putting, showed resilience and patience in letting other shots carry her until the putts began to fall. “I was playing well all week, my putts just weren’t dropping,” White said. “I knew that if I kept hitting big shots eventually … something was going to happen.” Something did happen as White, down four strokes in singles competition after the second round, came roaring back to tie Clemson freshman Lauren Stephenson in the third round, eventually winning the individual championship in a two-hole playoff. White attributes her success so far this season to vigorous training over the past year. “I practiced a ton this summer,” White said. “I worked on my putting, because I struggled with (it) a lot before.
That (practice) helped me a lot, especially on the last three holes.” Just as White found success on The Course at Yale, her team rallied around her to shoot a combined score of 878, 10 strokes behind ultimate tournament champion Furman, but good enough for a third-place finish. Top Michigan performers included White (211, 2-under) and sophomores Megan Kim (220, 7-over) and Kathy Lim (222, 9-over). Dowling attributed her team’s strong finish to overall resiliency and trust in each other. “It was a true team effort, that’s for sure,” Dowling said. “We made some bogies (in round two) … but we made a couple of minor adjustments (in round three), and we just dug deep.” The Wolverines combined for a score of 286 in the third round, leading all teams in the tournament, an improvement from the East and West Match Play Challenge two weeks ago, when Michigan lost close contests to Oregon and Indiana, finishing fourth out of eight teams. Another bright spot came in the form of freshman Elodie Van Dievoet, who recovered from a first-round score of 81 to record a personal best 72 in the second round on her way to shooting an overall score of 229. Van Dievoet, playing as an individual, finished tied for 31st after the final day. “(Van Dievoet) gained some great experience,” Dowling said. “Her second round was impressive, particularly on the golf course we just played.” With an excellent effort today, Dowling doesn’t feel any major changes need to be made in preparation for the coming weeks, including the Las Vegas Showdown on October 25. “I think each player has some minor adjustments,” Dowling said. “(But) we know exactly what we need to do to win in Las Vegas.”
same opinion on how to run a football team. That includes maintaining an even keel, no matter the result, reaching toward their ultimate goal. Saturday, after they coached two very different games — Harbaugh an impressive rout, Dantonio an uninspiring escape — they both faced similar questions about facing the other this week. “Tremendous opponent,” Harbaugh said. “It’s going to demand that we’re at our very best. That’s going to mean a great week of preparation and practice is in store for us. So we’ll move on even more quickly than usual, because it is such a good, worthy opponent next week. And we’ll be looking
forward to it.” This time, their responses weren’t similar. “I’m going to just delay that response and focus on the present,” Dantonio said. “Getting on the plane, going home and making plans and looking for things we need to get better at and worry about our football team.” And so the chess match began. Both coaches have had success, and both have won big games. Both will go about preparing their teams as they see fit. Saturday brings the ultimate measuring stick. Jake Lourim can be reached at jlourim@umich.edu or on Twitter @jakelourim.
VOLLEYBALL
Nebraska controls Wolverines in win By TYLER COADY For the Daily
No. 4 Nebraska, with only two losses on the season, was always going to be a formidable opponent 1 MICHIGAN for the 3 NEBRASKA Michigan volleyball team. After Saturday night’s game in Lincoln, it was apparent that the Cornhuskers were a class above the Wolverines, as they dispatched the visitors, 3-1. In the earlygoing of the first set, it was a back-and-forth tussle as Michigan (3-3 Big Ten, 13-4 overall) and Nebraska traded points. The Wolverines’ junior middle blocker Abby Cole and sophomore outside hitter Adeja Lambert had nice starts to the game, recording two kills apiece in the first set. Yet, with the score knotted at eight, the Cornhuskers (5-1, 14-2) began to pull away. Nebraska’s Mikaela Foecke, Amber Rolfzen and Kadie Rolfzen, who combined for 42 kills in the match, began to give the Michigan defense trouble. The Cornhuskers raced out to a commanding lead and never looked back, taking the set by a score of 25-18. “They run a simple offense, but they run it really well,” said Michigan coach Mark Rosen. “We couldn’t match their efficiency, and they were more consistent throughout the match.” In the second set, the Wolverines came out with a renewed sense of confidence. Led by redshirt junior outside hitter Ally Davis, who had three kills in the set, Michigan took a 10-5 lead. Just as it looked like the tide was
turning in the match, the fourthranked Cornhuskers roared back into life, winning 15 of the next 24 points en route to a 25-19 set win. The Wolverines were forced into many mistakes as the Cornhuskers reasserted their dominance at the net, courtesy of the Rolfzens and Foecke. In the third set, down two sets to zero, Michigan began to look like the team that had recently beaten Michigan State and Iowa. The Wolverines only trailed once in the entire set, and after breaking a 13-13 tie into a 16-13 lead, they held on for a 25-20 set win. “I loved that we fought back in the third set,” Rosen said. “Earlier in the season versus North Carolina and down 2-0 as well, we really didn’t muster much of a comeback. Tonight we kept battling, and I am happy with that.” In the fourth set, Nebraska put any suggestions of a comeback to a quick rest as the Cornhuskers received adept attacking and strong defensive play from Amber Rolfzen, who stifled Michigan on defense and gave the Wolverines’ defenders problems on offense. Buoyed by a plethora of attacking options, Nebraska dominated Michigan in the game’s final set and eased to a 25-17 set win and a 3-1 match win. With four games in Ann Arbor over the next two weeks, including an Oct. 24 matchup against Ohio State, Rosen knows where his team needs to improve and where it is excelling. “I thought our blockers did a really nice job,” Rosen said, “but overall, we need to be more consistent, as we are going to be playing numerous teams at the same level as Nebraska.”
“They run a simple offense, but they run it really well.”
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Sarkisian hat trick lifts ‘M’ over Fighting Illini By JORDAN HERBSTMAN For the Daily
With the help of redshirt sophomore forward Ani Sarkisian’s first career hat trick, the Michigan women’s soccer team walked away with its second victory of 1 ILLINOIS 3 MICHIGAN the week. After beating No. 22 Northwestern on Thursday, the Wolverines came out Sunday afternoon with a valiant defensive effort once again, beating the Fighting Illini, 3-1. Michigan started off the game with high levels of energy and stout defense. From the start, the Wolverines (5-1-1 Big Ten, 10-4-1 overall) put pressure on Illinois and never let up. Within the first 17 minutes of the opening half, Michigan put up seven shots, while the Fighting Illini got off only one shot. “We put them under a lot of pressure and then they had a hard time getting in any kind of a rhythm,” said Michigan coach Greg Ryan. Though the Wolverines were in control for the entire game, they suffered a setback in the 17th minute when they gave up an own goal, putting Illinois up 1-0 early. The Fighting Illini (2-3-3, 8-33) seemed to pick up some momentum. However, it was stopped in the 20th minute when Sarkisian maneuvered through the Illinois defense
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Home atmosphere boosts Wolverines Michigan has won seven straight home games, outscoring opponents 15-3 By COLE ZINGAS For the Daily
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Redshirt sophomore forward Ani Sarkisian scored three goals as Michigan moved to 5-1-1 in the Big Ten on Sunday.
and kicked a hard line drive in the top right side of the net for Michigan’s first goal of the game, Sarkisian’s fourth of the season. “That first goal … she just kept going, kept pushing it by player after player,” Ryan said. “She was huge for us today.” The Wolverines continued their dominance for the rest of the match, holding the Fighting Illini’s offense to a minimum. In the final 10 minutes of the half, Michigan put up five shots and outshot Illinois, 9-2, in the first half. Though the Wolverines were in control, they still
“We were able to break apart their defense really well.”
needed to find a way to put the ball in the net. After halftime, Michigan continued playing with the same energy and determination it showed consistently throughout the first half. At about the 51st minute, the Wolverines went on a full-out attack, with aggressive play from Sarkisian and junior forward Nicky Waldeck. However, they still were unable to get any results. The results started appearing in the 65th minute, when Sarkisian scored her second goal of the day, knocking the ball off her chest and into the net with an assist from sophomore forward Taylor Timko. Sarkisian scored again three minutes later when she received a pass from freshman forward Reilly Martin and buried it, earning a hat trick. “We were able to break
apart their defense really well,” Sarkisian said. “They weren’t really sticking with our runs … and they weren’t able to stop us.” Michigan remained in control of the game until the end, allowing the Fighting Illini just two shots in the final 20 minutes of play. The only sign of a comeback came with a corner kick with eight minutes remaining, but the Wolverines’ defense proved too much for Illinois. Michigan held the Fighting Illini to five shots in the second half, maintaining the same dominance it showed in the first. “What (Ryan) has been telling us at halftime is, we can’t just sit back and hope that we’re gonna score,” said senior defender Christina Murillo. “We want to keep going at them for the full 90 minutes.”
Drum-banging, soccer-crazed students decked out in maize and blue attire and chanting relentlessly is what Michigan soccer games have become known for. The support of the Michigan Ultras in the student section, as well as fans, friends and family, has led senior defender Christina Murillo to fall in love with playing at “one of the best stadiums out there,” and apparently the rest of the Wolverines have as well. Michigan has outscored opponents a combined 24-6 at home this season, only losing a single game. The Wolverines haven’t lost at U-M Soccer Stadium since Aug. 23. They are now 4-0 in the Big Ten at home, and in these games they’ve combined to outshoot their opponents 91-25. When the Wolverines (5-1-1 Big Ten, 10-4-1 overall) took on Illinois in Ann Arbor on Sunday, they showed once again the same energy and determination they’ve showed all year on home turf. With a 3-1 defeat of the Fighting Illini (2-3-3, 8-3-3), Michigan notched their eighth consecutive home win. Coming off a big home win against No. 22 Northwestern on Thursday, Michigan was looking to carry some momentum into the game against Illinois. But an unlucky bounce off of a defender into the net left the Wolverines trailing at home for the first time in Big Ten play.
But that didn’t stop them. Michigan coach Greg Ryan pointed to the energy the players showed Sunday as the reason for the come-from-behind win, which has been consistent at every home game thus far. “The energy the team puts in here is really special,” Ryan said. “Today, Illinois just wasn’t able to cope with that amount of energy. I felt like that was the difference in the game.” Not only does the crowd energize the players, but the players returned the favor with their determination. After the early Fighting Illini goal and many missed opportunities for the Wolverines, the crowd turned silent. But redshirt sophomore forward Ani Sarkisian got the home fans back into the game. Dribbling the ball past several defenders, Sarkisian moved the ball to the top of the box and ripped it home to tie the game at 1. That extra determination Sarkisian showed on the first goal was what allowed her to capitalize on two more opportunities, scoring the first hat trick of her career. “We kept our possession up like usual today,” Sarkisian said. “We just finished more.” Ryan was especially impressed with Sarkisian’s effort. “Today, it was just that determination to go to goal,” he said. “She just kept going, pushing it by player after player.” The defense, midfielders and forwards all worked together on Sunday, constantly putting shots on goal, playing physical defense and making few mental mistakes. Murillo would like this kind of home effort to continue, as only one more home game remains for her and other seniors who will be graduating after the season. “Especially for us seniors, playing at home is always a great atmosphere,” Murillo said.
MEN’S SOCCER
Wolverines suffer first Big Ten defeat By AVI SHOLKOFF For the Daily
The game ended quickly. Despite so many perfectly placed shots, it just came down to one. After a hard-fought, evenlymatched game, the Michigan men’s soccer team couldn’t contain Rutgers forward Jason Wright, 1 RUTGERS who shot 0 MICHIGAN the ball straight into the bottom left corner in the 93rd minute of Saturday’s game at U-M Soccer Stadium. With that first and only goal, the Wolverines (2-1-2, Big Ten, 5-3-3 overall) suffered their first conference loss of the season, 1-0. “Overtime is a coin toss with any team,” said Michigan coach Chaka Daley. “I think we just lost a coin toss today.” Freshman forward Francis Atuahene and senior forward William Mellors-Blair continued to lead the Wolverines’ offensive attack. Atuahene led the team with four shots, with Mellors-Blair adding two. Both Atuahene and Mellors-Blair were tackled hard in the penalty box, at different points during the game, yet did not receive penalty kicks, much to the dismay of the fans at the game. Junior defender Lars Eckenrode explained that despite the aggressiveness of the Rutgers (2-3-0, 6-4-1) defense, Michigan maintained its typical approach. “East Coast teams are tougher on the tackle,” Eckenrode said. “I know that, just being from the East Coast. It (gave) us a little more energy to come even harder on the tackle.” The Wolverines and Scarlet Knights fought neck and neck
throughout the game. The two teams attempted 14 and 13 shots, including three and four on goal, respectively. The teams also had similar foul counts, and each goalkeeper saved three shots. Many of Michigan’s chances were created by junior midfielder Rylee Woods. Woods took many of the set pieces, including the Wolverines’ 11 corners. In the 63rd minute, the junior crossed a ball into the box to senior midfielder Colin McAtee, but the ensuing header was blocked by the Rutgers goalkeeper. Sunday marked Michigan’s third consecutive overtime match. The team continued into extra time with the same strategy and mindset it held throughout the previous 90 minutes. Daley emphasized how quick and aggressive overtime matches can seem. “When you’re at home, you don’t sit and defend for 20 minutes,” Daley said. “Obviously we want to go for it and play it on the offensive.” Despite the team’s failure to convert its chances, Daley shied away from criticizing the team’s offensive attacking skills. “It was a rough day at the office,” he said. Daley praised the Scarlet Knights for their performance. He also spoke of the strength of the Big Ten conference as a whole, noting the difficulty of playing each team. Daley stressed that Michigan will look to move forward from this loss and focus on preparing for its upcoming games. “We gotta put this behind us, (not) dwell on it,” he said. “We have to move on, get our minds right for Tuesday.” In a heads-or-tails match, the coin came up on the wrong side for the Wolverines.
“It was a rough day at the office.”
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Senior back Lauren Thomas led a stifling Michigan defense that shut out No. 20 Iowa and No. 9 Stanford over the weekend.
Michigan defeats two ranked teams By MIKE PERSAK For the Daily
With two wins over ranked opponents this weekend, the No. 16 Michigan field hockey team is becoming 0 IOWA a national 4 MICHIGAN force. The Wolverines’ 0 STANFORD wins over 1 MICHIGAN Iowa and Stanford came in different fashions, but both were extremely important for Michigan coach Marcia Pankratz and her team. Friday’s game against No. 20 Iowa was a dominant display from the Wolverines on both offense and defense, as they came away with a 4-0 victory. “It was a huge game,” Pankratz said. “We rose to the occasion and played well. I was really proud of the team.” Senior back Lauren Thomas came up with two goals in the win, her fourth and fifth of the season, while senior forward
Shannon Scavelli and sophomore back Katie Trombetta also netted a goal each. “We can’t win if our team is not performing and scoring goals,” Thomas said. “So that’s really nice to be able to say that I can help with that.” Sophomore goalkeeper Sam Swenson complemented the offensive outpouring by holding the Hawkeyes scoreless. The performance marked the team’s fifth shutout of the year. However, Swenson, who played most of the game before being relieved by redshirt junior Chris Lueb with 11 minutes remaining, was quick to give praise to her teammates for their contributions to the shutout. “It comes from the defense, and the midfield, and the offense first,” Swenson said. “Then it comes to
us. But our defense does all of the hard work, and then (Lueb) really got the shutout in the end.” Following Friday’s win, the Wolverines traveled to Evanston to take on No. 9 Stanford at a neutral site. Michigan drew first blood when Scavelli scored her second goal of the weekend 15 minutes into the game. One goal was all the Wolverines would need, as the Cardinal had no answer for Michigan’s stout defense. Stanford fell victim to the Wolverines’ second straight shutout, 1-0. The two wins from the weekend could have larger implications for Michigan, not only in terms of momentum, but also in terms of NCAA ranking as the postseason approaches.
“It was a huge game. We rose to the occasion and played well.”
Because of their current ranking, the Wolverines aren’t yet shoe-ins for the 16-team NCAA Tournament. Defeating top teams will help Michigan’s case. While the weekend wins marked the Wolverines’ fifth and sixth shutouts of the year and improved the team’s record against ranked opponents to 3-3, Michigan remains focused simply on being at its best by the end of the season. “We have a debriefing after every game,” Pankratz said. “Win or lose, we’re trying to learn, trying to grow.” Even with the big weekend, the Wolverines still have room for improvement. They will travel on the road for their next three games before returning to Ann Arbor for their regular season finale against Ohio State on October 31. But if Michigan continues to play as it has over its fivegame winnng streak, with timely offense and lockdown defense, it will be hard to keep the Wolverines out of the NCAA Tournament.
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The good, bad and ugly
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By MAX COHEN
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It was supposed to be a defensive struggle, a close contest between the two top scoring defenses in the country. But just a few minutes in, it was clear that all preconceived notions of Saturday’s matchup between the No. 18 Michigan football team and No. 13 Northwestern were irrelevant. The Wolverines returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown and did not look back. Michigan led 21-0 at the end of the first quarter, eliminating even the thought of a Wildcat victory. The Wolverines dominated all three phases of the game. Here’s the good, the bad and the ugly from Saturday’s 38-0 rout. The good Good might not be a strong enough superlative to describe Michigan’s defensive performance Saturday. The Wolverines recorded their third straight shutout in dominating fashion, allowing just 168 total yards. Northwestern did not reach the red zone during the game. Michigan had not recorded three consecutive shutouts since 1980. No Football Bowl Subdivision team had done so since 1995. Junior cornerback Jourdan Lewis scored Michigan’s first defensive touchdown of the season, snatching the ball away from Northwestern wide receiver Mike McHugh in the second quarter and returning it 37 yards. Fifth-year senior quarterback Jake Rudock played what might have been his best game in a Michigan uniform, completing 17 of his 23 pass attempts for 179 yards. More importantly, he did not turn the ball over. Junior running back De’Veon
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Junior Jourdan Lewis ran back an interception for a touchdown Saturday.
Smith did not appear to be hindered by the ankle injury that kept him out against Maryland. He scampered for 59 yards on eight carries. He ran ruggedly, breaking tackles on numerous occasions, just like he did during his early-season standout games. The Wolverines’ special teams unit made sure it was not left out of the fun, either. Michigan redshirt junior wide receiver Jehu Chesson returned the game’s opening kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown, starting an onslaught that did not subside. The bad The Wolverines allowed Northwestern to almost score. The Wildcats attempted a field goal in the first quarter, but they missed. Northwestern also finished two drives in Michigan territory, a telltale sign of what was clearly a disgraceful defensive performance. In another cause for absolute panic, fifth-year senior punter Blake O’Neill booted two touchbacks. This is a comprehensive list. It is in no way sarcastic. The ugly Two controversial targeting calls provided some drama
in Saturday’s game. The first occurred in the second quarter, when Northwestern defensive back Matthew Harris hit Rudock’s upper body during a slide. The call was overturned, much to Michigan’s chagrin. The confusion escalated in the third quarter. Michigan senior linebacker James Ross III was ejected for targeting when he crushed a defenseless Wildcat wide receiver. The call, unlike the previous one, was not overturned. Ross will be suspended for the first half of the Wolverines’ game against No. 7 Michigan State as a result. Northwestern’s offensive performance would also qualify as ugly. Three different Wildcat quarterbacks took snaps under center, but none of the three enjoyed success. Backups Zack Oliver and Matt Alviti each attempted three passes. Both quarterbacks were sacked (once) as frequently as they completed passes (also once). Starter Clayton Thorson did not fare much better. He completed 13 of his 27 pass attempts for 106 yards. Lewis’ interception was the low point. Michigan awaits the Spartans next week. A fourth straight shutout is unlikely. But then again, the Wolverines have defied preconceived notions before.
Nearly flawless
n a span of one minute Saturday afternoon, the Michigan football team was both relentless and merciful. Nearly three hours after Jehu Chesson returned the game’s MAX opening BULTMAN kickoff for a 96-yard touchdown, the Wildcats still hadn’t scored, and the Wolverines appeared to have little intention of easing off the gas. With 47 seconds left, Northwestern had the ball trailing 38-0 and facing an almost meaningless 3rd-and-17. But the Michigan starters were still in, and the student section was still making noise. If the Michigan defense wasn’t calling it a day, neither were the fans. They screamed through an incompletion on 3rd-and-long, then kept it up when Northwestern went for it on fourth down. The Wildcats turned it over, and only then did the Wolverines show mercy. After leaving most of the defensive starters in for the game’s final series, fifthyear senior quarterback Jake Rudock kneeled down, ending a resounding 38-0 win over No. 13 Northwestern. The sequence was emblematic of the entire game, with Michigan letting up only when it decided it was done. Everything happened on the Wolverines’ terms Saturday. They bludgeoned one of the nation’s top defenses for 201 rushing yards and 380 total, and they held their third straight opponent scoreless. For the second time, they did so against a ranked opponent. It was, as Michigan coach Jim
Five Things We Learned By ZACH SHAW
Another tough team that was having unexpected success this fall came into the Big House on Saturday. For the third time in three weeks, Michigan’s opponent left with its tail between its legs. This time, the victim was No. 13 Northwestern, and the Wildcats fell even harder than then-No. 22 Brigham Young did two weeks ago. The Wolverinees beat Northwestern, 38-0, and the score was closer than the game. Outscoring opponents 16014 in their last five games, the Wolverines have made a routine out of blowouts. Still, here are five things we learned from Saturday’s win.
wide receiver Jehu Chesson downfield, every time the receiver touches the ball, he has the opportunity to score. Chesson, whom Harbaugh says is the fastest player on the team, flashed that ability from the opening whistle with a 96-yard touchdown return that was the Wolverines’ first opening kickoff touchdown since 1992. On offense, Chesson is averaging 22.4 yards per carry for two scores, has emerged as one of Rudock’s primary targets in the passing game and moved Michigan into the red zone on both of its first two possessions. Chesson has seen plenty of action on offense, but based on his performance as of late, you can never have too much Chesson.
1. Jourdan Lewis is the best cornerback in the country.
3. A.J. Williams can bridge the gap at tight end.
Peppers was confident in his claim that junior cornerback Jourdan Lewis was the best at his craft in all of college football, and he very well could be right. Lewis took his second interception of the season 37 yards to the end zone on Saturday and could be seen wreaking havoc on Northwestern’s offense behind the line of scrimmage and 40 yards downfield. Through six games, Lewis has allowed just four completions and has broken up or intercepted 10 passes. The numbers aren’t just good — they’re emblematic of the fact that quarterbacks no longer throw in his direction. Some say they make him the best in the nation. “He’s the best corner in the country,” Peppers said. “That makes everybody’s job a lot easier when you’ve got a guy out there that shuts down half the field. It’s expected from him. It’s not like, ‘Oh, good job, Jourdan.’ No, we expect that from him. Jourdan inspires me to play better.”
All season, much of the offense has gone through the tight ends. That will continue for the foreseeable future, as tight ends have been a critical part of every offense Harbaugh and offensive LUNA ANNA ARCHEY/Daily coordinator Tim Drevno have Jehu Chesson has become one of Michigan’s most potent weapons. been a part of. That commitment to tight ends, again proven that this unit is not Jenkins-Stone was fifth on the though improving, has slowed only arguably the top-performing team with four tackles and even down Michigan’s offense. Aside defensive front in the country, but drew a couple double teams. from Butt, who has showcased the deepest. The unit has already NFL potential in many of the lost two players expected to be 5. BOLD PREDICTION: The Wolverines’ first five games, tight key contributors — sophomore hype is real. See you in Pasadena. ends have often stalled drives defensive tackle Bryan Mone and, with missed targets and dropped just last week, senior defensive Emphasis on the bold here, passes. Williams was among the end Mario Ojemudia — but seem but Michigan fans are smelling culprits, as the senior showed a to improve the more they utilize roses, and deservedly so. The lack of catching ability that led the depth chart. Wolverines have outscored two many to write him off as another Each week, new players come ranked opponents, 69-0, and their offensive lineman. in and take the lion’s share of only blemish is a seven-point road But against Northwestern, time in the backfield. Ojemudia loss to serious playoff contender Williams was the star of the had been that player earlier No. 5 Utah. show, hauling in a team-high this season, but on Saturday, More importantly, Michigan four catches for 49 yards. On a it was senior defensive tackle continues to get better on offense, day when junior Jake Butt and Willie Henry, whose 2.5 tackles and is suddenly a team with few top receiving targets were well- for loss paced another solid holes that looks like the legitimate covered, Williams turned all four day for the defensive front. front-runner of the Big Ten. of his targets into first downs, Though saddened by the end That will continue when the indicating that a tight end-heavy of their teammate’s career, the Wolverines host No. 7 Michigan offense can still carry the load. defense was as dominant as ever, State next week, and though both becoming the first FBS team teams should lose to top-ranked 4. The defensive line runs deep. in 20 years to shut out three Ohio State, Michigan should win consecutive opponents. all the games in between, earning Okay, we didn’t really learn And as for Ojemudia’s its first trip to the Rose Bowl since this Saturday, but it was once replacement? Senior Royce 2007.
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2. Give Jehu Chesson the ball. Even though fifth-year senior quarterback Jake Rudock has struggled to find redshirt-junior
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Harbaugh said after the game, “near flawless.” The game had been billed as a clash of the Big Ten’s top two defenses, one that might be decided by the first team to score. That was half-right. The 18th-ranked Wolverines were the first — and also the only — team to score. They lived up to their end of the billing, holding the Wildcats to just 168 yards and only once allowing even a chance for Northwestern to score — a 42-yard field goal attempt in the first quarter, which the Wildcats missed. But they also scored 38 points on the vaunted Northwestern defense. There was almost nothing they could have done better. Well, there was one thing. Senior linebacker James Ross III was ejected for targeting in the third quarter, meaning he will miss the first half of next week’s game against Michigan State — a game that just became one of national importance. And if you want to get picky, fifth-year senior punter Blake O’Neill had his first touchback of the season — his first two, actually. But other than that, it was a businesslike, merciless trouncing. Michigan posted eight more tackles for loss, exactly on par with its average through six games. The Wolverines won the turnover battle with an interception which junior cornerback Jourdan Lewis ripped from a receiver and returned 37 yards for a touchdown. And they still weren’t entirely satisfied. “When we’re out there, we don’t want to give them anything,” said redshirt freshman safety Jabrill Peppers. “If a shutout is the byproduct of that, then so be it. But when we’re out there, we’re just concentrating on three-and-
outs. Constant three-and-outs.” It was close to constant three-and-outs on Saturday. Northwestern had 13 first downs, six more than Maryland had a week earlier. But it says something that first downs are the way to compare Michigan’s recent opponents. Since no one can score on them, there just isn’t much else to go by. Six weeks into the season, only one team has scored more than a touchdown on the Wolverines, and that team is No. 5 Utah. On Saturday, Michigan added to its defensive prowess and turned in stellar performances in all three phases of the game. The Wolverines got three rushing touchdowns: one from Rudock, one from redshirt junior running back Drake Johnson and another from junior running back Derrick Green. Chesson scored Michigan’s first kickreturn touchdown since 2009 and Kenny Allen hit a careerlong, 47-yard field goal. It was fitting that all of this happened on afternoon with clear skies, warm weather and a general feeling of delight around campus. Fans did the wave halfway through the third quarter, and as the clock ticked down its final seconds, the students remained engaged, chanting, “We want State.” When time expired, the Wolverines sprinted to the student section, led by redshirt freshman receiver Maurice Ways, senior cornerback Jeremy Clark and senior linebacker Royce Jenkins-Stone. They jumped into the stands as the Michigan Marching Band blared “The Victors.” It was a genuinely euphoric moment. It was nearly flawless. Max Bultman can be reached at bultmanm@umich.edu or on Twitter @m_bultman.
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1. OHIO STATE: The Buckeyes allowed 28 points to Maryland, which is kind of like eating just ketchup on a hot dog. It works fine, but why?
2. BAYLOR: The state of Kansas was shaken — literally — after 410-pound tight end LaQuan McGowan’s touchdown.
3. TCU: Trevone Boykin accounted for 425 total yards against Kansas State, which is almost as many years as Bill Snyder has been coaching.
4. UTAH: The Utes beat Cal on a late defensive stand, but the state of California banned the nickname “Redskins” from being used a mascot in its schools. Who’s the real winner?
5. LSU: The NCAA allowed Leonard Fournette to auction his jersey to benefit flood victims. The NCAA allowed something. There is nothing Fournette can’t do.
6. CLEMSON: As long as Dabo keeps dancing, we don’t really care if the Tigers have a weak strength of schedule.
7. MICHIGAN STATE: The Spartans play Michigan this week, which is important for one reason: It means it’s time for us to beat The State News for the 11th straight year.
8. ALABAMA: With a gritty comeback win over Arkansas, the Tide proved they’re at least as talented as the mighty Toledo Rockets.
9. FLORIDA: The Gators avoided a trap game at Missouri and now face LSU. A word of advice: 11 men in the box. At all times.
10. TEXAS A&M: DID YOU KNOW: Texas A&M has a satellite campus in Qatar?