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Peace Corps Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet celebrates the University’s involvement with the Peace Corps during one of the 55th Peace Corps Anniversary events on the steps of the Michigan Union on Wednesday.
Peace Corps director recalls JFK’s historic address to ‘U’ Program announces highest application rates since 1975
on the Michigan Union’s steps and challenged students to serve their country by volunteering abroad. The idea led to the creation of the Peace Corps. University administrators joined Peace Corps director Carrie Hessler-Radelet on those same steps Tuesday to commemorate Kennedy’s historic speech. At the event, Hessler-Radelet announced the Peace Corps had received
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For most University students, the story is well known. On an October night in 1960, thenSenator John F. Kennedy stood
the highest number of applicants since 1975. She said the Peace Corps received 23,000 applications this year, a 32-percent increase in applicants from the previous year. “What these application numbers tell us is that Americans today are as passionate about service as they have ever been, and that they are clamoring for the opportunity to make sustainable change in
communities around the world,” Hessler-Radelet said. “Today’s Americans, from all walks of life, are ready to put their skills to work making a difference and when given the opportunity to make their mark on the world, they will raise their hands to serve in record numbers.” Hessler-Radelet, who served in the Peace Corps in Western Samoa from 1981 to 1983 before See PEACE CORPS, Page 3A
During conversation, participants react to recent shootings on college campuses By ALYSSA BRANDON Daily Staff Reporter
The issue of mass violence drove the conversation Tuesday during an open discussion about a topic people are grappling with nationwide: gun control on college campuses. Hosted by students from the Student Engagement Team within the University’s Program on Intergroup Relations, the event aimed to brainstorm the causes of mass violence in the United States in light of recent shootings at college campuses in Roseburg, Ore. and Flagstaff, Ariz. Members of IGR first asked students to reflect on how they were personally affected by others having guns.
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At book talk, authors cite research on life on $2 per day Professors discuss poverty, welfare in the United States By CHARLOTTE JENKINS Daily Staff Reporter
Living on $2.00 a day may sound difficult, but it’s a reality for many Americans. Kathryn Edin, a professor of sociology and public health at Johns Hopkins University, and H. Luke Shaefer, a public policy and social work professor at the University, discussed their recently released book, “$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.” The event was hosted by the Ford School of Public Policy and co-sponsored by the National Poverty Center and the University’s School of Social Work. Public Policy Dean Susan Collins introduced the authors,
noting that poverty in the United States is increasing. She said the current number of people living below the federal poverty line, which is set at $24,250 for a family of four, is striking and warrants attention. Edin described how she became interested in families who live essentially without cash when she visited a woman at home named Ashley during the course of another research project. Ashley had recently given birth, and was visibly unkempt, depressed and struggling to physically hold her child. At the end of the interview, Edin paid Ashley the required agreed-upon $50 for her participation in Edin’s research study, and returned to Ashley’s home the next day to find her transformed. Ashley had gotten her hair styled, was wearing a new pantsuit and was on the way to a job interview. Edin See POVERTY, Page 7A
During the event, which The Michigan Daily was asked not to record to provide a safe space for dialogue, one student said while they weren’t comfortable with guns, they believed there was a dissidence between people who rely on guns for protection and people who have guns for the sole purpose of killing and causing harm. In an interview with the Daily after the event, LSA sophomore Gloriela IguinaColon, a co-student engagement coordinator, said part of the issue is that guns are often associated with having power. “In my group, we talked about the intersection of showing and displaying power through guns and masculinity in our culture,” she said. “I think that’s a really important thing to address so we can redefine what it means to be masculine and to be strong.” A portion of the event was also dedicated to discussing how dominant ideologies and beliefs within American culture See DIALOGUE, Page 2A
Perceptions of mental health can vary based on ethnicity University study may help doctors better treat mental illness By KATIE PENROD Daily Staff Reporter
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Arun K. Singh, India’s ambassador to the United States, speaks about partnership between the two countries in the Dana Building on Wednesday.
Indian ambassador touts ties with the United States Arun Singh examines shared aspirations between the two nations By DESIREE CHEW For the Daily
About 100 University students, faculty and invited guests gathered in the Dana
Building on Wednesday evening to hear from Arun K. Singh, ambassador of India to the United States. Organized by the Center for South Asian Studies, Singh’s address focused on the growth of Indian and United States relations and his thoughts on the two countries’ future. With 36 years of foreign service experience under his belt, Singh has served in
consulates worldwide. Before his current assignment, he held postings in Israel, Addis Ababa, Tokyo and Moscow and was also involved in policy work with the United Nations. During his speech, Singh referred to a statement made by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which hailed the U.S.-India relationship as a natural alliance. President See INDIA, Page 3A
The way individuals perceive their own mental health can differ by ethnicity, according to a new University study. Conducted by the University’s School of Public Health and the Department of Psychiatry, the study found that when African American and Afro-Caribbean communities were evaluated for anxiety and depression, the two groups had different ideas of what constituted a mental health issue. Shervin Assari, research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and lead author of the study, said in some groups, certain mental health disorders have more significance than in others. “I found that people have anxiety or depression or they See ETHNICITY, Page 3A
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WHAT: Southwest Detroit speaker series features community voices on politics. WHO: Detroit Center and Semester in Detroit WHEN: Today from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Detroit Center, Ann Arbor Room
WHAT: Learn how to successfully market intellectual property. WHO: Learning and Professional Development WHEN: Today from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. WHERE: Administrative Services Building, Room 2030
WHAT: Recruitment event for all majors seeking a summer internships or fulltime positions. WHO: Digital Media Club and Maize Pages WHEN: Today from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Ross School of Business
WHAT: All String Preparatory Academy students showcase skills developed by working with University string faculty. WHO: Gifts of Art WHEN: Today from 12:10 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. WHERE: University Hospitals, Floor 1 Lobby
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WHAT: Presenter Marlena Reigh posits vocal intelligence as key to female empowerment in workshop. WHO: Learning and Professional Development WHEN: Today from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Administrative Services Building, Room 2030
WHAT: John Luther Adams, a Pulitzer Prize and Grammy-award winning composer, lectures about his career as a symphonic composer. WHO: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design WHEN: Today from 5:10 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Theater
WHAT: Screening and panel discussion aimed to educate students on honor killings, female genital mutilation and child marriage. WHO: Young Americans for Freedom WHEN: Today from 6 p.m to 8 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union, Pendleton Room
WHAT: For Theatre & Drama’s Centennial celebrations, faculty and University alumni discuss Miller’s life and history of stage performance. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Today at 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Walgreen Drama Center, Arthur Miller Theatre
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Tuesday night’s Democratic debate was the highest rated in history with a record-setting 15.3 million viewers, though Fox News’ first Republican debate this year had more than 25 million, CNN reported.
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‘I’m Shmacked’ to film in Ann Arbor PanHell to pilot risk management programs Saturday By EMMA KERR Daily Staff Reporter
“I’m Schmacked” — a film crew dedicated to producing videos that
glorify college party culture and often garner millions of views — is coming to campus Saturday. The video series will feature the University’s party scene for the first time since 2012. The group’s arrival in Ann Arbor comes just weeks after University administrators called out the series by name during an all-chapter mandatory meeting with University Greek life.
During the Sept. 10 meeting, in which University called on Greek life to stop perpetuating party culture, University President Mark Schlissel said the University’s reputation will suffer if the organization does not enact change. “It’s not gonna be the kids who receive the Rhodes Scholarships and the Fulbright Scholarships, and the famous professors who do the work that you’re going to get reflected on for, or the National Medal for the Arts that our faculty won this past week,” Schlissel said. “It’s going to be the ‘Shmacked’ videos, so it’s really up to you what the value of your education is going to be, what the reputation of this institution’s going to be.” Panhellenic Association President Maddy Walsh, an LSA junior, said risk management training and measures have already been put in place in advance of Saturday’s football game against Michigan State. “All of the Panhel chapter presidents know I’m Shmacked is coming now and that people are talking about it. Our leaders have had many conversations and stressed to their members that it could be one person pictured in the video, but that reflects just as much on the University as on themselves and their chapters. So with that in mind and with all of the educational measures we are putting in place, I’m hopeful the weekend will go well,” Walsh said. Walsh also added this weekend Panhel is piloting a Social Liaison program, akin to the Interfraternity Council’s sober monitor program, and members have participated in trainings with a Student Life liaison from the Division of Public Safety and Security. “I’m Shmacked or no I’m Shmacked, PanHel has been doing a lot of work to implement risk management strategies because we know it’s going to be such a big weekend, with College Game Day here and it being the Michigan State game,” Walsh said.
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LSA senior Katie Gaither participates in the open discussion about gun control on college campuses hosted by Intergroup Relations on Wednesday.
DIALOGUE From Page 1A contribute to issues of mass violence. Using the cycle of socialization model as a resource, students broke into small groups to discuss the lingering impacts of a culture that views mass violence as a social norm. The model suggests that dominant ideologies are reinforced in a society through repeated messages from institutions of power such as media outlets and businesses. One group of students said the media tends to attach narratives to incidents of mass violence, such as narratives that suggest white mass shooters suffer from mental illness or that Black shooters are engaging in gang activity. During the discussion, Iguina-Colon shared an anecdote about how two of her male Black friends were relieved to learn the shooters at Northern Arizona University and Umpqua Community College were not Black. “One of my other friends
just kept scrolling down the news article, trying to find out about the race of the shooter, and when she found out he was white, she was relieved she didn’t have to worry about it,” she said. “I’m Puerto Rican, so I know I can empathize with that feeling. We look at news articles, and we just hope that it’s not us.” Tuesday’s discussion ended with students thinking about what causes people to carry out mass violence. One student said that some people only believe their stories will be heard if they do something harmful or outlandish to receive attention. In turn, members of IGR asked students to brainstorm ways people can understand each other before unfortunate acts of mass violence occur. Iguina-Colon said holding additional dialogues similar to Tuesday’s discussion would be beneficial for the University community. “Holding dialogues like this where you talk about big topics and where you also do some inner reflections like this, where you think about what you can do, is important,”
she said. “I think in the dorm setting, holding dialogues like this or with your friends or in your learning community is important in taking ownership because we are all responsible for what’s happening because we’re all part of the system.” In an interview with the Daily after the event, LSA senior Elena Ross, a co-student engagement coordinator, said holding the discussion was important in prompting students to engage with issues surrounding gun violence. “This epidemic of gun violence impacts all of us in ways we don’t even realize,” she said. “It’s easy to read and see about it in the news and become numb to it and not engage with it. Having an evening where people come together and talk about what it’s really like, and what role we play, and what it means for us and our daily lives and our sense of security in our life in general and on our college campus is really important.” The Student Engagement Team hopes to hold a followup candlelight vigil in remembrance of the victims of recent college shootings.
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University music competion to award $100,000 to winner The University’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance announced it will hold an international music competition called M-Prize, which aims to find the most talented music ensembles in the world. The competition’s grand prize is $100,000, an award larger than any other offered in comparable competitions. For at least its first year, the competition will focus on chamber music, a form of classical music that was originally played by a group of people who could fit in a palace chamber. Ensembles made up of between three to eight members are eligible to apply. Begining in 2016, M-Prize will take place each May. The comptetition will be divided into a junior (participants 18 and younger) and senior (averaging 19-35 years of age) competiton. M-Prize is currently accepting applications online. The registration deadline is March 1, 2016.
A dozen alleged pimps arrested in Detroit FBI sting The FBI announced Tuesday that they arrested 12 pimps and rescued 19 teenage girls in a child sex trafficking operation out of metro Detroit. According to the Detroit Free Press, the girls, all minors ranging from 13 to 17 years old, were working as prostitutes in Detroit and other areas in Michigan. FBI spokeswoman Jill Washburn said the operation, which was part of a national operation to stop sex trafficking across the nation, was conducted throughout last week. Michael Glennon, FBI supervisory special agent, said the pimps were both male and female and working primarily in Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties. He also said while most of the girls his team rescued in the sting have since returned to their families, some have fallen back into the sex trade, despite an FBI victim specialist having worked with them.
INDIA From Page 1A Barack Obama has also affirmed the strategic importance and mutually beneficial nature of the dynamic. Singh was similarly emphatic about the partnership, citing shared institutions, aspirations and values. “Together, we have characterized the motive of our partnership as, I quote, ‘Shared effort, progress for all,’ ” he said. “What does that mean? It implies that as the world’s largest and oldest democracies, and as pluralist and multiculturalist societies, India and the U.S.
ETHNICITY From Page 1A don’t,” Assari said. “But the type of psychiatric disorder that may influence my perception of my mental health may be different than yours or other people’s.” The study’s two focus groups — African American and Afro-Caribbean communities — were asked to self-evaluate their mental health. For the roughly 3,600 African American individuals studied, anxiety but not depression was more likely to result in reporting mental health issues. In contrast, for the approximately 1,600 Afro-Caribbeans in the study, depression was a more common indicator for self-reporting mental health challenges, as opposed to anxiety. Assari said this finding about self-rated mental health could be key to innovation in psychiatric treatment. Specifically, knowing how seriously or not seriously certain groups perceive mental illness can help doctors convince patients to seek treatment, even if they
News possess a natural synergy between our governments.” Since India gained independence from Great Britain in 1947, the country has slowly developed, grappling with the large size, diversity and complexity of the Indian nation. Singh said only a quarter of the Indian population can be classified as middle-income, while about 200 million people live in poverty and 400 million lack access to commercial sources of energy. Moving forward, Singh said it is critical that India embraces globalization and partners with the United States, one of the world’s largest economies. He also said the rest of the world must
do not see their disorders as problematic. “Self-rated mental health or the perception of our mental health is the type of certainty that makes you, if you have a psychiatric disorder, go take care of yourself,” he said. “It has major implications for connecting actual need to providing the care for the population. We are extending our research on group differences on how having that actual need doesn’t really translate similarly to that ‘check engine’ light coming on.” Assari added that selfrated mental illness can lead to more effective treatment than diagnoses made by psychiatrists. If someone recognizes they feel bad, he said, they are more likely to react to medication for their illness. “Psychiatrists may diagnose anxiety or depression, but what brings people to take care of themselves is, overall, a very simple feeling,” he said. “There is a mismatch between what psychiatrists diagnose and the perception of the person.” Julie Ober Allen, a third-year doctoral student in the School
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acknowledge India’s complexity to effectively engage with the country. Singh was quick to stress that the relationship has not been only beneficial to India. He said the United States has also benefited from Indian friendship by taking advantage of the country’s advancements in the science and technology fields. “The high-level attention that the two governments are now giving each other is not onesided,” he said. He also spoke of how an Indian space vehicle reached Mars just a week after the U.S. vehicle landed there, adding that the cost of India’s vehicle stood relatively low at about $74 million U.S. dollars.
of Public Health who has worked on with Assari on other studies, said the new research is crucial, particularly because national surveys don’t often provide breakdowns within racial groups. The Institute of Medicine, for example, has recommended questions that group ethnicities within a racial group together. “The Institute of Medicine really wants to include a single mental health item, but this study suggests that in doing so we would really limit our capacity to provide services and to identify subgroups in the population,” Allen said. Allen said the study is a starting point for changing how people think about mental health within racial groups, but noted that real changes in policy will take significant time. “A single study such as this is not going to change the development of policy,” she said. “I think the more we can develop a body of research that problematizes some of their recommendations, the more it’s going to push some of the internal folks at the Institute of Medicine to question the value of their recommendations.
MSU to expand lab for growing diamonds Michigan State University announced that it will invest $5 million into expanding the MSUFraunhofer Center for Coatings and Diamond Technologies, one of the university’s laboratories that is used to grow diamonds for industrial purposes. According to the Detroit Free Press, the university plans to add 15,000 square feet of space to the lab, as well as new diamond synthesis equipment. The expansion is expected to accomodate double the lab’s number of staff members, which is now 30 scientists and technicians. As the new space and equipment will allow for an increase in personnel and research projects, the expanded lab is expected to earn $7 million in annual research revenue. MSU opened the lab in 2003 with its corporate partner for the project Fraunhofer USA.
$6.7 million ‘U’ research project aims to improve dialysis care Information Prof. Tiffany Veinot received $6.7 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to fund a project that aims to find healthier treatment and ensure longer lives for dialysis patients. Because of the extensive length and consequent complications of current dialysis treatment, patients often become unstable. Veinot’s project aims to educate those on dialysis and their medical teams on how to make treatment sessions safer.
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Kathryn Edin, a professor of sociology and public health at Johns Hopkins University, discusses the book she co-authored with H. Luke Shaefer titled “2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America” at Weill Hall on Wednesday.
POVERTY From Page 1A wondered about the major difference the cash infusion had caused, which ultimately inspired her book. “What was it about the cash that was so special?” Edin asked. “If it was true that there was a whole group of people living without cash since welfare reform, what did that look like and what were the implications for the well-being of families and children?” Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, a householdbased survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, Edin and Shaefer found that in 2011 there were 1.5 million households — which included 3 million children — living on $2 a day. Edin and Shaefer chose to investigate the $2 mark specifically because the World Bank defines moderate poverty worldwide as surviving on less than two U.S. dollars per day. For “$2.00 a Day,” Edin and Shaefer conducted research in Chicago, the Mississippi Delta, Cleveland and Tennessee. Edin said they found many impoverished residents did not know about welfare programs such as Temporary Assistance
for Needy Families or were told by social services that they did not qualify for assistance. The authors discussed the major welfare reform in 1996 that established TANF and eliminated a previous program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children. They cited that in 1994, AFDC served 14.2 million people, but TANF today only serves 4.1 million people. The authors said this decline in numbers of people receiving government assistance has contributed to the problem, and as a result, those who are extremely impoverished turn to other means of earning money — even repeatedly donating their own blood plasma. Edin said Jessica Compton, a resident of Johnson City, Tenn., sometimes relies on the $30 she makes from donating plasma despite the negative health effects many repeat donors experience, like exhaustion from low iron levels. “Plasma sales are so ubiquitous that many people (interviewed) had a little divet in their arm,” Edin said. “(It is) a marker of $2 a day poverty.” The United States is the only developed country that allows blood plasma donations more than once a week. The authors also encountered a 15-year-old girl living on $2 a
day in Mississippi who resorted to exchanging sex after school with her gym teacher for food. “We do understand that our book is depressing,” Shaefer said. “So, sorry about that.” Edin and Shaefer said parents do their best to maintain a sense of dignity for their children, and antipoverty policies should focus on incorporating the poor and not isolating them. They also emphasized that many people living in poverty want to work and not rely on welfare programs, saying everyone deserves the opportunity to work. “This very strong connection to work in part comes from a desire to be a part of a community, to be apart of America,” Edin said. Sandra Danziger, director of the Michigan Program on Poverty and Social Welfare Policy at the Ford School and professor of social work and public policy, said the topic of “$2.00 a Day” is important for fostering dialogue. “As much as the media and information is supposed to be so broad, you can live in this country and have no idea that this is happening,” Danziger said. “I think every college student should have to read it.”
He jokingly said this was less than the budget needed to produce a Hollywood movie about space. The ambassador also championed the achievements of the United States’ Indian-origin community and its contributions to the country. He said 15 percent of all startups in Silicon Valley are owned by Indians and that one out of seven patients receive treatment by an Indian doctor. In regards to international relations, Singh emphasized that India’s proximity to Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East renders it a key strategic player in combating terrorism. He also discussed his nation’s efforts to combat the global problem of climate change. He
PEACE CORPS From Page 1A working in public health, told the crowd that the University’s commitment to community service and human rights is impressive. “The University of Michigan has been a real beacon of hope and prosperity and human rights for so many years,” she said. “The bond between Peace Corps and the University of Michigan could not be stronger.” Members of the University community may not be aware, however, of the crucial role University students and faculty played in the formation of the program, a government organization that deploys young adults to developing countries to provide assistance and promote cultural tolerance and interaction. University alum Al Guskin, president emeritus of Antioch University, was a doctorate student in social psychology at the University 55 years ago when he attended Kennedy’s speech. Guskin recalls Kennedy asking the crowd of about 10,000 students: “How many of you who are going to be doctors are willing to spend your days in Ghana? Technicians or engineers, how many of you are willing to work in the foreign service and spend your lives traveling around the world?” Four days later, Chester Bowles, Kennedy’s foreign policy adviser, spoke to a crowd in the Union ballroom. He discussed the work his son and daughter had been doing in Nigeria. “Making Kennedy’s challenge such a concrete reality triggered something deep inside me,” Guskin said. That night, he wrote a letter to The Michigan Daily on a napkin, challenging University students to commit to serving abroad. Before the letter was published in the Daily, Guskin gathered with fellow students and friends to discuss ideas for the creation of a foreign service program. Together they formed a group that developed
said the Indian government hopes to employ more renewable energy in the country’s future development. “We should not just see what India and the U.S. can do for each other,” he said. “But what we can do for the world.” LSA sophomore Hannah Lynn said she appreciated the contextual knowledge that Singh provided into Indian society, especially given her Indian heritage. “I came to hear more about the politics between India and the U.S., which he definitely covered, and just a little more insight on what his position is,” she said. “I definitely learned more about the Indian population.”
materials on what such a foreign service would entail and collected roughly 1,000 students’ signatures of those committed to serving. According to Guskin, Kennedy’s Michigan campaign manager heard about what their group was doing on campus and asked them to send their materials to him so that he could give them to Kennedy’s aides and speechwriters. “Kennedy was taken with the idea — the fact that students had responded to his challenge,” Guskin said. Six days before the presidential election, Kennedy announced his commitment to the creation of the Peace Corps during a major foreign policy speech in San Francisco. The Peace Corps was officially formed on March 1, 1961, and Guskin and his wife served with the first group to go to Thailand from 1961 to 1964. University President Mark Schlissel spoke later in the day at a panel for returning Peace Corps volunteers to share their experiences serving abroad. “I’m delighted to be able to renew our collaboration and enhance our work to build a better future for our world. At the University of Michigan, we’re tremendously proud of the global opportunities we provide to students, and the Peace Corps is an essential component to our work,” Schlissel said. “The transformative experiences provided by the program closely align with the University of Michigan’s global engagement philosophy.” Schlissel noted that the University is the fourth largest producer of Peace Corps volunteers over the course of the organization’s history. “At the core of this philosophy is the University of Michigan’s passion for advancing the public good. High quality global collaborations enhance our ability to address the biggest challenges in our society while providing students with a cross-cultural foundation that will help them lead in a rapidly changing environment.”
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DANIEL WU AND NICHOLAS JANSEN | VIEWPOINT
It’s radical we haven’t divested Some of you may have heard of the Divest/ Invest Campaign on campus. However, we aren’t talking about the Israel-Palestine divestment campaign; we are talking about the fossil fuel divestment campaign. What even is fossil fuel divestment? That’s a good question. On the Fossil Free campaign’s website, divestment is defined as, “the opposite of an investment — it simply means getting rid of stocks, bonds or investment funds that are unethical or morally ambiguous.” For our university, that means getting rid of investments in our endowment that don’t meet our University’s moral standards for investment. These fossil fuel investments are not only risky for investors, as they are liable to become stranded assets, but they are also contributing to the global warming of our planet. That’s why we are calling on the University to join the hundreds of other institutions that are divesting from fossil fuel companies. Our campaign (which you can find out more about at divestum.org) has been doing a lot to try to get University President Mark Schlissel and our Board of Regents to do just that. Last year our campaign — like our climate — really heated up, as we increased pressure on the administration to begin the process of divesting from fossil fuels. Our first major action of 2015 was Global Divestment Day on Feb. 13, as part of more than 450 events in 60 countries worldwide! We don’t mean to brag, but we also had one of the largest events, as more than 100 students came out in single-digit temperatures for a rally in the Diag. On March 16, our Central Student Government passed a resolution in support of our campaign with a 32-2 vote. On March 27 and 28, we participated in the Climate Teach-in +50, which was the largest climate event ever on campus. We heard from notables like Amy Goodman and Bill McKibben telling us why we need to take action on climate change and why divestment is a great way universities can take action. Fastforward a couple weeks to April at one of the Board of Regents meetings, which we attend every month: We delivered a letter written by some faculty and staff that support divestment. The cool part? We had more than 100 other faculty and staff members sign on in support of the letter. These are only the highlights; we had numerous meetings with fellow students and numerous faculty and staff members to build up all the momentum we had last year. Finally, some of Schlissel’s advisors, and later Schlissel himself, met with us to discuss divestment. Long story short: They don’t believe we’ve met the three-pronged standard that warrants a committee to simply look at the issue of divestment. Despite opposition from up top, we are not going away because this campaign is so much bigger than this campus. The divestment movement began on college campuses and now has
spread all around the world to religious institutions, nonprofit organizations, charitable foundations and even national governments. So far, there have been commitments to divest funds from fossil fuels from more than 2,000 individuals and more than 430 institutions that span 43 different countries. Clearly, we are not alone, as there are still hundreds of divestment campaigns around the world with universities leading the way. Other universities, such as Stanford University, the University of Maine and the University of California system, have pledged to divest their endowments from fossil fuels. Prominent institutions like the Guardian Media Group, Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund and even the Rockefeller Brothers Fund — history’s original oil barons — have pledged to divest. And even cities like Seattle and Ann Arbor have made commitments. That’s right: Our own city is completely divesting from fossil fuels, but our University won’t even form a committee to look at divestment from coal and oil. OK, so we know that the University has billions of dollars in its endowment — just under $12 billion, to be exact — and because of the secrecy of the endowment, our best guess is that more than a billion of that is invested in fossil fuel companies. But why does divestment matter? The core purpose of divestment is to morally, politically and socially bankrupt the fossil fuel companies. Because of the amount of money they pump into our political system and because our society is so reliant on fossil fuels, these multinational companies have control over our everyday lives and global geopolitics. These companies have enormous assets and divesting from them may partially disrupt their finances, but more importantly, will send a strong signal that the world is standing in solidarity against these companies. We are saying that these companies are uniquely responsible for climate change, and that we agree with people all over the world that action must be taken against climate change. We continue to trumpet this call as every nation in the world meets in Paris in early December for the COP 21. We will stand up to the University and won’t back down until they commit to divest and join the hundreds of other institutions and universities that are on the path to divestment. We are not alone and can join the movement in making fossil fuels history, just like the more than 200 coal plants that have closed since 2008, the Keystone XL pipeline that still hasn’t been built and the Shell drilling operation abandoned in the Arctic. We are the Leaders and the Best, and we won’t rest until we divest. Written by LSA senior Nicholas Jansen and LSA sophomore Daniel Wu on behalf of the Divest and Invest Campaign.
Do it for yourself
“W
hy would I sit around sober when I could sit around fucked up?” A friend posed this question to me a few days ago ALISON as we chatted over lunch. SCHALOP I pondered this thought as I took a sip of my water. I drink water because coffee, tea and sugary drinks give me migraines. In fact, I have reached a point in my life where almost anything can trigger a migraine. Chocolate, stress, caffeine, lack of sleep, rain, gluten, you name it; it gives me a migraine. However, the migraine trigger that has affected my life the most is alcohol. Thanks to walking through football Saturdays and watching the “I’m Shmacked” videos that litter YouTube, I’m guessing that we’re all well aware that there’s a lot of underage drinking that happens at the University. A lot of it. To be completely candid, throughout my freshman year, I did a lot of drinking. Every party I attended, I would have at least three drinks unless I was a designated “sober sister.” This is a job in which you refrain from drinking in order to help out any sorority sisters who may need someone in control and aware of their surroundings to help. Over the summer I began experiencing crippling migraines and very soon started an aggressive diet and lifestyle that focused on decreasing my headaches. This includes the paleo diet, no caffeine, obsession over sleep control and, of course, no alcohol. I spent the month of August nervously anticipating my return to Ann Arbor. What would it be like being sober all the time? Would I be able to have fun? Would I feel awkward? What would tailgates be like? I read articles about
being sober in college, and I texted everyone I knew who didn’t drink. As it turns out, being sober is not so terrible. In fact, it can be really fun. You remember everything, you feel great the next day, and I take it as an opportunity to eat extra cookies because I’m not drinking so many calories. Being sober at parties has been an eye-opening experience for me because it has caused me to realize that we rely way too much on alcohol to have a good time. We rely too much on alcohol to be able to talk to someone we’re nervous around and make new friends. We rely too much on alcohol even just to feel comfortable dancing. Being sober has taught me to embrace my awkward grandma dance moves. Now I just look like a proud grandma on an elevated surface at tailgates. I don’t think this means we have to all be sober all the time. It’s OK to occasionally want a drink here and there. I still wish for it sometimes, and sometimes I cheat. I also want to say that I’m not here to go into the debate of the current drinking age; that’s a can of worms I’m going to hold off on opening. I’m simply saying that going to a party and realizing how much fun you can have without being “shmacked” can be a very rewarding experience. It forces you to be comfortable in your own skin. Everyone is too self conscious to see what you’re doing anyways. I encourage you to at least entertain the idea of not drinking at the next party you go to. Don’t do it for me, or to be sober to protect your friends. Do it for yourself. Do it so you can wake up the next day feeling great, because you’re hangover free and because you went out of your comfort zone. — Alison Schalop can be reached at aschalop@umich.edu.
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ecently, I had the extreme pleasure of being in a chocolate shop, which is where I would be all day, every day, if given the option. This enjoyment, however, was undercut by a strange trace of melancholy. The entire time I browsed, I was barraged SARAH by a mixture LEESON of mournfulness and nostalgia. Had I been here before? Why was I thinking about how much I missed my dog and hadn’t talked to an old friend in ages? How had my thinking suddenly turned into existential dread where all I could contemplate was how useless everything we do is since our sun will eventually become a Red Giant and consume us anyway? Just as I was coming to terms with how alone I am in the universe and how we are all born to die, I realized that the chocolate shop was actually playing a string of incredibly sad songs — “Say Something” by A Great Big World, “Fix You” by Coldplay and “Can’t Feel My Face” by The Weeknd, among others. At first glance, this seemed like a terrible marketing plan: who wants to associate chocolate with sadness or the confusion and futile nature of living? In the American value system, chocolate is supposed to be a source of joy and meaning in the endless, empty void that is the universe, but they’d now linked it with anguish. After some discussion with my shopping companions, though, we brought the meaning of this marketing campaign into new light. The business owners were actu-
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ally — on purpose or not — employing a psychological strategy called priming, in which the use of one stimulus (like sad music) influences the response to a different stimulus (in this situation, for example, our need for chocolate went from merely extreme to dire). By making loneliness and unhappiness salient for the consumer, the need for the dopamine boost that chocolate provides grew. In all honesty, it seems to be a rather depressing tactic, but if it works, it works. Having established this, it should follow that this tactic of priming could be used to market just about anything, even ourselves. Isn’t that exactly what we’re doing at events like the Career Fairs? Desperately trying to get the attention of recruiters who are already too overwhelmed with other resumes and elevator pitches to care? There has to be a better way to get a foot in the door, and I think we might all be able to take a leaf out of the book of this strange chocolate shop and extend this marketing strategy to us as individual commodities. So how would one go about doing this? At the next networking event you have the opportunity to attend, you should try executing your own subtle priming on the recruiter. One that I would try is helping the recruiter make the association between you and someone they would naturally want to assist, such as a child. As humans, we are programmed through evolution with the impulse to help children. To execute this, refer to the recruiter as “mom” or “father” throughout the interview. This will forge a connection in their mind between the idea of being a parent who wants their child to succeed and you as a candidate who is asking for a job. This plan is foolproof and will work, 100 percent guaranteed.*
Another priming tactic you could employ would be to go the opposite direction and prime the recruiter to have a great deal of respect for you. To do this, all you need to do is pretend to be the company’s CEO and appear offended when they claim they don’t recognize you. You could even go so far as to threaten their job. This combination of fear for their livelihood and intimidation from speaking to the CEO of their organization will mentally prepare them to be very receptive to whatever you demand. They might be confused as to why their boss’ boss is asking for an entry-level position, but they can’t possibly turn you down; it’d be a pretty unwise career move for them.* (* I am not legally able to give either such guarantee and am not liable for any consequences of attempting any of these tactics. In fact, maybe don’t try them.) I realize that both the LSA Fall Career Expo and Engineering Career Fairs have just passed, so maybe this advice is a little late, but there are always opportunities to try and get people to buy what you’re figuratively selling. In fact, these potential marketing schemes might be your ticket to not only an internship or job, but also a ticket to whatever it is you want — a date, a discount or another extension on a project that was due two months ago but you just couldn’t bring yourself to do it because you just started binge watching “Breaking Bad” and you can’t just stop now because you need to know what happens to Jesse. The sky is the limit. So give these ideas a try and tell me how they go. If all else fails, you always have the option of sitting in a chocolate shop and crying. — Sarah Leeson can be reached at sleeson@umich.edu.
The problem with organic
’m new to The Michigan Daily, and if anyone had told me a year ago that I would be sharing my writing with thousands of students and alumni and countless others, I would have taken it as a joke. I’m scienceminded, to say the least, so the GRACE prospect of putCAREY ting my opinion out there in writing for anyone and everyone to criticize is frightening. Though criticism can be negative at times (luckily I haven’t received anything too tough to handle, yet), it can also be constructive, which was the type I received in regards to my last article. After my last article, “‘Organic’ and ‘healthy’ are not synonymous,” was published, I was contacted by Mischa Popoff, author of the book “Is It Organic?” and a long-term supporter of the organic movement. His response was not only positive, but also revealed a few facts about the organic industry that were interesting and conflicting at a fundamental level. Needless to say, no industry as large and rapidly growing as the organic industry is perfect, but Popoff peaked my interest, and was able to provide me with a followup interview about his experience. Popoff has been immersed in the organic-food realm his whole life. He grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada, on a grain farm that became fully organic in 1993, far before Canada (in 2009) and the United States (in 2002) had national organic programs. For five years, Popoff worked as a United States Department of Agriculture contract organic inspector. “I left the organic movement when I realized it was a bureaucratic scam designed to propel a political agenda,” he said. Popoff’s arguments center on a few points: that “43 percent of all organic food sold in America actually tests positive for prohibited pesticides,” that organic-crop field testing is practically non-existent, and that the organic industry is fueling a fire against GMOs which has little to no scientific grounding. I entered the interview expecting to speak to a man who only ate local foods, grass-fed meat and purely organic produce. I have realized now that nothing is so simple. Perhaps I was naive to think that the National Organic Program could be articulated by a single man in such a linear manner. Though Popoff presented a
number of good arguments, the issue is more complicated than simply condemning the entire organic industry. “Some people say I’m antiorganic for speaking out with the media like this, but the truth is I’m pro-organic, and I’m trying to save the industry I love,” he admitted. Popoff’s is only one of thousands of opinions about the successes and failures of the organic industry, and it’s important to approach each new one with caution. From the research I have done on Popoff’s points, I’m in agreement with some of them, yet left in confusion with others. The first of his statistics — essentially that every time you buy something bearing the organic seal (which is a complicated issue within itself) there is a 43-percent chance it will actually test positive for pesticides — is more complicated than just a single percentage. First, it’s important to distinguish that the pesticides that are prohibited in organic farming are synthetic. There are some organic pesticides that the USDA approves to be used on products, and for those products to be sold under the label “organic.” Even still, according to the USDA, “Organic agriculture practices cannot ensure that products are completely free of residues; however, methods are used to minimize pollution from air, soil and water.” The USDA claims that the main purpose of organic farming is to maximize “the balance of natural systems,” and to enhance “biodiversity, biological cycles, and soil biological activity.” It seems naive to assume that doing such things in a 100-percent natural way, without any intentional or unintentional influence of technological advancements, is actually possible. Additionally, according to a 2010-2011 pilot study on pesticide residue testing, “As long as the operator hasn’t directly applied prohibited pesticides and has documented efforts to minimize exposure to them, the USDA organic regulations allow residues of prohibited pesticides up to 5 percent of the EPA tolerance.” Popoff’s second claim, that there is absolutely no field testing of organic products, is also a complicated issue to address, based solely on the issue of semantics. Words such as “testing” and “inspection” are thrown around as if they identify specific activities that are conducted on farms. The USDA identifies that, “Before a product can be labeled ‘organic,’ a Government-approved certifier inspects the farm where the food is grown to make sure the
farmer is following all the rules necessary to meet USDA organic standards. Companies that handle or process organic food before it gets to your local supermarket or restaurant must be certified, too.” As a consumer, “inspection” sounds fine, but does this include labtesting to ensure that the products do not exceed the allotted 5 percent of residues? Or does the term “inspection” simply imply passive observation of methods and crops. Additionally, only 5 percent of an organization products are tested once per year. What this means to me is that by the time it is found that a farm is not complying with organic standards, individuals could have purchased products from this farm under the impression that it was, in fact, organic. Maybe more pre-sale testing could benefit the industry after all. The third and perhaps most worrisome issue with the organic industry is the rising push against the use of GMOs. Currently, according to the Organic GMO Policy, “The use of genetic engineering, or genetically modified organisms (GMOs), is prohibited in organic products.” A report by Packaged Facts demonstrated that of the $5 trillion retail value of the global food and beverage market, $500 billion dollars are attributed to the non-GMO market. Additionally, Packaged Facts predicts that the non-GMO market will almost double by 2019. There are considerable resources being allocated to the marketing of GMO-free markets, that perpetuate the fear of these “alien” foods. However, the problem with this is that there is little scientific evidence backing the claims that GMOs are harmful. In this regard, the money being spent within the anti-GMO movement should be allocated to something more useful. It’s evident that any industry as large and quickly growing as the organic industry is not perfect. The main issue, I believe, is transparency. Despite the countless annual reports and guidelines that are published by the USDA, the Agricultural Marketing Society (AMS), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and practically any other three to four letter acronym of an agency that exists under the umbrella of “food administration,” there still seems to be little consensus on what’s actually going on and in what ways it’s truly necessary to take action. Until then, my biggest suggestion? Keep doing your own research. — Grace Carey can be reached at gecarey@umich.edu.
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‘M’ furthers Rutgers’ woes By ANNA HARITOS For the Daily
Each team took the court ready to fight. Wednesday, the Michigan volleyball team faced a Rutgers squad coming off an eightgame losing streak and seeking redemption. But the 1 RUTGERS victory 3 MICHIGAN belonged to the Wolverines (4-3 Big Ten, 14-4 overall) who won the match, 3-1. Set one began as a ping-pong match of bump-set-spike between both teams, until Michigan called a timeout to regain its footing. With the score at tied at 10, the Wolverines came back out ready to pick things up as junior middle blocker Abby Cole led a three-point streak that thrusted Michigan back in the lead. From there, the Wolverines cruised and the set was finished off with a kill by freshman outside hitter Carly Skjodt to win the set, 25-19. With all of the momentum, senior middle blocker Krystalyn Goode started off the second set with a kill. That early lead was the beginning of Michigan’s dominance over the Scarlet Knights (0-7, 3-16). The Wolverines doubled the amount of kills scored in the first set, ultimately finishing the set and winning, 25-12. “I thought, offensively, we played well all night,” said Michigan coach Mark Rosen. In the third set, the Wolverines did encounter some trouble, as Rutgers came from behind for a win. Senior setter Carly Warner opened up the third set with a serve that was returned by the
Scarlet Knights. Michigan led for a good portion of the set, but Rutgers never wavered. With the Scarlet Knights leading, 19-18, Michigan called a timeout, and came back with a kill by redshirt junior outside hitter Kelly Murphy. But the tie did not last, as Rutgers found a hole in the Wolverines’ defense. The Scarlet Knights did not hesitate to strike, ultimately taking the match in a 25-21 victory. “That’s the uniqueness of our sport,” Rosen said. “It’s not like there’s a clock involved where you know there’s a 30-point lead and there’s two minutes left and there’s no way they can catch us. In volleyball, they can always catch you.” With the match still up for grabs, the start of the fourth set brought on an intensified atmosphere. Rutgers once again took an early lead after a five-point kill streak led by middle blocker Eden Frazier. But Skjodt was quick to retaliate and scored her careerbest 13th kill to even the score. With the game as close as it had been all evening, every serve was eerily quiet momentarily before chaos broke out as a volley ensued. Both teams put up a good fight, but it was Michigan that walked away with a 25-23 win in the set to give it the match, 3-1. While the Wolverines may have won, they were not entirely satisfied. “This is a good group,” Rosen said. “They work hard, they’re tough kids and they want to be really good. And part of how they fought through is that they’ve got great character. Even if you don’t play well, your character doesn’t go anywhere.”
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Skjodt, Cole star for Wolverines By NATHANIEL CLARK Daily Sports Writer
Seven members of the Michigan volleyball team registered at least one kill Wednesday in the Wolverines’ 3-1 victory over Rutgers. But freshman outside hitter Carly Skjodt and junior middle blocker Abby Cole stood out from the pack. Skjodt finished the match against the Scarlet Knights (0-7 Big Ten, 3-16 overall) with 13 kills — a career high — on 25 attempts along with 11 digs and five blocks with no errors. Cole netted 15 kills on 33 attempts. “You need people who are going to step up,” said Michigan coach Mark Rosen. “I think Abby is doing a great job of that.” Skjodt and Cole dominated in Michigan’s 25-12 victory in the second set. Skjodt made a splash when she and sophomore middle blocker Claire KiefferWright produced a highlightreel block to force an attack error and give the Wolverines (4-3, 14-4) a 21-7 lead. She also netted five kills in the set. Cole produced a strong second-set performance in her own right as she made three kills. Cole lit her biggest spark for Michigan in the first set. With the score tied at 10, she put down back-to-back kills to give the Wolverines a two-point edge. Michigan never relinquished its lead at any point during the set as Cole later recorded three straight kills en route to a 25-18 win for the Wolverines. She finished the set with five kills. “We actually switched Abby’s position,” Rosen said. “It’s the first time in her career that she played on the left side. I thought there were some areas she did tremendous with, and I thought that there were some areas that she still needs to get better at, but I expect that. We
moved her over there to get her more involved in the offense.” But Skjodt was not about to be outdone. She put down four kills on five attempts in the first set, including two consecutive kills to end the set. She also came up with five digs during that time. “I thought Carly Skjodt played great tonight,” Rosen said. “Because Abby is very inexperienced with what we call ‘out-of-system’ balls, we sent a lot of those balls to (Skjodt). When you handle as many out of system balls as she did tonight and make zero errors, that’s a great night.” In the third set, the Scarlet Knights went on a 7-1 run to narrow Michigan’s lead to 14-13. But Skjodt came up strong with a block that forced an attack error and gave the Wolverines a point. Later, with Rutgers leading 23-20, Cole put down a kill to trim the deficit to two. Unfortunately for Michigan, the effort proved futile as the Scarlet Knights took the set, 25-21. “You can win a set so dominantly (in volleyball) and then it just resets,” Rosen said. “That’s the unique thing about our sport. Maybe tennis is similar.” Then Michigan won the final set, 25-21, with Cole and Skjodt again coming up with critical plays. Cole made four kills during the set, including one that gave the Wolverines a 23-21 advantage, while a Skjodt block capped off a 3-0 Michigan run to give it a 21-19 edge. Wednesday was not the first time the duo of Cole and Skjodt has paid dividends for the Wolverines. Skjodt came up with a personal-best 16 digs Oct. 10 in Michigan’s 3-0 defeat at the hands of Nebraska. As for Cole, the Rutgers match was the 10th time this season she netted 10 or more kills.
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Kastroll steps up in freshman year By BETELHEM ASHAME Daily Sports Writer
Opportunities to impact a game come few and far between in soccer. Due to its low-scoring nature, soccer demands that its players take advantage of every chance that comes their way. Many players are adept at capitalizing on these opportunities, but only a few can go a step further and create their own opportunities. Michigan freshman midfielder Abby Kastroll is one of those special players. Entering a fairly stacked team with plenty of difference-makers — the team returned 100 percent of its goal-scoring from last season — Kastroll would not have been faulted for failing to find playing time, especially since freshmen typically spend their first year vying to prove their worth on the field. However, Kastroll is anything but typical. “We knew she was going to be good, but we had no idea that she was going to make this big of an impact,” said Michigan coach Greg Ryan. “All of a sudden, once she got a little bit of confidence, you go, ‘Whoa, this kid has a lot of talent and ability and drive.’ “She keeps growing and gradually getting better every week, and for a freshman, it’s come along very rapidly. For most people, this is a two- or three-year process, and she’s done it in half a season. It’s phenomenal.” A multifaceted player, Kastroll has become a focal point of Michigan’s offense and defense. With four goals and four assists in 13 games, Kastroll has a total of 12 points, putting her in second place overall on the team. Though less statistically recognizable, her defensive contributions are equally valuable. She thrives as a physical, hard-nosed tackler, breaking up the rhythm of the opposition. “I like to think that I play both sides of the field because they’re equally important,” Kastroll said. “I enjoy defending as much as attacking, sometimes even more. Taking the ball away from someone is one of my favorite parts of the game. The great part about defense is that it’s the start
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Abby Kastroll has scored four goals and four assists through the first 13 games of her freshman season.
of the attack.” Kastroll came up big for the Wolverines in two key Big Ten matches two weekends ago. In that Friday’s 1-0 win over Maryland, she scored the gamewinner, and two days later, in the team’s 1-1 overtime tie against then-No. 25 Rutgers, she delivered an assist to Michigan’s only goal. Both instances provide a glimpse into her special ability to go a step further and create her own opportunities. Coming off a disappointing 3-0 loss to Michigan State, the Wolverines were in need of a win against the Terrapins. Firing on all cylinders, Michigan came out blitzing but was unable to capitalize on its chances for most of the first half — until the 36th minute. The Wolverines launched a seemingly non-threatening cross into the box. The ball was directed toward a Maryland defender without a Michigan forward nearby. But what seemed to be a routine play quickly developed into something more. The defender misplayed the ball off her chest, and one foot reached it before the rest. Kastroll had been watching the defender’s movement from the top of the box and could sense something was
amiss. She made an instinctual run into the penalty area, cutting past her defender and finding some space. She was wide open when the ball dropped directly into her path, and she smashed it into the back of the net. Coming into the match against Rutgers, the Wolverines had only faced one ranked opponent, losing 2-0 to then-No. 13 Notre Dame. Determined to produce a better performance and result, Michigan managed to go toe-to-toe with the Scarlet Knights in a scoreless first half. Both sides seemed evenly matched, but Michigan was looking for the upset. Ten minutes into the second half, the Wolverines sent a corner kick into the crowded penalty box. The ball was bouncing around inside the area in a frenzy of attempted passes and attempted clearances, but no one could fully control it. Except for Kastroll, that is. She beat her defender again to reach the ball first and touch it toward sophomore forward Taylor Timko, who then sent it into the six-yard box, where senior midfielder Corinne Harris finished it off to give them a 1-0 lead. In both of those games, Kastroll put herself — not just found herself — in the right place at the right time. Reaping the benefits
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Fisch prepares for MSU defense once again By JAKE LOURIM Managing Sports Editor
Jedd Fisch remembers seeing a Michigan State defense once before. It was Halloween 2009, when he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Minnesota. That night, his offense racked up more than 500 total yards and 42 points, and quarterback Adam Weber finished 19-for-31 for 416 yards and five touchdowns. That was a different Michigan State team, but Fisch, Michigan’s passing game coordinator, is also coaching a different team now. He and the 12th-ranked Wolverines take on the Spartans on Saturday. In 2009, Michigan State
stumbled to a 6-7 finish, as did Minnesota. Fisch spent only that year in Minneapolis before moving to the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks. Six years later, he is in Ann Arbor, while former Michigan State defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi is in Pittsburgh as a head coach. Two things remain constant: Spartans head coach Mark Dantonio and the stingy defensive scheme he runs in East Lansing. “They play similar fronts and coverages,” Fisch said. “Coach
Dantonio, it seems like he’s kept the system the same from when Coach Narduzzi left. Very similar in what they do. They’re a quarters team, and they mix in some other coverages and play a four-down front. “They’re very good at what they do. They have an identity. It’s very clear. They’ve won a lot of games with that defense. A lot of teams have tried to replicate that defense.” Michigan State’s defense has dominated the Wolverines in each of the past two years, but
“They’re very good at what they do.”
the circumstances have changed now. Though they have escaped the first half of their schedule unscathed at 6-0, the Spartans have looked vulnerable. Though their defense has remained relatively similar since Fisch last saw it, Fisch is focused on this year when preparing for this week. A win six years ago, or even film from last year, won’t give him an edge. “You look at the games they’ve played this year, because you’re looking at the players they have,” he said. “It’s a totally different team. You just look at their defense and what they’ve had to defend, and they have defended it all. “I think they have a great edge there. They’ve probably seen
every possible run and every possible route combination and been able to find ways to defend all of them. They obviously have a great advantage of being in the same system for so many years.” That system has given Michigan problems in past years, but it might see a few extra wrinkles this year. The Wolverines seem to have expanded their playbook every week to the point where it’s much more diverse than last year. It now includes plays such as endaround runs, more complex read progressions and a bevy of screen passes to get playmakers in space. Halfway through the season, Michigan’s offense, much like its defense, seems to be playing its best football of the year. Fisch hinted at opening up the
playbook even more this week, as the Wolverines might need more of it to finally crack Michigan State’s defense. “We’re very game planspecific. We’re going to try to come up with the best possible formations for the team we’re playing, and with that whatever concepts that go along with those formations. We have had a lot of different formations and personnel groupings and concepts.” In that way, Fisch said, Michigan, too, has an identity. “We’re going to be somebody that’s going to find ways the best we can to put our guys in the best possible position to succeed,” he said. “With that comes a variety of formations.”
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By Gillian Jakab Daily Arts Writer
Heidelberg Project
2016 marks the 30th anniversary of Tyree Guyton’s site-specific art installation on the east side of Detroit, The Heidelberg Project, and everyone wants in on the celebration. Well, maybe not the arsonists who torched the project last year, or the opponents who bulldozed it or those who brought Mr. Guyton to trial over the past three decades. But the obstacles and strife are all the more reason to celebrate the reach, energy and resilience of Guyton’s irrepressible oeuvre. What has come to be known as the Heidelberg Project is two city blocks of ever-evolving, art-adorned houses, found object sculptures and interior urban-folk museum spaces that have stood as playfully as they have steadfastly against the blight of inner-city decay. It is named for Heidelberg Street, in Detroit’s McDougallHunt neighborhood, the block where it began and on which Guyton grew up. The University of Michigan Museum of Art has curated an exhibition titled “The Art of Tyree Guyton: A Thirty-Year Journey” since August and will run through Jan. 3, 2016. It is presented in tandem with the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies’ current exhibition “What Time Is It? Tyree Guyton, New Work” running through Nov. 6. Many ancillary events — including gallery talks, a dialogue with Tyree and his wife Jenenne Whitfield the other week at UMMA and a Q&A with student organization Stamps in Color — a community of students of color in the School of Art & Design at the University — have provided spaces for students and Ann Arborites to engage with Tyree and his work. On Sunday, Oct. 18 there will be a guided tour, and a discussion with Taubman faculty on art and urban planning, and “In Conversation: The Art of Tyree Guyton: From the Street to the Studio” will take place Nov. 8. “Well, it’s a funny kind of retrospective because it’s an outdoor dynamic project that changes constantly,” said UMMA exhibition curator MaryAnn Wilkinson. “Not only because of Tyree’s work, but because it gets torn down sometimes or it gets burned down sometimes. I mean it’s always changing and you can’t really do a timeline the way that you can do in a typical art exhibition where you can start with the artist’s early work and you know the end. You can’t really do that with this because it doesn’t — somehow it misses the See HEIDELBERG, Page 2B point to do that.”
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University alumni Darren Criss and Joey Richter, StarKid actors, perform at the Power Center on Thursday, Oct. 8.
StarKids return, talk time at alma mater By REBECCA GODWIN Daily Arts Writer
My Wednesday last week offered no evidence that it would be anything but normal — that was, until I found myself opening an e-mail from one of the original StarKids, Brian Holden, a 2008 Music, Theatre & Dance alum, inviting me to come to their rehearsal to interview the group. I have made multiple friends through a shared love of the group. Their shows helped remind me how much I love the theatre, and their humble start at the University left me with the hope that I, too, could create and stage my own show — which I did. So it’s pretty safe to say StarKid has had a pretty big impact on my life. I immediately cleared my to-do list, rearranged my work schedule, and conveniently forgot about my classes. For those who don’t know, StarKid is a theatre group that originated here at the University in 2009 when they performed their original musical, “A Very Potter Musical,” a parody of the Harry Potter series. They uploaded the show to YouTube, and soon the
HEIDELBERG From Page 1B Beginnings During the Q&A with Stamps in Color students, Guyton spoke a bit about the changes in the city of Detroit over his lifetime and the impetus for his community artwork. “I grew up on Heidelberg Street and I remember when it was a thriving neighborhood, Blacks and whites living there,” Guyton said. “In the ’60s and over the years it began to change: You know the ups and downs of the automobile industry, the Vietnam War, Wall Street. All these things had an effect on the city of Detroit. I remember some of the white kids I used to play with and how they moved away.” Guyton left Detroit for a period and then moved back at the wish of his aging grandparents. It was Guyton’s grandfather who gave him a paintbrush at a young age and instilled in him the passion to create. Pursuing his study of art at the College of Creative Studies, Guyton met artist Charles McGee who became his mentor. In a formative moment McGee prescribed him a bizarre exercise to find himself by locking himself in his studio for two weeks, smoking joints while listening to John Coltrane, getting naked and painting his body. It may sound crazy, but it was from this act of sustained introspection that Guyton was able his understand his community and what he could do for it. The Heidelberg Project would become an external extension of this gained understanding. Back in Detroit, it was important for Guyton to share with his neighbors the freedom of art and creative thinking he’d discovered — not just to render creative images on canvas or paper, but to reimagine the aesthetic of his urban landscape and its social climate. Noticing that a lot of them weren’t going to the DIA or exhibitions in Ann Arbor,
group of college friends found themselves launched into Internet fame. The production is still their most popular with more than 11 million views, but they have gone on to do many other successful parodies. The group has since moved to Chicago, and while it has added members over the years, it’s still made up almost entirely of University alumni, including “Glee” star Darren Criss. It didn’t take long for me to make my way to the Power Center, and then suddenly I was in the room and shaking Brian’s hand and he was introducing me to the entire group. Darren was the first to stop and introduce himself, shaking my hand and letting me know he was there to help with whatever I may need. I returned the handshake with a polite smile and pretended as though I didn’t already know his name and I wasn’t a huge fan. This would eventually become a theme throughout the day. I sat and observed for about 20 minutes until I noticed Lauren Lopez, a 2009 Music, Theatre & Dance alum, taking a break. Lauren is best known for her portrayal of Draco Malfoy in
“A Very Potter Musical,” but she has been with StarKid from the beginning and has starred in almost every production. I approached slowly, asking what made her want to come back and do the reunion show. “There wasn’t even a question,” she said. “It was an immediate yes, because the chance to come back to Ann Arbor, not only come back but to come back with a group of friends that I’ve known for 10 years, who we all share a college experience, and to come back to the place where literally all of this started is super special. It is just a really special opportunity.” Very quickly, Nick Lang, 2008 Music, Theatre & Dance alum, called Lauren back up on stage, but my first StarKid interview was a good start. Nick was taking on the role of director for the concert, but he is best known for writing the StarKid shows, along with his brother, 2010 LSA alum Matt Lang. Others have assisted with the writing on different shows, but Nick and Matt are the only ones whose names can be found on every StarKid script. See STARKID, Page 3B
Guyton was determined to bring art to the people, citing a piece called “More Power to the People.” “It was my way of using the Heidelberg project as a medicine to help the people understand the importance of thinking for themselves.” Some of the neighbors on Heidelberg Street had a kneejerk reaction of distrust. They didn’t like it; they didn’t want it there. Provoking any response, positive or negative, laid the foundation for Guyton to open conversations with his community, to tease out, person by person, what they thought about the project and what they thought the larger implications were. “He intends it as a gift to his neighborhood and to the city,” Wilkinson said. “But you know everyone gets gifts that they don’t quite know what to do with and that’s what this is.” Opposition, public and private The reaction Guyton drew was art criticism on steroids, with repetitive cases of litigation and acts of violence against the Heidelberg Project. The political implications of his art became unavoidable. “The city said to me … that art goes in an institution,” Guyton said. “And I said well what do you mean? And they said you put it in a building behind walls, so I heard that. And then I was told by the city government that I should leave the city and I should go to New York, that New York is a place that accepted art, or Chicago. Then I was told that I had too many white people coming, and then I was told that I had too many people coming in general.” Government officials didn’t really understand what the project was, how to talk about it or how to accept it. In the ’90s Mayor Coleman Young dispatched bulldozers. Guyton spent a lot of money and time in the Detroit courts and administrative agencies fighting the political opponents of the project. Guyton eventually won the right to
keep the project on Heidelberg Street. “Every time the city came to demolish the project, something inside of me said, ‘Do it again,’ and I went out there and I start doing it again.” Arson was another problem. With the 12 fires, some as recently as last year, Guyton had to summon his spirit to help his art continually rise from the ashes. “The voice said ‘Make it greater’ than before,” Guyton said. “And I did.” One of the pieces Guyton created specifically for the UMMA exhibition, a mixedmedia sculpture titled “How Much for the City” addresses these deep-rooted struggles with the city government. During the arson episodes last year, a destroyed television set appeared on the street. An upset Guyton left it out there for a few days as he turned its significance over in his mind: How could he transformed it into something positive and interactive? “Flip the script: turn it into Heidelberg television,” Guyton said. “My job as an artist is to find solutions. So someone came over, dropped a television set off ,and it came to me: to create Heidelberg Television. So that television set was on the project and I had the kids of Heidelberg Street come down and they would write television shows for me. So they were performing behind that television set.” It was important to Wilkinson to feature the Heidelberg Television in the exhibition at UMMA. Borrowed from the project space for a period of time, the physical frame tells the story of the people and activities on Heidelberg Street. The television displays a slideshow of many of the art-adorned houses and their social or aesthetic themes, such as house of soul, polka dots and clocks among many others, some of which are no longer standing. These images allow people who have maybe have never seen the Heidelberg
Dear Gillian, The man (boy?) I love does not love me back. I finally let the words come out of my blabbing, hesitant mouth too little too late. He says he felt love at some point, but it’s not there anymore. Even the physical desire is gone. Now I’m left with the worst feeling — the GILLIAN kind that JAKAB burns the back of your throat and makes your breath heavy when you linger on it too long. It makes me cry at the end of every poem, every song, every movie. I feel alone in this because he does not have said feeling. But I’m not actually alone, because we still see each other (as friends). He still wants my company and I his. I just have the short end of the stick. How could someone not love you and know you love them but still want to spend time with you? How do I let myself give that time? - In need of a nudge Dear Nudge, Yes, poems, songs and movies can sometimes flood your tear ducts with idealized romance in Hollywood or sickly sweet love lyrics on Spotify. Yet the right ones can provide a cathartic reflecting pool and even hold your hand through lost, unrequited love. The ancient Greek poet Theognis of Megara (your “man/ boy?” distinction…that had its own significance in Ancient Greece, but that’s beside the point) had a lyric that may resonate: “My heart’s in pain because of my love of you, / For I can’t either hate or love, / Knowing it’s hard when a man’s your friend / To hate him, and hard to love him if he doesn’t want.” In the ancient Greek tradition it was common for one person to play hard to get to another, creating clear lover and beloved categories in a relationship (at least in terms of public appearance.) Although this one-sided relationship was commonplace, Theognis was still trying to reconcile in his elegiac poetry an unrequited love, the object of which you would usually want cast away to the depths of Hades, with a friendship. It’s a tough struggle you’re engaged in, one that’s been eating away at hearts since the 6th century BCE. Your feeling of loneliness, Nudge, even in his company, is only to be expected. Many of American artist Edward Hopper’s realist paintings in the early and mid-20th century portray a solitary figure in the modern
world. In “Room in New York” (1932), his study of loneliness is magnified with two individuals occupying the same space, but who could not be further apart from one another. The viewer of the painting plays voyeur as he or she gazes in through a window framing a sharply dressed man and woman sitting around a small wooden table in their living room interior. They are together at the table, but draw away from one another: the man bent over reading a newspaper; the woman twisting over her shoulder to play a note on the piano behind her. You may be just as lonely in his company spending time as friends and not as lovers as you would be on your own. His presence may magnify what is lacking in your relationship. Maybe confront the loneliness instead of masking it so you can move on. On the other hand, lost love or love-just-out-of-reach can be the most powerful artistic force in the universe. Unrequited love is ennobling, coaxing tours-de-force and magni opi from artists and authors since the dawn of time. But its effects are exponentially more powerful if your muse is right there, only just barely out of reach. That special kind of unrequited love — love requited only with friendship — is the perhaps the most hopeful (and tortuous) kind. This is not Apollo and Daphne nor Goethe’s Werther, unrequited love made hopeless by Eros’s vengeance and Charlotte’s marriage. This isn’t Hans Christian Anderson’s “Little Mermaid” — she sold her soul to get legs with which to chase her man, who then didn’t even recognize her as his rescuer. This is not Cervantes’ “Quixote,” whose Dulcinea didn’t even exist. This is access to your unrequited lover with each phase of the moon and, ergo, the chance to reignite his/her love for you. Sufferers of impossible unrequited love do great things in stoic acceptance of their suffering, but lovers requited with friendship do great things and, sometimes, win their friends’ hearts in the process. Affection doesn’t function in fixed states but is ever evolving. Love can be re-attained, but I hesitate to suggest you try to win your guy back if you’ve already laid your thoughts and feelings bare. There are two paths out of the friend zone, the patient pursuit and the decisive door slam. The former is not for everyone, but it works for some. Check out the 1990 Whit Stillman film “Metropolitan,” which won an Academy Award
for its screenplay. In it, a rat pack of debutante ball-going, Park-toFifth-Avenue-roaming Ivy League undergrads take in Tom, a barely middle-class kid from the wrong side of Central Park who studies left-leaning political science at Princeton on scholarship. As a group of friends, they bring him along to their crowd’s Christmas season parties. Audrey falls in love with Tom, but he rejects her at first, a rejection made all the more painful by the near-constant time the group spends together. Yet it’s that friend time that brings Tom around to regretting the rejection and when Audrey agrees to accompany the high-society badboy character to the Hamptons, Tom realizes his feelings for her and heads out there to win her over. Maybe you saw the recent piece in the New York Times by the poet and author Elinor Lipman called “Taking a Break for Friendship.” Lipman dates, is rejected, remains friendly and writes an essay for publication about the situation, which becomes the catalyst for attracting him back. The takeaway is that the friendship is the chance to showcase your talents and charm to pave your person’s road of return. But Nudge, please don’t let this prospect torture you. Your manboy cannot have it both ways and expect everything he wants. That is not fair to you. Keep doing things that make you happy both within and beyond boyman’s earshot. If he has an epiphany, he knows where to find you, but I wouldn’t settle for friendship if you find it too upsetting. But do keep your eyes open for something unexpected. I’ll leave you with some more modern lyric poetry (Theognis is so 58th Olympiad … ) by the singer/songwriter/rapper Lauryn Hill from “When it Hurts So Bad” on her 1998 album, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. I loved real, real hard once But the love wasn’t returned Found out the man I’d die for He wasn’t even concerned I tried, and I tried, and I tried To keep him in my life I cried and I cried, and I cried But I couldn’t make it right But I, I loved the young man And if you’ve ever been in love Then you’d understand What you want might make you cry What you need might pass you by.
Project to get a sense of its many incarnations over the years. Recreation and rebuilding on the foundation The second of the two new works Guyton is creating for the UMMA exhibition will not be featured in the gallery, but on Heidelberg Street itself. Thinking about the 12 fires and what to do about them, Guyton met with a team of architects to develop a plan to build a house. After initial concern and doubt posed by the architects about the stability of the foundations damaged by the fire, Guyton convinced them to shore up and salvage what had been damaged and simply build on top. The result is doubly powerful. “Two plus two equals eight,” Guyton said. “I’m never starting over; I’m just adding. I keep adding. That’s what I do.” The reconstruction of one of the houses on Heidelberg Street is being filmed in real time and Wilkinson plans to have the footage shown in the exhibition to celebrate the process of rebuilding and connect visitors of the gallery with the site in Detroit. Global perspective and recognition Guyton returned from a year-long residency in Basel, Switzerland in 2012 where he studied Plato and wrote his forthcoming book. The small city of Basel boasts more than 40 museums. With art and artists everywhere, Guyton
was constantly seeing pieces and their creators and engaging in dialogue (not only the Socratic kind) with some of his international contemporaries. “I went over there to learn, to listen and to see, and I think today if you’re going to be an artist, and this is my opinion, you have to think global,” Guyton said. “And you have to see (the world) because it helps to grow (the Heidelberg Project).” Taking a year way from the Heidelberg Project allowed Guyton to reflect on his decades of work and formulate how he would return to it. UMMA’s exhibit displays some of his prints and studio work from his Switzerland residency. Though living abroad had its challenges, the glamour of an artist residency threw into relief some of the more gritty work there is to be done at home. “For me, going somewhere else, they roll the red carpet out for you. The real challenge is here.” Reach of the project and visitors The arrival of young artists to Detroit’s blighted neighborhoods is by now well underway. But it’s more than just cheap rent drawing them; that’s available in lots of places. It’s the storied legacy of Detroit’s creativity and determination that sets it apart, and Heidelberg embodies it. “I do think that having the Heidelberg Project there with
its example of what an artist can do to try to change people’s lives gives later artists the freedom to do all kinds of things,” Wilkinson said. “I think what is happening in Detroit could maybe have never happened without the Heidelberg Project being here, and all of its contentiousness … But I really think that it’s so different even though there’s a long history in Detroit of artists making things out of junk. Many artists here do that because that’s what you can find when you’re in Detroit and there’s sort of a Detroit ethos to it.” Guyton has paved the way for large-scale public artworks, which have been springing up on smaller scales all around the city. “And now you get this new energy that’s coming into the city from all over the world,” Guyton said. “Thirty years ago when I started, I knew that I was on to something. I knew it.” A changing or “revitalized” Detroit poses the slew of problems associated with gentrification, but the Heidelberg Project has been around through it all; it’s a magnetic energy from within the city born from the vision of a Detroiter who sees the importance of community art in his neighborhood, in his city and in the world. “It’s a 30-year dissertation,” Guyton said. “I hear me. I trust me. I don’t have all the answers. I’m still learning.”
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In December of 2012, a University-backed video went viral among the alumni community, student body and Michigan admirers. The short video, a little over one minute and 30 seconds long, was made to celebrate the incoming class of 2016, using a single letter to symbolize the excitement, pride and joy of the Michigan experience: “The Letter M.” I saw it, you saw it, and your uncle who didn’t even go here saw it. The first time I watched the video, I was torn between two universities and was leaning a little more toward the other, but I remember the emotional power of the video was so strong that it helped tip me the other way. “The Letter M,” along with other iconic University films, like the Billy Magic transportation musical shown at freshman orientation, is the product of Filmic productions, an elite student-run film club with strong ties to the administration. Flash forward a few years, and the three founders of Filmic — Josh Buoy, Roddy Hyduk and Chris Duncan — are still working together in Ann Arbor, making films for their burgeoning production company, Snowday Productions. The three met as underclassmen in SAC 290: Introduction to Media Production, but enjoyed working together so much they decided to keep collaborating in classes, and eventually created Filmic. The student organization didn’t start with the intention to make commercial work, but rather provide a platform for personal projects the group wanted to make. However, the professional quality of the work eventually caught the attention of the University, which hired Filmic to make around a couple dozen short films for them over the course of their remaining time as students. This period of time was crucial to Snowday’s current success. “If we were just starting this business now and hadn’t had the experience on Filmic, this path would be so much harder,” Duncan said. “But since we’ve done Filmic, we were able to develop this chemistry, able to learn how to interact with clients and learn what kind of processes work best with different clients.” “The University was a threeyear incubator for us,” Buoy added.
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Snowday Production director and co-founder Chris Duncan films a bonfire scene.
“We were able to be a startup without officially being a start-up, which allowed us to feel really confident about doing this right after graduation.” After graduation, the trio actually split ways for some time — Duncan took a copywriting job in Philadelphia, Hyduk was in New York City working for NYU, and Buoy stayed in Ann Arbor to work on a feature film. It didn’t take too long for them to realize something was off about their post-college endeavors. “We realized that we weren’t doing as good of work individually as we do together,” Buoy said. This led to conversations about founding a start-up, which became Snowday. Transitioning from making films as part of a club within the college experience to making them as a full-time job hasn’t been much of a change for the group. “In some ways, I’d say there’s a lot less stress, because my mind isn’t being pulled between school, other extracurriculars and also filmmaking, so it’s nice to be able to say, ‘This is what I do full time,’ and you’re not stressed to get a film done and a paper done,” Duncan said. “But there’s also more stress in that if something didn’t work in Filmic, our livelihoods didn’t depend on it.” Doing the best work possible is a mentality that carried through from Filmic to Snowday. Since the company is so small, with the men being the only full time employees amid a handful of contractors, all three founders are involved in nearly every aspect of production. Snowday believes their small size is a major strength to the quality of their work. Instead of having an idea
for a commercial run through many levels of an agency and go through many hands, the trio works with the company in every step of the process, creating a very hands-on experience for all involved and making each project personal. “It allows you to form a really strong relationship with the clients, it’s more than ‘We just want to shoot a video for you,’ ” Buoy said. “We want to know why you do this, and why your customers act this way, and what causes you to wake up in the morning. We want to know these things, because it allows us to make a really cool project, and form really solid relationships that last beyond a small shoot.” Since its creation, Snowday has made advertisements for Sisu Mouthguards, University of Michigan Health System and Trerice (an auto-part company), just to name a few. While the objects they’re selling seem innocuous, each clip feels personal, aesthetically driven and emotive. Even if Snowday leaves Ann Arbor some day, they hope to always maintain the special relationship they have with the University. “I feel confident that there’s no other university or institution that could have prepared us in such a unique way as the University of Michigan,” Buoy said. “It led us to have this incredible hands-on experience that’s kind of insane with what we were trusted to do as students. We knew when we started Snowday that we needed to come back to Ann Arbor, because there’s already a relationship there and opportunities for work, and we want to retain this relationship for the rest of our lives.”
HEALTH COLUMN
Candy corn and other stress busters By HAILEY MIDDLEBROOK Daily Health Columnist
Last Sunday, I woke up at 4:45 a.m. to run a half-marathon. It was pitch black outside when my friend Jill, my sister and I loaded the car, packing running shoes and homework for after the race. We shivered awake in the cold wind, clamping our hands around coffee cups. We tried not to think about our lack of sleep, accumulated over a week of exams and deadlines. Three hours later, the pale sun just peeking over Grand Traverse Bay in Traverse City, Mich., Jill and I stood on the starting line of the Devil’s Dive Half Marathon. The race was an out-and-back course: six and a half miles out on a rolling (i.e. very hilly) peninsula, past vineyards and famous Traverse City cherry trees, then back to finish. We straightened our race bibs on our matching singlets, hers yellow and mine pink — planned ahead of time, of course, during our early-morning runs in Ann Arbor — and tightened our laces, popped rigid hip flexors. The race staff shuffled around in Halloween costumes, googlyeyed Minions and washed-out angels, arranging platters of caramel apples and cider for the post-race party. Yet there was still a nervous energy in the air. Jill and I had agreed not to stress about our finishing time — a hard promise, since we were both raised on cross country and track — but the glowing red clock at
the starting line challenged us. It held expectations. The race director finally emerged, dressed in a full devil’s costume, to shoot the starting gun like an athletic exam proctor. We readied our timers, turned the page and began. At mile nine, we saw her: the candy corn-muncher. I’d spotted her earlier, during the National Anthem, dressed in a floor-length hot dog costume, shoving bags of candy corn and Hershey’s kisses in her sports bra. I had burst out laughing, figuring she was part of the staff rather than a runner. But here she came, a human hot dog with a fistful of candy corn in each hand, nearly half-way through a half marathon. “Way to go, girls!” the candy corn-muncher shouted, pumping the air with her candy fist. That’s when I realized that I might take things too seriously. For every competitive runner, there was a candy corn-muncher. We would both accomplish the same feat, whether we ran consistently at a pace of six minutes, 45 seconds per mile or stopped at mile five to snack on chocolate. Was one way really better than the other? As we slugged up the final, mountainous hill, aptly named “Eternal Punishment” on the race posters, I wondered: Were we doing it wrong? Challenging ourselves is a good thing. We knew this as kids, when we took on the 100 Book
Challenge in elementary school (what were we thinking?) and as University students, when we ambitiously registered for 18 credits and joined the Triathlon Club. There’s glory in hard work and testing our limits, in holding the title of “Leaders and Best” that the University preaches. The upside of challenging ourselves is recognition: placing in the top three of the race, scoring an internship with Apple. The downside? Unhealthy — and often
The upside of challenging ourselves is recognition. unnecessary — levels of stress. It’s hard to escape pressure to succeed as a college student, when midterms coincide with last week’s Fall Career Fair and essays are due the day after your half-marathon (or dance recital, fundraising event, family wedding, etc.). Multitasking becomes a whole new monster as you recite your elevator pitch to yourself while running up the Arb hill and “tailgate” on your way to the law library on football Saturdays. And here’s the worst part: you feel better about pushing yourself instead of taking a break,
STARKID From Page 2B The group received a break a few minutes later and Lauren came back over to talk to me. Moments later, Joey Richter, 2011 Music, Theatre & Dance alum, and Dylan Saunders, 2009 Music, Theatre & Dance alum, joined her and I was suddenly talking to a group of StarKids. The Michigan Daily: So I asked Lauren already, but what made you guys decide to come back and do this reunion concert? Joey Richter: Well … Dylan Saunders: Because they asked us to. Joey: Yeah. Dylan: Yeah. Joey: It was kind of like a resounding … Dylan: No duh. Joey: Yeah. That happened a couple years ago when there was like the third Potter thing. When they were like, “Does everyone want to come back and do this together?” and we were like, “Yeah, absolutely.” And I think that a lot of it has to do with being able to be back here, too, because there’s a lot of us who haven’t gotten the chance to spend time with each other a lot over the past couple years, but we have been lucky enough to be able to do a lot of performances with StarKid all over places, but I think coming back together in Ann Arbor is something that we haven’t done since the concert tours. But then to actually perform in a school function thing is pretty cool. Not as a concert, but doing it like an actual show where we’re doing scenes from shows. Dylan: Yeah, it’s good to be back in a spot where it’s etched forever. This is where we were developing a lot of this stuff, you know what I mean? It’s just cool after like a fiveyear break to be back in this exact space. It’s just like really wild and really fun. Joey: And to be developing as human beings. Dylan: Totally. To look back with a little “Oh, OK, I get it now.” Lauren: To look back with a little perspective. Dylan: Yeah. There’s a ton of that. (Darren Criss sits and joins the conversation.) TMD: What was the last show you guys remember doing on this stage? Lauren: I was in a show called “J.B.” with Dylan. Dylan played J.B. It was a big deal. Joey: I was in “Macbeth.” Lauren: Don’t … you can’t say that in here!
even if you really need one. We look down at tailgaters and candy cornmunchers because success doesn’t come from having fun. Right? Thankfully, no. The University’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) endorses the “Importance of Play” for students, writing on their website: “We get stuck in our heads thinking about all of the things that we have to do. Balance is achieved when we engage in things we WANT to do, not just things that we HAVE to do.” The reward of challenging ourselves — academically, athletically, socially, professionally — is counteracted if we don’t let ourselves breathe. What’s the point of climbing the mountain if you can’t appreciate the view at the top? In our early 20s, we are the fittest that we’ll ever be. Our brains and bodies have endless muscle memory, enabling us to rebound from marathon study sessions and workouts stronger and more knowledgeable than before. But our fitness doesn’t excuse us from abusing our minds and bodies by putting them under constant, unnecessary stress. To manage stress, you first have to accept that you can’t be the leader and best in everything you do. Frankly, it’s impossible. Instead, pick one or two things that are most important, like acing a biology midterm or beating a half-marathon time, then focus on reaching those goals. That way, you’ll leave room for your mind to breathe and have time to play — the true marks of a healthy, successful life. And while you’re at it, eat some candy corn. I’ve heard it makes great racing fuel. Middlebrook is still waking up earlier than you. To ask her what is wrong with you, email hailharp@umich.edu.
Thursday, October 15, 2015 — 3B Joey: Whoops. Lauren: What’s wrong with you? Darren: You totally can say it. Lauren: No you can’t. Joey: I was in “The Scottish Play.” We said the name during the play. Lauren: Just forget it. Joey: I was Banquo. Dylan: Um, yeah. The last thing I did was “Tommy” and “Pride & Prejudice.” Darren: You were so good in “Tommy.” TMD: How do you feel the University helped get you where you are now? Joey: Honestly, for me it just has everything to do with meeting the friends I met here. It’s like if I didn’t go to this University and meet all these friends and have all these people that are the only people I spend time with now in my life …
We’re dumb in the right places. Lauren: My life would be 100 percent different. Joey: Exactly. My life would be 100 percent different. Dylan: As a foundation, this set the stage for everything that’s happened since. Like literally everything. Darren: When I first went out to L.A. and started meeting people in the industry, it was predicated upon the fact that I went to Michigan. Lauren: Yeah. U of M has such a crazy alumni network. Dylan: All of our first agents went to Michigan. *** Darren: I think this is the part where we’re supposed to talk about how great the School of Music was. I always feel bad when people are like, “What was the best part about Michigan?” and I go, “My friends, uh, the times I had.” It all has nothing to do with the actual institution. For most theatre people, artisan types, stereotypical kids from high school, they tend to gravitate toward small, liberal arts colleges because it’s just sort of the vibe of the school, it’s just a bit more typical. And somebody told me, “You can always make a big place small, you can’t make a small place big.” The cool thing about this school is, yeah, there are 30,000 kids running around and our class was anywhere from 16 to 20-odd people, so we had our tiny little community, and it was great.
Dylan: It was a tiny family within a giant operation. Joey: It was like being in a mixed-gender sorority and fraternity. Darren: So we had the small thing, and if the small thing ever got annoying, we had the big thing. Dylan: And being able to switch back and forth is great, especially when you’re studying an art form. Do you know what I mean? Because you need a break sometimes. Darren: Because there’s a huge chunk of people at this University who don’t know anything about theatre or the department, and I’m fine with that. Dylan: Which is so fine. Which is all good because … Darren: I don’t know things about certain parts of the math department, which is cool because when I’m on the bus, (I’m like), oh cool, you do what? Awesome. That’s amazing. TMD: Has the dynamic changed in the group since you graduated? Dylan: Other than geographically, I mean, not really. Lauren: We’re all a tiny, tiny bit more mature, but other than that it’s pretty much the same. Darren: We’re still dumb enough to be doing this, so that’s good. Lauren: Yeah, we’re dumb in the right places. TMD: Has being so spread out made it harder to keep doing projects together? Dylan: I think so, but the advantage is that everything is ultimately produced for the Internet. Joey: But then it’s always really special when it happens. It always feels like a reunion. It’s like every time we do do something, it’s that feeling: “Ahh, I get to see all these people again.” TMD: Are you guys working on any upcoming projects? Lauren: A lot of people are doing their own side projects. Joey: I am going to be writing and producing a musical with my sketch group, the Tin Can Bros that Brian (Rosenthal) and Corey (Lubowich) are in, and that’s happening in L.A. in March. And we’re kick-starting that right now. Joe Walker is going to be in it and, like, a bunch of other friends, so that’s pretty fun. Dylan: Yeah, it’s a lot of individual pursuits. I just finished a cartoon for Nickelodeon, which aired last week. Read the rest of the Daily’s interview with StarKid online at www.michigandaily.com/arts.
EPISODE REVIEW
FOX
“Dead Man Walking,” this week’s episode of “The Last Man on Earth,” follows Phil (Will Forte, “SatB+ urday Night Live”) and The Last Carol (KrisMan on ten Schaal, “Bob’s BurgEarth ers”) as Season 2, they finally Ep. 3 reunite with the supportSundays at ing cast from 9:30 p.m. the first season. Carol FOX pretends Phil is dead, planning to reveal the truth once the others learn to forgive his past transgressions and mourn him. Last season’s biggest flaw was that the show spent too much time focusing on Phil’s cartoonishly dickish behavior instead of developing side characters like Gail (Mary Steenburgen, “Orange is the New Black”) and Erica (Cleopatra Coleman, “Neighbours”). In most ways, the
show is best suited to focusing on just one or two characters — and most of its best episodes, like this season’s premiere, have steered away from sitcom-esque hijinks with a big cast of characters. It’s slightly frustrating to once again veer away from the melancholic vibe of a twocharacter show to reintroduce banal characters like Melissa (January Jones, “Mad Men”), especially this early in the season. That said, this season has made up for Phil’s questionable characterization last year, giving the audience more reasons to empathize with him without taking away most of his core traits. He hilariously combines his old tendencies with new kindness in “Dead Man Walking,” holding a gun to the others’ heads to force them to listen to his sincere apology. If the show continues this focus on characterization, the sitcom vibe might not feel so wasteful anymore. -BENJAMIN ROSENSTOCK
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FOOD COLUMN
Chef Tony Maws reflects on time at U
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he alumni base of the University of Michigan is a common selling point, in both quantity (over 540,000 currently) and quality. We’d like to think that the University is both nature and nurture — that we attract the very best and then GIANCARLO launch them BUONOMO into fame and fortune. Every wideeyed freshman is told that if he studies enough, he can become the next Arthur Miller, the next Larry Page, the next Gerald Ford. Included among our esteemed alumni are several renowned chefs. Gabrielle Hamilton, award-winning chef at Prune in New York City, received an MFA in creative writing from the University. Stephanie Izard, winner of Season Four of “Top Chef,” was an undergraduate here. It’s harder to pin down the University’s influence on a chef. We don’t have a culinary school beyond work-study jobs in the dining hall. Chefs are often of a more bohemian temperament, one not predisposed to college. Which begs the question — if one wants to be a chef, why would you come here? If you’re Chef Tony Maws, James Beard Award-winning chef of Craigie on Main in Cambridge, Mass., it’s because you’re 18 years old, and you don’t know that you want to be
a chef or even know that you can be one. “I don’t think as an 18-yearold, I was really mature enough, or put together enough, to have those thoughts,” he told me over the phone. “(Going to college) was what I was supposed to do.” When I first found out Maws had graduated from the University, I was surprised, to say the least. I grew up around Boston, and Maws was often a source for anything especially “cheffy.” When I wanted to learn how to fillet a fish, I watched his videos on youtube. When I turned 14 and wanted a roasted pig’s head instead of a cake, Craigie on Main was the place to go. In short, Maws did not seem like a guy who took a circuitous route towards becoming a chef.
If one wants to be a chef, why would you come here? Maws was born in Boston and grew up in Newton, Mass., in a solidly middle-class family. When he was a kid, his parents decided to renovate their house, and were left without a kitchen for more than a month. They’d often trek to Chinatown for dinner, which had an in-yourface cuisine that appealed to their young son. “I grew up seeing all the
animals hanging in the window, eating funky parts, seeing food differently than a lot of Americans probably were in the ’70s,” Maws said. Starting in seventh grade, Maws attended an elite prep school, Belmont Hill, throwing himself into academics and sports. But with nothing to do one summer on Martha’s Vineyard, where his family had a house, he decided to get a job. He approached the job process like only a 15-year-old prep school kid would: writing up a resumé and diligently sending it out to restaurants on the Island. Looking back, Maws proudly laughed. “I got a call about three minutes later, saying ‘You sent us a resumé for a dishwasher job? You’re hired.’” Maws spent the next few summers washing dishes and helping prep ingredients at the Beach Plum Inn. He’d never been happier. “It really embodied a lot of what I liked and it was a culture I thrived in — loud, fast, physical, it was almost like playing in a hockey game,” he said. From his dishwashing station, he would often peer into the kitchen, admiring the hustle of the line cooks. They were usually college students, and, funnily enough, one summer they were a group of fraternity brothers from the University of Michigan. “My freshman year at Michigan, I ran into a bunch of them on the street — they must have been fifth-year seniors — and they were like ‘Wait, you’re
that kid!’” he said. When he graduated from high school, Maws still loved working in kitchens, but didn’t think of it as anything more than a hobby.
“... seeing food differently than a lot of Americans were in the ’70s.” “At that time, I wasn’t thinking, ‘Oh, I’m gonna be a chef,’” he said. “There wasn’t any food TV, and (becoming a chef ) wasn’t something that people like me would do.” So Maws zeroed in on Michigan for college. Several members of his family had attended the University, and the charisma of the line cooks had made an impression. After one visit, he made the decision. “I got to Michigan and I was like, ‘Holy shit! This is college,’” he said. Like so many freshman, his first year was, in his own words, “a wash.” The kitchen hadn’t prepared him for the shock of 400-person classes, of teachers who didn’t take attendance or check his homework, of some new party to go to every night. Stuck on North Campus, he was so miserable that he would pack a bag every Friday afternoon and crash with friends who lived in Mary Markley Hall for the weekend.
And, like so many students, things got better after that. He joined a frat. He took enough psychology classes to make a major of it. He wrote short stories and poetry. And, at night, he worked at the now-defunct Quality Bar on Main Street, just to be in the kitchen again. After graduation, his friends went off to New York and Chicago to work at banks and attend law and medical school. Maws loaded up his car and drove to Montana. He worked at a lodge for a while, moved to Utah to ski bum, packed up again and traveled through Europe. He even had a desk job at a magazine in New York City. This vagabond period wasn’t exactly Maws living out some latent Jack Kerouac fantasy.
“... loud, fast, physical, it was like playing in a hockey game.” “I wasn’t trying to be aimless, in an irresponsible way,” he said. “I just didn’t know what I wanted to do, and it really began to eat at me.” Maws ended up back in Martha’s Vineyard, this time waiting tables. He got friendly with the restaurant’s owner, who pulled him aside one day for a verbal slap across the face.
Buonomo is still waiting for that pig head. To send him that pig head, e-mail gbuonomo@umich.edu.
TRAILER REVIEW
SINGLE REVIEW
R&S RECORDS
You know that electronic song that you, your friends and everyone here at The Daily likes that goes A+ “Thump Thump Fight Thump Nicolas Jaar Thump” then ends? Let’s R&S Records agree, cut that shit out for a sec and talk about something with enough acoustic nourishment to hold you from your 9 a.m. ’til the smells, lights and chatter fade out of MoJo. Nicolas Jaar, the exemplar of electronico-compositional mastery, outdoes himself on this one.
He said, “Wait a minute. You’ve worked in kitchens all these years. You love food. You’re always hanging around in the kitchen. Why aren’t you doing this?” Looking back, Maws considers this the turning point. “It was as if I needed permission from someone to do this job I liked,” he said. He traveled again, to Boston, San Francisco and France, cooking six days a week, coming in on his days off, forgoing culinary school for countless questions asked and hours worked. In 2003, he opened the Craigie Street Bistro, which moved to its present location in 2008. In 2011, he won the James Beard Award for Best Chef — Northeast. He’s now married and has a young son, and still cooks most nights at the restaurant. So, all in all, was that psychology degree worth it? “I went to prep school, and I was supposed to go to college, so I did,” Maws said. “And I’m glad I did. I thought Ann Arbor was fantastic, and I’m glad I have the education.” The psychology education specifically, he’s not sure — most of his leadership ability has come from experience, not reading Freud. But just to go to college, to have four years to grow up and learn what he liked and didn’t like ... yeah, that was worth it.
“Fight” is a well-thoughtout meditation on a simple five-chord structure that develops through recapitulations of groove, feel and sonic exaction. Far and away the most incredible aspect of “Fight” is Jaar’s virtuosic synth design. The sounds and textures he crafts throughout the piece are percussively dense, yet symphonically clear. The affected reverb that trails behind is exact enough to prevent a muddled crash while clear enough, to promote harmonic mingling and a wee tingle in me knickers. This track is gorgeous through and through. -DANIEL SAFFRON
RADIUS
The first shot is of an idyllic, modern home secluded in the Austrian countryside, which clearly means someone’s A going to die. I don’t think Goodnight there’s ever Mommy been a film with an idyllic, RADiUS secluded home that made me think, “This looks like a feel good story. No one could possibly die in this.” “Goodnight Mommy” looks terrifying, astonishingly terrifying, the kind of horror film that seeps under the skin and claws its way around so you can feel the hairs standing on your arms, the tight-
ening of your stomach. Though the trailer provides a couple jump scares, the focus looks to be of a psychological terror, one that will stain your mind with grotesque images like a piercing bloodshot eye or the rapid frame movement of a woman writhing, seemingly possessed, in the wilderness. And it keeps its secrets guarded closely to its chest, leaving so many questions: Why did this mother receive facial reconstruction surgery? Is she even these kids’ mother? Are these kids the spawn of Satan? And where did they find so many cockroaches? So many questions, so many thrills, outrageous fun. -JAMIE BIRCOLL
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College players face more pressure than ever to sign in the NHL. Red Berenson has brought five former players back home. The Big Ten is rebuilding after losing nine of its top 12 scorers from 2014. The Daily breaks down Michigan’s roster, position by position.
STAFF PICKS The Daily hockey writers take their best shot to predict what will happen in the world of college hockey during Michigan’s 2015-16 campaign. Big Ten First Place Big Ten Second Place Big Ten Third Place Big Ten Coach of the Year Big Ten Tournament Champion GLI Champion Michgan’s Season Ends Here Michigan MVP Michigan Top Scorer Top Michigan Freshman Frozen Four 1 Frozen Four 2 Frozen Four 3 Frozen Four 4 National Champion
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Michigan Minnesota Penn State Red Berenson Minnesota Michigan State Frozen Four JT Compher Kyle Connor Kyle Connor Michigan North Dakota Boston College Minnesota-Duluth Boston College
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Werenski a bright spot in downward trend I t was 3:00 in the afternoon on March 26. Red Berenson walked into the media room at Yost Ice Arena, took a seat in his usual chair and drank two sips of black coffee before saying a word. Disappointment flowed through his body. His team’s captain, Andrew Copp, had just decided to forgo his senior season, opting to sign with the JASON Winnipeg Jets RUBINSTEIN on a deal that Copp would later say was too good to pass up. But to the Michigan coach, no offer could surpass becoming a two-time captain and playing your senior season at Michigan. “I just wish he would stay and do it right — graduate with your teammates and classmates and take this team to another level,” Berenson said at the time. “I just told Andrew that I hope he makes it and plays in the NHL next year because I will feel sick if he is playing in the minors and giving up his senior year at Michigan to play in the American Hockey League.” Copp has since defied the odds and landed a spot on the Jets’ roster. However, Berenson has seen too many players leave early and not make it to the highest level. Phillip Di Guiseppe hasn’t played an NHL game. Neither has Alex Guptill, or even Chris Brown, a former first-round pick who played just two seasons at Michigan. And that’s just a small sample. Sure, Copp’s decision was his to make, and it already looks like he made the correct choice. However, the odds weren’t initially high. When any 21-year-old is presented with an offer for just under one million dollars — knowing he could also get severely hurt in his senior season — it’s too hard and too much cash to pass up. But who is to say, injury aside, that Copp or Guptill or Brown wouldn’t have received a similar offer the year after? “When the money is there, you have to go,” said St. Louis Blues head coach Ken Hitchcock, who was in Ann Arbor for a team
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Sophomore defender Zach Werenski passed up the NHL to return to Michigan and will have an opportunity to lead as a reward.
practice. “It’s the tough nature of the business. You’d like that to change, though.” That’s a tough pill to swallow for college hockey fans. It’s a shame that the NHL franchises are prying prospects away from college just to ensure control, even if it’s detrimental to their development. And it’s a shame that players buy into these often-false promises and realities. ***
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ophomore defenseman Zach Werenski watched Copp leave. He watched his former roommate Dylan Larkin sign his deal. And he watched Noah Hanifin, the fifth pick of the draft and one of his best friends, turn pro. But Werenski wasn’t so keen on that route. Yet. He understood his time to play in the show would come. “When you take a step back and talk with your family,” Werenski said, “you realize everyone has a different path.” On March 22, when Michigan lost in the Big Ten title game to Minnesota, Werenski wasn’t thinking about his future. He was disappointed he let down his senior class and only thought of avenging the loss, saying the Wolverines had “unfinished business.” But that quickly changed in June when he attended the NHL
combine. “I talked to a lot of teams at the combine,” Werenski said. “There were some teams that said if we draft you and we tell you to leave, you have to leave. But other teams like Columbus said I could do whatever I wanted. “It’s tough when an NHL team comes to you and says you can shine and try and make our team, because that is ultimately your dream, right?” He’s right. It’s the dream of all these players. But the idea that an NHL team would demand a player skip the four best years of his life, sometimes against his will, to bus around the United States, playing in front of smaller crowds than Yost Ice Arena is sickening. Shocking, really. And it only got worse as Werenski clarified the process. “It’s not like they say, ‘If we take you, you’re coming,’ ” he said. “There was one team, I won’t name the team, that told me, ‘If we take you, and say that you can play in the NHL, would you come?’ And you just say yes or no. And obviously it’s a yes because it’s the NHL. “And then they go, ‘If we take you and we say you’re going to the AHL will you go?’ They go based
on your word. So if you tell them yes, then the guy looks at you says, ‘Well you just said yes, so if we take you and you go against your word, then you are dead to us.’ ” Dead to us? Really? How many 18-year olds are the saviors of a franchise, anyway? Sure, there were Sidney Crosby, Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane. Perhaps Connor McDavid, touted as the next Wayne Gretzky before even playing one pro game, will join that list. But those are once-ina-decade players. What about the hundreds of others who end up busing between Milwaukee, Rockford, Albany, Syracuse, Orlando, Fort Wayne and more? You don’t hear about those. And probably never will. The fact that Werenski felt “relieved” when Columbus drafted him because teams drafting around them would force him to bolt the place he loved is a sobering reality. Even worse, he’s not the only player who feels that way.
“When the money is there, you have to go.”
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teve Shields won 111 games as Michigan’s goalie from 1990-94. He led the Wolverines to two Frozen Four appearances and went on to play
12 seasons in the NHL. He understands the process. He knows players who have taken every route to the pros. So it annoys Shields when players leave college with the allure of accomplishing their dream only to be placed in the AHL — or even a lower league — and miss out on their junior and senior seasons. “The experience when you’re here, you can never duplicate,” Shields said of Michigan. “Of all the guys I have ever spoken to, I have never met one guy who left and said he was glad he was playing in the American Hockey League or lower. “If guys are leaving because teams are promising them time in the minors with a chance to come up to the NHL, that’s not the reason I went to school. That’s not why most guys go to school. That’s not why their parents want them to go to school.” Werenski realized this — a rarity today, which is odd considering many players have had NHL success after four years of college. Berenson cites Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Jack Johnson and former Hobey Baker-winner Brendan Morrison as players who benefited from staying all four years. Both went on to have successful NHL careers with little time spent in the AHL. Shields and Berenson do admit, though, that there are times when players are ready. Jacob Trouba, for example, left after his freshman season in 2013 and ended up making an immediate impact in Winnipeg. Larkin and Copp are a couple others. But they are not the majority. “When you are ready or over ready, you get to jump in and make a splash,” Shields said. “But when you’re not ready and you jump in and don’t make a splash, then the team is already looking at the next guy coming up.” So why not wait? Will a team really pass on your potential if you simply want to stay in college an extra year? As Berenson noted, until a player signs his contract, they “are in the driver’s seat.” Werenski figured that out. Now, he’ll have an opportunity to lead Michigan back to the Frozen Four. Rubinstein can be reached at jasonbr@umich.edu and on Twitter @jrubinstein4.
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Back for Berenson All roads lead back to Ann Arbor, Berenson for former players By KEVIN SANTO Daily Sports Writer
It’s early October, but the sound of a hockey player’s symphony still echoes through Yost Ice Arena. Skates scratch over the fresh ice, sticks clack against the puck, hollers of approval ring after finding twine. But on this day, the symphony’s orchestrators aren’t members of the Michigan hockey team. Instead, the melody is produced by members of the coaching staff — an ensemble of former Wolverines who have hung up their skates in exchange for a whistle and clipboard. Even when the team has a day off from skating, the coaching staff relishes the opportunity to play on the ice where they once molded their own careers. “We’re hoping to make it a weekly event,” said undergraduate assistant coach Mike Komisarek. “Get a little competition going
between ourselves, and we all love being out there.” Added associate head coach Billy Powers: “I think Fridays, we’re gonna try to get out and start reliving the old days.” The “old days” for each coach — Powers, Komisarek, assistant coach Brian Wiseman, goaltending coach Steve Shields and undergraduate director of player development L.J. Scarpace — compose the timeline of the program’s evolution during head coach Red Berenson’s tenure. And above all else, the unique coaching staff comprised entirely of former Michigan players symbolizes one thing: No matter the different paths their lives may take, all roads have led back to Berenson, in what could be his final season as Michigan’s head coach. *** Powers was the first coach to take the road back to Ann Arbor, when he remained with the club at the conclusion of his collegiate career in 1988. A member of Berenson’s first recruiting class in 1985, prior to the program’s dominance in the 1990s
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Associate head coach Billy Powers was the first member of Michigan’s staff to return as an assistant after his playing career.
and early 2000s, Powers signed up to represent the Wolverines at a time when “guys had been so used to losing.” Michigan compiled a 41-70-2 record in the three years leading up to his commitment. But the record didn’t matter to him. His coach did. In retrospect, the first thing he recalls about that time was Berenson’s drive
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Undergraduate assistant coach Mike Komisarek returned to Michigan for his degree and then stayed on Red Berenson’s staff.
and determination to establish a standard of excellence. For Berenson’s first five years, Powers witnessed his coach set out on a recruiting mission, traveling to Toronto and getting back at 3 a.m. for a practice the next day. All along, he knew Berenson would get it done. It was that drive that brought Powers back to stay years later. His passion and confidence were infectious, and Powers came down with every symptom. “I was always like, ‘Man, he cares more than half our team does.’ I was so impressed with how he attacked it,” Powers said. “I remember that part, and through the good things and mostly the bad things because we were losing, he never wavered. It wasn’t a big secret. Red was all into it. He was gonna turn this program around. There was no question in his mind.” As both a player and a graduate assistant coach in 1988 and 1989, Powers watched as the influx of freshmen followed Berenson, each year the quality of players improving. Powers’ prophecy that Berenson would change things in Ann Arbor came true, as the Wolverines improved to 116-81-14 in the five years after his freshman season. Though Powers left Michigan
with former Michigan assistant coach Larry Pedrie for a twoyear coaching stint at IllinoisChicago, his positive memories drew him back to Yost for good — an attraction he’s highlighted as one of the main reasons so many former players have returned. “(For) the majority of players that leave, this was the best time,” Powers said. “This was where I learned the most, where I had the most fun. This is where I evolved. You’re kinda drawn back to where things have been really good for you, where you feel you’ve grown the most as a person.” For Powers, the opportunity to come back has been special. Once a piece of Berenson’s earliest recruiting efforts to turn the program around, Powers now plays his own part, pushing the program far past the times of the losing seasons that he remembered. He coached players like Wiseman, Shields and Komisarek, who catapulted the Wolverines to an era of glory featuring 22 straight NCAA tournament appearances. He watched as they all made the pilgrimage back to Yost to invigorate the present-day
After Powers came L.J. Scarpace, the second to return to coach at Michigan. He entered Yost for the first time when it was a mecca for college hockey, an antithesis of the program that existed before Powers’ playing career. Upon Scarpace’s arrival, Berenson had already established his vision for supremecy. The Wolverines were coming off of two national championships in three years, and Berenson no longer needed to foster his players’ desire to win. The Wolverines’ winning pedigree did that itself. “I remember feeling so fortunate to be part of the program, and the feeling of expectation, whether it was the fans’ or whether it was coach and his expectations for you as a student-athlete,” Scarpace said. “We had a feeling those years that I was here that we gotta keep this thing going. These are big expectations, and nobody wanted to let the fans and the program down.” Scarpace was a goaltender on teams that earned CCHA titles and Frozen Four berths in 2000 and 2001, respectively. He spent a year playing professionally in the East Coast Hockey League but, like Powers, answered the call back to Michigan in 2004 to become the team’s video coordinator. Though he knew that Berenson advocated for his former players to find their own paths outside of hockey, he couldn’t shake the recollections of what his coach did for him during his college years. Scarpace never forgot the role Berenson played in developing him, not just on the ice, but as a young adult. This ignited a passion to pass those same lessons on to current players. After being appointed director of player development in 2014, Scarpace now leaves the same lasting impact on players that Berenson left with him. While he does influence the players’ success on the ice, he more directly cherishes the chance to help develop players in
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Goaltending coach Steve Shields (left) has reconnected with fellow coaches, including Wiseman (right), his former teammate with whom he eats dinner almost every night.
the classroom, preparing them for a life after they let go of the game they love. As Scarpace mentors young men, not just hockey players, he never forgets the lessons he learned from his former coach. “Coach used to joke with me when I first started back here, and I was video coordinator for many years. He would tease me and say, ‘Well maybe you should be paying us, you’re getting a master’s degree in coaching,’ ” Scarpace said. “I’d laugh, but that’s how I feel. … It’s helped me now (with) what I’m doing, I know I’m more prepared to do it now than I’ve ever been, because of being around Coach.” *** The legacy Scarpace stepped into during his collegiate career was partly built by Wiseman and Shields. The two lifelong friends were roommates as Wolverines. As members of the program’s golden
age, their times at Michigan were the fruits of Berenson and Powers’ labor. They both made appearances in the 1992 and 1993 Frozen Fours, laying the groundwork before the Wolverines’ national championships in 1996 and 1998 that Scarpace narrowly missed being a part of. Those are the teams that
“I was always like, ‘Man, he cares more than half our team.’ ” Wiseman envisions for this program going forward. Berenson and Powers’ expectations for success and Wiseman’s own collegiate
experience have become like gasoline thrown on the fire, fueling a belief that the program should be nothing short of the greatness that was celebrated in the ’90s. “To look back now, we were part of a pretty good era. … After our class left in 1994, they took another step forward with the two national championships,” Wiseman said. “We’re trying to build and get that back. Tight teams, close teams, worked very hard, respected one another on and off the ice. But pushed one another as well. I think our team has the makings of that type of mindset and team frame.” Wiseman, a Hobey Baker finalist in 1993, led Michigan in scoring with 19 goals and 50 assists, while Shields was the first goalie in NCAA history to reach 100 wins. Both spent time in the National Hockey League, but they had very different paths back to the Wolverines’ coaching staff. Wiseman’s professional career was derailed by concussions, and when that struggle presented itself,
the first person he turned to was Berenson. He returned to Michigan to coach while rehabbing the injury in hopes of being able to play professionally again, but in two years, he was never cleared by doctors. Two years later, with a young daughter and a wife back in Texas, Wiseman gave up coaching to be with his family and entered the oil and gas business back in Houston for roughly eight years. Then came the itch — the same itch that Powers and Scarpace felt after leaving Berenson behind in Ann Arbor. He spent the next year as an assistant coach under Mike Yeo in the NHL minor leagues. Then Berenson answered the call again. Former Michigan associate head coach Mel Pearson had just accepted a head coaching position at Michigan Tech, and, in Berenson’s eyes, Wiseman was the man to fill the open position. His wife and family gave their See HOCKEY, Page 6C
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Assistant coach Brian Wiseman spent eight years in the oil and gas business while living with his family in Houston. Then, he got the itch to coach again, so Red Berenson brought him back to Ann Arbor.
approval, and Wiseman was reunited with his old coach, becoming the third former Wolverine to join the coaching staff. He emphasized the tie he has always felt to this program as the factor that allowed him to come back to Ann Arbor. “I used to call back here all the time. I followed the program and their success that they had when I was away from here and not even involved in hockey,” Wiseman said. “You always have a connection here. We have this alumni event — we had over seven decades of hockey players show up. It’s a unique association that Red’s built here. Once you’re a part of it, you’re always a part of it.” *** The connection that Wiseman felt wasn’t an anomaly. For Shields, he was always certain of one thing: He felt like Ann Arbor was a second home, and he wanted to come back. Though Wiseman and Shields went their separate ways in 1994, they never lost touch, eventually allowing Shields to fulfill his
dream of returning to Yost. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect for Shields. After retiring from a 12-year NHL career, Berenson and Wiseman reached out to him when Josh Blackburn could no longer serve as the goaltender coach. Entering his sixth month as a member of the staff, Shields’ impact has already made a mark. Described as “the biggest kid on the ice” by junior goaltender Zach Nagelvoort, Shields has become a refreshing presence in the Wolverines’ locker room. “(The players feel) way more comfortable,” Powers said. “And these two, like Shields and Komisarek, just the blending in with these guys is unbelievable. They don’t have to be a ‘coach.’ They’re more like a help or guide. So they can really have a pretty unique relationship that we can’t have with the players.” Even now, pretty much every night after work, Shields ends up with Wiseman and his family hanging out. “I’m basically part of Wiseman’s family at this point,” Shields said. “I’m just always around.”
The pair’s relationship is representative of the broader connection that this hockey fraternity provides, the same one that brought these coaches back together. ***
“It’s about getting back to where we were, where we’re supposed to be.”
Komisarek is the final piece of the coaching staff, an 11-year NHL veteran who returned to the program just a year before Shields as an undergraduate assistant coach. Like Shields and Wiseman, Komisarek suited up for the Wolverines during a period of dominance, playing in two of the eight Frozen Fours that Michigan
reached in an 11-year span. And like every other coach that came before him, it was Berenson who supplied the road map for his return. After retiring in 2014, Komisarek met with Berenson, who was adamant about his old blueliner coming back to finish his degree. With the degree also came an opportunity to help with the hockey team. Once that conversation happened, Berenson recruited Komisarek as fervently as he recruited players back in 1985, calling him every couple weeks asking if he had found a house in Ann Arbor yet. Berenson was the reason Komisarek became a Wolverine in 2000 and the reason he returned to complete his education last year. Now, Komisarek is giving back the same passion that his old coach showed for him. “I’m from Long Island, Yankee Stadium, you know, the House That Ruth Built. Everytime I come to this building, I see Yost, I see the exterior,” Komisarek said. “I walk in. I see the stands and the press box, the balcony and
everything that they’ve done in here is because of Red Berenson. I don’t think about when he’s going to leave or when that day (will) come, but making sure that the way he started and the way he built this program is the way he’s going to leave. “It’s about getting back to where we were, where we’re supposed to be.” Berenson, in many ways the program’s patriarch, will begin his 32nd season as Michigan’s coach Friday night. Nobody says much about when that run might come to an end and what will follow it, but as the coaches skated on the Yost ice once more, that scene might have been glimpse. You could see into the past. You could see the foundation Berenson built and the people who forged the Michigan hockey program into what it is today. And the next day, when the Wolverines went back to practice, you could see the present. Now, given the history that lives through these coaches, and the talent these players possess, maybe we know what’s to come in the future.
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Breaking down Big Ten hockey Minnesota remains toughest competition as league rebuilds after down year By MINH DOAN Daily Sports Editor
On Sept. 28, the No. 11 Michigan hockey team was picked to take the Big Ten title in a preseason coaches’ poll. With many pundits having a similar opinion, it seems that the Big Ten crown will be the Wolverines’ to lose. But the real question is whether the Big Ten can make the jump to an elite college hockey conference after losing nine of its top 12 scorers from last season. With the league slate kicking off on Dec. 4, when all six teams begin conference play, the Daily breaks down Michigan’s competition in the Big Ten. 1. Minnesota (No. 9) A first-round exit in the 2015 NCAA Tournament to in-state foe Minnesota-Duluth started a tough offseason for Don Lucia’s squad. Gone from the team are its top three point-scorers from a year ago in Mike Reilly, Kyle Rau and Travis Boyd, who have all moved on to the National Hockey League. In their absence, two Big Ten Preseason Players to Watch, forwards Justin Kloos and Hudson Fasching, will need to ramp up their production. But perhaps the most important offseason loss was goaltender Adam Wilcox, a Mike Richter Award nominee last season. Wilcox also bolted for the NHL a year early and leaves behind a huge hole between the pipes. The Golden Gophers will look to freshman netminder Eric Schierhorn, the reigning USHL and USA Hockey Goaltender of the Year, to fill the void. After a season-opening loss to Vermont — Minnesota’s first season-opening loss in six seasons — things will not get easier, as the Golden Gophers will face a tough nonconference slate that includes No. 7 Minnesota-Duluth, No. 12 St. Cloud State and No. 14 Minnesota State before the Big Ten opener against Ohio State.
2. Michigan State With goaltender Jake Hildebrand in net for his senior season, the Spartans will be competitive in just about every single game. The reigning Big Ten Player and Goaltender of the Year will look to continue from an impressive 2014-2015 campaign that saw him post six shutouts, good for second in the NCAA. But the big question for the Spartans will center on the players in front of Hildebrand. After losing its top scorer, Matt Berry, to graduation, Michigan State will rely on forward Mackenzie MacEachern to improve on his career-high 26 points from a season ago. On the other side of the ice, defenseman Travis Lynch will lead a defense that will try to improve on an impressive season in which the unit gave up just 80 goals. After opening their season with a draw against Maine and a 4-1 victory over Lake Superior State, the Spartans will have three tough games on the road — two at No. 5 Denver and another
at No. 4 Boston College. They will also open their Big Ten slate on the road at Penn State. 3. Penn State In just its third season as a Division I team, Guy Gadowsky’s squad is on the rise and gunning for a top-three finish in the Big Ten. That jump in prestige, though, is going to have to come without forwards Casey Bailey and Taylor Holmstrom — the Nittany Lions’ top two scorers in their short history — as well as defenseman and former captain Patrick Koudys. But there is not a lack of talent in the offense, and it starts with David Goodwin and Eric Schneid. The duo combined for 63 points last season and will need to pick up the pace if Penn State is to make any noise this season. Between the pipes, Matt Skoff and Eamon McAdam will likely continue to split time as the Nittany Lions search for consistency. Freshman Chris Funkey, who led the United States Premier Hockey League in goals-
against average for two straight years, may push for playing time, but it looks like the duo of Skoff and McAdam will have to carry Penn State. 4. Ohio State Of all the teams in the Big Ten, the Buckeyes probably lost the least amount of talent this offseason. But after a fifth-place finish in the Big Ten last season, Ohio State will still need to improve is to climb further up the conference standings. Most of the offense will run through forwards Anthony Greco and Nick Schilkey, while forward Matthew Weis will look to improve upon a strong second half of the season that saw him score 14 of his 22 points. In goal, the Buckeyes will stick with the tandem of Christian Frey and Matt Tomkins while Craig Dalrymple, the only senior on the blue line, will be relied upon to lead the young defensive unit that has just three upperclassmen. 5. Wisconsin
After finishing the 201415 campaign with just four wins, Wisconsin coach Mike Eaves cleaned house, firing two assistant coaches and bringing in two new ones, as he looks to lift his team out of the Big Ten cellar. But that won’t be easy, as the Badgers lost goaltender Joel Rumpel, who ranked third in career save percentage in program history. Senior goaltender Adam Miller will be trusted to fill the huge gap between the pipes. And to add to Wisconsin’s misery, four seniors who all played significant minutes are gone, as well as the third-leading scorer from last season, Morgan Zulinick, and defenseman Jack Dougherty, who left for the NHL. On the bright side, Grant Besse, the Badgers’ leading scorer from last season, will return. But he will need help, and a lot of it. The Badgers’ schedule doesn’t do them any favors either, as they will have matchups against No. 1 North Dakota, No. 4 Boston College, No. 5 Denver and No. 6 Boston University before opening up a grueling Big Ten schedule at Yost Ice Arena against Michigan.
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Minnesota won the Big Ten Hockey Tournament last year and will be Michigan’s toughest competition in the conference again this season.
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‘D’ improved, forwards replacing stars By JUSTIN MEYER Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan hockey team is sick and tired of hearing the prevailing storyline. On the back of shaky defense and inconsistent goaltending, the Wolverines have missed the NCAA tournament for three consecutive years after previously appearing in 22 straight postseasons. The 201516 season kicks off with a strong core of returning players, a few new and improved pieces and lingering unknowns. Even after major departures like Dylan Larkin, who is now racking up points for the Red Wings, it is apparent that Michigan has shored up significant deficiencies. The Daily breaks down the Wolverines’ 2015-2016 roster: GOALIES A question mark that remains more or less unchanged from last season is the situation in net. Senior Steve Racine and junior Zach Nagelvoort split time last season, each experiencing major slumps. The Wolverines chose to address that concern over the offseason with conditioning conducted by a new goalie coach, former Michigan goaltender and NHL journeyman Steve Shields. Nagelvoort has looked like the strongest candidate early in the preseason, but Berenson made it clear that no goalie has won the starting job yet. With decent size and good quickness, Nagelvoort has been a consistent performer throughout his career. The Michigan native posted a .920 save percentage through his first two seasons and was drafted by Edmonton in 2014. Nagelvoort outshines his peers on Michigan’s roster when he plays at the top of the crease and challenges shots. Though a bit slower than Racine, his steady performances may win him the permanent starting job this season. Racine, though slimmer than Nagelvoort, has great size and speed. 6-foot-3 and surprisingly quick jumping out of his butterfly, Racine is more likely to deliver dazzling saves, but at the cost of consistency. Racine mishandles the puck and kicks out long rebounds more frequently than
Nagelvoort does. Hailing from New York, Racine has produced three solid years at Michigan. In 58 games, he has a .905 save percentage and a 2.81 goals-against average. Freshman Chad Catt is the new addition to the netminders this season, but he doesn’t look likely to see action any time soon. At 5-foot-10, Catt is quite a bit undersized, especially compared to the two goalies ahead of him. More importantly, he hasn’t quite settled into the speed of the college game, fumbling pucks that he should direct with much more ease. Catt will improve as the season continues, but for now he remains solidly in third on the depth chart. FORWARDS Some of the most exciting additions have come at forward, where a trio of freshmen looks ready to step into large roles alongside elite returners. The Wolverines were saddled with the task of replacing Larkin this offseason — the Big Ten Freshman of the Year netted 15 goals and 32 assists in 2014 — but countered with another top talent in freshman Kyle Connor. A veteran top two lines should also help Michigan establish a strong tone early in games. The top line is built to do one thing this season: score, score, score. Justin Selman and Boo Nieves are both seniors playing alongside Kyle Connor, and the puck movement couldn’t be prettier. These three find each other along the sideboards, behind the net, or at the top of the circles with ease. Nieves called it a possession line, and it will be surprising whenever the top line turns the puck over this season. Connor does have work to do, though. The 19-year-old freshman can look lost on the penalty kill and is a bit light. He’s listed, generously, at 175 pounds. Still, his handle on the puck is unbelievable, and he has a special ability to create space, even in tight situations. Connor could be a leading scorer on this team if everything clicks seamlessly, but it is more realistic to expect some jitters as he adjusts to the physicality of Division I hockey. Selman had 11 goals last
season, while Nieves notched 21 assists. Both will look to improve on those numbers on this highoctane line. Nieves will also have to carry the physicality. Tall with a good build, he should be up to the task, but he won’t get too much help from either wing. The second line features Alex Kile, JT Compher and Tyler Motte. This is the crew that no opponent wants to line up against early in the first period. Brash, physical playing styles contrast this line with the one centered by Nieves, though they still should score at a good clip. Each of the three juniors has tallied over 15 goals at Michigan, and captain JT Compher has 55 career points. Berenson commented that this line needs to play “the right way” — that is, mistake-free and charging hard into the corners. The Wolverines’ tone and pace of play will come from this line and from the captain. There is a lot of youth on the third line of Brendan Warren, Cooper Marody and Tony Calderone — the oldest players are sophomores — but also the most upside. Berenson commented that this line could be better than a third line as the season goes on. That potential has a lot to do with the production that Brendan Warren has been able to generate early this season. The 18-yearold played for the U.S. National Talent Development Team in Ann Arbor and was drafted in the third round by the Phoenix Coyotes. Where he stands out from his linemates, and potentially even Connor, is in his ability to sniff out pucks around the net. Warren charges hard after rebounds, displaying great vision and strength on the puck uncommon for a freshman. Cooper Marody, a freshman, is also an NHL draft pick, selected in the sixth round by Philadelphia. Marody is smaller than Warren, but it doesn’t appear to hamper his playing style. The Michigan native played in the USHL last year. Sophomore Tony Calderone is also a Michigan-born talent. In 28 games last season, Calderone didn’t contribute too much, recording three goals and nine assists. Those totals should jump up this year, playing alongside Marody and Warren.
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Michigan is looking to replace Andrew Copp and Dylan Larkin at the forward spot.
DEFENSE The improvements to Michigan’s roster start on defense, where perhaps the most notable offseason victory is the return of sophomore Zach Werenski. It was thought to be a forgone conclusion that Werenski would jump to the NHL after being drafted eighth overall by Columbus. The defensive unit as a whole is starting to gel early in the season. Quick to the puck and with more than a few players who like to throw the body around, this is certainly the biggest step Michigan has taken since the 2014-15 campaign. Werenski is far and away the most talented player on Michigan’s defensive unit, and the likely pairing with junior Michael Downing will be a rocksolid unit. Werenski and Downing should clear the puck fast, finding fellow Wolverines down ice and facilitating offense. The most complete unit by some distance, this pairing makes it easy for Werenski to move fluidly in the offensive zone as well. The smooth-skating 18-year-old
has a slick shot and awareness with the puck. Getting him to contribute on offense as well as defense will be a key to the Wolverines’ success this season, and it’s working so far. In the exhibition opener, Werenski had two goals. Freshman Nicholas Boka played for the NTDP team last year with Warren and came to Michigan in Division-I shape. The Michigan native is a burly 6-foot-1, 200 pounds and a much-needed addition to a defensive unit that struggled with fundamentals last season. Boka has also showed a penchant for offensive contribution, flying by defenders when he gets a full head of steam. The pairing with sophomore Cutler Martin for the exhibition opener worked fairly well. Martin, who tallied 15 points on defense last year, looked comfortable playing alongside the very physical Boka. There were some miscues throughout the exhibition game and practice, but both these players are consistently good at clearing the zone and making appropriate decisions.