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‘U’ deems plan to curb enrollment successful Students and community members gather for a candlelight vigil on the Diag on Saturday for those affected by the recent attacks in Paris.
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After attacks, Diag vigil honors lives lost in Paris ‘U’ confirms safety of 14 students, faculty and staff in France By LARA MOEHLMAN Daily Staff Reporter
With Paris still reeling after a series of terrorist attacks hit the city Friday night, about 80
students gathered on the Diag Saturday evening to light candles in a show of solidarity with the people of France. According to French authorities, at least 129 people were killed in shootings at a Paris concert hall and on city streets, as well as explosions near the entryways of the Stade de France soccer stadium. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria,
better known as ISIS, claimed responsibility for the attacks. Saturday’s vigil was organized by several students from France currently studying abroad at the University. They reached out to community members through social media to support those grieving civilian lives lost in their country. Students lit memorial candles and stood for a moment of silence before singing
2015 freshman class reflects efforts to defer, waitlist more applicants By GENEVIEVE HUMMER Daily Staff Reporter
the French national anthem. In a speech to attendees, LSA senior Bertrand de La Ronciere, a French international exchange student, highlighted his fear that the recent attacks would exacerbate racist and Islamophobic tensions he said are already present in Europe. Shortly after the attacks, French President Francois Hollande See PARIS, Page 3A
At a Board of Regents meeting last fall, University Provost Martha Pollack expressed frustration with the University’s trend of enrolling too many students. “We have been over-enrolling every year for the past five years and we have to stop this,” Pollack said at the time. “I’m not happy about it.” Pollack called for a plan to curb over-enrollment, and according to enrollment figures released last month for the 2015 freshman class, those plans worked. The report revealed the University enrolled 6,071 students in this year’s freshman
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Rudock throws six touchdowns in win at Indiana Wolverines survive doubleovertime scare in Bloomington By MAX COHEN Managing Sports Editor
BLOOMINGTON — When the last of the 80 passes attempted in the Michigan football team’s game at Indiana hit the ground, the entire travel roster sprinted into the end zone where Delano Hill made the game-clinching play. Jim Harbaugh pumped his fists and ran to greet Indiana coach Kevin Wilson, and the rest of the Wolverines jumped on top of one another, whooping and hollering. Three of Michigan’s last four games have ended in similar fashion. First there was the heartbreak of Oct. 17 in Michigan Stadium, when Jalen Watts-Jackson returned Blake O’Neill’s fumble into the end zone and the rest of his Michigan State teammates
piled on top of him. Then, two weeks later, there was the goalline stand at Minnesota, when the Wolverines throttled the Golden Gophers in the game’s final second. Then, it was their turn to sprint onto the field and celebrate. They claimed the Little Brown Jug trophy as their own. Saturday night’s game was another exercise in dramatic finishes. Michigan’s 48-41 double-overtime conquest was the result of timely plays and a whole lot of spunk from fifth-year senior quarterback Jake Rudock. Rudock, often maligned at the beginning of the season for turnovers, threw for six touchdowns and 440 yards. He scampered for 64 yards, too, and took hard hit after hard hit. He even threw an interception in the third quarter. It seemed costly at the time, when the Wolverines trailed by two. By the end of the game, it was irrelevant. No other quarterback in program history has thrown six touchdowns in a single game. “He is unflappable,” Harbaugh said. “He just does not flinch.” See RUDOCK, Page 4B
class, down considerably from the 6,505 freshmen enrolled in fall 2014. Here’s how the University did it. A growing problem Last year the University enrolled 6,532 freshman, an increase of 307 students from the previous year, and more than 500 students more than the institution was planning to enroll. To accommodate the larger class size, LSA added 41 new class sections for the fall semester and 45 additional class sections for the winter semester, and the College of Engineering hired new instructors to teach additional discussion sections for first-year courses. Administrators also had to manage a housing shortage, which was a result of both overenrollment and the closure of West Quadrangle for renovation. To ensure incoming freshman could live in on-campus residence halls, the University provided See ENROLLMENT, Page 3A
5K draws attention to dangers of co-ingestion 300 run to honor alum, support Josh E. Levine Foundation By MEGAN DOYLE
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Flowdom, a student dance organization, performs at Celebrasia in the East Hall Math Atrium on Saturday. Celebrasia was hosted by the Chinese Students Association to celebrate the diversity of Asian culture on campus.
Student groups ‘Celebrasia’ with food, performances Annual festival celebrates broad array of Asian cultures By RACHEL COHEN For the Daily
As the name suggests, the Chinese Students Association’s Celebrasia event is designed to celebrate Asian culture, particularly through traditional
food and performance art. However, Celebrasia is no melting pot. Saturday’s event aimed to honor the unique attributes of individual cultures, as well as recognize the connections between them. “Celebrasia is the coming together of many different organizations to celebrate their different cultures and show that we’re not just a mass of Asians,” said Business senior Drew Siew, the CSA president. “There’s intricacies and differences between each Asian Culture.”
Held in East Hall’s Math Atrium, this year’s Celebrasia showcased 10 performances and featured 18 tables from various student organizations. The event’s theme, “The Four Nations Festival,” played on the four elemental nations represented in “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” a cartoon that drew much of its inspiration from Asian culture. The Math Atrium was decorated with symbols of the four nations — which are earth, water, fire See CELEBRASIA, Page 3A
On Sunday, 300 people gathered in the Nichols Arboretum for a 5K in support of the Josh E. Levine Foundation, an organization now working to raise awareness about the dangers of co-ingestion and alter the drinking culture among college and high school students. Josh Levine, who graduated from the University in 2014, passed away the summer after his graduation after he co-ingested alcohol and Adderall. Organized and sponsored by the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, the Delta Gamma sorority and the Theta Chi fraternity, the event raised more than $1,800 for the See 5K, Page 3A
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MONDAY: This Week in History
TUESDAY: Campus Voices
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Affirmative action suits filed In 1997, two students filed a lawsuit against the University challenging the use of race as a factor in admissions decisions. The case, brought forward by the Center for Individual Rights on the behalf of Patrick Hamacher and Jennifer Gratz, was heard 15 years ago this week by Judge Patrick Duggan. Hamacher and Gratz were two white applicants to LSA who argued the use of race as a factor in University admissions resulted in their rejections. Both the University and the Center of Individual Rights hoped Judge Dug-
gan submitted motions for a summary judgment, meaning the case would not go to trial. A summary judgment would have ended the case at the district level. The Center for Individual Rights argued that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which calls for equal protection under the law, prohibits race from being a factor in admission policies. The University, on the other hand, employed the 1978 Supreme Court case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke to justify the use of race in applications as long as the policies did not employ quotas.
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Sustainable celebration
Positive links speaker
Lecture series, CSAS
North Korean film screening
WHAT: Celebrate the birthday of the University’s mascot of sustainability with food, a photo booth and information sessions. WHO: Planet Blue WHEN: Today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery
WHAT: Jody Hoffer Gittell will talk about the power of relational coordination to create high performance. WHO: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations WHEN: Today from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Ross School of Business, Colloquium
WHAT: Dilip Menon, director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa will speak. WHO: African Studies Center WHEN: Today from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: School of Social Work, Room 1636
WHAT: The first North Korean film made purely for entertainment will be screened with a Q&A from the director. WHO: Nam Center for Korean Studies WHEN: Today from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Palmer Commons, Forum Hall
Botanical book talk
Composer concert
WHAT: A presentation from author Josh Cohen and native plants specialist Mike Kost about plant communities of Michigan. WHO: Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum WHEN: Today from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
WHAT: A concert by student composers. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Today at 8 p.m. WHERE: Earl V. Moore Building, Britton Recital Hall Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com.
Social change workshop WHAT: Learn about structures of oppression and how to challenge inequality and injustice through activities and discussions. Professionals from the community will speak. WHO: Ginsberg Center WHEN: Today from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Ginsberg Center
Grilled cheese fundraiser WHAT: A grilled cheese and tomato soup fundraiser lunch for Relay for Life. WHO: Relay for Life at the College of Pharmacy WHEN: Today from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: CC Little
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LSA junior JC Silverman dances at Celebrasia on Saturday. The event was hosted by the Chinese Students Association to celebrate the diversity of Asian culture on campus.
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The case eventually made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, along with another case challenging the University Law School’s use of affirmative action. The court ruled LSA’s policy that employed a point-based system unconstitutional, but upheld the law school’s consideration of race as one of many factors while using a holistic approach to evaluate candidates. In 2006, Michigan voters enacted a ban on the use of affirmative action in admissions. — ISABELLA AGRUSA
THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY
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French police have identified a suspect associated with Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, ABC News reported. Adbeslam Salah, a 26-yearold born in Brussels, Belgium, is believed to have been involved in the attacks.
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Michigan quarterback Jake Rudock set a school record with six passing touchdowns on Saturday in the Wolverines’ 48-41 win at Indiana. With the win, Michigan improved to 8-2. >>SEE SPORTS, PAGE 1B
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Congressional negotiators have made a tentative deal to replace No Child Left Behind, the K-12 education law, The Washington Post reported. The new deal would shift more authority regarding schools to the states.
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Cortisol overproduction linked to youth anxiety University research shows adolescent stress carries into young adulthood By IRENE PARK Daily Staff Reporter
The harmful effects of anxiety experienced during adolescence may carry into young adulthood. That’s according to a recent study from University researchers that followed 176 Black youth from Flint, Mich. over seven years — from 1994 to 2001 — and showed anxiety from the their adolescent years affected their stress hormone levels in young adulthood. Previous studies have shown similar trends, but not specifically in Black populations. The researchers looked at levels of cortisol, a hormone produced by the body during times of stress,
that raises the level of sugar in the bloodstream. The brain can then use the extra sugar as energy for helping think through the stressful situation. Cortisol helps in dealing with acute, short-term stress. However, anxiety causes prolonged production of cortisol, which is detrimental for the body. Chronic cortisol production is associated with numerous diseases and conditions, including cardiovascular diseases, obesity, diabetes, anxiety, depression and sleep disorders. The study, published earlier this month in International Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, is not the first to look at how anxiety in adolescence affects cortisol levels in adulthood, but it is the first to do so in Black youths. Most previous studies looked at middle-class white populations. Shervin Assari, a Psychiatry research faculty member and head of the research team, said he
looked specifically at young Black individuals from Flint because of the problems many face due to low-income backgrounds and racism. “For Black youths, some life challenges include living in an unsafe environment, discrimination at interpersonal level and racism in a structural level,” Assari wrote in an e-mail to The Michigan Daily. Assari defined “structural racism” as societal barriers for a population’s access to resources, such as education and employment opportunities. The study analyzed male and female participants separately, as gender is known to shape what kind of stress people experience. “Men and women have very different life experiences and exposures that make them differently vulnerable or resilient to the effect of risk and protective factors,” Assari wrote. The team saw an overproduction of cortisol in females if they had anxiety symptoms in their adolescent years, but not necessarily in males. In males, the overproduction was instead associated with alcohol use in adolescent years. Psychology Prof. Marc Zimmerman said one of the caveats for this study was that the team looked at young adulthood — or early 20s — which may not be able to be considered complete adulthood because the brain is still developing. “It can be argued that is not yet complete adulthood,” he said. “Some researchers suggest that the brain doesn’t fully develop until the age of 25.” Still, Zimmerman said the study still has important implications. “(The stresses) create problems in terms of our physical and mental health,” he said. “They are persistent. They are not just ephemeral. Our job as adults is to create safe and healthy environments as much as we can … to help our society as a whole.”
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Christine Asidao, associate director of community engagement for Counseling and Psychological Services, discusses with students how to coordinate student groups focused on mental health at the first Mental Health Summit, sponsored by CSG and CAPS at the Michigan Union on Saturday.
CSG and CAPS partner to host mental health summit Event aims to foster collaboration among student orgs focused on mental health By CAITLIN REEDY Daily Staff Reporter
On Saturday, student organizations dedicated to mental health came together to create a uniform approach to addressing these issues at the University. Central Student Government paired with Counseling and Psychological Services to host the University’s first mental health summit. The outlined goal for the summit was to inspire cooperation between the leaders of different student organizations focusing on mental health across campus. About 10 of these organizations were represented at the meeting. CAPS director Todd Sevig said important progress has been made toward improving the mental health climate on campus in the last couple of years, and this change has been, in part, spearheaded by student organizations pushing for the expansion of Uni-
versity resources for wellness. CSG President Cooper Charlton, an LSA senior, said these efforts could benefit from being more collaborative. “I think we all are doing a lot of phenomenal things on campus, but often times we’re very busy and aren’t on the same page,” Charlton said. “This is kind of a flag in the ground to bring a lot of strong leaders together around mental health and understand what everyone else’s vision and goals are, and find ways that we can empower each other.” Participants sat at round tables with a CSG and CAPS member present to interact with students and faculty members at each of the roughly 10 tables. The CSG member facilitated the talks, during which student organization representatives shared the vision and goals of their respective clubs. LSA freshman Shelby Steverson, a member of CAPS in Action, a new club created to promote CAPS over social media, said she enjoyed the discussions she had at the event. “I really love hearing everyone else’s ideas for how we can improve mental health on campus and how we can reduce that stigma and show people that you can get
help no matter what is going on,” Steverson said. The CSG facilitator posed questions on topics such as funding needs, their organization’s current initiatives the organizations and each participant’s individual goals for the summit. Information senior Sonia Doshi, president of the Healthy Minds Coalition, said she feels the increasing number of mental health organizations on campus has caused a “diffusion of advocacy” among groups. “I’m interested in figuring out ways that we can share ideas and get together more often so that we know what’s going on on campus and then create a bigger impact,” Doshi said. After sharing the various goals and plans of the organizations present, each table brainstormed ways their clubs could work together to make a tangible impact. Sevig said he came up with the idea to host the summit two years ago after various groups organizing around mental health expressed interest in creating a collaborative effort to change the stigma surrounding mental health on campus. Read more at michigandaily.com
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ENROLLMENT From Page 1A returning students incentives to live off campus. From 2009 to 2014, the University’s freshman enrollment remained well over 6,000 students. Part of the initial uptick in applications was attributed to the University’s 2010 decision to join the Common App, an online undergraduate college application which allows students to apply to any of the 622 member schools. Within the University’s first year as a Common App member, undergraduate applications to the institution rose by 25 percent. Ted Spencer, associate vice provost and executive director of undergraduate admissions at the time, said though the University received more applications than ever during that first year, its yield was the lowest since 2006. Yield refers to the number of admitted students who actually end up enrolling at the University. Spencer said because students submitting the Common App can apply to an increased number of schools with greater ease, it can be difficult to calculate yield. “We admitted a slightly larger class this year … because we weren’t certain whether a lot of the students who did apply and had a strong resume would yield at the same rate,” he said. National trends The University’s recent issues with over-enrollment, however, defied national trends. According to the United States Census Bureau, from 2011 to 2013, undergraduate college enrollment decreased by 930,000 students, the largest drop since the bureau began collecting college enrollment data in 1966. Michigan State University, which aims to enroll a total of 50,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students, has not struggled in recent years to enroll a target class size. Since peaking at 10,132 undergraduates in 2012, the university’s freshman class has fluctuated close to 9,500 students over the past few years.
CELEBRASIA From Page 1A and air — including colored streamers and lights. The theme played a large role in displaying the intricacies of Asian culture. In the past, Celebrasia themes have received criticism for not relating to Asian culture, so this year, Engineering sophomore Eric Chan, a CSA representative, says the group aimed to change that. “This is a pretty bold event,” he said. “Last year I know we did Harry Potter, and the year before we did something with pirates, but this year no one really expected ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender.’ ” All 18 participating organizations had their own tables, which were decorated to feature the Avatar theme as well as the culture represented by the
PARIS From Page 1A ordered the country’s borders closed. During the vigil, de La Ronciere challenged those gathered on the Diag to promote the acceptance and integration of immigrant communities, particularly the thousands of refugees who have been fleeing Syria in recent months for safety in Europe and elsewhere. “This that happened yesterday, they didn’t bring it,” he said. “They did not want it. They did not approve it. On the contrary, this that happened yesterday is what they were fleeing from.” Even so, de La Ronciere said Saturday’s Diag gathering made him optimistic. “It’s a big message of hope to see that so many people are so full of solidarity,” he said. Engineering junior Julia Habif, who has many relatives in France, said she felt comforted by the demonstration of support from students who may not be as closely connected
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There are notable differences between the way the two schools approach admissions. For one, Michigan State is not a member of the Common App. John Gaboury, Michigan State’s associate provost for academic services and enrollment management, said not accepting the Common App makes it easier to estimate yield rates. “We’re not on the Common App, and last year we had over 35,000 applications,” Gaboury said. “In our calculations, people are specifically selecting Michigan State. So we know in our probabilities it isn’t just ‘Oh I could send this out to 20 schools and see what happens,’ so it makes a difference when you’re running your probability models and affects your yield rate.” In addition, Michigan State enrolls far more in-state students. Gaboury said the school aims for in-state students to make up 70 percent of its total enrolled class, while Fall 2015 enrollment reports show that approximately 57 percent of the University’s student body is comprised of in-state students. Gaboury anticipates Michigan State will uphold current enrollment practices in the years to come. “We’re going to stick with a similar strategy,” he said, noting the school’s success in enrolling a diverse student body. “We have the largest number of African-American students in our freshman class of any of the Big Ten institutions. We’re about 653 for this year.” Enrollment management To combat over-enrollment at the University, the regents appointed Kedra Ishop, a longtime admissions official at the University of Texas at Austin, as the University’s first associate vice president for enrollment management. Ishop assumed the position at the beginning of the 2014-2015 academic year. Ishop said her first task was to determine a target number for the fall 2015 freshman class. “It wasn’t necessarily a question of going up or down, it was let’s establish a target as
a ceiling, as opposed to a floor,” Ishop said. “And there’s different approaches when your target is a ceiling and you don’t go over it, and your target is a floor and you don’t go under it. The floor generally has more to do with budget, since your institution is funded on your number of students. So being tasked to bring the class in on target and determining what that target was, and at the time it was just under 6,000.” After establishing a target, Ishop said she began to evaluate how the University was releasing its decisions. Those applying for undergraduate admission to the University can apply either early action or regular decision. Early action applications are due Nov. 1 and decisions are released at some point before Dec. 24, while regular decision applications are due Feb. 1 and decisions are released in early April. Ishop said students who are admitted from the early action pool tend to enroll at the University. Therefore, to manage enrollment more effectively, the admissions office deferred more students from early action to regular decision than in years past. “Early action here typically results in an enrollment, so we knew that if we released more then we’d have more enrollments, which means we’d have fewer spaces to offer during the regular term,” she said. “That was a mechanism to control the size of the class, essentially not to over-promise on the front end.” Another mechanism the University used to control the enrollment was to put more students on the waitlist. In recent years, due to overenrollment, students on the waitlist have not been offered
admission to the University. Despite offering admission to 2,000 fewer students in 2015 than the previous year, a 2-percent increase in yield meant the University once again did not pull students from the waitlist. From 2014 to 2015, the University’s admittance rate dropped from 32.2 percent to 26.2 percent, a trend Ishop expects to continue. “As the application numbers continue to grow, regardless what we do with class size, we’re not going to keep up class size with the pace of growth in the applicant pool,” she said. “It’s also important to note that class size is a yearly determination, so making the decision for the class that it was last year was contingent upon what we had seen in the year past and how we wanted to stage ourselves for thinking about admissions and our targets, not on an annual basis but collectively where are we as an institution in terms of capacity and what does that need to look like in terms of our capacity.” Ishop also said it is unlikely that the number of applications the University receives will decline any time soon. She said this trend is not tied to the Common App, and instead pointed to decreasing admit rates across the country. “I won’t attribute it necessarily to Common App,” she said. “I will attribute it to, because admit rates are going down, students are hedging their bets. It’s our responsibility, when we’re recruiting, we try to be very transparent about that process and about that likelihood. We also have additional aspects of our application, so the student has to go a few extra steps to apply here. And what they talk about in their essays matters.”
organization. Groups present included the Filipino American Student Association, the Taiwanese American Student Association, the Vietnamese Student Association and the Japanese Student Association. At the tables, event attendees could sample food from the organizations’ cultures. Engineering sophomore Vishal Subrahmanyam said he came in part to see performances from his friends. “I thought it would be a really enriching experience to come out here and taste the food and see what all of these organizations are about,” Subrahmanyam said. The song and dance performances included traditional and modern arrangements, and some that mixed elements of both. Some groups focused on entertainment while others
had educational aspects in their performances. The Filipino American Student Association performed a tribal dance from the T’boli Tribe that traditionally celebrates a good harvest. The performance strayed from the stereotypical Filipino dance. LSA junior Tiffany Lao, performance chair for FASA, said people often think Filipino dances are always light and happy, but that is not necessarily true. “Usually there’s a lot of cutesy really smiley happy dances but there’s also more serious dances,” Lao said. “It’s a really multifaceted culture and we try to embrace all of it.” In conjunction with the new emphasis on a more culturally relevant theme, the CSA organizers wanted to stress the full richness of Asian culture. In past years, Celebrasia has only
hosted East Asian countries. LSA sophomore Christy Leung, the event’s co-chair, said they tried to invite groups representing more diverse countries this year. “We invited SAAN — South Asian Awareness Network — and the Pakistani Student Association,” Leung said. “We really tried to branch out and add more diversity to our lineup this year.” LSA junior Pareesa Memon, president of the Pakistani Student Association, was surprised by the invitation to participate in the event because the Asian community and South Asian community are usually separated. “We just want to show that Pakistan is part of Asia and give it more of a presence in that realm because it usually isn’t recognized as such,” Memon said.
to the country. Habif’s family is Muslim, and she echoed de La Ronciere’s belief that she hopes Friday’s attacks do not increase racism toward Muslims. “I see the racism,” she said. “I see the split. I think that the more hatred there is, the more division and the more people feel isolated.” LSA senior Roxane Chambaug, an exchange student from southern France, said the event provided her with a sense of unity at a time when she felt very distant from her home. “To me it’s about France, but not only about France,” she said. “It’s about all the lives that are being killed without any purpose. Of course I’m very moved … it happened in my country and it could have happened in my city.” Nursing junior Matt White joined in mourning the victims of the Paris attacks, though he has no direct connections to France. “I felt like I had to come to show my respects and show that I care,” he said. White said the University community’s demonstration of solidarity was important not only in showing support
for those affected, but also in helping University students reflect on the tragic events. “It shows that we care and that even though this happened halfway across the world, we stand with them,” he said. “And it also helps us process what happened.” On Saturday morning, the University confirmed that all 14 University-affiliated students, faculty and staff registered as having traveled to France are accounted for. LSA freshman Maya Bishop said she also saw the vigil as a protest against the divides acts of terrorism attempt to create. “What happened was an affront not just to France, but to all civilized and modern countries that have these values,” Bishop said. “(Terrorism) is trying to break people apart and make them scared, and this is the only way to combat that.” LSA junior Theresa Witt, a foreign exchange student from Germany, said the attacks in Paris hit close to home for her because of the the city’s close proximity to her hometown. However, she said, the attacks also remind her of other
global tragedies that do not seem to receive as much media attention. She referenced the bombings in Beirut two days ago and the continuing violence in Syria, which she said the media has largely ignored compared to its coverage of the Paris attacks. “I very strongly think about all the people in Beirut today, about Syria, where it happens daily,” she said. “I feel with all the people there.”
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Theta Chi, Delta Gamma and Alpha Gamma Delta hosted a 5K run in the Arb to raise money for the Josh E. Levine Foundation on Sunday.
5K From Page 1A foundation. Levine’s mother, Julie Buckner, the president and founder of the Josh E. Levine Foundation and a University alum, began the 5K with an emotional speech about her son, noting that the day marked exactly 69 weeks since his passing. “We’re all here today because we want to prevent more tragedies,” Buckner said. “We all know, here on a college campus, that there are so many episodes every single night, and particularly on weekends, that are so preventable, and that’s what we’re here to do.” Ultimately, she said, she’d like to see the binge-drinking culture shift on college campuses. “I just want us to look out for each other more, to be more educated, to be more knowledgeable, to be more of a united community in preventing tragedies, and this is what we’re going for,” she said. Sunday’s event was a culmination of the joint effort of LSA junior Hailey Olds, vice president of campus relations for AGD, and LSA junior Caroline Alford, vice president of the Panhellenic Association for DG. The two Greek organizations partnered this semester as part of the Panhellenic Association’s new “sister sorority” initiative, which pairs two sororities on campus in an effort to get to know each other better. “We picked a theme of alcohol and drug awareness,” Alford said. “Obviously, the Josh E.
Levine Foundation has quite a presence on campus, so we thought it would be meaningful.” The two contacted Levine’s fraternity, Theta Chi, and member Brett Karpinos, an Engineering junior, stepped up to help them plan it. “My older brother was one of Josh’s good friends, so I was like all right, I’ll do it,” Karpinos said. “Josh was a senior when I was a freshman, so I got to know him pretty well.” This year, University officials have rolled out several new initiatives to curb dangerous alcohol consumption on campus, including an policy to notify the parents of first-year students who rack up multiple alcohol or drug violations, and a push for increased Division of Public Safety and Security engagement off campus. Kinesiology junior Kenneth Taras, former president of Theta Chi, ran to support Buckner in her efforts. “A lot of us in Theta Chi, all of us are really passionate about this,” Taras said. Buckner expressed said she was humbled by the outpouring of support at the event. “I think it’s great that Greek organizations are leading this today, and I hope that there will be more events on this issue that are led by Greek life in the future,” Buckner said. Alford said the sororities hope to host the 5K again next year. “There’s hope to make this sort of a sustainable thing in the future going forward, sort of an annual thing between our chapters,” she said.
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Raising the bar Bystander intervention education necessary for bar employees
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ov. Rick Snyder recently awarded $500,000 to fund sexual assault prevention initiatives at universities across the state. Under the Campus Sexual Assault Grant Program, the University will receive $20,000 to fund an initiative called Raise the Bar. In partnership with Wolverine Wellness and the Ann Arbor Campus Community Coalition, the University will create a program that teaches employees at local bars how to spot and prevent potential cases of sexual assault. Some might question if bystander intervention should be geared more toward the University community, but the overall idea presents a fresh lens in combatting sexual assault on campus. Targeting bystander intervention programs toward specific populations, such as bar employees, is a necessary step toward decreasing the likelihood of sexual assault in the state, in the Ann Arbor community and at the University. Raise the Bar is one of many measures in place that attempts to create a culture of bystander intervention against sexual assault on campus. Oftentimes, bystanders find it hard to intervene when another person is involved in a dangerous situation, such as potential sexual assault. However, if that bystander is an employee, there might be a bigger obligation to keep the environment safe for all customers. Through the nature of their job, staff members at bars are aware of their surroundings, which makes them obvious candidates for stopping and preventing sexual assault. If all staff have to go through an intervention program, the consequences of sexual assault will be made even more apparent and thereby highlight the need to prevent it. While many sexual assault prevention initiatives are directed at students, Raise the Bar charges members of the Ann Arbor community to assist in keeping students and other community members safe. Bars such as Rick’s American Cafe or Charley’s, two that are frequented by University students, are often staffed by both students and non-students. Therefore, sexual assault prevention and awareness knowledge among bar employees varies. Recently, there has been a lot of attention placed on preventing sexual assault at Greek life events like fraternity parties, but ignoring bars would be a huge oversight. Bars and fraternity parties often have similar atmospheres, and it would be naive to think sexual assault is restricted to this setting. According to a study by the Center for Science in the Public Inerest, students tend to drink
more at fraternity parties due to the copious amounts of free alcohol available. However, the study also notes that more students frequent campus bars than fraternity parties. This highlights the importance of bystander training among bartenders at these Ann Arbor establishments. The University of Iowa and the University of North Carolina are two colleges that have implemented Raise the Bar in their communities. So far, the results have generally been positive. Though there’s a lack of quantitative data, management and employees at several establishments have found the training helpful and would recommend the program to others. In Iowa, Susan Junis, Rape Victim Advocacy Program education coordinator, believes it would be beneficial to tie bystander intervention to a business’ alcohol license. The University and state of Michigan should consider a similar initiative. This would not only incentivize bars to participate in the program, but also implement a uniform bystander intervention education among bar employees across the state. Bar culture hasn’t always been known for having the safest atmosphere, but programs like Raise the Bar can help change this. Bartenders often act as leaders within a given bar, regulating what is or is not OK in that space. If employees are known for having a strong stance against sexual assault, customers will follow suit. Everyone has the responsibility of preventing sexual assault, and giving people the tools to spot and intervene in such situations can only contribute to a safer environment for all students at the University.
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EVA ROOS | VIEWPOINT
Typewriters, spiders and contentment I stared down at my motionless hands, curled in ready position. I noticed how each fingertip perfectly filled the circular keys of Papersmith, my favorite typewriter. Papersmith printed small letters with impeccable accuracy and a rich inky print, both which I now confidently deemed superior qualities, having spent the last six weeks learning the personalities of the family of similar typewriters. They all lived in the same chilly, quiet, wood-paneled space. The single-pane windows were streaked with fresh, cool droplets. Tilting my head to the right, past the sopping beech tree branches which radiated a luscious, wet green, I could spot the dining hall, wood pile, library and lake which blended into the low hanging clouds. I tucked my orange striped fleece blanket tight around my legs, pulled my wooly hat strings down further towards my lap and turned a black knob clickby-click to reel in my blank page. How on earth was I to begin writing a graduation speech to culminate the New England Literature Program — commonly called NELP — the ending of something that seemed too idyllic to acknowledge it ever begun? I would have thought that distraction couldn’t exist in a space where I had no phone, no laptop, no iPod, no technology at all. But if there’s one thing I learned during that spring semester in the woods of New Hampshire at NELP, it’s that absolutely everything is deserving of my curiosity. Though I sat numbed by the daunting task which I had no solution to, I suddenly unbound my legs from my blanket, and scurried over to the adjacent wall. My friend Eric called my attention to our version of breaking news — there was a spider
in the windowsill. He and I crouched low, lit by a subtle afternoon glow fading in through the glass. Our breath fogged the panes as we watched with eager eyes the delicate angled legs which converged at a balloon-like sandy body, topped with an amber head. The spider lay as still as I had been seconds earlier seated in front of Papersmith. It was simply existing, watching, waiting. And we were too. We observed it, placed so buoyantly on its knitted web. Its home was precisely constructed, with every intersection intact and unbroken. I wondered about its legs. How could appendages so long and delicate be used and placed with such accuracy? Are they not difficult to keep track of? How does it know the exact patterns to knit its silk? Because of my former dream to become an entomologist, I knew we were looking at an American house spider, which is exactly what it sounds like — the small silent crawlers that exist in almost every American basement. Not only is it incredibly common, but this particular spider was not necessarily doing anything phenomenal, or really doing anything at all. And yet we continued to survey it for minutes, fascinated. Sometimes voicing an observation, yet mostly, Eric and I watched in comfortable silence, taking in its perfection through dialogue contained within our heads. I felt like I could look forever and never understand that spider in its entirety. If I traced each intricacy with my eyes, would I remember its patterns? Finally recognizing that we should continue writing on our respective typewriters, Eric seated in front of the muted
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Alone or on my own?
strongly dislike labels. In high school, my mother once offhandedly remarked that I was an introvert, prompting a lot of negative feelings on my part. An introvert is someone who gets his or her energy from being alone, something I saw ANNIE as distinctly HUMPHREY negative. While I spent a lot of time by myself in high school, I was appalled that anyone would believe I was spending my Friday nights at home to “recharge my batteries.” My alone time in high school arose not from a desire for “me time,” but from a lack of connection with the people planning the fun nights out. I resolved to disprove my mother’s comment by seeking out as many social connections as possible in college. In hindsight, this determination to prove my extroversion was laughable. It turns out that when given a choice, I really do love being on my own. Freshman year, I was so worried about being lonely at such a large university that I clung to the people I met. While we initially shared the common factor of being first-year students trying to navigate a new experience, it soon became painfully obvious that we shared little in the way of values, goals or personalities. With no emotional connection to speak of, I began to feel extreme loneliness despite constantly surrounding myself with friends. Nevertheless, I held onto these tenuous connections because I was terrified of what might happen if I were to let go. What if there was no one at Michigan
with whom I could genuinely connect? Would I go back to being the girl who spent her Friday nights alone? The thought of being alone worried me so much that I began to develop a fear of abandonment. I overanalyzed every text I received, convinced that each person was planning to walk out of my life. FOMO — or fear of missing out — became another huge concern of mine, and soon every picture from every close friend posted to Facebook without my presence seemed to confirm that the worst had happened. I voiced my constant anxiety until my fears became a selffulfilling prophecy for my life: The more I mulled over my abandonment conspiracy theories, the more I dragged down the group dynamic and the less my friends wanted to spend time with me. This year, I finally decided to conquer my insecurities by seeking opportunities to do things on my own. Rather than plan my days around friends’ busy schedules so that I wouldn’t have to eat or study alone, I began to plan my days around what I wanted to accomplish. Despite having fewer guaranteed social connections throughout my week, I’m now the happiest I have been in three years. With no one to please, answer to or worry about but myself, I’m finding the courage to become the person I always wanted to be. I’m rediscovering my passions for singing and writing, both of which I gave up as a freshman because none of my friends shared these interests. I’m gaining a better sense of self, purpose and lifelong aspirations. My worries about
loneliness have subsided. For me, the key to being on my own without feeling lonely has been embracing the communities I’m part of. My biggest social support system to date has come from fellow Residence Staff members in my building. Rather than cling to each staff member, I treat everyone like I would a cherished family member. They aren’t necessarily my best friends, but they are the people I come home to at the end of the day, eager to ask how I’m doing. They are the people who cheer me on, let me know that I matter and remind me that I am loved. Their constant support gives me the self-assurance to spend a few hours of the day on my own without ever feeling alone. These days, I fully embrace the Friday nights I get to spend by myself. Who wouldn’t want to curl up in bed and watch Netflix after a long week of studying and interacting with residents? My attitude has changed since high school, because this time I have a choice as to how I spend my weekends. If I want to be social on a Friday night, I can sit in my hall’s lounge, mass-text my staff or walk to my community center. If I want to recharge my batteries and be by myself, there’s no shame in that either. Though the label of “introvert” still irks me due to its oversimplification of the human experience, I can now say that when given a choice, I proudly, confidently and unabashedly love being on my own.
With no one to please but myself, I’m finding the courage to become the person I always wanted to be.
— Annie Humphrey can be reached at annieah@umich.edu.
NATALIE ZAK | VIEWPOINT
The weight of my Catholic education I am the product of 14 years of Catholic education. From pre-K to my senior year of high school, I took required religion classes that ranged from Rebuttal of the Big Bang to Commitment or Die Alone, attended monthly schoolwide masses that always ended in at least one girl passing out and was incessantly urged to incorporate the ideals of Catholicism into my not-so-Catholic lifestyle. Beginning at the tender age of 3, I became familiar with the burden of Catholic guilt, and by the final year of my all-girls high school, had become acclimated to it. However, despite this specialized type of academia, I didn’t confront the truth of my spirituality until arriving on campus in September: I barely qualify as Catholic. I may be able to recite the Apostles’ Creed by heart, but I didn’t actually know that’s what the hymn is called before looking it up two seconds ago (the browser tab is literally still open). Until the age of 13, I could mindlessly recite biblical responses, but then the Vatican decided to slightly modify them, and I never bothered to learn the differences. The book of Exodus and the “Passion of the Christ” were ingrained into my head, and I can still be called upon to regurgitate them when asked. But none of this makes me a dedicated member of the Catholic faith, and since arriving at the University, I have met people with half the exposure to Christianity as me, yet have twice the passion, three times the spirituality and four times the friends (whether that is religion’s or my personality’s fault is irrelevant). Never before have I interacted with so many different faiths at once. Sure, a large percentage of my Catholic high school was Protestant, and a smaller, more noticeable percentage Jewish, but
blue Lois Lane, I suddenly laughed with a pang of realization. Never would this moment have happened last semester, seated in the crowded, laptop-filled, air-sealed study space that is the UGLi. This is not to say that American house spiders do not exist there, because they probably do. But would any of my friends have noticed if one appeared? And if it were spotted, would they care? Would I have cared? Or would my eyes be drawn back to screens of all sizes, directed instead towards Internet tabs and incoming text messages? At NELP, I relearned to
that was it. If anything, the student body left the school more religiously diverse than it was coming in: There definitely weren’t as many declared atheists my freshman year as there were my senior year. It was a mass religious conversion of born and bred Catholics to nonbelievers. At the University, I have talked to students about faiths ranging from Hinduism to Evangelical Christianity, and I can’t help but notice an overarching trend in the people who demonstrate a compelling faith. Out of all the individuals I have met, those who share my background of lengthy Catholic education seem most likely to distance themselves from the faith, or simply give up on it. In his standup act “Catholic School Sunglasses,” comedian Mike Birbiglia adeptly describes the effects of Catholic education, saying, “You can always tell who went to Catholic school as kids because they’re atheists. Because they really beat it out of you.” Those who have not are the ones who regularly attend church, a feat incomprehensible to me, yet easily practiced by many. Oddly, I can’t help but feel jealous and slightly intimidated by their passion and drive, while also feeling exhausted by most church-related activities. In my English class, there’s a boy who, on the first day, humbly expressed how God is a major part of his life and how he recognizes and accepts all the love God has to give. Being the open-minded individual I am, I dismissed him almost immediately. But now, several weeks later, I have talked with him on numerous occasions and have grown to reluctantly respect, even slightly envy, this student’s incredible spirituality. He overflows with kindness and modesty, carries a Bible at all times and makes everyone (and by everyone I mean me) question
their perpetual cynicism, all while never having experienced a day of Christian education. I can’t help but wonder what causes this discrepancy. Christian education is meant to instill us with values and faith, and though I’m left with decent, manageable values, I can’t say the same for my faith. Patterns such as these are noticeable in the students I have met here. There are those who rarely attended mass before arriving at the University, but now attend it bi-weekly, and there are others who despite their previous distance from faith, now find themselves immersed in it. Although there’s an instant lifelong connection between survivors of Catholic education, these relationships are often highlighted by an absence of faith and nihilism. But maybe I’m being too harsh. After all, whenever I encounter someone else who attended a single-sex Catholic high school, I’m immediately able to bond with them. It’s a strange thing to bond over, a shared bitterness toward the ritualistic niceties performed daily at these schools, but it’s bonding nonetheless. Catholic education has caused my faith to deteriorate, while secular education has produced devout Christians far more spiritual than I could ever hope to be. Despite this realization, I can’t help but acknowledge that a Catholic education provided me with a stellar education, regardless of the number of Bible passages I memorized to fulfill it. My back might still be a little sore from carrying this heavy Catholic guilt, but it’s nothing a deep tissue massage and years of therapy can’t fix. When it comes down to it, I’m doing all right.
see. Whether it was spiders in windowsills, light streaming through beech leaves, a crackling fire in a wood stove or my own hands as I waited for them to begin punching letters, I felt like I was seeing it all for the first time. Looking back now at the six weeks I spent in New Hampshire, it shocks me how little I needed in order to feel fully content in any given moment. Before, did I walk blindly, never truly understanding where, or what, I was? What I don’t know is everywhere, and if I observe long enough, I now know I can begin to find out.
The New England Literature Program is a nine-credit experience during spring semester, located on Lake Winnipesaukee in the woods of New Hampshire. For six weeks, students live and learn in a tight-knit community of 40 undergraduates, immersed in reading, writing, thinking and the surrounding environment. Learn more about NELP and the application process, and listen to the accounts of this year’s NELPers at the informational meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. in Auditorium D at Angell Hall.
Natalie Zak is an LSA Freshman.
Eva Roos is an Art & Design senior.
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FILM REVIEW
‘Sushi’ not political ‘Suffragette’ suffers Muddled crosscultural dialogue impedes new drama
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With the current media landscape facing increasing pressure to depict issues of diversity in art, “East Side Sushi,” featuring both high-defini- C+ tion shots of food and a challenge East Side to traditional Sushi interpretations of race, seems State Theater promising. Blue Sun Pictures Unfortunately, the film suffers from a predictable script that shies away from controversy, rendering the film ineffective. Enthralled by the artistry of sushi, Juana (Diana Elizabeth Torres, “Private Number”) abandons her fruit vending cart in favor of working at a Japanese restaurant. One of the chefs, Aki (Yutaka Takeuchi, “Letters from Iwo Jima”), notices her agility with the knife and takes her under his wing. Aki teaches her how to pick fish, make sushi rice and, eventually, champions her talent. However, Juana faces backlash from Mr. Yoshida (Roji Oyama, “Mumford”), the stern restaurant owner who refuses to promote her to her rightful position as a sushi chef. “East Side Sushi” could have used this story to make powerful criticisms of racial stereotyping in America, but unfortunately, it plays it safe and oversimplifies the issues for feel-good activism. Though recognizably true to life,
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the characters are distilled only to their ideologies — the oppressed minority fighting for her rights to career advancement, the racist villain, the ally, etc. — and dull scriptwriting leaves little room for character development. Its storyline unfolds mechanically, following a pattern of inspiration, problem, hard work, repeat, making the scenes predictable and leaving viewers antsy for the credits to roll. The scope of “East Side Sushi” is inherently microcosmic, but its specific issue — Japanese restaurants keeping Latino workers hidden in the back to maintain “authenticity” — fails to feel relevant to the current national dialogue about racial profiling. Mr. Yoshida’s character lacks nuance. In general, “East Side Sushi” ‘s melodramatic dialogue veers into the contrite, making it impossible for tropes to mature into multifaceted characters. The ending’s racial tension is resolved too neatly to be impactful — Mr. Yoshida finally learns to do the right thing and ends the problem of racial stereotyping when really he is taking a stand and joining Juana and Aki in the fight. Despite avoiding charged statements, the film does show an
appreciation for cross-cultural awareness. In a key moment, Aki calls Juana “Konnichi-Juana” and the camera zooms in on their two cups toasting to each other. Juana brings Japanese food to a wider audience by adding Mexican flavors, leading her initially disapproving father to support her interest in a new cultural cuisine over the course of the film. Another great decision: unlike many films meant for an Englishspeaking audience, “East Side Sushi” uses almost exclusively Spanish (with English subtitles) spoken in Juana’s home. This bilingualism is a crucial aspect of the multi-generational immigrant experience that rarely finds its way on screen. However, the impact of these moments still can’t shine through the dull character development. The film serves up sound bites of popularly accepted ideas, content for the audience to vigorously nod their approval at and quote on Facebook when they return home, but nothing substantial. Not acknowledging how the full spectrum of race relations obscures the nuance in character motivations that would have made “East Side Sushi” the robust statement it wanted to be.
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“Suffragette,” is a form of terrorism. They cause no physical harm, but all their destructive actions hold the threat of harm. Explosions in mailboxes, bricks thrown through windows, the destruction of an entire home in the country all capitalize on fear (also known as terror) in order to make change. Why then are they called militants and not terrorists? That word choice is key because when labeled as militants their actions are dismissed as acceptable — acceptable because we agree with their cause. What “Suffragette” highlights, seemingly accidentally, is the fact that sometimes the “good guys” and the “bad guys” have the same strategies. “Suffragette” didn’t come out on the wrong weekend, it came out in the wrong world, a world in which terrorism controls the lives of a constantly growing number of people. The glorification of this type of activism, then, reads not only as insensitive but also elitist. “Suffragette” could have possibly been saved had it decided to address the duality of the movement as both progressive in 1912 and problematic in 2015. “Suffragette” could join the ranks of throwaway British period pieces (unique only by its lack of Keira Knightley) but the film’s context within the modern world provides the possibility for longevity — it makes cultural points, but not necessarily the right ones. Maybe “Suffragette” will only be remembered for what it does wrong, but at least it will (unlike many of its peer films) be remembered.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same, right? That seems to be the resounding message in Sarah Gavron’s C (“Brick Lane”) latest, a dull Suffragette British period piece about the Michigan women’s suf- Theater frage movement Focus Features in England. The film follows four working class women as they become foot soldiers fighting (often literally) for the right to vote. Told in the manner of a PBS special screened for high school history courses, the film loses the punch it could pack. Carey Mulligan (“An Education”) is a dream as Maud, a young laundress who finds herself in the middle of the suffrage movement. Her performance is full of emotional intensity, which is no surprise because Carey Mulligan is always a dream. Held against the lackluster performances of the other actresses, Mulligan is not enough to give “Suffragette” the heart it so greatly lacks. That heartlessness extends to Gavron’s palette, which, like many films in its genre, is characterized by blues and greys that scream, “This is London! It’s drab and dreary!” Unfortunately, that message applies to the entire film. We must watch “Suffragette” through the lens of the modern world — a world in which many of
the issues acknowledged (but not addressed) by the film still exist for women. The factory scenes seem oddly modern in the way workplace sexual harassment is swept under the rug. Maud’s boss (Geoff Bell, “Kingsman: Secret Service”) gropes her in front of her husband Sonny (Ben Whishaw, “Spectre”) without causing Sonny much concern. The women of “Suffragette” are at the same time powerless and powerful, an oxymoronic state that feels familiar even in 2015. “Suffragette” falls into the recently expanding genre of socialjustice historical dramas (a genre categorized by powerhouse films like “Selma” and “Milk”). If historical dramas are responses to modern social movements, “Suffragette” would appear to be a response to the ever-dismissed, ever-important fight for women’s rights. However, “Suffragette” isn’t completely representative of feminism today. The early stages of the suffrage movement were not interested in racial equality. Therefore, the film is forced by nature of its subject matter to present a completely whitewashed version of feminism, a portrayal that alienates a large portion of its target audience. We need a movie about the feminist movement, but this is perhaps the wrong historical moment to try to make relevant to 2015 feminism. In light of recent events, the treatment of the “militant” activities of the suffragettes is difficult to watch, mainly because what these real women did, and what their fictional counterparts are doing in
Let me preface this by saying I don’t like One Direction. I think they’re an artificially manufactured boy band that has only found main- Bstream success Made in because their the A.M. bubblegum pop ballads One Direction and charming good looks Columbia appeal to the entire teenaged female population of the world. However, just because I disapprove of their “X-Factor” origins and bland songs, it’s important to note that One Direction is relevant and their name will always be known. Their relevance ranges from the fact that all four of their albums topped the Billboard 200 chart to their impressive worldwide arena tours in support of each album they released. Monetarily, One Direction was the highest-earning band of 2015, raking in $130 million. If a band can find so much success with music most critics would deem mediocre at best, you have to give them a little credit. Over the course of the band’s five years of existence, they have managed to pump out an album every year accompanied by a worldwide arena tour in support of each album. 2015, however, was a turning point for One Direction. With Zayn Malik’s departure mid-tour, the band scrambled to reconfigure songs without the support of their strongest vocalist. As if Directioners weren’t devastated enough, the new quartet announced in August that they would be taking an extended hiatus after the release of Made in the A.M. Of course the charming band reassured the heartbroken female population of the world that they would be back, but many have speculated that this is the end of the British boy-band. With such suspicions circulating its way through the music industry, special attention has and should be paid to Made in the A.M. First, Made in the A.M. feels like a goodbye. The only lyrics that manage to make a statement are those that bid someone (Directioners, maybe Malik, maybe a girl) farewell. In “Love You Goodbye,” the boys croon “It’s inevitable everything that’s good comes to an end / It’s impossible to know if after
this we can still be friends.” The hopeless message in “Love You Goodbye” is then countered by the promising lyrics, “This is not the end / We can make it, you know it, you know” in “History.” Aside from the finality presented in many of the lyrics, Made in the A.M. has a gloomier feel than their past albums; perhaps this change in mood is meant to mourn the One Direction they once were. Aside from the fact that Made in the A.M. could be One Direction’s last album, attention should be paid to it because three of the 17 songs are actually quite promising. “Never Enough” is by far the most unique song on the album — when it first started playing I legitimately questioned whether or not Spotify was playing the right song or not. “Never Enough” features intense horns, drums and bombastic a cappella that’s reminiscent of everything that was good about the ’80s. The next promising song on the album is “Olivia.” Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, the band made every effort to channel The Beatles in this song, and it paid off. Obviously, it’s nowhere near The Beatles’s level of artistry, but it’s definitely a milestone moment for the boys who sing to arenas full of 12-year-olds. Unfortunately for 1D, aside from the aforementioned songs, there’s nothing different in this album. Once you’ve heard one One Direction song, you’ve heard them all. The same innocent lyrics in one song carries through to them all; the predominantly pop sound characterized by unimpressive vocals remains constant in each track manufactured for profit. Though you could argue that some songs are more promising than others, at the end of the day, I think this could be One Direction’s final album. Realistically, boy bands have a shelf life of less than a decade with only half of those years as prime-time years. Maybe this hiatus will give the band time to individually mature as artists, allowing for their fanbase to mature as well. Who knows, in two years we could all be marveling at the new and improved One Direction, but for now, I am going to say that this is the end of an era. Made in the A.M. makes it clear that the One Direction we know today will not be the same One Direction we know a year from now. That is, if they are even around a year from now.
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MUSIC COLUMN
Piecing together shattered genius J
eff Buckley had the kind of voice that could save a life. Armed often with just a guitar and a set of beautiful, angelic vocal chords, he could inhabit and improve upon other artists’ songs like nobody else. From Dylan to Van ADAM Morrison to Nina Simone, THEISEN Buckley would strum his strings and stretch out his favorite compositions, turning tracks like “Sweet Thing” into a long meditation on the phrase, “We will walk and talk in gardens all misty wet with rain,” moving his voice up and down its register and scatting with breathless emotion, seemingly losing himself completely in the music and becoming not a performer but an artistic presence, someone who doesn’t just entertain you but stops you in your tracks and invades your psyche. He commands total attention and awe with what feel like the simplest of actions, reaffirming just why we care about music.
Buckley commands your total attention and awe. “Hallelujah” is, of course, Buckley’s most famous recording, but personally, I’ll never forget the first time I heard him cover Bob Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman.” While Dylan’s original is dripping with sexist sarcasm, one of many songs of his that serve as unbelievably coarse fiveminute-long insults, Buckley turns it into a crushing lament — not a self-righteous rant like Dylan but more of a sadif-hurtful, quietly lashing out meditation on why he and his partner should end it. Right at the song’s climax (“Ain’t it clear that I just can’t fit / I believe it’s time for us to quit”), Buckley stretches out that first crying “I” like he’s jumping out of an airplane, somehow releasing his parachute just in time, setting himself up for a perfect landing, those stabbing last words. It just might be the
most gut-wrenching break-up song of all time. Buckley’s “Just Like a Woman” has been available live for some time on what’s called the “Legacy Edition” of his EP Live at Sin-é (for my money the one absolutely essential Buckley album, more so than Grace). But as a studio recording it’s finally getting an official release on what’s going to be called You and I, an early demos record coming out next year. I really think that everybody who wants to should be able to discover Buckley’s “lost” recordings, the ones that I personally just love so much, but I really can’t help feeling uneasy about this new album. It’s coming right on the heels of Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings, a newly released album credited to Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain. Since he committed suicide in 1994, Cobain’s memory has endured the ignominies of his private journals being published for mass consumption, his home movies being scrutinized in documentaries and endless books speculating about his personal life. We’ve already seen the vast catalog of unreleased Nirvana tracks come out of the vaults on the With the Lights Out box set, and this “new” collection of Cobain’s home recordings feels pointless and exploitative, one more cash-in on a dead man’s legacy.
I can’t blame the superfans for buying these box sets. More and more record labels seem to be clearing out the vaults of old bands with nostalgic appeal, and I worry that this might be coming at the expense of young, up-and-coming artists. This isn’t exactly a brand new phenomenon — The Beatles’ Anthology came out 20 years ago — but more and more artists that have been long bootlegged, like The Beach Boys and Bob Dylan, have spent the later parts of their careers releasing old unreleased recordings, often to commercial success and acclaim. We’re now seeing this trend expand to include bands
that don’t have anywhere near the name recognition as these legends. Nineties alt-rockers Pavement are in the middle of a series called The Secret History, pairing old albums with collections of radio sessions and live recordings from the era, as well as songs that weren’t good enough to make the cut the first time around. But since Pavement already has a built-in audience, I suppose a makeshift record like this is easier to sell than a fresh debut album from a young garage-rock band still looking to develop its sound.
We want to imagine the unknown and solve the puzzle. Obviously, there are superfans who look forward to buying all these artifacts, and I can’t blame them for that. There’s something that can be sickly fascinating about all the “what ifs” of music history. What if Brian Wilson hadn’t had a mental breakdown and The Beach Boys had pulled off Smile? What if Nick Drake had been famous in his time? What if Biggie and 2Pac hadn’t been shot? So yeah, I’m going to listen to the new Buckley stuff. Even though the first preview of You and I, a cover of “Everyday People,” is disappointingly bad fit for Buckley’s somewhat funk-less style, you never know what secret greatness the record might hold. As uneasy as I feel about the potential exploitation of artists and the swindling of fans who can’t contain their appetites for more songs from their heroes, rarities and vault-clearing releases can lead to the public discovering some incredible old music and filling in the stories of legendary enigmas. We buy up and listen to boxed sets of full recording sessions, discs of unreleased tracks, because we want to piece together shattered genius. We want to imagine the unknown and solve the puzzle that could show us the greatest album of all time. Theisen is listening to Jeff Buckley box sets. To reaffirm his coolness, e-mail ajtheis@umich.edu.
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TV REVIEW
Bold Bob and Dave By MATT BARNAUSKAS Daily Arts Writer
From 1995-1998, the sketch comedy series “Mr. Show with Bob and David” aired on HBO. During its tenure, “Mr. B+ Show” housed and devel- W/ Bob oped some of the most and Dave significant Netflix and popular personalities in entertainment, including Jack Black (“School of Rock”), Sarah Silverman (“The Sarah Silverman Program”) and Mary Lynn Rajskub (“24”), among others. And perhaps the greatest contributions were the talents of the titular duo, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. Both prolific voices, Odenkirk now leads the “Breaking Bad” spinoff “Better Call Saul,” while Cross is best known for his role as the oblivious Tobias Fünke on “Arrested Development.” Now, thanks to Netflix, the influential series returns under the shortened title “W/ Bob and David.” Presented with an experienced hand that comes with 17 years of personal and professional development, the show brings back the influential, fastpaced comedy that defined its earlier run. The new episodes, like their classic counterparts, comfortably edge into the risky, absurd and offensive. At the core of “W/ Bob and David” ’s success are the wellplaced segues that establish a distinct flow between the various, interlocking sketches, which utilize both live and pre-filmed elements. Directed by the experienced team of Keith Truesdell (“Jimmy Kimmel Live”) and Jason Woliner (“The Last Man On Earth”), “W/ Bob and David” balances its formats well, guiding viewers relatively seamlessly into each new segment. “Episode One” puts this skill on display as it opens with a doctor telling Mike (Paul F. Tompkins, “BoJack Horseman”) that
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he needs to stop eating red meat. After a cut to credits, Odenkirk and Cross emerge in front of the audience from a time machine/ portable toilet as they learn the consequences of using a “realtime machine” as opposed to a “real time machine” (hyphens are tricky). After some explanation, Cross decides to use the toilet function of the machine and, once finished, walks seamlessly into a new sketch. The latest segment, which takes place over a card game, details the ambitious New Year’s resolutions made by a group of middle-aged friends. Among the dreams of becoming a director, a judge and the Pope is Mike’s humble goal to change his diet. In contrast to the universal support his friends receive, Mike is met with rejection as one buddy says, “You can’t learn to not like something.” The statement proves prophetic as the friends reinvent themselves and Mike gives into temptation. These success stories pave the way for the rest of the episode, providing key transitional elements. Odenkirk’s Pope Judah advertises for a Kosher delivery service while the other characters appear in some way or the other throughout the subsequent sketches. This helps to craft underlying premises that often mock those in positions of authority or influence. The proper implementation of these segues and recurring characters turn a collection of
sketches into a cohesive whole and provide the strongest episodes. “Episode Three” has the most trouble establishing these initial connections and struggles to find an early voice. The individual parts are funny, but they have trouble coming together into a single voice as opposed to the other episodes. “Episode Four,” for instance, sheds a light on parenting and how it can go awry. Cross’s mother frustrates her son by comparing his accomplishments to his slacker brother Donny (also played by Cross) on the faux-reality show “Amazing Moms,” which claims, “A child in jail is a hug waiting to be set free.” Meanwhile, a pair of conservative Christian parents rejects their son after he claims Hell isn’t real and that God lets everyone into Heaven — even monsters like Adolf Hitler and Jeffrey Dahmer. Whether it’s tackling religion, slavery or the c-word, “W/ Bob and David” attacks all subjects with experienced confidence. Odenkirk, Cross and many of their collaborators are industry mainstays, and this confidence translates into seamless, uncompromising comedic attempts. Like most sketch comedy, not everything is perfect, but “W/ Bob and David” maintains the sharp comedic edge of “Mr. Show” while serving as a reminder as to why Bob and David were so influential.
NEW MEDIA NOTEBOOK
#PrayForParis’s gap By SAM ROSENBERG Daily Arts Writer
In 2015 alone, our world has faced a series of violent outbreaks and conflicts, affecting innocent people on both a national and global scale. But even in these moments of darkness, our society has stood together, especially after the tragedy that struck Paris last Friday in what became the deadliest attack against France since World War II. With 132 civilians murdered and hundreds more wounded by ISIS terrorists, the attacks in Paris demonstrated another devastating blow against humanity. This was also the country’s second major terrorist attack this year, following the Charlie Hebdo shooting in early January. As horrific and despicable as these attacks were, what surprised me the most was how viral the attacks had become online. Within the 24 hours of the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, people from all over the world showed an outpouring of support for the French on virtually every social media outlet. Twitter users tweeted their thoughts with the hashtag #PrayForParis; Instagram flooded with the now-circulating symbol of the Eiffel Tower attached to a peace sign; Snapchat created a filter with “Pray for Paris” scrawled in French and in English over a red, white and blue background; many people on my Facebook feed, including myself, have overlaid the colors of the French flag on their profile pictures. I was fascinated by how rapidly everyone showed their solidarity with the people of Paris. And while it’s uplifting to see everyone stand together
with France in such a timely manner, it’s imperative that our society also recognizes the other atrocities around the world that the media has unfortunately neglected to publicize. While scrolling through my newsfeed, I happened to find a report from Mic.com on numerous suicide bombings in Beirut, Lebanon that killed 43 and injured 239 this past Thursday. In addition to that, I found another story about a recent instance of a terrorist attack in Baghdad, where a suicide bomber had killed at least 19 people at a funeral in a mosque. In April, a group of al-Shabab militants killed 147 people at Garissa University in Kenya. Considering how much attention the Paris attacks received, it felt somewhat discriminatory that the media responded more quickly to attacks in Paris than in Beirut, Baghdad and Kenya. Does this mean that the media bases its focus solely on how drastic the situation is, where the location of the situation is and how many casualties and injuries there are?
Social media raises awareness, but manipulates us. It’s easy for people to simply dismiss the strife and brutality occurring in third-world countries because we have become so desensitized to the constant radical violence and terrorism in those places. It also makes sense that people
respond more heavily toward the attacks in Paris, most likely because France hasn’t endured as many extreme terrorist attacks as Beirut, Baghdad and Kenya. However, this shouldn’t be the kind of groupthink our society employs in our everyday lives. No matter who the victim is, people are people, regardless of what region, race or ethnicity they belong to. The murdered innocents in Kenya, Baghdad and Beirut matter just as much as any of the murdered innocents in Paris. In terms of how these events integrate into social media, would it make sense for Facebook to also have a Lebanese flag overlay to show solidarity for the victims in Beirut? Or possibly create a Snapchat filter for the Kenyan students who perished? I’m not entirely sure. But it wouldn’t hurt to write a status about Beirut, Baghdad and Kenya on Facebook, create a hashtag on Twitter or at least engage people in discussions about these kinds of atrocities. While social media helps connects us to others around the world, we need to remind ourselves that it also manipulates our cultural understanding and outlets like Facebook and Twitter tend to capitalize on these events. As Americans, we are only limited to what we perceive outside the country through what we see online, on television and on our mobile devices. To stand united as a world against inhumane acts of evil, we must understand and acknowledge the people who are also being affected by the same kind of evil. Once we achieve that, then our world can hope to live as one truly interconnected, peaceful and loving society.
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Michigan 48, Indiana 41 (2OT)
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‘M’ saves season on last play
BLOOMINGTON — The Michigan football team’s season vanished tonight, only to reappear, disappear and reappear again. Hundreds of thousands of fans around the country lived and died and lived again as a four-hour game wound toward a close. MAX Indiana BULTMAN tugged every string, took every gamble and, oh God, the Hoosiers were going to pull it off. The inner monologue of a Michigan fan had to be verging on insanity as Jordan Howard scored a go-ahead touchdown with 2:52 remaining, then Jake Rudock led a touchdown drive to tie it, then overtime, another overtime and one last goal-line stand. Hold them! Let them score! Hurry up! Slow down! Why are they running?! Touchdown! Overtime! Another play? Overtime! Not again. More of this! Yes! Oh, please n-YES! In the end, the ball was in Mitchell Paige’s hands. It was fourth down, in double overtime, on the goal line. If Paige could just come down with Nate Sudfeld’s pass, the Wolverines and Hoosiers were likely headed for triple overtime. But Delano Hill stuck his hand in and ripped the ball out. Game over. Hill didn’t steal victory from the hands of defeat, but he stole it from the hands of chaos — more chaos — on a night that had nothing if
not that. Michigan 48, Indiana 41, and a season still alive. All week, the talk was of the Wolverines’ renewed hope for a Big Ten Championship berth thanks to Nebraska’s wild upset of Michigan State. Win the next two, and Michigan could be playing for the Big Ten East title the last weekend of November. That meant beating Indiana first, something the Wolverines have had little trouble doing since, well, ever. Since 1968, the Hoosiers have beaten Michigan only once. But nothing went according to plan on Saturday. Indiana nearly ran Michigan off with its tempo, wearing out a defense that earlier this season rang up three straight shutouts. Riding the legs of Jordan Howard, the Hoosiers bludgeoned a seemingly un-bludgeonable defensive line. Howard ran for 238 yards alone — nearly four times as many as Michigan State ran for as a team when it beat the Wolverines one month ago. When Howard got in the end zone with fewer than three minutes to play, it looked bleak for Michigan — not just for Saturday, but for the season. If Indiana hung on, Michigan would be all but eliminated from division contention. The goal-line stand at Minnesota two weeks ago? Moot. The game against Ohio State in two weeks? The stakes would be considerably lower. Michigan pulled a miraculous drive out, though, bringing the ball within a sniff of the goal line. With six seconds left, when fifth-year See BULTMAN, Page 4B
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SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN
This is the position in which the Michigan cross country teams have put themselves. It was Thursday, the day before the Great Lakes Regional meet that decides qualifiers for the NCAA Championships, and the Wolverines were talking about the regional meet as a warmup. “It’s just sort of an expectation at this point that JAKE we qualify for LOURIM the national meet,” said Gina Sereno, a redshirt sophomore on the women’s team. That’s what happens when you qualify for the NCAA Championships 13 straight times, six by winning the regional title, as the Michigan women have. In any sport, at any level, athletes refuse to look past any competition to the next. For the Wolverines, qualifying is a given. It’s the big picture they’re after now, the big picture they train the whole year for. That big picture finishes Saturday at the NCAA Championships. And for the first time in recent memory, both teams are among the top contenders — the men are ranked No. 5 in the latest poll, the women No. 7. So much of the focus is on that event that the Michigan women contemplated holding back a bit in the regional meet to conserve energy for this weekend. This is their biggest day of the year, and that’s the end of it. There’s no bowl game, no long postseason tournament, no national-television exposure. It’s intrinsically motivated: They compete to finish the best they can, with no wide-ranging
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The finish line implications beyond that. Both Michigan teams will be right in the middle of things on race day, but a closer look reveals the different spots in which they find themselves. The women have established themselves more in recent seasons. The Wolverines finished fifth at the NCAA Championships in 2012 and fourth in 2013, garnering a No. 1 preseason ranking to start 2014. But when you train the whole year for one event, everything has to fall into place for that event to work out. Last year, it didn’t. Two of Michigan’s top runners, Erin Finn and Shannon Osika, were injured late in the season. Neither ran in the NCAA Championships, and the team finished 18th. Still, the powerhouse coach Mike McGuire has built doesn’t crumble with a couple of injuries. Finn, now a junior, and Osika, a senior, returned and stayed healthy. After the misfortune of last year, McGuire knows that’s no small feat. “I think the biggest difference between last year and this year is we’re a team that physically is intact,” he said. Other than that, the team is similar, with Finn, Osika and three finishers from the NCAA Championships in 2014 leading the way. But last year’s ending wasn’t the Wolverines’ last setback. On Nov. 1, Michigan traveled to the Big Ten Championships as a heavy favorite. But for the third straight year, the Wolverines failed to win. Fortunately for them, they
still had more competitions left — including the one that matters most. “We’re just looking for a shot at redemption, really,” Sereno said. “We didn’t do as well at the Big Ten meet as we were expected to do, and I think everyone is looking for an opportunity to show what we’re really made of.” *** In some ways, the men’s team’s path has been opposite the women’s. The men had missed four of 10 NCAA Championships heading into this season. For them, rather than a disappointment, 2014 was a building block. Under firstyear coach Kevin Sullivan, they jumped to 11th in the national meet — their highest finish since 2003 — and used that as a springboard to this year. Two weeks ago, while the women’s team let a Big Ten championship slip away, the men’s team got that monkey off its back. After three straight second-place finishes, Michigan took home the title this year, its first since 1998. “The taste of almost being it and having the disappointment, those are tough bus rides back from the previous Big Ten Championships,” said fifth-year senior co-captain Mason Ferlic. The year before Ferlic arrived at Michigan, the Wolverines took eighth at the Big Ten Championships. Since then, they finished in the top three in four straight years — but could never
“This is the fun part. It’s where we get to prove it and race.”
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The men’s and women’s cross country teams took home regional titles and will each be contenders at the national meet.
win. “You’re kind of searching for the what-if,” Ferlic said. So Michigan kept building, and this year there was no going back. In each of the previous four seasons, the Wolverines were in contention, but everything had to go right and everyone had to run perfectly for them to win. This year, they were the clear favorite. Led by Ferlic — who has now been the top Michigan finisher in his last 17 races — they took home the trophy. The Wolverines have rolled forward — more quickly, Sullivan admitted, than he expected when he took the job — to put themselves in this position so soon. No one on the current roster has been on a team that missed the NCAA Championships, but never have the Wolverines had a legitimate shot of reaching the podium as they do this season.
“We have the guys,” Ferlic said. “The team is solidified. We’ve put in all our hard work. This is the fun part. It’s where we get to prove it and race. “We’re not coming into the postseason here feeling like we missed something mid-season. We’re coming in feeling like we did everything that needed to be done. And now it’s just time to prove it.” *** The women have been in position for years but have struggled to put it all together lately. The men have been behind and haven’t put it all together until lately. This weekend, they will take the same bus to Louisville for a race in which they both have a chance. As with any team, their fortunes have fluctuated over the years. This season, both are
healthy, both are confident and both are talented. Both feel like things might finally be lining up for them. “At this point, yes,” McGuire said. “Things can change. It’s a fickle sport. You have to be good, and you have to be lucky. We feel that we’re pretty good, and if the good fortunes stay with us, I like where this season can finish up.” The preparations are almost over, and the anticipated day is almost here. Maybe things will bounce Michigan’s way Saturday. Maybe they won’t. All the Wolverines can do is put themselves in a position for it to come down to that. “If you don’t feel prepared at this point, you won’t ever be prepared,” Ferlic said. “The work’s been done. The hay’s in the barn, you could say.” Lourim can be reached at jlourim@umich.edu and on Twitter @jakelourim.
‘M’ wins fourth regional Ferlic paces Michigan to title in past five seasons regional championship MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
By LANEY BYLER For the Daily
The Michigan women’s cross country team claimed the NCAA Great Lakes Regional title Friday at the Tom Zimmer Championship Course in Madison. The victory earned the Wolverines a spot in the NCAA Championships next week. The seventh-ranked Wolverines took first place in a 31-team pool with a final score of 69 points — a solid 10-point lead over runner-up Notre Dame, which finished with a final score of 79 points. The regional title is Michigan’s fourth in the past five seasons and the 10th in program history. The Wolverines were led by junior Erin Finn, who took fifth with a time of 20:44.3 and was the highest-placing Michigan runner. While strong winds made the 6,000-meter course more challenging, Finn believed her toughest obstacle was holding back while other runners were putting everything they had into the race. “It was just managing myself,” Finn said, “knowing that I wanted to race conservatively so I would have more in the tank for next week, while other girls
were racing really hard.” Despite Finn’s solid finish, she credited the rest of her team for pulling off the win, noting that her teammates’ proximity to one another during the race helped the Wolverines claim the regional title. “It’s definitely a whole-team contribution, and especially in a team sport like cross country,” Finn said. “One leader doesn’t really matter as much as the stretch. So it’s good that I got things going, but it mattered more that I had girls coming in close after me. That’s what helped us win today.” Michigan had six runners place in the top 25, including fifth-year senior Anna Pasternak, who took 11th with a time of 20:54.7. Despite being a part of four Great Lakes Regional teams, Pasternak had never placed higher than 30th at the meet. Senior Shannon Osika took 16th shortly after Pasternak crossed the line, with a final time of 20:59.6. Redshirt sophomores Gina Sereno and Jaimie Phelan finished 17th and
20th, respectively, with times of 21:00.0 and 21:01.4. Michigan coach Mike McGuire, who has coached all of the Great Lakes Regional titles in Michigan history, said there was still work to do before the NCAA Championships next Saturday. He stressed that maintaining health and cleaning up small mistakes will help the team reach its ultimate goals. “You always want to come out ranked higher than when you went in,” McGuire said. “We definitely want to strive to get on a podium, which is top four. We’ve had performances at various times in the season that would be worthy of podium finishes. We just have to get it done. It will take our best efforts, but it’s not an effort that we’re not capable of.” The Wolverines will look to accomplish those goals next Saturday at the 2015 NCAA Championships in Louisville, Kentucky. It’s Michigan’s last chance to add to a successful season.
“It’s definitely a whole-team contribution.”
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The Michigan women’s cross country team finished first out of 31 teams and beat second-place Notre Dame by 10 points.
First-place finish puts ‘M’ in NCAA Championships for fifth straight season By SYLVANNA GROSS Daily Sports Writer
Fifth-year senior Mason Ferlic was not going to lose. In the last 400 meters of the Great Lakes Regional in Madison, he was head-to-head with the same athlete he lost the individual title to at the Big Ten Championship on Nov. 1, and Ferlic refused to be second again. Ferlic didn’t lose it. He crossed the finish line at 30:18.3 to claim the win over Purdue’s Matt McClintock, who crossed just two seconds after. Ferlic’s team did well too, as the No. 5 Michigan men’s cross country team won the event. “Coming down the home stretch, I knew I had the win,” Ferlic said. “McClintock and I have been great rivals, but it was nice to flip the tables on him. I have a lot of respect for that guy, but I had a little bit of fire under me in the last 400 meters of the race — where me and him were duking it out. I said to myself, ‘I’m not losing to him today.’ “I just wanted to make it a solid effort from the gun. I wanted to settle into a rhythm. I knew if I started off well, I was going to be able to do it if I stayed relaxed and controlled myself. I told myself I was going to go for a win.” Not only did he go for the win, the team did, too. This weekend, Michigan travelled to Wisconsin to compete in the Great Lakes Regional. As is becoming the norm for the Wolverines, they captured the title with a total of 67 points on the 10,000-meter course. All five of their scorers
finished within the top 25, with redshirt junior Nick Renberg running a personal best of 31:08.4 to place 15th. The commanding win comes right after Michigan claimed the Big Ten title and just before it will compete at the NCAA Championships. The last time the team won both the Big Ten and Great Lakes Regional title, in 1997, the team placed fourth at the NCAA Championships. That year, current Michigan coach Kevin Sullivan placed second in the nation. The goal for the current Wolverine team is to replicate the performance from 1997 with a top-four team finish. Sullivan just wants his team to be on that podium. “It’s a big deal to win a regional championship,” Sullivan said. “When we came in this season, this was our goal. But now, we’re starting to reevaluate our goals. We wanted to be a top team at nationals, but now we would love to take a crack at being one of the top four teams.” This is the second time in three years that Michigan has claimed the Great Lakes Regional title. The Wolverines have won the event just four times in program history. A part of the team that made history, besides Renberg and Ferlic, were junior Ben Flanagan in 11th (30:54.2), senior Tony Smoragiewiecz in 18th (31:12.0) and redshirt sophomore Aaron Baumgarten in 22nd (31:15.4). Other Michigan finishers included senior August Pappas in 31st (31:31.5) and fifth-year senior Nick Posada in 60th (32:15.7). Notably, the women’s cross
country team also took home the title. This is the second time in program history that both the men’s and women’s teams have won in the same year — the last time being in 2013. But that’s not to say the Wolverines ran faster than they ever have Friday. Ferlic thinks they just ran smart. “I don’t think it was a heroic effort by the team,” Ferlic said. “We did what we had to do. We were smart. We got the job done. We came out with a good amount of emotional energy without spending too much physical energy — which is what you want to do.” The athletes were facing up to 25-mile-per-hour winds. For Ferlic and other Michigan athletes, the key was to recognize the challenge that the wind presented when it was facing them. Ferlic said it felt like “you were standing still,” but when the wind was at their back, the runners could make up for the time lost. In doing so, the athletes struck a balance and matched their efforts against and with the wind. Regardless of the race strategy when dealing with weather, not much else has changed these past few meets. And, most likely, not much will change for the last meet of the season at the NCAA Championships in Louisville, Kentucky, on Nov. 21. “We have a good thing going this year,” Sullivan said. “It’s like, if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. We’ve had the same intentions with the same goals in mind all season, and we didn’t change much up. We’re not going to change much up going into nationals, either.”
“Coming down the home stretch, I knew I had the win.”
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Wolverines roll in opener ‘M’ season ends FIELD HOCKEY
in quarterfinals
By SIMON KAUFMAN Daily Sports Editor
On Friday night, Aubrey Dawkins put an exclamation point on 100 years of Michigan men’s 44 N. MICH. basketball. MICHIGAN 70 With seven minutes left in the first half against Northern Michigan, the sophomore guard elevated, stretched out his left hand and threw down a put-back dunk off a missed 3-pointer from redshirt sophomore Duncan Robinson. It was a highlight in a night meant to celebrate a century of Michigan men’s basketball seasons. But Friday showed that Team 100 is far from 100 percent of the way to where it wants to be, even as it rolled past the Wildcats, 70-44. The 25th-ranked Wolverines (1-0) looked sluggish early in the first half. Four turnovers in a span of just over two minutes kept the Wildcats in the game deep into the first frame, and they trailed by just four points with eight minutes remaining in the half. “(It’s) just a little rust — first game,” Dawkins said. “(We were) rushing a little bit trying to make a really good play instead of making the right play.” Early in the half, senior guard Caris LeVert tried to dish to a teammate at the low post. But a miscommunication resulted in no one being on the receiving end of his pass, and Northern Michigan took over possession. Later, after grabbing a defensive board, Robinson drove to the rim but couldn’t decide between whether to shoot or pass. Instead, he jumped, hesitated and a Wildcat player got a hand on the ball, forcing a jump ball that stayed with the Wildcats. Less than two minutes later, sophomore guard MuhammadAli Abdur-Rahkman tried to
Wolverines upset Wake Forest, then fall to UNC in NCAA Tournament By AVI SHOLKOFF Daily Sports Writer
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Caris LeVert led Michigan with 18 points on 7-for-12 shooting in the Wolverines’ season opener.
pirouette and pass to an open D.J. Wilson, but the redshirt freshman forward wasn’t ready for it, and the ball went off Wilson’s hand out of bounds. But then, Dawkins took flight, and Michigan took off. Following his electrifying dunk, the Wolverines couldn’t miss. A minute after, LeVert took two dribbles and two strong strides to take him from the perimeter to the hoop for a layup. On the next possession, junior guard Derrick Walton Jr. stole the ball and finished with a strong layup of his own. Michigan had found its rhythm. Better late than never. On the Wolverines’ next trip down the court, Wilson backed down his defender and hit a six-foot turnaround jumper. Sophomore forward Kameron Chatman got in on the action next with a layup, and Dawkins
“(It’s) just a little rust — first game.”
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Thome scores 21 to lead Michigan By TED JANES Daily Sports Writer
DETROIT — Opponents haven’t found an answer yet for the Michigan women’s basketball team’s newest 61 DETROIT center, and MICHIGAN 88 6-foot-5 freshman Hallie Thome hopes to keep it that way. Thome and Michigan (2-0) fought for their 88-61 win at Detroit on Sunday, but it came far tougher than first game of the weekend. Sophomore guard Katelynn Flaherty shouldered a four-foul burden most of the second half, but Michigan spread the wealth, turning to Thome down in the paint. Because Thome towered above her shorter opponents — she was listed as at least five inches taller than every Titan — it was easy for the Wolverine guards to feed her over the top, where she swiveled and finished for six points by the end of the opening quarter, and 10 by halftime. “Different than yesterday, right?” Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico said. “Our guards dominated yesterday (against Binghamton). It was nice to see our bigs get some touches and establish an inside presence early. It was nice to see (Thome) have a great game.” Added senior guard Madison Ristovski: “(Thome) is making a positive impact already to the defense. She’s got great hands, and she can finish really well around the rim. She’s someone I can throw the ball to and know will catch and finish.” Detroit battled to hold the Wolverines’ lead to just three through the first quarter, but Michigan came out of the huddle in the same full-court press that shut down Binghamton the day before. The Wolverines swung an eight-point run in the first three minutes to build an 11-point lead, and they never looked back.
— who started the streak — ended it with a 3-pointer, before Michigan missed its next attempt. Six straight buckets swung the pendulum in the Wolverines’ direction to give them a 10-point lead going into half. In the second half, Michigan wasted little time getting back into its groove. Dawkins dunked again and hit a three in the opening three minutes as Michigan coasted. Both Michigan coach John Beilein and LeVert called Dawkins’ performance efficient. The sophomore took just seven shots — only missing a single 3-point attempt — to tally 15 points total. He also grabbed six boards. “That’s what we expect from Aubrey every night,” LeVert said. “He was on the offensive glass, played great defense and
In that span, four turnovers from Detroit (0-2) doomed the Titans, who went on to give up 30 to Michigan in the second quarter. But despite the gritty, physical play from guard Rosanna Reynolds (19 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists) Detroit never looked capable of settling in. Reynolds carried her side, but she faced foul trouble as well after she accidentally whacked Michigan freshman guard Nicole Munger across the mouth in the second quarter, giving the Wolverines a free basket from the line after the dead-ball foul. The freshmen, Thome included, continued to shine as they had in the prior game. Late in the first half, guard Boogie Brozoski notched two of her six assists after the Titans continued to turn the ball over against the press. Brozoski and Thome linked up much like they did in the preseason exhibition when the point guard tossed a lob halfway down the court out of every Titan’s reach to Thome, who laid in the basket. Sunday, Thome went 9-for-11 shooting with 21 points, adding three blocks and six rebounds to lead the Wolverines. The matchup was also a family affair, as Ristovski dueled it out against her younger sisters, Detroit’s Haleigh and Lola Ristovski. Lola, the youngest of them all, finished the game with nine points, and Haleigh had five compared to Madison’s seven. “I’m very happy Lola played well, but I also hit a 3 in her face, so I’ll remind her of that when she tells me she had more points than me,” Madison Ristovski said. Carrying at least a 20-point lead most of the second half, Michigan walked out of Calihan Hall with its second consecutive win, but more importantly, it obtained even more evidence that Thome can be as good as advertised.
knocked down a couple shots.” Dawkins was only bested by LeVert, who shot 7-for-12 from the field and knocked down two 3’s for a game-high 18 points. It was LeVert’s first regular-season game since Jan. 17 when he got injured against Northwestern. Down low, junior forward Mark Donnal started at the ‘5,’ but played just 10 minutes in total. Beilein rotated sophomore forward Ricky Doyle and Wilson into that role, and 6-foot-10 freshman Moritz Wagner even entered to play the ‘5’ late in the second half, burning his redshirt. Donnal started in the exhibition, too, but that likely won’t be the case all season. “He knows just enough of what we’re doing and is just solid enough right now,” Beilein said. “I would expect that would be a competitive spot all year long.” Michigan’s start was slow, but when the rust came off and the wheels started turning, the Wolverines rolled into another century of Michigan basketball.
For the No. 1 North Carolina field hockey team, the situation felt familiar. Not only was the team playing on its home turf — it was also with a lineup consisting of six upperclassmen and two sophomores with NCAA Tournament experience. On the other hand, No. 10 Michigan had a lineup consisting of just three players from the Wolverines’ last tournament appearance. After a 2-1 upset victory over No. 7 Wake Forest, Michigan (7-1 Big Ten, 18-5 overall) faced the experienced Tar Heels on Sunday, but came up short in a 1-0 loss. “The fact that we played them in preseason really helped,” said freshman forward Emma Way. “We knew we could’ve beaten them.” North Carolina (4-2 ACC, 20-2 overall), took control of the game from the start. The Tar Heels outshot the Wolverines, 11-2 in the first half and 4-0 in the second. North Carolina also earned four corners compared to only one for Michigan. In Saturday’s game, led by redshirt sophomore forward Carly Bennett, the Wolverines outshot the Demon Deacons 8-2 in the first half and netted two goals. In the second half, Michigan halted Wake Forest’s 11 shots, anchored by first-team All-Big Ten goalie Sam Swenson.
Against the Tar Heels, Swenson again stepped up to the challenge, saving six shots, in the first half, including two in a row in the 25th and 26th minutes. “She’s one of the best goalies in the nation,” said Michigan coach Marcia Pankratz. “Our team feels very confident playing in front of her. She helps us become more aggressive in our tactics.” Though the Wolverines lost in the quarterfinals, Pankratz remained optimistic about the future of Michigan’s young team. “(The tournament) teaches them to have experience,” Pankratz said of the Wolverines’ younger players. “The seniors brought this program back into elite status in the nation, and the younger players will gain that tradition.” Michigan made its first NCAA Tournament appearance in three years, though Pankratz believed her squad’s No. 9 ranking last year made it deserving of a spot in the Sweet 16. The Wolverines’ youth was on display in Sunday’s game, as Pankratz included six sophomores in the starting lineup. “For a team where 90 percent of the players have never played in the tournament yet in their lives,” Pankratz said, “they played with poise, confidence and maturity. I couldn’t be more proud of them.” Though this season ended on a low note, Michigan has much to look forward to in coming years. Next season, Way, Bennett and Swenson will be juniors and with a taste of NCAA Tournament experience behind them, the Wolverines will be the experienced team.
Niagara falls to Wolverines Fast start paces Michigan; road trip to Boston University up next By MINH DOAN Daily Sports Editor
The Michigan hockey team’s previous outing was a rough one, a 4-0 loss to Robert Morris at Yost Ice Arena on Oct. 31. Two 3 NIAGARA weeks 7 MICHIGAN passed before the 12th-ranked Wolverines (5-1-1) finally got the chance to hit the ice again to face Niagara. Motivated to push past its first loss of the season, Michigan walked away from Yost Ice Arena with an emphatic 7-3 victory over the Purple Eagles (0-1-1 Atlantic Hockey League, 0-5-2 overall). “It was good to get back into a game,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “You try to create a game condition and a game intensity in practice. Some days we’re good, and some days we’re not so good. But I thought we executed a lot better tonight. “You’d like to be able to get back out there the next week. We practiced all week like we weren’t playing, and we had to ramp it up again this week.” Within 10 seconds of the opening faceoff, junior forward JT Compher found himself on a breakaway after a nifty faceoff play. But Niagara goaltender Joe O’Brien was up to the task, getting a blocker on Compher’s shot and denying Michigan the chance to grab the early lead. “There’s more and more faceoff plays in hockey now,” Berenson said. “Whether it’s the center ice faceoff or an offensive zone faceoff, we’re just trying to make things happen.” Niagara wasn’t so lucky seven minutes later when freshman forward Kyle Connor found himself wide open just outside the right faceoff circle. Connor collected the feed from
sophomore defenseman Sam Piazza and fired the puck home, past O’Brien’s glove to give Michigan the 1-0 lead. From there, the Wolverines took it to O’Brien, scoring twice in one minute. Senior forward Justin Selman redirected a shot, and Connor notched his second of the game. Connor’s second goal was the last straw, and O’Brien was pulled as Michigan went into the first intermission up 3-0. Even with a new Niagara goaltender in net for the second period, Michigan didn’t let up. With just 1:45 gone in the second stanza, Michigan’s third line got on the board when freshman forward Cooper Marody put the Wolverines up by four by redirecting a shot to beat new goaltender Guillaume Therien. “One of our strengths is that we have four lines that can all score,” Marody said. It didn’t get much better for Therien in the second as Michigan peppered the Niagara netminder with shots, breaking through again on the power play when junior forward Tyler Motte tipped a shot from Compher for his fifth goal of the season. Niagara got on the board with 1:49 left in the second period with a goal by Tanner Lomsnes, but by then, it was a moot point. In the third period, Michigan got goals from sophomore forward Tony Calderone and sophomore defense, while Niagara defenseman Niko Kovachis and forward Stanislav Dzakhov tallied for the Purple Eagles. “We’re fortunate to be able to recruit players like Werenski, Connor, (senior forward Boo Nieves) and Compher,” Berenson said. “These guys are all top recruits, and they can score. I know we can be top offensively.
We just have to play them with the right people and in the right role.” In the Michigan net, senior goaltender Steve Racine earned the start and excelled, stopping 21 shots and flashing the leather multiple times throughout the game before giving way to freshman Chad Catt with 9:52 left in the game. “I thought (Racine) played well,” Werenski said. “He made big saves for us. It’s also good to start 3-0 there in the first period to give him some confidence.”
“It was good to get back into a game.”
With a trip to No. 11 Boston University looming in a week, it would’ve been easy for the Wolverines to look past their game against a winless Niagara team. But instead, Michigan buckled down and will head to Boston off arguably its best game of the season thus far. “It’s a one-game weekend, there’s nothing to save it for,” Berenson said. “We know we have a tough opponent next week, and we have to get our game up to another level. I thought we took a step towards that tonight.”
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Kyle Connor’s goal jumpstarted the Michigan offense against Niagara.
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Five things we learned from Saturday Rudock playing bigger than ever, but Glasgow’s absence could prove costly
become a team susceptible to upsets and underwhelming performances. 4. Michigan has recovered from its late-game woes.
By ZACH SHAW Daily Sports Editor
Very little went as expected for the Michigan football team Saturday. The 14th-ranked Wolverines won, beating Indiana 48-41 in double-overtime, but the game played out in dissimilar fashion than most have this season. The defense, previously the best in the country, gave up a season-high 41 points, while fifth-year senior quarterback Jake Rudock set a school record with six touchdown passes to go along with 504 total yards of offense. Though Michigan won as expected, there were plenty of lessons learned about the Wolverines. The Daily breaks down five things we learned from Saturday. 1. Ryan Glasgow’s absence is a big loss — literally and figuratively. By the time redshirt junior defensive tackle Ryan Glasgow left midway through Michigan’s 49-16 win over Rutgers a weekend ago, the Scarlet Knights were too far behind to capitalize. But with a week to prepare, the Hoosiers saw the hole the 6-foot-7, 297-pound lineman’s absence created. Indiana rushed for 307 yards Saturday — more than doubling the previous high of 144 yards allowed by Michigan’s defense. Running back Jordan Howard ran for 248 yards and two touchdowns. The previous best individual rushing output against the Wolverines was just
RUDOCK From Page 1A He did not flinch when Michigan trailed by seven points and less than three minutes remained on the scoreboard. Rudock marched the Wolverines right down the field. He did not flinch when six seconds remained in the game and Michigan had the ball on the Hoosiers’ five-yard line on fourth down. Rudock threw a strike to redshirt junior wide receiver Jehu Chesson, who was sandwiched by defenders. He did not flinch in the game’s first overtime, when Indiana had already scored a touchdown and the options were either to score a touchdown or kiss his team’s Big Ten championship dreams goodbye. Rudock threw a 21-yard touchdown to Butt on the second play of the possession. And with a chance to win the game in the second overtime, Rudock threw a 25-yard touchdown to redshirt junior wide receiver Amara Darboh, who was wide open. Hill’s play on the ensuing possession sealed the game. It was a game the Wolverines
BULTMAN From Page 1B senior quarterback Jake Rudock lined up on the five-yard line, it wasn’t 4th-and-goal. It was 4th-and-everything. Rudock threw the ball high to redshirt junior receiver Jehu Chesson, the man who had matched Indiana tit-for-tat all game long. As all of Memorial Stadium watched with baited breath, Chesson came down with the ball between two defenders, giving Michigan second life. There was going to be overtime in Bloomington. Right? Not necessarily. There was still an extra point to kick. For a team that entered the game No. 1 nationally in special teams efficiency, that shouldn’t have been much concern. But Michigan had already had its heart ripped out on a “gimme” special teams play against the Spartans. It had
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Michigan’s defensive line will have a major void to fill with redshirt junior Ryan Glasgow out for the season with a pectoral injury.
81 yards. Things grew worse after the game, however, when Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh announced that Glasgow would likely be out for the season with a pectoral injury. Players and coaches reiterated all week that the rotation-heavy defensive front was deep enough to survive, but the results in the game showed otherwise. “It looked like we were playing like we were undermanned. We were tired,” Harbaugh said. “We’re just going to have to suck it up. ... There’s nothing in football you hate to see more than when a team goes on a long drive and only runs the football. That was all they did.”
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777 yards and eight touchdowns in the last two weeks. Because Rudock was unable to work with the Michigan coaching staff or the full team until August, there’s a chance he’s just now hitting his stride. If that’s the case, Michigan’s upcoming matchups against Penn State (7-3) and Ohio State (10-0) seem much more manageable.
2. Jake Rudock can carry the
Things looked much brighter on the other side of the ball, as Rudock had a career day. The 504 yards of offense and six touchdowns will stay in the record books, but it was his leadership that allowed him to lead the Wolverines on a lastminute drive to tie the game with two seconds left, which means more in the present. “He is unflappable,” Harbaugh said. “He just does not flinch, does not matter what the situation is. He talks, he gives feedback, he’s exactly the same all the time. He’s got ice water in his veins.” Aside from a few setbacks, Rudock has gotten better as the season progresses, throwing for
felt they had to win. First, there were the obvious stakes: If Michigan wins its next two games and Ohio State defeats Michigan State next weekend, the Wolverines will face the Buckeyes on Nov. 28 for a berth in the Big Ten Championship. But then, Darboh said after the game, there were other implications. Before the game, all of Michigan’s players scrawled the hashtag “#ChadTough” on their helmets. The Wolverines decided to dedicate the game to Chad Carr, the grandson of former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr. The younger Carr, just five years old, is currently in hospice care while he battles an inoperable brain tumor. “Any time you dedicate a game to someone, you obviously want to win,” Darboh said. At first, the task did not seem like it would be a difficult one. Indiana (0-6 Big Ten, 4-6 overall), has enjoyed little success in the conference this season. The Wolverines (5-1, 8-2) had everything on the line. Michigan came out firing. Rudock and Chesson were on the same page from the start. They connected for three first-half touchdown passes, and Michigan
jumped out to a 21-9 lead in the middle of the second quarter. Chesson, like Rudock, had a career day. He finished with four receiving touchdowns and 207 yards on 10 receptions. The effort wasn’t enough to put away the Hoosiers. The Wolverines’ defense, once infallible, struggled mightily at times. Indiana running back Jordan Howard rushed for 238 yards and two touchdowns on 35 carries. Michigan’s defense appeared worn out by the Hoosiers’ up-tempo offense. Indiana ran play after play within seconds of each other, rarely slowing down, and took its first lead of the game with 7:40 remaining in the third quarter. The Hoosiers did not relinquish it until Allen kicked a field goal with 6:57 left in the game. Even then, they gained it right back with an eight-play, 69-yard touchdown drive. The Wolverines’ defense felt the absence of redshirt junior defensive tackle Ryan Glasgow, who missed the game with a pectoral injury. Harbaugh doesn’t expect him back during the team’s stretch run. Michigan is battered and bruised, but it could not be beaten Saturday.
“It’s suck-it-up time,” Harbaugh said. His team received the message. It did not let defensive and special team lapses become its undoing. Even the offense was stagnant at times. But in the end, after Hill made his final play and Rudock finished his day, those hiccups proved to be nothing more. Rudock, true to form, didn’t emit so much as a grin in his postgame press conference. Without the aid of a stat sheet, it was unclear whether he threw for six touchdown passes or zero. Junior cornerback Jourdan Lewis reacted in a similar fashion. He wasn’t thrilled with how his unit played. His demeanor wasn’t one emblematic of victory. Harbaugh, however, allowed himself a few grins. He hung around the outskirts of Memorial Stadium 45 minutes after the celebration ended as he waited to board the team bus. He stood just a few yards away from where Hill made the game-ending play. Children hoarded him for autographs, and Michigan fans screamed his catchphrase, “Who’s got it better than us?” The answer was almost Indiana.
already given up a punt return for a touchdown against the Hoosiers, and a low snap earlier in the game led to a missed field goal. There was no comfort. There was only terror. And indeed, Scott Sypniewski’s snap was low. Fortunately for Michigan, though, Blake O’Neill corralled it just time for Kenny Allen to send it to overtime. In the extra period, Indiana scored, then Michigan countered, then the Wolverines struck again. Indiana drove right down to the 2-yard line, in position to punch it in again and continue the agony. The ball was in Mitchell Paige’s hands.
hands. Instead, they went to the air. In retrospect, the fourthdown play wouldn’t have even happened without Hill, who kept Sudfeld out of the end zone one play earlier. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said he saw Sudfeld targeting the matchup on Hill as the play developed. Hill didn’t know they would throw at him. It’s fitting that the play that could have cost Michigan its season came down to instinct. Instinct is fickle and, of course, chaotic. After all, O’Neill was just following instinct when he tried to punt the ball after fumbling it against the Spartans, and it cost him dearly. But when Hill reached into Paige’s hands and plucked out the ball, his aggression paid off. Like O’Neill, he didn’t have time to hesitate. He saw the ball was coming, and he had to get it out. His instincts came through. The season lived.
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*** Delano Hill’s gut told him Indiana would run. It was only logical, after Howard’s domination, that the Hoosiers would leave their fate in his
3. Facing Ohio State at 9-2 is far from inevitable. Though the matchups can be manageable if Rudock plays otherworldly, the odds of that happening are very slim. Rutgers (119th in the nation in passing yards allowed) and Indiana (127th) have the worst
When the press conferences ended and the field cleared out, a large group of fans waited just behind the end zone where Hill made his stand. Harbaugh came out, and kids and parents alike clamored for pictures and autographs. Harbaugh met them along a fence, trying to appease them until it was clear he couldn’t possibly get to them all. They shouted to him, with their hopes still high, as Harbaugh walked away. He had a bus to catch. Soon, across the stadium, the buses were exiting the parking lot, honking continuously in celebration. Their cargo was on its way back to Ann Arbor with a game to prepare for next week at Penn State. Somehow, it still matters. Bultman can be reached at bultmanm@umich.edu and on Twitter @m_bultman.
pass defenses in the Big Ten by a wide margin, while Penn State (second) and Ohio State (seventh) are not only among the conference’s best, but also the nation’s. After Michigan’s blowout win over Rutgers, many had begun to assume that the Wolverines would blow past the Hoosiers and Nittany Lions to enter the Nov. 28 matchup against the Buckeyes with a shot at the Big Ten East title. But after showing major defensive holes and failing to receive production from its running backs (82 yards on 21 carries), it has become clear that Michigan is far from the unrelenting force many thought it was earlier in the season. Instead, the Wolverines have
For much of the past three seasons, Michigan has struggled mightily in close-yet-winnable games. Whether it was blowing late leads, comebacks that fell just short or catastrophic fumbled punts, the Wolverines have had difficulty walking away with wins when they should. But in its last two close games, Michigan has stood tall. Against Minnesota, a goal-line stand put an end to a wild win after the team nearly blew a lead. And against Indiana, the Wolverines regained a lead they had previously blown. Part of the change can be attributed to an older and wiser team than in past years, but much of it is simply learning how to win close games. Even in an uncharacteristically bad game for the defense and an exhausting day for the offense, Michigan was able to close it out. “Our guys found a way to win,” Harbaugh said. “As good a win as you’ll ever have.” 5. BOLD PREDICTION: Jehu Chesson wins the team MVP. Despite a quiet start to the season (190 yards and zero touchdowns receiving in his first seven games), the redshirt junior wide receiver has exploded on the scene, racking up 276 yards and seven touchdowns in his last three games. More importantly, Chesson emerged Saturday as Rudock’s top target. With Michigan leaning more on the passing game in recent weeks, look for Chesson to run away with not only more touchdowns, but the title as the Wolverines’ best player.
THE MICHIGAN DAILY TOP-10 POLL Each week, Daily sports staffers fill out ballots, with first-place votes receiving 10 points, second-place votes receiving nine and so on.
1. CLEMSON: The Tigers only beat Syracuse by 10. But don’t ask Dabo about Clemsoning ...
2. OHIO STATE: Turns out JT Barrett was the first college athlete to steal crab legs. But he said, “I’m the quarterback of Ohio State,” and his problems were solved.
3. ALABAMA: Listen, we know the Tide have been rolling. But you heard it here first: Charleston Southern 21, Alabama 20.
4. OKLAHOMA STATE: T. Boone Pickens done did good.
5. NOTRE DAME: Touchdown Jesus exorcised its Demon (Deacons).
6. OKLAHOMA: We knew they’d be back in the poll Sooner or later.
7. IOWA: The Hawkeyes scored eight fewer points than Michigan this weekend. If only they had a quarterback like Jake Rudock ...
8. FLORIDA: The Gators chomped on the Cocks.
9. MICHIGAN STATE: Connor Cook isn’t injured. His shoulder just felt disrespected.
10. BAYLOR: Oklahoma beat Baylor? It’s like we barely even know ’er anymore.