ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Monday, November 23, 2015
Ann Arbor, Michigan
michigandaily.com
SNOW MUCH FUN
GRANT HARDY /Daily
RYAN MCLOUGHLIN /Daily
LEFT: LSA sophomore Audrey Kim places a carrot on her snowman during the first snowfall of the season at Palmer Field on Saturday. RIGHT: West Quad residents attempt to hold off South Quad attackers in a West Quad vs. South Quad snowball fight on East Madison Street on Saturday night.
ACADEMICS
‘U’ navigates relationship with lecturers Union sees room for pay growth but notes above average wages, conditions By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter
Good — but not perfect. That’s how many University administrators and lecturers describe the current relationship
between their two groups. While this assessment acknowledges some lingering problems, especially when it comes to salaries, the climate places the University in a unique position. For the most part, the University stands in contrast to many other colleges across the country that have seen non-tenure track faculty, like lecturers, mobilizing around a number of issues — namely low pay and poor work conditions. A 2014 report by the American
Association of University Professors showed that on average in the United States, non-tenure track faculty make up 76.4 percent of instructional employees. In 2013, NPR reported that adjunct professors — another term for lecturers — are paid on average $20,000 to $25,000 per year. Those salary numbers have inspired protests at various institutions over past years, including theUniversity of California, Berkeley; Northeastern University and
Rutgers Universitysince April alone. However, the University stands out as an anomaly to those numbers. Lecturers make up 18 percent of all University instructional employees, which also include tenure-track faculty and graduate student instructors. The salaries of lecturers vary, but they earn a mean salary of $70,358 and a minimum salary of $34,000, according to the University’s 2014-2015 salary analysis. Professors earn an average salary
of $161,511. The reasons for the difference between the numbers nationally and at the University, according to both the University and lecturers interviewed for this story, is largely the Lecturer’s Employees Organization, a union formed in 2003 to confront the University on its treatment of lecturers. In 2004, the LEO negotiated its first contract with the University on behalf of the lecturers. The contract covered the Dearborn and Flint campuses in addition
to the Ann Arbor campus, and set minimum salaries with regular raises and added increased job security and benefits. In an interview with The Michigan Daily, LEO President Bonnie Halloran said the movement to form the organization was first based on the issues common to non-tenure track faculty nationwide — low pay and the lack of job security and proper benefits. Before the LEO negotiated a See ADJUNCT, Page 3A
WORLD
FOOTBALL
‘M’ Big Ten title chances still alive
Peace Corps impacted by tech. advances
Another strong day from Rudock helps Wolverines win in State College, 28-16
Online applications, social media change the experience of volunteering abroad
By ZACH SHAW Daily Sports Editor
STATE COLLEGE — As the public-address announcer’s voice echoed throughout Beaver Stadium, the No. 12 Michigan football team streamed onto the field for postgame handshakes with wide smiles and a sense of purpose. The announcer listed stats from the game, but the players weren’t listening. The 13 penalties, two turnovers and countless miscues mattered as little as the four touchdowns and margin of victory. The Wolverines (6-1 Big Ten, 9-2 overall) had just defeated Penn State, 28-16, and all that See PENN STATE, Page 3A
KRISTINA PERKINS / Daily
LSA junior Gabi Kirsch lights the Shabbat candles to begin prayers at her Shabbat dinner on Friday. Kirsch’s dinner was one of the many gatherings hosted by students across campus for ShabUM, an event organized by Hillel.
1,000 attend Shabbat dinners across campus Celebrations feature array of customs, expressions of faith By TANYA MADHANI Daily Staff Reporter
More than 1,000 students and alumni gathered Friday at 50 different locations across campus for a Shabbat dinner, which marks the Jewish
Sabbath, or day of rest. The event, called Shabbat at UM or ShabUM, was sponsored by University of Michigan Hillel and organized by a special committee. LSA senior Ali Meisel, a member of the ShabUM committee, said Hillel hosted the event to celebrate all the different ways people observe Shabbat. “When a Jewish person
thinks of Shabbat, they think of the Friday night dinner and it’s a time where people can come together at the end of a week and really enjoy each other’s company and with their family and friends, and just really be grateful for the week that has just passed,” Meisel said. Though Hillel hosts its own Shabbat dinner every Friday night, Meisel said, the point See SHABUM, Page 3A
By JACKIE CHARNIGA Daily Staff Reporter
Last month marked the 55th anniversary of former President John F. Kennedy’s speech on the steps of the Michigan Union proposing the organization of a United States Peace Corps. Many things have changed since the program’s inception in 1961, most notably the advancement of technology— which has had a profound influence on the application, deployment and service experience of Peace Corps volunteers in recent years, particularly among University participants. Application process In August 2012, the Peace Corps officially switched to an
online application process that allows applicants to apply only to regions in which they have an interest. The previous system accepted only general applications — volunteer assignment locations were later determined based on each location’s varying level of need. Jeanne Paul, who served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil from 1964 to 1966, said because applicants can choose which regions they apply to, certain less desirable locations may no longer have enough volunteers. She said the Peace Corps changed their method of application to appeal to more applicants with a wider variety of experiences and qualifications. “The irony here is that when you allow people to make these choices and to feel that they can determine where they’re going to go and what they’re going to do, you may be attracting people at the same time who won’t easily adjust to the communities where they’re serving,” Paul said. See PEACE CORPS, Page 3A
One more Michigan beat Penn State to set » INSIDE up a showdown with Ohio State
WEATHER TOMORROW
HI: 41 LO: 23
GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know.
NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM Ann Arbor experiences record snowfall MICHIGANDAILY.COM/SECTION/NEWS
INDEX
Vol. CXXV, No. 35 ©2015 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com
NEWS......................... 2A OPINION.....................4A S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7A
SUDOKU.....................2A CL ASSIFIEDS...............6A S P O R T S M O N D AY. . . . . . 1 B
News
2A — Monday, November 23, 2015
MONDAY: This Week in History
TUESDAY: Campus Voices
WEDNESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
THURSDAY: Twitter Talk
10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (NOV. 23, 2005)
FUSION
Graham institute launched
KRISTINA PERKINS/Daily
rXn, a dance group within the Chinese Students Association, performs at Fusion of Cultures, an event to celebrate cultural diversity, at the Michigan Union on Saturday.
Seven University schools collectively launched the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute, an effort to address an energy crisis and reverse the effects of pollution and global warming. This group is a compilation of interdisciplinary environmental research programs from the schools of Natural Resources and Environment, Engineering, Public Health, Business, Architecture and Urban Planning, Public Policy and the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. The cooperation of these disciplines yields practical
environmental projects and solutions. Then-Associate Provost Phil Hanlon emphasized the program’s ability to provide assistance to companies looking to make efficient and environmentally friendly products. He provided the example of a software company aiming to manufacture a fuel-efficient computer. With such a large collective skill set, the GESI would have the resources and information necessary to advise this company, he said. 32 years ago this week (Nov. 23, 1983) University officials began
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Celebrate Trans Day
Energy lecture
DMC studio open house
WHAT: This celebration will include a photo booth, food and button making. WHO: Spectrum Center WHEN: Today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union, Spectrum Center, 3rd floor
WHAT: This lecture will focus on energy in the context of global warming. Pizza will be provided. WHO: Center for Local, State and Urban Policy WHEN: Today from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. WHERE: 1110 Weill Hall, Betty Ford Classroom
WHAT: The latest video production tool will be on display with staff available to explain. WHO: University Library WHEN: Today from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. WHERE: 1122 Duderstadt Center, Media Union
Online advertising lecture WHAT: Ceren Budak will discuss the economics of online advertising. He will also gauge the economic costs of privacy regulation. WHO: Department of Economics WHEN: Today from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: 3100 North Quad
FRIDAY: Photos of the Week
Water turbine building WHAT: A team will be designing and building a water turbine for communities in Brazil. WHO: Pantanal Partnership WHEN: Today from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. WHERE: Mason Hall, Perlman Honors Commons
IT Symposium WHAT: Aiming to foster connections in the community, the event will showcase innovations across campus. A wide variety of topics will be covered, highlighting different expertise. WHO: MI IT Symposium WHEN: Today from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union, multiple rooms
Blood Battle
Piano recital
WHAT: The annual blood drive competition between the University and Ohio State. Appointments are available online and donors can use the code “goblue” to see the drives around campus for November. WHO: Blood Drives United WHEN: Today all day WHERE: Michigan Union, Michigan League, Pierpont Commons and other locations.
WHAT: Students of various professors will perform. WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Today at 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Earl V. Moore Building, Britton Recital Hall Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com.
looking into merit scholarships to attract minority students to the school. Opportunity Program Director Eunice Royster, now E. Royster Harper, the current vice president for student life, was confident in the approach. On the other hand, Salene Hitchcock, then-MSA vice president for minority affairs, the precursor to Central Student Government, disagreed with the merit-based program. She said need-based scholarships would be more appealing and beneficial to more students. — SARAH TWINNEY
THREE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY
1
About a dozen protestors gathered outside a Texas mosque Saturday to protest what they called the “Islamization of America,” the Dallas Morning News reported. Most protestors were carrying guns and expressed anti-Islam ideas.
2
The Michigan football team can clinch a berth in the Big Ten Championship with a win over Ohio State at Michigan Stadium and a Michigan State loss to Penn State in East Lansing on Saturday.
3
The U.S. Department of Justice will investigate the death of 24-year-old Jamal Clark in Minneapolis, the AP reported. Clark, a Black man, was shot by police, officials say, after interacting with paramedics at a party.
Urban planners contribute unique perspectives to council Kirk Westphal, Chip Smith draw on knowledge of city landscapes By EMILY ROBERTS Daily Staff Reporter
With City Council’s two new members installed last month, the addition of one of them also doubles the total number of council members with a background in professional city planning. Councilmember Chip Smith (D–Ward 5) joins Kirk Westphal (D–Ward 2) as the second a council member with an urban planner’s background. As urban planners and council members, they both said they aspire to proactively shape Ann Arbor into an accessible and affordable place to live. “It is really important for us as a community to decide what we
want to be when we grow up, to put it simply,” Smith said. Smith, who is a professional urban planner certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners, currently works for Wade Trim in Detroit, a design and civil engineering firm. Westphal, who holds a masters in urban planning from the University, is the owner of Westphal Associates, a firm focused on aiding businesses with research and advertising. Westphal said he’s found himself using his degree in urban planning in a unique way as a member of the council, recalling a time in his graduate program when a professor asked whether one had to be a professional planner to do city planning. The answer to this question, for Westphal, was no. “Some people do (city planning) through journalism, some people do it through teaching, some people go onto transportation, some people environmental studies,” he
said. “The thing that wasn’t mentioned but what I found myself in was getting involved with local politics.” Urban planners, Smith said, are able to bring “big picture” thinking to the body, which is important in thinking about topics like city development, a frequent discussion point among council members. “The more people on Council that understand the intricacies of development, the better that we can address the growth and development issues,” he said. For Westphal, his desire to be an urban planner came first, and his City Council aspirations second, but he said he’s found they both work together well. “Cities and neighborhoods and transportation had always fascinated me, and I thought that urban planning would really help me scratch that itch,” Westphal said. “I never intended to be an elected official but I saw how my background in urban planning could help inform council discussions for the city as a whole.” Smith echoed Westphal, saying his background has helped him understand the consequences and benefits of development. “(Urban planners) have a keener understanding of the development process and how that process impacts the environment; the human environment and the natural environment,” he said. For both, they said, when it came to policy, creating affordable housing and transit were development priorities for them. “Expanding opportunities for anybody, whether they’re students or not to be able to live here more affordably, will take a lot of political courage and acknowledging that we are willing to change the appearance of parts of the city to accommodate more people,” he said. “And this is difficult to do. We’ve invested a lot more in transit and it’s the perfect opportunity to allow people to live in a way that’s less reliant on cars.”
420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JENNIFER CALFAS ROSE FILIPP
Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 jcalfas@michigandaily.com
Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 rfilipp@michigandaily.com
News Tips
Newsroom
news@michigandaily.com
734-418-4115 opt. 3
Letters to the Editor
Corrections
tothedaily@michigandaily.com
corrections@michigandaily.com
Editorial Page
Arts Section
opinion@michigandaily.com
arts@michigandaily.com
Photography Section
Sports Section
photo@michigandaily.com
sports@michigandaily.com
Classified Sales
Display Sales
classified@michigandaily.com
dailydisplay@gmail.com
Finance
Online Sales
finance@michigandaily.com
onlineads@michigandaily.com
EDITORIAL STAFF Lev Facher Managing Editor Sam Gringlas Managing News Editor
gringlas@michigandaily.com
Aarica Marsh and Derek Wolfe Editorial Page Editors
opinioneditors@michigandaily.com
lfacher@michigandaily.com
SENIOR NEWS EDITORS: Shoham Geva, Will Greenberg, Amabel Karoub, Emma Kerr, Emilie Plesset, Michael Sugerman ASSISTANT NEWS EDITORS: Alyssa Brandon, Jackie Charniga, Katie Penrod, Sami Wintner, Gen Hummer, Emma Kinery, Tanya Madhani, Lara Moehlman, Lea Giotto, Isobel Futter
SENIOR EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS: Claire Bryan and Regan Detwiler ASSISTANT EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS: Mary Kate Winn, Melissa Scholke, Stephanie Trierweiler, Ben Keller
Max Cohen and Jake Lourim Managing Sports Editors
sportseditors@michigandaily.com
SENIOR SPORTS EDITORS: Max Bultman, Minh Doan, Jacob Gase, Simon Kaufman, Jason Rubinstein, Zach Shaw ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS: Chloe Aubuchon, Chris Crowder, Kelly Hall, Ted Janes, Kevin Santo, Brad Whipple
Adam Depollo and Chloe Gilke Managing Arts Editors
adepollo@michigandaily.com chloeliz@michigandaily.com
SENIOR ARTS EDITORS: Jamie Bircoll, Kathleen Davis, Catherine Sulpizio, Adam Theisen ARTS BEAT EDITORS: Alex Bernard, Karen Hua, Jacob Rich, Amelia Zak
Allison Farrand and Ruby Wallau Managing Photo Editors
photo@michigandaily.com
SENIOR PHOTO EDITORS: Luna Anna Archey, James Coller, Virginia Lozano ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITORS: Amanda Allen, Robert Dunne, Zach Moore, Sam Mousigian, San Pham
Emily Schumer and design@michigandaily.com Shane Achenbach Managing Design Editors Ian Dillingham Magazine Editor statement@michigandaily.com DEPUTY MAGAZINE EDITORS: Natalie Gadbois STATEMENT PHOTO EDITOR: Luna Anna Archey STATEMENT LEAD DESIGNER: Jake Wellins
Hannah Bates and Laura Schinagle Managing Copy Editors
copydesk@michigandaily.com
SENIOR COPY EDITORS: Emily Campbell and Emma Sutherland
Amrutha Sivakumar Online Editor amrutha@michigandaily.com Kaylla Cantilina and Katie Colosimo Managing Video Editors Carolyn Gearig Special Projects Manager
BUSINESS STAFF Hussein Hakim Finance and Operations Manager Claire Ulak Production Manager Jordan Yob Marketing Manager Matt Pfenning UAccounts Manager Asja Kepes Local Accounts Manager Colin Cheesman National Accounts Manager Anna He Special Guides and Online Manager Claire Butz Layout Manager The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $110. Winter term (January through April) is $115, yearlong (September through April) is $195. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press.
F U T U R E PA L E O N T O L O G I S T
GRANT HARDY/Daily
LSA freshman Jacob Cutler teaches 3-year-old Nikolai about allosaurus teeth during a tour of the dinosuars at the University’s Museum of Natural History on Saturday.
Michigan Stadium plans Saturday security increase All spectators will be asked to open their coats, outerwear for inspections By KATIE PENROD Daily Staff Reporter
It might take a little longer to get through the line and into the Big House on Saturday as the University adds security measures for the upcoming football game against Ohio State. Though the Division of Public Safety and Security says there are no current specific threats, security officers will now ask each spectator to open
their coat or outerwear for visual inspection for prohibited items. Law enforcement may also pat down fans or ask them to empty their pockets for further inspection. People who refuse the checks will be denied entry. The list of prohibited items, which has already been in place, includes bags, drones, selfie sticks, weapons, bottles and umbrellas. This list will be strictly enforced. Exceptions for medical needs may be permitted, but supplies must be in a clear bag. When asked whether the precautions are being enacted in response to recent terrorist attacks targeting public spaces in Paris and elsewhere, DPSS spokesperson Diane Brown
declined to provide additional comment. She said more information may be available at an athletics media briefing on Monday. Joe Piersante, director of University Security Services with DPSS said the department often adjusts security protocols depending on the situation. “We want this to be a safe environment for our patrons and area neighbors,” he wrote. “We regularly analyze our security plans and make modifications as necessary.” With a capacity of 107,601, Michigan Stadium has the highest spectator capacity of any football stadium in the United States.
LET US DARE TO READ, THINK, SPEAK AND WRITE. Which president said this? E-mail news@michigandaily.com if you know the answer.
News
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
NEWS BRIEFS
‘U’ takes American Campuses Act on Climate Pledge The University, along with more than 200 other colleges, has signed the American Campuses Act on Climate pledge, according to a University press release. The pledge supports world leaders taking strong actions against climate change. The list of supporters was released by the White House Office of Science and Technology last Thursday, and a group of 10 faculty members and students will be attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris beginning Nov. 30 as part of the pledge. Participants in the U.N. conference will be from the School of Information, the School of Natural Resources and Environment, the College of Engineering and the Public Policy School.
Ann Arbor receives record-hitting 10.7 inches of snow Snowfall in Ann Arbor hit an all-time record for a 24-hour period in the month of November, with almost a foot of snow accumulating across the city on Saturday. The first records date back to 1880. Saturday’s snow totaled 10.7 inches on the University’s campus, according to the National Weather Service. Snowfall tallies varied across the county. Some parts of town received less, like southeast Ann Arbor, where 9.6 inches of snow was recorded. In Manchester, in the southwest corner of Washtenaw County, more than 14 inches of snow fell Saturday. According to Dennis Kahlbaum, the University’s staff meteorologist, this variance was due to a dry pocket in the weather system that formed during the storm, causing the county’s northern and western parts experienced more snow than other areas. Even though Ann Arbor saw a record for a 24-hour period, the overall snowfall was not the biggest in the state. Howell. recorded 16.5 inches of snow as of 8:45 a.m. Saturday. —TANYA MADHANI
FOLLOW US @michigan daily PENN STATE From Page 1A mattered now was Ohio State. Michigan overcame a slew of untimely penalties, a poor run game and a hostile Penn State crowd to not only win, but also keep its Big Ten Championship hopes alive. “It was a great win,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. “The amount of players that contributed to this win was very higher — probably our highest total of the season. … There was a lot of guys sucking it up and playing good, winning football.” Much of that good, winning football came from fifth-year senior quarterback Jake Rudock. After compiling 777 yards and eight touchdowns in the last two weeks, Rudock was back at it against the Nittany Lions (4-3, 7-4) on Saturday. In a back-and-forth game, the reigning Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week threw for 256 yards and two touchdowns on 25-for-38 passing. Both of his touchdowns came immediately after the defense allowed a score. After the Nittany Lions scored
SHABUM From Page 1A of ShabUM was to foster a comfortable space for those who may not feel comfortable going to a Hillel dinner. “We know that’s not for everybody and not everybody wants to come to Hillel,” she said. “This event is an opportunity, as the slogan says, to ‘bring Shabbat home,’ which means that different people with particular interests are able to have their own personal Shabbat dinners.” The ShabUM committee supplied each Shabbat host with a goodie bag that included the weekly Torah portion, matches with “Michigan” written in Hebrew on the box and a cloth cover for challah, a type of Jewish egg bread, also inscribed with Michigan in Hebrew. Hosts were welcome to use any
ADJUNCT From Page 1A contract with the University, Halloran, who is also a lecturer, said she was not a full-time employee and made only $19,700. After the contract, she said, she saw a 43-percent raise in pay. “This is the kind of thing that galvanized people to form a union,” Halloran said. “The pay rates were so low that they were basically poverty wages.” At the time when negotiations began, Halloran said, the University recognized the problem that existed in the community. “The University was willing to work with the unions. They did not start from the point that unions are hostile,” she said. “They knew that what we were asking for was reasonable and a public embarrassment.” Jeffery Frumkin, associate vice provost for academic and faculty affairs and director of academic human resources, expressed similar sentiments. “There are other institutions who took a pretty hard stance when their lecturers organized, but for the leaders of this institution that was never really on the table,” Frumkin said. “My sense was there’s a reason that they wanted to unionize, and there were treatments of people that had go one for time and time without being reviewed.” In terms of relations between the LEO and the University, Halloran said the negotiations have yielded positive results and that adjuncts at the University have one of the best contracts in the country. However, she and other lecturers noted that despite the strides made in the last 10 years, issues still remain. In particular, Halloran said, lecturers are still underpaid for the skills they bring to their jobs. “These are people with advanced degrees and this is the type of pay they get,” she
a field goal on the opening drive, Rudock found junior tight end Jake Butt for a touchdown on the ensuing possession. Later, when Penn State took a 10-7 lead with a touchdown, Rudock connected with redshirt junior wide receiver Amara Darboh for an 11-yard score to close the first half. “Just finding a way,” Rudock said. “Scratching, itching, clawing, whatever you have to do to get points on the board. It’s what we have to do.” With the performance, Rudock became the first quarterback in Michigan history to throw for 250 yards or more in three consecutive weeks. As in recent games, the run game continued to struggle for the Wolverines. Five backs combined for just 87 yards on 30 carries, but senior fullback Sione Houma found the end zone after the Nittany Lions fumbled a punt, setting Michigan up for an easy score. And with just over five minutes to go in the game and Penn State trailing just 21-16, junior running back De’Veon Smith scored from two yards out to provide the dagger Michigan needed. Before that dagger came, the
or all of the items, which are included in traditional Shabbat dinners. Meisel said the event meant a lot to her because of the significance Shabbat has for her personally. “Judaism is a really big part of my identity and I’ve always loved Shabbat dinners,” she said. “Even though the general, basic aspects of Shabbat dinners can be the same, if that means eating challah, one of the ritual breads, or if it’s lighting candles, the experience is different no matter where you are. I’m really excited that I get to facilitate other people having their unique individual Shabbat experiences, especially for people who don’t usually celebrate it at all.” LSA senior Gabi Kirsch, co-president of Ahava, an LGBTQ student organization that is part of Hillel, hosted a Shabbat dinner that aimed to be inclusive of queer individuals.
said. “We are teaching these really key classes that are all essential parts of the students’ education, and the people who are teaching them are well trained but poorly paid.” Melinda Matice, a lecturer in the English Language Institute, echoed Halloran’s statement, pointing to the impacts of lecturers on defraying the University’s costs. “As universities have become more expensive I think it is important to add that the amount of teaching that lecturers do really helps keep the costs down,” she said. “I think it would be fair to inquire why costs continue to rise when our pay isn’t rising accordingly, that rise is not reflected in the people who are doing the majority of the teaching.” Frumkin said the University has done a lot to meet the needs of the union, but understands that there is more the union wants to address. “I think the first contract went a long way to meeting the objectives of the union,” Frumkin said. “It’s still not everything they want, but that is OK because that is what unions do.” Alexandra Matish, associate director of academic human resources at the University, said the University has a solid working relationship with the LEO, but they still have disagreements. “We have a very good working relationship with them,” Matish said. “We don’t always agree but we have a very good working relationship. I would be surprised if they were pleased with it, but that is part of the job of a union to continue to advocate for their members.” Speaking to wages, which is what both sides identified as the largest point of contention, Halloran said lack of prioritization is the reason lecturer pay isn’t higher. “The University could set different kinds of priorities,” Halloran said. “They could put more money into undergraduate education and
Wolverines’ defense continued to exhibit the big-play woes that have plagued it all month. Penn State running back Saquon Barkley broke loose for a 56-yard run on the game’s opening drive to set up a field goal, and quarterback Christian Hackenberg found receiver Saeed Blacknall for a 25-yard touchdown in the first half’s waning moments. Michigan’s defense buckled down in the second half, however, ending the game with 10 tackles for loss and just 207 yards — including just 74 in the second half — allowed on 54 plays. In four trips to the red zone, Penn State mustered just nine points. “It’s been remarkable the way our defense is playing, and I can’t imagine anyone’s playing any better,” Harbaugh said. “The amount of guys that stepped up was really a lot. … I’m really trying to single one guy out, but I can’t.” With each defensive stop and ensuing score, the Wolverines quieted the crowd of 107,418 in Beaver Stadium. As the players left the field, the hundreds of Michigan fans that made the trip remained and began chanting “Beat Ohio.”
“The actual name of the event, actually, is One Fish, Two Fish, Queer Fish, Jew Fish,” she said. Kirsch said she thought it was important to give Jews a queer space on campus that isn’t necessarily in a straight or heteronormative perspective, such as for traditional events like Shabbat. “It’s important to have a queer space in general, just because I think a lot time queer Jews have to sort of self-censor,” she said. “Either they’re in a queer space and they have to censor being Jewish, because it’s not so typical, or they’re in a Jewish space and they have to censor being queer. It gets really tiring and exhausting having to censor like that and always being aware of how you’re coming off.” Noting the integral role Shabbat plays for many Jews growing up, Kirsch said she felt that significance made it
pay their lecturers a fair salary for what they are doing.” Frumkin disagreed with Halloran’s assessment of the situation and cited the decentralized nature of budgets instead as the reason for variation in salaries across different disciplines. “The dean has the responsibility for managing his or her resources,” Frumkin said. “We have a wide range of salaries on campus, but that is not unique to the lecturers. The salary ranges for tenure-track faculty vary all over the place.” Overall, both sides said they agree that the University has done a lot to compromise with the unions, but disagreements on issues like wages still exist between the two groups. Judy Dyer, lecturer in the English Language Institute, said while she still thinks pay is still too low, she is grateful for what the union has accomplished. “Salaries are pitifully low,” she said. “However, I would hate to work in a university as a lecturer without a union because all of the things we got, we got together.” Frumkin said he had heard about the types of poor relationships that many universities have with their non-tenure track faculty and feels the one at the University is above the standard. “We are so far removed from that now, but that doesn’t mean everything is perfect,” he said. “From an overall standpoint, looking at what has been accomplished by LEO and the University in the three areas of salary, benefits, and job security, it’s a very different kind of supportive and protective relationship in comparison to other institutions.” Halloran said she is proud to work for the University, but still hopes for improvement, especially in regard to wages. “It’s a good place to work, but it doesn’t mean it’s perfect,” she said. “It’s not as embarrassing now as it used to be, but it is still really low pay.”
Michigan had conquered its latest opponent, and was on to the next week. “Whenever you win a road game, you’re not just overcoming the other team, you’re overcoming the other team’s fans,” Harbaugh said. “That really makes you feel like a man when you do that.” Despite the win, the Wolverines’ hopes of winning the Big Ten East took a hit on Saturday when, later in the afternoon, Michigan State defeated Ohio State in Columbus. Michigan’s path to the Big Ten Championship Game now hinges on not only a win over Buckeyes, but also Penn State upsetting the Spartans in East Lansing. However, after a long and hectic season, the Wolverines can tune out the noise and focus solely on Ohio State. With wide smiles and a sense of purpose, Michigan’s dreams are still alive. “It’s fun to be in this environment and this position,” Harbaugh said. “It’s fun to be in the playoffs. In our minds, we’ve been in it for weeks. “We’re right where we want to be, and we’re playing for the championship.”
Monday, November 23, 2015 — 3A especially important to host a specifically LGBTQ dinner. “It’s not that everyone is having a conversation about being queer out there,” she said. “The goal is that they can have it and not feel like they’re the only one in the room who’s feeling that way or have had those experiences.” LSA sophomore Sara Bender-Bier spent the most of her Friday cooking to get ready for her dinner, which mostly included freshmen. People in her apartment, she said, had always been eager to host Hillel events, which is why they decided to host Shabbat dinner. “We like cooking and we really like the idea of having a bunch of people over for Shabbat and making it more of a homey feel,” she said. “At Hillel, you have so many people there, sometimes it can be really overwhelming even though it’s a really great community, but when you’re here in a home, it
feels more comfortable.” Bender-Bier said her dinner didn’t include any religious services before it started because she wanted to make her guests feel as comfortable as possible. “There are some people that don’t feel comfortable going to Hillel because they don’t feel that observant, that religious,” she said. “We didn’t have any rituals beforehand, we just have the prayers and if you want to go to the services at Hillel before you can, but there’s no pressure to do anything super religious.” Overall, she said she hoped that by coming to ShabUM, her guests could form new friendships and explore Judaism more. “There are so many ways to be Jewish and not a lot of people realize that there’s more than one way,” she said. “Hopefully this makes them feel more comfortable.”
PEACE CORPS From Page 1A
quite a feat in the Peace Corps. Using car batteries to charge phones or traveling to a city to sit in a coffee shop are the norm for many volunteers who are seeking electricity. Paul said she’s had return volunteers tell her they have to walk to the highest elevation in the area to find cell phone reception, even if that spot is hours away. Even so, she said, every volunteer brings a cell phone. Though technology is not largely used for teaching purposes, both Barnes and Bielajew brought cell phones to their countries of deployment, and used them regularly. Bielajew said she was one of few community members to have a smartphone. “I use my smartphone all the time for personal reasons, like talking with other volunteers and friends back at home through WhatsApp,” Bielajew said. “Many of the members of my community have a cell phone, but only a few of the more well-off people have a smartphone.” Barnes said she was unsure of what to expect of the technology in Guatemala, and she heard mixed accounts of cell phone access and the presence of Internet cafes. She said as unpredictable as it was, media access provided her comfort during her service. “I use Facebook occasionally to update friends and family back home and try to share with them some of what I’m learning about the culture of Malawi,” Bielajew said. “ I don’t remember the last time I read or watched the news because it just takes too long to load on my phone.” Reintegration into society It can be difficult for Peace Corps volunteers to reintegrate into society upon return. Paul said a smooth integration to a new society is influenced by the volunteers’ expectations. Negative expectations can make reintegration difficult for those returning. She said volunteers return with one foot in the culture of the host community and another foot in their native culture, which can be difficult to reconcile. “They expect culture shock when they go, they don’t expect culture shock when they come back and it’s very painful to discover most Americans are not interested in what they learned,” Paul said. “And when they come back they’re very different people.” When Paul returned, the landscape of American culture had gone through an upheaval during her 27 months in Brazil. “Women were ironing their hair on an ironing board, women were all wearing miniskirts, there was mass murder in this country for the first time and there was inflation — a term we’d never heard before,” Paul said. For Barnes, the reintegration period was not as difficult, largely due to access to technology, which Paul did not have during his service. Due to access to communication mediums like e-mail and Facebook, Barnes said, it did not feel as though the world had moved on without her. “I was a little behind the times as far as popular culture and music went,” Barnes said. “But I had at least heard of ‘Game of Thrones’ — even if I didn’t know what it was.”
Paul is the founder and administrator of the Southeast Michigan Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Applicant-Mentoring Program, a program which matches former volunteers with students and community members interested in applying. The program works in conjunction with the School of Information and the Peace Corps. Rackham student Benjamin Morse, a former Peace Corps volunteer and strategic campus recruiter for the corps, served in Hawzen, Ethiopia from 2011 to 2013. In addition to being able to apply to specific regions, Morse said the online application process has also allowed volunteers to gain more information about where they’re going before they leave. When he was deployed, prior to the online application, he said he had no information until right before he departed. “It was this elusive process where you never really knew where you were going until right at the end,” Morse said. Because he could not, at that time, apply to any particular region, after being admitted, Morse was nominated by the corps for a specific region. Morse was asked to serve in sub-Saharan Africa, and told he would depart that October. Morse said he was not permitted to know what country he was going to until 10 days after he was told his region. Technology access during service University alum Rachel Bielajew currently serves as a math education Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi and will complete her service in September 2017. Rackham student Megan Barnes served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala. Though technological advancement is seen as vital in the Western world, both Barnes and Bielajew said they found little use for advanced technology in the field. Bielajew said her work teaching math largely lacks technological tools. “In my work as a teacher I use very little (technology),” Bielajew said. “Day to day, it’s just a chalkboard, chalk and me.” Bielajew said her school is currently trying to acquire a computer, despite limited funds. She brought her laptop to Malawi and is using it to teach her fellow teachers and community members how to use a computer, or to show films to her students to help them practice English. In contrast, Barnes said she remembered visiting a remote community with no electricity that had been gifted a complete solar-powered computer lab. She said the gift went largely unused. “It was reputed that no one knew how to use or fix the computers so they went unused,” Barnes said. “I thought a thing like that would be nice for my community, but saw the sustainability challenges with installing a ‘gifted’ technology suite’that would then be left to gather dust.” Charging a cell phone is
Opinion
4A — Monday, November 23, 2015
Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com JENNIFER CALFAS EDITOR IN CHIEF
AARICA MARSH and DEREK WOLFE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS
LEV FACHER MANAGING EDITOR
Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solely the views of their authors.
FROM THE DAILY
Indigenous Peoples Day The University should recognize newly created holiday
T
he Ann Arbor City Council voted unanimously on Nov. 16 to designate the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day. A couple of days later, the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners followed suit at the request of commissioner Yousef Rabhi. The new holiday, meant to replace Columbus Day, was the result of collaboration between Councilmember Chuck Warpehoski (D–Ward 5) and various local indigenous groups and their allies. The decree is obviously a welcome change, as Columbus Day has been a topic of controversy, and shows much-warranted consideration of native communities here in the Ann Arbor area. However, the county’s recognition of the holiday is somewhat diminished by the University’s questionable history with its Native American constituents. Now that progress is the law of the land, the University should follow suit by recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day and set the tone for a new era of alliance with those community members who deserve our respect. The University was founded (both in its original location in Detroit and its current location in Ann Arbor) on what was once Native American land with the permission of the 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs. But in the years following its conception, the school has done little to honor this grant. Additionally, students showed their prejudiced attitudes toward Native Americans in tasteless club traditions like those of the Order of Angell — a University organization (which changed its name from the pseudotribal “Michigamua” in 2006) with a long, murky past rooted in blatant insensitivity. In its heyday, the formerly secret society initiated its members with public rituals involving sacred Native American regalia and religious items, such as peace pipes, drums and totems. Acts such as these were called out as unacceptable by not only the indigenous community in Ann Arbor, but also various organizations on campus. Having undergone so much intense scrutiny, the Order fully ceased these despicable activities by 1989. Further, University possession of Native American artifacts has also been a point of contention in the past. In March 2008, members of the Saginaw Chippewa tribe requested rights to what Museum of Anthropological Archaeology officials deemed “unidentifiable” artifacts, but because ownership of ambiguously cultured objects was not ruled illegal by the Native
American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, their efforts were futile. It was not until two years later in 2010 that the federal court became involved and demanded the University return the remains to their rightful place. With these instances in mind, the University should take full advantage of this opportunity to make amends with its neighbors. A good start would be to eradicate the recognition of Columbus Day from University calendars and planners; an even better effort would be to recognize local tribes like those of the Three Fires — Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatami — by hosting a day or more of events in collaboration with them. The University of California, Berkeley, for example, holds a day-long festival that features an exhibition and gourd dancing, as well as an “Indian market” with handmade products from local tribes. Simply bringing in native speakers to share their experiences with the student body would also be a step in the right direction. The Native American community in Ann Arbor is essential to the history of both the city and the University. Recognition of their influence is commendable, but deliberate effort by the University to acknowledge and appreciate them is warranted if we are to celebrate this new holiday with integrity. Given our disreputable history, it is the least we can do.
SARAH KHAN | VIEWPOINT
My heart hurts too
My heart aches. For Lebanon. France. Nigeria. Syria. For both the reported and unreported deaths and injuries. For every wound made in this world from the incessant violence. My heart aches. For the brown people who may have been safe from those attacks, but aren’t safe from the public’s. I can’t hide that I’m Muslim, so whenever an act of terror happens, I can’t mourn in peace. I’m stuck in a glass room in which all eyes are on me. Even when I’m angry, sad and frustrated — having the same feelings you have — I have no space for it in my glass box. And when I’m finally able to grasp my arms around my emotions and reactions, you start to ask. When you ask me to be “brave” when everyone else is encouraged to fear me, you are asking for a piece of me. When you ask me to apologize for what happened, you are asking for a piece of me. When you ask me to condemn what happens, you are asking for a piece of me. And even as you simply ask, I find myself unraveling as you move to collect the pieces. Islamophobia is not my paranoia. Islamophobia is hijabi women being denied entry into a store, brown families asked to step off of flights for making the staff uncomfortable, governors of 31 states announcing their unwillingness to accept Syrian refugees, arson attacks on masjids, Muslim and non-Muslim brown persons fearing for their lives while walking on the street, death threats and not being allowed to call your country your home. Islamophobia is not me being over-emotional, or self-victimizing or me exaggerating. Islamophobia is me — having a man I’ve never met grab me on the street so that I’m forced to listen to him. Islamophobia is me — being verbally harassed on the street for wearing hijab. Islamophobia is me — ner-
vous for my brown dad traveling on an international flight in two days. Islamophobia is me — always thinking about how much easier it would be if I took off my hijab. Islamophobia is me — realizing that even if I did, I would still be unsafe. It’s strange to have your beliefs plastered in flashy headlines, 140 characters and disturbing images. Religion has always been something very personal to me, and I never would have thought that I would have to defend and answer for it so often. Islam was taught to me by my parents and community to prioritize good character, honesty and humility. And when I’m asked to explain myself and my religion for its “violent,” “barbaric,” “oppressive” beliefs, I can’t answer you. Because you aren’t talking about my religion. You’re talking about a group of individuals who make up a miniscule percentage of those who identify as Muslim. If you are going to paint a whole race, region or religion with your label of “terrorist,” then you better have done your research. And if you did do your research, you would realize that you’ve made a minority your majority, and that you are mistaken. In fact, by far, more Muslims have died at the hands of ISIS than any other group. ISIS, and other terrorist organizations, are exactly that — organizations that are focused on building political power. They are corrupt people who use the pretense of religion to achieve their goals. And that means I will mourn — for the hundreds of black and brown people who don’t have the benefit of your doubt, whose lives do not matter when white lives are lost, who are forced out of their homes, who are painted in broad strokes and who escape one terror only to be attacked with another. So this is me asking you to stop with the Islamophobia and xenophobia. Stop using me as your target practice for your frustration. Because my heart hurts, too. Sarah Khan is a Michigan in Color editor.
O
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Misguided empathy for Paris
n Nov. 13, Paris was hit by a series of terrorists attacks. By the night’s end, a barrage of shooting and suicide bombings left about 130 people dead and hundreds more injured. This was the most deadly attack France has faced since World War II. The reaction SAM from the tragedy COREY naturally sparked widespread fear across the globe, particularly in Western countries. Collectively, the public’s heightened fear has initiated a call for immediate security from our national governments. Although this is a natural human reaction, the response is socially and politically misguided. Emotionally speaking, our fear of terrorism is warranted. After witnessing terrorist activity in Paris (in addition to that in Beirut and Mali), people became increasingly intimidated. They should be. Since technological advancements have spread to more people with no official (or elected) power, the capacity of an individual or small group of people to cause extensive destruction has become a growing concern. As Moises Naim argues in “The End of Power,” technological developments over the past few decades have allowed for the widespread dispersion of information and more complex social groupings. The result has led to more power concentrated in the hands of fewer, thereby diminishing the influence of our elected officials and institutions. Typically, this power is positively utilized, improving education levels and individual autonomy. However, in the wrong hands, increased power can be devastating. The increased capacity for widespread destruction by a small number of organized deviants increases the threat of terrorism. Consequently, watching this destruction unfold makes our lives appear more precarious and therefore more precious. As we are exposed to traumatic series of human suffering through innumerable media channels, we, in turn, feel pressing sadness, despair and fear in our hearts and minds, as if the attack had occurred to us. Initially, people’s fear from these lethal attacks expose humanity’s most beautiful trait: empathy. When we connect emotionally with others in harm’s way, we often offer charitable and emotional support. Expression of empathy allows us to care for people we’d otherwise be unconnected with, living halfway around the world. Unfortunately, empathy, in the background of intense terrorism, leads to fear, as we personally imagine confrontation with terrorism. And while fear alone is manageable, when it drives our political and social decisions, it’s problematic. In America’s recent history, we’ve entertained a path driven by fear. The results have been tragic.
After the planes hit the World Trade Center in 2001, the natural human reactions of empathy, sadness, despair and fear brewed in America. Ultimately, these feelings galvanized a sense of need for national security, leading to two wars, and the creation of Guantanamo Bay (along with torture-ridden black sites). In the former, we were left with mounting human fatality and trillions of dollars wasted. In the latter, according to scholar Joseph Margulies, many innocent people were abused without due process under the law. What’s more, our fears of terrorism have likely endured 14 years after 9/11, as President Barack Obama has been unable to remove all American troops from Afghanistan and is continuously rebuffed when he attempts to close Gitmo. As noted, our fear-driven behavior and decisions in light of harrowing terrorist attacks are not completely uncalled for; they are a natural reaction to human suffering. In turn, we search for security. Our fear-driven response galvanizes us to ensure America’s safety, liberty and democracy. On the surface, this appears good. We want to shield Americans from unjust harm. However, our push for safety becomes problematic when we infringe on the liberty and security of foreigners, in addition to American citizens. Our priority for safety is made in light of terrorism’s challenge — offering us a choice between safety and liberty. The more personal liberty we maintain, the more at risk we are of terrorist acts. This initiates a controversial debate — should we abrogate our values and personal liberty for the sake of security? Should we do everything in our power to keep American citizens safe, even if that means invasive National Security Agency techniques and locking people away without due process? In response to terrorism, our initial instincts have led us to choose the former; we have done everything possible to keep American citizens safe even while disregarding the rights of individuals. However, in times of fear and uncertainty, maybe it would be more helpful to reconsider how we view terrorism. Maybe, as David Foster Wallace suggests, we should consider those who die at the hands of terrorists to be martyrs, who’ve sacrificed their lives for freedom, liberty and democracy. In reality, the alternative seems much worse. The late author ventured down this path when he asked if Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, the PATRIOT Acts, warrantless surveillance, etc. are worth protecting Americans’ safety? And let’s be honest, when these institutions claim to protect “Americans’ ” safety, they’re really excluding Muslim Americans or any person one could associate with the Middle East. Today, the attacks in Paris — striking fear into the general public — have occurred in the midst of a critical foreign policy issue: the Syrian refugee crises. Many American governors have made a choice: increase security and refuse to accept Syrian refugees,
presumably because they believe Muslims to be the root cause of terrorism. Again, misguided fear has become an immediate social problem in today’s political climate. Again, America is on a track that actively and passively abuses the rights of others. Unfortunately, terrorism — the cause of our fear and vulnerability — justifies these actions to the public, allowing our representatives to make very poor, prejudicial decisions. Ultimately, representatives overlook the cause of terrorism: the lack of autonomy, agency and political rights terrorists feel, leading them to cause great harm to others. Our reaction does more than propagate Islamophobia. Our reaction destroys the possibility for resolve, the end to terrorism and relief for its victims. Our prejudice won’t help us understand why these people do what they do — what is influencing people to want to cause mass destruction. After all, terrorists are humans even if they act inhumanely. Therefore, they are driven by the same human instincts as the rest of us. If we begin assessing them as such, we can fairly and objectively question what they do and why they do it. Instead, we consider persons who allegedly conduct acts of terrorism to be inhuman, and dismiss them of their full rights under the law. Unfortunately, infringing on terrorists’ civil liberties will not get America any closer to eradicating terrorism. Of course, having read this far (and probably declaring me a treehugging liberal hippie), you may be asking, what about your life? Are you not afraid of putting your life in jeopardy of a massacre? And, furthermore, what about the families that are randomly taken, the lives lost? Should we not do everything possible to bring these victims restitution? From my view, infringing on the rights of others is not the proper way for victims and their families to heal from terrorism. Sacrificing my personal values — liberty, justice, due process under the law for all global citizens — is worth my life. The alternative — persecuting others due to excessive fear and prejudice — is much worse. Today, our political, domestic and international systems ensure that we don’t arbitrarily destroy a human life or strip it of all its value, even if that human life has committed deplorable crimes. In other words, our nations have made themselves responsible for protecting individuals by laws and processes that place value on human lives. Personally, I don’t want to live in a place where my government stops deeming all people as humans, unworthy of minimum respect and dignity. Warring (relatively) arbitrarily with nations and indiscriminately sorting people in institutions like “black sites” and Guantanamo Bay epitomizes this place. There’s much more terror I feel from that prospect than anything an extremist with a weapon can do to me. — Sam Corey can be reached at samcorey@umich.edu.
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS Claire Bryan, Regan Detwiler, Ben Keller, Payton Luokkala, Aarica Marsh, Anna Polumbo-Levy, Jason Rowland, Lauren Schandevel, Melissa Scholke, Rebecca Tarnopol, Ashley Tjhung, Stephanie Trierweiler, Mary Kate Winn, Derek Wolfe IN CHAN LEE
E-mail In Chan at tokg@umich.edu
CONTRIBUTE TO THE CONVERSATION
Readers are encouraged to submit letters to the editor and viewpoints. Letters should be around 300 words while viewpoints should be 550-850 words. Send the article, writer’s full name and University affiliation to tothedaily@michigandaily.com.
Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Monday, November 23, 2015 — 5A
CONCERT REVIEW
Odesza not stopping rise anytime soon By REGAN DETWILER Daily Arts Writer
OPEN ROAD FILMS
“You get that new Norah Jones? It’s fire.”
Subtle ‘Spotlight’ trusts its viewers Film documenting pedophilia scandal unfolds gradually By JAMIE BIRCOLL Senior Arts Editor
In nearly every shot that takes place outdoors in “Spotlight,” the camera captures a church. Sometimes a character points it out, noting, for example, its proximity to Aa playground. In others, Spotlight the camera Open Road lingers on a Films steeple and, in others still, State Theatre, a tower sits Rave and unassumingly, blending in Quality 16 amongst the modern architecture. The city of Boston has a small-town feel, possessing a deep connection to its history, and so rooted with it a deep connection to religion; from its founding, Boston has been a Christian city. And somewhere along the way, when the institution of the Catholic Church became ingrained into the fabric of the city itself and in the hearts of the predominantly Catholic populace, religion seemed to forsake morality to maintain that institution. “Spotlight” is the true story of The Boston Globe’s Spotlight
No sudden twists. investigative team as they exposed the decades-long mass cover-up of the Church’s blind eye to priests who had molested children. Like its subject, the film unfolds gradually, creeping along ever closer to its conclusion. Since the narrative itself is fairly well known (the story won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 after it was published in January 2002), its dramatic turns stem not from sudden twists but from the careful revelation of new information — the “eureka” moments that link seemingly disparate threads. The film relies primarily on its narrative and actors to carry the audience through this tale. There is no complex cinematography to catch the eye — shots instead are, with few exceptions, fairly stationary. The only truly “cinematic” moment in “Spotlight” comes with the slow zoom out of the camera as the team talks on the phone with a priest-turnedpsychotherapist as he discusses the seemingly endemic issue of child molestation in the Catholic church; that zoom out parallels the team’s realization of the scope of the matter at hand. “Spotlight” concerns itself with, like its subjects, revealing the information in a
direct, uncomplicated manner. Like any good reporter, it wants to nail the story, make it stick and let the public decide how to process that information. “Spotlight” then could be best described as understated; it does not idolize its protagonists, nor does it necessarily vilify (to the extent expected, at least) its antagonists. It presents its characters as human beings, each of whom possess some sort of flaw, whether it’s an excessive commitment to work or the inadvertent perpetuation of the corrupt system. Multiple characters utter phrases like “I was just doing my job” and “It didn’t seem plausible at the time,” which maybe serves as a psychological defense mechanism for those even tangentially involved, but also simply highlights the very human quality of stumbling — to err is human, after all. The actors maintain this realism superbly. Rather than approach his or her character with the intent of reaping Oscar gold, each actor finds the character’s need to balance the emotions of such a highly controversial and significant story with the dutiful necessity of completing the task. These main characters, journalists and lawyers mostly, recognize that they serve the public, not themselves and the broken system. Of the Spotlight team, Mark Ruffalo (“The Avengers: Age of Ultron”) stands out the most, if only because he speaks the one charged monologue about the obligation of publishing the story immediately for the sake of any victims. But Michael Keaton (“Birdman”) and Rachel McAdams (“Southpaw”) both inject nuance and care into their roles as equally as Ruffalo does into his. Liev Schreiber (“Pawn Sacrifice”), as the new editor of The Globe, and Stanley Tucci (“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2”), as a frazzled lawyer looking to finally bring abuse victims’ cases to the public, embrace the quirk of their characters, portraying them as somewhat off-putting but also endearing. It cannot be overstated just how finely attuned each of these actors are to their roles; it’s so refreshing to watch an ensemble piece where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Comparisons to “All the President’s Men” are inevitable, and certainly not misguided, though “Spotlight” is far less political than the former. Both films focus on the day-to-day, the unfolding of a story as it slowly generates steam until the wheels spin fast enough that it ultimately writes itself. It doesn’t always run smoothly — leads get lost, more pertinent matters arise (9/11 occurred as the story just started to pick up for Spotlight). And, in each, the job never ends — both films’ closing shots suggest the real work has only just begun. The characters identify and open the floodgates, but it’s in realizing, accepting and
fixing the fallout from the deluge that poses the real challenge. But in depicting just how those floodgates do get opened, the film poses some very taught questions. Tucci’s character, in talking with Ruffalo, points out that the two men exploring the scandal, himself and the new Globe editor, are Armenian and Jewish, respectively, and that this is not a coincidence. Time and routine inevitably lead to complacency, and complacency leads to blindness. It takes someone outside the system, like a journalist or sometimes a filmmaker, to dig where others feel is hallowed ground, or point the camera where we fear to look — and sometimes that means reminding us of just how badly we messed up. “Spotlight,” in this sense, is a modern, reallife fable that reminds us how far we’ve come, but cautions us to avoid complacency. The real work, after all, has only just begun.
With some people in full fairy costume, with light-up capes, glowing sunglasses and multicolored luminescent balloons floating through the crowd, most were there to rave, emphatically bouncing with every vibration of the ubiquitous bass. Odesza, made up of Harrison Mills (previously CatacombKid) and Clayton Knight (BeachesBeaches), has only been playing together since 2012. Yet there we were Friday night at the Detroit Masonic Temple in a jampacked, sold-out theater where every person knew every song. The show was insane — a sonic, visual and tactile trip. In a phone interview with The Michigan Daily before the show, Mills described Odesza’s show last year opening for GRIZ at Masonic as “one of the hypest shows we’ve ever played.” Emphasizing the possibilities the Masonic’s stage offered for visuals, Mills said he couldn’t imagine what playing a headline show there would be like — well, it was incredible. Like I said, only a year ago Odesza opened for GRIZ, but if the two were to play a show together now it might be the other way around. “To a lot of people it’s really fast climbing, but it’s kind of felt like a slow progression to me,” Mills said. “Especially in the last year it’s been a rapid rise.” That seems fair to say, seeing as just a few months ago the only song my alternative music friends and I knew was their most popular “Say My Name,” which is now only one of many tracks people would be able to reel off. Their wide-ranging fan base has to be one of the main reasons for such a surge in popularity. Odesza has been, for me, an offshoot of several artists on the edge of more mainstream EDM genres: minimal techno like Nicolas Jaar, synthfolk like Bibio or more sereneupbeat French electronica like Mome or Petit Biscuit.
ZACH MOORE/Daily
Odesza performs at the Masonic Temple last Friday.
But the crowd on Friday in Detroit was not there for a serenely introspective jam sesh. They were there to party. This taught me something about shows: you take the wildest subset of an artist’s fan base, and that will make up the vast majority of the crowd. I probably should have known that from the time I got knocked around by some moshing metalheads at the Smashing Pumpkins a couple years ago, but hey, nobody’s perfect. Warming up the crowd was Jai Wolf, who generally had a pretty mellow stage presence but played some good mixes of CHVRCHES’s “Mother We Share” and Drake’s “Hotline Bling,” then finished with his own dreamy “Indian Summer.” After Jai Wolf was Rufus du Sol, an Australian trio more focused on vocals than either Jai Wolf or Odesza, but who really made the audience move. Everyone went crazy when Odesza came onstage. Both Mills and Knight had their own controllers and drums, sometimes bringing up a guitarist, a trombone and a trumpet player. But the coolest part of the set was the combination of sounds,
Classifieds RELEASE DATE– Monday, November 23, 2015
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
lights and animation that was playing on the five-paneled screen behind the artists. The visuals ranged from goldpainted women to this really cool dyed red and blue vapor (or something), but the sweetest one was this anime compilation that lasted for a few mixes, including their older “IPlayYouListen” and the newer “Kusanagi.” This makes sense, since Kusanagi is the name of the main character in the acclaimed 1995 anime Ghost in the Shell. The highlight of the show, though, was “Say My Name,” which involved an explosion of lights and confetti pouring from the ceiling. The crowd was ecstatic, and that just showed how focused on the crowd Odesza was. They thanked us several times throughout the night for being there and being excited. Positivity and gratitude were definitely a focus for the duo through the past couple years touring and making new music, according to Mills. “It’s always still positive, which I think helped us so much,” he said. “It’s really felt like opportunities are ahead of us.” It doesn’t seem like their rise is going to let up any time soon.
Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com
FOR RENT
SERVICES
! NORTH CAMPUS 1-2 Bdrm. ! ! Riverfront/Heat/Water/Parking. ! ! www.HRPAA.com !
MEN- TOO MUCH Sex? Porn, cyber, hookupseatingyourtime,controllingyour life? Join us: Born for Joy, St Mary Stu‑ dent Parish, Mondays at 7 PM 734‑276‑0221
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
ACROSS 1 Popeye’s nemesis 6 Electrolux, briefly 9 Nos. on beach lotion labels 13 Pachelbel composition 14 Tel Aviv’s country: Abbr. 15 Opera highlight 16 Small thicket 17 Online matchmaker 19 “Look before you __” 21 School course with slides 22 = 25 Lawyer’s charge 26 Carry with effort 27 Partner of hither 28 For the lady 29 Inlaid designs 32 Apple music players 34 “U Can’t Touch This” rapper 36 Web destinations 38 Worded 42 They’re usually divided into scenes 43 Wisecracking West 44 MLB’s Indians, on scoreboards 45 __ Vegas 46 Looked ready to fight 50 Obscure from view, as in an eclipse 52 Continually 53 See 42-Down 55 Vacant 58 San __: Riviera resort 59 Ambient music pioneer Brian 60 Bete __ 61 Tijuana three 62 Athletic center 63 Pig’s sniffer DOWN 1 Secretly keep in the email loop, for short 2 Philosopher __tzu
3 Disconnects from the outlet 4 Where sailors go 5 Ryan or Tatum 6 Compete 7 Hearth receptacle 8 Online guy with a list 9 O.T. prophet 10 Reviewed for errors 11 Piano players? 12 Make a proposer smile 18 Director Howard 20 Gives a pep talk, with “up” 22 Stately tree 23 Status __ 24 Slugger Sammy 28 Bar mitzvah dance 30 Bill totals: Abbr. 31 Cocktail rocks 32 Announcement upon arrival 33 For each 35 Movie-rating org. 36 Like large reptiles, compared to smaller ones
37 “My treat” 39 Many a November birth, to astrologers 40 Helper for Santa 41 Dict. entry 42 With 53-Across, physics Nobelist who devised the formula that begins 17-, 22-, 34- and 46Across
43 Problem on the Caine 46 Drunkard 47 Captain of the Caine 48 Coin toss call 49 Exorcism target 51 General __ chicken 54 __ de plume 56 Capote nickname 57 To this point
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
xwordeditor@aol.com
11/23/15
5 BEDROOM House May 2016 1119 S. Forest ‑ $4200 plus utilities. Showings Scheduled M‑F 10‑3 24 hour noticed required DEINCO PROPERTIES 734‑996‑1991 APARTMENT ON A horse facility. New one bedroom, 15 min from main campus. Must be an accomplished horse person. Light farm and horse work and farm sitting in exchange for rent. Email all inquiries to jchaconas@ccim. net
THESIS EDITING, LANGUAGE, organization, format. All Disciplines. 734/996‑0566 or writeon@iserv.net
HELP WANTED
FALL 2016 HOUSES # Beds Location Rent 6 605 E. Hoover $4350 6 716 E. Kingsley $4320 5 1019 Packard $4350 4 852 Brookwood $2600 4 1010 Cedar Bend $2400 2 935 S. Division $2100 Tenants pay all utilities. CAPPO/DEINCO 734‑996‑1991
TUTOR NEEDED for 1‑on‑1 tutoring for HS math and sciences. Call 734‑434‑1228
WWW.CARLSONPROPERTIES.COM 734‑332‑6000
PARKING
11/23/15
DEFENSE OF STUDENT sexual misconduct cases Nachtlaw.com 734‑663‑7550
ARBOR PROPERTIES Award‑Winning Rentals in Kerrytown, Central Campus, Old West Side, Burns Park. Now Renting for 2016. 734‑994‑3157. www.arborprops.com
SUBLETTING 1350 GEDDES Winter Semester 2016 $795 per month Email: btcook@umich.edu
By Clement McKay ©2015 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
DEFENSE OF FACULTY misconduct cases Nachtlaw.com 734‑663‑7550
“PRIME” PARKING FOR Sale 721 S. Forest “Forest Place” Now‑April $100 per month Now‑August $80 per month Paid in full up front 734‑761‑8000 primesh.com
Arts
6A — Monday, November 23, 2015
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
TV COLUMN
CONCERT REVIEW
‘Scandal’ never Miley’s ‘Milky’ tour stops surprising us is a sensory assault
I
just saw something I never thought I’d see on network television. That seems like a ridiculous thing to say in 2015 — the notion of any storyline being “groundbreaking” seems especially outdated. Anyone could turn on “Looking” and watch a show entirely absent of CHLOE the omnipresent GILKE straight white male. Anyone can queue up Netflix and watch Annalise Keating shatter expectations on “How to Get Away With Murder” or Aziz Ansari craft jokes from pure pathos on “Master of None.” Anyone could count the hundreds of ways these shows and characters subvert the typical narrative, and I could have enough fodder for 10 years’ worth of TV columns. But this is my TV column, so I’m going to talk about “Scandal.” Again. But this time, it’s different. “Scandal” showed me something I never thought I’d see on network television. “Scandal” is one of the riskiest, most shocking shows on TV. The violence and graphic content it depicts is unparalleled among its broadcast peers. The President of the United States murdered a woman onscreen. Another woman chewed off the skin on her wrist. I won’t go into too much detail about the dozens of torture scenes that “Scandal” has subjected its viewers to, but I will say that there is one involving tooth-pulling, and you are lucky if you don’t know what I’m referring to. The crimes are difficult to watch, but “Scandal” handles violence with a special focus on the victims of violence, so they never feel gratuitous. In season three, “Scandal” explored Mellie’s experience as a victim of sexual assault, which is to this day one of the most devastatingly nuanced portrayals of rape I have seen on TV. After four and a half seasons, I assumed that “Scandal” had been there and done that. There was no more ground to break. However, “Scandal” is nothing
if not surprising. Its fifth season has been fantastic so far, a welcome respite from the utter garbage of the show’s previous season. This year, “Scandal” has let its most intolerable characters (Papa Pope, Huck, Jake, basically everyone involved in the toxic B613 plot) take a step back in order to spotlight the relationship drama between Olivia and Fitz. As Olivia wrestles with herself over whether she wants to sacrifice her career and independence for Fitz’s love, Olivia suddenly finds her decisions are being made for her. News of their years-long affair is leaked to the press. She moves into the White House for her own protection, and there is nothing for her to do there except play the dutiful First Lady and hunt down a snickerdoodle recipe for a Congressman’s wife. She hates that she is so good at serving her man, dressing up in holiday party finery and standing by Fitz’s side like a sparkly cufflink. A pregnant sparkly cufflink. The mid-season finale sneaks this bombshell on viewers in the last 15 minutes of the episode. It truly comes out of nowhere, dropped in the middle of a narrative lull of a scene featuring Olivia’s father and her former associate. Eli Pope reminds Huck, his former employee and metaphorical son, that returning home for the holidays may not be as idyllic as Huck imagines. Huck says that if it weren’t for Olivia, Eli would certainly be dead. It’s all standard “Scandal,” and the details don’t really matter. But Eli turns the conversation ever so slightly. A happy home is not a sanctuary, but a prison: “Olivia is also the reason I’m shackled to this chair. Family is a burden.” Cut to a close-up of Olivia’s legs and blue medical scrubs moving around them. Olivia Pope, the main character of a television series that airs at 9 p.m. on a weeknight, is receiving an abortion on-screen. I can say with confidence that this subject matter has never been tackled by network TV. Some statistics say that one in three women will receive an abortion at some point in her life, but television danced around this fact. Even when it made narrative sense for
a character to exercise her right to choose, the story almost invariably shifted to her changing her mind (Miranda on “Sex and the City”) or having a convenient miscarriage (Jessa on “Girls”). When TV women did receive abortions, they did so off-screen (Claire on “Six Feet Under”). One in three women will see the inside of that operating room, but TV usually shrouded these stories in narrative gaps and opaque allusions. Abortion was one of the few taboos TV had left, one of the few stories it was still afraid to tell. But Olivia Pope is a strong woman, the kind of character who will smash every barrier to get the respect and opportunities she deserves. She chooses, and she is not one to hide behind a veneer of fakery. She serves no one. Olivia’s nonstop work ethic and honesty inspire me in every episode, and I feel lucky that this experience that is shared by so many women is represented by someone as unbreakable as Olivia. And if “Scandal” ’s treatment of Mellie’s sexual assault and loss of a child are any indication, “Scandal” will not just let the abortion play out for shock value. Mellie bled and grieved young Jerry’s death for the better part of a season, and hopefully, when “Scandal” returns from its mid-season break, the show will explore the period of adjustment just as fully for Olivia. In the monologue that scores Olivia’s scene on the operating room table, Eli says, “Family doesn’t complete you. It destroys you.” I never thought I would hear these kind of words on cautious, government-regulated network TV. I never thought that a television woman could be so open about her choice and the logical steps that led her to it. I thought that good characters, strong and likeable ones like Miranda Hobbes and Mindy Lahiri, only really had one option. I’m glad I was wrong. I hope “Scandal” never stops surprising us.
through their ventures in crime and debauchery. But alas, it only builds on bland clichés. The only exception is that these socialites bid for fancy cars and famous paintings, which is about as unexciting as it sounds. The pilot episode, “Heavy Lies the Head,” doesn’t do “The Art of More” any storytelling justice, with a convoluted plot that’s very easy to get lost in. Several flashbacks are used to convey Graham’s backstory, but the organization of the episode sets a confusing tone for the show. In the opening scene, there is a flashback to an Iraqi museum in 2009, where Graham is an American soldier who becomes engaged in a physical struggle with art robbers attempting to steal a prized crown. Then, the scene shifts to present day, where Parke-Mason is selling that same crown for a large sum of money. Though the first scene is referenced later and gives more details about Graham’s past, “The Art of More” struggles to achieve any fluid connection between these flashbacks and Graham’s character. While the cast of “The Art of More” is attractive and fit for their roles, the acting could use a great deal of work. Graham’s charismatic suaveness with potential clients helps his business at Parke-Mason, but Cooke’s stilted, robotic delivery as Graham makes him sound unconvincing. Dennis Quaid (“Vantage Point”) plays Sam Brukner, an obnoxious, Donald Trump-type billionaire and client of Parke-Mason, whose prominent drunkenness and flirtation with young women is grossly overused. Perhaps
Brukner is supposed to be an unlikable character, but “The Art of More” could make his role more three-dimensional if it reduced his erratic behavior. Graham’s boss Arthur Davenport (Cary Elwes, “Saw”) acts like a typical slimy villain, with no distinctive features other than his blue suits and British accent. However, one bright spot in the mostly dull cast is actress Kate Bosworth (“Still Alice”) as the alluring, elusive Roxanna Whitman, one of Graham’s adversaries. Though she is on screen briefly in the pilot, Bosworth breathes life into Whitman, making her the show’s most intriguing and mysterious character. Unfortunately, Bosworth’s presence and the show’s stylish aesthetics seem to be “The Art of More” ’s only redeeming qualities. There aren’t any compelling twists, thrilling action sequences or exciting plot developments. Instead, “The Art of More” moves at a plodding pace and offers ambiguous clues about Graham’s mysterious past and ulterior motives. Considering “The Art of More” is featured on the streaming service Crackle, a poor man’s Netflix, it hasn’t reached the inventive heights of other online original series, especially since it shares the same platform as a raunchy animated series (“SuperMansion”) and a direct-to-video sequel of a David Spade movie (“Joe Dirt 2: Awesome Loser”). Even though it has some potential to break creative barriers for crime dramas, “The Art of More” needs more suspense, more character development and a more gripping plot in order to do so.
By CHRISTIAN KENNEDY Daily Arts Writer
A little over a year ago Miley Cyrus wrapped her 78-show Bangerz World Tour. Saturday, she played the 2,888-person capacity Fillmore in Detroit, showcasing her free collaboration album with psychedelic rock band The Flaming Lips, Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz. And as Miley explained The Milky Milk Milk Tour: “smaller venue, same amount of balloons.” After an opening set by Dan Deacon worthy of a Van Goghian double amputation, it wasn’t clear if the show would be worth the nine hours in the freezing snow. Miley can sometimes be just plain ridiculous. Some of the Dead Petz material flirts with the line between music and noise. She can be on drugs. She can be provocative. She may not fully grasp large issues such as white privilege. But despite all of her shortcomings, from the moment she took the small stage, “Dooo It!” didn’t sound as shitty as it usually does and she encapsulated the crowd for a two-hour trip into her most recent musical facet. She followed “Dooo It!” with its Bangerz-equivalent “Love Money Party” hyping the already-spirited crowd. Complete with dozens of three-foot balloon spheres, “DO IT” nylon blow-ups, champagne bottles and a stage packed with Miley, her band, Amazon Ashley and a crew of random hippie friends/ dancers, Cyrus was the focal point of the most stimulating show in recent memory. As queen of excess, Cyrus donned a slew of ridiculous costumes, including (but in no way limited to) a baby, a pair of bedazzled milk cartons, a stick of butter and a purple-haired unicorn with an unreasonably large faux penis. The outfits topped off the psychedelic stag-
SMILEY MILEY
“Miley, what’s good?!?”
ing consisting of a mirror ball the size of a piano, fog machines, graphic screens and light up cords hanging up from the ceiling. That, combined with the bulk of Dead Petz, resulted in an aesthetically pleasing, sometimes overwhelming, show that allowed Cyrus’s raw vocal talent and genuine personality to shine. The new sound focuses on space, animal or weed-inspired tracks. Actually, they’re all weed-inspired — some are just more upfront about it. The songs boast enough catchiness to roll with a crowd. Hippydippy “1 Sun,” vagina jam “Bang Me Box” and “I Forgive Yiew” were among highlights. Even the monologue-heavy “BB Talk” was an honest, comical lead-in to the pre-“Fweaky” strip tease which began as Cyrus in BB costume, ending with a heart bikini top and high-waisted bottoms. Slower moments emphasized Cyrus’s talent and tenderness. She covered “You Are My Sunshine” to mass crowd participation as well as debuting a new track, which seemed to nod to her country roots. The climac-
tic screams of “Twinkle Song” blur the line between beautiful and egregious, landing near cathartic. And toward the end of the spectacle, the bass lines of “Evil Is But A Shadow” were the closest thing to a musical orgasm, with beats distinctly vibrating through the chests and over the skin of attendees. Cyrus’s new direction aside, she knows what her fans want when she closes out the show with “We Can’t Stop.” The banger from two summers ago united Miley’s fans as glitter cannons exploded and a twoperson rainbow costume waltz around the stage. The Milky Milky Milk tour isn’t the little sister to Bangerz Tour. It’s the stoner cousin who is always down to try something new and “fweaky.” Showcasing her new material, Miley acknowledges the success of what came before her (something she avoided with Bangerz) and gave some of her closest fans a peek into what’s next. She might not be the artist she has the potential to be, but with Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz and the Milky Milky Milk tour, she’s closer than ever.
TV REVIEW
Be like ‘Scandal’ and surprise Gilke with an email at chloeliz@umich.edu.
We need more TV ‘More’ needs more like ‘Jessica Jones’
TV REVIEW
By SAM ROSENBERG Daily Arts Writer
Television dramas about rich people and their wealthy lifestyles tend to follow a formulaic method. The characters are depicted as C superficial, the storylines are The Art usually generic and the drama of More is exaggerated Series to an excessive Premiere degree. Frequently, Crackle these whitecollar shows portray the upper class as devious, corrupt or greedy, their success only making them more obsessed with power and money. Though some of these shows have proven to be successful (CW’s “Gossip Girl” and ABC’s “Revenge”), they don’t always offer engrossing material or delve into thoughtprovoking themes. Such is the case with Crackle’s new original series “The Art of More.” While a decent attempt at being a suspenseful crime thriller, “The Art of More” is mediocre and somewhat perplexing, focusing more on glamour than on content and coherence. Set in the seedy underbelly of New York auction houses, the show centers around successful, debonair art executive Graham Connor (Christian Cooke, “Witches of East End”). Connor works at the upscale ParkeMason auction house, where he encounters rivals, affluent clients and a black-market side business. Based on the premise alone, “The Art of More” seems like it could be an appealing exploration into the lives of American socialites
By SOPHIA KAUFMAN Daily Arts Writer
Marvel’s new Netflix series “Jessica Jones” isn’t just the best female-driven superhero show on air right now (not that Athere are many) — it’s the best Jessica superhero show to have come Jones out within the Series 1 past few years. Available for It would have Streaming been watchable even just as a Netflix private investigator show, but the superhero storyline adds an element of intrigue that keeps us watching even more closely. The opening credits sequence feels bizarrely reminiscent of “Mad Men,” “Doctor Who” and “The Pink Panther,” but somehow it works perfectly. And the show itself — thanks to phenomenal acting, intelligently crafted plotlines, stylish cinematography and distinct lack of tired female superhero tropes — is addicting. Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter, “Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23”) pays for her rent (and her whiskey habit) by working as a private investigator in New York City. We see immediately that she’s not normal — she can lift a car with one hand — and we learn that she’s “gifted” in other ways, as an ex-superhero. Mike Colter (“Million Dollar Baby”) is introduced in the pilot as Luke Cage, a bar owner gifted with a nearly unbreakable body. From the first few moments, Jones and Cage share tantalizing chemis-
try that quickly escalates into boundary-pushing sex scenes. Jones struggles with PTSD from an abusive relationship with Kilgrave (David Tennant, “Doctor Who”), a gifted villain who can influence people not only to do horrible things but to feel like they want to do those things — like shooting their own parents in an elevator. Kilgrave’s abusive behaviors are often sexual in nature, and Jones is not his first or last target. Ritter is captivating as Jones, with her nuanced performance growing in depth throughout the course of the show. Ritter is as unaware of the camera as Jones is unaware of her own good qualities, resulting in an organic portrayal. Ritter accesses a wide emotional spectrum, playing Jones as brazen yet panicked and vulnerable, often at the same time. Jones never takes a moment to appreciate the good things she has done for the city or for other people, preferring to ignore feelings of self-blame and drink to avoid PTSD flashbacks. “Jessica Jones” is as strong as its protagonist. Ritter, Tennant and Colter are compelling leads, and the supporting cast holds up as well. The directors are literally shooting for subtle noir tones, and despite some overly exaggerated mood lighting and a couple extra-long shots of seedy street corners and Manhattan bars, the noir influences glimmer through. The show holds a surprising number of artistic touches, like a light percussive drumbeat that accompanies an extended bar fight scene. The jazz score doesn’t feel out of
place, but accentuates the overall tone of the PI storyline. While the pilot episode holds gems like “You’re one of them,” “you’re not normal” and “I’ll tell the world!” directed at Jones when she’s holding a car in one hand, “Jessica Jones” never relies too heavily on superhero-hidingin-plain-sight mechanisms. The show winks to those viewers who have read the comics on which “Jessica Jones” is based, but it’s also completely accessible to those who haven’t. Even though it seems like we can never have a female superhero on TV who is dangerous without also being “damaged,” this show doesn’t fall into traps that femaledriven superhero shows often get tangled in. Despite Jones’s sultry voice-over narration, she isn’t over-sexualized and there are close and complex relationships between Jones and other women. There are very, very few hints of an “I’m not like other girls” sentiment. And sexual violence isn’t aesthetized here, but treated gravely, as it should be. Jones is a capable ex-superhero, a cynical P.I., a survivor, a complicated friend and a vulnerable person trying to stop an abusive man from barreling back into her life while protecting people she cares about. The show captures all of these elements equally without relying too heavily on any single one. “Jessica Jones” does justice to its protagonist. But the best thing about “Jessica Jones” is undoubtedly the fact that you can stream the entire first season on Netflix, right now, from pilot to finale. And then watch it again, because yes, it’s that good.
SportsMonday B
The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | November 23, 2015
And now...
Michigan 28
OVERPOWERED
n Michigan was outworked down low in a 16-point loss to Xavier on Friday. Page 4B
Penn State 16 S
TATE COLLEGE — Every time, it looks like the Michigan football team is at its breaking point. Every time, it looks like there’s JAKE no more LOURIM room to push the Wolverines further up against the wall. And every time, they scratch and claw and push and find an extra inch. That’s all they need. One inch. Fifth-year senior linebacker Desmond Morgan first explained it three weeks ago, after Michigan stopped Minnesota just shy of the goal line on the final play of the game on Oct. 31. That seemed like a close call, until the Wolverines were in the same position
two weeks later — only this time in double overtime, exhausted by Indiana’s up-tempo offense, playing without redshirt junior nose tackle Ryan Glasgow. Somehow, on Saturday, Michigan found itself in that position again. The Wolverines led, 21-13, with just over eight minutes to play in the game. Penn State was driving toward a game-tying score and twopoint conversion. But the Nittany Lions had to get through Michigan’s wall first. On 1st-and-goal from the six-yard line, Penn State quarterback Christian Hackenberg threw a fade route at Michigan junior cornerback Jourdan Lewis. That was a mistake. Lewis never gave him a chance. On 2nd-and-goal from the six, the Nittany Lions gave it to running back Saquon Barkley on an outside handoff. That was a mistake, too. Barkley ran for the pylon, but Michigan See LOURIM, Page 2B
JIM AND BO
n Jim Harbaugh will coach in “The Game” for the first time Saturday. Page 2B
SportsMonday
2B — November 23, 2015
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN
Harbaugh, Bo and Ohio State
I
t took Jim Harbaugh 21 seconds to reference Bo Schembechler at his introductory press conference last December. He walked up to the podium and apologized for his hoarse voice. Then Harbaugh MAX talked about COHEN how he tripped on his walk into the room, saying, “A lesser athlete would have gone down,” drawing upon Bo Schembechler’s line that his heart attack would have killed a lesser man. Being a student of Schembechler is so thoroughly ingrained into Harbaugh’s being that his college coach is a part of his everyday life. Not only does he work in Schembechler Hall and drive past Schembechler’s old house daily, but Harbaugh thinks about his coach even in what otherwise could be mundane conversations. It happened on Michigan’s flight to Saturday’s game, when former Michigan quarterback Jim Breaugh piloted the team’s plane. “I said, ‘You know what Bo would tell you right now?’ Harbaugh asked. “ ‘Don’t screw it up!’ ” He even thinks about Schembechler’s chief rival, former Ohio State coach Woody Hayes. One reporter Saturday asked Harbaugh about a Hayes quote about teams laying eggs and not performing in certain games. It led to a Harbaugh quip about comparing humans and chickens, but that wasn’t really the interesting part. Harbaugh insisted the quote wasn’t true, that Woody Hayes never said it.
LOURIM From Page 1B senior safety Jarrod Wilson chased him down at the twoyard line. On 3rd-and-goal from the two, Hackenberg threw again, this time well over the head of his intended receiver. That was a mistake, too. The Wolverines swarmed him and his receivers. The drive stalled, and Penn State kicked a field goal, never to have a chance like that again. Several statistics separated Michigan and Penn State on Saturday, but look no further than this one: The Wolverines won by 12 points. Three times, they held the Nittany Lions to three instead of seven. There’s your ballgame. It wasn’t a big difference. On Penn State’s three field goal drives, the Nittany Lions fell short of the end zone by a total of 13 yards. Add that to two at Indiana and one at Minnesota, and 16 yards could make the difference between playing for a Big Ten championship in two weeks or packing for a mid-tier bowl. If you ask the Wolverines, they don’t even need 16 yards. All they need is an inch. “It’s just a mindset,” said redshirt junior defensive end Chris Wormley. “You go out there, backs against the wall, and you know you have to hold them to three points or less.” For most of the past three close games — excluding a 49-16 rout of Rutgers in the middle — Michigan has looked extremely beatable. At Minnesota and Indiana, lesser opponents gashed the Wolverines’ defense throughout the game. At Penn State, minor mistakes such as penalties finally seemed destined to cost them. But in those small situations, they take their inch and they win the game with it. In those small situations, they
LUNA ANNA ARCHEY/Daily
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has taken life lessons from his old coach, Bo Schembechler, and he will take them into his first game against Ohio State on Saturday.
The man is a historian of sorts on the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry. Last winter, in the days before Harbaugh’s hiring at Michigan, Chase Beeler, an offensive lineman who played for Harbaugh at Stanford, said Harbaugh had “an extreme reverence” for Schembechler. Beeler remembered sitting with Harbaugh and his father, Jack, one night in 2009. Jim and Jack went back and forth discussing how much they admired Schembechler and Hayes, particularly how they brought out the greatness in one another. When Harbaugh was hired, this was the expectation for him and Ohio State coach Urban Meyer. They would battle as
look unbeatable. In the past four games, opponents have journeyed into the red zone 17 times and scored 14 times. Just two of them have been touchdowns. After the Minnesota game, people criticized the Golden Gophers for running the ball into the teeth of the Michigan defense instead of spreading the field and trying to make a play. After the Indiana game, people criticized the Hoosiers for spreading the field and trying to make a play instead of running the ball into the teeth of the Michigan defense. Finally, the Nittany Lions tried every which way to get into the end zone. They couldn’t do it. You could still argue that each of those situations was mismanaged, but three of these games have passed now. Quarterback sneaks, short curl routes, wildcat formations, fade routes, inside runs, outside runs — opponents have tried everything. When you give this Michigan team an inch, you just can’t take it away. Now, sometimes the Wolverines don’t even get an inch. The touchdown they gave up Saturday was on a 25-yard pass play when redshirt freshman safety Jabrill Peppers was beaten on a deep route. No. 3 Ohio State, Michigan’s next opponent, has the weapons to burn them many, many more times than that. But the Buckeyes would be wise not to give Michigan an inch to hold. They will likely be favored, but the Wolverines can earn a major shift in the rivalry. Give them an inch, and they just might take it a mile.
“You know you have to hold them to three points or less.”
Lourim can be reached at jlourim@umich.edu and on Twitter @jakelourim.
For more football updates Check MichiganDaily.com throughout game week
the head coaches of Michigan and Ohio State every year in the last week of November for the foreseeable future, two of the best coaches in the country fighting for Big Ten and national supremacy. Schembechler came to Michigan from Miami (Ohio) at a time when the Buckeyes had taken seven of nine games from the Wolverines. Michigan was overmatched, particularly in 1968, the year before Schembechler arrived. Schembechler once called his first 10 games against Ohio State, the ones known as the 10-Year War, the 10 favorite games he ever coached against the Buckeyes. He bested Hayes in those games — the Wolverines went 5-4-1. Harbaugh will get his first
chance to begin that sort of legacy against Urban Meyer on Saturday. The immediate implications of the upcoming game are now diminished. The average Michigan fan was devastated by Ohio State’s loss to Michigan State on Saturday. The wildest Harbaugh fantasy, the one of him coming to Ann Arbor and immediately leading Michigan to a conference championship, was all but shattered. But think back to that day when he was hired. In all of your giddiness, was the first thing you thought about the possibility of Michigan winning a Big Ten championship? Or was it the idea that the Wolverines, finally, after losing 10 out of 11 games to their bitter rival down South, had a
coach who could fight back, one whose team wouldn’t just get geared up to play the Buckeyes, but actually beat them? Saturday won’t be about a Big Ten title, a trip to Indianapolis or the right to play Iowa. But you know darn well that Michigan doesn’t need to beat Iowa to show, once and for all, that it’s back. “Right now, Ohio State and Michigan State are ahead of us,” said Michigan announcer Dan Dierdorf, who played on Schembechler’s first team, in August. “We can’t talk about national titles. We can’t talk about winning the Big Ten. What we have to do, job No. 1, is to become competitive with your chief rivals, and that’s Michigan
State and Ohio State, and those are the two teams that have to be front and center in everything we do.” Harbaugh won’t admit to that last statement. Publicly, he has always been focused on the task ahead for his team, abstaining from guarantees and absolutes like the one he made during his playing career about his team defeating Ohio State in 1986. But Schembechler, the man Harbaugh considers a profound influence on his life, was always thinking about the Buckeyes. He prepared his teams for them all year round, even when they didn’t know it. Exactly how Harbaugh has prepared his team behind closed doors is unclear. But any way you look at it, Saturday will be the culmination of a year’s work. It started, as Michigan players love to say, with four-hour spring practices. Like Schembechler did, Harbaugh made his team buy in completely and unconditionally. Senior linebacker James Ross, who played for Brady Hoke for three years, said Saturday that anyone on Michigan’s team would run through a brick wall for Harbaugh. Schembechler’s first team would have done the same for him. The group pulled off a massive upset of Ohio State in 1969. Entering the game, the adversary was considered to be the greatest college football team of all time, but Schembechler had his team ready. If Michigan wins this weekend, it wouldn’t even be considered an enormous surprise. Ohio State is ranked eighth in this week’s AP Poll, and the Wolverines are 12th. But to say this edition of The Game doesn’t matter? You’d be dead wrong. Cohen can be reached at maxac@umich.edu or on Twitter @MaxACohen.
Five Things We Learned By JAKE LOURIM Managing Sports Editor
For the second straight week, the Michigan football team went on the road, played in an emotionally charged atmosphere and took care of business. As with Indiana last week, this opponent presented challenges: Penn State’s noisy crowd, quarterback Christian Hackenberg and a physical defensive line. But the 12th-ranked Wolverines solved all of them. They escaped with another victory, setting up this week’s rivalry clash with Ohio State at Michigan Stadium. Here are five things we learned Saturday: 1. The defensive line will be fine without Ryan Glasgow. After last week’s game at Indiana, what was originally one of the strengths of the team looked like a glaring weakness. The Hoosiers rolled over Michigan for 307 rushing yards and 41 points before falling in double overtime. The culprit, it appeared, was the loss of redshirt junior nose tackle Ryan Glasgow, who injured his pectoral muscle the week before against Rutgers. With Glasgow out for the season, the future looked bleak. The Wolverines needed to be better on the defensive front at Penn State, and they were. Against the run, they stifled Penn State running back Saquon Barkley, who managed just 68 yards on 15 carries — even though one of those carries went for 56 yards. Michigan’s biggest stands came on its first series and second-to-last series. Both times, the Wolverines held the Nittany Lions to only a field goal inside the 10-yard line. But their biggest impact was in the passing game. They sacked Penn State’s Christian Hackenberg four times and hurried him plenty more, disrupting the aerial attack and making it nearly impossible for the Nittany Lions to come back. Michigan faces an even tougher
test next week against Ohio State, but the resurgence in this area bodes well for the rivalry game Saturday. 2. Michigan’s penalties are an issue. Some were unambiguous, such as the Wolverines’ four offside and two false start penalties. Some were controversial, such as redshirt freshman safety Jabrill Peppers’ pass interference, after which Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh angrily threw off his hat and coat. The Wolverines have had a significant problem with penalties in the past two weeks. Saturday, they committed 13 for 117 yards, giving Penn State six of its 14 first downs. Michigan dominated in many facets, but its miscues kept the Nittany Lions in the game for too long. The most fixable issue is the four offside penalties from jumping the snap early. That might solve itself Saturday in front of a home crowd after two straight road games. At any rate, the Wolverines can’t afford to give Ohio State free yards. 3. The running game still has some things to work out. Those things have seemed trivial over the past three weeks. Fifth-year senior quarterback Jake Rudock’s emergence has made everyone forget about the running game. The Wolverines haven’t needed it. But Michigan needs to re-establish the ground game soon. Junior running back De’Veon Smith was the leading rusher Saturday with just 39 yards on 13 carries. Redshirt junior wide receiver Jehu Chesson was second, despite getting only one carry. The Wolverines are now tied for 81st in the country in rushing with 161.4 yards per game. No Michigan running back has hit the 100-yard mark since September, and the road doesn’t get any easier: At 30th in the country, Ohio State’s rush defense
ALLISON FARRAND/Daily
Jake Rudock threw for more than 250 yards for the third straight game Saturday.
will give the Wolverines another tough test. 4. College football guarantees nothing. When the Wolverines walked off the field Saturday, the stage seemed set. A contingent of Michigan fans greeted the team at the tunnel after the game. Some chanted “BEAT OHIO.” All that had to happen to set up a winnertake-all showdown for the Big Ten East next week was Ohio State beating Michigan State later that day. But in college football, all that has to happen rarely does. With quarterback Connor Cook injured and not playing, the Spartans rolled into Columbus and knocked off the Buckeyes, 17-14, on a gamewinning field goal as time expired. So, Michigan and Ohio State will play their normal rivalry game Saturday at Michigan Stadium. Either could still make the Big Ten Championship against Iowa. But they’ll need some help: Penn State will have to upset Michigan State in East Lansing. Who knows? Maybe that will happen too. Nothing is ever certain.
5. BOLD PREDICTION: Jake Rudock will throw for 400 yards against Ohio State. The days of Rudock playing against Indiana-caliber defenses are over. While he might not reach the milestone as easily as he did two weeks ago against the Hoosiers, he will have his chances. The Buckeyes will provide more opposition, but they will also put up points, perhaps forcing Michigan to pass for most of the game. And if the Wolverines’ running game continues to struggle, it will give Rudock even more opportunities. Each of the past two Michigan-Ohio State games have been shootouts, and the Wolverines’ passing game has produced in both. This year, the unit has never looked better. Rudock is the first quarterback in Michigan history to throw for more than 250 yards in three straight games. He’s clicking with each of his three top receivers — redshirt junior wideouts Jehu Chesson and Amara Darboh and junior tight end Jake Butt. Expect the group to have a big day this weekend.
SportsMonday
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
November 23, 2015 — 3B
‘M’ earns split in Boston Wolverines recover from meltdown Friday to win finale Saturday By JASON RUBINSTEIN Daily Sports Editor
BOSTON — Three weeks ago, the Michigan hockey team suffered its first loss of the season 4 MICHIGAN against 2 BOSTON U. Robert Morris. It was the Wolverines’ first afternoon game, and the Colonials shut out Michigan at home. After the game, Michigan coach Red Berenson said one team always has more energy in an afternoon game, and that team always wins. “I told my team this morning that there would be one team that would come out hungrier than the other,” Berenson said after the Robert Morris loss on Oct. 31. “In these afternoon games, that’s how it works. We thought we’d be that team, but we weren’t.” Saturday afternoon, the Wolverines were that team. No. 12 Michigan outshot No. 10 Boston University, 38-21, en route to a 4-2 win. “We knew we had to come out and start on time and play well at the beginning,” said junior forward JT Compher. “We had had a lot of, I wouldn’t say anger, but we wanted to send a message.” Like it did a day earlier, Michigan (6-2-1) started the day’s scoring. Ninety seconds into Michigan’s first power-play opportunity, junior defenseman Michael Downing lined up a shot from the blue line that freshman forward Cooper Marody redirected past Boston University netminder Connor
LaCouvee. It didn’t take the Wolverines long to add to their early lead when freshman forward Brendan Warren, on a breakaway, backhanded one over LaCouvee’s left shoulder. However, the feeling still wasn’t secure for Michigan hockey fans. Friday, the Wolverines jumped out to a 2-0 lead over the Terriers (6-4-2), but conceded three unanswered goals in the third period in their second loss of the year. Saturday was a different story. With three minutes left in the first frame, Downing, on a power play once again, got his shot through from the blue line. This time, junior forward Alex Kile was there to collect the rebound that he ultimately backhanded over LaCouvee.
The second period was a stalemate for 19 minutes before Boston University forward Matt Lane took a long pass from forward Doyle Somerby and brought the puck in from the right slot before beating Racine via the five hole. And when the secondperiod buzzer rang a minute later, it was the same story as a day before: Michigan was up two goals, outshooting the Terriers by more than 10 while dominating the game. More notably, during the final five minutes of the second period, the Wolverines looked like they were playing not to lose, rather than playing to win. Berenson said that was the sole reason for Friday’s collapse. But Berenson stressed that message during the
“We knew we had to come out and start on time.”
second intermission, and the Wolverines looked like a completely different team in the third period than they did a day before. Compher said the team was well aware of that during the second intermission. “I didn’t have to say much,” Compher said. “We just knew we had to keep the gas pedal down and play to win and play our goal. It was a good period by us, and one of the best we played all year.” With three minutes left in the game, junior forward Max Shuart received a pass from freshman forward Kyle Connor and beat LaCouvee for his first goal of the season. And with Shuart’s goal, the Wolverines, despite letting up a final-second goal, cruised to their first afternoon win of the season and left a tough road series against Boston University with a win. “To come out and play the way we did today leaves a good taste in our mouth,” Compher said. Added Berenson: “Any time you win in Boston, it’s a good win.”
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
Freshman forward Cooper Marody, pictured here against Niagara, opened the scoring in Michigan’s win Saturday.
MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
Michigan equals Wolverines claim rank, takes sixth ninth-place finish By LANEY BYLER For the Daily
The Michigan women’s cross country team ended its season at the NCAA Championship on Saturday with a sixthplace finish, matching its No. 6 national ranking. The result marked the Wolverines’ 12th top-10 finish at the championship meet, with 11 of them falling under the guidance of coach Mike McGuire. The team went into the race striving for a podium finish, expecting to work hard and push for a spot in the top three. Michigan junior Erin Finn, however, wasn’t expecting to lose her shoes. Shortly after the 2K mark in the 6,000-meter race, Finn was clipped by a runner behind her, and as a result, lost both of her shoes and socks. Despite the setback, Finn continued to run barefoot. “It speaks volumes about how tough she really is, because the easy way out would have been to walk off of the course,” McGuire said. “We were not running on a pristine golf course. Part of it was on a gravel road, part of it was traversing sidewalks. She wasn’t over at Grand Haven walking on the beach.” Finn placed 19th with a final time of 20:10:2 and was awarded All-American honors for the second time in her career. Finn is the seventh Michigan runner to be awarded multiple AllAmerican honors. Senior Shannon Osika was the next Michigan athlete to cross the finish line, placing 53rd with a time of 20:33.2. Osika, and fifth-year senior Anna Pasternak, who placed 120th with a time
An almostperfect weekend
B
WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY
Finn earns AllAmerica honors after running most of race barefoot
JAMES COLLER/Daily
Red Berenson’s team salvaged a split in Boston but gave away a late lead Friday.
of 20:59.3, ended their cross country careers at the NCAA Championships. “Shannon has been a mainstay in the lineup for the four years she’s been here,” McGuire said. “Anna is someone who has progressed and ran in her first Championship last year and really had an outstanding fifth year this year. They’ve impacted us race-wise, and they’ve impacted us with their presence as being good teammates. I’ve just got good thoughts on what both of them have contributed to the program.” Gina Sereno, a redshirt sophomore, placed third among Wolverine finishers at 90th place with a time of 20:47.2. Redshirt sophomore Jaimie Phelan followed closely behind, crossing the finish line just 2.8 seconds after Sereno but placing 100th. Sophie Linn and Jamie Morrissey, also redshirt sophomores, made their NCAA Championship debuts on Saturday, placing 145th and 180th, respectively. “Sophie is a much better runner than she was last year,” McGuire said. “Jaime is a little more of a middle-distance specialist, so she’s still adapting to racing a 6K, but they got their feet wet, so we expect an improvement on what they can do.” The NCAA Championships capped a strong season. The Wolverines were the runners-up at the Big Ten Championships and brought home a Great Lakes Regional title, to go along with the sixth-place finish at the NCAA Championships. “The team has depth,” Finn said. “We have a lot of girls who can be in the top five, or the top 10, and that really shows, because you can’t count on everyone having their best day every time. But when you have a lot of girls who are really good, you don’t have to have your best day every time, and you can still perform well because you know that someone has your back.”
After winning Big Ten, regional, Michigan falls short of podium By BILLY STAMPFL Daily Sports Writer
Following a ninth-place finish at the NCAA Championships on Saturday, the Michigan men’s cross country team felt an eerie combination of gratification and disappointment. Despite ending the season as a top-10 team, the Wolverines had even higher expectations after winning both the Big Ten Championship and the Great Lakes Regional. “As a whole, I think we’re content,” junior co-captain Ben Flanagan said. “But we’re also definitely all still hungry for more.” Flanagan finished 83rd overall at the NCAA Championships to go along with senior Mason Ferlic (67th) and senior Tony Smoragiewicz (72nd) in forming Michigan’s top three runners. Ferlic, who won the regional title last weekend, started strong before uncharacteristically falling back with just 2,000 meters to go. “(Ferlic) had a goal of trying to be in the top 10 at nationals,” said coach Kevin Sullivan. “For 90 percent of the race he executed really well, but I think it was an unusually fast day up front.” Despite noting that the team had slightly higher expectations in comparison to its actual performance, Sullivan remained positive and commended the Wolverines’ efforts. “We hit every goal that we set out to this season,” Sullivan said.
“This team has really come a long way in the last two years.” Sullivan has found immediate success in just his second year as head coach after a decorated career as a student-athlete at Michigan. In six years, he won Big Ten Athlete of the Year four times and was also a four-time All-American. Sullivan’s experience as a cross country runner has certainly aided his success as a coach. “It’s hard to truly explain how much guys like (Sullivan) can help out,” Flanagan said. “He’s been to all of these meets, and he’s been in our shoes so many times. We have confidence in every word he says, because we know he’s speaking from personal experience.” Despite his players’ praise, Sullivan refuses to take credit for the program’s achievements over the past two years. “This season was about these guys continuing to build confidence,” Sullivan said. “It’s really more about what they’ve done than what I’ve done as a coach.” Moving forward, the team will look to replace top runners such as Ferlic and Smoragiewicz, whose combination of talent and strong leadership contributed to the team’s success. “We have some gaps to fill next year,” Sullivan said. “I’ll be expecting that some of our younger guys and the guys coming in next fall will be able to fill those roles.” With next year on the horizon and a ninth-place finish now in the past, the mood may well shift from slight frustration to anticipation of what’s to come. Still, Sullivan made one thing clear: “Overall, we have nothing to be disappointed about.”
“We’re also definitely all still hungry for more.”
OSTON — With 4:28 to go in the final period of Saturday’s game against No. 10 Boston University and the Michigan hockey team up, 3-1, junior forward Max Shuart found himself on a breakaway. After receiving a diving MINH poke-check DOAN pass from freshman forward Kyle Connor, Shuart deked once before putting the puck past the Terrier goaltender. Shuart’s goal allowed the Wolverines to finally breathe a sigh of relief, putting an exclamation point on an overall successful weekend. “It was nice to get it going in the third and get the lead up a little bit,” said junior forward JT Compher. The goal shouldn’t have been the first time the Wolverines breathed a sigh of relief, though. In fact, Shuart’s goal should have been the cherry on top of an undefeated weekend in Boston. Michigan should have passed its first real test of the season with flying colors, twice beating a highly ranked Boston University side that hadn’t lost in three weeks. That’s not what happened, though. Instead, the Wolverines’ second game was the only one in which they came away with a win. Less than 24 hours prior to their 4-2 win Saturday, the Wolverines held a two-goal lead at the end of third period, similar to one they held in their game the next night. But the difference was that the minute the Terriers got on the scoreboard with 9:16 left in the game, the once-quiet Agganis Arena woke up, and pandemonium ensued. Boston University scored again to tie the game just 12 seconds later and finished off the Wolverines with three minutes left in the game with a goal from defenseman Doyle Somerby. “We saw we were up 2-0 heading into the third, and we really wanted to lock down the (defensive zone), which took away from our aggressiveness,” said junior forward Tyler Motte after Friday’s loss. “Intensity from our end went down a little too low. Obviously, you have to defend the lead, but we also have to play our game, and that’s not something we did.” If Michigan had kept its pedal on the gas for 10 more minutes, it could have walked out of Boston with two massive wins. It’s like doing really well on an exam, but missing out
on the big point questions and still getting a B+ even though you only missed one or two problems. “We just played a very good hockey team,” said Boston University coach David Quinn after Saturday’s game. “They’re big, strong and fast. Their forwards keep you on your heels, and they were the better team over the weekend, without question.” And most would agree with Quinn. The Wolverines were the better team for five-plus periods. But the Pairwise Rankings don’t take into account losses that were almost wins. That’s not how it works. No matter how many questions you get right on the test, if you only get 88 percent of the points on an exam, you usually get a B+. No ifs, ands or buts. The computer will just see that the Michigan went on the road to Boston University and came away with both a win and a loss. While the end result wasn’t ideal, by no means was it terrible either. In fact, the series was quite a good showing by the Wolverines and one they should be proud of. Boston was the 10th-ranked team in the country and sports some of the best players around, including 2014-2015 First Team All-American defenseman Matt Grzelcyk, as well as forward Jordan Greenway and defenseman Charlie McAvoy, two highly touted freshmen who played on the United States Under-18 National Team a year ago. “(Boston University’s) a good team,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “They’re going to win a lot of games, and they showed it on Friday. We didn’t let them play well tonight.” After playing no ranked teams prior to the weekend series, the Terriers presented the Wolverines with Berenson’s first gauge of how his team matches up against college hockey’s elite. Also considering the fact that the Wolverines had never won in Agganis Arena, just getting one win was impressive. “Anytime you win Boston, it’s a good win,” Berenson said. But the reality is that the Wolverines played their best hockey of the season and had two wins well within their grasp, and 10 minutes of hockey separated them from just passing their first test to blowing it out of the water. A B+ performance isn’t bad, but an A+ performance was definitely there for the taking. Minh Doan can be reached at minhdoan@umich.edu and on Twitter @_minhdoan.
SportsMonday
4B — November 23, 2015
Xavier outmuscles ‘M’ By JACOB GASE Daily Sports Editor
The Michigan men’s basketball team was just eight minutes into its first real non-conference challenge of 86 XAVIER the season, MICHIGAN 70 but Caris LeVert was fired up. The senior guard got in Xavier forward Jalen Reynolds’ face after a hard foul sent LeVert crashing into the base of the basket. The boos rained down at Crisler Center before the under-12 media timeout halted the confrontation. Reynolds and the rest of Xavier’s frontcourt certainly didn’t come to Ann Arbor to make any friends, and the end result was an immensely physical game featuring 48 total fouls and 52 free throws. Despite LeVert’s 29-point performance, the Musketeers’ physicality proved too much for the Wolverines to handle. Even with Reynolds in foul trouble for most of the second half, Xavier capitalized on its bevy of second chances — 18 offensive rebounds — and beat the Wolverines, 86-70. “(The Musketeers) hit the backboards obviously much better than us, they got loose balls, they have tremendous grit,” said Michigan coach John Beilein. “They’ve got a great mix of guys who can shoot the ball with the big men. ... They’ve got a really experienced team that knows how to win.” After Xavier took over the game with an 8-0 run late in the first half, Michigan found itself in a nine-point hole after the first frame. Then, an offensive surge led by redshirt sophomore Duncan Robinson, who made his first two 3-pointers off the bench in the second half, cut the lead to just two. But the Musketeers answered with a triple of their own, and then another after LeVert connected from beyond the arc on the next possession.
Big men struggle to control Xavier By KELLY HALL Daily Sports Writer
JAMES COLLER/Daily
From there, Xavier’s physicality took over. After LeVert’s 3, the Musketeers outscored the Wolverines 25-11 the rest of the way, mostly due to their continued ability to get to the free throw line against Michigan’s overwhelmed defenders. “We’ve got to get stops,” Beilein said. “We can dial up (the offense) all we want. It’s not about the offensive end. … We cannot give up that many points, that kind of percentage, off of that many foul shots.” Xavier made runs in the first half, too, scoring the game’s first seven points. But the Wolverines battled back on the strength of LeVert’s offensive versatility. The captain scored Michigan’s first points of the game with a contested layup, peppered the Musketeers with several midrange jumpers and took his game beyond the arc with back-to-back
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.
3-pointers to put the Wolverines ahead 26-24 with 6:39 remaining in the first half. LeVert finished the day with 29 points, three assists and seven rebounds, but he alone wasn’t able to stop Xavier’s frequent scoring runs. Plenty of Michigan’s shots just missed the mark when the Wolverines needed to fight back in the game. Both junior guard Derrick Walton Jr. and sophomore guard Aubrey Dawkins completely missed the rim on 3-point attempts, and Dawkins missed an open layup on a fast break early in the second half. “We’ve just got to keep developing as a team,” LeVert said. “When we get layups, we’ve got to make them. We’ve got to knock down our free throws. We’ve got to hit open shots. ... But we had 70 points — that’s enough to win a basketball game.”
1. CLEMSON: The Tigers are 11-0. You know what they call that? Purrrr-fect.
2. ALABAMA: Charleston Southern got Charlie Browned.
3. OKLAHOMA: The Broadway musical or the 1-on-1 drill?
4. IOWA: We ran out of corny jokes.
With just over eight minutes left in the game, Jalen Reynolds stood on the Crisler Center steps, surrounded by Michigan fans, and flexed his muscles. Reynolds had just fouled sophomore forward Aubrey Dawkins, who continued on to make both free throws, but the Xavier big man didn’t care. The Musketeers outmuscled the Wolverines in an 86-70 victory that included 48 fouls, with 11 of them going against Michigan big men. The Musketeers grabbed 18 offensive rebounds over the course of the game, scoring 16 second-chance points off of them, and consistently grabbed the ball out of the reach of the Wolverines’ centers. Michigan coach John Beilein has wanted to slim down his 12-man roster, but he wasn’t able to Friday. Beilein has been rotating four men in at the big man spot, but that decision didn’t become any clearer after 40 minutes against Xavier. “We got into early foul trouble, so I’m sure it was tough for (the big men) to get a rhythm,” said senior forward Caris LeVert. “Mark (Donnal), I think, had three in the first half, so that was tough, definitely. I think Moe (Wagner) gave us some great minutes when he was called upon, so we’ve just gotta
keep growing at that position.” Junior forward Mark Donnal started, as he did the first two games of the season, but was yanked after the first minute and a half after losing the tip to Reynolds and allowing him to drive to the basket, fouling Reynolds on the way there. “Mark certainly didn’t have a good day today,” Beilein said. “He appeared to be a bit overmatched. “We’re trying not to foul, but that’s hard for us to do with that quickness. (Xavier) just came right at us.” Beilein threw in sophomore forward Ricky Doyle after Donnal’s woes, but that didn’t help matters much. Doyle was too slow on the inside and couldn’t compete with Reynolds or Xavier forward James Farr, who totaled 13 rebounds. Six minutes after Doyle entered the game, LeVert dished the ball to him for an and-1. But Doyle missed the free throw. Seconds later, he fouled guard Remy Abell and caused an and-1 on the other side, but this time, Abell made the free throw. Little things like missed free throws add up, and entering halftime, Xavier led Michigan, 45-36. Though the Musketeers and Wolverines made the same number of field goals, Xavier outscored Michigan at the free throw line by nine points. The effects were visible on the halftime score.
“We had a lot of ticky-tack fouls defensively that really killed us.”
By MAX COHEN
STATE COLLEGE — With 8:05 remaining in Saturday’s game against Penn State, Jourdan Lewis turned to Jim Harbaugh. The Nittany Lions had cut what was once a 21-10 deficit to 21-16, and they had just kicked a field goal from the Michigan football team’s one-yard line. If Penn State had converted the fourth down and scored a touchdown, it would have had the chance to go for the twopoint conversion to tie the game. Penn State coach James Franklin preferred to cut the Wolverines’ lead to five, and settled for the field goal. So Lewis smelled blood. The junior cornerback has impacted games all season long by shutting down opposing wide receivers, but Saturday’s game
was his third straight returning kicks. In the newer role, he had an opportunity to go for the jugular. In the middle of the huddle before his kick return, Lewis looked over at Harbaugh and told him he was going to break the Nittany Lions’ back. Harbaugh’s response was succinct: “Go ahead.” Lewis took his coach’s permission and ran with it. He returned the ensuing kickoff 55 yards, leaving would-be tacklers grasping for air. Lewis created space all the way to Penn State’s 40-yard line, setting the Wolverines up for a gameclinching touchdown drive. “He was just competing like a maniac throughout that return, just refusing to go down,” Harbaugh said. “That was fantastic.” The importance of special teams is not lost on Michigan.
The unit does not meet alone during weeks of practice — every special teams meeting is a team meeting, and a part of game preparation that both Harbaugh and special teams coordinator John Baxter consider crucial to team building. The Wolverines have found out firsthand what happens if special teams plays — the ones that so frequently seem mundane — don’t go as planned. There was, of course, the fumbled punt that cost them a win against Michigan State last month. And Michigan surrendered return touchdowns against Rutgers and Indiana in its previous two games, though those errors weren’t nearly as costly.
8. OHIO STATE: You had one job.
9. OKLAHOMA STATE: Apparently, all you have to do to get College GameDay to come to your town is lose to Baylor. We would have liked to see Lamar get the honor.
10. FLORIDA: The Gators went to OT with FAU and ... we’re out of vowels. ALLISON FARRAND/Daily
Jourdan Lewis helped seal Michigan’s victory with a 55-yard kickoff return in the fourth quarter.
At some points Saturday, it appeared as if special teams issues would hurt Michigan once again. With just over four minutes remaining in the second quarter, fifth-year senior punter Blake O’Neill’s kick was blocked, allowing Penn State to take over on the Wolverines’ 43-yard line. The Nittany Lions needed just six plays to score on the ensuing possession, and they took a 10-7 lead. Penn State enjoyed the lead for just 1:10. Once the Wolverines regained the lead, the special teams performance also turned in their favor. Michigan extended its lead to 21-10 in the third quarter in large part due to a special teams miscue by the Nittany Lions. O’Neill lined up to punt with about 7:30 remaining in the third quarter after the Wolverines’ drive stalled on Penn State’s 43-yard line. His kick landed in the arms of Nittany Lions returner DeAndre Thompkins, but only for a moment. Thompkins muffed the punt, and Michigan redshirt junior wide receiver Jehu Chesson emerged from a brief scrum with the ball. The Wolverines took over possession on Penn State’s nine-yard line and scored a touchdown three plays later. After the game, Harbaugh said that Saturday’s victory might have been the one for Michigan in which the most people contributed. The Wolverines, when it mattered most, made some of the game’s routine plays count. “Everybody does a little, and it adds up to a lot,” Harbaugh said. If all goes well, as it did Saturday, the contributions add up to a broken back for the opponent.
“He was just competing like a maniac.”
6. MICHIGAN STATE: The Spartans will play Penn State for the Land Grant Trophy. Mark Dantonio feels disrespected it doesn’t have a better name.
7. BAYLOR: Shawn Oakman made us put the Bears here.
“It was frustrating,” LeVert said. “We had a lot of tickytack fouls defensively that really killed us, and they shot the lights out at the free-throw line. The 50-50 balls at the end killed us.” In the first half, Xavier had more made free throws, rebounds and assists and had fewer turnovers and fouls than Michigan. The Wolverines forgot the fundamentals. Forwards Moritz Wagner and DJ Wilson entered the game late in the first half to relieve Doyle and Duncan, but struggled to stay on the court and make and impact. Wagner and Wilson played seven and five minutes, respectively, but hardly made a dent on the box score. After Donnal collected three fouls in the first half, Doyle started the second. On the first play, he drove to the hoop for a layup, and hope returned to Michigan fans. That dream was shattered after Xavier maintained its lead for the rest of the half. Though the Wolverines got close to closing the gap in the beginning, the Musketeers pulled away in the last 10 minutes, going on a 14-3 run to seal the deal. “It was tough,” LeVert said. “Guys were knocking down shots, like we expected. But at the end of the day, we had 70 points — that’s enough to win a basketball game. We’ve gotta be better on the defensive end.”
Lewis’ kick return, Wolverines’ special teams break PSU’s back Managing Sports Editor
5. NOTRE DAME: The Irish scheduled a game at Fenway Park against Boston College, but we’re sure everybody was sober.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Musketeers grab 18 offensive rebounds, dominate four Michigan bigs
Caris LeVert’s 29 points weren’t enough to take down Xavier on Friday night.
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com