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Chad Carr dies after battle with brain cancer Carr, 5, united ‘U’ community with strength during yearlong fight By JAKE LOURIM RYAN MCLOUGHLIN/Daily
Engineering freshman Shivam Sharma, center, makes repairs to a blimp with guidance from his team members during testing for an introductory aerospace engineering course in Francois Xavier-Bagnoud Building on North Campus on Monday.
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‘U’ group plans Paris trip to observe climate talks Students, faculty to attend UN session to brainstorm new treaty after Kyoto By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter
A team of eight University students and two faculty members will travel to Paris
for two weeks at the beginning of December to observe the process of negotiating a new treaty to address climate change. The team will attend the United Nations’ Conference of Parties, with representatives from more than 190 countries and nongovernmental organizations, including other universities. The COP will focus on creating a treaty to replace the
Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2020. The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement that was adopted in 1997 at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to create binding emission reduction standards. The conference in Paris will also focus on reducing emissions. “The Conference of Parties happens every single year, and broadly its role is to help nations around the world
to work to figure out how to reduce or manage our impact on the environment,” said Engineering sophomore Allison Hogikyan, a member of the team. “This particular COP we need to rewrite the international agreement.” Hogikyan said the main reason the UN allows observing parties to attend the COP is to increase the transparency of the event. See PARIS, Page 3
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‘Tis the season for entrepreneurship. Dozens of people gathered in the East Liberty Street headquarters of TechArb, an incubator for student startups sponsored by the University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and the Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, for the launch of its semi-annual startup program Monday night. The incubator, which was founded in 2009, selects a number of startups each fall, winter and spring semester to participate in its out-ofthe-classroom crash course in business development. This fall, TechArb selected 21 teams from 50 applications, which TechArb director Ryan Gourley said is the highest number of applications the incubator has ever received. See TECHARB, Page 3
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The Michigan football faithful received sad news Monday afternoon when Chad Carr, the 5-year-old grandson of former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr and former Hall of Fame safety Tom Curtis, passed away after a yearlong fight with brain cancer. Carr was initially diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma in September 2014. In June, doctors escalated his treatment and began to provide him some relief. But two weeks ago, with his condition worsening, Carr went into hospice care after several
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HALEY MCLAUGHLIN /Daily Project Elephant came to the Diag on Monday after Asian-American students felt overlooked at the University’s recent Diversity Summit. LEFT: Education junior Samantha Suh discusses issues of diversity with a visiting scholar. RIGHT: Engineering senior Sean Jiu and Business senior Derek Siew speak about Asian-American representation.
‘Project Elephant’ calls for inclusion of Asian students Demonstration addresses minority community’s role in diversity discussions By ISOBEL FUTTER Daily Staff Reporter
The cold didn’t stop three students from standing in the Diag all day Monday with a wooden cutout of an elephant to advocate for Asian-American inclusion on campus. LSA senior Brendan Wu, Engineering senior Sean Liu
and Business senior Jennifer Liu created the event, which they called Project Elephant, in response to the last week’s University-wide Diversity Summit. Sean Liu, who is co-chair of the University’s United Asian American Organization, said the demonstration’s name stems from the common idiom of the “elephant in the room” — meaning an important and potentially awkward topic that is clearly apparent to all, but not discussed. “We felt like elephants in the room where we were invited to the party, but not
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active participants,” Sean said. “There are issues, there are voices, there are people that are being left out and they are elephants in the room, and we want to talk about them.” While attending events related to the summit, the three students said they felt as though Asian-American voices were excluded from the conversations about diversity on campus, prompting the Diag demonstration. “We felt like we were not included in the discourse and presentations of the Summit,” Wu said. “In some instances, See ELEPHANT, Page 3
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attempts at recovery were unsuccessful. Carr’s disease has united Wolverines and rivals alike. On Nov. 14 at Indiana, the Michigan football team wrote “#CHADTOUGH” on its helmets and dedicated its 48-41 victory to Carr. A week later, Michigan State and Ohio State wore decals in support of Carr on their helmets during their game in Columbus. More statements of support turned up on social media after Carr’s mother, Tammi, tweeted the news of his passing. After Carr was diagnosed, his family established the ChadTough Foundation to raise awareness for rare pediatric brain tumors such as Carr’s. “It’s incredible sadness, and I don’t know if it’s going to get better any time soon,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh during a weekly radio appearance Monday night. “Heaven got stronger … heaven has another angel now.”
Upon beginning residency, newly licensed doctors often feel a combination of inferiority, stress and sleeplessness that can lead to an increase in suicidal thoughts. Fortunately, a recent study co-conducted by a University researcher shows the benefit of a new web-based tool to lessen, or even eliminate, these feelings. The study was published in early November in the Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry. Researchers concluded that a free cognitive behavioral therapy website can cut the rate of suicidal thoughts in first-year residents in half. The program included four weekly interactive modules that covered topics like understanding the links between thoughts, emotions and behaviors and teaching the ability to challenge unrealistic thoughts. Srijan Sen, associate professor of psychiatry at the University, and Constance Guille, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina, led the research team. The webbased tool, called MoodGYM, offers the same type of therapy
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that mental health professionals offer in therapy sessions. It was developed at Australian National University. To carry out the study, Sen and Guille requested the help of 199 medical interns, another term for first-year residents. Half of the interns were assigned to use MoodGYM, and the other half received general information on depression and suicide and contact information for mental health professionals. Of those who just got general information about mental health, one out of five thought about suicide sometime in their medical internship year. However, only one out of eight of the interns who used the MoodGYM app thought about suicide. Additionally, most assigned to the app continued to use it all year. Guille said a focus of this study is to emphasize the importance of depression prevention rather than treatment after its onset. “We are showing that we can prevent the onset of suicide ideation, as opposed to treating it once it is already there,” Guille said. “It is much more difficult to get people into treatment once they have mental health problems, so there is an advantage to preventing the onset.” Sen said one of the biggest implications of this finding is that web-based cognitive behavioral therapy, and tools like it, can be used to help others in high-stress, highpressure situations. He said this could extend to undergraduates See WEB, Page 3
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CSG election results released, LSA and Rackham face delays Policy senior Sloane Forbush won the representative seat with 37 votes over Public Policy junior Sara Dagher, who had 27. With 51 votes, second-year Medical student Alia Ahmed won the Medical School representative position by a margin of 11 votes over a write-in candidate, second-year Medical student Benjamin D. Long. Education graduate student Michael Chrzan, a write-in candidate, won with a total of five votes to be a School of Education representative. All of the eligible voters from each school are compiled in a list, though votes can come from anyone who visits the voting website. Reese said the administration checks through the voters and compares them to the master list to make sure those capable of voting are validated. “Everyone’s allowed to vote, if they’re not on that list we have to see whether they’re enrolled or not,” Reese said. Reese said a member of the University administration supervises the elections. The elections director is not privy to the actual lists, because of laws under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act that protect students’ information from being released to other students. Write-ins to fill the vacancies for all available schools included a write-in nomination for Michigan Football coach Jim Harbaugh, and voters for the School of Education provided a double ticket of Bernie Sanders and Ben Carson for the representative position. “It happens every year,” Reese said of the joke write-ins.
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way for representative positions from LSA and Rackham Graduate School due to an error in the online voting system. According to CSG elections director Benjamin Reese, a third-year law student, voting for each of these two schools will run through Tuesday. All votes cast during last week’s originally scheduled election must be recast. The error stemmed from the voting system’s ranking mechanism, a setting that Reese said wasn’t enabled when elections went live online. Subsequently, he said, it was not clear which candidate was being voted for in the cases of LSA and Rackham. Elections for DPS Oversight, as well as those for all schools besides LSA and Rackham, were not affected. LSA sophomore Lisa Pomeranz won the DPSS Oversight elections with 568 votes over Engineering sophomore John Houghton who had 318. Public
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Professor allegedly subject to extortion plot, report says Unnamed faculty member says man attempted to gain $10,000 By ISOBEL FUTTER Daily Staff Reporter
A 52-year-old University professor says he was the victim of an extortion plot, according to a report by the Ann Arbor News. The professor, who has not been named, accused 24-yearold Mark Anthony Mitchell of attempting to extort more than $10,000 from the professor, based on a police report obtained by The Ann Arbor News. Mitchell did not deny or admit to one count of stalking and one count of using a computer to stalk and commit a crime. Mitchell posted a Craigslist ad for a “massage escort,” and the professor responded. According to The Ann
Arbor News, the professor told the police there was no sexual activity between the two. However, according to the records, the young man received about $6,000 to keep their relationship a secret. The professor and Mitchell have two conflicting stories. While the professor denied a sexual relationship ever occurred, Mitchell said their relationship included sex. The professor reported the blackmail allegations to police on Oct. 23 and drafted a lengthy and specific account of the two men’s interactions between Sept. 12 and Oct. 22. Mitchell was then arraigned on Oct. 28. The account claims that the professor first contacted Mitchell online about scheduling a massage during a planned trip to Lansing, Mich. According to the statement, though there were “some friendly exchanges,” no massage appointment took place. In one event, Mitchell told the 52-year-old that it was his
birthday, but he had no money to celebrate. According to the statement, the professor felt sorry for Mitchell and sent him money. After the professor reportedly scheduled a massage appointment with Mitchell at an Ann Arbor motel, but then left when Mitchell allegedly tried to touch the professor’s genitals, the professor began receiving numerous phone calls and texts from Mitchell demanding more money. In total, the professor claimed that Mitchell demanded $10,000. According to the report, Mitchell began threatening to ruin the professor’s career. Diane Brown, spokeswoman for the University’s Department of Public Safety and Security, said she could not comment on the case because it did not happen on campus. University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald told The Ann Arbor News that the professor is still employed with the University. He did not have any further comment on Monday.
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AFL-CIO to help rehab 300 vacant homes in Detroit At a press conference on Monday, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced the city’s plans to partner with the AFL-CIO to rehab hundreds of homes in several Detroit neighborhoods, including the Bagley and East English Village neighborhoods. The Detroit Land Bank will transfer the rights of 300 blighted homes to the union, which will in turn use union labor to rehabilitate the homes. The union will then sell the homes and split the profits with the city, the Detroit Free Press reported on Monday. “We are trying things that haven’t been done before,” Duggan said. The project will expand if the initial pilot proves successful. Richard Trumka,, the AFL-CIO president, said in a statement that the program is placing special emphasis on creating construction jobs for Detroit residents, women and people of color. Since his election in 2014, Duggan has initiated several new efforts to combat blight in the city, including programs to ramp up demolitions of vacant homes too damaged for renovation. The city has also instituted a massive program to auction off homes in more neighborhoods. In these programs, winning bidders are required to renovate and inhabit the homes within several months of their purchase. Neighborhoods initially targeted for this program included historic Boston-Edison, as well as the Osborn and Marygrove neighborhoods. Duggan has also relied on partnerships with other local players for similar rejuvination programs.
‘U’ economists predict job growth for next two years University Economics Prof. George Fulton, who directs the University’s Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics, led a study that broke down expected job growth in Michigan in the next two years. Fulton and his team predicted that 126,000 new jobs will be added by the state of Michigan by 2018, with 61,100 being added in 2016 and 64,800 by 2017. “From the perspective of how the economy has been performing overall in growing out of the prior severe recession, things are looking pretty good. The environment has stabilized and progress has been fairly impressive,” Fulton said in a press release. Joan Crary, research assistant at the RSQE, said six out of 10 jobs in the trade, transportation and utilities sectors will originate in the knowledge-based professional, scientific and technical subcategories, with the rest being in the administrative support subgroup. While jobs are growing, Michigan’s capital income, per capita GDP, employmentto-population ratio and educational attainment still rank low, researchers said. “What this tells us is that although we’ve made a fair amount of progress recently, we have a ways yet to go,” Fulton said. —TANYA MADHANI and SAM GRINGLAS
TECHARB From Page 1 “We chose this cohort based on their proven ability, or the ability that they indicated in their application, to execute on their idea,” Gourley said. “As a bare minimum we require that each team has at least two people, two students from the University of Michigan. We really tried to get a broad swathe of teams.” Gourley said the application consists of a series of questions to assess a team, its idea and the stage in the development process. He noted having an array of projects, as well as feasible goals, plays a key role in the selection process.
ELEPHANT From Page 1 we were actively ignored. Our role and existence in society was really, really downplayed or left out completely.” According to the fall 2015 enrollment report from the Office of the Registrar, Asian students account for 11.2 percent of the University student body. Sean Liu said when they asked questions at panel events, their questions, on issues such as how to help reduce discrimination toward Asian Americans on campus and make the University a more inclusive environment went unanswered. “We feel that these are large topics that are not being addressed and are being overlooked. You can argue that the administration is unaware of these issues, but even when Brendan, Jenn and I brought up these issues, they seemed dumbfounded and even glanced over it,” he said.
If multiple teams submitted similar projects, organizers selected the strongest proposal of the bunch. Such diversity is evident in this fall’s incoming class. The selected startups represent a wide range of focus, from manufacturing sustainable water bottles to developing virtual tours for the apartment search process. Team members come from a variety of the University’s schools and colleges and age groups — from freshmen to post-doctoral candidates. “We really have a wide representation of students working on both products and services, both high-tech and low-tech, approaching problems from every angle
Wu said he hopes the conversation from Project Elephant will prompt others to think about diversity on campus. “By expressing this, we’re hoping that people will at the very least think a little bit more about how they conceptualize diversity and inclusion and if they have felt excluded from certain areas in the past, maybe this will make them more comfortable sharing.” Echoing Wu, Sean Liu said he hoped this event will catalyze future conversation on a broader scale. “I plan to personally try to use this, and use the Diversity Summit, and use some of these issues that we’ve talked about today as conversation starters both within our community and bridge other communities,” he said. “We believe that these issues of inclusion don’t only apply to us, they apply to everyone, all students of color, and these underrepresented groups.”
imaginable at the University of Michigan,” Gourley said. Those selected are given access to mentorship, educational workshops, workspace, material support and the TechArb community for a three-month period. The workspace, which participants can access 24/7, includes whiteboards, two private meeting rooms, a kitchenette, office supplies, a printer, a foosball table and walls emblazoned with inspirational quotes like “passion never fails” and “experiment, fail, learn, repeat.” Gourley said TechArb works hard to cultivate a collaborative community. “TechArb is only as great as the people who make it up,” he
PARIS From Page 1 “The UN wants this content not to happen in a black box,” Hogikyan said. “They want people around the world to know what’s happening, so they invite these people to come as observers.” Engineering senior Matthew Irish, who will also be attending the COP, said it will be one of the most important negotiations looking into the future of climate change. The team of University students and faculty will attend as observers, meaning they will get to sit in on all of the negotiations over the course of the two-week conference. Though the team members will be able to voice their opinions, they will ultimately not be considered when the countries come to an agreement. The team will update a website and social media outlets throughout their time at
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said. “It’s a community of likeminded people that also have a high potential for a high impact. When you get such bright and interesting people in a room, really interesting things start to happen. So that’s the goal of TechArb is to connect all these people in the same place so they can see what magic happens.” At Monday night’s event, James Holloway, the vice provost for global and engaged education, praised the students for their desire to help others as evidenced by their startup ideas. “I think this is a really exciting, inspired place to be right now,” Holloway said. “I’m really awed by this group. You’re imaginative, you’re creative and you’re developing
things that will help people.” Holloway reassured participants that the real value of the program is not a startup’s explicit success, but experiencing and learning from the overall ups and downs of building a business. “Your ventures may not work out the way you expect,” he said. “The success is going to be that you learn how to do this work, you learn how to be creative, you learn how to be collaborative, you learn how to interact with others that are very different, you learn how to make something that has value for the world. That’s success. I think the real value is going to come from spending time with this group of people, learning from each other.”
the conference. Irish said they hope to raise awareness for what is happening by bringing their first-hand observations back to campus. “We are trying to actually bring back some information that will help our whole University community to have a really good ear for what’s going on,” he said. “A big part of us coming back home is letting people know what we think of the agreement.” Additionally, the University was recently one of 218 universities to sign the American Campus Act on Climate Pledge, which maintains the campuses’ commitment to sustainability in light of the upcoming COP. Discussing how the COP will affect the University’s environmental policies, Irish said the policies cannot directly influence the University, but would make for an interesting comparison. “This international agreement wouldn’t directly
tell the University you have to do anything,” he said. “We have all these goals and it would be interesting to compare them to the goals that are set by different countries coming out of this agreement.” Irish added that he wishes they were more progressive. “My personal opinion is we are not doing quite enough,” he said. “We are just going with the flow. We are just kind of doing what will now be required for all utilities in the U.S., but I think that is going to change.” Overall, Irish said he looks forward to the opportunity to see such an important deal negotiated. “I’m just really excited to be there and see it all happen firsthand,” Irish said. “I’m really apprehensive. If you judge by the past, things don’t look good, but I think people realize the gravity of the situation. I’m nervous to see what happens but I’m really, really excited.”
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WEB From Page 1 on campus in Ann Arbor. “I think that to some extent, it can extend down to college students and anyone in school,” Sen said. “This shows the value of these web-based tools and potentially also smartphone apps and nontraditional mental health resources because they would allow students to access them on their own time without having to fit it into the schedule of a traditional therapist.”
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have spoken about the gym community that I have become a part of in the past, but have hesitated to speak the word “CrossFit” out of fear for what response I will get. Usually, when I mention that I do CrossFit, I am met with a condescending eye roll and a sarcastic remark about being in a cult. I usually laugh along and shrug it off — at this point, I have recognized GRACE that trying to argue the true purpose of CrossFit is CAREY futile against anyone who has never experienced it. In this article, though, I am not being cautious. I am not talking about the “gym I go to off campus,” because shrinking the community I am a part of to this size is insulting to the things it has given me, and the people who make up this community. With the recent events in Paris and other parts in the world, there is no place I would rather be on Thanksgiving than at home with my family and the members of CrossFit Burlington. I performed the “Murph” workout for the first time on May 25, 2015. That Memorial Day, I rolled out of bed at 7 a.m., pulled on a pair of shorts and a T-shirt and went downstairs. Less than one hour later I found myself standing outside CrossFit Burlington with approximately 50 individuals, about to take off on our first of two miles. The rain had just stopped, and because I had never done this workout before, I optimistically looked forward to it. However, those who had done the workout before were incredibly nervous, making me realize I had no idea what I was getting into. The timer sounded, and we all took off down the street. Exactly 62 minutes and 51 seconds later, I found myself on my back in a pool of my own sweat, gasping for air, thinking about how this workout was barely a fraction of the difficulties that soldiers face on a daily basis. “Murph” is a CrossFit workout dedicated
to Navy Lieutenant Michael Murphy, who was killed in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005. Lt. Murphy’s story is well known by many, partially due to the book and later movie “Lone Survivor,” and because he is one of the many war heroes that CrossFit gyms across the country pay tribute to in a small way. The workout, which was Lt. Murphy’s favorite, is a grueling one-mile run, 100 pullups, 200 push-ups, 300 squats and another one-mile run — all while wearing a 20-pound weight-vest. Every Memorial Day, CrossFit gyms across the country perform the “Murph” to celebrate this war hero. The workout is a symbol of our appreciation for what he and others have done for our country. Some boxes — CrossFit gyms — even do Hero Week and perform a different workout dedicated to a fallen soldier for seven days in a row. Some boxes perform “Murph” six months after Memorial Day on Thanksgiving morning. There is a mutual understanding, while we sweat through workouts like “Murph,” that what we are doing is not for us. What we are doing is the smallest token of appreciation for fallen heroes like Lt. Murphy, for those who are on active or inactive duty, for the individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and for the families and friends of all of those who have served our country. I am proud to be part of the CrossFit community for reasons like these. This Thanksgiving morning, while I remain at school in Michigan, I know my brother and sister will be getting out of bed in Vermont and making their way to CrossFit Burlington to line up once more to complete the “Murph” workout. It will probably be snowing, just like it was last Thanksgiving. Even so, Ali, Tommy and the other members of the CrossFit Burlington community will not care, because as soon as they hear “three, two, one, go!” the snow will be the last thing on their minds. — Grace Carey can be reached at gecarey@umich.edu.
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“Everything is going to be OK,” my dad assured me as I sat cross-legged on my bed, pressing my phone against my ear and suppressing a fit of formidable sobs. His composure did little to quell the onset of emotions I experienced; if anything, it intensified them. For some context, here is a brief timeline of unfortunate events: About a month ago, my dad was terminated from his job of 18 years with no severance pay, no unemployment benefits and very little experience navigating the 21st-century job market. Not one week later, my mom’s union announced its decision to strike — a strenuous effort that offered little in the way of compensation for its participants — which cut her pay in half and forced her to work overtime to make up the difference. And precisely one hour prior to my writing of this article, my dad called to tell me that we are at risk of losing our house. My family has never been what one would deem “financially stable.” When I was growing up, we received welfare benefits as my mom searched for a full-time job. Most of our food came from church pantries, our clothes from Goodwill. Over time, though, things gradually became more tolerable. My mom found work, and we were living relatively comfortably on a salary of $60,000 for our family of four. Extravagance was still out of the question, but at least we were stable. One thing that remained consistent throughout the course of my childhood was my dad’s job, which contributed more than half of our income once my mom reentered the workforce. For it to vanish so abruptly was not just shocking — it was absolutely devastating. “I just can’t not work,” my dad told me over the phone. “It doesn’t feel right. I need to keep busy. I need to get out there.” “What can I do?” I asked him over and over again. “I want to help.” “You just stay in school,” he replied. “Knowing that you’re out there bettering yourself is enough. I don’t want you to end up like us. I want you to be comfortable.” This rationale does not console me in the slightest, even though I knew he was right. My parents never attended college and have always emphasized the importance of a quality education — the fact that I am studying at the University is not only a source of pride for them,
but also a one-way ticket to a life of financial security, which, among other things, is what they have always wanted for me. My dad reiterates how delighted he is that I am in school in every conversation I have with him, but in spite of his gratitude, I cannot help but feel a sense of overwhelming guilt about my detachment from the pressing issues that currently plague my family. I have a roof over my head, a meal plan and running water. I have access to an array of opportunities for advancement. I am comfortable and content; they are not, and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. Giving up on academia is not an option, and even if it is, it is not a particularly appealing one. Some days I feel as though I am not only pursuing higher education for myself, but for my family as well. Much more is at stake for me than just a degree — I am launching my lineage in the direction of a new lifestyle of prosperity. I am leading a crusade of upward mobility, but it is not without its anxieties. While my parents worry about paying the bills, I worry about the fact that I am not worried about anything remotely financial. I am thankful for the luxuries of university life, but agonize over the fact that it may come at the expense of my relationship with my parents. There is a glaring disconnect that resurfaces whenever I mention my classes or organizations, and they counter with an anecdote about a new obstacle that has pervaded their sense of security. I can do nothing to ease the burden of poverty for them except prevail over my studies, and at least for now, that is enough for them. “I love you, Lauren,” my dad told me. “I am so proud of you.” I hung up the phone and pondered our situation for a long time. I am angry, I am powerless, and I am more determined than ever before. My family may not have the means to afford much in the way of amenities, but we do have each other. They offer unconditional support as I work my way through the system so we may one day achieve a better life, together. It is not guaranteed, but it keeps me going and it keeps them hopeful, and at the moment, that is all we need to get by. Lauren Schandevel is an editorial board member.
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To be best friends
few weeks ago, my best friend Alaina and I were at Salvation Army picking out a costume for Halloween. Thursday night, we were Garth and Kat from Saturday Night Live, but Friday night, she got to pick. “I just want to look like a girl,” TOM she said, throwWEST ing up her hands. “Last night I looked like a potato.” *** One of my best friends, Alaina, hates when I use “best friend” in the plural. “They can’t all be best. That’s not what best means,” she says, talking with her hands. When I say someone I haven’t talked to in years is a “best friend,” she goes on a rant about this and that, loyalty and honesty and whatever. She gets exasperated over little things like who gets the title of “best friend,” things any logical person, in my opinion, would regard as trivial. But I maintain that I have about 10 best friends. My best friend from sophomore year of high school, Erin, moved to some town in Wisconsin when we were 15. She checked in later that year to tell me a local megachurch was burning copies of the Harry Potter series for promoting witchcraft. “I’m scared,” she said, but I figured she could fend for herself and left her to it. We ran into each other at Lollapalooza last summer. See? Besties. I wonder if someday Alaina will be like Erin — off in some remote corner of Wisconsin, hoarding her Harry Potter books beneath a floorboard in her room before the militia comes looking for contraband. “OK, fine, you say we’re best friends,” Alaina says, waving her
arms wildly, “but how many people have you said that to? Twenty?” Who are the others? I won’t list them for time’s sake. But there’s my best and first friend, Jack, who I talk to more than any person I don’t live in the same house with, and who will probably be the best man at my wedding. When we talk, I have the sensation of opening a favorite book to a random page and finding I remember the characters and plot just as well. But there are other best friends I don’t really talk to. There’s the best friend I got in a fistfight with. That ended the best-buds stage of our friendship. And he’s still my best friend because I owe him that, because at one point we would have done anything for each other. I still honor that. We may not be best buddies, but he’s my best friend. And then there’s the best friend I fell in love with, by accident, and whose doorstep I showed up on halfway across the country, expecting who knows what, and for whom I found that I was too late, that we were going to stay best friends — nothing more, nothing less. I think that’s really what it comes down to: A best friend is someone you love. *** Appearances are another thing I think any logical person would regard as trivial. I prefer to look clever, and I told her, “We need a costume that makes you look hot and me look funny: I got it.” But she didn’t like my idea of going with a “sluts and wizards” theme. So, she decided we were being Danny and Sandy from Greece. “Simple,” she said. “Just wear jeans and a white T-shirt and slick your hair back.” Except that I’m an asshole, and I thought this was a pretty stupid idea, so I showed up dressed as a wizard anyway. Boom: wizards and sluts. I wore a white T-shirt and jeans underneath my costume, though, to
change when Alaina went berserk on me. Honestly, I was just trying to get a rise out of Alaina because I was bored, and I wanted to look funny, and I liked the attention from people at the party. Alaina was upset, but she let me keep the wizard cloak on because, she agreed, it was sort of funny. She looked hot, and I looked funny. Perfect. So then we got on this bus to go to a party downtown and I figured everything was fine. Fast forward to the bus back from the party: Alaina is crying and covered in fake blood, because I found a bottle of fake blood and told her it’d be funny if we changed from Sandra Dee and a wizard to dead Sandy and a dead wizard. The bus is broken down at a gas station 10 minutes outside Detroit. It’s been a half an hour. My friend Connor is lying on his back in the parking lot, chainsmoking cigarettes. Alaina refuses to speak with me, and is in a corner crying tears of blood. She is freezing to death in a Sandy costume because she just wanted to look hot. I took off my wizard cloak and covered her up with it. And just like that, I was unintentionally dressed as her Danny Zuko. I didn’t want to be. She wouldn’t be freezing if she’d just gone as a fur-covered Wild Thing and I’d gone as Max, like I’d said we should. But she cared about all this. About looking good for once. About who her best friend is. My point is this: You never really know what people care about, whether that’s stupid, little titles or looking good. But if you care about them, and I do, then you start to care about how they feel, even if you think what they care about is stupid. So Alaina, I’m sorry. You’re not my best friend. But I do love you. I hope that’s enough. P.S. I’m sorry I ruined your night and covered you in fake blood. — Tom West can be reached at tkwest@umich.edu.
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Dear Governor Snyder
ear Gov. Snyder, I campaigned for you in 2014 because I thought that your pragmatic, commonsense leadership was taking the state in the right direction. You balanced our budget, grew our economy and did your best to elevate VICTORIA the governor’s NOBLE office above the political fray. I believed that you were the kind of leader who made rational, tough choices, politics be damned — the kind of governor Michigan needed. I still think you’re that kind of leader. But your decision to request the president to “pause” before admitting additional refugees into the state and country on the heels of the Paris terrorist attacks didn’t reflect the sound, judicious decisionmaking that I’ve come to expect from your choices. You defended your decision as apolitical, sensible and in the best interest of Michigan’s security. But, given the widely publicized xenophobic fearmongering by some high-profile Republican presidential candidates this fall, I find it hard to believe that your decision was based solely on a desire to protect Michiganders. There isn’t any substantial evidence — let alone definitive proof — that any of the attackers entered Europe through a refugee program. Most of the terrorists were born in Europe. Two possibly entered Europe by way of Greece, but it’s believed that they snuck in through Greece’s borders — not through a refugee program complete with the strict background checks that characterize the United States’ asylum process. Even if the Paris attackers had been granted formal entry to Europe through a refugee program, it still wouldn’t have justified a reduction
in the United States’ refugee admittance. There are simply too many substantive differences in both the number of refugees entering and the differences in ability to impose stricter background check requirements between Europe and the United States. Between January and August of this year, an estimated 350,000 refugees immigrated to Europe, often through southern European nations already suffering from economic and political instability. The huge numbers of refugees at European borders on any given day have overwhelmed the European Union’s efforts to screen each individual. Once inside the EU, they can travel between countries without facing border checks or additional screening. Geographically removed from the crisis in the Middle East, the United States doesn’t face these same pressures, and consequently, the United States admits far fewer refugees. The United States plans to accommodate 10,000 Syrian refugees next year. Just 200 Syrian refugees have resettled in Michigan this year. That’s a far cry from the 800,000 refugees Germany alone expects to cross its borders this year. And unlike in Europe, where mass crossborder flows of people make extensive background checks difficult, the United States subjects each refugee to a rigorous review process and background check that lasts 12 to 18 months on average. You were right to call on the Obama administration to take measures to prevent ISIS from attacking the United States. Given ISIS’ repeated threats against the West, an attempted attack on United States soil doesn’t seem to be a question of if, but rather, when. But focusing on refugees ignores the real vulnerabilities in United States border security, and reflects a basic misunderstanding of where ISIS’ true strength lies. ISIS has proven itself adept in using unconventional communication channels to connect with people overseas. This is crucial to their overall
strategy, allowing them to turn naturalized Europeans and Americans into ISIS fighters. Most of the Paris attackers were Europeans. Mohammed Emwazi, a British ISIS operative, killed at least seven Western hostages in Syria. Of the 68 people arrested in the United States for supporting ISIS activity thus far, 55 are American citizens and 43 were born in the United States. None were Syrian. However, the fact that European and American ISIS operatives pose a statistically larger threat to the United States doesn’t preclude a threat from any other group, including refugees. The United States should maintain its high standards for background checks into refugees’ personal and family history. But with some of the strictest standards in the world, it’s hard to envision a scenario where this purely hypothetical threat justifies barring some of the world’s most vulnerable people from seeking refuge in the United States. You were the first governor to attempt to bar refugee resettlement. In doing so, you ignited a political firestorm. Half of United States governors have now refused to allow Syrian refugees to resettle in their states. You told National Public Radio that you thought your position on refugee resettlement was “a thoughtful, common-sense one.” But if common sense tells us anything, it’s that we should update our positions when it becomes clear they are misguided. You have the opportunity to show the country that you are still the same considerate, principled and objective leader you demonstrated yourself to be in the past. Leveraging the new details that evidence refugees did not carry out the Paris attacks, you should rise above the fear that has clouded our country’s judgment. Reverse your decision to try to bar Middle Eastern refugees from resettling in Michigan. — Victoria Noble can be reached at vjnoble@umich.edu.
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TV REVIEW
‘High Castle’ proves Freddie Gibbs sells Amazon’s acumen out in new album New dystopic series adds substance to Amazon’s lineup
By SHAYAN SHAFII Daily Arts Writer
By DREW MARON Daily Arts Writer
There’s a scene in the pilot of Amazon’s newest original drama, “The Man in the High Castle,” that will stick in your mind Aregardless of whether you choose The Man to continue in the High watching. Castle It involves a routine traf- Series Premiere fic stop where Amazon resistance truck driver Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank, “Gossip Girl”) is stopped by a highway patrolman. The encounter feels normal and neighborly despite the patrolman’s swatstika. Then, out of nowhere, ash starts snowing down on the characters. The highway patrol man explains, in a casual tone, that the ash comes from the hospital where various “undesirables” are being incinerated. The characters then go along with their day. “The Man in the High Castle,” based on the acclaimed novel by the late Philip K. Dick, represents Amazon’s latest foray into original content, and it does not disappoint. The series comes to us from executive producer Ridley Scott (“The Martian”), whose classic film “Blade Runner” revolutionized science-fiction for the screen and brought Dick’s work to the attention of Hollywood. Since then, the once-ignored author has received a plethora of big-screen adaptations including “Total Recall,” “Minority Report” and the criminally underrated “A Scanner Darkly.” “The Man in the High Castle,” however, represents a huge leap forward in adapting Dick’s work. Free from the restrictions of mainstream feature films, “The Man in the High Castle” is an epic, sprawling dystopia that is one part political thriller and one part horrifying parable of what happens to a nation engulfed by fascism. Though the series does feature many characters connected to
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“What the hell is an Obergruppenfuhrer?”
the struggle of the resistance — a major but welcome change to the source material — the most unsettling aspect of the series aren’t big set pieces (though there are plenty) but the quiet moments of resignation, where we witness Americans who have moved on with their lives following the most heinous war crimes in human history. Like all great speculative fiction, “The Man in the High Castle” is as much about today’s world as it is about post-World War II America. In both “The Man in the High Castle” and, unfortunately, our own world as well, challenging authority and people’s personal perceptions is a near-impossible task. The only hope for a better future exists as a series of film reels called “The Grasshopper Lies Heavy,” which shows an alternate reality, one where the Allies have won the war. Ironically, it seems the only hope for us to have any meaningful, intelligent discourse is through platforms like “The Man in the High Castle.” As in the novel, we follow a number of different perspectives, including Juliana (Alexa Davalos, “Clash of the Titans”), a young woman seeking the film reels’ creator, the mysterious Man in the High Castle. On the way, she runs into fellow resistance fighter Joe Blake (Luke Kleintank, “Max”) who may have some secrets of his own. The series also sees CaryHiroyuki Tagawa (“Mortal Kombat”) as Nobusuke Tagomi, the Trade Minister of the fictional Pacific States of America, whose allegiances lie against the tyranny of the Reich. Tagomi, along with Juliana, are truly the main
heroes of the show, and Tagomi’s storyline on the show will hopefully mirror the tremendous arc he goes through in the novel. Finally, Rupert Evans (“Hellboy”) plays Frank Frink, a halfJewish factory worker and boyfriend of Juliana whose luck finally runs out after his significant other becomes the target of the SS. Rufus Sewell (“Dark City”) rounds out the cast as Obergruppenfuhrer John Smith, whose solid, albeit par for the course performance might be unfairly compared to the Jew Hunter played by Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds.” It’s the world of the “Man in the High Castle” itself, however, which truly stars as the series’ main character. Despite the show’s bleak tone, the cast and crew create a highly engrossing alternate universe that is always believable. In particular, the much freer Japanese territories showcase a fusion of Eastern and Western cultures that reminds American viewers how ignorant the view of the Allies as all-good and the Japanese as equal to the Nazis truly is. The series has already ignited a great deal of discussion, and for good reason. Despite its genre and its more fantastical elements, “The Man in the High Castle” might be the most political show currently produced. Though some of the characters, notably Tagomi, aren’t given their deserved spotlight in the pilot, the first episode of the “Man in the High Castle” proves that Amazon can stand on its own as a creator of quality content and that the time for challenging, thought-provoking entertainment is far from over.
Nuanced ‘Brooklyn’ Daily Arts Writer
In “Brooklyn,” the film adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel, we see the careful rendering of a story that has been A told one thousand Brooklyn times: the Wildgaze Films immigrant narrative. But “Brook- State Theater lyn” distinguishes itself through its creators’ ability to draw the loveliness out of a situation fraught with hardships. “Brooklyn” begins at a fork in the road for Irish country girl Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”). She can stay with no definite prospects in Enniscorthy, Ireland with her cherished mother (Jane Brennan, “The Tudors”), sister (Fiona Glascott, “Indian Summers”) and friends, or she can immigrate to the unknown in America. As illustrated by the title of the film, she chooses the latter and sets out for Brooklyn. Eilis receives accommodations at a boarding house run by the amusingly tart Ms. Kehoe (Julie Walters, “Paddington”) and finds a job at a department store. Some of the most humorous moments of the film come from her interactions with the women who have lived in America for a while, as Eilis’s awkwardness and social anxiety in the city is juxtaposed with their
urban American experience. These relationships between similarly aged young women could have easily devolved into rancorous competition for cheap amusement, but they always make an effort to help and guide Eilis. But even with friends in her boardinghouse and guidance from an Irish priest (Jim Broadbent, “Big Game”), Eilis is overcome with homesickness. Ronan a dual citizen of Ireland and America, sensitively portrays the frustration of being torn between two places. As she adjusts to her new life, Eilis starts to take and excel at her accounting classes at Brooklyn College, unapologetically pursuing her dream of being an accountant despite being the only woman in the class. Her homesickness evaporates quickly when she meets Tony Fiorello (Emory Cohen, “Smash”). Tony is a sweet, puppyish Italian boy with whom she locks eyes from across the room at an Irish dance. Their courtship is a nostalgic whirlwind that will make even the most cold-hearted of critics sigh and long for 1950s-style bathing suits. But the sentimentality of their love never borders on sickly sweet or annoying because their romance is always firmly rooted in the reality of their lives. Just as everything starts to seem a little too perfect, tragedy strikes back home, pulling Eilis out of Brooklyn and sending her back home to her mother. At
home, she finds comfort in the familiar. She also finds another suitor, Jim Farrell, (Domhnall Gleeson, “Ex Machina”), and the whole town seems to be pushing them together. As she decides between Brooklyn and Ireland, and between Tony and Jim, Eilis seeks to answer the question of the movie: how to, as a person of multiple identities, define the word “home.” The emotional effects of the film would be lost without the command of the camera by director John Crowley (“Closed Circuit”). Crowley creates a subtle but undeniable binary between America and Ireland in his use of cinematography, shown most clearly in the scenes on the beach in both countries. In New York, Tony takes Eilis to Coney Island, and they must dash between the hoards of people to get to the water to swim, kiss and laugh. But in the sweeping shots of the Irish beach she goes to when she returns, there is no one around for miles. With Eilis in the same bathing suit in both scenes, we can see her being entirely comfortable in either setting. Crowley presents this opposition, and we watch as she chooses her future. “Brooklyn” is not just an immigrant narrative. It is the touching story of a young woman caught in a state of uncertainty — uncertainty in her family, career and relationships. The film may be set in the 1950s, but its messages of the confusion of youth and divided identity will endure for years.
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Probably singing about some cocaine.
dreamin’ ‘bout some cocaine.” On “Mexico” he recruits Tory Lanez (aka the “Great Value” Ty Dolla $ign) to yell “My whip color look like Rihanna / And all my bitches like designer.” Gibbs doesn’t get on much better, with three verses about nothing, not even selling drugs. “Mexico” confirms that Gibbs has become too concerned with being a “rapper” and less concerned with being Freddie Gibbs. If that isn’t bad enough, what follows is the worst song of this dude’s career. “Packages” is so embarrassing I thought it was meant to be ironic at first. Gibbs, a man from Gary, Ind. (home of the Jackson 5), has absolutely nothing to do with the triplet flow that’s been booming in Atlanta the past few years. So when I heard him ad-libbing “I keep a pistol on me” with what sounded like his best Quavo impression, I was convinced this was a joke. But then the signature 808 Mafia sirens went off, and that was that. Gibbs sold the fuck out. That’s not to say Shadow Of A Doubt is all bad. Gibbs reached out to fellow Jeezy-hater and legend Gucci Mane for “10 Times,” another great Midwest trunkknocker he’s so well known for pioneering. The song segues straight into “Lately,” which
surprisingly features R&B style crooning weaved into thumping percussion. There’s even some of the smooth melodies he experimented with on Piñata. “Forever and a Day” is the obvious standout track, where he scrolls back to the autobiographical bars that immersed and won over his fans to begin with. For the first time on the album we get some real feelings. “I done did a lot of bad thangs’ just to get change / I done took it some levels that a lot of n****s won’t go” is hesitantly spit with just the right amount of regret. “Slung crack rock / Never had a wicked jump shot” summarizes his opportunities in Gary: basketball or eight ball. But what ultimately makes Shadow a disappointment is that this is the first time Freddie Gibbs has come up against a hurdle that wasn’t comfortably below him, and he failed. He sold out to find workarounds, forced artificial personas that hadn’t existed in his six-year run and marginalized himself to be as safe and boring as possible. Gibbs was never known for trying to be “cool” or “smart,” but he had a polished identity, and that’s all we can ask for. The instant he compromised himself and put on an olive green bomber jacket, Shadow of a Doubt was always going to be a shit album.
TV REVIEW
‘Badlands’ need work By MATT BARNAUSKAS
FILM REVIEW
By REBECCA LERNER
Freddie Gibbs is nothing if not consistent. The man is admittedly one-dimensional and deadpan in his delivery, but my god, Cis there anyone else who Shadow of has gone this long without a Doubt a single weak Freddie Gibbs project? Just when his ESGN mixtapes became noticeably formulaic and safe (box Chevys and backwoods appear in everything he touches), he surprised us all with the surprisingly versatile Piñata, the best rap album of 2014, which is not up for debate. Gibbs set the bar realistically high with mixtapes that brought a higher level of artistry to street rap; he was the only dude who could give you chills through a song titled “Let Ya Nuts Hang.” Up until now, Gibbs has had a flawless track record. He underpromised and overdelivered with all of his album-quality mixtapes, and matched the higher expectations when it counted most: album time. Albums understandably come with higher standards, and Shadow of a Doubt falls painfully short of what was supposed to be his breakout project. Straight from the jump, Shadow feels uncharacteristically generic. It’s as if he fleshed out all the elements that made his music unique and special, leaving only tidbits of an album he couldn’t seem to make. There are still flash-in-thepan moments when he seems to get it right, but they’re few and far between. There’s no jarring street-journalism, no smooth MadLib-curated soul sample, no left turns — nothing. He does just enough for the album to be tolerable. For example, he has a song titled “Narcos,” where the most gruesome line is “Chillin’ in my grandma basement / Probably
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AMC runs on “The Walking Dead,” and for good reason. The zombie apocalypse series is still television’s biggest hit, Beven though its ratings Into the are lower than in prior Badlands seasons. Series Premiere This strong Sundays at viewership 10 p.m. becomes even more important as AMC AMC relies on “The Walking Dead” to endure through an extended transitional period following the loss of “Breaking Bad” and the recently concluded “Mad Men.” Already, the network has released a spinoff, “Fear the Walking Dead,” and now plans to use “The Walking Dead” ’s substantial audience to build a leadin for its new martial arts series, “Into the Badlands.” Set in a post-apocalyptic world where guns have been banned and seven barons fight for power, “Into the Badlands” presents a world where hand-to-hand combat reigns supreme with visual flair. This strong display masks some lackluster storytelling, but it can’t hide every shortcoming. “Into the Badlands” follows Sunny (Daniel Wu, “The Man with the Iron Fists”), the best warrior (or “Clipper”) under Baron Quinn (Marton Csokas, “The Lord of the Rings”). Right away, the series establishes its protagonist as a force to be reckoned with. Drawing from Chinese kung-fu influences, action director Stephen Fung (“Tai Chi Hero”) and martial arts coordinator Huan-Chiu Ku (“Fist of Legend”) develop an over-the-top style, where combat-
ants move with almost inhuman speed and agility as they fight to the death. One standout scene is a rain-drenched battle between Sunny and four bowler-hat-wearing assassins sent by Quinn’s rival baron, the Widow (Emily Beecham, “28 Weeks Later”). The fight is shot with cinematic flair; long takes and slow motion create an engrossing sequence that never overuses any one effect. As Sunny, Wu and his stunt double Tengfei Tang (“The Forbidden Kingdom”) bear the most weight in selling these sequences, they’re up to the task — not just pulling off the choreography, but bringing a cool confidence to the warrior. Sunny is a conflicted fighter who swears loyalty to Quinn, a man who saved him years ago, but wishes to define his own path in life. This desire manifests itself in Sunny’s forbidden relationship with a doctor, Veil (Madeleine Mantock, “Edge of Tomorrow”). Always stoic, Wu hides Sunny’s torment under a collected demeanor. It’s a straightforward character and could benefit from more nuance as Sunny tries to define his existence. Sunny’s difficult situation is heightened after he rescues the mysterious young man, M.K. (Aramis Knight, “Ender’s Game”), in the episode’s opening. Claiming to come from somewhere beyond the Badlands, M.K. is supposed to bring a new hope to Sunny, but the character is incredibly grating. Whether it’s poor writing or bad delivery on Knight’s part, M.K. usually comes off as a smartass brat. After hearing Sunny’s name, he snidely remarks, “Why? Because you brighten everybody’s day?” If that reads poorly on paper, it sounds even worse when spoken. Hopefully, M.K. improves, as the show has invested a lot in exploring the character’s enigmatic origins and abilities. However, if Knight can’t endear M.K. to the
audience, his journey of discovery will instead become an unwelcome labor for viewers who would rather spend time with someone else — potentially on another network. The other storylines also struggle to distinguish themselves. Quinn deals with a discontented son, Ryder (Oliver Stark, “My Hero”), who the warlord believes isn’t ready to take his place. Meanwhile, Quinn’s new wife, Jade (Sarah Bolger, “Once Upon a Time”) competes with Quinn’s first wife and current matriarch, Lydia (Orla Bradley, “American Odyssey”). While not necessarily terrible, these threads lack any real intrigue in their current forms. “Into the Badlands” needs to improve its storytelling or risk becoming an unwelcome delay between excellent fight scenes. However, there are other elements that stand out for the new series. A strong production design creates an interesting atmosphere and sparks interest in the show’s larger world. Quinn’s plantation-like fortress calls into question how other pockets of civilization and culture have developed and how the other barons manage their holdfasts. However, there are some elements that don’t mix well: the Eastern-influenced, warrior class Clippers occasionally clash with the Southern antebellum and old West aesthetic that most of the other characters have. As a companion to “The Walking Dead,” “Into the Badlands” works well as a visually engrossing action series. It’s lighter fare than its emotionally exhausting lead-in, but “Into the Badlands” needs to strengthen its narrative to live up to its own visual standards and to keep its promising audience.
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Stevie Wonder, at 65 years old, performs his Songs in the Key of Life Tour at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit on Saturday. Wonder performed all of the songs on his album, Songs in the Key of Life, along with some of his greatest hits during his encore.
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In 1868, a novelist named John William De Forest wrote an essay for The Nation called “The Great American Novel,” wherein he nominated Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” for the role. While few would maintain his evaluation of Stowe’s novel and the only reason anyone cares even slightly about De Forest is because of that essay, the notion of the Great American Novel has persisted. The Great American Novel is, essentially, the idea that a novel can be the definitive expression of its time, capturing a unique American cultural and historical milieu. It’s a hackneyed version of the national epic in the tradition of Homer and Virgil, a work that attempts to unify a nation in a common language. It’s an idea also rooted in American triumphalism and its timid little brother, American insecurity. (I once heard someone say James Joyce’s “Ulysses” was the Great American Novel, because, I think, it’s so consistently ranked as the greatest novel ever that he assumed it was written by an American.) As Americans, we want to be the best at everything, and we want a literature that reflects our magnificence while meeting a certain criterion of greatness. Most often, people talk of the Great American Novel with derision, and occasionally write an entire novel satirizing the idea. But you can also write a novel, name it after the Great American Idea, splay it across the cover, then get in Oprah’s Book Club (the highest literary achievement) and receive a cover in Time proclaiming you as the Great American Novelist. The GAN oscillates somewhere between absurdity and validity, but it’s time it found a secure home among the former. First of all, why can there only be one? That’s the single
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greatest problem with the entire idea. Literary culture isn’t “The Apprentice,” and there’s no Donald Trump — thank God — to serve as a cultural arbiter, deciding the fate of American fiction once and for all. The Great American Novel effectively works to delegitimize important novels by turning America’s literary tradition into a sword fight (not swashbuckling) between dead white dudes like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald. It’s an obsolete term, also, because it historicizes fiction at the expense of aesthetic value. It’s a convenient idea for historical and journalistic purposes, and it is used most often in these circumstances. But literature isn’t made just to assimilate into a historical narrative, and the best literature squirms out of it’s historical moment. The GAN turns literature into passive historical texts, only relevant for their ability to transport us to a past America so we can understand what it was like to live in that time. Thus, according to the criteria of the GAN, literature is purely mimetic: Its sole function is to represent the world in which it was created. But all literature, and furthermore all art, is critical. To recreate the world is to critique it — to attempt to perfect it. No writer, not even the greatest, can hold a mirror up to nature without a signature crack. Every novelist’s vision of America is limited not just by their personal imaginative vision, but by place. Contemporaries Henry James and Mark Twain have markedly different views of and concerns for America, not only for their personal differences, but for the simple fact they lived in different parts of America. America is a gigantic country, and the reality is that its size and diversity of experience make the kind of narrative unity entailed by the GAN, at the very least, unlikely. Yet valuing the historicity of a novel is problematic not only because it minimizes the efficacy and agency of fiction, but also because the novels that survive getting run over by time’s winged chariot become what we know of their historical moment. To borrow a phrase from T.S. Eliot: They are that which we know. Novelists aren’t historians, and we shouldn’t require them to be. We can’t trust a novel for historical accuracy because it effectively creates it’s own historicity. Historical moments are transformed by the representations that survive them. Continuity with the past is tricky. While the past is never
dead, it’s transformed into a ghost of what it was. So when you take a novel, for example “The Ambassadors,” and say “This is what it was like to be an American in Europe in 1903,” you apply flesh to a phantom. It’s never going to stick. Quite often, American novels, certainly some of its best ones, serve as overt critiques of American culture. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” demolishes the idealization of wealth and unfettered capitalism’s excesses and failures; Herman Melville’s masterpiece “MobyDick; or, The Whale,” my vote for the greatest work of fiction produced by an American, subtly ironizes the idea of the monomaniacal entrepreneur, the Rockefellers and the Carnegies whom we still idealize, who chase the objects of their desires free of moral concerns; Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” eradicates any ethical justification for racism. Nothing tells us how full of shit we are more often than our greatest novels. What the fuck even is the American experience? Here’s the grand irony of the Great American Novel. In theory, the GAN would be a celebration of America. But a look at the common candidates (gunpowder for any postcolonial or feminist critic) shows a list of novels that critique the principles and ideas at the very heart of American life and the hypocrisies that lurk beneath the surface. More specifically, the battle for who is considered an American and what constitutes Americanness is a conflagration that has raged for the entirety of American history, but the novel has always proven to be an essential tool for those illequipped for the fight. Fiction continuously redefines who and what America is. Contrary to the logic of the GAN, there’s no America that novelists must strive to express. The novel will never create a definitive version of America: It will continue to create new ones. The GAN provides critical criteria that don’t really help evaluate the quality of a fictional work. “MobyDick” gives insights to what America was like in the preCivil War era, but these insights supplement the artistic achievements. They’re not the achievements themselves. “Moby-Dick,” despite its greatness as a work of fiction, can’t be the Great American Novel, because it fails to mirror the cultural milieu in which it was created. No one will ever write the Great American Novel, but not because it’s a great difficulty. They won’t, because it was a stupid idea from the beginning.
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Flaherty leads historic night ‘M’ wears orange WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
in support of Carr
By BRANDON CARNEY Daily Sports Writer
She missed her first four shots, but Katelynn Flaherty won’t walk away from Monday’s game against South Carolina Upstate remembering that. Instead, the sophomore guard will look back at her next 16 attempts, 13 of which she made on the way to a career-high 34 points as the Michigan women’s basketball team (4-0) had no trouble taking down the Spartans (4-2), 119-61, finishing with the second-most points scored in program history SC UPSTATE 61 MICHIGAN 119 since the beginning of the NCAA era. “When I started making shots, then everything started flowing in my game offensively,” Flaherty said. “Not getting down when I miss shots has been a part of my growth this year. I think I’ve changed my mentality a lot. I work on shooting all the time. I expect myself to make those shots, so I just kept shooting and it happened.” The Wolverines ended the first half with 65 points, their most since 1980, by shooting a remarkable 69 percent from behind the arc, making 64 percent of their total shots in the period. In the first half, 17 of Michigan’s 23 field goals were assisted by eight different players. “I think we’re really unselfish,” Barnes Arico said. “I think we always look to make the extra pass and get the best shot off and not the first shot. We did a really great job of that tonight. We had four players tonight with five assists. That’s pretty incredible.” With the Wolverines looking flat from the start, and scoring threats like Flaherty and sophomore forward Jillian Dunston shooting a combined
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Sophomore guard Katelynn Flaherty shook off an 0-for-4 start to finish with a career-high 34 points Monday night.
0-for-6 in the opening five minutes, Barnes Arico felt her team needed an energy spark. Soon after introducing freshman guard Boogie Brozoski and junior guard Danielle Williams, Michigan turned on its press defense, went on a 7-0 run and never looked back. Brozoski, Williams, Flaherty and junior guard Siera Thompson stifled USC Upstate’s offense and opened the second quarter making nine consecutive baskets. While Flaherty was the primary scorer, Williams and Brozoski carried the Wolverines defensively. The pair combined for eight steals, as Michigan forced 27 Spartan turnovers. Brozoski also finished behind Flaherty with 16 points and co-led the team with five assists. “Once we got into the press, the energy was there,” Brozoski said. “When we press, and we get up and have that energy, we definitely intimidate teams a little bit and get them to turn the ball over.”
Thompson proved to be the motor behind the Wolverines’ high-powered offensive attack, scoring 13 points, including making all three 3-point shots she attempted. But the guard drove Michigan’s attack starting from the defensive glass, where she grabbed a team-high eight rebounds. Senior guard Madison Ristovski carried the Wolverines when they were cold in the opening minutes, scoring nine of Michigan’s opening 11 points, all from beyond the arc. Watching her teammates struggle to score, the senior stepped up and lifted the Wolverines from a lackluster start into a historic night. She finished with 11 points and five assists. “Madison has really been a spark for us in our last couple games,” Barnes Arico said. “She’s been super consistent shooting the ball and she’s one of the best passers we have. Her consistency has really been a staple for us and it’s great to see that from her as a senior.”
While there was much to cheer about Monday night in Crisler Center, the loudest moment came when fifth-year senior Halle Wangler scored her first career point with a minute left in the contest. “(The team) was more excited for her than they were for their own individual success,” Barnes Arico said. “Halle is a great kid and brings a lot of energy and passion every single day, and for her to have the opportunity to do that tonight was special.” Between Flaherty and Wangler’s career moments, Michigan’s offensive explosion will be one for the record books, as the Wolverines continue to show their attacking consistency early in the season. “It was just a great night for the whole team,” Brozoski said. “Everyone scored. Everyone impacted the game in some way. At the end of the day, it doesn’t come down to points. It comes down to how hard you play, and everyone gave it their all out there.”
Just hours before the Michigan women’s basketball team tipped off against South Carolina Upstate on Monday, the Michigan community was grieving. That afternoon, 5-year-old Chad Carr, the grandson of former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr and former Hall of Fame safety Tom Curtis, passed away after a 15-month battle with an inoperable brain tumor. To honor Carr, the Wolverines wore orange T-shirts with “#CHADTOUGH” written across the chest during their game. The team came out of the tunnel for warmups dressed in the shirts and also sported them while on the bench. The coaching staff also geared up in orange, representative of the #ChadTough Pray for a Miracle fundraising event that distributed orange rubber wristbands to raise awareness and support for the cause. Some of the Wolverines wore the wristbands around their socks on Monday, and all of the profits from each wristband went directly to pediatric brain tumor research at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor. A moment of silence was held at Crisler Center prior to Michigan’s win. Chad’s fight with a form of cancer known as Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Giloma (DIPG) garnered endless support from the Michigan community and beyond, most prominently with the Michigan football team writing “#CHADTOUGH” on the back of its helmets. But as the only Michigan team in action Monday, the women’s basketball program took its chance to honor Chad with the shirts, and Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico
spoke about what Chad’s fight meant to her and her team. “It was really hard,” Barnes Arico said. “We live in the same community, and my children go to school with their children. For them to share their story with us over the last 15 months has been incredible and an inspiration to myself, to our players and to my family. Our team has volunteered for the Chad Run last year and this year. We all feel like Chad and the Carrs are part of our family.” The Wolverines heard the news during a shootaround earlier today, and as soon as they did, they decided they would honor Chad and the Carr family during the game. Many players tied their shoes with orange laces in support. “It’s such a difficult time for everyone to go through, especially the family,” said sophomore guard Katelynn Flaherty. “(Chad) inspired everyone. It really puts a perspective on everyday life, and I think it reminds us not to take anything for granted and appreciate where we are, everyone around us and just being able to step out on the court.” As Barnes Arico mentioned, the Wolverines participated in the second annual RunTough fundraiser last month, helping raise over $120,000 to benefit the ChadTough Foundation. After the 119-61 win over USC Upstate, the players, coaches and two of Barnes Arico’s daughters put on the #ChadTough shirts and gathered in the middle of the court for a picture to show their support. “Any way that we can honor them, by wearing orange and supporting their family, is what we wanted to do,” Barnes Arico said. “My little one came running up to me after and said, ‘Mommy, we did this for Chad.’ ”
Beilein strives to Michigan’s Thanksgiving report solidify rotation card: Offense remains strength MEN’S BASKETBALL
By LEV FACHER Managing Editor
The Michigan men’s basketball team has been scheduled to appear in the 2015 Battle 4 Atlantis for almost a year, but this week, its travel schedule seems to be a perfect response to the weather. The Wolverines left for the eight-team tournament, hosted by the Atlantis Paradise Resort off the shores of Nassau, Bahamas, on Monday evening — barely 48 hours after Saturday’s record-setting snowstorm in Ann Arbor. While Ann Arbor is currently almost 50 degrees colder than the Bahamian beaches, Michigan coach John Beilein said he doesn’t expect the trip to prove distracting. “We’ll keep (the players) pretty busy,” Beilein said. “Hopefully, we don’t have anybody coming back with tans. … It’s the fans that get to have some break time before the winter hits. It won’t be us.” The Wolverines can’t afford break time, anyway. Their 86-70 loss to Xavier at Crisler Center on Friday highlighted the team’s question areas, like their ability to defend against a physical post presence, or run an offense heavily reliant on ball-screen action around the perimeter against a larger, more experienced defensive backcourt. Michigan fans will see changes come Wednesday’s first-round matchup against No. 18 Connecticut, but Beilein is keeping them close to the vest. After Friday’s loss, Beilein indicated that junior Mark Donnal’s status as the starting center would depend on his performance, and that of other big men, over the course of the next few practices. Beilein acknowledged there will be changes to the starting lineup but wouldn’t say at which positions. “I do know where they’ll be,”
Beilein told reporters Monday. “You just don’t know.” Beilein said he’ll continue his quest to trim his team’s rotation from 12 closer to eight over the course of the tournament. That process, however, is complicated by senior guard Spike Albrecht’s extended rehab process from the same surgery former forward Max Bielfeldt underwent prior to the 201415 season. Given the program’s experience with the procedure, Beilein said the recovery process was initially expected to be similar, but listed two main differences. For one, Albrecht had the surgery on both hips, while Bielfeldt only needed it on one. Meanwhile, the nature of Albrecht’s position as a perimeter player makes the procedures more difficult to recover from, as his role requires more overall movement. Working Albrecht back into a rotation presents a challenge for a roster that currently has a multitude of players with a foot in and a foot out of the regular rotation, like freshman forward Moritz Wagner and sophomore guard Muhammad-Ali AbdurRahkman. Several other players’ roles remain undefined, like sophomore forward Kameron Chatman, redshirt freshman forward D.J. Wilson and redshirt sophomore guard Duncan Robinson. The experiment of playing 12 players in a given contest is unsustainable, Beilein said. All the same, the Wolverines are set to play three high-profile games in a 48-hour window, and depth can only serve as an asset. The Michigan-Connecticut matchup begins at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday. With a win, the Wolverines would play the winner of the CharlotteSyracuse game in a secondround matchup at 3:30 on Thanksgiving Day. With a loss, Michigan would play that game’s loser at 9:30 p.m.
By JUSTIN MEYER Daily Sports Writer
Campus was emptying on Monday as students skipped out early for the holiday. But Michigan hockey assistant coach Brian Wiseman’s voice echoed throughout practice at Yost Ice Arena, his presence as evident as ever. “Come on — harder!” Wiseman said. “We’re going to play hard.” The college hockey season can be a grueling affair: 25 weeks of non-stop practice and travel to hostile barns in various frozen parts of the country each weekend. Even coming off a tough series against No. 10 Boston University, any letdown is unacceptable. The Wolverines set out to capitalize on a weak schedule early this season. Their progress toward that goal has been the subject of much debate. An upcoming series against Dartmouth marks the end of the first third of Michigan’s (6-2-1) regular season. The Daily grades the Wolverines’ performance so far. Offense: A-minus The obvious bright spot before a single practice commenced this season was that Michigan’s offense is a juggernaut that can hang with the best in the country. Early this season, the production has been driven by a plethora of young talent. The Wolverines are led in scoring by breakout freshman forward Cooper Marody, who has tallied six goals and five assists. At 1.22 points per game, Marody ranks third among all Division I freshmen. The top three point-getters for the team, Marody and fellow forwards Kyle Connor and Brendan Warren, are all freshmen. Some of this performance is due to the quality talent Michigan brought in this offseason, but a greater part is attributable to the Wolverines’ depth.
Michigan is the fifth-ranked scoring offense, and 12 different players have found the back of the net this season. The stats Marody and Warren record are both significantly inflated by playing for the third line, and consequently against inferior competition. JT Compher, a junior, continues to be a sparkplug. The captain opens games at a breakneck pace and has helped the top line generate 13 goals. Junior Boo Nieves has elevated his game as well. Nieves centers one of the best possession lines in the NCAA, flanked by Connor and senior Justin Selman. The result is that any line is a threat to score. For the forwards, the biggest misstep of the season came in a 4-0 loss to Robert Morris. The Wolverines came out sluggish and looked hesitant in the offensive zone. That anomaly aside, though, Michigan consistently crashes the net hard and moves the puck with fantastic efficiency. Few teams in the country have a chance at shutting down this high-powered unit.
intangible additions. This season’s unit is allowing 3.1 goals per game. At this time last year, the Wolverines were allowing 3.3. Michigan also added quite a bit of speed and finesse with freshmen Nicholas Boka and Joseph Cecconi. Both are NHL Draft picks and have played significant minutes this year. Overall, Michigan has to be happy with the progress. Sophomore standout Zach Werenski has looked tremendous at times and a bit overwhelmed at others. The 18-year-old is still a bright spot, though, adding a scoring threat to the defense. As a team, the Wolverines are allowing opponents to convert far too high a percentage of shots. Part of this problem stems from a lack of physicality. Michigan ranks 55th out of 60 NCAA teams in penalty minutes this season. The best defensive games so far came in a 5-2 win against Rensselaer Polytechnic and a 4-2 win Saturday at Boston University. Both times, an energetic Wolverine squad smothered chances and cleaned up in the front of the net. This defensive unit won’t rank as one of the best in the NCAA, but it is on track to finish ahead of last season.
“I think our team is the real deal.”
Defense: B-minus There is good news for the Wolverines: The defensive unit looks improved. The bad news is that it still has a long way to go. Through nine games, the defensemen have learned to comfortably protect the puck and break out fluidly. But some areas have improved at a crawling pace. Clearing rebounds and moving the puck in the defensive end remain points of focus in practice. Turnovers in the offensive end have led to a few bad odd-man rushes. There are marginal statistical improvements as well as
Goalie: C Michigan’s goalies haven’t quite slept through games this season, but it’s been easy at times to forget they are there at all. Senior Steve Racine has emerged to take the starting job in the last three games after a deflating battle with junior Zach Nagelvoort. Neither goalie handled the competition with consistency, displaying flashes of brilliance and long periods of sloppy play. Racine and Nagelvoort rank
59th and 73rd, respectively, in save percentage among eligible goalies this season. That’s inexcusable, but the C rating is justified because the play is not as bad as the numbers suggest. Subpar defending has hurt both Racine and Nagelvoort. Sharp defenders can easily mask a goaltender’s deficiencies, while poor play often leaves the netminder shouldering all the blame. Racine made several showstopping saves over the weekend, but posted just a .893 save percentage in the series. The senior is lighting quick out of his butterfly, and can move post to post well. At times, though, his focus seems to wane. Make no mistake: The improvement in net over the last month has been marked. Still, it’s hard to imagine Michigan relying on its goalies to win a tight game this weekend. There is a sense of optimism that goaltending is on the upswing, but the evidence has yet to arrive. *** The non-conference schedule has been a rollercoaster for the Wolverines. At times they have showed talent, resilience and desperation; some games would be better described by complacency. The question remaining is whether the team is complete enough to be great. “I didn’t know where we would be (at this point),” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “I knew we didn’t have a tough schedule and that we would have to take advantage of that. You might have a good win-loss record and not be the real deal. I think our team is the real deal.” Michigan hosts Dartmouth on Friday and Saturday before starting Big Ten play. The Wolverines appear to be tentatively passing the eye test at the early-season break. They’ll have to do much more by the time March rolls around.
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Senior linebacker Joe Bolden, who grew up in Ohio, will play Ohio State for the final time on Saturday. Both teams are still alive in the Big Ten title race.
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Intensity high despite OSU’s loss Harbaugh sticks to routine ahead of rivalry battle Jim Harbaugh said he will treat this week like any other, despite the rivalry.
By MAX BULTMAN Daily Sports Editor
As Michigan football fans across the country watched their team’s path to the Big Ten Championship Game get a little less direct, the team itself waited somewhat blindly. The Wolverines were still on the plane home when Michigan State upset Ohio State, ruining the winner-take-all buildup to “The Game” on Saturday. The plane had Internet, so Michigan could follow along, but it didn’t get the channel to watch Michael Geiger’s game-winning field goal. Even with their fate out of their own hands, the Wolverines say Ohio State’s loss won’t diminish Saturday’s game. Michigan defensive captain Joe Bolden was asleep when the game ended, but when he woke up, he said he wasn’t too shaken up by the upset. “Whatever,” Bolden said.
“If they both lost, it (would be) better for us, but that can’t happen, right?” Indeed, one of Michigan’s two chief rivals had to win on Saturday. And as a result, the Wolverines’ only path to Indianapolis requires them to beat Ohio State and Penn State to knock off the Spartans in East Lansing. Since Michigan plays the Buckeyes at noon and Michigan State hosts the Nittany Lions at 3:30 p.m., the Wolverines won’t know what they’re playing for until long after their game is over. But Bolden says the absence of a win-and-you’re-in guarantee won’t affect his team’s mindset throughout the week. “It could be at stake, so why not prepare for it?” Bolden said. Realistically, most of the team doesn’t need a championship on the line to get fired up for Ohio State. Michigan hasn’t beaten the Buckeyes in the last three years.
There are seniors who have never beaten them. So even if “The Game” amounts to nothing but pride, a win wouldn’t mean any less to the Wolverines. For players like junior tight end Jake Butt, who grew up just outside Columbus in Pickerington, Ohio, and junior cornerback Jourdan Lewis, who went to Detroit Cass Tech — a high school heavily recruited by both universities — the rivalry has some additional dimensions. “Honestly, (Cass Tech head coach Thomas) Wilcher is a Michigan guy,” Lewis said. “So we (are) always Michigan guys. Just a few guys stray going to Ohio State. But honestly, it’s a Michigan thing there.” Eight Cass Tech alumni will be on the rosters for the game: three for Ohio State and five for Michigan. And with former teammates facing off, banter is a given.
“We haven’t really talked about it yet, but I’m pretty sure we’ll get into it later in the week,” Lewis said. As for Butt, childhood memories make a chance to play in the rivalry even more special. Butt specifically recalled watching the 2006 “Game of the Century,” which the Buckeyes won, 42-39. “I grew up around that rivalry — friends were Ohio State fans, had friends that were Michigan fans — and it would always just be such a huge event and something you look forward to right after Thanksgiving,” Butt said. “It’s really special to play in that game. Growing up around that rivalry, it’s something I always dreamt of playing in some day.” Ohio State never offered Butt, but on Saturday, he’ll have his third chance to beat the Buckeyes. Getting his team to the Big Ten Championship game would be gravy on top.
Finn reflects on barefoot finish at second career national meet Junior ran last two-thirds of race without shoes, finished 19th By SYLVANNA GROSS Daily Sports Writer
Junior Erin Finn made sure to triple-knot her shoes before the 6,000-meter course at the NCAA Women’s Cross Country Championships in Louisville, Ky. She had lost her spikes in a race before during her Michigan career. That time, her coach, Mike McGuire, told her to drop out. But this was the national meet. Dropping out was not an option. As Finn took off from the starting gun, she quickly positioned herself in the leading pack of the 254 athletes. She paced herself and only made moves in reaction to others. Finn was running smart. At the 2,000-meter mark, however, Finn lost her spikes after being clipped in the ankles by a runner behind her. A few more feet, and she lost the other shoe, too. Finn was left in her socks. “For maybe a millisecond, one of the choices I had was to give up,” Finn said. “I could have quit, I could have gone back to get more shoes, or I could have just kept going. But I didn’t consider anything else. I went forward. My teammates were relying on me. And I knew it was going to hurt just as much on the inside to quit compared to the pain running barefoot.” Fifty meters after losing her shoes, Finn lost her socks. Yet 4,000 meters later — at the finish line — Finn became one of just seven Wolverines in program history to become a two-time All-American, placing 19th with a time of 20:10.2. And she did it barefoot.
To put it in perspective, if this had been any other course, it wouldn’t have been that much of an issue. Most cross country meets are held on golf courses where the grass is kept and the ground is soft. However, Louisville’s course is held at Tom Sawyer State Park, where there are sections on gravel and over pine cone-covered grass. The course definitely was not “conducive to barefoot running.” “I don’t think during the race anyone realized I was barefoot,” Finn said. “But there’s a long gravel straightaway with a tiny bit of grass on the side. So when I got there, I was staying to the side. But (McGuire) was there, and he was yelling at me to get on the gravel. But then our graduate assistant coach noticed my feet and told him. (McGuire’s) face just dropped. “I was a little annoyed when he said to get on the gravel before he knew. I was like, ‘Are you kidding?’ I was almost trying to avoid him the entire time before then because I didn’t want him to tell me to drop out. I couldn’t drop out.” Despite her dedicated performance, Finn only felt frustrated when she finished. She had been so focused on running and dealing with the pain that she didn’t think she had even finished in the top 40. And after a stellar season in which she won three regularseason meets and claimed the individual title at the Big Ten Championship — becoming just the second Wolverine ever to claim the title twice — Finn wanted to win. “I was extraordinarily frustrated,” Finn said. “I was shooting for a top-10 finish. I was really angry and in a lot of pain.
Wolverines avoid putting extra attention on Saturday’s game By MAX COHEN Managing Sports Editor
Among all his eccentricities, quips and sideline meltdowns, Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh is nothing if not a man of routine. He wears the same outfit daily, he constantly preaches hard work, and his intensity hardly wavers, whether he’s in the middle of coaching a game or if he’s conducting a press conference. But if there were ever a time for Harbaugh to stray from his routine, it would be this week, when he prepares to lead the Michigan football team against Ohio State for the first time. The rivalry is personal to Harbaugh. He famously guaranteed a victory for the Wolverines over the Buckeyes during the final year of his playing career in 1986, and his college coach, Bo Schembechler, was known for the intensity with which he treated the rivalry. But during his weekly press conference Monday, Harbaugh held true to form. He made no guarantees, predictions or broad statements about the importance of the upcoming rivalry game. In his mind, it’s just another game. When asked if he was looking forward to Saturday’s game, Harbaugh replied that he was primarily looking forward to meeting with his team to begin game preparation. His philosophy won’t change. “You know exactly how we go about things,” Harbaugh said. “We’ve been trying to be better today than we were yesterday. We’re trying to be better tomorrow than we were today.” Matching up with Ohio State will not be a simple task. Before the Buckeyes lost to Michigan State on Saturday, they had won 23 games in a row, including a national championship. Ohio State coach Urban Meyer provides Harbaugh an elite adversary. Last season’s national title was his third. The stature of the two coaches within the college game has brought about numerous comparisons regarding the possibility of the HarbaughMeyer rivalry matching the one Schembechler had with former Ohio State coach Woody Hayes in the 1970s. Harbaugh isn’t buying into the storyline. “My reaction to the coach-
versus-coach buildup is he’s not going to be blocking anybody,” Harbaugh said. “He’s not going to be tackling anybody. I’m going to be over there standing on the sidelines blocking and tackling nobody.” Harbaugh did take a moment to reflect upon one of the battles between his mentor and Hayes. When he saw the snow on the ground in Ann Arbor on Monday, he thought about the anticipation leading up to the first game between Schembechler and Hayes in 1969. Harbaugh was just 5 years old at the time, but Schembechler’s former players have told him the story. The Monday before that game — in which the Wolverines were heavy underdogs against a topranked Ohio State team, only to later pull off a historic upset — Michigan’s practice field was covered in snow. Schembechler, the story goes, handed his players shovels and made them clear the field. Harbaugh did not offer many memories of his own playing career against the Buckeyes. When asked about his famous guarantee, he says that it happened a long time ago, that he wouldn’t do something like that now. As a coach, Ohio State is just another foe. Harbaugh’s players understand how he sees things. He has told his players all along that if they ratchet up the intensity during one week of practice for a specific opponent, it just means that they weren’t giving their all during another. “(He’ll approach it) the same way he approaches every week, with a lot of enthusiasm unknown to mankind,” said redshirt junior defensive end Willie Henry. Henry and many of his teammates from Ohio differ from Harbaugh in that they believe this game is more special than the average one. They won’t do anything differently to prepare, but the game has a different feel. Their friends and former teammates are Ohio State fans, and they hear about the rivalry whenever they go home, and even when they’re in Ann Arbor. They consider the rivalry to be the greatest one in all of sports, and now they’re looking to help lead Michigan to a victory against the Buckeyes for just the second time in 12 years. That historical aspect isn’t particularly relevant to Harbaugh. All he cares about is the week in front of him. “Our plan every week is ceaseless and intense,” Harbaugh said. “Never slackening. Always continuing at the same intense, demanding, punishing level.”
“Our plan every week is ceaseless and intense. Never slackening.”
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Erin Finn ran what her coach called one of the toughest races he had seen.
I was questioning why this had to happen. I didn’t think I was as high up as I was. As time went on and I talked to my coach, mom and teammates, that’s when I found out I was All-American. I still wanted to be higher, but they all made me feel proud that I continued to fight.” After her race Finn’s phone was flooded with texts and calls from her former teammates, coaches and friends. All of them were telling her how proud they were of her. It was the only thing that made Finn shift her perspective. “There was nothing in me that wanted to learn anything out of
“It was going to hurt just as much on the inside to quit.”
this,” Finn said. “I just received so much support, and that’s what made me realize I can fight through hard times. And I have and I will continue to do so. McGuire said that it was one of the toughest performances he’s ever seen — and he’s coached so many great athletes. He doesn’t compliment that often, so when it happens, it means a lot.” The No. 6 Michigan team finished in sixth place, led by the barefooted Finn. Despite everything, Finn doesn’t hold a grudge against the girl who clipped her because Finn knows it wasn’t on purpose. Rather, she recognizes that what happened is the “name of the game.” Though, half-jokingly, Finn would like that girl to walk a mile in her shoes. Or, rather, run 4,000 meters barefoot over gravel and pinecones.