ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Monday, April 11, 2016
Ann Arbor, Michigan
michigandaily.com
APRIL SHOWER S
CAMPUS LIFE
SpringFest emphasizes relationship with Detroit AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
Rackham student Alex McConnell walks through the rain down State Street Sunday evening. McConnell, a native Californian, said Californians would “kill to have this kind of (rainy) weather,” which caused many events this weekend to be postponed.
Annual sustainability report shows slow-moving progress University sees 3 percent increase in greenhouse gas emissions
that require improvement for the University to meet its sustainability goals. One large category was the amount of waste sent to landfills, a sign of effective food waste composting. The University’s stated goal for 2025 is to reduce it by 40 percent. According to the report, by the end of 2015, it had been reduced 1.7 percent. Energy conservation and greenhouse gas emissions saw similar trends. For these areas, the report drew on numbers from
By ANDREW HIYAMA Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan’s 2015 Sustainability Progress Report, released last week, identified several key areas
Energy Management — a division within Plant Operations at the University — which monitors the energy use of buildings on campus, tracking their heating and air conditioning systems and implementing energy conservation measures in academic buildings. For the past six years, the program has recorded an 8-percent annual reduction in energy consumption in the buildings it was responsible for. However, the report said it
remains unclear whether or not this reduction will continue at the same rate once the University of Michigan Health System, University Housing and athletics are incorporated into the program. As well, according to the report, the University is currently progressing negatively toward its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2025, instead increasing emissions by 3 percent as of this year. A third major category, See REPORT, Page 3A
Concert funds to be donated to initiatives in the city By JENNIFER MEER Daily Staff Reporter
This Wednesday, MUSIC Matters will team up with Consider Magazine to incorporate the Detroit Village in their fifth annual SpringFest. SpringFest is a day-long festival located on the University of Michigan Diag and North University Avenue that aims to bring together a wide array of student organizations, musicians and entrepreneurs. Detroit Village will be a display at Springfest featuring Detroit businesses. MUSIC Matters said their goal is to improve the University’s relationship with the city. Proceeds from the SpringFest hip hop trio Migos concert, beginning at 8 p.m. at Hill Auditorium, will go to MUSIC Matters’ summer camp
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
HOSPITAL
CSG works to extend center connector bus Governing body pushes to continue Detroit to Ann Arbor service By JENNIFER MEER Daily Staff Reporter
Among other agenda items, before they ended the year on Tuesday Central Student Government passed a resolution to encourage the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost to extend the contract for the MDetroit Center Connector — the bus that runs between Ann Arbor and Detroit — for spring 2016. The connector has had problems with maintaining funding in the past. Initially, in 2013, the project received $153,000 from the University to run on a four-day schedule. In June 2015, the University planned to end the connector’s services when grant funding had expired
and ridership was found to be insufficient. However, prior to the resolution, the connector’s current contract, which began in spring 2015, would expire at the end of the 2016 winter term. Public Policy sophomore Dylan Bennett, co-author of the resolution and co-chair of the CSG Detroit Congress, said after successful but small outreach events in previous years, such as a panel of speakers to discuss job opportunities in Detroit that brought in only 50 people, the commission really wanted to redefine its role through projects like these. The CSG Detroit Congress aims to bring together student organizations that are working to discuss and improve Ann Arbor’s relationship with Detroit. “This year we said, ‘We’re a student government body. Let’s facilitate discussion. Let’s be the leading body on bettering the University’s relationship with Detroit,’ ” See BUS, Page 2A
for children in Detroit, which is set to begin in 2017. “Our goal for the event is to address the student body’s weakened relationship with Detroit,” a press release reads. “In the past, the University has held close ties with the city through which the nation’s best and brightest have been funneled to jobs in Detroit.” Connection with Detroit has been a focus for multiple student organizations in recent weeks. LSA sophomore Dylan Bennett, the co-chair of the CSG Commision on Detroit Engagement, presented a resolution, which recently passed in the Central Student Government, to extend the University’s current contract with the MDetroit Connector — a bus that travels from Ann Arbor to Detroit. The resolution was passed last Tuesday. Bennett said in an interview, the University has a weakened relationship with the city to an extent. “I think the fact that the University actually shut down See SPRINGFEST, Page 3A
Summit on cancer aims to improve patient care Disease’s prognosis in women is focus of lectures, discussions By IRENE PARK
EVAN AARON/Daily
Students perform Dabke, a traditional Arabic dance, at Arab Xpressions 2016 hosted by the Arab Student Association in the Michigan Union Friday.
Arab Xpressions highlights traditional song and dance
Organizers cite positive portrayal of culture as motive for event By NISA KHAN Daily Staff Reporter
A video highlighting issues students have had with the University of Michigan’s Arabic language classes kicked off
Friday’s annual Arab Xpression show, which celebrates Arabic culture through dances, skits and songs. In explaining the event to the audience in the Rogel Ballroom, Arab Student Association hosts and LSA seniors Lana Abdole and Devin Jones emphasized the uniqueness of Arab Xpression — as the only Arab culture show of its kind at the University — and the importance of combating negative stereotypes in light of recent events on campus.
In an interview, Abdole echoed these sentiments. “We wanted the opportunity to use the culture show to show you other side of things as opposed to the stereotypes in the public,” she said. “Arabesque, the dance group that performs, is the only traditional Arab dance group on campus. Specifically, this year we really wanted the show to provide a platform for people of Arab heritage to reclaim what it means to be Arab.” See DANCE, Page 3A
Daily Staff Reporter
Saturday at the North Campus Research Complex, the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center Breast Oncology and Community Outreach Programs hosted the fourth annual Breast Cancer Summit. The summit was aimed at individuals currently being treated for breast cancer, those who survived breast cancer, those at high risk and those interested in prevention. For women in the United States, breast cancer is the second most deadly type of cancer, according to nonprofit breastcancer.org. In 2016, it is estimated there will be more than 40,000 deaths from breast cancer. It is also the second most commonly diagnosed cancer, with approximately 307,000 new See CANCER, Page 3A
Twin Chillings Michigan lost both games of a doubleheader in the cold Friday
» INSIDE WEATHER TOMORROW
HI: 43 LO: 25
GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know.
NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM Men’s lacrosse loses to Rutgers MICHIGANDAILY.COM/SECTION/SPORTS
INDEX
Vol. CXXV, No. 107 ©2016 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com
NEWS......................... 2A OPINION.....................4A CL ASSIFIEDS............... 5A
SUDOKU.....................2A ARTS........................5A S P O R T S M O N DAY. . . . . . . . . .1 B
News
2A — Monday, April 11, 2016
ON THE DAILY
On Friday, the NCAA Division I council announced it would prohibit FBS football coaches from hosting or working at camps outside of their respective universities, effectively ending the era of the satellite camp. Satellite camps typically entail coaches setting up camps in an area outside of their typical recruiting ground to observe players they might not otherwise see. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has become the face of these camps recently, and he held a series of them last
summer in Alabama, Florida, Texas, California, Pennsylvania and Indiana. But Harbaugh faced criticism from coaches — especially from the Southeastern and Atlantic Coast Conferences — who were forbidden from holding these camps due to conference rules. The 10 FBS conferences voted by a 6-4 margin to prohibit coaches from holding them going forward. Some Michigan football players expressed disappointment at the decision, believing it hurts
high schoolers who cannot afford to travel to camps held at a distant university. Many of the Wolverines speaking out against the NCAA ban felt they benefited from camps such as Detroit’s Sound Mind Sound Body camp, and they took to Twitter to show their frustrations. “No satellite camps no exposure!” said senior offensive lineman David Dawson. “SMSB helped me achieve the goals that I have achieved so far and it also helped me achieve goals that I have achieved so far and it also helped
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
other inner city kids turn their dreams of going to a (Division 1) institution into reality.” Senior fullback Khalid Hill, a Detroit native, emphasized the effect the of the ruling on his native city. “I was one of the under the radar kids coming from the city of Detroit,” Hill wrote. “I was fortunate enough to have a family who supported me and sacrificed (sic) for me to go to these places.” – AVI SHOLOKOFF
420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com
SHOHAM GEVA
Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 sageva@michigandaily.com
Newsroom
734-418-4115 opt. 3
ROSE FILIPP
Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 rfilipp@michigandaily.com
News Tips
news@michigandaily.com
Corrections
Letters to the Editor
Arts Section
Editorial Page
corrections@michigandaily.com arts@michigandaily.com
Sports Section
sports@michigandaily.com
Display Sales
dailydisplay@gmail.com
tothedaily@michigandaily.com opinion@michigandaily.com
Photography Section
photo@michigandaily.com
Classified Sales
classified@michigandaily.com
EDITORIAL STAFF
Laura Schinagle
MANAGING EDITOR
schlaura@michigandaily.com
Emma Kerr
3
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
1
BBC News reports that UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s mother gave him a £200,000 gift after his father’s death. This might have let him avoid inheritance tax, according to an account summary of his tax returns. Opposition leaders demand that Cameron publish his full tax returns from before 2010.
2
Michigan freshman standout Kyle Connor lost the race for the Hobey Baker Award, given to hockey’s best player, on Saturday. Connor finished the season with 71 points but fell short against Harvard’s Jimmy Vesey in the voting. >> SEE SPORTSMONDAY on 1B
MANAGING NEWS EDITOR
3
Sunday morning, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in Afghanistan shook major cities across southwest Asia, BBC reports. The quake struck the sparselypopulated Hindu Kush mountains. At least 27 people were sent to the hospital in Peshawar for treatment. The metro system in Delhi was temporarily halted.
emkerr@michigandaily.com
Senior News Editors: Allana Akhtar, Alyssa Brandon, Jacqeline Charniga, Katie Penrod, Emma Kinery Assistant News Editors: Riyah Basha, Caleb Chadwell, Desiree Chew, Tanya Madhani, Jennifer Meer, Camy Metwally, Lydia Murray, Caitlin Reedy, Alexa St. John. Brandon Summers-Miller
Claire Bryan and Regan Detwiler EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS
opinioneditors@michigandaily.com
Senior Opinion Editors: Jeremy Kaplan, Ben Keller, Anna Polumbo-Levy, Jason Rowland, Stephanie Trierweiler
Max Bultman and Jake Lourim MANAGING SPORTS EDITORS
sportseditors@michigandaily.com
Senior Sports Editors: Minh Doan, Jacob Gase, Kelly Hall, Simon Kaufman, Jason Rubinstein, Zach Shaw, Brad Whipple Assistant Sports Editors: Betelhem Ashame, Chris Crowder, Sylvanna Gross, Leland Mitchinson, Ted Janes, Kevin Santo
Kathleen Davis and Adam Theisen MANAGING ARTS EDITORS
TROPICAL HOUSE
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
arts@michigandaily.com
Senior Arts Editors: Caroline Filips, Melina Glusac, Jacob Rich, Ben Rosenstock Arts Beat Editors: Matthew Barnauskas, Christian Kennedy, Rebecca Lerner, Natalie Zak
Amanda Allen and Grant Hardy MANAGING PHOTO EDITORS
Law and ethics lecture WHAT: Seana Shiffrin,
visiting professor from UCLA, will host a lecture and moderated discussion on democracy and the law.
WHO: University of Michigan Law School WHEN: 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Hutchins Hall250
Panel on nontraditional students WHAT: A panel of current UM students will host a presentation about the classroom experience of nontraditional students. WHO: Center for the Education of Women WHEN: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan League
photo@michigandaily.com
Senior Photo Editors: Zoey Holmstrom, Zach Moore, James Coller Assistant Photo Editors: Claire Abdo, Robert Dunne, Sam Mousigian, San Pham, David Song
Podcast Party
Anjali Alangaden and Mariah Gardziola MANAGING DESIGN EDITORS
design@michigandaily.com
Senior Design Arts Editor: Jacklyn Thomas
WHAT: The Wolverine Podcast project will feature students sharing about their first experiences at UM. WHO: University Library WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Shapiro Harold
Karl Williams
STATEMENT EDITOR
statement@michigandaily.com
Deputy Statement Editor: Nabeel Chollampat Statement Photo Editor: Zoey Holmstrom Statement Lead Designer: Shane Achenbach Statement Creative Director: Emilie Farrugia
Emily Campbell and Alexis Nowicki MANAGING COPY EDITORS
copydesk@michigandaily.com
Senior Copy Editors: Taylor Grandinetti, Jose Rosales
Nivedita Karki
MANAGING ONLINE EDITOR
nivkarki@michigandaily.com
Senior Web Developers: Dylan Lawton, Bob Lesser
& Vivian Library - Design Lab, First Floor
Levin Kim
video@michigandaily.com
MANAGING VIDEO EDITOR
Senior Video Editors: Michael Kessler, Abe Lofy, Emma Winowiecki
Opera Interview on Arab stereotypes Workshop
Demario Longmire and Toni Wang MICHIGAN IN COLOR EDITORS
Concert Band
WHAT: Students in Robert Swedberg’s Opera Studio program will perform two one-act operas via Green Opera, an environmentally friendly method of opera. WHO: Arab and Muslim WHO: School of Music, American Studies WHEN: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Theatre & Dance WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library- Gallery WHERE: Earl V. Moore Building- McIntosh Room 100 WHAT: Jack Shaheen
will participate in a Q&A regarding his research on the representations of Arabs and Muslims in the United States.
michiganincolor@michigandaily.com
Senior Michigan in Color Editors: Sabrina Bilimoria, Christian Paneda, Ashley Tjhung
Michael Schramm Emma Sutherland
WHAT: Courtney Snyder and John Pasquale will conduct the concert band repertoire titled Soundscapes, featuring Bach, Holst, ReadThomas and others. WHO: School of Music,
SPECIAL PROJECTS MANAGER SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR
BUSINESS STAFF Hussein Hakim
Chris Wang
Claire Ulak
Colin Cheesman
Jordan Yob
Anna He
Theatre & Dance
Matt Pfenning
Claire Butz
WHEN: 8 p.m. WHERE: Hill Auditorium
Asja Kepes
FINANCE & OPERATIONS MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGER MARKETING MANAGER UACCOUNTS MANAGER DELANEY RYAN/Daily
Matoma, a tropical house DJ from Norway, performed at Necto Wednesday.
CLASSIFIEDS MANAGER NATIONAL ACCOUNTS MANAGER SPECIAL GUIDES & ONLINE MANAGER
LAYOUT MANAGER
LOCAL ACCOUNTS MANAGER
The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $110. Winter term (January through April) is $115, yearlong (September through April) is $195. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press.
Twitter chat discusses mental ‘U’ clinical trial could increase health and sexual misconduct number of heart donors in U.S. University leaders answer student questions about campus efforts By LARA MOEHLMAN Daily Staff Reporter
Friday, the University of Michigan used Twitter to open up dialogue within the University of Michigan community surrounding
sexual misconduct and mental health. The online conversation was held in an effort to erase the stigma attached to both major issues, as well to promote awareness of them. Multiple members of campus were panelists for the talk, including Cooper Charlton, former Central Student Government president and Wolverine Support Network co-founder; Holly Rider-Milkovich, Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center director; Dr. Bob Winfield, chief
Sudoku Syndication
SUDOKU HARD
© sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. NO MORE SATELLITE CAMPS. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com
health officer and director of University Health Services; John Greden, executive director of the U-M Depression Center; and Todd Sevig, Counseling and Psychological Services director. Sexual misconduct and mental health have both been topics of significant discussion on campus throughout the past year. This By SOPHIE SHERRY past week, the University released Daily Staff Reporter the full text of its revised sexual misconduct policy following University of Michigan doctors a year-long revision process. will soon participate in a clinical The new policy includes an trial that could transform heart expanded definition of what is transplants in the United States. prohibited conduct, adjustments Since the first heart transplant to the definition of consent and the surgery nearly 40 years ago, the consolidation of the sanctioning methods of transporting a donor and appeals process. heart from hospital to hospital At the last Board of Regents have remained the same. The meeting held March 20, Charlton donor heart is retrieved, placed in drew the board’s attention to the a bag of saline inside of a bag of ice issue of mental health on campus then inside another bag of ice and following the recent death of a stored in a cooler. This current University student earlier that technique allows the heart to be http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ week. Throughout his term, in transit for four to six hours, Charlton has advocated for an with transplantation becoming increased staff of mental health increasingly riskier after four. professionals in the Counseling The new clinical trial test the and Psychological Services on effectiveness of the Transmedics campus, citing the “gold standard” Organ Care System which as one counselor for every 1,000 continues to circulate blood to students. CAPS currently falls the donor heart while in transit, short of this standard, and theoretically allowing the heart students have said they continue to to be in transit for a greater period experience significant wait times of time. It also enables doctors to before meeting with mental health use hearts from extended criteria professionals. donors — older donors who may In response to a question asking have experienced health issues in for specific statistics related to the past. mental health illness on campus, The University of Michigan See TWITTER, Page 3A
Researchers aim to keep organs beating longer during transport
BUS From Page 1A Bennett said. Extending the connector service was a big part of that mission, he added, noting that meetings of the Congress and meetings with University Provost Martha Pollack on this topic have been taking place since Fall of 2014. Bennett said at the end of May, the Office of the Provost will determine the fate of the connector based on data they’ve
Generate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku and Godoku puzzles at sudokusyndication.com!
collected about connector usage and other surveys. After the resolution was passed, CSG President Cooper Charlton sent out one such survey to the entire student body to assess student usage of and want for the connector in the future. In the e-mail, Charlton wrote that the school’s historic link to Detroit is one important reason why the two should remain connected. “As many of you are well aware, Detroit is not only a city with immense cultural, academic, and
Health System is one of 12 programs participating in the clinical trial, testing the effectiveness of the system in comparison to traditional methods. Frank Pagani, surgical director of the Adult Heart Transplant Program, and cardiologist Keith Aaronson are two of the University doctors working on the clinical trial. The Organ Care System has already been tested in the United States on normal criteria patients, but this trial will focus primarily on those extended criteria donors. “We are trying to use this new machine to use the organs that we may not necessarily want to use, so we call those extended criteria donors,” Pagani said. “Generally we do not like to exceed four hours where the new heart is out of the body until it goes back into the recipient, or we do not typically take hearts from patients that are older.” Aaronson said ORS is used extensively in England and Australia, where it is an approved system and doctors are able to use either standard donors or extended criteria donors. “We are more cautious in the U.S. than other countries, so this study is more of a baby step, but it’s a first step to get us there,” Aaronson said. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved modifications to the ORS, meaning
historical significance, but also the original site of the University of Michigan,” he wrote. “As we transition into our third century of academic excellence and achievement in 2017, it is vital that we strengthen and affirm our deep connection to the City of Detroit.” University alum Nicole Stallings, who graduated in 2007, and is the current senior policy adviser to the Detroit mayor and former Muslim Students’ Association president, told CSG during Tuesday’s meeting that the city has significantly
the 12 programs participating in the study must undergo another round of training within the month for those modifications. After that training is complete, the University will be ready to utilize the new system once it finds a donor that meet the criteria. Pagani and Aaronson said they do not anticipate any real challenges in implementing this system, aside from finding the right donor. “The biggest issue is of course transplantation is so limited, there are only about 2,000 donors in the United States each year, so it becomes difficult waiting for an organ,” Pagani said. “We have to wait for the right type of donor organ and that can take some time. So we have to be sort of patient and the progress of the trial may be slow just based on the number of heart transplants that are done in the US.” Both Pagani and Aaronson said they expect that the implementation of this system will increase the size of the donor pool in the United States. “The hope is that we will be able to take hearts that are more marginal or good, not particularly high risk but would be transported a further distance, and be able to use them with success,” Aaronson said. “We would certainly open up the number of donors that are available and increase the donor pool.”
impacted her professional life. Stallings said when she graduated from the University in 2007, not many students aspired to live and work in Detroit. Today she works on projects in economic development, real estate and mobility, with the hope of attracting college graduates. “The landscape there is completely different,” she said. “I spend my day working on a ton of different cool projects that we’re hoping will attract people like you guys to want to live and work and play in the city of Detroit after you graduate.”
News
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
NEWS BRIEFS
Trump and Clinton secure leads in New York and Pennsylvania Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are projected to win the New York and Pennsylvania primaries, according to The New York Times. A Fox News survey reveals Trump, a native New Yorker, in the lead in his home state with 54-percent support among voters. Following Trump, John Kasich has 22 percent of voter support. Among the pool of Democratic candidates, Clinton is in the lead at 53 percent compared to Bernie Sanders’ 37 percent. Both individuals have ties to the state: Clinton is a former senator from New York, and Sanders hails from Brooklyn.The New York primary will take place on April 19. A similar breakdown characterizes the Pennsylvania primary projections. Trump holds 48 percent of Republican voter support, while 22 percent support Kasich. Democratic voters support Clinton with 49 percent, 11 points more than Sanders. The Pennsylvania primary is scheduled for April 26. Clinton and Trump faced recent challenges on the campaign road following losses in last Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary.
DPS Board of Education files lawsuit against state The Detroit Public Schools Board of Education filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Michigan last Thursday, reported the Detroit Free Press. The claim accuses the district’s emergency manager of violating DPS students’ civil rights. The lawsuit is pending approval by a judge. In addition to the emergency manager, the lawsuit names Gov. Rick Snyder, lawmakers, former emergency managers and several administrators. Currently, a dozen former and current principals are being charged with “running a $1 million kickback and bribery scheme.” Since 2009, state-appointed emergency managers have been running DPS; however, prior to this change, the state ran the district from 1999 to 2007. The lawsuit claims that students have had their civil rights violated after this transition, marked by the lack of resources available to students. One attorney on the case cited the fact that the Michigan Legislature has had to allocate $48.7 million to the district to prevent DPS from running out of money.
Contamination in Ypsilanti’s Water Street property Ypsilanti has closed a portion of the Border to Border Trail in the Water Street property late Friday night due to contaimination, according to MLive. High levels of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PBCs) were discovered in a preliminary environmental test conducted by the city. The contamination appears to be confined to an isolated portion of the trail and Water Street Property, and officials reassured residents that the surrounding area is clear. While the city expects further updates by the end of April, officials are working to develop a cleanup plan to remove contaminated surface soil and replacing it with clean soil. Soil contamination caused the city to stop plans for a $12 million, 80-unit housing complex in Water Street Property’s southeast corner. The city’s environmental consultant was tasked with analyzing 20 years of records in November, and the results led to the trail’s close. —CAMY METWALLY
DANCE From Page 1A
SPRINGFEST From Page 1A
In the video that began the night, students said they believe the Arabic classes politicize the language instead of teaching basic words. Students mentioned jokingly that schools in Arab countries probably would be taught about the United States by stereotypes of Americans through watching media like “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and “Jersey Shore.” Student performances included traditional dances such as an all-male performance of Dahke, a style of dance and music that involves footstomping and sticks originating in countries like Palestine. The dance was originally created to pass time when doing chores. Another performance included an original rap piece, “Hello” by Adele with an Arabic style twist, poetry discussing the Arab identity and skits that parodied “Who Wants to Become a Millionaire?” LSA freshmen Zoha Qureshi and Hafsa Thias said they enjoyed seeing what they called the rare and positive display of Arab culture. “I really enjoyed it. It’s really fun — I loved all of the dances and skits,” Qureshi said. “It’s really empowering. I am really awed by the rich culture.” Thias added that the show was a break from the negativity in campus. “(The rich culture) is something I haven’t seen,” he said. “There’s been a lot of negative rhetoric around campus right now. Being able to see the culture is pretty cool and empowering.” The event also celebrated Arab heritage with an educational video about Arabs across the world, highlighting scientific discoveries and notable figures. The video ended with the words “Arabs Changed The World” on the screen. LSA junior Tina Alkhersan said the show allowed her to enjoy her culture in a way not typically portrayed in media. “I’m Arab, I’m from Iraq, and so it’s nice to see other Arabs come together and gather together and celebrate the culture,” Al-Khersan said. “So often, it’s not celebrated in the media.” Xpression also included a fashion show, in which a female and male student displayed the traditional clothing of Arab countries, such as Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. LSA senior Naoshin Khan said she enjoyed the unifying factor of the show. “It’s nice to see everyone as a collective community rather than being dispersed,” she said. “It’s nice to see everyone together.”
the connector last summer shows that they, to some extent, haven’t made a big enough effort to see the potential of what a physical connection between the University and the city can have.” Last year, Consider hosted an event regarding education reform in Detroit. They had a panel of teacher union representatives, policy researchers and nonprofits, such as Teach for America, discuss their work in Detroit. After the event, the student organization said they wanted to extend their work with the city. This year, Consider approached MUSIC Matters to help incorporate a “Detroit Village” within SpringFest by bringing nonprofits and startups from the city of Detroit into a tent in the Diag. They said the purpose of the setup is to encourage students to be more involved with the city during college and later seek job opportunities there. Business junior Connor Yee, the president of Consider, said the purpose of the Detroit Village is to make students aware of what is really happening in Detroit through business and outreach. “We’re setting up an area where these companies can interact with students, so that students can get a better idea and feel for what’s really happening in Detroit and how much people are really standing behind it,” he said. “There’s a lot going on down there that people really neglect to look at.” The nonprofits each focus on different service areas such as transportation, neighborhood cleanup, youth mentoring and food distribution. Among them are organizations such as Rebel Nell, which promotes women in Detroit who create Graffiti Jewelry, M-1 Rail, which heads the effort to create a 3.3-mile streetcar along Woodward Avenue and Greening of Detroit, which promotes a more environmentally friendly city by way of gardening and trees, but also encourages food distribution
TWITTER From Page 1A Greden noted that 25 percent of University students suffer from a mental health condition such as depression or anxiety, for which only 40 percent receive treatment. Another question asked whether or not panelists believed there is a stigma attached to being a survivor of sexual assault. Milkovich responded saying according tocampus climate data, only 45 percent of students tell another person about their experience — a statistic she said points to “too much silence” on campus. Data was also a topic in discussion later in the chat, in response to a question on the prevalence of sexual misconduct on campus. Milkovich responded that according to the campus climate report, 10 percent of students experienced sexual misconduct within the last year and 22 percent of female undergraduate students report sexual violence. Another question from a recent graduate of the University, asked: “What are your recommendations for recent grads who feel like they didn’t live up to their personal expectations?” In response, Greden said he recommends talking to therapists, friends or seeking additional help if symptoms are more severe.
REPORT From Page 1A sustainability behavior and engagement efforts, showed slightly more positive results. Citing a study by the Sustainability Cultural Indicators Program, which measures sustainability awareness, knowledge and behavior on campus to inform future sustainability efforts, the report said sustainability knowledge had increased in the past year, but eco-friendly engagement had decreased. The report emphasized the success of several engagement programs, including the Planet Blue Ambassador Program, which facilitates sustainability awareness by providing a platform for “ambassadors” to make pledges relating to their personal sustainability and monitor their environmental impact. According to the report, the program has created more than 2,400 ambassadors — meaning they’ve completed five training modules related to “energy, food, waste, water and community — who have completed more than 20,000 “environmental actions” that help move toward the University’s goals. Despite the low numbers in energy conservation and waste reduction, Andrew Horning, deputy director of the Graham Sustainability Institute at the University, noted that the University was now devoting more resources to sustainability after a 2015 announcement of a $100 million dollar investment. The investment, aimed at creating a greener campus, is spread out over a number of different initiatives and will be implemented incrementally in the coming years. The primary focuses of the funds, recommended by committees of faculty, staff and students, are expansion of the University’s food waste composting program; extension of the University’s energy conservation program to the University of Michigan Health System, the athletic program and University Housing; and enhancement of sustainability behavior change and engagement programs. Most of the programs recommended were not fully or at all implemented in 2015, the year
and education reform. Detroit vs. Everybody will also be making an appearance to sell their apparel and promote the city. Bennett said since most students never step foot in the city, the University needs to encourage them to get involved. “The majority of students who come to this campus go most of their time without ever going to Detroit,” he said. “We don’t market ourselves as the University that is 45 minutes away from one of the greatest culturally diverse and academic renowned cities in the country. We need to give our students the opportunity to engage in Detroit’s revitalization.” SpringFest Chair Sabrina Khan, an Art & Design junior, said one of the goals of the event this year is to change people’s perceptions of the city. “If you don’t know about Detroit, you think of all of the negative media. You tend to have this stigma and this negative perception of Detroit,” she said. “We wanted to destigmatize that and get people involved with going to Detroit because we feel that Detroit is our neighbor and a lot of people don’t necessarily know what it has to offer.” Another aspect of the event is the Art Experience, which is an interactive visual and musical art exhibit where people can participate in art activities. Khan said she was excited that the Art Experience would be another way aside from work the Detroit-based nonprofits to connect with the city. “The Art Experience is one of our philanthropic endeavors to engage with students and also give back to the Detroit community,” she said. Students will be able to paint pianos and backpacks that will then be donated to a school in the city. They will also be able to paint ceiling tiles for a mural that will be sent back to the city schools. There will also be a chalkboard on which students can write why they stand by Detroit. The board will be put on display around the city.
measured by the report. “These programs and many others are being enhanced through a new commitment of dedicated resources that will allow for more effective outreach to and engagement with the campus community,” Horning said. Also highlighted in the Sustainability Progress Report was the University’s recent “gold” rating under the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System. STARS, designed by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, was envisioned as a way to increase transparency in measuring progress in sustainability, and relies on self-reported data from participating universities. Gold is an improvement from the University’s previous rating of silver, which was given in 2012. Platinum is the only higher ranking possible under STARS after gold, and is currently held only by Colorado State University. Nonetheless, for some students, the University’s sustainability initiatives draw a mixed response. Public Policy junior Ellen Loubert, a member of the steering committee for the Divest and Invest Campaign, said the issue isn’t that campus isn’t invested in sustainability, but rather that the University isn’t listening. Divest and Invest advocates for the University to divest its endowment investments from coal. “Some of the support really shows that there is in fact campus consensus on the underlying issue in the case of divestment, which is climate change,” she said. “So, I think the first step in, you know, actually realizing divestment would be for the regents of the University to form an ad hoc committee that could look into that.” Loubert added that she hasn’t seen any initiative on the part of the University to address these complaints. “We could understand if the University had formed this committee, but what we’re seeing right now is a lack of motivation to even start the process of looking into that,” she said. “So you see how this report is doing a lot of good things, but at the same time, is sort of hypocritical.”
Monday, April 11, 2016 — 3A
CANCER From Page 1A cases in 2016. It is estimated that about 12 percent of U.S. women will develop breast cancer over the course of their lifetime. The theme of the morning discussion, titled “How Decisions are Made in Breast Cancer Treatment,” was precision medicine, in which each individual patient’s genetic, environmental and lifestyle variability are considered in making a decision. UM CCC Director Theodore Lawrence said contrary to popular belief, precision medicine can focus on the patient to make the fight with cancer the best it can be, instead of just precision medicine focusing mostly on the genetics of the tumor. “I think precision medicine is more than just genes,” Lawrence said. “It goes all the way from understanding the tumor, to understanding that tumor within the patient, to understanding that patient’s social situation, and how can we make the individual patient’s journey (with breast cancer) the best it could possibly be.” During the discussion, panelists emphasized that decisions in breast cancer diagnoses and treatment are made as a multidisciplinary approach, and said each step of a decision is important for the following step. For example, the characteristics of a patient’s tumor are important for deciding which treatment options to pursue. Lynn Henry, associate professor of Internal Medicine, said the specific details of the diagnosis, such as how big or invasive the tumor is, could inform the doctors on treatment options. “For this particular patient (for example), because she has a large tumor and it’s aggressive, we give chemotherapy,” Henry said, pointing to a specific case. Radiation Oncology Professor Lori Pierce added that though the majority of breast cancer patients do not need radiation treatments, patients with a risk of recurrence — when cancer returns either in
same or different tissues — are recommended to receive it. “The majority of patients would not need radiation because for the majority of patients, the tumor would be completely removed with excellent surgery,” Pierce said. “It’s the patients who are deemed to be at moderate to high risks for having a recurrence … are the ones we would recommended radiation for.” Similarly, Pathology Prof. Celina Kleer emphasized that everyone’s tumors are biologically different, so no single treatment works for every patient. “I showed you a picture of one woman’s breast cancer, but if I show you a picture of another patient’s breast cancer, it looks completely different,” Kleer said. “Some tumors express different proteins and have different biological characteristics.” UM CCC nurse practitioner Kelly Scheu noted the importance of individualized patient support during and after the treatment, citing available supportive care available for patients including mental health support. “There’s a lot that goes into talking to your patients and trying to support them,” Scheu said. “Pills can help, but talking is very helpful.” Post-baccalaureate student Caroline Arellano-Garcia said she attended the summit because she is familiar with the research, but not the treatment aspect of the disease. “I didn’t realize the emotional and psychological impact (the disease) has on the women,” Arellano-Garcia said. ArellanoGarcia noted that since she is a Latina, that information could be particularly important to relay to her community. Hispanic/Latina women are on average diagnosed with more advanced breast cancers than white women, possibly due to lower mammography rates and delays following-up abnormal mammograms, according to the Susan G. Komen Foundation. “I feel that in my community, there might be a lot of ignorance,” Arellano-Garcia said. “I can relay the message on the importance of knowing about the disease.”
Opinion
4A — Monday, April 11, 2016
Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com SHOHAM GEVA EDITOR IN CHIEF
CLAIRE BRYAN AND REGAN DETWILER EDITORIAL PAGE EDITORS
LAURA SCHINAGLE MANAGING EDITOR
Unsigned editorials reflect the official position of the Daily’s editorial board. All other signed articles and illustrations represent solely the views of their authors.
I
Make baseball fun again
magine if Michael Jordan in his prime said basketball was boring. It would be sadder than the frequency with which we use the crying Jordan meme. Washington Nationals star Bryce Harper — arguably one of the top two young players in the game — said baseball is tired. Last week, he sported a hat that read, “Make Baseball Fun Again.” I know from playing CHRIS baseball for more than a CHOWDER decade of my life that it can be really fun or really boring. Making a diving catch in the outfield attempting to impress the softball team? Fun. Taking down stats and tracking the pitch count on the bench while eating a Subway sandwich with chips on it in 40-degree weather? Not fun. As for Major League Baseball, the reason it isn’t fun is because there are unwritten rules that are too uptight. Not all of these rules are bad — my particular favorite is giving the opposing team a taste of its own medicine. If the opposing pitcher sends a mid-90s fastball to your teammate’s dome, you as a pitcher are basically contractually obligated to do the same thing in the next half inning. It’s like an honor code. If the benches clear, bonus. If you throw down the batter who charges at you like a sack of potatoes, even better. Here’s to you, Rick Porcello. But the one unwritten rule I find incredibly stupid is that bat flips are a no-no. For those of you who don’t know, a bat flip is when the batter obliterates a ball over the wall with no doubt, and instead of setting the bat down like a gentleman, they toss the bat in the air as to say, “Won’t be needing this anymore.” If you haven’t seen it before, it’s majestic. The Toronto Blue Jays’ Jose Bautista did it so beautifully in the playoffs last season that a fan had the scene tattooed on his leg. I get goosebumps when I watch the replay as popcorn rains down from the upper deck of Rogers Centre. However, players in Korea make bat flips an art form. Choi Jun-seok even did one off of a foul ball. You’re not supposed to do that, but more props to him. If that happened in the MLB, benches would no doubt clear, because, of course, it’s in the unwritten rules. The Fake Unwritten Rules Of Baseball, section eight, article seven: No bat flips, and if you flip your bat on a foul ball, Babe Ruth will haunt your dreams for eternity. The problem with baseball purists — which include former and current MLB players and fans — is that hating bat flips is more about hating personality. Baseball purists want every player to act the same: to shut their mouths, hold onto their bats and not showboat. But some of the most beloved players were different from the norm. Ozzie
Smith did backflips in the ‘80s. Ty Cobb put fear into middle infielders in the first two decades of the 20th century by sharpening his spikes. Prince Fielder will eat a fan’s nachos and Justin Verlander used to eat Taco Bell before every game. Those are accepted behaviors — well, except for Ty Cobb’s sharpening spikes (his opponents, as well as their fans, hated that). But why do we hate when a player just wants to be himself? Let Ty Cobb be Ty Cobb. There shouldn’t be any griping when Yasiel Puig of the Los Angeles Dodgers wants to catch a fly ball behind his back or does a bat flip. Who are fans and opposing players to say what an individual should or shouldn’t do in a sport that needs flair because it’s so long and can be boring at times? Different is what makes baseball cool. Baseball is the best sport when its quirkiness from its fans and players come alive. There needs to be more things like fans trolling Hunter Pence with signs like, “Hunter Pence wears socks with sandals,” or how I noticed the Oakland A’s made the Oakland Coliseum the rowdiest and most rambunctious stadium come playoff time. The drums and noise makers were never enough to beat my Tigers every year, though. Baseball needs crazy. It thrives off it. Fans love it. Like no other sport, it drives millionaires off their rocker to throw temper tantrums like little leaguers. ’Roid rage is a different story. Steroids have no place in the game. Though they led to more home runs, which lead to a higher probability of bat flips, it’s cheating, no matter how impressive the amount of work the players put in is. Baseball is at its best and more fun when the players are free to be themselves. Baseball needs weirdos, outcasts and villains. It needs players who are way too cocky for their own good and will not be shy to tell you that. Baseball needs the charm it had while I was playing baseball in high school. We clotheslined each other off walk-off hits, danced in the dugout while we mixed Gatorade and called it Slow Motion Potion. We despised kids on certain teams, my best friend threw knuckleballs in games for the hell of it, and we even got in yelling fights with opponents where benches cleared. As Bryce Harper who at 23 years old is a kid in the game, wants, the MLB needs to play the sport like they are kids again. Baseball is not adult, it’s not perfect and it’s not vanilla normal. It’s a game when it’s being treated more like a business. How will we make baseball fun again? We will build a wall keeping the purists out. How are we going to fund it? They will pay for it. I can’t explain how, but they’re going to, and I’m going to make sure of it.
“Baseball needs weirdos, outcasts and villains.”
— Chris Chowder can be reached at ccrowd@umich.edu.
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS Claire Bryan, Regan Detwiler, Gracie Dunn, Caitlin Heenan, Jeremy Kaplan, Ben Keller, Minsoo Kim, Payton Luokkala, Kit Maher, Madeline Nowicki, Anna Polumbo-Levy, Jason Rowland, Lauren Schandevel, Melissa Scholke, Kevin Sweitzer, Rebecca Tarnopol, Ashley Tjhung, Stephanie Trierweiler, Hunter Zhao DAN PARK
E-mail Dan at dancp@umich.edu
T
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Not all streams are created equal here’s a big difference between paying to stream music and streaming for
free. Calculations from the Recording Industry Association of America’s annual data report show that each paid music subscriber ZACH contributes about $100 BROWN annually to the music industry. That is 25 times as much as people using free streaming services supported by advertisements. Each person using those services generates around $4 for the music industry annually. Unfortunately for the music industry, way more people stream music for free rather than purchase streaming subscriptions. Streaming ’s takeover is inevitable, but a free model doesn’t seem to work because it generates only one-third of the revenue of paid subscriptions. On top of that, less of the money from free ad-supported streaming is getting passed along to artists. Royalties — what the artists earn per stream — differ depending on whether it’s a free stream or a paid stream. As of December 2015, free streaming royalties paid 23-percent lower rates to artists than paid subscriptions. So while a majority of users are generating a small fraction of total streaming revenues, less of that fraction is getting passed along to the artists. The industry is struggling to grow, but there’s an opportunity to change that by converting all these millions of free streamers into paying subscribers. It shouldn’t be a hard sell — pay $10 per month and you get access to a library of 20 million songs. More than fair — I think it’s our obligation to the artists to pay. There are tens of millions of people using Spotify, SoundCloud,
Pandora and YouTube to stream music for free. A lot of money is being left on the table and major labels need to better monetize these platforms. Fortunately, that process has begun. SoundCloud has been working for months to finalize licensing deals with Warner, Universal and Sony — the three parent companies that represent the majority of music produced in the country. After SoundCloud finished a licensing deal with Sony in March, it immediately rolled out a paid-subscription service named SoundCloud Go. Now, certain tracks will only be available to paying SoundCloud Go users. For example, a band and their label can choose which songs to release for free and which songs to keep exclusively for premium users. The transition toward a paidsubscription model will help nudge SoundCloud’s large user base to start paying to stream music. SoundCloud’s new business model is categorized as “freemium” — offering both free and premium subscription service options. It’s the same freemium model that Spotif y uses and, according to their recent billion-dollar funding round, it has worked for them so far. Spotif y has been great at converting free users into paid users. Their CEO Daniel Ek announced the company has been adding one million paid subscribers per month since last June — that’s 10 million new paying subscribers in the last nine months. Hopefully, SoundCloud will yield similar results. Those paying subscribers are needed now more than ever. The industry’s 2015 growth is barely even growth at all. If streaming is going to come to the rescue, it’s not going to be just any streaming. A small percentage of paying subscribers are doing a bulk of the work. The current model might benefit streaming services and help stimulate industry-level growth. We should ask, though, does it work
for artists? Even with more paying subscribers, the current system for compensating artists is flawed. Do you think it’s fair that your monthly subscription payment goes to artists you don’t listen to? That’s how the royalty system is currently set up. Your subscription payment goes into a large pool that then pays artists fractions of a penny per stream. Instead of your money going directly to the artists you listen to, some of the money is used to pay bigger artists generating greater royalties. A proposed alternative to the current system is a “subscriber share” method that addresses this issue. A subscriber share system would pay artists based directly on how much users listen to them. This would refocus payments from a system only concerned with the number of listens to a new system concerned with accounts for percentage of time spent listening to the artists. If you only listen to one artist this month, your subscription payment would only be used to pay that artist. This proposal would not affect the streaming services. It would only redistribute royalties among artists, from those you aren’t streaming to the ones you actually are. If compensating artists fairly is a concern, maybe this is a better way to do so. Otherwise, we are perpetuating a music industry with massive inequality. Like our tax system, royalties are very complex and systematic changes are hard to come by. The first step toward a fairer system is understanding the current one. And the current one is this: Most users don’t pay to stream music and don’t contribute to compensating artists. Those who do pay to stream are being taken advantage of and the artists they listen to are not being compensated accordingly. Not all streams are created equal, nor are they created fairly. — Zach Brown can be reached at zmbrown@umich.edu.
CONTRIBUTE TO THE CONVERSATION
Readers are encouraged to submit letters to the editor and op-eds. Letters should be fewer than 300 words while op-eds should be 550 to 850 words. Send the writer’s full name and University affiliation to tothedaily@michigandaily.com. KEVIN SWEITZER | OP-ED
Why have rules?
Dear University Elections Commission, Please do your job. With another year of Central Student Government elections behind us and another set of representatives and executives set to be sworn in soon, many students on campus want to let the memory of CSG elections fade to the past. This election cycle, like many before, has brought a number of candidates, parties and campaign promises to the Diag. However, unlike in prior years, this campaign season has brought an onslaught of extreme campaigning and more than $4,500 in campaign spending between the two major parties. I have no problem with campaigning for CSG. Chalking the Diag in favor of a given party is as old of a tradition as any. However, I begin to have problems when an unending assault on my privacy occurs. While much of this is unavoidable, as candidates are allowed to enter residence halls and go door to door, the University Election Code specifically prevents “Irresponsible Use of Email Privileges.” Article 6 of the CSG Compiled Code specifically prohibits candidates from “harvesting student email addresses for campaign purposes,” assigning a 3-percent vote reduction per recipient, per e-mail. With this in mind, I became concerned when I started receiving e-mails from candidates I had no relationship with. On March 23, I filed a complaint with the University Election Commission against LSA Representative candidates Craig Motola and Seth Schostak, who had e-mailed my name as part of a potentially harvested listserv advertising their campaign. A hearing was held, and despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, both Motola and Schostak were found
not g uilty of an election code violation, a violation which would have most certainly disqualified both of them from the election. In response to this injustice, I urge the UEC to look to their own prior decisions. In the 2015 case Brenner v. George, the commission found CSG candidate Stevin George g uilty of a code violation and disqualified him from the election. The offense in this case occurred when George sent an e-mail to a listserv he didn’t own. What makes spamming a private listserv worse than creating a listserv out of nowhere to spam? Even more laughable about t he U EC’s decision wa s t heir sta nda rd of ev idence for conv ict ion, not ing t hey would be “ha rd-pressed to t h in k of a ny conceivable circumsta nce, perhaps shor t of v ideo ev idence, in wh ich a compla ina nt would be able to prove ema il ha r vest ing.” A side f rom t he unbelievably h igh sta nda rd of ev idence t hat comes w it h dema nding v ideo proof of crim ina l act iv it y, t he U EC’s decision is ex t remely cont ra r y to t heir ow n prior f inding s. There wa s no v ideo ev idence present in t he eject ion of Stev in G eorge, nor wa s t here in t he 2015 ca se Ema il Ha r vest ing, in wh ich t he U EC established a t h ree-pronged test to deter m ine if ha r vest ing had occur red. Why have rules if there is no reason to follow them? In the majority opinion, delivered by election commissioners Mallory Andrews and Emily Rosenthal, the commission agreed that 823 people had been e-mailed by Craig Motola, and that 455 people had been e-mailed twice by Seth Schostak. Despite eight victims coming forward, all swearing they had no affiliation with the listserv, the UEC still suggested harvesting
had not occurred, suggesting it had been “a prank” or “a simple, innocent typo.” This type of treatment from the body slated to protect the students from out-of-control campaigning is unacceptable. By letting people the commission even admitted had “probably harvested emails” off the hook, the commission opens the door for unlimited spamming of innocent students. As dissenting commissioner Dylan Bennett reported: “We will now have representatives on our student assembly who the entirety of this Commission believes have likely cheated the democratic process.” Cheating the democratic process is not something I’m looking for in a CSG representative. With a budget of more than $450,000, I need to know that those in control are capable of being trusted. Having every commissioner of the UEC think that two LSA representatives “probably” broke a basic rule destroys that trust. Ignoring the election code isn’t something I’m looking for in CSG either, as the UEC is responsible to enforce the code on the candidates. Without having full faith that those who won the election did so honestly and can be trusted to make decisions on the student body’s behalf, the $7.19 that every Michigan student pays in CSG taxes may have been better off saved. Though the decision in Pearlman v. Motola et. al has been made, I hope future CSG candidates are more honest regarding the election code and choose to follow the rules, even if they can get away with breaking them. I also call on the UEC to stop the harvesting of e-mails for campaigning during election season, even if it means ejecting candidates. — Kevin Sweitzer is an Editorial Board member.
Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Monday, April 11, 2016 — 5A
FILM INTERVIEW
‘Some’ stars talk By MADELEINE GAUDIN Daily Arts Writer
Last Thursday, I got the chance to sit down with Glen Powell, Wyatt Russell and Quinton Johnson, the stars of “Everybody Wants Some!!” the latest ode to youth from Texas filmmaker Richard Linklater (“Boyhood”). The film has been billed as a “spiritual sequel” to Linklater’s 1993 cult classic “Dazed and Confused,” but there wasn’t any pressure for “Everybody Wants Some!!” to live up to its big brother. “If you try to be Matthew McConaughey or Ben Affleck or Parker Posey … then you’re setting yourself up for failure,” Powell, who plays Finn, a veteran player who takes the awkward freshman under his wing said. Russell, who plays senior transfer student Willoughby, added that “almost everything is a spiritual successor to everything [Linklater] does. When you go back and you watch all his movies there’s a through line in them that’s his mind.” Much like “Dazed” however, many of the actors in “Everybody Wants Some!!” were behind the camera for the first time. Johnson, who plays eager freshman Dale, was studying musical theater at the University of Texas when he got cast in the film. It was his first project outside of student films, but it won’t be his last. “When you work with someone like Richard Linklater and when he takes notice of you, other people notice that notice,” he said. Johnson plans on taking that momentum and running with it, whether that means more films or going back to the stage. “If I could be in ‘Hamilton’ for
the next 40 years I would do it,” he said. The boys bickered back and forth for a minute about Johnson’s passion for “Hamilton,” showing me a Snapchat video of Johnson performing “Guns & Ships” from the musical much to the dismay of his castmates. As they tease and joke with each other, they fall into a rhythm similar to that of their characters. “Everybody had about five percent of who they were in their character,” Russell said. “But we’re actors. Sometimes people forget that tapping into that part of your personality is something that is important for the character.” The cast had much of the same chemistry on and off screen, due in large part to extended time spent in rehearsals at Linklater’s ranch. “Most of the time you’re filming, people are meeting on day one. Rehearsal is such a luxury,” Powell said. During rehearsals, the cast played baseball, read scripts, went to dance lessons and, of course, rewatched “Dazed and Confused.” Powell noted that the time spent together before shooting “allowed for a lot of collaboration and a lot of trust.” Despite the unprecedented comradery and the abundance of party scenes in the film, the actors weren’t drinking as much Lone Star as their characters. “You can’t get wasted and go do a scene. It doesn’t work,” Russell said. “I mean this is a job, we’re doing a job,” Johnson added. “But, when you get this kind of comradery together and you get someone like Richard Linklater … it’s nothing but fun.” Despite the decades of separa-
tion, the college experience of the film felt very authentic to Powell. “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” he said with a laugh. The three said a lot of that authenticity can be attributed to collaboration between Linklater and the cast on scenes like a party at the baseball house. “Rick (on the party stuff) really let us collaborate,” Powell said. “He was like OK … what were your favorite memories of college, what did you do in college, what did he do in college … and you start to realize that nothing’s really changed.” They are glad some things have changed, however. “You don’t see dudes wearing short shorts anymore,” Johnson said. “Don’t bring that back. Nobody wants that,” Russell said. The boys all laughed in agreement. But for them, the short shorts and mustaches aren’t really the takeaway from this movie. “In college … there are paths that are open to you, and who are you going to become,” Powell said. “That’s the nature of being in college, you kind of think you know who you are, but you really don’t.” “I think mistakes are the essence of life, you know,” he continued, a mantra that seems to ring especially true for this film. “A lot of the best things you see in this movie are outright mistakes.” However, he also had a note of caution — make mistakes but put down your phone. “In college, with these phones, mistakes aren’t really forgivable,” he said. And Russell’s parting advice for college students, “No nudes, no nudes.” Alright, alright, alright.
EVENT REVIEW
Student films shown By REBECCA LERNER and MADELEINE GAUDIN Daily Film Editor and Daily Arts Writer
On Thursday night, students trekked through an unusual and annoying April snowstorm to congregate in the lobby of the Michigan Theater. M-agination Films, an entirely student-run production company at the University, was celebrating their 15th year of filmmaking with a festival showcasing 12 original short films. M-agination prides itself on being one of the most open film groups on campus — they’ll consider any project and people from any major, not solely English or Screen Arts and Cultures. The myriad of genres represented in the festival illustrated this academic diversity, as the films ranged from sketch comedy to dance-based footage. Some filmmakers used the short film format to experiment with less conventional technical elements, while others were more interested in achieving a narrative arc in a short span of time. Notably, a film directed by LSA sophomore Gabriel Wolfe titled “Corridor” was shot as one long take, using sound to carry its single character through time and space. The use of silence was a common trend among the more traditionally narrative films. Films like “Bass” or “After” used editing rather than dialogue to tell their stories. “After” follows the relationship between two women from when they first start dating to their breakup, without having the characters speak to each other once. LSA sophomore Jennifer Emery, a Screen Arts and Cultures major and an associate producer at M-agination, helped choose the scripts to be produced the semester. But Emery also got the chance to work on some of the projects herself. Emery particularly enjoyed the short she worked on, called “Midnight Snack,” also directed by Wolfe. “Midnight Snack … was a really cool concept,” Emery said. “It was all shot from inside a fridge. It was great seeing the audience’s reactions.” Another one of the stand-out films, “February 14th, 1992,” truly exhibited the distinctive nature
of the festival. The senior thesis project of director and LSA senior Joe Biglin, the experimental film flashed quickly through time and space without concern for traditional narrative or continuity. It felt vaguely like a film you’d watch in a theory class, with obvious cultural value and messages that feel clear but also sometimes totally out of intellectual reach. It jumped through stretches of the life of a college-aged man in seconds, intriguing us with small tastes of the film’s strong and bittersweet emotions. The shortened teaser shown at M-agination was just part of the larger film that will be shown at The Michigan Theater April 19th as part of the U-M Screen Arts and Cultures student thesis screening. LSA sophomore Fahim Rahman, also an M-agination associate producer, felt that “February 14th, 1992” achieved the complexity in nature that it set out to do. “I loved Joe Biglin’s piece,” Rahman said. “I heard other people saying that it was experimental film that was actually enjoyable.” The last project shown was “Interns,” a hilarious group of sketches revolving around several college kids at an unpaid internship at a production company. In its dynamic and absurd humor, “Interns” felt like a younger, more hopeful “Workaholics.” At 18 minutes, it was by far the longest project, but it seemed to speed by at an entertaining pace that some of the three- to five-minute films could not match. “I think ‘Interns’ was the most recognizable to audiences,” Rahman said, referencing other officebased mockumentary shows and webseries. “The Office” and “Workaholics” have a similar energy, but “Interns” distinguishes itself through the well-written intrigue brought by its characters. When the last film finished, the filmmakers, clearly distinguished by their formal attire and lack of snow-filled backpacks, gathered to received highly deserved congratulations. The difficulty of balancing student life with an attempt to make a film to show at The Michigan Theater is a stressful, but beautiful and rare opportunity. Rahman said the uniqueness of the club’s flexible structure is what lends to its allure. “You pick the (films) you want
to work on, and then you see them on the big screen, The Michigan Theater,” Rahman said. “Seeing them in a theater is pretty special if you’re a student.”
FX
From ‘Snow Dogs’ to ‘O.J.’
‘O.J.’ nails it on finale By SAM ROSENBERG Daily Arts Writer
What a season it has been. “The Verdict,” the miniseries finale of “American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson,” wrapped up an A outstanding 10 episodes that American covered almost Crime every significant detail of the Story 1994 O.J. Simp- Season Finale son trial, from the invasive FX media coverage to the tense atmosphere surrounding current racial politics. Dramatizations and small inaccuracies aside, Ryan Murphy and Co. have built a masterful depiction of one of the most infamous cases of the 20th century. What’s even more impressive is how the show transformed “The Verdict” into a stellar, breathtaking ending, even when we already knew what the outcome was going to be. Other than the actual verdict itself, the finale touches on several important aspects regarding the trial, particularly with the closing statements of prosecution duo Marcia Clark (Sarah Paulson, “Carol”) and Christopher Darden (Sterling K. Brown, “Supernatural”) and defense attorney Johnnie Cochran (Courtney B. Vance, “Joyful Noise”). Considering how all three lawyers were able to develop compelling points for and against O.J. Simpson, it’s amazing to see how their arguments make the case even more complex. Additionally, it provides another showcase for Paulson, Brown and Vance’s consistently outstanding performances.
After the statements are finished, the remaining jury members are left to determine O.J.’s fate. The sequence of the trial’s ultimate decision between the jury is telling of what the case is also really about: race. Following the horrific Rodney King beating and the subsequent 1992 L.A. riots, the O.J. trial divided both Black and white americans. In terms of the actual decision, this racial divide reigned true as well: the Black jury members all believe O.J. is innocent, while the two remaining white members think he is guilty. Whether or not this was actually what happened, it’s still very unnerving to watch. However, with only four hours until finalizing their decision, this is where things get interesting. The titular climax of “The Verdict” encompasses pretty much every reaction possible before, during and after O.J. is found not guilty for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Thanks to some fantastic editing and clever use of archival footage, a split-screen displays the polarized response from the lawyers, the courtroom audience and those watching on TV screens around the country. The Black community is shown as relieved and cheering in the streets, while the white community is in total disbelief and shock. Though the verdict didn’t incite a resurgence of the ‘92 riots, there’s no doubt that the trial left some residues of tension among Americans. Once the dust settles, “The People v. O.J. Simpson” captures some of the final glimpses of its characters, strengthened especially by the tremendous effort from Murphy’s direction and Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski’s writing. First, Darden and
Classifieds RELEASE DATE– Monday, April 11, 2016
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
Call: #734-418-4115 Email: dailydisplay@gmail.com
FOR RENT
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
ACROSS 1 Spaghetti or ziti 6 In different places 11 What a steamroller steamrolls 14 Moral standard 15 Capital of Yemen 16 Thrilla in Manila winner 17 Understand, finally 19 Caboodle go-with 20 Bill at the bar 21 Tehran native 22 German auto engineer Karl 23 Zone out 27 Mined rock 28 Ticklish Muppet 29 Boom’s opposite 32 ID card feature 35 Point de __: opinion, in Paris 38 Revival leader’s query ... and hint to the starts of 17-, 23-, 49- and 60-Across 42 Corp. ladder leader 43 En __: as a group 44 Spoken 45 WWII female enlistee 47 Org. with a “100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time” list 49 Photographer’s instruction 56 Had a bawl 57 Track jockey, e.g. 58 Building wing 59 Swiss peak 60 “Didn’t think I could do it, did ya?!” 63 Under the weather 64 Speck in the ocean 65 Beethoven’s “Für __” 66 Lao-__: Taoism founder 67 Heart rate 68 Thin coins DOWN 1 Ones who won’t leave you alone 2 Really bugged 3 Biblical queen’s land
4 Little songbird 5 More sore 6 Lion of Narnia 7 Sherwin-Williams product 8 Cardio procedure 9 Word of support 10 Skin art, briefly 11 Seek shelter 12 Flared skirt 13 Big name in hotels and crackers 18 Buffalo’s lake 22 Emeril catchword 24 __ de boeuf: French roast 25 Alien-seeking org. 26 Underhanded plan 29 Secretly keep in the email loop, briefly 30 Abu Dhabi’s fed. 31 Suspected McIntosh relative with pure white flesh 32 TD’s six 33 Gives birth to 34 What borrowers do 36 __ Today 37 Subj. for some green-card holders
39 Former auto financing co. 40 A pop 41 Roulette color 46 Verizon rival 47 Aid in a felony 48 Solidified, as plans, with “up” 49 H.G. who wrote “The War of the Worlds” 50 Internet forum troublemaker
51 Backpacking outings 52 Online social appointment 53 Jeans material 54 Admission of defeat 55 Cary of “Glory” 56 Cool one’s heels 60 One of a kissing pair 61 Buckeyes’ sch. 62 Yale Blue wearer
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE:
! NORTH CAMPUS 1‑2 Bdrm. ! ! Riverfront/Heat/Water/Parking. ! ! www.HRPAA.com ! 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts on Arch Avail Fall 2016‑17 $1050 ‑ $2500 + electric contribution CALL DEINCO 734‑996‑1991 1327 WILMOT ‑ 1 & 2 Bedroom Apts Avail Fall 2016‑17 $975 ‑ $1575 Plus Electric to DTE Coin Laundry Access, Free WiFi Parking Avail $50‑$80/m CALL DEINCO 734‑996‑1991 2, 3 & 4 Bedroom Apts @ 1015 Packard Avail for Fall 2016‑17 $1400 ‑ $2700 + gas and water; Tenants pay electric to DTE; Limited parking avail for $50/mo; On‑site Laundry CALL DEINCO 734‑996‑1991
xwordeditor@aol.com
04/11/16
2016‑17 LEASING EFFICIENCY and 1 & 2 BDRM APTS 344 S. Division $835/$855 610 S. Forest $870 508 Division $925/$945 1021 Vaughn (1 left) $1410 Bylocation:FullyFurnishing,ParkingIncl, and Free Internet Prime Student Housing 734‑761‑8000 www.primesh.com 4 BEDROOM APT Fall 2016‑17 $3250 + $100/m Gas & Water + Electric to DTE, 3 parking spaces 1014 Vaughn #1 ‑ multilevel unit w/ carpet CALL DEINCO 734‑996‑1991 4 BEDROOM HOUSE NORTH CAMPUS/HOSPITAL 1010 CEDAR BEND ‑ $2400 + utilities PARKING & LAUNDRY 734‑996‑1991
By Nancy Salomon ©2016 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
04/11/16
Cochran share a passive aggressive exchange about the distortion of the truth behind the case and its lasting effect. Cochran believes Americans are finally recognizing Black civil rights, but Darden counters him, saying that “police in this country will keep arresting us, keep beating us, keep killing us” and tells him straightforwardly that Cochran hasn’t “changed anything for Black people here.” This, of course, is a sobering truth that continues to resonate today with police brutality against Black people in America. Later, Darden meets up with Clark and the two discuss their frustrations with not bringing justice to Nicole and Ron. But even in their disappointment, they still have each other. Then comes O.J. (Cuba Gooding Jr., “Jerry Maguire”), relishing in his freedom but realizing that things are different now. He’s no longer “The Juice” that every football fan loved; he’s still in shackles. The final seconds of “The Verdict” concludes with a haunting image of O.J. walking alone in his backyard and hopelessly gazing at the marble statue of himself, knowing that his reputation will be forever tarnished by this murder, regardless of his race, fame or fortune. Coupled with Bill Withers’s “Ain’t No Sunshine” scoring an epilogue montage of each character, “The People v. O.J. Simpson” finishes on a rather devastating, eerie note: pictures of a smiling Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, ignorant to how their deaths will be taken in vain. The O.J. verdict may not have brought justice, but “American Crime Story” shined a light on something in modern history that still matters today. And I’ll be damned if it doesn’t sweep the Emmys.
NEAR CAMPUS APARTMENTS Avail Fall 16‑17 Eff/1 Bed ‑ $750 ‑ $1400 2 Bed ‑ $1050 ‑ $1425 Most include Heat and Water Parking where avail is $50/m Many are Cat Friendly CAPPO 734‑996‑1991 www.cappomanagement.com
4, 5 OR 6 BEDROOM HOUSE 1119 S. Forest ‑ May or September $2800 ‑ $3500 based on number of ppl Tenants pay all utilities. Parking and laundry available Showings M‑F 10‑3; 24 hour notice required. www.deincoproperties.com 734‑996‑1991 ARBOR PROPERTIES Award‑Winning Rentals in Kerrytown, Central Campus, Old West Side, Burns Park. Now Renting for 2016. 734‑649‑8637. www.arborprops.com
SERVICES THESIS EDITING, LANGUAGE, organization, format. All Disciplines. 734/996‑0566 or www.writeonA2.com
SUMMER EMPLOYMENT
WORK ON MACKINAC Island This Summer – Make lifelong friends. The Island House Hotel and Ryba’s Fudge Shops are looking for help in all areas beginning in early May: Front Desk, Bell Staff, Wait Staff, Sales Clerks, Kitchen, Baristas. Housing, bonus, and discounted meals. (906) 847‑7196. www.theislandhouse.com
Arts
6A — Monday, April 11, 2016
MUSIC COLUMN
Songs for summer These aren’t songs that will directly help you get an internship or figure out what your true passion is. Conversely, I hope this list still has value even if you already know yourself and what you’re going to be doing when school takes a break. But as the end of the semester
comes and shit gets (more) stressful and the unknown quantity of these next four months looms large in my life, I’m just taking stock of some songs that I really enjoy. 1. “Work From Home” by Fifth Harmony ft. Ty Dolla $ign Don’t have a job lined up yet?
There’s more than one way to work. As Fifth Harmony proves in this song, you can always go to work even if you’re not in an office. And they make putting in hours at home sound way more appealing. In all honesty, though, this is the kind of song that holds me hostage.
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Just writing these few sentences right now has required a Herculean effort on my part (you’re welcome). This beat just opens up a vacuum in my brain and eliminates all thoughts (including how to spell “vacuum”). That’s not always a bad feeling, and “Work From Home” is a ADAM nice way to kill three THEISEN minutes. But really, I just wanted an excuse to make you watch the “Work From Home” video, which serves as undeniable proof that the next “Magic Mike” needs a construction site setpiece. (Also, how the hell was this director able to sexualize cement?) 2. “The Knock” by Hop Along I feel like I’ve been drowning in new music lately. I’ve been chasing every offhand recommendation on Twitter, obsessively exploring any band that gets interviewed by a writer I like and trying really hard to actually listen to songs when my friends tell me “you should listen to this song.” I have musical FOMO, and it’s a problem. But Hop Along has been a brilliant reward for this slight insanity. The band’s Painted Shut, which came out in 2015, is one of the best rock records I’ve heard in the last few years — this really thoughtful brand of punk punctuated by the gruff yet breathlessly pretty vocals of Francis Quinlan. Maybe picking the opening track as the best feels like a cop-out, but the lyrics are hypnotically inscrutable and even though it doesn’t even have a chorus there’s a secret catchiness in the chaos. “The Knock” is a song that motivates me to keep searching for more, to look up all the unfamiliar band names I see each day. Hustle gets results. 3. “These Days” by Drake In what’s probably the first ever intersection of Drake and Wes Anderson, this Drizzy cover of a track you probably best know from “The Royal Tenenbaums” hit the Internet a couple weeks ago. It’s weird, and it’s not especially great. Drake competently handles himself on the verses, but his straining voice when he tries to sing the title phrase feels awkward and out of place. It’s hard to fault the singer of a Nico song for having a bad voice, because Nico herself usually sounded like she was singing from bed with a major cold and giant headphones playing a different song in her ears, but her ugly German vocals owned this song. When the Drake cover came out, I also made the unfortunate
discovery that Nico was maybe kind of a Nazi according to Wikipedia. This sucks for me, if I’m allowed to make someone’s hardcore racism about myself for a minute, because “These Days” was a revelation for me when I first heard it. Jackson Browne’s expert guitar picking and Nico’s terrible, bitter-trying-to-besweet voice somehow combined to make a stunningly beautiful track unlike anything I’ve ever heard since. I listened to it over and over again when I was like 15, to the point where I almost became depressed that I’d never hear another track that hit me for the first time in the same way “These Days” did (I’ve been proven false on that point multiple times since). I like, then, that Drake’s version carries the torch of “These Days” while also being kind of a middle finger to an artist who once to quote Wikipedia, “attacked a mixed-race woman in a restaurant with a smashed wineglass, saying ‘I hate black people.’” I like how unexpected it was, that it was this risky music that surprised me, and that it twists the legacy of Nico and this song into something more playful and loose. I’d pay good money to hear him do Bridgette Bardot. 4. “Come On a Cone” by Nicki Minaj I sometimes wonder if I listen to too much music. I’m almost never not putting songs in my ears, whether it’s earbuds when I walk to class or blasting songs out of the speakers of The Michigan Daily Arts computer or even putting on jazz when I need to read in concentrate. The amount of silence in my life is practically zero. Sometimes, then, I worry that all the music I listen to just blurs into one big hulk of noise, like this single static note that I can’t appreciate because I’ve forgotten what life is like without it. But then I hear something like the unapologetic mania of Nicki Minaj’s “Come On a Cone” and I get so excited because I know that no matter how many times I hear it, I will always be equal parts perplexed and thrilled by how a world-famous pop star was able to put this song together. With a beat set in what sounds like an ’80s space arcade game, Minaj roleplays a whole soap opera’s worth of characters, from the angry rapper doing the verses to the hysterical voice repeating the title phrase to the aspiring American Idol contestant belting “dick in your face!” like it’s “God Bless America.” No matter how weird and abrasive future music gets, nobody will ever be able to sit and listen and just calmly accept this song, and it makes me crack up and smile every time. 5. “Please Do Not Go” by
Violent Femmes I have no idea how the Violent Femmes happened. Their selftitled debut is one of the most underrated records of the ’80s, and while everybody knows “Blister in the Sun,” there’s a whole spectrum of emotion and experience on just these ten songs. The most fascinating part of this record is how “Please Do Not Go” and “Add It Up” sit right next to each other on the track list. You might know “Add It Up” if you’ve seen “Reality Bites” — it’s the song Ethan Hawke sings that’s like, “Why can’t I get just one kiss? Why can’t I get just one screw,” et cetera. That song is obviously a lot over overly aggressive nonsense, but it works so well because it’s preceded by its ultimate contrast in “Please Do Not Go.” One of the most sensitive and vulnerable songs you’ll ever hear, “Please Do Not Go,” is singer Graham Gano begging at the doorstep of this girl he loves, sounding way too drunk with the way his voice warbles and cracks. Somehow, these folk-punk malcontents find a way to break your heart on this track, but “Please Do Not Go” is especially incredible because it’s just one part of what feels like a single record’s attempt to capture every emotion of the human experience. It also has a killer bass solo. 6. “Beauty School Dropout” by Frankie Avalon I just love how in “Grease” they decide to stop the whole storyline for four minutes and let this Frankie Avalon hallucination steal the entire show. And don’t be misguided: “Beauty School Dropout” is the best song in “Grease,” neither overly cheesy nor rape-y nor lacking actual words like its most popular numbers. Hilarious and wonderfully sung, Avalon is simultaneously fatherly, cool and heavenly, which is a combination I think only John Legend has pulled off since. Can anyone confirm if pinkhaired Frenchy actually goes back to high school after hearing this song? I can’t figure it out. If I was alone at Hunter House and Aaron Carter showed up to give me catchy advice, I’d probably just go home and never tell a soul what I saw. But then again, I never flunked shampoo. Anyway, this song is a classic, and it just narrowly beats out Andrew Rannells doing the ridiculous conviction of “I Believe” in “The Book of Mormon” as the musical song that inexplicably inspires me in this moment. Confused about what these songs have to do with summer? Look out for part two, same time next week. In the meantime, email Theisen at ajtheis@umich.edu.
TV NOTEBOOK
How DC Comics TV outshines DC movies By ALEX INTNER Daily Arts Writer
When “Batman v. Superman” opened to $166 million, Warner Bros. was celebrating. No matter what the critics said, their movie was a hit. It was making them boatloads of money which would allow them to call the movie a win, ignoring the B CinemaScore. And then the next weekend happened. The film dropped 69 percent from its first week to its second, the worst for a superhero movie since “Hulk” in 2003. While the movie will likely make a good amount of money, it might not reach the $1 billion threshold WB was hoping for. There’s many lessons DC Films and Warner Bros. can learn from the experience, and to learn them they can turn to the television universe. DC TV series are outshining the films in pretty much every way right now. One of the most important lessons, which might seem simple at first, is to have your character’s motivations be clear and meaningful. It sounds like something from Screenwriting 101, but it makes a huge impact if it’s not there. “Batman v. Superman” manipulates its characters into the titular fight and portrays Lois Lane (Amy Adams, “Enchanted”) making stupid decisions (remember the spear and the fountain, anyone?) based on what the plot needs them to do. In contrast, “The Flash” based its entire first season on the inter-
play between a villain and hero, giving Barry Allen (Grant Gustin, “Glee”) a reason to fight Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh, “Scrubs”). It makes the payoff that much stronger when you drive a conflict based on character instead of plot. The DC TV universe isn’t afraid to go to dark places, but that doesn’t mean there needs to be an overbearing feeling of dread overpowering everything else in the movie. Both “Arrow” and “The Flash” push their titular heroes into dark places where they feel the weight of the world on their shoulders. (“Arrow” has been especially guilty of this, but the show tends to recover when it becomes overbearing.) Yet, they never let this sense of darkness overwhelm the overall tone of the characters. On “The Flash,” there’s always someone to bring Barry back, and make him know that he’s not alone. Jesse L. Martin (“Rent”) as Barry’s surrogate father, Joe West, is especially good at bringing pathos to the darkness, something “Batman v. Superman” sorely lacked. Still, “The Flash” ’s crossover episode with “Supergirl” should be the model for what’s possible when you mash up DC characters. While The Flash is a natural fit in the light (and slightly cheesy) tone of “Supergirl,” the hour still integrated Gustin well. It was genuinely fun to see the two heroes fight off some villains and then race at the end. While I understand the DC Film universe wants to match the tone of
the “Dark Knight” series, “World’s Finest” gives them a template for what they can do if they just lighten up. In addition, while the legwork “The Flash” and “Arrow” did to introduce new characters for “Legends of Tomorrow” is not a perfect template, it was surely better than anything “Batman v. Superman” did to set up the DC cinematic universe. When “The Flash” and “Arrow” did their crossover episode this season, bringing together Hawkman (Falk Hentschel, “Transcendence”) and Hawkgirl (Ciara Renee, Broadway’s “Pippin”), they layered in the exposition with the ongoing story by introducing Renee’s character early and integrating her into “The Flash” ’s ongoing arc. Though films don’t have the advantage of having weekly content to work with, “Batman v. Superman” decided to pause the movie for a few minutes while Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot, “Furious 6”) looked at sneak previews of upcoming movies. There has to be a better way of integrating these previews by introducing new characters for the new story. In the end, “Batman v. Superman” serves as a launching pad for a massive franchise of films, whether we like it or not. Still, though, there are lessons director Zack Snyder (“Sucker Punch”) and the rest of the drivers of the universe could learn, and TV is a good place for them to start.
SportsMonday B
The Michigan Daily | michigandaily.com | April 11, 2016
OUT COLD
Minnesota 8, Michigan 1 Minnesota 5, Michigan 3
MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily
Gophers overwhelm ‘M’ in Friday twin bill; weather cancels Sunday’s finale By ETHAN WOLFE Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan baseball team suffered both its first home losses and its first Big Ten losses of the season Friday afternoon against Minnesota. After shutting out Bowling Green on Wednesday, the 17th-ranked Wolverines (3-2 Big Ten, 21-8 overall) struggled to get going on offense and keep the Golden Gophers off the base paths, losing both games, 8-1 and 5-3, respectively. “We’ve definitely got some things we’ve got to work on,” said senior left-handed pitcher Evan Hill. “You’ve got to put these losses behind you as fast as possible. After the first
game, we didn’t do a good job of forgetting. We have to be able to erase that from our memory as fast as possible.” Game one of Friday’s doubleheader started as a pitchers’ duel through six innings, until Minnesota’s offense heated up in the seventh to run away with the victory. Though the margin of victory was sizable for the Golden Gophers (4-1, 18-10), they tied the Wolverines with 11 hits. Michigan sophomore lefthander Oliver Jaskie, who entered the game with a 2.60 earned-run average, continued to pitch well despite picking up the loss. He tossed 4.1 innings, allowing two runs off of five hits. The Golden Gophers’ only offense off of Jaskie came in the second inning. Left fielder Jordan Smith cracked a single to right field to score a run, and first baseman Toby Hanson followed suit in the next at-bat to put Minnesota up, 2-0. Freshman southpaw William
Tribucher relieved Jaskie in the fifth inning to pitch two innings and shake off his forgettable start on Tuesday against Notre Dame. The only run Tribucher gave up was from a base runner that junior righty Mac Lozer inherited in the seventh inning. Lozer couldn’t escape the inning without additional damage though. With the bases loaded, a sacrifice fly and a single extended the Golden Gophers’ lead to 5-1. With the help of two errors, Minnesota scored three insurance runs in the ninth inning to add to its cushion. “We had a very disappointing day,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich. “Minnesota is a good team, but there were a lot of breakdowns fundamentally. We had some uncompetitive at-bats and issued too many free passes.” The Wolverines’ batting order struggled to find a rhythm throughout game one. Their lone run came in the third inning. See BASEBALL, Page 4B
Photos by MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily
STEINBERG AND BO n A new team philosophy has put Michigan on a dramatic turnaround. SportsMonday Column, Page 2B
TWO FOR THREE
n Michigan shook off a Friday loss and came back to win a three-game series at Nebraska. Page 3B
SportsMonday
2B — April 11, 2016
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN
In ‘The Slaughterhouse,’ tennis is a team sport A dam Steinberg doesn’t remember the first time he heard Bo Schembechler’s “The Team” speech, but it was during his initial visit to campus in 2014, when he was interviewing to become the new Michigan JAKE men’s tennis LOURIM coach. Over his first 23 years of coaching college tennis, Steinberg had worked to establish a mindset that Schembechler’s speech embodied. “It’s perfect,” Steinberg said. “When I heard that speech, I was like, ‘Wow, this is it. This is the place.’ ” So just before noon last Sunday at the Varsity Tennis Center, Schembechler’s words began to play over the loudspeaker. No man is more important than the team. No coach is more important than the team. The team, the team, the team. … Everything that you do, you take into consideration: What effect does it have on my team? When we play as a team, when the old season is over, you and I know, it’s gonna be Michigan again. Michigan. After Schembechler’s speech, the Michigan men’s tennis players gathered for a loud, rambunctious huddle. Then, they went out and defeated Purdue, improving to 12-0 this season while playing at home. In less than two years, Steinberg has used his unique philosophy to change the trajectory of the program. Former coach Bruce Berque was fired in 2014 after failing to advance past the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Last season, Steinberg’s changes took a while to kick in as Michigan finished 7-17, its worst season since 1991-
92. This year, the 21st-ranked Wolverines (5-1 Big Ten, 16-4 overall) are on pace for their best season since 1987-88. Lots of coaches say that when they start at a program, they want to change the culture. Steinberg’s change, one that has put together one of the biggest turnarounds in the country, is a broad one: As he puts it, he wanted to change “everything this program is about.” “I have a different concept, that we’re going to take an individual sport and make it a team,” Steinberg said. “Your first priority as a Michigan tennis player is to make your teammates better. That’s something that’s another language for a tennis player — ‘What do you mean, I have to think about somebody else?’ ” It’s not their fault, Steinberg says. In junior tennis, team events are rare. You play your game, on your court, against your opponent. But not at Michigan. Here, the players pay as much attention to other matches as their own. Last weekend against Purdue, as soon as the last shot of each point landed on their court, they looked over to the next court and yelled encouragement at their teammates. “Our opponents should feel like they’re playing three guys, not one,” said redshirt sophomore Alex Knight. At Steinberg’s previous stops — most recently at Pepperdine, where he spent 13 years — he has used this approach. It took him a year to get there at Michigan, which is why (coupled with heavy graduation losses), the Wolverines struggled last season. But last fall, while his team competed in non-scoring events, Steinberg could tell that things were different and that his methods were starting to sink in. In the season opener Jan. 24 at Kentucky, Steinberg saw individuals playing again, and Michigan lost, 4-3. The following
weekend, the Wolverines dominated Princeton and Cornell on the road, and that attitude changed for good. “That was the first time I saw from them a real team out there,” Steinberg said, “and we really haven’t gone back.” The players on the court played their points, then turned to watch the matches on other courts. The players on the sidelines shouted encouragement to their teammates. Even in warmups, Steinberg felt a different vibe. “We’re not just going to hit tennis balls,” he said. “We’re going to be there for each other.” Michigan came home from the East Coast, started rolling and hasn’t stopped. The following weekend, the Wolverines pulled off three 7-0 sweeps in three days, including one over No. 25 Duke, starting a remarkable run of 12 straight home victories. The players have taken to calling their home courts “The Slaughterhouse,” trying to make it even more intimidating for opponents. That’s where they are most comfortable, and that’s where the team-first mindset has a chance to shine. But such a drastic transition started a long time ago. Every single day in practice, when Steinberg sees his players playing as individuals and not as a team, he will stop practice and ask a player: Eight other guys are looking at you right now, and what are they seeing? What’s your body language right now? Are you helping anybody? Either the player will say, “Yeah, you’re right, I need to change it,” or he’ll send Steinberg a text later, after the emotion has worn off, with the same message. That has happened enough times to make it show up during matches. “Just like you work on a forehand, you work on teamwork,” Knight said. “Each day, our goal is to get better at
SAMII STOLOFF/Daily
The Michigan men’s tennis team has bought into an unconventional team mentality under coach Adam Steinberg.
recognizing lulls in matches, recognizing, ‘We’re a little bit low, someone pick it up.’” Steinberg admits that his team is still far from perfect. Even when he won the national championship at Pepperdine in 2006, his team wasn’t perfect. Every day, he sees moments in practice he needs to fix — but now there are considerably fewer. “The only time you’re going to be able to play really your best tennis is when you know everyone else on this team has sacrificed everything for you, and they’re doing what they need to do,” Steinberg said. “And then you don’t have to worry about anybody. And then it just flows.” Steinberg knows that there are teams that stick to playing an individual sport, focusing on their match. Some of those teams are even better than Michigan right now, one of them being Ohio State, which beat the Wolverines on March 27, 4-0. But that still didn’t faze
Steinberg. “We got beat, but they never gave up on each other ’til the last point, which was terrific,” Steinberg said. “We got beat. It’s OK. Every team has a match like that.” Even when they win, the recipe doesn’t always work. At one point last Sunday against Purdue, sophomore Runhao Hua led his match, 6-3, 4-4, 30-30, and he and Knight were both between points on adjacent courts. They met between courts, and Knight slapped Hua’s hand, hit his chest and encouraged him, “Come on!” Hua lost the last two points of the game, but he went on to win the match and clinch a victory for Michigan. As Michigan’s record shows, Steinberg’s method works far more often than it doesn’t, and he hopes it stretches off the court, too. “Life’s not about you. Life’s about giving to others, and you will get in return,” Steinberg said.
“It doesn’t work the other way. I don’t live my life that way, and I don’t want them to.” And he also recruits people who fit that mold. “It’s the first thing I talk about with every recruit,” Steinberg said. “I tell them, ‘If that’s not the environment you want to be in, it’s not for you.’ I don’t hide it at all, and it’s not for everybody.” If Steinberg learns that a player played tennis for his high school team or played a team format in juniors tennis, he wants that player. He’ll take him over a higher-ranked player who won’t fit in as well with what Steinberg is trying to do. So some teams end up more talented than his. He’s different, and that’s OK with him. Come into the Slaughterhouse, listen to Bo Schembechler’s speech and try to beat his team. Lourim can be reached at jlourim@umich.edu and on Twitter @jakelourim.
Fahey shines in wins ‘M’ finishes strong at home By AZALEA HINOJOSA Daily Sports Writer
As freshman Kate Fahey spoke with a reporter following Sunday’s match versus Maryland, Michigan coach Ronni Bernstein snuck up behind her. She wanted to congratulate her freshman on a job well done. Fahey helped the Michigan women’s tennis team secure the doubles point en route to a 6-1 win over the Terrapins, wrapping up a successful weekend for the Wolverines. After a game-packed week on the road, No. 11 Michigan traveled back home to end the weekend on a high note, adding two more wins to its undefeated Big Ten record. Saturday’s contest against Rutgers proved to be no challenge, either, as the Wolverines shutout the Scarlet Knights, 7-0. On both occasions, Michigan earned the doubles point with wins from freshmen Brienne Minor and Fahey at court No. 1 and sophomores Alex Najarian and Mira Ruder-Hook at No. 2. Just 20 minutes into play on Sunday, Minor and Fahey gained a 5-0 lead over the Terrapins and looked prepared to close out the doubles match, but it was
Najarian and Ruder-Hook who were the first off the court in a 6-2 set win. Several minor mistakes at No. 1 cost the Wolverines a few games. For a moment, it seemed as though Maryland was set to make a comeback, winning three sets in a row as Minor and Fahey scrambled back and forth across the court to counter their shots. The doubles duo finally won Michigan its first point on a Maryland shot that landed just barely out of bounds. “Doubles is all about momentum,” Fahey said. “Things can slip. We just got a little tight in the end and let them step in, but I think (Minor) did a really good job serving and closing it out.” With Michigan claiming the first two doubles matches and the doubles point, the third match became irrelevant to the score and was stopped early. The Wolverines were trailing in that match, and senior Ronit Yurovsky put her head down in her hands as Bernstein offered some much needed encouragement. Yurovsky and her partner junior Sara Remynse managed to catch up to their opponents, but it was left unfinished at 3-4. “Sometimes I can give up a
few games just because I’m hard on myself,” Yurovsky said. “It’s not really what the (opponent’s) doing, it’s more about how I’m acting, so I just try to stay positive.” Against Rutgers and Maryland, the first three to win their singles matches were Fahey, Yurovsky and Minor, with Fahey being the first to finish in both competitions. Yurovsky’s 6-4, 6-1 sets clinched the win over the Terrapins for Michigan. Fahey, as of late, has been more aggressive. In the past, she has been more defensive, but she mentioned that she feels on top of her game now. While it came down to a nailbiting third set, Remynse was the only Wolverine unable to pull off a victory in singles play against Maryland. “As a team, we did really well,” Fahey said. The defending Big Ten champions know there are still some tough matchups before the conference tournament, but they are confident their success will continue. “We have a lot of tennis left to play,” Bernstein said. “But we’re young, and I think we’ve beaten some good teams so we can compete with anybody.”
Wolverines top Harvard, Princeton in final homestand By LELAND MITCHINSON Daily Sports Writer
In its final home stand of the season, the Michigan women’s water polo team showed fans at Canham Natatorium why the team has climbed into the top 10 in the national rankings. Saturday, the eighth-ranked Wolverines maintained their undefeated conference record, posting wins over No. 17 Princeton and No. 13 Harvard, 9-7 and 10-5, respectively. In both games, Michigan started slowly before eventually finding its stride to secure the win. “Something I’ve noticed a pattern of is, every time we play a team we haven’t seen for the first time, it’s kind of like we need to feel it out and see what’s going on,” said Michigan coach Marcelo Leonardi. “In terms of matchups, we’re prepared. But we start a little bit slow, and then once we make adjustments … our defense is on and then we slowly chip away.” Against Princeton, the Wolverines fell behind early. The Tigers scored in the first minute and converted a five-meter shot less than four minutes later after interference was called on an excluded Michigan player to give them a 2-0 advantage. Despite the early mistakes, the Wolverines bounced back with two goals of their own, kickstarted by a steal-and-score from senior attacker Ali Thomason just in front of the Princeton net. “If you go down two in the first quarter, there’s so much time left,” Thomason said. “If you go down two in the
RYAN MCLOUGHLIN/Daily
Ali Thomason scored four goals in her final game at Canham Natatorium.
fourth quarter, there’s still so much time left, so you can’t let yourself get into this mindset that we’re two down.” After taking the lead with 3:31 left in the first half, Michigan was able to hold off a second half Tigers push to win, 9-7. Senior attacker Kelly Martin scored a hat trick in the game to propel the Wolverines to victory in the penultimate home game of her career. Though the final home games are typically a time to highlight the seniors’ careers, the crowd in Ann Arbor also got a glimpse of the program’s future during Saturday’s contests. Freshman defender Kim Johnson tallied five goals against Princeton and added two more in the second game against Harvard. “(The younger players) are going to do so amazing,” Martin said. “I’m just sad that I won’t be here on the team with them.”
“It’s kind of like we need to feel it out and see what’s going on.”
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
Freshman Kate Fahey won both her singles and doubles matches against Maryland in Michigan’s 6-1 win Sunday.
In the game against the Crimson, Michigan’s defensive prowess was on display. The Wolverines limited Harvard to just five goals and were led by Thomason’s four steals and senior goaltender Julia Campbell’s four saves. “If our offense sputters or certain people get neutralized, our press defense is really effective,” Leonardi said. “Teams struggle with it, and I feel like that’s what has kind of carried us throughout the season. “We make everybody on the team play offense as well as defense, so I feel that if Julia has to make a save, it’s calculated and it’s tactical in terms of we’re funneling shots in to her.” Offensively, Michigan again started slow, but got things going with a four-goal second quarter. The string of goals gave the Wolverines a 5-2 lead at the half. From that point on, Michigan was in control and cruised to a 10-5 victory over the Crimson. In addition to Thomason’s defensive duties, she was was also at the head of the Wolverine attack, scoring four goals in her final home game.
SportsMonday
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
SOFTBALL
Michigan recovers to win road series Wolverines shut out Friday, then battle back to take two of three at Nebraska By ORION SANG Daily Sports Writer
With the score tied and the Michigan softball team in need of a big hit, senior center fielder Sierra Lawrence stepped up to the plate in the seventh inning of the rubber match between the Wolverines and Nebraska. And Lawrence delivered, launching a two-run bomb over the left-field fence to break the stalemate and give No. 1 Michigan (7-2 Big Ten, 29-4 overall) an 8-6 lead. “I just wanted to stay confident, have fun and hit the ball hard,” Lawrence said. “That’s what (I had) been doing all weekend, and it worked well.” After Lawrence gave her team the lead, junior right-hander Megan Betsa retired three consecutive Cornhuskers in the bottom of the inning to give Michigan the win. It was part of a gritty performance by Betsa, who began the day as the starting pitcher, but was lifted in the first inning for fifth-year senior righthander Sara Driesenga after a shaky start. Driesenga, though, was ineffective, and Betsa was called upon to re-enter the game in the third inning. “When (Hutchins) took me out, she just told me to go to the bullpen and gather myself,” Betsa said. “I went back out (in the bullpen), worked on my spin and stopped trying too hard.” Added Michigan coach Carol
Hutchins: “I was so impressed. She did such a great job coming back. I didn’t know if that was going to work, but I thought it was our best option. Megan did a fantastic job.” Sunday’s victory gave Michigan the series win over the Cornhuskers (6-5, 25-14) after three close contests — the first two games of the series were low-scoring battles with shutdown pitching, and the third was a back-and-forth, offensive affair that featured several lead changes. “We won two really tight and really competitive games,” Hutchins said. “This weekend had the feel of a Super Regional to me — very competitive softball. The games were a lot of fun, and I thought we responded. We worked through the difficult times.” The Wolverines dropped the series opener on Friday, 1-0, after an uncharacteristically quiet performance by the offense. Michigan’s bats were held in check by poor base running and Nebraska pitcher Cassie McClure’s shutout performance. Hutchins thought her team was too focused on its lofty ranking. “We got what we deserved,” Hutchins said. “It’s not acceptable to be caught up in a ranking that means nothing in April. Who cares if you’re ranked No. 1 in April? I’d like to be ranked first at the end of June. That’s the only ranking
that matters.” Michigan made sure to get out to a fast start in the second game of the series Saturday — a tworun homer in the first inning by senior second baseman Sierra Romero gave the Wolverines an early lead. But the bats went cold after Romero’s blast, and the offense failed to score any runs over the next five innings. Driesenga pitched well through the first five frames, but was replaced by Betsa after getting in a jam in the sixth inning. Betsa got her team out of the inning relatively unscathed, limiting the Cornhuskers to only one run. In the following inning, Lawrence hit a two-run homer to give her team some breathing room, and Michigan emerged with a hardfought, 4-1 victory after Betsa finished off Nebraska in the bottom of the inning. While Michigan came away with two wins after the weekend, the victories might be overshadowed by the loss following the team’s ascent to the top of the rankings. And Hutchins certainly doesn’t want the team to forget her lesson that the rankings mean little at this time. “We need to learn that lesson, and we need to get better at internalizing that message,” Hutchins said. “I thought we did get better (Sunday). We weren’t all the way where we need to be, but we were better.”
“This weekend had the feel of a Super Regional to me.”
Minnesota freezes Michigan By COLE ZINGAS Daily Sports Writer
After its hottest start since 1987, the No. 25 Michigan baseball team had accomplished most of its early-season goals and hadn’t left many games to linger on. Even in the moments following losses to No. 23 Oklahoma State and Notre Dame, the Wolverines felt they had been improving and moving forward, learning and growing with each game. But suddenly, there is a blemish on Michigan’s résumé that is much harder to account for. Minnesota (4-1 Big Ten, 18-10 overall) came to chilly Ann Arbor this weekend and never allowed the Wolverines’ bats to heat up in either end of a Friday doubleheader. The Golden Gophers’ offense, meanwhile, seemed much more cozy in the 35-degree weather, rattling off 21 hits in two games to down Michigan, 8-1, in game one and 5-3 in game two. Before facing the Golden Gophers this weekend, the Wolverines (3-2 Big Ten, 21-8
overall) had been able to attribute much of their success to the consistency of the batting order. Sophomore third baseman Jake Bivens, the leadoff hitter, has kick-started the lineup with a .385 batting average. And there isn’t much of a dropoff as the batting order progresses — freshman second baseman Ako Thomas, the No. 9 hitter, has solidified his spot with a .382 on-base percentage. Yet, Friday, it was Minnesota’s lineup that bruised Michigan pitching from one through nine. In game one, the hitters No. 6 through No. 9 each recorded an RBI. In game two, it was the top of the lineup that gave the Wolverines trouble, as the first four in the Golden Gophers’ order drove in one run apiece. In the few games where the Michigan offense has struggled to get going, a dominant pitching
staff, which has a combined earned-run average of 2.43, has picked up the slack. Sophomore left-hander Oliver Jaskie led Michigan to a shutout win against No. 11 California early in the season. Senior Evan Hill allowed only one run in the Wolverines’ other victory against a ranked opponent, a 4-2 win over the Cowboys on March 20. Friday, however, Minnesota once again flipped the script. While the Golden Gophers bounced Jaskie in the fifth inning of game one and drew eight walks against lefty Brett Adcock in game two, Minnesota’s pitching shut down Michigan’s normally highpowered offense. The Golden Gophers’ Matt Fielder held off the Wolverines in game one, allowing only one run. Minnesota’s game two starter, Dalton Sawyer, didn’t allow a run and struck out 10 in six innings of work. “You tip your cap to the opposition,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich. “But there was a lot of breakdowns today, fundamentally, that unfortunately turned out in a disappointing couple of games for us.” The doubleheader Friday marked a departure from the solid, fundamental baseball the Wolverines have consistently played thus far this season. In addition to the struggling offense and pitching, three errors on the day did not help their case. “When you play good teams, it’s pitching, defense and timely hitting,” Bakich said. “Those are the three things you need to play good teams, and we didn’t have a whole lot of that.” Michigan never had a chance to return to form against Minnesota, as weather canceled the final game of the series. The Wolverines will hope to shake the April ice off their bats quickly, as they travel to East Lansing on Tuesday to face Michigan State, which is undefeated in conference play.
“You tip your cap to the opposition.”
MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily
Michigan struggled in all areas of the game after a hot start to Big Ten play.
April 11, 2016 — 3B
ICE HOCKEY
Connor loses Hobey Baker voting to Harvard’s Vesey Freshman misses out on hockey’s top award despite 71-point season By KEVIN SANTO Daily Sports Writer
Though the Michigan hockey team was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament 13 days ago, Kyle Connor still had a chance to take home a trophy from Tampa on Friday. But that possibility didn’t come to fruition. Instead, the freshman forward fell just short of the Hobey Baker Award — behind Harvard forward Jimmy Vesey. “I thought it was a cool ceremony,” Connor said. “Obviously it was just two great players — I was with Thatcher and Jimmy. I don’t think (I was surprised). They’re both really deserving … congrats to Jimmy.” Connor was unable to join the ranks of the Wolverines’ other two Hobey Baker winners —
Brendan Morrison and Kevin Porter — but his performance this season was certainly worthy of consideration. Despite having a slow start to the season, Connor’s game exploded in early December when he was switched to the first line with juniors JT Compher and Tyler Motte. Connor ended the regular season with 71 points and 35 goals, good for first nationally in both categories. And his line mates weren’t far behind, as Compher and Motte finished second and third in points, respectively. Despite losing, Connor’s numbers were eerily similar to those of Jack Eichel — who won the Hobey Baker in 2015. Eichel notched 71 points in 40 games and averaged 1.77 points per game. Connor, on the other hand, boasted the same
point total in two fewer games, averaging 1.87 points per game. But Demko, the other finalist, and Vesey had impressive seasons in their on right. Vesey finished sixth in the nation with 24 goals while also leading the Crimson in points with 46. Demko posted a .935 save percentage and 1.88 goals against average, while leading his team to a Frozen Four appearance. Now, only time will tell if Connor will get a second crack at the honor, as he has yet to announce if he will return for his sophomore season at Michigan. “I’m still undecided,” Connor said. “I’m going to sit down with my family the next couple days here and work on the decision. (It’s about) what’s right for me and what’s best for my development.”
“I don’t think (I was surprised). They’re both really deserving.”
SportsMonday
4B — April 11, 2016
BASEBALL From Page 1B With junior designated hitter Carmen Benedetti and senior centerfielder Cody Bruder at the corners, Bruder got caught in a pickle trying to steal second, and Benedetti took advantage of the back-and-forth to run home. Freshman second basemen Ako Thomas was a bright spot in the lineup that game, collecting a career-high three hits in four at-bats. Game two of the doubleheader started just like the first, except it was junior left-hander Brett Adcock and Minnesota’s Dalton Sawyer who were tossing scoreless innings back and forth. Adcock pitched five scoreless innings, getting out of basesloaded jams in the second, third and fifth. Adcock walked eight batters but allowed just three hits. But Adcock was not pleased with how he pitched.
“I didn’t have the best day,” he said. “I didn’t trust the defense as much I needed to. I needed to attack the zone more, and I’ve got to focus on throwing more strikes.” On the other side, Sawyer stymied the Michigan offense. He continued pitching into the sixth inning without giving up a run, fanning 10 batters along the way. The Wolverines encountered trouble in the sixth inning. Junior lefty Carmen Benedetti gave up the game’s first run in relief for Adcock, and gave way to sophomore right-hander Bryan Pall with a runner on second and one out. Pall loaded the bases, but managed to come out of the inning unscathed. As in game one, the Golden Gophers’ offense opened the floodgates in the seventh inning. After scoring a run on a wild pitch, Minnesota strung together back-to-back-to-back RBI hits to increase their lead to 5-0. In the bottom of the seventh,
the Golden Gophers put Brian Glowicki on the mound, and Michigan attacked immediately. After a walk and a single, junior right fielder Johnny Slater singled to right field to score a run and avoid the Wolverines’ first scoreless game of the season. Glowicki was removed without recording an out in favor of Lucas Gilbreath. With loaded bases, a hit batter and fielder’s choice scored two more runs to ease the deficit, 5-3. “They had a sense of urgency,” Bakich said. “Minnesota had put up the four spot in the seventh. I think the guys had had enough and saved some of their most competitive at-bats in the seventh and eighth innings. Unfortunately it was just too little, too late.” Hill, who was slated to start Sunday’s game, came out of the bullpen for the final two innings, in which he struck out six batters. His performance sparked the Wolverines’ offense in the eighth
inning, but not enough to take the come-from-behind win. Michigan had two runners in scoring position in the eighth to potentially tie the game, but an attempted suicide squeeze by Slater turned into a double play. Slater’s bunt was a short pop-up out to the catcher, and first baseman Drew Lugbauer was tagged up at third to end the inning. “After a day like today, I got to look in the mirror and make sure I’m doing everything I can to make sure these guys are prepared and playing fundamentally sound so we don’t ever have another day where we have as many breakdowns,” Bakich said. Though its record does not jump off the stat sheet, Minnesota proved to be the toughest competitor that the Wolverines have faced thus far. Michigan will have to improve in Big Ten play if it hopes to go for another conference tournament title.
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily
Junior left-hander Brett Adcock walked eight in five innings Friday afternoon.