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“I had really bad panic attacks. I stopped eating. I was really, really, really sick, and I ended up leaving school.”

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It was LSA sophomore Lauren Matson’s first night on campus freshman year when she felt it. “I was walking back with my friend that night through the streets of Ann Arbor, and I just felt this pang of loneliness — this pang of sadness,” Matson said. It must be homesickness, she thought. Sure, she missed her friends from home, but didn’t everyone, especially on their first night? The sadness, however, stayed. Matson began having difficulty eating and keeping food down. Some days, she would only eat a granola bar or two because of nausea. Within weeks, her bodily sickness began to negatively impact other aspects of her life too. Worried she would feel sudden bouts of queasiness, she didn’t want to leave her dorm and felt anxious about going out with new friends. “That anxiety was what was leading me to not want to leave my dorm, or go out with my friends to do things in Ann Arbor Welcome Week,” she said. Transitioning to college Matson’s experience is one that has familiar echoes for a lot of University students — last year 4,197 students sought help from CAPS — and for college students nationwide, with a range of different outcomes, choices and paths for each as they move forward in their college careers and lives. For Matson, the choice was to go to Counseling and Psychological Services three weeks later, on the advice of a friend. It wasn’t until November, however, when she would find answers. She spent months bouncing back and forth between CAPS and University Health Service. A CAPS counselor referred her to UHS, determining the medical staff would be more suited to address her stomach problems. The lines between physical illness and mental illness blurred. Matson was put on medication to correct the nausea, but the

medication soon stopped working. As time went on, she began to have suicidal thoughts — she said she always knew the problem was with her mind, not her stomach. When she returned to UHS with the same symptoms of nausea, she was told she had depressive disorder. She was back to seeing counselors at CAPS, and her parents started visiting every week — or she would go home every weekend. But nothing was working. CAPS currently does not have the resources to support long-term care, and eventually, Matson said, her counselor felt it was time to refer her to an outside counselor, who would become essential to her health improvement in the coming years. Students seeking mental health help can also go to the University Health Service, but according to Dr. Robert Winfield, chief health officer and director of UHS, the psychiatry department only offers prescription and drug treatments. “We don’t offer any counseling at Health Services, so there are a variety of situations where somebody wants to be evaluated for the continuation of medications,” he said. “And some of those situations are situations where somebody might choose to not get counseling or may want to focus on medications.” There is no one cure-all for patients concerned about their mental health, though many people choose to turn to medications over counseling after talking with a doctor. According to the Centers for Disease Control, across the United States approximately one in 10 Americans ages 12 or older take antidepressants. At colleges, these numbers are typically higher. “Sometimes people just feel terrible with anxiety or depression but they haven’t been able to put a word on it — they just don’t feel well,” Winfield said. “And so they may think ‘Maybe there’s something wrong with me physically,’ so they may come in not knowing what’s wrong.” LSA junior Raivynn Smith had a similar experience with a physical sickness accompanying mental health concerns. Before transferring to the University this year, Smith took a two-year gap following a painful and difficult freshman year experience at a small private college in Illinois.

“There have been so many other situations throughout my college career where I’ve seen people who aren’t able to gain access to what they need — and that’s including myself.”

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She said though it probably wasn’t when she first started experiencing her social and generalized anxiety, coming to college is when she first noticed it. Like Matson, the transition to college was difficult and her anxiety began to affect her diet. “I had really bad panic attacks,” Smith said. “I stopped eating. I was really, really, really sick, and I ended up leaving school.” The gap was cathartic for her, she said, though she noted that she still deals with her anxiety, especially on a larger campus like the University of Michigan where day-to-day things like going to the dining hall can be challenging. Even for students who have already noticed and begun acting on the signs of mental health issues before college, the transition can still be significantly difficult, on top of what is an already challenging process. LSA sophomore Jarrett Reichel dealt with depression throughout high school, but had a support system then — leaving home, he said, meant leaving that comfort and support. “I had a really good support group in high school, with my friends and my family, and coming here since none of my friends came here, the transition was really difficult because I didn’t have that support group I normally had,” Reichel said. “Then, of course, the added stress of changing your entire life.” Reichel lived in Bursley Residence Hall his freshman year and said he found the experience to be isolating. Like many students, he didn’t make friends immediately during Welcome Week and felt alone. Everyone in his hall became tight-knit and he said he felt as though he was missing out on the college experience. “It was a pretty rough transition — especially because everyone around me seemed as though they were having a good time, and it was kind of hard to recover from that,” Reichel said. “It was irrational, but I felt like after the first couple of months it was almost too late (to make friends). So, that was rough, especially in regard to the future.” Like Reichel, LSA junior Morgan Rondenelli said she found the new surroundings in college made it easier for her to avoid addressing her obsessive compulsive disorder. See HEALTH, Page 7A

“It was a pretty rough transition — especially because everyone around me seemed as though they were having a good time.”

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Several of the nation’s top names in journalism came to the University of Michigan Friday to discuss how foreign journalism has evolved in recent years and why it has significance in today’s media landscape. The event was held to mark the retirement of Charles Eisendrath, who announced in October he would step down as director of University’s Knight-Wallace house after 30 years. The Knight-Wallace House aims to promote journalism

in several ways, including hosting mid-career journalists as fellows on campus each year. Eisendrath will be replaced by Lynette Clemetson, current senior director of strategy and content initiatives at National Public Radio. In making the case for the importance of foreign news, all three panelists — CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, and founder of Politico John Harris— and moderator David Greene, co-host of NPR’s Morning Edition, advocated for impactful, thoughtful and unrelenting foreign coverage, despite the many risks that kind of coverage can entail. Greene began the night by speaking on the challenges he faced covering the Gaddafi government amid violence in Libya, saying that foreign reporting is essential not despite these conditions, but because

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Faculty address anti-Islam Seven changes approved for chalking in letter to Schlissel Statement of Student Rights More than 480 condemn Diag messages, applaud campus response

and Muslim American Studies Program, said the letter quickly gained traction. “The letter was first sent to History department, and then it was sent to the American Culture department, and then professors kept sending it along to different friends and their other colleagues.” Alsultany said. “Within 48 hours there were nearly 500 signatures.” Faculty from both undergraduate and graduate units, including LSA, Medical School, Law School, Engineering, Art & Design and Public Policy, all signed the letter in a display of solidarity with Muslim students. The letter emphasizes the faculty’s support for the response to the chalkings a week ago, and explicitly opposes the nature of the messages written on the Diag. “We stand with our friends/ students/colleagues and with

Several Central Student Government amendments rejected

the Central Student Government about the statement, clarifying (CSG), Senate Advisory and increasing transparency Committee on University Affairs related to the amendment process, (SACUA), and Senate Assembly addressing stalking and intimate in condemning the recent antipartner violence and clarifying Muslim, anti-immigrant, and the scope of violations. An anti-activist chalkings on the By LYDIA MURRAY additional amendment will alter Diag,” the letter read.“Whatever Daily Staff Reporter the amendment process so it must By TIM COHN the political motivations of be completed by the end of winter Daily Staff Reporter those engaged in such acts, their University of Michigan semester. expressions of disrespect for President Mark Schlissel approved Students were able to propose Thursday, a letter condemning members of our community can seven amendments to the changes to the statement from the anti-Islamic chalkings on have nothing but a chilling effect Statement of Student Rights and April 2015 until the beginning of the Diag and applauding the on the social and intellectual life Responsibilities Monday aimed November for the consideration University’s response to it was of this campus.” at addressing awareness about of the Student Relations Advisory sent to University President The letter also emphasizes a the statement and transparency Committee, the Office of the Mark Schlissel, University need for community activism to related to the amendment process. Vice President, General Counsel, Provost Martha Pollack and oppose Islamophobia on campus. The statement, originally the Civil Liberties Board and LSA Dean Andrew Martin. “We call on all members of the created in 1996, details eventually Schlissel. The letter received signatures community — students, faculty, expectations for student conduct Central Student Government from 480 faculty members staff, and administrators — to and outlines suggested sanctions has been heavily involved in the within two days of it being join in support of the right of and disciplinary measures for process, discussing it since their written by professors in the everyone, as the CSG put it, ‘to violations. The amendment first meeting and submitting American Culture department. be free from discrimination, http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ process occurs every three years seven amendments of their own. Sudoku Syndication One of the collaborators persecution, and to be treated and is coordinated by the Office of CSG submitted two on the letter, Prof. Evelyn with dignity and respect by Student Conflict Resolution. amendments that Schlissel Alsultany, Director of the Arab the University and the campus This cycle’s amendments rejected, aimed at implementing community,” the letter states. include increasing education an honor code for students, adding President Schlissel responded and awareness among students provisions to address falsified to the faculty letter Friday in an e-mail to all faculty MEDIUM signatories that stressed the University’s commitment to the Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern and North African students and underscored how the administration has shown that committment. “We have also worked to evaluations for the upcoming fall communicate our values of semester. respect, civility and equality.” The release of course Schlissel’s response said. “The evaluations has been a heavily President’s speech at winter debated topic at SACUA, Senate 2015 commencement addressed Assembly — the full faculty the challenging balance between governing body — and CSG over constitutional rights and a sense the last academic year. of safety, specifically referencing By ISOBEL FUTTER In an interview, Pollack said Islamophobia. Remarks at Daily Staff Reporter the initiative was largely studentthe U-M Martin Luther King driven. Jr. Symposium in January In the fall of 2016, a new tool will “It was the students who discussed the hostility and be available for students choosing really pushed to have it released,” hateful messages the students their courses and professors. Pollack said. “We asked student had experienced in the context Based on guidance from the and faculty committees of our work to do better as a Senate Advisory Committee on representing student government University.” University Affairs and Central and faculty government to get © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. puzzle by sudokusyndication.com GOODBYE KOBE & A2. Student Government, University together. They came up with what Provost Martha Pollack has I thought were very thoughtful Read more at MichiganDaily.com approved the release of course recommendations and a set of

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information and changing the amendment process to increase student voice by allowing CSG to participate in the approval process for amendments. Schlissel encouraged CSG to continue to develop the amendments that were not passed as they could be considered in future amendment years, according to a press release. In a November meeting, CSG General Counsel Jacob Pearlman, a Public Policy junior, said adding CSG to the approval process would ensure students have a say in all amendments proposed to the process. “Skipping student input here, I don’t like that,” Pearlman said. “An executive officer or the Faculty Senate could propose amendments to SRAC that CSG would never see … Giving CSG the power to recommend or not recommend all proposals and not simply their own.” In a previous interview with See EVALUATIONS, Page 3A

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questions that are particularly tailored to student needs, and we’re gonna release it.” Several policies will accompany the release, upon recommendation of two faculty and student committees. Only students with University e-mail accounts will be able to access and use the student evaluations, per committee request. Several of the recommended policies also outline circumstances under which evaluations would not be released. Evaluations will only be released if one of two thresholds is met: A 50 percent participation rate or a minimum total of 30 evaluations per class. In See EVALUATIONS, Page 3A

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EVALUATIONS From Page 2A addition, no evaluations for faculty during their first three years at the University will be released. Finally, if there are unforeseen and significant circumstances, faculty are able to opt out of releasing the data for that semester. In 2014, the average response rate for course evaluation data was marked at slightly above 50 percent. Courses for which the evaluations are not released will be marked with a code that will inform students why the data was not released. SACUA chair Silke-Marie Weineck, professor of comparative literature, said this will help flag faculty that are opting out time after time again. “If there was a faculty member that abused the opt-out option — which I don’t think they will — it would show up pretty quickly because there would be opt-out after opt-out,” Weineck said. “I have no worries about that; I just want to protect faculty, because every once in a while, someone can have such a brutal semester and it wouldn’t be fair or representative.” Angela Dillard, professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and associate dean for Undergraduate Studies in LSA, wrote in an e-mail interview that the release of evaluations is a way for students to learn more about the courses they are taking. “Giving students access to more information about courses is a benefit,” Dillard wrote. “It could also begin to make students more accountable for both the quantity and quality of feedback they supply. We need to address this dimension of student evaluations and begin to shift the culture around them.” The process of releasing the evaluations has spanned the course of this academic year. After University administrators came to SACUA with a proposal to release course evaluations in Fall 2015, the Faculty Senate voted in October 2015 to postpone the release of evaluations, opening debate on the issue up until the committees reached decisions earlier this semester.

Ultimately, the two committees were formed to balance out student concerns — Central Student Government leaders pushed heavily for release of the evaluations — and faculty ones. In a November 2015 op-ed, CSG President Cooper Charlton and his administration stated their goals of having evaluations ready for Fall 2016, saying “course evaluations were established for students, by students”. LSA junior Anushka Sarkar, former CSG chief programming officer, served on both committees and said she was proud to have been part of the process. “I am very proud of Cooper Charlton’s administration for pushing this out,” Sarkar said. “They had promised the student body at the beginning of their term that they would get this information available to students because they believed this would be incredibly important for students to have this data.” Sarkar said alternatives students are using, such as Rate My Professors, aren’t allowing students to make informed decisions about their courses. She added that she has relied on alternative, biased information in the past to make choices about classes. “Students are going to be very pleased to have this information available,” she said. “Now that students have access to a standardized and educated data set, they will be able to make more informed decisions about their courses and that’s really important.” Engineering prof. Bill Schultz, vice chair of SACUA, said the postponement of the release until now allowed faculty and students to make the process more attentive to community needs. “We wanted to do this in a thoughtful way,” Schultz said. “If this was going to be officially released, we wanted to have the instrument to change it, to make it less of a popularity contest and more of a thoughtful process that talks about learning outcomes students might see in the course.”

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ublic policy in the United States has propagated social trauma for centuries. In Black communities especially, the government has betrayed its pledge to protect the human rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness written in the Declaration of Independence. This historical record excluded Black people, setting precedent for the systemic violence that has created ALEXIS oppressive conditions — FARMER mental, social, physical, economic and legal — still reinforced today. Public trust in the federal government has been declining since 1958. According to the Center for Michigan’s Community Conversation Issue Guide Book, “public trust in (Michigan) state government is (also) low, and dropping.” Currently, the Center for Michigan is conducting a series of Community Conversations around the state surveying public trust in Michigan’s government. The most recent conversation took place in Ann Arbor at the Ford School of Public Policy. The attendees comprised mainly white men and women over the age of 40 and only a few undergraduate and graduate students. In all of the survey questions asked, the results were consistently low: The participants in the room did not trust the state’s ability to oversee K-12 education or public higher education, the state’s ability to protect public health or the environment, or the state’s ability to provide services for lowincome residents or foster economic growth and representative government. It’s a general sentiment that the political environment in Michigan is grossly inept to meet the needs of all of its public constituents. The recent actions, or lack thereof, of the state of Michigan reflect the structural violence that has put Black people in harm’s way and has injured their economic, social, political, collective and spiritual wellbeing. The oversight of the Flint water crisis, the installment of emergency managers in predominately Black cities and the bystander approach toward refinancing Detroit Public Schools reinforce the idea that government institutions don’t view themselves accountable to Black people. The state’s passive policy approaches to these blatant fractures of human rights and political sovereignty are appalling and should incite outrage. In some cases, outrage has occurred. Historically, when Black people express their discontentment with the government, they are silenced with legislation or imprisonment. As James Baldwin stated in one of his interviews: “It is one thing to demand justice in literature, and another thing to face the price that one has got to pay for it in life.” The risks Blacks face strongly asserting their political rights feel too dangerous, as proven in the incarceration of Black political prisoners during the 1960s to 1980s. Our trauma from political violence is so deeply rooted and continuously present that it feels as though Black Michiganders have

that aren’t imposed on the men in the university, which,” she said, “allow men to completely dominate the social scene … (giving) women reason to want to objectify themselves in order to get invited to parties and fit in socially.” Not only do fraternities host all the parties, but they also provide all the alcohol at these events. These rules are attributed to the National Panhellenic Conference’s policy, which states, “College Panhellenics shall not spend Panhellenic funds to purchase alcoholic beverages for any purpose.” Fraternities, free from these restrictions, maintain control of all the social capital, with free reign to choose party themes such as: Workout Bros and Yoga Hos, CEOs and Corporate Hos, and King Tuts and Egyptian Sluts. Younger members consequently feel pressured to dress in provocative clothing in order to continue having parties with the fraternity, fill the social calendar and attract new members. This attempt to emphasize female desirability invokes traditional, patriarchal gender roles. “The whole idea of having gendersegregated houses and parties with sexist themes … and guys having power over who they let into their house, it’s pretty sexist in its nature,” Ariela Levy, a member of Alpha Delta Pi at UC Berkeley, said of these regulations governing sorority social life. In October 2015, University of Michigan Panhellenic sought to create a new partnership program between sororities and the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center. LSA sophomore Anna Bauer is one of SAPAC’s Peer Educators and an active member of Pi Beta Phi. Anna recognizes that even within this progressive group in the Greek community, female empowerment is minimal. “(We) ironically only talk about our relationships with fraternity

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More than a dialogue

ou know how when you say a word so many times it starts to lose its meaning? Well apparently that’s called semantic satiation. That fact has nothing to do with this column, but psychology really does have terminology for everything. Anyway, I’ve DEREK been living in Ann WOLFE Arbor for close to four years now, and the oftrepeated word I’m thinking about is “dialogue.” “We need to have a dialogue,” they said when the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement was dominating the campus conversation during spring 2014 and 2015. “We need to have a dialogue,” they said about mental health on campus. “We need to have a dialogue,” they said about sexual assault on campus. “We need to have a dialogue,” they said about diversity on campus. And most recently, “We need to have a dialogue,” they said in response to the Islamophobic chalkings on the Diag. Dialogue is “an exchange of ideas or opinions on a particular issue, especially a political or religious issue, with a view to reaching an amicable agreement or settlement.” Reaching an agreement or an “agree to disagree” situation on whatever topic is the ideal result and generally leaves people on both sides of an issue satisfied, or at least content. This probably explains why calls for dialogue have become the most predictable response to anything remotely controversial on campus. But when you really think about it, what does dialogue really mean in the context it gets used in on campus? After four years of working at the Daily, I’ve concluded it means so much and so little at the same time. In some cases, establishing places to have a dialogue — real, honest conversation — has allowed students to safely discuss the issues that matter to them and seems to ensure that people are actually listening. Take the topic of sexual assault, for example. The University of Michigan hosted several roundtable discussions about the sexual misconduct policy

this past fall, which resulted in a much more comprehensive policy. It felt like people’s views were heard. This, in addition to the Speak Outs that the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center has hosted, shows how far campus has come in trying to make a difference on this issue. Since I came to campus in 2012, mental health has also become a much less taboo topic thanks to dialogue. The Daily has published countless articles about mental health and the need for more resources on campus. There have been all kinds of events about it on campus, too. And perhaps as a result of these efforts, though it’s far from perfect, Counseling and Psychological Services has worked to improve its intake time. And University President Mark Schlissel recently said the University is working on plans to establish a new mental health clinic on campus. That’s a big deal, and it’s happening because students are coming out and saying, “Enough is enough. We need better.” In other instances, calls for dialogue have been little more than empty words. Though the word was tossed around, the debate over whether Central Student Government should have passed a resolution to divest from companies engaged in business in Israel was objectively anything but dialogue. There were two sides entrenched in their beliefs. One side said their piece, the other said theirs, and there was no attempt to really listen to one another. And just a couple of weeks ago, after the anti-Islam chalking incident, Schlissel said this as part of a longer statement: “I am convinced that we have the ability to come together to engage in meaningful dialogue on difficult topics that is enabled by our deep commitment to respect for all.” “We stand together against hate. We must work together toward deeper understanding.” Of course, I agree with the sentiment. The University is a bastion of intelligent human beings. But what exactly does he mean by meaningful dialogue? The same strategies that may have worked to develop a better sexual misconduct policy can’t be expected to work when talking about race and religion. We know we need to combat Islamophobia on campus. We know people of color are marginalized. But if it’s sitting around a table for an hour and talking about our experiences that

he’s proposing with this statement, then I’m not convinced progress will be made. That won’t help us reach a deeper understanding of one another. Part of what makes the conversation about race and religion so different than others is that it takes a certain degree of courage to think past our preconceived beliefs. There’s a reason why we often gravitate toward people like ourselves — as much as we may claim otherwise, we don’t like our beliefs and potential biases being challenged. Because of this difference, calls for dialogue about race and religion must be treated differently as well. If the University really wants to do something, then it has to do everything in its power to get people from all different walks of life — races, religions, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, etc. — living and working together. The University needs to work on the smallest details, such as who lives with whom in the dorms. It needs to think about the homogeneity in Greek life and its implications. It needs to think about who studies where in each library and who lives where off campus. It needs to think about why “safe spaces” need to be created in the first place. It needs to keep finding ways to make coming to this school more affordable and make it appealing to people of all backgrounds. Only with an understanding of all these things — how students live their lives — can the University make an earnest effort to change the status quo. Dialogue has the potential to mean something all the time. I am so convinced that students aren’t that different from one another, but we (me included) and the University don’t do enough to put ourselves in the position to recognize that. Hosting and attending events like “Muffins with Muslims,” which happened last Friday, is only the beginning of what has to happen to bring ourselves together in ways beyond short conversations and writing articles of solidarity. So now this is the end of my final column, and I guess all I’m trying to say in this article and all the previous ones I’ve written is for some reason, I believe in the human spirit. I know we can see the humanity in each other. We just have to try harder and turn our words into action. —Derek Wolfe can be reached at dewolfe@umich.edu.

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TV/NEW MEDIA COLUMN

An album of finales

NT. STUDENT PUBLICATIONS NEWSROOM, NIGHT A table full of misfits, a computer that barely works, six friends brought together by fate and a shared appreciation for Courtney Barnett. Our heroine, CHLOE, is CHLOE dressed up GILKE in one of her several frilly black shirts. She knows it’s a special night — a season finale of sorts. It’s her last nightside shift at The Michigan Daily. She edits a Rick Ross album review and lays the articles out on the page, exports them to the printer. She is disappointed how normally everything goes. No excitement, a well-written but unfulfilling ending to such an excellent show. B+. And then it’s finished. The underclassmen leave. THE ONLY OTHER SENIOR goes to a club meeting or study session or something. She bullies one of her co-editors into staying at the table with her, then encourages him to read her senior goodbye, which she knows will probably make him cry. He suddenly leaves mid-read, and she is alone at the table. She puts on music to fill the void. “Don’t Dream It’s Over” comes on her shuffled IPOD and her eyes well up. Within a few minutes, she is out of her beloved newsroom and openly sobbing and gasping for breath at a red light. Chloe has seen enough TV finales to know when she’s living one. It’s the last night of production at The Michigan Daily, maybe the last time she’ll be paid to do journalism. It’s the last night she’ll spend with these beautiful friends without having to catch up, ask what’s new or comment on who grew a beard in the nine weeks since she has seen him. Even though she’s supposed to stay back at the Daily and do senior activities, she needs a few minutes to sort herself out. She crawls into bed with her iPod, scouring her collection to find a song that’s a worthy score to her hurricane of emotions. She settles on “Holy Shit,” a song that Father John Misty wrote on the day of his wedding to express the ambivalent terror and hope he felt about moving into a new phase of his life. “Holy Shit” ’s lyrics are mostly cynical nonsense, but sometimes the searing guitar and piano break through for a lyric or two that make your heart stop from their sincerity. Oh, and love is just an institution based on human frailty / What’s your paradise gotta do with Adam and Eve? / Maybe love is just an economy based on resource scarcity / But what I fail to see is what that’s gotta do with you and me. For a half hour, she listens to the song on repeat, the last 30 seconds punching her rawer every time, and texts the FRIEND WHO LEFT to apologize for being shitty and making him read her goodbye at the table. She’s a slave to dramatic narrative. She just wanted a good finale. *** Since that night in December, I could list off a dozen others that have felt like finales — Friday night at Rick’s when they played “Toxic” and I had a serendipitous run-in with a recurring character from a few seasons ago, buying a graduation gown in the Student Publications building conference room while “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” played from someone’s laptop, texting a friend from a hotel room in Austin and feeling every mile of the distance between us. I’m trying to keep an album of these little goodbyes, because the real ones are coming soon enough, and I’m not prepared to say them. In August, I’m moving to Austin for grad school. My friends are scattering across the country, some immediately, some in a year or two. I don’t know anyone in Texas (unless you count the Taylor family from “Friday Night Lights”), and I’ll be a three hour

plane ride from all my friends and family. I wish I could say I was excited, but it’s hard to stomach a fresh start when you’re so in love with the places and the people and the life you’ve got right now. This dream and future are coming closer and faster, but none of it feels real — at least, not as real as my place in line at Zingerman’s, April snow flurries in my hair or a hug from my best friend who is right here. It’s a lot to let go of. I don’t know how to do it. During the last few minutes of the “Six Feet Under” series finale, Claire Fisher says something along these same lines. She is leaving her family for the first time to set off for New York, where she’ll get her dream job as a photographer. But the dream doesn’t feel real, and it’s the hardest thing she has ever done to stand on her porch and hug the real ones goodbye. “I have no idea how to do this,” Claire admits to her brother David. “Just say goodbye. Just say I love you, I’ll miss you.” The rest of her family files out to the porch to bid Claire farewell, and she pulls out her camera to take one last photo of everyone standing together. Her older brother Nate appears below her on the porch, a talking ghost or hallucination or just the person Claire needed to see, her twin soul that passed away earlier in the show’s final season. He leans into her ear and whispers some words of wisdom and tells her how to say goodbye. “You can’t take a picture of this. It’s already gone.” Since I first watched this episode five years ago, I’ve tried to make sense of this haunting line. I think I finally get it. The porch is the gateway to a new part of Claire’s life, and now that she’s on the porch, she has already started to move away. Every second that ticks by is gone with the next tick, time stretching and pulling Claire farther from this version of herself and her life. The way Nate says this line is peaceful, like he’s telling Claire not to cling desperately to these dying moments, but to cherish each of them as they’re happening and let go as they slip away. Let the dream guide you, let the picture of happiness stay mythic and imagined, don’t try too hard to re-live the finale. *** A week or two ago, following one of my finale nights, I had a dream I was on the shores of coastal Greece, falling into a quick and desperate affair with Ezra Koenig, the lead singer of Vampire Weekend. I’ve had a few dreams about celebrities before — probably a symptom of my general pop culture obsession or the fact that I listened to Modern Vampires of the City earlier that night. The dream with Ezra was by far the most vivid I’ve ever had. It played out in full like a movie — specifically, like a complete rip-off of “Before Sunrise.” Ezra and I met by the beach. We’d both been living in Greece for a while but never crossed paths before, which I guess sometimes happens with people who become your best friends. You’re existing in parallel, walking down the same street and thinking the same things and loving the same movies, yet somehow never knowing that person on the other side of the gulf. We talked about the stuff we love first, because the way we related to each other was by sharing our opinions about TV and music and art. He was really jazzed about the upcoming LCD Soundsystem festival reunion tour and we recited all the lyrics to “All My Friends” to each other while standing in the ocean. And if the sun comes up, if the sun comes up, if the sun comes up and I still don’t wanna stagger home / Then it’s the memory of our betters / That are keeping us on our feet. Ezra reminded me of home, something I hadn’t felt in all the months I was living in Greece. He wasn’t from Ann Arbor or my Illinois hometown or anything, but I felt like he’d been traveling alongside me the whole time. We loved the same things in the same way — with earnestness and sincerity and a double dose of passion. I couldn’t think of

anyone I’d rather walk the dream streets of Island City, Greece with. *** After a few hours of lazy dream haziness, I was feeling especially candid and wanted to let Ezra know how I felt about him before I lost my courage. I was so glad I’d spent this day with him, so glad we could talk about things we loved and know somebody else saw the world the same way — this world of beautiful and silly things, dumb jokes and good veggie burgers, nights like this where we feel like we’re the only people awake in Island City and all its gorgeous splendor is ours for the taking. I wanted to stretch our night into forever. So did he. We made the impulsive decision to take spaceships to Mars, because we’d always wanted to go there, and we felt the clock ticking closer to morning and our inevitable parting. Ezra and I wanted to get to a place where time couldn’t hurt us anymore and those gorgeous moments didn’t have to die. We’d sit on Mars and look out at little Earth below, smiling at how beautiful Island City looks in August from a million miles away. Still, I could feel our paths sorting out into parallel again. I was meant to wake up from this dream and we were meant to separate. We were taking individual spaceships to Mars, and I was already resigned to the fact that we wouldn’t get there at the same time. Read the rest at michigandaily. com/section/arts Gilke will be missed very much. To send her a farewell message, email her at chloeliz@umich.edu

Monday, April 18, 2016 — 5A

CULTURAL CURES COLUMN

The ship has sailed

ear Gillian, I’ve been seeing this boy for around a month now, and I find myself falling for him hard. He’s super smart and charming and handsome and kind of perfect. The one problem is, we are both seniors and will be going our separate ways in a few weeks. I’m trying not to confront this fact but it is unavoidable. I feel like I’ve really formed a deep bond with this person and want to spend as much time with him as GILLIAN possible, yet JAKAB every time we hang out, in the back of my mind I hear a voice telling me to not pour so much into the relationship because it’s coming to an end shortly, whether or not I like it. Do I just end it now in order to make our good-bye that much easier? Or do I say screw it and keep up the intense level we’ve reached now? I would never want to stunt my natural inclination, which would be to continue on with him, but I can’t help but feel scared that it’s all for naught once graduation happens. I want nothing more than to just be in the moment with him, but it’s really hard. Help me out!! — Reluctant Graduate Dear Reluctant, Whether it’s the end of summer, the end of a program or the end of an adventure, many are the looming last stops on a life path that have been ignored by love. But the advice to fellow travelers in love is always the same, quintessentially expressed in the Victorian poet Tennyson’s timeless trope: “tis better to have loved and

lost than never to have loved at all.” If you were hoping for the opposite advice, you’ve come the wrong place. The history books, poetry volumes, fiction shelves, gallery walls and Netflix queues all brim with characters carrying on with loves that everyone knew were doomed. Good luck finding any whose pragmatism wasn’t pummeled into submission by love’s mighty forces. Do you think “Casablanca” ’s Rick and Ilsa, who were from opposite ends of the Western world, knew zero about each other and were facing the Germans rolling into Paris, didn’t know they were doomed? Nonetheless they carried out a storybook romance montaged in dreamy flashback. They loved, they lost, but they’ll always have Paris. It was the same for Dido, queen of Carthage and Aeneas, who commanded the Roman fleet soon to sail home. You can’t stop divine fate; you can’t stop human passion. The “Before Sunrise” trilogy is conceived entirely around short timeframes where the lives of two individuals intersect and then separate. While the spontaneity of Ethan Hawke’s decisions to hop off the train in Vienna with the beautiful and French Julie Delpy seems like a no-brainer, the night animates the entire rest of their lives. Many believe it is the very nature of love to be fleeting. The examples are countless, but look at these elegant lyrics from the song “Who Wants Love,” by Gus Kahn and Franz Wexman, and made famous by Billie Holiday: Who wants love? Love is a joy we borrow Pay back in tears tomorrow So who wants love? Who wants love?

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Something to fill your heart with So very soon to part with So who wants love? So you might say that love is comfortable in a temporary setting. In your situation, Luct, the temporariness of your setting may well be enabling, even intensifying, your love. Go with it; who’s to say it’s not the best kind? And really, you can’t ever fully possess anyone, even if you were not scheduled for an imminent parting of ways. Consider this passage from Mark Merlis’s novel “The Arrow’s Flight,” which sets American gay culture of the late ’70s within a classical Greek framework: “Do you know how sometimes you see a man, and you’re not sure if you want to get in his pants or if you want to cry? Not because you can’t have him; maybe you can: But you see right away something in him beyond having. You can’t screw your way into it, any more than you can get at the golden eggs by slitting the goose. So you want to cry, not like a child, but like an exile who is reminded of his homeland. That’s what Leucon saw when he first beheld Pyrrhus: as if he were getting a glimpse of that other place we were meant to be, the shore from which we were deported before we were born.” The lesson, beautifully intensified in the passage, is that owning your lover’s perpetual time may be an illusion and being with them in the moment, as you say, may be the only, or best, thing there is. Read the rest at michigandaily. com/section/arts

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6A — Monday, April 18, 2016

FILM REVIEW

Complex ‘Krisha’ By DANIEL HENSEL Daily Arts Writer

If family gatherings are the stuff of horror, then Thanksgiving must be the ultimate terror. Complicated histories, strange mannerisms and different cultures all

converge for the sake of “family,” whatever that word means. In “Krisha,” the debut feature by writer-director Trey Edward Shults, we’re made privy to one such horror story. On its surface, “Krisha” tells a simple story: a woman in her sixties, the

titular Krisha (Krisha Fairchild, “The Killing of John Lennon”), estranged from her family and a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, returns for a Thanksgiving dinner. Slowly, the complex linkages between Krisha and her sisters, brothers-in-law, nephews

and nieces all unravel, leaving Krisha in a delicate space. “Krisha” is a film you should see alone. That’s not to Asay I didn’t enjoy compaKrisha ny during my viewing, but A24 to sit alone in a darkened the- State Theatre ater, staring at this woman’s struggles with no one to turn to, must be a singularly horrifying experience. I first drew a comparison to Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” a tale of isolation in an isolated place. But “Krisha” tells a story of isolation amid a large group of people — even the people one should be closest with. Krisha often sulks upstairs, away from the action, looking down at them from her window (the spatial logic of the house, like in “The Shining,” is labyrinthine). She turns more quickly to her box of prescription pills than her family.

The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com “Krisha,” at times, feels like if Terrence Malick did something like “The Shining.” This is only natural, as Shults worked as an assistant for Malick on a number of his films before helming “Krisha.” Shults uses a wide-ranging palette of sounds to simulate Krisha’s sobering experiences. In the kitchen, the sounds of the television blasting ESPN or of kids bouncing balls on the floor seem almost comical in their juxtaposition with the beeping score (literal beeps are a large component of the truly sinisterly terrifying score), and Krisha doesn’t seem pleased. For her, family comes with the baggage of sensory overload itself, and Shults doesn’t hold back in letting us know what she’s feeling. One particular climactic scene is rendered in a blur of words, actions and visions. Suddenly, the act of cooking the turkey has turned into a nightmarish daze. Shults’s debut is made all the more impressive by the sheer low-

budget factor of it all. Shults wrote, directed, edited and starred in the film. Most of the actors are his actual family members. He also doesn’t mind using his own personal information in the film. Shults, who studied business management in college and then dropped out to follow his passion of making films, portrays the conveniently named Trey, who is currently studying — you guessed it — business management while harboring aspirations of becoming — right again — a filmmaker. Fairchild’s performance is simply incredible. From her clothes to her bags to the way she walks and talks to herself, we know this character. Disheveled yet caring, Krisha has long been separated from her family and her anticipation for seeing them again is met by an equally strong anxiety. Her life is in shambles, to put it lightly, but she herself is fun and funny. This we can gather from the opening moments of the film. Everything after is icing on the cake.

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HEALTH From Page 1A “When you’re away from home — and taking exams — it’s a huge transition,” Rondenelli said. “Plus, it’s such an opportunity to just isolate yourself and just let things get out of control.” A balancing act The services the University provides for students struggling with mental health issues span several arenas. CAPS, the main University resource for mental health, spans three prongs: clinical, outreach and training. Within clinical aspects of CAPS, resources are divided between providing ongoing services and the demands of new requests and crisis appointments. According to CAPS director Todd Sevig, the distribution of counselors currently heavily prioritizes short-term care. Sevig said one of the largest challenges for CAPS is how their counselors — to whom the largest portion of the program’s funding goes toward paying — are distributed within CAPS. Reichel said he sought help from CAPS near the end of September of his freshman year and found the experience to be beneficial in helping him adjust to campus and learn to deal with his depression. “It was definitely very, very helpful,” Reichel said. “Normally they don’t do (long-term) therapy there that much. Normally they just figure out what’s going on and help you find somewhere out in the community to send you to. They kept me around.” Reichel noted, however, that there are some issues with the current system that he believes could be resolved through increasing resources and funding to the center. “In regard to CAPS, they have really great stuff and they have really great people and they’re doing a lot of good things to help out — there just isn’t enough,” Reichel said. For many, that sense of not having enough is frequent with CAPS — especially with long-term care like the kind Reichel received, for which funding is noticeably limited. Since 2011, CAPS’ budget has increased by more than 30 percent. In 2016, CAPS received $3.0 million in funding from the University’s General Fund — the vast majority of which goes to counselor salaries, according to Sevig. Other funding for projects come from donations: The Gatof Foundation funded the creation of CAPS’ After Hours hotline and the CAPS Stress Busters app, and funding from the Logan Family Foundation created a QPR (Question Persuade and Refer) training video for new faculty and students aiming to prevent suicide. But this increase in funding has been accompanied by significant increases in demand. Last year CAPS had more than 25,000 appointments — about 1,300 of which were crisis appointments. The numbers break down to 4,197 individual patients seen for clinical services in the last year alone. Every year for the past five years, CAPS has experienced an average increase in appointments of 7 to 9 percent. This year, the average increase for the Fall semester in comparison to that of last year was 20 to 25 percent. During one of the first few weeks of the semester, CAPS experienced a 43 percent increase in new appointments. CAPS staff, in contrast, has not increased at nearly that pace, according to Christine Adiado, CAPS’ associate director of community engagement and outreach. “There is a 43 percent increase from 2010 to now — our staff has not increased 43 percent,” Adiado said Sevig said the increases have prompted CAPS personnel to start looking for new answers in how they do things, a conversation he added that the program can’t have on its own. “What we’re all trying to figure out is sort of new answers to new questions: What if next year we have a 40 percent increase? And then the year after that? What is the best way to meet that level of student needs on mental health?” Sevig said. “That’s where we can’t figure this out on our own, we need to answer those questions together with students — including faculty, staff and administration. We can adapt, we can add, but if that level of increases continues then we have to rethink some new ways.” For CAPS, the patient increases are a double-edged sword: While on one hand the counseling center is happy to see new clients and more students on campus seeking help, the increase in demand leads to resources stretched thin. CAPS staff said they largely credit the recent increase in students seeking help in the past five years to an increased de-stigmatization of seeking help for mental health issues. “I don’t know if anyone’s figured out the answer (to the increase in demand) but what people are seeing and what we’ve experienced both anecdotally and looking at our data, there are a few multiple reasons,” Sevig said. “The first is stigma has decreased over this time period.” Sevig pointed to several University outreach mechanisms as potential reasons for that decrease, such as the “Do Something” campaign, which promotes a positive campus environment. He estimated that at least 15,000 students are influenced by outreach initiatives such as those annually. “When we wake up in the morning we are devoted to the people who walk in our doors — our clinical work,” Sevig said. “But when we wake up we are also trying to think of literally every student and also the culture of this place, the campus climate around mental health. And that’s where I think both of these things — when I think of the last five to 10 years this is a big part of the increase.” The wait The limited resources of CAPS is manifested most readily for students in appointment wait time — it’s one of the most talked about complaints students have about CAPS, and one that has seen a renewed push of attention this semester. Kinesiology freshman Shanze Noorani, who is not affiliated with any mental health advocacy groups on campus, is currently petitioning to increase funding for CAPS. To date, the petition, which emphasizes the need for shorter appointment wait times, has garnered 1,836 signatures. “I think it’s something everyone does feel really passionately about,” Noorani said. “It’s one of those things. I think I actually got a lot of support because it’s not like a debatable thing; I think it’s pretty much across the board that everyone feels that this is an important issue — especially here at Michigan.”

News Noorani said when the petition reaches 5,000 signatures she intends to present it to University administration. “Currently, wait times to make appointments here are approximately 3 weeks long, which is not very beneficial to those that are suffering NOW,” Noorani’s petition reads. “If funding for CAPS is increased, more staff members can be hired so more students can make appointments and work through their hardships. In order to make our campus a more conducive environment to preventing tragedies like this from occurring, mental health services should be made a priority so that those suffering from depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders can get the help that they need.” Noorani said in her own experience, CAPS wait times have been problematic. “I’ve tried to make appointments there multiple times and I always end up having to cancel it because you have to make it three weeks in advance, and, like, who knows what they’re doing in three weeks? Or if they’re even going to need it in three weeks?” Noorani said. “I think the main thing they could improve is hiring more people that are available to talk to. I’m not saying CAPS is the worst thing because I know it has helped so many people, which is great, but there are also so many more people that it could be helping.” In response to the petition, Sevig said the three-week wait periods aren’t true. “It’s never been three weeks; it’s a myth and a misunderstanding.” Business junior Kelly Lewis said her first time making an appointment at CAPS was difficult. She was told she would have to wait two weeks to get an appointment, but when she asked if there were any other options she was pointed to see the on-call counselor, which she said worked out fine for her. Lewis discovered last semester she had a physical disability causing her eyes to not see at the same time. Soon, her disability began to have a negative effect on her mental health as well. Lewis said she lost trust in her body — everything she thought she perceived, her mind doubted. Lewis didn’t not need long-term counseling, but said even the short period she dealt with CAPS scheduling was a hassle. “I really enjoy my counselor, and have a lot of good experiences with him, but it is frustrating — even as someone using the resource — trying to set up an appointment,” Lewis said. “Even though I’m in the system, and set up to see him, we have a very hard time scheduling.” Adiado said she thought perceptions of long wait time may stem from scheduling issues. “I think it is more of the student not being able to make an earlier time so the thing that maybe works with their schedule is a couple of weeks later, but it’s not because we have a waitlist or a wait time of two weeks or three weeks,” Adiado said. “It’s really essentially eight days.” The wait period for appointments is updated daily on the CAPS website. A focus on North Campus Reichel, who noted feelings of isolation as a freshman in Bursley, isn’t alone in his sentiments on the necessity of increasing services to North Campus as part of increasing CAPS service. In recent weeks, multiple organizations across campus have called for reform to North Campus options. LSA senior Marlee Beckering and five other students recently started the Help CAPS Catch Up Campaign, a group advocating for better mental health resources on campus. The campaign, which began as a project for the course Organizational Studies 203, aims to find ways to better increase CAPS’ resources. On April 6th, the Campaign launched its survey of students on what they would like to see done to address mental health on campus. The survey is still open and collecting data but thus far the top two responses were increasing funding overall and increasing resources for students on North Campus. Engineering freshman A.J. Ashman president of Bursley Hall, said he believes the University needs to do a better job at broadcasting the mental health resources available. In particular, he said he felt there was a need for a CAPS clinic on North Campus given that the majority of students there are freshmen and may be having trouble adjusting to college. Though there is no branch of CAPS on North Campus, there are counselors available for students in colleges based on North Campus, such as the College of Engineering and College of Music, Theatre & Dance. CAPS launched the program of “embedded counselors” two years ago as part of a restructuring of the system to reduce wait times, and has since expanded to professional schools on Central Campus as well, hiring seven new counselors for the initiative. Each school on North Campus has one embedded counselor whom students in need can e-mail for an appointment. This past year CAPS expanded the initiative into professional schools such as Law, Business, Rackham and Dentistry, and are working on a study to see the benefits of the program — hoping to ultimately expand it into other colleges. In recent months, Central Student Government and LSA Student Government have each proposed several resolutions to broaden mental health services onto North Campus. CSG party newMICH, who recently won the CSG presidential election, ran partially on the platform of creating a CAPS center on North Campus, along with hiring 11 new counselors to decrease the ratio of counselors to students from the current 1:1,300 to 1:1,000. At a recent LSA Student Government meeting, LSA sophomore Nicholas Meier, who proposed a resolution for a campus-wide “Mental Health Day,” highlighted the importance of increasing mental health resources in “isolated” areas of campus like North Campus. “People should not be prevented from having access to the same resources as other students just because of where they were randomly assigned to live,” he said. “We need to get something there now, so they can get the help they need now. Not in a month or five years, but now.” Students who live on North note that it often has a worse reputation of isolation or lack of community than the reality. Ashman said Bursley Hall Council works hard to promote activities to build a sense of community. Baits II residents Sabrina Wong and Elan Johnson, both LSA freshman, echoed Ashman’s sentiments, saying while logistic issues like buses to Central Campus are not ideal, there is a sense of community.

That given, Wong said she “didn’t know how isolating North Campus would be” until she got on campus, and while there are benefits of the community setting, she said there are noticeable drawbacks. “It’s kind of nice to have your own community to escape to” Wong said. “I think that the social aspect of it, I think it’s a lot harder. I live in Baits so your own house is like your own community and there’s like maybe 200 people that live in a house. It’s really quiet and unsocial. If I lived in Markley or East Quad or South Quad, I feel like I’d have a lot more people to talk to and hang out with.” Johnson said Baits Residence Hall does a good job of promoting social activities and creating a community. “It’s a little bit isolating but if you make the most of it then it’s not as bad as everybody says,” Johnson said. “I think if anyone gets on North Campus, while it is sometimes disappointing, if you make the most of it then I think it’s not as bad as everyone says it is.” Reichel said overall, expanding resources would have helped students like him. “Being on North Campus, coming down to the Union can be hard at times, too,” she said “If they had a satellite clinic or something up on North that would be cool, too.” Moving forward The increase in demand, though it’s prompted student outcry and concerns, has also been accompanied by University and student efforts to provide more services and shift campus culture. Initiatives such as the embedded counselor program have already seen progress in reducing wait time. When the program was implemented two years ago, wait times were cut 60 percent to an average wait time of four days, according to CAPS. One of the main pillars of the Help CAPS Catch Up Campaign is ensuring funding is at a satisfactory ratio based on the research of Daniel Eisenberg, an associate professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University, who found that college counseling centers should have $1 million per every 15,000 students. Under the increase in the 2016 budget, CAPS is now receiving what Eisenberg deems is the proper amount — prior to this year, though, it was below. Lewis said another initiative the campaign supports is one Central Student Government has mentioned implementing: a mental health liaison for student organizations. This would be a person who is trained in the resources on campus, though not necessarily a counselor themselves. “I’m in a 300-person organization,” Lewis said. “If somebody is having a moment where they just need to figure out who to go and talk to, they can go to this person and say, ‘Hey, who do I go see? What’s the wait time like at these different places? What are my options?’ ” Beckering was interested in working to improve mental health resources after dealing with her own issues and experiencing others’ firsthand — noting countless instances of the impact of mental health issues in her sorority. She said she believes the widespread nature of mental health issues is a result of counselor’s limited resources. “Unfortunately, one of my (sorority) sisters

Monday, April 18, 2016 — 7A committed suicide as a sophomore. As a 19-year-old I had to plan her memorial service and support other 19-year-olds who were going through a period of loss, and that was really, really hard,” Beckering said. “Then when I was a junior, I intervened in a situation where someone was trying to commit suicide. There have been so many other situations throughout my college career where I’ve seen people who aren’t able to gain access to what they need — and that’s including myself.” The group has also found lack of long-term care in the form of follow ups after CAP appointments is an area students feel CAPS is less effective in due to underfunding. Beckering said several suggestions have been made to alleviate this, such as having CAPS call patients who skip their appointments, or check in on them after they are referred to an alternative private practice to see how it’s going. “CAPS doesn’t have the resources to call and check in and say, ‘Hey, how are things going with the person we referred you to?’ ” Beckering said. “They’re amazing people and they have the capacity to make amazing change in the people that they do help.” Smith, who utilized CAPS when struggling with mental health after coming to the University, said she stopped going after a few sessions. She said she felt her counselor wasn’t a good fit for her and she started to have anxiety about it, but a follow up visit might have helped encourage her to come back. “Part of me is like, ‘You should probably just try again,’ ” Smith said. “But it’s also hard because my schedule is really packed. It’s kind of hard because CAPS is only open during the day when we have classes, but I should probably just try again.” Overall, students interviewed for this article echoed the same sentiment over and over again — any increase in campus mental health resources will be a positive. Across the board, the primary solution presented by students was increasing the number of counselors, whether at CAPS’ current location, a new North Campus clinic, or more embedded counselors. Sevig said he was interested in hearing student input on what steps should be taken moving forward to improve CAPS. Improvement models CAPS is currently considering, he said, include whether to expand the embedded counselor program or change the current model’s focus away from prioritizing crisis work, as well as more attention to ongoing follow up appointments. “Yes, we’re all aware of what’s going on right now,” Sevig said in regard to student concerns. “There’s a lot of student cries and demands: ‘We love CAPS, we need more CAPS.’ We’re all hearing it. What we’re all trying to figure out quickly is what is the best way to meet student needs, but don’t forget the president, the provost, the vice president of student life have decided to add seven new staff members in the last two years. That’s not a small thing.” In an interview, E. Royster Harper, vice president of student life, echoed Sevig’s sentiments, saying the administration wants to hear students voices on the subject. “We are open to hearing what students are saying and we are open to making changes based on what students are saying.”

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SPRING CLEANING Hill, Michigan defeat Nebraska to complete threegame home sweep By NATHANIEL CLARK Daily Sports Writer

On March 22, 2015, the Michigan baseball team lost 6-3 to Nebraska, its third straight loss to the Cornhuskers. One year later, the now-22nd ranked Wolverines (6-2 Big Ten, 25-9 overall) turned the 2015 result on its head, defeating the Cornhuskers, 6-1, completing a three-game sweep. Michigan coach Erik Bakich downplayed the feat. “We really went into (the weekend) talking about each game as a one-game series,” Bakich said. “We didn’t use the word ‘sweep.’ ” The Wolverines’ victory came on the back of masterful pitching, particularly the performance from senior lefthander Evan Hill. He threw for

seven innings, surrendered one run on four hits, walked one batter and struck out four. “I threw a lot of fastballs today,” Hill said. “I was moving it in and out.” Sophomore Ryan Nutof picked up where Hill left off. He finished the contest with two scoreless innings and two strikeouts. The game remained scoreless until the bottom of the fourth inning when senior centerfielder Cody Bruder singled up the middle before stealing second base on the next at-bat. Sophomore first baseman Drew Lugbauer brought Bruder home with an RBI double to right field. Michigan was unable to capitalize further, though, as freshman shortstop Michael Brdar struck out swinging and freshman right fielder Jonathan Engelmann grounded out to end the frame. “Those guys in the middle of the order did a nice job of staying connected with the guys who hit in front of them,” Bakich said, referring to hitters three through six. “Each got on base a few times and took advantage of some

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situations to capitalize.” Nebraska (7-5 Big Ten, 22-14 overall) threatened to erase the Wolverines’ newfound lead in the top of the fifth, when left fielder Luis Alvarado hit a one-out double down the left-field line. But two batters later, after a Nebraska base hit, senior Wolverine left fielder Matt Ramsay made a perfect throw to home plate to tag out Alvarado and preserve Michigan’s 1-0 edge. “Getting the defense back in to hit is huge for momentum shifts,” Bruder said. “Hats off to them.” Nebraska managed to tie the game in the sixth as first baseman Ben Miller hit a two-out RBI single. The Wolverines responded right away, though, in the bottom of the frame. With senior catcher Harrison Wenson on first and junior designated hitter Carmen Benedetti on second, Bruder singled up the middle to score Benedetti. Lugbauer then hit a sacrifice bunt to put two runners in scoring position with one out. After Brdar reached on a fielder’s choice to load the bases, See BASEBALL, Page 4B

Wolverines top Ohio State in come-from-behind fashion, 5-3 By TYLER COADY Daily Sports Writer

As Ohio State centerfielder Taylor White crossed home plate, a quiet hush fell over Alumni Field, except for a pocket of scarlet-clad fans cheering wildly. White’s hit bounced off the leftfield wall, alluded the gloves of junior left fielder Kelly Christner and senior centerfielder Sierra Lawrence and allowed her to notch an inside-the-park home run. The Buckeyes had cut the Wolverines’ lead to one, as junior right-handed pitcher Megan Betsa’s bid for a second straight shutout vanished in the fourth inning. “It didn’t seem like we were very locked in,” said Michigan coach Carol Hutchins. “I said to the team, ‘(Betsa) is doing her

part, and go give her some energy because you just let her down.’ “I don’t think we are giving enough right now, and we are getting a little self-absorbed.” Holding onto a tenuous 2-1 lead at the onset of the fifth inning, the Michigan defense once again lost its poise as senior second baseman Sierra Romero bobbled a ball, allowing Ohio State first baseman Jess Machovina to reach on an infield hit. After Betsa walked right fielder Alex Bayne, Buckeyes’ left fielder Cammi Prantl made the Wolverines pay for its poor fielding, as her double into the right-center field gap scored two, putting Ohio State (9-4-1 Big Ten, 25-111 overall) in front, 3-2. “Bonnie (Tholl) went over and … told them the game plan: Hit the ball in the ground,” Hutchins said. “I think getting behind woke them up … but I thought their energy during the whole game was not very good.” As the coaching staff attempted to spark its team, it stressed that there were two innings left to play. A lack of

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confidence, not talent, was contributing to their poor performance. The Wolverines (11-2, 33-4) entered the bottom of fifth with the top of their lineup due up to bat. Romero and Susalla quickly got on base after drawing walks, and then sophomore first baseman Tera Blanco, who drove in Michigan’s second run, stepped up to the plate. Ohio State coach and Wolverine alum Kelly Kovach Schoenly walked out to the circle, attempting to inject a sense of confidence into her suddenly shaken pitcher, Shelby Hursh. After seeing the first two pitches go high, Blanco latched onto the third one, sent it over the center-field wall for a three-run home run and vaulted Michigan into the lead. “I mean, I was just really excited,” Blanco said. “I was just really excited to come home to my team.” Blanco’s home run provided the Wolverines all the breathing room they would need, as Betsa returned to the mound See SOFTBALL, Page 4B

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A plan fulfilled and a reluctant goodbye

his column, I’m fairly certain, is the product of a long and arduous brainwashing process by my dad. It started when I was 6 years old. I’d noticed that he always read The MAX Philadelphia COHEN Inquirer every day before he left for work and I left for school. He’d tell me what was in the paper, and by the end of first grade, I wanted to read it, too. So every single morning at 6:30, we’d sit at our kitchen table to split the sports section and discuss its contents. I wanted to know everything, and when I held the newspaper, it seemed as if the world was at my fingertips. I wanted to hold on to that feeling forever. Simultaneously, my dad, who had earned his MBA from Michigan, had another plan. He’d give me a few pieces of Michigan clothing every year for Chanukkah and then, on Saturdays, he’d turn on Michigan football games. We’d watch together, dancing around the living room after every Braylon Edwards touchdown. When I was 11, he took me to the Big House for the first time. The game was a relatively boring blowout of Eastern Michigan, but I was hooked anyway. By the time I was a sophomore in high school, I wore Michigan T-shirts three days a week (I was really freaking cool). When it came time to pick a college, my mom forced me to look at other schools, convinced I only thought Michigan was the best fit because of my dad’s prerogative. I ended up here anyway, writing about Michigan sports for the newspaper. And now, four years later, it’s time to say goodbye. And shoot, I’ll admit it, I really don’t want to. Saying goodbye means no more walking through the Diag exchanging fist bumps with passing friends while complete strangers offer free hugs. It means no more nights at Red House full of Admiral Nelson

and beer pong until everyone is too drunk and too tired to do anything but sleep. It means no more sitting at the Daily until 4 a.m. with Max and Jake, ranting and yelling and talking about life until we remember we have to go to class in just a few short hours. Sure, it hasn’t all been perfect. Simon and I (somehow) never met our wives at Rick’s, and I wish we had shut out The State News every year instead of merely embarrassing them. There were times I could’ve studied more, and there were times I ignored my non-Daily friends for way too long. Even worse, people still don’t believe I’m actually in Ross (tell them, Henry). It’s funny how life works out sometimes. Because of the Daily, I’ve done things I would have only dreamed about as a little kid. I’ve played catch under the lights on the field at the Big House, I’ve driven all over the Midwest to cover football road games and I even had a summer internship at the newspaper I grew up reading. I’ve also spent the last four years listening to athletes and coaches utter platitudes about toughness only to realize the best example of it has been in front of me for my entire life. My mom has had multiple sclerosis since 1983, when she was 22 years old. In 1992, one year before I was born, the disease rendered the left side of her body numb. On the rare occasions when she feels it’s necessary to mention the disease, she says the sensation is comparable to a normal person’s foot falling asleep. The only difference is that her affliction is permanent. When she was diagnosed, she didn’t know how much longer she’d be able to walk. She’s 55 now, and she isn’t stopping any time soon. For that, I’m truly lucky. I’ve been fortunate, too, to have friends who have helped me along the way. It doesn’t feel as if it was all that long ago when Austin had to convince a scared freshman to drive across the country with him to the Final Four. But the problem with college, it seems, is that it’s so fleeting. One moment Spike Albrecht is scoring 17 points in the National Championship game and then, in the blink of an eye,

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he’s a graduate transfer. I suppose we’ll all go places after graduation, too. We don’t really have much of a choice. Matan’s moving to Africa, Karly’s going to Boston and I’ll go to New York. It will be weird, being so far away from this big, beautiful, confusing place. They don’t have Zingerman’s out in the real world, I’ve been told. The same goes for the other places we’ve all grown to

cherish, from Hill Auditorium to the Diag to the Law Quad. Sometimes, I’m quite confident, the most frequent reminder of Ann Arbor will be seeing Jim Harbaugh in the news. But when Lev comes to visit or when I get a text from Marc, it will be as if we never left this place that’s known for a 107,601seat football stadium but has given us all so much more. The day before classes started

my freshman year, I sat by the Cube and waited for Wass to take me to my first sports section meeting. I was sweaty, nervous and had no idea what I’d say when I was meeting new people. I thought writing for the Daily would be a hobby, a nice little way to spend time outside of pursuing a business degree. I ended up having more fun than I ever thought I could. And now that it’s all over and I’m

writing my final sentences for this newspaper, I’m once again at a loss for words. So I’ll say this: Thanks, Dad. Your plan worked to perfection. Cohen can be reached at maxac@ umich.edu and on Twitter @ MaxACohen. He wants to thank his mom and Rachel, too. He will be writing for the sports section of The Wall Street Journal this summer. Thanks for reading.

‘M’ capitalizes in rare top-25 series By AVI SHOLKOFF Daily Sports Writer

The No. 2 Michigan softball team entered its conference schedule with just two losses: against No. 1 Florida and thenNo. 9 Washington. After garnering eight straight Big Ten Championships, the Wolverines rarely encounter a conference foe they cannot beat. And this year, Michigan’s Big Ten schedule consists of three of the bottom five teams in last season’s standings. It does not face No. 14 Minnesota, the other team that consistently challenges the Wolverines’ spot at the top. Instead, Michigan’s conference schedule consists of only one ranked team: No. 23 Ohio State. And the Wolverines took advantage of this rare opportunity to compete with a top conference team and swept the Buckeyes (9-4-1 Big Ten, 25-11-1 overall), while showing a strong effort from top to bottom. The Wolverines’ cruised in their first two games, outscoring Ohio State, 13-1, including an 8-0 run-rule victory on Friday. Sunday, though, provided some suspense, with the Buckeyes taking a 3-2 lead in the fifth inning before Michigan came back to win, 5-3. “Occasionally we have more of a sense of urgency when we go down,” said junior third baseman Lindsay Montemarano. “It’s like, ‘Oh shoot, we really gotta get going,’ and we focus in a little bit better.” Though Michigan’s hitting gives it most of its victories, its pitching was crucial over the weekend. Before allowing three runs in Sunday’s game, junior right-hander Megan Betsa

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Sophomore catcher Aidan Falk raised her batting average to .289 over the weekend and added four RBIs.

pitched 21 scoreless innings, including two shutouts. “Megan was tough,” said Michigan coach Carol Hutchins. “She was tough because she didn’t allow herself to go in any direction but stay focused on her moment. You can’t control what they do. I thought she was fantastic. She should be proud of how hard she worked.” Betsa faced Ohio State right fielder Alex Bayne seven times in her two starts. Bayne leads the nation in home runs with 18 and ranks in the top 20 in RBI with

44. But in seven appearances against Betsa, Bayne failed to get a hit and walked twice while striking out five times. On the offensive side, sophomore catcher Aidan Falk raised her average 29 points to .289 while hitting a home run and driving in four runs. Sophomore first baseman Tera Blanco hit a two-run home run and had five RBI in the series. In one of the few moments this Big Ten season that the Wolverines faced a top pitcher, the team delivered. In 11 innings against Buckeye

“Hursh pitched fantastic today. She had us. She was in our head.”

right-hander Shelby Hursh, the Wolverines scored 11 runs and walked nine times. “Give (Ohio State) credit — they’re a good team,” Hutchins said. “Hursh pitched fantastic today. She had us. She was in our head.” Michigan’s remaining games include only one team with a winning record. It played nearly every remaining team on its schedule last season and lost only once, when Iowa beat the Wolverines, 6-4. Because of the lack of nationally ranked competition in the Big Ten, Michigan looks to make the most of its opportunities in these infrequent matchups with top teams. This past weekend, it took advantage.

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caps down year Team fails to qualify for finals at national meet By MATTHEW KENNEDY Daily Sports Writer

All season, the Michigan men’s gymnastics team has struggled with the same problem: a mediocre team performance contrasted with flashes of individual greatness. This past weekend, at the NCAA Championships in Columbus, that trend continued. The Wolverines (1-6 Big Ten, 8-23 overall) failed to qualify for the final round of the NCAA Championships — dubbed the Super Six — after a poor showing in the preliminary round Friday. Six teams competed in two sessions, with the top three from each advancing to the final round Saturday. Michigan wasn’t close to qualifying, however, finishing in fifth place with a score of 422.150. To qualify for the Super Six, the Wolverines would have needed to outscore Big Ten foe Illinois — which scored 432.050 points — for third place. “It’s a disappointment,” said Michigan coach Kurt Golder. “I knew we weren’t going to be a National Championship contender, but I knew we had the potential enough to make the Super Six, and we didn’t accomplish that.” Despite the poor team performance Friday, seven gymnasts scored well enough on specific events to qualify for

the NCAA Individual Finals, which took place later in the day on Saturday. “(Friday) evening, they were disappointed, but I think they used it as motivation the next day,” Golder said. “It didn’t appear to me that anyone was moping around or anything, they appeared pretty excited about the opportunity that lied in front of them.” Sophomore Dmitri Belanovski captured two All-America honors in the same day after finishing seventh in the All-Around and fifth on the floor. Fifth-year senior Colin Mahar — competing in his final meet for Michigan — tied third on the rings to also garner All-America honors. But the most notable performance was by freshman Anthony McCallum. Competing at his first-ever NCAA Championship, McCallum scored a 15.550 on the vault, taking home an individual national title in that event by 0.200 points. The championship came two weeks after McCallum set an NCAA record while winning the vault title at the Big Ten Championships. “It wasn’t a surprise to me,” Golder said. “He’s competed at the vault all year, and I thought he was being underscored all year. But at the Big Tens and NCAAs, he was getting more of the scores he deserved.” The 2016 season will go down as a disappointment in Golder’s mind, who is just two years removed from back-to-back national titles. But, much like the rest of the season, disappointing team results were mixed with stellar individual performances.

Artz, Brown, Chiarelli compete as individuals in final meet of season By LANEY BYLER Daily Sports Writer

To end a season in which the Michigan women’s gymnastics team hoped to contend for the national title, just three members of the team traveled to Fort Worth, Texas, for the NCAA Championships this weekend. But out of those three, two returned to Ann Arbor with second-team AllAmerican honors. Junior Nicole Artz and sophomore Brianna Brown both advanced to the NCAA Championships for the allaround, while junior Talia Chiarelli qualified for the meet on floor. With the tournament

broken up into two sessions — one in the afternoon and one in the evening — the team was split as both Chiarelli and Artz were placed in the afternoon session and Brown was placed in the evening. Since the entire Michigan team didn’t make the championships, all three Wolverines were separated to compete as individuals among other teams. Artz kicked off the tournament for the Wolverines with a rotation on the uneven bars. Surrounded by an unfamiliar team at a high-stakes competition, she was in an uncomfortable situation — until she looked to the uneven bars. At a different event, Chiarelli left her makeshift team for its first rotation to cheer on Artz. Just like at Crisler, she was able to help prep her teammate for the event. And while the whole team wasn’t there, Chiarelli’s presence was enough to keep

Artz calm for the event. Artz received a 9.8125 to start the day. However, it was Artz’s floor routine that secured her AllAmerica honors for the third straight season. She scored a 9.875 for the event, tying for sixth, which earned her a second team All-American honor. She now has a total of six AllAmerican honors. Despite Artz’s awards and performances, that wasn’t the highlight of her time in Fort Worth. “Honestly, I was most excited about Talia’s floor routine,” Artz said. “She decided to add a fullin, and it was just really cool for her to go out there and nail something that big.” Chiarelli, who qualified to perform her floor routine at the championships, capitalized on the fact that her routine wouldn’t affect a team score. Double Arabians and full-ins are

“I thought he was being underscored all year.”

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Junior Talia Chiarelli finished her season by performing a difficult floor routine at the NCAA Championships on Saturday.

both E-level passes, and only one is needed to fulfill the difficulty for collegiate gymnastics. With no team stakes on the line, Chiarelli decided to perform both. “We had toyed around with both of the passes and laughed about it at the beginning of the season,” said Michigan coach Bev Plocki. “If she were competing in the Olympics and wanted to challenge Simone Biles or something, then she would do it. With these stakes, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I give her a lot of credit for doing it.” Chiarelli under-rotated her full-in and took a step forward on the landing. She ended her season on floor with a 9.7125, an appropriate score for the difficulty of her routine. Brown, who competed in the evening session, also claimed All-American honors despite lacking any presence from her teammates. Artz and Chiarelli — who had already finished competing — had to watch from the stands. Despite competing alone, Brown still managed to hit all four routines. After securing a 9.800 on bars, she had a solid routine on beam that resulted in 9.850, her best score of the night. “Before my beam routine, I was feeling pretty nervous because beam is the place where I always get ahead of myself,” Brown said. “I looked to the stands, saw my beam coach and she told me I had it, and I just knew I could do it. I probably did one of the best beam routines I’ve done all year.” With Chiarelli’s impressive performance on floor, and Brown and Artz walking away with additional All-American honors, they’re optimistic for the 2016-17 season. They also have high hopes that next time, they’ll be competing as a team rather than as individuals.

WOMEN’S WATER POLO

‘M’ wins CWPA title By MIKE PERSAK Daily Sports Writer

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Junior midfielder Kim Coughlan led Michigan with four goals, but the Wolverines’ comeback effort fell short.

Michigan falls to Penn State By LELAND MITCHINSON Daily Sports Writer

For five minutes Sunday, the Michigan women’s lacrosse team got the start it wanted in the Wolverines’ PENN STATE 13 search for MICHIGAN 8 their first conference win of the season. Michigan jumped to a 2-1 lead with goals from junior attacker Jess Angerman and junior midfielder Kim Coughlan, the Wolverines (0-3 Big Ten, 6-9 overall) looked like they were going to be locked into a back-andforth contest with the Nittany Lions. However, the next Penn State goal sparked a 7-0 scoring run, crushing any momentum Michigan may have gained from their early offensive success. That run proved to be too much to overcome, as the Wolverines fell to Penn State, 13-8. “We’ve got to work on not getting in that hole,” said Michigan coach Jennifer Ulehla. “We’ve got to work on our transition and really being able to get the ball, under a lot of pressure, up the field.” Despite the Nittany Lions’ large lead, the Wolverines made a push

to close the gap before halftime, scoring two goals with less than five minutes before the break. Penn State (2-1, 10-4) quickly countered with two goals of its own, including a goal on a free position shot by attacker Madison Carter with 15 seconds remaining in the half, effectively canceling out the Michigan goals. Carter was the high scorer for the Nittany Lions on Sunday, and the Michigan defense had no answer for her throughout the first half, as she notched all four of her goals before the break. “In the first half we took too many chances like trying to intercept, trying to double team and stay on the double when we didn’t need to,” Ulehla said. “At halftime I just said trust your teammates and trust the defense and the goalie. Let them shoot from far out, let them shoot with a good solid defensive stance, and then our goalies will come up with the save which ended up happening.” Though the Wolverines faced a 10-4 deficit coming out of the locker room, they didn’t roll over. Michigan managed to outscore Penn State 4-3 in the second half. Three straight goals out of the half brought Michigan to within

three with nearly 23 minutes left to play. But the Wolverines couldn’t keep that scoring pace going, scoring only once more the rest of the game. Coughlan did her part, tallying two more goals in the second half. Despite Michigan being a player down, for Coughlan’s second goal of the half, she curled all the way across the front of the net before firing from the right side of the goal to slot it past the Penn State goaltender . “There were some open lanes there,” Coughlan said. “Our girls on offense were moving a lot, going through for each other, and it caused a lot of open lanes.” Added Ulehla: “You know when she gets going she’s very difficult to stop, she just goes north-south, and it’s like a bull in a china shop and she’s got a great shot. She finishes, she does a great job of really being disciplined and deceptive and finishes it really hard. Even if you put a great defender on her and you send help, they’ve got to time it right and they’ve got to make sure they don’t foul.” But for the Wolverines, it will take more than a good start and individual performances to secure the team’s first Big Ten victory.

It has been a short road back to prominence for the Michigan water polo team. After earning a share of the regular-season CWPA Championship a year ago under then-first year coach Marcelo Leonardi, the sixth-ranked Wolverines have eclipsed the marks set by last year’s squad. Michigan (7-0 CWPA, 26-6 overall) reached the 25-win mark for the first time since 2011 with wins over Bucknell, No. 21 Hartwick, George Washington and Brown, going undefeated in conference play to earn the CWPA Championship outright. But, the turnaround has come as no surprise to those in the program. Leonardi attributes this to three major points. “(First), I was able to bring a quality freshman class and a transfer (to the team) that immediately impacted our program,” Leonardi said. “(Secondly), going through my first year being able to teach everything in terms of our system and play (has helped). Also, the leadership, in terms of our senior leadership this year, being able to establish a culture (has been) instrumental.” One of those seniors, attacker Ali Thomason, has been especially impressive for

the Wolverines this season. Her talent was on display this weekend. Sunday, in Michigan’s 18-3 win over Brown, Thomason scored five goals, had three assists and added three steals. The senior’s performance added on to an already impressive resume this season. Thomason has won the CWPA Player of the Week award twice and leads the Wolverines with 81 goals. “I think she’s probably the best player in our conference, athletic-wise,” Leonardi said. “In terms of (being) a leader in and out of the water, and how humble she is in terms of all of the accolades she will be (garnering). It’s easy when the hardest worker on your team is one of the best players on the team.” Though Thomason is the leading goal scorer on the team, she is often helped by sophomore attacker Caroline Anderson’s prominent passing abilities. Anderson surpassed her own single-season assists record by recording her 57th of the year Saturday in the Wolverines’ 16-4 win over Bucknell. “She’s sharpening up her skills

by her accuracy,” Leonardi said. “In terms of her reads, I think she’s understanding the plays now a little more systematically. (She’s) understanding where her options are. If her first option’s not there, where are her second and third options.” Michigan now has a 12-day break before it travels to Cambridge, Mass., for the CWPA Championships. And though it has had great success this season, the conference tournament has tripped up the Wolverines in the past. “We need to see who we’re going to play, not only in the first round, but later on in terms of who our semifinal matchup would be as well,” Leonardi said. Michigan will need to win just three games in order to win the CWPA Tournament. If it is able to do that, the Wolverines will move on to the NCAA Championships, something they haven’t done since the 2009-10 season. But if the quick turnaround under Leonardi is any indication, it will be no surprise if the Wolverines are able to prove themselves on yet another level.

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Engelmann grounded out, but drove in a run in the process. The inning ended when freshman second baseman Ako Thomas struck out looking. “(Nebraska) got some momentum with a two-out RBI,” Bakich said, referencing the top of the sixth. “For our guys to come back and put up a two-spot is a great sign for the way our team stayed connected with each other.” But it was the seventh frame where Michigan sealed the contest. Once again, Bruder came up to bat, this time with Wenson on first and Benedetti on third with two outs. Bruder hit an RBI single to extend the Wolverines’ lead to 4-1. He finished Sunday with four hits on four at-bats, two runs scored and two RBI. Lugbauer had the hit of the inning as he doubled to left field, scoring both Bruder and Wenson.

and continued to befuddle the Buckeyes’ batters. Ohio State’s third baseman Anna Kirk struck out, pinch hitter Shelby McCombs did the same and Machovina grounded out to Romero. Despite the sudden lead, Hutchins was still disappointed in her team’s overall sluggishness. “I thought we could have given Megan a lot better energy,” Hutchins said. “That’s not fair to her, and that is not fair to the game of softball.” Whether or not Betsa had her best defense backing her, it mattered little in the game’s final frame. Throwing hard and in control of the strike zone, Betsa fanned the Buckeyes’ two best hitters, Bayne and Prantl, giving Michigan a laborious and important victory over its rivals, who entered the weekend in first place in the conference.

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Evan Hill allowed only one run and four hits in seven innings, striking out four.

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Lindsay Montemarano and Michigan moved into first place in the Big Ten.