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Correspondent Molly Ball speaks at the 31st Graham Hovey Lecture, titled “Election 2016: The Great Disruption of American Politics” at Wallace House Monday.

Journalist discusses impact of 2016 election on political parties Molly Ball, reporter for The Atlantic, discusses polarization among GOP, Dems EMMA KINERY Daily News Editor

While giving the 31st annual Graham Hovey Lecture, Molly Ball, political correspondent for The Atlantic, discussed the 2016 election — with an emphasis on the breakdown of both of the major

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parties. Ball was a fellow at the Knight-Wallace House, a sponsor of the event, in the 2009-2010 academic year. The Knight-Wallace Fellowship is a program at the University of Michigan that welcomes midcareer journalists to the University for a year to study a topic of their

choice. When Ball was a fellow, she focused on the economic crisis following the 2008 downturn and was invited to speak by Wallace House Director Lynette Clemetson, who formerly worked for NPR and was a fellow alongside Ball. Her lecture, titled “Election 2016: The Great Disruption of

American Politics,” explored the ways in which this election has been unprecedented on both sides of the political sphere and will continue to influence the nature of national elections long after Nov. 8. “Every presidential election is a remarkable event; anything See PARTIES, Page 3

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On Monday, the University of Michigan released a new online tool for faculty and staff to report instances of sexual and genderbased misconduct as defined under the University’s recent update to its sexual misconduct policy. The University released a new version of its sexual assault policy on April 6, also renaming it “The University of Michigan Policy and Procedures on Student Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct and Other Forms of Interpersonal Violence.” The new policy went into effect July 1. The updates

Acclaimed author promotes open negotiations between U.S. and Cuba Peter Kornbluh talks interviews with Fidel Castro, other notable figures

UM research finds drug not main reason for e-cig use ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter

Though nicotine’s addictive qualities are the most obvious reason for why people use vaporizers, a recent study at the University of Michigan found that for eighth, 10th and 12th graders, the various flavor options are more enticing. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, vaporizers — or e-cigarettes — are batterypowered devices generally designed to look like pens, often using a liquid containing nicotine in combination with a variety of flavors, glycerin and other ingredients to mimic a traditional smoking sensation. Richard Miech, Institute for Social Research professor and lead author of the study, has previously conducted studies on adolescents and other drugs such as opioids. He said while the survey has traditionally asked students about gender and drugs, it now also asks about the role of government and the use of 50 different substances. Questions about e-cigarettes, examining exactly which substances were being vaped, were added in 2013 See VAPING, Page 3

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Acclaimed author Peter Kornbluh, an Ann Arbor native, advocated for open negotiations between the U.S. and the Cuban government with several anecdotes about secret meetings and spies at Literati Bookstore Monday evening. Kornbluh spoke to promote his new book, “Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana,” which he co-wrote with William LeoGrande, professor of government at the American University School of Public Affairs. The event had a question and answer format moderated by Jesse HoffnungGarskof, associate professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan. The book explores events during former President Bill Clinton’s administration, the CIA’s attempt to recruit Fidel Castro as an informant and President Barack Obama’s appearance on a Cuban television show. It also discusses secret political associations throughout the Cold War and the American embargo on Cuba. “We have to be able to say it is not heresy to negotiate with the Cubans; every president since Kennedy has done it. Even Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford wanted to normalize relations with Cubans — why can’t I?” he said. “And that was

the history we wanted to put into place, to create a foundation for that argument.” Kornbluh has traveled to Cuba several times with his work and interviewed many high-level figures, including the divisive former Cuban President Fidel Castro. For his book, Kornbluh also worked with The National Security Archive to help declassify documents and interviewed government

officials on the significance of the documents. “This is the best way, I think, to not only get to the heart of these events, but also to bring people together around it,” Kornbluh said. He joked that many people accused him of having insider knowledge that Obama was planning to normalize relations with Cuba, as his book was released only a few months

prior to Obama’s July 2015 announcement. “Everybody thought we were prescient, that we had known all along but were keeping the secret,” he said. “I had two reactions — one: damn, this is a timely book, and two: damn, I’m going to have to go back and rewrite it now.” Hoffnung-Garskof said he thought the event was See CUBA, Page 3

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Peter Kornbluh discussing his book, ‘Back to Channel Cuba’ at Literati Bookstore on Monday.

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revamped a 10-year-old document and included updates such as finetuning the meaning of consent and streamlining sanctioning and appeals procedures. The policy also holds most employees responsible for reporting known and suspected instances of sexual misconduct to the University to better comply with Title IX requirements. Now, two months later, designated University-affiliated personnel will be able to log into an online platform to report misconduct in addition to receiving online training. Topics covered in the training include whether the requirement applies See TOOL, Page 3

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Startups come to A2 for MCity research Silicon Valley companies to aid driverless car testing at University MADELEINE GERSON Daily Staff Reporter

Three West Coast startups recently announced their partnership with Mcity, a 32-acre site on North Campus created to test and improve technology for autonomous vehicles. The companies — PolySync, Zendrive and Civil Maps — will work on technologies including augmented reality, 3-D mapping and smartphone sensors. The partnerships are part of an effort launched last February by the University of Michigan Mobility Transformation Center and the Center for Entrepreneurship TechLab. TechLab encourages collaboration among UM faculty, students and startups to improve autonomous vehicle technology. MTC Deputy Director Carrie Morton, who helps to identify companies that could benefit from utilizing Mcity, said there was high demand from companies interested in joining TechLab. “We have had a lot of interest in TechLab,” Morton said. “The team and I work (to) find startups that are emerging with positive See MCITY, Page 3

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ON THE DAILY Monday morning in the courtyard of the Art and Architecture Building, Art & Design Prof. Roland Graf’s Studio 3-D class completed their “Michigan Daily Habitat Project.” The goal of the project was to build an 11-foot-6-inch geodesic dome big enough to fit the entire class, using The Michigan Daily newspapers as their main supply. Graf said the class’s goal was to start exploring the relationship between form, space and structure, as well as to learn the benefits of resourcefulness, precision and team spirit, which he said are some of the basic elements that will help the students succeed throughout the semester. He added that he wanted to use the project as a type of icebreaker so students could get to know each other. “It helps me to get to know the students and for the students to get to know each other,” he said. A geodesic dome is a

hemispherical, thin-shelled structure. The American Institute of Architects defines the geodesic dome as “the strongest, lightest and most efficient means of enclosing space known to man.” It is constructed of short struts following geodesic lines and forming an open framework of triangles or polygons. First created for the Zeiss Planetarium in 1922 in Jena, Germany, the principles of its construction were further developed and popularized by Richard Buckminster Fuller, an American architect and engineer. In constructing the dome, the class used 42 copies of The Michigan Daily. Each copy equaled six 24x21 sheets, with two sheets per strut for 250 struts total. They also used 91 brass fasteners. Graf said he only gave students a handout of the objective and they took it from there. “They had to figure out how to organize it themselves in task forces,” he said. “It was really impressive actually. I’m happy

with how the students took initiative.” The structure overall was small, but large enough to fit the entire class. “There are 18 students and they all fit in,” Graf said. “One of them said the dome is bigger than her dorm.”

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The Joseph and Sally Handleman Lecture Series presents Malcolm Gladwell WHAT: Acclaimed author Malcom Gladwell will share his ideas with the UM community about entrepreneurship. The event is open to the public. WHO: Michigan Ross WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Hill Auditorium

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Randall Jones, head of the Japan/Korea desk at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, spoke at the Ford School of Public Policy Friday about the challenges faced by policymakers when negotiating international economic agreements. “When we at the OECD try to write policy that will benefit each nation, we stay away from a one-size-fits-all approach,” Jones said. “If something works in Canada, it may not necessarily work in Japan. At the same time, we do look for best practices. It sometimes may be the case that if a policy works in one place then it may work elsewhere too.” In his lecture, Jones, who earned his master’s degree and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982 and 1984 respectively, spoke about his role as a key negotiator and advocate

for international free-market policies. His lecture focused on four key themes: rapidly aging demographics in Korea and Japan, weak productivity and growth since the 2008 financial crisis, high wealth inequality and relative poverty, and high levels of public debt. Jones focused extensively on the issue of aging, specifically in Japan, which has the oldest population among OECD nations. The issue has created a heavy public pension burden on the working-age population. “Japan, today, has the highest population dependency ratio and one of the lowest birth rates.” Jones said. “The country wants to raise its birthrate towards the OECD average. However, it is often the case that women in Japan will have no children because of the of the demands of work.” One remedy Jones noted, aside from raising the birthrate in Korea and Japan, was to increase

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immigration rates to both countries — which is something Korea has embraced more than Japan in recent decades. “In Japan, the government allows more skilled labor to immigrate, which means that there is a shortage of laborers, but in Korea there is a trainee program for unskilled labor that lasts for three years,” Jones said. Along with immigration, Jones also discussed standard of living issues, including decrease in productivity as well as rising inequality and poverty. In both Japan and Korea, Jones said, there is a decreasing level of industrial productivity and a low emphasis on entrepreneurship. This, according to Jones, has led to a rise in the number of “zombie firms” — corporations that fail to turn annual profits. This growing concern over production has contributed to an overall lowering of the standard of living in both countries, he said, along with other factors like an increase in non-regular workers with temporary contracts in Korea, who can be paid significantly less than regular workers with long-term contracts. A glut of college educated adults entering the workforce has also been a factor. “Many factories, including ones that I have visited in Korea, arbitrarily hire people on a non-regular basis,” Jones recalled. “The non-regular worker in Korea can sometimes make half as much as the regular worker. What we at the OECD want to achieve is a greater standardization of wages so that the non-regular worker would make more and the regular worker would make slightly less. This would decrease the level of wage inequality, and ultimately the poverty level among the Korean working class.” A reduction of economic inequality, Jones said, was a main focus of the efforts of See JAPAN, Page 3

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MCITY From Page 1 disruptive technology that could benefit from Mcity.” Zendrive — a company that utilizes smartphone sensors to understand driving behavior — was the first to announce its plans to work with TechLab. Zendrive supervised four UM undergraduate students last year and hosted two of those interns, at a summer internship at TechLab. Morton said she hopes students will have a similarly positive and rewarding experience interning for Civil Maps and PolySync. “They have been thrilled with the progress the students have made in regards to solving technology challenges the company faces,” Morton said of Zendrive. “The students have really relished the experience of working in a startup environment.” Engineering senior Ziqi Guo and Engineering junior Mohan Kothari, the two summer interns with Zendrive, said they acquired valuable skills while assisting the company in developing and improving their technology. Kothari said he became involved with Zendrive because of his interest in the technology of autonomous vehicles and desire to work at a startup, ultimately working on a main project to enhance machine learning algorithms to analyze the behavior of drivers in regard to hard braking. “I learned a ton, everything from scaling a company to acquiring customers, building strategic relationships and signal processing, just to name a few,” Kothari said. “I definitely hope to work with TechLab for a long time to come.” Guo said his main task over the summer was developing a media detector and data set to evaluate whether a driver makes a hard turn or not, adding that he was considering working for Zendrive in the future. “After graduation, it is very possible that I will join Zendrive,” he said. “I am really passionate about their mission, which is to make the roads safer through an infrastructure that is already developed, which is the smartphone.” One of the new startups coming to TechLab is Civil Maps, a 3-D mapping company utilizing localization technology, artificial intelligence and augmented reality to improve the safety and efficiency of self-driving cars. Richard Hurlock, Civil Maps vice president of business strategy and development, said the environment of Mcity — and the infamous cold winters of

VAPING From Page 1 due to their increasing prevalence. Miech said he expected to find most students vaped due to an addiction to the drug, given the perception of e-cigarettes as a device to deliver nicotine. Instead, he found that roughly 60 percent of students who had ever vaped reported vaping “just flavoring” without nicotine. “The percentage that vaped non-nicotine, just flavoring, was the same pretty much in all the grades,” Miech said. “The percentage that vaped nicotine went up between eighth, 10th and 12th grade as you would expect. But that’s difficult to interpret, because you might be tempted to think as they get older, people start with vaping non-nicotine, and then by 12th grade, they’ve switched over to nicotine. But it could very well be … that by 12th grade, a new group of people come in that were smoking cigarettes or whatever, and they didn’t vape in eighth and 10th grade, but they started vaping in 12th grade.” E-cigarettes have become exponentially more popular each year since their introduction to the market in 2003. As of 2015, 16 percent of high school students, and just over 5 percent of middle school students used e-cigarettes, according to the FDA. SInce their introduction, there has been significant debate surrounding vaping over the balance between the potential benefits it could have on smoking cessation, versus the potential for negative health effects and the encouragement of behavior very similar to smoking. Additionally,

Michigan — will be conducive to the improvement of the mapping technology. “We believe that for truly autonomous vehicles to provide a safe and comfortable ride, they have to work everywhere, under every possible combination of conditions,” Hurlock said. “Testing at the Mcity facility under those extreme conditions will inform our efforts to further strengthen the capabilities and performance of our technologies.” Morton said one unique aspect of TechLab is the involvement of a large network including insurance companies and infrastructure providers. “We create a real world laboratory where we can learn about legal implications, private security challenges and all other societal impacts,” she said. “We can learn about the potential impact of the technology on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption.” Hurlock said Civil Maps is looking forward to the opportunity of working with the two other West Coast startups. “We look forward to learning more about Zendrive and PolySync through the program,” he said. “If their products complement our crowdsourced, dynamic 3-D mapping technology, we’ll certainly explore options for working together.” The third startup, PolySync, developed an operating system that allows software code writers to enable vehicles to perform more functions independently. Like Zendrive and Civil Maps, PolySync is enthusiastic about receiving input from UM students. Peter Brink, PolySync’s director of engineering, said while the students benefit from TechLab, the company also benefits from receiving the outside perspective of students who often offer valuable insights, potentially leading to innovation. “We get students who know how to do software and systems engineering,” Brink said. “Students get a practical or empirical background in terms of what constitutes everyday engineering as opposed to what you might get out of just an academic context.” As Mcity and TechLab move forward, Morton said there are still some major hurdles to overcome before autonomous vehicles can hit the roads and the work of PolySync, Zendrive and Civil Maps can be implemented. “Some of the largest obstacles are the cost of the sensors that are on our current vehicles,” Morton said. “Also understanding the validation of the technology so we know that our cars are safe enough. We need to be critical to putting them on the roadway.”

researchers and policymakers have raised concerns about the regulation and sale of e-cigarettes. This concern was amplified after the 2015 National Youth Tobacco Survey, conducted by the FDA, found that the use of e-cigarettes and hookah was increasing while the use of traditional cigarettes was decreasing. These results ultimately prompted the FDA to move to regulate e-cigarettes in the same way traditional cigarettes are regulated, instituting rules that went into effect last May. The recent University study, which used data from the 2015 Monitoring the Future Survey — a nationally representative survey sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and administered by the University – found that no matter the flavor, it was the taste encouraging eighth, 10th and 12th graders to vape more so than the nicotine. Joey Wylie, an employee of the Ann Arbor store Bongz & Thongz, which sells vaporizers, said he was surprised by the study results for a number of reasons, but particularly the age of the respondents. “That’s pretty young, first off,” Wylie said. “For flavor, I can see that it would be popular for such young smokers. I don’t know how many of them are really smoking because it’s probably pretty difficult for them to get their hands on it for the most part.” Miech said for young people, a culture now exists surrounding vaping as a hobby. “There seems to be this kind of youth culture that seems to enjoy vaping not so much to get a hit of nicotine, but more to do smoke

PARTIES From Page 1 that happens every four years is going to be news, but this one feels different,” Ball said. “I thought I knew everything about American politics and then this election came along and showed me how much I didn’t know. I learned so much about America — not all happy things — but it’s a hell of a story.” Ball began by discussing the more obvious division found in the Republican Party following the nomination of Donald Trump — pointing toward the ways in which his platform differs from traditional GOP values. Where Republicans have historically been in favor of free trade and small government, the nominee has consistently beset trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and favors policies that would expand the reach of the federal government. Though Trump’s rise has been a blatant example of the division, Ball said through her career in political journalism she has witnessed this change within the party. “I, too, like my Republican

CUBA From Page 1 successful, especially given the amount of people who attended. The crowd was made up of graduate students, faculty, Ann Arbor community members and students. He added that as a facilitator, his goal was to allow Kornbluh

friends, thought this was a battle of ideas and I’m now coming to believe it’s a battle of identity,” Ball said. “On the other hand, the Republican Party was already broken when Trump came along. I like to think of myself as a war correspondent: I’ve been covering the Republican Civil War since 2010.” Ball continued citing her time as a reporter, stating that along with the rise of the Tea Party, there have been other divisions within the Republican Party long before the emergence of Trump. According to Ball, though, the GOP isn’t alone: The Democrats are also in the midst of an ideological divide. Pointing toward the unexpected success of the Bernie Sanders campaign, Ball highlighted the changes the party has experienced this election. “The way I shorthand it — this isn’t a partisan statement; all of the Republicans I’ve talked to agreed with this — the Democrats moved to the center and the Republicans went nuts,” Ball said. The movement toward the center was reflected in the issues the Democratic Party campaigns focused on throughout the primaries and into the general

to share all his stories. “In my experience, the trick to these things is to ask interesting questions and then shut up, because usually somebody who wrote a really good book is going to be really good at telling those same stories,” he said. “Pick out some stories that you know the audience would like to hear and ask questions that lead the author to tell those stories.”

Tuesday, September 13, 2016 — 3 election, which differ from what the party has traditionally run on. “The Democrats stopped talking about divisive cultural and class issues,” Ball said. “They stopped campaigning on taxing the rich and abortions for all, and they started talking about things like education and public safety.” This shift isn’t true of the Republican party. While 80 percent of Republicans call themselves conservatives, according to Ball, only a small margin of Democrats refer to themselves as liberals. Ball said the millennial generation is perhaps the most liberal generation ever in the United States. “A lot of these kids don’t see themselves as Democrats,” Ball said. “A lot of the supporters of Bernie Sanders were young people and a lot of them were political Independents. So there’s a potential time bomb for the Democratic Party if these young people decide the party has overlooked them and ignored their voices.” This election, the movement was not large enough to make it to the White House, as shown through the unsuccessful Sanders campaign. Unlike the

LSA junior Jack Hibbard said the talk was especially interesting for him in the context of his study abroad experience this summer in Cuba. “I just think there was a lot of interesting content,” he said. “There was some stuff I would have liked to hear a little more about, but it was a really good overview of the history.”

Republicans, Ball said, the Democratic establishment elected the candidate. In an interview after the event, Ball said though the youth vote impacted the primaries, it’s hard to tell how much of an impact it will have on the general election. “Barack Obama’s enthusiasm among young voters was something he was able to carry on into the general election,” Ball said. “Now we have a Democratic candidate (who) did not have enthusiasm with young voters in the primary and there’s a real question about whether she can carry it into the general election.” University President Mark Schlissel, who attended the event and gave the opening remarks, told the Daily he was happy to have Ball back on campus just eight weeks before the election and frequently reads her work in The Atlantic. “I think she’s inspiring for our community, but she’s a young person who’s gotten herself in a position where she can write about interesting and important things and has developed a great audience — certainly around the time of the election,” Schlissel said.

JAPAN From Page 2 the Japan/Korea desk at the OECD. According to Jones, implementing fair work standards and pay equity will benefit all newcomers to the workforce, especially unskilled laborers and women.

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tricks and be part of a crowd of some type,” he said. Currently the consequences are of vaping non-nicotine vapor into the lungs are unknown due to a lack of long-term data on the topic. Miech said he believes it has to be less harmful than traditional cigarettes or e-cigarettes containing nicotine. “Cigarette smoke has at least 100 known carcinogenic chemicals in it, whereas vaping is mostly propylene glycol, so it’s not a known carcinogen, which makes me think it would be much harder to establish the contents of nicotine-free vaping vapor as harmful,” Miech said. Wylie said while he has been working at the shop, he has encountered mostly college freshmen, though upperclassmen vape as well. He added that he thinks that if people are going to smoke, vaping is better than traditional cigarettes due to the ingredients used. “If they enjoy smoking, it’s a safer alternative,” he said. Overall, when it comes to regulation, Miech said he believes the same strategies used for preventing smoking traditional cigarettes are not as effective for e-cigarettes and vaping. “I think a more strategic and potentially fruitful line of attack for those who are interested in such things is to say, maybe vaping is a risk factor for future smoking, regardless of what it is they’re vaping,” he said. “Even if they are not vaping nicotine, it could be that when you start vaping, it teaches you how to smoke. Vaporizers could very well serve as a device that desensitizes people to the dangers of smoking.”

TOOL From Page 1 to the employee’s position, what does and does not count as inappropriate conduct, how to share information with the University and how to appropriately respond to and support students who privately want to disclose instances of misconduct. According to a press release, the main goal of this training and online tool is to make it clear to University employees whether or not they are required to report sexual and gender-based misconduct under the policy. Drop-in Q&A sessions will also be available on Sept. 16, Sept. 29 and Oct. 4 in various areas around campus. According to the University, employees required to report include regents, executive officers, associate or assistant vice presidents and provosts, deans, directors, department heads and chairs (including interim, assistant, or associate heads and chairs), graduate and undergraduate chairs, and supervisors of employees who are not student employees or postdoctoral employees. New regulations for campus security authorities are also included as responsible employees in the new sexual misconduct guidelines, to align better with the Clery Act. The guidelines also designate advisers to Universityrecognized student groups and all individuals working in the Student Life Division, the Division of Public Safety

and Security, Intercollegiate Athletics and the Office for Institutional Equity as responsible employees. Employees who handle confidential and private information are exempt from the reporting requirement, including employees of Counseling and Psychological Services and the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center. “Creating a safe and inclusive environment at U-M is the

responsibility of all members of our campus community,” University President Mark Schlissel wrote in a press release. “By understanding how the university responds to sexual and gender-based misconduct and interpersonal violence — and the role each of us has — together we can continue to create an environment that is safe for all.”

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Behind the Jawad Scholarship

octor. Surgeon. Genius. Einstein. These are the labels by which my family defines me. I am obviously not a doctor nor a surgeon, not a genius nor an Einstein, but every day when I wake up, it’s a day trying to live up to these expectations; it’s a day living the life of a first-generation college student from an immigrant family trying to make every moment on this campus worth it for not just me, but for my family. In 1973, my now-late grandfather came to the United States for the first time. Leaving his seven children and my grandmother, he came here alone in search of a new opportunity. Just 11 years later, in 1984, my father and the remainder of his family followed, escaping a war that tore our country of Lebanon apart. The Lebanese Civil War lasted from 1975 to 1990, with an estimated 150,000 people killed and more than 1 million (a quarter of the population) were displaced. My family was a part of that 1 million. When my father and his dad came to the United States, they knew nothing about being in this country. They did not know how to read street signs. With a lack of mosques, there were no places for them to worship Islam, and with no internet (or Facebook, or Twitter, or Instagram), they could not communicate easily back home with family. Being in the United States was a hard life to live, but they did know, however, that they were in a place of opportunity, jobs, education and safety, and future generations of our family would have a better life because of their move. Fast forward 32 years later and here I am as a student at one of the best universities in the world, the University of Michigan. My acceptance into U of M is the reason why my family thinks I am a genius. My two older brothers matriculated at U of M before me and our education is something never believed to be possible and never before done by people in our family. My father and his siblings did not attend a university and the degrees we get from here are pieces of paper that mean more than the world to those who are supporting us. This is why when I go home they call me a “doctor” before I have even taken the MCAT, and it is why my mom’s father walks around Dearborn showing people that I was one of the Students of the Year. To my family, this education is foreign and unique, and it means that every backbreaking job they worked, every hardship they have endured, every tear they have shed and every dollar they have earned

has paid off. For me this life of campus chaos is easy. This life of everyday tiring educational work is nothing compared to watching what my family had to do to get me where I am today — my success and work is worth every moment of over-exhaustion, fatigue and hard work. This is my way to thank my family, to make them proud, to live up to their expectations and to let them know that for every challenge they faced, I made a move to better my world, my surroundings and my future, and they did nothing in vain. Our story, our background and our past have motivated my family to create the Ahmad K. Jawad Scholarship for Community Service and Social Action through the Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning. When I was a freshman, I was awarded a similar scholarship through the Ginsberg Center, which required a one-year term of service to the Ginsberg Student Advisory Board and also provided me with $1,000 that allowed me to work less hours for pay, and spend more hours on developing my service and community engagement. I am now entering my third year on the board, not by requirement to my scholarship, but by volunteer, because this leadership role has defined me and my time here at this University. My family and I hold our education and donation to the highest regard, and this award is a gift to education, as there is no better way to remember my grandpa’s memory than in his and my family’s determination to educate successive generations. My family has established the Ahmad K. Jawad Community Service Scholarship Fund in honor of my grandpa, Ahmad, who brought our family here to make huge strides like the ones I am making today; he came to the United States with a vision of a better future through education and giving for others. This year, one $1,000 scholarship will be awarded to support a first-generation University of Michigan student who gives a commitment to community service or social action and who demonstrates financial need. I hope this story and this scholarship will give someone the opportunity I was so fortunate to have have had during my first month at the University. I write this in loving memory of Ahmad K. Jawad, my grandpa whom my family and I miss daily, but whose memory will never be lost nor forgotten. ­—Nadine Jawad can be reached at nkjawad@umich.edu

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n Aug. 4, Ann Arbor passed an ordinance banning the sale of tobacco products to people under the age of 21, MAX becoming the LUBELL first city in Michigan to join the national tobacco 21 movement. The purpose of such laws is to make it more difficult for teenagers to smoke cigarettes, decreasing the chance of addiction and therefore saving lives. The ordinance, which passed in a 9-to-2 vote, came after a debate over whether such a law would be legitimate under state law. The Michigan Tobacco Products Tax Act of 1993 states that “a city … (or) local unit of government … of this state shall not impose any new requirement or prohibition pertaining to the sale or licensure of tobacco products for distribution purposes.” I believe the local ordinance does in fact conf lict with the state tobacco policy. This is a similar opinion shared by several councilmembers who voted for the ordinance. However, City Council members who believe the ordinance violates the state law still voted to pass the law. But I’m not going to attempt to arg ue whether the local ordinance does or does not conf lict with the state tobacco policy. Rather, I wish to answer the question of why a City Council member would vote to pass legislation if they believed it violated the state law. The council members are imposing a strategy that will attempt to create a positive change, even if the ordinance is ineffective. After all, the legislation on the surface seems to be pretty ineffective and a little pointless. There is nothing to stop a 19-year-old from driving one town over to buy a pack of cigarettes. However, the passage of local legislation that conflicts with state legislation is an effective strategy to refute

unethical state laws. Attempting to create positive change on the state level appears to be the basis for several City Council members’ reasoning when passing the ordinance. Councilmember Chuck Warpehoski (D–Ward 5) believes a positive change is worth challenging the state legislation, even if it goes to the courts, stating, “It’s an untested area in the state of Michigan. But as an untested one, I think the opportunity to save lives is worth taking a leadership role and pushing for better legislation.” Warpehoski reveals a reasonable strategy for creating the ordinance: trusting the courts. As an untested area in the state law, the ordinance’s functionality will likely be decided in the courts. In the event that a state court decides the local ordinance does not conflict with the state legal code, then the city has created a positive change for its residents. Furthermore, it will create a precedent that will allow other local governments to pass similar laws. Even if the courts do not rule in the city’s favor, there could be a positive impact by creating pressure at the state level. There are two main reasons why passing the ordinance is an effective strategy, even if the courts will rule it as illegitimate. First, it draws attention to the unethical state law, creating a public consciousness. If the law is truly unethical, the public will get on board and also oppose the law, creating pressure for change. Secondly, the passage of conflicting legislation creates a symbolic message, portraying a population that dissents from state rulings and is willing to reject them. A discussion over that law, which may never have occurred without such dissent, is forced to begin on the state level. Both are explanations of how Ann Arbor is creating momentum throughout the state to create a change to our state tobacco laws. Even if the momentum built does not create change to our state

laws, there is still a benefit to the city’s defiance. Even if nothing is changed, the local government is able to stand by their ethicality in rejecting the state law. The local government symbolically portrays that they want no part to play following a legal system that they deem problematic. It signifies that the local government, while legally forced to follow the state laws, does not want to simply stand by without voicing their discontent with their state’s policies. While Ann Arbor’s strategy may seem beneficial in dissenting from state laws they deem unethical, it is not a strategy that is reserved for progressive policies. After all, the reason Ann Arbor’s stance is courageous and beneficial may simply be because it is being used for a progressive policy proposal. However, that is not always going to be the case. For example, a local government could be filled with people who oppose same-sex marriage. That government could try to send a political message by passing an ordinance banning it in their city. The ordinance would obviously be deemed illegitimate by the federal court system, but the local government still succeeded in sending a political symbol of their dissent from the progressive federal policy. So perhaps we should be wary of this strateg y of local politics. It sends a message to the top, but it could have poor consequences if local governments start dissenting from any law they see as standing against their specific government official’s ethical code. Creating local laws that conflict with unethical state or federal laws is a good strategy for changing those laws, but that strategy may not always be great. It is a strategy that can be used by any local government, whether they are backing a progressive ethicality or one that seems to move us backward. —Max Lubell can be reached at mlubell @umich.edu.

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A field trip lacking in feminism By SOPHIA KAUFMAN Daily Gender & Media Columnist

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or the past two summers, I’ve worked at a month-long arts camp for kids from six to fifteenyears-old in NYC. That’s a wide range that encompasses different learning styles, senses of humor and educational backgrounds, so each year when we take the kids to a show the camp always tries to pick something that the older kids will like, but won’t be too complicated for the little ones to understand. This year, we saw “School of Rock” on Broadway. I hadn’t seen the movie “School of Rock” in several years, but it was a staple in my household when my brothers and I were little. For anyone unfamiliar with it, here’s the basic plot: Dewey, a couch potato who moonlights as a musician, is kicked out of his band while living in the apartment of his tweedy friend Ned and Ned’s girlfriend, Patty. The latter, sick of Dewey’s bullshit — he doesn’t pay rent, doesn’t clean up after himself, is a bad inf luence on Ned, is generally aimless and annoying — tells him to find some rent money or get out. Desperate, Dewey takes a job meant for Ned as a substitute teacher at a prep school for kids, teaches them how to play rock music and kidnaps them to perform at Battle of the Bands, having used the power of Stevie Nicks’s music (and beer) to manipulate the principal into saying yes to that “field trip.” When all the prep school parents storm the school, they discover all their children are at Battle of the Bands with Dewey, after Dewey tells them how great their kids are. The sappy moral lesson is that sometimes adults don’t listen to their kids and project their own priorities and desires onto children. But there’s a second lesson I realized that a whole generation walked away with, while I watched the story unfold on a Broadway stage. And it’s about

The Girlfriend. The worst part about “School of Rock” was the depiction of Patty, Ned’s girlfriend. The trope of the nagging wife is ubiquitous and one of the most easily glanced over. The one joke of the entire show that got the biggest laugh from the kids was when Ned, who went to Battle of the Bands to support Dewey, rounds on Patty and tells her loudly, in a voice full of frustration, to “Shut UP!” There was a laugh break lasting almost a minute. It’s the ultimate PG “bros before hos” moment. And I get it — Patty is annoying, and a bit of a control freak. But she’s also right. Dewey has been exploiting his friendship with Ned for who knows how long, and thus mooching off Patty. Dewey is the one in the wrong here, and in any real-life scenario, it’d be easier to see. Yet, the audience is led to sympathize with

The ultimate PG “bros before hos” moment Dewey and gleefully hate Patty in every scene they share. There were a few jokes that were packaged as commentary on the status of women in the music industry, or women in general, but they didn’t go over well. They were quick and the kids I was sitting with didn’t pick up on them. For example, there was a joke about women only making 75 cents to every dollar a man makes — but none of the kids from my camp group laughed. Not even the older kids understood the reference — I know, because I talked to them about it afterwards. There were a few jokes that the kids did laugh at; when Dewey asks the students what the point of rock is, one kid quips “to get chicks” and Dewey agrees before remembering that that’s not exactly

the point he’s trying to make at that time. One girl refuses to be a groupie because she googled them and found out they are “sluts” who sleep with the band. (“Slut” is an ugly word to hear out of the mouths of middle school girls, especially in that context when it was so unnecessary, but that’s almost another article on its own.) The best scenes in Broadway’s “School of Rock” by far are the group numbers in which all of the kids sing together, either about loving music, “sticking it to the man,” or about how their parents don’t listen to them. The script and score aren’t particularly strong, but that makes sense given the source material. I’m not saying that “School of Rock” doesn’t have some good messages; I’m glad we took the kids to see it. But the writers had a chance to create a more nuanced character in Patty for the sake of the little girls on the stage and in the audience, and they didn’t — and that would have meant much more and had a much deeper effect than the throwaway quips about the wage gap. Kids aren’t necessarily educated about the wage gap; it’s not something you can pick up on on your own. That’s why there are still people who deny its existence. But the kinds of tropes that the character of Patty embodies saturate our media. We can’t get away from them, and we absorb and internalize them from a young age. And yes, women can be just as annoying as men — I’m not here to claim that any criticism of a female character is an attack on women. But you do have to wonder about the speed and depth of internalized stereotypes about men and women when a bunch of five-year-olds laugh harder at a man telling a woman to shut up than anything else in an entire show. Kaufman is The Daily’s new Gender & Media Columnist. Email her at sophkauf@umich.edu.

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Heart of ‘Morris’ can triumph over flaws By MADELEINE GAUDIN Daily Arts Writer

If “Morris From America” is anything, it’s charming. With a palette swathed in colors reminiscent of an Ikea B+ showroom, the comingMorris of-age film follows thir- From teen-year-old America Morris (newcomer Markees A24 Christmas) State Theatre and his father, Curtis (Craig Robinson, “Hot Tub Time Machine”) as they navigate life as expats in Heidelberg, Germany. Christmas plays the titular Morris with a subtlety rarely found in child actors. He lets the audience in on the innate contradictions of adolescence — in one moment, he can be both insightful and clueless, confident and confused. At the prompting of his German tutor (Carla Juri, “Wetlands”), Morris joins the local youth center, where he meets Katrin (newcomer Lina Keller), an older girl who befriends Morris seemingly just to bully him. Morris’s futile pursuit of Katrin is the center point around which the film is grounded. Unlike the average coming-of-age film, Morris doesn’t get the girl and the movie benefits because of it. While Katrin shares the most screen time with Morris, it’s the

relationship between Morris and his father that’s the richest and most appealing. The film opens with the two arguing about the necessity of a hook in a rap song. They disagree on almost everything from flow to curfew, but at the end of the day they need each other with an intensity unmatched in the rest of the film. Morris wants Katrin, but needs Curtis. What Hartigan does a wonderful job of illustrating is the symmetry of their two lives. Both are shot from the same angle, sitting alone at the dining room table — Morris with a peanut butter, jelly and potato chip sandwich and a porn magazine, and Curtis with a steak and an imaginary conversation with his dead wife. The two scenes work in tandem because they highlight the deep loneliness and sense of isolation that color both characters’ lives. Through magazines and imagination, both men are desperate for human connection. The irony (and, sadly, the realism) comes in the fact that despite their desperation, they cannot connect with one another. Life is hard for a kid from the Bronx trying to tackle adolescence in Heidelberg. And Hartigan does not shy away from addressing the day-to-day racism that Morris has to put up with. He’s constantly fielding questions about his basketball skills, possible drug trafficking and sexual promiscuity (at the ripe age of thirteen when sex

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SACUA member Robert Ortega at the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs meeting at the Fleming Building on Monday.

is so, so painful to talk about). These moments help solidify not only the reality of small-town Germany, but also the degree to which Morris is unlike anyone else around him. And how that difference is the root of much of his, and most likely also his father’s, loneliness. At the end of the day, he and his father are, as Curtis puts it, “the only brothers in Heidelberg.”

If the film is anything, it’s charming. “Morris From America” is almost perfect. There’s heart and there’s charm and just enough edge. But it fails to find the type of resolution you’d expect. Morris and Curtis end the film just as alone, just as adrift as they were at the start. It’s realistic, perhaps, that monumental change cannot be made in 90 minutes of storytelling, but it makes the billing of the film as a coming-of-age movie hard to fully believe. Morris is the right age to “come of age,” but it’s hard to tell if he really does. Steeped with loneliness and pulsating with heart and hip hop, “Morris From America,” despite its shortcomings, is a beautiful testament to the heartbreaking weight of adolescence.

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SACUA member John Lehman at the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs meeting at the Fleming Building Monday.

SACUA hears communication concerns from UM-Flint Representatives discuss need for faculty voice on campus, ask for action from Ann Arbor body TIM COHN & ANDREW HIYAMA Daily Staff Reporters

The University of Michigan’s Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs convened Monday to discuss a lack of faculty engagement at the University of Michigan-Flint, and hear from UM-Flint faculty. Jerry Sanders, UM-Flint associate professor of biology, said due to the lack of a faculty governance body, issues related to academics are often deferred

to administrators. “Unfortunately, for many years, support for faculty governance was very limited,” Sanders. “This has led to a culture where the benefits of faculty governance are not well known, and it is not practiced.” Sanders noted there was once a faculty senate at UM-Flint, but it was disbanded several years ago. The absence of a governing body, he said, has resulted in power struggles between department heads, deans and faculty members,

as well as a lack of professor involvement in policymaking on campus. Quamrul Mazumder, UM-Flint associate professor of mechanical engineering, told the body that administrators often dismiss faculty concerns as non-grievable offenses. “The divisive culture of powerlessness has led to widespread faculty disengagement,” Mazumder said. The representatives from UM-Flint, after addressing

the problems on their campus, offered up several potential remedies to the committee. Sarah Lippert, an associate professor of art history at UM-Flint, said the current UM-Flint Campus Chancellor, Susan Borrego, and Provost Douglas Knerr have been far more cooperative than their predecessors on the issue of faculty governance and input. “For the first time that many folks on campus can remember, we have a provost and a chancellor that are willing to

work with us,” Lippert said. Lippert asked for faculty from the University’s Ann Arbor and Flint campuses open a dialogue with the provost and chancellor at UM-Flint on the best way to handle faculty grievances and manage disputes between faculty, department chairs and deans. In response, SACUA member John Lehman, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University’s Ann Arbor campus, suggested that UM-Flint faculty come together

to create a cross-campus review of grievance reports and consensus across colleges on the best ways to handle faculty issues. SACUA Chair William Schultz, professor of mechanical engineering at the University’s Ann Arbor campus, ended the meeting by saying the committee would review the concerns of the UM-Flint faculty and reach a decision in the coming weeks.

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‘Virginia Woolf’ a timeless classic Youthful film based on play rang in the “New Hollywood” movement By DANIEL HENSEL Daily Arts Writer

In “From the Vault,”Daily Arts takes a new look at old films. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” was inevitable. The play on which the film is based, written by the young playwright Edward Albee, a frequent observer of modern life, had won the Tony for Best Play three years before. Its two leading actors, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (both in “Cleopatra,” which was, at that date, the most expensive film ever), were frequently at the center of a media circus that followed their storied romance. And the film’s director, Mike Nichols, had just won two Tonys for directing back-to-back, and won a Grammy a few years before for his riotously funny comedy album with partner Elaine May. 1966, the film’s year of release, also proved to be a bountiful year for modern art, an exercise in questioning and re-evaluating the subjects and styles of our artistic creations. It was the year of “Revolver” and “Pet Sounds.” Pop art masters Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol were at the top of their game and the Whitney Museum, a modernist mecca, opened in New York City. The building was designed by Marcel Breuer, a luminary figure in modern architecture who had developed an expertise in strange forms and materials before many of his contemporaries had even begun to dabble. Truman Capote released “In Cold Blood,” perhaps the Southern Gothic literature legend’s most famous work, which practically created the True Crime genre.

The cups of the collective arts were overflowing, except for film. By contrast, studios were desperately clutching onto the big movie model, continuing to rely on the old model of epicscale musicals and war films. But as the baby boom generation came of age in the mid-1960s and their taste began to dictate the future of art, film further declined. Studio heads began taking risks on unproven young directors: Scorsese and Allen, Spielberg and Friedkin. The first of these directors was Mike Nichols, who in the summer of 1966 released his debut film, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” After a party of academics and their partners in a quiet college town, one such couple, Martha and George (Taylor and Burton), invites a younger couple, Nick (George Segal, “A Touch of Class”) and Honey (Sandy Dennis, “The Outof-Towners”), to their house in the wee hours of the morning. Unbeknownst to the young couple, George and Martha’s marriage brings volatility to the extreme, with each hurtling abuse towards the other in an epic power struggle that erupts in front of their guests. George is plagued with feelings of insecurity, which Martha uses like a twisting knife in his back. George fights back, sometimes with success, sometimes with utter embarrassment. Rinse and repeat. Taylor and Burton achieve the impossible by simultaneously slipping into their respective roles with an ease unmatched in film history while still maintaining their reputation as two of the greatest actors of their generation, if not all time. It takes talent to switch from grand-scale epics, in which the camera’s bravura can replace any acting deficiencies with elegant screen presence, to an intimate (and hardly flattering) character study. Yet Taylor and Burton

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1966 was a year of new, revolutionary modern art. That focus on the immature “grown-ups” in the room, and their pernicious influence on the people around them, is precisely what defines “Woolf” as the advent of New Hollywood. Young directors were dissecting cultural norms — including the idea that married people always love each other — which provided the foundation for the world in which they grew up. I presume nothing about the marital ties between the parents of Mike Nichols or Edward Albee, but “Woolf,” despite the extremity to which its characters take their troubles, is more truth than exaggeration. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is as much a product of its time — the film brims with youthful doubt over its married protagonists — as it is timeless. Despite the film’s black and white cinematography and character close-ups that scream “Old Hollywood,” it could be released today and still be just as affecting.

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DuVernay’s ‘Sugar’ a cinematic TV debut By NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT For the Daily

“Queen Sugar” understands that there’s just something about Louisiana. It might be the lush bayou landscape, or the brightly B colored buildings populat- Queen ing the French Sugar Quarter, or even the vast Series Premiere expanse of (2 episodes green farm- reviewed) land, but not Tuesdays since “Treme” at 8 p.m. or “True OWN Detective’s” first season has a series utilized the unique topography of this state so gorgeously. This isn’t to say, as they often do, that “Louisiana is its own character” in “Queen Sugar,” but rather that it provides a visual foundation for a show that is decidedly, remarkably visual. Based on Natalie Baszile’s novel of the same name and premiering two episodes over the course of two days, “Queen Sugar” is of the classic “Six Feet Under” plot variety: the three Bordelon siblings must return to manage their childhood home, a plantation in Louisiana, after their father passes away. The series arrives with clear prestige ambitions and star power: it was created and developed by the famously Oscar-nomination-snubbed Ava DuVernay (“Selma”) and produced by Oprah Winfrey. It airs on Oprah’s eponymous network. Laudably, the adaptation will also feature an all-female directorial team for its 13-episode first season. But, above all else, DuVernay proves to be “Queen Sugar” ’s real star. DuVernay, who wrote and directed the pilot, possesses

an incredible eye for shot composition; she understands how breathtaking the natural background and light of her setting is, and doesn’t force the issue when she doesn’t have to (looking at you, “Mr. Robot”). It’s also simply a clinic in shooting, framing and lighting Black actors: the first shot of the series opens on Nova’s (Rutina Wesley, “True Blood”) dreadlocked hair, then takes its time photographing her body as she wakes up in the just-barelythere light of New Orleans at dawn. It’s a gorgeous and powerful opening statement for a series that operates primarily in the spaces between lines of dialogue, in those moments when both nothing and everything is said all at once. There are, unfortunately, some missteps here and there. The writing does not often live up to the direction, with some generously served melodramatic clichés; a clumsily staged scene at a basketball game in the pilot doesn’t hit quite as hard as it should have, and there are an unfortunate number of distracting musical cues. For a show seemingly invested in silence and visual storytelling, the errant, “Friday Night Lights”-esque twang of a guitar or a poorly judged soundtrack choice undermines the potential raw power of a scene’s intent. The show’s three principals, however, are considerably topnotch. Wesley shows off her formidable chops as Nova, the ostensibly strong sibling with a few secrets that might just ruin her projected emotional fortitude. Dawn-Lyen Gardner’s (“Heroes”) Charley is the family’s black sheep, the wealthy, successful wife of a Los Angeles basketball star who also hasn’t visited her family in years. Charley’s plot details

are the most melodramatic, but her story contains snippets of interesting and potentially fascinating ideas: specifically, at the story’s beginning, her conversation with some other players’ wives about whether they should star in a “Real Housewives”-type reality series or not portends some thematic promise. Kofi Siriboe (“Awkward”) stars as Ralph Angel, a name that couldn’t be better. His understated performance of a character that, in another creator’s hands, would have been destined to become a trope, is quietly heartbreaking. DuVernay, as mentioned before, finds interesting and exciting ways of shooting her three leads, an impressive technical achievement that should be noticed. And, of course, there’s an adorable toddler, which is a net positive for any show.

There’s just something about Louisiana. “Queen Sugar” will most often be compared to other family dramas like “Parenthood” or “Friday Night Lights,” but its unique vision and scope will hopefully coax it out from under their towering shadows. “FNL,” too, used its camera in interesting, if sometimes jarring, ways, but “Queen Sugar” ’s cinematography is currently the most impressive thing about it. Underwhelming writing aside, its merits are too abundant to ignore completely. “Queen Sugar” shows great potential to mature into something refreshing, something cinematic — something great.

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Speight secure at quarterback Once chewed out on HBO, signal caller has built rapport with Harbaugh By MAX BULTMAN Managing Sports Editor

Who knows how many people saw it? Those with an HBO subscription, at least. In a 2015 episode of HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” then-newly hired Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh hollered at a quarterback, whose number was blurred out, “I’m just telling you the right way to do it. If you wanna look at me, like, with that look, go f---ing somewhere else.” The quarterback towered over Harbaugh, making it logical to conclude it was 6-foot6 Wilton Speight. Monday, Speight confirmed he was the blurred quarterback in the video, and assured reporters he and his coach are on much firmer ground now. “Obviously it’s come a long way since that HBO special, telling me to, I think it was transfer somewhere else or go somewhere else,” Speight said. “All my buddies joked, they said, ‘Yeah, they blurred out the number, but you’re the only 8-foot quarterback in the country.’ So it was easily identifiable as me.” And according to Speight, he wasn’t the only one getting that treatment. “He was kind of taking shots at everybody, just trying to get all the softer guys out, because he was new and he needed to come in and make a statement,” Speight said. “Obviously I didn’t like hearing it or having it on HBO for the whole country to see.” Now, of course, Speight hasn’t

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Redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight has become the leader of Michigan’s offense, earning Jim Harbaugh’s trust since the two got off to a rocky start.

given Harbaugh much reason to curse. After starting the 2016 season with an interception against Hawaii, the redshirt sophomore has completed 35 of his last 49 passes, throwing seven touchdowns with no more interceptions. He was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week on Monday, after a 312-yard, fourtouchdown showing against Central Florida, and he hasn’t showed signs of slowing down. It’s a far cry from where he was at the time of the HBO special. “That whole spring was rough,” Speight said. “I had torn my groin. Wasn’t really able to perform like I wanted to. But still practiced every practice, and came out really

low on the depth chart. There was some hard self-evaluation after that spring with talking to Coach Fisch as well, and Coach Harbaugh, and they just said, ‘Hey, if you want this, you’ve just gotta work a little bit harder.’ And that’s what I did.” At the time, Speight said he probably needed to be coached hard like that. Coming off a redshirt season in which he didn’t need to know the game plan, Speight admits his maturity and preparation weren’t where they needed to be. To some degree, he acknowledged, he was checked out. “(Harbaugh’s) just trying to wake you up and get your attention, and sometimes the

best way to do that is verbally and very loud,” Speight said. “It worked for me. Obviously it’s worked for a lot of players on the team.” That version of Harbaugh is in stark contrast with the one who Speight said laughed and told him to brush off that earlyseason interception. By now, it seems, Harbaugh has cooled from the hard coaching. Speight said Monday that Harbaugh knows better than to chew out his quarterback mid-game. And the redshirt sophomore shares that approach in the huddle. “I kind of like to read each situation separately,” Speight said. “If I need to be vocal, I will, but I truthfully like to

just be kind of calm. I think there was a couple times where I would be laughing during a play call or something this past Saturday, and that’s just kind of how I like to live every day. Not lackadaisical, but just chill, and go with the flow. “There was one UCF player who was trying to talk smack at me, and I just started dying laughing, because we heard him from the huddle. And there were other times that we’d be up on the line of scrimmage and I’d think something was funny.” If it seems strange Speight laughs off trash talk, remember that all of HBO has seen him chewed out by his own coach on national TV. Clearly, he came out of that just fine.

Harbaugh: Don’t listen to Freddy P. Soft By JACOB GASE Daily Sports Editor

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh has brought a lot of friendly faces with him from his past coaching stops, including offensive coordinator Tim Drevno and former defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin. He also apparently brought along one not-so-friendly face: a 4-inch tall man named Freddy P. Soft. Allegedly, while wearing “a cape and a hat with a plume in it,” Freddy stands on players’ shoulders and speaks directly into their ears, advising them to relax, take reps off and not put in full effort. According to redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight, the coaches are well aware when Freddy makes appearances in practice — especially during fall camp, when Drevno will literally yell at his own shoulder to tell Freddy to go away. This imaginary and unusual figure may sound like nothing more than a humorous motivational tool, but he might be the Wolverines’ worst enemy after two games this season. Fresh off wins over Hawaii and Central Florida by a combined score of 114-17, Michigan sits at No. 4 in the rankings and has barely been tested. But even with the dominance on the scoreboard, Harbaugh refuses to allow his team to be complacent, and he’s happy to see that the Wolverines still have plenty of room to improve. “I’m very excited, as a coach, that when you win a game 51-14 and then you still have things to go in and coach and feel like you can improve your play on,” Harbaugh said. “Probably no better feeling as a coach than to start the week that way. It makes me very optimistic

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Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh tries to prevent his team from getting complacent by using the personification “Freddy P. Soft” as motivation.

that there’s ways that we can improve, there’s things that we can fix. I’m very confident with the coaches and players that we have that we’ll do that.” Michigan was never in any real trouble in the win over the Knights on Saturday, but a few cracks in the armor did emerge. Thanks to a few quarterback scrambles and an 87-yard touchdown run, UCF finished the game with an eye-popping 275 rushing yards against the Wolverines, a number that certainly won’t cut it against more talented opponents. Michigan’s defensive line feels the problem is fixable, though, especially given that it was just

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a few big plays that inflated the Knights’ numbers. “I think it’s just (a matter of) all of us working together on the D-line,” said fifth-year senior defensive lineman Matt Godin. “A lot of times, our rush lanes get a little hectic. Different guys doing different moves, one guy goes inside, one guy goes outside. I think if we just get the communication better in the coming weeks, we’ll definitely improve.” Redshirt sophomore defensive end Chase Winovich, a player who appears to play every down at a hundred miles an hour, agreed with that sentiment. When defensive players are making full-speed

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decisions, he said, sometimes all a ball carrier needs is a few feet of space to get loose. The Wolverines experienced similar communication issues on the other side of the ball, where some well-timed UCF blitzes and a stacked run defense held Michigan running backs to just 2.9 yards per carry. Harbaugh said Michigan’s offensive linemen occasionally struggled to communicate, slide their feet and have their eyes in the right place, but all are fixable issues that will be points of emphasis going forward. Even as the Wolverines struggled with the running game, though, Harbaugh noted

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that they were able to take advantage of opportunities in the play-action passing game, with Speight finding receivers in single coverage and throwing for 312 yards. Michigan’s few flaws haven’t come back to hurt it so far, and there’s plenty of time to figure them out — as long as the Wolverines continue to put in the work and shake off Freddy P. Soft, that is. “We’re gonna embrace the adversity that comes with this game, and we’re gonna address it,” Winovich said. “And if it comes in the form of Freddy P. Soft, we’re gonna try our best to spell him.”

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System change lifts Michigan to win Ryan’s adjustment powers Wolverines to four second-half goals at home By BETELHEM ASHAME Daily Sports Writer

At first, it seemed to be inconsequential. It was about the 55th minute in a scoreless affair when UC Riverside committed a foul in its attacking third, giving a free kick to the Michigan women’s soccer team. So far from the goal, nothing usually comes from these types of plays. Teams typically send the ball forward and hope someone finds a way to

maintain possession. The Wolverines did just that, kicking the ball up the field toward a sea of jerseys. But something else happened prior to that free kick, something that might have been easily missed upon first glance. “Everybody up, in our half!” The voice belonged to Michigan coach Greg Ryan. Standing at the edge of his technical area, Ryan began yelling at his players to remind them of their halftime discussion. The Wolverines followed his direction almost immediately, positioning themselves further up the field and embracing an uptempo style of play. The shift worked wonders for Michigan, which scored four goals in

the second half to earn a 4-0 victory. The first half hadn’t gone the Wolverines’ way, as they struggled to hold onto the ball at the back and create meaningful scoring chances at the front. After the game, Ryan admitted the Highlanders came out with a system Michigan hadn’t expected to see, and consequently struggled to handle. “They played a 4-4-2, and so they outnumbered us in midfield in the first half because we only had three in there, and they had four,” Ryan said. “So by playing five at the back (in the second half ), we were able to deal with their two forwards. “We had three against the two, two against two (on the outside), two against two in the middle and three against four (at the top), so it’s a lot of pressure for them to deal with.” Ten minutes into the second half, the Wolverines still hadn’t fully implemented their revised game plan, so when the stoppage of play gave Ryan an opportunity to make in-game adjustments, the normally softspoken coach made sure his voice was heard. “When we heard (Ryan) start yelling at us, we’re just like, ‘Next five, next five,’ and took it five minutes at a time and went hard,” said sophomore midfielder Abby Kastroll. Pushing numbers forward into the attack and pressing higher up the pitch, Michigan dramatically shifted the run of play in its favor. Like a light switch, Ryan’s call for renewed emphasis on offense electrified the Wolverines, who

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Sophomore midfielder Reilly Martin’s goal opened the floodgates for Michigan after a key halftime adjustment.

responded with a level of energy and intensity that UC Riverside couldn’t restrain. Just three minutes later, Michigan found the back of the net. Sprinting into space out wide on the right side of the field, Kastroll beat her defender to the ball and sent a low cross across the mouth of the goal that sat well

“Let’s just get forward. Let’s get after these guys.”

for sophomore forward Reilly Martin, who made a smart run toward the far post. After sliding the ball through the legs of Highlander goalkeeper Alanna Guzman, Martin gave the Wolverines their gamewinner. And after tasting a goal, Michigan wanted more. The Wolverines kept their feet on the gas and kept the pressure on UC Riverside, which didn’t have an answer for Michigan’s revitalized offense. The Wolverines added three more goals to their tally in the

final 10 minutes to put the game completely out of reach. Reflecting on his message to the team in that pivotal moment in the 55th minute, Ryan put it candidly. “‘Look, we’re changing the way we’re playing,’” he said of that moment. “That was probably a good moment for us, recognizing, ‘Let’s just get forward. Let’s get after these guys.’” Five words out of Ryan’s mouth was all it took for Michigan to completely change the outcome of the game.