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President-elect outlined few specific policies on college debt, access during campaign CAITLIN REEDY Daily Staff Reporter
President-elect Donald Trump’s unexpected victory Tuesday left some wondering how he will address a variety of policy issues — as Trump’s campaign was frequently criticized for a lack
of detail on his ideas — including higher education. On the University of Michigan’s campus, many students said they were concerned in particular about student debt and dwindling government funding for public colleges. Millennial beliefs most frequently align with the
Democratic Party, and according to CNN, with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. This trend also reflected beliefs of the student population at the University — in the most recent polling conducted by the Michigan Daily, 76 percent of respondents said they planned to
vote for Clinton. During her campaign, Clinton made a point to emphasize issues that would help her secure the youth vote, including detailed proposals to address rising student debt and increase access to higher education as a whole. In comparison, Trump See TRUMP, Page 3A
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Many staffers from the Ginsberg Center, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center and the Office of Student Life joined graduate students to discuss responses to the presidential election results Thursday afternoon. The discussion, labeled the “Post-Election Dialogue: Impact, Perspective-taking and Moving Forward,” took place at the Michigan League ballroom as part of the 10th annual Professional Development Conference. Though the general conference — an in-house
professional development opportunity for Student Life staff — required a fee and registration in advance, the election response portion, facilitated by the Ginsberg Center and Counseling and Psychological Services, was free and open to all students, faculty and staff. Allie Harte, organizational development and talent management specialist at Student Life Human Resources, said the election dialogue portion was added to the event prior to Election Day, but received more attention following an email from President Mark Schlissel on Thursday regarding election See GINSBERG, Page 3A
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Organizers had to add extra chairs to the Pond Room in the Michigan Union Thursday to accommodate an audience of about 40 students, veterans and other Ann Arbor community members for the Women in the Military Panel. The seven panelists were all female veterans and students at the University of Michigan or Eastern Michigan University, and spoke as part of the University’s Veterans Week, which honors military service leading up to Veteran’s Day Friday. The panel was facilitated by Melissa Spaulding, a counselor with VetSuccess on campus, a program that helps veterans transition to college life. She asked panelists to share the ways they confronted stereotypes in their experiences both in the military and in life after their service. Many panelists cited instances in which they were asked if they’d served even while attending veterans events. Others described times during their military service in which men believed they couldn’t perform tasks at the same level as men. LSA sophomore Cassaundra Peterson, a panelist who served in the U.S. Air Force, outlined her experiences performing maintenance
KATHERINE CURRAN Daily Staff Reporter
University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel is often the most visible decision-maker on campus, but many students are unaware of the extent to which the school is controlled by a governing body called the Board of Regents. Over the past few years, the Board of Regents has faced criticism for its lack of transparency. In interviews, some students expressed confusion about Regents and how they function institutionally within the framework of the University, as well as continued concerns with the transparency between students and regents. “I always knew they were the bosses of the president, and thinking about it, yeah, we probably should know,” said LSA sophomore Kate Roush. “But I have never been in an institution where there has been transparency about the existing ‘board.’ ” Similarly, LSA sophomore Joseph Cohen said though he has been on campus for two years, he See REGENTS, Page 3A
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tasks, and said men often offered to carry her tool box because they assumed she wasn’t capable. “There was a brief time where people assumed I didn’t know my job or I couldn’t do my job as well as someone else, despite having the roles that I had taken on or the things I had volunteered for,” she said. “I remember thinking ‘OK, I have two choices: I’m
everything they want me to be and say that I am or I put my nose to the ground and I grind it out.’ ” She said despite these prejudices, she was able to prove that she was competent and change the viewpoints of those around her. “It was a good lesson for me, and at the time I didn’t know I was learning it,” Peterson said. “But those kind of stereotypes,
and that viewpoint, it is what you make of it, you can find positives, spin it, and you can change people’s minds. It’s not something that I feel like you have to give in to.” Another panelist, LSA senior Riva Szostkowski, who served in the U.S. Air Force, said one supervisor told her to “grow a thicker skin” regarding the discussion of See MILITARY, Page 3A
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Female veterans and students at the University of Michigan or Eastern Michigan University speak about gender stereotypes for a panel as a part of the University’s Veterans Week in the Michigan Union Thursday.
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Executive director of Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative gives talk JENNIFER MEER Daily Staff Reporter
Namira Islam, a University of Michigan alum and co-founder and executive director of the Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative, a group devoted to ending racist incidents against minorities, advised approximately 30 students to be allies to one another and emphasized education Thursday night during a talk entitled “Racial Roots.” The event was sponsored by the University’s Muslim Student Association to educate students on the history of systemic racism in the United States. In her talk, Islam encouraged attendees to take action in their own communities. “The importance of education and unlearning some of what we have been taught and re-learning and then using that education to act is just crucial,” she said. In addition to discussing racism, Islam said she hoped the talk would provide a safe space for students to ask questions and share their feelings. She See RACISM, Page 3A
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WHAT: In a seminar featuring Ruth Bordin Collegiate Prof. Mary Kelley, panels will discuss reading and writing in 19thcentury United States, as well as race, religion and gender. WHO: Department of American Culture WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Tisch Hall, Room 1014
WHAT: Edward R. Lyman, University of Delware professor of physics and astronomy, will discuss the consequences of altering the lipid composition of cell membranes in humans. WHO: LSA Biophysics WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Chemistry & Willard H. Dow Laboratory, Room 1300
WHAT: Ross military veterans will lead TED-talk style speeches discussing their time in the service and how this connects to being students in business school. WHO: Veteran and Military Services WHEN: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Ross School of Business, Ross Coloquium
WHAT: Artist Khaled alSaa’i will lead a hands-on demonstration and discuss how he uses calligraphy as expresssive language. WHO: University of Michigan Museum of Art WHEN: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. WHERE: University of Michigan Museum of Art
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About 40 student and faculty veterans gathered Thursday night near the f lagpole in the Diag with cake and camaraderie to ring in the 241st birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps. Fifteen attendees wore only their boots and underwear — referred to as “silkies” by attendees — as part of the Veterans Week tradition. The cake was cut with a traditional non-commission officer sword that students received approval from the Division of Public Safety and Security to have on campus, according to lecturer Eric Fretz, a University of Michigan alum. The ceremony was observed by Marines who were no longer on active or on reserve duty, with the goal of showing
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“This kind of camaraderie... it brings us together at the end of the day.” youngest Marine present. Business senior Jonathan Chen, president of the Student Veterans Association, said he organized the event for the first time three years ago
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and has been coordinating it ever since. Chen said it felt particularly meaningful to be surrounded by his peers because this will be his last year participating in the event. “I think the biggest thing is … nobody’s going to do it but us,” Chen said. “This kind of camaraderie and revelry and us being kind of stupid as well — it brings us together in the end of the day. In terms of social identities, this is our culture, this is what we’re used to.” Art & Design senior Julian Rebel, who was given the first piece of cake as the oldest veteran at the ceremony for the second year in a row, said he feels grateful for the community they have on campus. “I’m glad we practice this tradition on this campus, not just because of the large amount of veterans that we have here, but because it’s something that’s really sentimental to each and every one of us,” Rebel said. “We’re very fortunate to be in this town where they are very receptive of veterans in general.”
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TRUMP From Page 1A never released a developed plan or position on student debt. Trump’s interviews and position statements during the campaign had few comments pertaining to student debt other than stating it is a problem. Student debt in particular is currently a major concern for college students. More than 40 percent of Americans who have borrowed from the government’s main student loan program either aren’t making payments or are behind, according to a quarterly report from the Department of Education. These loans total more than $200 billion spread out among 22 million Americans, and those numbers are on the rise. That number does not encapsulate private loan debt. LSA sophomore Jessica Ankley is worried about both the current levels of student debt and the prospect of an exponential growth in tuition costs. “As someone who is trying to avoid more debt, it’s sad,” Ankley said. “I feel like it digs us deeper
REGENTS From Page 1A does not know much about the board, who they are or what they do. “I think there might be eight members on the board,” Cohen said. “I’m pretty sure it’s a committee of influential alumni who make decisions with Schlissel.” The board’s lack of visibility may stem from the president’s more visible position in times of crisis. Schlissel is often the first to respond to student concerns, holds monthly fireside chats with 30 students, addresses the students via email about pressing University matters and most recently spoke at a protest and vigil Wednesday night in response to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. The board meets only once a month to discuss and vote on University matters. Students can attend meetings by sitting in the audience, but the section is physically separated from the board by a media table. Though some regents host office hours and work with Central Student Government on student outreach, the governing body does not require them to do so. Created in 1837, the board consists of eight regents in total, two of whom are elected to an eight-year term every two years. The University president serves as ex officio on the board, meaning he is a part of the body without being a regent. Regents serve without compensation. When the board votes on important decisions at meetings, the president often sends out a mass email to the University. One example is the recent appointment of Kelli Trosvig, the University’s first vice president for information technology and chief information officer. In an October email to the University, Schlissel explained that the board approved this new appointment and described Trosvig’s role. LSA junior Alex Contis, a CSG representative, said the president and various vice presidents’ roles are often overemphasized and dilute the significance of the board. “When students think of the University, they think of the president and vice president as executing a lot of the decisions just because those are the most public figures,” Contis said. “I honestly don’t think that many students at this school can name who’s on the Board of Regents.” CSG President David Schafer and Vice President Micah Griggs, LSA seniors, proposed placing a non-voting student on the University’s board to open communication and provide increased transparency between students and the administration during their campaign last winter. The position, however, has not yet been created, and is of dubious legality — though all Michigan citizens can technically run, that would exclude out-of-state students, thereby not providing equal opportunity for all students, according to attorney and current regent Mike Behm (D). However, the board reinstated a bylaw to allow for more student input in
into this hole of student debt and being trapped within the fact that education is already so expensive.” Engineering sophomore Morgan Meade wrote in an e-mail interview that one of the defining factors in whom she voted for in this election was which party would support her in pursuing her education. “Trumps platform on reducing student debt is incredibly vague as he claims that he will work with congress to make sure that universities make a “good faith effort” to reduce college costs and student debt in exchange for tax breaks,” Meade wrote in an email interview. “This platform seems dismissive of the subject since most colleges are not the holders of student debt … As a young voter, I definitely wish that I could have heard more about education from both parties.” Meade wrote that Trump’s lack of a plan is worrisome for future generations, given his influence as president. “This shows a lack of regard for the country after his presidency since college-age students will be entering the workforce after his
decision-making during its Sept. 14 meeting. The bylaw makes the vice president for student life a liason between students and the Board. Schafer said the low level of student interest in the board is due to students’ busy lives combined with the fact that the board is a primarily governing force and not always active on campus. “I think there’s a lot going on campus,” Schafer said. “I think students are specifically immersed in their student organizations and their academics and their day-to-day lives, and the Board of Regents is not always on campus, and I think that’s one of the reasons why it might be hard for students to really get to know them.” Contis noted that CSG’s efforts to create a new student seat on the board will continue.
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first term but he hasn’t considered the federal assistance that many students need to complete their education,” Meade wrote. “If the next generation of college students are trapped paying off their debts for many years after graduation as students are now, the income of these students that should be spent stimulating the market will end up back in the hands of banks.”
“Trump’s platform on reducing student debt is incredibly vague.” The Republican Party platform as a whole, which consists of more than 60 pages, has slightly more on the topic, dedicating two sections to college costs and general higher education. The platform suggests that the federal government abstain from involvement with student loans
GINSBERG From Page 1A response opportunities. Harte also noted conversations and sentiments surrounding the election results fit well in conjunction with this year’s conference theme of identity, wellness and work. “The outcome of our election has a lot of impact for people across many identities,” she said. “We know that there are people who are happy about the election and people who are not happy about the election. Identity is a part of that. We want to be able to address that, how people are feeling, how they are processing, give space for that and to be in community with each other.” Erin Byrnes, lead of Democratic Engagement and CommunityBased Work-Study at the Ginsberg Center, led the dialogue.
and instead shift the loans to the private sector. “In order to encourage new modes of higher education delivery to enter the market, accreditation should be decoupled from federal financing, and states should be empowered to allow a wide array of accreditation and credentialing bodies to operate,” the document reads. Cynthia Wilbanks, University vice president for government relations, said regardless of what legislative action is taken in regards to student debt, the University will continue its work in assisting students with financial aid and offering up their own experience throughout the legislative process. “There are high-level goals in terms of helping students afford a college education,” Wilbanks said. “They certainly are the right goals. The legislative process works in largely mysterious ways. Nonetheless, it does take time for ideas to get developed into legislative bills … but we will have time to look at the specifics, have a chance to react and provide our own experience as to what we have been able to do.”
In her opening remarks, Byrnes said she wanted to create a space for people to start a conversation in a supportive environment. “No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, even if you don’t really see yourself as a political person, these are some challenging times, again, regardless of your identity and how you see yourself,” she said. “I think there is much to be discussed right now, there are a lot of feelings and a lot of thoughts that we’re holding.” Attendees broke into seven groups of about seven people each to discuss prompts that were placed on the tables. Questions included: “Are there identities you hold that have been impacted this election cycle?” and “What are some productive strategies (approaches, phrases, questions) that can be used in challenging conversations?” Groups discussed and wrote down their opinions on the
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MILITARY From Page 1A sexual activity in the workplace, and another told her not to wear makeup to avoid the impression that she “was trying to sleep with everybody there.” “It’s very strange the way military men tend to treat you,” Szostkowski said. “They both want you to be like one of the guys, so they can discuss whatever they want to around you but at the same time reserve the right to hit on you whenever they choose.”
“Be prepared to prove yourself, more than the men will have to.” According to the Statistic Brain Research Institute, women tend to be underrepresented
potential impact of Presidentelect Donald Trump, as well as concerns and ideas that can be implemented moving forward. Staff members from one group emphasized community engagement in their notes, writing, “(We) need to talk together and understand although we cannot all get what we want, we can try to accommodate.” Members of this same group, who requested to remain anoymous, said they felt it was necessary to normalize supportive places, as well as find ways to stay physically safe and secure. Neeraja Aravamudan, the assistant director for engaged learning at the Ginsberg Center, said it is important for people to have a voice and feel comfortable expressing opinions especially with people in their lives who have different beliefs. “Personally, I see a lot of people struggling with a lot of
in the military, with only 14.6 percent filling active duty roles. Because of the relatively low numbers of enrolled women, Spaulding asked panelists what advice they would give to any female students in the audience considering joining the military. Rackham student Allison Tyler, a panelist who served in the U.S. Navy, said they would have to prove themselves to their superiors and peers. “Be prepared to prove yourself, more than the men will have to … People will tell you that you can’t, people will tell you that you’re not good enough, people will tell you that you should have done it faster because you should have proven yourself more,” she said. “The fact that you’re doing it is proof enough. Just be prepared for it and don’t quit. Don’t give in to the people who tell you that because you’re a woman, you cannot do it.” LSA junior Andie Bulbin, said she attended the panel because she wanted to further her understanding of veteran’s experiences.
emotion, struggling with how to talk to folks who differ so much from them in terms of what they believe and how to reach those who we might — whether it’s family or friends we might care about — feel we’re fundamentally different from, either in values or in ideology or actions, and how to continue to have a relationship while challenging someone.” She added she felt the election exposed many underlying nationwide issues. “I don’t think people feel comfortable returning to normal, how to move forward, how to figure out the strategies that allow us to feel like we have agency to change the future and to have an impact and to continue to process the emotion in order to move toward action,” she said. “I think that’s the big piece.”
that many students at this school can name who’s on the Board of Regents.”
“(The board’s) desire to further the student body impact in the regents’ decision and spreading the word is something (CSG) wants to do.” Carl Meyers, who ran for a position on the board this election cycle but was defeated by Weiser and Regent Denise Ilitch (D– Bingham Farms), advocated for creating a student advisory board. “I am going to have a student advisory board advising me on challenges and issues facing the University from the student perspective,” Meyers said. “I will hold office hours once a month in the student Union where students can come and talk.” Ilitch, won her second term Tuesady, also campaigned in part on the need for student input on University initiatives like the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion plan. “We definitely need our students involved actively and we should work in strong collaboration with them,” Ilitch said. “The more that we can learn about these issues the more we can be reactive to it and navigate a healthy conversation around these topics.” Even if students’ role in the board’s decision-making process were expanded, it is, however, not clear students would be interested in getting involved. Of the students interviewed by the Daily, many did not express an interest in creating a relationship with the board. LSA sophomore Hailey Kruger said she is very active in encouraging political participation among her classmates, but said she neither knew about the board nor was she concerned about her lack of knowledge. Business junior Kevin Gay did not express concern either. “I feel like I only hear about the regents when something bad happens,” Gay said. “I am not really concerned about them.”
RACISM From Page 1A referred to white supremacy as a system designed to prioritize and benefit one group over another, and said racism was engraved in the roots of the country. “Racism is not just about interpersonal discussions, it is about policies,” Islam said. “Racism is something that morphs and evolves over time.” Islam listed several ways for students to combat recent incidents on campus, such as anti-Black, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBTQ posters found on campus, including listening to and showing compassion for minority students. MSA President Farhan Ali, an LSA junior, said this was the main reason they invited Islam to speak. “We want to try to build relationships with other minority groups on campus,” Farhan said. “We want to try to educate members in MSA about racism. They share the same struggles we do.” LSA sophomore Hiba Asad, an MSA member who attended the event, said she felt empowered by Islam’s talk. “I feel like a lot of times we’re always told to stand up for different subcommunities within the overarching Muslim community, and even nonMuslims, groups that are marginalized in America,” Asad said. “I feel like it’s always nice to have tangible ways to go about that.” Throughout the talk, Islam stressed the importance of education and making a sustained effort to affect change for the betterment of race relations on campuses and in communities. With education, she noted, comes a compulsion to liberate and de-stigmatize other minority groups. Islam’s talk was coincidentally scheduled just days after President-elect Donald Trump won the general election. Several students in attendance mentioned how they felt a renewed sense of
fear on campus following the results — during his campaign, Trump made several negative comments regarding Muslim Americans that have sparked concern among members of the campus community. “It’s a hard time to be a minority and a person who is actively standing up for them,” Asad said. Islam concluded her speech by telling the crowd to “have heart” in the face of uncertain times ahead. “Just because society might marginalize these individuals doesn’t mean that we need to,” she said.
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am a political junkie. I live and social desirability backfires, and breathe for a constant stream she experiences the utter turmoil of news and punditry from of losing her artificially constructed a variety of network life full of fake programs, newspaper smiles, frappuccinos, articles and podcasts. I Instagram posts and even follow polling data totally fabricated and aggregate websites “happiness.” like an addicted sports When the episode gambler. Yet this ended, I was fairly Election Day, I decided certain the writers had to distance myself somehow recorded from every form of the anxious thoughts social media and piece in my mind and MICHAEL of news, turned on them into MORDARSKI transcribed Netflix and ended up a script. Recently, I understanding something more have come to understand that I about myself. On election night, have had a disturbing necessity detached from social media and for gratification through forms of blind to the results, I fully came social media and had constructed a to recognize a sad similarity that I false image of who I desired to be. share with our now President-elect The anxiety and stress I induced Donald Trump. on myself since arriving to college Not only do I live for politics, I pushed me to attempt to form a also live for social media. I almost false narrative that only I knew inherently have to come to crave was fake — and I thought it would the constant gratification that my somehow grant me “happiness.” I online presence guarantees me. had this belief that if I fit in this way, Within this university’s social dress this way, drink this much, setting, that necessity to be part that these artificially constructed of something — or to fit in — is a traits would form into an equation driving factor in my constant use of equaling happiness. social media and my pathetic desire Yet the turmoil of constantly to paint the picture of happiness to using separate forms of social others through the lifeless form of media to shape a “happy” presence the internet. within this hyper-connected world On election night, in order to is downright exhausting. Twitter is distract myself during the results, there to let people know what you’re I began watching the new season doing and what you’re thinking; of the Netflix psychological Facebook to make sure you don’t thriller “Black Mirror” — and miss out on parties or events; terrifyingly — the absence of any Instagram to plaster your life for form of social media that night was others to see as a fairy tale; and my accompanied by the first episode favorite, Snapchat, to remind others of this season dealing with social that you did, in fact, drink copious media gratification. amounts of alcohol and danced like I watched a woman living in a a moron at Rick’s last night because world in which social desirability you are fun! is rated on a numerical scale that More disturbing, my constant everyone can see. She strives to anxiety robbed me of time I spent reach the upper tiers of society by myself. I lost who the actual by appeasing other higher-rated “me” was to some extent. Any members of society through the moment alone was accompanied by most artificial and empty displays the rushing fear of missing out — a of human emotion. Human feeling that was immediately dulled interaction finally becomes and delayed by my use of social artificial, and people essentially only media. My outward personality of see what they want to see. Without being outgoing, funny and friendly giving away too much, her lust for shattered so easily from a mere
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esterday our country got the first glimpse of a Trump presidency. He spoke about infrastructure spending, a conservative court and the need to come together as a nation. He named his energy and environmental policy transition teams, including a longstanding climate change denier. We also saw the pain throughout campus and, on social media, of our generation. Many of us feel a deep, inescapable sense of loss. It’s not because our team (i.e., supporters of Clinton, progressives) lost just like the Clevland Indiands lost the World Series, as our new Regent Ron Weiser suggested yesterday at a Ford School of Public Policy panel yesterday. Part of this pain is due to a feeling of uncertainty. Like many of my classmates at the Ford School of Public Policy, I’ve wondered if the election is a referendum on public policy. After all, Trump’s team offered almost no policy papers, yet he commandingly won. Other students, in the social and environmental sciences, are asking similar questions. What we study is a reflection of who we are: our
hour of loneliness. I had created someone I was not. Sitting there alone in my apartment during election night, all of my thoughts I have had on my pathetic pursuit of happiness were suddenly paired with the idea of a President Trump. I identified with him. And I would like to thank him, because through him, I can see that he is the physical manifestation of vanity and constant imagebuilding. He is nothing. Yet he has constructed this idea around himself that he is the greatest, richest and happiest man alive. His outward appearance of dressing in a suit, attempting to look like he’s only 38 at the age of 70, plastering his name on everything he touches, having the “best” of everything and most importantly, using his celebrity and fame to make sure everyone sees how amazing his life is. His sense of self is so weak and fragile that he needs the constant gratification of millions of people to support his pathetic sense of ego. And that is so sad. He is obviously a horribly sad man and nothing — not even the presidency — will satisfy his bottomless hunger for social gratification. He is an endless cycle of attempting to fill a hole in his heart with everything that money can buy: fame, material goods, the Oval Office. To some very minor point, I can identify with that endless struggle to somehow “be content” or satisfied. Yet today I have distanced myself from my constant obsession and use of social media as a method of achieving “happiness.” I have found other things within my life that every once in while come together in certain ways to make me feel joyous. My highs get high and my lows get low. I feel human. Now, I look at a man we will call our president — a man who has literally everything in the world — and all I can see in him is utter depression, emptiness and sadness. Michael Mordarski can be reached at mmordars@umich.edu.
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t first I was confused. choice between a candidate So confused it made they despised, viewed as me want to go to sleep untrustworthy and who to and wake up in a world that them represented more of the made more sense. same, and a wild Then I was scared card who presented for a long time. an opportunity But after hours of for change. It is restless thought and absolutely essential a series of scattered to understand their conversations, I think point of view rather I understand a bit than run from them more what happened or call them names on Tuesday night, in order to ensure and why. So now, I’m that this never BRETT angry. happens again. GRAHAM Let’s start with In the Democratic the basics. It’s important to note nominee, from the very that not everybody who cast beginning, these voters saw an their ballots for Donald Trump embodiment of establishment did so because they like Donald politics that was not listening to Trump. Some do, and, in many them. Mitt Romney and George of those cases, the long string Bush’s GOP was the party of the of descriptors and indictments wealthy, of young professionals you’ve likely seen in a slew and small businessmen who of wordy, didactic Facebook shared some of their core values statuses about Trump’s but failed to bear the mantle of horribleness, is deserved. But, the working class. Meanwhile, in fact, when asked by the Pew President Barack Obama’s Research Center in late October, coalition was composed of young 51 percent of Trump supporters people, African Americans and responded that, more than Latinos. For all intents and anything else, they were voting purposes, the white workingagainst Hillary Clinton. class voter was forgotten and There were Trump voters left out. Then Donald Trump in all 50 states who cast their descended from an escalator ballots not because they were and gave them a voice. You may ignorant of the major flaws in find irony, as I do, in the fact their candidate or agreed with that a man who has spent his the terrible things he has said life ripping off contractors and and done. They voted in spite of litigating his way out of paying that, looking past the obvious workers is now their champion. and abundant negatives and But in Trump, they feel heard. seeing the potential for change. On Tuesday night, they made it They did what a lot of liberals clear that the Democratic Party and Bernie Sanders supporters cannot win by simply rebuilding did when they decided to “come the Obama coalition time and home” and support a Democratic again while losing touch with nominee with a history of the white working class. scandal and distrust of the media, So when I say that I’m angry, whose views differed from their I don’t mean that I blame Trump own. So thinking about Trump supporters, without discretion supporters as a horde of hateful, and across the board, for the uneducated white supremacists next four years. I disagree and xenophobes is harmful to profoundly with the choice these the conversation. Those people voters made, but I’m beginning exist (and thrive) in his camp and to understand more and more for that there is no excuse, but why they made it. they alone did not deliver him I cannot adequately express an electoral victory. Posting my anger, however, with the a Facebook status instructing Democratic Party. I am a anyone who voted for Trump registered Democrat, I have to unfriend you in an attempt campaigned and volunteered to retreat even further into for Democrats, and my room is your liberal bubble is harmful littered with T-shirts, stickers to the conversation. and posters in support of In Pennsylvania, Ohio, Democrats. But I will happily Wisconsin and Michigan, white join the millions of liberals working-class voters had the across the country who are
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their hopes — would begin to close. Many of us on campus have intimately heard, seen and felt this loss: of classmates of color trying to explain to younger siblings that the election isn’t a reflection of our country’s belief in them; of immigrants having lost a sense of home, now feeling unsafe and unwelcome; of daughters, classmates and friends seeing a leader of the free world who has repeatedly objectified, demeaned and assaulted women. How can we begin to move forward, then? It’s on all of us — young, old, progressive and conservative — to see those most affected through this. In my case, to assure every female classmate and friend that Trump does not reflect my gender values, and that I will do my best to stand up for them. To assure people of color that social justice will not become a “backburner” issue. To make every person feel welcome, valued and empowered, every day. As the election neared, I spent hours canvassing Ann Arbor to get out the vote. On Sunday night, a resident approached me as I was walking in between houses. She offered a story and a reminder, one that may help all of us. She pointed across the street, where neighboring houses each
Brett Graham can be reached at btgraham@umich.edu.
NOTABLE QUOTABLE I believe it is important for all of us, regardless of party and regardless of political preferences, to now come together, work together, to deal with the many challenges that we face. — President Barack Obama speaking to Americans at the White House on Thursday, after a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.
Recognizing our team values, background and aspirations. Acknowledging this uncertainty, however, does little to lessen the pain. What’s grinding away at many of us is a loss of hope that inequalities would decrease, and injustices would become less common. This loss is seemingly unavoidable, both general and intimate. Earlier this fall, I confided to a classmate in a policy course on values and ethics that I feel deeply uncomfortable with my own white male privilege. I benefit from things that I shouldn’t. Research shows I’m more likely to get a job because of my name. I’m less likely to be pulled over while driving. I get the benefit of the doubt — for example, when walking at night, returning a purchase or asking for feedback. And now, with an elitist white male in the White House who has repeatedly put down women, minorities, the disabled and the poor, this inequity, it seems, will become even more pervasive and damaging. What is most distressing is knowing this unfairness affects aspirations, dreams and ambition. After Obama’s first election, we celebrated that children of color now had a marker of what’s truly possible for them. It seemed that an “aspiration gap” — a gap that hinders the disadvantaged from pursuing
saying, in no uncertain terms, that our party failed us. No one could have seen this coming? If a political party cannot organize to defeat the least qualified and most disliked candidate in the history of presidential politics (not to mention that it cannot obtain a majority in either house of Congress), what purpose does that party serve me? One can speculate about what would have happened had Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden been the nominee, but Jan. 20 is not all that far away and we have bigger fish to fry, so hindsight can wait. Here I am, trying to understand what happened a little more today than I did yesterday, absolutely furious with my party and terrified what the next four years will hold. So let’s start with the basics. Liberals are no longer burdened with the defense of the Clintons or NAFTA or the emails or the neoliberalist policies of the 1990s. Finally. There is an enormous population of white workingclass voters who feel like they haven’t been heard, and it’s time to find a way to bring them into the fold, not because it’ll make a winning coalition, but because those people are hurting and it’s the right thing to do. There are at least two long years of being in the minority ahead, and names on Capitol Hill such as Sanders and Warren, Harris and Booker have work to do — filibusters to hold, aisles to reach across and moral high grounds to take. In the most immediate future, we have to make people in our lives who have been shaken to the core by this election feel less alone. Tell them that Trump voters aren’t all racists and bigots, and that the republic will stand, by sheer will if nothing else. Liberals and progressives are not all moving to Canada. We’re staying right here to make sure that this country does not lose the progress that has been made, drawing lines in the sand, saying that civil rights and human rights and health care and the environment and the safety of friends and neighbors are non-negotiable. Fired up, ready to go.
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AARON SANDEL | CONTACT AARON AT ASANDEL@UMICH.EDU had a sign: one for Trump, one for Clinton. The Trump supporter is a 90-year-old man living by himself, she told me. It was his second sign. Weeks earlier, the first was torn apart at night and left on his lawn. In response, his neighbor — the Clinton supporter — immediately cleaned up the mess and purchased a new Trump sign for him. She said the story was a reminder that Democrats and Republicans are on the same team, one that is greater than politics. Every four years, one party becomes the first string, the other the second string. This changes, in cycles, in response to events and in light of candidate popularity. Both, however, contribute to the team’s success. Both must support each other, she said. We’re all on the same team — the privileged and the vulnerable, the wealthy and the indigent, progressives and conservatives, Trump, Bernie and Clinton supporters. Acknowledging this, now, is painful. But if we keep this in mind when standing up for others and engaging with opposing viewpoints, perhaps, we’ll grow out of this challenging campaign and election. Anthony Cozart is a first-year graduate student in the Ford School .
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ALBUM REVIEW
Friday, November 11, 2016 — 5A
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Coogi up to my head like I’m Biggie Poppa.
I got the Keys
Alicia Keys goes personal and au naturale on ‘Here’ The singer-songwriter’s latest work dwells entirely in the present CARLY SNIDER
a friendly, radio-ready record. The issues tackled by Keys Alicia Keys is coming off of are vast — race relations, envia four-year hiatus from mak- ronmental issues, womanhood ing albums, but that doesn’t and class. Mirroring the range mean her career has been stag- of subject matter is Here’s musinant. Since Girl cal composition. on Fire, Keys has There are elebeen making bold ments of gospel statement after combined with Here bold statement. classic hip hop. Alicia Keys Most notably, she Soothing piano is has pioneered a paired with steady, RCA Records #NoMakeup movealmost combatment and called ive drumbeats. upon girls to revel Keys’s voice dancin the beauty of their own skin, es between aggressive, loving and has also taken on the role and playful. These multiplicities of coach on NBC’s “The Voice,” paint Keys as real and complex, advising aspiring musicians. as an emotional being rather Her newfound roles as mav- than a manufactured artist. erick and mentor shine through Stripping it down to just her in her latest work, Here. As the voice and a haunting guitar, “Kill title would suggest, the work Your Mama” is one of the album’s dwells entirely in the present — most raw moments. Keys minces it reminds listeners the necessity no words in telling listeners to of thinking deeply and acting respect and better treat the planaccordingly in this tumultuous et, though it’s not always clear if time in American history. she is speaking about the Earth Here opens with an interlude, or a human mother. She takes the warming listeners up to the enormous relationship between weight of the beautiful yet heavy the human race and the planet album. “The Beginning (Inter- and shrinks it down to the intilude)” flows seamlessly into “The mate space between mother and Gospel,” a track initially backed child. by sweeping piano and strings Family and relationships play that are easily swapped for a a large role in Here, especially snare and a grooving beat as the when considering the complicasong builds. Keys’s voice snarls tions of Keys’s relationship with and scratches as she lays down current husband Kasseem Dean lines depicting a family troubled (a.k.a. Swizz Beatz). On “Blended by poverty, crime and money. Family” she addresses the mergShe spits, “If you ain’t in a bat- ing of her life with that of Dean tle how you gon win the fight / and his family. “Work On It” Gotta speak the truth when I’m seems to address him directly, up in the booth.” Right off the lovingly crooning “Darling, so bat, Keys makes it known that many lies were spread about us Here is going to be more than just … That makes us build all the Daily Arts Writer
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trust.” The track is hypnotic, layering big, reverberating drums with repeated electronic elements all encased by Keys’s rolling vocals. “Girl Can’t Be Herself” is another shout-out to Keys’s personal life as well as her public activism. The track again plays with guitar and bouncing beats, making the tone optimistic despite its heavy societal implications. Its light nature implies that Keys has found freedom in her escape from beauty expectations. Even lines like “Maybe all the Maybelline is covering my self-esteem” exalt her choices rather than reel in what is expected of her.
Her newfound roles as maverick and mentor shine through. The album wraps with “Holy War,” a reminder of the importance of love and understanding despite all the trials and tribulations previously addressed. It would be impossible for one to put a label on exactly what Here is trying to convey or accomplish — from the less than successful interludes to tricky tracks like “Pawn It All,” there is always something new being presented. Just like its singer, the album is multifaceted, fresh and full on intrigue.
Discovering young adulthood in Coachella pits with the A$AP Mob A Daily Music Writer remembers when Rocky and Ferg broke out RACHEL KERR Daily Arts Writer
In this miniseries, Daily Music Writers reminisce on the best live show they ever saw. Harlem-bred, Houstoninfluenced A$AP Mob members A$AP Rocky and A$AP Ferg performed at Coachella for the first time in 2012 and 2014, respectively. Though separated by two years, their sets followed the releases of their debut, critically acclaimed projects (Live. Love. A$AP and Trap Lord, respectively) and marked the beginning of their reign as rap powerhouses. I was there for both of them. Can you remember a world with Rocky and no Ferg? I know, it’s hard for me, too. But back in 2011, that was a reality. I was a junior in high school when I heard “Purple Swag” off his lesser-known mixtape, Deep Purple, for the first time. I didn’t even really like rap music then, but when the heavily Clams Casino-produced Live. Love. A$AP dropped in late 2011, I began to look at the genre differently — as interesting, experimental, exciting and versatile.
Their sets at Coachella each marked the start of their reigns. I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard the opening three song sequence of “Palace”-“Peso”-“Bass” —
song; the extent of my musical tastes was whatever was playing on 98.7 AMP radio, combined with whatever songs my close friends forced me to listen to every once in a while. Most of my musical experience was focused on instrumental and classical music because I took piano lessons from when I was 8 years old up until eighth grade.
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I had a lot of pentup emotion and nothing to do with it. HOPELESS RECORDS
Which one of them is Yellow?
How falling out of love helped me to fall in love with Yellowcard and punk Before them, I’d only had a vague idea of how music could move people SAMANTHA LU For the Daily
My first time falling in love with an album coincided with my first time falling out of love
with a person, during my freshman year of high school. The relationship, in my freshman year of high school, was never clearly defined, and the end was even less so, which
meant I had a lot of pent-up emotion left over afterward and nothing to do with it. Up until that point, I’d never really listened to music, much less been emotionally impacted by a
Yellowcard’s When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes marked the beginning of my passion for all things punk rock. Before that album, I’d had only a vague idea of how music could move people. After months of repeated listening, I felt connected with the artist on a near spiritual level; I remember being amazed that something could strike such a chord within me. That album still brings back memories of my frozen hands clenched tightly around my
Macy Helm’s car, leaving Faith Lutheran High School’s parking lot, on a Friday afternoon. And it was with Macy Helm five months later that I saw Rocky’s Coachella Second Weekend performance. It was Day 2, a Saturday night, and in the last 24 hours, I’d successfully snuck alcohol onto the campgrounds, refused to call my mom and seen someone smoking out of a crack pipe. This must be what adulthood feels like!!! I thought, despite being only 16 years old — my persuasion powers continue to amaze both my parents and me. But that Saturday, we’d just left an overwhelmingly aggressive Radiohead set and found ourselves in Rocky’s crowd. As the rapper took the stage, a topless woman grabbed me and tried to get on my shoulders. I don’t think I’d ever felt more alive — terrified, but alive. I mark that memory as the moment I started really loving rap music; I date that day as the birth of my current musical tastes. I can’t even really tell you who came on stage that night (probably the whole A$AP crew) or what songs were performed, just that his set was ground zero for my current interests. By Friday of Coachella 2014’s Weekend Two, my affinity for rap music had further developed and A$AP Ferg’s debut mixtape-turned-album Trap Lord had already been out for over seven months. If you looked up “A$AP” on Spotify, Ferg popped up before Rocky. Despite this, the rapper was given a 3:40 set time, one unusually early for the sizable crowd he was likely to bring. At least that’s what my three friends
and I, who’d gone into the festival earlier than normal to see him, thought. We were correct in assuming the crowd would be huge. Huge and absolutely insane. I must say, I don’t think you can appreciate the art that is Trap Lord until you see your friend punching someone in the face as it’s being played live.
phone, earbuds plugged in tightly, marching doggedly back home from the bus stop after an exhausting day at school. I started listening to My Chemical Romance not long after I was first introduced to Yellowcard by one of my close friends, but in a twist of irony, I didn’t really get into them until right after the band broke up in March of 2012. Where Yellowcard was a tentative toe dipped into rock, MCR was a dive headfirst into the emo genre. The first song I heard by them was “Welcome To The Black Parade,” one of the most prominent tracks in My Chemical Romance’s entire discography. Even though it was six years old by the time I was in ninth grade, I’d never heard it before, and the immeasurable energy somehow folded within the five minutes and eleven seconds of the recording left me absolutely speechless. I didn’t think it was even remotely possible to memorize the lyrics to all 80-plus songs in MCR’s discography, but it happened all by itself. I love all four of their main albums, but their first album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, will always hold a place in my heart for the way it never fails
to invigorate me from head to toe. Nothing else I’ve heard so far can even begin to match Gerard Way’s raw, hoarsely passionate vocals, the haunting melodic lines and churning guitar of which Bullets is comprised. Even today, “Our Lady Of Sorrows” and “Demolition Lovers” remain some of my favorite songs in my musical collection.
We were correct in assuming the crowd would be huge and insane. The album is nothing if not aggressive and abrasive, and sometimes that fails to translate when just blaring through a pair of headphones. Of course, “Work REMIX” had been on loop in everyone’s headphones since its release. But lesser played tracks, like “Dump Dump,” with its “I fucked your bitch, n*gga / I fucked your bitch” hook, and “F**ck Out My Face,” which essentially just repeats its title for the majority of the track, were not as well-received out of context. The necessary context, if you’re wondering, is in the middle of a mosh pit, with Ferg inches away performing it. Also, there is literal video footage of my friends and me at this performance, recorded by a kid right behind me, unbeknownst to us until later. Feel free to look it up on Youtube, but I won’t tell you what I was wearing or what color my hair was at the time.
Music has become my conceptual home away from home. For me, punk rock was never about simply rebelling for the heck of it. Punk rock finds beauty in the unexpected, f lavored with a unique brand of musical f lair punctuated by aggressive musicality and heavy emotion. It has become my conceptual home away from home and transformed listening into an act of tangible comfort, a personal safe haven there for me whenever I might need it.
Arts
6A — Friday, November 11, 2016
REEL POLITICS
What ‘Barton Fink’ tells us about the 2016 election The classic film shows the divide between elites and “the common man” DANIEL HENSEL Daily Arts Writer
Seriously major spoiler alerts in this one. Tuesday’s election results were unnerving, terrifying and revealing. But they weren’t particularly shocking. Much of rural, white, working class America, just about half of the voting population, found inspiration in President-elect Donald Trump, a bombastic billionaire from the big city. His talk of closing borders and ending trade deals, preventing an onslaught of unwanted globalism, was acutely appealing to a wide segment of the population weary from structural job losses over the last decades. But the story of 2016 is not Trump’s grip on the rust belt, nor is it Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s declining appeal to her base. The most fundamental story from this tumultuous election will be the established media elite and its growing disconnect to the average people. In Joel and Ethan Coen’s brilliant 1991 film “Barton Fink,” the titular character, a successful New York playwright, moves to Los Angeles after securing a Hollywood screenwriting job. Barton made his name by writing a play that depicts the “common man” and he’s worried that the move to Hollywood will remove him from his subjects. He gets it wrong. After Barton checks into the Hotel Earle, a decrepit establishment with wallpaper that slides off to reveal slime-covered walls, he meets his neighbor, Charlie Meadows, by calling the front desk to complain about Meadows’s noise. Charlie, angered, knocks on Barton’s door and the two begin to talk. Charlie, an insurance salesman, appears delighted to learn that Barton is a writer of “the common man.” Barton’s fascination is “the life
of the mind,” he tells Charlie. “I could tell you some stories,” the jovial giant proclaims, before Barton interrupts him: “I’m sure you could. And that’s the point.” Silenced, Charlie remains close to Barton, but strange things start to happen. Barton develops writer’s block and can’t wrap his head around how to write a “wrestling picture.” He meets a famous novelist and falls for his assistant (and mistress), Audrey. After Audrey and Barton sleep together, he finds himself covered in her blood: she’s been murdered. Charlie, Barton discovers, is not a simple, common man. Known by the name of “Madman Mundt,” Charlie is a homicidal maniac who shoots and decapitates his victims. Charlie returns to the hotel as Barton is locked to his chair by police officers. The hotel hallway becomes engulfed in flames as Charlie pulls a shotgun on the officers and races down the hallway, screaming, “I’ll show you the life of the mind!” And just before Charlie tells Barton he paid Barton’s family a visit, he points the gun at the officers, says gleefully, “Heil Hitler,” and pulls the trigger.
Intellectuals will need to pay more attention to our forgotten states. This is all exaggeration. Only a small (but vocal) minority of Trump supporters is anti-Semitic or has a penchant for violence, and certainly few if any are serial killers. But Charlie’s vengeance toward Barton, an elitist who silences yet claims to speak for the common man, should not go
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unnoticed. There is strong disdain for the elite, those who have “made it,” who do not know the struggle of day labor, of losing their job to competition, of having limited skills beyond physical strength and patience, yet who feel free to tell the common man what is happening, what is true. “The economy is improving under the Obama administration,” the media tells the modern-day common man (an objectively true claim), but he doesn’t feel this improvement. Their lives are not markedly better. And their government doesn’t care. It’s no wonder Clinton won the vote of the college educated and of the young, who have grown up in and rightfully accepted a profoundly changing economy. But the older folks, from Wisconsin and Ohio and Pennsylvania and right here in Michigan, who are desperately clinging on to their livelihoods as their years slip by, have exercised their power. And, boy, do they have power. This is not to say that Trump is in the right, or that the “common” men and women crippled by economic anxiety have no faults of their own. Often, their reactions to immigrants, especially Latino and Muslim, are horrendously virulent and should be rejected on face. But this is a nation of coalitions — especially the Democratic Party, established by the New Deal as a melding of populism and elitism. That populism has been steadily leaving the party since the 1960s and it has all but vanished. Endless ink will be spent writing about the 2016 election, about how it broke every rule in the political theory book and yet confirmed what many social psychologists believed. But intellectuals and the media, in their ivory towers and glass-plated skyscrapers, will need to pay more attention to our forgotten states and people if America is to ever survive this catastrophe of an election.
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CLASSICAL MUSIC COLUMN
November 9, 2016 After the election, great art can still remind us of our humanity
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’m not really sure how to start. Today has been long and harrowing, and anything I am about to write feels like it can’t be more than additional white noise among the incessant static of our collective catatonia. Like many, I watched election returns DAYTON Tuesday HARE night as my unease slowly metamorphosed into a spellbinding horror. I am afraid. A dread which had been unknown to me has wrapped its chilling grip around my heart, and I have many fears for the future — when the jurors of history don their robes, when they set us upon the scales of worth, what will their discerning eyes perceive? What is the measure of a people? What is the weight of morality? When our children look back to find where things fell apart, upon whose countenance will their scrutinizing gaze settle? Will the scars be indelible? Will we, ultimately, be found wanting? I want to believe that America is fundamentally good at heart, but this morning, I was angry. I still am, but after half a day the numbness set in. I’m still afraid. But more than anything, I’m tired. I’m really tired, but I’m unable to sleep. It’s 7 a.m. on November 10, which means that this article is due in a little over 10 hours and I haven’t slept in 22. After everything, the globe still spins. And right now it’s my job to say something about classical music. It’s what’s expected of a classical music columnist, after all. So this isn’t about what just happened. This isn’t my “J’accuse.” It’s not about how we got here. We’re not really going to talk about this. We’re going to talk about music and poetry and art and meaning — but also this. Let me tell you a story. I worked from 11 to 5 today — with a half hour lunch break, which I used to sign a lease rather than to eat — and when I got off I walked across the way to the Diag, where there was a protest going on. I walked around the periphery, neither joining in nor really paying attention. I had headphones in (I was listening to the Benjamin Britten “War Requiem”) and was looking at the ground, where people had chalked messages of encouragement like “You Belong” or “Love Trumps Hate” or “This is Still Home,” or the more damning “We Let This Happen.” I felt like crying and did not. At around 6 p.m., I caught a bus to my apartment near North Campus, where I set down my bags and sat for a moment. I thought about eating dinner. Instead, I got up and went out the door, and I walked and walked for a few hours, with no particular destination in mind. It was cold and I forgot a jacket. I thought a lot about
what we, as artists, can do about the hatred in the world, and worried that perhaps the disease had already metastasized, that the sickness was fatal. When one wakes up to find that Hell is empty, and all the devils are here, what’s to be done? In terms of both music and words, I knew that I had to write — it wasn’t just an emotional necessity, it was a moral imperative. I recalled artists who had grappled with similar questions in the past, and by the time my wandering brought me to Literati I already knew exactly the poem I had to read. “ …Uncertain and afraid / As the clever hopes expire / Of a low dishonest decade / Waves of anger and fear / Circulate over the bright / And darkened lands of the earth, / Obsessing our private lives … Accurate scholarship can / Unearth the whole offence / From Luther until now / That has driven a culture mad, / Find what occurred at Linz, / What huge imago made / A psychopathic god: / I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn, / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return … ” Those lines come from W.H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” a title which references the German invasion of Poland, and thus the beginning of the bloodiest conflict humanity has ever known. It’s uncanny how apt the words feel still — he wrote it in the few days following the outbreak of the war in Europe, before most of the paroxysms of violence had shaken the continent, but he could see what was to come. While it was a far darker age than today’s epoch when Auden wrote it, there are certain similarities which bear consideration. When Auden sat down to pen his poem he saw a world which was red and bleeding, and he wept tears of ink, ink which formed itself into words and into thoughts. And the thoughts that came out were beautiful, and heartbreaking, and accusatory, and fearful, and angry, and optimistic and affirmational — and ultimately, more than anything else, they were deeply, emphatically human. And maybe that’s what art is for. Maybe it’s to remind us all of our own humanity, to hold a mirror before our face and say “See, this is what you are.” And sometimes what we see might be painful, and it might be ugly. We might find that we live in a “fun” house, and the twisted mirror shows us only the worst distortions of our character. But by contrast, sometimes what we see might be beautiful, and as artists part of our job is to make that beauty something which is attainable. Our job is to bring people together into the oneness of human existence. About a year ago, following the terror attacks in Paris, there was a quote by the great conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein which garnered a great deal of attention, and I feel that in some ways it is apt to mention it again now. “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely,
more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” Now, Bernstein was originally speaking a few days after the murder of President John F. Kennedy, but his advice is no less sage now than it was then. Music has the power to gather disparate groups together, to bridge ravines and to sway the hearts and minds of humankind. Composers have been doing this in little ways forever — there are, of course, the great examples of pacifist works of the 20th century, such as Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Dona Nobis Pacem,” but even earlier, people were doing this. Verdi’s magnificent “Requiem” was composed in memory of the great Italian nationalist poet and novelist Alessandro Manzoni, and to bring their young nation together in mourning. Chopin wrote an etude in solidarity with the Polish independence movement. Even Beethoven — deaf, angry, misanthropic, cynical Beethoven — strived in his music for peace between humankind, and for common brotherhood. Perhaps more famous than any other work in the cannon, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” from the 9th Symphony (now fittingly the anthem of the European Union) is a plea for unity and shared humanity. Schiller’s original poem takes on new significance through the music, and after living through the Napoleonic Wars and having his democratic hopes shattered with the failure of the French Revolution, Beethoven poured his soul and his very essence into this last symphony, a masterwork which is a breathing testament to the endurance of the human spirit, one which has resounded through centuries. And so, perhaps in times like these, when you start to wonder if the Bard was right, if life really is, after all, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing, the most we can do is to cherish our art and to cherise one another. In Auden’s words, “We must love one another or die.” And following his example, and that of countless others, we must lend our voice to the chorus of light, to sing more powerfully than the noise of hate and darkness. We have a voice, and that must be enough — the rest is silence. “All I have is a voice / To undo the folded lie, / The romantic lie in the brain / Of the sensual man-in-the-street … And no one exists alone; / Hunger allows no choice / To the citizen or the police; / We must love one another or die. “Defenceless under the night / Our world in stupor lies; / Yet, dotted everywhere, / Ironic points of light / Flash out wherever the Just / Exchange their messages: / May I, composed like them / Of Eros and of dust, / Beleaguered by the same / Negation and despair, / Show an affirming flame.” Hare is sitting in one of the dives on Fifty-second street. To buy him a drink, email haredayt@umich.edu.
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Wolverines set for road night game Behind Enemy Lines: Michigan makes first trip to Kinnick Stadium since 2013 to take on 5-4 Iowa
Coach Kirk Ferentz
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KELLY HALL
For the second time this season, the Michigan football team is headed on the road to play a game that was circled on most fans’ Michigan preseason at Iowa calendars. Matchup: And for the Michigan 9-0; second time, Iowa 5-4 the hype When: Saturday surrounding 8 P.M. the game has faded Where: Kinnick Stadium considerably. After Iowa TV/Radio: ABC raced to a 12-2 season in 2015, including an 8-0 Big Ten regular season record, a mid-November game at Kinnick Stadium seemed make-or-break in 2016. But while the Hawkeyes (3-3 Big Ten, 5-4 overall) are still a real threat, the attention that once might have been expected has dwindled. Iowa has already lost games to North Dakota State and Northwestern in addition to No. 7 Wisconsin and No. 10 Penn State. For Michigan, though, the stakes aren’t any lower. The third-ranked Wolverines (6-0, 9-0) have everything to lose when they take the field in primetime Saturday. “It makes you prepare that much harder because you know people are gunning for you,” said fifth-year senior defensive tackle Ryan Glasgow. “You’re going to get everyone’s best shot every week. And if you don’t prepare, you can easily slip up. Anyone in the Big Ten can beat you any given Saturday.” After blowing out Maryland, 59-3, last week, Michigan should be in for a more substantial challenge from the Hawkeyes. Senior quarterback C.J. Beathard is back
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Redshirt sophomore Jabrill Peppers again figures to have plenty of opportunities for Michigan against Iowa on Saturday.
from last year’s powerhouse, but he leads an offense that could struggle against the Wolverines’ vaunted defense. Beathard has completed nearly 60 percent of his passes for 1,584 yards and 13 touchdowns through nine games. That puts him on pace to match his 2015 total of 17 passing touchdowns, though he has already equaled his five interceptions from last year. With an offensive line that has given up 24 sacks so far this season, Beathard can expect steady pressure all game against one of the top pass rushes in the country. Rushing the ball, Akrum Wadley leads Iowa’s stable of backs and has been a threat both
rushing and receiving. He has 664 yards and eight touchdowns on the ground, and 220 yards and two scores through the air. The Wolverine defense won’t make it easy to keep up those numbers. Michigan is ranked 10th nationally in rush yards allowed per game (107.44), and it rarely allows ball carriers to score. The Wolverines are one of four teams tied for first in the country with three rush touchdowns allowed, and they boast the nation’s best pass defense, too. The result could be a mismatch when the Hawkeye offense is on the field. But it’s still a road night game, so Michigan is preparing for a slugfest.
“You know they’re going to give you all they’ve got.”
“(Iowa is a) very tough, physical team,” said redshirt sophomore linebacker Jabrill Peppers. “When you go up to Iowa City, you know they’re going to give you all they’ve got. So we’re preparing for a tough, physical game, and we expect nothing less.” With redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight and the Michigan offense rolling, it could be more than the Hawkeyes can handle. There is, however, one factor Michigan’s young players may not be prepared for. Kinnick’s visiting locker room is famously painted pink — a psychological trick intended to put the opponents in a passive mood. There are differing theories on the efficacy of such a tactic. But according to Glasgow, the impact may not be all it’s cracked up to be. “I thought they were going to be way more pink,” he said. “They’re pretty pale.”
Last season, Kirk Ferentz, the longest-tenured coach in the Big Ten, had one of his best seasons yet. Ferentz, in his 18th season of coaching at Iowa, led his team to an undefeated record during the 2015 regular season. The Hawkeyes earned a spot in the Rose Bowl, where the Hawkeyes were defeated handily, 45-16, after losing to Michigan State in the Big Ten Championship Game. Given their recent success, Ferentz and the Hawkeyes (3-3 Big Ten, 5-4 overall) probably couldn’t have predicted the drop-off this season. Iowa has struggled to a middling 5-4 record after losing to teams like North Dakota State and Northwestern earlier this year. Though Iowa is a threetouchdown underdog against Michigan this Saturday, it has the opportunity to play at home in Kinnick Stadium. In July, the Daily spoke to Ferentz at Big Ten Media Days in Chicago about former quarterback Jake Rudock and playing a night game against Michigan. The Michigan Daily: You’ll be hosting Michigan in a night game in November. What level of intensity do you expect from that game? KF: It will be a great environment. Night games in Kinnick are special. Night games anywhere are really special. And we’re playing a great opponent. A rival, a traditional, storied history of the program and they’ve got an excellent football team, an excellent program, so we’re going to have a lot of work between now and then to get ready for that, but we’re eager for it.
TMD: It will be in midNovember. Do you expect it to be pretty cold? KF: You know, it could be, it might not be. It’s interesting. Last year, we had a night game, I think it was November or last weekend of October, and it couldn’t have been nicer. Then a week later, I thought we were on the North Pole. You just never know what you’re going to get, that’s for sure, in November. TMD: Jake Rudock probably considers himself just as much a Hawkeye as he is a Wolverine — KF: I would say probably more so! We got a little more time invested in him. TMD: You did, you did! So what was it like to watch him get drafted and what do you expect out of his future? KF: I’m really happy for Jake. It was hardly a negotiation. It was a decision we had to make and my obligation has always been to what’s the best for our football team. It’s like a parent. What’s the best for your child involved and for the family, et cetera? We made a very hard decision and it wasn’t necessarily anyone failing. It was just two really good players. I think history has proven that. We had two good players to choose from. I can’t say enough about Jake. The good thing is that it worked out really well for everybody involved. Both teams went on and did well. Both quarterbacks did great. I was hardly surprised. Jake is a first-class young man. He’s a good football player, but he’s a better person. Whenever his football ends, he has a lot of good things waiting for him in life. He’s just a tremendous young guy. You want everybody to be happy. You want everybody to be successful. But there’s only one ball. Not everyone can share it, unfortunately.
Breakdown: Michigan has a significant edge again JACOB GASE
Daily Sports Editor
Three months ago, this weekend’s matchup looked like it would be a tough test for the Michigan football team. Several pundits predicted that the nowthird-ranked Wolverines would be a contender this season, but most pointed to the upcoming matchup with Iowa as one of the season’s biggest challenges. After all, the Hawkeyes won the Big Ten West last year and fell just a field goal short of a likely berth in the College Football Playoff, and Michigan hasn’t won in Iowa City since 2005. The experts were right about the Wolverines (6-0 Big Ten, 9-0 overall), but not about Iowa. The Hawkeyes have stumbled to a 5-4 record, including a 7-point loss to Northwestern, a 27-point drubbing by Penn State and a 23-21 upset by FCS opponent North Dakota State. Michigan is favored by more than 20 points, and the talk about a close game feels like a distant memory. Here’s how the matchup looks on paper given what we know now: Michigan rush offense Iowa rush defense
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After weeks of holding just a slight edge over the other three backs in the Wolverines’ fourman rotation, senior running back De’Veon Smith exploded for 114 yards and three touchdowns last week against Maryland. Though his performance could earn him most of the carries again this week, the rest of Michigan’s backs continue to perform well enough to garner attention — redshirt junior Ty Isaac ripped off a 53-yard gain near the end of the game Saturday, and freshman Chris Evans and sophomore Karan Higdon (a former Iowa commit) are averaging 8.0 and 7.2 yards per carry, respectively. The Hawkeyes’ run defense, meanwhile, doesn’t look like it has many answers these days.
Their flaws were first exposed by a 239-yard performance on the ground by North Dakota State early in the season, and the 72nd-best run defense in the country hasn’t recovered since. Most recently, Nittany Lion running back Saquon Barkley amassed 207 total yards of offense in a 41-14 Penn State victory last week. Edge: Michigan Michigan pass offense vs. Iowa pass defense Iowa’s secondary, led by senior All-American cornerback Desmond King, still poses a challenge for the Wolverines in theory, but the numbers haven’t been there this season. Much like the Wolverines’ Jourdan Lewis, King hasn’t been targeted very often, and his teammates aren’t holding up their end. The low point of the season for the secondary actually came in a victory, when the Hawkeyes allowed lowly Purdue to throw for 458 yards and five touchdowns. Iowa hasn’t been taking the ball away at all, either — its five interceptions are tied for 101st in the FBS. Last year, King alone had eight. The Hawkeyes’ struggles are coming at the perfect time for Michigan’s passing attack, which has looked better by the week. Redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight had his best performance of the season last week, throwing for 362 yards and two touchdowns. Fifth-year senior receiver Amara Darboh and senior tight end Jake Butt have been steady all year, and fifth-year senior receiver Jehu Chesson showed signs of returning to his old form with 112 yards and a touchdown last week. Edge: Michigan Iowa rush offense vs. Michigan rush defense All season long, Iowa has gone as far as its ground game
can take it. The Hawkeyes are 5-0 in games where they rush for over 100 yards and 0-4 in games where they are held under that mark. Their two rotating backs, junior Akrum Wadley and senior LeShun Daniels Jr., have lit up opponents like Purdue and Minnesota, but they combined for just 46 yards against the Nittany Lions last week. In part due to predictable playcalling, Iowa has been unable to get anything going on the ground against above-average defenses. The Wolverines’ defense would certainly fit in that category, ranking 10th in the country in rush yards allowed per game. That number worsened, though, thanks to Michigan State running back LJ Scott, who accounted for 139 of the Spartans’ 217 rushing yards against Michigan two weeks ago. The Wolverines also had some trouble with Maryland’s running backs on screen passes last week, allowing a few big plays. If the Hawkeyes’ offense continues to tip its hand, though, Michigan’s front seven has too much experience and talent not to take advantage of it. Edge: Michigan Iowa pass offense vs. Michigan pass defense Iowa quarterback C.J. Beathard is one of the more talented quarterbacks in the Big Ten, but he could be in for a long night Saturday. He has been sacked 24 times this season, more frequently than all but eight quarterbacks in the FBS. The Wolverines’ defense has a proven ability to get to quarterbacks — just three of nine starting quarterbacks have played complete games against Michigan so far this season. Even if Beathard has enough time to get his throws off, there aren’t a lot of great places to put them. Lewis hasn’t been targeted very often in the secondary this season, and for good reason — he’s allowed just four catches and has two interceptions. His
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Senior cornerback Channing Stribling pairs with Jourdan Lewis on the outside to form a formidable tandem.
counterpart on the other side, senior Channing Stribling, has been nearly as effective, allowing just 11 catches and snagging three picks of his own. The Hawkeyes don’t appear to have the weapons to attack shutdown corners — go-to receiver Riley McCarron is their only player with over 300 receiving yards. Edge: Michigan Special teams Of all the phases of the game, this is the most likely chance for Iowa to make an impact. The Hawkeyes’ special teams unit ranks eighth in the country in special teams efficiency, according to ESPN, while Michigan clocks in at 13th. The Wolverines have the luxury of using Jabrill Peppers on returns, but Desmond King is almost just as electric for the Hawkeyes. He’s averaging 29.2 yards a kick return, with a long of 77 yards, and according to Michigan tight ends/assistant special teams
coach Jay Harbaugh, he has a knack for making the first defender miss. As for the kicking units, the two teams are essentially even. The Wolverines’ senior kicker/punter, Kenny Allen, has shaken off his early-season struggles, riding six straight made field goals and averaging 42.1 yards a punt. Iowa kicker Keith Duncan hasn’t had much work this season, but he is 6-for7 on field goal attempts, while long-distance specialist Miguel Rescinos is 1-for-2 on two 40-plus-yard kicks. Edge: Iowa Intangibles With just three regular-season games left and an undefeated record, Michigan has everything to lose. Iowa, though, has already fallen well short of its preseason expectations — the best it can hope for now is to win one of its last three games to secure bowl eligibility. Despite their success, the
Wolverines haven’t faced much adversity on the road this season. They won at Rutgers and Michigan State, but both stadiums featured large contingents of Michigan fans and struggling opponents who couldn’t take advantage on home turf. Kinnick Stadium remains a tough place to play, especially for Michigan over the past decade. In 2009, the Wolverines , then 4-1, lost a two-point game at night to the Hawkeyes, and their season spun out of control from there. Even in 2011 — the year Michigan went 11-2 and won the Sugar Bowl — the Wolverines suffered an eight-point loss at Iowa. The Hawkeyes clearly aren’t the team some thought they might be at the beginning of the year, but this has “trap game” written all over it if Michigan isn’t careful. Edge: Iowa Prediction: Iowa 10
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What to Watch For: Iowa Michigan gears up for BU LANEY BYLER
JAKE LOURIM
Managing Sports Editor
Daily Sports Writer
The spotlight has shone on the Michigan football team all season, and this Saturday, the bright lights of Kinnick Stadium will, too. As prevalent as the Wolverines have been all season, they have played only one night game, Oct. 8 at Rutgers, in one of the most lopsided games in college football this year. This week, Michigan gets a true prime-time treatment with an 8 p.m. kickoff at Iowa (3-3 Big Ten, 5-4 overall) on ABC’s Saturday Night Football. The eyes of many have been on the third-ranked Wolverines (6-0, 9-0) since September, but now, in the final quarter of the season, the pressure ramps up even more. Michigan will again enter the game as a heavy favorite, and its opponent will be searching for an upset. In this series, the Hawkeyes have had the edge recently. They have won four of the past five meetings, the first two against Rich Rodriguez’s struggling Michigan teams. They also handed Brady Hoke’s first team one of its two losses in 2011 in Iowa City, and they knocked off the Wolverines again in 2013. The teams have not played since. Here’s what to watch for when they battle again Saturday:
Two weeks ago, the No. 18 Michigan hockey team kicked off its schedule away from home on the East Coast, where it recorded losses to Vermont and Dartmouth. Last week, the Wolverines completely switched gears on the opposite end of the country, tallying a win against Arizona State, 4-1. With a 4-3-1 record in tow, the Wolverines will return home this weekend to battle No. 4 Boston University in a pair of home games Friday and Saturday for their second Autism Awareness series in program history. The Terriers boast a 4-2-1 record for the season so far, almost identical to Michigan, save for a single loss. However, Boston possesses one of the strongest defensive and offensive rosters in the nation with four first-round NHL Entry Draft picks. “Their defense, they don’t give you much,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “Their goalie, I think he had three shutouts in a row, a kid named Oettinger. We recruited him and he went to Boston. And he’s gotten better, he’s off to a good start, he’s a freshman goalie from the program. (Freshman forward Will Lockwood) played with him last year. So, their defense is a challenge. “Their defense will be good, and their offense, they’ve got two top lines that can score. They’re way ahead of us in scoring. And those guys are leading the way, so we’ve really got to be aware of their good players.” One of those players is freshman forward Clayton Keller, who was just named Hockey East Rookie of the Week. He leads the Terriers in scoring with five goals and is second in points with nine. He falls behind only freshman forward Patrick Harper, who has tallied 11 points so far this season. In goal, Boston is likely to start
1. How does Michigan start the game? The Wolverines have been dominant for almost all 60 minutes in their games this season, but they have struggled at times in the first series or two. On offense, they started the season with an interception on their first play, and punted in under two minutes on each of their next four first drives. They did not score on an opening series until Week 7, though they have done so in every week since. On defense, Michigan has been stifling for the most part, but it has cracked in the earlygoing a couple of times. Against Michigan State, LJ Scott and the Spartans’ ground game rolled over the Wolverines in eight plays covering 80 yards, and even last week against Maryland, the Terrapins possessed the ball for almost four minutes. Michigan has given up just 11 offensive touchdowns all season, but two have come on the first drive. Iowa’s best chance to win Saturday is to score a third, gain some momentum and keep it. If the Hawkeyes can’t establish themselves early, the Wolverines can coast. 2. What’s Iowa’s game plan? In the past two weeks, Michigan State and Maryland have at least given future Michigan opponents a few tips on how to move the ball against the Wolverines. The Spartans tried the ground game, as Scott carried 22 times for 139 of the team’s 217
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The Michigan football team looks to keep rolling against Iowa on Saturday.
rushing yards. Then, Maryland had some success through the air, passing for 289 yards last week. Both of those strategies involved getting playmakers into space on outside runs or flat passes to try to avoid the teeth of Michigan’s defense. It’ll be interesting to see which route Iowa takes. The Hawkeyes don’t have many of the openfield threats that the past two opponents had — they rely more on winning the battle up front and pounding the ball between the tackles, a tactic the Wolverines typically stifle. Either way, that matchup may decide the game. Iowa is 5-0 this season when rushing for at least 100 yards and 0-4 when missing that mark. In the past two weeks, the Hawkeyes have totaled just 113 yards on the ground and lost to Wisconsin and Penn State. Iowa also ranks 104th in the country in third-down conversions — a bad recipe against Michigan’s top-ranked defense — so if the Hawkeyes can’t figure out a way to make those situations more manageable with runs on first and second down, they’ll struggle. 3. Can Wilton Speight have his fourth straight best game of the season? After last week’s rout of Maryland, Speight is officially rolling. In just the first half Saturday, he was 13-for-16 for 292 yards and two touchdowns. He has also somewhat quietly put together a touchdown-interception ratio of 15-to-3. Because of their defense, the Wolverines haven’t needed him to do a ton. That could change in the final quarter of the season as Michigan travels to Iowa and Ohio State and hosts Indiana in between. This might be Speight’s toughest
test yet, too. The Hawkeyes rank just 62nd in the country in passing defense, but they have been consistent except for a 49-35 win at Purdue last month in which they gave up 458 yards through the air. Iowa should bring its best performance for a home night game at Kinnick Stadium. Michigan’s schedule has been kind to Speight so far, with only one trip outside the state in the first nine games. That was a road night game, but it was also a 78-0 victory at Rutgers in which Speight played only the first half and was never tested. 4. Which Detroit star shines brighter? For just the second time in their college careers, Michigan senior cornerback Jourdan Lewis and Iowa senior cornerback Desmond King will face off on the field. But the history between the two goes back to their high school days, when Lewis starred at Detroit Cass Tech and King led Detroit Crockett and then East English Village Prep. Both players earned AllAmerican honors last season, and both saw the field as freshmen when the Wolverines and Hawkeyes last played in 2013. King edged Lewis on the stat sheet (three tackles and two pass breakups versus two tackles) and on the scoreboard (Iowa won, 24-21). Since then, both have had much more success, becoming two of the best cornerbacks in the nation. Lewis, who often talks about his playing days at Cass Tech, still remembers their earlier meetings, such as Crockett’s two victories in the matchup in 2011. He and King will have plenty of opportunities to make the final statement in the last collegiate edition of their rivalry Saturday.
Jake Oettinger in front of the net. So far this season, he’s played in all seven of the Terriers’ games, and he has a save percentage of .941. But even with two top scoring lines saddled with players like Keller and Harper, and a defense led by Oettinger, Boston will still face a challenge against the Wolverines. Lockwood, who played with Oettinger in the United States National Team Development Program, is leading Michigan in goals and points with five and eight, respectively. This number also ties him at third for rookies in NCAA Division I hockey and puts him in a good matchup against Keller. Freshman forwards Sam Piazza and Jake Slaker have both scored the secondhighest number of goals for the Wolverines with three each, while Piazza is also following Lockwood in points with seven. Overall, the Wolverines will
have a tough weekend ahead. Boston’s heavy roster and highlighted players will pose a serious threat to Michigan, despite Lockwood’s presence on the ice and the Wolverines’ depth in the goaltender position. The Terriers have had success in suppressing their opponent’s offense and capitalizing on opportunities, averaging 3.9 goals per game and limiting their opponents to only 1.7. It’ll be an uphill battle for Michigan. Despite the challenge Boston poses, though, the Wolverines will be fueled by the opportunity to beat a team ranked as highly as the Terriers. “We’re working on things to be better,” said Berenson. “We don’t just work on the opponent, we’re working on us. We’ve got to be better at whatever it is. I think we’re building our game, but we know the game that we’re going to need when we play them. Tomorrow we’ll put it all together.”
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Sam Piazza has three goals on the season heading into this weekend’s series.
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Kieffer-Wright shows athleticism, sparks Michigan against Indiana Junior middle blocker sparked Wolverines with crucial run, 12 kills, seven blocks in Wednesday sweep of Indiana JACOB SHAMES Daily Sports Writer
After finishing the first set on an 8-2 run and starting the second on a similar streak, the Michigan volleyball team saw its momentum evaporate midway through the set. Indiana had climbed back to take a 10-9 lead, and the Wolverines needed a spark. Enter Claire Kieffer-Wright. The junior middle blocker came up with a kill after a lengthy rally, kick-starting Michigan to a 6-0 run in which Kieffer-Wright registered two blocks and two kills. It was sequences such as this one that defined the contest for the Wolverines. Whenever they needed someone to step up and make an impact, KiefferWright was there. “We just realized that we can’t wait for Indiana to lose,” Kieffer-Wright said. “We have to come out there and we have to attack them. We were out for blood the whole night.” Overall, Kieffer-Wright registered 12 kills, 7 blocks and an attack percentage of .421 in No. 17 Michigan’s threeset sweep of Indiana. Her athleticism and energy has been vital for the Wolverines, as coach Mark Rosen stated that they are somewhat lacking in those categories. “She uses her athleticism really well,” Rosen said. “She’s fast, she’s really explosive off one foot, and in the last couple weeks she’s been really producing a lot offensively because of that speed.” This description shouldn’t be surprising to those familiar with the Michigan women’s track and field team, as KiefferWright stars as a high jumper for the Wolverines in the
spring. But Rosen also touted her impact beyond just her physical qualities or statistics. “(Her contribution) is not only the points she’s scoring and her athleticism, but her personality,” Rosen said. “She’s super competitive, fiery — whenever she gets a kill, there’s an emotional charge from that. We talk a lot in our program about producers versus consumers, and she’s constantly producing in every way that she can.” All season long, Rosen has been impressed with his team’s nextperson-up mentality, and the potential for any one player to be dominant any game. Wednesday night, it was Kieffer-Wright’s turn. Dominating from the start, she scored the first point of the match on a kill, and she registered another after the Hoosiers had jumped out to the next five points. The timeliness of her contributions was of great importance as well, especially in the second set. After powering the Wolverines’ surge midway through the set, she combined with senior outside hitter Kelly Murphy on a block to finish off the set and send the match to intermission. The previous meeting between Michigan and Indiana resulted in disappointment for the Wolverines, as they returned home from Bloomington on Oct. 29 with a 3-1 loss. In that match, they allowed the Hoosiers’ middle
blockers to control the game. On Wednesday, KiefferWright and the Wolverines’ other middle blocker, senior Abby Cole, were able to almost completely flip that script. “One of our main points this week in practice that we worked on with (the Hoosiers) in mind was serving and getting them off balance,” Kieffer-Wright said. “We were really capitalizing on blocking their middles.” With Michigan’s relative deficiency in athletic ability, it may have to rely on KiefferWright more and more, especially heading into one of its most challenging stretches of the season. To close out the regular season, the Wolverines will face the top three teams in the nation — Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin, respectively — and will also meet No. 15 Michigan State twice. “We gotta continue to get better against teams that bring speed,” Rosen said. “We’re going to see that against Minnesota, they’re faster than Indiana and Indiana’s really fast. ... Michigan State’s probably one of the top five or six (most physical) teams in the country. They’re just big, and they’ll get after you.” Coming off of a strong recent stretch of performances, Kieffer-Wright adds an important and different definition to the Wolverines. As they continue to grow as a team, she might be the embodiment of this evolution.
“She’s constantly producing in every way she can.”
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After an offseason of turnover, the Michigan men’s basketball team hopes to reestablish itself as a contender in a stacked Big Ten and beyond. Coach John Beilein lost five key contributors to graduation and transfers and two assistants to other head coaching jobs. But a wave of new faces and ideas have kept optimism up in the hallways of Crisler Center. Seniors Derrick Walton Jr. and Zak Irvin have one final season to cement their legacies as they and three other returning starters as the Wolverines target a sixth NCAA Tournament berth in seven years.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 It’s been a long time since Michigan’s men’s basketball and football teams were elite at the same time. Could 2016 be the year?
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Derrick Walton Jr. inherited a program coming off a national championship berth. Things haven’t gone so smoothly in his time as point guard, but he hasn’t lost faith. Michigan returns all five starters and looks to make it past the round of 64 in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2013-14.
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Brent Hibbitts
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6-8
210
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Hudsonville, Mich.
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Charles Matthews
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6-6
190
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Chicago, Ill.
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Xavier Simpson
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6-0
180
Fr.
Lima, Ohio
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D.J. Wilson
F
6-10
240
Jr.
Sacramento, Calif.
10
Derrick Walton Jr.
G
6-1
190
Sr.
Detroit, Mich.
11
Andrew Dakich
G
6-2
190
Sr.
Zionsville, Ind.
12
M. Abdur-Rahkman
G
6-4
190
Jr.
Allentown, Pa.
13
Moritz Wagner
F
6-11
240
So.
Berlin, Germany
14
Fred Wright-Jones
G
5-11
170
So.
Detroit, Mich.
15
Jon Teske
C
7-0
245
Fr.
Medina, Ohio
20
Sean Lonergan
F
6-5
210
Sr.
Fishers, Ind.
21
Zak Irvin
G/F
6-6
215
Sr.
Fishers, Ind.
22
Duncan Robinson
G/F
6-8
215
Sr.
New Castle, N.H.
23
Ibi Watson
G/F
6-5
190
Fr.
Pickerington, Ohio
34
Mark Donnal
F
6-9
240
Sr.
Monclova, Ohio
51
Austin Davis
F
6-10
240
Fr.
Onsted, Mich.
STAFF PICKS The Daily basketball writers do their best to predict what will happen in the world of college basketball this season. Michigan regular-season record Big Ten champion Big Ten second place Big Ten third place Big Ten Tournament champion Big Ten MVP Big Ten Coach of the Year Big Ten surprise team Michigan MVP National Player of the Year National Freshman of the year Michigan’s season ends here NCAA “Bracket Buster” NCAA Final Four
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22-9 Wisconsin Indiana Michigan State Indiana Nigel Hayes, Wisconsin Greg Gard, Wisconsin Ohio State Derrick Walton Jr. Grayson Allen, Duke Josh Jackson, Kansas NCAA Round of 32 Butler Duke Kansas Kentucky Wisconsin
21-10 Wisconsin Indiana Purdue Wisconsin Melo Trimble, Maryland Gard Illinois Walton Monte Morris, Iowa State Lonzo Ball, UCLA NCAA Round of 32 Valparaiso Duke Kansas Wisconsin Villanova
20-11 Indiana Michigan State Wisconsin Michigan State Thomas Bryant, Indiana Tom Crean, Indiana Iowa Walton Dillon Brooks, Oregon Jackson NCAA First Four North Carolina State Kentucky Indiana North Carolina Kansas
22-9 Wisconsin Michigan State Indiana Michigan State Trimble Gard Northwestern Walton Allen Jackson NCAA Round of 32 Princeton (always pick the Ivy) Kentucky North Carolina Wisconsin Duke
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Recreating the two-headed monster T
he 1991-92 season was a good year for Michigan athletics. In the fall, the football team, led by eventual Heisman Award-winning wide receiver Desmond Howard, marched through the regular season, MINH losing just DOAN once to No. 1 Florida State. The 10-1 regular season earned the Wolverines a bid to the Rose Bowl, where they lost to eventual national champion Washington. As the football team was wrapping up a successful season under Gary Moeller, five freshmen were getting ready to change the landscape of college basketball. The Fab Five arrived in 1991 and electrified college basketball with their high-flying dunks, baggy shorts and trash talk. Their rough style of play startled the rest of the sport’s realm and led them to a National Championship game appearance, where they lost to Duke, 71-51. That was the last time both the football and basketball teams had an insurmountable amount of hype around their respective programs at the same time, creating a twoheaded monster of Michigan athletics. Since then, the two teams have teetered back and forth in their successes. And that has been especially true for myself as a near-sighted observer. As an out-of-state student from California, Michigan sports haven’t always piqued my interest. While I watched the occasional Michigan football game, I can’t say I ever put time aside to invest in Michigan athletics. But I really started to pay attention around October of 2012 — my senior year of high school — when I decided that I would apply to the University. I vividly remember following the Michigan men’s basketball team that year. From watching the top-ranked Wolverines narrowly lose to No. 3 Indiana in Bloomington, to watching Wisconsin’s Ben Brust drain
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Michigan coach John Beilein’s team has the talent and experience to take a big step forward and return to prominence on campus.
a near-half-court shot to force overtime in Madison on SportsCenter and, of course, to watching Michigan make it to the NCAA Championship game, which culminated in an 82-76 loss to Louisville in Atlanta. On the flip side, while the football team had gone to the Sugar Bowl the year prior, the squad had just wrapped up an average 8-5 season in Brady Hoke’s second year. And the trend followed me to Ann Arbor. The basketball team won the regular-season Big Ten title my freshman year and was an Aaron Harrison 3-pointer away from another Final Four appearance, while the football team slugged its way to a 7-6 season. But situations change — and pretty quickly. Just two years later, all the talk around campus is about Jim Harbaugh and the football team — and for good measure, the team has executed a perfect season thus far — while the basketball team, albeit having some success, has taken a back seat. That can change, though. While the basketball team might not be
able to overtake the football team in Ann Arbor, where the gridiron has always been king, it might be able to at least reach the same level. Though it’s never a guarantee how a team might perform, the Michigan basketball team has some of the ingredients necessary for a great season. This is what will factor most into this season’s hype: After finishing the 2015-16 season ranked a putrid No. 322 in the NCAA in average rebounds per game, Michigan will need to assert more authority in the paint on both ends of the court. Last season, senior guard Derrick Walton Jr., standing at just 6-foot-1, led the Wolverines in rebounds. That stat won’t fly this season, and Michigan will need to see more paint presence from its bigs in sophomore forward Moritz Wagner and redshirt junior Mark Donnal. Speaking of Walton, he and senior guard Zak Irvin have been key contributors throughout their three years of college so far. This year, however, is a little different. Not only will Walton and Irvin be looked upon to perform well on the court, the
two are also now the oldest members on the team and the last players remaining from the last time Michigan won the Big Ten regular-season title in 2014. How well the two handle high-pressure situations on the court could indicate the outcome of the season. While the Wolverines fared a bit better in team defense, ending the season at No. 67 in the NCAA, there’s still room to improve. Last season, there was a clear gap in defensive prowess between Walton and Irvin and the rest of the team. And even then, the duo’s defense was not up to par. But after the departures of assistant coaches LaVall Jordan and Bacari Alexander, who both left Michigan to pursue head coaching careers at Milwaukee and DetroitMercy, respectively, Beilein brought in assistant coach Billy Donlon. Donlon last coached at Wright State and is known for his defensive tactics, which at one point put the Rowdy Raiders in the top 20 in the NCAA in scoring defense. Beilein has repeated multiple times already that he is giving Donlon a great deal of responsibility with the
defense, a strategy that should pay off almost immediately. And last, while the starting lineup seems to be set, team depth is still a big question mark after the departure of five players over the summer. Beilein has said that, ideally, he would run an eight-man rotation. This means that players like Donnal, freshman guards Xavier Simpson and Ibi Watson and redshirt sophomore forward DJ Wilson will be relied on heavily to give the starters a breather. If they can spot the starters for 12 to 15 minutes a night, it could prove vital down the stretch come NCAA Tournament time. And to not only reach the NCAA Tournament, but also do well in it, would go a long way to recreating the scene from 1991. While it may be a stretch, the fact of the matter is that the Wolverines have the pieces in place to make it possible. Now Michigan just has to go and do it. Doan can be reached at minhdoan@umich.edu and on Twitter @_minhdoan.
Walton’s last ride KEVIN SANTO
Daily Sports Editor
On Nov. 8, 2013, Michigan hung a banner from the rafters. It was Walton’s college debut, and he took his spot in line alongside his 14 teammates during the national anthem. For the majority of them, the banner signified fulfillment, a lasting commemoration of the Wolverines run to the NCAA Tournament championship the season prior. For Walton, it was a symbol of
what he expected his future to hold. “Walking into it, there was just so much going on, and it was so fun and the excitement was just through the roof,” Walton said at Big Ten Media Day. “I remember saying to myself, like, ‘This is definitely what it’s all about and how it is.’ ” But with the banner also came expectations. From the outside looking in, Walton was meant to carry the torch Trey Burke had left for him. Both were point guards. Both were 6-foot-1. Both could
handle the ball and shoot. It was an easy comparison. Those on the outside were dead wrong. His coaches didn’t want him to emulate the former Naismith Award winner. His teammates didn’t either. And Walton just wanted to play his own game, too. “Derrick knew he wasn’t Trey Burke,” said his father, Derrick Walton Sr. “Everybody said their game was similar, but Derrick is actually a true point guard. He just wanted to be Derrick Walton, he
didn’t want to be Trey Burke.” Added 2013 center Jordan Morgan: “Early on, we made it known that we didn’t expect him to be Trey Burke. We didn’t necessarily expect him to lead us back to where we were the year before. He would be a piece of it, but we had a lot of experience in place already from that run. And we just wanted him to come in and be Derrick Walton.” His freshman year, he got the chance to do just that. Walton just wanted to work. He expected to arrive in Ann Arbor having to compete for time with the man people tried to compare him to. But Burke went to the NBA, leaving Walton to take over the reins. Immediately, he ran an offense that featured future NBA draft picks Nik Stauskas, Mitch McGary, Caris LeVert and Glenn Robinson III. He didn’t need to carry the team. He just needed to facilitate. While Burke starred from the point, Walton came in ready to defer the spotlight. In high school, he had been Michigan’s Gatorade Player of the Year, the runner-up for Mr. Basketball of Michigan (behind current Big 12 preseason player of the year Monte Morris) and a Parade All-American during his senior year. As a freshman, Walton started every game at point guard except one, helping to lead the Wolverines to their first outright Big Ten Championship since 1986. The Wolverines rolled on to the Elite Eight, and save for a 3-pointer by Kentucky’s Aaron Harrison with 2.3 seconds left to play, Walton would have been starting at point guard as a true freshman in the Final Four, too. In that moment, Walton got to taste what all the hype was about. Yet as soon as he tasted it, it was gone. Entering his sophomore year, Michigan dealt with the departures of Morgan, Robinson III, McGary, Stauskas and Jon Horford. Still, the Wolverines seemed to have enough pieces in place to contend. Quickly, though, those pieces started to crumble. In the fifth game of the season,
Michigan took the floor against thenNo. 14 Villanova. By the end of the first half, Walton had picked up a toe injury that would eventually end his season — even if he didn’t know it yet. He played through the pain, laboring over 14 games after the matchup with the Wildcats. Two days after losing Caris LeVert for the season to a fractured foot, Walton put forth a 40-minute, 17-point effort in a 69-64 loss to then-No. 6 Wisconsin on Jan. 24. He hit the 3-pointer that sent the game into overtime. But it turned out to be the final game of his sophomore season, as his year ended with a foot injury after the matchup with the Badgers. “I could tell that really hurt him, having to sit on the sidelines and watch, especially as we were really struggling my junior year,” said former Michigan guard Spike Albrecht. “He had been on a team a year before who won a Big Ten championship and went to the Elite Eight. “I think him sitting on the sidelines and wishing he could be out there, knowing that he could help, but he couldn’t play due to his injury, I could tell that really bothered him. You could see it every day in practice, how bad he just wanted to be out there.” Faced with watching from the sidelines as the Wolverines missed the Big Dance for the first time in five years, Walton found comfort in his faith. “I think it gave me a great deal of humility,” Walton said. “It made me tap into my own personal faith and take things for what it’s worth. These last two seasons definitely opened my eyes to broader things than just basketball. “…I was on the track to do some things that I thought I could do and you know, the injury happened. As a person that believes in a higher power, I just think there are things that happen for a reason.” He would get the chance at another fresh start. But adversity reared its ugly head once more. After making a full recovery, the new season beckoned with the same — if not heightened — promise of a
“I just think there are things that happen for a reason.”
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Derrick Walton Jr. came to Michigan the year after Trey Burke led the Wolverines to the national title game as a point guard.
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returning to the NCAA Tournament. Zak Irvin began the year with a back surgery in September, and was never quite himself despite returning in time for the season. LeVert’s 464 minutes were an overestimate of the impact he could have on the program. Albrecht completed the trifecta — announcing on Dec. 11 that he would end his Michigan career to focus on recovering from bilateral hip surgery he underwent in the offseason. Suddenly Michigan was without its two marquee seniors, the last remnants of a class that was dubbed the “Fresh Five.” It was that same class that had set the bar Walton’s career has been measured by. Now its last traces were ending prematurely, and Walton was the one left to fill the leadership void. He always wanted to lead by example. He hadn’t been as willing to be vocal. But now, he had no choice. “I just always said, ‘Yeah Derrick, well, your roommates are down. You have to step up a little, bro,” Walton Sr. said. “ ‘…You’re just going to have to be the leader right now. They’re hurt and you just got to do what you’re supposed to do. You have the ball in your hand 90 percent of the time, but you have to go ahead and
open your mouth a little bit.’ ” There were moments when Walton wondered how the team could be so hampered by injury, how it could be so unlucky. It had never crossed his mind that the injuries would pile up. “Like I said, (it) just gives you a different type of perspective on life,” Walton said. “Just makes you appreciate and try and get the most out of every day. That’s pretty much where I’m at right now. “I just try to attack each and every opportunity I’m given, and at the end of the day, I think the chips will fall where the may, and at the end of the day, I’m going to be where I need to be.” Now, Walton has a team equipped to make another run in the postseason. He, Irvin and a host of others make up a group without one true star, but with all the necessary ability to succeed. Maybe more importantly, Walton has one last season to stamp his legacy on this program. And a large part of that will reveal itself in the standard he sets for younger players. One of those players is a freshman point guard named Xavier Simpson. He starred in high school, and now, he’ll be asked to step in and make an immediate impact on the Wolverines. Perhaps that sounds familiar.
“I just try to
attack each and every opportunity I’m given.”
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Walton led the Wolverines to the Elite Eight as a freshman, where Michigan ultimately fell to Kentucky on an Aaron Harrison’s late game-winning 3-pointer.
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Position-by-position breakdown: Youth, experience come together for Wolverines BRANDON CARNEY Daily Sports Writer
A summer and preseason where all attention and focus could be put on the court rather than on the training table couldn’t have come at a better time for the Michigan men’s basketball team. Michigan coach John Beilein, for the first time in recent years, was able to work with his entire squad with little to no distractions from injuries through the summer. With a roster that a brings a mix of veteran experience and youthful talent, Beilein needed that health to bring the Wolverines together as they seek their sixth NCAA Tournament appearance in seven years. While there was major personnel turnover in the offseason — the Wolverines lost Caris LeVert to graduation and Spike Albrecht, Ricky Doyle, Aubrey Dawkins and Kameron Chatman to transfers — Michigan returns the starting five that fell to Notre Dame in the round of 64 of the NCAA Tournament. In addition, the Wolverines have brought in four freshmen who will be expected to contribute at high levels early in their careers. With many old faces and some new, the Daily breaks down Michigan’s roster: Guards Senior guard Derrick Walton Jr. will undoubtedly be the Wolverines’ vocal and emotional leader. The 6-foot-1 point guard is coming off his best season in Ann Arbor, averaging 11.6 points and 5.4 rebounds per game last year while also tallying career highs in assists and steals. Walton will be expected to surpass those numbers this season, especially in scoring, as he will be sharing the responsibilities at the point with freshman Xavier Simpson and playing at the ‘2’ more. Junior guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman, Michigan’s most improved player a season ago, is hoping to build off the momentum he found in conference play. Abdur-Rahkman ended up starting 25 games due to LeVert’s
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The Michigan men’s basketball team will be looking for one of its many forwards to emerge as a difference maker in the post early in the 2016-17 season.
injury, and grew more confident in his role in every appearance. The 6-foot-4 guard ended up shooting 45 percent from the field and 37 percent from behind the arc, and may be heavily relied on when Michigan needs points in a hurry. As the Wolverines’ only true shooting guard, if AbdurRahkman finds himself in foul trouble or out with an injury, Beilein may need to call upon Walton, senior guard Zak Irvin or redshirt junior guard Duncan Robinson to fill in temporarily at the ‘2.’ Simpson will also be a boost for Michigan’s guard rotation coming off the bench. The 6-foot guard won’t feature as a prominent scorer but has the explosiveness and vision that will open up other options on the court. Beilein is keen to play Simpson and Walton
together, with the freshman at the point, when Michigan needs to push tempo and be quicker on defense. Look for Simpson to post numbers similar to those Walton contributed his freshman year — averaging eight points and three assists — while playing 20 minutes each game. Wings Irvin is going to have to bounce back from a disappointing junior year in a big way. The 6-foot-6 senior shot just 30 percent from deep and saw over a two-point drop in his scoring average. Unlike last year, when he underwent a summer back procedure, Irvin had the entire off-season to prepare and train. The Wolverines expect his 3-point percentage to return to somewhere around his
career average of 36 percent along with growth in other areas of his game as well. The question still persists if Irvin can live up to the potential he’s shown in flashes throughout his career. It’ll come down to his final season to prove than he can be the guy Beilein can rely on to consistently find points for Michigan. After establishing himself in his first season in Ann Arbor, Robinson will aspire to become more than a deep threat. Beilein hopes the 6-foot-8 guard can not only continue to shoot 45 percent from behind the arc, but also drive to the basket and be more physical on offense. Of the 134 field goals Robinson made last season, 95 of them were 3-pointers. The Wolverines need that proportion to shrink, or Beilein believes Robinson will be too predictable
and guarded too heavily on the perimeter. Michigan also expects Robinson’s defensive abilities to improve from a year ago. The senior showed weaknesses while guarding opponents and rebounding, and the Wolverines hope a summer in the weight room will help Robinson outmuscle opponents and improve his quickness while guarding perimeter players as well. Freshman forward Ibi Watson will give Michigan something different off the bench. The 6-foot5 freshman looked sharp in the Wolverines’ exhibition against Armstrong State, scoring seven points on 3-for-8 shooting while leading the team with three steals. Irvin and Robinson have had issues defensively in the past. If Watson can prove to be less of a liability than his teammates were, he could
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Big Ten Breakdown: Crowded race for the conference title Hayes, Koenig lead favorite Wisconsin; Indiana, Michigan State and Purdue close behind in preseason conference outlook BETELHEM ASHAME Daily Sports Editor
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Senior forward Zak Irvin has one more season to lead the Wolverines.
see a rise in minutes. Flying under the radar as a potential major contributor at the ‘4’ is redshirt sophomore forward DJ Wilson. Averaging six minutes per game, the 6-foot10 forward was used sparingly last season and was often seen as a rebounding liability. After a healthy offseason, Wilson is stronger than ever and more willing to crash the boards and get the Wolverines the rebounds they may desperately need. Wilson could feature prominently in Big Ten play as he matches up better with some of the taller teams in the league and is a more traditional power forward than anyone else on the roster. Post Sophomore forward Moritz Wagner’s summer in the gym looks like it has won him the starting role over senior forward Mark Donnal. The work the 6-foot-10 sophomore put in showed in his 15-point performance over the Pirates on Friday, as Wagner showed off his improved offensive skills and understanding of the system. Wagner still may have issues on the defensive end though. Last season he wasn’t boxing out and constantly found himself
in foul trouble. Beilein hopes his improved strength will help Wagner overcome his defensive problems, but for now, Michigan will be relying on the forward’s offensive promise to make up for his defensive liabilities. The Wolverines hope that Donnal can grow into a role as a better defensive option to Wagner. The 6-foot-9 forward was Michigan’s most efficient rebounder at the post, grabbing four rebounds per game. But Donnal struggled to make a consistent impact, especially when he came off the bench. Having Wagner ahead of him could potentially raise Donnal’s game as he battles for minutes, but it could also harm his confidence as the season wears on. It won’t help Donnal that the competition for third in the post rotation has been intense as well. Beilein is planning on asking either freshman center Jon Teske or freshman forward Austin Davis to redshirt, while the other will feature in his plans. Based on minutes from Friday’s exhibition, Teske seems to have the edge on Davis. The 7-footer has height that will immediately help Michigan make up any size deficit they may have at center, while helping with shot blocking as well.
Caught in a precarious position of transition, the Michigan men’s basketball team is attempting to take advantage of its roster turnover both on the court and on the sideline by finding the perfect blend between old and new. After flipping their conference record from 8-10 in 2014 to 10-8 in 2015 (returning to the NCAA Tournament in the process), the Wolverines look to be trending upward. Though the team lost four players — Spike Albrecht, Kameron Chatman, Aubrey Dawkins and Ricky Doyle — to transfers and one — Caris LeVert — to the NBA, none of them necessarily played major roles for Michigan last season. With five teams ranked in the Associated Press preseason standings, the Big Ten seems poised to return to its familiar position as one of the strongest conferences in the country. While the Wolverines will likely face an uphill climb on their road back to the top, they have four talented freshmen additions and two respected new coaches to help them find their way back to competing for the conference crown. The Daily breaks down the teams that will provide the stiffest competition for Michigan in the Big Ten this season. No. 9 Wisconsin The Badgers may have finished in a four-way tie for third place in the Big Ten last season, but they seem to be the favorite to win the conference outright this year. Wisconsin returns all five starters, including Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year and first team All-American Nigel Hayes. After opting out of the NBA Draft in favor of one last go-around in college, Hayes will lead the Badgers with help from senior guard Bronson Koenig and sophomore forward Ethan
Happ, who were both selected to the Preseason All-Big Ten team. All three averaged over 12 points per game last season, while consensus Big Ten Freshman of the Year Happ also earned Big Ten All-Defensive Team honors. Along with two experienced seniors, forward Vitto Brown and guard Zak Showalter, the quintet started every game together except for one. Chemistry might be the strongest suit in the cards for Wisconsin this year, and with the level of comfort these star players have with one another, the Badgers look to be the best team in the Big Ten. No. 11 Indiana The defending conference champions with a 15-3 record last year, the Hoosiers have the potential to continue their reign atop the Big Ten this season. Despite losing their strongest offensive threat in Yogi Ferrell and sturdiest role player in former Wolverine Max Bielfeldt, Indiana has enough quality returners to give Wisconsin a run for its money. After a highly successful freshman season in which he averaged 11.9 points and 5.8 rebounds as the unquestioned starter, sophomore center Thomas Bryant decided to return to Indiana and was subsequently named to the preseason first team All-America team as well as the All-Big Ten team. He will anchor the Hoosier frontcourt, while the backcourt will be manned by fellow Preseason All-Big Ten selection junior guard James Blackmon Jr., who has been cleared to play after suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament halfway through the season. Though Indiana missed out on the conference and tournament championship double after being upset by Michigan in the tournament quarterfinals, the Hoosiers played like the best team in the Big Ten for the majority of the year and could very well
repeat the feat this season. No. 12 Michigan State Finishing as the runner-up in the conference with a 13-5 record despite having two more wins and two fewer losses than Indiana, the Spartans proved that they could make a strong case for the top spot by capturing the 2016 Big Ten Tournament title. Having to replace AP National Player of the Year Denzel Valentine will be a tall order, but if there is any team that can shoulder the blow, it’s Michigan State. Boasting a freshman class made up of five-star recruits Miles Bridges and Josh Langford and four-star recruits Cassius Winston and Nick Ward, the Spartans seem eager to wrest the conference crown from the Hoosiers. Bridges and Langford were ranked in the top five nationally at their respective positions, while Winston and Ward were ranked in the top ten. With head coach Tom Izzo — who was recently inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame — guiding these budding stars, Michigan State looks to be as dangerous as ever in the Big Ten this season. No. 15 Purdue Another part of the four-way tie for third place in the Big Ten last season, the Boilermakers have jumped back into the conference title conversation with back-to-back 12-6 records after finishing in last place in the 2013-14 season. In his 12th season at his alma mater, coach Matt Painter looks to guide the program to even greater heights after reaching its eighth NCAA Tournament last year. Though the Boilermakers lost star player A.J. Hammons to the NBA, they held onto another in sophomore forward Caleb Swanigan. Selected to the Preseason All-Big Ten Team, Swanigan led the team in rebounds with 6.7 per game
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BIG TEN From Page 7B while averaging 10.2 points in his first season at the collegiate level. Purdue will also benefit from the veteran experience of former Wolverine Spike Albrecht, who returns to his home state as a graduate transfer and the lone Boilermaker to have won an NCAA Tournament game. While Purdue may be overlooked because of the caliber of the other three teams at the top, the Boilermakers have the pieces in place to make their presence felt in the title race. No. 25 Maryland The final team in that four-way tie for third place on the preseason AP Top 25, the Terrapins fell short of expectations after being tabbed as the favorite to win the conference crown before last season. But they bounced back with a NCAA Tournament run that lasted until the Elite Eight — on par with Wisconsin and Indiana for the best showing of any Big Ten team — before succumbing to the top-seeded team in their region, Kansas. Junior guard Melo Trimble returns to carry the load for Maryland, despite playing well enough his freshman year to warrant the Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year nod at last season’s outset. While that title belongs to Wisconsin’s Hayes now, Trimble should remain one of the best players in the conference. Last year, he led the team in scoring average with 14.8 points per game, 3-pointers with 58, assists with an average of 4.9 and steals with 44. The Terrapins will look to ride their momentum from the
end of last season in order to position themselves back into the conversation for the conference title this year. Ohio State Landing in the middle of the pack in the conference last year, just above Michigan at 11-7, the Buckeyes have the ability to crash the party at the top this season. With all five starters returning to the team, Ohio State brings a developing core made up of three juniors, a senior and a sophomore to the table. Sophomore guard JaQuan
Lyle, a rising star, announced his arrival to the collegiate level last season with an average of 11.2 points, 4.2 assists and 4.7 rebounds per game. Meanwhile, senior forward Marc Loving, an established presence, capitalized on his leadership role with 14 points, 1.5 assists and 5.3 rebounds per game. Together, the pair will likely spearhead that effort for the Buckeyes this year. Growing into their roles both individually and collectively, the starting five seems poised for a breakthrough, which could lead Ohio State to make a splash in the Big Ten this season.
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Wisconsin’s Bronson Koenig (top) is back to run the point for the ninth-ranked Badgers, while Indiana’s Thomas Bryant (bottom) came back to school for his sophomore season for the 11th-ranked Hoosiers.