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In Daily survey, 73 percent of female students fear walking home alone Respondents express concerns about safety at night despite ‘U’ lighting efforts ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter

The Michigan Daily administered a women’s health survey, to 1,000 randomly selected respondents at the University of Michigan campus. There were 147 respondents, with 115 self-identifying as female. The following article includes data collected in this survey, particularly with regard to safety on campus. When Jocelyn Aptowitz, a dualenrolled School of Music, Theatre & Dance and LSA junior, was a freshman, a man in a car asked her

for directions while she was walking back from a rehearsal at the Student Theatre Arts Complex around Hoover Street in 2014. She said the man followed close behind in his vehicle and eventually exited the car pantsless, wearing nothing from the waist down. Once Aptowitz saw the man touching himself, she said she quickly walked away and called the University of Michigan Division of Public Safety and Security as well as the Ann Arbor Police Department. She received a quick response from officials, who later found and identified the man. “There’s something so unsettling

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and degrading about it,” Aptowitz said of the incident. “The lines of body autonomy and, I think, safety, specifically, get blurred sometimes, but you’re definitely more aware of it after you experience it firsthand.” Aptowitz’s sentiments are far from unique on campus. In a survey administered to female students by The Michigan Daily, 73.11 percent of respondents said they were afraid to walk home alone on campus. 17.65 percent said they did not and 9.24 percent said they were unsure. In a campus climate survey administered by the University to both male and female students in

2015, 89 percent of students reported feeling safe from sexual misconduct on campus. Bill Axinn, a national expert on survey research at the University Population Studies Center, said there could be a number of reasons for the discrepancies in the datasets. Axinn said in addition to the differences in wording — the University survey asked if students “felt safe from sexual misconduct on campus” while the Daily survey asked if students “felt afraid to walk home alone on campus” — as well as a small sample size in the Daily’s survey and a tendency for respondents to agree See WOMEN, Page 2A

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IOWA CITY — It seemed like it would be Michigan’s special teams that would win the day. Instead, it was Iowa’s. After fifth-year senior kicker Kenny Allen booted a careerlong 51-yard field goal midway through the fourth quarter to put the Wolverines up, 13-11, and after senior cornerback Channing Stribling picked up an interception with under two minutes remaining, it looked like the Wolverines had the game in the bag. But the Hawkeyes got one more chance, and they made it count. Hawkeye kicker Keith Duncan hit a 33-yard chip shot as time expired, and Iowa pulled off a stunning 14-13 upset Saturday at Kinnick Stadium. Iowa’s defense was able to hold the Wolverines to just 98 rushing yards, the first time all season they have been held under 100. “There were some wrinkles,

they played well, they played hard, they set the edge extremely well,” said Michigan coach Harbaugh of the Hawkeyes’ defense after the game. “They tackled well and played good coverage.” Just before Allen’s made field goal, it seemed as if the Michigan football team was sleepwalking. It had converted on just five of its attempted third downs. But then redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight had a rare scramble for four yards, and then he completed just his 10th pass of the game to senior tight end Jake Butt, who picked up 17 yards for a first down. The Wolverines would still be forced to punt three downs later, but they caught a break on the play. A roughing-the-center penalty on Iowa gave Michigan the ball back on the Hawkeyes’ 36-yard line just after Speight overthrew an open Darboh streaking toward the end zone, ultimately setting up Allen’s dramatic field goal. But the tide would change See IOWA, Page 3A

Two hundred gather to protest reported Average hate crime in wake of election results GPAs lower ACADEMICS

On campus, questions on Trump policy plans Economic, immigration policies criticized by students and faculty LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter

Following the unexpected victory of President-elect Donald Trump early Wednesday morning, in addition to issues of safety, racism and hateful speech, many students and faculty on the University of Michigan campus are worried about climate change, economic, immigration and women’s health policies under a Trump presidency and a Republican-dominated Congress. Most concerning, LSA senior Hannah Moore said Tuesday night, is the fear of an entirely unchecked Republican controlled government and the policies that will be blocked by the executive and legislative branches. Republicans now have See TRUMP, Page 3A

Speakers and attendees express frustration with incidents across the country JENNIFER MEER Daily Staff Reporter

Two hundred students, faculty and staff gathered on the Diag at 6 p.m. Saturday night to partake in a protest titled “Opposing Intimidation!” The protest was organized by Music, Theatre & Dance senior James Ross Kilmeade in response to an incident Friday evening in which a student was approached by a man who demanded she remove her hijab or he would use a lighter to set her on fire. This incident is still under investigation by the Ann Arbor Police Department. According to Kilmeade’s post on the Facebook event, the protest aimed to generally respond to the hatred he feels has been validated by the recent election. Before the protest began, Kilmeade said he had created the event only hours before it started and hoped to reach as many people as possible. “Today I woke up and said, ‘I don’t know what I’m going to do but I have to stand and do

something,” he said. “People have to feel safe and it’s absurd that they don’t. It’s our responsibility to be out here for them.’ ” LSA senior Adrian Rakochi said he heard about the protest

through an email sent to the Arabic Activities club, and expressed his frustration with recent incidents following the election, both locally and nationally.

“I wanted to go,” he said. “I feel like we haven’t had enough protests in Ann Arbor about this whole thing anyway. I just showed up and let some friends See PROTEST, Page 2A

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Students gather to protest intimidation, related to recent incidents following the presidential election, on the Diag Saturday.

Average GPA’s in the college of LSA were lower for STEM classes than for classes in the humanties and social sciences, and GPA became higher as class level increased. Last week, The Michigan Daily released a new web tool that allows users to view distribution data for all LSA courses over the past three full-length semesters. The data, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, enables users to view grade distributions from courses and compare multiple classes on a single graphic interface. Students and University community members can view See GRADES, Page 3A

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WOMEN From Page 1A with questions asked could be errors present in both surveys. Despite the differences between the two surveys, multiple female students like Aptowitz have voiced concerns for their safety at night, and attributed some of that to specific areas of campus where lighting is insufficient. Much like Aptowitz, LSA sophomore Vianney Flores said she has taken steps during her time at the University to avoid vulnerable situations, especially when she lived in Baits II Residence Hall dorms on North Campus her freshman year. She said she only left at night if it couldn’t be avoided because she was weary of the nearby wooded areas, which do not have much surrounding lighting. This year, she lives in Alice Lloyd Residence Hall, a location closer than North Campus, but still a 10-minute walk from the Diag. “Especially if it’s dark, I don’t really feel comfortable walking by myself,” Flores said. “I do it, but I’m always extremely cautious when I do. If there’s anyone walking behind me, I have no problems checking if it’s a guy or a girl — if you think I’m being suspicious of you, I am, because it’s my safety.” Originally from Chicago, Flores said she is used to living in a big city environment and, though she feels more secure in Ann Arbor, she is still cautious. “I’m super aware of bushes when I’m walking around,” Flores said. “If someone just put their hand over my mouth and hid me in the bush, no one would know I was there if someone was walking around. I’m always aware of that.” Call for action Though Aptowitz said she appreciated the quick action from DPSS and AAPD following her incident, it led to her start carrying pepper spray and a small sharp object for the remainder of her freshman year. Because Aptowitz said she

PROTEST From Page 1A know about it. I made a sign. I am very upset.” Rakochi’s sign read, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.” LSA senior Louisa Kane held up a poster that read, “You belong here,” in both English and Arabic. She said she felt that all students on campus should be speaking up at events like this. “Why should anyone feel like they don’t belong here?” she said. “It’s absurd. Everyone should be here right now, saying that they love and support every part of this community, regardless of whether or not they identify with that religion or ethnicity. Everyone should be here.” During the protest, the ‘M’ in the Diag was outlined with candles, and protesters gathered to hear one another speak. Art & Design senior Keysha Wall addressed the crowd on the election results, saying she

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does not believe there has not been enough effort put toward campus safety from the University, she thinks increased lighting would make her feel more at ease. “Ever since this (incident), I will stand at blue lights and you’re supposed to see blue lights from every blue light and that’s just actively untrue on campus,” Aptowitz said. “But the thing is, we tell people that on our tours, and that’s what’s frustrating. If we’re going to advertise that we’re a campus that has that safety, we should have that safety.” Despite efforts last year, Central Student Government ultimately was unable to make headway in initiatives aimed at increasing off-campus security measures through the installation of more streetlights. In an April CSG meeting, then-CSG President Cooper Charlton attributed the failure in installation and improvement to both the cost as well as a lack of relationship between the city of Ann Arbor and CSG. “We ran into two issues: the first problem is that it can cost as much as $400,000 to $600,000 per corridor for installation, so assessing the finances of the operation was a hurdle that we were unable to overcome,” Charlton said at the meeting. “The other problem that we faced was with cooperation from the city.” In addition to these efforts, last April about five students started a petition to install cameras on the blue light phones located throughout campus. More than 200 students eventually signed the position, noting concern for identifying a potential attacker. However, the city of Ann Arbor has come up with a plan to spend $200,000 on new street lights near Nixon and Dhu Varren Roads, Washtenaw Avenue and Division and East University Streets, following a lift on a moratorium on new streetlights last year by City Council. CSG also outlined goals last year to develop another campus safety app in conjunction with previous projects such as SafeRide — a free service that

transports students, faculty and staff within a one-mile radius of campus — and Night Owl, yet they were unable to follow through, again due to lack of resources. However, other organizations and students started to take on these projects themselves, including five Ross School of Business students who developed the now-internationally recognized Companion app. For LSA freshman Alexis Aulepp — though she uses some of the same cautionary measures as Aptowitz and Flores — the availability of these applications is not necessarily needed, as she said she has not experienced anything since coming to the University that would be cause for concern. Unlike Aptowitz, both Flores and Aulepp — who lives in Alice Lloyd — said they have not experienced any issues warranting their fears and do not carry any protective device, such as a whistle, pepper spray or a weapon, while they walk around campus. “Had nobody said anything, I would have felt just fine, but because people say don’t walk alone, that has made me be a little more self-conscious about those types of things,” Aulepp said. “Multiple people have told me ‘don’t walk alone.’ ” Even still, neither Aulepp nor Flores have used University resources — primarily because they are unaware of how to use them — calling for the University to provide better education for the services. University response University Police spokeswoman Diane Brown said, while the University of Michigan Police Department preferred not to comment about gendered security measures, there are reasons behind there being less lighting in certain areas beyond the Diag. Brown noted that she has spoken with engineers who look into optimizing lighting precisely about this issue. “What good lighting infrastructure placement looks toward is how to keep someone from becoming suddenly, if you will, blinded,” Brown said.

was concerned about people who support the marginalizing rhetoric of Donald Trump. “You saw all of this happening before Donald Trump even became president,” she said. “When I saw that he had gotten elected, he wasn’t the first thing I was afraid of. The first thing I was afraid of were the people who are like that who are emboldened by that, who are emboldened by his actions, him being on TV, him being able to say those things, who had already felt like they could get away with that sort of thing on this campus for years.” Moving forward, she said, the most important thing the community can do is unite and fight back against prejudicial sentiment and violence. “We must turn our solemnity into power and love for one another, into action, into strength, because that is our strength.” Also in regard to the election results, Music, Theatre & Dance junior Keem Avraham said it is important to talk to others in the campus community and educate people who have different beliefs. “You know people who

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“Good lighting placement says that lighting should be fairly significant just outside the door of (popular) facilities and then get a little less as you go farther away from the building because that lighting works with (the way your pupils are changing). You want this gradual change in the lighting system outside as well.” Brown added that lighting should be better at places with high nighttime traffic, and dimmer in more deserted areas near buildings where people are sleeping, so as to detract people from congregating in areas intended to be quieter. UMPD Police Chief Robert Neumann said part of the University’s improvements in overall safety on campus have been related to increasing properly working lighting, noting the department encourages student input. “I don’t think too many people are seeing lights that aren’t working, and that’s something years ago that used to be a common problem,” Neumann said. “If there are areas that students think should be better lighted, I certainly want to hear about it.” In addition, there are several other measures currently in place to address student concerns, particularly through Neumann’s collaboration with CSG and safety committees. Public Policy junior Stephanie Gusching, current chair of CSG Community and Outreach Commission, attested to Neumann’s efforts and said CSG wants to initiate partnerships between the University and the city to continue to try to improve off-campus lighting and increase sexual assault resources for women this year. “We want to look into more crime statistics in the area to see where off-campus lighting is lacking to see if improving lighting would end up actually affecting the safety in the area,” Gusching said. “If we can find a correlation, I think that that would be a strong argument in our case in improving off-campus lighting.”

voted for Donald Trump, and what Donald Trump does is endorse the idea that being racist — discriminating against marginalized identities — is OK,” he said. “He has endorsed that idea as a human American practice. As a friend of this community, this progressive-minded community, it is your job to change someone, so that they can positively affect somebody else.” Multiple campus events have occurred since Trump’s election. On Wednesday, a vigil took place in the Diag to protest Presidentelect Trump’s controversial win. University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel spoke of the need to support threatened minorities and called for University-wide support in action. LSA senior Arielle Chen told the crowd she thought it was important for students to speak out and show up at activism events even if they are speaking from a place of privilege as an ally. “I am so tired of hearing people say, ‘I’m sorry this is happening. I’m so sorry,’ ” she said. “Silence means that you are allowing it, that you are supporting it. Silence means ism is OK. If you do nothing, if you say nothing, you are supporting it. People need you to show up now. If this is the first time you have ever stood at a protest, we need you to continue showing up. I ask you to show up for your friends, for the person standing next to you, for the person across the circle that you have never talked to.” LSA sophomore Ilina Krishen said she thought there is a certain danger in being a bystander. “Being a bystander is the worst thing you can do, even worse than being the bully,” she said. “Looking away from a crime does not hide the crime. I’m asking everyone who has privilege to use that privilege to speak up for those who are in a tough situation.” Beyond the event itself, University alum Jessica Hicks added a link to the Facebook event for a Google Doc signup sheet so that individuals could walk anyone home who felt uncomfortable after the protest.

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Michigan shakes off slow start, finishes first week with two wins Wolverines rally from first-half deficit to beat IUPUI at Crisler Center KEVIN SANTO

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With the clock winding down in the final minute of the first half, senior guard Derrick Walton Jr. got the ball in transition. He drew two defenders at midcourt before dishing the ball to Zak Irvin, who finished a wide-open layup with ease. The senior guard’s basket marked the Michigan basketball team’s last points of the half and capped off a 13-0 run for the Wolverines over the final 3:47. After stringing together those points, Michigan carried a 43-32 lead into halftime Sunday at Crisler Center. And the Wolverines wouldn’t relinquish their lead in the second half, keeping their foot on the pedal the rest of the way en route to a 77-65 victory against IUPUI in the 2K Classic’s Ann Arbor regional. Early in the half, there weren’t many defensive stops to go around, as both teams traded baskets for the first five minutes. In the five that followed, though, Michigan (2-0) looked

GRADES From Page 1A data graphs of grades for specific classes and compare the grade distribution of one class to another. However, according to Economics Prof. Dmitriy Stolyarov, it is hard to attribute departmental grading policies to any overarching policies since grading is almost entirely at the discretion of the individual professor. “Generally, the grading methodology is up to the instructor — this is one of the principles underlying academic freedom,” Stolyarov said. “Accordingly, there may be as many grading methodologies as there are teachers. These data are no big secret — every syllabus has a detailed description of how grades are determined.” Grading practices, because they are decided by professors, are best evaluated by review of historical syllabi. However, based off the FOIA data, there are some macro-level conclusions that can be made about the difficulty or typical grades in a specific class. STEM classes compared with humanities and social science classes Students taking classes in STEM fields tend to receive lower grades, on average, than those majoring in social science and humanities fields, according to the data obtained by the Daily, which shows the historic grade distribution for all LSA courses for Fall 2014-Fall 2015. As shown by the data, the average grades given to students in math, physics, chemistry and biology classes equates to a 3.1578

IOWA From Page 1A again with just less than four minutes to play. Speight threw a bullet to Chesson, who was streaking along the right sideline, but the ball was snatched away by Iowa cornerback Manny Rugamba for a momentum-shifting interception. Stribling matched the pick soon after, but with the Wolverine offense unable to find a rhythm, it was not enough to carry Michigan to victory. Michigan went threeand-out, and Iowa got the ball back with 1:23 on the clock. “We didn’t make enough plays to extend drives and convert first downs, and we missed some deep throws,” Harbaugh said. “Give Iowa credit, they tackled, they blocked, they played a very good football game, so congratulate them and move on.” Michigan managed only a field goal in the first 20 minutes of play, but Iowa couldn’t even muster that. On a drive that stayed alive after punter Ron Coluzzi improbably drew two

vulnerable. The Wolverines’ offense sputtered, as they were forced to settle for shots from the perimeter with the shot clock winding down. The Jaguars (0-2), on the other hand, kept building an early lead. Then, redshirt sophomore forward DJ Wilson gave Michigan its wake-up call. With roughly nine minutes left in the half, Walton’s transition layup clanged off the rim. But Wilson was there, grabbing the rebound with two hands and throwing it down for a put-back dunk. The slam brought the Wolverines within one after they trailed by as much as seven during the stretch. The Wolverines’ offense came out of its funk from there — going on a 14-point barrage catalyzed by four 3-pointers — kickstarting their run that would end the half. The dunk was just a microcosm of Wilson’s impact for Michigan. Though he scored just 7 points, Wilson cleaned up on the boards, finishing with 14 rebounds in 30 minutes. In the second half, Michigan

went into cruise control, and it was a decision it could have ended up regretting. The Wolverines led by as many as 19 points, but their smallest lead of the half was by a margin of just nine. Still, they let IUPUI hang around. And with the way Darrell Combs was playing, that wasn’t a good idea. The Jaguars’ guard finished with a game-high 22 points — pouring in 15 in the first half — and shot 10-for-16 from the field. Combs looked like a man on a mission. But fortunately for Michigan, it had plenty of firepower of its own. Four players — junior guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman, sophomore forward Moritz Wagner, Walton and Irvin — finished with double-digit scoring. Walton and Irvin combined for 28 points on 9-for-21 shooting, while Wagner added 13 of his own. The Wolverines may not always be able to outscore teams, though. Allowing IUPUI to hang around didn’t matter. But against any other team, it could prove costly.

GPA. These STEM departments are among the most popular math and science departments offered by LSA. In these departments, according to a 2009 study on grade inflation at the University of Michigan by former University Ph.D. student Alexandra Achen and Paul Courant, a professor of public policy and economics, the average GPAs are, in part, a reflection on the number of prerequisite courses. “Strikingly, all of the lowgrading departments at Michigan have large required courses,” Achen and Courant wrote. “Math, physics, economics, biology, and chemistry are consistently among the lowestgrading departments, and each has courses that are required for courses of study necessary for the professional ambitions of large numbers of students.” In comparison, the class data also showed the average grades earned by students taking economics, political science, psychology, English, communications and philosophy courses — all humanities and social sciences departments — were equal to a GPA of 3.3793. This range between STEM and humanities and social sciences averages of 0.2215 is the difference between a B and a B+ average. However, in the study, Achen and Courant were hesitant to attribute this solely to the quantitative nature of STEM courses. They also noted that students enrolled in English 125, a large introductory English composition course, averaged lower than other English level

classes. This, they argued, is because of the types of students enrolled in this class — which, according to Achen and Courant, is because there is a large number of students enrolled who will not go on to become English majors. Another possible factor for the apparent difficulty of STEM classes is the commonly used factors that determine grades in these classes. Biology Prof. Trisha Wittkopp who taught the popular premed course Biology 171, Intro to Ecology and Evolution, said she used a formulaic grading method for students determined through points earned from exams, discussion section preparation and participation, quizzes and iClicker scores, and does not round up. For classes like Wittkopp’s, she said, grades are determined by performance on largely nonsubjective examinations and are reflections on test taking acumen, rather than more qualitative assessments like argumentative essays she said are common to non-STEM classes. Introductory level classes compared with upper level classes The class data also suggests upper-level classes have higher grades in comparison with introductory level classes. The trend holds true across most departments and academic disciplines. Among 10 popular and academically diverse departments at the University, the average GPA of 100-level courses is 3.2613.

straight running-into-the-kicker penalties on fourth down, kicker Miguel Recinos missed a 46-yard field goal attempt. With both teams struggling as the first half progressed, it seemed like the Wolverines might escape. On Michigan’s third drive of the game, fifthyear senior wide receiver Jehu Chesson caught a 29-yard pass down the center of the field to Iowa’s 20-yard line. It set up for redshirt junior Ty Isaac’s sevenyard touchdown run that made it 10-0, Michigan. The Hawkeyes finally did get on the board, though, after Coluzzi pinned the Wolverines on their own 2-yard line with a 54-yard punt. Iowa defensive lineman Jaleel Johnson hit senior running back De’Veon Smith in the end zone for a safety on the second play of the ensuing drive. An unnecessary roughing call on redshirt sophomore defensive tackle Bryan Mone gave the Hawkeyes a first down on Michigan’s 9-yard line with just under three minutes until the break. It proved to be a costly error, as running back Akrum Wadley found open space to catch

a 3-yard touchdown pass. The second half didn’t start any better than the first for the Wolverines. On the punt return, fifth-year senior tight end Khalid Hill fumbled the ball on the 15-yard line right in front of the Iowa sideline, and the Hawkeyes were able to take the lead off of a 25-yard field goal. For the first time all season, Michigan trailed in the fourth quarter. “One of the things we had to do was make sure that they didn’t score,” said senior safety Dymonte Thomas about the second half’s defense. “If they don’t score, we win.” The Hawkeyes handed the Wolverines their first loss of the season, damaging Michigan’s hopes of a College Football Playoff appearance. It may have taken until mid-November, but the Wolverines proved to be mortal. After the game, Harbaugh was asked how hard it was to go undefeated. “It’s difficult,” he said. “But not insurmountable.” With just two undefeated FBS teams left in the nation, Saturday proved just how difficult it is.

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TRUMP From Page 1A control over both chambers of the legislature and the White Housefor the first time since 1928. “It’s really scary to know now that Republicans have everything. I think that’s really scary to Democrats — and all of us — because now he can get stuff done we didn’t think would be able to happen,” she said. “It’s really scary to see the policies that would happen since it would affect all of us.” Climate change Under President Barack Obama, the U.S. played a large role in the Paris Agreement, the most comprehensive international climate change agreement, passed in Paris in December 2015. If the deal is adhered to by 174 nations and the European Union that signed, temperature rises should be limited to 2 degrees Celsius. While Trump could not reverse the deal, he could still undermine the agreement by failing to meet the goals set for carbon limitations in the U.S. Trump has previously stated during the campaign that he does not believe climate change is a real phenomenon, and that he would end U.S. participation in the Paris agreement. LSA freshman Corey Lipton said early Wednesday morning that he fears Trump’s actions will negatively impact generations to come if he fails to fight to lower carbon emissions. “What’s more important is the long-term outcomes that Trump will cause,” he said. “First and foremost, the worst impact of this is going to be climate change. The damage that will be done in the next four years for the climate will be irreversible and will be noticed for the next hundreds of thousands of years. That’s just the tip of the iceberg of the damage that has been done tonight.” Mark Barteau, director of the UM Energy Institute and professor of advanced energy research, said Trump’s election is a step backward from the progress made over the past several decades toward combatting climate change. “I think it is a huge setback,” he said. “This level of cooperation that we saw in Paris was 40 years in the making. That potentially can be disrupted overnight. We are running out of time. Even with the track we are on, it would be difficult to stay below 2 degrees, so I would say it’s a tragedy.” Women’s issues Throughout the campaign, Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump highlighted her commitment to improving access to childcare and promoting women’s rights. However, Trump himself has contrasted some of those stances by suggesting abortion should be illegal and making lewd comments about touching women without their consent on a tape released in October. Many women have also said they are concerned about access to birth control due to the stances both Trump and his Vice President-elect Mike Pence have taken during the campaign. During his tenure as governor of Indiana, Pence worked to defund Planned Parenthood and restrict access to abortions. LSA freshman Marianne Drysdale said she is afraid the progress Planned Parenthood has made will be undone under the Trump administration. “I am a woman and I have worked for Planned Parenthood for two years, and I am really worried that all of that is going to go down the drain,” she said. “Trump is nominating a Supreme Court justice, and I’m disappointed that this percentage of the country

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is OK with a president who is outwardly bigoted.” Cutbacks on Planned Parenthood would severely impact women of lower economic status, Social Work Prof. Kristin Seefeldt said, by restricting access to their services such as breast and cervical cancer screenings. “It’s pretty likely that in the near future we will see dramatic cuts in the federal funding that Planned Parenthood receives,” she said. “I think that would have devastating effects on young women and women of lower socioeconomic status who really depend on the organization not just for birth control but for basic health services.” The economy According to data from The Michigan Daily’s election survey, the nation’s economy was one of the most important issues to students during the campaign. However, it is currently unclear Trump’s economic plan would entail. The idea of trickle-down economics, which was popularized during the Reagan administration and is part of Trump’s plan, revolves around the theory that higher tax cuts for the wealthy will benefit the lower classes as that money is reinvested in the economy. According to Donald Grimes, economist at the University’s Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the Economy, there is no strong evidence that trickle-down economics works better than social programs to stimulate the middle class, a key directive in the plan outlined by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. “There is not really strong evidence at the national level,” he said. “On average the low tax states do a little bit better, but not a lot. It’s not going to move the needle a great deal either way.” Grimes also noted that because of the lack of very wealthy individuals in Michigan will mean the state won’t see many benefits from this policy, aside from a marginal boost to the auto industry. “Michigan doesn’t have a lot of the rich,” he said. “So it would be a little bit below the U.S. average, but that would maybe provide some money for people to buy cars, so that might benefit Michigan.” On the other hand, Seefeldt said the high chance of cutbacks on social welfare programs will be detrimental to lower socioeconomic status Americans. “I worry a lot about what the consequences of Trump’s victory and both houses of Congress being controlled by Republicans will be for lower income families,” she said. “We are going to see cutbacks in the public safety net that is already pretty frayed as it is.” LSA junior Lauren Gallagher, president of the University’s chapter of Students for Hillary, wrote in an email interview that the most important economic issue for students is debt, noting that Trump has not outlined a comprehensive plan addressing higher education reform, leaving many students concerned. “The most pressing economic issue for most college graduates is college loan debt, an issue that Trump never mentioned or took a stance on during his campaign, so I have little hope that high rates will refinanced and that skyrocketing tuition prices will be addressed,” she wrote. Immigration One of the most prominent rallying cries of Trump’s campaign was the promise for tighter immigration laws, notably including his plan to build a wall on the border between the United States and Mexico. Trump has additionally called for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, an end to the

acceptance of refugees from countries like Syria and a ban on all Muslim immigration. Silvia Pedraza, professor of sociology and American culture, said the worst-case scenario on immigration would be if Trump followed through on all of his campaign promises, which she believes he is likely to attempt to do. “The worst-case scenario is if Trump does fulfill all his campaign promises,” she said. “If he makes good on all of them the next four years will be terrible … and he has said he will make good on all of them.” Pedraza also charged that Trump’s penchant for blaming the misfortunes of the working class on minorities fueled his rise to power. “He has scapegoated some people that are very vulnerable,” she said. “He has demonized them and put his finger on them and has told these people that what is wrong with your life is because of them. That’s what Hitler did with the Jews in Nazi Germany … once you do that it seems that a lot of people either believe it or do not oppose it.” Gallagher wrote Trump’s plans do not reflect the values of students who overwhelmingly supported Clinton throughout the election season. “As we saw with the high number of millennials who supported Hillary Clinton in the polls on Tuesday, we are a generation that values diversity and believes that a diverse country that supports all peoples is strongest,” she wrote. “Presidentelect Trump’s immigration plan stands in stark contrast to these ideals. Trump wants to deport large numbers of undocumented immigrants who call America home, he wants to severely restrict refugee resettlement and he wants to seal our Southern border in an unrealistic fashion.” This lack of support, Pedraza noted, could lead to backlash if these policies take effect, given the protests against Trump that have already taken place. “I think we are already seeing a backlash, young students and people in cities saying ‘this is not our president,’ ” she said. “I think there will be genuine protests from the part of many people in this country.” Nonetheless, not all students are concerned about the abilities of the Trump administration. LSA junior Enrique Zalamea, president of the University’s chapter of College Republicans, wrote in an email interview with the Daily he believes Trump will work to pass legislation to benefit the country. Considering policies moving forward, Zalamea wrote he hopes Trump will act on a number of issues, including a bipartisan effort on gun control. “Recently, Trump proposed new gun control policies, which were incredibly conciliatory and bipartisan,” he wrote. “If this brand of sensible diplomacy is any indication of Trump’s policy record going forward, then the only thing stopping us from achieving progress is the ignorant stigma behind supporting Donald Trump — of which we have unfortunately seen in spades on this campus.” Zalamea added that he thinks the presidency will be a successful one. “Right now the Republican establishment is extending the olive branch to the American people, and if we continue down this track I expect great things from Mr. Trump’s presidency,” he wrote. “That’s the kind of president we need after the political gridlock in Washington and the slow economic grind we’ve been having for the past eight years.”

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The aftermath of sexual assault ARIEL MALLETT

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he first time I remember it happening, I was standing on the rooftop of the Cathedral in Santiago de Compostela in Spain. I had just finished a 600-mile solo pilgrimage, in which I walked from Seville in the south of Spain to Santiago in the northwestern corner over the course of six weeks. I was taking a tour of the Cathedral of Santiago and on this tour you are permitted to walk along the rooftop and view the old city below. One minute, I am simply standing on top of this cathedral, the next, the building is crumbling around me and I am falling to my death. I imagined this, of course, as I am still here to write this. The point is to illustrate what is called an “intrusive thought,” one of five diagnostic criteria for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, a disorder I was diagnosed with in October 2015. This news came to me nearly four years after the first time I was raped, and only nine months after the most recent episode of sexual assault. In total, I have been raped four times. Only one of which happened while I was a student. All of which happened with people I knew. None of which happened in a dark alley behind a dumpster or while I was unconscious from drinking. The sad truth is that this is the reality of rape. Sexual violence against women is largely not committed by strangers at gunpoint as the media would like us to believe. It is committed in the safety of our own homes by those we know and trust. My story is about the aftermath of rape. What happens to survivors after the fact is so often ignored, minimized with a blanket statement or sensationalized when someone is brave enough to speak out about it (take the Stanford Rape Case). The truth is, though, that our suffering doesn’t end when the trauma stops, it is only the beginning. The truth is, not all of us have witnesses. The truth is, rape is a contest of “he said, she said” and more often than

not, what she says is denied its own validity. The truth is, reporting these crimes isn’t taken seriously. The truth is, Brock Turner only spent three months in jail for being caught in the act of raping an unconscious woman. The truth is, rape causes so many of us to suffer so much more after the physical act than the world cares to know. The truth is, unfortunately, that survivors of sexual assault often suffer in silence. PTSD is a mental disorder that I have to carry daily. For the six months after my pilgrimage, I lived (and still live) with intrusive thoughts, among other things. I envisioned myself being hit by a bus each time I crossed the road. I would walk into the bathroom and imagine that my roommate would be dead in the bathtub. Waiting at the bus stop, I expected to be shot down by a drive-by gunman. This was so common that I thought it was normal. I thought to myself, “the worst thing has already happened, so of course I imagine all these terrible things all the time.” I didn’t think I needed help; it just made sense that the world was a terrifying place. These are the milder symptoms of PTSD; others include flashbacks, mind and body disassociation, avoidance of activities and places, hypervigilance, general disinterest, disabling panic attacks caused by severe anxiety and depression spotted with suicidal episodes. I call PTSD my “invisible disability,” always there but never seen. I am able to function highly in daily life; I remain employed and in a healthy, long-term relationship, but my life is permeated with a constant feeling of fear and I struggle with a severe mental illness that only those closest to me witness. In some sense, having PTSD is like living as though you are dying. Your body is constantly on high alert, ready to take action against any danger, triggering the fight, flight or freeze response almost constantly. However, this becomes exhausting and disabling when simply standing at the bus stop is perceived as a true threat. I have been in a cognitive behavioral therapy program

for a year now. I’ve tried three different medication cocktails, of which one made me deeply suicidal and another made me gain 45 pounds in six months. My mind and body have finally settled on a combination of Zoloft, Abilify and Wellbutrin. A medication cocktail they call “well-loft” because it works so well for those of us who need it to leave the house in the morning. PTSD has severely impacted my relationship, draining us both and sending us to couples therapy to cope with the imbalance. It has taken away from my ability to explore the world on my own. When I was 19, I spent six weeks travelling Ecuador alone. A year and a half ago, I crossed the entire country of Spain on foot by myself. Now, I’m afraid of my own bathroom. It’s disorienting and disheartening to say the least. I once heard someone who struggles with severe depression say, “I must remember that my track record with bad days is 100 percent.” I want to thank this girl for describing resilience so eloquently. No matter how hard things get, I stand and I face them. Every day, I get up and I shout out into the world, “You will not take me!” I am strong and I am determined to win my life back. This is a battle, a battle against the invisible demons someone else handed me when they took away my dignity. A battle I must fight when I did nothing wrong. A battle that is so incredibly unfair. That makes me angry; it fills me with grief. Some days it drains my will to live. But every day, I stand and I face the battle, determined to win.

Ariel Mallett is a 2014 UM alum and works at University of Michigan’s International Institute.

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A dark day for Detroit

y now, we’ve started to This proposal could be beneficial figure out how much to the neighborhoods, but of a disaster Tuesday’s opponents argued that it would election was. The slow down growth Democratic Party and new development. KEVIN was served one of Proposal B, the SWEITZER Under the most thorough project would have to defeats they’ve receive $1 million in received this century, and order to be forced into the contract the Electoral College system with the neighborhood — a limit allowed Donald Trump to win that prevents many controversial the presidency. This means developments from being forced that a Republican-controlled into the contract. In the last 10 House of Representatives and years, only Little Caesars Arena Senate will likely allow whatever — the Detroit Red Wings’ new policy proposals Donald Trump Midtown arena — would have proposes to be easily passed. required a contract with the However, as I sat crying community. Once the votes were and wide awake Wednesday cast, Proposal A was defeated morning, the tears streaming down my face weren’t simply due to the defeat of Hillary Clinton. The city of Detroit was handed an incredible defeat up and down the ballot — a defeat that certainly threatens a lot of the growth that has been happening in Detroit over the last few years. Most monumentally, a surge of anti-tax Republican voters in the working-class suburbs of Macomb County led to the defeat of the Regional Transit Authority 54 percent to 46 percent, while plan, a plan that I endorsed Proposal B passed 53 percent to earlier in the year. This 47 percent. This is problematic defeat means that low-income because rather than coming to Detroit residents without a middle-ground conclusion cars must continue to endure in which community wishes the worst transit system in and business interests are America. Additionally, any respected, the debate over hopes of establishing any sort community benefits contracts of commuter train service to is largely over with little to no Ann Arbor was defeated in change for the community. this plan, sentencing Detroit Even races in metro Detroit to auto pollution for the were bad for Detroit proper. foreseeable future. L. Brooks Patterson, longThe losses for Detroit don’t time Oakland County county stop there. In one of the most executive, won his 7th term highly contested races of the in charge of Detroit’s wealthy year, an inability of community northern suburbs. Patterson has groups and business leaders spent his entire career trying to to come together led to the keep the people of Detroit down approval of proposal A and in as many ways as possible. He the defeat of proposal B, both came under fire for an article designed to mandate that profiling him titled “Drop Dead businesses receiving tax breaks Detroit!” in which he said that enter into a legally enforceable he wanted to “turn Detroit into contract with neighborhood an Indian reservation, where groups in the surrounding we herd all the Indians into the neighborhoods. Proposal A, which city, build a fence around it, and was supported by community then throw in the blankets and groups and was organized by corn.” Patterson hates Detroit grassroots organizations across with a burning passion, and his the city, differed from the re-election only serves to strain Detroit City Council-supported city/suburb relations even more. Proposal B only on the threshold Detroit’s Election Day was of tax breaks. terrible on the results end and on The difference between the the voting end. Voters across the two proposals was the threshold city faced incredible barriers to that mandates the community voting, including two-hour waits benefits contract. For Proposal A, and broken voting machines. any contract receiving more than In spite of all of this, voter $300,000 in tax abatements would turnout was higher than in 2012, have to enter into a contract with clocking in at 48.49 percent. the surrounding neighborhood. However, even with such a high

This election was a failure on all levels to prioritize the needs of cities like Detroit.

turnout and with 95 percent of the ballots cast in Detroit going to Hillary Clinton, Detroit couldn’t overcome the massive deficit that the rest of the state of Michigan dug itself in to. In the end, the race for Michigan was won by Donald Trump in the suburbs of Macomb County. This county, located northeast of Detroit, is the home of two of the largest municipalities in Michigan and had 67.3 percent of its voters cast a ballot. What sealed the deal for Trump was the appeal of “America first” to the county’s white, working class voters, with 53.6 percent of the normally Democratic county casting their ballots for Trump. Because of this election, Detroit faces unique problems. In addition to the disastrous “Urban Renewal” proposals — including a reinstatement of unconstitutional “stop and frisk” policies to attempt to reduce crime in urban areas — Trump’s wild economic proposals threaten the industries that make all of southeast Michigan work. On the state level, the Michigan House of Representatives and Michigan Senate are as Republican as ever, and Gov. Rick Snyder still holds power, even after his shameful and possibly illegal handling of the Flint water crisis. Republicans in Lansing can continue to not care about Michigan’s urban centers like usual, only this time, there is no end in sight. In all honesty, this wasn’t just Donald Trump’s fault. It wasn’t the state Republican Party’s fault. It wasn’t the racist L. Brooks Patterson’s fault either. It wasn’t even the fault of the Macomb County Trump voters who turned out to the polls like never before. This election was a failure on all levels to prioritize the needs of cities like Detroit. Everyone — Republican or Democrat — is responsible for the tragedy that fell upon Detroit this election. Only by getting real with one another about the real issue facing America’s cities can we hope to move forward. Detroit, and other cities, are real places filled with real people, and I hope that the cities of the future aren’t places that have been forgotten by political leaders and suburbanites alike. For now, this election leaves a dark shadow over Detroit, and the years of inequality and pain won’t go away soon. A solution must be found — the future of Detroit depends on it.

Kevin Sweitzer can be reached at ksweitz@umich.edu.

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s my friends and I watched the numbers on FiveThirtyEight and CNN’s coverage tick toward a Donald Trump victory, we tried to hold back our tears. I watched the evening unfold with a group of young women around me — all from different backgrounds, all brought together because we were hoping, desperately, that love and compassion and reason would win. I was frightened for my bodily autonomy because of the normalization of sexual assault and degrading violence against women exhibited in Trump’s rhetoric. Another friend was concerned for her immigrant parents, who came to this country in search of liberty and equality, and were now facing racism and legislation designed to destroy everything they have worked for, from their small businesses to their family’s health care. Another friend was concerned that LGBTQ rights were being stripped away by ideology that believes there’s only one way to fit into the American narrative. Friends called, texted, FaceTimed, tweeted, posted, shared and reached out because they were crying and didn’t understand how the America we have known since we were 10 years old could betray us like this. The mood fluctuated between anxiety so bad it caused vomiting, to anger and frustration at the

progress we were losing, to abject despair and loss of faith in our nation’s structure and in our fellow Americans. We were together, though, and love did win the popular vote, if not the structural vote. The singular thing preventing me from hopelessness is the knowledge that millions of Americans felt the same way I did that night, and the same way I continue to feel today. The single thing bringing me hope right now is the notion that we can come together — those of us hurting and terrified — and make a difference by caring for each other, especially women, people of color, religious minorities, LGBTQ people, disabled folks and every other group Trump has demeaned and denigrated every day. I can’t understand any other way to make sense of these results than to work harder than I ever have in my life to ensure our country works toward common sense, compassion, reason and justice for all Americans and American citizens. I know that millions of us exist, and we need to do this work. Young people, your vote mattered. Young voters in Michigan, your vote mattered so, so dearly. Young people, take your time to grieve and be exhausted and feel defeated. And then know that once you have processed this in your own way, now is the time to act. Come together with us. We need to build our coalition, support each other through non-

governmental means, advocate for one another, practice compassionate and unfearing alliance and try desperately to fight against the horrific actions and sentiments of this man. I am so disappointed and so frightened and so upset. I am also so determined to find the good folks in this community, and to build this community and fight the good fight every single day. Not for myself, but for every single boy and girl and person of color and LGBTQ person and differently abled and Muslim person I know and every other person who will have their rights and dignity tested by this man’s disgusting and thoughtless policies. I am disgusted and horrified and upset, and I know this feeling is powerful. Let’s harness this power. Let’s turn out in record numbers to volunteer for organizations supporting refugees, reproductive rights, minority rights and more. Let’s turn out in record numbers to protest discriminatory policies. Let’s turn out in record numbers to vote in 2018 and infuse the Senate, the House of Representatives and the state assemblies and governorships with love, tolerance and dignity. Let’s turn out in record numbers in 2020 to renounce violence and despair and racism. Let’s not give in. Let’s grieve, let’s fight and let’s not let this moment go to waste. Madline Nowicki is a School of Information junior.

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Athi-Patra Ruga is no stranger to national turmoil. His home country of South Africa has often seen attention for its contentious politics, frequent protests and slowly healing racial divisions. But this year, the West has experienced its own political turmoil — and Ruga was there to see it. A work trip to Europe this June placed the artist in the epicenter of protest and anxiety over the Brexit vote, in which the United Kingdom decided to pull out of the European Union. And now, here in Ann Arbor for a Penny Stamps lecture last week, Ruga had the opportunity to witness one of the strangest and most divisive periods in American history. He arrived just before Election Day, and watched firsthand as a liberal college town convulsed from the inside out. “I have the honor of always being away from home when all these major reactionary things happen,” he said in a phone interview Wednesday. “I was in Denmark when Brexit happened, and then now I’m here for — this.” This “right place, right time” attitude may be no coincidence. At the core of Ruga’s work are these divisions that have come to characterize modern life, as well as the increasingly blurred lines that make easy categorization — between races, countries, even genders — impossible today. The chaotic color and pageantry of politics merges with media, art, even reality TV to create an immersive experience for his viewer that seeks to imitate and mirror, yet also to challenge the validity of the “real” world around them. This riot of visual stimulation is often overwhelming, but never without purpose or intent. After all, contemporary culture is just as dizzying as the alternative realities, the utopias, that Ruga whips up in galleries and museums around the world. Ruga’s eclectic constructions, on the other hand, cause viewers to question their reality, though it’s up to the visitor to sort out exactly what it all means — and that’s okay. “I start speaking to people in a way that is beyond the

pedagogical, didactic — you know, those big words,” he said with a wry laugh. “I need to immerse people whereby they somehow feel they can’t escape it. For me it boils down to speaking about alternative realities, and the process by which alternative realities are built.That’s how politics are born: we all want to create a new world.” In many ways, this critical, considered attitude toward cultural constructions developed through Ruga’s childhood in a rapidly changing South Africa, a country with a history that both intersects with and diverges from the United States in key aspects, from the legacy of racism to debates over colonization. For Ruga, the major difference in the politics of the two countries is that the memory of legal racism has slowly faded for some Americans, becoming politically stale and ceasing to have the same degree of power over the votes of citizens who do not experience discrimination directly. “We have such a recent memory of (racism) that our parents really still have those raw stories of apartheid, of the movement. We can never take it for granted — and that’s why we’re such a politically minded youth,” he said. “There are many South Africas as well. I come from the South Africa that is always reminded of the cost at which freedom came ... for us, the power of voting is something that is totally inculcated into us. We know that voting is such a powerful thing; it has changed our world. So we will not ever let go of that.” In other ways, though, Ruga sees himself as a global citizen, something that has influenced his work as much if not more than the nationality listed on his passport. He came of age in the 1980s and 1990s, a turbulent time for South Africa which saw it not only undergoing a democratic transition, but also fully emerging onto the global stage for the first time since the walls of apartheid went up in the late 1940s. Along with this came unprecedented access to world media, which had long been censored and limited by low access to modern technology. Like previous generations, Ruga was raised on the classic TV program “Good Morning South Africa,” but also on MTV

and nightly news from all over the globe. One of his earliest memories is watching the Berlin Wall crumble during 1989 protests. “That memory stuck in my head — that people actually could break down, literally, borders, and step across. And this was also coming at a time when our borders were falling,” Ruga explained. “So I think that I’ve always had this idea of daring to go where I’m told not to go, either by history or marketing or society.” Though he grew up in a highly literary family — his father was a journalist and editor — not all Ruga’s media influences were “highbrow.” Ruga takes pride in the many references to popular culture, particularly fashion and reality TV, that abound in his art. He revels in the sense of sacrilege, of blasphemy, that this creates in the traditional conception of high art, something that has been dominated both by certain types of people and certain types of worldviews for a long time. “It’s disruption. We are living in an age whereby truly defining what high art is no longer (clear),” he said. “I love art that is in the hands of the people. It shakes up a very static, patriarchal, man-centered thing. Saying that all these things that are ‘low art’ are ‘high art,’ I’m basically disrupting a centuriesold idea of creation, which we have seen is not good because it starts isolating people of certain colors, women and social classes. I take pleasure in still knowing that it disrupts.” Ruga sees this tendency in the art world as well as in the wider world, including politics in both South Africa and the United States. “Populist” candidates have becoming increasingly prevalent in both countries, with both Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa, and newly-chosen President-elect Donald Trump gaining their base support by appealing to working-class citizens and embodying the social values of certain sectors of the electorate. Politics will continue to divide people based on their identities. Ruga’s work reminds us that this is far from an American phenomenon. After all, perhaps the United States is just becoming a little bit more like the rest of the world.

FILM REVIEW

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Pamela Adlon pulls through in the stirring ‘Better Things’ finale Over 10 episodes, the drama has established itself as an FX mainstay show the nitty-gritty facet of difficult family dynamics. Daily Arts Writer “I suck as a daughter, suck as a mother,” Sam laments, as she pulls Over the course of 10 episodes, back into her driveway. FX’s “Better Things” has proven Funnily enough, the following to be yet another fantastic addition busy sequence begs to differ on to the canon of groundbreaking that argument. As Sam wakes TV shows in this era of “peak up her youngest, Duke (Olivia TV.” Not only has Edward, “Crazy it demonstrated Ex-Girlfriend”), skillful storytelling we observe the through the controlled chaos writing of creator that begins to “Better Things” Pamela Adlon ensue in the Fox (“King of the Hill”) household. Sam’s Season Finale and co-executive vexing middle Thursdays at 10 producer Louis daughter Frankie p.m. C.K. (“Louie”), but (Hannah Alligood, “Better Things” “Paper Towns”) FX has also become and petty oldest an anomaly in and Max (newcomer of itself. The halfMikey Madison) hour sitcom captures characters are fighting over clothes; her side rarely seen on television — single piece is asking her to send him mothers, young girls and middle- racy pictures; her housekeeper aged and elderly women — and comes in late with an ache from a depicts them in an authentic, previous night of food poisoning; thought-provoking light. and she has to take care of some Adlon has been a particularly paperwork. growing creative force since This part of the episode, “Better Things” premiered in underscored by the minimalist September. She showcases her electronica of Laurie Anderson’s comedic and dramatic talents as “O Superman,” is anxietythe writer and star of the show, inducing to watch, but it is playing the thick-skinned mother nevertheless paced extremely and struggling actress Sam Fox. well. Thanks to Adlon’s auxiliary In the show’s first season finale, position as the episode’s director, “Only Women Bleed,” Adlon she knows exactly how to show makes a compelling case for the all the moving parts to Sam’s roles underlying importance of “Better as mother, businesswoman and Things:” motherhood is difficult sexual being and the difficulty and emotionally taxing, but at the in fulfilling all those roles end of the day, it can be the most simultaneously. Though she is rewarding part of a woman’s life. clearly exhausted by the end of We see the ebb and flow of it, Sam certainly doesn’t suck as Adlon’s frustrations and triumphs a mother; at least she’s trying to as a matriarch in the very first make everything work, despite no sequence of the episode, where one ever seeming to acknowledge Sam plans on spending a weekend her efforts. with her eccentric British mother, Her annoyance continues Phyllis (Celia Imrie, “Bridget when she has to bring Frankie Jones’s Baby”). During a long, out of school for the day for uninterrupted take, Sam and using the boy’s bathroom. Phyllis begin to argue to the point During a conversation between where Sam expresses that she the two, though, there seems doesn’t want to spend time with to be a disconnect between the her mother. It’s a heartbreaking, two that mirrors the emotional sad moment in their already barrier between Sam and her complicated relationship, but own mom. Sam is upset because “Better Things” isn’t afraid to Frankie’s action and subsequent SAM ROSENBERG

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Director Barry Jenkins has created the perfect film with ‘Moonlight’ Coming-of-age drama explores growing up poor, Black and gay esque structure. They don’t feel like three separate actors playing Daily Arts Writer one character, they feel like one man, each one growing into the To say that “Moonlight” is next and molded from who he was a movie about one single thing before. would be to misunderstand it In “Little,” the first chapter fundamentally. At its crux, the of the story, Chiron meets Juan film is about a boy (Mahershala Ali, growing up poor, “Luke Cage”) a drug Black and gay. dealer who serves But it’s also about as a father figure drug addiction and role model. He “Moonlight” and poverty. It’s takes Chiron to the Michigan Theater about the fragile ocean and teaches frame that holds him to swim, A24 up collective simultaneously expectations of lifting him up and manhood, and the letting him go. And ways those expectations are both even though he is only in the first challenged and reinforced by the chapter, Juan’s influence is felt in men who don’t quite fit within every frame. their bounds. It’s about love. It’s The precision of the film is about identity. It’s about humanity. astounding. Director Barry Surprisingly, it tells all this in two Jenkins (“Medicine for hours. Melancholy”) knows exactly The film — adapted from when to keep his camera close Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play and exactly when to pull away. “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Silence, noise and white noise Blue”— follows Chiron through are mixed to completely upend three chapters in his life, each viewers’ expectations for and titled after a different name Chiron understandings of Chiron’s world. is given: Little, Chiron, Black. We’re both inside Chiron’s head Chiron is expertly played by and far away from him, knowing newcomer Alex Hibbert, Ashton him only as far as he lets himself Sanders (“The Retrieval”) and be known. Trevante Rhodes (“If Loving Every scene, every frame is You Is Wrong”) in each of these important. I could point to any chapters. Each actor captures one shot and call it equally the the essence of Chrion, giving the most heartbreaking or the most film the illusion of a “Boyhood”- uplifting moment in the film. MADELEINE GAUDIN

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That’s what makes “Moonlight” so difficult to write about. It knows exactly what it wants to be, and it is it. It knows exactly what it wants to say, and it says it. On paper, many of the characters risk becoming stereotypes of this sort of narrative — the drug-addicted mother, the criminal father figure. The characters break free from those bounds not because the film intends to overturn expectations, but because it isn’t interested in them at all. Naomie Harris (“Spectre”) carves herself a heart-wrenching arc out of only a handful of scenes as Chiron’s junkie mother, Paula. Jenkins saves his characters from dehumanization because he does not make them symbols. Any feelings of universality come from the fact that what they share with their audience is humanity. Just like “Moonlight” is not the sum of its parts, no character is the sum of their facts. Deaths and prison sentences that happen between chapters are mentioned only in passing. Part of what makes the characters so human is the fact that their lives continue even when we aren’t watching. “Moonlight” is equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, but not in the sense that those two factors even each other out. Instead it digs until it finds hope in the heartbreak and it stays there. Simply put, it’s a perfect movie.

punishment has ruined her schedule for the day, but Frankie is mad about how alienating the girl’s bathroom is at her school. Both of their concerns are valid, but what makes “Better Things” great is that it neither downplays nor trivializes the complex relationship between mother and daughter. This theme unexpectedly unravels into something more intricate and unnerving, as Max later tells Sam that perhaps Frankie is actually a boy, using her traumatizing experience in the girl’s bathroom as a cover. Max may not be right either, but her remark reveals a sobering truth about her daughter’s ambiguous gender identity, as well as the generational divide between daughters and mothers. Sam’s revelation over this new reality for her daughters will most likely be discussed in the show’s second season — FX already renewed the show. But as troubling as it may be for Sam that the Fox household could have one less woman, “Better Things” will definitely portray that impending situation with the sensitivity it deserves. That being said, the thread between the Fox women remains strong, their connection fully realized in the episode’s last sequence. While driving down the freeway, Sam, Max, Frankie and Duke sing along to the namesake of the episode title, Alice Cooper’s “Only Women Bleed.” As sentimental as these final moments are, “Better Things” does what it does best; it recognizes the beauty in the ordinary chaos of life and holds onto the love in a family that often spews hateful things at one another. In the very last scene, the words “Dedicated to my daughters” appears at the bottom of the screen. After a heavy week that has tested people’s hope, love and patience for a country that has been spewing hateful things for a long time, it only makes sense that “Better Things” ends its phenomenal first season with such a triumphant, relevant message.

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‘Doctor Strange’ fails as a superhero fantasy film

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Marvel misses the mark with Benedict Cumberbatch vehicle JACOB RICH

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At the core of cinema is the uniquely human desire to When the drugs hit in newly-legalized Massachusetts transcend our own bodies. The earliest films were exhibitionist joy in “Chronicle,” the scene which their imagination fills in displays of beauty and power — where Tony Stark brutalizes his the gaps of the already excellent muscle-bound men performing terrorist captors with his suit of depiction of spacetime-bending athletic feats; graceful dancers armor (can we call this particu- magic. But when these spells are twirling their extravagant lar phenomenon “Bushsploita- translated to the silver screen, skirts. Audiences tion?”). that possibility space between And on its frames is filled with … more paid to observe abilities and traits surface, “Doctor frames. 24 frames per second, that they did not Strange” seems to be precise. It’s the perfect to satisfy both number of frames to simulate have themselves. “Doctor Strange” spectrums reality for the audience, as many As cinema developed, the of fantasy filmmakers have discovered Rave & Quality 16 swimmingly. It over the years. film apparatus Marvel Studios became one of concerns a secret This process literalizes voyeurism. We cabal of magicians magic to an uncomfortable on the fringes of degree. Instead of marveling found ourselves watchers of Eastern society, (MARVELing?) at the secret gardens and passionate and a traumatized Western possibility of what real-life trysts. Capra let us in on an doctor who travels to them to magic could look like, we know intimate vision of heaven; heal his broken body. We watch precisely what it would look like Hitchcock filled rooms with as the laws of the unfeeling, — slightly above-average CGI. our subconscious violent and indifferent universe are bent And that’s just not as exciting, sexual desire. and broken until we understand not as effective a fantasy. That’s probably about The superhero film, the that everything, not nothing, predominant cinematic pop- matters. It also presents us enough film student jargon cultural force, exists on a spec- with the same type of power- for one review. And besides, muscle-rippling this film has just as many trum between exhibitionism slinging, and voyeurism. These films combat that so satisfies us in the problems grounded in the exhibit sexual bodies perform- same way it did in the last eight casually observable. My following impossible tasks of speed Marvel Studios films, only this up research question is this: and strength and allow us to time with arcane spells instead How bad do I feel for Rachel both act as a voyeur to humans of bullets, alien powers and McAdams? This poor woman has had to play the most basic, receiving impossible abilities mutant abilities. But Doctor Strange, as a vanilla girlfriend character in and feel the emotions that come with such transcendence. Con- character and an idea, simply more films than I could possibly sider the scene in which we works better on the comic list here, though I shall now jump across skyscrapers with book page than on the screen, try: “About Time,” “Midnight Spider-Man in the first person, and uniquely so. Google Steve in Paris,” “The Time Traveler’s the scene when Michael B. Jor- Ditko’s original ’60s renditions Wife” (she really loves timedan discovers his ability to fly of Strange and observe the traveling, doesn’t she?), “The and cries out to the world with manner in which spells are Notebook,” “The Vow,” “Aloha,” juxtaposed in side-by-side “Southpaw.” Oh, and “Doctor frames to be digested at the Strange,” where she fills maybe speed the reader chooses. The the least interesting superhero reader (“true believer,” as Stan girlfriend role I’ve ever seen. Lee would put it) is allowed an But then again, she was really enormous possibility space in good in “Spotlight,” and she has

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a lot of money. My conclusion is that I feel moderately bad for Rachel McAdams. Though “Doctor Strange” as a whole is not as vanilla as McAdams’s character (Cumberbatch’s American accent is sexy, some Nolanesque action is good, some of the magical transcendence sequences are vaguely structurally innovative), it is merely a competent entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Actually, it fails in certain ways that most other films in the MCU don’t. The humor is f lat and stale, especially compared to Joss Whedon’s rollicking jokes in “The Avengers” (a Beyoncé joke feels like a pathetic executive board-manufactured plea to hip millennial Twitter). The romance feels sexless and droll compared to the genderneutral, broadly exploitative excitement found in “Captain America: Civil War.” And although they’re not MCU films, the superb slow-mo Quicksilver setpieces in Bryan Singer’s last two “X-Men” films wipe the f loor with the climactic time-manipulation sequence in “Doctor Strange.” “Doctor Strange” is the least effective Marvel Studios film since 2013’s “Thor: The Dark World.” “Captain America: Civil War” and even “Deadpool” are the better superhero films this year. In those films, my voyeuristic, exhibitionist fanwankery was satisfied. “Doctor Strange” left me yearning for much, much more.

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OWA CITY — The elevator doors slid open, and an alcohol-scented roar of elation slipped in. What had been a car full of quiet reporters was suddenly permeated by a smattering of fans in JACOB black and gold, GASE including a wide-eyed, grinning child who was so caught up in the jubilee that he tried to jump on the elevator without his family. (They quickly pulled him back out.) That same sea of black and gold had also taken over the stairwell, the concourse and the field itself, with chants of “LET’S GO HAWKS” shaking the core of Kinnick Stadium. The mob eventually scattered, and the chants faded into loud, celebratory choruses of Toby Keith’s “Red Solo Cup” in the stadium’s surrounding parking lots some 30 minutes later. They say crazy things can

happen at Kinnick, and the No. 3 Michigan football team learned it the hard way Saturday night. Of course, the Wolverines’ coach, Jim Harbaugh, already knew it. Thirty-one years ago, he was the quarterback of a No. 2 Michigan team that rolled into Iowa City to face No. 1 Iowa, with the winner taking the driver’s seat for a Rose Bowl bid. The Wolverines lost that game, 12-10, on a last-second 29-yard field goal. The fans stormed the field in seconds and ended up dismantling one of the goal posts. Harbaugh said then, “It felt like someone reached in and pulled everything out.” Harbaugh was on the sideline Saturday when history repeated itself. This time, it was a 33-yard field goal from Keith Duncan as the clock stuck zero — a kick that snapped No. 3 Michigan’s undefeated season and brought the Hawkeye faithful over the barricades and onto the field, this time to celebrate a 14-13 victory. But this wasn’t an undefeated Iowa team with Rose Bowl aspirations — the Hawkeyes were 5-4 entering the game, and

punter Ron Coluzzi might have been their most impactful player on the field Saturday. This wasn’t a hard-fought battle of two dominant teams where the Wolverines came up just short at the end. It was a lesson of what can happen for Michigan when everything goes wrong. Earlier this season, the Wolverines knocked off Wisconsin in Ann Arbor because of redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight’s ability to throw a timely deep ball. His fourth-quarter 46-yard touchdown pass to fifthyear senior receiver Amara Darboh ended up being the difference in a 14-7 win. But Saturday, Speight couldn’t hit any long passes — he underthrew a few to Darboh that could have been intercepted, and he airmailed Darboh near the end zone in the fourth quarter on a drive where Michigan had to settle for a field goal. Even a pass that he put on fifth-year senior receiver Jehu Chesson’s hands was stripped away for an Iowa interception. It just wasn’t Speight’s night, and

he finished with a season-low 4.0 yards per attempt. “Just an off night, I guess,” he said. “(The passing game) just wasn’t really clicking, and that starts with me.” The Wolverines have been a well-disciplined team all year long, averaging 4.7 penalties a game but saving most of them for inconsequential moments. Saturday, they still only had five penalties, but all had a tangible effect on the game. In the first quarter, freshman linebacker and special teams standout Devin Bush get ejected for targeting the punter (despite the fact that said punter had already stumbled and somersaulted without even being touched). Later in the first, Michigan ran into the same punter on two consecutive fourth-down plays to give Iowa a first down. In the second, redshirt sophomore defensive tackle Bryan Mone’s unnecessary roughness penalty set up the Hawkeyes’ lone touchdown of the game. And finally — worst of all — redshirt junior linebacker Mike McCray committed a facemask penalty at midfield to put Iowa on the brink of field goal

range on the game’s final drive. All season, the Wolverines have managed to keep their offense on the field by picking up key third downs and giving the defense time to rest. Against the Hawkeyes, they scored only one touchdown, had five three-and-outs, took a safety and lost the time-of-possession battle by five minutes. Still, Michigan’s defense largely held its own — the Wolverines held Iowa to 4-for-16 on third down, and senior cornerback Channing Stribling nearly saved the game with an interception. And then Michigan’s offense thanked him by promptly going three-and-out again. The Wolverines can’t even blame the kicking game anymore — fifth-year senior Kenny Allen proved he’s well past his earlyseason struggles by making both of his field goals, including a careerlong 51-yarder that would have stood as the game-winner until Iowa answered it at the end. In the end, most of Michigan’s strengths were neutralized, and the hostile environment just got wilder.

“Guys weren’t really hearing play calls and stuff, because (the fans) were going nuts,” Speight said. “Any time you come to Iowa — I mean, Coach told us before the game and after the game about when he came into Iowa and they lost on a last-second field goal. It happens. It’s football.” Harbaugh’s second crazy night at Kinnick truly was the perfect storm of ineptitude from Michigan — the kind of ineptitude that the Wolverines can’t afford to show against Indiana next week, nor in Columbus in two weeks, and certainly not in the postseason. Michigan had already seen what can happen when everything is firing on all cylinders, and now it’s seen what can happen when nothing is. The Wolverines are lucky to have most of their goals still alive, but this loss makes some of those goals seem like a long shot. The dream of perfection died Saturday — it was swallowed up by the black-and-gold mass that flooded every inch of Kinnick Stadium. Now, Michigan has to make sure its season doesn’t die there, too.

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Sports are not an escape from politics I appreciate the need for distraction, but this won’t be a sports column today. Something unthinkable happened last week, so I’m going to think about it. I’m going to ask you to do the same. MAX If you’re BULTMAN reading this, you’re probably a sports fan, and that’s great, because it means we have something in common. Over the next weeks and months, you’re going to hear how that means we should come together, forget politics and unite over sports. It’s tempting to do that — to ignore the most raw, visceral emotions we’ve felt through this election cycle — and instead high-five over touchdowns. I am begging you to reject that opportunity. If you are a mourner, and you mourn through sports, by all means, mourn. If you are a worrier, and sports calm you, by all means, watch. No one is saying you shouldn’t still enjoy them. But to treat sports as an escape from politics is a dangerous proposition. The truth is that sports can’t be separated from politics. Politics are everywhere in sports, from the power dynamics between athletes and owners and leagues, to the statements we make in the different ways we praise athletes of different races and genders. If we have willfully ignored that, it’s on us to correct it right now. Sports fans have sports friends, which gives us the perfect chance to start the dialogues that lead to change. A lot of what I know about social justice came from a

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Football can be a calming influence, but the game encompasses the same political themes found in other walks of life.

mentor I had at a sports writing internship. After work (and sometimes during), we would talk about the politics of sports. Our friendship changed the ways I thought about the names “Redskins” and “Indians,” the ways I watched and praised female athletes and my fundamental approach to covering sports. They were formative conversations, ones that changed how I see the world — even outside of sports. Currently, that friend is out of sports writing. He was never afraid to speak out against injustice, and when he did, the common response from fans was to tell him to stick to sports. He didn’t, and I want to follow that lead. I’m still going to cover sports,

and I’m still going to give it my all. But I’m also not going to be shy about writing about the politics inherent to the games we love. When athletes kneel during the national anthem, they are trying to tell us something. When they speak out about not having rights to their own brands despite driving multimillion dollar industries, they are trying to tell us something. So who the hell are we to tell them we don’t want to hear it? The athletes we cheer for don’t get to escape those realities. It’s entirely unfair to use them so that we can. I suspect this column will be unpopular for the same reason so many like it are. Sports are comfortable because we

Wilson sets tone for season

consume them in our spaces, on our terms. That’s why, when athletes speak out, those opposed to their beliefs try to quiet them. We don’t tend to like the political battleground invading our place of refuge. I don’t mean to be an alarmist, but I’ve had alarms ringing non-stop in my head for the last week. I’m a straight white man, so I’m writing this from a place of immense privilege, but I am petrified at what is to come. I adore writing about sports, but every time I’ve tried since Tuesday, it feels hollow. It is hollow. Lives changed last week, and yet there I was on Saturday night, frantically writing about how the Michigan football team could move on from a loss on a

Michigan rolls Niagara NATHANIEL CLARK

DeVante Jaylen Wilson, better know as DJ, was introduced by his namesake back in September. Jalen Rose, who was the inspiration behind Wilson’s middle name, was going through the Michigan roster one by one. But when Rose arrived on the redshirt sophomore’s cue card for the introduction, he seemed surprised to find a fringe player proudly owning his number five. Despite their shared jersey number, Rose and Wilson couldn’t be more different players. Rose was a guard. Wilson is a forward. Rose was an instant star. Wilson redshirted his freshman year. The differences go on to even the shorts they prefer. Rose famously loathed the short-shorts that were the trend in the early 90s. But Wilson is one of the few still sporting short-shorts today. But after the Wolverines’ opening two games — both wins over Howard and IUPUI — it looks like the script is slowly starting to change. Wilson came off the bench in both outings and put together the two most complete performances of his career thus far. The redshirt sophomore recorded a career high eight rebounds accompanied by nine points against the Bison, and followed that up with a career high 14 rebounds Sunday. “Defensively, last year, we couldn’t get him on the floor,” said Michigan coach John Beilein. “Now he’s spent a year getting better. If he says to himself, ‘I am a rebounder and defender,’ he’ll get baskets. These guys will find him when he’s open.” The past two years, the Wolverines have lacked a dynamic forward who can aggressively crash the board and effectively guard the perimeter. Michigan has had to rely on players like redshirt junior guard Duncan Robinson and senior guard Zak Irvin to not only face-guard opponents, but also drop back and get in the mix for rebounds. But Robinson and Irvin don’t have the height or build to

In the early minutes of the Michigan women’s basketball game against 35 NIAGARA MICHIGAN 107 Niagara, the Wolverines committed five turnovers. But Michigan’s early sloppiness became a distant memory by the end of the contest, as the Wolverines dominated Niagara to the tune of a 107-35 victory. Six Michigan players scored at least 10 points during Sunday’s game, and the team coughed up the ball just twice throughout the remainder of the game. “I thought we did a great job of sharing the basketball, making plays, giving everyone an opportunity to contribute,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “The most impressive thing for me was that we started the game with five turnovers early and then we only had two for the rest of the game. And that was an area where we weren’t really happy the other night. So I think we improved in that area.” Just like during its win against Oakland on Friday, Michigan turned to sophomore center Hallie Thome to score inside. Of the Wolverines’ first five scores, three were Thome layups. The early move paid off as junior guard Katelynn Flaherty made a three-pointer 27 seconds after Thome’s third layup. Michigan cruised to the end of the first quarter with a 29-12 edge while Flaherty finished the game with 14 points. “We want Hallie and Katelynn to get as many touches in the game as possible,” Barnes Arico said. “That’s our first look every game to see if we can get Hallie and Katelynn involved early. I think other teams try to take those two away specifically, that’s the goal of other teams, that ‘If we can shut down Hallie Thome and Katelynn Flaherty

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DJ Wilson finished Sunday’s game with seven points, 14 rebounds and five blocks.

matchup with more tradional forwards in the position. That’s why Wilson’s versatility has become noticeable on the court and on the stat sheet. “Defense was much better,” Beilein said. “DJ Wilson is really changing the way we guard. We can switch more because he can guard five positions.” Beilein knew all along Wilson had the ability and talent to find a major role on this Michigan roster. He just needed a boost in confidence he hadn’t received going into previous seasons. Playing behind the likes of Irvin, Robinson and transfers Kam Chatman and Aubrey Dawkins has been daunting at times for Wilson. He could never figure out his place in that rotation. But the departures of Chatman and Dawkins — paired with the arrival of the defensive and frontcourt minds of assistants Billy Donlon and Saddi Washington — have turned around the redshirt sophomore’s mindset. “I think he was kind of passive on the fact that he himself is a great player,” said senior guard Derrick Walton. “He was playing

behind some great players as well. I think he’s accepted the fact that he’s one of the key contributors on this team. His role is non-negotiable. We need him. I think that’s the biggest difference in his mindset.” Wilson’s seven points, 14 rebounds and five blocks against the Jaguars are just a preview of what the Wolverines are going to need out of him. Points will come for Wilson, but his defensive abilities are what Michigan is going to need to lean on the forward for. He may not light up arenas like the most famous number five in Michigan basketball history used to do, but Wilson will still make his teammates and fans happy with the effort he’ll display on the court from here on out. “I smile every time he walks into the game, because I know for a fact he’s going to take care of those things for us,” Walton said. “He’s been great. He had a great summer. He was great even last year when he didn’t get a chance to play. I’m just excited he’s getting his opportunity to shine. He’s going to be a great player.”

Max Bultman can be reached at bultmanm@ umich.edu or on Twitter @m_bultman. Please @ him.

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last-second field goal. That is not the kind of moving on I wanted to be thinking about. The fact of the matter is that politics aren’t going away. Now, more than ever, we as a society have to be attentive to politics at all times, even in seemingly non-political arenas. They are a taboo topic that we’re taught to avoid, but it’s time to break that trend. Ignorance has consequences. We can either have the unpleasant talks now, or we can realize what we missed later. It’s tempting to stick to sports. But it’s imperative that we don’t.

we can be successful against Michigan.’ “That’s why I think it’s so great that other people are stepping up. But if we have the opportunity to get Hallie or Katelynn the ball, we think they’re gonna be successful.” The Wolverines dominated even more in the second quarter as they outscored the Purple Eagles, 27-6, to take a 56-18 lead at halftime. Freshman guard Kysre Gondrezick continued to demonstrate why she was so highly touted, tallying eight points in the second quarter alone out of 12 on the day. Michigan showed even less mercy in the third and fourth quarters as Michigan pieced together a 29-0 run that lasted for about 10 minutes. Junior guard Maria Backman scored seven of her career-high 13 points during that span. “I feel great,” Backman said. “We got the win, and that’s the first and foremost thing that’s most important. I think having teammates that like to share the ball so much, it’s an ode to them.” The early blowout allowed Michigan to showcase freshmen for extended periods of time. Every player on the roster saw the court for at least 11 minutes, and freshman guard Kayla Robbins played for 21. Robbins made the most of her time on the floor, attaining the Wolverines’ first doubledouble of the season. She tallied 13 points and 11 rebounds against Niagara. While it is unlikely that the Wolverines will be tested in home contests versus Howard or Western Michigan, who finished 327th and 150th, respectively, in last year’s Rating Percentage Index, more challenging contests are not far away. Michigan will travel to the Virgin Islands for the Paradise Jam tournament and will play three games. One of them is against Florida State, who is currently ranked 12th in the Associated Press poll. A lot will be learned about the true character of this team then.

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‘M’ still seeking consistency The Michigan hockey team’s season has been about as easy to predict as a slot machine. The Wolverines have blown out the No. 4 team in the country, lost decisively to an unranked team and won in a shootout against an MIKE in-state rival. PERSAK While No. 18 Michigan (5-4-1) has gotten stellar performances from freshmen goaltenders Hayden Lavigne and Jack LaFontaine — even though they’ve faced nearly 40 shots in multiple games — it has also seen goaltenders give up easy goals in close games. The Wolverines have had games where their senior leaders haven’t produced anything, and games in which senior forward Alex Kile has scored from his knees. Freshman forward Will Lockwood has impressed throughout the season, but his fellow freshmen have experienced growing pains. Through 10 games, nothing has been certain, and trends have been few. Perhaps the best representation of that unpredictability occurred this weekend against Boston. In Friday night’s game, the already-young Michigan team was without four of its seniors. Kile, forward Max Shuart, defenseman Nolan De Jong and goaltender Zach Nagelvoort were all suspended, yet the Wolverines played perhaps their best game so far, dominating 4-0. The next day, when those seniors came back, the team couldn’t maintain its momentum, losing 4-2. So though Michigan has shown it can hang with some of the top teams, it just hasn’t shown there’s any rhyme or reason to when they do and when they don’t. “I think we’ve got to grow from this,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson of the team’s performance against Boston. “There’s more positive than there is negative, but we’ve got to build on that positive part of our game and our team.” Part of that growth could come from some clarity in terms of a starting goaltender. Lavigne has accrued two shutouts in his first four starts, and his .956 save percentage is the best in the country. And after LaFontaine had a bit of a rocky outing in Saturday’s weekend finale against Boston, Lavigne may be seeing more time in net. “That’s a tough game,” LaFontaine said. “For the team — I think we worked so hard, and then I let up a couple weak ones in the third (period). I just need to be better than that.” But even if Lavigne can maintain his form, he will need some help from his teammates. The Wolverines have been outshot in every game this season except one. And while early in the season that could be chalked up to the team being in a rebuilding phase, that won’t always be the case, especially if Lockwood and freshman forward Jake Slaker continue to be some of the primary contributors. The rebuilding narrative isn’t something Michigan is buying into anyways. “I’m a junior, I only have two years left,” said forward Dexter Dancs. “I don’t want it to be a rebuilding year. This weekend there was definitely some extra motivation to tell everyone that this isn’t one of those years where we’re just going to maybe split a weekend and we’ll be happy. We weren’t happy with this weekend. (Boston) is a good team, but we felt that we definitely could have won both games.” Those are certainly big words, and it is a sentiment that has been repeated by multiple players. But so far, the Wolverines have yet to string together consistent outings to prove the ability they believe they have. And if they are unable to build off the success they had this weekend, the future may be marred with the same uncertainty Michigan has experienced these first 10 games.

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Michigan’s season Wolverines fall to BU, split weekend ends at Regionals LANEY BYLER

Daily Sports Writer

The Michigan men’s cross-country team finished fifth at NCAA Regionals.

After a 4-0 shutout of fourthranked Boston University (4-3-1) on Friday, the No. 18 Michigan hockey team (5-3-1) returned to Yost Ice Arena on Saturday to finish its weekend series. In a much closer game than Friday’s, with the score knotted up 1-1 for the majority of the second period, the matchup boiled down to the third period to determine a winner. In a flurry of late-game goals, Boston University managed to edge out the Wolverines after scoring three times in the last ten minutes, earning a weekend split with a 4-2 win. “I think we got a little away from our game,” said junior forward Dexter Dancs. “In the first two periods, the first period especially, we were physical, we didn’t give them much. Then in the third period there were a couple defensive lapses, and they have a lot of skill, and they were able to capitalize.” Like Friday’s game, the Wolverines capitalized on scoring opportunities quickly. Just two minutes and 11 seconds into the first period, senior defenseman Nolan De Jong was able to pass the puck between two Terriers to freshman forward James Sanchez. Sanchez fed it to the slot to sophomore Brendan Warren, who sniped it into the net for the first goal of the game. Unlike Friday’s game, though, the Terriers retaliated. At the 14:32 mark in the second period, Boston University’s Dante Fabbro, off an assist from forward Patrick Harper, managed a shot directly over freshman goaltender Jack LaFontaine’s left shoulder to knot up the game, 1-1. After Fabbro’s goal, both teams battled it out to break the tie in the second period.

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

WOMEN’S SOCCER

EMMA PHILLIPSON For the Daily

The Michigan men’s cross country team has been in the middle of the pack all season, just short of winning in multiple meets. Friday, that was the case again. The Wolverines traveled to Madison to compete in the NCAA Great Lakes Regional. Michigan placed fifth behind Wisconsin, Michigan State, Indiana and Eastern Michigan with 107 total points. The results of the race bring the Wolverines’ run in the tournament, as well as their season, to an end. Junior Aaron Baumgarten led the race through the six kilometer mark, but in the final stretch, Wisconsin’s Malachy Schrobilgen and Morgan McDonald would prevail as the two top finishers. Baumgarten placed 10th overall, finishing as the top runner for the Wolverines with a time of 30:33.4. Narrowly behind Baumgarten was junior Billy Bund, who finished 11th with a time of 30:34.0. Fifth-year senior Connor Herr came in 18th (30:50.5), freshman Jordy Hewitt came in 23rd (31:04.7) and senior Connor Mora came in 45th (31:39.9). Juniors Austin Benoit and Micah

Beller finished in 104th (32:38.8) and 127th (33:11.2), respectively. “Baumgarten and some of the Wisconsin guys were pretty much controlling the tempo of the race, and some of us Michigan guys were keying off each other right behind Baumgarten,” Bund said. “Over the last 2,000 meters the race separated a bit and all of us just tried to do our best to beat as many jerseys as possible.” Added Michigan coach Kevin Sullivan: “You can let it get you down and you can mope and whine and stay pretty negative, or you can use it as motivation to do better the next time out. Talent doesn’t change. You’ve got to respond to performances that don’t live up to your standards just as you would to your exceptional performances.” Even though the cross country season has come to an end, Sullivan still believes in the talent of his team. “(Freshman) Jordy Hewitt was really exceptional,” Sullivan said. “He made up 10-15 places in the second half of the race, and that’s what we needed in a situation like we were in today.” “I think, at the end of the day, we’re a team. We’re trying to support each other, and we will continue to get better from here.”

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Finn wins Great Lakes Regional, on to NCAAs Senior star leads Wolverines to team win, places first individually, too CHRISTIAN NEUBACHER For The Daily

Friday, one week after bringing home the Big Ten championship, the Michigan women’s cross country team ran its way to its 11th win in the Great Lakes Regional, all of which have been under the instruction of coach Mike McGuire. The win marks the Wolverines’ second straight regional title, adding to an already impressive year. “It feels good,” McGuire said. “(The win) validated our Big Ten performance with a solid race again today.” The Wolverines finished first out of 32 teams in the tournament with 61 points, 30 points ahead of second-place Notre Dame. Host Wisconsin and Michigan State each tied for third place with 97 points each. Beyond winning the tournament as a team, senior Erin Finn won the individual competition, becoming the first Michigan runner to do so since 2011. Finn clocked in at 19:27.5 in the 6,000-meter race, just beating Notre Dame’s Anna Rohrer, who finished with a time of 19:35.7. Finn has had an illustrious college career as a three-time individual Big Ten champion, two-time All-American, and a three-time Big Ten Athlete of the Year. But this season may end up being her best. “I’m just more prepared than I’ve ever been,” Finn said, “I’m fitter than I’ve ever been, I’m smarter than I’ve ever been.”

McGuire also praised Finn, saying that she has “done a great job” this season. Two other Wolverines, juniors Gina Sereno and Avery Evenson, also finished in the top 10, with times of 20:15.5 and 20:19.1, respectively. In addition to Finn’s performance, Sereno and Evenson were essential in winning the race for Michigan. Juniors Jamie Morrissey and Jaimie Phelan, along with sophomore Claire Borchers and freshman Madeline Trevisan, also contributed to the Wolverines’ win. With the cross country team riding high on momentum and working well as a collective team, it is now focused on preparing for next week’s NCAA Championship. “It’s the pinnacle of racing,” McGuire said. “We’re just looking to embrace it.” The Wolverines have little time to rest before Saturday’s championships, but the team does not plan to change anything from its winning formula. “It’s been working so far, so we’re not going to change it too much,” Finn said. “(We want to) get excited, but not too excited too early.” Despite wanting to keep calm ahead of the tournament, Finn could not help but express some excitement over next week’s championships. “It’s really exciting,” Finn said. “We wanted to keep the momentum rolling. We’re excited heading into nationals, and we’re confident we can do big things there.”

“It’s the pinnacle of racing. We’re just looking to embrace it.”

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Junior forward Dexter Dancs scored a goal for the Michigan hockey team against Boston University on Saturday.

In a particularly close call — which had every Wolverine fan in Yost standing on their feet before they realized the puck hadn’t gone in — senior forward Alex Kile took a shot that drifted behind Boston goaltender Jake Oettinger. But with no Michigan player close enough to finish it off, the game remained settled at a tie. The Terriers almost broke the stalemate at the end of the second period as well, as forward Bobo Carpenter managed to find the net behind LaFontaine. However, after review, the goal was waved off for high sticking, and the period ended still tied up, 1-1. Ultimately, the Terriers were the ones to break the tie.

At the 10:56 mark, Boston University forward Jordan Greenway passed the puck straight to defenseman Charlie McAvoy, who found the net to put the Terriers up, 2-1. Junior forward Dexter Dancs, though, cancelled out the goal barely a minute after McAvoy’s, managing to slip the puck past Oettinger to tie up the game again, 2-2. But two more goals from Boston University would ultimately seal Michigan’s fate in the last eight minutes of the game. The first was by Greenway at the 7:29 mark, a shot that went directly over LaFontaine’s right shoulder. The other was a tip by Harper at the 4:57 mark to seal the

game, 4-2. Despite the outcome of Saturday’s game, though, the Wolverines are viewing the weekend as a good opportunity to prepare for Big Ten play later in the season. “It’s not all negative,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “In fact, there’s more positive than it is negative. But we’ve got to build on that positive part of our game and our team. We went through what we went through last week and we’ve got to have a good week this week and we’ve only got one game next week and then two against a tough Lake (Superior) State team, and then we’re in the Big Ten. So we’ve got three games to get ready for the Big Ten.”

Wolverines fall in PKs, ending season FAHD AHSAN

Daily Sports Writer

Nine penalties had been taken, and nine penalties were scored. The game ended 2-2 in regular time, and one kick would decide what would happen next. Illinois State was up 5-4 in the penalty shootout, and Michigan sophomore midfielder Abby Kastroll stepped up to try and level it for the Wolverines. Her shot — headed for the topright corner of the goal — had the keeper beat. The ball crashed against the woodwork, though, knocking Michigan out of the NCAA tournament. “Penalties are just penalties.” said Michigan coach Greg Ryan. “We’ve seen David Beckham miss them badly, send them 20 yards over the goal. I’m glad we drew and went out on penalties. We didn’t lose, but we just can’t go to the next round either.” The Wolverines (6-3-2 Big Ten, 10-5-5 overall) started the game well against Illinois State’s (5-0-1 Missouri Valley, 14-5-3 overall) high-pressing tactics, and managed to win the ball back quickly in the midfield after losing it. This resulted in two opportunities for Michigan inside the first 20 minutes of the game, though both were off target. “You get a certain number of chances in a game,” Ryan said. “And if you put those away, then you have a good game, and if you don’t, you leave an opening for the other team.” With its first real bout of possession in the final third, Illinois State made the Wolverines pay. Midfielder Emily Dickman moved past three Michigan defenders before playing in midfielder Abby Basler inside the box. Basler passed to forward Lauren Koehl, who let the ball roll past her body before taking a touch to beat her defender and curl the ball into the roof of the net. Michigan switched up its tactics in the second half, moving Martin further up the field as a second striker alongside

Waldeck. Martin’s new position on the field increased her influence across the pitch, as she provided two assists, and brought the Wolverines back into the game. The change had an almost immediate effect five minutes into the half. Martin won a free kick in the Redbird half and from the set piece floated the ball into the box, where freshman defender Jada Dayne headed it in to even the score, 1-1. Michigan asserted control of the second half the same way it had in the first, but once again let its guard down and paid the price. Halfway through the second half, Illinois State midfielder Kelli Zickert found herself with space

in midfield. She managed to play a perfect pass for Dickman, who was unmarked inside the box. Dickman made no mistake, as she buried the ball into the side netting at the far post. “We gave them just two good chances,” Ryan said. Traling once again, the Wolverines needed another goal to stay in the NCAA Tournament. With 15 minutes left in the half, Michigan crossed the ball into the box, where Martin flicked it on to Waldeck. Waldeck took her chance this time around and headed it over the Illinois State keeper, tying the game once again. “It’s always tough coming in from behind,” Martin said. “And

we knew that set pieces were going to be a big part of this game, so it was good that it gave us a chance to stay in the tournament.” Michigan had two great chances in extra time. Both were off corners, and each time the ball found the back of the net. Twice the Wolverines thought they had put the game to bed with a golden goal, and twice the referee waived it off for what appeared to be a foul in the box. One hundred and 10 minutes weren’t enough time to separate the two sides, so penalties decided which team would advance to the next round. After scoring all their spot kicks, it was the Redbirds that gained the right to do so.

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‘We couldn’t believe it’: Iowa fans relish chaos of upset win JAKE LOURIM

Managing Sports Editor

IOWA CITY — Inside the Iowa student section, at the end of a night both sides will remember for a long time, Liam Crawford had one thought. And of course everyone else had the same one. At 5-4, the Hawkeyes had trudged through a forgettable season. They lost to North Dakota State and Northwestern earlier this season, and few gave them much of a chance against the No. 3 Michigan football team. It did not seem to matter. At the end of a long Saturday night, with three seconds left and the Wolverines ahead 13-11, Iowa kicker Keith Duncan jogged onto the field for a 33-yard field-goal attempt to win the game. Behind the end zone into which

Duncan would try that kick, the Iowa students inched forward in the bleachers. “Rush the field!” Crawford thought, and the stadium went silent. “Please, please, please!” one fan shouted into the night. Tyler Kluver delivered the snap. Ron Coluzzi placed down the hold. Duncan knocked the kick through the uprights. “We couldn’t believe it,” said 27-year-old Corbett Ball, who was seated near the 50-yard line. “We were on the field immediately.” The students crammed into the last few rows before storming onto the turf, and everything else was pandemonium. Tyler Brenneman, another student, called it the “best day ever.” A few fans took pictures while sprawled out in the end zone. Others just ran around in awe.

“Oh my God, we pulled it off!” one yelled, adding an expletive. They engulfed the players in a mass of bodies on the field. They stood on top of each other’s shoulders and took videos. They left the goalpost lopsided where Duncan had kicked it. Through the chaos, the Wolverines shuffled off the field, their dreams of a perfect season spoiled. November features a handful of similar finishes every year, with shocking upsets sparking field rushes and knocking off top teams. Michigan rose to No. 3 in the polls this season for the first time since 2006. Once again, the Wolverines were susceptible to such heartbreak, and with that came euphoria on the other end. “We couldn’t believe what was happening and what was

unfolding,” Ball said. “We felt, for the first time this season, it made our season.” With 114 seconds left in such a momentous game, the biggest possible victory seemed implausible. Hawkeyes quarterback C.J. Beathard had just missed an open Jerminic Smith on a pass downfield, instead throwing an interception to Michigan cornerback Channing Stribling. The Wolverines needed only one first down to ice the victory and escape with a win. An announced sellout crowd of 70,585, all standing, groaned with disappointment. About 1,000 of them left the stadium. “Go home,” one said as he walked out. “It’s over.” Inside the student section, though, the fans knew better. Kyle Ford, Cameron Clause and Michael Taloumis saw the 1:14

on the clock and thought if Iowa could force a three-and-out on Michigan’s next series, perhaps there could be just a bit more magic left in Kinnick Stadium. From the moment the handfuls of fans left the stadium, everything went Iowa’s way, and nobody left again for a long time. The students clung to the last shreds of hope for an upset. Other fans watched on the TVs in the concourse, afraid to miss the finish if they journeyed back to their seats. Each play, the fans raised the intensity back up as fortunes shifted back in their favor. Iowa stuffed two consecutive Michigan run plays. On third down, Hawkeyes cornerback Manny Rugamba broke up a pass to force a punt. On that punt, a Michigan face-mask penalty gave Iowa 15 more yards.

The Hawkeyes inched into field-goal range until they stopped and called a timeout at Michigan’s 15-yard line. The masses of fans left in the stadium awaited the kick. “I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, we’re going to do this again,’ ” said Crawford, who was also in attendance when Iowa upset then-No. 3 Penn State on a similar game-winning field goal in 2008. “History is repeating itself.” Sure enough, it did, and it will again. Each time will bring something different, a unique heartbreak for the favored team and a unique joy for the giant killer. Saturday in Iowa City added another chapter to a memorable history of November finishes. “We don’t get this opportunity very often at Kinnick Stadium,” Ball said. “It was unbelievable.”