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Public Health graduate student Dana Greene is continuing kneeling protests to shed light on racism at the University.

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Greene garnered national attention by kneeling for 21 hours in protest in the Diag NISA KHAN

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Public Health student Dana Greene knelt at the block ‘M’ on the Diag for 21 hours. It was not a cool fall day, either — the sun bore down on University of Michigan students

at a peak 91 degrees. Greene, along with dozens of other students, gathered at the Diag to kneel in protest of racism across the country, mirroring former NFL player Colin Kaepernick’s own kneel last year that lost him his job. Food, water and drinks were shared, and a tent was later set up.

People of all varying backgrounds unified together, Greene said, in a way that was surreal to him. For the Michigan vs. Michigan State game Saturday — a rare night game nonetheless — Greene has plans. In hopes of keeping the spirit of last Monday alive, Greene

and his team are calling upon students, faculty and Michigan fans to kneel and sit during national anthem. A letter written by Greene circulated this week explaining his message. “I am no longer looking to administration to take a stand See GREENE, Page 3A

Approximately 100 protesters gathered to lobby the University for more resources RIYAH BASHA Daily News Editor

Thursday marked undocumented immigrants’ last day to submit renewals to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — but undocumented students at the University of Michigan were undeterred. One hundred protesters marched from the Diag to the Fleming Administration Building to lobby University officials for institutional resources and protection for vulnerable students. After President Donald Trump’s successive travel ban orders in January, and again after the repeal of DACA in September, University

President Mark Schlissel stated the University will not disclose students’ immigration statuses voluntarily. Schlissel also formed an Immigration Working Group to monitor and analyze gaps in resources. Thursday’s rally, organized by the Student Community of Progressive Empowerment, centered around four new requests of the administration: fully meeting financial need, extending guidelines to obtain in-state tuition, appointing a central staff liaison between undocumented students and the University and improving accessibility for prospective students.

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One year in: How the University’s DEI DDA to add ‘U’ faculty fences to plan has succeeded, faced difficulties picket C.C.

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The Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority approved $150,000 to install chain-link fences around city-owned parking lots at an executive committee meeting Wednesday. The decision came after a string of fatal incidents in the city. On Monday, a 56-yearold man fell from the parking structure at the intersection of Fourth and Williams streets. A 22-year-old man fell from the same parking lot on Sept. 7 and a teenage girl fell from the structure on the intersection of State and Washington streets last year. DDA Director Susan Pollay explained the rooftop of the Fourth and Williams streets structure will be the priority, followed by the Ann and Ashley streets structure, the Fourth and Washington streets structure, the Maynard structure, the Liberty Square structure and the Forest Avenue structure. “(Fourth and Williams is) the first one we’re tackling because it’s the biggest … geographically,” See FENCES, Page 3A

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In October 2016, the University of Michigan launched its five-year Diversity, Equity and Inclusion plan — an extensive initiative designed to promote a more diverse and inclusive campus through increasing staff diversity, retention of underprivileged students and the assurance of equal compensation for all races, genders and identities. The overall plan comprises 49 unit plans created by all schools, colleges and departments at the University. Two student panels, consisting of 25 undergraduate and graduate students each, convene every month to discuss new strategies and ideas with DEI leaders. Though the plan was created to foster both long- and shortterm change on campus, the first year of DEI has left many on campus eager for more immediate action. Replete with racist incidents — ranging from posters promoting white supremacy to racial slurs written on students’ dorm room doors — the past year has weighed heavily upon both administrators and minority students.

educators strive to create a community inclusive of all identities by hosting educational events, serving as social justice educators and advising their specific community’s multicultural council. LSA senior Jad Elharake, a diversity peer educator for West Quad Residence Hall, has been working over the past nine months to add Middle

Eastern/North African as an ethnicity option on all official University documents. In an email interview, he expressed disappointment in the University for dealing with race issues through traditional identity binaries, especially in the historical context of the Arab communities’ presence on campus. “I know that historically when efforts (target) this

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same issue, our needs are not prioritized and commonly fall victim to binary views of race and identity,” he wrote. “Lack of institutional memory, documentation, and recognition regarding the past mobilization of our community and our historical presence on campus only further the severity of the issue and disempower the Arab See DEI, Page 3A

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Faculty members gathered outside of the building and handed out flyers ALEXIS RANKIN Daily Staff Reporter

University of Michigan faculty gathered outside the C.C. Little Building Thursday afternoon to take part in an informational picket in support of recent student activism calling for the renaming of the building. Faculty members distributed f lyers pointing to former University President Clarence Cook Little’s support for eugenic, anti-immigrant and anti-miscegenation movements as reason to change the building’s name. The picket event was an initiative organized by Faculty for Justice, a coalition proposed by three faculty members in a letter addressed to all University faculty earlier this week. As stated in the letter, the group exists to “issue collective public statements, share information about student-led protests, and help initiate and organize faculty action in support of our students.” The letter included a listserv where faculty members could See BUILDING, Page 3A

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FRIDAY’S BICENTENNIAL FEATURE: SUPERSTITIOUS FANS PREPARE FOR GAME Every Friday, the Michigan Daily will be republishing an article from the Daily’s archives from a moment in University history. December 4, 1989 — Some fans perform salt rituals. Others repeatedly wear the same socks, jerseys and boxers shorts. For die-hard fans of the maize and blue, these superstitions are a force that helped carry the football team all the way to the Rose Bowl. SA first-year student Dylan Brock said his green-and-black plaid boxer shorts and his blue down comforter propelled the team to Pasadena. His superstition evolved over this year’s winning season. “I always sleep in until the game on gameday Saturday mornings,” Brock said. “I would never get changed until after the game was over. So I would wear my boxers and then wrap myself in my dark blue comforter. My friend would come over to watch the games, and we kept winning.” The whole thing started as a joke, Brock said. But after securing his first game ticket of the year, Brock showed up at Michigan Stadium for the Ohio State game clad in his trusty box- and armed with his familiar comforter.

After the Wolverines disposed of the Buckeyes, Brock ditched the comforter for a joyful jaunt around the field in just his boxer shorts. “When we blew out Penn State, I kept saying it was because of my comforter,” Brock said. “Then my friends convinced me that it was true, and I guess I convinced myself.” The true test was the Wisconsin game, Brock said. “I ordered pizza and when the pizza guy came I had to get dressed to go get my pizza,” Brock said. “When I got dressed and went downstairs, Wisconsin scored a touchdown. That’s when I realized that there was a direct correlation between the two. I came back and got undressed. We won the game, but we didn’t blow them out.” LSA junior David Lanxner said his elaborate salt ritual has brought the maize and blue to the Rose Bowl. “I don’t know how it got started,” Lanxner said. “I started doing it this year before every football game. Before the games I would pour salt around the stadium and our house.” The ritual traditionally is performed around someone’s feet, room or bed to bring them good luck, Lanxner said.

“My family is really superstitious,” Lanxner said. “I watched this Middle Eastern movie when I was little, where this little boy kept having nightmares. The little boy’s grandmother poured salt around the boy’s bed and put a knife in the mattress to get rid of bad spirits. I guess I kind of picked up on that.” University alumnus Mark Grueber said he and his former first-year roommate Dave Gamm are the proud owners of a giant letter “D” and a cardboard picket fence that they use to show support for the team’s defensive abilities. “We have had the D-fence for two years,” Grueber said. “The first time we used it was the Ohio-Michigan game two years ago. They won that game, 31-23.” Grueber said that because he and Gamm were unaware of the power of the D-fence, they didn’t use it at all last year. “We brought it to every game this year,” Grueber said. Since Grueber and Gamm live apart from one another, they only use the special weapon when they watch the game together. “It’s the two of us that make the

force. I am the fence and Dave is the D,” Gruebber said. “Combined knowledge is more powerful. We’re sick.” Other requirements for Grueber and Gamm are wearing the same clothes to every game. “We must also enter the same gate and leave at the same time - that is essential,’ Grueber said. For Brock, his revealing ensemble proved a little hazardous after the Ohio State game. “I wore just my special boxers and my comforter into the stadium,” Brock said. “I was extremely jubilant that we won. I ran onto the field in just my boxers, running around and hugging all my friends. When I tried to leave through the endzone, I got kind of thrown around by the cops. It got kinda rough, but it was definitely an interesting experience.” For his part, Lanxner even poured a circle of salt around Michigan Stadium the day of the Ohio State game. “I think I might even use this for finals,” Lanxner said.

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DEI From Page 1A community.” He further emphasized the importance of the University recognizing the ME/NA community in connection with achieving the goals delineated within the DEI plan. “For the University, the ability to ascertain who identifies with the ME/NA community is a necessary step in developing programs and interventions to address any disparities and to achieve the DEI goals,” he wrote. “Knowing that we live in a state with the largest concentration of ME/NA individuals outside of the Middle East, we have a regional responsibility to implement the ME/NA racial category to support the large population of students.” In a September interview with the Daily, Elharake expressed optimism regarding new University Provost Martin Philbert’s hire in terms of implementing DEI initiatives across campus. He also noted Philbert had been receptive of Elharake’s ideas in precursory meetings. “I think it’s a critical time here for Michigan, especially politically, globally and I’m just looking forward to the role that he’s going to play for students on campus,” Elharake said in September. “He’s kind of the go-to person when it comes to (this ethnicity addition) especially with figuring out the logistics of it and in reality, us educating him on the Middle Eastern/North African student population here at Michigan.” Professor diversity training In the wake of the dozens of recent incidents of racism on campus, one initiative within DEI now of special importance is providing faculty with training that enables them to communicate and engage with students in a way that makes the classroom environment feel safer and more inclusive for minority students. LSA Dean Andrew Martin said it was especially important to train faculty in fields that are not inherently conducive to conversations about race or social inclusion. “One of the things that’s challenging, particularly given the pace of the events and the things that are happening, it might be a little bit easier to talk about some of these issues in a political science course or a history class or a course in American culture, but how do you talk to students about racial hatred in a physics class or a mathematics class?” Martin said. The University already had some infrastructure at its disposal for faculty education, such as the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, but it has also created several new diversity workshops on inclusive teaching and is providing additional support specifically for faculty teaching “Race and Ethnicity” courses. Diversity training is required for certain subsects of the faculty, such as new graduate student instructors and new tenuretrack professors, as well as senior faculty who want to be on faculty hiring committees. Fiona Lee, a professor of Psychology and LSA’s first associate dean of DEI, said she had personally experienced how serious the college was about

mandated diversity training. Before she became associate dean, she was part of a faculty hiring committee from which Martin had excluded one of the most senior faculty members because they hadn’t attended a diversity workshop. “I was very irritated with you, because this person’s expertise is integral to this hiring initiative, and we said, ‘How can we exclude this person from this committee when they are a person who really knows the most about the position?’ “ she said. “But Dean Martin says, ‘No means no.’ So there are strong expectations.” The next year, Martin said, all professors participated. Between new faculty and faculty senior enough to be on hiring committees, however, there are many faculty not required to participate in any type of diversity workshop. Angela Dillard, LSA associate dean of undergraduate education, said that’s because they would rather incentivize faculty to participate of their own accord rather than forcing them, which could generate ill will. According to Lee, approximately 1,500 faculty members participated in at least one such workshop last year, out of about 4,000 faculty total. Diversifying faculty The lack of faculty of color is another issue receiving particular scrutiny in the implementation of the DEI plan. From 2011 to 2016, there was no change in the percentage of tenured faculty who were underrepresented minorities. In an interview with The Daily in February, Tabbye Chavous, director of the University’s National Center for Institutional Diversity, said there would be a noticeable increase in faculty of color within the next year. “This fall will likely have an appreciable difference on our faculty. This hiring initiative will change, within one year, the composition of the people who will be providing the educational experiences to our students,” Chavous said. “That’s just one example, but it’s an example of something that is pretty shortterm in terms of the outcomes of those efforts.” As part of their Diversifying Academia program, LSA is funding several postdoctoral fellowships to attract young academics with demonstrated interest in and commitment to diversity, chief among them the LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. “This is one of the things that’s really core to Fiona’s portfolio,” Martin said. “The LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is a program designed to help increase the diversity of our faculty. This is a program that will bring in 10 new faculty to our campus every year, so hopefully 50 over the next five, and I have every expectation to believe that it will continue after that.” In its first year, Lee said, the program received 762 applicants, hiring seven new faculty members out of that pool –– all of whom are underrepresented minorities. This year, they received 936 applications, from which they will make up to 13 new hires. While the fellowship does not put its fellows on a tenure track, the idea is that many of them eventually will get there, Martin said.

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BUILDING From Page 1A sign their name in support and enroll as a member of Faculty for Justice. As of Thursday afternoon, the petition gathered nearly 400 signatures. The three faculty members behind the letter, associate Philosophy professor Meena Krishnamurthy, associate History professor Amanda Armstrong-Price and Antoine Traisnel, an associate Comparative Literature professor, led the creation of the group and Thursday’s picketing across their departments. Armstrong said it was equally important to raise awareness about C.C. Little, support student activism and stand in solidarity with student actions and concerns. “We came together with some other faculty members because we felt that there should be more of a concerted response and show of solidarity on campus towards students organizing against racism on campus,” Armstrong said. The picketing was an important first step for Faculty for Justice. “Among our faculty and colleagues there is a demand for having a more concerted effort for supporting students who protest and act against racism and white supremacy,” Traisnel

FENCES From Page 1A Pollay said. “Some of the garages (students) may be familiar with, like Maynard … much of the rooftop already has fencing, so that won’t take very long to complete. And Forest has a unique design … so it’s harder to look over the edges.” Pollay estimated the entire construction will take three months. In the meantime, Republic Parking, the entity that operates the garages on behalf of the city, will add additional staff members to monitor rooftops. The DDA also allocated an additional $250,000 for this staffing and any further fencing needs, though Pollay said she was still unsure exactly how much security will cost at the moment. “We’ll start collecting those costs once we have an estimate from (Republic Parking); we don’t have that yet,” Pollay said. “That’s why the project budget is larger than the proposal for the fencing to allow for a lot of latitude for the cost of staffing.” Though plans to install fences on garage rooftops have been in the works in Ann Arbor since last year, high costs delayed the project. City Administrator Howard Lazarus said the initial bid for permanent fencing would have cost Ann Arbor $1 million. Though the DDA is still looking for permanent fencing, it decided to install the chain-link fencing as an interim measure. “The DDA went out for a bid on a permanent installation, and the price they got back was far in excess of what they budgeted,” Lazarus said. “They chose to

said. “We felt that often we left our departments to be in charge of writing statements and we didn’t know how to respond ourselves, so we decided to create this group, Faculty for Justice.” “The goal is in many ways to let students take the lead and we want to act in solidarity with them,” Krishnamurthy said. Education professor Debi Khasnabis joined the picketing, passing out f lyers to students as they passed by. Khasnabis said she teaches her students about the importance of creating safe, inclusive environments for K-12 students, and believes the same should be done for students at the University. “I don’t think it’s right for our students to feel unsafe,” she said. Some students passing through the faculty-lined walkway in the building continued walking, while others stopped to discuss the issue. LSA freshman Vishal John was impressed by the involvement of the faculty and viewed their willingness to speak out as an encouraging response. “Based off recent events that have been happening on campus I think it’s important to address these issues,” John said. “I think it’s good that they’re actually talking about these subjects instead of avoiding them or remaining silent.”

reject the bids and then tried to rebid it. The difference now is that they are looking at a very smallopening chain-link fence, which is an interim solution, not the decorative fencing that they have initially designed and picked.” City Councilmember Chuck Warpehoski, D-Ward 5, added that not only were costs higher, but there was also a lack of fencing contractors due to massive amounts of construction in the region. “It was a much higher cost and lower response from the fencing companies than we expected,” Warpehoski said. “And the reason, we’ve heard, is the building of Little Caesar’s Arena … with that project, all the workforce for projects like these in Southeast Michigan already had their hands full.” Some of the falls were ruled suicides; research shows installing physical structures like these chain-link fences can help in preventing impulsive action. In an email, Todd Sevig, Counseling and Psychological Services director, wrote CAPS aims to strengthen ties both within and outside the University of Michigan, a kind of multidimensional support that is crucial to ensure no one falls through the net. “We at CAPS are always looking to strengthen our work around student mental health — our focus of the last few years has been to devote time, attention, and resources to cutting edge clinical and outreach tools for suicide prevention,” Sevig wrote. “Improving mental health really does take all of us, working together, in our different roles, to change the story.”

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ne day, I may forget my name. I will wake up in a stranger’s house and see a person I’ve never met before in the mirror. Her eyes will stare blankly back at me, face muscles sagging with fatigue and confusion. One day, I will forget how to hug someone. I will have to ask where the bathroom is in my own home, and I will need help getting there. One day, my brain may simply forget how to breathe. Every 66 seconds, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer’s disease. It is the sixth leading cause of death in the nation, and the only one in the top 10 that cannot be cured, prevented or slowed. If there is no cure in my lifetime, I may become one of its victims — if not me, then a loved one. Everyone with a brain is at risk; no matter how healthy your lifestyle or how active your brain, your own home may one day become a maze of once-familiar objects and hallways. Your loved ones will helplessly watch from the other side of the glass, your face unrecognizable as you slowly walk into the unknown. I’ve worked at the Alzheimer’s Association for eight months now and have already heard a lifetime’s worth of stories from people

affected by the disease. I’ve spoken with a woman who left school to become a full-time caregiver for her grandmother, who recently passed away after fighting Alzheimer’s for 15 years. I’ve heard stories of husbands who have forgotten their wives’ names after 50 years of marriage and countless families who have sacrificed their retirement

“I may be its first survivor.”

savings to preserve the last few years they had with their loved one. Children have told me stories of how their parents have already forgotten them and I’ve read about brides who have rescheduled their weddings so that their parents could attend before it could be erased from their memories. What gives me hope is knowing that as more people are affected by the disease, the world gains more advocates

to fight against it. Right now, thousands of people across the country are participating in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s, “the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research.” I urge you to join me on Sunday as I walk alongside them at Washtenaw Community College, bringing us steps closer to a world without Alzheimer’s. Though I know I may eventually become another victim of the disease, I may also be its first survivor. One day, the unfamiliar may become familiar once more, and the glass of my eyes may be cleared. I may be reunited with my loved ones without ever having to leave them. I know that I am lucky to have not yet been touched by Alzheimer’s disease, though in a way I already have. In just eight months, the fear that I may lose myself within my own body has ignited a new passion. The stories I’ve heard have lit a purple f lame within me that grows each day, lighting the way into the unknown, the future, where I know the first survivor will be waiting.

Hannah Brauer is an LSA sophomore.

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onday’s Las Vegas shooting, which left at least 59 dead and 500 injured, adds another tally to the United States’ dark history of gun violence. Action must be taken in order to end these incredibly avoidable catastrophes. The Michigan Daily Editorial Board believes issues surrounding gun violence should be politicized in order to enact much-needed change. In the following roundtable discussion, Opinion contributors suggest three different ways to help eliminate gun violence in the U.S.

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If you are 25 or older, you have lived through six of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in United States history. Despite our nation’s collective nausea, the shooting in Las Vegas is yet another example that disg ust has failed to beget legislative changes. After all, the last time our Congress passed any g un control legislation was 2013. With NR A-backed Republicans controlling both the executive and legislative branches, prospects in the near future are grim. Because of their inaction, we clearly cannot wait any longer to consider alternative means of progress. We must start demanding change in our states, counties and cities. “Local” change is almost a pejorative; everybody knows nationwide change has a greater impact and a wider reach. But, if politics is the art of the possible, then we cannot keep counting on Congress to pass the kind of laws many of us can see are so desperately needed.

Federal Level Policy In the wake of the largest mass shooting in recent U.S. history, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will not talk about gun violence this week. Over at the White House, press secretary Sarah HuckabeeSanders has said, “It would be premature for us to discuss policy when we don’t fully know all the facts or what took place (Sunday night).” I have one question for our federal government: If not now, when? This “thoughts and prayers” discourse followed by inaction is nothing new. In fact, since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, Congress has failed to do anything significant to stem the tide of gun violence in the United States. While other Western nations have taken bold steps in the wake of tragic shootings, the U.S. government continues to do nothing. While it is difficult to understand or change the motives of domestic terrorists, the federal government can

Funding for Research Las Vegas; Orlando, Fla.; San Bernardino, Calif.; Newtown, Conn.; Fort Hood, Texas; Blacksburg, Va. All have at one point been synonymous with the gun violence that has become almost epidemic in our country. Yet somehow, the notion of finding solutions to this crisis is scoffed at by many. But why exactly is this level of violence unique to our version of freedom? A 2016 study by The American Journal of Medicine found that, compared to 22 other highincome nations, “Americans are 10 times more likely to be killed by guns” as “the United States’ gun-related murder rate is 25 times higher.” Unfortunately, the bulk of available research on gun violence stops there. Gun legislation in this country is not drafted through careful, pragmatic consideration of public interest, but is instead pushed by those with the loudest voices and the deepest pockets. It doesn’t take much research to grasp this fact, and any American who truly cares about our citizens’ safety should acknowledge this system as flawed. It could not be clearer that the NRA and the “logic” it

—The Michigan Daily Editorial Board The consequences of stalled reform become more and more fatal with every homicide and mass shooting. While g un violence may look slightly different state by state, the violence doesn’t var y so much that policy proposals for individual states must differ g reatly from the kind of policies proposed nationally. Plent y of organizations, lobbyists and policy writers can make local leg islation a realit y. Requiring stricter backg round checks, limiting the amount and kinds of g uns per household, closing g un loopholes and barring felons and members of federal watchlists from purchasing g uns are all viable options on the local level. Though these are frequently referred to as “common sense” g un control laws, their individual impact is unknown until implementation. Some of these laws might prove to do more harm than good, especially if the punishment for breaking these laws falls disproportionately on certain populations. There are many potential

issues with attempting change on a more local level. It’s putting a bandage on a national wound, and there are still no mechanisms to stop the movement of g uns across state borders, let alone from city to city. In addition to these policy issues, there are structural issues with a local attempt, too — people simply care less about state and local issues, especially in off-year elections. But, if g un control is truly about limiting access to g uns, then a local attempt is a necessary start. With a Congress that actually enacted the will of the people, we would have already taken steps to address g un violence. After all, polling indicates that more than eight out of 10 people in the United States support some form of g un control. In light of this, the legislative paralysis we are desensitized to is even more morally repugnant. And yet, the real tragedy would be to wait in the hope that things will change without a different approach.

change their access to guns — especially to assault rifles and large magazines. Anti-gun control sentiment is too common in our federal government, which failed to reauthorize an assault weapons ban (found constitutional in court) when the ban expired in 2004. In a 2016 Gallup poll, 55 percent of Americans surveyed said that laws regarding firearm sales should be stricter. Though the majority of the United States is in favor of greater gun control policies, our lawmakers continuously fail to act. One of the largest barriers to federal common-sense gun reform is the financial hold the National Rifle Association has on Congress. A large number of House representatives and senators — a majority of whom are members of the GOP — receive monetary incentives from the NRA. The supposed “freedoms” granted by the Second Amendment are not worth the mass murders that are becoming all too common. While the NRA and White House recently announced that they are “open” to discussing regulating bump stocks — a device one can attach to a weapon that

allows it to fire multiple rounds of ammunition in a row — they have yet to make any concrete plans and the timeline of any such legislation is unclear and promise of any follow-through is hypothetical at best. While there is a place for local and state gun control, it does very little if someone can drive to Ohio to buy an assault weapon banned in Michigan. The federal government’s mandate over interstate commerce is needed in this matter to ensure the safety of those who live in all corners of our country. Where are our elected representatives in the face of such bloodshed? Will we finally see Congress put people over party, stand up to the NRA and get something done after what happened in Las Vegas? Federal involvement is needed to combat staggering rates of gun violence, the highest in the developed world, in the United States. It is high time that Congress acts. Should they fail, it is up to concerned citizens to elect people who will.

peddles should not be what dictates our laws. It should instead be based on common sense and empirical realities. The availability of such data, however, is shockingly scarce and underfunded. A 1997 spending bill amendment, dubbed the “Dickey Amendment,” has prevented the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from conducting comprehensive gun violence research in the two decades since. The NRA’s rationale for pushing this bill: The CDC is a biased, antigun organization. The reality: The CDC is an organization formed with the purpose of safeguarding the public health by identifying threats to it and lobbying for and applying solutions to these threats. Among the many problems with the discourse surrounding gun violence in our country is the subjectivity of logic. For instance, the debate over open-carry laws in numerous states is a clash between two lines of reasoning. On one end, opponents argue the danger of open-carry is that no law is broken until shots have been fired. On the other end, many would argue the “only way to stop a bad guy with a

gun is a good guy with a gun.” Nevertheless, there is no doubt that in any discussion of gun control both sides will assert a logic they believe to be unassailable. There are merits to a lawabiding citizen wanting to own a gun, whether it’s for security or sport. There are far fewer merits, however, to a law-abiding citizen easily accruing an arsenal of military-grade weapons, ammunition and modifications. The idea that many of our lawmakers would rather take the word of a corporate lobby defending its own financial interests over that of a federallyfunded public health institute is asinine, and it’s clearer than ever that this type of research needs to be the backbone of our legislation once again. Maybe then we would live in a country where those suffering from mental illness couldn’t swiftly obtain guns, those on a terror watchlist couldn’t arm themselves with assault rifles and a deranged, law-abiding citizen couldn’t stockpile 23 rifles and fire on 22,000 of his fellow citizens.

Andrew Mekhail can be reached at mekhail@umich.edu.

Ali Safawi is an Editorial Board member and can be reached at asafawi@umich.edu.

David Donnantuono can be reached at ddwdonn@umich.edu.

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Jen Kirkman isn’t one to be compartmentalized CHRISTIAN KENNEDY Online Arts Editor

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‘The Good Doctor’ fails to stand out among the pack clear issues with borrowing — it’s hard not to be charmed Daily Arts Writer by the series. Through the use of on-screen aids similar to those used in the popular BBC David Shore, the creator television series, “Sherlock,” of the long-running medical- Highmore conveys a lot with just drama “House,” fails to outlive his demeanor. Viewers think the trope of his past series in his alongside Dr. Murphy, watching newest conception, “The Good as his brain files through Doctor.” Focusing on Dr. Shaun hundreds upon thousands of Murphy (Freddie Highmore, remembered material to catch “Bates Motel”), a up with his own brilliant surgeon thought process. diagnosed with You can’t help “The Good autism and savant but feel charmed syndrome, which by the doctor Doctor” give him geniuswho, as someone ABC like abilities, “The that claims to be Good Doctor” bad with people, Season Premiere raises moral jokes around questions unlike with colleagues Mondays at 10:00 other medical at work, and p.m. dramas currently feels emotions so on air. deep that tears Though the are brought forth series’ main focus from our eyes. is to push boundaries, the show On that same note, there are does suffer from a bitter lack of instances in which the series originality. There’s too much seems to be trying too hard to going on. While Dr. Shaun’s focus on Shaun’s deficits. Is this characteristics are somewhat not a series about not focusing reminiscent of Dr. House’s on deficits? attitudes on “House,” the It’s hard not to laugh when model-esque doctors dragging Shaun, unceremoniously, strides one another into on-call rooms up to TSA and asks for a knife, and supply closets is a perfect only to grab one and run through parallel to “Grey’s Anatomy.” the airport. Immediately after, It’s understandable for series you have that feeling of “did I in the medical-drama genre to just laugh at that? I am so going overlap in certain aspects, but to hell.” In a way, they could “The Good Doctor” feels like have done without this scene too much of the same thing and the premiere would not with one completely new thing have suffered in any way from thrown into the mix. Coupled its loss. It almost takes away with Shore’s past work leaking from the brilliance of Shaun’s into the present and Highmore’s mind to see him suddenly attitudes as Dr. Murphy chased throughout an airport somewhat reflecting that of his for a misunderstanding. But previous role as Norman Bates, perhaps that was what the it seems like the two are sticking creators had intended: The to what they know best, opting dualism that autistic individuals for success over originality. face, constantly walking the However, though there are line between the crowd which MEGAN MITCHELL

“oohs” and “awws” around a high-functioning individual, yet chases down that same individual for simply being “different.” After all, this is not the first time this has happened. Later on in the episode, Shaun, despite having saved a life and present for a job interview, is chased out of the hospital by security staff under the direction of him coming off as too “weird.” It’s a distressing image that I believe Highmore portrays rather well, especially so as he is turned away again and again without any prior explanation as to why he is being denied building access. It’s an opportunity for Shore to showcase the prejudices that autistic individuals often face. Would you have been denied entry simply for being different, as Shaun was? Overall, “The Good Doctor” is a heartwarming series that shows promise typical of its genre. However, it must learn to present itself as an opportunity to see through the eyes of a highfunctioning autistic individual — not solely as another medical drama with a twist. It is vital that “The Good Doctor” differentiate itself from both Shore’s past projects as well as current series on the air such as “Young Sheldon.” On that same note, Shore must also learn that the fastest path to originality is by taking chances and stepping outside of boundaries, not just in one tiny aspect of the show, but in the entire essence of the series itself. It’s a delicate line that is drawn on a delicate topic. So far, “The Good Doctor” has proven itself the potential to become more than just a shiny new series, so long as it can continue to evolve in a way that keeps the heart of the show alive.

Don’t have a ticket to Saturday’s game? No worries. Comedian Jen Kirkman — who you may know from her appearances on “Chelsea Lately” and “Drunk History” or her podcast “I Seem Fun” — is bringing her “All New Material, Girl” Tour to the Majestic Theater Saturday night. “I want to be as clear as possible that people are seeing material that is new to them and this isn’t me charging them to see some greatest hits of my two Netf lix specials. So, I called it the “All New Material, Girl” Tour - to drive home that point and make a Madonna pun because why not?” Kirkman wrote in an email interview with The Michigan Daily. “It backfired in New York City recently when a man at the door wanted a refund for thirty tickets because he thought that he and his office friends were seeing Madonna perform her old hits like Material Girl. I am completely serious. So, there’s a lot of confusion apparently. Oh, America.” Her most recent special, “Just Keep Living,” a non-ironic nod to Matthew McConaughey’s catch phrase, premiered in January on Netf lix and is the latest product of the veteran comedian. After two comedy albums, two hour specials, two books, Kirkman has no plans of slowing down. “Yeah there’s always something cooking with me, but I don’t tell until there is something to tell. I’ve got a necklace line going right now that I’m super excited about. Totally serious. It’s with a company called Bauble Bar and they actually partnered with a comedian and I’m selling necklaces that say things like ‘Over Forty’ and ‘Childfree’ and ‘FeministAF.’ I’m loving it. I think everyone should buy some. It’s a limited edition that ends on Dec. 31,” she wrote. “This is what happens to female comedians over forty.

It’s the law that we start selling jewelry and clothing. And that’s the only time I’ll make a joke about female comedians or say the words ‘female comedians.’ ” Alongside plugs for her necklace line, Kirkman’s Twitter is a mix of observational humour and scathing details on harassment from Bernie Bros and Russian Bots, but the balance comes naturally to her. “I’m just a person f lowing through life. I have a thought, I pull out the phone while I’m in line at CVS and I tweet. I’m a citizen on Twitter except when I’m promoting my shows. I don’t find the balance difficult or frustrating because if people want to compartmentalize me, that’s their problem. I don’t care what people think. I just want them to come to my shows and laugh. I couldn’t be more simple in that regard. I’m not worried about my “brand” or my message or my whatever,” she wrote. But despite her politics on Twitter, she’s not looking to be labelled a “political comedian.” “I have a strict definition of what it is to be a political comedian. I say that title literally means someone who does topical jokes every night about the news of the day, almost late night monologue style. So, no I’m not a political comedian in that sense. The way the country is going does inf luence my comedy but it always has. My comedy is about my life, and my reaction to my life, and since I’ve always been a woman, and people have always hated women, I’ve always had a politically personal bent to my comedy, like talking about cat-calling or not wanting children. But, everyone seems to be asking me this question and I was never asked this question when other people were President so it seems like we are really in extraordinary times and I mean extra-ordinary in the bad way,” she wrote. “So, yes, people coming to the show will for sure get a sense that I live in the same world they do. As Jimmy Kimmel recently

described it, ‘It feels like a portal to Hell has been opened.’ I’m in that portal too and so I’m hoping people find my show cathartic and comforting but if they’re looking for a Trump impersonation, they won’t get that from me. Although I will be wearing a toupee,” she wrote. Although someone is probably angrily tweeting about Kirkman’s liberal or “feminazi” comedy at this very moment, she’s over the discussion on the acceptability of “rape jokes.” “I don’t really sit around analyzing comedy. If men wanna talk about rape culture they better have a good fucking reason and they better be preaching on the right side of it. Otherwise, I’m so tired of this debate and it’s the least fun question on earth because whatever my answer will be won’t make someone be like, ‘She’s so funny I have to see her show,’ ” she wrote. “I know you journos want deep conversation but people reading this stuff are like, ‘OMG shut up already.’ I should know. They tweet me when these pieces come out. I’d rather talk about aliens or something.” However, if you are reading this thinking “She is so funny I have to see her show,” there are still tickets left for Saturday’s show. “My comedy isn’t interactive unless I need have a question answered during my set. Comedy gets so little respect and people seem angry that you don’t want to talk to them. Folks, it’s like a play. I know the words I’m going to say and I’m excited to say them. I f lew here to say them. If you interrupt me, you’re basically an asshole who wants more from a performer than the performance. Not cool. And it ruins the fun for the audience. They didn’t pay to see Jerry in the third row yell shit out.” Don’t be Jerry.

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Originally cut from their 2016 debut, Light Upon the Lake, “You and Me” was released to the world on September 29, along with the announcement of an upcoming record of early recordings, and a cover of Allen Toussaint’s “Southern Nights.” The song opens with a delightfully fast guitar riff akin to that of “No Matter Where We Go,” punctuated by an uncharacteristically synth-y keyboard. It’s bouncy enough to induce the delusion that maybe, just maybe, the Chicago-based, six-piece, self-described country-soul Whitney have written a purely happy song. Within a minute that delusion

is shattered. Electric guitar and keyboard drop out, replaced by a singular acoustic guitar and drummer-vocalist Julien Ehrlich’s familiar croon chimes in, wistfully: “Oh, darling / Remember, you and me, darling / Remember, you and me, darling.” Bare and plaintive at first, the chorus slowly grows. First, the keyboard reenters, then drums and electric, transitioning directly back into the original guitar melody, which then sounds decidedly melancholic. Though familiar in melodic style, “You and Me” feels like a step forward for Whitney, even if it was written in late 2014, early 2015. Though it lacks Will Miller’s trumpet — one of Whit-

ney’s most alluring aspects — it sounds and feels more layered than any of the band’s previous releases. A string section, two different keyboard tones and almost every other instrument on the track are featured frontand-center for at least a moment or two over the course of justunder-three-minutes. Though many fans may find themselves growing impatient for Whitney’s second proper full-length, “You and Me” is as clear a sign as ever that Light Upon the Lake: Demo Recordings should be able to hold us over until the summer, when the next LP is due.

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BOOK REVIEW

‘Funeral Platter: Stories’ encapsulates the absurd most bizarre, uncomfortable thoughts. They are eccentric, Book Review Editor erratic, sometimes ecstatic — and the style is stripped down to match. There are no Greg Ames, the author of unnecessary stylizations, just “Buffalo Lockjaw” — a novel stenographic observations and that won the 2009 Book of dialogue that moves feverishly. the Year Award from the The first story sets the tone New Atlantic Booksellers for the rest. A blind date — or Association — has written a what seems like a blind date — collection of short stories that begins to take peculiar turns might be one of the second both the most absurd people are there. collections of the At times, it past few years. feels like we are “Funeral The only way witnessing an Platter: I can think to eyeroll-worthy describe the pace quirky meetStories” of “Funeral Platter: cute, but it never Greg Ames Stories” is to say builds to that that it moves like recognizable Arcade Publishing the galloping horse rom-com in every horse crescendo; Oct. 3 movie you’ve seen, rather, they at the moment the argue, and make plucky protagonist up, and argue, aims too high and make up, and rides the wild horse that and each time it gets more everyone warns can’t be tamed. and more confusing as to how The characters in every either of them got here. The story of “Funeral Platter” are ending leaves you even more unhinged; many of them have bewildered than you were in cast off the cloak of propriety the middle; and when looked at and run around as if naked (not retrospectively, the beginning literally — for the most part). makes no sense either. Many of them have no filters, Stories that could be cute either verbally or mentally, are missing the glossy facade and we are privy to their that would make them so. One SOPHIA KAUFMAN

story is told from the point of view of a wisecracking thirteen-year-old who thinks his crossing guard returns his romantic affections — their significant age difference is but a gauntlet thrown down by a society determined to keep the star crossed lovers apart — but he isn’t exactly the most likeable of incorrigible boys. In another tale, a man casually dismembers himself as a form of revenge against an ex girlfriend, recounting each of his self-inflicted wounds, growing in severity, with savage satisfaction until he dies; you can almost hear his maniacal laughter. Another man follows an elaborate five step plan to get a wonderful girlfriend to break up with him (this one is eerily reminiscent of “Fight Club”). The final story ends what the first one begins; it is a tale of two idiosyncratic old lovers for whom “till death do us part” is but a challenge to be laughed at. Some of the stories are more outlandish than others; even the ones that would be depressing are often just too baffling to be so. Where other authors have worked tirelessly to capture the pathos of the human condition, Greg Ames has effortlessly captured the absurd.

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In Reappraisals, Michigan Daily film writers attempt to defend films that have been critically maligned. This week: Two “Pirates of the Caribbean” films, 2006’s “Dead Man’s Chest” (54 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) and 2007’s “At World’s End” (45 percent on Rotten Tomatoes). “Pirates of the Caribbean”: It’s a franchise that is uttered in the same breath as “Transformers,” symbols of the Hollywood machine intent on cranking out as many sequels per year as is physically possible. To read reviews of the recent “Pirates” film is to be assaulted with descriptive language so unabashedly negative that it seems impossible there was ever anything good to be found in this series. The accepted consensus in the media world is that the “Pirates of the Caribbean” series has been garbage since the first one. I think this is absolutely unfair. In a cinematic landscape filled with generic, uninspired and mindlessly unimaginative blockbusters, to see “Dead Man’s Chest” and “At World’s End” lumped in with all the rest strikes me as ludicrous. Far from being repetitive and derivative schlock like the more recent “Pirates” films, the original should be considered the gold standard for modern trilog y storytelling. The first film tells a complete story that leaves the door open for

more. Parts two and three continue and then conclude the arcs of all major and minor characters, eventually uniting all the heroes and villains from the original film against a much more dangerous and chilling foe. People forget that before Jack Sparrow became a bumbling idiot, he was the smartest man in the room. In all three of the original films, Jack Sparrow continually outsmarts and outthinks his enemies, and we watch him grow from a selfish rogue to a true hero over the course of the three films. Many blockbusters nowadays are rightfully critiqued for having basic and predictable plots, yet “Dead Man’s Chest” and “At World’s End” are both criticized for having plots that actually require the audience to think. “World’s End” in particular is accused of being byzantine and confusing, but the truth is that it’s almost like a heist movie: The more you watch it the more you understand. There are a lot of different layers to that movie, and yes, almost every character has a hidden agenda. That doesn’t mean the movie is bad though, or that it should be blamed for its audience’s stupidity. I for one would prefer more movies that actually ask something of the audience rather than hand them everything on a silver platter. The films also boast wildly creative action sequences. From the three way wheel sword fight in “Chest” to the final ship-on-ship maelstrom at the end of “World’s End” these are imaginative

sequences that are still remembered today and have stood the test of time. These first two “Pirates” sequels also succeed at world building in a way almost all other franchises fail to do. Like “Star Wars,” “The Lord of the Rings” and maybe a few others, the original “Pirates” trilog y feels like a fully realized world, with each addition uncovering a new part of the universe that feels like it was always there and you just couldn’t see it. Unlike so many more recent blockbusters, the original “Pirates” films are both serious and fun. It seems like every Marvel or DC movie has to make a choice between being serious and having fun. The original “Pirates” movies remind us that there doesn’t have to always be a choice. These films have serious themes and dark moments and are also an absolute blast to watch. Directed by the same director all the way through and with the same writers, cast and crew throughout, they feel like a complete whole in a way the later films and most other franchises don’t. There’s a reason why “Dead Man’s Chest” and “At World’s End” were at one time two of the highest grossing films ever made but the fourth and fifth films have faltered. “Dead Man’s Chest” and “At World’s End” are smart, sophisticated blockbusters with compelling characters and emotional storytelling. Forget about throwing them in with the meaningless later “Pirates” movies. We need more trilogies like this one.

MUSIC VIDEO REVIEW

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If you were to make a checklist of things you might find in a fun and lighthearted music video, it would probably include dancing. Fashionable clothes. Attractive, young people who look like they’re having a really, really good time. Some hip setting — a club, maybe, or some other place where people go to let loose and have fun. HAIM’s new music video for “Little of Your Love” hits every single one of these checkmarks. Sisters Alana, Danielle and Este Haim spend the entire video dancing and striding around a retro cafe space, complete with

arcade games, pool tables and a nice big wooden dancefloor. A crowd of extras surrounds them, shuffling and clapping and tapping their feet. It’s a dance that looks coordinated, but also fun and approachable, in a youcould-totally-learn-this-at-home type of way. It’s nothing we haven’t seen before, but then again, the young-people-grinning-anddancing formula is tried and true for a reason. The “Little of Your Love” video is fun to watch, if not particularly inventive, and it’s interesting to see the ways in which the camera slips and

slides easily between the three sisters as they trade vocal parts. It’s a video that beckons the viewer to join in with the joyful spirit of the song, and by the end, when the song escalates into jumping and clapping and then slams into silence, that effort does feel like it’s paid off. The dancers all stamp their feet in unison and freeze, and the video and the song wrap up quickly and neatly. It’s as if they’re saying: “We’re all done, and wasn’t that a fun time? Wouldn’t you do it again?” - LAURA DZUBAY

FINDING PEACE OCTOBER 7, 2017: MICHIGAN STATE

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The Michigan football team defeated Purdue in its Big Ten opener two weeks ago, and is coming off a bye week with Michigan State as its next opponent. For the first time in the rivalry’s history, the game will be played under the lights at Michigan Stadium. Fifthyear senior quarterback John O’Korn will start under center for the seventh-ranked Wolverines, looking to keep hold of Paul Bunyan.

Florida (Sept. 2): ***Jaws theme song***

Penn State (Oct. 21): *Types...deletes... types...* Yeah, that’s off limits too.

Cincinnati (Sept. 9): The Bearcats are the only team from Ohio that almost won last week.

Rutgers (Oct. 28): If you’re reading this from the hot tub in the student section at Rutgers, you should go to the doctor.

Air Force (Sept. 16): Air Force was my safety school. (But really thank you for your service.)

Minnesota (Nov. 5): PJ.. Fleck-Harbaugh is the next Mayweather-McGregor.

Purdue (Sept. 23): Jeff Brohm probably had better facilities at Western Kentucky.

Maryland (Nov. 11): You don’t live in D.C., stop saying that.

Will Chase Winovich take a snap off Saturday? That and other aspects to watch for.

Michigan State (Oct. 7): The Michigan Daily has beaten the State News 12 years in a row.

Wisconsin (Nov. 18): I brought my tent to Camp Randall and was wildly disappointed.

Take a look at the history of the rivalry over the course of the last four years.

Indiana (Oct. 14): Hoosier? I barely know her.

Ohio State (Nov. 25): We finally found someone who loves college more than Asher Roth: tenth-year senior J.T. Barrett.

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The Daily sat down with Michigan State linebacker Chris Frey at Big Ten Media Days. Chris Bryant found peace in football. He just needed to step off the field to get there. The Daily breaks down how the Spartans stack up against the Wolverines.

STAFF PICKS The Daily football writers pick against the spread to predict scores for the top 25 and Big Ten in the 2017 football season. No. 1 Alabama (-26.5) at Texas A&M

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Wake Forest (+21.5) at No. 2 Clemson

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Iowa State (+30.5) at No. 3 Oklahoma

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No. 4 Penn State (-14) at Northwestern

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No. 5 Georgia (-17.5) at Vanderbilt

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California (+27.5) at No. 6 Washington

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Michigan State (+10.5) at No. 7 Michigan

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No. 23 West Virgina (+13.5) at No. 8 TCU

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No. 9 Wisconsin (-11.5) at Nebraska

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Maryland (+31) at No. 10 Ohio State

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No. 11 Washington State at Oregon

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Ole Miss (+22.5) at No. 12 Auburn

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No. 13 Miami (-3) at Florida State

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Oregon State (+34) at No. 14 USC

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No. 16 Virginia Tech (-16.5) at Boston College

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No. 19 San Diego State (-10) at UNLV

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Stanford (-4) at No. 20 Utah

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LSU (+2.5) at No. 21 Florida

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No. 21 Notre Dame (-14.5) at North Carolina

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No. 25 Central Florida at Cincinnati

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Illinois (+17.5) at Iowa

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Minnesota (+4) at Purdue

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Charleston Southern at Indiana

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Missouri (+9.5) at Kentucky

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Arkansas (-2) at South Carolina

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Arizona (+6.5) at Colorado

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Behind Enemy Lines: Chris Frey The Daily sat down with the Spartans’ linebacker at Big Ten Media Days prior to the 2017 season ORION SANG

Daily Sports Editor

Last season wasn’t a banner year for Michigan State. Chris Frey is well aware of that. Frey, a senior linebacker, was one of a few returning starters for a team that went 3-9 as the Spartans fell off a precipitous cliff only one year removed from a College Football Playoff appearance. At Big Ten Media Days in July, Frey made it clear that he wants to put that all behind him. He wants to leave East Lansing as he arrived — staring at a championship banner. “We want to be able to put a Big Ten championship banner on the wall,” Frey said in July. “We want to take the last Big Ten championship banner off the wall and spray paint on it. … We want to be a playoff contender. We want to win the East. And that’s the legacy we want to leave behind as a senior class.” The Daily spoke with Frey at Big Ten Media Days in July to discuss his team’s turnaround, the development of younger players and whether there were any structural changes made to Michigan State’s defense. TMD: Do you guys think you’re closer to turning this around than saying, ‘Oh, we’re 3-9, we have a way to go.’ Do you think you’re closer than people think from the outside? CF: Like you said, going into the season, we’re a 3-9 team. It doesn’t matter. We’re here to put that behind us. But last year we were in a lot of close games and we failed to contend in the fourth quarter, and I think that’s where a lot of our downfall came, not being able to finish games. I honestly don’t know the stats of how close we were and certain things last year and I couldn’t tell you, but I do think we have a really good chance at turning this around. Not even a chance — I think we

have a really good opportunity to turn this around. We have a lot of great guys on this team, guys that know what it takes and are going to give everything that they have. TMD: You mentioned before the sophomores who had game experience last year. What about the freshmen and sophomores who haven’t played in games — how do you bring them along on that fast track? CF: It comes down to reps in practice, honestly. During camp, they’ve got to step up if they want to play. They’ve got to step up and make plays in practice. Getting to know the guy that’s next to you, learning a lot from him, will help those guys be able to become better players and learn more on the field. TMD: Without a bowl game last year, did that place a heightened emphasis on spring

We want to be a playoff contender. We want to win the East.

practices this past year? CF: We moved spring practice up two or three weeks this year. We finished last year at Penn State on a Saturday and started workouts on Monday. So it was way, way fast-tracked and we were able to put the past behind us right there and start working for this year. We’ve been working for this year for eight, nine months now, and we’re ready to go. We’re just ready to put the pads on and start hitting. TMD: Is there any added pressure on the linebacking corps to be the lynchpin of the defense considering the inexperience of the line and secondary? CF: I don’t think there’s any pressure. I just think every year that’s something that we have to deal with. I think every single year the linebackers are the anchor of our defense, the guys that have the most playing time, the most reps and most starts, so I don’t think it’s an added pressure. I just think it’s something we’ve gotten used to over the years. TMD: Last year, you guys

finished last in the Big Ten in sacks. Is there more emphasis this year on blitzing linebackers? CF: Definitely. Not just blitzing linebackers, but more of an emphasis on pass rush and drills to better ourselves at that. TMD: (Michigan State Coach Mark) Dantonio talked a fair amount last year about RPO (Run/Pass option) and how that gave you trouble at times as a defense. Has that been an emphasis this offseason, any structural changes, anything like that to try to defend those? CF: I don’t think it’s a structural change. I just think it’s trying to figure out the best way to defend it. We’ve changed a few things, but no matter what defense you play, it’s going to be hard to guard the RPO. You always want to play the run first, you can’t give up the run,

so the second you see that run, you’re going after it, and when they realize you’re biting on the run, they’re passing the ball. It doesn’t matter which defense you’re playing in. You’ve just got to recognize the f low and trying to get a feel of if there’s a giveaway to whether they’re going to RPO or not. TMD: Is that the toughest scheme for a young defense to play against? CF: Oh yeah, definitely. Especially our STAR, our outside backers, because of trying to read the tackle and the guard and the running back and the quarterback, you can’t tell if they’re pass-setting or if they’re handing the ball off because the running back’s doing play action. You can’t really tell. So it’s really hard on our outside backers to make our read and then try to decide on what we think it is.

I think we have a really good opportunity to turn this around.

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Michigan State linebacker Chris Frey is leading Michigan State in sacks, contributing significantly to a defense that ranks 16th nationally in rushing defense.

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In end of a career, Bryant finds peace ORION SANG

Daily Sports Editor

Four pops. Five years later, and Chris Bryant can still hear the sounds. It was the week before Michigan’s season opener against Alabama in the 2012 season opener at AT&T Stadium. According to Bryant, a redshirt freshman at the time, he was on the verge of starting at left guard after a heated competition throughout fall camp. His parents had even booked flights to Dallas and couldn’t stop talking about how fired up they were to see him play. “Three or four days” before kickoff, Bryant was participating in a routine offense-versus-defense drill.

The running back made a cut. Someone fell on Bryant’s leg, and he heard the terrible noises — the sounds of a fractured tibia. It was the first serious injury of Bryant’s career. Instead of flying to Texas, his parents went to Ann Arbor to talk to doctors about the medical procedures their son would have to undergo. “It was very hurtful,” recalled Eric Bryant, Chris’s father. “You start focusing on how he’s feeling because I know it’s devastating for him more so than for myself or for my wife. But it’s a pain that you can’t really describe because you don’t want to show too much of that emotion to him because then that would only make him feel even worse.” Over the course of the

next year, Bryant underwent an arduous rehabilitation process. His leg never healed the way he wanted it to. Still, he was able to work himself back onto the field, drawing a spot in the lineup against Minnesota on Oct. 5. His return didn’t last long. Just like the first catastrophic injury, Bryant can still describe the second in full detail. It was a routine double block. He had his own assignment and threw his arm out for an assist — where it got “completely thrown back.” “I just felt a bunch of tears,” Bryant said, “all through my shoulder.” He gritted his teeth and finished the game. In the following days, he tried desperately to tough it out,

hiding his full symptoms from doctors, hoping he could play the next week at Penn State. “This was my opportunity,” Bryant said. “I sat out a whole year, not about to sit out another year.” But by the time the Wolverines had lost in triple overtime to the Nittany Lions, Bryant knew he had to get his shoulder looked at. The diagnosis? A torn rotator cuff, with damage to other ligaments and the rest of the shoulder. And at that point, Bryant had a big decision to make. Was continuing his playing career worth it? “Just came to a point where (you look) 20 years down the road,” Bryant said. “Do you want to be able to go outside in the backyard to throw a

football with your kids?” One night, Bryant spoke to his mother, Joy, over the phone. His injuries had constantly bothered her and she told him as much. She also told him about an intuition that had come to her. “It was like I was dreaming, it was like God was shaking me, and I understood now, it was like a puzzle being put together,” Joy said. “It came to me, and that morning when I got up — we talk every morning — I said, ‘Christian, God spoke to me and told me for you to stop playing football, because he has a better plan for you. He told me to tell you to just give it up.’ “I said, ‘When you go to bed, you talk to God like you talk to me, and he’ll give you the answer.’ That night he did, and he said, ‘Okay, mom, I’m going to the coach and I’m going to let him know I’m taking a medical.’ ” Chris Bryant’s football career — what had led him to Ann Arbor in the first place — was over. “That’s what I’d been known for my whole life — as a football player,” Bryant, now Michigan’s director of high school relations, said. “To actually have to close that chapter and open up another one, it was tough. Took a while to get over it. “A lot of long nights just crying, man. It was just a hard feeling.” *** It took Bryant a “couple months” to deal with the end of his career. He met with famed sports psychologist Greg Harden. His parents reassured him that things would turn out okay and told him that he would find his true calling. Bryant’s relationship with Brady Hoke developed quickly as well, especially in the aftermath of his second injury. The head coach met with Bryant often,

checking up on him regularly and prodding him to think about his options. Did he want to coach? Did he want to recruit? “Coach Hoke supported me the whole way,” Bryant said, “and sat me down until I found out what I wanted to do.” And it just so happened that one of Bryant’s best friends was in a “very, very similar situation.” Antonio Poole, a linebacker signed in the same class as Bryant, never played a snap due to two injuries — a torn pectoral and a ruptured Achilles tendon. The two were roommates freshman year. At the time, they couldn’t have known what they were in for. But their friendship only grew as the pair bonded over their shared misfortunes. “I was just like, ‘Damn, one of us gotta stay healthy, man,’ ” Poole said. “It was just funny, every time one of us got hurt, the other got hurt, and after that, we just bonded. It was just trying to keep each other’s spirits up, because coming there to play football and then things didn’t go the way we thought they would. We pushed each other through our rehab and continued to push each other and keep our spirits up after our football careers were over.” Poole was the first to hang up the cleats. After Bryant followed suit, Poole found himself giving advice. They talked about ways to cope. About life after football. About finding a new identity. Poole realized he couldn’t leave the game completely behind and became a recruiting assistant. Bryant was his first recruit. “Yeah, I remember I told (Bryant), that was one of the great ways to stay part of the team, just helping out,” Poole said. “He asked me, ‘How was it?’ I said, ‘At first, you’ll be

I found a way, and I don’t know all the answers, but I know a way that I got here.

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Chris Bryant saw limited playing time as an offensive lineman in Ann Arbor due to a laundry list of injuries, but found a new role in the Michigan program.

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outside, watching the guys play and you’ll feel like, ‘Oh man, I feel like I could play again,’ but your body just isn’t allowing you. So I told him he’d go through that process as well and I was just telling him it’s great to still be around the team. “You’re still caught up in helping the guys out and you contribute to the win — just in other aspects. Not on the field, but helping with gameplan, helping the coaches when they need something and then bringing in the new talent that comes and being mentors to the new freshmen and guys as we recruit them.” As a player, Bryant had never realized just how much went into football. He was particularly unaware of the work that went into convincing high schoolers — like Bryant once was — to sign with Michigan in the first place. That aspect appealed to him the most. Bryant liked being able to talk to kids who weren’t able to afford tuition. He liked being able to tell

them that they could earn the right for Michigan to pay their way through hard work. He liked the “whole vision” of giving kids — that he felt, in some way, were like him — an opportunity of a lifetime. It was all the more sweet that he got to do so alongside his best friend. “We used to talk about it and (we) joke about it now — there’s no way in the world that another university in the country has two players that both ended up having to take medicals (who are) roommates in the same recruiting class,” Bryant said. “But at the same time, things happen, and I feel like that was God giving us each other to support each other and be there for each other. That was my boy, man. We’ve been through a lot together. I just can’t think of anybody else I would’ve rather went through everything we’ve been through together (with).” Added Poole: “I think it worked perfectly. I really believe that — we were talking about that a lot — it was God’s

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Bryant was appointed Director of High School Relations this summer.

will to bring us on this path and to show people that there is life after football, and that you can do it. Because a lot of people go into a very depressed mode, but you can make something out of it after you lose the game of football.” *** Following a 5-7 season in 2014, Hoke was fired. As fate would have it, his replacement came in already knowing Bryant. While at Stanford, Jim Harbaugh had recruited Bryant vigorously. He had hosted the Bryant family on an official visit and made Bryant feel comfortable. When Harbaugh left for the NFL, Bryant didn’t anticipate crossing paths ever again. In 2015, though, he found himself sitting in Harbaugh’s new office at Schembechler Hall. “Coach Harbaugh came in, and he knew who I was from recruiting, he knew about my injuries and everything like that, and we just had a conversation when he first got here,” Bryant recalled. “He asked me what I wanted to do, and I told him I wasn’t really sure. I didn’t know if I wanted to go into the real world yet, but I knew I loved football and I wasn’t ready to give it up.” The two quickly reached an agreement: Bryant would stay on as an intern with the team while continuing his studies at Michigan’s graduate school for social work. He had to work his way up from the bottom — this involved cutting a lot of film — but eventually he earned a paid internship, and most importantly for Bryant, he earned the responsibility to work with recruits. “I felt comfortable sitting in front of recruits and different families,” Bryant said. “I felt like I had a unique story (in)

that I was only here to start a couple games but I’m sitting here getting my master’s degree from the University of Michigan and not having to come out with any debt. … Coach Harbaugh felt like that was a unique story, and Coach Harbaugh is really huge on taking care of his guys.” Harbaugh continued to give Bryant bigger assignments. He was tasked with bringing recruits on campus, where he’d host them on visits and give them tours around campus. And then one day this past summer, director of player personnel Sean Magee grabbed Bryant and told him Harbaugh wanted to see him. “(Harbaugh was) like, ‘We were thinking about making you our Director of High School Relations,’ ” Bryant said. “And I didn’t really know — who was the director of high school relations, and what happened to him? And he’s like, ‘We never had it, and I feel like you’d be perfect for it. I feel like you have the character.’ ” The promotion was a big step up in responsibility. Bryant describes the role as being Harbaugh’s “righthand man” when it comes to maintaining relationships in high schools and communities across the country. His importance only increases during the season when Harbaugh is busier. He enjoys the role. But last summer, he had a chance to work in the area he eventually hopes to transition into. In July, Bryant served as the director of football operations for Michigan’s annual Youth Impact summer camp. The program brings in kids from inner-city Detroit, where they work with Marines, football players and teachers from Ann Arbor public schools for two weeks before the experience culminates in a game of football at Michigan Stadium. “It’s tough because I don’t want to leave Michigan,” Bryant said. “But I’m going to find a way to get my own nonprofit up and running. Just helping out inner-city kids, teaching them the path

I’ve been through a lot, but everything I’ve been through, I just kept fighting.

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Bryant poses with his father, Eric, and his mother, Joy.

to get out of their situation and get to the next level. “I feel like I could be a prime example. I found a way, and I don’t know all the answers, but I know a way that I got here. … That’s my whole goal, to be doing that within the next year or two.” *** When Joy Bryant was pregnant, her doctor correctly predicted that her unborn child would play football. “He said,” Joy recalled, “‘The way he’s kicking, the way he wants to come out, you’re going to have a little football player.’ ” That eager baby never had the 10-15 year professional career he dreamed of. But he was still, as his doctor anticipated, a football player. And however short his career may have been, however brutal the injuries he suffered were, Bryant knows he wouldn’t be where he is now without going through all of it. “I feel like I’m a walking action of what Michigan stands for — our values as far as taking care of our

own,” Bryant said. “I’ve been through a lot, but everything I’ve been through, I just kept fighting, kept going through it … I had a goal in mind.” He’s in a position now where he can use his story to help others — and he’ll continue to do so, even if that isn’t at Michigan. Of course, the game still calls to him. Just a few weeks ago, Bryant was watching practice with graphic designer Aaron Bills when he told Bills he’d do “anything” to get on the field. Bills turned to him and told him that’s how he knew Bryant really missed football — he didn’t want to just play the game, he even wanted to practice. “I tell you,” Bryant said, “to this day, I still go out there and I want to play football.” Bryant doesn’t think that urge will ever subside. Yet he has no regrets about how his career panned out at Michigan. It may seem paradoxical. But Chris Bryant found peace in football. He just needed to step off the field to get there.

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OPP 13.5 11.5 69.3 2.2 1 134 41.0 5.1 3 3 57.5 203.3 19.3% 50% 3.0 15.9 2.8 41.6 4-7 10/4 46.5 26:42

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Cmp 44 19 29

Att 81 27 55

Yds 581 307 439

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Att 57 47 1 33 4 3

Yds 356 220 44 136 10 10

Avg 6.2 4.7 44 4.1 2.5 3.3

Lg 53 49 44 36 4 5

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No. 13 11 7 2 6 10 1

Yds 163 149 99 61 119 120 7

Avg 12.5 13.6 14.1 30.5 19.8 12.0 7.0

Lg 33 46 43 48 36 30 7

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BETELHEM ASHAME Managing Sports Editor

Three. That’s how many times football has been played under the lights at Michigan Stadium. On Saturday night, that number will go up to four. At 7:30 p.m., the No. 7 Michigan football team will take on Michigan State in the 110th edition of the in-state rivalry. The Wolverines (1-0, Big Ten, 4-0 overall) will face the Spartans (1-0, 3-1) at Michigan Stadium for the first time since an infamous botched punt cost them a certain victory in 2015. While Michigan exacted revenge with a 32-23 win last year in East Lansing, Michigan State’s 2-5 record at the time somewhat marred its significance. Though the Spartans are still unranked, it won’t be hard to see the significance of the game Saturday. Here’s how the two teams match up: Michigan pass offense vs Michigan State pass defense For the first time this

season, fifth-year senior quarterback John O’Korn will be leading the Wolverines out of the tunnel and onto the field at Michigan Stadium. O’Korn has been handed the keys to the offense after redshirt junior Wilton Speight’s injury against Purdue, and he has been lauded for his attitude both on and off the field. He completed 18 of 26 passes for 270 yards and a touchdown to topple the Boilermakers on the road, and he has had the bye week to prepare for Michigan State. The Spartans will provide a stiff challenge in his first start, though, as they rank fifth nationally in passing efficiency defense and ninth in passing yards allowed. While O’Korn’s chemistry with his receivers looked solid against Purdue, Michigan State could throw the unit for a loop. Edge: Michigan State Michigan run offense vs Michigan State run defense After falling behind fifthyear senior Ty Isaac and junior Karan Higdon, sophomore running back Chris Evans had his breakout game against the

Boilermakers, gaining 99 yards on 14 carries and scoring two touchdowns. While Isaac is still expected to be the starting back — he leads the trio with an average of 89 yards per game — Evans will likely receive more carries than he has in recent weeks. The rotation has worked well for Michigan a third of the way through its season, so all three backs should play a role against Michigan State. Though impressive, the Spartans’ rush defense, which ranks 16th nationally, isn’t quite as strong as its pass defense. Linebackers Chris Frey and Joe Bachie will head Michigan State’s efforts to stop the Wolverines’ staunch trio. But with three reliable backs, Michigan should be able to gain the advantage. Edge: Michigan Michigan State pass offense vs Michigan pass defense When it comes to the offense, quarterback Brian Lewerke belongs in both of the next two sections. On the passing side, he has thrown for 963 yards with a 63.2

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Follow @Kevin_M_Santo, @tedjanes7, @orion_sang and @betelhem_ashame on Twitter during Saturday’s game. completion percentage and eight touchdowns. His main target, receiver Felton Davis, has caught 21 passes for 256 yards and four touchdowns. No other wideout has more than one score. Davis will be expected to maintain that trend, as Michigan State’s passing game has the edge over its run game. For Michigan, the rush defense is the star of the show, but the pass defense still performs admirably. While the secondary will face a unique challenge against Lewerke’s dual-threat nature, it seems prepared to handle it. Edge: Michigan Michigan State run offense vs Michigan run defense Lewerke is the single player most important to Michigan State’s success, and not just See BREAKDOWN, Page 7

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BREAKDOWN From Page 6 because of his arm. He is also the leading rusher for the Spartans. Lewerke has rushed for 278 yards on 38 attempts and scored two touchdowns. By comparison, Michigan State’s lead running back, LJ Scott, has gained 227 yards on 58 attempts and has only scored once. He hasn’t gone up against the Wolverines’ front four, though. The defensive line is the heart and soul of Michigan’s No. 1 overall defense, leading the nation in sacks and not trailing by much in tackles-for-loss. Lewerke might run straight into a brick wall against the Wolverines. Edge: Michigan Special teams The story seems pretty set for Michigan in this phase of the game. Redshirt freshman kicker Quinn Nordin has become a reliable source of points for a struggling offense this season. If called upon against Michigan State, Nordin can be expected to put the ball through the uprights. Sophomore punter Will Hart

has faced numerous problems in his first season as the starter. Though he has averaged 37 yards per punt with a long of 61, he has been responsible for multiple obvious errors. Freshman Brad Robbins took over against Purdue, punting seven times with an average of 40 yards. Robbins will likely retain that starting spot against the Spartans. Michigan State hasn’t done much in the kicking game, but punter Jake Hartbarger averages 43 yards on his attempts, slightly bypassing Hart. Edge: Michigan Intangibles With the Paul Bunyan trophy on the line in a historic edition of the in-state rivalry, there is a lot at stake for both teams. But in three previous night games at Michigan Stadium, the Wolverines have come away with a victory. They are favored to do the same in their fourth this Saturday. Not many in Ann Arbor have forgotten the events of that dreary October night two seasons ago. Michigan surely hasn’t. That’s as big a motivational tool as it gets. Edge: Michigan Prediction: Michigan 24, Michigan State 14

What to Watch For TED JANES

Daily Sports Writer

Saturday, the No. 7 Michigan football team (1-0 Big Ten, 4-0 overall) will host in-state rival Michigan State in the first night game at Michigan Stadium since 2014. The last time the Wolverines played a night game at home, Brady Hoke was the coach and Devin Gardner was the quarterback. Times have changed, but the storylines are just as intriguing. Here’s what to watch for when the Spartans and Wolverines kickoff at primetime this weekend. 1. O’Korn’s big day Wilton Speight is out. John O’Korn is in. After transferring from Houston and losing the position battle two years in a row, the fifthyear senior is set to be Michigan’s quarterback for the foreseeable future. Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said Monday that Speight would be out for “multiple weeks” due to a soft-tissue injury. O’Korn is

next in line, and following him are redshirt freshman Brandon Peters and freshman Dylan McCaffrey. While O’Korn hasn’t played consistently during his college career, he threw for 270 yards and a touchdown off the bench against Purdue. He has enough offensive weapons to utilize — various tight ends and a deep running back group — that he can fall back on if he starts to struggle. 2. Michigan State’s weapon: Lewerke to Davis Michigan’s run defense is the best in the nation, but it will face a challenge from Spartan quarterback Brian Lewerke, who has rushed for 248 yards and two touchdowns this season. The Wolverines have faced a mobile quarterback before — Air Force’s Arion Worthman — and they were able to quickly settle in and shut him down. Lewerke’s playing at a high level, and while his feet certainly pose a threat, his recent connections with leading wide receiver Felton Davis III are where the Wolverines need

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Fifth-year senior quarterback John O’Korn will take the field as Michigan’s starter against Michigan State, as Wilton Speight is still sidelined with an injury from Purdue.

to be focused. Davis caught two touchdown passes from Lewerke against Iowa last weekend. Michigan’s defensive backs have done well so far against the pass, but Davis will be one of the top receivers they face this season. 3. Will the running backs keep spreading the wealth? The running back revolving door continues to rotate. Sophomore Chris Evans is the latest to feature in the spotlight, and exceled against Purdue with two touchdown rushes and 97 yards. Evans’ performance against the Boilermakers brought back memories of last year’s Hawaii game, when he had two touchdowns as well. In both games, Evans displayed remarkable acceleration. His speed differentiates him from the other running backs: fifth-year senior Ty Isaac and junior Karan Higdon. Michigan State’s defense has done well to stop the run so far, holding opponents to an average of just 96 yards per game. Earlier this week, Isaac spent time evaluating the Spartans’ defense, commenting on its physicality and blitz-heavy packages. Isaac and Higdon, due to their size, are best suited to handle a physical run, but in the open field, it’s Evans that stands out from the pack. 4. Will Chase Winovich take a single snap off? Two days after Michigan defeated Purdue, defensive coordinator Don Brown went on the “Inside Michigan Football” radio show and informed the public that Winovich played every snap of Saturday’s game against the Boilermakers. The feat is impressive regardless, but was even more astounding given that the Wolverines’ defensive end accumulated 50 snaps in 90-degree heat. As if that weren’t enough, Winovich finished with six tackles and four sacks — a performance that garnered him Big Ten co-defensive player of the week honors. Saturday night is expected to hover in the low 80s, and it will have all the energy of a night game against an in-state rival to go with it. Expecting a repeat of Purdue isn’t too reasonable, but if someone on Michigan is going to do it, Winovich is the best bet.

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A four-year history of the Michigan State rivalry TED JANES

Daily Sports Writer

On a late Tuesday night in 2014, a Michigan Daily sports writer had just left from a night of editing when he stumbled upon the Diag block ‘M’ painted green with the letters ‘S’ and ‘U’ alongside it. An anonymous vandal had gone viral with just two cans of paint. Pictures of the defaced landmark and a cleaning crew with a power hose spread online. Some Michigan students blamed their friends up at East Lansing, and others blamed a University fraternity that had camped out to protect the ‘M’ in prior years. What happened in the last four years — since the painted blocked ‘M’ — was a major turnaround filled with classic rivalry moments. Here’s our recap of the biggest moments in the Michigan-Michigan State rivalry over the last four years. 2014: Big stakes… in the Spartans’ turf Disrespect was a common theme in 2014. Wolverines fans were rightfully nervous in the days leading up to the 2014 Michigan-Michigan State football game. Michigan football was 3-4, suffering from losses to Rutgers, Minnesota and a 31-point shutout at Notre Dame. And as if the spray paint on the Diag wasn’t taunting enough, few expected the Wolverines to have much luck against then-No. 8 Michigan State and former Spartan quarterback Connor Cook. In response to the hype, junior linebacker Joe Bolden walked onto the field before kickoff followed by his teammates. He held up a tent stake and drove it into the turf. He later claimed that his intentions were to motivate his team, but across the field, the Spartans felt disrespected. 2014: Not even close, Michigan State victory Once the stake was lifted, Michigan State ran all over the Wolverines for 446 total yards and four touchdowns. Cook threw over 200 yards, and aside from one rushing touchdown, the Wolverines weren’t competitive in any phase of the game. To say the least, it was an embarrassing loss for Michigan. All went according to plan for the Spartans, and they continued to taunt the Wolverines all game. A group of Michigan State students camped overnight to get front row

seats so they could show off the “KEEP BRADY HOKE” letters they had painted on their chests. “They’re just breaking records left and right for sucking this year,” one of those students said to the Daily that year. “It’s great. It’s a historic year.” 2015: Magic Johnson gets a maize-over Something about spray paint gets Michigan and Michigan State fans riled up. A year after the Diag ‘M’ showed up green, an unnamed Michigan fan tagged the Magic Johnson statue outside the Michigan State’s basketball arena. A large yellow ‘M’ appeared on Johnson’s chest, his face was painted yellow and the words “BEAT STATE” were written on statue’s base. Though a recurring theme, this particular case of vandalism hit closer to home for Spartan fans. The Sparty Statue on Michigan State’s campus had been coated maize and blue multiple times in the prior years. Sparty was the usual target, and students were prepared to defend it. Going after Michigan State’s most famous basketball alum seemed like a cheap shot. 2015: With Gameday on site,

Corso goes blue Ignited by new coach Jim Harbaugh, Michigan football was back in the national spotlight in 2015. Despite a season-opening loss to Utah, the Wolverines had won five straight games going into rivalry weekend, including a 38-0 win over then-No. 13 Northwestern. ESPN’s College GameDay aired from Ann Arbor for the first time since 2013. Michigan was ranked No. 12, and the Spartans sat at No. 7. Tensions brewed high, and when broadcaster Lee Corso picked Michigan to win by lifting an oversized Michigan helmet from beneath his desk, the crowd erupted. What followed was one of the most memorable college football games not just of the year, but the foreseeable future. 2015: The fumbled-punt seen ‘round the world Do you remember where you were when Jalen Watts-Jackson returned the fumbled punt to beat Michigan? Most people probably do, too. Watts-Jackson’s name is ingrained in the minds of Michigan fans. When Michigan punter Blake O’Neill mishandled the snap, the college football world tuned in. It was a night to forget for the Wolverines, but a night that

national media would never let die. Images from the game’s finish, like Michigan student Chris Baldwin’s shocked reaction, reappear every time the schools meet. Ann Arbor went silent that night. All game long, after parties were being planned and group chats were blowing up. “Michigan is gonna go top four,” somebody texted me in the third quarter. Maybe Michigan would have. But when Watts-Jackson crossed over the goal line, that all came to a halt. 2016: A new recipe… The first rematch after the botched punt was highly anticipated, but the scene in East Lansing had completely changed since Michigan’s last trip to the state capital. Wolverine fans were present, and they made their presence known. When wide receiver Eddie McDoom ran a jet sweep, you could actually hear the “Doooom” chants from the visiting fans. No Michigan State students painted “KEEP HARBAUGH” on their chests. Then-No. 2 Michigan dominated, and it was clear that Michigan State’s three-year run had concluded. The game wasn’t as close as the score indicated, and the Paul Bunyan

trophy went back to Ann Arbor. 2016: … With Peppers on top Late in the game, the Wolverines led 30-23. The Spartans had scored a meaningless touchdown, and in hopes of padding the score line, set up to attempt a two-point conversion. They lost control of a toss, and linebacker Jabrill Peppers, the face of the 2016 Michigan football team, scooped up the ball and sprinted the other direction. Peppers ran all the way for the safety. It might not have left the same impression as the prior year’s ending, but it stung for Michigan State fans nonetheless. When the clock finally reached zero, Peppers stood at midfield, and back flipped in celebration. 2017: To be determined… It’s a quieter year for the rivalry. Saturday night will be the first night game in Ann Arbor in three years, and the first night game of this rivalry in the 110-game series. Michigan and Michigan State will duke it out once again. There’s no College Gameday, no infamous vandalisms and No. 7 Michigan (1-0 Big Ten, 4-0 overall) is favored to win comfortably. As everyone knows, though, nothing is over until it’s over between these two teams.

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In 2014 the block ‘M’ was vandalized on the Diag at Michigan’s campus, serving as only one example of a series events that have occurred throughout the last four years.

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