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Michigan embarrassed by Ohio State, 62-39 MIKE PERSAK

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COLUMBUS — The No. 4 Michigan football team was just hanging on. Even when the Wolverines went down two touchdowns in the first half, and even when momentum favored Ohio State to begin the second half, they hung perilously within reaching distance. But with just under five minutes left in the third quarter, the floodgates broke open. It came on a punt, just after Michigan had gone down, 27-19, on a Buckeye field goal. Ohio State receiver Chris Olave took a free run at junior punter Will Hart and blocked Hart’s kick. The ball deflected high into the air and directly into the outstretched arms of Buckeye cornerback Sevyn Banks, who took it untouched to the house.

The Wolverines had finally wilted, like they have against Ohio State in 14 of the teams’ last 15 matchups, and from there they could do nothing right, losing, 62-39. “It was tough,” said senior safety Tyree Kinnel. “We try to stay upbeat throughout the whole game and trust each other and stay in the fight. But I remember a point where it just got out of hand. Slowly devastated us throughout the game. All the yards they were putting up, how easily they were scoring, it was tough. Extremely tough.” The out-of-hand point may have been the punt, or really any point after that, but the sings of impending trouble were present from the beginning. Michigan started the game with the ball and a three-and-out, and the Buckeyes promptly drove 43 yards for a score immediately afterward, finishing it off with a touchdown to Olave.

Olave, who entered the game with four catches all season, tacked on another score with 9:08 left in the second quarter, and Ohio State threatened to break the game open when wide receiver Johnnie Dixon III caught a wide-open touchdown to extend the Buckeye lead to 21-6 minutes later. To these opening blows, the Wolverines had answers. They scored back with a fade-route touchdown from sophomore wide receiver Nico Collins. Then, on the ensuing kickoff, Ohio State kick returner Demario McCall simply dropped the ball and Michigan recovered on the Buckeyes’ nine-yard line. Junior running back Chris Evans caught a wheel route for a touchdown on the next snap, and despite failing to convert on the two-point conversion attempt, the Wolverines were suddenly down just two. Ohio State drove down

to Michigan’s two-yard line twice in its next three offensive possessions, but had to settle for field goals both times. “We had our opportunities offensively, and you know, the defense started the second half good and held them to a field goal and got a stop, and we had a chance,” Patterson said. That’s when Olave broke through the Wolverines’ punt protection, and Banks went dancing into the endzone. Junior quarterback Shea Patterson threw an interception three plays later, and the Buckeyes scored two snaps after that. As Kinnel put it, things were out of hand. “You know, sometimes you get desperate in those types of situations,” Patterson said of his interception. “Wasn’t really trying to force it, I was actually trying to throw the ball out of bounds. Whoever made that play made a good play and hit my

elbow.” One last time, Michigan drove down the field in an effort to battle back, and Collins secured another fade route to chop the deficit back to two scores. And then Ohio State wide receiver Parris Campell Jr., took the first play on the Buckeyes’ next drive 78 yards to the endzone. In the end, the statistics are hideous for the Wolverines. They gave up the most points of any regulation game in program history. Ever. They allowed the most yards (567) since coach Jim Harbaugh and defensive coordinator Don Brown have taken over. They gave it all up in their biggest game of the year. After Campbell’s run, the metaphorical floodgates were completely obliterated. Ohio State spent the rest of the game scoring and breaking records offensively, while pumping up the crowd and dancing on graves defensively.

Councilmembers fear cull meat could contain PFAS following advisory JULIA FORD

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As Ann Arbor’s fourth annual deer cull approaches, some have raised concerns regarding the safety of donating venison to local soup kitchens. Many deer in the area drink from the Huron River, which the Department of Environmental Quality found this summer contains the toxic chemical perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, or PFAS. In October, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Health and Human Services issued a “Do Not Eat” advisory for deer within five miles of Clark’s Marsh in Oscoda Township due to PFAS levels found in the animals. Though the Huron River contains some PFAS, Hayner said the Clark’s Marsh area provided the deer with a uniquely high amount of PFAS exposure.

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Nestled in the dirt, under the roots of a date tree Half of my heart waits Calling out to me desperately I’m walking, earbuds in Down the streets of a city I don’t think wants me My feet hit the pavement to the rhythm of music In words that aren’t my mother tongue While my mother’s tongue struggles to pronounce the words that make up this new land Hard L’s and unrolled R’s and sounds that warp her name Twisting, turning, tangling until they weave something that makes the most familiar parts of herself seem like strangers And I wonder if Home sounds the same to her in this other language In this other world Where neighbors are distant and the family that moved with her is the only proof of the dusty streets she used to live on Where golden shrines that used to dot the city, like glimpses into heaven Were filled with throngs of people, crushing together to get closer to God, to each other, to the promise of forever And if the only promises she knows now are the ones that were never kept I wonder if My father hunched and shoveling the mounds of snow that taunt him every winter Remembers the feeling of the desert that used to warm his feet As he played soccer, shooting goals the way he later had to shoot guns

If every time he watches the news, he remembers the feeling of shrapnel piercing his chest, or If, every time he bites into American fruit, He remembers the fruit picked fresh off the tree of his family home, sweet juices dribbling down his chin And tastes the nostalgia I wonder if Every time the words of their mother language die on their tongues, my siblings are reminded of the graveyard their mouths have become Or if they are homesick for a home they’ve never set foot in, If they set a seat at the table for the distant relative who will never come And stare at the empty seat and feel an anger as consuming as the wars that tore their homeland apart, Wars that left their parents walking on the earth as strangers Floating between two worlds Always islands I wonder if they still know that love isn’t always a four-letter word Or that words can say things, but they can’t feel things That the ache in their chest from missing something makes it real And that, just because something is missing, doesn’t mean it’s gone, I wonder if I — The music stops Underneath the palm tree, half of my heart is wailing, Railing against its earthen confines But its voice is muffled against the dirt “Come back to me,” it begs But I am deaf to its noise I press play again and keep walking in the wrong direction Contemplating homesickness in the wrong language

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Finding my dream job: Interning in a nonprofit in Washington D.C. NA’KIA CHANNEY MiC Senior Editor

How did you hear about your internship? The Human Rights Campaign has always been an organization I have wanted to work in, either for an internship or for a career. As for my specific position, I actually didn’t go through the typical application process. I connected through an alum who happened to be the internship manager and she was kind enough to take me into her department! So, for half of my internship, I worked under her as the Pride and Events Intern and as the Outreach and Engagement Intern under a different supervisor. What made you want to apply? When I started my sophomore year, I came in with the goal of interning with a major non-profit for summer 2018 and interning with a major corporation for summer 2019. For choosing my nonprofit, I wanted to intern for an organization that not only grew me professionally but also broadened my understanding of society and how I operate in it. I identify as a heterosexual

cis-gender Black woman, and it has been an informative and transformational experience uncovering the privileges that I have been navigating in my daily life. While I have many thoughts on navigating life as a Black woman, I have not reflected enough on how my more privileged identities, such as my sexual orientation, play an equal role in shaping how I navigate the world. Additionally, I wanted to find more strategic ways to combat homophobia in the Black community as it is still an issue that plagues Black culture. What are your favorite memories from your experience? My favorite experience from my internship was the Washington, D.C. Pride Festival. Under my internship

title, my responsibilities included planning and overseeing the logistics of pride festivals all over the nation. It was an amazing experience to be able to see both the behindthe-scenes work behind pride festival participation and the physical, colorful manifestation of months’ work. I had so much fun and I loved being able to enjoy the music, dancing and diverse representation of experiences that are frequently dismissed and ignored during other festival environments. What is the culture like where you interned? Any advice for prospective interns interested in non-profits? Imagine the type of workplace that your high school pushed onto you as an explanation for enforcing the school dress code. Now imagine

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the opposite. That is the culture at HRC. In the 90-degree heat, HRC prioritized employee comfort over rigid dress code systems. I was able to do my key work responsibilities in shorts and sneakers. I appreciated how HRC trusted their employees to know when to dress up and when to dress down. The work culture also made sure to prioritize active over passive action. Multiple times my job called for dropping my work and heading to the Supreme Court and the Capitol to protest unjust politics. The work was challenging and emotionally draining, but it is imperative that large organizations such as HRC have an active field experience. I would encourage anyone who wants to intern at non-profits to utilize (the University of ) Michigan’s large alumni network and just reach out yourself! I got this incredible internship by networking on LinkedIn, and if I can do it, anyone else can as well! I would also invite anyone to contact me at any time with any additional questions they have about HRC. I would be so happy to answer.

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Summer in Prague Study abroad: A whole world away ZAINAB BHINDARWALA MiC Senior Editor

This past summer, LSA senior Zainab Bhindarwala spent a month in Prague, Czech Republic taking a class on Nationalism, Minorities and Migrations in Eastern Europe through the program “CGIS: Cross-Cultural Psychology in Prague, Czech Republic.” How did you hear about this study abroad program? The CGIS newsletter. What made you want to apply? The title of the class drew me in. I’ve never been particularly interested in traveling to Europe, and I knew very little about the Czech Republic prior to this experience. I applied to this program hoping the class would help me with the thesis I’m writing this year. What is your favorite memory from your experience? One of my favorite memories from this trip is when a couple of us ended up having lunch with our professor. Getting to know her and learning about Czech culture outside of our classroom setting was so interesting. We saw a new part of the city and talked about the differences between Czech and American cultures. I loved that my professor never questioned that I was American. She asked all of us questions about the United States without any hesitation or assumption that I would know less than my white peers or that I would have a different experience than them. After spending 20 years convincing people in my own hometown that I was indeed an American just like them, it was refreshing not to have to prove it with every sentence and every action. I didn’t think someone assuming I was American and not questioning it would affect me that much, but it did. Was there anything that you struggled with during your study abroad? Ramadan started while I was in Prague. I knew Ramadan and my study abroad program

would overlap when I applied to the program, and I honestly wasn’t too concerned — I knew I would be back home for most of the month, and I wouldn’t really be missing any major nights of prayer. It wasn’t until the first day of Ramadan came that I realized exactly how much I missed being around my family during this time. For the first time in my entire life, I didn’t hear and say the phrases “Ramadan Mubarak” to countless people. In fact, thousands of miles away, in Prague, nobody wished me at all. Of course, I called my parents, and we wished each other over the phone and I got texts from family members and some nonMuslim friends wishing me a happy Ramadan, but it was so different from actually hugging someone, saying “Ramadan Mubarak,” and asking them to pray for you as you promised to do the same for them. Even though these things were just tradition and not actually part of religious prayers, the feeling of community is what I missed the most. Any advice for prospective students interested in studying abroad? Look at all the study abroad offerings — don’t skim over any program because you’re not interested in visiting that country. A lot of people choose their study abroad programs based off where they want to travel to. I did the opposite. I applied to this program because the class sounded interesting — even though it was nowhere close to the region I was actually interested in traveling to. Even though this decision could have gone horribly wrong, it ended up being such an incredible experience for me! In the short time I was in Prague, I learned so much about myself and a whole region of the world I never really paid attention to. Don’t limit yourself by sticking with what’s safe and somewhat familiar. Take the plunge and go somewhere unexpected — you might be surprised by what you find there.

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Experience for Undergraduates study abroad service trip to Cusco, Peru. To be completely honest, I chose this country mainly because I wanted to see Machu Picchu and because I’ve always wanted to go to South America as well. I didn’t really know much about Peru or Cusco prior to getting into the program and attending the learning team meetings. The work we were doing on this trip involved getting up early every day, a lot of mud and a lot of manual labor. Still fresh in my mind are the squeals of the guinea pigs and the chirps of the baby chicks that we had to try not to step on while working inside people’s homes in the rural mountainside of Peru. Other vivid memories I have are throwing up on buses, hearing my groupmates throwing up on buses, nights in the San Jose Clinic with an IV attached to my arm and headaches so strong I thought I might faint. Of course, that’s not what I chose to showcase on my social media, but a lot of the times it was not easy. Between the high altitude and the freezing nights,

this trip. I’m not going to lie and say it was all glamorous and Instagram, travel-blog worthy. I’m not going to lie and say I didn’t have a few mental breakdowns, go to sleep shivering under several blankets riddled with homesickness or daydream about Arabic food. What I’m also not going to do is gush about how this experience made me so much more thankful for what I have, because that was not the purpose of this trip. Before embarking, a lot of our learning team meetings stressed the importance of abandoning the “white savior” mentality and not going in with the intention of “fixing” a community that was doing a perfectly fine job at making a life for themselves. The purpose of this trip was to become fully immersed in a country and its culture, to partake in a mutually beneficial relationship and to work with a community to

in a culture a world away from our own. Most of the time I was there, I felt as though I was the one that needed help or guidance, not the other way around. However, my time in Peru did provide me with countless worthwhile memories and valuable insights. While the language barrier often made it difficult to understand each other, I learned that communication transcends verbal expression. The universal languages of compassion, kindness and hospitality seeped through the cracks of broken Spanish and confused pauses. I felt it when the locals in the homes we worked in brought us potatoes and popcorn and rushed to get us mud and rocks when we ran out. I felt it when my 7-year-old host sister hugged me after I walked in the door at night and when my host mom put a jar of olives on the dining table every day after learning I liked olives. I felt it when taxi drivers tried their best to converse with me using

“My time in Peru did provide me with countless worthwhile memories”

slow, simple Spanish, trying their best to understand me and learn where I was from and what I was doing in Peru. Being the only visible Muslim in seemingly the entire country made me nervous and self-conscious at times, and while I certainly felt out of place, I never once felt unwelcomed. People always say studying abroad changes your life. I don’t know if my trip “changed my life” per se, but it definitely changed me. It made me more adaptable, more equipped to deal with uncomfortable situations and being unsure. It gave me amazing friends that I wouldn’t have met otherwise. It allowed me to basically live like a local for a month, becoming fully immersed in this country by learning about its history and interacting with its people. It challenged me to adapt to an unusual setting rather than expecting my surroundings to adapt to me, as Americans often do. I think everybody should study abroad at some point in their undergraduate career, if able to. If it does anything, it changes your perspective on travel and being a tourist, volunteer, voluntourist or whatever it may be. My advice to anyone who is going on a service trip or study abroad experience is to take all the expectations you have prior to embarking on the trip and dispose of them entirely. It is best to go in with a fresh mind and open heart, ready to take on whatever challenges and triumphs the country and your program throw at you. Be open, be present, be respectful and mindful, try to learn and practice the language while you’re there, show gratitude, show humility. Remember that what distinguishes you from just an average, mindless tourist is your desire to truly learn about and understand the place you are in — its history and cultures and traditions and people and struggles. Remember your experience is partly what is planned on your agenda and mostly the unfiltered, raw, beautiful moments that no camera can capture. And also, don’t forget to buy at least one cheesy tourist sweater.

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Why we still need an International Men’s Day

ov. 19 is marked end in divorce. Husbands who as International earn less than their wives Men’s Day, devoted tend to feel inadequate and emasculated, as to the positive though they have contributions of failed to live up to men to greater their potential. society as well as Such feelings highlighting men’s of inadequacy can well-being. It is contribute to men’s a day that went failing mental unrealized and health. Nationwide, unmarked. Perhaps 6 million men suffer this makes sense from depression. to many. After ALANNA However, this all, why celebrate BERGER condition goes the advances and highlight the plights of a largely undiagnosed in men. historically privileged group? This may be because men are Men as a demographic have less likely to present with the not typically had to fight more widely known symptoms for rights on the basis of of hopelessness and sadness, gender. On the whole, they have been less likely to be victims of domestic violence, sexual violence and human trafficking. Worldwide, men hold the majority of the wealth, both in money and in land. It seems as though society was created for the male gender to succeed, and thus the point of an international day for men should be moot. However, even in the 21st century, gender imbalances still prevail. These and tend to demonstrate anger, imbalances exist beyond those fatig ue and loss of interest in perpetuated against women, daily life activities. It also may though these are the ones be the result of a general male most apparent in society. reluctance to seek help for While gender inequalities their disorders, owing largely against women are egregious to a tendency to downplay and apparent, those that symptoms or to comply to impact men still exist. They social norms of emotional are under-discussed and streng th and stability. This often overlooked, possibly is a trend with disastrous because men are more often results. Male suicides have encouraged to hide their been consistently rising since problems and conform to social 2000, with men being four standards. Nevertheless, times as likely to die by suicide men and boys still are held to than women. Typically stigmatized similar standards and suffer under the same inequalities social behaviors are often that inf luence women, often policed more harshly when they appear in men. Gay and in much more discreet ways. In its modern form, bisexual men suffer harshly International Men’s Day began from homophobia. According in 1999, initiated in Trinidad to a 1999 study, gay men were and Tobago by Jerome more likely than lesbians to be Teelucksingh. In contrast deemed mentally ill by society, with March 8’s International and child adoption by gay men Women’s Day, International was viewed less favorably Men’s Day passes rather than by that of gay women. quietly, without marches or While societal attitudes have media attention. This fact certainly shifted over the past is largely representative of two decades, particularly with the gender issues that affect the legalization of same-sex men. For example, in much of marriage in 2015, instances the Western world, there is of homophobia still abound. immense pressure to perform Men and boys are less likely to all standards of masculinity. engage in platonic touch with This largely includes friends, leaving them cut-off providing for the family as physically and emotionally. This lack of friendly the primary breadwinner. Marriages in which the female touching between men and partner outearns her male boys contributes to deeper counterpart are more likely emotional issues. Touch can to suffer from infidelity and act as a means of reducing

Even in the 21st century, gender imbalances still prevail

stress and boosting selfesteem. Lack of touch affects parenthood. Fathers tend to be less involved parents than mothers. This mostly stems from the aforementioned economic pressures that lead many men out of the home and into highpressure, long-hour jobs. Furthermore, paid paternity leave in the United States is extraordinarily scarce. Even when it is available, men who take advantage of the opportunity are criticized. Take, for example, a 2014 instance involving New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy. Murphy missed the opening game of the season for the birth of his first child. In the days following the birth, Murphy received a series of criticisms for using his three days of paternity leave. Sports radio WFAN hosts Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton suggested that Murphy and his wife should have scheduled a C-section prior to the season opener. This anecdote is demonstrative of the fact that men are often shamed for engaging in typical standards of parenting. The manner through which men are shamed for stereotypically feminine behaviors prevents men and boys from creating and maintaining meaningful relationships. When the topic of gender issues is invoked, the injustices against women are of ten the only ones discussed. This is of ten rightf ully so, as these abuses are particularly eg reg ious. However, this fact does not mean that men’s issues deser ve to be completely ig nored. The gender-related inequalities that impact males, the immense societal pressure to provide for their families, the discouragement of discussing their emotions and the harsh policing of potentially feminine behavior have overwhelmingly negative impacts on the male psyche. With rising suicide rates and instances of male substance abuse, it is evident that something must be done to alleviate this crisis. True gender equalit y cannot be achieved until all relating issues are acknowledged and combatted. In the era of #MeToo and other feminist movements, it is important to remember that gender issues affect ever ybody. Alanna Berger can be reached at balanna@umich.edu.

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Calling for an era of sustainability

ow can we conceptualize what it means to be sustainable? To start, we can go by a definition: “pertaining to a system that maintains its own viability by using techniques and resources that allow for continual reuse.” We can really ingest the words in this statement, understanding that to be sustainable means to live for the future, but it’s truly bewildering to consider how we can be conscious of each moment in the present in order to allow our future to exist. The glorified crux of sustainability has been a very difficult reality to achieve — perhaps even an unrealistic effort at this point. But I believe it’s equally as monumental to ask ourselves how we can each improve our own lifestyles in order to arrive that much closer to what has been widely perceived as impossible to reach. Adopting a sustainable lifestyle has likely been one of the most radical phenomena to be theorized over the past few decades. We have been driven to live a modernized life by abiding to the constructs that were formed with the birth of industrialization in the 18th century. For our entire lives, we have eaten and thrown away our meals, used and thrown away clothes that have been too worn out, bought new vehicles and gotten rid of them once they were replaceable or irreparable and wore our bodies out with a scattered lifestyle until death. What we have failed to realize today is that those constructs can be now changed in a less radical way when their alternatives are less stigmatized by money and by the popular clique that is our society. We can eat natural meals that avoid manufacturing and processing, use clothes with more durable and less lavish material, use vehicles that prioritize efficiency rather than convenience and maintain ourselves in coexistence with other organisms for an enduring life. We haven’t realized this need to change various aspects of our lifestyle because we’ve been able to survive and seemingly thrive for this long without considering

our future. Like any survival measures, our lifestyle is not meant for permanence. We only use temporary techniques to keep ourselves going until we are able to find some stable resolve. The problem is that we fail to consider the future as we survive, yet we have to now more than ever so that it even exists. Our politicians have recently not demonstrated a sustainable mindset, as they merely rely on technolog y and engineered methods to solve the issues that call for radical change. For one, I want to defend that conducting shooter drills or arming public places with guards is not how we should approach reducing civilian deaths by gun violence. Promoting the use of portable air filters as a substitute to clean air when the areas in which we live become engulfed in smoke from towering wildfires is not how we should approach improving the overall air quality of our populated areas. We should be taking direct action at the cause of these issues, being proactive rather than reactive so that we can create an enduring way of life for ourselves. Many will follow up this argument with skepticism towards the feasibility of a sustainable society, claiming that it’s impossible to plan and implement a sustainable lifestyle that works everywhere. But what I believe is more important than asking how we will conquer this massive ordeal is asking when we will take it upon ourselves to even try. People are discouraged by the fact that no one can say exactly how we can all adopt a more sustainable lifestyle for ourselves now, for humankind in the future, but there is no possibility of even inching closer to that world if we don’t make an effort to advance towards it through understanding and collaboration. While we remain unsure if the plans we propose will completely follow through despite our progressive intentions, it’s necessary that we sincerely begin this process to overcome the contest we face from a stagnant government and society. The young people of this

generation who have beg un to display their concern haven’t completely fig ured out how to execute our intentions yet, but we have at the very least beg un to demand the answers to the big questions that some of our key politicians are failing to address regarding the sustainability issue. As stated by young activist Jeremy Ornstein in a rally for the “Green New Deal” towards the likely next speaker of the House of Representatives, “Speaker Pelosi, Democratic leadership, we are asking you to grow up. When will you come up with a plan to stop the climate crisis and defend the homes of millions of would-be climate refugees? When will you embrace a Green New Deal? You know, please, Speaker Pelosi, come of age with us. But if you can’t, if you’re too scared to try, if you’re too corrupt or cowardly, then get out of the way.” The t r ut h is t hat we ca n’t concept ua lize what it mea ns to be susta inable yet. We a re merely at t he beg inning of a new era during which we w ill discover a multit ude of techniques to adopt so t hat we ca n lead a lifest yle t hat w ill ma inta in huma nkind for ages to come. A s of now, I urge you to cont ribute to t he creation of t he era of susta inabilit y by educating yourself on t he facts of climate cha nge like va rious universit y professors have done w it h t he Intergovernmenta l Pa nel on Climate Cha nge climate repor t. Suppor t policies t hat demonst rate a potentia l dra stic enough to uproot our societ y ’s current const r ucts like t he Green New Dea l, a nd dema nd t hat our leaders work to ma ke susta inable lifest yles, such a s vega nism, more accessible to people of ever y backg round a nd economic disposition. By ta king action aga inst t he stat us quo w it h a br ute force st rong enough to deconst r uct it, a n act a s heroic a s sav ing t he f ut ure of our world w ill become t hat much more norma lized a nd t hat much more possible.

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School spirit never dies

s the University of Michigan football season comes to an end, students begin to worry about where to keep their school spirit — leaving behind boxes of maize and blue apparel and enthusiasm. In the wake of last weekend’s final football game of the reg ular season, mourning is permitted, but only until our next hockey game. If you frequent the hockey games, you know the student section’s unique dance moves, unparalleled volume and timely cheers. The Michigan Daily spoke with John Bartman and “Tall Tom,” two of the rowdy juniors that lead cheers for the arena. “Hockey is the best-kept secret at the University of Michigan,” Tall Tom said, as he stands a staggering 6 feet 9 inches above the crowd. His accomplice, Bartman, strategically sits at the other end of the front row, and plays cowbell as the infamous metronome for the stadium’s cheers. When the puck drops, we stand shoulder to shoulder, happily chanting, “The Victors.” When Bartman and Tom see fit, we unanimously begin yelling at the other goalie, with criticisms such as “It’s all your fault,” “You suck” or “Ugly goalie.” Others tend to join in along the way, resulting in an echo of inventive insults. Further, Tall Tom writes his own novel cheers on a whiteboard. “They’re very in the moment, they’re clever,” Tom said. When Michigan Men’s Hockey played against the University of Vermont Catamounts last season, we

came back to win 3-2 after fighting against a steady 2-1 head start. Tom spent the days before the game studying up on Catamount facts. In light of the announcement that Vermont is finally opening their first Target, the sign read: “You may have lost a 2-1 lead, but at least you’re getting a Target.” Other slights include photoshopping the opposing team’s coach into demeaning photographs, making claims about the team’s local bars and taking their opponents’ pictures off of dating apps, calling the photos “cute.” In the moment, clever and insulting. That’s the Michigan school spirit. Throughout the Nov. 9 game against Notre Dame, Tom’s sign asked the Yost staff to play songs in high demand among students. “ We know the people that run the scoreboard and the audio,” Bartman said. “At the end of the year, we talk about what we can do better, what they want us to improve on and what went well.” By working with Yost, the students are able to create an environment comprised of cowbells, loud voices and passion, and one that draws in fans of all ages. There’s something about the band’s placement adjacent to the student section that amplifies the excitement of both parties. Since the director of the band stands towards the bleachers, he can conduct the official band members while keeping an eye on John and his cowbell. This maintains great communication between the fans and the music, according to Bartman. “We can’t override them

— we kind of play off each other,” he said, alluding to the collaborative rendition of the “SpongeBob SquarePants” theme song sung the night before. The teamwork between the band and the students is arg uably the most integral part of the game, harnessing the passion that disting uishes Michigan spirit from other schools. What will happen when these two graduate in 2020? “I think it’s understood that once we leave, someone will fill our void, because that’s what we did,” Tom said as he reminisced on his freshman year. Bartman ag reed, adding that his energ y and enthusiasm is what ultimately recruited him to play the cowbell. Though the crew discusses passing down the torch as an “organic” process and rejects the idea of a hierarchy, they have their eye on a number of younger students to f ill their void. “It’s free-f lowing,” Bartman claimed. “We consider ourselves the children of Yost. We’ve all kind of taken that role.” Michigan spirit never dies, but instead, hibernates. John Bartman and Tall Tom proclaimed themselves as the team’s “mascots,” with no incentive except school spirit. The hockey games have the talent on the ice and passion in the stands, but seem to lack the numbers seen at the Big House for football games. The next home game is against Michigan State on Dec. 1 at 7:00 p.m. Julia Montag can be reached at jtmon@umich.edu.

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FILM REVIEW

‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ is a heartfelt, timely sequel EMMA CHANG Daily Arts Writer

Making a good sequel is an art that few movie franchises have mastered. The success of “The Incredibles” hinged on the fact that the original audience had grown up and would pay to see it simply for the nostalgic feeling it

“Ralph Breaks the Internet” Cinemark Theaters Walt Disney Pictures invoked. “Harry Potter” had a built-in sequel, though f lops like “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” have shown that this doesn’t always mean immediate success. “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” the second movie in the “WreckIt Ralph” series, had neither nostalgia nor a pre-written plot on its side, but maybe that’s exactly what made it such an entertaining thing to watch. The movie opens with a FaceTime call with its creators, already setting the tone for the kind of fourth-wall breaking, sub-tweeting moments to come. It moves on to Vanellope (Sarah Silverman, “A Million Ways to Die in the West”) voicing her concerns about wanting more excitement from life. It’s a cliché but relevant sentiment, especially in the Millennial generation, whose dry humor the movie tries to mimic. On the other hand, Ralph, voiced by John C. Reilly (“Step Brothers”), is a very one-dimensional character. Where Vanellope spends hours considering her place in the digital world, Ralph simply wonders when he’ll have his next root beer.

It’s this simplicity though, that gets the whole movie going and what eventually helps Ralph break the internet. Physically depicting the internet, in itself, is an interesting concept. But “Ralph Breaks the Internet” doesn’t just leave it at lovable characters or creating a complex metropolis to show the online world. The internet that Vanellope and Ralph encounter is also a fierce ref lection of the way our world works. Each person connected to the internet is represented by a small block-headed person, oblivious to everyone and everything around them, just like in the real world. Even within Ralph and Vanellope, we see generational differences in the way people perceive the internet — Vanellope’s intricate understanding mirroring that of the young people who grew up with it and Ralph lumbering around the online world with only a vague concept of what the internet is. The movie uses Ralph and his innocence to explore the savage nature of an ever-changing public opinion, especially regarding those that gain quick internet fame. One scene shows Ralph standing among and staring at a never-ending set of columns filled with internet comments, a jarring portrayal of the way people can become lost in the negativity of internet trolls. Where “Ralph Breaks the Internet” exploits the downfalls of our society, it also works to fill the void of strong female characters missing in film and Disney movies especially. Vanellope is a curious and outgoing character; contrasted with Ralph’s unassuming, blubbering demeanor, she comes across as an even stronger person. As the film so blatantly points out in the Disney princess dressing room, this kind of dynamic is uncharacteristic of cartoons

and is a refreshing change to the typical Disney trope. What’s more, the major supporting characters are women in leadership roles — Shank (Gal Gadot, “Wonder Woman”) is a firm gang leader and Yaz is “head algorithm,” making decisions that affect the fate of the internet. Her role is reminiscent of Meryl Streep’s iconic Miranda

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Watergate scandal, then progresses into the IranContra Deal and the Clinton trials before ending on Trump’s Mueller probe and the accusations of election interference from Russia. Trump is only named as the subject of a single episode, but his presence is obvious and available in each of the series’s episodes. A newscast recapping the beginning of Russian meddling at the Democratic National Convention cuts to a ’70s anchor reporting the DNC at Watergate had been bugged. Clips of Trump denying Russian collusion fade to Reagan denying a hostagesfor-arms deal. Trump complaining about a “witch hunt” turns into Clinton being questioned about Monica Lewinsky. There is no doubt as to why a series on presidential scandals is being released in 2018. Based on the novel “Enemies: A History of the FBI” by Tim Weiner, a former correspondent to The New York Times, “Enemies” is not trying to offer analysis or an opportunity for viewers to think deeper. The series is essentially a history lesson from a cool, young professor. It tells viewers the information they already know but this time accompanied by effective

graphics and compelling interviews. This is not to say the show

This is not to say the show is not worth your time. As headlines become more shocking by the day, “Enemies” reminds us that not all that much has changed

is not worth your time. As headlines become more shocking by the day, “Enemies”

Priestley in “The Devil Wears Prada.” The movie goes one step further and not only breaks stereotypes with its own characters but pushes the Disney princesses into a space that’s less about their damsel in distress status. This being said, “Ralph Breaks the Internet” doesn’t set itself up for longevity; the jokes rely heavily on a detailed understanding of current internet culture, the thing that matters most is that Ralph and Vanellope end up with the kind of friendship we all want in our lives. Understanding their differences is an integral message of “Ralph Breaks the Internet” and brings the movie home.

reminds us that not all that much has changed. There was a time people never thought the president would think of himself above the law, until he did. A time they didn’t think a beloved leader would collude with international enemies, until he did. A time no one thought an offensive man with no political experience and an insatiable ego would be elected, until he was. “Enemies” gives viewers the tools necessary to challenge the outdated sentiment that a president must be trusted and respected. There is no reason to trust a man that seems like he has something to hide. There is no reason to respect a man that breaks his word to the people that gave him his job. We are taught since elementary school that the president is the most highly regarded figure in our society, the leader of the free world. That one day, we too can be president. “Enemies” asks: Why would we want to be? The past five decades has seen an incredible amount of corrupt leadership, and that is just those who got caught. Perhaps it’s time to stop telling kids that they can be congressmen or senators or even the president, and instead encourage them to be the ones that hold those people accountable.

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Timely ‘Enemies’ explores presidential controversies SAMANTHA DELLA FERA Daily Arts Writer

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protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” These are the words spoken by every US president before they take office. It is an oath that has been heard by hundreds of millions of people, echoed by 44 men. It is a promise to the people of the United States that they will work in their elected position with dignity and integrity, a promise to uphold the values and laws laid out in the nation’s constitution. In “Enemies: The President, Justice, and the FBI,” a new four-part documentary from directors Jed Rothstein (“Made in America”) and Alex Gibney (“The Clinton Affair”), it is a promise that is often broken.

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Me, myself and the wonder of Audra McDonald ISABELLE HASSLUND Daily Arts Writer

I am going to start off by saying that this review will be written in a rather unconventional way. I usually try to remove myself from the performance and the artist when critiquing, try to paint a picture of the audience and the atmosphere of the place — I try to connect the performance to something that everyone can relate to. I saw the incredible Audra McDonald perform on the eve of my 19th birthday and the performance easily broke through my journalistic shell, completely penetrating into my body and touching my heart in a way that no other performance has, so it would be unfair for me to even try and write an objective review. As I walked into Hill Auditorium to see the sixtime Tony Award winning singer and actress, I was not prepared to be as affected by the performance as I was. For one, the set was comprised of a single stool and her band. It was peculiar seeing such a simple and bare-minimum set in such a large, elaborate space. Mark Vanderpoel took the bass tenderly in his hands, Gene Lewinsat at the drums and Andy Einhorn — an incredible and well-established music director — asserted himself at the piano, all of them dressed in fine evening wear. Hill Auditorium was packed, with no empty seats in sight. It seemed impossible that one person could fill such a massive space with her voice and presence. Tension rose in the eager audience waiting for the famed McDonald to come out, and when she did, her presence automatically lit the stage, and the audience came to

life. Applause roared from the audience, before she even got a chance to sing a song or tell a story. McDonald’s voice in every song was incredible; it was almost maddening. Her sweet vibrato echoed through Hill Auditorium with such power. She made every single piece her own, putting her own spin on it. Pieces that I have heard a great deal, like “Vanilla Ice Cream” from “She Loves Me,” or “I Could’ve Danced all Night” from “My Fair Lady” — extremely popular songs found in the arsenals of many sopranos — were captured in a different and intriguing way. Even though I am very familiar with the plots surrounding most of the songs, McDonald sung them in a way where it felt as if I was listening to them for the first time. Through placing emphasis on different lyrics than usual and putting a new spin on the vocal tone used to sing the piece, I took away something new from the songs in her set. Her set included the borderline classical song, “Summertime” from “Porgy and Bess,” which she sang magnificently without a microphone, in traditional classical style. She sang two of my personal favorites from her repertoire, “Stars and the Moon” from “Songs for a New World” and “I Won’t Mind” from “The Other Franklin.” These songs are difficult to sing (I know from personal experience) because they are wordy and vocally challenging at the same time. These challenges seemed to have not phased McDonald, as she sang both songs as if they were an extension of her normal speaking voice. What was most impressive was McDonald’s incredible

ability to tell stories. This is what set her performance apart from any another that I have seen. McDonald shared anecdotes of her life and anecdotes of memories she shared with the lives of others. She uses the power of her voice and her talent for storytelling through words and songs to touch the hearts of audiences everywhere, whether it be telling her own stories or telling the stories of others. What had really caused me to enter a state of raw emotion is how much of myself I saw in her. It was almost like watching the future that I want for myself play out in front of my eyes. Even more nervewracking, she took me through this journey, reminiscing and reflecting on all the things I have accomplished throughout my life in one of the most effective mediums: song. While McDonald’s storytelling was incredible, what truly completed the story was the use of song. Yet, I was haunted by the fact that every story that McDonald told hit so close to home. It became impossible for me to remain objective and composed. There were so many parallels between her life and mine that it felt unnerving at times to listen to them. I grew up in New York City, and went to Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where I studied vocal music. I knew too well the stories that McDonald told about being in a performing arts school. There were moments that we shared, such as a quirky story about her singing an ageinappropriate jazz song for a competition when she was 14-years-old, which was told in the perspective of a sexually frustrated housewife. It was fitting, with it being

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my 19th birthday, as I looked back on my time when I first started at a performing arts high school, and how I would just sing for fun. I sang because that is what I loved to do, and I did not care about whether a song was age appropriate or if anyone approved of my venture into the arts because it’s what I loved and knew. As I grew older, it seemed as if more and more obstacles got in the way of this dream. I grew up on Broadway, whether it was going to the theater and watching shows or watching YouTube videos of Broadway stars, including Audra McDonald. I remember fully believing that Broadway was where I was headed and destined for. As I grew more and continued on my performing career in high school to now, I started to lose sight of that dream as more and more obstacles seemed to get in my way. Whether it was being a woman of color having to work harder than my white counterparts for a lead in a show, it occasionally felt like my performance was ever good enough.

McDonald reminded me, as a young performer, of why I started singing in the first place. As I sat and watched her perform, seemingly without inhibitions, it got me thinking as to where along the way I lost my sentiment and will to sing. It reminded me that I sing for myself and that people want to hear others sing. Of course, it would be extremely difficult — almost impossible, in my mind, to reach the level of fluency that McDonald has reached in her career through hard work and a gifted voice, but seeing McDonald as a human with real stories to tell and a real, raw voice was enough to get me motivated to try and reach for that level. The most intriguing thing is that during this performance, it felt as if I was having this personal connection and conversation with her and so did others around me. I had never seen so many people get teary-eyed at a rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Hill Auditorium did not seem so big anymore. It was as if I was back in kindergarten

again, arranged in a circle and listening to stories told by my teacher attentively, sitting at the edge of my seat. It was as if I was sitting with my mother, an English teacher, and listening to her tell me stories in both song and book. I felt at home and nostalgic. What I took away from Audra McDonald’s performance was a message of hope and love. She had used her voice to empower the audience, and she expressed her message of hope and love for the generations to come, saying that as young performers and young people in general, she has faith in us to fix what has been botched by previous generations. She urged those in power and in a higher position to nurture the coming generations, singing the fitting song “Children Will Listen” from “Into the Woods.” There was message of love to be found for all audience members. The concert was more than just a journey through the American Songbook, it was a beautiful performance that has taught me so much about who I am and who I want to become.

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What makes a successful season

OLUMBUS — Shea Patterson walked into the room, every camera focused on him, and sat down. The junior quarterback sighed. Loudly. Then he sighed again. Michigan’s ORION starting SANG quarterback didn’t have much to say about what happened at Ohio Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Neither did his coach, nor his other teammates who spoke brief ly with reporters after the Wolverines’ 62-39 dismantling at the hands of Ohio State. I don’t blame them. Truth be told, there isn’t much to say about this rivalry anymore, other than what has been said for the past few years. Michigan has not beaten the Buckeyes in seven years, not since Ohio State hired Urban EVAN AARON/Daily Meyer. The Wolverines have Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh and the Wolverines left Columbus, Ohio on Saturday with a 62-39 loss to Ohio State and a 10-2 record headed into the postseason. won once in the past 15 years, tion. That’s different from what er he would characterize this two touchdowns and blocking which means that if you are For the program in its curHarbaugh said 32 years ago season as a success. a freshman in high school a punt that was returned for a rent state, this was a success“I do,” he said. “We have when he guaranteed a Michilike my sister, you have seen score. ful season. gan win over high expectaexactly one (1) win. And it was Ohio State Ohio State. Harbaugh and gets Herculean tions and high against a terrible Ohio State the Wolverines “The last 10 hopes here at efforts from team led by an interim coach. deserve credit Michigan, and games we played There are children reaching players like for turning mean nothing to that’s displayed the formative years of their Haskins and around the ship us right now. It’s every day in childhood, the years when you Olave seemingly down to a onein one short work at pracevery year. And start to retain lasting memoyear after fintice. So any time game season,” almost every ries, who have never seen ishing 8-5 last we don’t reach Harbaugh said Michigan beat the Buckeyes. time, the Wolseason. Harin 1986. “Ohio our ultimate Their formative memories verines are left baugh parted with the same goal, that’s obvi- State is our seaof this rivalry will be of a ways with one son. If we win ously a little bit feeling — what botched two-point conversion of his longestthis game, then of a letdown to in 2013. A disputed spot after a Patterson put tenured assistants. He brought it’s a successful season.” most of us. fourth-down play in 2016. into words as “a pretty sour As I drove back from Colum- a few fresh voices onto his “But a 10-win season, you taste.” And what happened Saturstaff. Michigan is recruiting bus last night, I thought about know, we played a lot of good Understandably, Patterson day, when Ohio State quarterhow to square those two state- much better than it was last was muted and mostly kept his teams, played in the Big Ten. back Dwayne Haskins played year, which was very much And, I don’t know, I think this ments. They seem to conf lict pitch-and-catch with his team- answers short. needed. It’s playing much betwith each other. is a successful season. Still But I want to discuss one of mates and Buckeye freshman ter, too. I think now that I would have a bowl game to go comreceiver Chris Olave etched his his longer responses. The Wolverines went from agree with Patterson’s asserPatterson was asked wheth- pete for.” name into history by catching

“And, I don’t know, I think this is still a successful season.”

“Still have a bowl game to go and compete for.”

The more things change

OLUMBUS — It felt shockingly improbable, yet so oddly familiar. Like everything that happened — from the opening touchdown drive to the blocked punt to the four ensuing touchdowns, MAX and all MARCOVITCH the gory details in the middle — was so wholly predictable. Like everyone with two eyes and a cursory knowledge of recent college football history should have known better. Especially those who’d lived it, breathed it and suffered the consequences. Four hours later, after a staining 62-39 defeat, it sure seems like everyone was duped anyway. “It didn’t go good, didn’t end up good,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh “We take responsibility for it.” This team was different; at least, the lead up to Saturday’s game was billed as such. Michigan had the top-ranked defense in the country, weapons galore on offense and finally a quarterback. It had paraded a “Revenge Tour” for the wrongs done in 2017 — and was 3/4th the way through those opponents. Tepid as it may have been, junior running back Karan Higdon guaranteed a win. There was swagger. Ohio State was different, too. Finally, oh finally, vulnerable. It had lost by 29 points to Purdue just weeks prior. It had a porous defense, ripe for exploiting. Conventional wisdom ahead of the matchup was that the home field was the only advantage the Buckeyes held. Michigan went into The Game between a three- and

five-point favorite. “We all had mindsets to go to the Big Ten Championship. We all had mindsets of beating Ohio State,” said senior safety Tyree Kinnel. “And I felt like we start having that mindset after the Wisconsin game. After we beat them, beat Michigan State, beat Penn State, we were high on confidence. “Maybe we were a little bit too ahead of ourselves.” In the process, the Wolverines lost their season. There will be no trip to Indianapolis next weekend, nor a destination in the College Football Playoff. Just 10 hollow wins, one giant mental block and interminable questions. The Buckeyes hung 62 points on that aforementioned top-ranked defense Saturday — topping the prior Michigan record of 56 points allowed to Cornell in 1889. “I mean, I guess you could say shocked a little bit,” Kinnel said. “My mindset, our mindset as a defense coming into this game was to play like we’ve been playing all year. We feel like we had high confidence, we felt like we had a good shot at dominating this game. “We made adjustments at halftime, we addressed the issues we had in the first half, and they came out and beat us with something else in the second half,” he added. “…They completely beat us today.” The Wolverines offense didn’t fare much better, tallying just 235 yards of offense and 18 points before three late-game drives made the scoreline appear closer than the game really was. In the end, this was Ohio State and this was Michigan, both holding true to form of the previous two decades. In the end, nothing was truly different. It almost seems beyond the scope of the present to

fourth in the Big Ten East to winning a share of the division title by beating Wisconsin, Michigan State and Penn State. The “Revenge Tour” injected life into the program. Now Michigan will have a chance to win 11 games, which it has done just twice this century. In all of those aspects, the season was a success, like Patterson said. Because things have changed since Harbaugh made his famous guarantee. This isn’t the same Michigan. The Wolverines don’t trade Big Ten titles with Ohio State anymore. They hardly go to the Rose Bowl, which is why a trip this year — even though it isn’t a playoff game — would still mean something to this program. Losing to Ohio State with a Big Ten championship and playoff bid on the line is a bitter pill to swallow. That is the dark cloud that will be cast over this season. Saturday’s loss showed just far apart these two programs are, when many (including me) thought Harbaugh and Michigan would close the gap this year. But it wasn’t too long ago that this program finished 5-7 and made its second coaching change in four years. Harbaugh has revived Michigan. Since then, Harbaugh has led the Wolverines to three double-digit seasons in four years, the first to do it since Fielding Yost. That’s why it would be hard to deem this season as a failure. The bars have shifted lower. And that’s where they’ll remain until the Wolverines win the only game that used to matter. Sang can be reached at otsang@umich.edu or on Twitter at @orion_sang.

The Michigan Daily Top 10 Poll Each week, Daily sports staffers fill out ballots, with first-place votes receiving 10 points, second-place votes receiving nine and so on. 1. Alabama: A real shame this entire season has been for nothing, and we will watch Nick Saban hoist another trophy. 2. Clemson: A real shame this entire season has been for nothing, and we will watch Dabo Swinney watch Nick Saban hoist another trophy. EVAN AARON/Daily

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh is now 0-4 against the Buckeyes at Michigan.

point fingers in a team-wide drubbing of this magnitude. Which is why it’s easy and fair to turn point them straight at the coaching staff. Harbaugh, for his part, accepted blame. Even that seems to bely what’s institutionally baked into the program. This is 14 of 15 years now. It’s 19 years without a win in Columbus; players are coming into the program who haven’t been alive that long. There’s a mental stranglehold that extends beyond talent or execution or individual gameplans. This is a purgatory Michigan cannot escape until it finally clears the last hurdle. After Saturday, that mental hurdle seems as high as ever. Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins summed it up best. “I mean, we didn’t need the underdog score point. We didn’t need the revenge tour. We didn’t need the guaranteed win. We know what this game means to our school, to our teammates and to our coaches.” As the Michigan offense waved the proverbial white f lag, milking the clock down by 23 in the fourth quarter,

the mind wandered to broader implications. There will be a cushy bowl game in Pasadena or New Orleans or some destination getaway. Players and coaches will talk about turning the page. There will be hand-wringing over what consistutes a successful season. It will all mean nothing. It’s almost as though today was never about just one game. This is a program that came into Ohio Stadium seemingly on the precipice of a breakthrough. It leaves four hours later as far from that as ever. “We’ll come back motivated to make darn sure it doesn’t happen again,” Harbaugh said of his mindset. And he will, for the next 12 months, convince himself that next year is the one. So will some fans. Then next November will come and the Wolverines will be shoved back into reality by the “rival” that still controls it all. In the end, maybe it’s just that simple. Same old Michigan. Marcovitch can be reached at maxmarco@umich.edu or on Twitter @ Max_ Marcovitch.

3. Notre Dame: Is there such thing as a Passive Irish? 4. Georgia: Folks, Kirby sucks!* *This is a joke about the video game character 5. Oklahoma: The Michigan Daily would score more points on this defense than it does on The State News every year! 6. Ohio State: No comment. 7. UCF: Imagine how good this team would be with a coach like, I don’t know, Scott Frost. 8. Michigan: Our alternate SportsMonday headline was “Nut Punch.” We liked that better but will settle for using it here. 9. Texas: Ok. Cool Hook Em! 10. Washington: Jimmy Lake hates you.

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Offensive gameplan leaves lingering questions MAX MARCOVITCH Daily Sports Editor

Standing at the podium, hat fixed, mood stoic, there wasn’t much Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh could say. A reporter asked broadly about his offensive gameplan. Harbaugh’s response was terse. “Wanted to run our best plays,” he said. “Throwing, moving the ball, outside zone, inside power. We had basically everything — drop back, zone read. Roll-outs, boots, that was our plan.” After the thorough undressing that was Saturday’s 62-39 loss to Ohio State, nothing was left unworthy of scrutiny. The offensive gameplan — and the execution that ensued — certainly warranted closer examination. And upon that examination, it was a gameplan devoid of necessary creativity. On its face, Michigan’s offensive output was far from the main issue. The Wolverines posted 401 total yards and 39 points. Before the game, most would have thought those numbers would have sufficed for a win — even a comfortable one. But that fails to encapsulate the lack of ambition, and clear contrast in styles, throughout the game — especially at the outset. Harbaugh isn’t wrong; there was plenty sprinkled into the offense throughout the game. The emphasis was clear: He hoped the running game would take control, work the clock and tire Ohio State’s defense. Off that, junior quarterback Shea Patterson could make plays out of zone-read and play-action. It’s what they’d done all year, so why should Saturday have been different? And for a while, it was working to an extent. Early in the second quarter, Michigan

had run 25 plays to Ohio State’s six, tallied 98 total yards to the Buckeyes’ 17 and held possession of the ball for 12:35 to Ohio State’s 1:55. Yet at that point the Buckeyes still led the game, 7-6. Ohio State opened up a 21-6 lead in the blink of an eye, and that’s when the challenge was truly pressed on the Wolverines’ offense. Had they been playing with a lead, perhaps this game would have played out differently. For a pro-style, runfirst offense, playing with the lead is always the plan until it can’t be. But when that plan was thrown out the window, Harbaugh and his offense had no response. There were no big plays. The read-option that had become a staple of the offense was few and far between. There was no challenging a susceptible Ohio

“Throwing, moving the ball, outside zone, inside power.”

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s offensive gameplan lacked creativity in the Wolverines’ 62-39 loss at Ohio State.

‘M’ dominated by Texas in Gulf Coast Showcase Daily Sports Writer

Michigan’s quick start — a string of three consecutive layups offensively — did not last. In fact, by the end of the first quarter, it was as if that two-minute spell hadn’t even happened. Texas proceeded to rattle off 19 straight points before the Wolverines managed another basket, building up a 23-8 lead heading into the second quarter. Michigan (4-1) never really recovered from that sequence, as the No. 10 Longhorns (5-0) staved off any sign of a comeback en route to a 69-52 win in the Gulf Coast Showcase semifinal. Though the Wolverines were coming off a quality win against a ranked Missouri team on Friday, Texas was a class above anything they had faced so far in the young season. The Longhorns lost a few substantial players from last year’s team, but they retained multiple starters and reloaded with the nation’s second-ranked recruiting class. Their size and talent proved too much for Michigan to overcome. The Wolverines usually match up with teams well, especially because of senior center Hallie Thome’s influence inside. This was not the case Saturday. Texas’ 6-foot-4 starting center Jatarie White controlled the paint, rendering Thome somewhat ineffective offensively, as she finished with just eight points in 30 minutes. “I think their physicality surprised us at first,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “I think we tried to go inside and they were really bumping, really being physical, really pushing us off the block. They sent double teams right away. We weren’t used to that.” On the wings, Michigan didn’t fare much better. Both sophomore Deja Church and senior Nicole Munger struggled

show for it. That contrast was evident all day. There is the larger question now, which many seem eager to litigate, of Jim Harbaugh’s pro-style offense. To be fair, that criticism was muted no less than a week ago. It would be wrong to insinuate this team ran the same offense it has for the last three years under Harbaugh. To a large extent, Harbaugh altered this offense quite a bit with Patterson in tow — and it was evident in several dominant wins. Saturday, for example, Michigan ran 70 of its 85 plays from the shotgun or pistol formations. That would be unheard of in the last three seasons. In the end, Harbaugh was right. Michigan ran its “best plays.” It included those concepts he mentioned in the press conference. The Wolverines won’t suddenly become a spead team as long as Harbaugh is the coach. Tweaks are one thing. Overhaul isn’t coming. On Saturday against Ohio State, those “best plays” were not enough. And now, let the

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State secondary Maryland torched for 51 points last week. Michigan threw the ball 10 or more yards past the line of scrimmage just four times in the first half, when the game was within striking distance. Including penalties, those plays averaged 13.5 yards. The other 40 plays averaged 4.5 yards per play. It seemed like a coaching staff intent on bashing its head against a wall. And all the while, the Buckeyes’ offense was running circles around the Wolverines’ defense by spreading their offense out, getting their weapons in space and letting their All-Big Ten quarterback deliver. Ohio State ended the game with six touchdown drives that lasted fewer than three minutes. The Wolverines offense ran 16:12 off the clock in their first six possessions and had just six points to

to find their mark, shooting 7-for29 collectively. Alternatively, Longhorn guard Audrey Warren, a member of that highly-ranked recruiting class, poured in 15 on 6-of-9 shooting. All of the Wolverines’ offensive struggles — chief among them being a 13.9-percent shooting clip — culminated in just six second-quarter points, which allowed the Longhorns to open up a 25-point lead heading into the locker room. “I think it’s important, as much as we think we have an experienced team with Hallie and (Munger), there are a lot of young kids,” Barnes Arico said. “A lot of young kids are getting a lot of minutes, so I think they need to understand this is a top team in the country. This is how physical the game is going to be. If we want to be at this level, this is how we are going to need to compete.” One of the lone bright spots for the Wolverines was the play of freshman point guard Amy Dilk, who once again showed signs of settling into her starting role. Thanks in part to her performance in the second half, Michigan clawed back late to avoid a blowout scoreline. “I think she’s growing more and more comfortable,” Barnes Arico said. “And (she’s) understanding what the expectations are. I was really happy that she attacked the rim a little bit more and looked to be offensively aggressive.” The Wolverines regained some semblance of confidence with their second-half performance — shooting 45.5-percent from the field. Another positive for Michigan was the return of junior guard Akienreh Johnson from injury. Though she won’t factor into the starting lineup, she does provide a bit more depth going forward.

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Shifting expectations

ix games into the season, the Michigan men’s basketball team is 6-0. The closest of those were 19-point wins against Norfolk State, Holy Cross and Providence. ETHAN Its defense SEARS is the best in the country, per KenPom’s adjusted defensive efficiency. It was ranked ninth in last week’s AP poll — ahead of any other Big Ten team — and will likely move up on Monday. And if you listen to Michigan coach John Beilein, you’d think he was unaware of any of that. “I don’t think we’re this juggernaut,” Beilein said, after the Wolverines dispatched TennesseeChattanooga, 83-55, on Friday afternoon. “I think we’re OK. ... We don’t have that type of experience yet to just say, ‘OK, watch out. Here comes Michigan.’ ” Beilein’s job, of course, requires him to say things like that. And it’s true that six games in November — most of them against terrible competition — don’t make a season. But not all of those wins are hollow. Crushing Villanova, by 27, at Villanova — that means something. So does dispatching Providence, a likely tournament team, by 19 points. “I think we certainly got some teams that are rebuilding,” Beilein said. “Villanova, George Washington and Providence. They all lost some pretty key players — as we did.” A month ago, it looked like this would be a rebuilding year for the Wolverines — or at least what a program that just made a national title game could classify as such. Nobody knew where the shooting would come from, how quickly the freshmen could be integrated, whether sophomores Isaiah Livers or Eli Brooks could take the next

step. The shooting hasn’t been great, but the defense is so good that it hasn’t mattered. Only one of five freshmen has played significant minutes, but that freshman, Ignas Brazdeikis, is averaging 15.7 points per game, and looks like a star. Playing Livers, a natural forward, at the ‘5’ has unlocked a new level for the Wolverines on both sides of the ball; Brooks has been more than serviceable coming off the bench. North Carolina and Purdue, two teams in KenPom’s top-15, loom next week, and the Wolverines can reasonably expect to win both games. None of those questions from the start of the season have been fully answered — they can’t be in six games. But if things continue this way, Michigan won’t just compete in the Big Ten, but sustain a spot in the national conversation. The Wolverines, already, have recalibrated expectations, changing the conversation around the team. Beating the Tar Heels — who smacked them in Chapel Hill around this time last season — would be yet another signal of a shifting ceiling. “I feel like we’re alright,” said sophomore guard Jordan Poole. “We’re getting the shots that we practice. We can get better shots. But we also are turning down some shots. We’re not being aggressive in some areas. It’s definitely just coming for our defense, we’re getting a lot of stops. We should be running hard in transition. It’s just a lot of little things that we can still work on.” Like Beilein, Poole is supposed to talk about improving when faced with questions about how good Michigan is. And like Beilein, there’s a kernel of truth in there. The Wolverines can get better. That’s what makes the first six games so scary. Sears can be reached at searseth@umich.edu or on Twitter @ethan_sears.

Wolverines fall to Wisconsin in shootout BAILEY JOHNSON Daily Sports Writer

It only takes one play to change a game. Saturday night, the No. 14 Michigan hockey team (6-5-1 overall, 2-2-1 Big Ten) had two of them in regulation before it tied with Wisconsin (5-7-1, 1-31), 2-2, in double overtime and then fell in the shootout. Late in the third period, facing a one-goal deficit, redshirt sophomore forward Luke Morgan received a pass from junior defenseman Luke Martin as he was crossing the offensive blue line, all alone in front of goaltender Daniel Lebedeff. A little bit of stickwork and a quick shot later, and Morgan had notched his first goal of the year and tied the game at two. “Good to see (Morgan) get off the mark there,” said Michigan coach Mel Pearson. “It’s just gonna help him and give him some confidence. … We’re gonna need that secondary scoring going forward. We’re getting guys to contribute now and we’re doing a good job. Good for (Morgan). That was a big goal.” But despite Morgan’s heroics, eight minutes later, the game was still tied, and the Wolverines headed to their third straight overtime game. Michigan sustained pressure on Lebedeff through most of the first overtime period but couldn’t knock the puck through. With 1:20 left in the stanza, senior defenseman Nick Boka was whistled for hooking. The penalty kill held strong, sending the game to double overtime and 3-on-3 action for the second night in a row. Wisconsin had an extra skater to begin the second overtime period, but Michigan neutralized the man advantage. The five minutes of 3-on-3 came and went, and the game was still tied. “You want to win them in regulation, but we’ll take it any way we can if we have to drag it to overtime,” Morgan said. “We have to come out with the win some way. It’s best in regulation,

you don’t have to worry about it, it’s not as nerve wrecking at times, but we’ll take it any way we can.” But on Saturday, the next step was a shootout for the extra Big Ten point — not a victory for either side. The game went down as a tie after the first overtime, meaning each team earned one point for conference standings. The shootout winner earned the second point. Junior forward Will Lockwood went first in the shootout and his effort was just barely saved by Lebedeff. Next, Wisconsin forward Wyatt Kalynuk shot wide of the net. Following Kalynuk, sophomore defenseman Quinn Hughes fired a shot that went well wide. As the second shooter in the second round, forward Max Zimmer beat junior goaltender Hayden Lavigne five-hole, and the Badgers streamed onto the ice to celebrate. Before it got to the shootout, or even scored a goal, Michigan was down by two and struggling to find a rhythm. For the first time all season,

Lavigne earned the starting nod on back-to-back nights. He came up with some big saves in the first five minutes, effectively neutralizing the constant pressure from the Badgers. But 4:21 into the first period, Hughes was called for slashing and the Wolverines were sent to the penalty kill for the first time in the game. Less than a minute later, with Wisconsin pressuring Lavigne in the crease, Boka lost his footing and allowed his assignment — defenseman K’Andre Miller — to slip past him and tuck the puck past the outstretched glove of Lavigne. He got part of his glove on the puck, but it wasn’t enough to save the goal. In the second period, Lavigne fell victim to another defensive breakdown. When Michigan’s defenders slipped out of position, forward Jack Gorniak was able to get his stick on the puck and flip it up over Lavigne’s shoulder. Suddenly, the Wolverines trailed, 2-0. The game appeared to be slipping out of reach. Shortly afterwards, Hughes entered the offensive zone with

the puck and slipped it across the ice to sophomore forward Josh Norris. Norris found fellow sophomore forward Jack Becker coming down through the slot and put the puck right on his stick. Becker tapped the puck past Lebedeff and cut the Wolverines’ deficit to 2-1. But the two goals would prove to be not enough, after all the extra periods and the shootout. Michigan’s power play, which entered the weekend ranked seventh in the nation, failed to score on any of its seven chances. The Wolverines recorded just 12 shots across those seven opportunities. “We’ve been riding our power play,” Pearson said. “It’s been really good for us lately. It’s been winning us a lot of games. Tonight, and this weekend, we just came up empty. I think that’s why we’re just looking at getting the three points and basically a split this weekend.” Morgan’s late-game play gave Michigan hope momentarily, but the offense couldn’t overcome its woes and the late goal wasn’t enough to eke out a victory.

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Junior defenseman Luke Martin notched the assist on Michigan’s game-tying goal against Wisconsin on Saturday.

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Offensive miscues stall Michigan in 62-39 loss Wolverines’ defense ‘M’ could not capitalize on enough opportunities to keep up with Ohio State shredded in 62-39 loss ETHAN WOLFE Daily Sports Writer

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Senior tight end Zach Gentry dropped a potential touchdown pass during Saturday’s game against Ohio State before leaving the field with a concussion.

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COLUMBUS — Shea Patterson took a few steps back, cocked his arm and let the football roll off his fingers. It was a dime of a pass, flying directly through the air towards senior tight end Zach Gentry, who was open for the catch in the endzone. He outstretched his arms, just barely grabbing the ball. But there was no touchdown. Instead, the ball fell to the ground, slipping through Gentry’s fingers and bouncing on the scarlet turf. In that instant, with Ohio State leading 7-3 early in the second quarter, a touchdown would have given Michigan the lead for the first time during Saturday’s game in Columbus. Instead, freshman kicker Jake Moody made his way onto

the field to make the most of a fourth-down, 31-yard field goal opportunity. With the swipe of his leg, he secured Michigan three points for the second time during that game, keeping the Wolverines close at 7-6 — but still without the lead. Even with Moody’s six-point contribution through the first two quarters, common lapses in the offense throughout Saturday’s game were complemented by a defense that struggled to stall the Buckeyes’ offensive onslaught. In a game with Big Ten Championship and College Football Playoff implications on the line, and a

rivalry game with Ohio State, no less, those collective struggles contributed to the Wolverines’ 62-39 loss. “This is why everybody comes to Michigan, to play in this game,” Patterson said. “That’s one of the reasons why I came here. As a child, I dreamed of playing in this game. You know, I’m the quarterback, and I have the ball in my hand every snap, and I take full responsibility for our faults on offense.” The offense, in some moments, provided flashes of optimism. Late in the second quarter, Patterson connected with sophomore wide receiver Nico Collins on

“I take full responsibility for our faults on offense.”

a 23-yard catch for Michigan’s first touchdown of the game. Six seconds on the clock later, after junior wide receiver Nate Schoenle recovered an Ohio State fumble, the Wolverines scored again courtesy of a nine-yard pass from Patterson to junior running back Chris Evans. But, for every bright spot, there was another miscue. Another dropped ball, a penalty drawn, a missed opportunity to move the ball forward. Another reason Michigan was never able to establish that lead over the Buckeyes. Late in the third period, the Wolverines struggled to close a 34-19 gap. After senior running back Karan Higdon was tackled for a loss of two yards when rushing the ball, and Gentry missed a potential first-down catch off a hit that triggered a concussion, Patterson found himself facing pressure in the pocket. Once again, he cocked his arm back and threw it, directed at the sideline — but this time, it landed directly in the hands of Ohio State safety Jordan Fuller, who ran it four yards before junior tight end Sean McKeon ended the drive. “Sometimes you get desperate in those types of situations,” Patterson said. “I wasn’t really trying to force it, I was actually trying to throw the ball out of bounds. Whoever made that play made a good play and hit my elbow.” Between quarterback Dwayne Haskins and running back Mike Weber, the interception soon turned into a touchdown to put the Buckeyes up, 41-19. Another interception from freshman quarterback Joe Milton resulted in Ohio State’s final touchdown, a 62-point total by the end of the game. In a day in which nothing went right for Michigan, the offense sputtered when it needed to seize control. The Wolverines ended up with 39 points, but it was the ones they left on the field that they will remember.

COLUMBUS — Nearly four hours after kickoff, the sun shined down on Ohio Stadium for the first time. If it was a sign, it wasn’t for Michigan. The scoreboard read 55-32 and would finish 62-39 in favor of the Buckeyes. The 62 points allowed by the No. 1 defense in the country were the most ever scored on the Wolverines in a regulation game, surpassing 56 points allowed over a century ago to Cornell. Where Michigan made all the wrong history, it now finds itself absent again from a Big Ten Championship and potential national title hopes. This wasn’t supposed to happen to his team, nothing remotely close, especially this season. Jim Harbaugh knew that Ohio State had never even eclipsed 50 points in the rivalry game. On an afternoon of unfettered domination, that stat was the only thing Harbaugh had an answer for. “They had several successful plays, no question about it,” Harbaugh said. “They got some real speed plays, crossing routes. Threw the ball downfield well, I thought their protection was really good. We didn’t get the pressure on the quarterback that we wanted to.” The list could read like its own history book. Buckeyes quarterback Dwayne Haskins throttled Michigan for 318 passing yards and five touchdowns to become the single-season, all-time Big Ten leader in both categories. Haskins didn’t just have answers, he had lessons. “We seen a lot of man coverage, lot of one high, so we knew that we could get a lot of one-on-one matchups and crossing routes on them,” Haskins said. “And made some plays when it mattered the most. “I was licking my chops, I see the one-high covers and that’s a quarterback’s dream. The biggest responsibility for me all week was to be able to pick up blitzes and protection, because we saw a lot of different fronts and excotic looks. I spent hours in the film room just trying to figure out how we can pick the blitzes up. “And once we picked it up, receivers make plays, and I’m going to put it there.” The Wolverines had no response to the multitude of crossing patterns over the middle, let alone everything else thrown their way. Fiftyone yards and a score came off crossing routes on Ohio State’s first drive — a 24-yarder to Chris Olave. It had three more on its second touchdown of the day, a 27-yard encore from Olave.

Rinse, repeat. “We try to stay upbeat throughout the whole game and trust each other and stay in the fight, but I don’t remember a point where it just got out of hand,” said senior safety Tyree Kinnel. “It slowly devastated us throughout the game, and knowing all the yards they were putting up, it was tough, extremely tough.” Even in man-to-man press coverage that had rarely failed Michigan the previous 11 games, it simply got burned — Ohio State had 16 plays with double-digit yardage, including a 78-yard rush by Parris Campbell. It may have been consistent with the defense’s day-long malaise. But it certainly was a byproduct of a pass rush that finished with zero sacks and quarterback pressures, leaving the secondary to cover for longer than it has all year. “A-plus job,” Haskins said of his offensive line. “Zero sacks. I have to take them out to dinner. … I really had all day in the pocket.” After trailing just 24-19 after the first half, the defensive woes looked mendable. The Wolverines had surrendered just 10 third quarter points all year prior to Saturday. But if the non-stop, first half punches were any indication, this was not going to be like any Saturday. Junior cornerback David Long left the game from a hip flexor on the first series of the second half. On the second series, Rashan Gary and Devin Bush needed medical attention on back-to-back plays. When help was needed most, there was nowhere to look. “We made adjustments at halftime, addressed the issues we had in the first half,” Kinnel said. “And they came out and beat us with something else in the second half. … They completely beat us today.” Unprepared, confused, sluggish. No one word encapsulates the otherworldly hurt that the Buckeyes inflicted. For defensive coordinator Don Brown, the onslaught pushed him past anger, and into a simple gratitude for coaching. “He just went and talked to every guy individually and said that he was proud of us, we’re a great unit, he loved to coach us,” Kinnel said of Brown. “They were pretty all positive in the locker room, but everyone’s down right now. “They completely beat us everywhere. Run game, pass game — everyone’s to blame.” With the sun continuing to beat down on the field that Michigan couldn’t compete on, the game clock struck zero and the Wolverines were put out of their misery. Fans rushed the field. Ohio State beat Michigan at its own game.

“It slowly devastated us throughout the game...”