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Forrest to step down from VP of research Cites desire to rejoin faculty, work on developing private enterprises By PETER SHAHIN Daily News Editor
At the Board of Regents meeting Tuesday, Stephen Forrest, vice president for research, announced the University’s combined research budget for the fiscal year ending June 30 reached a record $1.33 billion — a $54.7-million increase over last year’s budget of $1.27 billion. Forrest also announced his intention to leave his current position to return to a normal faculty position. As in previous years, federal funding from a variety of agencies and departments makes up the majority of the research budget, contributing a combined 62 percent of the $1.33 billion. The National Institutes of Health, the single largest benefactor at $509.7 million, reduced its funding by $9.3 million from last year — but other agencies, including
the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Air Force and the Federal Highway Administration, more than made up that difference. Another bright spot in the portfolio is blossoming research partnerships with private industry, which grew 14 percent since last year to $73 million. Although partnerships remain a small part of the overall portfolio, their share has consistently grown over the last few years and will be increasingly important as federal support stagnates or declines. According to the National Science Foundation, the average institution derives five percent of its external research from industry — less than the University’s eight percent from such partnerships. Support for research from the state of Michigan increased sixfold over the past year, but still amounts to only $3.5 million. “The faculty are getting much more rewarded from the culture by working with industries,” Forrest said in an interview after the meeting. “That’s part of diversifying the portfolio as research See FORREST, Page 3
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University officials cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the Michigan Union Grill dining area on Thursday.
MUG celebrates renovations Celebrations held for new, ‘brighter’ ground floor of Union By STEPHANIE SHENOUDA Daily Staff Reporter
With the smell of orange chicken wafting through the air, complimentary Frosties from
the Wendy’s mascot and the cutting of a ribbon, the Michigan Union Grill — the dining area in the Michigan Union’s basement — was officially opened. Though the pomp and circumstance of a grand opening took place Thursday, the MUG was opened to the public shortly before fall term began. The space was renovated to create a brighter and more inviting area — a community space for students as opposed to simply a
food court. E. Royster Harper, vice president for student affairs, spoke to the crowd about the historic importance of the MUG to the University. “The MUG has changed and so have we, depending when you hailed here,” Harper said. “There was a swimming pool on the ground floor that was made into the Alumni Center, that I’ve only heard about, but there’s a little bit of our past here, as well
as our commitment to sustainability.” Harper added that the wood paneling from the former bowling alley in the Union was preserved in the area by Ahmo’s Mediterranean Grill to be sustainable and give a nod to the University’s past. Harper also expressed pride at the amount of student involvement in planning the MUG’s renovation. See MUG, Page 3
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‘U’ alum suspect in device thefts
Munger Residences on track with regent approval for design Rackham students concerned with expensive costs of housing
Credit cards, cell phones and laptops found by police
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Laptop larceny is a relatively common crime on campus, and while police sometimes catch suspects red-handed, thieves don’t usually have their collection of loot at the scene of the crime. At the Art and Architecture Building on Wednesday, University Police arrested University alum Siddharth Kirtikar, a 28-year-old man who was in violation of a trespass warning issued by police. On his person, police found three laptops as well as multiple credit cards, cell phones and external computer hardware. University Police said they were unable to determine whether Kirtikar stole the goods at the same time or even if he See STEALING, Page 3
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Former Sen. Olympia Snowe speaks about her 40 years as a legislator at Rackham Auditorium Thursday.
Snowe: Partisanship at root of Congress’s dysfunction Former senator lectures as part of Ford series By BEN ATLAS Daily Staff Reporter
Former Senator Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican from Maine, stunned many political observers in 2012 by
announcing that she would not seek reelection for a fourth term in the Senate. Her reasoning for doing so proved to be a sad indictment of the state of dysfunction in Congress: She felt she could better solve the body’s issues of polarization and hyper-partisanship from the outside. The former senator, known for being an advocate for compromise, came to campus
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Thursday to give a lecture entitled, “What’s Gone Wrong in Washington, and Why It Doesn’t Have to be this Way” as part of the Ford School’s Citi Foundation lecture series. Snowe spoke to the audience in Rackham Auditorium about how the federal government and Congress have gone offtrack, what has contributed to the undermining of the politiSee SNOWE, Page 3
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As the former Blimpy Burger building sat unoccupied a block away, the University’s Board of Regents approved the schematic design for the residence hall set to take the burger joint’s place at the body’s meeting Thursday in the Michigan Union. The Munger Graduate Residences, which will cost about $180 million to build and is expected to be complete in 2015, is funded mostly by a $110-million donation from University alum Charles Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. Munger funded a similar project at Stanford University in 2009. The regents announced Munger’s donation April 2013, noting that Munger will work closely with the administration in the construction process. Part of Munger’s donation is reserved for a fellowship pro-
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gram for graduate students. Before the board approved the design, Regent Andrea Fischer Newman (R) said Munger asked to name his $10-million fellowship endowment the Coleman-Munger Fellows. Newman said the name reflects Coleman’s commitment to the University. “Mary Sue will be remembered as a great part of this gift and bringing it in, and we’re honored that he chose to name the fellows after her,” Newman said. In a presentation to the board, Lee Becker of Hartman-Cox Architects said the site “couldn’t be better.” The Hartman-Cox Architects and Integrated Design Solutions architecture firm worked together to design the building. Hartman-Cox previously designed the Law School’s Robert B. Aikens Commons Addition and the school’s South Hall in 2011, and Integrated Design Solutions just finished designing East Quad Residence Hall. The building will include 96 apartments with a total of 632 bedrooms organized in sevenperson apartment spaces. Facing West Quad Residence Hall, the main entrance will come See MUNGER, Page 3
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Vandals on the Diag
Crash into me
WHERE: The Diag WHEN: Around 12:00 p.m. Wednesday WHAT: An unknown subject vandalized an item that was being used in a demonstration on the Diag, University Police reported. The subject left the area.
WHERE: Simpson St. WHEN: 9:30 a.m. Wednesday WHAT: Two automobiles collided, University Police reported. There were no injuries and the damage is unknown.
Necklace, necklost
Smokin’ and rollin’
WHERE: Stockwell Residence Hall WHEN: Around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday WHAT: University Police report that an unattended necklace was taken from a second-floor restroom between 9:30 and 10 a.m.
WHERE: Thayer Carport WHEN: Around 5 p.m. Wednesday WHAT: Several subjects were skateboarding, University Police reported. The officer suspected marijuana use, but no evidence was found.
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WHAT: To celebrate the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement, colleges on North Campus will launch a year of events. The first will be a ribboncutting for the “Imaging the Dream” Exhibit. WHO: University Library WHEN: Noon WHERE: Duderstadt Center
WHAT: The Bentley Historical Library will focus on the life of former Michigan football star Tom Harmon with a new exhibit. WHO: Bentley Library WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Bentley Historical Library
Free food for freshmen WHAT: The Career Center hopes to meet new freshmen at a meet-and-greet with staff and guests. WHO: The Career Center WHEN: Noon to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Student Activities Building
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Eight highlights from Union Director ‘hopeful’ the Regents meeting Starbucks will open Nov. By SAM GRINGLAS Daily Staff Reporter
1. University President Mary Sue Coleman opened the September Board of Regents meeting by praising the generosity of Steven Ross’ $200 million gift and highlighting the world record crowd at the University of Notre Dame game, as well as the first-ever quintuplets born at the University Hospital. “We’ve had a September unlike anything I believe we’ve ever experienced,” Coleman said. 2. James Holloway, University vice provost for global and engaged education, provided regents with recent highlights of the University’s study abroad programs, as well as Sudoku Syndication data on the University’s international student population.
“We need students to be saying to themselves not ‘I wonder if I should go abroad.’ We need our students to be saying ‘I wonder when I will study abroad,’ ” Holloway said.
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3. Construction planning will begin for a renovation of the School of Education, which was built in 1923. Tim Slottow, the University’s executive vice president and Chief Financial Officer, said the project is set for completion in fall of 2015.
5. The regents also approved the sale of 51 acres of property to NSF International, a non-profit organization that verifies health and safety standards, for $3.52 million.
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While the University community embraced the newly renovated Michigan Underground food court during a celebration Thursday, the first floor restaurant spaces of the Michigan Union remain vacant and unfinished. The two spaces, formerly
6. Jerry May, the University’s vice president of development, provided an update to the regents just two months 4. Effective Oct. 1, the Divi- before the next capital camsion of Student Affairs will paign is set to launch. May be renamed the Division of said in the fiscal year precedStudent Life to better convey ing the official launch, the the office’s core mission when University received gifts from communicating with organiza129,000 donors — a University http://www.sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ tions outside the University, E. record. A record number of Royster Harper, Vice President those gifts came in amounts less than $25,000. “This is long overdue,” Slottow said.
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occupied by Amer’s and The University Club, are soon to open with Starbucks and Au Bon Pain as the new tenants. Susan Pile, director of the Michigan Union, said she’s hopeful Starbucks will open in November and Au Bon Pain in January. Both spaces are undergoing renovations before the new tenants open their doors to the public, and Pile cited the size and number of renovation of the respective spaces as the reason the restaurants won’t open at the same time. The new tenants are in the approval phase with the University’s architecture and con-
struction office, but should start construction soon. According to documents acquired by The Michigan Daily via the Freedom of Information Act, both tenants’ leases expire April 30, 2023. Au Bon Pain will pay $225,000 per year for their use of the space until April 30, 2018, when their lease price increases to $275,000 per year. Starbucks will pay $34,000 per year for their use of the space next to the Union courtyard to be paid in monthly installments of $2,872.58. Both vendors will also pay the University a percentage of sales.
Al-Qaida militants seize town in northern Syria near Turkey
“I want to emphasize how important it is to get the small gifts and this was the best year ever,” May said 7. The Board of Regents approved an $11.4-million renovation of the Ford Nuclear Reactor Building on North Campus. Decommissioned in 2004, the project will repurpose the former nuclear site into classrooms and laboratories for the Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Department. 8. After asking the regents to consider the concerns of his constituents regarding the new Munger Residence Hall, CSG President Michael Proppe discussed the new student committee formed to advise the Presidential Search Committee. “The student body is taking the search very seriously. I urge you to take our input just as seriously,” Proppe said.
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Militants expell Western-backed rebel groups BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida militants seized a town near the Turkish border Thursday after expelling Western-backed rebels from the area, demonstrating the growing power of jihadis as they seek to expand their influence across opposition-held Syrian territory. The infighting — now engulfing many parts of northern Syria — threatened to further split opposition forces outgunned by President Bashar Assad’s troops and strengthen his hand as he engages with world powers on relinquishing his chemical weapons. Opposition forces who had been hoping that U.S.-led military strikes would help tip the balance in the civil war are growing increasingly desperate
after the Obama administration shelved those plans in favor of a diplomatic solution. Many rebels blame jihadis in their ranks for the West’s reluctance to intervene militarily in Syria or give them the advanced weapons they need. There is also growing concern that the dominant role the extremists are playing is discrediting the rebellion. Yet the jihadis, including members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an al-Qaida offshoot, have been some of the most effective forces on the battlefield, fighting alongside the Western-backed Free Syrian Army to capture military facilities, strategic installations and key neighborhoods in cities such as Aleppo and Homs. But the two sides have turned their guns on each other. Turf wars and retaliatory killings have evolved into ferocious battles in what has effectively become a war within a war in
northern and eastern Syria, leaving hundreds dead on both sides. “The moderates realized that they’re losing a lot of territory to the Islamists and jihadi fighters, and so they’re more desperate,” said Aaron Zelin, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The battles for control of Azaz, a town only few kilometers from the Turkish border, represents some of the worst infighting in recent months. Members of ISIL overran the town Wednesday evening, killing several fighters from the Free Syrian Army rebel umbrella group, before forcing them to pull out. Amateur video showed dozens of gunmen with heavy machine guns on pickup trucks gathering at the border with Turkey with reinforcements. The Associated Press was able to verify the footage based on interviews and other reporting on the events depicted.
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‘U’ buses will travel to Detroit starting Oct. Friday and Saturday transit will conntect to A 2 to Detroit Center By MATTHEW JACKONEN Daily Staff Reporter
Eastern Market or Campus Martius Park on a Saturday morning? Soon, students will have the option. Beginning Oct. 5, a new University-sponsored shuttle transit service will begin taking students from Ann Arbor to the University’s Detroit Center — with stops at Eastern Market, the Cultural Center, Downtown and southwest Detroit under consideration. The primary aim of the service is to provide the University community with a more efficient option for getting to and from Detroit, where the University has devoted significant financial and educational resources in recent years in an attempt to broaden student experiences. The University’s Detroit Center and Semester in Detroit Program announced that a pilot service will be available free of
FORREST From Page 1 funding becomes more difficult from funding from the federal government — we have to broaden our base.” However, Forrest added he’s concerned about the effects that federal sequestration — an across-the-board, 5.1-percent cut to all discretionary spending — which will be evident in 2014’s research report. However, the University is already experiencing “shortfalls” in funding because of the cuts. “The research is about economic growth,” Forrest said. “Innovation has long been the source of economic power of this country really since the post-war
MUG From Page 1 “The Michigan Union is actually all about people,” Union Director Susan Pile told the Michigan Daily. “The food is a key motivator, but what we actually want to see is people hanging out with their friends down here or meeting for a study group.” Pile said her favorite part of the new design is the community table, which was brought out of storage after being carved by stu-
STEALING From Page 1 stole them at all. UMPD Chief Joe Piersante said an individual called police after the suspect was spotted carrying multiple laptops. The trespass warning — which was issued in May — required that the man stay away from all University buildings. “At that time, it was just a
charge on Fridays and Saturdays throughout the fall semester. Addell Austin Anderson, the director of the University’s Detroit Center and co-director of the MDetroit Center Connector, said the continuation of the service beyond the fall semester isn’t guaranteed, but she is “optimistic” about securing funding for the winter semester. “It’s all going to depend on how successful we are to get riders,” Anderson said. “I feel optimistic because we have gotten a huge outpouring of support and people that are interested.” Funding for the project almost entirely comes from a $45,000 grant from the Transforming Learning for the Third Century fund — a project of the Third Century Initiative, a University program to explores innovative teaching opportunities. Anderson also emphasized that this project is fulfilling a need that many University affiliates and Detroiters have had for a while. “This is something that has been a long time coming,” Anderson said. “There has been some frustration that there hasn’t been an easy way to get (to and from) campus and Detroit.”
Anderson added that the service will be beneficial to both Ann Arbor and Detroit residents in that both can more easily enjoy the benefits of the two cities, calling it a “two-way street.” She hopes the service will provide new opportunity to “get off campus and go see what’s going on” in Detroit. Another shuttle service to the Dearborn area is also under consideration. The first shuttle to Detroit will leave Ann Arbor at 8:15 a.m. on Friday and the last shuttle will return at 8:45 p.m. On Saturday, the first shuttle will leave Ann Arbor at 8:00 a.m., and the final shuttle will return at 11:00 p.m. The tentative schedule was formed based on an online survey filled out by University students and staff. LSA senior Haley Sakwa, chair of CSG’s Detroit Commission, said the shuttle program’s organizers consulted with the commission and the newly-reformed Detroit Coalition in trying to gauge student interest and determining when there would be demand for the service. “You can’t expect the Detroit Center to reach out to all the student groups (focused on Detroit)
on campus,” Sakwa said. “Unless we make it easy for the administration to include what we have to say, I don’t think they’ll be able to include the students voices and opinions in their decision.” Sakwa added that while the commission has some concerns about the funding for the program, given that it has a limited time grant, she is hopeful that it will continue past the trial period this fall. LSA junior Michael Baroody said the service is long overdue. “As an institution for higher education we have much to learn from Detroit,” Baroody said. “For me personally, having been involved with the campus farm in the past, I see a huge potential for partnerships and programs with Detroit’s urban agriculturists.” Baroody said it would help students appreciate what the city has to offer the University and students. “While there are partnerships with Detroit already in place … this will most definitely foster a new level of interest and appreciation for this great American city,” Baroody said. “Having only been to Detroit once or twice, I can’t wait until this takes effect.”
era. This is very much going to hurt our prospects in the future being able to compete on an international level.” Forrest, who will step down from his current role in January, has served as vice president for research since 2006. His tenure has been marked by significant growth in the University’s research budget despite economic challenges — growing from a little more than $800 million in 2008 to $1.33 billion currently. Forrest received his doctorate in physics in from the University in 1979 and went on to work at Bell Labs — a storied basic research laboratory owned at the time by AT&T — and assumed his first teaching position at Princeton University in 1992. His biography states that he has written around 465 journal articles and
holds 203 patents. He will rejoin the College of Engineering as a faculty member while also working on growing some of the companies he has helped found. Forrest will also devote time to working on his research project — one of the largest in the College of Engineering’s portfolio. “What I’m really looking forward to is being able to focus on one set of problems, rather than focusing on administration of a giant University — which has been exciting in all dimensions — but I also had to maintain a really excellent and robust research program,” Forrest said. Forrest added that during his eight years in Ann Arbor, the University has actively worked to engage both large and small business and foster economic growth
in the region. “When you walked through the city of Ann Arbor (in 2006 or 2007), you wouldn’t see small business activity,” Forrest said. “Now, if you walk around, walk down Liberty, walk in any number of directions, you’ll see small high-tech startups listed everywhere. “It’s definitely helping our economy in many, many ways — not just for start-up companies, but also with our engagement with big companies like GM, Toyota and Dow.” University President Mary Sue Coleman will soon appoint an interim vice president of research while the search for a permanent successor is underway.
dents in 1911. “We were able to bring it out and I think it’s a really nice way to marry the present with the past,” Pile said. “It tells a story and serves a function and that’s really what we’re about, so I think it’s perfect.” She added that the University Unions’s motto is “creating lifetime memories,” which she feels the space will better allow students to do. “In the past you might have done it or seen people where they’re like ‘I’m just going to get my sandwich and leave, I don’t
want to be down here,’ ” Pile said. “It was dark, and the response that we got from students was that it felt like you were eating in a basement, which no one wants to do, so it definitely doesn’t anymore.” LSA senior Adam Kleven was one of several students who offered his input as part of the Union committee. One of the committee’s duties was assessing which restaurants and vendors would be a part of the Union’s new lineup. “Ahmo’s being a local business was an important factor in why
we chose them, and Subway has been a great partner, and they’re an affordable option, so that’s important to students,” he said. Kleven said he believes that student involvement is always going to be an important part of the Union. “The Union was created by students for students, so I believe it’s very important that they feel like it’s a place they want to be and like their interests were represented,” he said. “Overall, I’m very happy with the turn-out and know that other students will be too.”
warning,” Piersante said of the initial warning. “He was asked to leave the property, and if he came back he was subject to arrest.” University Police described Kirtikar’s current living situation as transient and between residences. Up until several months ago, he was living in an apartment in Ann Arbor, Piersante said. Kirtikar was arraigned Thursday on four counts of financial transaction device crimes and
one count of receiving stolen property. His bond was set at $100,000 cash. Piersante said investigating Kirtikar for theft of the devices will probably take a couple of weeks, during which time University Police will attempt to determine the origins of the stolen devices, if any fraudulent charges were made on the stolen credit cards, to whom they belong and what he planned to do with all of the belongings.
“It’s a little easier for the credit cards because they have IDs on them,” Piersante said. “It’s a little harder for the laptops and cellphones.” Piersante stressed the importance for University students to register their electronics and bicycles. Had these devices been registered, Piersante said it would be much easier to return them to their rightful owners.
—Daily Staff Reporter Jennifer Calfas contributed reporting.
UN Sec-General meets with Iran’s new president UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran's foreign minister and the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon exchanged views Thursday on the country's controversial nuclear program and its potential role in ending the Syrian conflict, two issues expected to dominate next week's annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations. Mohammad Javad Zarif, a former U.N. ambassador, returned to U.N. headquarters for the first time since he was named foreign minister by the country's new president, Hasan Rouhani, who will be making his first appearance at the General Assembly on Tuesday. "I commend the efforts of the new government in Iran in promoting dialogue with the international community," Ban said. "I'm pleased the government ... is
now taking some concrete steps to fulfill the promises made by president Rouhani during his recent election campaign." After years of frozen diplomatic relations, U.S. President Barack Obama and Rouhani, considered a relative moderate in Iran's hard-line clerical regime, exchanged letters after his election. This has fueled widespread speculation that U.S. and Iranian officials may meet on the sidelines of the General Assembly. Avaaz, an activist organization that uses the internet to mobilize support for various political issues, said it launched a campaign this week which has already been signed by more than 1.1 million people calling on the U.S. and Iranian leaders to agree to talks at the General Assembly. It is also running polls in Iran to gauge opinion on a U.S.-Iran meeting.
"This could be President Obama's Nixon-to-China moment that would save Syrian lives — the question is whether the two reformminded leaders who will soon be mere steps away from each other in New York will seize it," Avaaz Campaign Director Ian Bassin said. Zarif hosted a lunch for many U.N. ambassador and Wednesday and invited the five permanent members of the Security Council — the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France. Several ambassadors who attended said they did not see U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power and a well-informed U.N. diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because the lunch was private, said the U.S. did not attend. The secretary-general told reporters he had "a very good meeting" with Zarif and praised
the government's release Wednesday of 12 political prisoners — a move Ban said he pushed for when he visited Iran in August 2012. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky added that they discussed "Iran's growing cooperation with the international community on a host of issues, including the nuclear file, as well the role Iran could play in promoting a political solution to the conflict in Syria." Zarif was equally upbeat about the meeting. "We had a good meeting with the secretary-general, discussed various issues of interest to all countries including Iran and the United Nations," the Iranian foreign minister told several reporters. "We attach great importance to the role of the United Nations and we had a good discussion on the nuclear issue and on other issues."
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SNOWE From Page 1 cal process and possible solutions to these problems. Above all else, Snowe emphasized that the spirit of bipartisanship would be the key to solving the nation’s myriad issues. “Our (political) system should be a marketplace of ideas predicated on consensus building, not a battle of ideology,” she said. Snowe lamented Congress’s many “self-engineered and manufactured crises.” The downgrading of the country’s credit rating in 2011, she argued, was in part caused by legislative inaction on the debt and entitlement spending; this past January, as a result of earlier failed negotiations, it took Congress right up to the 11th hour to finally resolve the fiscal cliff issue, that economists warned would have had serious consequences on the economy as a whole. The habit of “legislating up to deferral and brinkmanship,” as Snowe described it, still persists, as Congress must deal with budget issues to avert a government shutdown before Sept. 30 and decide whether or not to raise the debt ceiling by mid-October. Compounding this concern was Snowe’s claim that there’s “very little institutional memory” of how the legislative process worked within both chambers. According to Snowe, more than half of the members of both the Senate and House have fewer than 6 years of experience, making them only familiar with the current climate of dysfunction and inaction. Snowe acknowledged that part of the reason for the rise in partisanship and polarization had to do with shifting demographics among the electorate, referencing pollster Nate Silver’s statistical estimate that the number of swing districts in the House shrank from 103 in 1992 to just 35 in 2012. Because of this, “most elections are predetermined before they even occur,” creating “little political incentive to reach across the aisle.” In addition to issues within Congress, Snowe also cited the
MUNGER From Page 1 from Thompson Street, with an additional student entrance and loading dock at the back of the complex. The residence will have eight floors, and the top floor will feature lounges, study spaces and a fitness center, accompanied by a running track. Becker said this is his “favorite” floor since it allows residents to interact with each other in a common space. After the regents approved the design, Regent Andrew C. Richner (R) said he was happy the design represented an innovative living space that aims to engage graduate students from a variety of disciplines who may not otherwise interact. Since the expected cost of living in the hall is $1,000 per month, Rackham students have asked the regents to work to lower the price. Rackham student Kaitlin Flynn, vice president of Rackham Student Government, spoke during the public-comments section, stressing her opposition to the building’s cost. Flynn said graduate students, like many undergraduates, live on a fixed income and do not have financial help from their parents, making $1,000 per month an unreasonable amount to expect for housing. Along with Flynn, Public
Obama administration’s failure to communicate on a consistent basis with congressional leaders as a cause of dysfunction. She referenced how former President Ronald Reagan and former House Speaker Tip O’Neill would meet every week, and despite their vast ideological differences, understood what they had to overcome for the good of the country. Since leaving office, Snowe has embarked on a speaking tour to promote her book, “Fighting for Common Ground,” and has established Olympia’s List, a political action committee that supports congressional candidates in both parties who value bipartisanship and consensus. College campuses have been a popular destination on Snowe’s tour because of her desire to communicate to young people about the importance of public service and what the mission of public service is all about: to solve problems and achieve practical results. “I don’t want (students) to be turned off by this (political) climate and I don’t want them to take their cues from this climate,” Snowe said in an interview before the event. “I’d rather change it.” Prior to delivering her lecture, Snowe spent much of her day meeting with students. She had a question-and-answer session with Prof. John Schwarz’s public-policy class, had lunch with another group of Public Policy students, and held a question and answer session with Women and Gender in Public Policy, a student organization within the Ford School. Public Policy graduate student Erin Sullivan, a member of WGPP, said Snowe was very candid in talking about her experience in the Senate. “She wanted the full experience, and she gave plenty of students the opportunity to engage with her, which is what we should be striving for,” Sullivan said. Crucial to changing the culture of dysfunction, according to Snowe, is involving people — especially students — in the political process. “We’re a representative government; we get the government we demand,” Snowe said before the event. “If we value bipartisanship, we will get it.”
Health student Cameron Glenn, president of the Public Health Student Assembly, and Michael Proppe, the Central Student Government president, said at the meeting that they wished the University took more student input into consideration before proposing the schematic design. In response to the students’ comments, E. Royster Harper, the University’s vice president for student affairs, said she hopes the board can make the housing more affordable. She added that the creation of the residences is necessary as the last graduate student housing option constructed was Northwood V in 1971. Harper attended a forum hosted by Rackham students last week to answer questions and concerns that students had over the design. At the forum, students were primarily concerned with the community-living style of the building and its cost to future residents. Harper told the students that the administration has to significantly consider Munger’s vision for the building because he was so heavily involved in the planning process. “If this were ‘just us’ and the funding were ‘just us,’ we would have some different kinds of options,” Harper said at the forum. “But I think when you are in partnership … you make some agreements about what you’re going to offer, then we have to honor those agreements.”
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Tying funding to income The Texas State Technical College’s plan is detrimental to education
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ue to budget changes within the Texas State Technical College system, the state’s 12 technical colleges will receive state funding in proportion to the future incomes of their graduates as of September 2015. This is part of a growing trend in which the allocation of state funding to colleges is based upon graduates’ success. While other states have appropriated college funds based on performance factors such as degree completion and graduate career fields, the state of Texas will be the first to directly correlate funding and graduate income. Although this approach to funding may have limited value, it will be detrimental to education if states continue to equate graduates’ success to their salaries. Texas’ new fund appropriation formula applies only to the state’s technical schools, not the University of Texas system. The system will replace all funding based on enrollment; when the new funding formula is in place, technical colleges will receive 26 cents for every dollar graduates make above the minimum wage. Comparatively, the state of Michigan appropriates college funding based on factors including graduation rates, degree attainment in critical fields, and research and development expenditures. Although technical colleges focus more directly on employment than more traditional four-year institutions, it’s wrong to punish them by cutting funding because of graduates who don’t make enough money. Doing so doesn’t take into account the value of knowledge attainment and personal growth. Especially if adopted by larger universities, which is unlikely, this policy of heightened emphasis on future income is a dangerous trend that could lead to the neglect of less profitable academic pursuits, like social work, for example. If Texas sees value in tying funding to
future performance, it should distribute funds based on job placement rather than income. Income is affected by a number of uncontrollable variables including career field, surrounding job market, and economic and individual temperament, and thus is an ineffective means of measuring colleges’ efficacy. Income-based funding would encourage schools to cut valuable yet inherently lower-earning programs in education, health care and the humanities. Technical colleges are generally focused on direct employment, so funding based on job placement is a more accurate and effective option for the state. Texas’ new program is, in some respects, similar to President Barack Obama’s national initiative to tie college performance to student aid. The president’s plan would rate colleges based on access, affordability and “student outcomes,” allocating aid accordingly. Such a system would be preferable to aid based only on graduate income. However, any system of fund allocation based on graduates’ future performance must be careful to foster all kinds of learning and prevent discrimination of any academic programs.
Making a megalopolis
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n original — though not necessarily innovative — idea is gaining traction in light of Detroit’s current financial crisis involving a municipal merger of Detroit into some combination of the surrounding tri-county area of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. Edward McClelland’s article on Salon and Jack Lessenberry’s Metro Times equivalent are ALEXANDER two recent examples of arguments favoring the HERMANN creation of a new DetroitWayne-Macomb-Oakland mega city-county. What the megalopolis would actually look like is open to wild speculation, but consolidation has immense potential for healing Detroit. The merger would provide an immediate tax-base expansion for the hypothetical political entity and stem the population decline that has been long seen to be one of Detroit’s biggest compounding problems. Adding to the appeal, similar municipal expansion-mergers have been proven to work in major metropolitan areas across the country — Nashville, Indianapolis and Miami being the most frequently cited examples. There are several problems, however, with this idyllic proposal, not least of which is its complete impracticality given the region’s political and social context. Detroit is certainly not Miami, Indianapolis or Nashville. Many residents in the tri-county area already dread paying off Detroit’s massive debt and unfunded liabilities of nearly $20 billion. Furthermore, to a greater degree in Metro Detroit than anywhere else in the nation, racial tensions have torn the area apart for decades. Metro Detroit arguably remains the most segregated region of the United States. In a frequently mentioned 2011 study by John Logan of Brown University and Brian Sults of Florida State University, Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn is ranked the most segregated metro area in a sample of 50 similar areas. This isn’t to mention that Detroit and Wayne County’s historical records of governmental incompetence and corruption won’t be reformed by simply conjoining the two and wiping the slate clean. Let me be clear here: I don’t mean to argue that the city of Detroit — and the region as a whole — wouldn’t benefit from the proposed mergers. At this point, however, we simply aren’t ready for it.
Small gains in regional cooperation over the last several years — such as the Detroit Institute of Arts millage and the long-overdue creation of the regional transit authority — don’t imply that city leadership, county officials and their constituencies are ready to get hitched overnight. Instead, continued incremental improvements in regional cooperation represent a more compelling and realistic approach to solving the larger, more immediate problems we face in the area, especially if these improvements lead to internal political reform and a reduction in racial animosity. Only then does a Detroitcounty merger seem feasible. Wayne County has already engaged in some expanded regional cooperation. Administrative, policing and other duties across the 43 municipalities that make up the county are combined, thus sharing the associated tax burden and easing the pain of the more distressed communities. Municipalities immediately surrounding Detroit can do their part, as well. Many cities bordering Detroit have their own financial difficulties. But those with resources to spare — Grosse Pointe, Dearborn and Livonia immediately come to mind — can help stabilize the Detroit neighborhoods along their borders by providing an increased police presence in those areas. Program goals don’t have to be entirely altruistic. Creating an expanded “buffer zone” into Detroit might raise property values, attract residents and reduce criminal activity. The Jefferson-Cadieux area in Detroit is a perfect place to create this “buffer zone.” West of Cadieux you’ll find housing vacancies, rampant blight and other devastating issues most commonly associated with the city’s neighborhoods. But within a short distance to the east, you’ll find the beginning of Lake Shore Drive and one of the most opulent communities in Grosse Pointe, and perhaps all of Michigan. Often, when travelling west to east along Jefferson, you’ll spot a Grosse Pointe police officer parked directly in front of a sign greeting drivers entering the suburb — sending a mixed message of warning, welcome and antagonism to Detroit residents. Contrasting this border of exclusion, Grosse Pointe and other surrounding suburbs could create a more permeable perimeter, expanding their police and fire protections to areas within Detroit and relieving distressed parts of the city — all while making important strides in the realm of regional cooperation.
We can make important strides in the realm of regional cooperation.
— Alexander Hermann can be reached at aherm@umich.edu.
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y teammates and I pulled up to Mitchell Field, crammed in an assortment of vans and cars. The field looked ghostly and bleached under the floodlights, filled with dozens of jittery figures darting around, KATIE echoing “mine” STEEN and “push up!” I approached the referees — two tall, skinny guys wearing black — confirmed I was captain of the co-rec B intramural soccer team “Blurples” and stood staring at an indiscriminate region of space between the two of them as they reviewed the rules. No offsides, no slide tackling, subs go in at the halfway line. But they didn’t mention the one I was most interested in. “So, there’s a rumor going around,” I said. “Is it true that goals scored by women are worth two points?” “Yeah, girl goals are worth double.” “OK — just wanted to confirm.” I could have questioned them about why that’s a rule. I could have rolled my eyes. I could have been blatantly pissed. Instead, I skipped off into the floodlights to tell all my female Blurples to play offense and to shoot as much as possible. Because, I want to win, so if girl points are double, then we might as well take advantage of it, yeah? Truth is, I wasn’t mad. I realize the rule is indisputably insulting to women, but it’s hard to complain when the rule is, after all, benefitting me. I’m reminded of a certain soccer game I played during my shrimpy, self-conscious days as a sixth-grader. I was on an all-female travel team, and we played all-female teams. Any hostility toward the other team was typically limited to the ever-so-passive-aggressive failure to shake a certain player’s hand after the game. “Bad game,” I’d mumble under my breath instead
the standard “good game,” letting moves to “The Cha-Cha Slide”), my hand hang limp next to my side the fact is that these gendered instead of offering it to the other insults and assumptions still exist. player like a true sportswoman. The supposed need to give females But for one game — just a scrim- extra points for their effort is conmage — we played an all-male team, descending and has been met with and a new form of hostility was reactions along the lines of “Are introduced. you f-ing kidding me?” from almost I was better at soccer than some of every non-Blurples person I’ve told. the boys on that team. That’s just the But I can’t say it’s terribly surpristruth. In a standard game, if an oppo- ing. The point system, in short, is a nent becomes frustrated, I might form of benevolent sexism — a type of expect some shoving, a few elbows sexism that permeates many aspects in the side. Maybe the dirty and des- of modern society. It has good intenperate jersey pull. But, “you can’t hit tions, but is motivated by underlying a girl,” so they adopted an indirect assumptions about females that are, form of frustration and hostility, y’know, sexist. No, I’m not one of jeering at one another: “You just lost those feminists who gets pissed off if the ball to a girl!” “You’re slower than a guy opens a door for me. Being nice a girl!” “You play like a girl!” (That (er, “chivalrous”) to women is lovely, last one always gets me — how can but please don’t patronize us. you play like a girl if you were just What the two-point rule basioutperformed by cally says is a girl?) Though that females — the insults were regardless of Women don’t need delivered to how good we any kind of advantage. are at soccer — male teammates, I highly doubt are inherently And it’s insulting to those male playless skilled at assume that we do. ers are writing the sport than about that game males. I, as a nine years later woman, need in a newspaper, still annoyed by that extra point for every goal I those comments. score, because heaven forbid I break Later, in seventh-grade gym a sweat trying to compete against my class, I would play soccer against male opponents. It’s the same reason boys again. This time, their hostil- there’s always the awkward pause ity was a little more direct. “Bitch,” when I get pushed over in a game — I I’d hear in between throw-ins and am female. I am fragile and weak and goal kicks. suck at soccer. Here, have an extra When a boy plays poorly, he’s just point, sweetheart. “playing like a girl.” Playing poorly Anyway, it’s a stupid rule to be is the assumed default for a female sure, but my fellow female Blurples athlete. If that female athlete out- took advantage of the extra points performs a male, she’s a bitch. We just like I did — and why shouldn’t can’t win. we? There are much more blatant I realize that the whole “bitch” and offensive forms of sexism out incident occurred back in middle there, which can make it easy to let school, when nights were spent stuff like this slide — after all, it’s harassing Smarterchild on AIM and an advantage! almost everything was fair game for But I — and the rest of the female a “that’s what she said” joke. They members of my team — don’t need were stupid, obnoxious years. it. And it’s insulting to assume that But though we’ve grown up and we do. have since forgotten the moves to “The Cha-Cha Slide” (who am I — Katie Steen can be reached kidding — I will never forget the at katheliz@umich.edu.
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Our bodies, our donations
f we are anything, we are our bodies. From infancy to infirmity, our bodies are the bounds of our inner worlds and the probes we use to experience all others. They are our only means and mediums BARRY of experience BELMONT and expression. If we don’t hear it, feel it, taste it, smell it, see it or sense it, there is very little we can do to contemplate, understand or convey our existence. Our bodies are ourselves. On Wednesday night, the University of Michigan’s Department of Medical Education held a memorial service for the friends and families of its anatomical donors. These donors are individuals who decided to give their bodies over to the University after their death for use in medical education, scientific research and technological development. Those in attendance heard stories of gratitude from medical students, doctors and engineers who have all directly benefitted from these donations. It was an emotional night, with the heart pangs of sorrow and the full body warmth of thankfulness palpably clear for all in attendance. Anatomical donations have come a long throughout the history of medical education: from an era when the thought of human dissection was inconceivable (and anatomy was learned strictly through centuries-old texts) to the reign of body snatchers (where admission to medical was conditional on an applicant having an anatomical specimen) through to the present day where a single body may be
used to educate a thousand students throughout the course of a semester. As a bit of historical trivia, there was a time when medical schools were so desperate for anatomical specimens that they would pay top dollar for just about anything, no questions asked. University of Michigan Medical School alumnus Herbert Webster Mudgett — better known by the moniker H. H. Holmes — seized upon this to construct a huge mansion during the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago for the sole purpose of killing people, dissecting their bodies and then selling their skeletons. In so doing, he became America’s first serial killer. Mudgett’s/ Holmes’s picture can still be viewed on the second floor connector of the University of Michigan hospital between the Cancer Center and the Main Hospital. Class of 1884. Number 38. Today the procedures for body donation, procurement and treatment are all covered in the United States under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, a set of laws designed to curb human trafficking, eliminate the black market sale of organs and ensure that the dignity, respect and privacy due to such donors are held in the highest esteem. There is no dispute that such donations are hugely beneficial to nearly everybody involved. There are statistics out there that show students taught anatomy with access to real anatomical specimens vastly outperform those without such exposure; there are lots of studies that show how necessary it is for doctors-in-training to work with real anatomical donors before
treating patients; and it is undeniably true that much of the progress made in medical device design and manufacture is due in large part to anatomical donations made across the world. Arguably the only people who do not benefit from anatomical donations are the donors themselves. They are helping medical students, they are helping doctors, they are helping future patients and all at a time when these students, doctors and patients cannot help them. So why do they do it? It was the individual, unspoken answers of the donors that were commemorated yesterday. For a brief moment, students and doctors, friends and family, paused to reflect on the genuine altruism of such people. Charitable in life and in death, they are truly some of the best this world has to offer – they are the best of us. What was commemorated were the people helping other people for no other reasons than that they could and that they thought it was the right thing to do. We shall be forever in the debt of such individuals, only hoping to pay forward what we can with better science and medicine, with better education and technology, with a greater appreciation for the kindness of others and a generosity that aspires to the heights attained by those willing to give even beyond the mortal world to help this one. What was commemorated, what was celebrated, was the very definition of our humanity.
What was commemorated was the very definition of our humanity.
— Barry Belmont can be reached at belmont@umich.edu.
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ACCESSING GERSHWIN
MT&D spurs new partnership ‘U’ opens the Gershwin Initiative to increase access By MAX RADWIN Daily Fine Arts Editor
“Love is Here to Stay” — and so is the rest of George and Ira Gershwin’s musical legacy. The University now has access to the papers, compositional drafts and original scores of famous Broadway and Hollywood musical composers George and Ira Gershwin, thanks to a new partnership between their estates and the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Access to those materials will assist future musicians — student and faculty alike — trying to work with the scores of George Gershwin and the accompanying lyrics of his brother, Ira. “For the first time, musicians are going to get the musical scores in a performable way that reflects, as close as we can understand, the vision of the composer and the lyricist,” said Mark Clague, associate professor of musicology and the director of research at MT&D. “Today, if you wanted to do that with current materials, you’d have to spend hours and hours
marking the scores, cleaning it up, wasting rehearsal time.” The Gershwin Initiative — which will result in new courses, scholarly symposia and future student performances of the brothers’ music — will create the first-ever critical edition of their entire collection of work. “We have critical editions of the works of Shakespeare and we have the music of Beethoven,” Clague said. “But this will be the first time ever the music of George and Ira Gershwin is given this kind of rigorous scholarly treatment that all the great music of the European tradition has gotten. It’s American culture on a new platform.” The critical edition will be made up of around seven series and between 35 and 45 volumes. Students and faculty will have access to the Gershwins’ compositions, with commentary and detailed analysis of scores and numbers. “To really understand what George wanted,” Clague said, “you have to go back to those little scraps of paper that he wrote on when he was putting something together.” George Gershwin, who was a notoriously fast if not erratic composer, died at age 38, before he could make a lot of those
edits to his own works. In many cases, other musical styles like jazz, which Gershwin never experienced firsthand, were posthumously injected into his music. Yet, on the whole, changes to the Gershwins’ drafts and scores will be marginal, Clague said. “It’s not like we’re going to discover a piece most likely, though of course I hope to. … There’s a couple missing measures, and there’s a couple measures that George actually tried to cut out of the piece that someone else put back in.” Clague also said there will be an electronic mirror of the Gershwin collection installed in Ann Arbor’s Library of Congress. Last Sunday MT&D put together a panel, moderated by Clague, for those excited about the Gershwin Initiative announcement. A concert featuring Broadway star Audra McDonald, hosted by the University Musical Society, continued the celebration following the panel. Concerning the potential the acquisition brings to music scholarship within the University, Clague said, “There’s going to be a fresh excitement around this music in the concert hall and on stage that audiences are really going to respond to.”
TV REVIEW
Racist ‘Dads’ without humor By ALEC STERN Daily Arts Writer
In Jan., FOX execs gave an untitled sitcom, from the writers of “Ted,” a direct-to-series commitment based on the D supposed strength of the pilot script and Dads the creative Pilot team attached, which included Tuesdays “Family Guy” at 8 p.m. creator Seth FOX MacFarlane. It’s a rare move for a network to make; typically it’ll wait until a pilot has filmed until it makes the decision to pick up the series. This week, the previously untitled series, now “Dads,” finally aired, causing critics and audiences alike to let out a resounding, “What were they thinking?!” “Dads” is a sitcom that caters to the lowest common denominator and succeeds in not evoking so much as a grin throughout the entirety of the pilot episode. While it’s mindlessly offensive and unbelievably racist, “Dads” ’s biggest crime is that it’s a comedy that just isn’t funny. “Dads” focuses on two successful video game designers, Seth Green (“Austin Powers”) and Giovanni Ribisi (“Ted”), whose lives are turned upsidedown when their dads, played by Peter Riegert (“The Mask”) and Martin Mull (“Arrested Development”) move in with them. The cast is rounded out by Brenda Song (“The Social Network”), who is an employee at the video game company, and Vanessa Lachey (“Wipeout”), the wife to Ribisi’s Warner.
When will Seth MacFarlane just stop? Despite what seems like a solid team, both behind and in front of the camera, almost nothing about this comedy works. At every turn, “Dads” is racist, homophobic, sexist, anti-Semitic … the list goes on and on. While offensive comedy might be endearing when
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it comes from the mouth of an animated baby or a teddy bear, it doesn’t really have the same effect when it comes from four privileged white men. One of the biggest issues the public already has with “Dads” is the scene in which Song’s character is forced to wear a “sexy, Asian schoolgirl outfit” in order to land a deal with Chinese investors. Even before the show’s premiere, there were groups insisting FOX re-shoot the pilot in order to remove this from the episode. However, removing one racist plot point among a sea of racism wouldn’t have done any good. In just 22 minutes, “Dads” could potentially offend every race and ethnicity there is. This is the kind of show in which characters hold grudges over “Indian food burps,” create video games called, “Kill Hitler” (in which you can stab Hitler with a menorah) and exploit the only gay character like he’s an animal in a zoo. “Where’s your gay guy? Show me your gay guy!” Crawford says. After one of the employees in the background raises his hand, he quickly shouts back at him, “You go, girl!” It’s a shame that this was the show chosen to launch FOX’s revamped Tuesday comedy block. It’s even more of a shame that “Dads” serves as the leadin to “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” which is undoubtedly one of
the best comedy pilots in years. Whereas “Dads” buys into every stereotype in the book, Andy Samberg’s new comedy actively works to subvert them. “Nine-Nine” is set in a world where there are just as many female detectives as there are male, where minorities aren’t a minority in the workplace and where police captains can be of any sexual orientation. In the following hour, “New Girl” continues to be one of the funniest and sweetest comedies on television, while Mindy Kaling is one of the few Indian-American women to ever have a starring role in a network series. Kaling not only stars in “The Mindy Project” … she runs the whole damn thing. But infuriatingly, 90 minutes earlier, we’re still supposed to be laughing when Crawford confuses his son’s Spanish wife for the maid. Perhaps even more offensive than the blatant offensiveness is the laziness with which “Dads” seems to have been made. From the sets, to the pacing, to the unbearable laugh track, this series marks a new low for broadcast sitcoms. FOX has been so creatively successful in the comedy department recently that the existence of this series is all the more puzzling. Let’s just chalk this one up to the law of averages and try and pretend it never happened.
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TV NOTEBOOK
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“You better work, bitch.”
The downspiraling of Disney child stars By LENA FINKEL Daily Arts Writer
Oh my goodness, hold the phone! Zac Efron went to rehab for — what’s that now? — cocaine! How could you do this to me, Troy Bolton? OK, maybe I’m being overly dramatic. And honestly, I probably shouldn’t be all that surprised. He is a former Disney Channel star after all. I guess we should add him to the list of Disney kids gone wrong, along with Miley, Demi (though she has appeared to have fully recovered), Lindsay and countless others. The Disney kids seem to be the first to go sour and it has become such a common phenomenon that barely anyone questions it anymore. Buzzfeed even came up with a list of 16 Disney Channel child stars who have been arrested — and I can only imagine there are more out there. Even when they’re not pictured next to a big bong or going to rehab, they still seem to go out of their way to destroy their innocent reputations. Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens may have been able to keep their cools, but that didn’t stop them from taking on risqué characters in “Spring Breakers.” They’re like children who grew up with ultrastrict parents only to go absolutely crazy when they get to college. I’m talking full-on MIPs, tats, the
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whole nine yards. But who can blame them? Not only has Disney created these picturesque characters for them to play on TV (I mean, what was the biggest problem that Lizzie McGuire ever had? Trying to get up the nerve to talk to Ethan Craft?), but they also expected them to act that way in person. I can only imagine how many shows Miley Cyrus had to perform where she was forced to wear cutesie outfits and act all bubbly. What was the first thing she said after she shaved her head? Oh yeah, she tweeted, “Never felt more me in my whole life.” Wow. How depressing was it that she had to wait 19 years to feel that way?
Controlling how stars act has obviously been going well. As evil as Disney comes off in this story, I have to admit that it’s not completely its fault. It might be the one firing up the assembly line, but we’re the ones devouring every bite. As an audience, we’ve come to expect one-dimensional young adult
TV characters whose biggest fault is being too adorable. The rest of television has adapted to include flawed characters — Ted Mosby from “How I Met Your Mother,” Gregory House from “House, M.D.,” Alicia Florrick from “The Good Wife” (is she just the coldest main character or what?) — but younger characters always seem to fit the same mold. And weirdly enough, we seem to like it that way. I have friends in college who are still watching “Wizards of Waverly Place.” It doesn’t have to be this way though. We can have wellbehaved child stars — good role models — without putting them through the cookie cutter. We can let them grow up to be quirky or weird or sweet or however they want to be without forcing them into a box. Take Dylan and Cole Sprouse (“Sweet Life of Zack & Cody”), for example. Though Disney stars for five years, they avoided the “triple threat” train (no music album for them, thank goodness!) and now attend New York University. They’ve miraculously emerged unscathed and could even go on to lead normal lives. With more child actors coming through the machine every minute (I believe Bella Thorne and Zendaya are next on the list), we can only hope that Disney will rethink its recipe.
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TV REVIEW
Andy Samberg breaks out of ‘SNL’
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Topical, quirky humor in ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ By ALEC STERN Daily Arts Writer
Over the past decade, “Saturday Night Live” alums have gone on to star in some of the best comedies on television. A From Tina Fey and her bril- Brooklyn liant sitcom, Nine-Nine “30 Rock,” to Amy Poehler Pilot of “Parks and Tuesdays at Recreation” and even 8:30 p.m. Molly ShanFOX non, whose work on HBO’s underappreciated “Enlightened” earned her an Emmy nomination, “SNL” ’s performers have consistently transitioned into successful sitcom careers. Hoping he can continue the trend, Andy Samberg stars in the new sitcom, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” which arrived on FOX this week. There must be something in the water in the “SNL” offices because Samberg most definitely upholds the reputation of his peers. “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” is fresh, funny and surprisingly heavy on social commentary, all of which make it one of the mustwatch comedies of the fall. “Nine-Nine” follows Detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg, “That’s My Boy”) and the entire Nine-Nine unit of police officers. Peralta is great at his job, though his professionalism leaves a lot to be desired. When a new captain (Andre Braugher, “Men of a Certain Age”) joins the precinct, their polar-opposite personalities clash — jokes ensue. In addition to Samberg being on his A-game, the supporting cast is superb, which is the mark of any truly great workplace comedy. “The Office” was so successful not only because
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Steve Carell, John Krasinski and Rainn Wilson were electric in their lead roles, but because any character could be counted on for laughs. From Erin, to Phyllis, to Creed, these characters didn’t just round out the cast — they made “The Office” what it was. Much like the iconic NBC sitcom, “Nine-Nine” ’s backing characters, including Terry Crews (“White Chicks”), Melissa Fumero (“One Life to Live”) and Joe Lo Truglio (“Role Models”), are terrific. “Nine-Nine” is also quick to establish its tone, finding its narrative footing very quickly. The style is fully realized, which is one of the distinguishing characteristics of a great television pilot. The vibe, characters, story and visuals all work seamlessly together, much like the first half hour of fellow FOX sitcom “Arrested Development.” While “Nine-Nine” still has a ways to go before reaching the soaring heights of the cult classic, there is so much potential that one can only hope it will eventually make a similar impact. Toward the end of the premiere episode, “Nine-Nine” takes an unexpected turn. Braugher’s straight-laced, hyper-masculine
captain reveals that the reason it took so long for him to reach this level in his career is because he is gay. When he makes his announcement, it doesn’t feel exploitive or gratuitous. It’s not so the writers can make jokes at his expense. It’s forward-thinking, smart and above all proves that there is more going on than just sight gags and physical comedy. It also helps that Braugher continues to be one of TV’s most reliable actors. Last year, his short-lived ABC drama, “Last Resort,” was regarded as one of the best pilots of the year. It’s a title that Braugher might once again claim, as “Brooklyn NineNine” is a very strong entry. Hopefully, “Nine-Nine” will be given ample time to further explore its characters, all of which are likeable and hilarious. It’s not going to help that the show’s lead-in is the abysmal and offensive “Dads,” but if viewers watch the two in succession, it’ll be even easier to see just how current and clever “Nine-Nine” is. Creators Mike Schur and Dan Goor (two of the masterminds behind “Parks and Recreation”) have created a workplace with incredible potential and so far, we’re off to a fantastic start.
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from one stronghold to the next like nomads while the Water Tribes embrace lifestyles anchored around a philosophy of harmony with nature. These divides, apparent dichotomies in culture and thought, are part of the reason the original “Avatar: The Last Airbender” worked so well. The contrasts were clearly evident and engrossing as we traversed the world with Aang on a single, unifying mission. Aang and his buddies, like ourselves, were new arrivals to this massive, continent-hopping stage and so their reactions, tinged with childish wonder, felt genuine and connectable. But what set the show apart were its darker themes. In the form of Fire Lord Ozai and Sozin’s Comet, there was an ever-present, impending notion of urgency hanging thick in the air. This urgency is what “The Legend of Korra” struggled to build in season one and still hasn’t found in the premiere of “Book Two.”
It may be a children’s show, but it knows how to get real. The premiere consists of the first two episodes, tied together into a 40-something-minute block where we find Korra (Janet Varney, “Burning Love”) continuing to understand her responsibilities as an Avatar. Tenzin (J. K. Simmons, “Jobs”) is still her by-the-book teacher, and she’s still the same rage-againstthe-machine Korra we’ve grown to know and love, but one of the show’s strengths has always been the changing dynamic its writers are able to create between every single minor character. The premiere is filled with quotable lines, coming usually from the mouths of Bolin (P. J. Byrne, “The Game”) or his newfound love-interest Eska (Aubrey Plaza, “Parks and Recreation”) (“Why are you initiating physical contact with another woman?” Never change, April), and the humor cleanly seals any gaps of just waiting around, of which there are plenty. Around every corner, there’s an
ever-present yearning to move on — to look for the next phase in life. That challenge presents itself in the form of unhappy water spirits wreaking havoc on the Southern Water Tribe’s ships and villages. The source of the problem, as explained by Korra’s uncle and enigmatic leader of the Northern Water Tribe, Unalaq (Adrian LaTourelle, “Boston Legal”), is the South’s perceived disrespect for tradition. The decay in the sister tribe’s regard for the supernatural has set the world out of balance. So in order to teach Korra how to better embrace her role as the bridge between the spirit and human worlds, Unalaq offers to become her new mentor. It’s all very teenage-angsty. The need to grow up, not only as an Avatar, but as a woman, is a theme that has kept this show intriguing. In this episode, we get plenty of shots of Korra tussling with herself to come to the right decision, and when she finally decides, it appears in the form of that classic “I’m-going-to-enterthe-Avatar-State-and-fuck-shitup” format. Like any other time people go into the Avatar State, the moment is oddly cathartic even if it may be slightly lazy story-telling, yet what keeps it interesting, especially in the context of “Korra,” is the knowledge that our new Avatar has a penchant for attacking problems head-on, without thinking things through. It’s always been her greatest failing, one that threatens to dilute the relevance of what gives her her greatest strength. And here’s where this episode excels. It sets up the larger conflict that will likely guide the rest of the season, if not the rest of the series: Will Korra be able to confront the realization that, even at her physical strongest, she can be manipulated? As is evident in the episode’s excellent last scene, this season seeks to explore darker themes of naivety and forceful government in a way that was sadly overlooked in the last few episodes. Rather than grand, more triedand-true ideals of “taking on the world,” Korra’s facing the much more relevant challenge of growing as a person, something the show brilliantly underscores in meaningful connections back to Aang. And even if this premiere might not have been the perfect way to springboard us into the discussion, I’m sure as hell excited for what’s to come.
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Barnes Arico’s new workout By DANIEL FELDMAN Daily Sports Writer
Wearing a drenched purple workout tee, Michigan women’s basketball coach Kim Barnes Arico walked into her office Tuesday sweating profusely. She had just completed her 142nd straight day of working out for at least 30 minutes. The streak began after last season ended when Barnes Arico and her staff had a talk about how important physical fitness, health and setting an example for the players are. “We always want to be in great shape,” Barnes Arico said. “We always want to eat right. We always want to take care of ourselves. I think it’s part of our responsibility as coaches and as staff to set the example.” To emphasize the point, Barnes Arico and company
devised a competition set with rules and regulations. “It has to be 30 minutes of cardio,” Barnes Arico said. “But if you decide to walk, because sometimes you need to vary it up, you have to double the time for a walk. And if you really want to change, you can play tennis or basketball or volleyball, which we’ve done before too, but that has to be about an hour in duration.” The competition began at the beginning of May with all women’s basketball staff members involved. The contest’s first victim was the youngest member of the staff, assistant coach Joy McCorvey. Following her, others started dropping out, including assistant coach Chester Nichols. Now almost five months later, just two remain — Barnes Arico and women’s basketball
director of operations, Amy Mulligan. While Barnes Arico, who has run the New York City Marathon, was seen as a favorite to go the longest, Mulligan competed somewhat as of a dark-horse candidate to last this long. “(She) thought 365 days was a good number to try to achieve,” Barnes Arico explained of Mulligan, who “didn’t work out prior to this.” “I said ‘let’s start with three.’ Then maybe six. And then maybe nine.” Having to put in 20-hour days during the summer with teen camps and recruiting visits in the summer, Barnes Arico faced a dilemma: when would she have time to work out? “You really have to make a commitment to being up at five in the morning or staying up super late to get it in,” Barnes Arico said. “It’s difficult in our
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Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico is one of two staff members to work out for 30 minutes a day for 142 straight days.
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Men’s tennis set for fall season By MATTHEW KIPNIS For the Daily
The Michigan men’s tennis team will find out where it stands against other top tennis programs in the nation this weekend as it begin its 2013-14 campaign. The Wolverines will send three players to the UVa Ranked+1 Invitational this weekend in Charlottesville, Va. Juniors Alex Petrone, Justin Rossi and Michael Zhu will all compete in the singles draw while Petrone and Zhu will also play in the doubles bracket. “This tournament is the beginning of our fall matches, and it really helps us know what we need to work on and what we need to do to compete against other top programs in the nation,” said Michigan coach Bruce Berque. Last year, the 22nd-ranked Wolverines ended the season with a disappointing upset in the first round of the NCAA tournament, losing 4-2 to No. 42 Virginia Tech. The team, however, returns every player but one from last year’s team, star Evan King, that advanced to the NCAA Tournament and finished tied for second in the Big Ten, so they have high aspirations for this season. Rossi hopes his recent success, finishing last season with a perfect 4-0 record in Big Ten action and winning the ITA Summer Circuit event in July by upsetting top-seeded Aaron Pfister of Michigan State, can carry over
into this season. Zhu is looking forward to the upcoming opportunity and getting the season started. Zhu and Petrone posted a 14-11 record as doubles partners last year. In the year’s first national singles poll, Petrone ranked 118th in the country, joining Junior Vlad Stefen, who is ranked 82nd. “Last year, I played in a tournament similar to this and won a couple matches so hopefully I can have a similar outcome,” Zhu said. “We know each others strengths and weakness. We have been playing together for two years now so we really have a good understanding on how we play.” In order to prepare for the tournament, Berque has been stressing conditioning so that the team is physically prepared for its matches. Berque relishes the opportunity for his players to compete in Charlottesville this weekend and get some matches under their belt. “This tournament is really important for our players to build some confidence,” Berque said. “Confidence is a big part of an individual sport like tennis. Hopefully we can execute and compete well against these top opponents. We will pay attention and evaluate what needs to be worked on based on their play.” It is the first match of the year for the Wolverines so they should be able to get a good gauge on where they stand against strong competition.
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profession to be able to do it. But Amy and I have managed.” Finding time to work out hasn’t been the only issue that Barnes Arico has had to deal with during the streak. A couple of times, the issue has been dealing with inclement weather or not having access to a workout room. As a result, Barnes Arico had to use creativity to get a workout in. One such instance was the day the team flew home after spending 10 days in Europe. “We left at 6:30 in the morning and we were out running the streets of Italy,” Barnes Arico said. “We did stairs, we did push-ups, and we did situps.” Though cardio has comprised the bulk of the staff’s workouts, especially for Barnes Arico, there are some loopholes that have allowed for Mulligan to keep her streak going, like golf. “I have yet to do that,” a smiling Barnes Arico said. “But that’s what Amy seems to do on Sundays, I don’t have four open hours in my day.” That sentiment was especially true on Wednesday with Barnes Arico scheduled to fly out of Ann Arbor at 7:30 a.m. for a recruiting trip. Knowing what was planned for the day – recruiting non-stop until her 11p.m. flight that night – Barnes Arico said she’d “probably be up (Wednesday) morning at four” to work out before arriving at the airport at 6:30 a.m. While a winner will eventually come out from the competition, it’s hard to tell who that person will be, especially with Mulligan’s latest epiphany. “(Amy) told me the other day, it’s no longer a competition — it’s a lifestyle,” Barnes Arico said. “So that’s kind of what I was trying to achieve and now I feel I can never fall off because I have to keep Amy going.”
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The Athletic Department reportedlypaid for “Go Blue” to be written in Lansing.
‘M’ admits it paid for ‘Go Blue’ writing By GREG GARNO Daily Sports Writer
The Athletic Department took trolling to a whole new level. Thursday, the department admitted it paid for skywritten messages across southeast Michigan that appeared on Friday and Saturday, including one that read “Go Blue” over Spartan Stadium, in East Lansing prior to Michigan State’s game against Youngstown State. MLive originally reported the news Thursday. Michigan spokesperson Dave Ablauf said the company hired to write messages, OregonAero SkyDancer out of Tucson, Ariz., was not asked to target specific areas. “We hired the skywriters to canvas southeast Michigan with slogans and numbers prior to our game last Saturday,” Ablauf said to MLive. “That’s all we did. We didn’t target locations.” Chief Marketing Officer Hunter Lochmann said on Twitter that the athletic department paid for 55 messages at about
$100 a piece. Lochmann also said this is the fourth time Oregon Aero SkyDancer has been hired for its services. One pilot for Oregon Aero SkyDancer, Suzanne AsburyOliver, contradicted Ablauf’s statement that the Athletic Department did not set target locations, saying she was asked to hit Lansing. “Just Lansing — they didn’t say East Lansing,” she said to MLive. “I think that was midmorning on Saturday. They wanted our last writing to be right before kickoff for their game, which was noon (in Ann Arbor). So I think we were 10 o’clock or something over there.” Ablauf said that messages ranged from “Go Blue” and “Hail” to a Block ‘M’ and 906, for Michigan’s number of wins. Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis called the act “an irritant” Wednesday, but changed his tone on Thursday. “There’s no apology necessary,” Hollis said to Mlive. “This is another whimsical episode in a great rivalry.”
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a coach, you have to make sure you keep them aggressive, you can’t scare them into playing cautiously.” One way or the other, Gardner keeping the ball out of the hands of Husky defenders is going to have a massive impact on this game.
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Redshirt freshman Jehu Chesson not only caught his first pass but also his first touchdown last weekend against Akron.
What to watch for: UConn By EVERETT COOK Daily Sports Editor
1. Does Al Borges change the interior offensive line? All season long, offensive coordinator Al Borges has said that the starters for the offensive line are penciled in. To be fair, the tackle positions are written in pen and then stenciled over in Sharpie — fifth-year seniors Taylor Lewan and Michael Schofield aren’t going anywhere. The three interior linemen, though, could be on the move. Borges isn’t pleased with the production of those three spots, particularly in how the group is run blocking. If there was any week for a switch, it would be the one before a bye week. The trio of linemen — redshirt sophomores Graham Glasgow and Jack Miller and redshirt freshman Kyle Kalis — had all never started a game at the collegiate level before this season. They’ve shown flashes of cohesion and talent, like late drives against Akron and Notre Dame that allowed fifth-year senior running back Fitzgerald Toussaint to gash the run defense, but haven’t been consistent enough to warrant the
same Sharpie treatment. On Wednesday, Michigan coach Brady Hoke listed three players — redshirt sophomore Chris Bryant and redshirt freshmen Ben Braden and Erik Magnuson — who could potentially see a bigger role Saturday. Bryant, in particular, drew a big response. “Chris Bryant’s a guy that we’ve been excited about,” Hoke said. “He’s been banged up a year ago. Had a little bit early in fall camp and probably right in the middle. He got a little banged up again, but he’s back and playing awfully hard.” If a change is going to come, it will be now or during the bye week before Big Ten play starts. Saturday will be a good road test for this young interior, but it might be the last chance they get to prove to Borges they can be a solid group in between the stud tackles. “We’re going to continue to force people to compete at the position,” Borges said. “It’s that simple. But to say we’re going to start firing guys left and right, no. We knew if we go through this there’s going to be some growing pains, and there has been in the first three games.”
2. Does Gardner make another costly error late in the game? In each of the last two contests, redshirt junior quarterback Devin Gardner has made a costly mistake late in the game, both of which allowed the opponent to get back in the game. Without those turnovers, Michigan likely wouldn’t have had to sweat out close finishes (then again, without Gardner, the Wolverines likely wouldn’t have even been there in the first place). Does this happen again Saturday, in Michigan’s first road contest of the year? All week, the talk from the coaching staff has been about Gardner making the right decisions while also maintaining the aggression and playmaking ability that make him such a dangerous weapon. “Those are the plays you have to say, ‘Well, when do I cut my losses?’ ” Borges said. “You heard me say it with Denard all the time. When do you do it? There’s a fine line between being a playmaker and making a bad decision. Sometimes, the playmakers step over that line and sometimes the playmakers supposedly step over that line and make a play. So, as
3. How do the young players respond in their first road contest? Early this week, UConn announced that the game Saturday had already sold out, and that it will be the largest crowd in the history of Rentschler Field. Granted, there will be an enormous Michigan contingent there, but it will still be a different, intimidating atmosphere for freshmen or younger players who have never played anywhere but the Big House. Why have the Wolverines struggled so much on the road the last couple years? According to Hoke, it’s “turnovers, turnovers, turnovers,” but that he has “no idea” why they are happening more on the road than at home. On Saturday, look to see if those freshman nerves led to the turnovers Hoke so desperately wants to avoid. 4. Do wide receivers not named Gallon get involved? Freshman tight Jake Butt — who looked more like a wide receiver than a tight end in spring camp — is tied for third on this team in receptions. But does that say more about his performance or the performances of the other veteran wide receivers that were supposed to make an impact this year? Besides for fifth-year senior Jeremy Gallon, no other wide out has done much to establish themselves. Senior Jeremy Jackson has three catches. Fifth-year seniors Drew Dileo and Joe Reynolds have five and three catches, respectively. It’s not just the veterans — redshirt freshman Jehu Chesson caught his first career pass last week. Against Notre Dame, Gallon could do it all by himself, but it won’t be like that every game. Who else will step up?
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Can Wolverines limit turnovers? By MATT SLOVIN Managing Editor
One week after the Michigan football team struggled to beat Akron, likely the worst school on the schedule, Saturday’s opponent, Connecticut, presents its own set of challenges. The Huskies (0-2) are in worse shape than the 2010 team that lost 30-10 to Michigan at the Big House, but eventually reached the Fiesta Bowl. Michigan fans might best remember the last meeting with Connecticut as then-quarterback Denard Robinson’s coming-out party. The Huskies have already lost at home to Towson and Maryland, but because this will be the Wolverines’ first road game, Michigan coach Brady Hoke still believes Connecticut is dangerous. He even joked that, because of the Wolverines’ youth, he’ll need to bring nannies along for the trip. “Every experience will be different,” Hoke said. “Believe me, I’ve thought about this a lot.” Coming off a season in which Michigan went 2-5 in neutralsite or away games, however, Hoke’s main concern going on the road is limiting turnovers. Wednesday, he had no answer as to why the Wolverines seem to give the ball away much more frequently in away games. But perhaps most alarming is that the turnovers have been popping up at home to start the season as well. Against Akron, a defense that had previously allowed scoring totals of 38 and 33 to Central Florida and FCS school James Madison respectively, redshirt junior quarterback Devin Gardner gave it away four times. Gardner said Wednesday that the week has felt like it might never end. He is itching to get a
chance to redeem himself Saturday, when he could prove that he is more like the quarterback that torched Notre Dame two weeks ago than the one that allowed the Zips the chance to climb back into the game last week. “The whole world’s going to be able to watch us redeem ourselves from last week,” Gardner said. Offensive coordinator Al Borges said he thought Gardner kept his composure for the most part in the Akron game, and that their in-game conversations were centered around correcting the errors Gardner had made. Hoke, on the other hand, said someone as competitive as Gardner can be tempted to try and do too much on the next opportunity to try and compensate for earlier mistakes. “The big thing about a game like that is, because you’re playing a team against whom you’re heavily favored, there’s a natural tendency for everyone to think that every time you get the ball you should score,” Borges said. Against Connecticut and its base 4-3 defense, Michigan might finally be able to find room to run the ball that hasn’t been there the past two weeks. Last week, Maryland ran right through the Huskies defense for 224 yards off 43 attempts — an average of 5.2 yards per carry. The outside is where the Terrapins did most of their damage, and the Wolverines will likely need to stretch the field too because Connecticut’s strength is up the middle. If they can, fifth-year senior running back Fitzgerald Toussaint should have one of his biggest games of the season, and Michigan will right the ship that looked well off course against Akron.
Breakdown: ‘M’ should bounce back vs. UConn By ZACH HELFAND Daily Sports Editor
Only in college football can a win feel so empty. The Michigan football team was expected to blow out lowly Akron. Instead, the Zips came within yards of one of the biggest upsets in Michigan history. The week leading up to the Wolverines’ trip to Connecticut has felt different than last week, though. Players spoke of embarrassment and redemption. They said this week has been more intense. The team feels like it has something to prove. What’s waiting at the end of the long week is a UConn team just marginally better than Akron. This is another game Michigan should dominate. Either way, the Wolverines will learn a lot about themselves. Was the Akron game an aberration? Or maybe Notre Dame just wasn’t as good as it seemed. To convince the skeptics, they must not only win this week but win big. If they do, here’s how: Michigan pass offense vs. Connecticut pass defense This matchup, as will be the case the entire year, depends on the play of redshirt junior quarterback Devin Gardner. If he protects the ball, Michigan will have no problem passing over the Huskies’ secondary. That has been an issue for him this year, though. So far, he has thrown six interceptions in three games and added a fumble last week against Akron. The good news for Michigan is UConn’s fearsome 2012 defense has been defanged in 2013. That unit, which ranked ninth in the nation in yards allowed, returns less than half of its starters. Last year, defensive coordinator Don Brown was masterful at creating pressure. He left for Boston College and took the pass rush with him. This year? The Huskies have zero sacks
through two games. That’s somehow even worse than Michigan’s pass rush. UConn’s cornerbacks are solid but unspectacular. Byron Jones is a converted safety. Obi Melifonwu is young — he’s just a redshirt freshman, filling in for an injured starter. Gardner should be able to target his side of the field. Gardner usually isn’t bothered by pressure, but he was against Akron. That may have just been a one-game abnormality. If he doesn’t rebound against this team, then it’s time to worry. Players to Watch: CB Obi Melifonwu Edge: Michigan Michigan rush offense vs. Connecticut rush defense In the ground game, a highly moveable object meets a so-far stoppable force. Through two games, UConn’s rush defense has been abysmal. The Huskies have allowed an average of 212.50 yards per game, good for 104th in the FBS. That figure looks even worse when considering the opponents: Towson — an FCS team — and lowly Maryland. UConn lost both games by double digits. In the middle, the Huskies are actually rather stout. Middle linebacker Yawin Smallwood is the defense’s best player and a professional prospect. He already has 30 tackles in three games. Defensive tackles Julian Campenni and Shamar Stephen both started games in 2012, and they weigh a combined 611 pounds. Michigan’s young interior line has struggled so far in the season, which could give it trouble. So much so that Michigan coach Brady Hoke and offensive coordinator Al Borges both left open the possibility of shaking up the starters. The Wolverines should find room to the outside. But the lack
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Offensive guard Graham Glasgow and the Michigan football team’s offensive line will look to get the ground game rolling this weekend in Connecticut.
of an inside running game has hurt Michigan this year, and that’s where the battle will be again. Players to Watch: MLB Yawin Smallwood, DT Julian Campenni, DT Shamar Stephen Edge: Push Connecticut pass offense vs. Michigan pass defense UConn quarterback Chandler Whitmer is proficient at completing passes. He has a 61-percent completion rate this season. Problem is, he’s proficient at completing passes to the other team, too. Last year, Whitmer threw 16 interceptions — one off the highest totals in the country. Though he is mistake-prone, he is an able passer. On the outside, Shak Phillips is a physical receiver who has some speed and could give the Michigan secondary trouble. Akron beat Michigan on multiple wellexecuted fly routes. If Michigan doesn’t force turnovers, UConn
could do the same. Whitmer can absorb contact well, which is a good thing because the Huskies have allowed 10 sacks through two games this year, good for 116th in the country. This game could be the spark for Michigan’s nonexistent pass rush. Players to Watch: WB Chandler Whitmer, WR Shak Phillips Edge: Michigan Connecticut rush offense vs. Michigan rush defense UConn’s rush offense ranks among the worst in the FBS — a trend for a significant portion of the Huskies’ offensive and defensive units. The state of the ground game is especially dire. Through two games, UConn has rushed for a total of just 115 yards. That’s second-to-last in the nation. Lyle McCombs is the Huskies’ leading rusher and was a workhorse for the offense in 2012. He is an adequate rusher, but lacks
overwhelming size, speed or athleticism. Michigan should be able to dominate here. Players to Watch: RB Lyle McCombs Edge: Michigan Special Teams Last year, with punter Will Hagerup, Michigan was one of the better punting teams in the country. Then Hagerup was suspended for the third time and was forced to sit out the 2013 season. Michigan’s punting game has suffered. Junior punter Matt Wile has been inconsistent this year as a replacement. His average of 34.6 yards per punt is third last in the nation. Against Akron, the shanks gave the Zips good field position while the offense struggled to find its rhythm. UConn, though, isn’t much better, averaging 37.5 yards per punt. It also lacks much athleticism in the return game.
Kicker Chad Christen is experienced and has gone 3-for3 on field-goal tries this year for the Huskies. Last year he was a middling 14-for-21. Despite the punting woes, Michigan should have the edge. Players to Watch: Chad Christen Edge: Michigan Intangibles Michigan has struggled on the road, and this one should be rowdy. The people who make these types of decisions for some reason decided to make this one a primetime game. It will be the biggest game ever at Rentschler Field. That’s both in terms of opponent and capacity. UConn has added 2,300 temporary seats and expects its largest crowd ever. Edge: Connecticut FINAL SCORE: Michigan 31, Connecticut 10