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Pres. search forum focuses on Dearborn integration Presidential Search Advisory Committee finishes series of public forums By PETER SHAHIN Daily News Editor
The University’s Board of Regents and members of the Presidential Search Advisory Committee rounded out a series of public forums Friday, holding one at the University of Michigan, Dearborn campus and one for the general public in Ann Arbor. Regent Julia Darlow (D), Regent Katherine White (D) and Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, dean of the School of Information, were present for both forums, and Regent Denise Ilitch (D)
was present at the Dearborn forum. Search consultant Alison Ranney from Russell Reynolds Associates, the firm hired by the regents to assist in determining qualified and interested candidates, was also present. White, vice chair of the Board of Regents and acting spokeswoman for the regents during the search process, began each meeting by explaining the purpose of the forums: to give the Presidential Search Advisory Committee a better idea of the opportunities and challenges facing the University, as well as what qualities constituents would like to see in the next University president. The recurring theme during the Dearborn forum was increased access to the resources and attention that the Ann Arbor campus receives. Many faculty See DEARBORN, Page 5A
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A tow truck operator prepares to remove a car that was the subject of an attempted theft near Packard and Arch Streets.
Car theft ends in crash Intoxicated man attempts to steal pizza-delivery car By IAN DILLINGHAM Daily Staff Reporter
Pizza delivery has never been so dramatic. Sunday evening at about 7
p.m., a man attempted to steal the vehicle of a Cottage Inn Pizza delivery driver on the 700 block of Packard Street, just east of the State Street intersection. Just seconds after the vehicle was stolen, the suspect allegedly caused a collision, which resulted in his arrest. The suspect — who Ann Arbor Police say was under the influence of drugs — stole
the vehicle that had been left unlocked outside of an apartment complex during a delivery. After taking the vehicle, the suspect collided with an oncoming vehicle traveling east on Packard Street. That vehicle, a Jeep Wrangler, was carrying two passengers, who both left the scene uninjured. The delivery driver, Bryan, who asked to be identified by his
first name only, said the suspect “looked like a kid behind the wheel for the first time.” The suspect pulled onto Packard at a high rate of speed and drove in an erratic fashion, Bryan said. He added that the man seemed to be driving on the wrong side of the road. Ann Arbor Police Sgt. Amy Metzer confirmed the suspect See CRASH, Page 5A
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Production company, Cottage Inn at odds over contract dispute ‘Pursuit of Jappiness’ creators say pizza company owes $4,500 By K.C. WASSMAN
Divesting from fossil fuels could mean higher management costs for city By WILL GREENBERG Daily Staff Reporter
As the Ann Arbor City Council weighs the benefits and costs of a symbolic resolution to divest the city’s pension fund from fossil fuel industries, members of the council and Ann Arbor residents are speaking out against the proposal that threatens to raise management costs for pensions for city employees. Originally submitted by the city’s Energy Commission, the proposal would have the City Council recommend that the Pension Board, which oversees the city’s retirement investment accounts, divest from all fossilfuel companies in an effort to symbolically and practically See PENSION, Page 5A
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Mayan archaeologist William Saturno and professional climber Mark Synnott give advice to stucents applying for National Geographic Young Explorers Grants Friday.
NatGeo invites undergrads to apply for project grants Organization funds student research, exploration By IAN DILLINGHAM Daily Staff Reporter
For students stuck in the routine of daily lectures and homework, there may be a way
out — adventure. In an event at the Mendelssohn Theatre Friday evening, National Geographic continued its outreach campaign — now in its 14th year — to undergraduates around the nation to provide information about funding for research and exploration projects. John Francis, vice president of research, conservation and
exploration for the National Geographic Society, said the process of grant application has changed in recent years. Although undergraduates were always eligible to apply for grants through the organization, the “Young Explorers” grant — which was the focus of the event — represents a change in philosophy. See NATGEO, Page 5A
The creators of the viral video ‘Pursuit of Jappiness,’ University alums Skyler Fulton and Brett Pere, are accusing Cottage Inn Pizza, Inc. of breaking a contract — in the form of non-payment — with their video production company, 3P Presents. 3P and Cottage Inn signed a contract in February for 3P to produce three commercials for Cottage Inn for $3,000 per video, totaling $9,000. Half of the total, $4,500, was to be paid up-front with the remaining balance to be paid upon completion of the videos. There was no specified use for the videos in the contract, but Fulton, along with a letter from Cottage Inn’s lawyer stated that the videos were going to be used in advertising campaigns. The videos have been complete for several months, but 3P has yet to receive the second installment of $4,500. Both 3P and Cottage Inn have threatened
legal action through corresponding letters from lawyers, but no further legal action has been taken. Cottage Inn wants to be refunded the initial $4,500 they paid the production company. Paul Fransway, attorney for Cottage Inn, alleges in a letter to 3P that the film company breached the contract by providing a product that was of “no value” to the company and asked for the initial deposit back. The letter says the videos aren’t of value to Cottage Inn because 3P failed to obtain their approval on several production aspects, including actor approval. However, the contract provided to The Michigan Daily by Fulton doesn’t include a provision for customer content approval. Fulton said Cottage Inn approved of the concepts for the three videos, which feature a character called “Cottage Jim.” In the advertisements Cottage Jim is an elderly man who is still the ‘cool guy’ on campus despite his age. One video shows Cottage Jim teaching two students how to throw a successful party, while another shows him helping a young man get a job using Cottage Inn’s gluten-free pizza. Fulton added that Cottage Inn had opportunities to check-in on production, but never did. While See CONTRACT, Page 5A
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‘U’ offers aid to black students (September 29, 1973)
The Student Government Council’s Human Relations Board expressed approval of the University’s effort to aid black students. A resolution passed by the HRB commended the University’s cooperation with Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, a historically black college in Alabama, and the special attention given to black potential applicants to the University. The HRB continued working on a program dealing with fair housing and discrimination. Forty years ago this week
Thirty years ago this week (October 1, 1983)
in federal court that he first used cocaine with three Michigan football players at a party in 1980. In March 1980, five Michigan football players were suspended from the team for alleged involvement with narcotics and two players were put on probation. During a trial in Bay City for allegedly running a marijuana and cocaine distribution ring in Michigan, Frank Durastani said he delivered cocaine six times to a Florida apartment belonging to Frederick Braman, the brother of Michigan linebacker Mark Braman.
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University students demonstrated against tuition increases outside of the LSA Building. One student urged the protesters to “ask stupid questions, ask them to look things up for you” in an effort to make it difficult for students waiting in line to pay their tuition. This protest also dealt with the failure of the University to confront the issues of new state residency criteria and insufficient financial aid.
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WHEN: Friday at about 4:30 p.m. WHAT: A driver struck a parked car along the side of the road. The incident resulted in no injuries and only minor scratches to both vehicles, University Police reported.
WHERE: Michigan Stadium WHEN:Saturday at about 2:40 a.m. WHAT: Verbal warnings were given to five subjects trying to climb the stadium fence, University Police reported.
Court creeping Hide your keys, WHERE: Tisch Preston hide your ID Robert Tennis Center WHEN: At about 7 p.m. WHAT: A suspicious person was reportedly outside of the Tennis Center. The suspect was a white male, mid-30s with a shaved head and tattoos. He was wearing jeans and possibly trying to break into a trailer, University Police reported.
WHERE: Rackham Building WHEN: Friday at about 8:50 a.m. WHAT: Thursday between 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. keys and an ID were taken from an unlocked office, University Police reported. There are no suspects.
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DNA futures discussion WHAT: New York University Prof. Rayna Rapp will lead a discussion on the ethics and burdens of noninvasive prenatal tests. WHO: Institute for Research on Women and Gender WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. WHERE: 2239 Lane Hall
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Police seek mobile recordings of fatal ballpark stabbing Father of attacked Dodgers fan calls for witnesses SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The father of a Los Angeles Dodgers fan stabbed to death after a San Francisco Giants game last week asked Sunday for witnesses who may have captured the fight on mobile devices to come forward and help both families find closure. Robert Preece, his voice quavering at times, spoke in front of AT&T Park’s iconic Willie Mays statue before the Giants played the San Diego Padres. He was flanked by family members who handed out fliers to fans streaming into the stadium. The fight Wednesday night ended with the death of his 24-year-old son, Jonathan Denver.
“Losing a child is a heartache no parent should have to endure,” Preece said in his plea for witnesses to the fight, which resulted in the arrest of Michael Montgomery, 21. Montgomery was released from jail on Friday after the district attorney said police have not yet collected enough evidence to warrant criminal charges. Montgomery’s father has told other media outlets that his son says Denver hit him over the head with a chair and he stabbed him in selfdefense. Preece said Sunday that he saw bystanders with mobile devices and believes they were recording the incident. “The Montgomery family is likely suffering as well,” Preece said. “I am making a plea to the public asking that anyone who may have witnessed the incident to come forth so that both
families can have some measure of closure. I believe that someone may have videotaped the incident so we can discover the truth.” Denver’s mother, Diana Denver, said in a prepared statement that she was angered by Montgomery’s release and what she called “the negligence of our justice system.” The victim’s aunt, Jill Haro Preece read the mother’s statement after Diana Denver said she was too emotional to address the dozen of cameras and reporters assembled in front of Mays’ statue. San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon said police had not spoken with any independent witnesses who may have witnessed the fight, which is what prompted Preece and his family to make their public plea.
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University to unveil new Web gateway Wednesday Site features enhanced look and adjusts to any size screen automatically By KAITLIN ZURDOSKY Daily Staff Reporter
The University’s remodeled gateway website will debut Wednesday, with a contemporary appearance and enhanced features. The website will boast a new look “that is more sophisticated-department-store-window display than front-door entry,” the University said in a press release. The new site also automatically adjusts for any screen
size. Christopher Billick, director of digital media at Michigan Creative, the University’s inhouse creative agency, said in a statement that the changes to the website go beyond cosmetics. “This more visual approach to telling the Michigan story does a much better job of capturing the spirit and the personality of this incredible University community,” Billick said. The portal receives more than half a million unique visitors each month, transmitting University resources and links to prospective students and community members, according to Billick. The new site features a
heavily photograph-saturated organization. Photos will be updated regularly, including a comprehensive photo gallery that depicts photos from the latest events on campus. It will also use the new Block M logo, which was implemented in May. The main page will also feature infographics and a more prominent display of University events. “All of the improvements made to the main U-M website, including design, navigation and functionality, are based on extensive research conducted over the last two years,” Lisa Rudgers, the University’s vice president for global communications and strategic initiatives, said in a statement.
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Hunters snap up licenses for Mich. wolf hunt Hunters are snapping up licenses for Michigan’s first wolf hunt in November. More than 1,000 licenses — the bulk of the 1,200-license limit — were sold by Saturday evening. Hunters will have a chance to kill 43 wolves in seven Upper Peninsula counties during a six-week season that ends at the end of the year. “I expected them to be flying off the shelves pretty fast. So I got in line with a few other folks here and was lucky to get one,” said state Rep. John Kivela, D-Marquette, who dropped by the Department of Natural Resources office in Marquette
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New commercial supply ship reaches space station NASA’s newest delivery service made its first-ever shipment to the International Space Station on Sunday, another triumph for the booming commercial space arena that has its sights set on launching astronauts. Orbital Sciences Corp.’s unmanned cargo ship, the Cygnus, pulled up at the orbiting lab with a half-ton of meals and special treats for the station astronauts who assisted in the high-flying feat. With the smooth linkup, Orbital Sciences of Virginia became only the second company to accomplish such a far-flung shipment. The California-based SpaceX company took the lead last year.
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USC fires Lane Kiffin, Orgeron is interim coach Southern California fired Lane Kiffin early Sunday morning, ending the coach’s tumultuous tenure a few hours after the Trojans lost 62-41 at Arizona State. Ed Orgeron was picked as USC’s interim head coach by athletic director Pat Haden, who dismissed Kiffin at the airport following the Trojans’ flight home. USC (3-2, 0-2 Pac-12) has eight games left under Orgeron, Kiffin’s assistant head coach and the former Mississippi head coach. “It’s never the perfect time to do these things, but I thought it was the right time,” Haden said. Haden fired Kiffin in a 3 a.m. meeting at the Trojans’ private airport terminal, but not before a 45-minute chat in which Kiffin tried to change Haden’s mind.
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Militants kill students in college attack Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms, the school’s provost said — the latest violence in northeastern Nigeria’s ongoing Islamic uprising. The attack, blamed on the Boko Haram extremist group, came despite a 4 ½-month-old state of emergency covering three states and one-sixth of the country. It and other recent violence have led many to doubt assurances from the government and the military that they are winning Nigeria’s war on the extremists. Provost Molima Idi Mato of Yobe State College of Agriculture told The Associated Press that there were no security forces protecting the college. Two weeks ago, the state commissioner for education had begged schools and colleges to reopen and promised they would be guarded by soldiers and police. —Compiled from Daily wire reports
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U.N. experts arrive to the Four Seasons hotel in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday. A team of U.N. chemical weapons inspectors returned to Damascus on Wednesday to complete their investigation into what the UN calls “pending credible allegations” of chemical weapons use in Syria’s civil war.
Weapons inspectors outline Syria plan for Nov. 1 deadline Priority to prevent ability to manufacture chemical arms THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Inspectors who will oversee Syria’s destruction of its chemical weapons said Sunday their first priority is to help the country scrap its ability to manufacture such arms by a Nov. 1 deadline — using every means possible. The chemical weapons inspectors said that may include smashing mixing equipment with sledgehammers, blowing up delivery missiles, driving tanks over empty shells or filling them with concrete, and running machines without lubricant so they seize up and become inoperable. On Friday, the U.N. Security Council ordered the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to help Syria destroy its chemical weapons by mid-2014.
On Sunday, inspectors met with media in The Hague to explain their current plan of action, which is to include an initial group of 20 leaving for Syria on Monday. The organization allowed two inspectors to speak on condition of anonymity out of concern for their safety amid Syria’s civil war; both are veteran members of the OPCW. Spokesman Michael Luhan said the men “are going to be deeply involved in Syria.” “This isn’t just extraordinary for the OPCW. This hasn’t been done before: an international mission to go into a country which is involved in a state of conflict and amid that conflict oversee the destruction of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction which it possesses,” Luhan said. “This is definitely a historical first.” Syria acknowledged for the first time it has chemical weapons after an Aug. 21 poison gas attack killed hundreds of civilians in a Damascus suburb and President Barack Obama
threatened a military strike in retaliation. A U.N. investigation found that nerve gas was used in the attack but stopped short of blaming it on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime. After a flurry of diplomatic negotiations involving the U.S., Syria, and Syrian ally Russia, Syria made an initial voluntary disclosure of its program to the Hague-based OPCW. Under organization’s rules, the amounts and types of weapons in Syria’s stockpiles, and the number and location of the sites, will not be publicly disclosed. The U.S. and Russia agree that Syria has roughly 1,000 metric tons of chemical weapons agents and precursors, including blister agents such as sulfur and mustard gas, and nerve agents like sarin. External experts say they are distributed over 50 to70 sites. One of the OPCW experts with a military background said the “open source” information about the Syrian program is “reasonable.”
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — With new online health insurance exchanges set to launch Tuesday, consumers in many Southern and Plains states will have to look harder for information on how the marketplaces work than their counterparts elsewhere. In Republican-led states that oppose the federal Affordable Care Act, the strategy has ranged from largely ignoring the health overhaul to encouraging residents not to sign up and even making it harder for nonprofit organizations to provide information about the exchanges. Health care experts worry that ultimately consumers in these states could end up confused about the exchanges, and the overall rollout of the law could be hindered. “Without the shared planning and the cooperation of the state government, it’s much harder for them to be ready to implement this complicated law,” said Rachel Grob of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who has studied differences in how states are implementing segments of the law. Several of the 14 Northeast, Midwest and Western states running their own insurance exchanges have spent weeks on marketing and advertising cam-
paigns to help residents get ready to buy health insurance. At least $684 million will be spent on publicity explaining what people need to do next and persuading the doubtful to sign up for coverage, according to data compiled The Associated Press. By contrast, most states across the South have declined federal grants to advertise the exchanges and ceded the right to run the marketplaces themselves. And early Sunday, the Republican-led U.S. House added to legislation that would avert a partial government shutdown a one-year delay of the creation of the marketplaces. Democrats have said delaying the health care law would sink the bill, and the White House promised a veto. Governors from the Carolinas to Kansas have decried the exchanges and the rest of the law, which was passed by Congress in 2010 and many argue reaffirmed when voters re-elected President Obama in 2012. The Supreme Court in 2012 upheld the constitutionality of most of the law; a piece of the Medicaid expansion was an exception. “When it came to Obamacare, we didn’t just say ‘no,’ we said ‘never,’” South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said last month alongside U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, whom she appointed last December when Jim DeMint resigned. “And we’re going to keep on fighting until we get people like Sen. Scott and everybody else in Congress to defund Obamacare.”
Radio failures cited in the deaths of 19 Ariz. firemen Experts seek policy changes, more investigation in response to attack PRESCOTT, Ariz. (AP) — Shortly before 19 elite firefighters perished in a raging Arizona wildfire, commanders thought the crew was in a safe place. No one had heard from the Granite Mountain Hotshots for 33 minutes. The crew didn’t contact commanders, and commanders didn’t radio them. Then it was too late. A three-month investigation into the June 30 deaths released Saturday did not determine if the tragedy was avoidable, while outlining a series of missteps by the crew and commanders and revealing the more than half-hour of radio silence that occurred just before the firefighters were overwhelmed by flames. It’s not certain why the crew left what was believed to be a safe spot on a ridge that the fire had previously burned and, apparently seeking another safe location, unknowingly walked to their deaths in a basin thick with dry brush. At the time they died, an airtanker was circling overhead, confused about their location. “There is much that cannot be known about the crew’s decisions and actions” because of the gap in communications, the report concluded. The 120-page report by a team of local, state and federal fire experts pointed to repeated problems with radios and contact with the crew. At one point, a pilot wanted to check on the firefighters after hearing radio traffic that they might be on the move, but commanders believed at that time the crew was positioned safely. Ted Putnam, a former investigator for the U.S. Forest Service, said the report didn’t go far enough to dissect the deci-
sions made by the firefighters. When the crew members went silent and did not notify anyone they were changing locations “there’s an active failure there,” he said. At a news conference in Prescott, where the fallen firefighters lived, Shari Turbyfill implored officials to draw stronger conclusions about why her stepson and his fellow firefighters died, and recommend immediate changes. “I don’t want another family to deal with this,” she said. Her husband, David, said the emergency fire shelter in which his 27-year-old son Travis died had not been improved in 13 years. “Policies, as they may be, need to change,” he said. Despite identifying numerous problems, the report found that proper procedure was followed in the worst firefighting tragedy since Sept. 11, 2001. Investigators suggested that the state of Arizona should possibly update its guidelines and look into better tracking technology. All but one member of the Granite Mountain Hotshots crew died while protecting the small former gold rush town of Yarnell, about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix, from an erratic, lightning-sparked fire. Hotshots are elite backcountry firefighters who hike deep into the brush to fight blazes. Investigators described what became a chaotic day in which a fire that two days earlier caused little concern bloomed into an inferno that incinerated pine, juniper and scrub oak in an area that hadn’t experienced a significant wildfire in nearly a half century. The day went according to routine in the boulder-strewn mountains until the wind shifted around 4 p.m., pushing a wall of fire that had been receding from the firefighters all day back toward them. The report suggested the crew was blindsided when the fire changed
direction and surged in intensity and speed. Commanders did not find out the men were surrounded by flames and fighting for their lives until five minutes before they deployed their emergency shelters, which was more than a half hour after a stormy weather warning was issued. Without guidance from the command center or their lookout, who had escaped after warning the crew, the men bushwhacked into a canyon that soon turned into a bowl of fire. The topography whipped up 70-foot flames that bent parallel and licked the ground, producing 2,000 degree heat. Fire shelters, always a dreaded last resort, start to melt at 1,200 degrees. The report confirms the crew knew about the changing weather, and just before 4 p.m. a commander warns the crew superintendent to “hunker and be safe.” There was no word from the crew from just after 4 p.m. until just minutes before the fire overwhelms them — a gap of 33 minutes. Shortly before they deploy their shelters, a static-filled transmission comes over an air-to-ground frequency from a crew member at 4:39 p.m.: “We are in front of the flaming front.” Other firefighters working on the blaze who pick up the transmission are confused, hearing the urgency in the Hotshot’s voice and chain saws roaring in the background. They believed the crew was in a safe spot. In final snippets of conversation, the crew superintendent says urgently “our escape route has been cut off. We are preparing a deployment site” for the shelters. He’s assured an airtanker is coming. But a smaller plane makes seven passes over four minutes trying to locate the crew to guide the big tanker, but cannot find or contact them.
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lthough Gov. Rick Snyder hasn’t officially announced his reelection bid for 2014, his campaign machine has begun saturating the airwaves with a new slogan “One Successful Nerd,” an update of his original “One Tough Nerd” motto. While the slogan fits a nice narrative, “successful” may be a bit presumptuous. Through tough budgeting and some controversial decisions, Michigan’s operating deficit is gone and the economy is on the mend. Snyder has put in much effort to attract businesses to the state of Michigan — some would argue quite successfully. However, Snyder can only claim success if his administration stands up for moderate values and sound policy against the state’s Tea Party-dominated legislature. Despite announcing that Michigan’s educational system “does not work” at an educational summit in April, state government has done more to enhance problems for higher education than to fix them. Since Snyder has been in office, funding for public universities has decreased by 11.35 percent, spurring further privatization of supposedly public institutions and driving up tuition. Michigan’s lack of commitment to education is an embarrassment, and Snyder should use his bully pulpit to reprioritize it in Lansing. Furthermore, Snyder has done little to attract students to stay in Michigan after graduation from any of the state’s colleges. Michigan invests in students and degrees only to have graduates leave and take their talent elsewhere. Providing incentives to companies that hire young people would entice qualified students to stay in state after graduation. Improving public transit between Detroit and other Michigan cities, creating a student-loan forgiveness program and properly implementing the Affordable Care Act are only a few policies that could help prevent brain drain. Several of the largest failures of Snyder’s first term stem from the comically conserva-
tive Republicans in the state legislature, and the governor’s inability to keep that caucus under control. The controversial right-towork legislation passed despite Snyder’s insistence that it was not a priority policy for his administration. It’s difficult to keep young people in the state with restrictive abortion laws and policies that are hostile to the LGBTQ community. Some of these laws being pushed through the lame-duck legislature make Snyder appear aloof and outgunned by his more conservative GOP peers. The governor should clarify his social views, and abide by his campaign promise to be socially liberal. Whether those views conflict with the far right of his party, Snyder should stay true to his campaign promises and push for more moderate social legislation. Snyder has a lot of work to do if he wants the support of students in the upcoming election, first by standing up to the Tea Party ideologues in Lansing. More funding for higher education, incentives for companies that hire recent graduates, improved infrastructure and more moderate social views can help the governor go from “nerd” to “successful nerd.”
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Say ‘no more’ to generalizations On a sunny football Saturday about two weeks ago, I was walking down East University Avenue with a few friends when I decided to share an amusing fact I had realized earlier that day: the only maize and blue shirt I had was one that read: “I love girls that love girls.” My friends and I laughed, but a male student sitting at a table on the street overheard our conversation and chose to yell at me, “Hey, me too! Hey, are you trying to lez out?” My friends, being as great as they are, responded with some choice words, and a sarcastic “Oh, I’m so happy we live in such a ‘progressive’ town.” Problem solved, right? Not quite. I don’t think I can accurately describe the anger this stirred in me. To rewind a little bit, I think I need to explain that I only very recently became comfortable with my sexuality. Nine years of Catholic school plus a lifetime of sexual/sexuality conservatism in my broader families, precipitated by a hetero-normative and homophobic culture, left me suppressing my feelings for women for 19 long years of my life. It wasn’t until I moved into a co-op last year that I started to come to terms with the fact that I had always been queer, whether willing to admit it to myself or not. Over the past 10 months or so, I’ve gone through an incredible transformation. I now feel that I have not only “come to terms” with my sexuality, but I actively celebrate it. Years of suppression morphed into pride and a comfort with myself that I never imagined I could experience. Sometimes I want to scream from the rooftops: “I’m a woman who loves women!” Because I really do, and I’ve never felt so proud of it. Fast-forward to that day on the street wherein my fellow student asked me if I was “trying to lez out.” This language represents a male-dominated culture that fetishizes lesbian identities. Let me just say this to the male population at Michigan once: Lesbians are not here to serve your fantasies. In fact, we, and all women and people, are not here to serve your anything. We want nothing to do with you sexually. And, please, don’t even get me started on the confusion around bisexuality — if a woman likes both men and women, her/ ze’s/their relationships with women still have nothing to do with you. This situation has been eating away at me
ever since it happened. What bothers me most about this language is that the University and Ann Arbor at large claim to be hubs of progressive ideologies, and, at the very least, claim to be accepting of all identities. However, I feel uncomfortable every time a class, club or meeting starts without asking people their preferred gender pronouns. For the record, though I disagree with the gender binary in general, I’m lucky enough to feel comfortable with the sex identity I was born into. But what about my transgender, genderqueer, etc. peers? I feel uncomfortable wearing my “LGBTQ” pride shirt to class and club meetings for fear that another club member or professor is homophobic. I feel uncomfortable with the large portion of Greek life on our campus that reinforces a heteronormative, and often patriarchal, society. To be fair, I don’t mean to blanket all of Greek life with generalizations. I merely mean to say that the system is based on antiquated understandings of sexuality and gender. In a country that appears to have made great strides forward in the acceptance of queer identities, represented by the more than 50 percent of Americans who support samesex marriage, I’m sad to say that I still feel uncomfortable and exiled on Michigan’s campus. Perhaps this is indicative of the nature of the argument for same-sex marriage: that it emphasizes tolerance and acceptance over a real understanding of the harmfulness of all binaries. I have to say that I’m unbelievably lucky to live in the co-op I do, where it’s explicit that feeling comfortable to be oneself without judgment or harassment is the norm. For those who don’t have this privilege — all my fellow LGBTQI/A-Z individuals on this campus struggling every day — I’m with you. Pride is still our parade, so come yell from the rooftops with me sometime. It’s only through pride and solidarity that we have a chance of moving forward together. In my last two years here, I’m making it my point to say “no more” to this kind of behavior and thinking on our campus. Nineteen years is a long time to refuse your own identity. Join me in spending the next 60 years defending it. Marion Berger is an LSA junior.
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his semester I’m taking a strategy class in the Business school called “The Corporation in Society.” The course debates the purpose of the modern-day corporation and ponders if it has an obligation to fulfill a social HARSHA purpose. But, on the first day of NAHATA class we started thinking about the purpose of a university education and whether that purpose is being served to its maximum. And that’s a discussion that isn’t had enough. In 1907, psychologist William James delivered an address at Radcliffe College titled “The Social Value of the College-Bred.” It’s amazing to see that central themes and questions posed in this address are still relevant. James draws a distinction between a technical school education and liberal-arts universities. He points out that a university education is a way to gain a broader understanding of the world and a place to exercise your thinking in a way that’s different than perfecting a specific skill. Yet, university education is increasingly becoming specialized and skill-oriented. From the start there’s pressure to focus on a particular area and excel at building tangible workplace skill sets in a particular department. With pre-professional tracks and combined masters/bachelors programs, sometimes incoming freshman
already have the next four years mapped out. But looking back at my university experience, it’s the uncertainty and ability to experiment that has contributed to my growth the most. I remember when I started college three years ago: I came in with a clear idea of how I thought it would be. I knew what organizations I wanted to join and what I wanted to study. I was going to be best friends with my roommate. Everyone I talked to told me college was going to be the best four years of my life, and coming in I thought I knew exactly what to do to make sure that was the case. I couldn’t have been more wrong. College has still been the best years of my life, but in a completely unexpected way. From organizations I’m a part of, to the major I’ve chosen, I’m learning about things that I didn’t even know existed four years ago, much less was interested in. My passions, interests and goals have all evolved, and I know they will continue to. And each step of the way has been a huge learning experience — even things that I thought were completely irrelevant at the time have played a central role in getting me to the point I’m at now. In fact, I only wish I had come in with less of a plan, and had allowed myself even more freedom to explore. This past summer, I watched one of Educational
Theatre Company’s productions at freshman orientation. Watching that performance as a rising senior gave me a different perspective. There is a part in the play that mentions that, inevitably, at some point everyone coming into college will find themselves “stuck” — stuck to old habits, friends, comfortable things. And to fully appreciate one’s college experience one has to become “unstuck.” It took me until senior year to realize how stuck I had been. And I only wish I had seen that sooner. One of my favorite quotes says: “Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone.” I knew this, and coming into college I fully planned to embody this, and, yet, soon found myself unconsciously slipping back into my comfort zone. The thing is, sometimes even once you realize that you’re stuck, becoming unstuck is the hard part. It’s hard because it’s so much easier to stay in your comfort zone. It’s natural. So often you find yourself falling into it even when you didn’t know you were. But slowly venturing out beyond that comfort has led to some of the most formative experiences I’ve had. And when I look back, I can pinpoint the way in which losing focus every now and then has broadened my educational outlook.
Losing focus every now and then has broadened my educational outlook.
—Harsha Nahata can be reached at hnahata@umich.edu.
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hank you, Ted Cruz. After the Texas senator’s epic, 21-hour floor speech Tuesday in which he advocated defunding the Affordable Care Act, I have nothing to say but thank you. (Side note: we don’t call PATRICK Social Security MAILLET Roosevelt-Care or Medicare Johnson-Care. The bill has a name, and it’s the Affordable Care Act.) Although a thank you is in order simply because Cruz further exemplified just how comically divided and reckless the Republican Party is with his 21-hour rant, my gratitude is for something Cruz said during his speech. At 8 p.m., approximately five hours into his remarks, Cruz began reading Dr. Seuss’s “Green Eggs and Ham”. Although Cruz made the bold claim that his father had invented the colorful dish three hours prior in his speech, the main reason he read the story was for his two young daughters watching back home in Texas. For those unfamiliar with the story, “Green Eggs and Ham” is the tale of a man who refuses to eat green eggs and ham even though the character “Sam-I-Am” relentlessly thinks of odd scenarios in which the man could possibly eat the dish. Eventually, in an effort to get Sam-I-Am to leave him alone, the man finally tries a bite and realizes that he actually loves it. At the end of the dramatized reading, Cruz asserted that there may be some similarities between this classic children’s story and the ACA. As Cruz explained, “They did not like Obamacare in a box with a fox, in a house or with a mouse.” His point was that no matter where or how you implement the contentious 2010 legislation, America will not like it. One would assume that somewhere along the educational path of a man who graduated cum laude from
Princeton and then magna cum laude from Harvard Law, “Green Eggs and Ham” would probably be covered. And yet Cruz — with his impressive educational background, selfproclaimed fan-hood of Dr. Seuss and, apparently, the rightful heir to the green eggs and ham recipe — somehow missed the actual meaning of the classic children’s story and, ironically enough, strengthened arguments of those who support the landmark health-care bill. We don’t yet know the entirty of what the ACA will do for America. It could destroy this nation, it could be the greatest step forward in American history or it could have absolutely no effect on any of our lives — we don’t know because it hasn’t been implemented yet. What we do know is this: More than 44-million Americans are uninsured. Approximately 17.9 percent of our GDP is spent on health care costs compared to the European Union average of 8.3 percent. And, according to the World Health Organization, America ranks 38th in health care quality (Costa Rica beat us, but don’t worry, we’re ahead of Slovenia). Everyone agrees that we have a problem. Well, except for pharmaceutical and insurance companies who have contributed close to half a billion dollars to political candidates over the last five years. It’s weird how you can donate that much money, and suddenly Congress votes 42 times to defund the law that would slash your incomparably high profits, but that’s a different column altogether. What people don’t agree on is how to fix this problem. In 2010, President Barack Obama signed the ACA and last summer the US Supreme Court upheld the bill as constitutional. Three years after the bill became law and one year before the law actually goes into effect, Republicans are threatening to shut down the government unless the ACA is defunded. As
Cruz reiterated in his glorified temper tantrum, Republicans are saying that the ACA must be repealed because of the detrimental effects it has had on America. But other than allowing children to stay on their parents’ health-care plan until age 26 and banning insurance companies from not accepting people with preexisting conditions, the ACA hasn’t been able to actually do anything yet. Republicans claim that businesses are preparing for the bill by making employees work less than the 30-hours-per-week threshold that defines a full-time employee in order to avoid paying for health care. While it is true that America has seen a rapid growth in part-time jobs and millions of Americans remain underemployed, this trend was happening well before the ACA, and economists argue that the economy is mostly to blame for this pattern, not the ACA. Most Americans simply don’t understand the ACA. A recent poll in the Wall Street Journal showed that 70 percent of Americans don’t know what’s in the bill. CNBC also released a poll showing that 46 percent of Americans oppose “Obamacare,” yet only 37 percent oppose the bill when dubbed “The Affordable Care Act.” I’m going to go ahead and assume those 9 percent of respondents who answered differently when the title changed are part of the 70 percent of people who don’t understand the bill. Instead of shutting down our government, which will likely happen Tuesday night, why can’t we try and see the effects of the ACA? Let’s learn from Dr. Seuss and actually implement the ACA instead of trying to repeal something that people don’t understand. Once America tries a bite and gives a damn, we will realize the ACA isn’t so bad, Sam-I-Am.
Most Americans simply don’t understand the ACA.
—Patrick Maillet can be reached at maillet@umich.edu.
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CRASH From Page 1A was to the left of the center of the road. The Jeep “actually tried to go up on the curb to avoid a collision,” before the suspect “slammed into him (and) pushed him up on the curb further,” Metzer said. The Jeep came to rest on the sidewalk on the south side of
DEARBORN From Page 1A members spoke on the need for expanding resource sharing for students and staff in Dearborn, as well as ensuring that funding for research is made available to Dearborn and Flint faculty. “We collaborate with Ann Arbor in multiple ways productively, and it’s an extraordinary advantage for us to be one of the three campuses … Ann Arbor has differentiated itself in its marketplace, and its peers are clear,” Catherine Davy, provost for the Dearborn campus, said. “But the Flint and Dearborn campuses also have very distinct identities … Ann Arbor is global, but we have a real role to play in southeast Michigan, in the state in general — and with the help of Ann Arbor, we could get the message out and differentiate among the three campuses.” As in previous forums, some participants said they hoped the next president would position the University to confront important
PENSION From Page 1A combat global climate change. The proposal first came to vote at the Sept. 2 meeting but failed to garner enough support among City Council members. After being reconsidered and postponed at the Sept. 16 meeting, council members have been evaluating the possibility of the divestiture without adding risk to the pension fund. However, a resolution from council doesn’t necessarily mean divestment will occur: council members don’t have the power to direct the investment decisions of the Pension Board, so the proposal would be merely an expression of support for divestment. Similar movements for divestment from traditional fossilfuel-focused energy companies have been cropping up across the country as the movement gains more attention. Over the summer, Berkeley, Calif. passed a proposal to have the city explore the possibility of fossil-fuel divestment for the retirement fund. Nils Moe, senior aide to Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates, said the divestment proposal originally
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Packard, she said. Witnesses at the scene said after the collision, the suspect appeared to exit the vehicle and proceed on foot eastbound. A passerby brought the suspect back to the scene several minutes later, where he was placed in custody, witnesses said. Metzer said the suspect was on scene by the time the first officers arrived and couldn’t comment on whether the suspect initially attempted to flee the scene.
The suspect was arrested and transported by ambulance to University Hospital for treatment for drugs and minor injuries from the crash. Metzger could not confirm what drugs the suspect had taken. The suspect did not have a wallet or phone in his possession at the time of arrest, prompting police to conduct a search east of the scene after the incident, Metzer said. A pedestrian standing with a bicycle on the south side of Pack-
ard Street was also involved in the incident. The man, who had stopped on the sidewalk, was struck by one of the vehicles during the collision, but was largely unharmed, Metzer said. “He was sitting here getting directions and saw the whole thing coming and just dropped his bike and stepped away,” Metzer said. Police could not confirm the suspect’s condition Sunday evening.
global challenges and contribute to finding solutions. “A lot of our problems require technology and science solutions, but also social and behavioral sciences need to be a part of the mix if we’re going to try to solve global warming, adequate food supply and all of those tough problems we face,” Dearborn chancellor Daniel Little said. Another major theme revolved around improving the Dearborn campus’ competitiveness in recruiting talented students since it faces stiff competition from other regional universities. The Dearborn budget is also highly tuition-sensitive. Dearborn Business Dean Nagraj Balakrishnan estimated in his public remarks to the committee that around 80 percent of the campus’s budget comes from tuition alone. In an interview after the event, Little said he was proud that Dearborn faculty had come out and shared their concerns with the members of the committee. “We are distinct campuses, but we are complementary campuses,” Little said. “On the Dearborn campus, we have done an
excellent job of articulating a metropolitan vision for this campus … I think as a campus, we have embraced the idea that this campus exists to serve and help move forward the communities of southeast Michigan.” Little added that the Dearborn campus has to face the unique challenge and historical issues of racial segregation and economic separation — with 60 percent of its students being the first generation in their family to go to college. About 42 percent of Dearborn students are eligible for federal Pell Grants. Jung Koral, transfer and international student advisor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Dearborn campus, said that in his travels to other higher-education schemes such as the University of California and the University of Texas systems, he saw much higher levels of integration among multiple campuses. “I don’t understand why the campuses aren’t more closely linked with one another,” Koral said. “It just makes sense.” Koral, who has worked at all
three campuses, said during his time at the University of Michigan, Flint, regional competitor Saginaw Valley State University was “blowing us out of the water” in terms of student recruitment. He added that the University of Michigan, Dearborn faces tough competition from Wayne State University and Oakland University — but being tied to the Ann Arbor campus provides Dearborn with a unique, if not fully exploited, advantage. “If you’re in a dogfight on the neighborhood block and your big brother comes up and says, ‘no, this is my brother,’ suddenly the other kids scatter away,” Choral said. No current Dearborn students attended Friday’s forum. Later Friday, around 20 people attended the final search forum, which was held in Blau Auditorium at the Ross School of Business. Participants praised University President Mary Sue Coleman’s tenure as president and said they hoped for someone with a long-term plan to maintain the national profile of the University.
came through the Mayors Innovation Project, an initiative that involves cities across the country committing to combat climate change and other projects. Student groups at the University of California, Berkeley were also very vocal in supporting divestment. Similar to the Ann Arbor proposal, the Berkeley proposal was a request from the city to CalPERS — a large retirement fund the city has about $1.6 billion invested in — to divest from fossil fuels over a five-year period, Moe said. Moe said while divestment would likely send a signal to other cities to support the effort, the practical implications are still being explored and the city is still involved in other sustainability efforts. “We certainly don’t look at this as a silver bullet or we will hang our hats solely on the issue of divestment, but this comes within a package of climate-mitigation and climate-adaptation programs that we, Berkeley, as a city are working on,” Moe said. Moe added that while a divestment plan has yet to be implemented, he thinks the topic has at least opened the discussion on divestment and climate change
solutions. In Ann Arbor, council members, members of the pension board and members of the energy commission are also in the process of exploring the divestment’s financial implications. Councilmember Jane Lumm (I–Ward 2) sent an e-mail to the involved parties explaining the possible fund options for the pension. Lumm said the city essentially faces a choice between low-fee index funds and the more costly, highly managed fund. The issue, according to Lumm, is that there are very few index funds without fossil fuel as a portion of their diversified portfolio, and excluding those investments would decrease returns. Nancy Walker, executive director of the Ann Arbor Employees’ Retirement System, declined to comment for this article. The Investment Policy Committee will meet Tuesday and the Administrative Policy and Audit Committee will meet on Oct. 8. Kai Petainen, a lecturer in the Business School, has been advising the city council against divestment. In an essay sent to the council members, Petainen wrote that the proposal asks for the Pension Board to divest from
200 fossil-fuel companies, adding that that eliminating an entire sector of a portfolio is never advisable. Petainen also wrote that he is unaware of any index funds without fossil fuel investment and that the umbrella of the proposed divested stocks could potentially be widened to include other large companies like General Electric, which is involved in supplying materials to the energy sector. He also wrote that the proposal includes several other flaws, including a request to support local projects, which could risk issues of insider trading. His letter concluded that the Pension Board might consider removing a handful of companies, but eliminating all of them is fiscally irresponsible. Councilmember Lumm said that as much as the council wants to make the symbolic gesture for environmental awareness, such a proposal would put the independent Pension Board in a tough position. “We can’t, nor should we, tie the hands of the retirement manager,” Lumm said. “We’re kind of saying, ‘You should do this but you don’t have to,’ and I think that’s tough for them.”
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NATGEO From Page 1A “This idea of reaching out to undergrads is really fairly new when it comes to our grant-making,” Francis said. “You’re seeing sort of a beginning of what should be big in going forward.” Although the program is still growing, Francis said they currently visit three universities per year and plan to expand to Indonesia next year. “A lot depends on how many people we can get to support these programs,” Francis said. “It’s just a matter of getting the right people to evaluate and make it happen. So, the sky’s the limit.” National Geographic supports this demographic — 18 to 25 year olds — through individual grants of up to $5,000, which are awarded to select undergraduates after a competitive application process. In addition to the lecture, the society sponsored a workshop session Saturday to teach students how to get the financial support to follow their passions. “We go to institutions to teach people how to ask us for money,” Francis said. “And we also teach people how to … compact their ideas — their dreams — into, sometimes, ‘elevator pitches’ that then can get people excited.” Students at the workshop were also given the opportunity to practice pitching their projects to the National Geographic officials who are in charge of the grant application decisions. To date, National Geographic has provided 84 grants to individuals at the University, totaling more than $1 million, according to Francis. He said the decision to host an event on campus this year was prompted by the history of involvement in the program by current and former University students. “It’s always been a hotspot,” Francis said. “It’s one of those places that’s on the map already as a leading academic institution.” The event was highlighted by presentations from two former National Geographic grant recipients: William Saturno, an assistant professor at Boston University, and profes-
CONTRACT From Page 1A the letter from Fransway said gaining the company’s approval is “customary and routine,” Fulton said 3P interpreted the contract as assurance that Cottage Inn trusted 3P’s decisions. In an e-mail Wednesday, Fransway wrote that if further legal action is taken, he is confident Cottage Inn will win out. “ … One of the great freedoms that we enjoy in this country is the right to present disputes like this one to fair and impartial judges who judge disputes based upon facts and not merely someone’s opinion that they are entitled to something,” Fransway wrote. “We feel confident that if a court proceeding does occur, Cottage Inn will prevail based upon the facts in this case.” The main point of contention between the parties lies with
sional climber Mark Synnott, a filmmaker and researcher for National Geographic and The North Face. Saturno spoke about his research in Guatemala, where he has spent more than a decade finding and excavating ancient Mayan archeological sites. With the help of NASA satellite images, Saturno was able to visualize changes in tree color around ancient Mayan settlements, allowing him to locate countless new structures and relics. Saturno has received multiple grants from National Geographic, and he encouraged students to seek similar support for their areas of interest. He also discussed the importance of being able to generate public support for your projects. “One of the important things about working with Geographic is being opened to narrative,” Saturno said. “And being open to the fact that other people can probably tell your story better than you.” Synnott’s presentation chronicled his path to becoming a self-described “professional explorer.” In particular, he discussed his development as a professional climber, which has sent him locations around the world — most recently, the Persian Gulf. Synnott encouraged students interested in grants to research projects that have already been funded before starting a new project. Before every trip, he catalogs any prior work or exploration done in the area, allowing him to find new areas to explore. “I’m not the first person who’s had this idea,” Synnott said. “A lot of really smart, amazing people have dedicated their lives to exploring our world.” Many grant recipients use their experiences as a pathway to careers or graduate programs in their chosen field. Francis said he hopes the grants will inspire a new generation of explorers and researchers, thus ensuring the continued mission of National Geographic. “The idea is you help people along their way, you get a good story back, you tell it to the world and great things happen,” Francis said. “This program, we believe, is our effort to really change the future.”
3P’s actor choice for Cottage Jim. Fulton said Cottage Inn didn’t like how local comedian and actor, Marty Smith, looked as Cottage Jim. He added that Cottage Inn asked 3P, after seeing the completed videos, if there was a way to put someone else’s face on Smith’s body. 3P has since disbanded due to lack of funds after going over budget on the Cottage Inn videos and not receiving the second $4,500 installment. For the videos, 3P hired professionals to work aspects of the production, instead of the student production teams they usually used, and upgraded to a higher-quality camera. “We wanted to give them as much value as possible so we could foster a relationship that would ultimately lead to future work together,” Pere said. “We were very confident with our abilities and, unfortunately, it was not seen the same way by Cottage Inn.”
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Witty, gritty dramedy in ‘Said’
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Gandolfini and Louis-Dreyfus give layered performances BY ANDREW MCCLURE Daily Arts Writer
One of the unspoken laws of being a faux-polite, shitbag teenager is the obligatory laugh in response to an adult’s lethally Aunfunny remark. I found Enough Said myself jaw-ajar at how many At the Michigan 50-something theatergoers Fox Searchlight wizzed their diapers at this breed of adult humor in “Enough Said.” Old people aren’t funny, I mused. It captured the age-old social disconnect between oversexed youth and over-grayed elderly. Soft-shelled yet emotively dense, one of James Gandolfini’s final pictures reminds us of how marriage and divorce each tell a remarkably similar narrative and how humor is relative. Filmmaker Nicole Holofcener (“Please Give”) convinces viewers that she has been happily divorced then reluctantly remarried umpteen times. She knows divorce and she knows it well — from the subtle yearnings for something better to the wrinkly irritability that comes with age. We suffer a real dilemma: We want everlasting youth because of its roll-with-the-punches energy, yet adulthood offers a deliciously fat dose of reality. Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Planes”) is a divorced masseuse mothering a soon-to-be high school grad who hauls her mammoth black trunk full of massage gear anywhere the demand calls. Her clients vary from gingivitis mouth-breathers and garrulous soccer moms to unaware 20-something jocks.
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Eva’s friend Sarah (Toni Collette, “Little Miss Sunshine”) invites her to a cocktail party where she meets two significant people. First, a new client Marianne (Catherine Keener, “Cyrus”) who writes poetry for a living — something Eva pokes innocent fun at: “Oh, so you’re actually a poet?” But more importantly, a new love interest develops with Albert (James Gandolfini, “Killing Them Softly”) as they agree on the collective ugliness of everybody at the party. With time, Eva grows close to each one as a friend and girlfriend, respectively. This gossip and sex add buoyancy to Eva’s knit-in-her-free-time life. Then shit hits the fan: Turns out Marianne and Albert divorced each other not too long ago. Cool pick, Eva. Cool pick. The supporting cast lends a razor wit, a conscience, even a balance of mind to our slightly disillusioned Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini. Collette’s character creates a thematic subplot of trust between herself and her fired-thenhired-back housemaid as she accuses her of putting “random shit” in random drawers, like hairbrushes with forks. Her equally whiny husband (Ben Falcone, “What to Expect When You’re Expecting”) grumbles his desire to be married to someone “who likes history.” To which
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Collette retorts, “Hiiiistory? What!” It’s become a convention that the second-most important couple draws bigger laughs. Synergy between LouisDreyfus and Gandolfini as new lovers leaves an indelible mark with dry humor and recesslike playfulness as the key stain agents. They bust each other’s balls over innocuous things like their children heading to college, eating habits and a penchant for “real boobs.” Here’s the thing, though: They’re adorable in the way your grandmamma would describe it. Again, they don’t spoon-feed us a funny every other line. In fact, these two embody real people, people who don’t wield ready-to-fire witticisms on their utility belts at all times. As viewers expecting a funny pic, we’re charmingly surprised by the pair’s genuine moments of awkwardness, frustration and swallow-your-spit anxiety. It’s just naturalistic. Hyperrealistic predecessors like Tom McCarthy’s “Win, Win” or Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg” sold us before. At the compromise of a few cheap, out-of-context, highly contrived jokes that many dramedies shove into their scripts, “Enough Said” rather lets the surface humor coexist with normal, kind of uninteresting conversation that, guess what, most people have.
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James Spader mystifies on intriguing ‘Blacklist’ By ALEC STERN Daily Arts Writer
Procedurals have long been the staple of network television, providing viewers with closeended, hour-long B installments and providing The Blacklist studios with Pilot endless rerun potential. Mondays at Given the 10 p.m. minor success of NBC’s NBC “Chicago Fire” last season, it’s no surprise the Peacock is continuing to embrace the format. This season, NBC will debut “Ironside,” a remake of the 1967 series, and “Chicago PD,” a spinoff of “Chicago Fire.” NBC also already debuted “The Blacklist,” one of the most buzzed-about new dramas. Despite incorporating genre tropes and clichés at almost every turn, “The Blacklist” is intriguing enough to warrant a second look. “The Blacklist” stars James Spader (“Boston Legal”) as Raymond “Red” Reddington, one of the country’s most wanted criminals who mysteriously gives himself up. He claims to have a list of criminals so dangerous, the
FBI doesn’t even know they exist. He’ll cooperate with the FBI and help track down the various criminals and terrorists under one condition: He’ll only talk with rookie profiler Elizabeth Keen (Megan Boone, “Law & Order: LA”). During the pilot episode, Red and Keen track down a terrorist and stop an imminent attack in Washington D.C. The looming question throughout the first hour of “The Blacklist” is why Red would only want to speak with Keen, a seemingly insignificant FBI operative. This question drives most of the narrative and of course, remains unanswered. What would be too easy is if Red is Keen’s father, the most obvious of possibilities — especially given the fact that Red abandoned his wife and daughter and Keen’s father left when she was young. While working with Red, Keen discovers that her husband might not be who he says he is, another possible explanation for Red's fascination with her. James Spader is by far the best thing about this series. Much like on ABC’s “The Practice” and its spinoff “Boston Legal,” Spader’s presence is captivating. His performance is so perfected that it’s as if he’s been playing Red for years. Spader is extremely fun to
watch and at times, makes “The Blacklist” seem like more than typical genre fare. What Spader can’t fix, however, is the predictable action. If you’ve ever seen “CSI” or “24,” then you’ve seen the FBI track down a terrorist and foil his plan just as time runs out. Despite Spader’s best efforts, there’s no hiding the fact that’s exactly what “The Blacklist” is — typical genre fare. The action sequences are familiar and the climax is obvious.
Intriguing but derivative. “The Blacklist” is actually at its finest when the titular blacklist is not in play. The dramatic through lines and unanswered questions (Why would Red give himself up? Who exactly is Keen’s husband?) are what will peak viewers interest most — not who’s next on Red’s list. It will be interesting to see how the series balances both its procedural and serialized elements. If creator/writer Jon Bokenkamp (“Taking Lives”) can find the right mix, NBC could potentially have a big hit on its hands.
TV REVIEW
‘HIMYM’ cast finds chemistry with the Mother By DREW MARON For the Daily
After nine seasons of slap bets and bro codes, the MacLaren’s gang finally meets — wait for it — the Mother! And while B+ the character remains How I Met nameless, Your Mother actress Cristin Milioti (“The Season nine Brass Teapot”), premiere who plays the Mondays mysterious Mother, is at 8 p.m. sure to build CBS a reputation as one of the breakout stars of 2013. It’s unclear how much planning “How I Met Your Mother” creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays had when the show first got picked up in 2005, but it’s hard not to feel like Milioti’s been a part of this story the whole time. Her instant charisma, charm, humor and, above all, chemistry with Lily put to rest all complaints about the Mother’s anti-climactic reveal at the end of last season. What really works is that Milioti’s Mother isn’t just a plot device anymore, she’s an actual character. Her scenes with Lily are sure to make fans fall in love with her just as they have with Ted, Robin, Marshall, Barney and Lily. Milioti might be unknown now, but with roles in upcoming films like Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” people should definitely expect the future Mrs. Ted Mosby to pop up in a few more
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places than the Farhampton train station.
We don’t have a name, but we have a face and plenty of charm. As one might expect, with such a monumental reveal, the rest of the storylines feel small in comparison. Even though it doesn’t tie in directly with anything else, the “Robin and Barney might be cousins” storyline earned the most laughs, while it’s anyone’s guess what direction they might go
with Marshall’s new nemesis, a disgruntled fellow plane passenger played by Sherri Shepherd (“30 Rock”). The season premiere signals the beginning of the end for “HIMYM,” and it’s a bittersweet occasion at that. Most people feel like the show’s high points have come and gone. Like another recently wrapped fan-favorite, “Dexter,” the show’s finale will go out with a whimper instead of a bang. We really won’t know the truth until that fateful encounter in Farhampton, but the show is once again off to a strong start, moving things towards the finish line instead of just biding time. Here’s to praying that Milioti’s Mother continues to inject life back into a terrific series that deserves the legendary ending fans have been waiting for.
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MUSIC COLUMN
We have to stop romanticizing gang violence
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he first time I’d heard of Chief Keef was during an interview with Gregg Gillis, a.k.a. Girl Talk. I’d asked the mix-master who he thought were the real up-andcomers, the guys Gregg would one day be sampling to create his own mashups. Among ELLIOT others was ALPERN this guy I’d never heard of. “I think, from the rap world, Chief Keef definitely has the most buzz right now,” Gillis told me. “He’s definitely a street rapper … he could be the next Waka Flocka character.” “Click clack, pow, now he running / Don’t be fuckin’ wit my youngins” — it’s not too hard to see why Chief Keef garners that “street-rapper” classification. Keef is the kind of character who walks onstage to a chorus of air horns and police sirens, who pumps raw energy into a rollicking crowd. But more, he’s a member of the new class of “drill” rappers — so named for the gritty, violence-saturated inspiration of inner-city Chicago. “Kill y’all then forget y’all / I feel like popping red dots / Big guns that knock ya head off.” That comes from one of Keef’s earliest hits, “3hunna,” upon which he began to build his career in music. By the age of 18, when Keith Cozart (the man behind the Keef) signed a $6-million deal with Interscope Records, the rapper had already been charged with heroin manufacture, had both shot at and had been shot at by police officers. A few months after that three-album blockbuster deal, Cozart was investigated in connection with the murder of rival rapper Lil JoJo.
Chief Keef’s lyrics are grounded in violent reality. If you haven’t seen the article on Wired about the role of social media in Lil JoJo’s death, do yourself a favor and check it out. The recounting there of the night Lil JoJo got killed is chilling in its accuracy, all plotted out over the cold, uncaring frames of Twitter posts. The gist of it is pretty clear though. On Sept. 4, Lil JoJo drove into Black Disciples territory, the gang represented by none other than Mr. Keef. The last tweet he ever
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sent read: “lmao im on 069 Stop The Fuckin flexin.” And, not long after JoJo’s murder, two entries appeared on Keef’s Twitter. First: “hahahahahhahahahah ahahahaahhAAHAHAHAHA #RichNiggaShit.” And then: “Its Sad Cuz Dat Nigga Jojo Wanted To Be Jus Like Us #LMAO”. Of course, the rapper later blamed the tweets as a byproduct of hacking. He would pull the stunt again after Lupe Fiasco slammed Keef as a “hoodlum,” tweeting: “Lupe fiasco a hoe ass nigga. And wen I see him I’ma smack him like da lil bitch he is #300.” To be honest, I’m not writing this article to rail on Chief Keef — guys like him don’t, or won’t, change. Who would possibly look at $6 million and think, “Wow, time to change my ways”? Fame, fortune, idolization — it’s all the fuel an egocentric bonfire needs to keep burning without relent. Really, the blame needs to reside in those ignorant souls who keep buying this stuff. Yes, ignorant. Yes, I’m calling Girl Talk ignorant, even though I still really like Gregg as a person. Because, really, only ignorance can foster that kind of separation — rapping along to Keef in the car, as his schoolmates, his blockmates, his family members, all die in the name of Chicago gang life. Street life — driller life. I know I railed on the guy in my last column, but as a Chi-town native, Kanye seems to see the warfare clearer than most: “314 soldiers died in Iraq, 509 died in Chicago.” That was back on Watch the Throne, which even then used 2008 numbers, but the message is the same: Where’s the media coverage for Chicago? Why hasn’t anything changed — and more, why are guys like Chief Keef getting featured on “Grand Theft Auto V”? Speaking of which, Keef was eventually let off the hook, even though Lil JoJo’s mom still maintains that the Chief paid off JoJo’s killers. In an unrelated incident, though, our driller was brought up on parole violation charges after posting a video which showed Keef firing off guns at the shooting range. “Fucka TOOKA gang!!! BITCH IM 3Hunna,” he tweeted after leaving juvie. His account, which goes under the moniker AlmightySo, has close to 800,000 followers. It doesn’t have to be like this. At least, it doesn’t have to be glorified — the sooner we can stop romanticizing about throwing up gang signs, the sooner we can actually see that there’s a very real, serious problem growing in Chicago. Alpern is reading all the tweets. To get him to follow you, e-mail ealpern@umich.edu.
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Is Beyoncé a femme fatale or a third-wave feminist? By HANNAH WEINER Daily Arts Writer
She’s a brand, a household name — she’s even on the big screen at the Big House. And she’s married to arguably the biggest and most commercially successful rapper of this era. She’s the halftime show of the Superbowl, she’s sexy, she’s rich. To put it simply: Beyoncé is powerful. And, so what? The answer to this question lies in the minds of academics far more learned on American culture and feminism than myself, but it’s worth asking. Because it matters that Beyoncé presents herself in an overtly sexualized outfit and performance during the Superbowl halftime show. It matters that she took Jay Z’s last name — and that he took her last name, too. It matters that she sings “Bow Down, Bitches.” It matters that, in the beginning of her film, she says, “I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it: Money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define
value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.” It matters that she’s a selfproclaimed feminist. It matters that Beyoncé straddles the line between objectified and empowered, sexual hedonism and militant feminism. Remember when she sang the lines: “The shoes on my feet, I’ve bought it / The clothes I’m wearing, I’ve bought it / The rock I’m rockin’, I’ve bought it / ’Cause I depend on me”? Beyoncé has undoubtedly bought all these things and more. She’s financially independent, which gives her power to “run the show” and define value. With this power and position, she can sway the minds of young America to redefine what’s sexy and valuable. But, Beyoncé knows that the game is the game. She knows that her audience includes men who love nothing more than submitting her to the “male gaze.” So, while those sexy, dominatrix outfits (á la Superbowl halftime show and “Single Ladies” music video) show “control” of her sexuality, they also cater directly to a male
audience — you know, the one that supports the shoes on her feet, the clothes she’s wearing and the rock she’s rockin’. Beyoncé only kind of depends on herself — she also relies on these dudes buying her albums and thinking she’s hot. So she plays the role of a dominatrix, but then she takes it a step further. If you’ve heard her song “Bow Down, Bitches,” you’ve most likely felt astounded at her hyper-aggressive message and her use of “bitch.”
Who really does run the music world? What happened to “Single Ladies,” Bey? Or “Girls Run the World?” With “Bow Down, Bitches” and her self-appointment of “Queen Bey,” fangirls (like myself ) all over college campuses are left perplexed. Hip-hop feminist Joan Morgan
put it best when she tweeted: “Beyoncé’s value to feminists isn’t that she’s a feminist. It’s that she gets feminists to talk about really nuanced, complicated shit.” Beyoncé knows whatever she says or does, we (at least the college girl fanbase) will drool over, tweet and probably recall in some cultural studies class, just because we can and just because Bey did it. With this in mind, Beyoncé holds a bizarrely novel power card in empowering women. She encourages us to celebrate our bodies. She encourages us to be financially independent. She encourages us to love our ancestry: Beyoncé helps keep her female rhythm and soul and blues ancestry line alive (Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Diana Ross, Josephine Baker, etc.) and progresses this African-American musical inheritance in a rebelliously spirited way other singers cannot. She encourages us to shake our hips, to sing and dance in a way only third-wave feminists understand: with all our bitches.
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In the midst of its Final Four run to cap last season, the Michigan men’s basketball team began branding itself as Team 96, celebrating what was thought to be the 96th year of the basketball program. That was until, “we discovered there was a year in 1909
that we did have a team,” Michigan coach John Beilein said, laughing, at his Friday press conference to open the 2013-14 season. Historical discrepancies aside, Team 96’s — or is it 97 now? — point guard and consensus National Player of the Year Trey Burke is gone. The biggest question mark in deciding whether Team 98 will
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cement its own legacy rests in the hands of freshman point guard Derrick Walton Jr. Until foul trouble sidelined Burke for most of the National Championship’s first half, he was the
floor general in nearly every meaningful minute the Wolverines played last year. And while his backup, Spike Albrecht, certainly entrenched himself in Michigan lore with
“This change is so good overall.”
a heroic 17-point half in place of Burke, it’s unlikely that the sharp-shooting sophomore has the physical tools to be a season-long starter on a Wolverine squad with enough talent to justify top-10 expectations. Fortunately for Michigan, a new rule was implemented this year giving coaches six additional practices over the course of two added weeks to the front
of the preseason. The move couldn’t come at a better time for Beilein and his staff in their attempt to acclimate Walton to the college game before the tough non-conference slate kicks off in November. “This change is so good overall,” Beilein said. “It’s a whole different dynamic because of the amount of time that we can See BASKETBALL, Page 3B
Offensive woes continue in Big Ten opener By MINH DOAN For the Daily
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Sophomore midfielder Cassie Collins had one of just five Michigan shots on goal in Sunday’s 1-0 loss to Minnesota.
Michigan can’t find back of the net over weekend By BRAD WHIPPLE For the Daily
In socWISCONSIN 0 cer, outO MICHIGAN shooting an opponent does MINNESOTA 1 0 MICHIGAN not necessarily guarantee a victory. To win, those shots need to cross a white
line, a fact that the Michigan women’s soccer team was harshly made aware of this weekend. “(Statistically), Michigan was by far the better team today,” said Michigan head coach Greg Ryan. “But you gotta hit the net.” After playing on the road for its last two games, the No. 13 Michigan women’s soccer team returned to Ann Arbor this weekend for a two-game homes-
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tand. The Wolverines opened Big Ten play on Friday against No. 18 Wisconsin before matching up against unranked Minnesota on Sunday. Friday night’s game between the Wolverines (1-1-1 Big Ten, 7-2-1 overall) and the Badgers (2-0-1, 8-1-2) ended in a scoreless tie, and the Wolverines’ inability to score came back to hurt them in a 1-0 loss to Minnesota on
Sunday. The closest Michigan came to finding the net against Wisconsin on Friday was in the 17th minute when freshman forward Madisson Lewis rocketed one into the upper net, but the shot found the hands of Badger goalie Genevieve Richard. Senior forward Nkem Ezurike also had a close shot in the 61st minute to See SHUTOUTS, Page 3B
On a rare night in which the Michigan band and cheer teams came out to support the men’s soccer team play its Big Ten opener against No. 7 Northwestern (1-0-0 Big Ten, 7-1-0 overall), the Wolverines could do no better than a 2-0 loss. After a tough tie N-WESTERN 2 on Tues0 MICHIGAN day at Oakland, in which Michigan had 16 shots with only five on target, the script was mostly the same Saturday night as the Wolverines (0-1-0, 2-3-3) outshot the Wildcats 15-5 but could only muster five on goal. While Michigan lamented its shooting woes, Northwestern capitalized on its few chances, putting two in the net off four shots on goal. “We’re putting a lot of pressure on ourselves because the goals are not coming, but our performance is there,” said senior forward Fabio Pereira. “We outplayed (Northwestern) for 90 minutes today.” Unlike Tuesday when Oakland dominated possession, the Wolverines moved the ball with speed and precision and dominated possession over a top-10
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Northwestern team. “We were the better team,” said Michigan coach Chaka Daley. “We had the more quality chances.” Michigan had an almost perfect start early in the game when sophomore forward James Murphy rifled a shot in the fourth minute from the left edge of the six-yard box. From the angle of the crowd, it looked as if it had gone in. Celebration and cheering ensued. But to the home crowd’s dismay, Murphy’s shot hit the outside netting of the goal. The Wolverines continued to dominate possession in the first half, but, Northwestern was the first and only team to increase their goal tally. The Wildcats’ first goal was off a free-kick set piece taken by midfielder Brandon Medina. As the ball was played into the box, it missed every player’s head and took a bounce outside the six-yard box before tucking itself into the far-left corner of the goal, just away from the outstretched arm of redshirt junior goalie Adam Grinwis. “It’s a free kick, guys run across it, and it just skipped through,” Daley said. The talented freshman MediSee GOALLESS, Page 3B
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SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN
When it comes to protecting vulnerable, department has head in the sky
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rite this in the sky: the problem with the Michigan Athletic Department isn’t that it blundered the basketball student seasonticket process, nor is it the change in the football ticket policy. It isn’t that it has painted the sky with its own name ZACH or that it has HELFAND marketed nearly every marketable piece of tradition left in this school. It’s certainly not the misguided assertion that somehow the Athletic Department is making too much money. The problem is that, at a public non-profit institution, that money is supposed to support some mission. The problem is that instead of supporting some mission, the Athletic Department is throwing money into the troposphere; meanwhile, it won’t shell out the money that could protect summer campers, entrusted to the department’s care, from abuse. Last Tuesday, Athletic Camp Administrator Katie Miranto said that the department doesn’t run thorough background checks on its summer camp counselors and doesn’t provide any sexual-abuse prevention training. Currently, the department only checks for crimes committed in the state of Michigan, even though a third of its counselors are from out of state. “I can’t even describe to you how many gaps there are and how nervous I get over the summer,” Miranto said at a forum Tuesday. By now, the line between the Michigan Athletic Department and a corporation is microscopic. And that’s not necessarily bad; it’s a reality of competing in current college athletics. Yet to the critics, the Athletic
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Michigan Athletic Director Dave Brandon has been criticized for ticket policies, but the real issue is that the department won’t pay for expanded background checks.
Department suffers from a greed problem. If any year has symbolized the current department’s oversized spending and moneygrabbing, it is this year, right? This department has introduced a temporary giant Kraft noodle advertisement in Michigan Stadium, spent thousands on a controversial skywriting marketing campaign and oversold the Michigan basketball student section, so that the students who paid for guaranteed tickets to each basketball game would no longer be guaranteed tickets to each basketball game. But those critics that demonize the department’s profits are missing the point. The problem isn’t that the Athletic Department has chosen to fund a skywriting campaign. The problem is that the Athletic Department has chosen to fund a skywriting campaign rather than pay to protect vulner-
able children. How did we get here? The money isn’t the problem. Ignoring, for a moment, the fact that college athletic departments make their money off athletes who are not allowed to profit off their labor (and yes, this is a major point to ignore), more money is not a bad thing. For a public institution that receives taxpayer money, more money from any source other than the taxpayers is a good thing. The fact that the Michigan Athletic Department can sustain itself is a very good thing. Money funds scholarships and maintains teams. It builds the buildings that bring in the recruits. The Classics Department wants more money to improve its facilities and hire the best professors. The Athletic Department does too. So when the department pays
thousands of dollars to put its name in the sky, the only question worth asking is: Is this profitable? Michigan’s chief marketing officer, Hunter Lochmann, says yes. After criticism of the skywriting campaign, Lochmann posted several responses on Twitter. “When it was all said and done, each message cost about $100,” he wrote in one message. “The ROI? the best marketing tactic we do each year.” That sounds reasonable. And it is not without precedent. Before skywriting, there were helicopters: former Michigan Athletic Director Don Canham had a helicopter advertise for Michigan football over a Detroit Tigers World Series game in 1968. The reaction was negative then, too, but today no one objects that Canham’s marketing efforts modernized and funded the future of Michigan athletics.
Then came Tuesday, when Miranto exposed holes in the Athletic Department’s background checks. The revelation was troubling. The reasoning was predictable. Miranto said the department didn’t perform broader background checks because they couldn’t afford it. “That is a huge area of concern right now, but the way the system is built, it’s really our only option for cost reasons, for how fast we need to turn the background check around,” Miranto said. And there’s the problem. Money is good for the Athletic Department if it serves some greater mission. That mission should go further than just funding the $850,000 base salary that Michigan Athletic Director Dave Brandon will earn this year. The mission should also go further than the acquisition of
even more money. Modern athletic departments aren’t corporations, even if they are now nearly indistinguishable. There are no shareholders to report to and no dividends to issue. To return to the Classics Department example, its mission is to educate students and improve its academic standing to contribute to Michigan’s general reputation. That’s why it wants to improve facilities and hire the best professors. The Athletic Department’s mission, in theory, is the same: to serve its student-athletes and to serve as a tool that promotes the University as a whole. And the money is important, as it helps the University continue to project a tradition of winning. But when the Athletic Department neglects a broader background check each of which would cost less than say, oh, a skywritten message, that represents some deeply misplaced priorities. It has strayed from the mission and diluted the very brand it seeks to uphold when the department failed to protect its most vulnerable constituents. It has failed, so much so that Miranto said she has trouble sleeping at night due to the security lapses. Not exactly a vote of confidence from the woman in charge of running the summer camps. If something terrible were to happen, it would be pretty clear where the blame is. The great thing about having a $137.5 million budget and a projected surplus of $8.9 million is that it can pay for things that really matter. Things like protecting campers from abuse. That, above all, is what all the “Wow experiences” and Kraft noodles and flyovers are supposed to pay for. But instead of protecting the children entrusted into its care, the Athletic Department was too busy painting its name in the sky. -Helfand can be reached at zhelfand@umich.edu
Wolverines stall on road in B1G opener By LEV FACHER Daily Sports Writer
Over the weekend, the Michigan volleyball team saw the same scene play out twice in a 24-hour span — once 1 MICHIGAN in ColumOHIO STATE 3 bus and then again 1 MICHIGAN in State PENN STATE 3 College. It’s one that the Wolverines don’t want to see play out again. Against No. 13 Ohio State on Friday night, Michigan rallied in the second set to tie the match at one before succumbing to offensive pressure from the Buckeyes
in the third. Back-to-back kills from Buckeye outside hitter Kaitlyn Leary gave Ohio State a 22-19 lead from which the Wolverines never recovered. The Buckeyes took the fourth set, 25-17, to close out the match. Michigan didn’t fare any better the next night against Penn State, coming back from a loss in the opening set to tie the match at one going into the break. But the topranked Nittany Lions controlled play for the rest of the night, coasting to a 3-1 victory. The loss drops the Wolverines’ record to 0-2 in Big Ten play and 10-3 overall. Friday night, Michigan and Ohio State traded points throughout the first set, but stalled coming
out of a late timeout. The Wolverines dropped four of the final five points to give Ohio State a 25-22 win and a 1-0 lead in the match. They recovered in the second set, though, taking the Buckeyes down to the wire and eventually pulling out a 27-25 win that deadlocked the match at one. After dropping the third set, 25-20, Michigan began the fourth with a ferocity it hadn’t yet shown on the evening, jumping out to a 4-1 advantage behind more heroics from the night’s stars, senior outside hitter Molly Toon and senior setter Lexi Dannemiller. The pair paced the Wolverines with 16 kills and 44 assists, respectively, and was strong offensively for Michigan throughout the weekend despite the 0-2 finish. But the stretch of energetic play was short-lived — Ohio State won 11 of the next 12 points to take a 15-5 lead and coasted the rest of the way to earn the 3-1 victory. “Molly played really well all weekend,” said Michigan coach Mark Rosen. “I think Dannemiller and (senior middle blocker) Jennifer Cross did a great job together, too.” Despite the duo’s performance, Rosen lamented his team’s lack of consistency over the weekend, especially against the Buckeyes. “We gave up streaks of points,” Rosen said. “In this conference, you have to be steady. Top to bottom, the Big Ten is ridiculously difficult.” That top-to-bottom strength had already showed its face on Friday night — like the Wolverines, Penn State entered Saturday night’s top-10 showdown licking its wounds, having been upset a night earlier by Michigan State. But the Nittany Lions had won 42 of their last 45 games against Michigan at Rec Hall and showed no signs of bucking that trend in front of a rowdy crowd of 3,506. The first set on Saturday night saw a head-to-head battle in the early going between Toon and Penn State’s Megan Courtney, the reigning Big Ten Freshman of the Year. But the Nittany Lions pulled away to a 15-10 lead mid-
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Senior outside hitter Molly Toon had 37 combined kills over two games this weekend, but it wasn’t enough for Michigan.
way through the set, and Michigan never recovered, dropping the set 25-16. Penn State repeatedly took advantage of space left between the Wolverines’ right-side block and the unsuspecting back line of defenders, earning several easy points on soft drop shots that fell into open space, often in front of sophomore libero Tiffany Morales. “We adjusted well,” Rosen said. “We took that away eventually. No matter what defense you use, there will be space for the other team to try to take advantage of.” The second set remained competitive throughout, with neither
side taking a lead of more than two points until Cross and Toon combined for an over-the-middle block that gave the Wolverines an 18-15 lead. The Nittany Lions came storming back to tie the game at 19, prompting Rosen to take a timeout. But Toon took control of the set in its closing moments, earning two kills and a crucial block that, coupled with a pair of Penn State attack errors, put the Wolverines up 24-19. Fittingly, Toon closed the set out off yet another feed from Dannemiller, but that was the last of Michigan’s success. Coming out of the break, the Nittany Lions
thoroughly controlled the flow of the game in the third and fourth sets and sent the Wolverines home winless in the Big Ten. “We’re still in a good place,” Toon soon. “We like playing competitive teams. We’re obviously upset about the losses, but (our play this weekend) gives us a good starting point from now on.” Rosen reiterated that the strength of the conference is unprecedented, and that achieving success on a week-to-week basis against such elite competition is easier said than done. “The Big Ten is the strongest it’s ever been,” Rosen said. “We’ve got to adjust to that level of play.”
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THE MICHIGAN DAILY TOP-10 POLL Each week, Daily sports staffers fill out ballots, with first place votes receiving 10 points, secondplace votes receiving nine, and so on.
1. ALABAMA (17): Alabama whitewashed Ole Miss, 25-0, but in the Rebels’ defense, the entire team stayed at home to watch Book of Manning.
6. TEXAS A&M: If Johnny Manziel sells some more autographs, maybe he can afford a decent defense.
2. OREGON: I will not quack at the principal. R.I.P. Hans.
7. GEORGIA: The Dawgs told Les Miles to kiss their grass.
3. OHIO STATE: They are our rivals.
8. LOUISVILLE: What’s the right way to pronounce Louisville. No joke here. Someone please help.
4. CLEMSON: All Wake Forest ever wanted to do was break the Tigers’ walls. All the Tigers ever did was wreck them.
5. STANFORD: The Cardinal twerked all over the Cougars Saturday night. Meow.
GOALLESS From Page 1B na was yet again at the center of the action on Northwestern’s second goal, as he played a beautiful one-touch pass over the Michigan defense. While the Wolverines defense watched the ball go over their heads, Northwestern forward Joey Calistri — the Big Ten’s leading scorer — made a run and found himself with a one-on-one with Grinwis and skillfully shot the ball underneath the sprawling goalie. Unlike the Wildcats, who were clinical with their chances, the Wolverines were sloppy.
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In the 17th minute, redshirt sophomore midfielder Colin McAtee intercepted an errant pass at midfield and passed the ball to Murphy down the field in a two-on-one situation. However, Michigan could not capitalize on the mistake by the Wildcats as Murphy held on to the ball too long. When he tried to pass it back to McAtee, it was intercepted by a Northwestern defender. Pereira — playing away from his usual position in the midfield — also had a golden chance to put the Wolverines on the board in the 59th minute. He took a pass from McAtee inside the six-yard box, but his shot at point-blank range skied over the
goal. He buried his head into his hands in disappointment. Even though the game resulted in zero points for the Wolverines, the team dominated a top-10 team in every facet of the game besides the two errant goals that were scored by the Wildcats. The admirable performance shown by Michigan on Saturday night bodes well for the match against Western Michigan on Wednesday and the resumption of Big Ten schedule. “It’s still a long season to go,” Pereira said. “We just have to focus on Western Michigan and getting out of there with three points.”
9. FLORIDA STATE: If the Semi-noles beat BC by 14 points, does that mean a team of full-on Noles would’ve won by 28?
10. SOUTH CAROLINA: The Cocks nearly blew it early to UCF, but it’s all about the finish, and in that category, the Cocks performed.
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Redshirt sophomore midfielder Colin McAtee had several near-assists over the weekend, but no one could capitalize.
SHUTOUT From Page 1B the right side of the net that was saved by Richard. The Wolverines ended up tying the Badgers in shots at 13, but could not capitalize on any of them. “The tie with Wisconsin was a fair result,” said Ryan. “I think they are a very good team and both (Wisconsin and Michigan) played exceptionally hard. I felt like we brought that again today. I thought we played hard, I thought we played well, but again, in soccer you got to put away your chances to win games.” This difficulty in scoring can be attributed to the team’s inaccuracy on goal. Most of the shots taken ended up wide of the net or far above the crossbar. But while the team’s offensive struggles are ever apparent, the defense continues to shine. The Badgers were barely able to cross midfield — their first shot of the half came 40 minutes in. The Wolverines also put a lot of pressure on two of Wisconsin’s strongest players, midfielder/forward Rose Lavelle and forward Cara Walls, who other teams have struggled to defend. “None of (Lavelle’s shots) were threatening,” Ryan said. “She was under pressure the whole night. We gave (senior midfielder Megan) Toohey the role of just shutting that kid down because nobody else has been able to do it. I thought Megan may be player of the match for us because of handling that.” Friday’s game was also one of the more physically challenging matchups that Michigan has played this season, as players
were often slow to get up after tackles. In the 18th minute of the Wisconsin game, senior forward Shelby Chambers-Garcia was knocked hard to the ground, and a yellow card was issued to Badger defender Alexander Heller. Senior midfielder Tori McCombs and Wisconsin midfielder/forward Lindsey Holmes had an argument on field with some shoving. Throughout the weekend, the Wolverines’ offense was aggressive and pushed downfield with ease. When it came to putting pressure on the other team and creating passing lanes, Michigan was excellent. It broke past defenders with speed and agility to get in positions that created many scoring opportunities. However, the Wolverines continue to struggle with finishing their chances. This scoring drought was more evident and more problematic in the Wolverines’ second contest against Minnesota (0-2-0, 7-2). Despite outshooting the Gophers 18-6, Michigan’s weekend ended with their second loss. “Today we had the chances but just didn’t put them away,” Ryan said. “I mean look at the ones right in front of the goal.” The closest chance Michigan had to tie the game came late in the second half off a corner kick from senior defender Shelina Zadorsky to senior defender Holly Hein in the 52nd minute. Hein had a wide-open net but did not have the angle she needed to head the ball in the right direction. Minnesota’s game-winning goal off a ball from midfielder Katie Thyken was bad timing for Michigan’s defense. After a
corner kick by junior midfielder Jen Larrick, confusion occurred in front of the penalty box as players lined up in front of freshman goalie Taylor Bucklin. With Bucklin unable to pinpoint the ball, Thyken launched one over the line of players toward the right side of the net. “The real difficulty was, I think Taylor was screened on the play,” Ryan said. “We had that wall of players around her. I think it just went over somebody’s shoulder, and then she didn’t see it until it was (in the net).” Similar to Wisconsin, Sunday was physically trying for players on both sides. Minnesota goalie Tarah Hobbs’s crash with freshman midfielder Nicky Waldeck required a break in the game, as it took a few minutes for her to recover while Waldeck was a little shaken. “I’m glad there weren’t any injuries,” Ryan said. “If we can keep our team healthy, we can compete with any team in the conference. Staying healthy is crucial.” While Michigan is having a hard time converting its chances into goals, the Wolverines continue to practice it to avoid losses like this weekend’s. Ten different players have scored this season, and 15 players have recorded at least one point. Michigan’s main problem is playing consistently well. Ryan mentioned they always work on finishing in the penalty box through matchups between players, four-on-four or five-on-five. “Even though the results are not good,” Ryan said. “I’m encouraged by the performances of the players.”
BASKETBALL From Page 1B practice. “Six extra practices should really be helpful for us.” Fifth-year senior forward Jordan Morgan highlighted a specific area where the rule could particularly benefit Walton, explaining that Beilein always opens fall practices by reteaching even the most basic fundamentals such as “how to catch the ball.” That made an alreadytight window even smaller for the newcomers to pick up Beilein’s complex offense. “We’ve had months now where that stuff is already engrained in everybody, even the freshmen,” Morgan said of the differences in this year’s offseason. “Now we can focus on trying to establish an identity in our offense and defense.” This isn’t the first time in Beilein’s seven-year Michigan tenure where a freshman point guard is poised to play significant minutes. Burke, and Darius Morris before him, each arrived in Ann Arbor as highly-acclaimed recruits and departed two years later as NBA Draft picks.
“I’ve been doing it a long time, so it seems like every couple years, you’re breaking in a new guard,” Beilein said. “They’re the quarterback. They’re the one you probably have to the greatest connection with. So I’m pretty used to it.” But still, that doesn’t necessarily make it easier for Beilein, who was asked how long it’ll take for him to trust Walton with his
“Now we can focus on trying to establish an identity...” offense’s reins. “Every young man, it takes a while,” Beilein said. “Trust maybe isn’t the right word — I trust them all — just make sure that we’re on the same page is the biggest issue. “I trust they’re learning is what I trust and as a result, I expect him to be like every freshman, to have some moments where I’m
like, ‘What are you thinking?’ and at the same time, I’ll say, ‘Are you getting it?’ So this young man, from everything that I’ve seen so far, has the ability to pick up things pretty quickly.” Notes: Beilein announced that sophomore forward Mitch McGary has been limited in practice with what he called a “lower back condition.” McGary, who had a breakout postseason run that landed him on several early preseason All-America teams, is officially listed as dayto-day and isn’t expected to miss any game time. … According to Beilein, he and his assistants will focus on individual players for the next two weeks, and he said it’s unlikely any concrete lineup decisions will be made until exhibition season. The Wolverines open with Concordia on Oct. 29, 10 days before the regular season officially kicks off.
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