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Protestors demonstrate outside of the Supreme during the Fisher v. University of Texas on October 10, 2012. The Court will take up affirmative action again, this time specific to Michigan, with oral arguments begin Tuesday.
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will hear oral arguments on Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, a case that will approach the question of whether or not the state of Michigan violated the U.S. Constitution and federal statutory law by changing the state’s constitution to prohibit all sexand race-based discrimination or preferential treatment. The case is part of a series of responses that occurred after the Supreme Court’s 2003 decision on affirmative action involving admissions to the University’s Law School in Grutter v. Bollinger, which bears the name of former University President Lee Bollinger, now president of Columbia
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Michigan residents voted to ban affirmative action in 2006 ballot initiative, but a case before the U.S. Supreme Court may reverse that decision and set a new precedent for the way Michigan’s higher-education institutions consider race in application processes. On Tuesday, the justices
University. In a 5-4 decision, the court held that the Law School’s more holistic admissions program, which included race as a possible factor in admissions decisions, was constitutional. However, in Gratz v. Bollinger, the court held that the University’s undergraduate admissions program’s assigning substantial points to certain students based on race was unconstitutional since the undergraduate admissions process was more formulaic. After the ruling, the University and many other institutions adopted programs that were closer to the Law School’s holistic approach and did not assign point values based on the
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different qualities the applicant possessed, particularly those related to race. However, the two Supreme Court rulings based on University admissions policies did not quell controversy surrounding affirmative action, and in 2006, 58 percent of Michigan voters approved Proposal 2. The referendum amended the Michigan constitution to prohibit racially based preferences in admissions for public universities. University President Mary Sue Coleman has continued to be a vocal proponent of the use of affirmative action in highereducation policies, and the day after the passage of Proposal See PROP, Page 3
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Biz incubator expands to aid older startups Stage two of program helps growing ventures By WILL GREENBERG Daily Staff Reporter
Local business incubator Ann Arbor SPARK has expanded to help Ann Arbor technology startups grow and increase profitability. SPARK has added a second stage to its incubation program, allowing startups a chance to advance from stage one after growing to four or five employees. The second stage allows companies to maintain support from the incubator until they reach 12 employees. Bill Mayer, director of business acceleration at SPARK, said creating the bridge between the early beta stages of a new product and profitability from that product is very helpful for young companies — especially in Ann Arbor where space can be hard to find and is particularly expensive. “It doesn’t make sense for a company for 12 months, espe-
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cially a task for startups, to pay for twice the space they need hoping that they’ll grow into it,” he said. “Now we’ve grown the capacity of companies that we can house along their growth curve.” SPARK’s new space on the third floor of its East Liberty Street building adds 2,500 square feet. He added that having stage two helps solve a space problem, with the stage one space becoming overfilled with rapidly growing companies. Stage two currently has three residents, he said. Len Gauger, creator of Message Blocks, an event-planning service, is one of the stage-two residents. He said SPARK’s expansion has allowed him and his company to stay in Ann Arbor. “Being involved in the stage two allowed us to continue growing our company without really chilling our bank account,” Gauger said. While Gauger said an entrepreneur with a profitable idea is likely to be successful on his or her own, he said the SPARK program provided many cruSee BIZ, Page 3
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approved Proposal 2 in 2006, which banned public colleges in the state from taking race into account as a factor in admissions, the University has made significant changes in the way it considers applicants. The Law School, especially, which survived the scrutiny of U.S. Supreme Court in its affirmative action admissions process in See DEBATE, Page 3
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University ranks third in cost of attendance List compiled in response to Obama pledge to keep college a sound investment By JEN CALFAS Daily Staff Reporter
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Ann Arbor bar managers mixed on proposed laws House, Senate to debate longer hours, rules on glass size By STEPHANIE SHENOUDA Daily Staff Reporter
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less than their advertisements suggested. A second piece of legislation would allow bars the option to stay open until 4 a.m., as opposed to the current closing time of 2 a.m., provided they pay $10,000 fee each year. In an interview with NBC News, state Rep. David Knezek (D–Dearborn Heights), a sponsor of the legislation, said the See BAR, Page 3
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The University placed third in a set of rankings that reflects President Barack Obama’s criteria for affordability in higher education. The report, released by Affordable Colleges Online, serves as a response the Obama administrations’s proposed plan to make federal funding focus on “making college a smart long-term investment for everyone,” according to the website. The ranking’s methodology considered the net price of tuition and fees subtracted by scholarship money provided per capita, student loan default rate, graduation rate, the breadth and depth of student services and starting salaries for graduates. In August, Obama proposed the new set of criteria for determining federal funding for higher-education institutions. The plan is to reward institutions for offering the greatest See COST, Page 3
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down security officials and kidnapping their relatives. At the same time, the state relies on militias to act as security forces, since the police and military remain in disarray after dictator Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown and killed in 2011. The militias are rooted in the brigades that fought in the uprising and are often referred to as “revolutionaries.” Many militias are paid by the Defense or Interior ministries — which are in charge of the military and police respectively — although the ministries are still unable to control them. Not only was Zidan abducted by militiamen who officially work in a state body, it took other militias to rescue him by storming the site where he was held in the capital. “The abduction is like the shock that awakened Libyans. Facts on the ground now are clearer than never before: Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — The abduction was brief but still audacious: Gunmen from one of Libya’s many militias stormed a hotel where the prime minister has a residence and held him for several hours Thursday — apparently in retaliation for his government’s alleged collusion with the U.S. in a raid last weekend that captured an al-Qaida suspect. The brazen seizure of Prime Minister Ali Zidan heightened the alarm over the power of unruly militias that virtually hold the weak central government hostage. Many of the militias include Islamic militants and have ideologies similar to al-QaiThe armed bands regularly Sudokuda’s. Syndication use violence to intimidate officials to sway policies, gunning
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is ruled by militias,” said prominent rights campaigner Hassan al-Amin. Zidan’s abduction came before dawn Thursday, when about 150 gunmen in pickup trucks stormed the luxury Corinthia Hotel in downtown Tripoli, witnesses told The Associated Press. They swarmed into the hobby and some charged up to Zidan’s residence on the 21st floor. The gunmen scuffled with Zidan’s guards before they seized him and led him out at around 5:15 a.m., said the witnesses, UNCREDITED/AP speaking on condition of anoEgyptian President Mohammed Morsi, center, speaks with Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left, at a nymity because they feared for military base in Ismailia, Egypt. their own safety. They said Zidan offered no resistance. In the afternoon, government spokesman Mohammed Kaabar told the LANA news agency that Zidan had been “set free.” A militia commander affiliated with the Interior Ministry said http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ his fighters, along with armed new government from tackling and the United States. groups from two Tripoli disEgypt’s pressing problems after Egyptian newspapers and tricts, Souq Jomaa and Tajoura, 2 ½ years of turmoil. television have for weeks taken stormed the house where Zidan Still, Egypt’s military-backed a deeply hostile line toward the was being held, exchanged fire government is unlikely to aban- United States, portraying Washwith the captors, and rescued don the road map it announced ington as unhappy to see Morsi him. when Morsi was removed in and his Muslim Brotherhood “He is now safe in a safe place,” CAIRO (AP) — Washington’s a July 3 coup — to amend the lose power and lambasting it for said Haitham al-Tajouri, comdecision to withhold millions of nation’s Islamist-tilted consti- allegedly meddling in Cairo’s mander of the Reinforcement dollars in mostly military aid to tution and put the changes to a affairs. Force, in an interview with AlEgypt is fueling anti-U.S. sentinationwide vote before the end The U.S. announced it was Ahrar TV. ment and the perception that of the year, and hold parliamen- freezing hundreds of milZidan later appeared at a Washington supports Mohamtary and presidential ballots in lions of dollars in aid, most of Cabinet session that was broadmed Morsi, the Islamist presiearly 2014. it meant for the armed forces, cast live. He thanked those dent the military ousted in a “Egypt is not so desperate as a show of displeasure over who helped free him but gave July coup. that it needs to compromise on Morsi’s ouster and the subseno details and avoided blaming That could boost the popuits political agenda,” the U.S.- quent crackdown on his Muslim those behind the abduction. larity of the military chief, based global intelligence firm, Brotherhood and other Islamist “We hope this matter will be Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Stratfor, wrote this week. allies. Washington said the aid treated with wisdom and ratiowhom the U.S. is trying to pres“The United States will be the would be restored if “credible nality, far from tension,” he said. sure to ensure a transition to one to eventually readjust to the progress” was made toward set“There are many things that need democracy and ease the fierce old reality of backing unpopular ting up an inclusive, democratidealing with.” crackdown on Morsi’s Muslim regimes that can preserve U.S. cally elected government. The abduction was carried Brotherhood. influence in the Nile River ValIn its announcement out by two state-affiliated miliThe aid freeze could also ley.” Wednesday, the U.S. State tia groups, the Revolutionaries embolden Morsi’s supporters Warnings that Washington Department did not provide Operation Room and the Antito intensify their campaign of might cut off aid were met with a dollar amount of what was Crime Department. They put street protests in the belief that a defiant response in the Egyp- being withheld, most of it linked out statements saying they had the military-backed governtian media. to military aid, but officials in “arrested” Zidan on accusations ment is losing the goodwill of “Let American aid go to hell,” Washington said it included 10 of harming state security and its top foreign backer. The proscreamed the banner headline of Apache helicopters at a cost of corruption. The public prosecutests, met by a fierce response Thursday’s edition of Al-Tahrir, more than $500 million, M1A1 tor’s office said it had issued no by security forces that has left an independent daily that is a tank kits and Harpoon antisuch warrant. hundreds dead, have kept the sworn critic of the Brotherhood ship missiles.
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Ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gets 28 years in jail A former Detroit mayor was sent to federal prison for nearly three decades Thursday, after offering little remorse for the widespread corruption under his watch but acknowledging he let down the troubled city during a critical period before it landed in bankruptcy. Prosecutors argued that Kwame Kilpatrick’s “corrupt administration exacerbated the crisis” that Detroit now finds itself in. A judge agreed with the government’s recommendation that 28 years in prison was appropriate for rigging contracts, taking bribes and putting his own price on public business. It is one of the toughest penalties doled out for public corruption in recent U.S. history and seals a dramatic fall for Kilpatrick, who was elected mayor in 2001 at age 31 and is the son of a former senior member of Congress.
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Ex-police officer warns people before shooting The ex-police officer who opened fire on a federal courthouse in West Virginia was a trained shooter who knew how to kill, yet federal officials said Thursday that he waved people away moments before he started spraying bullets into the glass facade and was later shot dead by law enforcement. Neither the FBI nor federal prosecutors would discuss the motive for 55-year-old Thomas J. Piccard’s assault. But two possible theories emerged as investigators gathered evidence and neighbors revealed that Piccard had recently told them he was dying of cancer. U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld said the building being the target and other evidence he wouldn’t specify indicates Piccard “had an anti-government bias.”
TEHRAN, Iran
Rebels kill Iranian Revolutionary Guards An Iranian semi-official news agency is reporting an armed group has killed five members of the elite Revolutionary Guards in a Kurdish area near the Iraqi border. The Thursday report by Fars quotes an unnamed official as saying two other members of the Guards were wounded in the midday clash with “counterrevolutionary armed guerrillas” near the Kurdish town of Baneh, some 305 miles (488 km) west of Tehran. The report did not name any group but the area is scene of occasional clashes between government forces and rebels.
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Google executive disagrees with complaints Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, said Thursday that he respects but disagrees with complaints about his company’s privacy policies made by data protection authorities in six European countries. Schmidt said the Internet search and ad giant has “very broadly communicated” its policies to authorities in the countries where the complaints have been made. Data watchdogs in France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands have said Google needs to provide additional guarantees to comply with national privacy protection rules in each of those countries. Schmidt made his comments in Athens while attending a technology event there, and after meeting with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. —Compiled from Daily wire reports
PROP From Page 1 2, she gave a dramatic speech on the Diag promising to maintain diversity at the University. “Make no mistake: We will find the route that continues our commitment to a richly diverse student body,” Coleman said in 2006. When commentingFisher v. University of Texas last year, Coleman rejected the argument that affirmative action was no longer necessary and said she couldn’t foresee a day when such programs were no longer necessary. Immediately after the vote, a number of pro-affirmativeaction groups filed suit against the state and its public higher education institutions in order to nullify the law, claiming it violated the U.S. Constitution. In addition, another suit was filed by a group of University students and professors with similar allegations as the first challenge to the law. State Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican, joined the cases as a defendant. In 2011, Judge David Lawson of the federal district court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted Schuette’s motion for summary judgment, which had the effect of upholding Michigan’s constitutional amendment and banning affirmative action. The coalition and university plaintiffs appealed to the Sixth Circuit Court, which struck down the amendment, agreeing that it violated the Constitution and federal statutory law. The sixth circuit then reviewed the case again with the full number of judges serving on the court and agreed with
DEBATE From Page 1 2003, was forced to restructure its holistic approach to the applications process so as not to include race. Data from the Law School’s admissions department shows that most minority students have not been affected by admissions without acknowledging race. The number of enrolled Black students, however, did decrease substantially, from 25 in 2006 to 14 in 2013. Sarah Zearfoss, the director of admissions for the Law School, said the admissions department began to more actively seek out a more diverse applicant pool as the department could not award points to an applicant’s individual diversity. “We can use our best efforts to recruit an applicant pool and to matriculate the people
News the earlier decision striking down Michigan’s constitutional amendment. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on the case. The court issued a notice Thursday that the oral arguments would take place Tuesday regardless of the government shutdown, which has paralyzed most of Washington D.C. Law Prof. Richard Friedman, an expert on U.S. Supreme Court history, said the plaintiffs will likely make the argument that this amendment is a type of political restructuring that disadvantages minority citizens. Friedman said the arguments will likely mirror the string of Supreme Court cases that dealt with violations of the 14th Amendment. Freedman cited the 1969 Supreme Court case Hunter v. Erickson in which the City of Akron, Ohio could not amend their city charter to allow housing ordinances with racial, religious or ancestral discrimination. Friedman added that the plaintiffs will argue that the case is similar to a Seattle case from 1982,Washington v. Seattle School District No. 1, in which the state attempted to amend its constitution banning busing for purposes of racial desegregation but allowed children to be bused from district to district for other purposes. Justice Harry Blackmun held in the majority opinion that it was a type of restructuring and violated the equal protection granted in the 14th Amendment. “That is the best case that the plaintiffs have” said Friedman, He indicated the similarities that both Schutte and the Seattle case involved a state-wide decision impacting something that might be done in favor of minorities.
Both states attempted to amend their constitutions to say, “No, we aren’t going to do it,” Freedman explained. However, Friedman said today’s bench will probably be less inclined to follow previous courts’ decisions. He noted that the court’s decision on the Seattle case functioned as a larger statement on discrimination, something he said today’s court is unlikely to do. “It is a very different atmosphere today from 1969 and 1982,” Friedman said. “So, you look at busing back then. Some courts were ordering busing in some circumstances— it was nevertheless a remedy that was being used to counter segregation. So when people voted against it, it had a strong racially tinged feeling. It was going a little bit against the judicial tide.” Friedman said based on evidence of the current court’s history with affirmative action — the law school case only won by a 5-4 vote, and in the case earlier this year, Fisher v. University of Texas, the Court tightened up where affirmative action was going to be allowed — he suspects the court will hold that Michigan voters can ban affirmative action without violating the federal constitution. “It is very hard here for a state to get past the Supreme Court saying we want to do affirmative action” Friedman said, “ so when a state says we don’t want the university to do affirmative action, I think the court is much more likely to be receptive to that.” “Here, affirmative action itself is hanging by a thread. When people say no I don’t want it, I think some of the justices are going to say of course the people can say that.”
who we’ve admitted, but without being able to take race into account in the decision-making process we necessarily have to admit fewer minorities than we did when we could employ affirmative action,” Zearfross said. “We aggressively recruit and have a number of recruiting efforts that we make to try and do our best but … we have fewer African-Americans in the class post-Prop 2.” She added that after the passage of Proposal 2, the department decided they still wanted to achieve a racially diverse student body — though it would not longer be a part of the application review. “There’s no good substitute for that as a factor in the decision-making,” Zearfross said. “We can’t and we still want to have a diverse student body so we do a lot to, as we say, create a diverse applicant pool.” The law school application process follows a self-
proclaimed holistic approach, in which the school considers all aspects of the applicant, excluding race. Zearfoss said that she never knows the race of an applicant she is reviewing. Zearfross said that if the U.S. Supreme Court decides to overturn the ban on affirmative action pending in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, which it will hear next week, the department would have to reevaluate what its admissions process would be. “If they struck down Prop 2, then we would be in the same place as every other private school in the nation, which does take race into account — at least, the elite schools do, and they have to comply with the Fisher decision from last term,” Zearfross said. “We haven’t really had to think about Fisher because Prop 2 trumps Fisher for us. If Prop 2 were to be struck down we would have to start all over from scratch.”
Four former U.S. officials meet with Edward Snowden Former officials say Snowden has no regrets about leaking information MOSCOW (AP) — Four former U.S. government officials who met with former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden said Thursday that he is adjusting to life in Russia and expresses no regrets about leaking highly classified information. Separately, Snowden’s father arrived to see his son. The Americans, who once worked for the CIA, FBI, Justice Department and NSA, have criticized the U.S. government and exposed what they believed was wrongdoing in the security agencies. All supporters of Snowden, they are the first Americans known to have met with him since he was granted asylum in Russia in August. In interviews with The Associated Press, they described spending the previous evening with Snowden to present him with an award given annually by a group of retired national security officers. “He spoke about going out and about and getting to under-
stand Russia and its culture and the people,” said Thomas Drake, who started working for the NSA in 2001 and disclosed an electronic espionage program that he saw as invasive. “This is where he lives now, and so where you live is your home.” Snowden’s father, Lon, did not say when or where he would meet his 30-year-old son, but expressed optimism about his situation. “You know, I have heard so many things through the media, and my assumption is certainly, given the circumstances, he’s doing as well as could be expected,” Lon Snowden told the AP shortly after he arrived in Moscow. “He’s safe and he’s free, and that’s a good thing.” The elder Snowden said he doubts his son will return to the United States, where he is charged with violating the Espionage Act for disclosing the NSA’s surveillance of phone and Internet usage around the world. The four former U.S. officials refused to say where they met with Snowden or where he is living. “For his own safety it’s best that no one else knows where he actually lives,” Drake said. “But I believe he is making the best of his circumstances and is
living as normally as possible.” Like Snowden, Drake was indicted under the Espionage Act, but the felony charges were dropped before trial and he was found guilty in 2011 on a lesser charge and sentenced to one year of probation and community service. Drake and the other Americans — Raymond McGovern, Jesselyn Radack and Coleen Rowley — said Snowden was in good spirits and still believes he did the right thing in disclosing the NSA surveillance program. All but McGovern are past recipients of the Sam Adams Award, named for a CIA analyst during the Vietnam War who accused the U.S. military of underestimating the strength of the enemy for political purposes. The award is given annually by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. The winner of the award in 2010 was WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. McGovern, a 74-year-old retired CIA officer who had worked with Adams, said the anti-secrecy group had facilitated its trip to Moscow and that WikiLeaks staffer Sarah Harrison, who had arrived with Snowden from Hong Kong in June, remained by his side.
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BIZ From Page 1 cial resources and connections he wouldn’t have had otherwise. Engineering lecturer Moses Lee is the founder of another SPARK stage-two company, Seelio, which helps students create a portfolio of their work before graduating. Lee and his co-founders are all University alumni. Seelio currently has 11 employees and is growing quickly, but Lee said SPARK
BAR From Page 1 bill is about consumer protection. Knezek said the only opposition he has received is from restaurant owners concerned that they may have to purchase all new glassware to abide by the new law, should it pass. Several Ann Arbor-area bars, including Good Time Charley’s, the Brown Jug Restaurant and The Blue Leprechaun, said they already use 16-ounce glasses for their standard drinks and don’t anticipate the possible passage of this bill having an impact on their serving habits. “Some places use 14-ounce glasses, but, according to the industry standard, you’re supposed to have about an inch of head on every glass, which accounts for about an ounce,” David Root, general manager of the Brown Jug, said. “If this standard was applied to liquor, though, it would help create a standard because everyone pours differently, so what’s one shot at one place might be closer to two at another.” He said the Brown Jug would probably not adopt these policies because management considers their establishment a bar and restaurant rather than a dance club. “We’re not a club, so people are coming in to drink but also to eat,” Root said. “Right now people start coming in for the night at about 11:30 (p.m.), so it would be pretty terrible for the staff if it didn’t start until 1:30 or later.” Root also sees the extended hours as a potential safety hazard, both with patrons consuming more alcohol and policing issues. “By 2 a.m., most people are pretty maxed out, and, by 3 o’clock, an hour after bars close, a lot of the police have left the area and gone back to their normal shifts, so it definitely might not be as safe that way,” Root said. “I think that if something like that was happening over here, word would get around pretty
COST From Page 1 value and opportunities for student success after graduation. The University placed behind the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which ranked first second, respectively. The University’s average starting salary of $51,300 ranked above the two schools and its average net price of attendance is calculated as being $14,074. Just as at the national level, the issue of college affordability sits at the forefront of concerns for University administrators, especially during the presidential search process. At University President Mary Sue Coleman’s annual leadership breakfast Tuesday, she reiterated the fundraising goals of the upcoming development campaign, Victors for Michigan. With a $1-billion goal for student aid, raising money to lower the cost of attendance is the campaign’s main focus. “We must provide the financial support to make a Michigan education possible for more students,” Coleman said Tuesday. “These are the campaign goals:
has helped the company expand across the country. “It allows us to focus in on operating our company and getting success and building the business and not having to worry about space — having to worry about the internet and coffee or things along those lines,” Lee said. He added that SPARK is one of the many business incubators in Ann Arbor that are helping foster growth for the large number of startups in the area. He said Seelio will likely move into its own office within the next six to 12 months.
fast,” he said. “As far as I know, a pint is 16 ounces so that’s what we use and that’s what I’ve heard most people use.” Gradillas said if the legislation passed today, The Blue Leprechaun would probably pay the $10,000 fee, but would gauge student reaction before implementing them. “This is such a smaller city than, say, Chicago, where bars are always open this late, and being a college town, students have classes and other commitments and might not embrace staying out until 4 a.m. regularly,” Gradillas said. Ben Hammond, assistant manager at Good Time Charley’s, doesn’t think his bar would implement the new policy because of the logistical difficulty. “Michigan has always been a 2 a.m. state, and by that time people seem pretty worn down,” Hammond said. “Increasing our hours would increase the cost of labor a lot depending on what the clientele wants, and we’re not in a position to benefit from it as much as clubs and casinos in a place like Detroit are.” LSA senior Katie Marenghi, who favors Ashley’s and the South University bars, said she would definitely be in favor of the extension of bar hours. “Some nights I feel like closing time is a good excuse to go home, but other nights it’s 2 a.m. and I’m like, ‘Where’s the afterparty?’ ” Marenghi said. LSA senior Elise Huerta said the increased bar time wouldn’t make much of an impact on her tab. “I don’t have time to go to bars during the school year, so staying out until four isn’t really a possibility for me,” she said. “I could see how some people might think it’s great but if you think about going to a house party where you can stay as long as you want, people generally leave around 2 or 2:30 because that’s just when things naturally end.” Huerta pointed to her experiences in Europe, where it’s the norm for bars to be open much later, and that Americans begin nights out earlier.
engaged learning, bold ideas and, most importantly, the number one priority is student support.” University tuition has risen over the past decade due to declining state appropriation. While Coleman has completed her tenure amid national economic turmoil, tuition has raised from $7,484 to $12,948 for in-state residents and $23,198 to $40,198 for non-residents between 2002 and 2013 “Higher education is the single most important investment students can make in their futures, and U of M is the place where they can invest, achieve and not be set back by financial burdens,” Coleman said. In a September. interview, University Provost Martha Pollack said affordability is a primary concern in the coming years. Although Coleman will leave her position in July, Pollack said she hopes the new president will continue to lead efforts towards cost containment with the help from current administrators working towards keeping the University as affordable as possible. “I think we have a good team in place to keep on pushing, and I’m very optimistic that the new president will have support for where she needs to handle these challenges,” Pollack said.
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A minor compensation Alternative solutions should be created for young athletes
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n Sept. 27, it was announced that Electronic Arts and The Collegiate Licensing Company had decided to settle in three lawsuits, agreeing to pay out up to $40 million to college athletes whose likenesses had been featured in NCAA football games over the past 10 years. Apart from the profits of video-game companies, unpaid student-athletes are contributing a product that has created a billion-dollar industry. This process, especially exploitative of football and basketball players, is a controversy that has risen time and time again with no clear solution. As the divide between academia and college athletics expands at universities like Michigan, practical solutions should be explored to compensate student athletes. The settlement between EA and the CLC will provide athletes featured in the NCAA football video games a cut of the $40-million settlement. Yet, because of the complexity of the payout to various athletes, along with attorney’s fees, many players will receive a paltry compensation compared to the earnings of the industry. In 2011, the NCAA signed a $10.8-billion contract with CBS and Turner Sports for the television rights to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, March Madness. The Big 10’s current television contract exceeds $4 billion in total and comes to $20.7 million per year per school. These immense profits, which don’t take into account merchandising and ticket sales, come from the effort and skill of college athletes who receive no compensation. The NCAA has long maintained the position that its student-athletes are students first. On Oct. 7, NCAA President Mark Emmert spoke at Marquette University, saying, “One of the guiding principles (of the NCAA) has been that this is about students who play sports.” Despite this sentiment, the academic gap between college athletes and regular students shows that student-athletes are not prioritizing school. At the University, the overall graduation rate was 89.7 percent in 2010. In contrast, University football student-athletes graduated at a significantly lower rate of 69 percent in 2012. In 2011, Michigan’s men’s basketball team had a gradu-
ation rate of 36 percent. These percentages directly contradict the notion that student-athletes are considered students first. Instead of being rewarded with a bachelor’s degree, many student-athletes are leaving college early with no degrees and no direct compensation while the collegiate sport business profits immeasurably. This problem is compounded by the fact that, besides college baseball athletes, less than 2 percent of all NCAA amateurs go pro. One possible way to alleviate to this conundrum is to create a minor league for the NFL. In the NBA, NHL and MLB minor leagues, players can opt to immediately begin playing for a salary if their ultimate goal is to compete as professionals. Expanding these leagues and creating a minor league affiliated with the NFL would solve some of the problems associated with paying college players. For athletes who value a college education, they can pursue one while simultaneously playing the sport they love and excel at playing. And if a player truly stands out on a college team, playing in a national league is still a possibility. The NCAA has shown that it’s absolutely unwilling to allow college athletes to be monetarily compensated for their abilities and their image, so other options need to be available. Players should be compensated fairly, while simultaneously allowing a viable path for those athletes who wish to attain a college education.
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MATTHEW LESLIE SANTANA | VIEWPOINT
Caricature or character? “¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!” shouted the students on the Diag Wednesday. I was walking toward Haven Hall on my way to see Nesha Haniff, a professor of mine with whom I had travelled to South Africa in 2008. “What white group of students is co-opting for their own purposes that classic chant from Chile’s Nueva Canción tradition?” I thought to myself as I went into Angell Hall. Sometimes Ann Arbor can be such a caricature of itself. When I arrived at Nesha’s office, she immediately asked me if I would join her in heading downstairs to the Diag demonstration. She explained that a group of students had organized this to voice their discontent with the decrease in minority enrollment at the University. “I guess I was wrong about those students on the Diag,” I thought as we headed downstairs. On the Diag, I caught up with some friends, chanted some chants and was glad to see some familiar faces from the faculty and staff of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Suddenly, I was brought back to perhaps exactly seven years ago, when I was a freshman here on the Diag handing out literature about and protesting Proposal 2, the ballot initiative set forth by the so-called Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (now there’s some cooptation for you).
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The initiative sought to cripple affirmative action in the state of Michigan — and it succeeded. On Wednesday, I was reminded that what we had predicted in 2006 has come true: Diversity is on the decline on the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor campus. What’s more, the University has a smaller percentage of Black, Latino and Native American students than other highly selective public and private institutions. Sometimes Ann Arbor can be a caricature of itself, but that day was not one of those days. On Wednesday, the University of Michigan’s students of color and our allies showed what tremendous character we have in the face of adversity. We’re going to need that character as the Supreme Court hears arguments on Oct. 15 for Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, the appeal that has resulted from the overturning of Proposal 2 in 2011. It’s unclear what the court will do, but if their rulings this year on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the University of Texas admissions policy are any indication, the forecast isn’t good. Now, more than ever, it’s important that we students of color at the University of Michigan remember that even if our numbers dwindle we still have a voice. Matthew Leslie Santana is a Doctoral student in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
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ay parties, crisp fall afternoons with friends and front-yard pong games might as well be on a poster displaying the ultimate college experience. Socializing in the open breeze is comfortable and often a nice MAURA escape from the LEVINE heat and noise of a party. But if you are outside your technical “home” and on the front porch, are you in “public?” In short, the answer is no. You don’t leave your legal rights to privacy when you enter the porch. Students have the right, just like any other U.S. citizen, to refuse a police officer from searching their front porch without a warrant. Legal battles have been fought and won by citizens over this very subject. In the recent U.S. Supreme Court case Florida v. Jardines, the court ruled that the front porch of a home is a facet of the home itself and thus protected under the Fourth Amendment. The porch is considered private property and therefore cannot be searched without a warrant. In the case of Joelis Jardines, a police officer walked up to his front door when a police narcotics dog starting sniffing around Jardines’s front porch. The dog signaled that there were drugs present, the officers obtained a warrant, and Jardines was subsequently arrested and charged with the trafficking of marijuana. Jardines claimed
that the dog’s sniffs constituted a “search” under the Fourth Amendment and weren’t permissible as evidence against him because the evidence was gathered without a warrant on his private property, thus also invalidating the second search with a warrant. Since the porch was out in the open for the public to see, did it still count as private property? The Court ruled that, by going onto the porch, police officers conducted a preliminary search without a warrant, which is illegal. Now, a police search of a porch without a warrant is considered federally unlawful. Historically speaking, this interpretation is nothing new. The idea of the exterior of a home being part of the private residence is centuries old and is upheld by old English common law. The definition of outdoor space surrounding a home is also known as the “curtilage” of a residence. In 1891, Black’s Law Dictionary argued that “the enclosed space of ground and buildings immediately surrounding a dwelling-house … includes all that space of grounds and buildings thereon” is the curtilage of the home. This definition has been important for purposes of refining the Fourth Amendment. Present-day U.S. courts have often interpreted the word “home” to be concurrent with the Middle English definition of “curtilage,” meaning that U.S. citizens are protected from unlawful searches and seizures on their prop-
erty including the immediate area surrounding their home. There’s something slightly comforting about knowing that your yard, porch, barbecuing area and outdoor space — which can be seen by the general public on the street — is legally “yours.” In college, we often enjoy this space as if it were within the private walls of our enclosed homes. Protection under curtilage and the Fourth Amendment allows us to enjoy and share the outdoors with family and friends. Generally, when police officers enter a home to bust a party or look for drugs, they do so without a search warrant. How do they get away with this? The occupants almost always let them in. If a police officer walks up to your house and asks to come inside you don’t have to let him or her in unless a warrant with your name on it is present. If the officer enters your porch, he or she has entered your private property and can’t search anything without a warrant. As a student, your rights don’t change just because you are holding a beverage and standing on your front porch. Remember your rights. You don’t even have to answer any questions, even if you’re standing on your front porch. We don’t leave our rights at the door — it’s safe to say they extend at least out to the public sidewalk.
You don’t leave your rights at the door — they extend at least to the sidewalk.
—Maura Levine can be reached at mtoval@umich.edu
ERIC TOTARO | VIEWPOINT
On coming out in Ross
I’ve thought about writing a piece like this for more than a year. Where do I start? From the top, I guess. I’ve recently come out as gay and want to share my story for two reasons. First, on National Coming Out Day I hope that people going through similar experiences will be reminded that they are not alone. Second, I hope that my story will encourage others to evaluate the current state of LGBT acceptance efforts in the Ross School of Business. These efforts have effects on real people. They have effects on me. They have effects on all of us, gay or straight. Like most, I denied and repressed my feelings when I was younger, thinking that they would go away. Through middle and high school I lied. I tried to create a world for myself where I had what I thought I needed to be happy. I ended up hurting others. For example, I pretended to be romantically interested in a close friend and entered a relationship. I needed the friendship but was afraid to admit to her that the feelings weren’t mutual. I remember being made fun of for the way I talked, my (lack of) knowledge about sports, and my friends. A classmate in middle school claimed that I had a “gay lisp” in front of my English class. I would sometimes say that I couldn’t go to lunch because I had to do homework and not because I had no one to sit with. I remember looking at each year in school as a chance to make genuine friends. Each time I failed. Deep down, I knew that my lack of self-acceptance was the root of the problem, but I put the blame on anything and anyone but myself. I thought that I couldn’t be successful or happy if I was gay. Whenever I heard a reference to anything “gay,” it
was by peers using the term to make fun of something or someone. Near the end of my freshman year at the University, I found myself about to return home feeling like I had accomplished little. Sure, I made the grades I felt I needed to get into the Business School and could talk on end about an internship and extracurricular activities. But I had made few friends and didn’t feel accepted in Ann Arbor, the most open and tolerant place I had ever lived. I struggled to let go of my misperceptions about what it meant to be gay. I realized the only way for me to end my cycle of superficial friendships and lack of a social life was to embrace who I am and open up. Even if I managed to fool others, I’d never be able to fool myself. At first, coming out to friends and family was a scary process. Sometimes it still is. Most react well. Some don’t. But by coming out, I’ve finally made clear who I am and have absolutely no regrets about revealing something I know to be true. I’ve lived more than enough of my life in the closet. Now that I’ve finally become comfortable with myself, I feel a need to try and make a positive impact where I can. There aren’t many openly gay people at Ross, especially among undergraduates. Out of nearly 1,500 BBAs, there are five in Out for Business, the school’s LGBT student association. Perhaps more telling are results from Out for Business’s weeklong ally pledge competition — a competition between BBAs and MBAs to publicly show LGBT support in honor of National Coming Out Day. Three quarters of the way through the competition, 244 of 1,000 MBAs had pledged support, compared to 24
BBAs. I haven’t felt that Ross’s undergraduate population is homophobic — instead I think that BBAs are too career-driven and ignore important social causes. Business has the power to spread ideas and innovations across borders. But how can the business world maximize its power as a change agent if its people are afraid to address sensitive issues headon? I want to encourage more open, candid discussions of topics that may seem awkward in places like Ross. The fact that business can be impersonal and numbers-driven is an asset. Businesspeople shouldn’t care if they include a marginalized group. Emotions will always play a part in any relationship — I get that. But gay people have proven themselves as smart individuals who contribute to the bottom line. People in the business world can serve as leaders by showing others that there’s no downside to being more accepting. Gay people are everywhere and aren’t going away. In many ways I’m extremely lucky. I haven’t been beaten up for being gay. I’m receiving a great education at the University and have endless choices for a future career. I have friends. My parents struggle to accept me as gay but certainly haven’t disowned me. I therefore feel a responsibility to speak out for the sake of the many members of the LGBT community who face challenges far more staggering than mine. I’m at the same stage in my life as my fellow juniors. I share the same career goals, academic aspirations and fears. The only difference is that I have insight into what it’s like to be part of a group that still faces legal and social discrimination. Eric Totaro is a Business junior.
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PERFORMANCE PREVIEW
By PAIGE PFLEGER Daily Arts Writer
Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” is a Tony Awardwinning musical centered on the romantic lives of sev- A Little eral different Night Music couples, and how their pas- Friday and sions intersect. Saturday at 8 Taking place p.m. and Suncirca 1900 in day at 2 p.m. Sweden, the show revolves Mendelssohn around the $22 life of Fredrik Egerman, played by School of Music, Theatre & Dance senior Conor McGiffin. The show follows Egerman’s current relationship with his wife and a permeating love interest from the distant past. “The great thing about Sondheim is that no matter how gorgeous the music can be on the surface, there is always something happening within the music that lets you know that this isn’t something that you can just sit back and let wash over you,” McGiffin said. “There are always little details about who the characters are, and what is happening that Sondheim lets you know.” In tackling such an intricate show, Director and Associate Professor of Musical Theater, Mark Madama, used his expert
knowledge of Sondheim’s work. In his past years teaching at MT&D, he has worked on five Sondheim shows, including “Sunday in the Park with George” and “Into the Woods.” Madama begins with the music and immediately gets the actors onstage to begin blocking. After the bare bones of the scenes are laid out, actors are encouraged to explore more deeply their character’s motives, and to discover new relationships and ways of communicating on stage. “Every show has a different story,” Madama said. “This show is interesting because of its very mature subject matter. Tapping into the students and having them understand that mature level of relationships has been very rewarding.” The show’s thematic scheme deals with love, sex, marriage, infidelity and how complex situations can be when said emotions are involved. “I know the students all quite well,” Madama said of his cast, “and the thing that is so great is how they’ve embraced the material. They haven’t shied away from it; they’ve jumped in and embraced it. I’m excited to share the show with the audience.” Despite the seriousness of the subject matter, the cast has still had fun creating the world of “A Little Night Music.” From discovering the possible harmful effects of the corsets that the women must wear for the show, to goofy face-offs between characters, McGiffin has fond memories of “Night Music,” not least because it is one of the last
shows of his career here at the University. “I’ve known Connor McGiffin since he’s been here and had him in three of my performance classes,” Madama said. “He’s embraced this character pretty fully. He’s found the maturity of this man, the contextual quality of this man; he sings the role great ... He really transforms himself into being a man that is older and who is involved in a relationship that at one time may have seemed completely satisfying and then changes.” Approaching opening night, McGiffin will have the usual pre-show jitters, but this year, they come with a dash of nostalgia. “When the curtains raise I anticipate looking around at all the freshmen who are working backstage and feeling a well of emotion,” McGiffin said, “because four years ago I was there.” Above all else, McGiffin hopes that “A Little Night Music” will leave the audience with a few valuable lessons about love. “Love is real,” McGiffin said. “The show is really about people at points in their lives missing the person they belong with. I want them to go away with the love of the music that was put forth, and to remember the comedy of the show, and that if you’re away from someone, you can always come back to it. Certain loves don’t fade away as time goes on. Respect the power of it. As the sage Huey Lewis once said, ‘That’s the power of love.’ ”
FILM REVIEW
20TH CENTURY FOX
“You steal the food right out of my mouth, and I watch you eat it.”
Ridiculous ‘Runner Runner’ By NATALIE GADBOIS Daily Arts Writer
Online poker combines the high stakes and real risks of gambling, but allows the gambler to sit at home wearing decade-old box- C+ ers and eating spoonfuls of Runner Nutella, while Runner losing (or winning) thousands Quality 16 of dollars. The and Rave money is real, but the glamour 20th Century Fox and mystique are missing. “Runner Runner,” starring Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck, works in the opposite way; we get the flashy handsomeness of our leading men and the glitz of the (apparently massive) Costa Rican gambling world, without gaining any insight into who these characters are and what the hell they’re doing. Richie (Timberlake, “Inside Llewyn Davis”) is a Princeton grad student and former Wall Street big-wig — the devious-genius type that Timberlake successfully portrayed in “The Social Network,” but comes across as robotically smarmy here — who takes to online poker in order to pay his school bills. (Ben Schwartz from “Parks and Recreation” is utterly wasted as Richie’s doubtful and un-funny best friend, with only 10
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minutes of screen time.) In our hyper-accelerated world, technology-speak from just a few years ago feels dated. Richie is a former Wall Streeter laid off in the Great Recession, and when the disconcertingly slick Ivan Block (Affleck, “Argo”) offers him a position at his powerhouse online gaming company, Richie jumps, taken in like so many movie men by the beautiful women and ever-flowing alcohol of this high-flying lifestyle.
How can JT and Affleck fail to be amusing? Once in Costa Rica, Richie begins to discover the shocking truth of Block’s corruption, using phrases like “negative three sigma” and other seemingly made-up Internet jargon to describe what appears to be a basic Ponzi scheme. He runs from FBI agents in fedoras, easily seduces Block’s chippy assistant (Gemma Arterton, “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters”) and innocently ignores the plainly psychotic tendencies of his boss. Richie looks great and
has some catchy one-liners, but Timberlake fails to make him interesting. While Richie doesn’t have a personality, Ivan is just too much of everything: over-sexed, brash, apparently brilliant but mentally unstable — and too tan. Way too tan. Affleck can’t pull off this over-the-top mad man, and a character that is supposed to be chilling is actually funny — he speaks awful Spanish and flings men into crocodile-invested waters with a flamboyant flourish. The film pretends to be innovative because of the flashy scenery and tight camera zooms, but just like Block, it’s fizzy, not fun, superficial yet still boring. It’s as though director Brad Furman (“The Lincoln Lawyer”) was trying to make the film into so many archetypes: a sexy thriller, a pertinent internet saga, a PSA against gambling and a flashy action film. What ends up happening, though, is that every aspect is stretched too thin, making the film ultimately underwhelming. The dialogue lacks both human quality and fresh snap, the “bad” characters fail to exude real evil and the good characters are weak ninnies. In not recognizing it’s own ridiculousness, “Runner Runner” fails at even just amusing.
ull disclosure: I have something of a reputation among friends for being the guy that likes to speak in extremes. After my first-ever screening of “Paranormal Activity,” I blurted something vaguely along the lines of, “They should AKSHAY stop making SETH horror movies because this just won everything.” I’ve probably called four or five different releases in the last year alone the best things ever made (“Spring Breakers” was pretty good though), and I have a penchant for yelling at people who aren’t on the same page (“You haven’t seen xxxx yet? Why are you even here?”). But when all’s said and done, what do my friends know? They’re all insane. Now that you’ve had this brief glimpse into my soul, let’s talk about “Gravity.” A lot of people have been calling it the best movie released in a very long time, for sure the most gripping 90 minutes of cinema produced all year. Some have gone as far as saying they’ll never see another film like it in their lifetimes. To put it lightly, the world has collectively lost its shit and boarded a massive Hubble Telescopesized bandwagon to space. Coming from the dude who loves speaking in extremes, all of these people might be right, but if there’s something I’ve learned looking at an ungodly number of yearly top 10 lists, it’s that when it comes to sifting through movie releases and holding up The One that’s supposed to be the common denominator, there’s no verifiable certainty. The only verifiable certainty here is that “Gravity” is a game changer. I use the term game changer for two simple reasons. One: Studios in Los Angeles that have seen the film but aren’t actively trying to replicate, or at least mimic, what director Alfonso Cuarón has accomplished are at risk of being left behind. Two: Every movie that will now be set in space, or for
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that matter any free-f loating environment, is going to be compared to “Gravity.” Simply put, the bar has been raised. Technology was invented to make this experience possible. The film is beautifully composed, a visual marvel that will stand the test of time and shepherd in a new age of cinema that bends the line between CGI and liveaction photography. I could talk at length about how every frame in this masterpiece took Cuarón months to plan out and execute as things inevitably went wrong, forcing him to improvise and as a result, innovate on the spot. But the reason this film will remain in our consciousness months, maybe even years, down the line is only half related to how jaw-droppingly stunning it is. The opening tracking shot, nearly 20 minutes in length, hits you with its silence. We start with a simple message: “Life in space is impossible,” yet that silence, punctuated by breathy intakes of oxygen by astronauts, is what reaffirms the alienness of the setting. We’re in space — in every sense of the word, a forefront of human accomplishment, an endpoint of all we’ve achieved. But with the vast emptiness carrying through in every sequence, Cuarón makes it a metaphorical beginning for our protagonist.
I don’t want to be dramatic, but this is one of the best films ever. Dr. Ryan Stone, played to perfection by Sandra Bullock, is nervous, broken from the get-go, and this movie quickly transforms into her quest to leave behind a life defined by the loss of her daughter. She’s the only complex personality in a script enlivened by the most rehashed character types and tropes since talkies came into fashion in the 1930s. George Clooney’s character is fun, but nothing new. In the form of an
accurate generalization, he’s, in essence, portraying the really nice uncle that tells awesome stories and gets along with anyone listening. In a less extraordinary setting, it would never work. Think about it: The whole notion of metaphorical rebirth, a theme that begins to tie together the entire movie, is old, but the films that manage to keep it relevant, like “Gravity,” almost always have a less-thansedate treatment of setting. In “Cast Away,” Tom Hanks’s character, marooned alone on a deserted island, wills himself to rise above isolation. But the larger hurdle becomes coming to terms with the fact that the woman he loves has moved on. His circumstances teach him to let go, and by the end of the film, he’s truly reborn. None of it would have been effective had it not been for the sense of remoteness the movie envelops us in during the first and second act. “Gravity” excels because it similarly closes that gap between emotion and vision. Never before has a film so effectively magnified a human story under layers of intriguing sci-fi disconnect. It’s a perfect marriage between seeing and feeling. A lot of the people I spoke with before watching “Gravity” said it’s the best thing to hit theaters since “Inception.” At their core, both movies try to resolve human conflicts we’ve been examining for centuries: “Inception” tackles confronting regrets while “Gravity” looks at an evolving personality. Both movies are tied together by their grandness, and it’s this grandness that lets the pathos resonate. Neither film is perfect, but both reaffirm the ubiquity of the personal conflicts we confront on a daily basis. Alfonso Cuarón’s masterpiece is an extension of that ubiquity, and a film that easily makes its mark in Akshay’s Five Fave Flicks (AFFF). If you haven’t seen it yet, take solace in the fact that Fall Break has arrived. Why are you even here? Seth is watching ‘Gravity’ ... again. To stop him, e-mail akse@umich.edu.
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‘M’ looks for win at Penn State in battle of Big Ten powers By BRAD WHIPPLE Daily Sports Writer
It’s always nice having momentum going into a Big Ten game, or any game for that matter. But nothing gives you an edge quite like the hunger for revenge. Sunday, the No. 19 Michigan women’s soccer team will Michigan at face No. 11 Penn State, Penn State the same team Matchup: that knocked it Michigan out of the 2012 9-2-1; Penn NCAA Tourna- State 10-2-1 ment with a 3-2 When: Sunshootout in the day 1 P.M. third round. Where: Jef“We’re defi- frey Field nitely coming in with a little TV: MGoBlue.com bitterness from last year,” said senior midfielder Tori McCombs. Michigan (3-1-1 Big Ten, 9-2-1 overall) has never won a game at Penn State’s Jeffrey Field — the Wolverines are 0-8-4 at University Park, while their all-time record in the series stands at 4-176. Their last win over Penn State (4-1, 10-2-1) was Oct. 4, 2002, 4-0. “In some ways it makes it a really fun game to play,” said Michigan coach Greg Ryan. “You have something to play for that’s never been done.” The Nittany Lions are tied for first in the Big Ten standings with No. 24 Nebraska while Michigan is tied for second place with No. 20 Wisconsin. “The obvious implication (of winning) is that it gives you a shot at moving up in the Big Ten standings,” Ryan said. “(It also) gives you a chance to continue to stride through to win a Big Ten Conference Championship, which would be a huge step for our program. We know we’re facing a fantastic opponent so it’s not like it is gonna be an easy job.” This season, the Wolverines have generated multiple scoring opportunities outshooting opponents 208-121. But the team has
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Freshman forward Madisson Lewis is tied for second in the Big Ten with three game-winning goals.
struggled to capitalize, converting just 11.5% of the time for 24 total goals. It has been hard for Michigan to finish these chances, but perhaps the Wolverines’ 2-1 win over Michigan State last Thursday marks the beginning of an upward trend. “I think it’s just getting around the box and going as hard as you can to get that second ball,” McCombs said. “Those are going to be the goals that win games. Against Penn State, we have to finish our opportunities because they’ll come early.” And Michigan has plenty of talent to convert, mainly senior forward Nkem Ezurike and freshman forward Madisson Lewis. Despite going scoreless for three games before the Nebraska game on Sunday, Ezurike needs just three goals to break Kacy Beitel’s program record of 44. Lewis is the other offensive threat as the team’s second-leading goal scorer behind Ezurike, with four goals on the season. She is tied for second in gamewinning goals in the Big Ten with three. “Madi has proven consistently
that she can compete at this level, she can score goals at this level and that we can count on her out on the field,” Ryan said. “I got to be able to know who I can count on and who has shown me that they can handle Big Ten level play, and Madi certainly has done that. For a freshman, that’s just awesome.” Michigan isn’t the only team with scoring woes. Penn State has struggled as well and was shut out, 1-0, against Minnesota (2-2-1, 9-3-1) on Sunday. Despite the offensive concerns, Penn State remains one of the strongest teams in the Big Ten. The Nittany Lions ended the last season by winning the Big Ten Championship for the 15th consecutive year and making their first trip to the National Championship, where they fell to No. 4 North Carolina, 4-1. Forward Maya Hayes, the reigning Big Ten Forward of the Year, leads Penn State’s offense with 13 goals and five assists. Ryan mentioned that the Nittany Lions are a very good attacking team — especially with Hayes’ quick speed —with wide players
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who are efficient at getting a lot of players inside the box to finish off served balls. The Wolverine defense has put pressure on its opponents and closed passing lanes inside the box, making it difficult for the competition to score. Michigan has allowed just eight goals all season, the best in the Big Ten, and hasn’t allowed a multi-goal game. Assuming the defense holds like usual, beating Penn State will require that the Wolverines have confidence in front of the net to take risks and have the mentality that they can make something happen. Ryan says that having confidence can be the difference between winning and losing. “If you looked at who scored the goals for us in the Big Ten, it’s been the players that do have that confidence,” Ryan said. “We’re still working to help build the confidence in our other players because they’re just so capable at scoring goals. (We have been) encouraging them to take risks and don’t worry about the result. Just take the chance. If you miss, you miss, but you’ve got to take the chance.”
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‘We’ll still be on double-secret probation’ By ZACH HELFAND Daily Sports Editor
The bite of the NCAA sanctions may finally be catching up to Penn State as it prepares for Michigan a week after losing to Indiana for the first time in program history. Still, what the Nittany Lions have been able to accomplish in nearly a season and a half is somewhat remarkable. That’s largely a credit to coach Bill O’Brien, who has kept his team together amid chaos. The worst may soon be over — the NCAA announced it would loosen some sanctions, and starting next year, Penn State will regain five scholarships a year. Before then, The Michigan Daily sat down with O’Brien at Big Ten Media Days to talk sanctions, Big Ten expansion and the Michigan game. The Michigan Daily: How much do you stay in contact with Tom Brady, and will there be anything special between you two before the Michigan game? Bill O’Brien: I’m sure he’ll be rooting for Michigan. But I stay in touch with Tom, he’s a good friend, he’s a great guy. Text message a lot. He’s a busy guy, I’m a busy guy, but I definitely stay in touch. But when we play Michigan, I will remind him, though, that he said that Beaver Stadium was the loudest stadium he ever played in. And I’m sure it will be loud that night. TMD: This is your first game against Michigan and Penn State’s first since 2010. What’s the significance of resuming this matchup? BOB:First of all, Brady Hoke, I think, is one of the best coaches in the country. So it’s going to be great to have his team at Penn State. To me that’s one of those games that college football is all about. I wished you played that type, you know, Michigan, every year. Penn State-Michigan in the new divisions, we will play quite a bit. It’s just a great rivalry. Two programs that are traditional programs. Like I’ve said a million times, I have a ton of respect for Brady Hoke and what he does. He’s a coach that I’ve always looked up to, and I think we run our programs in similar ways, so it’ll be a challenge, definitely a challenge. TMD: Similar how? BOB: Just we both believe that football is played by tough guys and smart guys and good guys. TMD: Has expansion affected Penn State and the Big Ten at all yet? BOB: I don’t know. I don’t see that yet. No I don’t see that. I
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Breakdown: Which Gardner will show up in Happy Valley? By LIZ VUKELICH Daily Sports Editor
The Michigan football team is off to a 5-0 start. But that doesn’t sit easy with fans who are still waiting to see the resurgent Wolverine squad they’ve been promised. Now, Michigan heads to Happy Valley for its first true road test of the season — and arguably one of its toughest — to face Penn State in the 17th meeting between the programs. Michigan pass offense vs. Penn State pass defense: Redshirt junior quarterback Devin Gardner reached a milestone in his Michigan career by completing his first game as starter without throwing an interception. It should be pointed out, though, that offensive coordinator Al Borges waited until the second quarter against Minnesota before having Gardner throw the ball. Gardner was all smiles this week, talking about having confidence in his arm again. That being said, the Nittany Lions have notched five interceptions this season, and if Gardner gets flustered — as is very possible in one of the loudest stadiums in college football — it won’t be hard for Penn State to tally another. Saturday will be an indication of whether Gardner’s turnover woes are truly under control, or
if last weekend was an aberration. Edge: Penn State Michigan rush offense vs. Penn State rush defense: After weeks of discussion about splitting the load between the running backs, Michigan has finally found a better balance between fifth-year senior Fitzgerald Toussaint and freshman Derrick Green. The rushing yards are still lopsided in Toussaint’s favor, but since Green has shown he can effectively run the ball, it’s not unreasonable to expect him to get more carries this weekend — lessening the load on the one-man Toussaint show. The Nittany Lions hold their opponents to an average of 111 rushing yards per game and rank 18th nationally in total defense. Michigan’s revamped interior line has only been together for one game, but against Minnesota last week they were already more effective at opening up holes for Toussaint. Edge: Michigan Penn State pass offense vs. Michigan pass defense: Penn State’s freshman quarterback Christian Hackenberg was a five-star recruit out of high school. And Penn State coach Bill O’Brien relies on his arm as much as possible — the Nittany Lions are tied for second in the Big Ten
for most passing attempts. Saturday should be a perfect opportunity for the Wolverines’ pass rush to establish itself and live up to the preseason hype. It won’t be that easy, though, as Penn State is big on max protection, keeping its backs and tight ends in. Defensive coordinator Greg Mattison expressed concerns this week about how to best defend against Hackenberg, especially with the blitz. In order for Michigan to get its hands on Hackenberg, it has to beat its opponents one-on-one. Though Mattison didn’t doubt that the Wolverines could do it, nothing has been shown so far this season to suggest it will actually happen. Edge: Penn State Penn State rush offense vs. Michigan rush defense: The Wolverines still haven’t allowed a rushing touchdown this season, but since Penn State mostly relies on the passing game, it’s unlikely Michigan’s rush defense would have much to see anyway — Penn State threw the ball 55 times as opposed to 38 rushes against Indiana Saturday. Running back Zach Zwinak is the Nittany Lions’ leading rusher, with eight touchdowns this season. Edge: Michigan Special teams: Junior punter Matt Wile, who
Intangibles: It doesn’t get much bigger than a prime-time white out at Beaver Stadium. For as much as Michigan said it prepared using Borges’ s whisper technique to compensate for the ground-shaking noise, it still doesn’t make up for the fact that very few of the Wolverines have ever traveled to such an electric environment. Michigan has struggled mightily on the road thus far in Hoke’s tenure. Happy Valley won’t likely be the place where that turns around. And though the Wolverines pan out better on paper, statistics won’t mean anything if they can’t keep their composure in a hostile environment. Edge: Penn State Prediction: Michigan 24
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Redshirt junior quarterback Devin Gardner played a turnover-free game last week against Minnesota. Michigan will need him to limit mistakes Saturday.
at one point had all but lost the confidence of the coaches a few weeks ago, proved himself a little more last week against Minnesota. He now averages almost 40 yards per punt. Fifth-year senior Brendan Gibbons is 4-of-5 on field goals on the season. Penn State’s punter matches up the same way, and its kicker has the same field-goal percentage as well. Veteran punt returner Drew Dileo’s seven yards per return matches up evenly with the Nittany Lions as well. Edge: Push
Sophomore tight end Devin Funchess had the best receiving performance of his career Saturday, when he split out wide and played fewer snaps at tight end.
What to Watch For: Penn State By EVERETT COOK Daily Sports Editor
1. What does Michigan’s early game play-calling look like? Last week against Minnesota, Michigan didn’t throw a single pass in the first quarter. Offensive coordinator Al Borges said it was the first time in his Michigan career that he didn’t call a pass play for the first 15 minutes. Part of that was the time of possession — Minnesota had the ball for more than 10 minutes in the first quarter, which limited Michigan to eight plays — but part of it was a rededication to the power run game. Michigan’s six-play first drive went 35 yards for a touchdown, and all six plays were runs. This rendered redshirt junior quarterback Devin Gardner basically useless for the first quarter. When he did start throwing, though, he played one of the most efficient games of his career. He had a turnover-free game for the first time ever and had just four incompletion en route to 235 yards and a touchdown. For the first time this season, Michigan’s offense wasn’t dependent on Gardner making plays. All the Wolverines need-
ed him to do was be an efficient game manager, a role that he thrived in. So on Saturday, in one of Michigan’s biggest road contests of the year, where will Borges put the ball? Into the hands of a quarterback with a habit of turnovers but a propensity for incredible plays, or into the hands of the running backs?
a cannon ball, hitting holes hard making him an ideal short-yardage or red-zone running back and an effective complement Toussaint. Against Penn State, look for Green to pick up even more of the workload early on in the game. If Borges sticks to the running game, Green will be a part of it.
And frankly, Funchess has never been known for his blocking. When he’s split out wide and no longer on the line, blocking rushers is no longer an issue. A big issue for the offense all year is getting production out a wide receiver that isn’t fifth-year senior Jeremy Gallon. Funchess in a new role might solve that problem.
2. Does Derrick Green get more than 10 carries?
3. Does Devin Funchess line up primarily as a wide receiver or tight end?
4. How deep do Michigan’s linebackers play?
Yes, that was “running backs” with an “s.” It’s no longer strictly fifth-year senior Fitzgerald Toussaint — freshman running back Derrick Green has officially arrived as a change-of-pace back guaranteed to get some carries. Against the Gophers, Green ran the ball 10 times, the most carries he’s received since Central Michigan. This week, Borges said that he likes the idea of giving Green more carries, as a way to make sure Toussaint — who is a season removed from a broken leg — isn’t tired by the end of the game. Green started the season off a little heavier than Michigan coach Brady Hoke would have preferred but has slimmed down to around 235 pounds. He’s still
When Gardner did throw, it was primarily to his sophomore tight end. Funchess had his best game in a Michigan uniform, catching seven passes for 151 yards and a touchdown. He caught more catches than the rest of the team combined. Much of that success stemmed from Borges’ decision to push Funchess out wide, playing more as a wide receiver than a tight end. At times, he returned to his traditional tight-end spot, but his big gains came from the outside. Funchess is 6-foot-5 and one of the best athletes on the roster. Getting him in open space creates mismatches that even the best defensive coordinators can’t plan for.
Michigan’s defense struggled against the short passing game against UConn three weeks ago because of linebackers playing too close to the line of scrimmage. They couldn’t recover. Last week, Michigan gave up third-down conversions and quarterback scrambles galore because the linebackers were playing too deep. So where’s the solid middle? Against Penn State’s pocketpassing quarterback, Christian Hackenberg, it might be the latter. He’s not a threat to run, and it might be more beneficial to have bodies in the passing game. Ideally, the linebacking corps finds a way to do both. Whether that transition happens by Saturday, though, remains to be seen.
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Redshirt junior linebacker Jake Ryan has missed the first five games of the season healing a torn anterior cruciate ligament but could return against Penn State.
Beaver Stadium will test retooled offense By MATT SLOVIN Managing Editor
After promising improvement on offense, a new-look Wolverines squad delivered with a lopsided 42-13 win over Minnesota last weekend. In order to remain undefeated, Michigan will need to find more ways to move the ball Michigan at against one of Penn State the best defenses they have Matchup: faced this sea- Michigan 5-0; son, in the most Penn State 3-2 hostile environ- When: Satment they will urday 5 P.M. have entered Where: Bea— Penn State’s ver Stadium Beaver Stadium. TV: The Nittany ESPN Lions have won the last two meetings in State College, and the last three overall. Before that, though, Michigan had won nine in a row. To prepare for the unfriendly environment, the Wolverines’ offense spent Tuesday’s practice by speaking in whispers to simulate how difficult it will be to hear over the crowd. Michigan’s offense made serious progress against the Golden Gophers, spurred by several changes, both tactical and personnel-related. First, and most notably, sophomore tight end Devin Funchess spent significantly more time than usual split out wide. His size — Funchess stands at 6-foot5 — allowed him to exploit mismatches against the Minnesota secondary as he exploded for a career-high 151 receiving yards. “His role is expanded a little bit,” said offensive coordinator Al Borges on Tuesday. “But it’s still pretty much in line with what we’ve been trying to do with him since he’s been here.” Whether Funchess will continue to be on the outside, return to his usual tight end position or line up behind the line of scrimmage in what Michigan calls the
‘H’ position remains to be seen. But Funchess figures to have a significant height advantage over the Nittany Lions secondary as well, which could mean a similar role for him this week. Likewise, the offensive line combination strung together over the bye week — with redshirt sophomore Chris Bryant entering the mix at guard, and redshirt junior Graham Glasgow sliding over the center to replace redshirt junior Jack Miller — appeared to be a step in the right direction. Borges said Bryant “had some first start stuff that I think any guys would experience, but he played hard.” It seems likely that the offensive line will remain the same this weekend, hoping to finally spring fifth-year senior running back Fitzgerald Toussaint to his first 100-yard rushing game. Another way the offense will look to test Penn State’s defense, particularly its always-solid linebacking corps, is with freshman tailback Derrick Green. After eating clock in the season opener against Central Michigan, Green received some meaningful carries against Minnesota, especially early in the game before the outcome had been decided. The coaching staff would love to be able to mix in Green to keep Toussaint as fresh as possible. How he fares early against Penn State could determine he continues to carry the ball late in the game if it’s close. “Here’s the deal with that: when you have a young back, you’re going to play him earlier if you’re going to play him,” Borges said. “If the game’s close, you’re going to get scared.” Saturday could mark the 2013 debut of redshirt junior linebacker Jake Ryan, who tore his anterior cruciate ligament in spring practice. The status of Ryan, who is likely the team’s best defensive player, remains questionable, and Hoke said a decision might not come until Saturday.
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Senior forward Luke Moffatt celebrates his second power-play goal less than a minute into the third period to put Michigan ahead 3-1. Moffatt dazzled with two goals and hard skating as Michigan toppled Boston College Thursday at Yost Ice Arena.
By ALEJANDRO ZÚÑIGA Daily Sports Editor
Andrew Copp made himself a promise. Named an alternate captain by Michigan hockey coach Red Berenson, the sophomore forward vowed to contribute more to avoid a 1 BC repeat of the 3 MICHIGAN crushing disappointment of last season. And on Thursday night, Copp and No. 10 Michigan notched a statement victory at Yost Ice Arena by topping No. 4 Boston College, 3-1, in both teams’ regular-season openers. Copp finished with three points on the night, highlighted
by a shot deflected off a Boston College player five minutes into the second period to give the Wolverines (1-0) a 2-0 lead. And just moments into the third period, after the Eagles (0-1) had cut the deficit to one goal before the intermission, Copp’s pinpoint assist to senior forward Luke Moffatt helped restore Michigan’s twogoal advantage — one it would not relinquish. “That’s what we’re looking for,” Berenson said. “(Copp) is a big kid, he competes hard, he wants to play at both ends of the rink, and that’s how we want our whole team to play. But Andrew Copp is not just a sophomore now — he’s one of our captains, and he’s play-
ing like it.” The Wolverines struck early when freshman forward JT Compher and Moffatt combined on the power play seven minutes into the first period. Singlehandedly breaking into the offensive zone, Compher avoided two defensemen before sliding the puck across the crease. Unmarked, Moffatt one-timed it past Billett. “It’s definitely good to get the first one out of the way always,” Moffatt said. “Definitely good to get JT (Compher) his first point as a freshman, and I feel like we got the ball rolling early this year.” Moffat had a pair of goals, and Compher had two assists as part of Michigan’s second line.
The Eagles’ lone tally came midway through the second period. Forward Johnny Gaudreau fed defenseman Ian McCoshen, and his slap shot from the blue line made its way past sophomore netminder Steve Racine after being tipped by a defender. Ryan Fitzgerald nearly brought Boston College all the way back from the two-goal hole on a breakaway moments later, but his backhanded wrist shot clanged off the frame. The Eagles’ threatening second period highlighted Racine’s solid night between the pipes. The goaltender was the benefactor of a lucky break when Boston College forward Quinn Smith hit
the post despite having an open net in the first period, but he recovered quickly enough to poke away the rebound. When forward Austin Cangelosi snuck in behind the Wolverines’ defense and had a prime goal-scoring opportunity with four minutes to go in the first period, Racine stuffed him cleanly. And the netminder’s quick snag on an odd-man break in the final frame preserved the two-goal lead. “That’s what we need from him,” Berenson said. “He went through his learning curve last year, and hopefully now he’ll be more consistent.” After the disappointment of the exhibition against Waterloo,
where the Wolverines went 0-for5 with the man advantage, Berenson warned that the power play might not be up to par this early in the season. It was a different story on Friday, as both of Moffatt’s goals came on a dangerous and versatile power play that finished 2-for-5. Even more reassuring was the fact that Michigan played without junior forward Alex Guptill — last season’s leading scorer — who sat out due to an unspecified violation of team rules. It didn’t seem to matter, though, as the Wolverines fired 32 shots and found twine in every period as Copp’s three-point night secured the win.
Following late-season surge, Racine shines in opener By ERIN LENNON Daily Sports Writer
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Sophomore forward Andrew Copp finished with three points, including a goal.
Less than two minutes into the No. 10 Michigan hockey team’s season opener against No. 4 Boston College, a lone stick lay unclaimed on the ice after a scuffle — a sign of things to come. After 60 minutes of predictably brutal hockey and solid play from both teams, it was stellar goaltending from sophomore Steve Racine that preserved the Wolverines’ 3-1 victory. Racine — who allowed two goals in an abbreviated appearance in Sunday’s exhibition — finished the game with 20 saves, including nine in the first period, and allowed only one goal. Much of Racine’s success was a product of limited rebounds. Racine was able to sit on several in-traffic shots, at times with opposing players fallen in goal. Late in the third period, he made a quick glove save on an odd-man rush. In front of him, Racine had the support of the penalty kill all night. The defense held the Eagles to just two shots on the power play and to just 21 on the game. “He was awesome,” said sophomore forward Andrew Copp. “He’s been working out all summer so we knew where he was at mentally and physically. It’s good for him. It gets him a lot of confidence to keep the ball rolling from last year.” While Racine was the better netminder, he was also luckier. Three times in the second period, Racine was mere inches from allowing a goal, and three shots in particular could have gotten Boston College back in the game.
In the first period, Racine juggled a puck in traffic that all but jumped out of the goal by itself. Racine got an even luckier break in the second period, when a shot from Eagles forward Ryan Fitzgerald bounced off the crossbar, narrowly missing an uppercorner goal. Once more with three minutes remaining, having made a left-pad save, Racine lost sight of the puck and left the net open for a moment for Fitzgerald, who missed wide. Meanwhile, Boston College goaltender Brian Billett finished the game with 29 saves having allowed three goals — two of which were a result of a sleepy penalty kill, and another off a deflection. Billett also spent 12 minutes defending the net with four men. “I thought our goaltender played really, really well,” said Boston College coach Jerry York. “We’re going to have a strong year this year in the net.” Despite the errors, the stat sheet showed Racine allowed a single goal against one of the nation’s top offenses, and the defense held the Eagles’ best player, junior forward Johnny Gaudreau, to one shot. It was a game that will build confidence not only in Racine, but in a young Wolverines defense moving forward as well. “I think that’s what we expect,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “If you’re at Michigan, you know you need good goalkeeping. Look what he did last year. I think he was 8-1-1 in the last 10 games. That’s what we need from him. He went through his learning curve last year, and hopefully now he’ll be more consistent.”
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Sophomore goalie Steve Racine stuffed Boston College with 20 saves Thursday.
Between The Pipes Steve Racine saves
First Period 9
Second Period 6
Third Period 5
Scoring Summary 7:25 PP Luke Moffatt 5:03 10:05
Andrew Copp Ian McCoshen
0:34 PP Luke Moffatt (2)
First Period from JT Compher and Andrew Copp Second Period from Derek DeBlois and Michael Downing from Johnny Gaudreau and Danny Linell Third Period from Andrew Copp (2) and JT Compher (2)