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Last week, three University faculty members were inducted into the Institute of Medicine, a health branch of the National Academy of Sciences that aids lawmakers and businesses with health policy by collaborating with the best of the best in the medical and research fields. Oncology Prof. Eric Fearon, chief of molecular medicine and genetics; Public Health Prof. Arline Geronimus and Medical School Dean Dr. James Woolliscroft were officially elected to the IOM, the University of Michigan Health System announced Monday. As inductees, they will work on and present research with more
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Black law group revitalized Students bring back Black Undergraduate Law Association By EMMA KERR For The Daily
After the recent decline in the number of Black students at the University’s Law School, students are working to counter
the trend by reviving the Black Undergraduate Law Association. LSA senior Erika Ross, BULA’s president, hopes to the revitalized organization will encourage more Black students to pursue careers in law and related fields. BULA had been dormant on campus since 2010, but Ross hopes its return will facilitate future minority growth in the pre-law field. Ross added that people seem
to be generally unaware of the obstacles Black students face in applying to law schools, and, simultaneously, many Black students are unfamiliar with the resources available to them. She said BULA will bring that awareness to campus, both for those directly affected and for the rest of the campus community. In addition to other resources and activities, BULA will provide members with LSAT prep
and host panel discussions with relevant speakers. Ross said the group plans to reach out to the community in a broad sense, by welcoming students of all backgrounds. She noted that this year’s founders are actively seeking new membership, something previous attempts at bringing BULA back to campus seemed to lack. LSA senior Brianna Wilson See LAW, Page 5A
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Finance reports show expensive race in Ward 2 Data shows a total of $53K raised in all city council races By WILL GREENBERG Daily Staff Reporter
Candidates’ campaign finance data is in for the most recent reporting period for the Ann Arbor City Council elections with combined funds for all the candidates reaching upward of $53,000. Topping the list was Jane Lumm (Ward 2–I) with $20,875— which exceeds the $18,950 preelection total Lumm generated in the 2011 election — raised for this last filing period, which ended on Oct. 20. Lumm’s funds are about double that of Kirk Westphal, Lumm’s Democratic challenger in Ward 2. Money raised for Ann Arbor City Council elections through October 20, 2013. LSA senior Conrad Brown, a third Ward 2 candidate, filed a reporting waiver, which means
he expects to collect less than $1,000. Brown is an independent candidate, running with the Mixed Use Party. Sabra Briere (D–Ward 1) will face-off against new candidate Jeff Hayner, an independent, for the Ward 1 seat. Briere collected $11,800 while Hayner collected about $2,700. Hayner said the difference in funds is likely a disadvantage for him, but he’s still been able to reach voters and create interest in his campaign. Hayner said Briere has been able to utilize her additional resources for mailings, while he has had to do more work door-to-door soliciting, which makes it harder to inform a large amount of people. “Instead of using $1,800worth of postage, I’m taking a day and having all the neighbors give their neighbors a note by hand,” Hayner said. “I’m running a zerobalance campaign; I’m not going to have any debt when I’m done.” He also noted that informing reaching voters is hard enough even with mailings, noting the See FINANCE, Page 5A
than 2,000 members who volunteer their time and knowledge annually for issues that impact the public. With the addition of the three faculty members, UMHS now has 53 faculty who are past and present members of the IOM. Woolliscroft called the recognition an honor, noting that the induction was a tribute to his mentors as well. “Success is built on what people are willing to invest in you over the course of your career,” he said. “Now I see this as an opportunity to invest myself in others as people have done for me.” He added that he sees this as a responsibility of his profession, and that he enjoys teaching people through both academia and medicine. “That’s simply how I look at what we do in academic medicine,” he said. “You take care of the patient in front of you through your clinical work, and you take care of the patients of the future through education and research.” See FACULTY, Page 5A
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Music, Theater & Dance junior Alexis Turner models during the SHEI Magazine fashion show Friday.
SHEI hosts fashion show Student org partners with State Street merchants By JULIA LISS For The Daily
SHEI Magazine, a studentrun campus fashion periodical, hosted the third-annual State Street Fashion Show at the Michigan Theater Friday. Presented in partnership with the State Street Area Association, the show featured the latest fall outfits from a variety of local clothing stores, including the MDen, Bivouac
and Pitaya. ASOS, a British fashion retailer with a popular online shopping site, also sponsored the event. From the planning to the modeling, the event was entirely student-run. About 150 people filled the dimly lit theater to watch the show, which included an techno DJ and a runway. LSA senior Shea Corrigan, the Editor in Chief of SHEI, said the planning committee was comprised of about eight students, led by Art & Design senior Tara Ellis and LSA junior Alexis Miedema — the fashion editors of the magazine — and began preparing for the show in September.
The fashion show began three years ago when the State Street Association contacted SHEI to help create a “flagship” event that would foster a closer relationship between the campus community and the retailers, as well as create exposure for their products, Corrigan said. “I was pleased with the outcome, I think the show was really strong and from what I could tell back backstage it was a good turnout,” Corrigan said. Art & Design junior Grace Treado, one of the models in the show, said the event felt See SHEI, Page 5A
New role comes as Medical School annonuces record year of inventions By HILLARY CRAWFORD Daily Staff Reporter
Following the campus-wide trend of focusing on entrepreneurship, the Medical School named Emergency Medicine Prof. Kevin Ward executive director for medical innovation on Wednesday, will work with the school’s faculty to spur entrepreneurial activity. In the past fiscal year, Medical School researchers successfully pitched 133 inventions and were allotted 41 patents. These figures represent a third of the University’s total invention and patent statistics. According to a report released Wednesday by the University’s See UMHS, Page 5A
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Woolliscroft also said he’s looking forward to researching issues pertinent to the nation and reporting on sub-committees related to health and safety. Fearon, whose research is related to the progression of colon and rectal cancer, described the process as intense: members of the IOM nominate individuals for consideration, and then a board takes several months to evaluate the candidates to determine who will be elected. Despite the honor, Fearon said joining the IOM wasn’t a career goal. “It’s great to be recognized and have your group recognized for their work in science and in medicine, but ultimately your goal is to help people,” Fearon said. “With anything you just try to do the best work and the best research you can and try to make an impact that way.”
said she often feels lonesome as a Black student pursuing a career in the legal industry. “I really thought that I was the only one. I knew I wasn’t, but it felt like it,” Wilson said. “It would be nice to actually come together and see who like you is doing the same thing, and then you can talk about your process together.” Though the number of Black students at the law school is low according to recent data, Wilson doesn’t feel like that puts her at a disadvantage.
FINANCE From Page 1A relatively low voter turnout for council elections. Other than Lumm, Westphal and Briere, no candidates exceeded $5,000 in fundraising during the period. In Ward 3, Stephen Kunselman (D–Ward 3) collected no money during the last filing period. Kunselman also recently announced he will be running for mayor in 2014. His council seat is being contested by Samuel DeVarti, a student at Eastern Michigan University, running as an Independent for the Mixed Use Party. DeVarti has raised a total of $945 so far. In Ward 4, John Eaton is running against write-in candidate William Lockwood, the Ann Arbor Chronicle reported. Eaton collected $2,150 during this most recent period. Campaign finance details are not available for writein candidates. Mike Anglin (D–Ward 5) has collected about $4,587, and is officially uncontested. Ann Arbor residents Thomas Partridge and Charles Smith have mounted write-in campaigns, according to the Ann Arbor Chronicle. Only five of the 11 city council seats will have elections this fall, as only half of the 10 ward representatives are elected each year for two-year terms. The elections are Tuesday, Nov. 5.
SHEI From Page 1A like a combination of professional fashion and something more accessible to students. “We’re all Michigan students … but we get to be a part of something more interesting,” Treado said. The group sold SHEI branded T-shirts and other merchandise for fundraising, and guests were also invited to have their photo taken against a SHEI backdrop. Attendees were given raffle tickets upon entry for giftcards to ASOS, MDen and Pitaya, among others.
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UMHS From Page 1A Office of Technology Transfer, $11.1 million of the $14.4 million that the University collects each year from past patents and licensing agreements is directly attributable to innovations from medical research. Licenses were granted to 54 Medical School inventions as part of 40 license agreements with corporate businesses in the past fiscal year. Licensing and patents do not always translate into successful products, but the Medical School has established a new initiative to aid in the translation from research lab to marketplace. Headed by Ward, the Fast Forward Medical Innovation Initiative aims to combine research and entrepreneurship efforts in order to foster commercialization. Among the initiative’s programs is the implementation of Innovation Strike Forces, groups
News “If you look at the numbers and see that a lot of people like yourself don’t get picked, I guess that can be slightly discouraging, but I don’t think about it so much because I am confident in my abilities,” Wilson said. LSA junior Jehan Jawad, herself an aspiring attorney, said she thinks an increase in minority pre-law clubs will help encourage minority participation in this career path. “I don’t think there is an adequate amount of programs to help minorities interested in law school. I want to help share my story as a way to enlighten women of color to go into this practice.”
of employees that will identify and accelerate promising ideas, then connect the dots between researchers, clinicians and businesses. “The new innovation program is to help faculty think in different ways about their ideas and to provide them with an innovation road map so that we can get their ideas to impact through product development much earlier,” Ward said. Ward said although ideas are protected through invention disclosures and patents, many of them do not necessarily become products. To ease the transition from biomedical research to clinical application, Ward plans to work closely with the Office of Tech Transfer, the College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship, the Business Engagement Center and other campus offices. “We’ve got a top-ranked Medical School, College of Engineering and Business School, so one of the strategies will be to blur the lines between them.”
Calif. gunman dead following brutal rampage Gunman kills one, injures three before being shot by police RIDGECREST, Calif. (AP) — Sergio Munoz was known around this small desert city to acquaintances as a personable dad, and to police for his long rap sheet. In recent weeks, he began losing the moorings of a stable life — his job, then his family. Kicked out of the house, he had been staying at a friend’s place, using and dealing heroin. Life fully unraveled when Munoz, with two hostages in his trunk, led officers on a wild chase Friday after killing a woman and injuring his crash-pad friend. He shot the friend after he had refused to join what Munoz planned would be a final rampage against police and “snitches.” Munoz knew the authorities well enough that after the initial, pre-dawn slaying he called one patrol officer’s cellphone and announced that he wanted to kill all police in town. But because he would be outgunned at the station he would instead “wreak havoc” elsewhere, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said at a news conference Friday. Munoz kept his word, first firing at drivers in Ridgecrest, according to police, then taking shots at pursuing officers and passing motorists during a chase along 30 miles of highway that runs through the shrub-dotted desert about 150 miles north of Los Angeles. He ran traffic off the road, firing at least 10 times at passing vehicles with a shotgun and a handgun, though no one was hurt. In the end, Munoz pulled over on U.S. 395, turned in his seat and began shooting into the trunk — which had popped open earlier in the pursuit to reveal a man and woman inside. As many as seven officers opened fire and killed him. The hostages were flown to a hospital in critical condition, but were expected to survive. Their names have not been released and police have not said anything about their relationship to Munoz except that he knew them. In the neighborhood where
the first shooting happened, people said Munoz was an affable man who would stop to chat, revealing no signs of inner turmoil. “He didn’t show any anger,” said Edgar Martinez, who would see Munoz at a nearby gym and said he cleaned his house several years ago. Others described him as respectful and humble. But recently, his life began to crumble. First, he became unemployed. According to his Facebook page, Munoz worked at Searles Valley Minerals, a company that makes products such as borax and soda ash by extracting a salty mix from beneath a desert lake bed. It was not clear whether he lost his job at Searles, or another business, and officials at Searles were unreachable Saturday. Last Sunday, Munoz, 39, was arrested again — police found ammunition and a syringe at the house where the slaying would happen five days later. Munoz is a felon with convictions dating back to 1994, when he was sentenced to more than two years in prison for receiving stolen property. In May, he was arrested for possessing ammunition as a felon, but the felony charge was dismissed. After making bail on the latest arrest, Munoz returned to the house where he first started staying about two weeks ago. A neighbor heard Munoz bemoaning his life, saying he was losing everything due to drugs. “He was a cool guy,” said the neighbor, Derrick Holland. “He was just losing his mind.” Munoz’s estranged wife, Sandra Leiva, said that they separated because she finally had enough of his bad choices. “Tough love and drugs, that’s what brought him down,” Leiva said. On Saturday morning, Munoz’s 15-year-old daughter, Viviana, reflected on her father’s life in a Facebook post. “Your such a great dad when you were not on drugs...I remember how you used always try and teach us how to dance all crazy with your chicken legs haha,” she wrote. “You were a good father and person, you just made a sad choice.”
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Israeli tunnel hit by cyber attackers Trojan horse attack inflitrated security system, lead to massive shutdown HADERA, Israel (AP) — When Israel’s military chief delivered a high-profile speech this month outlining the greatest threats his country might face in the future, he listed computer sabotage as a top concern, warning a sophisticated cyberattack could one day bring the nation to a standstill. Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was not speaking empty words. Exactly one month before his address, a major artery in Israel’s national road network in the northern city of Haifa was shut down because of a cyberattack, cybersecurity experts tell The Associated Press, knocking key operations out of commission two days in a row and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. One expert, speaking on condition of anonymity because the breach of security was a classified matter, said a Trojan horse attack targeted the security camera system in the Carmel Tunnels toll road on Sept. 8. A Trojan horse is a malicious computer program that users unknowingly install that can give hackers complete control over their systems. The attack caused an immediate 20-minute lockdown of the roadway. The next day, the expert said, it shut down the roadway again during morning rush hour. It remained shut for eight hours, causing massive congestion. The expert said investigators believe the attack was the work of unknown, sophisticated hackers, similar to the Anonymous hacking group that led attacks on Israeli websites in April. He said investigators determined it was not sophisticated enough to be the work of an enemy government like Iran. The expert said Israel’s National Cyber Bureau, a twoyear-old classified body that reports to the prime minister, was aware of the incident. The bureau declined comment, while Carmelton, the company that oversees the toll road, blamed a “communication glitch” for the mishap. While Israel is a frequent target of hackers, the tunnel is the most high-profile landmark known to have been attacked. It is a major thoroughfare for Israel’s third-largest city, and the city is looking to turn the tunnel into a public shelter in case of emergency, highlighting
its importance. The incident is exactly the type of scenario that Gantz described in his recent address. He said Israel’s future battles might begin with “a cyberattack on websites which provide daily services to the citizens of Israel. Traffic lights could stop working, the banks could be shut down,” he said. There have been cases of traffic tampering before. In 2005, the United States outlawed the unauthorized use of traffic override devices installed in many police cars and ambulances after unscrupulous drivers started using them to turn lights from red to green. In 2008, two Los Angeles traffic engineers pleaded guilty to breaking into the city’s signal system and deliberately snarling traffic as part of a labor dispute. Oren David, a manager at international security firm RSA’s anti-fraud unit, said that although he didn’t have information about the tunnel incident, this kind of attack “is the hallmark of a new era.” “Most of these systems are automated, especially as far as security is concerned. . They’re automated and they’re remotely controlled, either over the Internet or otherwise, so they’re vulnerable to cyberattack,” he said. Israel, he added, is “among the top-targeted countries.” In June, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran and its proxies Hezbollah and Hamas have targeted Israel’s “essential systems,” including its water system, electric grid, trains and banks. “Every sphere of civilian economic life, let’s not even talk about our security, is a potential or actual cyberattack target,” Netanyahu said at the time. Israeli government websites receive hundreds and sometimes thousands of cyberattacks each day, said Ofir Ben Avi, head of the government’s website division. During Israel’s military offensive on the Gaza Strip last year, tens of millions of website attacks took place, from denial of service attacks, which cripple websites by overloading them with traffic, to more sophisticated attempts to steal passwords, Ben Avi said. Under constant threat, Israel has emerged as a world leader in cybersecurity, with murky military units developing much of the technology. Last year, the military formed its first cyberdefense unit. Israeli cybersecurity experts say Iran and other hostile entities have successfully hacked
into Israeli servers this year, and that Israel has quietly permitted those attacks to occur in order to track the hackers and feed them false intelligence. Israel is also widely believed to have launched its own sophisticated computer attacks on its enemies, including the Stuxnet worm that caused significant damage to Iran’s nuclear program. Bracing for serious attacks on Israeli civilian infrastructure, Israel’s national electric company launched a training program this month to teach engineers and power plant supervisors how to detect system infiltrations. The Israel Electric Corp. says its servers register about 6,000 unique computer attacks every second. “Big organizations and even countries are preparing for D-Day,” said Yasha Hain, a senior executive vice president at the company. “We decided to prepare ourselves to be first in line.” The training program is run jointly with CyberGym, a cyberdefense company founded by ex-Israeli intelligence operatives that consults for Israeli oil, gas, transportation and financial companies. On a manicured campus of eucalyptus trees across from a power plant in Israel’s north, groups are divided into teams in a role-playing game of hackers and power plant engineers. The “hackers,” code-named the Red Team, sit in a dimly lit room decorated with cartoon villains on the walls. Darth Vader hovers over binary code. Kermit the Frog flashes his middle finger. In another room, a miniature model of a power station overflows with water and the boiler’s thermometer shoots up as the role-playing hackers run a “Kill All” code. The exercise teaches employees how to detect a possible cyberattack even if their computer systems don’t register it. About 25 middle-aged employees attended the first day of training last week. The course will eventually train thousands of workers, the electric company said. CyberGym co-founder Ofir Hason declined to comment on the toll road shutdown, but said the company has seen a number of cyberattacks on infrastructures in recent years. The country is especially susceptible because Israel has no electricity-sharing agreements with neighboring states, and all of the country’s essential infrastructure depends on the company for power.
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FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (OCT. 31, 1963) The School of Dentistry proposed the construction of a new
$10 million building. The school’s outdated facilities were making it difficult to continue to be a top program, William Mann, the Dean of the Dental School, said. The proposed building plan allowed the school to increase its enrollment from 350 to 600 undergraduates, whom the school had a program for at the time. “The present dentistry building is the second oldest in the country, and when it was provided in 1908, research space was given little consideration,” Mann said.
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WHERE: 2400 Hayward WHEN: Thursday at about 10:30 a.m. WHAT: A vehicle backing out of a driveway hit another car in the street, resulting in a minor accident, University Police reported. There were no injuries, but there was some damage to one of the vehicles.
All kinds of bad Depression WHERE: 1900 block of discussion Geddes WHEN: Friday at about 2:20 a.m. WHAT: A subject was arrested for operating while intoxicated, resisting arrest, damage to a police vehicle and possession of a false driver’s license, University Police reported.
WHAT: Former NFL athlete Eric Hipple and MLS athlete Blake Wagner will share their experiences and work with depression. WHO: Council for Disability Concerns WHEN: Today at 12 p.m. WHERE: School of Social Work Building
That guy at the Study ‘til you party drop WHERE: Angell Hall WHEN: Thursday at 10:15 p.m. WHAT: An intoxicated subject was escorted from Angell Hall after reports the subject was bothering people, University Police reported. The subject was given a verbal warning.
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WHERE: Shapiro Undergraduate Library WHEN: Friday at about 3:15 a.m. WHAT: An ambulance was requested after a subject passed out in the library lobby but said subject left before the officer arrived, University Police reported.
WHAT: Emily Mower Provost is the keynote speaker at the 7th Annual Pretcher Bipolar Research Fund Lecture and will dicuss the diesease research and specifically highlight humancentered computing WHO: Depression Center WHEN: Today from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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happen. Damascus’ declaration includes a general plan for destruction that will be considered by the OPCW’s 41-nation executive council on Nov. 15. Norway’s foreign minister announced Friday that the country had turned down a U.S. request to receive the bulk of Syria’s chemical weapons for destruction because it doesn’t have the capabilities to complete the task by the deadlines given. The announcement came among renewed fighting in Syria. Al-Qaida-linked rebels battled government troops for control of the Christian town of Sadad north of Damascus, activists said. The rebels have been trying to seize the town for the past week, and residents in the rebel-held western neighborhoods of Sadad are trapped in their homes, said Rami Abdurrahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights. The rebels appear to have targeted Sadad because of its strategic location near the main highway north from Damascus rather than because it is inhabited primarily by Christians. But extremists among the rebels are hostile to Syria’s Christians minority, which has largely backed President Bashar Assad during the conflict. The official Syrian news agency said troops wrested back control of eastern parts of Sadad, but were clashing in other areas. Also Sunday, Syrian Kurdish gunmen were trying to secure their hold over a major border crossing with Iraq after capturing the captured the Yaaroubiyeh post in northeast Syria on Saturday. Abdurrahman said the Kurdish gunmen were fighting pockets of fighters from extremist rebel groups in southern Yaaroubiyeh. Syria’s chaotic more than 2 ½ year-old conflict pits Assad’s forces against a disunited array of rebel factions. Al-Qaidalinked hard-liners have fought other rebel groups as well as Kurdish militias who have taken
advantage of the government’s weakness to cement control over territory dominated by the ethnic minority. The main Western-backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, accused Iraqi forces of fighting moderate Syrian rebels at Yaaroubiyeh, and shelling the area in cooperation with Kurdish militants. Iraq’s Interior Ministry spokesman, Saad Maan Ibrahim, rejected the accusations, saying they are “baseless because Iraq and its security forces have nothing to do with the fighting at the Syrian border crossing.” In neighboring Lebanon, another two people were killed by sniper fire during fighting between rival sects in the northern city of Tripoli, the official state news agency reported. It said that a soldier in the city also died Sunday of his wounds. At least 10 people have been killed since clashes flared earlier this week, security officials said. Syria’s civil war effectively has spread to Lebanon’s second largest city, where it has inflamed tensions between two impoverished Tripoli neighborhoods, home to Assad opponents and supporters. The Bab Tabbaneh district is largely Sunni Muslim, like Syria’s rebels. The other neighborhood Jabal Mohsen mostly has residents of Assad’s Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam. The latest round of fighting began four days ago. Tensions had been mounting since Oct. 14, when a Lebanese military prosecutor pressed charges against seven men, at least one of whom was from Jabal Mohsen, for their involvement in twin bombings near two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on Aug. 23 that killed 47 people. Lebanon shares its northern and eastern border with Syria. Lebanon’s Sunni leadership has mostly supported the rebels, while Alawites and Shiites have backed the Assad government. Members of all three sects have gone as fighters to Syria.
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Police seek answers in probe of missing boy State police are investigating a woman’s report that a man stopped to offer her roadside help, then abducted her 2-yearold son. The boy was found safe 12 hours later. State police said Saturday that Jarren Jackson was found safe in Washtenaw County’s Augusta Township, not far from where his mother reported him missing.
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iPad art gains recognition in new exhibit Happily hunched over his iPad, Britain’s most celebrated living artist David Hockney is pioneering in the art world again, turning his index finger into a paintbrush that he uses to swipe across a touch screen to create vibrant landscapes, colorful forests and richly layered scenes. “It’s a very new medium,” said Hockney. So new, in fact, he wasn’t sure what he was creating until he began printing his digital images a few years ago. “I was pretty amazed by them actually,” he said, laughing. “I’m still amazed.” A new exhibit of Hockney’s work, including about 150 iPad images, opened Saturday in the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, just a short trip for Silicon Valley techies who created both the hardware and software for this 21st-century reinvention of finger-painting.
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Two arrested after stabbing at Indiana U. BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Two Indiana University students were charged Sunday morning in connection with a stabbing that injured another student at a campus apartment building, school officials said. University police arrested 18-year-old Zesen Shen and 21-year-old Kaiyu Lao, IU spokesman Mark Land said in a news release. Shen has been charged with intimidation and battery and Lao was charged with intimidation, Land said. Police said Shen, Lao and a 20-year-old IU student were in the Tulip Tree apartment’s parking lot around 3:30 a.m., Land said. Witnesses told campus police the three were there “to resolve a dispute when the suspects began chasing victim and wounded him with a knife,” Land said.
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United Kingdom braces for worst storm in years The worst storm in several years is forecast to hit the U.K. on Sunday, bringing heavy rain, hurricane-force gusts and the expectation of flooding and transport disruption. As winds picked up and Britain prepared for the storm — dubbed St. Jude and #Stormageddon on social networks — major sports events such as a regular NFL game in London between the San Francisco 49ers and Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley Stadium kicked off regardless. Prime Minister David Cameron told government agencies to ensure that contingency plans are made for transportation, schools and power supplies during the storm, which could have gusts stronger than 80 mph (128 kph) — akin to those in hurricanes. Britain does not get hurricanes due to its geographic location. The storm is expected to move across the country and head out over the North Sea by Monday afternoon. Britain’s Met Office said it could cause widespread and severe disruption from falling trees, power cuts and flooding. —Compiled from Daily wire reports
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President Barack Obama, second from left, with first lady Michelle Obama, right, and their daughters Malia, left, and Sasha, walk from the White House in Washington to attend a church service Sunday.
Obama faces GOP criticism over health-reform issues HHS Secretary target of tough questioning on health law WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans said Sunday they intend to press Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the Obama administration’s troubled launch of healthcare.gov, the online portal to buy insurance, and concerns about the privacy of information that applicants submit under the new system. The Obama administration will face intense pressure next week to be more forthcoming about how many people have actually succeeded in enrolling for coverage in the new insurance markets. Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner is to testify during a House hearing Tuesday, followed Wednesday by Sebelius before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The officials will also be grilled on how such crippling technical problems could have gone undetected prior to the website’s Oct. 1 launch. “The incompetence in building this website is staggering,” said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., the second ranking Republican on the panel and an
opponent of the law. Democrats said the new system needed time to get up and running, and it could be fixed to provide millions of people with affordable insurance. Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, a Democrat, said the system was “working in Kentucky,” a state that has dealt with “some of the worst health statistics in the country. ... The only way we’re going to get ourselves out of the ditch is some transformational tool,” like the new health insurance system. Blackburn said she wanted to know much has been spent on the website, how much more it will cost to fix the problems, when everything will be ready and what people should expect to see on the site. Blackburn and Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., raised questions of whether the website could guard the privacy of applicants. “The way the system is designed it is not secure,” said Rogers, who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. The administration sought to reassure applicants about their personal information. HHS spokeswoman Joanne Peters said when consumers fill out their applications, “they can trust that the information they’re providing is protected by stringent security standards and that the technology underlying the application process
has been tested and is secure.” The botched rollout has led to calls on Capitol Hill for a delay of penalties for those remaining uninsured. The Obama administration has said it’s willing to extend the grace period until Mar. 31, the end of open enrollment. That’s an extra six weeks. The insurance industry says going beyond that risks undermining the new system by giving younger, healthier people a pass. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., who is seeking a yearlong delay to the penalty for noncompliance, said his approach would “still induce people to get involved, but it will also give us the time to transition in. And I think we need that transition period to work out the things.” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., who has urged the Obama administration to postpone the March 31 deadline, said she was concerned applicants would not have a full six months to enroll. The administration was under no legal requirement to launch the website Oct. 1. Sebelius, who designated her department’s Medicare agency to implement the health care law, had the discretion to set open enrollment dates. Officials could have postponed open enrollment by a month, or they could have phased in access to the website.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Green is a great school. Red is bad one. Lime, yellow and orange are in-between. Michigan’s new color-coded school accountability system already could be up for an overhaul just two months after its debut. Some lawmakers say schools should get A-F grades just like students do, so parents and others can easily understand performance. “It’s not clear, it’s not concise and it’s not transparent. Nobody knows what a lime green means, but everybody knows what an A means,” said House Education Committee Chairwoman Lisa Posthumus Lyons, an Alto Republican who is expected to start hearings this week on her soon-to-be introduced legislation to switch to letter grades. Letter grades — implemented in roughly 15 states — seem intuitive on their face since schools are used to evaluating students with letter grades of their own. The tricky part is determining how the rankings are calculated and making sure they are credible. Indeed, Lyons’ bills would do more than change the performance scorecard from colors to letters. She said she wants to change the formula so that grades “accurately reflect” schools’ quality. In the 2012-13 scores released in August, some schools were rated red despite being seen as traditionally high-performing, while other schools got green scores despite having no performance data because they were new, according to critics. Another complaint is that Michigan’s separate top-to-bottom percentile ranking of schools, which is part of its accountability system under a waiver from federal no Child Left Behind requirements, closely correlates with student poverty rates. And others complain that the top-to-
bottom list and separate color grades are not aligned, confusing educators and the public. One goal of the House bills is to eliminate the top-to-bottom ranking and replace it with A-F grades so there is a single system. That does not mean that designations such as “reward,” ‘’priority” and “focus” schools would necessarily go away because they are in the state’s waiver to the U.S. government. But priority schools in the bottom 5 percent and subject to state intervention could be “F’’ schools. Reward schools in the top 5 percent could be “A’’ schools. The letter grades would be based on students’ proficiency and growth measured through standardized test scores. “We’re not saying it’s letters are better than colors. We’re saying that the thinking that goes into the creation of the letters is what has to be replaced,” said Gary Naeyaert, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project, a school-choice advocacy group founded by former Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick Devos and his wife Betsy that has given input on the legislation. “There’s a lack of buyin among the school community because of the convoluted, ultra complex, impossible methodology of the top-to-bottom ranking, which now has consequences for schools.” Naeyaert criticized the state Education Department’s decision to hold schools accountable for the achievement gap between the top- and bottom-scoring students instead of measuring the gap between specific racial or demographic groups. Education Department officials declined to be interviewed for this story. Education Trust-Midwest, an education policy and research organization in Royal Oak, also supports an A-F system but says legislators should be careful when revising the “nuts and bolts” of the accountability system. They may be tempted to let schools off the hook if there is blowback about being given a “D’’ or “F,” said Amber Arellano, the group’s executive director.
Israeli tunnel, road network Abyei residents vote hit by advanced cyber attack on boarder resolution High profile target reveals potential weakness in defense systems
HADERA, Israel (AP) — When Israel’s military chief delivered a high-profile speech this month outlining the greatest threats his country might face in the future, he listed computer sabotage as a top concern, warning a sophisticated cyberattack could one day bring the nation to a standstill. Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was not speaking empty words. Exactly one month before his address, a major artery in Israel’s national road network in the northern city of Haifa was shut down because of a cyberattack, cybersecurity experts tell The Associated Press, knocking key operations out of commission two days in a row and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. One expert, speaking on condition of anonymity because the breach of security was a classified matter, said a Trojan horse attack targeted the security camera system in the Carmel Tunnels toll road on Sept. 8. A Trojan horse is a malicious computer program that users unknowingly install that can give hackers complete control over their systems. The attack caused an immediate 20-minute lockdown of the roadway. The next day, the expert said, it shut down the roadway again during morning rush hour. It remained shut for eight hours, causing massive congestion. The expert said investigators believe the attack was the work of unknown, sophisti-
cated hackers, similar to the Anonymous hacking group that led attacks on Israeli websites in April. He said investigators determined it was not sophisticated enough to be the work of an enemy government like Iran. The expert said Israel’s National Cyber Bureau, a twoyear-old classified body that reports to the prime minister, was aware of the incident. The bureau declined comment, while Carmelton, the company that oversees the toll road, blamed a “communication glitch” for the mishap. While Israel is a frequent target of hackers, the tunnel is the most high-profile landmark known to have been attacked. It is a major thoroughfare for Israel’s third-largest city, and the city is looking to turn the tunnel into a public shelter in case of emergency, highlighting its importance. The incident is exactly the type of scenario that Gantz described in his recent address. He said Israel’s future battles might begin with “a cyberattack on websites which provide daily services to the citizens of Israel. Traffic lights could stop working, the banks could be shut down,” he said. There have been cases of traffic tampering before. In 2005, the United States outlawed the unauthorized use of traffic override devices installed in many police cars and ambulances after unscrupulous drivers started using them to turn lights from red to green. In 2008, two Los Angeles traffic engineers pleaded guilty to breaking into the city’s signal system and deliberately snarling traffic as part of a labor dispute. Oren David, a manager at international security firm
RSA’s anti-fraud unit, said that although he didn’t have information about the tunnel incident, this kind of attack “is the hallmark of a new era.” “Most of these systems are automated, especially as far as security is concerned. . They’re automated and they’re remotely controlled, either over the Internet or otherwise, so they’re vulnerable to cyberattack,” he said. Israel, he added, is “among the toptargeted countries.” In June, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran and its proxies Hezbollah and Hamas have targeted Israel’s “essential systems,” including its water system, electric grid, trains and banks. “Every sphere of civilian economic life, let’s not even talk about our security, is a potential or actual cyberattack target,” Netanyahu said at the time. Israeli government websites receive hundreds and sometimes thousands of cyberattacks each day, said Ofir Ben Avi, head of the government’s website division.
Voting continues despite risks, lack of official support
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Hundreds of people in the disputed border region of Abyei voted Sunday in a referendum that they hope will decide whether they join Sudan or South Sudan, a local leader said, but the exercise lacked the official backing of either of the governments. The exercise was proceeding peacefully Sunday, said Luka Biong, spokesman for the Abyei Referendum High Committee, a civic group that is organizing the vote. He said the results of the three-day vote will be announced on Oct. 31. “This reminds me of what happened in January 2011 when the people of South Sudan voted for their independence,” he said. “This was a special moment, a historic moment. This was like crowning the history of the struggle of the people of Abyei. I saw my people so determined.” Both Sudan and South Sudan claim ownership of the oil-rich
Abyei area, whose status was unresolved after South Sudan became independent from its northern neighbor in 2011. The region’s majority Ngok Dinka people are believed to be in favor of joining South Sudan. The Sudan-allied Misseriya nomads, who come to Abyei to find pasture for their cattle, are not participating in the referendum. The voting was “going on very smoothly” across Abyei, confirmed Zacharia Deng Majok, a member of the Abyei Referendum High Committee. “People are in a jovial mood here,” he said. “The morale of the people is very high because they know they are making a choice for their future.” Up to 100,000 people are expected to participate in the vote despite warnings that the event might trigger violence in the border region. The African Union had warned against holding a referendum, saying such action could increase the risk of violence between the Ngok Dinka and the Misseriya. The Misseriya have warned that a referendum in which they are not participants should not take place.
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Lowering tuition, expanding opportunities Wayne State’s new policy will boost student population in Detroit
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his past week, Wayne State University in Detroit announced that it will extend in-state tuition to admitted students from the Great Lakes states — Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — and Ontario, Canada beginning in January 2014. Wayne State offers in-state tuition to veterans and undocumented students, and the new policy will give the same offer to a wider range of individuals. Students affected by the policy can now save an average of $13,000 for 30 credits a year. Ninety-five percent of the students at Wayne State are from Michigan, and enrollment has been steadily decreasing since 2009. The new tuition policy was implemented in the hope to attract more students to the university. Wayne State Provost Margaret Winters told the Detroit Free Press that the lowered tuition fees may draw more students to the university “beyond our normal recruitment area, and become better known in other states.” Winters also added that the new policy keep the university competitive: “All our competition has spread their areas more widely. We needed to remain competitive with them.” In addition to drawing students to Wayne State, the lowered tuition rates will also draw more people to the city of Detroit. In the last several decades, Detroit has been experiencing economic decline and a rapid decrease in population. In the last decade alone, population has decreased by about 25 percent. By enticing more potential students to Wayne State, a wider range of individuals can gain exposure to the city. Increasing exposure to the city can simultaneously increase awareness of Detroit’s thriving culture beyond the common misconceptions and stereotypes of the Motor City. As new students live, learn and engage with Detroit, they can form ties with community organizations, take part in local internships and contribute to the city’s economy. Though Wayne State’s new tuition policy is an excellent way to invite more students to the
area, the lack of similar policies nearby may undermine the university’s efforts. A successful program implemented in western states called the Western Undergraduate Exchange allows students to apply to more than 140 colleges and universities at a reduced tuition rate. The success of the program lies in the ability to bring together several institutions, so that they all benefit from building an educated workforce and increasing the diversity of their student body. Adopting a similar program in the Midwest would allow more students to seek affordable education outside of their home state, and would strengthen the program at Wayne State. Despite the lack of other institutions participating in a collective program, Wayne State’s efforts to provide affordable education to a wider range of students is notable. College and university prices across the country have been steadily increasing. Here at the University, in-state tuition has increased about 40 percent since 2004. The constant rise in tuition prices sends a clear message: that institutions will maintain a rigid structure with little regard for student’s needs. Wayne State is sending us a new message. With prices constantly increasing and higher education becoming less accessible, Wayne State is taking the initiative to solve these pressing issues. Hopefully, more institutions can follow their example to provide solutions for the steadily increasing cost of higher education.
An open letter to Sir Walter Wannabe
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ear Sir Walter Raleigh Wannabe, I came across your piece titled “Why Chivalry is Dead, From a Man’s Perspective” last week after it was shared on my Facebook newsfeed. I read it once, twice and then a third time for good measure, looking for a hint of satire. When I didn’t find it, I read about Elite Daily, thinking maybe the publication is a sort of offshoot of The Onion. It SARA isn’t. You actually feel this MOROSI way, and I’m baffled. In your opening argument, you mention that you grew up in a tight knit Italian family, and because of that, feel you’re equipped with a strong set of values. I, too, grew up in a tight knit Italian family, and I feel similarly. I can even relate to your reference of the wooden spoon. But it seems as though you and I have very different takes on “why women act the way they do” — something on which, according to your biography, you are quite the expert. I don’t believe chivalry is dead. I do believe the way society defines “chivalry” has changed with time. You say that the women in your life have taught you “the value of chivalry and etiquette.” And, as a woman, I appreciate that. But the truth is, your mother and grandmother’s experiences with chivalry reflect the society in which they grew up and dated — one that left little room for the empowerment and success of women outside of the nuclear family, and is very different from ours. In fact, one of my favorite stories that my dad tells is about the time, at age 10, he beat up a boy for saying my grandmother was a terrible mother because she worked outside of the home as an elementary school teacher. As women have gained more respect, the way society regards chivalry has shifted. It’s no longer about a man finding a woman to provide care for the family while he purses the American Dream. It’s about mutual respect. You say that you’re “the only single guy you know that actually takes a girl out to a restaurant on a first date.” Along with “don’t
flatter yourself,” I have to say you might want to reconsider the men with which you surround yourself. I have plenty of friends who are willing and happy to spend the time and money to take a girl out on a date. I’m sure you’d get along great with them. Then again, maybe you wouldn’t. I grew confused when you proceeded to say: “When did it become acceptable to just text a girl, inviting her to come bang? Don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining about those instances ...” Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems there are times that you dismiss the traditions you swear by, and conform to exactly what it is that you are condemning. You also claim that the death of chivalry has led to the subsequent end of simple gestures, like holding doors open. I disagree, as I see this, among other displays of courtesy on campus, every day. I do not expect anyone — male or female — to hold the door open for me, especially just because I am a woman. I am fully capable of opening the door myself. But if do you hold the door open for me as I scurry into Mason Hall, I’m going to appreciate it and I’m going to thank you. I’m also going to look over my shoulder to see if anyone is coming in behind me before letting the door close. It isn’t about chivalry; it’s about mutual respect. Your argument that chivalry is dead only shows that male chauvinism is still very much alive. You state: “The real problem here is that women, for one reason or another, have become complacent and allowed men to get away with adhering to the bare minimum … and receiving what we ultimately want anyway — sex.” There is a strong differentiation between any definition of chivalry and chauvinism, and by putting the blame on women for an imagined epidemic of disrespect, you are surely displaying the latter. Since you offered us so much enlightenment, I’d love to return the favor. If you continue to hold on to said perspective, sir, do not expect a high return rate on second dates.
Male chauvinism is still very much alive.
— Sara Morosi can be reached at smorosi@umich.edu.
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The me, myself and I generation
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s I was combing through articles for a column topic this week, a Thought Catalog post caught my eye. It was titled: “Millennials: We Suck. But It’s Okay, Because We’re Going To Change The World.” Before I come back to this article, let me HARSHA backtrack a little. NAHATA A lot has been said about our generation, most of it not very nice. We’ve been called self-absorbed, easily distracted, entitled, apathetic and lazy. The cover of Time Magazine labeled us the “ME ME ME Generation.” After all, we are the generation of gold stars, short attention spans and Facebook. We’ve been criticized for being unrealistic about job opportunities — how dare we be picky in this economy — and difficult to manage in the workplace — going back to the whole “gold star, unable to take criticism, easily distracted with Ipxods and texting” thing. In short, we’ve been dubbed pretty much the “Worst. Generation. Ever.” — courtesy of Will McAvoy, the fictional anchor of HBO’s “The Newsroom.” But, thankfully, we have the Internet to save the day, or at least tell us what’s wrong with us. A September 2013 Huffington Post article kindly elaborates on “Why Generation Y Yuppies are Unhappy.” In case you were wondering, it’s because of our unrealistic expectations, overly ambitious career goals and the fact that every elementary school teacher we had told us we were special.
Sorry to break it to you: We’re not really all that special. Basically, we were overly pampered growing up and are now unprepared for the world — the really depressing and dysfunctional world — we have to face. Or so they say. Jokes aside, there’s some truth to be found here. We are ‘coming of age’ in an increasingly difficult reality. We’re the first generation to be living in a world of approximately seven billion people. That’s bound to cause some problems. We’re growing up in a world of decreasing economic opportunity, increasing income inequality, looming climate change and numerous bloody conflicts. It’s not exactly the most optimistic picture. Not to mention the fact that older generations continue to put off solving some of today’s most pressing problems, leaving them for us to deal with down the road. And, the fact that we didn’t grow up exactly as our parents did is, in fact, what will prove to be our greatest asset. Yes, we are overly idealistic but in a world where almost 50 percent of people live on below the equivalent of $2.50 a day, don’t we have to be? Yes, we expect more of ourselves and our jobs — we want to be doing something we love, not just earning a living — but it’s this passion that’ll inspire us to work hard at what we do every day. Yes, we were singled out and propped up on pedestals as kids, but that also gives us the confidence needed to stand by and push for the big reforms that many of our social systems need. The Thought Catalog post claimed that our generation, as a
result of how much we are exposed to, is growing up with a taste of everything, but not enough in depth training in anything. And while this makes us seem easily distracted or apathetic, it’s also forcing us to be innovative and chart our own paths. We have fewer traditional prospects, but we have the confidence, passion and creativity to make new opportunities — provided, of course, that we’re able to get away from Facebook long enough to do so. As the article says, “we might not reinvent the wheel” but we’re seeking to reinvent everything since. We’re seeing that certain political, social and economic systems that have been in place for years, don’t apply as well to the world we live in. And because we were told from an early age that we can do anything we set our mind to, we’re determined to find ways to change them. That’s not to say that some of the criticisms aren’t valid — we’re not exactly the best-informed generation. Ironic, given the amount of access we have to information. With so many things constantly competing for our attention, we’re constantly forced to decide what is and isn’t important. And, I’ll admit, we haven’t been the greatest at doing so. Buzzfeed articles of adorable yawning kittens certainly don’t help. But if we are able to find ways to focus our energy, the very things “Generation Y” is criticized for can become our biggest strengths. In fact, that passion, confidence and ability to remain idealistic is essential now more than ever, given the world we will be inheriting. — Harsha Nahata can be reached at hnahata@umich.edu
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ast week I had the pleasure of watching “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” The film was phenomenal, and I highly recommend seeing it. Although the storyline revolves around a butler named Cecil Gaines who works in the White House PATRICK for 34 years, the MAILLET movie ultimately says more about the Civil Rights movement. The movie ends with Gaines — a man raised on a cotton plantation — meeting President Barack Obama. After leaving the theater, I couldn’t help but think about how far America has come when considering this country’s incredibly recent history with racism and discrimination. The day after watching the movie, I had lunch with my friend Morgan, who was in a noticeably bad mood. After I asked her what was wrong, she told me that she had just left a class in which the discussion was whether or not gay marriage is constitutional. As you can imagine at a university such as Michigan, the vast majority of the classroom supported the constitutionality of gay marriage. Interestingly enough, it wasn’t a comment that had caused Morgan’s irritation; it was the fact that this conversation was even happening that was so frustrating to her. Morgan’s parents are gay. Even though she has lived in the “liberal” city of Ann Arbor her entire life, Morgan and her family have had to deal with the universal, constant adversity that gay parents face. Just last week during parents’ weekend, Morgan was faced with a challenge. My friends and I host a parent’s
tailgate every year in which many of our friends bring their families. It’s always a highlight of the season; it’s great to meet my friends’ parents and for them to meet mine. This year Morgan brought her parents. Prior to the tailgate, Morgan was unsure of the reaction her two moms would receive from other parents. Some of our friends’ parents are religious, worrying her of the possibility that her moms might not be welcomed at the event. Luckily, it ended up being great; everybody loved meeting her moms. Morgan’s uneasiness prior to the tailgate, however, must have been unbearable. The concept of not being excited to show my family off to friends is incredibly foreign to me. I love having friends meet my parents and I always talk about my family to anyone willing to listen. Morgan isn’t afforded this luxury. Instead, she has to live in a constant state of awareness because she has no idea whether people will accept or reject her parents’ sexual orientation. Even worse, Morgan and her brother are constantly reminded by Michigan and other homophobic state constitutions that her parents — the people that raised her to be the unbelievably smart, beautiful and courteous woman that she is — are somehow worse at parenting than their heterosexual counterparts. Michigan’s constitution has had a same-sex marriage ban in place since 2004. It currently is facing legal challenges by two women from Detroit who were banned from adopting each other’s children. Gay rights activists are hopeful that the
2004 ban will be declared unconstitutional and Michigan will join the other 14 states and District of Columbia that currently allow same-sex marriage. In 1961, Obama’s parents got married in Hawaii. At the time, interracial marriage was still illegal in 16 states. It wasn’t until the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court Case Loving v. Virginia that interracial marriage would become legal throughout the nation. Nowadays, a mixed-race student would never have to sit in a classroom and argue why his or her parents’ marriage is constitutional. Nevertheless, only a generation ago, this conversation was undoubtedly present in universities across the country. One day, Morgan will likely be telling her children of a time in which their grandparents weren’t allowed to marry each other. Her children will likely be mystified by the bigoted mindset of the past, just as my generation looks upon colored drinking fountains. America has come so far in the last few decades. We have broken down barriers for all types of people and we continue to do so today. Gay marriage will eventually be legal throughout the country. Morgan’s parents will one day have a marriage that is respected and acknowledged by all 50 states. But until that day comes, America cannot consider itself a fully free and fair society.
Future generations will be mystified by the current treatment of gays.
— Patrick Maillet can be reached at maillet@umich.edu.
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Woolliscroft also said he’s looking forward to researching issues pertinent to the nation and reporting on sub-committees related to health and safety. Fearon, whose research is related to the progression of colon and rectal cancer, described the process as intense: members of the IOM nominate individuals for consideration, and then a board takes several months to evaluate the candidates to determine who will be elected. Despite the honor, Fearon said joining the IOM wasn’t a career goal. “It’s great to be recognized and have your group recognized for their work in science and in medicine, but ultimately your goal is to help people,” Fearon said. “With anything you just try to do the best work and the best research you can and try to make an impact that way.”
said she often feels lonesome as a Black student pursuing a career in the legal industry. “I really thought that I was the only one. I knew I wasn’t, but it felt like it,” Wilson said. “It would be nice to actually come together and see who like you is doing the same thing, and then you can talk about your process together.” Though the number of Black students at the law school is low according to recent data, Wilson doesn’t feel like that puts her at a disadvantage.
FINANCE From Page 1A relatively low voter turnout for council elections. Other than Lumm, Westphal and Briere, no candidates exceeded $5,000 in fundraising during the period. In Ward 3, Stephen Kunselman (D–Ward 3) collected no money during the last filing period. Kunselman also recently announced he will be running for mayor in 2014. His council seat is being contested by Samuel DeVarti, a student at Eastern Michigan University, running as an Independent for the Mixed Use Party. DeVarti has raised a total of $945 so far. In Ward 4, John Eaton is running against write-in candidate William Lockwood, the Ann Arbor Chronicle reported. Eaton collected $2,150 during this most recent period. Campaign finance details are not available for writein candidates. Mike Anglin (D–Ward 5) has collected about $4,587, and is officially uncontested. Ann Arbor residents Thomas Partridge and Charles Smith have mounted write-in campaigns, according to the Ann Arbor Chronicle. Only five of the 11 city council seats will have elections this fall, as only half of the 10 ward representatives are elected each year for two-year terms. The elections are Tuesday, Nov. 5.
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UMHS From Page 1A Office of Technology Transfer, $11.1 million of the $14.4 million that the University collects each year from past patents and licensing agreements is directly attributable to innovations from medical research. Licenses were granted to 54 Medical School inventions as part of 40 license agreements with corporate businesses in the past fiscal year. Licensing and patents do not always translate into successful products, but the Medical School has established a new initiative to aid in the translation from research lab to marketplace. Headed by Ward, the Fast Forward Medical Innovation Initiative aims to combine research and entrepreneurship efforts in order to foster commercialization. Among the initiative’s programs is the implementation of Innovation Strike Forces, groups
News “If you look at the numbers and see that a lot of people like yourself don’t get picked, I guess that can be slightly discouraging, but I don’t think about it so much because I am confident in my abilities,” Wilson said. LSA junior Jehan Jawad, herself an aspiring attorney, said she thinks an increase in minority pre-law clubs will help encourage minority participation in this career path. “I don’t think there is an adequate amount of programs to help minorities interested in law school. I want to help share my story as a way to enlighten women of color to go into this practice.”
of employees that will identify and accelerate promising ideas, then connect the dots between researchers, clinicians and businesses. “The new innovation program is to help faculty think in different ways about their ideas and to provide them with an innovation road map so that we can get their ideas to impact through product development much earlier,” Ward said. Ward said although ideas are protected through invention disclosures and patents, many of them do not necessarily become products. To ease the transition from biomedical research to clinical application, Ward plans to work closely with the Office of Tech Transfer, the College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship, the Business Engagement Center and other campus offices. “We’ve got a top-ranked Medical School, College of Engineering and Business School, so one of the strategies will be to blur the lines between them.”
Calif. gunman dead following brutal rampage Gunman kills one, injures three before being shot by police RIDGECREST, Calif. (AP) — Sergio Munoz was known around this small desert city to acquaintances as a personable dad, and to police for his long rap sheet. In recent weeks, he began losing the moorings of a stable life — his job, then his family. Kicked out of the house, he had been staying at a friend’s place, using and dealing heroin. Life fully unraveled when Munoz, with two hostages in his trunk, led officers on a wild chase Friday after killing a woman and injuring his crash-pad friend. He shot the friend after he had refused to join what Munoz planned would be a final rampage against police and “snitches.” Munoz knew the authorities well enough that after the initial, pre-dawn slaying he called one patrol officer’s cellphone and announced that he wanted to kill all police in town. But because he would be outgunned at the station he would instead “wreak havoc” elsewhere, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said at a news conference Friday. Munoz kept his word, first firing at drivers in Ridgecrest, according to police, then taking shots at pursuing officers and passing motorists during a chase along 30 miles of highway that runs through the shrub-dotted desert about 150 miles north of Los Angeles. He ran traffic off the road, firing at least 10 times at passing vehicles with a shotgun and a handgun, though no one was hurt. In the end, Munoz pulled over on U.S. 395, turned in his seat and began shooting into the trunk — which had popped open earlier in the pursuit to reveal a man and woman inside. As many as seven officers opened fire and killed him. The hostages were flown to a hospital in critical condition, but were expected to survive. Their names have not been released and police have not said anything about their relationship to Munoz except that he knew them. In the neighborhood where
the first shooting happened, people said Munoz was an affable man who would stop to chat, revealing no signs of inner turmoil. “He didn’t show any anger,” said Edgar Martinez, who would see Munoz at a nearby gym and said he cleaned his house several years ago. Others described him as respectful and humble. But recently, his life began to crumble. First, he became unemployed. According to his Facebook page, Munoz worked at Searles Valley Minerals, a company that makes products such as borax and soda ash by extracting a salty mix from beneath a desert lake bed. It was not clear whether he lost his job at Searles, or another business, and officials at Searles were unreachable Saturday. Last Sunday, Munoz, 39, was arrested again — police found ammunition and a syringe at the house where the slaying would happen five days later. Munoz is a felon with convictions dating back to 1994, when he was sentenced to more than two years in prison for receiving stolen property. In May, he was arrested for possessing ammunition as a felon, but the felony charge was dismissed. After making bail on the latest arrest, Munoz returned to the house where he first started staying about two weeks ago. A neighbor heard Munoz bemoaning his life, saying he was losing everything due to drugs. “He was a cool guy,” said the neighbor, Derrick Holland. “He was just losing his mind.” Munoz’s estranged wife, Sandra Leiva, said that they separated because she finally had enough of his bad choices. “Tough love and drugs, that’s what brought him down,” Leiva said. On Saturday morning, Munoz’s 15-year-old daughter, Viviana, reflected on her father’s life in a Facebook post. “Your such a great dad when you were not on drugs...I remember how you used always try and teach us how to dance all crazy with your chicken legs haha,” she wrote. “You were a good father and person, you just made a sad choice.”
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Israeli tunnel hit by cyber attackers Trojan horse attack inflitrated security system, lead to massive shutdown HADERA, Israel (AP) — When Israel’s military chief delivered a high-profile speech this month outlining the greatest threats his country might face in the future, he listed computer sabotage as a top concern, warning a sophisticated cyberattack could one day bring the nation to a standstill. Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was not speaking empty words. Exactly one month before his address, a major artery in Israel’s national road network in the northern city of Haifa was shut down because of a cyberattack, cybersecurity experts tell The Associated Press, knocking key operations out of commission two days in a row and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. One expert, speaking on condition of anonymity because the breach of security was a classified matter, said a Trojan horse attack targeted the security camera system in the Carmel Tunnels toll road on Sept. 8. A Trojan horse is a malicious computer program that users unknowingly install that can give hackers complete control over their systems. The attack caused an immediate 20-minute lockdown of the roadway. The next day, the expert said, it shut down the roadway again during morning rush hour. It remained shut for eight hours, causing massive congestion. The expert said investigators believe the attack was the work of unknown, sophisticated hackers, similar to the Anonymous hacking group that led attacks on Israeli websites in April. He said investigators determined it was not sophisticated enough to be the work of an enemy government like Iran. The expert said Israel’s National Cyber Bureau, a twoyear-old classified body that reports to the prime minister, was aware of the incident. The bureau declined comment, while Carmelton, the company that oversees the toll road, blamed a “communication glitch” for the mishap. While Israel is a frequent target of hackers, the tunnel is the most high-profile landmark known to have been attacked. It is a major thoroughfare for Israel’s third-largest city, and the city is looking to turn the tunnel into a public shelter in case of emergency, highlighting
its importance. The incident is exactly the type of scenario that Gantz described in his recent address. He said Israel’s future battles might begin with “a cyberattack on websites which provide daily services to the citizens of Israel. Traffic lights could stop working, the banks could be shut down,” he said. There have been cases of traffic tampering before. In 2005, the United States outlawed the unauthorized use of traffic override devices installed in many police cars and ambulances after unscrupulous drivers started using them to turn lights from red to green. In 2008, two Los Angeles traffic engineers pleaded guilty to breaking into the city’s signal system and deliberately snarling traffic as part of a labor dispute. Oren David, a manager at international security firm RSA’s anti-fraud unit, said that although he didn’t have information about the tunnel incident, this kind of attack “is the hallmark of a new era.” “Most of these systems are automated, especially as far as security is concerned. . They’re automated and they’re remotely controlled, either over the Internet or otherwise, so they’re vulnerable to cyberattack,” he said. Israel, he added, is “among the top-targeted countries.” In June, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran and its proxies Hezbollah and Hamas have targeted Israel’s “essential systems,” including its water system, electric grid, trains and banks. “Every sphere of civilian economic life, let’s not even talk about our security, is a potential or actual cyberattack target,” Netanyahu said at the time. Israeli government websites receive hundreds and sometimes thousands of cyberattacks each day, said Ofir Ben Avi, head of the government’s website division. During Israel’s military offensive on the Gaza Strip last year, tens of millions of website attacks took place, from denial of service attacks, which cripple websites by overloading them with traffic, to more sophisticated attempts to steal passwords, Ben Avi said. Under constant threat, Israel has emerged as a world leader in cybersecurity, with murky military units developing much of the technology. Last year, the military formed its first cyberdefense unit. Israeli cybersecurity experts say Iran and other hostile entities have successfully hacked
into Israeli servers this year, and that Israel has quietly permitted those attacks to occur in order to track the hackers and feed them false intelligence. Israel is also widely believed to have launched its own sophisticated computer attacks on its enemies, including the Stuxnet worm that caused significant damage to Iran’s nuclear program. Bracing for serious attacks on Israeli civilian infrastructure, Israel’s national electric company launched a training program this month to teach engineers and power plant supervisors how to detect system infiltrations. The Israel Electric Corp. says its servers register about 6,000 unique computer attacks every second. “Big organizations and even countries are preparing for D-Day,” said Yasha Hain, a senior executive vice president at the company. “We decided to prepare ourselves to be first in line.” The training program is run jointly with CyberGym, a cyberdefense company founded by ex-Israeli intelligence operatives that consults for Israeli oil, gas, transportation and financial companies. On a manicured campus of eucalyptus trees across from a power plant in Israel’s north, groups are divided into teams in a role-playing game of hackers and power plant engineers. The “hackers,” code-named the Red Team, sit in a dimly lit room decorated with cartoon villains on the walls. Darth Vader hovers over binary code. Kermit the Frog flashes his middle finger. In another room, a miniature model of a power station overflows with water and the boiler’s thermometer shoots up as the role-playing hackers run a “Kill All” code. The exercise teaches employees how to detect a possible cyberattack even if their computer systems don’t register it. About 25 middle-aged employees attended the first day of training last week. The course will eventually train thousands of workers, the electric company said. CyberGym co-founder Ofir Hason declined to comment on the toll road shutdown, but said the company has seen a number of cyberattacks on infrastructures in recent years. The country is especially susceptible because Israel has no electricity-sharing agreements with neighboring states, and all of the country’s essential infrastructure depends on the company for power.
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Art is Open Source talks web freedom Iaconesi and Persico combine art, activism
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In even a brief look at the website for Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico’s project Art is Open Source (AOS), the word “activism” immediately comes to mind. Click here, and discover how Iaconesi and Persico, both native Italians, created a smartphone app that directed protesters to safety during the 2011 Occupy movement protests in Rome. Click there, and meet Angel_F, a digital baby whose right to unlimited information was brought before the United Nations. Everything feels straight out of “The Matrix,” without the kung-fu sequences. So, are Iaconesi and Persico the Neo and Trinity of the art world? The Daily sat down with the artists after they gave a lecture for the Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. “In all of our art, in general, we really tend to be non-judgmental,” Iaconesi said. “Obviously we have an opinion, but our interest is not to expose this opinion. Our interest is to expose mechanisms, how things work.” In a world that has increasingly become a complex technological network, AOS tears off the comforting blanket of advertising and instant gratification to educate everyone on how technology influences our lives, or in some cases, becomes our lives. “It’s like water infrastructure,” Iaconesi said. “When you turn on the water in the sink, you don’t think that you are producing pollution from the pipes.”
“So,” he continued, “technology has basically disappeared, and it has become a part of our common life, a utility.” Technology is an ubiquitous utility of modern life, no doubt. So ubiquitous in fact that it raises some interesting, and possibly uncomfortable, questions. For example, can someone have a “real” identity and a digital one? AOS claims that that there isn’t much of a separation. “Digital technologies have made the idea of identity liquid,” Iaconesi said. Added Persico: “The possibility to express ‘multividuality’ is enormous now.” However, this fluidity is not limited to the “real” world versus the digital world. According to AOS, “multividuality” is present in the “real” world all the time. The modern “multividual” can be one person with their boss, another with a friend, another with a professor and it’s all a result of rules. “Imagine how you live your life everyday,” Iaconesi said. “Depending on where you are, in what context you are, different sets of rules apply.” In its lecture, AOS used shopping malls as an example of this scenario. A shopping mall has many rules and restrictions about what shoppers can buy, where they can eat, how late they can stay, etc. However, because a shopping mall is designed to look like a public space, it gives shoppers an illusion of freedom. This example illustrates a less obvious, but possibly more dangerous one. “This is a very similar situation to what happens online,” Iaconesi said. “Facebook, Twitter are designed as public spaces; they are made to look, as much as possible, like public spaces, but they really are not, like the shopping center,
and this has incredible limits on your freedom of expression. “What our problem is is that (Facebook) is a social infrastructure that is privately owned.” For AOS, the private ownership of what has essentially become a country with over a billion residents is troubling, because this “United States of Facebook” is a country without a bill of rights or due process. “Facebook, when you subscribe to the terms of service, actually tells you that it is free to change, at any time, without consent, the terms of service,” Iaconesi said. “It’s very dangerous,” he continued, “because it’s a thing that changes, that affects your privacy, but there’s no social process connected to it. Facebook can change in ways that go way beyond my basic rights.” With statements like these, it’s hard, yet again, not to label Iaconesi and Persico as activists. But, once again, they insist that they just give people, like students at the University, the necessary information to make their own choices regarding social media. “The very first beginning of everything is giving the possibility to visualize all of these mechanisms that are going on,” Persico said. “Then we will see. It’s not our job to judge.” Even if people know all of these scary truths about technology, from Facebook’s privacy violations to the horrible working conditions in iPhone factories, they probably remain plugged into social media. Iaconesi and Persico are perfect examples — even after years of research and lecturing, they still use Facebook, Twitter, email and smartphones to educate others. “We live in contradictions,” Persico said.
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classic “Hamlet,” dressed up in tattoos and leather and loaded with plenty of violence and cable content. Jax Teller assumes the role of the new Prince of Denmark. Though at first he seems a generic English pretty boy with a bad fake American accent, Jax’s character becomes more dynamic as the seasons progress. Jax is the antithesis of the fabled “TV antihero” — his good morals are never questioned. He is more than just the Vice President of his motorcycle gang: He is a devoted father, husband and protector of his kingdom of Charming, California. Despite his troubles, there is no doubt that Jax is our protagonist and hero.
A drama where even the bad guys have hearts. What makes the show so unique, though, is how it handles its more morally ambiguous characters. Clay, the Claudius of “Sons,” appears to be gruff and unstoppable, but his arthritic hands threaten his grip on the club. He knows that as soon as his joints fail, he is irrelevant. The club he helped to build would pass into Jax’s unrealistically idealistic hands. Gemma Teller is Gertrudemeets-Lady Macbeth: She is cunning, manipulative and compelling. Katey Sagal commands every scene she is in (Emmy voters, take note), and despite Gemma’s tough exterior, she plays her emotional scenes with surprising vulnerability. Gemma’s frustration with her relegation to the role of Clay’s “old lady” dutiful wife provides a refreshing bit of feminism in a show so concerned with its angry men. And if you like well developed minor characters, “Sons” is definitely the show for you. Though the show takes its time to develop characters like SAMCRO club members Juice and Chibs, the payoff is well worth the wait. Even villains-of-theseason get plenty of screentime, and their pasts and motivations are explored enough so First seen on that you are more
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inclined to care about them. That being said, when a shot is fired on the show (which happens in almost every episode), the bullet hurts. Character deaths on “Sons” are particularly excruciating because many of the motorcycle club members are genuinely good people. Even the bad guys are sympathetic, and their deaths are usually handled onscreen with the same respect that a beloved club member might get. The violence on the show can sometimes be a bit intense (I frequently cover my eyes and have to watch from between the cracks of my fingers), but it’s all motivated. “Sons” depicts a world of violence and murder, and the show doesn’t coddle its viewers. We see what SAMCRO lives. When a tattoo is burned from a character’s back, the camera doesn’t stray from the action and we must sit through 10-plus seconds of burning f lesh and grit our teeth, still drawn to the screen because the show is that darn good. (And this isn’t even near the grossest or most horrifying act of brutality that happens on the show. If you’re a Tarantino buff or into gratuitous violence, there’s something in almost every episode just for you.) But “Sons” is more than cruelty and guns. It packs an emotional punch. Jax’s doctor beau Tara has a particularly heartwrenching storyline in Season 4, and Opie’s turn in Season 5 is still one of the most tragic stories I’ve seen on television. With Shakespearean prowess, this pathos is interwoven with the brute force of the club. “Grand Theft Auto” this ain’t — every shot has a consequence, and every bomb has a fallout. Characters must deal with the repercussions of their violence, and the resulting relationship conf licts are always played out with style. The six seasons that “Sons” has produced thus far are a real treat to watch, and the seventh and final season (to air in fall 2014) is sure to be killer. If you’re not watching “Sons” yet, it’s easy to find online: Previous seasons are available on Netflix, and practically beg to be watched in the slower weeks following Midterm Madness. You can even call it studying! “Sons” is practically Shakespeare, after all. — A version of this article originally appeared on the Daily Arts blog, The Filter, on Oct. 25.
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Zombies are the new black.
‘Walking Dead’ comes back to life New showrunner resurrects popular zombie tale By DREW MARON Daily Arts Writer
At its core, “The Walking Dead” is about a whole lot more than just killing zombies. It’s a show about how we keep our humanity in Aa world gone to hell and whether The Walking or not we can go Dead back to the way things were. The Season four, show’s problems episodes one have always and two been the direction the two Sundays at previous show- 9 p.m. runners were AMC taking it in. Frank Darabont (director of “The Shawshank Redemption” and first head writer for “The Walking Dead”) definitely brought the tragedy of it all with a cinematic scope seldom seen in television, yet the first season lacked a real overarching storyline to bridge the gap from episode to episode. Darabont’s successor in the second season, Glen Mazarra, tried to fix that with more story arcs and action, but despite stellar ratings, the characters never felt like they were striving toward anything beyond simply “not dying.” With third-time’s-the-charm showrunner Scott Gimple, however, “Walking Dead” fans can rest
assured. The show’s focus is finally where it needs to be: giving us hope in a world where so little of it exists. Right off the bat, the first episode of season four, “30 Days Without an Accident,” goes down the checklist of previous wrongs in pretty much the easiest way possible: making Michonne (Danai Gurira, “Treme”), the mysterious sword-wielding survivor, smile. And more than just smile, mind you. She laughs, she jokes and she cries (more on that in a second). One of the biggest problems the past three seasons have faced is its female characters. The most notable examples being Andrea (Laurie Holden, “The Shield”) and Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies, “Black November”) with the former repeatedly failing at being just as tough as one of the boys (only to fail … a lot) and the latter being the third-worst parent on television behind Donald Draper and Walter White. Though I’m sure a lot of people might be relieved those two are gone, I honestly kind of wish Scott Gimple took a shot at fleshing them out first. From these first episodes, Gimple shows an innate understanding of these characters and how living in this world has changed them, for good or bad. Carol (Melissa McBride, “Living Proof”) started off as a mousy housewife in an abusive relationship. Four seasons later, she’s a badass, teaching the younger members knife fighting and the more unpleasant aspects of the zombie apocalypse.
But undoubtedly the biggest change has been just how much deeper we seem to be getting into Michonne. Her constant paranoia and scowling last season became tiresome and one-note, and fans of the comic series were worried their beloved post-apocalyptic samurai would never be fully realized. Fortunately, Gurira finally shows us what the producers saw in the actress when casting her last season. She is establishing a familial link with the prison the rest of the group already shares. Her vulnerability reveals itself in full force in the second episode, “Infected,” where Michonne tearfully breaks while holding baby Judith. It was heart-rending while still keeping Michonne’s past firmly in the camp of mysterious, adding even more layers to her enigmatic past. “Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman has always said the title of the show is a reference both to the zombie-like walkers and the survivors themselves who are dead — in the sense that without society and the things we constitute as “making us alive” we are, in a sense, “dead.” It’s a bleak idea, and the show reflected that continuously these past three seasons, but what it has ignored is the presence of hope. Season four reminds us of the little things that keep these people going: the hope that maybe, despite all the suffering and death, there still might be light at the end of the tunnel. That’s what “The Walking Dead” is about: not avoiding death, but fighting for life.
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Hollywood glamorizes Beats By KAREN YUAN For the Daily
Allen Ginsberg was an amateur photographer. Throughout his years with fellow Beat poets and artists, he took hundreds of pictures of familiar faces — Kerouac, Burroughs, Cassidy — to document the lives they led. Few of the pictures were candid shots, and I think this was because Ginsberg knew, at least remotely, that their lives were made for the camera. There was something about them that had to be staged. Judging by the recent rash of films focused on the Beat Generation, Hollywood knows this. However, what it doesn’t realize is that the Beats are nothing to be glamorized. They were simultaneously aware of both their appeal and their ugly self-destruction. “Howl,” directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, was released in 2010, followed by “On The Road” (Walter Salles) in 2012 and “Kill Your Darlings” (John Krokidas), which just came out this month. Finally, “Big Sur,” directed by Michael Polish, will open in theaters on Nov. 1.
Don’t glorify self-destruction. Hollywood knows that the Beat Generation is inherently cinematic. Leaping on library tables to recite poetry, kneeling before academic halls crying for lobotomies, crosscountry road trips, tantalizing hints of murder — and all of this is only real life. In Beat literature, there is the delicious imagery of famous lines lamenting about the genera-
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tion’s best minds, driven mad and raving. But the Beat visual portrayed on the big screen has been caricaturized. They’re shown purely as one extremity — either carefree, YOLOesque youth or clouds of brooding angst. The films never go deeper, or stray away from the easy path of romanticizing the Beats, of milking 1950s nostalgia, intrigue and montages of reckless drug use and wide, fruited plains. Their lifestyle was decadent, but Hollywood presents the indulgence almost invitingly. It reminds me of the general audience’s reaction to Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” and how many people misinterpreted it as an advertisement for better times, back in the 1920s when every night was chic and ecstatic. Because of the way it’s shown in film, the Beats may appeal to Instagramming teens or hipsters in the wrong way: all vintage Cadillacs and cigarette escapism, black turtlenecks and giant glasses, slick cool and soft anarchy. Even their self-destruction through alcoholism could be seen as a trait of tragic heroes. On the contrary, the Beat Generation is nothing to worship. The decade of the Beat boom, the 1950s, also cued the rise of suburbia and the nuclear family. It was a time of oppression, in a way. Any-
thing that seemed “Communist” was feared. Sexuality was shunned. There were very defined lines for gender boundaries and placement. The Beat Generation arose from the lost and confused feelings this constricted time created. They wanted to rebel against this new middleclass United States and find something new to believe in, and so their movement from city to city wasn’t born out of carefreeness, but rather an existential search. Ginsberg once captioned one of his later photos of Kerouac with the following: “He looked by then like his late father, red-faced corpulent W.C. Fields shuddering with mortal horror.” The flat Hollywood characterization allows viewers to live vicariously through Ginsberg, Kerouac and the gang, but it almost mythicizes them. Hollywood digs right into the drama — catering to what people want to see — and ignores the very human parts of them. But it may be a hard balance to keep. Even when depicting that soul-searching, it’s easy to fall to sentiment. The Beat Generation’s search for belief ends up being something we believe in. We’re all drawn to the image of explorers after all: modern pilgrims, earnestly due west like Lewis and Clark in Mustangs, toward the unknown destination.
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“I don’t always drink. But when I do, it’s self-obsession.”
DJ Khaled is ‘Suffering’ from mediocrity By ALLEN DONNE Daily Arts Writer
I cannot be the only one to wonder who DJ Khaled is or what he does. Here’s an artist who has released seven albums, has become a recognized name in music, but doesn’t perform in any songs except for the interspersed yet emphatic yelling of his name. With the recent release of his album, Suffering from Success, I journeyed into Khaled’s seventh release, determined to discover this role and how he is “suffering from success.” Immediately, the tone of the album is established with an excerpt from Obama’s second election victory address with “All I Do Is Win” playing in the background. From this lone excerpt, we discover the album’s purpose — that DJ Khaled and his featured company are the best there are. And Khaled does nothing to make this subtle, directly saying on a later track that they are “the best music.” Such a tone, though, should’ve been expected. A simple glance at the list of features just yells megalomania. Rick Ross appears multiple times on different tracks mainly as a caricature that grunts while Meek Mill screams as if he were still stuck on a helicopter. Big Sean shows up a few times and says “I do it” and “Oh God.” Even Drake sacrifices his well known soft side to fit the theme of the album. And, of course, everyone raps about how great they are, money, or both. One track is even disrespectfully titled “I Feel Like Pac / I Feel Like Biggie” to describe the level of greatness these rappers believe they have achieved. With such little depth in subject, the best way to describe the first half of the album is a blur. There were moments where I had to check if I was listening to one continuous song with many interludes. It is actually amazing how much substance these artists can derive from material goods, women, personal status and net worth. In between, Khaled continues his declaration of phrases that sometimes come out of nowhere. And noisy, booming beats overpower the ear drums. Even the words, though screeching in delivery, are hard to discern when the bass starts to crescendo — not that it matters. Once we’ve understood the lyrics to one song, we’ve understood the lyrics to all. First seen on Finally, tracks
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begin to deviate from this formula. It is as if Khaled knew how overwhelmed the listeners would be after several tracks. A slew of slower paced songs are bunched together, starting with “I Wanna Be With You.” While beats are still relatively heavy and raps unwaveringly confident, they are much more toned down. In fact, the moments of rare sentiment in these songs are really what captures listeners by surprise.
Is he sick of his own name yet? In “I Wanna Be With You,” Nicki Minaj sings about how she wants this special someone “to be the type to make her prioritize” and professes that she does “wanna be with” him. On the radio hit, “No New Friends,” Drake’s R&B singing on the hook is sentimental just for its out-ofplace nature on the album. The same could be said of Movado’s accented yet soft singing on “Give It All To Me.” It is as if these tracks, along with a couple others that follow it, could be a different album. Just as when we become accustomed to this played-down
style, though, DJ Khaled interrupts and reminds us how great he is on his final tracks. So what exactly has this album taught me about Khaled? If Suffering from Success is an adequate indication of his past work, then Khaled has driven the point that he believes he is the best in the world. But I shouldn’t be surprised. After all, this is the man who produced “All I Do Is Win.” How Khaled thrives in the music industry, though, is still difficult to articulate. Maybe the best way to begin to describe DJ Khaled is that his albums are shows while he is the host. In this show, the songs are the acts, the overpowering beats are the set Khaled provides, and the featured company are actors. Periodically, the host will remind us that he exists by yelling certain things to fit the theme of the show. The theme of this particular show, however, is not communicated clearly. Yes, DJ Khaled is successful for achieving recognition while barely contributing, but he doesn’t show how exactly he’s suffering. Perhaps the suffering part is derived from how much his listeners have to suffer in order to listen to the album as a whole. — A version of this article originally appeared on the Daily Arts blog, The Filter, on Oct. 24.
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Which one of them is Dracula?
No bite in new ‘Dracula’ By ALEC STERN Daily Arts Writer
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Cemetaries are a great place to brood.
‘Ravenswood’ pilot drowns potential ‘PLL’ spinoff lacks dynamic characters of sister show By KELLY ETZ Daily Arts Writer
It’s bold of a pilot to basically drown its entire cast in the last two minutes. You’d think it’d make ABC Family’s new C+ supernatural-f lavored Ravenswood spinoff of “Pretty Little Pilot Liars,” aptly Tuesdays titled “Raven- at 8 p.m. swood,” a bit more thrill- ABC Family ing. Sadly, by the end of those murkily lit 40 minutes, the fateful swerve into the evil, evil (did I mention evil?) water feels a suitably justified comeuppance. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying I hated “Ravenswood.” In fact, it could wind up being a significant player for ABC Family, which is so obviously picking at the carcass of the paranormal teen drama. As a spinoff of the immensely popular “PLL,” the premiere doesn’t waste any time establishing itself as a different series. This isn’t Rosewood redux. Sure, we’ve got the link to Caleb (Tyler Blackburn, “Days of
Our Lives”), but how long is Hanna (Ashley Benson, “Pretty Little Liars”) really going to stay with him after he hopped on a bus with a gorgeous-buttroubled misfit to help her “fit in”? Please, Hanna has already moved on, so essentially, we’re starting out with a brand new cast. It seems we’re supposed to be following Miranda (Nicole Gale Anderson, “Beauty and the Beast”) try and fail to communicate coherently with her only living relative, Uncle Raymond (Steven Cabral, “Saving Mr. Banks”). Uncle Ray is, of course, a funeral director (what else?) and so deathly pale he’s nearly indistinguishable from his embalmed friends. In fact, everyone — even the tan people — look strangely bloodless. The sun never shines in Ravenswood; this is a town soaked in death. Cue the angsty violins. If the funeral director plotline isn’t hitting the nail on the creepy head hard enough, there’s also the case of the swapped gravestones, a bevy of mysterious blue-tinged hands landing on started shoulders and a deceptively innocent black widow out to murder her next husband. Gasp! And that’s all before the first ad break. Everything is going on in this town, yet nothing is convincing. Everyone is looking for answers and yet, no one is
really worried — besides a lot of startled “Oh my gods!” It’s ABC Family, but does it have to read so strongly as a sanitized “American Horror Story”? At least “Pretty Little Liars” is adorably ernest. In “Ravenswood,” it’s clear that even the characters rarely believe this clichéd nonsense they’re slinging. Only Remy (the fabulous Britne Oldford, “Skins”), daughter of the the town’s newspaper magnet and a freshly returned Iraq veteran, presents a fully f leshed out character. She’s sharp — she’s the one who finally pulls together the nonsensical ghost story the pilot appears to be riding on — funny, and surprisingly real in a world of near-bathtub drownings and sloppily placed phantom warnings. If ABC Family wants anything more from “Ravenswood” than not-that-spooky happenings, it needs to hitch this f ledgling start to something. Why not the best actress in the bunch? Besides Remy, every character in town can’t shake their own personal poltergeists and it’s overwhelming to say the least. There’s no reason to hit us over the head with the creep factor. “Ravenswood” has such potential. Scale back, ABC Family. A little subtly never killed anyone — or did it?
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In a bid to save Friday from its perennial “death-slot” status, the broadcast networks have continued to make signif- C+ icant investments in the Dracula modestly rated night. NBC Pilot in particular Fridays at has carved a 10 p.m. genre niche, anchored by NBC surprise success “Grimm.” To cash in on that supernatural procedural’s loyal audience, NBC premiered “Dracula,” a take on the classic story of the world’s most famous vampire. In an effort to avoid any bad puns (such as “Dracula” lacks bite or, even worse, “Dracula” sucks), “Dracula” just proves to be an unnecessary iteration, giving its titular character nothing particularly impressive, interesting or new to do. (Fine … perhaps “Dracula” should have never seen the light of day.) NBC’s version of “Dracula” catches up with the villain in 19th-century London. Posing as American entrepreneur Alexander Grayson, Dracula’s (Jonathan Rhys Meyers, “The Tudors”) true motive is to exact revenge on those who betrayed him hundreds of years earlier. In the process, he meets Mina Murray (Jessica De Gouw, “Arrow”), a prospective surgeon with a mysterious backstory. Thomas Kretschmann (“The River”) also stars as Abraham
Van Helsing, a vampire slayer and recurrent character in the Dracula folklore. Most notably, “Dracula” feels tired. Even when NBC ordered the series in January 2012, vampires were on the downswing. Now, almost two years later, the vampire craze has seemed to run its course. “True Blood” is beginning production on its final season, and it feels ages ago that “Twilight” fandom was in full swing. Supernatural culture is cyclical, and NBC has definitely caught the tail end of the latest vampire trend. On a side note, it seems witches are back in style (see FX’s “American Horror Story: Coven” and Lifetime’s “Witches of East End”).
A re-imagination without the imagination. “Dracula” is also glaringly not fun. Say what you will about HBO’s acclaimed-then-maligned “True Blood,” but the series has never failed in that regard. Of course, narratively, “Blood” has become a crowded mess, but it’s continued to be thrilling, sexy, crazy and fun. Conversely, “Dracula” is just boring, tied down by multiple confusing storylines and hampered by its 1800s timeline. Dracula as a period piece has
been done so many times before that one wonders if a modernized series, á la CBS’s “Elementary,” would have been more exciting. There is also far too much Grayson in the pilot — in other words, there’s more entrepreneurial business talk than bloodsucking and kills. And for a show called “Dracula,” this might be the biggest turnoff. In terms of NBC’s recent push for more limited, cable-style fare, “Dracula” comes in way behind last spring’s “Hannibal.” With Bryan Fuller (of ABC’s tragically short-lived “Pushing Daisies”) at the helm, the 13-episode origin story was a vibrant, visually enticing thriller that stood on its own. Despite iconic source material, “Hannibal” immediately made a case for itself, wonderfully blending procedural and serial elements and delivering standout performances from leads Mads Mikkelsen (“A Royal Affair”) and Hugh Dancy (“The Big C”). Furthering this new NBC sub-brand, the Peacock has a second season of “Hannibal” planned, as well as “Crossbones,” a 10-episode pirate drama starring John Malkovich. Whereas “Hannibal” succeeded, “Dracula” fails. Familiar visuals and a trite narrative plague the NBC drama. There’s nothing blatantly wrong in this adaptation, but there’s also nothing different about it. If you’re going to re-imagine a story as oft-told as Dracula’s, then you’re actually going to have to re-imagine something. Because, ultimately, the pilot episode of “Dracula” brings nothing new to the monster’s inspired history.
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‘Daredevils’ misses the mark By JOE REINHARD For the Daily
Like much of reality TV, The History Channel’s “American Daredevils” doesn’t try to make itself into a work of art. It’s there D+ to entertain, and on paper, American the premise Daredevils of a group of daredevils per- Pilot forming crazy Tuesdays stunts seems fun at 10 p.m. enough. With that said, the History Channel show doesn’t seem to capture the premise’s potential, and while it doesn’t try to be compelling, it doesn’t exactly succeed in being entertaining, either. The show follows four daredevils, all underdogs of some sort. Spanky Spangler, the most famous and successful of the bunch, finds himself facing the end of his career but doesn’t let his age slow him down. His son, Bryan, wants to fulfill the family tradition and follow in his father’s footsteps. Mr. Dizzy is characterized by his ambition, eager to leave a legacy behind, while Dr. Danger finds himself unsatisfied with his stagnant career and wants to make some changes.
Too niche for its own good. On the surface, all these people have problems that are remotely relatable. Unfortunately, the premiere fails to give them any significant depth. Their simplicity, instead of adding toward any sense of likeability or personality, just makes
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the show appear more fake than it probably already is. At the very least, the contrived confessionals do little to dispel the stereotype that reality TV isn’t very reflective of reality. For other reality TV programs, this could be forgivable if the results were entertaining, but for now, the apparent fakeness is kind of a problem considering the show’s main themes center on wholesome family values and American patriotism. The more informative elements of the show share in this shallowness. Each stunt has some mathematical factor to it, whether it be trying to find the right speed to land a car jump or figuring out the physics behind surviving a high fall. The premiere doesn’t ignore the math side to the stunts completely, but when it does work with math, it keeps things rather simplified, appealing to the lowest common denominator. That isn’t to say the calculations should be as in-depth as possible, but it’s clear the show held back for the sake of a greater mass appeal. Anyone looking to learn more about the technical side of being a daredevil will be disappointed, because the show shies away from any detailed insight.
The same can be said when “Daredevils” touches on the profession’s history. Stunt performing has faded in appeal over the decades and become more of a niche form of entertainment, but the show doesn’t explore this development to any great degree, and when it does, it’s mostly for the purposes of romanticizing the profession instead of actually trying to be informative. Evel Knievel is the most referenced daredevil icon in the premiere, a sort of ideal stuntman every daredevil tries to live up to and surpass. Beyond this admiration, however, and a few tidbits about Knievel’s most famous stunt, the show spends little time on any historical relevance there may be on the subject. Perhaps this is enough to earn the show’s place on The History Channel (well, probably not), but it certainly doesn’t help raise the show above its otherwise mediocre quality. The show’s few redeeming features reside in how it creates stakes and builds suspense, but that’s sort of a given based on its premise. Beyond that, the premiere makes it difficult to recommend “American Daredevils,” unless one has a particular interest or passion in the subject matter.
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The Michigan hockey team picked up a come-from-behind victory over Boston University on Friday but finally took its first loss of the season with a 2-1 loss to UMass-Lowell the next night. The River Hawks are the preseason Hockey East favorite.
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to answer when it hosted Boston University on Friday night. Last year, the Wolverines failed to earn a berth in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 22 years. Then, two of their best players left for NHL organizations. They’d played well through the first four games, but even Michigan coach Red Berenson admitted that his team hadn’t proved it could win
— it was even simply finding ways not to lose. For two periods, the fears of the 5,535 fans in attendance were realized. Like at the beginning of last year, Michigan entered with a high national ranking. Like last year, it boasted a slew of offensive weapons but had uncertainty at the goaltender position. After 40 minutes on Friday, the Wol-
verines were outshooting No. 13 Boston University 30-12 but were somehow, inexplicably, impossibly on the wrong end of the scoreboard, down 1-0. “It was a little bit of a frustrating experience,” said junior forward Alex Guptill. The sentiment was seemingly echoed by sophomore forward Andrew Copp, who paused to glance back at the scoreboard
with a mixture of surprise and disbelief when the publicaddress announcer read off the shot totals at the end of the second period. And who could blame them? They had a chance to beat one of the most storied programs in the country and, in the eyes of Berenson, a top-10 team. Instead, they were losing despite dominating the game,
and the packed arena’s cheers of encouragement were slowly being punctured by grumbles of exasperation as the uncertainties of last year were again becoming realities. One student had to leave when a puck deflected over the boards and cut his face badly. He missed how, in the span of 20 minutes, the Wolverines not See HOCKEY, Page 7A
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Junior midfielder TJ VanSlooten scored a goal in the 88th minute to propel Michigan past Indiana on Saturday.
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Junior forward Alex Guptill scored the game-winning goal on a third-period penalty shot Friday against Boston University.
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1. Whether it’s Steve Racine or Zach Nagelvoort, Michigan can rely on its goaltending. Last year, starting thenfreshmen goaltenders Jared Rutledge and Steve Racine meant taking a risk. The defense felt the pressure to do too much, and the offense wasn’t capable of building up a big enough lead. This year, the Wolverines inserted the freshman Nagelvoort in a pinch to replace the injured Racine, who pulled a
groin against New Hampshire last weekend. Nagelvoort has been beyond consistent, making the saves he was supposed to and then some this weekend. His reflexes to slide across the net and the vision to pick a puck out of the air are special for anyone at such a young age, but his inexperience in stick handling and timing coming out of the net still require work. In four appearances, Nagelvoort is 2-1-1 against three top-20 teams, which is most important to his teammates. “It’s a huge confidence booster, that’s for sure,” said senior
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defenseman Mac Bennett. “He played fantastic tonight, and he gave us a chance to win this game. He’s been really, really solid since he’s come in, and I’m really happy with his play.” Better yet, Racine also looked solid in his limited action and instills the same confidence in his team. Berenson said the last time he had two goalies who both excelled was three years ago during the Big Chill at the Big House. Then, Shawn Hunwick filled in for Bryan Hogan and started the remainder of the See FIVE, Page 3B
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The Michigan men’s soccer team continued its strong play of late on Saturday night, defeating Indiana, 2-1, at U-M Soccer Stadium. The Wolverines beat the defending national champions in convincing fashion for their first three-game winning streak of the season and their first-ever home win against the Hoosiers. “Beating the national champions helps our mentality and the culture we’re trying to create with Michigan men’s soccer,” said Michigan coach
Chaka Daley. “To get that result was something we talked about in terms of creating our own legacy.” While Indiana (1-3 Big Ten, 5-10-1 overall) has an unimpressive record this season, Daley was well aware that this was a program-defining victory over a team that has historically dominated the Big Ten. Michigan (3-2, 7-4-3) played aggressively from the opening whistle, as redshirt senior midfielder Tyler Arnone sent the ball beautifully from the right flank to senior forward Malcolm Miller in the second minute. Miller slid past the ball,
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barely missing the opportunity to poke it into the left corner. Michigan continued knocking on the door throughout the first half of play, outshooting Indiana, 7-4. The Wolverines seemed especially likely to get on the board first during a sequence in which four players had great chances to score, but none could capitalize. Between the 37th and 39th minutes, Arnone blasted the ball high over the net off a deflection, senior midfielder Fabio Pereira had his shot blocked by Indiana goalkeeper Michael Soderlund and See SOCCER, Page 3B
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he girls waited after church last week for a chance to see Jordan Morgan, so when Michigan’s 6-foot-8 forward walked into the parking lot, they jumped at their chance. “Jordan!” they yelled, waving. Retelling the story ZACH Thursday, HELFAND Morgan looked up at the Crisler Center lights and smiled. He waved back at the girls, he said. He guessed they were in high school. “And I remember hearing one of them yell, ‘Oh my god! He waved at me!’ ” Morgan said. “I laughed.” This is the new reality for the Michigan basketball team, the new stars on campus, on Twitter and on ESPN. Last year, the Wolverines were the youngest team in the NCAA Tournament. This year, they’re even younger. And for the 12 players out of 14 who are freshmen or sophomores, most don’t even remember the old, anonymous days of Michigan basketball, when the team regularly played in a halfempty gym. “Nobody knows what it was like,” said Morgan, the fifth-year senior. “But it’s OK. I don’t fault them, it’s just the reality of the situation.” Earlier Thursday, John Beilein stood at the podium at Michigan’s media day and looked out at the full room before him. Seven years ago, in
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Redshirt junior forward Jon Horford remembers when Crisler was half empty.
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The Michigan men’s basketball team’s sophomore class has quickly become leaders on a team with 12 underclassmen.
2007, Beilein was here for his first media day as Michigan’s coach, with a considerably smaller crowd. Then, Crisler Arena was old and rather lifeless. Players that day did interviews on the court under the numbing buzz of the fluorescent lights. Now, in the new media room, in the renovated Crisler Center with the new hardware on display in the trophy cases in front, Beilein looked out at the biggest crowd at the event in years.
“Look at this room,” Beilein said. “The environment changes very quickly when you’re able to make the run that we did.” The change didn’t happen quickly, until suddenly it did. Since Beilein took over in 2007, the program has advanced in neat increments almost every year. In Beilein’s first season, Michigan lost the most games in its history. The next year, Michigan beat Duke and UCLA, both ranked No. 4 at the time, and earned a berth in the NCAA
Tournament. Michigan returned to the tournament in 2011. In 2012, the Wolverines shared a Big Ten title. But last year, the program progressed by leaps: the first No. 1 ranking in two decades; the National Player of the Year; and an appearance in the National Championship. Within weeks, Michigan’s players became household names. The campus that wouldn’t even show up to games three years earlier flooded the
streets following the championship game loss. Ann Arbor had become a basketball town. Now, of all the players on the roster, only Morgan has experienced a season without an NCAA Tournament — his redshirt year in 2009-10. Redshirt junior Jon Horford is the only other upperclassman on this year’s team. So during a film study just more than a week ago, the team watched a game from the 201011 season. The video panned over the student section. Morgan was in his second year then. Horford was a freshman. He estimated, exaggerating only slightly, that there were about 40 students at the game. In the film room, the rest of the team was incredulous. “And I’m like, yeah, you guys don’t really know what we went through,” Morgan said. Thanks to the Final Four run, and the unusually young roster, the Michigan basketball culture has shifted remarkably quickly. Now, the team isn’t worried about how many fans will show up. This year, more students requested student tickets than space allowed. Now, the team is more concerned with limiting the distractions of budding stardom. It seems life has gone on as usual only for the diminutive sophomore point guard Spike Albrecht, an influx of Twitter followers notwithstanding. “I’m the same old Spike,” he said to a group of reporters, adding: “I mean, I look like all of you guys, so I kind of blend in on campus.” But his taller teammates have had a harder time hiding. And most have everyday interactions that would’ve seemed comically farfetched while Morgan or Horford were underclassmen. Sophomore forward Mitch McGary was recently asked to sign someone’s forehead. (“It
was a dude,” McGary said. “I’m like I’m not going to sign your forehead, dude, I’m sorry.”) A group of girls asked him for a kiss, and he declined that, too. Sophomore guard Nik Stauskas says he’ll often walk by gaping students on campus. They won’t say anything as they walk by, but they will Tweet at him minutes later, he says, telling him they saw him. Horford said after the Final Four he was often as much as 20 minutes late to class because people asked him for pictures or autographs, and “I don’t have the heart to tell people you gotta leave me alone,” he said. Beilein says he tells the team that they live every day “on Times Square.” “If you want to read about yourself, you could go read about yourself all day long,” Beilein said. “It’s very important they understand what’s really important. And it’s not that clutter.” After Beilein spoke, the players answered questions from the media in a neat row of tables along the west sideline, under the new bright lights and stillsparkling concourses of Crisler Center. Then the players dunked and laughed and warmed up for practice. Professional scouts watched from beyond the south baseline. Morgan says that for 12 of his teammates, this is normal, expected. Only he and Horford know how far the program had to come to get here. When they are gone, for better or worse, those memories will be gone. It’s just something you had to go through to understand, Horford said. And for now, it’s just fine with him if Michigan’s newest stars never understand again. -Helfand can be reached at zhelfand@umich.edu or on Twitter @zhelfand
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Freshman guard Zak Irvin is a part of the new, flashy Michigan basketball.
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Freshman forward Yamann Sahlool provided instant offense off the bench for Michigan. He scored the Wolverines’ first goal of the game in the 69th minute.
In win over Hoosiers, another second-half flurry for Michigan By MIKE PISCIOTTA For the Daily
For the second straight game, the Michigan men’s soccer team found itself tied 1-1, heading into the final five minutes of the match against Indiana on Saturday. And for the second straight game, the Wolverines managed to seal a 2-1 victory against a Big Ten foe thanks to a late game winner. Junior midfielder TJ VanSlooten’s 87th-minute goal propelled Michigan to a victory over the Hoosiers for the surging Wolverines’ third consecutive win. With three minutes remaining and overtime looming, freshman defender Rylee Woods sprinted down the left flank and whipped in a hopeful cross into the Indiana box. Hoosier goalkeeper Michael Soderlund came out to claim the ball, but instead of catching it, he fumbled the ball into the path of freshman defender Lars Eckenrode. Eckenrode instinctively poked the ball toward the path of the oncoming VanSlooten, who slotted the ball into the back of the net to give Michigan the lead. “We are coming out (in the
FIVE From Page 1B season. Michigan advanced to the National Championship that year. 2. Michigan’s offense won’t be potent until it buries its chances. The Wolverines tallied 83 shots in two games. They scored on just three of them. For what has been deemed one the deepest units he’s ever seen, Berenson has reason to be upset with a .036 shot percentage. It’s clear Michigan can create chances, which should theoretically mean more goals, but that hasn’t been the case. “We have to score more than one goal at home,” Berenson said Saturday. “We’ve got to take advantage of our chances better than we did tonight.” Freshman forward Tyler Motte had one of those scoring chances late against the River Hawks on Saturday, when he received the puck near the crease with an open net but sent it wide left. Senior forward Derek DeBlois also failed to finish with an open net, pushing his shot just wide. It doesn’t help when both of the opposing goalies’ play is outstanding, but missed opportunities like Motte’s and DeBlois’s have become costly. The offense has shown its potential against RIT when it
second half ) fighting for the result,” said senior midfielder Fabio Pereira. “We’re finding ways to win games.” Heading into the locker room for halftime, Michigan (3-2 Big Ten, 7-4-3 overall), faced an uphill battle, down 1-0 against reigning NCAA champion Indiana (1-3, 5-9-1). To add to the Wolverines’ misfortunes, redshirt junior goalkeeper Adam Grinwis was forced to leave the game with an injury. Although Michigan had a tough task ahead, the team’s perseverance and intensity changed the game after the intermission. “They believe that they’re a second-half team,” said Michigan coach Chaka Daley. “Their energy gets better as the game goes on.” With the introduction of VanSlooten and freshman forward Yamann Sahlool, the Wolverines transitioned into a more attack-oriented formation with Pereira playing in the middle
and higher up the pitch. Sahlool, who has provided instant offense off the bench for Michigan, seemed poised to score after creating a few quality chances upon entering the game. In the 69th minute, he did just that. Following a corner, the ball was played out to Pereira on the left flank. With plenty of space, Pereira delivered a cross into the box that found the head of Sahlool. Unmarked at the back post, he directed the ball into the net to tie the score at one. The Wolverines’ attack was relentless in the second half. They outshot the Hoosiers, 11-2, and kept the majority of the possession in their opponents’ half. Along with the stellar play by the attack, the Michigan defense improved after struggling in the first half. Throughout the first half, the Wolverine back line had trouble with the physicality of
the Indiana front line. The Hoosiers were very intent on playing balls in the air to their tall, strong strikers. The runs made by the other Indiana attackers off the ball caused trouble for the Michigan defense as it had trouble winning the ball in the air. This led to a couple quality chances for Indiana in the first half, and eventually, a goal from Andrew Oliver in the 43rd minute. “We had a much better performance in the second half,” Pereira said. “Our resiliency is what changed the game.” With freshman goalkeeper Grant Mattia in net, the Wolverines’ defense needed to be at its best for the final 45 minutes, and it stepped up to the challenge. Michigan completely shut down the Indiana attack, allowing only one shot on goal, which came in the final minute of the game, and preventing any other chances to preserve the victory. “Beating the national champs from last year certainly helps us from a mentality standpoint,” Daley said. “It helps build the legacy we’re trying to create with the Michigan soccer program.”
scored seven times, but its play in the past two weeks has not lived up to its reputation. Big Ten teams will play comparable, if not better, offense to recent Hockey East opponents, which means the Wolverines won’t be able to constantly rely on their goaltenders.
Meanwhile, Compher continues to create scoring chances when he brings the puck down. “We’re all the same age, and we’ve all been together for a few years,” Allen said. “Me and Tyler have been together before that, so I think we have a lot in common on the ice and off the ice.”
3. The all-freshmen line is playing like it’s a veteran line.
4. Penalties will be costlier than usual.
At the end of Friday’s contest against Boston University, with a slim 2-1 lead in the waning seconds, Berenson sent out the third line of freshmen Motte, JT Compher and Evan Allen. The 11th-ranked Terriers pulled their netminder in the final minutes in attempt to tie the game and fired more shots in the third period than the previous two, but the young line held on for the win. The move was bold of Berenson, who said prior to the season that he had planned to put younger players with experienced ones. It demonstrates his early trust in unproven players at the collegiate level. “I just had a good feel for these three,” Berenson said. “They’re competing hard. They’re always making good decisions on the ice.” All three were members of the U.S. National Team Development Program last year and show solid chemistry on the ice. Saturday’s game was the first in the past five games that Motte did not score.
The Wolverines have allowed five power-play goals thus far, good for 27th fewest in the nation. The middle-of-the-pack numbers don’t tell the whole story. Michigan takes 13.2 penalty minutes per game, which both players and coaches alike have said disrupts the team’s rhythm and flow. The Wolverines have struggled the most during games in which they have sat in the penalty box the longest. Against RIT, Michigan took seven penalties in the second period and allowed four goals in the same frame. Tied at one midway through the third period of Saturday’s contest, junior forward Phil Di Giuseppe again proved why the penalties are costly. He was called for checking from behind and subsequently given a game misconduct. The five-minute major that ensued strained Michigan’s defense and kept the Wolverines out of the offensive zone. The penalty ultimately result-
ed in a goal allowed, which stood as the game winner. “Killing a five-minute penalty is tough,” Bennett said. “I thought we almost had it, but it was too little, too late. They capitalized, and we couldn’t come back from that.” When the Wolverines play their best hockey, they stay out of the box and hold onto the puck longer. Michigan will have to stay disciplined against rivals like Michigan State and Ohio State later in the season if it wants any shot at keeping games close.
“We’re finding ways to win the game.”
5. Bold Prediction: Michigan won’t lose again in 2013. The Wolverines played three top-20 teams with an untested defense and were without their starting goaltender for half of their games to the start the season and finished 4-1-1. Michigan won’t face another top-20 team this year if the rankings remain similar to where they are now, which looks good for the Wolverines on paper. Their next two opponents — Michigan Tech and NebraskaOmaha — have combined for three wins this season, and the competition afterward, teams like Niagara and Ferris State, doesn’t appear much better. As the defense gains experience and with Racine eventually back to full health, the season looks promising to end the calendar year.
only answered any lingering doubts about their program, but demonstrated how it’s stronger than it has been in the better span of a decade. With a little less than 17 minutes remaining, the building groaned when an apparent Michigan goal was disallowed. But it didn’t really matter in the end. Five minutes later, freshman forward Tyler Motte tied the game with a one-timer, and the team’s reaction was as much a sigh of relief it was as a celebration. Last year, the Wolverines might not have found an equalizer. But the freshman was in the right place at the right time — as he has been all season — to net his fourth career goal. “You go out in practice every day, and this is the reason you come here, to play games like these,” Motte said. The Boston University netminder responded later in the period by punching senior forward Luke Moffatt in the head, a play that went unpunished by the referees. But Michigan didn’t need to fight back, not like that. Halfway through the final period, Guptill was upended on a breakaway and awarded a penalty shot. It was a dubious call, but after equally suspect calls at New Hampshire, it was a fortuitous break a week in the making. Guptill made the Terriers pay, going five-hole on the goaltender to put Michigan ahead for good,
SOCCER From Page 1B freshman defender Rylee Woods’s attempt was palmed by Soderlund into the crossbar and ultimately cleared out of bounds by an Indiana defender to set up a corner. Senior defender Ezekiel Harris’s header off the ensuing corner kick sailed high over the bar, as Michigan’s succession of shots could not produce a goal. With just three minutes to play in the half, after Michigan’s flurry of shot opportunities was stymied by Indiana in the 39th minute, the Hoosiers scored off a counter attack to take the lead. Indiana’s Patrick Doody crossed the ball from the left side over Michigan sophomore defender Jack Brown. Redshirt junior goalkeeper Adam Grinwis came out to try and clear the ball, but Indiana’s Andrew Oliver beat him and headed the ball into the open net, giving the Hoosiers a 1-0 lead. Despite being outplayed in the first half, the Hoosiers surprisingly led at the break. Due to an injury, Grinwis was replaced by freshman goalkeeper Grant Mattia at the half. He played valiantly in the first game action of his career, blanking Indiana the rest of the way and allowing Michigan to get back in the game. The breakthrough came in the 70th minute, as Pereira crossed the ball from the right corner to freshman forward Yamann Sahlool. The substitute beat the
and Yost’s 90-year-old structure shook in response. “It’ll get louder,” Berenson said. “If our team plays well, we’ll hear about it.” That the Wolverines lost to Massachusetts-Lowell, 2-1, on Saturday night was little more than a minor inconvenience. The River Hawks were the topranked team in the preseason polls and projected to win Hockey East, and “it was anyone’s game, right down to the very end,” according to Berenson. “You can’t win them all,” said senior defenseman Mac Bennett. They won’t, but they’ve come pretty close so far. Michigan faced five ranked opponents in its first six games — perhaps the toughest stretch it’ll encounter in the regular season — and finished 4-1-1. So come back to Yost, because this year, the Wolverines are for real. They’ve proven as much through the first three weekends of the season, erasing lingering doubts and establishing themselves as the team to beat in the Big Ten. As the final moments of Friday’s win ticked away, freshman forward JT Compher and Terrier defenseman Doyle Somerby tussled behind the Boston University net. Somerby gave a shove as the final horn sounded, but by then Compher had began to skate towards center ice with his stick raised. There were no questions left to answer; that fight was already won. — Zúñiga can be reached at azs@umich.edu or on Twitter @the_zuniga.
Hoosiers’ back line and gracefully headed the ball into the top left corner for the second goal of his career, to finally tying the game at 1-1. “Yamann scored a great goal tonight, just put himself in the right position at the right time,” Daley said. “His header into the back of the net got our momentum going.” The game winner came in the 88th minute as a run by Woods down the left sideline ultimately led to junior midfielder TJ VanSlooten’s clutch goal. Woods served the ball into the box, which was then fumbled by Soderlund. Freshman defender Lars Eckenrode managed to control the ball and found VanSlooten who knocked it past the goalie from just a few yards out to complete the come-from-behind 2-1 win over the Hoosiers. Michigan is proving to be a strong second-half team, with this trend continuing against Indiana. “Earlier in the year, I think we lacked confidence late in games, but now (the players) are saying that we’re a second half team and that their energy gets better as the game goes on,” Daley said. “They were late goals, but they were really good goals at the end of the day.” Indiana’s only shot on goal in the second half came in the 90th minute. Mattia saved Harrison Petts’s last-second shot as the clock wound down to seal the victory for Michigan.
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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, second-place votes receiving nine, and so on. 1. ALABAMA (18): Nick Saban has never attended a tailgate in his life. He sounds really fun!
2. FLORIDA STATE (3): Jameis Winston? More like Jameis Wins-aton. Good Lord, what a quarterback.
3. OREGON : How soon until Chip Kelly regrets leaving?
6. STANFORD: The Cardinal beat the Beavers and didn’t give a dam. Dam. Get it? Beavers...
7. MIAMI (FL): The NCAA is clearly afraid of Hurricanes.
8. OKLAHOMA: We’re still mad at Oklahoma for stealing the Detroit Shock. Screw you, Oklahoma.
4. OHIO STATE: Have you ever heard Urban Meyer laugh? No? Lucky you. Like a dying hyena.
9. MISSOURI: The Tigers will be kicking themselves over this loss for a while.
5. BAYLOR: The Bears do what Devin Gardner did against Indiana pretty much every week.
10. AUBURN: Beat Florida Atlantic and snuck into this Top-10. Maybe we actually aren’t so good at this.
STAFF PICKS The Daily football writers do their best to predict, against the spread, what happens in the 2013 football season.
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Lacking consistency, ‘M’ falls to Purdue By ZACH SHAW Daily Sports Writer
Just three days after sinking No. 10 Michigan State in four sets in East Lansing, the No. 17 Michigan volleyball team found itself facing yet another ranked Big Ten opponent in No. 21 Purdue. Any momentum from the rivalry win on the road failed to carry over to Cliff Keen Arena Saturday as the Wolverines (4-6 Big Ten, 14-7 overall) fell to the Boilermakers, 3-1. The match began with a backand-forth battle in the first set. The balanced and powerful Purdue offense was countered time and again by the fearless Wolverine defense as the intensity rose with the score. Eventually, however, Michigan gave way as the Boilermakers (6-4, 15-6) took five of the last six points for a 25-20 victory. “We came out, and Purdue played really well in the first
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Junior setter Lexi Dannemiller tied for the team lead with 17 digs on Saturday.
Senior outside hitter Molly Toon had 16 kills in Michigan’s loss to Purdue.
set,” said Michigan coach Mark Rosen. “I don’t know that we didn’t play well, but in the end,
As well as Purdue played in the first set, the Michigan defense buckled down in the second. The Wolverines played near-perfect volleyball, committing just two errors while never trailing en route to a 25-13 win. “I thought our team did an amazing job coming back in the second set,” Rosen said. “It was a really good change that we made defensively. Our blocking, floor defense, we were getting digs, but we also managed to get a lot of points in transition and that was big for our team.” The third set began as a mirror image of the second, and it appeared Michigan would go on to its fourth Big Ten victory in its last five tries. Led by flawless serves and unrelenting digs, the Wolverines cruised to a 16-9 lead, much to the delight of the 1,220 fans, many of whom stood up in anticipation of an easy victory. But over the next several minutes, Purdue scored eight unanswered points to take the lead. It would be the final lead change of the night, as the Boilermakers won the third set, 25-22, and effortlessly clinched the match with a 25-20 fourth-set win in which they never trailed. “We got stuck in a rotation in the third set,” Rosen said. “They
we didn’t stop them. They hit .500 as a team, and their offense was really flowing at that point.”
rattle off a few unanswered points, and next thing you know they’ve got the lead and all the momentum’s on their side. Unfortunately, that carried over into the fourth set, and we seemed a little frustrated and were playing out of our system. We fought back in, but at that point we were playing with our back against the wall.” In a rare fall to earth, the usually dominant offensive combo of senior outside hitter Lexi Erwin and senior middle blocker Jennifer Cross struggled, committing a combined 17 errors in the match. Spending more time off the court than usual, the duo witnessed strong performances by senior outside hitter Molly Toon and freshman middle blocker Ally Davis, who combined for 30 kills in the loss. Knowing just how many powerful weapons he has leaves Rosen confident in his team’s ability to rebound quickly. “Every player on our team has great potential, and I have confidence in all of them,” Rosen said.
“(Erwin and Cross) didn’t have as good numbers tonight, but they’re human. They’re playing hard, so they’ll be fine. “Our goal is to be balanced offensively; we don’t want to be a team built on one player that can be stopped.” On a team talented enough to beat the nation’s elite over the past two seasons, consistency has been the biggest obstacle for Michigan this season. Saturday was no exception, as 20 of 28 Wolverine errors occurred in the last two sets. It was flashes of brilliance followed by futility. “Before we can look at other teams, we need to focus on us,” Rosen said. “We need to focus on being more consistent in our execution, and that doesn’t have a lot to do with our opponents. We need to make sure that in practice, our players and coaches are working to be more consistent in every phase of the game. Whether it’s passing, setting, serving, attacking, defense, we can improve our consistency in all of those areas.” Halfway through the Big Ten season, Michigan finds itself at a crossroads. With 10 games to go in the regular season, the Wolverines will face five teams they’ve already lost to, beginning next weekend against No. 2 Penn State and No. 24 Ohio State. With big rematches looming ahead, and potentially even bigger games on the postseason horizon, Rosen can only hope the good spurts outweigh the bad. “The first time through the schedule, we didn’t see any teams in the first round that we didn’t feel like we could beat,” Rosen said. “We felt like we matched up talent-wise and had a chance to beat any team we played. “Now we get another shot at them, and we have to work hard to improve enough to beat them this time.”
“...at that point, we were playing with our back against the wall.”