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Cecilia Muñoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, speaks about immigration reform at the Ford School of Public Policy Monday. Muñoz is a 1984 University alum and MacArthur fellow for her work on civil rights and imigration.

Director talks immigration White House official takes fourpronged approach to admin. policies

By BEN ATLAS Daily Staff Reporter

The University continued in its role as a steward of conversation on era-defining issues Monday. University alum Cecilia Muñoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, delivered a lecture on immigration reform to a crowd of about 100 students and faculty.

The DPC coordinates all non-economic domestic policy

for the president. It’s members include the vice president, cabinet members, and other agency heads. The campus conversation comes as the House of Representatives prepares to decide whether it will move forward with Senate bills that address immigration reform.

“When I was (at the University) in 2007, I gave a lecture in this very room, on this very subject, and was pretty much talking about the same piece of legislation,” Muñoz said on Congress’s slow movement.

Despite this, Muñoz maintained she was hopeful that reform could be achieved this year. Her talk Monday centered on why the immigration debate is relevant to President Barack

Obama’s broad policy goals, where the debate currently stands in the policy-making process and its economic implications.

The singular theme across the Obama administration’s entire domestic policy agenda, according to Muñoz, is its effort to drive the middle class forward as the engine of economic growth. Immigration reform, she said, “is squarely part of that agenda” for middle-class prosperity and can be broken down into four “policy buckets.”

The first bucket deals with enforcement, as a secure border is essential to successful immigration policy, Muñoz said.

In addition to improving border security, the Department

of Homeland Security would need to accelerate its efforts to remove undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes, been previously deported or recently arrived to the United States.

The second bucket, Muñoz said, involves addressing the 11-million undocumented workers who are integrated into workforces and communities across the country.

The framework behind this part of the proposal Muñoz said, is to create a mechanism to get undocumented workers “on the right side of the law” by having them come forward, get provisional status with a green card and then wait in line with See IMMIGRATION, Page 3

DAAS poetry series to feature Detroit writer

By CAROLYN DARR Daily Arts Writer

Tuesday, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies will again host a poetry reading as part of its ongoing Living Poets Series. The featured speaker this week is Melba Joyce Boyd, a visiting professor who is a University alum and local Detroiter.

Boyd, the poet for this year’s event, is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Wayne State University. She has written 13 books and has won multiple literary awards including the 2010 Library of Michigan Notable Books Award.

“She’s an incredible poet, she’s a life long Detroiter and she’s also an incredible activist,” said V. Robin Grice, the DAAS gallery manager who organized the series. “Her name is really well known, and a lot of people know her as an activist, other people know her as the chair at Wayne State, and other people know her as a poet, so it’s going to be nice for people to understand that she’s all of those things.”

Boyd opened up about the importance of poetry in society today.

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“I think probably in every situation, it has more to do with our creating and conveying ideas and issues that affect people on a global level,” Boyd said. “Creating those ideas and reconfiguring them in such a way that you’re giving insight rather than just a sort of typical way of looking at what people think might be important.”

Though many consider her to be an activist, Boyd does not necessarily identify herself as such.

However, from her college years protesting the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. to her current poetry, Boyd continues to speak out against injustice toward Black Americans and American society as a whole.

“I don’t think about labels,” Boyd said. “You do certain things and people kind of begin to refer to you as an activist. I think an activist is a person with a certain level of consciousness, and then they incorporate that consciousness into what they do.”

Boyd said she considers herself primarily a writer, both as a poet and a scholar.

“I think because I am an African American Studies scholar, it put me in the position where the work I was doing was activist work illuminating that reality and that history and that culture, which I think is a form of activism,” Boyd said. “That’s the experience that has nurtured me and See POET, Page 3

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At Monday’s Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs meeting, Mary Sue Coleman conducted a discussion about issue the University has been facing both in and out of the public sphere.

Coleman initiated a conversation about the effects sequestration —the automatic federal budget cuts that took effect in March — have on the University. According to Coleman, the effects pose “a real danger” to University finances.

Coleman explained that decreased funding leads to loss of grants and fellowships, which are considered “non-discriminatory,” affecting every department.

“I don’t want to sound alarmist or dismal, but you need to understand how serious of an issue this is,” Coleman said. “Sequestration will go on for 10 years if

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it’s not resolved, and so that has the potential to impact an entire generation of students who won’t have those opportunities.”

She added that the long-term effects of sequestration have the ability to impact the University’s global competitiveness. Last year, universities in China increased grant funding by 15 percent and Germany saw a 5-percent increase, while the University experienced a 5-percent decrease.

“I encourage you all to reach out to whoever you can,” Coleman said. “Talk to anyone, even the people that you know don’t agree with you.”

The next round of cuts will be instituted in January or February.

Coleman also discussed immigration reform, which she said she believes has seen an “increased appetite for discussion,” specifically in the business community. The comments came on the same day Coleman met with Cecelia Muñoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, who lectured on the Obama administration’s immigration policy at the Ford School.

Though Coleman admitted the current cultural context of the See SACUA, Page 3

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Engineering freshman Katie Meyers played a hungry lion in the annual Living Arts Haunted House in the Living Arts lounge at Bursley Residence Hall Monday. The theme this year was “Jack the Ripper’s Haunted Toy Shop” and featured Living Arts freshmen and peer mentors.

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Panelists discuss ‘leaning in’ to women’s leadership Event inspired by Facebook COO’s bestselling book

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An event in Pierpont Commons Monday hoped to inspire when women to “lean in” in their career.

The event, “When and Why I Chose to Lean In,” was in part a product of Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, and her book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. The feminist philosophy, supported in Sandberg’s 2010 TED talk,

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discusses methods to help women achieve their personal and professional goals.

The Center for Entrepreneurship hosted the event, which featured four panelists who discussed some barriers to women achieving leadership roles, along with the balance of family and career.

The conversation started with the panelists’ “lean in” the times — moments when they were faced with unforeseen leadership opportunities.

Engineering Prof. Nancy Love, one of the panelists, said her moment was about having the confidence to push herself.

Love cited her former position as University chair of the Department of Civil and Envi-

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ronmental Engineering as an opportunity that allowed her to grow. She said the position was part of her leaving her original career path as a professor at Virginia Tech to become more of a leader.

The panel also discussed how their relations played a role in their “lean in” movement. Jan Garfinkle, founder and managing director of Arboretum Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in health care, said her career was transformed when her husband, Mike, decided to quit his job and stay at home to take care of their children.

Garfinke said the situation came as a shock.

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Michigan recieves second-most grants given this year

By STEPHANIE SHENOUDA Daily Staff Reporter

Thirty-three University students were recipients of the Fulbright grants, the secondgreatest number of grants to be awarded to a university this year.

Names of recipients are not yet available.

The Fulbright grant is a prestigious government award that funds research and education programs overseas for up to a year. About 1,800 are given to students per year.

Seven University faculty members from Ann Arbor were also awarded Fulbrights in the scholar category, and a faculty member from the Flint campus received a Fulbright specialist grant.

Coming in at 39 recipients, Harvard University was the only institution with more honorees than the University of Michigan, one of whom was a student at UM-Flint.

Two students declined their grants to pursue other opportunities and two elected to participate in Egypt, which has been suspended for the 2013-2014 academic year.

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Super PAC for Duggan raises $3 million A super PAC supporting Detroit mayoral candidate Mike Duggan has far outraised other Michigan political groups this year, taking in nearly three times more than the secondplace fundraiser: the state House GOP. Turnaround Detroit reported raising nearly $3 million as of Friday, including $1 million from Penske Corp. and its founder, motorsports owner Roger Penske. Other large donations came from Carolina Hurricanes owner and Compuware Corp. co-founder Peter Karmanos Jr. ($300,000); Vanguard Health, which owns the hospital system Duggan used to run ($210,000); and various Detroit-area companies and business titans.

reform is not perfect, Coleman called the issue an “opportunity” that the University favors.

SACUA Chair Karen Staller said though the sequester impacts national issues, it can also affect the University. For example, immigration reforms would increase the potential for diversity among students and faculty.

At SACUA’s request, Coleman addressed the issue of minor safety on campus, in light of conversations sparked by the child sexual-abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University. A University panel on the topic that the Athletic Department didn’t perform national-level criminal background checks before hiring people to work at its summer camps. Coleman maintained that background checks are always performed, though she

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AUSTIN, Texas

Fed. judge rules against abortion restrictions A federal judge determined Monday that new Texas abortion restrictions place an unconstitutional burden on women seeking to end a pregnancy, a ruling that keeps open dozens of abortion clinics across the state while officials appeal.

The ruling by District Judge Lee Yeakel came one day before key parts of the law the Legislature approved in July were set to take effect. Lawyers for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers argued in their lawsuit that a provision requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital less than 30 miles away would have effectively shuttered about a third of the state’s 38 clinics that perform abortions.

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PSU to pay $59.7 million to pay Sandusky victims Penn State said Monday it is paying $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, a man once revered as a university icon who is now serving what is effectively a life prison sentence.

Nearly two years after the retired coach was first charged with child molestation, the school said 23 deals were fully signed and three were agreements in principle. It did not disclose the names of the recipients.

The school faces six other claims, and the university says it believes some of those do not have merit while others may produce settlements.

WASHINGTON

White House considering ending spying on allied countries The Obama administration is considering ending spying on allied heads of state, a senior administration official said, as the White House grappled with the fallout from revelations that the U.S. has eavesdropped on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The official said late Monday that a final decision had not been made and an internal review was still underway.

The revelations about National Security Agency monitoring of Merkel were the latest in a months-long spying scandal that has strained longstanding alliances with some of America’s closest allies. Earlier Monday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called for a “total review of all intelligence programs.”

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POET From Page 1 is the cultural perspective that I speak from.”

Boyd said she hopes her poetry can help people better understand the social problems we face today and better understand themselves.

“We’re in the business of using words to get people to think and to feel beyond their own personal selfish desires,” Boyd said.

“It’s about people having a more nuanced way that they deal with other people, the way that they

was unsure about national versus state of Michigan databases.

“Every department probably engages with minors in some way on campus, so it’s obviously a tough situation,” Coleman said.

Finally, Coleman examined the recent debate over the electronic billboard between Crisler Arena and Michigan Stadium — a topic also recently broached by the Ann Arbor City Council.

Some Ann Arbor officials oppose the the billboard, saying it is distracting to drivers.

“I believe it’s the driver’s responsibility to not be distracted,” Coleman said. “My opinion specifically is irrelevant, but I do like the idea of informing people about lesser known sports on campus, such as women’s volleyball.”

She maintained that the Athletic Department put thought into the billboard’s placement, and intentionally positioned the sign out of view of residential areas.

SACUA member Charlie Koopmann said he was very opposed to the current position of the billboard. His concerns were similar to those of the Council members, claiming that the billboard distracts drivers.

He said the $3-million price tag is likely a reason the University is quick to defend its creation.

After Coleman’s departure, SACUA rounded out the meeting with an executive session and a decision to ultimately decline to act on a letter drafted by the President’s Commission for Women’s Affairs. The letter was presented to various faculty governance groups for endorsement, and though the committee supported its interests in diversity, SACUA disagreed with the group’s wording regarding qualifications for potential presidential candidates, and decided not to act.

Next week’s meeting will begin with liaison reports from individual meetings.

services at Proctor & Gamble, emphasized the importance of a trusted relationship between employee and employer as a part of maintaining her balance.

Dauenhauer said maintaining communication with her boss while on maternity leave was a factor in getting the projects she wanted after returning to work

— a topic broadened by Sandberg in Lean In. Engineering graduate student Cecily Wu said learning about the panelists’ experiences was particularly valuable to her, as engineering is typically a maledominated field.

“These women were brave in pursuing their career, and it was inspiring to learn about their

deal with themselves, and to not be afraid to have a sense of their own voice. Hopefully what poetry does is to get you to challenge yourself in some very fundamental ways.”

Grice suggested the idea for the series because, while the LSA department offers significant academic programming, she felt DAAS could engage in the arts more.

“I love poetry so that’s kind of how it got started,” Grice said.

In Oct. 2011, the series featured a roundtable of three poets: Vievee Francis, Mary Leader and Mark Turcotte. At

that time, the series also sponsored a conversation with English Prof. Aaron Van Jordan, an established poet.

The series has gone on to host famous names such as Nikky Finney, who won the 2011 National Book Award for her poetry volume “Head Off & Split: Poems” and was the Living Poet featured in February.

“We try to reach out to everybody,” Grice said of the series. “There are really some incredible artists out there, and we should support them.”

Allegations of U.S. spying in Europe makes waves Sen. Feinstein calls for ‘total review’ of U.S. intelligence BERLIN (AP) — The United States could lose access to an important law enforcement tool used to track terrorist money flows, German officials said Monday, as Europe weighed a response to allegations that the Americans spied on their closest European allies.

In Washington, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein called for a “total review” of all U.S. intelligence programs in response to the allegations — activity the California Democrat said she wasn’t told about.

Feinstein said that while her committee was informed of the National Security Agency’s collection of phone records under a secret court order, it “was not satisfactorily informed” that “certain surveillance activities have been in effect for more than a decade” — including eavesdropping on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own cellphone.

She said President Barack Obama was also not told that Merkel’s communications were being collected since 2002.

“With respect to NSA collection of intelligence on leaders of U.S. allies_including France, Spain, Mexico and Germany_let me state unequivocally: I am totally opposed,” Feinstein said in a statement Monday.

“Unless the United States is engaged in hostilities against a country or there is an emergency need for this type of surveillance, I do not believe the United States should be collecting phone calls or emails of friendly presidents and prime ministers,” Feinstein said. “The president should be required to approve any collec-

tion of this sort.”

Spain became the latest U.S. ally to demand answers after a Spanish newspaper reported that the NSA monitored more than 60 million phone calls in that country during one month alone. The report Monday in the daily El Mundo came on the heels of allegations of massive NSA spying in France and Germany.

With European leaders dissatisfied with the U.S. response so far, officials have been casting about for a way to pressure Washington to provide details of past surveillance and assurances that the practice will be curbed. The challenge is to send a strong message to Washington against wholesale spying on European citizens and institutions without further damage to the overall transAtlantic relationship.

As possible leverage, German authorities cited last week’s non-binding resolution by the European Parliament to suspend a post-9/11 agreement allowing the Americans access to bank transfer data to track the f low of terrorist money.

German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said Monday she believed the Americans were using the information to gather economic intelligence apart from terrorism and that the deal, popularly known as the SWIFT agreement, should be suspended. That would represent a sharp rebuke to the United States from some of its closest partners.

“It really isn’t enough to be outraged,” she told rbb-Inforadio. “This would be a signal that something can happen and make clear to the Americans that the (EU’s) policy is changing.”

Suspending the agreement, officially known as the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, would require approval by an overwhelming majority of the 28 European Union countries.

The agreement allows access to

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IMMIGRATION From Page 1 people going through the legal immigration process. During this provisional period, the people in this category would have to pay taxes, pass English examinations and pay fees — a proposal Muñoz said is cumbersome but fair.

The third bucket focuses on reforming the existing legal immigration system, which Muñoz called “broken and badly backlogged.”

The immigration system is comprised of a family-sponsored process, in which legal citizens and residents can petition for family members to receive visas and an employer-sponsored process, in which companies try to do the same for people they’d like to hire.

Both systems have not been updated since 1991, according to Muñoz.

One highlight of the proposed legislation is the creation of a new visa category for people with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

“We train the best and the brightest from all across the world at our institutions of higher learning, especially in STEM areas, where we have great needs for workers and talented people,” she said. “Then we don’t make visas available for them to stay.”

Such a predicament, Muñoz said, illustrates why employment-based and family-based immigration reform efforts need to be combined, rather than be framed in opposition to one another.

The final policy bucket addresses how the government will deal with the low-sector labor stream after immigration reform is implemented. Immigration policymakers expect that there will still be some demand for the low-wage labor.

Instead, Muñoz said the preferred proposal is to acknowledge that such a labor force exists, structure it by providing a path for people to get in the country and create a temporaryworker designation that provides an eventual pathway to citizenship.

“The challenge here is to come

up with a process that protects the rights of workers in these sectors in the U.S. from competition and protects immigrant workers from being exploited,” Muñoz said.

While there has been some support to achieve immigration reform in a piecemeal fashion, Muñoz argued that the complexity and interconnectedness of each policy component demonstrates that none of the pieces will move by themselves, only as a part of a broader reform effort.

Muñoz also touted the potential reform bill’s economic benefits. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the proposed Senate bill would increase GDP by 3.3 percent by 2025. Muñoz added that it would have positive effects on innovation and job creation, as well as reduce the deficit by $800 billion over the next in 25 years.

Though political impediments will be one of the biggest obstacles toward moving forward on immigration, Muñoz said the country’s immigration debates have always reflected both where we were at the time and the notion of immigrants as the country’s lifeblood.

“This law, if it passes, will shape who we are just as much as failing to pass it will shape us,” she said.

Muñoz, a Detroit native with Bolivian immigrant parents, had a full day on her return to campus, including a sit-down with a group of policy students in a Public Policy seminar on immigration reform.

Muñoz also spoke with Public Policy Dean Susan Collins, University President Mary Sue Coleman, and Martha Pollack, provost and executive vice president of student affairs.

In an interview before the lecture, Muñoz reflected on the impact her experience as an undergraduate had on her future career path. Her daughter is currently a University student.

“I was a liberal arts major here,” she said. “I am a firm believer in the University as a place which helps students become good critical thinkers and good writers, and that is a set of skills which is irreplaceable.”

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From Page 1 private, Belgium-based SociNamed for Senator J. William ety for Worldwide Interbank Fulbright who made a motion Financial TelecommunicaSponsored by the U.S. Depart- to use surplus war funding as a tion, which handles the movement of State, the Fulbright means of sponsoring students in ment of money between banks program is designed to increase the fields of education, culture, worldwide. mutual relationships between and science in 1945.

Asked Monday if the NSA intelligence gathering had been used not only to protect national security but American economic interests as well, White House spokesman Jay Carney said: “We do not use our intelligence capabilities for that purpose. We use it for security purposes.”

Still, he acknowledged the tensions with allies over the eavesdropping disclosures and said the White House was “working to allay those concerns,” though he refused to discuss any specific reports or provide details of internal White House discussions.

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Merkel said Friday that she was open to the idea of suspending the SWIFT agreement, saying she “needed to look at this again more closely” and weigh “what we will lose for the security of our citizens and what we don’t.”

Germany and other European governments have made clear they don’t favor suspending the U.S.-EU trade talks which began last summer because both sides stand to gain so much through the proposed deal, especially against competition from China and other emerging markets.

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How has working at the University impacted your career?

I transitioned from a 100-percent research job in a government lab, to the U, where one has to balance teaching, research and administration. I really love teaching. The students here are wonderful, and so very bright.

How has Ann Arbor and the University changed since you’ve been here?

I am a big city person, but Ann Arbor is a way cool town for only 100,000 people or so. It is way bigger than that number suggests. Everyone in Ann Arbor is an interesting person to talk to.

The same can be said for the University. Aside from growth, both the town and the University have not changed all that much, from my perspective. Then again, I have only been here about 16 years.

The biggest change has been the students. They are much more informed, globally connected, thanks to the Internet.

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They are also a lot more expressive in class. I love how the students nowadays are much more active in class, ask so many questions and challenge their professors.

What do you do for fun outside of the classroom?

I’m a classically trained musician, but my heart thumps out rock and roll. When I’m not attending to my family, or teaching, or doing research, I’m living and breathing music. I really like performing in public: The bigger the crowd, the better.

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Great Lakes watershed sees Coastal storm leaves 13 first spawning of Asian Carp dead in U.K. and Europe Invasive species reproduces, threatens native fish

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Scientists said Monday they have documented for the first time that an Asian carp species has successfully reproduced within the Great Lakes watershed, an ominous development in the struggle to slam the door on the hungry invaders that could threaten native fish.

An analysis of four grass carp captured last year in Ohio’s Sandusky River, a tributary of Lake Erie, found they had spent their entire lives there and were not introduced through means such as stocking, according to researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey and Bowling Green State University.

Grass carp are among four species imported from Asia decades ago to control algae and unwanted plants in controlled settings such as sewage treatment lagoons. They escaped into the wild and have spread into the Mississippi and other rivers and lakes across the nation’s heartland.

Of greatest concern in the Great Lakes region are bighead and silver carp, prolific breeders that gobble huge amounts of plankton — tiny plants and animals that are vital to aquatic food chains. Scientists say if they gain a foothold in the lakes, they could spread widely and destabilize a fishing industry valued at $7 billion.

Grass carp are less worrisome because they eat larger plants instead of plankton and don’t compete with native species, although they could harm valuable wetland vegetation where some fish spawn.

But because all Asian carp species require similar conditions to reproduce successfully, the Sandusky River discovery suggests it’s likely that any of them could spawn there and in many other Great Lakes tributaries, said Duane Chapman, a USGS fisheries biologist and member of the research team.

“It’s bad news,” Chapman said.

“It would have been a lot easier to control these fish if they’d been limited in the number of places where they could spawn. This makes our job harder. It doesn’t make it impossible, but it makes it harder.”

The Obama administration has spent nearly $200 million to shield the lakes, focusing primarily on an electrified barrier and other measures in Chicago-area waterways that offer a pathway from the carp-infested Mississippi River watershed to Lake Michigan. Critics say more is needed and are pressing to physically separate the two systems.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is scheduled to release a report in coming months on a longterm solution.

John Goss, who heads the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Asian carp program, said sterile grass carp have been found in the Great Lakes for years. But the discovery that they can reproduce within the watershed “reinforces why we must continue to execute the aggressive strategy to keep silver and bighead carp out of the Great Lakes that we have been pursuing for the past three and a half years,” he said.

A commercial fisherman captured four small grass carp from the Sandusky River in 2012. Chapman and his colleagues determined they were at least a year old and could become spawning adults.

The scientists also examined bones in the fishes’ heads called “otoliths” that indicate the chemistry of the waters they’ve inhabited, and they compared them with otoliths of farmed fish. The analysis confirmed the grass carp were hatched through natural reproduction in the river.

Hurricane-force winds fell trees, tangle traffic LONDON (AP) — A savage coastal storm powered by hurricane-force gusts slashed its way through Britain and western Europe on Monday, felling trees, flooding lowlands and snarling traffic in the air, at sea and on land. At least 13 people were reported killed.

It was one of the worst storms to hit the region in years. The deadly tempest had no formal name — and wasn’t officially classified as a hurricane due to a meteorological standard — but it was dubbed the St. Jude storm (after the patron saint of lost causes) and stormageddon on social networks.

Gusts of 99 miles per hour (160 kph) were reported on the Isle of Wight in southern England, while gusts up to 80 mph hit the British mainland. Later in the day, the Danish capital of Copenhagen saw record gusts up of to 120 mph (194 kph) and an autobahn in central Germany was shut down by gusts up to 62 mph (100 kph).

All across the region, people were warned to stay indoors.

Hundreds of trees were uprooted or split, blocking roads and crushing cars. The Dutch were told to leave their beloved bicycles at home for safety’s sake.

At least thirteen stormrelated deaths were reported, most victims crushed by falling trees. Germany had six deaths, Britain had five and the Netherlands and Denmark had one each. One woman was also missing after being swept into the surf in France.

Two people were killed in London by a gas explosion and a British teen who played in the storm-driven surf was swept out to sea. A man in

Denmark was killed when a brick flew off and hit him in the head.

Despite the strength of its gusts, the storm was not considered a hurricane because it didn’t form over warm expanses of open ocean like the hurricanes that batter the Caribbean and the United States. Britain’s national weather service, the Met Office, said Britain does not get hurricanes because those are “warm latitude” storms that draw their energy from seas far warmer than the North Atlantic. Monday’s storm also did not have an “eye” at its center like most hurricanes.

London’s Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest, cancelled at least 130 flights and giant waves prompted the major English port of Dover to close, cutting off ferry services to France.

Nearly 1,100 passengers had to ride out the storm on a heaving ferry from Newcastle in Britain to the Dutch port of Ijmuiden after strong winds and heavy seas blocked it from docking in the morning. The ship returned to the North Sea to wait for the wind to die down rather than risk being smashed against the harbor’s walls, Teun-Wim Leene of DFDS Seaways told national broadcaster NOS. In central London, a huge building crane near the prime minister’s office crumpled in the gusts. The city’s overburdened transit system faced major delays and cancellations and did not recover even once the weather swept to the east.

A nuclear power station in Kent, southern England, automatically shut its two reactors after storm debris reduced its incoming power supply.

Officials at the Dungeness B plant said the reactors had shut down safely and would be brought back once power was

restored.

The storm left Britain in the early afternoon and roared across the English Channel, leaving up to 270,000 U.K. homes without power.

Trains were canceled in southern Sweden and Denmark. Winds blew off roofs, with debris reportedly breaking the legs of one man. Near the Danish capital of Copenhagen, the storm ripped down the scaffolding from a five-story apartment building.

Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport saw delays as strong gusts prevented passengers from using boarding bridges to disembark from planes to the terminals.

In Germany, the death toll hit six, with four people killed in three separate accidents Monday involving trees falling on cars, the dpa news agency reported. A sailor near Cologne was killed Sunday when his boat capsized and a fisherman drowned northeast of the city.

In addition to widespread rail disruptions, both Duesseldorf and Hamburg airports saw many flights cancelled, stranding more than 1,000 passengers.

Thousands of homes in northwestern France also lost electricity, while in the Netherlands several rail lines shut down and airports faced delays. Amsterdam’s central railway station was closed due to storm damage.

In France, maritime officials were searching for a woman who was swept into the turbulent Atlantic by a big wave Monday as she walked on Belle Isle, a small island off the coast of Brittany.

“We are focused on the search,” Yann Bouvart, of the Atlantic Maritime Prefecture told BFM-TV. He said a helicopter, a boat and an inflatable Zodiac were looking for the woman.

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What the frack?

Fracking regulation isn’t an alternative for alternative energy

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The proposed regulations begin to bring clarity to an industry clouded by trade secrets.

Better monitoring of water withdrawal, water quality sampling, chemical additive disclosure on an Internet-based platform and more frequent reporting by operators would be required if the regulations are instituted. While these requirements don’t prohibit the pollution causes, they provide a greater understanding of fracking’s effect on the environment.

Michigan should also be taking into account the debates and attempted regulations that have occurred elsewhere in the United States.

In Ohio, where more than 80,000 oil and gas wells have been fractured since 1951, the state Senate passed regulations on oil and gas drilling in May 2012, including hydraulic fracturing. Although both Niles and Youngstown city councils in Ohio ultimately turned down the proposed ban on fracking within city limits, the local administrations appear to be more concerned and involved in the decision-making than in Michigan. In Pennsylvania, the Marcellus Shale Law, which was scheduled to take effect in April 2012, was supposed to change the zoning laws applicable to Marcellus Shale well drilling. However, it has been delayed due to a growing group of municipalities and organizations asking for a more regulation powers in their localities.

Giving local authorities more control over fracking protocols in Michigan would allow for greater public representation in the

decision-making process and make a larger portion of the local population aware of the potential effects of fracking. Additionally, Wyoming voted in 2010 to require full disclosure of fluids used in natural gas exploration through fracking. The proposed forms of disclosure in Michigan have not been elucidated yet, but public disclosure of information should be required in order to further engage its citizens and increase transparency in the fracking process.

While the efforts to guarantee responsible fracking are laudable, it has shifted focus from advancements being made in other forms of energy harvesting. The Michigan Public Service Commission and the Michigan Energy Office have reported that the state should be capable of tripling their renewable energy use by 2035, with utilities required to get 30 percent of energy from renewable resources.

Currently, the state hopes to achieve 10 percent by 2015. Specifically, advancements have been remarkable in wind technology, with the first wind farm — built in Mason County last year — generating 103 megawatts of electricity since opening. More farms are planned for the future, and the state should begin shifting its attention toward alternative energy.

While fracking has made for an excellent short-term investment, the enormous developments in renewable energy technologies signal that alternative energy is a more sustainable investment for Michigan.

ALEXIS NOWICKI | VIEWPOINT

Those who stay will be blinded Sometimes I make the mistake of telling someone I meet here that I’m not that into sports. I know I’m entitled to my own interests and opinions, but there’s an unspoken rule about being a University student that says you have to either care a lot about football, or pretend you care a lot about football. While I may not understand the rules or exactly what’s happening at a given athletic event, there is one thing I’ll admit to appreciating: the school spirit. Undoubtedly, that’s one of the most obvious perks of going to school here; the students love their school, and they show it.

In perfect harmony with the students, the Athletic Department spews school spirit in the form of weekly pre-game e-mails, social networking and now, a monstrous digital billboard, complete with sound capabilities, that was constructed over the past summer. Conveying promotional messages for the Michigan Athletic Department, this sign, situated between the Big House and the Crisler Center, had to be huge to match up with the massive size of our football stadium. And, according to Athletic Director Dave Brandon, the sign “won’t annoy anybody” because it “happens to be right across the street from a golf course”.

There are just a few problems with this — the first being a factor of safety. The big, bright nature of the digital billboard provides a substantial distraction to drivers. This was predicted by Ann Arbor City Council members leading up to its construction, and has been proven true in the opinions of residents.

Further, the city council amended the outdoor advertising ordinance to prohibit the conversion of standing traditional billboards into digital ones. While the University of Michigan doesn’t have to obey these ordinances and is free to build all the huge electronic disturbances it wants, the ordinance shouldn’t have been disrespected in this way. A number of residents have reported it as blight on the city — a misrepresentation of what Ann Arbor

is about.

At some universities, the school and its closest neighboring city work as separate entities and are barely associated with one another.

The appeal of attending the University of Michigan is that the school is so intertwined with the city of Ann Arbor. For this very reason, Michigan should be collaborating with the city, not against it. Ann Arbor is what gives the University so much of its beauty and ambiance, and the University shouldn’t take actions to endanger this relationship.

Members of the city council plan on bringing forward this issue at a Nov. 7 meeting.

While they’d prefer that the billboard be removed completely from its East Stadium Drive location, council members are willing to compromise. They understand that the Athletic Department wants to advertise during games with this sign, and would agree to it only being active during game day. However, if safety is in fact their biggest concern, the amount of traffic on game day actually makes that the worst time for the sign to be functioning.

Finally, if the University is trying to go green, the last thing they need is a giant digital advertisement consuming massive amounts of energy every day. Recent studies have led scientists to predict that the replacement of traditional billboards with electronic ones will completely negate the recent efforts of electric companies to reduce energy demand during peak times. The University of Michigan should act as a leader in lowering energy consumption — which can certainly happen in unison with our position as a leader in school spirit.

If not for the environment, or for the safety of drivers, the University should consider removal of the digital billboard at least in respect of the city of Ann Arbor and the opinions of its citizens.

Alexis Nowicki is an LSA freshman.

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ince hydraulic fracturing — a complex procedure to extract natural gas from underground shale — began in Michigan about 50 years ago, approximately 12,000 wells have been fractured in the state. Given the significant environmental health concerns, and unanswered questions associated with the process, often called fracking, and because the Great Lakes contain about 21 percent of the world’s fresh water resources, several campaigns in recent months have demanded a ban on fracking in the state. Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality released a proposal Oct. 22 for updated fracking regulations for greater transparency. This added oversight is a firm step toward holding companies more accountable for their actions and potential damage. However, the DEQ should not lose focus on finding alternative energy sources as these regulations go into effect next year.

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Addicted to being busy

he other day I watched Wes Anderson’s “The Darjeeling Limited” for the third time. The film follows three semi-estranged brothers, Francis, Jack and ZOE Peter Whitman, STAHL who embark on a spiritual journey through India. Owen Wilson’s Francis assumes a paternal role as he plans a journey of self-discovery for his brothers and himself. Each day, Francis has his assistant deliver a laminated schedule to their private train compartment; he hopes that by having his brothers say “yes to everything,” they will become brothers like they “used to be.”

Watching Francis’ obsessive attention to detail, I laughed. Anderson is known to be a control freak, and I understood his mocking as selfsatire.

Though a tightly designed and controlled movie, an open and relaxed narrative unfolds — that is, until the camera captures Francis struggling to destroy one of his precious laminated itineraries. Centered in the frame, Francis attempts to tear the document with his fingers, and when that fails, he resorts to using his teeth. At this moment, I realized that Francis and I are frighteningly similar.

Over the course of my college career, I’ve spent endless hours obsessively crafting schedules:

allotting time to eat my bowl of Cheerios, respond to e-mails and even when to write my schedule. No part of my day would go unplanned or unscheduled.

The only thing that got me to slow down was food poisoning from fried chicken. Or to be more specific, I devoured a large Styrofoam box’s worth of fried chicken, coleslaw, French fries and collard greens in a moving car and proceeded to throw up for the next two days. For the two weeks following the incident, I didn’t run from meeting to class to meeting and then back again. Instead, I watched movies in bed, let myself sleep in for the first time since school started and went for walks. For the first time in my life, I was proudly and comfortably channeling Dude of “The Big Lebowski.” And in that time, I began to understand what the writer Tim Kreider has said about the ubiquitous state of constant busyness: “Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.”

Being busy had become not only a way to define my self-worth, but also an excuse to avoid thinking. I did not have to think long-term or confront the fact that I am scared — and, yes, also excited — for life after

college. I could avoid thinking about the other, bigger questions too.

Being busy becomes more than just filler: The chance for spontaneity gets lost along the way, too. You can’t decide to see a 4 p.m. showing of “In a World” at the Michigan Theater, or grab a last-minute train into Detroit to get BBQ at Slows. And, even more, when caught in the busy trap, we forget the importance of being idle.

In 2006, the accounting firm Ernst & Young conducted an internal study of its employees. The firm found that “each additional 10 hours of vacation employees took, their year-end performance ratings from supervisors (on a scale of one to five) improved by 8 percent.”

Though seemingly counterintuitive, the study reveals the importance of rest and renewal in improving one’s productivity and job performance.

This study isn’t merely scientific justification for laziness. My own two-week stint served as a needed reminder that life is sometimes better when we slow down and take each moment as it comes.

And though I know I won’t kick the scheduling habit any time soon, this time around I’ll be sure start to schedule in a few blanks.

Life is better when we slow down and take each moment as it comes.

— Zoe Stahl can be reached at zoestahl@umich.edu.

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ARIEL KAPLOWITZ | VIEWPOINT

To the man who tried to intrude

To the man in the pink bathrobe who tried to get into my house Saturday night: You probably don’t remember any of this, so let me remind you.

You were in my neighborhood around 1:15 a.m. There were a few parties down the street, but you were walking on a dark, poorly lit road. My roommate was biking home from work when you saw her.

Her bike lock wasn’t working, and as she was struggling with the combination, you approached her. She hurried toward our door. You followed her into our building’s hallway. She could hear your footsteps behind her. She started running.

She made it to our door before you did, slamming and locking it in your face. You pounded on the door. You waited. Inside the apartment, my friends and I, all women, held our breath. After a few minutes, we could hear you turn and go through the unlocked door of our female neighbor’s apartment. We didn’t know what to do. No one had our neighbor’s number, and we were terrified to open our door, in case you would come in. Although there were four of us, and you were alone, we were afraid of you.

After a minute passed, you left our neighbor’s apartment. She was OK, and we were OK. You were probably just another drunk guy

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who had gotten separated from his friends and was lost. You probably meant no harm. But, despite your intentions, you terrified me.

As a feminist, I’m struggling with how to process these feelings. I want to be able to say that I wasn’t afraid of you, that I stood up to you and told you to go away.

I want to say that I never hesitated, that I shrugged my shoulders and said, “Poor dude, he must have been wasted,” like my male friends did when I told them. I hate that I felt so afraid of you — and so vulnerable. I especially hate that the first thing I did was text my boyfriend in case I felt like he needed to come over. It was scary to have a stranger trying to get into my house, but the scariest part of it was that you made me feel instantly helpless, needing a man’s protection. Long after you left, I couldn’t stop thinking about how small you made me feel.

The fact of the matter is that I have every right to be afraid. One in five women in the United States report being sexually assaulted, and around one in four women on college campuses have experienced rape or sexual assault. I am wary of strange men because if I weren’t, I might be putting myself at risk. I seek a man’s protection because I know that I am truly safest when strange men see me as “claimed,”

as someone else’s “property” — it makes me sick to write this. I have been socialized to be afraid for my own self-protection. I know too many women who have experienced sexual assault; I myself have experienced sexual harassment far too often.

I could go on about rape culture, problematic language and gender oppression. I could go on about how sexism is hurtful to men, too.

I could write about how all day I’ve been wanting to take a self-defense class, buy myself some pepper spray and keep the door locked, even when I’m home. There’s so much more to say.

But this is what needs to be said: The man in the pink bathrobe frightened me last night, and my feelings of fear are justified.

Women are not safe on this campus. But the solution should not be that we must turn to men to “protect us.” The solution should not be for women to lock our doors and learn karate. What we need is an open, honest dialogue about gender relations on campus. What we need is for men to be taught not to rape, not to sexually assault and not to see women as property.

What we need is a change in the oppressive system.

Ariel Kaplowitz is an LSA junior.

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FILM COLUMN

WELLES ON WELLS

A treatise to the macabre PBS to examine I ‘Worlds’ broadcast ‘U’ alum discusses involvement in new documentary

By NATALIE GADBOIS Daily Arts Writer

According to Twitter, the world ended 10 months ago, there is a 60-foot prehistoric shark roaming the Pacific Ocean and human traffickers have taken over a grocery store in Grand Rapids, Mich. We have a history of buying into these sort of “panic stories,” which are only exacerbated by the Internet’s facilitation of instantaneous communication (and miscommunication). This phenomenon is not new, not another black mark specific to the ledger of our generation’s faults. This culture of panic was present on Oct. 30, 1938, when Orson Welles performed his notorious “The War of the Worlds” broadcast, which convinced nearly one million people in the United States that Martians were taking over the Earth.

On Oct. 29, PBS’s “American Experience” is releasing a documentary about the event and, because of his extensive research into the aftermath of the event, University alum A. Brad Schwartz contributed as a screenwriter for the film.

Schwartz sat down with the Daily to discuss his involvement in the project and his roots at the University.

In part because of his childhood insomnia, Schwartz grew up listening to old-time radio including Orson Welles’s famous shows, so he has been familiar with the broadcast for a long time.

“It wasn’t something I was particularly interested in until

I came to the University,” he said, “And a librarian from the (Screen Arts and Culture) department, Phil Hallman, came in and gave a presentation about all the library resources available to students. He had recently in the past few years gotten two big collections of Orson Welles’s personal papers.”

Many people are unaware of the vast amount of Welles material the University currently holds, including letters sent to Welles in the aftermath of the event, which Schwartz discovered while searching for a thesis topic.

Schwartz recognizes both the Screen Arts and Culture department and the History department for giving him the tools to tackle this exhaustive project.

“The two majors — history and SAC — it’s not a combination many people consider, but the two feed into each other really well.

My thesis got me the interest of PBS, and then the screenwriting got me contacts in L.A., connected me with a book agent to write my book. They are two fantastic departments that provided me with opportunities I really couldn’t have had otherwise.”

Schwartz, who graduated in December 2012, was contacted

by PBS while still a student, as he was the only person to have catalogued the more than 1,400 letters sent to Welles. These letters demonstrate the anger felt by those who really believed that their lives were at stake during the “alien invasion,” and demonstrate the pervasive presence of radio during this time. More than just a tale of the gullibility of humans, “The War of the Worlds” illustrates the power of the media, even 75 years ago, in swaying the outcome of a story.

“I think it’s become this archetypal — almost mythological — story about the power of media,”

Schwartz said. “Any time something happens in the news when a Tweet or something has a particularly profound affect on people, people say it’s another ‘War of the Worlds.’ ” The way we communicate has evolved so drastically since 1938 that it seems impossible that a radio broadcast could be absorbed with either such fear or, as print journalists responded, with such vindictive derision.

“The development of the radio and the birth of broadcast radio was so very similar to how the Internet is taking over the news business today,” Schwartz said.

Radio was the newest technology, able to emotionally connect with millions in a way single newspapers couldn’t — an issue Schwartz found as a recurring element in the letters.

“The press would try to ignore radio, attack radio.

That’s a lot of what ‘The War of the Worlds’ fear was about — newspapers attacking the radio.”

How often do we hear the lamentation of the loss of books, the complaints of older generations over the newfangled technology to which our generation seems so attached?

“Even back then, they were saying that newspapers were dying, that print media was dying,” Schwartz said. “People were going to listen to the radio and weren’t going to read books or newspapers anymore.”

While the social landscape has changed rapidly over the past few years, “The War of the Worlds” is a prescient reminder that these concerns aren’t necessarily new. Progress may not mean the death of one outlet, just the inauguration of another.

MUSIC NOTEBOOK

Driving to the spirit and soul of the legendary Lou Reed

By KENDALL RUSS

f life had a Ctrl+F function to determine how many times people have said the same thing to me in the past few days, my first search (after “Ryan Gosling is standing five inches behind you.”) would be “Yo, Akshay! Isn’t it insane how it’s already Halloween?!

AKSHAY What the SETH jack-o-lanterns should I be watching?” A text bubble reading “Too many fucking times, man” would spontaneously pop up in front of my eyes, and for the bajillionth time, I’d consider making this column an extended catalog of films that have made me curl up into a ball, yelping like Jamie Lee Curtis in that one John Carpenter movie.

But the Daily is better than that, dammit, and a column is meant to be a discussion, not an IMDB user Top-20 list. So, in the following paragraphs, I will try my best to pick through the absurd number of horror movies I’ve seen in my quest to achieve cinematic enlightenment, and hash out the common threads that make them click.

For the faint of heart: The techniques I describe are in large part applicable to films actually meant to leave their intended audience disturbed, so if you’re here for “E.T.” or “Casper,” it’s probably a good time to get mom and dad to take you out for some trick-ortreating (ZINGER!).

These films will horrify your Halloween experience.

For the impatient: The names of the two films I personally find most unsettling are written in boldface toward the end of the article. Look down, and have your life changed forever.

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When I heard that Lou Reed died, I thought back to an evening in March. I was with three friends in Naguabo, Puerto Rico, speeding down a narrow road in search of a restaurant we never found.

The sun descended behind the mountains to our west while the cows to our east looked on. We lowered the windows and didn’t say much. We were listening to The Velvet Underground & Nico and “Heroin” had just come on, so we turned that up instead. “I don’t know just where I’m going / But I’m gonna try for the kingdom if I can.” We were lost, but we didn’t care.

We had Lou Reed.

We drove through mountains and old wards, exploring the island’s natural riches and pockets of poverty. As night overtook the town, we made our way by the coast. The ocean shimmered with moonlight, the silver ripples reflecting the brilliant nocturne expanse above. As if on cue, “I’ll Be Your Mirror” played at an inappropriately loud volume. Driving aimlessly through a beautiful, foreign town with three friends was enough to make the moment memorable; driving with The Velvet Underground as our soundtrack made it nothing short of perfect.

What’s your Lou moment?

Lou Reed’s poetry tends to create a lot of moments like that. His lyrics dare you to con-

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Linger on.

front the uncomforting reality of emotional and physical struggle. He claimed to write music in pursuit of beauty, not to challenge us. And yet, it is impossible to say that Reed didn’t challenge us. He challenged us to feel. He harnessed feelings of love and (sometimes) self-loathing, oppression and hypocrisy, and the eternal.

His genius lies in his ability to navigate these universal concerns with unimpeded realism and grace. Finding the beauty in Reed’s art is not the challenge — the challenge rests on our capacity to view our world with similar perspicuity.

Everyone will remember his talent and influence. Everyone will remember his candor and occasional arrogance. They will remember “Perfect Day” and “Pale Blue Eyes” and Berlin and Transformer. Perhaps

one day they will remember Machine Metal Music — as Reed himself did — as Yeezus’s punk ancestor. And, I suspect, everyone will remember his or her personal connection to Reed’s music — everyone will have his or her very own “Lou Reed Moment.”

Mine was that drive. Whenever I hear Lou Reed, I’m nestled in the back seat, staring out at land and sea with three of my closest friends, each of us trying to postpone reality for just another second longer.

Looking back, I realize that Lou Reed tells us something different. We weren’t evading reality — we were enjoying it. Beneath the radiant Puerto Rican sunset, we were young and content.

We were trying for the kingdom. There could be no better voice to guide us there than Lou Reed’s.

Perhaps the most obvious, yet also the most overlooked, method employed in effective entries into the horror genre is the filmmakers’ ability to challenge social norms. I’m not talking about large, hairy monsters that look nothing like human beings and derive pleasure from mutilating helpless passersby, though at a basic level, even such visibly twisted personalities creep us out specifically because they’re so “out there.” The gory spouts of violence they spray upon the world can be fun for a while, but at its core, it’s lazy storytelling that feels tired after every re-entry.

For reference, see the countless unnecessary sequels to “A Nightmare on Elm Street” or “Friday the 13th.” Both franchises feature excellent originals, but they’re one-time deals. By offering pointless exposition and relying on the physical deformities of their antagonists to create conf lict, the sequels go against one of the most basic rules of horror: We’re afraid of what we can’t see.

The real fun comes from watching people who are perfectly fine to look at, yet only so to hide crippling mental and emotional deformities beneath the surface. These antagonists challenge norms at a much deeper and more poignant level, as they don’t have the luxury of having knives protrude from their fingers — they need to go deeper in order to keep us interested.

In “Psycho,” Norman Bates scares the shit out

of most audience members because, yes, he stabs people while they’re naked, but he’s driven to do so because of the stressed (understatement of the century?) relationship he shares with his mother. By playing on this notion of motherhood, director Alfred Hitchcock takes something as basic as a classic family dynamic and twists it beyond recognition, exaggerating to a point where we begin to question the validity of our own relationships. That uncertainty is what good horror is all about.

It’s not the only reason the film works, but it’s a unifying recurrence that lets the plot stand.

“This thing bled acid. Who knows what it’s gonna do when it’s dead?” — “Alien,” 1979 A lot of directors working today attribute the death of the “classically creepy movie” to studios looking for cheaper, reliable scares that occur more regularly in the pictures’ already skimpy runtimes. Two or three decades ago, filmmakers had no problem investing as much as an hour setting up a gag. And when that blessed climax finally materialized, the payoff would be more than enough to keep asses glued on the edges of seats until the credits rolled.

Take, for example, “Alien,” in which director Ridley Scott doesn’t give us a single instance of violence until more than 50 minutes into the film.

Weirder still? After that chestburstingly demented scene, there is never another minute quite as bloody throughout the movie. But it didn’t matter.

Scott has us the moment he yanked us out of complacency.

For the rest of the film, we were waiting, hands shaking, for the next alien baby to claw its way out of someone’s chest, and even if it never happened, the anticipation was already there.

This slow build-up, framed by an almost irregular attention to the mundane — shots of the crew doing maintenance drills, eating dinner — is a key to creating tension and adding impact to the “gotcha” moments sprinkled through the film.

Think about it in terms of the “Jaws” theme: The crescendoing beat in the last 10 or 15 seconds of the track registers in our head only because of the two minutes of repetitive buildup we have to sit through beforehand; it’s an eerily simple methodology, harkening back to that unwritten rule about the power of the unexpected.

“A murderer would never parade his crime in front of an open window.” — “Rear Window,” 1954

Surprisingly, unexpectedness isn’t the defining factor for the last technique I’m going to examine, one I’ve seen pulled off effectively in a single film, Hitchcock’s masterpiece, “Rear Window.” The movie is about a wheelchairbound photographer who begins to suspect that the man living across the street has killed his wife (No, this is not the one with Shia Labeouf ).

Nearly every minute is presented to us from behind a window, creating the detachment through which Hitchcock crafts a false feeling of safety.

By putting distance between his protagonist and the source of the conflict, the master director forces us onto the same page. After all, aren’t all trips to the movie theater, in some form, just another way of looking through a rear window? Throughout the course of the film, nothing unexpected ever really happens. It’s two hours of tedium, interjected at choice moments by plot developments we saw coming from a mile away.

The entire time, we know the photographer’s world and that of the supposed murderer are going to intersect. The actual deconstruction of that detachment is where Hitchcock excels, and where he leaves us questioning, even if it’s only for a moment, our own safety inside the cinema hall.

The idea of closing distance is simple, but as I’ve said in one of my previous columns, the simplest mechanisms can yield the simplest solutions (in this case, the most effective scares).

Unfortunately, it requires tense, slow setup — something most studios today aren’t willing to invest in.

Tense, slow setup (over 1,000 words worth) is something Akshay Seth isn’t afraid of. So now that you’ve had a chance to get an idea of what to look for in the films you watch this Halloween night, I’ll clue you in on two underrated horror movies that always bring out the Jamie Lee Curtis in yours truly: “Funny Games” “Jacob’s Ladder” For the people who actually read all the way through, make sure to check out the rest of the films I namedropped in what I am now calling my treatise to the macabre.

Seth is screaming like Jamie Lee Curtis. To shut him up, e-mail akse@umich.edu.

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How three Wolverines helped a hero

By EVERETT COOK Daily Sports Editor

Russell Bellomy thought a semi had just driven by his house.

That’s how loud the collision was.

Fifth-year senior offensive tackles Taylor Lewan and Michael Schofield heard the bang, too.

Upstairs, redshirt sophomore linemen Jack Miller and Graham Glasgow were sleeping, and so were some teammates a few houses down, including redshirt junior linebacker Jake Ryan.

Schofield had just badly beaten Bellomy, a redshirt sophomore quarterback, in a game of NFL Blitz on the house’s Nintendo 64.

Lewan and Schofield remember it as Super Smash Bros., but Bellomy is positive it was NFL Blitz.

Outside, last Wednesday, it looked like the beginnings of a tornado, when the sky turns green and the wind begins to whip and there’s a hint of impending fury.

There was smoke bellowing out from somewhere down the street, so Lewan and Schofield sprinted over.

Bellomy is out for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament. He didn’t sprint to the crash.

The three Wolverines stopped when they found the source of the smoke: a car that plowed into the porch of a house in between theirs and Ryan’s.

The car, going southbound on South State Street, had hit a fire hydrant next to Al Glick Field House — where the football team practices — before careening across two lanes of traffic and hitting a guard wire, the kind that stabilizes power lines. The porch finally stopped the uncontrolled vehicle, and that’s where Lewan, Schofield and Bellomy stepped in.

Lewan and Schofield remember pulling the driver out of the car and putting him on the ground, where he regained consciousness.

The group later found out that that the driver — whose name isn’t available due to privacy laws — is diabetic. He was low on blood sugar and had an uncontrollable coughing attack, which led to a rising heart rate, which led to a blackout and complete loss of con-

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The car which crashed into a porch on South State Street on Oct. 25. Three Michigan football players pulled the driver from the car and to safety.

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Fifth-year senior tackle Taylor Lewan helped un-jam a key stuck in the inginition.

Redshirt sophomore quarterback Russell Bellomy doesn’t want any credit.

trol of the car.

The driver, though, remembers coughing, and then waking up on the lawn, according to Bellomy.

Nothing in between.

“I really don’t know how the driver managed to miss all those trees, or the house next door full of our teammates or someone walking down the side of the street,” Bellomy said in a phone interview with the Daily on Monday. “He hit a transformer on the power pole that was right on the corner of State and Granger, the transformer blew on that. That pole could have fallen down … I don’t know. I don’t want to say it

name. No one did. Everything was moving too quickly. It was the last thing they were all thinking about.

So next to Lewan and Schofield and Bellomy was this unnamed Red Sox fan, who said he spent more than 15 years in the military, forming a circle of help. When the driver regained consciousness, he told the group that he always keeps a chocolate bar in his trunk, which the military veteran then retrieved.

“He took over and knew exactly what to do,” Schofield said. “We were just there for assistance, I guess. It was pretty nuts though.”

was fortunate how it worked out, but it could have been a lot worse.”

In the background, the first man on the scene was instructing the burly offensive lineman. He’s a military veteran with more than 15 years in the service and is now an athletic trainer.

Bellomy can remember the face of the man instructing them vividly, and that he was wearing a Boston Red Sox jersey and hat. This was on the same day as Game 1 of the World Series. The man was on his way to see a friend and probably watch the game, driving the opposite way of the crash victim.

But Bellomy never got his

After getting him to eat the chocolate, Bellomy smelled gas.

The car was still on, and the key was jammed in the ignition before Lewan pried it out. Still, Bellomy smelled gas.

His thoughts jumped to movies. Gas means explosions. So, he put his arm under the armpit of the driver, and the Red Sox fan went under the other. They moved around the corner to where Ryan and several other Wolverines live, and again placed him on the ground.

Soon after, the wires from the electrical pole went haywire when the transformer box blew

up. The lawn lit on fire, as did the sidewalk. Not a huge, raging fire, but a fire nonetheless. The burn scars are still there, on the same sidewalk the Michigan players use to walk to practice every day.

It was Lewan, the tattooed, 6-foot-8, 315-pound All-American tackle, who helped to calm the driver down until the ambulance arrived about 10 minutes after the players reached the scene.

“You know how Taylor is,” Bellomy said. “He can talk to anyone.”

In a Daily article last week, DTE Energy spokeswoman Randi Berris said that the crew checked the broken gas meter, but that the gas line in the house wasn’t activated.

If it was, there could have been an explosion. Big enough to hit other houses, or bystanders or even Bellomy, Lewan and Schofield? Who knows.

Power went out for more than 400 people, but the effects were pretty localized.

The field hockey team was in a meeting when the power went out, so they went on a run and saw the crash. Further down State Street at Yost Ice Arena, the power stayed on for the hockey team’s practice.

“I was talking with my family and girlfriend about it,” Bellomy said. “Every three seconds, they think of a new situation where things could have gone worse.”

The football players will get the headlines, even though Bellomy said multiple times that he doesn’t want credit for this. The unnamed man in red is who we should be thanking, he says.

When it all boils down, there are two circles of people in this situation — those who help, and those who don’t. The anonymous man in the Red Sox jersey was in the first group, but any other random person walking down the street that day could have been in the second.

The circle of those who don’t help dwindles, though, with the involvement of three Michigan football players that dropped everything, even their Nintendo controllers, to help someone they had never met.

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The 2014 Michigan football recruiting class is ranked sixth in the nation by ESPN. This is the first installment of the Recruiting Rundown where the Daily looks at the weekly performances of the 2014 recruits. Here’s a look at how some of these future Wolverines fared this past weekend in their high-school games: Jabrill Peppers, defensive back: Paramus Catholic (N.J.) at Saint Joseph Regional (N.J.) Ranking: ESPN (2) Scout (4) Peppers recorded eight tackles in his school’s second straight loss.

Drake Harris, running back: Grand Rapids Christian (Mich.) at Caledonia (Mich.) Ranking: ESPN (72) Scout (32) Harris continues to sit out with a hamstring injury.

Bryan Mone, defensive tackle: Highland (Utah) at Bountiful (Utah) Ranking: ESPN (76) Scout (90) Mone finished the regular season Friday with 41 tackles and 1.5 sacks.

Lawrence Marshall, defensive end: Southfield (Mich.) at Clarkston (Mich.) Ranking: ESPN (112) Scout (106) Marshall and Southfield head into the playoffs fielding arguably the state’s best defensive front four.

Ian Bunting, tight end: Hinsdale Central (Ill.) vs. Downers Grove North (Ill.) Rankings: ESPN (118) Scout (268) Bunting has been nursing a shoulder injury the past few weeks, but his team became playoff eligible after Friday’s 20-14 win.

Michael Ferns, linebacker/running back: St. Clairsville (Ohio) at Buckeye Local (Ohio) Ranking: ESPN (123) Scout (175) Clairsville dominiated Buckeye Local, 53-3, and Ferns finished with four rushes for 22 yards and one touchdown.

Wilton Speight, quarterback: Collegiate School (Va.) vs. Norfolk Academy (Va.) Ranking: ESPN (128) Scout (NR) Speight threw for 348 yards and three touchdowns while also rushing for another one to lead his team to a 28-6 win.

Chase Winovich, linebacker/ running back: Thomas Jefferson (Pa.) at West Mifflin (Pa.) Ranking: (NR) Winovich rushed for 246 yards and four touchdowns in a 35-0 dismantling of previously undefeated West Mifflin.

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Maurice Ways, wide receiver: Country Day (Mich.) vs. Brighton (Mich.) Ranking: (NR) Ways had five receptions for 179 yards — 35.8 yards per catch — and two touchdowns.

Noah Furbush, linebacker: Kenton (Ohio) at Celina (Ohio) Ranking: (NR) Furbush leads Kenton in sacks, and his team has yet to drop a game this season.

Brady Pallante, defensive tackle: Barron Collier (Fla.) at Gulf Coast (Fla.) Ranking: (NR) Pallante helped his defense hold Gulf Coast to three points on the night.

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For Wolverines, Nieves’s feet not translating to goals

By ERIN LENNON Daily Sports Writer

If life is a highway, hockey is the German autobahn with a few daunting roadblocks along the way — the defensemen.

And come game time, sophomore forward Boo Nieves is the McLaren F1, stuck in first gear.

Early in the second period Friday against Boston University, Nieves turned a one-on-one breakaway into a solo look at the Terriers’s net, faking right and then blowing past a defenseman with that familiar ease. Nieves came equally close to scoring later in the period during No. 4 Michigan’s second power play, but fell into the net without the puck.

“I liked his energy on Friday and the speed when he cut around the defensemen twice and went to the net,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “I thought his puck touches, defensive awareness, and his intensity and faceoffs were right on. And on Saturday, he never got that back.”

At full speed, Nieves wove easily through traffic. But that’s about the only time he’s given the crowd something to marvel at this season. Before the season, Berenson singled Nieves out as one of several players in need of a breakout year for the Wolverines.

Through six games this season, Nieves has only one goal and one assist. Without utilizing much of his signature speed, he has been a non-factor in each of the Wolverines’ four victories. He is on pace for a repeat season — Nieves tallied 29 points, including eight goals and 21 assists in 41 appearances as a freshman. But as one of the Wolverines’ key offensive weapons — especially on a line with junior forwards Alex Guptill and Zach Hyman — cruising just won’t cut it.

The talent is there — we saw a glimpse of that on Friday night.

Following the departure of five Wolverines, Michigan’s biggest question mark heading into the season was the special teams. Last season, power-play production fell largely on the shoulder of firstyear Winnipeg Jets defenseman Jacob Trouba, while penalty killing was the job of former Wolverines A.J. Treais, Lee Moffie, Kevin Lynch and Jon Merrill.

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Sophomore tight end A.J. Williams has been suspended for the MSU game.

Tight end Williams suspended by Hoke

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Sophomore forward Andrew Copp has the strength to counter the team-best speed of sophomore forward Boo Nieves.

Thus far, the penalty kill has been as close to perfect as can be expected of a roster that includes 10 freshmen — not to mention a backup freshman in net. But as predicted, the power play has taken longer to develop. And Michigan’s power play is just 7-for-23 this season. But the Wolverines’ first loss of the season on Saturday featured one goal from the home team — something the penalty kill won’t be able to control.

Nieves has since moved into the center position after spending his freshman year at left wing. In his new role, Nieves represents the speed, while sophomore forward Andrew Copp represents the strength. At center, Nieves is given more room to skate and a better view of the defense he need to weave around. And on a line with Guptill — who has tallied two goals and two assists in five games — Nieves has the potential to set the tempo for a highly touted

offense.

He has the ability to create offense simply by being fast on his feet, said senior defenseman Mac Bennett.

Bennett refers to Nieves’s lack of production as little more than a sophomore slump.

“You go from not playing at all over the summer to coming back, and all of a sudden it’s tough to be consistent,” he said. “It’s an issue I’ve been dealing with myself. But as we play more and more, you’ll see his stock rise.”

Added Guptill on Friday: “He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best players in college hockey right now.”

Though Nieves might not statistically be among the top-10 centers in college hockey, he can certainly skate circles around nearly every member of the fourth-ranked team in the nation.

It would be misguided to assume that Michigan lives and dies with

“Do you want to go or is it safer to stay here?”

Nieves. But Michigan (4-1-1 overall) cannot afford for Nieves to not produce in these games. And for Nieves, it’s a matter of simply skating at top-speed in practice as often as when the stands are filled.

“If you drive around in your car on low gear all the time, you get used to it,” Berenson said. “Until someone shows you you’ve got high gear.”

It’s also a matter of knowing when to change gears. Once Nieves finds the confidence to press the pedal, the challenge will be to know when to press the pedal and when to lay off.

“You also can’t drive your car 100 miles an hour when you’re 50 feet from a stop sign,” Berenson said. “When you’re on the highway, though, that’s your opportunity. Hockey is a game of intensity, but it’s a game of short sprints and then every so often you get a chance, and that’s when Boo needs to know he has that extra gear.

“With cement trucks out there, you have to decide how fast you’re willing to go. There’s a risk involved in using that speed. Do you want to go or is it safer to stay here?”

‘M’ shows vast improvements

By JASON RUBINSTEIN Daily Sports Writer

Two weekends ago at the ITA/ USTA Regional Tournament, the Michigan men’s tennis team struggled to find its bearings, not advancing anyone past the second round. This past weekend, though, at the Big Ten Individuals in West Lafayette, there seemed to be a marked difference.

Seniors Shaun Bernstein and Alex Buzzi each made it to the singles quarterfinals, while freshman Kevin Wong made it to the singles consolation semifinals after suffering a 6-1, 6-1 loss to Jonas Dierckx of Iowa in the first round. In the doubles bracket, Bernstein and Wong — paired together for the first time — advanced to the semifinals before being ousted by Michigan State.

“We got a chance to play more matches and were more sharp mentally on the match court,” said Michigan coach Bruce Berque. “It was an improvement from last week, but we’re still nowhere near where we want to be for the season, but we’re heading in the right direction.”

Perhaps the most important part of the weekend was the strong play of Wong in both singles and doubles. The freshman used his speed to get to the net quickly and extend points. Even so, his tennis IQ was what helped him the most.

“He kept more balls in the court and played higher-percentage tennis,” Berque said. “He was making a lot of sloppy errors in the first week, so we worked him hard on better decision making.”

The singles success didn’t end with Wong as Buzzi used his

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Senior Shaun Bernstein lost in the singles quarterfinals, but thrived in the doubles with a new partner, freshman Kevin Wong.

unique playing style to earn a quarterfinal berth.

Buzzi upset the tournament’s No. 5 seed, Nebraska’s Dusty Boyer, 5-7, 6-1, 6-4, in the second round. Buzzi couldn’t finish the tournament, though, due to a nagging arm injury and retired after losing the first set in his quarterfinal bout. Berque thinks the injury stemmed from a lack of matches and will talk to the medical staff this week for an official diagnosis.

Bernstein, the tournament’s No. 4 seed, lost in the singles quarterfinals after being broken once in each set by Northwestern’s Strong Kirchheimer, but Bernstein thrived in the doubles with his new partner, Wong. Wong and

Bernstein cruised through their first three matches before losing to Michigan State’s Harry Jadun and Gijs Linders, 8-2.

“They both have good doubles skills,” Beruqe said. “They both are comfortable at the net and like to move at the net and cross. Shaun has the experience and understands the intensity required to play doubles at this level, while Kevin is a very natural doubles player.

“They seemed comfortable together and clicked really well for their first time playing together.”

Though juniors Michael Zhu and Alex Petrone are the only pairing Berque has committed to, Wong and Bernstein may be

the second doubles pair that Berque keeps together this season after this weekend’s tournament.

Luckily for the Wolverines, the dual-match season is months away, which will allow the pair to really grow together.

“We’re going to work a lot on playing high-percentage, aggressive tennis,” Berque said. “We will focus on playing points and get these guys to compete on a level that will make them successful.”

As for now, the Wolverines have two weeks before the USTA/ ITA Indoor Championships. Day by day and match by match, this team is piecing itself together and making a statement about its strength.

Michigan sophomore tight end A.J. Williams has been suspended for one game due to a “violation of team rules,” the team announced Monday.

He will serve his suspension Saturday against Michi- NOTEBOOK gan State.

According to a report from Dayton, Ohio’s ABC 22, Williams was arrested early Sunday morning in Oxford, Ohio and charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, a stop sign violation and underage drinking.

Williams, who is the team’s main blocking tight end, is scheduled to appear in court Thursday, according to a report

by The Toledo Blade.

“It’s certainly disappointing when one of your kids makes a very poor decision,” said Michigan coach Brady Hoke in a statement. “A.J. realizes he has let a lot of people down, including himself. As families do, we will help A.J. as he learns a valuable lesson from this.”

Williams’s hometown of Cincinnati is located approximately 40 miles southeast of Oxford, which is home to Miami University.

WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION? BULLYING: In 2011, Michigan traveled to Michigan State, as it will again Saturday, and took a beating.

That fact wasn’t necessarily reflected on the scoreboard — the game was tied at halftime, and the Wolverines eventually fell 28-14 — but rather in the pain pulsating through Michigan’s players bodies afterward.

Hoke said in his Monday press conference that it was a defeat his team needed to feel for a while.

Michigan State accumulated six personal foul penalties during Michigan’s last trip to East

Lansing. One of the six came when then-Spartan defensive end William Gholston punched offensive tackle Taylor Lewan.

Monday, Lewan admitted that a picture of Gholston was set as the background image on his cell phone for an entire year following the game for motivation.

Lewan said the Wolverines were “bullied” in that game and vowed not to let it happen again.

Hoke estimated that 27 players on Michigan’s current roster were on that 2011 trip.

“That’s what they did two years ago. They bullied us,” Lewan said Monday. “That’s tough for me to admit. I don’t like getting bullied.”

Even though Gholston has moved on to the National Football League with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the incident remains fresh in the mind of the fifth-year senior.

“If someone came up to you and hit you right in the face, would you take that personally?” Lewan said. “Yeah, I took it personally.”

Fifth-year senior tackle Michael Schofield remembers Michigan State defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi describing his team’s play as “60 minutes of unnecessary roughness.” He, too, said that it’s now clear the type of physical football Michigan will need to play to win in East Lansing for the first time since 2007.

“It was a battle, a fight,” Schofield said. “We don’t forget it.”

NOTABLE QUOTABLE: Hoke was asked to compare and contrast the Michigan State rivalry and the one with Ohio State. “I think they’re both important,” he said. He also added, “This isn’t an admiration society. It’s a great rivalry with two teams that are 45 miles apart? That might not be enough, but it’s what it is.” … Later, a reporter asked Hoke about the last time he wore green clothing. “That’s a dumb question,” he said.

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