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Fraternity apologizes for racist incident Theta Xi president conciliatory as inquiry continues By PETER SHAHIN and YARDAIN AMRON
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University President Mary Sue Coleman’s husband, Kenneth Coleman, stands next to a portrait of Mary Sue who was unable to greet trick-or-treaters at the President’s House on Thursday evening. Erring from the annual tradition, he served guests candy on her behalf.
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OSU Blood Battle to begin Annual blood drive starts Nov. 4, aims to collect 2,500 pints By CHRISTY SONG Daily Staff Reporter
Looking for another way to beat Ohio State? The 32nd annual Blood Battle
blood drive between the two schools starts Nov. 4 and runs through Nov. 27 leading up to the rivalry football game Nov. 30 at the Big House. Blood Drives United, a student-run volunteer organization, is holding the annual competition and hopes to collect 2,500 pints of blood over the course of the battle. Two to four blood drives will be held every day at different locations during the three-
week period. In order to find out where the locations will be, students are encouraged to look on the Red Cross website and enter the sponsor code “Go Blue.” The drives will be held at North and Central Campus locations including the University Unions, the School of Education, the School of Social Work, Michigan Stadium and a number of residence halls. There are several different aspects about this year’s compe-
tition than previous drives. For instance, this year there will be more of an emphasis placed on drives taking place at student residence halls. BDU is also focusing on involving non-eligible groups, including MSM, men who have sex with men, through sponsor drives and promoting a petition to change the policy. The current policy prohibits any male who has had sexual See BATTLE, Page 3
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On Thursday, LSA senior Eric Quang, president of the University’s chapter of Theta Xi, issued a statement apologizing on behalf of his fraternity for a Facebook party event associated with his chapter entitled, “World Star Hip Hop Presents: Hood Ratchet Thursday,” a name many deemed to be racist and derogatory. Quang wrote that while the event was “created and emblazoned with the name of our fraternity,” it was not “the result of a chapter decision, vote, or endorsement.” Earlier Thursday, The Michigan Daily reported the fraternity was facing scrutiny as many students of color were offended by the Facebook event, which many viewed as degrading toward women and parodying of black culture, referring to “bad bitch-
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Profs: ACA web woes just a minor bump Experts more concerned with lack of education By YARDAIN AMRON Daily Staff Reporter
While national media outlets continue their extensive coverage of Healthcare. gov’s websitewoes, University health and information experts are not channeling their energy into worrying about these issues. They are confident difficulties surrounding the site’s rollout will be resolved in the future and are more concerned with the potential problems
and promises of the Affordable Care Act itself. A month after a botched launch, the website’s problems continue to cause much frustration. More than 20 million Americans have visited the healthcare exchange website, but only about 700,000 have succeeded in completing applications for insurance. Even fewer have actually received coverage. Visitors have complained about long waits, irksome glitches and unhelpful customer service when just trying to gain access and sign up for the site. The blame is widespread. Republicans have blasted the Obama administration
Rx drug abuse rises among teenagers
for negligently launching the site before it was ready, the White House has blamed the private contractors hired to create the site and the contractors have targeted each other. But Public Policy Prof. Helen Levy, who specializes in health policy, sees the blame game as shortsighted. “A few years from now, all this is just going to look like a bump in the road,” Levy said. Levy said the current outcry parallels the delayed and glitch-ridden rollout of the Medicare, Part D website in late 2005. When mainly elderly beneficiaries went to See ACA, Page 3
University studies show potential for chronic abuse By RACHEL PREMACK Daily Staff Reporter
CITY COUNCIL
Ward 2 candidate focuses on student housing woes EMU student hopes to improve neighborhoods By MICHAEL SUGERMAN Daily Staff Reporter
As a mathematics major at Eastern Michigan University, Samuel DeVarti’s candidacy for Ann Arbor’s Second
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Ward city council seat may seem unlikely. In spite of these unconventional credentials, DeVarti accepted enthusiastically when a member of Ann Arbor’s Mixed Use Party approached him and asked him to run. He has previously worked on the city’s Video Privacy Ordinance, attended numerous Human Rights Commission meetings and met with several
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city council members. Candidacy wasn’t far off. “I’ve been living in this city for my whole life, for 23 years. Ultimately, I saw this as an opportunity to really get involved,” DeVarti said. “It’s an opportunity to act as a force for good. And it has been a huge learning experience.” Although this is DeVarti’s first time running in a city See CANDIDATE, Page 3
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es,” repeated use of the word “ratchet,” gang references and a twerking contest. The event was canceled after a meeting between Quang, the coordinator of the Bias Response Team, Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones, members of Greek Life and the Interfraternity Council. Jones, coordinator of the University’s bias response team, lodged a formal complaint against the fraternity after outcry from students. The story has drawn widespread media attention as the University has moved swiftly to investigate and resolve the incident. According to an e-mail obtained by The Michigan Daily, the apology was forwarded by Jones to a University listserv which included the Office of the University President; E. Royster Harper, vice president of the Division of Student Life; LSA senior Tyrell Collier, speaker of the Black Student Union; University spokeswoman Kelly Cunningham; Lester Monts, senior vice provost for academic affairs; and Central Student GovernSee APOLOGY, Page 3
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LSA freshman John Ciaramitaro waited in line at Ragstock to buy two gorilla costumes for his friends on Thursday.
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Nearly two million Americans are addicted to prescription opioids, a family of drugs that includes the commonly prescribed Vicodin and OxyContin. Two recent University studies further demonstrate the prevalence of these painkillers among adolescents and their potential for leading to chronic substance abuse. University of Washington professor Lauren Whiteside — who was the primary researcher in one of the studies during her postdoctoral research fellowship at the University Injury Center — said while adults are more likely to be addicted to prescription opioids, teens were a key group to examine for prevention. “What makes this age group so important is that it’s the highest initiation of nonmedical use of opioids,” Whiteside said. “This age group is important to target for primary prevention before they start nonmedical use.” Whiteside emphasized that teen prescription painkiller misuse is a public health problem. Conducted by a team from the University Medical School and Injury Center, the study led by See TEENS, Page 3
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WHERE: 1000 Block of North Univeristy WHEN: Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. WHAT: A bicyclist was struck by a vehicle and sustained a minor injury but did not need medical attention, University Police reported.
WHEN: Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. WHAT: A vehicle window was broken into while parked in the lot between 7:40 a.m. and 5 p.m., University Police reported. Nothing was taken and there are currently no suspects.
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WHAT: A symposium that allows participants to dicuss the contributions that urban planners of color have made to cities and engage in debates about challenges racial minorities still face. WHO: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture WHEN: Today at 9 a.m. WHERE: Museum of Art
WHERE: 1150 West Medical Center WHEN: Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. WHAT: During a traffic stop, a driver was arrested for driving while his license was suspended, University Police reported. He posted bond for an outstanding warrant and was released.
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WHERE: 1900 Fuller WHEN: Thursday at 2:20 a.m. WHAT: Two subjects attempted to break into a parked vehicle with a crowbar, University Polic reported. When the subjects were approached by witnesses, they fled in an SUV.
WHAT: A symposium on what role islands play politically, culturally, and ecologically. It will discuss the possible future of islands in a world of growing interconnectedness. WHO: International Institute WHEN: Today at 10 a.m. WHERE: School of Social work Building, Room 1636
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Appeals judge blocks ruling on stop-and-frisk Appeals judge removes district judge from case after interviews
out its program of stopping and questioning people. The city appealed her findings and her remedial orders, including a decision to assign a monitor to help the police department change its policy and the training program associated with it. During arguments, lawyers in the case said the police department hasn’t had to do anything except meet with a monitor since the judge’s decision. But the city said police officers are afraid to stop and frisk people now and the number of stop-and-frisks has dropped dramatically. The three-judge appeals panel, which heard arguments on the requested stay on Tuesday, noted that the case might be affected in a major way by next week’s mayoral election. Democratic candidate Bill de Blasio, who’s leading in polls, has sharply criticized and promised to reform the NYPD’s
stop-and-frisk technique, saying it unfairly targets minorities. He said he was “extremely disappointed” in Thursday’s decision. “We have to end the overuse of stop and frisk — and any delay only means a continued NEW YORK (AP) — A fedand unnecessary rift between eral appeals court on Thursour police and the people they day blocked a judge’s ruling protect,” he said in a statement. that found the New York Police The appeals court said the Department’s stop-and-frisk judge needed to be removed policy was discriminatory and because she ran afoul of the took the unusual step of removcode of conduct for U.S. judges ing her from the case, saying in part by compromising the FRANK GUNN/AP interviews she gave during the necessity for a judge to avoid Toronto Mayor Rob Ford walks past Halloween decorations on his way to talk to media at City Hall in Toronto on Thursday. trial called her impartiality into the appearance of partiality. It Ford says he has no reason to step down, even though police seized a video that appears to show him smoking a crack pipe. question. noted she had given a series of The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of media interviews and public Appeals in Manhattan said the statements responding to critirulings by U.S. District Judge cism of the court. In a footnote, Shira A. Scheindlin will be it cited interviews with the New stayed pending the outcome of York Law Journal, The Associan appeal by the city. ated Press and The New Yorker The judge had ruled in magazine. 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She said it was “quite dispolice said Thursday they have Star said they saw the video, but images that are consistent with graceful” if the mayor’s office obtained a video that appears to it has not been released publicly. those previously reported in the was behind the study. show Mayor Rob Ford smoking Ford maintained he does not press.” The 2nd Circuit said the cases a crack pipe — a video that Ford smoke crack and that the video “As a citizen of Toronto I’m challenging stop-and-frisk polihad claimed didn’t exist and has does not exist. disappointed,” Blair said. “This cies will be assigned to a difbeen at the core of a scandal that The scandal has been the fod- is a traumatic issue for citizens ferent judge chosen randomly. has embarrassed and gripped der of jokes on U.S. late night of this city and the reputation of It said the new presiding judge Canada for months. television and has cast Canada’s this city.” shall stay all proceedings pendPolice Chief Bill Blair said largest city and financial capital Blair said the video will come ing further rulings by it. the video, recovered after being in an unflattering light. out when Ford’s associate and After a 10-week civil trial that deleted from a computer hard Ford was elected mayor three occasional driver, Alexander ended in the spring, Scheindlin drive, did not provide grounds years ago on a wave of discontent Lisi, goes to trial on drug chargruled that police officers vioto press charges. 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APOLOGY From Page 1 ment President Michael Proppe — among others. Quang appeared to contradict himself in his apology, claiming multiple “individuals (were) responsible” for the “insensitive, hurtful, and offensive” content, while earlier claiming a single member was responsible for the incident. Also on Thursday, LSA junior Allen Wu, a member of the fraternity, apologized in a viewpoint in the Daily for playing a role in the creation of the event. His apology was in response to a viewpoint by LSA senior Erin Fischer,
BATTLE From Page 1 contact with another male since 1977 from donating. BDU is proposing changing the discriminating question on the health and history questionnaire that donors fill out as a prerequisite to: “Have you had unprotected sexual contact with a new sexual partner in the past 12 weeks?” The sponsor drives invite MSM to still attend and bring a friend who is legally able to donate in
ACA From Page 1 pick up their subsidized prescription drugs, pharmacists reported coverage verification glitches in the national computer system and could not issue any drugs. Since the glitch prevented vulnerable seniors from getting their critical medications, the crisis was much more acute. “Not that the glitches on the current website aren’t a pain, and it’s certainly inconvenient for people and doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence,” Levy said. “But on the other hand, it’s not the same as not being able to get your antipsychotic medication when you need it.” It took about five months to resolve the Medicare website issue in 2006, but today, the initial system hiccups are not well remembered. In her testimony to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services
CANDIDATE From Page 1 election, his family has a history in local politics. His grandfather ran for mayor as a Republican, his father ran for City Council as a Democrat and his uncle ran as a Libertarian for City Council. DeVarti said part of his inspiration stems from a desire for “beating that slew of bad luck” that led to his family members’ defeats. DeVarti also got a taste of the local campaign trail in 2009 when he went door-to-door for incumbent City Council member, and now opponent, Stephen Kunselman. The Mixed Use Party platform centers on rezoning the city into
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which criticized the fraternity and its “incredibly offensive party theme.” In his statement, Quang highlighted the diverse backgrounds of his chapter and apologized to “all of the members of our student body, including those of all ethnicities, and to all women.” He accepted responsibility for the “harmful consequences of our inaction to promptly stifle the event’s communication.” The University’s chapter of Theta Xi is working with the fraternity’s national headquarters and the University’s administration to reeducate chapter members and the student body to prevent similar incidents from occurring. In an e-mail to University stu-
dents Thursday morning, Harper, Blake Jones and Mary Beth Seiler, director of Greek Life, wrote that the party invitation “denigrated all women and African American/black identified people.” Although the e-mail did not identify the fraternity by name, Harper, Jones and Seiler wrote that their behavior will not be tolerated as it contradicts the University’s core values and expectations. The three also wrote that the University is working with the fraternity’s national headquarters, which has put restrictions on the fraternity until it completes a full investigation of the incident. Collier, the speaker of the Black Student Union, said in an interview late Thursday that he was
pleased with the University’s initial response to the incident, but that more action was needed in the future. “I think that it was an appropriate response and it’s a first step,” Collier said. “There needs to be things to follow that. I appreciated it for the fact that it shows campus that they are handling the situation and they’re not (overlooking) it, but it’s a first step and it’s definitely not enough.” Kinesiology senior Michael Freedman, president of the Interfraternity Council, was unavailable for comment late Thursday.
order to visually show how many possible donors are left out due to this policy. LSA senior Kevin Weiss, Blood Battle co-chair, said he hopes that those who do not donate will at least encourage others to share. “We would love for everyone to donate, but if they can’t, they can tell someone to donate; they can get someone to donate,” Weiss said. Other than the push for changed MSM policies, there is a stronger emphasis placed on donations this year because of the Red Cross’s recent shortage
of blood and platelet donations. The organization issued an emergency request in July because it received 50,000 fewer donations than expected. All blood types are currently in need, particularly types O negative, A negative and B negative. One blood donation can save up to three lives. Additionally, having lost to OSU last year, BDU is more determined to win back the title this year. BDU holds a similar competition every winter, historically against either Michigan State or a group of Big Ten schools, called
the Face-Off Blood Challenge. This past January, the University won with 1,011 pints compared to MSU’s 943 pints, making this the fourth win in five years. Although the competition between the University and Ohio State is fun, Weiss said it is good to work toward a common goal with another school. “I may not have the greatest love or I may not feel very positive about OSU, but the fact that there are people there that care about the same thing that I do really speaks to what we’re doing.”
Kathleen Sebelius defended and apologized for the problems with the website rollout. Many conservatives have called for her resignation in the face of the botched launch. Not all professors think the problems represent a temporary blip, though. “I don’t think the magnitude of the problem is being exaggerated,” said Public Health Prof. Charles Friedman. “The website was created, as I understand it, to enable an end-to-end process, and people are having problems completing that end-to-end process.” From 2007 to 2011, Friedman worked at Health and Human Services, which manages the contractors designing the website. He said there is a critical lack of “highly placed, technically sophisticated” government employees working on the project. Such experts are necessary to ask the right questions, write appropriately articulated contracts and guarantee specific services from private contrac-
three segments: heavy industrial zones, a mixed-use downtown area and a restricted mixed-use residential zone. “Mixed-use” development entails the combination of residential and commercial real estate. “We would allow businesses to expand into residential neighborhoods while strengthening the protections on those neighborhoods — odor controls, noise controls and height limits,” DeVarti said. Although the Mixed Use Party is a proponent of increased commercial-residential blending, DeVarti emphasized that this approach is not meant to commercialize neighborhoods, but to inject them with local business that allows them to thrive. “We’re not talking about Wal-
tors. “This is a system problem, not a problem of individual ineptitude,” Friedman said. He added that many critics lack an appreciation for the size and complexity of the project — getting millions of Americans who need coverage to sign up by next year. He said it is crucial to think about systems in a very different way when they reach such a large scale, and it would not work to simply scale up a job to build a bigger back-end system. Julia Milstein, assistant professor at the School of Information and School of Public Health, was less worried. “I’m not that worried about the system because I think it will get figured out, it’s just a matter of time,” she said. “So the issue I’m much more concerned about (is whether) people feel like they have affordable options.” Coverage under healthcare exchange policies does not start until January, and penalties for not having insurance do not begin until March, although there has
Mart, we’re talking about Washtenaw Dairy or Sergeant Pepper’s,” he said. “These are places that make our neighborhoods more walkable. It makes it more appealing to walk to the store to buy some groceries rather than driving all the way out to Meijer – I think our zoning changes are a good way to really take cars off the roads.” DeVarti added that part of his personal platform will be to address student housing in local neighborhoods. He said he hears complaints about student highrises downtown, but is concerned that Ann Arbor policies prevent students from living elsewhere. Additionally, he said, he wants to make sure that housing is more affordable in an increasingly expensive Ann Arbor.
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been discussion as to whether the government will push back those penalties if the faulty website is not running smoothly soon. Future affordable health coverage relies heavily on whether the younger demographic will buy into the system. A large number of young, healthy people signed up will drive insurance prices down by covering the higher costs incurred by a less healthy elderly demographic. Most students will be able to latch onto their parent’s health insurance until they’re 26 years old. Milstein is more concerned about people between the ages of 26 and 35 because they are less easy to educate, compared to students clustered on college campuses. Milstein said despite the current difficulties, proponents of the law should be in for the long haul. “Yes, we should talk about implementation and how to get it right, but let’s not lose sight of the bigger picture here,” Milstein said.
“We’ve spent so much money making the city look beautiful,” he said. “That being said, if we really want to maintain a diverse community, I think we need to redouble our efforts and make a commitment to bringing up the lower segments of our community so they can continue to live here.” DeVarti is confident in both his ideas and his party’s, and he hopes that this confidence — combined with his freshness to the politics scene — may give him an edge. “In one way, yes, I have less experience. I’ve dealt with fewer people. I haven’t dealt with as many issues,” he said. “The fact that I haven’t been around for so long gives me perspective. That’s the flipside to youth and inexperience.”
ICC postpones trial of Kenyan president African Union claims it needs even more time to prepare for case THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court on Thursday postponed the trial of Kenya’s president on crimes against humanity charges until February, but the African Union said that’s not enough time and stepped up pressure for a one-year deferral. The judges made the announcement while an AU ministerial delegation was meeting behind closed doors with members of the U.N. Security Council in New York to press the case for the yearlong deferral of the trials of President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto on the ground that the stability of Kenya is at stake. An AU letter on Oct. 12
requesting a deferral said the delay would give Kenya time to beef up counterterrorism efforts in the country and East Africa. Ethiopia’s foreign minister, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who led the AU delegation, told reporters afterward that African council members would introduce a resolution in the Security Council “very soon” that would authorize a one-year delay. He acknowledged divisions in the council, saying: “There are those who support, those who have some difficulties with it.” But the AU hopes members will recognize the “grave” and “extraordinary situation” in Kenya, which has been the target of terrorists and is involved in Somalia, where al-Qaida-linked terrorist groups are active, he said. Agshin Mehdiyev, Azerbaijan’s U.N. ambassador and the current Security Council president, called the meeting “very
interesting and very useful,” but said there was no outcome yet because it was just an informal discussion. International Criminal Court judges said Kenyatta’s trial, which had been scheduled to start Nov. 12, will now begin Feb. 5. They expressed deep regret at the latest delay in the long-running preparations of the case. Hours earlier, prosecutors said they would not oppose a delay because they needed time to investigate undisclosed issues raised by Kenyatta’s defense attorneys. The ICC charged Kenyatta and Ruto with crimes against humanity, including murder, forcible population transfer and persecution, for their alleged roles in postelection violence that left more than 1,000 people dead in late 2007 and early 2008. Kenyatta also is accused of responsibility for rape and other inhumane acts carried out by a criminal gang known as the
Mungiki, which were allegedly under his control. Kenyatta — who was elected president earlier this year, even though he had been indicted by the ICC — insists he is innocent, as does Ruto, whose trial is already underway. Kenyatta’s lawyers have called for the case against him to be delayed or dropped, saying the evidence is tainted by false testimony from prosecution witnesses. Pressure for a deferral has intensified following last month’s deadly terror attack by militants on a Nairobi mall, which underscored the country’s strategic importance in eastern Africa. Under the Rome statute that created the world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal, the U.N. Security Council can defer a case for a year. It has never used that power. Ethiopia’s Ghebreyesus stressed to reporters that a three-month delay in Kenyatta’s trial “doesn’t help.”
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TEENS From Page 1 Whiteside showed that one in 10 teens in the University of Michigan Hospital’s emergency department had used prescriptions for nonmedical reasons. Prescription painkillers were the focus of the study. Most of the admitted emergency-room patients were seeking help for a sprained ankle, a fever or another routine, nondrug-related ailment. Notably, only 15 percent of the patients misused drugs that a doctor prescribed; Whiteside said this may indicate they used their parents’ or friends’ leftover medications. A negligible amount of teens purchased the pills online. Data on prescription drug abuse is typically gathered in schools, and most often reflects that about eight percent of teens have misused prescription drugs. This recent survey shows a slight increase to 10 percent. A study from the University’s Institute for Social Research demonstrated that prescription drug abuse starting in adolescence can lead to longterm abuse. About a third of the opioid-abusing 18-year-olds studied continued misuse into their early- to mid-20s. Twelve percent of those aged 18 to 24 reported non-medical use of opioids. Both Whiteside and Sean McCabe, a research associate professor in the University’s Substance Abuse Research Center who led the latter study, found that teens mostly used these drugs to experiment or get high. However, young adults who continually use prescription drugs non-medically often engage in other destructive behaviors. Compared to those who never reported nonmedical use of opioids, those surveyed were four times as likely to engage in binge drinking in the two-week period prior to their engagement in the survey and 17 times more likely to report marijuana usage in the year prior to the survey, McCabe wrote in an email. There’s a slightly higher likelihood for those on public assistance to use these drugs non-medically, Whiteside said. Suburban and rural teens are also more likely than inner-city teens to misuse prescription drugs.
The longitudinal study McCabe led included responses over a four-year period from 27,268 young adults from the national Monitoring the Future study, which has been conducted annually by the University since 1975 to survey trends in illicit drug use. It will be published in an upcoming issue of Addiction. More than 475,000 emergency department visits in 2009 concerned misuse of prescription opioids. That’s double the 2004 rates, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The explosion in use — and misuse — of prescription painkillers is often publicized and Whiteside cited a move by the Institute of Health in 2003 as a major contributor to the surge in use. In 2003, the Institute of Health began to emphasize more aggressive treatment of pain. One result of this was leftover medication, which allows, for instance, teens to scavenge through their family medicine cabinets for unused pills. Since 2007, the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics has reported that hydrocodone — more commonly known as Vicodin — is the most-prescribed drug in the United States. Since then, however, Whiteside said both the medical and political communities are regulating prescriptions. Every state now has automated prescribing systems, which ensures that patients receive potentially addicting prescriptions only when needed. Doctors, she added, are becoming increasingly aware of the problem. Whiteside expressed the importance of screening interventions, especially for teenage boys, who are particularly unlikely to get annual check-ups. “I think that primary care is a good place to talk about substance use, but I don’t think that regular primary care alone would solve the problem,” Whiteside said. McCabe added that prescribers play a key role in limiting painkiller abuse. He stressed the need for careful prescription of medication, monitoring of patients’ usage and, when needed, referral for substance-abuse treatment. “Indeed, an evidence-based protocol for assessment and education among prescribers is needed: one aimed at preventing non-medical use, ensuring safe/ secure storage and dictating safe disposal.”
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An unnecessary gamble Detroit is not in the position to take on more debt at this time
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ast week, Detroit City Council rejected a $350-million loan proposed by Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr. If approved by federal Judge Steven Rhodes, who’s overseeing the city’s bankruptcy case, the loan would provide the city with money to pay off debt, invest in the city and fund public services. The council rejected the proposal and won’t put forth an alternative deal. The loan is being floated to help pay off the city’s $18-billion debt. Yet, the current debt owed by Detroit was incurred from previous loans and the subsequent failure to pay them back. Taking on more loans to pay for previous loans is simply continuing a pattern that has gotten Detroit into its current financial situation. Orr put out inquiries for loans to about 50 financial institutions, with four committing loans to the city. To secure these loans, Orr pledged income and casino tax revenue as well as $10 million in proceeds from the sale of city assets. The loan, from the London-based bank Barclays, is broken down into two portions: $230 million going towards the payment of previous loan debt and $120 million going towards the funding of city services and investment in the city. There are many concerns about this loan. It has a floating interest rate, meaning that the rate could potentially rise based on market forces, further deepening the city’s debt. Orr has pledged revenue from the sale of city assets to secure the loan. He has not said, however, what would be sold to acquire the $10 million. The sale of city property — possibly Belle Isle or works of art from the Detroit Institute of Art — is a point of contention for many Detroit residents who are patrons of these establishments. This loan is being secured and promoted during the city’s bankruptcy trial. Orr, who is also a bankruptcy lawyer, is the main force behind the loan and is also the main promoter of the city’s filing for bankruptcy. Orr is promoting both further loans as well as bankruptcy for the city as ways to save money and restructure Detroit’s finances. This appears to be a conflicting attempt to tackle the issue from two different angles: One of the main reasons for the current fiscal crisis is debt from previous loans. In 2005, Detroit took out a $1.44-billion loan — also based on fluctuating interest rates — to finance its two pension funds, which backfired and left the city even more in debt
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and still trying to pay off the pensions to this day. Filing for bankruptcy is a safe route for the city — no more debt can be incurred while the legal system helps the city responsibly liquidate its assets and pay off its debts. The city made the decision to file for bankruptcy, and it should attempt to utilize that route before putting into action other plans for rescuing the city from financial ruin. Although Detroit’s city council rejected the loan, the proposal is now to be decided by Steven Rhodes. The decision is being deferred to the judge because the city council chose not to propose an alternative option. Under the emergency manager law, city councils are only offered 17 days to consider such a proposal by an emergency manager. While Orr’s office had ample time to compile and present the loan from Barclays, the city council is given an extremely short time span to come up with a counterproposal with “the same level of benefit to the city.” This is not nearly enough time to create a counterproposal, especially one to pay off millions of dollars of debt. This loan is a continuation of the actions that got the city of Detroit into the dire fiscal straits in which it currently finds itself. Taking on more loans to pay for previously incurred debt will just continue the downward spiral, one that could potentially put up the prized possessions of Detroit — the DIA, Belle Isle — as collateral. Under the direction of Orr, the city is already attempting to deal with its financial crisis by filing for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. Detroit should continue down that path, and only upon failure should it attempt to find alternative ways of dealing with its debt.
It’s not black and white
he City of Detroit’s 2013 mayoral race could’ve been a slugfest. It could’ve been bloody, bruising and divisive for a city and region too often at odds within and among itself. And yes, I’m talking about more than just the competitiveness of the election, with the most recent poll numbers giving candidate Mike Duggan, former CEO of the Detroit Medical ALEXANDER Center, a commanding 2 to HERMANN 1 lead over Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon. I’m also talking about the explicit racial implications. “The white guy, Mike Duggan,” as one voter in Detroit’s August primary election wrote on his ballot, defied all political and campaign logic by taking a commanding 51 percent of votes in August’s primary election as a write-in candidate after being thrown off the ballot due to complications with his residency. Before then, and even now, pundits, community officials and outside observers insisted that the election be about race, using every opportunity to turn the conversation toward the juxtaposition between Duggan’s whiteness and Napoleon’s continued residency and black legitimacy. Although Duggan was born and raised in Detroit, he lived in suburban Livonia for years before returning to Detroit in 2012, anticipating a potential run for mayor — garnering the “carpetbagger” moniker from those most skeptical. Even Napoleon’s camp has engaged in unflattering political discourse, making frequent allusions to Duggan’s status as an outsider. According to Napoleon campaign spokesman Jamaine Dickens, in a recently published Detroit Free Press article, Duggan “couldn’t find a specific Detroit neighborhood without a navigation system.” In part, these statements comprise accepted campaign practice. Napoleon is saying what
he thinks needs to be said in order to win an election, hoping to ultimately serve the city in the best way possible as its top official in 2014. But, at the same time, these jabs intentionally expose old wounds and a deep-seated racial antagonism that has permeated city-suburban politics for decades. Fortunately for the city, though, Detroit voters aren’t having it. What could’ve been a perfect storm for stirring up municipal and regional animosity regarding race has turned into an election campaign characterized by indifference to racial politics. One poll from September found that race is not a factor for nearly 80 percent of Detroit voters, a city that’s almost 83-percent Black according to 2010 census data. Urban planning Prof. June Manning Thomas, who has written extensively on race and Detroit, said residents desire a candidate who possesses the skills to get the job done and demonstrates competent leadership, regardless of race. Left unexamined are the broader implications for Duggan’s probable election, which would make him the first white mayor of Detroit since Roman Gribbs left office in 1974. Appropriately, the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning is hosting a symposium today titled “Planning in a ‘Post-Racial’ Society (?): New Directions and Challenges” in the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Though many claim that the United States has progressed into a “postracial nation,” mountains of evidence exist to the contrary, with racially segregated Metropolitan Detroit oftentimes comprising the contradiction peak. Regardless, though, Duggan’s seemingly imminent election indicates some healing in a city and region desperately needing even small moral victories. And given Detroit’s current turmoil, we’ll take all the wins we can get.
Detroit’s mayoral race is characterized by racial indifference.
— Alexander Hermann can be reached at aherm@umich.edu.
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Whores and horrors
bout a week ago, while walking up the steps to my co-op, I noticed a new presence on our front door. Among the papers plastered across our door windows advertising various communal activities was KATIE a particularly STEEN loud poster: “Luther Halloween,” it read in electric green Goosebumps style. Beneath the text was a drawing of a ghoulish uninvited guest bursting through a door with a bloody chainsaw. To the left cowered a terrified and bodacious redhead, mascara streaming down her cheeks as she braced for the intruder. Of course she was only wearing a purple thong and a size XXS camisole. Of course she’s got the body of a Victoria’s Secret Angel. Of course her nipples are erect. Something about the thong and the cami and the nipples — they’re just so … unnecessary. So donebefore. And I know that’s part of the fun of the poster — it’s a parody of that classic horror trope. Of course the girl in the underwear is going to murdered by the chainsawwielding zombie / skeleton / vampire / madman / man in a raincoat / male figure in general. As Gretchen Weiner, from the movie “Mean Girls” would explain, it’s, like, the laws of horror movie anti-feminism. But why? It’s no secret that horror films traditionally don’t like the ladies. There tends to be at least one woman who ends up anywhere from partially to completely naked and then sliced, hacked and otherwise butchered. Let me diverge for a second. Recently, wanting to find a quality horror movie to watch, I went on IMDb and looked up a list of the top 100 classic horror movies. I noticed a trend within the movie descriptions. Antagonists include “a practical man,” “an obsessed (male) scientist,” “a (male) doctor,” “a young man,” “a brilliant (male) surgeon,” some more doctors and young men. Victims include “the virtuous young Mina,” a “beautiful woman,” “a (female) secretary,” a
bride, “nice young women,” — just, you know, “women ... ” many of whom are displayed on the front covers in skin-tight ensembles show off their conveniently sized DD boobs. So, basically, what we have here is hot women being killed by men. Yes, occasionally females are the “bad guys” — wow, masculinity is even in the name. There’s Stephen King’s Carrie, the shy girl who you can’t help but sympathize with even though she kills everyone and her mother. There’s the possessed girl with the green puke in “The Exorcist.” There’s the girl with the hair in her face from “The Ring.” There’s the woman with the hair in her face from “The Grudge.” Those are a few examples that immediately come to mind, but I think it’s notable that the common factor with these female terrors is that they’re all somehow inhuman — essentially “crazy” or possessed by something else. These female antagonists aren’t completely in control of their actions, but rather have been corrupted by something bigger than themselves. Granted, the films I cited earlier are classics, so these movies weren’t exactly created during the peak of feminism. But, really, not too much has changed since then. Women continue to be the victims — de-robed and sliced up on screens across the world. The thing is, I really like scary movies, but part of liking horror is having to willfully ignore blatantly misogynistic themes a lot of the time. Until now. Now being yesterday. I watched “The Cabin in the Woods” for the first time. I know, I’m a little late in the game. I’d been told countless times to watch it by my friends. But, sitting at the dining room table a few days ago, a friend of mine suggested that I watch “The Cabin in the Woods.” “It’s sort of feminist,” she said. “But they still show boobs. They just had to show boobs.” Yeah, they do show boobs in “Cabin in the Woods.” Of course they’re the boobs of a blonde — “the
whore”— and, of course, the boobs are exposed when she’s engaging in some form of sexual pleasure, right before being attacked by a zombie redneck torture family. But that’s the whole point. While waiting for the quintessential blonde to show some tits, one of the technicians in the film even says, “OK, baby, let’s see some boobies … Gotta keep the customers satisfied.” He watches the boobs/zombie attack scene with close attention — partly, because he wants to see boobs, but also because that’s what people expect when they see a cute young woman in a horror movie. “Cabin in the Woods” challenges the traditional role of females in horror movies in that it follows the traditional tropes to an almost absurd degree. The “whore” is pumped with pheromones until she’s a horny, ass-shaking vixen who makes out with a taxidermied wolf — it was a dare, but still, she appears to really enjoy it. The “virgin” is naïve and clueless, constantly in need of male guidance and consolation. Even the female killers in the movie are pretty useless — there’s the “Grudge”like ghost girl who’s defeated by a classroom full of adorable Japanese schoolchildren, for instance, and then there’s the girl zombie, who’s overall pretty unintimidating and useless — except for when she actually helps the protagonists of the film. I get that a lot of scary movies are meant to be fun — that not every portrayal of women is going to be realistic, just like Freddy Krueger and Count Dracula aren’t the most realistic men. But “Cabin in the Woods” does a damn good job at showing how hackneyed — and comical — these female characters are. If you’re looking for a solid horror film to cap off the Halloween season, perhaps consider “Cabin in the Woods.” But no matter what film you decide on, keep a critical eye on the women in the movie — and not just on their tits.
“Cabin in the Woods” challenges traditional female roles in horror films.
— Katie Steen can be reached at katheliz@umich.edu.
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Response to ‘Hood Ratchet Thursday’ As the host and author of the event “Hood Ratchet Thursday,” I would like make a formal response to Erin Fischer’s viewpoint. First, I would like to sincerely apologize for any negative emotions that you and any other offended members of the community may have felt. Let me be the first to admit that the party’s theme and the language used in the event description were insensitive and distasteful. Please allow me to clarify my motivations behind this, because it was never my intention to purposefully offend or degrade another culture or gender. “Hood Ratchet Thursday” started out as an idea for a party centered around hip-hop music — a genre that I’ve grown up with and still love. As with all music, it’s nearly impossible to separate from its culture, and hip hop has a particularly prolific one that pervades mainstream consciousness. At most college social events, the music of choice, if not electronic dance music (EDM) or pop, is hip hop. Thus, hearing, and rapping along to, the lyrics of A$AP Rocky’s “Fuckin’ Problems” or Juicy J’s “Bandz A Make Her Dance” — the songs from which I derived the phrases “bad bitches” and “ratchet pussy” respectively — or other vulgar songs on any given night while out with friends is not unheard of, if not commonplace. Mainstream hip hop is now dom-
inated by rappers who glorify sexist and superficial themes. These are the artists whom the media promotes and whose music we all consume at social events and at our own leisure. As an avid consumer of the music, it’s easy to get caught up in the lyrics and attitude. Herein lies the first mistake I made: trying to emulate the culture and attitudes prevalent in the music. Of course, I’m aware of hiphop’s roots in African-American culture, and I understand why so many are upset at my usage of the words “ratchet,” “twerking,” etc. But let me be clear: in no way was it my intention to appropriate Black culture. I was attempting to emulate the distasteful party culture of hip hop, not as a synonym for Black culture, but rather as the musical genre that is consumed by all races. Because, at least in my opinion, when hip-hop culture reaches the level of appeal which it enjoys with listeners of all races and different cultural backgrounds, it transcends strictly racial definitions. And that’s how we can sometimes forget, as I did, that it’s not always OK to emulate respected hip-hop artists; that racial sensitivity is no small issue; and that people can, and will, negatively perceive Black culture because of media and social stereotypes. I wish that we lived in an age where we as people could collectively celebrate the music that we consume
without aggravating racial sensitivities. It pains me to see that “hip-hop parties” are immediately cast under a racial lens, even if not so intended. Just because we celebrate and enjoy the music and terminology used by predominantly Black hip-hop artists, that does not mean we are attempting to appropriate Black culture. We take it for what it is, and that’s hip hop as music, and thus, hip-hip culture. If current hip hop is dominated by terminology like “twerking,” “ratchet,” and “swag,” then that’s what its audience absorbs as hip hop: it doesn’t have to be Black. But if people perceive it as so, then I agree that it’s completely inappropriate. As a fellow minority, I sympathize with you for the racial prejudice leveled against you. I could never pretend to understand what you face. But as someone who has experienced firsthand how racism, whether blatant or subtle, can affect our emotions and livelihood, I apologize for any hurt that I’ve caused in our community. Again, I would personally like to offer my sincere apologies to those affected by my lapse in judgment and would be open to joining the conversation on how we as a community could find ways to educate ourselves on controversial race issues so that we can avoid future misunderstandings, and move forward as a healthy, unified community. Allen Wu is an LSA junior.
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A spooky playlist
es, I’m well aware that Halloween was officially last night. But really, what are holidays, besides excuses to get even drunker than usual? And everyone knows that the hardcore partying gets done on the weekend, as we don our last and ELLIOT greatest ALPERN costumes to toast to another Halloween successfully celebrated. And yet, putting together the playlist for your classic Halloween party is harder than it sounds. Sure, you’d assume, just throw on some “Monster Mash” and other long-time classics together, and put it on shuffle. But when the ghosts are dancing at zombie pace, and the zombies are passed out in boredom from another play through of the “Mash,” you’ll realize that it’s harder than it looks. So, with that in mind, here are a few suggestions … “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder I list this first because, to me, it’s arguably the most important track to include. Look, I know it’s not the kind of song that will have everyone jumping with ecstasy — but it serves a vital function. “Superstition” is the change of pace, when we’re tired of horror-themed rap and timeless classics. The drums start us off, drawing in those curious about what Billboard-topper this could be. But then that classic guitar lick starts up, and even the freshmen will start grooving (if they managed to make it in, that is). “Monster” by Kanye West I shouldn’t have to explain too much why “Monster” is a Halloween staple. Terror-striking
rap hit? Jay-Z spitting lines about goblins and ghouls? Add this, and don’t think twice about it. (“Black Skinhead” deserves a mention here, with some seriously ominous drums giving way to a tense, dark beat.) “DARE” or “All Alone” by Gorillaz “DARE” is the bigger hit here, so it makes sense that this is the Gorillaz song you want to add. It works well enough as a dance track, while still building that creepy vibe as forlorn vocals fade into the background (and, for the record, the video is pretty damn strange). “All Alone” can’t be ignored though — that first guitar bait sounds like a villain’s entrance song, yet it’s fast enough to feel the beat through the floorboards. And is there anything scarier than truly being all alone? Anything from the “Moon” side of the Bravery’s The Sun and the Moon If you’re alt-oriented, definitely go for the “Moon Version” of the Bravery’s better hits. “Believe” adds a spooky organ that feels like an Addams Family rock special, and “This Is Not the End” brings in a subtly scary guitar line. It’s as if the Bravery wanted its own Halloween album, and simply added it as a B-side. A remix of “Thriller” by Michael Jackson Everyone plays “Thriller” as their centerpiece at Halloween — your friends, your co-workers, your grandma. And likewise, everyone expects it. But put a party veteran’s twist on it — maybe try to find a dubstep version, or at least something with synths that bust through during the chorus. No more minuteand-a-half where we awkwardly dance to the narrator’s ending monologue, at the very least. “Scatta” and “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” by Skrillex
I mean, the latter has the word “monster” right in the title! I know it’s a bit stale by now, but hey, maybe it’s finally old enough to make a resurgence. If not, at least add “Scatta” — whatever that is in the background that sounds like an electronic organ gives it that tense Halloween flavor. “Crying Lightning” and “R U Mine?” by the Arctic Monkeys; “Howlin’ for You” by the Black Keys This is where it gets down more to personal preference, but as some rock filler for the playlist, these three serve equally well. The Arctic Monkeys have mastered, among other things, the ability to infuse a song with some darkness. “R U Mine?” off their latest album is definitely the faster of the two, but if you’re looking more for an atmosphere of midnight hijinks, “Crying Lightning” slinks around well enough. “Howlin’ For You” is another obvious add as a sinister track with some pretty blatant imagery (with the “Howlin’ ” part, at least). “Monster Mash” by Bobby Pickett Just kidding. Seriously, if any party moves from Kanye to Bobby without an apology, you have the right — nay, the duty — to leave immediately. With even a few of these, you’ll have a solid core — onto which many of you will no doubt pile on the Miley and Katy Perry. But whatever — I’ve done my job here. And with a little luck, maybe while I’m walking from one party to the next, I’ll hear the notes from “Superstition” carry on the wind. If so, maybe I’ll take the moment to dedicate a little groove to you. And then I’ll be back on my scary way. Alpern is hating on ‘Monster Mash.’ To argue with him, e-mail ealpern@umich.edu.
FILM REVIEW
Diaz owns ‘The Counselor’ By SEAN CZARNECKI Daily Film Editor
“The Counselor” makes no compromises. Laden with musicality, it belts out the biblical language of Cormac McCarthy (his Afirst screenplay) that other adap- The tations of his Counselor work deemed too demand- At Quality 16 ing for the and Rave screen. Here, the screenplay 20th Century Fox acts as both the film’s strength and downfall. It aspires to transcribe the famed author’s gnomic aesthetic to screen with as few compromises as possible. Where others will call “The Counselor” pretentious, I call it bold. I call it relentless. This is a film at its best when steeped in eloquence and dread, when it’s like the whole vengeful universe is being brought to bear on one man’s fate. The Counselor (Michael Fassbender, “12 Years a Slave”) is in trouble. To get out of trouble, the specifics of which are left murky, he finds a way to make money fast. His associates think badly of the proposition. They make prophetic warnings of the danger he’d put himself into, meddling in a business responsible for thousands of deaths in Mexico. Of course, he doesn’t listen. One time deal? Not a chance. Long renowned for his deliberate pacing, Ridley Scott (“Prometheus”) has crafted a movie stringent in explanation. You don’t get the gentle signposts with which most thrillers pamper you. He piles on scenes that peek like a voyeur into a cartel drug shipment journeying from Juarez to Chicago whereon each mile northward lessens your complicity. Guilt is diffused, and the powder sold to you is white and bloodless. “The Counselor” plays out like the canticle of some nameless religion. At one point, a character talks about snuff films: By watching one, you are complicit in its
production. And, here we are, watching murders happening each day in the real word around that great McCarthy border between Mexico and the United States, a divide that is as literary as it is geographical. It reminds you of the Mason-Dixon Line on which so much great American literature depends — scene by scene, borne downriver. As well as musing on morality and the human soul, Scott remains consistent with the best work of his career when it comes to setting: desert landscapes desolate and laid waste, paradises erected in the middle of sand, the cold concrete of London. Cinematographer Dariusz Wolski, who worked with Scott on “Prometheus,” offers some of his best work to date. With his help, let there be no doubt Scott’s eye for texture endures in equal strength as it did when we languished under the rain in “Blade Runner,” when we battled on the sands of the Coliseum in “Gladiator.”
A bold screenwriting debut for McCarthy. And the performances of this movie: Fassbender’s eyes flashed dangerously in “Shame,” but “The Counselor” riffs on that same confidence, rendering it into headlong naivety. Always the fan of archetypal characters, McCarthy leaves the Counselor nameless, devaluing the individual. Javier Bardem (“No Country for Old Men”) ponders the inscrutability of women and the business in which he’s embroiled with eccentricity and perversion. Brad Pitt (“Killing Them Softly”) lords over coolness. But by any measure of extravagance and fearlessness, this movie
belongs to Cameron Diaz (“Bad Teacher”). If not the goddess of the story, Diaz carries at least its spirit. She is its prophetess. She bears no remorse for the weak. Survival is her endeavor, and savagery her nature. She flaunts her gold tooth, her painted eyes, the colors of her clothes, straddling Ferraris, like some garish beast relishing in the chase and the sinking of teeth and blood and violence. Down her back stretches the tattooed spots of a cheetah. For being known as a “man’s man” ’s writer, McCarthy sure cooked up one hell of a female character. Now, having said all those nice things, for all the scenes of extraordinary quality in “The Counselor,” there are others more cumbersome. Every once in a while comes a line the actors seem to tongue around in their mouths and what spouts out is cluttered and tone-deaf; they just can’t hit those cadences. These scenes make you cringe. Because of the film’s unrelenting literary aspirations, a couple of lines exchanged between Fassbender and his fiancé (Penélope Cruz, “To Rome with Love”) amount to some of the oddest pillow talk you’ve ever heard. The jargon and high-minded speech fused so well in his novels mix poorly here. Furthermore, the character of McCarthy’s writing, which drives a rift between the audience and the characters, will jar most viewers. This is a film that resists you. It doesn’t bend to convention; it doesn’t behave. But do not think I’m designating myself Savior of some Tradition I believe worth continuing. I’m not so presumptuous to assert this film will grow in importance as “Blade Runner” has. No, “The Counselor” will find a niche audience of McCarthyites and philosophical nuts, who will undoubtedly force it onto others, who will bear their complaints with a pretentious, shrugging oh, who will rejoice at the one, maybe two converts.
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Ballet Preljocaj to craft fresh aesthetic Artistic director talks apocalypse, human experience By GILLIAN JAKAB For the Daily
There is a space between classical ballet and modern dance, between elegant dancers with pink tutus, white And Then, tights and One pointe shoes in Marius Thousand Petipa’s “Swan Years of Lake” and black body- Peace suited, bare- Saturday footed dancers and Sunday in a Martha at 8 p.m. Graham piece. This space is Power Center occupied by the genre of From $18 modern ballet, combining the rules of classical balletic training with a conviction to bend and twist them into a movement vocabulary outside of the conventional format. One of modern ballet’s masters, Angelin Preljocaj, the artistic director of Ballet Preljocaj, will bring his company to the Power Center this weekend as part of UMS’s fall season. Preljocaj was trained in classical ballet in France, and in 1980, moved to New York to study with post-modern dancers like Merce Cunningham. Today, in addition to having his own renowned company based in Aix-en-Provence, Preljocaj often receives commissions to choreograph works for ballet
companies around the world, including, recently, New York City Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet and Staatsoper Berlin. The company will perform “And Then, One Thousand Years of Peace,” drawn from the biblical text of St. John’s “The Book of Revelation,” and explore apocalyptic themes against a background of original techno music to portray a universal response to upheaval. “And Then, One Thousand Years of Peace” was originally choreographed for the Bolshoi Ballet in 2010. The dancers involved, and the cultures they come from, undoubtedly shaped Preljocaj’s choreographic process. “It was half my dancers and half those of the Bolshoi Ballet,” Preljocaj said, “And I think of ‘And Then, One Thousand Year of Peace’ (as meant) to ref lect revolution, which of course has been a huge theme in histories of both France and Russia.” In 2012, Ballet Preljocaj left a lasting impression on UMS’s audience with its performance of “Snow White.” The company’s timely encore will show us another side of Preljocaj’s work. “ ‘Snow White’ was a more literal telling of a story,” Preljocaj said. “ ‘And Then, One Thousand Years of Peace’ is less of a direct commentary; it draws on a relationship between the text of St. Jean, ‘Revelations’ and the relevance of what is happening in our world today.” Global dialogue on the apocalypse is as diverse and wide-
spread as ever. With the Mayan calendar’s prediction of the end of the world in 2012, the looming threats of global warming and nuclear proliferation, the theme is a common one for people throughout the world. Preljocaj does not assert a pointed thesis, but works to channel this collective dialogue to provoke a response. “What’s particularly powerful about dance as an art form is that everyone has bodies, and therefore everyone can feel and connect to these physical human responses.” Ballet Preljocaj, a true illustration of modern ballet, aims to create a fresh aesthetic with virtuosic dancers and the edgy music one might hear in a nightclub. In fact, Laurent Garnier, who created the music for “And Then, One Thousand Years of Peace,” first worked as a DJ in the legendary nightclub Fac 51 Hacienda in Manchester, and is among Europe’s foremost techno and house music producers. “I think Laurent Garnier’s electronic techno music will talk to young people,” Preljocaj said. “It is not typical ballet music like Tchaikovsky.” Returning to Ann Arbor time and time again, Ballet Preljocaj performs works as textured and forward thinking as the University community audience. “And Then, One Thousand Years of Peace” will present the challenge of feeling what is conceptual — grand notions of global dilemma and social justice — on a physical and intuitively human level.
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Senior defenseman Derek DeBlois described Michigan Tech coach Mel Pearson as “a player’s coach.”
A familiar face returns By ALEJANDRO ZÚÑIGA Daily Sports Editor
Michigan Tech may have beaten the Michigan hockey team in the semifinals of the Great Lakes Invitational last winter, but there won’t be much animosity toward the Huskies when the two teams meet this weekend at Yost Ice Arena. In fact, many of Michigan’s players and coaches share Michigan a special connection with Tech at Michigan Tech Michigan coach Mel Pearson, who Matchup: Michigan was a member Tech 1-4-1; of the Wolver- Michigan 4-1-1 ine program for When: Friday 23 years. 7:35 P.M., Pearson Saturday spent over 7 P.M. two decades Where: Yost in Ann Arbor Ice Arena as an assistant and associate TV/Radio: MGoBlue.com, coach and was Fox Sports an integral Detroit part of Michigan’s recruiting efforts. After the 1999-2000 season, in which the Wolverines won the CCHA regular-season championship, Pearson earned the Terry Flanagan Award, which recognizes a coach for his career accomplishments. Senior forward Luke Moffatt and junior forward Alex Guptill were both recruited by Pearson, and he was later the forwards coach when the high-powered
Wolverines reached the NCAA Tournament final in 2011. “He was like a player’s coach,” said senior forward Derek DeBlois. “He was a guy that messed around with you a little bit, always had a smile on and was always making jokes. He was fun to have around.” Now in his 30th season, Michigan coach Red Berenson was around for the entirety of Pearson’s tenure. And though the former assistant will be coming to Ann Arbor this weekend with an opposing team, Berenson will welcome him warmly. “He’s still a good friend,” Berenson said, adding that the two stay in touch. Pearson’s duties at Michigan included scheduling, and he never once organized a game between his alma mater, Michigan Tech, and the Wolverines. The two schools have faced each other more than 200 times — with Michigan holding a 120-914 series lead — but haven’t met at either school’s home arena since 1984, playing almost solely at the GLI. “I’m sure they’ll be excited to play here,” Berenson said. Still, there have been plenty of memorable matchups between the two rivals. In 2007, Michigan survived the Huskies in double overtime to win the GLI, the fourth time that the Wolverines clinched the championship over Michigan Tech. But the Huskies had the last laugh when they met in Detroit last year. Goaltender Pheonix Copley stopped all 38 of
the Wolverines’ shots for a shutout, and he then blanked Western Michigan the following night to earn the Most Valuable Player award and give his team the title. Copley is still around, and it might be just as hard to put a puck past him. He was recently crowned WCHA Defensive Player of the Week, ranks second in his conference in goals-against average and comes in at seventh nationally in save percentage. That could pose an issue for the Wolverines. Disregarding a seven-goal outburst against Rochester Institute of Technology, Michigan is averaging just two goals per contest. But by far the biggest battle of the weekend could be on special teams. The Wolverines rank fourth in the nation with the man advantage, converting on 30.4 percent of their opportunities. Meanwhile, Michigan Tech has had to kill off 33 penalties — more than any other team in the nation — but does so at a solid 83.7 percent, good for 21st in the NCAA. The Huskies have also scored two short-handed goals. With Pearson at the helm of Michigan Tech, the Huskies have compiled the second-best twoyear stretch in school history. And as Michigan experienced harshly last season, a history of success over their rivals from the Upper Peninsula matters little when the puck drops. “Every game in college hockey, as we learned last year, is a difficult one,” DeBlois said.
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Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico said everyone has a chance to start.
Brown was the University of Detroit’s leading scorer last season and averaged 21 points per game, including a 19-point performance against a more experienced Michigan squad last November. No matter the competition, Barnes Arico expects the team’s early season games to be a learning experience for her players while she works toward determining individual roles for each player. Last year, the process was very different with the team’s experienced seniors clearly ahead of the young, inexperienced players. “Now, everybody’s kind of on the same level,” Barnes Arico said. “So it will give an opportunity, if a kid’s not playing well, hey, let’s try a new kid. This kid’s not playing well, let’s try a new kid.” MORE INJURY WOES: For the past two seasons, the Wolverines have not caught many breaks when it comes to injuries. Last season, five Michigan players tore their anterior cruciate ligaments, causing them to miss the entire season. The prognosis looked brighter heading into this season, before sophomore guard Kelsey Mitchell broke her foot early in the fall after suffering an ACL tear last season. Then, freshman guard Danielle Williams broke a finger on her left hand last week. Williams is expected to miss about a month after undergoing surgery last Thursday. “It is unfortunate that this happened to Danielle so close to the beginning of the season,” Barnes Arico said in a statement. “She was expected to play a major role on this team, and losing her greatly impacts us moving forward.”
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advantage through the third round of the NCAA Tournament. But it must do so against Ohio State, on the Wolverines’ emotional senior night, for their first win over the Buckeyes since 2008. And that still might not be enough to give the Wolverines their first-ever regular-season Big Ten championship. No. 8 Michigan (8-1-1 Big Ten, 14-2-1 overall) enters Saturday’s showdown with the Buckeyes (4-4-2, 10-5-3) riding a sevengame winning streak that dates back to Sept. 29, but first-place Nebraska has matched the Wolverines win for win — including a double-overtime upset of Penn State on Sunday. Even Michigan’s 2-1 victory at Nebraska (9-1, 14-3-1) on Oct. 6 wasn’t enough to springboard the Wolverines in the Big Ten standings. “It’s especially frustrating because, head-to-head, we beat Nebraska,” said senior defender Kayla Mannino. “But regardless of how Nebraska does on Friday, I’m still going to be proud of this team and the season we’ve had.” Now, Michigan has just one more chance for a Nebraska loss: Indiana (6-4-0, 13-4-1) in Lincoln. The catch is that the game is Friday, which means the Wolverines are split between not wanting to find out the score and being the biggest Indiana soccer fans in the country. “I’ll look, I think,” said senior defender Holly Hein with a smile. “I’ll want to know.” Added Mannino: “It’s kind of a split amongst our team. I personally am not going to watch it. I don’t want to know about it.” If Indiana’s upset bid does fall short, Michigan still has plenty to play for the next day. The seniors have never beaten Ohio State, and the rivalry will always be there. “We’re happy to have one of the best finishes — regardless of what happens this weekend — in Michigan soccer history,” Hein
said. “We’d be even (happier) if it goes our way this weekend, but we’ll see.” On top of it all, Michigan is playing for home-field advantage in the NCAA Tournament. The top 32 teams play one home game, and the top eight play three. This week, Michigan sits right on the edge in eighth but will have to wait out the selection show after the Big Ten Tournament. The last time the two rivals met, Ohio State ousted Michigan from the Big Ten Tournament. Ryan said the game should be like most others the Wolverines have played, a physical Big Ten battle. His team practiced playing that style all week. Hein said one of the team’s goals this week has been to start faster. The Wolverines haven’t scored in the first 23 minutes of the game since Oct. 3 at Michigan State. Michigan has, however, balanced out its scoring in recent games. Seven different players have tallied its last eight goals. Hein said starting fast wouldn’t be a problem despite the emotion before the game. The seniors will be honored before the game with their parents. Hein, who is from Castaic, Calif., is playing in front of her whole family for the first time since high school. “To be honest, I’ve been trying not to think about it too much,” Mannino said. “Emotionally, I don’t know how I’m going to feel about it until Saturday, when I step on the field. I still haven’t really accepted it.” Still, Ryan and the players refuse to acknowledge the stakes, focusing only on their matchup with the Buckeyes. “It’s not tough for me, and I don’t think it’s tough for the players,” Ryan said. “If we get help from Indiana, great. If not, we still finished better than any Michigan team in the history of the program.”
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Breakdown: Beware big-play Spartan defense By MATT SLOVIN Managing Editor
Needing a win against a bitter rival on the road to keep control of its Big Ten title hopes isn’t exactly an ideal position for the Michigan football team. But that’s where the Wolverines stand entering Saturday’s showdown with Michigan State. The Spartans clearly have the advantage on defense, while the Michigan offense is by far the better of the two. So where will this game be won or lost? Probably in the trenches. Michigan pass offense vs. Michigan State pass defense ERIN KIRKLAND/Daily
Redshirt junior linebacker Jake Ryan should play expanded minutes Saturday, in what will likely be another physical battle with Michigan State in East Lansing.
An in-state rivalry renews, this time with higher stakes By ZACH HELFAND Daily Sports Editor
Michigan coach Brady Hoke was asked this week to compare the Michigan State rivalry to the one with Ohio State. This game, especially in East Lansing, always feels like a playground fight. This time, when the No. 23 Michigan football team meets No. 24 Michigan State on Saturday, the field will be muddy, the forecasts say. Windy again. Last time the game was in East Lansing, trash swirled around Spartan Stadium as if this game wasn’t being held in a stadium at all, but in a dirty lot anywhere in the state, in Detroit or Michigan Farmington Hills or Grand at Michigan Rapids, and State two teams met Matchup: here to fight Michigan 6-1; and settle old MSU 7-1 scores. When: SaturHoke didn’t day 3:30 P.M. take the bait. “I think Where: Sparthey’re both tan Stadium important,” he TV: ABC said. But this one has gotten more and more so since Mark Dantonio became Michigan State’s coach in 2006. Michigan hates the Buckeyes. But at least it respects them. For this game, the rhetoric has become familiar. “We labeled them as a little brother,” said fifth-year senior running back Fitzgerald Toussaint on Tuesday. “And, you know the little brother always want to prove themselves and try to beat up the big brother one day. I think they really take offense to that.”
This game, always, is brutish and ugly, and it’s that brutish ugliness that makes it beautiful. This year, the stakes are higher. The game will be as close to a divisional championship game as it gets at the start of November. Michigan is 2-1 in the conference, with a tough month ahead. Michigan State is 4-0 with few tests remaining. For Michigan, a win means it controls its own Legends Division destiny. A loss all but hands the Spartans the division. For Michigan State (4-0 Big Ten, 7-1 overall), not much has changed. Offensively, Michigan State relies heavily on the ground game. Its passing game has been inconsistent. Michigan’s defense has been vulnerable to the big play, but the Spartans hardly generate any. They rank secondto-last nationally in plays of 40 yards or more. Defensively, the Spartans are dominant. Its defense is ranked first nationally in total defense and rushing defense. It is ranked third in passing defense and scoring defense. On both sides of the ball, the strategy is no secret: win the running game. “There’s not a lot of gimmicks,” said Michigan defensive coordinator Greg Mattison. “And I love that.” When opposing teams have had success against the Spartans, it has been through the air. Cornerback Darqueze Dennard is one of the conference’s best, but so is Michigan’s fifth-year receiver Jeremy Gallon. Last time Gallon played, he set the Big Ten record with 369 receiving yards. The Spartans’ cornerbacks are especially physical, but Michigan (2-1, 6-1) is well-suited for that. The 5-foot-8 Gallon is
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Fifth-year senior running back Fitzgerald Toussaint averages 3.7 yards per rush.
often pressed, with little success. Sophomore Devin Funchess is a converted tight end, where he grew accustomed to bigger defenders. Redshirt junior quarterback Devin Gardner has flourished since Funchess moved to receiver, but he is also turnover-prone, and the Spartans secondary has returned four interceptions for touchdowns this year. But the game is usually decided on the ground, and team that has won the rushing battle has won the game in 40 of the past 43 meetings. Michigan State defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi has terrorized Michigan in the past with A-gap blitzes to generate pressure up the middle. The Wolverines enter Saturday with major question marks on the interior of the offensive line, where they have yet to find a successful combination of blockers. Fifth-year senior running back Fitzgerald Toussaint averages just 3.7 yards per carry this year. Michigan State’s defense averages just two. Michigan’s offense is weakest where Michigan State is best. Like most things in this rivalry, the Wolverines take Michigan State’s physical
supremacy personally. Michigan won in 2012, but it was a defensive struggle. In 2011, the Spartans dominated the line of scrimmage. They pulled Denard Robinson’s facemask after the whistle. Fifth-year senior left tackle Taylor Lewan said it felt like Michigan was bullied. “If somebody came up to you and hit you right in the face, would you take it personally?” he said. “Yeah, I take it personally.” His fellow fifth-year senior right tackle, Michael Schofield, said the seniors talk about that game constantly. “We don’t want to forget that,” he said. Schofield said the veterans have tried to prepare the freshmen for the intensity of the rivalry. But Hoke said it’s impossible to understand the game until you play in it. But, at the very least, even the young players know what’s at stake. When Mattison stepped to the podium for his weekly press conference Tuesday, he didn’t waste words on what everyone already knew. “Michigan State week,” he said. “Here we go.”
Chances are, the record-setting offensive display against Indiana two weeks ago will feel like a thing of the past once the Hoosiers’ sloppy pass coverage is replaced by the Spartan secondary, led by Darqueze Dennard. Michigan coach Brady Hoke called Dennard, who has a pair of interceptions this season, a “high-round pick,” and redshirt junior quarterback Devin Gardner will need to take extra care when throwing in his direction. Gardner surely won’t be throwing for 503 yards this week as he did against Indiana. He would be extremely fortunate to escape the Big Ten-leading Michigan State defense without a turnover. Sophomore tight end A.J. Williams’s one-game suspension shouldn’t cause too much damage to Michigan’s aerial attack. Sophomore Devin Funchess will still get his reps on the outside, and fifthyear senior wide receiver Jeremy Gallon is coming off the best single-game receiving performance in the history of the Big Ten. But again, this isn’t the Hoosiers, and the Wolverines won’t move the ball with anywhere near as much ease. Edge: Michigan State Michigan rush offense vs. Michigan State rush defense This is where the Spartans are at their best. Teams simply do not run the football on them. They haven’t allowed a 100-yard rusher all season. And fifth-year senior running back Fitzgerald Toussaint probably didn’t do himself any favors by referring to Michigan State as “little brother” earlier this week. Freshman guard Kyle Bosch will be making his first-ever start Saturday as Hoke continues to try to piece together the best offensive line possible. He may have finally found the right combination, but against the Spartans, it could easily be moot. Expect almost all of the carries to go to Toussaint as the coaching staff tries to prevent any turnovers from Derrick Green, who might be prone to them in his first battle for the Paul Bunyan Trophy. Edge: Michigan State
Michigan State pass offense vs. Michigan pass defense Defensive coordinator Greg Mattison has said there are still passes that Michigan defensive backs should be picking off but have not. With that said, the secondary has shown it can force turnovers in key spots, with fifthyear senior safety Thomas Gordon sealing the Indiana game with two late picks. But Connor Cook, the starting Spartan quarterback, doesn’t make many mistakes. He has thrown just two interceptions, compared to 12 touchdowns, this season in eventually winning the top spot on the depth chart. Last week, he completed 15 of his 16 pass attempts, though it was against lowly Illinois. Edge: Michigan Michigan State rush offense vs. Michigan rush defense Most of Michigan’s efforts will be focused on stopping the run, and rightfully so. Spartan tailback Jeremy Langford has nine rushing touchdowns this season and has racked up 655 yards. The Michigan State offensive line is much improved from the early weeks when the Spartans failed to move the ball with any consistency. Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio will run the football early and often, trying to wear down the Wolverines’ defense. The Spartan offense may not have many explosive playmakers, but it has shown it can grind teams down, and Michigan is in trouble if that happens Saturday. Edge: Michigan State Special teams Mike Sadler is almost enough to singlehandedly give this category to the Spartans. Not only is he an outstanding punter, but earlier this season against Iowa, he carried the ball for 25 yards on a fake. Meanwhile, the Wolverines have had problems punting the ball. Michigan State relies on freshman Michael Geiger to handle its kicking duties, and he’s 6-for-7 on the year. Edge: Michigan State Intangibles The Spartans can sense that they are on the verge of a berth in the Big Ten title game, with the schedule shaping up favorably the rest of the way. With 27 players back from the Michigan team that was beat up in East Lansing in 2011, the Wolverines should be prepared for the physical game that lies ahead. That means no excuses if they are again bullied at Spartan Stadium. Edge: Michigan
Prediction: Michigan State 20, Michigan 10
With lots of film, and a Final Four run, a folk hero is born By NEAL ROTHSCHILD Daily Sports Editor
ROSEMONT, Ill. — They can’t all be Mitch McGary. There are the guys that have been recruited since they were underclassmen in high school, with others not being noticed until senior year, and in Spike Albrecht’s case, not until senior year was almost over. It wasn’t until the spring recruiting period of his senior year that Albrecht was recognized, pursued and finally signed by Michigan. His alternative plans were to play in the mountains of North Carolina for Appalachian State. Rather than the National Championship, he would have been playing to finish above .500 in the Southern Conference. “It was probably the shortest time period of an evaluation with the most in-depth evaluation,” said Michigan coach John Beilein at Big Ten Media Day about the time from when he noticed Albrecht, to when Albrecht com-
mitted in early April 2012. The move on the 5-foot-11 point guard from Crown Point, Ind. may very well have been spurred by the possibility of Trey Burke leaving for the NBA after his freshman year. Beilein asked for five highschool tapes of Albrecht’s games at Crown Point High School, as well as three or four prep-school tapes from Northfield Mount Hermon in Massachusetts. He then had his staff edit the tapes into 300 to 400 cuts of every possession that Albrecht had the ball. In the heart of the Big Ten season as Michigan worked its way toward its first conference championship since 1986, Beilein would watch Albrecht’s edits while traveling. He’d watch those same cuts over and over again. “I see him score 30 points in a high-school game and then 30 more the next game,” Beilein said. “But then I’d see him not even shoot it in prep school, then become the MVP.” Beilein was referring to
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Albrecht winning the NEPSAC Class AAA MVP in 2012, a top prep-school tournament where Northfield Mount Hermon beat McGary’s Brewster Academy. “I just said, he’s not gonna pass the eye test, but this kid can help
us with what we’re looking for,” Beilein said. And so Albrecht was offered a scholarship to play point guard at Michigan. Even with the limited amount of scholarships available, gambling on the plucky kid that
Beilein has often likened to an “altar boy” wasn’t a tough decision. “This one, it wasn’t as hard as you think for me,” Beilein said. “Because I knew what I was looking for. A kid that embraced academics, that wanted to be part of a Big Ten team and also was not going to be going pro. He had no illusions of leaving to go pro early.” Beilein’s success in recruiting Albrecht was no aberration. The blueprint for pulling in the unheralded recruit and turning him into a glory boy had been long established. Beilein reeled in just one top-100 player in his time at West Virginia, and converted lightly recruited nobodies like Kevin Pittsnogle and Joe Alexander into household names. Alexander, who became the eighth overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft, averaged just two points a game in prep school, according to Beilein. Albrecht’s ceiling likely won’t reach shouting distance of the NBA, but there’s plenty else going his way.
“He just wanted to come in and be a great teammate on this team, no matter what his role was,” Beilein said. “It worked out pretty good for him.” Beilein expected Albrecht to come in and play five to 10 minutes a game, not to take on folk-hero status after a 17-point outburst against Louisville in the National Championship. Albrecht nailed 3-pointer after 3-pointer, crafted nifty drives to the basket and kept the Wolverines competitive while Burke sat on the bench in foul trouble in the first half. “There was a moment in the Louisville game where he was on his run. One of our walk-ons who guarded him every day, Eso Akunne, was sitting there. And he couldn’t gather himself, what he was watching,” Beilein said as he clutched his face, mimicking the former Wolverine guard, turning his head to the side. “He was just shaking his head saying, ‘I can’t believe what I am seeing right now.’ Those are the great moments in coaching.”
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DUELING COLUMNS In the week leading up to the Michigan-Michigan State football game each year, football writers from the Daily and the student newspaper at Michigan State exchange columns. As the teams prepare to clash in East Lansing, here’s this year’s installment:
The Michigan Daily's Everett Cook:
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ne of my earliest interactions with Michigan State started with a female Spartan screaming at me to suck a part of her body that she categorically cannot possess. This was during my sophomore year two years ago during the “touch” football game that The Michigan Daily and The State News play every Friday before the EVERETT real football COOK players battle on Saturday. I grew up in California not knowing a thing about Michigan State or why there is such animosity (for Michigan State fans reading this, that means “bad blood” ) between these two schools. I’m not like a lot of my classmates, the ones that grew up with or knowing Spartan fans, or the ones who applied to both schools, just in case they don’t get into Michigan. Everything I know about Michigan State comes from personal experience — there were no preconceived ideas or stereotypes that come with growing up in this area. So, my relationship with Michigan State started on that field with that foul-mouthed Spartan, who I later found out was the editor-in-chief of that esteemed publication. Two years later, not much has changed. The State News scored only one touchdown in last year’s game for its eighth (yes, eighth) loss in a row, there were several verbal grenades thrown toward our sideline that would have made even the crudest Spartan cringe
and I still don’t know a ton about Michigan State. For out-of-state students that don’t have family members or anyone from the bottom half of their high school head to East Lansing, this intra-state tension feels a lot different. Still, over the course of an undergraduate career, Wolverines meet Spartans, usually through mutual friends. It happens. Truly, they are not all bad people. But when the topic of school comes up — what’s your major, etc. — if a Spartan got into Michigan, they will let you know. It’s never, “Yeah, I’m studying to be a veterinarian and I really like the program.” It’s always, “Yeah, I got into Michigan but decided to go to State because the program was a better fit for me.” It doesn’t matter that Michigan State has a very respectable veterinarian program — if that Spartan got into Michigan, you’ll know very soon. For an out-of-state student, this inferiority complex doesn’t make any sense. Michigan State is a fine school with decent athletic teams. Its football team has won four of the last five meetings between the two schools — obviously impressive. The all-time record of 68-325 in Michigan’s favor changes that perception a bit, but hey, four of the last five! Even if you had never heard of this “little brother complex” before — which a good chunk of out-of-state students haven’t — it became painfully evident during the touch football game. The best part about the editor-in-chief screaming that anatomically incorrect barb? It was after she had picked up a first down. Instead of being happy after a
The State News's Stephen Brooks: nice play, the insult was hurled out of pure anger. Anyone who thinks that inferiority complex doesn’t exist is delusional. The game on Saturday — which will likely decide the division winner — is going to be close. It may not be pretty, because Michigan State has a dominant defense while Michigan has an exciting offense that has a tendency to turn the ball over. Also, the finest intramural quarterbacks in East Lansing probably could have equaled whatever Connor Cook and Andrew Maxwell are doing this season, but that’s beside the point. Michigan coach Brady Hoke has historically struggled on the road during his tenure in Ann Arbor, while Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio has traditionally done very well against Michigan. It’s going to be a dogfight. And yet, the real game on Friday, where the Daily goes for nine in a row, will be even better. But I can guarantee that nobody wearing maize will be telling anybody to suck anything — just not how we operate. Maybe that’s an entitled thing to say, but I would rather be entitled than ignorant. That’s not coming from someone who has been told that his whole life — that’s coming from someone who has had the pleasure to witness it himself, up close and personal, over the last four years. Little brother, and the screaming editor-in-chief, brought it upon themselves. Cook can be reached at evcook@umich.edu and on Twitter @everettcook.
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et’s begin with a stroll down memory lane. That’s not too much to ask for a university and fanbase obsessed with the past, right? In fact, many of you never left. I understand most of you have simply gone along with the elitist, holier-thanthou rhetoric you’ve heard STEPHEN from MichiBROOKS gan fans and supporters all your life. The sense of superiority and arrogance has been passed along for generations. For those of you that picked it up from a real alumni instead of in the Wal-Mart clearance section, good for you! That’s a rare feat. Slide those blue and yellow tinted glasses off and take a look at the real world, where quarterbacks don’t wear No. 98 and people don’t act like they reinvented the wheel for playing night games. Like the females in Ann Arbor, the past isn’t as glamorous when you take a longer look. The almighty Wolverines claim 11 national titles in their 100-plus year history. The NCAA recognizes nine of them – and only four are claimed solely by U-M. The early championships date all the way back to the fiercely competitive days of the early 1900s when only a fraction of schools competed and the Ford Model T still was years away from hitting the
market. From 1901-04, the Wolverines ripped off four consecutive national titles before the forward pass was even legal. It’s too bad none of us were around for some of those classic games against Physicians & Surgeons, American Medical or Drake back in 1904. I bet those were great. Since the Associated Press began crowning national champions in 1936, the Wolverines are credited with just one outright (1948) and one split national championship (1997). That doesn’t scream “leaders and best” to me, but hey I’m just an uneducated Sparty, right? That’s the root of this rivalry hatred: perception. MSU supporters take issue with the disconnect between perception and reality with U-M people. We grow tired of Wolverines living in the past and the superiority complex that comes with it. Call us little brother, it’s true. I don’t have to do the math for you studious folks to tell you U-M is older than MSU. Michael Jordan, Barack Obama, Peyton Manning – they’re all little brothers. They turned out OK. For a school that loves bragging about education, will somebody tell Brady Hoke the Buckeyes hail from Ohio State? The Ohio Bobcats aren’t on the schedule -- probably for the best considering how tough MAC foe Akron was. U-M is afraid to admit it’s threatened by MSU. It always has been, going back to when it attempted to block MSU from
joining the Big Ten. Now, the Spartans are on the rise with a clear foundation and knack for winning the Paul Bunyan Trophy. I can see how it’s so easy to cling to the past when the present offers such little hope. You embarrassingly chased away a top-notch coach like a new kid on the elementary playground because he was different and didn’t conform to “the Michigan way.” Then you tried to praise the hiring of a thirdstring candidate who’s still using Rodriguez’s players and only recently stopped using his playbook. U-M continues to get pummeled by Ohio State annually and shows no signs of beating MSU on a consistent basis. The faux aura around the U-M football program is as big a sham as a newspaper staffed by kids that don’t even major in journalism. Like it or not, these programs see eye-to-eye now. Big brother has grown old and decrepit, a has-been that’s all but faded into the shadows of a onceglorious past. Little brother is youthful and energetic, his best years yet to come. Four wins in five years, favored to be five of six by the end of the weekend. The pressure on U-M is evident, from the faculty-endorsed skywriting to Fitz Toussaint’s false sense of bravado. It desperately yearns to return to an era none of us were alive to see. For the Spartans, where’s the threat? Stephen Brooks is a State News football reporter. Reach him at sbrooks@statenews.com.