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Sweetwaters coffee shop to move into old Borders Franchise’s fourth A 2 location will cater more to students By ALICIA ADAMCZYK Daily News Editor
University students who enjoy the Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea locations throughout Ann Arbor will soon have an option much closer to Central Campus. Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea, an Ann Arbor staple since 1993, is opening its fourth Ann Arbor location in the space formerly occupied by Borders at 604 East Liberty St. in Spring 2014. The other Ann Arbor Sweetwaters shops are located downtown, in Kerrytown and on Plymouth Road. University alum Lisa Bee, owner of Sweetwaters said she was approached by franchisees Sheila Qin Li and Roy Xu to open a new store during the summer, but the East Liberty location wasn’t decided upon until about two months ago. Bee said she’s happy with the new location because Sweetwaters had always wanted to be closer to campus. Bee is involved with the new
2,020-square-feet shop, which will also have openings for 15 to 20 parttime employees. Despite the fact that there is a bevy of coffee options all located within a block of the space, Bee said she is not worried about the competition, especially considering the coffee-drinking habits of college students. “I think we can all co-exist,” Bee said. “We’re in downtown, and there are many coffee shops around downtown and we’re all doing fine.” Music, Theatre & Dance sophomore Michael Saterson, a Starbucks employee, said the addition of Sweetwaters to the area will impact sales, but he doesn’t think it will sway Starbucks regulars. Kirstin VanDeventer, a manager at the Biggby Coffee on East Liberty, said she doesn’t expect Sweetwaters to impact the sales of the company because of the different environments the two cafés offer. “We have a very unique menu, and I stand by that,” VanDeventer said. Bee will also be involved in the interior design plans, which she said may be different from the environment of other franchises. See SWEETWATERS, Page 3A
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Campaign events cost $750K Victors for Mich. targets major donors at launch By PETER SHAHIN Daily News Editor
Well, it was a good party. The total cost of the launch events for the Vic-
tors for Michigan development campaign was between $750,000 and 800,000, according to a statement Tuesday from Judith Malcolm, spokeswoman for the Office of Development. The estimate comprises a media event on Thursday and all events on Friday, including the Community Festival at Ingalls Mall, kickoff at
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Hill Auditorium, a dinner for donors and the After-Glo celebration later in the evening. The official kick off for Victors for Michigan, an ambitious $4-billion fundraising effort and the largest in the history of public higher education took place Nov. 8. The campaign’s main goals include scholarships, providing funds for engaged and alterna-
tive learning opportunities, and support for research to address some of the world’s most pressing issues. Malcolm wrote that many of the materials generated for the launch events, including inspirational videos and a live-stream of the event, will be reused throughout the campaign. Since many of See CAMPAIGN, Page 3A
GREEK LIFE
‘U’ alum asks how and why we work
After stabbing at SAE, fraternity leaders are divided on party safety Greek officials say sober monitors get sufficient training By YARDAIN AMRON
Researchers studied MBA students to better understand motivation and individual work ethic
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Robert Sade, a professor of surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina, presents the 18th Annual Raymond W. Waggoner Lecture on Ethics and Values in Medicine to medical students and faculty at University Hospital Wednesday.
Lecture questions ethics of organ-donation system
By RACHEL PREMACK Daily Staff Reporter
Like eating or sleeping, work is one of the most common human experiences. But it’s consuming more time than ever for the hardest-working Americans. Kathryn Dekas, people analytics manager at Google and a Ross Ph.D graduate, wondered why people approached this essential life activity so differently — some see a job as a means to a paycheck, while others consider it a life passion. In the first empirical study of the origins of work orientations, Dekas and Business Prof. Wayne Baker, chair of Management and Organizations at the See WORK, Page 3A
Compensation may ease shortage, says professor By AMABEL KAROUB For the Daily
Imagine a world where patients in need could pay for immediate access to organs.
At the 18th annual Raymond W. Waggoner lecture on Ethics and Values in Medicine, Robert Sade, a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, argued for the legalization of compensation for organs before a crowd of roughly 50 people at the University Hospital. Sade spent most of his lecture discussing the
misconceptions associated with organ donation, noting that paying donors for their organs is widely believed to be unethical and immoral. Organ donation levels have stagnated in recent years, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, in part because there is no compensation for organs, he said. “The rate of growth of See ORGAN, Page 3A
Despite the stabbing of two members of the University’s chapters of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity early November by an angry party-crasher, the Interfraternity Council is conflicted as to whether existing security measures are sufficient to handle future incidents. The assault at SAE occurred after four individuals were kicked out of the fraternity house, leading to a heated verbal altercation in which the suspect drew a knife and stabbed two sober monitors. Because SAE was expelled from IFC in 2011 for hazing allegations, the chapter’s sober monitors were not required to complete University Health Service’s Sober Monitor training, and the chapter was not under jurisdiction of IFC’s Social Environment Management Policy. SEMP provides a mandatory, 19-page protocol for hosting an IFC social event. Strict SEMP guidelines are enforced by the Social
Responsibility Committee, which is composed of 13 Greek-affiliated students. On party nights, members make rounds as “checkers” to patrol for policy violations. During that time, sober monitors must submit to breathalyzer tests by request of SEMP checkers, who also have the right to shut down a party if deemed necessary. Whether SAE was following the SEMP policy the night of the attack is unclear. Brandon Weghorst, a national spokesman for SAE, could not be reached for comment after repeated requests. SRC, however, does not monitor events that are unaffiliated with IFC, like parties at SAE. LSA junior Tommy Wydra, the SRC chairman, said there are serious safety concerns for students at unregulated off-campus fraternities, but praised the sober monitor training required of IFC fraternities. “I’m very confident that an incident like this would not occur at any of our fraternity houses because of the training that we go through,” Wydra said. Training for sober monitors — the orange-shirt-clad fraternity members who man the doors and See SECURITY, Page 3A
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some music stuff; that was really my first foray into journalism. I was an English major and did the creative writing sub-concentration, so I was doing lots of writing. Do you have any advice for students interested in journalism or writing? I was just really willing to do anything early on … The way I got my foot in the door at Rolling Stone was I was willing to write for the “Random Notes” section. People know that it’s just basically a long photo caption, like 50-word captions, and I was willing to do stuff like that, and work really hard on even these very stupid, un-
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WHERE: School of Dentistry WHEN: Tuesday at about 11:45 p.m. WHAT: Custodial supplies were stolen from a storage closet between Nov. 9 and Nov. 11, University Police reported. No suspects have been reported.
Blood Battle
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WHAT: Come donate blood to not only help those in need of it, but also to beat Ohio State University in the 32nd annual blood battle. The blood drive will be continuing until Nov. 27. WHO: Blood Drives United WHEN: Today 8 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. WHERE: Michigan Union
WHERE: 1300 Block Fuller WHEN: Tuesday at about 8:05 a.m. WHAT: Two vehicles collided, but no injuries were confirmed, University Police reported. The crash was caused by the failure of one driver to yield.
Fashion police Hold your strikes horses WHERE: Chemistry Building WHEN: Tuesday at about 8:30 a.m. WHAT: A garment bag was taken from a room on the first floor, University Police reported. The theft occurred sometime on Nov. 8.
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University alum Mark Binelli is an author and contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine and Men’s Journal magazine. While on campus Binelli wrote for The Michigan Daily, eventually serving as an arts editor. Binelli grew up in St. Clair Shores and moved back to Detroit for three years to immerse himself in the city and write his most recent book, “Detroit City Is the Place to Be.”
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Arab world uprisings discussion WHAT: University alum Jill Dougherty will speak about the Arab Spring. WHO: History of Art WHEN: Today at 6 p.m. WHERE: Museum of Art, Helmut Stern Auditorium
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WHAT: Rossini’s twoact comic opera and the famous Figaro will be playing today. Tickets are being sold in the League; students tickets are just $10 WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: Today at 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Power Center for the Performing Arts
WHAT: Princeton University’s David Bell will be addressing students on the “Birth of Militarism in the Age of Revolutions,” and will be arguing the differences between the miliatary and civilian spheres. WHO: Center for European Studies WHEN: Today 4-5:30 p.m. WHERE: School of Social Work Building
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During the trial of one of his stalkers, Alec Baldwin cried while on stand, New York Daily News reported Wednesday. A former friend of Baldwin told the courtroom that Baldwin had slept with the alleged stalker.
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Coleman, business professors First month of Obamacare to attend alumni event in India website sees low enrollment India conference will seek to strengthen University’s ties to nation
seas. University administrators, faculty members and students will collaborate with alumni and business leaders in India Saturday for the University of Michigan India Conference. The India Conference, primarily organized by the University of Michigan India Alumni Association, succeeds the Business School’s India Business Conference, which took place Nov. 1 in Ann Arbor. Over the last five years, University affiliates have held two conferences annually
Federal website signed up 26,794 people in October
— one in India and one in Ann and Human Services Secretary Arbor — that showcase the busiKathleen Sebelius, who is in ness trends in both countries. overall charge. With speakers and attendees that “Even with the issues we’ve represent both demographics, the had, the marketplace is working conferences seek to highlight and and people are enrolling,” Sebeconnect business leaders. WASHINGTON (AP) — lius said. Responding to GOP Business Prof. C.K. Prahalad, Planting a paltry number on a critics, she said the first premiBy AMRUTHA SIVAKUMAR who passed away in 2010, initinational disappointment, the ums are not due until Dec. 15. 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Harry Reid, D-Nev., scheduled an all-Democrats meeting Thursday with White House health care officials. Republicans, meanwhile, are holding hearings to keep the overhaul’s problems in the spotlight ahead of an election year. “It’s kind of interesting to see as Obamacare implodes how everybody’s running for cover,” said Rep. John Mica, R-Fla. And Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said, “Obviously, panic has set in on the other side.” The administration has staked its credibility on turning the website around by the end of this month. From the president on down, officials have said that HealthCare.gov will be running smoothly for the vast majority of users by Nov. 30. They have not specified what “running smoothly” means. The day was another blow for the administration and its supporters in Congress, who had been counting on Obamacare as a neutral if not winning issue in next year’s midterm elections. Three more swing state Senate Democrats seeking reelection in 2014 signed onto legislation drafted by Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana to ensure that anyone liking their current coverage would be able to keep it, an attempt to resolve the issue of cancellations. In the House, meanwhile, majority Republicans set a vote for Friday on legislation to permit insurance companies to continue selling existing policies that have been ordered scrapped because they fall short of coverage standards in the law. On daily media calls, Health and Human Services department officials have described a situation where problems get fixed and then new issues crop up as consumers are able to venture further into the website. It’s a bit like traffic heading back to a city late on a summer Sunday: You get past one jam, and odds are you run into another.
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Oakland U. to submit report on coach firing A judge on Wednesday ordered Oakland University to turn over an unedited internal report on the firing of women’s basketball coach Beckie Francis, who university officials say abused players. Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Martha Anderson said during a hearing Wednesday that she would decide this week how much of the report will remain blacked out. Francis is suing the 19,000-student school to get specific information on her June 12 firing. That same day her husband, Gary Russi, announced his retirement as president of Oakland University.
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Three students shot in drug-related dispute after school Three Pittsburgh high school students heading to their vehicle after classes ended were shot Wednesday afternoon, and police investigating whether the shooting stemmed from a drug-related dispute had six people in custody for questioning, school and police officials said. The victims were shot outside Brashear High School as they walked to a vehicle they’d all taken to school earlier in the day, school district spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said. Nearby residents said they heard seven or eight shots. The wounds of the victims, all boys, appeared to be non-lifethreatening, both Pugh and police spokeswoman Diane Richard said, though their descriptions of the wounds differed slightly. Pugh said two students were grazed in the head and one was shot in both the foot and arm. Richard said one was grazed in the neck and shoulder, but not the head.
TORONTO
Toronto mayor admits to buying illegal drugs Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted during a heated City Council debate Wednesday that he bought illegal drugs while in office, but adamantly refused to step down despite calls from nearly every councilor to take a leave of absence and get help. “I’m most definitely keeping this job,” the 44-year-old Ford said, insisting he was “a positive role model for kids.” The mayor made the admission under questioning by a former ally, Councilor Denzil Minnan-Wong. Ford publicly acknowledged last week that he smoked crack cocaine while in a “drunken stupor” last year, but his comments Wednesday marked the first time he admitted buying illegal drugs.
PARIS
French official IDs suspect in murder of journalists The Paris prosecutor has confirmed the identity of the prime suspect in the killing of two French radio journalists in Mali last week as a militant with ties to al-Qaida’s north Africa branch. Francois Molins said an “intense” manhunt was underway for Baye Ag Bakabo, known to authorities as a low-level drug trafficker from the Tuareg ethnic group who had ties to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. He was one of four men believed to be involved in the Nov. 2 kidnapping and killing of correspondent Ghislaine Dupont and technician Claude Verlon of Radio France Internationale. Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Molins also denied accounts in Malian media saying the journalists had had their throats slit. He said they were each shot multiple times, and no knife was used. —Compiled from Daily wire reports
Symposium to highlight art influenced by political uprisings Event to feature presentations from artists and activists By GIANCARLO BUONOMO Daily Arts Writer
How do you bring down a dictator? Often, it requires the usual tools: guns, bullets, bombs and blood. But dictators can themselves grant rebels a powerful weapon. Say, Bashar al-Assad’s skinny face, or Muammar Gadhafi’s bushy hair. Throughout the entirety of political upheaval in some Arab nations, protesters and rebel fighters have been using art as a weapon, both by satirizing oppressors and commemorating sacrifices. This Thursday and Friday, the History of Art department will be holding a symposium dedicated to analyzing and preserving the art that has played such a huge role in recent uprisings. “Over the last two years, I’ve followed really carefully all of these events,” said Christiane Gruber, an associate professor of Islamic Art and Visual Culture. “I followed street artists, cartoonists, bloggers, journalists, and when I saw just how many people were active in the uprisings through the expressive media, using all of these different media, I thought it would be just wonderful to put them in conversation, to exit academia for just a second and bring everybody together.” This symposium on the under-analyzed role of art in
WORK From Page 1A Business School, surveyed 109 part-time MBA students about their conceptions of work. “We don’t necessarily understand why people approach their work in different ways,” Dekas said. “It’s helpful for people to reflect on what work means to them — in other words, the main things they hope to achieve or experience through working — and ensure they’re making decisions accordingly.” The study, to be published in the 2014 volume of Research in the Sociology of Work, suggests that parents are the most major influence on work orientation. It also found that the participant’s religious culture and the stability of a participant’s industry changed how he or she viewed the work. Baker said this aligned with how parents impact other values, such as political leanings. Adolescence is a key time for parental socialization to influence work orientation, as one is still forming their values but is old enough to comprehend what values are. Job, career and “calling” were defined as the three career orientations understood by individuals. Amy Wrzesniewski, now an associate professor at Yale University, established these categories in her business Ph.D. dissertation. Those with a job orientation work principally for a source of income and are eager to retire.
ORGAN From Page 1A the waiting list for organs is 3.5 times faster than the rate of increase of deceased donors,” Sade said. “While the waiting list and number of deaths continue to grow, the number of donors has essentially stabilized over the last seven years. This accounts for what has come to be known as the organ gap.” Sade blames the National Organ Transplantation Act of 1984, which made compensation for organs a felony, for the lack of organ donations in recent years. “Over the last 30 years, the only motivation that is legally accepted is altruism; that is, providing organs for no other reason than the satisfaction of doing something good,” he said. Toward the end of his lecture,
the Arab uprisings will feature presentations from a diverse group of activists, journalists and academics, including CNN correspondent Jill Dougherty and Tunisian photo-blogger and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Lina Ben Mhenni. “There has been interest in the arts, but there hasn’t been a systematic study of how it’s functioning at the core of the uprisings,” Gruber said. “The more you look actually at how these things are enacted and activated, it’s through banners, it’s through chants, it’s through posters, it’s through digital art,” she said. Along with live reporting, Gruber said these tools aim to give a profile or shape to a demonstration. Much of the art that will be discussed in the symposium is street art, which has played a significant role in the uprisings for both practical and symbolic reasons. If an artist in Libya wants to make a statement to a whole neighborhood, what better way than to paint a humorous image on the wall of a public square? “If you see Gaddafi as a rat running away from extermination, you don’t need to explain all of the different messages imbedded in those images,” Gruber said. However, on a symbolic level, street art is also a means by which citizens reclaim the spaces which government forces may have seized. Even if someone spray-paints a giant smiley face on a wall where a massacre occurred, it still sends a message. “The simple fact of putting something up is about reclaiming that public space as public,”
Gruber said. Public satire has been particularly useful in destroying the elaborate cult of personalities. “There’s nothing worse for an autocratic ruler than to have his charisma broken,” Gruber said. And dictators really are afraid. Over the last several years, several prominent cartoonists and satirists have been beaten, imprisoned and even killed because of their art. Gruber has seen this violence firsthand. She spent the summer in Turkey profiling and working with protesters, who regularly experienced police brutality. Tear gas canisters were so ubiquitous that she began to use them as flower pots. That is, the tear gas canisters that didn’t land next to her feet and engulf her and other protesters in a suffocating fog. Like tear gas-canister flower pots, much of the art of the Arab uprisings is improvised and spontaneous. For example, one Egyptian protester in Cairo’s Tahrir Square made a necklace out of empty shell casings, a weirdly beautiful and uniquely powerful retort to violence. However, this symposium recognizes that what makes this art powerful — how it can pop up overnight, seemingly anywhere, using anything — isn’t conducive to longevity. “I think with street art, in general, it is fleeting; it is ephemeral,” Gruber said. But for these artists, their art has a significance beyond brief existence. “It’s, ‘I live through art,’ ” Gruber said. “It’s, ‘I hope through art.’ ”
Career-oriented employees might be seen as the typical workaholic — they are eager to climb the ranks and derive their identity from their job. Finally, a calling orientation leads people to seek employment that positively affects others and fulfills their own passions. These orientations are largely stable over a person’s life, Dekas said. For example, a father with a career orientation is most likely to raise a child with the same orientation. Interestingly enough, participants more closely mimicked their father’s orientations over their mother’s. However, this leaning may be influenced by the gender norms surrounding most of the participants’ adolescence. The average age of survey participants was 31, and women were underrepresented in the working force in the 1980s. More than half of the working mothers of the participants worked in health care or education, fields that are not characterized by career mobility compared to managerial positions that the participants’ fathers may have held. The researchers concluded it was likely that fathers were stronger occupational role models. Baker said he expected there would be a difference in the findings if the study if it were repeated in the coming decades. Additionally, the report found that distressed industries force employees to shift to a job or career orientation, as participants employed in the auto industry demonstrated. A bigger meaning in a person’s career
might be ignored if layoffs are looming. “You may be a lot more focused on getting a job where you can make some money and get by,” Baker said. Baker and Dekas also found that individuals raised in communities with a Protestant culture, such as the Netherlands or Great Britain, were more likely to have a job or career orientation. Baker links this correlation to the change in attitude toward work during the Protestant Reformation. She said that value in working hard and advancing in society is still cherished 500 years later. “Work was no longer seen as something you just had to do,” Baker said. “Working hard, being frugal and investing wisely were all considered to be almost spiritual endeavors.” The researchers highlighted the importance of learning one’s own career orientation and finding employment that matched it. Baker mentioned firms that hire top undergraduates and overwork them for a few years with a high salary might please a job-oriented person but alienate those with a calling orientation. Dekas affirmed the need for some introspection to achieve happiness in a work-crazed environment. “Are they looking for work that will provide them with a lot of money? Social status? Deep, genuine fulfillment? Many people look for all of these things, but most people can isolate one or two that are particularly important.”
Sade touched upon the ethical standards of physicians, saying that the most critical ethical principle of any physician is trustworthiness given the intimacy of relationships with patients. Before the lecture, Sade said decisions regarding end-of-life care were some of the most difficult he faced as a physician. “One difficult problem that still is a problem for me is when you’re taking a patient who’s sliding downhill and getting sicker and sicker, and trying to decide when is the right time to discontinue life support,” Sade said. “Is it ok to help that patient who’s suffering badly and is not going to survive?” Sade also offered some advice to pre-medicine students: the major you choose as an undergraduate does not make any difference whatsoever to medical school admissions officers.
“People who major outside of the sciences, (those) who major in history or art or economics or philosophy, do just as well in medical school as people who major in chemistry or biology,” Sade said. My best advice to premedical students is to major in whatever it is that turns you on, and not necessarily in the sciences.” After the lecture, Nursing senior Kim Siebert said the idea of monetary compensation for organ donors is still questionable in her mind. “I think it’s difficult because if you were to try and put a price on an organ, it’s not going to be easy. It’s the same thing as trying to put a price on a life.” Siebert said. “There are so many different situational things that you can think of, like why did that person need an organ, or how did the person giving an organ feel about it?”
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SWEETWATERS From Page 1A “It will take on the personality of the location that it’s in — more geared toward students,” she said. Bee said Sweetwaters would like to continue to expand in the future if the location and partners are the “right fit.” Sweetwaters is the fourth company slated to open in the former Borders building. Knight’s Steakhouse, Huntington National Bank and Slurping Turtle, a Japanese
CAMPAIGN From Page 1A the activities shared resources to contain spending, she wrote it was difficult to separate how much each individually cost. “To achieve our audacious goal of raising $4 billion, we need gifts from hundreds of thousands of donors,” Malcolm wrote. “That means we need hundreds of thousands of people aware of and engaged in the campaign.” The DTE Energy Foundation donated $25,000 toward the Community Festival, helping offset the costs of that event. While the Office of Development did not specifically track gifts and pledges received over the weekend, Malcolm wrote that the events were intended to thank donors for their recent gifts, including $50 million from Richard and Susan Rogel and $200 million from Stephen Ross. The purpose of the events was to highlight those donations in order to motivate other donors to begin considering what they might contribute to the campaign. “Unlike a fundraising telethon, a campaign kickoff is not designed or intended to raise money at that precise moment in time,” Malcolm wrote. “The kickoff event did, however, provide a focus and urgency for fundraising.” To demonstrate their early support for Victors for Michigan, Malcolm wrote that many donors
SECURITY From Page 1A serve alcohol at many fraternity parties — includes preparation for dealing with sick party-goers, violent confrontations and crowd control. However, Andrew Koffsky, former president of AEPi, said in a previous interview that he was less convinced the sober monitor training could prevent such an assault. “No 19 or 20 year old knows how to deal with somebody who has a knife and is trying to get into a party,” Koffsky said. “None of us are trained to have mortal combat abilities.” Stephen Siddall, risk manager for the University’s chapter of the Chi Phi fraternity, echoed Koffsky’s concerns about the stabbing. “I think it’s really scary; it really could have happened at any fraternity,” Siddall said. As risk manager, Siddall approves plans for Chi Phi’s parties, works the front door and coordinates up to 10 sober monitors around the fraternity’s property. Siddall said he had little formal training aside from shadowing the previous risk manager. While Siddall admitted none of his sober monitors are trained to deal with a weapon, he said hiring additional security — as some fraternities have — would be overkill, and he put the onus on guests for keeping parties safe. “People just need to understand that fraternities are not throwing open parties every night,” Siddall said. “Ninety-nine percent of our parties are closed events.” But when fraternities plan
tapas and noodle house, have also confirmed that they will set up shop in the first floor of the space, leaving one additional vacant spot for a retailer or restaurant. The University’s School of Information will fill the office space on the second floor, accompanied by PRIME Research. Barracuda Networks, an information technology security firm, leased 45,000 square feet of space at the corner of East Liberty and Maynard Street, which housed Borders’ corporate headquarters in 2012.
wanted to contribute in advance of the campaign kick off — so they could also be recognized as leadership donors at individual school and unit events. Malcolm wrote that Jerry May, the University’s vice president for development, spoke with five potential donors over the weekend who are considering gifts in the $10 to 12 million range and another six who are considering gifts in the $5 to 10 million range. She added that many deans used the kickoff event as a way to close donations in the run-up to the launch. Over the weekend, the deans were then able to use the gifts already received to talk with other potential donors about how they could contribute. The University has already raised $1.7 billion of the $4 billion goal, which includes the gifts from Ross, Rogel, Penny Stamps, who donated $32.5 million to the School of Art and Design in 2012, and others. “The goal of every event is to thank the donors who contributed the $1.7 billion in the Nucleus Fund and to inspire others to give,” Malcolm wrote. Malcolm added that the University had succeeded in its goal of getting its message out to at least five million potential donors over the course of the weekend. The count included those who participated in an event, watched the live-stream of the kickoff in Hill Auditorium or read a Tweet, Facebook post, news article or promotional item.
massive parties — usually with attendance of 500 people or more — some risk managers see a thirdparty security team as a necessary investment. K-9 Patrol, a risk management consulting firm based out of Dearborn Heights, Mich., has been employed this year by the University’s chapters of Sigma Alpha Mu, Alpha Sigma and Alpha Epsilon Pi. The company provides preevent guidance, onsite armed and unarmed guards and post-party consultations. Timothy Schar, CEO of K-9 Patrol, said his guards are professional and act as a strong visual deterrent to help reduce the chance of an assault. “We’re not a company that goes and puts a bunch of 300-pound gorillas out there with black t-shirts that say ‘security’ on the back, because that’s not security,” Schar said. The company even deals with angry neighbors through a hotline designated for complaints. Guards generally cost $280, and most parties need between three and five guards, depending on the number of guests, Schar said. Most fraternities spend between $1,000 and $1,500 upfront on his company’s services, and there are no refunds if a party gets shut down, he said. Still, the exorbitant costs required to hire a company like K-9 Patrol remain a strong enough deterrent for some risk managers, like Siddall. “We haven’t been asked to (hire security), and that’s an added cost that we don’t necessarily need, and I really don’t think its necessary from a risk management perspective,” Siddall said.
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Interdisciplinary innovation One-credit mini-courses give students exposure to real-world issues
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he College of LSA, in partnership with student organization optiMize, has proposed a new model to boost student-driven creative innovation called the LSA Social Innovation Alliance. The program proposes to support one-credit developmental mini-courses, an annual Social Innovation Challenge, Summer Innovation Grants and the creation of a 15-month SIA fellowship. Currently, LSA is seeking financial support of $4 million to endow the SIA program and about $200,000 annually. Given the positive response and demand from both the administration and the student population, the University should make this program a priority and reach out to donors. The main opportunity SIA presents is the creation of new one-credit mini-courses that will focus on critical, real-world issues, like education. A one-credit mini-course launched this academic year by LSA. With a low-barrier to entry, the courses are an appealing option for students with all types of course loads. This new section filled up extremely fast with a waitlist of seven people and attracted a diverse group of students. The demographics of the optiMize Social Innovation Challenge last year included 50 percent LSA students, 28 percent Business School students and 22 percent of students distributed between other colleges. The courses push students to devise practical, real-world solutions. The “Critical Issues in Education” mini-course description states that it aims to expose students to several of the most pressing facets of a particular social issue through presentations by guest speakers. The speakers end their presenta-
tions with a challenge for the students to design creative solutions to these problems. Students will also have to work with others within different majors and skill sets, as well as apply their own experiences to create innovative interdisciplinary solutions. Aside from allowing students to network with other similar-minded, passionate students of different majors, the course also provides students with business networking opportunities with the speakers, who come from various walks of life. However, the program will need to draw on more outside resources — like local non-profits — to further expand and develop. As social innovation increases by the hour, this is a program that requires further development and expansion. In a campus where words like “pitches,” “entrepreneurship” and “startups” are thrown around in the air frequently, it’s necessary to also focus on the passion, drive, and motivation behind entrepreneurship.
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS Kaan Avdan, Sharik Bashir, Barry Belmont, James Brennan, Eric Ferguson, Jordyn Kay, Jesse Klein, Melanie Kruvelis, Maura Levine, Aarica Marsh, Megan McDonald, Victoria Noble, Adrienne Roberts, Paul Sherman, Daniel Wang, Derek Wolfe
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Here’s what we’re going to do in this article. I’m going to pretend that I know a thing or two about changing behavior, and you’re going to pretend to follow my advice. Let me tell you about changing anything in your life. First, you cannot expect a change in results if you don’t change the inputs. When you want your life to go in another direction, the priority is in how you do it. The way to change that “how” part is by realizing the difference between the subconscious and conscious mind, and observing the way they affect behavior. Now if you haven’t read Shakespeare’s Hamlet, go read it now. It will prompt you to ask yourself whether you should live or die. Make a list — assets and liabilities, pros and cons, or just to live and to die — and assign numeric points to the items on your list. Calculate the points, and you will have seen your choice. If you’ve come back to read this article — welcome back — I have started change in you. Those who haven’t followed the instructions will undergo no change as they haven’t changed any inputs in their equations — reading Hamlet is not mandatory; just make the list. What we’ve accomplished by compiling a list of to live or to die was turning a subconscious process into a conscious one. This is the first step toward changing an outcome — realizing what the heck is going on. Going through the effort of seeing why you choose to live is essential. While it seems rather like a trivial task, it might in the end reveal a couple of things about yourself. Also, it’s useful in the sense that it pushes you to look at how you value “things” in life. The second accomplishment of the test was making a decision based on a conscious process rather than a subconscious one. In this case it was choosing to live and coming back to finish the article. The first part was identi-
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fication, and the second is deciding whether your behavior makes sense or not. Basically, just go repeat the process for your addictions or whatever that is you want to change. As a result of these two steps it will be evident to you whether you should try to get rid of a habit, or try to change it. Something is part of your subconscious because at some point in your life you thought you didn’t need to question it. Since you now want change, you have to question it. The simple example is asking yourself why you should quit smoking. It won’t work if you don’t see the flaw in your own reasoning, and if you don’t see a problem in your conscious reasoning then you don’t want to quit your habit. Figuring out the flaw doesn’t solve the problem, right? You’re convinced and you’re aware, but you lack initiative. Remember what I said about assigning points? You lack initiative because the values that add up to your habit outweigh your desire for change. Now, I can’t dig into changing values because that’s a completely different psychological ball game, but what I can say is that the more you question yourself the better it is. So, my very narrow value add to your day is this: don’t take it for granted, go through the process one more time, because somewhere along the way you will see what matters more to you, and that may become the initial spark to change. You have to review how you look at things in order to get a new sense of evaluating where you’re at in life, and then you can begin changing yourself. TL;DR: To change behavioral outputs, change input approaches and assumptions first. To do this, make the effort to turn some subconscious processes into conscious ones. Kaan Avdan is an LSA junior.
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Why we feel cold
round this time of the year, a single question preoccupies the minds of many people: Why is it so cold? Unfortunately, while many people ask this question out of either pragmatic concern or faux existential grief, many also fail to see how pro- BARRY found just such a BELMONT question is. This is due in part, I imagine, to their misunderstanding of how the whole process of “feeling cold” works. When pressed for an answer for “why winters are cold,” many people often hem and haw about the earth being farther away from the sun in the “winter,” thus receiving less light and becoming colder. This is wrong. This line of thinking exposes a bit of northern hemisphere bias, since the southern hemisphere experiences summer while we have winter. If we consider that the variation in the orbital distance between the earth and the sun is approximately 3,110,000 miles — which is nearly 800 times greater than the radius of the earth — we can see that all regions of the earth are affected pretty much equally by this variation. Therefore, it’s not the cause of seasonal changes. However, that seasons are hemisphere dependent suggests an answer, namely that the tilt of the earth is the reason for the seasons. And this is true as far as it goes. Since the tilt of the earth remains constant during the northern hemisphere’s winter, the northern hemisphere points away from the sun. This angle causes the sun to be lower in the sky, heats the ground less efficiently and shortens the days to bring on the cold. But the “tilt of the earth” answer always seemed a bit shallow
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to me, as it fails to answer the more interesting question: Why do we feel cold? And as with most “why”-based questions, there are both proximate and ultimate answers. The proximate, or most direct, answer is that we don’t feel cold. In fact, human beings and other animals do not feel temperature at all. What we actually sense is the flow of heat caused by temperature differences. We feel “heat transfer.” This is not a trivial distinction. Everything in a heated oven is at the same temperature, but a cake pan will hurt more to touch than the surrounding air because the heat transfer from the pan is rapid and intense, while that from the air is slow and inefficient. Heat transfer is the answer to more questions than many could have hoped to ask, and it tells us why we feel cold. In general, there are three main types of heat transfer. The first, and most intuitive, is known as conduction. Conductive heat transfer occurs when two objects of different temperatures physically contact one another. Heat energy from the object with the higher temperature will flow into the colder object until the two are at equilibrium. This happens when two people hold hands or when a significant other asks to have their cold feet warmed up. The second type of heat transfer is known as convection and is essentially the same process as conduction, except instead of two solids interfacing, one solid interfaces with a fluid — either a liquid or a gas. Fans feel good in the summer because they push air across our skin and wick away heat — in conjunction with evaporation, another type of heat transfer — and why they would feel so bad to us in the winter. Conduction and convection are the primary causes of the answer to why we feel cold. These are the two modes that have shaped our physiol-
Focus on men’s mental health in ‘Movember’ TO THE DAILY: This month of November, we in Counseling and Psychological Services are promoting “Movember” — a month focused on, and dedicated to, men’s mental health, and health and wellness in general, as a complement to our work with students the other 11 months of the year. Men have a higher likelihood of dying by suicide and engaging in substance abuse. One in six are survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Simultaneously, men underutilize mental health services, gravitate toward “toughing” it out in private, and find
ogy and guided our evolution. They are why the ears of rabbits are long, why noses get cold to insure that the rest of the body remains warm, and why the genitalia of human males are kept outside of their torsos. The forces of evolution are mindful of thermodynamics, if for no other reason than that it is the law. We feel warmth and coldness because there is a higher evolutionary pressure to determine differences in temperature rather than absolute temperatures to ensure survival. Perhaps the least intuitive but most important of the three modes of heat transfer is radiation, the process by which energy is transferred in the form of electromagnetic waves. While conduction and convection require a physical medium to move heat about, all things, at all times, are taking in and giving off this radiative energy, with “hotter” objects giving off more radiation than they take in and “colder” objects taking in more radiation than they give off. This is the reason we can feel the sun’s warmth at all. If we consider this fact, we can come to our revelation: we feel cold because space is cold. When you step outside in the morning on those winter days, you are feeling outer space suck away your heat. Every chill, every shiver, every breath hanging in the air is directly attributable to the cosmos’s cold, unfeeling nature. With an average temperature of approximately -450 degrees Fahrenheit (roughly -270 Celsius), space does not seem particularly suited for the lives we enjoy. Coldness is the rule, not the exception. In fact, instead of asking ourselves why it gets so cold, maybe we should ask, “why does it ever get warm?” — Barry Belmont can be reached at belmont@umich.edu.
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it easier to not ask for help. Men’s health affects all of us regardless of our gender. We all have men in our lives that we care about. The stigma around accessing services has impacted many of us personally and professionally, and it’s time to create a change. I urge all of us to create a caring community and to do something to help support this focus on men’s health and to make it easier for men to ask for help. Attend one of Movember events, take time to educate ourselves, create time to talk with each other, keep identifying ways to be healthy, and more importantly, to lay the foundation for the future — our future. Most of all, I invite and urge us to make men’s mental health real in a meaningful and personal way. I know
it’s hard — I’ve been there — it’s easy to think these things won’t happen to me or to anyone I care about. But, the reality is that a health issue can happen to all of us and/or to someone we care about — I’ve been there, too. Thinking back personally, I wish someone had talked about men’s health when I was in college. That’s how I make this real for me and I invite all of us to make this real and personal. Join us on the Diag on Nov. 14 from 12-2 p.m. to learn more. And, join us in this effort as we collectively try to make an impact with action, with knowledge, with voice and with support. Todd Sevig Director of Counseling and Psychological Services
MICHAEL SCHRAMM | VIEWPOINT
Choosing English over Engineering A recent article in The New York Times stated a fact most of us know: The number of humanities majors is declining. Harvard University’s humanity programs rake in 20 percent fewer students than a decade ago, and Stanford University’s humanities staff makes up 45 percent of the faculty population but only 15 percent of students study humanities. This trend stems from the focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. This generation’s college students are especially concerned about getting a job after college, and, therefore, students may choose science over humanity majors, as they can be seen as more attractive to employers. However, students miss great opportunities in humanities departments. As an English major, I can attest to the value of my classes. The knowledge that I learn isn’t irrelevant, unimportant or useless in the job field. What I’ve learned has been extraordinary and beneficial in ways that STEM majors can’t offer. I don’t learn about derivatives, programming or cells in English — I learn about life. To study a novel or essay is to study the complexities of being human, which directly impacts my opinions of humanity. I have walked out of a 90-minute English recitation genuinely feeling more knowledgeable about life. Take, for instance, the English class I’m taking this semester. We’re currently learning about Virginia Woolf, a novelist known for breaking the rules of what defines a novel. In Jacob’s Room, she avoids developing plot and characters. By avoiding vivid character descriptions, she illuminates her point on how little we
actually “know” someone. In most novels, we know as much as the writer can detail. In real life, though, we don’t know people this well. We see them for only a tiny fraction of their life, and even at these points we are further restricted by not having access to their personal thoughts. Prior to this class, I had never processed how hard it is to actually know someone. This idea, though, enhanced my experience of the world. It changed how I thought about life. This type of knowledge about humans rarely, if at all comes from STEM classes. English not only helps me know more about life — it also helps me to express my thoughts. Through the hours of discussions and papers, my professors have honed my ability to communicate effectively. When I’m having an argument with a friend, I know exactly how to express my thoughts. By clarifying what I’m saying, it can either diffuse a situation or allow the person to better understand why I feel the way I do. When I open my iPhone to tweet a funny story, after a few moments of revising, I’ve effectively used the right words in the right places to convey the story. When I’m e-mailing a professor about a class question, I know how to write professionally while also specifically addressing my question. This skill, honed by my English class, has helped me immensely. But English isn’t all about developing life skills. Contrary to popular belief, the major has a strong basis in preparing for career fields. It’s absolutely true that English does not designate you to a specific field, but it does prepare you for a variety of fields. The
life and communication skills learned from an English degree are invaluable for a wide range of careers. An English degree prepares students for careers in journalism, sales, marketing, law, publishing, editing, reporting, social work, politics and teaching. That’s not the end of the list, though. With such a wide range of skills, some English majors find careers in unexpected fields, including accounting, banking, digital copywriting, public relations, blogging, researching, sales, lobbying and event planning. With these opportunities and many more, choosing English does not also mean sacrificing a career. In fact, with unending opportunities, English arguably provides more opportunities for work than a major that’s bound to a specific job. Now, I’m not devaluing choosing a major in the STEM field. Everyone has different interests, and sciences and technology are vital. I’m thankful for the medicine, technology and infrastructure that come from STEM majors. They’re incredible, and the people that major in these fields enhance the world. However, the value in these fields should not minimize the value in English. I may not have the skills to design a road, diagnose a cold or create cardiovascular tissue; however, I can express myself and analyze literature better than a good portion of people, and that’s what I find useful. Knowing more about the human condition has enhanced my personal life in a way STEM classes can’t. For me, my education isn’t just about finding a job. Michael Schramm is an LSA sophomore.
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PREVIEW With the old Big East now dissolved, and the Atlantic Coast Conference claiming some of the well-known teams, the once-popular debate of whether the Big East or Big Ten is the best conference in college basketball seems to have taken a new direction. While the ACC welcomes Final Four team Syracuse, the Big Ten comes back following a season in which four Big Ten teams out of eight NCAA Tournament squads made the
Sweet 16, including two which advanced to the Elite Eight, as well as Michigan making the national championship game. This year, the Big Ten comes back with five schools ranked in the Top 25. Here’s a breakdown of the upper echelon of competition the Wolverines will face this season.
1. Michigan State
2. Ohio State
3. Wisconsin
After being unanimously selected the Big Ten favorite by the media heading into the season, the second-ranked Spartans showed on Tuesday night why they are not only seen as the leaders of the Big Ten, but of the country as well. Taking on No. 1 Kentucky in Chicago, Michigan State demonstrated its veteran savvy, defeating the Wildcats 78-74. Returning six of their seven starters from last season, the Spartans looked in midseason form as center Adreian Payne – a preseason All-Big Ten member – tallied 15 points. Still, Payne was just the Spartans’ third-leading scorer behind guards Gary Harris (20) and Keith Appling (22). Harris, who considered entering the NBA Draft last year, returns at 100-percent health after being injured on and off last year. The sophomore was also named to the Preseason All-Big Ten team, adding to the distinction of preseason Big Ten Player of the Year. Assuming Michigan State doesn’t lose to Columbia on Friday, it’ll take over the No. 1 national rank next week. Though Big Ten play doesn’t start until Dec. 31 for the Spartans, they’ll have a number of notable non-conference games in the near future against No. 12 North Carolina in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge and a tough road battle against Texas.
After an elimination in the Elite Eight by Wichita State, the Buckeyes return this year with one player that has become the face of the Big Ten over his past three years at Ohio State: Aaron Craft. The senior guard and MVP of the 2013 Big Ten Tournament comes back to Columbus for one last go-round to help lead a team predicted third in the Big Ten. After losing leading scorer Deshaun Thomas to the NBA Draft, the 10th-ranked Buckeyes (2-0) will be tasked with replacing 19.8 points per game. With the loss, even more pressure and responsibility will be placed on Craft – the team’s second-leading scorer from last season with 10 points per game – to be a scoring threat. The Buckeyes will have junior forward LaQuinton Ross back, a player that will step right into Thomas’s starting spot. After averaging 8.3 points off the bench in just 16.9 minutes of action last season, Ross has already – albeit in a two-game span – improved upon those numbers, averaging 12 points and seven rebounds in 26.5 minutes. Of Ohio State’s remaining non-conference games, three that stand out are No. 17 Marquette, Maryland and No. 21 Notre Dame.
While Wisconsin’s style of play – slow, stagnant, boring – may not be popular to Big Ten fans, there is no doubt it works and will continue to work as long as Bo Ryan remains coach of the Badgers. Though No. 20 Wisconsin (2-0) had one of its worst offensive seasons under Ryan, the team still led the Big Ten in defensive efficiency, and in effect, wore teams down in games — the Badgers held opponents under 50 points 10 times. Returning for Wisconsin is forward Sam Dekker, a 6-foot-7 shooter, proven by his 39-percent shooting from 3-point range and 9.6 points per game last season. His development and role will become larger this year with the losses of Jared Berggren, Mike Bruesewitz and Ryan Evans. While they depart, coming back for the Badgers will be junior Josh Gasser, who missed all of last year due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament. He’ll share the backcourt with Ben Brust, who has averaged 13 points in Wisconsin’s first two games, which were wins versus No. 11 Florida and St. John’s. With a signature win already under its belt, Wisconsin’s next and perhaps only notable non-conference game will be against No. 25 Virginia on Dec. 4. Three days later, the Badgers will take on in-state rival Marquette.
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Ohio State point guard Aaron Craft has been one of the best players in the Big Ten for his entire four-year career.
Michigan State shooting guard Gary Harris was named the preseason Big Ten Player of the Year.
4. Indiana
5. Iowa
6. Illinois
After coming into last year ranked No. 1, things are a bit different for the Hoosiers this time around. Following a loss to Syracuse in the Sweet 16, Indiana returns to action trying to replace 72 percent of last year’s minutes. While it’s easy to remember that the Hoosiers lost forward Cody Zeller and guard Victor Oladipo to the NBA Draft – they were both top-five picks – Indiana also lost Jordan Hulls, Christian Watford and Derek Elston to graduation. The new names are four ESPN Top 100 players – as well as two additional freshmen – that helped make up ESPN’s fourth-ranked class. From that six-man group, sure to make an immediate impact is forward Noah Vonleh, who has produced two double-doubles in as many games, while averaging 14 points and 12.5 rebounds. Also sure to play a big role this year will be senior guard Evan Gordon – the brother of former Hoosier Eric Gordon, who is transferring from Arizona State. He’ll occupy the backcourt with sophomore Yogi Ferrell, who will have more of a leadership role with such a young team. After averaging 7.6 points last year, Ferrell is off to a quick start, averaging 14 points through the team’s first two games. The Hoosiers’ most notable non-conference games include a matchup with Washington, at Madison Square Garden. Additionally, Indiana will have a rematch against No. 9 Syracuse on Dec. 3 as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The team’s last noteworthy non-conference game will be against Notre Dame as part of the Crossroads Classic in Indianapolis. The Hoosiers suffered their first loss last year there against Butler.
Michigan wasn’t the only Big Ten team to make it to a postseason tournament championship game last year. The Hawkeyes also did, losing in the title game of the National Invitation Tournament to Baylor. Despite missing out on the Big Dance, Iowa comes back with much promise. Returning 12 players, the Hawkeyes will rely on senior guard Roy Devyn Marble, who averaged 15 points per game in his junior campaign. He’ll be joined in the backcourt by sophomore Mike Gesell, who was the Hawkeyes’ third-leading scorer last year, putting up 8.7 points per game. Iowa will have 7-foot-1 Adam Woodbury back for his second year at center. After averaging just 16.5 minutes in his freshman year, a goal for the 245-pound big man in the offseason was to put on more weight to help himself battle down low in the bulk-filled Big Ten. Probably the Hawkeyes’ best player, junior forward Aaron White will look to build off of his successful last season, in which he averaged 12.8 points and 6.2 rebounds. While Iowa has a deep roster coming back, a notable new player is Wisconsin transfer Jarrod Uthoff, a former Iowa high-school Mr. Basketball. After a much publicized transfer process, Uthoff will more than likely be one of the first guys off the bench for the Hawkeyes. Like a number of other Big Ten schools, one of Iowa’s biggest non-conference games is Notre Dame. But unlike Ohio State and Indiana, the Hawkeyes are playing the Fighting Irish as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. Additionally, like Michigan, Iowa will play at Iowa State.
After faring much better than expected with current-Kansas State coach Bruce Weber’s players in his first year as the Fighting Illini head coach, John Groce returns for his second season at the helm of a suddenly young squad. Illinois (2-0) started off hot last year, winning its first 12 games to reach a high of 10 in the AP poll. Despite starting off slow in Big Ten play, the Fighting Illini recovered to make the NCAA Tournament as a seven seed. After losing to Miami in the Round of 32, the Fighting Illini come back to the court with just four returning players. With guard Brandon Paul now gone, the bulk of the offensive duty will fall on the shoulders of junior guard Tracy Abrams, senior forward Joseph Bertrand and junior forward Rayvonte Rice, who will be eligible to play after sitting out last season following transferring from Drake. Rounding out the group of veterans is junior center Nnanna Egwu Jr. So far this season, the quartet has averaged 10-plus points each through the team’s first two games, with Rice leading the way with 17.5. Following close behind is Bertrand (17), then Abrams and Egwu with 11 and 10, respectively. Illinois’ toughest non-conference games are against No. 18 Oregon on Dec. 14 and Missouri on Dec. 21.
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Wolverines can’t finish in overtime against Xavier By LEV FACHER Daily Sports Writer
After hitting a buzzer-beating jumper to send the Michigan women’s basketball team into overtime against Arizona on Saturday, junior forward Cyesha Goree had the chance to do it again with 3.4 seconds on the clock, tied at 69 against Xavier. But her luck didn’t last — her jumper from the top of the key rimmed out and the game went to overtime, 79 XAVIER where MICHIGAN 75 Michigan blew a four-point lead, eventually losing its home opener at Crisler Center, 79-75. It was clear from the start that the matchup wouldn’t be a defensive battle. Just eight seconds in, Xavier guard Ashley Wanninger calmly drained a straightaway 3-pointer, setting the tone for a game that would have been a barnburner had the two teams shot better than a combined 7-for-27 from 3-point range in the first half. But the game wasn’t lacking in shots. Junior guard Shannon Smith came right back with a mid-range jumper to make the score 3-2, and the Wolverines and Musketeers kept pace with one another for the next 14 minutes, which saw Xavier frequently hoist shots early in the shot clock, most of which found glass and iron, but not net. The scoring picked up midway through the half, when three Musketeer 3-pointers within a span of 78 seconds gave them an eight-point lead. The Wolverines, who’d been hanging tough with Xavier offensively for the first 12 minutes, turned the ball over twice to leave the Musketeers’ scoring outburst unanswered, but eventually recovered to send the game to halftime tied at 32. Junior guard Nicole Elmblad was dominant in the final minutes of the half, but Goree was impactful throughout, putting
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Junior guard Nicole Elmblad set a career high with 19 points.
up 10 points to go along with five rebounds and two assists. Despite scoring only one point in the first half, Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico had Thompson — who came off the bench for the first time this season — on the floor to begin the second in place of Ristovski. But the decision turned out to be inconsequential as both guards put up big numbers. Ristovski finished with 12 points, while Thompson added 11 in the half to finish with 12 total, to go along with seven assists and seven rebounds. “It was nice to see Madison shoot the ball well again,” Barnes Arico said. “She didn’t shoot the ball well when we were on the road, so I think she
put some time into that.” Another small burst of scoring from Elmblad put the Wolverines in front, 51-47, a lead that Thompson quickly extended on a difficult reverse layup, snaking behind the basket and around multiple Xavier defenders. The game stayed relatively even throughout the rest of the second half, with Michigan holding a slim lead that the Musketeers chipped away at consistently, finally making it disappear on a Brianna Glover layup that tied the game at 69 with just seconds remaining. After a video review that reversed an out-of-bounds call, giving Michigan possession, Goree got the ball at the top of the key with a chance to be a
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game-changer for the second time in five days, but couldn’t convert, sending the Wolverines into overtime for the second time in as many games. “She wanted it, she had a great look, she had an open look,” Barnes Arico said. “That’s what we went with, and we had a good look. We just didn’t get it to fall.” Despite failing to beat the buzzer, Goree played the best game of her career for Michigan, putting up 16 points and 14 rebounds, to tally her first career double-double. Elmblad was equally impressive. Her 19 points — also a career high — and five assists paced the Wolverines, and she was a much-needed force on the glass, as well, recording 12 boards of her own. “We really stressed getting three people to the glass and trying to crash the boards,” Elmblad said. “I think we did a pretty good job with that at times, but we still need to get better.” Added Barnes Arico: “Nicole and Cyesha are doing a great job on the boards. My concern is everyone else.” But the rebounding game picked up as the game wore on — several Michigan offensive rebounds early gave the Wolverines ample opportunity to extend their 73-69 lead early in the overtime period, but Musketeers bounced back to take a 77-75 lead with less than a minute left. Barnes Arico took a timeout after a kicked ball with 7.8 seconds remaining, and had a second opportunity to draw up a last-second play. But the Wolverines turned the ball over on the inbounds pass, giving Hawkes her second chance to put the game out of reach from the free-throw line. After missing two just seconds earlier, Hawkes regained her composure and drained both the second time around, sending the Musketeers home happy.
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Cyesha Goree making a big impression early By SHANNON LYNCH Daily Sports Writer
After spending the first two years of her Michigan career on the bench, the 2013-14 season is the time for junior forward Cyesha Goree to prove herself. In her first start at Crisler Center for the women’s basketball team Wednesday night, she didn’t waste any time showing Xavier, or head coach Kim Barnes Arico, what she has been working on. While junior transfer guard Shannon Smith earned the spotlight for the first two regularseason games, Goree was the surprise playmaker early on in
minutes in her first two years as a Wolverine, and in just three games this season, she’s got 97 minutes under her belt. For a player who’s had virtually no playing time since her collegiate career began, she showed confidence in her shooting ability, as well as leadership on defense. “It feels pretty good just to know that my coaches and my teammates trust me,” Goree said. “Just knowing that we had a big chunk of our program that left – it made me want to work harder and be ready to play however many minutes coach plays me.” Barnes Arico knows she has asked for quite a lot from her
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Junior forward Cyesha Goree finished the game with her first career doubledouble, with a career-high 16 points and 14 rebounds in 39 minutes.
the Wolverines’ 79-75 loss to the Musketeers. In the first nine minutes of play, Goree scored eight points with two rebounds and by the end of the first half, led the team with 10 points, five rebounds and an assist. This past weekend, Michigan earned its first win against Arizona, a victory that wouldn’t have been possible without a last-second attempt by Goree. As time expired, she hit a turnaround jumper, tying the game at 65 and sending the Wolverines to overtime. Michigan was able to pull out the 73-71 win, the team’s first overtime victory since 2008. When Michigan trailed in the last few seconds against Xavier, Barnes Arico drew up the final play for Goree, giving her the responsibility to come through for the Wolverines once again. Unfortunately for Michigan, her efforts weren’t enough for a win this time. “I tell her to try and not get too high or too low, because the other day she was on top of the world making the shot to send us into overtime, and today she misses the one to win the game,” Barnes Arico said. “But she wants to continue to work, and I think her confidence is coming from her working extremely hard.” Goree played a total of 43
returning players, especially those who hadn’t seen much of time last year. The team is in transition, coping with the loss of five seniors, preseason injuries and considerable inexperience. But so far, Goree in particular has stepped up to Barnes Arico’s challenge of protecting the block ‘M.’ Much of Goree’s success can be attributed to her dedication to fitness during the offseason. Barnes Arico has pointed out more than once that her increasing ability to make a difference is clear, due in part to the fact that she dropped 30 pounds over the summer. The Wolverines couldn’t pull out the win over Xavier, but Goree racked up some personal victories, finishing the game with her first career double-double – a career-high 16 points and 14 rebounds in 39 minutes. Her early offensive contributions and effort under pressure sent the message that she’s not to be a forgotten name this season. Note: Barnes Arico announced the Wolverines signed four players to letters of intent on Wedensday – guard Maria Backman, forward Jillian Dunston, point guard Katelynn Flaherty and forward Emoni Jackson. All four are ranked in the top 120 of the All-Star Girls Report.
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After hate mail, Gardner says message ignored By MATT SLOVIN Managing Sports Editor
As the Michigan football team’s season has slowly deteriorated, technology has allowed fans to interact with Devin Gardner at a moment’s notice. And as the losses pile up, the redshirt junior quarterback presumably scrolls through his Twitter mentions after a game and sees hateful messages rolling in. “When you play well, everybody loves you,” Gardner said. “When you don’t — I don’t want to say they hate you — but I get a lot of hate mail. It comes with the territory.” Wednesday night on his radio show, Michigan coach Brady Hoke called the comments directed at Gardner “classless.” Hoke said Wednesday that the coaching staff tells players during the recruiting process that playing for the Wolverines means dealing with the backlash when things aren’t going their way. If players are unsure if they can filter out the outside noise, Hoke tells them there are plenty of other schools out there that might be a better fit. “No question,” Hoke said. “We’re very honest with them. We’re demanding of them aca-
demically, socially and from the football aspect. How they represent their name is really important and how they represent the block ‘M.’ ” Especially to the freshmen, reading negative comments on social media and hearing the boos that rained down on the team during last Saturday’s 17-13 loss to Nebraska can be particularly impactful. “This is all new, playing in front of 110,000,” Hoke said. “This is a whole different life in college, not having mom’s meals or grandma’s meals or whoever it may be. There’s a big adjustment.” The younger players will tell Gardner that they’d like to reply to the Twitter users bashing them, who Gardner called “passionate,” but he knows that wouldn’t help the situation. So he tries to set the example, asking them to come to him when they feel like responding. Gardner echoed a common sentiment this week, saying the only people that matter are the ones in the locker room. “I try my best to explain that to the young guys so they don’t get frustrated,” Gardner said. “And I think they understand now that ‘wow, it is just about us.’ No matter what anybody else says, good
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or bad, it’s about us. They’ll love you and they’ll hate you.” Gardner’s e-mail is unlisted in the University’s directory, which he said helps to keep the messages from coming to his inbox, too. Gardner added that he doesn’t want to get into a conversation via Twitter about his play but that his reaction when he reads some of the messages is, “Man, it sucks you feel that way.” At halftime of the Nebraska loss, fifth-year senior offensive tackle Taylor Lewan addressed the team, saying that even though some fans have turned on the team by booing, they need to continue playing for the 11 players on the field. Those are the voice that matter, Hoke said. Filtering out the criticism will be important to finishing strong — the 10-win plateau is still within reach, and though that was never the original goal, Gardner said it’s still a mark of a strong season. “You’ve got to have broad shoulders,” Hoke said. “Any time you’re in competition, you’re going to have critics out there. And 99 percent of those critics, they don’t know. They don’t know how these guys work, starting in January after every season. The early workouts, the grind we put them through.”
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Baseball has undergone a revolution in statistics. Beginning with Bill James’s Baseball Abstract in 1977, the new way of using statistics has become widely accepted. The revolution has even spread to other sports, such as basketball, football and others. It has become so mainstream that it even hit Hollywood with the movie Moneyball in 2011. So why hasn’t college baseball kept up with the revolution in the pros? One reason is resources. The Los Angeles Dodgers had an Opening Day payroll of $216,753,286 and can afford to pay many people to work solely on stats. In college, meanwhile, the coaching staff — which might consist of five people — is in charge of everything from coaching and scouting to recruiting. A second reason is the fundamental differences between professional and college baseball. Since conferences are relatively isolated and have different levels of competition, it is impossible to normalize statistics from one conference to another. With these restraints, the Michigan baseball team was forced to get creative. Michigan coach Erik Bakich has focused on process-related statistics. The idea is to quantify how often players are doing what the coaches want them to do, and if they are, the results will eventually come. For hitting, Bakich keeps track of “quality at-bats.” Each player is expected to have a quality atbat 50 percent of the time. “If 50 percent of their at-bats are quality, then their batting average is probably going to be pretty good because they’re making a lot of hard contact and doing a lot of things to help the team win,” Bakich said. Added Bakich: “It’s a statistic that you won’t find on any stat sheet, and you won’t find online.” It’s a stat that’s hard to quantify, but it’s an effective indicator at the college level. The stat is certainly subjective, but since
Bakich is the only person who tracks the statistic, it works. There are many different ways that a batter can record a quality at-bat. Walks, hit-by-pitches, sacrifice flies and sacrifice bunts are always quality at-bats. But it’s slightly more complicated for balls put in play. Hard-hit balls that fall for hits obviously qualify. “If it’s hit hard and caught, it’s a quality at-bat,” Bakich said. “If it’s hit weakly and drops for a hit, I ask myself, ‘If that ball was caught, would it be a quality at bat?’ and usually the answer becomes apparent.” Bakich uses similar a methodology for pitching. He expects two out of every three pitches to be quality pitches. Pitchers aim to throw each batter only three pitches, whether they retire the batter or allow him to reach base. This ensures that pitchers are attacking hitters while on the mound and limits their pitch count. The coaching staff tracks pitchers’ strike percentage and walks per nine inning, with goals of two strikes for every three pitches thrown and three walks per nine innings, respectively. For pitching, the same logic persists. If pitchers execute their pitches, throw, and limit walks, they will likely be successful. In the pros, statisticians can calculate things such as fieldingindependent pitching, while colleges only have the ability to track whether or not pitchers execute their pitches, with the expectation that if they execute, success will come. While the hitting and pitching statistics that the baseball team uses are nothing like those used by professional teams, there are considerably fewer differences between the levels for base running, making a lineup and scouting opponents. For base stealing, coaches time opposing pitchers’ times to the plate, catchers’ pop-up times and throwing times and the time it takes to apply the tag. That information — coupled with knowing their players’ times from first to second base with different leads — allows the coaches to make informed decisions on whether
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Michigan baseball coach Eri k Bakich has created stats to evaluate players.
or not they should steal. Most casual fans know that in general, hitters who get on base often hit at the top of the order and powers hitters hit near the middle—there’s no need to overthink this. Bakich agrees with Oakland Athletics General Manager and founder of “Moneyball” Billy Beane that on-base percentage is more important than average, and the lineup that Bakich creates is likely no different than one any MLB manager would come up with. Perhaps the most undervalued contribution of statistics in baseball is in scouting upcoming opponents. “We spend an incredible amount of time compiling our scouting reports,” Bakich said. “It takes us a few days to put all the information together for a 15-20 minute meeting with our team.” Bakich knows opposing pitchers’ and hitters’ lefty-righty splits; opposing hitters’ batted ball tendencies; opposing pitchers’ tendencies to predict what pitches they throw in certain counts; and how both teams’ hitters have fared over their last ten games. And while the pros undoubtedly take these concepts to a higher degree, the similarities between the two levels are much greater than those for evaluating hitting and pitching. In hiring Bakich, who is the
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youngest head baseball coach at a BCS school, Michigan made a commitment to new-age thinking. “There are some teams that don’t really utilize scouting reports and aren’t really concerned with what the statistics show,” Bakich said. “I think there’s some teams out there that just kind of show up and play and win doing that.” Bakich has shown that he will use statistics to the best of his ability, even if that ability in college pales in comparison to that of the pros. “Comparing professional and college baseball, there is no comparison with the information available and the commitment to compiling those statistics,” Bakich said. “In college, a lot of it is just the coaches doing what they can with the information they have.” Where professionals can turn to stats such as weighted on-base average, which weighs walks, singles, doubles, triples and home runs by their value to a team, college baseball makes do with stats such as quality-at-bat percentage. Bakich says it works because Michigan’s players buy into it. “In all areas of our program, there’s a focus on process over outcome, thinking that the outcome will come by focusing on the process,” Bakich said.
At noon Thursday, Da’Shawn Hand, the nation’s top football prospect, will announce his college decision between Michigan, Alabama and Florida on Da’Shawn national televiHand’s sion. NBC Sports decision Network will Nation’s No. 1 broadcast the football recruit 6-foot-4 defensive end’s deci- When: Thursday 12 P.M. sion live from TV/Radio: Woodbridge High School’s NBC Sports Network gymnasium on “Sports Dash with Yahoo.” The 260-pound Virginia native has been the most coveted recruit for some time. Hand jumped onto the scene when he registered 21 sacks his sophomore year and was one of three rising juniors to participate in Nike’s “The Opening,” a prestigious combine held Beaverton, Ore. The defensive end brought that success into his junior season with 110 tackles, 16 sacks, four forced fumbles and 40 tackles for a loss. This dominance earned him
more than 30 scholarship offers, but only one school has stayed in his top three throughout the whole process — Michigan. If he commits, Hand would become Michigan’s 16th commitment of the 2014 class and would create history. If the current rankings hold, Michigan would have verbal commitments from the nation’s No. 1 and the No. 2 prospects in Hand and cornerback Jabrill Peppers. No team in history has ever earned the commitments from the top two prospects. Hand would join five-star Bryan Mone, four-star Lawrence Marshall, and grey-shirt commit Brady Pallante, creating one of the best defensive line classes Michigan has seen. Defensive line aside, Hand’s commitment could give Michigan its greatest class ever. The Wolverines have had their fair share of struggles creating quarterback pressure, but a commitment from Hand could potentially change that. Hand projects as a strong-side defensive end, a position currently occupied by junior Brennen Beyer, redshirt freshman Chris Wormley and redshirt sophomore Keith Heitzman. Hand would certainly put himself in the mix for early playing time. Michigan football can make recruiting history at noon Thursday, and it rides on Hand’s decision on whether to become a Wolverine.
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In overtime, Hoosiers eliminate ‘M’ Wolverines exit in Big Ten second round, season could be over By FREDDY KASTEN For the Daily
Twenty-five shots, one overtime, one golden goal, and one magnified loss – that was the action-packed story of the Michigan men’s soccer game on Wednesday. 2 INDIANA Indiana 1 MICHIGAN (3-4 Big Ten, 7-11-1 overall) likely ended the Wolverines’ season in a hard-fought 2-1 victory, advancing to the second round of the Big Ten tournament. The victory came nearly a month after Michigan beat Indiana, 2-1, at U-M Soccer Stadium. Michigan started the game well, as senior defender Ezekiel Harris netted a goal in the 10th minute, but after that, Indiana outshot the Wolverines considerably. Redshirt junior goalkeeper Adam Grinwis played stoutly in net, nonetheless, keeping his team in the game early on while turning away all four shots on net in the first half. “Adam came up with a couple good saves to keep us ahead,” said Michigan coach Chaka Daley. “But saves that we expect him to make so they weren’t out of the ordinary.” The Wolverines (3-4, 8-7-3) banded together soon after, displaying a sound focus on not letting the Hoosiers back into
the game. Senior forward Fabio Pereira led the charge, firing a shot off the post just before the conclusion of the first half. Michigan’s explosive offensive charge picked up right where it left off to begin the second half. The team recorded three shots, though all either missed the net or were blocked, during the first 18 minutes. But just when things were going well for the Wolverines, Indiana midfielder A.J. Corrado scored his third goal of the season in the 62nd minute off a failed clearance. Nevertheless, Michigan’s attackers would not let the team get down after conceding the lead. The Wolverines had four shots, all of which were on goal, over the next 17 minutes of the game. Freshman defender Rylee Woods nearly put Michigan back on top in the 82nd minute, striking the ball just wide with his left foot from 25 yards out. The Hoosiers made a late push to claim the first lead within the last nine minutes of regulation, but failed to do so despite getting off three shots in just six minutes. The game went to overtime. Instead of taking its foot off of the brake like it did during the the first half, Indiana built on its resilient play to end regulation. All the Hoosiers needed was
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Michigan coach Chaka Daley said, “I think we had opportunities throughout the course of the year that wouldn’t have made the Big Ten Tournament everything.”
one solid scoring chance to keep their NCAA Tournament hopes alive, as midfielder Dylan Mares scored a mere five minutes into the extra period on the team’s first shot. “It was two teams fighting for their lives, it’s an open game,” Daley said. “They found their chance and we didn’t. Pretty simple.” With the loss, Michigan’s season may be over. The NCAA Tournament Selection Show on Monday is the team’s final chance. “If we’re fortune enough to make it in the backdoor of the NCAA Tournament, it’ll be a new season so I think we’ll have great life and energy,” Daley said. “I think we had opportunities throughout the course of the year that wouldn’t have made the Big Ten Tournament everything.”
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Senior defender Ezekiel Harris put the Wolverines on the board in the 10th minute, but Indiana scored two unanswered.
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“I guess the hardest part of my day is waking up and knowing that I don’t have a dollar in my pocket. The worst part is that most people just tend to ignore me. But I’m really happy that the community of homeless people here is really strong. I’ve actually never had my own apartmen t. I’ve always just stayed with friends and couchsurfed and stuff. We can always kind of depend on each other if we need anything.”
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HIP-HOP COLUMN
A history lesson on hip-hop’s hype men
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f you’ve ever been to a hiphop show, you’ve probably noticed that guy jumping around next to your favorite rapper, barking out the last few words of every lyric and pumping up the crowd with the usual “wave your hands side to side” or “somebody JACKSON scream!” HOWARD This guy, the hype man, has been an integral part of hip hop since its inception in the late 1970s. The concept of a hype man makes perfect sense for rap culture, as freestyling and battle-rapping — two of the most basic forms of hip hop — are as dependent on the cheering of the crowds as they are on the individual lyricist’s ability. Flavor Flav for Public Enemy, Spliff Star for Busta Rhymes, Tony Yayo for 50 Cent and Memphis Bleek for Jay-Z are just some examples of hype men who have played important roles in rapper’s performances. For Wu-Tang Clan, every member doubles as both a rapper and a hype man, while producers such as Swizz Beatz, Jermaine Dupri, Lil Jon and Diddy all play hype manlike roles on the stage and in the studio. On the other hand, hype men can get boring and annoying. I’ve been to countless rap shows, and it’s always refreshing when a rapper performs without his hype man or DJ yelling every other word. Today, rappers continue to use hype men on stage. In the booth, however, it’s a different story, as hype men have never had the same presence in the studio as they have on stage. Instead, it’s on the artists to pump themselves with double-layered vocals and, most importantly, random, shouted ad-libs. Many popular rappers use their own catch phrases as momentum trampolines for their own rhymes. Jeezy uses a plethora of cryptic, smoker’s lung-sounding shouts after his verses, while Rick Ross’s guttural unghhhh and barks of “BAWSE” can be expected on almost every song. Waka Flocka deserves recognition for his insane use of “WAKA,” “BOW BOW BOW” and repeated self-made gun sounds, while Gucci Mane will forever be known for his trademark “BURRRR” and “Yeahhhhhhh.” Ad-libs like these, such as Big Sean’s “Oh Gawd” and French Montana/Kanye’s “Hannnnnnh,” give artists signature identifiers and provide more emphasis to each verse. Southern rappers in particular — Jeezy, Ross, Gucci Mane, etc. — have a particular knack for not only creating repeated ad-libs, but also for shouting out hilarious and threatening back-up vocals that pertain specifically to the lyrical content itself, not just a random
word. Especially in the last three or four years, Atlanta artists such as Future, Rich Homie Quan and Migos have released hit songs in which the backing vocals are just as important as the lead. Most renowned is former Three 6 Mafia member Juicy J, who, coming from Memphis, shares a similar cultural background as the aforementioned Southern up-andcomers. Many rappers simply repeat their last word for emphasis, but a select few have mastered the art of explanatory and absurd adlibbing. Because I find this trend hysterical but also quite fascinating in the cyclical evolution of hip hop, I’ve come up with a few of my favorite ad-libs from the past few years. Get ready for an English lesson unlike any you’ve ever had. “Type of Way” — Rich Homie Quan From the second line, “Ain’t no telling what he’ll do for the paper (ain’t no telling!),” to the chorus, “That custom Breitling make you feel some type of way (I’m shining ho!),” Rich Homie has certainly mastered the art of becoming one’s own hype man. However, his ad-lib magnum opus comes at the start of his first verse, singing, “When I get to biting on her ear she make that Tyson face (don’t look like that!)” First off, this is just a crazy line, and connecting nibbling on a woman’s ear to Tyson biting off Evander Holyfield’s ear is genius. Just imagining Rich Homie yelling at his woman for looking like Mike Tyson absolutely kills me; I mean, what if she can’t help it? “Versace” — Migos featuring Drake The ad-libs in this song are so ridiculous that they basically inspired me to write this article. Migos is a group of three rappers from Atlanta who blew up when their trap anthem about Versace caught Drake’s ear. He hopped on the remix, and a banger was born. Drake’s verse takes up the first minute and a half of the song, and instead of doing his own ad-libs, he enlisted Migos to do them for him. Perfection resulted.
Ad-libs serve a vital purpose in modern rap music. Though Drake is the one rapping, Migos’s overly enthusiastic backgrounds give the song an entirely new dimension while also showcasing Migos’s hilarious personality. Almost every ad-lib here is golden, and it’s impossible to pick the best one, but I have a few that are real favorites:
“Drowning in compliments, pool in the backyard that look like Metropolis,” Drake raps at the beginning. Migos follows with “Metropolis?” and it’s not really clear whether he’s genuinely perplexed as to what Metropolis is or if he’s just egging Drake on. My other favorite comes when, after Drake spits, “I do not fuck with your new shit, my nigga, don’t ask for take on it,” Migos shouts out, “Don’t ask for my opinion,” warding off potential questioners in case Drake’s message wasn’t clear enough. Juicy J Juicy J is, right now, the undisputed king of ad-libbing. In addition to his signature shouts of “Yeah, ho!” “Bitch!” “Yessir!” “MMHMM!” “You know it!” “Strippers!” and, of course, “We Trippy Mane,” Juicy is a master of creative and vulgar backgrounds. Take “Durr She Go,” a track featuring Travis Porter off his mixtape Rubba Band Business 2. “What’s yo name, nigga?” background Juicy shouts, leading real Juicy to rap, “They call me Juicy J, I’m in the getting-high business.” Talking about a certain stripper he had relations with, Juicy raps, “And I’ve done shown everybody cell phone pictures (naked!),” adding naked just to make sure you truly understand. My favorite mixtape of his, Blue Dream and Lean, overflows with ad-lib gems. “Errbody Wave” has a great selection, including my personal choice: “And they reaching in your pockets for them Franklins (that’s mine!)” In this line, background Juicy really places you at the scene of this robbery, and it’s easy to imagine him smacking some guy for some money and shouting, “That’s mine!” Juicy clearly loves adding more description to his lines through his ad-libs. On “Get Higher” he rhymes, “I’m so fucked up playing PS3 (my favorite!),” while on “Lucky Charm” he raps, “She short and red, remind me of a dynamite (she hot!).” “Been Gettin Money” is funny even for Juicy: “I got bad bitches walking round me, tan perfect (white hoes!).” I’m not really sure whether he’s complimenting the white girls around him for being tan, or what this means, but the fact that he shouts out “white hoes!” is worth mentioning. Ad-libs like these, as stupid as they seem, serve vital purposes in pumping up listeners and making certain lines more memorable. They also give artists their own recognizable identities. “You know it!” Juicy shouts on “Geeked Up Off Them Bars” after rapping, “Juicy J one crazy high ass nigga,” the perfect compliment to just another line of plane insanity. Howard is searching for a hype man. To apply, e-mail jackhow@umich.edu.
EPISODE REVIEW It took half a season to do it, but “Masters of Sex” moved past awkward foreplay and finally got down to business in Sunday night’s A “All Together Masters Now.” Things of Sex really are coming “All Together together for Now” the fledgling drama: The Showtime fabulous Allison Janney is involved in a multi-episode affair, there are two established love triangles forming around Virginia, Jane can spell anesthesia and, oh yeah, Masters and Johnson have started having sex (scientific sex, of course, but sex nonetheless). For the first time, the secondary plots line up with the main plot to make a point. Every character is trying to figure out her or his own sex life, whether
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ARTPOP - Lady Gaga
“Perfume” - Britney Spears
The tracklist alone for ARTPOP seems like a work of bizarre Gaga performance art in and of itself. “G.U.Y.”? “MANiCURE”? “Fashion!”? What is this album? After a first listen-through, you won’t have many answers. ARTPOP has moments of classic Gaga pop and moments of … something entirely different, including a confusingly trappy track featuring T.I., Too $hort and Twista. Though it lacks cohesion, ARTPOP on the whole outshines its Top-40-ready lead single, “Applause.” Feel free to skip that one during your full-album listen.
Whereas the heavily EDM-influenced “Work Bitch” shows off Britney’s bad side, “Perfume” is a stripped-down Britney ballad that’s more “Lucky” than “Toxic.” The lyrics are admittedly simplistic and schmaltzy, but there’s an emotional vulnerability to “Perfume” that makes it clear why Britney herself said releasing the song feels like she’s sharing a piece of her heart. If nothing else, “Perfume” at least seems to be the perfect material for a late-night karaoke session fueled by alcohol and feels.
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“All Bad” - Justin Bieber
“A World Alone” - Lorde
In his latest Music Mondays gift, J.Biebz goes on the defensive, most likely in response to the tabloid troubles the teen has faced lately. Regardless of whether his apologetic words are true or not, it’s a catchy track, a slice of post-R&B moodiness that marks a departure from his more bubblegummy Believe boppers. Airy instrumentals and whispery vocals lend to the bleak angst Bieber is really driving home with his most recent work. Hey, it’s really not so bad.
Every time you start feeling bad about yourself, just think about the fact that Lorde is 17 years old and probably more talented than you’ll ever be. With a stark guitar line and breathtaking vocals, “A World Alone” is the perfect closer for her debut studio album, Pure Heroine. The teenaged art pop princess croons, “You’re my best friend and we’re dancing in the world alone,” perfectly capturing the introspective tone of the whole album.
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it’s middle-aged Mrs. Scully having her first orgasm with a hot, young doctor, Mr. Scully developing an emotional relationship with his male hooker and friend, or Dr. Haas trying to work through a relationship with the girl he deflowered. All of these different experiences surround the protagonists’ storyline to highlight what Masters and Johnson can’t seem to understand: Sex is never just sex.
Daily Arts Writers dig through recent Spotify releases to find the tracks worth revisiting or discovering.
A show about sex will draw viewers because it’s a show about sex, but until now, “Masters” has relied a little too heavily on the shock-factor of televised nudity to pique its audience’s interest. In “All Together Now,” the writing works. The stakes heighten, and a new tension is introduced between Masters and Johnson that will hopefully carry through the rest of the season. — MADDIE THOMAS
Once upon a time, I stumbled into downtown Chicago’s Disney store with my friends. Determined, I marched A up to a smiling employee Maleficent named Alfredo and asked Disney where I could find any “villain stuff.” “Villains,”Alfredo informed me, “were last year. You might want to check the clearance rack.” Flash-forward two weeks to the release of the very first trailer for Disney’s highly anticipated “Sleeping Beauty” adaptation, “Maleficent.” Though Elle Fanning’s narration as the lethargic Disney princess guides this teaser, Angelina Jolie, lurking and looming as the eponymous villain, enchants with her frightening ferocity and indelible silhouette.
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Just as 2012’s “Snow White and the Huntsman” was supremely overpowered by Charlize Theron’s bewitching performance as evil queen Ravenna, “Maleficent” will undoubtedly belong to the horned Jolie. This time, at least, the focus on the villain over the hero is intentional, as the film promises to tell the untold tale of the self-identifying “mistress of evil.” If the effects-heavy trailer
is any indication, “Maleficent” might face the same fatal flaw as “Huntsman” by allowing the spectacle to outshine the story. It is, after all, a directorial debut for Robert Stromberg, who is known primarily for his prolific career as a concept artist and visual effects designer. But, who cares about the story? I’m here for the Angelina. Sorry, Alfredo. You were wrong. Villains are forever. — KAYLA UPADHYAYA
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Mat Chavez hopes to earn enough funds to eventually make his way to Tennessee for the winter.
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“I like the piano; I like the sound of it, although the pedal squeaks,” Al Skinner said, running his hand along the top of the piano in the Michigan Union Art Lounge. “And it has squeaked over the last two years. I don’t know why they don’t fix it. It’s like a $200,000 piano. Why wouldn’t you fix the squeaky pedal?” About 20 minutes earlier, Skinner had sat down at the piano in a silent room. A few students perched on couches and at tables, with their books and laptops out. Every turn of a page was amplified by hollow acoustics until Skinner started in on the piano. Next to him, Lou Rockinfeller sang. Skinner covered the squeaky pedal by playing forte as Rockinfeller belted Journey’s “Open Arms.” Their music enveloped the room as notes overlapped in echoes, bouncing off the tiled floor. Skinner and Rockinfeller are homeless musicians. Skinner said he has been coming to play at this piano in the Union for about 20 years. Rockinfeller calls himself “a drifter,” just passing through Ann Arbor. As the weather chills, he’ll move on. They all got their start with music early in life. Rockinfeller said he started singing in high school while trying a slew of other instruments at the same time. Skinner said his dad played
piano professionally, so “it’s in (his) blood.” But Skinner himself never pursued a career as a musician, though he’ll play in bars every now and then. “I make money occasionally and sometimes I don’t, but I play anyway,” he said. Rockinfeller said music’s draw is impossible to escape. “Once you catch the bug,” he said, it stays with you forever. For Skinner, it’s a way to relax and a way to meet people that “make his day.” He met Rockinfeller by chance at one of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church’s daily breakfasts. “He was just jammin’ some Lionel Richie at first, and then he started busting some Journey,” Rockinfeller remembers. “And then I went, ‘Hold on, guys — I can’t leave yet. I gotta go sing.’ ” Skinner added,“I was playing a Journey song, and you came up and started singing and I’m like, ‘This voice, are you kidding me?’ ” At the corner of North University Avenue and State Street, another homeless musician, Mat Chavez, lets his notes drift into the cold nighttime air. He sings and plays guitar, mostly performing alternative songs from the 1990s. He said he hopes to finance a drive down to Nashville, Tenn. as winter moves in. For now, he’s facing his first Michigan winter with only his car for shelter. “I find it’s what the people with the money grew up with,” he joked about his song selection. Chavez, too, said his own voice is what attracts people and, consequently, what helps him earn the most money. “I’ve always been more of a
singer than anything,” he said. But Chavez’s favorite instrument is his first: the guitar, which he started playing when he was 15. His relationship to music is eternally evolving and responding to what’s going on in his life. “There’s been times in my life when my guitar has sat in the corner, and I haven’t touched it,” he explained. “But then there’s been times in my life when it’s really all I’ve had to live for.” Right now, it’s incredibly important. Chavez was evicted six months ago and is still trying to figure out where to live. He said lengthy waitlists for shelters mean he’ll probably spend the winter in his car, unless he makes enough money to get down to Nashville. He said he had $600 saved up until recently, when his car got towed, and he had to start his savings again from scratch. But music does offer him a way to make money and help feed himself and his wife. It’s not always easy, especially as temperatures drop, but Chavez said he’s out playing every day. He said he sets monetary goals for himself, usually $40 a day. “Sometimes I do much better,” he said. “My best day ever, I made $165. That was on the fourth of July. My worst day ever, I made seven bucks in six hours. It was awful.” Chavez said panhandling is often more lucrative than busking — performing for money on the street. However, he still prefers to play music. “People might give a panhandler money, but they kinda look down on them and a lot of people feel like this is sort of an
SINGLE REVIEW Brooklyn-based record label Mexican Summer turns five this year, and in honor of the occasion, avantgarde R&B A artist Autre Ne Veut paired Alive up with ChrisAutre Ne Veut tian Fennesz Software to create the soulful “Alive.” Arthur Ashin, a.k.a. Autre Ne Veut, reached out to the label to express his interest in collaborating with Fennesz, leading to a two-day recording session in Vienna at Fennesz’s studio. The track initially sounds like a departure for Ashin, whose latest album, Anxiety, is marked by his soaring falsetto and heavily layered beats which often blur the line between electronic and R&B. Apparently that line exists. The song’s distorted intro slowly finds its rhythm as Ashin croons his way in, demanding a shift in focus to his raw vocals. It’s the
The map becomes more familiar, worn with time. After recalling the declined beer at Hoover, which has some semblance to the actual layout of the city — a row of houses littered with people, red cups and orange fences — the light turns green and the memory goes on into some landscape I can’t recognize these days. I’m pretty sure we turned right onto Hill, but my memory of the meeting of Hill and State looks different. I’m not even sure what it is. Months later, before leaving the city after orientation, my family takes a ride up to my freshman year residence hall,
Alice Lloyd. I had absolutely no idea how the Alice Lloyd area connected to the rest of campus such as the Diag and the Michigan Union and South University, which I had just spent a weekend exploring. Of course, driving to Alice Lloyd can be different than walking, but it’s so strange how vividly wrong my memory is. The graveyard isn’t even present on that ride up Observatory. All I see is a winding road lined by thick, verdant woods on each side. There’s a concept already for what’s going on here: cognitive mapping. We develop, over time, a sense of connections between different locals in a given space. But until that point, our understanding of that space might look more like an archipelago. Welcome Week freshman year, I had no idea how Dave’s West Side Books was tied to Alice Lloyd. One day I got on my bike, and the last vivid memory I have is passing by the Dental School. At some point, I cruise past a sign for a bookstore and decide to make a stop. Sophomore year of high school, I came to Ann Arbor for an acting competition. So disconnected was that experience that, when I walked into the School of Education freshman year of college for a psychology exam, I thought I was experiencing the building for the first time, when in fact, it was the location of that competition three years ago. Now, in my senior year, a lot of that sense of excitement and being lost in the world has waned. Main Street, State Street and South University are pretty well connected in my mind. I have a sense of specific directions of getting from Comet Coffee, to Braun Court, to Vault of Midnight and back to Backroom Pizza, a circuit I have never actually taken, but very well could. Yet, I still hold with me that archipelago Ann Arbor from my first days here. I’m sure everyone has his or her own map, unique in its lack of resemblance to the city. And, I’m sure, everyone has their own spots of knowing and notknowing. I still don’t understand North Campus. Perhaps I’ll keep it that way. Perhaps, I don’t even have to try to avoid cognitively mapping it. It’ll just happen. I mean, seriously, what’s going on with North Campus? Bohn is feeling nostalgic. To reminisce with him, e-mail jobohn@umich.edu.
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most intimate Ashin’s voice has sounded, which says a lot for a man who titled his own album after a mental affliction. It wouldn’t be an Autre Ne Veut track without his trademark falsetto, and “Alive” is no exception. As the song explodes from subtle into soulful around the halfway mark, Ashin’s voice flies into his upper register, conveying an aggressive anguish. The track
honorable thing to do,” he said. Skinner, on the other hand, thinks music brings out the generosity in people. “People always take care of me. I’ve never gone starving. I’ve never been without what I wanted or I needed,” he said. “I mean, everyone is always taking care of me. Because people love music and they love musicians.” Rockinfeller agreed. He said music has helped him travel the country and even internationally. He told of the time he toured with a punk band on a two-week tour of Spain. After the time was up, the band’s record label said it was time to go back to the United States, but Rockinfeller said he and his bandmates weren’t quite ready. “I don’t even need your label. I’m gonna do it just on the kindness of the Spaniards,” he recounted. “And the Spaniards kept saying, ‘Dónde estás quedando?’ Where are you staying? And then I said, ‘You know man, we don’t really have a place to stay. We’re going to stay in the car.’ And no, no, no, ‘Tú vas a quedar aquí.’ You’re going to stay here. With us.” The three musicians all agreed that music is special in that way. No one can say they don’t enjoy some type of music. It’s a unifier, and Chavez said that’s one of the rewards of busking. “When somebody comes up, even if they don’t have anything to give, they’re interested and they’re impressed and they seem to care,” he said. “I’ve never been one to strive for attention, but at the same time, it’s fun to go and stand on the street corner and find the people who care.”
hen my mom and I drove to Ann Arbor for campus day four years ago, the administration had deliberately chosen a football Saturday for the event, hoping the energy of the city would entice prospective students. At what I JOHN assume was BOHN the light at Hoover and State streets, a guy jokingly walks up to the car holding out a beer, encouraging me to join in the pre-game festivities. I believe I said something to my mom along the lines of “Well, I gotta go. See ya.” I’m not even into football, nor will this column be about football, nor was that my first experience of Ann Arbor, even though I often return to it feeling as if it is. Over a beer the other night, I was lamenting to a friend that Ann Arbor feels different these days. I’ve written before about the changing infrastructure of the city, how it has actually changed into a different city from even just a couple years ago. But presently, I keep returning to how my perception and experience of Ann Arbor has changed over time. It becomes more familiar, more worn, more used. The second I start to feel at home, I start drifting toward this nostalgia for a time when I had no idea what I was doing or where I was in town.
ends with the same chaos it started with, implying that there’s probably some leftover turmoil that needs to be dealt with. While the collaboration is one of many for the Mexican Summer anniversary, it serves as a stand-out tribute to the label and a gift to indie-lovers everywhere. It’s also a reminder that Autre Ne Veut can do no wrong. — ERIKA HARWOOD
Drake’s latest video opens, not with his own song, but with the bluesy sounds of Memphis, Tenn. Royal B+ Studios. A 10-minuteWorst long joint Behavior venture by Drake Drake and frequent Republic collaborator Director X, “Worst Behavior” gives us a short but memorable tour of Memphis as Drake lip-syncs in front of old houses and local businesses. A skit placed in the middle of the video is the longest segment, with one of Drake’s buddies awkwardly and hilariously chatting up Memphisbased rappers Juicy J and Project Pat, trying to get them to listen to his demo tape, but unfortunately unable to even get their names right.
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The odd chatter of the hapless aspiring musician (who’s apparently managed by “DJ Unsweet Tea”) gives “Worst Behavior” a couple of solid laughs. After the skit, Drizzy takes his posse to downtown Memphis, trying his best to look menacing for the camera but unable to evade his “sensitive
guy” image. The video lacks a story, but it succeeds because of the local color and beauty that Drake and Director X find in the city. Even though it’s not their hometown, they showcase the quaint small businesses and the energy of downtown, showing us what makes Memphis special. — ADAM THEISEN
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Magnificient “Maleficent” Disney releases first teaser for new take on “Sleeping Beauty.” Angelina Jolie as one of the greatest evil witches of all time? Yes, please.
Each week we take shots at the biggest developments in the entertainment world. Here’s what hit (and missed) this week.
Greenlighting Rudolph NBC orders Maya Rudolph’s variety series produced by Lorne Michaels to air as primetime special post-Olympics.
You Schaal Watch This ABC buys Kristen Schaal-written and starring comedy, “American Monster.”
Jamie Lynn Returns
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Britney Spears releases the tracklist for upcoming album, revealing the musical appearance of her little sis.
Justin Bieber is accused of mistreating the Argentine flag on his scandal-studded world tour. Design by Nick Cruz
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“The worst part about my day is the cold. Just being outside and not really being able to share any warmth with anyone. But I just got a job. I’m going to be doing a paid internship at the Performance Network Theater. I’m going to be shadowing the lady who’ll be working the spotlight, and if I do well, I’ll get to do the show on Sunday. I’ve always been interested in performance since I heard Kanye. He’s a genius.”
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“The hardest time about being out here is putting up with the night time and all the nuts that get drunk and come out. I put alcohol behind me a few years ago but can see now what I must have been like.” “I have an extensive felony record from when I was your age, but the state holds that against you.”
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“The hardest part of my day is finding sustenance. I don’t like rude people. They usually throw out racial epithets and tell me to go get drunk and stuff, throw money pennies on the ground to watch me pick it up. But I like being a part of this community. You see that flower patch over there? I don’t like it when people throw cigarette butts on there and litter. It’s my project to make sure it’s clean.”
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QUIET STAR: Glenn Robinson III has always been shy and reserved, until the Sweet 16 against Kansas.
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The freshman point guard has many of the same characteristics as Burke — he’s small, aggressive and likes to run the court, but the Harper Woods, Mich. native still has a lot to prove before any comparisons can be made. In Michigan’s offense, Walton will have the freedom to run a fast-paced attack and penetrate toward the basket to open up other guys on the court.
Stauskas could be the best 3-point shooter in the country, and that’s only one part of his game. Last year, more than half of his points came from 3-pointers, and while he’ll still shoot the three plenty this year, he’s also shown an increased confidence in his ability to drive and finish. Stauskas put on 16 pounds of muscle over the summer, which makes him a dual threat to shoot or take the ball to the rim.
The sophomore guard is Michigan’s most improved player after staying on campus over the summer to train and work out. He’s bigger, stronger and a sharper shooter. He can knock down 3-pointers with the same grace as when he beats his defender off the dribble and crashes toward the basket. The stat that will increase the most for him, though, is minutes as Beilein looks for any way to get LeVert on the floor.
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Robinson has that are-you-kidding-me freakish athleticism that Michigan saw many times last year. So far this season, the sophomore forward has gotten his playing time at the “4” because of sophomore forward Mitch McGary’s injury. He came into the season expecting to play on the wing, but has proven able to handle a position closer to the basket.
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The redshirt junior beat out fifth-year senior forward Jordan Morgan for the starting job. Horford is a bigger asset on the boards than Morgan, and though neither are big offensive weapons, Horford has proven more consistent at knocking down mid-range shots. However, Horford’s weakness is that he doesn’t run the court well, and that could be a problem in Michigan’s fast-paced offense — especially as the grind of the season takes its toll on him.
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McGary has looked good in Michigan’s first two games — perhaps handsome is the better word. The 6-foot-10 big man is injured and has been forced to watch the beginning of the season from the bench attired in suit and tie. At Big Ten Media Day in Chicago, McGary indicated he plans on being in a uniform on Dec. 3 against Duke, but otherwise, both the extent of his injury and his return date are uncertain.
STAFF PICKS The Daily men’s basketball writers do their best to predict what will happen in the world of college hoops this season. Michigan regular-season record Big Ten champion Big Ten second place Big Ten third place Big Ten Tournament champion Big Ten MVP Big Ten Coach of the Year Big Ten suprise team Michigan MVP National Player of the Year National Freshman of the year Michigan’s season ends here NCAA “Bracket Buster” NCAA Final Four
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A pre-emptive salute to the Fresh Five
egacies are funny. You can’t anoint them until time has passed, but at that point, you can’t enjoy them in the moment. Solution: Recognize the legacy in the present. This group of Michigan sophomores, known affectionately as the Fresh Five, has just one more year left together, NEAL so enjoy it ROTHSCHILD while you can. It will last at most five months more. The recruiting class of 2012 is extraordinary. An aberration. A remarkable assembly of big-name cachet, underdog status and serendipity. There’s not a non-descript one among them. Each has carved a persona that fans can relate to. Like the Justice League superheroes. Mitch McGary is the quirky, enthusiastic beast on the pickand-roll, Glenn Robinson III the quiet, assassin-like freak athlete. Spike Albrecht is the charmed, pocket-sized wonder. Nik Stauskas is cocky and prone to slap the floor or throw up 3-goggles on a regular basis. Caris LeVert is understated, a rail-thin marvel of an athlete. He’s soft-spoken and still sports braces. This group hasn’t had the cultural impact of the Fab Five, but its effect on the direction of Michigan basketball is comparable. And as far as we know, it won’t cripple the program for the next 15 years. They didn’t need to bring a sense of swaggering hip hop to the basketball scene to leave a profound impact. The Fresh Five has brought a sense of permanence to Michigan basketball. The Trey Burke era may very well have been a two-year run of success before the program fell back to reality. But McGary, Robinson and Co. have bridged the gap to the future. They’re making sure the Big Ten Championship and Final Four appearance weren’t a fleeting snapshot of Michigan glory. Where just a year ago, the five were new to campus, learning from the upperclassmen, a year later they’re the team’s leaders. Aside from McGary in the post, they’re
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The sophomore class is a rare assembly of talent, with no busts, that has changed the trajectory of the program and brought a sense of permanence to Michigan basketball.
all the most experienced at their position. This is their show. “Last year, I thought it was Trey and Tim’s team,” McGary said. “So I kind of sat back and learned from them. This year, I think I have more of a leadership role and am going to take charge.” Look anywhere in college basketball, and you won’t find something like this in years — this being a group of freshmen of varying pedigrees all finding success. There was no unheralded recruit in the Fab Five. And no pointing and hollering about John Calipari’s Kentucky teams — that’s predictable. Land five-star recruits like you’re picking apples at the grocery store, and you can expect to have that type of success. There were a couple big names in Michigan coach John Beilein’s 2012 class by spring of two seasons ago, but he wanted more. There were a couple of potential roster holes to fill. Michigan looked at a point guard destined for Appalachian State just a few months before he was scheduled to arrive in Boone, N.C. and turned him into a college basketball folk hero. It was the quickest evaluation of a player
Beilein can remember. That guy, Albrecht, went on to score 17 points in the National Championship. John Beilein would watch highlights of Albrecht’s prep-school tapes on flights in the middle of the 2012 Big Ten season and realized that this guy could help Michigan. There’s LeVert, who would be at Ohio University if Illinois hadn’t lost grip of its season in 2012 and lost nine of its last 10 games. Bruce Weber was fired, former Bobcat coach John Groce was hired as the new boss, and LeVert decommitted from Ohio. Asked about LeVert’s abilities before the season last year, Beilein bursted into a bona fide giggle. He was slated to redshirt the 201213 season, but the bird needed to be let out of his cage. Same way this year, with LeVert slotted for a bench role until Beilein realized that the guard needed to be on the floor as much as possible. He’s rewarded coach by leading the team in scoring, pouring in 24 points on 6-for-7 shots from behind the arc in Tuesday’s win over South Carolina State. The core recruits lived up to their expectations. Robinson was the No. 11 recruit in the country
and played like it. He was the most consistent freshman last year, and he was predicted to be top-15 draft pick if he entered the draft. McGary stumbled his way through the early going of last season, showing high energy, yelling a lot, but not adding a lot to the stat sheet. That changed as he transformed himself into a prized commodity in six NCAA Tournament games. Potential was realized and he was pegged as a top-20 draft selection. The Wolverines couldn’t ask for more with Stauskas. The native Canadian has proved himself as an elite shooter with a strong game near the rim to boot. I’d venture he’s the best in the country on an uncontested 3-pointer. There’s also not a disappointing one in the bunch — a rarity for the crapshoot nature of projecting high-schoolers into successful college basketball players. Each not only earned playing time as a freshman, but important minutes. Each had marquee moments that cemented their place in the program “It’s atypical to see freshmen not only earn the minutes that they’ve earned, but to have the type of
success that they’ve been able to earn as well,” said assistant coach Bacari Alexander. “For that, you get excited about the future.” Just like the Fab Five, this group is just as tight. The summer they came to Ann Arbor, McGary, Robinson and Albrecht were already friends. LeVert and Stauskas blended in seamlessly. Albrecht said that the chemistry between them was palpable before they played their first game. That they all earned important game experience only compounded their bond. Most likely, Robinson and McGary are gone at the end of the year. That’ll be the end of the Fresh Five. Three will remain, but these five will always be a unit. More and more, it’s looking like LeVert, and possibly Stauskas will join them a few years later. What the players can do is well known. There’s no guessing on their potential. Their legacy is there to be formed, and Michigan fans would be wise to lean forward and pay close attention.
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Rothschild can be reached at nealroth@umich.edu or on Twitter @nrothschild3
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story by Daniel Wasserman, Daily Sports Editor photos by Adam Glanzman, Managing Photo Editor
For all of his life, Glenn Robinson III listened. He listened. And he thought.
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o while he listened, while he thought, others spoke. Even in his house, he was the quietest one there, “boring,” even, according to his mom. For his entire life, he’s listened to people tell him he should talk more. Especially on the court. Not even the massive Cowboys Stadium video board — the one that read: Kansas 70, Michigan 60 with 3:47 to play — could illustrate the Wolverines’ doomed fate like the faces inside the team’s huddle. “A lot of people were looking down, and a lot of people didn’t think that we would be able to do it on our team — even the coaching staff,” Robinson remembers. “I saw it.” So in what was the biggest game of his life, he listened to the banter of his teammates — “people were talking about plays or this or that or what we should do” — and then, finally, he listened to something else. A voice in his head. An impulse. And for the first time as a member of the Michigan basketball team, it was time for his teammates to listen to the thinker. “Shut up.” He rose to his feet, silencing Trey and Tim, Josh Bartelstein and Corey Person. His AAU coach, his most-trusted mentor, had always told him that sometimes people misconstrue talkers with leaders; that “even if garbage came out (your) mouth,” your teammates would listen. Listen, because you’re the listener. So that’s how Robinson recalls beginning: “ ‘Listen, let’s focus on defense, and let’s get the job done. “ ‘We can win this game. I don’t
know if you’re all ready to go home, but I’m not. Let’s go. Let’s step this up, let’s get a couple steals and get right back in it.’ ” Michigan did, of course, and now Robinson has a ring and a new title, captain, to show for it. But to understand how he got there, how he got here, you must understand the things the listener has heard. **** You’re not big enough. The son of two-time NBA AllStar Glenn Robinson Jr. was born prematurely — so underdeveloped that he fit comfortably in his father’s palm. But before he could be held, he was placed into an incubator that, for days, housed two things: baby Glenn and an equally miniature Purdue basketball. But for all of his athletic prowess now, he admits that surprisingly, he couldn’t dunk until his sophomore year of high school — but not for a lack of effort. As a freshman in high school, he bought shoes from a magazine that promised to increase his vertical and wouldn’t take them off. “I don’t know what my obsession with dunking was,” he says, unable to hold back his laughter. “I used to sleep in the shoes, sleep with ankle weights on, just so I could dunk.” Four years later, his 360 dunk at Minnesota was No. 1 on SportsCenter’s top-10 plays. Robinson isn’t satisfied, giving it a ‘5’ on a 10-point scale — nothing compared to the dunk over his Jeep that he has been working on. But at age 15, with his dad living hundreds of miles away in Atlanta,
Robinson’s stature hardly resembled ‘Big Dog.’ Without a day-today father figure, the two biggest basketball mentors entered his life not long after the completion of his freshman season on the Lake Central High (Ind.) JV team. The first was Lake Central varsity coach Dave Milausnic, who realized that Robinson would likely be his best player the next season. Milausnic saw raw talent, so he prompted Robinson to come into school with him at 5:30 a.m. to shoot. When Robinson needed a ride, Milausnic was there. “There were times when he would be sitting out in the truck in my driveway, and I was still in bed — I didn’t want to get up,” Robinson said. “I thank him for that.” As summer approached, Robinson — playing on a younger team in one the Midwest’s best AAU programs, SYF Players — caught the eye of famed coach Wayne Brumm. Brumm, the under-17 coach, has turned the organization into an Indiana basketball factory that has pumped out, among others, Michigan’s Mitch McGary, Spike Albrecht and Max Bielfeldt, Michigan State’s Branden Dawson and Travis Trice, and recent NBA Draft picks Robbie Hummel, E’Twaun Moore and Luke Harangody. “He knew he maybe wanted to be along the lines of his dad, but I don’t think he really knew how to get there,” Brumm said of his earliest memories of Robinson. “I mean, don’t get me wrong, he has good genes obviously, but he was lanky, skinny and soft, which is a bad combination.” The first thing that Brumm told
Robinson and his mother was to call trainer Andrew Wallen. For Brumm, it was as much of a test as it was the first step to getting Robinson in shape. In his first visit to Wallen, Robinson weighed in at 167 pounds. In six weeks, his vertical increased six inches. Wallen would give Robinson weekly weight goals — he still weighs in at every session. By his junior year, Robinson was up to 184 pounds. A year later,
he reached 210. “I’ve never trained anyone that would out-work him,” Wallen said. When Robinson committed to Michigan before his junior year, he was a three star. By the end of his senior year, he was a consensus five star and Rivals.com’s No. 11 player. “Once kids like Glenn become a star, people think they’ve always been a star, and that’s not the case,” Brumm said. “I don’t think
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Glenn gets enough credit. I think even sometimes the (Michigan) coaching staff maybe thinks Glenn was always this way. They think, ‘Oh, he’s the son of Glenn Robinson, so of course.’ No, he wasn’t. He wasn’t really good as a sophomore to be quite honest.” **** You’ll never be like your dad. If there was one ‘Big Dog’ growing up in Shantelle Clay-Irving’s house, it certainly wasn’t her son Glenn. “Everyone wants Glenn to have this Big Dog, this urgh — ” ClaryIrving paused to growl, clenching her teeth and fists, “in him. I just don’t think Glenn has it. His dad came from the hood — he had to have it. Not (Glenn III), and I don’t think he’ll ever have it. “He doesn’t want be his dad, he doesn’t want to have that. And I don’t want him to have it.” Robinson’s brother Gelen, the football and wrestling star who will play linebacker at Purdue next year, was born with that mean streak and, according to ClayIrving, always wanted to be the big brother. Glenn’s lack of emotion, his ability to remain calm and composed through the highest highs and the lowest lows, has become his trademark personality. “I could say, ‘Uncle so-and-so died,’ and he’d go, ‘Oh really?’ ” his mom said, shrugging her shoulders and dropping her voice to a monotone in mockery of her son. “There’s just no emotion. When I say boring, that’s him.” Glenn was always taller, but even from a young age, Gelen was bigger, stronger, and according to Wallen, an “I’m-gonna-rip-yourhead-off type of guy,” which made for an interesting dynamic in the brothers’ competitive relationship. “Nothing much can get him riled up,” Gelen said. “That would sometimes irritate me that it’s hard to get under his skin. For me, being the complete opposite, it gets frustrating.” In hindsight, Glenn appreciates his brother’s “annoying” antics because it constantly tested his ability to remain stoic. But for as good as Glenn is at keeping his emotions under wraps, he’s even better at internalizing things in order to fuel his passions. He’s aware of his insecurities, Brumm says, and they’re what make him “get up in the morning.”
In the middle of high-school workouts, Wallen repeatedly reminded Glenn that he was passed up by the in-state schools, and by the McDonald’s All-American game, or that he finished fifth in Indiana’s Mr. Basketball vote. But nothing has persisted more than his strive to reach his dad’s level. In his first year playing for Purdue, Glenn Jr. averaged better than 25 points and nine rebounds per game. The following season, he was named National Player of the Year. And no one ever confused ‘Big Dog’ for lacking assertiveness, or being passive about anything — critiques that have followed the younger Glenn from high school to Ann Arbor. Everyone quoted in this story agreed that the reputation is at least partially a misconception — that his calm demeanor is mistaken for apathy. But still, those closest to him have wanted to see more from him. Said Bartelstein: “He’s not a guy who’s ever going to show a ton of emotion, but there were times last year when he needed to kind of take a stand and show some more toughness.” Added his mom: “Last year, I think he thought that was maybe more so (Burke and Hardaway’s) year. I just don’t think he wanted to step on anyone’s shoes.” Brumm, who still talks to Glenn multiple times a week, was particularly blunt. Dating back to his early years in Brumm’s program, Robinson has had the tendency to defer on open shots in favor of passes, and especially early on, failed to take over a game, even when the opportunity was there for him as the most talented, hardest-working player on the floor. It’s a problem that teammates and coaches at Michigan have been getting on Robinson about since his earliest scrimmages in Ann Arbor. This year, Michigan lacks a proven go-to scorer that can replace not only Burke and Hardaway’s combined 25 shots, but also their ability to create for themselves and teammates with the game on the line and the shot clock running down. Today, Brumm says, that’s where Robinson has the most area for improvement. “That’s his battle,” Brumm said. “I think he perceives, ‘I’m going to play my role,’ and really, maybe his role is supposed to be to take that
shot, or go in there and dunk that on somebody, you know? Don’t defer.” **** You’re not a leader. For someone who thrives on proving doubters wrong, Robinson said the announcement that he had been named a team captain was “definitely” vindicating. He becomes just the program’s fourth sophomore to receive the honor but said it’s something he knew the team needed him to do. “I wanted this,” he said. “It’s my job to step up and be a leader. I expected to be the captain.” While the decision surprised many outside the program, who pointed to his quieter demeanor, it wasn’t shocking to his previous coaches. Robinson didn’t just lead Lake Central in scoring for three consecutive years, he out-worked each and every one of his teammates. Today, that leadership is still reverberating in the school’s gym each morning, when six to seven players get up at 5:30 a.m. compared to the one or two that would sometimes join Robinson in earlier sessions. Nothing got Brumm more fired up than when Robinson’s leadership was brought into question. “He leads by example. To me, that’s more important,” Brumm said. “I’m not into this rah-rah leadership, because it can sometimes be mistaken for real leadership.” It perturbs Brumm that some close to Robinson fail to see past his visible emotions. “Glenn is a thinker. Don’t mistake Glenn’s facial expressions for not caring,” he said. “I think some people — I’m biting my tongue because I’m not going to say who — there’s a lot of people that really don’t understand Glenn Robinson. “It bothers some people when Glenn doesn’t tell you what he’s thinking, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t care.” Brumm spoke of Robinson’s leadership for nearly 10 consecutive minutes, wrapping it up by saying that, “If people don’t understand who Glenn is, that’s their weakness.” In Ann Arbor, it seems folks are finally understanding, even beginning to embrace, the Glenn that people in Indiana know and love. Bartelstein, along with Hardaway, were two of the veterans
that took Robinson under their wings the most. “He’s become a celebrity in Ann Arbor. At first, I think all of attention kind of got to him — didn’t get to him in a bad way — he just didn’t know what to do,” Bartelsein said. “But he accepts that and is comfortable with it now.” **** You’re soft. Throughout last season, Robinson was left in the corner to operate in only a residual fashion. Early in the season, as teams attempted to limit Burke, Robinson’s defender helped on the pick-and-roll, and Robinson was left with open jump shots and dunks. Big Ten coaches adjusted their defenses to stymie Robinson. “And that’s when all the negative things started to happen,” he recalls. Michigan finished 3-4 in February, as Big Ten teams repeatedly exploited the Wolverines and what some perceived to be a lack of toughness. At just 6-foot-6, Robinson was overmatched and bullied in the paint. “Guess what happened?” Brumm asked rhetorically. “Glenn didn’t get as many touches. His production went down, and people say he’s soft.” Fans turned on Robinson, and while he said all the right things publicly, those close to him noticed some frustration. “He sort of played out of his position, and I don’t think he was satisfied with that,” said his grandmother, Carolyn Crawford. Added Bartelstein: “I think it got under his skin a little bit. I think he was frustrated. He wanted to get more shots in the offense and didn’t know where his next shot was coming from.” Michigan finished the year 22-2 when Robinson scored in double figures, and heading into the NCAA Tournament as the nation’s favorite upset pick, he quickly asserted himself. After a scare in the first half against South Dakota State, Robinson’s back-to-back-to-back 3-pointers to open the second half lifted Michigan. “You’ve got to get that little killer in him that when someone’s trying to push him under the basket, you’ve got to push back a little bit, and I think he got that at the end of the year,” Bartelstein said His production in the NCAA
Tournament pointed to a positive outlook for this season, said Crawford. “I think he laid back a little bit last year, but I think he’ll be tougher this year.” **** You’re nothing more than an athlete. Though Kansas’s biggest lead, 14, came three minutes before the timeout speech, it seemed any multi-possession deficit would be too much for Michigan to overcome. The Wolverines were finding ways to score but couldn’t put together a string of defensive stops. With the two teams trading baskets, McGary was fouled to initiate the game’s final media timeout. The coaches huddled together, diagramming plays, while the players bickered a few feet away. With established veterans like Hardaway and Burke joining five seniors on the team, members of Robinson’s inner circle admitted that he’d perhaps been wary of stepping on any toes. But, as Crawford put bluntly, “He had had enough. He wanted to win.” McGary called the speech “courageous.” “He just finally said, ‘You know, screw it,’ and said what he had to say after maybe holding things in the whole season,” Albrecht said. “The thing is, when Glenn steps up and speaks like that, guys listen because you know it’s important.” “It was an ‘aha!’ moment. Everyone in the huddle looked around and was like, ‘Wow,’ ” Bartelstein said. In the final 3:47 of regulation, Robinson’s words paid dividends; Kansas was held to just one field goal and committed three turnovers. Less than a week later, he was on a flight to Atlanta. Following the loss — which Robinson says he’ll never watch — Beilein asked his players if anyone would like to speak. Ten days after the huddle, Robinson — overcome with emotion — again raised eyebrows by being the first to volunteer. His speech, a thank you to the seniors and veterans that were prepared to leave, set the table for a promising sophomore season. But in the ensuing days, reports surfaced that he and McGary were testing the NBA Draft waters — that was, until Robinson called his mother and grandmother.
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Clay-Irving told him, “ ‘Boy, you better bring your butt back to school, because — ’ ” overcome with laughter, she had to stop and collect herself. “The one-and-done thing just never — ” “Crossed our minds. And it shouldn’t have crossed his,” Crawford cut in, finishing her daughter’s sentence. “I was just like, ‘No way you think you can go and play LeBron (James) and Kevin Durant.’ I know you don’t think that. I think he thought that, but I was thinking, ‘No way,’ ” Clay-Irving said. Though Robinson was unanimously projected to be a lottery pick, Brumm saw a brighter future ahead. He warned Robinson that NBA teams were “just wanting an athlete … somebody who he really isn’t.” As soon as he committed to staying at Michigan, the rising sophomore went to work in a way that those close to him had never seen. Clay-Irving doesn’t recall him even taking a day off. Each summer morning, his
alarm was rarely set any later than 6 a.m., and he’d head straight to gym to get up at least 500 shots. A few hours later, he’d work with Brumm and sometimes a thenhealthy McGary. A quick nap preceded workouts and lifts — including making the 45-minute tri-weekly treks to see Wallen — and then he’d return to the court for more practice. In between, he’d find time to watch game film and cook. (Even at school, where team meals are freely available, he cooks almost all of his meals to adhere to Wallen’s dietary restrictions for him.) “The way he approached everything was all about one mission,” Wallen said. “Usually the saying is, ‘Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard,’ but I tell Glenn he’s both.” It showed. When Robinson arrived back in Ann Arbor for preseason physical tests, his vertical jump was literally off the charts (it exceeded the Vertec vertical-jump measuring machine’s maximum of 12-foot-3). And, after making preseason visits to Michigan, Michi-
gan State, Indiana and Kansas, ESPN’s Jeff Goodman said that Robinson was “the most impressive player” he came across. But the offseason results transcended just the court. “This preseason, he has been more vocal than ever,” Beilein said. “He’s got the ear of our locker room right now. That doesn’t come natural to people sometimes. “It says a lot about where his comfort level is.” Added McGary: “I think, he’s uh — ” the forward paused to collect himself, “slowly becoming a man. I don’t think he’s gonna stop.” Neither does Brumm. “I think he’s mastered the physical aspect of the game. He’s still developing, maturing,” he said. “I’m not sure you or I really know how good he is. “Glenn’s going to keep going until his body starts breaking down. I think he will get bored with basketball before that day comes. … I don’t think he’ll ever get to that phase where someone says, ‘OK, you’re not good enough.’ ”
**** Robinson has heard you. And so far, he’s answered with at least incremental improvements about each of his doubts while in Ann Arbor. But to put it all together — the leadership, the toughness, the all-around player who will step up instead of passing up — is the key to Michigan’s season, and that’s not something that’ll be judged in the immediate future. It’s a question best answered in March. And Robinson knows that. He’s heard it — he’s a listener, remember. You’ll never be the guy. It’s something he thinks about. Sitting in a dimly lit room overlooking State Street on a gloomy, rainy, late October afternoon, Robinson is asked if he wants to be the guy with the ball in his hand with the game on the line. “Oh yeah,” he pauses to take a sip from his Starbucks cup. The regular-season opener was more than a week away, but for a moment, it appeared his thoughts
had shifted to the past. To the times he has done it before. There was the game winner that he hit from half-court in his freshman year. And the game in his junior year when he scored 29 points in his team’s playoff opener. He “wasn’t going to school the next day if we lost,” so he won — it was the first high-school game his father ever saw him play in. But then there was the game two days later against undefeated No. 1 Munster. With less than seven seconds remaining, Robinson missed a game-tying 3-pointer. He got the rebound, though, and drilled it. “I don’t think anyone realized it was just to tie the game,” so fans stormed the court. But the elation ended minutes later when he missed the back-end of a pair of free throws that would’ve sent the game into double overtime, ending his season. “Yeah,” he says. He sets his drink down. His answer comes without a smile, or attitude, or even any sense of absolution. Just the same emotionless, quiet Glenn. “I need to be.”
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