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‘U’ comes out on top in annual blood drive Michigan beats OSU by over 300 pints in 32nd annual competition By TANAZ AHMED
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Michigan coach Brady Hoke finished the season 7-5, the same record former Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez had in his last season before getting fired.
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hey played like they had nothing to lose because there wasn’t anything else to lose. This was EVERETT already the COOK worst season of Brady Hoke’s Michigan coaching career. Athletic Director Dave
Brandon was forced to release a statement emphasizing the job safety of his head coach. Before the game, the job of at least one coordinator, offensive coordinator Al Borges, was most likely in jeopardy. Ohio State was a 14-point favorite. People were expecting a blowout. At a tailgate before the game, Michigan fans were more concerned with Ohio State coach Urban Meyer potentially running up the score than they
were about actually winning the game. So on a Saturday with nothing to lose, the Wolverines played the way they should have all along. Instead of mindlessly handing the ball off-tackle for a one-yard loss, Michigan had reverses to tight ends and a double pass from a wide receiver to a wide receiver-turned-quarterback. Michigan’s running backs carried the ball just 24 times,
Though Team 134 lost The Game Saturday, Michigan claimed one victory against rival Ohio State University. The 32nd annual Blood Battle competition against OSU came to an end Friday with a sanguine win for the University. In 2012, OSU won the Blood Battle, breaking the University’s previous record of four consecutive wins. The University collected 2,575 pints of blood — about 300 more pints than the Buckeyes. The University also won the competition for organ and bone marrow donor signups, beat-
and you could count the number of off-tackle runs on one hand. There was no forcing the ball into the middle of the defense behind a raw offensive line, because the Wolverines employed end-arounds and reverses toward the sidelines to spread the field. And most importantly, instead of taking sacks left and right, Gardner took advantage of receivers running shorter routes. See QUESTIONS, Page 5A
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AIDS week to raise awareness across campus BSU and other student groups to host daily events By EMILIE PLESSET Daily Staff Reporter
In observance of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, the University’s Black Student Union will host its yearly AIDS in Black and Brown Week this week. There will be interactive events throughout the week to spread HIV/AIDS awareness and education on campus. Although BSU organizes the week, events are run by a variety of University-affiliated organizations, including the National Council of Negro Women, the Women of Color Collective and the Egyptian Students Association. LSA senior Tyrell Collier, BSU’s president, said the goal of the week is to raise awareness about the HIV/AIDS epidemics’ impacts on the Black and Latino/a community. LSA senior Ozi Uduma, BSU’s Seba — whose task it is to welcome, both physically and spiritually, those present at the mass
meetings — and co-coordinator of the week, said the events provide a domestic focus on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in these communities. “Just because the U.S. as a whole isn’t talking about HIV/ AIDS or putting it on the forefront as they did in the 80s and 90s doesn’t mean that it’s still not prevalent, especially for those who grew up in the Detroit area,” Uduma said. The National Council of Negro Women and Images will host the first event of the week Monday in North Quad at 7:00 p.m. During the event, participants will play “Sex Games,” a game-show contest similar to Family Feud, but the questions pertain to HIV/ AIDS and same-sex practices. The same day, the Phi Beta Sigma National Pan-Hellenic fraternity will host the week’s second event in Palmer Commons where participants will play “Sexas Hold ‘Em,” — in the place of poker chips, participants will use condoms. On Dec. 4 the Michigan Women of Color Collective and the Egyptian Students Association are holding a screening of the 2011 film “Asmaa” in North See AIDS, Page 3A
ing OSU by more than 60,000 organ donation pledges and 200 more bone marrow donor commitments. Overall, Blood Drives United, a student-run service organization that coordinates the Blood Battle, found 103,286 organ donors for Gift of Life Michigan, the state’s organ donor list and 300 bone marrow donors for the Be the Match Registry. Blood Drives United began collecting donations on Nov. 4 at stations sponsored by the American Red Cross. The drive continued daily at various locations on campus, including the Michigan Union and Michigan Stadium, to meet the goal of 2,550 pints of blood. During the three weeks, more than 30 drives were held around campus. LSA senior Kevin Weiss, the Blood Battle’s co-chair, said the group placed a greater emphasis on recruitment this after last year’s loss to OSU. See BLOOD, Page 3A
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UMMA exhibition showcases household objects from past By GIANCARLO BUONOMO Daily Arts Writer RUBY WALLAU/Daily
Ohio State University students jump into Mirror Lake as part of an annual game week tradition in Columbus, Ohio late Tuesday night.
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Researchers shed light on black hole emission limits Space phenomena exceed previous observations By IAN DILLINGHAM Daily Staff Reporter
On a desolate, rocky mountaintop in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, one of the world’s most advanced
ground-based telescopes and a team of University researchers seek to shed light on some of the universe’s greatest astronomical phenomena. A study expected to be published Thursday in the journal Nature will challenge the current understanding of light emissions from black holes, based on the observations of a collaborative global team of researchers at the Gemini
Observatory in Hawaii. It was previously believed that light emission, or luminosity, from black holes reaches a threshold called the Eddington limit, at which no more light can be emitted due to the physics of the black hole. Recent research, led by Astronomy Prof. Joel Bregman, used various properties of the black hole and neighSee EMISSION, Page 3A
For the next several months, the University of Michigan Museum of Art will exhibit Islamic art that showcases the beauty and complexity of everyday objects from the eighth through the 19th centuries. A collaborative effort. UMMA will host the exhibition of objects from the Kelsey Museum of Architecture in its glass-walled Stenn Gallery. This exhibition is part of the UM Collections Collaborations series, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, where the UMMA showcases the diversity of the University’s art collections. “It’s an opportunity to do something together,” said the associate director of the Kelsey museum, Dawn Johnson. The breadth of this exhibition is impressive: It spans eleven See FRAGMENTS, Page 5A
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‘U’ Hospital completes second heart transplant in state history Forty- five years ago this week (Dec. 3, 1968): Doctors at the University Hospital completed the second heart transplant in the history of the state of Michigan. A 15-man team operated on patient Donald Kaminski, a 38-year-old at the time dying of cardiomyopathy, a degenerative disease that would have eventually led to his death. The operation began just three minutes after the death of donor Robert Pushman, a senior at Central Michigan University who died of injuries from a car accident.
Thirty-five years ago this week (Dec. 2, 1978): Former University student Bob Higgins sued the University’s Board of Regents for $885,000 after he received a D in his German class instead of the A he felt he deserved. Higgins said he was not able to attend the class until the final two weeks of the semester due to “personal emergency” reasons but still completed and turned in all the necessary course work. Higgins said then-Assistant Prof. Irma Sklenar refused to grade his work because she didn’t agree with its con-
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tent, and Higgins requested a grade of D so he would still be eligible for graduation. “The professors use grades as a club,” Higgins said “Since they (the faculty members in the German department) couldn’t believe that I, a black student, was doing superior work in the course, they resented it and gave me a poor grade.” This was the third suit initiated by Higgins against the University. Higgins claimed he graduated and received his diploma in 1976, but the Office of the Registrar had no record of it. At the time of the suit, he ran his own foreign
investment consulting firm. “I irked them (the University officials) because I wasn’t going to kiss their ass,” Higgins said. Twenty-five years ago this week (Dec. 2, 1988): A vote from the LSA curriculum committee passed a proposal to require students to take a course related to combating racism starting in the fall of 1989. The original push from the United Coalition Against Racism was to institute one specific class on racism, but the passed proposal allowed students to choose from sev-
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Sustainability Internship Desperate need Crime stats information for a calculator from Saturday’s in Detroit WHAT: Laurie Kaye Nijaki WHAT: The Ford School WHERE: Bursley football game will host a discussion on will present information Residence Hall Hall WHEN: Friday at about 11 a.m. WHAT: A resident’s room was robbed between 5:30 a.m. Wednesday and noon on Thursday, University Police reported.
sustainability and decline in Detroit. WHO: Erb Institute, Ross Business School and School of Natural Resources WHEN: Today at 12:00 p.m. WHERE: Ross School of Business, room K1310
WHERE: Michigan Stadium and surrounding areas WHEN: Saturday WHAT: At Saturday’s game of 113,511 attendees, the University Police and supporting law enforcement made six arrests at Saturday’s football game: one for resisting and obstructing a police officer, three for Minor in Possession of Alcohol and two for disordorly conduct. One citation was given and 50 additional ejections were made. In addition, emergency medical personnel treated 70 people. Sixteen were taken to University Hospital.
Who needs two? WHERE: Crisler Center, 333 Stadium WHEN: Friday at about 3 p.m. WHAT: A subject was warned verbally for trying to scalp tickets outside of the Crisler Center, University Police reported. No report was filed.
about the White House internship program from a panel of White House staff. WHO: The Career Center WHEN: Today from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Weil Hall, 1110 Betty Ford classroom
Understanding Mississippi pension reform Heat concert WHAT: Assistant Prof. Andrew Kerner will discuss the reasons behind and implications of the last 30 years of “financialization” in pension systems worldwide. WHO: Program in Interntional and Comparative Studies WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. WHERE: School of Social Work Building
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eral classes that would meet the requirement. Then-Assistant Prof. Elizabeth Anderson, who is now a senior faculty member in the Philosophy Department, said the new class requirement could also help increase the diversity of the faculty. “We want to use this graduation requirement to make the University aggressively recruit faculty to teach these courses, most of which will be minority faculty,” Anderson said.
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Officials: Healthcare.gov Eyptian constitutional making positive strides amendments ratified Administration implements software changes prior to Nov. 30 deadline
said Sunday in a progress report. But they also acknowledged the rocky rollout of healthcare. gov included hundreds of software bugs, inadequate equipment and inefficient management. The government says more than 50,000 people can log on to the website and more than 800,000 people will be able to shop for insurance coverage each day. It’s a dramatic improvement from the first weeks of the sys-
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tem, which saw frustrated buya giant step in the roadmap ers watch their computer screens announced by the military when freeze, website crash and error it removed Morsi last summer messages multiply. will have been completed. “The bottom line — HealthMorsi supporters have been Care.gov on December 1st is night staging near daily protests to CAIRO (AP) — Police fired demand his reinstatement, in and day from where it was on tear gas to drive hundreds of Cairo and across much of the October 1st,” chief White House WASHINGTON (AP) — Visitors troubleshooter Jeff Zients told supporters of Egypt’s ousted country. But for hundreds of to the government’s health care Islamist president from Cairo’s them to enter and take over Tahreporters. website encounter fewer errors famed Tahrir Square on Sunday, rir, even briefly as they did SunAmid all the problems with and the system now works most of HealthCare.gov, President Barack as a panel tasked with amending day, constituted a major, albeit the time, administration officials the constitution adopted dur- symbolic, propaganda coup for Obama set a deadline for Saturday ing his time in office agreed on them. They would have attracted for several significant problems to be resolved. The administrachanges to the text. many more like-minded protesttion organized a conference call The 50-member panel revis- ers had they been able to gain a ing the Islamist-tilted charter solid foothold in the square. with reporters Sunday morning to give a status report. adopted under former President It was the first time in more “There is more work to be Mohammed Morsi managed to than a year that Islamists entered resolve its differences after two the central square in significant done to continue to improve and days of clause-by-clause voting numbers. The location has been enhance the website and continue to improve the consumer on the final draft. the near exclusive domain of libThe text gives women and eral and secular protesters since experience in the weeks and Christians “suitable representa- shortly after Morsi took office in months ahead,” the Department Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ of Health and Human Services tion” but says a future law must June 2012 as Egypt’s first freely decide the details. It also calls elected president. wrote in a memo to reporters. for elections, either parliamenThe White House is hoping for Also in the background to a fresh start. A wave of bad pubtary or presidential, within 90 Sunday’s events was scathing days after the draft constitution criticism of the military-backed licity over the site’s early failures cast a shadow over the president’s is adopted. The other election government by a top rights group chief domestic achievement. should be held up to six months that called on authorities to later. Even with the repairs in place, immediately release five Morsi HARD the site still won’t be able to The new charter would aides who have been kept at an do everything the administrarequire future presidents to undisclosed destination since declare their financial assets their arrest on July 3, the day tion wants, and companion sites for small businesses and Spanannually, and allows lawmakers Morsi was ousted. to vote out an elected president ish speakers have been delayed. 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and secular youth groups, whose differences with the Islamists began to surface later in 2011 over claims that Morsi’s Brotherhood and its allies were more interested in promoting their own political interests than pursuing the uprising’s goals. Sunday’s Islamist protesters came from Cairo University, where they have been protesting the death on Thursday of an engineering student at the hands of police. Non-Islamist students were also protesting the death of the student on Sunday, but they restricted their demonstration to the area outside the Cairo University campus in the Giza district. It was not immediately clear why police did not stop the protesters from reaching Tahrir, a 30-minute journey on foot from the university campus on the west bank of the River Nile. There was no police presence outside the campus either. Jubilant Islamist students knelt down and offered a prayer of thanks as their march drew closer to Tahrir. Once there, they chanted slogans against the military and police and flashed the four-finger sign that commemorates the death of hundreds of Morsi supporters by security forces since a military coup ousted the Islamist president on July 3. Morsi’s supporters immediately relayed the news on social networks, calling on others to join them quickly and suggesting that camping out indefinitely in the iconic square would eventually topple the military-backed government. Also on Sunday, Egyptian authorities ordered the release from police custody of prominent activist Ahmed Maher, founder of the revolutionary April 6 Movement, a main player in the 2011 revolt against Mubarak. Prosecutors, however, extended by 15 days the detention of another iconic figure from the 2011 uprising — Alaa Abdel-Fattah.
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Michigan med tech faces sentence in New Hampshire Victims of an ex-hospital technician from Michigan who infected patients with hepatitis C are getting a chance to face him, and some are traveling from Kansas to New Hampshire to do it. David Kwiatkowski has admitted stealing painkillers and replacing them with saline-filled syringes tainted with his blood. He’s being sentenced Monday in New Hampshire. He pleaded guilty in August to 16 federal drug charges under an agreement that gives him 30 to 40 years in prison. Thirty-four-year-old Kwiatkowski worked in 19 hospitals. He was hired at New Hampshire’s Exeter Hospital in 2011.
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Record crowds over weekend, but spending declined Did retailers shoot themselves in the foot? U.S. retailers offered holiday discounts in early November and opened stores on Thanksgiving Day to attract more shoppers. Those tactics drew bigger crowds, but they didn’t motivate Americans to spend. A record 248 million people are expected to shop in stores and online over the four-day Thanksgiving weekend that ends Sunday, up from last year’s 247 million, according to the National Retail Federation. But total spending is expected to fall for the first time ever since the retail group started tracking it in 2006. Over the four-day weekend, spending is estimated to reach $57.4 billion, down 2.9 percent from last year.
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American detained in North Korea in good health The family of an elderly U.S. tourist detained for more than a month in North Korea said Saturday the Swedish ambassador has seen the man and found him to be in good health. Merrill Newman’s family in California said in a statement that the State Department told them that the Swedish ambassador to North Korea had visited the 85-year-old at a Pyongyang hotel. “We were very pleased to hear that the Ambassador was allowed to pay this first visit to Merrill,” the statement said. “As a result of the visit, we know that Merrill is in good health. ... Merrill reports that he is being well treated and that the food is good.” An Obama administration official called for his release, urging North Korea to consider his age and health conditions.
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Syrian aircraft kill 50 in northern rebel town Syrian government helicopters dropped barrels full of explosives on a rebel-held town near the northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 50 people in two separate attacks over the weekend, activists said Sunday. The shelling Sunday hit near a bakery in the town of al-Bab, located east of Aleppo, killing at least 24 people, said Rami Abdurrahman of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Akram al-Halabi, a rebel spokesman based in nearby in Aleppo. The Observatory obtains its information from a network of activists on the ground. Syrian state media said government forces killed “terrorists,” which is how they describe armed rebels fighting against President Bashar Assad’s rule. —Compiled from Daily wire reports
“There was a real improvement this year,” Weiss said. “We procured incentives that benefited the blood drive like promising (donors) Chipotle. We also had the added benefit of knowing that we lost last year, so that was used to recruit as well.” According to the University Health Service, more than 38,000 blood donations are needed every day to meet national demand, and someone needs blood every two seconds. Volunteer blood donations are the only way hospitals can acquire blood. One blood donation has the potential to save
AIDS From Page 1A Quad at 7 p.m. The movie follows an Egyptian woman with HIV as she struggles to obtain treatment. “I’m excited for the movie because you get to hear from perspectives that don’t necessarily get a chance to speak,” Uduma said. “Being a woman of color and being HIV positive is not a narrative that gets a chance to get a spotlight often.” While many of this year’s events are new, the staple event of the week is BSU’s formal AIDS in the Arts event Thursday in the University of Michigan Museum of Art at 7 p.m. Collier said the event involves artistic performance includes dances, songs and instrumental
EMISSION From Page 1A boring stars to suggest this limit may be exceeded in some cases. “I think this is a first salvo in this field,” Bregman said. “It shows that you can get the data together to figure out the orbital properties.” The findings at the Gemini Observatory served as the final step in a series of global studies conducted with the hope of determining the mass of a single black hole in the Pinwheel Galaxy, located approximately 21 million light-years from earth. Once the mass was determined, the scientists realized light emissions from the region were much higher than they should appear under the Eddington limit. “This is a very tidy result but it’s not all-encompassing,” Bregman said. “But maybe not all ultra-luminous sources are the same. What you want to do now is do it for other systems.” Black holes are regions of space so dense that even light cannot escape the pull of their gravity beyond a boundary called the event horizon. When they are observed from earthbased telescopes, their center appears black. Contrary to their namesake, black holes are actually some of the brightest objects in the universe. As matter is pulled toward the event horizon, it gains speed and collides with other similar objects. This creates friction as objects closer to the horizon move faster than objects farther away. “That friction gets turned into heat which gets turned into light, which is why black holes are so bright,” Bregman said. Larger black holes, known as intermediate or supermassive, can range from a few hundred to a billion times larger than the sun. The black hole observed in
three lives, according to the American Red Cross. “Utilizing the rivalry is a way to recruit lifetime donors,” Weiss said. “Blood does have a shelf life. Donating once is great, but every eight weeks you can continue to donate blood. The Blood Battle hopefully encourages a mindset of giving.” While the competition is over, Blood Drives United and UHS encourage anyone still interested in donating blood to visit the Red Cross donation website. UHS also encourages those who are interested in becoming an organ or bone marrow donor to join the registries at Gift of Life for organ donations and Be the Match to be placed on the marrow registry.
music that tell stories of those affected by HIV/AIDS. “It is basically supposed to bring awareness to artists who have been infected or affected by HIV/AIDS and have created art telling the story of HIV/ AIDS,” Uduma said. “It creates other methods of dialogue to talk about HIV/AIDS.” BSU and EnspiRED, a student organization aimed at promoting the arts on campus, will collaboratively run AIDS in the Arts. While BSU is organizing the event, EnspiRED is providing many of the student artists and performers. The week concludes Friday with a community dinner hosted by BSU, South Asian Awareness Network and the Sigma Lambda Gamma multicultural national sorority at the Trotter Multicultural Center at 6 p.m.
the study, designated as ULX-1, is known as a stellar mass black hole. Although it is much smaller than other types, it is still many times larger than the sun. Given the emission level from ULX-1, scientists knew it was either a stellar mass black hole emitting too much light or an intermediate black hole emitting a small portion of its potential. Using the Gemini telescope, the researchers were able to determine the velocity, period and mass of surrounding stars, allowing them to calculate the mass of the black hole. “It’s a crazy field in that every time you get 10 pieces of information, five say it’s a stellar mass black hole and five say it’s an intermediate black hole,” Bregman said. At such vast distances, the researchers were observing primarily x-ray light, which is not visible to the naked eye. The Gemini telescope, as well as several others used on the project, was equipped with instruments capable of detecting the various forms of light emitted from the region. “They’re very faint, so it’s very hard to do,” Bregman said. “The techniques that you would use in the Milky Way just don’t work.” Of all scientific phenomena, Bregman said the people he interacts with are intrinsically and rightfully drawn to black holes. The observatories used in the study are not only major research centers, but also tourist attractions for individuals wishing to explore the universe. “They are the most exotic objects in the universe,” he said. “They are a place where the actual fabric of space-time breaks down. You might care about anything because either it’s going to make you a better piece of toast in the morning or it’s just really interesting — black holes are just really interesting.”
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Viewed from Manhattan, first responders and others work at the scene of a derailed Metro North passenger train in the Bronx borough of New York. The train derailed on a curved section of track in the Bronx early Sunday.
NYC train derailment kills four, injures more than 60 Witnesses report train traveling at high rate of speed prior to accident NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City commuter train rounding a riverside curve derailed Sunday, killing four people and injuring more than 60 in a crash that threw passengers from the toppling cars and left a snaking chain of twisted wreckage just inches from the water. Some of the roughly 150 passengers on the early morning Metro-North train from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan were jolted from sleep around 7:20 a.m. to screams and the frightening sensation of their compartment rolling over on a bend in the Bronx where the Hudson and Harlem rivers meet. When the motion stopped, four or five of the seven cars had lurched off the rails. It was the latest accident in a troubled year for the nation’s second-biggest commuter railroad, which had never experienced a passenger death in an accident in its 31-year-history.
“Four people lost their lives today in the holiday season, right after Thanksgiving,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a news conference. Eleven of the injured were believed to be critically injured and another six seriously hurt, according to the Fire Department. The train operator was among the injured, Cuomo said. The governor said the track did not appear to be faulty, leaving speed as a possible culprit for the crash. But he noted that the National Transportation Safety Board would determine what happened. The Federal Railroad Administration was also sending 10 investigators to the scene. Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Thomas F. Prendergast said investigators would look at numerous factors, including the train, the track and signal system, the operators and speed. The speed limit on the curve is 30 mph, compared with 70 mph in the area approaching it, MTA spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said. The train’s data recorders should be able to tell how fast it was traveling, she said.
One passenger, Frank Tatulli, told WABC-TV that the train appeared to be going “a lot faster” than usual as it approached the sharp curve near the Spuyten Duyvil station, which takes its name from a Dutch word for a local waterway, sometimes translated as “Devil’s whirlpool.” The train was about half full at the time of the crash, rail officials said, with some passengers likely heading to the city for holiday shopping. Joel Zaritsky was dozing as he traveled to a dental convention. “I woke up when the car started rolling several times. Then I saw the gravel coming at me, and I heard people screaming,” he told The Associated Press, holding his bloody right hand. “There was smoke everywhere and debris. People were thrown to the other side of the train.” Nearby residents awoke to a building-shaking boom. Angel Gonzalez was in bed in his highrise apartment overlooking the rail curve when he heard the roar. “I thought it was a plane that crashed,” he said.
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Accessible AP Michigan needs to open college prepatory courses to diverse students
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chool districts across the nation have implemented initiatives to expand Advanced Placement course offerings — high-level courses that offer students the opportunity to earn college credit in high school — to groups with limited access to academic resources, including Black, Hispanic, low-income and aspiring first-generation college students. In spring 2013, the state of Washington passed legislation that encourages students who meet a state threshold on state standardized exams or similar tests to enroll in Advanced Placement courses. Michigan, on the other hand, isn’t doing enough to encourage diverse and lowincome students to enroll in AP courses. At the district, state and federal levels, more action needs to be taken to encourage a diverse group of students to enroll in these classes as well as make it more economically feasible for them to take AP exams in preparation. There are a number of barriers that may discourage students from taking AP classes. Many districts mandate AP enrollment requirements, such as teacher recommendations and extremely high test scores, which can discourage the academically underserved. According to a report from The Education Trust, only 6 percent of Black students are enrolled in the AP program, which is is almost half of the 11.7-percent national average of AP participants. Lowincome students make up just 5.5 perfect of the participants, and they are are three times less likely to enroll in an AP course than those from higher-income families. The barriers to entry for AP classes should be lowered. Opponents argue that content may have to be “watered down” because for the benefit of unprepared students. While this sentiment may be true in some cases, research conducted by the College Board challenges this assumption. When analyzing data from 690,000 high-school graduates in 2012, the College Board found that 75 percent of American Indian students, 66 percent of Hispanic students and 72 percent of Black students whose PSAT scores showed that they had the potential to be successful in an AP math course weren’t enrolled. Other studies show that both diverse low-income students and students of color who enroll in AP classes perform well, even when the requirements to take these classes are significantly lowered. There are benefits to having a more diverse group of students in classroom settings. A University study conducted from 1990 to 1994 states that students who interact with a diverse
group of peers in both informal and classroom settings show the greatest “engagement in active thinking, growth in intellectual engagement, and growth in intellectual and academic skills.” In 2013, Michigan’s AP program participation was lower than the national average. Furthermore, Michigan should look into passing legislation similar to that of Washington’s, lowering the threshold on standardized tests. As of April 2013, educational representatives of Washington have been in favor of the legislation because it has engendered “incredible benefits,” such as an increase in AP exam enrollment for students. Efforts to make AP tests more affordable for low-income students are lacking. For example, the Michigan Department of Education has fortunately received a federal AP Test Fee Reduction Grant for the past 11 years, but this year the grant has been held up by the federal government — Michigan may not end up acquiring the grant at all. This grant is very important for all students to get credit for college courses and save money, and for those who hadn’t considered it, to make higher education a more realistic prospect. Congress needs to make this issue a priority. With a combined effort from districts around the University as well as the state and federal government, acceptance into AP classes for a wider range of students of diverse backgrounds can become a reality, and AP exams will become more economically feasible for students. By doing so, students — as well as the classes themselves — will greatly benefit.
VICTORIA NOBLE | VIEWPOINT
Time to end profiling policies
Over the next couple of holiday-filled months, students will travel more than they do all year. For many, this involves flying and the hassles that come with it in the name of national security. Though some are clearly necessary to keep passengers safe, others, such as the Travel Security Agency’s Screening of Passengers by Observation Technique program, have come under intense scrutiny for being ineffective, racist and expensive — and rightfully so. According to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the program — which has cost nearly $1 billion since its inception — trains and deploys more than 3,000 behavior detection officers to the nation’s busiest airports. There, they go undercover and attempt to identify suspicious-looking individuals who may pose a security threat. The TSA calls this a “common sense” approach to combating terrorism. But this model assumes that terrorists all look and behave in the same ways. The GAO found that these officers are only able to identify threats at a rate that is the “same as or slightly better than chance” — essentially calling the method’s usefulness into question. Moreover, the report raises doubts about whether these superficial means can decide who looks questionable in an objective way. Largely perpetrated by the media, widespread bias about what terrorists look like means these so-called “objective” methods can lead to racial profiling. Because these officers are often undercover, there’s no way for victims of potential racial profiling to know for sure whether or not they have been targeted. So, while the TSA maintains that race and religion are never factors, we can’t be sure the agency’s behavior detection officers don’t put a greater burden on certain races or groups. In any case, the TSA’s willingness to tolerate possible racial profiling is unacceptable — even more so in the face of a program with a dubious success record. Furthermore, some of the behaviors that tip off officers to possible terrorists include seeming stressed, rushed, nervous, or expressing an opinion of security processes. But the process itself tends to provoke these reactions. Under these rules, it doesn’t take more than a fear of
flying, anxiety about missing a flight or dissatisfaction with the system to display so-called terrorist behavior. Last spring, I was selected for further inspection at Detroit Metro Airport after making negative remarks about the x-ray scanners and having to take my shoes off. But this targeting doesn’t just target the outspoken. SPOT’s sole purpose is to systematically target individuals that stand out for a variety of reasons. Maybe they’re sweating too much. Maybe they’re too loud. Maybe they look tired. Regardless of their so-called physical symptoms of being a terrorist, singling out individuals who are most distressed by an inherently nerve-wracking security process is wrong and unhelpful. While some of these officers are stationed at security checkpoints where travelers know they are being watched, many are not. Requirements for TSA officer identification are not uniform and vary across the country. Several airports do not require that these officers be stationed at security stations, or even be in a TSA uniform. In April, LAX removed the requirement to keep officers at security checkpoints at all times, so as to reduce the predictability of security measures. Instead, the officers are sent inside the airport, where travelers have no idea that they are being watched, or that the guy who randomly started talking to the them was an undercover agent. Domestic spying is illegal for other agencies such as the CIA, so why the TSA would be allowed to do it on a regular basis makes little sense. SPOT is currently being reviewed by the House Committee of Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Transportation Security, after behavior detection officers failed to spot a gunman who killed a TSA officer and wounded three others at LAX on Nov. 1, and after the GAO and Department of Homeland Security both publicly criticized the program. Both Democratic and Republican representatives have called for SPOT’s funding to be stripped. For the many travelers that have been putting up with BDO’s antics since the program began in 2007, it’s about time. Victoria Noble is an LSA freshman.
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An ode to small towns
rowing up in a town of fewer than 4,000 residents, it became very clear to me after stepping foot on this campus that I wasn’t exposed to some of the same opportunities growing up as my peers. It seemed initially that every- SARA one around me MOROSI was from a big city — somewhere rich in culture and diversity. I began to feel as if I were in an arms race with my peers, not knowing how to reach the finish, and definitely not knowing how to come close to winning. It was intimidating, and there were times in the first few months that I wanted to go back home. Looking back, I see how foolish I was being. As I continued to get to know other freshmen, my insecurities began to fade. I met people who shared a similar background with me, along with the many who did not. According to the University’s Office of Registrar, 30 percent of students are out-of-state, with representation from all 50 states. Six percent are international, with students hailing from 150 countries. I stopped looking at the geographical diversity at this University as a cause of personal diffidence, and instead began to appreciate how many people I had to learn from. As cliché as it may sound, some of the most valuable lessons I’ll take from this place were taught by my peers outside of the classroom. I began to recognize that no one background is “better” than the next, and because of that, I had
a renewed sense of appreciation for my small-town upbringing: for what it gave me, and for what it allowed me to share with the people around me. I recently started following Huffington Post’s Love Letters project — a series of letters written by those who have something to say about the place that means the most to them. For many, it’s the place they call “home.” You can find love letters written to some of the world’s most beautiful and desired destinations — London, Paris, New York City, New Orleans and Hong Kong, for instance. But where’s the love for the small towns? Cities with populations in the thousands, even hundreds, seemed to be barely a blip on the project’s map. Thus, my ode to small towns everywhere: Dear Small Town, I’m sorry for having left you. It wasn’t you; it was me. I’ll forever be grateful for the years we spent together, but our time had run its course. Even so, my gratitude is still very much alive for you, small town. I hope you understand. I came to know you well, small town — so well that I could navigate your contours with my eyes closed. I appreciated that familiarity. You were predictable, but I was OK with that. In fact, it’s one of the qualities I still love most about you. I loved our traditions, my favorite being Fridays in autumn. I remember the excitement that
would hit me as soon as I woke up. Once 7 p.m. rolled around, it was the same excitement that made its way to the football field that was home to most for a few hours on those Friday nights. Those memories are some of my most cherished. I could tell you, small town, that running errands in my new place is a lot quicker now. When I was with you, grocery shopping took so long. With you, I had to stop and have a conversation with everyone I knew, which was essentially everyone I saw. I could also tell you that I miss that. I remember saying goodbye to you on that August night, sitting in the top row of the stands. There were no players on the field that time, and the rows below me were empty. I was scared. I didn’t think I wanted to leave you, small town. You were safe. Some might think you held my hand too much, but I don’t agree. You gave me support and comfort. You gave me the friends I’ll always come back to, and the families that became my second. You gave me a solid foundation to build on. Since leaving you, I’ve learned that “home” is a word that’s interchangeable. They say home is where the heart is, and that’s why you’ll always have a piece of mine, small town. But I hope you can understand that pieces of my heart will be left elsewhere, too. Starting here in Ann Arbor, my second place to call home.
Realizing no one background is better than another made me appreciate my hometown.
— Sara Morosi can be reached at smorosi@umich.edu.
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The people behind the problems
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very Tuesday night, I go with three other University students to Freedom House, a non-profit in Detroit. It’s part of a French service-learning course through the Residential College, so I don’t know if it technically counts as volun- LISSA teering, but it’s KRYSKA always one of the best parts of my week. The political refugees who live there while applying for asylum in the United States are some of the kindest, smartest and bravest people I’ve ever encountered all in one space. I enjoy spending time with them. But most importantly, I love my visit there each week because it reminds me to think “in terms of people.” Let me try to explain what I mean by that. I follow the news, obsessively at times, and various situations and causes impassion me. Refugees, impoverished families, kids with cancer — it makes me so angry to see all of the suffering in the world, especially when I feel like so much of it could be fixed if we really wanted it to be. But somewhere along the way I start to lose sight of what makes me care so much in the first place: the people. It can be difficult for me to remember that the people who we often see as the “bad guys” in difficult situations are also people, often with families, trying to do what they think is best. People who stand by and do nothing for those in need
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frustrate me as well. It’s only when I put myself fully in someone else’s shoes and imagine all of the factors and considerations going into their choices that I understand their actions in the face of adversity. There are often unreasonably high expectations for those who fall on hard times, people who lose their homes or jobs, for example. A single mistake or flaw can be used as an explanation for someone’s suffering. It’s easy to ignore the fact that for most people, a single flaw or mistake would cause a minor setback and nothing more. But when you’re in a precarious place to start, even the smallest mistakes can be fatal. It’s unfair to hold people in difficult circumstances to a higher standard just because they started out in a bad situation. It’s easy to forget about the stories of individuals when discussing large-scale problems. We start throwing around generalizations about poor people, rich people, this race and that religion, and suddenly the discussion is no longer about people at all, and that changes everything. Humans are designed to feel compassionate about each other, and most of us like to help others. Studies show that volunteering and donating to charity make us feel good and can even improve our physical and mental health. So, how do we end up having so many negative conversations? How
are we often willing to let other Americans go hungry by cutting food stamp programs, willing to stand by idly as many American families homeless and willing to tolerate so many other problems in our society? I think it’s because we lose sight of the individual people involved. It’s easy to fall back on quick judgments, or to assume that anyone in a hard situation is there because they deserve it — that they did it to themselves. It’s easy for me to assume that I am fundamentally different from them in some way, because otherwise I face the realization that I am one misfortune away from the same situation. And that’s scary. What’s even scarier is facing up to the sheer injustice in the world, and the large number of people who suffer because of it. So, over winter break, in between catching up on sleep and Netflix, I’m going to put aside some time for volunteering. Because it’s when I go outside of my comfort zone — when I interact with people less fortunate than I and talk to them, forming a picture of who they are and what their lives look like — that I am truly aware of all the people behind those news stories and statistics. If you have an hour to spare, try it; you might be surprised by what you find.
It’s easy to forget about people when looking at largescale problems.
— Lissa Kryska can be reached at lkkryska@umich.edu.
E-mail Virginia at vcehope@umich.edu
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QUESTIONS From Page 1A He finished with 32 completions for 451 yards and four touchdowns while running for another score, his best game in more than a month and a half despite suffering an undisclosed injury during the game that required a boot on his left foot. This new offense — this new team — should be a positive, but it’s not. More than anything, it’s maddening. Frustrating. Downright unacceptable for a program that’s supposed to hold itself to a high standard. This ingenuity on offense should have happened two months ago. The last game of the season isn’t when we should be seeing potential. It’s when we should be seeing the finished product, with a few added wrinkles here and there. It’s not when the entire offense should be revamped. After the game, fifth-year senior offensive tackle Taylor Lewan said, “We played our hearts out. Every single one of us. That’s what this team is going to do from now on.”
FRAGMENTS From Page 1A centuries, five countries and will include all types of objects, from bowls to figurines. However, this exhibit seeks to give a broader overview of Islamic art than other temporary exhibitions might. “It’s really just to give a taste of some of the collections we have, and yes, it is broad,” Johnson said. Think of this exhibition an introductory course in Islamic art that prepares you for more advanced classes. In January, there will be a showcase of art and architecture from the mansion, appropriately titled “Shangri-La: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art,” of famed art collector Doris Duke. Then, Christiane Gruber, associate professor of Islamic art, who recently organized a symposium on the art of the Arab Spring uprisings, will be curating a more in-depth exhibition of Islamic art next fall. As part of her exhibition, Professor Gruber will showcase pieces that cannot be shown in the transparent Stenn Gallery. “It’s all glass, and it has very high light levels, so any of our wood objects, any of our textiles,
From now on? It’s December. There’s one game — a mediocre, bowl-everyone-forgets-in-five-years type of game — left in the season. It was initially encouraging to see this Michigan team. Having the ball with a chance to win the game with less than a minute left is more than most anyone was expecting. But where has this sense of urgency been for the last two months? This offense combined for 501 total yards in three losses to Michigan State, Nebraska and Iowa. On Saturday, the Wolverines had 603. “We got ready to play,” Hoke said after the game. “Had a good plan. We executed better, we blocked better. There’s a lot of things we did better.” A reporter followed up and asked if it was really just that simple. Hoke said, “At the end of the day, yeah,” which is just not true. He knows it, I know it and so does anyone who has watched a Michigan football game this season. This wasn’t the same offense. It wasn’t like the players executed the same game plan they’ve been struggling with since being demolished in East Lansing. They executed better, yes, but
they executed a better offense, one that had wrinkles that weren’t entirely predictable and plays that Michigan hasn’t run at all this season. Borges called for a throwback screen to a freshman tight end, Jake Butt. We didn’t see anything remotely like that before Ohio State. That doesn’t make any sense. There’s no point of saving your best for the last game of the season when every foreseeable goal is out of reach. There was no more Big Ten to win, nor a 10-win plateau to reach. Why not go balls to the wall and take some risks before this game? That’s why it’s hard to feel good about a game like Saturday, to pull out some sliver of redemption on this lost season, when so many what-ifs come of it. That’s why Borges’s job shouldn’t be saved — it should be more in question. What if Michigan had this playbook for the last two months? What if this offense pulls off some close wins instead of losing in the last minute to Nebraska and Penn State? What if this was the team Michigan could have been all along, but we didn’t see it until the last game of the year?
the light levels are too high,” Johnson said. “So we could only show things that are metal, are glass, are ceramics.” But with the only constraint being a material one, Johnson had a wide variety of pieces to pick from while curating the exhibit. She followed the interests of the family who originally brought the pieces to the University. According to Johnson, much of the collection was collected by former University president Alexander Grant Ruthven and the Ruthven family. Ruthven focused on the aesthetic — the big, beautiful objects that had very ornate details. “That’s kind of how we chose some of our pieces, for their aesthetic quality, the beauty of the objects even though they were used for everyday use,” Johnson said. The title of the exhibit — “Fragments of the Past” — is appropriate as many of the pieces are literally fragments of larger objects worn from use. “There are a number of glass shards that have very intricate detail on them, but they still give clues to the cultural background of the pieces, the influence of culture,” Johnson said. It isn’t that surprising that
something like a glass bowl might be very intricate and detailed. But even objects used for more rigorous tasks were endowed with beauty by their creators. “There are these beautiful ceramic filters, and there’s very ornate detail on them, but they were used to filter the Nile,” Johnson said. “The Nile is, and always has been, very dirty, so it’s a very functional piece, but you also see that the artisan gave amazing attention to that.” The artisans of the Islamic world endowed the mundane objects of their daily lives with beauty. Now, “Fragments of the Past,” will take these objects and appreciate them for the art that they are and always have been. At the very least, this exhibition will allow viewers to appreciate Islamic art as it exists beyond the mosques and mosaics. But after appreciating the beauty of a humble water filter, perhaps viewers will appreciate the beauty of the mundane objects of the present. “It’s kind of this dialogue that’s happening from the past to the present in response, and I thinks that’s something that’s really important at the University,” Johnson said.
DeWolf killed during robbery, suspects say Detroit Free Press obtains statements of arrested S.C. men ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Two suspects in the fatal shooting of a University of Michigan medical student say they sneaked into Paul DeWolf’s basement bedroom at his medical fraternity during a burglary attempt and that his shooting was unintended, according to police statements. The Detroit Free Press reported Sunday that it obtained police statements from two men jailed on murder and home invasion charges in the death of Paul DeWolf, a 25-year-old prospective surgeon whose body was found July 24. According to the statements, the suspects and a third man not yet charged in the case broke into Phi Rho Sigma medical fraternity and entered DeWolf’s basement bedroom, startling him. DeWolf went to get something from his dresser and one
of the suspects tried to strike him with the gun, but it fired instead, according to the statements. Ann Arbor police Detective Katie Nucci recounted the statements at a Nov. 22 warrant hearing for Joei Jordan, 20, and Shaquille Jones, 21, the newspaper said. Using data about a stolen computer, investigators tracked Jordan to Sumter County, S.C., and Jones to North Charleston, S.C. A third suspect accused of firing the gun is jailed in Michigan on a bond violation in another case but hasn’t been charged in DeWolf’s killing. DeWolf was a native of Schoolcraft in southwestern Michigan and a graduate of Grand Valley State University. He was attending medical school on an Air Force scholarship and held the rank of second lieutenant. In her testimony, Nucci said Jordan entered through an open rear window as Jones and the third man remained outside. Jordan emerged a short time later with a PlayStation 3, taken from a basement recreation room in the house and hidden in his backpack, the
detective said. Jordan climbed back through the window and let the other two in through a rear door, Jones told detectives. Eventually, they ended up in the basement, where they hid in a utility closet when they heard two students coming down a hallway, Nucci testified. The three of them then made their way to the room where DeWolf lived and entered. Jones said DeWolf got out of bed “and was asking what was going on,” the detective testified. She said Jones told investigators that the third suspect “pulled out a handgun and pointed it” at the medical student and “ordered DeWolf not to move.” “At some point DeWolf grabbed something off of his desk and/or drawer” and started to move toward the third suspect, at which time the man “raised the gun and attempted to strike DeWolf with the gun, and the gun at that time fired.” DeWolf screamed, and the suspects ran off, Nucci testified. The next court dates are Thursday for Jones and Dec. 12 for Jordan.
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Political rally leaves dozens injured in Kiev Police disperse crowds with tear gas and flash grenades K I EV, Uk ra i ne (A P) — A protest by about 30 0,0 0 0 Uk ra i n ia n s a ngered by t hei r gover n ment ’s decision to f reeze i nteg rat ion w it h t he West t u r ned v iolent Su nday, when a g roup of demon st rators besieged t he president ’s of f ice a nd police d rove t hem back w it h t r u ncheon s, tea r g a s a nd f la sh g renades. Dozen s of people were i nju red. The mass rally in central Kiev defied a government ban on protests on Independence Square, in the biggest show of anger over President Viktor Yanukovych’s refusal to sign a political and economic agreement with the European Union. The protesters also were infuriated by the violent dispersal of a small, opposition rally two nights before. While opposition leaders called for a nationwide strike and prolonged peaceful street protests to demand that the government resign, several thousand people broke away and marched to Yanukovych’s nearby office. A few hundred of them, wearing masks, threw rocks and other objects at police and attempted to break through the police lines with a front loader. After several hours of clashes, riot police used force to push them back. Dozens of people with what appeared to be head injuries were taken away by ambulance. Several journalists, including some beaten by police, were injured in the clashes. Opposition leaders denounced the clashes as a provocation aimed at discrediting the peaceful demonstration and charged that the people who incited the storming of the presidential office were government-hired thugs. Several opposition leaders, including world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, walked over to Yanukovych’s office to urge protesters to return to Independence Square. Order appeared to have been restored by Sunday night, with rows of riot police standing guard behind metal fences. Some protesters then headed to Yanukovych’s residence outside Kiev, but their cars were stopped by police. Speaking before the vast
crowds on Independence Square from the roof of a bus, the opposition leaders demanded that Yanukovych and his government resign. “Our plan is clear: It’s not a demonstration, it’s not a reaction. It’s a revolution,” said Yuriy Lutsenko, a former interior minister who is now an opposition leader. Chants of “revolution” resounded across a sea of yellow and blue Ukrainian and EU flags on the square, where the government had prohibited rallies starting Sunday. Thousands of protesters remained late into the evening and some were preparing to spend the night on the square. The demonstration was by far the largest since the protests began more than a week ago and it carried echoes of the 2004 Orange Revolution, when tens of thousands came to the square nightly for weeks and set up a tent camp along the main street leading to the square. The opposition leaders urged Ukrainians from all over the country to join the protests in the capital. “Our future is being decided here in Kiev,” Klitschko said. Ukrainian lawmakers meet Monday for consultations and planned to hold a parliament session Tuesday. The opposition is hoping to muster enough votes to oust Prime Minister Mykola Azarov’s Cabinet after several lawmakers quit Yanukovych’s Party of Regions in protest. The U.S. Embassy issued a joint statement from U.S. and EU ambassadors encouraging Ukrainians to resolve their differences peacefully and urging “all stakeholders in the political process to establish immediate dialogue to facilitate a mutually acceptable resolution to the current discord.” Protests have been held daily in Kiev since Yanukovych backed away from an agreement that would have established free trade and deepened political cooperation between Ukraine and the EU. He justified the decision by saying that Ukraine couldn’t afford to break trade ties with Russia. The EU agreement was to have been signed Friday and since then the protests have gained strength. “We are furious,” said 62-year-old retired businessman Mykola Sapronov, who was among the protesters Sunday. “The leaders must resign. We want Europe and freedom.”
A s t he demon st rators approached Independence Squa re a nd swept away met a l ba r r iers f rom a rou nd a la rge Ch r ist ma s t ree set up i n t he center, a ll police lef t t he squa re. About a dozen people t hen cli mbed t he t ree to ha ng EU a nd Uk ra i n ia n f lag s f rom it s bra nches. Several hundred demonstrators never made it to the square. Along the way they burst into the Kiev city administration building and occupied it, in defiance of police, who tried unsuccessfully to drive them away by using tear gas. The EU agreement had been eagerly anticipated by Ukrainians who want their country of 45 million people to break out of Moscow’s orbit. Opinion surveys in recent months showed about 45 percent of Ukrainians supporting closer integration with the EU and a third or less favoring closer ties with Russia. Moscow tried to block the deal with the EU by banning some Ukrainian imports and threatening more trade sanctions. A 2009 dispute between Kiev and Moscow on gas prices resulted in a three-week cutoff of gas to Ukraine. Yanukovych was traveling to China for a state visit this week. Afterward, the president planned to visit Russia and reach agreement on normalizing trade relations, Azarov said Sunday. For Yanukovych, memories of the Orange Revolution are still raw. Those protests forced the annulment of a fraud-tainted presidential election in which he was shown to have won the most votes. A rerun of the election was ordered, and he lost to Western-leaning reformist Viktor Yushchenko. Yanukovych was elected president five years later, narrowly defeating then-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the leading figure of the Orange Revolution. Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in 2011 for abuse of office, a case that the West has widely criticized as political revenge. The EU had set Tymoshenko’s release, or at least her freedom to go to Germany for treatment of a severe back problem, as a key criterion for signing the association pact with Ukraine. The prospect of freeing his archenemy was deeply unattractive to Yanukovych, who comes up for re-election in early 2015.
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FINE ARTS NOTEBOOK
Commercializing the fine arts Is Hollywood ruining theater with adaptations? By REBECCA GODWIN Daily Arts Writer
Recently, the world of fine arts has grown increasingly present in mainstream media. Hollywood producers are making musical after musical into mildly successful movies. Multiple media outlets have covered street artist Banksy. TV shows like “Glee” and “Smash” made it cool to be a part of glee clubs, acappella groups and other singing organizations. Fine arts has become increasingly commercialized, and while that has helped expose new people to the arts, is it worth risking the integrity of the art? When I first stumbled my way into fine arts, I was a sophomore in high school. “Glee” had just started, and its quirkiness and mix of modern and classic songs attracted me and most of the kids in my school. So, when the annual musical was announced, dozens of us decided to audition. The final cast, which included myself, was huge, but the appeal of performing quickly faded when many in the ensemble realized that hard work was required to put on a number similar to Rachel Berry’s. By the next year, “Glee,” while still popular, no longer held the interest of many of my classmates. Movies like “Mamma Mia!” were popular enough, but the students around me had learned that big song-and-dance numbers weren’t as easy to put together as Hollywood made it seem. But I was hooked — I performed in the
school musicals again my junior and senior year, and soon I was devouring everything that had anything to do with Broadway. But in recent years, fine arts has become increasingly popular, and I’ve begun to miss the times when no one knew any Broadway show besides “Wicked.” It’s not that I’m upset that more people are beginning to enjoy fine arts; I’m just afraid that, in order to appeal to a wider audience, executives will begin to take the fine arts and commercialize them. Hollywood has already claimed its first victim with “Glee.” When the show first started, I loved it. It was a poignant look at high school, and it gave the best representation I’d ever seen of what it felt like to be a part of a theater group. But as the popularity increased, the show began to change. Soon episodes were dedicated to plot lines revolving around Britney Spears and Lady Gaga, and the quirkiness was replaced with the mainstream. The next to fall to commercialism was the movie musical. Over the past several years, the movie musical has gone through a rebirth. Well known musicals like “Chicago” and “Hairspray” were all brought to the big screen in fairly accurate adaptations thanks to casts of genuinely talented performers. Then came “Sweeney Todd,” “Rock of Ages” and “Mamma Mia!,” and while the stories were decent, the performers were slowly being replaced with better known actors, who, while quite famous, didn’t possess the vocal capabilities the roles required. Finally, Cameron Mackintosh decided to bring the powerful “Les Misérables” to the big screen and I couldn’t have been angrier. I love
“Les Mis;” the music is breathtaking, the story is heartbreaking and when the show is performed with the right cast, the show can be awe-inspiring. But I knew Mackintosh wasn’t going to cast the right people. I knew that actual talent would be sacrificed for big names, so I dreaded the release. I watched in anger as people around me, people who had never once shown any interest for the arts, gushed about the upcoming movie because Wolverine, the Gladiator and Mia Thermopolis were going to be in it. When I did finally see it, everything I had predicted had come true. Hollywood destroyed the masterpiece that is “Les Mis.” They were more concerned with Oscar nominations and box office numbers than preserving the integrity of the piece. They moved scenes, added songs, removed musical numbers, cut out pieces of the story altogether and then claimed it was a cinematic triumph. But the masses ate the film up. Many of them had never seen the stage production, let alone read the book, so they had very little idea of the extent to which they were robbed. Now Hollywood is at it again, with filming already underway for “Into the Woods” and “Annie.” Again, the movies are full of big names, but I don’t see any evidence that these people know how to carry a tune. Maybe I’m just bitter. Maybe I should accept the growing popularity. But as a person who loves the fine arts, I would rather these works go unnoticed by the majority and stay untainted by greed than be butchered and commercialized so some executives can make a profit.
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“Do we have to watch ‘Crash’ again, mom?”
New ABC comedies about families hit stride By ALEX INTNER Daily Arts Writer
ABC is using Marvel’s “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” as a lead-in to a block of two family comedies, which are B+ outshining the former in Trophy Wife terms of qualSeason one ity. Both “The midseason Goldbergs” and “Trophy Tuesdays at Wife” pre- 9:30 p.m. miered with decent pilots ABC that showed potential. BComedies take time to devel- The op, as the writGoldbergs ers evaluate how to write Season one for the actors midseason and what types of jokes work. Tuesdays “The Gold- at 9 p.m. bergs” and ABC “Trophy Wife” are not quite great comedies, but their writers are starting to figure out what makes the best versions of these shows. “Trophy Wife” in particular has grown into a very funny family comedy. The series follows Kate (Malin Akerman, “Suburgatory”) and her hus-
band, Pete (Bradley Whitford, “The West Wing”) as they raise his kids from previous marriages and deal with his two crazy ex-wives. Akerman leads an ensemble of both kids and adults that continue to improve as the writers learn how to write their characters. For example, Marcia Gay Harden’s (“Law and Order: SVU”) character appeared to be an obnoxious hard-ass in the first episode. Several episodes later, she is still a strict character, but the writers have figured out how to add layers of warmth to her. The shining stars on “Wife” are the child actors. Casting children for sitcoms is hard, but they happened to get a group of three funny children who can not only work with good material, but elevate it to make it great. The best kid is newcomer Albert Tsai (“How I Met Your Mother”), who is hysterical as Bert, Pete’s adopted son. He avoids the trap of acting like a generic sitcom kid — improving upon his already solid material by adding an extra level of goofy to his performance. The pilot for “Trophy Wife” was very good, and it only got better from there. The latest episode, in which the characters gets head lice, was the best episode yet. Most of the jokes landed with laughter and
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other moments helped develop the characters by moving them from their initial stereotypes. For example, it showed Kate not being the pretty trophy wife and doing work to take care of her kids. ABC’s other family comedy, “The Goldbergs,” only produced a mediocre pilot. The show focuses on the Goldberg family, a group of people who love to shout at each other. In the pilot, the volume for every single line was turned up to 11, and it was headache-inducing to watch.
‘Trophy Wife’ and ‘Goldbergs’ continue to improve. The show’s cast is talented, but they have been given one direction from the writers and directors of the show: shout. They do this very well, but it’s still grating after watching it for 22 minutes. Jeff Garlin (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”) is the only one who can make this type of dialogue work as Murray, the father in the family. He plays angry and loud very well and is able to lessen the obnoxiousness of some of the moments. What works on “Goldbergs” is the true sense of sentimentality that is prevalent in each episode. Each ends with a moment of warmth and family togetherness. This show, for the most part, nails these moments because it lets them come from real character realizations, rather than forcing them to occur. The Thanksgiving episode, for instance, ended with the two sons, Adam (newcomer Sean Giambrone) and Barry (Troy Gentile, “Entourage”), stopping their fighting to acknowledge that they are family, and they love each other. After an episode with them doing nothing but fighting, this was a welcome change. The glimmer of hope for “Goldbergs” comes from the fact that it’s based on the creator’s real life. Adam F. Goldberg (“Breaking In”) based this sitcom on his childhood, complete with keeping the names of the members of his family and showing real-life home videos over the credits. It’s clearly a passion project, and one hopes he will find a way to tone down the obnoxiousness of the character interactions. “The Goldbergs” and “Trophy Wife” are growing comedies. Comedies in their first season need time to grow and develop their sense of humor and their ensemble. So far, both of these family comedies have earned that time.
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“Check, please?”
‘Betas’ shows potential By KELLY ETZ Daily Arts Writer NBC
“I’m a grown-ass man.”
Give thanks for new ‘SNL’ special Clip episode revisits holiday sketches By EMILY BODDEN Daily Arts Writer
“Saturday Night Live” has historically compiled special holiday episodes, and this year’s Thanksgiving was no different. AWith babyfaced Amy Saturday Poehler and Night Live: Seth Meyers — not to mention Thanksgiving Luke Wilson Special in the opening sketch — the Available for streaming Thanksgiving special was on Hulu something to give thanks NBC for. While specials that compile old sketches can induce groans, specials allow producers to unearth past favorites. With a show that boasts as many episodes as “SNL,” it’s easy to get caught up in recent sketch flops and forget all of the successful skits that have come before. But that’s not the case; the Thanksgiving Special surely inspired some viewers to go back
and rewatch some of their beloved old seasons. Without a doubt, the best part is seeing the old cast members in their prime. The older sketches remind viewers why they still watch even when some weeks are subpar at best. Let’s face it, when “Saturday Night Live” is funny, it’s hilarious. These legendary sketches hold value through ideal combinations of cast members and writing. The Thanksgiving Special gives hope to more consistent humor going forward by forcing viewers to remember why they began watching in the first place. Considering that “SNL” has been airing since 1975, it’s a bit strange that they had to stretch some of the sketches to fill the full two hours. Understandably trying to theme the episode around Thanksgiving, the producers still seemed to struggle to find exactly what they wanted. One of the very last sketches, “The Loud Family,” had nothing to do with Thanksgiving outside of centering around family interactions. The sketches that didn’t touch on the holiday stood out because most others did. The contrast was awkward and not addressed at all by the creators of the special. With no formal transitions, the special feels thrown together. Lit-
tle planning seems to have gone into how the clips play off of one another. A lot of potential lies in using the juxtaposition of sketches to contextualize and promote humor. Unfortunately, the producers of the Thanksgiving Special didn’t use this approach to their advantage. The transitions between clips are stark, black screens that are quickly replaced by the start of the next sketch. Little to no planning seemed to have occurred for the ordering of the sketches, either. Aside from the attempted central theme of Thanksgiving, no cohesion exists between one sketch and the next. With different casts in each sketch, producers could have gone in chronological order or played with an ordering that allowed, and promoted, the continuation of either a type of character or similar situational humor. The disjointedness is distracting from the great material. “Saturday Night Live” is in the TV big leagues, and this special reminded us why. Years of producing a show each week has resulted in a litany of hilarious sketches. The Thanksgiving Special brought up feelings of nostalgia for casts of the past and made us believe in the potential that the current, as well as future, seasons hold.
NEW MEDIA NOTEBOOK
Next generation hardware launches underwhelm By JULIAN AIDAN Daily Arts Writer
The next generation is fully here but has arrived with more of a whimper than with triumphant fanfare. While games for Nintendo’s WiiU and 3DS rake in the rave reviews, the average aggregate appraisals on Metacritic for four of the most anticipated Xbox One exclusives — “Dead Rising 3,” “Forza Motorsport 5,” “Killer Instinct” and “Ryse: Son of Rome” — sits at 73 on Metacritic. “Ryse” was the only original IP of these, and developer Crytek’s openworld brilliance in its past franchises (“Crysis,” “Far Cry”) didn’t translate: A 60 average for their action-adventure launch title, with reviewers citing linearity and repetition as major issues. “Fighter Within” clocked in as the latest Kinect-dependent abomination to frustrate players worldwide, drawing ire from all corners of the industry. For the PlayStation 4, the pickings are pretty slim as well. The two best looking exclusives prior to launch, “Killzone: Shadow Fall” and “Knack,” failed to deliver any AAA-level punch, receiving a 74 and 55 on average. “Killzone” is a great addition to the FPS genre and for shooter lovers everywhere, delving deeper into the series’ uni-
verse than ever before and allowing players to blow up enemies in shinier and better looking ways than ever before. Additionally, “Resogun,” “Contrast” and “Warframe” are downloadables for PS4, with the last being free-to-play. Each has received generally favorable reviews. Enough, at least, to buffer the inevitable disappointment diehard Sony fans will probably feel knowing that the immediate future for the PS4 is kind of bleak? Probably not, but, hey, it’s something.
Still hope for the future. Fortunately for both, multiplatform, high-quality titles allow hardcore devotees of either to split the difference. Sports fans have “FIFA 14” and “NBA 2K14” to turn to, each hailed as one of the best in the genre to date; adrenaline junkies have multiplayer shooters like “Battlefield 4” and “Call of Duty: Ghosts.” “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag” tacks a pirate chapter onto the increasingly complex and convoluted timeline of the series, offering booty-plundering to those seeking an action-
adventure thrill. The real hope is in the future for both of these consoles. Early adopters were saddened to hear that the heavily hyped, dystopian action-adventure game “Watch Dogs” was pushed back to early 2014, but the year seems ripe with next-gen heavy hitters. “The Elder Scrolls,” “Diablo” and “Final Fantasy” series will all be coming to the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, each providing a hugely immersive multiplayer experience. “Titanfall,” a mechbased, first-person, multiplayeronly shooter, will drop on Xbox consoles exclusively before Bungie’s awe-inspiring shared-world shooter, “Destiny,” is released for both Sony and Microsoft consoles. Survival-horror addicts can find shelter in “Dying Light” and “The Evil Within,” the former a post-apocalyptic zombie game in an urban setting and the latter a hellscape populated by nightmares. Though nothing is a remarkable stand-out from these console-exclusive games, the looming promise of “better” is keeping fans waiting for the unavoidable spike in gaming quality and excitement. With these and many other long-awaited titles lined up, 2014 seems like it’s going to be a great year for the newest generation of console gamers.
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After a much-lauded pilot was released in April, Amazon’s “Betas” seemed a timely and immensely watchable endeavor for the behemoth B corporation. “Betas,” Betas cherryFirst three picked (along episodes with “Alpha available for House”) from streaming an original lineup of Amazon eight comedy pilots, was an immediate standout. Hidden amid almost-witty dialogue, fumbling innuendoes and an extremely unfortunate archetypical, pornloving 35-year-old was promised a series to rival Netflix, and other original content powerhouses. The series, produced exclusively for Amazon and created and written by Josh Stoddard and Evan Endicott, tackles the world of Silicon Valley start-ups and the-next-big-thing mentality of app developers in a tech-infused landscape. Following four friends and colleagues, the series focuses on the development of a Facebooklike social media app, “brb,” that goes a step further. As one character aptly describes, “It’s a stalker’s wet dream.” The app doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, which hampers the pilot but becomes less important as the series progresses. The irony
FRAGMENTS From Page 1A The breadth of this exhibition is impressive: It spans 11 centuries, five countries and will include all types of objects, from bowls to figurines. However, this exhibit seeks to give a broader overview of Islamic art than other temporary exhibitions might. “It’s really just to give a taste of some of the collections we have, and yes, it is broad,” Johnson said. Think of this exhibition an introductory course in Islamic art that prepares you for more advanced classes. In January, there will be a showcase of art and architecture from the mansion, appropriately titled “Shangri-La: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art,” of famed art collector Doris Duke. Then, Christiane Gruber, associate professor of Islamic art, who recently organized a symposium on the art of the Arab Spring uprisings, will be curating a more in-depth exhibition of Islamic art next fall. As part of her exhibition, Professor Gruber will showcase pieces that cannot be shown in the transparent Stenn Gallery. “It’s all glass, and it has very
of a group of socially inhibited techies attempting to develop the next major player in social media is nicely played, if a bit expected. With the success of apps like SnapChat and Foursquare, it’s at least realistic to imagine young (well, relatively) and eager college dropouts fighting for a place in the big leagues. Looking to capitalize on this largely positive, pilot-driven momentum, “Betas” released an additional two free episodes in late November — with the bulk of the series available only to Amazon Prime subscribers. Unfortunately for the series, version 2.0 is more insincere than fresh, leaning closer to “The Big Bang Theory” than “The Social Network” — right down to the inevitable matchmaking-Indian-parents storyline.
For every unique, subtle character arc, “Betas” answers with unnecessarily raunchy, overdone one-liners and crudely drawn plot twists. Nash (Karan Soni, “Safety Not Guaranteed”), a Sheldon-esque character, likes Kenny Loggins, doesn’t do pants and fumbles with his sexuality, followed up by an electric vagina and the less-than-eloquent line “dis-fucking-missed.” Really? It’s obvious “Betas” is grap-
pling with a unique medium; each episode works to create a delicate balance between how much to show and where to hold back. Unfortunately, more often than not, the series trips awkwardly over the line. Sophomoric humor, ironically, is often hard to pull off without divulging into jackass territory. Unlike cable shows like “The League,” which toe the line with elements of class, “Betas” takes too many wild stabs without checking itself — often spewing from the mouth of the series’s most uninspiring character Hobbes (Jon Daly, “Bride Wars”). Even so, the most notable thing about “Betas” has nothing to do with the story or the characters — instead, what’s important is the opportunity the series presents. As a series that can cater uniquely to viewers, “Betas” is a solid win. It isn’t perfect, but it’s much more puttogether than most of the failed network pilots that debuted this fall (“Dads,” “Betrayal,” “Super Fun Night,” need I go on?). What “Betas” exemplifies is a TV design that gives viewers more control than ever before. The question to be asking now is whether or not “Betas” can garner enough clout to entice viewers to Amazon Prime, and if Internet mediums should seriously consider crowd-sourcing pilots as a viable alternative. “Betas” just might be a glimpse at “TV” of the future. And you know what? It’s not bad.
high light levels, so any of our wood objects, any of our textiles, the light levels are too high,” Johnson said. “So we could only show things that are metal, are glass, are ceramics.” But with the only constraint being a material one, Johnson had a wide variety of pieces to pick from while curating the exhibit. She followed the interests of the family who originally brought the pieces to the University. According to Johnson, much of the collection was collected by former University president Alexander Grant Ruthven and the Ruthven family. Ruthven focused on the aesthetic — the big, beautiful objects that had very ornate details. “That’s kind of how we chose some of our pieces, for their aesthetic quality, the beauty of the objects even though they were used for everyday use,” Johnson said. The title of the exhibit — “Fragments of the Past” — is appropriate as many of the pieces are literally fragments of larger objects worn from use. “There are a number of glass shards that have very intricate detail on them, but they still give clues to the cultural background of the pieces, the influence of culture,” Johnson said.
It isn’t that surprising that something like a glass bowl might be very intricate and detailed. But even objects used for more rigorous tasks were endowed with beauty by their creators. “There are these beautiful ceramic filters, and there’s very ornate detail on them, but they were used to filter the Nile,” Johnson said. “The Nile is, and always has been, very dirty, so it’s a very functional piece, but you also see that the artisan gave amazing attention to that.” The artisans of the Islamic world endowed the mundane objects of their daily lives with beauty. Now, “Fragments of the Past” will take these objects and appreciate them for the art that they are and always have been. At the very least, this exhibition will allow viewers to appreciate Islamic art as it exists beyond the mosques and mosaics. But after appreciating the beauty of a humble water filter, perhaps viewers will appreciate the beauty of the mundane objects of the present. “It’s kind of this dialogue that’s happening from the past to the present in response, and I thinks that’s something that’s really important at the University,” Johnson said.
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FILM REVIEW
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Dench shines as titular ‘Philomena’ Powerful performances drive BBC drama By NATALIE GADBOIS Daily Arts Writer
Dame Judi Dench (“Skyfall”) has played a domineering English queen, the cool director of a massive security agency, a head- Astrong aristocrat and a vindictive Philomena teacher. Dench At the is no-nonsense, her characters Michigan unforgiving, and BBC that’s what sets her apart. However, the Dame is too talented to be typecast as every feminist’s badass dream woman, which she shows by playing a sweet old lady in “Philomena.” Dench is Philomena Lee, a simple Irish nurse quietly atoning for her sin of broken chastity 50 years later. As a teenager, Philomena had a roll in the hay with a boy at the county fair, and because of her subsequent pregnancy, her parents threw her into an abbey. There, the nuns help her give birth and then brusquely put her to work for four
years, only allowing her and the other “women of questionable morals” to see their children for an hour a day. One somber July day, Phil watches from an upstairs window as a wealthy America family adopts her son Anthony and drives away from her without a goodbye. There can be a distinction between the Catholic Church and the Catholic faith. Little old ladies praying for successful hip replacements are a contradiction to the pompous preaching of a far away cathedral in Rome. Inflexible nuns belatedly teach abstinence to unwed mothers. The institution spends years changing the words to the “Hail Mary” as parish priests try desperately to feed the hungry. “Philomena” examines these themes as Phil enlists Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan, “Despicable Me 2”), a befallen and cynical journalist, to help her find her son, now 50. The film excels in establishing their relationship, comically juxtaposing Martin’s cranky modernity with Philomena’s amiable simplicity. Much of the comedy comes from Dench’s creation of Philomena as that sweet old lady everyone knows: The one who offers toffees in the car, who doesn’t understand puns and kindheartedly tries to connect with her Mexican waiter
by expressing her love of tacos. Do not mistake Philomena as just a caricature. Through her soulful eyes and deliberate movements, Dench instills in her a quiet pain: Her voice never rises to a yell, and even when she breaks down, her dignity stays intact. Religion stays an important theme as Phil goes head-to-head with Martin, facing off his rants about God and the Pope with her ferocious faith. The dichotomy between the two of them can at times come off as too strong — a studied depiction of new vs. old — but the excellent acting by both Dench and Coogan ensures that Phil and Martin are fully developed. The film, based on a true story, only falters in its storytelling devices. Gray-lit flashbacks show Phil’s loss; the camera focuses two inches from her face to show the single tear dripping down her cheek. Dench narrates these flashbacks herself, and her dainty brogue negates from the severity of the situation. The story itself is dramatic, but every time the film dips into melodrama, Philomena loses some of her authenticity. The music detracts from the story as well, playing the frenzied tones of a murder mystery. It simply doesn’t match the story’s nuanced examination of a woman torn apart but still full of forgiveness. “Philomena” delicately portrays a woman already in the twilight of her life, who still yearns to change her past. Phil isn’t brilliant, she isn’t educated or witty, not even particularly perceptive. Phil is simply a woman conflicted between what was taken from her and the faith that has remained throughout her entire life. Dench seems to go in a softer direction with “Philomena,” but Phil is possibly her most badass character yet: a forgiving woman with dignity and grace, one who doesn’t pretend to be someone she is not.
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“I’d like to extend to you an invitation to the pants party.”
Rudd, Carell discuss anticipated ‘Anchorman’ By NATALIE GADBOIS Daily Arts Writer
Paul Rudd (“Clueless”) and Steve Carell (“Despicable Me 2”) have made their careers out of playing nice guys, the ones moms love and teenaged bookworms swoon over. It’s notable then that they both attribute “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” as their favorite film, despite playing less than relatable characters. In a conference call The Michigan Daily took part in, Rudd and Carell discussed the upcoming sequel, “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,” which releases December 20. Rudd reprises his role as Brian Fantana, a heavily mustachioed, wannabe lothario. Carell returns as Brick Tamland, a simple man who can only communicate by yelling random words and phrases. To this day Carell says that fans repeat Brick’s famous nonsensical line, “I love lamp,” more than any of his other quotes. The original 2004 film, created and directed by Adam Mckay (”The Other Guys”), wildly successful when it came out, has developed an even greater cult following since. Will Fer-
rell starred as Ron Burgundy, an overblown and incompetent news anchor in 1970s San Diego. Rudd and Carell starred as members of his intrepid gang of reporters. “Part of the spirit of what happened on the first ‘Anchorman,’” Rudd said, “Was that it felt like an indie movie. It just felt like a very small kind of corky comedy that we thought was funny, that did not seem particularly commercial.” Both films boast a vast array of comedic guest stars, including Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn (in the original), Harrison Ford, Kristen Wiig, Tina Fey and many others in the sequel. Rudd and Carell attribute Mckay as the reason so many stars are drawn to these quirky films. “I think people were sort of calling Adam and Will to get into the movie,” Carell said. “I don't think there was much arm-bending to get people in … People just wanted to be part of the silliness.” The “silliness” of filming translates into more money than they could have imagined. Nearly 10 years after its release, “Anchorman” is still a regularly referenced film today, and the
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hype leading up to the sequel is irrepressible. Fans even fought for the film to be turned into a musical, an idea Carell says he found interesting but ultimately impossible. One of the memorable scenes of the original is when Ferrell, Rudd, Carell and David Koechner, the fourth member of their crew, sing an acapella version of “Afternoon Delight.” “The part I was excited about with a musical,” Carell said, “was the fact that at any given moment, the characters could just break into song. The idea of that happening — it’s just great.”
Ten years later, people still quote the comedy classic. Both are tight-lipped about the new film, but they say that the official trailer, which has already been viewed over 1.1 million times, doesn’t give the best parts away. The air of mystery surrounding the film — keeping shooting schedules and cameos a secret, not giving away much of the plot — is intentional on the part of the actors and filmmakers. They don’t want the film to lose any of its hype. “I want people to have questions going into this,” Rudd said. “I want people to feel about this the way they feel about ‘Lost in Translation,’ in a way.” “You know, you look at the trailer and you think, wow, that's — they put everything in that they could, and that's the entire movie,” Carell said. “But there's so much more (here) than is in the trailer, and it’s funnier. So I'm kind of psyched about the whole thing.” Since the original was released in 2004, both of these actors have blown up, gone on to star on TV and in comedic and dramatic movies alike. They are not only happy, but ecstatic, to return as Burgundy’s bumbling sidekicks once again. “For me, mainly it was like working with these guys again who I love,” Rudd said. “And, you know, it was such a blast doing the first one that I would jump at the chance to come back and beat a dead horse.” “We all just wanted to do it for the sake of doing it, and I think we all would have done it in a vacuum.” Carell said. “Even if there was no film, we would have come back and done it, because it's so much fun.”
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By EVERETT COOK Daily Sports Editor
Devin Gardner has been through the wringer, beat up and battered, but still managed to stay standing on Saturday even after Ohio State scored 21 unanswered points and Michigan entered the fourth quarter down two touchdowns. The redshirt junior quarterback remained in the pocket even after getting blasted almost every time he threw the ball, just long enough to complete three touchdown passes in the final stanza to and keep Michigan in the game. He was limping, but still ran for first downs, including a fourth-down conversion on the drive that tied the game up in the fourth quarter. Gardner did everything he possibly could have, and the Wolverines still lost. Michigan couldn’t finish a furious second-half comeback against Ohio State, losing for the ninth time in ten tries in The Game, 42-41. Buckeye running back Carlos Hyde set a program record for rushing yards in a single game against Michigan with 226, and the Wolverines’ defense couldn’t slow Ohio State’s offense in the second half, giving up 21 points.
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game. Ohio State coach Urban Meyer called a timeout. Hoke polled his seniors in the huddle. They all said to go for it. It was a mesmerizing, brilliant death, but that doesn’t ease the pain, not for Devin Gardner, who was so despondent after the 42-41 loss to Ohio State, with his helmet pulled low over his face, that he needed Kevin Koger to escort him as he meandered in a daze off the field, and then sobbed so loudly it echoed down See DIZZYING, Page 3B
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The Wolverines had a chance to tie the game late, but instead went for a 2-point conversion with 32 seconds left to try for the win. Gardner, forever the hero and villain, threw an interception. Michigan never sent the kicking unit on the field, and Ohio State coach Urban Meyer called a timeout. In the huddle, said fifth-year senior tackle Taylor Lewan, Michigan coach Brady Hoke asked his team if they wanted to go for it. According to Lewan, not a single player said no. “The guys in that room and the guys in this program were the only ones that knew what were going to happen today,” Lewan said. “We knew we were going to take it to the fourth quarter. We were ready to fight. Everyone was fighting for each other. … I’m proud of these guys.” For the first time since the Indiana game in the middle of October, this was the Michigan football team most envisioned in August — a fast and dangerous offense coupled with a bend-butdon’t-break defense. In losses to Michigan State, Nebraska and Iowa, the Wolverines combined for 501 yards. Against the Buckeyes, they racked up 603. Gardner alone went 32-for-45 for 451 yards and five total touchdowns, even though he was wearing a boot on his left foot after the game after he said he suffered an undisclosed injury during the game.
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Same war, more explosive As Michigan and Ohio State’s offenses have evolved, The Game has become higher scoring and more exciting. Saturday’s game was the most volatile, back-and-forth affair yet.
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“He’s a kid,” Hoke said. “He’s learning. I think he’s learning how to be a Michigan quarterback and I think that’s a daily thing. He’s beat up like everybody is, and when he was limping a little bit, I said, ‘I don’t want to see you limp. Every guy out here can limp. We got to go play.’ He did that, and I’m proud of him.” Michigan has struggled with running the ball between the tackles all season, so for the first half, it simply avoided that. There were pass attempts from a wide-receiver and throwback screens and hurdles from an offense that earned more yards in the first quarter (208) than the Wolverines had the entire game against Iowa last weekend. Needing to pull out as many weapons as possible to stick with Ohio State’s offense, the playbook opened. The Wolverines used wide receiver Jeremy Gallon to stretch the perimeter, and the fifth-year senior wide receiver finished with nine receptions for 175 yards and a touchdown. Several of those catches were short passes, including an 84-yard throwback screen that set up the first touchdown of the game — the first time Michigan has scored first against Ohio State since 2007. “Absolutely more physical,” Lewan said. “Better targeting. That’s not a No. 3 team in the country. That’s a… yeah. We played See 2 LITTLE, Page 3B more physical.”
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The Glenn Robinson III conundrum
ichigan men’s basketball coach John Beilein has plenty of good players, but they don’t fit cleanly into the positions in his offense. And as the biggest, most versatile wing on a deep Michigan attack, sophoNEAL more ROTHSCHILD forward Glenn Robinson III has to play out of position, where he’s not as threatening and not as comfortable. Last April, Robinson held court in a crowded news conference in the Crisler Center media room. He announced that he’d return to school the following year for his sophomore season, passing up the NBA Draft where he was projected to be a top-15 pick. “I feel like I haven’t really shown everybody what I can do on the basketball court,” Robinson said. And there was a reason behind that. Robinson had played the 201213 season at the ‘4,’ a position similar to the power forward that, in the Beilein offense, demands passivity. The ‘4,’ as Robinson plays it, awaits his opportunities. He doesn’t generate possessions but finishes them, depending on the guards’ decisions on a given play. The ‘4’ hangs out in the corners, waiting for the wings to penetrate and attract attention, looking for a pass. The ‘4’ crashes the boards for put-backs and makes backdoor cuts for alley-oops, layups and short jump shots. The ‘4’ waits for his chances, he doesn’t create them. With Trey Burke, Tim Hardaway Jr. and Nik Stauskas in the backcourt, it made sense for the bigger, 6-foot-6, 220-pound Robinson to find his way into
the starting lineup as the ‘4.’ But when he made his decision in April, he was intent on moving to the ‘3’ this season. At the new position where he could create his own shot and drive to the rim consistently, he’d be able to showcase all he could do on the court. Beilein understood this. He knew the player with the highest ceiling needed to be given the chance to shine, and he said so. “We’ve always envisioned him to be the ‘3’ man,” Beilein said last April. That couldn’t happen last year because it was more a matter of, “How do we get our best five guys on the floor as much as possible?” Reasonable enough. So this season, Robinson would play the ‘3.’ It wasn’t a deal, per se, because Beilein has too much integrity to pull something like that, but it seemed like an unspoken agreement. To reward his star player who had foregone the pros to return to school, Robinson would get to play the ‘3,’ where he could flash his offensive creativity and flex his abilities beyond jaw-dropping dunks. Trouble was, it’s not that simple. The Wolverines still had to find a way to get the best five guys on the floor, and the way to do that was to keep Robinson at the ‘4.’ Michigan’s depth lies with its backcourt and not its frontcourt. For Robinson to play the ‘3,’ two big men need to start, but outside of sophomore forward Mitch McGary, no other big is among the team’s best five. In Michigan’s exhibitions earlier this year, Beilein tried to make the two-big-man set-up work. With McGary out, redshirt junior Jon Horford and fifth-year senior Jordan Morgan started, and as expected, Robinson flourished at the ‘3,’ exploding for 33 points on 12-for-15 shooting in a 117-44 victory over Concordia. He’d score an efficient 15 points the next game against Wayne State. Then the five-best-guys-on-
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Sophomore forward Glenn Robinson III is stuck in the middle of two positions, the ‘3’ and the ‘4.’
the-floor issue reared itself as the regular season was set to begin. Sophomore guard Caris LeVert played so well in the preseason that Beilein couldn’t keep him out of the starting lineup. The best five players were freshman point guard Derrick Walton, LeVert, Stauskas, Robinson and McGary. Not much dispute about it. So for the rest of the season, barring injury, Robinson’s stuck at the ‘4.’ To shoe-horn Robinson into the ‘3’ requires a twobig-man set, something Beilein
doesn’t see as anything more than a situational option. The philosophical problem is that the interests of the guy that could potentially be Michigan’s best player don’t align with the interests of the team. Robinson certainly won’t voice displeasure with the situation. He’s said that he’s willing and happy to play wherever is best for the team. Whether he is the consummate team guy and is willing to sacrifice a great deal of production for the good of the team, or if he’s simply providing
Michigan’s season ends in Elite Eight By JAKE LOURIM Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan women’s soccer team spent all season breaking records — best start to a season, best Big Ten finish, most shutouts. But on Friday, it finally ran into an 1 MICHIGAN offense 2 VIRGINIA that broke its own. No. 1 seed Virginia notched the go-ahead goal in the 68th minute to eliminate Michigan from the NCAA Tournament in the Elite Eight, 2-1. The Cavaliers (24-1) came in with the nation’s top offense at 3.13 goals per game, so Michigan (18-4-1) countered with a 5-3-2 formation. It pushed freshman Madisson Lewis from outside midfielder to forward, and the holding midfielder into the back line. “Virginia throws the kitchen sink at you, and a couple of pipes from the basement and a crowbar from the back of your trunk,” said Michigan coach Greg Ryan. “You’ve got to be able to deal with so many attacking options that they have. We decided that if we were going to give them anything, give them the flanks, not up the middle. Unfortunately, we were out of position on that first goal in one spot, but it happens.” In the 24th minute, Virginia became the first team to score on the Wolverines in the NCAA Tournament. Forward Makenzy Doniak fed a pass into the box for midfielder Morgan Brian, who poked it past Michigan freshman goalie Taylor Bucklin. The goal came on the Cavaliers’ sixth shot of the game. On the previous five shots, the Wol-
verines stopped a shot and tried to clear it, but a Virginia player was right there to keep it in the Michigan half. The Wolverines fought back, sticking to their game plan of playing defense and scoring on counter attacks. In the 28th minute, Bucklin prevented a 2-0 deficit by catching a point-blank shot and sending it the other way. In the far corner, senior forward Nkem Ezurike pushed over a Virginia defender, gained possession and crossed it to senior midfielder Meghan Toohey for the finish. “After they scored, we huddled together and said we needed to keep going after it and not let it affect our play,” Toohey said. Despite being pounded from all angles, Michigan went into halftime tied and played an even game in the beginning of the second half, with neither team allowing any chances. In the 68th minute, Virginia forward Molly Menchel shot the ball off the post and then put the rebound in to give the Cavaliers the lead that would hold for the remainder of the game. “I think we did well for a lot of the game to keep them contained,” said senior defender Holly Hein. “They put a couple in behind us, but we really fought the whole game to make sure they weren’t able to get behind us. They did a couple times, but that’s the way it goes sometimes in soccer.” Michigan pushed forward, looking for an equalizer in the
lip service, is open to interpretation. But a reasonable person who passed up a spot in the lottery of the NBA Draft to return to school with the stated purpose of playing a specific position would be upset about playing elsewhere out of necessity. The situation could cost Robinson millions depending on how his draft stock is altered. But it’s not just Robinson personally who is affected by the circumstances. It’s also to Michigan’s detriment that its
potential best player is being constrained from realizing his full abilities. Ideally, Michigan would be able to let Robinson maximize his abilities. With current personnel, that’s not reality. For a player dogged by a reputation for being passive and pass-first, the position change doesn’t help Robinson shed that label. This season, Robinson has looked tentative and caged while never the go-to option for Michigan late in games. Stauskas, playing the ‘3,’ took over that role. In the three games decided by less than 10 points, Robinson shot 9-for-26 and 2-for-9 from behind the arc. He bruised his back in the second half of a 63-61 loss to Charlotte in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off Final and was held out of the final 18 minutes of the contest. Robinson has been a shell of what he was presumed capable of. But then Friday in a blowout win against Coppin State, an ankle injury to Stauskas allowed Robinson to play the ‘3’ again. It was a small sample size against an inferior team, but he looked comfortable again, scoring 14 points on 5-for-11 shooting. It’s a complicated issue. You can’t blame Beilein for not compromising in playing the team’s five best players, though perhaps you can fault him for lacking the foresight that given the team composition, the ‘3’ wouldn’t be available to Robinson. Unless Beilein was truly astounded that LeVert was able to earn a starting spot, he could have laid out the situation to Robinson in April. And maybe he did. But unfiltered honesty could have meant Robinson would punch his ticket to Brooklyn for the draft. Michigan’s five best players don’t include a natural ‘4,’ and that’s at the heart of the issue. It’s the position that has put John Beilein in a tough position. Rothschild can be reached at nealroth@umich.edu and on Twitter @nrothschild3
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‘M’ falls short of upset By MAX COHEN Daily Sports Writer
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Senior midfielder Meghan Toohey scored Michigan’s only goal Friday.
final 20 minutes, but Virginia kept possession away from the Wolverines. Ezurike, the program’s all-time leading scorer, was limited to one shot, and the team finished with only two on goal, both in the first half. The Cavaliers outshot Michigan, 22-4. Despite the shot differential, the Wolverines scored at least once for the 12th time in their past 13 games. They also tied the record for wins, falling one short of the program’s first College Cup. In the end, Michigan ran into the best team it had played after two rounds of playing lowerseeded teams in the second and third rounds. The Cavaliers were undefeated until the ACC
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Tournament. “I think Virginia plays the best brand of soccer in the women’s college game that I’ve seen in a long time,” Ryan said. “We’ve seen in recent years Stanford has played a similar style, but Virginia’s doing it at a higher pace, not only with the ball, but when they’re out of possession, they’re so quick to press. It’s very difficult to get a rhythm going.” Ryan walked into his press conference late and started congratulating Virginia, his players’ sniffles audible in the background. He had to make his way out of a somber team huddle before talking to the media. “They didn’t want to leave,” Ryan said. “They said, ‘We’re not disappointed that (we) lost to the No. 1 team in the country. What we’re disappointed about is that we won’t be together every day in the future.’ ”
Going into the season, few thought the Michigan women’s basketball team’s season would produce championships of any sort. Returning only one player who earned significant minutes last season, junior guard Nicole Elmblad, winning just about anything seemed far-fetched. Yet, eight games in, the Wolverines were two points shy of earning a championship trophy, after losing to No. 15 LSU, 64-62, in the final of the Barclays Invitational in Brooklyn, MICHIGAN 62 64 N.Y. The LSU resiliency the team showed in overcoming its inexperience made the defeat even more devastating once freshman guard Siera Thompson’s potential game-tying jumper fell short with 3.4 seconds remaining. “I’ll be sick about this one for quite some time,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “I don’t know when I’m going to get any sleep again.” Going into the game, the matchup had the makings of a blowout. The Lady Tigers (6-1) featured preseason Wooden Award candidate Theresa Plaisance, while Michigan (5-3) was without its own offensive catalyst, junior guard Shannon Smith, because of a back injury sustained in Friday’s victory over Texas Tech. But the Wolverines displayed mettle beyond their years, battling back late after a sub-par first half. After 16 turnovers and Wolverine foul trouble allowed the swarming Lady Tigers to take control of the game in the first half, Michigan came out with a different kind of fire in the second. Junior forward Cyesha Goree — who sat out much of the first half with two early fouls — scored the first six points of the half to cut the deficit to one. Still, the Wolverines’ comeback didn’t end when Goree’s run ended. Michigan had started the half on a 21-9 run by the time fresh-
man guard Paige Rakers hit her first 3-pointer of the game to give the Wolverines an eight-point lead with 11 minutes left. Rakers scored the next nine Michigan points on three 3-pointers, but LSU showed why it’s a top-25 team, responding each time. But the Wolverines didn’t fold, keeping the Lady Tigers from taking a lead until there were less than two minutes remaining. “But the progress that we’ve seen with this team has been incredible,” Barnes Arico said. “And they’re babies. I said down the stretch, we’re playing LSU, the No. 15 team in the country with a Naismith candidate on their team surrounded by other high-school All-Americans, and we have two freshmen on the court, a sophomore on the court and two juniors at times.” In the end, the experience of the Lady Tigers prevailed as Michigan faltered in the final minute. After Thompson hit a 3-pointer to tie the game in the last minute, the Wolverines failed to respond when forward Danielle Ballard made a layup to give LSU the lead with 20 seconds to go. For the first time of the second half, Michigan’s inexperience showed, as it did not seem to have a go-to player eager to take the final shot. Senior forward Val Driscoll — in the starting lineup because of Smith’s injury — stepped up for Michigan, playing her best game of the season. Driscoll gathered 11 rebounds and blocked six shots while outplaying Plaisance. Plaisance was held in check throughout the game, scoring only three points. Thompson and sophomore guard Madison Ristovski were the Wolverines’ leading scorers with 13 points, followed by Rakers with 12. While their scoring was critical in replacing Smith’s production, the Wolverines needed three more points for the tournament win. Michigan left the Barclays Invitational without a trophy, but it came much closer than anyone initially dreamed it could.
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GAME STATISTICS
By ZACH HELFAND Team Stats First Downs Rush/Yards Passing Yards Offensive Plays Total Offense Kick returns/yds Punt returns/yds Comp/Att/Int Punts/Avg Fumbles/Lost Penalties/Yards Time of Possession
Michigan Ohio State 31 23 35/152 46/393 451 133 82 61 603 526 6/116 1/16 0/0 1/0 32/47/0 6/15/1 3/44.0 3/44.7 0-0 0-0 4-35 3-25 33:21 26:39
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10
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10
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5
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4
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1 3
4
Henry
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3
Furman
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3
Beyer
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3
Avery
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2
Black
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2
Clark
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1
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1
Charlton
1 0
1
Louis
1
0
1
Ash
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1
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1. This isn’t Bo and Woody’s rivalry Three years into the Ten Year War, Bo Schembechler faced a choice much like Brady Hoke’s on Saturday. This time, the script was reversed. Schembechler’s team was undefeated. A tie would send it to the Rose Bowl. Late in the game, down three points, Schembechler had two consecutive plays from Ohio State’s 1-yard line. Earlier in the game, Woody Hayes’s Ohio State defense stuffed Michigan on four straight runs on the goal line. But on third down, Schembechler called another run up the middle. No gain. So on fourth down, he faced a choice: a tie and the Rose Bowl berth, or go for it for the win. Schembechler went for it, another run up the middle. No gain again. It was a situation much like Michigan’s failed two-point attempt on Saturday. That’s where the similarities end. Schembechler and Hayes probably wouldn’t have recognized this weekend’s iteration of The Game. Michigan’s 41 points were the most ever scored by the losing team in this rivalry. During the Ten Year War, the most points scored by the losing team was 14. Michigan scored that many points before the first quarter ended. The modern version of The Game is a high-scoring, offensedominated affair. Here’s a sampling of some of the many records broken in Michigan’s 42-41 loss Saturday: • The combined 1,129 total yards are the most ever accumulated in the rivalry. For Michigan, it’s the sixth-most combined yards against any team. • The combined score of 83 points is second only to Michigan’s 86-0 win over Ohio State in 1902.
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226
8.4
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The game appeared to be getting out of reach on the second drive of the second half, when Gardner fumbled on a thirddown run and Ohio State recovered the ball near midfield. Buckeye quarterback Braxton Miller scored his fourth touchdown of the day five plays later
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TD
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29.5
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Fields
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12
12.0
12
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6
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6
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3
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3
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55
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Wilson
1 16 16.0 16
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Shazier
7 7
14
Barnett
5 6
11
Roby
5 3
8
Perry
2 5
7
Powell
2
4
6
Brown
5
0
5
Bosa
3
2
5
Bennett
1
Grant
4 0
4
Spence
2 2
4
Washington
2
1
3
Williams
0 2
2
Reeves
1 0
1
Hale
1 0
1
Marcus
1 0
1
Hall
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1
Cataline
1 0
1
Fields
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1
Ball
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0
1
Basil
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0
1
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Michigan’s tunnel. His pain was raw and endearing and real. It didn’t ease the pain for Hoke, whose eyes were as red as the thousands of Buckeye fans in the Big House. They had come expecting a rout, snatching tickets from Michigan fans who had long ago abandoned hope. It didn’t ease the pain for Taylor Lewan, the fifth-year senior offensive tackle, who nearly choked up during his press conference. “I love every single one of these guys,” said Lewan, whose last play at Michigan Stadium was the most wrenching. His voiced wavered. He turned to Jake Ryan and tapped Ryan’s arm with his fist. “He’s my best friend.” Hoke went for it, because “we wanted to go win the football game,” he said, and good for him. The walls have been closing in during this nightmare of a month. The team has underperformed — regressed even — and some have called for Hoke’s job, or the job of his offensive coordinator or that of his offensive line coach. Michigan Athletic Director Dave Brandon had to issue a statement of support for Hoke on Wednesday. The star recruit chose the other team and another said he might reconsider Michigan. Why?
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Sophomore tight end Devin Funchess and the Michigan football team’s leaping, high-scoring game with Ohio State was unprecented in the history of the rivalry.
• This was the rivalry’s first one-point game since 1926, when Michigan won 17-16 in Columbus. • Redshirt junior quarterback Devin Gardner’s 451 yards is the highest passing total against the Buckeyes in Michigan history, breaking Tom Brady’s record of 375 in 1998. Only Gardner’s 503 passing yards against Indiana this year surpasses Saturday’s mark. • Gardner’s 32 completions is Michigan’s highest completion total against Ohio State, again breaking Brady’s record of 31 in 1998. It’s two completions shy of the overall Michigan record. • Gardner’s four touchdown passes are a Michigan record in this rivalry. • Fifth-year senior wide receiver Jeremy Gallon’s 175 receiving yards are a Michigan record in the rivalry, passing Braylon Edwards’s 172 yards in 2004. • Gallon’s 84-yard screen pass and run is the longest Michigan play against Ohio State ever. • Ohio State’s average of 8.6 yards per play is not only a Buckeye record for The Game, it is also
to give the Buckeyes a 28-21 lead. The Buckeyes ripping off huge chunks of yards on the ground was a theme of the day. Running back Carlos Hyde bullied his way through the middle of the defense for 226 yards on 27 carries, good for 8.4 yards per carry. Miller underthrew three receivers in the first quarter and finished the game with just 133 passing yards, but ran for 153 yards and was responsible for
He’s worried about Hoke’s job. But Hoke went for it. It was a rub route, the same one they practiced this week. Gardner in the shotgun, with Devin Funchess, Jeremy Gallon and Drew Dileo stacked to his right. Funchess ran a post, Gallon an out. It was supposed to create space for Dileo, the little, sure-handed receiver who always seems to be forgotten until the biggest moments. Dileo would surely make the catch, because he always does. But Tyvis Powell jumped the route. Dileo never had a chance. “I threw an interception to lose the game,” said Gardner, who put his chin on his fist in his press conference. He hardly spoke above a mumble. “There’s not really much else I can say.” After the pass, Gardner crumpled to the ground, spent. He stayed there, his arms and legs extended out. That’s what you’ll remember, because that’s the image that will last. This one hurts just like the loss last year, maybe even more. A win wouldn’t have cured the offensive line or erased any losses. But it would’ve helped a lot. It would’ve erased some of the sting from a disappointing season. It would’ve put to rest any coaching rumors. So, yes, you’ll remember Gardner on the ground, because that’s what matters, but don’t forget the rest. Don’t forget how it made you believe, and Hoke too. It was a painful end, but Michigan lived it well.
“I threw an interception to lose the game.”
the highest average of any Michigan opponent ever. • The Buckeyes’ 393 rushing yards is their highest total against Michigan ever, breaking their mark of 381 in 1995. • Ohio State’s average of 8.5 yards per rush is the most in Ohio State history. • Michigan’s 99-yard touchdown drive, of course, is a rivalry record, a program record and a national record, tied with many. This is not an exhaustive list. Michigan and Ohio State have met 110 times since 1897. The game Saturday is simply unprecedented.
teams still hate each other. “It’s always a war,” Gallon said after the game. “It’s not even a game, it’s a war.” So the hate is still there, and the games are as good as ever. One byproduct of the offensive explosion in the modern era of The Game is that the play is more exciting. Ignoring the stakes, the 2013 version of the rivalry was the most thrilling game ever. The 1969 game was an improbable upset, but the 24-12 game was lackluster in comparison. The 2006 game was high-scoring and had national title implications, but Michigan couldn’t get the ball to attempt a final drive. Ohio State has owned the series, recently, but it has also been symmetrically even. By John Cooper’s final game, Ohio State had only won two of the last 13 meetings. Now, since Cooper, there have been 13 games. This time, Michigan has won only two. Ohio State claims a slight edge in that 26-year span, at 11-2 to Michigan’s 10-2-1. And since Hoke has taken over? Ohio State has won two out of three, but the overall score is tied 102-102.
4. Pint-sized Gallon still has barrels of talent. Gallon had another typical day against the Buckeyes. He caught an 84-yard screen pass early in the game. Later, he made a characteristic leaping touchdown grab to put Michigan ahead 21-14. He finished with nine receptions. When the offensive line has given Gardner time, Gallon has been one of the most proficient Michigan receivers ever. He tied a Michigan record with a reception in 38 straight games. He now has 1,284 yards this season, which is second in program history and just 46 yards behind Edwards’s record of 1,330. He is also fourth on Michigan’s all-time receptions list with 164. 5. Bowl-d prediction: Still B-Dubs bound.
Let’s talk about the fight. Three ejections, multiple punches, four flags on the ground. Then there was Hoke running onto the field, Marcus Hall’s double-middlefinger salute to the Michigan Stadium crowd and Royce Jenkins-Stone’s helmet throw. It’s nice to know that these
Gardner had a gutsy, efficient performance against Ohio State. He also did it on one leg. After the game, he hobbled into his press conference wearing a boot on his left foot. Last week, Gardner appeared to hurt his right shoulder. Still, Gardner hasn’t missed a snap because of injury. (He sat out late against Michigan State but likely would have gone if the game was in reach.) “He’s beat up like everybody is,” Hoke said. “And when he was limping a little bit, I said, ‘I don’t want to see you limp. Every guy out here can limp. We got to go play.’ He did that, and I’m proud of him.”
The bold prediction in this same column was a spot for Michigan in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl. Now that the regular season is over, it’s staying the same. Assuming Ohio State and Michigan State go to BCS bowls, that puts Wisconsin in the Capital One Bowl and likely Iowa in the Outback Bowl. The Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl picks next, and it will likely choose between Michigan, Nebraska and Minnesota. A week ago, the choice would’ve probably been Nebraska. But Michigan’s strong showing in a loss this week could change things. Michigan beat Minnesota and travels well, so the Wolverines have the edge. Nebraska beat Michigan and finished two games ahead in the Legends Division, but the Cornhuskers finished a disappointing season with some calling for a coaching change. Michigan’s game against the Buckeyes could convince some fans to head to Arizona, maybe enough to win over the bowl committee.
five touchdowns. As a team, Ohio State ran for 393 yards on 46 carries — 8.5 yards per carry. Still, it was Hyde that gave Michigan a new chance when he fumbled near midfield halfway through the fourth quarter with the Wolverines down seven. Gardner then led a 13-play drive capped off by a touchdown pass to freshman tight end Jake Butt. But Ohio State’s offense con-
tinued to blast through the Michigan defense, going on a six play, 65-yard drive to regain the lead with just more than two minutes left in the game. Michigan scored on another Gardner touchdown pass, but the interception on the conversion sealed the game. “This is a special game,” Hoke said. “It’s the greatest rivalry there is in any sport. They know the importance of it. I liked their demeanor all week. … They were
trying to get better and know their opponent. I was pleased with that and had a good feeling they were going to play they way they did today.” With the loss, Michigan’s record drops to 7-5 — the same record that former coach Rich Rodriguez finished with in his last season at Michigan before getting fired and the worst of Hoke’s three-year tenure in Ann Arbor.
2. But the rivalry is as strong as ever.
Maybe you allowed yourself to think this will be a game after all, after the screen to Gallon on the first drive. The fight, Hoke running out to separate his players, the punches and the double middle fingers made it personal. Hoke went for it because he wanted it as bad as his players. He wanted it as bad as Gardner, who threw a touchdown pass to Dileo down 14 in the fourth quarter. Afterward, Gardner tried to run off the field, limping so badly he nearly fell over on the sideline. Taylor Lewan came off limping after that play too, and bloody again. Most of these players are playing through injury because they don’t care how many losses they have. They just want to beat Ohio State. By the time Carlos Hyde fumbled, and the clock showed plenty of time, and Gardner was fighting with everything he had left and the breaks started turning Michigan’s way, a ripple went through the stadium. Then Jake Butt scored and then Funchess, and then the timeout and it seemed like destiny. It was a hell of a death, but it was a hell of a game too, right up until the end. For the best three hours of the year, 7-4 Michigan was on top of the world. So Hoke went for it. It was ballsy, and it was risky, and it didn’t work out. But that’s what you do when what you want is right there to take. You go for it. You go for it every damn time. Helfand can be reached at zhelfand@umich.edu and on Twitter @zhelfand
3. It’s official, Gardner is hurt.
DEFENSE From Page 1B ing decision in the final minute included. In fact, the decision wasn’t even Hoke’s alone. Fifth-year senior offensive lineman Taylor Lewan, who also said he regretted nothing about his decision to return for another season, mentioned that Hoke asked the seniors on the sideline during a timeout if they wanted to attempt the two-point conversion. And according to Lewan, the decision was unanimous. “I don’t think there was one guy that said no,” an extremely emotional Lewan said. “Every single person said yes. We’re behind these coaches 100 percent. We fight for them and our brothers.” In the back of their minds, or in Hoke’s case, the front, was Michigan’s inability to stop the run all afternoon. Buckeye running back Carlos Hyde set a program record for rushing yards against the Wolverines with 229. Hyde consistently found holes to run through up the middle. Quarterback Braxton Miller was equally untouchable, running for three touchdowns and an average of 9.6 yards per carry. Hoke knew that, should the game go into overtime, his team’s chances of suddenly figuring out how to stop the Ohio State ground game were likely slim. He liked the rejuvenated offense’s chances of picking up the necessary three yards better. Not to mention, the team was without fifth-year senior kicker Brendan Gibbons, who tweaked something in practice Tuesday, according to Hoke. Filling in was junior Matt Wile, who was perfect on five extra-point attempts, though a couple of them were shaky. By now you know the rest of the
story: the redshirt junior Gardner’s pass, intended for senior wide receiver Drew Dileo, was intercepted, and the game was lost in regulation. And even though a reporter informed Hoke that, in an informal poll, 75 percent of fans agreed with his decision to go for two (“Great, now I’m really screwed,” Hoke deadpanned back), had the defense shown an ability to get a stop, the game would have continued into overtime. Half of the Buckeyes’ possessions ended in the end zone, all but two of those touchdowns coming on the ground. “We need to definitely improve our running game,” said redshirt junior linebacker Jake Ryan. “That was one thing that stuck out.” The Buckeyes had difficultly completing passes, going 6-for-15 through the air, but went uncontested on the ground, consistently entering the second level en route to 393 total rushing yards. But the decision to go for two wasn’t solely made because Hoke lacked confidence in the defense’s ability to stop, or at least slow down, the Ohio State backfield threats. “We play the game to win,” Hoke said. “I thought about it, and we (decided to).” Added Gardner: “We felt like we could win the game right there.” To the surprise of most everybody, they could have. And so, in some ways, it felt like the Wolverines were playing with house money. In 1968, after scoring a meaningless two-point conversion after a rout of Michigan, former Ohio State coach Woody Hayes, asked about the decision, famously said he made it “because I couldn’t go for three.” Unlike with Hayes’s, though, Hoke’s bold decision had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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Monday Night Hockey: Wolverines look for sweep
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ICE HOCKEY
Finally, Big Ten hockey has arrived By ALEJANDRO ZÚÑIGA Daily Sports Editor
By GREG GARNO Daily Sports Writer
The hype and anticipation surrounding the start of the No. 3 Michigan hockey team’s Michigan at Big Ten hockey tenure couldn’t Ohio State have delivered Matchup: any more than Michigan 9-2-1; Friday’s 4-3 OSU 8-5-0 overtime win When: Monagainst Ohio day 7 p.m. State did. Where: Alumni like Columbus, Hobey Baker Ohio winner Bren- TV/Radio: dan Morrison Fox Sports returned to Detroit Ann Arbor, fans packed Yost Ice Arena for the first sellout of the season, viewers tuned in from areas that aren’t exposed to college hockey and two rivals once again fought with each other. “I thought a lot of our players might have gotten caught up in all the hoopla and all the expectations, rather than just playing the game hard,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson after Friday’s game. “But it feels good to win that game.” So can Monday’s contest in Columbus exceed, if not match, Friday’s excitement? After Friday, it will be a question of which offense shows up. Michigan ( 1-0 Big Ten, 9-2-1 overall) has scored at least four goals in three consecutive games after averaging less than three goals per game prior to that stretch. Sophomore forward Andrew Copp delivered the game winner in the last two minutes of overtime after the Buckeyes tied the game with less than five minutes remaining in regulation.
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Sophomore forward Andrew Copp has eight goals already this year, needing just three more to eclipse his 2012-13 total.
Copp is tied with Ohio State forward Ryan Dzingel for the Big Ten’s scoring lead with eight goals this season. Junior forward Alex Guptill and freshman forward JT Compher each recorded a goal and an assist in the win, solidifying another line which includes freshman Tyler Motte, junior Phil Di Giuseppe and Copp. Along with senior forward Derek DeBlois, Guptill and Compher’s line tallied 12 shots for a team lead. The Buckeyes’ offense following Friday still sits ninth in the nation with 3.5 goals per game after exposing an inexperienced Wolverine defense. There were instances when freshman defenseman Michael Downing didn’t keep his stick on the ice to stop a
shot or when no one crashed the net to clear out an easy pass from the boards. But Ohio State scored only one goal at even strength, capitalizing on both of Michigan’s penalties. Junior forward Andrew Sinelli started on defense in Friday’s game after junior defensemen Brennan Serville and Mike Szuma were scratched due to injuries. Even before the loss of freshman defenseman Kevin Lohan in October, the Wolverines’ defense has struggled to shut down offenses without being rescued by its goaltender. Freshman netminder Zach Nagelvoort got the start Friday, but Berenson has hinted that sophomore goaltender Steve Racine could see time Monday.
Racine hasn’t seen action since Nov. 16 after an injury kept him out for nearly a month. But Michigan’s biggest problem could be the early week game, marking the first time any current Wolverine has played on Monday night. It won’t be a regular occurrence to see Michigan play on a Monday, but with TV stations sweeping up rights and the football game Saturday, the Wolverines had few options. “It’s a little bit strange because we’re so used to playing Friday and Saturday,” said senior defenseman Mac Bennett. And after the win on Friday, Michigan is certainly hoping it had the chance to play Saturday and ride the momentum from a classic Big Ten game.
Big Ten football is known for its gritty, smash-mouth style replete with rivalries and tradition. Friday, the conference’s inaugural hockey season got off to a similarly enticing start. No. 3 Michigan has made a habit of winning close games this year, and it seemed to be heading toward another such victory when it hosted Ohio State at Yost Ice Arena. But with just three minutes remaining, forward Anthony Greco finally took advantage of one of several defensive miscues by the Wolverines and one-timed a shot past freshman goaltender Zach Nagelvoort. But minutes later in overtime, Michigan (1-0 Big Ten, 9-2-1 overall) sent the sellout crowd into a frenzy. Sophomore forward Andrew Copp received a long pass from senior defenseman Mac Bennett in stride and sliced through the Buckeyes’ zone. A low, accurate wrister past netminder Logan Davis on his blocker side ensured the Wolverines were 4-3 victors and unbeaten in Big Ten hockey’s one-day history. It was a wild, unpredictable game. Or, as junior forward Alex Guptill explained, what everyone expects all year long from conference play. “It was a lot of fun tonight, that’s for sure,” Guptill said. The second period brought out the very best of the uninterrupted rivalry between the former CCHA foes. With the score knotted at one, Michigan freshman center JT Compher drew a crucial penalty for being checked into the goal by forward Alex Szczechura. The two tussled while crammed into the net as players from both sides had to be separated by teammates and refs. “I’m just usually a feisty player,
so getting into it is nothing new for me,” Compher said. Fittingly, it was the center himself who capitalized on the power play. Senior forward Luke Moffatt’s blazing shot caromed into the slot, and Compher poked the rebound into the empty net for his third goal of the season as Michigan retook the lead. With just 17 seconds left in the period, the freshman stamped his mark on the Wolverines’ first official Big Ten game. This time, Compher won a faceoff cleanly and reached over a defender to slide the puck over to Guptill, who ripped a rising shot that found twine. “We had some really good individual efforts in the game, (and) JT was one of those players,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “He competed hard in every shift and he got rewarded for it.” The battle in the trenches often dictates a football game, and Ohio State (0-1, 7-2) certainly did its share of the dirty work as it kept the fans at Yost on the edges of their seats. The Buckeyes scored on both of their powerplay opportunities and blocked 17 shots in the first period alone. Ultimately, the Wolverines managed 38 shots on target, and they needed all four goals to pull out the dramatic win. “I wish we could play them every game,” Guptill said. They can’t, but the scheduling implications of a six-team conference ensure that the rivalry will have plenty of time to intensify. The two will meet again Monday night in Columbus and twice more later in the year before a potential rematch in the Big Ten Tournament. But with No. 1 Minnesota, No. 12 Wisconsin and natural rival Michigan State in the conference, nearly every game could have the makings of an instant classic.
THE MICHIGAN DAILY TOP-10 POLL Each week, Daily sports staffers fill out ballots, with first place votes receiving 10 points, second place receiving nine votes, and so on. 1. FLORIDA STATE (22): The Seminoles are playing Duke in football for a championship... #lulwut
6. OKLAHOMA STATE: But it ain’t no lie, the Cowboys had a bye, bye bye. #boybands
2. AUBURN (1): Just your typical walk-off 109-yard field goal return for a touchdown. #sports
7. STANFORD: Regardless of what happened in the Iron Bowl, the band is still on the field. #history
3. OHIO STATE: Turns out, the Daily still thinks this is the No. 3 team in the nation. Sorry Taylor. #Everettwasonsportscenter
8. SOUTH CAROLINA: Risen again against all odds, the Cocks will strike again! #cockjokes #blastfromthepast
4. ALABAMA: Nick Saban will never eat in a Waffle House. Ever. Even if the person holding his soul is inside. #devil
9. MICHIGAN STATE: I guess Michigan fans root for State this week. #weird
5. MISSOURI: Why are the Tigers in the SEC East Division? #geography
10. BAYLOR: Michigan had 223 more yards than Baylor did this weekend. #rolereversal #lol