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University President Mary Sue Coleman discusses higher education issues at the Lansing Regional Chamber Economic Club in East Lansing, Michigan Thursday.

Coleman talks higher ed.

Speech to economic club addresses affordability, cost containment efforts

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LANSING — University President Mary Sue Coleman addressed the Lansing Regional Chamber Economic Club Thursday about the importance of public research institutions of higher education as federal and state support dwindles.

The Lansing Regional Chamber Economic Club is devoted to enhancing economic growth and professional development across the state, according to the club’s website. The group hosts many guest speakers each year to provide diverse perspectives on issues facing the state.

Coleman called upon attendees to understand the significance of higher education in the state’s development.

“It’s the single most driving force,” Coleman said. “It’s why we choose to work here, to develop our careers and learn more.”

In her speech, Coleman cited a report that revealed states are spending 28 percent less on college students than in 2008.

However, Gov. Rick Snyder’s (R) budget proposal for the 2015 fiscal year will increase state appropriation for public higher education institutions by 6.1 percent — the largest increase in state funding since 2001. The club hosted Snyder in 2011, garnering nearly 850 guests.

Coleman lauded Snyder’s budget proposal, adding that it will expand the state’s national impact drastically.

“We have a chance here in

Michigan to recapture national leadership with the growth of our public universities,” Coleman said. “I firmly believe that states that do not invest in higher education will not win the 21st century, and I want desperately for Michigan to win.”

Cost-containment and affordability were highlighted several times in Coleman’s speech as she described several of the University’s primary goals for the future.

To help accomplish these aspirations, the University launched the Victors for Michigan fundraising campaign with See COLEMAN, Page 3

Gelato station in East Quad finally opens

By AMABEL KAROUB Daily Staff Reporter

East Quad Residence Hall’s gelato bar is here — but actually.

East Quad’s long-awaited gelato bar opened in the Java Blue Café, and its official inauguration will be Friday at 4 p.m. with free samples and coupons.

The gelato bar features about 12 flavors — including raspberry, strawberry, raspberry chocolate, chocolate chip, cinnamon, mint, natural vanilla bean, chocolate and chocolate chipotle. East Quad Sous Chef Jeremy Moser said the gelato will be made with all local and fresh ingredients.

He added that the gelato will cost about three dollars for a threeounce cup.

“We’re just excited we’re making gelato here from scratch,” Moser said. “It’s a U of M product. It will only get better with feedback from the students and everybody else.”

The prospect of a gelato bar in East Quad gained a lot of attention during the residence hall’s renovations during the 2012 to 2013 academic year, but was not realized until recently.

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The gelato bar was originally scheduled to open at the start of last semester. LSA freshman Alec Rosenbaum said housing staff members’ silence on the subject last semester upset him and other residents.

“I was very disappointed, just like everyone else,” Rosenbaum said. “I was told way back at orientation that we were going to have a gelato bar when this place opened. Then I moved in and there wasn’t a gelato bar, and then they didn’t really say anything. The thing that frustrated me the most is that they didn’t really tell people what was happening.”

Rumors have been flying about the reason for the unfulfilled gelato promise. LSA freshman Joseph Ambrose speculated about why the gelato machine’s installation took so long.

“They brought the machine, they had it shipped from Italy,” Ambrose said “There’s a whole debate whether they broke it or if it was the company’s fault.”

Peter Logan, communications director for University Housing, provided a clearer account of what happened. The gelato machine was part of a bid package that included all of East Quad’s kitchen and counter equipment. The machine was faulty when East Quad received it in the fall, so housing staff decided to exchange the machine at no See GELATO, Page 3

After a recent court ruling, the debate surrounding the collective bargaining rights of graduate student research assistants has gained new energy. The Feb. 6 district court decision declared parts of a 2012 law barring GSRA unionization unconstitutional.

However, the decision does not mean total victory for union organizers. Instead, it clears the way for the Graduate Employees Organization to challenge the existing classification that prevents GSRAs from unionizing.

The provisions found unconstitutional last week are a part of Public Act 45, which was signed

by Gov. Rick Snyder (R) in March 2012. This law included a provision declaring that GSRAs were not entitled to unionization.

The provision was thrown out by the court on the grounds that it violated the state constitution’s “change of purpose clause.”

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Since the bill’s original draft was meant to address the power of emergency financial managers for municipalities — not collective bargaining rights — the court deemed the GSRA amendment unconstitutional.

The GEO, in partnership with the Michigan state affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, first reopened the issue of GSRA unionization in summer 2011, when it began making plans to include GSRAs in their representation.

GSRAs are currently banned from unionizing in the state due to a 1981 ruling by the Michigan Employment Relations Commission. The commission decided that GSRAs are not public employees and thus are not eligible to hold a union contract as a collective group. To pave the way for unionization, organizers would need to lobby for GSRAs to be classified as public employees.

After an original petition to MERC asking for reconsideration of the issue was dismissed, the group secured a special administrative hearing on the issue in response to a second petition in November 2011.

However, shortly after that decision, State Sen. Randy RichSee GSRA, Page 3

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‘Trapped in the Closet’ at State Theater a cult classic Sing-along version of R. Kelly’s ‘magnus opum’ a Valentine’s Day treat

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a handful of trailblazers have managed to transcend general societal acceptance and enter into the increasingly treasured realm of “cult classic.”

R. Kelly’s magnum opus, the 33 chapter hip hopera “Trapped in the Closet,” is not only an undeniable cult classic — it is a hilarious, gripping, absurd and addicting masterpiece of sex, deception, drama and emotion that is blended together with an extra-special R. Kelly twist.

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The film crew from HBO’s investigative journalism series VICE joined members and supporters of Students for Choice Thursday to document a discussion on crisis pregnancy centers.

Students for Choice is an organization that promotes abortion education and making contraception easily accessible for University students.

Katie Stack, founder and director of the Crisis Project, a movement to investigate and expose threats posed by CPCs, led the discussion in place of Public Policy junior Carly Manes, a Students for Choice activist.

Manes, who spoke at a fundraiser in New York City this week, was prevented from returning to campus in time due to a delayed flight. Earlier this week, Manes wasselected as forUM’s Central Student Government presidential nominee.

“I was really very sad about it, but I knew that there was an incredible group of students on campus who care about this, who are passionate, who would See HBO, Page 3

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New study reveals methane Kerry meets with Chinese output higher than expected officials on North Korea ‘U’ researchers say leaky tanks are a leading cause of unexpected emissions

By AMABEL KAROUB Daily Staff Reporter

A recent University study revealed the amount of methane emissions in the United States is higher than previously believed — a lot higher.

The study, which was published Thursday in Science Magazine, reported the actual percentage of methane in the atmosphere is 50 percent greater than current inventories say. In 2011, methane accounted for 9 percent of all human greenhouse emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

To investigate national methane levels, Eric Kort, assistant professor of atmospheric, oceanic

and space sciences, collaborated with co-authors from Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and 11 other institutions across the country.

Kort said the team assessed the last 20 years of methane research to identify how much methane is really being released and how much of this methane comes from the natural gas industry. Methane is the primary component of natural gas, which meets roughly a quarter of the energy demand in the United States.

“Our team reviewed about 200 different papers,” Kort said.

“We tried to assess, ‘What do all these studies say, is there a consistent story here?’ What we found is, indeed it looked like official inventories underestimate how much methane is being emitted into the atmosphere.”

Kort attributed the higher amount of released methane, in part, to a very small number of faulty vessels holding natural

gas, which can allow significant amounts of methane to leak out into the atmosphere. Kort referred to these leaks as “superemitters.”

According to one study of natural gas components, “A fraction much smaller than 1 percent is responsible for more than half of the emissions,” Kort said. “You know when you look at these individual studies that a kind of super-emitter problem exists, where a small fraction of sources are responsible for a large amount of the emissions.”

In recent years, natural gas has become a popular, more environmentally friendly replacement for coal as a fuel and heat source.

However, natural gas the benefits can be offset by these methane leaks, Kort said. Even so, the study found burning natural gas is still better for the climate than burning coal.

In addition to releases from natural gas, Kort said other sources, such as petroleum systems, livestock and wetlands are also responsible for methane in the atmosphere. As a next step, researchers will attempt to pinpoint the locations of high methane release.

“We’re trying to improve our ability now to use different space and airborne observations to identify regions where emissions are larger than accounted for to identify what source is the cause for that — if it’s coming from cows or oils or gas.”

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After leadership purge in isolated country, China’s influence unclear BEIJING (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in China on a difficult diplomatic mission.

Kerry is meeting senior Chinese officials on Friday in Beijing to seek their help in bringing a belligerent North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks.

At the same time, he’s demanding that China roll back a series of increasingly aggressive steps it has taken to assert itself in territorial disputes with its smaller neighbors.

Kerry faces a tough sell on both counts.

The extent of China’s influence with North Korea is unclear following a purge in the isolated country’s leadership.

And, China has angrily dismissed U.S criticism over its moves in the East and South China seas that have alarmed U.S. allies like Japan and the Philippines.

In Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, Kerry made clear the Obama administration is putting new emphasis on getting North Korea back to stalled six-nation talks aimed at getting it to give up nuclear weapons.

“Let me be clear,” Kerry said.

“The United States will not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state. We will not accept talks for the sake of talks. And the DPRK must show that it will negotiate and live up to its commitments regarding denuclearization.”

Efforts toward that end, he said, would rely heavily on China, North Korea’s only friend, putting pressure on Pyongyang.

“China has a unique and critical role that it can play,” he said.

“No country has a greater potential to influence North Korea’s behavior than China, given their

extensive trading relationship with the North.”

But China’s leverage with the North is being tested.

Diplomats say Beijing received no prior warning ahead of the December arrest and execution of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle, Jang Song Thaek, who had been considered Pyongyang’s point man on China affairs and was a strong promoter of free trade zones being set up along their mutual border.

That came on the heels of Pyongyang’s snubbing of Beijing’s wishes when it conducted a missile test in late 2012, followed by the underground detonation of a nuclear device last spring.

Jang’s removal was seen as depriving Beijing of its chief conduit into the North Korean regime and in the weeks that followed the leadership found itself at a loss as to how to proceed. A delegation of Chinese diplomats led by the Foreign Ministry’s deputy head of Asian affairs visited Pyongyang last week in a sign that Beijing was attempting to renew dialogue with Kim’s government, although it remains to be seen whether the North was any more receptive to China’s pleas to return to the nuclear talks.

Those discussions involving the two Koreas, the United States, China, Russia and Japan, broke down at the end of 2008 and U.S. officials say they see no point of restarting talks until Pyongyang shows an authentic desire to make good on its prior commitments to dismantle its nuclear programs.

Meanwhile, making the U.S. case for restraint and clarification on the competing territorial claims and China’s bitter dispute with Japan may be even tougher for Kerry.

Since sometimes violent antiJapanese protests rocked major cities in late 2012, Beijing has continually stepped up its rhetoric against Tokyo, dispatching its diplomats to make China’s case

in the global media and at international forums, even dogging Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent trip to Africa.

Recent weeks have seen China’s ambassador to London compare Japan to the evil Lord Voldemort of the Harry Potter books in the pages of Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper. On Thursday, the official China Daily newspaper devoted a half page to grievances against Japan, while the Foreign Ministry revived the case of a 2010 confrontation between a Chinese fishing boat and Japanese coast guard ships to demand an apology and compensation from Tokyo.

More worrisome, Chinese patrol vessels have maintained a more-or-less constant presence in waters surrounding the disputed Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea, forcing the Japanese coast guard to go on the defensive to avoid a clash.

Chinese ships have also stepped up their presence in the South China Sea, particularly in regards to the Philippines, which is seen by Beijing as weak and overly dependent on the U.S. for protection. Diplomats are concerned that Beijing may be planning to declare an air defense zone above those heavily traversed waters, further raising the chances of confrontation with American surveillance planes and other military flights.

U.S. officials traveling with Kerry said he would urge the Chinese to show restraint, cool down its rhetoric and actions, and clarify its claims consistent with international law.

“The perception in the region and in the United States that is generated by the incremental actions that China has been taking ... is one of a country that is asserting its position through extra-legal and non-diplomatic means,” one official said. “That’s not a good image of China, and it is not a pattern of behavior by China that the U.S. or others want to see.”

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Snyder names John Roberts new state budget director Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday named his deputy chief of staff as the new state budget director because John Nixon is returning to his home state for a job at the University of Utah.

John Roberts, 32, will become budget chief effective March 1.

Nixon also directs the Department of Technology, Management and Budget. That job will be filled by David Behen, 44, Michigan’s chief information officer who will still have his information technology responsibilities.

Nixon was the state of Utah’s top budget officer before being recruited to Michigan after Snyder was elected. In three years at the helm, he has been credited with helping the Republican governor wipe out a structural $1 billion-plus deficit and sock away hundreds of millions into savings.

GSRA From Page 1 ardville (R–Monroe) introduced SB 971, which became the law that was struck down last week.

The bill banned GSRA unionization completely, effectively ending the debate on the issue until now.

University GSRA Christie Toth was a plaintiff in the case through the Graduate Employee’s Union, which currently represents graduate student instructors and graduate student staff assistants at the University.

The University’s Board of Regents also joined as an intervener, or a party not initially involved in the lawsuit but which chooses to join the plaintiff or defendant. In 2011, the board voted to support GSRA unionization, while University President Mary Sue Coleman expressed opposition to the move.

Chris Skovron, co-acting president of the GEO, said the law seemed to be a direct targeting of the GEO’s on-campus push to include University GSRAs in its representation.

“It was incredibly disappointing when the legislation passed,” Skovron said. “We thought it was very vindictive.”

It’s unclear what will happen in regard to the 2011 to 2012 proceedings now that the legislative ban has been lifted. In a statement, Ruthanne Okun, director of the Michigan Bureau of Employment Relations, said no decision on how to respond to the court’s decision has been made.

“The Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) has not determined how it will proceed following the recent decision by U.S. District Court Judge Goldsmith,” Okun wrote.

“MERC is thoroughly reviewing all available options before it decides on its next course of action.”

Skovron said the GEO has been carefully exploring several potential paths of action as well, and hasn’t yet chosen which one to follow.

“We’re still sort of taking stock of where we are,” he said.

Another complication in the matter is a potential appeal of the district court’s decision by other groups who expressed opposition in the past, such as

Michigan’s attorney general Bill Schuette (R) or the state legislature.

Students Against GSRA Unionization, a University group, also expressed opposition, but SAGU founder Stephen Raiman said the group does not have any concrete plans in response to the ruling, and probably will not take action unless there’s another large pro-unionization push on campus.

“We formed SAGU because we want to just remain students and we don’t want to get involved with politics and these things,” Raiman said. “So we’re not going to become involved with anything unless we feel like it’s necessary; we’d rather just stay out of it.”

Skovron said the GEO is still waiting to see whether an appeal will occur before it decides on what to do next, as that will factor into its deliberations. In the meantime, he added that the GEO will focus on continuing to do what it considers its primary function: organizing University graduate students.

“We think it’s time to bring this issue back to campus, instead of letting the legislature decide for us,” he said.

Before her speech, Matthew Anderson, the sales and marketing manager for Hager Fox Heating and Air Conditioning Co., lauded Coleman for her philanthropic efforts during her tenure.

Coleman has consistently donated her salary increases back to financial aid each year. Additionally, Coleman and her husband Kenneth Coleman donated $1 million in October toward global scholarships as part of the fundraising campaign.

Several University officials attended the event, including Lisa Rudgers, vice president for global communications and strategic initiatives.

The Economic Club previously hosted MSU President Lou Anna Simon at its luncheon Jan. 28.

Deborah Muchmore, vice president of the Marketing Resource Group and chair of the Economic Club, said the group hopes to learn from Coleman and Simon about the status of higher education, specifically in the state of Michigan.

“These schools play a vital role here, not just locally, but state-

wide and around the world,” Muchmore said. “We have taken this opportunity to put a spotlight on these two leaders who are absolutely exceptional, remarkable leaders.”

As University President-elect Mark Schlissel prepares to fill her shoes this summer, Coleman also mentioned plans for her upcoming retirement.

Despite working in her role for 12 years, Coleman doesn’t plan to take much of a break.

“I won’t by lying on a beach anywhere,” she said jokingly.

Once she leaves, Coleman will co-chair a project for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences focusing on the significance of public research universities. She will also serve on the board of several foundations, including as a member of the National Institute of Health’s advisory council.

Currently, Coleman serves on the board of directors of Johnson + Johnson, which she joined in 2003.

As for her future in Ann Arbor, Coleman plans to get a condo in town so she can visit in the fall for football games.

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Snow-storm hits the Northeast; South remains icy Yet another storm paralyzed the Northeast with heavy snow and sleet Thursday, giving the winter-weary that oh-no-notagain feeling, while hundreds of thousands across the ice-encrusted South waited in the cold for the electricity to come back on.

At least 21 deaths were blamed on the treacherous weather, including that of a pregnant woman struck by a mini-snowplow in a New York City parking lot as she loaded groceries into her car.

The sloppy mix of snow and face-stinging sleet grounded more than 6,500 flights and closed schools and businesses as it made its way up the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor, where shoveling out has become a weekly — sometimes twice-weekly — chore.

CAMBRIDGE, Md.

Democrats want to force House vote on minimum wage House Democrats said Thursday they will try to highlight GOP resistance to a higher minimum wage with a tactical maneuver meant to bring new attention to an issue they consider a political winner.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said her party will push a “discharge petition” when Congress returns from its recess on Feb. 24. If Democrats can persuade roughly two dozen Republicans to sign the petition, it would force GOP leaders to allow a House vote on the wage issue.

Most Republican lawmakers oppose a higher minimum wage.

They say it prompts employers to cut down on hiring, a claim Democrats dispute.

It’s by no means clear Democrats can collect enough signatures in the House, where they hold 200 seats to the Republicans’ 232. Three seats are vacant.

SURABAYA, Indonesia

Volcano eruption closes three big Indonesia airports Volcanic ash from a major eruption in Indonesia shrouded a large swath of the country’s most densely populated island on Friday, closed three international airports and sent thousands fleeing.

First light brought clear the extent of the overnight explosive eruption at Mount Kelud on Java Island, though there was no immediate word on any casualties.

Booms from the mountain could be heard 130 kilometers (80 miles) away in Surabaya, the country’s second-largest city, and even further afield in Jogyakarta.

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COLEMAN From Page 1 a $4 billion goal — $1 billion of which will be dedicated solely to student financial aid. In the world of higher education, the campaign remains one the largest fundraising endeavors of its kind. Harvard University is in the middle of its ambitious $6.5 billion fundraising drive.

“It’s tremendously important for young people today and tomorrow to get a great college education without worrying about taking on debt that’s going to stomp on their career path in the future,” Coleman said.

Coleman also mentioned President Barack Obama’s visit to Michigan State University Feb. 7 to sign the farm bill, which will expand federal crop insurance.

She added that the choice to sign the bill in Michigan serves as an example of the significance of public research institutions in the national sphere.

“Leading public research universities play a role in the health of our country,” Coleman said.

Indiana state senate votes to remove ban on civil unions Decision to be final after legislature’s approval of the new measure

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Senate’s decision to advance a proposed ban on gay marriage without also blocking civil unions has reset the clock on the issue getting to voters, setting the stage for continuing fights for at least two years.

Opponents won a surprising victory Thursday when the Senate refused to restore a ban on civil unions that had been

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stripped by the House. In Indiana, a proposed constitutional amendment must twice be approved by the Legislature — unchanged and in consecutive biennial legislative sessions — before making the ballot.

That means the proposed ban, which sailed through the GOP-controlled Legislature during the 2011-2012 session, won’t make the November ballot. The soonest it could go before voters is now 2016.

But supporters vowed to continue fighting.

Micah Clark, executive director of the American Family Association of Indiana, said: “We will be back next year, pushing to

take this issue to the people of Indiana.”

Senate Minority Leader Tim Lanane said Senate Democrats also will do everything they can to keep the issue off the table.

“This is not something future Hoosiers say is a good idea,” said Lanane, a Democrat from Anderson. “It’s not good for the future of Indiana, and it’s not good for the future of the nation.”

Senate President Pro Tem David Long said he was ready to continue the debate in 2015 and 2016, but the Republican expected the courts to be the final arbiter.

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“It just wasn’t a good machine,” Logan said. “So we finally decided to replace it.”

Despite the housing staff’s good intentions, many East

HBO From Page 1 show up and who would really ensure that it was a great segment,” Manes said.

She said she met Stack at a conference last year, which is how she got interested in CPCs. “She kind of mentored me in how to get exposure, how to let people know the truth about what a CPC is, and from there it just kind of took off,” Manes said.

Manes said HBO contacted Stack to work on an episode about CPCs, and Stack then directed the crew to Manes.

“I think it’s great that it’s going to get into mainstream media,” Manes said. “I think it’s really, really important that these stories are told as many times as possible and that these stories are widespread.”

During the discussion, stack took time to explain CPCs and what she sees as their dangers.

“Crisis pregnancy centers are really the grassroots army of the anti-abortion business,” she said. “They’re small organizations that their goal is to be a step in between a woman finding out she is pregnant and actually interacting with an abortion clinic.”

Stack also discussed her experience in undercover operations, during which she uses an audio recorder, a video camera hidden in a purse and a sample of urine to falsify a posi-

Quad residents are angry about the long wait. LSA sophomore Amelia Runco said she feels the promise of gelato may be too good to be true, adding that she thinks there is widespread discontent with East Quad’s dining services.

“It better be delicious,” Runco said. “We’ve waited long enough for it to be good.”

tive pregnancy test administered by the CPC. Manes said she has been undercover five times and plans to use audio and video evidence from these operations to expose the nature of CPCs to University students. She added that she hopes students will learn what these organizations really do and that CPCs will begin to advertise themselves truthfully.

“They call themselves judgment-free, which they‘re not,” Manes said. “They call themselves a place where they can give you a wide range of options, which they’re not.”

Manes said she grew up with accessible sexual education — something she was surprised and upset to learn is not the case for everyone.

“The problem is that CPCs are furthering this,” Manes said. “‘Young people don’t deserve to know about their own lives, their own bodies and we’re going to tell them how to make their decisions.’ That’s what CPCs do.”

Manes said her work is focused in Ann Arbor, especially at the nearby CPC called Arbor Vitae, but hopes to expand in the future.

“People telling their stories is an incredible way of telling the truth about what these places really are, and I think that HBO’s highlighting it on such a national stage is definitely a step in the right direction.”

The second season of VICE will air this spring on HBO.

Venezuela protest results in 3 deaths Anti-government group warned of crackdown CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Members of Venezuela’s opposition warned of a coming government crackdown after authorities tried to search the offices of a political party and blamed a hard-line leader for inciting violence that led to three deaths during anti-government protests.

A day after more than 10,000 people marched against President Nicolas Maduro’s 10-month-old government, a swirl of rumors hung over much of Caracas on Thursday.

A group of about 200 students occupied the city’s main highway for two hours before re-joining a larger, peaceful protest in the city’s wealthy eastern district to demand

justice for a 24-year-old antigovernment demonstrator who was killed Wednesday by a bullet. Demonstrations also took place in several cities around the country.

Meanwhile, local newspaper El Universal published what it said was a leaked copy of an arrest order for Leopoldo Lopez, the Harvardtrained former mayor who has been spearheading the wave of protests around the nation in recent weeks, on charges including conspiracy, murder and terrorism.

Chief federal prosecutor Luisa Ortega didn’t mention an arrest order for Lopez in two statements to the press Thursday. But several Cabinet officials denounced him as the mastermind of what they called a “fascist” U.S.backed strategy to replicate the unrest that preceded the 2002 coup that briefly removed President Hugo Chavez from power.

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Equal treatment for all students Transgender children must be respected in public school policies

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nn Arbor Public Schools officials have joined school board administrators across the country in the discussion of unequal school policies in an effort to protect the rights of transgender students.

Current school policies are generally non-discriminatory, but they don’t address issues such as a transgender student’s right to choose his or her bathroom or which gender’s cabin to stay in on a field trip. While we commend the officials for their dialogue, just having the discussion isn’t enough. Ann Arbor schools need to take substantive action to protect the rights of transgender students.

Under current policy, transgender schoolchildren in Ann Arbor are dealt with on a case-by-case basis, and there are no standards in place regarding the treatment of these individuals. Nationally, no strategies have been tested or standardized. The efforts of AAPS officials to better accommodate the needs of transgender students are positive and forward-thinking. In Michigan, a person’s gender is identified by his or her birth certificate, but if a student is over the age of 18 or has his or her parent make a request, that gender can be changed. Even though these students aren’t old enough to change their gender without the consent of a parent, they should be given the right to choose which bathroom makes them most comfortable or where to sleep on a field trip. By approving new policies to help make their educational environment more inclusive, school officials will be working to create a positive school experience for transgender students.

On Jan. 1, California was the first state to enact new transgender policies for students in public elementary, middle and high schools. While students in California now have equal access to school-based resources, they also face some risks, including alienation from friends, discrimination and bullying.

Some students are dissuaded from using the bathrooms they want to use by the fear of harassment. It’s important for Ann Arbor to make sure anti-bullying and antidiscrimination policies are enforced before transgender laws are implemented. Another

option to consider is using gender-neutral bathrooms instead of having students choose between male and female bathrooms.

Still, Michigan shouldn’t hold back when giving students the right to choose their own gender. They should join other states like California and Maine in pioneering policies for transgender equality inside and outside the classroom. California’s law states, “Students who identify as the opposite sex can now choose which restroom to use, which locker room to use and whether to play on boys’ or girls’ sports teams.” The Maine Supreme Judicial Court also ruled on Jan. 30 that children should be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice. Currently, Michigan doesn’t have any laws that expressly ban discrimination against transgender people, but in 2007, former Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed an executive order that prohibits discrimination against transgender state workers. These protections have remained in effect even since Granholm left office.

As AAPS is working on these novel transgender measures, other school districts in Michigan may follow its lead. Implementing equal rights for all students is a great issue to be spending school board time, effort and money on. Despite complications, such as bullying and other students’ discomfort, Ann Arbor should be commended for taking the initiative to give transgender students equal rights. The discussion should then be translated into real policy that will ensure the rights of transgender students are protected.

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Stop hating on snow “Go back to Russia, Polina.” That’s what people tell me when I say I love the snow.

Maybe it did somehow seep down from my Russian roots, but there’s something wonderful that this eternal winter breeds in me.

Despite the thrashing snowy tempest, or maybe because of it, I woke up this morning struck with an impulse to write, along with an unflappable sense of joyous motivation — a perfect combination, if you ask me. I soon realized I was walking through campus smiling in the face of the frigid wind. What is there to complain about? It’s a scorcher today — 19 whole degrees outside!

I bet that along your walk, trek or ice skate to class today you cursed the snow, the cold, the winter or maybe the entire state of Michigan. After class this morning, I checked my phone and wearily read through a slew of weather condemnations sent to a group message from my friends. I responded to the group with something along the lines of, “As slippery as it is, can we just take a moment to appreciate how beautiful Michigan is and how awesome it feels to walk through the swirling snow between gorgeous buildings with the bell tower chiming and how glorious academia is in general?”

My friend Michelle’s immediate response: “A really sharp snowflake hit me right in the eye today.”

A while ago I read a New York Times

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article, “The Longest Nights,” by Timothy Egan, that concisely summarizes the theory of bad weather and its conduciveness to creativity. When the blizzard strikes, people escape to the indoors where their distractions are limited. Within walls and under roofs we sit and reflect while a white powder (or brown slush) temporarily blankets reality.

Frosted windows stir the nostalgic soul.

Creative juices flow. Great works are born.

Productivity peaks. I’m presently at the cusp of my third hour in the basement of Panera and I’ve finished all of my reading for the week, sent 10 or 15 outrageously overdue e-mails and am now in the midst of furiously typing words to form sentences to make up the article you are now reading.

Even if you slipped on the way to class this morning, look around and see the beauty in this opportunity. Quit languishing in weather-related sorrow. Turn that miserable pit of despair into a well of creativity. Revel in the crunch beneath your feet, and when you get home, bake a batch of cookies that rival MoJo’s, or read the book that’s been waiting on the shelf for months. Take the weather for what it is and make the best of it. As my English professor Ralph Williams says, you’re just a guest in life. Wouldn’t you hate to be an ungrateful guest?

Polina Fradkin is an LSA sophomore.

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nder absolutely no circumstances can a player physically react to a fan.”

That sentiment has been repeated countless times over the past few days, as think piece after think piece has rolled JAMES in discussing the BRENNAN Marcus Smart incident. Smart, a 19-year-old basketball player at Oklahoma State University, shoved Texas Tech University fan Jeff Orr after Orr yelled something at him.

Looking at the tape, it’s hard to gather exactly what Orr actually said, but rumors are buzzing that Smart told his coaches Orr yelled a racial slur; others claim they can see Orr mouthing out the words “go back to Africa.” Orr denies saying either, but admits that he said something he shouldn’t have.

To say that Orr definitely or probably used a racial slur is founded in about as much evidence as saying he didn’t. Other players have alleged that Orr is known for crossing the line and that Lubbock, Texas is notorious for racist fans, but Marcus Smart is also a player with a welldocumented history of hot-headedness. Maybe Orr used a slur, maybe he didn’t. What I think is more important is the one-sided debate in these think pieces about the appropriateness of Smart’s response — regardless of what Orr said.

For a moment, let’s forget the Marcus Smart incident and

just imagine it’s any other Black basketball player at any other stadium. The player tumbles into the stands and the fan tells him to “go back to Africa,” so the player shoves him and runs back onto the court.

If I’m that kid’s coach, I’d commend him for having the restraint not to clock that guy across the face, too. But according to the consensus opinion of sports commentators, even if Orr did say something that crossed the line, Smart couldn’t react.

Why not?

To apply the standard “there is no circumstance where a player can react” is making a conscious choice to be blind to the pure hatred some people still openly express and the deep pain it causes others. When someone is called something as horrible and hurtful as what Orr might have called Smart, expecting that person to restrain himself is completely illogical. There is such a thing as “fighting words” — words so hateful and incendiary that, when personally directed at someone, will provoke hatred or violence right back. Calling a 19-year-old Black kid the N-word a foot from his face? Yeah, I would call those fighting words.

I’m not a person of color, nor am I gay, Jewish, a woman or of any other identity that faces a hatred comparable to what African Americans do.

There is no word someone can use toward me that would sting quite like a racist, sexist or homophobic slur. It’s not my job to tell someone with a different identity how they should or shouldn’t feel when people spew hate at them. Even if I were a woman or if I were Jewish, I shouldn’t tell someone who is Black

how to feel when they’re called a name, and vice versa. We don’t know the experiences, thoughts and feelings of other people.

It’s a totally unfair double standard for people who experience hatred to be expected to act with uncompromising restraint. This politically correct, violence-isnever-okay ideology ignores the realities of racial animus and hatred in our society. It isn’t 1947 anymore; stop holding everyone to the Jackie Robinson standard. Not everyone can just sit there and ignore it when someone angrily unloads racism on a person they don’t even know. I’m not advocating for violence, but I’m sure as hell not going to tell Marcus Smart how to react if someone says something hateful toward him.

Saying a situation like Smart’s is unwarranted in all circumstances applies far too broad a brush.

If you’re walking down the street with a Black friend and some random guy gets in his face and calls him the N-word, what are you gonna do? Yeah, we’d all hold our friend back, tell him “he’s not worth it” and try to get out of there, but if he ends up kicking this guy’s ass for a couple seconds, we wouldn’t tell our friend he “crossed a line” and that what he did was unwarranted. In the heat of the moment like that, some of us may even jump in and help teach the guy some manners.

People who express that kind of personal, horrible hatred deserve exactly what they get, and no one should be made to feel guilty for giving it to them.

— James Brennan can be reached at jmbthree@umich.edu.

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I love so we can heal

I am on a swing. Pushing off the ground so hard it almost feels like I can escape my loneliness and fly away. It’s recess, first grade. Violently, the rusty chains of the swing shudder and stop. I fly off and out of my happy place and onto the woodchips. I hate the smell of woodchips. I look up to see a group of white boys surround me. They ask me if I know kung fu.

They throw punches before I can answer. I don’t know kung fu.

Another memory places me on a baseball diamond, second grade.

A kickball game of girls versus boys begins. I nervously ask if I can play on the girls’ team. Boys are mean and all my friends are girls. Everyone, including those on the team I wish to be on, screams, “You’re a girl! You’re a girl!” I don’t understand why that’s an insult. I cry anyways.

As I walk away, I hear, “He probably can’t even see through his tiny Asian eyes.”

I’m six. I ask if I can play dressup and “house” with the girls, but my teacher points me towards the building blocks and toy cars, using her notion of what it means to be a boy as her compass. My compass seems to be broken. Full of confusion and resentment, I obey.

At an age when I am still too young to understand how to coordinate my own wardrobe, I learned what it feels like to lust after another boy. I am a Pokémon Master. I am a child with one hand in my dreams and another in my fears. I am a pervert.

My parents are in the kitchen, arguing. I am in my bedroom, wrapped in blankets, holding onto myself so tightly, I wonder how much harder I will have to squeeze in order to shrink into nothingness.

I listen to the sounds of hushed, sharp Vietnamese being thrown back and forth. The noises pierce me like daggers. I struggle to translate the words in my head. I lose my own language through the tears falling out of my eyes.

I hesitate to trust my own memories, clumsily and crudely pieced together in a fog of guessed meanings and translations.

I wonder what it’d be like if a benevolent white family swooped in and rescued me into a Hallmark happily ever after — the kind of family that kissed each other goodbye before leaving the house and prayed to white invisible superheroes in the sky before eating dinner.

It’s in these situations where I begin to internalize my constant desire to be someone other than myself. All my life, I have always wanted to be something other than me.

I snap back to last semester. I’m in a classroom, all eyes on me. The professor repeats the question, “What was growing up as a boy like for you?” I am the only man of color. I manage to stutter, “It was fine.” Eyes stay locked on me. I feel my queer and yellow otherness fester. I nervously

look down at my hands and notice the purple polish on my nails. I wish I could disappear. I clear my throat, “I can’t really think of anything to say.”

Even as I claim to be a proud queer person of color, son of Asian immigrant warriors, heir to their sacrifices; even as I claim to be a humble and resilient first-generation cash-poor college student; even as I claim to be an activist, an organizer, an educator, and an advocate; even as I claim to be made up of stars, all held together by an inner fire with ancestral magic fueling my spirit; even now as I write these words, I hurt.

It is easier for me to rage and be furious at society for being an unforgiving place than to admit that I am hurting because of it — setting the world on fire versus setting my heart on fire. Being vulnerable is just a nicer way of saying, open yourself up from the inside out, rip your ribcage apart, and bleed.

I hurt because I am a survivor of abuse. I hurt because I am putting words to my agony. I hurt because, for so long, I was just screaming out loud without realizing that I could be putting art and love out into the world. I hurt because I was killing myself every day, complying with those who wanted me to be less alive because my existence made them uncomfortable. I hurt because my heart beats within layers of wounds and scars that I have since painted over with the colors of my truths.

My heart is in the center of a flowerbed, its roots taking hold in an undeniable aura that reminds me that I am everything I am meant to be.

Being socialized to believe that we are not worthy of love is painful.

Unlearning that shame and doubt is excruciating. Excruciating, but necessary, and part of what it means to grow, heal, and find community.

Not the theories of “community” that social justice classes or allyhood trainings will have students try to imitate, but the community that is rooted in survival. The community that embraces me after my armor cracks and my fierceness wavers.

The community that jumps into my car in the middle of the night and blasts somber electronic music.

The community that replenishes my spirit after it has been violently drained and sucked out of me.

The community that affirms and challenges me in ways that make me believe I am actually worth something. The community that blooms and blossoms as we sit in a circle to bask in one another’s beauty and strength while healing through home cooked nourishment.

When we take the risk to open ourselves up and reach out, others will reach back. They breathe, “You’re hurting. I have hurt, too. I am hurting, too.” I am convinced that those with pain — real deep, down-to-thecore pain — also know what it truly

means to love and to love fiercely.

As a queer person of color, my mere existence is an act of rebellion. To have the audacity to take ownership of my body, my gender expression, and whom I choose to love and share my energy with is to declare war. To demand to be treated the way I want to be treated is to declare war against a society that does not want me.

My community, my comrades in war, is the difference between life and death. This community can only be found in our hearts, our fury, our art, our words to each other, and our love for one another.

Admittedly, the process of finding community is not an easy journey. I do not mean to suggest that, but the alternative is not any easier.

On that journey, I have begun to understand how to be loved and how to love intentionally, among many other lessons that I hold dear to my soul — scrawled in a notebook, memorialized in a Facebook status or a tweet, and emblazoned into the stars that make up my being. I would not have learned these lessons without the guidance and support from so many other trailblazers who shared their pain and love with me.

With everything I have learned, I hope to empower my communities to realize that we — no one else — are the authorities of our own existence and to embark on the journey of loving ourselves despite all of the messages that tell us otherwise. I practice empowerment through compassion, vulnerability, and the reclaiming and construction of spaces.

By refocusing our energies towards self-healing and radical love, by cultivating and encouraging the ability to articulate and make sense of our experiences, we equip ourselves with the arsenal necessary to navigate this world.

We become agents of change that make things happen. Whether that’s societal change or individual change, it all makes a difference. We keep our hearts soft and strong by loving one another and being accountable to our comrades, not the systems that seek to destroy us.

Kim Katrin Crosby, during her keynote speech at the 2013 Color of Change Community Summit said, “Our most radical work is to love ourselves.” These words made me realize how far I had to fall just to get back up. She changed my life because she saw me. I now pass on that energy.

The words in this article are not mine. They belong to those who have selflessly reached out to me without even realizing they were saving me in the process.

I hope others find community within these lines.

I hurt. I hurt every single day. I don’t know if I’ll ever stop hurting. I know others are hurting too. I burn so I can see you. I bleed so I can find you. I love so we can heal.

Alex Ngo is an LSA senior.

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PCAP focuses on art of atonement Exhibit to showcase creative work from the incarcerated

By COSMO PAPPAS For the Daily

On Valentine’s Day, the art gallery at East Quad will open an exhibition put on by the Prison Creative Arts Prison Project, or PCAP as most Creative call it, to the Arts Project public. PCAP was founded Linkage almost 25 Exhibition years ago by English pro- Feb. 14 fessor Buzz March 14 Alexander.

Monday to Friday, PCAP “has 10am - 5pm a lot of parts,” East Quad said Vanessa Mayesky, the Art Gallery program’s Linkage and Portfolio Coordinator. “But underneath all of it is our belief in the power of creativity.”

While PCAP works primarily with people who are currently incarcerated through weekly 2-hour workshops with student facilitators, the East Quad exhibit will present art by participants in PCAP’s Linkage Project.

Through this program, people who have served time previously and participated in PCAP during their incarceration have

the opportunity to advance and exhibit their artistic endeavors once they have been released or are out on parole.

The theme of this year’s Linkage Exhibition is “Atonement.”

Shaka Senghor, the theme’s creator, is an associate of the PCAP and a former participant whose work as a writer and speaker centers on redemption and guilt with regard to crime and, according to the biography on his website, on the “hood and not-so-glamorous side of the streets.”

Although not every piece featured at this exhibit will address the theme, the Atonement Project is, at its root, an attempt to rethink the process of restorative justice and work through Senghor’s three-stage model of atonement.

In Mayesky’s words, this process involves, first, “acknowledgment that a wrong was done,” then “an apology for one’s actions” and, finally, atonement.

This last stage centers on the process of moving forward, beyond the (self-)perception of being a “potential threat” as an ex-convict, and on proving to oneself that convicted felons are not excluded from being “creative people … artists, musicians, actors or painters.”

When volunteers actually go to the facilities, they aim at forging a creative, nonhierarchical “space that’s welcoming for everyone in it,” Mayesky

said.

Mayesky, who encourages students and faculty to volunteer for PCAP, said that “there are different ways to get involved. If you’re a student, take one of our courses. It’ll change your life; I’m being honest.”

There are courses available with Alexander, the English professor, Janie Paul in the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design or Ashley Lucas and Shaka Senghor in the School of Music, Theater & Dance and the Residential College.

Later in the semester, starting March 19 and running through Apr. 9, the 19th annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners will open at the Duderstadt Library on North Campus. Over 400 pieces by more than 200 artists will be on display at the event.

“The idea, is that we’re not going in as teachers, not even necessarily as experts,” Mayesky said. The essential part of the program, for her, is that “it (doesn’t) matter where you started as long as you just got started.”

The participants of PCAP, along with their PCAP student facilitators, come together as artists in order to move beyond one-dimensional caricatures of prisoners as essentially bad people who are incapable of creation and humanity.

Empowerment through artistic creation is the rallying call of PCAP.

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Valentine’s Day with R. Kelly R. KELLY From Page 1

alike in the name of having fun and celebrating a cultural landmark. The theater first hosted the event this Trapped in past August, and Emily the closet Mathews, the sing-a-along theater’s marketing direc- Friday at tor, was more 10:30 p.m. than surprised State Thearer by the turnout.

In addition to $12 the 250 people who showed up — more impressive considering that students were not even back for classes yet — Mathews was blown away by their enthusiasm.

“It was much more animated than anything we’ve ever had — concerts even. I’ve been to tons of shows here, and I’ve never seen anything like it,” Mathews said. “People were so into it. It was incredible.”

The theater’s programming director, Brian Hunter, initially pitched the idea to the executive director, who was skeptical. But after Mathews got on board, the two of them were able to convince their higherups and put the show in place.

Alamo Draft House, a chain of theaters in close contact with the State, had received the licensing rights from R. Kelly himself to publish the subtitled version of the show that the theater will use Friday night.

In addition to the pre-show R. Kelly music video dance party, full subtitled versions of the original 22 chapters and complimentary goodie bags, which last time included condoms and fake money “so you could make it rain,” Mathews explains, this edition of the sing-a-long features a special guest appearance from Eric Lane, better known to “Closet”

fans as Twan.

“It’s totally different. It’s nothing that’s been done before,” Lane said, discussing the show’s place in pop culture lore. “Over the years, we’ve adapted ourselves to a certain way that music is and what we’re accustomed to.

With ‘Trapped in the Closet,’ it changed. People see it and they are just amazed.”

Lane started working on the show as R. Kelly’s stand-in. But a casting director told Kelly about Lane’s experience and talent, and after an audition, Lane assumed the role of Twan — Kelly’s character’s brother-inlaw — whose debut in Chapter 7 begins with him getting shot.

This is just our generation’s ‘Star Wars,’ right?

Being that Kelly voices every character in the show, learning to lip-sync to perfection takes a lot of effort for the actors. “(Doing ‘Trapped in the Closet’) is totally different. Being an actor, you usually word your words the way you want to. But when it comes to saying the lines with this, we have to be saying exactly what (R. Kelly) is saying,” Lane explained. “We have to study the songs everyday constantly. I’m in the studio for hours with him, just learning these songs.”

In a cast of memorable characters, Twan has become especially beloved by fans for his tough-guy persona, humor and loyalty. For Lane, Twan’s popularity rests in the viewer’s ability to understand the character.

“Twan is someone you can relate to everyday. You always want

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that person who would stick up for you and stand by you no matter what, and Twan’s one of those guys. He’s just the best,” said Lane. “Twan is definitely gangsta, but he has that softer side, he doesn’t want to see people being used, he always wants to take up for his brother-in-law and that’s how a brother-in-law should be.”

Though he’s worked extensively in film and television in productions like “Barbershop,” “Prison Break” and “Chicago Fire,” Lane’s experience working on “Trapped in the Closet” was undoubtedly special and ultimately career changing.

“Over the years, ‘Trapped in the Closet’ has become a cult classic,” Lane said, echoing Mathews’ comparing of the show to the cult hit “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

“The show has changed my life a lot. Now when I go places, I’ve had people come up to me crying. Not Michael Jackson status,” he said, laughing, “but everywhere I go people recognize me, pictures, autographs, everything.”

Whatever the reason, “Trapped in the Closet” has become one of the most celebrated cultural occurrences in recent memory.

Just as impressive, however, is the fact that the show isn’t loved only by the expected R&B fanbase, but rather an extensive and eclectic mix of people from every type of background who will be at the State on Friday and have nothing in common with one another besides their obsession with “Trapped in the Closet.” “‘Trapped in the Closet’ is the modern day ‘Star Wars.’ You know, everybody loves it,” Lane said.

Added Mathews, “(‘Trapped in the Closet’) is the best soap opera ever. It’s just kitschy fun. Who would’ve thought? R. Kelly, bringing people together.”

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Alex Pettyfer talks Valentine’s Day, stardom and ‘Endless Love’

By NATALIE GADBOIS Senior Arts Editor

On the record, Alex Pettyfer is spending Valentine’s Day with his mother. The British actor, who has starred in “Magic Mike,” “Beastly” and “I Am Number 4” with a mix of lovely leading ladies, has often been featured in tabloids on the arm of one or another. However, in an interview with The Michigan Daily about his new movie “Endless Love,” which comes out Feb. 14, Pettyfer admits that he has always been a “hopeless romantic.”

“Endless Love” is a remake of the 1981 classic starring Brooke Shields, and follows a privileged teenage girl (Gabriella Wilde, “Carrie”) as she falls recklessly in love with a “bad boy,” to the consternation of her over-protective father (Bruce Greenwood, “Star Trek Into Darkness”). Pettyfer believes that the remake is a more modern take on the themes of the original.

“I think because of the time period that Brooke Shields made that movie,” Pettyfer said, “It was very controversial, especially this subject matter on sex and lust … Whereas this is more about two people in love that are finding themselves.”

Though he has had some experience playing a romantic lead, Pettyfer says finding chemistry with his partner always has its challenges.

“It’s very hit or miss with doing a movie like this, because sometimes when an actor hates another actor, there can be chemistry,” Pettyfer said. “You never know how it’s gonna turn out.”

Luckily, he said that wasn’t the case with this movie, hoping that the (positive) chemistry between him and Gabriella

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comes across on screen.

“Luckily, me and Gabriella get on very, very well, and she was so easy to work with.”

While he has made a name for himself in the United States as a talented heartthrob, many of Pettyfer’s fans are unaware that he is originally from England.

He spends half of his time there, but he says that for right now he prefers working in L.A. to anywhere else.

“I genuinely, genuinely love America. It has given me such a great, great lifestyle. But I love England, as well,” Pettyfer said.

His enthusiasm can be attributed to some impressive encounters he has been privileged to experience while working as an actor, including meeting Steven Spielberg, who produced “I Am Number 4.”

‘Magic Mike’ star admits he’s a hopeless romantic.

“I’ve been star struck once …

As a man, and as a lover of film, to be in the presence of Steven Spielberg, you’re like ‘Wow.’ ” Despite his recent success, Pettyfer’s path to stardom was a laborious process; one that he believes has made him more pragmatic about the future.

“When I first started out, I had a lot of rejection,” Pettyfer said. “And it’s very hard, as any human being, to hear that you are not good enough, or you’ll never make it. But believe in what you believe in, and keep trying.”

Despite that advice, he’s quick

to stop himself with a self-deprecating laugh.

“I mean, not in a deluded way — I’m not going to ever win an Oscar. I don’t think I’m an Oscar winning actor. But I love making films.”

This inherent love of filmmaking is why Pettyfer pursues such a variety of roles, from sci-fi to romance to whatever genre the male stripper-focused “Magic Mike” could be called.

He doesn’t pretend that “Endless Love” is going to change the world, but he hopes that audiences recognize the simplicity in the story.

“It’s a Valentine’s movie. It’s lovely, it’s charming — it’s not a serious movie. It’s just there to have fun, and to remind us of love.”

Though still in the throes of promoting “Endless Love” (including a stop in Michigan), Pettyfer says he will be spending Valentine’s with his mother, perhaps a slightly tongue-incheek response to all those who speculate about his love life.

“It’s hard now in society for an actor to be private because we live in a social media world where everything is accessible,” Pettyfer said. “You get one photo taken with someone who may not even be your girlfriend, may be just a friend, and it’s like ‘Who is Alex dating?’ ” Regardless of his private social life, it’s undeniable that this film is tailor-made for the very fans that squeal over pictures of him in Tiger Beat. The film’s suggestive tagline “Say goodbye to innocence,” can be interpreted in many ways, but Pettyfer looks at it very simply.

“I’m most excited for the fans to (see) love at its most purest — that first ever falling in love naïveté and that feeling that you can conquer the world.”

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Football is fleeting, Compagnie Kafig jackets are forever finds joy in dance

As I sink deeper into the sands of time and come closer to understanding the transient entity that is our own mortality, I realize that I just don’t have time for the Super Bowl.

I’ve become increasingly less inclined to attend event-related parties or even pretend ERIKA that I have HARWOOD the slightest awareness of who’s playing (something about the two states that legalized weed?). I can no longer be coaxed with booze, commercials with obscene budgets or even the camaraderie provided by friends and family to feign emotional interest and give up roughly three hours of my time here on earth — I just don’t care about the Super Bowl.

This past Super Bowl, I was obliged to perform my editorial duties at 420 Maynard AKA the Student Publications Building AKA where we make this paper day in and day out. A majority of the staff was enamored with the inflated American tradition, keeping one eye on their work — while the other was glued to one of the three screens in the office playing the game. As halftime approached, the argument of Bruno Mars’s worthiness to headline such a coveted spot grew. As an arts editor, I felt inclined to form an opinion on the matter, but once again, I just didn’t care enough.

But as Bruno’s performance began, I started to find myself feeling like the rest of the newsroom, unable to look away — with not one, but two eyes latched on to the hovering TV. Yes, Bruno made his descent onto the stadium whilst on a levitating drum set. He also did the splits while dancing and didn’t look like an asshole. The set was impressive, but there was something else — some-

thing with literal, physical sparkle that captivated me and for the first time in years — I cared.

Bruno’s retro, slim-fitted, metallic gold Yves Saint Laurent blazer.

“I love these jackets,” I announced to anyone (read: no one) who was listening. After a few more brief moments of silence, I felt compelled by the House of YSL again. “I can’t get over how great these jackets are.”

No one aside from me cared, but it was too late. I was invested in the Super Bowl — well, the Super Bowl Halftime Show — primarily due to sparkly gold men’s jackets.

Just so you know, I can basically hear your eyes rolling, and while you may think it’s war-

Mars’s gold jacket out of this world. ranted, let me recount Super Bowl XLVII for you.

The game begins. One team is ridiculously ahead of the other team. This continues for hours (plural). The aforementioned team wins. End game.

Even for die-hard football fans, the game itself sucked and crossed the line into boring around 20 minutes in.

While it’s plausible that Mars could have gone on stage in a trash bag and still killed his performance, there’s definitely something to be said about his (and his stylist’s) sartorial decision. Even against the massive stadium backdrop and the general presence of a halfnaked Red Hot Chili Peppers (a band I’ve felt a deep, spiritual connection to ever since middle school when I started to develop “an attitude”), Mars

and his gold-cladded, leather lapel’d back-up band stole the show ... and the game as far as my sports-disabled mind is concerned.

There’s a worn out, yet still somehow prevalent assumption about the significance (or insignificance, rather) of fashion. It’s an assumption plaguing arguments that are full of words like “shallow,” “vapid” and “useless.” While some may read this and think that a column dedicating hundreds of words to a single jacket is outrageous (that’s right — if you’re still reading, you’ve read hundreds of words on a jacket), those people haven’t begun an attempt at digesting the implications that one jacket can have.

Not everyone may have connected those shiny gold blazers to their Parisian roots, not even I did at first glance (if you were to check my search history, it would read something along the lines of “bruno mars superbowl outfit.”). But they do connect it to the continually budding musical force that is Bruno Mars — the soulful, retro-infused powerhouse, who by now has been propelled further into superstardom.

When I look back on Super Bowl XLVII, I won’t remember that the Seahawks beat the Broncos or that endearing Budweiser commercial with the horse and puppy. I probably won’t remember that the Chili Peppers were even there. What I will remember is that Bruno Mars put on an insane Halftime Show, and that he drew me in with a drum solo, killer dance moves, and most of all, with that retro, slim-fitted, metallic gold Yves Saint Laurent blazer.

I’ll remember that for one brief moment — for the first time in years — I actually cared about the Super Bowl, and it was all because of a single jacket.

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What happens when you put 11 male dancers from Rio de Janeiro under the direction of a FrenchAlgerian choreographer Compagnie and send them around the Kafig world?

Friday and Compagnie Saturday Käfig’s choreat 8 p.m. ographer and artistic direc- Power Center tor, Mourad Starting at $22 Merzouki, started explor- ($0 for student) ing the movement arts at a young age. Beginning with circus performance and martial arts training at age 7, Merzouki has a thrilling movement vocabulary. As a teenager, he gravitated towards the hip-hop trend in the streets and in the early ‘90s started dancing with, and choreographing for, his friends.

Soon he began to create shows.

His first project was called “Käfig,” a title that carries a meaning close to “cage” in both German and Arabic. Merzouki is intrigued by the concept of confinement and the ways in which dance can transcend the boundaries we create and connect people. It became the name and mission of the company: “Compagnie Käfig.”

For the first decade, the company’s dancers were mostly French and of Algerian descent like Merzouki. The group you will see dancing at the Power Center this Saturday, however, comes from an entirely different part of the world.

Merzouki met 11 Brazilian dancers touring with their company — Urbana de Dança — at the Lyon Biennial dance festival in 2006. He was so impressed by their vibrant energy that Merzouki wanted to get to know them and their personal stories from the favelas (Brazilian shanty towns). A few years later, Merzouki created the dance “Agwa” specifically for the 11 dancers, and they became part of the company.

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“I started dancing at nine years old. But as a child it was just for fun. I liked dance too much,” Alves dos Santos said. “My mom’s dream was for me to be a soccer player, because in Brazil there’s such a fan(base) for soccer. But I didn’t like soccer very much; I liked to see and play it sometimes, but for me — for my life, my real love is dance. So I danced for my mom all the time.

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Pulling from dance traditions around the world, Merzouki makes it hard to categorize the company’s style. He blends together a variety of deeply-rooted and historic styles until the movement is something both familiar and entirely new.

“It hasn’t been easy, because there is still a language barrier,” Gillet said. “Mourad doesn’t speak Portuguese — now some of (the dancers) speak more French and English so it’s started to be easier, but at first dance was really here to connect them together. Mourad used their own vocabulary, their own way of moving, to start creating something for them and that’s how it worked. That’s real proof that dance can be universal.”

Using dance a lingua franca Compagnie Käfig’s performances can communicate with people around the world. Touring four, five or six months at a time the dancers are constantly engaging in a global dialogue.

“The great thing about the company is that I do my dance with my friends and I show it in so many countries around the world,” Alves dos Santos said. “I have the opportunity to meet new people, great hip-hop dancers and train in great places. It’s so fun because before the company I saw things (around the world) only on Youtube or heard about them from some friends, but today I can see these things with the company because I travel to, for example, the United States and I get to know the great b-boys and famous dancers.”

Compagnie Käfig is sharing two pieces with us here in Ann Arbor as part of UMS’s winter season.

The first, “Agwa” is athletic and exuberant; the dancers backflip between plastic cups of water around the stage. Focusing on water, a vital force, the dance is not specified by culture and instead becomes a unifying experience.

The second piece, Correria, meaning “running,” is less celebratory but equally as elemental. It aims to hone in on the chaos and frantic nature of our everyday lives — with movement quite beyond the everyday.

The separate international and cultural influences are seen clearly within Merzouki’s choreographic devices. But the combinations of these dance and movement traditions from around the world, paired with core human themes, create something beyond identification. Matching hip-hop choreography with lyrical music, or spontaneous street dance with conceptual compositions, he asks the audience to reimagine. “(Merzouki) really wants to show that 11 Brazilian dancers choreographed by a French artist can totally work and the show can have a strong impact wherever it is: in Asia, in Australia — we’ve been everywhere with this show really,” Gillet said. “The message is really positive everywhere. It shows that hip-hop dance can be on stage — it’s not only in the streets. The physical aspect … works with every culture. It really shows that dance can be universal and it’s here to break the limits and the boundaries.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

After historic victories, Crisler Center beckons Wolverines prepare for crucial home contests against Wisconsin, MSU

By NEAL ROTHSCHILD Daily Sports Editor

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Junior forward Alex Guptill will miss the Michigan hockey team’s series against Minnesota with an upper-body injury.

‘M’ enters defining series

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recently relinquished their stranglehold on the conference.

Two losses at Wisconsin helped When Mac Bennett walked keep Michigan within six into media availability Tuesday points of Minnesota, opening afternoon, he up a three-team battle with the looked around Badgers for the two invaluable the room at the Michigan at byes in the Big Ten Tournament. pool of reporters need to make sure we get Minnesota up“We and made a for this game,” Bennett said.

Matchup: request.

“They’re going to be ready for us.”

“Don’t ask Minnesota But as much as Bennett and 19-4-5; me about Penn Michigan (6-3-1, 14-7-3) would Michigan State,” the senior 14-7-3 like to forget about Penn State, defenseman said.

Alex Guptill’s body won’t let The Michigan When: Friday him. Though the forward skated 9 P.M. EST, hockey team Saturday 8 Wednesday after suffering an suffered an upset P.M. EST upper-body injury against the at the hands Nittany Lions, Michigan coach Where: of the Nittany Mariucci Red Berenson confirmed that Lions last Arena the junior won’t make the trip. weekend, but Berenson plans to replace TV: BTN (Fri.), it has had little Guptill by moving junior forward FSD (Sat.) time to dwell on Phil Di Giuseppe to the top line the loss. Instead, alongside freshman JT Compher the Wolverines and senior Derek DeBlois. have been busy preparing for Guptill’s scoring prowess their visit to Minneapolis for a will be missed against the crucial two-game series against Gophers, which rank second No. 2 Minnesota. nationally in team defense, The Golden Gophers (8-2- averaging 1.96 goals against.

2 Big Ten, 19-4-5 overall), one Much of that is thanks to of the nation’s top teams, only netminder Adam Wilcox, who Daily Sports Editor

SOCHI 2014

is following a record-setting freshman campaign with an equally stellar sophomore one.

In 27 games this season, he boasts a .930 save percentage and three shutouts.

After surrendering seven goals in two games to Penn State, Michigan’s defensive unit will have its hands full with the Gophers, which rank seventh in the nation in scoring offense.

And focusing on neutralizing only one forward won’t shut down the prolific attack. Seven Minnesota players have found twine at least eight times, led by Seth Ambroz’s 12 tallies.

“They’re an explosive team,” Berenson said. “All three of their forward lines are about equal.”

Both Minnesota and Michigan, college hockey’s winningest programs, posted disappointing results last weekend, but a split or sweep would put the Wolverines in a good position for the remainder of the Big Ten season.

And when the final horn sounds Saturday night, it’ll mark the end of a series one team won’t want to forget.

With its first win in Columbus in 11 years on Tuesday, the Michigan men’s basketball team guaranteed itself a winning record on the road for the Big Ten season. The last time that happened was 1994.

In fact, if the Wolverines (10-2 Big Ten, 18-6 overall) are able to knock off conference bottom feeders Purdue and Illinois over the next few weeks, it will be the team’s best Big Ten record on the road since 1985.

The following season, 1986, was the last time Michigan seized an outright conference championship, and this year’s team has put itself in a position to be the next.

“This is unusual in this league right now to have the road wins that have been coming around,” said Michigan coach John Beilein. “It gives these kids a great deal of confidence.”

After learning from earlyseason road losses to Iowa State and Duke, Michigan has negotiated the remaining portion of its road schedule with startling aplomb. And after beating Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan State and Ohio State, it has emerged from the jungle in first

place. The Wolverines are tied with Michigan State for the top spot, 2.5 games ahead of Iowa, and the biggest games left on the schedule are at Crisler Center.

“It is great to be at the top of this conference,” Beilein said, “but we still got six games to go with some really tough games coming up.”

Michigan will turn its attention toward protecting their home court the next two weeks, hosting No. 21 Wisconsin on Sunday and the ninthranked Spartans the following week. The two games will go a long way in determining the conference champion.

The setup has to appeal to Beilein, who has been very tough to beat at Crisler in recent years.

Michigan’s lone blemish in Ann Arbor this year was a finalpossession loss to then-No. 1 and unbeaten Arizona. The previous two seasons, the first home loss of the season didn’t come until the home finale.

Even the year before, when Michigan lost 10 Big Ten games, the five home losses all came to teams ranked in the top 15.

Since returning home from Columbus early Wednesday morning, Michigan will stay put for two weeks — a far cry from the previous two weeks when the Wolverines played games in five different cities.

In addition to playing at home, Michigan will also benefit from extended rest. The four days before the Badgers (7-5, 20-5) come to town are the most time off the Wolverines have had since January, and

“Jeez, we better have made it to the Final Four last year.”

the week-long break before the Michigan State game will give Beilein’s squad its most rest since December.

When the Wolverines last played Wisconsin, their win in the Kohl Center was their first there this millennium, and the Badgers were ranked No. 3 at the time, perched atop the Big Ten. Since then, the teams have followed opposite trajectories.

Michigan has won five of its last seven to stay at the top of the conference, while Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan’s team has sunk back into the middle of the pack.

However, after losing five of six games during a stretch in January, the Badgers have found their rhythm again. They knocked off Michigan State last week before bringing down Minnesota Thursday night.

A win on Sunday would mark Michigan’s first sweep of Wisconsin since 1999, and it would set up a game the following week that could very well decide the Big Ten regularseason champion.

For a coach who is surprised by very little, that fact is enough to bring wonder to Beilein.

“It’s great to be in this,” Beilein said. “I don’t know if we expected this this year just because we’re watching these two kids (Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr.) play in the NBA right now, and they’re doing really well. And I’m saying, ‘Jeez, we better have made it to the Final Four last year — those were really two good players.’

“When you have that drop off, we didn’t know where it was going to come from, and especially our defense. Where it hasn’t been where it needs to be, it’s getting better. And then we’ve got some kids that have been able to step up.”

SOFTBALL

Alumni in Sochi Underclassmen bring depth for Michigan

By MAX BULTMAN

On Sunday, Michigan alumni Meryl Davis and Charlie White added another tally to the United States’ medal count at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

The two-time world champion ice dancers brought home the bronze medal in record-breaking fashion, making it the pair’s second Olympic medal.

The road to bronze started Saturday, when the U.S. Figure Skating team sat in seventh place, about to miss the final cut. But Davis and White’s short dance performance earned a score of 75.98, putting the United States in the final five on Sunday. The duo also beat defending Canadian gold medalists and training friends Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, who trailed by three points.

Davis and White jumped to first on the scoreboard with their best international mark, 114.34, to earn the bronze medal with 60 total points. Russia claimed gold (75), its first of the 2014 Games, and Canada (65) settled for silver despite the second-place finish for Virtue and Moir.

Max Pacioretty, who played for the Michigan hockey team in 2007-08, showed no signs of physical damage throughout the entirety of his ice time Thursday.

He recorded an assist and a teamleading four shots in the United States’ 7-1 rout of Slovakia.

Outside of the American team, Brian Lebler of Austria was put to the test Thursday night, playing on a line with two NHL players — Michael Grabner of the New York Islanders and Michael Raffl of the Philadelphia Flyers.

Lebler, who played under Michigan coach Red Berenson as recently as the 2009-10 season, recorded two assists and two shots on goal in Austria’s 8-4 loss at the hands of Finland.

He and Team Austria will go against defending gold medalist Canada on Friday.

Carl Hagelin, the former Wolverines’ captain and 2011 graduate, failed to show up on the scoresheet in Team Sweden’s 4-2 win over the Czech Republic, though he recorded two shots on goal and 12:25 of ice time.

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After an appearance in the Women’s College World Series last season, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Michigan’s softball team has plenty of veteran leadership.

What is eye catching, though, is how productive the Michigan at Wolverines’ underclassmen Ragin’ Cajun were in their Invitational season-opening tournament at Matchup: Michigan 3-1 South Florida.

When: Friday Second baseman Abby to Sunday Ramirez was Where: named the Big Lafayette, La. Ten Freshman of the Week after batting .583 and scoring six runs in four games this past weekend, and freshman right-handed pitcher Megan Betsa led the sixth-ranked Wolverines in innings pitched (10) and strikeouts (13) in her first tournament.

Another underclassman, sophomore shortstop Sierra Romero, had a grand slam and nine runs batted in.

The freshmen aren’t just

filling gaps left by departed seniors, either — they’re stepping up into important roles.

Left fielder Kelly Christner pushed hard for playing time in the preseason and was ultimately rewarded by starting the opener against Florida over returning sophomore outfielder Sierra Lawrence.

So when Michigan (3-1) travels to Lafayette, La. for a five-game invitational this weekend, it will do so knowing it has the depth and poise needed to win games, regardless of which players have experience.

“The game doesn’t know if you’re a freshman or a senior,” said Michigan coach Carol Hutchins. “The game only knows how you play it.”

According to Hutchins and Driesenga, the team is focusing on playing elite softball.

The Wolverines will open this weekend’s tournament against Memphis (1-3) on Friday, a game in which they will be heavily favored. The Tigers have mustered just eight runs in four games while giving up 17, including nine in a mercyrule loss to Troy.

But after that game, Michigan can expect a serious challenge from No. 20 Louisiana-

Lafayette. The Wolverines ousted the Ragin’ Cajuns (2-21) in last year’s Super Regional, but junior right-handed pitcher Sara Driesenga insists there won’t be any bad blood — at least from her dugout.

“I think it’s a pretty clean slate,” Driesenga said, smirking.

“We did what we had to do.”

According to Hutchins and Driesenga, the team is focusing less on what to expect from its opponents this weekend and more on playing the type of softball it knows it can play.

The Wolverines scored seven runs against Illinois State in the first half of last Sunday’s doubleheader before crushing Bethune-Cookman, 12-1, to end their tournament.

Ramirez and Romero combined for five hits against

Illinois State, and senior Lyndsay Doyle matched that on her own.

In the circle, Hutchins will rotate between Betsa, Driesenga and junior lefthanded pitcher Haylie Wagner, matching their strengths with their opponent’s weaknesses and doling out innings to suit the pitchers’ needs.

“I tell my pitchers, ‘You’re on the team. You need to be ready to pitch,’ ” Hutchins said.

Michigan’s other games will come against Boston College, a team it beat 14-2 last season, and, for the first time in school history, Central Arkansas.

But behind the Wolverines’ balance of veteran composure and youthful energy, the introduction is shaping up as one that the Bears might want to forget.

Sports

8 — Friday, February 14, 2014

The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

Second-half setback: Huskers top Michigan Wolverines find solace in comeback despite loss

By MAX COHEN Daily Sports Editor

Jordan Hooper drained a 3-pointer from way beyond the arc with ease. The shot by the Nebraska forward with more accolades than Michigan’s entire team put the Cornhuskers up 13 points with 6:48 left. After a tightly contested first half, No. 21 Nebraska fended off the Wolverines one final time, putting its inferior opponent to bed.

Or so it seemed.

Despite the significant deficit at the hands of a ranked opponent which had already handed it a drubbing earlier this season, the Michigan women’s basketball team scrapped, clawed and scraped its way back. Scrums for loose balls became the norm, and the Wolverines sought out physical contact on every opportunity.

But Michigan fell short of pulling off the complete comeback in the 76-68 loss.

The last time the teams met, the Wolverines barely made the Cornhuskers bat an eye in an 84-51 loss in Lincoln

— Michigan’s only Big Ten blowout loss this year in a season in which not much was expected. It could’ve been the same at Crisler Center, except this time, the Wolverines made sure their opponent noticed them.

“We were kind of in a similar situation in their place, and we didn’t know how to respond,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “And we collapsed. … But tonight, we just kept plugging away.”

Nebraska flexed its muscle early in the second half after taking a threepoint lead into the break, extending its advantage to 14 just minutes into the second half.

The Cornhuskers rarely missed, shooting 26-for-44 in the game and the Wolverines didn’t help their cause, sending Nebraska five gifts in the form of turnovers in the first eight minutes of the half. But Michigan battled on.

Junior forward Cyesha Goree seemed to spend more time on the ground than she did standing up. And when she was standing, all she did was score, gather rebounds and deftly dish out assists when double teams engulfed her. Her six assists were a career high.

“We kind of had a chip on our shoulders, so we came out

“Tonight, we just kept plugging away.”

ALEX GALEL/Daily

Junior forward Cyesha Goree finished with 20 points, but the Wolverines couldn’t stop Nebraska’s potent offense,

By ALEXA DETTELBACH Daily Sports Editor

The first time the Michigan women’s basketball team faced Nebraska this season, the Wolverines suffered their second-worst loss under Michigan coach Kim MICHIGAN 68 Barnes NEBRASKA 76 Arico. This time, Barnes Arico wasn’t going to let that happen.

And she didn’t — in the first half, at least.

Michigan’s porous defense, combined with a disappointing start to the second half, led to a 76-68 Wolverines loss to the 21st-ranked Cornhuskers — their fifth loss in seven games.

Like in its last several games, Michigan (6-6 Big Ten, 15-10 overall) was able to run with its opponent during the first 20 minutes of play, but it was the second half that caused the problems.

“I think the first five or six minutes (of the second half) were a struggle, but I think we adjusted,” Barnes Arico said.

“They were able to get out in transition, which is what they did against us the first time at their place, and they scored some easy baskets so we got ourselves in a bit of a hole.”

Following the ugly start to the half, the Wolverines were able to make a run to close the gap to as little as six with free throws from freshman point guard Siera Thompson, but it was too little, too late for Michigan.

After allowing the

Cornhuskers (8-3, 18-5) to shoot 67 percent in the first half, Michigan came out in the second aiming to improve its defense, but the attempts never truly came to fruition.

The Wolverines turned to a man defense to try and slow down Nebraska’s offense, but it didn’t work, as it finished the game shooting 59 percent from the floor, including 18-for21 from the charity stripe.

And, like last time, two-time first-team All Big Ten forward Jordan Hooper dismantled the Wolverines with 23 points and nine rebounds. Hooper was 8-for-10 from the floor.

“She’s a great player,” said junior forward Cyesha Goree. “It was pretty tough guarding her, but we did what we could.”

Coming out of halftime, Michigan turned the ball over during its first possession. Two possessions later, a backcourt violation on junior guard Shannon Smith turned the ball back to the Cornhuskers again.

A three-point play from Emily Cady on the subsequent possession gave Nebraska a ninepoint lead — its biggest lead of the game at that point. Though Michigan cut it to six with under a minute remaining, the Wolverines didn’t score a field goal in the last 4:52 of the game, relying on free throws to close the deficit.

At the heart of Michigan’s struggles was, once again, its defense. After spending the first half of the season outhustling and outrebounding their opponents, the Wolverines

are starting to look like a young, inexperienced team.

In the first half, Michigan’s five offensive rebounds — four from Goree — kept the team in the game despite Nebraska’s hot shooting. But in the second half, the Wolverines’ contested baskets were no longer falling, and even though they were able to grab three more offensive rebounds, they were unable to convert the second-chance opportunities.

“We hit some shots, but there were so many shots we didn’t hit, and they’d hit those shots and score,” Goree said. “If we had gotten more stops, it would’ve been a totally different ball game.”

Like the rest of the team, Goree shined in the first half but went quiet in the second. The junior forward went into halftime with 12 points, six rebounds and four assists. And while her hustle remained present in the second frame, her offense went cold.

Goree didn’t hit a field goal in the second half until 6:52 remained in the game, and by then, the Wolverines were down by 13. She ended the game with 20 points, 10 rebounds and a career-high six assists. Smith added 12 points and six rebounds.

“Cyesha has really grown leaps and bounds, and you saw that tonight,” Barnes Arico said. “I think our biggest challenge now with a young lady like Cyesha is, ‘Hey you’re doing a fabulous job on the offensive end. You’re rebounding, you’re scoring, but now you have to contribute on the defensive end.’

“That’s really our challenge for our team right now.”

playing hard, fighting really hard and never gave up,” Goree said.

The Wolverines didn’t hit a field goal in the final 4:51 of the game, but drives to the rim sent them to the free throw line three times in the final 2:32.

In the final two minutes, Michigan caused three Nebraska turnovers when it was down 10, hardly looking like an inferior team. The Wolverines forced them the way a scrappy team would, taking a hard charge and drawing a tripping foul, never shying away from contact.

In the end, it wasn’t enough.

Michigan cut the lead to six when freshman guard Siera Thompson hit two free throws with 37 seconds left, but that was the closest it would get.

The Wolverines continued to persist, but when junior guard Shannon Smith’s desperation 3-pointer rimmed out with 15 seconds left, Michigan was once again the team without a chance at a victory.

“I think our kids felt better about this game,” Barnes Arico said. “Obviously, you always want to get the victory, but I think they felt better about the outcome than we did the first time we played them.”

This time, superior talent and accolades again won out against a young team. But Nebraska left Crisler Center with a few extra bumps and bruises, and Michigan was just fine with that.

ALEX GALEL/Daily

Junior guard Shannon Smith tallied 12 points and six rebounds in the losing effort to the 21st-ranked Cornhuskers.