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Biology building project to begin

Coleman addresses inclusion concerns

Regents approve host of construction and renovation plans

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LSA seniors Tyrell Collier (left), Darrartu Ali (center) and Jeremy Tyler (right), members of the Black Student Union, sat in solidarity during the University’s Board of Regents meeting Thursday.

At their meeting on Thursday, the University’s Board of Regents unanimously voted to commence a host of construction projects with projected costs of more than $510 million.

The projects span across campus, including the construction of a new 300,000-square-foot Biological Science Building and renovations of the older sections of the Ross School of Business, West Quad Residence Hall and the historic President’s House.

Regents approve construction of a new Biological S cience Building The construction of the Biological Sciences Building — the project that will bring about the biggest change to the landscape of Central Campus — will cost an estimated $261 million. Funding will come from LSA and Office of the Provost resources.

The BSB will be built adjacent to the Life Sciences Institute, on the site of the historic North Hall and the Museums Annex, both of which will be demolished.

The new facility will include new research laboratories, offices, classrooms and vivarium services, and will adopt portions of the four museum collections currently housed in the Ruthven Museums Building.

Additionally, the new BSB will connect to the Life Sciences Institute, See BUILDING, Page 3

GREEK LIFE

IFC restricts type of alcohol allowed Policy shift will prohibit hard liquor at large fraternity events

By YARDAIN AMRON Daily Staff Reporter

Some fraternity parties will now be a little easier on the liver.

In a nearly unanimous vote Wednesday night, the Interfraternity Council amended its Social Environment Management Policy to ban hard liquor at fraternities’ open parties.

The new policy will be effective immediately.

Business senior Michael

Proppe, Central Student Government president, first announced the policy change at the meeting of the University’s Board of Regents Thursday.

“This is a proactive step that Michigan students are taking to improve our safety on campus, and I commend the IFC leadership,” Proppe said.

The new policy comes less than two months into IFC President Tommy Wydra’s first term as the organization’s leader. Proppe said Wydra is getting off to a successful start.

The SEMP amendment applies to Tier IIIA and Tier IIIB parties, known as “open parties,” which are limited to 200 guests, along with the hosting fraternity members.

“Due to the elimination of

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hard liquor at Tier IIIA and IIIB events, students will enjoy a safer social scene at the University of Michigan for years to come,” the IFC stated in a press release.

The policy will not apply to National Pan-Hellenic Council or Multicultural Greek Council parties because SEMP only applies to the IFC and Pan-Hellenic Association.

Wydra said the new policy extends only to open parties and not lower-tier parties because the former tend to be the riskiest, such as those during Welcome Week or on Halloween.

“Many of the Greeks get so much training, whether it’s sober monitor training or alcoSee IFC, Page 3

University President says administration has refocused on increasing diversity

By YARDAIN AMRON and CLAIRE BRYAN Daily Staff Reporters

At Thursday’s meeting of the University’s Board of Regents, University President Mary Sue Coleman opened with a lengthy speech addressing campus diversity, climate and inclusion. As she spoke, members of the Black Student Union sat in the front row with duct tape over their mouths that read “Go Blue!”

In the address, Coleman cited the University’s role in the two 2003 Supreme Court cases addressing affirmative action as one of the proudest moments during her presidency. In Grutter v. Bollinger, the court upheld the University’s consideration of race in admissions as part of a holistic review of each candidate.

“At the time, many people asked why the University was taking on such a divisive issue in such a public way,” Coleman said. “My answer was always the same: It was the right thing to

do. It was a long, difficult struggle, it was hard on many levels, and it was the right thing to do.”

Coleman said the University’s struggle to make progress in increasing diversity is troubling.

She ascribed part of the challenge to the passage of Proposal 2, a 2006 ballot initiative that banned the use of affirmative action in public institutions of higher education, among other areas.

In fall 2006, shortly before Proposal 2 was passed, Black students constituted about seven percent of the undergraduate population. By the fall of 2013, Black undergraduate enrollment had fallen to 4.65 percent.

Hispanic and Native American students also experienced a decline in terms of percentage of the overall undergraduate population during the same period.

Students from the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and some high-school age students from Northwestern High School in Detroit spoke and protested during the public comments section of the meeting.

“We want to call on students on campus to join the movement and to recognize that we have that power because we have no confidence in the administration,” said Kate Stenvig, University alum and national BAMN See INCLUSION, Page 3

CAMPUS LIFE

LSA Student Government hosts alumni in career talks Former students offer advice on how to best utilize a liberal arts degree

By MICHAEL SUGERMAN Daily Staff Reporter

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Engineering graduate student Charles Wyman paints a landscape scene during the “Mochas & Masterpieces” event Thursday in the Union.

HEALTH

‘U’ offers assistance to those fighting seasonal depression Common disorder challenges students during academic year

By ARIANA ASSAF Daily Staff Reporter

Bad weather has a knack for getting people down. But when sad leads to SAD, there’s more that students can do beside counting the days until summer.

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Seasonal affective disorder — known as SAD — is a form of depression that is most prevalent in regions of the country such as the Midwest, where it is particularly cold and dark between midOctober and mid-March.

Though many students tend to experience what is known as “winter blues,” Victoria Hays, associate director at the University’s Counseling and Psychology Services, said being formally diagnosed with SAD does not happen

as frequently.

Often, people who have already experienced some depression come to realize that it worsens in the winter after consulting with a healthcare professional.

“It’s not as common to get someone coming in who’s never had difficulties with depression before and whose first diagnosis is SAD,” Hays said.

Information on the University Health System’s website explains See DEPRESSION, Page 3

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Seeking to “connect, learn, emphasize and unlock,” the LSA Student Government held its inaugural Alumni Connections event Thursday night, bringing in a panel of five LSA alumni to highlight the values of a liberal arts degree.

The panel was sponsored by the LSA Dean’s Young Alumni Council and the LSA Sophomore Initiative, and hosted by LSASG. With underclassmen in mind, the event looked to show students the value of an LSA degree and provide them with the chance to see firsthand the kind of success it can offer.

Business senior Sagar Lathia, LSA-SG president, said the event was everything he hoped it would be. He said the goal was to reassure LSA students that choosing a major is about following passion, not worrying about the future.

“Ever since I was campaigning last year one of the biggest complaints I found was that LSA students love what they are learning, but they are very afraid

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of the applicability of their majors in the future,” he said. “I got to thinking, what could we do to rebrand the LSA degree, or at least change the perspective that students have. It shouldn’t be about fear.”

Roughly 40 students attended Thursday’s forum at the Union, which hosted five LSA alumni, four of whom are currently University graduate students. They talked with current students, taking questions, addressing concerns and offering advice.

LSA sophomore Emma Saraff, a member of the Sophomore Initiative’s advisory board, identified a kind of sophomore limbo, in which students struggle between the “eagerness” of freshman year and the more “intense focus” of juniors and seniors who generally have concrete, long-term academic goals.

With this in mind, she said having alumni speak to the normalcy of this sensation was both necessary and relevant.

First-year medical student Julia Stella, a panelist who graduated from the University with a degree in Neuroscience, spoke to this point, noting the struggle to choose a major is not a bad thing.

“Don’t worry about it,” Stella said. “It’s not the biggest deal in the world if you decide on a certain major and then you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, I want to do something completely different.’”

Law student John Lin, a Central Student Government repre-

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sentative, said choosing a major is far easier when students let their passions guide them rather than picking classes because they potentially look good on a résumé. He added that a liberal arts major is valuable in many professions.

“Being a liberal arts major has such a versatile background and pedagogy, and when you leave this University, it makes you a more well-rounded person,” he said. “We’re multi-dimensional majors and people.”

First-year Business graduate student Neil Tambe, who graduated from the University in 2009 with degrees in political science and organizational studies, highlighted Lin’s words with an anecdote.

“One of my best buds talks about getting reps in things,” Tambe said. “It’s like weightlifting. If you can get reps in something that is a little bit off the beaten path, you can get something out of it that is more than just listening to a lecture and writing a paper on it or taking an exam on it.”

For this reason, first-year Social Work graduate student Kate Balzer said changing a major should not be looked down upon.

“Nothing is permanent,” she said. “Most of us here had some point where we either did switch or thought about switching.

There are a lot of opportunities See LSA, Page 3

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BY MAURA LEVINE

California Polytechnic State University’s Greek system has passed new restrictions on its parties for student safety. The new rules ban kegs and handles of alcohol and also ban parties on weeknights. This may in fact not have the intended effect of protection and restricts student’s freedom.

SPORTS

BY DREW MARON

The new “Guardians of the Galaxy” trailer from Marvel is irresistably enjoyable, conjuring nostalgia for the childhood pleasures of comics and fantasy. The add should give fans optimism that the “Avengers” sequel will continue the fast-paced, action-packed excitement.

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Amid the recent events surrounding University kicker Brendan Gibbons, teammate Taylor Lewan spoke publicly on the topic for the first time and denied his involvement. He was originally alleged to have intimidated the 2009 sexual assault victim.

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Venezuelan government Newly passed Arizona bill dispatches additional troops a setback for gay rights Border areas have been particularly active in protest

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“These units will enable the city to function, so food can get in, so people can go about their normal lives,” Rodriguez said.

“It’s simply meant to restore order.”

Members of the opposition have charged that the government of President Nicolas Maduro is leaning too heavily on the military as well as police and civilian militias to squash opposition to his socialist government.

San Cristobal Vice Mayor Sergio Vergara, a member of the opposition, said the government had already cut off vital services, including public transportation and the Internet, to crack down on what had been peaceful protests against a government of a country that is rich in oil but struggling with inflation above 56 percent and one of the highest homicide rates in the world.

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ways to counter the increasing legality of gay marriage.

Arizona’s voters approved a ban on same-sex marriage as a state constitutional amendment in 2008. It’s one of 29 states with such prohibitions, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Federal judges have recently struck down bans in Utah, Oklahoma and Virginia, but those decisions are under appeal.

Republican Sen. Steve Yarbrough called his proposal a First Amendment issue during the Senate debate.

“This bill is not about allowing discrimination,” Yarbrough said.

“This bill is about preventing discrimination against people who are clearly living out their faith.”

Democrats say it is an outright attack on the rights of gays and lesbians that will reverberate through the economy because businesses and tourists will avoid Arizona like they did after the passage SB1070 in 2010 that cracked down on immigration.

“This bill is about going after the rights of the LGBT community in Arizona,” said Rep. Chad Campbell, the Democratic minority leader. “This is going to be horrible for our economy.”

But Republicans said it was simply an added protection for the faithful in the state who disapprove of gay marriage and want to be able to reject participating.

“Please, I will accept you because you are a child of God, I love you because you are a child of God,” said GOP Rep. Steve Montenegro. “But please don’t ask me to go against my religious beliefs.”

The bill is similar to a proposal last year brought by Yarbrough but vetoed by Brewer. That legislation also would have allowed people or religious groups to sue if they believed they might be subject to a government regulation that infringed on their religious rights. Yarbrough stripped a provision from the bill in hopes Brewer will embrace the new version.

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SAPAC director addresses regents Privacy of sexual misconduct victims the focus of recent discussions, op-ed

By AUSTEN HUFFORD Online Editor

Holly Rider-Milkovich, director of the University’s Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Center, spoke to the University’s Board of Regents Thursday about SAPAC’s role in the community.

In her speech, Rider-Milkovich lauded the University’s decision to keep details of sexual misconduct inquiries private, possibly referring to former kicker Brendan Gibbons’ case, which resulted in his permanent

IFC From Page 1 hol awareness, so we feel they can manage those Tier II parties much more easily,” Wydra said.

“I have absolutely no plans to expand it to Tier II or Tier IIICs.” Proppe said the amendment will help improve safety at the larger parties.

“The nice thing about a Tier II party is you know who is going to be there and so it’s a little bit more of a controlled environ-

INCLUSION From Page 1 organizer.

About 20 BAMN supporters, with signs in hand, filled the room with chants of “Open it up or we’ll shut it down.”

The BSU members present neither participated in the chants nor spoke during the public comments section. LSA senior Tyler Collier, BSU president, said the BSU has a different agenda than the BAMN movement.

“We have a good relationship, but we do want to differentiate the agendas,” Collier said. “We want to achieve the 10 percent demand; we don’t think affirmative action is necessary.”

Coleman also recognized that minority students face difficulties on campus, alluding to several incidents of racial bias, though not pointing to any specific events. In the fall, the University’s chapter of the Theta Xi fraternity was sanctioned by the University for planning a party that many viewed as racialized.

The event’s description made use of gang references, and students who were invited said it parodied Black culture and referred to women in offensive ways.

BUILDING From Page 1 which Ecology Prof. Deborah Goldberg, chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, said would facilitate the shipping and receiving of lab supplies.

After construction is completed, the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology will be transferred into the new space. Both units are currently located in the Edward Henry Kraus Natural Science Building, which was built in 1915.

Goldberg said the Kraus building is no longer capable of supporting contemporary research and the large number of researchers within the departments.

“It is pretty hard to do modern science in a building that is close to a hundred years old,” Goldberg said.

LSA junior Madeline Berschback said the new building will provide a common space for biology majors to collaborate.

“The most exciting part is that all the biology classes will be in the same place and we won’t have to be running from building to building,” she said. “I think the best part of this is it will create a really nice sense of community.”

separation from the University.

“I am also proud that this University has withstood tremendous pressure and not revealed private student concerns and private student information,” Rider-Milkovich said.

“From my national leadership role I believe that it was the right choice to make.”

In January, the Daily reported that Gibbons had been permanently separated from the University in December 2013 for violating the Student Sexual Misconduct Policy in 2009.

Despite national media attention, the University has refused to release information about the case, citing federal privacy laws and University policies.

Experts told the Daily some information, including the outcome of sexual assault proceedings, can legally be released.

Gibbons was never charged

with a crime.

In an op-ed written by RiderMilkovich that was published in The Detroit News Wednesday, she wrote that while transparency in how the University deals with sexual misconduct is important, respect for student privacy takes precedence.

“The unintended chilling consequence of publicly sharing student information may mean fewer reports and less safety for everyone,” Rider-Milkovich wrote.

She also wrote that a report on the University’s handling of instances of sexual misconduct will be released in the fall.

At the meeting, RiderMilkovich discussed how changes in the sexual misconduct policy led to a marked increase in reporting. Following changes in federal guidance, the University changed its policy

to an investigative model under which the University investigates all allegations of student sexual misconduct. An interim policy began in 2011 and the final policy took effect in August.

There were fewer than five allegations of sexual assault or sexual harassment reported yearly to the University in 2009 and 2010. In contrast, there were 68 sexual misconduct allegations reported in 2011 and 75 in 2012, according to RiderMilkovich.

“I am glad that these numbers have risen dramatically,” she said. “These speak to an increase in the effectiveness of our sexual misconduct policy and an increase in the belief among our student body that the University of Michigan has the policies in place to be able to address these issues effectively.”

ment,” Proppe said. “At a Tier III party that’s open to students who are not necessarily a part of the Greek organization, it’s harder to control and hold people accountable.”

Kinesiology junior Elive Likine, a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, better known as Pike, said the policy might do the opposite of its intention.

“I think it’s going to turn into people pre-gaming harder and drinking faster in preparation because they’ll know they won’t be able to have it at the party,”

Likine said. “Some people just don’t like beer. When you prevent something like this, I feel like it will end up blowing up in their own face.”

As for enforcement, Wydra said the Social Responsibility Committee — a group of Greek members who enforce current SEMP policy — would be able to take on the amendment.

“When SRC comes they hit the bathroom, they hit the bar, wherever people are SRC goes and checks,” Wydra said.

“They’re going to be interacting

with guests at these parties and randomly checking three to five guest IDs. As long as there is no hard alcohol, it will be ok.”

Wydra added that he believes the amendment will be accepted without much controversy among members of Greek Life.

“Once every Greek member completely understands the policy they will be on board with it,” Wydra said. “It’s a lot different if the Greeks think we’re taking away something just to take away something rather than doing it with good intentions.”

Beginning in November, members of the BSU reinvigorated discussion of campus climate through the #BBUM campaign, a Twitter movement that allowed Black students to share their experiences on campus.

On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, BSU members protested outside Hill Auditorium, announcing their #7demands initiative, which called on University administrators to respond promptly to several key issues facing progress toward diversity on campus.

In a meeting with BSU leaders on Jan. 24, the University proposed to grant the Trotter Multicultural Center $300,000 for renovations while continuing to look for a space closer to Central Campus for a future building.

After the regents meeting, Collier said BSU representatives will again meet with administrators Friday. He added that he has been pleased with the dialogue with University officials thus far.

Before the public comments section, Regent Shauna Ryder Diggs (D) lauded the BSU students for their work on bring important issues to light.

“I wanted to thank the leadership of the Black Student Union for their leadership role in trying to improve the experience

of all the students on campus,” she said. “That is really the way I view this.”

Later in the meeting, the regents voted to approve the appointment of a new administrative position, associate vice president for enrollment management.

The position was first alluded to by University Provost Martha Pollack in a Jan. 16 e-mail sent to the University community.

In an interview with the Daily on Monday, E.Royster Harper, vice president for student life, said one of the biggest issues is not difficulty finding qualified students, but persuading those students to choose the University.

“They’ve been admitted to other schools that they perceive as more prestigious — Yale, Harvard, Princeton — or the financial aid package, or the merit package that we provide is less competitive than some of the other schools,” Harper said.

The next day, in another interview with Daily, Coleman said the new position would strengthen the connection between the Office of Financial Aid and the Office of Admissions.

“What we would like to do is find a closer alliance between

admissions and financial aid,” Coleman said. “One of the things that we think is very very important is that those positions work closely together because one of the things that may have an impact on students accepting us is how quickly they find out about financial aid or how we package the financial aid. So this enrollment manager will have the ability to look at both of those two essential parts of this student attraction process as well as focus on the recruitment of underrepresented minority students.”

Coleman said the position will be filled after a nationwide search, and added that the committee is “on track” to fill the spot by this fall.

In her address, Coleman said the University’s commitment to diversity will not waver as the campus strives to confront challenges of inclusion and access.

“We have work to do, all of us, together. We need to recognize the societal factors that affect our public institution; we need to work within the law and with respect to a wide variety of opinion and belief,” Coleman said. “But Michigan has long been a place where these hard conversations have led to new ideas and new energy.”

Architecture firm SmithGroupJJR — a firm used frequently by the University — has been chosen to design the project.

The University’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program, which had occupied North Hall for more than half a century, has been relocated to the Chemistry Building. Once construction is complete, the ROTC will move to the current Kinesiology Building, and the School of Kinesiology will be relocated to the Kraus Building.

Plans for the demolition of North Hall and the Museums Annex will be formally proposed later this year as part of the fiveyear plan to complete the project.

Both biology departments are expected to be fully relocated to the new facility by 2019.

Ross additions, renovations approved Following the receipt of a $200 million donation from real estate mogul and University alum Stephen Ross in September, the regents moved ahead with putting the money to use.

Entirely funded by gift funds, including $100 million from the Ross donation, the project will renovate the older portions of the Business School. Plans include exterior finishes to Sam Wyly Hall and the Hill Street Parking Structure, renovations of the Business Administration Executive Dormitory and an addition

to the Kresge Business Administration Library.

The plans also call for the construction of a new, 104,000-square-foot academic building. To open up space for the new building, the Computer and Executive Education Building will be demolished.

Conceived to create a cohesive look for the business complex, the $135 million project will also create additional research offices, classrooms and study spaces, plus larger space for admissions, financial aid and recruiting functions.

President’s House renovations approved The only remaining building from the campus’ original 40 acres, the historic President’s House will soon receive $1.3 million in infrastructure improvements and interior cosmetic upgrades.

The renovation project will replace the flat roof surfaces, two heating, ventilation and airconditioning units, repaint exterior areas, repair wood, masonry and stucco, and renovate three bathrooms and a second floor kitchenette. The fire detection and alarm system will also be replaced.

The building’s last major renovation occurred in 2002, before University President Mary Sue Coleman moved in. During Thursday’s meeting, Tim Slottow, executive vice president and

chief financial officer, said this type of project is best completed when no one is living in the house, making the presidential transition the ideal time to commence the renovation.

The project will be funded by investment proceeds and construction is expected to conclude before University President-elect Mark Schlissel moves to Ann Arbor this summer.

Next major phase in Residence Life Initiative moves forward As renovations at South Quad Residence Hall wrap up this summer, the University will set its sights on West Quad and Cambridge House during a twoyear renovation.

While schematic designs were approved last year, the regents voted Thursday to seek bids for construction on the 370,000-gross-square-foot residence hall that is home to 1,100 students.

At a cost of $114.5 million, the University will convert West Quad’s dining hall into a community and practice space, with dining services relocated across the street to the new Central Campus Dining Center in South Quad. The renovation will also update bathrooms, windows, heating, cooling and plumbing.

Schematic designs were approved last year and construction will be completed by summer 2016.

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DISORDER From Page 1 that SAD is most common in women and in people between 15 and 55 years old.

According to a research report

by John Greden, professor of psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 4 to 6 percent of people have “full-blown” SAD and 10 to 20 percent of Americans exhibit some symptoms. Greden serves as the executive director of the University’s Comprehensive Depression Center.

People suffering from SAD often report feeling sluggish, slow or unmotivated. Other symptoms include drowsiness, weight gain and craving carbohydrates as a way to increase energy.

Hays said SAD is primarily trigged by diminished exposure to sunlight, not cold temperatures.

“Some people are particularly sensitive to changes in the amount of sunlight, so when there’s less sunlight people feel a lot worse,” she said.

She added that the times of year when SAD tends to take hold and then taper off — mid-October and mid-March, respectively — are also high-stress times for students, which can make it hard to pinpoint exactly what contributes to the seasonal change in mood.

Light therapy is the most effective way to combat depression caused by a lack of natural sunlight. At the University, light boxes are available for use in the CAPS Wellness Zone and can also be purchased for personal use.

People who are susceptible to bipolar disorder should refrain from exposing themselves to too

LSA From Page 1 in every field, so if it ends up being that you can’t change, there’s a lot that you can do just because you learned how to learn.”

LSA junior Kendall Johnson, LSA-SG vice president, added

much light late in the day, as this can lead to hypomania or interruptive sleep. Generally, using a light box for 20 minutes in the morning three or four times a week is recommended.

Another common treatment is using a dawn simulator, an alarm clock that mimics the rising sun.

Greden also cited antidepressant medication and exercise as a treatment for SAD. Because limited amounts of sunlight can slow down biological clocks and delay sleep and hormone cycles, a combination of light therapy and prescribed medications can be particularly effective in some cases.

Hays said students who think they might be affected by SAD can go online to see if their symptoms meet the criteria and explore treatment options.

“Some of the initial treatment recommendations can be done without seeing a mental health professional, but you won’t know whether or not you actually have SAD without somebody giving the proper diagnosis.”

Because CAPS is a free service for students, it generally does not diagnose specific mental conditions and therefore does not track numbers of students who report being affected by specific conditions. However, the number one reason students seek assistance at Counseling and Psychological Services is for issues with anxiety.

Depression is second.

The University’s Comprehensive Depression Center is located in the Rachel Upjohn Building at 4250 Plymouth Road. The center can be reached at 1-800-475-6424 or 734936-4400.

that having the alumni panelists from a variety of backgrounds and interests added to the event’s success.

“I think we had a pretty diverse panel of people, especially people who took untraditional pathways and ended up somewhere different than they thought they would before,” Johnson said.

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Standardizing medical dosage The initiative to normalize medicine must be backed by Snyder

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ore than 1.5 million Americans are harmed each year as the direct result of medication errors. Of those, about 7,000 will die from potentially preventable adverse drug effects. The sobering facts are what stand behind the Food and Drug Administration’s recent funding of a program titled “Novel Interventions and Collaborations to Improving the Safe Use of Medications.” As one of the first 10 institutions to take part in this program, the University has begun an initiative to standardize the liquid concentrations of pediatric medications to reduce the frequency of these types of medical errors. This is precisely the kind of frontier innovation the University should continue to strive for. By standardizing liquid concentrations across the state, the incidence of these medical errors will decrease and lives will be saved. The University should be commended for its participation in this potentially life-saving program.

There is a risk of dosing errors when a patient is given medication. Previous initiatives that have reduced the risk of medical errors include computerized ordering of pharmaceuticals and efforts to standardize medical shorthand and abbreviations. The University study will attempt to find a way to prevent errors when pharmacists compound medications.

The FDA’s initiative was recently launched and the standards were published on mipedscompounds.org as part of a statewide campaign to educate patients, physicians, prescribers and pharmacists, supported by a $150,000 grant. The first part of this program will focus on pediatric patient populations since they are especially sensitive due to their small bodies, still-developing physiologies and the proportionately large number of liquid medications they are prescribed that must be compounded. To alleviate this problem, more than 110 different oral liquid medications for pediatric patients across a variety of therapeutic categories will now be given the same standardized concentration.

Given that some pharmacies in Michigan use concentration levels that are up to 30 times higher than those of other pharmacies, this push for standardization is much needed.

Endorsed by the Michigan’s Academy of Physician Assistants, Michigan Health and Hospital Association, Michigan Pharmacist Association, Michigan Osteopathic Association and Michigan State Medical Society, this initiative has received broad medical support from across the state that will no doubt foster meaningful collaboration when the program is implemented statewide.

Notably missing from these official endorsements are any political or legislative bodies working on behalf of the state.

Gov. Rick Snyder, who has tended to focus on access and prevention when formulating medical legislation — with the elimination of taxes on certain medications and the creation of Healthy Michigan Plan — has yet to endorse this initiative since it was first conceived in 2011. While the federal program only in its infancy, the state should make an effort to support this program where it can, when it can.

With the proximate goal of saving the lives of children and the ultimate goal of eliminating preventable medical errors, this initiative — supported by the University, state doctors and the federal government — is worth our full support and that of the state legislature.

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ALLISON LEITCH | VIEWPOINT

Watching what you say It’s likely that the majority of us will go through life without ever seeing a person die.

Most of us will not watch that last breath, see that last look, feel a hand transition from warm to cold or hear a heart rate monitor go from a steady beep to the lifeless flat line. What most of us will hear, however, is someone colloquially using the phrase “I’m going kill myself” or “Kill me now.” I live in a house of 12 twenty-something girls with synced cycles, exam schedules and social lives. The things that we would “kill ourselves” over range from not getting a piece of bacon on a hungover morning to two exams in a 24-hour period to being locked out of our house for, god forbid, 20 minutes.

Believe me, I am guilty of using this phrase in every single inappropriate manner you could imagine. And I don’t know why nobody has told me to shut the hell up yet. It is ignorant, and it is offensive.

According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, 38,364 lives were lost to suicide in the United States in 2010. This means that a suicide occurred every 13.7 minutes, making suicide the 10th-leading cause of death in America.

If you take any other top-10 killer of Americans and treat it the same way people treat this phrase, you would probably receive a well-deserved punch to the face.

Two exams tomorrow? “Ugh, give me cancer.”

No bacon to cure your hangover? “AIDS

me, please.”

Death is not a joke. Depression is not informal. Every time you say “I’m gonna kill myself” in a casual manner, you may be twisting the knife in someone’s depression.

What this doesn’t mean is that things cannot be terrible, and you can’t complain, but it means that lightheartedly threatening to kill yourself is absolutely, always, without a doubt, inappropriate. By doing so, you make light of someone’s disease; and you contribute to the stigma.

Mental health is severely stigmatized in our society. If double texting someone makes you “crazy” in our culture, then imagine the labels someone would get for revealing they are stuck in a dark place. Eighty percent of the people who seek treatment for depression are treated successfully. Society needs to make them proud to be brave enough and strong enough to seek treatment, and to eradicate the shame that comes with this disease.

There is no shame in cancer, heart disease or stroke, and depression and suicidal thoughts should be treated equally.

So the next time you put your first two fingers together and pull that pretend trigger next to your head, think about who may be standing next to you. May it be a suicide survivor, depression warrior or grieving family member, there is no doubt that you are throwing logs into the stigma fire.

Allison Leitch is an LSA senior.

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Updating sexual education

hen I was in fourth grade, I had my first sex education class. I remember learning, first, how birds and fish and other animals reproduced, and feeling utterly confused. Eventually, we learned how humans KATIE reproduced, and STEEN I was still utterly confused (eventually, I pressed my parents into answering my desperate nine-yearold self as I harassed them with questions of, “But what is sex?!”). I remember pads and tampons were mentioned at some point, too. That pretty much concluded my elementary school sex ed.

Middle school was a miserable blur, but I remember learning more about pads and tampons. I remember watching an outdated, overthe-top video on sexual harassment that everyone made fun of.

In high school, I remember studying for a sex ed quiz, scrutinizing diagrams of a penis and a vagina in the hour before health class, tucking them halfway underneath a page in my notebook and hoping that no one would notice me staring down a dick in pre-calc. I remember watching a video about a high school student in Grosse Pointe who couldn’t go to prom because he had sex with an underage girl. I remember feeling bad for him.

That was essentially the extent of my sex ed — endless instructions on how to discretely deal with my bleeding vagina, some unhelpful diagrams and a misleading, blipof-a-lesson on sexual consent.

We never learned about sexual orientation. We never learned about gender and identity. We learned that “no means no,” but we didn’t learn what to do if someone says “no” after saying “yes,” or if someone is too drunk to say “no,” or if silence is necessarily a “yes.”

I can only speak for my own experience, but I’m guessing that sex ed is just as useless nationwide, especially considering that only 20 states require sex and HIV education in public schools. The

majority of American teenagers will graduate high school with minimal knowledge on sex and sexuality, and for a lot of parents, that’s the way they’d prefer it to remain.

Recently in Kansas, a poster that was meant to be used as part of a discussion on sexual activity incensed a number of parents, resulting in a proposed bill that would require Kansas sex ed to run on an opt-in policy as opposed to an opt-out policy. What that means is, rather than parents excusing their children from sex ed, parents would have to indicate their approval for their children to receive sex ed at all — something a lot of teenagers may not be comfortable asking their parents to do. What that means is, a shift to where sexual ignorance — not education — is the norm.

This has lasting, damaging effects on the health of our country (and these effects are disproportionate based on race and socioeconomic status). Among industrialized countries, the United States has the highest teen birth rate, and Americans aged 15 to 24 acquire half of all new Sexually Transmitted Infections.

But spotty or nonexistent sex ed leads to more than just teen pregnancy and STIs. It leads to thousands of teens left confused about issues of gender, sex and identity. It leads to teenage girls unsure of how to acquire birth control, or who to talk to when they think they might be pregnant, or how to talk to their boyfriends about using a condom — or maybe not having sex at all.

It leads to LGBTQ students feeling isolated and unsafe with expressing their sexuality in the presence of their peers. It leads to depression, suicide and homelessness. There’s a reason things like Ellen Page and Michael Sam coming out still makes headlines. And there’s a reason it took Facebook a decade to finally add options for gender beyond “male” and “female.” Our country progresses slowly, but the effects of these progressive changes resonate

with individuals through young adulthood and beyond.

This culture of ignorance and shame can brew into a particularly toxic environment for institutes of higher education. Queerphobia, misogyny and rape culture permeate colleges — in classrooms, at parties, on dimly lit streets and on sun-drenched campus lawns — in many ways, to the extent that it almost goes unnoticed. But ultimately, college is not equally safe for all people. The fact that lists of the most “LGBT friendly” colleges even exist says something about how (un)supportive the average college is of the LGBTQ community. And don’t forget that currently, one out of five women will be sexually assaulted in college, and the vast majority of the perpetrators will get away with it. There are countless incidents I could address of intolerance and injustice on college campuses, but I don’t feel like turning this into a list.

Wednesday, a banner reading “THIS ADMINISTRATION DEFENDS RAPISTS” was hung from Mason Hall. While actions like this call attention to the culture that has infected our campus and many other campuses across the country, we should be looking to fight the problem before it manifests itself at the college level. Ideally, we would have mandated sex education that teaches young people about more than just the biology of the birds and the bees, but about a wide array of topics, including consent, gender and sexual orientation.

But if, like me, you were raised in an environment where sex education was limited to outdated VHS tapes and covert Google searches, please take care to do what the U.S. public education system all too often fails to do, and educate yourself.

Spotty or nonexistent sex ed leads to more than just teen pregnancy and STIs.

— Katie Steen can be reached at katheliz@umich.edu.

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f Australia, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, the United States is the CAITLYN only country to BRENNAN not guarantee paid maternity leave, and we as Americans suffer immensely from this.

The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 — which dictates maternity leave policy in the United States and was put in place by former President Bill Clinton — was meant to help guarantee rights for new and expectant mothers.

The FMLA is arguably one of the most progressive pieces of legislation passed in the United States in regard to health care prior to the Affordable Care Act passed under President Barack Obama. That said, the FMLA only covers women employed at large enough businesses (50 or more people employed within a 75-mile radius) for a long enough period of time (12 consecutive months) — leaving a whopping 40 percent of women uncovered for any sort of maternity leave. That means if you get a new job at a large corporation and become pregnant very quickly thereafter, the corporation is under no obligation to allow you to take time off and come back to work. Or, for example, if you are a seasonal worker, your “time of employment” may seem to need to be longer. For example, let’s say a woman works summers at Landscape Company X, May through September. The landscaping com-

Labor pains pany employs enough people within a certain radius to the effect that she would be covered under FMLA otherwise. She has worked one summer in the past. This year, at the end of September, after working six months, she resumes her fall/ winter job at Retail Business A, to then come back next May and work again at Company X. The woman gets pregnant at the beginning of June. She has been “employed” by Company X over the two years, but has only worked for X from May to September for two years (10 months, total) and one month of the next year. Because this totals only 11 months of actual employment, this woman would not be qualified for maternity leave under FMLA, despite the fact that she has worked for this company multiple times over what would be going on three calendar years.

I can’t be the only person who finds the concept of this lack of guaranteed stability during pregnancy and new motherhood to be terrifying. Defenders (and opponents, for that matter) of FMLA claim the private sector will step in to fill the gaps in coverage left by current policy, but clearly that’s not the case, given that companies such as Walmart and McDonald’s are now regularly, without shame, advising their workers to go on food stamps and seek welfare to cope with costs of living. I can’t imagine other large companies are champing at the bit to provide maternity leave or benefits to women they aren’t legally obligated to cover, either.

The World Health Organization recommends a minimum of six

months of breastfeeding and the International Labor Organization advocates for 14 weeks of paid maternity leave for the health of both mom and baby, but many women are forced to return to work almost immediately after coming home from the hospital; even if their job isn’t at risk, women aren’t guaranteed any pay while away, and that lack of income can put a new family in ruin. As per usual with biases in U.S. law, minorities are disproportionately affected by the loopholes in FMLA, as they are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed as determined by the Act. Not staying home long enough after giving birth is woefully harmful to both mothers and children alike. Most concerning, women who stay home less than six months after giving birth are significantly less likely to breastfeed successfully, and breastfeeding is shown to protect against childhood infections and chronic diseases. It has also been found to possibly prevent obesity (a problem already disproportionately plaguing minority communities).

Americans seem to forget that while not all of us can get pregnant, we all started off as babies at one point. Putting mothers and their children in peril puts every future American in peril. It’s time to step up and take responsibility for the future of our country, starting with basic and easy access to extended, paid maternity leave for all women.

It’s time to step up and take responsibility for the future of our country, starting with paid maternity leave.

— Caitlyn Brennan can be reached at caibre@umich.edu.

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Favorable tidings for ‘Sea Legs’ Student-run production to captivate hearts

By REBECCA GODWIN Daily Arts Writer

One of the last lyrics in Basement Arts’s upcoming show “Sea Legs: A Nautical New Musical” is “Sweet Ann Harbor is Sea Legs: always here for you / No matter A Nautical where you go / New Musical No matter what you do.” While Friday at 7p.m. the lyric refers and Saturday to the tiny fic- at 3p.m. tional town that and 7p.m. plays a central Walgreen role in the pro- Drama Center duction, it’s no Free accident that the town’s name sounds like Ann Arbor. The name of the town — and the sentiment expressed in the lyrics — were purposeful decisions made by School of Music, Theatre & Dance senior Tyler Dean, who wrote the book and lyrics for the show, and Wayne State University senior Michael Tooman, who composed the music.

“My sophomore year, we did a musical called ‘Zombie Farm: A New Musical’ and it tells the story of someone trying to figure out where their home is, which was fitting for an underclassman,” Dean said. “And this one is more about figuring out where your life is going, so one is kind of an entry musical and one is an exit musi-

cal.”

While the show may touch seniors as they prepare to depart from the University, many will find the show to be a comical and wildly entertaining tale. The story revolves around four friends who live in the small New England town of Sweet Ann Harbor and spend their lives dreaming of adventure out at sea. They are faced with more adventure than they can possibly imagine, however, when the refugees of the underwater utopia, Periscopia, converge on their town determined to find the man responsible for destroying their underwater haven.

Creating a production is quite difficult, but the cast and crew of “Sea Legs” was challenged to create a brand new, full-length musical with a cast of 17 (far larger than most Basement Arts shows) with only three weeks to rehearse.

Director and recent SMTD graduate Taylor Norton was more than up to the challenge, though, having directed Dean’s first musical.

“Since I directed ‘Zombie Farm’ for Tyler and Mike in our sophomore year, I had a pretty good idea of the style of their work going into it,” Norton said. “And because we only have a three week rehearsal process to put this show together there isn’t a lot of time for character development and choices and things like that, and so a lot of the choices that affect the show are made in casting.”

Because the show required more performers than past productions, Norton, Dean and the rest of the crew had a large group of actors to choose from.

“I loved callbacks because it was just like this ‘Hunger Games’ arena,” Dean said. “Everybody brought such uniquely different things and it was just so exciting because there were just so many possibilities.”

While the actors brought a spin to the characters Dean created, the characters on their own are already idiosyncratic. Dean enjoyed playing with the names of each character and matching those names to their personalities. What he came up with ranges from the aptly named Red Herrington to the tongue-twisting Cecil Seashells.

Dean also provided the actors with in-depth character sketches to help them to discover and develop their roles. SMTD senior Zoe Kanters, who plays Lieutenant Litzche, found the character descriptions to be particularly helpful in figuring out her character.

“The text is pretty explanatory of who each person is between their songs and the way they interact with everyone,” Kanters said. “And Tyler creates these wonderful character sketches, so without even reading the script you can picture the characters.”

Norton hopes that the show will transcend simple entertainment and touch a few hearts along the way.

“This show is all about starting your own adventure and I think for some graduating seniors, that’s going to really rip some people apart in a good way,” Norton said.

“I mean I am such a sap so I’m going to be weeping at the last number.”

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Drake’s worst behavior

By ALLEN DONNE Daily Arts Writer

On his last album Nothing Was the Same, Aubrey Drake Graham, said he was on his worst behavior, and he has finally held true to that statement.

This past week, the notoriously emotional and soft rapper went on the interview circuit to express himself. It may have been the questions he was asked, but Drake spared no one mercy in his recent interviews. Starting with his thoughts on Macklemore’s text to Kendrick Lamar following the Grammys, Drake told Rolling Stone that “that shit was wack as fuck.” He continued by expressing how “cheap” and “not genuine” the text message was.

While it may be true that Macklemore felt Kendrick’s good kid, m.A.A.d city was the best album of the year, Drake felt every nominee deserved a text from the Seattle rapper. The indication here is that Drake felt his album

Oscar song breakdown

By GREGORY HICKS Daily Arts Writer

Think that the Academy only considers the edgiest, most profound material for awards night?

You might be “happy” to hear otherwise. The 2013 Oscars cast a mighty gloom on awards night with Adele and Paul Epworth’s award-winning “Skyfall,” but no such song compares to 2014’s cheery round of nominees for Best Original Song. Here’s the musical breakdown, in all of its peace, pleasure and passionate liberation.

“Happy” by Pharrell Williams, from “Despicable Me 2” Even after the success of his 2013 productions, Pharrell Williams refuses to hit the brakes and crashes into this latest international chart-topper. The pop-soul groove — a vibe typically channeled by Janelle Monáe and occasionally Bruno Mars nowadays — was written and produced exclusively by Williams; quite the testament to the hit-maker’s ability to churn out a track worthy of many types of award nominations. While the song is deserving of its nomination, the dance-along, clap-along, feelgood track for this animated children’s film proves to be just that: a track targeted at children, likely a

tad too simplified and juvenile to garner a win.

“Ordinary Love” by U2, from “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” Who better to recruit for a “long walk to freedom” than those that so notoriously “walk on?” While U2’s tribute to “Mandela” has the production value of a watered-down Mylo Xyloto track (perhaps resulting from Chris Martin’s writing contribution) it packs a weighted message, nuanced by the companionship between the group and Mandela. The tag-team formed between Bono’s lyricism and Danger Mouse’s melodies bodes well for reeling in an Oscar, as it did with the Golden Globes.

Weighing in on this year’s contenders.

“Let It Go” by Idina Menzel, from “Frozen” Disney’s latest muse, Idina Men-

zel, swept in from Broadway to belt out this lead single for the Oscarnominated film, “Frozen.” The performance is impeccable, driven by its lyrical composition (delivered by a Broadway superstar) and dynamic emotional range, both melodically and lyrically. What might be news to most, however, is that the song’s composers, Robert and Kristen Lopez, wrote the piece specifically for Menzel. The performance alone could single-handedly snag the win for this track.

“The Moon Song” by Karen O, from “Her” Looks as if there is some consistency between the 2013 and 2014 nominations: another Scar-Jo vocal performance blazing a trail.

But wait! Johansson’s film performance of “The Moon Song” isn’t up for the nomination — Karen O’s soundtrack version is. Both, however, feature the rasp-whispered female vocals that lull a listener into “lying on the moon.”

The track is delicate in style, but coarse in every sense of performance-production, which begs the question: Will shoddy recordings, pitchy vocals and disjointed strumming patterns give “The Moon Song” character? Or will this knock the nominee out of the contender’s ring?

ence. Drake’s appreciation for art, however, would never be a part of his music. He elaborated, saying that “Hov (JAY Z) can’t drop bars without at least four art references” and the “whole rap/art world thing is corny.” While this comment wasn’t a shot at JAY Z, this comment seemed oddly specific and alarmingly bold. It appears that Aubrey has finally forgotten about his exes and has come to terms with himself.

When the Rolling Stone magazine finally came out, Drake expressed his frustration with journalism. The cover was supposed to feature Drake. Instead, Rolling Stone ran a memorial issue for Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Though Drake paid his respects to the recently deceased actor, he also tweeted about the evils of the press. He concluded by saying he’s “done doing interviews for magazines” — now, his only goal is to produce great music. Hopefully, this promise pans out.

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was just as good as Kendrick’s.

After all, many fans believed there was a beef between Drake and Kendrick. Some even thought that Drake directed the introductory lyrics from “The Language” toward Lamar (“I don’t know why they been lyin’/ but your shit is not that inspirin’ ”).

In fact, Drake’s confidence seems so built up that he even criticized Kanye West’s new polarizing album Yeezus. The Toronto rapper specifically mentions Kanye’s “Swaghili” line being questionable. As to not seem too bold, Drake did qualify that Kanye is one of the greats.

If not for Kanye, Drake may not be making the music he makes today.

In another instance, Drake spoke his mind about Jay Z’s new content. When visiting the James Turrell Retrospective at LACMA, Drake gave his thoughts about artwork. He claims that Turrell, known for his work with light and space, was a huge visual influ-

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What do Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Lynn Redgrave and Dan Stevens all have in common? Besides being amaz- Hay Fever ingly talented and British, February 20 all four thes- to 23. 8p.m. pians at some Thursdaypoint in Saturday, their careers 2p.m. Sunday starred in Noel Coward’s Lydia high farce Mendelssohn “Hay Fever.” Theatre With a pedi$10-$28 gree like that, it’s no wonder the play was chosen to be a University production.

Noel Coward, known for his directing, acting, songwriting and publishing of more than 50 plays, based “Hay Fever” on the wild weekend parties thrown

by Hartley Manners — a friend and fellow playwright — and his melodramatic actress wife, Laurette Taylor.

The play follows the wacky exploits of the Bliss family, an eccentric bohemian lot living in an English country house.

Without consulting the other family members, each one of the Blisses invites a guest to spend a weekend at the home.

However, things go awry when each family member pairs off with a visitor other than the one they invited.

What ensues is a tidal wave of romantic entanglements, comic misunderstandings and of course, outlandish behavior.

Unique to the University performance, some of Coward’s songs will be added into the show between acts. School of Music, Theatre & Dance senior Alex Madda, serves as the music director for the production and spoke about the preparation going into the performance.

“As music director,” Madda said, “I tested the voice ranges of the singers and worked with the director to select music that best captured the essence of the writing,” she added.

“Also, the actors in the show did a lot of research about the

life of the playwright himself, as his plays really embodied the lives of the people that surrounded him.”

This is perhaps why the play has such a lively, unique essence. “Hay Fever” isn’t just set in the 1920s; in many ways it exemplifies the spirit of that era.

Classic farce guarantees lols.

“This show doesn’t just capture the 1920s through the hair styles, shin length skirts and Charleston music.” Madda said.

“It’s written with a brilliantly wit-filled refinery, mixed with a contemporary cynicism.”

“And I think that was the movement occurring in the ’20s,” Madda said. “People held on to the refined past, while moving towards a more free formed future.”

When asked who her favorite character in the play is, Madda skips right over the biting wit and intellect of the Bliss family and lands on the daft f lapper guest, Jackie.

“I find the character of Jackie the most interesting,” Madda said. “Her dimwitted nature contrasts the intelligent wit provided by every other character. In a play centered around fast-paced comedy, she contributes a refreshing air of stupidity.”

So whether you’re interested in caustic wit akin to that of the “Algonquin Round Table,” or perhaps something more in a satiric comedy of manners, “Hay Fever” has it all and can maybe even teach you a little something about humor.

“We would hope,” Madda said, “that audiences would learn a thing or two about the battle of wit and the power to words. We want them to leave the theatre extremely entertained and overcome by laughter.”

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Proposal claims California must be split into six states to thrive Man says state is too big to be efficient, pushes ballot initiative LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has reached the breaking point, says Tim Draper. The Silicon Valley venture capitalist is pushing a proposal to crack the nation’s most populous state into smaller pieces — six of them.

California has grown so big, so inefficient, it’s essentially ungovernable, according to a ballot initiative that could reach voters as early as November.

It has to go, he says.

“Vast parts of our state are poorly served by a representative government,” according to Draper’s plan, which cleared a key government hurdle this week, part of the process to qualify for the ballot.

California residents “would be better served by six smaller state governments.”

In an interview Thursday, Draper said he has seen a state once regarded as a model slide into decline — many public schools are troubled, transportation, water and other infrastructure systems are overmatched and outdated, spending on prisons has soared.

A group of states could change that, he said, competing and cooperating with each other.

Without change “it will get worse,” he warned. “California is not working.”

No one would dispute that California, home to 38 million people, is full of rivalries and squabbling. Dodgers or Giants.

Tacos or sushi. Where water goes, and how much of it.

But the state has proven reliably resilient against attempts to split it apart, dating to the era of its founding in 1850.

Over the years, proposals have suggested California should be two states, or three, or four.

“It’s certainly fun to talk about,” said Raphael

Sonenshein, executive director of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University, Los Angeles. But “its prospects are nil.”

Even if it were to be approved by voters, Congress would have to endorse the idea of creating six new states — and adding 10 senators to the chamber’s political mix (as with all states, California currently has two).

Congress, under the U.S. Constitution, must approve the creation or division of any states.

“I don’t think anyone is going to give California 12 Senate seats,” Sonenshein said.

Draper, in documents he submitted to the Secretary of State’s Office, recommends dividing California regionally, including establishing a state called Silicon Valley, which would include San Francisco and nearby counties that are home to technology giants like Facebook and Apple.

Los Angeles would become part of the new state of West California, which also would include the coastal cities of Santa Barbara and Ventura. The state’s farming heartland would become Central California. San Diego would be the largest city in the new South California.

Earlier this week, he received approval from the state to begin collecting petition signatures to qualify the proposal for the ballot — he needs about 808,000 by mid-July to make the cut.

It’s also possible the proposal could be delayed until 2016.

Facing a tight deadline to gather signatures and build political momentum, “I want to make sure there is enough time,” Draper said.

The complexities of dividing a state the size of California, by itself among the world’s top 10 economies, would be daunting.

What would become of the California State Water Project, which uses aqueducts and pumping stations to disperse water across the state? If the federal government approves the idea, tax collections and spending by the state would end, and its assets and debts would have to be divided.

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Activists pay respects to protesters killed in clashes with police, in Kiev’s Independence Square, the epicenter of the country’s current unrest. Fierce clashes between police and protesters, some including gunfire, shattered a brief truce in Ukraine’s besieged capital Thursday, killing numerous people.

Over 100 killed in Ukraine protests, president refuses to leave position EU sanctions fail to halt violence, clash in Kiev sees its deadliest day

loyalties between Russia and the West. Parts of the country — mostly in its western cities — are in open revolt against Yanukovych’s central government, while many in eastern Ukraine back the president and favor strong ties with Russia, their former Soviet ruler.

Protesters across the country KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — are also upset over corruption in Protesters advanced on police Ukraine, the lack of democratic lines in the heart of the Ukrainian rights and the country’s ailing capital on Thursday, prompting economy, which just barely government snipers to shoot back avoided bankruptcy with a $15 and kill scores of people in the billion aid infusion from Russia.

Despite the violence, defiant country’s deadliest day since the breakup of the Soviet Union a protesters seemed determined to continue their push for quarter-century ago.

The European Union imposed Yanukovych’s resignation and early sanctions on those deemed presidential and parliamentary responsible for the violence, and elections. People streamed toward three EU foreign ministers held the square Thursday afternoon a long day of talks in Kiev with as other protesters hurled wood, both embattled President Viktor refuse and tires on barricades.

“The price of freedom is too Yanukovych and leaders of the protests seeking his ouster. But high. But Ukrainians are payit’s increasingly unclear whether ing it,” said Viktor Danilyuk, a either side has the will or ability to 30-year-old protester. “We have no choice. The government isn’t compromise.

Yanukovych and the opposition hearing us.”

In an effort to defuse the situprotesters are locked in a battle over the identity of Ukraine, a na- ation, the national parliament late tion of 46 million that has divided Thursday passed a measure that

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E-mail announces international Baseball aiming club teams to play in Ann Arbor to stay consistent BASEBALL

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By BRAD WHIPPLE

Daily Sports Editor

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The beautiful game is finally coming to Ann Arbor.

Thursday afternoon, the International Champions Cup sent an e-mail promoting “The Gods of Soccer” visiting Ann Arbor, among 11 other North American cities.

The International Champions Cup pits some of the world’s elite clubs in an elimination tournament. This year, the competition features Real Madrid, Manchester United, Inter Milan, A.C. Milan, Olympiacos, Manchester City, AS Roma and Liverpool FC. Though the e-mail did not confirm the clubs or venue in Ann Arbor, it coincides with a Jan 31 report that Manchester United and Real Madrid will meet Aug. 2 at Michigan Stadium. Currently, the International Champions Cup website lists a game between them at a venue and time “to be determined.”

MLive reported Jan. 31 that the Athletic Department “has engaged in discussions about future events” at the Big House.

Real Madrid, which won the inaugural tournament last year, boasts 32 La Liga titles. Manchester United has finished atop the English Premier League 13 times since its foundation in 1992.

The two clubs feature some of soccer’s elite players, including Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale of Los Blancos, the Spanish team’s nickname, and Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney of The Red Devils.

Readying the Big House for soccer — if that is where the match is held — won’t come without its share of complications.

Per FIFA,

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The Big House could play host to Real Madrid and Manchester United this summer according to an e-mail on Thursday.

international soccer’s governing body, a regulation pitch must be between 70 and 80 yards wide for international matches, but a college football field is just 53 yards across. Tournament officials could either erect an elevated platform to provide the necessary width or, because the game is essentially preseason exhibition for both clubs, accept playing with non-regulation dimensions.

Additionally, Michigan Stadium uses an artificial surface, which has been criticized as being sub-optimal for soccer.

When the United States Men’s National Team played Panama

at CenturyLink Field in Seattle last June, the U.S. Soccer Federation installed a temporary layer of grass over the artificial turf.

It is unclear whether the International Champions Cup will do the same.

The nation’s largest American football stadium is no stranger to non-football events. In 2010, it hosted Michigan and Michigan State in the Big Chill at the Big House, setting the record for attendance at a hockey game.

On New Year’s Day this year, the 2014 Winter Classic at Michigan Stadium drew more than 100,000 fans.

Even if hosted at the Big

House, the Real MadridManchester United matchup won’t approach the attendance mark for soccer, which FIFA recognizes as 173,850 at the 1950 World Cup Final in Rio De Janeiro. But it could top the list of attendance at a soccer game in the United States, which stands at 101,799 for the final of the 1984 Summer Olympics between France and Brazil.

Michigan Stadium officially seats 109,901 for football games.

And after spending the summer watching the World Cup in Brazil, fútbol fans can turn their eyes toward Ann Arbor and two of the world’s most storied clubs.

The Michigan baseball program is built on consistency, and according to coach Erik Bakich, “consistency leads to success.”

It’s why even though Bakich knows his squad needs some adjustments, he isn’t going out of his way to make them. Rather, his team needs to continue doing what it’s doing.

This Friday, Michigan (1-2-1) returns to the Lone Star State, after playing in the Texas State Invitational last weekend, to compete against Houston (4-0) in a three-game series.

Bakich acknowledges the Cougars’ pitching this weekend will be far above what they saw with their last three opponents, and he says his team is motivated and ready to face the challenge.

He called Houston a “postseason team,” a title that might not be too far-fetched. The Cougars are coming off their first 30-pluswin season since 2008, and last weekend they recorded three shutouts against Nicholls State.

Left-handed pitcher Jared West allowed only one hit through seven innings Sunday, and earned ACC Pitcher of the Week.

To prepare, the Wolverines have continued playing indoor scrimmages and Bakich saw high energy, confidence and motivation in the three-inning games played Tuesday and Wednesday. The dynamics of the team’s scrimmages haven’t changed, and that lends itself to Bakich’s emphasis on routine.

Part of Michigan’s routine is the team’s debriefing, when after each game the coaching staff compares notes and discusses

what areas need to be tweaked.

One thought that stuck with Bakich was his bullpen. He doesn’t think the pitchers’ youth cost the team its early leads this weekend, but rather attributes it to overextension of the pitchers in general. Bakich wanted to use senior left-handed pitcher Logan McAnallen throughout the weekend, but had to use him for relief over four-innings Friday, his only time on the mound.

For the Wolverines to sit comfortably on a lead, they will need a pitcher who can go deep in the game and minimize the pitch count. The answer for Michigan is right-handed pitcher Ben Ballantine. the senior pitched seven innings and allowed zero runs in the Wolverines’ 8-2 win over Air Force Saturday. One inning, he needed just three pitches for three outs. With such efficiency, it wouldn’t be surprising to see Ballantine go deep in his Sunday start.

Aside from getting starters to make an impact deeper in the game, Bakich wants to see quality pitching that forces contact.

Bakich knows the jitters that come with opening weekend can lead to sloppy play, and that is why he preaches consistency as the key to success — he doesn’t want to jump to conclusions. And now in week two, with more to be thrown Michigan’s way, he expects the team’s nerves to cool.

If the Wolverines hope to drive in runs and be able to sit on a lead, it is a matter of keeping their pace consistent throughout the entire game and drive away thoughts of the end result.

“You can’t look ahead,” Bakich said. “We’re talking about playing pitch-to-pitch.”

‘M’ to face test in Blue Jays Bernstein looks to claim win No. 300 this weekend WOMEN’S TENNIS

By MINH DOAN Daily Sports Writer

By JOHN KOPKO Daily Sports Writer

Michigan women’s tennis coach Ronni Bernstein is on the brink of a major career milestone, but it wasn’t until Western recently that she was aware Michigan at of it. Bernstein Michigan has won 299 tennis match- Matchup: Western es as a coach, Michigan 8-2; and Saturday’s Michigan 5-2 match against When: Western Saturday Michigan will 6 P.M. be the WolverWhere: ines’ first shot Varsity at giving her Tennis Center No. 300.

“I didn’t even know I was close to that,” Bernstein said. “It means I’ve coached a lot of years, and a lot of great players. It takes the players more than me.”

Bernstein’s decision to become a tennis coach has its roots in Miami. As a college tennis player, Bernstein became a centerpiece in doubles and singles for the University of Miami, where during her fouryear career she was a fourtime ITA All-American in both singles and doubles.

As a sophomore she played her way to both an ITA Indoor doubles championship and an NCAA Outdoor championship, ending the season, 29-0. In 1988, she was named NCAA Senior Player of the year and reached the doubles championship match and the singles semifinals match.

“Looking back, that was most memorable for me, being in college and playing tennis,” Bernstein said. “Just how (my coach at Miami) made us better as a team, I wanted to be a part of that moving forward, and being able to work with kids who hopefully have as great an experience as I had.”

After finishing her illustrious

career at Miami, Bernstein took her talents to the professional level. She played two years on the pro tour, peaking at a doubles rank of 30th in the world. But in 1990 Bernstein went back to college tennis to become an assistant coach at Arizona State.

In 1997, Bernstein became head coach for Florida International University in Miami for 10 years. In the last three years of her time at FIU, she led the Panthers to three consecutive first-place Sun Belt finishes, and three NCAA appearances.

In 2007, Michigan came calling and Bernstein relocated to Ann Arbor to build up a tennis program that had been struggling to improve.

“The culture that she has brought here is incredible,” said junior Emina Betkas. “She has turned this team around from being sort of average in the Big Ten, and has made (us) a contender nationally.”

In both of Bernstein’s first two seasons at the helm, the team finished second in the Big Ten and earned a ticket to the NCAA Tournament. Since 2009, the Wolverines have won four consecutive Big Ten championships and made four consecutive trips to the Sweet 16.

When all is said and done in Bernstein’s career she will have amassed an impressive number of wins, conference championships and accolades. However, the numbers are not the most important thing for her.

“So many people have sat in my office and I’ve been on the court with (them),” she said.

“Throughout the years it’s been a lot of wins, but I really credit the players that have come through.”

Added Betkas: “Her office is always going to be open, and no matter how your day is going she will always be there to talk to you. Just the way she is and how much she cares about us, and how much she is willing to help everyone no matter what is incredible.”

Bernstein and her team have prepared for the match against Western Michigan just like any other match. The number 300 might not even cross Bernstein’s mind when the Wolverines step out on the court Saturday against the Broncos. She will be on the bench, urging on her players, trying to recreate the experience for them that she had in Miami.

“We treat every match like it’s a big match, so when Western comes in we will be ready to go,” Bernstein said.

Michigan enters the match with a 5-2 record following a win against Notre Dame last weekend and the NCAA tournament still on its mind.

The Sweet 16 has been Michigan’s kryptonite four years in a row.

With a sour taste still in her mouth, it’s fitting that Bernstein isn’t satisfied with sweets.

“I am not a dessert sugar person,” she said. “If you can give me a salt, a bag of chips or a box of popcorn, I’m good.”

As Bernstein continues to rack up wins and build relationships on and off the court, Michigan tennis is in good hands.

“I want to keep this thing rolling,” Bernstein said. “I think there has been a steady, steady improvement with the program and that we have brought it to a pretty good level. I’d like to take it to the next step.”

“The culture that she has brought here is incredible.”

With sophomore midfielder Kyle Jackson’s goal in overtime against Detroit Wednesday night, confidence levels reached an alltime high for the Michigan men’s lacrosse team after a 14-13 win.

But just three days later, a huge challenge looms large in Division I powerhouse No. 7 Johns Hopkins as the Wolverines (2-1) will travel to Baltimore to take on the Blue Jays at Homewood Field.

“Growing up watching lacrosse, pretty much all the ones you saw were on Homewood Field,” said junior attacker David McCormack on the athletic department’s website. “To be a part of that and play on that field and play a storied program like Hopkins is pretty awesome.”

After scoring a program-high 20 goals against Mercer and winning an overtime thriller against in-state rival Detroit, Michigan will have to change gears when it takes on a much tougher opponent in Johns Hopkins (2-0) Saturday afternoon.

“This is a program that, as our program grows for us, (Johns Hopkins) is a benchmark program,” said Michigan coach John Paul on WTKA Radio Tuesday morning. “We’ll know where we are when we’re competing with them year in, year out.”

Though in 2013, the nine-time NCAA champion Blue Jays fell vastly below expectations as the team went 9-5 and didn’t make the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 41 years.

This season, Johns Hopkins opened up its campaign by beating both Towson and Ohio State. The Blue Jays needed three overtimes to beat the Buckeyes, while they beat Towson, 15-8, in regulation.

Michigan will meet Johns Hopkins for the second time in its history after the Wolverines lost 17-8 at Homewood Field last year.

Johns Hopkins’ offense is led by the three-headed attack of Brandon Benn, Wells Stanwick and Ryan Brown, who have combined for 14 goals and 14 assists in the Blue Jays’ first two games.

Johns Hopkins will also count on faceoff man Drew Kennedy to get them possessions. Kennedy has a faceoff winning percentage of 74 percent and will provide tough competition for Michigan sophomore faceoff man Brad Lott, who played in just his first game against Detroit. Lott was 22 of 30 from the X. For the Wolverines to have a chance at winning the game, Lott will have to outduel Kennedy in the faceoff circle.

“Brad had an amazing game last night, but Hopkins is a much different challenge on faceoffs.”

Paul said. “I’m looking forward to see how Brad responds to it.”

The Blue Jay defense will be vastly different than the defense that was third in the nation in scoring defense last season. Gone is William C. Schmeisser Award winner — given to the nation’s top defensemen — Tucker Durkin and goaltender Pierce Bassett, who was third in the country in save percentage last season.

This season, the Blue Jays will rely on goaltender Eric Schneider to defend the cage. He appeared in eight games last season, including

a game against Michigan, in which he had five saves.

Attackman Ian King, who hopes to capitalize on Schneider’s inexperience, leads the team with eight goals. Beside the freshman, the Wolverines have received a dearth of scoring from many other players as well. Overall, 12 Michigan players have found the back of the net in the three games played.

“This offense can score goals, if we get the ball we will score goals,” Paul said. “I’m not concerned about scoring goals as I am getting possessions.”

Paul also mentioned that attackmen Peter Kraus and Will Meter may see their first action of the season after being held out the first three games of the season due to injuries.

One of the most important goals this season was Jackson’s goal to get the record-breaking win over Detroit. The goal was a huge step for the progression of the lacrosse program at Michigan.

But against NCAA royalty in Johns Hopkins, it will take not only goals, but also an all-around great, if not perfect game, to dethrone the Blue Jays.

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Sophomore midfielder Kyle Jackson looks to stay hot after his goal Wednesday.

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By JEREMY SUMMITT Daily Sports Editor

Four days after the Michigan hockey team suffered an embarrassing 4-0 defeat at Penn State on Feb. 7, all senior captain Mac Bennett had to say was, “we’re moving forward.”

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They’ve moved When: Friday 6:30 P.M. backward, Saturday actually.

7 P.M. In three straight losses, Where: Yost Ice Arena Michigan’s Achilles’ heel TV/Radio: has been BTN its inability to bury scoring chances. It’s been the same storyline all season — it creates those chances and often outshoots opponents, but the puck always refuses to hit twine.

“The only reason we’re with a winning record is because of our defensive game,” said Michigan coach Red Berenson. “Our goalies, whether it’s our penalty killing, our goals against, that’s the only reason we’re surviving.”

As the Big Ten title race heats up, the Nittany Lions (1-10-1, 5-192) come to Yost Ice Arena this weekend for a two-game series, and the Wolverines can’t afford another setback. They need to move forward, and quickly.

Michigan sits uncomfortably in a third place tie with Ohio State, while Minnesota and Wisconsin rest ahead of them in first and second, respectively.

However, the Wolverines still have eight games to play, and the others have just six left on their conference slate. Heading into the final stretch of the season, with a logjam in the middle of the standings, those two games

By ALEXA DETTELBACH Daily Sports Editor

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Junior defenseman Mike Chiasson will get a chance to start in place of Andrew Sinelli and Michael Downing on Friday.

could make all the difference.

“Best case scenario, you mathematically find a way to get in the top two,” Berenson said.

“But you have to do it by really playing well, and it starts on Friday night.”

As simple as that sounds, Michigan hasn’t been in a groove lately, and even against a lowly Penn State team, it won’t get any easier. The Nittany Lions will look to play the role of conference spoiler for the rest of the season, and after getting the best of the Wolverines in Happy Valley, confidence shouldn’t be an issue this weekend.

When Michigan was shutout against Penn State nearly two weeks ago, the Nittany Lions were looking for their first conference win in 10 tries. They looked desperate, and that’s because they were. Three firstperiod goals were too much for the Wolverines to overcome, resulting in their most surprising, and probably most frustrating, loss of the season.

“They don’t have the pressure, maybe, that we feel,” Berenson said. “We have to win and finish in the top two in the conference,

SOFTBALL

Softball tests hot start in Florida

By JUSTIN MEYER Daily Sports Writer

The beginning of the season for any talented and highly ranked team will have unforeseen challenges and missteps.

For the No. 7 Michigan softball team, though, the first third of the season is a frenzied blitz.

Six tournaments in six weekends, thousands of miles of travel and top competition await the Wolverines each preseason. The team heads into the halfway point of the grueling stretch this weekend as it travels to Boca Raton, Fla. to face Kent State, Pittsburgh, Florida Atlantic and No. 5 Kentucky at the Florida Atlantic Kickoff.

“Only the tough go to Michigan,” said Michigan coach Carol Hutchins. “Everybody else goes somewhere warm.”

The travel burden hasn’t fazed Michigan (7-2) thus far. Instead, the Wolverines have beaten a pair of ranked teams and scored 65 runs in their first nine games.

“Being locked in Oosterbaan for practice,” said senior centerfielder Lyndsay Doyle, “it’s always exciting to get on dirt and big blue skies and just play ball.”

Doyle, the leadoff hitter for Michigan, is currently in one of the best hitting stretches of her career with a .444 batting average, 16 hits and a nine-game hitting streak. The first four hitters in the batting order have also performed well thus far and have provided a remarkable stability by starting every game of the season.

Hutchins has continued to rotate the lower half of the batting order, particularly in response to the Wolverines’ tendency to strand runners on base. Outside of the top four hitters, the team is just 3-for-28 on the season with runners in scoring position.

Against Kentucky, Michigan will face top-five competition for the second time this season, but will be looking for a much different result. On opening weekend, a late-inning collapse against cur-

rent No. 1 Florida cost the Wolverines a game they controlled.

The Wildcats (10-0) are off to the best start in program history and feature a dangerous hitter in Griffin Joiner. The catcher is batting .556 on the season and owns a 1.296 slugging percentage to go along with six home runs.

Michigan also has power at the plate, though, with sophomore shortstop Sierra Romero hitting .536, two grand slams and 17 RBI despite being intentionally walked frequently.

Romero was given co-Big Ten Player of the Week honors after a strong performance last weekend, and freshman pitcher Megan Betsa received Freshman of the Week recognition.

“It’s hard coming in as a freshman,” Doyle said. “They’ve all done really well, and that’s what we need. It doesn’t matter if you’re a freshman or a senior, if you’re playing on the field, we need you to do your part.”

The pitching staff has also been the subject of Hutchins’ continual toying this season. Junior Haylie Wagner, junior Sara Driesenga and Betsa give the Wolverines a fearsome rotation with experience and talent, but Hutchins has not been satisfied yet with the results.

Instead, Hutchins said that Driesenga needs to stay ahead in the count and that Betsa is still giving up too many free bases.

The rotation has been unpredictable thus far, with a few complete games registered and the rest splitting time. Michigan will need all three pitchers in top form this weekend if it hopes to complete its first undefeated tournament of the season.

The offense has come in bunches, but the Wolverines have yet to string together the kind of tournament they are looking for with the depth and experience of this team. Facing a middling field and one strong opponent in Kentucky, Michigan won’t be happy returning after anything less than an undefeated weekend.

and so on. We want to make the NCAA tournament. They may not have some of those pressures, so they’re just playing hard every night.”

That’s not to say Michigan isn’t playing hard. If it wasn’t, the scoring opportunities wouldn’t be there.

It wouldn’t be ranked 10th, and the team’s goaltending wouldn’t compare with the best in the country. With Nagelvoort and Racine splitting time in the crease, they’ve combined for a 2.46 goals against average and a .924 save percentage.

But the defensive pairings in front of whichever goaltender receives the starting nod will look a little different Friday. The Wolverines will be without two starting defensemen — freshman Michael Downing and junior Andrew Sinelli — after both were suspended for one game by the NCAA for illegal hits in last Saturday’s game at Minnesota.

Berenson said junior Mike Chiasson will fill in one spot, while freshman Kevin Lohan will earn the other starting role.

Friday will mark Lohan’s first time in the lineup since sustain-

ing a torn lateral meniscus on Nov. 1 against Michigan Tech.

“It’ll be an opportunity for Chiasson,” Berenson said. “But it’s also good to get size in our lineup too with a kid like Lohan.”

With some tinkering inevitable on the defensive side in the midst of two suspensions, the forward lines will return back to normal when junior forward Alex Guptill makes his return to the lineup Friday night. He’ll rejoin freshman JT Compher and junior Derek DeBlois on the first line after sustaining an upper-body injury in the shutout loss to Penn State.

With the injury bug fully cured, this weekend is as good as any to bounce back from a losing streak. But as Berenson said, Michigan is just surviving.

With a 4-5-1 record in their last 10 games, the Wolverines are quietly limping toward the Big Ten’s finish line.

Two wins against an inferior opponent, at least on paper, are expected. That’s why a successful weekend might not be a huge step forward, but rather a platform to propel a late-season surge.

It’s been a rollercoaster of a season for the Michigan women’s basketball team.

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Center After jumpTV/Radio: ing out to an BTN unexpectedly impressive 13-5 start, Michigan dropped five of seven, struggling with defense and failing to connect on longrange jumpers that had guided it to the top of the Big Ten. But the Wolverines have managed to bounce back by stringing two wins together for the first time since Jan. 18 with two more games to play before the Big Ten Tournament.

And first up, Michigan has its last home game of the season Saturday, facing Iowa (8-5, 20-7) in a matinée. It’s the team’s first matchup with the Hawkeyes this season.

Unfortunately for the Wolverines, they haven’t had the same success at home as they have on the road. Posting a measly 6-7 record compared to their more impressive 9-1-road record.

But Michigan has one last chance to right the ship at Crisler Center and send its seniors out in fashion for the team’s senior day.

To do so, the Wolverines will need to slow down a hot-handed Iowa team. The Hawkeyes have notched impressive wins over then-ranked No. 14 Dayton in November, then-No. 22 Syracuse

in December and then-No. 9 Penn State at Happy Valley in February.

Iowa’s success has stemmed from its offense where it sits first in the conference scoring offense and second in field goal percentage, and five players averaging double digits to thank for it.

Leading their streaking offense is guard Samantha Logic and center Bethany Doolittle, who average 14.3 points and 14.1 points, respectively. Logic also averages a conference-best 7.5 assists per game.

The Hawkeyes sit in third place in the conference and will fight to get into the top two in order to earn two byes in the conference tournament in two weeks.

If Michigan continues to commit defensive lapses, like it has recently during its five losses, it will struggle against Iowa. Most notably it’s the Wolverines’ second-half slips that led to their demise. But against the Hoosiers, it was Michigan’s 44-point second half, after being down by six at halftime that gave it the win.

The Wolverines will have to try and replicate that new-found second-half success against the red-hot Hawkeyes — who average 79.4 points per game. In doing so, junior forward Cyesha Goree will need to continue offensive ways as of late, after scoring 40 points in her last two games.

Freshman point guard Siera Thompson has been a sensation from beyond the arc for most of the season and the Wolverines will rely on her finding a groove on the court early and often.

Note: Junior forward Nicole Elmblad was named to the Capital One Academic All-America second team Thursday. As a biopsychology, cognition and neuroscience major the captain sports a 3.95 GPA. She is only the second Wolverine in program history to earn Academic All-American honors.

Chance to sweep Spartans

By DANIEL FELDMAN Daily Sports Writer

February 12, 2013.

That was the last time the Michigan Michigan men’s basketState at ball team lost Michigan back-to-back games. Since Matchup: that fateful Michigan day, when state 22-5; the Spartans Michigan 18-7 clobbered When: Sunday the Wolver- 12 P.M. ines, 75-52, Where: Crisler Michigan Center has avoided TV/Radio: the same fate CBS nine times.

If the 20th-ranked Wolverines plan to push that streak to 10, it’ll come against that same Michigan State team Sunday.

After playing six games in the span of 17 days starting Jan. 30, Michigan is coming off its longest break since playing every Saturday with no weekday games from the seventh to the 28th of December. And following a tough loss this past Sunday to Wisconsin, the respite was welcomed.

“It’s just time to rest,” said redshirt junior forward Jon Horford on Sunday, “especially for the high-minute guys. We can focus on the next opponent and collect ourselves and just get ready for a push.”

Added Michigan coach John Beilein: “When you come out of (playing games so frequently) we try to get some rest. But it is good for us to be able to rest a little bit, be able to get back in the gym and practice.”

After it appeared that Michigan would fall a game behind Michigan State in the Big Ten standings following its game Sunday, Michigan ultimately remained in a firstplace tie after No. 13 Michigan State (11-3 Big Ten, 22-5 overall) fell to Nebraska at home.

The game marked the first game back for Spartan shooting

guard Keith Appling, who had missed the previous four games due to a lingering wrist injury.

Despite the four-game absence to heal the injury, Appling was a non-factor in the loss. Playing 19 minutes, the senior attempted just two shots and recorded two points as Michigan State shot a putrid 34 percent from the field.

After the game, Spartan coach Tom Izzo said he was considering “shutting him down” for the remainder of the regular season. However, on Thursday against Purdue, Appling was on the court, albeit for 25 minutes.

Though it appears Appling will be available in some capacity Sunday as well, what is yet to be determined is the status of forward Branden Dawson. After missing his eighth straight game against Purdue, speculation remains that the junior will be available against Michigan, even in just a limited role.

But if that Spartan duo isn’t at 100 percent come Sunday, Michigan State will be a lot healthier than the last time the Wolverines (10-3, 18-7) faced them.

That time around, forward Adreian Payne was out for his fifth of seven games due to a sprained foot.

Since returning, the senior has averaged 18 points and 6.8 rebounds.

With the Spartans’ health improving, having a week off to prepare for the interior battle to come could prove pivotal. Especially after the play of Wisconsin forward Frank Kaminsky, who had 25 points and 11 rebounds

on Sunday.

And with solo possession of first place in the Big Ten and a potential season sweep on the line for Michigan, the in-state rivalry means even more than usual with the regular season approaching its end.

“We’re aware of the standings, but we’re not going to put a lot of emphasis on it,” said sophomore guard Nik Stauskas on Sunday. “We’re just going to take it one game at a time and next up we have Michigan State, and obviously they’re our rival so we’re going to be looking forward to that one.”

“We’re aware of the standings, but we’re not going to place a lot of emphasis on it.”

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Sophomore guard Nik Stauskas had a team-high 19 points in Michigan’s 80-75 win over the Spartans earlier this year.