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Despite drop in sales, new ticket policy commended Ticketing system that rewards loyal fans receives positive reviews from students

By MAYA KALMAN Daily Staff Reporter

With two home games completed in the 2014 football season, student opinion regarding this season’s new ticketing policy is positive, with many hoping that it remains the same in the coming years.

The University’s new student football seating policy, which changed the way in which seats are assigned, was developed in an effort to enhance the environment in Michigan Stadium by encouraging attendance and early arrival to games in response to low attendance at kickoff. The new plan also intends to improve the student experience by making it easier for students to sit with their friends at games.

The changed policy features an “attendance-driven reserved seating plan.” In this plan, students are assigned seats based on the number of points they have earned through game attendance during the previous season.

For the 2014 season, seats were determined through a combination of class year and attendance in an effort to be fair to upperclassmen. For the 2015 season, however, seats will be determined solely based on attendance points from 2014.

This restructuring comes at a time when the Athletic Department is struggling to attract a historically dedicated student fan base to this season’s games. Early estimates from the department predicted 8,000 fewer student packages being sold in 2014 compared to 2013 — a 40-percent drop in student purchases.

Michigan Stadium’s streak of 252 straight games with more than 100,000 fans in attendance was put in jeopardy Saturday, with an announced crowd of 102,824 that was See TICKETS, Page 2A

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Tyler Paxton discusses his experince with his startup at the Entrepalooza Symposium festival in the Michigan League Friday.

Entrepreneurial event encourages innovation Panels discuss creativity in the workplace

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An MBA student in a bright yellow button-down smiled as he asked an audience of business and engineering students,

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Pharmacy dean talks research financing New leader recounts difficulties in drug testing and overcoming corporate hurdles

By JOEL GOLDSTEIN Daily Staff Reporter

Pharmacy Dean James Dalton spoke at the Rackham Amphitheatre Friday, addressing the College of Pharmacy Graduate Student Organization on the process of taking a new drug from a research lab to a patient.

The College of Pharmacy Graduate Student Organization was created this year to increase dialogue between departments of the college.

During his presentation, Dalton, who became dean of the college on Sept. 1, spoke of the hurdles he faced trying to take his drug from labs at the University of Tennessee and Ohio State University to the American patent offices and the FDA. He described his experiences with getting funding for research as well as the See PHARMACY, Page 2A

“How many of you want to start businesses?”

Dozens of hands shot up.

But the listeners’ hands didn’t budge for the next question: “How many of you know how to start it?”

How to start a business and earn that coveted title of “innovator” was the central topic of the Entrepalooza Symposium Friday, which included a keynote address and three

unique panel sessions. To cap the day’s events, “Lunch and Learn” gathered University students and area CEOs, company founders and leaders of entrepreneurship activity at the University.

Venture capitalists, lawyers, startup founders, members of the University’s entrepreneurial community and those from the Michigan business community spoke and attended the

half-day symposium, which was hosted in the Michigan League.

Nkem Nwankwo, co-president of the Entrepreneur & Venture Club, which helped organize Entrepalooza, said the symposium offered a space for business students like himself to see how they can enter the startup world without an engineering background. He See INNOVATION, Page 2A

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A2 City Council to discuss increase in taxicab metering Approval slated to raise flag drop price by $7

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Alum discusses experience with tribal epidemiology Speaker gives career advice to graduate students

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University alum Aley Joseph spoke to Public Health students Friday about epidemiol-

ogy as part of the school’s alumni speaker series.

Sponsored by the school’s Career Development Office, the talk also gave students with career advice, and used an interactive format to engage students.

Joseph, who graduated in 2011 with a master’s degree from the School of Public Health, answered questions regarding the study of epidemiology in Native American reservations

and discussed students’ individual career ambitions.

Shelagh Saenz, director of career services at the Public Health School, said the alumni speaker series seeks to expose current students to different sectors of the public health field by providing stories of different career paths and unique experiences.

Joseph, who works at the CaliSee EPIDEMIOLOGY, Page 2A

At their meeting Monday, the Ann Arbor City Council will discuss resolutions regarding taxicab meter rates, construction contracts and a zoning ordinance.

Resolution: Council votes to deregulate taxicab rates The Ann Arbor Taxicab Board met Aug. 28 to consider a resolution that would deregulate taxicab rates by establishing a high, maximum meter rate. The Board voted unanimously for the Council to discuss a $7 increase of the flag drop, which is currently at $3, and a $2.50-per-mile increase.

The goal of this resolution is to allow each taxicab company more freedom in establishing and advertising its own rates. If this resolution passes, the deregulation will go into effect on Oct. 6.

Resolution: Council to award a construction contract to E.T. MacKenzie Company The Council will discuss if it wants to grant a $355,900 construction contract to E.T. MacKenzie Company for the Liberty Street, Harvard Place and Arlington Boulevard Sanitary Sewer Extensions Project.

If the contract is awarded, E.T. MacKenzie Company will install sanitary sewers at Arlington Boulevard and Harvard Place beginning in late September, with the estimated completion date in mid-November. Installation of a sanitary sewer for Liberty Street will commence in the spring of 2015 and be completed by late May or early June.

The project will be funded by the Sewage Disposal System Fund’s capital budget.

Resolution: Council to rezone South Main Street The Council will vote on an ordinance to rezone the Downtown Core Base District — currently a high-density See METERING, Page 2A

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Students reject tuition increase were overturned, financial aid and minority support would receive cuts instead.

The University’s Student Government Council modified the demands of their strike against a record 24-percent tuition increase.

In addition to requesting that the tuition increase be overturned, the SGC added demands pertaining to all “needy” students receiving financial aid, and the maintenance of the University’s 1970 promise to increase minority enrollment to 10 percent.

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10 years ago this week (Sept. 16, 2004) A dead crow discovered a week earlier at Observatory Street and East Medical Center Drive was found to be infected with West Nile virus. The crow was the eighth animal discovered in Washtenaw County infected with the virus, though it was the first to be discovered on campus and the second to be discovered within Ann Arbor city limits.

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considerably smaller than the stadium’s official capacity of 109,901.

Public Policy senior Bobby Dishell, Central Student Government president, worked closely with the Athletic Department to develop the new seating policy. He said he is optimistic that the change in policy will continue to benefit students, and he has observed that the student section is already more full before kickoff as a result.

“The feedback we’ve received has been overwhelmingly positive,” Dishell said. “When we surveyed students, the number one thing that students wanted was to be able to sit with their friends, and I think you can see in the student attendance numbers that that’s been reflected.”

Students have expressed positive opinions about the new policy, noting that it allows them the freedom to sit with friends by creating seating groups and reward those who are dedicated to attending games.

“I feel like they’re trying to give more loyal fans higher priority, so for people who came to more games last year, I guess, it would make sense to feel that they think the team’s more important,” said Engineering sophomore Jake Sprintz.

Engineering sophomore Greyson Schultz echoed this appreciation of fairness.

“If you didn’t go to really any games last year then I don’t know how important it would be for you to get good seats this year,” he said.

This change in policy comes on

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the heels of the 2013 season’s policy change, which abolished the previous seniority-based system and enacted a first-come, first-served system.

Many students felt last year’s policy was unfair to upperclassmen. LSA senior Elizabeth Swaynie bought season tickets starting her freshman year with the hope that she would be in front by her senior year.

“I knew back then that if I bought season tickets every year and I had put in my time I’d get to the front row,” Swaynie said. “I felt bad for the juniors who had worked so hard in buying these tickets and spending so much money on the athletic program and then just kind of getting the short end of the deal.”

Nevertheless, Swaynie said she believes there has been too much change and that the Athletic Department should pick one policy and stick to it. LSA junior Samantha Tinsley agreed that policy has been too unstable.

“I think it makes it really confusing because they’ve changed it every year since I’ve been here,” Tinsley said. “This is my third year here, and you kind of never know if they’re going to stick to it for next year.”

The Athletic Department and CSG will be monitoring student opinion of the new system’s enactment. Their goal is to continue to improve the experience of attending football games.

“Looking forward, the numbers show that this has really been positive for most students and we look forward to surveying students to continue to improve this and to see where we can keep getting better,” Dishell said.

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The City Planning Commission believes that this rezoning will align with adjacent zones and the surrounding land uses, placing restriction on building height and size to better conform with nearby structures.

The architect and owner of 425 S. Main St., a property that will be affected by this decision, are both in opposition to this ordinance. Councilmembers Sabra Briere (D–Ward 1) and Chuck Warpehoski (D–Ward 5) support the ordinance.

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said networking was also central to the event.

“We want to get people networking with different skillsets of the Michigan community,” Nwankwo said. “We want them to meet these people who have already done it, get their experiences and really absorb their knowledge.”

The Business School, EVC and Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies sponsored the event. It follows the organizations’ and the University’s push to widen their entrepreneurial footprint.

University alum Rob Pelinka delivered the keynote address. A former basketball player, Pelinka was a member of three NCAA Final Four teams as a Business undergraduate. He went on to earn a J.D. from the Law School and founded Landmark Sports Agency, based in Los Angeles.

Pelinka emphasized hard work and connections, invoking anecdotes from working with a certain very famous client of his — Kobe Bryant. After his speech, he spoke to interested students.

One panel topic explored business creation as a young adult. Four business founders — late-20-something men in business casual clothes — discussed their experiences as budding entrepreneurs.

The impetus for founding their companies often came from everyday instances. Business alum Tyler Paxton founded Are You a Human, which validates that a user is not a robot by, for instance, telling a user to drop an iPhone or Android into a shopping bag rather than presenting CAPTCHA. A co-worker of Paxton, then a consultant, came into their cubicle one day, complaining of his failure to buy Hannah Montana tickets. Ticket scalpers using robots bought up all the tickets, and Paxton thought there must be a better way to ensure that robots weren’t using services made for humans.

One facet of Are You a Human surveys the user’s mouse movements.

“We found out that we could build this cool system of monitoring the way people interact with a website and could decide whether it was a person or an automated bot,” Paxton said.

The panelists also discussed what it was like in the early years of their startups, making little money as their former classmates earned six-figure salaries in office jobs. While Business alum Cavan Canavan was founding Focus, a fitness wearable company, he turned off Facebook to ignore photo albums of his friends’ European adventures. Canavan also had to forget about his internship experiences at Apple to get his company off the ground.

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challenges in working with large corporations and regulators.

For more than 10 years, Dalton worked to put Enobosarm on the market, a drug that helps patients build back muscle lost from cancer treatments and other muscle wasting diseases.

He said 50 to 80 percent of cancer patients have a degree of muscle wasting and because of age-related sarcopenia, muscle loss due to old age.

Another critical part of the process of creating new medicines is financing. Dalton’s company, GTx was taken

van said. “What I take away from it is that it’s a great company, you’re a great person and everyone there is great, but you’re part of one machine. Is that what you want to do? And that’s not what I want to do. I wanted to have control. I wanted to make my own thing. I like making stuff.”

The other entrepreneurs said they did not feel at ease with corporate lifestyle.

Engineering alum Danny Ellis founded Ann Arbor-based SkySpecs, a company that builds “flying robots.”

He said he even rejected two coveted job positions, including one at SpaceX, to found his company.

“I still don’t regret that decision one bit,” Ellis said. “Working in something that you are this passionate about is a much better experience than sitting in a cubicle being told what to do, and waiting three months to make a decision because you’ve got to wait for the hierarchy to make a decision.”

He added: “My recommendation is to try it. You’ve got nothing to lose.

So you have to live in student housing for another couple years? You’ll get the high paycheck someday; you don’t need it right away.”

Across the hall, more-seasoned entrepreneurs discussed their careers as innovators. Their advice was contrary to the norm.

“The customer is highly overrated,” said Vinay Gupta, founder of two companies and CEO of outsourcing relationship management company Janeeva, amid laughter. “Steve Jobs, the foremost entrepreneur of our generation, consistently believed he knew more than the customer did.”

Nancy Gilby, director of entrepreneurship at the School of Information, countered that Jobs didn’t write off the customer’s needs, but rather gathered them through non-traditional means.

“He was an incredible introvert but a keen observer of watching people use technology,” Gilby said. “There’s a right way to learn about the world of your customers. You need to understand how they perceive the world, how they use tools and then you’ll really understand and see their problems.”

Another non-traditional perspective came from Doug Cass, co-founder of toy companies Kahootz Toys and Giddy Up. He said the light bulb moment of getting a new idea is unimportant; one must instead deliberate about the execution.

“The key is building a foundation of people, a vision,” Cass said. “You gotta look at finding the right people and building your team.”

One of the tenderfoot innovators echoed this notion.

“At the end of the day, you can have a great idea, but that idea is worth nothing until you’ve been at it for a few years,” Paxton said. “It just takes a long time until you have something that’s of value.”

public and partnered with two larger corporations, Johnson & Johnson and Merck. Dalton said that a University can help a scientist getting an initial patent, but financial support from an institution can run out quickly.

GTx raised $70 million on the stock market and received close to $1 million from its corporate partnerships. However, it had a massive research budget that was often over $40 million a year. Bringing a new drug to the market usually costs near $1 billion and Dalton stressed that outgoing Pharmacy students should look at the stability of any company they are may work for.

Dalton explained the regulatory challenges that

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EPIDEMIOLOGY From Page 1A fornia Tribal Epidemiology Center, discussed the role of such centers in the United States from her own perspective — one that doesn’t necessarily represent that of the organization. Most centers are part of the Indian Health Service and assist American Indian and Alaska Native tribes by advocating for tribal health, working to prevent diseases and building public health initiatives within their respective communities.

“The idea is actually to give tribal people control of their health care services … it was really meant to be in the direction of more sovereignty,” Joseph said of TECs. She also discussed several problems that TECs and the IHS face, which range from underfunding to issues with data gathering and interpretation.

Surveys often underrepresent populations and race misclassification is an often occurrence. TECs use linkage studies to try to correct for this error.

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he faced while developing Enobosarm. The drug initially failed two FDA trials and one by a European regulatory agency.

Eventually, Dalton and his company discovered that the failed trials were not due to a lack of efficacy of the drug, but due to the fact that some patients in the trial were on harsher regimens of chemotherapy and were weaker because of it.

The talk was not only a case study in drug development, but also offered career advice session for young pharmacists.

Dalton told students to keep their training broad early in their careers and to be ready to work for many companies.

He added that it’s important for young pharmacists to take chances.

day in the life of the TEC epidemiologists, it’s all really about data access, availability and interpretation,” she said.

When she spoke to the students about their postUniversity plans, she gave them suggestions as to how to best ensure that those plans become reality.

She said it is important to lay out a long-term plan based on a student’s individual interests and to then structure class schedules that allow them to develop skills for success in that particular occupation.

“The reality is, from the perspective of a hiring committee, what they are looking for is somebody who can hit the ground running, needs minimal training,” Joseph said.

Twelve Public Health students attended the lecture, consisting of both first- and second-year master’s students.

“I came for the career advice,” said Public Health student Karin Dove. “I thought it was interesting to hear how she approached taking classes here or what classes she thought were important or what skills were important to learn.”

“It’s a high risk, high reward enterprise,” Dalton said.

Dalton was the inaugural speaker at the lecture, which the College of Pharmacy Graduate Student Organization plans on holding annually. The College of Pharmacy houses several departments which have been criticized for not always working together cohesively.

One goal of the lecture is to unite the research focuses of the school with the more commercially-focused units.

“Some of the students in the research world don’t really understand pharmacy and drug development and the downstream patient population,” said Daniel Hertz, a faculty member at the College of Pharmacy.

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he word “frenetic” is thrown around a lot whenever movie reviews or any other form of popular, easily-digestible film commentary portions out sound bites to discuss that commonly underacknowlAKSHAY edged sliver of movie SETH magic called editing. And for good reason. The process of cutting together a film, by nature of its methodology alone, is conceived with an understanding that the end product, whatever it may be, will remain as invisible as it is intangible — cloaked beneath infinitely more palpable layers of photography, acting, music, direction — to invoke the sense that viewers are experiencing a natural sequence of events unfold in front of them organically.

So when critics see extended instances of cross cutting, jump cutting, montage or whatever the shit else Vin Diesel is doing in “xXx,” the easiest targets to stab your finger at and say “There. That right there. That’s what editing is supposed to look like” become all these in-your-face, “frenetic” moments which can have incredible value in bringing an otherwise flat reality a sense of dimension — but are far from being the only examples of a craft that, at its best, forms the most basic framework of the bridge between audience and film.

Then to get a better idea of what’s truly possible at the hands of an imaginative editor, we have to look at those pictures that strive to constrain our view: force us to examine events that, yes, may still be tied to a singular narrative, but are isolated enough to stick with their leads’ psyches. In other terms, the editor shouldn’t have to sift through hours of footage of Vinny D jumping off a building, engaging in multiple midair gun fights with 50 Russian hitmen before back flipping into a Lamborghini — only for it to accelerate off another building.

Instead, the films that can really showcase the nuanced control of the cutting room are character studies which live, stand within their ability to leave the camera behind a character’s shoulders to let us see the frame through their eyes, or their face within the frame. So usually, the editing in such projects becomes inherently more meaningful than just piecing together different angles of someone cartwheeling motorcycles over a Walmart because more often than not, you’re playing with shots of an actor’s facial expressions — you know, that stuff you call actual acting?

Even the shards of action in these films, as jarring or visceral as they may be, are woven around little bits of character exposition, little glimmers of dialogue that prop together an entire, holistic experience. In Scorsese’s “Raging Bull,” widely considered one of the most effectively edited features of all time, there’s a crucial scene in which Jake LaMotta has his final bout with Sugar Ray Robinson, this time without the help of his now estranged brother, Joey. The fight itself is fervently cut into a shuddering mess of fists colliding with face, blood spurting out of foreheads, camera flashes exploding like white bombs.

Then, around two and a half minutes in — after LaMotta is finished being pummeled into a pulpy afterthought — the editing crescendos before coming to a near standstill. As LaMotta leans forward, arms tangled in the ropes, we cut to his brother leaning backward in his couch: distant, defeated and at home.

Scorsese and his longtime editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, have literally slowed down time, adding weight in those crucial moments leading up to LaMotta stumbling over toward Robinson and saying “you never got me down, Ray.” The editing in this scene, stylized and brazen, would have fallen flat without those transitions in

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texture. And more importantly, the little morsels Scorsese is trying to give us about his visibly disturbed protagonist. The action sits in stark contrast with one of the film’s final clips, in which LaMotta, after being thrown into prison, punches the brick walls of his cage in futile rebellion. There’s no cutting here.

No fancy transitions tied to the thwaps of fists landing on flesh.

No fiery light bulb flares or explosions of splattering gore. Just LaMotta. Isolated in ineffectiveness, nothing to do with his fists, both sides of the empty frame washed in darkness. The inaction speaks volumes about what Scorsese is trying to tell us about this character — useless masculinity, once feeding into the violence that afforded him freedom to hate, beat the people who loved him, now all taken away.

Two more recent movies in which the editing plays an integral part in formulating or informing our opinions on troubled protagonists are “Black Swan” and “Frank,” both built around honest explorations of mental illness. In “Black Swan,” Natalie Portman portrays Nina, a paranoid schizophrenic consumed by the need to embody an evil Black Swan, sensual and polarized, for an upcoming ballet recital. The role, along with the movie in its entirety, digs deep into this idea of duality. Working off the mirrors in every corner of the frame, the camera remains fixed behind Portman, anchored around that bravura, Academy Award-winning performance. And though much of the credit goes to the film’s cinematography, with its constant propensity at teasing out “pop shots” — slights of camera frequently used in the horror genre to create “cheap” scares, it’s the subtle editing that really engineers the shock.

In this case, “pop shots” were usually just director Darren Aronofsky sneaking in errant images of Portman in one of the set piece’s many mirrors, so in effect, the audience would be watching Nina put on makeup until suddenly, her reflection would take on a life of its own. There’s nothing really creative about this brand of visual trickery: simple CGI to superimpose something in a place where it’s not supposed to be.

Which is why all those staggered cuts that follow, each focused on a different mirror angle, are so essential in conveying horror, that sense of “wait, did that really just happen?”

More so than simple shock value, the editing in the film puts us in Nina’s lense of subjectivity.

Every actress in the cast has been made up and costumed to look like Natalie Portman — brunette, tapered down eyebrows and a wiry frame. So all the frequent cuts between Portman’s face to those of female cast members — there are many — further stress the motifs of dissimulation and transformation that Aronofsky is so keen to highlight and link with hallucination: a byproduct of schizophrenia.

In “Frank,” the editing layout is simpler, but similar in the sense that it attempts to let viewers experience mental illness subjectively.

The film starts with a cutting pattern similar to one you’d see in a visual comedy — fast-paced jumps that bounce between different sight-based gags (“Hey look!

Clara just threw a bottle at him! [cut] Hey look! It hit landed on his head!”) until director Lenny Abrahamson delves deeper into his characters’ depression. The jumps slow down and by the end, are almost entirely replaced by inactive pans and tilts of the camera.

It’s this “single character cutting,” though outwardly invisible, that makes these films click the way they do — putting viewers not just in the same frame of mind as the protagonist, but the same frame of vision and time. Which isn’t the same as cartwheeling over a Walmart in a motorcycle.

But I’d rather take a glimpse through Natalie Portman’s eyes any day.

Seth is cartwheeling over a Walmart on a motorcycle. To join him, e-mail akse@umich.edu.

The late night space has been undergoing huge change recently. Jimmy Fallon took the reins over at “The Tonight Show,” Ste- A phen Colbert Last Week is replacing David Let- Tonight terman and with John Larry Wilmore is tak- Oliver ing Colbert’s Sundays at 11 p.m. place in the HBO post-”Daily Show” timeslot. All of those stories got a lot of press earlier in the year, but during the summer, another story took the lead: John Oliver starting his own show at HBO. Coming off his summer stint in the hosting chair for “The Daily Show,” HBO snatched him from a correspondent role on that show and gave him his own on Sundays. After a few months it’s clear that the move has paid off in dividends for everyone involved.

“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” has quickly become the best and one of the most important shows in that space, even surpassing the show he left.

The idea of a news satire show isn’t new (“The Daily Show” has been around for well over a decade at this point). However, John Oliver is doing things with the format that haven’t been done so far because of the inherent limitations of commercial networks. He’s willing to spend

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Funny, bespectacled Brit schools us on U.S. and world news topics.

upwards of 20 minutes (which happens to be the length of an entire episode of his Comedy Central counterparts) on a story if it supplies him with enough material.

What I love about the show is how he uses it as a platform to bring issues that aren’t being covered on the news. In his first episode, he spent a lot of time covering the Indian election. A couple of weeks ago, he spent 15 minutes talking about the predatory nature of the payday loans industry and the corruption that’s stopping the government from regulating it. Not only does he take the time to bash FIFA or the militarization of police in Ferguson, he spends time on

the smaller stories too. Airing weekly allows him to go more in depth and gain a broader perspective on important stories like these.

The best example of what he can do with a story is the piece he did in June on Net Neutrality, which is an issue that gets only limited attention on traditional news networks. These 13 minutes of television take an extremely complex issue and provides a summary that, even if it’s biased, gives the viewer who may have never heard of the issue an understanding of what’s happening. On top of that, it’s also hysterically funny, mining some very intelligent humor by pointing out all the corruption

involved in the FCC’s actions surrounding the issue. He also enticed the trolls of the internet to go comment on the site and stop the agency’s current action to allow an “internet fast-lane” in a brilliant “call to arms.”

That call to action worked, crashing the FCC’s website the next day. What that goes to show is people are starting to pay attention to what John Oliver is doing on this show. If you haven’t been watching it, you should be.

It’s doing exactly what news satire should: pointing out important issues and making great jokes around it. He’s taking his new platform and not only creating hysterically funny television, but important television.

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ERICA WATSON | VIEWPOINT

Let’s talk about money As I sit here as a super senior at the University, I reflect on the statistic that says only 4 percent of the incoming class of freshmen will be considered low socioeconomic status.

Socioeconomic status is defined by income, household size and other contributing variables. Low SES is defined as having a parent who makes less than $50,000 a year and who has less than a bachelors degree. For those of you who are harder hit by actual numbers than percentages, this means about 256 of the estimated 6,251 incoming students.

I wonder if these students know what they are actually signing up for?

As someone who comes from a singlefather household, who on a good year makes between $25-30,000 a year and was lucky to get his high school degree despite his severe dyslexia and a mom who dropped out of high school at the age of 16, I am no stranger to what it means to be “working class” or “low SES,” or on days where I’m particularly frustrated “dirt poor.” According to public record here at the University, less than 1 percent of all students here come from the same financial and educational background that I do.

Because of this, college has been a completely different experience for me than it has for many of my peers. For many, coming here was the first time they ever had to deal with things on their own. For me, I had been working since I was old enough to do so and helping to pay rent since I was 16 years old. For me, college was freeing because it meant I had less to take care of, not more.

Once I got here, I quickly realized I was different. During my first few years here, I had a hard time making friends. Besides having a hard time finding people who were like me that I could connect with, my options for friends were limited in ways that other students didn’t seem to face. I couldn’t even fathom joining Greek life because the dues, not to mention the clothes required, were way out of my budget.

Instead I worked to help pay for college, which left less time to join extracurriculars, which for many is where they find their close friends.

Even the ones that I had considered joining were way out of my budget. Joining Ski Club or Alternative Spring Break was never an option for me.

Even with the friends I did make, I was hardpressed to keep up. I couldn’t afford eating out or going to concerts or other things that people often did. This left me with the choice of either lying to cover up the fact that I didn’t have money or being a killjoy who made others change their plans because of me.

As time went on, I saw more and more how little people had to think about money, and it made it hard for me to connect. When people found out that I was here on practically a full scholarship, they would often bemoan how they weren’t “given the same opportunity.”

And tell me “how lucky I was.” They clearly never stopped to think about what situation I was coming from to get such support.

Over my four years of college, I have worked anywhere from two to four jobs at a time, everything from nannying to catering, to psych studies and theater jobs, some weeks working more than full time while still going to 15-17 credits of classes. I have loaned money to both of my parents to buy cars when theirs broke down and helped both my parents pay bills and rent so they weren’t evicted or went without heat or water. I have helped provide my little sister with school clothes, winter coats and the ability to have a cell phone, and lent my older sister money to pay her bills. The list goes on and on, and the tally is in the thousands.

It can be incredibly hard to focus on school when you’re worried about whether or not your family will have a place to live next month or if your siblings are getting what they need. It’s even harder when you have to miss class to

help take care of family crises that frequently pop up. I don’t want my professors to pity me or treat me differently, so I often don’t tell them the truth. However, there are only so many excuses you can come up with that sound feasible in a semester.

As a theater student, I am constantly reminded that I am behind. I have never seen a Broadway show, never been to New York and was never taken to plays as a kid. I have nothing to contribute when these things come up in class and never know how to tell people this in the theater school without having them look at me like I have a third arm sprouting from my forehead.

Making space for me to be myself has been incredibly hard on this campus. Money is something we aren’t supposed to talk about, and since most people here have lot of it, it’s not even something they have to think about.

Because SES is often invisible, people assume that simply because I have a nice backpack, an iPhone — and most likely especially due to my white skin — that I don’t struggle with money.

We’re all in college; we’ve all “made it,” so everything is great, right?

College for me was always something I felt guilt and pressure for. My degree will never, never just be for me. It’s for everyone in my family, who never got the opportunity or will need help with the money that I will earn with my degree and for my little sister, who hopefully one day won’t have to navigate the confusing maze of financial aid, taxes and logistics alone like I did. It’s something that is so new and scary as a first generation student with no one to turn to for help.

As I reflect back on my struggles with money here on this campus, I can’t help but worry about those students who are coming in, not knowing what they are getting themselves into. We are all told that Michigan will be “diverse.” You’ll meet people from all walks of life, and for a while, I truly believed that. While we may be here, because there are so few of us, it can be hard to find a community you belong to; a group of people who understand you when you tell them you’re broke, because you not only paid your own rent but your family’s too. Finding people who won’t pity you, who won’t ask stupid questions and tell you how much luckier you are than them to have a full ride (not that this isn’t an incredible gift that I am thankful for every day).

To those incoming students who are already here and struggling, I have only this to offer: Being here will be hard. You will deal with things that others can’t even imagine: Stresses, rage-filled tears, fear and panic that others won’t understand. As hard as it is to believe, remember that you are not alone. You will have to seek out people who are like you.

The more I started being honest and telling people my story, the more I was able to find others like me. Especially with something like SES, you really have to commit to searching, because it’s not always visible or easily guessed. Yes, this meant sharing my stories and truths that sometimes made people uncomfortable and sometimes made them treat me differently, but it eventually led to finding some of the best and closest friends I’ve ever had, who really truly get it.

It’s with the help of these friends that I have made it through these four years here. They have helped me cope, helped me find humor in the insanity and stress and have made it possible to receive this degree and even go on to grad school, where things will likely only get harder.

For those of you who haven’t found this support yet, please, please keep looking. If we don’t support each other, who will?

Erica Watson is a School of Music, Theatre & Dance senior.

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t was fourth grade when my mom sat me on our living room couch to talk. I set my feet on the edge of our dilapidated coffee table as she said that we couldn’t pay our “house bill” this month. I saw the fear in her eyes and I immedi- MICHAEL ately felt a surge SCHRAMM of anxiety racing through my stomach. I was confused, and my anxiety sparked a nervousness that caused the room to spin.

“What’s going to happen to us?”

I asked, as she proceeded to define a mortgage and what “being late” on a payment meant. The lump in my stomach grew, and I started crying. I felt terrified that our family’s simple home would be taken away. The remainder of the night was spent watching TV. As I tried to escape into the worlds in front of me, the lump in my stomach was a constant reminder that things were bad.

The next day at school I felt the lump as I tried to live like nothing was wrong, but no matter how hard I tried I could always sense the fear coursing through my body. I had no one to talk to, I didn’t know how to seek help.

Though I was so young, I could clearly feel my social withdrawal from my peers as I drifted into my mind’s fear.

I wish that my fourth grade experience was an isolated incident, but the financial problems only worsened. As I got older, I became a sponge, absorbing the stress coming from the relentless bills pouring into our home. My body was in a constant hurricane season, and consequentially I was always on alert for the next crippling whirlwind to twist me into knots.

Luckily, as I got older, I began channeling my fear into a source to improve my academic and social lives — things that I could control.

Unfortunately, many children suffering from parents’ financial strain never find ways to cope with their anxiety. Instead, the stress manifests itself in mood-altering

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and antisocial behaviors.

Impoverished children and teenagers are more likely to suffer from depression. This could have multiple explanations. Similar to my experience, it could be a product of continuous, incoming stress. It could also come from children’s parents, who are more likely to be depressed when suffering financially. The depression of a parent can often spur depression in a child, causing an unhealthy cycle.

The combination of financial stress and depression can have serious consequences in children. A child who experiences common symptoms of depression including pessimism, guilt and helplessness could really struggle to overcome these issues given the seemingly endless parental struggle to pay bills. Other common depression symptoms include difficulty concentrating and remembering details. Plus, a child chronically stressed by financial difficulties has reduced cognition and memory and impaired attention. These problems would make it difficult for a child to succeed in school, and given the link between education and income, a financially burdened child’s depression and stress could prolong financial stress into adulthood.

Alongside depression, children in financially burdened households are also more likely to exhibit antisocial behavior, which includes “bullying, being cruel, breaking things, cheating or telling lies.”

Once children begin developing this behavior, they struggle to break these habits in lieu of healthy socializing skills.

These antisocial behaviors can hinder a child’s ability to develop strong peer networks, something they desperately need. From personal experience, it’s hard to visualize breaking the cycles and stresses of poverty without a positive support system that

helps you visualize opportunities outside of your own circumstances.

Furthermore, it’s imperative that these children have emotional support for their constant stress.

Now, let’s make one thing clear: I’m not trying to criticize parents as the cause of impoverished children’s stress. These parents are trying their hardest — oftentimes working extra hours to support their families.

They’re also more likely to suffer from depression, and since only 6.2 percent of married-couple families live in poverty, there’s a good chance the parent is trying to raise a child primarily on their own.

We must recognize these hindrances and stressors in the lives of children who grow up in low socioeconomic status homes.

We need to train teachers to identify children with behavior indicating that they’re suffering. I’m highlighting teachers since children spend so much time with them. If I could have talked about my problems with another adult, I’m rather certain that I could have developed coping mechanisms and ways to relieve stress years earlier than I did.

But teachers aren’t the only people who need to help. As the famous saying goes, “It takes a village to raise a child.” As a society we must be more attuned to recognizing a child who demonstrates signs of struggling, and we must be willing to lend a listening ear and an empathetic heart. These lessons must also be ingrained in our youth. I can vouch that an act as simple as listening to a friend’s pain can provide more relief than the listener can comprehend.

We must make impoverished children feel more supported. We cannot allow them to slip through the cracks.

I became a sponge, absorbing the stress coming from the relentless bills pouring into our home.

—Michael Schramm can be reached at mschramm@umich.edu.

A difference for one

hrough the Residential College at the University, I was given the opportunity to work with Latin@ students at the nearby Huron High School this past semester. When Teresa SanchezSnell, the Spanish Language OMAR Internship Program director, MAHMOOD sat down with me, she said I should take on the most challenging role. I would work with high school students, helping them learn material they were struggling with.

The first day I walked in, the relieved English as a Second Language teacher assigned me to more than 10 Spanish-speaking students who were on the verge of failing their classes. “Thank God you’re here,” said Mrs. Smith, introducing me to her charges as they ate lunch. “These are the worst students in the school,” she told me in a grandmotherly voice, even as the whole class was privy to her criticisms. The students looked to me with innocent fascination, the girls giggling as they first glanced at me and then away, the boys giving me sidelong glances of disdain.

Mrs. Smith told me there was a “desperate need” for translators, and to help as many students as I could.

I ruffled through the schedules she had given me. There was Oscar, who was failing algebra. There was Natalia, who was failing biology.

There was Mario, who was failing history. There was David, who was failing geography. Overwhelmed as I was, I marched over to Oscar’s algebra class. I waited for some time before understanding he had no intention of showing up. So I turned the page to the next schedule and moved on to the next student. It was the routine I would learn over the next many weeks, as I understood, to my grief, that many of these kids simply didn’t go to class.

It was then that I turned the page to Pablo. The first class I had with him was algebra with Mrs. Brown.

She was teaching operations with exponents that Friday. As I walked in, an excited kid — whom I presumed to be Pablo — turned around and walked up to me. He pulled up a

chair next to me and sat down with notebook and pencil in hand, almost as if showing his new friend off to the class.

I tepidly began to ask him how he was doing, in English, explaining that Mrs. Brown had said he direly needed help. He had an innocent aura about him, an innocent voice, though not devoid of tomfoolery.

He was on the shorter side and skinny. He kept his hair simple, though I would find it one Friday dyed pink down the middle for a fun stunt. He answered my questions earnestly. I was reluctant at first to speak Spanish, because I thought it would put Pablo off. I had feared the kids wouldn’t want to expose any incompetency in English in front of their classmates. Yet as I proceeded to ease a couple words of Spanish into our conversation, his eyes lit up.

“Hablas español?”

I smiled. “Por supuesto lo hablo.”

I didn’t want to be imposing, so I then explained to Pablo that he would be my Spanish teacher for the coming months, and I would help him with his schoolwork. It was an alliance that never tired.

Pablo became a little brother to me, as much as one can become a little brother over weekly sessions. I found that Pablo, far from shying away from Spanish, preferred his language. Pablo was as dedicated a student as I could find in that classroom, language “barrier” be damned. Teaching him was rewarding not in the least for the Spanish immersion we shared. I was able to teach algebra in total Spanish to a kid who was genuinely curious.

One day I would teach him to factor perfect-square trinomials, and another day to classify polynomials.

He confided in me that he didn’t understand things until I explained them to him. Once I explained them, things became easy. By the end of our term together, Pablo had progressed so well that Mrs. Schneider called his father and congratulated him.

Still, it would be a bit rich of me to claim to have saved Pablo. As much as I taught him, he taught me more.

We in Ann Arbor are always looking to volunteer, but a volunteerism is a slippery slope to elitism. Our yearning to help others takes us to far corners of the world, and sometimes to new Facebook profile pictures.

And still sometimes we change in more ways than that. We must train ourselves to become aware of our privilege, painfully aware of it. I could not help but wonder where any of those ESL kids might have been had they been raised the way I had, given such an extravagant education that it would be painful to share it here. I come away feeling guilty for having so much and for daring to think that I am paying my dues, and in no other moment does a life of poverty seem as appealing.

A person’s heart can also become heavy upon realizing that one’s efforts are but a drop in the ocean. I was overwhelmed at Huron. The kids there confided in me about drugs, skipping school and about how their teachers were “racists.” They were far gone, and as much as I sought to help them, they came to associate me with the same teachers they hated.

I could not help them all, and by the end, I had decided to take Pablo under my wing and do my best to guide him.

I’m reminded of a favorite poster of mine that hung in the principal’s office of my Montessori school. Underneath a picture of stormy skies and waves of gray crashing upon an endless beach was an anecdote that I remember fondly.

A lone little boy was walking along a beach, picking up starfish that had washed ashore and throwing them back into the ocean before they dried up. A man walked up to the boy and told him that his work made no difference. There were thousands of dying starfish, and he would only ever reach a fraction. The boy picked up another starfish and turned to the man as he was throwing it back into the water.

“True,” he said, “but it makes all the difference for this one.”

Still, it would be a bit rich of me to claim to have saved Pablo. As much as I taught him, he taught me more.

—Omar Mahmood can be reached at syedom@umich.edu.

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Gandolfini’s last ‘Trip to Italy’ explores friendship, sex, Venice role in ‘The Drop’ Dennis Lehane’s script and Tom Hardy impress

By CONRAD FOREMAN Daily Arts Writer

While adaptation from book to film has been a cornerstone of the industry since its inception, rarely do the releases B of said book and film coinThe Drop cide. To drop book and State Theater film so close- and Quality 16 ly together Fox Searchlight could only be accomplished by a film titled, well, “The Drop.”

Many films have depicted money laundering operations from the perspective of crime bosses. “The Drop” explores the business from the establishment’s point-of-view. Bob (Tom Hardy, “Inception”) and Marv (James Gandolfini, “Get Shorty”) are cousins who run a bar together in a rough neighborhood of Brooklyn. Formerly two of the top players in the local crime world, nearly 10 years before they were rubbed out by bigger fish. Present day, as Bob befriends a dog-loving lady, Marv plans his revenge on

the world; a storm of threatening circumstances culminate on Super Bowl Sunday, the biggest drop of the year.

Though somewhat under the mainstream radar, “The Drop” comes from well-practiced hands: both the novel and screenplay were written by Dennis Lehane, whose works “Mystic River,” “Gone Baby Gone” and “Shutter Island” have all been adapted into successful films; in addition Lehane also wrote three episodes of famed HBO series “The Wire.”

In stark contrast to the three aforementioned adaptations, directed by Clint Eastwood, Ben Aff leck and Martin Scorsese respectively, at the helm of “The Drop” is Michaël R. Roskam, a Belgian director with only one previous feature film under his belt. Roskam’s style doesn’t leap off the screen, but his use of motifs, ref lection and a few moments of creative editing testify to his nascent talent.

The film marks an opportunity for one last go-round with James Gandolfini, who died in June 2013. Though certainly no stranger to the crime genre, his character’s defeatist attitude and desperate persona in “The Drop” distinguishes him from Tony Soprano, the role for which Gandolfini can’t be forgotten. His last isn’t his

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Alexis Bledel: Far from trope My ‘Manic Pixie Dream Girl’ who isn’t mine

By NOAH COHEN Daily Arts Writer

Kimberly Alexis Bledel plays roles that make you love her, roles that place her in a certain romantic limelight. From speed-talking, book-inhaling Rory Gilmore (“Gilmore Girls”) to brave, wide-eyed Winnie (“Tuck Everlasting ”) to sketchbooktoting sweetheart Lena (“Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”), Bledel occupies a happy medium among female romantic leads: she loves and is loved but is taken by her own choice; she makes her own choices.

The boys who come for her are of the ilk to overwhelm — soulful, with untamed hair and sentiment. But Bledel isn’t overwhelmed. She is whelmed.

She is an even-handed, pointscoring player on the field of love, not a catalyst for others’ life-affirming adventures, nor a salve for someone else’s heartbreak. She is protagonist, hear her roar. And she remains so in “The Kate Logan Affair” and “Post Grad,” and even in her minor roles in “Sin City” and “Mad Men.” To me, she justifies the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope as something that isn’t minimizing or confining. Her Manic Pixie is something of a hero.

The Bledel Manic Pixie isn’t

always plot-driving, but the details of her life are dramatically exposited with intent to matter, in and of themselves, because she matters, in and of herself.

When Jesse comes back for Winnie in “Tuck Everlasting,” he finds her in her grave, not as an immortal teenager. She lived and lived happily, unafraid of dying off-screen, and certainly not pathetically waiting for Jesse. Bledel played, not the treasure of a romance that wouldn’t ultimately make her happy, but a woman who lived and died a woman’s life, a life that the immortal Jesse did not get a lead role in.

When Rory dates Dean, Jess and Logan “Gilmore Girls,” we experience those relationships from her eyes. Her schooling remains central among her priorities. Her journalism career remains central among her priorities. And even if you didn’t agree with her and her mothers’ choices in the end, there’s no doubt who the movie was really about.

So when I say Alexis Bledel is my Manic Pixie Dream Girl, please don’t scoff at her for being reduced to a trope or an object of affection, and please don’t scoff at me for referring to her with the sentimental possessive that’s the vice of my brood. She’s a Manic Pixie with or without boys like me loving her. She and other so-called Manic Pixie Dream Girls will go ahead and live their lives, on and off-screen, regardless of their brooding, sentimental following.

greatest or most memorable performance, but he delivers with raw “go-fuck-yourselfness” that perfectly characterizes the middle-aged tough guy who’s had life step on him a few too many times.

Despite an abundance of pitbull puppy cuteness, “The Drop” drops the ball just before crossing the threshold of exceptionality. A longer runtime would create more depth for the film’s meddlingpolice-officer-storyline, and though clearly the filmmakers wanted to hold back details in order to illustrate Bob’s mysterious nature, more meat to his character’s profile would help engage the audience.

Of course, the most popular reason one might see this film will probably be Tom Hardy, the leading man. On the map for hard-hitting roles like an MMA fighter in “Warrior” and as Bane in “The Dark Knight Rises,” Hardy’s performance is much subtler in “The Drop,” though at times even more ruthless. The stoic Hardy beautifully captures fear and pain in a person whose toughness defines his persona. Hardy uncovers the fine distinction between cruel and cold, and toes the line between them, showing that nice men aren’t always good men, and bad men can be righteous.

Coogan and Brydon redefine the movie bromance

By ANDREW MCCLURE Daily Arts Writer

When English film hyphenate Michael Winterbottom decided to make a sequel to his 2011 success, “The ATrip,” I don’t think he shot The Trip for originality but rather to Italy to continue The Michigan a compelling Theater discourse.

IFC Sure, like its predecessor, “The Trip to Italy” is fundamentally two blokes eating and impersonating more-successful people, but that’s like saying Kanye just does words over sounds. The film reminds us to be foolish, to be vulnerable, to be loud and to be friends. Not unlike Noah Baumbach’s “Frances Ha,” “Italy” makes you want what the onscreen friends so effortlessly share: fun.

Steve Coogan (“Philomena”) and Rob Brydon (TV’s “ Would I Lie to You?”) play themselves asked to compile restaurant reviews in the otherworldly beauty of Italy. Business as usual at the dinner table for the pair is anything but usual for the rest

of humankind: one comprised of improvisational marathons, partly to distract from confessing they truly know shit about gastronomy. They, especially Brydon, seamlessly shift in and out of Michael Caine/Robert de Niro impressions like Robin Williams did — and it’s fucking money.

Like any good Western Europe vacation, the trip is not complete without sex. Not just penetrative sex, but the evolving idea of sex as a 40+ year old adult male.

“They just look right through us,” Coogan says of the countless younger, prettier women they encounter. But seconds after this depressing moment, the two are back to what they deem more important than sex: emoting. As it turns out, conveniently, their theatrical synergy attracts gorgeous women along the way. Even with the foreign ladies, the film doesn’t feel like a trip at all. It feels like two goofballs unapologetically having more fun than you without seeking validation ... while in Venice.

It would be dumb to call the onscreen duo a performance.

That would imply concrete planning, something they dismiss entirely. Nor is their bond a “bromance” in the Judd Apatow sense. That would imply empty dialogue and drugs to crutch for said empty dialogue. Coogan and Brydon share something older, more refined, something for which all men should strive: a fully functioning, alive, stimu-

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Maybe your dad has it, friend’s dad, boss — an intimate dudeship teeming with opinion, drama, laughter, melancholy.

There’s something unusual and unusually attractive about the Coogan-Brydon vulnerability that I think our generation of guys have effectively lost. How many guys can a guy call when he has a miserable day? Right.

In brief, “Italy” is now officially required viewing for dudes whose friendships would fizzle without booze, weed or coke.

Don’t get me wrong, Italian terrain is even more jawdropping when set to fucking opera music, but any technical achievement (see: scenic lensing, montage-like cuts to the kitchen food preparation) doesn’t trump the mindshare of the duo’s talking. It compels you to stay abreast on pop culture, read history on Lord Byron, try improv and look deranged without caring what a stranger thinks.

Men don’t have enough films about men proactively occupying the boredom of life with life itself. Coogan and Brydon prevail across the board from fun-o-meter to romance by being confident weirdos because weirdos have brass balls for not blending in in the first place. The film dares you to explore your funny and unfunny weirdness ... and have more interesting friends.

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DOWN REDHAWK Michigan 34, Miami 10

The good, bad Five things we learned: ‘M’ When numbers and ugly from Saturday’s win routs Miami are misleading Sloppiness, firsthalf struggles concerning

By ALEJANDRO ZÚÑIGA Managing Sports Editor

Statistically, the Michigan football team dominated Miami (Ohio) on Saturday afternoon, scoring 17 unanswered points in the second half to roll to a 34-10 win.

But not everything was a positive for the Wolverines, which held just a seven-point lead at halftime against a MidAmerican Conference team that hasn’t won since Oct. 27, 2012.

The Daily looks at the good, bad and ugly from Michigan’s win.

The good Last week, the Wolverines’ run defense held Notre Dame to just 54 yards. Against the RedHawks, the unit did even better, stifling Miami to the tune of 33 yards on 24 attempts.

In the second half, the RedHawks couldn’t score as Michigan eventually pulled

away for the comfortable win.

In fact, save for one 43-yard possession in the second half, Miami didn’t have a drive longer than 27 yards.

In total, the RedHawks managed just 198 yards to the Wolverines’ 460.

Offensively, sophomore tight end Jake Butt enjoyed a successful afternoon in his first start since tearing his anterior cruciate ligament in February. Butt caught three passes for 59 yards and a touchdown, but those numbers don’t show everything. On the score, Michigan perfectly executed a fake screen, and Butt exploded downfield unmarked. And for his first reception, the sophomore ripped an inaccurate pass away from a Miami defender, helping the Wolverines avoid another turnover.

Sophomore running back Derrick Green demanded the ball from his coaches, and he rewarded them by amassing 137 yards on 22 carries and adding a pair of touchdowns. Though he’s perhaps the least-elusive See CONCERNING, Page 2B

TRUE MICHIGAN FANS n Brady Hoke said true fans would support his team. So can fans question his performance then?

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By MAX COHEN Daily Sports Editor

After three weeks, numerous questions remain about the football team. Here are five things we learned after the defeat of the RedHawks.

1. The turnovers won’t cut it: Through three games, Michigan has committed seven turnovers.

Michigan coach Brady Hoke said after Saturday’s game that the number concerns him. Saturday, the Wolverines’ three second-quarter turnovers singlehandedly allowed Miami stay in the game.

The RedHawks’ offense was inept all afternoon, scoring only when Michigan gifted it the opportunity. Fifth-year senior quarterback Devin Gardner’s fourth interception of the season gave Miami a short field, leading to a field goal which cut the lead to 10-3.

When the Wolverines failed to cover a pooch kick after the field goal, the RedHawks scored their only touchdown, taking advantage of excellent field position.

The turnovers allowed the RedHawks’ inept offense a chance to compete. As seen against Notre Dame, the turnovers won’t cut it against better competition.

2. The offense is going Green: For the first two games of the season, sophomore running backs De’Veon Smith and Derrick Green more or less split carries, with Green receiving slightly more. That changed against Miami, when the offense relied heavily upon Green.

Saturday, Green scampered for 137 yards and two touchdowns on 22 carries. It was his second career 100-yard rushing performance and his first multitouchdown game.

Most importantly for the Wolverines, Green wanted the ball in his hands when it mattered most, and he delivered. After the RedHawks tied the game at 10 in the second quarter, the sophomore told coaches to give him the ball, and they obliged.

Gardner handed off to Green on four consecutive plays to cap the See FIVE THINGS, Page 2B

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he final score read 34-10, but, as usual, numbers never quite tell the entire story.

The record books show a win, but, as usual, a football game is often more than just a ‘W’ or an ‘L.’ The ALEJANDRO reality is ZÚÑIGA this: At halftime Saturday, the Wolverines led a school from Ohio, 17-10. Normally, that would be great. The problem? This wasn’t that Ohio team. This was Miami, the Mid-American Conference program that hadn’t beaten any opponent since Oct. 27, 2012, a span of 18 straight games.

So the Michigan fans, the 102,824 who had chosen to spend their Saturdays at the Big House, began to boo.

Loudly.

And who could blame them?

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The problem was Michigan looked entirely too nonchalant while leading a four-minute drive at the end of the second quarter, and after a timeout on 4th-and-1, the Wolverines were flagged for an inexplicable delay of game.

The problem was Michigan had committed three turnovers in the first half. Fifthyear senior quarterback Devin Gardner had overthrown his receiver for an interception, Amara Darboh had fumbled after a long reception, and the return team had seemed entirely dumbfounded by a pooch kickoff.

The problem was the offensive line had looked suspect and that Michigan’s tailbacks had only rushed for 90 yards — again, facing a RedHawks team that had allowed 42 points to Marshall.

The problem was Michigan had paid Miami $1.1 million for the privilege of coming to the Big House and being featured in front of a large television and in-person audience, and the Wolverines were letting See BOOING, Page 2B

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t wasn’t even three weeks into the 2014 season when Brady Hoke had to be asked about fan reaction.

The program with all of the tradition, GREG the one GARNO that you’re constantly reminded of, didn’t win enough.

Not only did Michigan lose, but it was also embarrassed 31-0 by Notre Dame.

So fans did what fans do, and they went online to call for Hoke’s firing, they discussed it on campus and entered extensive discussions about who could replace the coach who hadn’t even been fired.

Which is why, after he had failed to win, Brady Hoke had to answer to the criticism he was receiving from fans all over.

Instead, he dug himself into a hole.

“If they’re truly fans, they’ll believe in these kids and what they’ve done and the hard work they’ve put in,” Hoke said Monday afternoon. “If they’re not, they won’t.”

But what does it mean to

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Who are Michigan’s true fans? “truly” be a Michigan fan?

What do true Michigan fans say when their team is shut out for the first time since 1984?

True fans must be thrilled with a team that had to fend off a program with an 18-game losing streak.

Surely they must be pleased with a coaching staff that couldn’t get a play off on a 4th-and-1 against Miami (Ohio).

A true fan must’ve been smiling at the lack of energy on Saturday after the team was said to have practiced with vigor all week, after a humiliating loss in South Bend motivated them.

He or she should see no problem in a fifth-year senior quarterback who has thrown four interceptions in three games, even after his teammates said he looked more confident.

True fans will be happy to shell out thousands of dollars to see a team struggle through a schedule in which maybe a handful of teams are likely to make a bowl game.

No, of course fans don’t want to see that, because the true fans Brady Hoke is calling out do care.

There’s Lauren Kettle and Alex Herzog, students who tailgate with the rest of

“If they’re truly fans, they’ll believe in these kids.”

their friends, but were upset watching their favorite team lose last week. They were still out there Saturday, block ‘M’ stickers on their cheeks.

And Lisa Neitzer, who has come to games for more than 40 years, and was “disappointed” when she watched the Wolverines fall apart last weekend or struggle last season.

Now, she goes to every game, home or away. She was still at the parking lot of Ann Arbor Pioneer High School outside her RV decorated with pictures of wolverines and Michigan Stadium, getting ready to attend another game.

There’s Ben Tupler, who “understands where (Hoke) comes from” when he calls out fans. But that doesn’t mean he liked it any more than the next fan. Still, he was out nearly five hours before kickoff to prepare for Saturday’s game.

There are students walking from a frat house to the Big House who say the team was a step down last year, because they know what the program’s expectations and history are.

They still wear their maize shirts or blue leggings, even as they complain.

So true Michigan fans still show up to games. More than 102,000 of them did on Saturday. But when you play for a team that is defined by how successful it has been, even the most devoted fans will have doubts.

After Hoke realized that he had only upset an already

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Michigan coach Brady Hoke dug himself into a hole in saying real fans will unquestionably support his team, writes Garno.

frustrated fanbase more, he tried to dig himself out. On Wednesday, he said he was looking forward to playing “in front of the greatest fans.” He said Thursday that he was “was a little misquoted, obviously,” because he’s “fortunate and lucky to have the people we have who love Michigan football.”

He wasn’t misquoted; there were dozens of recorders on

him. But it’s a long season, and he had to say something sooner rather than later.

On Saturday, he made a concerted effort to answer the first question he was asked in part by thanking his fans.

“We’ve got great fans,” Hoke said then. “They’ve got high expectations like we do.”

So if Brady Hoke can call out everyone’s fanhood for his program then, don’t fans

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relied-upon member of the offense for the first time. He made six catches for 88 yards, including his first career touchdown, a 17-yard reception in the first quarter.

Aside from his fumble early in the second quarter, Darboh was consistently a bright spot for Michigan.

drive, which ended with Green running for a one-yard touchdown. He gained 47 yards on those four carries.

The timeliness and success of Green’s carries shows that he is closer to being Michigan’s featured back, and his eagerness doesn’t hurt, either.

3. Darboh has finally arrived: Entering his redshirt sophomore season, wide receiver Amara Darboh didn’t have any career receptions. In the season’s first two games, he had three, a positive sign after missing last season with a foot injury.

But with junior wide receiver Devin Funchess sidelined with an injury, Darboh became a

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4. This team is flawed, but the run defense isn’t: For the second consecutive game, Michigan’s run defense significantly limited its opponent.

The RedHawks managed just 33 rushing yards on 24 attempts, while Notre Dame mustered 54 yards on 31 attempts last weekend.

Miami’s longest run in the game Saturday was eight yards, demonstrating once again that Michigan’s defense is solid up the middle, allowing opponents little running room.

back on Michigan’s depth chart, once he turned northsouth, he gashed Miami.

And we’d be remiss not to include Matt Wile in this section after less-than-favorable reviews the first two weeks. He was perfect on field goals.

Some of that stemmed from Michigan’s offensive line, which broke down at times. Wolverine tailbacks had just two negative rushes, though, so that’s certainly an improvement.

Finally, the attendance dipped dangerously close to the 100,000 mark, and patches of empty seats were visible around the stadium.

The announced 102,824 was the lowest total since Sept. 9, 1995.

The bad Fifth-year senior quarterback Devin Gardner had a decent night on paper, finishing 13-of-20 for 184 yards and two touchdowns.

But he was also skittish in the pocket, struggled with accuracy and would’ve had more than one interception if not for drops by the RedHawks and Butt’s strong reception.

The ugly Michigan’s four-minute drive at the end of the first half was a downright disaster.

Check out this sequence: The Wolverines began the series by running five plays — four runs and a pass, spanning more than two minutes — to get into Miami territory. On 3rd-and-7, Gardner threw complete for six yards, the

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It’s not fair to jeer at the players, which happened when Will Hagerup’s punt from the 42-yard line sailed into the end zone with 52 seconds left before halftime. They’re unpaid amateurs and students, after all.

Hagerup and Gardner are just 22 years old, and you’d better believe they’re aware of their flaws without thousands of people shouting in disapproval.

But enduring disdain should come included in the six- and seven-figure salaries, respectively, of Dave Brandon and Brady Hoke.

And Hoke heard your condemnation.

“We have great fans,” the coach said after the game when asked about the boos. “They have high expectations, like we do.”

the RedHawks spoil the party.

The problem was it was Sept.

13, 2014, yet Michigan’s play was reminiscent of the Akron game in 2013 or the Toledo game in 2008.

And, of course, the problem was that the Wolverines had suffered a 31-point embarrassment last week to a fierce rival, and it didn’t look like they were responding very well to it at all.

So yes, Michigan fans, it was OK to boo. When face value on a ticket is $70, you have a right to be critical. When a historically successful program suddenly looks middling in a horrible Big Ten, you have a right to be frustrated.

get a chance to call out his performance as a coach?

Of course they do. It’s three weeks into the season, and Michigan’s most devoted are faced with the prospect his team may not live up to expectations.

Again.

Garno can be reached at ggarno@umich.edu or on Twitter: @G_Garno.

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Bold prediction: Michigan will lose at least five games this season: The Wolverines will likely be favored in the rest of the games on their schedule with the exceptions of Michigan State and Ohio State. But if Michigan plays the way it did Saturday, it will end up losing more than just those games.

With turnovers aplenty and the offensive line looking shaky in pass protection, there are other teams on the schedule that will trouble the Wolverines.

If the Wolverines continue to play like they have in the past two weeks, Michigan will lose at least two of its games against Penn State, Rutgers and Utah in addition to falling against the Spartans and the Buckeyes.

As it stands right now, the Wolverines are at least a fiveloss football team.

Wolverines lined up for a quick snap on fourth down, and the RedHawks called timeout.

Then Michigan was flagged for delay of game coming out of the break, and coach Brady Hoke sent out the punt team. Amidst a chorus of boos, senior Will Hagerup sent his kick booming into the end zone for a touchback.

Earlier in the half, the Wolverines had looked entirely unprepared for a Miami pooch kickoff, resulting in a turnover.

Returner Justice Hayes could have called fair catch, but he didn’t, and Wyatt Shallman was eventually tagged for a fumble.

That was one of Michigan’s three penalties in the first half, a sloppy performance that could have been much more disastrous if not for the quality of the opponent.

So yes, the box score says Michigan outgained Miami, 460198. It shows that the RedHawks managed just eight first downs, and 33 rushing yards, and punted seven times, and ran 17 fewer offensive plays and were 2-of-12 on third downs.

Per the box score, the Wolverines were flat-out dominant.

You don’t need to be a coach to know they weren’t. All you had to do was look at the halftime score: 17-10, with Miami receiving to start the third quarter.

As Hoke said, if you’re a Michigan fan, it’s normal to expect more.

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‘M’ stuns Badgers in last second Michigan drops pair in Oregon VOLLEYBALL

By MITCH BECKMAN Daily Sports Writer

The clock showed :01 left as the ball found the back of the net.

The Michigan women’s soccer team had stormed the field, jubilantly celebrating 1 WISCONSIN what it 2 MICHIGAN believed to be the winning goal while the referees sat huddled in the corner, discussing the call.

The season is young, but the Wolverines have already packed a full season’s worth of drama into it.

Following their controversial 2-1 overtime win over Minnesota on Friday night, the Wolverines upended No. 9 Wisconsin on Sunday afternoon, 2-1, scoring with only one second left in regulation.

For the second straight game, a free kick and an errant whistle decided the ending. Freshman forward Taylor Temko fired a free kick toward the goal as time wound down, but it was deflected away. However, the ball found its way to the foot of sophomore defender Bailey Haydock, who volleyed a cross that was redirected into the goal by redshirt freshman forward Ani Sarkisian.

For a moment, it seemed like the perfect ending for the Wolverines (5-2). However, the side judge had his flag aloft, signaling offside. While the team was herded back to the bench, the referees conferred, eventually waiving the offsides call and upholding the goal.

Both teams realigned for the last second of play, but it was a mere formality. Michigan had won, its first victory over a top10 team in 11 years.

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Wolverines fall in five sets Friday, blown out Saturday

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Redshirt freshman Ani Sarkisian scored with only one second remaining in Sunday’s game to give Michigan the win.

Sarkisian said. “It was a big mish-mosh in the box and Bailey sent it across and I finished. It was a great pass.”

Wisconsin entered the game undefeated and the clear favorite, but the Wolverines never played like the underdog.

The Badgers (7-1) couldn’t get behind the Michigan back line and were forced to play on the periphery in Michigan’s half of the field, often resorting to long shots or driving down the wing.

The tight defense paid dividends for the Wolverines offensively. Despite a lack of offensive possession in the first half, Michigan had multiple strong counterattacks stem from smart, responsible defense.

“It was just fantastic.”

“The whole team played really good defensively,” said Michigan coach Greg Ryan. “Wisconsin never had those clear-cut chances behind our line. They had the ball a lot, but we didn’t give away many chances. It was just fantastic.”

After several minutes of Badger possession early, the Wolverines capitalized on a counter. Finding space down the sideline, junior forward Corinne Harris launched a cross that was headed on goal by junior forward Nicky Waldeck.

Wisconsin’s keeper made the save, but Sarkisian beat her defender to the net and knocked in the waiting rebound.

Michigan’s only glaring defensive mistake came with 10 minutes left in the first half. A bad pass and turnover left Haydock in poor position, leading to her taking a yellow card just inside

the box. Wisconsin converted the penalty kick and evened the game, but the play seemed to wake up the Michigan offense again.

In the second half, the team that was unranked was indistinguishable from one in the top 10. The Wolverines went stride for stride and shot for shot with the Badgers, with both teams having opportunities to score.

The performance gives Michigan a huge confidence boost early in the season and proves to the rest of the conference that it is a viable threat.

“We said at halftime, whether we win or lose, let’s go out there and just play,” Ryan said. “We hung around long enough to give us a chance to win, and it gives us a real confidence. It’s not a soft nonconference win — we go into the next games saying we have a shot against anybody.”

Wolverines ram VCU, stretch streak

By JUSTIN MEYER Daily Sports Writer

Before the Michigan field hockey team stepped onto Ocker Field on Sunday for a matchup with a woefully overwhelmed VCU team, the message was clear: score 1 VCU early and 9 MICHIGAN often.

With nine goals on 16 shots in a 9-1 victory, the Wolverines didn’t disappoint.

Redshirt freshman forward Carly Bennett racked up a goal and two assists, while sophomores Courtney Enge, a forward, and Sina Lampe, a midfielder, both posted their first career multi-goal games.

“One of the things we were going to stress for this game was to finish and for the forwards to get their sticks down near the goal for those long shots across the circle,” Bennett said. “Today, like five of the goals were tips.

I think we really nailed that today.”

Lampe’s first goal, which put Michigan (4-2) ahead 3-0, was the highlight of the game. Enge flung a pass to the left side of the circle, which Lampe corralled as she fought off a defender before hesitating and spinning to her backhand. The move gave her just enough space to fire a shot past VCU goalie Kendall Clifton’s right shoulder and into the upper corner of the cage.

Nine different Michigan players recorded a point in the game, and by the time the second half rolled around, the starters were pulled and the Wolverines’ reserves were taking the field.

Two days after needing two penalty corners to put away Providence, Michigan looked fluid on offense and strong on the back line. Freshman goalie Sam Swenson got the starting nod again, and she too posted a strong performance, extending her shutout streak to 225 minutes before exiting the game at the half for redshirt sophomore Chris Lueb.

The Rams couldn’t generate even a glimmer of offense in

the first half, failing to threaten on either of their two corners.

The showing from Michigan’s senior-laden back line continued its string of elite performances on defense.

The offensive explosion, though, felt like a sort of final piece in the difficult transition the Wolverines have made from the beginning of the season, when they were blown out by No. 1 North Carolina and dropped an overtime heartbreaker to No. 10 Wake Forest.

After pouring on goal after goal against VCU (2-4), Michigan is hoping to finally put those offensive concerns to rest.

The production from the Wolverines’ young players was particularly good news for a team that is relying on underclassmen on the front line. Freshman forward Veerle Lubbers, still adjusting to collegiate field hockey and life away from her home in Amsterdam, netted the first goal of her career.

“Veerle plays like an upperclassman,” said Michigan coach

Marcia Pankratz. “She’s a really solid player. I think all (the underclassmen) contribute and are contributing well.”

Among the underclassmen poised for breakout years on offense, Bennett has distanced herself, starting five of the Wolverines’ six games after redshirting last season.

“Over the summer, I just kind of told myself I need to forget about what it felt like to be a redshirt and just come in and do my thing,” Bennett said. “It’s tough, you work your ass off in practice, and there’s kind of no expectation there. You know you’ll never get in no matter what. I think a lot of that energy was pent up, so I got to let some of that out this year.”

Lampe, who calls Germany home, also figures to see a significant increase in playing time this year after struggling with the transition at times last season.

“My sophomore season is a lot different, because my freshman season I was really homesick,”

she said. “Now I know everyone really well and I feel more confident about playing, because I know the style of American hockey now. It’s a lot faster, it’s a lot of running and fighting.

American hockey players are really jacked.”

The midfielder shows flashes of skill but can sometimes be less effective in the face of a more physical game. But Lampe said her goal for the season is to score more, and she’ll certainly have an opportunity to do that for Michigan this year.

The only question left unanswered by the Wolverines after running by VCU is whether the victory will translate to success against better competition.

“What was good about today was that we had some players who were banged up, so we got a chance for them to rest,” Pankratz said. “We got the chance to see some players in other positions, to get some experience, because we’re going to need them next weekend. Those things were really positive.”

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Sophomore Courtney Enge recorded her first career multi-goal game as Michigan blasted VCU, 9-1, on Sunday afternoon.

A quick glance at the Michigan volleyball team’s statistics from the Big Ten/Pac-12 Challenge might suggest that it put on an excellent performance.

With four players exceeding 20 kills this weekend and three recording double-doubles in Friday’s match alone, the Wolverines’ offense was nearly running on all cylinders in the Pacific Northwest.

Unfortunately for them, the numbers didn’t translate into victories. Michigan’s stellar performance against Oregon State on Friday wasn’t enough to win a five-set slugfest, as the Wolverines dropped the match 17-25, 25-21, 22-25, 25-22, 13-15.

They fared even worse against No. 18 Oregon, losing Saturday’s match in straight sets (17-25, 19-25, 25-27).

Michigan (3-4) proved that it lives and dies by its defense, which held its own in a strong victory over Duke last week but was overwhelmed both this weekend and in last Saturday’s match with North Carolina.

“I thought we played very poor defense,” said Michigan coach Mark Rosen, “and that’s unacceptable. We can’t go into a gym against a good team and expect we’re going to be successful playing defense at a poor level.”

The Ducks (8-0) in particular had their way with the Wolverines. They never trailed in the first two sets, hitting .346 for the entire match as Michigan’s defenders struggled to keep up. The Wolverines were unable to create a rally until early in the third set, when they went on a match-best 5-0 run. Despite reaching set point with a 24-23 lead, Michigan couldn’t put Oregon away and dropped the set and match.

Struggling against one of the Pac-12’s biggest powers might have been understandable, but the Wolverines also wasted an outstanding offensive effort by playing subpar defense against the unranked Beavers (7-1) on Friday. “(On Friday) we were running a very solid offense to be effective,” Rosen said. “It’s unfortunate and disappointing that we lost the game basically on the defensive side of things, because on offense, we did some pretty nice things.”

Michigan allowed 10 Oregon State service aces and committed 17 errors, spoiling a match in which several players set or matched career highs. Junior outside hitter Ally Davis, playing her third match of the season after returning from injury, led the offense with 33 kills over the weekend. Freshman opposite hitter Katherine Mahlke and freshman defensive specialist/ outside hitter Caroline Knop also reached career-high kill totals on Friday, with 20 and 14, respectively.

“Offensively, we were flowing pretty well,” Davis said. “The connection between the setters and the hitters — we did a good job with that. But obviously there are other areas of the game that we need to work on. You can’t just win with purely offense.”

Playing with a very fluid lineup and using numerous substitutions, the Wolverines still seemed to be searching for the best way to use their young players. Rosen tried something new at the setter position this weekend, still trying to fill the void left by senior co-captain Lexi Dannemiller, who is sidelined with mononucleosis. Junior Carly Warner, the only setter Michigan had used this season, found herself rotating with redshirt freshman Cindy Zhou against Oregon.

Zhou made her collegiate debut by picking up 10 assists in the loss.

“We’re still trying to find the answer there,” Rosen said.

“We started trying some other system things to try to create a better lineup that will allow us to compete defensively. We’ve got to figure out that system for us to be offensively and defensively minded with the same lineup.”

Finding the correct lineup to balance offense and defense seemed to be Michigan’s biggest challenge this weekend.

Knop, perhaps the team’s best example of the dual mindset Rosen preaches, showed the ability of a defensive-minded player to contribute on offense on Friday. But standing only 5-foot-8, she had a tough time with the physical front line of the Ducks on Saturday.

Rosen has emphasized that Knop and her teammates can find more success when they blend the perfect balance of contrasting styles.

While the team knows a 3-4 record leaves something to be desired, the Wolverines showed that they seem content to use their losses as learning experiences until they find the equilibrium that eludes them.

“I thought we played very poor defense, and that’s unacceptable.”

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Green demands ball, delivers

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It appeared as though the game was teetering on the brink.

Miami (Ohio) tied the score at 10 with 9:14 to play in the first half, and Michigan football fans were beginning to fret.

Saturday’s game was shaping up to be yet another disaster for the Wolverines. Last year, there was Akron, which came into the Big House and would have won if not for a last-second goal-line stand for the Wolverines. Last week, there was Notre Dame, serving Michigan a humiliating 31-0 loss.

Now, the RedHawks, a team in the midst of what was an 18-game losing streak, posed a threat.

On the sideline, sophomore Wolverines running back Derrick Green wasn’t concerned.

Michigan needed a score, and he wanted the ball.

“I told the coaches, ‘Give it to me, and I’m gonna get the job done, I’m gonna get in the end zone,’ “ Green said. “So they fed it to me, and I got the job done.”

The drive played out exactly like Green envisioned. He didn’t get the ball on the first play, a 26-yard pass from fifthyear senior quarterback Devin Gardner to redshirt junior Amara Darboh. Nor did he earn a carry on the second, when Gardner was sacked. But after that, it was all Green.

He took handoffs from Gardner on four consecutive plays, capping the six-play, 66-yard drive with a one-yard touchdown run. After he started the game slowly, Green’s 47 yards on the drive jolted the Wolverines out of their rut.

Going into the game, Green said he didn’t know he would receive the vast majority of the carries. But Michigan’s coaching staff rode Green all afternoon, resulting in his second career 100-yard performance and first

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1. FLORIDA STATE: We don’t know what Jameis Winston did on his bye week.

2. OREGON: The Ducks successfully forded the river while the Cowboys got dysentery.

3.OKLAHOMA: Are you from Tennessee? Because the Sooners just defeated you.

4. ALABAMA: Nick Saban has never taken a nap.* *No data supports this.

5. AUBURN: While the Tigers had the week off, Cam Newton had his hands full with former Auburn teammate Nick Fairley.

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Sophomore Derrick Green asked his coaches for more carries, and he helped Michigan to its victory over the RedHawks.

career two-touchdown game.

He finished with 137 yards on 22 carries compared to Smith’s 44 yards on nine carries.

In the first two games, the allotment of carries was split more evenly with sophomore De’Veon Smith. This week, Green began to display signs of being the team’s featured running back. When the team needed a score, he wanted the ball in his hands, and coaches obliged. He wouldn’t have it any other way.

“As a running back, you want to keep getting fed,” Green said.

“The more you keep getting fed, your energy just keeps going up and up. They were just feeding me, and I felt good, and I got the job done.”

Michigan employed a similar strategy in the fourth quarter.

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Leading 28-14 with 14:48 to play, the Wolverines gained possession on their own 32-yard line. The drive was a chance to put the upset bid to rest, and Michigan once again turned to Green.

He took four straight handoffs, rattling off runs of seven, eight, 17 and one yard. Gardner threw the ball to sophomore tight end Jake Butt on the next play, but then the offense went right back to Green.

He gained five yards on his next two carries before a Gardner scramble placed the Wolverines on the 12-yard line.

Then his running back finished it off, sprinting to the left for the touchdown that put the result out of reach.

Green finished the drive with 50 yards on seven carries.

Michigan coach Brady Hoke

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said the reliance on Green was partially based upon his week in practice, which the coach said was one of the running back’s best since arriving at Michigan.

After coming in as a highly rated recruit, Green struggled for much of last season behind a porous offensive line, but he has shown marked improvements this season. Against Appalachian State, he scampered for 170 yards, and he showed his capabilities once again in Saturday’s game.

Afterward, Green credited improved vision and improved blocking, saying he saw more holes and hit them with a higher success rate than he did last season. He demanded the ball, so he got the ball.

Partly because of his demands, Miami’s losing streak is now 19 games.

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6. TEXAS A&M: Johnny Football went 0-for-1 in his NFL debut. Oh, and the Aggies beat Rice.

7. BAYLOR: The Bears beat Buffalo.

Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo.

8. LSU: Les Miles once agreed to be Michigan’s football coach. #TBT #MCM 9. OLE MISS: “Rebel, Rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.”

— David Bowie 10. SOUTH CAROLINA: In a game of inches, the Cocks slipped by the Dawgs by the tightest of margins.

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Miami (Ohio) vs. Michigan (-34)

Michigan

Michigan

Michigan

Michigan

Wyoming vs. No. 2 Oregon (-44)

Oregon

Wyoming

Oregon

Oregon

Michigan Oregon

Southern Miss. vs. No. 3 Alabama (-49)

Southern Miss

Southern Miss

Southern Miss

Southern Miss

Southern Miss

Tennessee vs. No. 4 Oklahoma (-21)

Tennessee

Tennessee

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Oklahoma

No. 6 Georgia (-7) vs. No. 24 South Carolina

Georgia

Georgia

Georgia

Georgia

Georgia

No. 8 Baylor (-38) vs. Buffalo

Baylor

Baylor

Baylor

Baylor

Baylor

No. 9 USC (-17) vs. Boston College

Boston College

USC

USC

USC

USC

UL Monroe vs. No. 10 LSU (-31)

LSU

LSU

LSU

LSU

LSU

Purdue vs. No. 11 Notre Dame (-28)

Notre Dame

Notre Dame

Purdue

Notre Dame

Purdue

No. 12 UCLA (-8) vs. Texas

UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

UCLA

LA-Lafayette vs. No. 14 Ole Miss (-28)

Ole Miss

Ole Miss

Ole Miss

Ole Miss

Ole Miss

Army vs. No. 15 Stanford (-29)

Stanford

Stanford

Stanford

Stanford

Army

No. 16 Arizona State (-16) vs. Colorado

Arizona State

Arizona State

Arizona State

Arizona State

Arizona State

East Carolina vs. No. 17 Va. Tech (-10)

Va. Tech

Va. Tech

Va. Tech

Va. Tech

Va. Tech

UCF vs. No. 20 Missouri (-10)

UCF

Missouri

Missouri

Missouri

Missouri

No. 21 Louisville (-7) vs. Virginia

Louisville

Louisville

Louisville

Virginia

Virginia

Kent State at No. 22 Ohio State (-32)

Ohio State

Ohio State

Kent State

Kent State

Kent State

Houston at No. 25 BYU (-18)

BYU

BYU

BYU

BYU

BYU

This week:

7-12

8-11

8-11

7-12

8-11

Overall

26-23

27-22

25-24

22-27

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