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Coach Jim Harbaugh meets with students on ‘American Sniper’

NEWS

City Council City Council members discussed amendments to the 2015-2016 budget >> SEE PAGE 2

NEWS

Research Grants The University granted more than $6.4 million to several projects on education >> SEE PAGE 2 AMANDA ALLEN/Daily

Alison Davis-Blake, dean of the Ross School of Business, announces the graduation of business students at Spring Commencement at Michigan Stadium on May 2.

OPINION

Modifying the MIP Legislation would transform the MIP into a civil infraction >> SEE PAGE 4

ARTS

Ashley-Brooke Sandall University alum talks about building her fashion career >> SEE PAGE 6

SPORTS

‘Sauce’ returns Nik Stauskus comes back to Ann Arbor this summer with a new nickname >> SEE PAGE 8

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Business School dean to step down in June 2016 Davis-Blake says she plans to focus on broader educational issues

By ALYSSA BRANDON and LAURA SCHINAGLE Summer Managing News Editor and Summer Editor in Chief In an e-mail to Ross School of Business students Monday, Business School Dean Alison Davis-Blake announced she is stepping down. “... I will step down from the deanship at the completion of my term on June 30, 2016,” DavisBlake said in the e-mail. “The Provost’s Office will convene a search committee to select the next dean. I am confident that, with your help and support, Provost Pollack and President Schlissel will be able to conduct a very successful search.”

The University’s Board of Regents approved Davis-Blake’s five-year term in 2011. DavisBlake came to the University

after serving as dean of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota since 2006. She was the first female dean in both schools’ histories.

Davis-Blake’s term coincided with real estate mogul Stephen Ross’s $200-million donation to the University. The donation, which was split between the Business School and the Athletic Department, was the largest in the University’s history. DavisBlake was among administrators involved in discussion regarding the donation’s beneficiaries.

During her tenure, DavisBlake helped create the Master of Management program, expand the Executive MBA program to Los Angeles and reorganize the undergraduate BBA curriculum.

Business senior Madeline Walsh, who was the Central Student Government representative for the Business School during the 2014-2015 academic year and will serve in the upcoming academic year as well, said the Business School’s curriculum has undergone positive change under Davis-Blake’s leadership.

“As a rising senior, my entire

Ross experience has been under the leadership of Dean DavisBlake,” Walsh said. “In just four years, I’ve been impressed and inspired by her initiatives to challenge the process of what a business education looks like.”

Walsh said the programs Davis-Blake helped create have diversified opportunities for undergraduate Business students to prepare for the increasingly global workforce.

“She has lead a complete revamp of the BBA program to allow for more flexibility, the option for a longer global experience, and further exploration beyond the core classes with increased electives,” she said.

“I’m especially excited by the Sanger Leadership Initiative which is arising from a ($200-million donation) she helped secure.”

Davis-Blake said she values how her deanship allowed her to help find solutions for challenges faced in the Business School, but wants to shift her focus to broader issues in professional and liberal education.

“I find myself eager to contribSee DEAN, Page 3

Students request meeting in response to Harbaugh’s tweet supporting the film

By LAURA SCHINAGLE Summer Editor in Chief

Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh met with Middle Eastern, North African, Muslim and South Asian students in a private meeting in the Michigan Union on Wednesday to discuss the University’s April screening of the movie “American Sniper,” a film based on the autobiography of former U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle.

E-mails obtained by the Daily sent Tuesday to listservs for various student organizations — including Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, the Middle East and Arab Network, the Arab Students Association, the South Asian Awareness Network, Michigan Pakistanis, and Muslim, Lebanese, Malaysian and Persian students — announced plans for the meeting. The e-mails said several students requested the meeting in response to a tweet Harbaugh sent April 8 regarding the movie.

“Michigan Football will watch ‘American Sniper’! Proud of Chris Kyle & Proud to be an American & if that offends anybody then so be it!” the tweet read.

Harbaugh’s tweet came amid national media coverage of the Center for Campus Involvement’s April 7 announcement that it would canSee MEETING, Page 3

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City Council talks University grants $6.4 million for amendments to projects 2015-2016 budget faculty Projects focus Council approves $89,000 allocation toward hiring sustainability associate

By ANDREW ALMANI Daily Staff Reporter

The Ann Arbor City Council met Monday evening at City Hall to discuss a multitude of proposed amendments to the city’s 2015-2016 fiscal year budget, which takes effect July 1.

The proposed changes to funding related to the creation of outdoor ice rinks for public use, climate change initiatives and expansion of capabilities for processing organic waste in the city.

The council voted unanimously to approve a proposal to establish natural ice rinks in Allmendinger, Burns and Northside parks for cost free usage by city residents. Councilmember Stephen Kunselman (D– Ward 3) proposed the amendment, which will submit $89,169 in general

fund cash to create the ice rinks.

With acknowledgment of the importance of sustainability in the Ann Arbor community, the council approved putting $80,000 toward hiring a full-time sustainability associate to advise the city and $85,000 toward programs associated with the city’s Climate Action Plan, guiding residents and businesses to decrease emissions of harmful greenhouse gases.

The council also approved an allocation of $100,000 from the solid waste budget to create a comprehensive plan to manage and process organic waste in the city.

The city spends money annually to send materials that aren’t composted to a private landfill. Upwards of 40 percent of materials going to landfills from Ann Arbor consists of organic waste that has potential to be processed. Currently, Ann Arbor residents compost roughly half of their solid waste. The amendment was introduced by Councilmembers Julie Grand (D–Ward 3), Graydon Krapohl (D–Ward 4) and Kirk WestSee BUDGET, Page 8

on innovation in learning, education

By EMMA KINERY Daily Staff Reporter

To celebrate the University’s upcoming bicentennial, six University faculty projects received funding grants totaling almost $6.4 million from the University’s Third Century Initiative.

The Third Century Initiative is $50-million five-year project established by University President Mark Schlissel and University Provost Martha Pollack meant to encourage faculty to brainstorm ways to improve student learning. The recent grant comes from Transforming Learning for a Third Century, a part of the initiative dedicated to creating new ways for students to experience learning.

Four other projects, two of which are new, received smaller grants that will go toward testing their potential for future viability.

James Holloway, vice provost for global and engaged education, said while the bicentennial allows for reflection on what the University has accomplished in the past 200 years, the efforts are also focused on future innovations.

“As we approach the bicentennial of the University, we are thinking very consciously about what teaching will mean in the third century of the University of Michigan,” Holloway said. “A residential, public, research institution like the University of Michigan can provide a unique form of engaged learning for students, in which activities like undergraduate research, education abroad, projects and practica, and engagement with the cultural assets of the University and the wider world will lead to learning that is the foundation of our students’ future success.”

Holloway said the overall goal of the program is to capture the innovative spirit of University faculty, students and staff, as well as challenge the current philosophy on student engagement in an edu-

cational environment.

“Of course, as the core of a liberal education, we have long developed students’ critical thinking, writing ability and quantitative reasoning skill,” Holloway said. “With the Third Century Initiative, we hope to further develop our students personally, intellectually and professionally along dimensions of learning that build their understanding of creativity as a process, their intercultural ability and understanding of the role of values in decisionmaking, their social and ethical reasoning facility, their understanding of and capability to collaborate, and their self-agency of entrepreneurial mindset.”

In total, $25 million was allocated for distribution across three project tiers, the top tier being the Transformation Learning grants, which vary from $100,000 to $3 million each.

Holloway said these projects were chosen by the Transforming Learning for the Third Century Committee over 15 other proposals in the second round of Transformation grants and were chosen because of their potential for future impact and investment.

“They look for evidence that the proposal will have a transformative impact on learning at the University and that the project will provide access and visibility for engaged, action-based learning experiences for a significant number of University students,” Holloway said. “They also consider the extent to which there is evidence for the learning effectiveness of the transformation, for its sustainability in the long term.”

Six projects received grants from the program, including “Reimagining Legal Education,” a project that aims to innovate first-year law student curriculum by adding more hands on learning. The project, which received $1.57-million grant, calls for the creation a law clinic where firstyear law students can help upperlevel students with intricate judicial case.

“Gameful Assessment in Michigan Education: Building of Engaged Learners and Teachers Supported See GRANTS, Page 3

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SACUA talks OIE’s use of recording devices Committee says it will conduct additional research on privacy policies

By ALAINA WYGANT Daily Staff Reporter

The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs met Monday to discuss grievance procedures within the University’s Office of

MICHIGAN From Page 1A -cel the movie’s screening scheduled for April 10’s UMix. The CCI said it made the decision in response to a student petition that raised concerns about how the film portrays Arabs, Muslims, the Middle East and North Africa.

However, following another student-generated petition calling for the University to reverse this decision, E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, issued a statement April 8 saying, “the initial decision was not consistent with the high value the University of Michigan places on freedom of expression and our respect for the right of students

MICHIGAN From Page 1A Supported by Gradecraft” received the largest grant from the program at $1.88 million. The project aims to develop a curriculum that integrates gameplay through the software program GradeCraft.

Barry Fishman, who was a co-author of the Obama administration’s 2010 U.S. National Educational Technology Plan and is now a key researcher of the project, said the funding is allocated toward implementing the program in classes across campus and teaching instructors how to use it in their classrooms.

Fishman said gameful learning gives the students the opportunity to feel a stronger connection with the material they are learning.

“We use the term gameful to

Institutional Equity.

In March, SACUA, the executive committee of the body that formally represents faculty, filed a report to the Office of Institutional Equity stating there are several flaws with how OIE treats faculty members who are subjects of harassment and discrimination investigations. The report mainly concerned the adequacy of due process protections in OIE procedures and OIE’s application of those procedures in the cases of three faculty members who submitted complaints to SACUA.

At Monday’s meeting, the committee focused on the role and usage of recording devices during the investigation of one such faculty member.

Michigan’sLaw on Recording and Privacy states that if either the accused or the complainant express concern for privacy , they have a right not to be recorded.

Bioethics Prof. Angela Fagerlin advised having a note-taker if recording is not an option during a grievance investigation.

“To me, you would want two people there: the lawyer and the note-

to make their own choices in such matters.”

Throughout the week’s discussions about the film and the University’s actions, Muslim and Arab students reported harassment and death threats.

The University ultimately screened “American Sniper” and “Paddington” simultaneously at UMix. The e-mails, which were sent by the student who launched a petition in April calling for the University to cancel the scheduled screening, said the coach was invited to talk with students about the screening “and get a dialogue going about how a university leader’s social media can impact campus climate.”

Harbaugh has more than 270,000 followers on Twitter, and

his tweet about “American Sniper” was retweeted 31,775 times and favorited 38,305 times.

Approximately 15 students, Harper and Interim Athletic Director Jim Hackett attended the meeting Wednesday.

Administrators and student organizers requested the Daily not attend the meeting. All students approached by the Daily following the meeting declined comment.

Harbaugh said, “It went great.”

In a follow-up e-mail to the Daily, University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said there was good discussion and the coach is glad he was able to meet with the students.

Daily Staff Reporter Lindsey Scullen contributed reporting.

describe courses that are intended to maximize students’ feelings of autonomy — the ability to make choices about their learning that matter — a sense of belonging or being part of something larger than yourself and also support for students’ developing competence,” Fishman said. “Our team has been experimenting with gameful course designs for about five years now. We realized early on that such classes can be complicated to manage — for both faculty and for students.”

Fishman said GradeCraft will manage the classes with their own unique approach.

“The centerpiece of GradeCraft is a tool we call the ‘Grade Predictor,’ which is designed to support student autonomy by helping them visualize the possible ways a course can be completed successfully,” Fishman said. “The tool enables students to actively experiment with which assign-

ments they will work on and visualize the course grade they will earn as a result.”

The project aspires to create tenable innovation at the University. Fishman said he anticipates gameful learning and Gamecraft will be used in many places beyond the University.

“The University is unusual in that we manage to do so many different things well across such a broad range of areas, not least of which is teaching and learning,” Fishman said. “The entire Third Century program is a testament to how central educational innovation is at Michigan. The GAME project and GradeCraft are just one example of how we continually work to reinvent the classroom experience. Gameful teaching is just one of many different classroom innovations that will make an impact in the coming years.”

taker, somebody who doesn’t have to do anything but take notes,” she said.

The committee concluded they would conduct additional research regarding the recording policy, with hopes to disseminate knowledge of this policy to all University faculty.

SACUA also discussed the new curriculum and training programs offered at the University’s medical school.

Pharmacy Prof. David Smith announced the Medical Affairs Advisory Committee is discussing a new curriculum and training for medical school students that would

bring together science and practice.

The new curriculum would allow students to learn material through hands-on experience rather than learning through lecture and discussion.

“For example, instead of learning about disease, students will check the heart and see how disease functions in the heart,” Smith said.

Smith said the integrated curriculum plan will carry through all four years of medical school.

The next SACUA meeting is scheduled for June 1.

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tation with my closest advisers, friends, and family, I have decided that I want to turn the focus of my professional service to the broader problems and opportunities facing universities.”

be a time of significant change in higher education,” she said. “After much consideration and consul-

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Greenville resident Glen Allen, a member of the Bloodstained Men activist group, protests child circumsicion on the corner of State Street and North University Avenue on Monday.

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drinking behaviors in underage students. Additionally, by diminishing the potential for punishment, the modified law may prevent students who may have already acquired an MIP from adopting more dangerous habits or re-locating drinking to unsafe settings simply out of a fear of facing further criminal consequences.

As anti-drinking enforcement efforts increased on campus during Welcome Week this past year, for example, an increase of drinking behavior was seen in off-campus housing where these behaviors are far less monitored.

Additionally, rather than instilling students with a fear of incurring criminal charges, fines and a multitude of potential future consequences, the legislation emphasizes the idea

Modifying the MIP

Legislation would transform the MIP into a civil infraction

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he proposed Senate Bill 332 would change underage possession of alcohol to a civil infraction. Referred to as a “minor in possession,” or an MIP, underage possession of alcohol is currently a misdemeanor crime. The bill would retain the fees associated with MIPs — up to $100 for the first violation and $200 for the second violation— and the third violation would then be considered a misdemeanor. However, the first and second violations would no longer involve jail time or a criminal record. Additionally, this bill would limit the ability of law enforcement officials to require breathalyzer tests from minors they have reasonable cause to believe have been drinking.

Instead, law enforcement officials would only be able to request that minors submit to the exam. The benefits of this bill are clear. It would prevent young people from being denied scholarships, college admission and job opportunities because of a youthful mistake, and allow the re-allocation of resources currently being used to process MIPs in court. Although this bill would lessen the consequences for underage drinking, it retains enough consequences to be similarly preventative as the current law.

Senate Bill 332 was introduced by Sen. Rick Jones (R– Grand Ledge) in an effort to stop MIP cases from clogging criminal courts. Reducing MIP cases would allow for police officers, prosecutors and judges to use their time for other more pressing concerns. Particularly, the legislation would allow police officers to work to make their communities safer and reduce the amount of time they need to spend as witnesses to these cases. However, some MIP cases would still be misdemeanors, such as those that include the purchase of alcohol using fraudulent identifica-

tion and any violations past the second civil infraction. This would prevent courts from being hindered but still demonstrate that underage drinking is taken seriously. Additionally, it should be noted that in 2013, the counties with the highest amounts of MIPs were all counties containing major public universities. Two of the top four counties are home to Michigan State University and the University of Michigan.

Clearly, MIPs largely affect college students, who are participating in the widely accepted and practiced social activity.

Although underage drink-

ing is illegal, the current status is too harsh of a punishment to impose when the behavior is so prevalent on college campuses. We need to ensure that those students caught breaking this law aren’t stuck with a criminal record and won’t be prohibited from student loans and scholarships as a result of this infraction. By doing so, the proposed legislation protects students’ futures from being permanently impacted by a short-term indiscretion.

Rather than funnel students into the criminal justice system, more educational efforts should be extended to curb

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that drinking is largely a public health issue. More effort needs to be directed at advocating responsible and safe drinking habits in college communities. The bill — by removing the consequences of criminal charges — removes deterrents that may prevent students from seeking medical assistance if a drinking problem does exist. Currently, a medical amnesty law exists in Michigan that protects any minor from receiving an MIP for seeking medical treatment for alcohol poisoning for either another minor or for themselves.

However, if minors are unaware of this medical amnesty legislation, the diminished consequences offered by this bill could further reassure minors that they won’t face criminal charges solely for seeking treatment.

A solution past due

itting on a yoga mat with our feet dangling over the edge of the dilapidated, wooden framework of the balcony attached to my apartment, my best friend and I pondered the rapidity with which the culmination of assignments, projects, all-nighters, MELISSA exams and trips SCHOLKE across the state had propelled us to the summer before our senior year of college. The booming strains of house music from across the street mingled with each laugh and anxious thought that infused the humid, summer night around us. We discussed everything from jobs to relocating to the shared sense of indecisiveness we’d both need to overcome to eventually make these decisions.

We delved deeper into the future, trying to imagine separate timelines for all the goals and accomplishments we hoped were awaiting us in the looming expanse of uncertainty ahead.

Although the notion of strategizing and plotting out our lives may be appealing and offer some reassurance, there’s absolutely no guarantee that our prospective goals and achievements will occur in sync with some defined schedule we attempt to craft during our undergraduate years.

Obstacles are inevitable. Extenuating circumstances may someday lead our personal and professional ambitions to conflict, forcing the prioritization of one over the other. For a great deal of women, the reality of this potential scenario is reinforced during discussions about maintaining an effective balance between personal and profes-

sional life and trying to “have it all.”

An article by Liza Mundy in The Atlantic titled “Playing the Granny Card” suggests the recent surge of highly ambitious female politicians and officials — Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Elizabeth Merkel to name a few— who are seeking or holding leadership positions of immense clout in their 60s is due to the notion that women are “often held back in midlife by domestic responsibilities” and “are in many ways suited to shift into high gear at a later age.” Women — due to discrepancies between the methods by which they are evaluated in comparison to their male counterparts — assume positions at a more advanced age. While only 4.8 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women, those who do eventually advance to the position are around the average age of 52.8 years old. The overwhelmingly larger portion of male colleagues usually does so around the age of 50.2. The trend of older women in public office is further supported by the fact that the median age for female representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives is 59.1.

While it’s both extremely extraordinary and inspiring to see that a woman’s ability to make a substantial impact upon society isn’t constricted by her age, the accompanying notion that female accomplishments may, then, need to be delayed until a woman’s domestic duties are concluded — whatever she chooses those to be — is concerning. Some positions in certain fields, to an extent, will always require the immense knowledge and experience acquired by a practicing individual of an advanced age. Action, however, should be taken to assist women so they don’t need to wait until their 50s, or even their 60s, to consider

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advancing to the top sectors in worked at an institution for a full their field. year, many women may neglect At the outset of their careers, switching jobs, or even seeking a women are almost on par with promotion, if there’s the slightthe men. Young women — as they est possibility they could become begin their professional careers pregnant in the near future. between the ages of 25 and 34 — Currently, the United States earn roughly 90 percent of what severely lags behind in the assistheir male counterparts earn. tance it offers to women who Soon afterwards, the wage dispar- recently gave birth. It’s the only ity between the sexes expands as developed nation that neglects women age. This aggravation of to offer paid maternity leave to the gap leads to women between new mothers, and the United the age of 45 and 54 earning only States and Papua New Guinea are around 76 perthe only two cent of what nations in the their male colCurrently, the United States world that fail leagues earn, to do so. New according to mothers — in severely lags behind in the the U.S. Bureau an attempt to of Labor Statis- assistance it offers to women balance both tics. As women caring for approach their child and who recently gave birth. motherhood, maintaining the need for their profesflexibility and sional goals reduced work hours increases. — often try to aggregate a combiLikewise, studies published in nation of sick days and vacation both the Journal of Social Issues days in addition to their limited and in the American Journal allotment of leave days to counterof Sociology found that moth- act this insufficiency. ers were perceived as possessing By refusing to offer paid materlower levels of competence in the nity leave, the U.S. is neglecting a workplace, a perception that can widely accepted practice capable of hinder a woman’s progress in the alleviating some of the financial and professional realm. professional constraints women Negotiation between working face as they become new mothers. and caring for children is a deciFor women trying to plan their sion women will likely consider as futures, the desire to adequately they choose to begin having fami- maintain their professional and lies. However, one initial step to, at personal ambitions is a task that’s the very least, reduce the possibil- bound to be met with a certain ity women will have to delay their degree of difficulty. While the curprofessional or financial ambi- rent outlook illustrates a promising tions due to domestic obligations future where women can continue is to improve the nation’s current to make significant contributions stance on paid maternity leave. to society even in the latter half of Pregnancy and maternity leave their lives, potential motherhood are issues that may never affect shouldn’t immediately signify a some women’s professional lives, regression in their careers. Yes, and at the moment, it’s a situa- the respective balancing act will tion that’s extremely distant from someday be very difficult for a multhe mindsets of my friends and titude of women, and it will be due me. However, as young women to a variety of factors, one of which enter the workforce and the topic is the lack of paid maternity leave. begins to enter the realm of pos- However, when one factor is known sibility more and more, prospec- to financially and professionally tive maternity concerns become constrain new mothers and has an influential force on whether or been remedied time and time again not specific career steps are taken. by numerous nations, why would Due to the fact the Family and we not strive to change it?

Medical Leave Act only requires — Melissa Scholke can be employers to offer 12 weeks of reached at melikaye@umich.edu. unpaid leave once an employee has

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ARUN NAGPAL | VIEWPOINT

Exploring space tech

The two coolest words in the English language are not “synergistic globalization” or “real-time” or even “cellar door.” They may not be the most poetically underused or grammatically correct, but the words “space tech” represent some of the most exciting changes taking place around us in laboratories, universities and even high above the atmosphere, in outer space itself.

First, let’s talk about thrust. Most of the useful energy of a rocket launch goes toward putting the hunk of metal and plastic in Earth’s orbit — all the fire and explosions that accompany a SpaceX rocket aren’t present once you’re a few hundred kilometers up. At that point, satellites that intend to stick around use more passive forms of rocket propulsion powered not by chemicals, but often by clean, quiet electricity. Electric propulsion (EP for short) is what keeps our TV and communication satellites from falling out of their orbits with small controlled thrusts here and there carefully vectored through algorithms. It isn’t very strong — exerting forces comparable to the weight of only a few ounces — but very efficient, often an order of magnitude more so than its chemical cousin.

As such, EP isn’t just for supporting altitude — long range missions like the Voyager II, and more recently NASA JPL’s Dawn mission, use electric propulsion to traverse long distances by slowly, steadily building acceleration. Dawn uses a state of the art, electrically powered ion engine to explore two of the solar system’s largest asteroids: Vesta and Ceres. It’s the first human spacecraft to successfully orbit two

celestial bodies over the course of one mission, and this feat was only made possible through the use of its specialized thruster. Here at the University, we have the Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Lab that is working on a number of EP projects, including the adaptation of electric propulsion to smaller and smaller satellites.

On top of propulsion technologies, research happens all the time in space. The International Space Station is an internationally run space station hanging in low Earth orbit. One of the major uses of the station is to study phenomena that normally wouldn’t be possible on Earth due to gravity. One of the more interesting experiments commonly performed involves the behavior of liquids in zero-g: enter the ISS espresso machine.

As any workaholic knows, caffeine is an essential part of staying focused when working after hours.

Astronauts are no exception. The recent SpaceX launch brought a number of essential supplies to the space station, including the ISS’s very first espresso machine, which according to NASA, “may lead to new or improved brewing methods” when it is tested in microgravity. The machine, referred to as “ISSpresso” also allows NASA to test their new beverage holder termed the “Capillary Beverage Study” which takes advantage of surface tension and other liquid fluid phenomena to improve pouring in zero-g. (Try to imagine pouring liquid into a cup when there is no ‘down’ established by gravity!)

Finally, let’s talk about the pas-

sion that the development of space technology inspires, even if it never makes it to orbit. Here at the University, a small team of students led by Engineering junior Rob Gitten is hard at work designing for humanity’s future in space.

As part of NASA’s Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts - Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition, this group has come up with a plan to build a 24-person town on Mars. The mission relies on space tech both old and new, utilizing both SpaceX’s reusable rocket technology and NASA’s more conservative space launch system. The RASC-AL team met every year and recently presented their proposal at a meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. With the dedication of true Wolverines, they are working for a day when humanity has a new home in the sky.

Opportunities like RASC-AL bring to light many of the positive impacts space-oriented technology has both on the scientists and engineers who design it and the people, like you or I, whose lives are infinitely improved by it. Satellites bring us pictures of our planet and others, opening our eyes to the splendor of the cosmos and our place within it. Rockets by their very nature inspire dreams, and technology, such as electric propulsion, is the reality of those dreams — the end product of what might have started out merely as ‘what if.’

And coffee in space is pretty cool no matter which way you spin it.

Arun Nagpal is a rising Engineering junior.

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STYLE INTERVIEW

Style Alumni Profile: State St. to 5th Ave. Sandall recounts her journey into the fashion business

By CAROLINE FILIPS Senior Arts Editor

Before Ashley-Brooke Sandall began her fashionable career trajectory, she was a mondaine Metro-Detroiter with an affinity for all things Pucci and Prada. Born to two University graduates and brought up in Ann Arbor, Sandall’s choice to attend the University, where she graduated with a Communications degree in 2003, is understandable. Considering her former-model mother usually picked her up from school rocking brazen Missoni jumpsuits, it’s unsurprising Sandall developed a fondness for fashion that continues to punctuate her professional path — one that began with an internship at Prada and extends to her current position as the senior manager of strategic partnerships for the Council of Fashion Designers of America, replete with enviable experiences at highprofile luxury brands in between.

Aware of the sartorial sphere’s competitive nature, the ever-prudent Sandall developed a strategy for securing ambitious internships.

“I applied for my internship by selling myself on the more traditional education that I was getting in order to differentiate myself from the fashion students,” she said. “I was obviously competing against kids who went to FIT and other fashion schools.”

Fashion-focused clubs and publications were virtually nonexistent during Sandall’s collegiate years, prompting her to carve out a curriculum through internships and seasonal retail jobs. During the summer months, while her family vacationed in Northern Michigan, Sandall took a retail position at Harbor Springs’ premier menswear retailer, selling Ralph Lauren Black Label to the genteel gentlemen of the city.

“I’ve always been a fan of menswear, true tailoring and how men are much more loyal consumers,” she said. “Women are very fickle.”

That partiality for menswear complemented her first job with John Varvatos, a contemporary men’s designer with an eponymous label.

When Varvatos was emerging on the design scene, Sandall learned of his Michigan roots during one of his personal appearances at Barney’s.

Though a New-York-based brand, Varvatos integrates his Midwestern sensibility into the line, something that attracted Sandall. She kept in touch with the designer and received a job offer two months prior to her graduation.

“A large part of my job at John Varvatos was to do personal shopping for not only celebrities, but also notable New York financiers,” she said.

When one of Sandall’s clients was planning to invest in Stuart Weitzman and build a reputable team, he suggested she join. Eager to experience the business side of fashion in a new work environment, she accepted the offer.

“I love John Varvatos and it was very hard for me to leave, but I wanted to transition into something that was a bit more business-minded,” she said.

“I worked on sales and marketing and expanding the brand into other categories.”

Throughout her two years at Weitzman, Sandall’s primary role was to update the brand and attract a younger demographic in the process. She then transitioned into the publishing world, working within American Express’s fashion and jewelry sectors of the Centurian and Platinum card magazines.

At American Express, she dabbled in event planning and generated marketing programs for some of the most iconic luxury brands — Chanel, Balenciaga, Mikimoto and Harry Winston, to name a few. Sandall also planned client-specific events and private dinners for the most affluent customers, among which included those who fly on NetJets thrice annually, and/or those who spend at least $1,000,000 on ready-to-wear collections.

“It was an incredible experience,” she said.

When Sandall’s boss at American Express eventually resigned, he was planning a career segue to the CFDA, when she was, yet again,

highly encouraged to continue on her winning streak in the game of follow the corporate leader. She seemed to be a perfect fit for the organization of America’s leading fashion designers, seeing as she had a past at both John Varvatos and Stuart Weitzman, two CFDA members.

“I followed him over and it was the most amazing thing that’s ever happened to me,” she recalled.

According to their website, the CFDA exists as a nonprofit trade association whose membership consists of more than 400 of America’s foremost womenswear, menswear, jewelry and accessory designers. At the intersection of high-fashion and charity, the agency assists nascent designers within their incubator program, along with serving as a benefactor of fashion scholarships for students.

“I think the best part is definitely being part of an organization that makes such a difference in fashion, even if people aren’t familiar with the CFDA or don’t really know us outside of awards,” Sandall said. “It’s one of the most glamorous events in fashion, but I’m still on the job when attending.”

The organization hosts their namesake awards annually, often nicknamed “The Oscars of Fashion.”

The event recognizes the industry’s talented legacies and evolving designers alike, along with celebrity style-icons (last year, Rihanna snagged the Fashion Icon Award), and, of course, famously showcases fashion. In preparation for the awards, Sandall seeks out sponsorship opportunities, along with creating proposals and activation ideas.

As the current senior manager of strategic partnerships for the association, Sandall’s days are packed — often meeting with council members, potential partners and designers. She also routinely attends evening events, namely cocktail parties and store openings, an aspect she admittedly enjoys.

Though an Ann-Arboriteturned-New Yorker, Sandall said she primarily identifies as a selfdescribed steadfast Wolverine.

“Within the first few minutes of meeting me, I’ll probably mention the fact that I went to the University of Michigan.”

CONCERT REVIEW

HALESTORM

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Halestorm: a review in ‘fucks’

By CHRISTIAN KENNEDY Managing Arts Editor

Tuesday May 19, 2015, Halestorm and The Pretty Reckless played The Whiting in Flint (there was an opening-opening act which I missed, you know, because fashionably late. Curse me when they are the headliner I am waiting for two years from now). These two female-led rock bands killed the 2015 Carnival of Madness tour in typical rock style. There were booming drums, head-banging guitar riffs, lots of eyeliner and a few shots of jäger. If it is any testament to the show, my ears are still ringing after the hour-plus drive home.

And in true rock ‘n’ roll style, I have a “fuck yes” and a “fuck you” list.

Fuck yes to the venue for actually having its own parking lot. Fuck yes to my BFF for coming, even though she didn’t know a single song. Fuck yes to Little Caesars for having a pre-concert dinner in my price range. Fuck yes to my BFF for finally urinating somewhere other than a toilet (in the aforementioned parking lot, to be specific). Fuck yes for the venue for not checking our bags. I needed that in-between set drink and ho ho to get me through.

Fuck yes to Connie, the woman next to me, for showing up by herself and having a damn good time. Fuck yes to The Pretty Reckless. They didn’t play my favorite song, but I rocked out and head-banged to their entire set as if it was my favorite (shoutout to my BFF for having a hair tie to keep my hair out of my mouth as I head-banged). Fuck yes to this show for giving me a reason to unironically use the “rock on” hand sign I

usually reserve for snapchats. Fuck yes to the parents who brought out their young children to experience some amazing music, even if it was simply because they couldn’t find a sitter. Fuck yes to Halestorm for bringing their A-game to Flint, Michigan (their home away from home, as they said multiple times).

Fuck yes to them making me love a couple songs I didn’t even like.

They were amazing live. Fuck yes to security for letting me sneak my way up to the front row during the encore and get as close as possible to the band. And a final fuck yes to my BFF who smiled at me as I left her in our seats to jam up close.

And for the fuck yous: Fuck you to my cheap nail polish for chipping an hour after I did it. Fuck you to the man on the other side of us who gave dirty looks for the two (TWO) times I bumped into him over the three-hour period (it’s a rock show, calm down). Fuck you to the cheap Forever 21 bracelet for flying off my hand and into the crowd ... good riddance, I guess. Fuck you to the man in front of me for inappropriately touching his companion for the better (worse?) part of the show; save it for after, pal. Fuck you, Lzzy Hale, for handing the guitar pick to the hand next to mine during the encore (jk, I love you a lot).

Clearly none of my “fuck yous” were the fault of the band. Well, besides the guitar pick, but I won’t hold it against them. And as one final thank you: Thank you Halestorm for bringing “Mayhem” into what would’ve been a boring Tuesday night, and taking my rock show virginity. It is something I will never regret nor forget.

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MOVIE REVIEW

ARTS 7

‘Mad Men’ says good- ‘Pitch Perfect’ bye after seven seasons sequel: off-key Final Episode leaves unanswered questions

By NOAH COHEN Daily Arts Writer

By CHLOE GILKE Managing Arts Editor

Rest in peace, Don Draper.

During his last appearance in the “Mad Men” series finale, Don Draper (Jon Hamm, “30 Rock”) is at peace.

AHis eyes are closed and his mouth rests Mad Men in an uncharacteristic smile. The col- Series Finale lection of roles and AMC jobs that bound him to his harsh New York lifestyle — husband, father, mentor and hotshot advertising executive — barely register on his still face. He is still alive and breathing, but Don Draper is dead.

One of the major themes running throughout “Mad Men” is the malleability of identity. When Dick Whitman pulls the dog tags off his friend’s corpse and returns home from the Korean War with a new name, he’s abandoning the baggage of his traumatic childhood and becoming, quite literally, another person. He is a chameleon, changing who he is to fit the demands of the new job and life he chooses for himself. And he is not the only one: The Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss, “The West Wing”) of Season 7 couldn’t be more different from the demure and impressionable secretary we met in the first episode.

“Mad Men” allowed all of its characters to change and shift course countless times during its sevenseason run — to rise, fall, relapse, live, die and come back again.

As her friendship with Don has cooled, Peggy is flourishing with independence. While Don runs away from all his problems, Peggy confronts hers head-on. She’s thriving at McCann Erickson, poised to become the next Don and even more. However, she still harbors a soft spot in her heart for the mentor who gave her the spark of hope for something more than secretarial work. And as distant as Don could be, his relationship with Peggy was one of his most genuine and mean-

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ingful. In a despairing moment late in the episode, Don calls Peggy, remembering that he never said goodbye to her in person. He confesses his sins: Hunched over the payphone with anguished eyes, mentor seeks comfort from mentee. Peggy reminds him that he has a home and a family to come back to — a work family, but that doesn’t make it any less real. Moss and Hamm deliver some of their best performances of the entire series, and the scene aches with the pathos of their shared desperation.

Immediately after this call, Peggy gets another from Stan Rizzo (Jay Ferguson, “The Lucky One”), who suddenly confesses his love to her. It’s a bizarre development, considering that their relationship always read as mutually respectful and supportive — never romantic.

When Peggy realizes that she might have feelings for him, too, and he bursts into her office to kiss her, the scene is almost too good to be true.

Historically, “Mad Men” has taken a cynical approach to love, and with so little evidence for Peggy and Stan, their passionate smooch comes off a bit too pat to be believable.

Don Draper doesn’t want to choose between work and life. He’s had his share of both — seven seasons of brilliant advertising pitches and late nights in the office and a few months’ worth of aimless wandering and drunken brooding.

When he arrives in Los Angeles and ends up at the hippie retreat, Don is already looking the part of Dick Whitman, wearing his hair in a boyish side part and donning

some rugged denim jackets that are uncharacteristic of the ad exec persona he left behind in New York.

But he outgrows those clothes at the retreat: He explores a new part of his identity entirely separate from Dick and Don. He has a sincere moment of connection with a man who describes feeling insubstantial, more like a can in a refrigerator than an actual human man with a wife and children who love him.

Don knows this feeling of emptiness well. Despite the fact that he’s offered glimpses of vulnerability to his children and to Peggy, he wonders if there is even a man under the disguises he’s grown so used to wearing.

He buries Dick and Don in the California sand and emerges a new man, eyes closed and legs crossed and meditating.

He smiles, offering viewers a quick glimpse at the man he has become. Then the screen cuts to a Coca-Cola advertisement, which Don might have created if he went back to McCann Erickson.

The show doesn’t provide a definitive answer if he actually created the ad. All we are left with is the image of a peaceful smile and a group of people singing about love, harmony and human connection. It’s a beautifully ambiguous ending to a show that always challenged its viewers to question and engage and to impart their own meaning on every episode. Don is a blank slate and it’s up to us to determine his new identity.

Hold what you love to a high standard.

The acting, spearheaded by Anna Kendrick (“Up in the Air”) as C+ the irresistibly not-so-alt Beca Pitch PerMitchell, was charming and fect 2 lighthearted.

At Quality 16 Kendrick hit and Rave 20 her notes. The music was Universal Pictures groovy.

But “Pitch Perfect 2” won’t make you feel happy like an old-time movie because the direction hit somewhere between amateurish and hand-me-a-drink awful, with insidious gags and hurtful tropes suffocating the cast. Firsttime feature director Elizabeth Banks went for the low-hanging fruit, and the film never found its sound. The project of “Pitch Perfect 2” presented weird and glorious opportunities; we really needed Banks to step up here. Musical comedy deserves better than ironic caricatures.

The Bellas, our a cappella heroes, find themselves in a graphically embarrassing situation and spend the rest of the movie recovering.

The long-term objective is clearly outlined, and the once-again underdogs wander towards victory without serious conflict. A sense of community redeems our troupe.

The message of power in voice and friendship is parodied and undermined by a giggling carelessness in execution. The supporting actresses’ identities are little more than running gags.

Rebel Wilson — playing “Fat Amy” — does her damnedest to make her character a complex person. Her fearlessness in spite of scorn — both in-universe and from the audience — is phenomenal, but in her grand romantic denouement, she’s directed to present herself more as “Fat” than as “Amy”, as though overweight people’s relationships can never be more than a joke. Sure, the franchise gets points for including her at all, but it’s not a win when the primary cinematic value of a token character is ostensi-

bly their tokenhood.

This problem is redoubled in the case of the Black lesbian whose name we forget, the over-sexualized girl whose name we forget, the quietly psycho Asian girl whose name we forget and the cute illegal immigrant girl whose name we forget, who constantly makes jokes about how horrifying life ACTUALLY IS for REAL PEOPLE in REAL PLACES in the REAL WORLD. And this is a light comedy? No, this is a dark comedy. You might not notice, because everyone is smiling and adorable. But damn, the darkness.

It’s Alanis-Morissette-ironic, dwelling in that coincidental poverty of humor: the vagina flash, the lesbian hilariously turned on by sharing a tent with her straight girlfriends, the Mexican student joking about deportation. But these sour notes can’t touch Kendrick, who carries the film. Kendrick’s interactions with the German a capella group, Das Sound Machine, are deliciously awkward, touched with a confused sexual tension that has the audience cooing, and KeeganMichael Key owns every scene he’s a part of, his effervescence legitimizing the absurd cameo of Snoop Dogg.

But the dramatic turns feel forced. There’s an underground pajama party staged just to give “Pitch Perfect 2” an opportunity to represent musically the way “Pitch Perfect” did, and even worse, when the Bellas go away to a camp to rediscover “their sound”, the atmosphere of the bonding is disappointingly lowintensity, as though the director only noticed three-quarters of the way through the movie that the script saw insufficient conflict.

The door of the film is left open for a sequel, but Kendrick’s intended replacement, Emily (Hailee Steinfeld, “True Grit”) doesn’t have the stage presence to fill Kendrick’s shoes, despite Steinfeld’s organic puppy romance with the adorkable Benji (Ben Platt, “Pitch Perfect”).

We adore this franchise, but we wanted the full wit and power of these ladies to leave us acastounded. Even if the magic of the music glimmered through, the greater whole was a hot mess.

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The subcommittee decided unanimously that an oversight board needs to be established, although the specific title or model of implementation still needs to be developed.

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‘Sauce’ comes home

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Left: 2014 Big Ten Player of the Year Nik Stauskas was the ninth pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, but averaged just four points per-game. Right: Sauce Castillo has taken both Sacramento adn Ann Arbor by storm, and is now available at M-Den and online.

Former Michigan star returns home after rookie season

By KELLY HALL Daily Sports Writer

Judging by the 15 bottles of hot sauce lined up on his kitchen countertop, Nik Stauskas is either a burgeoning chef or an NBA rookie endorsed by Musashi Foods.

After a closed-captioning error referred to Stauskas as “Sauce Castillo” in March, the Sacramento Kings guard has experienced a whirlwind of attention surrounding his infectious nickname.

There are shirts dedicated to the mishap, and he even has his own line of Sauce Castillo hot sauce through Musashi.

He not only didn’t see the nickname coming, but he’s not even a fan of legitimate, spicy hot sauce.

After getting over the initial weirdness, though, he was able to embrace it.

“I was so confused, I didn’t really get it,” Stauskas said. “It happened during the game, so I didn’t really figure it out until afterwards on Twitter because everyone was Tweeting at me like, ‘Good game, Sauce.’

“The first time I heard it, I thought it was a little weird. I didn’t love it.

Once I saw how much everyone else liked it though, I was like, ‘You know what, I might as well roll with it.’ ”

The moniker followed him everywhere on the road, where fans shouted “Sauce” at him rather than Nik, and his teammates stopped calling him Nik altogether.

With the nickname came more confidence.

“It was almost like an alter-ego type of thing, which I enjoyed, like going on the court and playing as someone else and just having fun with it.”

Both the nickname and the sauce have followed him back to Ann Arbor (fans can now buy his mild sauce at The M Den and even meet “Sauce Castillo” on June 5 from 6-8pm in the store), where he’s training with Michigan basketball strength and conditioning coach Jon Sanderson for the summer.

Two years ago, Stauskas spent the summer with just Sanderson and Caris LeVert. He believes the summer following his freshman season changed his body, and the results showed.

His sophomore season, Stauskas increased his average points per game by six points to become Michigan’s leading scorer at 17 points per game. Expanding his role from shooting specialist to team leader, Stauskas also surprised many by winning Big Ten Player of the Year.

He attributes those gains to Sanderson’s emphasis on building body mass and adding size.

Sanderson, a former Ohio State basketball player, has six years of coaching at Michigan under his

belt, and he believes in the basics of weightlifting to get players to reach their full potential.

Stauskas decided to return to his old stomping grounds when Sanderson called him in the beginning of March — before the Sauce Castillo madness began — about training in Ann Arbor for the summer.

“Coach Sanderson just called me randomly out of nowhere,” Stauskas said. “He was just like, ‘Man, you’ve gotta come back to Ann Arbor, we’re going to have a big summer and we’re going to work really hard.’ The more I thought of it, the more it made sense to me. Just being back where I’m comfortable, working with people I know, it just all seemed like a pretty good idea.”

He also returned to work with Greg Harden, the Director of Athletic Counseling at Michigan.

Harden, who has worked with Tom Brady, Desmond Howard and Michael Phelps, specializes on the mental aspects of the game.

Stauskas values the psychological facets of athletics as much as the physical, so the joint effort made the choice to return to campus easy.

Along with working with those he’s already familiar with, Stauskas has also gotten to know the younger players on the current Michigan squad, and his eyebrows raise and eyes widen when talking about next season’s potential.

“I’m in the weight room with

them every day, so it’s just good to be around those guys,” Stauskas said. “They make me work harder and I make them work harder.

“I think next season is going to be big, especially if they can get everyone back and healthy. It’s going to be a tough team to face.

Now the team has been together for a little while, and I think next year is going to be a good year.”

After making the jump from being an unheralded college recruit to a lottery draft pick in the NBA, his former teammates have bought into the importance of summer conditioning.

“It’s crazy to see how far the spring and summer sessions have come for the Michigan basketball team,” Stauskas said. “Two years ago, when Caris and I stayed for the spring, we were like the only ones staying to work out with Sanderson, and now, virtually the whole team is here working out with Sanderson every day. Everyone is here and wants to put in the work.”

Among those is sophomore Duncan Robinson, who will be eligible this upcoming season after sitting out last season due to NCAA transfer rules. Before even playing one official minute for the Wolverines, people are already trying to compare him to Stauskas.

The comparisons might not be completely unheralded, though. “(Duncan Robinson) can really shoot,” Stauskas said. “We need to schedule something. He might even beat me — at least that’s what the

guys have been telling me.”

After taking just two weeks off, Stauskas has returned to his roots, and he’s not afraid of the competition the younger players might bring.

Though Stauskas only averaged 15.4 minutes per game for the Kings, a measly number compared to the 35.8 minutes he averaged in his final year at Michigan, the demanding travel schedule still took its toll on the rookie.

But even after he adjusted to the professional lifestyle, the higher level of competition was unlike any physical challenge Stauskas had ever faced. He averaged 4.4 points per game — far from how he wanted his rookie season to go.

After being the big man on campus just a year before and having attention from even the most casual of Michigan fans, he struggled to get noticed in Sacramento.

“I think the toughest thing for me, as far as transition goes, was just the physicality of the game,” Stauskas said. “Guys are six, seven, eight years older than me a lot of the time and they’re just grown men, they have 10, 15, 20 pounds on me. Just putting on the extra size will help me with a lot of confidence and help me battle harder out there.”

Whether he makes those gains from the extra time he puts in the gym or from a “Sauce Castillo”heavy diet (he enjoys it with grilled chicken the most), he hopes an Ann Arbor summer will lead him to success once again.

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Seniors Jessica Eiffert and Hannah Sherman were named All-Big Ten on Sunday.

Rowing comes in second at Big Ten’s

By ALEX KHALIFEH Daily Sports Writer

Don’t look too far into the similarities between this group and last year’s.

Though the No. 11 Michigan women’s rowing team finished with the same overall result as it did in last year’s Big Ten Tournament — a second-place finish to top-ranked Ohio State — the end results in the particular races had different, and in some cases better, outcomes.

Take the Wolverines’ second varsity eight, for example.

Unlike last year, when Michigan’s crew finished in second place behind Ohio State, the Wolverines bested the Buckeyes this time around, winning the Big Ten title for the second varsity eight.

“I just know all of the hard work the girls in that boat have put in,” said senior Alex Spaulding.

“They were down nine seconds to Ohio State, and then up on them four. … It was just super motivating and I think it really set the tone that anything is possible. … I was so excited for them, and it was a really special win for them and the team.”

The second varsity eight title is the first for the Wolverines since 2012.

In the first varsity eight, Michigan placed second behind Ohio State, separated by a mere 2.782 seconds.

Though the Wolverines played a

neck-and-neck race, Indiana put a scare into Michigan, as the Hoosiers conjured up a late rally in the final 500 meters before the Wolverines were able to hold Indiana off and secure second place.

Despite not being able to take home the Big Ten title in their respective event, the first varsity eight crew were pleased to notice the improvements against the Buckeyes since their previous matchup just last month.

“We’re really excited going into nationals,” said Spaulding. “The margin (Ohio State) had on us a few weeks ago was cut in half. We know we have another chance at them at NCAAs, so we’re excited about it.”

The first novice eight faced a difficult time during its event, finishing fifth overall, while the second varsity four and third varsity four placed third and fourth, respectively.

After the tournament ended, Spaulding along with seniors Jessica Eiffert and Hannah Sherman were honored with All-Big Ten team recognition. Senior Allison Boss was also recognized for the Sportsmanship Award.

“It’s actually incredible,” said Spaulding. “It’s super humbling and kind of surreal. It was something that I kind of dreamt of (along with) being in the (first varsity eight). It’s a super big honor and I’m really happy about it.”

Softball ready for Bulldogs

By CHRIS CROWDER Daily Sports Writer

Last year, the Michigan softball failed to make the Women’s College World Series. It lost in the Super Regionals — the round the Wolverines are heading into Thursday. But this is a different team. This is a different year, a different opponent.

No. 3 Michigan (54-6 overall) isn’t worried or thinking about last season’s shortcoming. It replaces the fear that could be there with confidence.

“We might be facing better talent (this week compared to previous weeks) and everything,” said freshman first baseman Tera Blanco. “But if we stick to us and stick to what we do, I think we’re going to be fine.”

Added sophomore right-hander Megan Betsa: “We’re sticking to our normal routine. We’re doing everything the exact same that we would do if it was someone else.”

This year’s Super Regional opponent is the No. 14 seed of the NCAA Division 1 Softball Tournament, Georgia (44-15). The Bulldogs finished sixth in the loaded SEC Conference, but lead it in batting average (.346) and stolen bases (122). Georgia’s position at both categories proves its proficiency at contact hitting and running well on the base paths.

“Their offense is pretty strong,” said Michigan coach Carol Hutchins. “They’ve got great hitters, they’ve got team speed. You know they’re going to be dangerous and they’re going to

be really aggressive.”

Hutchins emphasized how the top two hitters of the lineup, right fielder Sydni Emanuel and second baseman Alex Hugo, are threats with their skills at the plate. Emanuel and Hugo are in the top 15 in their conference in batting average with .429 and .403 marks, respectively.

Hugo leads the SEC in slugging percentage by a wide margin, maintaining a .918 clip.

The Bulldogs’ pitching staff is not too shabby either, holding a 2.04 earned-run average.

Taking over most of the starts is right-hander Chelsea Wilkinson. Wilkinson has a 1.95 ERA and leads her conference with 28 wins and 262 strikeouts. Being a strikeout artist like Betsa, the matchup between the two righthanders will be a highly anticipated one. “(Coach Brundage) wants me to shoot for 21 strikeouts, so that’s what I’m gonna do this weekend,” Betsa said. “I’m gonna try to strike out 21 people.

But it may not happen, and that’s something I’m gonna have to be okay with if it doesn’t happen.

My mentality is going to stay the same. I’m a strikeout pitcher and that’s what I’m going to do.”

Hutchins wants Betsa to have this attitude, stressing that the pitching staff will be of high importance this round.

“We have to attack them because they’re going to attack us,” Hutchins said. “We can’t pitch around them and we can’t be tentative. Because if the pitchers are tentative, our team

will be tentative.”

But the Wolverines are anything but tentative at this point.

They’re ready to punch their ticket to Oklahoma City. Hutchins said that there are 16 teams left out of around 300. And she emphasized that these 16 are not necessarily the best, but are playing the best right now. This spot is earned and couldn’t have been earned with tentativeness.

“This is the bottom line, I don’t know if this is proper to say, but it’s kill or be killed,” Hutchins said. “You show up and play, you show up and attack, or be attacked. So you’re either going to win, or you’re going to lose. You can’t be afraid of it. The minute you’re afraid you might not go to Oklahoma City, I guarantee you won’t go.”

Michigan isn’t scared. It isn’t worried about how fast Wilkinson’s fastball is going to be, or if Hugo will take a pitch deep. The Wolverines are rather confident in how their own pitching staff is going to throw well, and how everyone in the lineup will contribute when called upon.

Team 38 isn’t Team 37. That doesn’t mean that this year’s team is better or more confident than the one before it. It just means that the teams are different. Each team has faced different obstacles. For Team 38, there’s no fear that last year’s history will be repeated.

“We’re not going to be afraid,” Hutchins said. “That’s something we have to control. Fear creeps into everybody’s mind, and that’s something you have to throw out the window and start slugging.”

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Season on the line as baseball heads to the Big Ten Tournament

By ZACH SHAW Managing Sports Editor

The Michigan baseball team is playing some of its best baseball in years.

The rest of the conference, however, has followed suit.

The 2015 Big Ten Baseball Tournament is set to begin in Minneapolis Wednesday in what will be one of the most competitive conference tournaments in the country.

For the first time ever, the Big Ten will send six teams inside the nation’s top 50 rankings to the eight-team event. The six Big Ten teams is a number only bested by the Southeastern and Atlantic Coast Conferences, which each boast eight such teams Despite having their most wins since 2010 and earning the No. 3 seed, the Wolverines — who kick off the tournament against Indiana at 10 a.m. eastern time Wednesday — aren’t one of those teams.

In fact, Michigan (1410 Big Ten, 33-23 overall) finds itself deadlast in Ratings Percentage Index, which factors in win percentage and strength of schedule. Despite being on the outside looking in, momentum has been building for the Wolverines.

“It’s been an upward slope ever since I got here,” said senior infielder Eric Jacobson. “We’ve gotten better and better every time and the program is on the rise.

We’ve got a resilient bunch and a confident bunch, and I think that bodes well for the postseason.”

Michigan finished conference play with a 7-2 record, and recently showcased its postseason potential by toppling No. 13 Oklahoma State on Sunday.

Among the stars of that game was sophomore left-hander Brett Adcock, who struck out seven in three shutout innings. Guiding the Wolverines in their last game

against the Hoosiers (12-10, 32-20) — a 4-3 win in Bloomington April 5 — Adcock gets the nod for Wednesday and will lead the pitching staff into battle.

The sophomore is 6-1 with a 2.00 earned-run average in his last seven starts. But should he run into trouble, Michigan coach Erik Bakich isn’t afraid to tap into his resources to get outs.

“One positive about our staff — whether it’s our starters or relievers — is that everybody is battle-tested,” Bakich said. “Everyone’s been in some type of a nail-biter, some type of a close game, some type of a big situations where they had to make big pitches.

“That’s only going to help us.”

What also helps is that the Wolverines can usually count on their offense to provide some breathing room. Leading the conference in hits, on-base percentage, and a bevy of other statistics, Michigan has no shortage of production at the plate.

Sure, there are four Wolverines ranked inside the conference’s top 11 in batting average, but the bottom of the order — which went 8-for-18 in Sunday’s win over the Cowboys — makes Michigan a legitimate threat against any team.

“One-through-nine, anybody can step up at anytime,” said senior catcher Kendall Patrick. “(Opposing) pitching coaches know that, and it makes them pitch everybody straightup because they know there’s a dangerous guy behind them.”

Ranking last in RPI, Michigan will need to win the whole tournament to earn its first postseason berth since 2008. But with its best team in Bakich’s tenure, the excitement around the team is equally high.

“We’ve got to grind, and we know that,” Bakich said. “We know that the end of the year is always going to be a grind, always going to be a battle, so we’ve got to play pitch-to-pitch.

“We know we’re going to take some blows, we know we’re going to trade punches, and we look forward to that challenge.”

“We know we’re going to take some blows ... trade punches.”

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Sophomore left-hander Brett Adcock is 6-1 with a 2.00 earned-run average in his last seven starts and started Wednesday.

Seniors end on high note, beat No. 13 Oklahoma State

By ALEX KHALIFEH Daily Sports Wrter

If there’s one way to win a baseball game, it’s through dominant pitching.

The Michigan baseball team (14-10 Big Ten, 33-23 overall) controlled its OKLAHOMA ST 2 regular6 MICHIGAN season finale with pitching, en route to its 6-2 win against No. 13 Oklahoma State on Saturday.

Whether it was sophomore lefthander Brett Adcock’s dominance — Adcock pitched 3.0 innings, recording seven strikeouts and one hit — or the relievers strong showing, giving up just two earned runs, the Wolverines’ pitching fired on all cylinders to the tune of 15 total strikeouts and just four hits allowed on the afternoon.

“Adcock did a great job of setting the tone,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich. “He attacked the zone and mixed up all of his pitches. I thought he did a terrific job. … He was able to keep them off-balance.

“I thought (senior right-handed pitcher) Donnie Eaton was very good in his inning, striking out the side. … Our guys weren’t going to be denied today.”

Conversely, Oklahoma State (34-17) faced trouble against

Michigan’s offensive lineup.

With a 0.89 earned-run average coming into his start, righthander Remey Reed seemed like a tough matchup for any offense to go up against.

But the Wolverines didn’t let up, highlighted by senior outfielder Jackson Gline’s two-run blast in the third — his second home run in the series. Reed was pulled after 3.1 innings, giving up seven hits, three runs and striking out zero.

The Cowboys’ offense attempted several comebacks, with the most notable being a three on, two out situation faced by freshman left-hander Michael Hendrickson in the fifth. Oklahoma State’s shortstop Donnie Walton came through with a two-RBI single, but further damage was prevented after senior right fielder Kevin White nabbed catcher Gage Green on a throw to freshman third baseman Jake Bivens, who promptly tagged Green out.

Though the pitching didn’t come without its share of stressful innings, the defense recorded outs when balls went in play.

With a runner on, infielder David Petrino hit a deep fly ball to left field off of sophomore left-hander Keith Lehmann. But junior left fielder Cody Bruder made the catch and saved what would’ve been extra bases and resulted in a tie game.

After the possible comeback opportunities, Oklahoma State fell apart in the bottom half of the eighth, when Michigan tacked on three insurance runs, attributed in part by fifth-year senior catcher Kendall Patrick’s two-RBI double against righthander Carson LaRue. For Michigan, it ends its regular season with its most wins since 2010, and is hungry for success in the Big Ten Tournament.

“A win like this … brings momentum,” said Bakich.

“It’s a good feeling to have.

These guys work extremely hard and deserve success. The way we played today with the execution, the effort and the mentality.

The total feeling today of (us) not going to be denied.

“If we bottle this up and keep this going, we’re going to be a tough team to beat.”

“We’re going to be a tough team to beat.”

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Left: Junior centerfielder Sierra Lawrence will take on her team’s home state beginning Thursday. Right: The Wolverines are allowing a nation-best average of 1.01 runs per game during their 23-game win streak.

Wolverines advance behind super play

By CHRIS CROWDER Daily Sports Writer

Before the first pitch was delivered, Michigan coach Carol Hutchins gave junior 1 OAKLAND 9 centerfielder MICHIGAN Sierra LawCALIFORNIA 1 rence a fist 9 MICHIGAN bump as she 3 PITT stepped up MICHIGAN 10 to the plate.

The gentle punch was followed by a strong, metaphoric one as the Wolverines came out swinging from the start.

They didn’t wait around, sizing up their opponent. The jabs came quick and early.

On the third pitch of the ball game, Lawrence lined the ball just inside the right-field foul line for a double. She came around to score after two illegal pitches by Pittsburgh right-hander Savannah King. Junior second baseman Sierra Romero and sophomore left fielder Kelly Christner reached on a hit-by-pitch and walk, respectively, putting King’s start in jeopardy already.

No. 3 Michigan (54-6 overall) wouldn’t stop throwing the Panthers (37-22) haymakers from there, winning, 10-3.

Junior right fielder Kelsey Susalla delivered the early knockout punch with a three-run homer for an early 4-0 lead. The uppercut

knocked King out of the circle, ending her day without recording an out.

“I don’t want to give away atbats,” Hutchins said. “I want them to play hard every pitch.”

Three batters later, freshman designated player Aidan Falk continued her hot streak, smacking a double down the right-field foul line to score senior catcher Lauren Sweet to push the lead to five.

Sophomore shortstop Abby Ramirez struck out to end the inning. Nonetheless, the Wolverines batted around the lineup in the first frame, leading to a standing ovation from the crowd as they headed back to the dugout.

Pittsburgh tried to counter with two runners in scoring position in the bottom of the first, but failed to score after senior left-hander Haylie Wagner earned a groundout to get out of the jam.

Michigan also hurt the Panthers on the defensive side.

With zero down and one on first base in the second inning, Wagner earned a strikeout. Showing no hesitation behind the plate, Sweet rifled the ball to catch the Pittsburgh base runner stealing.

With the bases loaded in the

third inning, Lawrence came up to bat. And again, she delivered — this time with a bases-clearing double, hitting the top of the right-centerfield wall. Lawrence advanced to third on an errant throw home, as the last run across the plate put the game into run-rule territory, 8-0.

“I don’t think I ever even realized that I had two strikes,” Lawrence said.

“I’m just going up there to get a hit.”

The Panthers’ offense came to life in its half of the third inning.

Up to the plate with runners on second and third, designated player Jenna Modic hit a rocket up the middle for a two-RBI double, putting the score at 8-2. The double would lead to Wagner’s exit from the game, as sophomore righthander Megan Betsa took over in the circle.

After earning a groundout, Betsa would surrender another run by way of an RBI single, cutting the Pittsburgh deficit back to five. The damage ended there, as

The Wolverines came out swinging.

Betsa got the hitter to fly out to centerfield to end the inning. “(At that point) I thought we were a little tentative,” Hutchins said. “I just felt we were starting to hold our breath a little bit to get to the outcome.”

With a runner on third base in the top of the fifth inning, Romero stepped up to the plate. What she did next was inches away from another statistic to add her name to in the Wolverines’ record book.

She blasted a ball toward the right-field wall. It was inches away from a home run to give her the Michigan individual career record, falling just short, hitting the top of the wall, allowing her to leg out a RBI triple. Christner followed with an RBI of her own, giving the Wolverines a 10-3 lead.

Christner’s RBI was the last run Michigan would score, as it couldn’t muster another blow to push the game into a run-rule win.

Betsa delivered the final hook by earning a strikeout to end the game.

Sunday’s Regional Final game was the last punch Michigan had to throw in the first round.

“It’s a great accomplishment and we’re very excited.”

There’s one more round, one weekend, between the Wolverines and a trip to the Women’s College World Series. The road will only get tougher from here on out. But if Michigan continues to hit teams hard, there’s no reason that its last fight won’t be in Oklahoma City.

“I told our kids, ‘Congratulations, you’re one of 16 teams in the country that gets to have practice Tuesday,’ ” Hutchins said. “It’s a great accomplishment and we’re very excited about it. It’s one of our goals.”

BY THE NUMBERS Michigan Softball

59

Runs scored in the team’s six postseason games this season.

9

Runs allowed by Betsa and Wagner in thatspan.

.632

Freshman designated hitter Aidan Falk’s batting average in the postseason.

112

Home runs by the Wolverines, first in the nation and a program record.