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Over the Rainbow

The No. 7 Michigan football team returned to the Big House for the 2016 season with a 63-3 drubbing of an overmatched Hawaii team on Saturday.

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Mich. visit gives Trump new chance for outreach AMANDA ALLEN/Daily

Members of the University of Michigan football team celebrate with students after defeating Hawaii, 63-3.

Wolverines steamroll Rainbow Warriors, 63-3, in season opener

Michigan cruises behind new starting quarterback and stellar defensive play JACOB GASE

Daily Sports Editor

After intercepting Wilton Speight’s first pass as the starting quarterback for the

Michigan football team, Hawaii briefly challenged the prevailing notion that they were about to be on the receiving end of a blowout at Michigan Stadium.

Unfortunately for the

Rainbow Warriors, that notion was quickly reaffirmed when they promptly lost seven yards and punted the ball four plays later.

Moving backwards would

become a recurring theme of the game for Hawaii, which had an abysmal negative-17 total yards at the end of the first quarter and needed a strong second half See FOOTBALL, Page 8A

In first visit to African-American church, candidate aims to shift tone CAITLIN REEDY Daily Staff Reporter

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visited a Black church Saturday in Detroit in an outreach attempt to the African-American community. Bishop Wayne T. Jackson, the Great Faith Ministries International congregation leader, hosted Trump and sat down with the candidate for a one-on-one interview with him.

The New York Times reoported this visit as Trump’s first as a presidential candidate to an African-American church. He visited with church members and did an interview with Jackson, which was not open to press. Trump called it an “amazing interview” on Twitter Saturday and complimented Jackson on his interviewing skills, going so far as to say they were “better than the people who are doing that See TRUMP, Page 2A

Bill Clinton campaigns for Hillary Welcome City plans to initiate Clinton in Detroit Labor Day parade Week data

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audit of A2 police dept.

The former President marched alonside UAW union members Monday

Ann Arbor manager aims to have contract in place by December

Former President Bill Clinton joined United Auto Workers union members and others for the annual Detroit Labor Day Parade Monday morning aiming to demonstrate the Hillary Clinton campaign’s commitment to working families.

The parade began at 9:30 a.m. and marched down Michigan Avenue. Bill Clinton marched, but did not speak during the event which drew thousands of union workers and other prominent state Democrats.

The annual parade in Detroit has drawn important Democratic figures in the past, including President Barack Obama in 2008 and Vice President Joe Biden 2012 and 2014.

The parade’s theme was Your Vote is Your Voice and was dedicated to supporting working families and improving unions, as well as encouraging voter registration.

LSA junior Collin Kelly, chair of the University’s chapter of College Democrats, said Bill Clinton’s visit demonstrates that Hillary Clinton is the candidate who will best represent the interests of the working class.

“Bill Clinton coming to Detroit on Labor Day signifies the commitment of both the Democratic Party and the Clinton family to honoring, protecting and fighting for workers across the nation,” he said. “Unions built this

BRIAN KUANG

Daily Staff Reporter

Ten months after the city Human Rights Commission published a 42-page report calling for an independent audit of the Ann Arbor Police Department, the city manager’s office has started taking the initial steps toward meeting the HRC’s recommendations.

The report called for a review of department practices as well as the creation of a civilian-run police oversight board. It was created in wake of a community push for police oversight reform of the the 2014 shooting death of Ann Arbor resident Aura Rosser, a Black woman, by an AAPD officer.

Different recommendations will follow different timelines.

In a memo released on Aug. 31, City Manager Howard Lazarus released a tentative plan for hiring a police auditor, who would conduct an audit of the AAPD’s internal review protocols and communicate the results.

Under Lazarus’s timetable, the request for contracting an auditor would be written with community input and released by the end of October. The auditor would be contracted by the end of December with City Council approval. Once See POLICE, Page 3A

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country, but only Democrats seem to remember that. Bill Clinton knows that unions are part of why America is great, and he understands they are indispensable for our future.”

Clinton’s appearance was one of several similar events held by surrogates for his wife’s campaign Monday: Hillary Clinton, along with running mate Sen. Tim Kaine (D–Va.) and Biden, hosted events in other Rust Belt areas such as Cleveland and Pittsburgh.

In a statement released Monday morning, Hillary

Clinton emphasized her commitment to workers in Michigan, citing her support for the auto industry and criticizing her opponent Donald Trump, stating that his policies would only harm the middle class.

“Don’t let anyone tell you we can’t ‘Make it in America’ anymore,” Clinton said.

“Michiganders are proving every single day that we can still compete and win in a global economy.”

Bill Clinton’s visit followed a Michigan stop by Trump on Saturday at Great Faith

Ministries International church in Detroit as an attempt to court Black voters.

This was Trump’s third visit to the state since his official nomination in July.

Hillary Clinton’s most recent visit to Michigan was on Aug. 11, when she addressed workers at Futuramic Tool & Engineering to talk about how her economic plans are best suited for the working class.

Though a recent Suffolk University poll showed Clinton up by 7 points in See CLINTON, Page 3A

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President Bill Clinton walks in the Labor Day parade in Detroit Monday.

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Vol. CXXVI, No. 128 ©2016 The Michigan Daily

shows drop in incidents

Student hospitalizations decrease by more than 50 percent in past year JENNIFER MEER Daily Staff Reporter

There was over a 50 percent decrease in alcohol and drugrelated hospital visits during the first five weeks of school at UM last year according to Advocate, a Student Life Incident database. In the first five weeks of the 2013 and 2014 fall semesters, more than 100 cases of alcohol- and drugrelated hospital visits were reported to the University of Michigan through the database.

In 2015, there were fifty.

There is no data available yet for 2016. Officials pointed to several reasons for the drastic change, including dry Welcome Week events, programs created

by Wolverine Wellness and increased support from the Department of Public Safety and Security and other law enforcement agencies.

Beginning in the 2014 school year, the University began new initiatives to reduce student alcohol and drug use by shortening Welcome Week, the period between student move-in and the first day of class. Based on the data from Advocate, DPSS spokesperson Diane Brown said they believe the shorter Welcome Week contributed to a decline in alcohol-related emergencies See HOSPITAL VISITS, Page 3A

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ON THE DAILY Sunday night on the Diag, about 100 students gathered around the ‘M’ to honor the late 17-year old western lowland gorilla Harambe, who was shot at a zoo on May 28. Organizers said they intended the event to serve as a space where students set aside their differences in order to honor the animal.

Harambe was killed at the Cincinnati Zoo last spring after a four year old boy fell into his enclosure. Two of the other gorillas in the exhibit were led back inside by zookeepers. Harambe, however, could not be coaxed back in and was considered a danger to the child’s life.

Internet footage showed the gorilla dragging the child through water, helping him to his feet, and pushing him. After a few minutes, zoo officials made a decision to shoot.

In the days following, memes of Harambe and various other gorillas went viral, with many expressing outrage at the zoo’s choice to shoot.

LSA junior Jenna Roby said she

The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com heard about the vigil online and went to the event out of curiosity. She found it hard to tell whether or not people actually cared about the animal’s death.

“It was a very interesting experience, because I couldn’t tell who was taking seriously and who was just doing it for a laugh,” Roby said.

During the vigil, students lit candles in remembrance while standing around a stuffed gorilla and banana.

Roby said she met people who had drove 45 minutes to attend the event.

“In general it was pretty amusing to see all this happening over an Internet meme,” Roby said. “I thought Harambe jokes were funny, and now maybe a little overdone, but I haven’t really thought anything deeper than that.”

Over the past few months, the viral images of Harambe have been used to convey a series of causes beyond the gorilla’s death. Among some conservative groups, Harambe

memes were popularly used to mock what they described as liberal hysteria. Among others, Harambe memes were used to detail the lack of coverage of real issues on social justice in the mainstream media.

Months after the gorilla’s death, the incident has become infamous. Rap artist, Young Thug, recently recorded a song called “Harambe,” who he

names as one of his idols.

LSA junior Will Jermyn, another vigil attendee, said he was also not sure what to make of the event.

“I thought it was kind of strange,” he said. “At first I wasn’t sure what it was. I was walking through and all these people started chanting ‘Harambe.’ I started laughing because I thought it was kind of ridiculous.”

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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Ask Me! Info Stations WHAT: Staff members and students will be at Ask Me! Info Stations on North and Central Campus throughout the day to answer questions about building locations and logisitcs of campus for the first day of classes.

WHO: Campus Information WHEN: All day WHERE: North and Central Campus at various outdoor locations

Luke Winslow-King WHAT: New Orleans-based slide guitarist, singer, producer and songwriter Luke WinslowKing will be performing new songs during this concert downtown.

WHO: Michigan Union Ticket Office WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: The Ark, 316 S. Main St.

TRUMP From Page 1A professionally, I can tell you.”

Trump hosted a reserved event, travelling with just a few of his Black supporters — including former Republican contender Dr. Ben Carson.

The GOP candidate also decided to give a short speech to the congregation, after turning down the offer previously. The speech lasted 10 minutes — an uncharacteristically short speech for the candidate.

Trump chose not to speak about the situation of African Americans or to ask them to take a chance on him, as he did when visiting Akron, Ohio, in August. Instead, he praised the work of Black Christians and spoke of the hope that America can “turn again to our Christian heritage to lift up the soul of our nation.”

Trump also called for more conversation among different communities in the United

Study Abroad First Step Session WHAT: The Center for Global and Intercultural Study First Step session will provide information about various study abroad programs, scholarship opportunities and financial aid applications.

WHO: CGIS WHEN: 5 to 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: CGIS Office, Angell Hall room G155

Visit the University Career Center on the Diag!

WHAT: Visit the Career Center table on the Diag to learn about Clothes Closet, a free closet for students to find business professional clothing throughout the year.

WHO: University Career Center WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

WHERE: The Diag

Nights at the Museum: SMTD Night

Moth StorySLAM: Authority Figures

WHAT: The Men’s Glee Club, University Symphony Band, University Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir will perform.

WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: 8:30 to 10 p.m.

WHERE: Museum of Art

WHAT: An open-mic storytelling competition downtown where anyone can share a story on the night’s theme of “Authority Figures.”

WHO: Michigan Radio WHEN: Doors 6 p.m., stories begin 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Circus Bar and Billiards, 210 S. First St.

States.

“We talk past each other and not to each other,” Trump said.

“And those who seek office do not do enough to step into the community and learn what’s going on. I’m here today to learn, so that we can together remedy injustice in any form, and so that we can also remedy economics so that the AfricanAmerican community can benefit economically through jobs and income and so many other different ways.”

Both religious and Black voters will be important to Trump in building a winning electoral map. Trump currently has close to four-fifths of white, evangelical voters, but isn’t polling nearly as well among the African-American community, and a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC/Marist poll found Trump has zero percent of the Black vote in two key swing states: Ohio and Pennsylvania. Another WSJ/ NBC poll found Trump polling at 1 percent of the Black vote

nationwide compared to Hillary Clinton’s 91 percent.

Saturday’s stop was Trump’s second attempt at appealing to the African-American community in Michigan, albeit in noticeably different fashions.

When Trump made a campaign stop in Dimondale, Mich. last month, he spoke of issues he hoped to improve within the African-American community, particularly in cities like Detroit.

While speaking to a predominantly white crowd in Akron, Ohio, last month, Trump said, “Our government has totally failed our AfricanAmerican friends, our Hispanic friends and the people of our country. ... What the hell do you have to lose? Give me a chance.

I’ll straighten it out.”

Trump’s changing message to African-Americans has drawn a range of reactions in past months including significant backlash after his Dimondale and Akron comments. His Detroit speech was more well received by the public.

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WHAT: The grand opening of the newly renovated EXCEL learning lab, where the EXCEL staff will unveil the 2016 fall programming schedule. The lab will be a space for classes and various programming opportunities.

WHO: School of Music, Theatre & Dance WHEN: 4 p.m.

WHERE: Earl V. Moore Building, EXCEL Lab

Welcome Week 2016 ~ how hard did YOU go? #UniversityofMichigan

Ken Foster Reading WHAT: Author Ken Foster will talk about his New York Times bestselling memoir, The Dogs Who Found Me. Donations for the Humane Society will be accepted during the event, as the book covers topics related to their work.

WHO: Literati Bookstore WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: Literati Bookstore

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HOSPITAL VISITS From Page 1A on campus, though it is worth noting that in both 2013 and 2014 a home football game took place during Welcome Weekend.

In 2015, one did not.

Wolverine Wellness director Mary Jo Desprez said certain factors during periods like Welcome Week that contribute to alcohol- and drug-related conflicts, such as a home football game, are out of the control of Wolverine Wellness and the police departments.

Because of that, Desprez said the University began launching efforts to reduce those instances. Recently, this has included the University’s creation of an alert system for parents of freshmen students who have had a second runin with alcohol or drugs.

Additionally, they have updated the Stay in the Blue phone app. Created in 2013, the app helps students estimate their blood alcohol content, order cabs, track drinking events and even displays a list of events happening in Ann Arbor.

The University also hosts marketed dry events, such as a Friday-night event at the Union that provides activities, games and food as a sober alternative to off-campus parties.

According to the Center for Campus Involvement, the number of students who attended UMix has almost doubled since last year, with 5,258 students attending the nearly weekly events in 2014 and 10,132 in 2015.

Other efforts include sober monitor training for new Interfraternity Council members and the mandatory AlcoholEdu online course for incoming freshmen and undergraduate transfer students. This is the first academic year that all four years of students on campus have completed this course.

Desprez said it is the combination of these efforts,

among others, that makes the difference in reducing alcoholrelated incidences.

“The most important thing to know is that these efforts are most effective when they’re done in combination, not just as one thing,” she said. “We always try to do the next best thing or we use evidence-based strategies. We have dogged determination to prevent harm. I think having a plan but then also having collaborative partnerships are the two most important things.”

DPSS Chief Robert Neumann also cited programs aimed at off-campus students such as Beyond the Diag, as well as a partnership between the DPSS and the Ann Arbor Police Department serve to reduce conflict.

Last week, Beyond the Diag, working with DPSS, canvassed the neighborhoods near campus. This included providing off-campus students with information about Stay in the Blue, wellness coaching and other safety and security resources.

Neumann said the community canvassing event allows them to meet off-campus students and inform them about resources.

“It’s an important part of the whole picture of engagement with our off-campus residents to promote their safety and to let them know what services are available here at the University of Michigan, as well as services that are available from the city and other providers,” he said.

As for Welcome Week itself, Neumann said DPSS prepares in advance to keep students safe.

“We do bolster patrols and enforcement activity because this is a high-risk period — this time between move-in and classes,” he said.

Before last year, DPSS was not responsible for off-campus incidents, though they could work in cooperation with AAPD. As of last year, however, DPSS gained county-wide authority to operate independently from AAPD. Though it still

Tuesday, September 6, 2016 — 3A coordinates its work with the city police, a formal agreement was made with the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office that grants it permission to enforce the law beyond the bounds of campus.

Brown said the main objective with this expanded authority is to continue to raise awareness and educate people about off-campus safety by doing presentations in Greek houses and co-ops as well as working with Beyond the Diag leaders. “(The police officers) are there to help build relationships, share information, answer questions about nuances with the laws, and discuss when students can say, ‘No, you can’t come in my house,’ to a police officer, and when they need to allow them in,” she said.

Desprez also said fraternities have helped contribute to the reduced number of alcoholrelated incidents in recent years by not serving hard alcohol at early parties.

Engineering junior Roy Ziv said sober monitor training, required for all fraternity pledges, was useful in terms of preparing for a party.

“I thought it was very helpful,” he said. “It highlighted the importance of how we should split up sober monitors: some at the front door, some by the bathrooms or staircases, some roaming around the party.

It showed us what to keep an eye out for, and what to do in the case of an emergency.”

Ziv also mentioned that his fraternity house has a water fountain and water bottle filler in order to keep people hydrated at parties.

“We are always exceeding the minimum number of sober monitors we should have,” he said. “We had our biggest party the other night. We’re supposed to have a minimum of five sober monitors, but I believe we had seven or eight because we understood the importance of keeping everyone safe and organized.”

POLICE From Page 1A hired, the auditor will evaluate AAPD community engagement processes through the end of June 2017, with a final report communicated by the end of July 2017 and a follow-up performed in February 2019. However, the other main recommendation — the oversight board — won’t start being implemented until August 2017.

Lazarus said in an interview Friday that he chose to delay the implementation of an oversight board until after the completion of the audit to allow for sufficient public input and to ensure transparency. He added that all major stakeholder groups he has communicated with — the HRC, AAPD, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the local police union — have all responded favorably to his framework.

“I want to make sure there’s sufficient time for public discussion, and I want to not be guilty of over-promising and under-delivering,” Lazarus said. “This is an important effort, and I don’t want to rush through it. I don’t want either side to think we just went

CLINTON From Page 1A the state, Michigan is considered a possible swing state this election cycle.

Trump receives a large amount of support from non-college educated white men, making the middle class and the Rust Belt states particularly important for Clinton. In 2012, this demographic represented nearly half of all voters, and currently Trump is doing even better with this group than Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee.

through the motions to get to a pre-determined outcome.”

Lazarus also emphasized that public discussions regarding the creation of a civilian review board — which would have the power to independently investigate complaints against the AAPD — will also not begin until August 2017, using the audit’s findings as a framework.

This decision comes after the HRC and AAPD Chief Jim Baird publicly disagreed during the summer on whether a civilian oversight board is necessary in Ann Arbor.

In a June memo to City Council, Baird expressed reservations that the push for increased police oversight in Ann Arbor was tied to national events as opposed to actual local problems. He suggested that concerns about a lack of transparency in how the AAPD investigates complaints against its officers are overblown.

While not outright ruling out support for a civilian oversight board and the HRC’s other recommendations of the creation of crisis response teams, Baird urged that no further action be taken until after the completion of an audit.

Amid a renewed national outcry over police brutality

in July, the HRC put out its own statement calling for the implementation of a review board to begin independently of the audit of the AAPD. The HRC also noted it was not directly criticizing the AAPD, but rather emphasized the goal of its recommendations is to build police-community trust.

In an email interview, HRC chair Leslie Stambaugh expressed support for the timeline outlined by Lazarus.

Though she acknowledged some people may be concerned by the long timeframe before the creation of a review board, Stambaugh wrote she was confident this would allow for an effective implementation.

“At this point, any timeline might seem too long to some, but the one described here is realistic and promises to be both inclusive and effective,” Stambaugh wrote, also noting that her commission intends to be active through the entire process.

“I think the fact that this process is designed to be inclusive early on should create a good foundation for implementation down the road and appreciate that the City Administrator made it his priority in the first two months of his administration.”

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Maybe we needed a Trump

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onald Trump announced his presidency 449 days ago. Today, Mr. Trump is the Republican nominee, one who will not easily be forgotten. Trump’s ANU ROYodyssey to the top of the CHAUDHURY ticket was first viewed as a dinner table joke for most, but now it’s a fact: Donald Trump has garnered the nomination surely and swiftly. His erratic, beyond-thepale tactics had many predicting a quick exit from the race. Instead, with each primary, the tan-faced, unpredictable and undoubtedly blunt Trump knocked his fellow Republicans off the ticket. However, now the comedy of Donald Trump’s candidacy has faded, replaced by the powerful reality that the popularity of Mr. Trump has both exposed and expanded the polarity of America. But maybe we needed that to happen.

Many, including myself, question how people could vote for someone who lacks all traits of a — to put it simply — normal politician. Well, the answer seems to be in the question. Some people in this country are done with the traditional leaders.

As many experts have said in the past months, Trump’s appeal is derived from the displacement of specific sects of Americans.

The Times’s David Brooks described Trump’s supporters as “a coalition of the dispossessed,” citizens who have seen nothing but hardship from the current system. Trump’s stray from conventionality is not only a beacon of hope, but also a seemingly quick fix to the faulty system they see. Whether Trump truly intends to help these working class populations is not relevant. His unpredicted garnering of support reveals the unrest of unheard Americans, and, to some extent, it is needed.

As we are caught up in expanding economies, advancing technology and gentrification of cities, we forget who we are leaving behind. According to the Washington Post, Trump’s supporters tend to be uneducated, male and making less than $50,000 a year. For them, hardship rather than success has come from the everchanging America of the last 10 years.

The presidential election has seemed to polarize Americans, as most visibly seen in The New York Times’s video of Trump rallies, where angry Americans cheered,

“Build the wall,” and participated in offensive rhetoric. It was a scary sight. Yet, it needed to be seen; it needed to be heard.

These Americans are no longer tossed aside or hidden under greater issues; this time, thanks to Mr. Trump, they share his spotlight. This has resulted in a polarized nation, yet an unlikely group has come together to make a change against a Trump backdrop: politicians.

While neighborhood politics has become polarized, in one way Washington has seemingly taken steps to come together.

It’s not often you see Republicans publicly endorsing Democrats. This slew of GOP members includes not just members of Congress, but foreign policy leaders, business donors and previously elected Republicans. This isn’t to say that all Republicans have become die-hard Clinton fans, but this degree of support is unheard of, especially during a presidential election.

In past years, it has almost been taboo for Democrats and Republicans to agree on anything, yet the Trump phenomenon has done what 20 years of conventional politics has failed to do: bring politicians (slightly) closer together.

It’s a wake-up call for politicians, and it is two-fold. For one, it shows how different parties can come together. And second, it shows the unacknowledged vulnerability of displaced Americans. I’m not saying those who thoroughly support Trump aren’t supporting a man who has insulted almost every demographic, but their support represents their discontent with the status quo. It has brought to center stage an unhappy population that has shown it is a threat to traditional politics. And the traditional politicians have seen what this mass of Americans can do.

A possibly naive thought: I think the Trump experience could ultimately bring politicians together and, in turn, create policies that address the silent majority who fervently support Trump. Trumpism has revealed the faults of the American system, a system politicians and citizens alike are responsible for. We have heard the unrest of our neighbors and Washington has heard the unrest of its constituents. Maybe we didn’t want a Trump, but we needed one.

—Anu Roy-Chaudhury can be reached at anuroy@umich.edu.

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ongratulations, Jason — You’re in!”

Much to my delight, I was officially the newest JASON member of ROWLAND the Wolverine family. If I didn’t know what that entailed before, the rest of my acceptance letter laid it out clearly. I wasn’t “simply being offered a place in a college,” as the admissions office put it; rather, I was joining a community full of people “making a difference everywhere in the world.” I was joining the Leaders and Best.

After my first year in Ann Arbor, I can truthfully say that the letter did not exaggerate. My freshman year was spent living in West Quad — the same dormitory that James Earl Jones and Gov. Rick Snyder called home when they were students. I took a class in the Ford School of Public Policy, named after former president and fellow Wolverine, Gerald R. Ford.

I attended a lecture by the former CEO of Twitter and University of Michigan alum, Dick Costolo — and then personally asked him a question afterward. And I am fortunate enough to have the opportunity to write for the same student newspaper that Thomas Dewey, Sanjay Gupta and Arthur Miller contributed to during their time as Michigan students.

However, the pressure to succeed

at that level — to truly become one of the Leaders and Best — can be overwhelming at times. While the atmosphere at this university (at least inside the classroom) is often more competitive than collaborative, competition tends to breed excellence, right?

Competition also breeds unwanted side effects, though — including, but not limited to, the unsolicited byproducts of a poor-quality-ofliving and high-stress lifestyle. And allowing those byproducts to take over your life often comes at the expense of your academic success.

During my freshman year, especially in the fall, most of my closest friends were either in the College of Engineering or enrolled in STEM-related majors.

As a result, I often found myself comparing my schedule to theirs.

“Am I taking classes that are too easy?” or “Maybe my major won’t make me enough money” are two common thoughts that plagued me throughout the semester. As a result, I enrolled in courses that I knew I wouldn’t enjoy and, of course, didn’t end up enjoying — all because I feared I was not achieving at the same level as my peers.

Consequently, my grades suffered. It’s little wonder I did well in the classes I liked and poorly in those I didn’t. I had a false conception that the only way to become one of the Leaders and Best was to push myself tirelessly in classes I hated. This revealed

a bigger flaw in my mindset — I assumed that there were only a few rigid paths to reaching success.

While there’s something to be said about stepping outside of your comfort zone, there is a fine line between expanding your horizons by exploring untapped interests and being constantly stressed about work you dread doing.

One of my biggest lessons from my first year was that I can be successful in whatever field I choose, as long as I try my best. Despite the competitive atmosphere that the University sometimes produces, I shouldn’t adjust my plans for anyone but myself, and neither should you.

Michigan produces the Leaders and Best because it excels in almost every field across the academic and professional spectrum — from engineering to history and from business to biolog y. Almost all of the alumni “Leaders and Best” forged their own paths to reach the places they did, which is an important fact to remember when you catch yourself comparing yourself to your peers. I promise if you don’t forget that, and if you plan your class schedule and extracurriculars with that in mind, the University will be a much less competitive place and a much more enjoyable place.

—Jason Rowland can be reached at jerow@umich.edu.

The ultimate stakeholders A s the school year came to a close last spring, I had an idea for a column. A tirade, really. Rather than study for the impending finals week, make headway on the 14 papers that would be due in the next week or even make the rare proactive BRETT choice to begin GRAHAM packing, I was going to write an article about my take on Central Student Government elections.

I knew that I was not alone in thinking participating in CSG is a ludicrous exercise of the most selfimportant students quibbling over the minutia of what little change they could actually facilitate on campus, while annoyingly flooding me with Facebook event invitations and beating the drum of a made-up political party that will exist for all of six months.

But on Sept. 15, I very well may be proven wrong.

When the Board of Regents meets that night, it will consider an addition to the bylaws that would provide for the vice president for student life to “assist students in promoting the establishment of effective mechanisms for such student participation” in recognition of the importance of “student participation in University decision-making.”

For this revision, CSG, and in particular new CSG President David Schafer, should be applauded.

For reasons passing understanding, the language above was removed in February 2011. As the bylaws stand today, the most substantial forum the student body has at the Board of Regents’

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monthly meetings comes in the form of reports delivered by the CSG president on current student government projects. Even with this statement’s proposed return — reaffirming the importance of student voices in decision-making — the Board of Regents is just talking about talking. Simply put, that is not good enough.

Now is the chance for CSG and the host of elected student representatives (the same people who chased me down in the Diag and covered my dorm room door in quarter sheets with platitudes about change) to use this momentum, and the spirit of this vote, to induce radical change in the way students relate to the Board of Regents. If you want the student body to truly care in the next election cycle, get a seat at the table.

The first step in this process is to use accurate language. The bylaw states, “Student participation in University decision-making is important to the quality of the institution and will be sought and encouraged.” No, our participation is vital. Schafer said, in relation to this vote, “Students are certainly a very major stakeholder at Michigan.” No, we are the ultimate stakeholder. The decisions that are made at the Board of Regents level are about how we live, what we study, how much we pay and the University community to which we belong.

And right now, these decisions are being made without us.

Just in case, at this point, you think real change is a long shot, student bodies around the country have adopted functioning and sustainable infrastructure for student voices to be heard at the highest level. At the University of Hawaii, a current student is appointed for a two-year term as a full, voting regent, and has been since the practice began in

1997. The University of California system has benefitted from the input of a student regent since 1974. Real change is possible. It has happened. It works.

Tuition at the University rose once again in June, passing at the Board of Regents by a vote of 5 to 3. The cost of room and board rose with it, and ultimately, the University now expects to raise $1.31 billion in tuition and fees, up from $1.28 billion last year. Why? To make college more affordable, cycling some of that money back into financial aid, lowering the new cost of college. If that argument seems counterintuitive to you, that’s because it is. And I want a student in the room, saying that. Regent Andrea Fischer Newman (R), who voted against the tuition hike, asked, “Are we raising tuition because we can, rather than because we need to?”

I want a student whose voice can join hers.

Now maybe a student regent is not the answer. Maybe it is not feasible, or cannot happen until years down the road. But the idea in itself is a start. The purpose of student government is to represent our interests. At the Board of Regents meeting Sept.

15, for the first time since I began studying here, it seems as though that idea may become a reality.

To CSG and to the students who have chosen to represent me: Prove me wrong. Set change in motion that will, at the very least, give our student body the possibility to discuss what student representation at the Board of Regents might look like. I will happily eat my words and suffer through the onslaught of Facebook invites and quarter sheets when elections roll around again in March with a smile on my face.

—Brett Graham can be reached at btgraham@umich.edu.

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Men face body shaming, too

was born weighing two pounds, two ounces — three months premature.

I’ve been told I need more meat on my bones my whole life, probably even before I can remember.

CHRIS My CROWDER weight didn’t bother me as a child. I didn’t see myself as different from my classmates, and the time where I could’ve been influenced by television was spent playing sports.

I thought I was normal-sized. That perspective changed leading up to middle school, when media begins to make children doubt themselves, leading to tweens pointing out flaws in each other’s awkwardstage bodies.

I can remember the first moment when I wanted to be in skin other than my own. I was playing Madden 2005 — I would have been around 9 years old and in fourth grade. I loved creating myself as a player on teams I created with the best, most costeffective players available from a fantasy draft before the season started. I would be the quarterback and lead the fictional Desperados to a Super Bowl victory. I tried to make my player as much like myself as possible at first, matching skin tone, hair and equipment I would have liked to wear to make myself look as cool as possible if I played football. One thing I obviously couldn’t match was my weight.

I weighed about 80 pounds then, and the minimum weight you could make a player was twice my size.

But I didn’t make myself weigh as little as possible to be as accurate as I could. I augmented the virtual character’s biceps to be the size of watermelons. I fantasized that in this virtual world he, really I, was

feared by everybody in the NFL, wasn’t doubted by anyone as the strongest man and got any woman he wanted.

I didn’t love my body, and I began to realize how much I really didn’t as I got older. I struggled to gain weight — probably because I was so active playing tennis and baseball, and playing in the marching band, all of which kept me fit and skinny.

My metabolism was also too fast for my own liking, but I’ll probably be wishing that it still was lighting quick when I’m 40. I was told that I couldn’t protect my girlfriends because I weighed less than them.

I lagged behind in the weightlifting sessions during freshman gym because I struggled to bench just the bar. And television added the icing on the cake with fake and real images of the perfect man — the man that it seemed all men wanted to be, and the one women wanted — an Adonis with bulging shoulders and six-pack abs.

Women have been facing exploitation because of their bodies and unrealistic standards all of their lives. Think Barbie, supermodels and pop stars. Though their bodies are not nearly as sexualized and exploited as women’s bodies, men face pressure and body shaming as well, even though it may not be as easy to spot. Think bulked-up action figures and weightlifters on the covers of magazines and reality television. For both sexes, images are touched up so models look more “perfect.” Women are made to look skinnier and men are made to look more muscular.

Looking at these pictures, I realize I will never be able to attain the physique that is deemed the ideal, dreamed-about man. Even as I continue to work out more frequently and gain more muscle than I ever have before, I’ll never look as good as the dude on the cover of Men’s Health. Because of my weight compared to an extremely muscular body, I have dealt with the lies people tell — that I’m not enough of a man, not

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nnual Report 8/4/99 Adam Brodnax (Nguyen Dai Duong)

Adam is 4 years old. He is very healthy and very happy. He is just over 3 feet tall and weighs 30 pounds.

Adam is very athletic. He loves to run, jump, ride his bike, skate (roller-skate) and play at the playground. He is also very verbal. He loves to talk and to talk on the telephone. He can write his name very well and draws great pictures.

Adam is very animated. He entertains the whole family with his funny faces and actions.

Adam will tatted a church preschool 3 days a week starting in September and will play soccer on a neighborhood soccer team.

We are lucky to have such a wonderful and loving son. We love him very much.

James and Terri Brodnax The following is a letter I penned to my “other” self, the one that would have grown up in the backcountry of North Vietnam, in the style of the annual report sent by my adoptive parents to my biological parents.

Dear Nguyen Dai Duong Adam is now 21 years old, weighs 117 pounds and is 62 inches tall. He is happy and healthy.

Adam has grown up in an American household. He has two beautiful siblings and loving parents. He lives with his mother, sees his father and doesn’t speak with his stepfather. He goes

attractive enough and that people won’t take me seriously because of how skinny I am.

But I want to encourage my fellow skinny guys to love their bodies the best they can. You can strive for whatever physique you want, but it shouldn’t be forced upon you. We, especially younger skinny boys, need help in the media. An idea I like is how the women’s retailer Aerie decided back in 2014 not to use touched-up models, using women of different body types to model its clothing. I don’t know how this would look for men, but a start may be not using touched-up images anymore or at least revealing the truth to the public so we will not believe the majority of the pictures we see are real.

Yes, good-looking, muscular men can still be ogled over and should be allowed to feel good about themselves, but everyone shouldn’t be pushed to that standard, whether it means losing pounds or putting more on. Trust me: Every time I am told to do that, I say, “I’m trying to.” It’s possible that your brothers, friends and boyfriends are facing the same thing. Just like some women may face the struggle and pressure of losing weight to gain a skinny “model body,” men face that tension just to gain muscle. This needs to be recognized because, far too often, this body shaming of less-thanperfect male physiques is looked over. Men should not be expected to “take it on the chin” and move on or act like people teasing their body doesn’t warrant feeling insecure. I know it from experience. It’s hard to block out all the noise and voices selling drugs to help you get more jacked.

So to combat unreachable standards and my anxieties, instead of envying a desirable before and after picture, I’m making my own.

— Chris Crowder can be reached at ccrowd@umich.edu

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to college in Michigan and is currently studying business. He enjoys learning in school and has incredible friends and mentors in his life. Adam’s favorite things are helping others, socializing with his friends, being active, hiking and cheering on Michigan athletics.

Adam has made a lot of American friends. Adam has always wanted to be normal. He has found it relatively easy to find friends but has never really felt like he fit in. In high school, he always questioned why his friends had to group up and why his body was welcomed with one group while his soul fit in with the other.

His soul is every bit American.

He responds to Adam Brodnax and speaks English very well.

Growing up, he spent Sundays watching the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans. He did gymnastics for most of his childhood, learned the trumpet and played Little League baseball.

He inherited old family recipes such as Grandma Sue’s potato salad and Mom’s pot roast. His family tree tells him that he came from a mix of European countries that migrated to America roughly three generations ago. He grew up listening to popular hits of the 2000s such as Britney Spears and Santana. In school, he learned about Texas and American history but hardly learned much about himself. He says “y’all” and “howdy” while being mindful to hold the door open for others.

His soul fit in well with his white friends, until he started wearing polos and Sperrys and realized he just couldn’t pull them off. His soul is every bit American.

His body is every bit your body and an open mystery. He doesn’t

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ear Mainstream,

You have seen my thighs dangle out from under my shorts and my skirts. They jiggle, they flap and cause problems whenever I try on something new. It’s a little difficult to learn how to love every inch of my body fat when I go into a store — take your pick, H&M or Forever 21 — and have difficulty buying shorts. All of a sudden my regularly size six thighs can’t fit into your size 10 shorts. That’s a problem. Oh, my beautiful thick thighs — I put so much onto you that it always leaves behind lines and marks from the jeans I force onto you each day. Mainstream, I love my rolls, the rolls that roll over my size six pants — but do you?

Why don’t you see the beauty behind my curves and my rolls?

I never see my reflection on any of those websites when I’m shopping online. I’ve rarely met someone who looks like those size small, 5’10” models, with a small bust and a small waist.

You deceive us, making us think those clothes will fit just like they do on the models, but they don’t. Are they ever tried on by someone who was larger than a small? You imagine all of us to be the same, and you expect for us to change until we are.

Mainstream, you don’t allow for individuality, and you’re so quick to deem someone’s body out of the norm, to be plus-sized. Why is plus size a different section in general?

You choose every chance you get to embarrass my big black thighs, forcing me to go to the plus size section when you can easily extend the sizes into your regular lines. Mainstream, learn to love and accept my body for what it is. What you see as imperfections I see as uniqueness.

Mainstream, you have taken away my uniqueness by manipulating my nanas, aunties and mommas for years. For so long, I was told that I had to tame my hair and make it look “presentable,” all the while damaging my hair.

My hair, oh my hair, it’s been pinched and bobbled, robbed of its texture and all. It’s been strained, lost, shortened and almost completely uprooted.

For years, my hair follicles have

endured chemically-induced pain. Sitting there for what feels like years, being permed and burned, permed and burned, permed and burned. I constantly complainied from the pain only to be reminded that “beauty is pain.” Why does it have to hurt to be beautiful?

Mainstream, you’re the one who told our mommas to scold us in the morning if we didn’t wrap our hair the night before, always making sure that our hair would be neat. We’ve been placed in a bubble where we would rather spend the money to look good then spend the time to be true to ourselves.

Mainstream, you are a catalyst for change — to make everyone look just like you. You have beaten into the heads of my nanas, aunties and mommas that the natural curl coming straight from my scalp shouldn’t be there. You have convinced many of them that the hair we are blessed with is not okay, forcing us to assimilate to straight long hair just so we are not looked at as beneath the rest of mainstream. How I choose to wear my hair is my prerogative.

I want to see my natural curls back. I want to walk into a job interview with the curls that sprout from my head and not worry about whether or not my qualifications are the only thing in consideration for the job. I’m slowly having to prove to those who come before me that it’s okay to wear my hair in its natural state. Mainstream, accept me and my natural afro of curls, just like we’ve had to accept everything else that you’ve thrashed in our faces.

Accept my skin, embrace it — it’s not going anywhere. I am born and proud of my smooth cocoa skin — my beautiful chocolate skin that reminds you of filth, that you describe as dirt.

Mainstream, you set aside my skin color as if it’s removable.

We are not seen as an entity that needs representation. You were in my friend’s head when she thought her only option was to bleach her beautiful skin — her beautiful chocolate brown skin. Mainstream, you tell my sisters and me that we will be accepted if we look just like you, if we try to match you as best we can. There’s a divide between me and my lighterskinned sisters. Mainstream, do you only wish to inflict

pain on me and my sisters? Do you know how difficult it is to look in the mirror and never see the image reflected back at you in media? Mainstream, do you hear from your nanas, aunties and mommas that you need to date someone with lighter skin so that your babies will have lighter skin so that your baby will be considered beautiful based upon her skin color? Mainstream, if you could change your skin color, would you be chocolate? No. You would rather just take everything else about black women and claim it as your own.

My lips, oh my lips, I was born with these luscious, full and round lips. They were not manufactured — just au natural.

You constantly tore down my sisters for their lips and used it as a way to emasculate my brothers. “Big lips” are equated with ugliness, mainstream, except when it comes to today’s reality stars. We embrace many reality stars as if their newfound interest in having big lips make them look better when that same amount of tissue in my lips is deemed unattractive.

These are the same lips I use to mindfully obey your every whim, policing my sisters about their hair expression and reminding our brothers that assimilation is the only way to get ahead — all of that to finally have my lips deemed “cool.” My grandmother actually tried to teach me ways to make my lips look smaller based on the type of makeup that I used.

There’s only so much about my appearance and my body that I can continue to take from you, so I’ve decided to take it all back. No longer will I look to you for justification. If you will not represent my beautiful body and everything that comes along with it, then I’ll find or create a space that will. If you refuse to recognize the part of your current culture that takes parts of the culture that I’ve had for years, I will shame you for it. Mainstream, if you continue to purposely tear me and my sisters down, remember that we’ll always keep rising up.

Sincerely, The Conventional Black Girl

Life Lost, Life Gained have pictures of his family, but he knows that they and his four other biological siblings were deathly ill. He is treated as an Asian American, expected to be smart and submissive, and he is often times mistaken for being Chinese. He is average height in Southeast Asia but is very small in America. During Texas summers, his body is blessed to have your skin. He has had his DNA sampled hoping to find family, only to find a list of diseases he is susceptible to. His body fit in quite well with his Asian friends in school until he went into their houses and didn’t take his shoes off. His body is every bit your body.

However, Adam is so very optimistic. He has put in time to learn about the hardships that he could have gone through. He knows very well that if he had survived the sickness in his family, his potential would have been limited to harvesting rice in the backcountry of Vietnam. Coupling the hardships with the sickness in your and his family, the odds are improbable that he will ever meet them. Yet, from listening to the success stories of the many adoptees who have done this, their odds weren’t much better than his.

Adam is lucky to have such a beautiful and loving family. He knows that he must make the most of his life in America for you. He takes every opportunity he has because he knows that you would never get that chance. His future is bright because his families have given up so much to help him along the way. He knows that he can read everything he can about Vietnam and hang out with Vietnamese friends, but he also knows that’ll never suffice.

His soul feels misaligned and trapped inside the body that you gave him. He knows that you and he couldn’t coexist, but losing you has left him never quite feeling full. Learning to love a body he has trouble speaking to has kept him unsteady, but he knows his parents have shown him what unconditional love is. He knows that happy endings are hardly afforded, but the slim chance brings him the strength to find your story.

Yours with all the love I have, Adam Yeager Brodnax Before college, I had hardly talked about my adoption process with anyone. It didn’t start until I took intergroup relations during my freshman year. Sitting in that class, I read aloud my testimony about my upbringing. In the middle of it, I began to choke up reading about my biological family because it was the first time I had openly confronted that part of my life. Since then, I have had this urgency to make sense of my adoption process. I understand how singular it is that I have a life in America, and that has pushed me to connect the life I lost with the life I gained.

I was adopted when I had only logged 179 days. I come from a family of seven in rural North Vietnam. My siblings ranged from being 4 to 15 years older than me. My dad worked in the rice fields during the day with my older siblings while my mom kept to the house with the younger siblings. My family was ridden with tuberculosis and it

seemed that they were afraid I would get it too.

My adopted family consists of my two American parents and two siblings. My brother was adopted from two legally blind parents a year before me from the same village. Five years later, my younger sister would be adopted from a young couple in central Vietnam. Digging through my adoption file, I realized the life I lost in Vietnam remains a scattered mystery.

I was afforded the opportunity to live the American dream that so many others sacrifice their lives for. Growing up, I benefitted from having a typical American upbringing — stable, suburban, white, middle class. Yet going through my adolescent years, I was constantly being exposed to these Asian-American lived experiences my white American parents just didn’t know how to handle. At my elementary school, people would ask, “Are you Chinese?” When my mom picked me up, the teacher would be hesitant to let me in the car.

When I spent time with my grandpa, he warned me to leave “North” out of “North Vietnam” to protect me from being stigmatized by his old Navy friends. I was called several names — banana, Twinkie, whitewashed.

Vietnamese barbers knew precisely how to handle my hair, but I never knew how to tell them what I wanted — I still don’t. These experiences would continue to shape my identity as a transracial adoptee that I still find difficult to articulate.

Through high school, I held onto the ideal that I would

continue to grow toward normalcy. I hoped that I would find my space in society because all my friends eventually found theirs. The typical narrative about not fitting into either group took form, but instead of choosing between my Asian friends and my white friends, I was forced into this gray area in a world painted black and white.

My soul and body never aligned like I expected, leaving both parts of me facing the same foggy reality together.

One of the important values I’ve learned growing up is that hope is something powerful to hold on to. It’s hard. It’s hard to wrap my mind around what hope means to me. But as I keep my head above the water, I continue to define what it means. For now, it means that I just want to be sure of myself. I see so many of my friends being sure of themselves and I happily celebrate that, but I have always celebrated for them, never with them. I’ve never been sure of myself and I hope that this piece will help me do that.

I am still on this journey, sifting through my adoption file trying to find answers about me. This past summer, I learned that I might not even be the right baby and that’s ok. I’ve found refuge in that everything that makes me who I am is because of my loving adopted parents and siblings.

This journey is very much alive, and I am navigating through it with the hope and conviction that my soul and body will find harmony.

— Adam Brodnax is an LSA junior. He can be reached at abrox@umich.edu.

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Domino’s Pizza to open in former Bell’s location New pizzeria to feature bicycle delivery service and “pizza theater” KEVIN BIGLIN

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For more than 30 years, Bell’s Pizza stood at 700 Packard St. serving slices to students and residents alike. Now, a Domino’s Pizza will take its place — the first iteration of the franchise the University of Michigan’s Central Campus.

The new restaurant will feature bicycle delivery and an entirely new open floor plan with a “pizza theater” where customers can watch their food being made.

David Cesarini, the franchise owner of the new location, also owns three other Ann Arbor locations. He said he hopes to improve the process of getting food to students, and since the new store is within walking distance of campus.

Cesarini said he searched for a few years to find a location for the franchise on Central Campus. Other pizza establishments near that intersection include Pizza Bob’s, Cottage Inn and Happy’s Pizza.

“Finding real estate in Ann Arbor, especially in the city itself, is really difficult,” he said.

“This location of course is ideal because it gives me a chance to better service the high concentration of customers that I currently serve in my other

two spots.”

LSA sophomore Drew Macleod said he is glad there are more restaurants opening on Central Campus.

“I like that Central Campus is adding new options,” Macleod said. “It will definitely make me weigh other options before getting the classic Quickie Burger or Pizza House.”

Cesarini said once Bell’s Pizza decided not to renew its lease, he was able to work out a deal with the landlord before the property was even listed. He said he hopes to have the store up and running by October, which he added is one of the reasons he thinks he was able acquire the property.

“What I think sold him (the landloard) is the amount of resources and investment we’re going to make in this property,” Cesarini said. “It’s not going to look like anything you see right now.”

The foundation of the building will remain the same, but the roof will be new and glass will be added on the sides of the walls. Cesarini hopes the new design and upgraded technology will make the process of getting pizza easier.

He also plans to streamline the delivery process by delivering food on bikes, which Cesarini said he believes will mean employing more students, many of whom are only able to

deliver by bike.

“We want to be cutting edge,” Cesarini said. “We want to find ways to work better with the community. We want to invite our customers to be a part of the process.”

He also noted that the restaurant could serve the University’s philanthropy efforts. Domino’s sponsors clubs such as Dance Marathon and some Greek life organizations.

“I’m very heavily involved with the University and students,” he said. “I think I’ve donated tens of thousands of pizzas over the years. I

now basically have a campus headquarters downtown.”

With the addition of the “pizza theater,” Cesarini said the staff wants to make customers feel welcome and a part of the pizza-making process. He expects that this interactive environment, late hours and a mobile application should make Domino’s a simple, fun place for students to eat.

Macleod said normally ordering a pizza on Central Campus can take an hour, and added that he would be open to new ways of ordering if it makes the process faster.

“An app would make ordering a lot more convenient than online or calling,” Macleod said.

Cesarini said he hopes to embrace both technology and student needs as the business approaches its opening.

“Domino’s is on the front edge of technology and interacting with our customers,” Cesarini said. “The University of Michigan embraces technology, so we’re doing the same, and I think it’s a great match of combining what we’re going to offer and what I feel the campus and the students already want and like.”

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UM President invites students, parents to annual fall open house The welcome event began in the 1930s and continues today KATHERINE CURRAN Daily Staff Reporter

On a cloudy Thursday, students, parents and staff gathered for block M cookies, ice cream and other refreshments at University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel’s annual open house, hosted at his home on South University.

Before the doors opened, a small crowd of students could be seen waiting outside the house, including LSA freshman Mackenzie Cosand, who came with her hallmates from East Quad.

“People said it was a good idea to come,” she said.

Other groups of freshmen at the event echoed Cosand, saying they didn’t know much about the president, but were just hoping to meet new people and catch a glimpse of Schlissel.

Schlissel opened his house for the first time at the start of the 2014 academic year, his first year as U of M president. The tradition of hosting an annual welcome event began in the 1930s, when wife of the seventh president of the University hosted tea parties for women of the college.

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President Bill Clinton greets supporters during the Labor Day parade in Detroit Monday.

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Speight, meanwhile, rebounded impressively by throwing for 145 yards and three touchdowns, leading the seventh-ranked Wolverines to a 63-3 victory in their season opener.

The first-time starting quarterback — who beat out redshirt juniors John O’Korn and Shane Morris to win the starting job in his redshirt sophomore season — showed poise after his early mistake, finding sophomore wide receiver Grant Perry for a 12-yard touchdown on his first drive. Fifth-year senior Amara Darboh and senior tight end Jake Butt also found the end zone for Michigan in the first quarter.

After players and coaches spoke for weeks about how grueling fall camp has been, the Wolverines took full advantage of their first chance to reap the rewards of their hard work.

“Our coaches have worked this group of players as hard as you possibly can,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. “And our players worked themselves as hard as they possibly could. It just hit me Thursday (or) Friday that it’s time to just let them go show

SCHLISSEL From Page 6A for all students in the 1950s under then-U o M President Harlan.

On Thursday, the line to shake hands with the President grew quickly, and by 12:15 pm the line filled the first floor of the house and continued past the entrance of the house onto South University. Director of Development Events Jenny Freels said the event normally draws about 800 to 1,000 visitors each year, but could not confirm whether there were more or less this year.

E. Royster Harper, vice president of student life, also welcomed students into the

what they can do. I thought it would be good, and it was.”

Freshman running back Chris Evans electrified the sold-out crowd by putting on a display of pure speed in his collegiate debut.

Evans dove into the end zone for an 18-yard score in the first half and later turned on the jets for a 43-yard touchdown up the middle only a minute into the second. He finished with eight carries for 112 yards and two touchdowns.

The contest also marked the debut for 16 other true freshmen, including defensive end Rashan Gary and offensive linemen Ben Bredeson and Michael Onwenu.

Other than Evans, it might have been freshman wide receiver Eddie McDoom who stole the show, with two impressive end-around runs and a leaping catch that had fans yelling “McDOOOOOOM.” “It’s been coming for weeks now,” Harbaugh said. “Three weeks ago, it was eight — seven to eight (freshmen) that had really earned it and knew that they were gonna be tracking to be in the two-deep (depth chart). Less than a week later, maybe it was gonna be 10. Another week, it was up again and up again. ... They’ve earned it.”

Michigan’s second- and thirdstring offenses fared just as well

president’s backyard.

Schlissel engaged in conversation with students about his days in college, discussing how when he was a freshman, calling home was much more expensive than the common options like FaceTime or Skype students use today.

Aside from freshmen, many older students also attended the event, including LSA junior Jamie Huizinga. Huizinga said she came because she hadn’t yet met the president in person yet.

A group of foreign exchange students explained that they were here just to explore the campus and all the events offered.

“We want to explore everything,” said LSA junior Xin Gu, who transferred from a college in China.

toward the end of the game, with O’Korn and Morris each leading touchdown drives and combining to go 7-for-7 passing. According to Harbaugh, it was an indicator of just how close the quarterback competition was.

“It’s one of those clichés you hear about: if you have three good quarterbacks, then you don’t have any good quarterbacks,” Harbaugh said. “That’s never resonated with me. … They’re pushing each other higher, they’ve all commented how good that’s been, and I think that showed today.”

On the other side of the ball, the Wolverines’ defense ran roughshod over the Rainbow Warriors on nearly every drive, picking up four sacks and 10 tackles for loss. Hawaii didn’t gain a first down until the last five minutes of the first half, and both senior cornerback Channing Stribling and senior safety Delano Hill picked off quarterback Ikaika Woolsey for touchdown returns.

The Rainbow Warriors did put together one solid drive to close the first half, but an intentional grounding penalty resulted in a 10-second runoff that ended the half before Hawaii could attempt a field goal. It would eventually avenge that failure with a 55-yard boot from kicker Rigoberto

Sanchez with 12:30 remaining in the game, but it was far too little, far too late.

After Speight’s interception — really the only moment of tension all afternoon — the Wolverines enjoyed a near-perfect first performance, dominating in every facet of the game.

“You never want to come out and struggle in your first game,” said junior center Mason Cole.

“To be able to go out and run the ball well, pass the ball well, protect the quarterback well, play defense well — put it all together and that’s what happens, you go up 63 to 3.”

NOTE: All-American senior cornerback Jourdan Lewis, fifthyear senior offensive lineman Ben Braden and redshirt junior Maurice Hurst were among a group of Wolverines that dressed but missed the game due to injury, with Harbaugh later saying that the three were held out as a precaution and could be back as soon as next week. Senior defensive end Taco Charlton (ankle), senior running back De’Veon Smith (ribs) and redshirt sophomore defensive tackle Bryan Mone (unspecified) all left the game due to injury — Smith told Harbaugh he was fine, while Charlton and Mone will require further evaluation.

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Our bodies, our ‘Blonde’ selves

yrically, “Here, There and Everywhere,” off Revolver, is the most physically immediate and intimate song The Beatles ever recorded. Over quiet, calming guitar strums and girl-group backing vocals from his bandmates, Paul McCartney ADAM sings lines THEISEN like “to love her is to need her everywhere” and “watching her eyes and hoping I’m always there” in the calmest, sweetest voice. But as tranquil as he sounds, there’s almost unbearable pain in a desire that tangible and deep. On Frank Ocean’s latest album, the long-awaited Blonde, the young singer picks up and intensifies that unique kind of pain of being human, creating a record as purely honest as it is difficult to hear.

“Here, There and Everywhere,” which Ocean explicitly references on the song “White Ferrari,” is a moment that brings the old Beatles back for a few minutes — a very down to earth, physical human feeling on an album more often interested in altering consciousness and transcending everyday life. While they had dipped their toes into the mind/body divide with their previous record Rubber Soul, Revolver is the first that really fractures The Beatles. It presents them as more than just a physical entity, using studio experimentation to add to the band’s mystique and make tangible their visions

and hallucinations, as well as creating songs that would be physically impossible for a four-piece group to perform live.

Revolver is a good album to listen to when you hate the way you take up space in the world.

It’s a stereotypical go-to for when you’re high, but more than that, it’s truly a reimagining of what music can be. It’s one of the first rock albums to break the rules of commercial music, to be a cohesive work of art more than a product or collection of would-be radio hits. And while that may sound boring, Revolver is actually playful and fun, filled with the thrill of newness and exploration. Its sound makes you dream beyond and smile through your tangible self.

The sequencing of Revolver is wickedly smart, because as powerful as “Here, There and Everywhere” is, you get about four seconds of silence to process all its difficult meanings and implications before Ringo Starr barges through the door of your mind without even knocking: In the towwwwwwn, where I was born … and suddenly it’s impossible to think, because Zooey Deschanel’s favorite Beatle is having a party 20,000 leagues under the sea.

Blonde, by contrast, doesn’t give that relief. It feels the same limitations but decides to linger on them rather than escape, and so it’s an album that is impossible to enjoy when you hate your

physical presence. Ocean mostly eschews drums, the most physical instrument, in favor of ethereal keyboards and not much else.

Blonde seems to exist best at 3 or 4 a.m., a time when even the best of us might not feel like the world as we know it is totally real. It is, depending on who you talk to, a mature, complex masterpiece or a scattered, incomplete work of art from an anxious genius.

Either way, I feel this impossible to salve pain inside me when I try to listen to Blonde. The slow tempos, the ambient background synths, the fact that with only the subtlest rhythms it’s impossible to dance to, all force you to listen intently to each deliberate note. It’s beautiful, but it’s too much. I listen to Blonde and my mouth feels dry, I can’t keep my hands steady, and I worry that my heart will stop beating any second.

In “Nikes,” the opening track, Ocean meditates in a highpitched inhuman voice on the tragic deaths of Pimp C, who died at 33 from syrup, and Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager who was murdered at 17. Knowing that he could die at any moment, knowing that he looked just like Trayvon, Ocean detaches from the materialistic world and drifts through a hook-up, singing “I’m not him, but I’ll mean something to you.”

There are occasional wry moments of humor on Blonde, like the end of “Nikes,” where he tells the hook-up “You got a room-

Ocean has created a record as honest as it is difficult to hear.

DEF JAM

“That’s the last time I ever play tennis drunk.”

mate, he’ll hear what we do / It’s only awkward if you’re fucking him too.” But if you’re uncomfortable at all with your body or your physical existence, it’s an intense, unpleasant experience.

There’s a debt owed to Revolver and The Beatles, which Ocean acknowledges, but where The Fab Four aspire to freedom and preach escape, Ocean’s strippeddown music forces his listeners to confront themselves and their most personal feelings.

When Blonde surprisedropped a few weeks ago, it was a terrible time for me to hear it. I’ve been uncomfortable with my physical self for quite a while now, and last month was a particularly intense time for that feeling. I hated the way most people saw me, and it left me constantly exhausted, alone,

scared and needing a change.

I needed art that I could lose myself in — representations of others that I could disappear into, not minimalist music that invaded my mind and forced me to look inward. Blonde made me feel like I was drowning in my own anxieties.

Since then, I haven’t tried to tackle Blonde unless I’ve felt 100 percent up to it, and I’ve instead tried to get the same, but slightly easier, experience out of The Beatles. Blonde is fascinating and important, but it hurts.

Revolver, its spiritual ancestor, tackles its themes of bodies and the pain of the physical and the transcendence of life in a more bearable, optimistic way.

It’s fitting that Blonde came out as the 2016 Summer Olympics closed, just as we were wrapping

‘Blonde’ is fascinating and important, but it hurts.

our minds around the seemingly impossible physical tasks achieved by athletes like Katie Ledecky and Simone Biles. Blonde recognizes the beauty of life and humanity, but it’s also a counterpoint to the beauty of the games in Rio, because it knows that just having a body can be the most painful experience in the world.

Whether it’s our race, gender or sexuality, or anything else, being uncomfortable or feeling alone because of your own body is a nightmare, and the stress of lust and loneliness and mortality take an awful toll on both the listener and Ocean over the course of Blonde. Ocean is forcing his fans to embrace their true selves, no matter how much it might hurt and scare us, and to properly listen to Blonde, you need to be ready to love yourself and feel it everywhere.

If Ringo Starr is also your favorite Beatle (or if you are Zooey Deschanel), invite Theisen on the Yellow Submarine at ajtheis@umich.edu.

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Harambe memes aren’t funny unless we can all laugh at them.

‘Kubo’ a unique masterpiece

By SYDNEY COHEN For The Daily

Stop motion has always been heralded as one of the most impressive and visually stunning forms of animation — if A done right. Stop motion aniKubo and mation studio Laika Enter- the Two tainment has Strings met and surpassed expec- Rave & Qualtations with ity 16 “Kubo and the Focus Features Two Strings,” a film that holds its own as a breathtaking and mesmerizing work of art.

“Kubo and the Two Strings” tells the tale of Kubo (Art Parkinson, “Game of Thrones”), a young boy who embarks on a quest to reunite the three pieces of his late father’s magical armor to protect himself and his family from the wrath of a vengeful spirit. Kubo

possesses the unique and effective power to create movement and energy through the strum of his shamisen, a Japanese guitar.

The film’s big-name cast of characters includes Monkey (Charlize Theron, “Mad Max: Fury Road”), Beetle (Matthew McConaughey, “Interstellar”), the Sisters (Rooney Mara, “Carol”), and the Moon King (Ralph Fiennes, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”).

The character dynamics are entertaining and complicated, with enough intrigue to keep a viewer engaged. Furthermore, familial ties intertwine the characters in a complex web; Kubo’s immortal enemies are his grandfather and two aunts and his animal hybrid companions turn out to be his parents, kept alive by magic. Through plot twists and an emphasis on loyalty, “Kubo” stresses the importance of family and love in a genuine and subtle fashion.

Another central theme in the film is the art of storytelling.

Kubo is introduced in a scene of him captivating a crowd in his village with tales of samurai adventure and danger, defining him as a master of the spoken word. However, the movie also shifts from utilizing storytelling in the traditional sense to instead offering it as a flexible and powerful ability.

Storytelling becomes a force that highlights the importance of forgiveness and the malleability of someone’s history, as well as how their past shapes their character.

“Kubo and the Two Strings” masterfully retools the traditional art of storytelling to shape lives, rather than merely entertain.

The film’s central distinctive feature is its absolutely incredible animation. Here we see the directorial debut and best effort yet of Travis Knight, esteemed lead animator of the cinematic classics “Coraline” and “ParaNorman.” Knight has really outdone himself this time, stunning with an overwhelming attention to detail in both color and move-

ment. To throw out some choice adjectives, the film’s animation is dynamic, inventive and captivating, with Kubo’s world artfully constructed. The film’s central aesthetic motif revolves around the Japanese art of origami, with gorgeous landscape shots and scenery that look and move like folded paper. Further, the genius of the movie lies in the way Kubo manipulates origami to create moving objects that appear alive, meshing with the paper-esque world around him. The film’s end battle scene, in which the Moon King takes the form of a massive koi fish, is one of the most stunning works of animation to hit the screen.

“Kubo” is a beautiful homage to Japanese culture and mythology, drawing on classic themes and aesthetics to create a captivating story. Both simple and nuanced in plot and design, the film is an emotional, immersive experience that leaves the viewer warm and in awe.

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BOOK REVIEW

Ferrante’s feminism Daily Book Review: F ‘Joe Gould’s Teeth’ emale friendship is beautiful and entirely terrifying. There are expectations for friendships to be some of the most important relationships in a woman’s life — that is, until husbands and children typically take over these roles. Novels and films detailing REBECCA the plight of LERNER the modern woman often list the dissolution of female friendships after marriage as concerning, but not overly important. Only rarely do circumstances allow for friends to continue to play as influential a role as they may have in girlhood.

This intense lifelong connection between two women is the center of the Neapolitan novels, the acclaimed work of the pseudonymous Italian novelist Elena Ferrante. In the fourpart bildungsroman, Ferrante details the evolution of a female friendship between Elena and Lila. Told from the first-person perspective of Elena, the story reads like the diary of a vicious and vulnerable teenage girl.

After they grow into adulthood as best friends, Lila disappears without a trace and without letting Elena know where she’s going. Elena vengefully writes their story, juxtaposing the intense volatility of Lila’s actions with her own normalcy.

Even when Lila is not physically near her, Elena is inextricably bound to her best friend, each one struggling to define herself outside the terms of the other.

The novel is electric, because in between the strange instanc-

es specific to a low-income neighborhood in Naples exists the elements of life that makes your heart race — sex, jealousy, violence, fireworks. Reading Ferrante feels eerily similar to the moment when someone asks if you can keep a secret. The urgency of her words creates a bond between reader and author that is exceptional and infrequent. Ferrante’s description of the female experience creates an intimacy with the author so vivid that the reader feels like they know her, or that she knows them.

“My Brilliant Friend” presents as almost confessional, with Elena painting an incredibly vivid picture of the life of her best friend as an act of revenge. But Elena is so deeply entrenched in the story of their upbringing that Ferrante differentiates her work from the simplicity of gossip. She puts aside the pettiness of the social currency that gossip and information provide, eschewing the values of works like Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1777 play “School for Scandal.” In the play, the characters revel in the tensions caused by knowledge and scandalous divulgences. But in the Neapolitan novels, Ferrante concentrates on the substance of her characters, watching them grow and change rather than simply forcing them into different situations for reactions.

In a rare interview with The New Yorker, Ferrante said “writing is an act of pride.” She explains that she always wanted to hide her work, as writing felt presumptuous and shameful. The reader can clearly see this reluctance for ostentation in Ferrante’s novels — not only because she literally hides her identity, but because the exigency of her words forces her stories out into the open.

Stories like the Neapolitan novels, with unafraid firstperson narration and a storyline focused on transforming the mundane into the extraordinary, are inextricably linked to women’s writing. Novels like Ferrante’s feel like they conform to a strictly gendered style of writing. It’s fluid and fast-paced, with subtle undertones of conflicting emotions. The distinctly feminine writing of these books lies in their imperative languidness — these stories desperately need to be told, but also want to be coaxed with encouragement.

They are complex, unapologetically requiring the full attention of their audience.

There’s been some discussion recently of whether or not we should be reading to make friends with characters, and the role that likability should play in literature. Although wielding expectations of friendship for fictional characters is a flawed approach, it is true that we read for many of the same reasons as the ones for which we pursue friendship. We read to connect, to recognize the other minds that are constantly reverberating around us. Ferrante’s novels especially reject solipsism as we look into the lives of others who exist with thoughts and feelings strikingly similar to our own. She takes the friendship between women seriously, which is unusual in a place like Naples where societal norms dictate the prioritization of other relationships. Ferrante gives space to the complex feelings of these overlooked and sometimes neglected relationships, returning meaning and power to the bearers of female friendship.

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By RENNIE PASQUINELLI For The Daily

It’s not too late to pick up a short summer read. And if you’re a fan of profiles on eccentric historical figures, this is Joe Gould’s certainly the Teeth book for you.

Joe Gould Jill Lepore was a nobody with connec- Knopf tions.

His family name carried him further than any college degree could. Friends with Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings and other contemporary writers and artists of his time, Gould was known for his oddball mystique around the literary community — especially around Harlem.

From the beginning of World War I to the end of World War II, Gould (supposedly) worked vigorously on “The Oral History of Our Time”: a history of the world told through regular people’s stories. His friends and his work led to a spotlight in The New Yorker, an infamous profile entitled “Professor Sea Gull” by Joseph Mitchell. “The

Oral History,” however, was never published, even after Gould’s death in 1957. Many have tried to find “The Oral History,” but many have failed.

Jill Lepore, a Harvard historian and author of “The Secret History of Wonder Woman,” crafts a short and sweet profile on Gould that is not only a search for “The Oral History,” but also a revealing profile on a complete asshole.

“Joe Gould is not a lovable old man,” reported The Harvard Crimson in an interview with Gould. This description of Gould is truly an understatement. The most difficult part of getting through “Joe Gould’s Teeth” is the protagonist’s (and, simultaneously, antagonist’s) racism, sexism and relentless harassment towards a black woman. Gould was a proponent of eugenics, believed that the black population tainted the white population and often approached women to ask them if they were “gropable.” In a “Breaking Bad” fashion, the hero of the story became the villain. Instead of a progression that happens within many seasons, however, Gould

becomes the villain within a matter of pages.

The saving grace of Gould’s profile is the discovery and inclusion of Augusta Savage, the woman he incessantly stalked, even when she requested him to stop countless amounts of times. Lepore’s astute research into Savage’s life could have been another book itself.

Savage, an African American single mother and well-known sculptor, brings to light a different kind of celebrity; one vastly different from Gould.

The dichotomy between the two brings diversity in character and a break from the general unpleasantness that is Joe Gould.

“Joe Gould’s Teeth,” though short, is difficult to get through.

Each page is filled with pullout-your-hair-worthy details surrounding Gould’s blatant disrespect for women and black people. Lepore is a fantastic historian; her intimate details make it possible to form a deep hatred for the book’s subject.

This doesn’t necessarily make for a bad read, but fair warning: your eyes may get stuck in the rolled-back position.

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veryone saw it. A six-second video on Vine of Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh punching his new starting quarterback’s pads prior to him taking the field — KELLY shoulders, HALL chest, hips, helmet — emulating the environment he’d likely see this coming season.

Harbaugh seems certain of a lot of things, like maybe how hitting his quarterback up and down helps

him play. He did it prior to this quarterback’s gamewinning touchdown drive against Minnesota in 2015, when he was just a reliever for starting quarterback Jake Rudock.

Harbaugh knew that it had worked before, so he was doing it again, pumping up his quarterback for his first start of the 2016 season, in Michigan Stadium against Hawaii.

Since Monday at least, Harbaugh knew who would start. He knew who had won the competition, even if no one other than him and his quarterback knew.

But he didn’t know that redshirt sophomore Wilton Speight would throw an

interception on his first play of the season. The mental anguish that comes with that can’t be emulated by a few slaps and punches.

An audible gasp from the crowd filled the stadium.

The stout Michigan defense had just forced a three-andout in a little over a minute, and it was a shock to the system to see the offense start in such an alarming fashion.

Besides, this is the same quarterback that claims that his perspective started to shift after that game in Minnesota. He rode that confidence boost through spring, giving it a great deal of credit for his success throughout spring camp.

Back on April 1, when it was just the Maize playing the Blue in Michigan’s annual Spring Game, he noted how much it helped him. “(Playing against Minnesota last season) was huge,” Speight said following the Spring Game. “Not that you live in the past, you never want to do that, but to go out there and say that, ‘Well, I’ve done this on the road in a hostile environment, why can’t I do it in Glick (Field House), or why can’t I do it in a Spring Game, or why can’t I do it next year versus Hawaii?’

It’s big, and it’s kept me calm.”

How would Speight

bounce back from this, a season-opening interception? Would it zap his confidence, ultimately zapping his season?

He answered in resounding fashion: On the next series, he started on the two-yard line. His first pass was to fifth-year senior wide receiver Jehu Chesson for 16 yards. One pass did what no pass he had thrown before had done: It instilled confidence in him as a starting quarterback, and after that, he didn’t look back.

“Once I saw my first completion to (Chesson) on that slant, I felt completely settled in and kind of like See SPEIGHT, Page 6B

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A morning with Warde Manuel

W

hen Warde Manuel stepped out of the elevator and into the

press box Saturday morning at Michigan Stadium, he greeted staffers with a familiar refrain.

“Who’s got MAX it better than BULTMAN us?” he asked.

It was just before 9 a.m. on his first game day as Michigan’s athletic director, a day that one might assume Manuel would get to bask in. And it was a big day, just not in the way you might expect.

Throughout the day, Manuel will draw the attention of a celebrity, but his first game day morning isn’t especially glamorous. He looks over paperwork. He visits tailgates and plays host. It is not like his first home game as a player in 1986.

Oddly enough, he doesn’t remember the opponent or the score of that game. He just knows that his team won.

(Michigan beat Oregon State, 31-12, on Sept. 20, 1986.) But he remembers clearly what it was like to run onto the field the first time — a feeling that this day, however special, can’t possibly recapture.

“There’s nothing that would ever compare to running on the field the first time as a freshman and seeing the 100,000,” Manuel said. “The difference is, that was the first time I’d ever been in the stadium. On this one I’m returning. And, while very, very special, that first time running on the field was — I’ll never forget it.”

Manuel will get down to the field Saturday, too, but first, he has some things to take care of that he never had to as a player.

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Warde Manuel may have a glamorous job title, but his first game day as Michigan’s athletic director was not about leisure.

Almost immediately after he arrives at the press box, he goes off to his suite to start looking over paperwork.

Each day, he gets a morning briefing, and on Saturday it’s easy to understand why. He moves from place to place quickly on this game day, with timing and locations subject to change. First, though, he sits in the athletic director’s suite, head buried in his folder, joined by his chief of staff, Doug Gnodtke, and his guest, James Hall, a member of the 1997 national title team.

There’s plenty of room.

Manuel sits at one of the two counter top tables, in front of the two high-tops and the kitchenette for food and drinks.

The shelves conjure some of his memories. One has a photo of Manuel as a player. Another

features a small Michigan teddy bear and a picture of the moment Jim Harbaugh handed him a jersey bearing his name at his introductory press conference.

These are the subtle personalizations in a suite that’s not significantly different than the standard issue. It’s larger, but it wouldn’t be a big deal without Manuel in it.

On this morning, he doesn’t dwell there long. He has a radio interview to do, so he and his entourage walk down the hall, take the elevator to the ground level and start walking toward the Pioneer High School tailgates.

Manuel is a large, swaggering man, and he’s very easy to recognize. Fans holler to Manuel and frequently ask for pictures. Usually, he hollers back, sometimes in kind, others with a “Go Blue!” He poses for a lot of

photos.

At the intersection of Main and West Stadium, Manuel greets a police officer. He does this many times on game day, and it stands out. He even asks one about his wife and kids.

Later, Manuel explains that he got to know the force through the late Vada Murray, a police officer and Manuel’s best friend.

He doesn’t have much spare time today, but he still stops when he can, nearly always with a charismatic greeting.

That’s the nature of his Saturday: so little time, so many hands to shake and so many people to catch up with. *** Manuel actually beats the softball team to its tailgate on the grass next to Alumni Field,

FOOTBALL

Michigan defense stifles Hawaii

By JAKE LOURIM

electric performance.

“We made sure this season,” said senior defensive back Channing Stribling, “that even though somebody goes down, we gotta make sure that we keep it going.”

Last year, the Wolverines were dominant in several games, but most of them came when the defense was at full strength and playing its best football of the season. When defensive tackle Ryan Glasgow injured his pectoral Nov. 7, and other injuries such as defensive end Mario Ojemudia’s Achilles began to take

their toll, the unit faded. was very impressive. Everybody Managing Sports Editor Not Saturday. Despite not knew exactly what they were learning of Lewis’ absence until doing.”

Before the Michigan football just before game time and not Hawaii — which lost to Caliteam’s season opener against practicing without him all week, fornia in Sydney last weekend Hawaii on Saturday, Channing Michigan stifled Hawaii for the and then traveled halfway across Stribling asked Jourdan Lewis if duration of the afternoon. the world to Ann Arbor with a he was OK, and Lewis said yes.

The Wolverines allowed stop at home in between — found But Lewis had been battling just 232 total yards, forced six no relief. an injury in practice leading up punts and made four sacks. They A Michigan interception gave to the game, and Michigan coach returned two interceptions for the Rainbow Warriors good field Jim Harbaugh wanted to make touchdowns for the first time position, and they moved backsure he didn’t rush him back. So since the 1999 Citrus Bowl. ward. A long ensuing drive gave Harbaugh sat his All-American As it did last year, the defense’s them some rest, and they went cornerback as a precaution, and pressure best showed in its effect three-and-out again. Mone and his defense still delivered an on the opposing offense. In the Charlton left the game, and the first half especially, the Rain- Wolverines had replacements bow Warriors rushed throws, for them. Then came the second struggled with blocks and faced string, and Michigan just kept jarring hits. Michigan kicked firing fresh bullets from the sideoff to start the game and didn’t line. And so on, and so on. allow Hawaii so much as a posi“The D-line’s gonna do their tive play until its third series, a job, the linebackers are gonna first down until its seventh or a do their job and in the back end point until its 10th. … we make their job better, and “(Defensive then they coordinator make our job Don Brown) better,” StribSudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ talked to the ling said. “So D-line (and) a lot of pressaid, ‘We’re sure equals gonna bring a a lot more lot of pressure turnovers; a early, making lot more turnsure that this overs equal a EASY quarterback lot more presis rattled,’ and he got rattled,” sure.”

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and he teases them about the low volleyball net they are using.

Senior shortstop Abby Ramirez justifies it by saying, “It’s my height!” Not one to just stand by and watch, the athletic director joins the game — in his dress slacks and blazer, no less — and aces his first serve. He misses his second short of the net.

Then he moves to play corn hole. Manuel is a natural, just as he is at the art of conversation.

He is a people person, and it’s remarkable how he’s able to make a connection with seemingly every person he interacts with.

He’s right next to the softball fields, so it only makes sense that, on multiple occasions, he retells the story of how he and Murray once flooded the field, which he also recalled at his introductory press conference.

“If they didn’t need our help for

a few more weeks,” he tells two softball players, “I think we would have been fired on the spot.”

Then, once more, Manuel is on the move, headed to the basketball tailgate. As his golf cart drives up the sidewalk, two young men are sauntering by with a case of Labatt Blue before they appear to realize who they’re carrying it past.

As they motor toward the Crisler Center parking lots, Manuel, who says he has not yet eaten since 5:45 a.m., takes a bite of a nutrition bar that he thinks is “kale or something.” He hands it back to Hall, who declares it has no taste. Manuel says it’s good with iced coffee. “Hint of cardboard,” he says.

As the golf cart moves through crowds, Manuel says the cart needs a Dukes of Hazzard horn.

Manuel’s next tailgate is on the roof of the Player Development Center, where Manuel gets to chat briefly with point guard Derrick Walton Jr. and men’s basketball coach John Beilein.

Nearly all of his remaining time there is spent meeting people whom it’s his job to meet.

This is where it’s most clear.

The PDC roof has a beautiful view of campus, a perfect setting to just sit down and soak in how good it must feel to be athletic director at his alma mater. But Manuel just doesn’t have time to bask. Soon, he has to be on the field, where two men named Michael and Derek will also be.

Then, right before noon, he will watch the team run out of the tunnel, and maybe he’ll think back to his first time doing the same nearly 30 years ago. But there’s one thing he is sure of.

“I’m not gonna throw up like I used to as a player.”

Bultman can be reached at bultmanm@umich.edu and on Twitter @m_bultman.

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Evans stars for ‘M’

By MAX BULTMAN Managing Sports Editor

Chris Evans doesn’t like wearing his contacts.

The freshman running back only sheds his glasses in games because once, in high school, they flew out of his helmet when he took a hit. He wouldn’t need the contacts at all if he weren’t farsighted, which is funny because on Saturday, Evans was the one who must have seemed like a blur up close.

Evans ran for 112 yards in Michigan’s 63-3 win over Hawaii, the most in school history for a true freshman running back making his debut. All through training camp, teammates and coaches raved about Evans and his ability to make plays in space, and Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said the team plans to use Evans in a variety of ways, including returns and as a receiver. Against the Rainbow Warriors, it wasn’t hard to see why.

“He really can do everything you’d want a back to do,” Harbaugh said. “He blocks. He runs the ball between the tackles. He can run on the edge. He can catch the ball out of the backfield. He’s a good contributor on special teams as well. There’s a lot of ways he’ll be used. He’s a special player.”

Evans said he knew he would get the ball in the Wolverines’ season opener. He just didn’t know he would get it quite so much. His first carry came on the Wolverines’ third drive — though it was functionally their second, since Wilton Speight threw an interception on their first — and he took it for seven yards. Then Speight gave him the ball again.

And then again.

By halftime, he already had seven carries — the most of any Michigan ball carrier — and his seventh was his most impressive.

With the Wolverines leading 28-0 with just over six minutes left in the first half, Evans took a toss going left, stiff-armed one tackler, shook off another, and dove to the pylon for his first college touchdown.

“It was just crazy,” Evans said.

“I’ve seen the big house roar, but I’ve never seen it roar for me.”

On his next and final carry, he needed no such frills. He went straight up the middle, untouched, for a 43-yard touchdown. There wasn’t ever a question of whether he was fast — Evans was a star hurdler at Ben Davis (Ind.) High School — but on this play he just shot through the hole. By the time he hit the line of scrimmage, three Rainbow Warriors appeared to have a shot at Evans, and a fourth soon threw off a block to join them. It just didn’t matter.

Evans split them down the middle, leaving one defender flat on his stomach after colliding with an official and the other three hopelessly chasing him.

All of this was from a player who, when he arrived, felt relatively unknown. Evans didn’t carry the hype that Rashan Gary or Brandon Peters did, and he said he wondered, when he first arrived, if he belonged at Michigan.

“After two days of training camp, we all knew who Chris Evans was,” Speight said.

Now, so does the Michigan fan base. And while the Hawaii rush defense is far from a reliable measuring stick, don’t expect Evans to turn shy when stronger defenses present themselves.

When Michael Jordan spoke to the team last night, Evans was the first Wolverine to speak up and ask Jordan a question about his famous “flu game.”

It says something that the freshman didn’t shy away from breaking the ice with an all-time great athlete. And that confidence extended to the football field against Hawaii.

“In high school, I was kind of like, ‘Oh, I hope he blocks him, I hope he blocks him,’ ” Evans recalled. “But out there today, I was like, ‘All right, I know he’s going to block him, I know he’s going to block him,’ so it’s really on me. It’s really on me to do it because I know everything’s going to be perfect.”

Saturday, it was close.

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‘M’ dominates Ole Miss

By BRAD WHIPPLE Daily Sports Editor

At first, Reilly Martin didn’t want to take the penalty kick in the 39th minute of Friday night’s game.

OLE MISS 0 After the MICHIGAN 2 sophomore midfielder was taken down inside the box by an Ole Miss defender, Martin was shaken up and senior midfielder Jessica Heifetz stepped forward to finish the job with the Michigan women’s soccer team clinging to a 1-0 lead.

That was until head coach Greg Ryan called for Martin to take it herself, especially since she was the player who drew the penalty.

Martin stepped forward and paused. Three weeks ago on Aug. 11, she was in the exact spot against the goalkeeper from then-No. 4 Virginia, but Martin’s attempt ricocheted off the left post. This time against Ole Miss, though, there was no chance she’d let it hit anything other than the net.

With her right foot, Martin kicked the ball past Rebels goalkeeper Marnie Merritt, giving Michigan (3-1-1) a muchneeded insurance goal and an eventual 2-0 victory.

“She’s the one kid I know will put it in the back of the net,” Ryan said. “Great for her to step up, and that was the goal that put the game away.”

Twenty minutes earlier, redshirt junior forward Ani Sarkisian opened the game up for Michigan after Martin took the ball up the field, drew off a defender inside the box and gave Sarkisian an open look to spiral a shot into the upper 90 for a one-goal lead.

The Wolverines knew they were facing a high-octane offense in Ole Miss, and getting on the board early would be the difference maker. Much of this

week’s focus leading up to the game was to work on having two extra defenders on the ball carrier, because Ryan knew that his team couldn’t stop the Rebels offense one player at a time.

The strategy worked for Michigan, which headed into halftime with a two-goal lead.

Luckily for the Wolverines, they continued to execute their game plan in the second half against an Ole Miss squad even hungrier to even out the scoring.

“At halftime,” Ryan said, “I told them, ‘Hold on, it’s coming. They’re going to throw everything at ya. We’re gonna be defending a lot. Keep your shape, keep your composure and you’ll be fine.’ ” Added Sarkisian: “Second half, we didn’t really control the tempo as much but they were knocking on our door all 45 minutes and we did a great job of just keeping them out of our box and defending as a whole unit.”

Three minutes into the

second half, Ole Miss fired off a shot only to have it saved by sophomore redshirt goalkeeper Sarah Jackson. The Rebels placed an extra forward up front and brought up most of their outside backs, showing how eager they were to narrow the deficit.

Ole Miss (3-2) fired off just four shots in the first half, but in the second, the offense came alive in a 12-shot onslaught — four of which came in the final 10 minutes of the game.

Jackson made a diving save on the final shot from the Rebels. Even if Ole Miss had scored in those final minutes for a one-goal loss instead of two, Michigan still wanted the shutout. This season, the team’s motto is “All In,” meaning they have to put in the effort in all 90 minutes, because letting loose for even a few seconds could result in a late comeback by an opponent — something the Wolverines dealt with on

occasion last season.

With Jackson making nine saves through 90 minutes, though, the Rebels efforts were thwarted.

“Sarah was very, very sharp tonight,” Ryan said. “The thing with Sarah is she’s getting really confident, and that was a key for her, because she’s always had the ability and the athleticism, and tonight was a perfect game for her. She can get to just about anything.”

The season ahead is promising for the Wolverines after they shut out a highcaliber offensive team ranked in the NSCAA top 25 last week.

With the exception of a loss to Marquette, Michigan has made the most of its opportunities to compete against some of the best talent in the country.

And with Big Ten play just two weeks away, the Wolverines will be that much more prepared to begin their journey toward a conference title.

September 6, 2016 — 3B

Michigan rolls on West Coast swing

By NATHANIEL CLARK Daily Sports Writer

To most teams, two weekends of road games against ranked opponents would inspire feelings of dread. But not the 10th-ranked Michigan field hockey team.

The Wolverines (3-1) defeated No. 12 Stanford, 2-1, Friday and California-Berkeley, 5-0, Sunday.

Michigan’s victories came following a 1-0 road victory over then-No. 1 UNC, 1-0, and a 2-0 loss to then-No. 7 Wake Forest last weekend.

“I’m really proud of the team for playing a full 70 minutes,” said Michigan coach Marcia Pankratz.

Sophomore forward Emma Way kicked off the scoring for the Wolverines against the Cardinal when she netted a goal at 23:57, while senior forward Courtney Enge extended Michigan’s lead to two 14 minutes later. The Wolverines kept Stanford off the board in the first half.

But the Cardinal did not go down without a fight.

Stanford took advantage of a penalty corner in the 51st minute to get the ball past junior goaltender Sam Swenson to cut Michigan’s edge in half.

The Cardinal then appeared poised to tie the game when the Wolverines were given a green card with 3:41 left. But Swenson and her teammates successfully ran out the clock and ensured the victory for Michigan. Swenson finished Friday with four saves in total.

“I think we’ve worked together really well,” Swenson said of her teammates. “We’ve upped our communication so that everyone is on the same page. That’s really helped us all the way through the team.”

Pankratz gave special praise to Swenson, though.

“Swenson is an amazing goalkeeper,” Pankratz said. “She’s quick, she’s experienced and the defense in front of her is really confident because of her.”

Against the Golden Bears, redshirt junior forward Carly Bennett drew first blood when she scored at 28:08. The rest of the first half featured very little offense as the teams combined for just three shots on goal.

The Wolverines would change that in a big way in the second half.

Senior forward Sina Lampe made a shot off a penalty corner towards Enge, who put the ball in the net in the 55th minute. Bennett added another goal two minutes later to extend the lead to three.

Freshman forward Bree Bednarski scored her first career goal 1:36 later and Enge topped things off by notching her third goal of the weekend as time expired.

“I think we all got extra hungry and extra ready for the second half,” Enge said. “We just penetrated the circle and the goals fell.”

Michigan will be rewarded for its early success by finally getting to play at home against Villanova on Sept. 10, something Pankratz and the Wolverines are looking forward to.

“We’ve been on the road a long time and it gets tiring,” Pankratz said. “Our players have worked really hard, and classes start (this week).”

The Wolverines will have to face No. 6 Maryland and No. 12 Louisville before 2016 is out. But after the past two weekends, Michigan likely won’t be walking into those matchups feeling dread.

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Reilly Martin converted a first-half penalty kick Friday to give Michigan an insurance goal against Ole Miss.

Wolverines earn three more wins

By LANEY BYLER Daily Sports Writer

Holding onto a 3-0 record from its season opener, the Michigan volleyball team had high expectations to deliver the same quality performance at the Kansas State Invitational. The Wolverines didn’t disappoint, as they advanced to 6-0 after claiming victories over Tennessee State, Kansas State and Georgia Tech.

Despite dropping their first set of the season against the host Wildcats, Michigan rallied for a four-set victory, 25-21, 24-26, 25-19, 25-22. Fifth-year senior outside hitter Kelly Murphy highlighted the offense with a career-high 21 kills and a .455 attack percentage. Senior middle blocker Abby Cole followed closely behind with 17 kills and a .333 attack percentage. The Wolverines totaled 59 kills out of 151 total attacks for a .311 total attack percentage.

But it was Michigan’s ability to avoid mistakes and capitalize on strengths that really separated it from Kansas State.

“We were very lowerror,” said Michigan coach Mark Rosen. “We kept a lot of stuff in play, and if things weren’t perfect, we didn’t make them worse. We tended to make them better. A lot of the time, with the teams we played this weekend, the difference in score was error, because we tried to stay pretty clean.”

Michigan’s performance against Georgia Tech was oriented more toward consistency and defense rather than offense.

The Wolverines’ defense only allowed Georgia Tech a .094 attack average while topping the Yellow Jackets in four sets, 25-16, 25-17, 19-25, 25-22. Michigan reached a season-high 72 digs, along with 12 team blocks.

Cole reached a career-high total with nine digs, while sophomore libero Jenna Lerg

recorded a season-high 23.

In the third and final match of the invitational, the Wolverines tallied their best average attack percentage since 2012, a .444 against Tennessee State, streamlined by redshirt sophomore middle blocker Cori Crocker. She led the team with 10 kills and contributed a .529 attack average.

“We’ve been working with Cori to try and develop her offense,” Rosen said. “She’s a very good blocker and good on the defensive side of stuff, but we haven’t really been able to utilize her as much offensively. In the match against Tennessee State, she led in kills and and hit over .500, so that was a great breakout match for her offensively. If we can get her more involved offensively, that’s going to be a good thing.”

Murphy and junior rightside hitter Katherine Mahlke both contributed offensively as well, with seven and nine kills, respectively.

Lopsided scores of 25-7 and 25-14 in favor of Michigan during the first two sets allowed some of its younger athletes experience, including freshman setter Katerina Rocafort and freshman outside hitter Sydney Wetterstrom, who tallied six kills.

“We’re still trying to give people opportunities to see how they play in games and see what they do in practice,” Rosen said. “We track that really closely, but we still want to see how they respond in game situations. Today, when we shuffled things around and made changes, the level didn’t really drop off. In lots of ways, it actually improved, and I think that’s a great sign of depth.”

If the Wolverines can continue to expose their freshmen to the offensive mentality they have been highlighting, then Michigan shouldn’t have a problem fielding experience and depth at the Panther Invitational next weekend — and maybe tack on three more wins to their record.

The difference in score was error ... we tried to stay pretty clean.”

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Sam Swenson gave up one goal in two games for the second straight weekend.

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Kelly Murphy was Michigan’s star against Kansas State with 21 kills.

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Michigan busts rust at season’s opening meet Finn runs unattached as Wolverines kick off 2016 campaign

By LANEY BYLER Daily Sports Writer AMANDA ALLEN/Daily

Redshirt junior Aaron Baumgarten won the Michigan Open on Saturday in Dexter, Mich.

‘M’ wins Michigan Open

By MIKE PERSAK Daily Sports Writer

DEXTER, Mich. — Every time the leading runners broke into open space at the Michigan Open on Saturday, the same four men led the way for the Michigan men’s cross country team.

Redshirt junior Aaron Baumgarten, redshirt junior Micah Beller and seniors Ben Flanagan and Connor Mora battled for position throughout the race, with Baumgarten edging Flanagan by just 1.6 seconds.

The pack’s pace-setting effort in their first meet of the year comes as no surprise, though.

The group owned four of the top five times for returning Wolverines in the 5k coming into the sea-

son, and the upperclassmen will carry a heavy workload throughout the 2016 season.

Though the event was nonscoring, the heavy competition between Baumgarten, Beller, Flanagan and Mora is nothing new either. The four have been running together for four years now and partially credit their success to the constant pushing from their own teammates.

“Throughout all of our workouts and our runs, we really stick together and try to have a pack mentality,” Baumgarten said.

“When you’re running with three of your best friends, it’s a lot easier to push yourself harder than you ever have. Working together like that is critical for racing in championship meets.”

Added Michigan coach Kevin Sullivan: “If they get in the habit of working together now, it’s going to help them late in the season. When one guy is on and one guy is feeling a little rough, they can work together and help pull each other along.”

The Michigan Open was not a championship meet. In fact, 21 of the 30 competitors in the meet were Michigan runners. So the Wolverines primarily used it as a tune-up for the remainder of their season.”

“It’s not a high-stress situation for us,” Sullivan said. “We came off of a good two weeks of camp, and we just wanted to get a race, simulation-type effort.”

Michigan will now turn its attention to the Indiana State Sycamore Invitational next weekend, and coming off its first Big Ten Championship since 1998, keeping their eyes set on the future is something that Sullivan and his staff has impressed on the team.

“Last season was obviously great,” Beller said. “But I think the big thing this year was not to let that get in the way of moving the ball even further this year.”

Added Baumgarten: “(Coach Sullivan) has said this before: ‘All right, we were Big Ten champions, we had our moment. That doesn’t mean anything now. It’s about getting a Big Ten Championship this year, getting top ten at nationals this year. We can’t dwell on our past victories.’”

DEXTER, Mich. — It took 46.6 seconds for the next competitor to catch up to Erin Finn at the 5,000-meter Michigan Open, the first race of the season.

The nonscoring event consisted of 27 athletes, five of whom ran unattached. It was the first competition setting outside of practice for the No. 9 women’s cross country team, which allowed coaches to see areas where the runners could use work, and help determine which individuals would be redshirted.

Finn, now in her senior season, dominated the race as an unattached athlete, finishing AMANDA ALLEN/Daily with a time of 16:44. The next Avery Evenson was Michigan’s top attached runner at the Michigan Open. runner, graduate transfer Kira Garry, crossed the finish line at us to try and run with our sub- place. Runners eight through 17:31. groups that we’ve been practic- 10 included redshirt sophoBut, it was junior Avery Even- ing with, and I think there were more Claire Borchers in eighth son who really impressed coach- some packs that were doing (17:58), graduate student Erika es and spectators at the event. really well with that.”

Fluehr at ninth (17:58) and redAfter transferring to Michigan If packing up was a main shirt junior Jaimie Phelan at last year and sitting out the priority for the Wolverines, 10th (18:07). season with an injury, Even- then runners three through six Despite the packing effort son competed in the Michigan accomplished just that. Just demonstrated by the middle Open as her nine seconds runners, Michigan coach Mike first race in separated McGuire would still like to see uniform. She Evenson from more of it throughout the lineup. finished the redshirt junior “To critique today, I would race with a Jamie Mor- just say that we could have time of 17:43, rissey, who packed up a little bit more, and was the took sixth with to have everyone running top attached a time of 17:52. controlled and side by side,” finisher for Redshirt junior McGuire said. “But overall I Michigan, Gina Sereno thought we had a good, solid claiming took fourth opener.” third place. with a time of With the first race out of the “It was def17:50 and red- way, Michigan has an entire initely a good meet, a nice rust- shirt sophomore Ellie Leonard season ahead to focus on packbuster for everyone,” Evenson claimed fifth (17:51). ing together. But even if the said. “We just got back from Madeline Trevisan, an unat- majority of the Wolverines do camp, so we’re all coming in tached freshman, topped the accomplish that, there’s a good with some tired legs, but I was incoming class with a time possibility one runner will still still really pleased. Coach told of 17:54 and claimed seventh be about 46 seconds ahead.

“Overall I thought we had a good, solid opener.”

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Newsome thrives at tackle Wolverines, Yale MEN’S SOCCER

finish with draw

Competition has made sophomore better as he takes over starting role

Michigan still searching for first win after one loss, three ties

By KELLY HALL Daily Sports Editor

When sophomore left tackle Grant Newsome was 10 years old, he wasn’t allowed to play Pee Wee football. He was too big.

His other option was to play with 15-year-olds, and his dad wasn’t about to let that happen.

So Newsome’s football career officially started his freshman year of high school, when he was finally allowed to play with his classmates. After all of that waiting, he was awarded the unglamorous position as backup left tackle on the junior varsity team. At the time, he thought he would stick with baseball, another sport he excelled at and played year-round.

Soon after, however, he realized his full football potential when he received an offer from Rutgers during his sophomore year. Until then, he hadn’t spoken with a single college coach. He started taking the sport more seriously after getting the offer.

Now, at 6-foot-7 and 318 pounds, it appears he made the right choice.

In Saturday’s 63-3 win over Hawaii, Newsome started after a steady competition at left tackle throughout fall camp. According to offensive coordinator Tim Drevno, Ben Bredeson has been pressuring Newsome at the position ever since the true freshman stepped onto campus.

Newsome was the presumed starter going into the 2016 season because of the in-game experiences he gained as a freshman, including starting at Minnesota on Oct. 31. He played in five games last year, but still considers himself a raw player.

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Sophomore left tackle Grant Newsome emerged from fall camp having won the starting job over Ben Bredeson.

Newsome knew that he would have to battle for the spot this season.

“I didn’t really look at it that it was my job to lose. But I think, obviously, playing first string, I had some experience, but because I played as a freshman last year, I knew that Coach Drevno and Coach Harbaugh were going to roll the balls out and see who the best was,” Newsome said. “I didn’t have the attitude that I had the spot locked down, and I was really just excited to come out and compete for the opportunity and I think that I definitely got pushed and that I’ll continue to be pushed.”

Though Newsome played at left tackle, Bredeson did get to see the field while sharing left guard duties with senior Patrick Kugler as senior Ben Braden sat out due

to injury. Though Braden should be returning for Saturday’s game against Central Florida, Harbaugh said Monday that Bredeson showed “very good signs for a future at left guard,” while also stating that Newsome “continues to be one of our top linemen.”

“I thought it was definitely a good start,” Newsome said of Saturday’s game. “Obviously there’s a lot left to improve. I think I’ll see that when I go over the film with coach Drevno.

Definitely a lot of areas to improve on, but it was good to get out there and get our first start under my belt.”

After experiencing game action last season, it would be easy to approach this season with a more relaxed attitude. As a sophomore, he’s in a unique position. He’s a young player, but still experienced

“I think that’s how it should be. It should be a meritocracy.”

enough to draw on situations in which he has started.

Newsome thinks that’s the way it should be, and if the coaching staff wants to give playing time to freshmen, so be it.

“For me, it was really helpful last year to get some experience in the game,” Newsome said.

“It’s great to play for a coach who you know if you’re the best at your position, you’re going to play. I think that’s how it should be. It should be a meritocracy.”

With the pressure Newsome has received from Bredeson, it’s safe to say that he knows his job is never safe. Newsome had to climb his way up from the backup on junior varsity in high school, and after playing as the sixth man on the offensive line last season, he’s no stranger to competition. “(Bredeson) really pushed me throughout camp and he’s still going to push me, and I think it’s great for me because I can go out and practice every day and know that I have to earn a starting spot,” Newsome said. “It forces me to get better.”

After dropping its home opener to Columbia, the Michigan men’s soccer team (0-1-2) returned to its home YALE 2 stadium MICHIGAN 2 looking for its first win of the season. But after a whirlwind game filled with momentum changes, neither the Wolverines nor the Bulldogs prevailed in overtime, and Michigan ended up with another 2-2 tie.

The Wolverines dominated the first 35 minutes of the half, limiting Yale’s possession. But they couldn’t find the back of the net, and the half ended in a scoreless tie.

The Bulldogs, meanwhile, had trouble even creating offensive chances, with pressure coming from Michigan’s veteran defense whose four starters have amassed 162 career starts.

“We’re a team that once we get a couple chances, we start to build our confidence after that,” said senior forward Yamann Sahlool.

“The more chances we got, the more we got to try more things and be more dangerous.”

During the first half, Michigan fired off five shots, two on goal, while Yale managed only four shots, but three were on goal.

With leading shot taker and freshman forward Jack Hallahan absent from Michigan’s starting lineup, the Wolverines had no leading goal scorer, translating into the lack of shots.

But the second half would be defined by the holes in Michigan’s

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defense and the Bulldogs’ ability to take advantage of their limited chances.

“We carried the whole game,” said Michigan coach Chaka Daley. “They didn’t really have anything to offer. Some set-piece issues were only the difference.”

The second half looked completely dissimilar to the first as it began with the Bulldogs converting a chance off of a Michigan foul. With a slow lobbed cross from the 30-yard mark, Yale defender Ollie Iselin poked the ball into the net out of a scrum.

Michigan reversed the momentum with back-to-back unanswered goals. The first was from last year’s Big Ten Freshman of the Year, Francis Atuahene, who buried the ball right under the goalkeeper’s arm.

Just two minutes later, the second Wolverine goal came from Sahlool, who dangled three defenders and pushed the ball to the bottom left corner to give the Wolverines a 2-1 lead.

With 12 minutes left in the game, the momentum shifted again as Yale equalized with a similar goal to its first. On a lobbed ball off of a set piece, a Bulldog attacker poked the ball past diving junior goalkeeper Evan Louro to tie the game, 2-2.

The Wolverines dominated the first half of overtime, controlling almost all of the possession, but they were again unable to score due to some critical offside calls. The second overtime period looked much like the first, with neither team generating many chances.

“Honestly, it’s confidence at this point,” said sophomore midfielder Marcello Borges.

“Once we get one or two wins, we’ll get things going again.”

Michigan goes on the road to Wisconsin on Friday for its conference opener and will push for more scoring opportunities.

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Five Things We Learned: Hawaii

By JAKE LOURIM

redshirts and reward them for the hard work during camp that he has lauded for weeks.

Michigan’s recruiting class, ranked No. 6 in the country by ESPN.com, also consisted of 28 players, tied for third among the top 75 classes. Gary was the highlight, but the Wolverines also brought in a host of other immediate contributors.

Running back Chris Evans totaled 112 yards, more than twice as many as any other player, and two touchdowns. McDoom was electric, with 19- and 15-yard carries to go with two receptions for 15 yards. Defensive lineman Michael Dwumfour, linebacker Devin Bush and safety Khaleke Hudson each recorded tackles.

Harbaugh may have preserved some redshirts — freshman kicker Quinn Nordin didn’t lose his on a few extra points in a blowout — but the head coach followed up on his plan to use players if they are ready to play.

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We didn’t learn a lot about the Michigan football team on Saturday. The Wolverines were playing an overmatched opponent, Hawaii, sleepwalking into Saturday’s noon kickoff (6 a.m. Hawaii time) after playing halfway across the world in Sydney last weekend.

But here’s what we know: Michigan took care of business against that overmatched opponent and did so handily, something not every team can say after the opening week of the season. And the Wolverines still have a few weeks before they face a team with as much talent as they have, they certainly did their part Saturday.

Here are five takeaways: 1. The defensive line’s depth will be tested again.

Michigan ended up OK from an injury standpoint last season, especially at the major positions.

But the one position group that suffered was the defensive line. End Mario Ojemudia tore his Achilles in Week 5 against Maryland, and tackle Ryan Glasgow hurt his pectoral muscle in Week 9 against Rutgers. Both injuries were season-ending.

The Wolverines answer with even more depth this season, and they may need it. They already played Saturday without tackle Maurice Hurst, who was almost healthy but sat out as a precaution.

The statuses of end Taco Charlton (ankle) and tackle Bryan Mone (undisclosed), both of whom started Saturday and both of whom left the game in the second quarter, are less certain.

Head coach Jim Harbaugh didn’t give a timetable for either injury and wouldn’t say what Mone’s injury was, only that he would have an MRI. Mone tore his ACL in fall camp last year and

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Injuries to senior defensive end Taco Charlton and redshirt sophomore tackle Bryan Mone will test the depth of Michigan’s defensive line.

missed the season.

Without Hurst and Mone for the second half Saturday, Michigan was already down to fifth-year seniors Ryan Glasgow and Matt Godin on the inside, though Chris Wormley can also move to tackle. And it’s possible Hurst, Mone and Charlton will all be fine for Saturday, but either way, it’s certainly more injury questions than Harbaugh wanted to address after a blowout.

2. Ben Bredeson can step in just fine.

High praise came out of fall camp for Bredeson, a true freshman offensive lineman from Hartland, Wis. He was competing with sophomore Grant Newsome and redshirt sophomore Juwann Bushell-Beatty for the starting

left tackle spot, and while Newsome ended up winning it, Bredeson will see the field plenty this season.

His debut began when he came in at left guard for redshirt junior Patrick Kugler, who himself was stepping in for fifth-year senior starter Ben Braden. Bredeson acclimated well — albeit against a poor opponent, a necessary qualifier for most of these statements — and Michigan’s rushing attack didn’t miss a beat when he entered the game.

It’s not clear where Bredeson will go from here. Harbaugh said Braden’s absence was precautionary like Hurst’s, so it’s possible Braden will return next week and fill out the starting offensive line. But as with many freshmen, the Wolverines appear eager to find a place for Bredeson.

3. Dr. Blitz is aptly named.

Hawaii’s offense would be the best advocate for this statement.

Michigan’s defense, led by new coordinator Don Brown, blitzed the Rainbow Warriors, literally and figuratively, all afternoon.

“I’d say like 90 percent?

Every play was a blitz actually, I think,” said senior defensive back Channing Stribling. “I don’t think any play wasn’t a blitz, besides a cover two. And we blitzed out of that, too.”

The Wolverines brought the house several times and peppered Hawaii quarterback Ikaika Woolsey with four sacks and countless more pressures. They also racked up 10 tackles for loss.

The blitz packages bode well for Michigan’s least experienced position group, the linebackers. In

SPEIGHT From Page 1B that weight was lifted off my shoulders, and I was able to just get comfortable and fire some shots in the pocket,” Speight said.

He would be just fine.

Following the interception, Speight went 10-for-12 for 145 yards and three touchdowns.

There he was, 7:31 into the first quarter, throwing a 12-yard touchdown pass to sophomore wide receiver Grant Perry in the corner of the endzone to cap off an 11-play, 98-yard scoring drive.

Just over six minutes later, he was there again, hitting senior tight end Jake Butt for a 19-yard touchdown over the pylon. He did it one last time a few minutes into the second quarter, keeping cool and getting the ball to wide-open fifth-year senior wide receiver Amara Darboh.

fact, each of the team’s top three tacklers were linebackers: Jabrill Peppers and Mike McCray with 7.5 each and Ben Gedeon with five.

4. Harbaugh has no qualms about playing freshmen.

The second-year head coach has said in the past that he believes a fifth year to be a mutual agreement between player and coach. And while he brought back most of the fourth-year juniors from his first season, a few moved on.

That mindset showed in the way that he played 17 true freshmen — a school record — in Saturday’s game. Some, including Bredeson, defensive end Rashan Gary and wide receiver Eddie McDoom, figure to be contributors for most of the season. But for some others, Harbaugh chose to burn their

But before all of that, Harbaugh, a quarterback expert by nature, had to find a way to keep his new starter calm.

“I was kind of running toward the sideline anyway (after the interception) so my momentum just kind of carried me right into Coach,” Speight said. “He just grabbed me and hugged me and was kind of laughing, and was like, ‘Don’t worry, we’ll get it next drive, don’t sweat about that.’ ” Harbaugh finds the ways in which quarterbacks respond to interceptions interesting. Sometimes, he said, they think of ways not to screw up, and usually that doesn’t bode well.

“It’s very difficult for a quarterback to throw an interception on a series, and then come back and lead a touchdown drive following a series,” Harbaugh said. “It’s something I’ve always been fascinated in watching

5. Bold Prediction: Jourdan Lewis returns this week and catches an interception.

Lewis has spoken to media on a couple of occasions since camp opened and seemed particularly eager to get his senior season underway. At Big Ten Media Days, he also expressed his excitement about getting his hands on the ball more this year, via interceptions and by playing on offense. An apparently nagging injury kept him out of Saturday’s opener and put all of those desires on hold.

But Harbaugh said he sat Lewis on Saturday just to be safe, and Michigan’s All-American cornerback should be back this week against Central Florida. The Knights seem improved under new coach Scott Frost, but they did finish 0-12 last year and haven’t faced a defense like Michigan’s in a while.

Lewis should be extra motivated to make up for lost time by forcing a turnover in his season debut.

quarterbacks … to see him start the next drive on the two-yard line, that’s as much adversity as you can have for a quarterback starting a series, starting a drive. … He responded in tremendous fashion.”

Speight said after the game that he knew it was his job to lose heading into summer camp, and that he felt confident throughout in his ability to keep it. It’s unclear if Harbaugh ever even told him specifically that he would be starting. It seems like it was an unspoken agreement, and that speaks to the nature of the competition between Speight and redshirt juniors John O’Korn and Shane Morris.

And after that battle, in which Harbaugh chose Speight, Speight had to prove he didn’t make the wrong decision.

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THE MICHIGAN DAILY TOP-10 POLL Each week, Daily sports staffers fill out ballots, with first-place votes receiving 10 points, second-place votes receiving nine and so on.

1. ALABAMA: After that display, USC should realllllly look into hiring Alabama’s offensive coordinator.

2. OHIO STATE: Hard to take a team that threw an interception on its first possession seriously.

3. CLEMSON: They played Auburn, and we definitely know the Tigers came out with the win.

4. FLORIDA STATE: Dalvin Cook strengthens his Heisman candidacy, or maybe not. We had an early deadline.

5. MICHIGAN: Pretty soon, people are going to start talking about Jim Harbaugh and the job he’s done at Michigan.

6. STANFORD: Pretty soon, people are going to start talking about Jim Harbaugh and the job he did at Stanford.

7. HOUSTON: Yeah, they won.

But who have they played?

8. OLE MISS: Chad Kelly just pulled off a huge win, or maybe not. We had an early deadline.

9. GEORGIA: The Dawgs beat North Carolina, a state that may have bigger problems than 10. MICHIGAN STATE: Furman football. is terrible.