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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Culture Officer Latisha Cunningham speaks at the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion forum for staff members at Lorch Hall Friday

‘U’ faculty, staff discuss concerns about LSA diversity strategic plan

Organizers field questions about attendance, long-term implementation RIYAH BASHA

Daily Staff Reporter

Two weeks before University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel is slated to unveil his University-wide strategic plan for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, LSA staff members — a group that includes assistants, advisors and

other non-professors working at the University— gathered to discuss their school-specific plan, voicing both praise and some hesitations about the long-term implementation of the plan.

Similar to LSA faculty and students, staff members listened to a presentation on LSA’s strategic plan — a first draft of which was See STRATEGY, Page 3A

GOVERNMENT

Chelsea Clinton visits Flint, talks crisis During campaign stop, city mayor discusses initiatives for kids EMMA KINERY Daily News Editor

FLINT — Chelsea Clinton made a campaign stop in Flint Friday morning for her mother, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, at Greater Holy Temple Church in Flint.

Following remarks from Clinton, Flint Mayor Karen Weaver and U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee (D—Flint) at the church, Clinton also visited the United Auto Workers station in Flint, which is currently used as a call center for the Clinton campaign.

In her speech Friday, Weaver said the Clinton campaign has helped Flint respond to the water crisis the city is currently facing, after a temporary switch to Detroit’s water caused lead to leach into Flint’s water.

“We have taken this crisis, and this challenge, and made it into an opportunity for the people here in the city of Flint,” Weaver said. “I remember shortly after the declaration we got a call from Hillary Clinton, and she said: ‘I’m sending some people to see what’s going on.’ And we talked about the water crisis and we See CLINTON, Page 3A

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While various praises and concerns were voiced by faculty at the fourth and final LSA Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion plan’s feedback forum last Friday evening, most of the night’s attention was on the lack of faculty in attendance.

The large MLB Auditorium was mostly empty with about 40 LSA faculty were present.

Liz Cole, associate dean for social sciences, led the forum as she had the previous three by guiding the audience through the main faculty goals of the plan, though she also addressed the issue of her colleagues’ absence, saying, “The See PLAN, Page 3A

Stingy defense holds Nittany Lions under 200 yards in 49-10 victory JAKE LOURIM

Managing Sports Editor

In the first three Saturdays in September, Hawaii, Central Florida and Colorado each came into Michigan Stadium, each took a beating at the hands of the Michigan football team and each trudged off the field, quietly holding their helmets.

But then this Saturday arrived, and the Big Ten season began with Penn State. Non-conference tune-ups in the past, the Nittany Lions presumably brought a tougher test.

And yet they suffered the same fate, as the Wolverines steamrolled another outmatched visitor, scoring six rushing

Professors push for pedagogical shift in teaching through gameful learning University continues to invest in GradeCraft platform TIM COHN

Daily Staff Reporter

As Political Science Prof. Mika LaVaque-Manty addressed the students on the first day of his class, “The Games We Play,” he said something that surprised many in attendance — that he expected most of the 200-person lecture hall to get an A as a final grade.

“The way that this course is designed means that you will have to work hard to do poorly,” LaVaque-Manty said.

LaVaque-Manty expects most students to get an A in his classes because he structures it using a method calling ‘gameful learning’ —a process by which a professor sets a point goal for a class, and students can earn points by completing assignments and projects chosen by themselves.

Students in classes structured this way walk in with a zero, without any points. They must earn the points by completing assignments and projects, and LaVaque-Manty says for his class, there are more than enough to earn an A. This is fundamentally different from grading in most classes at the University, in which each student begins at the highest possible grade — a 100 percent — and steadily loses points with each assignment missed or wrong answer on an exam.

LaVaque-Manty’s course is part of a larger initiative by

the University to encourage gameful learning, aided by a learning platform built around the concept, GameCraft, that was developed at the School of Information five years ago.

“I think that it is very important in education today for students to develop their own autonomy and agency as learners,” LaVaque-Manty said,“When you are given the ability to choose the assignments that you want to complete, you

develop better metacognitive skills, the skills of good learners.”

The start of gameful learning at UM Instituting gameful learning in the classroom requires doing a number of things differently, and in many cases, that includes incorporating a new platform for students.

At UM, for most classes using gameful learning, that platform is GameCraft, developed by School of Information Prof. Barry

Fishman and Rackham student Caitlin Holman.

Fishman and Holman created the tool based on the selfdetermination theory, which emphasizes the importance of supporting students’ natural behavioral and academic tendencies through academic autonomy — students are encouraged to chart their own academic course based on their own interests, instead of a set, See GAMECRAFT, Page 3A

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touchdowns and smothering Penn State’s offense in a 49-10 victory.

They have dealt similar fates to other Michigan Stadium visitors in the past two seasons.

It happened first a year ago with Oregon State, Jim Harbaugh’s team’s first victim by a score of 35-7. Later came a ranked Northwestern team, which Michigan exposed and dispatched, 38-0. Just last week, Colorado came to town off two lopsided victories and threatened to knock off the Wolverines, yet still fell by 17.

Much like it did against those opponents, Michigan controlled the line of scrimmage and, with it, the game. The Wolverines See FOOTBALL, Page 3A

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

CSG calls for student solidarity with EMU Racially charged graffiti found at Eastern Michigan University last week NISA KHAN

Daily Staff Reporter

The University of Michigan’s Central Student Government released a statement on its Facebook page Friday in solidarity with Eastern Michigan University and several cities where allegations of racially charged police brutality have been raised, most recently in Charlotte, N.C. The statement also affirmed the body’s support of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, which has been active on the University of Michigan’s campus as recently as Saturday.

“All of us, regardless of how directly or indirectly these issues impact us, must stand up and fight against all forms of injustice and bigotry,” the statement reads.

“Be an ally through your actions.

Challenge and call in those around you to be and do better.”

Last Tuesday, EMU found that racially charged slurs were graffitied on several academic and student housing buildings.

Though the university washed away the graffiti, The Eastern Echo reported that EMU students gathered outside the building See CSG, Page 3A

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Demonstrators march through Ann Arbor JENNIFER MEER Daily Staff Reporter

Protesters gathered to advocate against police brutality in the U.S. and Ann Arbor in downtown Ann Arbor Saturday afternoon, marching through parts of downtown.

The rally, led by Black Lives Matter activists, started around noon at the Michigan Union, where protesters picketed for an hour and a half before walking through the streets.

According to the Facebook event, the protest was planned as a response to the shooting of Terence Crutcher, but also for the more than 708 people killed by police this year.

Crutcher, 40, was shot and killed by police on September 16 in Tulsa, Oklahoma after approaching his SUV and raising his arms, according to NBC News and film footage of the event. He was unarmed.

Sierra Witcher, Black Lives Matter Detroit communications chair, said they heard about the event from Black activists in Ypsilanti and the Ann Arbor area while representing Black Lives Matter at an Eastern Michigan University protest in response to racial slurs spray-painted on one of their university buildings.

Witcher said several black activists were hesitant to participate in the Ann Arbor protest because the event was initially led by white activists.

“There was a lot of pressure to

CLINTON From Page 1A talked about the need for Flint to be part of the solution to what’s going on here.”

During the course of the primary and the general election, Flint and the water crisis have been prominent points of discussion, especially for Democrats. This is the third time Chelsea Clinton has visited in the city for her mother, following a February stop when she toured the Flint Water treatment plant and spoke with union workers.

Hillary Clinton visited city shortly afterward, speaking at a church in February alongside Flint Mayor Karen Weaver.

Chelsea Clinton also visited Flint in March to announce the creation of the Flint WaterWorks project, which gave jobs to over 100 young Flint residents between the ages of 16-24 to both provide services to the city amidst the crisis and encourage these “opportunity youth” to strive to finish their education or move towards creating professional goals.

Weaver pointed to the program as one way the campaign had aided Flint.

“While we were really thankful to have the national guard distributing water, we knew we had people in the community that needed to be part of the healing process and

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cancel the event,” Witcher said.

“I suggested, this is going to be a very visible day, in a very visible space, in an overwhelmingly and oppressively white space.

Therefore, if we can talk to the organizer and get him to agree to step to the side, so that black folks can lead and speak for themselves, as any true ally would, then we should make the most of this time.”

Ultimately, Witcher said, Ann Arbor resident Ethan Ketner, the original organizer, agreed to let Black Lives Matter take the lead.

“I believe in equality when it comes to life,” Ketner said. “I believe everybody deserves fair, equal rights, in every situation of life.”

Ketner said last year, particularly after the Michael Brown shooting — involving Brown, an unarmed Black teenager and Darren Wilson, a white police officer — there were a lot of activists setting up protests and marches in Ann Arbor, but this year he hasn’t noticed any activity. This is the third protest that he has put together since the summer.

Witcher said the overall purpose of the march was to protest state-sanctioned violence in the U.S. They defined statesanctioned violence as people being cut off from healthcare and from exercising their bodily autonomy through reproductive rights, among other things.

“This march is intended to bring visibility to the black folks who have been slain due to state-

the rebuilding process,” Weaver said. “So I talked to her and her team about wanting to put young people to work.”

Chelsea Clinton, who was pregnant when she announced the Flint WaterWorks program, said her viewpoint as a mother was one of the reasons she feels so impassioned for aiding the city.

“When I was in Flint in February and March, I was quite pregnant, and now I have a two year old and a three month old,” Clinton said. “I could not imagine the horrifying pain of expectant and new moms worried about the health of their children because the government failed to keep their water safe. That should not be something any mother in the United States of America in the 21st century should ever have to worry about.”

Clinton told reporters after the event that she hopes to see Flint continue to be discussed during the campaign, especially as the first presidential debate grows closer. She noted that though she has not been involved in her mother’s debate preparations, she hopes to hear dialogue regarding the issues of the city.

To the crowd Friday, she said the water crisis and issues like it highlight the importance of this election.

“This is the most important election of my lifetime,” Clinton said. “And we recognize that Flint is about all of us… Flint’s

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sanctioned violence, which isn’t just limited to police brutality,” Witcher said.

James Benjey, a protester and Ann Arbor resident, said having the protest on a game day in Ann Arbor helped it get attention because of “the amount of people walking by, the amount of exposure that we have, the amount of people that are from out of town, coming into town.”

“They’re all curious as to what’s going on, because normally this would be a Michigan event, but this is a community event as well,” he added.

During the protest, marchers held up signs. One read, “We have nothing to lose but our chains. There comes a time when silence is betrayal. Speak up! My humanity should not be up for debate. #BlackLivesMatter.”

Another read, “We stand in solidarity because Black Lives Matter.”

Rick Catherman, a teacher from the Chelsea School District, spoke at the march, saying equality in schools is a key component in the protest of discrimination and violence against minorities.

“We cannot forget in our state how much the lives of children matter in our school districts that are primarily African American and Latino,” he said. “Those schools in our state in particular, with our government trying to shut down schools, putting people into schools who don’t know anything about educating children — those folks can’t be forgotten in this discussion either.”

children are our children.”

She added that even if her mother is not elected president, she still intends to work towards healing Flint, but believes Hillary Clinton is the best candidate to address the issues of the city.

During his remarks, Kildee echoed Clinton’s comments, and said GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump doesn’t have the right approach for the city.

“There’s a whole range of policies that we need to pursue that would support communities like Flint and people who live in them,” Kildee said. “It’s no surprise that’s one of the reasons I’m such a serious and devoutful supporter of Secretary Clinton’s campaign, because looking at the America she offers versus a sort of casino-based approach to economics that Donald Trump offers, there’s no question where the American people and particularly the people of Flint will find an ally.”

Trump has also had a presence in the city as well, visiting last week, when he stopped at a Black church and toured a water treatment plant. His visit was met noticeably differently than Clinton’s — though the candidate requested to visit the Flint water treatment plant, Weaver did not grant his request.

During her remarks Friday the mayor said she did not receive any communications from Trump prior to or following the visit.

Flint resident Mildred Artis, a retired guidance counselor who volunteers at the call center, said she agreed with Kildee that Hillary Clinton is the best candidate to address the city’s issues.

“I think this has been just an outpouring of love from the Clintons as they always do,” Artis said. “That’s what I expect from them, and they did.”

Scott Hagerstrom, Michigan State Director for Trump’s campaign, responded to the visit in a statement Friday.

“After Hillary let slip at a Wall Street fundraiser earlier this month that she sees half of this country’s voters — including veterans, police officers, firefighters and other hard working Americans — as either ‘deplorable’ or ‘irredeemable,’ Michiganders have one question for Chelsea Clinton on her visit here – does she agree with Hillary’s view of them?”

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STRATEGY From Page 1A released last week — but while only 40 faculty members attended the faculty forum, about 120 staff members were present at their Friday forum.

The LSA strategic plan is one part of the overall DEI initiative, with forty-nine units across campus spent the summer developing their own strategies, which administrators are now rolling into one school-wide plan.

Schlissel will debut the overall initiative on Oct. 6.

Latisha Cunningham, LSA’s first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion officer, pointed to existing practices, such as staff recruitment and development, already in place in the college. In addition to reviewing best practices in every department and unit over the summer, Cunningham noted she administered an administrative forum survey across the college to gauge attitudes.

“LSA has deeply invested resources, time, energy and effort

PLAN From Page 1A size of the audience does raise concern.”

LSA Dean Andrew Martin said he was disappointed with the faculty turnout, but assured those in attendance that he was committed to doing the work to ensure the implementation of DEI is successful.

“To be frank, I wish we had a couple hundred more colleagues with us today,” Martin said.

The three main goals of the plan Cole focused on included improving faculty climate and retention, establishing stronger mentorship programs among faculty and strengthening faculty recruitment.

Cole said the administration found female professors often felt excluded from significant faculty policy discussions and that faculty who were committed to implementing diversity wanted more recognition.

Faculty in the audience agreed with this discussion. Mathematics Prof. Roman Vershynin said a

GAMECRAFT From Page 1A rigid curriculum.

Under this system, students are expected to choose assignments based on their own interests, motivating them to learn course materials.

Fishman said the University allows professors great discretion when it comes to designing and grading courses, which is what spurred him and other professors, such as LaVaque-Manty, to explore new methods like gameful learning.

At the heart of the gameful learning program is a push to eliminate the negative stigma surrounding certain subjects by boosting student confidence, Fishman said. He noted when students feel confident in their competence, not only does gradebased performance improve, but

CSG From Page 1A demanding that more of a response from university officials. Some students requested to have a day off in order to organize a response to the graffiti, while others called on their university to provide more mental health resources.

Hate speech was found again two days later on staircases of Wise Hall at EMU, a student dormitory centrally located near a dining hall.

The crime prompted student protests for more action by EMU, with students saying the administration had not done enough about the graffiti beyond removing it. About 200 students of color gathered at EMU’s football game this weekend to bring more awareness to the situations.

The University of Michigan faced a similar situation regarding antiIslam chalk drawings on the Diag last year, with multiple University students expressing frustration

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before this,” she told attendees.

“We are just building on this … to the University’s overall strategic plan.”

Cunningham emphasized the inclusion in the plan of new cross-cultural and unconscious bias training for faculty and staff, referencing racial tension around the nation and even as close as Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, where protesters gathered after racially charged graffiti was discovered last week.

Cunningham also said LSA would invest more resources into cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment through these training sessions.

“One of the most common things I’ve heard from people applying to start in our position is that staff would like to be equipped with the tools to have those hard conversations with faculty, other staff and also students,” she said.

Staff members present welcomed the initiatives, but also shared hesitation about its lasting effectiveness.

Jeff Harrold, academic standards and special

populations coordinator in the Newnan Advising Center, said administrators need to balance implementation and expectations of the plan.

“This was pleasantly received, and I know a lot of work went into it,” he said. “How it works out will depend now on disseminating information … if it’s done right, people will be able to engage across units.”

Amy Harris, director of the Museum of Natural History, urged the DEI team to think about implementing more personalized plans, in addition to the administration’s overall initiative, to ensure accountability.

“There’s been great input from everyone, but as a unit director, I’m especially interested in how we can develop plans within our units and even take responsibility on an individual basis,” she said. “(An individual plan) can be aligned with where each person is, whether it be certain tasks they set for themselves, or a larger goal.”

She added that overall, she thought ultimately the strategic plan — while admirable — needs to

reach all levels of the college.

“We need to bake this into our culture and not just have a plan that’s coming out of our central administration,” she said.

LSA Dean Andrew Martin affirmed the importance of accountability, arriving in the last half of the session to listen to attendees’ comments and address concerns.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do, and accountability is baked into this process. If this doesn’t work, I will not be the dean after a certain period of time,” he said. “Our expectations are high, and this is an exercise we’ve gone through as a campus before. Leadership … is on board, not just regard to our rhetoric but also the commitments we’re making financially to do the right things.”

Martin, along with Katrina Wade-Golden, director of evaluation and assessment for the Office of the Vice Provost for Equity, Inclusion, and Academic Affairs, also previewed a staff census to be administered next spring to provide baseline data on broader campus climate.

sense of belonging among minority faculty can be improved.

“There are people in departments who reject diversity, so it is important to bring awareness to this topic,” Vershynin said.

To improve mentoring in particular, the plan outlines new LAUNCH mentorship programs for all departments, which would provide faculty with a support system by incorporating the department chair, a mentor within the department, a mentor outside the department, and a convenor, or someone who is trained for the role to implement mentorship programming.

Cole noted that a focus of the overall DEI plan is also on the recruitment and establishment of a postdoctoral fellowship program.

University President Mark Schlissel is expected to explain the postdoctoral fellowship plan in more detail on Oct. 6, when the DEI initiative is officially launched.

Cole only briefly outlined the plan to the audience stating that the goal is to hire 50 postdoctoral fellows to LSA over the next five years who have the skills, backgrounds and commitment to enhance diversity

on campus.

Faculty in attendence questioned the postdoctoral fellowship plan and how it would be successfully implemented.

“The proposal to have postdocs is complicated because different disciplines have different ways they use postdoctoral fellows” said Prof.

Jim Penner-Hahn.

Another point of controversy among the attendees centered on potentially creating a new position of associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion and faculty development.

As it stands in the plan, this dean would be responsible for communicating between different departments on campus. In response to faculty concerns, Martin acknowledged finding a place for the position would be complicated.

“We want to make sure that this person has real responsibility and authority in this organization and how that works in the way we are already structured is complicated,” Martin said. “We don’t know what the answer is, but we will have to make a decision within the next four to five months.”

Along with discussing the steps DEI planners are taking to achieve the plan’s goals, Cole also emphasized the importance students influences, citing #BeingBlackatUM movement, or #BBUM, which began in 2013 when Black students took to Twitter to describe experiences of estrangement and exclusion on campus.

“We think it is really important to also acknowledge in the planning process the fundamental motivation of the students who participated in the Being Black at the University of Michigan movement,” Cole said.

Two of the four forums held to discuss the plan have also been geared toward graduate and undergraduate students, another way administrators and faculty hope to include student voices in the plan’s creation.

In closing the forum, Martin reiterated that the purpose of the DEI initiative is to create a better University of Michigan.

“The goal is for LSA to be the absolutely best place in the world to be a faculty member or student,” Martin said.

so do student attitudes toward learning.

“Students want to feel confident,” Fishman said.

“Whatever level students start at, they should be able to try things that will be challenging, but things that they can accomplish.”

Fishman, LaVaque-Manty and other proponents of gameful learning argue the emphasis placed on grades in traditional learning environments makes attaining a high grade point average the end goal for too many people. Prioritizing grades, LaVaque-Manty said, prevents students from focusing on actually learning course material.

“In college, we view an 80 percent as failing to know the final 20 percent of class material,” LaVaque-Manty said. “Gameful learning is different. If you get 80 percent of the points, that’s not viewed as failing in a fifth of the material, it is looked at as having mastery over a lot of the new

information.”

Fishman acknowledged that there has been some faculty resistance to the switch over concerns about gameful learning causing a lack of rigor, in which students choose the path of least resistance to achieve an A. However, he noted that social scientific research has shown that a gameful approach to learning can strengthen student confidence. In a study he co-authored with Holman and then-Ph.D. candidate Stephen Aguilar called “Game-Inspired Design: Empirical Evidence in Support of Gameful Learning Environments,” Fishman found students generally held positive views of the reformed grading system, and these views resulted in greater confidence and perception of fairness.

He also said traditional learning and grading also have game-like elements, but re- emphasized his belief that the motivation to reach a particular grade, rather than to get

the maximum educational value out of a particular course, creates a culture that encourages students to only act in ways that boost their GPAs. “School is already a game,” Fishman said. “It just is a terrible game. However, there are things that University faculty can learn from well-designed games to make school into the kind of game where students behave like users of good games. They tend to seek out challenges — they take on these challenges not in spite of its difficulty, but rather because it is hard.”

For students, failing safely For students, GradeCraft’s positive reinforcement and the tool’s emphasis on points earned rather than points lost also aims to create a system in which individuals aren’t afraid to try failing.

with the administration’s choice to not remove the chalk drawings.

The Eastern Michigan University Student Government condemned the graffiti on their Facebook page Tuesday.

Emily Kindred, the EMU student government director of communications, wrote in an email to the Daily that the organization plans to continue working with the University to address this issue.

“EMU Student Government is committed to working alongside our university, as well as our allies at the University of Michigan and beyond, to combat racism and injustice on our campus, within our community, and across the country,” she wrote. “We stand in complete solidarity with students of color and are committed to creating and fostering an environment where everyone is accepted and loved for who they are.”

CSG’s statement ended with #BlackLivesMatter, a hashtag for the movement surrounding police brutality in the United States

toward Black life. The movement started in 2012 after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed by George Zimmerman in Florida.

The University chapter of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People and fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha also held a speakout on the Diag at the University last Thursday night, discussing the incident at EMU and police brutality in the United States. About 150 students were in attendance.

Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity member Christopher McClendon, a Business senior, spoke at the event.

“In this past week, we have witnessed on our campus, within this community, and in the country, that racism is alive and well,” McClendon said. “This isn’t our first one, and it won’t be our last one.”

Kindred wrote that EMU Student Government appreciated seeing its allies in other universities.

“EMU Student Government is grateful to have an ally in University

of Michigan’s Central Student Government,” she added. “We recognize that this is a struggle we do not face alone — communities and universities across the country have been subject to the same kind of blatant racism recently discovered on our campus.”

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FOOTBALL From Page 1A finished with six sacks and 13 tackles for loss, bringing their totals to 16 and 34, respectively, in those categories in the past three matchups against the Nittany Lions.

The biggest mismatch between the teams came when the Wolverines flexed their muscles on third down. Michigan entered with the top third-down conversion defense in the country at 10.5 percent, and Penn State was among the worst in the offensive category at 118th.

Early on, the teams played to those rankings. The Wolverines sacked the Nittany Lions on four of the first seven third downs, tackling running back Saquon Barkley for a loss on another stop and halting Penn State on a fourth down as well.

“I thought for the most part our guys were there and swarming,” Harbaugh said. “They were coming two, three, four at a time.

I thought it was impressive.”

That was all the opportunity the offense needed. Penn State had to punt in the first two minutes of the game. On that play, redshirt sophomore Jabrill Peppers caught a booming 61-yard kick and returned it 51 yards to the opposing 9-yard line. Even with a 15-yard sideline interference call, the Wolverines scored in seven plays, and they rolled from there.

“I think any time you shut down a team that early in the game, it kind of sets the tone for the rest of the game,” said senior linebacker Ben Gedeon. “I think we did a good job in the third quarter coming out of halftime as well.”

The offense made up for a lack of big plays with a series of long, methodical scoring drives. Its touchdowns in the first half came from one, two, three and two yards out. Freshman running back Chris Evans tacked on a threeyarder in the third quarter, and sophomore running back Karan Higdon finally broke loose for a 40-yard scamper in the fourth.

In all, the Wolverines picked up six rushing touchdowns from five different players: redshirt junior fullback Khalid Hill, senior running back De’Veon Smith, Higdon (twice), Evans and redshirt junior running back Ty Isaac. True freshman tight end Devin Asiasi found the end zone for the first time with a three-yard catch from redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight.

Meanwhile, aided by the

returns of senior defensive end Taco Charlton and senior cornerback Jourdan Lewis from injury, the defense continued to shine.

Gedeon patrolled the field with 11 tackles. The Wolverines broke up three passes, hurried Penn State quarterback Trace McSorley four times and hit him several more. Redshirt junior linebacker Mike McCray added an easy interception in the open field for good measure.

Barkley was the lone bright spot for Penn State. He carried 15 times for 59 yards and caught five passes for 77 more yards, at least tying for the team lead in all four categories. He had 136 of the Nittany Lions’ 172 total yards, with the six sacks hindering the latter count. Chris Godwin scored Penn State’s only touchdown on an eight-yard reception in the fourth quarter.

The Nittany Lions’ only other points came on a short field goal in the third quarter, a play that said all that needed to be said.

After the Wolverines dominated the first half and took a 28-0 lead, Penn State forced a punt and moved down inside Michigan’s five-yard line, attempting to shift the score toward respectable. A two-yard touchdown run would have cut the lead back to three touchdowns with still 26 minutes to play.

Instead, the Nittany Lions lined up for a short field goal. They then called timeout to discuss going for the touchdown, but ran out the field-goal team again for the kick.

Franklin said after the game he wanted to be sure his team scored some points off of that possession.

Harbaugh, meanwhile, faced the same situation on the first series of the game, a 4th-andgoal play from the one-yard line.

Speight motioned to the sideline to go for it, and Harbaugh agreed.

Hill punched it in on a fullback dive.

“He kind of gets a grin on his face, because I know his mindset is he wants to smash it in for a touchdown too,” Speight said.

“It’s cool that we’re all on the same page.”

Last year’s game went similarly. Penn State came within striking distance four times but settled for three short field goals, stifled at the goal line

by Michigan’s front seven. The Nittany Lions appeared to have improved in that area coming in, just as many of Michigan’s other recent opponents.

“When you got a D-line like we have,” Gedeon said, “it’s hard to even tell.”

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A different kind of quest for prestige

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FROM THE DAILY

Housing must be more affordable

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s the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor grow in population and develop each year, demand for off-campus housing increases.

Developers encourage a higher concentration of wealth in the downtown Ann Arbor area by building luxury high-rise apartments, and even with increased housing availability provided by these high-rises, prices in other areas around campus remain astronomical. Ann Arbor’s municipal code allows rental companies and landlords the autonomy to overcharge residents for the quality of their properties because of a lack of regulation around pricing. The municipal code’s lack of specificity regarding when new tenants can sign leases also induces a race to secure off-campus housing each fall. Developers must build more affordable apartment complexes for the average in-state student and the average Ann Arbor resident.

Additionally, the city of Ann Arbor needs to tighten rent regulations and increase enforcement of such regulations to combat these issues.

Though newly built highrises change the city landscape of Ann Arbor dramatically, time has shown demand for such housing matches supply, as these buildings continue to be filled each year. In an ideal world, luxury apartments concentrated in the center of the city, close to campus, would lower housing prices in areas closer to South Campus and Kerrytown. But according to a recent study prepared for the Washtenaw County Office of Community and Economic Development, this may not be the case. Instead of decreased prices for housing options a little further off campus, UM students are seeing rent prices that stay at the same high rates in surrounding areas.

Furthermore, wealthier students and city residents are the ones living in these luxury high-rise apartments, which could possibly result in an increased wealth disparity within Ann Arbor. And according to the Washtenaw County OCED, wealth disparities are also increasing between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. While Ann Arbor’s economy may continue to grow because of new development and businesses moving in, the study suggests Ypsilanti’s will only worsen over time. These disparities are especially damaging to students at the University, as they attempt to balance living in a location suitable for getting to classes and maintaining affordability with rising tuition prices.

All options need to be explored to fix Ann Arbor’s housing affordability issue. In particular, City Council should

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look at options for altering the city’s housing code pertaining to how and where development companies build luxury highrise apartments. City Council also needs to address ways in which it can change the housing code to improve the leasing process.

High housing demand south of campus and near Kerrytown causes residents and students to pay relatively high rent for what they’re getting.

Landlords can charge upward of $850 per month per tenant for what may be mediocre to subpar properties.

Beyond paying high prices, the logistical timeline to find a lease has become a rat race.

The city’s leasing laws allow rental companies and landlords to lease their properties according to a schedule that creates a housing frenzy for students at the start of each fall semester. According to the city’s housing code, leasers may not start showing properties to prospective renters until 70 days after the current tenant’s lease has begun. Because of growing pressure to find housing, however, prospective tenants are incentivized to find homes on their own and secure underthe-table promise for the next year’s lease before the 70 days have passed.

These transactions can, and often do, occur under the table, but leasers themselves sometimes ignore municipal code and officially sign leases to new tenants before the 70 days have passed. In an interview with The Michigan Daily in Oct. 2015, Ann Arbor

property manager Jon Keller said rental companies and landlords do this because the penalty fee is negligible — and sometimes not enforced.

Whether it’s done under the table or illegally, Ann Arbor’s current municipal code leaves students scrambling for next year’s housing each fall, during a time when they’re trying to settle into campus life and into their current houses. Many students also don’t know who they’ll want to live with a year down the line, when their lease will actually begin. Ann Arbor’s municipal code should place tighter controls on the leasing process, and these controls should be better enforced for the sake of students and Ann Arbor residents alike.

Luxury high-rise apartment complexes keep popping up and will continue to unless tighter regulations stop them.

While there is demand for such housing, the increased supply and concentration of luxury living spaces in the center of the city is only contributing to increased wealth disparity within Ann Arbor and between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti.

What’s more, the city’s current municipal code too often leaves residents and students in offcampus housing with no other option but to sign leases before they’re ready and to pay more for rent than properties are worth. City Council needs to move to alter the housing code and tighten enforcement to combat these issues, which would benefit residents of Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor and students at the University.

NOTABLE QUOTABLE

...we’ll encourage one another because y’all are right next door to us. It doesnt take an organization to change things, it starts in your classrooms and it starts with yourselves.

— EMU NAACP member Kyla Fordham addressing University of Michigan students at a speakout about recent racist graffiti at Eastern Michigan University.

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e’re all familiar with the perceived dichotomy between humanities majors and majors that are a little more “careeroriented.” Humanities majors are either criticized or lauded for being heady, wandering souls unworried about what kind of internship they’re offered over the summer or how much they will earn five years after undergrad. They’re never criticized or lauded for being career-oriented or seeking prestige like their supposed counterparts in the engineering and business schools. But, especially depending on what kind of humanities major one chooses, classes may be just as difficult and the pressure just as crushing to make that certain connection, to get that certain job — and priorities become just as warped in the process.

As someone who, for their entire time in college, has been declared in some kind of humanities major (excluding my brief but enthusiastic anthropology stint), I’ve been asked by relatives and family friends — in a tone doubtful to the point of admonishment — the question: “What do you plan to do with that?”

So we have the classic scene of the angsty college kid at some family cookout, paper plate and slimy plastic fork in hand, rolling their eyes at adults who “just don’t understand” the value of my humanities major. Uncle John probably doesn’t even get art.

My answer to that question had, for a while, been that I would become a college professor or work at some imaginary literary magazine as a fallback. By the start of last winter, the second semester of my sophomore year, I had settled into a comparative literature major, which lots of people describe (somewhat inaccurately) as a “more intense version” of an English major. It requires students to work in at least one language other than their first language, and to write a thesis during their senior year using comparative analysis (potentially across languages and cultures) to draw broader conclusions about some more general topic. I had

chosen English and French as my two languages, even though, to be frank, I wasn’t that amazing at learning foreign languages — nor did I enjoy the process.

On the outside, I think I seemed sophisticated, even headier than my friends who were English majors. I got to read more aesthetic, literary and cultural theory — Foucault, Derrida, Butler — and liked to think this surrounded me with a cloud of mystery. I felt elusive, serious and sparkling listing off the classes I’d taken, the books I’d read and the professors I knew. I rode with it for a while, convincing myself I’d write a thesis about humans and machines in the digital age. I’d tie gender in there somewhere and become the Michel Foucault of my generation.

This was a different kind of career-orientedness, a different kind of quest for prestige. For me it looked like doing all the supplementary readings, going to office hours and convincing myself I enjoyed the readings because the ideas they addressed were so cool — that post-structuralism kind of felt pertinent, albeit in that distant and spacey way theory often does.

It looked like going to Berkeley for my Ph.D., securing tenure at some other Ivy or almost-Ivy before I really stopped looking 19. The muscles in my face and shoulders growing ever-tenser, increasing in density directly proportional to the readings I did, it wasn’t until that spring I realized how serious I’d gotten.

Enter the New England Literature Program (NELP), a program through the English Department in which 40 students and 13 instructors meander into the woods of New Hampshire, spending six weeks immersed in literature, introspecting and writing, pseudo-transcendentalist style. It was with the sway of tall New England trees in the wind on Lake Winnipesaukee, with Thoreau, Emerson, the poems of Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens that I finally relaxed my trapezius muscles and rediscovered

how to just be.

Needless to say, coming back to campus was weird. Now in my junior year, I was taking more French than ever, expected to read and write at a higher level than I ever had before. I found myself stumbling through texts written in French whose messages I knew mattered so much to me, if only I was smart enough to understand them. I wanted to be able to read and to write with just as much nuance as I could in English, my first language. When I step back and think about it, it’s no wonder the French was so difficult: Um, it’s a foreign language.

Feeling defeated and, combined with my job as Opinion editor here at the Daily, I was intellectually and emotionally overloaded with difficult topics to digest. I walked out of my French class one day and realized the playful self I had rediscovered at NELP felt so far away, waving at me to come find her again.

I tell this whole story to say the myth that humanities students are never career-oriented is just that: a myth. You can exhaust yourself in any path you choose in life — faking it, hoping that at some undeterminable point in the future you’ll finally make it.

The stereotype of the humanities student allows people to assume we’re nurturing our souls above all else — forget the career; forget the salary; forget the reputation. This was probably what people assumed I was doing for most of college, even though my mentality might not have been all that different from a finance concentration at Ross.

OK, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but you get my point.

It’s all about priorities — priorities, priorities, priorities. I set mine in line this past week, changing to an English major and spending some time taking care of a few plants I’d been neglecting around my house.

I’m doing what I like, and so far it feels good. Now I’m riding with this plan for a while.

Regan Detwiler is a co-editorial page editor of The Michigan Daily.

MAX RYSZTAK | COLUMN

The left’s hypocrisy on political discourse

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ecently, Hillary Clinton are not overshadowed by illegal referred to some of Donald migration is not racist, it’s simply Trump’s supporters a different proposal than most on as “deplorables” in a rare and this campus would favor. You may surprising gaffe for a political disagree with it, but you don’t have veteran like Clinton. This section to call those who agree with Trump from her fundraising speech is racists. They’re merely people who just one example of many where care about this country and have left-leaning political different ideas than candidates diminish you do. people themselves and There are certainly not their ideas: extremists within the You know, to just be Trump movement — grossly generalistic, you and on all sides of the could put half of Trump’s political spectrum supporters into what I call — who deserve to be the ‘basket of deplorables.’ called what they are.

Right? The racist, sexist, But all Republicans are homophobic, xenophobic, not inherently racist, MAX Islamophobic — RYSZTAK sexist or Islamophobic. you name it. And This practice of unfortunately there are people like fighting against the person holding that. And he has lifted them up. He an idea, and not the idea itself, is has given voice to their websites that the height of hypocrisy in modern used to only have 11,000 people — now political discourse.

11 million. He tweets and retweets Democrats often claim to their offensive hateful mean-spirited be champions of diversity in rhetoric. Now, some of those folks — all aspects of society, except they are irredeemable, but thankfully for the diversity of opinion, they are not America. where on campus they spread While Clinton went on to refer to false enthusiasm for political the other half of Trump supporters discussions. Barely able to handle as people who understandably moderate speakers on campus and felt betrayed and unheard by the fueling hate toward those who government, there is an important disagree, many left-leaning college point to be made about Clinton’s students and faculty represent the prepared remarks. epitome of hypocrisy as they seek By referring to Trump supporters to suppress the diversity of ideas as “racist, sexist, homophobic, and discourse. xenophobic, Islamophobic,” Clinton Many students have never knowingly uses Trump’s policies been exposed to conservative to generalize a large proportion policies on a larger level than of American people in hopes of what they watch on TV or read attaching labels to policy preferences. online. In my opinion, students But if we actually look at Trump’s fail to recognize that a large — and more broadly, Republican — proportion of Americans have policies, there is little justification fundamental disagreements for the labels Clinton uses in her with the left-leaning preferences recent statement. dominant on this campus — in Take, for example, the debate effect delegitimizing what little on immigration, one of Trump’s intellectual diversity currently policy trademarks. exists in Ann Arbor.

I’m a Republican and I disagree Since many of my peers don’t with Donald Trump on this issue fully recognize that people — I think that he is wrong on the hold a wide variety of opinions actual policy. I don’t think a wall is and the extent to which people the entire solution to the problem, disagree with them, they treat and I don’t think you can (or should) most conservative policy ideas as deport countless illegal aliens. But I inherently radical and illegitimate. don’t think his policy is racist in and Since many liberal students seem of itself. Advocating for a wall, in to find any opinion that isn’t the hopes of cracking down on illegal same as their own not credible, immigration and drug flow so that they attempt to completely those who attempt to come legally eliminate it from the discussion.

In fact, that’s the hardest thing about being conservative on this campus. The mere mention of disagreement brings on an onslaught of namecalling that often highlights my “oppressiveness.” Apparently, my “heteronormativity” and my “white privilege” make any and all of my opinions invalid. I’m not told that my beliefs are wrong. I’m told I — as a person — am fundamentally corrupt.

For example, I’ve been told many times that my political views are wrong when it comes to helping minority groups escape poverty, simply because I’m white.

I guess if my limited experiences prevent me from having an opinion, no leftist who has yet to move past their on-campus, parttime job, can tell me how “large corporations are destroying our national economy.”

We can never have too much debate or too much discourse, and we can never limit people’s right to have an opinion based on experiences they have or have not been through. Political and policy discussions need to be focused on the issue, and not the people holding the belief. We don’t need to call people racists for wanting stronger protection and a wall on our southern border. We don’t need to silence discussion because individuals don’t have equal or shared backgrounds. Both sides of the political spectrum would serve themselves well if they fought ideas and not individuals and allow all debate.

Experiences should serve to build opinions, not restrict them.

A range of backgrounds, different cultures and identities and unique beliefs form individuals with different ideas. Any experience, no matter how influential or trivial, can build an opinion — and all opinions should be heard.

True discourse on this campus would improve if we could recognize that there are always going to be people who will disagree with us no matter what they believe, and they should be able to voice their concerns so we can achieve greater diversity.

Max Rysztak can be reached at mrysztak@umich.edu.

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TV COLUMN

‘Fleabag’ and flashbacks BEN ROSENSTOCK Daily TV Columnist

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’ve never really lost anyone close to me. Two of my grandparents died when I was really little, so I hardly remember them. My cat died my senior year of high school, but we had seen it coming for a while, so by the time it happened it felt anticlimactic. The closest person I’ve lost is my piano teacher of six years, who passed away earlier this year. I was a little sad, but we had drifted apart in the three years since I’d worked with her, so it didn’t hit as hard as it could have.

But, to a certain extent, we all know what loss feels like. We feel it during break-ups, or when we stop being friends with someone. Sometimes we even feel this vague hole inside us that we’re not sure how to fill, and we can’t remember when it formed or what was there before.

In the raunchy British comedy “Fleabag,” which came to Amazon Prime on Sept. 16, Fleabag’s life is filled with loss of all kinds. Her mother, who died two years ago, has been replaced by an abhorrent stepmother who repeatedly squashes any chance of Fleabag bonding with her father.

She doesn’t get along well with her sister, a woman whose affection she desperately craves even though they’re completely different. The little café she owned with her best friend Boo will go under unless she secures a loan. And oh yeah, about that best friend: she recently committed suicide, leaving Fleabag more alone than ever.

What’s special about “Fleabag” isn’t the plot itself. There are countless shows about strained familial relations and the grieving process; Amazon’s other new series, “One Mississippi,” is another good one.

What’s special about “Fleabag,” even more than its razor sharp sense of humor and Phoebe WallerBridge’s amazing central performance, is the way it uses formal elements to convey the unique symptoms of loss.

Central to all of this is the way Fleabag breaks the fourth wall, addressing us with raised eyebrows and Jim Halpert-esque reaction shots even while she’s still being spoken to. Breaking the fourth

wall isn’t uncommon in comedy, especially in this age of mockumentaries, but there’s something especially powerful about the way this show uses it. It only gradually becomes clear that Fleabag is hoping her imaginary audience will fill the void left by her distant family and, most prominently, her best friend. We are a poor substitute for Boo; we can listen and conspiratorially share in her hilarious observations about the weird world she lives in, but crucially, we can never quite respond.

A listening ear can also be a judgmental one, though, and despite Fleabag’s relative shamelessness about sex and manners, there’s a deep sense of guilt that pervades her demeanor, exploding into the forefront in the season finale. It’s clear that Fleabag harbors significant shame about how she treated Boo in the time leading up to her suicide, and when she needs us the most, our silence comes across as judgment instead of understanding. The camera following Fleabag begins to feel intrusive and cruel, like we are the killer in a horror movie, an embodiment of her emotional demons chasing her.

Possibly the most effective element of “Fleabag,” though, is its flashbacks. In most series, like “Orange is the New Black” and “Lost,” flashbacks are of uniform length, structured to tell miniature, contained stories from characters’ pasts to give us insight about who they are. In “Fleabag,” however, flashbacks happen organically, whenever something reminds Fleabag of an old memory with Boo. It’s one of the most authentic depiction of flashbacks I’ve ever seen; they vary in length, sometimes lasting full scene-length, sometimes just a few seconds and in one particularly brutal instance, only a split-second. You can feel the flashbacks happening in real time — when there’s a particularly long scene from Fleabag’s past, she seems to zone out, only yanking herself back to consciousness when the memory is complete.

The flashbacks again exemplify that “Fleabag” understands loss better than any other show this year. There’s no closure to be found for Fleabag, only haunting, painful reminders of the friend she lost.

Memories that used to be happy,

comforting and pure have been tainted by the agony of the present; there’s nothing more heartbreaking than watching Fleabag and Boo doubled over laughing. Reviews always use the phrase “you’ll laugh and you’ll cry” when referring to comedies with dramatic undertones, but the phrase is never so true as in “Fleabag,” when every hilarious moment in the past has an equal and opposite reaction.

The most joyful moments are the most tragic.

Anybody can understand that, even if you haven’t lost someone in that way. When I think about happy moments from my childhood, they make me smile, but they also make me sad that I can’t go back. There’s something inherently devastating about considering the past; innocuous moments you never thought twice about become rosy with the sheen of nostalgia, and you start missing everything just because you don’t have the option to go back. Sometimes I’ll have a splitsecond flashback of myself just walking down the hallway in high school, and suddenly I’ll be aching from how much I miss it, even though it’s not a particularly noteworthy moment.

Life is filled with flashbacks, even if they’re not as fully formed or structured as most TV flashbacks are. There are tons of images I can think of that make me wish I could revisit an old memory: our high school parking lot as my friends and I pull out on the last day of school, fluorescent green-gray lights in a building across the street like something from a David Fincher movie, the taste of almonds as I double over laughing in a kitchen at 2:00 A.M., my own incredulous groan at something cheesy Carrie Bradshaw said. All these memories wash over me, provoked by random words.

I thought of that sensation when I watched “Fleabag”: the feeling of being assailed by unwelcome memories, memories that are so sad because of how happy they are. “Fleabag” illustrates that loss isn’t just about missing someone you love. It’s about missing every moment from the past, no matter how small.

Rosenstock is thinking about the taste of almonds. To give him a handful, email bdrosen@umich.edu

COMMUNITY CULTURE PREVIEW

UM team to reflect on co-working Detroit City Study offers new methods of academic discourse nity through learning: to meet one another, share interests and work, gain support and collaborate.”

Many of the students involved Forget the classroom, lecture in the launch are working on dishall or library and abandon it for sertations and various projects in a non-traditional, co-learning Detroit. Their initial goal was to workspace filled with educators, cultivate new working spaces outstudents, intellectuals and locals. side the borders of an academic Sound good? I know I’m in. institution.

The Detroit “It was open to City Study is a anyone,” Schwartz Detroit City co-learning worksaid. “You didn’t Study space located at have to be a student the University of at a specific school.

Tuesday 12:30-2 Michigan Detroit You didn’t have to p.m.

Center, designed be a student at all. for people interThe idea is when Institute for the ested in engaging you come into the Humanities, in academic disspace you become Osterman Common courses in a nona student in some Room traditional way. ways and encourage At the Institute of co-learning among Free Admission the Humanities on different types of Tuesday, the team people.” behind this project will present The project, she said, is motifeedback on their six-week sum- vated by the deep need to rethink mer pilot and reflect on their aca- education in Detroit, as well as demic incubator composed of 12 across the nation. The team behind Ph.D. students across numerous the Detroit City Study believes that departments. for education to be “re-thought,” it In addition to the incubator, must be “re-placed.” the team worked on collabora“ ‘Re-place’ means rethinking tive research projects in teams the place of education itself and and evaluated how to make the the spatial dynamics of learning,” research more available to all types Schwartz said. “Where can learnof learners. Tuesday’s event will ing happen? And how can changalso serve as a way to envision the ing up the space of learning impact future of this project and encour- the kind of knowledge and the age more people to take part in relationships that are generated the movement towards collective therein?” learning outside of the classroom.

However, she noted that the “At its most basic level, it is a team does not intend to restructure co-working space, built around the educational system in the city. the work of education and learn- Instead, they want to offer a new ing,” said Rackham student Shira type of learning space that projects Schwartz, the project director. “It’s similar goals to education within about creating more space for peo- the school system. The graduate ple to come together as a commu- students believe that the devaluing BAILEY KADIAN Daily Arts Writer

of education is happening everywhere, and creating a co-learning space encouraging all types of learning is one step towards fixing the problem.

Schwartz outlined three layers that compose the concept of co-learning. First, it is a social spatial structure, where people can come together and share in learning. Next, co-learning occurs on a mission level, meaning coming together to break down boundaries between the University and outside community.

The third layer of co-learning is a group study, which involves a specific topic that the group studies together to gain new knowledge in a way that differs from a typical school environment.

“Essentially, what we try to break away from is doing frontal presentations, but rather, empowering people with the actual materials that are being discussed,” Schwartz said. “A lot of the work over the summer was working on transforming Ph.D. research into a form that could be digestible and something that people visiting the space could chew on themselves, rather than just being lectured at.”

The project specifically focuses on fields in the humanities and social sciences and addresses how to make graduate education more engaged and relevant towards these subjects.

“If these are pathways to understanding humanness and all of our most pressing concerns around our humanity, shouldn’t these disciplines have the most to say?”

Schwartz asked.

The team behind the project believes these studies do have the most to say — they just need to be given a platform.

Monday, September 26, 2016 — 5A

FILM REVIEW

TOUCHSTONE PICTURES

“Our faces are too big for this photo frame.”

‘Oceans’ is a compelling love story Vikander, Fassbender and Weisz lead new romantic masterpiece SYDNEY COHEN

movie about a lighthouse keeper, light itself is a major element of the film’s cinematography. Direc“Titanic,” “The Notebook,” tor Derek Cianfrance (“The Place even “The Fault in Our Stars:” Beyond the Pines”) masterfully these films all end in a famil- manipulates natural light to add iar sob-induced migraine and a delicate, dreamy effect to every salt-crusted cheeks. “The Light scene. The light is both soft and Between Oceans” pervasive, enhancis a newcomer to ing the physical the genre of heartand emotional wrenching dramas aspects of the charof love and loss. acters in subtle but “The Light Between But this film offers powerful ways.

Oceans” more artistry and Also an active more complexity agent in the film’s Rave & Quality 16 than any of its presuccess, the score Touchstone decessors, making is a moving collecPictures it a masterful piece tion of sweeping of art and a mustpiano pieces that see for those seekintensify the emoing emotional release. tions of the characters. Composed “The Light Between Oceans” by Alexandre Desplat, it’s no suris the story of a lighthouse keeper prise that the score is incredible — and his wife, who rescue and keep Desplat is a master composer, with a baby that washes up on their a repertoire that includes “The island shore, purposefully choos- Imitation Game,” “The King’s ing not to look into the baby’s Speech” and “The Danish Girl,” original home. After five years of among others. The entire artistic familial bliss, the couple is forced effect is one of intense beauty and by guilt and circumstance to come intense solitude. to terms with reality and face the The acting is also spectacutrue, grieving mother of their lar, as one would expect with a child. trio of Academy Award winners The film is a breathtaking piece and nominees. Playing the leadof artwork. Comprised heavily of ing couple, Alicia Vikander (“The still landscape shots taken off the Danish Girl”) and Michael Fasscoast of Western Australia, each bender (“Steve Jobs”) prove once scene looks like an oil painting, again that they are masters of with soft colors that melt togeth- their class. Both deliver powerful er in smooth compositions. The performances through subtlety of result is a collection of shots that emotion, moving mountains with create a gorgeous, pastoral land- a single change in expression. The scape of the lighthouse island, one pair act across a vast emotional that is both serene and lonely. As a spectrum, moving through new Daily Arts Writer

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love to shattering loss to choking guilt. Their chemistry is palpable due to their bottomless talent and is perhaps enhanced by the fact that they’re dating in real life (God bless this world).

Rachel Weisz (“Youth”) also delivers a genuine and heartfelt performance of a mother grieving for her lost daughter. With skill, Weisz portrays an understandable desire to get her daughter back that shifts to a heartbreaking confusion over what lies in her daughter’s best interest. Both Vikander and Weisz delve into the complex and layered emotions of motherhood, dealing with the devastating effects of miscarriage, grief and the salvation a child can bring or the destruction it can leave in its absence. The women work not as opposites or enemies, but as mothers with vastly different, yet strikingly similar perspectives.

The complexity in “The Light Between Oceans” lies in the absence of an antagonist. Each character must work through their own conflicting desires and senses of morality in a difficult and painful struggle for happiness and fulfillment. The film is about selfishness and the unintended consequences that come from following one’s desires, yet it also showcases the power of love that binds people together in unbreakable ways.

This movie will make you heave with heart-wrenching sobs for a solid two hours in an agonizing but ultimately liberating experience, which is all one can really ask for.

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‘Mr. Robot’ continues to be cryptic Second season finale of smash hit provokes muted response again) is esoteric and uncharted narrative territory for most of pop culture, and packaging the more intriguing bits of exposition in a “Please tell me you’re seeing quick shot of, say, trash bags piling this, too.” up on a New York street, doesn’t Rami Malek’s tongue-in-cheek do as much of the heavy-lifting as reference during his Emmy it should.

Award accepPerhaps this crititance speech for cism is a bit harsh; “Mr. Robot” was there is, of course, fun quite prescient, in not knowing every Mr. Robot as it turned little detail of a show. out. The finale, Being strung along by Two-Part Finale which techniWednesdays at 10 talented writers who cally aired in two know what they’re p.m. parts over two doing is one of TV’s weeks, revealed greatest pleasures. But USA itself to be just the issues with this like the rest of finale — and, by extenthis season: intentionally vague, sion, this season as a whole — are constantly interrogating its own less about minute plot details and internal reality and, unfortunate- more about general narrative ly, more than a little inaccessible. payoff. Season two confirmed One would be hard-pressed “Mr. Robot” as a series concerned to summarize just what, exactly, with character over plot: we see happened during season two of Darlene’s stunned reaction for “Mr. Robot.” Sure, the show’s an uncomfortable length before most prominent merits — atmo- we’re shown just how much the sphere, performances, character- FBI knows, and it’s Elliot’s face, ization — often overshadow its lit up by a computer screen displot, but it’s tough to stay rapt and playing the plot details we so desinvested during a show in which perately crave, that the camera even the most crucial narrative lingers on. But it comes off as a bit threads are teased out in the most hypocritical when, after focusing opaque ways. so intensely on the paths these Season two of “Mr. Robot” characters have taken this seahas provoked a muted response son, the finale’s closing 15 minutes compared to the enthusiastic raised an infinite number of quesacclaim engendered by its first; tions about the plot: What has comparisons have been drawn Tyrell been up to all season? What to Damon Lindelof’s (“The Left- secret does Tyrell know about overs”) “Lost.” That show, too, Elliot? What have Whiterose and was defined by its moody, surreal Price been plotting? How does atmosphere and was heavily inter- Angela tie into all of this? We have ested in asking more questions to care about the CTO guy again? than it answered. “Mr. Robot,” Meanwhile, only one question however, has the additional bur- pertains to our lead character: den of its background as a show just how unreliable of a narrator about hacking. This baggage is Elliot? These questions are fasmakes the show more “realistic,” cinating and potent, but they arise but it also means its creator, Sam at the frustrating expense of any Esmail (“Comet”), must explain sort of satisfying conclusion to the himself a bit further. Hacker cul- past 12 episodes. ture (a phrase I hope to never use Yet, there’s still much to be NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT Daily Arts Writer

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a more progressive era. A cameo by Ed Sheeran and a Pussy Riot-esque protest group add just enough silliness to the mix.

Now, Bridget’s concerns actually feel validated. In previous films, Bridget’s character felt like a caricature of single womanhood — self-pity without improvement and clumsiness pushed to the extreme for quirk factor alone.

Rather than bemoaning being alone, she struggles to figure out which of her suitors is a better fit for her. Darcy’s aloofness once felt charming, but now that he’s older, Bridget expresses concern that he can’t offer the emotional support she needs. Instead of expecting a knight in shining armor to solve her problems, she looks inward to bettering herself and focuses on what’s best for her baby.

In a particularly heart-wrenching scene, she sobs to the baby in her belly, “I’m sorry. I promised I would get this sorted out before you came, and I didn’t. But we can figure it out.” It’s a sight we’ve seen before: Bridget soaking wet in the rain, wallowing in her selfcreated downfall after losing her phone, keys and bag. But despite endless weakly formed promises, this one feels genuine. Three films later, we finally want to root for her happily-ever-after, because for once, she’s the one creating it.

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intrigued by in “Mr. Robot” ’s idiosyncratic finale. Esmail’s Herculean task of writing and directing every episode of the season produced some admittedly self-indulgent stretches as well as many undeniably brilliant flourishes of creativity. Specifically, Angela and Whiterose’s slow-burning, Lynchian conversation in the first part of the finale is delightfully strange and off-kilter, suggesting a tantalizing larger mythology for the series going forward. Grace Gummer’s (“The Newsroom”) Dom was the season’s most successful new creation, and her interrogation of Darlene was the true highlight of the final episode.

And Malek’s performance during his climactic confrontation with Mr. Robot and Tyrell is, as always, incredible.

As a whole, though, it’ll be hard to judge where season two of “Mr. Robot” stands when the show is over. From a purely aesthetic point of view, it’s hard to argue against the cohesion and confidence of season two’s masterful marriage of visuals and audio, even if they are, yes, especially self-serious. But this was also the season in which a number of narrative gambles — like the delayed “big reveal” in the first half of the season — simply didn’t work.

Compared to its explosive first season, “Mr. Robot” this year was almost underwhelming. Is that the point, though? Are we now being ushered into an era of “Mr. Robot” in which the plot is almost perfunctory, and Elliot’s head is now the most volatile setting on TV? That’s a bit unnerving, to be honest; the best episode of this season, “Successor,” abandoned Elliot entirely. But the show’s web of plot is expanding just as our principals find the walls closing in on them. One can only hope Esmail finds intriguing and successful ways of exploiting that dichotomy in the coming seasons.

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t’s amazing how little you can learn from seven touchdowns.

The Michigan football team did that thing again, where it steamrolls an opponent so thoroughly that it feels like Marshawn Lynch is MAX calling the BULTMAN shots. Over and over and over and over …. and over and over and over again — that’s how it went Saturday against Penn State.

That’s how it’s gone all season long, one quarter excepted.

Wilton Speight said his team ran the same play “like, eight times in a row” on Saturday, flipping it back and forth. And if that doesn’t illustrate how thoroughly Michigan imposed its will, try the box score.

Penn State was 2-for-12 on third down. Michigan was 11-for-16. The Wolverines posted 515 offensive yards and held the Nittany Lions under 200.

They’re still averaging 52 points.

Still hard to block, still have Jabrill Peppers and yet there’s still not much to take away.

One-third of the way through the 2016 season, we know Michigan is good, but we have very little conception of how good because the Wolverines haven’t been forced to show all that much.

Outside of a few sweeps by Peppers and Eddie McDoom, Michigan’s offense has been largely vanilla and is still averaging 467 yards a game. It pounded the ball for 326 yards against the Nittany Lions, and Speight still hasn’t been forced to take the kinds of shots he

will soon need to.

In one week, mercifully, that should change.

Next Saturday, No. 11 Wisconsin will roll in, undefeated and fresh off its second top-10 win of the season. The Badgers beat No. 8 Michigan State on Saturday, using a stout defensive line and opportunistic secondary to all but assure a top-10 matchup against the Wolverines.

For the first time all season, Michigan can go in expecting a brawl. So far, the Wolverines have been throwing punches and catching the few thrown back at them.

Against Penn State, Michigan forced a three-and-out with two sacks on the game’s first series.

Peppers nearly returned the ensuing punt for a touchdown, muffing it, picking it up, and then running it 53 yards down to the nine-yard line. He stumbled for the last 15 yards, and aside from that quarter against the Buffaloes, it might have been the longest the Wolverines have stumbled all year.

It was a drubbing, one that saw Michigan’s converted tight end Khalid Hill snag his fourth rushing touchdown of the year as a fullback and Speight go his third straight game without an interception.

The Wolverines dominated on both sides of the line of scrimmage, and for the fourth straight week, the backup quarterback saw the field. The defense added six more sacks and 13 tackles for loss.

These types of sentences aren’t supposed to be boring, but after four straight weeks of seeing Michigan do this, they are.

Having 13 tackles for loss isn’t normal, but for the Wolverines, it’s pretty much the average.

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Bo, Jim and the tradition that spans decades

Last week, Mark Donahue thought back to his days with Bo Schembechler, a man who established the program he played for at Michigan, a man he once carried off the field on his shoulders and one he JAKE will join in LOURIM the Athletic Department’s Hall of Honor this weekend.

“He was always engaged,” Donahue said. “Every practice, he ran the offensive huddle, called every single play for the first team. … He was in the thick of it, every play, every moment.

High energy level.”

His comments could just as easily have come from one of Michigan’s current players about Jim Harbaugh.

Three days after he spoke, the current Wolverines polished off a 49-10 trouncing of Penn State, in which they overpowered their opponent on both sides of the field, pounded the ball on the ground for 6.7 yards per carry and stifled the opposing offense to the tune of six sacks.

The win could just as easily have come from one of Michigan’s former teams.

The past and present intersect often around the winningest program in college football, and they will again this weekend.

The Athletic Department will induct four members into its Hall of Honor this weekend, one being Donahue, who played offensive guard at Michigan from 1974 to 1977. At the game, Jim Harbaugh will coach the team, his father Jack will be an observer and Bo Schembechler will be watching from somewhere.

Donahue remembers the days of 40 years ago, when the roles were reversed — Schembechler

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Bo Schembechler (left) was once carried off the field by All-American guard Mark Donahue, who returns this weekend to see a team coached by Jim Harbaugh (right).

coached the team, Jack assisted him and Jim was an observer.

Schembechler’s Wolverines had lost to Ohio State in 1974, 12-10, and at home in 1975, 21-14, both to cede at least a share of the Big Ten championship to their archrival.

Finally, in 1976, they went down to Columbus and knocked off the Buckeyes, 22-0. After the game, Donahue and fellow offensive lineman Walt Downing carried Schembechler off the field on their shoulders.

“I still remember the moment,” Donahue said.

Last month, 40 years after that day, Donahue received a call from Michigan Athletic Director Warde Manuel. The call was about returning to his alma mater, joining Schembechler in the Hall of Honor and watching

Harbaugh, the man who once watched him.

Manuel said someone would call back to follow up with more details, and then a few weeks went by, and Donahue thought to himself: “Did I dream this up?”

“It is almost hard to express in terms of the realization that you’re in such a select group of athletes and representatives of the university,” Donahue said.

“I’m proud of the fact to be associated with a group of people that I think represent the university well, both while they were attending there and

after also.”

He will be back this weekend to remember his days playing for Schembechler and see the new coach built in his mold. Donahue was an All-American guard in 1976 and 1977 and then an NFL Draft pick in 1978.

Schembechler called Donahue one of the best offensive linemen he ever coached.

Michigan never lost more than two games in a season during his career.

“From the time you’re a freshman there, it’s a great winning tradition,” Donahue said. “You sort of get

“He was in the thick of it, every play, every moment.”

inculturated, and it hits you when you get there. Even back in the ’70s, you felt like you were doing something special.”

People feel like that again around Ann Arbor these days.

The Wolverines are ranked fourth in the country, their highest since 2006. They have started 4-0 and outscored their opponents by more than 38 points per game. And they host No. 8 Wisconsin in a huge matchup Saturday at Michigan Stadium.

And their head coach is eerily similar to Schembechler from 40 years ago as well. In those days, Harbaugh was 12, an eager apprentice to all of the coaches on Michigan’s staff, including his father and Schembechler.

Now Harbaugh is back as the coach, but the same mentors

still influence him. (He also, of course, borrowed his first remarks from Schembechler: “A lesser athlete would have gone down.”)

Just as Donahue’s comments about Schembechler could describe Harbaugh, his comments about Harbaugh could describe Schembechler.

“Seems like a very charismatic guy for the team, and is more focused on the team than external, so I think that’s always important — good leader.”

And now offensive line from one era will be welcomed back into another, a sign of the tradition carried on through the years. The program has endured rough patches in the meantime, but the ceremony this weekend could be another symbol of rebirth.

One of Schembechler’s players will return to find a team similar to his from the 1970s after seven years of disappointment. One of the best offensive linemen in program history will return to find a revamped offensive line that was the team’s weakness in 2013 and 2014. Donahue, like all former players, spoke about how he enjoys seeing Michigan back on the upswing.

Donahue’s name isn’t discussed today on the same level as others like Howard and Woodson and Brady. But four decades later, he serves as a reminder of a past the Wolverines cherish so deeply.

Perhaps Donahue’s name will even come up this week as part of that tradition in the Wolverines’ game preparation.

The offensive lineman remembers similar stories from when he was a player. Upon his return 40 years later, he might just find that he still fits in.

Lourim can be reached at jlourim@umich.edu and on Twitter @jakelourim.

Wolverines keep Higdon has breakout game in win Barkley in check FOOTBALL

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At the end of the third quarter of the No. 4 Michigan football team’s blowout victory over Penn State, the Nittany Lions had a pedestrian 121 total yards of offense. The more astounding part of that statistic, though, was that running back Saquon Barkley had 131 of them.

That’s not a typo — Barkley was outgaining the rest of his team 131 yards to negative-10. Until wide receiver Chris Godwin added a fourth-quarter touchdown later in the game, the sophomore running back appeared to be the only functioning part of an offense that fell victim to six sacks and 13 tackles for loss.

As a result, other than perhaps quarterback Trace McSorley, Barkley was the player with the biggest target on his back for the Michigan defense all afternoon.

“We knew that Barkley was one of the best players, if not the best player on the offensive side,” said fifth-year senior defensive end Chris Wormley. “So we knew when we shut down the run, we could get to the quarterback with blitzes and different things that (defensive coordinator Don) Brown has us do.”

The defensive line ended up following that plan to the letter, holding the dangerous runner to just 3.9 yards per carry out of the backfield. Barkley did rip off a 33-yard run early in the third quarter to kickstart a drive that put Penn State on the scoreboard, but the Wolverines tackled him for a loss three times and didn’t allow another run longer than six yards.

The Nittany Lions’ offensive line, a work in progress that has frequently struggled to protect its quarterback in recent years, was mostly ineffective against one of the best defensive fronts in the country. As a result, Barkley often found himself on the receiving end of big multi-man tackles after half of Michigan’s defensive line

successfully broke through.

“That’s a heck of a good back,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. “Saquon Barkley is a good football player. He got out, got a couple (big plays) — he showed that a few times. But for the most part, our guys were there and swarming. They were coming two, three, four at a time. I thought it was impressive.”

With the run game proving futile, Barkley found a better way to beat the Wolverines: rolling out of the backfield and using his hands. In the first half, he caught two passes and found open space to rack up a total of 47 yards. Only one other Penn State receiver even had positive yardage.

Knowing that Barkley was probably the only player who could beat them, Michigan’s defensive players went into the locker room and decided that they needed to take away that part of his game.

“We focused on that at halftime,” said senior linebacker Ben Gedeon. “We knew he’s a good receiver, he can go out of the backfield. As linebackers, in our man coverage stuff, we had to kind of take the air out of him.”

At first, that plan didn’t work out so well for the Wolverines, as Barkley took a 19-yard reception into the red zone on Penn State’s first drive, only narrowly being forced out of bounds at the 7-yard line. The next two times Barkley caught the ball, though, Gedeon was ready for him, teaming up with senior safety Delano Hill and then redshirt junior defensive tackle Maurice Hurst to hit Barkley and hold him to gains of just five and six yards, respectively.

Even with Barkley’s few big plays, the outcome of the game was never really in doubt. But with No. 11 Wisconsin coming to Ann Arbor next week and bringing in talented running back Corey Clement, neutralizing Barkley should prove to be a good warmup for a defense that was otherwise barely tested on Saturday.

At a slight 5-foot-10 and 189 pounds, Karan Higdon doesn’t fit the picture of an old-school Big Ten running back. But Saturday, as he raced down the left sideline for a 40-yard touchdown — the longest run of his career — the sophomore proved he was right where he belonged.

The touchdown wasn’t of vital importance to the Wolverines (1-0 Big Ten, 4-0 overall), who were already up by 25 points and would ultimately rout Penn State, 49-10, but it proved to be the exclamation point on a ninecarry, 81-yard game for Higdon.

Last season, he barely saw the field. In his biggest game of 2015, he carried the ball eight times for 16 yards against Northwestern. Other than that, he didn’t have any standout games, and his less-than-ideal freshman season closed with a grand total of 19 yards.

He was knocked down another peg when he couldn’t compete in most of spring and summer conditioning due to a bout of mononucleosis and a knee injury.

After he sat out all of fall camp, he admitted it was “mentally challenging” to watch his teammates get better while he sat back and watched.

But he surprised everyone when he got back to practice just a week before the Hawaii game and showed a glimpse of what he could do. Maybe this season would be different.

“Aw man, it has been a hectic freshman campaign, but to roll over from that adversity and just to keep moving and keep striving and having guys like Coach Wheatley and Coach Harbaugh constantly in my ear, pushing me, pushing me, pushing me, it just leads to great things,” Higdon said.

“I didn’t go at all during fall camp. I got back last week before the Hawaii game. To get back and have the season that I’m having, I’m feeling pretty good.”

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Karan Higdon had the best game of his young career in Michigan’s 49-10 win over Penn State on Saturday.

Speight handed him the ball just past midfield in the fourth quarter, he shook off any remaining demons from the past year. He cut toward the left sideline, slipped through the arms of a Penn State defender and burst forward, with no one within reach of him. The touchdown was his second of the game and just the third of his career.

“Really, I think, that was a Tyrone Wheatley feel,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh.

“He got Karan in there early and saw some real explosive runs, and I think that’s just something that coach Wheatley had seen and got him in there. He reeled off some impressive runs early. I mean, physical, hitting-the-hole fast, explosive-type of runs.

“Same on the touchdown.

That was an exciting run, a very explosive run. I thought he was just shot out like he was coming out of the starting blocks. A heck of a good run.”

And really, he started shaking off last year in the very first game of the season. Against Hawaii, he

carried the ball six times, turning one of those opportunities into his first-ever touchdown.

“It feels great to see my hard work paying off, but that goes credit to my work and everybody in the running back room pushing each other and competing with each other,” Higdon said. “We got some great backs in the running backs room, and as they continue to increase their skill, I do the same.”

Higdon is just one of many running backs that Harbaugh has used in 2016 — freshman Chris Evans, senior De’Veon Smith and redshirt junior Ty Isaac have all contributed significantly this season. With the number of backs being used, Wheatley had to make the unit competitive yet cohesive.

Earlier this week, he said that what happens in the running backs room is like Vegas: What’s discussed there stays there. For players like Higdon, that just helps them even more.

“You see one guy who makes a heck of a play during practice,

turn around, and you make a heck of a play, then the next guy,” Higdon said. “It’s like, ‘Whoa,’ you’re always excited to see those guys produce, as well as yourself, so I would say that’s what Vegas is like.”

No one told him that he’d be seeing an increase in opportunities on Saturday. That’s just the way the team operates.

The same amount of preparation goes into each game.

Still, Higdon was able to emerge from the pack and seize some of the spotlight, a move he credited to his hard work and faith. After Saturday’s game, he met with reporters wearing a golden chain that featured both a cross and a football. He bought it on his birthday earlier this month. “It just reminds me each and every day who I’m doing it for and what I’m doing it for,” he said.

Asked if Saturday was his breakout game, though, Higdon wasn’t ready to go that far.

“No,” he said, “I just consider it a productive day.”

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Dominant second half powers ‘M’ Wolverines stymie Michigan State in final 45 minutes for third straight victory BETELHEM ASHAME Daily Sports Writer

The last time the Michigan women’s soccer team faced Michigan State, it suffered a bruising 3-0 loss MICH. STATE 0 MICHIGAN 1 in East Lansing — its first loss to its in-state rival since 2011. But the Wolverines returned to their winning ways Saturday night, defeating the Spartans, 1-0.

Behind an electrifying second-half performance that Michigan coach Greg Ryan called “our best half of soccer of the year”, the Wolverines (3-0 Big Ten, 7-1-1 overall) completely overpowered Michigan State (1-2, 4-5-1), which simply had no answer for them.

“They terrorized Michigan State in the second half,” Ryan said. “I mean, they just couldn’t catch their breath.”

While the two teams were locked in a physical, gritty battle in the first half — both finished with double-digit fouls — Michigan came alive and imposed its will on the match before the second whistle sounded. Adopting an aggressive approach, the Wolverines went after the Spartans, winning tackles all over the pitch and making it nearly impossible for Michigan State to complete a pass. Every time a Spartan so much as touched the ball, a blue shirt raced to rapidly recover possession. It was a tactic redshirt junior forward Ani Sarkisian described as “(blowing) up their rhythm.”

The persistent pressure made life easy for Michigan goalkeeper Sarah Jackson, who needed to make only one save during the entire game. The same cannot be said of Spartan goalkeeper Savanna Wojtanowski.

Wojtanowski had her work

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The Michigan women’s soccer team avenged last season’s loss to Michigan State with a 1-0 home victory Saturday.

cut out for her from the outset, as the Wolverines bombarded her early and often, totaling 20 shots on goal. In the second half, it was more of the same.

Whether it was Sarkisian, senior forward Nicky Waldeck or sophomore midfielder Abby Kastroll — who each had five of those shots — Wojtanowski was under constant fire.

A 15-minute span in the second half proved especially challenging for Wojtanowski, whose team simply couldn’t hold onto the ball long enough to relieve the strain.

Sophomore forward Reilly Martin sprung Waldeck into space with a cross in behind the defense, and even with a heavy first touch, Waldeck came close to beating the keeper to the ball and pulling off a chip shot. Sarkisian followed with a cross over the top of the defense toward an open Waldeck, and Wojtanowski had to make a

Michigan opens fall season at Virginia Najarian, Hall and Lommer only ‘M’ players to compete; Najarian goes 3-1 Daily Sports Writer

The Michigan women’s tennis team kicked off its 2016 fall season this weekend with just three players competing at the UVA Fall Invitational in Charlottesville, Va. The Wolverines started the tournament with a sweep Friday, as sophomores Kara Hall and Alex Najarian and freshman Chiara Lommer all won their matches in two sets.

Najarian gave up only one game each set.

But Michigan was unable to carry its success into the doubles matches. Lommer and Najarian were defeated by two pairs of players from Marshall and Utah by an eight-game proset score of 8-6 in each match.

Even though the Wolverines donned the maize and blue at the Invitational, they competed as individuals and didn’t accumulate team points.

“We have a certain number of dates that we have,” said Michigan coach Ronni Bernstein, “and if we bring less than four (players) it doesn’t count as a team date. Everybody will basically play four events this fall, so we just had these three go this weekend.”

Saturday was another day of mixed results for the Wolverines. Najarian swept players from Old Dominion and Virginia to advance to her flight’s finals, while Hall was defeated by competitors from Virginia and Virginia Tech.

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Sunday, with Najarian taking on Old Dominion’s Borislava Botusharova in the flight’s finals. Botusharova proved too strong of an opponent for Najarian, and she fell 6-1, 6-1.

Hall and Lommer also competed Sunday in eight-game pro-set consolation matches.

Lommer defeated Utah’s Jenna Chang, 8-1. Hall also participated in an 8-1 match, but Hall was defeated, 8-1, by Utah’s Alexia Petrovic. Hall and Najarian were also defeated by a duo from Virginia, 7-6 (2), in their flight’s consolation match.

“I think with Alex, even though she lost today, she played really well for the most part,” Bernstein said. “I think the biggest thing we really need to work on is our doubles.

That was probably the area we could have done a lot better.”

Fall season losses aren’t all that bad for a team, though. Rankings and conference standings are based on results from the winter season — when dual matches occur — and the fall season is often used as a time for players to get back into the groove of things after a summer of inactivity. The fall season also allows for teams to figure out shortcomings before the winter season.

“The fall is great,” Bernstein said. “It doesn’t have the same pressure as it does team against team, so you just hope they can relax a little bit and work on some things. It gives us a good opportunity to work with the kids and get matches under their belt before we start in January.”

“I think the biggest thing we need to work on is our doubles.”

kick save recovery to keep the ball out.

Kastroll joined the fray soon thereafter, weaving her way through the defense on a run down the right flank and firing a shot from inside the box. Wojtanowski made the initial save again, but the rebound went straight back to Kastroll, whose second attempt was cleared off the line by a Michigan State defender.

“I thought their goalie made some really good plays on the day,” Ryan said. “When you’re hitting the post, and you’re making the goalie make saves, you’re doing everything right.

You just gotta keep taking your chances. They’ll start to fall.”

It was only a matter of time until Michigan would find the back of the net.

Sarkisian provided the breakthrough in the 76th minute, as she burst into the box unmarked and put her head on

the end of Martin’s cross from distance. The ball sailed through the air and nestled softly into the bottom left corner of the goal in picture-perfect fashion.

This time, Wojtanowski had no chance.

“You don’t see them like that very often,” Ryan said. “Great way to win the game.”

While avenging the sting from last season’s loss admittedly felt good, the Wolverines know it is a small victory in a long journey ahead.

“Our goal is Big Ten champs, and yeah they’re a big rivalry team and it’s important that we win this game, but it’s just as important to win any other game,” Sarkisian said. “We want to go undefeated in the Big Ten. That’s our goal, so every team is a good team, and every team in the Big Ten is very (competitive). Hopefully we’ll continue on like this the rest of the season.”

Friday night, the Michigan women’s volleyball team found itself in an uncharacteristic position.

The team went into conference play against No. 1 Nebraska on Friday with an impressive 11-1 regular-season record — and went out with an 0-1 record for the Big Ten. Not exactly the way they had hoped the start of their conference play would go, the Wolverines had less then 24 hours to turn things around before hosting Iowa on Saturday.

And while there were still some consistency issues against the Hawkeyes, Michigan managed to switch gears for a four-set win to end the weekend 1-1.

In the first match of the weekend, the 22nd-ranked Wolverines (1-1 Big Ten, 12-2 overall) dropped the first three sets against the Cornhuskers, 22-25, 25-20 and 25-18 to record their first Big Ten loss — and second loss overall — of the season. Nebraska tallied five more kills than Michigan and had seven fewer errors, which resulted in a .234 attack percentage, almost double the Wolverines’ .118.

Fifth-year senior outside hitter Kelly Murphy led the offense with 10 kills, followed closely by senior middle blocker Abby Cole, who had nine. Sophomore libero Jenna Lerg contributed 10 of the 47 total digs, with Murphy adding nine to top the Cornhuskers in digs, 47-43.

“Nebraska gave us a great barometer of where we’re going and where we want to be,” said Michigan coach Mark Rosen.

“I thought that, physically, we played with them for 85 percent of the match — we were right

there, toe to toe with them.

There wasn’t a situation where I thought, ‘Man, we just can’t stop this player’ or ‘We’re overmatched here.’

“Where we were different was the other 15 percent, and that’s being able to execute on a consistent basis. That’s where Nebraska is ahead of us, they’re just more consistent. But that gives us a great gauge to where we’re going.”

Michigan turned around on Saturday to face Iowa, where the Wolverines pushed their conference record to 1-1 with a four-set win, 25-21, 25-19, 25-27 and 25-17.

The Wolverine offense dominated the match, with three athletes recording double-digit kills. Murphy and junior outside hitter Adeja Lambert recorded 12 kills apiece, while Cole added 11 for the combined team total of 53 and a team attack average of .279.

“I thought Adeja did a great job this weekend,” Rosen said.

“She’s been battling in practice to get in the lineup and I thought she did a great job. Especially tonight, she came out at the very beginning and kind of set the tone with two big kills right off the bat and a block at right that kind of got things going.”

Lambert had the secondhighest amount of digs on the team, falling two short of Lerg, who led with eight.

Redshirt freshman middle blocker Cori Crocker also had a great match, tallying a careerhigh eight blocks on defense and five kills on offense. She finished the night with a .714 attack average.

“It’s really exciting to be able to come out and play in the best conference every single night,” Crocker said. “It’s great to know that everyone you’re playing is the best competition in the country.”

Wolverines top Ohio State, fall to Penn State Michigan gives up two early goals in 3-1 loss to fourth-ranked Nittany Lions MAGGIE KOLCON Daily Sports Writer

With former players in town for alumni weekend, the current No. 8 Michigan field hockey team faced two strong conference opponents for the first time this weekend. The Wolverines defeated Ohio State (0-2 Big Ten, 3-6 overall) 1-0 on Friday night, but fell to No. 4 Penn State (2-1 Big Ten, 9-1 overall) 3-1 on Sunday afternoon.

Despite its win Friday evening, Michigan had a hard time capitalizing on offensive opportunities throughout both games. The Wolverines had 15 shots on net, but just a few were legitimate goalscoring opportunities. Still, freshman forward Fay Keijer scored the game-winning goal during the first half of Friday’s game against the Buckeyes, which was a deflection into the upper netting after freshman midfielder Meg Dowthwaite’s initial penalty-corner shot.

“We did it as a team,” Keijer said. “We worked so hard and fought until the end because this was a very close game. I don’t really think it was just my goal.”

Sophomore forward Emma Way finished a chance off a corner, but Ohio State challenged the call and it was disallowed by the referees for being too high.

After halftime, the game turned into a defensive battle, culminating in a high shot from the Buckeyes that junior goaltender Sam Swenson batted away with three minutes remaining. That attempt was Ohio State’s only on-net shot of the game.

Though the Buckeyes did not generate many traceable offensive opportunities, they kept the ball in Michigan’s defensive zone for much of the second half. The Wolverines were forced to defend five penalty corners, but they held strong and sealed the 1-0 victory.

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breaking the ball out of the defense today,” said Michigan coach Marcia Pankratz on Friday. “We were a little unsteady there.”

The Wolverines made adjustments in practice Saturday to correct that, but their miscues came back to bite them, as they were caught sleeping at the start of Sunday’s game.

The Nittany Lions burst past Michigan and tipped in their first goal just 38 seconds into the game. Six minutes later they racked up another goal during the second effort on a penalty corner.

“We tried to get back to the game plan” Pankratz said. “We just unfortunately didn’t play the whole 70 minutes. We were 10 minutes late.

“By then we were really scrambling to come back and it’s tough to do that against a great team like Penn State. But I was proud of how we turned it around … and I thought it was an even game the second half.”

Despite the tough first half, Michigan seemed encouraged by the alumni who were honored on the field at halftime and began leading the fans in chants during the second half.

But that wasn’t enough to help the Wolverines, as the scoreboard reflected the even-matched play the rest of the game. Way finally earned a spot for Michigan on the board with less than 10 minutes left in the game, with an assist from junior midfielder Katie Trombetta. Once again,

“We just unfortunately didn’t play the whole 70 minutes.”

the goal came from a penalty corner. The Nittany Lions tallied one more late goal with just 3:42 left in the game to solidify their win.

“We just need to finish more on our corners,” Way said. “We had a lot of opportunities and they’re the number one scoring part of the game.”

Added Trombetta: “I think each game we’re getting better, we’re building more, getting more confident. I think today we kind of let the hectic-ness get to us. We started to dribble a lot more, so we have to go to our basic of passing.”

Michigan is entering a crucial point of its season — gearing up to face conference opponents for the next three weekends in a row. Unlike its 10-0 cakewalk against Central Michigan last week, the stakes are higher as conference play begins. The Wolverines will have to tweak their offense — or at least their penalty corners — in order to be successful.

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BULTMAN From Page 1B That’s why next week should be so fun. Colorado might have come out and punched Michigan in the mouth last week, but the Badgers are built to do it for longer than a quarter. The Wolverines might have to open that playbook a little wider, deploy Peppers with more offensive regularity or use what seems like it could be a stellar goalline defense, if it was ever needed.

Saturday, Penn State coach James Franklin elected to kick on 4th-and-goal from the 2-yard line.

His team was down 28-0.

After the game, Franklin told reporters he just wanted to get points out of that possession, and that’s a statement in itself. But next week, finally, Michigan will have a chance to make a louder one.

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The good, the bad and the ugly: Michigan 49, Penn State 10 MAX BULTMAN

Managing Sports Editor

Another week, another blowout.

The Michigan football team dominated every facet of its fourth game of the season Saturday, outgaining Penn State by more than 300 total yards and emerging as 39-point victors. While the Wolverines weren’t quite perfect, the Nittany Lions never threatened, and Michigan was once again able to put in its backups.

Here’s the good, bad and ugly from Saturday’s game: The good Michigan owned the run game. The Wolverines rushed for 326 yards and held

Penn State to just 70. Even with the Nittany Lions’ star running back Saquon Barkley finding moments of success, Michigan controlled the line of scrimmage and bottled up Barkley.

While there were still a couple of big plays, the Wolverines were notably better at limiting them. Penn State’s longest play of the game went for 33 yards, but outside of that rush, Barkley averaged fewer than two yards per carry.

On the opposite side of the ball, Michigan’s offensive line got great push. The Wolverines gained 6.1 yards per play, and in the run game, that number was even higher at 6.7. Pro Football Focus College rated fifth-year senior right tackle Erik Magnuson as Michigan’s top offensive player, and

sophomore left tackle Grant Newsome was second. That’s a great sign for the Wolverines in conference play.

In the secondary, senior cornerback Jourdan Lewis made his return, and while he wasn’t totally thrilled with his performance, he did have a pass breakup and a tackle for loss.

The bad James Franklin. In the second meeting between Franklin and Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, the latter completely outsmarted the former.

In the most notable instance, Franklin sent out the field goal team on 4th-and-goal from the 2-yard line, then called timeout to think it over, then sent out the field goal unit again. Oh,

and his team was down 28-0 in the second half.

Harbaugh, meanwhile, was aggressive as always. His team was ready from the start, and while the play calling was mostly simple, there were a couple of fun wrinkles sprinkled in. Using Jabrill Peppers as an offensive decoy on one play, De’Veon Smith was able to find space for a 39-yard gain.

With a weapon like Barkley on his team, it’s hard to believe Penn State had so little success in the run game, or even by using his presence as a threat.

The ugly There’s only really one ugly thing that can come out of a game like Saturday’s.

Fifth-year senior cornerback

Jeremy Clark, who had been seeing increased playing time in Lewis’ absence and performing among the conference’s best, left the game on a cart. After the game, Harbaugh feared the injury was to Clark’s anterior cruciate ligament. “We think it’s a season-ender,” he worried.

If Clark is indeed out for the year, it will be a bitter end for a player who converted from safety and worked his way into significant playing time for the Wolverines.

Clark is on a team that is contending for a Big Ten title, and maybe the College Football Playoff, and now it seems he may not get to be on the field for any of that.

Ugly is one way to put it.

Heartbreaking might be more fitting.