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Fifth-year senior defensive tackle Ryan Glasgow and redshirt junior defensive tackle Maurice Hurst celebrate Michigan’s win and yell for the Paul Bunyan trophy at Spartan Stadium Saturday.

Wolverines reclaim Paul Bunyan, hold off Michigan State, 32-23

No. 2 Michigan wins back famed rivalry trophy for the first time since 2012 MAX BULTMAN

Managing Sports Editor

EAST LANSING — They came for Paul Bunyan, and they left with him, even if it wasn’t exactly the way they wanted.

This was true during the game for the Michigan football team,

and it was true afterward, when a handful of Wolverines arrived on the Michigan State sideline looking for their hard-earned trophy, only to be told it was already in their locker room.

“Me and Delano (Hill) went to go on the field so we could run around and get little victory laps,” said senior cornerback Jourdan

Lewis. “But, hey, we got it back. I’m excited to get it back home.”

There may not have been a more fitting way to cap the day for Michigan.

Heavily favored coming into Saturday’s game against Michigan State, the secondranked Wolverines (5-0 Big Ten, 8-0 overall) came in with a feeling

they might finally reclaim the Paul Bunyan Trophy for the first time since 2012. They did just that with a 32-23 win, but they still weren’t completely satisfied in how they did so.

“I was excited we got the win — hell of a win against Sparty,” Lewis said. “At the same time, there’s a lot See FOOTBALL, Page 3A

Year of events to include themed semesters, festivals and lecture series RIYAH BASHA

Daily Staff Reporter

The University of Michigan Bicentennial Office released their plans Monday morning for the anticipated year-long celebration of the University’s bicentennial in 2017, which include festivals, lecture series and themed semesters.

Both LSA semesters of the year are slated to be themed.

Next year’s winter semester will focus on “Making Michigan,” or the history of the University, while the 2017 fall semester centers around “Michigan Horizons: The Possible Futures of U-M” and looking ahead to the University’s third century.

According to the Bicentennial Office, many of the events will feature prominent alumni and guest speakers: notable alumni, such as actors Darren Criss and James Earl Jones, will headline a spring festival next April, while Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is scheduled to speak in January at the first of a yearlong series of symposia hosted by University President Mark Schlissel. The Bicentennial Office and Advisory Committee — appointed in 2011 by then University president Mary Sue Coleman — is also working with student groups to ensure a number of annual events, such as the Martin Luther King Symposium in January, tie back See BICENTENNIAL, Page 3A

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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, Democratic vice presidential nominee, spoke at events in Taylor and Warren, Mich. on Sunday, visiting the state just nine days away from the presidential election.

According to an average of polls from Real Clear Politics, Clinton is currently projected to win Michigan by seven points.

Michigan Sens. Gary Peters (D) and Debbie Stabenow (D), as well as U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D–Dearborn), also attended the event in Taylor, which was hosted by the 1A region of the Union of Auto Workers.

Kaine’s Taylor rally focused in part on FBI director James Comey’s Friday letter to Congress, which stated the FBI is looking into additional emails that may be tied to a previous investigation into Clinton’s use of a private server for email during her time as Secretary of State, found during a separate inquiry into former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). Weiner is married to Clinton campaign aide Huma Abedin. In July, Comey told Congress he was closing the investigation into Clinton’s use of the server and it would not result in any criminal charges.

Kaine said Sunday that despite Friday’s announcement, he remains confident that no prosecutor would press charges, adding that Clinton supporters

NEIL SCHWARTZ Daily Staff Reporter

A documentary about the life of Miya Rodolfo-Sioson, a lone survivor of a 1991 shooting at the University of Iowa, was screened Friday afternoon at the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library for an audience of five community members and one student.

The screening of “Miya of the Quiet Strength” was part of the annual month-long Investing in Ability series, themed “Diversity Includes Disability,” through the University of Michigan Council for Disability Concerns.

Patricia Anderson, one of the event organizers, said RodolfoSioson’s story is emblematic of the intersection of disability and diversity due to her activism for disability rights across a spectrum of ethnicities.

“Miya’s story was chosen because of its current relevance as well as the intersectionality of her story as a Philippine immigrant of political activist parents, her work among Hispanic and Latino/Chicano communities and her work as a disabilities advocate and activist,” Anderson said.

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have not been deterred by the letter.

“The FBI’s recent letter has actually revved up people,” Kaine said. “We have record voter registration this cycle. The Trump campaign wants people to be distracted and not vote because he knows that’s the only way he can win. I can tell you folks this: nobody is distracted.”

In an interview prior to the event, Peters declined to

speculate about what motivated Comey’s decision to send the letter, and said it was important for the FBI to clarify their position.

“I think it is imperative, given the unprecedented nature of releasing information pertaining to an investigation publicly — in particular a few days out of an election — that the FBI release the remaining emails so the public can see what is in them

and clear up any remaining concerns,” Peters said Speaking before Kaine took the stage, Peters emphasized Clinton and Kaine’s values to a crowd of about 150.

“Both Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine over the course of the past few months and during the debates have proven themselves to be the leaders we deserve,” Peters said. “This is in clear See KAINE, Page 3A

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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), Democratic vice presidential nominee, raises his hands to welcome the crowd in the Taylor Fire Station Sunday.

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University researchers find only 92 clinical studies in past 20 years YOSHIKO IWAI

Daily Staff Reporter

In a recent study led by the University of Michigan, just 92 randomized control trials were found to have been conducted on immediate treatments for cardiac arrest over the past 20 years — a disproportionately low number given the 535,000 cases of cardiac arrest per year.

A University press release said although cardiac arrest kills 10 times more people in the United States than breast cancer, there is an immense lack of research aimed at treatment and survival of patients who experience cardiac arrest.

Shashank Sinha, a third-year general cardiology fellow at the University Health System who was the lead researcher of the study, said the amount of research is unacceptably low, noting fewer than five randomized control trials were published annually over the past 20 years.

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ON THE DAILY: THE MAN, THE MEME, THE LEGEND Last year, Engineering junior Chris Baldwin found himself as the poster child of a dark period in Michigan football history. After the last second 27-23 loss in the Michigan State game last year, his reaction was immortalized as a meme. But as of Saturday, Baldwin can finally follow up with a victorious pose after the University’s win against Michigan State University, 32-23.

In the waning seconds of last year’s game against Michigan State University, MSU overtook the Wolverines on a fumbled punt.

The student section of the stadium was silent, jaws agape, at the quick turn of the scoreboard. Their shock was summed up perfectly with Baldwin’s stunned expression, hands clasped on his head in a pose social media users dubbed the “surrender cobra.” Baldwin quickly became an internet emblem, his face spread out among sports new

outlets and Twitter accounts alike.

An East Lansing T-shirt company, Michigan Shirt Works, even made T-shirts in his honor.

Baldwin is also a member of The Michigan Daily’s staff.

Baldwin said in an interview that he felt this weekend’s win was a personal redemption.

“It was a lot of fun being at the game, regardless of what happened last year,” he said. “If there was any curse around me, that’s done with.”

The past may be behind Baldwin, but the cameras still aren’t. He attended the game with a group of friends and took, by his count, more than 100 pictures with fans of both teams.

“People swarmed out of their seats to come talk to me,” he said.

Baldwin’s Twitter bio still reads “nationally famous for being a University of Michigan student and a sports fan,” a title

he claimed after his face graced Facebook pages and Twitter timelines.

“I guess I was doing the surrender cobra pose,” Baldwin said in an interview with the Daily

last year. “And now everybody knows who I am … I felt a bunch of text messages right after the game ended, but I figured it was just people talking about the game because, of course, it was crazy.”

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Neil Lewis, Jr @NeilLewisJr Someone in Ann Arbor decided ISIS would be a good Halloween costume.. police department is not amused (h/t & photo credit: J. Channey

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City of Detroit’s move to remove graffiti from plant sparks criticism

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The Packard Automotive Plant, the infamous image of Detroit’s poverty turned ‘graffiti haven’ — the abandoned building is covered in neon designs and tags — is being wiped clean.

Located off of Interstate 94 in Detroit, the plant closed in 1956, making it the largest abandoned plant in the world.

It gained so much attention locally and internationally for graffiting by organizers and artists that in 2010, Banksy, an internationally renowned street artist, tagged one of his murals on a wall of the plant.

The city of Detroit, however, announced last week that it plans to clean up the Packard Plant, which will mean removing the graffiti from the

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portion of the plant the city owns and encouraging the owner of the rest of the Packard Plant, Fernando Palazuelo, to do the same. This has sparked debate regarding the duties of private property owners in Detroit as well as what the role of graffiti and street art will be in Detroit’s future.

These renovations will not been cheap. So far, the city has spent about $19,000 in its graffiti clean-up project and Palazuelo is projected to spend $100,000 if he agrees to clean his portion of the plant, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Members of the University of Michigan community with ties to Detroit had mixed reactions about the effect removing the graffiti and the overall renovation project would have on the city.

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such as Nick Tobier, professor in the School of Art & Design, said they feel as though this is an inappropriate allocation of government funds.

“I would say that there are tons of neighborhoods throughout Detroit that have been marked by, if you describe it as, vandalism or graffiti or broken windows,” Tobier said .

“And the lack of investment and municipal infrastructure from street lighting to sidewalks is much more urgent, in terms of the number of people it effects, than protecting private investment.”

While both the city of Detroit’s General Services Department and Palazuelo were unavailable for immediate comment. However, Tobier emphasized the plant’s private owners.

“The Packard Plant is now privately owned,” Tobier said.

“If a private owner wants to remove graffiti from their building, that’s completely up to them. I can’t see why municipal or local funds should be used to remove graffiti from something that’s owned by a Peruvian hotel investor.”

Andrew Thompson, an Art & Design School lecturer who lives in Detroit, added that he feels removing graffiti from the Packard Plant is more of a public relations maneuver than a legitimate attempt at improving the welfare of Detroit’s residents.

“Sure, the city wanting to remove all the graffiti and clean up the Packard Plant is fine, but what about the neighborhood directly adjacent to the Packard Plant where there’s blighted buildings in between individual homeowners’ houses that I think would actually make a bigger difference in residents’ See DETROIT, Page 3A

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DETROIT From Page 2A lives than a public relations maneuver of saying ‘we’re going to tackle the Packard Plant,’ ” Thompson said.

Some students, such as Art & Design junior Arica Cykiert, said they are also worried Detroit will lose a cornerstone of its cultural and artistic value. Cykiert has studied street art during her time at the University.

“Graffiti is, most often, an opportunity for people who find their environment oppressive to respond to it,” Cykiert said. “I understand that to many it represents a culture out of control, but to so many more it represents hope and optimism, especially in a city so economically depressed as Detroit.”

Ann Arbor resident Mary Thiefels, founder and owner of TreeTown Murals — a mural art company based in Ann Arbor — said she believes that graffiti being produced in

FOOTBALL From Page 1A of things we can clean up. And we saw that during the game, and we saw that we didn’t play our best game in the fourth quarter. And that’s kind of disappointing — kind of took away a little bit from our celebration, because I wanted to dominate them and we didn’t.”

Until midway through the fourth quarter, Michigan was dominating. The Wolverines led 30-10, verging on a blowout win in a series that had haunted them for the better part of a decade. But then Brian Lewerke, the third quarterback Michigan State used, threw a touchdown pass to Monty Madaris, and with 7:31 remaining, the would-be comeback started.

In a rivalry that last year came down to a fumbled punt snap that was returned for a touchdown, the tension built as the Spartans (0-5, 2-6) started putting it together. After being benched earlier in the game, Spartans starter Tyler O’Connor led another touchdown drive in the game’s waning moments.

He hit freshman Donnie Corley in the end zone with one second remaining, trimming the deficit to seven.

At the time, there was still a chance — however infinitesimal — that Michigan State could pull off another miracle. A recovered

BICENTENNIAL From Page 1A into the commemoration.

Themed Semesters LSA departments will devote the winter 2017 semester to exploring the origins of the University of Michigan system and examining its role in the state, nation and world through course offerings and symposia complimented by a series of lectures and discussions. In a University press release, History Prof. Gregory Parker, a member of the theme semester planning committee, emphasized the intersection of University history with broader national and global trends.

“Our idea is to invite the entire campus to understand and unpack these connections, to learn how Michigan was shaped by our world and, in turn, how Michigan has influenced the globe,” Parker said.

Next year’s fall semester, named “Michigan Horizons,” will aim to foster brainstorming on what the future holds for large research institutions like the University. In addition to academic programming, Schlissel will hold an event with multiple university administrators from around the nation on the future of research institutions in June.

Susan E. Alcock, professor of archaeology and classics and special counsel to Schlissel for institutional outreach and engagement, said in a press release the discussion will examine strengths and weaknesses of universities’ public missions.

“The conversation will focus on the ever-evolving bargain, or

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Detroit is critical for the city to allow these young artists a space in which they can express themselves.

“I cannot condone illegal graffiti in my line of profession, but I do support the human desire to leave our mark that graffiti culture has done such a great job of encouraging,” Thiefels said. “I support that desire to leave our mark, but at the same time I don’t encourage young people to vandalize or trespass.”

While this push for the elimination of graffiti is an effort to reinvigorate the city, some, such as Antonio Cosme, founding member of the Raiz Up Collective of Detroit, a neighborhood collective of Southwest Detroit residents that use hip-hop as a tool to create social awareness, feels it is a declaration of war against art and the creative spirit of the city.

“This is art we’re talking about,” Cosme said. “This is not the War on Drugs. This is the war on art that’s taking place in Detroit.”

Painting over the graffiti

is not the first step in their efforts to reduce the presence of vandals at the site. In the past, the city’s attempts to increase the value of the plant have been thwarted by the continual appearance of street artists. In an attempt to combat the frequent tagging, the city began reconstructing the plant to make it more secure.

Jessica Parker, the graffiti removal project manager through Detroit’s General Services Department, said in an interview with the Detroit Free Press that the plant is among several historic ‘graffiti havens,’ from around the city that will be cleaned as part of a city-wide initiative to increase the overall well-being of Detroit and its inhabitants.

“We’re trying to remove the idea that the city is in disarray because we’re making a comeback and we’re doing it one block at a time, we’re removing one tag at a time,” Parker said.

“And we’re trying to restore the hope back into the community that the city of Detroit, we are here, we’re building and we’re on our way back up.”

onside kick could have given the Spartans half a prayer.

But instead of kicking the extra point, Michigan State went for two and ended up fumbling the ball. It was picked up and returned by redshirt sophomore linebacker Jabrill Peppers, bringing the score to 32-23 and smothering any hint of a spark.

Then came a kneel-down by redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight, a backflip by Peppers and a celebration that must have felt like an eternity in the making. Even as players maintained that they approached this game like every other, fans surely felt the tension as they swallowed one last breath of doubt before a triumphant exhale. “(The fourth quarter) felt like the whole second half,” said senior running back De’Veon Smith. “It literally felt like the whole entire second half. I just wanted it to end. I wanted it to be over.”

Right from the outset, the Spartans showed they wouldn’t go quietly. On the first drive of the game, Michigan State rode LJ Scott’s legs to a 12-play, 75-yard scoring drive. Scott carried the ball 10 times on that drive and finished the game with 22 rushes for 139 yards and a touchdown.

Michigan responded, though, with a pair of big drives of its own. Peppers evened the game at seven with a touchdown run from the wildcat formation, and after

a defensive stop, Smith punched it in from a yard out on the next drive to give the Wolverines a 14-7 lead.

From that point on, Michigan never trailed. It tacked on another touchdown and a pair of field goals in the first half, going into halftime up 27-10. At that point, the Wolverines had piled up 287 yards at 8.7 per play.

A scoreless third quarter made the outcome seem like a foregone conclusion, and ultimately, it turned out to be. Michigan outgained the Spartans, 436-401, and Speight said the game was not as close as the score indicated. But it wasn’t lopsided, either.

Michigan State racked up 231 yards in the fourth quarter compared to 41 from the Wolverines, carving up a defense that until then had been stingy.

“We just didn’t go out and play,” Lewis said. “They played a tough game the whole way. They were trying to beat us. They were trying to give us their all the whole game. And we just didn’t come out as intense as we did (in) the second and third quarter.”

In that sense, it wasn’t necessarily the victory Michigan wanted. But at Spartan Stadium, against an upstart team looking for an upset, the Wolverines took the win, and the trophy, regardless.

“We came in here expecting to get it back,” Speight said. “It wasn’t like a surprise.”

compact, between the research university and society at large,” Alcock said.

Outdoor festivals in spring, summer and fall An outdoor fair will serve as a centerpiece for each semester’s celebration.

In total, the University will hold expositions in spring, summer and next fall in Ann Arbor and will also host a festival in Detroit next September.

UMich200 Spring Festival is the first of the celebrations, and will take place next April.

Scheduled events include historical building tours, a cultural festival and a multimedia event capping off the celebration at Hill Auditorium that will feature actors Darren Criss and James Earl Jones, in addition to director of the White House Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz.

The summer fair will celebrate University faculty and staff in collaboration with the annual Ann Arbor summer festival.

The Third Century Expo, the fall finale, will preview projects and initiatives moving the University into its next 100 years with a public fair spanning the Diag and Ingalls Mall on homecoming weekend next year. Gary Krenz, the executive director of the Bicentennial Office, said in a press release exhibits will be interactive and futuristic, and follow in the spirit of world’s fairs, such as the Chicago World Fair in 1893.

“Fair-goers will find exhibits that encourage hands-on engagement, rather than a passive experience where they are told to ‘look, but don’t touch,’ ” Krenz said.

In between the summer and fall celebrations, the University

is planning a day of festivities in Detroit in September to honor the University’s birthplace and its connection to the city with exhibitions and a large-scale oral history project headed by the Detroit Center.

Plans released by Bicentennial Office also includes a commemoration of native peoples, as tribes native to Michigan originally entered into a treaty ceding control of land to the University in 1817 when it was located in Detroit. Neither the press release nor plans from the office, however, specified what such events will look like.

Alumni Awards and Grant Initiatives The University is dedicating awards and need-based student aid to students in an effort to include a greater portion of the campus community in the commemoration.

One such initiative is the Bicentennial Alumni Award, which will acknowledge recent alumni making significant contributions in their fields.

The Bicentennial Office is also introducing a year-long design contest — with an award of $25,000 — asking students to reimagine both physical spaces and teaching methods in 2067.

According to the Bicentennial Office, a “nationally renowned panel” will review submissions in the spring, and 20 teams have already submitted proposals.

Proceeds from bicentennial merchandise slated to be sold at the M Den, the official retailer of the University’s Athletic Department, will go toward the Undergraduate Scholarship Fund, one of the University’s main avenues for distributing needbased aid to students.

CARDIAC From Page 1A arrest in this country,” he said.

Working with a comprehensive team of cardiologists and health care workers, Sinha’s project aimed to address gaps in the current evidence and literature in the field. After many months, he said his team designed a comprehensive systematic review of randomized control trials, that has included 65,000 patients to date, for immediate treatments of cardiac arrest.

Sinha said there are 25 to 86 times more published clinical trials for other diseases, including heart attacks and stroke.

“What we found here was an opportunity to try to better understand how we prioritize what the research needs are, to meet the public health burden of disease,” Sinha said.

He said the deficiency in research partly speaks to the availability of funding, systems for reporting results and the overall design of the studies.

In particular, Sinha’s team found a significant lack of focus on in-hospital cardiac arrests, happening more than 200,000 times a year. Despite their prevalence, there were only four randomized control trials over 20 years that looked at this particular patient population.

KAINE From Page 1A contrast with their opponents, who have built their campaign on dividing people. Clinton and Kaine will truly live up to their motto of ‘Stronger Together.’ ” During his speech in Taylor, Kaine also discussed the Clinton campaign’s economic policies, outlining their four-pillar plan.

He highlighted in particular the campaign’s plan to invest in manufacturing, infrastructure and research, improve education, raise wages and close corporate

IOWA From Page 1A Sonya Rodolfo-Sioson, Miya’s mother, spoke before the screening about the moments following the shooting. Her daughter had been a student at the university and was working as receptionist when the shooter entered a conference room full of professors with a .38-caliber revolver and shot the associate vice president for academic affairs before turning the gun on Rodolfo-Sioson. She survived the gunshot to the throat, but was rendered paralyzed from the neck down.

“We didn’t know whether she wished that he had killed her, or whether she wanted to live damaged,” she said. “I could just see her going through this time: ‘OK that door shut, that door shut, what can I still do?’ And at the very end, she said she could still be an activist.”

The shooter, former graduate student Gang Lu, opened fire on the conference room in frustration over losing the prestigious D.C Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize in physics to a rival student. Miya RodolfoSioson survived after she was shot by Lu at her receptionist’s desk.

Sonya Rodolfo-Sioson emphasized Miya’s resilience following her injury, which included continuing her activism in areas such as disability

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“I think part of the challenge is recognizing where the opportunities are, strategically, to help optimize the care for these very high risk and vulnerable patients,” Sinha said.

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Brahmajee Nallamothu, cardiologist for the University and the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center and co-author of the study, said the study of in-hospital cardiac arrests remains difficult, serving as an obstacle in developing effective treatments.

“The question is how can we change our model for how we study this condition, and how we can do things that will be meaningful in terms of evaluating therapies that could help,” Nallamothu said. “It’s tough in two ways — it’s tough because it’s hard to study, and then it’s a tough problem in terms of finding solutions.

Though past research has primarily focused on survival numbers, Sinha’s team aimed to shift that paradigm by looking more at the patient’s quality of life after cardiac arrest.

“I think the goals for our systematic review was to help inform the literature about whether it is possible to standardize how we measure the outcomes of care and focus… more on patient-centered outcomes, like returning to work, or having a reasonable quality of life, as opposed to

simply whether they survive,” he said.

Nallamothu also emphasized providing more effective education on immediate treatments for cardiac arrest, like a CPR outreach event fellow project member Robert Neumar, an emergency medicine professor, held at a Department of Emergency Medicine tailgate last year where a video was played of team members giving CPR demonstrations.

“I think for me, the message to the community is always to try to improve education around basic life support and CPR,” Nallamothu said. “Bystander CPR is so critical to outcomes, that as well as early access to AEDs. Those are two community based solutions.”

Sinha said the research he is conducting should help lead to standardization and eventual accreditation of hospital care for immediate cardiac arrest treatment, like the current existing methods for stroke and heart attack.

“I think we’re still several years removed from that, but I hope that our study helps guide resuscitation research on where the priorities should be,” he said.

He said his team also hopes to galvanize interest from national organizations in the United States on this area of research because most trials on cardiac arrest have been done outside the country.

tax loopholes. During his speech later later that night in Warren, Kaine addressed similar economic concerns to a crowd largely made up of UAW workers.

In Taylor, Kaine said the campaign’s economic plan would grow the economy and more equitably distribute its benefits.

“Many economists are in agreement that our economic policies would grow the economy by adding 10 and a half million jobs by the end of the first year,” Kaine said, prompting applause from the crowd. “The Trump plan, in contrast, is estimated to shrink the American economy by three and a

half million jobs.”

In Taylor, Kaine also emphasized that the results of the early and absentee voting are trending positively for the Clinton campaign, noting he has a proven record of success in elections.

“In states with robust early and absentee voting we are seeing good results so far,” Kaine said. “The turnout has been tremendous, in particular, in states that we are targeting like Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and North Carolina … The good thing for us is that I don’t lose elections, even though I don’t win by a lot.”

rights, humanitarian causes and women’s rights through her work for the Women’s Resource Action Center, the Rape Crisis Center and the Battered Women’s Shelter.

“When she came back (from rehab), she said ‘I can help the formatting of newsletters, I can help spread the word.’ And it continued on from there.”

Miya al story included her fight against breast cancer, diagnosed 16 years after the shooting.

Her mother said it was due to her weakened immune system, which is often a side effect in quadriplegics.

“I was thinking she was going to live to be 50,” she said. “A lot of people in the disabled community live to be 50 as long as they had support. Well, she was 39 years old and inflammatory breast cancer had set in.”

She said despite this challenge, Miya continued to fight for the causes that were most important to her while simultaneously getting treated for her cancer.

“She still kept on going, she still kept on attending rallies, protesting against injustice, and then she would have to go and get chemo,” she said.

Miya passed away just before her 41st birthday in 2008. Anderson said despite the efforts of the University of Iowa and other communities to commemorate the shooting over the years, she believed the memory of it was disappearing.

“With the 25-year anniversary

(of the shooting) and the connection to the theme that we have this year, I thought, ‘Somebody needs to do this,’ ” she said. “We don’t want the 25th anniversary to go by without somebody remembering.”

LSA senior Abbie Bowen, the only University student in attendance, said she admired Miya’s perseverance in the face of overwhelming adversity.

“I thought her story was very inspiring,” she said. “It was very good to see that even though she was a quadriplegic, to get out and still have a life and be very active.”

Bowen said she attended the event because her organization, PULSE, designated this event as one of its training institutes required for members.

PULSE is a student-run, UHS-sponsored organization promoting health, wellness and social justice around campus through peer interactions and events.

Sonya said there are many aspects of Miya’s story that college students can learn from, noting that in the face of what Miya went through after her injury, she still found a way to keep going.

“You can always keep going, no matter what happens to you,” she said. “You don’t have to let you get you down. If I could keep going without even the ability to brush my teeth or feed myself, so can you. That is the message that (Miya’s) life tells.”

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FAITH COLE | OP-ED

Women’s challenge to hope

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Bicentennial and diversity REYNOLDS FARLEY

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umerous buildings on campus honor presidents who created this university, including Henry Tappan, James Angell, Harlan Hatcher, Harold Shapiro and James Duderstadt.

Others commemorate donors including William Cook, Horace Rackham, Stephen Ross and Alfred Taubman.

More than a few are named for coaches or athletic directors, including Fielding Yost, Fritz Crisler, Ray Fisher and Bo Schemblecher. Others honor faculty members such as Emil Lorch and Mortimer Cooley. A few buildings bear the names of women including Stockwell Hall honoring the first woman to be admitted, Helen Newberry Hall, wife of benefactor John Newberry and Penny Stamps, a graduate and donor.

A student or professor strolling our campus might conclude that key figures in the development and funding of this institution were primarily men of European origin. That may be the case, but there is much more to the story. For a century and a half, women and people of color have earned degrees here and played a role in the University of Michigan’s growth. And many white men associated with the University took thenunpopular stands supporting the rights of minorities. As the University celebrates both diversity and its bicentennial, consideration might be given to commemorating women, minorities and those who promoted equitable opportunities.

Prominent historical markers or plaques might highlight the accomplishments of some of the following: Father Gabriel Richard — A key figure in the development of Detroit, he joined with Chief Justice Augusts Woodward to establish the Catholepistimead that became this University.

In 1817, the Chippewa, Ottawa and Potawatomi surrendered their land to Michigan territory with an agreement that their children be educated at the schools in Detroit Father Richard established. As a result, Michigan Native Americans are exempt from tuition at this university.

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Amanda Sanford — became the first woman to graduate from the University’s medical school in 1871. She furthered her medical studies in London and Paris and then practiced in upstate New York.

Sarah Wertman — She graduated from the law school in 1871 and became the first woman in the United States to both earn a legal degree and be admitted to the bar in Michigan. In that era, many states refused to admit women to the bar. She was an early participant in the Equity Club, the first national organization of women lawyers and a group founded in Ann Arbor.

William Henry Fitzbutler — In 1872, he became the first African American to graduate from the Medical School. He practiced medicine in Louisville and obtained support from Kentucky to establish a medical school that would admit Blacks. He founded and then served as head of the National Medical College in Louisville, a school that graduated 150 Black physicians and was praised in the Flexner Report.

Moses Fleetwood Walker — While earning his law degree here, he was the catcher for the baseball team in 1882 hitting .308. He played professional baseball for six years and was the last African American to play for a minor league baseball team until the 1940s.

Branch Rickey — He was appointed baseball coach in 1910.

He earned a law degree in his four years in Ann Arbor and then became a distinguished baseball executive. In the 1940s, baseball was the national pastime. Branch Rickey successfully overturned Jim Crow policies when he recruited Jackie Robinson to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

This was among the important changes of the post-World War II that laid the foundation for the Civil Rights Movement.

Jesse Owens — As a member of the Ohio State track team, Owens set three world records — and tied one — within 45 minutes at Ferry Field on May 25, 1935. This feat was never duplicated. His achievements in the Berlin Olympics made him the first African-American athlete to be seen as a national sports hero.

Raoul Wallenberg — This Swedish student enrolled in the architecture program at Michigan in the 1930s. After

the Germans overran European nations, they sought to incarcerate Jews. Wallenberg is credited with saving thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust.

James Earl Jones — Jones, from the Jackson area, came to Michigan in the 1950s intending to become a physician but discovered his talents in the performing arts. He enrolled in the School of Music and went on to became one of the nation’s most acclaimed actors, winning Tony Awards in 1969 and 1987 and a Golden Globe Award in 1970.

Jessye Norman — She earned a master’s degree from the School of Music, Theater & Dance in 1968 and then went to Europe to begin her illustrious career as an opera singer and recitalist.

She has, perhaps, performed in more operas and in more venues than any of her peers and won great accolades for her voice, her theatrical accomplishments and her philanthropy.

Madonna (Louise Ciccone) — This artist enrolled as a student in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance in 1976. She left Michigan shortly thereafter to begin her extremely successful career as a singer, actress, composer and businesswoman.

Derek Jeter — This Kalamazoo resident enrolled as a student in 1992 but then opted for a career in professional baseball. For 20 years, he was the most talented and reliable shortstop in the Major Leagues while leading the New York Yankees to the World Series seven times.

Michigan historical markers are permanent, highly visible and easy to maintain. They provide space for an explanation of the person and could include a QR where additional information would be available. Without substantial cost or bureaucratic effort, historical markers could bring the diverse history of the University of Michigan to the attention of today’s students, staff and visitors — and to those who will be walking across this campus in forthcoming centuries.

Reynolds Farley is the Otis Dudley Duncan Professor Emeritus in LSA, a research scientist at the Population Studies Center and currently teaches courses about the history and future of Detroit in the Ford School of Public Policy.

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I have now seen Director Comey’s letter to Congress. We are 11 days out from perhaps the most important national election of our lifetimes ... The American people deserve full and complete facts immediately.

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— Hillary Clinton speaking at a surprise press conference in Iowa on Friday, regarding recent FBI investigations into Anthony Weiner’s emails.

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month ago, a guy at a party turned to me and said, “I don’t know your name, so I’m going to call you sugar tits.” Just three weeks ago, a recording of Donald Trump lauding his power to grab women “by the pussy” surfaced. One in four women on college campuses are survivors of sexual assault. It is frustratingly clear that gender inequalities persist in our world.

When I express this frustration to women a generation or two older than me, they often respond by reminding me how much more power I have than they did at my age. I am usually irritated at these responses, uncertain how to reconcile my anger with appreciation for the privileges I have in this generation. An event hosted by the LSA Human Rights Program last week addressed this tension, and emphasized that anger can productively coexist with appreciation for past success.

The Human Rights Program’s distinguished lecture event Oct. 11 featured Kathryn Sikkink, a renowned professor and researcher of human rights.

Sikkink’s presentation highlighted a paradoxical characteristic of the human rights movement: The more we mobilize to combat human rights violations, the more dismal the situation appears. She attributes this feature of the human rights movement to three things: First, the more data gathered about a human rights violation, the more prominent that violation may seem. Second, as activists and organizations succeed in securing more human rights, the standard of accountability rises. And third, a focus on suffering is integral to human rights movements because dismissal of suffering may appear callous and would do little to motivate change.

Consequently, the dialogue surrounding human rights movements and institutions is

often pessimistic. Sikkink argued that while negativity may be inherent in human rights advocacy, unchecked pessimism is corrosive to the human rights agenda.

Quoting Saul Alinsky, Sikkink emphasized that successful activism requires three things: anger, hope and action. The anger portion of this trifecta, Sikkink argued, is highlighted in human rights activism, while the hope portion is often underemphasized.

Without evidence that our actions have been successful, we risk losing hope that change is possible.

Her words reminded me of my grandmother’s standard response to my frustration with gender inequality: “I know you’re frustrated, but you are forgetting how far we have come.” Just as Sikkink’s work seeks to remind human rights advocates of their success, elder feminists remind women of my generation that women’s rights movements have been successful. Remembering to recognize success, however, can be challenging.

I am angry that women hold only 19.4 percent of U.S. Congressional seats. Yet in less than 100 years, women in this country have progressed from having no representation in government to likely reaching one of the most powerful leadership positions in the world. By advocating for women’s suffrage in the early 1900s, the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance, along with other organizations, fought long and hard to free women “from the thraldom [sic] of the centuries.” The struggle to expand political representation for women continues today, but is made possible by the success of past struggles.

I am angry at the frequency with which demeaning comments challenge women’s autonomy.

I am angry that one-fourth of women on college campuses are sexually assaulted. I am angry that a judge granted Brock Turner a lenient sentence based on the ironic argument that, “A prison

sentence would have a severe impact on him.”

Sexual violence is a persistent problem in many ways, but we are making progress in combatting it.

Sikkink presented a graph which displays Sweden as the country with the highest occurrence of rape in the world. Until recently, sexual violence wasn’t a public issue. Efforts to monitor the prevalence of sexual violence weren’t prominent and data wasn’t collected. Now, human rights movements and women’s rights organizations have successfully demanded that sexual violence become a public issue, necessitating data collection, discussion and advocacy for change. Documentation of sexual violence on college campuses, in our country and around the world, demonstrates a change in public attitudes and priority given to the issue. While sexual assault statistics rightfully prompt anger, they also inspire hope because an open discussion has been sparked.

There is much work to be done before we can stop being angered by underrepresentation of women in politics, by demeaning comments made by college boys and presidential candidates and by the prevalence of sexual violence. But just as anger is necessary to motivate action, so is an understanding of the successes of advocacy. As we work toward gender equality, let us not only focus on frustratingly persistent inequalities. We must also remain hopeful for future progress by remembering the successes of past movements and the strength of current advocacy.

Next time you find yourself responding to a man that replaces your name with “sugar tits,” be angry enough to voice your anger, and be hopeful that comments such as these will become less frequent as a strong feminist movement continues to identify and address gender inequalities.

Faith Cole is an LSA junior.

ANTHONY COZART | OP-ED

A policy moonshot for Flint

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arlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency admitted it should have acted seven months earlier in the Flint water crisis, which began in April 2014 and is ongoing.

Lead poisoning and outbreaks of bacterial diseases following the city’s switch to the Flint River as its water source have had lasting, irreversible impacts to human health. President Obama has said, “I know that if I was a parent up there, I would be beside myself that my kids’ health could be at risk.”

Just before Fall Break, I tried to defend a creative policy response to the Flint water crisis to my Ford School of Public Policy classmates.

The idea is simple: What if the government paid residents to move to healthier, more economically viable surrounding cities, in addition to repairing the necessary water infrastructure?

Before laying out the arguments and evidence underpinning the idea, I need to admit I quite clearly failed to convince my classmates.

I pointed to research about neighborhood effects, and how the government routinely “nudges” individuals to achieve better outcomes for themselves and their communities. My arguments relied on the belief that, as individuals, we’re “rational economic agents,” processing information well and assigning prices (i.e., values) to the everyday things in our lives.

To my classmates-turned-critics, I failed to consider many of the relationships, expectations and principles that form a good life.

One complaint with the idea was that justice requires much more than our government writing a check. Water is a basic human right according to the U.N. Our government has a responsibility to meet basic water needs, and failed.

The government must right the wrong on principle; questions of cost-benefit or cost-effectiveness are irrelevant. Another complaint is that such a policy fails to respect

the rights of individuals, that they’d be coerced into moving.

Perhaps the most damning rejoinder is that such a policy neglects, or fails to account for, the value of personal experience, communal connections and a sense of home. At risk of stating the obvious, where we are and who we interact with influence our happiness and satisfaction.

The fact that local stakeholders have worked tirelessly in Flint during the crisis demonstrates the importance of these ties and interactions to residents.

Furthermore, even if the amount paid to individuals reflects this value, can we really be confident that individuals calculate their own values appropriately when taking the cash? We’re all guilty of wishful thinking and acting irrationally.

My classmates were right to be initially skeptical. But the reasons supporting the rational, cost-benefit-calculating economist’s policy are also intriguing. Here’s why: Families that move would immediately get what they need most: safe, reliable and unlimited access to water. Their kids would be in better schools immediately, without the uncertainty of whether their school was safe, or whether it might close in the coming year. Flint’s schools are still failing its students, according to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU earlier this month. And working parents could enter a local economy with better job prospects and pay.

Seminal work by Harvard and University of California-Berkeley economists have documented that Flint, Genesee and Wayne County have among the lowest levels of economic opportunity and mobility in Michigan.

Moving residents could help rebuild their trust in institutions, which is in short supply among Flint residents after years of environmental and institutional racism. The New York Times wrote earlier this month that many of the first residents to have the pipes to their homes replaced

continue to use bottled water, even after being told the tap was OK to use. Economic research clearly links higher levels of trust in institutions to more human development and faster economic growth. Paying residents to move might help repair this damage.

Economic outcomes could also be better in the long run, especially for families with young children.

New evidence from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-sponsored Moving to Opportunity experiment, a longitudinal program starting in 1994 that resettled residents of poor communities in more affluent areas, illuminates the extent to which location affects health and economic outcomes.

Individuals who moved before their 13th birthday, as a result of experimental treatment, earned 31 percent more than their counterparts who did not move.

It could also be cost effective.

President Obama is right in that, “It’s not enough just to fix the water.” The educational, health and economic costs of the crisis will be enormous. Dispersing families and students could drive down the educational costs associated with lead poisoning and lost school hours. And the costs of children falling behind in school, even for those unaffected by lead poisoning, likely dwarf what might be spent on infrastructure: Students who have fallen behind and fail to recover will likely earn less on average each year than they otherwise would have. This math gets scary, quickly.

Questions about how the policy could be introduced (e.g., when, at what cost, and for whom) raise other practical issues, drawbacks and ethical concerns. I’d feel entirely different about the idea if it turned out certain demographic groups respond adversely, or even less favorably, to moving to opportunity. But don’t we owe Flint residents ambitious, creative, “moonshot”-like policy solutions?

Anthony Cozart is a graduate student in the Ford School of Public Policy.

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FILM REVIEW

EVENT REVIEW

‘Denial’ an emotionless depiction of conspiracy

‘Gimme Danger’ premieres at DIA Director Jim Jarmusch and Iggy Pop presented the film last Tuesday EMILY BICE & DOMINIC POLSINELLI Daily Arts Writer

Though Rachel Weisz shines, the drama can’t find the right tone This character binary between SYDNEY COHEN symbols of truth and fiction works Daily Arts Writer as a driving force throughout the film. Weisz does a commendConspiracy theories are an end- able job portraying Lipstadt as a lessly fascinating phenomenon of steadfast, determined and strong the collective psyche and the per- woman committed to her academsuasive power of ic field and Jewish rhetoric. The Holoheritage; her charcaust denial moveacter is likable, and ment of the 1980s her frustrations are “Denial” stands as an epiteasy to sympathize ome of this binary with. Spall, on the Michigan Theater between truth and other hand, is his Bleecker Street fiction. Zooming in usual repulsive Media on the contention self, aesthetically between a Holoand characteristicaust historian and cally. Despite his a Holocaust denier, character’s potenMick Jackson’s new film “Denial” tial to offer insight into the twistattempts, unsuccessfully, to por- ed mind of a conspiracy theorist, tray the struggle and consequenc- Spall spends the entire film snives of holding up outlandish and eling and strutting around with baseless comments in court — a hesitant pomposity. His shorttrial relevant and relatable given comings combine to construct a our current political climate. one-dimensional antagonist that “Denial” attempts to tell the offers an off-balance challenge to real story of the 1996 court battle the strength of Weisz. between Holocaust and Jewish The film is also horribly balstudies professor at Emory Uni- anced in terms of emotion, lacking versity Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel gravity where it is badly needed Weisz, “The Light Between and placing stress in high doses Oceans”) and infamous Holocaust where it is unnecessary. For examdenier David Irving (Timothy ple, the first face-off between Spall, “Sweeney Todd”). After Lipstadt and Irving works as the being taken to court by Irving in perfect opportunity to lay out a British libel suit, Lipstadt must the contention between the two. defend an allegation she made Instead, the scene is childish and in one of her books: that Irving anxiety-inducing, culminating intentionally manipulated his- in a stressful and chaotic bout torical evidence to claim that the of incoherent shouting. On the Holocaust was a conspiracy theo- other end of the spectrum, the ry enacted by the Jews to garner legal team’s trip to Auschwitz international support. lacks the necessary emotion and

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gravity of the space. “Denial” attempts the ambitious task of capturing the emotional weight of Auschwitz with long establishing shots of snow-covered barracks and an absence of an overlaying score. However, the scene lacks significant emotion; lawyer Richard Rampton’s (Tom Wilkinson, “Selma”) casual treatment of the camp as a crime scene, while a narrative plot point, reinforces the film’s incapability to capture the complex and raw despair of the space.

The most frustrating aspect of the film is the way in which it emphasizes and builds binaries that take away from the central conflict. The film focuses mainly on the contentions between Lipstadt and her lawyer Anthony Julius (Andrew Scott, “Sherlock”).

Throughout the film, the two are constantly arguing about strategy and morality, with countless scenes of them bickering and getting nowhere. Scott also somehow always looks wet, which is confusing and unpleasant.

The film’s focus on the binary between the passionate but impulsive professor and the calculated but cold lawyer takes away from the real issues of the Holocaust denial movement — the way in which conspiracy theories manifest and take hold, and its implications on the academic community and the public. Instead, “Denial” is completely aggravating and disappointing; the viewer gains zero insight into the deeper issues of the real-life phenomenon.

TV REVIEW

‘Ullman’s Show’ uninspired comedy Seasoned British impressionist doesn’t succeed in newest show Each sketch put the women in interesting situations — Smith Daily Arts Writer filming an audition tape for sci-fi movies, and Merkel throwing a There’s sketch comedy, and tantrum on a private plane. The then there’s bad sketch comedy. acting is calculated and focused.

Then, there’s really bad sketch Ullman has great comedic comedy. Beneath all that is timing and a strong presence on “Tracey Ullman’s camera.

Show.” The BBC But the program, which problem with originally aired in “Tracey Ullman’s the U.K. in January Show” is not “Tracey Ullman’s 2015, debuted on her acting, it’s Show” HBO Friday night. the sketches The 30-minute themselves.

Pilot romp explores The writing Fridays at 9 p.m.

British culture, is unoriginal, pokes fun at its and the humor HBO most prominent in each sketch leaders and satirizes is predictable. current events.

One storyline Thirty years earlier, which stands out this would have been a recipe for in particular is that of Karen, a comedic gold – and it was. “Tracey recently released prisoner who Ullman’s Show” is the comedian’s returns home for the first time first major broadcast project since in 28 years. The “joke” of the her wild, wacky and incredibly piece lies in Karen’s discomfort influential “The Tracey Ullman with life outside of prison, and Show” in the late 1980s. the changes that have occurred Unfortunately, this is not 1987. since her imprisonment. For Today’s viewers have access to such a seasoned comic, this endless sketch comedy, from premise is a rudimentary excuse “Saturday Night Live” to “Broad for humor. The worst part of it, City” to the video their cousin however, was the employment Maggie made with some friends of the “rule of threes.” Time and from her improv troupe in time again, if Karen sees or hears Chicago. Viewers expect witty, of something new, she needs to weird and wholehearted sketch hear its name three times before comedy. Compared to the content she understands. The repetition is produced today, “Tracey Ullman’s just not funny.

Show” is trite.

Use of techniques such as To her credit, Ullman is an the “rule of threes” belittles the incredible impressionist. She viewer. By its nature it’s silly pulls off her impersonations and fun, but sketch comedy can with such ease and confidence do more than that. It can incite that it’s possible to forget she is conversation and respect the not the real subject. The pilot viewer enough to trust that they episode features several sketches can handle more than the “rule about a “misbehaving Dame of threes.” No part of “Tracey Judy Dench.” From blatantly Ullman’s Show” inspires thought, stealing at the grocery store to or evokes emotion. It’s simply 30 defacing the tablet of co-star minutes of tired jokes and curated Rupert Grint (The “Harry Potter” impressions. series), Dame Judy Dench tests It’s disappointing to see a how far she can take being strong female comedian in what Britain’s national treasure. It’s so could potentially be the role(s) believable that those who aren’t of her career fall short. Tracey that familiar with Dench (myself, Ullman is clearly talented. She is for example) might not realize funny. But her show isn’t. It might it’s an impression until after the have a different effect on older episode ends. audiences — those who grew Other impressions include up watching and laughing with German Chancellor Angela Tracey Ullman might think the Merkel and Dame Maggie Smith. program is prime comedy. Maybe EMILY BICE

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it’s unfair to call it based off of the pilot episode. As of now, though, the 30-minute pilot is 25 minutes too long.

Lights, camera, IGGY! Punk rock icon James “Iggy Pop” Osterberg took the Detroit Institute of Arts by storm this past Tuesday to promote the new Stooges documentary “Gimme Danger.” The juxtaposition of punk rock vibes among the elegance of the renowned art museum set the stage for the sold-out event, as an eclectic mix of individuals poured into the theater eager for the film.

“I’m surprised they let the Stooges in here,” said director Jim Jarmusch (“Stranger Than Paradise”).

But no matter the oddity of the location, the Michigan premiere was a remarkable testament to the Stooges, a motley crew of Midwestern men who in 1967 found their sound in Ann Arbor.

Before the film started, we made our way up to Rivera court.

There, shadowed by a mural of hard-working automotive industry men, a small red carpet was graced

by Iggy Pop and Jim Jarmusch.

In true rock ‘n’ roll fashion, the men arrived 20 minutes late. The court buzzed with excitement while Iggy and Jarmusch posed for photos. Noteworthy was Jarmusch’s suggestion to Iggy that they “do the Zoolander face.” Even more noteworthy was how well they pulled the look off.

Soon after, the group migrated to the theater and waited for the film to begin. To say the crowd was excited is an understatement.

The moment Iggy walked on stage, hordes of audience members sprang to their feet, exuberant to be in the presence of a living legend.

The film is a fascinating 108-minute journey through the Stooges’ past, present and future. It’s stylistically brilliant and reflective of the band’s offbeat humor, morals and music.

Jarmusch, the famous champion of independent cinema, took what could be a run-of-the-mill documentary on an iconic band and turned it into a love letter to the artists who created and the fans who followed punk rock. It’s

a documentary that doesn’t take itself too seriously, just like the Stooges.

The film chronicles the band’s humble beginnings in Ann Arbor.

To view footage and photographs that are practically undiscovered of Ann Arbor in the late 1960s was especially special for those who knew the town. At one point, Iggy recounted the night the Stooges became a “professional” band and were signed to Elektra Records.

Along with MC5, they were performing in what is known today as the Michigan Union Ballroom.

As students, watching footage of history made in the same room where we go to mass meetings was surreal.

Fittingly, surrealism is a theme throughout the film. To depict events which lack actual footage, Jarmusch uses animations. The addition of these animations brings life to old stories, though it’s not as if the stories needed much help.

One in particular stands out – how the band got its name – born out of a joke that the members were like “The Three Stooges.” When they were officially signed by Elektra Records, guitarist Ron Asheton called Moe Howard, the leader of the Three Stooges, to check if using the Stooge name was okay.

Howard’s response, according to Asheton: “I don’t give a fuck what you call your band, as long as it’s not the Three Stooges.”

As the film came to a close, the stage was set up for a Q&A session with Osterberg and Jarmusch, who took the stage with roaring applause from the audience. The first half of the Q&A began with questions from a moderator, prying deeper into the details of the film, and more importantly, the details about the Stooges’ connection to Ann Arbor.

When asked about how he selected the people he interviewed for the film, Jarmusch gave a simple answer: he wanted the documentary to be as personal as possible. He limited it to the Stooges and their family, with little material from outside sources.

He even admitted to passing up on interviewing David Bowie, because he knew he couldn’t resist putting the footage in the film.

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amount of discipline in his craft, keeping the film as intimate to the Stooges as possible.

Throughout, the two had a lighthearted bond, giving relaxed answers to what could be serious questions. The moderator asked Osterberg if he had any input on the film, to which he replied, “If Jim asked me to write a song about him, I wouldn’t expect him to tell me how to write it.” It was pretty awesome to see such an important icon be able to put so much faith in the man capturing the band’s career on the silver screen.

It became very apparent during the session why Osterberg chose Jarmusch to direct the film. When asked about his connection to punk rock, Osterberg replied as I’d expect any punk to: the Stooges made “working class, ass-kicking rock ‘n’ roll and it spoke to me.”

It was the perfect testament to the timelessness of rock ‘n’ roll.

Over 40 years later, the fans’ relationship with the genre has not changed a bit.

The Q&A truly shone when Osterberg began to talk about his time in Ann Arbor. The film included multiple shots of him and the band on notable locations around campus, and the way Osterberg spoke about it showed his deep appreciation for the town.

He spoke of the house on Hill Street where they first signed to Elektra Records. He talked about John Sinclair and The White Panthers and the little postcards they gave out to people on the streets. He reflected fondly on the revolutionary “hotbed” that was Ann Arbor throughout the `60s and `70s. The little details about Ann Arbor embedded in Osterberg’s memory were a beautiful tribute to the city where he grew up and where punk rock has some of its oldest roots.

It was a night of nostalgia come full circle to the present. No matter how much time has passed since that fateful night in the Union Ballroom in Ann Arbor, Iggy will always be special to punk rock and punk rock will always be special to its fans. In Jarmusch’s words, “look what they gave and look how they were treated.” Finally, the Stooges got the thank you they deserve with “Gimme Danger.”

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Basement Arts play depicts a 600-pound man facing mortality he cannot accept dying in a dishonorable way.

Daily Arts Writer “Through this willful selfnegligence, he is eating himself to A 600-pound man sits on his death,” Rouverol said. “In a lot of couch. He has just found out he ways, he is not attached to being will likely die within the week. alive anymore.”

This is a story about severing ties Liz, played by SMTD senior with loved ones Emma Boyden, is and a man’s desire one of Charlie’s The Whale to gain forgiveness best friends and — as long as death provides a lot of Thurs. at 7 p.m. doesn’t catch him support for him, & 11 p.m., Fri. at first. both as a nurse and 8 p.m. & 11 p.m.

This weekend, as a friend. Tensions Basement Arts arise between Walgreen Drama presents Samuel Liz’s professed Center Studio One D. Hunter’s “The atheism and the Whale,” a story of Mormonism of Free a morbidly obese another character, man, Charlie, who Elder Thomas. has spent the past few years eating Played by SMTD sophomore Liam his way to death. After a warning Allen, Elder Thomas hopes to that his time is running out, he guide Charlie toward a “spiritual” works to mend his broken family saving, whereas Liz just thinks he relationships and redeem himself needs medical care. in his final days.

“You end up finding out that In 2012, the play first appeared she (Liz) used to be a Mormon off-Broadway by Playwrights and she left the church,” Rouverol Horizons at the Peter J. Sharp said. “You also find out that Elder Theatre. It later earned the Lucille Thomas is questioning his own Lortel Award for Best Play in 2013. faith, so saving Charlie is almost “It’s about someone who is a means for him to solidify his dying, recognizes he is dying beliefs.” and is fighting to redeem himself Of course, the heart of this story before it happens,” said director is found in Charlie himself, who Madeline Rouverol, a senior in the in many ways isn’t your typical School of Music, Theatre & Dance. protagonist.

“It’s a character whose journey is “Charlie is a fascinating all about self-redemption.” character. I don’t think I’ve ever The dynamic cast of “The seen a play or film or piece of art Whale” offers many different that humanizes a morbidly obese types of personalities to the story. person the way this play does,” Charlie, played by SMTD senior Rouverol said.

Luke Jackson, wants to reconnect Jackson said he has spent a lot with his daughter Ellie, played of time thinking about how to play

by SMTD senior Kay Kelley, but such a unique and challenging recognizes she is full of rage and role, especially with such physical bitterness towards him. Charlie’s limits. Rouverol and Jackson have fears extend beyond his initial discussed the need to push past shock of dying and move into a the initial interpretation of Charlie new realm as he considers how he as the “gentle giant” and see him will be remembered if he doesn’t as a character who is fighting for fix these relationships. Ultimately, purpose and forgiveness.

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“It’s not like the only thing this man ever did was become obese,” Jackson said. “There is an obligation and a responsibility to respect when that aspect of one’s life truly dominates both how they live their life and how their life is viewed through society.”

Many of the scenes in the play are written in a simple, conversational way, though Rouverol said she wants to make sure the simplicity of the script does not take away from the meaning behind each moment.

“If we didn’t remind ourselves of the kind of ticking clock of his life, these scenes could be seen as casual,” Rouverol said. “I’ve been trying to get them to keep in mind the urgency and the stakes. He could die in five minutes, he could die in a day or he could die in an hour.”

Cast members said they were surprised by how many personal connections they could make with the play and their characters, even though at first they thought Charlie’s condition was something they could easily distance themselves from.

“There are so many points of connection that people can have with this play and it’s important for people to look at plays that look directly at mortality,” Rouverol said. “I think it’s something college-aged students want to pretend doesn’t exist, but it’s important to look at it and consider what really matters in the end.”

“The Whale” illuminates the theme of finding beauty from simplicity — quotidian details hold much more value when considering how short life is — and Rouverol has directed her cast towards discovering this truth.

“That’s what I love about the play,” Rouverol said. “Everyday moments are put into a bizarre perspective when you’re looking death in the face.”

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Unfunny Madea entry an utter mess seems to think jokes work differently. Scene after endless scene For the Daily shows him apparently under the impression that if his characters “Boo! A Madea Halloween” is just sit and talk for long enough, the worst comedy of 2016, thus far. then by the law of averages, someNo other movie of the genre, not body is eventually bound to laugh. even Melissa McCarthy’s godawful In the absence of anything funny, career nadir, “The though, nobody Boss,” has featured laughs, and so the such a staggering film labors on. lack of laughter, such This could have unlikeable characworked if the char“Boo! A Madea ters and such an idiacters themselves Halloween” otic story. No other were funny, but movie of any genre, for characters that Rave & Quality 16 short of “Norm of the Perry has been Lionsgate Films North,” has turned working with for, a runtime of less in some cases, 25 than two hours into years, they’re argusuch a cross for its viewers to bear. ably the worst part of the movie.

Whether it’s in its comedy, horror Brian (Perry) is a pushover who has homages or writing, “Boo!” fails on no personality besides being a pushevery level. over to his daughter, Tiffany (DiaThe nonsense begins quickly. No mond White, “The Lion Guard”), sooner have the poorly animated who takes every “rebellious daughopening credits ended than direc- ter” cliché in the book to such an tor/producer/writer/star/co-star insane degree that it’s exhausting Tyler Perry (“Diary of a Mad Black to watch. Enter Madea (also Perry) Woman”) treats us to a scene of and co., who advocates for physical the bro-iest frat bros to ever bro abuse and illegal scare tactics, one declaring they will have the best of which they eventually end up Halloween party in history with using. Again, some of this could be the passion that some Bond villains funny, but again, there’s no punchhave declared they will destroy line. Instead, viewers are left with the world. This seems at first like several scenes of unlikable characit’s setup for something, but as the ters debating how best to deal with scene drags on it never crosses the an unlikable man’s unlikable daughline into funny, and it’s immediately ter. clear what’s missing: a punchline.

Still, the marketing promised It should be the easiest part of that “Boo!” would be a tribute to a comedy; even if one of the char- horror, and once again, this is an acters spouts “Your mom!” or even innately funny concept, taking farts, there’s a punchline. The joke, Perry’s most insane creation and even if it’s bad, has an ending. Perry pitting her against other crazy JEREMIAH VANDERHELM

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characters. It has the potential to be great horror-comedy and a brief but welcome departure from the tone of the series. That potential is completely and utterly squandered by the 10-minute “horror” section of the movie which amounts to the several pranks explained away in a later scene which includes the line “We hacked the faucets.”

Since “Boo!” doesn’t work in any way a movie wshould, its only distinctly memorable parts are the moments where it encroaches on “So Bad It’s Good” territory.

There are not one, but two scenes in which the characters huddle together and say “Now here’s what we’re gonna do…” before the camera pans away and what sounds like a public domain soundtrack swells like a “Scooby-Doo” cartoon from the 1960s. Multiple shots are out of focus. In a baffling cameo, Tyga shows up and does a show for about 20 people. It could be hilarious, but at a certain point, the lack of effort displayed in these moments just becomes frustrating instead.

Eventually, mercifully, as Madea celebrates having psychologically tortured a teenager into complacency, the credits roll. The audience leaves, undeniably changed, for “Boo!” works on one level: it is the ultimate endurance test. Every moment that the inane dialogue doesn’t drive the viewer to insanity is a victory. Every “joke” that goes on for 10 minutes but doesn’t have a punchline is a red badge of courage.

“Boo!” is genuinely flooring in just how atrocious it is, worth the price of admission only for those willing to test their mettle.

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Michigan might have played its worst quarter of the season to close out its 32-23 win over Michigan State on Saturday, but the end result MAX BULTMAN clinched it. At 8-0, ranked No. 2 in the country and (finally) with a win against one of its chief rivals, it’s time to start thinking about this as a special season in Ann Arbor.

Of course, it’s no lock. The Wolverines still have to win two more home games and then beat Iowa in a road night game.

They still have to face an Ohio State team that has the talent and coaching to upend those dreams in the season’s final week. They’ll likely have to beat either No. 8 Wisconsin again or No. 9 Nebraska in the Big Ten Championship game.

But after this weekend, that’s the bar. This has special-season potential, and the next month is all about whether Michigan can realize it.

Thanks to the College Football Playoff, seasons are no longer bound to a championship-or-bust dichotomy, except in Tuscaloosa, Ala. If the Wolverines go 13-0, winning their first Big Ten Championship since 2004, it’s special. If they make the playoff, even if it means losing to Alabama, it will be remembered forever.

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would be no disappointment if it turned out like 2006. If Michigan walks into Columbus undefeated and loses, the deflation would be palpable. A Rose Bowl win would probably be significant enough to declare it a banner year, but with the way the Wolverines are going, a loss in Pasadena might make the year feel like something of a missed opportunity.

That’s how far Jim Harbaugh has taken Michigan in the last 22 months.

Interestingly enough, the Wolverines have stats on their

side — the normal ones and the weird ones.

The analyticsdriven S&P rankings have Michigan at No. 1 in the nation behind a suffocating defense that also ranks first in scoring and yards allowed. The Wolverines are scoring the third-most points per game in

the country, and ESPN ranks their special teams unit as the nation’s 16th most efficient, second-best among teams currently ranked in the Associated Press top 10.

And then there are the oddities that past national champions have tended to share. Seven of the last nine quarterbacks to

It’s time to start thinking about this as a special season in Ann Arbor.

win a national championship have been first-year starters on their team, which redshirt sophomore Wilton Speight is. Of all the coaches to win national titles since 2000, only one (Mack Brown) did not win one in his first four seasons, and Harbaugh is in his second year with Michigan.

There all kinds of ways to explain those two stats (young quarterbacks have the benefit of chasing the top, not staying there; dominant coaches tend to win early and often), and it’s possible they don’t mean all

that much. But when a team like Michigan possesses both and is in conversation for the playoff, they come up. That’s one of the identifiers of a special season.

So are Heisman Trophy candidates, and Jabrill Peppers is most certainly that. He probably was before he scored two rushing touchdowns against Rutgers, and he certainly is now, after another rushing touchdown, two more tackles for loss, a sack and a defensive 2-point conversion return against the Spartans.

He’s the kind of player fans pine for long after they’ve left, and he’s not the only one Michigan has on its roster.

Cornerback Jourdan Lewis and tight end Jake Butt spurned the NFL to play their senior seasons. Receivers Amara Darboh and Jehu Chesson and defensive linemen Ryan Glasgow and Chris Wormley came back for their fifth years.

Most of the offensive line has been together for three seasons. It’s the kind of roster fans fantasize about in their championship dreams.

Which brings us back to Saturday, a day fans have looked forward to for a year. They anticipated a remedy to the painful memories of seasons past, and they got one.

After Speight took the final kneel down, Peppers did a back flip. Speight gave a triumphant fist pump as he moved toward the tunnel. Both tried to get the crowd even louder.

It was a special moment. And for the first time in a long time, it feels like more are coming.

Max Bultman can be reached by email at bultmanm@umich. edu or on Twitter @m_bultman.

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AST LANSING — It was heartbreaking, Kenny Allen said, though even that doesn’t seem to do it justice.

A year and a couple of weeks ago, Allen stood in the Crisler Center media room after one of the most stunning losses in the history JAKE of college LOURIM football. The kicker had the unenviable task of speaking to reporters after that crushing defeat — though there wasn’t much to say.

He spoke in a soft voice, his face still wearing the same expressionless shock as everyone else in the stadium that day. He said he was as close as he could have been to punter Blake O’Neill bobbling a snap with 10 seconds left before Michigan State returned it for a game-winning touchdown as time expired. At some point, after the Spartans changed the college football world and before he stepped foot into the media room, Allen told O’Neill that the team would stand behind him.

“We support Blake through everything,” Allen said that day.

“That’s the kind of team we’re going to be.”

And that’s the kind of team the Wolverines have been since their in-state rival devastated them last Oct. 17. They have lost only once since. They capped a successful 2015 season with a rout of Florida in the Citrus Bowl.

They have steamrolled eight opponents this season, most of them with ease.

And they have patiently waited for the day they could finally put their feelings about last year further into the rearview mirror.

Saturday in East Lansing, that chance came, though it came with plenty of memories. Three hours before the noon kickoff, a tailgate near the stadium played the audio from ESPN broadcaster Sean McDonough’s call of the

play. Just outside the stadium, one man began reciting the same call to his friend. Inside, Michigan State’s students had bigger plans in mind.

At 10:50, as Allen began practicing field goals on the south goalposts in front of the student section, the 1,000 or so in the crowd began chanting the call: “Whoa, he has trouble with the snap! And the ball is free! It’s picked up by Michigan State’s Jalen Watts-Jackson, and he scores! On the last play of the game! Unbelievable!”

There was no escaping it, though Allen said he didn’t hear much of it. “You just have to have a sense of humor,” he said. Once the Wolverines started winning, the talk died down.

“Someone made fun of my mustache, which I’ve been working pretty hard to grow, so that one cut deep,” Allen quipped.

A year ago, humor was an impossible perspective. It could have been difficult even a few weeks ago. After Allen started his season 3-for-3 on field goals, he missed two kicks against Colorado on Sept. 17 and two more against Wisconsin on Oct. 1. After the latter game, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh declared that there would be an open competition for the kicking job starting the following week.

Allen never relinquished it.

Last week against Illinois, he hit two chip shots for his first conversions in five weeks. At Michigan State, he finished 3-for-3, making two more short kicks but also a season-long 45 yarder that helped put the game out of reach.

The Wolverines won, 32-23, beating the Spartans for the first time since 2012 and taking perhaps the biggest step toward putting last year’s mishap behind them. Allen was back among the top contributors from a simple math standpoint: Michigan won by nine, and he kicked three field goals worth three points each. If he hadn’t, the game could have turned out much differently.

Perhaps he would have even been the goat, as O’Neill was last year.

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an amazing person, amazing player,” said senior cornerback Jourdan Lewis. “He did his job today. He did an amazing job today, kept us in the game, made sure we had the lead the whole game. I’m just proud of him. He did his job. He wasn’t worried about the past.”

Allen’s kicks Saturday silenced his critics and helped add more distance between now and last year. In the years to come, O’Neill’s miscue will fade deeper into the past. In Michigan’s next visit to East Lansing in 2018, the broadcast echoes will be less frequent, and the tongue-in-cheek T-shirt with O’Neill’s name and number should be gone from the front row of the student section.

The two rivals will play many more exciting games with exciting finishes, and the punt from last year will be but a memory alongside Colorado’s Hail Mary in 1994, John Wangler’s pass to Anthony Carter in 1979 and so many others.

The presence of last year’s

game is not as faint as those yet, but the Wolverines have moved forward. Just before Allen got off the bus Saturday morning, O’Neill texted him and long snapper Scott Sypniewski. “I’m excited to see you guys go out there and do your thing,” Allen recalled the message saying.

The memory of last year still stings for now, but Saturday, Michigan went out and did its thing. With nine minutes to go in the game and the Wolverines up by 20, Allen dropped back to punt. Before he got it off without a hitch, the chant “Block the punt!” echoed from the Michigan State student section, calling up those demons from last year.

Perhaps the students had that chant planned for all afternoon.

We’ll never know. That was Michigan’s first punt. For Saturday, that was a statement in itself.

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

In a matter of seconds, Dartmouth forward Troy Crema determined the outcome of a game that has now been recorded as the No. 11 Michigan hockey team’s third loss this year.

With only 49 seconds left in the third period and the game knotted up, 2-2, Crema slipped the puck past freshman goaltender Jack LaFontaine off an assist from Corey Kalk and Carl Hesler. The deficit proved to be insurmountable for the Wolverines, who finalized the weekend by tacking on two losses for a 3-3-1 overall season record.

Their first loss came at the hands of Vermont on Friday in a shutout, 3-0.

The Catamounts started the game early with a goal 22 seconds into the first period, and another at the 10:36 mark.

And even though freshman goaltender Hayden Lavigne recorded 39 saves, he couldn’t stop the final power-play goal of the night by Vermont’s Rob Hamilton that pushed the Catamounts to a 3-0 lead.

Michigan recorded eight penalties for the night and was doubled up in shots, managing just 21 against Vermont’s 42.

While the Wolverines managed to close the gap to 35-24 in their match Saturday against the Big Green, it still wasn’t enough to put them ahead.

“You could tell they were excited — this was their hometown and they were really physical right off the bat,” said senior forward Alex Kile. “You could tell that they wanted to

win. It was evident really quickly.

I think the main thing was they tried to use their physicality and create turnovers.”

Initially kicking the game off on the right foot, freshman forward Adam Winborg scored the first goal of the game — and in his career — 17 minutes into the first period. The power-play goal came off of assists from Kile and junior defenseman Sam Piazza to put Michigan ahead, 1-0.

However, Dartmouth took over the second period with goals from Kevin Neiley and Cam Strong. The Wolverines also recorded three of their five penalties in this period, two of which occurred at the same time. Kile and senior forward Max Shuart both landed in the penalty box at the 12:43 mark for charging and boarding, respectively.

This resulted in two minutes of play with the Big Green possessing a two-man advantage, 5-3.

However, Michigan managed to kill off both penalties without a goal, and at the 10:33 mark in the third period, Kile tied up the game after corralling a loose puck and shooting it past Dartmouth goaltender Devin Buffalo.

But Kile’s goal did only that — tie the game. And with no answer for Crema’s goal in the final minute, the Wolverines faced their second loss of the weekend.

“We need to learn how to close out the game,” Kile said. “We’ve kinda (blown) games in the third period all season long, and that’s got to stop. I thought we actually played pretty well tonight, we were pretty physical and we played the game, but we just didn’t close it out how we wanted to.”

“We just didn’t close it out how we wanted to.”

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In the 15-year history of the Michigan men’s soccer program, the Wolverines had never beaten the nation’s top-ranked MARYLAND 3 MICHIGAN 2 team. And despite holding a two-goal lead 65 minutes into the game, Sunday, Michigan (1-6-1 Big Ten, 3-10-4 overall) allowed that streak to continue against No. 1 Maryland (7-0-1, 15-0-2), falling, 3-2, in crushing fashion.

With 88 minutes gone, it appeared the Wolverines would finally capture their signature win, as Maryland desperately attacked to protect its undefeated record with Michigan clinging to a one-goal lead. But with just over a minute remaining in regulation, Terrapin defender Chris Odoi-Atsem equalized off a service from midfielder George Campbell — crushing the spirits of the Wolverines as many laid down on the grass in disappointment and exhaustion, while a strong Maryland contingent celebrated from the stands.

Roughly 20 minutes later, Michigan’s dream turned into a nightmarish loss. In the second overtime period, defender Suli Dainkeh buried a shot from the left side past Wolverines goaltender Evan Louro for the game-winner. But Michigan coach Chaka Daley argued Dainken never should have gotten the opportunity to give the Terrapins the win, as a hard challenge led to a Wolverine turnover in the box.

“It was a foul,” Daley said.

“He pushes a guy down — it’s a foul. It was called all day as a foul, and it was not called in the last minute of the game.”

Daley found the officiating to

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Senior midfielder Tyler Anderson played all 109 minutes in his last career game, but Michigan lost in double overtime.

be one of the culprits behind the crushing loss for the Wolverines.

“The referee impacted the game immensely,” he said.

“For us, I think he changed the game. You’re supposed to keep it neutral, and I think that … inconsistency changes games.”

Despite the alleged injustice against Daley’s team, Michigan was able to capture a 2-0 lead in the first half thanks to goals by sophomore midfielder Robbie Mertz and freshman forward Jack Hallahan — both of which were assisted by sophomore forward Francis Atuahene, who now has seven points in Michigan’s last two contests.

The tide turned for Maryland when, off a handball, the nation’s third-leading scorer Gordon

“Certainly, we’re going to pick ourselves up and go and fight.”

VOLLEYBALL

Michigan falls on road against Indiana, Purdue Wolverines lose to both teams, 3-1; fall to 7-5 in Big Ten, 4-4 on the road SARAH HURST For the Daily

For the first time this season, the Michigan women’s volleyball team lost two consecutive matches.

The Wolverines took on Purdue on Friday and lost in four sets, and the following day, Michigan fell in the same way against Indiana.

Even though the matches followed similar patterns, Indiana and Purdue could not be more unlike, according to Michigan coach Mark Rosen.

Indiana dominated at the net while Rosen praised Purdue for using their physicality to throw off Michigan’s game plan.

“We knew that the styles of play were going to be totally different,” Rosen said. “The way Indiana plays and the way Purdue plays are 180 degrees different.”

The Wolverines lost the first set of both matches, but came back strong and won the second. The team fell short in the fourth set against Purdue the following two sets and finished the weekend with no victories, though not without a fight.

With a deficit of 12 points, the Wolverines had a 5-2 point run to make a small comeback, but ultimately lost on a service error.

Rosen outlined two game plans for the vastly different opponents, but at game time, his team did not execute.

“I don’t think we did a good job of being disciplined to our game plan,” Rosen said. “That’s certainly something we have to be good at if we’re going to be successful. Every team we play, we go into it with a certain plan.”

The team also lacked its usual offensive power. Against Purdue, the Wolverines tallied a .117 attack average, the second-lowest of their season. Saturday, the attack average was an even lower

Wild placed a penalty shot into the lower left corner of the goal during the 66th minute.

“Goals change games,” Daley said, who continued to question the competency of the referees.

“The penalty kick — is it or isn’t it, you know?”

After Wild’s conversion, Maryland was able to control possession and pepper the goal with strong attempts, resulting in an astounding 27 shots from the Terrapins and 11 saves from Louro — his season high.

As Maryland found itself facing its largest deficit of the season, tempers boiled over in the first half. A foul on Maryland midfielder Connor Smith resulted in extracurricular pushing between him and Hallahan.

That exchange

0.93. Sophomore libero Jenna Lerg led the defense for the 24th game in a row, but Rosen was still unhappy with the performance.

“I don’t think we attacked very well — we hit under 100 as a team,” Rosen said. “I think our passing was not great, I think we could’ve executed much better with the ball control we had.”

Even with such a low hitting percentage, the Wolverines put up a fight in the fourth set of the match on Saturday and kept the game close.

After trailing by seven points, the team was able to go on a 10-3 point run led by sophomore outside hitter Carly Skjodt and senior outside hitter Kelly Murphy to tie the score at 12-12.

Indiana led for the majority of the remainder of the match by one point with ties at 15-15 and 16-16. A kill by Skjodt, tied the game at 23-23 after another kill

by Skjodt forced Indiana to call a timeout at 21-23. But Michigan faltered late, losing the last two points to drop the set and match.

“I’m encouraged by the fact that we fought hard and that we never gave up,” Rosen said. “We let things get away from us there at the end, both last night and tonight, but we have to get much better with our execution.”

Though the Wolverines have victories over Rutgers, Northwestern, Maryland and Kansas State on the road, they have losses against Pittsburgh, Penn State and now Indiana and Purdue.

“We play better at home than we do on the road,” Rosen said. “But we can’t use that as an excuse, we’ve got to find a way to play better in different environments.”

With a 10-2 home record and a second shot, Michigan will have another chance to create its game plans against Indiana this Saturday at Cliff Keen Arena.

sparked a confrontational atmosphere for the rest of the contest, as Atuahene and midfielder Tyler Anderson both received yellow cards for the Wolverines in a match that saw many players flailing to the ground and clutching their shinguards in pain.

“I like that competitive atmosphere,” Anderson said. “It makes the game more fun, and it makes (the game) go by a lot quicker.”

In a season in which little has gone right for the Wolverines, Michigan seemed on the brink of a season-defining win Sunday.

But even that was stripped from the team, adding salt to an already opened wound.

“I don’t know if anyone in the country has played more heartbreaking games than we have,” Daley said. “Certainly, we’re going to pick ourselves up and go and fight (in the Big Ten Tournament on Saturday) against a Rutgers team that’s fighting for their lives as well.”

In practice on Friday, the Michigan women’s soccer team didn’t make a single one of its penalty WISCONSIN 1 kicks.

MICHIGAN 1 Luckily for the Wolverines, Sunday was a new day.

Michigan (6-3-2 Big Ten, 11-43 overall) made all four penalty kicks against Wisconsin (8-5-7) to pave its way to the Big Ten Tournament semifinals Friday against top-seeded Minnesota.

“We’ve been practicing (penalty kicks) all season because we knew it could go into this,” said Michigan coach Greg Ryan.

“Especially the last few days we’ve been doing a penalty kick contest.”

The last time the two teams met, on Oct. 13, the game ended in a 1-1 draw, with the Badgers scoring first and the Wolverines scoring later on in the game to force the tie. On Sunday, Michigan drew first blood. In the 20th minute, sophomore forward Reilly Martin turned on her defender, accelerated down the right flank and sent in a cross. Senior forward Nicky Waldeck met the cross in the air, heading home her eighth goal of the season.

But it didn’t take long for the Badgers to equalize, finally turning their overwhelming possession in the final third into a goal. Wisconsin defender Payton Wesley gathered the ball on the right end line and crossed it into the middle toward her teammate, forward Emily Borgmann, who finished the chance cooly.

From there, both sides sputtered on offense, with chances few and far between.

Neither side controlled the flow of the ball in the midfield, and both relied heavily on long through passes to forwards making runs.

“I thought we were off our game for a good portion of (the game),” Ryan said. “But it was just a game where we just had to fight.

It’s just a gritty performance.”

Ryan attributes much of that struggle to the challenge the Badgers presented, while simultaneously crediting his defense — and its 3-4-3 formation — for negating Wisconsin’s attack.

“They’re a very good defending team,” Ryan said. “They play that tight diamond in midfield, and it’s very hard to play in behind them. … (The formation) allowed us to at least get pressure on almost all of their players on the field, and I think that was causing them problems.”

Neither overtime period was enough to decide the victor.

Unlike the draw two weeks ago, Michigan and Wisconsin headed to penalty kicks to decide which team would advance to the conference tournament semifinal.

And redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Sarah Jackson ensured that spot would belong to the Wolverines, despite an unconventional strategy to do so.

“I have a really bad strategy (for penalty kicks),” Jackson said.

“I told my coach I always dive to the right.”

After seeing the first Badgers’ shot find the crossbar, Jackson knew one stop would all but secure the win.

In Wisconsin’s second attempt, Jackson decided to dive to her left, and reaped the benefits — knocking away the line-drive attempt that seemed destined for the corner of the net.

The Wolverines converted each attempt, winning the penalty shootout, 4-2, and sealing the matchup with Minnesota on Friday.

And if that matchup reaches penalty kicks, Jackson may just decide to dive left more often.

Finn, Wolverines earn Big Ten titles JACOB SHAMES For the Daily

Erin Finn has had no shortage of accomplishments during her time at Michigan. She’s a sixtime Big Ten champion and two-time NCAA runner-up in track and field, and her victory on Sunday at the Big Ten Cross Country Championships in Minneapolis, Minn., marked the third individual conference title of her career.

This time, though, she finally got to share her title with the rest of her team.

The senior led the No. 6 Michigan women’s cross country team to its first conference title since 2012, crossing the finish line at the challenging 6,000meter Les Bolstad Golf Course in 20:37.30, 25 seconds ahead of her closest competitor. With 63 points, the Wolverines edged out No. 9 Penn State, which totaled 70 points.

The Wolverines had already raced this course this season, finishing fifth in tough conditions at the Roy Griak Invitational in September.

While the terrain wasn’t as muddy as it was during that race, the soft ground and challenging hills still presented an intimidating obstacle.

“It wasn’t super muddy, but it was slick,” said Michigan coach Mike McGuire. “People fell in the race losing their legs on sidehills or if they were coming into a turn. By no means was it pristine, but everybody had to deal with it.”

Even with Finn’s typically dominant performance, the Wolverines knew that winning a team title would require strong performances from every runner. They were bolstered by redshirt junior Gina Sereno, who placed fourth with a time of 21:07.30 and joined Finn on the all-conference first team after what McGuire described as her best race of the season.

Also contributing to the Wolverines’ team score was junior Avery Evenson, a secondteam all-conference honoree

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Senior Erin Finn won the Big Ten cross country title again, and this time, she had the team title to match it.

with her 14th place finish, and redshirt juniors Jaimie Phelan and Jamie Morrissey, who finished 19th and 25th, respectively.

Michigan had finished second at the conference championships in 2013 and 2015, and third in 2014. For Finn, after coming so close to a team title the last three seasons, the feeling upon claiming victory this year was one of jubilation.

“I’m so extraordinarily proud of this group of girls,” Finn said.

“We’ve worked so hard, and I’m really impressed with the progress we’ve made and the fact that we finally went out and did what we said we were going to do.”

The Big Ten Championships capped off a month full of highlights for Michigan. At

the Roy Griak Invitational, the Wolverines finished behind Portland, Michigan State, Penn State and Boise State. They have now defeated three of those teams in their last two races, placing ahead of the Pilots at the adidas Pre-Nationals and topping the Spartans and Nittany Lions on Sunday.

“We knew it was going to be a three team battle going in,” McGuire said. “(Michigan State and Penn State) definitely have been established programs in the conference for the last several years, and we knew it was going to require our best race up to this point in the season.”

McGuire stated that he has been most impressed with the discipline and accountability of his runners, as well as their

“I’m just so thankful that we were able to put it together.”

ability to stay focused and competitive at all times.

“The level of engagement that you see in their eyes and body language, we saw it with all nine (runners),” McGuire said. “We don’t have one taking the day off and putting it on the other eight.

“They’ve been that way throughout the season in practice, and it really reached its zenith today.”

Soon, the Wolverines will have to start preparing for the Great Lakes Regional in Madison, Wisc., on Nov. 11, and the NCAA National Championships in Terre Haute, Ind., on Nov. 19. But for now, they can revel in a hard-earned victory long in the making.

“It’s been so hard to be so close the past two times I’ve competed,” Finn said. “I know everyone has given it their all and just to come up a little bit short has been really tough.

“I’m just so thankful that we were able to put it together this year.”

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Five Things We Learned: Michigan State week against Illinois, Harbaugh wouldn’t commit to keeping him at left tackle going forward.

Michigan started redshirt sophomore Juwann BushellBeatty in that position against Rutgers after Grant Newsome suffered a season-ending injury Oct. 1, but after the bye week, Harbaugh switched things up and moved Braden from left guard to left tackle and inserted freshman Ben Bredeson at left guard.

After Saturday’s win, it appears that’s how the lineup will stay. The Wolverines did not allow a sack against Michigan State, and they did a nice job of handling Spartan defensive lineman Malik McDowell. Up next is a Maryland team, led by former Michigan defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin, that’s averaging 2.5 sacks this season.

JAKE LOURIM

Managing Sports Editor

The day Michigan fans awaited for a year finally arrived, and the Michigan football team came home with the trophy it expected.

For the first time since 2012, and the first time in East Lansing since 2007, the Wolverines beat Michigan State on Saturday, 32-23.

The spread closed with Michigan favored by 24.5, and many expected the game to be even more lopsided. A good-sized contingent of maize and blue-clad fans dotted Spartan Stadium and generated a few “Let’s Go Blue” chants throughout the afternoon.

The Wolverines weren’t satisfied with their performance, but their offense was efficient, their defense mostly strong and their special teams solid. They struggled in the first quarter, dominated in the middle quarters and held on at the end. The latter is the most important result — Michigan is 8-0 and still No. 2 in the country.

Here are five things we learned from its latest win: 1. LJ Scott is the best back Michigan has faced this season.

Michigan State gave its fans a good reason to celebrate after the first series, and Michigan fans must have been a bit antsy. To open Saturday’s game, Scott did what no player or team had done against the Wolverines all season: He ran the ball into the teeth of their defense.

The opening drive went 75 yards in 12 plays over 7:02. Scott carried the ball for 10 of those plays, gaining 49 yards and a touchdown. He added a 12-yard reception on the only third down Michigan State faced. Michigan had given up long touchdowns before, but the Wolverines had not been dominated up front for an entire series. Scott was quick to get into space and elude the front seven, and he broke a couple of tackles to reach the second level.

5. BOLD PREDICTION: Jabrill Peppers ends up leading this team in sacks, too.

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Freshman wide receiver Eddie McDoom made another big play in space on Saturday, a 33-yard rush on a reverse handoff from wildcat quarterback Jabrill Peppers.

The sophomore became the first player to rush for 100 yards against Michigan this season — in fact, only one team (Central Florida) had reached that mark before Saturday. And perhaps if the Spartans had given Scott the ball more, the game would have been much different. On their next series, they again marched into Michigan territory on a 10-play drive but didn’t run any plays for Scott. Starting at the Michigan 47-yard line, backup running back Gerald Holmes carried four times for nine yards, turning the ball over on downs. The Wolverines never trailed again.

2. Kenny Allen is Kenny Allen again.

Michigan’s fifth-year senior kicker has had a rough year, going

1-for-5 on field goals in a threegame span from Sept. 17 to Oct. 1.

After that stretch, head coach Jim Harbaugh reopened the kicking competition between him, walkon Ryan Tice and true freshman Quinn Nordin, and then he didn’t send the field-goal team out against Rutgers. Allen, though, maintained his job, and said Saturday his confidence never wavered.

“We’ve been practicing different situations in practice, and I’ve kicked more balls than I care to count,” Allen said. “I just knew if I went out there, just did what I knew how to do, then it would work out fine.”

Two conversions from 23 and 27 yards against Illinois began to move the needle a bit, and then Allen hit two more chip shots against Michigan State. Then came the most encouraging

sign, a season-high 45-yarder early in the fourth quarter that put Michigan up 30-10. It’s not a season-changer, but Allen now looks more like himself — he’s 9-for-13 on the year heading into a final stretch in which Michigan will need him.

3. Michigan still has plenty in the playbook for Eddie McDoom.

After a solid early stretch against two overmatched opponents, Michigan went away from its freshman speedster for a while.

Opponents started to game plan for McDoom’s signature jet sweep, too — Colorado and Penn State each sniffed out plays and caused fiveyard losses, and McDoom didn’t touch the ball against Wisconsin.

Last week against Illinois,

Darboh validates No. 1 receiver status Fifth-year senior powers Wolverines’ offense with eight catches for 146 yards KELLY HALL

Daily Sports Editor

EAST LANSING — After Michigan State turned the ball over on downs on the Michigan football team’s 4-yard line in the third quarter, the Wolverines (5-0 Big Ten, 8-0 overall) knew they had their work cut out for them if they wanted to get back in enemy territory.

The first play fizzled out quickly after sophomore running back Karan Higdon picked up two yards, but redshirt sophomore quarterback Wilton Speight saw a golden opportunity on the following play.

Michigan State cornerback Justin Layne was glued to wide receiver Amara Darboh, but Speight threw the ball to the fifth-year senior anyway, hurling it 39 yards down the left sideline.

While falling, Darboh reeled it in with his left hand for the final catch of his career day.

“There was that deep ball down the left-hand side where Amara couldn’t really get his right hand up because he was being held, so he was able to pull it in with one arm,” Speight said. “To get from the 5-yard line to close to the 50-yard line — that’s a momentumshifter. It makes my job easier when I have a bigger target.”

The drive ultimately ended in a field goal, and though the final score of 32-23 may not reflect it, the game was close well into the

fourth quarter. Darboh hadn’t experienced a Michigan win over the Spartans since he redshirted in 2012, but in Saturday’s victory, he made the difference the Wolverines needed.

Darboh was the recipient of half of Speight’s completions, catching eight passes for 165 yards.

“His game is very highlevel,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh.

“Some of the highest I’ve seen of a college receiver. I think he’s wellestablished as a great playmaker and also disciplined in every single route he runs. He blocks, great teammate — just, he does it all, and

“I think he’s well-established as a great playmaker.”

does it the best he can possibly do.

He’s got a lot of God-given talent and a great work ethic.

“It was a premier game for him today.”

After celebrating having the Paul Bunyan Trophy back in the Wolverines’ locker room, Darboh returned to business as usual and met with the media.

Nothing was more special about winning this in-state rivalry game in East Lansing, he said. He didn’t do anything differently in preparation for Michigan State (0-5, 2-6). He just practiced well during the week, and Speight put the ball where it needed to be. That was enough to make the difference Saturday.

“He showed up to play,” said senior running back De’Veon Smith. “He made some great plays. I think he had two onehanded grabs today. Hey, with the way the kid works at practice, it shows up on the field.

He will give you 100 percent every single play.”

Though it isn’t easy by any means to lob a pass half a football field down the left sideline, it may be more challenging to trust your receivers to make a play. Speight showed no qualms about throwing to Darboh, allowing him to average 20.6 yards per reception.

“There was a couple times here and there where they weren’t exactly open — they were covered — but when you’re throwing to guys like Jake Butt or Amara Darboh, that’s not really considered covered in the quarterback’s eyes,” Speight said.

“I was able to throw them a couple of high balls because I knew they would be able to go and get it over the top of the corner.”

Darboh showed why he’s leading Michigan in receiving yards, making five catches for 103 yards in the second quarter alone. Before the season, Harbaugh indicated that Darboh had become the Wolverines’ No. 1 receiver.

Saturday’s performance illustrated why.

though, Harbaugh made sure McDoom was still a threat in the offense. He started McDoom on the left, motioned him right as if to take a handoff, then sent him back left for a screen pass that netted 33 yards. Saturday, Michigan threw another curveball when redshirt sophomore Jabrill Peppers took the snap as a wildcat quarterback and found McDoom on a reverse for a 33-yard pickup.

Whenever the Wolverines can get McDoom in space, it usually works out well for them. The freshman was the team’s leading rusher Saturday with 53 yards, and he’s up to 138 on the season — as a wide receiver.

4. Ben Braden is Michigan’s left tackle.

Even after Braden started last

Michigan’s do-everything man already has nearinsurmountable leads in puntreturn and kick-return yards.

He has 249 and 153, respectively, while the next player in each category has 27 and 28. He has also pulled into first by a wide margin in tackles for loss with 12.5, and he ranks second on the team in all-purpose yards per game while playing primarily defense.

But his sack of Michigan State quarterback Brian Lewerke on Saturday gave him 3.5 for the season, trailing only defensive ends Chris Wormley and Taco Charlton, who have four each.

Peppers keeps finding ways to do more, and should he get the opportunity in the last four games, he could end up pacing the team in sacks as well — a remarkable achievement for a player who plays all three phases of the game.

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

1. ALABAMA: Say what you want about their brutal SEC schedule, but the Crimson Tide didn’t play ANYONE this week.

2. MICHIGAN: It’s great that Paul Bunyan is back in Ann Arbor, but we’re not even sure he’s good enough to start for Michigan’s D-line.

3. CLEMSON: Dabo Swinney may be a man of God, but it sure seems like his team made a deal with the devil.

4. WASHINGTON: This team is just getting higher and higher.

5. LOUISVILLE: Having a Heisman moment against Virginia is basically the college football equivalent of a tree falling in the forest when nobody’s around.

6. OHIO STATE: No offense to the Buckeyes, they just really don’t seem to have one.

7. TEXAS A&M: Get this, the Aggies faced off against the Aggies. That’s wild, man.

8. WISCONSIN: Have two teams in the Big Ten East ever wanted to play Wisconsin again so badly?

9. NEBRASKA: No one noticed they lost because everyone else did, too.

10. AUBURN: There were really only nine good teams this week.