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Running wild De’Veon Smith helped the Michigan football team overcome a sluggish start, and now the Wolverines move onto a showdown in Columbus this weekend
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Over season, athletes use Big House to speak out
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Football players and cheerleaders kneel, raise their fists during national anthem
LSA freshman Emily Levy speaks at the Students for a Democratic Society “No To Trump” rally on the Diag Friday.
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150 gather Friday to rally against institutional racism, war MATT HARMON Daily Staff Reporter
About 150 students and Ann Arbor residents gathered on the Diag Friday night to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda, calling for institutional reform nationwide.
The demonstration was sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Students for a Democratic Society chapter. LSA freshman Liam Knight, who brought the chapter back to the University after the original chapter died out, said while the Facebook event specifically targeted Trump, the main goal of the protest was
to fight larger institutions of discrimination and corruption in America. “What we want to emphasize is that the problem is much larger than just one person,” he said. “There are systems and structures of power that allowed someone like Donald Trump to get elected and that is what we have to oppose. We want
to make it very clear that the only way you can do that is by getting organized and protesting.” In a list of demands on the event page, speakers from SDS criticized war, racism, gender identity discrimination and corruption from both sides of the political spectrum. Chants during the event See PROTEST, Page 3A
RIYAH BASHA
Daily Staff Reporter
Over the past few weeks, protests calling for action against discrimination on campus and nationwide have swept the University, drawing thousands. More than 100 times that number — about 110,000 spectators — watched the football team beat Indiana this weekend at The Big House, a place that can seem a world away from student activity on campus with its cameras and fanfare. This football season, however, student-athletes have bridged the gap on a number of issues, using their platform to call attention to social issues like racism and police brutality
through demonstrations of their own. University football players and cheerleaders have followed in the footsteps of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who began kneeling during the national anthem in late August in protest of racism against Black Americans. Michigan student-athletes have raised fists or taken a knee during the national anthem in nearly every game this year, beginning with the Sept. 24 Big Ten conference home opener against Penn State. National outlets from ESPN to ABC covered the players’ initial actions and Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s subsequent remarks. Though it’s been two See BIG HOUSE, Page 3A
CEO of Shinola dicusses company’s Michigan Open mic pulls away successes, relationship with Detroit features
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Approximately 300 faculty, students and community members attend lecture
Smith’s two touchdowns carry Wolverines past Indiana, onto Ohio State
Tom Lewand, a University alum and CEO of Shinola, a Detroit-based company, lectured Friday to an audience of about 300 students and faculty at the University of Michigan about his experiences working in Detroit. The event, held in Rackham Auditorium, was hosted by Phi Chi Theta, a business fraternity at the University. Lewand said Detroit has played an integral role in his life and in the crafting of Shinola. He also spoke about his experiences nurturing a startup into a successful brand and the knowledge he gained from 20 years in the executive office of the Detroit Lions, saying even after he was fired by the Lions after several disappointing seasons, he still wanted to stay in Detroit. “We sensed, for the first time in my lifetime, a tremendous energy, a tremendous opportunity and just a tremendous activity in our community,” Lewand said. Lewand was hired by Shinola in June 2016. He emphasized that skills he learned while in sports management have been largely transferrable to Shinola. “We had to have a great product first, and then we had to give people a great experience and that’s the same thing at Shinola,” Lewand said, joking that a great product wasn’t always commonplace while he was with the Lions.
JACOB GASE
Daily Sports Editor
After a sloppy, snowy start that saw both Michigan and Indiana punt on their first three drives and the Hoosiers take a 7-3 lead into halftime, the 3rd-ranked Michigan football team was on upset alert for the second consecutive week. It was a shaky debut for redshirt junior quarterback John O’Korn — who made his first start for the Wolverines in place of the injured Wilton Speight — but luckily for Michigan, it had another star to throw its weight behind. Senior running back De’Veon Smith broke the game open with a career-high 158 yards and two huge touchdown runs from 34 and 39 yards out in the third quarter, and the Wolverines (7-1 Big Ten, 10-1 overall) pulled away with a 20-10 victory as snow covered the field at Michigan Stadium. “It’s a great feeling when you win a football game,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. “Two opposing wills against each other — you have to beat that See FOOTBALL, Page 3A
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He also described what it was like to walk through the floor of the factory for the first time and listen to employees’ stories prior to being at Shinola. “It’s the idea of doing well by doing good,” Lewand said, speaking to how the stories have inspired him. Shinola has based their reputation on the long-standing narrative of manufacturing in Detroit, though they’ve faced
criticism becasue parts for their products are largely not actually made there. This June, the Federal Trade Commission told Shinola to stop their slogan campaign that used phrases such as “Where American is Made,” noting that nearly 100 percent of the company’s watch materials are made overseas. In response, Shinola added the phrase “Swiss and Imported Parts” underneath the slogan
“Built in Detroit” on their watches. In his remarks, Lewand emphasized his belief that Shinola’s underlying goal is to play a role in the economic development of Detroit by creating jobs and other opportunities in the community. Business sophomore Megan Graham, who attended the event, echoed his sentiment, saying she See SHINOLA, Page 3A
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Shinola CEO Tom Lewand gives a talk at the Michigan Business Forum at Rackham Auditorium Friday.
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Performers discuss personal identity and experiences YOSHIKO IWAI
Daily Staff Reporter
Sunday’s “With All That I Am” open mic night for poets, storytellers and musicians aimed to provide University of Michigan students a space to perform and raise awareness about diversity and inclusion on campus. Music, Theatre & Dance freshman Mason Reeves performed four original poems. He said the recent political climate in the wake of Presidentelect Donald Trump’s win encouraged him to produce more of his own works. “I’ve been inspired a lot to create, and I think the only way for me to get better at creating to the point where I can get people to listen is to at least try it out and keep performing,” he said. Music, Theatre & Dance freshman Liam Allen said he thought this was an important venue for students to come together. “I think a lot of the time people need an outlet, a space to feel that they are able to express themselves and have it be OK,” he said. See OPEN MIC, Page 2A
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