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Heidelberg Project creator Tyree Guyton discusses the destruction of six of his Detroit art installations at Rackham Auditorium on Friday.

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Heidelberg founder talks arson, rising from ashes Detroit native discusses evolving nature of community art installation By NEALA BERKOWSKI Daily Staff Reporter

Inside Rackham Auditorium on Thursday, Heidelberg Project creator Tyree Guyton pub-

lically discussed the loss of six of the project’s art installations for the first time since a series of arsons hit the project over an eleven-month span. During the talk, Guyton compared the post-arson Heidelberg Project to a phoenix rising from the ashes. He said the destruction has allowed organizers and collaborators to reimagine the project, which he noted is not ending in any way. “Looking at it from a philo-

sophical point of view, life is getting me ready for something greater,” he said. Friday’s program featured Guyton and his wife, Jenenne Whitfield, executive director of the Heidelberg Project. Social Work Prof. Larry Gant, who also teaches in the School of Art & Design, moderated the discussion, which was sponsored by the University’s Museum Studies Program The Heidelberg Project is

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a community art project that features recycled materials and objects on and around Heidelberg Street in Detroit. The 29-year-old installment is a popular Detroit cultural attraction that attracts people from around the world. What began as Guyton’s response to neighborhood blight has since expanded to include a vision encompassing education, conversation and social change. See HEIDELBERG, Page 3A

In 2011, President Emerita Mary Sue Coleman introduced a new set of sustainability goals to be completed by 2025 and University President Mark Schlissel aims to keep it moving. According to the University’s Office of Campus Sustainability, the goals include reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent, transportation emissions by 30 percent and waste tonnage by 40 percent, all measured against a baseline from 2006. Additionally, according to the initiative, the University is committed to ensuring 20 percent of dining hall food is “sustainable” — purchased from local producers within a 250-mile radius of Ann Arbor or certified by third parties, among other criteria. Last semester, University President Mark Schlissel announced

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The Michigan Athletic Department will announce a new policy Monday regarding the prices of student tickets, in which students demonstrating financial need are eligible for pricing discounts. Students who meet the eligibility criteria for the Federal Pell Grant will be able to purchase season tickets for football, men’s basketball and hockey at a discounted rate. The standard prices for football, men’s basketball and hockey tickets in 201516 will be $175, $200 and $150, respectively, while the discounted prices are $100, $120 and $90. The University Office of Financial Aid’s website states that the need-based grants are

awarded “only to the lowestincome families,” and a student cannot receive the award “for more than 12 full-time semesters.” The Athletic Department announced in October the changes to football ticket prices, which dropped from $295 in 2014. The price is now lower than that of men’s basketball season tickets, which remained the same, though Dave Ablauf, the Associate Athletic Director for Public and Media Relations, noted that the per-game prices are still higher for football than for basketball. Students can renew tickets beginning on March 11, and the renewal period lasts until March 27 at 5 p.m. The seating policies will remain unchanged — for the 2015 football season, seat locations will be decided solely based on attendance and not on class level. The idea for need-based pricing for tickets came from Central Student Government President Bobby Dishell. When Dishell worked with the AthSee TICKETS, Page 3A

the University would review the sustainability goals in 2015 — a year earlier than initially scheduled. In an interview with The Michigan Daily earlier this month, Schlissel said he wanted to address campus sustainability as early as possible. “I figured if I was going to take a serious look and try to either re-energize or alter some of what we’re doing, it would make sense to do that serious review before I made changes in our program,” Schlissel said. Three committees of faculty, staff and students are conducting the review. One team is reviewing greenhouse gas emissions, another waste reduction and the final group is focusing on the culture of sustainability on campus. Nicole Berg, coordinator for the Planet Blue Ambassador program at the University’s Graham Sustainability Institute, said the review is expected to generate discussions on existing initiatives and the challenges they have faced. “We’re doing a good job, but I think these committees are opening up that conversation between See SUSTAINABILITY, Page 3A

CSG party reveals its executive candidates Make Michigan taps LSA junior, sophomore to head party ticket By TANAZ AHMED

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Dale Long, a survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, discusses Spke Lee’s documentary “Four Little Girls” with students at Rackham Amphitheater on Friday.

‘Four Little Girls’ retells the story of Ala. church bombing Survivor emphasizes continued relevance of the Civil Rights Movement today By SARAH KHAN For the Daily

Members of the University community gathered in the Rackham Amphitheatre

on Friday for a screening of “Four Little Girls,” a documentary that follows the four girls killed in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala. church in 1963. Dale Long, who witnessed the bombing as an 11 year-old, facilitated a discussion following the event. Rackham Graduate School, the School of Information and the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program sponsored the program.

Presented through interviews and historical footage, the Spike Lee film “Four Little Girls” tells the story the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing by members of the Ku Klux Klan, an incident that marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement and the fight to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Long framed the bombing not only as an important See SCREENING, Page 3A

The campus party Make Michigan announced candidates Sunday night for the upcoming Central Student Government elections. Cooper Charlton, an LSA junior and the president of the University’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, will run for CSG president. LSA sophomore Steven Halperin, a current LSA representative, is the party’s vice presidential candidate. Last year, the party secured the CSG presidency and several legislative seats. LSA senior Annie Pidgeon, Make Michigan’s campaign manager, said the party intends to involve students across a variety of campus See ELECTION, Page 3A

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Rise in juvenile delinquency round program to develop constructive relationships between officers and local boys through outlets like organized sports. “One of our main jobs is to get kids rid of the idea that policemen watch every move they make and that we are only here to stop their fun,” Simmons said. 38 years ago today (February 23, 1977) The vast majority of the local chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — a workers’ union — rejected a tentative contract agree-

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Debate on Zionism impacts Israeli election campaigns Prime Minister Netanyahu faces liberal opposition JERUSALEM (AP) — What is Zionism? The ideological question, rooted in the 19th century, has gained surprising urgency in an Israeli election campaign that seems more open than had been expected. Seeking to take votes from

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Mothers question vaccine benefits One is a businesswoman and an MBA graduate. Another is a corporate vice president. The third is a registered nurse. These three mothers — all of them educated, middle-class professionals — are among the vaccine skeptics who have been widely ridiculed since more than 100 people fell ill in a measles outbreak traced to Disneyland. Critics question their intelligence, their parenting, even their sanity. Some have been called criminals for foregoing shots for their children that are overwhelmingly shown to be safe and effective. “Contrary to the common sentiment, we are not antiscience,” said Michelle Moore, a businesswoman who lives in the affluent Portland suburb of Lake Oswego with her 2½-year-old twin girls. “I’m not opposed to medicine, and I think vaccines have a place. We think it’s a medical choice, and it should be researched carefully.”

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Crews free whale caught in crab line A crew from the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary on Saturday used a pole equipped with a knife to saw the line free, West Hawaii Today reported. Several hundred feet of heavy line used for hoisting crab pots was cut away, said sanctuary spokesman Ed Lyman. Entanglements can result in drowning, starvation, infections and increased susceptibility to ship strikes, according to whale experts. The entangled whale was spotted Feb. 13 off the Big Island’s Kona Coast by Big Island helicopter tour companies. The West Hawaii Marine Mammal Response Network documented the whale’s conditions and attached a tag allowing the animal to be tracked by satellite.

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Iran responds to U.S. nuclear talks A senior Iranian official is responding sharply to warnings that Washington is ready to quit nuclear talks unless Tehran agrees to a deal that demonstrates it does not want atomic arms. Ali Akbar Velayati says staying or leaving “depends on the Americans.” Velayati was responding to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, shortly before Kerry’s arrival Sunday to Geneva. Kerry said President Barack Obama was “fully prepared” to pull the U.S. out before accepting a deal leaving Tehran with potent nuclear arms-making ability.

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faculty, staff and students on the academic side and on the operation side and really help shape where those barriers are and how we can overcome them,” Berg said. Andy Berki, manager of the Office of Campus Sustainability, said he appreciated Schlissel’s interest in sustainability and looks forward to the recommendations yielded by the review. “President Schlissel showed up on campus and when he arrived he very quickly demonstrated his commitment to sustainability and our efforts on campus,” Berki said. “I would expect to see some exciting recommendations come out of the teams in June and I would think we should hear something on campus about the direction and recommendations of these teams by fall.” Existing goals have achieved varying degrees of success. Berki said one of the more challenging initiatives has been reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In 2006, the University emitted approximately 700,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, Berki said. According to a report published by the OCS, the University emitted roughly the same amount in 2013.

SCREENING From Page 1A moment in Black history, but for American history at large. During the discussion, Long recounted his experiences with racial discrimination during the 1960s and described the hate that fueled the church bombing. “I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “I could smell the gunpowder and I couldn’t believe that they blew up the church with people in it. People were helping others down the stairs, people were bleeding … it freaked me out.” Long said the 16th Street Bombing and subsequent death of the four girls was a turning point in the civil rights movement, even attracting international attention — the people of Wales even fundraised and designed replacement stained glass window for the church. “I think that was one of the main catalysts that moved this country forward in terms of

TICKETS From Page 1A letic Department earlier in the school year to come up with a plan for lowering football ticket prices, he spoke with members of the Athletic Department about the possibility of special need-based pricing. According to Dishell, the Athletic Department representatives he spoke with about need-based pricing initially thought that the plan would be difficult to implement. But eventually, in conjunction with the Office of Financial Aid, a plan was worked out. Dishell believes the avail-

INCLUSION From Page 2A Students of color felt accepted more individually than they believe minority students as a whole are accepted. Overall, the data from the study indicated that social identity is the largest factor in minority students’ sense of “not belonging” to the University community. Soderstrom and her team are hopeful that those who attended the event were inspired to be more aware of how social identity can impact University life. “Our research questions were around just thinking about how social identity impacts undergraduate student experiences,” Cohen said. “So if students left being more

Berki said the University plans to invest in a wind turbine project over the next several years. The initiative is in the “design phase,” and she said it could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions when implemented. “A large project we’ve been working on for the last three or four years is to increase the amount of turbines at our power plant,” Berki said. “By doing this project with the turbines … we should reduce our overall carbon emissions by at least 100,000 to 120,000 metric tons. So that will have a significant effect on moving our way toward our climate action goal of 510,000.” Berki said another challenge has been reducing waste production on campus. In 2006, the University’s total waste tonnage totaled about 13,170 tons, and in 2013 it was 13,508 tons. However, he acknowledged that the University’s continued expansion has made achieving these targets more difficult. While he said the University’s sustainability practices have grown more efficient on a whole, the increase in facilities means total tonnage doesn’t reflect those improvements. “We’ve gone from about 28.5 million square feet of infrastructure to about 35.5 million square

civil rights,” Long said. LSA freshman Lauren Thomas, who attended the event, said the film gave her perspective beyond her day-to-day life. “It is very emotional,” she said. “It was good to take a minute outside of classes and remember that there are real things happening in the world or that have happened.” Charles Senteio, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Information who helped organize the event, said a goal for screening the film was to connect current events related to race and discrimination with the past. Noting that it’s often difficult to see ties to past injustices, Senteio said it’s important to revisit history as a method for preventing similar atrocities in the future. “The conversations we’ve had around this event are to try to learn from what has taken place before and absorb some wisdom, inspiration, some humanity from a road we’ve already been down before,” he said.

ability of need-based pricing is the first of its kind in collegiate athletics. “Michigan athletics, it’s something you see so many people rally around,” Dishell said over the phone Sunday night. “So many people you meet talk about their experience with Michigan athletics, and the prices were very high, extremely high. I kind of realized, why shouldn’t your aid package expand? Why should it not carry over to another University unit?” The Office of Financial Aid will begin emailing eligible students Monday with instructions detailing how to purchase tickets.

cognizant of that, if faculty left thinking about when organizing or structuring their classrooms, and engage the community around them, that’s a good thing.” Soderstrom said she hopes sharing the results of the study prompts future discussions of social identity and inclusion. “We have representation from a lot of different groups on campus that can impact different spaces on campus,” she said. “We hope that this prompts future conversations about things we can proactively do and take control over, and how to structurally engage some of those spaces. Soderstrom said she is hopeful the findings of the research project will be published for the University community in the near future.

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feet of infrastructure over that time,” he said. “So actually, like a lot of our goals, we’ve kind of stayed steady but it’s a worthy note we’ve made some progress even though the University expanded significantly.” Berki said while the University has developed a robust recycling program, the next step is to jumpstart a composting initiative. “One area of our waste stream which we need to address is the waste that’s leaving our facilities that’s compostable,” he said. “Right now our institution does not have a University wide composting program. Through our analysis we’ve identified that about 30 percent of our waste that’s leaving our facilities could be composted.” Berki said the Student Sustainability Initiative, a collaborative group of sustainability organizations on campus, promotes zerowaste initiatives at the University. SSI sponsors zero-waste events where napkins, utensils, plates and food are all composted. Other goals have achieved more success. Berki said emissions from University transportation operations have decreased significantly. In 2006, 1.17 kilograms of carbon dioxide were emitted per ride, according to data reported by OCS. By 2013, the amount had

HEIDELBERG From Page 1A Bradley Taylor, associate director of the Museum Studies Program and member of the project’s Board of Directors, said that despite destruction to some of the artwork, what remains is not to be discredited. “There’s a belief out there that the fires have brought the Heidelberg Project to an end,” Taylor said. “That’s not true at all. If you’ve been out there the site’s been cleaned up and (Guyton) is already out there creating new stuff in the foundations of the buildings that were burned down.” Whitfield said the fire damage is no longer visible, which surprises people who expect to see it when they come to view the art. She added that the fires have led to some positive outcomes, including the installation of solar-powered lighting in the neighborhood and a new security system to monitor the art. The recent string of arsons is not the first time the Heidelberg Project has faced adversity, Whitfield said. She noted that the project was partially demolished by the city in 1991 and 1999 amid pending safety concerns, local complaints about the crowds of visitors and general conversation asking whether or not the project was really “art.”

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“We’re trying to hear as many different voices as possible in order to continue to be able to create such positive change on campus as we’ve done in the past,” Pidgeon said. Charlton has not served as a member of CSG, but Pidgeon noted he co-founded the Wolverine Support Network, a University-wide peer support network and one of Make Michigan’s central initiatives this year. “With Cooper at the helm, given his positions within athletics, we can take on a more collaborative approach with the Athletic Department in the coming year,” Pidgeon said. In an e-mail interview with The Michigan Daily, Charlton wrote taht his position as president of SAAC during a time of change within the Athletic Department has prepared him for the CSG presidency. As president of SAAC, Charlton co-authored a viewpoint in which the committee criticized University President Mark Schlissel’s comments at a meeting of the University’s Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs. During that meeting, Schlissel called into question the academic qualifications of some student athletes. The viewpoint argued that the perception of student athletes is easily swayed by the media and public opinion. In the e-mail interview,

Monday, February 23, 2015 — 3A decreased to approximately 0.91 kilograms of carbon dioxide emitted per ride. The ultimate goal is to reduce emissions to 0.82 kilograms per ride. Berki attributes these accomplishments to the University’s joint bike share program with the city, the 10 hybrid-electric buses used on campus and the vanpool program that allows University employees to carpool to work in University-sponsored vans. Berg said the Planet Blue reusable water bottle initiative has also proved successful. The student-led initiative provides all students living on-campus with a reusable water bottle and has worked to establish water bottlefilling stations across campus. “If you look around today compared to three years ago I really just see everyone carrying a reusable water bottle and I think that’s a great way of sustainability really getting into culture,” Berg said. “That’s a very visible success story there.” LSA junior Nicholas Jansen, an environmental science major, wrote in an e-mail interview that up until this year he was disappointed by the University’s sustainability efforts. “I think the University up to this past year has done a sub-par job to improve sustainability on

campus,” Jansen wrote. “Most of the sustainability improvements were applied to just a few buildings, we only focused on reducing our greenhouse gas emissions instead of trying to get more renewable energy on campus.” However, he wrote that Schlissel’s decision to convene the sustainability review committees is a good sign. “If the university actually listens to what these working groups recommend then I believe in the next few years, U of M can become a leader and model for sustainable campuses,” he wrote. Berki also said it’s important that the University lead the nation in its sustainability efforts. “As one of the renowned institutions of higher learning in the country and in the world, we need to set an example,” he said. “We are the leaders and best and I think a lot of people look to the University and the institution to see what we’re doing.” Berg said the challenge moving forward would be expanding sustainability efforts without adding a financial burden to the University’s budgets. “There’s always a balance between helping people operate more sustainability without adding to work loads or to cost,” she said.

“Each time the Heidelberg Project was partially destroyed it came back stronger,” she said. “In my mind, what Tyree has done is he’s just created a new platform each time on the canvas.” Whitfield said at the time, these obstacles proved challenging, but she and Guyton gained perspective over time. “With the things that we went through, it grew us,” she said. “And so we can come to a point now and say, ‘that’s all part of the process. We know all this negativity is playing a big part in what we’re doing.’ But how we conclude it is what’s most important.” Guyton said visitors have transformative experiences, often influenced by conversations between visitors attracted to the site. “Heidelberg is the realest place,” Whitfield said. “I think one of our board members called it a sacred battleground that has taken all the scars of Detroit. It provides that platform that people can discuss real issues.” LSA senior Adam DesJardins, who attended the discussion, said he fell in love with the Heidelberg Project after many visits — showing friends and family around and talking to Tyree at the site. “(Heidelberg) is just a really welcoming place, so to see (Guyton) speak and be recog-

nized was really cool,” he said. “I think his whole point about sparking creativity was really important in terms of finding yourself and how you can spark other people’s creativity through your own creativity. I think that’s something that’s a takeaway for me because that’s so much of what (Guyton) does so well.” One of the Heidelberg Project houses is called the “Dotty Wotty House,” and Guyton’s mother currently lives in it. Taylor said there are plans to potentially convert the house into a museum. Guyton added that students from the James & Grace Lee Boggs School, a local charter school, may soon begin work transforming an abandoned house adjacent to the school. “We’re going to paint stars all over this house and the stars are going to be a reflection of these young people,” Guyton said. “Every one of those young people are stars, and my job is to help them to see that they’re stars.” Taylor said two exhibitions of Guyton’s work are scheduled to run on campus this year. The University of Michigan Museum of Art will run one this summer and the Department of Afroamerican and American Studies Gallery will host a small exhibit on the main floor of Haven Hall.

Charlton also said his experiences complemented Halperin’s leadership experiences on campus. “My relationships with the current members of Make Michigan, and Steven’s experience within CSG compliment my Michigan experiences and perspectives resulting in a very balanced executive ticket,” Charlton wrote. “We both come from very different backgrounds however share similar values.” Pidgeon noted Halperin’s leadership both inside and outside of CSG as the reason he was selected for the vice presidential nomination. Halperin is the vice chair of CSG’s task force to create a new honor code, an LSA dean ambassador and the Interfraternity Council’s vice president of internal recruiting. If elected, Halperin said he wants to expand the Night Owl bus route, increase lighting around campus and link CTools syllabuses with Google calendar. He would also like to focus on larger campus concerns. “I have been working very closely with SAPAC to make a positive change in the Greek community and plan on expanding across campus,” Halperin wrote in an e-mail to The Michigan Daily. The U.S. Department of Education is currently investigating the University’s handling of sexual misconduct allegations on campus. As a whole, Make Michigan organizers and candidates said they hope to continue working on student health. Pidgeon said

along with Wolverine Support Network, Make Michigan has plans to increase other mental health services as well. “We want to build on that success of keeping students physically and emotionally safe,” Pidgeon said. “Through de-stigmatizing mental well being on campus we will be able to accomplish goals once thought to hard to reach,” Charlton wrote. “Tradition runs deep through the academic excellence of our students, however it is time to include emotional development in that tradition.” The party has not released an entire platform because they want to wait until they receive feedback from constituents. Make Michigan created a Google form for students to submit issues they feel need to be addressed on campus. The form is available on their website and on Facebook. “We can have a platform that we as a party think the students want but also what students really do want,” Pidgeon said. Last week, The Team, a new campus party that will also run candidates in this year’s election, announced an executive ticket headed by LSA junior William Royster, a member of the Black Student Union, and LSA sophomore Matt Fidel, a current CSG representative. Polls will open online March 25 and 26.

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A societal moment

took a trip back to my hometown recently to have dinner with my family. Between work, school and everything else I’ve got going on, it can be difficult to sync my schedule with everyone else’s. But when I told my mom that I had a Friday off from work she insisted that I make the drive home. She wanted my siblings to meet my boyfriend. My coming-out AUSTIN experience with my family was truly a non-event. DAVIS Throughout high school and college I’d brought home a string of girlfriends, all of which were accepted by my loud, cocktail-loving siblings and parents. Bringing my boyfriend home really wasn’t any different: we ate a lot of food and pillaged my step-dad’s liquor cabinet. It was an incredibly normal evening — my family’s acceptance, however, is definitely not the norm, though I’d understand why some would believe it to be. On Feb. 9, Alabama became the 37th state in the Union to grant marriage licenses to samesex couples, becoming the latest domino to fall in a line of states that have ratified marriage equality. Actually, due to the U.S. Supreme Court’s agreement to review a Michigan case challenging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, we may very well see nationwide marriage equality in early spring. An apparent social change is occurring, and it seems as if media reflects that. The sitcom “Modern Family” positively depicts a monogamous gay couple and their familial dynamics. Even non-heteronormative aspects of gay society are being popularized — “Looking,” an HBO drama following the lives of three 30-something gay men in San Francisco, frequently details the Grindr hookups and illicit drug use that characterize certain axioms of gay culture. But in reality, the lives of many identifying as LGBTQ are not that cushy. LGBTQ-identifying youth, for example, experience homelessness at a startlingly disproportionate rate than other affected groups. The Ruth Ellis Center — among other organizations — estimates that some 40 percent of the 1.6 million homeless youths in this country identify as LGBTQ. That’s huge, especially when considering that a mere 3.5 percent of all adults even place themselves on

that spectrum in the first place. Carl Siciliano, founder and executive director of the Ali Forney Center in New York City — purportedly the nation’s largest organization combating LGBTQ youth homelessness — says this statistic is the direct result of a generation “living in a societal moment” of believed LGBTQ acceptance. The media increasingly popularizes gay culture and, when combined with the progression of marriage equality, the assumption purveys that youths will be accepted by their families and peers if they come out of the closet. This is often not the case. In fact, according to one comprehensive study on the topic, familial rejection is the main contributing factor to queer homelessness. As Siciliano says, in a 2011 interview with NPR’s Margot Adler, “… there are so many parents who can’t be parents to their gay kids.” Dissent of a gay lifestyle is not uncommon — one Pew Forum survey indicates that 40 percent of the nation still opposes allowing same-sex couples to marry. And according to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 2013 saw a 21-percent increase in physical anti-LGBTQ hate violence, particularly against transgender women of color and gay men — this in a year where “Orange is the New Black” and “Looking” popularized these respective identities. Society is really not as accepting of queerness as the current “societal moment” may convey. Though a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court affirming the right of same-sex couples to marry would indeed catalyze further progression toward full codification of LGBTQ rights, it won’t be a silver bullet. Having the liberty to choose whom I’d like to marry won’t dissipate the anxiety with which I’m fettered while walking down the street with my boyfriend. Allowing us to marry won’t make the stares I get when going in for a kiss any less frightening. It won’t get those hundreds of thousands of kids off the street, and it won’t make their parents any more accepting. Marriage equality is a good first step, but it is just that — a single step. A marathon needs to be run before otherness, hate and ignorance are no longer socialized associations with queer community. Any person thinking otherwise need only turn away from the rosy depictions of this “societal moment” on their television sets, and instead open their eyes to reality. — Austin Davis can be reached at austchan@umich.edu.

A little piece of non-advice

t all started a couple years ago, sitting around a circle in the lodge right off of Lake Winnipesaukee. I was a student of the New England Literature Program, arguably the most important academic experience I have had across my time as a student. On week four, day six, my mentor, teacher and friend Nick Harp was holding an advice chat. I needed to attend. I have always been a fan of this stuff. In high DANI school, my friend Michael VIGNOS and I once attempted to run an advice column for our school paper, The Mirador. We made up problems and characters and advised our make believe friends in the least helpful kind of ways. You could say I am an expert. So naturally, I felt obliged to impart my wisdom on Nick’s discussion. Nick began the hour by asking us about a subject on which we might seek help. I wrote something down that I am still working through these days — the current crossroads of where I’m at right now and maybe where I will always find myself. Specifically, I’m now working through the crossroads we all find ourselves at as our time as undergraduates comes to a culmination. I wrote about the difficulties and complications of choosing a path, not just a career path but a “path” path : “I keep ruminating around this idea … should I dive into a creative, experimental, entrepreneurial world or should I take a more traditional path with the goal of financial stability?” I felt as though if I lived in a world where I acted entirely out of self-interest with little regard for others, I would pursue the artistic parts of my brain. I would write, paint and create little boutique businesses with some sort of philanthropic cause. Alternatively, I felt that if I intended to one day to support my current family, my future family, friends and those less fortunate than me, I would dive into a more traditional career such as law or consulting (this, of course, would be no easy feat). At the time of NELP, during the summer

2013, I felt as though these two paths were mutually exclusive. The ideas of money and the arts don’t necessarily align in my mind, but I have attempted to re-shape my understanding of the possibility, reshaping the idea that I can create my own path. I don’t necessarily belong in an art community and I don’t necessarily belong in corporate America. This same summer, I felt like there was a decision I had to make. I felt like I had to put myself in one box and stick there. I don’t think the path is twofold anymore. It feels the most “me” to bridge the gaps of business and the arts, so I will attempt to do this to the best of my ability. This fall of 2014 I interviewed Nick. We returned to the idea of advice and he told me, “I’m always wary of advice because I think to myself, how should I know what is best for someone else? How could I know? So I try (and often fail) to give advice only when I am asked directly, and even then I think all advice should come with a hefty grain of salt. I think when people ask for advice, what they are really doing is asking if they can talk about this thing with you and figure out what they already know or how to answer their own question. Good advice is rarely about directing someone as much as it is about bearing witness.” In order to help reach my current understanding of my future and myself, it took time. It took many more discussions with people and the help of friends and mentors to help pick at my brain. Watching my writing evolve from my summer crisis of 2013 to my current self, I have borne witness to exactly what was discussed at Nick’s advice chat at NELP. No one endowed me with an understanding of what I should do with my life, but rather my ideas formed through a constant process of being asked questions and speaking with people of all ages and facets of knowledge. Family, friends and mentors can offer you a walk in someone else’s shoes or a wealth of knowledge and experience, but no one really knows the best decision for you other than yourself. I was studying with my friend in the UGLi last week when my mom sent me a text regarding my latest venture. It read, “Sorry for raining on your parade. But I get the

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sense that your dreams are a result of opportunities that present themselves to you instead of the other way around. I think you need to look deep inside and think bigger. I really don’t feel as this is going to serve you well and that you will tire of it very quickly from the monotony and not being around stimulating and creative people.” Speaking from a mother’s perspective, I believed this to be honest advice. It was at least something I should think deeply about, as she stated. I then read it out loud to a friend. He thought about her words for a moment and

said, “Do you think she is right?” This was some of the best advice I have ever received. If you want my advice, which many may not, I will always say go for it. When it comes to business plans, adventures and relationships, I will always say take it to the limits. It will most likely lead me to my biggest regrets and my largest accomplishments, but it is an adventure I am excited to take. When I am asking for advice, I am asking someone to help pick my mind, to ask me questions that will

lead me to make the best decision for me. I am not really asking what would you do, but rather I am saying, “Can you ask me about things I should consider or weigh in my own decision making process?” I have still not figured out how to be the best advisor for my friends and family, but I do know that I am working on it. I may never truly know, but asking questions is always a good start. — Dani Vignos can be reached at dvignos@umich.edu.

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A friendly note to seniors

ear Seniors, It has been a wild ride, but our time here at Michigan is almost done. We have been here for four(ish) years, starting out with our orientation in the sweltering heat of East Quad, our goofy lanyards and our admira- SARA tion for dining SHAMASKIN hall food. We were undecided and ready to be in 32 clubs, excited to play our first ever beer pong game. Times sure have changed. We’ve grown up, made some memories, probably done some stupid stuff and either owned it or are a little ashamed, but we will definitely remember those moments when we all part ways in a couple of months. The thing that we are going to remember the most, though, is the friends we have made along the way, the ones who have left an imprint in our hearts and changed our character. I’m not trying to sound like the “Friends Forever” song by Vitamin C, all sappy and sentimental. After we graduate, yes, things will change. People go to different jobs around the country and world, some will be making great money, some

will be living with their parents for a while. But however we start our lives after college, it will be a new beginning for us. Being there for our closest friends will now be more difficult. It is not as simple as hanging out on a Saturday, getting lunch at No Thai! and recapping the previous night’s events. It will take more effort to compensate for the distance between us. The relationship needs to be a two-way street, not a one-way that someone accidentally goes down the wrong way. It’s work, but if you both believe that it is of value, then it will last beyond the day we exit the Big House as graduates. I had a dream recently where someone told me I was going to die within a year. A little scary at first, but I took it as an opportunity to change some things in my life. My first thought was to figure out who should be in my life, and who should be gone. I went running around to everyone I knew, either saying “I love you!” or “Fuck off, I don’t need you in my life!” Person to person, I put people into these two categories. To be honest, it was very therapeutic. I felt as if I was ridding myself of extra weight, lobbing off negativity and people who brought anger into my life. I woke up with such a new view. I now could see those throughout my day that I wanted to be in my life from here on out, and for

those that I couldn’t care less about after, I plan to part ways. Why not make my dream come to fruition? Why keep those gloomy people in my life? From what I’ve heard, the real world is tough. There are bosses who might be mean and co-workers who might be incompetent, but for those people in your life that you can choose, keep them positive. Coming to college, we had a chance to have a clean slate, start a new page and maybe recreate ourselves. After college, we have the ability to start fresh again, make new friends that fit into our personalities and preferences. What is the point of voluntarily choosing something that is bad for you? Surround yourself with supportive people, those who will call you out on questionable behavior, those who will give you the best advice, those who will have your back. But why wait? Start now. Don’t just hold off on getting rid of these damaging people. Start phasing them out or just let them know to their face. You do not need them in your life if they are only causing you grief. There are going to be so many people and circumstances that bring us down. We need to keep those that are good company near. — Sara Shamaskin can be reached at scsham@umich.edu.

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Why you’re not getting my blood (But I really wish you were) I was walking through the Diag recently, something that I have done much less frequently since all of my classes are now in the School of Public Health. As per usual, I was able to sneak by the two gatekeepers with flyers at the corner I was walking through. Near the M, I heard “DONATE TO MOTT!” and a change jar jingling, and I turned and recognized one of my former advisees. We said hi, and I kept walking toward the exit of the Diag toward the UMMA. I saw two people there. I was the only one walking toward them. “Shit,” I thought, “I’m not getting out of this one.” I didn’t even have earbuds to pretend like I couldn’t hear them. “Will you donate blood?” asked one of the girls. Now I’ve been asked this question dozens of times, and usually I just smile, say sorry and move on with my life. But something was different this day. For some reason, I was angsty, and my frustration with this issue finally manifested itself verbally. I stopped in my tracks, made a 90-degree turn, looked this girl right in the eyes, and calmly (but with my high level of sass) said “I’ll donate blood when all gay people can donate blood.” I don’t know why I said “gay” rather than “men who have sex with men,” as I myself am bisexual, but that was what came out of my mouth in the heat of the moment. The look on her face was priceless and completely startled. It was unclear if she had no idea what I was talking about, or if I scared her. She was clearly uncomfortable, and I don’t blame her. All she could squeak out was “Okay...” as I walked away. In reality this girl had nothing to do with the Food and Drug Administration policy that bans blood from men who have sex with men, but at that place and time she had everything to do with it.

This policy to turn away blood donations from any man who’s had sex with men started in the heyday of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, when HIV was not being detected in donated blood. Due to this lack of testing capabilities, HIV was subsequently transfused into other patients, causing them to become infected with the (at that time) fatal virus. Since then, many things have changed. Bigotry and stereotyping, however, still run rampant. It is no secret that Americans still think of HIV/AIDS as the “gay disease,” only fueling the homophobic fire. Do you know that straight men and women can get HIV/AIDS as well? They constitute over a third of the diagnoses, yet we’re not concerned enough about their blood to enact bans. Although men who have sex with men are more likely to acquire HIV than those who engage in heterosexual contact, (because of behavior factors such as condomless anal sex, combined with the community’s viral load) this cannot be an excuse to discriminate against all of them. Instead of stereotyping everyone in this category, why can’t we switch to a screening system in which people are turned away from donating because of participation in evidence-based risk behaviors? Screening for unprotected sex with someone whose HIV status is unknown or positive would be a more effective tactic. This screening should be the same for all genders, as condomless anal sex is risky for heterosexual interactions as well. Why are men who have sex with men and transgender women the only groups who are discriminated against? In addition to stereotyping men who have sex with men, the fact that transgender women are turned away shows that our society still conflates gender

identity with sexual behavior in a problematic way. Today, three decades later, we have advanced screening tests that can detect HIV within weeks, sometimes days, of the time of infection. But the United States chooses to use outdated tests, that pool multiple samples of blood together, as this methodology can be cheaper and easier. This means that if one donation had HIV in it, the others could possibly dilute it so it would appear virus-free on the test. Not only does the U.S. have an outdated policy, but also an outdated test. While I don’t know when testing procedures will change, the lifetime ban on “gay blood” did change a couple of months ago, but it’s still problematic. The FDA policy was recently changed from a lifetime ban for men who have sex with men to a one-year abstinence period. This means that if I don’t have sex with another male for one year, I can donate my blood. Unfortunately, my boyfriend and I don’t plan on staying off of each other for that long just to give blood to a system that thinks we are hazardous. I think that sentiment holds true for many other gay, bi and queer men. The one-year ban might as well be a lifetime ban. I don’t even know my blood type, because I have never been allowed to get to that stage in the donation process. My blood is not dirty, not diseased, and no better or worse than anyone else’s. I could have already donated about 36 times, and as the Red Cross would say, I could have saved 108 lives. I’ve saved zero lives because of an outdated policy based on homophobia and bigotry.

Arts

5A— Monday, February 23, 2015

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Tyree Guyton’s Big Sean stays true to himself on new LP ‘Inextinguishable’ Heidelberg Project By KENNETH SELANDER Daily Arts Writer

t was almost 30 years ago when Detroiter Tyree Guyton had a self-proclaimed epiphany. He closed his eyes and he saw “it” — “it” being the street of his youth painted with brightly colored polka dots, PAIGE the houses covered PFLEGER in records, clocks hanging from trees, abandoned structures smothered under sagging stuffed animals. He wanted to create an art installment that would make the street safer by combating blight, and serve as medicine to his neighborhood. Guyton made the Heidelberg Project a reality, so that anyone could visit Heidelberg Street and see the “it” that he once only saw in his head. That is, until the arsons started. A rabbi and a prostitute visit Heidelberg Street In an event titled “Inextinguishable: A conversation with Detroit Artist Tyree Guyton” on the fourth f loor of Rackham Auditorium on Friday, Guyton made one of his first public appearances since the rash of arsons started in 2013. Clad in a University of Michigan hoodie and tan cargo pants, he sat between his wife Jennene Whitfield, and his friend, Social Work prof. Larry Gant. A group of Heidelberg employees sat on the stairs of the auditorium, one wearing a shirt that reads “ART>ARSON.” Whitfield and Guyton explained to the audience and Gant that the Heidelberg faced adversity well before the arsons began — back in the 1990s, under orders from the city of Detroit, several Heidelberg houses were demolished. “If you’re going to do something in this world,” Guyton said whimsically, “you’re going to have to pay a price.” As they spoke, it was obvious that Whitfield works as Guyton’s foil. Guyton spewed artistic idioms and famous quotes like he was reciting slam poetry and Whitfield would take those ideas and bring them back down to earth. The two spoke of the project candidly, as if it were alive. “I know I talk about it like a thing, but that’s what it’s like to me now. It’s like a baby I wish would grow the fuck up,” Whitfield said, eliciting a laugh from the audience. “What are you drinking, honey?” Guyton asked her. The Heidelberg project, despite the numerous set-

backs, is a place where Guyton hopes that art can bring people from different cultures together. Visitors from around the world can be found driving through Detroit’s East side to see the renowned art installment. Whitfield said that sometimes there are ten countries on Heidelberg street in one day. “The Heidelberg project reaches so many different countries, people, situations, circumstances … I mean we actually had a rabbi talking to a prostitute,” Whitfield said, making the audience laugh again. “I do think it was amazing that she felt comfortable on that street to talk to him, and he felt comfortable too.” These things happen, Whitfield explained, because art is the great equalizer. A city on f ire From 2013 to 2014, there were 12 fires on Heidelberg Street. Despite crowd funding efforts and extra security measures, there are currently no leads on the culprit that has burnt down or severely damaged several parts of the installment. “In order to get light you need negative and positive. There is something to be said about accepting negativity as a natural part of the process,” Whitfield said. “We accepted the fires. It was an unauthorized transformation.” With no leads, the Heidelberg Project has faced proposed conspiracies and non-stop questions: Who would want burn the houses down? To what end? Does the project’s staff know more than they are letting on? Is the city in some way involved? The questions are endless and the answers are unknown, but this doesn’t bother Tyree Guyton. “Paige, I don’t even listen to it,” Guyton told me during a phone interview. “I listen to what’s in me. Because if I listened to that it would drive me crazy and have me running around here like a mad person. I’ve heard some of everything.” Though Heidelberg is just one street, the arsons that have plag ued the project are representative of a larger problem facing the city of Detroit. According to a recent Detroit News investigation, there were more than 9,000 suspicious fires from 2010 to 2013, and at least 66 percent of those burnt houses have yet to be demolished. Neighborhoods in Southwest Detroit and Detroit’s East Side show the heaviest amount of arson damage, with more than 200 fires from 2010-2013 in the Heidelberg’s zip code alone. “I want to send love out to

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the person that has been setting this project on fire,” Guyton said to the audience at Rackham. “I want to do something a little bit different by sending out love, and that’s how you educate people.” Professor Gant looked at Guyton incredulously. “Could we kick their ass a little bit first though?” he asked. Whitfield agreed. “Well then you guys do that,” Guyton said “and I’m gonna’ love. And I’m gonna’ kick their ass by loving them.” “Heidelberg rising from the ashes” Guyton and the project will be celebrating their anniversary with an exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art called “30 Years of Heidelberg” in August. “After 30 years what do you know now, Tyree,” Guyton said of the exhibition. “I know that I can do anything and everything. And then something that Socrates said: I know nothing. I’m still learning.” Also in the works for Guyton is a possible trip to Berlin, along with some Detroit techno legends that have yet to be announced. Whitfield said that while the rest of the Project’s staff continues to deal with securing funds and keeping the project safe, Guyton’s sole responsibility will be focusing on his art. “It’s just a new canvas,” Whitfield said. “We will be there. And we will continue on.” Pfleger is exploring new canvases in Detroit. To contact her, email pspfleg@umich.edu.

Big Sean’s third album, Dark Sky Paradise, is an odd mix of classic Big Sean explicitness and unexpectedly deep songs, presentB ing a collection of catchy club Dark Sky tunes and emoParadise tional tracks. First and Big Sean foremost, I appreciate that Def Jam Big Sean stays true to himself on this album. It seems today that all too many rappers are trying to imitate the Atlanta sound that has been dominating rap recently. If Big Sean’s 2012 mixtape Detroit isn’t enough proof, mentions of Little Caesar’s on “All Your Fault,” among other Detroit, Michigan references in Dark Sky Paradise make it clear that he’s not trying to claim that Atlanta adopted him. In “Paradise,” Big Sean raps “I’m from the D, fuck your A-list.” While this line means a number of things, I like to think on some level it’s a rejection of this trend. The album’s musical content is diverse, which sometimes reates an odd juxtaposition. For instance, in the record’s first song, “Dark Sky (Skyscrapers),” Sean starts the second verse with “Bitch, watch how you speak to me,” but by the end of the same verse makes an allusion to police brutality (a theme also brought up by his mentor Kanye West on “All Your Fault.”) Perhaps the epitome of Big Sean’s self-absorbed, dirty talk rap that is ever-present on Finally Famous and Hall of Fame is his hit single “I Don’t Fuck With You.” The name says it all. In the chorus, the line “I got a million trillion things that I’d rather fuckin’ do,” is just plain silly. Yet at the same time, it’s hard to deny how catchy the song is — a result of the production just as much as the simple chorus. Both DJ Mustard and Kanye West produce the song, and Kanye’s soulful sample meshes well with DJ Mustard’s catchy driving beat. Beyond “I Don’t Fuck With

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You,” the album’s production is solid. Samples like “How Much I Feel” by Ambrosia and “Piece of My Love” by Guy add interest to songs otherwise dominated by the monotone sound of Big Sean’s voice. Dark Sky Paradise’s features are nothing new. Big Sean has done a few songs with Kanye before (like “Marvin and Chardonnay”) and Lil Wayne (“Beware”). Big name Drake is featured on “Blessings.” It seems like he’s pulling on his biggest connections to boost record sales. I can’t blame him when, considering his emphasis on making money, Hall of Fame didn’t sell many more than 100,000 copies. Looking back on Finally Famous, while the album was aesthetically pleasing, it was mostly void of meaning. “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” is probably the only song with some personal connection or emotion, and it’s about cheating on his girlfriend. Nasty club hits like “A$$,” and “Marvin and Chardonnay” definitely drive the record. His sophomore album Hall of Fame gives off a laid back, stoner vibe. There are a handful of more thoughtful songs on the record, particularly “World Ablaze” and “Ashley,” which allows Hall of Fame to separate itself from Finally Famous. Yet, filthy songs like “Mona Lisa,” “MILF” and the perverted skit “Freaky” are also present on the record. What a mix. While Dark Sky Paradiseand Hall of Fame share a juxtaposition of meaningful and explicit songs,

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‘Big Bang’ director ‘Hot Tub’ sequel a talks hit CBS show mindless experience Mark Cendrowski discusses science’s role in TV series By ALEX INTNER Daily Arts Writer

Late on Friday afternoon a group of students gathered in 1400 Chem for the opportunity to have Mark Cendrowski answer their questions. Cendrowski, most famous for being the lead director on the well-known TV series “The Big Bang Theory,” spent two hours with students, answering their questions about what it was like to work in the highest-rated comedy on television and in the TV industry in general. After talking about the large mix of concentrations in the room (the event was advertised to people from everyone from film majors to Physics majors), Cendrowski discussed how the physics community has embraced and loved the show. The set also has intense conversation about science. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was on the show right after he debunked Pluto and got into a heated debate with members of the crew about the subject. He was also proud of how the show has led to a renewed interest in physics at universities across the U.S. In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Cendrowski also

discussed why he prefers to keep the mood on the set light when he directs. “We play games all the time. We don’t just come in and make it the drudgery of work and make it like a factory,” he said. “If you’re having fun it’s easier to make people laugh.” Cendrowski spent most of the event discussing his role in “The Big Bang Theory,” everything from the production process to tales from the set. These included some individual stories about working with a few of the leading actors. He spoke about his lengthy conversations with Johnny Galecki about his character, how great he felt when Jim Parsons thanked him in his Emmy speech and how uplifting it was to watch Kaley Cuoco blossom as an actress during her eight years on the show (she was only 20 when it started). One of the highlights of the talk was when he touched on some of the guest stars that appeared on the show. When he mentioned working with comedy legend Bob Newhart, Cendrowski said, “I can’t believe I got to tell him what to do.” One of the best was the story of what happened when Stephen Hawking appeared in the season five episode, “The Hawking Excitation.” They didn’t know that he would be on the show until two days before going to Caltech to film the scene. Hawking actually did all the dialogue himself, using a motion

sensor in his glasses to speak. He also attended a run through two days later, where he saw Simon Helberg’s character, Howard, do an impression of his voice (Helberg apologized profusely afterward.) Most importantly of all, Cendrowski talked about how much he loves working on the show. “It’s an actual dream for what any director goes through,” Cendrowski said. “To (be) on a hit show that is funny, that people still talk about, that wins awards, it’s got all the elements. And, there’s nice people. There’s no prima donnas on the show. They have been friends since the beginning; they support one another; they’re there for one another and they’re professional. There’s nothing more you can ask for.” In the interview, Cendrowski shared why he loves sharing his experience with students like he did at the Q&A event. “To me, it’s so invigorating,” Cendrowski said. “I love giving back. I love the idea of (it), because I was in their seats one time myself … I realized there’s an appreciative value. I hear it from all the teachers saying the kids really appreciate it, someone from the real world, someone from this school that has made it. They are hopefully as an inspiration from them to do the same thing.”

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After the success of the first “Hot Tub Time Machine,” it’s easy to assume that the sequel would know just how to use its big D budget and array of stars to Hot Tub come up with a predictable Time but likable Machine 2 movie. This Rave and assumption would be Quality 16 wrong. Paramount The film opens by showing how far the group has come since we’ve last seen them, interviewing them on an “E! True Hollywood Story”-style show and cleverly skipping over the often awkward summary that sequels can be bogged down by. We learn that the group of friends has managed to use their previous trip to 1985 for profit and fame, with Lou (Rob Corddry, “The Daily Show”) creating a number of famous inventions, such as Google (here called Lougle), Nick (Craig Robinson, “The Office”) wrote hit songs like “I’ve Got a Feeling,” and Adam, (John Cusack, “Being John Malkovich”) who is not present in this film, apparently on a trip of self discovery after he wrote a best selling sci-fi novel about a hot tub time machine. Only Jacob (Clark Duke, “Greek”) is still struggling to find his place, acting as a butler to Lou in his New Orleans mansion. At a party in that mansion, Lou is shot (in the dick, of course) by a mysterious figure in a tuxedo, and the group must time travel in to find the killer and prevents Lou’s death. The movie’s start is colorful and fast-paced, demonstrating a fresh self-awareness. The characters are stupid and weird, and the actors know this and attempt to

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play to it. But this can only take a film so far, and once the inventive premise of a group of friends who can do whatever they want in a hot tub time machine wears off (due, in part, to a serious oversaturation of dick jokes) “Time Machine 2” loses any credit its few original moments grant it. The appeal of the charismatic cast offers the film some respite but not nearly enough to keep its audience engaged. At first, Adam Scott (“Parks & Rec”) adds some much needed innocence to the group, but after a few scenes his character is overpowered by the repetitively crude hive mind, and Scott’s sarcastic bite is lost. The film does a disastrous job navigating the line between brash and clever humor that is the basis for many R-rated comedies. And the jokes themselves are not only tiresome in subject matter but rehashed ad nauseum. For a film that relies so heavily on mindless humor, the actual plot line is unreasonably complicated. The group is transported into the year 2025, but this is the future of an alternate present, and to save Lou from being shot in 2015, they must find the person who is going to later use the hot tub in 2025 to go back and shoot him for

something his past self did in the future … I think. Even the diagram drawn into thin air using the impressive futuristic technology doesn’t offer enough clarification to the storyline, and it’s easy to tune out between the tiring jokes and complex plot structure. If I wasn’t already perplexed enough by this movie’s unfunny treatment of funny jokes, repetition of failed ones and labyrinthine plot, the ending scenes are what really convinced me that “Hot Tub Time Machine 2” has got to be some sort of social experiment about our tolerance levels for good actors in awful movies. With very little lead up, the film goes sentimental and shifts from 100 percent bro humor to a 100 percent unexpected life lesson about appreciating others and learning to take risks on love. Ellie Goulding kicks in out of nowhere and there’s a lot of solemn, unironic making-out between the friends and love interests we haven’t seen since the opening scenes. Whereas the film had been hanging out in the realm of worst comedies, it jumps dimensions (sans hot tub) and decides to inhabit the realm of overplayed love stories as well.

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Rosie O’Donnell’s special is ‘Heartfelt,’ personal By HAILEY MIDDLEBROOK Daily Arts Writer

The phrase “comic relief” has never carried more weight than it does in Rosie O’Donnell’s recent HBO Documentary, “A Heartfelt Stand BUp.” Gracing the spotlight- Rosie ed stage for O’Donnell: the first time A Heartfelt in 20 years, Stand Up O’Donnell (“The View”) HBO has a new purDocumentary pose for her comedy: to Available on inform women HBO GO about the signs and symptoms of heart attacks, drawing from her own nearly fatal attack in 2012. Taking the medical statistics into account, 52-year-old O’Donnell shouldn’t have survived. She recounts that on a hot mid-August day in New Jersey, O’Donnell assisted an overweight woman out of her car and soon afterwards felt searing pain in her upper arms. Dismissing the pain to overexertion, she brushed it off — until her state worsened. Her skin scorched “hotter than I ever felt during menopause,” her muscles ached with overwhelming exhaustion, her reflection was a clammy ghost and nausea made it impossible to stomach anything that her then-wife, Michelle Rounds, gave her. Yet like many women before her, O’Donnell refused to call 911 on the grounds that she didn’t want to cause a scene or snatch the emergency vehicles away from someone who “really” needed them. So she popped some aspirin (which ultimately saved her life) and stayed home, waiting over 50 hours until finally checking into the E.R. At that point, O’Donnell had 100 percent blockage in her

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left descending artery (nicknamed “the widow maker” of coronary disease) — and she had lived a whopping 40 hours longer than any patient had before. “I didn’t know I had a heart attack, and I thought maybe the reason I didn’t die was because I have a public voice and I can share the facts with everybody,” O’Donnell reflects in “Heartfelt.” In the aftermath of her heart attack, the infamously brash banterer had a sort of humbling revelation — though she had a demanding lifestyle, a strained relationship with her wife and children as well as a genetic history of cancer, she survived. To spread the word, O’Donnell decided to do what she does best — standup comedy. Only this time with a very real, very serious undertone. The question is, should these tasks be combined? Can a stand up act really be heartfelt? The fact is, comedians love to joke about death and near-death experiences. Dark comedy makes the audience just uncomfortable enough to make it a relief to laugh, knowing it’s all a hoax — like when Betty White played the grandmother in “The Proposal” who faked her death to expedite her grandson’s wedding. As cynical as it sounds, death can be funny if it’s not personal. For O’Donnell, however, it is personal. In her hour-long stand-

up act, the comedienne wears her heart on her sleeve — no pun intended — as she talks about the struggles of raising five children (she had the fifth, a toddler, “Because I have four teenagers”), the excitement of falling in love again with Rounds (who proved that “lipstick lesbians” actually do exist), as well as her ongoing obsession with Barbra Streisand. Though O’Donnell is known for her abrasive opinions and kneejerk comebacks, she somehow becomes more human under the spotlight, her eyes watery with memories of her children when they were “delicious” babies. This doting mother act quickly snaps back to farce, though, with a long rant about circumcision. Somewhere between exploding about her eldest teenager’s sex life and remembering the ups-and-downs of her whirlwind romance, O’Donnell finds her somber purpose in the act’s final 20 minutes. Though she tries to balance the severity of the issue with her trademark sarcasm, there is something off about her story. Because on a stand-up stage, it’s hard to tell farce from reality. Death becomes the joke and the joke becomes death, blurring the lines of where to laugh and when to listen. Comic relief certainly lightens the issue — but should heart disease be taken lightly?

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Beilein’s offense stifles Ohio State’s defense in rematch of lopsided loss By JAKE LOURIM Managing Sports Editor

It didn’t take even 90 seconds for the Michigan men’s basketball team to make a statement about how Sunday’s game against Ohio State was going to go. Sophomore forward Zak Irvin stood at the top of the key on the Wolverines’ second possession, guarded by Ohio State freshman D’Angelo Russell. Freshman forward Ricky Doyle came to the top of the key to set a screen and stopped Russell cold. Irvin coasted to the basket for a layup. Only a month ago, the Buckeyes and their high-pressure defense flummoxed a young Michigan team into coughing

up 13 turnovers and shooting 34 percent. Sunday at Crisler Center, an even younger Michigan team never gave them the chance to do the same thing. The Wolverines gained a step using their pick-and-roll, opened things up on the perimeter with screens and whipped the ball around to their playmakers when they found the space. “We practiced handling the pressure,” said senior forward Max Bielfeldt. “Ohio State’s a great pressure team. We practiced that all week. It was not that pretty in practice. We were struggling a little bit with it, and today we really kind of clicked on all cylinders.” Michigan coach John Beilein has talked throughout the Big Ten season about needing better passing on his team — so much so that he had 5-foot-11 junior point guard Spike Albrecht passing the ball inbounds against Illinois center Nnanna Egwu in the final seconds of his team’s game Feb. 12. See BEILEIN, Page 2B

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It wasn’t the start anybody expected for the Michigan men’s basketball team Sunday against No. 24 Ohio State, and not just because of Big Sean. The popular Detroit-based rapper captivated the crowd at Crisler Center before the game, guest-starring on the public-address system as he introduced the Wolverines’ starting lineup. But the Big Sean buzz was short-lived, as Michigan quickly recaptured the attention of its home crowd with a 7-0 run to start the game. The Wolverines — viewed as heavy underdogs — quickly expanded that lead to 17-7. Michigan (7-8 Big Ten, 14-13 overall) played arguably its best 20-minute stretch of the Big Ten season in the first half, riding a 39-23 halftime lead all the way to a 64-57 victory. All cylinders were firing for the Wolverines — seven players contributed scoring in the period, including sophomore guard Andrew Dakich’s first points of the season. He hit a 3-pointer from the corner that brought the Crisler crowd to its feet, one of several standing ovations the Wolverines received throughout the dominant opening sequence. “Honestly, I was just relieved,” Dakich said. “I haven’t been playing the way I think I can sometimes, and to finally hit that first shot … I couldn’t stop smiling, because I’ve waited for this moment my whole life. And to do it against a really good Ohio State is pretty cool.” Freshman forward Kameron Chatman, too, displayed moves Michigan fans have been waiting to see all season, scoring off a sharp spin move early in the half and earning a layup after taking the ball from coast to coast for a few minutes later. “Kam continues to make progress,” Beilein said. “Where some people may be dialing back in their practice right now, we’re actually practicing more with those guys, because they need this fundamental work … with Kam, it certainly showed off today.” See MICHIGAN, Page 2B

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he Michigan men’s lacrosse team is about to play the No. 2 team in the country, and for possibly the first time in its short history, it doesn’t feel like it’ll be a blowout. The GREG crowd files GARNO in early to Oosterbaan Field House, and for the first time in this program’s short history, they are turning away fans at the door. There are still 20 minutes before the game begins. Dads stand in packs, arms crossed, previewing the match, while moms sit together on the bleachers. Kids from all over come to watch, some needing to be hoisted up on shoulders for a glimpse, for a chance to see the game. They pack the corners and the sidelines, and for a moment, it seems there might be more fans in attendance than the end of the football team’s game against Utah. They announce teams, and now, for one of the rare times, Michigan’s starters are juniors and seniors. The Wolverines have players who have grown into their roles, who aren’t just learning them. Before the first faceoff against Notre Dame, Michigan is 2-0 to begin the season. It’s the first time in the program’s history. And for the program that endured 37 losses in its first three years, Saturday’s game feels different — everything feels different. ***

or the past three years the Wolverines have started each afternoon in

the weight room above Canham Natatorium. They lift for part of the day, then walk across the track at Ferry Field to their locker room at Ray Fisher Stadium. Some days, they go to the Academic Center to watch film. Then they change and run around the baseball and softball fields to practice in Oosterbaan. The Michigan men’s lacrosse team doesn’t have a home on campus. It shares space and makes do with what’s available. The team is lucky just to have a place to lift, practice and watch film. When the Wolverines were a club team, they didn’t have the same luxuries. So players and coaches haven’t complained about their facilities now — it’s better than what they had. Legitimacy isn’t just given after complaining and begging. It’s earned. And it has a chance to earn it is against Notre Dame. ***

he first quarter begins with Notre Dame’s Logan Connolly barreling over players into a penalty. The Fighting Irish are the No. 2 team in the country. They’re bigger, faster and, most importantly, they’re a program with many more years of experience than the Wolverines. Michigan takes each hit, each stick check and finds a way to work through it. It has faced tough teams in the past, but rarely does it face a team as good as the Fighting Irish, who fell to Duke in the national title game last season. Sophomore goalie Gerald Logan makes a save at pointblank range, and the crowd erupts. He finds an outlet, and Michigan rushes down the field. It runs its offense quickly until a shot goes wide.

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Michigan upset bid falls short vs. Irish By TAHMEED TUREEN For the Daily

Fans walked into Oosterbaan Field House hoping to get a glimpse of the Michigan men’s lacrosse team’s NOTRE DAME 17 8 MICHIGAN match against No. 2 Notre Dame. But not all fans were able to watch the game firsthand, as the game sold out, resulting in fans being turned away. But the Fighting Irish made sure those who couldn’t get in didn’t miss a major upset, topping Michigan 17-8. The game started off with both teams fighting for ground balls and goals. Sophomore attackman Ian King started off the scoring with 9:38 left in the first quarter, while sophomore goalie Gerald Logan backed up the team with six saves. Notre Dame (2-0) responded with just two goals to end the first quarter. The atmosphere promised a thrilling game for both fan bases. However, the momentum changed when the Fighting Irish began to dominate from the X with consecutive faceoff wins. With much more possession than the Wolverines, the Fighting Irish netted seven goals in the second quarter while Michigan was only able to score once from the stick of senior attackman Mike Francia. The seven Irish goals came from six different players. Michigan’s second-quarter offense wasn’t able to settle down due to constant pressure from the Fighting Irish defense, as they also kept the Michigan offense from entering into their territory. The transition game was key during this game, which ultimately gave the Fighting Irish the upper hand until the final whistle. “(Notre Dame is) a very strong transition (team) with

big shooters and nifty inside attackmen,” said freshman midfielder Parker McKee. “They definitely, definitely got their chances (off transitions).” The third and fourth quarters were a much better representation of the game in comparison to the second quarter. Notre Dame was held to eight goals by the Michigan defense while the offense rattled the Irish net six times. King scored his third tally with 9:37 left in the third quarter, and junior midfielder Mike Hernandez and senior midfielder Will Meter followed King with a goal apiece. However, Notre Dame outscored the Wolverines once again, scoring five unanswered goals to pull ahead 17-6. Meter would tally one more goal, and King added another with 23 seconds left in the game. King had a total of four goals and two assists while Logan had 16 saves between the pipes. Hernandez also scored his first goal of the season in the second half. On the other side of the field, Matt Kavanaugh, known as the face of the Irish attack, scored three goals and three assists. Brother Rice (Michigan) High School graduate Sergio Perkovic also scored two goals in his return to his home state. While it was a tough loss for the fourth-year program, Michigan can take some positives from the experience going forward. The Wolverines still have to face lacrosse powerhouses Johns Hopkins and Maryland during Big Ten play. “Thankfully, we have a game like this to prepare before we get into the Big Ten,” said Michigan coach John Paul. “I’m really glad we scheduled this game.” But the season goes on for the Wolverines, and they’ll have to move past the tough loss, especially with Canisius coming to town in a week.

The Wolverines trail 2-1 at the end of the first quarter and somehow, it feels as if Michigan is still able to win the game. ***

uilding the Michigan men’s lacrosse team is like building a house. Coach John Paul tells his team that it is building each part of the house with every week. He’s built the foundation, as he says, if he can be so humble as to say he built the foundation. Really, he had to cut down the trees, level the land and build the road to get there, given how this team started. The head coach of the club varsity lacrosse team — essentially one step below varsity status — Paul and the Wolverines were granted varsity status in late May 2011. They began practice for their first season the same year. Paul never had time to recruit his first class to come play, instead using the club players who had come to Michigan for academic reasons. Unlike the women’s team, which was given a year to build, Paul was thrown into the fire. “There were a lot of culture changes we had to go through,” Paul said. “We anticipated this would take a while, but we wanted to do it the right way and build culture first. “If you’d ask the guys, years ago, to give you an honest answer (about buying into the culture), I don’t know if that was the case.” But over time, Paul has brought in bigger, better recruiting classes. Now, as he says, this year is different because they have the “frame” in place. You can see the house being built, and now, you can see the tangible successes after double-digit-loss seasons.

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Michigan men’s lacrosse coach John Paul has made his team more competitive in each of its four seasons as a program.

“You do so much work from a distance that it doesn’t look like you’re making any progress,” Paul said. ***

he second quarter, and really the remainder of the game, unraveled from underneath Michigan. Paul described his team as “emotional” afterward; unable to stay upbeat when it was knocked down. Notre Dame outscored the Wolverines 7-1 in the second quarter, forcing five turnovers with a defense that flustered the Wolverines. The Fighting Irish offense pushed the ball inside to create easy scoring opportunities. “I think, more than anything, they were disappointed in the way they were playing,” Paul said. “Our guys certainly feel like they could be a lot better than they were. And that’s what we want.” This used to be a team that

slowed down the pace of play so that it could limit a game getting out of hand, and it dropped players back faster to make sure its defense wasn’t exposed. And now, it’s playing the faster up-tempo game it always wanted. “We showed what we’re capable of doing, and I think that’s a big step,” said senior attacker Will Meter. The Wolverines were silent heading off the field after the final horn, because this game stung. But in a different way than it used to. ***

he season ahead is filled with even more ranked teams, and the ones that aren’t have already built their houses. But this year is different because by now, they’ve been through a gauntlet schedule like this before. “If we’re going to get where we want to get with this pro-

gram, at some point it’s got to stop being intimidating,” Paul said. “In the first three years, we’d approach games like this and say, ‘Man, I hope we can hang with these guys.’ And I don’t think that’s the case anymore.” But this year is different, not because a boy sits on his dad’s shoulders to watch or because players are older. It feels different because, going to any game, it feels as if Michigan has a chance. And this team likely won’t be in line for some miraculous season, but it has its foundation and its frame. “We’ve turned a corner, and it’s visible when you see us every day now,” Paul said. “We’re a very different program.” That much has never been truer. Because a good house stays standing, even after it loses. Garno can be reached at ggarno@umich.edu or on Twitter @G_Garno.

MICHIGAN From Page 1B The Wolverines’ lead ballooned to as many as 20 points in the first half before Ohio State whittled it to three in the second. But Michigan has struggled to hold late leads and close out tight games in recent weeks, most notably in overtime losses to Michigan State and Illinois. That wasn’t the issue on Jan. 13, when the Wolverines were, by and large, run out of the gym against the Buckeyes’ 71-52 Ohio State victory. The Wolverines were determined to flip both narratives on their heads in their rematch with the Buckeyes (8-6, 19-8). Albrecht, Irvin and senior forward Max Bielfeldt, especially, made sure Michigan didn’t succumb to its late-game malaise of weeks past. Irvin made a critical layup following a steal by freshman guard Aubrey Dawkins with 1:01 left in the game, and Albrecht drained an equally important pair of free throws with 55 seconds left to push Michigan’s lead to 60-50 and eventually seal the Wolverines’ victory. “I don’t think it was as much relief as it was just excitement,” Bielfeldt said of finally getting

BEILEIN From Page 1B Sunday, the Wolverines’ passing was crisp and quick, never allowing Ohio State to set up its defense. The Buckeyes didn’t go to their zone until just three minutes remained in the first half, when Michigan found Doyle for an easy layup under the basket. And they didn’t go to their full-court press until 90 seconds into the second half, when Albrecht and Bielfeldt connected on a quick give-andgo to get Albrecht down the court safely. By that time, the Wolverines led by double digits and had settled into a rhythm offensively. It was too late. “We struggled against their press and how they guarded us in the first game when we played in Columbus,” Irvin said. “I just thought we’d be able to watch

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Sophomore forward Zak Irvin totaled 15 points, seven rebounds, three 3-pointers and a career-high four assists Sunday.

over the hump. “We hadn’t had a good win like that in a while. It reminded me a little bit of the day where we had those big wins more often.” Albrecht finished with 16 points, five assists and four rebounds. Irvin, who has struggled periodically throughout the season, put together a complete game Sunday, finishing with 15 points, seven rebounds and four

assists. Freshman guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman was impressive early as well, breaking through the Buckeyes’ front line multiple times. The penetration left sophomore forward Zak Irvin and junior guard Spike Albrecht with open looks at 3-pointers on multiple occasions — the pair collectively shot 4-for-7 from beyond the arc in the first half.

Sunday’s win, Beilein said, was a case study in playing college basketball the right way. “I told our freshmen today, ‘Watch Spike Albrecht.’ That’s what college basketball is gravitating to,” Beilein said. “Diving on the floor, playing at high speed, playing so hard that you can’t breathe sometimes — that is what the great players do, and we’re learning that.”

film and be able to counter that this afternoon.” Added Ohio State coach Thad Matta: “It seemed like we were on our heels too much defensively. Give them credit. They were able to do, especially in the first half, anything they wanted to do against us. You can’t do that with that type of offense.” When the going got tough, the Wolverines’ composure never wavered. They, not Ohio State, looked like the team with three seniors in its rotation. In the end, Albrecht and Irvin roared with delight after finally finishing off a win in February on their sixth try. “It was just a lot of frustra-

tion let out in the last couple minutes,” Albrecht said. “We’ve had a tough stretch here these past five games, so to be able to finally get a win, it was awesome.” Michigan used a classic Beilein offensive game to generate all kinds of opportunities. After Doyle’s screen on Russell in the first two minutes, he leaked out from the paint and drained an open baseline jumper. A moment later, freshman guard Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman drove down the baseline and kicked out to an open Irvin for a 3-pointer. That passing continued for most of the first half as the Wolverines built their lead, bringing

to mind some of their performances of the past two years. “We had 13 assists. We haven’t had 13 assists in a long time (only once since Jan. 6),” Beilein said. “I know that’s a stat a lot of you don’t value probably as much as I do, but it means you made two people guard you and you got somebody open.” In the last seven minutes, Ohio State had a 20-point deficit trimmed down to three after blocking a shot near the end of the shot clock and scoring at the other end. But the Wolverines’ motion on offense worked to perfection again, giving Irvin an open triple from the corner. Then it was just a matter of Michigan making the plays it hasn’t all month. This time, the Wolverines put themselves in position to finish the game. “I wasn’t going to let us lose that game,” Albrecht said. “I did not want to lose that game.”

“It seemed like we were on our heels too much defensively.”

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‘M’ crashes party at Bama By CHRIS CROWDER Daily Sports Writer

In the seventh inning of the No. 5 Michigan softball team’s first of two games against No. 3 Alabama, SEC Network analyst and former Crimson Tide pitcher Lauren Sewell was in awe. As she watched her alma mater continue to be outplayed, she said, “I thought Michigan would be intimidated by Alabama.” The subsequent pitch was sent over the center field wall by Michigan junior right fielder Kelsey Susalla, the eventual MVP of the Easton Bama Bash. It was Alabama that was intimidated, and the Crimson Tide’s fans at Rhoads Stadium went silent. The Wolverines went on to win the game, 8-2, the second of their five wins in an undefeated weekend. Michigan (13-1) started the tournament with a 7-1 win over Lipscomb. Michigan tried not to look ahead, taking the Bison just as seriously as Alabama. “We just play Michigan softball, and it doesn’t matter who we’re going against,” said sophomore pitcher Megan Betsa. In a matchup between two topfive teams, Michigan approached Alabama the exact same way as usual: focusing on each pitch and taking it one inning at a time. “We talked about not making the game bigger than it is,” said junior infielder Sierra Romero. Senior catcher Lauren Sweet scored the Wolverines’ first runs with a two-run homer in the second inning. Later in the frame, the bases were loaded and the table was set for Michigan to break the game wide open. But sophomore left fielder Kelly Christiner eventually struck out after putting up a fight. “At first when we had the bases loaded and nobody out, our swings were just huge,” said Michigan coach Carol Hutchins. “But then we shortened up a

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Michigan loses in double overtime Michigan beats buzzer to force OT, can’t finish rally By MINH DOAN Daily Sports Writer

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Junior shortstop Sierra Romero went 6-for-11 on the weekend and broke the school record for grand slams with eight.

little bit and made contact. I liked that adjustment. I like that we’re willing to do whatever it takes to win.” After shortening up their swings, the Wolverines pulled away little by little, making Alabama fans increasingly frustrated. As the fans pleaded with the umpire for calls to go in the Crimson Tide’s favor, the once-upbeat body language of the Alabama players started to deteriorate. Instead of feeling intimated, Michigan was relaxed. Betsa, who got the win, was happy with how the team balanced being intense and energetic. And the offensive dominance helped her cause, as she held the Crimson Tide to two runs. “When they’re putting that many runs on the board, it makes it a lot easier for us (pitchers) and gives us that comfort,” Betsa said. The barrage of runs didn’t stop coming as the tournament went into day two. The Wolverines racked up 13 runs against Lipscomb, not showing any signs of letting up. Senior pitcher Sara

Driesenga pitched a complete game while holding the Bisons to only one run. Senior pitcher Haylie Wagner took the circle for Michigan for the rematch against Alabama and stifled the Crimson Tide to a one-run effort. The Wolverines faced Alexis Osorio, who pitched a no-hitter in her previous game against Pacific. And they didn’t let Osorio get anywhere close to the success of her last start. Osorio was ineffective, as Michigan never trailed after building on a 1-0 lead in the third inning to the tune of a solo home run by Christiner and a tworun homer from freshman Tera Blanco. The Wolverines held on the rest of the way to win 4-1. “I don’t ever expect anything but we chip away,” Hutchins said. “We chip away, and it isn’t just one, two or three people in our lineup. It’s everybody. It’s every part of the order that can turn things around. Our goal is just to keep chipping away and putting the ball in play.” The Wolverines finished the weekend on day three with a 10-0 run-rule win against James

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Madison. “We never backed down,” Romero said. “Every single at bat, every single play, every single pitch, we were fighting. We were never satisfied with the lead we had, and we kept pushing for more.” With a grand slam in the final game, Romero broke the Michigan career grand-slam record with eight. But she said that the record was never her goal. “My goal is to do my part,” Romero said. “As long as I’m doing my part and everyone else is doing their part, then we’re going to be a very hard team to beat.” After the Wolverines outscored their opponents 42-5 over the weekend, bolstered by 10 home runs, everyone in the lineup, top to bottom, is contributing. Michigan isn’t intimidated. It has shown the rest of the country that no matter who the Wolverines play, they’re going to play like a force to be reckoned with. If anything, they’re the ones who are able to intimidate opponents.

Maybe it just isn’t the Michigan women’s basketball team’s season. Just MINNESOTA 91 a week MICHIGAN 88 after the Wolverines lost to Northwestern on a lastsecond layup, Michigan found itself down by two with less than five seconds in the game and one final chance to tie up the game. The sequence started off poorly with sophomore guard Siera Thompson missing an off-balanced jumper, but in the ensuing scramble for the ball, senior forward Cyesha Goree picked up the ball and threw up another shot. The shot rattled around the rim and out, right into the arms of senior forward Nicole Elmblad, who was all alone on the weak side. Elmblad’s layup went through the bucket as time expired. In overtime, the Wolverines found themselves down once again, this time by four with a minute remaining. But once again, Michigan came back, with Goree first knocking down a mid-range jumper to cut the deficit to two. On the ensuing play, freshman guard Katelynn Flaherty picked the ball away from Minnesota center Amanda Zahui B., and Elmblad came up clutch, knocking down a jump shot to tie the game and send it into double overtime. In double overtime, the Wolverines fell down by six with a minute remaining, ultimately losing the game.

“I thought we gave it tremendous effort,” said Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico. “I really thought our press disrupted them. We made a tremendous run. It’s tough because we’ve been this situation so many times during the course of this season. It’d be nice for once for it to go our way.” The matchup to watch in the game was Goree and Zahui, and the duo didn’t disappoint. The two battled each other inside, each playing all 50 minutes while putting up double-double numbers. Zahui, who put up 39 points and grabbed 29 boards Tuesday, racked up 27 points and 27 rebounds while Goree finished with 26 points and 20 rebounds. “I thought it was a great basketball game,” Barnes Arico said. “Cyesha Goree and Amanda Zahui B., two of the best posts in the country, went head to head, and it was a great matchup.” But Goree wasn’t Michigan’s leading scorer, as that title went to Flaherty, who finished with 27 points, shooting 11-for-25. “Down the stretch, we were putting the ball in (Flaherty’s) hands,” Barnes Arico said. “She’s making some plays. I think she’s getting more and more comfortable as the season progresses. She just had a great output tonight.” With the loss, the Wolverines have all but clinched the No. 8 seed in the Big Ten Tournament, which will get them a first-round bye, before taking on the No. 9 seed in the second. The winner of that game will take on No. 5 Maryland, the Big Ten champion, in the third round. But before then, Michigan still has two games left in the season. And with the result today, another loss could knock them out of the NCAA Tournament picture for good.

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‘M’ can’t capitalize on Michigan upsets Memphis series-opening victory By ALEX KHALIFEH For the Daily

By DANNY VARGOVICK Daily Sports Writer

The Michigan baseball team entered play this weekend eager to forget a tough season-opening series loss to Long Beach State. But after two games this weekend against Tennessee Tech and two against Davidson, things only got worse. Friday, in Savannah, Georgia, the Wolverines collected their sole win over the Golden Eagles, 6-5, before dropping the final three games of the weekend to Davidson, 5-4, Tennessee Tech, 11-8, and Davidson, 3-2. The highlight of the weekend for Michigan (2-5) came in the ninth inning of the first game against Tennessee Tech, when junior left fielder Cody Bruder laid down the go-ahead RBI bunt single. Bruder reached first safely even though Michigan coach Erik Bakich called for a suicide squeeze. “Cody did a great job executing in that situation,” Bakich said. “That was a game-winning play right there.” Junior closer and first baseman Jacob Cronenworth earned the win after pitching the final two innings. Cronenworth also led off and reached base three times, as did the No. 2 and No. 3 hitters, Bruder and senior center fielder Jackson Glines. But after the win, the final three games of the weekend left Bakich with little to praise. The second game got off to a great start thanks in a large part to a five-inning, seven-strikeout, no-run performance from sophomore right hander Keith Lehmann. Bakich was unhappy, though, that he needed to pull Lehmann after the fifth inning, since the right-hander had already thrown 96 pitches. “The type of pitcher Keith is,” Bakich said, “I’d rather him force contact and pitch deeper into games than have to accumulate

pitches because he’s striking people out.” The Wolverines went into the top of the ninth leading 3-0. With Cronenworth unavailable after throwing two innings the previous day, Davidson (3-2) sent the game to extra innings largely due to Wolverine mistakes: Two of the three runs that scored in the ninth reached base on a walk and hit-by-pitch, both of which ultimately scored off a wild pitch and passed ball. The 11th inning began just like the ninth — with a walk and a hit batter. Davidson went up for good when both runners scored on a fielder’s choice. Saturday’s second game, the final contest against Tennessee Tech (4-2), featured better hitting, worse pitching and fatal errors. The Golden Eagles put up six unearned runs in the third inning off of a number of walks and errors by Cronenworth and senior shortstop Eric Jacobson. Michigan’s noteworthy moment came in the form of a three-run home run by sophomore designated hitter Carmen Benedetti, the Wolverines’ first home run of the season. The team cut the lead to just two runs in the seventh, but Tennessee Tech put the game out of reach in the eighth in a frustratingly familiar fashion: Of the three runners that scored in the inning, two had originally reached base off a walk and a hit batter. Michigan’s final game of the weekend, a 9 a.m. start against Davidson, was much more of a pitchers’ duel. Freshman Jayce Vancena impressed in his first collegiate

start, limiting the Wildcats to one run on four hits and no walks. Benedetti then came in for his first appearance on the mound in his college career and threw one and two-thirds innings of no-hit ball. The Wolverines held a two-run lead in the bottom of the eighth when Wildcat David Daniels hit a two-run bomb off of sophomore lefthander Brett Adcock. Junior shortstop Travis Maezes was unable to play after being ruled out with an injury, so Jacobson shifted over from second base in his absence. “(Jacobson) is a highcharacter, high-makeup kid, and defense has always been one of his greatest strengths,” Bakich said. “He’s made all the routine plays for us that we’ve needed him to made and done a really nice job leading the infield from the shortstop position.” After the Wolverines were originally scheduled to travel to Greenville, North Carolina, they had to make alternative plans due to weather. They didn’t find out who they would be playing until Thursday night, limiting the amount of time they had to prepare for the weekend. But Bakich refused to use this as a possible excuse and also rejected the idea that the team was at a disadvantage because its opponents can practice outside while the Wolverines cannot in the middle of the Ann Arbor winter. He’s not taking these losses lightly, either. “We’ve got to get better in a lot of areas, as an entire team unit, pitching, hitting, and defense,” Bakich said. “There’s a massive sense of urgency.”

“We’ve got to get better ... There’s a massive sense of urgency.”

The Michigan men’s tennis team showed an underdog mentality Saturday at the Varsity Tennis Center. Going toe to toe with No. 22 Memphis, the Wolverines came from behind in both doubles and singles competition en route to their 5-1 victory. In doubles play, redshirt freshman Alex Knight and freshman Leo Hua faced an early deficit in their matchup against Memphis’ Andrew Watson and Louis Asser. For most of the match, Watson and Asser used the both-up strategy, playing close to the net and rarely showing any defensive mishaps. Knight and Hua tried painting the lines, but eventually lost, 6-3. Senior No. 1 doubles partners Alex Petrone and Michael Zhu fell behind, 3-1, in their first set against the Tigers’ Kai Lemke and Connor Glennon. But Petrone and Zhu were able to recover — partly due to two straight double faults by Lemke and Glennon — and tie the match at 3. After a back-and-forth match, Memphis (4-3) seemed ready to pull away in the tiebreaker with a 4-0 lead in the third set. But Petrone and Zhu came back, taking a 5-4 advantage and

ultimately winning the match, 7-6. The win gave the Wolverines a 1-0 lead. “Unbelievable,” said Michigan coach Adam Steinberg. “That was the most important part of the match. We’ve been struggling in doubles. It was incredible.” Zhu was the standout player on Steinberg’s mind after the game. “He’s really stepping up, playing aggressive and playing like a senior,” Steinberg said. “Today, he’s our hero. He was fantastic.” The momentum from Petrone and Zhu’s decisive doubles match carried over to the singles matchups, where Michigan (3-5) went up early against Memphis, leading four out of the six singles matchups. After losing his singles matchup earlier Saturday against Cleveland State’s Jorg Van Der Vloet, Knight bounced back, defeating Memphis’ Patrick Mayer, 6-3, 6-2. Freshman Carter Lin faced problems in his first set against Memphis’ Shakeel Manji, losing the first set, 6-3. During the break in action, Steinberg offered the rookie advice. “Carter needs to play more aggressively,” Steinberg said. “He shies away from stepping in. We were trying to attack his opponent for him. There were a lot of short balls that Carter needs to get on.”

Manji had an opportunity to tie the match at five after building a 40-30 lead over Lin, but Lin recovered and put the match to rest by winning the next two points. The advice seemed to resonate with Lin, who went on to sweep the next two sets, 6-3, 6-4. Crocker played a tightly contested match against Memphis’ Lemke, where Crocker took the first set decisively, winning 6-2, but allowed the second and third to be decided in tiebreakers. The second and third sets saw Crocker commit two double faults that either propelled the match into a tiebreak or gave Lemke an advantage. The tiebreaker in the third showcased another comeback performance. When Crocker had been down 4-0 in the tiebreaker, Steinberg reminded him of Petrone and Zhu, who came back from down 4-0 in their doubles tiebreaker. Crocker bounced back and took a 5-4 lead. The tiebreaker lasted a total of 20 points, with Crocker eventually winning, 11-9. “I wanted to win to top off the great effort by the team. Our seniors and our coaches kept us focused on what we needed to do,” Crocker said. The preparation paid off with a well earned victory over a nationally ranked opponent.

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Michigan splits with Ohio State, moves into first place in Big Ten By JEREMY SUMMITT Daily Sports Editor

It’s been the Hyman and Larkin show for quite a while now, and the show will go on. Senior forward Zach Hyman and freshman forward Dylan Larkin each netted a goal and recorded three assists in Sunday’s 5-2 victory over Ohio State as the No. 15 Michigan hockey team moved into a first-place tie with Minnesota atop the Big Ten standings. “We’ve been together since the start of the year, so every game we’ve gotten better,” Hyman said. “We’re good friends off the ice, so there’s chemistry there, and it just carries over onto the ice.” The win comes two days after the Wolverines’ 10-game unbeaten streak over the Buckeyes, dating back to 2011, was snapped in Columbus. Michigan coach Red Berenson cited a lackluster defensive effort as the root of his team’s mediocre performance Friday, but all that was cleaned up for the final meeting of the season between the Wolverines (9-5 Big Ten, 17-11 overall) and the Buckeyes (4-10, 9-17-2). “We had a meeting Saturday, and a lot of guys bought in, and you could see it on the ice,” Larkin said. “We had some good chances come from hard work back, and it was a good team effort.” Midway through the second period, the Wolverines killed a five-minute penalty committed by sophomore defenseman Michael Downing for contact to the head, helping them ride a wave of momentum built by two second-period goals.

“That was a lot of hard work, and I think our team really knuckled down when we got that five-minute major and that really helped us,” Berenson said. “Sometimes that can be a motivator for your team to really even play harder and be more desperate.” The first of those two goals came off the stick of Larkin at the 5:15 mark thanks to a feed across the slot from junior forward Boo Nieves. Just over three minute later, freshman defenseman Zach Werenski netted his sixth goal of the season off a slapshot from the blue line. His tally was set up by Larkin and Hyman, who swung the puck around the zone and created space for Werenski just as a Michigan power play was expiring. Werenski would add his second goal of the night at the 14:34 mark of the third period for the second multi-goal game of his career. Werenski’s second goal provided a resounding answer to Ohio State’s first tally of the game. Forward Tanner Fritz corralled a pass in the slot and beat junior goaltender Steve Racine over his left shoulder with 7:35 left in the game. And it was forward Tyler Lundey who netted the Buckeyes second goal of the night that came in the final minute of regulation. The two late goals left a minor blemish on an otherwise stout night for Racine and Michigan’s defensive unit. “I think we paid more attention to playing better defense,” Berenson said. “Sometimes when you’re a good player, all you do the whole game is you’re hoping to get the puck and then you get it and then you hope to get it. During that hope time, we’ve been giving up too many scoring chances and too many goals. “We’re trying to get that hope out of our game and know when we’re defending and when we’re

attacking.” The Wolverines’ defensive effort crept into its special-teams play. They were perfect on the penalty kill, stymying all five of the Buckeyes’ opportunities with the man-advantage. On its own power play, Michigan took advantage of Ohio State’s abysmal penalty-killing unit — one that has just a 73-percent success rate — converting on one of three chances with the extra attacker. Most impressively, Michigan’s top-ranked offense got going again, particularly at even strength. Larkin’s nifty behindthe-back pass to Hyman with 6:43 remaining in the first period got the ball rolling on the Wolverines’ dire effort to split the weekend series. “Playing on our chemistry, I just threw it, I knew he was going to be there and it was going in,” Larkin said. “We had a good night, and, more importantly we weren’t out for many goals.” Larkin recorded his third assist of the night on junior forward Justin Selman’s goal nine minutes into the third period. A crosszone pass to the left circle was all Selman needed, as he caught goaltender Christian Frey off his angle to net his seventh goal of the year. In the final month of the season, the wins and the points start to mean a little more than they did in November and December. Berenson and his players agreed that this win was huge in propelling them toward a late-season push. Sunday’s game marked the first time Michigan played at Yost Ice Arena in 43 days, and Hyman didn’t hold back about the importance of protecting home ice. “The season is winding down, and the last place you want to play is away,” he said. “Being at Yost is awesome, and we love playing here.”

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The Michigan hockey team fell at Ohio State on Friday (top) before bouncing back with a home win Sunday (bottom).

Home ice, blocked shots help Wolverines rout Michigan to bounce-back win Pittsburgh, Duke WRESTLING

Yost crowd lifts Wolverines to major penalty kill, Sunday win

Michigan closes dual-meet season with 28-9, 33-7 non-league wins

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By MICHAEL GRIFFIN

Daily Sports Editor

For the Daily

Midway through the second period Sunday, sophomore defenseman Michael Downing stonewalled an Ohio State skater in front of the bench, drawing a major penalty and a game ejection as a packed Yost Ice Arena booed in disapproval. But with each pad save and cleared puck, all 5,800 fans — back to watch the Michigan hockey team skate on home ice for the first time since Jan. 11 — cheered louder, and the Wolverines killed the fiveminute power play opportunity. “That’s huge,” said senior forward Zach Hyman. “We were up 3-0 at that point, so the next goal was really big from that standpoint. “That’s what your PK needs to do, is kill those kind of penalties, and we did that today.” Following a road loss Friday in Columbus, the Wolverines’ defense looked similarly reenergized in their regularseason series finale with the Buckeyes, helping junior goaltender Steve Racine to a 5-1 victory. A second period featuring five penalties — two against Ohio State, three against Michigan — may have otherwise hurt the Wolverines, who have struggled both to find twine on the power play and to kill penalties of late. The offense had been frustrated by Ohio State’s shot blocking Friday and had many of its best chances shooed away. Instead, Michigan capitalized on both of its chances against the nation’s worst penalty kill. After having his shot blocked in the first period, freshman

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Freshman defenseman Zach Werenski scored late in the third period and blocked two shots to hold off Ohio State.

defenseman Zach Werenski scored from the blue line just moments after the second power play expired. Perhaps more importantly, the Wolverines closed the gap in shots blocked, blocking nine attempts to Ohio State’s 11. The Buckeyes out-blocked Michigan in the first period, 7-3. Werenski — who took a penalty in the first period — got a second goal from the left circle late in the third period. And on his final shift, Werenski blocked two shots from a desperate Ohio State forecheck. Despite being outshot in the game, 30-23, the Wolverines won the shot-blocking battle and ultimately the game.

Michigan blocked 18 shots to the Buckeyes’ 16. “We were better,” Berenson said. “We had some good shot blocks on our end, and we didn’t allow them to block as many shots. … They’re a good team in shot-blocking — as good as anybody we play.” The longawaited return to Yost was also highlighted by guest appearances from football coach Jim Harbaugh and former quarterback Denard Robinson. After the final buzzer, “The Victors” echoed for the first time in seven weeks. “The season is winding down, and the last place you want to play is away,” Hyman said. “Being at Yost is awesome,

“Being at Yost is awesome, and we love playing here.”

and we love playing here.” Friday, on the other hand, the Wolverines struggled to slow down Ohio State. Though Racine — who allowed six goals in his last start at Value City Arena — was far from outstanding, the defense in front of him wasn’t much better. The loss was in large part a consequence of blocked shots. Michigan outshot the Buckeyes 39-32 and won the faceoff battle handily, but blocked fewer than 10 shots in the game. “Look at the blocked shots for Ohio State,” Berenson said Friday. “They did a great job, and we didn’t. I don’t know if that was the difference in the game, but that shows up.” For comparison, the Wolverines blocked 17 shots in a losing effort to Minnesota. But the Buckeyes couldn’t duplicate their winning recipe Sunday at Yost, where they left the ice without a win.

In the final weekend of dual meets this season, the Michigan wrestling team made a point to assert itself against strong outof-conference competition. The Wolverines dominated No. 24 Pittsburgh in a 28-9 win Friday night before beating Duke on Saturday, 33-7. Michigan looked strong over the course of both meets and received important and sometimes unexpected contributions from several wrestlers. The most surprising performance of the weekend came from Garrett Sutton, a freshman wrestling at 165 pounds. After losing his first two matches of the season, he helped carry the Wolverines to victory all weekend, winning 4-1 and 10-3 on Friday and Saturday, respectively. Michigan coach Joe McFarland was pleased with Sutton’s improvement. “Garrett was lean and light a couple of weeks ago,” McFarland said. “He’s got his body back up, he’s feeling good now, he’s feeling like he’s got more zip and energy out there. You can see it. His body just looks better.” Associate head coach Sean Bormet emphasized the technical aspect of Sutton’s wins. “He’s making good adjustments, getting more relaxed and comfortable out there,” Bormet said. “He really focused on riding tough. In the other matches (in weekends past) he was overthinking and letting guys go a little too easy. He’s really tough on top, and he’s got to use that to his advantage.

He did that this weekend.” While the wins gave the team confidence as the dual season wraps up, the meets also highlighted concerns about depth on the squad, a recurring problem all season. The Wolverines returned two wrestlers who had been out for extended periods in junior Rossi Bruno and redshirt sophomore Taylor Massa. But only one, Bruno, enjoyed success this weekend. Massa sat out Saturday after dropping his match on Friday, and his replacement, fifth-year senior Jake Salazar, lost a heartbreaker against Duke’s Trey Adamson, 4-3, in the final seconds. The Wolverines were also without freshman standout Alec Pantaleo, who both coaches said was taking the weekend off to deal with a few small injuries. Replacing Pantaleo was redshirt sophomore Angelo Latora, who lost both of his matches at the 149-pound weight class. The losses in the two events wrestled by replacements were the only ones Michigan dropped, and they were also the only truly close matches of the weekend, highlighting the need for depth in an otherwise strong team. The strongest performances, though, came from the team captains, fifth-year senior Max Huntley and sophomore Adam Coon. Huntley, wrestling for the last time at Cliff Keen Arena, had two successful matches, scoring a technical fall against Duke on Saturday and winning 17-6, while scoring a 5-1 victory over Pittsburgh’s Nick Bonaccorsi on Friday. Coon, coming off a victory at Iowa last weekend, contributed two wins, including a major decision Saturday. With their two final matches and home schedule complete, the Wolverines head into the Big Ten Championships on March 7 in Columbus two wins richer and boasting quite a bit more confidence.