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LEFT: Connor Morrell juggles during the 44th annual Hash Bash Saturday afternoon. UPPER RIGHT: Guitarist Laith Al-Saadi performs the Star Spangled Banner at Hash Bash on the Diag. LOWER RIGHT: A crowd gathers on the Diag with a large ‘Legalize 2016’ banner, handmade signs and flags.
For 44th year, marijuana advocates assemble in A2 ‘Hash Bash’ promotes ballot measure legalizing cannabis and hemp use By ISOBEL FUTTER and SAMIHA MATIN Daily Staff Reporters
Marijuana smoke, along with screams of, “Free the weed, end the war,” filled the air Saturday as the 44th annual Hash Bash unfolded on the Diag and Monroe Street. The event lit up at “high noon.”
Speakers included State Rep. Jeff Irwin (D–Ann Arbor), Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, City Councilmember Sabra Briere (D—Ward 1) and acclaimed comedian and activist Tommy Chong. Since its inception, Hash Bash has been an outlet for advocates of marijuana decriminalization. This held true Saturday. Charlie Strachbein, who coordinates the accompanying Monroe Street Fair, estimated that 9,000 people were in attendance. One of these attendees was the event’s originator: John Sinclair. The first Hash Bash was held in 1972 as a response to the 1969
arrest of activist and poet John Sinclair, who gave two marijuana joints to an undercover officer. Sinclair was sentenced to 10 years in prison, which sparked the “John Sinclair Freedom Rally” in December 1971. Held in the University’s Crisler Arena, the event featured a host of celebrities, including John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Stevie Wonder and Allen Ginsberg who came to protest for Sinclair’s release. The Michigan Supreme Court eventually overturned the law under which Sinclair had been convicted, and by the following April, the first Hash Bash was underway.
“I started this and I’m still alive, so I like to come back,” Sinclair said. “This was all a little idea me and some other people had 44 years ago … One day, I’ll be here and we’ll be celebrating legalization in Michigan.” A large emphasis at this year’s Hash Bash was promoting a 2016 state ballot measure that would legalize cannabis and hemp use in Michigan. It also aims to remove past criminal convictions for the possession of marijuana. In Ann Arbor, marijuana possession is a civil infraction — offenders can incur a $25 fine. See HASH BASH, Page 3A
Initiative aims to increase minority enrollment amid calls for change By ALLANA AKHTAR and CARLY NOAH Daily Staff Reporters
The University will host 46 high school freshmen and sophomores from Kalamazoo Public Schools for a three-day residential program designed to spur increased application and enrollment numbers for underrepresented minorities on campus. The purpose of the program is to expose younger high school students to the University in a way that will encourage them to aspire to attend. Students must have at least a 3.0 grade point average and submit a 300-word essay to gain acceptance into the program. The newly formed Michigan Institute for the Improvement of African American Representation — a committee connected with the University’s Black Student Union — will organize and run the pro-
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‘U’ celebrates environment on early Earth Day Diag festivities feature student organizations, tap water tasting By ANASTASSIOS ADAMOPOULOS and JACQUELINE CHARNIGA Daily Staff Reporters
Though Earth Day is celebrated nationally on April 22, University celebrations came weeks early this year to accommodate potential conflict with final exams. Central Student Government’s Commission on University Sustainability, the Student Sustainability Initiative and University Dining co-hosted the festivities, in partnership with more than 20 campus groups Friday. The event drew in both University students and local attendees, with activities underway on both the Diag and in Palmer Commons. On the Diag, activities included
sustainability-themed games, moss graffiti and a “take-the-tapwater taste test,” in which students were asked to taste test unlabeled containers of bottled and tap water and guess which was which. Students selected Knute Nadelhoffer, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of the University’s Biological Station, to address attendees and explain the significance of Earth Day. He spoke from the steps of Hatcher Graduate Library to the crowd. Nadelhoffer spoke to the intentions of Gaylord Nelson, the former Wisconsin senator who founded the day in 1970, whose wish was to raise awareness about a multitude of environmental issues, including pollution and the impact of overpopulation on the environment. “Back then, we had no idea about fossil fuels and burning forests,” Nadelhoffer said. LSA senior Angela Yang, the CSG Commission on University Sustainability chair and SSI board See EARTH, Page 3A
gram. Engineering junior Will Royster, who helped launch MIIAAR and is the BSU Academic Concerns Committee chair, said the idea stemmed from interest in expanding minority representation on campus. He said many of the programs offered for minorities at the University don’t provide participants with the full college experience. “Most of the other programs don’t let students allow themselves to visualize themselves as students on campus,” Royster said. Among the activities planned are opportunities for participants to meet with various student organizations, take a campus tour, view a presentation from an admissions counselor, participate in an SAT workshop and hear from University alum Shawn Blanchard, who teaches mathematics for the University’s Summer Bridge Program, a pre-freshman year academic preparation program. While this is the immersion program’s pilot year, Royster said he hopes to increase participation from other underrepresented high schools in the state, such as disSee PROGRAM, Page 3A
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The Michigan Raas Team performs in “That Brown Show” at the Power Center on Friday evening.
South Asian groups dance in fifth ‘That Brown Show’ Several ensembles perform during event headed by Michigan Sahana By TANYA MADHANI Daily Staff Reporter
Several of the University’s South Asian student performance groups gathered at the
Power Center on Saturday night to perform in the fifth annual “That Brown Show.” Michigan Sahana, a student group composed of Indian classical dancers and musicians, organizes and hosts TBS every year. Engineering sophomore Sandeep Siva, Michigan Sahana vice president and TBS Committee chair, said the event was created to showcase South Asian arts to University students
and local residents. Siva said the founders of the event titled the event “That Brown Show” to connect across a variety of groups across campus. More than 800 students, alumni from the performing groups, family members of participants and Ann Arbor residents attended Saturday’s event. The most challenging part of the show, Siva said, was preserving the original idea and identity See SHOW, Page 3A
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In the time it takes a watch’s hour hand to complete about 1080 full cycles, a new store will pop up in Ann Arbor selling a product to measure just that. By mid-May, a store selling Shinola products — an up-and-coming brand known primarily for its watches — will open on South Main and East Liberty streets. The new store in Ann Arbor will be the first of eight to 10 additional store openings slated for Detroit-based Shinola this year, adding to the store’s six existing locations. Washington D.C., Miami, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Dallas, Austin, New York and London are among other See SHINOLA, Page 3A
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HASH BASH From Page 1A However, smoking marijuana on a state university campus is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine up to $2,000 and up to one year in prison. The Ann Arbor Police Department and University Police patrolled the event and watched for any emergencies. Despite the fact that the usage of marijuana was illegal, and very prominent at Hash Bash, only three arrests were made. To Sinclair, addressing marijuana use as a criminal offense is a laughing matter. “Crime?” Sinclair said. “What kind of crime do they have here? I don’t worry about it, I’m going to get high anyways.” The Michigan Comprehensive Cannabis Law Reform Initiative Committee — which goes by MI Legalize — helped to both organize the event and book local speakers. The organization is an advocate of the pending legalization ballot measure. “We have been working hard to provide you with a uniquely thought-provoking and entirely
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radical rally,” said Nicholas Zettell, Hash Bash Director of Operations. “We’ve selected accomplished and knowledgeable figures within this diverse and colorful community to provide you with a savory blend of community leaders, elected officials, patients and much more.” Irwin, one of the elected officials, is the state representative responsible for drafting the pending 2016 ballot measure. He believes it is unethical to continue criminalizing individuals for smoking marijuana. “You’ve heard a little bit about how cannabis is a gateway drug, and I’m here to tell you folks it is a gateway drug to a real bad time with law enforcement,” Irwin said in a speech to Hash Bash attendees. “It’s a gateway to a criminal record; it’s a gateway to a misdemeanor or a felony; it’s a gateway to losing your financial aid. It’s a gateway to hundreds of millions of dollars wasted of taxpayer money arresting, trying, prosecuting and incarcerating marijuana users.” In a phone interview prior to the event, Briere said it is important to remember that Hash Bash promotes activism and
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political commentary, not civil disobedience. “It’s a collection of speeches and live music where people from different areas collaborate to focus on reforming the marijuana laws of Michigan,” Briere said. Though Irwin, Bernero and Briere all spoke about the legalization of marijuana at Saturday’s event, there were many different ideas raised throughout the afternoon’s speeches. Chong called for the elimination of the Drug Enforcement Administration, claiming that marijuana advocates were winning the war on drugs. “It started as a protest, but it’s turning into a celebration because we are winning,” he said. “What we’re having today is the celebration of the greatest plant known to man. All pot use is medical.” One speaker, Jim Powers, MI Legalize board member, talked about how cannabis oil saved his son’s life. Powers is also a cofounder of the Michigan Parents for Compassion — an organization dedicated to teaching others about the positive effects of medical marijuana on children’s health. His son, Ryan, suffers from Minimal Change Disease — an autoimmune disease of the kidneys. Powers said despite this, he and his son have not received medical protection from the state, which means his son’s successful medical treatment is still, technically, illegal. “Before cannabis oil, Ryan was able to maintain a remission of about 14 days. I’m pleased to report that today, on cannabis oil, Ryan has been in remission for 302 days,” Powers said. Law student Reid Murdoch and LSA senior Brian Kardell, executive members of the University’s Students for Sensible Drug Policy chapter, discussed the impact the University’s policy prohibiting smoking in residence halls could have on students. Kardell urged the student crowd at Hash Bash to take a stance against such discrimination. “Just because I choose to use marijuana doesn’t mean that See HASH BASH, Page 3A
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Vendor “Captain Kirk” provides a rolling paper table to the public at Hash Bash on Monroe Street on Saturday.
Three arrested during ‘Hash Bash’ celebrations University, Ann Arbor police enforce prohibition By ANDREW ALMANI Daily Staff Reporter
When hundreds of marijuana fans crowded the Diag for the annual Hash Bash on Saturday, local law authorities made three arrests for possession of marijuana with intent to deliver during the course of the event. In an interview with The Michigan Daily several days prior to Hash Bash, Division of Public Safety and Security spokeswoman Diane Brown described the division’s objectives during the marijuanafueled festival. “The event, itself, which usually has to do with having some speeches and collecting signatures — that part of it is an acceptable event for a student group to hold on the Diag like they do most every day of the year,” Brown said. “We don’t condone what this event sometimes attracts with the use of drugs or public consumption of
alcohol.” Brown said University officers often encounter individuals who are under the impression that the event provides a day of amnesty for illegal drug activity. “There are some people who come to this who perceive ... that marijuana and other drugs being displayed, transacted, possessed or used is permissible,” Brown said. “So the officers are there to ensure that anyone coming to the event is able to be there in a safe and secure environment.” Brown said the number of arrests varies every year, noting that the majority of those arrested tend to be visitors from outside the city. “Last year, the University police officers made one arrest during Hash Bash detail,” Brown said. “The year before, there were 16 people who were arrested for possession of suspected marijuana, and one person arrested for MIP. None of those were students. Very few students are arrested during this event. But they aren’t usually engaged in public displays of violations of law.” Because they enforce state law, University officers must arrest
those engaged in the consumption or possession of marijuana. According to a city ordinance, use of marijuana is a civil infraction resulting in a fine. The punishment an individual receives depends on jurisdiction where the infraction occurs. “If you’re on Dominick’s property, you’re in the city; if you’re across the street on the Law Quad then you’re on University property,” Brown said. “If you’re on Monroe Street in the middle, that’s technically a city street under the enforcement of the city police, but on all streets that are city property and adjacent to the University, both police agencies have concurrent jurisdiction.” To reserve events in the Diag, a group needs to have some affiliation with a University student group, staff or faculty. In the past, the University has attempted to restrict the presence of Hash Bash on its property. “Ultimately, the free speech aspect of the event was determined to make it something that could occur,” Brown said. “(The concern is) the illegal activity that the event tends to draw, not the free speech part of it...”
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EARTH From Page 1A member, said many of the participating organizations meet together regularly, and so hosting this event was a way to share the work that these groups have done. “I think sustainability is something that our previous president and our current president, Mark Schlissel, have kind of seen as a really important value for the University to have and I think a lot of students feel that way,” Yang said. “For CSG to put on an event like this really represents how key sustainability is as a value to everyone.” Sustainability was the tagline of the day, with each group present weighing in on the concept. LSA sophomore Stephanie Galczyk is a member of the LSA Student Government’s Taking Responsibility for the Earth and Environment subcommittee — which promotes more sustainable practices within LSA. At the event, she said, to her, sustainability is “preserving of natural resources that are far from abundant.” The subcommittee distributed natural cleaning products and “seed bombs,” colorful clumps of birdseed with biodegradable
PROGRAM From Page 1A tricts in Battle Creek and Detroit. He said he hopes to increase the number of participating students from 46 to 100. “We want to allow them to acclimate to the culture and make them passionate about the University,” Royster said. “We want them to envision themselves at the University.” Black students enrolled at the University currently make up 4 percent of the student body. After the Proposal 2 ballot initiative passed in 2006, the state of Michigan outlawed the consideration of race, among other factors, in the admissions process for public colleges. Minority enrollment subsequently declined, and the University has relied largely on recruitment efforts to encourage underrepresented minority students to apply and then enroll at the Unviersity. Royster said, by working through a student group rather than the administration, MIIAAR has more freedom and it is easier to make efforts to increase minority enrollment without being limited by Proposal 2. However, Royster said, because the program is not a part of the University, it is sometimes harder to receive the extra resources University-affiliated programs receive. “Students can target minority groups and bring them to campus,” Royster said. “For us, as students, we can create a program and reach out and make a difference.” E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, said according to the admissions office, students who visit campus are more likely to attend upon admittance. The program, she said, is attempting to develop a relationship between high-achieving minority students and the University to increase the likelihood they will want to apply and attend. Erica Sanders, interim director of Undergraduate Admissions, said students on campus want to connect with others from similar backgrounds or from the same area. She applauded the program’s effort to connect prospective students with current students from the same area. “We are encouraged by the level of commitment and dedication from Will Royster and the Black Student Union to make this program a success,” Sanders wrote in a statement. In past years, the University has struggled with increasing minority enrollment. Last year, members of the Black Student Union launched the #BBUM movement, which demanded the University increase Black enrollment to at least 10 percent of the student population. MIIAAR worked alongside Rob Sellers, vice provost for equity, inclusion and academic affairs, to help develop the residential program. Sellers heads the Office of the Provost’s Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, which University Provost Martha Pollack convened in December 2013, following the #BBUM campaign. The committee’s report, released in September, recommended the
paper adhesive. Keith Soster, director of student engagement for University Unions, said sustainability through the scope of Michigan Dining means providing students with locally produced food processed within 250 miles of campus. In the spirit of representing local produce, Soster dressed as a carrot. He added that making use of seasonality is another way the University reaps maximum benefits regarding food quality as well as cost efficiency. Soster spoke to the effectiveness of this technique in incorporating healthier food into the campus diet. “Right now, asparagus is out of season, so it tastes bad and would be expensive,” he said. “We save money by not getting it.” Michigan Dining chefs were prominently featured in Friday’s event, performing cooking demonstrations and distributing healthy snacks. Friday’s festivities also drew discussion on the role of students in promoting environmental protection. Rackham student Jonathan Morris, a member of the Divest and Invest campaign, said activism is a campus’s most powerful tool in making constructive, sustainable change. Divest and Invest has repeatedly called on the Uni-
University heavily invest in new and existing programs to build partnerships with target districts “to increase the pipeline of collegeready underrepresented minority students as well as first-generation students.” Sellers said the MIIAAR program aims to help build familiarity and trust between talented students and the University. “We commend the Black Student Union for its dedication and commitment to creating a more diverse campus,” Sellers said in a statement. “This is a goal we all share.” Harper said though the program would help get students more familiar with the University campus, she cannot predict whether minority enrollment numbers would see a direct impact. “I think it’s just trying to increase the notion that students will consider Michigan as an option by having them on campus, getting them familiar with being on campus, going to some classes, meeting with other students,” Harper said. “I think that this helps in that recruitment effort, but I’m not sure you can draw a direct relationship between if you do this then you’ll have more students of color on campus, I think that’s a stretch.” Royster said because this is the first year of the program, he, too, can’t promise an increase in minority enrollment without any influence in the admissions process. However, he said, he can still inspire students to attend the University. “When it comes to students in a minority environment, understanding they can come here and that there is a body and a face that looks like theirs is very important,” Royster said. “We want to get them more excited to apply and more aware of the obstacles they will face to apply.”
versity to divest from coal and fossil fuels. Most recently, Divest and Invest worked with the CSG to pass a resolution calling for the University’s Board of Regents to create a committee to consider the University’s investments and the potential of divesting from oil and coal companies. “The best thing for students to remember is that they have a tremendous amount of political power,” Morris said. “Just by coming out to an event, or signing petitions, they can make a change. Activism works when it is run on clean, student powered energy.” Engineering junior Jessica Abfalter, president of the University’s chapter of Take Back the Tap, a student group that promotes the importance of municipal water facilities and the value of tap water, said the event showed her that most people want to reduce the use of plastic bottles. She said altering public opinion is perhaps no longer the primary goal at hand. “It’s been really refreshing to see that it’s not really a matter of changing public opinion that we need to focus on as much as getting the administration to kind of follow along in what the student body and the citizens of Ann Arbor already have expressed
SHINOLA From Page 1A cities likely to see a new Shinola store this year. Ann Arbor will be the first. Heath Carr, chief executive officer of Shinola’s parent firm Bedrock Manufacturing Co., said Ann Arbor residents often visit the Detroit store, prompting the opening of a Main Street location. “We’re very excited to be coming to Ann Arbor,” Carr said. “We believe we have a solid customer following there based on the people that make the trip over to our Detroit store and for that reason we’re very excited to be there and can’t wait to get open.” Shinola produces a variety of products, including watches, bikes, leather accessories and paper products. The Detroit location produces all of their watches and bikes while leather production expands beyond Detroit to St. Louis, New York and Massachusetts. Paper products are made in Ann Arbor. Though operated by Bedrock Manufacturing in Texas and owned by Swiss timepiece maker Ronda, Shinola is based in Detroit. The city is its epicenter for sales, manufacturing, marketing, design, product development and distribution. The crux of the Shinola brand is that products are manufactured in America, Carr said. “We believe in the beauty of manufacturing and creating jobs in the United States and we believe that folks in the United States — specifically in Detroit and the other cities where we manufacture —that people can
that they feel about bottle water,” Abfalter said. The Earth Day celebration also showcased the efforts of Beat the Bottle, a petition launched last week by LSA senior Joanna Thelen that calls on the University to phase out plastic bottle sales. LSA sophomore Jayson Toweh, CSG Sustainability Commission treasurer, added that student activism for sustainability has expanded significantly since Earth Day’s conception — a positive sign for the future. He dressed as “Rufus the Recycler,” the blue mascot of the University’s Waste and Recycling Office. “Informing people about a cause and going to the people in charge, is the right way,” he said. “It shows education and gets rid of the crazy tree-hugger image and makes it about the science.” This new wave of “formal activists” are what Toweh believes is the future of a less radical and more mature method of making change on campuses. “This event raises awareness of the wonderful things our Earth provides and celebrates these things, as well as identifies the problems our planet faces,” he said. “We hope students will participate in more sustainable actions and take initiative around campus.”
design, create and manufacture beautiful products in the United States and we want to support that as best as we can,” Carr said. Edwards Brothers Malloy is an Ann Arbor-based book printing company and plant. John Edwards, president of Edwards Brothers Malloy, said while they print a variety of book types — such as textbooks — they also supply Shinola with all of their sketchbooks and lined and gridded journals of all sizes. “We’re used to shipping books that we make all over the country and all over the world, so it’s pretty neat that they’re actually having a store here in Ann Arbor,” he said. “I think for our employees it’s a pretty neat thing that they can go see our product placed at a store in town, a product we make for them.” Like the Shinola in Detroit, along with its products the store will have a Commonwealth Coffee on its first floor. Unique to the Ann Arbor location, however, will be a “finished-out” lower level to be used as an event space for brand and community events. “It’s really just about connecting to the community and having a place where not only can people have a coffee and purchase the products that we manufacture here in the United States, but also they can come in and hang out,” Carr said. While Carr said the number of employees at the Ann Arbor store will be contingent on the store’s volume of customers and products, Shinola’s other branches employ an average of eight workers. Beyond functioning as a store, Carr said the Ann Arbor Shinola may also partner with the Uni-
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SHOW From Page 1A of the show without getting distracted by the planning process, which began in January. “We put a lot of time and effort into it,” he said. “A lot of the time it’s easy to get caught up in the logistical work, but the main thing we wanted to emphasize was the community of musicians and dancers that represent South Asian arts … The main idea is to build that community and build that connection and showcase the arts to everyone.” LSA freshmen Shalini Rao and Dhara Gosalia, publicity co-chairs on the TBS Committee, posted flyers around campus, chalked sidewalks and promoted the show on social media. Throughout March, members of Michigan Sahana and other participating dance groups — including Michigan Manzil and the Michigan Bhangra Team — posted selfies on social media with TBS’s mascot, a bear named Thyagraja, using the hashtags #traja2015 and #tbs to promote the event. Affectionately known as T-Raja, the bear mascot helped make TBS more popular and visible this year, Rao said. “People who might not normally notice what the ‘That Brown Show’ table is, they see the bear dancing around and that’s how we can get our name out there,” Rao said. “The mascot really helped us with getting all the other teams integrated with TBS. Even though Michigan Sahana hosts it, TBS has been put on by eight different groups in total, so in the past years it has been a struggle getting those other teams more involved in promoting TBS with us, but taking selfies with the bear was a great promotional
versity, as is done through its Detroit store with the College for Creative Studies. Because the store is located near the campus, the company works with the school to both participate in and sponsor classes, Carr said. They’ve given courses in environmental design, bicycle design, watch design and leather accessory design. “We’re actively involved with the school, we love being in that building, being part of the creative energy from there,” Carr said. While no official discussion has begun as to whether Ann Arbor’s new Shinola store will open up lines of communication with the University, Carr said it’s likely to arise eventually. “We love being in the town where
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tool.” Rao added that Saturday’s audience was one of the biggest in TBS’ five-year run. “It was so rewarding to see people asking me if they could sit in the taped-off area because there weren’t other seats left, or having people ask if to go into the balcony because the main floor was that packed,” Rao said. “We got a lot of people to come who didn’t come last year.” Ann Arbor residents Pallavi Prabhu and Baani Jain said they were impressed with TBS. Prabhu, who trained in Indian classical dance for 13 years, said her favorite part of the show was the final performance put on by Michigan Sahana dancers. “I think it was really well-coordinated and I think they choreographed it themselves,” Prabhu. “It takes a lot of effort to pull off something where a teacher isn’t watching.” Prabhu will begin attending the University next fall, and said she hopes to come back and watch future performances of TBS. “Hopefully next year I’ll be participating in it,” Prabhu added. LSA freshman Rahul Ahluwalia said he attended the event to support his friends in Michigan Raas, Michigan Manzil and Michigan Izzat, but enjoyed the classical and modern dance fusion performances. “I thought it spread the culture well,” Ahluwalia said. Siva noted that he regularly snuck out to the audience from backstage throughout the show to observe reactions. He said numerous people after the show told him how much they liked the event. “When the other teams told me how much they enjoyed the show, it really made me feel like a community had been built,” he said.
the University is and introducing the brand to the University and the community there, so I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re working with the University in many diverse ways in the future,” he said. Shinola has already collaborated with University students. In SHEI Magazine’s last issue, which had a theme of “movement,” Shinola’s watches, bikes and leather goods were featured in a 10-page spread. LSA senior Anna Fuller, editor in chief of SHEI Magazine, said the issue was her first experience with the brand, and was a very positive one. “We had such great success working with them this past fall and everyone really loved the brand,” she said.
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CSG election process in need of reformation
his past week marked the official end to the annual Central Student Government election cycle and, yet again, the system has shown its weaknesses. After a week of litigation within the University Election Commission, Make Michigan retained the top seats within student government. Overall, voter turnout increased, and all three parties — Make Michigan, The Team and the Defend Affirmative Action Party — utilized a variety of tactics to try and entice voting participation from a largely apathetic student body. That said, voter participation still remained under 25 percent. Furthermore, there were unmistakable problems associated with campaigning throughout this cycle that are sadly only an addition to a long pattern of political pettiness that has become synonymous with CSG elections. If CSG hopes to be taken seriously as an authority on campus, serious reforms are needed. In recent memory, litigation has become the face of CSG elections. For example, two years ago, a lawsuit filed within the UEC that was flimsy, at best — photographs were used to demonstrate voters were influenced by candidates to vote for a specific party — led to the disqualification of the presidential and vice presidential candidates who received the most votes. Last year, litigation did not affect who won, yet it took five days for election results to be certified — an excessive amount of time. This year has been no different; both Make Michigan and The Team filed suits charging each other with campaign violations in the hopes of rendering the opposing party disqualified from the election. A party can be disqualified if it accumulates 10 or more demerits, which are handed out by the UEC for election code violations. One of these violations — levied against The Team — resulted in five demerits for dumping water over a chalk advertisement on the Diag supporting Make Michigan, which the UEC qualified as “destruction of campaign materials.” The evidence, in this case, is highly questionable and even if true, the punishment is exorbitant and unreasonable. On the other hand, The Team filed a suit against Make Michigan for harvesting 5,719 e-mails through a UPetition called “Crush the Calendar,” which was created by LSA freshman Lauren Siegel, Make Michigan’s campaign manager. However, the UEC ruled it could not find Make Michigan guilty of a violation because “it is possible that she may have reasonably believed that the students to whom she sent promotional e-mails would be more likely than any other student to support Make Michigan.” Thus, in a seemingly clear violation of the CSG code, the UEC decided not to act at all upon this suit because — according to the commission — anyone who signed the “Crush the Calendar”
UPetition was somehow more likely to vote for Make Michigan than any other student despite this petition having no affiliation with Make Michigan whatsoever. Make Michigan also filed a suit against LSA senior Andrew Loeb for harvesting 534 e-mails from the Lloyd Hall Scholars Program. However, the UEC ruled The Team did not violate their harvesting standards. Not only are CSG parties resorting to increasingly undemocratic and time-wasting tactics, but the body responsible for holding candidates and party managers accountable appears to allow elections to go on with questionable rule enforcement. The demerit system utilized by the UEC needs to be reevaluated. Rather than subjecting an entire party’s qualification to 10 demerits, allocated by the UEC for violations of policy, the demerit system should, instead, be tied to vote accumulation — the more demerits a party receives, the more votes should get deducted from their overall total. Currently, the difference between nine and 11 demerits is the difference between life and death, even though it is relatively easy to accumulate two or more demerits. Above all else, CSG must return to acting as an apolitical body. Students are turned off by the constant badgering of campaigners and quasi-political rhetoric espoused by candidates across the campus. It is no surprise that voter turnout — even though it increased this year — stands at just 22 percent of the student body. CSG has an immense capacity to affect students in a positive manner. The onus is now on our new leaders-elect — LSA junior Cooper Charlton, LSA sophomore Steven Halperin and the newly elected representatives — to effectively guide our campus to a new era of student governance, along with a revitalized and professional campaign atmosphere. If this does not happen, the same embarrassing cycle will continue.
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Divided we fail
Greek life. Two words that have, by themselves, the same innocence afforded to them as any other. However, when you put those two words together, they automatically assume an air of negativity. The first stereotypical thoughts that people have when they hear the words “Greek life” are unfortunately those of incessant partying, rape, sexual harassment, drinking, hazing, racism and entitlement. And because of recent events, Greek life has never before been attacked in the way it is now. With everything going on lately, there have been two sides, of sorts, that have sprouted up surrounding the topic. The first is that of the media and general population: Greek life is a menace that fosters humiliating practices which need to be ended immediately on every level. The second is members of Greek life, who feel victimized and generalized by everything that has gone on recently, causing them to spout off any and all facts about how helpful Greek life is, with which I, as a proud member of Beta Theta Pi, do not disagree. However, neither of these sides is very helpful in moving forward. They both defend what they believe in because they are passionate about their beliefs, and there is nothing wrong with that. Everyone should be afforded the opportunity to defend his or her ideals. However, in this case, the worst thing that can happen is dividing us into two sides. People aren’t really mad at Greek life. People aren’t enraged about college students coming together in brotherhood or sisterhood. They are upset about the horrible acts that are broadcasted nationwide — events like racist chants, reports of sexual assault and rape and even people committing suicide. These are the real reasons why people are up in arms. The nation is trying to find some sort of outlet for this anger, and because the media can paint an easy target
on Greek life, fraternities and sororities nationwide are now under the scrutiny of the societal magnifying glass, looking for any excuse to try to burn the whole system to the ground. They do this because it’s easy to confront something physical, like Greek life, and because people find it interesting to read about, which helps ratings. However, the real problem lies in the societal shortcomings and defects that allow for these atrocities to happen. The fact is this: these sorts of tragedies happen far too frequently at every college campus across the nation. Issues like sexual assault and mental illness are still considered taboo. The problem with our society isn’t Greek life members committing terrible acts. The problem is that we, as a culture, haven’t worked hard enough to get rid of the overarching problems that allow people to do these terrible things. We haven’t supported the survivors of sexual assault as a nation. We have looked down upon the events as something terrible without fully realizing the emotional and physical toll that the survivor must go through, for perhaps the rest of their lives, as a result. We haven’t made it socially acceptable for someone with a mental or physical illness to reach out to a friend or ask for help. Instead, they try to struggle against it themselves. We haven’t educated people enough about personal identities and how they can be complex and fragile at times. We haven’t done this because we are always pointing fingers. The problem with this is that the true evil doesn’t care about sides. The only way to combat this injustice is through unity, understanding and communication. And until we learn that, we will never be able to rid these evils from our world. Paul Deford is an LSA junior.
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Everything is awesome!!
urt Vonnegut wrote in his last book, “A Man Without a Country” that most great literature — “A Farewell to Arms,” “Hamlet,” the Bible — is about what a bummer it is to be a human being. He wrote next: “Isn’t it such a relief for someone ZAK WITUS to say that?” If this resonates at all with you, it probably does for two big reasons. The first is that you have probably lived enough and read enough to know that life is a bummer. You share in the collective discontent with the way life is. The second reason explains why you might not have realized that you shared in any “collective discontent”: you, too, have long had your discontent suppressed. Not only have the people around you seldom spoken publicly about what a bummer life is, you yourself have seldom spoken about it. Every day when you walk out the door and someone asks, “How are you?” and you smile, saying, “fine” or “good,” you have had to deny the fact of your discontent to others, and thus denied the fact of it to yourself. But the discontent and its various emotional manifestations (sadness, anxiety, anger, etc.) didn’t then go away. With your help, society has suppressed your sadness, anxiety and anger deep into your psyche, preventing them from entering the public space and allowing them to fester inside of you, becoming infected. Consequently, you drink too much, smoke too much, eat too much, fuck too much, unwittingly trying to soothe this now gnarly, deep-seated discontent when the real solution would be to talk about it, or at least listen to others talk about it. Honestly, how often are you fine or good? I’m fine or good maybe a quarter of the time, and I don’t consider myself an especially unhappy person. I’m one of the lucky ones. But I, too, smile automatic, phony smiles when greeting people on the street, and I lie and tell them I’m fine or good. I’m not necessarily not fine the other three-quarters of the time — I’ve got decent food to eat, a decent
place to sleep, etc. — but quite often there’s something bothering me that I feel uncomfortable talking about and uncomfortable confronting even privately. There exists for me, and I think for others, too, this social pressure not to “bother” people with my problems. I think it fits in with this ideal of rugged individualism that we Americans learned to embrace from watching too many Westerns. “John Wayne doesn’t cry, so I don’t either! Chris Kyle doesn’t cry, so I don’t either!” OK … so how’s that noble self-reliance working out for ya? I, too, often feel unduly burdened by other people’s problems when they bravely break social custom and tell me how they’re really doing. I’m already struggling alone with the problems that I feel pressured not to share or talk about with others, so I don’t have any mental energy left over for other people’s problems, and so, in turn, they don’t have any mental energy left over for my problems; so goes the vicious cycle. But, if I did the brave thing and shared my burden with others, then I could, in turn, share in their burdens. I would not only alleviate myself of my discontent that has been compounded by repeated social interactions as well as self-denial, I would alleviate the discontent of others as well. And this is not to say that it’s not OK to be miserable, because it is OK. You need not always be either “fine” or “good.” If you aren’t at least occasionally bummed out by being a human, you either aren’t a human or you aren’t paying attention. Even if you have heaps of money, food and sex, there is stuff in life about which you probably ought be miserable. Don’t be afraid of it; the bad stuff will probably enrich your life experience and you as a person. Often when I’m unhappy, I feel like something’s wrong with me, and that makes me even unhappier. I read the opening of the Declaration of Independence (always good to have a copy handy) and I think to myself, “I ought to pursue happiness!” But you don’t always have to be happy and you don’t always have to pursue happiness. Isn’t it such a relief for someone to say that? When I’m miserable, let me be miserable. The only thing worse than being miserable is being miserable
and feeling as if you shouldn’t be. That makes me frustrated, and then I smoke, drink and/or eat too much pizza right before bed in order to “fix” my misery, and then wake up the next morning feeling shitty, and then I feel as if I should be happier than I am, and I drink too much coffee and the cycle continues. But if, when I was unhappy, I was OK with feeling unhappy, then I wouldn’t try so hard to be happy. Paradoxically, that’s the way to be happy: be OK with being unhappy. Thank god for literature, because literature (good literature) helps us not be so alone with these feelings when the rest of society doesn’t want to hear it. Thank god for movies, too (good movies). These mediums of artistic expression penetrate our fleshy masks and speak to our lonely feelings of sadness, anxiety and anger and show us that other people feel like life is a bummer, too. We don’t have to explicitly tell anyone else we feel like the characters in the movie or the book, but by the fact of our watching the movie or reading the book, others can infer our secret, lonely dissatisfaction with the way life is going. I wouldn’t want to rob art of its fantastic capacity to make us less alone with our sadness, anxiety and anger, but it needn’t be the exclusive site of eradicating loneliness and sharing discontent. Let each of us reveal the various manifestations of our discontent in order to expose the collective discontent inside society. By alleviating each of our individual burdens, we shall alleviate the collective burden. Surely the first step to making ourselves happier is confessing the ways we aren’t happy. Of course, such a widespread confession of unhappiness would be difficult for established power and pretentious authority whose reign depends on everyone pretending that everything is awesome. Surely, everything is awesome for some people, and those people most likely stand to benefit from the system as it is: the status quo. So for those of us who are discontent and dissatisfied, we ought to take deliberate measures to change the miserable conditions that exist on this earth. — Zak Witus can be reached at zakwitus@umich.edu.
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Bring women to the negotiating table Are feminists asking for too much? Many men and even some women answer this question with a definitive “yes.” Critics of the feminist movement say that women in America have all their fundamental rights protected already. Still, feminists continue to mobilize, because their ultimate goal of equality under the law for both men and women has not been met. Women cannot be equal under the law until they are included in the process that creates the law. Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady and the first chair of the United Nations’ Human Rights Commission, believed that women must be at the table negotiating policy themselves if their voices are to be heard. For this to happen, women must be included in all levels of government. At first glance, it seems as if women have as much space as men to govern and craft policy. American laws do not prohibit women from running for office or holding executive positions. International law explicitly protects women’s political rights in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which gives women the right to participate in the formulation of government policy and to hold public office. Despite the apparent opportunity, women are overwhelmingly not included in governing bodies. Although women make up 50.8 percent of the nation’s population, their representation in public positions falls far below that. Rutgers’ Center for American Women and Politics portrays the discouraging number of women in American government. On a national scale, women represent
just 19.4 percent of Congress, leaving the remaining 80.6 percent to men. Not to mention that no woman has yet held the presidency. It doesn’t improve dramatically on a state level, either. Women hold just 24.2 percent of state legislature seats. Within the more “prestigious” state senates, the percentage is even lower. These figures point to the harsh reality that men are the ones dictating policy-making. Frighteningly, still, is that what begins with unequal political representation becomes unequal law. Because women do not have as great a voice in policy-making, it is difficult for them to address laws which disproportionately impact women. This leads the laws themselves to become unequal, often widening the gap between equality for men and women. In 2012, when the Michigan Legislature was considering an antiabortion bill, there were just 31 women holding seats. Ultimately, it was men who made the decision about what would happen with women’s bodies, and the few voices of women that were available were silenced. The New York Daily News reported that two female representatives were barred from speaking on the floor after they used the words “vagina” and “vasectomy.” This serves to demonstrate the social inequality that still exists between men and women. Male legislators punished a woman for not speaking the language of law, or what is really the language of men. By reducing the value of these women’s voices, they also reduced the value of the women themselves. Much of the existing inequality is directly linked to the lack of political representation by women.
Men dominate the policy-making fields, despite the fact that they represent just half the population. Yet when feminists point to this huge disparity, excuses are all that follow. Nobel laureate Jody Williams provided a telling example of this. When she asked a UN ambassador why so few women hold leadership and director-level roles within the United Nations, he replied that there weren’t enough qualified women. A presumably intelligent and well educated man believed that not enough competent women existed to fulfill the role, though evidence says otherwise. According to the Russell Sage Foundation, a social science research center, not only do women earn more master’s degrees than men, they also earn more Ph.D.s and an almost equal number of professional degrees. With these numbers, it is nearly impossible to believe that qualified women don’t exist for high-level government jobs. The problem is not women’s lack of certification, nor is it lack of legislation protecting women’s rights. Inequality stems from the fact that women are not the ones writing policy and designing law. Without female representation, unequal laws are passed and social inequality is perpetuated. It is up to both women and men to change this by helping women campaign, get on the ballot and ultimately win the race. When women take their seat at the negotiating table, they can begin to erase inequality, and only then can feminists begin to achieve their goal of equality under the law. Taylor Gunderson is an LSA junior.
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It’s rare for our realities to mimic our dreams. The chance of someone uttering “I love my job” with conviction is even less likely in today’s pragmatic workforce. Luckily for University alum Olivia Carrino, PR associate of Shopbop, she found herself where she always aimed to be by keeping her goals specific, aspirations lofty and optimism high. “I kind of fell into PR and now that I’ve been doing it for three and a half years, it’s really exactly where I should be,” Carrino said. “I love interacting with people; I love the face time; I love meeting new people.” For Carrino, the proverbial finish line meant pursuing a career in fashion or, more specifically, achieving her lifetime goal of working at Vogue Magazine. By the summer of 2009, before her junior year, she landed a promotions internship at the fashion publication, and her dreams became a reality. “The only place I wanted to intern was Vogue magazine, and there was no other option,” Carrino said. When she arrived at Condé Nast that summer, having the University of Michigan on her resumé seemed to pair well with her sartorial pursuits. “The woman that hired me for my internship was also a U of M alum and she said to me on my first day, ‘Well, I knew you were going to be smart, because you graduated from Michigan,’” Carrino recalled. She found her Vogue experience to be a stepping stone along her ever-evolving career pathway. Though her internship on the promotions side of the magazine was scheduled to last half of the summer, she was asked to stay for the remainder of the season on the magazine’s editorial side. “It led to so many things,” Carrino said. “I was very, very lucky, but it took a lot of hard work to get there.” With Carrino, her go-getter attitude manifests into a unique triple threat — one part drive, another part work ethic and a third her outgoing disposition. “Whether it was dancing competitively or playing soccer or going to the University of Michigan, I had one goal and just kind of chased it until I got it,” Carrino said. It’s that unchecked ambition along with her lifelong penchant for fashion that Carrino attributes to her success. During her time at the University, she pursued a double major in Communications and Spanish, dabbled in writing for The Michigan Daily’s News section and participated in the NOiR fashion show her senior year. “It’s funny because I think a lot of people tend to say, ‘You know, what I learned in college doesn’t really apply in my real life,’ but I actually feel very different for what I do,” Carrino said. “I’ve been working on a marketing team
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and in PR and events, and really what I learned in my communications classes is very, very applicable.” By the time graduation rolled around, Carrino had two job offers — full-time positions at both Vogue and Shopbop. Torn between her childhood goal and the exciting prospects of a new fashion environment, Carrino struggled to come to a decision. Ultimately, she chose the Shopbop position for its e-commerce focus — one she decided would endow her with a valuable edge for future opportunities.
“I was lucky, but it took a lot of hard work to get there.” “It felt like the longest weekend ever, making that decision,” Carrino said. “It was funny, it almost felt like everything I wanted was right in front of my face and I chose to go the opposite direction. But I think in life you learn different things about yourself with different experiences, and I felt like my internship had given me really great experience and exposure in the publishing world and I was ready to move onto the next step.” At Shopbop in New York City, there is no typical workday for Carrino in the constantly evolving landscape of e-commerce. Between being in and out of meetings, editing interviews, editor lunches and post-work events, hardheaded Carrino is fit for the hectic schedule. Along with being style-savvy, it’s imperative for fashion PR women to stay up-to-date in all facets of the media. “I read WWD everyday; I read The Skimm daily; I have different Google alerts set up,” Carrino said. “I think being in PR, you need to stay really addressed to current events especially, obviously in the industry. You need to stay current because that’s what PR is all about.” When asked for sage career advice for those who share her affinity for fashion, Carrino stressed the old adages of being yourself and working hard, similar to the strong example she has set. “I really believe you need to stay true to yourself and kind of not get lost in the glitz and glamour of what the fashion industry is portrayed to be,”
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she said. “From the outside, fashion is all pretty. At the other side of the industry there are a lot of smart people doing a lot of really big things that make it run, and I think that you need to kind of leave your entitlement at the door and be ready to work and work.” Staying true to her philosophy of accepting professional challenges in favor of the valuable learning experiences that follow, Carrino recently accepted a job offer as the U.S. PR Manager of MiH Jeans, a denim brand based in London. “After three and a half years at Shopbop, I have decided it is time to move on,” Carrino said. “Though bittersweet, I wanted to go brand-specific and challenge myself in ways I have not yet experienced.” Though Carrino has experienced success in her field, she makes a point to stay grounded in an industry often seen as superf luous. “New York is an interesting place and fashion can be interesting,” Carrino said. “Sometimes I need to remind myself I’m not curing cancer and it’s just clothes, and that kind of puts things into perspective a little bit.”
Alex Gibney’s new documentary, “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief,” is mesmerizing. Based on Lawrence Wright’s Aeponymous Going Clear: book, it sheds light onto the Scientology strangely fas- and the cinating cult Prison of that has been the source of Disbelief rumors and Documentary half-joking Special references in American cul- HBO ture for years. But more than just a history of an enigmatic group, the documentary tells a captivating story of the consequences of human desires; desires to be a part of something, to bring change, to mean something as an individual in a world populated by billions of people — even when swayed by charismatic leaders and a tempting ideology. The documentary begins with snippets of real audio recordings of former Church of Scientology members answering questions, their voices blending together to create a discordant soundtrack that feels like the beginning of an artistic horror film. The Oscarwinning director constructs his narrative by profiling the Church’s founder L. Ron Hubbard. Gibney demonstrates a sharp talent for pacing from the beginning, methodically undermining Hubbard’s credibility with each beat.
Hubbard’s science fiction novels, written years before he founded the Church, contained many of what became the principal tenets of Scientology. The foundation on which the Church was built consisted of recycled material from Hubbard’s “Dianetics,” a novel published in 1950. He lied extensively about his World War II service, spinning his own story into a hero’s tale, insisting that Scientology cured him of war wounds — ones he never actually suffered. He manipulated his wife, threatening suicide and homicide to make her acquiesce to his demands. The documentary’s greatest strength lies in the camera’s unflinching gaze into the eyes of former Scientologists who broke with the Church. It’s clear these ex-members just aim to explain themselves — wanting us not only to believe them but to sympathize with their former selves, whom we see triumphantly cheering for David Miscavige’s (the leader of the Church after Hubbard) speeches in grainy old video footage. Their accounts of the attractiveness of Scientology, an ideology that preaches a world without war, crime or insanity, are riveting, revealing, as stories spill out that have been bottled up for years. Actors John Travolta and Tom Cruise, the two most recognizable names associated with Scientology, are discussed at length. Travolta’s glassy stares and sharklike smiles, and Cruise’s manic convictions in old interviews are included in archived footage. For faces that have been on our screens for years, they are
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startlingly frightening in this context. The most damning stories of the Church aren’t those about their campaign (which they won) to get tax exemptions or even their attacks on their critics, but rather in the accusations of psychological and physical abuse. One former member, Sylvia “Spanky” Taylor, describes escaping in a getaway car from the headquarters of the Church after seeing the kind of neglect her newborn baby was subjected to. Despite the ex-member’s eagerness, the documentary still would’ve benefited from more pointed questions to its interviewees, who were happy to talk without being prodded; it is unclear whether many of the followers believed in the pseudo-scientific aspects or if they were content to ignore them. However, the directions that they take in telling their own stories without being prompted often are absorbing enough to keep audiences intrigued. “Going Clear” doesn’t waste a single minute or breath on superfluous information or gratuitous dramatic devices, relying on facts to craft a narrative that is chilling in its honesty. Its persuasive power is in the rhythmic reveal of fact after fact, culminating in a solidly constructed depiction of the church. At the end of two hours, it has left us not with an unshakeable belief in the inherent evilness of Scientology, but rather a morbid, vaguely repulsed fascination with the inner workings of a cult-like organization that has managed to stay under the radar for so long.
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‘Roast of Bieber’ not Derivative ‘Loners’ as funny as intended By MATT BARNAUSKAS Daily Arts Writer
Comedy Central roast is like its subject: not as cool as it thinks it is By HAILEY MIDDLEBROOK Daily Arts Writer
If there is one pastime that has endured through the years: gossip. Trash-talk, backstabbing, venting to anyone who will lisC ten; it happened in 19th century Roast of tea shops and Justin it happens over salads today. Bieber Everybody talks Comedy Central about everyone else, making it an inevitable asset of our culture, but also a paradoxically invisible one, since the key to venting about a person is to say it behind his or her back. The trash-talk ends when the trashed one joins the group — then it’s all smiles and “I love yous,” obviously. Comedy Central flips this formality on its head by hosting the “Roast,” where a cavalry of celebrities is assembled with the mission to knock down one of their own, who is dubbed the “roastee.” Hosted by a “Roast Master,” the celebrity roasters take turns standing at the mic, taking brutal jabs at the roastee while he or she sits on stage and takes the heat. The best roastees are tabloid caricatures like Pamela Anderson (“Baywatch”) in 2005 or Charlie Sheen (“Two and a Half Men”) in 2011 — those whose egos probably should be checked in front of a live audience. The best roasters are the celebs closest to their vic-
tim, like Seth Rogen (“Pineapple Express”) in the 2013 roast of his castmate, James Franco. Good friends naturally have good dirt on each other, making their jokes cringingly harsh and all the more entertaining. The heat of the “Roast” fizzles out quickly, however, when the roasters don’t really know the guy they are trying to mock. This year, Comedy Central brought in “Baby” pop superstar Justin Bieber, the 21-year-old with an estimated net worth of $200 million, over 46 million Twitter followers and unmeasurable swarms of tween fans called “Beliebers.” But these screaming preteens aside, everyone and their mothers (especially their mothers) pretty much agree that Bieber’s a cocky little brat — from his reportedly paying for a “swagger coach” to getting arrested for a DUI in Miami, then later egging a neighborhood mansion, Bieber has become the media’s favorite fallen child star.
Justin Bieber was simply too easy of a target. But, everybody knows that. As of 2014, the music video for “Baby” set a YouTube record for the most dislikes of a video, raking in over four million. So the problem with roasting Bieber is that it’s too easy, for it’s all been said before: He looks like a “lesbian” and walks like a wannabe gangster. We get the picture.
And despite their best efforts, roasters Kevin Hart (“The Wedding Ringer”), Snoop Dogg, Ludacris, Shaquille O’Neal, Martha Stewart and even Will Ferrell, posing as Ron Burgundy from “Anchorman,” could not find anything new to tease Biebs about. As Bieber himself so aptly put it: “What do you get when you give a teenager $200 million? A bunch of has-beens calling you a lesbian for two hours.” Though Bieber was simply too easy of a target, the real highlights of the show were when the celebrities took jabs at each other. Like when stand-up comedian Natasha Leggero called out Stewart saying, “All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.” Or when Shaq smashed pintsized Hart with, “Kevin is the only celebrity with a star on the yellow brick road.” But the real kicker of the night was when Stewart took the stage and proceeded to scorch her (sort of ) wholesome image. “You need to settle down, bring some balance into you life and find a nice gal,” Stewart said to Bieber. “Someone on your level, someone powerful and rich, someone you can smoke with, have the occasional three way with. I’m saying someone who’s a player in the boardroom and a freak in the bedroom. My final piece of advice is — call me!” Outrageous, cover-yourmouth mocking will always be entertaining, as Comedy Central’s “Roast of Justin Bieber” proved. But it’s even more delicious when the person being bashed has more than 21 years of mishaps to dredge out into the spotlight.
There are ubiquitous expectations placed on almost everyone. As “Weird Loners” discusses in its opening episode, one of Bthose expectations is finding Weird love. While it’s Loners not as pressing as it once was, Series Premiere there’s a cer- FOX tain pressure Tuesdays at for adults to find that spe- 9:30 p.m. cial someone. But what about those who just can’t figure it out? The title quartet of “Weird Loners” isn’t about overly eccentric individuals who struggle to simply exist alongside others. Rather, it tells the story of typical 30-somethings who, for one reason or another, are still single — seemingly the odd ones out in their age group. There’s Stosh (Zachary Knighton, “Happy Endings”), the self-professed douchebag who is introduced as he loses his job for having sex with his boss’s fiancée. “Is it my fault she’s a wild woman?” he questions. “Did I get her that hit of ecstasy?” Kicked out of his apartment, Stosh seizes the opportunity to live with his cousin Eric (Nate Torrence, “Hello Ladies”), whose father dies next to him while watching baseball on TV. Eric is the most socially awkward, having lived with his parents for years. But the show steers away from making him the typical leech forced into the world of adulthood. The guy is naïve, yet has a job and chose to stay home to take care of his parents in old age. Therein lies the greatest strength of “Weird Loners.” It exists in well-worn territory and its characters are archetypes,
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but it gives them enough nuance to make the show enjoyable even when it becomes predictable. Such is Eric’s neighbor, Caryn (Becki Newton, “Ugly Betty”), who tells herself she wants stability in an engagement to her boyfriend Howard (David Wain, “Children’s Hospital”), but she finds herself lacking real pleasure in a relationship constricted by societal conformity for women her age. A cynical romantic, Caryn wants something more in her relationships and she can’t really find it. The only lacking character is Zara (Meera Rohit Kumbhani, “Black Box”), the emotionally detached, free-spirited artist. She avoids commitment, as she shrugs off a steady relationship in her first scene. The character’s weakness lies in her lack of interaction with the other three characters on a more personal level. Stosh and Eric share a reuniting dynamic while Caryn and Stosh have the sitcom’s predesignated sexual tension that sparks the moment the two meet. The pilot creates a serviceable dynamic between these characters, but Zara feels like the odd woman out, used mostly for quips. “Passion is such a fleeting thing; that’s why
I like masturbation,” she casually pronounces. “Me too,” Eric responds as the two share a high-five, creating the strongest connection Zara has to any character. Caryn and Zara’s interactions together are minimal, so it feels especially odd when the former asks the latter to move in together (oh, the magic of alcohol and sitcom tropes). However, there is good chemistry in the foursome, best illustrated near the end of the episode when they watch a wedding from afar. Lip-reading the blushing couple’s vows, Stosh, Zara and Eric cheer up a recently single Caryn as they subconsciously espouse their own insecurities about marriage and relationships in general. Stosh still lives a life of womanizing, Zara shuns tradition and Eric just has no clue as he concludes, “I now pronounce you Malomites. You may fist with pride.” “Weird Loners” slyly comments on several expectations people face as they near a certain age. But the genre also traps the show within a degree of predictability that at times runs counter to its message, making it a strength as well as a hindrance to a new series that must set itself apart in a crowded field of similar sitcoms.
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Attitude change Peppers steps up on defense After season on the sideline, Peppers brings back seeing daylight Michigan culture
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By ZACH SHAW
Daily Sports Writer
H
appy 86th birthday, Bo. Man, do I have a surprise for you. Remember your second game as Michigan’s football coach, when 49,684 people watched your Wolverines ALEJANDRO pummel ZÚÑIGA Washington at the Big House? Or the following week, when just 15,000 more came for the meeting against top-10 Missouri? Well, I wish you could have been at Michigan Stadium on Saturday, when 60,000-plus filled the bowl to see the Spring Game — a scrimmage, featuring a virtual punter! All to catch their first glimpse of new coach Jim Harbaugh. Yes, that Jim Harbaugh, the one you said would never play a down for Michigan when he arrived late for his first meeting. He’s in charge of the program now, and let me tell you, he has people excited. As you wrote in Bo’s Lasting Lessons, comparing quarterback recruits, Harbaugh had “twice the brains and 10 times the heart,” and he has shown both since his introduction Dec. 30. See, Harbaugh and Athletic Director Jim Hackett seem to have figured out that you don’t need fireworks and flyovers to sell Michigan football. As it turns out, if you stick to tradition and put the right man in charge, things generally turn out pretty well. “We’ve got to keep our expectations (reasonable),” Hackett said in a fireside chat last week. “They just have to get the team right. From the stuff I’ve seen, I’m really excited.” Consider this: The season doesn’t begin for five months, and there’s already a wait list for football tickets. The luxury boxes are sold out, too. That’s not to sing Harbaugh’s praises quite yet — he hasn’t even coached his first actual game in Ann Arbor, after all. But you’d be proud of what he has done this spring to prepare his team for the likes of Michigan State and Ohio State. (Don’t ask about Notre Dame. We don’t want to talk about it.) The weight room? It has been stripped bare of everything but the necessities. Why? Because, as Harbaugh
said, “this is work.” The practices? Because every position is up for grabs, every drill has become a fierce competition. And the winners of said drills “get” to run extra. Why? Because, according to Harbaugh, “the winners get the right to get better. The winners have the right to condition more, to be better football players, and the losers have to go to the side.” “You have to buy in,” said redshirt freshman defensive end Lawrence Marshall on Saturday. “When you buy in, it shows on the field like it did today.” Just as you treated every player equally, Harbaugh has adopted that and other abnormal practice techniques. And that’s just the way they want it. Take Shane Morris, for instance. As the only quarterback on the roster with significant in-game experience, the junior figured to be the next man in line for the job. Instead, there are eight quarterbacks on the current roster, with another arriving soon via graduate transfer. Morris’ response? “You can bring in 100 quarterbacks,” he said. “It’s not going to matter to me.” And, as a result of his dedication and improvements, Morris will have the edge for the starting role entering fall camp. Or take future Wolverine defensive back Tyree Kinnel, who will join a deep defense as a freshman this fall. Upon seeing the competition and intensity of the unit — which forced four turnovers — during the Spring Game, he voiced his anticipation in a text message to the Daily. “It was great,” Kinnel said. “I haven’t been this excited about Michigan since the day I committed.” Helmet stickers are back. The band will be the principal form of pregame entertainment, not piped-in pop music. The Wolverines will even transition back to wearing black cleats. And one recent alumnus of the Michigan football program told the Daily, “I’m jealous. People want to see what Harbaugh has been up to.” Sixty thousand of them watched it Saturday afternoon. And Bo, you would have been proud.
“When you buy in, it shows on the field like it did today.”
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At long last, the Jabrill Peppers show was on display Saturday. And it couldn’t have come a moment sooner. Returning for his second season with the program, the freshman has grown, learned, moved to safety and become the vocal leader of the defense, bringing the long-awaited excitement to light in Saturday’s Spring Game. The growth comes less than a season after exciting fans with his talent, only to tantalize those same fans with an ambiguous injury that relegated him to sideline duty for much of the forgettable 2014 season. “He’s been A-plus, he really has been, all spring,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. “He’s really just out there taking reps in a drill, and he’d go through the repetition of the drill, and I’d see him back at the front of the drill. That’s the kind of youngster he is. He’s brought great energy and enthusiasm to the game, and his play has been really good. “It means a lot to me that he wants to keep getting better and better … you start to fall in love with guys like that.” Players miss games, even seasons, all the time. But when you’re the Michigan football team’s highest-ranked recruit since 2006 and draw comparisons to 1997 Heisman Trophy winner and NFL Pro Bowler Charles Woodson, the pressure can mount quickly each game you don’t produce. Such was the case for the redshirt freshman cornerback. But while fans struggled to support a team that was
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Redshirt freshman safety Jabrill Peppers was back on the field Saturday after missing most of last season.
struggling even more on the field, Peppers prepared for what was to come. With a new outlook, the longtime Michigan fan-turnedplayer knew that he would take full advantage of his next opportunity, whenever it was. “No one’s going to feel sorry for you at this point,” Peppers said. “Yeah, I got hurt, so what? I’ve still got to be a great teammate, got to help the guys in any way I can. It’s just about maturing. “That made me take a step back and look at life and see, ‘Wow, this can actually be taken away from me, so don’t take anything for granted,’ and that’s how I’m moving forward.” Once healed, the first step of moving forward was for Peppers to become a leader. Moving to the safety position, a role he likens to the quarterback of the defense, Peppers not only had to recover and develop physically, but mentally as well. “Jabrill’s doing a great job,” said senior wide receiver Jehu Chesson. “The kid is just so energetic, his passion for the game is unbelievable. We need
guys like that because energy is contagious, positive and negative. “You can look at a couple stretches when you’re down in the game, you need someone to come and pick everybody up. He’s one of those guys.” As Peppers’ skillset grew, so did the pressure. Still among the team leaders in raw talent, a fanbase desperate for wins is looking to the young player to deliver — not years down the road, but right now. That was clear from one of the game’s opening plays. Just minutes into the game, Peppers made his first tackle of the game. Though it was an intrasquad scrimmage full of turnovers, big gains offensively and even more prolific tackles, the play drew some of the largest cheers from the estimated 60,000 fans in attendance. “I noticed that, but there’s no pressure if you’re prepared,” Peppers said. “I block out the crowd, and I’m just doing what I love doing and have been doing since I was younger, so there’s really no pressure at all.” Later on in the game, Peppers
had a chance to make an even bigger play. With plenty of open field in front of him, the safety tracked down an errant pass, ready to make a game-changing play fans have already come to expect. Instead he dropped the ball, coming away empty-handed and agitated. “I tried to start running before I could pick it,” he said. “You can’t do that. You’ve got to stick to the fundamentals. I told the team that one’s on me, didn’t really get a chance to make another play, but you live and learn. “That’s what separates the good players from great players. That would’ve changed the game. I had daylight in front of me.” Despite missing on the play, the daylight remains in front of Peppers. After the game, Peppers was wearing his high school state championship ring. The trinket serves as a reminder of his successful past, but also a sign of what’s on the team’s mind moving forward. “Many more to come,” Peppers said with a laugh.
‘M’ dominates twice in Indiana By BETELHEM ASHAME For the Daily
The Michigan women’s tennis team is used to dominating opponents at home in the Varsity Tennis Center, but this weekend, the Wolverines took their home facility’s magic touch with them on the road. Michigan traveled to Indiana to take on two Big Ten opponents, Purdue (3-3 Big Ten, 10-5 overall) and Indiana (2-4, 11-7), and thoroughly overpowered both teams. After winning both matches emphatically by scores of 7-0, the 14th-ranked Wolverines are in great shape in the conference with an undefeated record. “It’s definitely a huge confidence booster,” said senior Sarah Lee. “Purdue and Indiana are probably the best teams that we’re going to play in the Big Ten this year, so we’re really, really excited that we were able to play as well as we did. We’re also really excited about the future because we feel like we have a little bit more in us. Things are looking good right now.” The Wolverines (8-0, 17-3) started strong Saturday against the Boilermakers, earning the doubles point with wins at the No. 1 and No. 2 positions. The No. 2 pair of Lee and junior Ronit Yurovsky jumped out to a 6-1 lead en route to an 8-2 win. Michigan’s No. 1 duo of senior Emina Bektas and freshman Alex Najarian had a bit of a tougher time against Purdue’s team of Tess Bernard-Feigenbaum and Daniela Vidal, ranked No. 1 nationally. With a 7-4 lead and match point seemingly in their reach, Bektas and Najarian watched the set seemingly slip out of their hands as Purdue battled back and won three straight games to force a tiebreaker. But the duo was able to bounce back and secure an 8-7 win. “We did a good job yesterday of sticking together when things got tough,” Bektas said. “A lot of times when those situations happen, I can get kind of negative, and that doesn’t really help us out. But I think we did a good job of focusing and checking
in with each other to know that we were going to be okay and we were going to pull it out. I think the fact that we were able to stay positive really helped us out.” In singles play, five out of the six matches were decided in straight sets. Bektas struck first, dropping just three games on her way to defeating Vidal, her No. 1 opponent. No. 4 Lee and No. 2 Yurovsky followed suit, beating their opponents, 6-3, 6-4 and 6-4, 6-3, respectively, to clinch the win for Michigan. Sunday got off to an even brighter start for the Wolverines in the doubles matches when Bektas and Najarian made quick work of the opposition, winning 8-0 over their Hoosier counterparts. “It felt really good,” Bektas said. “I think today we played a really strong match. We were really aggressive and usually our, coach Ronni (Bernstein), tells us to focus on the basics, so we did a good job of focusing on our serves and picking up on our returns and volleys. It was really good for us today.”
After a tougher battle against Indiana’s No. 2 team, Lee and Yurovsky managed to come away with an 8-6 win and the doubles point for the second straight day. “It was a little tough today,” said Michigan coach Ronni Bernstein. “I don’t think they played their best. (Saturday) they played a little bit better, but they grinded it out and competed hard, and that’s going to be the key. You’re not always going to feel great every day, but they did a good job of figuring it out and getting us the doubles point today, because we needed it to get us going.” Michigan continued to find success in the singles, led by No. 1 Bektas, who followed up Saturday’s impressive performance with a 6-2, 6-2 win. “My recent singles play gave me a lot of confidence coming into this weekend,” Bektas said. “I’ve been trying to play my game by coming to the net and being aggressive, and I was able to do that pretty successfully. It has helped a lot.” Another Wolverine who has had a good run of singles
“We did a good job of sticking together when things got tough.”
play lately is Lee. After Saturday’s straight-set victory, she struggled initially to take control of the match. She fell behind 4-1 in the first set and 3-0 in the second set, but on both occasions, she was able to turn the sets around to secure a 6-4, 6-4 win. “It helped a bit in the second set, knowing that in the first set I was able to pull the first one out after being down three games,” Lee said. “My opponent played pretty well in order to get that lead off of me. It took a little bit of persistence on my end and doing what I’m good at doing, which is stepping in and seeking the ball early and keeping focused. I just had to figure it out and be persistent.” After Bektas, freshman Mira Ruder-Hook became the second Wolverine to claim a win, making her mark by defeating her No. 5 opponent Sarah Baron, 6-4, 6-0 to run the team score to 3-0. Then, Lee and Yurovsky won nearly simultaneously to clinch the win for the Wolverines. With the two victories this weekend to add to its resume, Michigan has now won 11 consecutive matches. Confidence and team morale are running high, and the timing is perfect with the Big Ten Tournament on the horizon.
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Senior Emina Bektas won both her doubles and singles matches, each against Purdue’s Daniela Vidal.
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Michigan stays hot, wins series Wolverines take SOFTBALL
The Wolverines take two games over defending Big Ten champs
battle for Big Ten By TED JANES
Daily Sports Writer
By DANNY VARGOVICK Daily Sports Writer
The wins just keep on coming. Last weekend, the Michigan baseball team (4-5 Big Ten, 18-13 overall) won its series against Maryland, the preseason Big Ten favorite. This weekend, the Wolverines took their series against Indiana, the defending Big Ten champion, splitting the Saturday doubleheader, 7-3, 11-13, before winning the deciding game Sunday, 4-3, in Bloomington. “We’ve taken an approach the last couple weeks that our backs are against the wall and we’re going to fight our way out of it, and that’s what we’ve done,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich. The deciding game was a nailbiter. Freshman closer Bryan Pall retired the side in the eighth inning, and then struck out the first batter in the ninth. He allowed a solo homer to cut the lead to one, but then struck out the next two batters to preserve the Wolverine victory. Bakich had all the confidence in the world in his freshman closer, even after the home run. “I knew we were in good shape,” Bakich said. “I never had any doubt whatsoever, and I don’t think any of our players did either.” It was left-hander Brett Adcock, however, who laid the groundwork for the victory. The sophomore, who has struggled with walks this year, gave the Hoosiers (2-6, 18-10) only one free pass and one run in six innings of work. “I attacked them with fastballs, moving it inside and
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Jacob Cronenworth reached base three times in Sunday’s game and pitched six innings Saturday.
outside, and worked off that with my off-speed pitches,” Adcock said. “It was big to only give up one walk because their offense starts going when pitchers make mistakes.” Saturday, junior righthander Jacob Cronenworth was just as impressive in his start in the first game. In his second collegiate start, he also went six innings and allowed only one run. He threw 76 pitches as he continued to build his arm strength, allowing five hits, striking out five and walking two. The one low point in the weekend was freshman righthander Ryan Nutof’s start in the second game on Saturday. He allowed six runs — five earned
— and his earned-run average ballooned from 2.93 to 3.74. “He pitched well — he pitched just like he pitched last weekend,” Bakich said. “It just so happened that the pitches that he threw, they put some quality at-bats together. Credit their players for hitting some quality pitches.” Still, Bakich was thrilled with how his team almost pulled out an implausible win in the unlikeliest of situations. “Even when we were down 13-4, our guys didn’t stop fighting,” Bakich said. “That was something I came away from very proud of, the way our guys never quit.” Senior centerfielder Jackson
“Just up and down the lineup, it was a good team win.”
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Glines, who leads the team in hitting, had just two hits on the weekend. In his stead, Cronenworth, sophomore right fielder Carmen Benedetti, and recent returnee junior infielder Travis Maezes stepped up. In game one, Benedetti collected three hits and one walk while scoring two runs. In game two, the trio reached base a combined eight times while scoring four times and collecting eight RBI. Two of those RBI came in the first inning, when Benedetti homered, plating Cronenworth. In the third game, Cronenworth, Maezes and Benedetti each reached base three times. Benedetti again went deep on a two-run shot, this time scoring Maezes. “We had a lot of timely hits, two out RBIs,” Bakich said. “Just up and down the lineup, it was a good team win.” After a slow start to Big Ten play, Michigan is back on track.
The best of the Big Ten squared off in Minneapolis, and at first, it seemed like the home team would run away with the series. A slow start to the weekend gave the Michigan softball team (7-2 Big Ten, 33-6 overall) its worst loss of the season, as the fourth-ranked Wolverines fell 9-1 in a mercy-rule defeat to No. 14 Minnesota (6-3 Big Ten, 30-7 overall). But Michigan regrouped Saturday as senior left-handed pitcher Haylie Wagner stepped into the circle and earned a 9-4 victory in the second game of the series. Wagner was also a force in the batter’s box, hitting a two-run shot to the right-field scoreboard for her first home run of the year. Sunday, the Golden Gophers brought back their strongest pitcher in Sara Groenewegen, who gave Michigan all sorts of problems in the series opener, tallying 10 strikeouts. In the circle for Michigan was sophomore pitcher Megan Betsa. Despite giving up one run, Betsa totaled nine strikeouts on the day, a stark contrast from Friday’s game when she allowed nine hits and walked five batters. “Minnesota is a very aggressive team,” said Michigan coach Carol Hutchins. “(Betsa) really kept us in. We struggled Friday to do much at the plate, and the key to beating a good pitcher is having a good pitcher. (On Sunday,) she held a really potent offense and did a nice job.” In the rubber match, the Wolverines connected with their bats in the top of the sixth inning, as a six-run rally sealed the 9-1 victory. Unlike Friday, Michigan found a way to frustrate Groenewegen. A sizzling grounder from junior infielder Sierra Lawrence skid-
ded past the shortstop to bring in sophomore infielder Lindsay Montemarano. Another single by junior second baseman Sierra Romero scored Lawrence, stretching the lead to 5-1. After Romero’s hit, the Golden Gophers finally took Groenewegen out of the circle, and in doing so, sacrificed their best asset. “She worked the corners a lot,” Wagner said. “She had a good offspeed pitch, and she mixed up the seams.” After the pitching change, it was all downhill for Minnesota. Sophomore outfielder Kelly Christner ripped a single to right field, junior outfielder Kelsey Susalla was hit by the next pitch and senior catcher Lauren Sweet notched a grounder that was mishandled by the second baseman, scoring Romero and Christner. The onslaught continued, and by the end of the inning, Michigan led by eight runs. “We were amped up that we hit Groenewegen out of the game,” Montemarano said. “We were getting hits and trusted the game plan. We were the ones throwing the punches.” Montemarano’s big afternoon was capped off by an RBI double that was part of the sixth-inning rally. She drew a pair of walks and also posted two runs and two hits on the day, one of many Wolverines contributing offensively. In the bottom of the sixth, with one out, Betsa missed low and wide with the 12th pitch of an at-bat to load the bases. Just two outs away from ending the series, another long at-bat resulted in Betsa’s ninth strikeout, and the Wolverines came closer to mercying the Gophers. An infield popup to freshman first baseman Taylor Swearingen ended the game, and the run rule kicked in, concluding the weekend with another Michigan win.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
‘M’ earns first Big Ten win Michigan drops heartbreaker By DANIEL TACHNA-FRAM Daily Sports Writer
This year, the Michigan men’s lacrosse team has preached resilience. The mantra might just have saved the Wolverines’ season as they came up with a crucial 10-8 home 8 RUTGERS win over MICHIGAN 10 Rutgers on Sunday. Michigan (1-1 Big Ten, 5-5 overall) is currently sitting in fourth in the conference standings, and with just the top four teams advancing to the inaugural Big Ten Tournament, Sunday’s game against fifthplace Rutgers had all the makings of a must-win game for both squads. Last Sunday, the Wolverines suffered a 13-4 drubbing at the hands of Maryland in their Big Ten opener. It would have been easy to let the loss to the Terrapins deflate the team and derail the rest of the Big Ten season, but Michigan managed to right the ship against Rutgers. Freshman attacker PJ Bogle opened the scoring for Michigan six minutes into the game. Sophomore attacker Ian King added to the early lead with a goal in transition less than a minute later, when goalkeeper
Gerald Logan corralled a Rutgers shot, brought the ball halfway up the field and dished it off to King. King didn’t stop there, though, scoring three more goals in his first action in over a month after coming off a foot injury. “It’s awesome,” King said. “It’s the kind of thing you dream of every day (when you’re out).” Junior attacker Kyle Jackson closed out Michigan’s scoring in the first quarter with a rocket past the Scarlet Knights goalie, stretching the lead to 3-0. From there, Michigan began to stumble. Pressured by two Rutgers attackers, redshirt sophomore defenseman Charlie Keady rolled the ball behind him for a turnover, which led to an easy goal for the Scarlet Knights late in first quarter. The Wolverines saw themselves outscored 4-1 in the second quarter and ultimately trailed at halftime, 5-4. After coughing up the lead, the resiliency that has characterized the Wolverines this season surfaced in the third quarter as they took back control of the game. King’s second goal of the day quickly tied the game at five just two minutes into the third quarter, and junior midfielder Riley
Kennedy added another a few minutes later to give Michigan the lead once again. It was short-lived, though, as Rutgers responded 16 seconds later to tie the game at six. That’s when Jackson took over for the Wolverines. He scored back-to-back goals in the third quarter to put Michigan on top for good. King drove the dagger through the Scarlet Knights when, with one minute remaining in the third quarter, he scored his third and fourth goals of the game just seven seconds apart. Rutgers added two goals in the fourth quarter while holding Michigan scoreless, but the Scarlet Knights couldn’t overcome the deficit. “This team stays hungry,” said Michigan coach John Paul. “They handle adversity pretty well. They come back ready to work every week no matter what happened the week before.” After losing some of its momentum in the fourth quarter Sunday, Michigan will face a stern test against Ohio State. The Buckeyes will likely test the Wolverines’ resiliency yet again, as the team looks to continue progressing toward its ultimate goal of a Big Ten Tournament appearance.
Duquesne scores late goal to down Wolverines at Michigan Stadium
By DANIEL TACHNA-FRAM Daily Sports Writer
Sunday, Duquesne scored the first goal and the last one, downing the Michigan women’s lacrosse team, 11-10, in a heartbreaking, back-and-forth battle. That DUQUESNE 11 first goal MICHIGAN 10 set the tone for the rest of a disappointing afternoon for the Wolverines. “We wanted to come out and set the tone and play a much more upbeat, aggressive game,” said Michigan coach Jennifer Ulehla. The turning point of the game came with 16 minutes left to play in regulation and Michigan nursing an 8-7 lead. Sophomore goalie Allison Silber saved a shot and gained control of the ball. The Duke defense elected not to pressure Silber, allowing her to hold the ball and give her defense time to rest. After about 30 seconds, Silber made an ill-advised pass about 30 yards downfield that was picked off by a Duquesne
attacker with nothing but open field between her and the net. The play allowed the Dukes to tie the game and shifted the momentum clearly in their favor. The game started close, and it stayed that way, as neither team managed to open up more than a two-goal lead. One of those two-goal leads came early in the first half when Michigan responded to the Dukes’ opening goal with three of its own, the final of which came from sophomore attacker Jess Angerman, who finished the day with a hat trick. “Today I was obviously lucky because my teammates were able to find me,” Angerman said. “Just the way the defense worked with me playing behind the cage I was able to get some looks.” When Duquesne battled back to make it 3-2 midway through the first half, the Wolverines quickly responded with another goal and it seemed like they would manage to stay in control of the game. But that reality quickly subsided, and the Dukes dominated the second part of
the first half by scoring three consecutive goals to take the lead, 5-4. Seconds before the half expired, sophomore midfielder Anna Schueler scored an equalizer to send the teams to the locker room knotted at five apiece. In the first five minutes of the second half, Angerman sandwiched her second and third goals of the game around a Duquesne goal scored off a penalty shot. Less than a minute after Angerman’s third goal of the afternoon, Duquesne responded with a goal to tie the game at seven. Michigan notched two quick goals following the Silber blunder, but the Dukes quickly responded with two of their own to tie the game once again. Finally, after setting the tone for much of the afternoon, Duquesne scored the last goal of the game in the final minutes. “We never really put it together,” Ulehla said. “We’d make a stop on defense, then we’d turn the ball over. That has been a constant that we’ve been struggling with all season.”
“That has been a constant that we’ve been struggling with.”
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Defense rules Spring Game Pasta or steak? FOOTBALL
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By MAX COHEN
Daily Sports Editor
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Technically speaking, the Blue team topped the Maize team, 7-0. But the real winner of the Michigan football team’s 2015 Spring Game was the defense, and it wasn’t even close. Even aside from the fact there was only one touchdown scored in the game, both the Maize and the Blue teams looked mostly disjointed on offense. And while much of that can be attributed to a team still familiarizing itself with the playbook, the depth of Michigan’s defense made things even harder on its offense. The Blue team, for instance, averaged 0.7 yards per carry … and won. “It’s been impressive,” said fifth-year senior linebacker Desmond Morgan. “All spring, I think the defense has really stepped up in a lot of ways. We pride ourselves on getting a lot better than what we were, even last season.” The Wolverines allowed 22.4 points per game last season, already an impressive figure good for 27th in the nation. But with the talent they return, highlighted by a linebacking corps that includes Morgan and senior Joe Bolden, they could be even better. That started Saturday. Bolden led all players with 13 tackles for the Maize team, three of them for loss, while Morgan had four tackles and an interception for the Blue team. More importantly, they each anchored units that snuffed out runs and hawked balls. The defenses came away with four total turnovers, a striking contrast to the one total touchdown. And even then, the Blue team’s lone score came when junior quarterback Shane Morris exploited a clear mismatch, hitting redshirt sophomore receiver Jaron Dukes in stride over the top of senior Dennis Norfleet, who just recently began
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Senior linebacker Joe Bolden led all defensive players with 13 tackles in Michigan’s Spring Game.
working as a nickel cornerback. While it’s easy to blame an offense that ranked among the nation’s worst last season, redshirt freshman Jabrill Peppers is less inclined to do so. “Our offense is actually very, very good,” Peppers said. “It’s just, offense takes a little longer to develop than defense. Not to mention our defense, we’re playing out of our minds right now. “The game plan, the play calls are so simple, it just let’s us play without thinking. When you play without thinking, you’re just that much more instinctual. You’re making that much more plays. You’re having that much more fun.” Peppers had four tackles Saturday, but seemed to be around the ball all game, enjoying his transition to safety. He said he switched positions because he liked to ‘hit more,’ and it showed.
He flew to the ball, taking advantage of his new position and a supporting cast that enhanced his freedom even further. If there were players out of position, they went largely unseen, whether that was because a teammate covered the mistake or because the offense failed to exploit it. Either way, the unit’s cohesiveness on both teams opened up opportunities for playmakers to emerge at the positions with question marks. At defensive end, it was redshirt freshman Lawrence Marshall and senior Royce Jenkins-Stone wreaking the most havoc. They played on opposite teams, but Marshall came away with a sack and 1.5 tackles for loss, and Jenkins-Stone had a sack and 2.5 tackles for loss. Beyond those two, redshirt junior Chris Wormley generated
“All spring, the defense has really stepped up in a lot of ways.”
significant pressure, racking up five tackles but affecting even more plays. “(Wormley) provided some really good pass rush on the inside,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. “If there’s any way we can get pass rush from a fourman line, that’s what we need to do. We need that improvement. The edge will come, but I thought we had a good interior pass rush today.” Still, the pressure Wormley and others generated came against two sets of offensive lines that didn’t look sharp. It really isn’t shocking that Michigan’s veteran defense outshined an offense that’s still learning the playbook. In fact, that lack of surprise is as big a positive as any moving into the summer. “I think it’s something where we both tipped our hats to each other at the end of the game saying, ‘Hats off to the defense. Good job, guys,’ ” Morgan said. But while half of the defense followed that exchange with a steak dinner, a hat tip was as good as it got for the others.
The man of the moment for the Michigan football program spent much of the team’s Spring Game staying out of the way. Jim Harbaugh hovered about 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage on each play, his hands either on his hips or his knees as the pen he wore around his neck dangled in the wind. His interaction with his players was limited. He walked toward the line of scrimmage between plays, sometimes to peek into the conversation in the huddle, other times to offer his players words of encouragement. Redshirt freshman defensive end Lawrence Marshall said Harbaugh hardly communicated with the defensive line at all. Harbaugh aimed to stay impartial throughout the contest, purposefully refraining from contributing to the discussions that planned the numerous trick plays attempted during the game. The intensity fans have come to expect from Harbaugh was largely absent. The vast majority of plays elicited little reaction from the hyper-competitive head coach. That wasn’t the case for his players. Redshirt freshman safety Jabrill Peppers jumped up and down, flapping his arms in frustration after a missed interception in the second quarter. When junior quarterback Shane Morris threw the game’s only touchdown to redshirt sophomore wide receiver Jaron Dukes, the offense’s celebration would have been worthy of a regular-season game. The excitement was not without cause. For its postgame meal, the winning team received steak, while the losing team would have to settle for pasta. The motivational ploys of Harbaugh’s staff throughout the spring have been well
documented. At the end of every practice, either the offense or the defense emerges as the winner. The winning side runs gassers, while the losing team is forced to sit and watch. Though the players were intrigued by Harbaugh’s methodology at first, they quickly bought in. “You have to buy in, and when you buy in, it shows on the field like it did today,” Marshall said. Marshall, who recorded a thumping sack of Morris in the game’s second quarter, wore a gray sweatshirt with the moniker “Ball Hawk” across the front to his postgame media presser. It was emblematic of an another incentive for the Wolverine defense. “In practice, you knock the ball down, you rush the passer, cause a fumble — you get one of these shirts,” Marshall said. The sweatshirts were defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin’s idea. When a defensive player makes a play in practice like the ones Marshall described, the coaching staff makes a point of recognizing him in front of his teammates. “It kind of pushes you a little bit harder to focus on some of those things that maybe if it wasn’t recognized as much you wouldn’t notice or pay attention to as much,” said fifth-year senior linebacker Desmond Morgan. When Saturday’s defensive struggle ended, it was once again time to celebrate the winners. Morris threw his arms up into the air as he made his way off the field. Harbaugh offered brief congratulations to the winning coach, offensive coordinator Tim Drevno, before running into the tunnel alone. Dinner was waiting, and the winning team was ready to receive its due. It had been all day. “I made sure I ate enough spaghetti this morning so I didn’t have to eat it later on,” Dukes said.
FOOTBALL
Morris leads QB battle Sophomore outplays Malzone, holds edge after spring By JAKE LOURIM Managing Sports Editor
Junior quarterback Shane Morris gave his handoffs, stood in the pocket and made his throws early in his second Spring Game at Michigan. And then he took his first hit, and things really got going. “It’s awesome — it’s football,” Morris said later. “I get tackled in football games. I hope I would get tackled in practice. I’ve been live all spring practice. We do third-down drills, I’m live. Being live in the pocket is part of being quarterback and playing the game of football. It doesn’t bother me at all.” In the heat of a quarterback battle, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh let the quarterbacks be hit in Saturday’s Spring Game at Michigan Stadium. He let his candidates — Morris, early enrollee Alex Malzone and redshirt freshman Wilton Speight — play it out on the field all spring. When camp closed Saturday, Harbaugh had what he wanted: a leader. “If I look at it overall over spring ball, Shane would be ahead,” Harbaugh said. “The competition will rage on, though, starting tomorrow. Into April, and into May, and certainly into June, July and August.” There’s no doubt the competition will remain fierce, but Morris ended the day as the frontrunner. He completed 11 of 24 passes for 135 yards, an interception and the game’s only touchdown. Malzone, by contrast, was 15-for-27 for just 95 yards and two interceptions. The two signal callers played the whole game for the Blue and Maize teams, respectively. Morris, the more experienced of the two, used more of the playbook as the game went on,
throwing down the sidelines to redshirt junior wide receiver Amara Darboh, who finished with four catches for 75 yards. He was close on a number of other deep balls but overthrew them. “I thought Shane played well, played with really good courage in the pocket,” Harbaugh said. “I think he’ll come out of this feeling good about the way he played, and he’ll build some good confidence.” Meanwhile, Malzone was limited mostly to short screen, hitch and out routes. His longest completion of 21 yards was on a catch-and-run to Chesson after junior cornerback Jourdan Lewis jumped the route but missed the interception. Harbaugh said the game was a good learning experience for the early enrollee from Birmingham (Michigan) Brother Rice High School. “Anything’s good for him,” Harbaugh said. “He’s so young. He should be in high school right now. He’s out here competing in 11-on-11 football. The game, the environment, the situation — that is valuable, valuable experience.” Morris said the players joke around with Malzone, telling him to “close the yearbook.” But even that is premature. Malzone reminds them he hasn’t gotten a high school yearbook yet. Still, he has five weeks under his belt of learning the playbook and getting to know the receivers, an effort that will continue this summer. “If you had one quarterback, you would obviously spend a lot of time with that quarterback,” Chesson said. “In theory, you have to spend a lot of time with every single quarterback. So that’s what we do.” Turnovers were an issue for
both quarterbacks. Malzone threw the first interception on a deep throw down the left sideline. Redshirt freshman wide receiver Maurice Ways appeared to have control of it, but senior safety Jarrod Wilson jarred it loose, and redshirt freshman Brandon Watson came up with it. Morris returned the favor three plays later when his pass was deflected into the air and easily caught by junior safety Delano Hill. Malzone’s second interception went right into the hands of fifth-year senior linebacker Desmond Morgan over the middle. “We definitely had a lot of setbacks today, but we’re building,” Chesson said. “We’re building something towards (fall) camp, and we definitely have to pick up things next week when we go out there and correct the mistakes that we made. We executed on some plays and we didn’t do well on some plays, so we just need to keep working hard and keep pushing.” That effort will continue over the summer as the quarterbacks compete for playing time in the fall. With Morris ahead in the race for now, a reporter asked him about a postcard featuring the line of Michigan quarterbacks going back almost a century. “We have it in our quarterback office,” Morris said. “It’s crazy to look at that and see the legacy of quarterbacks that have been at the University of Michigan. Having the potential to be a part of that, to be talked about as those guys, as the Tom Bradys, the Denard Robinsons, the Chad Hennes, the John Navarres, all those guys, it would just be unbelievable.” There’s still a long way to go, but Morris took the first step Saturday.
“The competition will rage on, though, starting tomorrow.”