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Customers line up outside the new Blimpy Burger location on South Ashley Street before the restaurant’s grand re-opening Friday.
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Rich Magner, the owner of Blimpy Burger, was in the kitchen. He opened the fridge to check on the hamburger meat, which he and his employees still prepare the old-fashioned way: handgrinding it. Once he finished checking the beef, he returned to his vat of onion ring coating, mixing in vinegar and then pouring in a barrel of raw onions. He then
strained the onions before covering them in seasoning and a dry rub. At one point, he turned away from the work and said with a weary grin, “Let’s be honest. The bottom line is that we’re tired.” Blimpy re-opened Friday at 304 South Ashley Street — just over a year after closing its original location on South Division and Packard. The University purchased the property for $1.075 million to construct the $180-million
Munger Graduate Residences. Though it was a rainy, gray morning, nearly two dozen
“It means a lot of things to a lot of people” lined up outside of the burger joint before its opening at 11
a.m. Over the next two hours, the flow of traffic was consistent, with about 40 people in line at any given moment. Magner said they considered closing for an hour Friday to recuperate before opening up shop again for the dinner rush. But really, it’s just business as usual. The restaurant is plastered with polar bear paraphernalia. The most prominent item is a standing, humansized stuffed bear christened See BLIMPY, Page 3A
Robert Axelrod takes interdisciplinary approach to social science inquiry By IAN DILLINGHAM Daily News Editor
President Barack Obama’s Friday announcement of this year’s recipients of the National Medal of Science included, among nine others, University Prof. Robert Axelrod. The award is “our Nation’s highest honors for achievement and leadership in advancing the fields of science and technology,” according to a White House press release. The President will honor Axelrod and his fellow medal recipients with an Oval Office ceremony and dinner. “These scholars and innovators have expanded our understanding of the world, made invaluable contributions to their fields, and helped improve countless lives,” Obama said in a White House press release. “Our nation has been enriched by their achievements, and by all the scientists and technolo-
gists across America dedicated to discovery, inquiry, and invention.” In a Friday interview, Axelrod said he was informed of the award by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy earlier this week. He added that he was especially excited to be the first political scientist to be honored with the award. Axelrod is currently spending the academic year at the U.S. State Department as a Jefferson Science Fellow, a program that promotes cooperation between scientific experts and the government. His areas of focus are national security policy and mathematical models of politics, making his work very interdisciplinary. He encouraged students to branch out and take classes across the University to get a truly interdisciplinary and well-rounded education. “Don’t settle on a focus for your career or your major too early,” he said. “Look around at all kinds of stuff at the University … Find a good teacher and take a course almost regardless of what they’re teaching. Follow your nose in terms of what interests you. You don’t have to explain those interests to anyone else — that’s something that’s See MEDAL, Page 3A
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a room at TechArb in downtown Ann Arbor to hear the talk and visit office hours with YC officials. MPowered Entrepreneurship hosted the event. LSA senior Saad Jangda, vice president of programs for MPowered, said YC’s visit to the University shows that Michigan’s entrepreneurial icons are noting the University’s startup savvy. “This is big,” Jangda said. “And I keep telling everyone it’s big because it means that people have started noticing that Michigan is a place for entrepreneurship. It’s something we’ve been trying to do for 10 years now.” “It’s not just about Silicon Valley anymore, it’s about the Silicon Mitten.” YC is rated first among business accelerators by publications such as TechCrunch and Forbes. Its three-month-long program provides seed funding, which covers a startup’s expenses See ACCELERATOR, Page 3A
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The Silicon Valley startup business incubator that invested in Reddit, Airbnb and more than 700 other tech companies visited Ann Arbor Friday to hear student pitches and discuss entrepreneurship. Qasar Younis, a partner from Y-Combinator, which accepts less than 3 percent of applicants to its intensive seed accelerator program, as well as Jesse Vollmar, a co-founder of a YCbacked startup, spoke about how to compose a solid team of founders, campus entrepreneurship resources, the value of not working for a corporation and other related topics. More than 100 students crowded into
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Student-athletes and their families gather to see the Michigan Football Team Friday outside Schembechler Hall.
Student-athletes support team with Rutgers sendoff
Group gathered as football team battles historic losing streak By CLAIRE BRYAN Daily Staff Reporter
After a tumultuous week for the Athletic Department, the athletic community gathered together to show their support for the football team with a formal send off. Student-athletes, coaches,
athletic administrators and alumni gathered in Schembechler Hall Friday afternoon to cheer on the football team as they boarded the buses to Piscataway, New Jersey for Saturday’s game at Rutgers University. The energy was positive at the indoor field. Pompoms were passed out to students as they created a tunnel down the center of the field. Members of the baseball and volleyball teams came dressed in uniform. “We thought it would be a
great way to show our support for our football team, cheer them on, let them know we got their back and that we are here as a family,” Associate Athletic Director David Ablauf said. The Student Athlete Advisory Council, a committee consisting of representatives from each varsity and club-varsity sport on campus to encourage the student-athlete experience, organized the send off. Similar send offs and homecomings happen often for teams, usually when See SUPPORT, Page 3A
City to revist 2013 legislation to improve pedestrian safety By EMMA KERR Daily Staff Reporter
This week’s Ann Arbor City Council meeting will feature discussion on the implementation of last year’s controversial crosswalk ordinance, a new resolution altering the fees associated with dog ownership, and an updated countywide ordinance aiming to better control and eliminate harmful pollutants within the city through further restriction, among other zoning changes. First Reading: Crosswalk ordinance Following extensive discussion last year regarding pedestrianvehicle interactions, Stephen Kunselman (D–Ward 3) is sponsoring an ordinance that would amend the crosswalk ordinance currently See COUNCIL, Page 3A
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‘U’ hit with drop in state support Republican Gov. William Milliken warned University President Robben Fleming to expect at least a 4-percent decrease in state funding for the 1975-1976 academic year. Milliken also instructed Fleming that “tuition increases and enrollment decreases are not viable alternatives” to compensate for the lower funding. However, Fleming said he wouldn’t rule out a tuition increase and saw no other path toward increasing University revenue. “Our financial future is a very serious problem and I don’t know the answer to it,” he told
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the University community in his annual State of the University speech earlier that week. “This is the most dismal financial picture we’ve faced in the last decade.” Twenty-eight years ago this week (Oct. 9, 1986) Members of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs asked University administrators to form a committee to review spending priorities. The request followed a five-year study on funds distribution at the University conducted by a SACUA subcommittee, which led to the sentiment among some faculty members that certain departments are routinely overlooked.
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Social Work Prof. Sydney Bernard, a committee member, pointed to the School of Education as one particularly underfunded unit. “We would like to have a legitimate spokesman for units which currently might not be doing so well in ‘centrality sweepstakes’ but might be important in the longterm,” Bernard said. Centrality, which can determine funding priorities, was defined either as programs supported by grant money from external organizations or programs which are important to the University’s status such as math, English and foreign language, committee member Carla Stoffle said. — SHOHAM GEVA
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First U.S. Ebola case leads to travel ban consideration Health officials advise maintaining open borders (AP) — Top government health officials said Sunday that they are opposed to placing a ban on travelers from Ebola-infected countries, warning that shutting down borders could impede efforts by aid workers to stop the spread of the deadly virus. The idea of a ban gained currency this past week after the nation’s first case was diagnosed in Dallas. Proponents have argued that it would help ensure public safety. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, said a travel embargo on West African countries that are struggling with Ebola would make it much harder for them to control the virus. “You isolate them, you can cause unrest in the country,” Fauci told “Fox News Sunday.” ‘’It’s conceivable that governments could fall if you just isolate them completely.” British Airways and some other airlines have suspended flights from those countries, and overall traffic to and from the affected areas has dropped. Sen. Mark Kirk, an Illinois Republican, has said the federal
government should gradually halt flights to the region to protect Americans. Rep. Tim Murphy plans to conduct hearings on the policy this coming week. He leads the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Asking travelers to report their own activities at airports “has been a demonstrated failure, and it is nearly impossible to retrace steps to try and track down everyone who has been in contact with a carrier taking multiple international flights across the globe,” Murphy, a Pennsylvania Republican, said Friday. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a physician, said the U.S. should halt flights from Ebola-stricken countries. “The Obama administration keeps saying they won’t shut down flights. They instead say we should listen to ‘the experts,’” Jindal said Friday. “In fact, they said it would be counterproductive to stop these flights. That statement defies logic.” Tom Frieden, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said on ABC’s “This Week” that the administration was open to practical suggestions that won’t backfire. “We don’t want to do something that inadvertently increases our risk by making it harder to stop the outbreak there, because if it spreads more widely throughout different countries in Africa, that will be even more of
a risk to us,” said Frieden, whose agency has cautioned against non-essential travel to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. Frieden has also noted that a ban on incoming flights could affect Americans trying to return home from those countries. “There are many other people who have the right to enter into this country,” he said during a Saturday briefing. “And we’re not going to be able to get to zero risk no matter what we do unless and until we control the outbreak in West Africa.” An airline passenger traveling from Liberia to Dallas brought Ebola into the U.S. last month. He is hospitalized in isolation, and public-health officials are monitoring a few dozen people who may have been exposed to the virus. U.S. officials have emphasized that the United States has a modern medical system that is far better equipped to contain an outbreak than the African countries where Ebola is currently spreading. Airline passengers have their temperatures taken as they board planes in the outbreak zone, although those infected with Ebola can go up to 21 days before they exhibit symptoms. Passengers are also asked about contact with infected people, but that process would not be useful if a passenger lies or simply does not realize the medical condition of people they have encountered.
After hospital officials on Saturday said the condition of the lone Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S. has worsened, the woman he came to Texas to visit said she is praying for his recovery. Louise Troh said that she was not aware until a reporter told her that Thomas Eric Duncan’s condition had been deemed critical and that she had not spoken with him Saturday. “I pray in Jesus’ name that it will be all right,” Troh said in a telephone interview from the home where she and three others are being isolated. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas didn’t provide any further details or respond to questions about Duncan’s health on Saturday.
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Doctor treated for Ebola hospitalized A doctor admitted to a Massachusetts hospital this weekend for an apparent respiratory infection after surviving the Ebola virus was in stable condition and feeling better Sunday, but still has a fever and cough, hospital officials said as they awaited Ebola testing results. Officials at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester said Dr. Richard Sacra remained in isolation as a precaution. He was admitted Saturday and is being treated for an upper respiratory infection that doctors believe is not related to Ebola he contracted in Africa. Dr. Robert Finberg, who is leading Sacra’s medical team, said at a news conference Sunday that doctors are confident Sacra’s symptoms are not related to the Ebola he contracted in Africa. —Compiled from Daily wire reports
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Twenty finalists chosen in annual ArtPrize Organizers of the ArtPrize art competition in Grand Rapids say that 11 days of public voting have produced 20 finalists for the grand prize of $200,000. ArtPrize says that 37,283 people cast 352,732 votes in four categories. They include two dimensional, three-dimensional, time-based and installation artwork. The competition announced the finalists Sunday afternoon and posted images and details of them online . It says that the five finalists in each category move onto the second round of voting, which began at 3 p.m. Sunday and runs through 11:59 p.m. Thursday. ArtPrize has a prize pool of $560,000.
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Heat spikes in Calif., as does drought Temperatures approached triple digits in much of California on Saturday afternoon and surpassed 100 degrees in inland areas as a steaming autumn in the state seemed more like an endless summer. Heat in the low 90s was felt in the normally temperate San Francisco Bay Area, and it reached the upper 90s in the Sacramento area. Throngs of thousands who crammed Golden Gate Park in San Francisco for the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival were chugging water and dumping it on their heads as they danced to banjos and fiddles in the midday swelter, with many wearing shorts and little else. The mercury was at 95 degrees in downtown Los Angeles by midday and over 100 in the suburbs of San Bernardino County.
ACCELERATOR From Page 1A during is earliest stage, as well as advice from YC partners about how to develop ideas and pitch startups to potential investors. Prominent techies also host weekly talks for YC participants, including speakers like Facebook co-Founder Mark Zuckerberg. The experience culminates in a Demo Day, in which about 450 top investors hear presentations from YC-backed startups and — hopefully — invest in the fledgling companies. University alum Harry Zhang, co-founder of Lob, a San Francisco-based printing and mailing service, participated in YC in the summer of 2013. The company has since raised $9.4 million from investors, according to CrunchBase. “Overall, it’s easily the best incubator in Silicon Valley and has one of the best brand names in the Silicon Valley community,” Zhang said. He said the advice and structured program that YC offered were invaluable. “It helps you sort of get the traction that you need to launch your startup in a structured environment,” Zhang said. “It helps you internalize what the most important thing is that you should be focusing your time on when you’re building your company.” The YC-backed company that was represented at the event was FarmLogs, an Ann Arborbased company focused on servicing farms and optimizing crop rotation. FarmLogs CEO Jesse Vollmar co-founded the company in 2012, and it has since produced a profit of $5 million. Vollmar presented a storyline of FarmLogs’ early days. After he and his co-founders were accepted into YC, via an e-mail that “completely changed (his) life,” he moved to San Francisco, lived in a tiny apartment with only an Ikea mattress on his floor and assumed 100-hour work weeks of coding — 14 hours per day, every day. “Our life just became completely consumed by the startup,” Vollmar said. He emphasized the need to find co-founders who were equally dedicated to the intensive
BLIMPY From Page 1A “Grand O,” who is propped up adjacent to the cash register. The polar bears stem from an old tradition. Blimpy Burger’s mascot is a bear, and Magner built snow-bears outside the restaurant one winter in the 1990s to attract clientele. Since then, the joint has been celebrating polar bears even when the sun is shining. Tom and Johanna Westrick, who are from Dundee, Michigan, were the first to get their burgers. Tom got two double burgers with cheese, mustard, ketchup, pickle and onion, while Johanna had one double with cheese, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise. “We’ve been waiting all summer for it to open, so we thought we’d come down and check it out,” Tom said. The two, who live 30 minutes south of Ann Arbor, have been Blimpy Burger patrons for years. “I worked in Ann Arbor and used to eat there numerous times per week,” Tom said. “(The food is) just like I remember it. Seems
MEDAL From Page 1A exciting to you and you don’t even have to know why.” Axelrod received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1964 and completed his Ph.D. with distinction at Yale University in 1969. Prior to coming to University, he was an assistant professor in the University of California, Berkeley Department of Political Science. He came to the University in 1974 and holds joint appointments in the Department of Political Science and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. In 2006, he became the Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding, and received the Regents’ Award for
lifestyle, after one person in his three-person team left one month into the YC program. “We weren’t on the same page,” Vollmar said. “We didn’t all have an agreement that we were going to pour everything we had into this company. It’s something that you should definitely get straight is building a strong relationship with your co-founders first.” YC partner Younis echoed this sentiment during his talk. Younis, whose feedback platform TalkBin was acquired and then phased out by Google, also discouraged attraction to the image of the dropout startup founder, such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. Younis also emphasized the value of working for oneself rather than for a corporation. He said the latter option often offers a larger salary and more security, but foraying into the startup world is a priceless experience. After the talk, University students with early-stage startups had the opportunity to have 10-minute office hours with Younis. One attendant was Engineering alum Tim Jones, the founder and chief technology officer of Cribspot, a housing website that he said has helped more than 60,000 students find housing since September 2013. After attending office hours, he said he is considering applying to YC. “Y-Combinator is really focused on high-growth companies,” Jones said. “You have to grow or you die. Office hours really emphasized how we need to stay focused and that every week we should grow 7 to 10 percent. That’s really important to us.” Business senior Jay Raina said the office hours with Younis gave him “great wisdom.” He is in the process of establishing an app that will allow users to pay their bills at restaurants electronically, cutting waits of up to half an hour to process credit cards and split checks. “This is absolutely a problem that needs to be solved and several people have attempted to solve this problem but they failed,” Raina said. “One big takeaway (Younis) gave us is to look at those failures and avoid them to make sure our app is successful.”
like it was still at the old place.” Returning customers reported they like the new restaurant, which is roomier than the old space. This one provides a separate ramp on the side where customers can line up and order, as opposed to queuing in between tables as they used to. However, one customer, 21-year-old William Scott, an Ann Arbor resident, said it’s “too clean and too new,” and that he misses “that vintage feel, like the resurrected from some hole-inthe wall back in the ‘50s feel.” “They could put some laminate flooring down so it gets sticky again, that would be nice,” he said. Small details aside, Magner said the feedback has been positive. “Most of the comments that I’ve had are that the burgers taste the same,” Magner said. Magner and his wife, Chris, said it has been a long year preceding the business’ re-opening. They closed in Aug. 2013; their final days had queues up to three hours long. The couple was originally considering a storefront on East Wil-
Distinguished Public Service in 2011. If given the chance to speak with the President, Axelrod said he had a couple areas he would be interested in addressing. “I’d like to talk to him about America’s role in the world,” Axelrod said. “About how we can contribute to international peace and global prosperity, without … disrespecting other cultures.” He added that he’d also like to talk about the U.S. economy, especially in regards to income inequality and the distorting effects of money in elections. “I know the economic difficulties we’ve had in the Great Recession have somewhat undermined our own self-confidence, but as the economy gets better I think we’ll restore our sense of valuing our own potential at home and abroad.”
COUNCIL From Page 1A in place. Current legislation requires drivers to stop for pedestrians if they are standing at a curb, curb line or ramp leading to a crosswalk. The new ordinance would amend that rule to include the phrase, “If the driver can do so safely.” In December 2013, Mayor John Hieftje vetoed an amendment that was passed by the City Council to maintain the requirement that drivers stop for waiting pedestrians. The amended ordinance would still require drivers to stop, but would add language to protect drivers who are unable to safely stop before reaching a crosswalk. Resolution/Ordinance: Dog licensing The City Council will be presented with a resolution and ordinance pertaining to the fees and procedures associated with dog licensing in Ann Arbor. In its second reading, following little conversation at the previous meeting, councilmembers will discuss eliminating an explicit fee from the original dog leasing ordinance
liam Street, which fell through, before choosing their current location on Ashley. They also ran an Indiegogo campaign which raised 34 percent of its $60,000 goal. Blimpy had a soft-opening last week, where Magner invited 50 people who were involved in getting the restaurant running again. Ultimately, they said they were happy to be back. “It means a lot of things to a lot of people,” Chris said. “Just because of the years they’ve been here and been going to it.” Nostalgia was pervasive as customers filled the eatery, many discussing their meal plans and Blimpy memories. University alum Herm Steinman began eating at Blimpy Burger in 1958. “I’m at the point where if I don’t have my Blimpy fix at least once a month, I get shaky,” he said after finishing his burger. “I have brought two wives, several girlfriends, four kids, seven grandkids and one great-grandkid so far.” Steinman’s enthusiasm for Blimpy extends beyond inhaling cheeseburgers: he’s known to
SUPPORT From Page 1A participating in big competitions or tournaments, such as the NCAA Final Four, Ablauf said. “Our goal is to help the student athletes and coaches,” he said. “We want to go out and support them, weather it is in celebration, weather it is in time of need, for whatever reason or what ever they are going to do.” Junior Volleyball player Olivia Reed found out about the send off through e-mails from her SAAC representatives. Right before leaving for Michigan State, the volleyball team found it important to support their football team, Reed said. “Right now it is important for all of us to come together as a
and adding different time length options for owners. The new resolution will determine the fees that will apply to each corresponding license time. The ordinance is meant to offer citizens more options when purchasing tags and to allow the establishment of online licensing procedures. Ordinance: Stormwater Management and Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control Water Resources Commissioner Evan N. Pratt has submitted a request to the Council to amend current rules and regulations surrounding pollution caused by construction in Washtenaw County, including the city of Ann Arbor. The University is required to operate under Washtenaw County’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and follow this amended protocol. Ann Arbor along with much of Washtenaw County is considered an urbanized area, meaning it requires a water permit, which is expected to be reissued this year. The amended rules, which have not been updated since 2000, are meant to better protect the environment from pollutants and any other adverse effects of stormwater runoff.
Monday, October 6, 2014 — 3A provide in-house tunes. A bagpipe player for 30 years, Steinman has marked several Blimpy milestones in a kilt and the Celtic wind instrument. “I piped ’em out when they closed the other one, and I piped ’em in. I’m the house piper,” Steinman said. He also plays at weddings and funerals, even having performed at the funeral of the restaurant’s original owner. What Steinman said he loves most about Blimpy is the rapport. As a regular customer for the last 56 years, employees know his order by heart. For years, he brought his grandkids here as a last day of school tradition. He taught them how to order in the Blimpy way. The cook asks if you’re ordering anything fried, you respond; the cook asks how many burgers you’re having, you respond; the cook asks what you want on your burger(s), you respond; the cook asks what kind of bun you want, you respond; the cook asks if you’d like the bread to be grilled, you respond. Customers who diverge from
this system risk getting yelled at. “If you weren’t embarrassed at Blimpy’s, you should feel offended,” Steinman said. The favorite memory of another loyal patron, Ann Arbor resident Daniel Webber, involves just that. Webber, who came to the opening with his mother Nancy, has been frequenting Blimpy for 12 years. Former University President Mary Sue Coleman was in line in front of Webber once and would not get off her phone. Phone chatting while in line is verboten at Blimpy’s. “This 50-year-old woman who used to work here came and grabbed her by her arm and pulled her out of line,” Webber said. “(Coleman) said, ‘Do you know who I am?’ and the lady said, ‘Yes, leaving.’” Ann Arbor resident Jeania Getty has eaten at Blimpy for the last 25 years. She said Blimpy is “the only place and time that I ever drink chocolate milk.” The beverage, alongside a triple burger with provolone on an onion roll with everything on it, is her tradition — one of many that were revisited on Friday.
community,” Reed said. “To be supportive of our football team as they are maybe going through a harder time than we would expect.” Senior Baseball player Eric Jacobson also attended with his teammates before their afternoon practice. “We really want to show the football team that we have a lot of faith in them and that their success is important to us,” Jacobson said.“In light of the negativity there are still positives to be found in our community. The football team has a 2-3 record going into its game against Rutgers, and the program itself has been criticized with regards to its coaching staff. Students rallied Tuesday calling for Athletic Director Dave Brandon to be removed from his position. Brandon is directly
responsible for football coach Brady Hoke’s performance, which is under scrutiny from media outlets for his handling of sophomore quarterback Shane Morris’ concussion in the team’s game against Minnesota last week. “Obviously this week has been tough on our football program,” Ablauf said. “We wanted those student-athletes to know that we are all here, we are supporting them, we are going to give them all the energy we possibly can, so they can go out and have a great game on Saturday.” Ablauf said players and coaches need to stay focused and the send off was just part of that initiative. “You want to try to keep things as normal as possible for them and not alter their routine,” Ablauf said. “I think we have been able to do that.”
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s part of a campus community, staying in tune with the happenings of the world is an inevitable habit. With so much discussion, awareness of current issues sometimes seems to happen through osmosis. It’s part of the reason college exists, to encourage discourse and worldliness, collaboration and communication across different backgrounds and cultures. It’s one of the great things about being a student. Unfortunately, the world spins too fast to keep track of everything in it. Certain events have the TYLER power to divert the energy SCOTT and attention normally put into sustaining the definitive cultural atmosphere of campus. Of course, “certain things” really means midterms, the soulsucking demonic exams that determine exactly how stressful life is for the rest of the semester. Still, with summer not too far in the past, those recent memories seem like a better time, when life was at ease and no troubles existed in the world. The fact that it isn’t true anymore doesn’t matter, because now what feels like every spare moment — from the morning shower to late nights in the UGLi — is spent obsessing over material we don’t know. Yet we march on. Most people can at least empathize. Parents, and even occasionally professors who choose to show their human side, acknowledge that midterms are the first of many stressful times in a new academic year, and even if the college scene looks pretty familiar by now, there are always new challenges. It’s a conglomeration of the known and unknown that causes so much stress. It’s why on some days the thought of real adulthood and never having to go to lecture again seems like the most beautiful thing in the world. Fall is finally here, but it doesn’t quite feel like it. Maybe it’s still too warm to feel the refreshing cut of cold in the air, or maybe our football team is too bad to get properly excited about a
Saturday. Whatever the reason, it’s almost too easy to slip into a bad mood and forget what we do know — to stop appreciating what it is about the day-to-day that defines college. There used to be an energy that the air almost hummed with. It’s not always the same for everyone, but recently it’s been universally quieted by the whirlwind of another semester gearing up to pace. It’s depressing to acknowledge that this time around just doesn’t feel the same. Somehow life has gotten more stressful, and the tried and true benchmarks of good times past now seem shallow and unfulfilling. It was the conglomeration of the known and unknown that comprised the feeling in the first place, and now it all feels old and tired. However, that isn’t to say that all hope is lost. At some point that exciting energy will show itself again. It makes some people dance like their friends have never seen, and others smile so wide it hurts — an anxious excitement that nobody knows how to verbalize. There will be a known functional recipe to elicit it. But when it’s recognized, the greatest epiphany that privileged kids away at school can have should strike. The energy wasn’t somehow built into the masonry of the campus and the city, and it doesn’t leak out from backyard speakers and brass marching horns. It is here because we are here, and it’s the things we think we hate that brew it. The feeling is community; it is Michigan. We came after we felt it first from those who were here before, and we were met with academic demands that we were told give this school its relevance and prestige. Even though we knew what we were signing up for, we came to be among the best, and we all came to stay. The doubt and challenge of it that can quell the energy, but only for a while. Soon enough this stressful time too shall pass, and somehow we’ll have all survived, proving to ourselves once again why we deserve to stay here, and be champions. — Tyler Scott can be reached at tylscott@umich.edu.
MARK KILLINGSWORTH | VIEWPOINT
A tale of two programs Last Saturday night, Rutgers, which joined the Big Ten in July, beat Michigan, one of the conference’s founders. Michigan athletics is reeling from a week-long public relations nightmare. No wonder the Wolverine community is feeling, well, seriously blue. But the Michigan-Rutgers matchup wasn’t just a game. It highlights some of the worst features of today’s college athletics — but it also offers a glimpse of a different future. As an undergraduate, I loved Michigan athletics. I’ve returned for homecoming, sung “Varsity” and “The Victors” endlessly, and walked through the Big House admiring the displays: the winningest program, 42 conference championships and 11 national championships — at least one every decade from the ’00s to the ’40s. But after Bennie Oosterbaan’s 1948 team, Michigan was unable to win a national title until 1997, and after that … nothing. How come? Schools everywhere now hope to vault to prominence, attract more and better students and get more money via big-time sports. Michigan State was one of the first, followed by upstarts like Central Florida and Boise State. Not surprisingly, older programs are sometimes elbowed aside. We haven’t won national championships lately, but we still generate enormous revenues. Athletic program profits were over $23 million in 2011-12, and almost $12.5 million in 2012-13, NCAA reports. Joining the Rutgers economics faculty in the 1970s, I found an athletic program that was very different from the booming enterprise in Ann Arbor. The stadium was less than half the size of the Big House. Rutgers played schools like Colgate. It had traditions — after all, in 1869, Rutgers beat Princeton in the first-ever college football game — but the program was pretty sleepy. Then the Board of Governors decided that Rutgers should go big-time. So began a long, largely unimpressive and painfully costly saga. Simply put, Rutgers’ athletics program doesn’t generate nearly enough revenue to cover expenses, resulting in huge annual deficits. Between 200405 and 2012-13, the cumulative deficit was $237.9 million, which Rutgers has financed by tapping student fees (over $300 per year per undergraduate on the New Brunswick campus) and its discretionary fund. In 2013, Rutgers President Robert Barchi admitted that Rutgers athletics is “siphoning dollars off from the academic mission.” This moment of candor has never
returned. Instead, Barchi and the BOG have a new mantra: be patient; huge Big Ten media revenues are coming. But Rutgers’ current financial plan for athletics actually forecasts an additional $183 million in deficits between 2013-14 and 202122, even after including these revenues. The athletic director recently disclosed that the 2014-15 deficit will be over $4 million larger than forecast. Last month Rutgers raised the football coach’s salary by $200,000 while telling the library to cut $550,000 from its budget. Michigan and Rutgers have one thing in common: athletics is autonomous and enormously powerful, either because it is hugely profitable (Michigan) or because the school’s governing body is completely indifferent to huge deficits (Rutgers). Either way, athletics becomes a law unto itself. Rutgers athletics gets a blank check; Rutgers academics covers it. Michigan athletics gives back only a sliver of its profits to the academic enterprise, and management — from the athletic director on down — is seemingly incapable of managing competently, as witness the flurry of conflicting statements about the Shane Morris affair. In both places, commercialism runs rampant. Rutgers Stadium is now High Point Solutions Stadium and will have enhanced cellphone service (does that ring a bell, Wolverines?). In a special promotion, Michigan sold football tickets for the price of two Cokes (the result of yet more “miscommunication,” according to the program). Aping the NFL, the Big House blasts Eminem over the loudspeakers instead of featuring the marching band. Both schools run seat-licensing schemes that let rich fans write off high-ticket prices as a tax deduction. No other country — not Canada, Australia or anywhere else — has the U.S. mania for college sports. Turning things around will be difficult. But the protests in Ann Arbor this week mean that change is possible. My reading of the blogs, posts and tweets suggests that many of the protesters are angry not just about the failure to protect Shane Morris, but also about the relentless commercialization of Michigan athletics. Change needs leaders as well as protesters. It’s early in Mark Schlissel’s tenure, but it’s not too early for him to build a coalition with other college presidents to get the economic insanity of today’s college athletics under control. After all, aren’t we the leaders and best? Mark R. Killingsworth is a 1967 University alum, former editor of The Michigan Daily and is now a Professor of Economics at Rutgers University.
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niversity students rallied together against a common evil this week: University Athletic Director Dave Brandon. Controversy over Michigan Coach Brady Hoke’s decision to continue to play sophomore quarterback Shane Morris after he’d shown obvious AUSTIN signs of a concus- DAVIS sion — combined with frustrations over consecutive losses — prompted hundreds last Monday to protest against the leadership of Michigan athletics, Dave Brandon, calling for his immediate resignation. The onfield decision and its subsequent student protest have since garnered national attention, having been featured in such news outlets as The New York Times and ESPN. It’s clear that the decision to keep Morris in play by Hoke was both dangerous and wrong; Morris was noticeably sluggish and limping after sustaining injuries during the Minnesota game. According to the Mayo Clinic, a second concussion within such a short timeframe of a first could have led to fatal brain swelling. I’m sure everyone can agree that the chance of a player’s death outweighs the winning of a football game, no matter how badly an athletic program needs a win to uphold its prestige. Drawing awareness to this distinction is of course important for reviewing the University’s treatment of its athletes and, in general, for protecting athletes everywhere. Despite this, the oddly vicious and personalized outpour of emotion over the decline of Michigan football took precedence over the more gen-
eral issue of athletic safety at the protest. This has me feeling a bit unsure about why students chose to organize themselves in the first place. While I’m all for having an impassioned discussion via protest, I’m left unconvinced by the reasoning behind screams for Brandon’s resignation. It seems as if students are pissed off merely by the fact that their precious, often-bragged-about football team is experiencing its worst season in recent memory; the true issue at hand — namely the ignored safety hazards of Morris’ continued play — seemed a mere afterthought in comparison to students’ anger that their team has been losing. Because of this, I find myself wondering if students banded together last Monday for a common cause, or rather to conveniently use the events of two Saturdays ago to create a scapegoat for their pent-up frustrations with the University’s football program. Regardless of their reasoning, students did indeed congregate on University President Mark Schlissel’s front lawn in order to decree their shame in the University; they wanted to “have their voices heard” on this issue. At many points throughout the University’s history, students have attempted to have their voices heard regarding other problems that they felt brought shame to the University as well. In the 1960s students and faculty members alike joined forces in protesting the Vietnam War. Male students publically burned their draft cards and professors organized a “teach-in” in which all participators locked themselves inside a lecture hall on campus to discuss the moral fortitude of continued U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In more recent history, only last year, students rallied in dissent of the University’s handling of rape allegations against
former Michigan kicker Brendan Gibbons, whose process of reprimand was controversially kept under strict confidentiality by the University for approximately four years before his eventual expulsion. During the same term, Black students stood together in the freezing Michigan winter in order to call attention to the racially homogenous demographics on campus. I would argue that the public discussion of these issues is of far more importance than the loss of football games, the price of student tickets or even the mistake on the part of the coaches to place an injured player back in the game; however, none of the aforementioned rallies garnered nearly as much publicity or student involvement as Monday’s protest. Protests can destroy institutions of subjugation and dispel tyrannies. Twenty-five years ago this year, the world saw this happen as thousands of Germans of the former East and West Germanies ripped apart the physical symbol of the Iron Curtain — the Berlin Wall — with hammers and hands in order to be reunited with their countrymen, some for the first time in 28 years. Protests are powerful because they take many voices and compile them in one salient shout in defiance of a reality. Students on Monday were indeed attempting to defy an inconveniencing reality. But if the reality of overpriced football tickets and a lackluster football program is what students are truly so vehemently against, they’ll find their hundredsstrong shout for change met with a louder laugh of ridicule based on the hilarity of their argument. — Austin Davis can be reached at austchan@umich.edu.
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Pressured perfection
10 years old I shrink away at the sight of my mother struggling to make sense of what the tall man in the white shirt says to her. I hunch up my shoulders instinctively, digging my hands into the folds of her pleated skirt as if it would be enough to keep me still. Keep me rooted. Keep me grounded. He speaks harsh sounds and stings of pain, as if he pinches, prods, and pulls at our skins, scoffs at our furrowed brows and obscenities sent our way. “Go back to where you came from.” I learn to become ashamed of stutters and broken English; I promise to myself I will not become my mother. I learn to distance myself from her. Her identity will not be mine. She will not be a representation of me. I’m better than that. 12 years old “That’s disgusting!” My friends laugh, crinkling their noses and pushing it around the table. The distinctive smell and taste of home becomes a joke; everything becomes slow and sleepy and hazy. My throat closes up and I feel the familiar sting of burning acid threatening to drip out of my eyes. My friends look at me with a weary expression, rolling their eyes and laughing. All of a sudden, all I can taste is my own words and laughter, “I know, right?” I pack up my favorite meal, and throw it out. I tell my mother that it was disgusting. Next time she asks what I want for lunch, I point to the white bread in favor of the white rice. Peanut butter in exchange for the dried seaweed. An apple replacing the kimchi. Lunch becomes the first step away from my parents’ culture. They’re different. I don’t want to be different. I don’t want to be foreign. I just want to be American. 13 years old The people who looked like me were the people I didn’t want to be. Awkwardly short with chubby faces, we seemed to blend into each other. I was called three different names in the same hour.
“Lisa! No. Yuan. Wait no … I got it — just wait for it. It’s on the tip of my tongue. It has to be … Susanna?” Even in middle school, I understood we were all perceived in the same way — smart, submissive, shy, quiet, second-rate objects to satisfy the nearest diversity requirement. In group projects, we were given the most responsibility, and assumed to complete the project on our own means. We were talked about as the “model minorities,” the ones who would get ‘A’s to attend prestigious universities. My race, it seemed, embraced the pressure to be perfect. Surrounded by these representations, I believed that this was all that I could be. All that I would ever be. To break away from that stereotype, I spent time unfairly judging my own outward appearance. If I could change what I looked like, I believed that it would change what other people expected of me. I thought that if I looked like other girls — tall, skinny, shiny, and happy, I could break away from the stereotype that followed me. Trying to contort my body to gain acceptance, I skipped meals and chewed gum. My appetite and hunger began to disappear. So did I. 15 years old I wish I could say that the first time I stuck my fingers down my throat would be the last time I ever did something carelessly harmful to myself. I felt my own ghosts sink down the drains and transform themselves into something clear, something pure. As if purging my insides would transform my bruises, self-inflicted by my own distaste for my appearance. It made me forget I needed to write out an excused absence for my sister, that I needed to read documents and explain to my mother what it meant in elementary English, that I needed to find a plausible excuse for why I wasn’t feeling up to eating lunch again. Throwing up food to maintain my unnaturally slim figure was something that I could control in a world where I was being labeled, used, and expected to hold up the image that was thrown upon me the moment I stepped into rooms. Purging became a coping mechanism; it became a way
of life; it began to define me. Last year I thought I understood my intentions for turning my insides out, for sticking my fingers down my throat, for refusing anything but a handful of grapes a day. I never really thought to see how fragile it all ways, how deep it went. Just like everyone else, I only saw the top layer, where I was close to the size 0 jeans and Western standard of thin beauty, and never cared to go to the root of the problem. I was desperate, frightened, and my coping mechanism became my downfall; it ate me up when I was young and impressionable, and I clung on to it with hopeful despair until destruction. Now Living with an eating disorder is a permanent battle between what I know is right and what I feel is right. After multiple fainting spells and even greater health problems, I steadily forced myself to eat three meals a day and keep it inside my stomach. However, I began to feel as if I was losing a piece of myself with the improvement of my health. I felt as if I had no control over who I was becoming. This feeling of helplessness is what makes it easy to fall back into familiar patterns. It’s easy to resort to a coping mechanism that seemed to quench my thirst for control because the number on the scale was the only tie I had with self-confidence. Just as it became easier to allow others’ preconceived notions of what I should be to sculpt me into an image of impossibility. I never once tried to explain that their idea of perfection based on my race eventually molded me into a misunderstood mask of repressed desire for control over who I wanted to be. My weight became representative of everything that I desired to attain but was out of my reach — acceptance, perfection, admiration, assimilation into American society when I looked and was born into someone that seemed completely misaligned with stereotypical social norms. Similarly, my weight became the only thing that I felt I could conSee PERFECTION, Page 5A
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PERFECTION From Page 4A trol about myself. Every pound I lost became a step further from the bookish, nerdy Asian stereotype and a step closer to attaining a beach body of Californian girls who were attractive, alluring, accepted. It was hard to ignore expectations, but it was harder still to change myself to meet different standards. I always thought that people wouldn’t accept me until I perfectly met these irrational demands of societal convention. It’s hard to understand the
essence of acceptance, and it’s hard to describe the transition from self-hatred to self-love. I still have some days when I wake up and shrink away at the sight of my skin, pinching, prodding, and pulling at my ribs. But most days, I know that it’s okay to be in love with myself. That it’s okay to care about me. I understand that I’m not vain when I look into the mirror to admire what my weight gain has done to me. I’m not conceited when all I am is looking out for myself when I need it the most. I would much rather be called arrogant than be shamed for admiring the person that I’ve
grown to be so proud of. It’s through this journey that I realized that I’m not invincible; I found out that I’m a little more than a larger pile of mistakes. It allowed me to grow, to know that I’m no longer afraid of disappointing others or proving them wrong. I’m not afraid of not being perfect. Michigan in Color is the Daily’s opinion section designated as a space for and by students of color at the University of Michigan. To contribute your voice or find out more about MiC, e-mail michiganincolor@umich.edu.
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TV COLUMN
The highs and lows of network premiere week I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: network premiere week is better than Christmas. OK, I’ve never actually celebrated Christmas, but I imagine it’s almost the same thing. Waking up in the morning, the sweet smell of apple spice and ALEC STERN hope in the air as you walk downstairs in your pajamas, sit down on the couch and turn on the television for some bingeing. Since May, the networks have touted their newest series ad nauseum — at the Upfront presentations, on social media, in magazines and on billboards. Now, they are all finally here, and this column is an attempt to roundup everything you need to know (or maybe everything you never even knew you wanted to know); from “Scandal” to “New Girl,” the highs and lows of network premiere week. High: Diversity Heading into the fall season, it was already a banner year for diversity on network television; a record number of series with nonwhite leads were ordered to series, even excluding summer fare like Halle Berry’s “Extant.” Since the skyrocketing success of ABC’s “Scandal,” TV execs have finally started to catch on to the fact that audiences would rather see a more realistic depiction of everyday life than the whitewashed world of make-believe we’ve grown accustomed to being slung. This season, “How to Get Away With Murder,” “Red Band Society” and “Black-ish” have joined the aforementioned “Scandal,” “Sleepy Hollow” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” on the list of shows challenging broadcast television’s status quo. But at a time when progress for minorities continues to move slowly, the Viola Davis-led “How to Get Away With Murder” shot to number one with a bullet (on the list of television series leading the diversity charge); because ABC’s newest drama is not just diverse in color. “Murder” tells the story of Annalise Keating, a law yer and professor who invites a select few of her students to come work for her firm. It’s “Damages” — if “Damages” were a crass soap opera and not one of the most wellwritten, defining series of the decade — one tough-as-nails litigator at the center, young professionals trying to navigate her work environment,
a f lashback framing device that promises something very bad will soon happen. Like any good primetime soap, the trailer for the ABC series promises sex, lies and murder (not to be confused with ABC’s forthcoming drama “Secrets and Lies,” which I’m pretty sure promises sex, lies, secrets and murder). That is not to say “Murder” isn’t a good show. If Shonda Rhimes’s other series have proven anything (chief ly “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal,” though at times “Private Practice”), it’s the efficacy of their genre. And while “Murder” is not revolutionary television in narrative or scope, its representations of race, gender and sexuality push network television standards to the brink. For its refusal to moralize or desexualize Keating, and its commitment to breaking down stereotypes of any kind, “Murder” gets the gold star in a year that was already breaking an impressive amount of new ground. Low: Comedy In the fall of 2013, it was a great time to be a comedy series — CBS finally made the long-rumored decision to expand its Thursday lineup to two hours of comedy, FOX and NBC remained committed to their respective failing comedy blocks (on Tuesday and Thursday) and ABC continued to expand its comedy presence (now on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday). But just one year after the networks doubled-down on their half-hour series, each has scaled back significantly. (When it was all said and done, ABC, NBC and FOX escaped the 2013-2014 season each with just one new comedy series left standing. CBS led the way with two.) This year, the comedy failures of the networks still linger like a bad aftertaste, and one look at this year’s schedules proves the lasting effects of last fall. For the first time in years, NBC has diminished its Thursday comedy lineup (once hailed as “Must See TV”) to just one hour, the two series of which — “Bad Judge” and “A to Z” — premiered to disappointing results. ABC’s new Tuesday comedy series also f lopped (though was “Selfie” ever really going to be a breakout hit?). On CBS, the network has — at least for now — abandoned comedy entirely in favor of “Thursday Night Football,” save for behemoth “Big Bang Theory.” “Mom” was scheduled to premiere following last week’s new episode of the comedy hit, but the Eye has opted to hold off, rerunning old episodes instead. And as for FOX …
well, we’ll get to FOX later. High: Optimism Broadcast television ratings have eroded so quickly over the past few years that each premiere week, the only silver lining is that it wasn’t that bad. No, really. It wasn’t that bad. ABC’s “Thank God It’s Thursday” Shondalandinfused lineup brought in huge numbers — including big gains for f lagship “Scandal” at a time when veteran series continue to decline. NBC’s “The Blacklist” showed signs that a possible sophomore surge is on its way, while “The Voice” and “Chicago Fire” continued to be reliable players. CBS continued to thrive in the <em>My Grandma loves that show</em> market (three hours of its schedule now have “NCIS” in the title). And even FOX had a few great premieres with “Gotham” and its “Family Guy”/“Simpsons” crossover, even if that’s all that can be said about the network. Low: FOX And finally, here we are. While many insiders — and outsiders — were looking at ABC to take the unwanted title of “being the new NBC,” FOX has not only earned the distinction, but forged an entirely new low for networks to fear. For years, the perennially fourth-place NBC was the industry laughing stock. But with Robert Greenblatt (formerly of Showtime) at the helm, NBC has corrected course in an astonishing way, emerging as the No. 1 network last year and holding onto its lead early this fall. But for FOX, the story is an entirely different one. Once No. 1 for many consecutive years, thanks in no small part to “American Idol,” the network is now nearly devoid of bright spots. “New Girl,” still the network’s biggest comedy debut in 13 years, and its companion “The Mindy Project” are now blips on viewers’ radars. New series “Red Band Society,” “Gracepoint” and “Utopia” (the latter of which has already been pulled from both of its nights on the schedule) all premiered to dismal numbers while older series “Sleepy Hollow” and “Bones” have taken year-over-year hits. FOX is going to need a hero to get out of its increasingly desperate situation, but unfortunately, in prequel series “Gotham,” Batman won’t be around to save the day for another 20 years.
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Hollow ‘Annabelle’ By OMAR MAHMOOD Daily Arts Writer
“Annabelle” is worth a watch, if you’re willing to part with your doll collection that is. You’ll never be able to look B at a Barbie the same way Annabelle again. For all you know, it At Quality wants your 16 and Rave soul. Warner Bros. Director John R. Leonetti has done it again: After working on such movies as “Insidious” and “The Conjuring” he’s developed an elegant philosophy on scaring people. Keep it simple. Take it slow. There’s no hurry. Put the audience in charge. Keep a wide camera angle. Let them see things. And make them believe. This is why his movies speak to fears that we all really hold. There’s something scarier about demons and spirits than there is about ghosts. We don’t believe in ghosts, says Leonetti, but we believe in demons and spirits. So just as in “Insidious” and “The Conjuring”, Leonetti appeals to the religious sensibilities of the audience. The priest, Father Perez (Tony Amendola, “The Legend of Zorro”), is a hero in the film. He gives the church-going couple John (Ward Horton, “The Wolf of Wall Street”) and Mia (Annabelle Wallis, “Body of Lies”) life-saving counsel when their house is raided in the middle of the night by the daughter of their neighbors,
also part of the Father Perez’s congregation. She and her boyfriend had run away two years ago and joined a Satanic cult. We begin with the murder of the neighbors, though the movie is thereafter painfully slow in true Leonetti fashion. Father Perez tells them that the summoned demon is after their newborn daughter’s soul. Writer Gary Dauberman (“Swamp Devil”) draws upon the the same biblicalt tradition that movies like “Drag Me to Hell” and “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” draws upon. The summoned demon is none other than Belial, one of the most notorious in Lucifer’s
The sleepover movie of the year. army. He was the same one to possess Emily Rose. Moreover, the horned black ram with red eyes, whose form he takes in “Annabelle,” resembles the demon from “Insidious.” Evelyn (Alfre Woodard, “Star Trek: First Contact”) is a godsend to the young family and also furthers the religious theme. She is a friendly woman who owns the neighborhood bookstore. She takes a liking to the family, and seeks to help them. She can tell that they’ve been touched by evil, and she herself has seen enough in her
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‘I can’t wait till it’s ‘69 Days Gone.’ How bout you?‘
Striking, surprising ‘Gone Girl’ thrills Fincher brings killer Gillian Flynn adaptation to screen By CHLOE GILKE Daily TV/New Media Editor
“Gone Girl” may be a twisty and fast-paced thriller, but the film’s defining characteristic is how surprising it is. A At first glance, the Gone Girl story seems At Quality 16 familiar. Down-on-hisand Rave luck husband 20th Century Fox Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck, “Argo”) comes home from a day at work to find his darling wife Amy (Rosamund Pike, “An Education”) missing. He’s not as distraught as he should be; evasive and glib, he flashes his sickening dead-eyed smile at the most inopportune of moments. Even Nick’s square jaw and “villainous” chin recall other wife-killers and smooth criminals (particularly Scott Peterson, whose parallel situation and physical resemblance to Nick cannot be coincidental). Affleck’s tabloid celebrity makes for a perfect casting choice. It’s a role built for a recognizable face, and a perfect vehicle for Affleck to showcase the finest acting of his career. Even the most confusing casting choices make sense upon seeing the film. Pike, who’s mostly known for playing a Bond Girl and the sister of Jane Austen heroines, is flawless as a girl who’s bitter at being side-stepped and underestimated. Tyler Perry (“Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too”) is astoundingly subtle in a dramatic role, playing attorney Tanner Bolt with some slick dark humor that never veers into silly Madea territory. Emily Ratajkowski (the brunette from the “Blurred Lines” music video) plays a needy young temptress,
and Ratajkowski proves she’s an adept actress even when she’s not teasing Robin Thicke. Neil Patrick Harris, famous for playing womanizing Barney Stinson on “How I Met Your Mother,” is a natural choice for calculating lover Desi Collings. The film winks at viewers’ expectations when it comes to Harris, with even his creepiest lines eliciting giggles. His series of increasingly predatory comments are funny until, suddenly, no one’s laughing anymore. The reversal is jarring and one of the most startling moments of the film (I wouldn’t dare spoil anything more specific).
Affleck’s chin gets a lot of screentime. “Gone Girl” also plays on its recognizability as a David Fincher film. The director’s name comes with certain assumptions, and viewers walking into the theater expect to see cinematography tinted yellow, naturalistic acting and a slow and deliberate unfurling of mystery. Fincher is an auteur for the modern era, where half of the fun of watching his films come from the comparison to the rest of his body of work. While Fincher’s Missouri is doused in maize and Affleck often delivers his lines in a Jesse Eisenberg-esque mumble, “Gone Girl” is more than another Fincher vehicle. A lot of the nuance of the story is owed to screenwriter (and the original novel’s author) Gillian Flynn. She adapts her source material with an eye for the screen, and isn’t afraid to excise elements that don’t translate as well to film. (Namely, a lot of detail with Nick’s father and elaboration on
their struggles in New York.) The book’s breathless 432 pages are cut into a lean 149 minutes with just a few regrettable omissions. The only one worth lamenting is the famous “Cool Girl” passage, which has much less impact when delivered in voice-over and placed in a completely different part of the story. The plot twists unfold effortlessly as viewers are afforded little omniscience. You only glimpse Nick and Amy’s relationship from their unreliable narration, which is often peppered with misleading evidence and, sometimes, blatant lies. Insight into the investigation comes from the endearing, sometimes incompetent detectives Boney (Kim Dickens, “Deadwood”) and Gilpin (Patrick Fugit, “Almost Famous”). Their leads are flawed, formed as much by the media’s perception of Nick and Amy as the calculated versions of themselves that the couple present. Nick might seem like an eager-to-please mama’s boy gone psychopathic, but even this blundering open book is capable of keeping some killer secrets. The extent of Amy’s manipulation is rarely clear, and the flashbacks as seen through her diary are mediated through Nick’s perceptions of her (though they are technically written down by Amy). As the caricatures of the Dunnes denature into chaos, it’s impossible to discern who’s trustworthy and who’s putting on a show. “Gone Girl” is the type of film that can still provide thrills several rewatches later, and manages to be equally stunning for fans of the book and newbies to Nick and Amy’s fucked-up, power play love. It’s not just a film, but an experience — thanks in part to masterful acting, excellent direction and the eerie score provided by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. “Gone Girl” is often emotional, darkly comic, terrifying and always, always surprising.
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‘Hey girl, so it turns out my ex-girlfriend is pregnant and I’m going to leave you for her.’
A computer screen hums in front of me, bleary Twitter updates rolling up in mechanical euphoria as comedians, journalists, politicians, Bill Nye The Science Guy do their best to burn through the noise in 140 characters or less. I’m jammed in a maze of engineers. AKSHAY The baseSETH ment of the UGLi sits in whispered silence, so quiet you can almost reach out and touch the blanket of dejected boredom settling over our heads, filling labored gaps between the clacking of keys. And then it happens. At first there’s just a single, errant cry screeching itself into existence from a faraway corner. There’s no way to nail down the source, but it seems to be cracking through the bathrooms 100 feet away. The camera quickly pans left to reveal a young woman staring dead-faced at her laptop monitor, her mouth circling around a comically perfect O. As the screaming dominoes across the basement, ever so slowly, the camera turns back to the computer screen in front of me. Twitter updates storm upwards hundreds at a time. Madness wafts within the thousands of blipping hashtags. Ryan Gosling has given birth. Wait. No, Eva Mendes has given birth. Still a father — Ryan Gosling is still a father, though. Sigh. Three weeks have lingered past since that lazy Friday afternoon I spent huddled in the basement of the UGLi. And in those three weeks, I’ve thought a lot about Papa Gos — what he’s accomplished in his 33 years on earth, what his movies mean to me and what
they may mean, years down the line, to his baby girl. So for those of you here for my typically bullshit cinematic analysis — with its typically gripping scene dissection and typically discerning dialogue discourse — be warned: This column is about Ryan Gosling. Nothing more, nothing less. It would be wrong to say I stumbled across the Gos. He was thrust upon me, thrown at me by adoring teenage girls in that deluge of hysteria surrounding “The Notebook.” Being 11 at the time of its release, I could never really grasp what all the fuss was about. I remember sitting there, dumbfounded by how perfectly reasonable people could throw up their arms in such enamored glee whenever this nameless, bearded man experienced the equivalent of a wet t-shirt contest. Thoughts like ‘this is so fucking stupid’ f litted around my head in neon letters, but an hour or so into the movie, that nameless bearded man, whoever he was, had me. He had me right where I fucking sat. In classic Nicholas Sparks fashion, the scene itself is written with a generous dollop of melodramatic gloop heaped onto each line, seeping through every performance — yet, somehow, Gosling owns it. As he tries to shame Rachel McAdams’s character into giving their relationship a legitimate chance, his face locks away behind hard lines of anger and disgust. McAdams looks cowed, detached from her material. And at first, this contrast in style makes Gosling’s more phony choices — kicking a porch chair in rage, throwing his hands up in blatant indignation — seem even phonier. Then there’s a moment, two minutes along the clip, where we get nothing more than a closeup of the actor’s face as he blocks McAdams from her car, refusing to let her leave, his eyes teetering between composure and convulsion. He hates this woman he loves so much; this woman who loves him; this woman who abandoned him for a richer, better man; this woman who once dangled happiness in front of him, now insistent on yanking him back to the listless ang uish we’ve been witnessing for the past half hour. He still loves her. It’s a powerful piece of performance that McAdams, the director and the editor all wisely use as a defining point in addressing their own roles. McAdams softens almost immediately, a transformation we cut to and from for the better part of a minute as the conversation bounces between two people laying everything out on the table. Until, finally, the camera settles on a two-shot of both leads occupying opposite sides of the frame — defeated, dejected, though for once, equally aware of each other’s pain. I don’t usually use the term “methodical” when describing “The Notebook.” But this is clean, methodical filmmaking at its best. It hinges completely on Gosling ’s portrayal, and he more than delivers. While it may not be the
role he typically gravitates toward, f lashes of brilliance still come when script gives him free reign to dictate narrative and director gives him free reign to dictate scene. He excels in the films which accommodate pared down stories in lieu of bloated ensemble casts. He’d never do well in a Paul Thomas Anderson production — or for that matter, any other movie which requires a mess of grinding gears, storylines, subplots to function. For proof, look no further than “Gangster Squad,” a film nowhere close in caliber to anything on P.T. Anderson’s resume, but one that buries Gosling in the same ways an Anderson feature would: beneath an avalanche of memorable characters — all with something meaningful to say — who fit together like puzzle pieces in the writer/ director’s grander vision. There’s no wiggle room for him to really grab hold of our attention, use it to pick up momentum the way he does in the scene from “The Notebook.” In this sense, the Gosling films which click as effectively as they do, do so because they stick to the recognizable mold of letting the actor transform on screen, in front of our eyes, without leaving the frame. In his first really significant film, “The Believer,” Gosling plays a teenager who, despite being Jewish, adopts a violent neo-Nazi ideolog y. The movie’s first scene shows him stalking after a Jewish man walking toward the camera. He beats him into submission, chiding him to fight back. When there’s no response, the camera drifts to a close up of Gosling ’s eyes. Unf linching and unblinking, he moves toward us. It’s an interesting choice by the director, to frame this evil, obviously f lawed character in the exact same position as his victim moments before. And it works because of those predatory, haunting eyes — the way they bridge the gap from hunted to hunter — a transformative theme which pops up multiple times throughout the film. Gosling ’s performance bleeds into every aspect of the movie, and though there are many distracting instances of lofty melodrama, he’s able to ground his emotions with a shockingly wellrealized sense of tangibility. It’s this tangibility that’s pulls us into films like “Half Nelson,” “The Place Beyond The Pines” and to a certain degree “Crazy, Stupid Love.” “Drive” is an amalgamation of those principles on steroids. There’s barely a single line uttered by Gosling. Just, by turns, wounded looks toward the camera and heated pauses of fiery silence. All of these examples fall in line with a body of work that cries out “natural actor,” and in every sense of the word, ( beyond all the memes) that’s what Gosling is: a natural actor.
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Michigan must win four more games to avoid missing a bowl for the third time since 1974
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Michigan hasn’t beaten a Power 5 team since Nov. 16, 2013
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ISCATAWAY — When fans had cleared the field and the goalposts had finally been returned to their positions behind the end zones, Devin Gardner stood near the fiveALEJANDRO yard line surrounded ZÚÑIGA by a swarm of reporters. It was the same player who had been the top high school quarterback in the country and No. 2 prospect in the state of Michigan five years ago. Rivals described his ceiling as “almost limitless,” and predicted he would “be a two- to three-year starter with all-conference and NFL potential.” Instead, Michigan’s coaches aren’t even sure Gardner is the top quarterback on his team. He seems to have regressed, and he talks about his improvements as a man instead of his improvements as a football player. After a 26-24 loss to Rutgers on Saturday, Gardner’s Wolverines will, in all likelihood, become the third Michigan team to miss a bowl game since 1974. The Wolverines haven’t beaten a Power 5 conference team this year. They haven’t beaten a Power 5 conference team since Nov. 16, 2013. (That’s more than 320 days.) They have fewer Power 5 wins than Bowling Green and North
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Celebrating Devin Gardner
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Devin Gardner’s career has seen position changes and ups and downs, including a heroic performance against Ohio State last year and a 2-4 start to this season.
Dakota State in that span. The Bison are in the FCS. “Devin, is this rock bottom?” a reporter asked. “No,” he replied. “We continue to build.” “Where do you think Coach Hoke’s future is with the team?” another asked. “What does that have to do with anything?” he retorted. “There was a sign in the crowd that said, ‘This is not Michigan football,’ ” a third continued. “Are you happy
“I was pissed. No one wants to get benched.”
with this level of Michigan football, and is this the image of Michigan football that you had going in?” “Next question.” In 20 years, Michigan won’t celebrate Devin Gardner, the scapegoat of Michigan’s fall to the bottom of the Big Ten. It won’t celebrate Devin Gardner, who committed four turnovers against Notre Dame in the program’s first shutout since 1984. It won’t celebrate Devin Gardner, the quarterback at the helm of Michigan’s first 0-2 start in Big Ten play since 1967. Maybe that’s a mistake. Gardner committed to run the spread under Rich Rodriguez, but most of his playing time has come in the
pro style under Brady Hoke. When the Wolverines were thin at receiver in 2012, he selflessly made the move to wideout. When Denard Robinson got hurt midway through that season, Gardner took a week before transitioning back to quarterback. Last year, Gardner suffered the consequences of Michigan’s lifeless offensive line. He was sacked 34 times, but he got up every time an opposing lineman unloaded on his body. He broke his foot
against Ohio State, but he stayed in the game and threw for 451 yards. When that same injury kept him out of the Wolverines’ bowl game a month later, he stood in crutches on the sideline as Shane Morris ran a limited offense in a blowout loss. How can you expect a confident quarterback when he has spent the last year getting hurried or hit every time he drops back to pass? How can you expect progression when you strip a dual-threat quarterback of one
In 20 years, Michigan won’t celebrate Gardner.
of his weapons, then make him learn a new system before his last season? So maybe Gardner’s struggles this year, his seven interceptions in five starts, weren’t all that surprising after all. I’m no quarterbacks coach, but I’ve seen what Gardner can do in his performances against Iowa in 2012 and Ohio State in 2013. I’ve seen someone apparently on track for all-conference selections and NFL consideration fail to approach those levels under this coaching regime. They took back their votes of confidence for him and then benched him, where he heard 100,000 fans applauding for his backup starting in his place. Though he was angry, he didn’t say a word until afterward. “I was pissed,” he recalled Saturday. “No one wants to get benched. But Coach Hoke said that was best for the team, and he’s the coach.” Then Morris got hurt, and Gardner got another chance to start. This time, he ran with it. Saturday’s lasting image won’t be Gardner rolling out on a naked bootleg, dodging an unblocked safety in the backfield and then avoiding another defender on his way to a 19-yard touchdown. You won’t remember the accurate pass to Amara Darboh on third down, which the referees and replay ruled he dropped. You don’t get that treatment when you’re at the helm of a 2-4 team. But football isn’t just about the man at the helm. It’s about the successes and failures of a whole team. No one has weathered that rollercoaster more than Gardner. Isn’t that worth celebrating? Zúñiga can be reached at azs@umich.edu and on Twitter @ByAZuniga.
Five Things We Learned: Rutgers Michigan’s struggles continue in 26-24 loss By MAX COHEN Daily Sports Editor
The Michigan football team has now suffered three consecutive losses. This weekend, it was a 26-24 defeat at the hands of Rutgers, the Scarlet Knights’ first Big Ten win. Here are five things we learned from the disappointment in Piscataway.
own 14-yard line with 6:34 left. The Wolverines marched down the field and got all the way to the Rutgers 38-yard line before redshirt sophomore Amarah Darboh’s apparent reception was ruled incomplete. Then, Rutgers blocked a 56-yard field goal attempt by senior kicker Matt Wile, ending Michigan’s threat. In what had been a week filled with controversy, the Wolverines’ comeback attempt showed that there’s still some fight left in this team. 2. That being said, there are few tangible things to play for
1. This team didn’t roll over After Rutgers quarterback Gary Nova found wide receiver Andrew Turzilli with 13:12 left in the game to give the Scarlet Knights a 26-17 lead, the game looked over. Michigan’s offense had looked stagnant, its defense porous. The Wolverines already had one Big Ten loss and a second appeared imminent. Still, Michigan fought back. Fifth-year senior quarterback Devin Gardner led the team on a seven-play, 69-yard touchdown drive, which he capped with a 19-yard scramble into the end zone. The Wolverines still had work to do, down 26-24. Michigan got a defensive stop and took over possession on its
Two games into conference play, Michigan already has two losses. It would take a complete turnaround just to qualify for bowl eligibility in the midst of the Wolverines’ 2-4 start. In order to finish with the necessary 6-6 record, Michigan can afford just two more losses. With games on the road at Michigan State and Ohio State, the task is daunting. There are no guaranteed wins left on the Wolverines’ schedule. Maryland, Indiana and Northwestern have displayed periods of competence this season against legitimate opponents. Michigan has not. After Saturday’s game, junior wide receiver Devin Funchess
illuminated other things the team could play for. “Wins and losses, that’s just a statistic,” Funchess said. “We’re out here just playing together as a brotherhood, playing together as a family.” Though the team is apparently sticking together and there have been few examples to the contrary, playing for the love of teammates is a long way away from the goal of championships the Wolverines had at the beginning of the season. 3. The defense has its share of problems Before this season began, defensive coordinator Greg Mattison expected great success from his unit. He thought it would be fearsome, swarming and tough. Through the early portion of the season, it appeared as though it could’ve been on its way. It was offensive turnovers that thwarted Michigan in losses to Notre Dame and Utah, not defensive inconsistencies. But against Rutgers, the defense struggled mightily. Nova found constant holes in the Wolverines’ secondary on his way to a career high of 404 passing yards to go along with three touchdowns. A few weeks ago, Nova threw five interceptions against Penn State
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The Michigan defense, which had previously looked like a strength of the team, surrendered 26 points to Rutgers.
in Rutgers’ Big Ten debut. Michigan’s tackling also struggled. There were numerous lapses in space and players who just couldn’t bring down the Scarlet Knights’ receivers. Rutgers had seven different receivers with at least 20 yards receiving. 4. Gardner won’t back down
When he needed it most, he displayed the poise needed to win games, particularly on his two fourth-quarter drives. He admitted his disappointment with being benched after the game, once again showing the competitor inside of him.
The Wolverines’ comeback attempt showed that there’s still some fight left in this team.
Even after sophomore quarterback Shane Morris started instead of him last weekend against Minnesota, Gardner stepped right back in and took the reins of the offense. His play wasn’t perfect — Gardner’s third-quarter interception was a momentumkiller — but wasn’t at fault for the loss, especially when he easily could’ve been rattled by the circumstances of the past few weeks. He threw for 178 yards and rushed for another 40, including two touchdowns.
5. Bold Prediction: Shane Morris won’t play a significant snap the rest
of this season Morris traveled with Michigan to Piscataway, because Hoke said he’s an important part of the team. But Gardner showed Saturday that he’s the quarterback who gives the Wolverines the best chance to win. Gardner elevated his play in the fourth quarter with the game on the line, the sign of a quarterback on a mission. Though he fell short, that kind
of poise is valued in a starting quarterback. His teammates constantly praise his leadership, and his response to adversity showed why. He deals with a great deal of inconsistency, but at the moment, he’s better prepared than Morris to lead this team. For better or worse, Gardner is this team’s quarterback.
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Comeback effort thwarted By JEREMY SUMMITT Daily Sports Editor
BIG RAPIDS, Mich. — Conceding two goals in the first 63 seconds of the season didn’t help erase the question marks surrounding the Michigan hockey team’s defensive corps. Turnovers and defensive lapses plagued the Wolverines during Ferris State’s three-goal barrage in the first period. Despite outshooting the ninth-ranked Bulldogs, 27-22, in the final two frames to mount a threatening comeback, No. 8 Michigan suffered a 4-3 defeat to open its 2014-15 campaign. “I thought our team stayed with it and we had a chance,” said Michigan head coach Red Berenson. “But goals are hard to come by when you’ve given up four goals against. Defensively, we have to be better and we gave them opportunistic goals.” Just 27 seconds into the game, a giveaway in the neutral zone and a poorly executed line change led to Kyle Schempp’s breakaway tally past sophomore netminder Zach Nagelvoort. Soon after, woes in the defensive zone started to pile on top of each other. With all five of Michigan’s players sucked deep into its own zone, sophomore Chad McDonald found himself wide open at the point to rifle one home at the 1:03 mark of the first period to give Ferris State (1-0-0) a comfy two-goal cushion. The Bulldogs would eventually extend their lead to three before sophomore forward Tyler Motte put Michigan on the board 10 seconds into the second period. “Tyler, you know, wants to play well in this situation and he did play well,” Berenson said. “That was an important goal for us and he got us going.” Eventually facing a 4-2 deficit in the final minutes of the game, Michigan wouldn’t sit down without making a sell-out crowd at Ewigleben Ice Arena visibly
By ISAIAH ZEAVIN-MOSS For the Daily
At the beginning of the second half in its game against Iowa, the Michigan women’s soccer team was facing a question of identity: Would the Wolverines be able to continue their recent string of wins, or would this game set them back to their early-season inconsistency? Michigan began the final frame with urgency, peppering the penalty area with pressure. Early on, the ball fell to the feet of freshman forward Taylor Timko, who curled a wondrous strike past the Iowa goalkeeper. Just like that, the Wolverines led the Hawkeyes, 3-2. The question was answered. The Wolverines (6-1 Big Ten, 10-3 overall) didn’t let up for the rest of the match, dominating both the possession and the run of play. Michigan even added a
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Tyler Motte scored against his older brother, C.J., in Michigan’s 4-3 loss to Ferris State in the season opener.
tense. Sophomore forward Evan Allen helped put Ferris State on the ropes after jamming home a rebound with just under five minutes to play, cutting the deficit to one. Minutes later, the Wolverines earned a power play with 1:13 left on the clock. Freshman forward Dylan Larkin had a glorious chance from the slot with under a halfminute to play, in which he sent a screaming shot toward the left side netting. Michigan coach Red Berenson thought it was in. Motte thought it had a chance. Both were left disappointed. Ferris State’s senior goaltender C.J. Motte, Tyler’s brother, lunged to his right, barely getting a piece of the puck to send it sailing toward the corner of the rink. With that, Michigan’s fate was sealed. Special teams weren’t especially kind to the Wolverines (0-1-0) all evening. They went 0-for-2 on the power play, and the penalty-killing unit conceded a late goal in the first period. On the Bulldogs’ first try with the man-advantage, sophomore Ryan Lowney sprung freshman Mitch Maloney on a breakaway where he executed a smooth finish past
Nagelvoort, who made 27 saves in the loss. The Holland, Mich. native earned the starting nod in favor of junior netminder Steve Racine. Berenson has expressed firm interest in both goaltenders sharing time in net to begin the season. “Nagelvoort finished up the year last year,” Berenson said. “I thought he looked good. Lets face it: he gave up a breakaway goal on the first shot of the game. That’s not a good start to put your goalie in. “I thought he hung in there and he gave us a chance.” But when Michigan could illafford to concede another goal — late in the second period, down 3-1 while on the power play — it got beat on an odd-man rush in which McDonald scored his second of the game. Yet, the Wolverines responded quickly to start the third period. Michigan’s fourth line garnered good chunks of offensive zone time all night, and was awarded for its effort 3:45 into the final stanza. Junior forward Justin Selman dished a backdoor pass to senior forward Travis Lynch, who hit twine to cut the deficit to
two goals. “That was good, that was really good,” Berenson said. “We can’t be a one-line team, or twoline team. Travis Lynch scored a nice goal and that line was working hard all night so that’s a good sign for our team.” Despite the loss, the ability to mount a comeback in a hostile environment remained one of the bright spots for Berenson and company. Additionally, freshmen that the Wolverines will need to rely on this season — forward Dexter Dancs, defenseman Zach Werenski and Larkin — all showed glimpses of promise. “In the first game of the season, you like to see this resiliency,” said junior forward Andrew Copp. “We didn’t overcome the adversity tonight, but we showed up and we battled through it, which is good to see.” Berenson, nor Copp, will like how Michigan started the season, but with a new season comes a new learning curve. If the second half of Saturday’s loss is any indication of this team’s mentality, bouncing back in the midst of a demanding nonconference schedule shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Wolverines earn chippy win Michigan avenges 2013 Big Ten Tournament loss, beats Iowa
October 6, 2014 — 3B
fourth goal, treating the home crowd to a gratifying 4-2 win. The Wolverines’ dominant second half followed a first frame that Iowa dictated, thanks to a capable, swift counterattack. In the 21st minute, the Hawkeyes earned a free kick. Michigan was unable to clear the ball out of the dangerous area, and Iowa defender Melanie Pickert was there to reap the reward, striking the ball past Wolverines’ freshman goalkeeper Megan Hinz. The Hawkeyes (4-3, 9-4) continued to control the possession and pace of the match, but the Wolverines took a 2-1 lead in the 41st minute when junior forward Lulu Haidar crossed the ball for sophomore forward Nicky Waldeck to head home. It was Waldeck’s ninth goal of the season — the second most goals
in the Big Ten. The final moments of the first half were more even, with chances coming for both sides. In the half’s waning moments, Iowa sophomore midfielder Natalie Krygier curled a marvelous shot from 18 yards out that tucked under the crossbar, knotting the game at two before intermission. Michigan coach Greg Ryan attributed the better second half to a tactical change. “In the 2nd half, we played in a 4-3-3 formation and we put them under a lot more pressure,” Ryan said. “We got players into spaces they could be really good in. We got a lot of people involved.” The Wolverines have yet to lose in Ann Arbor this season, winning all nine of their home contests, but have fallen three of four times on the road. Ryan is
“We got players into spaces they could really be good in.”
confident his team will perform up to expectations away from home. “We just have to keep doing what we’re doing,” Ryan said. “As long as we’re fresh, we’re going to be a good road team as well. We’re playing quality soccer, and we just have to keep getting better each week.” The frigid temperatures and the raucous Hawkeyes’ fans who traveled to U-M Soccer Stadium created an intense environment. In the first matchup since No. 7 Iowa eliminated No. 2 seed Michigan from the 2013 Big Ten Tournament, the intensity boiled over at times on the field. Midway through the second half, senior defender Jen Pace had some harsh words for Iowa forward Bri Toelle, who then shoved Pace in the back. The referee was quick to book Toelle with a yellow card. “We got in each other faces a little bit in the heat of the moment,” Pace said. “Iowa’s always a physical team, so we knew we had to come out and match that physicality.” Ryan laughed when asked about the altercation. “I didn’t even see it,” he said. “I thought (Toelle) was going to have a stroke. It got chippy out there today. I was glad our girls fought back.”
BY THE NUMBERS Michigan Women’s Soccer
9-0
Wolverines’ record at U-M Soccer Stadium this year
24
Michigan goals in those nine home games. They have conceded six
4
Different goal scorers for Michigan on Sunday against Iowa
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Michigan coach Greg Ryan’s team is now 6-1 in the Big Ten, second in the conference, and 9-0 at home.
Goals by sophomore forward Nicky Waldeck in two games this week
PISCATAWAY — Devin Gardner walked off the field with the arm of a police officer around his back. Dennis Norfleet and Devin Funchess followed suit, sauntering slowly. The mob of students wearing black shirts edged closer, rushing the field. Minutes earlier, it appeared as if Michigan’s players could’ve been the ones celebrating. The Wolverines’ offense took the ball on its own 14-yard line with 6:34 remaining, down by two points. Michigan’s offense looked anemic at times in the second half. It gained one yard in the third quarter. But with the game on the line, the Wolverines moved the ball. Sophomore running back De’Veon Smith carried the ball to the outside for nine yards on the first play. He fought for the first down on the next, bouncing off a tackler at the line of scrimmage. It was only one first down of many Michigan would need to win the game. The team’s fifth-year senior quarterback, Gardner, would need to step up. Sophomore Shane Morris started instead of him last week, yet Gardner was forced back into action when Morris was injured. “Each time I face adversity, I get the opportunity to show what kind of man I am,” Gardner said. He found redshirt freshman tight end Khalid Hill on a play-action fake, advancing the ball to the Wolverines’ 39. Then Smith rushed for four more yards. Then Gardner wound up once again, finding Funchess on Rutgers’ 40-yard line. Michigan was nearing field-goal range with 3:57 remaining. Funchess wasn’t worried about whether the Wolverines would get the job done. “It’s always just fight, fight, fight,” Funchess said. On the ensuing first down, Gardner overthrew redshirt sophomore wide receiver Amara Darboh. On second down, Smith gained two more yards with 3:22 remaining on the clock. Michigan was faced with a 3rd-and-8. The ball would be in
Gardner’s hands one final time. He’d already delivered in the quarter, putting the Wolverines within striking distance with his 19-yard touchdown run on the previous drive. This time, he found Darboh streaking toward the Rutgers sideline. Darboh planted two feet in bounds and appeared to secure the ball when his body extended over the white line. But then the ball came loose after he was out of bounds. The officials ruled the play incomplete. Michigan coach Brady Hoke called a timeout and then issued a challenge. The play stood, to the confusion of the Wolverines involved. “I felt very strongly, and I probably still do,” Hoke said, affirming his belief that Darboh had possession. He plans to broach the topic with Big Ten officials this week in hopes of receiving an explanation. The coach heard no further reasoning than the crowd did. Before he could receive answers, Hoke had a decision to make on 4th-and-9. After watching senior kicker Matt Wile kick 57- and 59-yard field goals in warmups, he decided to go for the win with a 56-yard attempt with 3:01 remaining. “Matt Wile, we believed he could make it, and he believed he could make it,” Gardner said. The ball never made it beyond the line of scrimmage. The arm of Rutgers defensive end Kemoko Turay reached up and swatted it back into Michigan’s backfield. Wile retreated to the sideline, where his teammates patted him on the back while the Scarlet Knights ran out the clock. Rutgers earned its first Big Ten win, and the goalposts fell with the milestone. After the students were long gone, Gardner stood with reporters, given an opportunity to reflect on his resilience. “I played all right. It wasn’t enough,” he said. Funchess said the loss doesn’t increase the need for a win next week. “Wins and losses, that’s just a statistic,” Funchess said. “We’re out here just playing together as a brotherhood, playing together as a family.” The Wolverines are 2-4. On the final drive, they were a few plays away from 3-3. The statistics get worse by the week.
“We believed he could make it, and he believed he could make it.”
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4B — October 6, 2014 The Daily football writers do their best to predict, against the spread, what happens in the 2014 football season. Each week we select a guest picker to go against the “experts.”
Alexa Dettelbach
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Greg Garno
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Michigan at Rutgers (-3)
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Wake Forest at No. 1 Florida St (-38.5)
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Arizona at No. 2 Oregon (-23.5)
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No. 3 Alabama (-6) at No. 11 Ole Miss
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No. 4 Okalhoma (-5) at No. 25 TCU
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No. 15 LSU at No. 5 Auburn (-7.5)
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No. 6 Texas A&M vs. No. 12 Mississippi State (-2.5)
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No. 7 Baylor (-14.5) at Texas
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Utah at No. 8 UCLA (-13)
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No. 14 Stanford (-2.5) at No. 9 Notre Dame
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No. 19 Nebraska at No. 10 Michigan State (-7)
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Vanderbilt at No. 13 Georgia (-33.5)
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Arizona State at No. 16 USC (-11.5)
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No. 17 Wisconsin (-7.5) at Northwestern
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Utah State at No. 18 BYU (-20.5)
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No. 20 Ohio State (-8.5) at Maryland
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Iowa State at No. 21 Oklahoma State (-17)
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SMU at No. 22 East Carolina (-41)
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Texas Tech at. No 25 Kansas State (-14)
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THE MICHIGAN DAILY TOP-10 POLL Each week, Daily sports staffers fill out ballots, with first place votes receiving 10 points, second-place votes receiving nine, and so on. 1. FLORIDA STATE: The Seminoles were the only top-four team to win this week.Even more impressive, they did so without their quarterback breaking any laws or shouting obscenities atop a table. 2. AUBURN: The Tigers are getting ready for a top-five clash with Mississippi State this week. If they think that’s hard, wait ‘til they get their hands on the ever-slippery Cocks.
3. OLE MISS: A U.S. Government study shows Mississippi having a teen pregnancy rate 60 percent higher than the national average. Only half of those are by cousins.
7. MICHIGAN STATE: The Daily plays State News on Oct. 24th. Rest assured, one Michigan team will beat a Michigan State team this year.
4. BAYLOR: With a win next week, the Bears will be “E-bowl-a eligible.”
8. ALABAMA: Could a loss force Nick Saban to follow Doug Nussmeier to Michigan?
5. MISSISSIPPI STATE: As Katy Perry predicted, this was the greatest day in Mississippi since reconstruction. This is how we do.
6. NOTRE DAME: The four players who were accused of academic fraud could face a life (or death?) sentence of ebola this week.
9. TCU: Ebola exists in the state of Texas. We’re not saying the Frogs used it to upset Oklahoma, but the timing is curious to say the least.
10. MICHIGAN: LOL. Gotcha!
The good, the bad and the ugly from Rutgers Run defense lone highlight in forgettable weekend By GREG GARNO Managing Sports Editor
The Michigan football team continues to find itself on the wrong side of history, this time giving Rutgers its first Big Ten win. The Wolverines walked off battered as students stormed the field. After all that was in another dreadful weekend, the Daily looks at the good, the bad and the ugly. The Good As it has been for nearly the entire season, Michigan’s run defense once again excelled.
Albeit against a team without its leading rusher, the Wolverines once again held an opponent under 100 yards on the ground. The Scarlet Knights finished with 74 total rushing yards, but only 49 of those came from running backs. Michigan’s own rush attack, meanwhile, quietly had an impressive game, as it combined for 158 yards and three touchdowns. Sophomore running back Derrick Green led everyone with 74 yards while fifth-year senior quarterback Devin Gardner rushed for two touchdowns. But there wasn’t much beyond rushing to brag about.
yards and no touchdowns. His best pass may have been in the third quarter, when he pumpfaked his own wide receivers and threw right to Rutgers defensive back Davon Jacobs. The offensive line continued to disappoint, breaking down in pass protection to allow three sacks. But its ability to move the ball on the ground kept it from being any worse. And the students’ choice to rush the field at the end of the game was a poor one. The Scarlet Knights, with a 4-1 record, were favorites to win and had a better record entering the game. Forgive them, though, they don’t get these moments too often.
The Bad Michigan’s passing game came up short time after time and Gardner, returning to his starting role, finished with 178
The Ugly: The Wolverines’ defensive line probably couldn’t have made it through part of the crowd considering how they
played. It finished with two sacks, but gave Rutgers quarterback Gary Nova plenty of time to set his field and find an open receiver. Of course, it was the secondary’s porous performance that left receivers open for much of the game. Senior cornerback Blake Countess broke down in coverage, junior safety Jarrod Wilson wasn’t up top to help out and the experienced linebacking corps couldn’t contain easy screen passes. Perhaps Saturday’s roughest moment was the Daily football beat’s drive back home, which left four writers sleeping on one another’s shoulders, two photographers without an hour of sleep and a carsick Editor in Chief. It lasted more than 10 hours and cost more than $200 in gas. Thank God for Taylor Swift’s music.
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Senior cornerback Raymon Taylor couldn’t hang with Rutgers’ faster receivers.
WOMEN’S ROWING
‘M’ rows past No. 1 OSU By ALEX PODGES For the Daily
The No. 8 Michigan women’s rowing team probably wishes Sunday morning wasn’t just an exhibition. On the Scioto River in Columbus against No. 1 Ohio State, the Wolverines’ top boats took first in each event of their second exhibition regatta. For Michigan coach Mark Rothstein, the exhibition races provide a glimpse of the talent the team is working with and how much the team needs to develop before the onset of the spring season. “We’ve got a lot of room for growth,” Rothstein said. “A lot of growth needs to happen, and I think that it was good to get out today and race.” The Wolverines raced in pairs and four-man boats this
weekend, a deviation from the fours and eights that are more commonly used. The fewermanned boats downplay the importance of communication, a key element of the eightseats, and instead showcase the rowers’ dexterity in the basics of the sport: technique, strength and speed. Michigan’s 1V2 boat covered all the bases there, topping the second-place Buckeye pair by just .11 seconds. However, the triumphant Wolverine 1V2 boat was followed by four Ohio State pairs, revealing a lack of depth for Michigan. “It was nice to see that our top pair was able to be the fastest pair,” Rothstein said. “But we have a lot of development to do across the board.” The results of the four-seat
races were less ominous. Led by freshman coxswain Nadia Roohparvar, the Wolverines took first with a time of 36.11 seconds. Three more Michigan boats were close behind, claiming three of the next four positions. “We’re on the right trajectory, but we have a long way to go,” Rothstein said. Last spring, Michigan raced in the NCAA Championships in Indianapolis, taking eighth place and securing another top10 spot at the championships — the 12th time the team has accomplished the feet in 18 seasons under Rothstein. Having proven themselves against the No. 1 team in the nation, the Wolverines will have momentum heading into their next event — the 50th annual Head of the Charles Regatta.
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