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Data Science A new data science major will launch in Fall 2015 >> SEE PAGE 2
NEWS
Mott’s Survey Mott’s Children’s Hospital survey finds implications on pediatric mental health >> SEE PAGE 3
OPINION
A Schmoozefest for Change A take on the Mackinac Policy Conference >> SEE PAGE 5
ARTS
A$AP Rocky Rapper releases second LP >> SEE PAGE 5
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LEFT: Protesters display signs for shutting down Pipeline 5 in Mackinaw City on Tuesday. RIGHT: Mariah Urueta, member of the Food and Water Watch, speaks to fellow protesters on the potential consequences of keeping Pipeline 5 in operation in Mackinaw City on Tuesday.
Amid policy conference, several activist groups protest oil pipeline Protesters interrupt Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) during his remarks at the conference By EMMA KINERY Daily Staff Reporter
MACKINAW CITY, Mich. — Chanting “Shut down Line 5” in the direction of Mackinac Island,
SPORTS
WCWS bound Michigan heads to Oklahoma City for softball championships >> SEE PAGE 10
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protesters of the Pipe Up, Pipe Out, Shut Down Line 5 Rally assembled in Conkling Heritage Park — next to the ferry livery — in hopes of influencing policy makers to remove Pipeline 5. Members of the Oil and Water Don’t Mix Coalition gathered with the Food and Water Watch, Clean Water Action, the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, the Little Traverse Bay Band of Ottawa Indians, the Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council, the Michigan Student Power Network and Concerned Citizens of
Cheboygan and Emmet County. Together, they were a group of over 100 from across the state, the majority coming from the Traverse City area. Built in 1953 by Enbridge, Pipeline 5 sits in the Straits of Mackinac and, at the time of its construction, was projected to have a lifespan of 40 to 50 years. Sixty-two years later, these groups fear there will be an oil spill in the Great Lakes. For protesters like Lynna Kaucheck of the Food and Water Watch, the dire situation seems imminent.
“With the oil spill in Santa Barbara making headlines, and the community there and the environment there begin on a long road to recovery, today is a really important time and opportunity for us to talk about our pipeline infrastructure right here in Michigan,” Kaucheck said. “When it comes to Line 5, it’s not a question of if the pipeline will fail, but when.” Kaucheck said she believes the likelihood of a spill is increased because of another Enbridge spill that occurred in the Great Lakes See PIPELINE, Page 3
BASEBALL
Michigan baseball wins Big Ten Tournament Clinches postseason for first time since 2008 By ZACH SHAW Managing Sports Editor
MINNEAPOLIS — Michigan coach Erik Bakich was missing all the fun. Doing post-game interviews while the team’s celebration moved to the outfield, the Michigan base-
ball team shouted for its leader. Bakich eventually headed toward the heart of Target Field’s outfield. Much like his team, he picked up steam the closer he got to the celebration, eventually working into a full sprint that could rival the Wolverines’ five straight wins over NCAA Tournament teams to end the season. But he wasn’t done yet, and neither is Michigan. Seeing the “2015 Big Ten Champions” banner held by his team, Bakich lunged into a headfirst
slide, dousing his brand-new championship T-Shirt in the rain-soaked grass before sliding right into position for the photo. Safe. Michigan’s coach made it into the photo, and the Wolverines (14-10 Big Ten, 37-23 overall) have secured a spot in their first NCAA Tournament in seven years. Sophomore left-handed starting pitcher Brett Adcock earned his third win in eight days, junior right-hander Jacob Cronenworth earned his fourth save of the four-
game tournament and Michigan — seen as the only one of the eight tournament teams that didn’t have a chance to make the NCAA Tournament — took down Maryland, 4-3, and is a champion once again. *** “I’m so proud,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich. “I’m so proud for our kids, proud for this program — standing on 148 years of baseball tradition with a lot of great men and a lot of great teams that have come before us. Our guys See CHAMPIONSHIP, Page 9
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PROTEST FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
New data science major to launch in fall semester Faculty members estimate 150 students will declare the major by 2019 By SAM COREY For the Daily
SAN PHAM/Daily
Detroit resident Jamisha Kearney remembers the Black women and girls who have lost their lives to police brutality and state violence at the #SayHerName Silent Protest: National Day of Action for Black Women and Girls in front of the Washtenaw County Circuit Court on Thursday.
The Un iversit y est ab lished a new dat a science major, wh ich w ill be sub su med u nder LSA’s St at ist ics Depa r t ment a nd t he College of Eng i neer i ng ’s Div ision of Computer Science a nd Eng i neer i ng. The new major w ill be ava ilable i n Fa ll 2015 to bot h LSA a nd Eng i neer i ng st udent s. Accordi ng to At u l Pra ka sh , professor of elect r ica l eng i neer i ng a nd computer science, work i ng to cra f t a dat a science major ha s been a joi nt ef for t for severa l yea rs. “(The) Depa r t ment of St at ist ics a nd Computer Science a nd Eng i neer i ng (CSE) Div ision have been collaborat i ng for close to a decade on cu r r icu lu m i n no vat ion a nd bot h prog ra m s obser ved t hat t here is goi ng to be a need for majors t hat have st rong fou ndat ion s i n bot h comput i ng a nd st at ist ics to help d r ive dat a- d r iven k nowledge discover y i n a w ide ra nge of f ields i ncludi ng medica l sciences a nd hea lt hca re, t ra n spor t at ion , robot ics, i n su ra nce, socia l net work s, nat u ra l sciences a nd ot her eng i neer i ng f ields,” Pra ka sh sa id i n a n e-ma il i nter v iew. The new prog ra m w ill i nclude t heor y a nd pract ice f rom discipli nes such a s st at ist ics, computer science, mat h a nd i n for mat ion science.
Vijay Na i r, professor of st at ist ics a s well a s i ndust r ia l a nd operat ion s eng ineer i ng, sa id i n a n e-ma il i nter v iew t hat t he crossdiscipli ne focus is necessa r y to adequately prepa re st udent s for t he “ big dat a phenomenon” t hat w ill d r ive t he work env i ronment . “ Ma ssive a mou nt s of dat a a re now collec ted rout i nely i n a ll a rea s: science a nd tech nolog y, busi ness, medici ne a nd da ily applicat ion s (Facebook , T w it ter, sma r t phones, World Wide Web, etc.). We a re seei ng a huge dema nd for dat a scient ist s, people who have t he sk ills to work w it h ma ssive dat aba ses — ma nage, a na ly ze a nd t ra n sfor m dat a i nto usef u l i n for mat ion quick ly i n order to ma ke cr it ica l decision s.” Na i r sa id dat a science is becom i ng more v it a l i n t he cor porate a nd medica l world. “ Most compa n ies a re relyi ng more a nd more on dat a for t hei r busi ness, a nd even hospit a ls, gover n ment s a nd resea rch i n st it ut ion s w ill need people w it h sk ills i n dat a science,” he sa id. “To na me a few: G oogle, M icro sof t , Facebook , Li n ked In ; A ma zon , I BM, SA S; Ba n k s a nd Fi na ncia l In st it ut ion s such a s Cit iba n k , Ba n k of A mer ica , Capit a l One, a nd so on . A recent repor t est imated t hat , by 2018, t he dema nd for Dat a Scient ist s w ill be close to 50 0,0 0 0 a nd t here w ill be a shor t fa ll of about 150,0 0 0 people w it h t he r ig ht sk ills.” Accordi ng to Na i r, dat a science facu lt y members have est i mated t hat by 2019, 150 st udent s w ill have decla red t he major.
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Poll finds implications on child mental health Mott’s survey finds 60 percent of parents fail to report severe emotional behavior in children By SANJAY REDDY Daily Staff Reporter
For years, there has been a stigma associated with behavioral and emotional issues such as temper tantrums, anxiety, homework trouble and attention deficit. In particular, parents
PIPELINE From Page 1 five years ago. “When Enbridge’s Line B ruptured near Kalamazoo in 2010, residents there suffered from neurological, respiratory and gastrointestinal problems, and a third of the families in that area had to be relocated,” Kaucheck said. “Let’s be real, Enbridge has a shaky track record, from 1996 to 2013, Enbridge has 1,244 reported spills, leaks or releases. Just last summer, they were found in violation of requirements for the very pipeline we’re here to discuss.” Her statement elicited boos against Enbridge. The last time an event of this size was held by the Oil and Water Don’t Mix Coalition regarding Pipeline 5 was when hundreds of protesters met in St. Ignace in 2013. The major organizers set up tents. Protesters encouraged passersby and event attendees to sign a petition to remove the pipeline, carried signs that said, “Shut Down Line 5 Pipeline,” umbrellas that read “Save My World, Save My Water,” and chanted along the roadside. LSA junior Harry Freedman is interning with Clean Water Action over the summer and manned a tent at the protest. He said he was shocked when he learned the extremity of the issue. “When I heard all of the details on it, I was astounded and disappointed that it still exists and that we have legislation that allows businesses to use loopholes to their own advantage,” Freedman said. “It’s such a dangerous thing.”
sometimes are reluctant to discuss these issues with medical personnel when their children exhibit such behaviors. A new University poll confirms this reality, and sheds light on its implications. C.S. Mott Children’s and Women’s Hospital’s National Poll on Children’s Health found that many parents of children ages five to 17 fail to notify doctors when their children exhibit severe emotional behaviors. Sixty percent of parents who were polled stated they would only speak to a doctor if their child was extremely sad for more than a month — which
is an indicator of depression. However, only half said they would contact doctors if their child was showing excessive temper tantrums or was more worried or anxious than usual. Moreover, only 37 percent said they would tell their doctor if their child had trouble organizing homework. Matthew Davis, professor of pediatrics and internal medicine, directed the poll and said parents sometimes don’t bring awareness to these issues because they think doctors can’t help. He said doctors are indeed able to help and that more parents need to realize this.
Lee Sprag, a representative from the Ottawa Indians, led the protesters in a traditional Ottawa welcome song with his drum. Several representatives from local tribes also spoke during the event. During remarks at the protest, Nick Clark, organizer and member of the Oil and Water Don’t Mix Coalition, said protesters were signing in, tweeting using the hashtag #shutdownline5 and sending postcards to their representatives as well as demonstrating. Some Clean Water Action members such as LSA senior Molly Lefanowicz, who is a canvasser for the organization, said that after the protest they planned to inform community members about the issue and encourage them to sign postcards that the organization will send to their representatives. “We came up for the day to help out at this event and also we’re going to canvass in communities,” Lefanowicz said. “We’re going to knock on doors and let them know what’s going on and how they can get involved.” Clark said he was interested in seeing the Pipeline 5 status report from Gov. Rick Snyder’s (R) Pipeline Task Force, which is scheduled to be released in the upcoming days. Clark also condemned state Rep. Ed McBroom (R–Vulcan) for signing House Bill 4540. The legislation has been introduced into the House, and would amend the Freedom of Information Act to effectively exempt Enbridge, if passed — thus rendering records regarding the pipeline inaccessible to the public. However, Clark said he still has faith in the legislature, highlighting the four-bill package for pipeline
safety the Sierra Club and Clean Water Action created with several Michigan Representatives, including Jeff Irwin (D–Ann Arbor). He said he is hopeful for future investment in renewable resources that will help mitigate the dependence on oil. “We know that we can do more to protect our air and water by investing in renewable energy technology,” Clark said as the protesters cheered, “and so we need more investments like that in the state of Michigan.” Kaucheck emphasized that an oil spill affects more areas than the environment and discussed the effects a spill would have on public health. Sprag talked about how an oil spill would impact the economy. “A spill here puts longstanding economies at risk. It puts the economy we share together at risk. It puts this great part of the world, with 20 percent of the world’s freshwater, at risk,” Sprag said. “We do not need oil cleanup jobs, we do not need respiratory specialist jobs at the hospital, we need jobs to pull out that pipeline. We need to rethink our economy. We need to get this thing back on track.” At 3 p.m., the protesters all called Snyder’s office with their grievances in an effort to overflow his phone lines. U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D–Mich.) did not attend the protest but heard of it while at the Policy Conference on Mackinac Island. Peters, who sits on the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees the federal agency that oversees pipelines, said he sympathizes with the protesters
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“Although some parents may not see their child’s medical doctor as a source of advice or information about behavioral health, it turns out that many pediatricians and family physicians are very ready and willing to help out,” he said. Other common reasons parents cited were that they did not believe these problems were “medical,” and they would rather handle the issues themselves. Sarah Clark, associate research scientist in the Department of Pediatrics and an associate director of the poll, said parents should learn from this poll.
“Parents need to think about two situations to explain to the doctor when we are talking about the behavioral and emotional health of their child: When something is out of the ordinary for the child him/herself, and when the child is out of step with his or her peers,” she said. Clark said doctors should learn as well. “Doctors need to create a space and cues that indicate to parents that these are issues that they can tell them about,” she said. See HEALTH, Page 8
ROBOTICS DEMO
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High school robotic team champions of FIRST Robotics demonstrate their robot that stacks crates at the Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island on Wednesday.
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Their own heroes
grew up admiring superheroes. My first roller coaster was based on The Hulk. My first PG-13 movie was Spider-Man (played by Tobey Maguire), and RABAB many of my JAFRI mornings were spent watching Batman cartoons. Even today, most people who know me well know I’m a Batman fanatic. Throughout the years, though, I could never truly admire the female superheroes or villains presented to me. Though there were times when I thought the female characters were more interesting or more fun to watch, they were simply never as visible in the cartoons, and later in the movies. Every time a female character was presented to me, I wanted to love them, I really did, but I was always put off by their skin-tight costumes that I could never see myself wearing or their stories that always revolved around men. They always looked like cheap knock-offs of their male counterparts. Superman was cooler than Wonder Woman. Batman was cooler than Catwoman, and the Joker was creepier than Harley Quinn. In comics, I found the occasional female Muslim superhero, but they were also usually disappointments. Really, a burka-wearing super-
woman named Dust whose power is to turn herself into a cloud of sand? So in class last semester when I was told we were going to read Ms. Marvel — a Marvel comic based on a Pakistani-American superhero — I was a bit skeptical. A Muslim girl in a mainstream comic book? Come on, what’s the catch? To my surprise, this story was in no way a disappointment. While reading the comic, I sat next to my mother, and I pointed out to her all the similarities: “Look, her parents are speaking in Urdu to her.” The comic book was well written, not just as a representation of a Pakistani-American Muslim, but also as a relatable superheroine. Kamala Khan, with her secret identity as a comic book fangirl, struggles with her real identity as a Muslim and a teenage girl. She is similar to the teenage superhero Spiderman, as she is a little geeky and doesn’t quite fit in with the popular crowd. As a female superhero, she makes the choice to wear a less revealing costume, as it fits with her personal identity better. Though her character is a female and a minority whose story does not revolve around a man, it doesn’t put a dent in her popularity. In fact, it compliments it. Ms. Marvel is one of Marvel’s best-selling comic
books and is sitting well with fans as people relate to the familiarity of her struggles with her identity. As Marvel and DC “experiment” with diverse characters, one thing seems clear: characters from diverse backgrounds are as marketable as any other character when they’re well written. As readers and writers question whether diversifying characters will detract from their stories, the real question is why not have superheroes living with others in a world as diverse as the world around us? The rebooted Ms. Marvel as a woman of color attracts an audience without needing to be objectified in any way, and more power to her. Despite the popularity of this version of Ms. Marvel, whether a character as “wildly” diverse as her would ever make it to the big screen is something I highly doubt will happen in the near future. When it comes to minority representation in movies, I’m usually disappointed. But maybe I’m just pessimistic. On-screen, the original secret identities, or personas, of the superheroes are usually used, and most of the original or mainstream characters are white and male. Much of the problem is that instead of bringing characters that are already diverse to the
Why not have superheroes living with others in a world as diverse as the world around us?
forefront, or creating new superheroes, the characters in the comics are just temporarily rebooted. Then, every time the movies are rebooted, these companies are faced with a choice between choosing between the character’s more mainstream persona and the newer, diversified persona, and they tend to stick with the original. Yet, if a comic book heroine that’s already diverse has become popular, why not make a movie about her? Why are these companies able to trust their readers with diversity, but not their movie audience? My hope is that these movies, as well every other superhero movie, has dynamic female characters so that young girls and boys can grow up without constantly finding weak female characters. No more Mary Jane, damsels in distress. No more finding Sue Storm naked in public two movies in a row. No more making superhero movies with hyper-sexualized female characters meant only to appeal to men. We know when you add a token female or a token minority into your story just to say you tried, but the
truth is we also can see when you do not. That is why female superhero movies have flopped in the past. We want more real superheroes from diverse backgrounds, but that means putting real thought into their stories. For anyone looking for strong female characters in superhero movies, we might be getting what we wanted. DC plans on releasing a Wonder Woman movie in 2017, and Marvel is planning on releasing a Captain Marvel movie in 2018. However, Kamala Khan will not be the persona because they are using the identity of Carol Danvers, who is white. This may be a logical choice considering that she’s an older and possibly more established identity, but maybe if Kamala Khan was given a separate identity instead of living in the shadows of a past identity, she could one day make it to theaters or be featured in a television series. Maybe one day, diverse heroes will be good enough to truly be their own heroes. — Rabab Jafri can be reached at rjafri@umich.edu
An homage to the Huron
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y eight month campaign of the ’14-’15 school year is over. At times like these, I undoubtedly think ELIJAH back to winter SPARKMAN workouts for my high school baseball team. Asking our coach why we were sweating so hard five months before the season began, he responded confidently: “If you ever want to be great, you have to work even harder in the off-season.” I remember thinking that statement was so lame, so cliché. However, I’m not sure anything has contributed more to me trying to become a “person of letters” — carrying a pencil around under the sun, reading and writing all day. I figure you can make some exceptions though. I still need friends to work with, and we need a spot to work, quote unquote, the hangout spot. Through the first month of summer, the spot has been Bandemer Park on the river. Why? Because it’s gorgeous. It’s everything you dreamed of throughout all 13 months of February. Hear me out: You can drive here, but we don’t. My friends pick me up on Division. My house is the last stop. They walk as a big group — 11 or 12 people — but not as a large cluster, more like three groups of three or four. I like to meander from one to the other so I can hear everyone’s voice at least once. They all
sound so young. Each group develops its own train of thought. One group will be amidst a heated debate over which restaurant has the best falafel pita: Jerusalem Garden or Pita Kabob. I’m partial to the latter. Another might be taking collective shots at Teddy Cruz and the lunacy of his Tea Party constituents while the third might be having the more dire panel discussion over what the best Spike Jonze movie is. I try to drop a one-liner joke before departing every verbal hurrah for the next. “Being John Malkovich? More like being Eli Sparkman, am I right or am I right?” We cross the train tracks. I can do five steps in a row walking along a rail before losing my balance. We walk along the Argo trail on the west side of the river. It’s the nature zone. Friends who are Program in the Environment majors point at every tree and tell me its name in Latin. I smile and nod and confuse the names for one another. It’s perfect. I usually see a frog or two. There’s this light, muddy clay-colored one I see the most. I like to think it’s the same frog every time. I named him Roger because I’m a little more ironic than I should be. Things are beginning to open up: a parking lot to the left, a bench and more trail to the center and the dock on the right. There are bikers in their undeniably lame looking spandex, bicycle gear. They sport helmets. They
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aren’t too cool for helmets. I wonder if they ever were. About half of the time the dock is unusable because it’s already occupied by the rowing team. They are also adorned in less than — perhaps the word is comfortable — apparel. I roll the toes of my bare feet. We are trekking across the grass now to the wooden bench just behind the rower’s dock. I step on a rock, and the pain feels right. Here, I have front row seats to the object of my desire: the Huron River. I feel every ripple pull at the strings of my heart. The light from the sun bounces off of its surface and spins into my eyes, like a ping-pong serve from your best friend. It would be offensive to wear sunglasses in front of a beam like this. I pull out the notebook I bought from Walgreens for $1.50. I have a brief moment of contemplation over whether or not I should feel guilty for shopping there. I’m not sure what kind of behavior I’m above. I move on. The thought feels like a loose end. I want to become a better writer. I’m not really sure how one does so, but I assume that if I keep trying new exercises and techniques then something will happen sooner or later. Today I start a list. At the top I write, “100 ways to describe the Huron River.” The first five are: 1) It’s like when you’re at the Big House, and they put a giant American flag over an entire section. Thousands of people push their hands and fin-
gers up against the bottom of it. These are those ripples. 2) It flows like the treadmill at your parent’s house that your dad’s trying to get in shape on. 3) It — like anyone else — has obstacles: rocks, branches and rapids. 4) In the beginning God made the Huron, and it was good. 5) At the bottom of the Huron is the Devil’s treasure. Let’s stay here and float — me and you. It can be discouraging when your descriptions always turn into bad, semi-romantic song lyrics. I figure I’ve got to write it out of me: let it flow like the Huron. We do timed free writes. That is, ask a stranger for a random word, throw the timer on somebody’s iPhone for however many minutes you want to go — be it five, seven or 10 minutes — and then write continuously for the duration. It makes you write. So often it’s easy to pretend you’re working on a column in your head. Put it down on paper. Read it out loud to your friends. Know yourself. The most recent free write we did was based on the word “grumpy.” A very close friend of mine wrote how she was lying in bed this morning feeling irritable, feeling grumpy. That is, until she received a text from us asking if she felt like hanging out at the Huron. Five hours later it was another perfect Ann Arbor day. It’s summertime in A2. Where’s your hangout spot? What are you up to?
It can be discouraging when your descriptions always turn into bad, semiromantic song lyrics.
RACHEL DAWSON
— Elijah Sparkman can be reached at esspa@umich.edu.
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MARY KATE WINN | VIEWPOINT
A schmoozefest for change
Tonya Allen, president and CEO of the Skillman Foundation, John Rakolta Jr., CEO of Walbridge and Sandy Baruah, president and CEO of the Detroit Regional Chamber composed the panel “The Choice is Ours: Road to Fixing Detroit’s Struggling Schools Begins in Detroit.” This panel discussed potential solutions to educational challenges in Michigan. On Wednesday May 27, this discussion kicked off the first full day of the Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island. The panelists spoke bluntly and passionately about the current state of Detroit schools and Michigan schools as they outlined the recommendations that their group, the Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren, proposed for remedying Detroit’s educational problems. At times, panelist Rakolta’s voice shook with anger as he spoke about the lack of educational attainment in Detroit, declaring the situation to be a crisis. “How much more proof do we need that we are failing our children?” asked Rakolta. The frankness of the panel came as a surprise and challenged my preconceived notions of the conference. It’s hard, after all, to take a policy conference seriously as a legitimate source of discussion, debate and progress when it feels so much like an elitist schmoozefest. Times between events and meals seem to be reserved for making connections with other successful, wealthy people who can afford to spend the week on Macki-
nac Island. The hefty price tag (onsite prices for registration at the conference are $2,150 for Chamber members and $2,925 for future members), means that there’s undoubtedly a lack of socioeconomic diversity represented at the conference. A quick scan of the guest list shows an abundance of politicians, lawyers, businessmen and journalists — other fields are clearly underrepresented. Furthermore, a multitude of corporate sponsors and thus intertwined political and corporate agendas, made me question how deep these discussions and speeches would be allowed to go. How effective can a policy conference be when it only has certain perspectives and is limited in depth? Yet, at the panel on educational issues in Michigan and Detroit, the panelists spoke genuinely, if not paternalistically, for struggling people in Detroit and across Michigan. Rakolta spoke frankly about his anger at legislators in Lansing for failing to fund education for our children properly and then failing to take responsibility. The moderator, Mary Kramer, even encouraged attendees to look for the legislators at the conference and talk to them about the issue. This goes to show the power of the conference to enact change by informing and educating citizens about important issues and putting them in an environment where they can easily access their legislators and voice their concerns. Despite the fact that the panel was led by CEOs, I
“How much more proof do we need that we are failing our children?”
found its members spoke about these issues after having spent ample time discussing them with people directly affected by them. Furthermore, they didn’t shy away from controversial discussions, and they encouraged action from their audience. If the rest of the conference continues in this direction, it can be a powerful force for change. However, the conference is still cost-inhibitive. It can encourage dialogue and civic action, but only amongst those who can afford to attend. It connects citizens with legislators but only those privileged enough to be able to shell out over two grand to simply attend the conference. It can talk seriously and genuinely about problems facing certain communities and groups but without really including their voices in the discussion. When asked by the Daily how he thought the conference was going, Sen. Gary Peters (D–Mich.) said, “We come together, share ideas and it’s very productive.” Which it is. The conference might be elitist, but it’s productive. The event is going to tackle major issues in the next few days, such as diversity and equity. These are important topics to discuss and having these discussions can bring about real, positive change. If the panel on education set the tone for the rest of the conference, it will be an informational and powerful week of policy discussions. However, it would be an altogether more productive, democratic, informative and change-inducing conference if there were more people of different backgrounds coming together and more ideas being shared. Mary Kate Winn is the Senior Editorial Page Editor.
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ALBUM REVIEW
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Rocky LP revives Yams ‘Between’ fails with lacking plot Following ‘To Pimp a Butterfly,’ ‘A.L.L.A’ gives voice to the dead By ADAM DEPOLLO Managing Arts Editor
“We catchin’ spirits. We ain’t even really rappin’, we just lettin’ our dead homies tell stories for us.” Those words are the last Aspoken by the ghost of Tupac AT.LONG. Shakur on “Mortal Man” LAST.A$AP — the closing A$AP Rocky track on Kendrick Lamar’s RCA To Pimp a Butterfly— and they offer what is perhaps the best characterization thus far of the otherworldly aura surrounding 2015’s most ambitious projects in hip hop and R&B. Starting with Flying Lotus’s October release You’re Dead!, continuing through D’Angelo’s Black Messiah and finally to Kendrick’s masterpiece, a new canon of technically and lyrically stunning work is rapidly being assembled as America’s most critically acclaimed Black artists open themselves up to conversations with an ever-expanding host of spirits. I bring up the race of these musicians in part because their music expresses a hyper-awareness of their own identity as Black men, but mostly because the spirit realm their songs belong to hangs over a physical world increasingly covered with Black bodies. The shooting and death of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 served as an introduction to what now seems like an unending litany of Black victims gunned down by white authority figures. The sheer weight of this reality should be inescapable for any American, but it is particularly so for African-Americans, who make up a disproportionate percentage of the casualties of police violence in this country. “Trayvon Martin could have been me,” President Obama famously said. These artists find themselves in a landscape covered in bodies, but it’s unclear whether they’re standing in a cemetery or in front of a mass grave. The difference between the two scenes hinges largely on the
cyclical debate over whether people like Mike Brown, for example, were criminals who received their just desserts or innocent victims of a society that unjustly singles them out for destruction. While the official report invariably describes the former scenario, often the only witness who might contradict the powers that be is the dead man with a policeman’s bullet in his chest — and, as the old adage goes, dead men tell no tales. But it would seem that dead men can in fact rap, and nowhere is that fact more apparent than on the latest release from Harlem-bred MC A$AP Rocky, At.Long.Last.A$AP, which features posthumous vocals from Texas rapper Pimp C and A$AP Mob founder A$AP Yams, both of whom died young of a promethazine overdose complicated by sleep apnea. While Tupac’s benevolent ghost offers guidance to a troubled young rapper on To Pimp a Butterfly, A.L.L.A.’s cover artwork, which features the upper half of Yams’s face eerily superimposed onto Rocky’s forehead, suggests a much more ambiguous relationship between the artist and the ghosts trying to speak through him. The source of that ambiguity is left somewhat unclear by the end of the album, but the emotional and philosophical fluctuation between A.L.L.A.’s first nine pot- and LSDladen tracks, to the homage-heavy quartet running from “Jukebox Joints” to “Wavybone” and finally to the frenetic rumination on the overlaps between love, drugs and money on the LP’s final six tracks makes it clear that this album is something of a musical disembowelment for A$AP Rocky. He’s putting himself out there with a type of frankness and self-confidence that simply wasn’t present in his meticulously crafted Long.Live.A$AP and Live.Love.A$AP personae, and this frankness occasionally leads him to blurt out things that really should have stayed inside his head, like the “Type of hate that make you feel worse than a rape victim” line off of “Back Home.” Yet other quotable lines — like “Left ‘em Harlem shaking on the pavement” from “Pharsyde” or “This year I turned racist, all I wanna see is green faces” from “Electric Body” — reveal a beautifully macabre sense of humor that lends Rocky’s crudity and goofiness a significant political and philosophical weight. The guts
he leaves on the table are perhaps hard to look at, but they’re there in all their gory detail. While meaning is there to be found, grabbing onto it means getting your hands dirty. And I think the best way to think of A.L.L.A. is as A$AP Rocky running his hands through his own entrails, painfully searching for a way to define himself among that pile of skin, blood and intestines. Part of that process involves exorcising the ghosts he finds inside himself, which leads, of course, to the voice of A$AP Yams filling the same role on “Back Home” that Tupac played for Kendrick on “Mortal Man.” He closes out the album with a Dame Dash-esque invocation accompanied by haunting, reverb-heavy piano melodies, concluding Rocky’s self-vivisection on a definitely unsettling note. His speech evokes Harlem, fashion, cultural influence and the A$AP Mob, and it might have been a spot-on description of Rocky’s pre-A.L.L.A. ethos. But Yams is dead, and while talking to his ghost might explain everything leading up to his death, it doesn’t explain what comes after. And what does come after? For now, Rocky’s answer is an image he provides at the end of “Dreams”: “Police brutality was on my TV screen / Harmony, love, drugs and peace is all we need.” But somehow that doesn’t satisfy either, in part because it doesn’t do enough to bridge the gap between the two lines. What it has done, however, is demonstrate that Rocky is tapping into the same issues facing the best artists in hip hop right now, issues that have already produced some of the best and most socially engaged albums of the last 20 years. This album is not one of those masterpieces — though if it came out in any year other than 2015, I would be writing a much different conclusion to this piece — but it suggests to me that we’re looking at the prelude to an explosion of depth and maturity in Rocky’s sound, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ll be looking at A.L.L.A. in the afterglow of Rocky’s next album in much the same way that we’re looking at good kid, m.A.A.d. city now. In the meantime, the dead don’t rest easy — but they just found another rapper who can make them speak.
By BEN ROSENSTOCK Daily Arts Writer
“Between,” a new Canadian series on City and Netflix, belongs to the genre that channels like the CW and MTV have been milking enter- C taining shows out of for years: Between YA science ficSeason Premiere tion combining supernatural Netflix and dystopian elements with teen drama. Shows like “The Vampire Diaries,” “Teen Wolf” and “iZombie” have been doing this with lots of success because, for all the stigma attached to the “paranormal romance” and “dystopian YA” genres, they’re enormously entertaining. “Between” follows an ensemble cast of characters living in the small town of Pretty Lake, where a strange disease suddenly strikes and kills everyone over 22 years old. As the pilot episode progresses and adults quickly die off, the military raises a fence around the city, effectively quarantining everyone inside. In the hands of creator Michael McGowan (the critically acclaimed “Still Mine”), who wrote the premiere, the show doesn’t deliver the thrills its genre often suggests. One of the problems is that while shows like “Teen Wolf” both commit to their goofy premises and don’t take themselves too seriously, “Between” doesn’t show a lot of self-awareness. There’s almost no real fun to be had here; subplots basically revolve around the teen characters’ parents dying and there isn’t much variety. “Between” could be entertaining if the actors hinted at a sense of humor that the script itself doesn’t suggest, but the cast is almost uniformly bland. Jennette McCurdy, who showed some sense of comic timing in “iCarly,” gives the vibe of a poor man’s Juno in her first scene as Wiley, walking down the hallway at school with her best friend Adam (Jesse Carere, “Finding Carter”), but the sarcastic charm of Sam Puckett is toned down here in favor of Wiley’s uninteresting teen pregnancy subplot. Besides, any chemistry Wiley might have with Adam grinds to halt whenever Jesse Carere opens
his mouth. Carere’s acting is surprisingly bad, his line deliveries all read in the same emotionless voice and his unblinking eyes always staring blankly at whatever poor actor he’s sharing the screen with. Those are only two of the characters who round out the ensemble cast. There’s also Wiley’s religious sister Melissa Day (Brooke Palsson, “Less than Kind”), jail inmate Mark (Jack Murray, “The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio”), rich kid Chuck Lott (Justin Kelly, “Degrassi”), farmer Gord (Ryan Allen, “Get Rich or Die Tryin’”), drug dealer Ronnie (Kyle Mac, “Carrie”) and Pat (Jim Watson, “The Strain”). Notice how I couldn’t even pair Pat with an interesting character epithet? That shows how hard it is to find anything intriguing about these characters. It’s difficult to get remotely invested in any of these characters because the pilot episode spends so little time with only of them, sketching them out with extremely expository dialogue in brief interactions before moving on to the next character. The episode becomes marginally more entertaining when the unrelated plot lines begin to intertwine, just because the episode can be more efficient with its time. Gord interrupts a conflict between Chuck’s cartoonish, rich father and Pat and Ronnie, then rushes over to help deliver Wiley’s baby. Still, the intersection of conflicts is kept to a minimum, leaving the audience with a number of disparate subplots that don’t demand next Thursday’s follow-up. It’s hard to see what future episodes of “Between” could look like, both content-wise and quality-wise. With the right cast and crew, later episodes could prove more interesting, since there’s potential for the idea of an isolated “Lord of the Flies”-esque society without adults. Perhaps putting Wiley, Ronnie and Chuck in a situation in which they’re forced into becoming the leaders of a new society will bring out something new and fascinating in the conflicts. Still, based on the performances and writing of the lackluster pilot episode alone, “Between” might not be capable of something like that. Besides, most viewers might not have the patience to wait that long.
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More than just a journal ‘Tomorrowland’ builds to failure On the necessity of written, narcissistic notebooks By CATHERINE SULPIZIO Senior Arts Editor
Notebooks are rarely treated well in my care — hoarded away until I record a few clusters of airy, beautiful words, then unceremoniously discarded far before my scrawl reaches their last leaves. Mostly, this is because my writing oscillates between loose and undisciplined workmanship (and penmanship) and clenched knots of taut words. This rhythm cannot sustain, so I abandon the project. Occasionally I’ll flip through an old notebook. But in the day of screens, of articles, of epistolary communication, of writing (we can write an essay, submit it and have it returned spider-webbed with edits without ever pressing that increasingly un-pressed “print” icon), it’s harder to extrapolate what I meant from that foreign hand — at least compared to the uniform type of Cambria, font 12. An inherited perfectionism gravitates to the Word document, which contains the pen’s boldness and the pencil’s irresolution. The Word document’s most attractive feature: on a blankly expectant page, that blinking cursor that promises to efface all trace of uncertainty, all mistake. By surgical precision of that wand, the polished sentence is turned out by the Word machine. You see no proof of the 50 backspaces per line, the itinerary of side trips to the thesaurus, the smudged corners of a read, re-read and read again paper. By the same turn, though, this pangs as a loss, probably because we have loaded in us a desperate and corrective urge to preserve what we can in the age of crystalline screens. In paperless culture, we ache for the mess of paper to remind us, if not of something as grand as our humanity, at least our rough margins. If writing on Word represents the Hegelian arc of progress, with each antithetical deletion molding its rhetorical bearings into the qua sentence, this means foundational changes are harder to muster. Without record, each blow to the structure may prove that the center will not hold — and the rubble is irrecov-
erable (hence my neurotic impulse to copy and paste sections onto separate documents until it is scattered piecemeal through my computer). But writing in a notebook is for anchoring those flits of brilliance firmly onto a page, without care of organization. We jot, scribble, very rarely compose. To write in a notebook is to force yourself to abandon the project of Writing with a capital W and instead become a scribe to your mind, to take down all its tyrannical interruptions and detours. Where a typed document circumscribes the id’s creative fancy within a careful line of attack, the notebook lets it lope across the college-ruled lines. The Word document is just that — a document — a feat of logical determination that demands to be read. The unreadability of other people’s musings — their chicken scratch, their questionable syntax, their strange fixations — is the notebook’s ultimate defense against literary legacy. And concomitant with puzzles of the psyche is the notebook’s fixation on mundane, of which the sentimental value belongs only to the writer. We imagine the lurid confessions other people’s journals must contain, while ours also simply logs, as mine does, that last 30th of May I was “sitting outside Babo, after I flirted again with that cute coffee guy.” Or the trajectory of prior relationships, which my journal follows via a predictable through line of preliminary excitement, then intimacy-cum-complacency, before inevitable spates of verbal violence broken up by boredom. Reading accounts of my relationships does little to rekindle old desire. Rather, it is with a detached and anthropological curiosity that I fall into the pages. All that passion feels sterile now, like a preserved part of me before it was inoculated by time and further experience. But it does remind me that the twinges of immediacy aren’t destined to reverberate endlessly into the future, or even be folded neatly into an essay, but perhaps just be filed away in the cluttered archives of an old journal. Stresses like an unfound internship, triumphs like a terrific Bloody Mary finally found lose their gleam under an inch of dust. If there is a retrospective payoff to the journal, it is to show that this — yes, that — shall pass. Mostly, though, the journal’s
worth is found in its current undertaking. In a health-centric culture where recreation doubles as selfimprovement, journaling is often labeled as therapeutic. Yet this imposes a wholesome utilitarianism onto an act whose definitive trait is unapologetic self-indulgence, even narcissism. Take lists, which are a reccurring feature in my journals. What I ate last night: gluten-free pizza (heirloom tomatoes, mozzarella, basil from our garden), salad (shaved zucchini, lemon and olive oil, basil, pine nuts), beer (Magic Hat). What I wore to the airport: leotard (black), white eyelet shirt, shorts (vintage, Levis), tan sandals (to show off my new pedicure). All together, these notebook lists comport the girl I like to think I am. After all, it’s a flattering gaze, visualizing ourselves by discrete attributes, which both reveal everything and abstract us into conglomerates of products. I am the type of person who wears pastel ballet flats with an oxford cloth button down and drinks a small black coffee. The truth lies somewhere in the middle; we are neither a compendium of attributes nor describable by one fluid stroke. But the notebook invites us to imagine our lives are worthy of analysis, allows us to transform our daily routine into pattern — of which presumably some grand and imaginary statistician will pore over. Taking down the details of my day is playing director for my own movie: fishhooks of wisdom that have latched onto my skin, lines of poetry, warm recounts of sunny days. I don’t write on the ugly days, and if I do it tends to be short and ominous (“so-and-so didn’t text and I feel February looming”). What I think is that we journal in case there is no God’s-eye surveillance, in case our closests aren’t turning their careful scrutiny to us (they aren’t), and so that the fascinating trivia of our life doesn’t languish unacknowledged. By putting pen to paper, we draw ourselves from the slipstream of day-to-day life, which can churn days into weeks and weeks into months of rote routine. Writing quells those lapses in meta-awareness. Like a mirror facing a mirror, the mind’s considerations on itself can echo into infinity. Eventually, though, your hand starts to cramp.
By JAMIE BIRCOLL Senior Arts Editor
I can say this for “Tomorrowland”: it gets an A for effort. When a film like this falls short of both audience expectations and C+ its own goals, it’s a small mis- Tomorrowfortune. There land are so few films today, family- Walt Disney friendly or oth- Pictures erwise, that are wholly original Rave 20 & and creative and Quality 16 carry messages both inspiring and meaningful. “Tomorrowland” wants to be one of those films, and for roughly two-thirds of its runtime, it very nearly gets there. But, plagued by a poorly conceived and even more poorly executed third act and 30 minutes of unnecessary runtime, what begins as an homage to wonder and innovation devolves into a cross between “An Inconvenient Truth” and the worst James Bond movie imaginable. Our story follows high school student Casey Newton (Britt Robertson, “The Longest Ride”), the daughter of a NASA engineer and a genius in her own right. Science and ingenuity run in Casey’s blood; ever the optimist, she believes innovation can fix a world beset by global warming, the threat of nuclear extermination and various other dour subjects she learns about in school. Chosen to join the ranks of Tomorrowland, Casey sets off on a journey to get there, along the way meeting Frank (George Clooney, “The Monuments Men”), a former resident of Tomorrowland and the pessimist to Casey’s optimist. The bulk of the film consists of backstory and the journey to Tomorrowland, which actually proves rather entertaining, almost like a more kid-friendly (but no less dangerous) and futuristic version of “Indiana Jones.” Director Brad Bird (“Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol”) creates tense action without sacrificing clarity, and the camera moves freely throughout the sets, creating a great sense of space and openness. Of particu-
lar note is one breathtaking, long tracking shot that follows Casey through Tomorrowland. But the film breaks the everimportant “show, don’t tell” rule and suffers as a result. “Tomorrowland” is hounded by lengthy exposition that eventually resorts to preachy diatribes about hope and belief in a world on the verge of darkness. Of course, a monologue here or there does no damage, but “Tomorrowland” shoots for profound and ends, unfortunately, in slog several times over. Blame rests in the screenplay — co-writers Bird and Damon Lindelof (TV’s “Lost”) invest so much time in crafting an engaging and exciting setup that they end up with a half-assed, very forced third act and expect us to settle for it. Further, something gets lost in the fact that the true villain turns out to be humanity’s own folly, ignorance and pessimism, rather than someone or something tangible.
Blame rests in the screenplay Thus the tragedy of the film: Everything so very nearly works. Clooney and Robertson have great chemistry and play off each other nicely. The camerawork is top notch, the special effects equally so. Everything works except this one, very big, very important third act. And “Tomorrowland” ‘s intentions are so admirable; it’s that much harder to accept its failure. As far as blockbusters go, we live in a world of sequels, in which cities are destroyed, and superhero flicks, in which cities are destroyed. “Tomorrowland” is the first film I’ve seen in a long time about building rather than breaking. It’s the kind of movie Spielberg might’ve directed 30 years ago, a film somewhere between “E.T.” and “AI.” It’s hard to be mad at that. But good intentions don’t make good endings (or movies in general). Maybe that’s to be expected from the guy who created “Lost.”
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CHAMPIONSHIP From Page 1A wrote their own page when no one expected them to, and that’s awesome.” Before the celebration, it was about doing enough to win. Although he didn’t look like his usual overpowering self, Adcock (10-4) earned his third win in eight days, pitching 5.2 innings and allowing just two hits. At the plate, Michigan — entering the game as the conference’s top offense — struggled to get things going, only accumulating six hits in the game. After falling behind, 1-0, in the third inning, however, the bats seized every opportunity from a Terrapin error to extend the inning. Seeing-eye RBI singles by junior designated hitter Cody Bruder and senior outfielder Kevin White opened the scoring, and from there the Wolverines rolled, batting around in the inning and providing enough offense to win. “We always go out there and try to make the pitcher throw as many pitches as we can and see a lot of pitches, and when he makes a mistake, that’s when we strike,” said senior outfielder Jackson Glines, who led the Tournament with nine hits. “We’re an opportunistic offense, (Bakich) doesn’t always like that, but we try to take what we can when we can.” With the eight teams combining for a .238 batting average throughout the tournament, hits were at a premium on both sides. In addition to Adcock, the Wolverines’ defense ensured that the four-run fourth
inning was more than enough, robbing base hits and killing rallies. Sophomore first baseman Carmen Benedetti made the most notable of the plays, leaving his feet to snag a foul ball that had drifted into the second row of the stands. With plenty of errors from high-seeded teams, the Wolverines’ ability to stay composed and avoid mistakes stood out. “We didn’t necessarily avoid those mistakes in the season,” Bakich said. “We dug ourselves a hole, and we had moments early in the year — starting 2-5 or 0-3 in the Big Ten — where those were learning moments for us.” “We’ve had our struggles, and those struggles have made us stronger. That’s what you saw this weekend.” Tensions mounted in the top of the seventh, when Maryland grew upset with home plate umpire Jim Schaly’s strike zone. After multiple delays, Maryland coach John Szefc was ejected from the game. The Terrapins responded by tallying a second run in the eighth inning, but third baseman Jose Cuas was thrown out stretching a double into a triple, ending the rally with just one run. But Maryland wasn’t done yet. *** Brandon Lowe lived for moments like this. Maryland’s second baseman — seen as one of the best players in the conference — strolled to the plate with the bases loaded and two outs in the ninth inning. The Terrapins already scored one run to make it 4-3 in the ninth inning, and were one swing of the bat away from a lead. They were a swing away from
“We’ve had our struggles.”
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Senior outfielder Kevin White looks to help carry Michigan’s success to Louisville.
Bradley awaits Regional game For the 22nd time, but just the first since 2008, the Michigan baseball team is postseasonbound. In Monday’s NCAA Tournament selection show, it was announced that the Wolverines (14-10 Big Bradley vs Ten, 37-23 overall) will travel Michigan to Louisville to Matchup: No. play in a regional 19 Bradley hosted by No. 3 35-19; Michigan 37-23 Louisville. Michigan will When: Fribe the third seed day 2 P.M. in the tournaWhere: Jim ment. In addition Patterson to the Cardinals, Stadium, No. 19 Bradley Louisville and Morehead TV/Radio: State will partici- ESPN3, pate as the second WCBN-FM and fourth seeds, respectively. The Wolverines will play Bradley on Friday at 2 p.m. at Jim Patterson Stadium. The Braves (9-11 Missouri Valley, 35-19) hold a 3-6 record against ranked teams and beat their one Big Ten opponent, Iowa, 5-4 on April 14. The tournament is double-elimination format, so Michigan will need to win at least three games to
advance to a Super Regional. It last did so in 2007, when it upset No. 1 Vanderbilt in Nashville. Likely its largest obstacle will be the Cardinals (25-5 Atlantic Coast, 45-18 overall). Louisville is 10-5 against ranked teams, and went 1-2 in three games against Big Ten teams, beating Purdue but falling to Indiana and Ohio State. The Cardinals are no stranger to regional action, hosting a regional for the thirdstraight year and having made the College World Series each of the last two seasons. To make it into the Tournament, Michigan got hot at the right time, winning the Big Ten Tournament to secure an automatic bid. All five of its victories in the past week were over teams that made the Tournament — No. 14 Oklahoma State, Indiana, No. 19 Iowa, No. 4 Illinois and Maryland. “It’s still settling in for some of the guys,” said junior right-hander Jacob Cronenworth after the announcement. “It’s a whirlwind of emotions these past 24 hours. It’s been awesome. I don’t think a lot of people expected us to win it, and when we got that final out, it was awesome.”
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erasing the four-run Michigan fourth inning made possible by an error, a swing away from completing a three-run comeback effort and a swing away from punching their own NCAA Tournament ticket. Lowe had gone 0-for-3 in the game, but his team-leading .342 batting average suggested he wouldn’t be hitless for long. In the other dugout, Bakich took a walk. Usually perched on the top step, the coach felt compelled to calm his team down. As he told everyone they were fine, then turned to give his fielders adjustments without blinking, it became clear that the same coach who mentioned ‘Championship’ 19 times in his opening press conference three years ago wasn’t going to miss his first chance at one — not if he could help it. Cronenworth, who would later be named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, tried everything to stay loose. He clicked his heels to get the mud off, did a couple arm circles and took a deep breath. Turning himself into a high-profile prospect in his time in Ann Arbor, Cronenworth was one Lowe swing away from ending his career at Michigan. But he wasn’t ready for that, not yet. Strike one. The next pitch was even better than a strike. Lowe popped up, the dugout exploded, but restrained itself because in a rain-soaked game and a tournament that had seen even the nation’s best teams self destruct from errors, you just don’t know. It was a high floater to left and senior outfielder Kevin White, who drove in the winning run with a seeing-eye single to left in the fourth inning, camped out under it. White captured the ball, and Michigan captured its 36th Big Ten Championship.
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The Michigan baseball team thrives on the support of past times, which have won 36 Big Ten and two national titles.
Baseball all in the family By BEN FIDELMAN Daily Sports Writer
MINNEAPOLIS — Like a tree’s rings signaling age, outfield walls at college baseball stadiums show how a program has grown through the years. Michigan added to that legacy in a big way on Sunday by winning the Big Ten Tournament and clinching the team’s first bid to the NCAA Tournament since 2008. “We talked the other day about changing the 35 to 36 on the wall (at Ray Fisher Stadium),” said Michigan closer Jacob Cronenworth. “We all had a common goal, and that’s what helped us with our confidence in today’s game.” With the bases loaded and two outs with Maryland fighting in what could be its last at-bat, Bakich descended down from his usual perch on the top rung of the dugout stairs. He stood at the side of the bench, with his hands on his hips and bright-maize jacket glowing with pride. “Now this is baseball,” he said, gazing out over the field. Assistant coach Nick Schnabel, who’s been alongside Bakich since their playing days at East Carolina, could sense the end was near even though the Terrapins were threatening. “I can smell it,” he exhaled to nobody in particular. Maryland’s Brandon Lowe, the
team’s leading hitter, popped a ball to left fielder Kevin White, and the celebration began. Players were already halfway from the dugout to the mound when the ball touched down in White’s glove, engulfing the already-embracing Wolverine battery of Cronenworth and Kendall Patrick. The cluster of players jumped around the infield before toppling to the ground from the weight of the bullpen that had suddenly arrived and dragged everyone down to a dog-pile. Hats and shirts with “B1G Tournament Champions” were quickly distributed, and players took turns taking pictures with the slick trophy. But Bakich wasn’t in the celebration with the other coaches and players. He was leaning against the dugout rail, arms crossed in front of him and a smile in his eyes, just soaking it all in. “This is what it’s all about. It’s unbelievable.” The third-year coach of the Wolverines (37-23) had taken the team back to college baseball’s promise land: the NCAA Tournament. *** After Michigan home games, the coaching staff’s children own the turf at Ray Fisher Stadium. Whether it’s running the bases or taking batting practice in the
“It gives them strength and it fires them up.”
cages, people with the last name Bakich and Schnabel often outnumber everyone else on the field. It gives a family feel to Michigan baseball. Players will be doing interviews for TV or print media and little Colt Bakich suddenly sprints through his legs, prompting a surprised smile from the sometimes grumpy athletes. Though using youngsters to help facilitate the feeling is unconventional, the family feeling is nothing exclusive to Team 149. Stretching back to Michigan baseball’s “decade of dominance” in the 1980s, many program alumni from that period say that their resume of 10 Big Ten regular season titles, nine NCAA regional appearances and four trips to the College World Series probably wouldn’t have happened if not for the Michigan baseball bond. “When you sign on to come to Michigan, part of it is because of the Michigan baseball family,” said Jeff Jacobson, who played for the Wolverines from 1980-83. His son, Eric, is currently a senior second baseman for the team. “It’s a very strong group, and there has been a lot of success in the program. There’s a bond that develops through hard work and success. “Being with each other through
at your worst moments when you’re exposed to thousands of people, all the errors or walk-off home runs that you give up. There are the highest moments as well. Everyone shares that bond.” The evidence from this season — the last week in particular — has been clear to agree with the idea that winning catalyzes the Michigan bond. Throughout the tournament, Michigan became known as the most confident bunch, even though they were ranked lowest of the eight teams in Rating Percentage Index. Playing with a swagger, the team looks and feels like it’s growing closer with every game. “I’m so happy for the guys,” said former Michigan and major league pitcher Jim Abbott, who won two Big Ten Tournaments in his college career. “There’s tremendous pride when you get to do something impactful for the program, like winning a championship, there’s nothing better than that.” And the Wolverines will have a shot next weekend at adding another number to the outfield wall, another ring to the tree of Michigan’s oldest varsity sport having become the eighth squad from Ann Arbor to reach the College World Series in Omaha. “We’re standing on the shoulders of 148 years of proud Michigan baseball tradition and being lifted up by many great teams and great men that came before us,” said Michigan coach Erik Bakich after it was announced that the team would advance to Regional play to take on No. 19 Bradley in Louisville. “We’re just trying to write our chapter on page 149 and just trying to contribute and do our piece.” *** In early February, Bakich gathered Michigan baseball players, their families, program alumni and community members for a pre-season banquet to kick off the spring practices schedule. Called the leadoff banquet, the evening
“We’re just trying to write our own chapter on Page 149.”
started off with a catered meal, before Bakich settled the room down and addressed the few hundred people that comprised the crowd. From the first words he said, it was clear that his words would set a tone for the rest of the season. About five minutes into the speech, he said that this would be the “interactive” portion of the evening. Bakich asked that all Michigan baseball alumni in the room stand, yielding about 30 adults. Next, he asked for those who were Big Ten Champions for the program to stand, and about threequarters of the original group remained standing. Finally, he asked those who had won the College World Series to stand — and three elderly gentlemen responded. Hailing from the 1962 Wolverine squad that took home the program’s lone national championship, the elder men drew a standing ovation from the crowd. Current players could be seen straining on their tiptoes to get a look at the heroes — the men who epitomize what it is that they all work so hard for. More recently, other program alumni have reached out to give their support to the team as it heads into NCAA play this weekend at Louisville. “We’re standing on the shoulders of 148 years of great Michigan teams and all the support we’ve received from guys on the 1953 National Championship team,” Bakich said. “Bill Moake sent a message, he was the captain of that team. Ed Hood, Dick Hoenig from the 1962 team sent a message. Barry Larkin and Ryan LaMarre sent the team a picture holding up the ‘No. 1’ sign. “It’s awesome, you see all these guys tweeting at us, and it’s just a lot of positive energy being directed at us, and our guys see that, and it just gives them confidence, and it gives them strength, and it fires them up.” The players can feel the backing of Michigan’s oldest varsity program in this, their time of success. Now it’s up to them to make something happen with it. When they return to the leadoff banquet with their kids someday, these players want to be on their feet for that standing ovation.
“When you sign on to Michigan, part of it is the baseball family.”
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Softball to battle Alabama Thursday By TYLER SCOTT Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan softball team plays its first game in the Women’s College World Series at 7:00pm Thursday against Alabama, a rematch of a preseason two-game set where the Wolverines took both games. Michigan won both times before, but that was back in February, a long time ago. When the two teams last squared off in the Easton Bama Bash at Tuscaloosa, there was still snow on Alumni field. But the Wolverines did get a look at Crimson Tide pitcher Alexis Osorio in the second of those two games back in February, and she got a look at them. Osorio gave up two home runs in the third inning to give Michigan its second win over Alabama on the season, 4-1. Now, that game seems like just one win out of many, but at the time it was significant for the Wolverines. “I think it really started clicking when we were at Alabama,” said sophomore right-hander Megan Betsa. “We started realizing, ‘Hey, we’re a really good team. We have really good chemistry, and that’s something that (Michigan coach Carol Hutchins) preaches about from the very first meeting.” Since that realization, Michigan has swept the Big Ten Championships and won every postseason game along the way to get to the WCWS. Alabama does not have the conference championships to boast, and they dropped the first game of their Super Regional series to No. 11 Oklahoma before punching their own ticket to the series. Osorio threw 241 pitches in last Saturday’s doubleheader against the Sooners. The Crimson Tide weren’t certain they’d have a spot reserved in Oklahoma City until the sixth inning of the forced game three when Infielder Marissa Runyon hit a grand slam that allowed Alabama to take the lead for good. The Crimson Tide and the Wol-
verines took different paths to their round one WCWS matchup, but Michigan isn’t going to underestimate its opponent. “(Alabama) is a great team,” said junior second baseman Sierra Romero. “They’re a great hitting team and they have a great pitching staff as well. It’s going to be a good game, and we expect every game in the World Series to be a good game because it’s the topeight teams in the nation now.” The Wolverines also have the added benefit of rest after wrapping up the Super Regionals in just two games before the weekend. Whether Osorio will be at all fatigued by her high pitch count remains to be seen, but with a 1.68 ERA and opposing batting average of just .166. That’s why it might be helpful to look back to those early games after all. All of the four runs Osorio allowed against Michigan, including the two home runs, came in the third inning or earlier. After that, she allowed only one hit, and nothing else. Since the postseason, and really all year long, Hutchins and the Wolverines have underlined the importance of coming out “attacking” and being aggressive with every at bat to get on base. “We did well last time we saw Alabama’s pitching, but again that has no bearing on this time,” Hutchins said. “Because Osorio is a lot better. She’s a lot closer to the zone, she’s able to nibble the zone. I was impressed watching her. She was able to keep Oklahoma off balance and Oklahoma is a good hitting team. So I’m going to have to say that runs will be precious.” The Wolverines will be swinging their bats out of the gate like they always do. Forty-four of the 76 runs that Michigan has scored this postseason have crossed the plate during the first three innings of the game. Hutchins assumes run will be at premium cost. Osorio has the talent to shut down any lineup in the country, but if she slips up early, the Wolverines could make her pay – just like in February – and it wouldn’t matter how well she pitches after that.
“We expect every game in the World Series to be good.”
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Junior second baseman Sierra Romero was named unanimous first team All-American in Wednesday’s awards release.
Michigan takes down ’Dogs, on to World Series By TYLER SCOTT Daily Sports Wrter
If anyone thought that just because Georgia had been beaten soundly the day before that it would quietly accept defeat in Friday’s second game of the Super Regional, they were mistaken. “That Georgia team,” said Michigan 6 GEORGIA coach Carol 7 MICHIGAN Hutchins. “They are fighters, they are scrappy. That’s a tough team to play and a tough team to beat.” The Michigan softball team had to battle back from an early deficit to survive the Bulldog’s best efforts, but clinched the the victory 7 - 6, and booked itself a trip to the Women’s College World Series. “My kids were fantastic. They’ve been fantastic all year,” Hutchins said. “I’m really proud of them. I said, ‘Don’t be proud because you won. Be proud of what you’ve worked so hard to accomplish.’” Just like Georgia right-hander Chelsea Wilkinson the night before, sophomore right-hander Megan Betsa was overwhelmed by early hitting, and her day was done before the first inning was over. In total, Betsa allowed two hits in two thirds of an inning pitched. Both of them were homers. Geor-
gia first baseman Tina Iosefa put the Bulldogs up 3-0 with the second long ball of the inning, and that was the end for Betsa. At least for the time being. Michigan coach Carol Hutchins sent out senior lefthander Haylie Wagner to take over in the circle. All eyes were on her to give Michigan some time before the game got out of reach. It didn’t take long thanks to Kelsey Susalla. The junior right fielder put Michigan on the board with a solo shot of her own in the second inning. A third inning RBI single hit past first base by junior second baseman Sierra Romero scored another run for Michigan, and a comeback was in the works. With only one out, junior centerfielder Sierra Lawrence, the best Michigan baserunner and the tying run, was standing on third. Sophomore left fielder Kelly Christner smacked a 0-1 pitch into right field, where Georgia outfielder Sydni Emmanuel made a spectacular diving grab, but couldn’t get to her feet to make the throw in time. Lawrence tagged up and scored before any throw at all, and the Wolverines breathed a collective sigh of relief. Susalla was 3-for-3 at the plate on the day, and insured Michigan’s lead with a few additional runs. She knocked in an RBI double in the fifth inning, eventually
coming around to score herself. “The coaches were drilling us to ‘see the back of the ball hit the back of the ball,” Susalla said. “So I was just looking for something low in the zone and looking to put a good swing on the ball.” After scoring one run to cut Michigan’s lead to two, Wagner struck out designated player Kaylee Puailoa to end the threat in the sixth. Georgia, after starting the game so full of vigor, was down to its last hope. After Wagner struck out Hugo – the power slugger that started it all for the Bulldogs – Michigan was on victory’s doorstep. The crowd was still roaring for Wagner when, without warning, senior third baseman Anna Swafford belted a two-run shot past the confines of the centerfield wall. Wagner went out after seven hits and three runs through six innings pitched. Betsa came back in with the hopes to earn a complete inning on the day in a fashion opposite to how she started. Griffin popped up. The ball arced through the air, and came down inside the glove of Romero. After a day full of drama, Michigan had finished the job. With the final catch Romero ensured for her team that the dream of making it to the Women’s College World Series was now indeed a reality.
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CHAMPIONS OF THE WEST: BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL EXTEND THEIR SEASONS WITH WINS IN MINNEAPOLIS, ANN ARBOR
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The Michigan baseball team went 4-0 and won the Big Ten crown in Minneapolis.
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The Michigan softball team took down No. 14 Georgia to make its 11th WCWS.
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Senior centerfielder Jackson Glines kisses the trophy after beating Maryland 4-3.